Tueaday, December 8, 1963

Duplicative Efforts Are Avoided

The Day, Must Dawn

DARKSOME MIGHT BeIpaSSED.

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President Johnsons appointment of a special will be able to do the job much better and much commission to investigate the assassination of Presi- more effectively than several groups, dent John F Kennedy should remove the necessity The American people are anxions to know what for a multiplicity of investigations by congressional facts have been and will be uncovered in connection committees into the matter vvjth this most shocking tragedy in this generation.

Before President Johnson announced his crea- They know what they have seen, heard and read tion of the special committee, a number of proposals as the drama unfolded, but they are also interested had been made for special group to conduct similar in the future findings developed by investigative investigations. It is better, we think, to have one experts^ho doubtlessly will continue to delve into official group such as the President has named the case for monthsperhaps yearsto come.

havnng many groups supposedly making As the facts and circumstances relating to the official investigations into the tragic sequence of case are compiled by the special committee, they events. should be related to the American people in the

It is to be expected that the Federal Bureau of form of public reports.

Investigation, the Secret Sendee, probably the CIA _ ^ ^ ,

Extra Care Required

and perhaps other agencies of the federal government already are deeply involved in checking into various aspects of events surrounding the assassina- T n

tion of President Kennedy. This is as it ^uld he. XH iDXlODDlIlCr iSGCLSOH

for each of these agencies has a direct responsi- ' ^

bility and a direct interest in the matter.

With Thanksgiving behind us and Christmas a

The official panel designated by President little more than three weeks away, shoppers will Johnson for the investigation will be able to bring throng the business section of Greenville, together the reporta of each of these agencie.s and it will bring to the business district the heaviest

present the facts to the American people and the automotive and pedestrian traffic of the year. Bv world. One official group named by the President and large, the shoppers will be in a greater rush

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BY WILLIAM A. SHIRES

LAKE The element of surprise was missing from the carefully staged, formal announcement by Dr. I. Beverly Lake that he will be a candidate for governor again.

But now there is a distinct feeling of suspense 'surrounding the unveiling of the Lake platform for the 1964 campaign and unfolding of the new Lake tattle plan.

Political observers are anxious to hear what Lake will ay at Rocky Mount when be opens his campaign next Friday night and to see what he will emphasize as the issues for the state and nation.

One thing is sure. It will not be a carbon copy of the Lake campaign of 1960 nor will Dr. Lake stand on an Identical platform.

CHANGED Lake adheres to a philosophy that the principles for which be stood as an ultra-conservative candidate in 1960 are eternal. But he concedes that situaticms and condltiwis have changed.

Lake, of course, will speak from a strongly conservative viewpoint. His campaign literature, already prepared, describes him as a champion of law and order, states rights and a balanced budget.

The suspense lies in what Lake will say on segregation, racial demonstrations, the anticommunist speakers ban. state taxes and state spending how he will differ with the other announced candidates on these matters in the light of 1964 situatiwis and conditions.

READY Lake Is ready to speak out. He was ready last week although there is speculation about whether the speech he prepared for a scheduled announ-ce-ment rally on Nov. 26 Is being rewrltten>^ because of the death of President Kwinedy.

The rally was postponed at Lakes request as a mark of respect for President Kennedy.

In making his brief formal announcement of candidacy. Lake said no one shcHild ask the people to elect him to the Governorship until he Is prepared to announce at least the > outlines of the platform by. which he will be guided when tn (rffce. He is ready to do this now. at another rally scheduled the night of Dec. 6.

GLIMPSES As brief as It was. Lakes statement of candidacy and attendant trappings afforded some glimpses into what is coming.

"If I become governor. he aid, I shall take office bound by no commitment save those I shall make to the people of North Carolina in public speech

es and statements in the course of the campaign.

He pledged an administration of public trust and that my administration of that trust wl not be wie of rewards and reprisals. I shall be the Governor for ail the people of the State those of the mountains, the Piedmont and coastal Plain; big county and little county; industrialist and employee: union member and non-union worker; farmer and city resident; school teacher, State employee and taxpayer: white, Negro and Indian; Democrat and Republican.

Lake also pledged to discuss each plank of his platform in detail as the campaign progresses.

ORGANIZEThere also was evidence of careful preparation and organization for the Lake campaign.

Lake follwers, aboct a hundred strong, had decorated the room for the formal announcement. There were banners and placards, posters and pictures and .a large bowl of flowers wi the table.

Lake, a wiry, balding man of 57, Is keen and vibrant. His followers are enthusiastic and loyal. His remarks brought repeated rounds of applause. After the formalities, he drew further applause and cheers with impromptu remarks. It was evident that the Lake forces were eager for the campaign to begin.

Lakes 'campaign treasurer told newsmen therei s a fund of more than 100,000 with w^hich to begin, Charlotte attorney Allen Bailey was ready to begin duties as campaign manager asLsted by State Sen. Robert Morgan of Harnett, Lakes 1960 manager, and by regional and local managers. His campaign headquarters in Raleigh is staffed.

EMERGED Thus It was that of nearly half a dozen names prominently mentioned a year ago as likely candidates for governor in 1%4, Lake emerged as the only entry. The others in this group Bert Bennett Jr., Dr. Henry Jordon, Luthfer Hodges, Charles R. Jon-nas all declined, for various reasons. -

Whether Lake would run

than they are at other times during the year. The hazards of increased congestion on the sidewalks and in the streets will increase the chances of accidents . . . serious accidents unless drivers and pedestrians alike take extra precautions.

As residents of the area go about their Christ-ma.s shopping, they should rememberalong with the list of gifts they seekthat an extra amount of care should be exercised in driving and walking. A thoughtless moment could bring on an accident that could turn the Christmas season into one of sorrow instead of the festive occasion it is supposed to be.

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BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

' When the biographers get busy with the life story of John F. Kennedy, one o the great boons that will accrue to them wifl derive from the late Pres- . Idents life as a social being' as distinct from his career as a political leader.

The parallel between the Ken-nedy^era, short as It was, and the theordore Roosevelt era prlngs immediately to mini.

I think I have read all the important T. R. bi(^p*aphies and memorabilia that were ever written, but I find It very hard to recall, without seekhig'' prompting from the printed pages, just what Roosevelt did'

to get the Hepburn Rate bill passed, fir example, or whether

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again remained a question of considerable political import, especially after the field began to take shape in September. The Raleigh attorney told newsmen he was being urged to offer again and was giving it serious ctmslderation, His organization began to take shape and within a few weeks it became almost certain that Lake would get In the race.

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WASHINGTON (AP) The picture of Lee Harvey Oswald which emerges so far is that of a crybaby, sejf-centered, undisciplined, half-educated, a mind too poor to understand what he read, and with delusions about himself.

When the facts are all tn, he may look different. But this ex-Marine, 24, assassinated after being charged with killing President oJhn F. Kennedy, was a nobody who clearly wanted to be somebody.

It may turn out he was part of a conspiracy. But the information revealed up to this time indicates the exact oppos 11 e. He called himself a Marxist w'ithout seeming to understand a Marxist revolution is a job for an organization. Oswald was too undisciplined to be a good organization man.

He boasted about the books he had read, but he never learned to spell well. He was dissatisfied with the American society but never learned how to do a job well enough to keep it so he could support himself in this society.

And while he kept talking of a more perfect society, in this one he skipped out (mi his rent. He called himself pro-Cas tro and anti-Castro. He glorif i e d the Soviet Union and wanted to write a book condemning it.

He complained about the hardships his mother had suffered during the depression, before he was bom, but the evidence indicates that after he was able to go to work, he contributed little or nothing to her support.

He complained to a family friend he was out of work and his wife was expecting their second baby. The friend drove to New Orleans for the wife and first child, returned to her home in Dallas with them, and took care of them for weeks.

Oswald apparently never contributed a nickel to this woman friend of the family for the support of his wife and child and second babv but, instead, went to Mexico to arrange a trip for himself to Europe.

His probelm started early. In the very short time he and his mother lived in New York he became such a delinquent in school he w^as given a psychiatric examination. He was found to be wild. Perhaps the delusions showed up then.

At 17 he quit school to go into , the Marines. He didnt do well under the discipline. He was court-martialed twice knd was in constant cwiflict with other Marines.

He was given a sp:ial hardship discharge so he could go home and help his mother, who had been badly injured at her

job.

Listead of staying with his mother to help, he got a job on a freighter and. unknown to his mother but with $1,000 saved up from his Marine days, went to the Soviet Union, In Moscow he called a news conference toannounce he was defecting^..-kila wanted to become a ^0Viet citizen. He called himself a Marxist, said he was the youngest in the United States. -

This demonstrated, at least, that he had some delus ions about his importance. The Russians seemed unimpressed, withheld citizenship, and gave him a job in a factory at Mhisk,

Two things happened: He got married and became dlsillus-sioned with the Soviet Union. The idea of working same job perhaps became much for his undisciplined spirit. Perhaps he felt frustrated by being treated as just another worker.

The fact that he had to go to the Svoiet Union to understand how it operated that there was absolute discipl i n e under the communists and discipline meant work because the Communists dislike bums is as good as insight as any into the poor quality of his mind and his stability.

He was allowed to return to this country by the American goveniment after three years in the Soviet Union. Here he bounced around from job to job, never really cwnpetent in anything except the most menial jobs.

In the meantime he tried to call attention to himself as pro-Castro and anti-Castro. He got into a television discus.sion on cornmunism and Marism and ma*de a mess of himself.

Last September he went to the Cuban Craisulate in Mexico City to get a visa to Cuba and the Soviet Union. When he was told It would take time he stormed out, slamming the door.

Its possible Oswald then felt rejected by both Moscow and Cuba. This is also possible, if he is the man who killed Kennedy, that he decided he would single-handedly show the Soviet and Cuban Communists how a revolutionist should act by killing the President ^

He never seemed to understand that the really effective revolutionists like Lenin, Stalin. Khrushchev did not act singly but as part of an organization.

They looked upon the individual trying some crime on his own not as a revolutionary but as a romantic. For a Communist there is nothing so deserving of contempt as a romantic.

A kind lady reader, disturbed about all the stories concerning lobbyists in Washlngt o n, has come up with a suggestion that could very well be the answer to our legislative process. She feels the reason why nothing has been happening in Congress is that the only one not represented in Washington is the American citizen. And therefore what is needed is a Citizens Lobby.

This is how it would work.

A nation-wide appeal would be made for citizens to pay one dollar a month to support the lobby. The only expenses for operating the lobby would be one person to receive the money, bank it, and then issue checks against the accounts.

This money would be made available to the members of Congress to draw on in case of an election or some more

personal need.

The Washington legisla tors would be under no obligation of any sort other than to consider all the legislation from the viewpoint of the American citizentry as a whole, rather than the viewpoint of some particular interest such as the steel industry, the drug industry, the farm industry, or the real estate industry.

If only a small percentage of the citizens of the country paid their one-dollar membership fee In the Citizens Lobby, there would be a couple of million dollars to divide up.

No strings would be put on what the legislator used the money for. If he wanted to take a trip to Bermuda with his wife or secretary, he could; if he wanted to buy stock In some up-and-coming company, that would be his business; if

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ime Other Editors Saying.., 7he Course Aheoc.

(Washington Daily News)

Americans everywhere are discussing the course ahead. Will President Lyndon J. Johnson be the masterful b a c k-slapping politician, or will he show those qualities of statesmanship so badly needed in this hour?

If we or anyone else knew the answer to that question, we could discuss this course ahead with a measure of real light. Only the events yet to pass can give us the real answer.

America and its democracy have stood the test many times in past history. Whenever we needed a strong man in any given period, a strong man came up to lead. In our democracy the order of succession is such that we are not without top leadership for long.

When John P. Kennedy passed away, within a few hours Lyndon Johnson had taken the oath of office making h i m president of the United States. The wheels of government did not stop, and they wl not stop.

By necessity it must be realized that any new president must have a little time in which to get familiar with the problems and chaUenges (rf. office. Regardless of how close a vice president might be to the president, the actual decision must be made by the top man. President Kennedy was a learned man, and he knew through almost three years of experience where he was trying to go. Mr. Johnson must now chart his course

and work for its success.

Mr. Johnson must take some real Intense lessons in geography. He must learn about people in many far away lands whose problems are also American problems. He must work harder perhaps in learning the ropes of foreign problems/ At least for many years he has been face to face with them.

A psesident has such a heavy responslbUity and his time is so valuable that he must leam fast. Mr. Johnson seems to have the capacity to leam, and beyond that he seems to have the desire.

-.. As to the answer as to which he will be, a politician or a statesman, it wl not take America long to begin getting some answers. HeU be judged every step of the way, and under our two party system, he W1 be taken to account aU along the way.

When tragedy strikes, America seems to have a way of lining up behind the new man coming into leadership. A spirit of understanding seems to prevaU. and leaders from both parties seem to reassure the new president and the American people that aU of us are Americans first and political partisons next.

That is the way It should be. Mr. Johns<m has history in his hands. How he will mold that history remains to be told. The course ahead has many pitfalls. President Johnson is the man of the hour. With Gods help and ours the molder and the clay W1 come out all right.

he wanted to have a wild party or a free dinner In his honor. or a large campaign contribution, the money would be made available.

Some legislators might want to hire private planes, others might want to gamble at Las Vega^, and stl others might want to spend the money on vending machines.

It makes no difference the important thing is the money is there, so that no one wiU have to accept favors from individual lobbies supported by Industries. ~

The thing that makes the plan so sound is that if Congressmen and Senators ava themselves of the fund, they wl feel they can support the best Interests of the average citizen rather than serve a minority who couldnt possibly match the fund of the Citizens Lobby.

There would be no guilt complexes and no recriminations, no Investigations and no charges of c(wifUct of interest. The legislators wouldnt have to make deals or promises to people who are tr^g to buy them. They could affort anything the lobbyists could afford to offer them.

There are many Senators and Congressmen who are supporting the msority of people now and cannot be bought. This is fine, because it wl leave more mwiey for those who arent too concerned with whom they are dealing.

In order that the Citizens Lobby work effectively, no accounting of the money would be necessary. The fund is there for any elected official of Congress to draw on. All he has to do is sign a pledge that In exchange for the gift he wiU support all of the Americ a n people.

Many lobbyists may protest against this unfair invasion of their domain and many Industries may be hard hit If*the lobby goes into action. But the wonderful thing about the plan Is that the legislators would have enough money to buy the lobbyists off, Instead of being bought off by them. If someone has a better Idea for good government, wey like to hear

Opinions In Brie :

Usually the first screw that gets loose in a persons head is the one that controls the tongue. Blackwell (Okla.) JournaJ-Tribune.

he really bunted any Ignl-leant trusts. A thousand other memories, however, leap ui> bidden from the shadows. There is the memory of T.

R. saying to a friend who had chided him on the White House antics of young , AUce Roosevelt: Lot*, I can either be President of the United States or take care of AUce. There are memories of T. R. reading stirring ballads to his sons, of taking diplomats for scrambles In Rock Creek Park, and all the rest.

Kennedy was just such a social animal, one In whom the joy of life rose highs It Is no. secret that I think he should > have pursued a tougher line In foreign policy, that he should have put spending cuts ahead of tax cuts, and that he should have tried to tap the University of Chicago, say. as well -as Harvard when seeking economic advice. But a President is to be rated on the total impact of his personality (one recalls from using the detestablo word image) on a nation that depends on the White House for its cues in aU areas of existence. And. by any test, Kennedys total Impact was great.

JFK was not any such pompous thing as a Renaissance man. He hardly squared with Mr. C. P. Snows ideal of a person who Is equally adept toi the two cultures, literary and scientific. But, as a reader, an athlete, a lover of the sun-* light, and a traveler, Kennedy was the very picture of the gifted and healthy amateur in aU the things that are necessary to keep a nation from becoming decadent.

The other night I happened to be seated at a New Haven, Conn. Gridiron Club dinner next to a football coach, John Pont of Yale. He was immensely gratified that the Kennedy fam- .. y had given the signal for a rescheduling of the cancelled game with John F. Kennedy's Harvard. Kennedy himself, a lover of fo(^ball, might even have preferred to have had the game played on the date originally set for It.

What was particularly Interesting about Coach Prat were his thoughts about letting the , boys play their own game. I had tried to compliment him on turning Brian Rapp, an Indifferent quarterback In his junior year. Into a really good play caller. Brian, said Pont, operates very well when he if left on his own. Bi any, normal game he has about sixty plays to call. I dont suppose . we have ever given him the ' word on more than five playi from the bench.-

This exaltation of true ama^ teurlsm Is one of the unsung dividends of the Kennedy accent on physical fitness for the sidce of something more important than money, or reputation, or Instutional aggrandlzemewL The movement in favor (ft player control of college games which my friend Frederick R. Rogers, a former school superintendent, likes* to prod me about really started to take off after Kennedy laun-ched his physical fttness cm- . .sade with a White House prboi^ lamation, Phillips Exeter AcRt emy, Springfield College, andCZ other schools and universities !W" New England, have all caufHl the let the boys do It pitch In greater or les degree. The Idea will spread.

The stress on the belief that life has Its greatest savor when people are thinking and doing as healthy amateurs Is, I sus-(Continued on Page B)

Strength For Today

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BY EARL L. DOUGLA.SS PO.NDER THE QUESTION

We read the Book of (Acts, the epistles of Paul and other apo.stolic writers, and the writings of those who were leader.s in the activ;ijiles of ,,JJie . Christian Church two thousand years ago, and we- marvel at the fidelity and eagerness of these early believers.

Have we achieved as much as they did? Are we going foi-ward or backward? Undoubtedly in some ways the world is bett-erqthan it has ever been, but in other ways wholesale slaughtering and war, for instance ~ we are wor.se than our forebears.

To put it .simply, is the Christian Church today a.s faithful, committed, and purpo.seful as was the Christian Church two Uiousand year.s ago? The church had. of eour.se, an inspiring advantage in the ancient days in that there were nianv who had actually seen'^Jcsu.s in the fieri! Peter could tell his hcaiers not only what Jesus

had said and done but of the wonderful vision they had of Christs transfiguration when they were with him in the Holy Mount t^I Peter 1:18). Young John Mark had probably saen Jesus arrested and dragged off to crucifixion. Matthew was one of the original disciples, Luke fellowshipped with Paul for years and was known as The Beloved Physician.

All this constituted a tremendous advantage which we do not have today. But we have education, which the ancients did not passess and two thousand years to think over the implications of the Christian gospel. We ought to be a lot better than they were. But that person would be bold Indeed who would say that we in the Christian Church today exceed in piety, purpose, and real achievement the little group of unlettered people who startd the Chri.stian Church.

Ls there something the matter with us, and if so what?

By ELMER ROESSNER

Three new studies under-scoi*e the fact that the hiedian age of customers is changing and that their whereabouts is changing even more.

These changes appear to be accelerating as the nation continues its incredible population and ecwiomic expansion.

Pew businesses can count on continued growth unless management knows how old and where their customers wiU be in 1974 or, for that matter, in 1964.

YOUTH WILL BE SERVED One study, based on the phenomenal number of births since World ^War H, shows that by 1965 more than half

ghborhood. The older women W1 not be high - spendingx customers. The shop wl have to seek customers among the middle group or. If it wants to expand, among the younger set. But this set wUl want fashions and prices geared to their means and ideas.

*The shop may have to change its buying policies al m o s t completely to stay in business.

The fact that our Imaginary shop has been located in a suburban area brings up another important point: populations are moving out of congested city areas Into the suburbs at a fantastic ;*ate. But note that It is the young-married who are doing almost all

the population wiU be under 25 P of the moving. The older peo-years of age. Thats a trem- pie are stayhig.

endously significant face for most enterprises. Of course, the number of persons over 65 W1 also increase, and the ratio of people (though not the total number! of people between 27 and 64 wiU decline.

This situation will have various Impacts on different bus-Ine.sses, Lets con.slder a .specialty shop in a surburban nel-

THE IN-MOVEMENT Meanwhile, migrants from the farms, from foreign climes and Negroes from the South are moving into urban areas. Some of the older people re-tum to cities, too. The.se population changes alter customers. alter debfiands. alter purchases. alter stykw

Meanwhe, there Is another population move, almost tidal. The Western states have been increasig population about twice as fast as the country as a whole, according to National Industrial Conference Board figures.

In the Mountain StatesArizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming the population increased 38 per cent in 10 years and, whe the Boards study did not cover this point, it is probable that the migrants include a heavy share of younger people.

Next fastest was the Pacific areaAlaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon and Washing-t(Mi up 37 per cent. In Alaska. Hawaii. Oregon and Washington it is a good guess the migrants tended to be younger, whe California attracts many of retirement age.

In the third study of population and eCbifbmic changes, Dr. George CHine Smith, of Mac Kay-Shields Economics. l!ic. S'!Id that two - thirds of all hou.slng starUs in the 1960s will be concentrated in five geographical areas consti

tuting le than 10 per cent of the . S. land area. His estimates; Central Great Lakes region, 3 million units; the Bofiton-to-Washlngton mM-apolis, 2.95 mUlion; metn^xj^ tan California, principally San Francisco to Los Angelaa. 2.83 mMpn; metropolitan Texas, 1.02^mllUtm, and Florida. 990,000.

Business will be where the boys are and their wives, their chUdren and their Jbba.

SHORT A SIGNIFICAIS BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS.

A Wine - spiked orange Jidea in cam Is being tested In several markets by Heubleto. Tha drink, Can-Can, Is low-proof. . .A new leaflet, Going Into Business? is available from Small Business Administration field and Washington offices . . .Construction expenditures in October totaled $6 bilUon, Commerce Department estimates. , .A town gas, using cheaper materials and generating le^ carbon monoxide and creating less smog, haa been developed In England.

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