Thursday, November 10, 1966

Getting On With The Job At Hand

With the general election behind them, citizens of the First Congressional District should heed the words of Congressman Walter Jones to join hands and get on with the job of developing and improving the economy of this great First District Congressional District.

In less than a year people of this district have gone to the polls in one primary and two general elections to voice their opinion on candidates for the congressional seat. Congressman Jones decisive victory in Tuesdays general election gave him a full two year term in office and a position of undisputed leadership so far as congressional affairs are concerned.

Even so, with that number of elections in less

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

COST - With the FaU elections over, the political candidates whether winners or losers and their respective party organizations are confronted with paying the bills.

These are considerable. A political campaign these days, no matter how small, costs dearly. The price of political campaigning, like nearly everything else, is up, way up.

And political campaigning Isnt a profit-making venture. There are usually contributions and other financial aid, but when the election is over these cease. Then the candidates and the political parties have to make a reckoning with cash on hand. More often than not, the balance sheet is finished up in red ink.

SPENDING - From all indications, the 1966 general election campaigns in North Carolina statewide were the most costly in history for a so-called off year in the political wars.

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SHIRES

Spending in one district alone, the bitterly contested Fourth congressional contest, is believed to have reached an all-time record for a campaign for Congress in North Carolina. Ihe formal, final expense reports will not be filed for another couple of weeks.

Substantial amounts of money were spent in other districts too, and all told it is safe to say that a million dollars or more probably more was spent for political purposes in the state during the last couple of months. Some will claim the actual, never-to-be-revealed total of political spending was five times the amount which will be reported.

PROBLEMS Financing of political campaigns presents serious problems to both candidates and political parties alike.

You might say it is the biggest problem we have, says a leading party organization spokesman. At least we spend more time on it.

A candidate for a major of

fice in the recent elections an unsuccessful candidate said Ive had to spend more than I anticipated I would, and more of my own money than I felt I would or could. Its cost me more than I could afford.

Ive had some help, yes. But it wasnt nearly enough for a campaign of the sort I was determined to make. Yes, I dug into my own pocket and deeply too.

No candidate on the general election ballot interviewed said he had sufficient campaign funds to conduct the type of campaign he desired and felt would have been fully effective. One commented, you cannot campaign like you want to without considering the cost, and the cost is prohibitive.

FINANCING Financing of the Fall campaigns to a maximum extent was a project of both major parties in the state, but both fell short.

The fact is that both party organizations went into 1966 on thin ice financially. Both had a deficit and owed money from 1964. Both parties made financial gains through fundraising efforts and financial drives this year-especially this Fall but these served primarily to reduce the deficits. The Democrats may end up in the black, but the Republic-cans still have a deficit in the neighborhood of $5,000, $7,000. This is a substantial gain, however, on a previous deficit of $65,000 to $70,000.

Both parties called on large and small contributors this Fall.

FUNDS Fund-raising in politics is" essential. And no one in politics will deny that 5,000 $1 contributions are much better than one $5,000 contribution. Political leaders want and solicit the large contributionsthey are needed and necessarybut the point in politics is not only money but a broad base of voter support.

In this context, the 5,000 contributions of a dollar each are worth 5,000 times the single, big $5,000 contribution from a wealthy supporter because they represent 5,000 potential votes to one.

This sort of parallel is extreme, of course, but it is cited by political organizers and fund-raisers. The trend, they say, is toward a bigger attendance at political fund raising dinners, at a smaller amount per plate. The same is true in conducting person-to-person and door-to-door fund drives.

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than a year, there are bound to be scars left by the campaigns and the feeling they stimulated.

The First Congressional District cannot afford the luxury of division of its efforts so far as its development is concerned. It cannot afford the luxury of various factions pulling in various directions rather than joining together in a common undertaking of developing the area. - The First District, after all, is made tip of almost one-fifth of all the counties of North Carolina. It contains more area than approximately ten of the 50 states and more population than several of them. At the same time, the First District is low on the economic ladder compared with the rest of North Carolina. Its development needs are greater than those of most other parts of the state.

We are confident the First District will continue to have outstanding leadership in Congress with Walter Jones occupying the position of Representative of this district. In addition to outstanding leadership, however, an area must have outstanding cooperation among its people to reach its potential.

Citizens of the district should respond with such cooperation to the call of the Congressman that they join together and get on with the job of developing their area. ^

The Pitt United Fund Goal Is Still A Goal

October has come and gone and although the United Fund campaign has moved along nicely so far, the Pitt County goal of $105,000 has not been reached.

Throughout the county there are literally thousands of citizens who have not gotten around to making their contributions to the United Fund this year. It is not because they do not recognize and appreciate the work done by the various agencies supported through the United Fund campaign. Most of these people recognize the value of such organizations as Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the Mental Health Association, the Salavation Army, 4-H Clubs and the host of other organisations that are a part of the one-gift appeal of the Pitt County^ United Fund.

Citizens of the county who have not yet joined in this years United Fund effort should make it their business to do so within the next few days. There is no community of the county that is not touched by the worthwhile endeavors of the agencies supported through United Fund giving. There are few families who do not find their lives touched and made better by the agencies whose work must depend upon the United Fund for financial support.

Gifts to the Pitt County United Fund go into work that helps make Pitt County a better place in which to live. It is an undertaking in which every citizen should have a part.

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Over, Indeed! IU Be Wrestling W ith This Problem for at Least a Couple of Years

By JAMES KILPATRICK

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) -The little guy felt like a dope today, He was all steamed up about the elections the shouting, the speeches, the parades, the dire predictions, and all those characters on

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Nov. 10, 1926 Mayor Issues Armistice Day Proclamation

Mayor D. M. Clark urges citizens to suspend daily occupations and take part in celebration of the day.

Jazz to Furnish Germ For American Music of the Future

CHICAGO, Nov. 9 America is a country without a past. Jazz, as a musical form, also, has no past. Therefore, jazz is destined to be the American music of the future. . . This is the conclusion drawn by Madame J. Herscher - Clement, French composer. . .

television.

Then what happened? Not much. Well, maybe, it did mean something. The Republicans made some progress. They picked up some seats in Congress and some governorships.

But the little guy thought: if they keep on making this kind of progress much longer they wont last much longer as a party. And when the returns were in, all that business about white backlash, inflation and the war in Viet Nam hadnt seemed to mean much.

The Democrats went into the elections in control of Congress with a majority in House and Senate. When it was over, they still had control.

The Republicans just cut down the majority a bit. In an off - year congressional election like this one its just par for the course for the mi-ority party to pick up some seats.

The little guy didnt have to be a professor to remember the Republicans have been a minority party, and the Democrats have been running Congress, ever since 1932, with two exceptions.

AMK

MARLOW

Sophomore Class Meeting

The Sophomore class held its first meeting Nov. 3 in the study hall of the new high school building for the purpose of organization and election of officers. The following officers were elected: President, Clifford Bost i c; Vice president. Cotton Skinner; Secretary, Mary Frances Whitehurst; Treasur e r, Louise Skinner; Cheer leaders, Bruce Sugg and Jane Hall.

Something of honest sentiment was lost to the country when they changed the name of the holiday, some years ago, to make it Veterans Day. To those of us in middle age, tomorrow will still be Armistice Day, marking the 11 oclock hour on November 11 when Wor 1 d War I reached its end. It makes a man blink to recall that this was fort^-eight years ago.

As Armistice Day, the holiday honored a specific group of men, and singled them out for special tribute. There was always an Armist i c e Day parade, and the minds eye calls it up like a f i 1 m clip: Church bells, gaunt trees, a cold Noveml^r sky, a bugler blowing Taps. 'There were bands, flags dipping and raising, the floats of Forty and Eight, long lines of troops in khakis, puttees, flat-brimmed garrison hats. TTiere were cavalry units then, booted and sabered, and h o r se-

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TO THE EDITOR Sunday Nov. 6, will be a day that will live in my mind and heart for days to come. I teach a Sunday School Class of 4 to 6 year old boys and girls. Little Richie came to visit us Sunday. (Our lesson was about JeremiahHow God kept His promise to guide, keep and help Jeremiah even when the people threatened to kill him.) During our lesson Richie said to me, my daddy is in Viet-Nam. I told him God will look out for your daddy and care for him. Why did my daddy have to go, this little voice saidas I stood and looked into the eyes of this young boyI know his well being depended on what I would say. He was listening for an answer. Richie I said, you cant fly a plane, the other boys and girls here or I cant fly a plane, so your daddy went in our place. He

drawn field artillery; and a little boy, if he were very lucky, and asked in just the right way, sometimes could ride atop4he last caisson as it trundled along the streets.

Did parades mean more in those simple times? Did they tug a little stronger at t h e heart? Armistice Day evoked a single event, heroic, widely shared. Every community had its men who had survived the Meuse-Argonne, men made lame by shrapnel, men with an empty sleeve in their coats. They had taken up arms against the Hun; and this was their particular day.

But if some of this poignancy and immediacy have been lost in the transformation to Veterans Day, a larger and deeper emot i o n may have been gained. Tomorrow we honor all veterans of all wars; and the names and dates and places run together in a blur of pennants streaming: Verdun, Bel-leau Wood, the Marne, North

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talked on, Mrs. Bowen my daddy is coming home in April. Will he come Mrs. Bowen? My heart broke and rejoiced at the same time as this little boy listen so closely to what I would say. I could hardly speak at first and then I said, Richie we will pray that your daddy will come home and you keep praying too. Richie when your daddy gets home in April all of us will rejoice with you. This childs trust in God to bring his daddy home filled me with more hope and faith.

I have three sonsGod give me the trust and hope I saw in little Richies face.

Mothers, fathers, wives and family may little Richies faith, see us all through this war. Dear Richie with Gods help we prav your Daddy and all the daddies and boys will soon be coming home.

Mrs. H. L. Bowen

Africa, Salerno, Norman d y, Bastogne, Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Midway, Inchon, Hun-gnam; and now Saigon and Da Nang.

JAMES J.

KILPATRICK

Here they have fought, known danger, felt fear clutching at their throats. And these have not been professional soldiers and sail o r s, most of them. They have been ordinary men men who lived next door, boys fresh from school, farmhands, waiters, salesmen, clerks. T h ey came out of civilian life to fulfill an ancient tradition: 'They took up arms to defend their country.

Opinions In Brie'

We hear so much of the ailments of baseball players that we sometimes get the impression that about all a man can do if he is a physical wreck is be an athlete. Roanoke (Va.) Times.

Stock market recently has been sort of roller coaster affair. Lots of ups and downs with each sharp dip accompanied by loud squeals of terror. Memphis Ckimmercial Appeal.

There are many questions that no man can answer. And most of them are known to five-year-olds. Wall Street Journal.

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By ROWLAND EVanS and ROBERT NOVAK

SAIGON A crisis of ut-j most gravity lurks just be] hind the euphoric public rt lations propaganda about t vicious war that has recentlj been filling the air from Wash-1 ington.

Boiled down to its essenrej the crisis is simply this: Th it instead of going forward, absolutely vital program pacification of the tens thousands of hamlets in Sout Viet Nam is going backward

That this should be true to day, Respite the brillian mili tary successes of General Wil liam Westmoreland and th conspicuous triumph of th September election, speak volumes about the futur course of the war.

In short, the massive U. intervention on the groun that occurred In July, 1965 ended all possibility that th Communist Viet Cong an thi legions of Ho Chi ^(&ih 6oul ever win the war, but k untouched the even more fond amental other war thi war to pacify the countryside

As a result, nij^ttime mil tary security in hundreds hamlets and villages In s posedly secure areas has come a farce, permitting th Viet Cong to operate with Im punity between sunset and sun rise. This is true not only i the countryside, but also i the immediate environs of thi capital city. Consider the fol lowing vivid illustration In small village in the Mekon Delta, south of Saigon.

With the regular South Vietnamese army units in the are withdrawn to their safe has camp for the night, and se curity left in the hands o local government forces re cruited in the area, a smal reconnaissance team on nighttime patrol ^ with on American along, was require to pass near the village.

As they approached th American warned a VieUam ese who was part of the tea to bypass the village. Th< might be taken for Viet Con guerillas and get shot.

Not a chance, replied th Vietnamese. The so-calle security force inside th village never fired first, onl in retaliation. But how s they know that we arc no Viet Cong? asked the Ameri can. The answer: The loca security force inside the lage was too frightened to ris a firefight, and consequent! Viet Cong agents could ente at will.

The reconnaissance team a proached to the edge of tl village. Instead of sentrie and black-out, the America was amazed to see that lif was proceeding as norma house lights were on and thi security force was nowhen to be seen.

In short, that village, in a area presumably under go ernment control, was as nerable to nighttime Comm nist terror tactics or to Vi Cong propagandists as it been before it was secured by government troops. Pacif cation, in other words, had a solutely failed and one ca be sure that the Viet Con pounded the lesson home those villagers that their g vernment could not prote them, or did not care enoug to protect them, at nighttim

Multiply that incident I hundreds and the crisis th faces Washington and Saigo comes into focus. It Is n generally known, for exampl that casualties among th (Continued On Pag* 5)

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Meeting of Girls Athletic Association The Girls Athletic Association met Wednesday afternoon for the first meeting of the year with their new cooch. Miss Lawrence. Business was carried on and new officers being elected, with Evelyn Hart as presid e t; Ada Orton Moorie, vice president; Bondie Dickinson, secretary: Zclott Tripp, treasurer: Alma Lee was chosen cheer leader.

There was a time, back in the 1920s, when Republicans and Democrats looked pretty much like twins. They were both conservative. And when Franklin D, Roosevelt ran tor the presidency in 1932, in the depression, he was even talking about cutting down government spending.

What puzjzled the little guy was why, in all of Roosevelts years, the Republicans didnt learn anything from him.

The little guy didnt even think the Republicans learned anything from Dwight D. Eisenhower, the only Republican to win the presidency since 19.32.

He not only embraced the New Deal programs but expanded on them. And he (Continued On Page 5)

By ELMER ROESSNER

President Johnson summoned 30 mayors to the White House and urged them to cut down local spending to help reduce inflation.

Lyndon Baines has a great sense of humor, some associates say, and this may be the reason for his urging. For the fact is that federal programs are one of the chief reasons for increases in local spending. Mayors are captives of the federal government.

Many of the federal projects require cities, counties and states to contribute matching funds to get the benefits of Johnsonian largesse. He n ce local taxes must be raised.

The urban renewal projects are an example, ('ities, to get a hundred million from Uncles Sam, must pungle up ten million of their own. A ten million increase many mean a rise iiLtaxes, and many mean

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that much more inflation.

MANY OTHER LEVERAGES

Most of the highway projects call for matching funds from states and subdivisions. The unemployment payments program calls for state participation. So do state Medicaid programs.

Situations in which the federal government d e m a n ds state and city spending to gain benefits of federal contributions defy listing.

CLMEB

ROESSNER

Federal projects run into thousand^. Most hav^ matching or contributing fund provisions which, in the end, give

Big Brother the right to step in and take over.

GOLD IN THOSE BILLS

One book publisher made a survey of government projects in which federal tax money was being used to buy books. He found many in which government funds for the purchase of books were available if subdivisions contributed matching funds.

For example, under the Vocational Educational Act, there is $178 million available for primary and technical books if matching funds are provided.

There is a more recent example. The F'ederal Aviation Administration has threatened flights from Kennedy Intrnalo shift all international flights from Kennedy International Airport in New York unless the city provides a new, fourth, airport.

A new airport would cost a billion. So while LBJ is call-

ing upon cities to cut spenc ing to slow down inflatior his FAA is demanding one city spend that much foj a new airport.

Great kidder, that LBJ. Nov that ABC is firing Milton le, perhapsno, Im drear ing.

RICH GET RICHER JUST AS ALWAYS

Prosperity seems to hav] been bubbling over in the Unit ed States in recent years. E\ en the poor now have colol television sets and mink sto( es.

Well, a Department of Cor merce study finds that the has been only a slight changj in income distribution in thj past 2U year*. If the poor gn| richer, the rich got even mitr^ so, it found. In general, th^ shares of income held by th( so-called upper classes ar still the same as they were 20 years ago, Commerce found.