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Saturdays Choice Is All-Important

One cannot minimize the importance of the choice North Carolina voters will, make tomorrow when they mark their ballots in the governors race.

At stake is the course North Carolina will follow in the next four years and perhaps longer. The long, hard campiiign comes to a close tonight. The issues have been set before the people and the situation is now in the hands of the final authority .. . those citizens who go to the polls tomorrow.

On the eve of this imjiprtant election, we urge the people of Pitt County to consider carefully the campaigns that have been waged by the two gubernatorial candidates. We urge them to weigh carefully what the two men vying for this high office have put before them as the course North Carolina should follow during the next four years. ^

The Daily Reflector has editorially stated its preference for Richardson PreyeT as the next governor of North Carolina. It is our considered opinion that he offers the best program for the continued progress of our area and our state. We are confident he possesses the superior qualities that will provide for North Carolina the best leadership available in the four critical years ahead.

We admire the manner in which he has faced squarely and unflinchingly the important issues before this state and its people. We are certain these qualities of leadership and his unselfish dedication to the service of the people will stand North Carolina in good stead in the future.

The voters tomorrow must elect one man as their governor. .

They expect that governor to be forthright, forceful, positive and firm in meeting not only the needs, but the problems which confront this state and its people. North Carolinians recognize, we are sure, that the burdens of the higest office in the state ultimately must come to rest upon the shoulders of one man. It cannot rest upon the shoulders of a coalition, a group or an organization.

All things considered, it is our opinion that Richardson Preyer is the best candidate to shoulder that burden in behalf cf all the people of .North Carolina. , ; :

New Positive Step In

Medical Plan For Aged

Size Of Vote

Can Be Factor

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

SIZE Size of the vote in Saturdays second primary elections is a burning and perhaps a key question/

There are fewer predictions being made than wat the case a month ago. And those hazarding guesses this time are definitely more cautious.

State Treasurer Edwin Gill was one who predicted the atatewide turnout for the first primary May 30 almost right on the nose. He forecase 750.-000 votes in the Democratic primary for governor and the three major candidates hit 756.474.

But Gill .says the matter of predicting the second primary vote Is far more difficult.

There re fewer candidates but also more unknown factors to c(msider such as the degree sustained Interest, the effect of get-out-the-vote drives, apathy, warmer weather and vacations.and amount of stimulation of the voters by Issues and near-issues.

ESTIMATES Most observers are Inclined to predict a somewhat smaller turnout than on May 30, but not much smaller.

This was the case in the primaries of 1960 when the first brought 653,060 voters to the polls in the four-way Democratic ccmtcst for governor and the run-off between Gov. Terry Sanford and Dr. I. Beverly Lake attracted 628,038.

This was a drop of less than four per cent. A drop of four per cent this time from the record total of 769,090 on May 30 In the governors race would still bring a turnout of more than 735,000 to the poUs.

Most estimates, hbwewr, range considerably lower than this figure pegged at from about 650,000 to 700,000 or Slightly above. This would be a drop off of 10 per cent or more.

Wide fluctuatiKi Is entirely possible, and occurs not only from primary to primary but often from contest to contest. Tor example, in the three-way contest for lieutenant governor on May SO only 704,693 votes were cast.

PERCENTAGES Analysis of the first primary vote In the governors race, conducted by strategists for both candidates, provides stane interesting percentages.

For example. It shows why

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Implementation by North Carolina of a new medical plan for aged citizens not on welfare relief is another positive step by the state to fill a growing need. ' '

The way for implementation of this new pro-am was paved by the 1963 General Assembly ^hich approved the states participation under provisions of the Kerr-Mills Act. Hereto-fore North Carolina has participated only in the portion of the program which helped provide medical care for persons on relief rolls.

This new step broadens the scope of medical care for the aged provided^by the joint state-federal program. It points up again the fact that through cooperative efforts the state and federal governments can provide a broader program of medical care for aged persons who need it without the necessity of a federal medicare pragram under Social Security.

We feel now, as w-e have long felt, that the

Eastern North Carolina is considered such a vital battleground for both Richardson Preyer and Dan K. Moore.

Counting 48 counties In the East, there was a total turnout ot 351,947 votes. Dr. Lake , received 41,7 per cent of the Eastern vote, a UHal oi 146,-803 votes. Preyer received 33.5 per cent with 118,187 and Moore with 86,987 received 24.8 per cent.

But while Lake ran well ahead In the East, he placed third in both the Piedmont and West.

Preyer polled 43.8 per cent of the total of 2W.529 votes cast In 29 Piedmont counties, getting 127,^. Moore received 98.981 votes in the Piedmont for 34 per cent and Lake 64,241 for' 22.2 per cent.

WEST - What about the role of the West?

Moore received the biggest regional percentage of any of the candidates with his showing in the 23 counties of western North Carolina. It was 71,934 or 63.1 per cent of the Wests total of 113,998.

But the fact is that Moores vote in the West was actually smaller than the total he polled in either the East or the Piedmont. It was smaller yian the vote Preyer received in the East and in the Piedmont. It was only about half of what Lake received in the East and only a few thousand votes more than Lakes vote In the Piedmont.

Preyer received 35,936 votes or 30.5 per cent in the West and Lake received 6,128 or 6.4 per cent.

HODGES Commerce Secretary Luther H. Hodges will, be touring Western North Carolina next week and has a couple of speeches scheduled at Cherokee and Asheville on Thursday.

The former governor will fly from Washington by Air Force plane to Brywrn City on Wednesday aftemoim and will motor to Cherokee to spend the night. He speaks at a plant dedication at the Indian reservation town on Thursday afternoon and will then motor to Asheville for a banquet, address at the annual meeting of the society of professional engineers. He will then motor to Marlon and LinvUle, spending the holiday with friends in Lln-vllle before flying back to Washington on July 5.

Kerr - Mills Act provides ample machinery for providing medical care for aged people. As tlfe provisions of the act are implemented by individual states through their own cooperative programs, it is increasingly evident that a medicare program attached to Social Security is neither needed or

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By ART BUCHWALD

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A Man Named Harold,

Get Everything

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) President Johnson, a man of highly competitive spirit mixed with endless and determined energy, heads into one of the biggest tests of his career.

This la with his own Demo-cratic-nm Congress. When he campaigns for electiim he will need a good record of domestic achievement to point to.

Congress, under his persistent prodding, has two major achievements to Its credit so far this year: (1) A tax cut and (2) A civil rights bill which seems certain of passage.

But at a news conference this week he said there were about 30 bills he hoped to get through.

To do all that Congress will have to work right up^ until early July, before the Repub- lican convention begins, and then return and probably work until the Democratic convention starts Aug. 24.

He suggested that from now on Congress work six days a week.

The Senate alone has a mountain of work piled up. the result of Its months of debate on the civil rights bill, which it passed last Friday. Everything else got stalled until that job was done.

Johnson, a lot more persist-ent operator in piisblng Congress for what he wants than President Kennedy was. telephones, buttonholes, confers, and otherwise unrelentingly puts the heat on.

But he never. If only because this Is his first year In the presidency, came up against the problem in front of him now. He will need all his Ingenuity to build his record.

Already <Mie of his major programs medical care for the aged ~ looks like Its probably dead for 1964. The House Ways and Means Committee Wednesday voted it down although giving preliminary approval to a 5 per Cent boost in Social Security payments.

Now the only hope for medicare seems to lie with the Senate. Even If It should pass there, the House would have to be persuaded to go along. That would require a l(rt of persuading, perhaps more than Johnson can do.

It will be practically a miracle If It gets through.

Yet, Johnson has had aston

ishing success so far with another program foreign aid In which all the presidents back to and including Harry S. Truman took a heavy beating.

For 16 years this was the routine: A president would ask a certain sum, in the billions, for foreign aid and Congress would chop hundreds of millions or a billion or more off it.

We just bought a new house and by so doing we have made a discovery that will shock everyone in the United States.

We have discovered that America is a nation of middlemen and sulxjontractors and that there is only one man in the entire nation that actually does the work.

His name Is Harold.

We discovered Harold accidentally. We had made a call

to a company who had promised to build us some bookshelves. We demanded to talk to the head man to find out why they hadnt been delivered. He hemmed and hawed for a while and finally admitted his company didnt actually make the bookshelves they sUb-contracted the work to another company.

We called that company who said that the work had been

Other Editors Saying... Death Of A Villain

This was so routine it looked like a game: A president would ask far more than he expected to get in order to wind up, when the chopping was over, with about what he figured he coOld do with in the first place.

But Johnson asked for $3.5 billion this year or $1 billion less than President Kennedy requested In 1963. Kennedy wound up with roughly $1.3 bUllon knocked off.

Johnson represented his request as a minimum figure and until now the House, which has not completed final action, has appeared willing to give him approximately what he asked with comparatively minor cuts.

The antipoverty program was among the 30 measures Johnson said he wanted action on.

Ooinions

In Brief

A true philosopber has opined that most of life's problems are really like those clover-leaf exchanges on our highways: It may not seem like it at first, but theres always a way out. Mattoon (111.) Journal-Gazette.

Though, most Americana sympathize with the Negro demands for better treatment, they are troubled by the seemingly Interminable turmoil, by the spectacle of demonstrations getting out of hand, by ' the danger of ma.ioiity rights being overridden by minority rights. It is a warning that should not be lost on the civil rights leadership, the Senators In Washington or the Democratic Party. Wall Street Journal.

(Winston-Salem Journal)

A villain in one of Washingtons more durable melodramas died last week, lor about the ninth or tenth time The Senate Commerce Committee killed the Quality Stabilization Bill so quietly that only a few friends even knew to mourn its passing. The Quality Stabilization Bill has been more resilient than any of the characters in the old Saturday afternoon serials., The proposal has also been identified in previous episodes as the Fair Trade Bill and Is called the federal price-fixing bill by its unkind enemies. It will probably be back again next year.

Quality Stabilization Is a mystery. The bill would permit manufacturers to set retail prices on their products. The Justice Department prosecutes people who- try to fix, prices to eliminate competition, but this bill would give legal sanction to price-fixing. The chief supporters of the bill are congressmen who fear that the small, independent businessmen of the country are being driven to the wall by chain stores and discount houses. They may be right. But the price-fixing bill w'ould prove costly to the consumer and would be unfair to some businessmen. Thus, it is a considerable relief that the bill is dead again. In Washington, though, as in an earlier vintage Hollywood, there is no assurance that it will stay dead.

tine are that reporters and television cameramen are encountering more harassm e n t from white ^thugs than in any previous strife locale. It is to the point where some of the television infantry are hiring bodyguards to handle the assailants while they turn the crank to record the scrimmaging elsewhere. Ive n e v er seen rednecks as mean ^ as these. one veteran of strife coverage said. Some of the newsmen have bought small tear gas pistols that fire six shells. They, look beneath the bonnet of their cars before switching the ignition.

We are certain that these measures are in order and quiet uncertain why there are boob elements In every city that think smashing , the camera destroys the picture it only makes more pictures. Nor does it ever seem to occur to some one that, in seeking to suppress news or pictures, they are acknowledging that something shameful Is going on. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser

Theyre Mean The reports from St. Augus-

Our Helpers

Someone fascinated wdth statistics has figured out that there are 190 million Americans, and to serve each 1,000 of us there are 1.2 doctors. 1.1 lawyers and judges. four gas station operators, foifr telephone operators and 13 federal civilian employes.

Obviously we are getting a lot of seiwiCe. or something, from the federal government, Orlando (Fla.) Serftinel

sub-contracted to a company in Wisconsin who specialized in bookshelves. A call to Wisconsin revealed that the company didnt make bookshelves, but supplied the wood.

Well, who makes the bookshelves?

Harold does, the manager replied.

We managed to get Harolds address from the man and out of curiosity we went to see him.

Harold lived on a farm near Delaware.

We found him in a large bam surrounded by lathes, machine tools, lumber, upholstery, saws, drills, electrical equipment and presses.

In every comer of the bam piled high were appliances to be fixed, furniture to be upholstered, lamps to be rewired, cabinets to be repaired, mgs to be rewoven, desks to be refinished and mattresses to be restuffed.

When we w'alked into the bam Harold was on the phone shouting, But Ive only got two hands, and hung up. Everybody wants everything in a hurry. That was a decorator in Oregon, he said. Shes been waiting on two upholstered chairs ' for six years. Big deal!

Tell me, Harold we said, is it true youre the only one in the United States who can do anything?

Thats what they tell me, Harold said, as he took a chew of tobacco. There was a guy in Denver who also did the work, but he decided to go in-tq sales, so now I have to do it all alone.

But how can you do everything by yourself?

It isnt easy, he replied. But there are 14,587,908 subcontractors who depend on me and if I didnt do the work, they would all go out of business.

But surely there must be someone else w'ho has the skills necessary to do your kind of work.

Youd think so, but I cant even find anyone to help me. My own son started to help me but he found it paid better to take orders. Sq Im doing it all alone.

Is the fact that youre the only one who does the work (Continued On Page 6)

By JOHN CRAI^IBERLAIN

C(8?yrighi, 1964, King Features Sjmdicate, Inc.

1 When the Founding Fathers created the frame work of the federal government in 1787, they set up the House of Representatives as the court of the people and the Senate as the court of the states. This blending of population representation with two-senators-per-state geographical representation was definitely considered a republican form of government. It Is also explicitly a part of the C(Histltution of the . S, that the Supreme Court can do nothing about it. But a majority of the justices of the Court, seeking to force their own Interpretation of what constitutes a republican form of government on the fifty separate states of the u n I o n, have argued that the federal analogy does not apply to state legislature patterns In this the justices, who need a course in remedial reading. have made a whopping historical error. For, as William B. Pape, the shrewd local historian who publishes the Waterbury Republican and the Waterbury American In Con-i^ecticut that enabled the Pounding Fathers to hit upon the device that enabled them to lure the separate states Into the federal union without fear that big geographical units such as populous New York and Pennsylvania might

swap little Delaware and little Rhode Island,

The Connecticut compromise at the Philadelphia

convention came when Roger Sherman, the Mayor of N e w Haven, observed to his c o n-stltutioo-making colleagues that his home state was governed by a blend of the population and the geographical

principles of representation. In plain words, if Sherman had not been able to point to the valid analogy of Connecti

cut, the federal union might never have come into exist

ence.

The majority of the present Supreme Court Justices have taken refuge in the theory that, since the states themselves did not (jome into being through a process of federating smaller counties and towns, the "analogy that seeks to equate Connecticut and other states with the federal union does not hold In logic. Maybe this is true of those states, thrity-four in number, which happen to have been pure creations of the federal government Itself. But for the thirteen original states, and the three originally independent republics of Texas, Vermont, and Hawaii, the federal government did not bring local sovereignty into being. They had their own forms of independent government before the federal constitution applied to t h e Clearly, the thirteen original states had no intention of ceding the right to determine their own forms of "republicanism* "when they accepted the Constitution,

In the case of Connecticut, the state itself represented a federal consolidation of smaller units that had once been sovereign unto themselves. The Connecticut colony originally consisted of the Connectic u t River towns of Windsor, Hartford and Wethersfield, with Saybrook and Springfield as loosely joined allies. (Springfield, a few years after the settlement of the Connecticut valley, seceded and joined up with Massachusetts.) The writ of the valley towns did not run in the New Haven colony, which was settled quite independently of the Windsor - Hartford cluster. New Haven colonized other parts of the Connecticut territory on its own, pushing its pioneering into the S t a m-ford and Greenwich region on the west and the Branford region on the^fcst. It even settled and claimed jurisdiction over Southold and Southampton on Long Island, Rye and Hastings in Nev^ Yorks Westchester, and Newark in New Jersey. Other Connecticut towns Enfield, Suffield, and Woodstock eventually became part of Connecticut by severing themselves from (Continued On Page 6)

Arguments^ For Inflation .Fears

By ROGER BABSON BABSON PARK. Mas.s

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TW'O WORLDS AT A TIME

The naturalist Thoreau put Into circulation the expressitm often heard, One world at a time. The intimation is that man lives In only one world and that he will have plenty to do if he gives his attention to the things immediately before him and stops dreaming about heaven.

The truth is that man does not live in one world but In two. He came from God, bears the divine image, and is promised an eternal dwelling place in another, world, when his pllgrlpiage.. here ts ended.

\ When James VI of Scotland was thundering against the rtshig power of the people and threatening what he would do with rebels, the brave Melville

dared to lay his hand on his sovereigns arm and say very sternly. Thou poor worldlng. There are two kings in Scotland, James VI and Jesus and In the kingdom of Jeus. James is a humble subject. In many circles it has come to be regarded as the unmistakable sign of intellectual distinction to declare for the world here and now and to discount the po.sslbiIity of anything beyond. When men do this, they display not their wisdom but their littleness, not their breadth but their narrowness. And God said, let us mkkp man in our image, after oiir likeness. The creature He made lives in two worlds, and the fact that he may be con.scious of only one world does not alter this profound reality.

Most readers of this column are aware that since the paniclike stock market decline in the spring of 1962, the Dow'-Jones Industrial Average has b e e n-marching upward, with only short halts, to successively new record highs.

The rapid shrinkage in stock values in the dark days of 1962 undoubtedly had its beginning in distrust of the politico-busl-ness outlook. Then, as paper profits began to vanish, selling pressure rose to a crescendo, with Investors hurrying to preserve what profits they had left, or to limit their liases, the market dfd regain its composure when investors realized that a business decline of the proporUons indicated was not imminent. By that time, too, the water had been pretty weU wrung out of the glamour uid speculative stocks.

A Thus it has been the sustained well-being of general business, powerfully assisted by consumer spending and residential building, which not only righd the stock market but launched it ou a two-year

advance, virtually uninterrupted. dttring which tifffe the Dow-Jones Industrial Average rose from a low of h36 to a high of 830.

As I view the market now, mwiy of the blue-chip stocks which have largely accounted for the two-year market advance seem fully priced, and real bargains are harder to find. This is understandable, since the Dow-Jones Lidustri^ activity and business profits in the same period of time. Business and profits may rise further over the near term, to be .sure, but such additional gains are probably pretty well d i s-counted. Hence we must look to another element to propel' the stock market (Ml upward. This may well be speculative enthusia.sm steeming from fears of inflation. It has been said that a whiff of inflation psychology can stir investor buying impatience.

Those who feel we are In for more inflation have many arguments in their favor. Since the last business recession, U. S. monetary authorities have been pursuing a policy of keeping money and credit plentlfiiL

To the extent this has exceeded the legitimate credit needs of business, the surplus represents an inflationary potential. In addition, consumers have been expanding their borrowings. both for installment purchases of durable goods and for new home mortgages. Such borrowings are Inflationary to the extent that purchasing power is boosted above the levels of earned Incomes. The deficit operations of federal, state, and municipal governments are also inflationary; and we must not forget the steady inflation of labor c^ts.

On the other hand, President Johnsons economy drive in government spending Is an attempt to prevent inflation from getting out of hand. The most effective barriers against inflation in recent years, however, have been the surplus of most commodities and the excess of productive capacities in many industries.

The danger of inflation is most acute during and foUow^-ing wars. Under normal conditions. deflation is more like-' ly to prevail. In todays semi-war economy and prolonged prosperity, therefore, the tug-

of-war between Inflation and deflation leaves the situation in doubt. Conceivably, this stalemate could continue with neither side gaining a clear advantage, even though over the. long run rising government spending and the unreasonable demands of labor suggest further inflation.

It has been my experience that the best time to hedge ag- * ainst inflation is when the stock market and real estate prices are depressed. Hence, although the current boll market may yet penetrate higher ground, the "real gravy isr largely behind us and the risk factor greater from here on in. It might therefore be better to have patience and hold your fire. Profitable hedging against Inflation requires careful timing and selection. When the prices of stocks and real estate ar depressed, and when deflation rather than inflation is the watchword of the day, investors should have the courage to acquire Inflat-lon*hedge Investments carefully and selectively. I believe more Inflation is ahead of us, but now is not tlw time to hedge against U.