Tuesday, January 7, T964

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Politics Secondary To Legislation

The primary business of Congress is the legislative business of the nation. In some national election years such as this, however, it often appears that the primary business of Congress becomes politics. 1 >

This is understandable, of course, if one recognizes the fact that all members of the House of Representatives must stand for re-election this fall or forfeit their seats in Congress. One-third of the members of the Senate also facete expiration of their terms in office if they are^ot successful in their bids for re-election.

So, while members of Congress look after the legislative business of the nation in the next few months, they will also be looking after their own business" . . that of politics.

It is certain that partisan and individual politics of the members of Coiigress will have a great bearing on measures which are to be considered between now and the fall. After such a congressional session as that in 1963 in which major issues were dragged ou^, delayed and not acted upon, the congressional agenda is crowded with important and controversial issues in this election year. It is imperative that Congress move to decisions on thesl issues much more quickly this year than they did last year. Otherwise, the nations legislative business will remain at almost a stand-still for a two-year period. '

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Another Issue On January \A-.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RIGHTS The "other amendment on the ballcA January 14 Is one destgned to make a married woman In North Carolina more independent in managing her property.

It also, Incidentally, contains a bit of something for the menfolk.

It was looked upon In the ' 1963 General Assembly as a technical and legalistic lawyers bil" and received only passing notice by the p u b 1 ip. Discussion of it has been limited and this confined chiefly to lawyers and legal circles.

Study of the proposition, however. shows it would amend the basic law of North Carolina dealing with property rights of married women - and thus carries considerable legal weight and Importance. It would do two t hings in regard to rights of married women managing their affairs.

PROVIDES - Simply, the two things are these;

Give a married woman the legal right to dispose of her property without written consent of her husband.

Allow a wife to exercise rights conferred upon her by her husband in a power of attorney to exactly the same extent as that of any other person.

It would amend Article X Section 6 of the state constitution to omit the present wording and. with written assent of her hu^Muid relating to conveyance of her own property.

This section spells out t h e rights of women in North Carolina to be legal owners of real and personal property and holders of sole and separate estates, not liable for any debts, obligations or engagements of their husbands.

The section at present provides, however, that written c<msent of the husband Is necessary for a married woman to be able to sell, convey, bequeath or otherwise dispose of such property. There Is no such restriction on conveyance of property of a single w'oman.

The proposed amendment is based upon the assumption that married women as well as single ones are competent to handle their own affairs In regard to their own property.

LEGAL The second provision dealing with rights of married women relates to powers of attorney ccmferred upon a wife by her husband,

It Is designed to clear up legal confusion about sltuaticms

in which a husband i^s confer powers of attorney upon his wife as to ctHiveyance of the wifes pnx)erty. Some legal sources felt this might be questionable as an abdlcatkxi of required action as to assent on part of her husband.

It merely provides that when a husband conveys the power of attorney to his wife she may exercise it in the same manner and extent as anyone else.

WILLS - The third provision of the proposed amendment would allow the General Assembly to revise the law pertaining to a wifes presently held right to disinherit her husband and the requirement that a husband cannot disinherit his wife.

The state Supreme Court has held that the present wording of the section means that a husband has no right to dissent from his wifes will, but that the wife does have such right to dissent from her husbands will.

The Attorney General's office, in an explanation of* the amendment, says that U the ain-endment is adopted the legislature can adjust .the rights between husband and wife and place them on an equality as to the right to dissent from each others wills.

It would be up to the legislature then to decide whether neither husband or wife could dissent from each other's wills, or whether both would have the right.

CONTROVERSY The mens r^hts amendment carries noje of the ccmtroversy of the so-called little federal amendment wi legislative apportionment and the fact that it will be 1 the Jan. 14 ballot has itself been largely overlooked.

It would not be on the ballot next week, however, except for action of the legislature In special sesslcm last October to set a special general election on the little federal plan. The womans rights amendment was approved In the regular session which 'adjourned last June and would not normally have been put to the voters before November. 1964. f There has been some feeling by both advocates and opponents of the little federal plan that explaining of the womens rights amendment might be beneficial In stimulating a larger turnout next Tuesday. They felt to vote in the election and that their cause on the little federal plan would be helped.

bers of Congress will bemand that mstny of these issues are brought to a showdown in Jth^ netx few months, the political interests of other members may demand that some of the major issues remain on the shelf until after the election. How this tug-of-war will affect the efforts to break the legislative logjam remains to be seen.

We trust* that Congress recognizesas niost citizens do, we thinkthat,the first responsibility of the Senate and the House this year is to get the-wheels of legislation rolling again. This is important to the nation and it is therefore important, politically, to members of Congress.

The foot-dragging that become so typical of the 1963 session of Congress must not be allowed

to dominate Congress again this year.

Points Up Fears Of Freedoms Influence

Closing of the Berlin wall again by the communist again after 17 days in which Westerners were allowed to visit relatives in the East, points up again the cornmunlst fear of the influence of freedom on those they hold captive.

During the period in which West Berliners have been allowed to visit relatives in East Berlin, well over a million have crossed the walj. They have held joyful reunions and tearful partings with relatives they have pot seen in years and may not see again for years.

It is certain that the visiting period has made a great impact upon the people of East Berlin. It is sure to have increased their resentment of the fact that they are not allowed beyond the wall into the Western area of their divided city. It has indicated clearly the confidence of the West Germans that their people, given the choice, would not choose life in East Germany over life in West Germany. -

Beyond this, however, the experience has shown the world that the residents of East Berlin are the ones being held captive under the communist heel. There is Jittle doubt that the embers of the desire of freedom that still glow in the hearts of many East Berliners were fanned to flame again during the visiting period.

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What He Doesnt Know

The political poll has become one of the biggest factors in American politics. From now on until Election Day, political pollsters will be traveling the length and breadth of the United States questioning people on their feelings towards the candidates and Issues of the day.

It is Interesting to note that In every poll there are a certain percentage of people who are undecided, "dont know.

or are not sure of any of the questions. Who are these people? What do they believe in? How do they think?

In order to find out, we decided to take a poll of ourJ own and interview the president of the UDKNS Society.

We 'rang the bell and he came to the door. Sir, Im takiir? a- survey of the Undecided Dont Know, Not SUre Society. Could you give me some information?

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Presl-Ident Johnson, up against two tests since he took office, has worked on one from the beginning and starts In earnest on the second one today. Hts destiny is interlocked with bot,h of them.

The first how to keep himself in the public eye and mind, favorably, to get elected next November. President Kennedy had almost three years to do this. Johnson has less than a yer. He has been working overtime at it.

The second how to get work out, of the Congress. It has been'criticized for laziness and stalling. It Is perhaps the most criticized Congress in this century. It shows not much sign of embarrassment.

He will help himself politically by staying in public view with statements, prounounce-ment programs and camera ap-pearences. He will hurt himself, politically if he cant get his programs through Congress.

No wonder, if numbers are the yardstick. In the House his Democrats outnumber Republicans 256 to 178 and in t h e Senate 67 to 33. But at this tiine in American politics and history the numbers are part of a myth.

The myth Ls that there are only two political parties. Actually, there are several, although all huddle under t h e test of one party or the other.' Each is made up of liberals, conservatives and reactionaries

For this reason because the various groups shift and team up, ignoring party labels on specific Issues presidential programs often get Ignored or slaughtered.

It Is ironic that the more successful a president is say in foreign affairs, in guiding the ecwiomy to prosperity, in giving the people through his leadership a sense of safety and well-being the less hell get from Congress.

The reason: Congress seems to have reached a point where it is reluctant to act unless there Is a crisis or unless it is under great public pressure in some particular moment of public need.

But when things are going WTll, In the fields outside Congress, the less action can be expected. Thats about the best explanation that can be offered for congre.ssional delay (Mi a tax cut and civil rights In

1963.

This year being an election year there will be a special incentive for both House and Senate to do more than last year so those seeking re-elect i o n point is something when they go to the voters next November.

It Is this psychology of an election year which may be Johnsons greatest help in trying to get his prograins through, programs which, w'ill be Johnsons programs, unless Johnson adds new ones In his State ,of the Union message this week.

But the election pressures alone wont mean success for Johnson, not in a Congress with such divisions in attitudes as this ones, plus the yearly wheeling and dealing on issues.

Since Johnson is n(rt as placid a man as Kennedy at least on the surface the chances look good that he may get tough, if Congress frustrates him, and get into fights. Fights, in turn, might hurt him in the public eye.

Opinions n Brie:

People apparently are supposed to derive comfort from reading, the record and discovering the weather was even colder on this particular da.te 60 years ago, or something like that. This does not warm us one bit. Statistics will not start the car. Neither will anything else, judging by our experience this morning. St, Louis Post-Dispatch,

Other. Editors Saying Challenge To Meet

With all the modem household appliances, a bachelor is better off marrying a girl whos a mechanical genius rather than one who can cook. Carlsbad Current-Argus.

"The trouble with punctuality is that theres nobody there to appreciate it.Cherryvale (Kans.) Republican.

(Washington Daily Newrf)

On January 14 the voters of North Carolina go to the polls to express their convictions on what has become known as the little Federal plan for redistricting the legislature of our state.

The label little Federal is a* most unfortunate one because mention the word federal and a lot of people immediately feel that it is a case of the federal government trying to take over another right from the state. That is not the case in this instance. The Little Federal plan referred to here is the makeup of the legislature. The federal congress is made up of two houses the senate and the lower house. The senate makeup is two senators from each state with the lower house,, makeup determined according to population.

That is exactly what is in mind for the legislature of North Carolina with one exception. In our state, if the Little Federal plan Is approved, every county in the state will have one reprasent-ative with the senate makeup being determined according to population. If approved, there would be 70 senators in the North Carolina legislature instead of 50 as presently constituted.

To our way of thinking, this is a most fair and equitable approach to the matter of political representation.

It is unfortunate that this referendum has been tabbed a small county versus big county contest. Yet, in a practical sense it is that. We do not believe in misleading anyone on this Issue involved.

Here in Beaufort county we have about 17,000 people living here who are of voting age. About 12.000 of these people re registered and eligible to vote. In Hyde county there are about 2,800 people of voting age and about 2,000 registered to vote'.

Here in Beaufort county the largest turnout of, voters on

record Is that In 1960 in the national presidential race when 8,733 people voted. The same year and in the same election, Hyde county also cast a record vote when 1,628 people went to the polls.

On January 14 when the voters of Beaufort and Hyde counties go to the polls or stay horneas the case might be it Is not too much to hope that the two counties together will cast a minimum of 7,500 votes in favor of the Little Federal plan.

If only we could arouge our own people to the Importance of this referendum, we feel that a great service to our area could be performed. This is an opportunity that wUl probably never come our way again if this plan is defeated. And if it is defeated, it means simply that the more populous counties of North Carolina will just about have control of the legislature of our state and' the governmental destinies of our people from then on through the years.

Instead of 7,500 votes In favor of the plan, it ought to be a pilgrimage to the polls for our own people of at least 12,000 votes in the two counties, If we fail to go out and vote, we have failed to fight for our own destiny.

Insofar as we know, not one dime has been spent in advertising by those who favor this Little Federal plan. For our own part there b no financial reward Involevd or expected. Our fight is for our own people for our own destiny for our own voice in state goveminent.

We can be indifferent; we can take it lightly; if wp do. well pay a high price In the years ahead.

With all the fervor and enthusiasm we can muster, and with all th sincerity and ded-icatiHi w'e have, we call upon our own people to go to the polls every registered voter-on January 14 and vote FOR the Little Federal plan.

I will If I can, he said. How many members are in your society?

Im not sure about that, he replied.

Well, how often, do you meet? <

I dont really know.

What does the organization stand for?

Were undecided as of this moment.

Why did you form such a society?

I hesitate to answer that. My guess would be that we started it because there were So many people In this country who were undecided on so many issues that w'e felt they should be represented. In any poll, if you multiply us, we could run into the millions.

How do you qualify for the organization?

By not having any convictions and by sticking to them. We study each question carefully and then decide we dont know the answer.

It sounds difficult.

It isnt easy the.se "days, particularly with all the communications around us. Most of us try not to read newspapers or watch news programs on television. We never discuss politics at home and we stay out of bars because you usually have to take sides there. When you do meet, what do you talk about?

, Nothing much. We have only one rule. If anyone expresses an opinion on anything, hes asked to resign.

But sir^ what value does your orgainlzation have if it doesnt stand for anything? We have more value than anybody else. Nobody cares in a political poll who is for or against something. Its the undecided that the candidates are worried about. They spend more time and money on us than anybody. We count for something in an election year. But when do the undecided people make up their minds? I have no idea. Once theyve decided, were no longer Interested in them.

Well, thank you very much, sir.

Dont mention It. Im not sure whether I should have talked to you. I dont know if Ive made a mistake giving , you all this information and Im undecided whether you should print it or not. But if you dont use my name, I guess it will be all right.

THE MARCH OF DIMES

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Peaturex Syndicate, lac.

I sometimes play with tbe idea that words should come In two sets of colors or, in-the case of spt^en languaga, with two sets of warning llghto to indicate the intention of important speeches. For how else ^ are we to know for sure whether someone is talking anal]^ tically and descriptively, or whether he is using words aa weapons, to bludgeon, torment, unnerve or confuse an enemy?

There was the ambiguity cUnglng to the recent poUcy-defining talk made by our Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs Roger Hila^ man in San Francisco, for example. Mr. Hilsman seemed to be caUing for a policy of tentative friendliness toward Red-Chlna, the idea being that when the present intransigent generation of Red Chinese leaders, now in their sixties and seventies, has passed from the scene, a younger second echelon of Marxist COTomissars win be disposed to approach the outer world without sabre-rattling and calls for bloody world revolution.

Whether Mr. Hilsman *s speech represents a good or a bad turn In State Department thinking depends entirely on the intention behind It. If he was using his words as Weapons of insinuation, with the hope of causing discord between the generations in Red China, then Mr. Hilsman was doing something Jhat makes sense. But If, on the other hand, he was using words analytically and descriptively to convey the State Departments e.stimate of the future In Red Chinese political thinking, I fear that Mr. Hilsman was exposing himself as a complete and highly dangerous innocent.

Assuming that Mr. Hilsman was using his words descriptively, he betrayed the most shallow knowledge of the usual course of revolutionary history. For insofar as history tells us anything that can be made a safe basis for policy, the seo ond generation of revolutionists Is usually worse than the first.

The Russian *Revolutl(Hi la an obvious case in point. The first genration of Soviet Communists Lenin, Trotsky, Zin-oview, Kamenev and the rest hoped to foment Marxist upheavals all around the world. But they also knew when to draw in their horns. Lenin, faced with the need for a breathing space at home, made a realistic peace with the Germans at Brest-Litovsk. And when starvation threatened, he told the Russian peasants that they might enrich themselves by raising crops for the free market.

This realism disappeared when Lenin died. The second echelon of Communist leaders who took power with Stalin proceeded to drench Russia with blood as the Revolution foUow'ed a historic course of devouring its children.

Millions of farmers who had taken Lenins promise seriously perished in the land collectivization drives. Thousands of Trotskyite and Zinovievlst oppositionists were liquidated in Arctic and Siberian prison camps. And, the crowning blow, Stalin made his famous deal with Hitler to carve up Poland, which started the great world blood bath of World War n.. It was not until the advent of the Khrushchev period, some forty years after the Len-In-Trotsky Revolution, that Soviet Russia started to simmer down. And we cant be too sure that the present so-called liberalization of Soviet Communism is anything more than a temporary zig-zag tactic.

The course of the Mexican Revolution was roughly similar to the Russian. The second echelon Mexican revolutionaries, who came wi stag* after the armies of Carranza, Villa and Zapata had long since ceased to march, expr<HHl&ted the oil wells and continued to denounce the U. S, as the colossus of the North. It took about forty years for Mexico to become comfortably bourgeois.

It may be admitted that history does not always repeat itself, and It could conceivably happen hat Red China is nol fated to go through a Sta-(Contlnued On Page B)

"The land of the free nowadays Is a place where a citizen must have a license to lio almost anything.Carlsbad Current-Argus.

Consumers Helped By Japanese

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS T.AKE A RIDE

One of the outstanding news conunentators of this counti-y has declared that we have too little belief in the potency of ideas.

Just remember that ideas have changed the world. Those little grey bells were given, us for a purpose. Fcwi men can have the brains of Socrates Plato, Aristoe Leonardo dr Vinci. Thomas \ Aquinas. John Clavin. Ralph Waldo Emerson C irles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, Woodrow Wilson. Winston Churchill. These men had ideas with power In them. The world continued to turn over in its mind the thoughts of Aristotle for 1500-years after the great teacher died. Darwin set the thinklnk world on its head. Within the /ecollection of many of us the great Albert Einstein

worked out a mathematical formula which changed, and is continuing to change, the course of history.

There is nothing so potent as an idea once it gets underway. There have been evil ideas entertained usually by men who wanted to dominate their fellows. Hitler had one big. all-embracing Idea and with the whole of his evil nature he tried to impose It u1)on mankind.

Communism can hardly be called an idea. It is an excuse for tyranny and murder. It should be regarded realistically as a criminal conspiracy

More ideas hve flown out of the simple gospel of the Man of Nazareth than the w'orld has known how to handle in two thousand years.

Get hold of an idea this year and take a ride.

By EI.MER ROESSNER

Japanese radio and television manufacturers have captured a large part of the American market. As predicted here a few days ago. United States manufacturers will probably demand protection from the invaders, charging that American industry and American labor are at a disadvantage to cheap Japanese labor. In the end, th^apan-ese government may Jmiit exports to avert tariff>retaliation.

On the other hand, were It not for this tough competition from Japan, Anicrica might not have all tlie electronic advances enjoyed today.

An American who knows about these things tells me that if it were not for Japanese competition American consumers would be at these disadvantages; 1

POSSIBLE LAGS

1. If the Japanese had not produced long-lasting transs-; tors ^0 cheaply, many new American radio and television sets would ill be using, at least in part, vacuum tubes.

Many American manufacturers would hesitate to discard tubes on hand or to scrap tube as-sesmbly lines. But successful utilization of transistors by Japanese exporters forced American manufacturers to make them or buy them abroad.

2. If the Japanese had not shipped in such excellent small radio receivers, American manufacturers would not have met the competition. Fairchild News Service reported that in the first eleven months of 1963. Japan exported to America more than eight million radio sets with three or more transistors. It also sent us one million tube radios and almost two million other t>T>es POPll.ARIZED SMAI.L TV

3, Without JaiMinese and some European competition, small portable and desk-s i z e vClevlsion receivers would be .miich more expensive than they are and they might possibly be harder to find, American manufacturers were slow to swing to .mall TV sets. Many appeared most interested ia

promoting bigger tubes In bigger cabinets at high markups. But the competition from the Japanese caused many to specialize in sets to carry to recreation areas and even smaller ones for desk tops.

Fairchild also report e d that 402,364 TV receivers were shipped from Japan to the U. S. In the first 11 months pf 1963, compared with 137,872 in the first 11 months of 1962. Thats an Increase of 343 per cent.

4. American manufacture r s are putting all pressure on the development of less costly color TV receivers. Some remarkable economies have already been made and the Industry is hoping for more. The reason Is that it is fearful that some Japanese company may break through with a really low-priced receiver.

This Japanese competit 1 o n has benefited radio, TV, mall order and department stores because it has .given them goods that have had fast turnovers.

Many U. S. electronics firms, engineers and advertising agencies may not agree with my fniormants deductions, but they seem persuasive to me. However, Ill read any statements to the contrary.

WINGLESS LAMBS FLY DUBLIN TO FRANCE The French government opened its borders to foreign meats on September 6. Since then there have been four or five flights a day from Dublin to French airports, each carrying about 450 lamb carcasses. Ia consequence, Ireland's sheep population Is now allghty dawn.

SEES NEED FOR MORE DISORGANIZATION MEN There has been a lot written about the organization man, but what business needs Is tht dlsoraanlzaiion man the fellow who demtmds change and action according to Charles H. Rudman, president of tht Klein Institute for Aptitude Training, *