Friday, November 15, 1963 ^

Hoping* McLendon Changes Things

Kennedys Donner Party

Senators in charge of investigating the Bobby Baker affair have looked like toe-dancers treading on a basket of eggs.

It is to be hoped that the appointment of Maj. L. P. McLendon, well-known Tar Heel attorney, as special counsel to investigate Bakers outside business activities will bring about a change in the procedure so far used in this investigation. ,

The American people, accustomed to seeing Senate investigations wade into projects with vigor and determination, are asking many questions about the ground rules that so far seem to have been established for the Boker investigation.

Up to this point, the inquiry into the activities of the recently resigned secretary to the Senate majority has ben handled with k:ld gloves^ compared

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1 ar jneei s Bic. For YDC Post

By WfLUAM A. SHIRES

HOUSE A nationw 1 d e political campaign on behalf of a young North Carolina attorney COTies to a climax next month in Las Vegas, Nev.. when the Young Democratic Clubs of America choose a new president.

The Tar Heel candidate for the national YDC presidency is J. Albert A1) House Jr. of Roanoke Rapids, currently national committeeman for the state YDC.

Houses backers believe chances for his election at the Las Vegas convention are excellent.

He has been groomed for a bid at the post for several years and his rise through the YDC ranks dates back to 1952 when he organized and .served as president of a YDC at the University of North Carolina with 1,(KX) members. House also organized YDCs at Duke, North Carolina State and other colleges and seized as college YDC chairman for the state in 195.5-56. The same year he became county club YDC president.

CAMPAIGN The campaign (HI behalf of the 32-year old House has been quiet but thorough and Impressive, after the traditional manner of politicking fw top YDC posts.

House, a law partner of newly-elected state Democrat 1 c chairman W. Lunsford Crew, has been traveling widely around the country seek 1 n g support and pledges.

His background includes the chairmanship of the YDC A Resolutions ciunmittee at the 1963 Spring meeting In Washington and service on the YDCA Constitution and Awards committee in 1962.

BROCHURES Attractive Carolina blue and white brochures boosting Houses candidacy have been mailed to thousands of YDC officers and delegates In recent weeks.

These contain the text of a resolution adopted Sept. 20 by the state YDC executive committee pledging Its support to House and commending him to every state YDC organization and member.

They point out that Houses YDC record of service began when he was a 17-year-o I d freshman at the University and extends through his leadership of the U.S. YDC delegation at NATO and Atlantic Conference of young political leaders in Bonn. Germany, last year. House served as spokesman for the Atlantic

Conferwice in Cologne.

HOME At home. House

was valedictorian and president Of UiP .student body at Scotland Neck high school,

member of the Mens Honor

Council. Student Council and Phi Beta Kappa at NC. He received his doctor of laws degree at Chapel Hill and served as assitant director and Instructor of law for the Institute of Government, as "chairman of the young lawyers division of the N. C. Bar Assoc

iation. chairman of the Roanoke Rapids city planning board and recipient of the citys Young Man of the Year award in 1961.

YDC House bases his campaign on a platform which he calls new programs for action. "With more than eight million young Americans voting for the first time In 1964, we must prove that YD clubs are the best means for capturing the strength and purpose of these and millicms of other young people for the Democratic party, he says.

He calls for adopting "comprehensive plans for action" for 1964-65.

"Our times and tasks are filled with difficulties;; the old slogans, labels and dogmas are not sufficient for the tumultuous present. As our challenges are new, so we must think anew and act anew, he says.

SESSION Another f a c t-find session by President Kennedys eight - state Appalachian Regional committee and various federal officials is scheduled in AshevUle next Monday. '

The committee is headed by Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr. It held^ an Initial meeting In Asheville last June 21 and Roosevelt said the committee hoped to produce a blueprint for actltm to aid depressed and underdeveloped areas In the Appalachian region. He said the committee was studying needed improvements in roads, education and industry in the mountain area.

- ROADS Several highway Improvement projects for Western North Carolina were included In the state highw a y commissions call for bids this week on projects in 22 counties.

One is more than 3.6 miles of improvement on N. C. 181 near Morganton, a pro j e c t described as the most urgent highway need in Burke county. Another calls for two new bridges over the French Broad river in Henderson County. A third Is for more than 4.3 miles of guard rail along the Ridgecrest - Old Fort highway. U. S. 70. in McDowell County. This scenic, four - lane route up the Blue Ridge has been the scene of a number of tragic accidents. It is scheduled to be brought up to Inters t a t e hichway standards.

DELAYS Meanw h 11 e. highway commission officials are blaming right - of,- way difficulties for delays In four-lanlng of U. S. 70 throughout the Swannanoa Valley In Buncombe County, from Black Mountain to Asheville. State Rep. Gordon Green wood of Black Mountain has suggested the highway commission investigate possible alternate routes.

In Raleigh, overcrowding in the state highway building ha.s forced the moving of mainte-nance and safety department into rented office space several blocks away. The traffic engineering section also is scheduled to be moved from the highway building.

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to other Senate inquiries. In spite of their political and even personal differences, members of the Seliate form a close-knit group. Traditionally they have handled their ipternal affairs as quietly as possible, with the least possible public view of any dirty linen that may be hidden in Senate closets.

The fact that the investigation so far has been handled as quietly as possible has raised the question of whether the Senate will really dig into the matter, or merely gloss it over.

The primary question to be answered, of course, is whether Baker, in his post of secretary to the ' Senate majority, used this position for his own personal gain in outside business dealings. Certainly the Senate should spare no effort to answer that q^uestiixit for the public.. It should carry ont its in-ve.^tigation in public view so there wiVi be no foundation for charges that a white-wash of the affair is being attempted,

And if, in investigating the tangled financial affairs of Baker, members of the Senate appear to be involved, the Senate should let the chips fall where they may.

Members of the Senate may have a responsibility to each other, but their first and foremost responsibility is to the American people for sound, ethical operation of the government.

Giving Appearance Of

Misguided Meddlers

Boston area ministers whose self-righteousness brought them to Williamston to lead a massive demonstration may have served their own cause, whatever that was.

Their action, however, has not served the cause of better race relations in Martin County.

Had the ministers come to Williamston to reason with citizens and leaders of that community in the interest of the goals being sought by Negro citizens ther,'^their visit may have had some merit. But before they left the Boston area, their announced intention was only to join in demonstrations, not deliberations. The instrument they were predetermined to use was massive force that in itself risked civil disorder. They did not try first to use religion, reason, persuasion o/ common sense in seeking to obtain objectives for people they said they were trying to help.

Their open defiance of a court injunction against their demonstration yesterday afternoon did not serve the interest of the clergy, religion or the people of Williamston. Their action did not serve the cause of domestic tranquility or the cause of justice.

With all due respect to the positions they hold in their respective churches, these ministers have given the appearance of misguided meddlers, rather than that of good Samaritans trying to do a good deed in a foreign land.

By JOHN ABNEY

Vibrations Were Weak

MEXICO CITY The ancient Aztec capital is fairly boiling with moving picture people down here to film "The Night of The Iguana."

It is goint to be shot over half of Mexico but mostly near Puerto Vallarta where direct-or John Huston built a hotel

and a little town on the side of a mountain overlooking the Pacific Ocean.

More Troubles Tor Uncle Sam

And the other evening I attended a pres conference where the stars and producers and directors were gathered before local and foreign Journalists to do whatever they do at press conferences. (In 25 years of newspapering, I have never fig

ured the purpose of these meetings except you get free booze for medicinal purposes.)

Mr. Huston got up and made a speech about how good It was to be here doing another picture, Probably you say his Treasure of The Sierra Madre and another shot here, both of which snagged Oscars. Huston is considered real people and doesnt lose votes.

Mr. Richard Burton, the high star, was indisposed and couldnt make it. Miss Liz Taylor was reported to be at their hotel suite soothing his brow with damp cloths or maybe fefeding him grapes.

Nobody knew where Mi s s Ava Gardner was but I al-

Other Editors Saying,. The Rootless Children

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Kennedy hardly had the words out of his mouth when there was more trouble, this time of a kind which may in time be a disaster for the United States.

In his first State of the Union message to Congress almost three years ago Kennedy, after listing the problems ^ ahead at home, said "all these pale when placed beside those which confront us around the world. . .

"Each day the crises multiply. Each day their solution grows more difficulty."

He cited trouble spots In Asia, Africa. Latin America. And as Uie years passed the troubles multiplied and waned while fresh ones developed.

Last Friday, talking to the Protestant Council in New York, he said the family of man should be at peace with one another. But be said:

"They are not. Within the last m(Mith the world has witnessed active or threatened hostilities in a dozen or more disputes independrait of the struggle between communlam and free choice disputes between Africans and Europeans in Angola, between North African neighbors in the Maghreb, between two Arab states over Yemen, between India and PakLstan, between Indonesia and Malaysia. Cambodia and Viet Nam, Ethiopia and Somalia and a long list of others."

He might have mentioned that just one week before, the generals In South Viet Nam ' threw our President Dim and his brother, both of whom were killed. But last Friday he couldnt have known what was to happen Wednesday.

Early in the day the Iraqi government had to smash a revolution and later In the day came the news of grave con-.sequence to the United States ^ that Cambodia may turn its back on the United States.

It has 6 million petle living under' the guidance of

Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 43, who renounced the Cambodian throne to be the political leader of the Cambodians.

He has been a self - proclaimed neutral between the forces of the West and <Jom-munism, but accepted help from both sides. For instance: guns and fighter planes from Russia, more than $366 million worth of military and economic help from the United States,

This coujd be interpreted as trying to play both ends ast the middle, not taking sides until he saw which way the cat was going to jump.

For the United States, holding South Viet Nam has been a prolonged and costly adventure, with more than $4 billion in aid going to Viet Nam where more than TOO Americans have lost their lives in the war against the C(mti-munist guerrillas of North Viet Nam.

If Viet Nam was lost to communism, its a safe bet all Southeast Asia would be in time. Lart September Prince Sihanouk said he was convinced the Communists al r e a d y have woo the battle for South Viet Nam.

And he said he felt his own neutral country eventually would fall to communism. Last August Sihanouk cut Cambodias ties with Viet Nam because of the crackdown on the Buddhists by the then President Diem.

And he has complained that Cambodian exiles his enemieswere in Viet Nam making broadcasts against h 1 m with transmitters which, he said, were supported In part by U. S, assistance.

Wednesday he sent out the word Cambodia would cut Its ties with the United States, too, and after Jan, 1, 1964, refuse any more American aid, and abandon Its neutrality un-les.s the anti - Sihanouk broad- casts were stopped.

The State Department was uiwet; Worse news was to

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(Christian Science Monitor) Social workers and school truancy officers in New York are concerned about a noticeable Increase in the number of children boys and girls in early teens who spend their time roaming about the city streets and sleep in basements, under stairways or at the homes of friends.

Many of these have homes of a sort but usually broken homes or at least not normal homes. To them, perhaps for faults of their ov.ti but faults they need help to overcome, home has become a place to be avoided.

Take for example. Hector, who is described by a writer for the New York Times. HLs father disappeared when he was It) years old; his mother Is busy with seven younger brothers and sisters. Home is, to him, "a madhouse."

Or Tony and Ted, 10 and 11 years old, now wards of the Family Court. Their mother Is in prison. They lived first with their brother, just out of prison, then with a sister, awaiting trial for a felony, then with their father, who was living with another woman. They spent most of th e 1 r time on the streets.

An earlier generation of children grew up mostly In the country. There was work for them on the farm. Or if not. they roamed the fields and streams and communed with nature.

Then there was a period of deep and world - wide sympathy for orphans of the Korean war waifs separated from their families, or w h o had seen their parents killed and who "scrounged" for any

sort of a livelihood.

Well, here are "orphans" of the city streets, and New York is by no means the only city In America or elsewhere that has them. The Bureau of Child Welfare there says 20,000 children are charges of the city, in the sense usually that it must find suitable homes for them; and nearly as man others are rated by school authorities as "serious truants.

Emphasis on family responsibility and togetherness can do something, even much, to Improve this situation. But the problem is not simply one (rf divorce, as such. There are deserting fathers or deserting mothers who should be brought back.

But does this assure that the father many such families in the northeastern United States are Negro or Puerto Rican can find a job If he returns? Or that his stature in the eyes of the children will not shrink if only the mother can find employment?

How to help the "roamers" does not lend itself to any one easy solution. It Is a whole nexus of problems. Much of It can be i-esolved by pers o n a 1 contact: ultimately all of It has to be. Buf the contact may be a relative, a friend, a neighbor, a shopkeeper, a s o d a fountain attendant, a service station manager, a church custodian, a teacher, a probation officer, a family court counselor, a welfare case worker, an employment office Interviewer, a superintendent of a voluntary social agency. There is work here both for individuals and for private and public agencies.

most met her. For during the milling around that took place,

I spoke with Miss Sue Lyon (she was Loita in the film by that name) about various and sundry things. Being old friend from an interview that morning.

And at the Interview I mentioned that I had to see my personal witch that afternoon to consult her on several matter/ Miss Sue was so impressed she squealed and asked. "You mean a REAL witch with a pointed hat and a long black robe with stars and half moons on it?"

So I said, "My witch dresses like any other authentic lady and she looks at her crystal ball to advise me on business matters like which l(^tery ticket to buy and when my good luck vibrations are functioning ' properly."

Miss Sue asked if she put hexes and spells on people.

And I said, "Certainly not. She is a respectable Christian witch and will have no truck with black magic."

So Miss Sue said she did so want to have a chat with my witch over a cup of magic tea and see about lottery numbers and how her vibrations were_ synchronized.

Well, I told her this could be arranged and I would caJl by the hotel for Miss Sue the following afternoon. She thoi^iht this was marvelous and wanted to know if she should take the witch a present like a new brocan or scmicthlng.

But I told her this was ancient stuff and my witch walked around like people or maybe grabbed a taxi cab If she wa.<? In a hurry.

Along came thp press (Conference and Miss Sue scurried over and asked, "Will it be all right if Ava Gardner goes along? She Is dying of curiosity and wants to see a real witch."

And I said Heavens yes, since I was dying of curiosity to see Miss Ava Gardner. It isn't every day a newspaper fellow can get together with heavy movie .stars and his witch to discuss iguanas and gaze into the crystal ball.

But the next afternoon at 4:30 sharp I called by the hotel for these ladies and eveiythlng on the schedule had been revised. The halr-dressers were dressing the hair of Miss Sue. Miss Gardner was facing the cameras at the studios. On top of that It was pouring down rain.

Even without consulting my witch, I could tell the vibra-tltms were terribly weak and probably my spark plugs need changing.

Also A

Value

In Mods

BT JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963. King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

Does anyone look at maps anymore? The young, who have been exposed to a vague mli^ mash called "soda! studies] in school in place of old-fasih i(Nied geography and history, seem to have only the faintest Idea of Uie sal^t physical features (rf tlM globe. They know a lot alxMit "social forces Jand .1_ do ngi decry Ms.): they know that nationalism and racialism afw stirring Africa: they can tell you about< the "revolution of rising expecta^ tions": they know that the industrial revolution is still beinf exported from the West to the East; they can repeat all the cliches about "reaction and progressivlam. But they dont know which way the rivers run in Siberia, or anything about great circle air routes, .or why a certain strong point or strategic narrow is important.

I raise this Question because there must be some c(xmeQ>, tion between the disappearance of geography In the schools and our apparent willingness as a nation to put op with the most absurd gyrations in our foreign policy. In a hundred football stadiums In the land on any given Autumn Saturday our students know the Importance of protecting the passer, or pulling out the guards to provide crushing bl(xdt8 around the end. But that a nation can have jrtijrsical flanks to protect is lost on pe(^le who think of Wetnam, for example, solely in terms of "democracy or Cuba or British Guiana in relation to what, Idealistically, a social studies" teacher would advocate, as "progress."

Talking recently with a c(fl-lege freshman who was home on a week-end, I was Impressed by his knowledge of the ins and outs of palace intrigue in South ^Betnam. He knew just how many Buddhists had immolated themselves; he had read everything In the papers about Ambasador > Lodges conclusions about the repre&siveness of Diems brother. His run-down of the situation in Southeast Asia, however, was entirely In approved, modem social study" terms.' There wasnt a glimmer of understanding of what Vietnam meant physically to the safety of the non-Communlst world.

This failure of a college freshman to think in elementary geographical terms would never have come about if, in grammar school or high school, he had had the old-fashioned drill in "bounding" countries. Knowing nothing about tiie sort of map gazing In which our fathers Indulged, the freshman could not visualize South Vietnam In relation to the rest of Southeast Asia, or to China, or to India.

He could not see that the section of neighboring Laos that Is In control of the Communist permits Red guerillas to move from the Communist north into South Vietnam with relative impunity. He knew nothing about the' Mekong River and its importance to the old Indo-Cniinese region, nothing about rich rice bowls, or the necessity of keeping the Red Chinese from controlling the straits at Singapore, or from cutting in between the Philippines and India on the road to Australia.

Now. this sort of elemeur tary ignorance could have been prevented if the college freshman had had to learn about the Mekong River In a grammar school geography drill given over to the great rivers of the world. My own feeling that Russia must always be at a geographical dLsadvantage In waf because her great rivens run north and south, emptjdng for" the most part Into the Artie Ocean, has saved me from overestimating the Communist mUltary threat to the West.

I owe this to a grammar school drill that seemed onerous at the time. "Social Studies^' would have been a lot more pleasant than learning about the Lena, the Ob and the Vol-ga, but would tiiey have been more fundamental?

Bismarck used to say that the master of Bohemia (now* part of Czechoslovakia) was the master of Europe, General Patton knew all about Bls-(Continued on Page 5)

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Faxes Help Induce Conformity

Strength For Today

BY EARL L.. DOUGLASS

ADOLESCENT AMERICA

'ceed.s the speed of sound, la largely the result of the re-

We live in an age characterized by speed. A hundred and fifty year.s ago people traveled as theii' ancestors had traveled for centuries. One hundred years ago the steam locomotive was coming into widespread use. It had been prophesied that the day would come, when men could travel as rapidly as forty miles an hour. To this claim a great English authority made the rejoinder: "This could never be; man under .such circumstances could not breathe."

Fifty yeai.s ago the automobile wa.s just leginuing to come in. Twrnty-five years, ago, air travel was getting started. The jet-propelled plane, which ex

search and genius of the past

decade.

We have speed, but do we have direction? It is most significan that the first use men-often makes of a new discovery is a bad use. He Is using his scientific discoveries today to wpge war. If we can get over the next fUty or one hundred ye^rs without committing racial suicide, a chastened generation will probably view such utilization of human opportunity with disdain.

We all know how reckless the adolescent is who ha.s just learned to drive an automobile. In the use of our new discoveries. our generation ha.s the characteristic* of an adoles-cent.

You may think that Federal Taxes are levied solely to obtain money to run the government.

Simpleton!

As Allen Sultan, assistant professor, Lamar School of Law at Emery University, points out in the November "Challenge," tax laws are also contrived to regulate the conduct of citizens.

Laws, as the professor writes in New York Universitys economic magazine, tend to regulate and control citizens to these ends:

Get married. The income tax law amost doubles your taxes if you dont.

Stay married. A recent Supreme Court ruling required a husband to pay a capital gain tax on securities he settled on his ex-wife.

Invest in state and municipal bonds. If you invest In other securites, much of the income Is taxed away from you.

By and mortgage real and personal property. If .you rent, you get no deductions for interest and tavae

tion. If you are in other busl nesses, except mining, you cant deduct depletion allowances.

Dont look for work. If you do it at your own, expense, theres no tax deduction for expenses. But If you sit back and let an agency find your job, its fee is deductible. Professor Sultan might have added, if he had pace, that taxes encourage unemployment, since unemployment benefits are not taxed.

iBe a farmer. There are lots of tax advantages.

Join a union. Dues are deductible. Fringe benefits are taxed less than wages.

Emist, Servicemen have many tax advantages.

Become wi atomic worker. There are special tax privileg

es.

Obey the law. The Supreme Court has ruled that illegsl gains are taxable. Even before that ruling, tax laws have been used to jail men guilty of other crimes. Thus went Capone.

Sultan wrote, "It Is no sec-By ELMER ROESSNKR

throttle on the use of tax laws to prosecute individuals suspected of various offenses and that he has received the fUU co(H>eratloQ of the Internal Revenue Service.

There are other controls Sultan skipped over lightly which are nevertheless enforced by tax laws;

Dont gamble. The $50 gamblers stamp loses, not raises, money. Its a device to trm> gamblers, especially those who do not pay off local authorities.

Take care of your parents. Otherwise somebody else will get their deduction.

Get old, blind. The government rewards you.

If yon must get sick. get. real sick. Small medical' charges arent deductible; big ones are.

Play the market. Profits, If held for a while, are taxed less than money earned by the sweat of your brow.

Sultan quoted fonner President Herbert Hoovei*: "To those who believe taxation should not GO TEXAN

Get Into all and gas frodno-.

be designed to promote econ<^ mic and social objectives. 1 would remark that this repub^ lie ha been doing it ever since the first tax bill was signed by George Washington."

Mort stores charge for revolving credit and instalment balances, though not for SO-day charge accounts. Because they get about 18 per cent on revolving credit accounts and iip to 24 per cent or more on In etalment balances, many people. Including me. believed that they made money on extending credit. Some thought storee made more money on credit than on maiicup.

Not so it seems. A stody of 80 retail stinea by the accounting firm of Touche, Roes Baey and Smart for the a^ ti(mal Retail Merchants Aaso^ ation showed that the avirace annual deficit in operating credit department was per cent (rf credit sales.

Most stores recognised ere. dit as a "sales tool." ret that Attorney General Ra. bert Kennedy bas opwsd II

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