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7u0dy, April Z 1968

Sacrifice For The Sake Of Unity

President Johnsons announcement that he will not seek another term in office is one of those rwe and unexpected developments in the political life of a nation which leaves in its wake confusion, uncertainty. and the necessity for a period of settling before the pieces of a new emerging picture are put togther.

For the President and for the nation, his declfl* ion not to seek re-electJon is a momentous one.

Beset by seemingly insoluable problems abroad, divisiveness at home and growing unrest among the people of the nation, Lyndon Baines Johnson has elected to set asido his own political future in the hope that in the next nine months he may be able to bring order out of growing chaos.

Neither friend nor foe of President Johnson can doubt that his decision was made in complete sincerity and unselfishness with the hope that by stepping aside himself at the end of this term he would be able to do more effectively in his remaining months in office what he could not accomplish were he seeking re-election.

During the B7 years of his active political life. President Johnson has become the foremost student of the philosophy that politics and government in

Computerizing .eaislature

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By WILUAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALElQH A year from BOW legislative reporters worklag in Raleigh can throw away the Stacks and stacks of copies of hills, dally legislative bulletins and other records which pile up on their desks and fill thick notebooks.

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igs are b e c o m i ng treanilined, modernized and computerlied.

If a reporter gets a call from an editor anywhere in the state asking about the status of a particular bill, or what Rep. John Doe has been doing, or what laws have been enacted On a certain subject, it will be quite simple and easy.

The reporter can take tire call in the press room of the legislative building. Within seconds he can walk a few steps to a newly-installed machine and pegs a button, then type a few letters on a standard typewriter - sized key* board. Presto!

Flashes Information

The information needed will be flashed instantly on a video terminalsimilar to a 12-inch television screenatop the typing unit.

If a written copy of the in-formatwi is needed, simply puah another button. The computer system will type an exact copy at 150 words per minute at another terminal which will be located in offices of the legislative clerks.

Wiring if being Installed for even terminals of the new computerized information system in the legislative building, T^se will be placed in the werks offices, in the press room, in the office of the gov-anKws legislative liaison of-

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a democracy is the art of the possible. His placa in hiitory may well bo determined by how effectively he is able to practice this art of the possible during his remaining nine months in the most powerful office In the world.

Whether he has strengthened his position for bringing about negotiations to end the Vietnam conflict is a matter of conjecture. His order to sharply reduce bombing of North Vietnam should open the door to the conference table. But the communists may prefer to deal with someone else nine montha from now than to negotiate with President Johnson.

And how effective will Lyndon Johnson, as a lame duck president, be able to deal with Congress in effecting solutions to critical domestic problems? Although a lame duck official usually is expected to be less rather than more effective, It Is Our guess that President Johnson will now find himself and Congress working more closely together than at any time since the beginning of his administration.

President Johnson has sacrificed himself for the sake of unity of purpose among the people of this nation. Even in the confusion that followed his announcement, there is already the appearance of that unity being forged.

By his own action he has set an example of self-sacrifice which will be necessary for the United States and its people to successfully cope in the months ahead with the grave problem that face it at home and abroad.

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ficer, the office of the sergeant at arms and in the basement offices of the Institute of Gcwernment.

Information Categorita

Raw data for the computer information srvci will be entered into the system by the Institute of Government.

This will include a short title of the bill, name of the introducer and a cumalative history plus related pertinent data.

By hoping, the name of a legislator at a computer terminal, the system will flash back titles and the current status of all bills introduced by that particular lawmaker.

Type in the name of a committee and the system will furnish a list Of all bills under consideration in that committee along with dates they were referred.

The word ratified will prod the computer to furnish a full list of all bills which have been enacted and ratified and give their session law and chapter number. The w'ord failed will produce a listing of all bills which have been defeated plus information on the final action.

Even the name of a certain county will trigger the computer into furnishing a lisi of all bills affecting that particular county and the status of each.

Feed the computer a certain chapter number of the general statutes and it will flash back a list of all bills relating to the subject matter of the requested chapter.

Capability Explained

As complex and sophisticated as this system is, it does not go as far as the computer information service installed for the legislature in Pennsylvania.

The capability of the Pennsylvania system is such that it can deliver much more material-including biograohical Informaon on each legislatorbut North Carolina officials felt that much of this s(M*t of data would be Irrelevant.

Nevertheless, North Caro lina's system Is expected to

have plenty of capability.

Central Office Here Is A Logical Move

We are pleased that the Eastern Area Tubei<- By JAMES KILPATRICK

culosis Associations expanded office will be located -p^ .

Mrs. Temp Clarke reported to the county com- atnotsbtand

missioners Monday that the office will now include an additional 12 counties. It will be rename(i the Easte^ Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association, embracing 22 counties.

Mrs. Clarke said additional office space will be needed for more full time employees.

We feel it is logical that Greenville should be selected a.s the location of the TB Association office to ser\e this vast area. Much is being done in the

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With every week that passes, evidence accumulat e s that Uie Andean people increasingly are fed up with the war in Vietnam. One poll finds only 54 per cent still in support of U. S. invc^vement Another poll, among Demo-

health field here and we expect that the TB Associ- Lo"

acion will benefit from the resources and develop- ^ support

ments in health service which are ahead.

V e welcome this new* area bffice and urge local citizens and organizations to extend it all possible support.

Gag Rule ms Advantaaes

the Presidents policies. The polls are confirmed by discontent in Congress, by Kennedys crowds in Califs*-nia, by editorials, speeches and letters across the land.

Under these melancholy circumstances, perhaps little is to

be gained by renewing an old appeal: Stand fast Yet tha plea must be voiced once

more.

To urge patienca ia to urga an unpopular course. Patienca is no larga part of the national character. We ara geared to Instant achievement instant potatoes, instant tea, the infra - red oven that heats the TV dinner. Suffering a headache we want instant relief. Nothing frets us like a traffic jam. Caught in a bank, a store a super - market, we scurry like ants, seeking the shortest line, the fastest way out.

Perhaps there was a time,

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By EDMOND LsBRETON

W.\SHLNGTON (APl-The gag rule which the Hou.se of Representatives often invokes on the consideration of legislation is regularly denounced by opponents as an unconscionable handicap to congressional discussion and action.

But the Senate, which has no such rule, has just spent a week demonstrating that there may be a lot to be said for the procedure.

The device, knowm more formally as a closed rule, amounts to this: The H ou s e Rules Ckimmittee with the approval of a majority of the membership at large can decree that the House vote yes or no on a measure before it, without any opportun

ity to alter it by crffering amendments on the floor.

The Senate received from the House a simple bill to postpone reductions in the excise taxes on automobiles and telephone service and speed up corporate tax collections.

It is part the lesser part of President Johnsons program to raise some $12 billion extra revenue to reduce the big budget deficits now impending. The major, and far more controversial part, is an income tax incr ease which neither chamber has approved.

The Senate, true to its tradition of unlimited debate and amendment, went to work with a will on the House-passed measure. By the time it (Continued On Page 5)

Other Editors Saying Stand On Almost Nothing

:-orty Years Ago

By FOY H. DLNCA.V April 2, 1928 .Miss Moore Heads 4-H Club Council For Pitt County

A Girls 4-H Club Council was organized Saturday afternoon at the Court House. Miss Ethel Nice acted as chairman for the organizing meeting. AH the officers and leaders from the eleven 4-H clubs are to be members of this club council and Bel-voir, Grimesland, Fountain, Falkland, Winterville, Fleming, Simpson and the Arthur Clubs were represented...The following officers were elected: President, Elizabeth

Moore, Grimesland; vice president, Annie Mayo, Falkland; secretary, Anna Small,

Belvoir: reporter, Alice May Elks, Grimesland...

Birth Anooiuicemeiit Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Lee of Norfolk, Va., announce tha birth of a son, W. E. Jr., March 30. Mrs. Lee was before her marriage Miss Be.s-sie Lee Teel of this city.

111 With Measles Friends of little Miss Katherine Davenport will regret to learn that she is ill with measles.

(Chapel Hill Weekly)

Tlie chairman of the State Democratic and RepubI i c an Parties, crossing themselves in concert, allowed this week as to how pleased they were that the primary campaigns for Governor had been u.ni-formly serene, unmarked by bitterness, blood or personal abuse.

Serene is hardly the right word. Silly, shallow, sopho-moric, dull, irrelevant, monotonous, drab, di*eary any or all would be more appr.^ri-ate.

Without doubt, this years Democratic primary has been the most lacklustre and insignificant in decades. The electorate has been treated to such gripping debate as Mel Broughton berating Bobby Kennedy for running for President and Bob Scott stan Mng four - square for paved driveways to volunteer fire house.s.

The Republican gubernatorial aklrmiahing has been taking place west of Greensboro and seems to be confined to back rooms. Whatever Ja c k Stickley and Jim Gardner are saying to the voters seld o m manages to leak into the East.

Meanwhile the great issues facing the State urban problems, racial problems, employment problems remain virtually unnoticed. It is as though the candidates had ta

ken a biood oath not to say any thi.ig thoughtful or thought - provoking.

Those stands that have been taken as frequent as ram in the Gobi have been sho: with hypocrisy and-or cynicism. Take the tobacco tax, for one instance.

Bob Scott, Mel Broughton and Jim Gard.ier all are against a tobacco tax. They are against it because they know full well that a stand for a tobacco tax would cost them Down East votes. Ja<* Sti.K ley seemed to be in favor of a tobacco tax at first, then let his position sort of disappear. Not one has been anywhere near honest about the matter.

Only Reginald Hawxins, who has nothing to lose anyway, favors a tobacco tax. Fcm* that matter, he is the only one of the gubernatorial candidates who has seen fit to address himself to the States major concerns. Hawkins, of course, is a Negro and cannot be expected to force the other candidates into a genuine confrontation.

We dont know which is more appalling a clutter of candidates afraid to stir what ought to be the issues in the campaign, or an electorate too apathetic and lethargic to demand anything more than meaningless maunderings. Probably we are getting exactly what we deserve.

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NEW YORK (AP) -Nostalgia has always been one of mans favorite pastimesat any age, In all eras.

The growing child reads fairy taka that begin with the Immortal words, Once upon a time. He is very curious about his own brief past, and is vastly entertained when his parents tell him anecdotes about his infancy.

Adults, of course, tend to spend more time recalling yesterday than they do in planning for tomorrow. After all, no matter how rough It may have been, yesterday ii

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in Vietnam, when instant victory might have been achieved. It is tempting to speculate on what might have happened, two years ago, if the U. S. had Joined in a sudden, massive acceleration if we had gambled at that time on the interdiction of Haiphong, t h e capture of Hanoi, the lightning thrusts that could have been attempted.

Seen speculation is futi i e. For reasons that seemed plausible, a less dramatic course was set; Russia and Giina would not be provoked; the enemy would be ground down by slow attrition; for the winning of limited objectives, a limited war would do. Twenty thousand lives and fifty billion dollars later, we emerge from a winter of profound discontent to a spring of proposed disengagement.

Whatever the mistakes of grand strategy may have been, we cannot wisely quit the contest now. The present situation and the future prospect alike urge us to pursue the struggle with unrelenting dedication.

Many of us are cast in the mold of George Grenville. Nothing was more remarkable in him, said Macaulay, than his inclination always to look on the dark side of things. Viewing the present situation in Vietnam, one finds a bright side emerging. The Communists Tet offensive may h we been a shock to the allies, but it was disaster to the enemy. The South Vietnamese did not rise up to embrace their Communist brothers; the government at Saigon did not topple. On the contrary, the fearful ordeal seems to have strengthened the souths will to resist

Meanwhile, hi Hanoi, sigra multiply that the enemy is hurting at home. Ho Oii Mlnh decrees death for such crimes as undermining the solidarity of the pe<H)le or engaging in anti - government propaganda. The decrees reflect not strength, but weakness. It would ba foolish it would be contrary to all human behavior for us to sup-se of their recent offensive, y. too, must be suffering profound disillusion: So

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safer. We are more comfortable with yesterday than we are with tomorrow because wa ' have endured its threats and survived its perils. It consoles us more than it hurts us.

The past is so popular today that there now is even a Nostalgia Book Club which each month recommends to i 11 members new books about bygone days and historic figures.

Your own stock of nostalgia is pretty extensive if you can look back and remember when

A dollar bill was as good aa

gold.

A modern mother was ona who insisted that her children take dally doses of cod liver oil in winter to oe sure they got plenty of Vitamin D.

The usual reason a fellow grew a mustache was to hlda the fact he had a hare lip.

The idea of putting radios in cars was opposed on the grounds that they would die-tract drivers and cause mort accidents.

A prot'd wife never was defeated by family poverty as long as she was able to keep clean white lace curtains hanging in the front windows of her home.

Only the very, very Wk rich had French poodles as pets.

You knew you were in a hoiLse of gentility and preten-.sions to culture if the parlor contained two goldfish and at loas* one canary. But the dream of every little boy wal to own a brightly colored parrot that would startle starched ladies with its terrible swearing.

During a .small town Fourth of July parade, it touched your heart with awe to see tlie few time - bent veterans of the Civil War go by, and to think that these same men had once been young and e^er and had shook the UndTlo their glory.

Most butchers wore atr a w hats on tiie jol) and had a pencil stuck behind an ear. They wrapped the meat in rough butcher paper instead of sticky plastic.

Just 40 years ago In 1928 physical culturist Bamarr MacFadden sternly warned bachelors; If you are looking for future happineat, avoid the girls who wear high heels.

That same year two Mickeye made their screen debuts Mickey Rooney end Mlc key

Mouse.

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Miss Sallie Cowell spent this weekend in Washington.

Wyatt L. Brown is here from Columbia University, New York, to spend a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wiley Brown.

Weep, If Taxes Arent Boostec.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS CALL OF THE HIGHEST David Livingstone, returned from eighteen years in the African jungle, consented to African jungle, consented too appear in Eclinburgh to receive an honorary degree. From time immemorial it had been the custom of the undergraduates indulgentr ly permitted by the university authorities to jeer and make derc^atory remarks as the distinguished guests received their degrees. But when Livingston arose a hush fell upon the assembly, and for a half hour the students listened respectfully as he related hJs experiences in

Africa as a Christian missionary. The burden of his message was that he ordertel his life on the basis of a divine commission. In the silence of the jungle, he said, I seem to hear a voice saying to me, Lo I am with you always even unto the end of the world.*

People always respect those who give themselves wholeheartedly to the doing of the right. They may seem to admire ie sport and the jolly good fellow, but down in their hearts they never do. Their respect and admiration are reserved for those who ar the call of the highest nd respond.

By ELMER ROESSNER

If Congress balks at raising tax rates in this election year, you, I and Satchel Paige will pay more taxes sooner or later.

The government is spending more money than it is taking in and, under the laws of supply and demand, Monopoly and vgravity, somebody pays the difference.

Suppose that the difference between what Congms appropriates for the coming fiscal year and what !t votes to fUck up in taxis Is $10 billion more or less, a likely figure.

That $10 biUlon wont disappear, ragardless of what hanky - panky, legerdema i n and double - talk is engaged in by the White House, the B u d get Bureau, the Treasury and the Federal Reserve. Heres the secret answer, buddy: you, I, Paige and 200 million other Americans will be st u c k with the check.

WeU Pay, Pay, Pay In fact, it will be paid many times over. To wit:

1, Out children will pay it, because the government will issue bonds to cover the deficit and when the bonds come due 20, 30 or more years from

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now, our children and grandchildren will have to pay them off. (Of course, they may pay them off by selling new bonds, which THEIR children and grandchildren will have to redeem.)

2. Meanwhile, we will pay it ourselves. The last govern-

3. In addition, we will have to pay the $10 oiUion a third time in highest interest rates on mortgages, consumer credit loans, business loans and other borrowings. Because the Treasury will have to pay higher interest rates to attract money to meet the defl<tit, all other interest rates will oe forced up. In fact, other borrowers msy have to pay $20 billion, $30 billion or even more in higher interest.

4. Furthermore, we will pay the $10 billion once more in higher prices and h i g her wages. The deficit will dejure-ciate the buying power of the dollar once more, pushing up prices; higher prices will force workers to demand higher wages, and we will be off on another push - pull hotsy-totsy spiral of wage and price increases.

5. And we will pay the deficit one more time In higher

state and local taxes. If Congress refuses to increase federal taxes, it will have to cut some federal air to states and cities. This will require higher local taxes for welfare, Medicaid, riot - prevention, low-Income housing and other projects federal Big Brotheriim has pushed us into.

So if Congress dacUnes to increase taxes to meet expenditures, we slobs may have to pay the deficit once in local taxes once in inflated prices, once in higher wages, ssveral times in higher interast rstsi, once in interest on govern-ent bonds. And our cnildreii will pay it all on(te again when it pays off the borrowed money.

So If Congress Increases taxes; dont weep, est rates of 6.30 to 6.45 per cent, which means that every 16 years we have to pay interest equal to the total borrowed all over again ment borrowing was at lnto^