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Thursday, January 1, 1969

Our Evaluation Does Not Coincide

MARKING TIME I

Today marka- the end of Dan Moores four years as governor of North Carolina. They have been years which tlW governor himself described this week as the most busy and productive years in the states history. ,

While we doubt that historians will picture the Moore administration as the most busy and pro-ductive administration in North Carolinas history, it has been a period in which the state has been blessed once more with sound-even though ploddingleadership.

It has been a four years in which North Carolina has moved ahead more in spite of itself than because of the forceful leadership in the governors office. It has been a four years in which North

Activity Buirs Comes With '69

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Raleigh Reflector Bureas

RALEIGH - The calender ^turh^ now into another News Year and with it comes a fresh burst of activity, excitement and ' expecta n c y among state officialdom.

Already - the capital city is filling with visitors and dignitaries for the inauguration on Friday of Robert W. (Bob) Scott of Haw River as governor, and attending festi-

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North Carolinians seld o m dote on ceremony but the inauguration of a governor is an exception. Inaugural events are filled with pomp and pageantry and solemn dignity.

There will be silk hats and morning wear, military honors and special escorts. There will be formal oath-taking at Memorial Auditorium and the inaugural address by the new governor.

Begins with Ball

There will be an hours-long parade sweeping up Fayetteville Street to the Capi t o 1 where Scott will then receive the Great Seal from outgoing Gov. Dan K. Moore.

The dame two men sat on the reviewing stand with former Gov. Terry Sanford four years ago when Moore became chief executive and Scott lieutenant governor.

Th program '^begins with the traditional Inaugural Ball on Thursday honoring t h e governor - elect, his wife and family.

Only Beginniiig

The inauguration of Scott and of new lieutenant governor H. P. (Pat) Taylor Jr. is only.the b^inning of busy frenzied period which may last through adjournment of the General Assembly next summer.

Scott scheduled his Inau-gration as .cjirly as possible in order to avoid conflict with convening o( the legislature. In the Interim, perhaps, he may make some

major administrative appointments.

There is an air of expectancy about what shakeups in administrative ranks Sc o 11 has in mind.

Resignations In Offing Scott already has designated his choice for several p^ts ,such as administrative aide, director of administration and State Highway chairman, and has at least two top policymaking vecancies to fill immediately.

The latter are chairmanships of the State Board of * Gonservation and Development ((J&D) and Board of Public Welfare.

There were reports that additional resignations may be in the offing shortly af t e r Scott assumes office.

Scott May Differ Scotts action cm appointments early in his term may dffer from Moore s lengthy deliberative approach four years ago.

Moore waited sever a 1 months before making his major appointments.

At the outset he installed a career revenue department official, I. L. Clayton, as Revenue Commissioner on a temporary, acting basis and did the same with William P. saunders of Southern Pines as acting C&D director.

Claytons appointment later was made permanent. Saunders, a former C^D director under the Hodges administration, was appointed to the C&D board and Dan E. Stewart of Raleigh became the fuirtime director.

Speechwritert Busy In addition to the inaugural address this week. Bob Scotts speechwriters arc busy fashioning the new governors legislative and budget messages for the 1969 General Assembly. J

By tradition, it is a first '"order of legislative business to invite the governor to come before joint sessions on separate days to spell out his recommended program and biennial budget propMals.

Scott has been briefed on the proposed 1968-71 budget drafted by the Advisory Budget Commission is Scotts diief legislative aide.

The initial budget proposals will bear the stamp of the outgoing administration. But Scott is free to make any recommendations for chan g t ad alteration when he goes before the lawmakers.

Carolina did more catching up with itself and consolidating past gains than in plunging ahead with new programs. It has been a four years in which the administration gave greatex attention to holding the line and restoring greater conservatism to state government, than to developing new innovations and techniques to meet the new challenges which face the people of North Carolina.

This is not to say that Governor Moore has not rendered a great service to the pedple of this state. Any man who sei*ves as gct-^rnor of a state such as North Carolina for four years has assumed in the name of public service personal burdens far beyond those which all but a few citizens will ever experience. Any man who serves as governor of the state for four years does so at a great personal sacrifice although the prestige and honor of the office seem, superficially at least, to suggest just the opposite.

If .the Moore administration has been characterized by a single attribute, that has been careful and deliberate moves on all important questions and issues. There were a number of crucial points during the past four years where we felt Gov. Moore held back too long before taking decisive action on^ matters of importance to all the people of the state. There were times when it seemed the chief *^ex-ecutive side-stepped, if not abandoned, his responsibility in crucial situations while waiting for the problem to rcvsolve itself. In many instances, however, the strategy of holding back, which characterized the Moore administration, proved a pra(^ cal method of bringing a workable solution out of a complex problem.

As readers of this newspaper are well aware, there were during these four years many points at which The Reflector disagreed editorially with policies and actions of the Moore administration. It should not be surprising, therefore, that our evalu-ation'of the Moore administration does not coincide with Gov. Moores description of the most busy and productive in the states history.

Year Is Aheac. : Roller Coaster

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By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (Al>) - Will everything be fine in 1969?

Our annual peek into the clouded crystal ball of the future doesnt permit us to be unyieldingly affirmative. But, on the otier hand, we cant be altogether negative.

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It looks like a roller coaster year, characterized by ups and downs and emergent uncertainties.

The biggest question is what will happen to money. For years the value of money has been eroding and the value of credit has increased. As our gaUop into infla-tton gains headway many of our more serious minds may be faced with a crisis of de-" cisin: Whether to give up on money as a lost cause, and depend totally upon credit, which is more fun anyway. * The moon will become a vexing problem to geographers. Soviet Russia will put flve cosmonauts and a poet in lunar orbit. The cosmonauts will methodically rename every crater named by the three American astronauts. The poet will .rqtum with the first ode to the prolr tariat composed in true moonglow. Its title, translated into English, will be: What Is the Working Man without Moonshine?

The United Nations will continue its relentless war against malaria throughout the world Sut turn its back upon a more dangerous disease the uncurbed spread of pandemic political malar-key.

Elsewhere on the international front these things will occur:

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In Britain, Queen Elizabeth will cakn a parliamentary crisis over the traffic problem by suggesting that, while the rest of the world drives on the right side of the road and Britons traditionally on the left side, in the future everyone should be free to drive down the middle of the road. V In France, Gen. Charles de Gaulle will succumb to his physicians advice and buy a pair of bifocal glasses. His first remark upon peering through them: En. bien la, mon cosmos.

In CSiina, home of the firecracker, larger explosions will ensue.

Here in Anterica, look ^for these possibilities:

Lyndon B. Johnson will be-qome our leading political sage in exile. He will turn down offers to becomes a columnist for both ^the New York Times and Rampa r t s magazine.

President Nixon will appoint new committees to find new solutions for old problems that Former President Johnson appointed earl i e r committees to solve. They will report back unanimously- Something ought to be done sometime by somebody about everything.^*

The cost of living will go up and the joy in living about the s^me. Everyone over 40 will ask himself the age-old middle-agged question, When does the fun begin?

In a revoluntionary experiment financed by the Ford and tonegie foundati o n s, teen-agers wiU launch ah experimental university with themselves as faculty. Anyone pyer 65 will be able to attend tuition free.

Science will develop a birth control for men. Most men will immediately decide this is more than theyll swallow.

News oddity of the year: An obscure cow in Iowa will deliver five live calves. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will hail her as bovine (Continued On Page I)

Only a few days have elapsed since splashdown in the Pacific, and already the story of Apollo 8 has dropped out of the news. An awestruck nation has turned its interest to less epochal events. Perhaps nothing useful remains to be said of a breathtaking adventure, boldly conceived, perfectly com

pleted.

Yet one or t w' o afterthoughts occur, going first to the source of this achievement and then to the course ahead.

Whatever else this fantastic flight may have been, it was a product of that social and economic organization so often held in contempt:

Public Forum

Strength For Today

To The Editor;

I have just finished reading your editorial entitled Israeli Attack Is Clearly Agress-i<m. Prior to tonight, I had been favorably inpressed with the position of the Daily Reflector on many matters of public concern. However, this editorial is nothing more than an excessive dose of that peculiar American potion which has developed since the end of World War II known as promise every thing when times are good, but start hedging when the going gets rough.

After thousands of years of being on the receiving eqd of every form of agression^nd atrocity known' to maxlT the people of Israel are defending themselves against further doses of the same. But what happens when they do? They are immediately condemned as aggressors. Such thinking is only pure and simple ration-"alizaon. No other people to inhabit this earth have b e en 80 mistreated for so many years, for so many superficial reasons and survived.

Since 1948 Israel has b e en struggling to survive as a nation against tremendous odds. The price has been high. These twenty years have been a sequence of border incidents, raids, and retaliations. Two , fuU scale wars have beCT fought. But even these wars failed to bring out the immediate cries of selfrighteous indignation displayed by the United States and others since the Beirut Airport incident. Immediately, the fact that Arab ventures against Israel have been measured in terms of human lives is forgotten. This Israeli venture at Beirut cost not one life wi either side.

The right of retaliation is a tradition as old as man. Israel ^hould be applauded for attempting to make her Retaliation severe enough to

bring hostilities to a conclusion. Had the U.S. adopted such a policy after the Gulf of Tonkin incident ,the Viet-ly be history.

nam War would now most like-There was a time when the people of the United States felt that it was worth while to support any people on this earth who were willing to pay the price for their own freedoms and traditions. Now it is popular to condemn such actions. Our own problems would not be of the magnitude they are today if some of our responsible citizens would find the time to defend thos^ basic freedoms and traditions that their forefathers fopght and died for, instead ,of ing to destroy them.

What happened to the Americans of the Revoluntionary Era; of the years of the War of 1812; of the days of the Monroe Doctrine; of the days of Teddy Roosevelt and speak softly, but carry a big stick; of the years of World Wars One and Two; and of the days of the Truman Corollary? Perhaps a strong (jose of pride and patriotism is ,in order. Maybe we should trade Israel Senator George McGovern, Robert McNamara, Clark Clifford, Lyndon Baines Johnson, and a few others, if Israel would have the whole bunch, for Moyoshe Dayan, With a few mn like Mr. Dayan in positions of responsibility, such tenth rate powers as North Vietnam and North Korea might think twice before they tangled with the Paper Tiger of the Free World. We just might even regain the respect of pur allies atd the other natiois of the world in which we live.

If what I am suggesting sounds too strongly of old-fashioned flag waving patriotism to suit you, then sign me *out of date..

William J. Stuckey

Apollo 8 was the work of the Establishment.

That elementary tr u t h needs to be rubb^ in. It has lately become fashionable to ridicule the established order and the ancient values of our society. Over the past couple of years especially, the country has been subjected to a constant caterwauling from the youn gNew Leftists and their middle-aged advisers, all of them complaining piteous-ly of industrial and military oppresion.

To listen to these lamentations, you might imagine that American industry exists merely to exploit the caprices of an affluent society. In the popular view, giant universities, like intellectal packing plants, prod u c t sausages; these young people vanish into the maw of the great corporations; they are said to be search i n g merely for security and for a split-level respectability. Nothing of value is expected to wrinkle their gray-flannel minds.

The scorn and violence that are heaped upon universities and corporations are extended to two other parts of the Establishment the political process and the military ser-" vices. 'The loudest C17 of the young revolutionaries at (Chicago in August was that the political process is no damn good. The universal practice of liberal intellectuals is to treat the generals and the admirals with a curled-lip contempt reserved for especially blockheaded fools.

If the flight of Apollo 8 accomplishes nothing else, it ought to put these imbecile maunderings into clearer perspective. This achievement was a direct consequence of the political process; it came "into being because enough of those awful people those ^ professiwial politicians had confidence and vision. Astronauts Borman, and Anders are officers in the Un i t e d States Air Force; Astronaut Lovell is a captain in the United States'Navy; their entire lives have been spent in the discipline that is supposed to stultify the human per-^ sonality.

Behind those few days of flight were years of engineering, calculations, paperwork, (Continued On Page I)

B>nRiJlimND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

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DALLAS The unprecen-dented intraparty sniping at the two major arcnitets of the modern Texas Republican party Sen. John Tower and State Chairman Peter 0Donnell - is ".ympto- . matic of a malaise afflicting Republicans here in the wake of the state Democratic victory Nov. 5.

The first serious political factionalism since the rise of the Texas Republican party in the late 1950s has its roots in the bitter disappointment over , the .1968 election. What distinguishes that defeat from previous Republican defeats iMre is its erosion of the cherished belief by Texas Republicans that they constitute the wave of the future.

They are asking themselves: if an ADA liberal Ilka Hubert H. Humphrey'can carry Texas, what is the Republican future here?

Actually, backstage <! mands for replacement of ODonnell as state chairman have come mainly from the right. Texas Republicans who backed Gov. Ronald Reagan fw President led by oil executive Jack Cox, nominee for Governor, in 1962, and Bunker Hunt, son of oil tycoon H. L. Hunt contend that^the Tower : ODonnell successful support of Richard Nixon at Miami Beach in-nired the 1968 defeat.

Rather than turn party control over to the Reagani-ties other Texas Republicans probably will unite behind ODonnell in any showdown. But that scarcely means critics of the Tower-ODonnell regime are limited to rightists.

Indeed, more mddera t Republicans here who generally associate themselves with Rep. George Bush art privately critical of the existing leadership (amid signs of growing rivalry between Tower and Bush). Their criticism boils down to this: ODonnell, elected st a t chairman six years ago after brilliant success as Dallas County chairman, has milked the middle-class suburban-type vote to the fullest. But that vote is no electoral majority. Over ten years, all the Republicans really have won is a net gain of two Congressional seats and the election of Sen. Tower twice against countrified Tory Democrats opposed by minority groups.

Republlcan-etyle conservatism has displyed scant appeal for rural Texans, who still prefer the Democrats-Mexican and Negro mnoriti-es, vastly more powerf u 1 since the abolition of the poll tax, are steadfastly Democra: tic except when Democrats nominate a Dixiecrat (as against Tower in 1961 and 1966). Thus, the Republicans now seem limited to a country club party with built-in minority status. '

Specifically, critics c 0 m-plain about the recent campaigns strategy emphasizing Republican support for the oil' depletiwi allowance and state control of tilelands oil (themes reiterated by Mr.* Nixon himself in Texas the] last weekend of the cani-paign). This appealed only to the oil vote, which was anti-Humphrey anyway.

As for minority voters, the Republican strategy was to write off the Negroes and go all-out for the .Mexicans. On that final weekend visit. Nix-(Continued On Page i)

DANIEL One of the greatest characters in the Bible is Daniel, member of a princely family of the tribe of Judah, who as a youth was carried off with other captives ino the so-called Babylonian exile. Because of his bright mind the ooy was selected for state service by his captors. He became proficient in the learning of his day, and his deep devotion to God enabled him to manifest an uncompromising attitude toward moral princi-

Sles even when this attitude rought him face tc face with ^eath. Daniel had a series of visions and was kdept m interpreting the visions of oth-ersw

Daniel in he Lions Den Is one of the outstanding pictures found on the pages ol the Bible. He bad been cast into the den because of jealousy and his growing" eminence among

the wise men of his day. Through all nis growth in knowledge Daniel remained true to his religious faith. The writings of Daniel still present many problems in modern readers, some interpreting them one way and others interpreting them in a different fashion. But that this Daniel was wise beyond computation, loyal to his principles and his God, remains clear and evident The name Daniel is proudly borne by many today, and has been through the ages. {

Few have served their gen-eratiori and succeeding gener-(ations better than this intelligent, perceptive, completely courageous friend of God and of mankind. Jesus spoke of Daniel (Matthew 24:15-6).Daniel, could neither be frightened nor bludggQpcd into submission to evil or error

Earl L. Douglass

Will TryTq Curtail Mergers

By ELMER ROESSNER

'There will be a strpng drive to restrict cuaglomrate mergers in the next Congress.

If President Nixon discourages such action, as well he may in view oi belief that business can solve most of iis own problems, it is likely that the DeraocTats will seize upon it as .1 haajor issue, not only because it will embarrass the administran on but also because it has fo much gomg for it. I

Ever since Lie days o( the trusts, the American public has been warv of com bin e s Public support las led to the enactment of the Sherman An ti-Trust Act, the Clayion .Yet and numerous .state laws, plus the creation of the Fcd(jral Trade Commission.

These fews and their en

forcement are aimed at monopolies in single fields. They did much to break up what Teddy Roosevelt called the Steel Trust, the Lumber Trust and others.

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Conglomerates attempt bigness, but they do not attempt monopolies. They seek bigness by adding plane companies, parts manufacturers, lending companies, peanut growers and all manner of other companies.

But, even without the curse of monopoly, the pubMc is afraid of largeness. It will support legi^ation restricting these mergers.

' FYirthermore, there are other facets of conglomerate mergers that may arouse the public and Congressmen

A IIP !;' of the tax lavys helps finance mergers. The

tax law allows the exchange of corporate securities without the payment of taxes. If Corp. A had to see securities to raise money for an acquisition, or if it had to borrow

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mone]^ for the same purpose, it would have to pay a tax on its capital gains or pay the current high interest rate on its borrowing.

So swapping stock makes an

acquisition a bargain.

Pooling Of Intereat

What is called the pooling of interest metnod of accounting also makes mergers bargains. Under this method, the excess of the cost of an acquired company over the book value of the companys assets is capitalized and carried on the balance sheet indefinitely, with no amount of future earnings to be applied against it.

Some aooountants have advanced the theory that the excess valuation be written off as a deduction from future earnings. This change would make mergers-^less attractive to companies eager to boost their earnings.

Several Congressmen are working on these problems now and their proposals are certain to pop up In 1969.