Friday, March 13, 1964

Bareley Supporting Economy Spirit

That Wild Paris Taxi Driver

CA^NYOU BtAWe SAN\

^ I)ecision of thel^House of Representatives to for the bill having been rejected. Members of the reject the $4 billion pay-increase bill is a major Houseall of whom are up for re-election in stroke for providing to the tenor of economy needed Novemberare better off politically for having in federal operations to off-set the tax reduction turned thumbs down on the measure which would measure recently written into law. have provided them with a salary increase of almost

It is evident by the roll call vote, however, that 50 per cent, the bill had considerable support. There is also the It Is also important to the nation that the firm strong suggestion in the House action that had the stand against unnecessary increases in federal exmeasure not required a roll-call vote, it would have penditures reflected in the vote on this particular sailed through the body^ with flying colors. The measure also be applied to fher propositions that reluctance of members of the House to put their come before Congress, Defeat of the measure should names in the record as supporting such a measure also indicate to the administrationwhich strongly in an election year may well have speled the dif- backed the billthat voters ofthe nation expect ference between victory and defeat of the bill. the executive branch of government to give active

Certainly the operation of the federal govern- as well as vocal support to bringing about greater mcnt, and the taxpayers of the nation are better off efficiency in government operations and holding

federal expenditures to a reasonable level.

\4ore Than An

'Arrest Quota'

By wnXlAM A. SHIRES QUESTIONS -- They hydraheaded chame o arrest quo tas employed by the State Highway Patrol appears to have been loped off and laid to rest, at least insofar as a , legislative committee Is concerned.

Big bigger and broader questions about traffic law enforcement in general and the award-wlnnlng State Highway Patrol in particular have been raised and remain to be answered.

These questions deal with adequate laws, with policies and procedures, with the morals and public support of the agencies and men themselv e s who constitute the front line of defense in the war against traffic accidents and slaughter on the streets and highways.

In general, they deal with what Is asked of these * agencies. what is expected of them In view of an ever-lncreaslng task and what is being given?

GRAPPLING The Be Ik committee of the State Legislative Council found Itself grappling with these matters at the very outset of its hearings in Raleigh this week.

They grew in scope and depth and In dgnlficance to the overall problem as the hearing progressed.

The committee found Its e 1 f probing into what makes such an organization as the State Highway Patrol tick sifting into its day to day operations, allotment of manpower, into its piles of paperwork, reports and records, its assignments to patrol more than 71,000 miles of highways, its in-service and recruit training, its policy making and flow of directives.

PATROL The Highway Patrol itself took the legislative committee behind the scenes to point out what It does and why. its .specific problems and recognized weaknesses.

It did so with unusual frankness. Motor Vehicles commi.s-sioner Ed Scheidt told the lawmakers at the .start, there Is nothing that we want more earnestly to do than to cooperate to the end. . .we feel confident that the results will be beneficial fo all concerned

The problems outlined by Scheldt, top-ranking officers of the highway patrol and other experts hi traffic law enforcement are enormous.

A thick report submitted by the patrol's own adrnliiistrative staff, a detailed .self-.study, .said It Is evident that there Is room for Improvement lii' traffic safety In Noith Carolina W'hen the estimated econom 1 c loss In 1%3 was $2.18..500.(KIO We recognize that a balanced program in traffic safetv is vitally necessary if we effect a reduction in the tragic death rate

PROBIMS One of t h e first wit.ne.sses said bluntly, there Is more death on t h e hlchways than ev'cr before

And thus witnes. a nationally-recognized expert in traffic law enforcement, added, the traffic picture Is being viewed from the wrong end of t h e

telescope*' 'nsofar as the public and non-enforcement groups are concerned. He said they were focusing on specific areas of annoyance and Interest hijead of on the total problem.

Another witness, a district director of the National Safety Council, said the traffic problem in this country is increasing at a rate of four or five per cent, each year. By 1970, he said, there wUl be 25 per cent more traffic to cope with than in 1963.

A parade of witnesses urged greater public support of traffic enforcement agenc 1 e s, a clearer public understanding and more effective public relations by the agencies themselves.

They urged the development and encouragement of better techniques, more efficient meth-octe and top notch administration.

QUOTAS ~ The Highway Patrol, with Scheidt and patrol commander, Col. Dave Lambert in the forefront, viewed the arrest quota charge with serious concern.

There was no attempt to minimize it. not to evade the charge. It W'as deeply disturbing. Scheldt said that the quota charge bothered me more than any one thing cited In an 11-point legislative resolution directing the Belk committee In-ve.stlgatlon.

But witness after witness refuted the quota charge with statements and evidence and the Highway Patrols own report disclaimed flatly that there was ajiy written quota or written methods of arrest production pres.sure, It conceded that there is a daily activity report and performance of individual patrolmen.

But It said, No evidence has been uncovered which would Indicate that sergeants encourage competition for ar-refits or apply pressure to patrolmen to make frivolous, technical or borderline arrests.

If pressure is applied to an Individual patrolman, it is applied to bring about traffic law' enforcement activity in Its many pha.ses and not simply the indiscriminate arrest of highway users."

MORALE The overall problem from which the arre.st quota" charge arose was described as that of morale.

Many other things are involved In morale. Por example, the patrols's own report said that before action of the General Assembly to improv iTtlrement benefits "there wide dissatisfaction in the Patrol conceniiiig the inadequate coverage through no fault of Patrol officials . .

The Patrol went on to ask that the retirement plan enacted for the present biennium be set up as a permanent program.

Other .specific matters included the patrol's merit pay increase plan, its promotions system, lonegivity plan, assignments such as racial disturbances. long hours, length of time spent In court and a reduction in number of required reports.

The income tax reduction that became effective in part lapt week is expected to trim federal revenue.s by some $11 billion in the next couple of years. Unless firm steps are taken at every level of federal operations to hold down expenditures, the tax reductio^n wiil be off-.set by increases in federal deficit operations. In the long run such a set of cir-cum.stances would hamper rather than stimulate the nations sound economy.

It is imperative that leadership for greater economy in government come from the top policy making levels. That means from the top administration officials and from Congress.

Rejection of the pay increase measure in the Tlouse is a first step in the right direction.

Reluctance To Delve Is Made Manifest

If the Baker inquiry by the Senate Rules Committee has accomplished nothing else, it has shown clearly the determined reluctance of members of the Senate to delye into possible conflicts of interest on the part of its own membership.

At the outset of the inquiry it was asserted by Sen. B. Everett Jordan, chairman of the committee, that no stone would be left unturned to get to the bottom of the matter of Rakers business dealings n ^ a ^ i u . while he served as secretary to the Senate majority., conferenS of last^Lrday^if* But throughout the hearings each time a path ap- ternoon was considered one of peared to be leading toward the door of one of the ^tead of going on at

Senate offices, there was suddenly a high and formidable barricade erected by the investigators.

Ihe investigation has created more unanswered questions about the possible conflicts of interest on the part of some mernbers of the Senate than it

News Conference

11 oclock on Saturday morning, as he did the prev i o u s week, he selected the prime time of 3:30 in the afternoon, which should have given him a TV rating of .3 or one out

. , , ^ . - of every 800,000 homes in the

has proved answers to questions of Baker s private country.

business dealings. The conduct of the investigation President

by Sen. Jordan and other members of the com-

mittee has drawn a protective curtain around the wasntannounced untif^^SSn business activities of Senaftors more than it has shed same Saturday. And

light on the vital (jue.stions that were to be answered at the outset of the undertaking.

In our opinion the committee has fallen far short of doing a creditable job in behalf of the

then to make sure that not everyone who tuned him in would ILsten to the press conference, the President spent the first nine minutes announcing ap-

puhlic interest. As charman of the committee charg-

ed with the responsibility for the investigation Sen. statistics of the NaonIfTS

Jordan -must assume a large part of the responsi- elation of Purchasing Agents bility for this failure. Either by design or by apathy cost-of-living index for

on the part of members of the committee, the inve.s-

Januaiy,

But you cant keep up this kind of exciting news forever, and the fear in Washington is that the President, if he continues his Saturday press con-femces, will soon run out of hard news.

We hate to imagine what will happen 20 Saturdays from today if the President keeps up this pace.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I have a few announcements to make. My daughter Luci passed her algebra examination and Lynda has been invited to a dance next w'eek in Annapolis. I wish to announce several important appointments. I am appointing John L. McQuade as night porter at the Sitting Bull, W y o., courthouse for a four - year term. I am reappointing George Martin as a guard at Leavenworth Federal prison, and Har-

has shown itself largel.v to be f^rc^. Othei EdtOfS SOying .

In either case, it has reflected no credit hers of the investigating committee or upon the Senate as a whole.

Sen. Jordan may cite from his recoixl in the Senate many things for which his North Carolina con.stituents may be proud of him. But his role as chairman of this committee certainly is not one of ihem.

Old Fashioned Remedy

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.rersonaiities P Above Issues?

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By .IAMF..S .MARLOW

WASHINGTON I API -r- New Hampshire voters must have been more concerned about personality than issiie.s when they gave Henry Cabot Lodge victory in their Republican presidential primary this week.

For this to be the deciding factor in one state might not mean much.

But it may turn out to be a dominant point in the attiUide of voters in both parties aroiuid the country up to and through the November elections unless there is some crisis before then.

Issues in American Society have become blurred becau.se so many politicians In both parties see eye - to eye. They have a time trying to show' a difference and they are not very convincing.

In New Hampshire people didn't have much to go on In picking Lixlge except their memory of a tall, pleasant, good looking, rather noncontro-ver.sial New' Englander who has held highly important jobs under l>oth parties.

As amba.ssador to South Viet Nam he didnt campaign, said he wasnt a candldatie, didnt get claser to New* Hampshire than Saigon, and didn't have hi.s name on the ballot. The voters coineniently wrote it in for him.

This was a rejection of the three Republicans who talked most about current problem.'^-Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arlz-ona. New Yorks Gov. Nelson A Rockefeller and former Vice Pre.sldtnu Richard M. Nixon

Nixon, who say.s he Isn't a candidate but certainly sounds like one, stayed out of New Harnp.shire. Goldwater and Rockefeller, acknowledged can didates. talked their way around the .~tate for weelcs

Goldwater and R(X'kefeller didn't attempt thorough di.scu.s-sion.s of anything. This may have hurt. They approached tneiit.s in .sudden bursl.s. and pretty hackneyed ones, too, except for .some hali- - raisers by the Arizonan.

For example: on making Social Security voluntary and sending Marines into Cuba to turn on Fidel Castro's water.

While Rm-kefcller .s divoriT and remarnagc and Goldwater'.s .shooting from the hip may have co.st them vote.s, the re-.sult.s how voters rejeetcd them for the imafie of fai- - oil Lodge.

Image Is a good word here.

It can hardly be claimed the voters in New Hampshire or anywhere else remember much if anything, about Lodges views on anything except that, like most people in this country, he is agaln.st communism.'

The last time he was heard from at any length was in the IWO presidential race when he was Nixons vice presidential running mate. Lyndon B, John-.son was his opposite number on the Democratic side.

The most that can be said for the LcKlge and Johnson speeches in 1960 was that they sounded like warmed - over Nixon and John F. Kennedy. Neither man distinguished himself with views, oratory or panaceas

This, of cour.se, is in the ancient American political tradition that Vice presidential candidates are only echotvs.

Before that Lodge had made a name for him.self. but nonpolitical, and built up the image of himself on television as U. S amba.s.sador to the United Na-tion.s from I9.5:i until l%o.

That wa.s after Kennedy beat him for his Senate seat in 1952 So for almost 14 yeaivs, with the exception of i960. Lodge ha.s Ijt'en out of the main .sti-eani of American politics. In that time lie held no elective office.

.At this hionient probably most Americans, including the New Hamp.shireites. dont know where he stands or .stood on anything, except that he wa.s a Republican and helpt'd per-.suade Dwight D, Elsenhower to run for president.

What most probably dont know at all is that as a .senator Lodge wa.s an interaatlonal-,, i.st and. on a number of ls.sues in those days, wa.s more on the liberal than the con.serva-tivp side.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

If public school teachers In New York City are too often the victims of vicious assault at the hands of their students, we cannot claim surprise, for thius far parents and officials have solidly withstood all efforts to put a stop to this scandalous situation. When a member of Congress, such as Rep. Adam Clayton Powell, shrugs a.side the.se vicious attacks. how can one expect the students to respect rules and regulations?

The trouble wdth New York lies in the desire by certain do - good elemeiils to seek a cure for hoodliunism and punk rule by rehabilitation methods and soothing syrup. What it really needed is the prescription accepted recently by the state of Georgia. The Georgia legislature has approved a very old-fashioned remedy of paddling school children who misbehave.

A few tanned bottoms for the unruly elements In Gothams schools would do more to rectify the situation, w'hich has deteriorated into anarchy, than any child counseling, conferences or rehabilitation methods When a teacher cannot defend himself from mob attack in the classroom, when such attack is more or less condoned, then its time for specific action.

Closely tied in with the recent wave of attacks against teachers In New' York city schools is the Negro boycott called to force integration of .schools not yet integrated.* Wholesale absenteeism by Negroes and Puerto Ricans has not been imusual. These boycotts have been linked by some city officials with the growing

boldness among these minorities, resulting in open w'ar on the teachers.

Rep. Powell denies this. In fact, he sees nothing new in the recent wave of assaults. He claims they are happening all over the country. We must assume that his conclusion means that since these attacks are prevalent in the U. S.. they are perfectly alright.

We maintain, however, that boycotts which are allowed by city officials emboldens the pimks and hoodlums who have concluded that if they can stay out of school, then they can also cripple and maim the teachers without fear of punishment.

A city must be sick when it allows thousands of minors to stay out of school in defiance of state law', and attack teachers in w'holesale numbers, without taking strong action to prevent this .sort of lawlesenes.

An example of how this trend is being coddled can be" seen from a statement by Mrs. A dele Tunick, president of the United Parents Association, who deplored a hasty move to curb the violence, a move that might be taken at the expense of students rights. What about the rights of the teachers?

Further, she deplores a suggestion that policemen be stationed in the schools, or .suspending the students who as-.sault teachers. One Wonders Just what sort of solution she has offered as a countermea.s-ure. We still maintain that a dose of Georgias pre.scrlptlon would go further to solve hood-lumism in .sophi.sticated New York than anything tried out thus far.

old Richmond has agreed to continue to serve in his capacity as attendant at the Veterans Ho.spital in Denver.

My search for qualified women in government contiinues. I am happy to announce that Mrs, Glsella Meally has agreed to become an iip^'^alrs maid at the White House, and I have appointed Mrs. Carlton Peal:dy as assistant cook at Blair House. Miss Harriet Cling-peaches has agreed to serve as a baby-sitter at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Mrs. P. K. Wratingbot-tom, a prominent Kansas City matron, has been appointed chairman of the car pool at Thomas Jefferson High School.

New den mothers for the CJub Scouts in Washington, D, C., are as follows: Mrs. Samuel Lanahan. Mrs. John Lindsay. Mrs. Benjamin BradJee. Mrs. Edward Streator. and Mrs. Carlton Kent.

"I have set up several new Presidential committees. My first committee W'Ul make a study of my war-on-electricity program. The committee w'iU advise me on how' we can eliminate electric light bulbs in the United States without hurting the economy, I have also appointed a committee to make a .survey of cocktail parties as they affect our unemployment situation.

I have one more announcement. I am happy to report that I am closing down the Post Office Department, w'hich will save the American taxpayer $235 million.

I would now like to read the census figures for 1964 state by state. If we have any tie after that, I would be glad to answer any questions.

Opinion^ Brief

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The trouble with bucket seats is that not everyone has the same size bucket. Memphis (Tenn.) Press-Scimi-tar.

If it Is of national importance to fight cancer death.s by not smoking, it is even more imperative to fight highway deaths by not drinking, be-cau.se death is just as positive from either cause. But with auto deaths the Innocent too often suffer.Industrial News Review

Word comes from Sweden of a whiskey-flavored cigarette, Next, di.stillers w'ill be matching it w'ith tobacco-flavored whi.skey. This, of course, would give people a choice depending on what they are trying to quit. Carlsbad Current-Argus.

An Old,-?lan Is

Waitina

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

WASHINGTON - One of the alternative proposals for handling the shaky problem of South Vietnam, involves the current refurbishing of World War n Qna fame. It te a plan that would neatly extricate the United States from front-line Involvement in Jungle warfare on the Asiatic mainland, yet. if it could be made practicable, it would have the virtue of Intenedfy-Ing and even extending the struggle against Commun 1 s m In Southeast Asia. The plan is known to be in the brief case, or at least in the mind, of one important adviser to the White House and to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara.

Briefly, the Wedemeyer blueprint, as of 1948, was to extend the idea of a Southeast Asia Treaty Oi^anlzation, or SEATO, to Include Japan. South Korea, and Formosa in an aU-Asia anti - Communist front. The widened regional organization. a sort of Asiatic United Nations, w'ould be charged with keeping the peace of its owti hemisphere as U Thant is now charged with preventing Communists or Arab nationalists from taking over such bits of western real estate as Cypnis or Israel. The pre.servatl(m of freedom in South Vietn a m would naturally 1^ first ci the agenda of any broadened SEATO that could be set up under a new dispensation.

In 1948, when the Wedemeyer proposal was origina 11 y thrown into the hopper for discussion. there were reasons for arguing against it. It was difficult at that time to visualize any antl-Communist cooi>-eratlon between Chlang K a i-shek and the Japanese, for the pre-1945 animosities had had little time to die down. As for enlisting the cooperation of the South Koreans in a broad an-ti-Communist Asiatic front in those days, that posed the difficult problem of getting significant aid from a little nation that was having all it could do to keep alive in the shadow of the Soviet colossus to the North.

In 1964, however, Japan is M acceptably democratic nation, (Jhiang Kai-sheks Formosa is strong and healthy, and the South Koreans are not quite as beleagured as they used to be. Certainly these three nations could combine to put some fighting antl-Com-munist police divisions Into South Victim.

As General Wedemeyer once saw it, nd doubtless still sees it now. it would be a mistake for the^ United States to undertake the active leadership of South Vietnamese troops in any extension of the war to the Communists privileged sanctuary in Laos and North Vietnam. The spectacle of white men ordering Asians to kill other A.sians in active battle could have unfortunate political repercussions.

But if the Japanese, the South Koreans and the Formosa Chinese were to support and lead Vietnamese a n t i-Communists in a war to dis-nipt the Communist supply lines that run from North Vietnam southward through Lao.s to the Mekong delta, the Communist allegations of white imperalism would lo.se most of their force.

The Wedemeyer proposal might meet with neutralist objections that the presence of Pormo.san Chinese in South Vietnam would stir Red Chi-na to Increa.sed activity on behalf of the North Vietnam Red regime. But the presence of a strong Formosa on Red Chinas flank well to the north of Vietnam Itself would, so the proponents of the Wedemeyer Strategy say, serve to keep most of Mao Tse - tungs army and air force tied up to protect the Red <Oiine.se mainland from possible lnva.sions In more-than-guerilla strength.

While the old Wedemeyer idea is being mentioned again In Washington, it has also been suggested to the Nationalist Chinese Ambassador to the UN. And, with the suggestion, there has gone s 0 m practical advice that Formosas civilian air fleet would be quite sufficient to ferry a division or two of Chlangs best soldiers to Saigon.

Whether anything will come of the proposal to revive the Wedemeyer strategy Is, of (Continued On Page )

Cleaning Up The Record Industry

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la modern lue nothiiig produces such an effect u.s a good platitude It makes the whole world kin0.scar wilde.

"More than .5,400 divorce cases were filed last year in Oklahoma County. The cynic iiiteiprets thpi to nii'an that many wommi work .co hard to make a 'marriape to -that u doe.. Daily Oklahomaji,

By FI..MKR KOES.SNKK

With Federal Trade Commi.s-.siouer John R. RtTlly a.s Hercules. an effort will gel underway today to clean the Augean Siablt\s of the phonograph record industry.

The industry is one of ilie most competitive In the United State.s. Anybody with a telephone number and a letterhead can gel into it. Having a singer or a combo to start helps, but these can easily be found later.

In con.sequence. many sharp and .oine .slimy operatois are attracted into the buslnc.ss There are .some fine, substantial. ethical companies in the industry, who deal honorably with distributors and customers. These companies have been urging the FTC to .set up and enforce rules. .

.SO.MF ABl SKS Anionp the polnls that may Ix iirought up in the hearings wt:

IMracy: Record piracy Is le.s.s than it was a few years ago. Then, whenever a hit appeared. a sharp operator would set up a record company, copy tJie hit, and flood the markets with a cut-price version and disappear with the profits before the original records was aware,

Totiay the big companie.s have their security forces. They know quickly when a pirate puls one of, their records on the market, and they swear to complaints under state and city laws. Furthermore, they act agaiiKst retailers who handle' pirate records. Only a very stupid retailer would not know that an exact copy of a hit record offered at a di.scount was pirated Still, a very big hit tempts a fa.st buck operator. INTKKXATION'AL PIRACY

However, a new piracy Is now bleeding the indu.stry: American made record.s are now being copied xn Cuba luid sold

throughout Latin America.

Payola: The practice of paying disc jockeys to plug records ha.s betni fairly well cleared up. Almoet all radio .stations forbid it. and most police their DJ shows. However, .some secret payments or favors are still made or granted.

Talent grabbing: Some sharp companies record dozens of .songs b,^ new comers, pay i n g little, and put the recordings in vaults. They linger there unless a newcomer becomes a hit, a not uncommon occurrence Then the recordings go on disc and are .?old. The talent finds Ills early work competing with hlsi high-revenue hit material.

Re-issuing: When an artist or a group bocom'e.s fam 0 u s, some companies will dig up earlier recordings, give them a new title and r'e-Lssue them. This is a fraud on the public.

FTC LIMITED

The FTC can do little about these practices except, perhaps misleading re-issues. It can only set up rules that will ccmtrol the honorable companies.

It can approve proposed regula titms that will prevent a record company frtan ielllng at different prices in different places: require companies to grant advertising allowances In equal proportion to all distributors; and prohibit tle-ln sales.

It may decide that a distributor may not buy up a retailer's unsold stock of a competitor to persuade him to fiwTtch.

It can also prevent the advertising of records as stereophonic when they have not two .separate .sound tracks, or the misrepresentation of recording tape.s, or the advertl'^lng of 3m-thetic needle-points as jewels.

But it cant do much about the things that a,re really bugging the record industry.