Wednesday, November 2, 1966

Asian Tour Had Long Range Goals

Attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of President Johnson's visit to Southeast Asia on the basis of* immediate results of the journey is to misunderstand the nature and objectives of the undertaking.

The Manila Conference brought no immediate results as far as the war in Vietnam is conceme. But is was not expected that the conference would lead to immediate, direct negotiations between the principals in the Vietnam conflict. There have been indications, however, that the conference initiated new efforts which in time may open the way for a solution to be sought at the conference table. At least more leaders in Southeast Asia are now actively

assisting in the effort to set the stage for negotiations that will lead to peace.

So far as the rest o the world is concerned,^ there can be no doubt that the nited States' interest in Asia is growing rather than diminishinj The vis^t by President Johnson and hi^^iks -w^ l^ders of nations in that part pf^e^ w^ir givesltne nited States a cl6ser tie with parts\ii Asia |Jpn it has previously had. It will likewise provide the President with a better basis for personal diinomacy which he has used so effectively in handling domestic affairsin seeking solutions to problems in Asia.

While the, trip had political overtones, it likewise hade long range objectives which obviously overshadow the immediate results that were anticipated. In timoi raeny of those long range objectives probably will be realized.

jjemo J: actions

! Remain A Fact Extremists Capable

Of Any Violent Steps

By WILLIAM A SHIRES

FACTIONSFactional feeling among North Carolina Democrats still lies precariously close to the surface. It takes very little to bring it to a boil.

A slight, a snub, a barbed remarkanything however

obtle which mi^t be construed as possibly embarrassing T derogatoryis enough to end factional tempers rising.

This is true despite recent claims of closed ranks and party unity for the off year elections this Fall and despite restraint on the part of top leaders of all factions. The fact is that scars from primary battles of the past, particularly 1960 and 1964, are still ore and panful.

POINTINGAlso, open factionalism isn't involved to any {^preciable extent in this year' electioiis. What the party fac-tioDS are pointing to and already quite toocfay about are those of 1968.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

There have been several recent examples of sensitive factional feeling and reaction from fri cause.

There was a much-talked about gathering of Democrats identified with the Sanford-Bennett-Preyer wing at Hound Ears resort near Blowing Rock e few weeks ago. In itself, it was enough to set off political excitement and speculation. There was a charge arising in party ranks that the Moore administration and state party leadership was reluctant to have President Johnson help campaign in the state and waited until it knew be would not accept before issuing a belated invitation to appear in a non-sensitive area.

DISSENSION-Addit i o n al factional dissension was noticed as the Fall campaigns progressed.

There was grumbling in one faction that state party leaders identified with the Moore administrationwerent doing all they could to help certain Democratic candidates. Party officials remarked pointedly about the lack of participation by loyal opposition Demo

crats in the Fall campaign rallies.

Then there came news last week that former Gov. Terry Sanford and Sanfords Highway chairman, Merrill Evans, would be the principals at dedication of the new Wright Memorial Bridge spanning Currituck Sound and that neither Gov. Dan Moore nor Moores chief, Joe Hunt, would attend. Spokesmen for Moore and Hunt blamed a conflict in their schedules and the dedication date, but Hunt added that the present highway commission was not even consulted on arrangements.

MIFFEDWhat really mif-^ fed Moore administration leaders and the governor himself, however, were factional overtonesone open and one subtleat last weeks Vance-Ay-cock dinner In Asheville.

Democrats identified witii the Sanford-Bennett faction held their own, more or less private pariy at an Asheville restaurant [H-ior to the $25 per plate fund-raising banquet Then word spread around the downtown hotel Vance-Aycock headquarters that lapel tags reading Moore for U. S. Senate were being sported by certain persons not known to be friendly to Moore.

This proved upsetting to Moores closest political friends.

Its a deliberate trick, one said angrily. Theyre trying to embarrass the governor and Senator (Sam J.) Ervin. If there was anything to it, you know the governor and his friends would have known about it.

REFERThe governor heard about the Moore for Senate tagsconspicuously absent at the dinner itselfand made known his displeasure. He began his remarks to the dinner gathering with an answer.

He praised Ervin as the greatest man in the U. S. Senate and said he hopes to see Ervin remain in Washington for many more years. He added his oft-repeated insistence that he, Moore, has no political ambitions beyond his present term of office.

Ervins present term in the Senate expires in 1968. It has been speculated widely that Sanford may choose to be a candidate for Ervins seat, nie idea <rf Moore for Senate tags incensed Moore administration leaders because they felt tiiey were intended to have the effect of weakening Moores support for Ervin and at the same time embarrass the governor.

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Seizure of tons of weapons and ammunitioii owned by members of the right-wing: Minutemen organization should shock every American into the realization that extremist groups of any kind are capable of taking extreme action in seeking to carry out their desires and purposes.

They are capable of reaching the point where disregard for life and property means nothing, if destruction of lives and property is necessary to accomplish their goals.

Obviously the members of the Minutemen had reached this point. Officials said the weapons and explosives were to be used to destroy three private camps, in the New York area.

The Minutemen, of course, are among the extreme of the extremist groups in the nation today. They did not start out, perhaps, with the idea of using weapons and explosives to achieve their goals. It is fairly evident now, however, that they have grown into the thinking that such tactics are acceptable.

In varying degrees, it is possible to see a similar trend amohg other extremist groups in the nation today.

The violence which has beset the nation in the last few years has grown at an alarming rate. It has set a fuse which threatens from both the extreme right ' - "'^me left wing the

safety and welfare of all citizens.

^My God! TTiey DID Make a Great Leap Forward

By HAL BOYLE

Jumping To Conclusions

Trip Not Likely Affect Voting

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -President Johnson returns today, puffing with delight from the receptions he got on his Asian journey, but it is doubtful the 17 - day trip will have much effect on next weeks elections.

The story might be different if the North Vietnams Communists had grabbed at the peace proposals put together at Manila by Johnson and the leaders of six Asian and Pacific nations. But they didnt.

As usual, they ridiculed the suggestions coming from this side.

Johnson had a choice before he made this trip and some day may explain why he went to the Pacific and Asia in the

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN

Nov. 2 1921

Attempt on life of Fountain Chief ot Police Fails

Chief of Police A D. Gardner of Fountain is well and alive today but surely it is not the wish of someone. . . Late yesterday Chief Gardner went to his automobile and started the motor and proceeded toward Greenville. No sooner had he started than he realized that only five of the cylinders were functioning but he decided it was a mechanics job, and so he proceeded to bump along until he reached the dty. When he arrived here he drove into a garage and told the mechanic of his trouble. When the mechanic lifted the hood he stepped back and shouted to Gardner to cut off his motor and the latter c o m-plied immediately. Upon investigation it was revealed that three sticks of dynamite had been capped and ready to fire and concealed beneath the hood and the wire from one of the sparkplugs had been removed from the plug and attached to the cap. By some miracle the spark from the wire had failed to fire the cap.

Indications of Very Small , Vote In County Today

Indications at the noon hour today were that the voters of Pitt County were uninterested in todays election, with only two hundred persons having cas^ktheir ballots at the local polk.

midst of the 1966 election campaigns instead of staying home to help his Democrats.

He may have felt he could help them more by the Manila meeting, the big peace proposal, the grand tour and the image of a busy world leader such a trip creates.

The memory of the trip, and the day - by - day heaines would be vivid in voters, minds when he did return and, in the few remaining days before the elections, put on a whirlwind campaign, as he intends to do.

Perhaps this will help more than if he had stayed home all the while.

But, as mentioned in the beginning, this is doubtful and for a reason that appears fairly simple. This is not a very heated election year to start with and probably no one, including Johnson, could set it steaming.

There are supposed to be three main issues: the war in Viet Nam, the white backlash and inflation. But how big are they?

The polls show majority backing for American involvement in Viet Nam. There may be some dissatisfaction that the United States iesnt doing more, like bombing all over North Viet Nam, to win the war.

But this dissatisfaction is tempered by the realization that a big expansion- of the war might bring Red China and eventually the Soviet Union into it and turn it into a world war.

There can hardly be a question about the white backlash, the reaction against Negro violence. But this is probably more true in some places than in others, thus making it something less than a nationwide issue.

As for inflation, with the country as prosperous as it is, the intensity of fear and resentment about rising living costs is no doubt diluted by the money people still have in their pockets.

If this view of the election* Is truethat there is a lack of intensive national feeling about the war, inflation and the backlash then there must be an explanation for that.

There is this one: that at the moment, with high employment and a lot of money floak ing around, the American people as a whole at this time in history are rather comola-cent and politically not disturbed or concerned much.

If this is ture, ajd it seem* so to this writCT, then many and perhaps most of the election contest for governorships and seats in Congress boil down to local, personal contests.

NEW YORK (AP) - Jumping to conclusions:

(Dollecting income taxes is one of &e worlds most thankless jobs. It is a fascinating line of work, but most men who pursue it as a career get into it largely by accident Tax collectors are made-4iot born.

It should be against the law to flavor soda pop with coffee. The only drink that should taste like coffee is coffee.

You cant help but feel sorry for the ex-Mmihattan-ites who fled to the suburbs to avoid the crowds. Thats where the crowds are now in the suburbs.

Hie worst bores at cocktail

parties are those who never say a word until theyve had their third martini.

If I were setting out to make a more perfect world. Id start by taking 15 pounds from Elizabeth Taylor and giving them to Audrey Hepburn.

Most girls who chew their fingernails drop this habit soon after they marry. Then they begin chewing out their husbands.

Good dentistry is cheap in Britain under socialized medicine. Thats why you so rarely meet an Englishman with a stiff upper lip any more.

The men who argue that

Qther Editors Saying The Cookbook Flooc,

(Christian Science Monitor)

It is a striking fact that as more and more precooked, frozen foods are being sold at the supermarkets yes, even TV dinnersthe demand for cookbooks rises unabated. The fall flood of new kitchen texts promises to be as big as ever, if not bigger.

It may be that the availability of frozen entrees and canned foods leaves the hojne cook more time to experiment with special dishes. This appears firom the number of new cookbooks written for the women who has mastered the basics of cookery. One which has just appeared, for example, is devoted to the art of making sauces.

Still there must be many brides and others who seek the help of a solid, basic manual. For the sales of old favorites run high. In England, Mrs. Beetons English Cookery is still a standard wedding gift, and what girl

isnt happy to get it?

In the United States a number of standbys retain'high popularity. Fannie Farmers Boston Cooking School Book, which appeared in 1896, is still going strong after 11 revisions and a slight change of title.

These and other favorites of their class are for kitchen use. But there is a demand also for cookbooks that are just for reading. How else could you explain the success of an Eskimo cookbook and one giving recipes for the dishes of ancient Romans?

All the new cookbooks, even the literary ones, conform to the modern, scientific style when it comes to amounts and timing. We approve of this, but we confess to missing the charm of the scribbled receipt books of the past when you were told to let the molasses drip as you sign two verses of Lead Kindly Light.

It is also a good bet that half the teen-agers in your neighborhood can't spell all four of these words orally knockwurst, knapsack, naphtha and nasturtium.

Wrestlers are the gentlest of all professional athletes. I have yet to hear of one whose wife divorced him on grounds of cruelty.

Its kind of eerie to think if George Washington tried to enroll in a modern high school hed be ruled outon the grounds that his wig would be too distracting to the other students.

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By ART BUCHWALD WASHINGTON-The Manila summit conference attended by President Johnson and many Southeast Asia heads of state was successful beyond anybodys wiliest dreams. The final communique announcing that the United States and other troops fighting on the South Vietnamese side would pull out within six months, proving Hanoi did the same, was a masterfm touch of dip: bmacy. There is only one thing that could mar tiie success of the conference and that is if the North Vietnams* accepted the proposal.

I would hate to tiiink what would happen in the State Department tf word was received that the North Vietnamese had accepted the terms of . the Manila conference and were ready to begin out Communist tro^ lately.

Sir, weve Just received word that Hanoi la willing to negotiate a peace settlement accorcBng to guideiiDea set down in Manila.

They wouldn't dare!**

Tts true. Ita been confirmed by our embaasles in Moscow, Paris and Dares-Salaam.

The dirty Commie double-crossers. Ihey knew that propose was juat for world consumption. Get me Hardright in here Immediately.

*Yes, sir. By the way, the Pentagon is calling frantically. I guess they must hav* beard the news also.

Stall em till we find a s<4-ution to this problem. Harthight comes in.

least about what ought to be done in Viet Nam are the men who have fought there and come back.

No matter how low the value of money falls, no middle-aged man who weathered the last great depression can drop a penny to the pavement without bending over and picking it up. He would feel guiltily wasteful if he didnt

Millionaires and musicians generally guzzle cheaper liquor than actors and advertising men.

You can get rich betting guys at the bar that they cant draw a correct picture of the U. S. flag in three minutes.

HAL

BOYLE

ART

BUCHWALD

The deputy secretary glares at him. Hardright, this latest peace proposal was your idea. How do you explain the fact that Hanoi accepted it

I cant understand it, sir. It went along with all the lines of the other peace feelers that they had rejected ia the past. We put in enough clinkers to make it entirely unacceptable to them. You know what I think, sir Theyre up to something.

Youre darned right theyr# up to something. If we pull out all our troops in six months and they puU out all their troops in six months, there will be nobody left in South Vietnam but the Ky government and the Viet Cong. Yo know and I know the Ky government isnt strong enou^ to fight off the Viet Cong. Can I help tt If the Nortii Vietnamese are no longer in-tractaWe

Im not blaming you. Hard-right, but weve got to find solution to this problem or well be back where we started in 1956.

Why dont we announc* that their acceptance of our proposal is unacceptable to us on the grounds that in deciding to accept our peace plan they have shown bad faith Im afraid that wouldnt make us look very good in the eyes of the world. If they accept the peace plan we will have no choice but to go ahead with our end of the bargain. I knew it was a mistalca for President Johnson to go (Continued On P*e )

3ut--Nobodys Getting Arrestee.

By ELMER ROESSNER Got out of bed this morning by tumbling over the foot. It must have been that last bourbon last night. Breakfast coffee was weak and eggs were crinkly brown around the edges. So the mood is perfect to write:

The Food Sc Drug Administration has barred a time-re-lease drug because of various irregularities in test data provided by Cass Research Associates, of Cambridge, including references to tests on patients who were dead at the date given for the tests. Hm-m.

Joseph M. Murtha, designer, told the American Management Association that foreign appliances, costing 50 per cent more, are outselling American models because of excellence of design.

I have never seen an American toaster, for instance, that I would b||y for its artistic per-

fection. In fact, I have never found an American toaster that would produce a really good piece of toast. Our engineers can devise rockets that will circuit the world but they cant design a gadget that will turn out a crisp, unburned piece of toast.

BULB INDUSTRY / GLOWS RED

Manufacturers of elec trie light bulbs are ruddy and indignant over a report, issued by a (k)ngressional subcommittee, lambasting the industry because its bulbs poop out so soon. The committee report said bulb life is shorter now than it was 50 years ago. General Electric, West 1 n g-house and Sylvania all declared that longer-lasting bul b s would cost so much more that users would not save a n y-thing.

Im no electronics engineer. But if bulbs today are so good, why do h^dware stores test

each bulb before they take your money? And, as the committee asked, why do bulbs roll over and die so young?

ELMER

ROESSNER

RATIONAL? REASONALBE? .

James M. Patterson, an officer qf American Oil (^., has appealed to businessmen to treat people in government as if they were rational, reasonable people that, in fact they are.

As a formei government employee, I think Patterson is neither reasonable or rational. In fact, he's vuK

According to the World Co^ fee Information Center, Brazil plans to destroy 300 million coffee trees in the next two years. This would reduce the world coffee supply and force up prices, making you pay more for coffee. Smells as if New Dealera and Great Society planners are working south of the border.

Members of Johnsons cabinet keep telling us how well off we voters are. But Secretary Willard Wirtzs Labor Department reports that the real spendable earnings of a factory production worker in September, while above those of July and August, were below Uiose in September, 1965. Ift fact, a worker with three dependents, had $67.93, compared with $88.65 a year ago.

If Wirtz will explain how a factory worker can support a wife and two kids on $87.93 af* ter taxes. Ill go back to bed.