Wednesday, December 4, 1963

Curtains For An Old Friend

Very Poor Season For Extremists

A half-formed thought keeps floating around that the murder of President Kennedy smashed a growing process of voter attraction to political extremes.

Just how one can reach such a conclusion is not clear ... at best it is done by indirection.

Perhaps its true that the public, having seen the bitter fruits of mad fanaticism, is now shocked into an attitude of dont rock the boat; an attitude that distinctly favors middle-of-the-roaders.

Today, abusive words of rabid rightists that we used to pass off with a shrug, sound repulsive and even menacing. The ultra-left, with its displays of irrationality, appears sinister.

Both manifestations of extremism went into hiding within moments after Mr. Kennedys assassination.

But for the moment, at least there is a sober and thoughtful atmosphere; an atmosphere in which wed like to think ordinary folk are questing for a monument whose cornerstone is integrity.

If this is only partlyi true, extremists of any slant face extremely rough political sledding; and our country will be more nearly united than in any non-crisis period while traveling its traditional middle of the road course.

President Lyndon Johnson may well have set a pattern with his Let us reason together; but it took a bullet to shock a nation into recognizing, if only for a little while, the dangerous paths that lay before it.

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Even the die-hard opponents waging their war TllQtlf'O

of integration and segregation were muted. XwV/l VC UOLAWC

It is too much to hope that the preachers of dissent, discontent, fear and suspicion, distrust and hate . . . even violence , . . will not be heard from again. '

Too many people make a living from this unholy merchandise; and theyll argue this is a country whose greatness was built upon dissension, and claim rights on this basis for spreading their poison.

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In granting a pardon to Robert M. Burch in the influence peddling case in which Burchs father and Kidd Brewer were involved, Gov. Sanford made it clear he does not condone the activity which led to the three convictions.

The very fact that Gov. Sanford ordered the investigation which led to uncovering the conspiracy of the sign company representative and the highway department engineer leads us to believe that he has no intention of granting either of them a pardon in the case. The people of the state, we think, will accept the governors reasons for granting a pardon to the younger Burch. But granting of a pardon to the other two in the case would not, in our opinion, serve the cause of justice in North Carolina.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

FRAMING Gov. Terry Sanford is realizing the accomplishment of more of the framework i(H* a broad, far-reaching educa-tkmal program in North Carolina than the education-minded governor had thought would be possible during the term of his administration.

It is a happy realizatIon. Sanford finds tt both encouraging and challenging.

We are putting framing on U) of the framing, he said in a recent interview, relaxing with a cigar. ^____

We are moving along. We are continuing to implement and add to what has been started. Were putting some meat on the bones but we wont fill in aJD the pieces of the picture.

DEVELOP Sanford spoke of a broad spectrum of educational projects, from dropouts to vocational education and the governors school for gifted children, programs for the mentally retarded and improved teaching methods.

There are many things that have developed step by step, and others that need Jio be developed, Sanford said.

He compared development of a total education program to planning a building without blueprints for many of the rooms and levels.

If there are mistakes and there will be mistakes it will just have to be tom down and started again. But the goal is there, and Sanford is gratified by the public interest, support and the progress made.

GOALS From the time he decided , to seek the governorship, Sanford has looked upon Improvement of education and educational opportunity as the No. 1 goal for the state.

It was a job that Sanford never thought might be completed during his administration.

Instead, his was to be the role of carpnter in beginning to put up the framework by arousing public awareness of the needs and through selected pn^rams and projects. His $70 quality education pro: gram of 1961 was an^ initial step. But Sanford has initiated and spurred development of other educational projects and has still others in mind, particularly in the field.>jf^ tectinl cal educatlOTi.

RESEARCH The most recently announced programs-coming into being through the efforts of/ the governor and his staff deal with educational research project&i-the new ex

perimental North Carolina Advancement School and a proposed educational resea r c h center. Learning Institute of North Carolina.

In announcing these, Sanford said, we all recognize that no industry with a budget of more than $500 million, which is what North Carolina puts into public schools during a biennium. would try to get along without a sizeable research and development program.

We all know that a school system is which half the children never graduated from high school is not yet out of the woods.

We have a lot to learn. There are ways we can improve ourselves, even within the limits of existing budgets.

COORDINATE Sanford and his staff have been eminently successful in obtaining financial support for various educational and other similar programs. and in bringing various agencies and facilities into play in a combined effort.

For example, in addition to obtaining an Initial $500,000 Carnegie Corporatioi grant for the North Carolina Advancement School Sanford has called on the North Carolina Fund, the state board of Higher Education and the University of North Carolina and Duke University to combine personijel and available resources for the educational research center.

The purpose, Sanford said, is to begin in our state a well planned, coordinate,d sensible appraisal of what we are doing and what others are doing and what we might do better.

LABORATORY The Advancement School is to be located in Winston-Salem where facilities of six large buildings on a 10-acre campus are available for $1 a year is, Sanford said, to be essentially a laboratory equipped for educational testing and research.

It will have a staff of teachers, psychologists, and researchers ready to explore the many new possiblities for instruction and consellng which are opailng up to use every year..

The first such center of Its kind in the country, the school win have dormitory facilities for 400 and will operat four terms a year. Sanford suggested that each term be programmed separately to Investigate different educational programs. Remedial teaching and new methods wUl be stressed. The educational research center, in turn, win evaluate results.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)There are two Presidents Johnson just as there were two Presidents Kennedy: the public president and the president at work inside the White House.

One is the talking president saying Uie nice and pleasant things that cheer the American heart even when dressed in generalities and sometimes decorated with the obviouB.

The other te the doing president busy with problems and people in the privacy of his office or on the telephone. Sometimes the two presidents overlap and become one because the uses of the presidency have changed.

Before televisiwi a president who wanted to get himself and his ideas across to the nation had to dpend wi public appearances before limited audiences on radio. Most of the time he had to depend on deeds alone.

Kennedy, winning the presidency by a slim election margin. felt from the beginning the need to create in the public mind confidence in him and, if possible, affection. The grief at his death showed he filled both ambitions.

It's no wonder he was constantly before the camera. Nor Is it any wonder Johnson lost no time going before the public in person on television in his talks to Congress, for example, and his talk on Tahnks-giving Day.

He had even greater need than Kennedy to reassure the putdic the presidency was in safe and competent hands. Kennedy was elected to it, Johnson had it thrust upon him.

Knowing that Kennedy had broad public confidence, Johnson from the beginning has sought to Identify himself as one with Kennedy and 'his pro

grams. He emphasizes continuity.

He even adopted some of Kennedys homely touches, like using the same kind of rocking chair, or dropping in suddenly <Hi friends at their home. There is a chance he may overdo this folksy routine.

In time, as he gets adjusted to the White House and can begin to gauge public reaction to his presidency, he should work out his own techniques in public relations, a field in which he now must have an additional

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concern.

He will almost certainly seek election next year.

But in his years in Congress Johnsons greatest abilit i e s were not in public speaking or public appearances but in an endless, tireless effort behind the scenes to get done what he wanted done as smoothly as he could.

He has been very shrewd at this. *

JohnsMi told Congress he Intended to fight for Kennedys civil rights and tax-cut pro-

Southern oppositiwi to civil rights has been so strong Johnson knows he cant get that program through this year. He can try in 1964. But he quickly called Negro leaders to conference in the White House.

Senate opposition to a t a x cut, unless the White, House reduced government ^spending, made a cut this year impossible. Johnson at once b^an talking economy. He tal k e d about it publicly and in the White House.

This is one example of where the public and private Johnson overlaps. There will, no doubt, be plenty more of it. He is making his private activities publicly knowTi as he goes along.

So the Christmas season is here again, what with St. Nick arriving on his sleigh in the annual parade yesterday afternoon.

And with the parade the bright Christmas lights nestled among the tinsle which has been strung across the city streets were turned on.

It happens every year, of course, but nothing generates quite the enthusiasm that Santa Claus does as he rides atop his float in the annual procession. >

The parade is for the kids, and they know it. Somehow it takes a little of the cynicism out of us to see the pure joy in the faces of the youngsters as the big man in the red suit rides by. Lets Just hope that Santa ccmtinues to come year-after-year.

I had been puzzled as to just how Woolen gymnasium was to

be expanded to make way for additional scats. Funds for exi^siOTi of the gym at UNC in Chapel Hill were appropriated by the last Legislature.

Well I just saw, courtesy of the Reflectors sports department, a photo of a model of the Woolen gym addition. E amounts to a virtually new arena attached to (me side of Woolen.

The additUm wlU include a new basketball court with seats rising on three sides. The fourth side will attach to the wall of the present gym and bleachers set back in the old portion of the gym wUl provide seats on this side.

The information available with the photo says the area will offer the finest viewing of basketball In the South, with individual chair - type seats all angled toward the playing surface.

Air ccmditioning is another

feature of the new structure. The gym will have a seating capacity in the neighborhood of 10,000. It is now under con-structicm and it is hoped it will be completed for the 1964-63 seas<m.

And searching through some other college material, we learn that Dukes phjTsical plant was valued at $29 million in 1940. In 1962, its value had increased to $76 million and it is expected to exceed $100 million within the next two years.

By way of comparison we see that East Carolina College buildings and contents are valued at approximately $22,000,-(Continued On Pase 5)

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By JOHN ABNEY

MEXICO CITY Of course you expect to see almost anything at a convention of travel agents, like glamorous Eskimo ladies wearing' Arctic bikinis and convention officials rehearsing their speeches while they' ride up and down in the elevators.

But the sight of genuine Aztecs making tree bark paper just like their ancestors d i d centuries ago is as startling as it is edifying. And this is what took place on the bottom lobby of the Hotel Maria Isabel.

I Just happened to be exploring the north end of the lobby and there on the red, red rug was this display of cur i o u s stone gadgets and some tree branches in a bucket of water. Also, several Aztec ladies and gentlemen squatting around discussing the tourist Industry.

Then there were some patcb-cs of skin-like material drying on some boards so I asked one of the Aztec gentlemen, Whats that you got the hide off some of todays spe^-ers?

And he said, No, they dont make us listen to the speeches. That's Aztec paper getting ready for the press,

I gather this is what they used to print the Aztec Daily Bugle-on back in the 12th Century. What they do Is cut a piece of bark off this special kind of newspaper tree and let the bark soak until it looks something like tripe.

-After that they put it on a board and get some of the stone instruments and belt it until it is about as thick as wrappiiig paper and then wait until it dries

The stone cutters' union had a hand in the publishing industry in those days because they were all sorts of long, round rocks with designs and. hieroglyphics chiseled in ther.

When everything was all set up, the editor would yell, Press tirne! and the troops would ink up the stone rollers and start running off copies of to

morrows headlines on the tree bark paper.

Undoubtedly there were lamentable incidents like an Aztec wife would (^n the door and a huge sheet of paper-like substance would blow in. And about the time she started to wad it up to throw in the trash box a voice would say, dont squeeze me so passionately, sweetheart. I ali'eady ache all over.

The wife would look startled and say, What on earth wae that? It sounded just like Spai-cers voice.

So the voice would say, Im your Spencer all right. A couple of reporters came in drunk this afternoon when I was taking a siesta (mi the floor of the editorial office. They must of thought I was a pile of wet bark because they pounded me out like paper.

And the wife would shake her head and say, For Heavens sake, Spencer, they could print a Sunday edttlon of the New York Times on you now. I better boll jron In a tub for a while to see If you shrink back into shape.

Of course Journalism didnt remain In this primitive condition very long (a decline set In and It began getting worse) but a start is a start.

Anyhow, the modem Aztec printers busily turned out tree bark, bulletins for the convention and the delegates stood around watching them poun out the bark and stone roUcr-Ing cif the copies when it was dry. ^

Just like In anciest times except that now nobody is allowed to sleep on the floor.

(The Charlotte Observer)

Wlien Hurricane Carrie was flouncing around in the Atlantic, the state was in the dusr ty clutches of a severe drought. Some Eastern North Carolina farmers, looking at parched fields and pastures, said they would be willing to take a chance on Carries gales if they could get the accompanying rains.

As It developed, they escaped the winds, and got the rain.

Now It appear that Carrie, before loping off to die at sea, drove h(xne a point to some residents of Chatham County and the country seat of Pitts-boro. The point was that human inaction cannot be ccwn-pensated for, every time, by an irregular act of nature, such as a rain-producing hurricane.

Pittsboro experienced a water shortage that threatened to reach the proportions of a town disaster. What made the situation particularly ironic was the clamorous owxisitioo In some irt of Chatham to a proposed $25-milUon dam for the cwmty.

C(mgressman Harold D. Cooley joined (Opponents oi the dam who favored the constructltm of 232 smaller dams in lieu of the high dam on New Hope River, although careful surveys by the U. S. Corps of Engineers pointed unerringly to the desirability of the big dam.

Now the Pittsboro-shortage has produced a change of mind. The mayor of the town and other business and civic leaders fired off telegrams to Washington urging prompt jqpproval of the New Hope Dam. a project that has been bogged down in Congress only because Rep. Cooley, and he alcme among members of the delegation, has opposed it.

The time would seem propitious to Induce Cooley to switch his position. Majority sentiment in Cliatham seeis a clearly in favor of the high dam, Cooleys claim to the contrary notwithstanding, although the relatively few landowners whose land would be flooded' (for a good price) still are (ibjecting to it.

Also, Cooley next year plans to observe his 30th year in Congress by seeking re-election. His only announced oppcment, R. Mayne Albright of Raleigh, is a strong supporter of the high dam and has fired several salvos at the Cooley position.

Albrights luwne county of Wake produces a big vote in the district. Add to that some gains here and there, plus a big bite in Chatham, and.....

Congressman Cooley doesnt have to be told about some of the possible oonse(]uences, experienced as he is in spotlng political rain clouds on the horizon, dven when they are no bigger than an (q;>poiient8 hand.

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS KEEP THEM FIRST The word responsible means likely to be called upon to answer; accountable, answerable. 'The question therefore arises. Are we responsible persiHM?

Yes and if it were possible for us to say that with a thousand times more emphasis than the word indicates we should feel obliged to give it just that emphasis. Everybody in the world Is a responsible person. We are responsible as members of a family. We are responsible as citizens of a nation. We *are responsible as believers in some religious creed and as adherents of some religious group.

It is only when we become permeated and stabilized by sense of our responsibility that we begin living on an elevated plane. People lp<ric at us under such cimimstances and know that there is something different about our behavior, something satisfactory up(xi which friends, fellow citizens, and fellow believers can rely.

We become responsible by putting principles and persons other than ouieelves ahead of any selfish desires we may cherish. Parents manifest responsibility when we recognize that there are certain spiritual laws and principles wldch tower above everything we may desire. These laws and principles tower above our passions, above our love for gain, above ourv-eelf-ishnesft. We are resp(msible Persons--aiid especially responsible Christianswhen we put the laws, principles and demands of our religion first and keep them first.

BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Cop^ht, 1963. King Features Synidcate, Inc.

If, as is being sia in many places, Barry Gcridwater is no longer a shoo-in for the Republican presidential nomina-tUm, the American public had better find out what some of tiie other Republican candidates think about a number of things.

About Nelson RockefeUer there is little mystery: he ou^ Kennedys the Late John P. Kennedy on the integration issue (which makes him divisive In the South), be has had a world of experience la proirtoting a non-exploitativ type of free enterprise In such Latin American countries as Venezuela (which would be a point In his favor If he were In supreme charge of making the Alliance for Progress effective,) and he has flopped a bit in the efforts to solve New York States fiscal problems (a potnl to remember for those who think the relation between taxes and spending Is our chief worry).

So thats Nelson Rockefeller. But what about other Republican aspirants? Henty is known about Nixon, of course. But Governor Scranton? And Governor Romney? Can any particular light be shed on what these men might be expected to do Id the field of foreign policy? This is not something that is revealed by what they do in their respective State capitals of Harrisburg. Pa., and Lansing, Mic^. \

About Scranton;'! kn^ little. But I think I h(ave'^ue to Romneys way (rf^ljSomg _at foreign affairs.

Some time ago a friend of mine who knows Romney suggested that the Governor of Michigan admired a particular book that was published by Harpers back In 1959, Be-y(Hid Survival, by Max Way*. I hadnt read the book, and I did nothing about the Information except to file it dimly at the back of my mind. Then I ran into Romney at the Governors Conference last July at Miami Beach, asked him If it were true that Max Ways was his foreign policy mentor. His eyes lit up. Ah, yes, h said, Max Wayss Beyond Survival. A first-rate book. Unfortunately, when I asked for a of Beyond Survival* at Mr. Wayss publishers, th answer was that it was (Mit of print. However, Mr. Ways himself, a Fortune Magazine editor with whom I once worked, was willing to supply me with a copy. I read it with great interest, wondering what passar ges Governor Romney would particularly approve.

The book Is less a critique of our current foreign policy than it Is a discussion of the necessity for Americans to understand themselves If they are to know what kind of world they want to live in and struggle, to get. It is an Intensely m(>ral book, preoccupied with the need to relate a valid natural law to the jungle of world politics. And it would obviously appeal to the moral man in Romney, who takes his Mormon religion with such seriousness that he tithes some ten per cent of his Income to his church.

The thnwti of Mr. Wayss book is best illustrated by a number of pithy summaries which the author supplies from time to time. For example:

"A few years ago people were raising the question of whether Americans could agree to co-exM with Communists. Americans have been proving for a long time their acceptance of co-existence. . .The cjues-tion that has tradltitmally interested Americans Is not whether to co-exist but the term of co-existence. Leave out concern for the terms, and you f(Mclose any possiUUty of brotherhood. You say either we refuse the others right to coexist and will exterminate him*., or else you say we accept coexistence and let him fix the terms.

This particular (piotation illuminates the big failure of all our agreements with Khrush chev to date. We have either imposed no ..terms, or we (Continued on Page 8)

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Many retired men are like Rolls Royccs, Packards or Cadillacs 'that have been driven off the*^ roads with their engines running smoothly and powerfully . . . and then are allowed to rust and disintegrate. Lexington, Leader. , -

By ELMER ROESSNER If you want to give a good customer a $250 jeweled cigarette case for Christmas, or his wife a $2,000 mink coat, go ahead. But remember only $25 is deductible as a business expense for tax purposes.^

This is the first Christmas seascn under the new tax amendments. Here la a rundown on effects;

. There is a ceiling of $25 on the deductibility of business gifts to any one person, or the person and his family. There is no limit on the value of the gift, of course: the limit applies only to deductibility.

. Gifts to employees of turkeys, tskets of goodies, beverages and other Items of nominal value are deductible. Their cost Is considered spending to gain employee good will. Furthermore, these gifts are not considered Income to employees.

, Gifts to employees of cash, gift certificates or articles that can be readily converted Into cash are wnsldered Income to employees. These are deductible by the company and there is no limit to value. But since they are income, employ e e s , are liable- to taxes on them

and the employer must withhold taxes and report the value of the gifts as lnc(ne pasnnents. This also applies to annual bonuses.

. Gifts to employees for special achievements or long service are deductible by the employer up to $100, not $25.

For opinions on special cases, phone or write your District Director of the Internal Revenue Service.

Businessmen disagree on tiie probable effects of the new law (HI business gifts. S(Mne fear it will cut spending for happy loot. Others think that it wlU increase spending. Many firms, they say. will hesitate to give gifts of less than $25 In value now that customers know they can get deductions up to that amount.

The guess from this comer is that, because of the high rate of earnings this year, business spending for gifts will set a new record high this

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