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Wednesday, August 14, 1963

Youre Tapering Him Off?

Party Label Is Never A Guarantee

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No one questions the fact that North Carolina voters should make their choice between the best qualified men the Democratic and Republican parties have to offer when they go to the polls to elect a governor in 1964.

It strikes us as a bit unusual that !<ome of the larger and more influential newspapers in the Piedmont section of the state have made an editorial "big deal over this point in the past couple of weeks. They have belabored the point that neither party can hope to win the governor's seat unless it puts forth the best possible candidate. Further, without exception, each of them has mentioned possible dark hor.se Democratic candidates whom, they intimate, are more qualified for the post of governor than any of the more prominently mentioned potential candidates.

Certainly the Democratic party, like the Republican party, cannot expect that the party label will be sufficient to guarantee a candidates election

'I'umultuous

Campaign Seen

By WnUJAM A. SHIRKS

NOTEBOOK PoUUcal notebook: ,

Not Rlncs the months prior to the election campeifns of 1941 has the poUtlcsl situation in North Carolina been ao uncertain and filled with unknowns u <Jurinf this summer.

This assessment applies to both state and national political <gficet which will be at stake next year.

What such a situation portends remains to be seen. There is little of a predictable nature. But the veteran pc^ical obaerv ers who make the asaessinant of uncertainty at the present time PTMiict that 1964'8 campaigns and elections will be tumultuous.

They predict that there could be major surprises, recalling that 1948 was a yesr of political surprises. They predict that 11 1964 Campaigns could rival the atormlest in recent Tar Heel history. the Smith - Graham cam-piUjgn for U. S. Senate and the 1960 Democratic primaries for governor.

SIGNS There are plenty of signs on which to base these predictions snd assessments. The signs appear to point to an historic year politically both in primaries and In the general elections.

There is question raised in

some quartern as to whether President Kennedy can carry North Carolina again In 1964. and strong doubt that he will do as well as in 1960 at any rate.

This is based on a decline In

Kennedy popularity in the state and across the South generally.

One point of near certainty Is that Kennedy will be the Democratic presidential nominee. This is a foregwie conclusion

and a starting point for gauging the effect of his administration and his candidacy upon North Carolinas electorate In 1964.

But this cannot be done with any great degree of accuracy because certainly it will depend largely upon the Republican presidential nominee.

CHALLENGE Signs are clear that Republicans probably will mount the strongest challenge to the state's long-established Democratic Party control of the statehouse in more than 60 years. Again, the effect of this depends largely on how the state's DemocrtUs respond.

If the OOP challenge is Ignored or underestimated, if the Democrats become split and weakened by Intraparty differences and a bitter primary campaign. the effect could tse telling.

Both paiilea are girding for a atrenous campaign. They are stressing organtgation and appeal. Both are aeeklng their strongest candidates. B<Hh already are seeking maximum voter iTgistratltm.

CANDIDATES Trying to sum up the present situittlon in terms of candidates for 1964 results in a conclusion that things are wide open.

There are leading" candidates for both parties, but with questtoo marks attached to each.

The Republicans have a name candidate, Rep. Charles R. Jonas, who is in the posl-tlon of being able to have the partys nomination for governor and a great deal of support for the asking. But Jonas is undecided. He denies having given any indication that he has decided to run lor governor. Instead, Jonas says he will wait until the end of the year before deciding whether to resign from Congress and enter the race for governor.

There are several strong possibilities, but because of opposing philosophies no single, standout, unanimously - supported candidate among Democratic hopefuls.

There have been recent wam-Ings of trouble for the Democrats if state party chairman Bert Bennett Jr. and Dr. I. Beverly Lake of Raleigh, the two leading Democratic unanounced candidates, should continue on a collision course. Bennett was Governor's Sanford's campaign manager and Lake was Sanfords chief opponent in the rending 1960 prt-martes.

OTHERS There have been calls for the Democrats to agree upon and unite behind a compromise candidate, one who could solidify t he state party during 1984. Those mentioned for this r(de Include Dr. Henry Jordan of Cedar Falls, Thomas J. Pearsall of Rocky Mount. Dan Moore of Sylva, Judge Richardson Preyer of Greensboro and in recent day, again, former Gov. Luther H. Hodges.

Things are equally unclear for some other top nominations. There are half a dosen unannounced candidates for lieutenant governor in the Democratic party ranks, each ap-pai-ently waiting to see what develops.

There wdU be new faces in several races for Congress next year. There may be primary opposition for several members of the Council of State, and certainly opposition for these office in the general election.

SPECULATE - The field is wide open for speculation at this point. Republicans are speculating, for example, that if Jonas declines to run for governor then their nomination may go to freshman Rep. James Broyhlll of Lenoir.

Hodges, now Secretary of Commerce, has said repeatedly he does not see a situation developing in which he would seek the governorship again. But this i*emainA a possibility, It is possible that the traditional East - West rotaUon might be broken and a Democratic draft develop for Pearsall. a man many top Democrats from Kerr Scott to Hodges have wanted to run for the office. Scotts son. Robert, might enter the race.

in a Htate-wide conte.st in 1964. But this was aho the case in 1962. The voters in the Democratic party, in our opinion, have traditionally sought to choo.ne as their gubernatorial nominee the candidate they felt was the most capable to lead the state.

It is true that contests for the Democratic nomination in past years have created deep rifts in the party. Particularly was this the case in 1962. Even so, it seems to u, it is better for the parly in the long run to have a wide-open race for its nomination than to leave the questioqn of nomination to a relatively few influential people.

There is always the risk that intra-party wounds will not heal between a bitter primary and a tough general election campaign. But there is the greater possibility that rank and file re.sentment against a hand-picked candidate will co.st the party more votes in the general election than a bitter primary.

For our part, we have confidence that the majority of the Democratic party members of North Carolina will name the most qualified man among the candidates as their partys nominee for governor. We likewise have confidence that the voters of the state as a whole in the general election will elect the best of the two candidates offered by the respective parties.

Traditionally nominees selected by the people have ranked far ahead in ability than those selected by the would-be, backroom, kingmakers.

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Opening of the new Ea.st Carolina Station pont office in Greenville is another asset for the city and all of its citizen.s who make use of the postal service.

The new facility has long been needed in Greenville to alleviate conditions in the crowded central post office In the downtown section of the city. The new po.st office will provide additional

Reform In The

Schoo'.

By DON SCHLIENZ

post office boxes for local patron.s. It will facilitate the handling of mail not only for East Carolina

Standina Still At 60

College but for a large part of the citys residential sections. It provides another convenient location for local people who have postal bu,siness which requires them to visit a post office.

It may take local postal officials and employes a few weeks t(f- get the new operation running smoothly, but the addition of this new postal facility will prove a distinct asset for Greenville and its citizens.

Its ft rare thing for me to get out on the highway anymore. My driving is largely on streets; so when friends talk about how ft'certain route ha.s been improved, or a new^ by* ""pass at such-and-such a city has been finished, iny interest is under-21 (minor, that is).

popular to stay alive.

The following Monday my first thought was to check the weekend highway death toll on the news wire. Only 16 fatalities were recorded, confirming my belief that Someone watches over the human race.

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WASHINGTON (AP World dlsarmanent wont be one step nearer when the Senate finally votes Its expected approval of ft limited nuclear test ban treaty.

A test ban Important as it is, perhaps, as an opening to better relations with Russia 1.S a minor episode compared with disarmament.

Under this treaty the United States and Russia will retain their full supply of nuclear bomljs, enough to devastate the earth.

They will go on testing underground to develop more weapons. The treaty simply bans tests In the atmosphere, outer space and in the ocean.s.

President Kennedy and, Monday, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Sftld this country will continue underground tests. One was fired Monday.

The present debate over the wisdom of the test treaty is an insight Into the debate ahead if the country ever con.slders a disarmament treaty.

Disarmament seems unlikely in this generation, at least, o matter how much clamor smaller nations make about It.

The United SUtcs, despite Its expressed concern over the years about disarmament, would probably be the last to agree to it. There are several reasons.

One of the most obvious Is the failure of the United States and. Russia this time to ban underground tests.

This country feels confident It can detect tests above grounds but not under. To prevent cheating. It wants an Inspection system.

That would mean putting American Inspectors in Russia and Russian inspectors in American territory, or International inspectors in both.

The Russians complain inspection Is spying. They wouldnt agree. Without inspectors, the United .States wouldnt agree to ban underground tests.

If the United States and Russia agreed to disarmament an even more difficult inspection problem the Senate would harldy approve without a check.

The check would have to be constant. Then theres the problem of nuclear weapons. Disarmament without abolishing nuclear weapons wouldnt mean much.

But the United States and Ru.ssia have nuclear weapons coming out of their cars.. Would the Senate ever feel sure Rus-sure Russia was not hiding some?

Theres another problem: numbers. The Russians and Red Chinese have far more manpower than the West and could put more armies in the field.

But the nuclear weapons can destroy more territory and kill more people than all the arm-American nuclear weapons

Four-lane highways put a gleam in some drivers eyes; but a parking space does the same for me. And when they talk about Increasing speed limits on certain stretches, I yawn. If my car tops 30 mph in city limits, it is just a step short of flying.

But even I must, once or twice a year, venture out into the world: and it happened again on a recent weekend. It was a horrifying experience. So many drivers acted as if it was un-

On the Sunday in question we W'ere beach-bound. And as you are aware, there are some very good highways between here and there.

Too good, perhaps.

On stretches where the speed limit was 55, cars were passing us as If ouF buggy was standing still. On stretches where it was 60 mph, same thing. And when traffic entered approaches to a town, with signs advising slow to 35 mph, they still zoomed past.

Afterward, I C(mld remember

Other Editors Saying.

^j^edistricting Plans

(Wilson Times)

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balance off Communist armies.

But If ncclear weapons were abolished by this country, the odds would be reversed any time the Communists wanted to break a disarmament treaty and rebuild their armies.

The tendency since the war, in considering disarmament, has been to think in terms of the United States and Russia.

Russias relations with Red China have become wretched. The time might come when Russia woitld trust the United Stats enough to disarm.

But could it trust the Red Chinese? And how could it dare to dLsarm unless the Chinese did, too.

The plan for redlstrictlng is taking shape. And the Governor is leading the way, as he should. Calling the 53 members, leaders of the legislature together, to outline a program, is assurance of some solidarity when the special session is called. This is only the beginning as the Governor plans to consult with every member of the legislature before the special ses

sion.

But the Chinese Insist that war with the We.st is inevitable, that capitalism wont surrender peacefully, and therefore the West must be overwhehned.

How could the United States disarm with the Chinese loose in the world with that attitude: The Senate would have a nightmare over that.

By one of tlie strangest paro-doxes in history the big powers have armed so much theyre afraid to disarm.

So long as they stay nuclear armed, theyre afraid to take chances with each other.

Fear has become and antidote for aggression and the search for peace has its roots in terror.

The modified Curri plan is to be the foundation for the bill. This allows redistricting under the Constitution, which is necessary unless we want to run the risk of the Federal government stepping in to do the job on the population fonnula.

The Currie plan gives two seniors to Mecklenburg, Guilford and Forsyth counties, and one to Cumberland. The fight, we fear, will come from the Eastern representatives. We do not have the population, but we do have the area. This is also true of the West.

counties, and the 20 on the population basis. We do not favor increasing or decreasing the number in the House. Nor do we favor Increasing the number in the Senate. We can see how this could get out of hand, with the expected growth.

In the plan the Governor has suggested as a starting point, Wilson, Johnston and Nash are in the same district, with two senators. This will continue the present rotation system but with different counties. The population is as near the 90,(XX) per repre.sentative as you can manage. Wilson has 57,716, Johnston 62,936, and Nash 61,002.

passing perhaps four cars; but the number that passed us was beyond counting.

Something like that could give a person complex.

There is one unlikely explanation: our speedometer is

failing us.

Long, long ago, when our family had a new 4-cylinder Chrysler, the speedometer would read up to 60 mph; and after that you were on your own. A mile-a-minute was then considered just short of fabulous, and neither the roads nor the drivers were geared to that sort olf speed.

As youngsters, my brotlr and I could get sensitive about being regularly passed on the road, and after Just so much of it would coax Dad to pss something. He wouldnt say yes and he wouldnt say no, but somewhere along the line hed toot the horn and wed sail by another car. . . . going perhaps forty per, and my brother and I could be satisfied.

But these days when Im doing sixty and being passed with monotonous regularity, am I going Ut yield to the pleadings of our backseat drivers to pass something, anything?

You can bet your sweet life Im not!

Ive been told that ones Guardian Angel packs up and leaves when the driver lets his foot get too heavy. And after

all these years, well......

I need an angel more than ever.

Ooinions

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When you consider as many as six counties in a district you realize how difficult it is to keep the political fences mended and to represent the area. Then the East has held the reins of leadership, in the legislature, for so long that change will be hard to adjust to. And we must say that the leadership has proven itself, for this state has had as good government, free of corruption and vice, as any in the nation.

But the time has come to re-, district, and under the Constitution. The House has 120 members, one for each of the 106

The plan to leave the House on the present population basis, as now constituted, and to adjust the Senate representation along federal lines seems to be favored. What should be watched is the representation in the Eajst in the Senate. We are not asking favors. We do think both population and geography must be taken into account.

We oppose tying redistricting to a Constitutional amendment. This is inviting the federal court to step in.

We repeat, w'e do not favor a plan that would continually increase the number of legislators, that Ls as of now. We will have to shown the ad

vantages here. But a constitutional amendment would have to be voted on if a change in the Constitution is cwisidered.

Redistrict now under the Constitution as fairly as possible. Then offer the people the privilege of voting on the amendment if one can be agreed upon by the legislature.

'.n Brief

Actually, redistricting isnt the job of the Governors office, but providing leadership in all things affecting the people is very much the responsibility of the Governor." The Raleigh Times.

It is true that technological advances and new and startling electronic tools are creating serious and difficult human problems throughout major industry. Solutions must be fo\ind, and they are being agres'sively sought. But it is no solution to stubbornly hold that because a job existed yesterday it must exist tomorrow, no matter what changes have taken place. Industrial News Review.

Marriage still means give and take: You give in and she takes charge. Alma (Ga.) Times.

BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN CiH>yrigbt. 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

How many crusades have conservatives won in recent years? Checking ov^r the list, oixe comes to some rather doleful conclusions. The battle to cut the waste out of foreign aid moves with all the rapidity o a Greenland glacier. The faim surpluses mount higher and hi n-er. The tlk of peace with the Soviets goes on, but KhruGachev's technicians still continue to increase their hold vu Cuba. The U. S. international balance of payments situation goes frwn bad to worse.

However, amid all the catalogue of grief, one bright area eme(;ges. Conservatives seem to be getting somewhere in their efforts to Improve the quality of teaching in certain (rf our State public school systems.

This was brought home to me the (rf.her day when I listened in on some of the sessicms of the Second Annual Reading Reform Foundation Conference at the Hotel Astor in New York. The Conference was staged by the Reading Reform Foundation, which is the brainchild of Watson Washburn, who will b remembered by sports far as a First-Ten tennis player In the days when Big BUI TUden and Little Bill Johnston were reigning stars of the courts. From the fundamentals of tennis to the fundamentals of reading and writing is something of a Jump, but Mr. Washburn put wi a pretty good demonstration that his cause of reading reform Is prospering in certain limited areas of the United States. In the Arizona school system, as In the public schools of Washington, D. C,, the dreamy guess-work d the look and say or whole-word configuration method of teaching children to read is being replaced by the far more satisfactory system of drilling first and second grade classes In the forty-odd basic sounds of English. The phonic system, the alphabetic and syllabic comp<ments of words Instead of teaching each word as a separate "picture, enkbles young students to build up big vocabularies in short order.

The reading reformers had a lot of fun at the expense of progressive educators who believe in what Dr. Arther S. Trace, author of What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesnt calls programmed retardation. Dr. Trace,, kept his audience at the Astor conference is stitches as he described the progressive system of vocabulary control, which limits students to learning some 309 words a year during the first four grades. The vocabulary of a basal reader iii the fourth grade of a progressively run in public school, says Dr. Trace, rarely exceeds 1.-500 words about one-fourth of a childs speaking vocabulary before he enters kindergarten. This programmed retardation, which has been made necessary by the abandonment of phonic drill as the basic method of reading Instruction, means that educators cant put any worthwhile substance into school textbooks. In the Old Mc-Guffey type reader of the nineteenth century, a grammar school child might encounter speeches by Daniel Webster, Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. We would get poetry by Longfellow and Whittier. But these items, which' build a childs cultural and patriotic heritage in addition ot Introducing him to the pleasures of reading, cant be included in modern grammar school readers lor the simple reason that statesmen such as Webster and poets such as Whittier used words that are excluded by modem vocabulary control. Moreover, Webster, Lincoln, and Whittier failed to repeat their words four and five times in the same sentence. To satisfy the progres.s-ive demands for triple and quadruple repetititn in a sentence, children have to submit to the "Dick and Jane books, in which Jane ssLy to Dick; What a funny father we have, what a funny mother, what funny, funny things they do with funny Spot.

I left the Reading Reform Conference with the feeling that our, still dominant school of educators regard most American children &s being half-witted, partially blind, thrqe-quarters deaf, emotionally disturbed, and (Continued on Page 6)

There is s growing In.sist-ence for Negro quotas apparently regardless of ability or fitness for the job. Already Civil Service requirements are lower for Negroes than w'hltes, which in Itself Is discrimination.' Sanford IN.C.) Herald.

?aDer Work Hikes Tax Costs

By ELMER ROK.SSNER

Strength For Today

BY EARL I.. DOUGLASS MAKING CONTAiT WITH GOD

Very often we ask, What Is the use of praying when God already knows what we need?

Pi ayer is .Homothing mot e than simply asking for things; it is the opening of our heat Is to God, an effort on our part to know H.S will for us. to entrr into fellowship with Him. Only hard and ungrateful children approach their paients simply when they want a favor. The fine thing about family life i.s that it iXMiinUs all the inembeis there to .^haie iheir lives with each other. The first benefit or prayer is that it peuniLs lus to take advantage of flod.s offering to .share His life with u.s and to allow us to share our itvTs with liuu.

The fact that God altcudy

knows what we need should make us pray with greater confidence. Our prayers are needed not to overcome Gods un-wlIUngne.ss or to give Him some information He does not already po-ssess about ourselves or our affairs. Prayer is the opening up of a way between ourselves and God which will p<i-mit Him to do for us what He wants to do. A great authority on proyer has said, Prayer cannot change Gods purpose, but prayer can relase It.

Tlie significant thing about prayer Is not that It changes Goils nilnU but that it changes ours and brings our thoughts around until they are in harmony God's thoiighl.s. It

I.s only wlien there Is p*rfect rapport Ixtwet'n ourselves and God that He cau give His be^t gifts.

The Inlcnial Revenue Service lia.s softened slightly its rule on the deductibility of business entertainment, travel and gift expenses. But requirements for paperwork remain a burden wi the businessman.

The costs of tax - collecting paperwork thrust upon business by Federal, state and local governments i.s an enormous, mul-tlmillion-dollar levy, the current ' newsletter of the First National City Bank points out.

Emplovers serve as unpaid tax collectors, taking money out of pay envelopes and often collectlnR taxes on customers, the hank pointed out.

The IRS has. a total staff of 64.0(Ki and a budget of $672 million. it added. "Tho.se are big figures. But tlwre is little doubt lli.at biusine.s.s firms collectively einplov even more people and spejul even more money In gathering in tens of hllllon.H of revenue,

GHKATER IWISIRI.F. ('O.STS

Tlu' co.sts of this tax work Is \ i.Mhle to tlic employer w h o dares add up the costs. But

lying beneath the visible costs . . .is an iceberg of invisible costs, the bank added.

A major company, it said, may be called upon to s u p p 1 y hundreds of thousands of figures in a year. . . .Some required forms have no more important use than getting bundled up for sale as waste paper.

The Hoover Commission estimated that, as of 19.55, government paperwork costs were $4 billion a year, consumed 25 billion sheets of paper, required office space equal to .36 Empire State Building and storage space equivalent to seven Pentagons. ,

Private coats. It added, are far greater than the governments cost of totting up the figures.

now TO GO MAD IN WAY.S

By latest count, the bank

said, the Federal government has some 5,3uO foims In us.e tor regular reporting. Ina^adilUon, there are many more designed by .stale and municipal goveru-iiH'uUs, These .sulxirdinatc governments, the Hoover ConunU-

slon repoi-ted, Impose more than .50 per cent of the nations burden of paper work.

Last year Werner N. Davidson, secretary - treasurer of Caloric Corp., told a Congressional committee: Our corporation and its subsidiaries file a total of 999 tax returns of all kinds per year and the cost of each tax return amounts to $70 The heavy hand of the government in increasing business costs is W'orsened by government pro.secutions. The bank pointed out. In 1959. three salt companies Morton, International and Diamond Crystal w'cre charged with fixing prices of rock salt. Two and a half years later, a Federal Jury found them not quUty, Hi the interim, the work of a.ssembllng data and materials to defend tliem.selvc.s plus lawyers fees liad cost the three firms $77.5,-000, a sum far greater than the $150 000 maximum fines they might have be^n liable to pay if louiul guilty.',

The bank noted that one monthly report of tlie Department of Agriculluie Is labehd, Report to USD A,, ,Saa Francla-

co, of number of carloads corn westbound passing Needles, Calif.

Well, it probably kept several people employed.

DISCOUNTERS BECOMING MORE LIKE DEPARTMENT STORES

In discount stores during the first half of this year, Dun & Bradstreet reports in Discounters Digest, there was a noticeable general movement toward belter grades of merchandi.?c more customer services, and a greater choice of goods.

During the first six months of the year, 110 discounters became financially embarrassed. A number of expansion programs were-cut back, but that still left plans for 418 new stores tW.s year.

PLYS.SAVA EXPORTS FROM WEST AFRICA DOWN The Department of Cwnmerce reports that plassava export from Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Lltierla declined sharply last year. Pia.ssava Is a palm ii>>re used.mostly In making brushes and brooms.