Wednesday,|July 3t, 1968

Stage Is Set For Big Turnabout*

TRYING NOT TO NOTICE !

Make no mistake aboutt, the frustrations of the past three or four years in American life are coming to the fore this election year.

The indignant voices condemning criminal and near-treasonous activity are drawing applause and support from the ordinarily passive-type American whose concern is near the boiling point.

Any candidate, any where in the land, no matter how unlikely his qualifications, can be assured of a receptive audience when he assumes a no-nonsense stance on a^ platform of ^law and order and drapes himself in red, white and blue.

The noisy protest demonstrators, so far as the evidence goes, remain a fringe element on the national scene. The old regulars of both"'major parties are fully aware of this and regard them as having only a nuisance value. It is, instead, the atti-

Slo Machine Or ^Kingmakers

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflectw Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH - Rep. Jim Gardners recent and repeated se of the term political machine is puzzlingjto many of the states veteran Democrats.

Its a term they havent encountered since demise of the old, so - called dynasties which ruled certain countries and for a time held political sway over the state more than 20 years ago.

But since the 1940s, they say, political machines have vanished from the North Carolina scene. There have been no kinmakers, no individual political figures either governors or senators with power to pick and choose, or to dictate.

Now Gardner has brought back the description and refers repeatly to his opponent, Lt. Gov. Bob Scott, as t h e machine candidate.

Definition Questioned Gardners headquarters issued at least three news releases last week charging that the Democratic party is a political machine. TWo began with the identical sentence, the political machine in North Carolina has been in absolute control of our state -government for 68 years. . . Democrats s u p p o r t i ng Scott interpret this as a politi-^ cal ploy, but wonder about its effect on the public. They doubt its validity.

It doesnt jibe with their definition of machine, nor to their knowledge and be 1 i e f would it apply to present day workings of the states Democratic party.

Party Machinery True, there is party machinery for political activity, for approving jobs and ap-ointments and dispensing patronage. This is practical politics, no matter which party is in power.

But party machinery undergoes change at least ev e r y four years sometimes m o re

frequently it is undergoing change now following the May primary. A new state party chairman is being named and he will make other party headquarters appointmen t s. The new team will screen various political appointments and make policy recommendations. The same sort of setup exists in the Republican headquarters, controlled by the titular head of the party now Jim Gardner. It probably woald function in much the same way.

Gardner, however, said in a news release that I do not, nor do I think the people of North Carolina unders t a n d these functions of state crnment. He said the of political chicanery. . .occur-ing for too many years in Raleigh, the kind of wheeling and dealing against the people will not be allowed in my administration.

Intraparty Feuding

Gardners charges and use of the term political machine bring surprise to veteran Democrats because of the Democrat partys necessary preoccupation in recent years with maintaining party unity.

In their view, there has been far more contending and political jousting within t h e Democratic party than between Democrats and Republicans. A prime concern of Democratic nominees for public office has been healing of ' intraparty wounds and getting Democrats together.

Lt. Gov. Scott presently feels this has been highly successful since May 4. In my view, there is more enthusiasm in the party and morale is better and higher than it has been inmy rhemofy, Scott said.

It is against the backdrop of experience that Scott is saying the Republicans want to experiment with state government.

We in North Carolina do not want any experimenting in our government, Scott said. The state needs the experience .youth and leadership the Democratic party provides.

Gardner shot back with a charge that my opponent stands for the ^tus qiio. . . .

It is now time to move forward in our state. . .let us never fear to experiment with new programs and new ideas that can mean progress for North Carolina. .

tudes of the great faceless crowd of patiet, undemonstrative ordinary people who should have them worried.

The world has already witnessed^ a withdrawal

of American attention on the foreign affairs front; and it can only denote a greater concern for domestic trends.

Everywhere there is great dissatisfaction. The stage is set for some kind of great turnabout at home.

We can sense a change is in the wind.

Cumbersome Or Not, Keep The Conventions

It may be that party conventions are a cumbersome way of sejectjng candidates, but they sure do attract a lot of attention.

A news report tells us that 15,000 soldiers, police and federal agents will be on hand at Chicago when the Democratic convention opens. All of the citys 23 magistrates will be free to hear civil disturbances cases during the week.

Hippie groups and anti-war demonstrators are talking demonstrations. There is fear of some racial unrest.

It has been reported that more newsmen will be on hand for both the Republican and Democratic conventions'than delegates themselves.

-Tejeyisiqn _ promoting their

planned coverage of the conventions, attempting to gain their share of the huge audiences that will be tuned in.

Cumbersome or not, we hope that the conventions never disappear from the American scene. They add an element of color to our nolitics that would be sorely missed.

^Doubts

ART BUCHWALD

7he Formula:

I Inherit Money

Soviet Television Fare

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - At last a man has come up with a simple formula for getting rich in America.

Inherit money, is the crisp advice of author Ferdinand Lundberg.

The way that most people become rich in this country today is by sitting and listening to the reading of a will. Between 60 and 70 per cent of the individual wealth today is inherited wealth.

This is one of many contentions made by Lundberg in a controversial new best-selling book, The rich and the Super Rich, which has proved so fascinating to many of the upper crust that they read it aloud to each other at the dinner table and let their caviar go untasted.

His other major theses are that U. S. wealth is largely family centered and that, at least as recently as a decade ago, one-half of one per cenr. of Americas adult population held 25 per cent of its riches.'

In his opinion a nation may be in danger if the few own too much and the many own too little.

My own view is that the mal-distribution of wealth in this country is nistorically ridiculous ami unnecessary, he said. Thirty per cent of the countrys populatiwi :s impo-v^ished. Anotiier IS to 20 per cent is near poor.

The country can do whatever it wants to about.the.situation for all of me, he remarked. As the newspapers say, we give them the facts. Lundberg, long a bloodhound (Continned On Page f)

You would think that being in Moscow during the Soviet-Czech crisis I would be very informed about what was going on. But the trudi of the matter is I didnt even know there was a Soviet - Czech crisis until I left the country, I blme the Soviet televisicm network fw this.

For some reason, which Ill never understand, Soviet TV just isnt doing the job when it comes to informing t h e public. 1 know this because 1 had a television set in my room at the hotel, and I watched it constantly to see if the Soviets were doing any better with their electronics media than we were doing with ours.

It would be unfair to say Soviet television is oetter than American television its just different.

The first time I turned on

the' set I hit it lucky. There was an exciting film on, showing how trucks were assembled in a Soviet factwy. Not only did the program feature the trucks being put together by loyal and patriotic workers, but it showed tilem being greased and tested as well.

This program was followed by a visit to a Soviet st o n e quarry. For two hours I sat glued to the set watching giant machines tear into a mountain and chew up stones until they were turned into ^avel.

During a luK in the program, I decided to e b a n g t channels (Moscow is supposed to have four), and lo and behold, lh*e was a panel show with a moderator who looked just like David Susskmd, Seated around the table were a welder, a dam builder, a woman lumberjack and the minister of canal barges.

- My Russian wasnt good enough to understand what they were saying, but, as in America, the fellow who looked like David Susskind was doing all the talking.

ART

BUCHWALD

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By FOY H. DUNCAN Jyly 31, 1928

Q*yler And Dodge .

Finish Giant Merger

New York, July 31 A giant new automobiile corporation, second only to the Ford Company and General Motors, comes into being through the merger of Dodge Brothers, nc. and the Chrysler Corporation, whi(di has just been completi.

Rotes Hear Talk About light Plant 'The steady and healthy growth of the Greenville electric light plant was set forth in an interesting way last night by Judge F. M. Wooten, local lawyer, banker and business man, speaking at the regular weekly session of the Greenville Rotary Club. . .

Miss Mary Wall Best, Emma Francis Hardee, Janice McGowan, Pearl Laufares and

Helen Fleming are attending a house party at Virginia Beach.

Miss Pat Philps, Zeno Brown and Bennet Moseley attended a dance at More-head Saturday evening.

Mrs. Lloyd Horton of Farm-ville was here today.

Miss Virginia Arthur left Sunday for a visit to friends and relatives in Winston-Salem, Washington, D. C., and New York.

Mrs. Robert Craft and Miss Annie Gertrude Jones of Bethel was here today.

Miss Sarah Gulley has returned from Mun)hy where she has been on a house party.

Miss Ward Moore spent today in Goldsboro.

Mrs. David Whichard Jr. and little son, David III, left this afternoon for a visit to relatives in Goldsboro.

Little Miss Marian Tyson is visiting her aunt, Mrs. S. E. Jeannette in Henderson.

(The Wilson Times)

If the majority of the American people had the chance to pick a candidate he would possess these qualifications:

He would stand on his own two feet, come out against spending more than we take in, and favor "reducing taxes, and reducing the naticxial debt.

This candidate would look into the many give - away programs, from welfare on,^ and have them analyzed and make recommendations on how to spend the huge sums to receive full benefit for the people who deserve the assistance.

Crime would be controlled, riots would cease because they would be dealt with according to the extent of the rioting and the damage. There would be respect for law and order because the laws and courts would tolerate nothing less. Coddling of prisoners w o u Id cease.

The universities and colleges would cease to be a place for controversy for the sake of controversy and return to the high standards they are designed to meet in tne area of higher education.

The government bureaucracies would be reduced, strikes against the govern

ment and the industries which handle defense orders woula not be allowed.

There would be less waste in armaments, less foreign aid, less intrusion into priv ate areas by the federal government, such as rent mosicy in other words, the cradle to the grave ^ilsophy.

And this candidate would stand up and campaign for the return to the states of the authority that is theirs under the Constitution, plus the reduction in taxes so the states could sufficiently tax the people in order to provide state-supplied services.

Yes, where is such a candidate? We fear you will never see or hear him speak. For today candidates woo b i g labor, the group on welfare and medicare, the Negro vote, and all class votes.

There is one exception and this is the biggest vote o all, the unorganized majority. And because it is unorganized it cannot be reached, iherefore it is neglected. But the time must come whi this big unorganized majority, the group that pays the taxes, will speak And when it does it can cany an election. That is, if there is a candidate running to meet the qualifications.

I switched to a third channel and got a beautiful test^ pattern. The fourth channel didnt seem to be working, so I went back to the first channel where the stwie quarry program had just ended. It was followed by a visit to a pipeline woricers con^e s s being held in Byelorussia.

By this time my wife wanted to go sightseeing, but I was so grabbed by the speech- -es I told her to wait. She could see the Kremlin any time, but how often could she see a pipeline workers congress on television?

^ Two houra latM* I watched steel being made in a large foundry outside Moscow, and this program was followed by an interview with a nrofessor of Siberian tree transplants.

I turned the diannel and the panel was still in session, with the fellow who looked like David Susskind sfiU doing t b.e-talking.

My wife kept insisting we leave the romn but I decided to have one more go at t h e third channel, and Fm glad I did.

Instead of featuring a t e s t pattern the third channel was now showii^ a feature film on sheepshearing in Mongolia. Even in black and white it was the highlight of Soviet TV that week.

By this time my wife was getting pretty angry so I reluctantly turned off the set and went wit sightseeing with her. When we got back to the room eight hours later I immediately turned on the set. Two of the tiiree channe 1 s were showing test patterns, but the Davitf Susskind - type panel was sfill gring on, and the guy who looked like Suss-kind was still doing .he lalk-

Safety

By FRANK CAREY WASHINGTON (AP) ~ The Army insists that irradiated canned bacorTis safe for hu--man consumption despite the Food and Drug Administrations decision to stop the military services from feeding it to the troops.

Col. Edward L. Johnson of the Armys food-irradiation laboratories at Natick, Mass., said in a telephone interview that animal tests of the bacon were made prior to the Armys petition to feed it to some tooops, and the tests showed no evidence of any adverse effects from the irradiation.

There seems to be a difference of opinion in interpreting the data from the tests, said Johnson. Were hoping to resolve this.

Johnson made the comments on published , reports confirmed by an^ FDA scientist, that:

1. The FDA has turned down a new Army petitiwir to begin serving irradiated ham to soldiers.

2. The FDA has taken i-second look at its 1966 approval of irradiated bacon, and ordered it out of the~ mess halls pending further study.

The FDA contends there is evidence tiiat irradiated ba*_ on can cause adverse effects on the reproductive M*ocess in rats.

Daniel Banes, an associate FDA commissioner for science, said in an interview the animal tests were sponsored by the Army before it petitioned his Agency for approval, but he said the FDA obtained full details on the tests only a few months ago.

Banes said the Army originally stated that there were no indications that radiation caused adverse effects in animals fed irradiated bacon.

He also said that when the Armyin 19M and 1967began to petition for an okay on irradiated ham, it submitted some raw data on use of irradiated bacon in animals to support its Contentions that irradiated ham was safe.

But, Banes said, the animal data on the bacon raised questions in the minds of F-DA scientists, and they asked for further details. It was after these additional details were furnished that the FDA concluded the data showed a reproductive - process hazard to rats, he saicL Banes said the FDA scientists concluded the data showed a 25 per cent reduction in the number of live - bom offspring of rats fed irradiated bacon; and a similar re-diKtion in the number of offspring surviving the weaning period.

We have had second ihou^ts on the origianl bacon petition approval, he said, and the FDA is taking action to rescind it.

Col. Johnson said that after the FDAs original approval, the army procured only a single consignment of irradkted bacon in December 1966-app-roximately ZQ 000 pounds - and that this was aU fed within a monthhalf to army troops and half to Air Force men and was only used for testing purposes. He said the bacon had never been supplied for general use.

He said the Army, in the wake of questions raised by the FDA both on irradiated ham and bacon, plans additional tests.

With regard to the ham tests, he quoted Dr. Edward S. Josephson, associate director of the Armys Natick la-bortories, as saying:

The really significant (Contbmed On Page 6)

Strength For Today A Demand For Plantation Life?

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS V.ANITY OR SOMETHING HELPFUL?

The great Rembrandt painted many pictures of himself. Some have regarded tiiis as immeasurable vanity. It might just as well have been good common sense. He didnt have to wait for a model to show up. He didnt have to worry over whether or not he would be paid for his work. Furthermore, he got just as much practice from looking at himself in the glass and paintin his own picture as he wou standing before a subject ind trying to delineate his features.

But even if Remtoandts proclivity to paint himself did come from vanity it was well - founded vanity. If he estimated himself highly he was doing something which the opinion of later generations and centuries would sup

port.

Pompous vanity, a swollen overestimate if ones ability and charm, certainly constitute about as disgusting characteristics as any human being can display. However, it is pathetic to see the person who has no c(fidence in himself or herself. Such people are as far wrong as the people who overestimate themselves. If you are in the habit of running yourself down in your own thoughts and in what you say to others, then forget that kind of nonsen^. Look up, remember that you do have value, abilities, latent possibilities which would be called into action if a great crisis occurred.

Have confidence in yourself. Paint a maital picture of yourself as Rembrandt often reproduced himself on canvas. If it is a bit on the vanity side what the heck! Better too much than too little.

By ELMER ROESSNER

It appears that many Americans want to bring back the days of plantation life. They seem to want the secunty of the old Southern plantations but with modem accomodations and, of course,' without W fear of being sold on the New Orleans slave blocks.

On the better and richer plantations, the slaves had security.

^They had their cabins, not very good but sometimes better than the Negroes and poor whites have in Appalachia ard the Deep South today. They had food whether they worked or not. The field iiands got the less desirable parts of animals, but the house Negroes ate as well as the masters family. AU got enough; their owners took better care of their human chattels than people today take care of their

autos.

For the same reason, slaves got what medical attention was available in those days. Medical eare was primitive, but owners had pocket - book incentive to keep slaves healthy.

A Poor Life But A Secure One

Few slaves got regula paymits of cash, althougn some got occasional cash gifts and rewards from owners or others. A few managed to save enough to buy their freedom. But they did get clothes and other neccesities and cash was of low importance. And as long as the plantation prospered and they did not become unmanageable, they had security. And when they got too old to work, they could live out their days, fed, boused and clothed.

And that, in general, is what many Americans are de

manding. They hve already won Social Security which, equated in time, gives them about the same relative standard of subsistence that a Negro could expect before the Civil War.

They have gained tome food donations, through stamp plans, school lunches and local welfare and the demands for more free food are insistent.

They have gained lomt

low-cost, tiiough not free, housing, and there are demands for bilUons of dollars worth mcMe on top of the billions already spent.

They have Medicaid and Medicare, for better attentions than the Negroes or their owners ever got .nd far, far more costly.

But No Magnolias

The very poor get welfare to cover other needs and now there are demands for a negative income tax, which would pay cash to those getting less than a -predetermined income.

Except for magnolia blossoms, the poor today are getting, in ratio to the times, what the plantation slaves got -more than a century ago. And they and their supporters art dernanding more and more.

Someday the United States ^ may become just one b i g plantation.