Friday, November 29, 1968

The New Frontier Is Still With Us

Let The World Take Not

There were those last week who said the '**new irontieri**died in the streets of Dallas.

If, indeed, it did die in Dallas, it was resurrected Wednesday by President Johnson in his address to the joint session of Congrress.

There can be no mistake about it. The new

frontier is still much alive even though it will be directed by a new wagon-master.

President Johnson made it clear in the first major address of his administration that he expects to continue "the domestic and foreign programs outlined by his predecessor. He called for the enactment of the civil rights program now before Congress and for passage of the tax reduction measure to stimulate the nation's economy. He called for the continuation of the foreign aid program in a manner that would leave latitude for executive decisions to meet the needs of international affairs.

While he called for the enactment of the major

items in the legalation program of the late President, the new chief^xecutive made it clear that the need

for action is immediate.

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The new President of the United States also made it evident to Congress and the nation that his administration will reflect his own ideas of policy and government operation while he carries out a positive program for the nation. The new frontier will incorporate Johnson policies and vision as well as Kennedy ideas.

President Johnson has left no doubt that he has taken firm control of the administration and has, set the course his administration will follow. There remains the implementation of leading the nation along the path he has charted for the United States, but the very fact that his sights are well set after his first few days in office show strength of leadership.

With his long legislative experience, his record for bringing balky sessions of Congress into a cohesive body for positive legislative action, it may well be that President Johnson will be able to deal more effectively with Congress than was his predecessor.

The new frontier of the late John F. Kennedy has obviously begun its transition into a new frontier of President Lyndon Johnson.

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Of SuDPOrterS Grow In Importance

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

LIST The last time President Lyndon B. Johnson was in North Carolina he was furnished a list of those ammig the states delegation to the 1960 Democratic national convention who supported him for the presidency.

The occasion was the annual Jefferson-Jacks(Hi day dinner in Raleigh last March 30. LBJ, as vice president, was th speaker for the partys big fundraising affair at the State Fair Arena.

Johnson asked for the list of names and It was obtained for

him by aides. Ostensibly, he wanted the list in order to thank those who supported him at Los Angeles and be able to single them out among the hundreds of Tar Heel Democrats hoping to see the vice president and perhaps talk to him during the brief time he was in Raleigh. There were those, too. who felt that Johnson still had his eye on the White House and another bid for the presidential nomination in 1968 and wanted to keep his finger on key LBJ supparters in every state.

POLLED The list was easy to oUain. The North Carolina delegation at Los Angeles had sidit between Johnson and John P. Kennedy in the balloting with most of the delegates supporting Johnson.

The pro-LBJ delegates included the head of the delegation, then Gov. Luther H. Hodges. The Kennedy supporters were led by Terry Sanford, the Democratic nominee for governor.

The delegaUon was peeled and the divisin is a matter of record.

Johnson did not stay overnight in Raleigh, but occupied the governors suite at the Sir Walter Hotel for several hours prior to the dinner. Since the occasion was a party affair, LBJ was the guest of Governor Sanford and then party chairman Bert Bennett Jr. and c<xi-siderable time was spent with these officials. However, among other callers seeking brief conferences those whose names were on the list received preferential treatment from J(^-scm aides.

TALK There already is speculation that Hodges, a Scnithemer as well as a pro-Johnson man at Los Angeles, may be the stnmg man of Johns<8 cabinet.

Washington sources would not be surprised to see some cabinet changes take place after an appn>riate Interval, pei^ haps after about mid-January or Pebrurary, although Johnson has asked all cabinet members to stay on. These sources fell certain that Hodges will stay on and that his role In Washington will be enhanced.

There is question about the

role of some other North Carolinians in high Washington posts, notably that of Henry Hall Wilson of Monroe who has been a Kennedy aide In the field of Congressional liaslon.

REPORT Governor Sanford was among 37 governors who met with the new president a few hours after Kennedys funeral in Washington and he Issued a report on the meeting the next day.

Sanfords report stressed Johnson's qualifications, capacity, background and experience.

I was impreased again with what I have known a long time. Sanford said. He has a generous heart and a deep compassiwi for people, all people, especially those who need his help and concern.

T was Impressed with his sincerity, his desire to measure up to the great traditions of the office. At the same time he is essentially a humble man. . . best expressed in his call for help . . .he was talking about every single one of us in North Carolina.

Sanford said Johnsgn will put education, civil rights and tax reduction at the top of the list of programs pending In Congress and he called for national and pdltical unity.

NOTES There are Indica-tlMis that the political scene will enter a period of settling down over the year-end holidays. It now appears unlikely that Congress will do anything about civil rights or a tax cut until the next session convenes in January. The current session of Congress is now expected to adjourn by Dec. 14.

North Carolina members of Congress will be coming home for the holidays and trying to assay the situation back home with respect to the 1964 election picture.

Talk about Lyndon Johnson is unacceptable to extreme left-wing elements of the Democratic party is largely discounted in Washington.

These groups did not particularly like JohnsOT even in the role of vice president but it had been generally believed that any move to dump LBJ from the 1964 ticket could be overcome. Now It Is even less likely that, despite their opposition and dislike, these groupps would attempt to dispute the traditional claim that a president-by-fate has to his partys nomination for a term In his own right.

There will be con.siderably more speculation now about who will occupy the second place on the Democratic Ucket. It is there that the voice of the northern Democrats, labor leaders and ADA will be louder and Johnson may have to listen. Early mention ha.s been made of Sen. Hubert Humphrey. Another Southerner on the ticket is out.

Another auxiliary group of civil servants has been organized in Greenvi le and in the future should prove a valuable asset to the city.-

We refer to the newly organized Greenville Police Reserve.

The first 23 members of this reserve unit have completed a special training course which prepares them for duties they may be called on to perform for the regular law enforcement agencies of the city. They will continue their training through a program in which each member will work a minimum of four hours each month.

The use of these reserve officers primarily for control of large crowds in connection with events' such as parades, football games and the like will be of great assistance to the regular law enforcement agencies. Greenville, as the home of growing East Carolina College has more of such occasions on which extra officers are needed than most communities of this size.

Organization of this new group for the city provides the established agencies greater depth of ready strength that can be called on instantly if it is needed. As the community continues to increase in size as it surely willthe police reserve will

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become increasingly important in the lives^of the people of Greenville.

Those who conceived the idea of the establishment of such a group in Greenville, and who have ha\ e carried it through its initial stages, deserve the commendation of all citizens of this community.

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TO THE EDITOR:

We are all deeply grieved at the tragic murder of our President. The nations ccn-.science has been moved to recognize that we have been too indifferent to the tides of hate and violence that have been loosed in our land and that we have aU failed in some mea.sure to make respect for law and the democratic processes of our political system a universal conviction.

Of all the profound and stirring utterances of our late President the one that seems to have most Indelibly impressed itself upon us all Is, Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. Millions are pondering these words in their hearts and seeking in his life and death a meaning for their own lives and for our nations future.

If thl.s rededication is to be more than a fleeting inspiration it must be translated into a concrete commitment now, for human frailty will cause our most sincere intentions to wither with the passage of time and the dally concern of our individual lives.

Among other things that might suggest themselves, I would propose the following:

That we each resolve to face squarely the great moral Issues of our times. They confront us in our nation and even In our own community and cry out for solution. We cannot avoid them or pretend they do not exist. We are obliged as Christians and free citizens to commit ourselves to work out our personal salvation and that of our nation hy grappling with the problems of this time and place.

That we inform ourselves and speak out on public affairs. In a community so well endowed with intellectual life as our own it is to our shame that there Is no lively, continuing discussion of issues In the forum afforded by our newspaper and through our

broadcasting media.

That we, the responsible and respectable citizens who are by far the majority in this country, take courage and speak and act to discredit the violent and vociferous minority Of haters and destroyers who have gone unchecked in our midst, it Is our abdication of our responsibilities that has made possible such things as: the incredible gbuse of the Chief Justice of the United States; physical assault upon our Ambassador; defiance of the law of the land by public officials resulting In chaos, riot, and murder; the subsequent suppression of dissenting opinion within a university and indeed within an entire'^ state; the slaughter of Innocents in the bombing of a church; the premeditated murder before the eyes of his children and wife of a civil rights spokesman; and the countless other atrocities committed in our own nation and tpo quickly dismissed from our minds and attention. Whatever happens to one man in any part of our country is the concern of us all. We are our broiers keeper, and now more than at any time in history we are each of us more deeply involved In and responsible for the destiny of our world.

That we refuse to tolerate expressions of hatred and uncharitableness that go beyond the bounds of decent political opposition and of reasonable discourse. It was the hand of one deluded wretch that assassinated John Kennedy, but how many responsible even exalted citizens had murdered him In their hearts by the virulence of their personal animosity?

That we encourage our clergymen, public officials, civic and Intellectual leaders to be bold and explicit in helping us to translate our moral imperatives into action. That we each participate (Continued On Page 5)

MEXICO CITY ~ On national holidays they inn the heavy lotteries here. Twenty or thirty million pesos top prize and scads of others that would put to riding Thunder-brids.

The thirty million peso drawing was held on Mexicos Fourth of July (September 15) but the lottery fever stays on like a hangover. Everybody who didnt hit something feels lucky Sor the next tme.

Thousands of people knew the number they should have bought (too late) and it is a lead pipe cinch to come up for the drawing wi Monday. So they rush out to rectify the mistake and the ticket business is extremely brisk.

There are hundreds of agencies all over the city where tickets are sold. And the man who rakes it in is the (me who sold the big wie. Lady Luck is riding with him. He hangs his list of the drawing results in front of his ship with the money number he sold outlined in red.

Passers - by stop to contemplate the list and study the tickets on display in his window. Maybe the winner he sold ended in 8. Therefore, the next one should end in 5 or 1. (Dont

ask why. It is based cm something scientific).

One gentleman buys his number with a 6 on the end because 6 Is due. The next one buys an 8 because numbers repeat. And what with the rush to get in while Luck is sitting on the counter, the owner sells out and by sunset is smoking fifty cent cigars.

It goea the same everywhere Swarms of ardent Lottery players go to a hold-in-the-wall shop and load up on tickets. Because Lady Luck Is like lightning and doesnt strike twice In the same place. Maybe the little old man on the comer has never sold a winner. He is due and they buy him out.

Big drawings are followed a few days later by a five million performance. And then comes a three million peso job. The fever runs high during this period. After the Iwliday season, the National Lottery gentlemen go back to the Monday, Wednesday and Friday routine and ticket buyers stick to normal hunches. Somebodys wife went home to her ihother in April and April is the 4th month. Pour is his lucky number so he buys a ticket ending in four.

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The National Lottery works tw^o ways. It pays off to the winners and funds contributed by the losers are used to build hospitate, schools and highways. They built the mulU-milUon dollar Medical Center here that is 38 acres of modem buildings and equipment.

When Mexico decided malaria was a bad thing, the government called on the lottery gentlemen. And the Lot-. tery gentlemen financed the anti-malaria campaign. Bought trucks, jeeps and anti-mosquito equipment. They even bought a fleet of planes equipped with Juice to spray swamps and mosquito breeding plat.es. Only Institution of this type* to the world with an air force.

This brings up a curious point. Mexican newspapers shipped to the U. S. of A. must first have the list of lottery wto-nera cOipped out. Otherwise they contato sin which Is considered harmful ^r readers north of the river.

However, Washlngt(Hi does not object to its citizens spending a vacation to Vegas or Reno and putting in some time at the tables with the family savings. This is convtoc-tog evidence that when somebody else does something, it is wrong. With us. It Is different.

So If you will pardon me, I will now read a few chapters of The Psychology of Reasoning. It might have an explanation.

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Men In The Presidency Opiniona

NEW YORK (AP> - Some notes on the worlds toughest job the presidency of the United States:

Despite the awful pressures of the post, 27 of the 34 men who served as president before Lyndon B. Johnson lived to be over 60 and three are still alive.

Of the eight who died in office, four were felled by assassins.

The most durable president to date was John Adams, variously known as Atlas of Independence, His Rotundity, and Old Sink or Swim. He lived 90 years and 295 days and died on the same 4th of July as did Thomas Jefferson, who was 83.

The oldest president to die to office, William Henry Hai-riscm, 68, Old Tippecanoe," succumbed to pneumonia exactly a month after he took office an March 4, 1841. He caught cold after riding to the Capitol on a white horse to stormy weather and delivering the longest inaugural message on record 8,578 words.

His successor, John Tyler, who served out his term, lived to be 71. Tyler had two wives. He had 15 children, the largest number of any president.

Seven of the children were bom during the 16 years he survived after leaving the White House.

Of the three presidents besides William Henry Harrison who died of natural causes while in office, only one, Warren G. Harding 57, was under 60. Zachary Taylor was 65, Franklin D. Roosevelt. 63.

At 46, John F. Kennedy, the youngest man ever elected president, was also the youngest to die. He was the second Democrat to die to office, the first slain while to power.

The second youngest president to die was James A. Garfield, killed by an assassin at the age of 4).

Sixteen past presidents, Including the three now living, survived to be 70 or over. Five made it to 80 or mor, among them Herbert Hoover.

Abraham Lincoln and John P. Kennedy died in coma within a short period after being shot by assassins.

Garfield* lived for 80 days.

President WiUlam McKinley lived for eight days after he was shot Sept. 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition to Buffalo, N.Y.

Since 1958, by act of Congress, all presidential widows receive pensions of $10,000 a year.

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Behind every successful man there can usually be found three peoplehis wife and Mr. and Mrs. Jones. Carlsbad Current-Argus,

We can settle thto argument once and for all. What the world needs is a good 5-cent anything. Blackwell (Ogla.) Journal-Tribune.

A well-adjusted person is one who can play golf and bridge as though they were games. Cherryvale (Kans.) Republican.

A penny saved no longer to a penny earned. Youve got to figure taxes in there somewhere. Salisbury (Md.) Adverttow.

To live happily in the country one must have the soul of a poet, the mind of a philoso-pgher, the simple tastes of a hermit and a good station wagon. Mound (Minn.) Minnetonka Pilot.

Future. Is Very

Cloudy

A buy-now-pay-later plan certainly makes the time fly. Crawfordsville (Qa.) Advo-cate-Democrat.

BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Peaturei Syndicate, Inc.

The sight of many notables at the graveside ceremonies for John F. Kennedy made one ^wonder just what any speculation about the future is worth at this particular Juncture. The notables there werent speculating; indeed, they seemed is(y> lated in a moment of time between yesterday and tomor> row. Grief, the profound contemplation of things that havt to do with eternity, disorientation, dismay, a fatalistic acceptance of (jkid's will -- all of these things, either separately or in combinatl(m were mirrored to the many fanes. And, since nobody at the graveside was speculating, and since the world wont begin to disclose its patterns until speculation by people capable of acting on events begins, of what valu Is it to attempt analysis?

There are the coming presidential primaries, for example. What has the death of Kennedy done to the Goldwa-ter campaign? What will it do to the Democratic Party? What about the future of living Kennedys in politics? What about the relaticms of the U. S. toward Cuba, and the reper^ cussions of same on 1964? Who really knows?

The reason why no speculations can be trustworthy at this particular stage Is that ordinary emotions, for the time being, have gone into a deep freeze. Everything is waiting for emotions other than grief to be released. Which Is to say that Everthing depends on Everything else, but nobody yet knows what everything else Is.

The new President, Lyndim Baines Johnson, has always been an adept at flying by the seat of his pants. But what would you do If you were in his place at the moment? Clearly, as a man of the Southwest, with his roots deep in courthouse politics, he cant _cott<m to the type of eastern. Ivy League sophisticate that not Arthur Schlesinger Jr., with his subtle theories about openings to the left. Nor can Johns(is dream of an econo-mist be Harvards own Seymour Harris, proposed by Kennedy for a seat on the Federal Reserve Board. When Johnson turns to a historian, it is to such a one as Texass own Walter Prescott Webb, the man who wrote the story of the Great Plains to terms of the simple invention of barbed wire. And his Idea of an economist is the pragmatic Eliot Janeway, who believes that there are times when you use Keynes and times when you throw Keynes away.

Any analysis of Johnson, hdv-ever. that takes off from his tastes to friendship could mean little for the Immediate future. The fact is that he has thn fate of a political party to consider, and that fate Is bound up with the question of continuity. If Johnson should prefer to substitute Dean Acheson for Dean Rusk as Secretary of State, for example, how fast could he move toward doing it without seeming to criticize hto predecessor? If he should wish to send foreign policy adviser Walt Rostow packing, could ho do It without alienating the academics who can affect el8-Uons to the Northeast?

Johnson, as a profoundly political animal, will certainly wish to run to 1964. And, with ticklish problems, he cant jump at once. As a Texan, can he afford to out-Kennedy Kennedy on pushing the tempo of clvU rights? If he pushes too hard, the Goldwaterltes might still be successful with their Southern strategy. But if he doesnt push hard enough, there is the Northeast to lose. It could be lost, If not to Ooldwater, then to Scranton or Rockefeller,

As an adept at navigating by the seat of his plEuats, Lyndon Johnson will come up.

In time, with answers to 11 these perplexities. But not this week. Nor, indeed, in what Is left of 1963.

Because Johnson cant know, yet, what he will be doing, say,

In February of 1964, nobody can say anything with any certainty about the Goldwater campaign, or Rockys chances, or Scranton's, or the Impact of Kennedys death on th# (Continued on Page 5)

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS PARTIALITY

There Is nothing fathers and mothers can do which will more certainly injure the lives of theto (tofldim and destroyTam-ily solidarity than the tendency to be partial to their dealing with their children. The beautiful daughter gets all the attention and the plainlooking little gal stuffs the bed clothes into her mouth at night and sobs. The big, handsome, athlete Is everything, the apparently no-acgqunt y(wingster, who has Qotr fdund himself and Is under everybodys feet, is looked upon as a family liability. One child Is often pushed at the expens# of others. Parents sometimes are even so unwise as to boast about certain of their children and complain about other members of their family when these youngsters are present.

There are no statistics on the matter, but If we had the data for the last 1(K) years on situations of partiality and could

put them through one of the modem wonder machines, it would probably be demonstrated. that frequently the unpromising child has turned out to be the pride of the family and the brilliant son or beautlf u 1 daughter have become completely colorless In middle age.

Abraham Ltoc<^ and Thomas Edison are examples of how unpromising youngstera ^ can turn later Into useful and . famous men, T1 Wright brothers were universally criticized by their fellow townsmen because they did not pay more attention to their blcylce shop and stop their ridiculous experiments with the flying machines.

God may have given you children, but what He did not give you is omniscience or the capacity to know everything. It may be best to some events of life to stand ( the sideline and watch your children as they pass by and nol get mixed up in their affaiii too much youmlL

By ELMER ROESSNER

All but a scattering few departments in the nations department stores showed gain during the first nine months Vi the year, compared With the first nine months of 1962, the Federal Reserve Board reports.

The average gain was 5 per cent, although the gain to basement departments was only 1 per cent.

In mato-store departments, art needlework was up 10 per cent; woolen yard goods. 8 per cent: muslins and sheetings, 7 per cent; negligees, robes and lounging apparel, 7 per cent; rugs and carpets, 7 per cent; radios. phot(raphs and television, 7 per cent; sporting goods and cameras, 7 per cent; blouses, skirts and sportswear, 6 per cent; corsets and brassieres, 5 per cent; furs, 5 per cent; mattresses, springs and studio beds, 5 per cent.

HATS, COSTUME JEWELRY DOWN

The largest declines were nailltaery down 10 per cent; oftsfaime jeweliy. dowa I per

cent, and womens and childrens gloves, down 4 per cent. Seven other departments had losses of 1 or 2 per cent.

to the bwement. mens furnishings were up 14 per cent and blouses, skirts and sportswear were up 10 per cent. All other downstairs departments showed small gains or losses.

Barber and beauty shop revenues were (rff 2 per cent.

exclaimed, this to Gods country.

Of course it to, snapped the clerk. You dont think God to a YSmm;^o you? Anderson went on: I want you to notice that I am from the south, too South Dakota, the state of the Ptocher (juto-tuplets. No other state can make that claim.

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CARSON, PAAR, SULLIVAN! NEED STAND-UP COMIC?

Sigurd Anderson, Federal Trade Commissioner, is becoming quite a wit to hto frequent speeches around the country. Addressing the Southeast e r n Corporate Law Institute at Birmingham. Ala., he said:

We of the Commission are helping raise the living standards of lawyers.

He said the beauties of the area reminded him ol an Englishman who was touring the South and remarked to a hotel clerk how much more beautiful the South was than the Norm, Why. the Engltohman

EVEN-DOLLAR PRICES NOT POISON AFTER ALL For decades retaUeni have been convinced that even-dol-lar or rounded prices slowed down sales.

In fact, numerous tests have Indicated that shoppeps would buy more (rf an Item of $4 95 than they would at $4; more at 98 cents than at 90 cents and so or.

A few years' ago variety stores experimented with items at 88 cents and got a good response. For the most part, these were articles made to sell at 88 cents and were not cut from 98 to 95 cents.

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Mercante Associatl(m reports that many department stores ^ are using even-doUar prices to their adverttoing. There has been no customer resistance, it reports, to fact stores are far more sensitive to the so-called psychological prices of yesterday than are present-day cu^ tomers. It reports;

to advertising child r e ns wear recently one New York store used even prices which would have shocked store head* as late as five years ago; $7,

$11. $16. $18, $20 and $23. Why not? Repetition will soon make these as piQrcbologlcal as the ones they replaced.

According to legend, a store operator wo did not trust hto salespeople and began using prices ending to % to compel them to take payments to the cashiers desk to get chaise.

I have never seen any vertn-catlon of this sUmt. It to more likely that some merchant once marked down $1 items to 98 cents and got such a good response that psychology tbeo-