TuMdy, Dcmbr i, 1967

Adds Life To Political Prospects

WE VIEW WITH ALARM--AG AIN!

Announcement by J. Melville Broughtonj^ Jr. that he will seek the Democratic nomination for governor next spring puts new punch into a political picture which a few weeks ago looked rather drab.

Broughton*! announcement assuree a hot race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, plus an inter-party contest for the states highest office next fall.

Lt. Gov. Bob Scott has been actively campaigning for the office for several months although his official announcement as a candidate for the Demo* cratic nomination is still several weeks away. Jack Stickley, Charlotte business executive, announced last month he is a candidate for the Eepublican nomination. He is looked npon by both Democrats and Republicans as a formidable candidate.

While Broughton*! announcement has been anticipated for several days, it was not many weeks ago that some experte were guessing that Bob Scoit might get the Democratic nomination without major opposition. That kind of guessing has vanished with Broughton*! entry into the race.

Both Broughton and Scott are well known in North Carolina political circles as well as among rank and file voters. Each is the son of a former governor. Each is a young man, Scott in his mid-80s and Broughton in his mid-40s. Scott has sought political office only once, and that was three years ago when he ran for the states number two office. Broughton will be making his first bid for elective

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Vow Hands Off

By WILUAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH It is about time for the man in the governors mansion in Raleigh to declare publicly his jntention not to use his office in any way in an ottempt to choose his successor.

This has become rather routine procedure every four years. About a year before the end of a governors term, when the next gubernatorial campaign is beginning to take shape, it has become customary for an incumbent governor of North Carolina to issue a statement of strict neutrality.

In this respect, North Carolina is unlike many other states. North Carolinas governors are not permitted to succeed themselves and for more than 20 years there has been an onus about a chief executive trying to handpick his successor and giving any indication that he is attempting to do so. Thus the statements are Issued, vowing hands off in the next campaign.

Fine line Drawn

It is recognized, of course, that this applies only to the office and not necessarily to the man who, as a proven, tried and true politician, very likely win have a personal preference in the next election.

A fine line must be drawn here if possible. After four years it is difficult to make a distinction between a personal political choice by a gover

nor and a call for ^riloleheart-en, enthusiastic backing by that governors administrations, his appointees and political followers.

Difficult To Define

That line was difficult to define when the late Gov. W. Kerr Scott supported Hubert Olive, and when former Gov. Luther H. Hodges let it be known he was for Malcolm B. Seawell or when Terry Sanford came out for L. Richardson Preyer in 1964.

In each case it may be recalled that the incumbent governors choice was defeated.

Not since the end of the old Shelby dynasity of nearly 25 years ago has on incumbent governor of North Carolina called the shot correctly nor been able to wield a decisive amount of influence on selecting a successor.

This is a political pattern presently being taken Into oc -count and studied thoughtfully.

Moores Silence

The present governor, Dan K. Moore, very likely will remain silent about his personal preference in the Democratic primary next Spring.

He has said before that he had no intention of taking part in future political campaigns of this sort, pledged that he would make no effort on behalf of electing a handpicked successor and that he himself has no further political ambitions.

Now former Gov. Gerry Sanford said almost the same thing in 1963-1964 except that he added certain qualifications. He was not interested in another political office at this time. He is now. However, Sanford felt compel e d late in the 1964 campaign to come out qnly for Preyer and did so as an individual, but it could not separated from his office and role as governor and many felt it backfired.

office although he has been active in the state democratic organization, having served as State Democratic Chairman during the first two years of the present administration of Gov. Dan Moore.

Each of these two candidates will be able to put together a major political organization across the state. Each will be able to secure sufficient financial resources with which to carry out a major, campaign. And while old factional lines may be evident to some extent during the campaign, each of the candidates will draw support from all of the former alignments within the Democratic party.

The year 1968 noW shapes up as one of fierce political activity in North Carolina.

Another Miracle By Modern Medicine

Each new mirada of modem medicine is more astounding to the layman than the one before.

The heart transplant which took place during the week-end in a Cape Town, South Africa hospital staggers the imagination. It was just a few years ago that the surgeons succeeded in pfefecting the transplanting of kidneys from one person to another. Today more than 600 people throughout the world are alive because of kidney transplants. Within another decade, the physicians say, the heart transplant will be as common as the kidney transplant is today.

It is still tod early to know for sure how long

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The very fact that medical men have been able to take the heart of a dead person and place it in' the body of another person to sustain life is in itself By JAMES KILPATRICK another major breakthrough in modem medical science.

But, All Four Were Clubbec,

The Price Of Militancy

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) -One pair played it loose with the mouth; the other pair played it tight.

That was one basic difference between President Dwight D. Eisenhowers secretaries of defense and state and President Johnsons team in the same jobs.

But both pairs got clubbed although all four men worked for the government at great personal sacrifice.

The conclusion seems to be that in those jobs you cant win and your dnly satisfaction is your total dedication to public service, whether the public agrees or not.

In this case the four men were Eisenhowers Charles E. Wilson and Johnsons Robert S. McNamara as secretaries of defense and Eisenhowers John Foster Dulles and Johnsons Dean Rusk as secretaries of state.

To take the government post, Wilson had to resign as president of General Motors Corp., where his pay was over a half-million dollars a year. McNamara had to quit as president of the Ford Motor Co.

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS CHRISTIANS ARE HAPPIER

ATT of us have at one time or other noticed signs along the highway saying, Christians are happier.

Now most statements about religion must necessarily be opinion, either personal or collective, because the essential truth of religion is not susceptible of proof by scientific method.

But the statement, Christians are happier is not a question of opinion. It is a statemwt of fact For proof you have only to look about you and compare the sincere Christian with the others. Try it sometime.

If non - believers would only admit it, they are supremely envious of Christian happiness. The C3iristian is rarely afflicted with the psychological ills which afflict so many in this modern age the neurotic phobias, compensations, defenses, of the selfish and self - centered. Because of his willingness to forgive, he is not tormented by jealousy and desire for revenge. Because of the fullness of his life he feels no need for expensive, degrading diversions. As a result, he is not hounded by the remorse, ill health, and other fatal consequences of vice.

But most important of all, the Christian can appr o a c h death with serenity. He realizes that he has gotten the most out of this world, and, more imnortant, has prepared himself for the next. His life has been a steady crescendo of fulfillment, while the life of the godless man has been but an unhappy interlude betw e c n two black voids.

His pay was around $400,000.

And the two men had to get rid of their stock in both companies. Dulles had been a high-priced lawyer and Rusk had to quit as l-esident of the Ford Foundation with a salary of around $75,000 a year.

At the time they become secretaries back in 1^, the Wilson - DuUes salaries were $22,500 a year. They were later raiaeil to $25,000, which was what McNamara and Rusk got.

Wilson had a habit of blurting out what he had l.i mind and his words wrapped around his neck, which he himself admitted he ;oo often stuck out. He did it from the beginning.

He really got blasted when, discussing unemplojrment and its relations to defense production and the draft, ne lold a Detroit news conference Ive got a lot of sympathy for people where a ludden change catches em. But Tve always liked bird - dogs better than kennel-fed dogs . . . one wholl get out and hunt for food rather than sit on his fanny and yell.

McNamara was too sophisticated, too intense to pulli bloopers like Wilsons. But he got blasted just the same. Wilson and McNamora found their grief in a way that is par for the course for any secretary of defense: With Congress, with generals and with critics outside the government.

DuUes, credentials for the secretary of state_lob were impeccable. He not only had been a lawyer but a statesman.

Rusk had to move up from the edge of poverty in Georgia.

Eisenhower gave Dulles greater control over foreign policy than any secretary of state ever had. And he made the most of it, sometimes making such aggressive, rambunctious foreign policy statements that he often seemed to be making them more for the sound than for the reality.

The quiet, inexhaustible Rusk, who has completely subordinated himself to the wishes of the President, has been less a foreign policjs than a technician.

Yet, because he adheres inflexibly to Johnsons oolicy in Vietnam, Rusk has been denounced although his public statements deliberately are almost totally devoid of personal twists.

All week long, school teachers here in the District of Columbia have been talking of going out on itrike. Coincidentally, the mail brings a text of Mortimer Smiths recent annual report as director of the Council for Basic Education. Smiths wise and temperate comments upon the new militancy of teachers merit a wide reading. He says exactly what ought to be said.

The grievances here are not concerned directly with pay scales. The local teachers union is demanding a shor ter school day, a shorter school year, and increased clerical assistance. Unless these concessions are granted forthwith, the threat is to hit the bricks. A strike would disrupt the education of 150,000 school children, 90 per cent of them Negro children whose educational needs cry out for .unremitting attention.

Dozens of cities, throughout the United States, are experi

encing the same kind of demands and threats from the teachers. Most of the demands, it is true, go to the gut issue of money: The

teachers want more of It. Yet a significant part of the dispute arises from the teachers desire for a larger role in the fixing of educational pollci-ies. On this point, Smith speaks with sympathy:

I have always believed that teachers have had too meagre a role in deciding education^ policy, especially in matter^f curriculum. Ono of the reesons so many educational conferences have low nutritional value is that they are over - stocked with administrators, to the neglect of those who actually operate in the classrooms of the country. At the White House Conference on Education, held two years ago, I doubt if more than ten elementary or h i g h school teachers were am o n g the 800 delegates. There is no

Other Editors Saying Hands On Your Purse

(Henderson Dispatch)

This is the season when the flim-flammer, purse-snatcher, pickpockets and thieves are in their heyday, and many who will be victimized might avoid losses entailed by using common precautions.

Shoppers are more or less sitting ducks for the clever artists if careless about their money. In most such instances there is no insurance to assume the loss.

These operators will be sneaking about during the weeks of hurried shopping, and the larger the crowds in congested areas the easier for them to ply their trade. Some are experts, others mere amateurs. And nothing is to be gained by locking the stable door after the horse is gone.

Thieves who break through and steal by night sometimes find their movements simpler because here and there doors have been left unlocked and when cash, even in modest amounts, is left in the stores cash register. The pilferers usually have to break doors or locks to gain en

trance to a place of business, but somehow they seem to know how to do that and frequently get away with it because they cannot be identified.

Another source of loot for marauders is the deposit of merchandise in automobiles without doors being locked. The automobile trunk is far safer because it automatically locks when closed. Packages left on seats of the floor are in full view of those who engage in petty thievery as they stroll around from one car to another, and they find ways of opening doors and windows.

For toe individual on a shopping trip the surest protection is to hold on tightly to a purse or to guard against sleeking hands thrust into a pocket, and also the pursh-snatchers.

These cunning operators will be around is the next several weeks. The amount of the haul they can make will depend in large measure upon cautions exercised by the individual in protecting his cash.

doubt in my mind that the kind of teacher power that means increased participation in decision-making about educational matters is highly desirable, and that kind of power, if exercised by competent people, would be a great boon to basic education.

But there is another kind of teacher power, Smith goes on to say. It is toe power that teachers are seeking not as professionals, but as members of a labor force. He adds this:

I believe they will learn, as have steelworkers and bus drivers and construction workers, that in the interests of material advantage they must surrender free action to the leadership principle. The teacher may find he has escaped toe authoritarian figure of the school administrator only to substitute the authoritarian figure of the union leader.

And what happens when teachers do go on strike, as they went on strike in N e w York and Detroit? Smith speaks from a lifetime of experience in public education when he expresses his doubi that tangible gains offset the intangible loss.

One would be hard put to show that toe recent strike in New York City has improved toe quality of ducation there, or that it has improved school morale or endeared teachers to the community. Getting around an illegal strike by the device of sham resignation! must certa inly have demonstrated to y o u ng people in school, through adult example, that there are always ways to beat the system. I suspect that teacher militancy. . .has tended to weaken the position of the teacher before the public.

In my own view, there is no question of Smiths rightness on this score.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTONBehind the shrouded departure of secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, another resignation, by State Department official ,0iirlW.Fr8i)Hcl,,,,has,.ca^ raised eyebrows and no uttit bafflement inside the White House.

Frankel is Assistant Secretary of State for Cull * il Affairs, a quiet post he took in the summer of 1965 for a two-year period.

While Frankels resignation to return to Columbia University was no surprise to toe White House, the manner of his leaving has come as a distinct shock, because Frankel put part of the blame squarely on President Johnsons war policy in Vietnam. The incident was all bul. lost in the McNamara headlines last Tuesday (Nov. 28).

The background Is Intews-ting, and shows how difficult Johnson to irisuiawany^^f^i^i ministration, even international cultural affairs, from the misery of Vietnam.

As long ago as last May, Frankel informed the White House his leave of absence from Columbia was running out.

Asked whether he could stay through the election year Frankel said he would be glad to stay on until the 1968-1969 academic year started, but had to be back in his teaching post by September.

Preferring not to have a vacancy occur in the midst of the campaign, the White House agreed that the proper time for Frankels exit was Dec. 31 this year. A letter politely Informing the President of the necessity to resign was duly signed by Frankel and sent to the White House on Nov. 17.

It made not the slightest mention of Vietnam. But last Monday night Frankel let it be known to the press that, lo and behold, Vietnam was a contributing cause of his resignation. Overnight, the resignation became another an* ti-Administration protest.

Whatever the President s personal reaction his intimates feel that Frankel behaved badly and with something less than full candor. If Vietnam was a factor, he should have so informed the President. If not, he should not have brought it up at all.

The only flaw in Richard M. Nixons otherwise masterful performance during a recent closed door breakfast with House Republican Con-gessmen came when a liberal Republican evoked bitter memories of 1962.

The culprit was tough, plain - spoken Representative Silvio Conte of Massachusetts. Nixon, a great favorite among Capitol Hill Republicans anyway, was fiel(ling questions with flair and finesse when Conte rose to ask his question.

Addressing Nixon as Mr. President (which brought a round of aj^lause from Contes fellow Congressmen) he quickly got to toe point: the likelihood that Democrats in 1968 will use television tapes of Nixons unfortunate farewell press conference of 1962 in which he denounced toe press. He bad lost the race for (jovernor ef California the day before.

If Nixon is nominated for President, Conte commented, the Democrats will play those tapes in an attempt to show that Nixon wilts under pres-(Contomed On Page i)

There Will Be A Housing Boom

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By ELMER ROESSNER Despite the fact that inort-gage interest rates are rising across the country, despite the threat of an income tax surcharge, there has got to be a boom in housing in 1968. Here arc the main reasons: 1. While the birth rate is declining, those born in the population explosion years are now in the marrying ages. It is estimated that 1,077.000 new households will be fornv ed in 1968, compared wHh 1,044,000 this year and 841.-000 in 1966. These new families will hive to live somewhere, no matter what the cost.

2. Personal income continues to rise, resulting partly from inflation and partly from increased productivity. And its personal income that meets mortgage payments, and apartment rent. Thousands Of Units Doomed.

3. Vast slum demrinct projects and obsolescence will mean the destruction of thousands of housing units next year. Obsolescense Is being speeded by strong demands for better housing, the rise in gadgetry in homes and apartments, and stricter lawi on rental housing.

In fact, a housing boom appears to have begun already. There were 136,000 units started in October, compared with 79,000 units in October,

1966, according to Commerce Department calculations. A units is a single family house, half a two-family house or an apartment.

This number of starts, 12,-500 more than in September, is unusual just before winter. Commerce figures that it if at an annual rate of 1,4(96,000.

Not all authorities agree on the coming of a boom. Some hold toet nigher interest rates for mortgages, rising closing costs, hUiter taxes both federal and local, and toe possibility of a leveling off in business will abort It.

What They Say

Commerce Department estimates 1,500,000 housing starts next year. Since that rate has almost been reached this year, thats a prediction of not much boom.

The Wall Street Journal reported that delegates to toe Mortgage Bankers of Ameri

ca meeting in Dallas in October largely agreed that mortgage money would be tight. Forecasts ranged from not a good year to disaster.

Dean Witter & Co., the Wall Street house, has predicted that in toe 1967-70 period, there wiH be from 1 million to 1.4 million households formed each year; that there will be 650,000 demolitions and fires in each of those yeari, creating a need for from Lw,000 to 2,050,600 new hoiti^ units a year. That reedi

Owiene^ning Fiberi^i ttudlM indicate toat there will be a rise in sing1e*faini ly residences through mid-1968, followed by a hoOB| to apartment house ceastruciwe through 1972.

The F. W. Dodge Co. predicts 1,450,000 new beusing starts in 1968, an Increaat of 15 per cent over this year: