Thursday, March 7, 1968

Early Spring Training For LBJ?

FOREWARNED

President Johnsons week-eiid jaunts around the country looks a good deal like early spring training for the rigorous political campaigning that will begin in earnest about the time of the major league all-star games.

For the President, perhaps the trips are a stab at keeping up with his prospective opponents in that hard campaign. The Republican who will challenge him for the nations highest office will have had plenty of campaign training by the time the national politi|al conventions end. The one who gets the GOP nomination will have been on the campaign trail for months seeking his partys nomination.

He will have experienced the pace of numerous speeches in a single day; week-end scheduling which has taken him to half-dozen or more different spots across the country to make appearances: and the hours of feverish hand-shaking which goes with trying to get votes.

By mid-summer the contender will be well accustomed to the campaign pace he will be expected to maintain from early fall to the November general election.

In the case of President Johnson, there Is little likelihood he will have more than token opposition for the Democratic nomination. As the incumbent, his re-nomination is considered almost automatic, with just enough show of contention to hold the attention of television audiences. He really doesnt have to campaign among his party members to gain commitments for votes of convention delegates.

But for the politicians, election year is like the World Series. Even those who are most confident of winning are not inclined to leave all the campaigning to the challengers. They know from experience the campaign trail is tough at best even for the man who is in condition for it. For the one who has not properly trained and toned up for the ordeal, it could be almost impossible.

These recent years in the White House have not let President Johnson forget the lessons of practical politices that Lyndon Johnson learned on the long trail to the top of the political heap.

Deliberate Pace

In Primary Race

Foreign Market Plays Big Role For Tobacco

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH - When will the Scott - Broughton contest for hte states Democratic nomination for governor snap out of the doldrums?

The question is asked more and more frequently because at this point it appears the 1968 Dem<xratic gubernatorial primary campaigns are lagging and lacking in lively interest, in headline issues and headknocking between the principals.

And there is now less than 60 days left before the May 4 balloting.

A better question is w h y. Certainly the campaigns will pick up steam and move into high - powered publicity and quotable speechmahini; gear sooner or later. Certainlv the confrontation of sons of former governors, nrominen: public figures in their own right, has all the makings of ?.n exciting and spirited statewide contest.

sons. There are others perhaps not so dbvious but which figure as importantly or more so in planning of a political campaign.

First is the necessity of goods, sound organizat o n. This means visiting in the countries and local areas, conferring with people, ask i n g their help and setting up local campaign organizat i o ns. Secondly a related chore in campaign organization is necessary routine. This involves setting up office staffs, equipment, letter writing, printing and preparation of literature, pins ban.ners, stationary and the huge task of turning out literally mill i o ns of pieces of mail, thousands of brochures, posters and the like.

With all the bad news that seems to surround the tobacco industry it is encouraging to learn that tobacco exports reached an all-time high in 1967.

Tobacco Associates president John D. Palmer reported that 528 million pounds were exported during the year.

However, as with all phases of the industry, even this cheering news is overhung by clouds.

Palmer pointed out that the lifting of an embargo on Rhodesian tobacco could have a severe effect on the American industry. The Rhodesian government is now holding some 250 million pounds of leaf, acquired at a loan rate of about 33 cents per pound. The U. S. support price this year i.s more than 61 cents a pound.

By JAMES KILPATRICK

ABA Asked For A Fiah

There are also fears of a protectionist trend in this country and abroad.

A good foreign market for tobacco has its direct impact on growers in Eastern North Carolina.

WrXIAM

SHIRES

Short Campaign

Primary campaigning for the gubernatorial r.omiaation will be briefer this year. It was planned that w :iy v' hen primary dates were moved up to an earlier date.

The candidates themselves, after reviewing the prolonged and painful, physically grueling experience of the campaigns of 1960 and 1964, intentionally decided against tiring the voters or expending themselves too early.

This year, especially, with increased Republican activity and indication of GOP inroads, promises to be a long and difficult one for Democratic candidates and added reason for a slow, deliberate pace at the start.

Reasons Cited

These are some of the rea-

Third, there is the very, very important matter of campaign financing.

Financing Costly

It is no secret that political financing these days is cosily very coittly.

Money must be raised because advertisers, print e r s, television stations, staff employe salaries and myriad other expenses must be paid on time some in advance.

It was estimated rece n 11 y that a campaign for the governorship in North Caroli n a might cost $1 million. Veteran political campaigners d o u bt this but they do not deny that total costs that spent on candidates behalf might approach that staggering figure.

All this organizat ion, routine and arranging for adequate campaign financing slows the real headline - grabbing phase of such a contest and undoubtedly has done so this time.

American tobacco is in a favorable export position because of unique conditions in the world trade at present. The best way to maintain this position over the long haul is to promote American tobacco as a superior product. The entire industry should make every effort in this direction.

Many of us in the newspaper business, who happen also to have spent years in covering the courts, had hoped earnestly that ti>e controversy over free press and fair trial wouW dry up and blow away. With last weeks action of the American Bar Association, the hope is proved vain. The A. B. A. now has asked for a fight; the A. B. A. assuredly will get it

Problems In A

douse Election

Research And Study In the meantime, the candidates have been doing their homework gathering information. seeking advice and opinions and formulating policies.

Most sources in Raleigh say the principal candidates have plenty of campa i g n ammunition already but are biding their time. Some of it they may not cho<we to use-depending on what develops.

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By WILLARD H. MOBLEY

WASHLNGTON (AP)-Poli-ticians are doing some late-at-night figuringmuch of it concerning the Republican-Democratic division of delegations in the House on how to put a presidential elect i o n through that branch of Congress.

A House election would be necessary if no presidential candidate received a majority of electOTal - college votes.

The extent of concern was pointed up in a little - noticed speech by House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford at a recent party luncheon.

It was a 15-minute lecture on the task of electing a president in the face of an all-out third-party threat by former Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama.

First problem: How do you get the necessary 270 electoral votes when 35 or maybe more of the total look unavailable?

Ford stayed away from naming states but other party sources listed Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina as areas where Wallace is at least a threat. Together they have 35 votes.

Besides, Wallace is on the ballot in California and is looking over numerous ot h e r states.

Ford treated the failure of either major party to gain an electoral majority as a real possibility. The burden of his talk was about what happens when the job of picking a president shifts to the House.

A presidential vote there is by states, so that Nevada with just one congressman, carries the same weight as California or New York with their platoon-size delegations. It takes 26 states to win.

This is a pity, for both the press and the bar have be-ter things to do than to stand eyeball to eyeball, growling at one another. With a little more restraint, on both sides, the confrcMitation could have been avoided. A pea-sized problem would not have been inflated to gas-bag proportions, and the rough balance of free press and fair trial would not have been tipped awTv.

.As things stand, Democrats would win hands down. They control 29 delegations to 8 for the Republicans.

But its by no means that simple because congressional elections this fall could change that makeup. For example, three delegationsIllinois, Montana and Oregon are evenly split. A one-vote shift either way would swing any one of them.

The Democrats are ahead by one in Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Tennessee and hold the single Nevada seat. Again a one-vote turnover would shift control.

But the Republicans have^ similar problems. They are ahead by one in Arizona and Indiana, and hold the single seats in Alaska, Delawa r e. Vermont and Wyoming.

States where the Democrats have a margin of two seats are Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Hawaii, Maine, Maryland, Massachuset t s, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island and Virginia.

The Republicans are two up in Idaho, Minnesota, New Hampshire, North Dako i a, South Dakota an4 Utah.

The Republicans claim they see places to win 31 seats and take control of the House, but to win the Whit House as well presents a differ e n t problem.

Boiled dmvn. the argument has to do with press coverage f including radio and TV I of a bare handful of criminal cases. TTie theory is that when the press fully reports a sensationa crime, and goes to cover the details of arrest and indict

ment, prospective jurors form (pinions that stick with them, months later, when they finially climb into the box. These opinions are dominant; they cannot be suspended. The defendant thus is denied his right to an impartial jury. And justice is perverted.

The theory may have some merit; my own guess is Uiat the theory is mostly hot air. No one really knows if the theory is valid, and the Bar Association would not hold still to find out. At the very least, the theory insults the integrity of the juror, wno takes oath to render his verdict upon the evidence alone. Who can say what finally shapes a vote to convict or acquit? The cynical Mr. Dooley may not have been far wrrtig:

Whin th' case is all over, the jury'll pitch th tistimo-ny out iv th window, an consider three questions: Did Lootgert look as though he'd kill his wife? Did his wife look as though she ought to be kilt? Isn't it time we wint to supper?

No oneor at least no reporter and DO trial lawyer

^orty Years Ago

By FOY H. DUNCAN .March 7, 1928 Plush Plant Decides To Locate Here

their home in Bethel. Mrs. Smith was formally Miss Carolyn Pollock of Pollocksville, N. C.

Although no formal announcement has actually been made, it was authoratively stated this morning that food arrangements had virtually been completed for establisn-ment in this city of a branch of the Philadelphia Plush Manufacturing concern. . . .A. M. Moseley, Greenville, business man, who has had charge of the stock solicita-toin and negotiations with representatives of the Philadelphia establishment, today expressed gratification o the splendid support which Greenville business men gave his committee. . . .

ni With Measles

Friends of little Miss Jane Forbes will regret to leam that she is quite ill with measles.

Recovering From Measles

Master W. M. Scales, Jr. is recovering from measles. His many friends willl be glad to leam of his improvement.

Birth Annooneement

Bethel, N. C. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Smith, Jr. announce the birth of a daughter, Betty Maud, March 3rd, 1928 at

Gives Birthday- Dinner

Last evening at her home on Evans Street, Mrs, Hortense Moye, delightfully n-tertained at a birthday dinner Moye. . . .Covers were laid in honor of her son, Bert for Mrs. Moye, Bert .Moye. Moye, James Moye, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bowen, Joe Moye, Buck Buchanan, George Hadley, Sam Carson and Frank Patrick.

Quotes

Our response to the image the public now holds of legislators would be for them to disclose financial assets and operate under a code of ethics. This would not only be right but good politics. Santa Paula Calif.) Chronicle.

Only he deserves power who every day justifies it. Dag Hammarskjold.

Invade

Ocean

QeDths

By JIM SIROTHMAN AP Aerospace Writer

CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. (AP) .\bout the time Americas first three Apollo astronauts rocket into space this year, a group of Navy divers plan to move into an underse.i home deep in the Pacific to exploit another area challenging man the ocean floor.

The aquanauts will take up residence inside a submerged quarters called Sealab 3, to oe located at depths up to 600 feet on the ocean bottom near San Clemente Island, Calif. There, they will sleep, eat and work for periods of nearly two weeks without surfacing m what Navy officials term the most complex. advanced and highly sophisticated ocean -*a.B:neer'..g experiment atternoted to date.

If successful, the divers will hasten the day whe.i the ration's continental shelve^ ca.i be exploited for food, minerals and recreation.

The experiment s scheduled to begin in the fall, aoout the time three astrun.iuisNavy Capt. Walter .M. Schirr.i Jr., A r Force Maj. Donn !. Eisele ard Walter R. Cunningham, a civilianplan to ride the first manned Apollo spaceship ialo earth orbit.

ever has suggested that the jury' system is perfect. It Is merely the best system hat ever has been devised. The coiiimon-sense surmise is that many influences, apart from the evidence in court, have an effect upon a vote of innocence or guilt; The demeanor of the defendant, the oratory of a lawyer, the tone of a judges voiceall these play a part The whole ?n s-tem of peremptory challenges to the veniremen rests u;>-011 the recognition of human prejudices that have nothing to do with newspaper coverage.

There is more to It than this. The criminal trial is almost never a iHirsLut of pure justice; maybe it ought to be. but it seldom is. It is an athersary proceeding. brought in the name of the state against a certain defendant The prosecution has Its bag of tricks; so does the defense. The path to a verdict is booby-trapped with technical rules and constitutional pitfalls. A major trial is a combat of wit and guile in which the object, as often as not, is to seek the triumph of emotion over reason.

The wonder is that the jury system produces even the rough justice that emerges from our courtrooms. The fact is that the system generally works well; and It works well precisely because it takes into accmint the human condition. Gurs is not an antiseptic society, nor was meant to be. The the7 ot the impartial juror is a myth; it is the merest pretense; and the gagging of the press, as the A. B. A. has proposed, will not materially affect the ancient fiction.

Exploring the ocean floor Isnt as glorious a pursuit as flying to the moon,' ooser\'t*d Navy Cmdr. M Sco'.i Carpenter, one of the .seven original as-tronaut.s. Carpenter left the space program last August to take an assignment with ths Navy's Deep ^bmergence Systems Project. Carpenter piloted a one-man Mercury sp.icecraft on a three-orbit mission .May 24, 1962.

But ocean exploration hci greater immediate potential,

he said in an interview.

The challenge is in many ways more severe, harder wck a.id more grueling" than .nace, said the astronaut-aquanaut, more hostile. more hostile. '

Carpenter-who set an undfr-water record by living for 30 consecutive days at a depth of 205 feet during the Sealsb 2 experiment in 1965Is in charge of crew training, personnel equipment and certain scientific i periments on the ocean bottom for Sealab 3.

Like spacemen, the aquanauts must prove that man is capable of performing useful tasks in a new environment.

Altogether, five or six eight-man teams plan to spend 12 to 13 days each working In around Sealab 3. Initially, the habitai which looks much like a railroad tank car with rivo squart rooms holding it up at both ends probably will be placed at a depth of about 430 feet.

For the final one or two diving teams, however, it may be lowered to 600 feet, project officials said.

Compared to space projects, only a small amount of money has been invested to zolve undersea hardware problems

The Navys deep ocean research program rectlved $24 million for fiscal 1967, despite pleas for more funds from project officials. The Navy has asked that its annual funding for oceanographic research, now at about $300^mllllon, be increased to $1 billion by 1970.

Prime Interest of the Navy Is improving rescue and salvage operations, given urgency by the loss of the submarine Thresher and its 129-man crew in the North Atlantic In 1963. The Defense Department also is Interested in utilizing the continental she!|^ for military purposes.Strength For Today Group Rates In Auto Insurance?

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS NATURE OF PRAYER

Two things cannot be in the same place at the same time. Therefore, one of the most effective ways for putting evil out of our hearts is by res> lutely pushing some good im-pluses into our hearts and thus displacing the evil.

One of the most thrilling results of prayer is the experience of having our lives refreshed by Gods presence. Usually we think of prayer m terms of petition and certainly petition occupies an important part in prayer. Praise is also a part of prayer, and certainly thanksgiving. But there is soniet i n g about true prayer that leaves us feeling as if the whole of our lives had been refreshed. Fear is at least leinporarily set aside. Undisciplined pas

sion slinks off into the darkness, and we breathe a d e e p breath of freedom. When we hold our lives up to God, doubt either disappears or loses its power to break the heart or to make it ache.

So, one of the best ways to pray is to pray witl>vigofous pupose. We need endure no longCT the tyranny of this passion or that. Anxiety is usually unjustified. Evil designs cannot continue to endure with the light of Gods reality shining down upon them.

Put evil out of the heart by resolutely pushing good thoughts, kindly Impulses, high aspirations and confidence straight into the very center of the heart to take the place of the evil things which keep us agitated and troubled.

Lifes destiny is largely up to us. .

By ELMER ROESSNER

Theres a new fringe benefit coming: auto insurance.

Several unions are reported to be considering it. Once one or two big unions succeed in getting it, the idea will spread through OTganized labor and may become as common as company - paid hospital and medical insurance.

Unions have fairly plausible arguments for such a fringe;

Oocnpanies can purcha s e auto insurance at gro|^ rates, much cheaper than rates individual employees can obtain.

Unions will argue it will improve morale because employees will appreciate of the insurance and the knowledge they are thoroughly protected. They will be sure their company will deal only with a good insurers

B^efit For Company

Auto insurance couid be arranged to relieve a company of pension and other liabilities when a worker is injured or killed in an accident away from office or plant.

Insurance talesmen, many of whom are tmlonized, would probably oppoee the plan In fear of loring comndtsions. However, the opportifc.itl e s for selling policies In bulk, even thousands at a time, woj^d soften this (^>positlon.

Group life insurance has already lowered the commissions of many small agents but has considerably fattened income of big groups sellers.

Insurance companies will be happy to write group policies. Such policies can mean mix:h larger sales as well as savings in selling, bill i n g and collection costs. The big

gest attraction, however, Is that they would be insuring a select group. Steadily employed workers have a lower accident rate than young people or those past the retirement age.mMm

ROESSNER

Union tactics will probably be the same as they have been in obtaining group hospital and medical care Insurance. First unions will ask only that the employer ar

range for group coverage at the employees expense so that they may save money. At the next contract negotiations they will ask for the employer to pay part of the costs. Eventually they will demand that the employer pay all. Way Has Been Lighted ^

Curiously enout, e m plo-yers themselvM have aet the stage for this new benefit.

Salvatore Mirenda, insurance analyst for the Pwt of New York Authority, told a New York meeting of unden* writers that it been r*> ported that at leaat 20 cdm-panies sell group auto insurance policies to employees, often at rates IS per cent tower than comparable individual coverage.

Thats the first step in the pr^able union march for paid coverage.BWMI