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Friday,. February 28, 1964

It Took Centuries

Half Of The Plan Is Accomplished

Half the grand plan to put the nation's economy on a sounder growth basis has been accomplished. The largest income tax reduction measure in history has been written into law.

The other half of the plan will be far more difficult to accomplish, more difficult to pinpoint. It Js, nevertheless, essential to accomplishing the goals anticipated from the tax reduction. The other half of the plan concerns holding federal expenditures at a level which will sharply reduce and eventually eliminate deficit financing in federal operations.

Congress ha.s written the tax reduction measure into law with the overwhelming support of the American people. In spite of misgivings which w ere voiced when the'proposal was initially outlined by the late President Kennedy, most segments of the nations economic structure have come around to support of the program.

As Congress moves to put into effect greater economy in government operations and squeeze waste out of the federal budget, it will run into far more opposition from specific group^ than has been the case with the tax reduction measure. But unless

benefits anticipated from the tax reduction measure will gradually evaporate into thin air.

The government obviously cannot continue to spend at its present annual rate* a.id collect taxes at the new lower rate without appreciably increasing its already top-heavy indebtedness.^ If the federal operating deficit is allowed to grow year after year, it will more than off-set the economic boost anticipated from the tax reduction.

Now that the tax measure has been made a reality, Congress and the administration must move immediately into effecting the otherand equally importanthalf of the program. The half of the program that involves reduction in federal spending will notbe nearly as easily accomplished as passing the* lax reduction bill. It will bring about many more cries of protest from many quarters than even the tax reduction measure. Even so, it is just a.s essential that the high cost of government be reduced as it is that the tax burden on the economy of the nation be reduced.

The first battle has been won; but the remainder of the war is still to be fought.

IN ONLV 20yEAR,5

Goldwater

h N. Carolina

. .t By WH.IJAM. A. SHIRKS

GOLDWATER ~ Sen. Barry Goidwater of Arizona come* back to North Carolina this weekend to address the Republican State Convention and try to sew up the states delegation to the GOP national con-ventiwi.

He appears to have most of it already In his pocket.

At last count, at least IS of the 26 North Carolina votes at the San Francisco convention were pledged to Goldwater for the GOP pre.sldential nomination. And chances were that he would pick up more this Weekend.

A leading Goldwater boaster. Ken Thomas of Hickory, claims 22 of the 26 are in the Goldwater column and that the others, W'hile not committed, re leaning that w'ay.

SOLID Thomas, who Is Goldwaters state campaign manager, says "according to my calculations we probably have a solid delegation."

Delegates named at the First Second, Fifth, Seventh. Eighth, Ninth and 10th' district conventions, two^each, w'ere solid for Goldwater. Thomas said. Thomas himself Is a IWh district delegate. In addltiwi, at least one Sixth district delegate has announced preference for the Arizona senator.

Pour delegates - at - large from Nortti Carolina will be elected at the state convention In Greensboro this weekend, and the convention will be keynoted by Goldwater In a speech at noon Saturday.

WORK Goldwater will take time out from his campaigning In the New Hampshire primary to make his second trip to the state in little more than a month.

Aides Prom Goldwaters national campaign headquarters have been in the state most ot the week in advance of the senator's visit, making arrangements and laying groundwork.,

One item being attended to is scheduling thus - far uncommitted delegates for face - to-fact conferences with Goldwater while in Greensboro. These meetings probably will take place at the King Cotton hotel. Goldwater also wants to confer with key party leaders m the state level. State chairman J. Herman Saxon of Charlotte Is a Goldwater booster.

SPLIT - If solidity in the states 30P national convention delegation is achieved behind Goldwater It will be somewhat remarkable because the state partys leaders have been split badly on nearly everything else.

The state convention, however. may succeed in mending aome of the breaks. Saxon hopes so.

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On the other hand. It may not. There have been persistent reports for some time of a mov-ment afoot to oust Saxon who took over the party chairmanship Just last summer from Robert L. Gavin of Sanford.

Since then all of Saxons efforts to find a unifying GOP candidate for governor have failed. This chain of disappointment began when veteran Rep. Charles R. Jonas of Llncoln-ton announced last Fall he would not be the partys candidate for governor^ Trial balloons for several other possibilities projected by Saxon failed to get off the ground.

RUN Tw'o of these. Gavin who was unsuccessful GOP nominee for governor in 1960, and W. A. (Nab) Armfield of Winston - Salem declined and bowed out Just in the past two weeks. Saxon himself has been con.slderlng entering the race.

In the meantime, no fewer than four other Republicans have offered themselves as candidate* for governr but without the blessing or In some cases even acknowledgement of the party hierarchy. These are State Sen. Charles Strong and Rep. Don Badgley, both of Green.sboro, O. H Dog-gett of High Point, and E. P. Gallagher of Gastonia.

Gallagher, a Bible publisher, announced at the 10th district convention In Shelby last week. One delegate asked the district convention to endorse Gallagher, but this was amended to a commendation of his candidacy on a motion by former State chairman William E. Cobb of Morganton,

Cobb, who has been out of the political limelight since disclosure of his "double life" with households In Morganton and Roanoke. Va., In 1962. ha* been more active recently. He plans to attend the state con-venti(m.

CONVENTION The Republican convention begins Friday with an address by Rep. Gerald R. Ford of Michigan, the man many Republicans feel will be the partys nominee for vice president - especially if Goldwater wins the presidential nomination.

There will be a "Congressmans Night dinner Friday with addresses by the states tw'o GOP members of Congres.s. Jonas, and Rep. James T, Broyhlll of Lenoir. Republican congressional candidates wdll be recognized.

The convention meets In the midst of factional feuding be-4ween Republican groups in Guilford County Each group Is battling for official recognition at the convention and, among other headaches. Saxon may have to handle this

Now that flashing signals have been installed at the Elm Street crossing of the Norfolk-Southern tracks, it is wcffio look at other crossings which could become equally as dangerous.

Only little more than a decade ago, Greenvilles boundaries were for the most part north of the Norfolk-Southern tracks. In an unprecedented growth era, however, new subdivision.s with houses by the hundreds have sprung up south of the tracks.

In East Greenville there is a school south of the track.s and East Carolina is in the process of cont structing a whole athletic park on land it did not even own a few years ago. %

W. Berkley;Road, located a short distance down the tracks from the Elm Street crossing, senses as the main access to Elmhurst School and also to the college athletic park area. It carries traffic in and out of Forest Hills.

City officials discrssed including flashing light? at this intersection, also. It would have cost $5,775. The railroad would not share in the cost-nf this nor would the state.

Further east Is Brownlea Drive in Englewood which crosse.s the track to give acce.ss to 14th Street. The citys street plan calls for this tojbe a thoroughfare to Fifth Street and perhaps eventually to cross the river by means of a bridge.

Some day a paved street will be opened from South Greenville School into Tenth Street. This, too, will cross the railroad. And there are plans on the boards for Nr C. 48 to cross the Norfolk-Southern tracir in the vicinity of Dickinson Ave.

The Atlantic Coast Line has had far fewer new streets cut across its right-of-w'ay through the years than has Norfolk-Southern. This is true because much of Greenvilles growt hhas been east of the north-south ACL tracks.

Still one w'onders why through the years signals have not been erected on Third or Fourth Streets, Dickinson Avenue or the 14th Street crossing.

To be sure neither the railroads nor the city could bear the cost of protecting all crossings at once. But the problem should be studied continuously and long range plans made to erect signals, gates or even underpasses as traffic justifies these measures.

'ResManmim

By JOHN ABNEY

!and A Reliable Witch

IXTAPAN, Mexico One of the first safety measures a fellow must take when he moves to a new town is find himself a competent witch. Any sch(X)lboy^can tell you this is the best Insurance against evil eyes, hexes and spells somebody might conjure up against you.

Also, a reliable witch Is necessary to advise you about all sorts of things and which decisions to make. The Lady from Puebla tries to make the decisions (which seem to favor her Instead of me) and this is <Mie of the reasons a man need.s a trusted witch.

So I checked up with our

gardner, Elpldlo, the other day on the witch situatitm here and he said there were two or three pretty good ones but not to fool around with the run of the mill type who couldnt beat a slow ImII to first base on their brooms.

Unfortunately, he warned me to stay away from the most talented one because she dabbles in black magic from time to time and is not considered Kosher by the others.

Elpidio says the trouble was she could not be faithful to one cause since she would do anything for a fee and was known to commune with Satan when the moon is full.

And he said that one time there W'ere two brothers having a sort of feud here and one of them went to evil witch and asked her to conjure up a ten peso spell on his brother.

She put a blight on the brothers com and simply loaded his bean patch with field mice. And Elpidio says she promptly sneaked over to this fellows house and told him what HIS brother had done (business Is business with ladies so It was the MAN who did this) and suggested counter - measures should be taken.

Other Editors Saying. ,

Troubles Of Senator G,

Sten Based On

(Richmond News Leader)

By every indication, our man Goldwater is in troubie in New Hampshire. He started this campaign quite literally on crutches, when he was recovering in January from an operation on his heel; but he no sooner got that foot out of a cast than he stuck It in his mouth, and he has been running wdth some difficulty ever since.

aith And Hooe

By JAMES MARIXIW

WASHINGTON lAPi The $11.5-billion income tax cut-largest in history has now become law with ihe blesvsing of two presidents and both houses of Congress. It is based on hope and faith. v

The hope is that Individuals and corporatliMis, with more money to spend because of the tax reduction, will now spend it and in this way boost the economy and cut down unemployment.

For a while, at least, this economic blood - transfusion will work.

People will be able to spend more to buy what they want and need. And business, with more money to Invest to sup-* ply the demand, will expand plants and production.

But the patient may begin to develop anemia thus defeating the very purpose of the tax cut If, through hunger for a buck, inflation raises the cast of everything.

For example:

If business, seeing customers with more money to spend, raises prices and labor, either anxlou.s for some of the loot or because it feels workers need even more money to keep up with price, begin a broad demand for higher wages.

So. in addition to the hope the plan will work, this'tax reduction is based on faith in

the good sense of the country: That Americans wont get greedy.

Nobody has said It plainer than President Johnson Wednesday night in his talk to the nation after signing the bill into law.

"This, he said, "is a bold approach to the problem of the American economy.

"We could have chosen to stimulate the economy through a higher level of government spending. Instead we chose tax reduction and at the same time we reduced government spending.

"By taking this course we have made this bill an exprejv sion of faith in our system of fi-ee enterprise.

But the tax bill Johnson signed was far different from the (ie President Kennedy pro-pased to Congress on Jan. 24, 1963. Ls addition to tax cuts, he proposed a number of tax Reforms.

The government is losing a lot of money now although legally through preferential treatment and special privileges given particular types of transactl(Mis. enterprises and taxpayers.

Kennedy figured the reforms he suggested, by stopping up loopholes and eliminating special privileges, would catch back for the government about (Continued on Page 6)

What is wrong with Mr. G.s campaign? The attractive Senator from Arizona is discovering, we suggest, that politics i.s everything the experts always said it was. It is the art of the possible; and at the presidential level, a political campaign Is a testing ground for presidential leadership. Mr. Goldwater is proposing Impossible things politically impossible things and J)e is not conveying an Image of presidential stature.

He is discovering, to pursue the point, that a critic and a candidate perform two entirely different functions in the American political system. When a man is a critic, he can pop off in almost any direction. He can exaggerate: he can ridicule: he can engage in oversimplification: he can expose, charge, denounce, and castigate. He can propose anything under the sun. He is as free as an editorial writer.

But when a man declares himself, in all seriousne.ss, to be a candidate for President of the United States, all this changes. It Is like getting married. When Mr. Goldwater, the critic, says the United States ought to get put of the United Nations, it is stirring rhetoric. When Mr. Goldwater. the candidate, says the same thing. It Is a suddenly sober

ing idea.

These differences in attitude and reception are only a part of Mr. Goldwaters troubles. Alas, the Senator, so gifted in campaigning for others, is unaccountable inept in campaigning for himself. His personal relations with the press are excellent, but his press personnel lack the professional touch. The Senators undisguised reluctance to slap backs, kiss babies, and scour the supermarket vote already has aroused incredulous comment. He is not behaving good like a candidate should.

Its a pity, the whole business. As Mr. Goldwaters stock declines, Mr. Rockefeller's rating improves. The New Yorker has a slick professional staff He has buckets of money. He is .speaking in the fijm and fully - packed circumventions beloved of politicians everywhere. He is pledging no commitment from which a graceful retreat may not ie made. Sad to *ay, he is proving himself a better politicianmore mature, more responsiblethan Mr. Goldwater,

The blighted brother was so furious he paid the witch twelve pesos to make his brothers cow go dry. She did and then went right over and big -mouthed it to the cow brother who went into a rage.

They had a terrible time until one day the brothers sat down over a bottle of decent spirits and agreed to quit hiring this fickle witch to do anything, which would save them considerable money and stop the magic problems.

And Elpidio says the witch got mad and put a hex (m both the brothers so they slipped out of town and wouldnt tell anybody where they were going. The Sorcerers Union expelled the evil witch but all the members have to keep a magic herb In their right ear so she cant shoot columns of air through their brains. (Air from witches always goes in the right ear and come* out the left.)

Apparently they are shrewd enough to keep her from working any spells on them but like the old saying goes, "An ounce of tequila Is worth a pound of hangover." (Rough translation).

And the worst of It Is that on almost every Issue, Senator Goldwater is exactly right.- As a matter of principle, S<x:ial Security is alHwrong. The sale of wheat to Russia Is all wrong. Our policy toward Cuba Is as -soft as last weeks bananas. The Harvard economists responsible for fiscal policy arc In tnith mostly crackpots. A lot of poor folks indeed are Indolent bums. When Mr. Goldwater says these things, we are minded of the man who would rather be right than President. If he keeps it up, thats what he will be. too; Right.

I told Elpidio to tell her If she will straighten out all hooks and slices when the contestants shoot by my spread I will hire her a,t a substantial retainer. And lpldio will get a five peso Itxxius.

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By JOHN CHAMBERI AIN

Copyright. 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

TALLAHASSEE, FLA. -The State of Florida is becoming very much concerned over ~>the question of law. Either you have it or you don't.

The point is brought home here by a variety of happenings, both internal and external. In the southern waters, and In the air over the southern waters there Ls the continual threat of hijacking every time a boat or .a plane embSLTks with a Cuban. The case ot Alec Rorke; the lost American anti - Castro "freedom fighter," Is still unsolved. and $25,000 awaits anyone who can return him In the flesh. Alec and his pilot, Geoffrey Sullivan, disappeared one day last fall after taking a still unidentified Cuban aboard at a soutJi Florida airport and the suspicitHi wUl not down that they were hijacked and diverted to Cuba while attempting to reach Nicaragua. Since then there have been the cases of the diverted shrimp boat and the hijacked plane of Richard Wi-ight of Miami.

This iUegalism Is scarcely controllable by Floridians, who cant very well chastise Castros, (Tuba all on their own. But the States coastal water fishing license laws are enforceable In Florida courts, no matter who happens to be caught' violating them. And there Is resentment among Floridians that the State has been criticized for Imposing $400 fines on the four Cuban fishing trawler captains for poaching in Florida waters. The national argument, contested by Floridians, Is that, in tndng and imposing fines on the Castro fishermen, the conduct of U. S. toreign policy has been usurpeci by a mere State.

This criticism has apparently caught some Floridians unawares. Says Sam Specter, A.s-sistant Attorney General. "There seems to be an idea that our fishing license laws were passed with Castro specifically in mind. This isnt true at all. If someone from Pensacola had been caught Instead of the Cubans, or if it had been an Englishman from the Bahamas, the same 1 a w would have applied. The law has nothing to do with Castro, and we are surprised that so much has been made of the business."

In other words, the law Is the law', and can admit of no exceptions if respect for law Is to be maintained. The courts of the State of Florida had to function Impartially, or the whole American idea of justice would have been compromised.

The notion that "reasons of State" among which may be numbered foreign policy can justify suspension of the law Is a concept that Is being w'orked overtime just n I n e-ty miles off the Florida coast. Manuel Urrutla Lleo, who defected from his post as the flr.'^t President of Castros Cuba, has just come out with a frightening autobi(H?raphlcal document called Fidel Castro and Company, Inc.. published In New York by Praegcr.

So Elpidio suggested an aw-ftilly nice witch, whose name I cannot even prwiounce, and she Ls a direct descendant of Ome Tochtli. He was also known as Two Rabbits and was the deity of all games as well as of wine (Im not sure about gin and pemod but Elpidio promised to checkup on it for me) and a very likeable fellow.

Well. It seems reasonable enough that this nice witch Ls the dedicated motherly type w'ho should take care of my affairs. being the descendant of Ome Tochtli. Elpidio said she would carry on the tradition and be secretly In charge of the golf tournament they are holding here In a couple of days.

Urrutia, a law'yer and judge took occasion to break w 11 h Castro on the subject of Com-munLsrri. But what particularly outraged Urrutia, who remains

a socialist of .sorts, wa.s Castros conception of the courts as "administrative In.stru-ments that exist to "accept directives from the government for the performance of Its functions."

With no legal restralnU being imposed on Castros bur-.eaucracy inside of Cuba, It is scarcely cau.se for vinder that Havana should be an export center for guerillas charged with overiumlng legal gov-emments clsewhei'c In the hemisphere and even In Africa. Internal contempt for law breeds external violence. The Floridians who insisted that the Cuban fishermen be tried for invading local waters are very much aware of this.

The terrible Irony of the situation Ls that an extra - legal (Continued On Page 8)

You, Too, Can Make U.S. Policy

Strength For Today

By EARL L. 1)01 GLASS

ATHEISM ITS NATI RE

AND WORK

All overwhelming majority of people living on the North American continent have some kind of religion. Some of these religions seem pretty strange to the orthodox church member. but religions of many kinds there certainly are. For one rea.son or another more than two thirds of the population of our country definitely acknow-lege religious classification. Those wilt) pul thciaselves down as alht'lsts are few.

But as a matter of fact, we might indeed be shocked if we knew how many real atheists there are round atxMit us every day. You and I may not know five people of our ar-quaintance who really claim to he athei.sts. but wr know fifty, or many tinie.s that number of people, who live Uicir

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lives tlu'ough from one years end to the other without much reference to the existence and purpose of God. We might call these people practicing atheists They are not philosophical atheists. They do not ask that they be classed In the statistical lists as atheists, but 1 theylive their lives without God. They claim to get along very well without the ministry of the church. They pay little attention to having their children brought up in any sort of iTligious bclieL They usually avail themselves of the services of the church only at the time of marriagi and death So we should have in our nund two ILsts of atheists -the ones who are definitely classl-ficd .<i.s such and the great mul-tltiide of people who are practicing atheists iiecaiM- they live entirely apart from God Afhel.*:m I.*: more a pia.yct! than iJ) belief.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Patriotic Americans may well be confused. Should they refuse to buy a Triumph auto, a bottle of Scotch or cognac, or a tin of Spanish olive,oil? If they boycott those Items, are they striking back at the friends of communism? Or are they interfering with Americas diplomacy?

Rarely before In history have a people been so conised by their leaders

The confusion was first stew->d up on Feb. 18 when Secretary of State Dean Rusk was asked whether .Americans might bo.vcott goods of com-j panics selling to Cuba, such as the sale of 400 buses by Ley-land Motor Corp., Ltd., which al.'io makes Triumph cars. He said:

HOViOTT THE BUMS

"Well, we don't ourselves plan to organize any boycott against the good.s of countries that may engage in that Cuban) trade. I think It Is passible there may be .some consumer reaction in this country, henc and (here, with ic-spect to firms that simcflcal--ij' engage Ui thai trade. But

that's .something thats in the hands of private citizens: we have no part in that otuselv-es "

This was interpreted In this column and in Britain, France, and In the . S. Congress as inviting a boycott. Congressman Paul G. Rogers <D., Fla.) called for a boycott of Leyland Motors, which, he said, had sold 63.000 Triumphs In the U.S. in the last .four years.

Senate Minority Leader Everett Dlrksen. while not calling for a boycott, stated that sooner or later the U.S. must "come to ferips with the problem of trade with Cuba. How, he demanded, can the U.S. op-pase the sale of goods to Cuba w hile it sells w heat to Russia

Phillips apparently called for no boycotts.

Who is minding the store?

With this ambivalence, it Is suggested here that everybody boycott goods of nations dealing with Cuba and Red China. Lets not buy Triumph autos, CJheshire cheese, French wines, Polish hams. Spanish products the (the Spaniards are selling 150 trucks to Cuba) or other goods or services. We can also fly American and see America first.

The National Inventors Council has published volume III of "Inventions Wanted by the Armed Forces and Other Government Agencies," listing hundreds of inventions urgently needed. Copies are free to businessmen and Inventors at field offices of the Department of C(xnmerce.

AVIS POKES SLYl.Y

And W'hile we are at It, lets boycott American - made goods becau.se the Americans are .selling wheat to Soviet Rus-.sia.

"PI.E.ASE DONT BOYCOTT"

Then Richard I. PhUlips. a State Department spokesman, .said: The United States does i\Qt favor consumer boycotts."

This wa.s interpreted a.s an effort to slow down the ef-frets of Secirtary Rusks sprerh Hr appeari'd to be calling for a consumer boycott;

won't, of course. And If ou)^t)iYeBR;"*n5ii commun I a t goods starts to hurt our diplomatic relations, our Big Brother. the State Department, will. tell us .so, perhaps again In conflicting emanations.

AT RIVAL HERTZ "Avis cant afford 'TV commercials. arent you glad" headlines Avis Rent-a-Car ads. The number two company In auto rentals points out that It costs $15,000 to make a TV commercial. "Including h 1 g h-ways, western sky. car, pretty girls and a delightful Jingle to delight the heart of music lovers. Avis hasnt got that kind of money." It neglected to add that .station time would double, triple or quadruple costs.

INVENTORS. An ENTION! OPPORTCMTY (XANGSf .

Stop work on that perpetual motion marhlno and get busy on Inventions the government need* and Will pay for!

Incidentally, a traveler returning from Ijon Angele reports that he was unable to rent either an Avis or Hertz car there. Not enough to " around.if

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