Thursday, January 23, 1964

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Here's The New Goldwater Button!

Theyre, Relying On Cigarette Taxes

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It is not unexpected that little signs are Begin- tee looking into the mattr of smoking and health, ning to pop up reflecting specific efforts of groups More important than even the collective effect here and there to stringently curb, if not eliminate of these local actions, is the action which may be entirely, cigarette smoking. i taken by, such powerful bod^ies as the Federal

In one town, the city council has passed, a new Trade Commission and Congress. The FTC already

ordinance prohibiting the sale of cigarettes to those has set the groundwork to make a bid at severely under 18 years of age. In another community a restricting the advertisement^ of cigarettes by manu-hospital has issued an order there is to be no smok- facturera to put warnings on their products that ing, and it has removed vending machines which they are, or may be, detrimental to the consumers sold cigarettes. Throughout the country many such health. *

instances could be cited, and of course there are a And then in the realm of possible congres-host of other proposals being considered by purely sional action there is the question of whether the

local official and unofficial groups. props may be knocked from under the price support

What effect such steps will have on cigarette propam for tobacco, one of the nations principal consumption, how permanent such restrictions will agricultural crops. Certainly this latter question is be is a matter of conjecture. But these little straws of primary concern to Pitt County and to tobacco in the wind were to be expected on the heels of producing areas of North Carolina.

the report by the surgeon generals special commit-

Flurry Of Late anuary Filings

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES RALEIGH Political side-lishts:

The expected Ute - January flurry of fiUnga for places on the primary electi(m ballots next May has begun.

Within the past week no less than three candidates came OTth with formal announcements for the seat in Congress held by veteran Rep. Harold D. Cooley of Nashville.

This set the stage for both Democrat and Republican primary contests in the midstate Fourth. The district now stretches from Nash County in the east to Davidsrai in the Piedmont.

R. Mayne Albright of Raleigh will oppose Cooley in the Democratic primary and there may be additional Democrats plunging Into this partic u 1 a r race. Albright made a bid for governor back in 1948 with a colorful campaign and did well In the counties of the present Fourth district. This will be his first try for political office since that time.

CANDIDATES - Two Republicans then announced on successive days for the GOP nomination for Congress in the Fourth.

The GOP hopefuls are John Thedieck of Raleifth, unsuccessful in a bid for the state senate in 1962, and Jim Gardner of Rocky Mount, Gardner Is the man who organized a local Jonas-for-Govemor headq u a r-ters in Rocky Mount, one of the first in the state, a f e w months ago. Rep. Charles R. Jonas subsequently elected not to run for governor.

Cooley has not yet made his formal announcement, but there is no doubt that the powerful House Agriculture chairman'will run again.

FIRST In the meantime, veteran First District Rep. Herbert C. Bonner removed all question about his intentions to seek another tenn this year. Bonner, now 73, disclosed plans to seek re-election.

There had been some talk that Bonner might choose to retire after his present term. Had that been the case, it appeared likely that a Democratic primary contest would have developed. But with Bon n e r running there may be no primary contest. He has been nominated 10 of 13 times without primary opposition a li d tdd newsmen he hasnt heard of any developing this time.

NINTH In the Ninth district, where freshman Republican Rep. James T. Broyhill of Lenoir unseated Hugh Q. Alexander two years ago. a Democrat announced this week to challenge Broyhill,

He is Salisbury attorney Robert M, Davis, 36. Davis has been ^jhaii-man of the Row^an C(inty Democratic execut 1 v e cixnmlttee for the past eight years, 1 a former state YDC president, has served as solicitor and Judge of Rowan County court and currently is president of the Rowan Bar association.

R has been expected that a strong Democratic candid ate fnwn Rowan would announce in the Ninth, The choice had narrowed some^ months ago to Davis or veteran state Rep. George Uzzell of Salisbury.

NOTES - PoUUcal notebook:

Another Influential Piedmont newspaper, the High Point Enterprise, will endorse gubernatorial candidate L. Richardson Preyer of Greensboro.

The formal editorial endorsement Is likely to come on the eve of the campaign send-off rally for Preyer scheduled in Greensboro this weekend.

State Rep. I. C. Crawford of Buncombe County had tossed his hat in the ring for another tern in the legislature. He took time off from campaigning for candidate Dan K. Moore to make his own formal announcement last weekend in Asheville.

Crawford, incidentally, pegged Moore as a candidate for governor early as last Spring many months before the former judge from Canton decided to enter the race.

There are several other political figures actively engaged in the guberaator 1 a 1 campaigns who will forgo their own bids for election this year. One in particular, a name very widely known in state politics, will surprl s e many observers when he discloses he wont run for office this year.

BLUE House Speaker H. Clifton Blue of Aberdeen says Robert W. Scotts announcing for lieutenant governor wont affect his timetable for announcing for the No. 2 place.

Blue has been on the campaign trail, for all intent and purposes a candidate, for several months and has gone into most of the counties of the state. Blue says he has planned all along to make his formal announcement about Feb.

1 and Scott's candidacy wont change it. He conceded, however. that Scott presents very ~ formidable opposition which will alter overall campa i g n plans. Blue says he is looking now for a very extens i v e. first class campaign for the nomination.

FIGHT Guilford County Republicans have split sharply over the matter of the time and place for biennial precinct meetings. A result was two sets of meetings <me by each GOP faction in the various precincts.

The storm broke when county chairman John Holloway scheduled many of the GOP meetings in private homes. The anti - Holloway group, headed by state Rep, Phil Lacy, charged this was not legal under the party plan of organization. Lacy is a candidate for the Guilford party chairmanship.

The dispute may go through the county and state conventions all the way to the Republican natlwial conventlcm hi San Francisco before it is set-Ued.

For all the little signs which point to the downfall of the tobacco industry: for all of the big questions which remain unanswered, there are also bright spots on the horizon for the industry. One, of course, is the experience of the industry in the wake of other health scares. In spite of brief drops in consumption of tobacco, the trend has moved steadily upward. In England after a report similar to that of the surgeon generals committee tobacco consumption dipped, then moved to new heights.

Perhaps another most encouraging sign is the proposed federal budget for the next fiscal year. Uncle Sams experts are expecting existing taxes on cigarette sales to put something over $3 billion dollars into federal coffers.

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If North Carolina Republicans have as much gy difficulty getting votes in the general election this fall as they have had in finding a Willing gubernatorial canciidate, Tar Heelia will be farther from a two-party state in 1964 than it was in 1960.

The latest of the gubernatorial possibilities in the GOP stable has followed the course of earlier leading prospects by announcing he will not accept the partys office to head the state ticket. Now that John L. Stickley has officially removed him.self as a possible candidate, the North Carolina Republicans must dip again into their barrel of possibilities.

A year agoeven half a year ago1964 was being looked upon by Democrats and Republican.s alike in North Carolina as the year in which the GOP would make its strongest bid since reconstruction days to take over the top office in the stale government. Those aspirations began to fade when Rep. Charles R. Jonas, after considerable delay finally made known his decision to see re-election to Con-gre.ss rather than be the Republican cadidate for governor. The likelihood of a Republican candidate for governor being elected this fall has paled even more in the ensuing months as one after another of the leading possibilities have removed themselves from contention for the party honor.

ART BUCHWAL

A Test For Goldwater

Of all the candidates running for the highest office of the land, there has been none as outspoken on the Lssues of the day as Sen. Barry Goldwater, No matter what you think of him as Presidential tim b e r, you cant help admiring his courage in saying whafce ver comes to his mind or foot.

Last week the good Senator from Arizona said I dont feel safe at all about our missiles. I wish the Defense Department could tell the American people how undependable the missiles actually are. . . Ill probably catch hell for saying it, but our long - range missiles are not dependable at all,

Secretary McNamara immediately reacted to Sen. Gold-waters charges, which he said

were completely misleading, politically irresponsible and damaging to national security and supported by no informar tion classified or otherwise.

Now this leaves the average American in one whale of a spot. Who is right, Goldwater or McNamara? How will the public ever know the truth?

There is only one fair way to settle the dispute, .and we believe both sides will go along with it. We suggest that Sen. Goldwater be placed In a rowboat, somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, by himself. His exact position would be radioed to an ICBM station on the West Coast. At a signal from Secretary McNamara the ICBM would be fired at Sen. Goldwater. If Sen. Goldwater escapes getting hit

The Situation point., up vividlv what -ny EditOfS Saying...

people in North Carolina have failed to recognize.

It is that a state-wide party organization cannot be built from the top down. It must be carefully culti

vated at the grass-roots level in every part of the state before it can become an effective, cohesive force capable of challenging the party that has dom-inatd state political affairs for more than half a century.

If the Republicans are to convert North Carolina into a two-party state, they must focus more attention on the gras.s-root.s level of their political .structure. If the Democrats are to prevent the GOP from building its strength to the point where it could become dominant in the state, the Democrats must focus greater attention on bolstering their own organization at the grass-roots level throughout North Carolina.

Castro, Buses, Wheat

Disarmament Duns In

Circles

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The endless circle spins again. President Johnson has made disarmament proposals based on the hope the Soviet Union has changed its mind. But theres no reason to believe it has.

Johnson suggested Tuesday in a message to the 18 - nation disarmament conference W'hich opened in Geneva several moves for controlling nuclear weapons and cutting down their production.

There would have to be an inspection system to prevent cheating. Thla Is what the United States has always insisted upon, before there could be an agreement. But the Soviet Union has sways opposed an inspection system.

Last week Johnson said we shall mke new proposals to the conference. Later he w as quoted in a White House statement as saying as the United States enters these negotiations ...we harbor no illusions of easy success."

His proposals Tuesday were

not basically new. Even his opening sentence had a familiar sound, the kind of thing the United States and the Soviet Union have been saying for years:

There is only one item on the agenda of this conference it is tne leading item on the agida and that one item is peace.

The Soviet Union said several years ago in a memorandum on disarmament: There is no task more vital and urgent today than the task of preserving peace.

The White House had hardly announced Johnsonsi proposals before senators were urging Caution, warning there could be no agreement without inspection.

Any hope of a Soviet .witch on inspection seems based on this: Maybe they think its time for a second look because (1) their economy is in a downturn and less money spent on armaments would help and <2i their spilt w'ith Red China may make^them want better (Continued on Page 5)

(The Charlotte News)

Fidel Castro in the Soviet Union, sitting up pretty for Mr. Khrushchevs economic bones, reminds the world at large upon whom he depends and for what and how much. He depends upon Mr, Khrushchev for survival; he depends upon Mao Tse-tung for very little and upon the British for scarcely more.

Buses or no buses, the Castro regime stands or falls on Soviet economic toleration. This is a dependency United States foreign policy toward Cuba is meant to encourage. To the extent that the Cuban economy under Castro has suffered from having to extend this support the policy has been a success. The buses along will not rescue the Cuban economy. Only if they signal a greatly creased rate of trade between the industrialized Western countries and Cuba will they work .seriously against the countrys Cuba policy.

But Washington never h a a persuaded its allies to take its view of the economic boycott of Cuba. Great Britain, which produces only half of its subsistence food, considers trading heavy industrial goods like buses a necessity. It is no slap at United States policy for Britain to trade buses (which it regards as non-stra-tegic) to Cuba: it is simply an expression of the continuity of British policy.

Americans should not be confused about this. When the British argue that they cannot be blamed for trading buses to Cuba because United States sells wheat to the Soviet Union, they becloud the Issue. Ameri

cans are safe in assuming that the buses would have gone to Cuba whether or not we sold wheat to the Soviet Union. If this were not so, we would have to belive that the British sold the buses in retaliation for our wheat sale, which puts a ludicrous construction on the case.

Our wheat sale to the Soviet Union is quite as cold-blooded as Great Britains bus sale to Cuba. The United States has a surplus of w^heat, an unfavorable balance of payments, and, presumably, sound diplomatic reasons for w'lshlng to deal off some of this surplus to the Soviet Union. If the United States did not, Canada or someone else would. The United States is not aiding and comforting e Soviet Union out of some muddled, dogooder Impulse; it is conducting a trade based on the realities of world politics today.

One of these realities is that the United States so far has been unable to convince its partners that Cuba is a special case in the Communist world; that Castro really can be felled by a cooperative boycott from the West and that his falling would materially enrich the cause of the Free World everywhere. Washington must continue to use its various powers of persuasion to this point, keeping its wits about it, shunning harsh remonstrance. and remembering that its policies are not by definition absolutely right even to friends.

And this country should go right on trading on the basis of value received, balanci n g ri.sks against gains in the world as it is. not as we might wish it to be.

and is able to row back to the United States, he will have proved beyond a shadow of a doubt that he w'as right, and therefore deserves to be President.

But if the ICBM proves to be accurate and hits its target then Sen. Goldwater should agree to have his name removed from the primary in New Hampshire.

The big question is whether the Defense Department would be willing to waste a two million dollar missile on such a test, particularly when it has pledged itself to an economy drive. The feeling at the Defense Department is that In this case they would.

As a matter of fact several high Defen.se officials have offered to conduct the te.st in Sen. Goldwaters home state if he doesnt have time to go to the Pacific.

One Defense spokesman said, Not only would it settle the IC!BM question once and for all, but it would get Sen, Goldwaters campaign off the ground."

No one Ls sure that even If the Defense Department agreed to the test. Sen. Goldwater would go along with it. He refused to debate Gov. Rockefeller, a pundit pointed out, so why would he agree to be shot at by a missile?

We believe that the pundit is wrong. Sen. Goldwater is a man of action, not of words. Anyone who is willing to attack Chiba, withdraw recognition from the Soviet Union, resume nuclear testing and demand a crackdown on Panamanians would certainly be willing to playo along with a little old missile shot in the Pacific Ocean.

Besides, the Defense Department has a lot more to lose than Sen, Goldwater. If the test fails theyll have to dump all their ICBMs and start from scratch, and Secret a r y McNamara will look awfully silly.

Sen. Goldwater has nothing to lose If the test is a success except possibly the nomination.

Were well aware this Is a pretty far - fetched idea, but were sure of one thing. Were certainly going to catch hell for saying It.

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The man whose policy is simply one of constant opposition to everything is the man who actually has no policy. Such a man spends so much time saying we cant' that he never has any time to getting around to saying we can, or at the very least, we should try.The Raleigh Times.

By JOHN CHAMBERL.AIN Copyright. 1964, King Featurei Syndicate, Inc.

Whenhe raised the shadow of the Alger Hiss case in one of his recent stump speeches in New Hampshire, Governor Nelson Rockefeller exhibited great course or possibility it was naivete. For the Hiss case has been an albatross to those who have touched it. Ask Richard Nixon, for Instance.

What the New York Governor did, at least inferentially, was to accuse the U. S. government of falling down on its internal security job from 1945 to 1948. During that period Nelson Rockefeller served the Truman Administration in the State Department: it was as an Assistant Secretary of State that he went to San Francisco in 1945 to attend the conference which gave birth to the United Nations.

Pulling back the veil from his San Francisco , experience. Governor Rockefeller told a New Hampshire audience that it was part of his job to meet each morning with the FBI to discuss security matters. They came in one morning, so Rockefeller recalled, and said, We have the goods on Alger Hiss. He was then secretary general of the conference. This was in 1945, mind you. Long before anything else broke.

Nothing was done about Hiss at the time. As a matter of fact, the case had been smouldering ever since the beginning of World War n. It was during the period of the Nazi - Soviet Pact that Isaac Don Levine, a superior journalist. had taken Whittaker Chambers, an ex . Cbmmu-nLst on the staff of Time magazine, to see Adolf Berle at the State Department in Washington, Chambers had warned Berle about Alger Hiss and other members of Marxist study groups who were employed by the U. S. government In sensitive spots, Berle passed the information on upwards, but nothing came of it. So. when the FBI informed Nelson Rockefeller that the secretary general of the United Nations natal conference was a suspected menace, it was passing along some pretty old stuff. But it was not less potent for that.

Rockefellers exhumation of the Hiss case might be considered as something that is neither here nor there, now that Alger Hiss haa paid his penalty for perjury about his past. But Richard Nixon might have warned Rocky that to take the anti - Hiss side is apt to bring some subtle but nonetheless strong forces into play against a politician. Nixon has always felt that he both lived and died politically by his connection with Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, He made his reputation when he pushed the investigation that forced the Hiss trials.

But an impalpable malevolence has dogged Richard Nixon from that day to the present. As he made plain in his farewell speech to the press in California, he attributes It to Hiss ca.se fall-out.

With Nixons career in mind. Rocky should know that theres no political pay dirt in virtually accusing the U.S. government of sitting on the ^ Hiss case for some three years after 1945, to say nothing of the years between 1939 and the end of the war. But if It is courage that led Rocky to bring the matter up. then he deserves great credit for it.

This columnist has not been particularly in Rockefellers comer. But when it comes to restetlng euphoria whene ver Khrushchev smiles. It should in aU fairness be said that Rockefeller is by no means the least worthy of the Republican candidates for office. Said Rocky, to his New Hampshire partisans: Dont lets kid ourselves. They (meaning' the Communists) have not abandoned their concepts or goals. And Rocky went on to describe the Communists and fellow - travelers he encountered in South America and Washington as thoroughly dedicated men who believe they are going to dominate the entire world,

Rocky is currently wooing (Continued On Page 5)

?ower To Tax, Power To Reform

StreiiQth For Today

By EARL L. DOLGLASS SHEEP or HLS PASTURE

Thanks be to God who al-w'ays leadeth us in triumph (II Cor- 2:14).

Always? Yes, always. This is Gods promise. But wait, you say, I can telj you of a dozen times, a hundred times I have failed. Correct. You have failed. So have I. But God has not failed. Scripture does not say that we shall always win. It says that God Ls always leading us in triumph. We may not be following Him; but thats our fault, ncrt Gods. There He is, out in front, resplendent in light, beckoning us onward.

We fill? Oh yes, frequently. But we fail, not God. Dont say that God has made you a promiie and not kept it. God has made you ah offer and for some reason or perhaps a

multitude have not

of reasons , you accepted the ofr. The assurance of the Bible is .not that we shall always triumph, It Is that God is always leading us in triimiph in the direction of triumph, spreading out the divine light before our feet that we may not stumble or lose our way. Let us ndt blame our failings on God. God iiever falls.

So what shall we do? Well, fir.st of all we had better begm rebuking our.selves. But there Is little comfort in that, and God wants us to be comforted and made strohg in our faith. Then let us look up at that Figure who is leading us. He is Pjerfectly adequate to wir ev-need. For it is he that hath made us. and not we ourselves: we ai*e his people, and the sheep of his pasture (Psalm 100:3),

By ELMER ROESSNER

The first reaction of many Congressmen to the cigarett report Is to levy higher Federal taxes on cigarettes. Boosts ing the tax so that a p a c k costs, say, 50 cents w'ould discourage the young and the poor from buying them. Besides, the extra revenue would give Congressmen more money to spend, perhaps buying two new post offices for Hope, Ark.

One of the weaknesses of our system of government is t h e temptation to use the power to tax as a means to regulate the health and morals of the cltizenrj.

An obvious example is the tax on champagnes or sparkling wines. It is $3 a wine gallon, compared with 60 cents a wine gallon for still wines of com-, parableliptrength. That is sure-^ly not because champagne offers a better source of revenue. It is simply that fuddy-duddy Congressmen (and their constituents in the Southern and prairie states have associated sparkling wines with riHnking from chorus girls

slippers, and supported heavy taxes on the sinful stuff. OTHER DETERRENTS TO SIN There are taxes on such sinful things as billiard tables, bowling alleys, furs, jewelry, slot machines, liquor and con-cocticwis to take away the scent of liquor on drinkers breath, A clear-cut example of the use of taxes to influct morality upon the masses is the gamblers tax. This is $50 a year on each professional wagerer and 10 per cent of his profits. This brought in $5,689.000 in fiscal 1963. But the expenses of enforcing this levy, including the coast-to-coast raids thgt netted more than a hundred untaxed bookies a few days ago. may be far more than the collections. ^ Businessmen, wrestling with their income tax returns right now. are struggling with one of the most outrageous uses of taxes to regulate them.

The limitations on the deductibility of spending' for gifts, entertainment and travel are an outrageous move to make .all business cooiorm to a hasr.

grain an4. feed store In Sauk

GOT TO BE CONDUCIVE

Under present regulat ions, entertainment of a customer does not quality the cost as a business deduction unless the place of entertainment is conducive to a business discussion.

Every businessman knows customers or prospects who cannot be sold over a bowl of lasagna in a (julet restaurant, but who can be signed up after a night on the town, with many hours in the noisiest, noncon-ducive night clubs within taxi distance. But the government says businessmen cant get orders that way: if they do. the costs are not deductible and pouf! There go the profits on the deal!

Sauk Centre ideas are also embodied in regulations covering gltts: gift costs of more than $25 to any ope individual are not deductible. A company that knows it can land an order with a $100 gift must either sacrifice $75 of the cost, or lose the order.

WHEN SALESMEN SOLD

That noise In the distance you hear are the bones of Diamond Jim Brady rotating in his grave. Diamond Jim used to throw $1,000 parties at Rectors and Delmonicos for railroad tycoons: he would give prospects pearl stickpins and jewel-studded watches.

He never sold a bag of feed in Sauk Centre but. golly, he sbld millions of dollars worth of locomotives!

EMPLOYERS PAY $22.6 BILLION FOR EMPLOYEES' SECURITY

Private industry paid $22.6 last year for employee security, including pension and welfare contributions, social security, unemployment insurance and injury compensation, according to the National Industrial C(Xi-ference Board. This la an increase of $2 bUlion'over 1962.

Since 1959, wages and salaries have Increased 20 per cent, while payments for security rose 40 per cent, the Board figures.