Tuesday, March 10, 1964

LBJ "Isometric Exercise" Chart

Not Much Planning At Local Level

Povei*ty breeds ignorance and ignorance breeds poverty. The concept is well known, and across the nation today great plans are being made for an all-out attack to break the cycle that plagues people in almost every community.

It is of concern to us, however that most of the planning to attack the problem is being made at the federal and state levels rather than at the local level. Rather than doing what they can to cope with their individual situations, most communities, we are afraid, are going to sit back and wait for the grand plan to be framed by someone else. The Months or years that may be consumed in developing a program at high levels of government and passing it down to the grass roots might well be used at the local level to begin to cope with the problems.

There are many things the individual com-

it can make significant progress'without a great outlay of public funds.

Another approach is that of training un.skilled people for jobs. Through industrial training centers dotted across the state this is being done to some extent. But by and la'rge the emphasis so far in this program ha.s been directed toward those who have broken out of the proverty-ignorance cycle. The centers have .so far only scratched the surface of their potential to help break the cycle in many

areas.

It is elementary that if people are to lift them-.eive.s out of poverty, they must have something more than training. They must have jobs that will allow, them to use training they have received. Each community can intensify its efforts to provide additional jobs in business and industry that will

munity might do in it* own eHort to meet this prob- increase the opportunities for both the unemployed iem on its home territory. Some communities, fortun- and the under-employed.

ately. already are using their own resources in that direction.

One approach is an effort to reduce the number of drop-outs among school youngsters. It is

The community, too, can give more attention to housing, sanitation and other conditions which exists in its midst that help contribute to the prepetua-tion of the poverty-ignorance cycle.

Mo.st communities may need outside help in

not likely that the Wonderful Wizard* of Wajth- problem*, but there is much that

ington will come up with a agic formula that will tL. .......1

1, can be done at the comunity level without waiting

assure that youngsters will remain ff for the state or the federargovernment to design a

past the legal age when they may drop out. If this nation as a whole. The com-

Jf i munity which begin* its own attack on t

be done at the local level, through efforts of school officials and the people of the community. If a community puts forth a serious effort to reduce the number of drop-outs among its school youngsters,

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By WnXiAM A. .SHIRES RALLY The Dan K. Moore rally laat week has now taken its place with the Richardson Preyer gala in January as one of the high spots of the 1964 Democratic primary campaign.

This t true because such rallies like Roman circuses, with all tbelr gutter, glamour and showmanship, are becoming showcases of political campaiigning in North Carolina for better or for worse.

The two events, on Jan. 25 and March 6, have been unequalled in pubUclty value. In this respect they served the candidates weU. Both needed the publicity.

How many additional votes they brought Into the candidates columns is opeti to question.

OCCASIONS The Preyer rally In Greensboro served to firm up an image of Preyer as front - runner In the early campaigning. It was billed a.s Preyers kickoff for a 100 county tour of the state, a tour Just now completed.

Occasion of the Moore rally In Raleigh last week was Moores official filing for the May 30 primary. But it was more than that.

It grew into a full - scale rally and gave substance to reports that the "middle of the road" candidate has been gaining rapidly In statewide support. R fumi^ed visual evidence that the Moore bandwagon Is now moving into high gear.

INDICATE The Moore raUy tended to support belief among seasoned political obaervers that the primary race is tightening and that the contest between three major contenders will be close.

There is Increasing evidence of this now. in contrast to the aituation a month or more ago when It appeared that the May SO primary results might be one - sided.

In effect, the Moore rally was an answer to the early Preyer-for - governor rally In Greensboro. It invited compari.son, although the locale was diffemit. the occasions were dlffeiwt and the timing was different. Nevertheless there were slml-iarltlcs In technique, and the purpose was the same.

MOORE One enthu.siastic Moore .supporter claimed on the stage of Raleighs Memorial Auditoritim that "w'e traveled a million miles for Moore

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today. This may have been somewhat exaggerated, but not much. If the average round trip was 20 miles for 5,000 Moore supporters, it would have hit the million mile mark.

Preyer supporters probably could have made the same claim In January when more than 7,000 thronged the Greensboro Coliseum In Preyers hometown.

Moore supporters claimed they would have exceeded this flifure in Asheville. The fact Is that both rallies exceeded expectations In attendance. There was considerable preparation and planning behind the staging of each one. And In both cases the i-esults were cheering.

IMPRESSIVE Uke the earlier rally for Preyer, the Moore rally had its impressive features.

A noisy march up Fayetteville street in Raleigh by hundreds of singing, shouting Moore supporters on their way to attend the official filing ceremonies at the State Board of Elections preceded the whoop-do - do at the Memorial Auditorium.

The cai'avan of Moore - for-governor buses rolling into the capital city from various counties also had Its effect and there was no denying that spirits in the Moore camp soared. The Moore people quickly put their celebrities both those in show biusiness and in politics on display for maximum effect.

They describi'd it as a spontaneous demonstration of grassroots support, but of course a great deal of work and effort went into it VOGUE - It is the vogue in opposing camps to belittle such showy demonstrations on the part of a candidate.

It happtmed in the case of the Preyer rally in Greensboro and again with the Moore ex-tranvaganza. Whether such rallies W'ill prove worthwhile and effective enough to become a permanent part of campaigning i-emains to be sc'en. In many ways, they are an Innovation.

At the time of the Preyer rally in Greensboro, the headquarters of candidate.s Moore and Dr. I. Beverly Lake vigorously disclaimed any plana to try to simulate such a show, Thev continue to deny any similarities between what has been stayed and what may be planned between now and May 30.

.. unity which begins its own attack on these problems will be far ahead of those which sit back and wait for a plan to be handed them form some other source.

State Cant tolerate The Unsigned Leaflet

Gov. Sanford acted promptly and correctly, in f'

ordering an immediate and thorough investigation p aT?T RtTiTTTW ATzT)

into the matter of unsigned leaflets attacking Dr. By AKi

I. Beverly Lake that appeared last week. - t~|

There is every assurance that the 1964 cam- J ^ \ T

paign for the Democratic gubernatorial nomina- J. lC'V-AvJ. V i-lion will be hard-fought. As the weeks move toward

the May 30 electon day, the campaign will increase been a lot of criti-

in heat and intensity. On too many occasions in the lately over the fact that

past final weeks of a heated campaign have brought many Senators and Congres.^

.-1____ 1:4 _ attacking men hold high ranks in the mil-

ri]oy

inose jriiits

Lventuaiities

out .scurrilous literature candidates.

unsigned reserves. Barry Goldwa-

ter, for example, -is an Air

By acting promptly in ordering the investigation Force .Major General, com-of unsigned leaflets attacking Dr. Lake, Gov. San- mander of the Af

ford has served notice that the state will not ^^^How'S-dTannon as a Brig-tolerate such tactics in this year s campaign. The ^dier - General and Hawaiis state law' requires that material distributed in con- sen. Hiram Fong as a Colonel nection with the campaign be in. d

re.sponsible for them. It i.s a good law and one that j^^jor - Gen-

the .state should insist-as Gov. Sanford has done eral in the Army and he combe enforced in the campaigns this year. mands an Army ^fe^e unit

Had the unsigned leaflets attacking one can- Sm s. mS-

didate this early in the campaign gone unchallenged j^rd of California is Captain by state officials, it would have encouraged the use of the 75 - man Navy unit, of .similar tactics later in the campaign. It is unfortunate that such an incident occurred in the 1964 campaign, but it is much better that it happened now than for a wave of such occurances to have crushed across the state a couple of months from

now.

which Includes Marine Col, George A. Smathers of Florida.

Critics of the reserve system Insist that these mhembers of Congress are no moer than a highPowered lobby for their respective services and their only function is to get appro

priations for the outfits whose uniforms they wear. ttWe would like to defend these reserve officers because we feel they have been unjustly vilified. Unfortunately, for security reasons, they cannot defend themselves. But we are under DO such wraps.

Each reserve unit at the Capitol has a definite military function far and above lobbjdng for their particular service.

For example, the 9,999th Air Reserve Squadron has an Important role to play In the defense of our country. It is not generally known, but underneath the Capitol in specially constructed hangars are 36 F-105 fighter planes. If anyone ever pushes the button, the entire back lawn of the Capitol will be rolled back and the fighter planes wUl be brought to the surface.

In the meantime, Gen. Gold-water and members of the 9.-999th Air Reserve Squadron will

Gov. Sanford is to be commended for the action he has taken to discourage such tactics being em- ^^,*1

ployed throughout the remainder of this election Utner Laitors ;:5aying. year.

McNamara

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(Christian Science Monitor) The Communists can usually be counted upon to put their foot in It. Extremists are like that. When the West is struggling hard uphill against some stubborn cold war problem, like as not the Communists will overplay their hand. And the West will be shocked into doing what has to be done.

The occasion for this homily Is obvious: the Communists

have done it again. It was the men of Peking this time.

Just as the United States Government and the American people were sinking deep into confusion over the worsening war in South Vietnam, the Chinese Communists have taunted them. The American tactics have failed, Peking said. This proves conclusively, it continued, that revolutionary guerrilla forces can overcome the superior military strength of the United States.

"The U. S. paper tiger has been punctured and exposed. The prospect for the future, not only in Vietnam but across the world, said Peking, is that "the people of any country or region subjected to United States aggression can win victory if only they are not overawed by its apparent strength, and dare, and know how to struggle.

That, thanks to Peking, is the issue.

If the United States is pu.sh-ed out of South Vietnam, re-

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Pre.si-dent Johnson is the man in the middle in the civil rights fight starting in the Senate.

It wasnt like this a few years ago.

As the summer of 1955 wore on he had plenty of tome to wonder what the future held for him, He was recovering from a heart attack but felt far from finished.

It soon bt'came clear a heart condition didnt have to be a political handicap for within a few week.s President Dwight D. Eisenhower had an attack, too. and recovered to go on being an active pre.stdent.

Johnson returned to his jot) as the Democrats Senate leader and In the last four years of Eisenhowers admin-istiation set a pace so furious and distinguished he decided he might even be able to be president himself.

In those years two of his out-.standing achievements were getting a civil rights bill through in 1957, the first in this century, and another In I960.

Johnson, a Southenier, did this over the op p 0 s i t i 0 n of Southem Democrats but these two measure.s never entirely satisfied anyb 0 d y. They were compromisevS, stripped of sections which irrltateiE-Southerners mast.

Now, four years later, its another election year, with Johnson hoping for a full, four-vear tenn for himself. Once more a civil rights bill, backed by him. is before the Sen-nt-> The situation is not the same.

Ill the past RtHtlng any kind

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of civil rights bill passed, even though watered down, was considered quite an achievement even if not perfect. But Johnson is president now, not just a Senate leader.

He has given full endorsement to the present bill, the strongest ever offered in American history. Standing firm may hurt him politically In the South; jdelding Ho compromise may hurt him in the North.

Southerners are prepared to fight for weeks or months. Johnscm's Democrats cant prevail over the Southerners without Republican help. And Johnson wont get all the Republicans on his side.

Therefore this bill, more than anything he has tackled so far. will test Johnsons craftsman-.ihip and his intentions in trying to fashion Congress to his will.

The Hou.se passed this bill. If it winds up watered down in the Senate, the House may not agree to such a compromise. In that case there will be no civil rights law this year, which would be a deadly blow for Jolin.son.

volutionary parties everywhere will have their hunting license. Defenders of the non-Commun-ist world all around the Red Chinese perimeter, the men who stood out against Communist pressures and became marked men, will be dismayed and dispirited.

An outstanding success for piece-meal aggression would be racked up. And one such success - as it was proved by prewar Japan and Hitler makes the next much easier.

This Is the issue. Along the military lines where the independent world meets the Communist forces of Peking and Moscow, such a success could be exploited quickly. Back in the areas remote from the East-West line like Africa or Latin America In Cuba for example there is more time in which to recover. The books are not closed on Cuba yet. But here too the knowledge of one case where "the people of any country or region, . to quote Peking, "can win victory if only they are not overawed by the United Statess apparent strength, and dare, and know how to struggle. could have sickening effect in a world underpinned by the proved ability of the free world to protect itself.

Thi.s is the Issue, as Secre-taiT McNamara and his party of high United States officials take up their critical mission In South Vietnam.

be helped Into their flights suits by Senate page boys and will report to the Senate Judiciary Room for a briefing. After being briefed, they will rush to their planes and take off up Constitution Ave. by twos. The primary role of the 9,999th Squadron is to protect the Army-Navy Country Club from attack by unfriendly aircraft.

They will also be assigned to fly cover for any Senators and Congressmen who would like to leave Washington in a hurry. And thirdly, they will in all likelihood be allowed to strafe Bobby Bakers h(ne In Spring Valley.

While Gen. Goldwaters planes are in the air, (5en. Strom Thurmond of the U. S. Army Reserve will dig in on the Virginia side of the Potomac to make sure no Negroes are served in segregated restaurants during the emergency.

The Navy unit will launch a torpedo boat (now stashed away In the Senate cloakroom) on the lake in front of the Lincoln Memorial and see that no ememy submarines penetrate to the Washington monument.

These plans are contingent, of course, on Congresss being in session. In case a filibuster Is going on in the Senate when the balloon goes up, Gen. Thurmond will be allowed to remain behind.

The Defense Department will probably deny these facts, but We have it on the highest authority that these plans have been draw-m up.

Proof of it Is that when we called the Defense Department and asked them what they were doing with so many high-ranking officers up on the Hill, a spokesman replied, "No comment.

Opinions Brief

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"A Conservative: One Who will not look at the new moon out of respect for that ancient tradition, the old one. Regina (Sask., Canada) Commonwealth.

Numerous tracts decry the alarming eyodus from the farm to tlie city or to some vast unknown. But this Is a matter of impersonal statistics until you see and smell an abandoned farm home, or perhaps until you touch a window that is all socket and no eye.Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1964, King Featuref Syndicate, Inc.

SARASOTA. Fla. The fruits of the impulse genxrafc-ed by the old . time ente^rl-ers, often miscalled the rflbber baron, live on to delight Americans bom to our own stifled time. Just back of the mot^ strewn Route 41 in Sarasota, for example, le stumbles upon a UtUe jewel of a theater, the Asolo, where the Tumau Opera Players have been present 1 n g exquisitely staged Moaart, Verdi, and Rossini operas and Benjamin Brittens modem "Rape of Lucretia to charmed audiences. The Asolo, an eighteenth century Italian playhouse, waa assembled from parts mad# available by an Italian anUqu dealer and brought piece by piece In crates to the Florida west ccst, where it has been housed after many vicissitude In^de a permanent shell.

The State of Florida assisted in giving the Asolo its new setting, but it wouldnt be her# in Sarasota if John Ringling. the circus magnate, hadnt made a lot of money In a low-tax era and married a woman with a passim for all things Venetian. Mrs. MaWe Ringltog wanted to live in a mansion moiteled on Stanford White original Madison Square Garden in New York and Doges Palace in Venice, and she had the money to get her wish. Her fabulous house, along with a Ringling Circus Museum and the John and Mable Ring ling Museum of Art, was eventually willed to the pe(H>le of Florida and the Uttle Asolo Theater, set up on the old Ringling property, completes the ensemble here on Sarasota Bay.

So this is what came out of a fortune made from exhibiting lions and elephants and selling pink lemonade all over America. And who, in our land, is worse off because Mr. Ringling was permitted to treat hi income as his own? 'The money flowed into the circus cof-fera and through Mrs. Mabl Ringlings fingers into the pockets of landscape gardeners, nursery proprietors, archit e c t, stone masons, carpenters. Importers, art dealers, shippl n g companies, insurance salesmen, real estate dealers, paint e r *, decorators and heaven know who else. Wouldnt you call this better than a WPA project? I would, particularly when it is considered that the Ringling Museums In Sarasota still give employment and pleasure to hundreds.

It is still possible to make a big fortune 'in America by one capital gains routeor another, but money made in thi manner tends to remain in corporate forms until the time comes for setting up a foundation to deal out tax - exempt grants. The foundations serve many laudable purposes, but the stamp of the personal and the Idiosyncratic is seldom upon their benefactions. Their choices frequently reflect houre of impeccable but uninspired paper work. The Ford Fwindar tion, for Instance, gave away a lot of money recently to support the American dance. Som worthy companies and school were showered with funds running into the millions, Init they all happened to be in the classical European tradition of ballet. Moreover, they were not precisely poverty - stricken when the eyes of the Ford Foundatiwis advisers hit upon them. The worthy Indigenous American dance got nothing. And it is the indigenous companies the Martha Graham Dance Company, the Jose Limn Company, the Tamlris-Nagrin Company, etc. that are really struggling.

The effect of our tax law In a high - tax era Is to channel money into forms approved by cautious people who are paid to be safe. The daring and the original are often overlooked. If a rich widow wishes to support a single stniggling artist, she cannot take fwindatloo to support a large public hv stltutlon, that 1* another story.

The tax cut that ha Just been passed, wrhlch at least makes a move toward recognizing that a mans Income 1 his own. Is hardly sufficient to permit the John and Mablo Rlnglings of the future to In-(Continued On Pag 5)

Quotes Record Year In Home Building?

_ Tighter water conservation is in the cards for most of u.s. and the day is not as far off as one might think. Florence iS.C.i Morning New,?.

By ELMER ROF..SS\ER

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"With the primary date still three montha away, wonder w'hat the candidale.s will find to talk about for all that time? The Raleigh (NC.i Times.

A.s a general rule, its best for parents to follow the advice tlvey give their children. Dawson Comity (Ga.i Advert Iser.

Definition of tlie joy.s of motherhood; What a woman e.xperiences after all the kids are in bed. Chicago Tribune. '

"Teach youngsters the true and just meaning of patriotusin and civic-mindedness . . . thus they will refrain from hysterical flag-waving every time their 'self-confidence jwavers. Mexico City Excelsior.

"Some tasks have to be put off dozens of times before they will completely sUp your mind. Dawson County

(Ga.) AdvejrU*r.

Those few workei-s found in velopes la.st Friday may be just Hie Ihuig to make 1964 a record year in home building.

And if Congi'ess acts favorably on President John sons hoiusing program, the n e w record may be slupendoius Congre-ss may act favorably loo, becau.se this is an election year

The mast important proposal in President Johnson s program is that Congress authorize SO.iKMi additional public hoasing uniUs in eaqh of the next four years.

The President also asked for authority for the Federal Housing Administration to encourage withholding of foreclosures against home owners who default on mortgages because of circumstances beyond their control.

nEFAl'LT.S WORRY PLANNER

This was no idle rt*quest. The fact i.s that the rate of fore-clasures has been rising, and many government offlciaUs are concenied. Th ut bi incna*

taxes may tend to slow defaults and foreclosures. But the effect wUl be slight. A cut in tax rates means nothing to a mail out of work.

IiicldentaUy. If you are looking for a bargain in hou.slng, consider bidding on a f 0 r e-clo.si'd house. Your real estate agent will tell you how to go about it

Meanwlille, fatter pay envelopes will be the deciding factor fw many families that have been thinking about buying a hou.se. Real estate dealers are already aware of this, and housing ads have Increas e d, notably over the last weekend.

DEMAND GROWING

Last year, a total of 161.0(K) new housing units were start-ed. A unit Is a private house or an apartment. Including apartments in two fam 11 y houses. While this was a record, it was only a modest gain over 1%2 and a very .slight gain over 1959. when 1.-553..500 units were started.

Starts droppt'd off in winter and some ob.servers were fearful that the Industry was head-ktf lab Ilewew, Um

F. W. Dodge taI)ulati<Mi showed a spurt in January. Residential building contracts ran 10 per cent ahead of the January. 1963, total.

Theie is little danger of overbuilding, even if the government steps up its program for public housing. The population at this very moment i.s 191.-566,233 persons. Thats a guess, of course, but it is based on Cen.sus figures.

Even the most conservative of four Census projections puts the population at 194,127,000 on July 1, 1965, and at 218.855,000 on July 1. l975. The most generous a.ssumption puts the population at 2,30,415,000 p e r-.sons in 1975.

WHERE TO SLEEP?

It is obvious that housing for 20 million more persons must be built in the next ten years. And when the decline of existing dwelling units, due to de-terkiration, fires, slum clearance and the taking over of residential areas for busine.ss and industry is taken into consideration. Uic housing needs in the next decade are stag-

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contractors.

Incidentally, Morris Ket-chum, Jr., New York archlp tect, addressing a meeting ;>od-. sored by the American Institute of Architects, denoun c d sausage skin housing.

Too much of our present low - income housing were designed for households of 8.4 persons, he said. "Someone put a hundred or a thousand families of 3.4 persons into a machine and out the other end comes housing of a hundred or thousand apartments, each designed, like sausage skin, to hold exactly 3.4 persons. Maybe the .4 of a perscm 1 a child of an IBM machine.

UNPI.EASANT ADVERT-ING STIRS A READER A reader writes that one (4 the most disgusting current advertisement is that In the March 7-13 TV Guide showing the bottoms of a fat and a thin girl on lunch - counter stool. I reject hLs complaint. It doesn-nt come up to a commercial on the Jackie Gleason show, shown during my dinner hour, demcMistratlng a toilet bowl cleanif.