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Now Two Seeking The Nomination

Tough Fall Season

And now there are two candidates in the running for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination next May: Judge Dan Moore of Canton and Judge Richardson Preyer of Greensboro.

Others who are considered possible candidates Bert Bennett of Winston-Salem, Dr. I. Beveriy Lake of Raleigh, Tom Pearsall of Rocky Mount and Robert Scott of Haw River^are still jockeying in the wings off the political stage, awaiting the cue to come front and center. It is our guess that at least three, and perhaps all four, of these mea prominently mentioned as candidates, will dramatically bow out of the race when they do take the stage to make an official announcement.

It is not likely, we think, that Bert Bennett will announce his candidacy now that Judge Preyer has announced. Judge Preyer has been close to Bennett and to the Sanford administration, and it would not be in the least surprising to see Bennett lend his support to Preyer in seeking the nomination.

Reports that Tom Pearsall turned down an offer from Gov. Sanford to become the new state Democratic Chairman succeeding Bennett have increased speculation that he is seriously considering tossing his hat into the ring. In spite of the prominent role he has played in North Carolina affairs, we doubt he will make the decision to jump into the fray as a candidate.

Speculation On Special Session

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SESSION Everyone around Raleigh expects a call for the promised special session of the General Assembly to out soon. It Is overdue now.

Most sources including key legislators believe It will come In October. That Is the prediction of House Speaker Clifton Blue and others. But tt Is Just a guess based oo certain known factors.

No firm date has been set. Governor Sanford wants to bold the special session as soon as practical and that means as soon as there is reasonable assurance that the legislature will agree on a senate redlstrict-Ing plan.

SNAGS Sanfords plan unveiled to legislators in closed meetings in Fayetteville a month ago and made public later has hit snags. Some of these are serious causing further delay.

As late as last weekend the administration was unsure of sufficient support In either Hou.se. Additional work was necessary.

New suppUss of county outline maps were rushed over from the highway departments mapping section of Sanford'e re-districting bndn trust headed by director of administration Hugh Cannon and Rep. John T. Henley of Cumberland, the newly-appolnted state purchasing officer.

It was reported that the blems might be worked out with Individual leglslat o r t. But there were predlctims that one Of more additional meetings of large groups of lawmakers might be held.

CALL No matter how soon Sanford issues the call for a ^)ecial session it is already too late to suit some legislative leaders.

They had hoped that the spe-dal session on senate redlstrlct-Ing could be held and the pro-Wera resolved before the 1964 state political campaigning befan. That hope has gone by the boards.

And the fact that pent-up poll-tieal pressures building up for 1964 have broken the dam wUl further oompUcate the already complex and vastly difficult problem oif redistricUng.

Legislative leaders ~ and Sanford himself had hoped to be able to focus full legislative attention on redistrlctlng during the special session, without dls-tractlwis, side issues and especially without full-scale intra-party politics.

POUncs Tt had appeared a few weeka ago that by some unOK^en "gentlemans agree

ment" formal poUtcal announcements in the governor's and lieutenant governors races would be withheld until after the special session.

The surprise pull-back of Bert Bennett Jr. from the brink of announcing as a candidate for governor himself, however, triggered rapid-fire development#.

These Included Bennetts resignation as Democratic state chairman, a full-scale drum beating compaign <m \ behalf of federal Judge L. Richardson Preyer. the quick, almost sput-of-the moment formal announcement of former superior court Judge Dan K. Moore In a move to beat everybody to the punch on making the first announcement. then a series of significant endorsements of Moore.

MOVES There were other many ol them highly significant from a political standpoint.

Dr. Henry Jordan of Cedar FaUs, a man tagged as a gubernatorial hopeful since he served as highway chairman under Kerr Scott, stepped out of the 1964 race after touring the state for months.

Dr. I. Beverly Lake of Raleigh. runnerup to Sanford In 1960, remained definitely in the 1964 picture and was receiving both encouragement to run again and requests to stay out. Lake Issued statements highly eriUcsl of Bennetts role as state chairman and saying the next governor would not be picked by the Sanford administration nor by a meeting of three or four men.

Senior U. 8. Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. sent down frcmi Washington a strong, unqualified endorsement of Moore as a candidate behind whom Democrats might unite. This stirred other element.s to greater efforts to "Stop Moore.

SWIRL Somewhere In this swlrrof maneuvering the matter of senate redistrlctlng and the imminent special session of the legislature olmost seemed lost.

If the 1964 political pot was boiling early a fact clearly evident observers then expect It to reach white, heat when the General Assembly converse. The General Assembly roster now Includes the chairmen of both major parties In the state, Sen W. Lunsford Crew of the Democrats and Rep. J. Herman Saxon of the OOP, both named since the regular session adjourned. In addition, the legislative ranks Include literally dozens of candidates, campaign managers, top lieutenants and leading supporters.

The Issue at band will be surrounded.

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Robert Scott, sun of the late governor and senator, has not yet hauled down his trial balloon. We strongly suspect he is looking not to the gubernatorial race in 1964, but rather to 1968 or 1972 to make his bid as chief executive of the state.

What Dr, Lake, the segregationist candidate who was defeated by Snfofd, will do remains a matter of conjecture. In every respect he has acted and talked like a candidate since the 1960 primary. In recent months he and his chief supporters have appeared to be busy seeking to strengthen their organization, even in the face of early announcements by other candidates, raises the question of whether his quest for commitments has been as successful as he had hoped.

There is ample time for Dr. Lake or any of the other prominently mentioned hopefuls to toss their hats into the ring. There is even time between now and January for one or rnore late bloomers** to catch the publics fancy. Un ikely as it may seem to some sage political observers, however, it wouldnt surprise us if the two major candidates already in the fieldJudge Moore and Judge Preyerare the ones Tar Heel Democrats will be choosing between come next May.

A Second Chance For High School Diploma

How many citizens living in Pitt County today have said to themselves, I wish Id gotten my high school diploma when I had a chance.

Certainly there must be hundreds today and there are sure to be additional hundreds in the years to come. For those who want to do something about It, the Pitt Industrial Education Center is providing the opportunity through its new Project High School Upgrade.

The program is designed to enable local residents who are not high school graduates to earn a high school certificate of equivalency. The program will be tailored to individual needs and designed to reach the maxmum number of local residents who are interested.

As jobs in business and Industry continue to become more and more specialized, a high school diploma or its equivalent is becoming a minimum educational prerequisite for job qualification.

For tho.se who missed out on the first chance at a high school diploma, the second chance is now at hand. All they have to do is take advantage of the program being offered by the countys industrial education center. Opportunitys second knock shouldnt be ignored even if the first one was.

3ig Noise Anc. 3mpty Gesture

By HAL BOYLB

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BY JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Gov George C. Wallace keeps Alabamas temperature up but ita an arificlaJ fever.

In making a pollclcal career of defiance, he has become the master of the big noise and the empty gesture of the big noise and the empty gesture. When the going gets tough, he melts.

His latest performance, defying desegregation of schools In the Alabama cities as ordered by federal courts, Is Just one more gesture.

He knows he cant get away with it. He may think It helps him politically. When the federal government puts the squeeze on him, he can say he tried.

In his election campaign he called fereral courts "lousy." vowed to disobey any school Integration order, and at inauguration promised "segregation forever."

The only thing wrong with the promise was that, to make good on it. hed have to be able to defy the federal gov-govemment and the courts successfully.

But if he could do that, any governor could on any issue, and in theend so could any citizen.

The result would be not only no government, federal or state, but not even segregation, just chaos.

He put on the "standing In the schoolhoune door" act In going through the motions of defying a federal court order desegregating the University of Alabama.

But when President Kennedy called the Alabama National Guard Into federal service, Wallace trotted away.

Last week the officials of four Alabama communities carefully arranged to obey federal court orders to desegregate their public sch5oIs.

They said they could meet the situation locally, without Wallaces Intervention. But he Intervened with state roopers and stopped the desegregation In three of the cities.

From different sides in Ala

bama Wallace was criticized for doing exactly what he had accused the federal government of doing.

Last month he g(A In another empty gesture, this time on Bible reading in public schools.

While the Supreme Court on June 17 banned Bible reading In public schools as a religious exercise, it did not and said It did not ban Bible reading as part of a study course.

On Aug. 5 the Alabama Board of Education ordered the Bible read daily in all public schools as part of a study course.

Wallace, who Introduced the resolution to do this, said that in making Bible reading part of the study course he W'as not trying to get around the Supreme Court decision.

But thats exactly what he was doing. He wasnt defying the court. It (Hily sounded that way. He was complying with the court.

Nevertheless, he said: "I would like for the people of Alabama to be In defiance of such a ruling. 1 want the Supreme Court to know we are not going to coonform to any such decision.

Wallace got very aggressive again on Aug. 21 but in a way that accomplished absolutely nothing unless he felt It built up hla Image as a defier.

This was at the Southern Gov-vemors Conference at Whit# Sulphur fillings, W. Va.

He presented four resolutions attacking civil rights policies of the national adminlstraticm. Mis-sissppi Gov. Ross Barnett co-spcmsored them.

But the conference took no acUm on any of the resolutions and Wallace didnt ask for any.

His latest defiance of federal cwirt orders to desegregate public schooLs in various Alabama cities w'iU, if he persists in it, require action by Pres-dent Kennedy.

If the President uses force of any kind, and Wallace follows his usual pattern, the governor once more will rtreat, blaming desegregation on Kennedy, claiming he fought to the last ditch.

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Strength For 1 oday

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BY EARL L. DOUGIJISS HE WAS l.ACKING INDEED

A cliap who waa a bit da-ficient in education remarked recently about a certain friend: "The trouble with George la that he Is lacking in Ignicha^ tivc." Of course he meant to say that George was lacking In initiative, but his mistaken and awkwardly created word was fuggestlve.

For there are some pecHJle who have no fire in them. They never Ignite anything or anybody. They do not blaze up with anger as they confrtmt wrong and injustice. They do not grow enthusiastic as they confront the possibility of great and pleasant endeavor. They have no particular passion for country, for a better world, for the fighting of w rongs that aresfenturles old. They have no "ignicha-

tive."

Passion that gets out of hand can quickly produce a holocaust. That quick rise of temper, that blow, that moment when one gave In to temptation because he wu lured on by love of money or by lust of the flesh all this Is as destrucUv# as a five . alarm fire. But a life with no spark In it. no Illumination, no capacity to flare up into anger over hateful Injustices. to glow with antlcipaUoD of legitimate pleasure, constitutes drabness almost equivalent to death Itself.

The Bible tells us that Elijah ascended Into heaven In a chariot of fire. There has to be something of burning Intensity in the lives of all of us if we ever to Uve Ufe to its full.

We all need what our unlearned friend referred to as "igni-chative.

NEW YORK (AP) Some 50 years ago Thomas Riley Marshall made the most memorable remark ever to issue from the Ups of a vice president of the United States.

What this country needs Is a good five cent cigar, he said, learnedly.

Applause rang from one end of the nation to another. No Arnerlcan statesman ever had stated an economic fact more clearly. Half a century after he made his observation, it remains as true as ever.

No such applause, however, Is likely to greet a landmark remark made this week by Vincent Pace, candidate for the presidency of the International Barbers Union.

What Pace said was. In effect, thaf what this country

needs "if the barber is ever going to make a decent wage" is a good $3 haircut. Or maybe even a $3.50 haircut.

Dismal though the prospect may be to the average pocket-book, it Is likely that we will see the $3 haircut far sooner than we will the return of the five - cent stogie, a dream that has died in all but the stoutest hearts.

A shudder runs through the memories of all lovers of the' good old days at the mere thought of forking over $3 or more a haircut.

Money, like people is strong and confident In youth. But In middle and old age, money, like people, becomes feebler, less sure of itself, and suffers from poor circulation. It cant do what it used to.

Other Editors Saying The Washington Drift

(Christian Science Monitor)

Congress is waiting. President Kennedy is waiting, the country is waiting and the question Is what are w'e waiting for?

The obvious answer is next years election. Mr. Kennedy has had a light wind blowing since the last election. The boat has little momentum and when it luffs In a period like this not very much happens. It fails, for a time, to point either way and doesnt respond to the tiller.

Mr. Kennedy rocks back and forth philosophically when he talks to visitors. He has a lot of plans and he submits a lot of bills. Then unexpected events come at him, like the racial crisis and the sudden signing of the test - ban agreement. They take much of Congresss time. He knows the delicate balance in Congress between liberals and conservatives is such that no major complex of programs adding up to bold and coherent Kennedy leadership is possible. So he watches the priorities, avoids making mistakes, plays the political market and waits.

He doesn't seem to mind this, being one of the pragmatic liberals and not doctrinaire. He has one consoling obsession, it it can be called that. Some call it a kind of fatalism. He seems to feel that if business continues good well into next year he Is reelected. If it doesnt be Is in trouWe.

It probably Isnt fatalism, not In the usual sense of the term, because he is trying very hard to do something about it. Just as he put a largely bipartisan trade bill through last year by great and concentrated effort (only to have Its effect largely frustt-ated by echarles de

Gaulle), he Is this year giving his political all to the paradoxically partisan and yet bipartisan tax gill. Here his interests and those of the business community coincide. This is a radical bill in the nonpolitical sense of the word a drastic and unprecedented effort to deal with the basic cause of unemployment In the poor growth rate.

For all its drift Congress will probably pass what ought rather to be called an economic growth program. It will also, with inevitable response to the special events of this year, pass some sort of civil-rights bill. But the v-arious elements of the Kennedy social welfare program will be held back, as the cost of purchasing a tax cut under existing political realities.

This will not trouble Mr. Kennedy much because he considers it fair fodder for his re-election campaign. So wUl his opposition.

What we are really saying here is that the present drift is not caused at base by Congress or by the President. It is imposed by the country Itself which has wanted to avoid doctrinaire left or right and to have practical men, limited on all sides by balancing interests, keep the country close to the center. This inhibits or postpones bold maneuvers, except for one or two like the trade and tax billa that have broader than partisan support, *

Politics. like nature, does not easily endure close balance or drift for long. The conflicting winds that blow next year wlU try to point in new and mw^ definite directions. It is much too early to guess whether the center, on either side of the partisan line, will hold.

The erosion in the value of currency is so gradual that we sometimes tend to overlook what is hawJening to It, as we fail to note the gradual decline of an old friend because we see him every day and thus become accustomed to the wearing away process.

Now and then a sudden event Inescapabley dramatizes for us the inroads time and change make upon our mwietary values. Such an event is the prospect of a $3 haircut.

Nostalgically, every man over the age of 50 looks back to a time when certain sums of money could do certain sums of money could do certain things for him.

He remembers when a haircut was 25 cents, a shave 15 cents, a shoeshine a dime when you could ride on subway or street car for a nickel, get a shirt for a dollar, a hotel room for $2, a pair of shoes for $5 or less, and a suit with two pairs of pants for under $20.

But of all Ihese vanished bargains he recalls the two - bit haircut most fondly. Getting a haircut then was a kind of ritual, and the barbers shop was a friendly neighborhood forum.

Opinions

Brief

"Since we get our coffee from Latin America, Castros threatened takeover Is a direct menace to our cherished coffee-break. If all the restaurants in the land would pass out to their customers statements saying Castro Threatens Your Coffee-break, the pressure on Washington to do something soon w^ould produce some action." Greenvle Piedmont.

Sparks from the Chinese and Soviet hammer and sickle Clash seem to be falling on satellite countries. First it was Albania. Now small fires of dissension irritate Red leaders in Poland and Czechoslovakia. It couldnt happen to more deserving characters. Daily Oklahoman.

"Platonic love is like being Invited down in the cellar for a bottle of ginger ale."Cher-ryvale (Kans.) Republican,

"One big question which the 1963 General Assembly left unanswered is how the new Statehouse, built by the people at a cost of $,000,000, is to be used in the public interest and service during lengthy periods when the Legislature is not In session." Greensboro Daily News.

i iieory In State Of Flux

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc,

Johnny, aged five-and-arhali years, was off to his first day of school this week, and, since his ^parents had to present themselves bearing birth and medical certificates and (Aher bureaucratic impedimenta that were unknown in the time (rf the little red schoolhouse, my job of writing a column was inevitably postponed a bit. The business of shepherding Johnny Into an airy, modem kindergarten room, complete with live turtles, puzzles, dart boards, doll houses and unobtrusive stimuli to learning numbers, colors, the days of the moith, the alphabet, and even simple syllables and words, was so reassuring that it drove a number of column ideas out o my head. Surely, I said to myself, the fact that the modern kindergarten offers a lot more than Just playing in a sandbox is worth soijie columnlstlc celebration on its own.

A good educational beginning, however, does not necessarily guarantee a good follow - through as the school years go by. Thinking of the intense damage done to education during the past thirty years by pedagogical experiments that have resulted In the vast proUferation of a new industry. that of teaching remedial reading. I wish I could know what Johnny will be getting as newer teaching wrinkles continue to succeed the old.

The whole theory of education Is, at the moment, in a state of flux. Some of the newer experiments, as I learned from an experience doing school surveys for the Wall Street Journal, are mighty promising, but they have by no means achieved wide acceptance. The so - called "look-say" or "whole word recognition" method of teaching the art of reading, which has produced a generation of faulty spellers and Jaggedly unrhythmic writers (youve got to know how a sentence sounds before you can construct a good one), hangs on In the more benighted school systems. The whole phonetic basis of language Is still ignored by teachers who refuse to believe that boys and girls have ears as well as eyes.

Then there are the textbooks that are favored in most schools. They are issued by reputable publishers, but their inanity and puerility are almost beyond belief. They tell about the adventures of Dick and Jane, or Tom and Sue, or Jerry and Joan, In zoo and supermarket. with nary a hero or a'patriot or a giant or an interesting troll or pigmy in sight. (Whatever, indeed, became of Little Red Riding Hood or Jack at the top of his beanstalk?) Dick and Jane are bores, bores, bores and it is my private opinion that much of the school drop-out problem can be traced back to the psychic damage d(me by their appearance In the sort of school reader that Is approved by most school superintendents.

The trouble with sending Dick and Jane into permanent retirement Is that the big textbook publishing houses have a great commercial investment in them. Dick and Jane, besides being bores, are "vested interests." And it takes a revolution, sometimes, to blast a vested interest out of the way.

One of the reasons Dick and Jane are such bores is that their vocabularies are so barren; the official word for It Is "controlled. They are limited to learning three or four hundred new words a year.

But the bigger reason for their boring quality is that they arent permitted to inject considerations of love of country, or liberty, or courage, or ethical behavior, into their spoken words. They are moral neuters. Confronted, like the little Dutch boy, with a leaky hole in the dike, they would say, "Oh, Oh, look, look at the water. The water is pretty. Learning by doing Indeed! The whole country would drown before Dick and Jane manifested an iota of common sense.

It is too late, of course, to return to the old McGuffey readers, which printed exciting and ethically or patriotically meaningful bits from such well - known writers for intelligent children as Shakespeare. Charles Lamb, Abraham Lincoln, and William (Continued on Pag# S)

More Money For Home Loans

By ELMER ROESSNER

A basic question in the home loan field is whether there Is adequate high - grade, longterm mortgage paper available to the lending Instltutions seeking it.

The savings and loan associations as was mentioned here yesterday apparently do not think so. That is why they now want authority to make other types of loans.

The commercial banks disagree and seem to feel there Is sufficient prime, long - tern mortgage paper at least enough to make It worth their while to go after it. So they are seeking legislation permitting them to make such loans.

In the last 12 months, home buyers borrowed a little more than $15 billion from various lending institutions. They will seek the same, or a greater amount, in the coming 12 months. And lenders have

enough funds to meet their needs.

FORECLOSURE LEVEL

But are the borrowers a 11 prime risks? The argum e n t centers around the number of foreclosures on home loans.

The view that the over - all quality of mortgage paper la good is bolstered this way: Although mortgage foreclosures totaled more than 86,000 last year, this Is not a high level. It Is still well under the more than 250,000 foreclosures In 1933. when there were far fewer hwnes In existence. And while the 1962 figure of K.-000 is larger than the 10,000 forecloaures In 1946, the latter was an unusually low year.

The opposite view is supported this way: 1946 was Indeed an unusual year and the high level ot savings and the housing shortage kept the number of forecloaures down. The 1962 figures, according to this view are more realistic. With more housing available. It Is harder to bail out home buyera who cant meet payments. And gal

loping Inflation, which brought rising home prices and salar-lea to help over - committed home buyers, has been checked.

Actually, the answer probably lies somewhere between mortgage paper quality has been declining In recent years but is still fairly good. GOVERNMENT ACTION

The second basic question in the home loan fields is how far the Administration Intends to intervene In lending operations to make home loans more available to members of minority groupe. The Government has already 'taken a first step by withdrawing financial assistance from a home builder charged with refushig to sell a house to a financially qualified Negro.

In this case the Veterans Administrations mortgage guarantee program and the Federal Housing Administration were involved. The Gov

ernment could, presumably, also intervene in cases involving other types of lending institutions.

Such action, however meritorious, could create havoc in the home loan field. The possibility, alone, has caused a great deal of concern among lenders,

CONSUMER PRICE INDEX TO BE REVISED IN 1964

As of January, a modernized price index will be used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The BLS will conthme to publish the old index through J u n #. 1964.

The revised index will Include changes In the list of consumer goods and services. It will also cover single persons, who are not included to the current index. Six large dtles are to be incorporated Into the index: Cihclmiatl, HousUm, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and San Francisco. Indexes win be Initiated fw Buffalo, Dallas and Honolulu.