Thuriday, July 20, 1967

Acreage-Poundage Is Provon Sound hint from the toughening b.nlbondsman GOP

Lake most businessmen, the tobacco farmer

Strong endorsement in Tuesdays referendum for the poundage-acreage system of tobacco pro- has found himself caught in'the profit squeeze as duetion control reflects the enthusiasm of farmers costs of production have outdistanced gains in the

for the system which has been in effect only a short time.

sales price of his product. Even so, it is evident that all but a handful of those\ who produce fluecured tobacco are convinced they are much better off with the rigid production controls and price sup-ports than they would be without them. , The vote Tuesday assures continuation of the -price support and production controls program for-another three years during which the acreage*

In Pitt County almost 99 per cent of the voters ^ cast in the referendum were in favor of the acreage-'* poundage controls. In the flue-cured region as e whole, 97 per cent of the farmers voted to continue the control program.

.Hrf allotment syrtem haa been -------------

1,. ystem, production of to- poundage system will further prove sonndnesa,

bacco has been kept much more nearly in line with

demand. Straggering surpluses of leaf which had tv t TV /T 1

built up in the latter years of acreage controls have \ \/

subsequently disappeared. Prices on auction mar-INwL iVivJ.JS.t>

. kets which were depressed by the quantity as well as the quality of tobacco has strengthened considerably as quality of tobacco has improved.

Adoption of poundage controls, while it did not solve all the problems that face the tobacco industry, has proved a major step in putting the industry back on a more even keel.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES RALEIGH North Carolinas consumer finance industry that of die small loan companies has been told it is too bashful about speaking up on its own behalf, for better rates and earning.

This is self criticism, coming from the executive director of the N. C. Consumer Finance Assn. Inc., Robert L. Thompsctti of Raleigh, and contained in Thompsons annual report.

It is a bliint, vtry frank re-port concerning a rather large industry which has had Its share of public criticism in the past, as well as a great deal of restrictive legislation.

Better Image In the legislative session just ended, Thompson notes, the industry fared rather well SOTie reeoects.

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lations and restrictions. In fact, it appeared that recommendations alwig this line might come from die State Banking Commission which, at the request of Gov. Dan K. Moore, conducted a study of both banking laws and the consumer finance act u n d e r which small loan firms are ru-gulated.

But a week or so bef(ne the legislature convened last February the governor and the State Treasurer, ali^ chairman of the Banking Commission, let it be known they would oppose any increase in interest rates. This held true except in one area, home mortgage financing.

Program Is Withdrawn

Because of this opposition, stated in advance, the hoped-for small loans legislative program was withdrawn. For the first time in nearly 20 years there were no small loans bills introduced in 1067.

This meant there were no further restrictions, but also no improvement. Mi^h of the indusdy feels stri i mpro veme

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Presi-dent Dwight D. Eisenhower, with no political eiq)erience when he took office, and President Johnson, who had plenty, worked out for themselves independently a simple technique which paid off.

This, the only thing die two men may have had in common, might be called: Easy does it, (M- dont midce extra trouble if you can help it.

In private both men have been credited w^ explosive tempers and tart tongues toward people who annoyed them. Publicly they avoided name-calling, which can turn an opponent into an enemy, and needless arguments which Johnson once described as shouting matches.

While hot arguments stir interest, they also give everybody an excuse fw choosing sides and they fil some pecle with distaste, ff a polHician cant be liked, at least he ; doesnt relish being disliked, which is true of Johnson. Eisenhower had a rather placid presidency but he managed to keep dislike down so muctfi he was elected twice overwhelmingly. Johnson got elected overwhelmingly the first time and is expected to^ try again in 1968.

His strong point Is ability, his weak one is personality. He appearsd to forget that in his first two years, if he realized

years he was always at his best working out solutions with his colleagues behind the scenes, not in his speeches the slate floor. It took him' a while to grasp this but he did, beginning late last year, when without explanation he called a bait to his pud>Uc appearance for a while and the after abandoned dramatics for the simple, direct ap-IM-oach in public.

A change occurred in his popularity.

Last WjBek the AFL-CIO said poll of its 13.5 million members, ^hpwed they greatly favored Johnsons re-election. A separate public ^opimon poll showed his popularity had shot up.

To some extent this could have been expected after his meeting with Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin and his nimble*looted avoi&uice of in-' volvement in die Arab-Israeli war. Yet, in both cases Johnson avoided dramatics. *

This was quite different from the suddm aau^t in President John P. Kennedy's popularity after forcing the Soviet to back down in-the Cuban missile crisis. That was one of the most dramatic episodes of the dentury.

As an example of what is meant by Jensons return to the methods of his Senate days, with little public fireworks and a lot of bard work. In last years 43-day strike

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Aiots Defy Solution

The difficulty in finding a rational solution to the appalling problem of Negro riots themselves are irrational. The most reasoned arguments are wasted on a lunatic; aji^als to common sense have ifo meaning to those who have lost their senses. How do you deal with a sniper? The short answer is to gun him down.

Every riot, of course, is a

manifestation of madness. I have covered two of them; I know the wild contagion. Yet ordinarily there is some definable chain of cause and effect. Men riot from hunger; men riot at specific injustices; in Newport News, a few days befM^ Newark, men rioted over a picket line. -

No such cwivenient explanation can be found for

Other Editors Saying

Thompson said, however, that a pro legislative survey showed our chances were al-, most nil.

troniely that against major airlines, John- T _ _ _ _

n t & needed, n, instead of taking drastic J OHeS

The public relations program reached a new high, he says. Our relatios with and treatment by the press were better than ever before. Nobody was shooting at us, even though barics and some others in the credit business were under fire.

But lliompson feels the past year was disappointing in another respect We failed to get off the ground with our major pro-ject the imi*ovement of earnings. Under that classification, of course, come rates and ceilings and rules of regulation.

Earnings DecHoing There is general agreement In the industry that net earn-inffs mi both investment and effort have declined steadily.

Prior to convening of the 1967 General Assembly there was hope in some quarters within the Industry to obtain increases In interest rates and improvement out certain regu-

Shonld Speak Out

In his report to the associations annua] convention, Hiompson says my one criticism ... Is that many of the members have some sort of complex that prevents them from speaking out in their own behalf even wlieir their cause is just Thats especially true with regard to legislation.

What other association tries to disguise its legislative committee by giving it the title activities committee?

I realize that it is a hangover from the past, before North Carolina got its consumer finance act, but its high time the indust^ speaks out in its own behalf, Thompson said.

He cites the fact that the home mortgage people spoke out during this pest session, as well as before it mej, and they succeeded iii getting a small increase under certain conditions, despite the q;>posi-tion of the administration.

televisiwi cameras.

There is little doubt the overexposurepart of his deep-rooted desire to be likedwith his unskilled gestures and over- done facial expressions did him harm. His rating in the public opinion polls dribbled down into the basement.

That the cause t this was his personality, and not anything he did wrong as president, seems clear enough because, while he didnt chalk up any stirring triumphs, he didnt flop into any obvious disasters, either.

And, except for Vietnam and sending troops into the Dominican Republic upheavals, he managed to stay clear of big controversies.

In his very successful Senate

action to end the walkoirt, let it drag on, hoping out of tght for a settlement, and fbeo, in the end, tried dramatics with unhappy results.

He got the leaders of both sides to agree to a settlement and then rushed on television to announce it proudly. Shortly afterwards the railk-and--file union members re|H)dla-ted the settlement, which left embarassed Johnson holding the bag.

This week he acted swiftly, through Congress, to end the railroad strike and did it in two days. This time he stayed out of sight. What the pubUc will remember is that Johnson did what the public wanted without going on camera to show what a great man he was.

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By FOY H. DUNCAN July 20, 1127 Lindy Begins Air Tour Of llie Nsiloo Mitchell Field, July 20-Colonel Charlee A. Lindbergh la his Spirit of St. Louis hopped off from Mitchell Field at 12:50 p.m. today for Hertford, Conn. on the first leg of his three months air tour wh' will take him to seventy-nine cities in every state . . .

Chowan River Bridge Opens Connecting Outside World With The Local Provincet. Edenton, N.C., July 20 North Carolinas nationally outstanding hli^way system today, by verture of a formal opening of the Chowan bridge, ushered into everyday communication with the rest of the ribboned runs a half dozen progressive Eastern Carolina counties, looking west from Currituck County and from Elizabeth City. . . . Under a beautiful sun, ceremonies at the bridge were climaxed by cutting a ribbon across the bridge by Frank Kugler, highway commissioner, Miss Virginia Askew, representing Bertie County, and Mrs. J. L. Russell, formally Miss Elizabeth Wiggins, representing (howan County, jointly held the blue and white ribbon. . .

Noted Players To Appear At CMlege July 21 The Devereux Dramatic Company will present at the East Carolina Teachers College on July 21, The Romance of Youth," a play of unusual charm. . . . This will be the sixth appearance in Greenville of the Devereux players

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TRUE LOYALTY

The story of Ruth and her mother-in-law Naomi and her sister-in-law Opah is aie o4 the short stories of all literature, as well as one of the most engaging narratives found in flie Bible.

Naomi, after her husbands death, decided to leave the land of Moab and return to her native Israel. Her sons now dead alsohad married Moabite women, Ruth and Orpah. Naomi was set to go back to Israel, but her advice to her daughters-in-law was that they remain In their own couptry of Moab. It was a time of great htarteearch-ing for the two girls. At last Orpah kissed her mother-in-law and turned back to Moab, with its idols and Us gross materialism. But Ruth turned a deaf ear to her mother-in-laws pleading afld decided she would stick with this dear woman, whom the loved, as long as she lived. We read that Orpah kissed her mother-in-law but Ruth clave unto her.

In these two girls we see the difference between sentimentality and love, between a superficial loyaHv and an abiding one. C^ahs sentiment was good so far as it went, but she was not the type to stand fast in a day of trouble. Ruth, on the other hand, decided that no matter how much it would cost her she would do the things she believed to be fight. She made a great decision in a spirit of true greatheartedness, and she ranks today among the great in literature and sacred history.

(Washington N.C. Daily News)

Rumors have been circulating that Congressman Walter B. Jones is considering leaving the Democratic party and run lor congress next time as an Independent candidate.

Mr. Jones says he does not lonow how the rumor got started, but he is quick to say Im a Democrat; I shall remain a Democrat.

Mr. Jones has long held a political philos(^by which admits that there are things within the national Democratic party which he does not agree. But he is very quick to say that whatever iis wrong within the party offers a challenge for anyone to make the fight for change within the party and not by f ring it alone or bolting to another party.

If indeed Mr. Jones or any other congressman in North Carolina chose now to leave his party, Democrat or Republican, and run as an Independent, tlte course would be fraujtht with many pitfalls. First of all it would require signed petitions by 25 percent of the number of votes cast for prerident in the last election. That would mean in the First Congressional district that almost 25,000 names would have to be obtained on petitions. That is a man-sized job.

Then another vital consideration would lie in tee matter of committee assignments ' Congrcsi. An Indepident congressman would literally find himself in a position of being neither fish nor fowl. Dem

ocrats would not hold him in; confidence in committees and Republicans would not either.

Perhaps today In North Carolina few of us agree with all that either party stands for. And being loyal to a party does not mean accepting or agreeing with aH that the particular party stands for.

We must realize that within each party there are l'-berals and conservatives. We can look at either party and comb it with a fine to-ith comb and find out quickly that neitbor party has any monopoly on certain political philosophies.

So many in the South today bemoan the racial trends which the Itemocratic party has set for the past several years. Had the Republicans been in power, would the picture toctey be different? We suspect that had Richard Nixon defeated John F. Kennedy in approximately the same course under Republicans that it has taken under Democrats.

We must admit that what the North Carolina Democra-tic party stands for and what the national Democratic party stands for do not exactly coincide. But again the fight should come within the party, itself and not outside the party. 'This applies to the Republican party as well as the Democratic party.

That old adage two birds, same size, same shape, tarrad with tee same stick applies more realistically today than many petle care to admit.

these latest outbreaks of Negro violence. They iro longer can be raticmalized in terms of schools, housing, jobs. In Newark, one is fold of a long powder t r a i n grievances;

the last grain, it is said, was the arrSst of the Negro cab driver, John W. &nith. B u t such explanations fall short. At bottoin is a poisonous hat> red by a few N^roes of all whites. You do not cure such hatred quiddy,^ Indeed, you may never cure It at all. You can hope only to contain it.

This was never true of white and Negro relationships in the old South. I cannot remember encountering a ^white man even the most rabid segre-, gationist who hated all Negroes; j nor can I .recall a Southern Ne{po who rated all whites. The rednecked farmer who jrined a lynch mob was entirely capable (tf treating individual Negroes with ktedness and affection; tee poofSst colored sharecropper, ^ound down by poverty, bad no blood-lust for every whltey," Ordinarily the two races, dwelling in an intimate remoteness, followed tee rule of live and let live. One generation after another, they learned to get along. ^

Newark and Plainfield, and Hartford, Cleveland, Buffalo, Rochester, Omaha, Watts none of tlwmhas shared in this long experience t living closely together. Hi urban cen^ ters outside the South, the Negro is not a native; he is seen as an aliea force, unknown, an teimtgrant. Newarks Negro population soared from 17 per cent to 50 per cent in a dicads. Who could grow roots so quickly?

The question is what to do now? C)ne ansirer, Itseems to me, Is for t^ White communities to keep flrniiy in mind 1 that in terms of the total Negro population, the number of actual rioters is exceedingly small. But this Is equally true: The sense of grievance is dismayingly large. The two problems have to be dealt with separately. Rioters must be punished; the aggrieved must be understood.

By ROWUND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK PH1LADEUHU - 'The Sluing liberal wing of the Republican party can no longer be certain of getting the badly needed stimulus nation-wiite it once confidently expected from Philadelphias mayoralty election Nov. 7.

The latest confidential poQ by John Bucci, pollster for Pennsylvania Republicans, tells tee story. District Attorney ^len Spector, the liberal Republican nominee, still holds a fairly comfortable lead ovef , lackluster two-term Democratic Mayor James Tate. But it is iK>where near the 68 percent to 32 percent lead held by Spector according to a Bucci sampling just before tee May 16 primary election. Just how much Spector has sl^iped stece thi is a closely guaided Republican secret, but tee drop te known to be considsrarie.

Whether or not Specter keeps sllf^ing Is of vital interest far b^ond the Phil-adeWa cky line. A vict(wy by l^)ecter, who switched from Democratic to Republican to nm tor D.A. in 1965, over ok! line Democrat Tate would be used by tee partys liberals to show the kind of Republican who best could handle old line Democrat Lynckm Johnsem in 1968. An upset Tate victory, on tee contrary, would demoralize the Rri)ublican left.

The immediate cause for Tates return from the political dead is nri hard to find. Jtnt before the May primary, a top Spector lieutenant told us his oiily real concern was that Tate might come out of his battle for renomination against tee machine with enough momentum to carry him through November. Wheteer Tate |ticked up that murii momeitium remains to be seen. But when be smothered the last bit of life in the decomposing Democratic city macbini beaded by Frank Smite in primary victory that surprised ven his sui^ porters, he began to menace Specter.

Since teen. Tate has played his cards with a skill beyond his own resources. It was a suggestion from Vice President Hubert Humphrey that sent Tate scurring to Tel Aviv just before the Arab-Israell war. Humphry telephoned Tate in Rome on June 2, advising him that a quick trip to Israel could pay fancy dividends. The resulting headlines in Philadelphia made Tate a hero to this citys iflO,-000 Jewish voters.

Tate rettaned to Rome a month later to cash in on the publicity dear to the hearts of '400,000 Catholic voters her i of Archbisbri) Joseph Krols elevation to the College of Cardinals, to between, Tate managed to visit Ireland.

Moreover, Tate has tee molt solidly mobilized anil financed labor support in Philsdeliteias Mstory and is the first Incumbent mayor in recent years to seek a second term with the backing of nearly all the citys 30,000 employees (because of salary increases he has pushed through the city council).

The result: Specter forced into street corner campaign-in midsummer, weski ahead of schedule.

Against Tates resurgence, Specter must rely more than ever on the Philadelphia chapter of the Americans for Demoerstic

Action (ADA),

Aspirin Bottle In For Fight

By ELMER ROESSNER

'The Aspirin Battle may be

one of the biggest scrape of the year in Washington and may prove a giant headache for the Federal Trade Commission.

The FTC has proposed a series of tough new rules covering advertising for nonprescription pain killers, largely aspfrin, sometimes in combination with other drugs.

This will affect around $90 million in advertising, which helps to sell $450 million worth of pills a year.

The FTC stated: It appears that each of the various analgetic products (psin Killers) now offered to tee consuming public is effective to essentially the same degree as all othar products supplying an equivalent quantity ol an analgesic, Ingredient or combination of Ingredients.

The proposed rules would require proof of significant differences to back claims of su^rlority, efectlveneas, safety, speed, or relief, strength, duration or relief, and of special benefits of added ingredients. Ingredients would have to be identified by their common names.

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pounds contend that this is an impoeitioh because they have already demonstrated that each brand has its own points of superiority.

Sterling Drug, tor instance, says that Bayer A^irln is made to higher standards than required by the United States Pharmacopoeia, tee accepted standard in the drug industry. It is made by a waterless process which prevents it from having a vin^ary odor that some aspirins have when they become old. Other analgesic makers also claim various points of supirlortty ;imd will register protests against the rules.

However, the FTC is not expected to pass judgment on the various medical claims. As far as tee claims go, it has decided to rely entirely on the findings of the Food and Drug AdmlistrtSon. E the FDA says, Aspirin if aspirin. Period, thats what the FTC will acc^t.

Second Reason For Fighting An even more important reason for drug manufacturers to fight the FTC propo

sals, taking them to court if -necessary, is the effect tee rules might have on Congress. A Senate Monopoly Subcommittee is considering legislation to require the use of generic names in prescriptions and on labels. Sen. Gaylord Nelsen, D., Wls., hu charged that most drug makers charge much more for brand-name drugs than the same drUgt sold tmdm* their generic names.

If the manufacturers concede that aspirin is aspirin" they will lend credence to Sen. Nalsofis chaises and thereby help his bill aloug.

The FTC will hear dr^ in-

dustry and consumer opinions oitiil Sept. 15. Then it may change the rules in l^t of opinions gained and they will go into effect 30 days after publication in the Fei^al Register unless the courts inteP-

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