Thonday, October 24, 1968

Solid South Novr

elongs Tq Past

I Gotta Be Dreaming!

There is no such thing as the solid South any more in national elections. The 11-state area which once was looked upon as sure votes for the Democratic national ticket has changed in political complexion in the past two decades. It still leans to Democratic nominees, but it is by no means an area that can be counted in the bag before the campaign begins.

Three of the solid South states have not been in the Democratic column in the last three presidential elections. In 1952, 1966 and 1960 Virginia, Tennessee and Florida each gave their electorial votes to the Republican, national ticket. In t^e remaining eight states, Mississippi has leaned to unpledged electors arfd Alabama three years ago gave 5 of its electorial votes to the Democrats and elected six unpledged electors. In the other six states that formerly made up part of the solid south, Republican strength in the general election has been

erformance of leaders of the / respective parties, he 128 electorial votes that once made up the solid South now must be considered votes that could wind up in either column in /national election.

For the Republican party, the change that has taken place in the South offer an opportunity for garnering more electorial votes for their national ticket if a prper appeal is made to voters of these states. For the Democrats it means that an increasing effort will be'required throughout the party organization to hold in the Democratic column even a majority of the 128 electorial votes in the 11-state

area.

Tragic Final Chapters In The Life Of A Man

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1 When it comes to national politics, the old idea * of the solid South has been made obsolete by returns from the ballot boxes.

This means, of course, that the southern states will have to receive greater attention from both the Democrats and the Republicanas in future national elections. This will be true not only during the campaign, but in the framing of platforms and in the

!-urniture Mart

Outlook

By wilJjlABt A. SHTRES

INDICATE The Souths < furniture Industry, still in Its young adulthood, has came to be a bellwether of nati<al pn-perity and a bulwailc of the regional economy.

And Southern hospitality, no longer old-fashioned, h^ e d make it so.

The furniture Industry generally famishes reliable Indicators on troids In modem living, building, population growth, sp^dable Income and buying habits.

If furniture prospers, it is a good sign that the nation is building and growing, that new homes are being fumlsbed and apartments and office buildings are going up that Uw economy Is healthy.

These indicators are especially sensitive as they conera the Southern furniture Industry which only in the past decade has forged so prcmiinently into the nattoial picture.

LUSTY Right now, this Industry, ani^ored at High Poti^ and stretching along 300 miles of furniture highway, Is histler than ever.

Bs prospects are bright. All Igns point to strength and substance in the current market and solid growth in the future. Dealers, manufacturera, retail-ars and (tfflcials of allied c(-ceras are happy and optimistic.

There is another reason why all this and more is evident at the annual Fall Southern furniture maiket now in progress.

This is because Che Southern furniture industry has reached ytHmg adulthood at about the same time as millions of young Americans.

FORECASTS ~ The president of the SbnnKms Co., bedding manufacturers. Grant Sinuncms. told'industry reporters that sta-tirtics show that within the next two or three years half of the U. S. population will be in the 26 years and younger age group.

This increase in young people foretells a tremendous potential for the furniture industry, Sm-tnons said. The trend, of course, has been noticeable since shortly after the war and is now reaching a peak.

Although some of it has been establisbed for many years. It alto was soon after the war that the Southern furniture industry began to c<ne into its own. began to show remarkable growth and began to reach out for tile rapidly-expanding nati(m-ftl market.

EVENT A major COTtd-buting factor in the surge of the Souths furniture industry

has been the regular market events.

These flourished and grew rapidly. They have been developed to a high degree of organization. They have become geared to maximum exposure, efflcienoy and sales effort, with fcNreslght, planning and administrative skill.

The Southern Furniture Markets truly have become the in-durtrys showcase productions. No single market, perhaps, can accurately be called typical. Each one along the furniture highway, from High Point, Lexlngtoc, ThomasvUle, Statesville, Hickory, Newton, Lenoir, Drexel and Winston-^em, is new. fresh and exciting.

MARKET The current October market gave signs of a boom, with 5,000 buyers and dealers opening briskly.

There were new lines, new styles, new trends and new showrooms. A large new market (^ned for the first time at Hickory. Officials reported business was good and forecast a C(mtinuati(xi well into the first quarter of 1964.

There was a swing to modem and contemporary styles, with slim lines predominating in both woods and upholstered furniture. Early American, Italian and French Provincial were strong and Oriential influence was noticeable in some new lines. Danish and Scandinavian influences were s o m e-what less pronounced .New woods butternut and elm were more popular. Walnut remained the leader. Cherry and Pecan diminished.

Officials said the accent was on quality merchandise .and workmanship in modem price ranges.

CITY Those who throng furniture highway for the markets say the succss of the Southern markets lies in the fact that it offers what is In demand. But there is also a distinctive feature to the Southern market described as Southern hospitality. North Carolina style.

At martcet time. High Point Is warm, bubbling and charming and manages to take on an urbane, cosmopolitan air along with courtesy. When the influx of buyers and dealers from all over the country taxes facilities of the citys hotels, motels and restaurants. High Pointers open their homes. Those who fear that the little towns lack the glitter, excitement and caivenience of major metropolitan centers often go away convinced that High Point has advantages over Chicago.

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If ever an incident filled this community with mixed emotions, it was the series of events surrounding the last few days of the life of James W. Boykin. ' ///

A shock wave rolled over Greenville Sunday when word spread that a prominent pivic leader had been apprehended in a daring safe robbery attempt. There was almost disbelief among many citizens as the man was identified as a civic leader prominent in many worthwhile undertakings in this community over a period of several years.

There was the feeling of relief and satisfaction that a criminal had been apprehended in the act of committing a serious crime. There was also the feeling of distress and deep concern that a former law enforcement officer, a respected citizen often in the forefront of good works in the community, had turned to crime.

Certainly there was justified pride among citizens that local police and sheriffs officers, through diligent work and careful planning in the most minute detail, had brought a criminal into custody. But this is mixed with the heavy atmosphere caused by the fact that the diligence exercised by officers to prevent the prisoner from harming himself after he was taken into custody was not successful. Officers went well beyond the usual precautions to see to the safety of the prisoner, but the precautions they took were not enough. ^

The rapid series of events was a tragic last episode in the life of a man who earlier had done much to help make the community a better place in which to live. It was a tragic episode, also, in the life of the community.

By DON SCHLIENZ

'Dream Can Be Realized.

ignorance Is ust Assumec.

BY GEORGE HAGEDORN

American consumers had better beware - not of the goods and services offered them In the marketplace so much as of the policies recommended by their supposed representatives on the Consumer Advisory Coun-

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This Council, set up by order of the President and reporting to his Council of Economic Advisers, has just issued its first - report. This turns- ^t to be endorsement of just about every proposal for federal intervention in business that has' been thought of previously, and some, that havent.

There is of cwirse no issue as to whether the consumer ought to be protected against fraud, false weights and measures, or adulterated products. He is amply so protected by existing statutes. The real issue is whether a paternalistic government should intervene to reduce the number of alternatives available to the consumer, on the ground that some of them would represent unwise choices on his part.

In its endorsement of Senator Harts bill to impose severe restrictions on the packaging procedures of business, the Council betrays Its distrust of consumer intelligence. It protests that manufacturers and distributors have: . .contin

ued to proliferate unnecessary variety and forms of packaging, which impede Intelligent consumer choice. In other words, government must intervene to relieve the consumer of the confusing burden of selecthig among alternatives by making up his mind for him as to how he wants his products packaged.

The same c(mtempt for the judgment and undera^ding of the average citizen is embodied in the Councils remarits on taxation. (Apparently the Council considers nothing in the field of public issues as outside its purview.) It comments sadly that: "CiMtfuslon has been created in the public mind by discussing a tax cut in con-

cut might be nullified if It were accompanied by a reduction In spending. . .

Apparently the poor Ignorant consumer needs not only protection but instruction. He has been misled, it would seem, into the strange belief that the level of government spending has something to do with the feasibility of cutting taxes.

In his directive establishing this Council the President called for action which would protect the consumers right to be heard. The Consumer Advisory Council is evidently Intended as the channel through which this right is to be exercised. But the Council seems ready to transmit the consumers voice (mly after it has instructed him, in what to say.

I can dream with tiie best of them. . .and with a travel service brochure on scheduled World Fair tours next year (in New York), my imagination has been stirred to a n e w plateau.

For most people a Worlds Pair is a once-in-a-lifet 1 m e show; an experience to be treasured as a memory of w(m-ders; something to be told and re-told. . .an unsurpassable surfeit of sights, sounds and wonders.

From what Ive read, the New York show will be an epitome of all that has gwie before. It will have to be, to bring the milUons of visitors needed to approach the financial break - even point. So this is the one for me to see, if Im ever going to see a Worlds Pair.

Now this brochure before me is gaudy In illustrating the Fair attractions, but it does

do justice to the Unisphere, the General Motors Futurama, pavilions of the Vatican and the Sudan; and that just scratches the surface.

Package tours offered by this particular travel service put a trip to the Worlds Fair within the reach of many people who couldnt (^herwlse afford to pay the freight.

Thinking on all these things it occurs to me that there is a strong liklihood a considerable number of people from this area have been toying with the idea of going to see the World Pair next summer. . . in a wistful sort of way, that is; and my message for today is that these travel service people know a good thing when they see It, and theyll do their best to put it within the reach of as many people as they possibly can.

So dust off that piggy bank. Weve got a date at the Top

of the Pair Restaurant at the Heliport Building.

Other Editors Saying

Mary Jane, our small - type girl child, was disappointed last night.

She was going to visit her convalescing brother at tlfe hospital, and somehow got the notion she would see his room. Instead, we hewed to the rules and the lobby was her limit . . .with her envied brother rolling up in a wheelchair.

In her eyes, HE's lucky! This hospital business is just a holiday for him (she thinks) . . .people go to see him, he gets mall, his parents spend large parts of the days and nights with him, hes making new friends, missing school, and doesnt have to eat his squash.

So, on our way home, Mary Jane quite seriously told me she wanted to go to the hospital. . .but, and this was thoughtful, not until after school was out.

Of Great Concern

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But of course. Marshal 'Tito is not a bogus Communist: he is simply a Communist who refuses to follow slavishly the pattern set by either Mos-sow or Peking.. That Is why the united States treats him differently from the way it deals with either oviet or Chinese Communists.*'Christian Science Monitor.'

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nection with reduction In spending, a balanced budget, and reform of the tax system. It must be made clear to the public that much, if not all, of the stimulating effect of a tax

(Washington Dally News)

We do have unpopular laws on the books of many states. Sometimes a legislative body will pass a law with good intent only to realize later that its passage is a real mistake.

When the North Carolina General assembly adopted the procedure recently in the special session th^ only that matter of senate iVdistricting would be taken up, it closed the door to those people seeking repeal of the ban on communists, communist sympathizers, and those advocating overthrow of our American government.

This trend of sniping at the law among college professors, professional educators, and those belonging to the so-called egghead group is not influencing the legislature one bit. The law might well be unfortunate, and it might well bar the presentation of a different point of view to our young people. But there will be future legislatures to deal witii the problem, and if the law is as bad as so many are inclined to label it now, then surely a future legislature will repeal it. But the present attitude of damn It at every turn is merely causing more and more people to take sides who ordinarily would pay no attention to It. ,

Somehow an issue of much greater magnitude is being created out of a law passed with very good intenticms.

One of the best ways to keep a bad law on the bo<^ is for those opposed to It to deride it

at every chance.

A few days ago an American Legion post passed a resolution approving the law and asking the legislature to keep it on the books. Certainly the influence of the Legion in North Carolina is as great as the influence of College groups and educators when it comes to such an issue as this one.

We suspect that if a poll could be taken today of the people of North Carolina, that poll would show the overwhelming majority of our citizenry approving of the bill and asking that it be kept on the books.

It might be true that a known Nazi, if one be in our midst, might be able to speak before an audience at a state school whUe a man known to have communist views might be denied. By the same token it is' very easy to point out that na-zism has been soundly defeated while communism is still a burning Issue.

We believe in allowing people to hear views ranging the scale. But the law has been passed, and It is very likely to be on our statute books for at least two years. Meanwhile, those so emotloially opposed to the bill are making repeal by some future legislature most difficult.

Those opposed today are giving a real issue to thos favoring the law. And as time goes on, if those opposed continue to snipe at the bill, then those favoring it will becwne more consolidated, more determined, and more numerous.

Opinions firief

Golf has changed a lot. The language one keeps hearing on the golf matches shown on television is nothing like that heard on Greenville courses.- Greenville Piedmont.

"There isnt much to see in a small townbut What you hear makes up for it. mightsville (Ga.) HeadUght.

Gov. George Wallaces poor public drawing power in Durham County offers its own commentary on the appeal (or lack of appeal) of Wal-lace-tjT>e leadership in this part of the South.The Durham Herald.

Nowadays it is not as difficult to find a needle in a haystack as it is to find one one in a girls hand.The Deavenport (la.) Times-Dera-ocrat.

There must be a better way to protect Negro voting rights than voting into law as a fact something that is not a fact, such as becoming literate in six grammar school grades. Banford (N.C.) Herald.

A movie at a drive-in was described as adult horror. Sort of really horrible, hur?

.aying Castro,

Rians?

by JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, "1963. King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.

There is something fishy about our treatment of anti-Castro Cubans who have escaped to this country. Some of them have utmost freedom of moveStV and they triivel .^between Florida and the countries of Central America with no effort to put fetters on them. But others, who have absolute proof of their l(^alty to the anti-Castro cause, are shadowed and hectored, and If they should ever leave the U.S. and return again they would be penalized with $5,000 fine* or five yeara in jail, or both.

Take the (xmtrasting cases of Pedro Luis Diaz Lanz and Manuel Artlme, for example. Diaz Lanz, who was tbs first important figure in the sntl-Batista rcvolutiwiary movement to suspect that Castro was a Communist, is virtually under house arrest In this country, Artlme, on the other hand, Is the fair - haired boy of our State Department, the leader whom we have blessed as tht probable boss of the next Invasion of Cuba, if and when it happens. As the chosen genp eral of next summers projected expeditionary force, An* time can turn up in Nicaragua, or Guatemala, or anywhere he pleases, subject to no $5,000 fine.

There are Cubans who mutter that Arimes military ability is questionable; they will tell you that he joined forces with a rebel band on the fringes ol Castros stronghold In Chibas Sierra Maestra at the tag end of the Batista rpgime, and that he was made a second lieutenant without fighting experience. They will also tell you that Artimes defectirai fnmi ths CJastro cadres came late. Still, 'Artlme hid sufficient courage to serve as civil leader of tht Bay of Pigs invasion, and ont cannot argue against courage. The relevant questiwis *to ask center not on Artimes date of defectlOTi from Castro but on his ability to build the best fighting force possible, and hi* willingness to establish and protect a post - Castro regime that will be something better than a Titoist version of what exists in Cuba today.

The worrisome thing about the situation is that there seems to be no room In the State Department - CIA- Ar-time coalition for daring Cubans who have offended the Casper Milquetoasts who frown on premature raids on Castros fortress. Diaz Lanz was a bold man when he'commanded the rebel air units in the campaign against Batista,, and he was equally bold when he became the first defector.

A commercial pll(^, Diax Lanz used his skills under the Btista-regime to ferry urns by air Into the Castro country of the Sierra Maestra, landing on pocket. size airstrips at great risk to his own life. He believed thoroughly in the revoluticm until 1 had his ears opened to its se

cret Communist orientation by ' the conversations he overheard while ^ transporting Castro and his. frads around the country. Appalled by what he had learn, ed, he tried to warn anti - Communist members of Castros cabinet. When they refused to listen, he fleq Cuba In a small boat.

Diaz Lanz ought to be a hero to a Washington Administra-tira that Is officially uiti - Castro. But this first defector has sinned by crattnulng to bs bold. He complains that the U. S. is trying to collect a $2,000 fine from him for having flown over Havana in 1959 and bombed it with anti -Castro leaflets. The technical, charge is that his pilots licenss had lapsed.

Why are people like Disi Lanz hindered in their efforts to carry on a struggle against C^ro while others, such as Artlme, are favored? There are Cubans who say its all a question of political coloration. Th* State Department has a predilection for the Bosch-Betao-couii type of Latin American politico who is loosely to be described as belonging to the non - Communist Left. Now, a Betancourt Is preferable In Venezuela to a Castro, or Khrushchev or a Mao Tse * tung Communist, and it Is the ^ mark of prudence to deal with a (Cratinued on Page f)

GIVES THE UNITED WAY

Graft Is A U.S. "Way Of Life

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

MIDNIGHT

We read in the sixteenth chapter (rf Acts of the behavior of Paul and Silas as they found themselves in prison at Pbil-lippi.

They had healed of some strange mental disorder a certain damsel possessed of a spirit of divination. . . which brought her masters much gain by soothsaying. When the girl was restored to a normal state of mind all hope of gain was gone for her unprincipled owners. These, therefore, complained to the authorities and had Paul and Silas scourged and thrown into prison. Then we read that at midnight Paul and Silae prayed, and sang praises unto God: ind the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was a great earthquake . . . and Immediately all the door* were open and everyones bonds

were loosened.

This passage of scripture Is full of helpful spiritual teaching. Paul and Silas had been unjustly set upra by the law. At midnight, in prison, they did not bewail their fate or curse the unjust officials who had thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. Instead at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises to God, and the prisoners heard them, and there was a great earthquake.

It takes real character and deep religious faith to enable one in the midnight of trouble to pray and sing praises to God. But those who can do so mi^e a profound Impressira upon others, as Paul and Silas did on their fellow prisraers. And always, when we can summon up faith and courage enough to behave as these men did, there is an earthquake and our bonds are struck off.

BY ELMER R0ES8NEB

Graft, like mothers - Inlaw and bingo, are an essential part of the American way of life. Without graft, our cities might stagnate and our states vegetate.

Suppose a new admlnistratioa takes over the city government of Squaresville, U. S. A. As soon as it has gotten rid.of the deadwood of the previous administration and has settled down, a prominent oontractor comes around and offers Mayor Zip $10,000 as a down payment on his support for a new north - and - south highway through town. In additiim, he and his party will share one - half of one per cent of total that the contractor gets, and the mayor wlU have the privilege of placing 20 men as watchmen with the contracting company. WHO. ME?

'The Mayor roars in Indignation. Hed rather die than take a dishonest nickel. But the ccm-tractor rnilles. The highway is going to be built. Even you will vote for it. I have made councUmen. It

^deals wtth the <

Highway. So as long as its going to happen anyhow, you might as well get your share. Because of graft, then, the highway is built. It probably costs the taxpayers twice as much as It should. But It relieves traffic congestion in Squaresville, It benefits the thiwsands who travel north and south, it gives the school kids something to write compositions about, it enhances civic pride, and it provides lots <rf jobs. And, because It is finan-, ced with bonds. It costs the taxpayers almost nothing. Their grandchildren will get the final bill.

Without graft. Squaresville would still be the congested, dreary town It used to be. And since all those new jobs make Mayor Zip popular, he will be elected for a second term when a new east - west highway will be built. And for a third term, when Squaresville vrill get a new city hall shucks, a whole new civic center.

DONT GET US WRONG Of course, city and state officials are generally honest.

Most of them are dedicated. Some of them launch civic projects out of public spirit and fight them through without hope of personal gain beyond re -election.

But as you travel around the country and see highways lead-, ing from no place to nowwhere, when you see colossal city buildings on the edge of town and state buildings in tc midst of potato fields, and when you see city and state plants - thats what they call those buildings built for 1998, you can amuse yourself by guessing whether the work was spur^ red by some far - seeing vison-ary.or some other Mayor Zip.

On the Federal level, there is less suspicion of grait for the very reason that graft isnt necessary to get Federal pro-

iects moving. Cragress ai^rs-irlates the funds and picks the projects, and projects are ap-proved largely on a log - rolling basis. A Congressman gets a dam for his district because he wm go along and vote for will be called the Mayor Zip

a reclamation project, a string of post offices and a few highways in other ^ Congressmen's districts.

And without the porkbarrel in Congress, and without graft In cities and states, we xnigbt still be educating our children in little red schoolhouses and sending them off to colleges on corduroy roads.

GET IN THERE,

BUB, AND SELL.

How to Put Action into Your Sales is the title of a new 30 - minute record by Dr. Criarles L. Lapp, professor of marketing at the Washington University Graduate School of Business* Administratitmv In St. Louis. Dr. Lapp offers a 10 -step program for climbing the ladder of sales success. His theme: ^ccessfol selling requires action because Its the actlra - minded Aalesmen who get the orders. And to be action minded, a lalesnum must separate thoee things he can do something about from those he is unable to change.**