Thuriday, February 13, 1964

No Panic In The Tobacco Regions

They Can't Protect Him From This One-

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Tobacco producing regions of North Carolina have taken in stride what could potentially be the greatest blow to their economy in many decades. There has been no hysteria or panic in connection with the new campaign against tobacco consumption in the making on many fronts. .

Offsetting fears that tobacco consumption may drop sharply because of the recent report by the surgeon generals special committee is the knowledge that in other countries where similar official panels have branded tobacco a health hazard, tobacco consumption has risen steadily after a sag. There is also the belief in the tobacco industry that research can pinpoint any harmful elements in tobacco, and these can be removed to allay any possible fear that cigarette smoking is harmful to health.

Generally, in this section at least, there is a firm confidence that the long-range outlook for the tobacco industry is good, rather than bad. It is natural, threfore, that suggestions that tobacco areas gird themselves for a possible emergency are being heeded only half-heartedly, if at all. It is natural too, that in most instances every segment of the industry has adopted a wait-and-see attitude toward the situation. /

It seems to us that it would be more logical for the tobacco region of Eastern North Carolina to move forward with its agricultural and economic development as if there were an emergency. Such a course should include an intensive effort to provide greater agricultural income from additional crops and commodities. It should also include greater intensification of efforts to attract industries from other areas as well as create additionaKindustries of the home-grown variety throughout this area.

Such a program would better prepare the area to stand up under a severe economic blow to its present tobacco economy if that should come. But even if the tobacco industry should not be seriously affected by the present situation, the fact that a more vigorous and diversified agricultural an dindustrial economy had been developed would be a great asset to Eastern North arolina.

The uncertain situation which now prevails with respect to tobacco should spur Eastern North Carolina to unprecendented efforts to bolster its economy by developing its untapped potential and resources.

Sixteen Boys Honored

Rotation Pacts Scouting

! Being Reachec.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ROTATIONS Numerous county Oemooratlc execut i v e committees are racing to complete rotation agreements with neighboring counties for the new lineup (tf state senatorial districts and get them filed before a Feb. 17 deadline.

cmiy two such agreements had been filed at the time of a State Board of Elect Ions meeting last week but half a doaen or more were in preparation.

The state attorney general's office held that rotation agreements affecting counties In districts unchanged except for number by the 1963 Senate Re-districtlng act are still in effect. There were three such dU-tricU.

agreements In addition to the two already filed and three remaining In effect, officials had word of several agreements on the verge of completion or already reached but not filed. Oae of this affects Wake and Chatham counties.

Another one completed affects Halifax and Warren counties under which Halifax with 60.000 population will have a senator for two terms lij/luc-ceaeion and Warren witn 20,-000 population will have one for the third term.

The Cabarrus County Democratic Executive committee gave initial ratification to a proposed agreement In the two-senator 24th district. This provides for each county to have a senator two times out of every four terms.

The proposed lineup would given Union and Anson counties a senator each in 1965, Cabarrus and Union in 1967, Cabarrus and Stanly in 1%9 and Stanly and Anson in 1971.

ANNOUNCEMENTS - A trickle of political announce-menU for legislative seats lo coutlnulng although the deadline for filing in the May 30 primaries doesn't fall until March 20.

A three way race hu developed for the State Sen a t e seat In the newly carved 34th district compoeed of McDowell, Madison, Mitchell and Yancey counties. The latest candidate to announce is Oyde M. Norton of Old Port, m McDowell. Earlier 34th district announcements were by Madison County political leader Zeno Ponder of Marshall, and Incumbent Sen. J. Yates Bailey of Burnsville, In Yancey.

James B. Allen of Troy has announced as a candidate for the legislative seat held by Rep. J. Paul Wallace of Mit-gomery County. Wallace has Indicated he will seek re-eleo-

tlon.

In Orange (>)unty, Don a 1 d Stanford of Chv>el Hill became the first announced candidate for the seat which had the greatest turnover (tf any In the legislature In 1963. It was held first by veteran Rep. John W. Umstead who resigned after the 1963 General Assembly convened. The seat was filled by Chapel Hill judge L. J. Phipps who resigned to become commander of the N.C. Department of the American Legi(m. Phlppe was succeeded by Hillsboro publisher Ed Hamlin.

ROCKET A report by the Atlantic Research Corp of Alexandria, Va., discloses that the firm Is developing and testing a very high performance large rocket engine, the Pallas, at its uter Banks facility at Corolla. N.C.

No details were given. The firm listed the Pallas project as a new program undertaken during the past year and Involving a $2.5 million contract with the U. S. Air Force.

The company listed a total of $57.9 million in new orders during 1963. Most of the new work involves a U. 8. Air Force Athena ballistic missile study with flight testing In Utah and New Mexico and in California.

NOTES Between 250 and 300 temporary state employes were affected by the new 85 cents an hour state minimum wage law which became effective Jan. 1.

The State Pereonnel Council approved the Increase to comply with the law and noted that there are no permanent state employes making less than $1 an hour.

Annual meeting of the North Carolina Sweet Potato Assn. Inc., will be held at the Wayne Agricultural Center, Goldsboro, Feb. 13 with quality control a featured topic;. Another feature will be a panel on keeping up with ccMisumer market and discussion of such items as nutrition, merchandising, fresh markets, sweet potato flakes and canned yams.

FARM A study in agricultural' econcMTcs indicates that North Carolina farm expenditures for agricultural supplies climbed from $360 million a year to $451 milU(xi between 1956 and 1962.

The study by Dr. W. H. Pierce of North Carolina State showed the biggest single Item was feed, costing $124 million or 27.5 per cent of farm purchases In the state. The second biggest was fertilizer and lime, accounting for $78.9 million. New vehicles and machinery was third at $74.5 million.

It is a high tribute to the Boy'Scouts, to the youDg people of Greenville and to the city as a whole that 16 local Boy Scouts this week received the God and Country award of Scouting.

The award, one of the highest in Scouting, is presented in recognition of a Boy Scouts devotion to the highest ideals of Scouting and to special study, service and participation in the affairs of his own church.

Services in local churches last Sunday in which this special award was made to 16 young men in Greenville provides a forceful and positive answer to those who often ask the question, What is happening to the younger generation?

These young men who have received this distinguished recognition in our community more nearly typify the great majority of our young people of today than do the few whose names wind up in police records or on the rolls of juvenile delinquents.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - President Johnson has a thin skin and some of his critics are getting under it already. He hit back. He called them bellyachers, although he didnt identify them.

This evidence that Johnson can be irritated, so early in a presidential campaign year will probably just encourage Republicans, who have been criticizing his handling of foreign policy, to do more of the same.

The degree of Johnsons Irritation can be glimpsed from a part of a talk he made Tuesday to agents of the Internal Revenue Service,

When I became Democratic majority leader in the Senate, when President Eisenhower was president, I took the position politics stopped at the waters edge, Johnson said.

We had but one president and one commander in chief. I would support his policies and give him strength and comfort, and I would not be aligning myself with any enemies of the United States in criticizing him.

Thats pretty hard to digest in a country like this where the political football game traditionally has the out-party spending a lot of time criticizing a president and, in a campaign year like tliis, even more time.

He said critics of an administration In office can be almost as much of a problem is some of our other enem-Ics.**

His talk at least had the effect of raising a pertinent question about himself. If he can get this hot this soon, whats his temperature going to be when the presidential campaign really gets rolling?

In the 1960 presidential campaign year . before he got the Democratic vice presidential nomination on the ticket with John F. KennedjJohnson was critical of Eisenhowers handling of foreign policy.

And he was critical before that during those years of his majority leadership, which be mentioned Tuescmy.

If Johnson runs for election this year, as expected, and former Vice President Richard M. Nixon once again is the Republican presidential candidate, as he was in I960, this will be the 1960 campaign in reverse.

Among Republicans Nixon and Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona, in particular, have been Johnson ciiUcs.

Although Goldwater is openly seeking the nomination, Nixon insists he is not a candidate while, at the same time, sounding more and more like (me in his trips and speeches. He does say hed accept a draft.

In that 1960 campaign Nixon, after two terms as Eisenhowers vice president, was in a political box. He had to defend the Elsenhower - Nixon foreign policy while Democrats were free to bang at It.

John.son did his share of banging, although Kennedy did the most of the talking. Now Johnson will have to defend his policy while Nixon is free to criticize.

In doing it now he sounds, in a way, like Johsnon of 1960, which is one of those oddities in American politics which must make a foreigner wonder how Americans are ever able to choose between their politicians.

Recently Nixon said some areas of U. S. Foreign policy need a new direction. He mentioned Latin America, especially Panama, and Southeast Asia.

In 1960 Johnson said we need a new, vigorous and different foreign policy, and he especially called for a positive and djmamic" policy for Latin America. He was also critical of American Asian policy.

The relationship between Johnson and Nixon, Judging from what they have said about each other, could hardly be called clubby,

Nixon recently called Johnson a past master of a political shell-game with "something for everybody liberal to the liberals, conservative to the conservatives.

In 1960 Johnson called Nixon dangerous and deceptive and accu.sed him of resorting In the campaign that year to the kind of language little boys write on fences.

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A new disturbance on the moon has been reported by Air Force astronomers. Tlie Russians couldn't possibly be there already, could they? Fort Myers News-Press.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS LAl'KADAISICAL Bi comiDenting on present day conditions modem writer has made the following observation; *

The real evil in the world is not the spectacular, the occasional, the vividly catastrophic; the real evil lies in our neglect of causes, our indifference to ctmditions, our un-wUUngnesa. to give the time, the m(iey and the effort to atop preventable disaster. , The place to itop an evil is at Its source. Jeeus discovered this and preached it centuifles ago. He maintained that there la no goodneaa In the world save goodneM of heart. People may do good things for selfish or evil reasons. They may be generous because of the praise It will bring them. They may be willing to perform some good service becaase of the extent to which It will ingra

tiate them with people whose favor they seek.

This is not goodness this is selfishness, disguised and operating under the radiant gannents of gCKxlne&s. We read the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew wherein is described the last judgment. The people conceiving Gods commendation and eternal favor were those who gave a cup of cold water in the Masters name. This, certainly, was not much of a gift and probably saved nobodys life. It was significant because the goodness which prompted the gift was spontaneous, uncalculated, dome only because there was a need and not because the giving of the gift would bring any benefit to the giver.

The world Is Indeed full of evU, but let ue pull the mote (splinter) out of our own eye, and then shall we see clearly to remove the mote from out brothers eya. ^

By ART BUCHWAL

How To Oraanize Coud

"Gentleman, the class will come to order. Today we will discuss the organizing of military coups. As you know, when you return to your own countries at the end of this course, you will be in charge of large units of your national army. You will probably be involved with at least one coup and there are certain things you must be aware of. First of all, what kind of a coup do you want?

A colonel raises his hand. "A bloodless coup?"

Very good. Col. Phununu-mu. A bloodless coup is always the best kind. World opinion will always accept a bloodies* coup, whereas If you have to resort to fighting it will look messy In the newspapers and you will give all military coups a bad name,

In order to organize a bloodless coup, you have to have a

Junta. This junta should be composed of other officers, preferably below ttie rank of general. When your coup is successful, you can promote yourselves. Actually, one of main reasons for a coup is to speed up the promotion process in the military serv cea. What is it, Maj. Gonzales? Senor. eef weave a Junta, who decides who ees the chief?

You cut cards for It. Thats usually the way its done.

A naval captain raises his hand, In most bloodless coups the army seems to get all the Jobs and the navy is rarely consulted. Ls there anything we can do to play a bigger role? It all depends where the capital of your c<Mintry is.

If the capital is a seaport, you can bring in your destroyers and cruisers and threaten to shell the city if youre not

Other Eciitors Saying A New AoDroach

(Greensboro Daily News)

North Carolinas mental health program Is moving toward community - orientation m keeping with more humane and progressive treat-ment and rehabilitation practices.

That does not mean that the state can think about abandoning or even curtailing the program and activities at its present mental institutions. But it does mean, certainly in the planning and hopes of those responsible for a newly correlated mental health program, embraced in the State Department of Mental Health, that population has been stabilized and that the states normal growth can be taken care of without any substantial building program. There may be some imbalances to correct and maintenance and upkeep will always be a major item. But that, say those abreaM with modem trends and medical and psychiatric advancement, should be that.

The die for closer community - orientaticm, embrac 1 n g both facilities and personnel, was formally cast at the last meeting of the State Board of Mental Health. Capital outlay will be held to a minimum in budget requests for the next biennium, and emphasis will be upon prevention and rehabilitation in the local communities where they can be done with least expense and with greater results and effectiveness.

The program cannot be spell

ed out yet. But it Involves expanded and additional c o m-munity mental health clinics, opening of more general hospitals to psychiatric patients, rehabilitation centers, sheltered workshops and job opportunities which tend to be therapeutic and self - sustaining. Both the mentally 111 and the mentally retarded will share in tha program, although in most Instances on different levels. Close co-operation with the public schools and other interested agencies and organizations is expected to result In establishment of more classes for the trainable and educable children, with keeping them at home, in all that home implies, of prime consideration.

The program will not materialize all at once. But the vision is there; the plan is there and the pieces are bieng clearly defined to fit into the changing pattern.

Essential to success, it must never be forgotten, are community education, attitudes, cooperation and accept a n c e. The personnel and the facilities may be supplied, but work - ability rests ultimately upon the community reaction* to the humane, saving role In which it is being cast.

Research meanwhile will c(mi-tinue apace, on both state and local levels: and what its contribution may be no one can for sure say. Great progress within the past few years surely justifies hope for even greater accomplishment In a 1 o n g neglected area of human darkness.

made part of the junta. By the same token, you men In the air force can Indicate that youll bomb the capital if you're not given a role. Ideally, military coups should be split-amongst all the armed services.

Now the most impor t a n t thing in a coup is to get command of troops. A tank corps command is ideal or a paratrooper command Is quite helpful. Stay off the gen eral staff If you possibly can. You may get arrested by mistake.

"Once you have command of troops, you must think of some excuse to bring them into the capital of the country. Perhaps you can bring them in for an armed forces loyalty day parade or a USO show. Fix your arrival for early In the morning when everyone is sleeping. The first thing you do Is to surround the presidential palace and the radio station. You announce over the radio that you have taken over in the name of free and emocratic government and oil charge the Incumbents with stealing the treasury, setting up a dictatorship, and dealing with subversive foreign powers.

"If all goes well, y<Mi should be in the palace for breakfast. Put the president and his cabinet under house arrest and organize a popular demonstration in the streets. Let the people bum down a departanent store or a foreign embassy to make them feel they really have freedom. After that, move In your troops and put in a seven oclock curfew on the town.

Then hold a press conference and announce that none of the foreign policies of your country will change and you will be happy to accept aid from any country which offers it without strings. You will be surprised how anxious foreign diplomats are to get In good with a new junta. You had a question. Col. Choo? Only one. How do we open a Swiss bank account?

ODinionti

"There are only three kinds of people: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who have no idea W'hat happens.Carlsbad Current-Argus.

Dont stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites: because

theres always room for one more.Clay Center (Kans.) Dispatch.

Barrys Policy-Views

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright. 1964, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

Continuing my home work. Ive caught up with the complete text of Barry Goldwatera long piece on foreign policy in "Life Magazine. And, as I had auspected. what Goldwater says about foreign policy is not what his detractors, both Democratic and Republican, say he says about it. ^

The suspicion. Indeed, has been noised abroad that Barry Goldwater is a danger o u a character who would push u* to the brink of war In no time.-' "The housewives wont vote for him, so a housewife said to me the other day. But if the housewives will read what Goldwater actually says, they will discover a marked correspondence between his ideas and those of Clarence Streit, the peaceful soul who wants to save the world by federating the Atlantic democracies Into such a strong community that the Communists would never dare attack It.

Clarence Streits view, which he sets forth In the January Issue of his magazine, "Freedom and Union, Is that John P. Kennedy began his term of office wisely, with an approach to "Atlantic partnership built on a strengthening of NATO. To cement the partnership, Kennedy set up his early meeting with de Gaulle. But in Streits opinion Kennedy made a fatal mistake of ccmtinuing on frcmi Paris to Vienna to do some explorative "summitry with Khrushchev. This miffed de Gaulle. And "Le Grand Charlie was further miffed when Kennedy, after his famous American University speech, turned to dealing over the heads of the West European nations with Moscow.

The trouble with this approach, according to Streit, is that it hands Khrushchev just what he wants, a weakened NATO alliance. It enables Moscow to use "divide and rule* tactics in its diplomacy. With the West following an "every country for itself policy, Khrushchev can pick up a bit here and a bit there (wheat from Canada, British and French acceptance of Cadtros Cuba), without having to give up anything to anybody.

Well, so much for Clarenca Streit, whom nobody ever accused of being a warmonger. Now as to Barry Goldw a t e r. What Goldwater proposes is, quite simple, to kead from strenght without being bellicose about It. He doesnt propose getting out of the UN as it is at present constituted, but he thinks the UN is primarily useful to the West "as a forum in which to discuss Communist violations of the charter. In terms of peace, says Barry, "I view the NATO alliance the Atlantic community as a far more practical tool than the UN.

In short, Goldwater think! that the free peoples should unite to protect their freedom. He does not endorse Clarence Streits idea of immediate federal union of the nations of the West, but he does accept the West as a political, cultural, spiritual and eccmomic entity which should try to concert its policies and Its defenses. Ho is on his way toward the Streit solution.

The goal of the Goldwater policy would be "peace througl strength. To use a brilliant phrase of Willi Schlamm's, he would "give Khrushchev all the peace that the Soviets would be willing to pay for.

As Barry Goldwater sees it, we are now rapidly Isolating ourselves by our current policies. The French are going off in one direction, the British in another. Nobody wante to support us in Vietnam, nobody respects our efforts to blockade Cuba, everybody laughs at ua when we are Insulted in Panama, In Ghana, and by a two-day-old "peoples republic In Zanzibar. We arc being pushed back Into "Fortress America* only It isnt much of a fortress in an age of intercontinental missiles.

"The Atlantic alliance," saya Croldwater, "could change the course . of world affairs. It w'ould need, for its protection, a NATO force with a commander empowered to use tao (Continued On Page 5)

Tax Cut Too Fast And Too Much?

By ELMER ROESSNER As the tax cut bill nears enactment, there is a rls i n g body of opinion that the tax cut is too fast and too much.

When the tax cut was proposed by the late Presi dent Kennedy, there was widespread support among corporation chiefs, bankers, labor leaders and merchants. Only here and there was raised a voice that said cutting taxes below government spending was inflationary, that the stlmulaticwi of a tax cut should be reserved for times when depression threatened, and that it was madness to try to hypo business when It was at an all-time peak.

Opposing a tax cut was like coming out against mother and apple pie, and if anyone was foolhardy enough to speak out. the rejoinder was. "Well, what about the unemployed?" HAPPINESS ON TICK As was p<tfnted out here, cutting taxes without cutt i n g spending was like going to a small loon company and borrowing money for a b 1 n g e. money w<uU change

hands fast, everybody would have a good time but, in the end, someone would have to make up the deficit, preferably our grandchildren.

But now that the tax cut la well on Its way to becoming a law', some of the most respected economic volcers are joining the Ishmaelites in wondering If the bill is right.

The ix)int is how being made that President Kennedy proposed a tax cut in three stages, spread from mid-1963 through 1965. When that became politically Impoesible, a two-stage reduction was proposed, with a 15 per cent out in 1964 and a 14 per cent cut in 1965.

But political considerations prevailed. It became apparent that If t cut would be a good thing this year, then a cut twice as big would be twice as good.

PUT US ON A SPENDING JAOr

The conservative First Na-tl(mal City Bank asks In Ua current economic letter:

"Does the cut perhaps odd too much stimulus too soon to Ofi already hasdUUr asvaasl^i!?

Would it be better to spread the individual Income tax cut over two years rather than, in effect, only one?

"Might the stimulus of the tax cut begin to wear off just about the time that proposed reductions in defense spending begin to set in? Can the Ad-ministratiH) hold the line against wage - price inflation in the faces of a strongly stimulated economy.

Dr. Elliot Janeway, the maverick economist. In his Feb, 3 economic letter, said. As the 1964 tax bill pants its way out of committee and cm to the Senate floor, it's well to remember that its primary aim of accomplishment Is political: it will have more impact on the 1964 Presidential comp a 1 g n than on the 1964 economy. There will be another tax bill shaping up as soon as this U out of the way. he predicted.

The poUtteal implications of the present bill ore strong. It wUl give a flush of prosperity and a highball of Inflation to the taxpayers and to bus-tnesa Just before Use Jtovember

electlcms.

When President John son signs the bill, he may be signing himself on for a four-year cruise as skipper of the good ship Lollipop USA.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSLNESS NEWS ITEMS

The United States Savings and Loon League reports that the biggest S&L organizatlixi is the Home S&L Association. Loa Angeles. In 1962, it was the only s&L to have more than $1 billion In osoets; in 1963 It bad $1.5 billion. Runner-up la California Federal, with $1 bllllQD for the first Ume last year. . , .The National RetaU Merchants Association has released figures showing that builders buy major appliances from manufacturers at one third less than retailer* can get them. PTC (and Car 64) where are you?. . .For a reprint of a government summary on the Bureau of In-tematlonar Commerce aids exporters, write RCA CJonununl-catl(6. 66 Broad St., New Yortu)