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Torch Passed By Each GenerGon

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What price freedom?

That question has been asked by every ,vt"en-^ ration of Americans. -

Without exception.' ,each generation has inv-itably been drawn to the same conclusion as the founding fathers of this natiori who recognized the necessity of pledging their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to the cause they espoused.

On this July Fourth, as on many others, young Americans stand read.v to pay the supreme sacrifice on bi^ttlefjelds to preserve for another generation the pfinciples of freedom and'democracy. The price of freedom ha? nevel* been cheap for Amri-cans or any other people who sought it.

Each generation, as it has'*made its contribution

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH The governor and Mrs. Dan K. Moore are cfT on a flying July holiday vi-, fit to sunny Italy.

Their plans are to visit the uramer session of the North Carolina School of the Arts Which is conduct in Sieor under an arrangement .with the Italian government, _form-^r foreign minister Aldo Fan-fahi and a Siena hank which contributes $50,000 a yea.' for the program..

And perhaps the trip, relaxation and change of scenery in Italy will make up for sud-'den cancellation of plans by the states first family to visit another part of the world earlier this year. The Moo-es had been scheduled to accompany a North Carolina Trade Mission to Japan in the Spring but didnt go.

A Premonition The little - known ctory behind cancelling of that trip is that almost on the eve of departure three months ago, in early April, the governor had a premonition.

It was a premonition that something might happen to Dr Martin Luther King Jr., and that the governor wouid be needed in Raleigh.^

- I just cant go, the gover-

* nor told his wife, Jeanelle Moore, one morning. I am going to stay here. He urged her to go on the trip to Tokyo without him.

Stayed At Home She was disappointed but refused to go if her husband did not. '*

I was disappointed, Mrs. Moore has told friends. But now Im glad I didn* go. I am glad that I was nere to be with him, my husband, the governor, during those dark day* and long nights.

It would have been terrible to have been far away in Japan when he was needed and felt he should have b^en here

to do what he thought needed to be done.

The assassination of Dr.

King in Memphis, Tenn., touched off rioting and racial violence and disorder almost at the same time the' governor-had he gone would have been flying to Tokyo. Instead, he remained in Raleigh and curfews were ordered and the National Guard was called out to maintain order/

Moore himself stayed in constant touch with the situation across the state on an around-the - clock basis. With firm action, the situation became calm within a few days and many believe Moores prompt action prevented a much worse turmoil.

Would Have Come One factor directly involved in the governor s premonition of the possible trouble was that Dr. Kings itinerary would have brought him to North Carolina the next day after he was shot.

He had planned to visit Charlotte and perhaos other cities in connection with his plans for a Poor Pedp T e s March on Washington. It appears that Moore and some other state officials were apprehensive.

Other Factors Involved The story of the governors premonition a nagging wo^ ry about possible tragedy sn^ violence is true. It has been confirmed by the high e s t sources.

At the time, however, speculation centered on possible political activity as the reason for the governors decis i o n not to go to Japan.

The only possible connection with politics apparently is that the trip was scheduled in the midst of the Spring prim a r y campaign and that Moore perhaps felt that leaving the state in the hands of the elect i o n-embattled lieutenant governor, Robert (Bob) Scott, in troublesome times might neither be wise nor fair, eitheritb^ Scott or his primary oppnn ents, J. Melville Broughton Jr. and Dr. Reginald Hawk ins. Had Scott not been actively engaged in a political campaign at the time, Moore might have gone to Japan despite the premonition of trouble and stress.

But he pondered whether it would be right from anyones standpoint - to leave the power of the governors office in the hands of a candidate busy campaigning for that office. In any case, from Moores judicial point of view, there was question and doubt He decided against it.

to the preservation of freedom, has hbped in vam that it might spare the next the same ordeal of blood and tears. Each man who has shouldered a gun in defense of liberty has, prayed tK^ his effort might make it unnecessary for his son to dfo the same thing. Each mother who has sent her son off to war has done so with the hope that her daughters would-not face the same heartbreak.

But one generation has not been able to make the sacrifices for another. The torch is passed and if the flame of freedom is to continue to blaze, it must constantly be protected from those w'ho would snuff it out.

On this day when Americans obser\^e the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence "and the^establishment of a nation dedicated to freedom and democracy, they must also rededicate" them-' selves to the cause of their forefathersv Freedom and democracy will be preserved and passed to another generation only if this one is willing to make w'hatever sacrifices are necessary.

K ajiy generation of Americans shrinks from the challenge and sacrifice required to preserve the principles upon,which this nation was founded, freedom and democracy will be swiftly and surely lost. .

Political Convention; Roles Must Be Earned

Whether one approves of his tactics or not, Dr. Reginald Hawkins is quite probably performing a real service to the Democrat Party in North Carolina. ' ^ .

By his noisy fight to secure a larger Negro representation among delegates to the national party convention Dr. Hawkins is focussing attention on the hows and whys delegates are selected.

It should be clear to all party members' (and if it is not, soon should be) that delegates cannot be' chosen for other than their roles as active, work- ing party members.

It stands to reason that people who have played influential parts in political service on the local levels be relied upon to make responsible decisions and provide responsible information" when and as needed.

Quotas are not a reasonable basis for party repres^tation. Pohtical cPhventions are made up of workers in the political field . . . not by just anybody.

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How to Succeed in the Business of...

... Politics, Without Really Vying? By JAMES KILPATRICK :

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O, Normalcy

A handful of lawyers and spectators gathered in a Federal court room in this his-. toric old city one day last week. Three judges were on the bench. The question before the court had to do with the system by which the Am-^ erican people elect their Presidents. The judges had been asked to order the system

changed.

It was a hazy' morning, hot and drowsy, and the proceedings some how seemed a dream. The court room clock rolled backwards through the years. Thomas Jefferson was there, and John Marshall, and the diminutive James Madison. The lawyers and ^he judges were talking much of the

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - If you see your dentist twice a year, dont you think you ought to have your mind checked at least that often, too?

After all, if you lose a tooth, you can always buy a new one, but if the old brain loses some of its marbles, it's hard to stay in the game.

Were all so busy, busy, bu-sy, however, that it is difficult for us to find time to get all the thorough. periodic, professional checkups we need.

So, foe the prisoners of hurry and worry, heres an alternative an easy, self-help way of solving that burning question* of our times. Am I normal and if so how normal.

It won't take long. S i t down and wt iie yes-or-no answers to the following simple questions:

Do you lose your head when those around are losing theirs and blaming it on you?

Are you getting tired of people who seem to come to dinners and parties at ybur "Kbiise three times as often as you find yourself attending dinners and parties at their homes? '

.V-e you too educated to believe in astrology but too human to refrain fi^im rcao-ing your daily heroscope if its printed in a newspaper?

Do you feel that the tax as-SSStT Is political hack who has overvalued your house to make up for the fact that he has undervalued your neighbors house, thereby raising your taxCT unfairly?

.On a rainy day at home

do you now and then find '^ourself wondering aloud how different your life might have been if you hadnt married quite so young?

Are you beginning to think that perhaps the best ^ay to solve the presidential scramble is to vote for the first guy who lands here from Mars?

Does everything that used to be simple and esy now seem to be more difficult and complex?

Have you. changed your brand of hair oil or 'deodorant and ''ovcrcd it is still just as difficult td win promotion at the office or sweep the girls off their feet?

Do you proclaim to one and all that you remember what it 1s to be young but sturdily insist that you never behaved as oddly as young people today do?

Are you becoming suspicious of new joys and more comfortable with old boredoms?

Are you depressed now and then by the feeling that youre losing touch with things that either the world has gone crazy or you have?

Well, thats the test. Now for the score.

* If you answered yes to each question, relax. Youre as normal as you can expect to be in a mixed-up time

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Editors Saying "he Beginning

(Henderson Dispatch)

Certainly no one enj 0 y s an increase in the cost of lifes necessities, but this is a day of mounting prices for nearly everything the individual purchases. It is not surprising, therefore, that the Carolina Power & Light Com-'pany is seeking a modest increase intrates to offset the ten percent surtax it will be required' to pay along with other business concerns.

The power companys request from the State Utilities Commission is only the beginning. Countless other com-, panies wilLcIaim the necessity for this type of relief in the wake of the Federal governments tax increase. It may be morji the rule than the exception.

It has J)een argued that the new surtax will arrest the inflationary trend in this country. Perhaps so, but it will

sent levels when and if the surtax is removed. It is being imposed only until June

time of what was said one summerthe summer of 17-87. No (me seemed quite certain why the Founding Fathers settled upon the compromise that is kno^wn as the electoral college.

This much was clear: The system, coupled with the rule of winner-take-all, has its inequitable aspects. On the surface, it is patently unfair that presidential elec tors from, say, Alaska, Virginia and New York, should be chosen as they are. But the question at law is not whether the system is unfair; the question is whether the system violates the Constitution.

The suit involves Virginia

30, 1969. Bui that is a weak ,only. Like every other State, reed to lean upon. Tmpora- Virginia chooses her electors

ry taxes have a way of becoming permanent. Its a good that the surtax increase 'will be extended by Congress beyond the . expiration date fixed in the act. That means higher rates now being asked will, if granted, likew i s e stretch out farther.

CP&L says it must have this revenue it it is to maintain its position of attracting investment capital to continue its plans for broad expansion to meet the needs of booming business, and if it is to continue to pay itSshareholders the promised return on' their money. The argument makes sense and E quite understandable.

The tax bite has not yet been felt by the consuming

also reflect in higher living public so that the actual ef-costs as the levy is passed feet is not predictable in ad-

as normal as a fly on a blueberry pie.

But if VQU answered no, to each questionkid, youre in trouble. Youre out of this world, and dont know whats _ going on. YouYe a' drift in * youri)wn dreamland, ,^nd had better pick up your oafs"?fn?r*^ row your way back to reality. /

along to consumers, as it will act ,on their own initiative and as thy deem essential for their own survival as going concerns.

These developments could trigger a recession if the public resents the * imposit i 0 n generally by ceasing to spend.

The power company says it will reduce its rates to pre-

vance. If it fails to meet objectives envisioned by the administration and Congress, a proplem may arise that is even more serious than the one for which the remedy is sought. Only time can provide the Complete answer. The move is made on a theory. It remaiM to be seen whether or not it works.

by the . general ticket plan. That is to say, the party that carries the State as a whole wins all 12 electo r a 1 votes. Minority votes count for nothii Early in the atbTs hS^ tory,( Jefferson thought the plan unfair. John Marsh a 11 felt the inequity so keenly that for years he refused to vote in presidential contests. If Residential electors were intended to correspond to Congr^men and Senators, why, then, are they not chosen in the same waytwo from a' State at large, the ^st from indivudual districts?^ This was the ptnnt of the suit last week. The plaintiffs, led by J. Harvie Williams of the American Good Government Society, wanted the three-judge court to enter an order holding Virginias general ticket system to be in violation of the Constitution. The most natural relief, if the court agreed, would be to put into effect the distr i c t system instead.

Now, the odds arewhat? 10,000 to one that the three-judge ccHirt will refuse to go (Continned On Page 5)

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK NEW yOHK ^Gov. Nelson Rockefellers declj^ation that Mayor John V. Lindsay would have to ask to be nam-.. ed to the Senate, far from surprising Republican insiders here, was*merely the logical conclusion to the tortuous course followed by tht Governor since the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy^

Fearful that Lindsay'migkt humiliate him by turning down a Senate offer. Rockefeller for weeks has swght " private assurances from the Mayor that his answer would be yes, Lindsays refusal to" . say yes or no prior to a hard offer has produced a rash of hot-eyed suitors for the vacancy, festooning a serious business with comic opera trap-ings.

The unseeminly story ohc again reveals the chasm of suspicion l^tween Gover n 0 f and Mayor created by theif battle in last winters city garbage strike. But it also ii a classic example of the Byzantine style of poUtics ofU en pursued by Rockefeller to his own detirment.

It is this style more thal^ any considerations of ideolo**' gy that has alienated Rockefeller from the party rank-and-file nationally and hal made fellow Republican liberals, such as Lindsay himself, less than ardent in supporting his Presidential bid.

The trouble began immediately after Kennedys murder when Rockefeller, instead of quickly naming a successor, began to war game the situation with his advisors .Suspicious of Lindsay ever since the garbage affair. Rockefellers chief lieutenants feared the Mayor would reject an offer of the Senate seat with a public pronouncement that he could not, in good conscience, turn die city over to Democrat Frank OConnor (president of the City Coun- ' cil). Lindsay would then seem the selfless party man.

To smoke out Lindsays intentions, Rockefeller let politicians and press know that he definitely had decided to offer him the seat.

But Lindsay didnt bite. Hii aides were just as suspicious as Rockefellers, fearing that an advance acceptance by Lindsay might find Rockefeller changing his mind, to tht Mayors acute embarrassment. What Lindsay actully would have said to a bona fide offer is anybodys guess, but .sorpe'-eJose associates told urn he could do more iof New York CSty in die Senatt than in City Hall.

The mutual s^picfen wat underlined during the only prolonged conversation between them since the assassination. Rockefeller began by asking Lindsay to document the reasons why he ought to be appointeda curiously insensitive way of testing Lindsays intentions. Lindsay did-not respond.

Rockefeller then abruptly changed his line, suggesting to Lindsay that he was really his first choice. Again, Lindsay did not respond. Tht two fenced for the balance of the unrewarding conversation.

They have had no effectiv# communication since. Sen. Jacob Javits, who maintain! cordial if not warm relations with both, has volunteered to serve as an intermediary carrying messages to make suit (Continned On Page S)

le Search For New Giveaways

Strength For Tocday

Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS IN THE FRONT ROW

Life requires for its relish a slight Veil of illusion cast over

We attended the opera re- - its cimimstances. When life

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centlv and sat in the front row. By the time the performance was over, we realized that we had been in a position to see much more than was good for us. The stage manager pulled., aside, the curtain and whistled to the orchestra leader to start ' the overture to the second act. We were close enough to observe that the medieval monks had zippers on their cowls. We could see the anxious looks on the faces of the singers as they watched the prompter and glanced apprehensively pito the wings, Oci'asion-ally, alxive 'the .singing, we

loses it.s mystery ; it los e s its charm. VVe become bored with people when their personalities become too apparent.

No one should live in a fools paradise,* of coj^se, but these moderns who want to drag ev-

By ELMER ROESSNER It's a sure bet that the oil companies, their ad agencies and gimmick supply companies are frantically searching for new promotions to replace the giveaway games they have been using for two years.

The. House Small Business Committee has been conducting hearings on evidence that the games can be fixed and that the cost to dealers is so high that many have increased gasoline prices to pay for

erything out into the open and' them, view even the ugliest things of The Federal Trade Commis-

Jife in stark realism are doing their generation a gross ^disservice. We can see so much of life and people that we get disgusted with both. Interest flags when nothing is left to tlie Imaginatiori. We can sit, .so close to the hage that the whole.qierforpij n c e

slon has been rumbling and grumbling about the games. Maryland has prohibited the games by law. And many mo-

land Association of Petroleum Retailers, open several boxes of one kind of cards and pick winners at will. She explained that the edges of the cards were marked in different positions and winn c r s couW be^ spotted readily. Helped Bring Legislation

Presumably a dealer in the know could give winning cards to favorite customers or slip winner to his brother - inlaw. A similar demonstration before a Maryland legislative committee helped bring about passage of the law prhohiti-ting games in that state.

Gregg Pqtvin, a committee counsel, presented evidence that 12 companies, responding to committee cpiestion-

ies paid $44 million to advertise the games. The total will be higher when two other large companies answer their quesUonnaires.

Rep. DingeU said the committee will invite oil companies to answer the testimony. This column, as always, will give equal space to replies.

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torists are getting the feeling^ naires, said they had receiv-Ihat they have been played ed $32 million from dealers for suckers. ' for game materiajs" in 1966

The Small Business Com- and 1967, and th^^$24^illion

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FTC. Is Aware, But oh April 27, Rufus E. Wil-

that dealers who maint a i n such games reduce their profits and in the end cost their customers money through the necessity of having to charge higher prices to pay for such promotions.

While some of the complaining dealers admittedly pump more gas because , of the prize cards they hand out to their customers, it is a fact that some have to pay approximately $15 for each box of 1,000 cards,

Some of the complain i n g dealers are inquiring as to who receives credit" for the unredeemed winning cards. This is a question which dealers have repeatedly sked but one which the oil companies and the game promoters have left unanswered. That also leaves another question unanswered; If the

_ mittee, under Repre.sentativewas paid-in prizes "and $18 son, chief of the division of Federal Trade Commission

could hear the property mam hses^^lraptieal A seaFin tlm John D. Dingel, D-Mich., wa-* million was paid to compan- general trade restraint? of the was aware of this last April,

shouting orders to the stage front row is noNslways what tched Mrs/ Mildred Trotsie, ies that produce the games. FTb, told the Connecticut Ga- why hasnt it done something

its cracked Up to be.

- vice president of the Mary- In addition, the compan- soline Retailers. Associat. 0 n about it