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This Is A Year To Be Remembered

Hell Be Tbugher To Ride Bareback:

The year 1963 will be remehibered as the year of tragedy because of the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas one bright November day.

It will be remembered as the year in which Congress plodded along at a snails pace so far as major legislation was concerned^ and only in the final days of the session showed signs of recognizing any degree of urgency in domestic and foreign affairs legislation.

While these two aspects of events of the past year many tend to pull a cloud over memory of the year, it was in most respects a bright year for the United States. It was a year which saw the nations economy move to even greater heights. Although unemployment remained a problem at year-end, the nations employment rate reached a nw peak during 1964. More people were working than ever before* greater efforts were being made to put unemployed back to work, and unemploy-

!3ob Scott Not

Out Of Picture

hj WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SCOTT The son ol the late Squire of Haw River, Rdl)-ert W. Scott, leaned back wid allowed he hasnt found anything to be gained by waiting to run for governor.

This, as much as anything else said in an hour-l<xig Interview, supported a feeling that young Scott is one the veiYe a decision to get into the 1964 gubernatorial campaign. Dont count me'out. he d.

Purthermore SoAt indicated he feels that he can win, even if it takes a second primary, and that a campaign organization, issues and rank and file luppcHt are not great pro-blms.

My biggest problem has been to convince pecH>le that Im serious, Scott said. Well, Im deadly serious.

DECIDE ~ A decisicm by Robert Scott one way or another about 1964 is very near.

I havent decided yet, he said. But Im going to very soon. Ive got to tell pe<H)le. to be fair to them. They want to know. He had hoped to make a definite decisic) during Christmas week and now has a target date of mid-January.

The assassination of President Kennedy interrupted a section by section pulse-taking tour of the state Scott began after resigning as master of the State Grange.

There are still a few areas I need to check, he said. "I may have to do some of it by telephone instead of in person. When he does decide, his key supporters will be the first to know and then he will call a news conference in Raleigh.

WAIT Scott talked frankly about the developing political situation and his own findings and plans.

Mostly it was a progress report. in the absence of a definite decisim about his Immediate future.

He is c<Ritlnuing to receive strong encouragement to seek the governorship this time, al(mg with urgings that he wait.

I framkly havent been able to see anything to be gained by waiting. he said. Why should four years or eight years from now be a more opportune Ume? H he should run in 1964 and be defeated, he does not think it would necessarily be the end of his political career.

Ive been asked to wait, he said. But no one has been able to give me a good reason for waiting.

EXPERIENCE Scott has been told that he needs more experience. He asks what kind of experience? He feels that he has a sound background of experience In administration and in dealing with problems ranging from agricultural trade with the Eurc^an Contunon Market, economic conditions to toning In Orange County.

Experience in the legislature

docs not necessarily qualify a man to be governor, he says. Also, as l(Hig as his uncle. State Sen. Ralph H. Scott, is in the General Assembly, he says. I cant run for the legislature.

Neither does he believe that experience on the judiciary or in the law profession necessarily qualifies a man to be governor. The three major Democratic candidates already in the race are lawyers and two have been judges.

Scott has no desire for an appointive state office. An elective one. maybe, but not an ap-year old Scott says I tell pointlve one.

On the matter of age, the 34-year old Scott says I tell them that if Im elected governor Ill never be this young again and that if I get In the campaign Ill age 10 years, says, are the least of my wor-

ISSUES Issues, Scott says, are the least of my worries. He wants to see what the other candidates will have to say on such things as public utilities regulation and legislation and water resources and conservation.

There is a great deal I can say on these things. There are ' a lot of other issues I can take a strong stand on a number of others.

So far. Scott says, theres been a lot of me-tooism and similar stands taken by the three major candidates for the May 30 primary. They a 11 seem to be pretty close together (m most things. As yet none of the three has come out strongly and forcefully on something that would set him apart from the others. Of course, Dr, Lake (I. Beverly Lake) has taken a stand more conservative than the others.

STRATEGY In general, Scott feels that campaign organization would not be an insurmountable problem. Ive got enough contacts that I can go into almost every county and get a skeleton organization to begin with, and go from there.

He feels enthusiasm would account for a great deal In over coming any lack of political experience.

Id get a good campaign manger and a closely knit, fairly small group of key advisers and Id stay out in the counties. he says.

Scott figures that a great deal of the gubernatorial campaign strategy being made is based on the probability that there will be a second primary.

INDEPENDENT - H his decision Is against making the race for governor In 1964 Scott doesnt plan to take an active part in the campaign of any candidate.

I may say W'ho Im going vote for that remains to be seen, and that would be it, he said,

Scott quoted former president Harry Trumans statem e n t that Ill be independent, but not neutral.

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ment rolls were declining.

In spite of the international incidents that cropped up during the year, 1968 brought about a seemingly improved East-West relationship. It was a year in which major crises were averted, and compared with other years in recent history, it held more encouraging signs that the people of the world may have taken a positive step toward learning to live together in peace.

On the domestic scene, there continued to be racial disturbances at various places, tensions alternately ran high and then.abated. But at year-end perhaps at least partially due to the national shock over the as.sassination of the Presidentthere appeared to prevail among white and Negro citizens a greater determination to find reasonable and workable methods of resolving many of the problems in the area of race relations.

The year 1963 was by no means a year without severe tests for the nation and its citizens. By and large, however, it must be regarded as one of the better years for the nation in mist respects. The challenges of the year were largely met by the citizens, and the lessons learned from the experiences of 1963 suggested a further maturing of the United States as a nation.

Final Chapter To The Story On January 14

In choosing the biggest news story in 1963 in North Carolina, newsmen across the state picked the redistricting issue which dominated the regular legislative session and then was the subject of a special session of the General Assembly.

The final chapter of the story is yet to be written. That writing will come on January 14 when Tar Heels go to the polls to decide whether to adopt a constitutional amendment on the allocation of legislative seats, or to ride along with the redistricting under the present constitutional provisions.

It has taken North Carolina two decades to come face-to-face with this issue of apportionment of legislative representation. The present provisions for legislative apportionment have been a thorn in the side of the legislature after each 10-year census. Until the action of the 1961 and 1963 sessions there had been no reapportionment since the early 40s. The question had been bottled up in legislative maneuvering.

How the final chapter in this important matter is written by the voters will not be known until after the special referendum. It is our hope, however, that the people of the state will choose the proposed constitutional amendment as the route through which to resolve this problem now and in future years.

The redi.stricting issue justifies the place as the major new\s .story of 196.3; but the vote of the people on the amendment will be one of the major decisions made by Tar Heels in 1964.

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By' ART ' BUCHWALD

Has Anyone Seen Ike?

?ay Raise Vote Hooes Chillec.

When former President Dwight Eisenhower recently went out to California, he made a stop in Harrisburg, Pa., In his private railroad car to have dinner with Gov. William Scranton. According to reports Mr. Ei^nhower urged Gov. Scranton' to be a nominee for the Presidential candidacy in 1964.

It appears that anyone who wants'to run for the nomination on the Republican ticket has to see Ike first, and it has been to his credit that so far he has not discouraged anyone from running. As a matter of fact, everyone who has caucused with the former President leaves with the impression that hes Ikes boy.

Therefore when we decided to run for President In 1964, we drove down to Gettysburg to see Ike and get his blessing. But as we approached the farm, there was a traffic jam of limousines with candidates all waiting to see him. They were lined up for several miles,

and since Ike spent at least , two hours with each candidate, it looked like it'would be days before we could see him.

The policeman in charge of the traffic said, You should have been here last week. It was murder. Things have calmed down quite a bit. Do you plan to be drafted or are you going to throw your hat in the ring?

I havent decided yet, we said honestly. I really dcMit think Im worthy of the office, but I have to put the country before my own limitar tions.

Thats what they all say, the policeman said. Then he started yelling at a limousine that was trying to pass us. Get in line, Mr. Sbassen, and wait your turn like everybody else.

He turned to us. Everyone thinks he should be given priority. But you can imagine what chaos there would be if I let <Mie in ahead of the other.

It looks like Im going to

Other Editors Saying..

By J. W. DAVIS

WASHINGTON (AP) - The possibility that Congress might vote Itself a pay raise next year seems to be growing weaker.

The chance that Congress will require its members to dlsclase all their financial sources look even slimmer slim to point of no chance in sight.

There has been cmislderable agitation for a pay raise, from $22,500 a year to $32,500. But congressmen are notoriously nervous about raising their pay during an election year, and thats what 1964 is. Also, Congress, job performance this year has been widely criticized.

Already there has been a revival, on a small scale, of the Bundles for Congress campaign that infuriated and alarmed a good many of the senators and representtives in the 1940s.

In that satirical campaign, taxpayers sent packages of second-hand clothes to members of Congress who were complaining about how hard up they were and how much they needed a raise.

But most members arent eager to bare all. They take the stand that, unless the personal income affairs of every citizen are a matter of public record, there is no sound reason Congress members should be singled out.

Sen. Phillip A. Hart, D-Mich., Is one of those who has provided a statement of his finances.

New Style Arms Control

Last month a bundle of old clothes from the Senior Citizens of Tioga County, Sabins-ville. Pa.. arrived at the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, which had approved the pay raise bill.

The donors said they hoped the gift will help tide you over.

A comparative handful of Congress members have voluntarily made statements of their income in addition to salary.

The idea of requiring disclas-sure of income sources is to discourage conflicts of interest, to guard against official actions for private gain. If a .senator was known to hold stock in a certain company, for example, he might hesitate to vote for legislation that would help that company.

But, In saying he would back a bill to require similar disclosures by all members of Congress, Hart pointed to a contradictory situation.

If a man reveals himself to have much investment wealth, one of two conclusions is possible: He has much personal interest to protect and is therefore suspect, or he will act objectively because he can be independent of moneyed pressure groups.

If, on the other hand, he reveals that he has little or no wealth, again two contradictory conclusions can be drawn: He will act objectively because he has no personal wealth to protect, or he will be particularly susceptible to moneyed pressure groups.

In the end, Hart said, the decision would still seem to rest on the publics opinion of a mans integrity.

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Tinkering with history and the destruction of American traditions through shrewd textbook manipulation is a dangerous thing. Let serioius-minded groups continue to analyze textbooks calmly and in the same vein let serious-minded educators calmly listen when storm signals of false doctrines creep into the classrooms. Jackson (Miss.) Clarion-Ledger and Dally News,

. (Christian Science Monitor)

The nuclear stalemate is settling in. It is both fascinating and modestly hopeful to watch the present maneuvers in the field of armament. There is nothing that can properly be called disarmament. It is rather that both big nuclear powers seem to think they have, or shortly will have, enough. Both have other important needs for their money.

The result, for the moment, is not any reduction of strength but cuts in unnecessary programs and in waste. There is a prospect, though an uncertain one, of leveling off.

It is hard to put a finger on anything specific, yet a number of indicators do add up to a new situation. To begin with, the intelligence of the United States is obviously much better than it used to be. Washington is confident that it knows, within reasonable limits, what the Soviet Union is and isnt doing. The extraordinary photo reconnaissance that modem technology has made possible from satellites is at work continually. And there may have been knowledgeable defectors.

Second, the Kremlin seems to have fiecided against a course of all - out arms race. It is the curious, but technical, fact that the Kremlin can make such a decision whereas the United States cannot. It knows whether It does or does not plan an aggression or a dangerous test of strength or a massive effort to develop overwhelming armament

whereas the United States does not know the Kremlins intentions.

There is another curious wrinkle that Americans have not thought much about. Massive deterrence works both ways. The United States has enough strength to make any aggression by the Kremlin unprofitable. By the same token, should Mr. Khrushchev accept this fact, and decide it was useless to break his way out by force, he could then consider that his missiles would defend him adequately against any Western attack. He would feel safe to slack off the arms race unilaterally, while the West would not and in the nature of things, could not.

This is what Mr. Khmshchev seems to be doing. He is not giving up any essential element of security. He is not disarming by much. But he is definitely the intelligence reports are confident on this refraining from driving ahead in an all-out arms race.

This is good news. It suggests that the strong policy of the West is succeeding. It has made aggression too dangerous and surely unprofitable. Both sides are therefore safeguarding their main force but not . recklessly piling up more. There is no formal agreement, yet the action Is mutual and seems to be developing step by step. The West has not and will not lower its guard and will b^ ready for any change of the wind. But this might turn out to be a trade wind.

be here a long time.

You can plan on it, he said. Its not just a question of talking to you. Ike likes to see how you play golf. Hes not going to give his endorsement to a duffer.

I did bring my golf clubs, we admitted, What do you think I ought to say to him, Tell him youre worried about the state of the nation and alarmed at the socialistic trend tliis country Is taking. TeU him youre neither a conservative nor a liberal and you are unknown to everyone, so you can, easily unite the Republican party.

Thats sound advice, we said. Hell probably be Impressed with my honesty.

It doesnt make any difference if he is or not. The important thing is that youve talked to him. Anyone who talks with Ike Ls considered Presidential timber.

The cars behind us started honking their horns.

The policeman became angry. All right, pipe down back there, Gov. Rockefeller. Hell see you as soon as he can. Honking your horn aint going to move this Une any faster. Two days later we have moved two miles closer to the farm, but we still have three miles to go. The poUceman came back.

Ill give you a tip. Ikes leaving for California in the morning and youll never get to see him at this rate. My suggestion is to wait by a railroad and try to talk to him in his private railroad car as he goes by.

We thanked the cop and drove to a crossing near Harrisburg. Two days later Ike went by and we shouted, Hi Ike.

The former President gave us one of his big grins and waved with both arms.

If that isnt an endorsement, we dont know what is.

Opinions In Brief

The rights of the citizen are diminishing at a staggering rate. It has been a long time since a person could make or circulate his own money without woeful consequences, and a Federal court in Richmond said last week there is something else he cant do. He cant operate his own postal system. It is just as well; stamp collectors are already having enough trouble with Liechtenstein. The Baltimore Sun,

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One ends as one was. Japanese Proverb.

BY JOHN CHABIBERLAOf

. Copyright, 1963, Mng Peaturei Syndicate,, Inc.

Charles Dickens called one of his novels Great Expectar ti(ms, and there was a faint flavor of irony in the title. The same flavor <rf irony lingers in Adlai StevoMOTis phrase about the revoluti(m <rf rising cx-pectati(ms, though we may be sure about nothing satirical was intended.

As we survey the world at the end (rf another year, it becomes more ann more obvious that an overweening stress on Great expectations* is at the root of practically allour troubles. Indeed, what we need is not a revolution ol rising ex-' pectatioDS, but a revolution in Individual acc(nplisfaments. jrDo what you can with what youve got is,a better alogaa than jam tomorrow parti-. cularly If you are expecting the jam to be handed to you on a platter.

The revolution, of rising sx-pectations turns to dust and ashes when we talcs a quick runover of the mi^. For

ample:

In Bolivia, they nationalized the tin mines a decade or so ago. The miners expected** better wages, more purchasing power. They also expected* to do less woric for their rewards. The results have bei profoundly disappointingand in their desperation the Communists among the miners have been seizing hostages, thinking that threats will lon-jure up for them what a declining tin productioQ has failed to do.

In Chian, an apathetii population expected better things from a crusading Mao Tse-tung than it had been able to get under Chiang Kai-shek. But Mao and CThou En-Lai and the other vertierans of the Communist Icmg march o the nineteen thirties are now in their late sixties and seventies, and China is worse off then ever.

In Cuba, everybody, irwn middle class liberals to radical sugar cane woricers, expected that Castro would give them back the constitutlim ot freedom that Batista had trampled underfoot. But Castro cheated practically everybody.

In Russia, the masses have waited patiently for forty years for socialism to pay off. But collective farming cant feed the nation. And the expwt* of revolution to China, to Yugoslavia, to Albaniahas only made headaches for the Muscovite Marxists. By cultivating an heretical type of Marxism that relies more on voluntary cooperatives, and by making it pay off in superior efficiency, the Yugoslavs havo exposed the fallacies of Rus-sian-style central planning, As for the CMiese revolution, it has created the worlds largest poorhouse and Khrushchev has correctly estimated that his own poorhouse would be shaken to its eccmcunic foundations If it tried to carry Mao Tse-tungs revolution on its balance sheet. So much for th* Great expectations of Lenin, Trotsky. Stalin, and Khrush- chev himself.

The revolution ci rising expectations has Just hit Africa. Looking to Moscow for sympathy and help a Ghanlsn student has been stabbed to death.

In the United States the leaders of the Negro organizations are preaching the revolutton of rising expectations. And, to a certain extent, the revolution has had successes. It remains true, nonetheless, that the growing scope for Negro individualism is what has enabled a tortured race to dare to ask for all the rights that are guanmteed by the U. S. Constitution. The group that George Schuyler called the tainted tenth, which Included dancers such as Mary Hlnkson. boxers such as Sugar Ray Robinson and Sonny Liston, singens such as Marian Anders(xi and Leon-' tyne Prire, authors stdh as Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, diplomats like Ralph Bunrhe, and baseball players of the stature of Hank Aaron and Willie Mays, have prepared the ground for the sucessful pursuit of many lesser careers. What the Negro needs now Is to consolidate his advances by plowing his own savings into his own businesses. An if he cant crack the prejudices of certan monopoUsltc trade unions, he might threaten to start a Negro movement for (Continued on Page )

Why The Pros Are Optimistic

Strength For Today

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS

TAKE STOCK

There was a song some years ago the refrain of which ran: When you come to the end of a perfect day.

There is, of course, no perfect day. neither is there a perfect year. The thing we have to get into our Tninds if we would live happily is that the world in v hich we live is essentially intperiect and that the life which we live therefore, always ha.s some flaw in It.

Merchants at the end of each fiscal or calendar year take stock, see how much good they have on hand, how much they have taken in and how much they have paid out. Corporations l)filance their hooks and compare their eanilngs or their

losses with those of previous years.

This is a good employment for all of us as we come to the last day of the year. For some people it has been a period too wonderfully happy to describe. For others it has been filled with sorrow. All of iLs are conscious of the fact that there have been gains here and los.ses there. We have stubbed our toes. We have fallen. The Important question Is whether or not we have picked ourselves up and started ahead again.

The value of the past consists in what It can teach u.s conceniing our present problems and our future aspirations A few mements of quiet reflection today might l)ear fruit in a happier and more creative year in 1961

By ELMER ROESSNER The professional prognostica-tors, with rare unMiimlty, have been forecasting a new year of continuing prosperity.

This they have done In full knowledge of the fact that the nation has been enjoying a boom cycle of about 35 months and that other booms since World War H have averaged only 15 months.

Do they believe that American econoroic philosophy, based on the thinking of Keynes. Roosevelt and Kennedy, has eliminated the tidal phenomenon from the economy? Do they think there is some magic that will make us all so confident that boom Is here forever? Or do they think the unemployed will suddenly find jobs or miraculously disappear?

REASONS FOR CONFI-DFNCE The answers, of course, are

no.

Basic rea.-nns for bullishness arc l.hr.ic:

I. The public has coiifitlcnce. Sui'vcy after survey has shown

that consumers believe their jobs and income will continue and they are willing to bet their down payments that they will. These surveys have already been cpnfirmed by the fact that consumers, in signing more instalment contracts, are pledging their earnings through 1964, 1965 and even through 1966. I cannot recall a recession that followed a show of public confidence.

2.* The tax cut will be voted and it wUl do something for us. If the cut is voted, consumers and business wl have about $6.5 billion more expendable money next year. Whether this is inflationary or whether it will lead to trouble years later are not questions for now. That much money added to otlier income will create jobs and nourish proi^rity.

3. Since 1964 will be a presidential year, all the powers of the Roverament and the Congressional majority will be used to stimulate the economy. Once people believed that busine.ss always fell off in election years but, m shown teft

In I960, 1956, 1952 and 1948, half the election years have been bullish and half bearish.

Nevertheless, President Johnson, being human, will do all in his power to increase employment and g o v-emment spending whUe limiting waste. Furthermore, the Congress will do all in its power and it has tremendous powers over money matters to increase spending and employment.

PRO OPINIONS Here are some of the professional forecasts:

Prof. Daniel B. Suits, giving the annual economic outlook of the University of Michigan: Tax reduction would result in a growth of nearly 5 per cent in physical output in 1964 . . . .Even without tax cuts, the physical production of goods and services will be nearly 5 per cent higher than in 1963. A. W. Zelomek, president, Intcniational Statistical Bureau; We will not experience a boom In 1964 even with a tax cut. Neither will we experl-Koee X memiaB wIUmhiI a Ux

cut. General businesf in 64 will average about 6 per eeok above 1963.

Robert P. Mayo, vice preel-dent, Continental Illinois National Bank: Interest rates in the year ahead should enjoy a moderate upward movement.** (Enjoy is his word.)

H. N, McGill, president, McGill Commodity Service: Despite uncertainties clouding growth prospects, there is extremely little that is indicative of an early recession.**

Prentice Halls f(eoatt: Corporate pn^ts to leap to a record high of $30 bllllcHi. . . Retail sales should Jump 4 to 6 per cent to around $21.5 billion a month. . .State and local spending should rise about 7 per cent. . .Stocks appear headed for a correction that will probably climax In early 1964

Ir^g Schwelger, University of Chicago Graduate Scho<d of Business: 1964 shmild go down as one of the greatest vlntago years of our ecoriOTny. You can t do much ' better t h a that.