Monday, May 4, 1964

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Johnson Has Strong Grip On Reins

He Says You've Got To Stop

Lytidon B. ^olihsoh is entering the sixth month pre^iideiit s brother, of his presidency and, as obsenera, we can only ' To mike matters more difficult, Johnson had

note that never has a new president taken over opposed Kennedy at the 1960 Democratic conven-the nations leadenship so ably under such adverse lion for the presidential nomination. To some ex-conditions. tent the wounds were healed when Kennedy asked

Last Nov. 22, Johnson was called upon to as- Johnson to join him on the ticket as the vice presi-sume the mantle of leadership \VTien he and the dentiaj nominee, but scars remamed.-public least expected it. A glamorous, capable Johnson ha.s long been recognized as a master

young leader was killed and almost immediately at understanding the works of our massive federal JWinson was sworn in as his successor, ' government. \ ^

The slain John F. Kennedy was idolized by In that soothing, yet forceful way of his, he

his admirers and his untimely death brought even soon had long stalled programs moving through his political enemies to dispair. His popularity was Congress. It*was not long before the bogged down

so great that today, months later, thousands file by his grave in Arlington Cemetery hour after hgu

Johnson was faced with building his own image before the public, as the natioh wa.s almo.st beatifying his fallen predece.ssor. As with every

tax cut bill came through virtually unscathed. Critics point, out that the bill would have passed anyway, and perhaps it w^ould have. 3ut still much of the credit mu.st go to Johnson.

His greatest domestic accomplishment to date

vice president who moves into the White House however, was the breaking of the deadlock which under such circum.stances, Johnson inherited the threatened to tie up the nations rail carriers in a advisors and appointive officials who were tre- strike which would have crippled the nation, mendously loyal to the late president. Included was This knotty problem has hung for years arid the attorney general, Robert Kennedy, the late thbre is no doubt that the presidents personal intervention was a major factor in solving it.

3rewer And His

: Parole Boarc.

By WnXIAM A. SHIRE.S BREWER - Kidd Brewer came Into the room caxryinR S blue handled broom. He walked around ahaJcing hands with reporters, carrying the broom In his other hand.

Then he placed the broom earefuUy on the table In front of a bank of microphones and at down to begin what wae one of the most unusual press conferences in. the experience of Raleigh newsmen. That covers a lot (4 territory.

Brfwer adjusted bis hornrimmed glasses, uid read a copy of a telegram sent to N.P. Ransdell, chairman of the state pandes board, and relating that Brewer had been informed by a parole officer that some of my public statements heretofore made, if repeated, would be considered a violation of my parole and would not be tolerated. ^

Businessman and politic a 1 figure Brewer, of course, is a candidate for governor having announced hts candidacy while serving four and a half months In prison for influence peddling. He was paroled a few weeks ago, with more than a year to run on his 18 months term imposed for his part In the states much - publicized highway signs scandal.

TALK Brewer Identified the parole officer as P. E. Brande and said Brande came to his home and told me that you (Ran.sdell) instructed him to inform me about the public statements,,

At that time I requested Parole officer Brande to ask you to furnish me In writing, specifically, what it Is I cannot say. I further requested that you tell me in wrlti n g apeclhcally what I have already said that may constitute a violation of my parole, Brewers telegram said., Yesterday. the telegram went on,iParole officer Brande advLsed me that you will not put anything in writing Brewer then urgently requested Ransdell to let him know in writing about thesi? additional terms added to my parole, UNUSUAL - After flntehing the telegram Brewer said he had called the news conference to explain "my predicament. It would have to be. he said, a most unusual sort of news conference inasmuch as he could not be sure what to say In replying to questions.

"I am uncertain as to what I can say, he said, and Im at a loss to interpret the parole regulations delivered to him in a general w'ay. The problem, he said, 1 that w'hat-ever is prescribed verbally Ls too apt to be mlwrnderstood. Thi.s was the reason for his telegram, he said.

After all, he said I'm trying

to get to the mansion, not back to prison.

RANSDELL Ransd e 11 told reporters later that t h e warning to Brewer was about statements tending to make light of the law and his conviction in the signs case, and Implying that its all right to violate the law.

Ransdell Indicated that Brewer would be called before the Paroles Board of clarification He said Brewer would treated the same as any other parolee in this state.

CONFRONTED Brewers telegram to Ransdell said that he has been confronted in the press with what I cwisider politically inspired charg e s, which as a candidate for governor and private citizen I feel need to be answered.

His reference was to d 1 s-patches quoting a letter from the U.S. Bureau of, P u b 11 c Roads indicating that $86,669 in federal highway money might be withheld from North Carolina because of excessive and irregular costs involved in sign contracts for the Interstate highway system in the state.

It was in connection with the sign contracts that Brewer and a former highway official were indicated. Brewer was representative for several sign companies. Brewer contends, however, that his actiwis didnt cost the taximyers any money and that the indictment did not make any such charge.

CANDIDACY B r e w e r. wearing a dark .suit and a wisp of broom straw in his lapel, said that ft certainly has not been my intent in any way to belittle the law.

He added that while his candidacy for governor might be affected in what he could and could not say he has no intention of w'ithdraw'ing a.s a candidate for governor. "Im more' determined than ever. he said.

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The president has been everywhere since a.ssum-ing office. Cutting of nuclear production has ea.sed world problems. Incredibly, hi.s popularity has remained high in the south, despite a strong stand on the pending civil rights legislation. He has the support of civil rights leaders despite a somewhat southern background. The president has folksy ways, which for many would be the kiss of death in urbane Washington, but he has turned them to his advantage.

President Johnson, barring shattering developments or physical disablement, is guaranteed the Democratic nomination. At this point, it appears to us that no one the Republicans have considered for the nomination has much hope of unseating Johnson.

Dropouts Also Collee Problem

BUCHWALD

I will not be coerced, said. "I wont be threatened.

DEBATE Brewer had comments too on the matter of a proposed statewide televi-.sion debate between the three leading candidates for the'Democratic nomination for governor. a debate in which Brewer has asked to be allowed to participate.

He has been regarded, he said as pereona non grata in the matter. He called t h e debate negotiations a farce. His Interest in being allowed to participate in any such debate, he said, is in regard to equal opportunity In the matter of audience. He does n o t want to be put in a position of a'short subject that comes on when the audience ha.s gone out for popcorn.

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ter rresioent

By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Drop out Ls as worrisome a word in college as in high school circles today, tho u g h less public and professional attention ha.s been focused on the college - level problem.

Booming college enrollments have kept college administrators and admissions officers busy in recent years Improving methods of screening and selecting students for admission to crowded campuses. The problem of retaining them the institutions hold-' ing power - has beerprolatve-ly neglected.

It Ls estimated that private colleges are graduating only about one-half of their entering freshmen classes over the normal four - year period; and public institutions are graduating about one - third of each entering group..

Fortunately, these statistics do not tell the vyhole story. Some .students transfer to Other institutions and are not counted in these statist i c s. Others drop out and come back later to complete their work. And it Ls likely that about 60 per cent of the entire group of entering freshmen in the country may ultimately complete a four-y ear college program.

Military service, money problems. marriage and change of Interests are some of the factors responsible for drop-outs and interruptions in the regular four - year pat-

tion.

A recent study of l.(XK) stu

dents at a public engineering Institution in the South, for example, revealed that only a few students followed a standard four - year curriculum and graduated on schedule without change of field. At the end of four years, only 18 per cent of the entering group had graduated. However, an additional 28 per cent were still enrolled in good academic

standing at the end of this regular period. Furthermore. many of the drop-outs

w'ho had withdrawn failing

enrolled in remedial evening courses in order to qualify for readmission later to the regular program.

Another study, at a state college in Tennessee, foimd that only 20 per cent of the entering freshmen graduated in four years. But an additional 8 per cent were expected to graduate during the next two years. The study will be vontirra^ to di^bver h o w many more eventually c o m-plete their higher education.

Similarly, a Southern state university kept tabs on the 1952 entering freshman class and discovered that only 15 per cent graduated on schedule. But by 1960 eight years after admission an additional 23 per cent had completed their undergraduate work.

These figures reveal a tenacious, determined streak in todays college students. They also suggest the magnlt u d e and complexity of the dropout problem in our colleges and universities.

And, the explanation Is not as._sin2ple--as ^tuaefe of ability. or poor academic standing. A recent surv-ey of the perfornmnce of high abill t y college_^tudents in four states, including one Southern state, reported .strikingly sim liar findings: of superior men,

about-40 per cent withdrew or failed while 45 per cent of the .superior women did so. Withdrawal. rather than failure, caused the major loss in the supeiior groups.

This is an extremely important problem that we cannot deal with effectively ntil we know more about it.

The first need Ls for more research on the problem and its. causes, and only the colleges and universities can do that research.

Ever since Cathy May Baker of 36 Hemlock. Park Forest,

" 111., wrote to the President asking him to setUe the rail-.^road strike, etc., parents ail over the United States have been urging their children to do the same.

Our eight-year-old daughter was scribbling a letter to the Beatles the other aftern o o n when we walked in on her.

What are you wasting your time on letters like that. we said angrily, when our nation is in peril?

She looked up. startled. Why^UonT you' write to the President like other seven and

eight-year-olds are doing? we said.H wants to hear from you.

What should I tell him? she wanted to know.

TeU him youre concerned about the balance of payments, or the rate of economic growth, or the unemployment Issue. What does a kid write to the Prosident, anyway?

I want to write to the Beatles.

Thats a very selfish attitude. Simpse Cathy May Baker of :^rk Forest, HI., felt lh_ai_^,way;_Xio you know-what would have happened? There would have been a railr o a d

strike.

How come?

Because she wrote the President and said her grandmother couldnt come to h e r communion unless the railroad strike was settled. So the President got real angry and he made the heads of the railroads and the labor leaders sit down together and prevent the strike. If Cathy May hadnt written to him. the President might not have even known about It.

How do you know? she

Other Editors Saying.

A Fourth Company

Strength For Today

By EARI, L. IX)l (H ASS LIFE MADE OVER

God Ls in everything. There are iTligions in the world which identify God with His creation, and these both Christianity and Judaism repudiate. But ail .sound religion begins with the conviction that God both marie the existing world and has in ^ a supreme and overwhelming ' fashion romained in HLs croa-tion to guide and manage it.

So even if the world appears hostile, just remember that it is Gods world. When everj'-Ihing appears to be going against you, ju.st recall that v erything is in God's hands. What now appears to b(> against you may, a year from

that you wonder how God could allow all this to come upon you, just remember that the issue of life's events is in God's hands, and what .seems tragedy now' may later turn out to be something quite different.

now. . bt' rt^vealeci , tTet^'>'5ir good fortune. Anri

Above all, God is In the living creatures He made and supremely in man. There is .something in us which is like the nature of God, We are made in HLs image and after His likeness. Therefore we can be to prevail in our* lives thcxse toprevail in our lives tliose divine and inspiring powers which will light up all w'e try to do and give our act-s a new significance. , . _____

(Washingtm Daily News)

A fourth cwnpany has shown Interest in our phosphate deposits here in Beaufort county. And barring unexpected developments this fourth company, identified as F. M. C., will enter bids for certain river areas on May 27.

In June of 1962 when bids were opened on the rtwr bottomsofBeaufort county Texas Gulf Sulphur company w^as aw'arded Area D in the Pamlico river, and Magnet Cove Barium company w ea s awarded Areas G.H., and I in the Pungo river.

That means that Areas A. B. C. E. and F have not been awarded to any company. To date no company has entered bids on these five areas.

Like all companies interested in phosphate development in Beaufort county, this new company w'ill find a warm and hearty w'elconie here^ In our area. It Ls quite possible that when bid.s are opened, other companies might enter bids on the five areas not yet leased.

While all of us here In Beaufort county are intensely interested in pho.sphale development, and while we all have high hopes for the industrial expansion we feel will come with phosphate development, we mu.st not expect great overnight changes.

It is going, to take time to get into operations, and that means that the changes will be gradual rather than sud den. When changes occur gradually, there are so many people who fail to notice them.

We have said many times before that phosphates alone will not tell our Imlustrial story here in Beaufort county. The allied industries that might come here in connection with the phosphate industry might / well tell a larger story industrially than phosphate a 1 0 n e w'lil do. We believe that to be true, and in talking with our phosphate frienifc here now in Beaufort county, w'hat they say tends to indicate the same feeling.

For instance, there might be one day a chemical plant. There might be one or more fertilizer plants. These plants will employ many workers, and employment will tell the vstory of progress, development and indeed prosperity in o u r county and area in the riays and years ahead. We can look forw'ard with- pleasant anticipation to the progress being made while at the same time realizing that it is gradual rather than sudden, and frankly a progress is usually a sounder progress than one which hits us with .suddeness.

We need to look at the present situation and then think in terms of the picture five years from now. Today and and five years from now might repre.sent a gap that has been breeched that will .serve us well in the fight for greater industrial development for our people and our area.

We welcome this new company, and we expre.ss the hope that it will take its place here with a faith in the future and a confidence in the present.

Because the President read her letter on television to millions of people and he t o 1 4 Cathy May that because labor and management reasoned together her grandmother could come to tier communion. Why didnt her grandmother fly or take the bus?

Thats none of your busl-ne.ss. That fact is. Cathy Mays grandmother prefers the train. Now w'hy dont you w'rite a letter to the President and teU him what youre worried about?

I dont know' what I'm worried about, she said.

You must he worried about something.. What about the AutpworfeeriS.;; 'Union threatening to strike against the automobile companies? Doesn't that worry you?

What should I say?

Tell the President you dont want the auto workers to go out on strike because you want your grandfather to visit you in a new car. Say youre having a birthday party in July and. if there Ls a strike, your grandfather wont visit you if he doesn't have a new' automobile.

Why cant he come on the train like Cathy Mays grandmother?

. Because your grandfather doesnt like trains.

Should I tell the President that?

No. not so soon after he settled the railroad strike. Will he read my letter? Sure he will. He might even read it on television.

If I write to him. can I then write to the Beatles? Yes. if it means that much to you. But you might well learn, now that youre eight years old. that you should take an interest in national affairs. If you can help the President with the difficult job he has to do. it will make up for not being able to pray for him in school.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

C(^yright, 1964. King Pealures Syndicate. Inc.

If you, as a law-abiding democrat were to be told that a totalitarian coup was being prepared against you and your * kind for a specific day, and the irrefutable proois were iet Tje-fore you, what would you do? Would you wait, like the antl-k Nazi German democrat of 1933, for HlUer to bum the Reichstag and clap you In a concentration camp

This was the sort of question. as It turnabout on good authority now reaching this country, that was posed for a wide spectrum <rf the Brazilian people Just prior to t h e preventive revolution that toppled the leftward-leaning Gou-lart government a few weeks ago.

The new Brazilian Administration of General Branco Is currently preparing a White Bo(* that will go voluminously into the subject of the prospective Red takeover that was scheduled for May 1. The contents of this book have been mentioned in Brazilian papers; they have also been forwarded to New York City In the U. S. by correspondents of S. J. Rundt and Associates, t Arm of financial consultants <t h a t specializes In Latin American investment and currency p r o-blems. Mr. Rundt the head of the firm, is n<^ one who believes In the practicality of Red-baiting; he Is for Increased east-west trade, and he describes himself as a pragmatic Tory. But he thinks the -Brazilian White Book material is authentic, and that it Justifies the action taken in Brazil to forestall a terrible calamity.

The burden of the White Book Is that the Brazilian army moved just In the nick of time to save Brazil from a Pidelista seizure that would have resulted In the slaughter of thousands of good democrats whose names appear on liquidation lists picked up In raids on Red hangouts, Carlos Lacerda, the governor of the State of Guanabara. and others had tried for some months to warn the Brazilian army that a coup was being prepared. But General Branco was-nofr^ Jnclined t<rrthrow Ms soldiers into preventive action until the last minute. He wai finally convinced when raid.s all over the huge nation turned up tremendous caches of arms, and moimtains of pro-pagandistic material Including placards v'ith pictures of Castor, Mao Tse-tung, and Stalin. Trckloads of eqiiipment for use in producing Molotov oock- tails were unearthed. In NI-teroi, across the Imy from Rio de Janeiro, and In Recife, where Brazil bulges Into the Atlantic there were supplies of army and navy uniforms supposed to go to Red labor unionists for purposes of confusing the legitimate armed forces of the nation.

Counterfeit money In fifty and one hundred denomination cruzeiro sells for 1,200 for a when one considers that the cruzeiro slls for 1,200 for a U. S. dollar) was ready for use by the Red revolutionists. And there w'as ammunltl(Mi In plenty for the large number of sul>-machine guns and rifles that the Red revolutionaries had hidden for tlie day.

According to the information received by Mr. Rundt and his associates, the revolution that General Branco snuffed out as it was just ready for hatching was largely supported by Cuban Fidelistas and Red Chinese agents. Some of the arms found in Brazil were of Czech origin, but It was the Castro-itcs who did the forward 1 n e. Klirushchev. though he stood to benefit, from a leftists takeover in Brazil, does not seem to have played a very acti\^ part In the propa rat ions. If Mr. Rundfs information tells the whole truth.

No- doubt the new Branco governmentT in roundiny up JO.000 su.spected para-Commu-nLsts who might have Hitler-ized the nation if the May I plans had been allowed to come to fruition, did seize .s o in e innocents In its dragnet. But

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Dusiness

?olicing

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3o Continue

By elme:r roessner The Administration will be a bit ambidextrijus toward business from now on to election.

.SI*l RT IN LAW ENFORCEMENT

The Justice Departm e n t

BCSINE.SS TO COME Here are some look-aheads in business:

employment and profits.

has announced a^m^qi:Siert TPCora:

-PiestdOTt"jdmiygn' tpnr

when tlw' pattern of your life gets 10 be so complex, so controversial, or even so tragic

God i.s everywhere and In everything. Live with that thought and it will make your life over in a glorious fashion.

in Brie::

Car.s hav'e every coiueni-euee oxi-ept a pushbutton to lower the payments"-j-Chiea-go Daily New.s.

The man who wastes today lamenting yesterday wnll waste tomorrow lamenting today. Philhp M. Laskin. '

A sophi.s(ii ated girl is one who knows how to refuse a ki.'^.s without being deprived of It.Topeka Journal.

Self - approbation,' w h e n tound In trulh and a good (on.seieiiee. i.s a source of .''ome of the pure.st joys known to man Cha lies Simmons.

Just about the time both ends meet, something "breaks 111 the middle.Garden city < Kan.s.) Telegram.

It has now beau prn\en beyond a riunbl that smoking IS ^ major cHiise uf .statis-Uesi, l.-ka Gi'iieva Regional New.^.

JThe national economy is Nidly out of joint when it is illegal tor one company to niwki* all the automobiles <for exanifile and hunky-dorv for one international union to control all the automobile, workers tn all the plants, of 1C nation',, -r- MUc* Cltj' uMunl. iLai'.

tlniie to shake the hands of businessmen and assure them of affection and profits. At the .same time Federal policing agencies will continue to put an arresting hand on bu.sinessmen alleged to have broken the law.

This play of hgnds does not represent any double deall n g by the Administration. The investigations by the Federal Trade Commission, the Justice Department and other agencies into complaints about business were begun during the Kennedy Administration and some, perhaps, even before.

They are' producing a spate of rcsulUs right now. Twelve milling companies have been accused of conspiruig to boost the price of bread. A group of steel companies have been Indicted on price-fixing charges. The Administration was successful in getting the Supreme Court lo rule that the con.signment method of selling violatC's the la'U when the nian-ufactiuer conltgLsjhe price at which his gtxxis maj he '

against illegal price-fixing and abuses -of so-called fair-trade laws. This, Assistant Attorney General William H. Orrick said, Ls a contribution to the Administrations war on poverty. It begins to look as if almost any action taken by the government, from arresting income tax evaders to swindlers and deliverers of short weight, can be described as part of the war on poverty.

This spurt in enforcem e n t makes political sen.se, at least. The poor-have more votes than business executives. ^

Meanwhile, the FTC has' cracked down on suspected violators of the Textile Fiber Products Identification Act. At least one big dop^rtment has warned against using such terms as percale, velvet and satin without specifying the'fibers.

A Washington .source reports that the FTC is engaged in so many other investigations that Its routine work is bc^gi n g duwu.

duction w.ill top 61 million tons in the first half of this year and then go on to a possible 113 million ton.s for a new high. Consumption, too. will set a new mark.

Copper Irise to continue: Recent advances in copper prices will be followed by more, because of the continuing drift to the left in Chile, one of the major sources.- The strike at Timmins, Ontario, still looks good but it will take years to get volume production there.

Inventory rise: Inventor! e s will slow'ly be built up during the year as purchasing agents become aware of the teniiency of all industrial prices to rLse. Note that ihventciry accumulation always tends to increase prosperity; inventory reduction tends to decrca.se it. When inventories are iLsing, business is buying more raw materials than consumers are using, thercJiy boosting sales and pro

fits. When thc.v arc dedimiig, hiusint.ss b uying -le.s-s tha-.i it ia k^?lUng. ^ uireby dccrcasiuc.

OLD PROMOTER PI ANt

TO free the press I The Old Promoter was bii> ling over with righteous enthusiasm when he dropped in today. "Im going to strike a blow for the freedom of the press, he .said.

Lay on! I said. "Tell more.

Did you see that the Treasury, while modifying regulations to ease the secrecy around Anti-Diunping Act cases, still holds that they are none of the publics business and is barring reporters and the public? However, it said that importers and exporters of the product hivolv-ed may inspect or copy the Information. So I am going to station myself at the National Press Club bar in Washington and organize the Reporters Import and Export Company, to import and export Just everything. Then every authorized member, which includes all. can demand not imly to listen to the hearings, but participate in them.

I wish the old fellow w'w.J 1, but the Treasury trill probably flap him with a writ of efotia