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NC. Can Take Pride In Big Vote

"Going To Pick Up Our Sword And Shield,

Down By The Riverside!"

Regardless of the candidate they preferred in the second primary Saturday, all Democrats of the state should take pride in the fact that a record turnout of voters went to the polls to decide the partys nominee.

The record number of voters for a second primary, together with the fact that there were more voters Saturday than in the first primary, bespeaks the great interest generated in the party in the run-off election.

As a rule, the number of voters attracted by a second primary Is far less than in the first primary. In the past this generally has been attributed to the fact that fewer candidates appear on the ballot,

What applies generally to North Carolina, als' applies in Pitt County. Four years ago in this count, there were approximately 2,000 less votes cast ir the second primary than in the first, Thia year the unofficial returns sho wthere were about 20 more votes cast in the secondary primary^than in the first. The Democrats of Pitt, like those in other parts of the state, did not leave it to the other fellow to decide in the second primary which of the candidates would receive the nomination.

The fact that voters turned out in record numbers acro.ss the state for the second primary is a healthy sign for North Carolina and a healthy sign for the Democratic party in the state.

and the fact that many w'ho vote in the first primary . i . i-

are not as interested a month later. Saturdays elec- Jt\Cl|lOIlClllZCltlOri x^dH t lion clearly showed that the voters of the state did

not lose intere.st from the first to the second primary X} O 1*4

this year. Indeed, the record vote indicates the tirOLS X/ld

period between the first and second primaries gen-

erated greater voter interest on the part of the partys gubernatorial nomination.

Tidal Wave Of Moore Ballots

By WILLIAM A. SHIRRS VICTORY -- Dan K. Moores landslide victory for the Democratic nomination for governor must rank as one of the miracles of modem North Carolina politics.

It was not In the sense that H was inciedulous, or that It could not have happened nor that It was predestined or foreordained. But it was truly amazing in its proportions and in many ways unequalled and unexpected.

It sprang from small and scattered beginnings and grew Into a statewide tidal wave of votes because, apparently, everything fell perfectly into place.

Conditions were right. All the factors were right. Timing of each development was right. AKrently everything attempted in the final four * weeks to cut into Moores swelling strength was to no ' avail.

*Tt just looks like the state was ready for a man like Dan K. Moore," one analyst observed.

COMPARABLE It was t smashing triumph unequalled in the 50-year history of primary elections in this state, establishing a record for total votes cast and far surpassing any individual showing In a run-off under the primary sy.stem.

It was the first time a runoff challenger had come from second place to win the gubernatorial nod since W. Kerr Scott upset Charles M. Johnson in 1948.

And It had to be compared with the triumph of the late WillLs Smith over Dr. Frank P. Graham in what heretofore was considered the^^-nro^ bitterly contested .second ^ma-ry in North Camllna histbry. But Smith edged Graham, Scotts choice for the U. S. Senate, by barely 20,000 votes.

Moore's second primary triumph over Gov. Terry Sanfords choice was by nearly ten Umes that margin.

In a governor's race, only the Sanford-Lake run-off in 1960 would be comparable to the contest between Moore and first iwlmary leader L. Richardson Pi-eyer and actually, except for some of the same principal, figures and similar Influences, there was no real comparison.

century.

But it was political redemption for Dr. Lake whose supporters undoubtedly put Moore so far in front of Preyer, and that fact now means a Moore-Lake political coalition has come into being. Dr. Lake remains In prwninence, with increased stature a powerful voice capable of electing governors and senators if unable to be elected himself.

Many observers feel that if either Lake or Moore had not entered the race, Preyer would have won the nomination in the first primary. But both came in and. while battling each other, gathered the total strength which sent Preyer to defeat in the run-off.

GOAL Former House Speaker Joe Hunt Jr., a top Moore campaign aide, said frankly "our goal In May was just to get In the second prl-

No amount of rationalization can remove the fact that the Republican party is engaged in it.s most serious intraparty dispute since the days of Theodore Roosevelt.

Sen. Barry Goldwater appears almost certain to gain the nomination on the basis of delegate votes he has won in preferential primaries and pre-convention commitments. Yet all the other big guns in the GOP seem to be allied in a last-ditch fight to see that the nomination is snatched from the Goldwater grasp.

Although this power struggle may be going on at the top echelon within the Republican party, there can be no doubt that it is likewise sifting down to the grass roots level of the party. Based on thei^ intensity of the struggle that is going on, it appears ; unlikely that the GOP can achieve anything near unity on a national ticket between the convention in July and the general election in November.

If Sen. Goldwater receives the nomination as expected, he can at beat hope for only token sup-port from many of the Republican leaders who are / so do^edly fighting his nomination. If the coalition of presidential hopefuls and other GOP leaders succeed in denying the nomination to Goldwater, the man who emerges with the nomination will face a major .^plit with the Goldwater faction.

Patching up such a deep split in the Republican party may well take years rather than a few months.

nrnry." When that happened. Hunt Sj

said, everything meshed perfectly.

"The Lake people came with us. There was great unification. They stepped right in and never missed a beat.

Hunt, one of the party moderates who had urged a moderate-conservative coalition for many months before the campaign begun, said Moores supporters felt a "deep humility. We began with no organization. no money, no know-how. he said. It grew from a little group here and a little group there getting together, and others falling in behind us." At one point the gala Preyer kick-off rally in Greensb oro last January Hunt said, they came so close to sweep-ihg us under the rug. Theyll never know how close.

It appeared at that point that the powerful political organization behind Preyer had generated a bandwagon which w'ould be unstoppable. Hunt said, But it slacked off, and slowed down, and we kept growing and getting stronger. ANALYSIS Some observers felt the Moore sweep was not so much repudiation of politics of the Incumbent Sanford administration as of the political methods.

They stressed that no incumbent governor in recent years has been able to choose his successor, dating back to Scotts support of judge Hubert Olive against cwiserva-tive-mlnded William B. Uni-

Platform Wil. Need Aareemenl

By ART BUCHWALD

Phe Preventative Oath

CA.rrOL SQUARE R .. . stead tn 1952. Umstead died in

COALITION - Moore.s victory came about by the cohesion of moderate-conservative elements which never materialized ill 1960 behind Dr. I. Beverly Lake. This time, Moores triumph. Impressive as it was, must be attributed In large measure to Dr. Lake who wa.s on the brink of becoming the most tragic figuir in North Cai-oltna politics in this half-

1954 and was succeeded by the Ueuter.anl-governor Luther H. Hodges.

While it is true that some of the same men close to Umstead supported Moore this time, it is a group w'hich had not been a coliesive political force for more than a decade and was. at the time of Moores announcement widely .scattered.

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WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans are reaching the point where they wdll have to find some agreement among themselves on a party platform but ^ until then they will continue imbbing sandpaper on their wounds.

Next week the 100-nian resolutions committee meets in San Francisco to hold bearings on what form the platform should take when the Republican presidential convention opens there July 13.

It has been a confusing Republican year. Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S ambassador to South Viet Nam won the New Hampshire presidential primary although he was far off in Southea.st Asia and said he was not a candidate.

Sen. Barry Goldwater of Arizona and New Yorks Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller had campaigned hard in that unpredictable New Ehigland state. Then Rockefeller, by the polls, wasn't supposed to win in Oregon but he did.

While the polls said Rockefeller would win in California, it was Goldwater who won. When the Republican governors met in Cleveland hi early June and .some talked of stopping Goldwater. none stuck his neck out. Then Pennsylvanian William W. Scranton suddenly did. He announced he would be a candidate for the Republican uomhiation. He has been scooting around the country ever since, trying to make inroads on Goldw'ater but doesn't seem to have made any impressive ones yet.

Then la.st week Lodge resigned as ambassador, an 11011001X1 his sole reason for doing .so wavS to come home to help Scranton stop Goldwater, and in the process got into a disacreement with other Republicans including Soianton.

Lodge, who had been amba.s-sador tn Southeast Asia under the Democratic adniinisUa-tiou.s of Pre.sldeits Kennedy and John.son, .said the war against coniniunism there is on the right track and should not be a political issue thi.s year.

But Goldwater, who has been critizing the Democrats, Southeast Asian policy for nionth.s, .said it most definitely is an i.s.sue. And Sunday so did Rep. William E, Miller, chairman of th' Republican National Committee.

Even Scranton disagreed

W'ith Lodge. He said as far as I am concerned, it is an Issue.

Where this is leading is is hard to say.

Since Goldwater is a conservative and some of the other top Republican leaders are not men like Scranton. Lodge, Rockefeller and Michigans Gov. George Romney - they want a voice in the direction the party takes, even if the convention nominates Goldwater.

Lodge. Romney and Rockefeller are going to appear before the committee in San Francisco to say what they think the platform should contain. Goldwater has said he would like the platform to be merely a statement of pri-niciples rather than a list of specifics.

But if he gets the nomination, and at this moment his chances look unexcelled, he will need broad Republican support, not only from party leaders who now disagree with him but from rank-and-file Republicans, too.

This may induce him to compromise on the platforms contents.

For example: while a majority of Republicans in both houses of Congress voted for the civil rights bill, Goldwater voted against it. This may help him with some Southern Democrats but it angered some Republicans.

If they Insist on a strong civil rights plank in the platform. it is possible Goldwater wont make an i.ssue of it. He can 'explain that while he voted against the bill he would, as a presidential duty, enforce it if elected.

The platform problem may prod u c e the convention's great-test heat.

On the basis of the mail we've been receiving lately, anyone who says anything against Barry Goldwater is either a Commie " or a Communist Dupe. The Goldwater supporters are very ardent about their candidate and the specie of Communism hangs over all who oppose the Junior Senator

from Arizona.

While there is a lot of truth in what the Goldwater people say, and the majority of the people w'ho are against him are probably Communists or Democrats, as well as liberal Republicans, there are still a few people in the United States who have never had anything

Other Editors Saying ... Calory Cut Advisee.

(The Houston Post) Someone is always trying to make us live better, the latest being the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council. Its experts got together in Washington, and Issued new calorie intake recommendation tables for what they call easy-living Americans.

easy living.

Maybe once they are under way they seem to cut grass easier than the old-style motor-less lawnmow-ers, but most people W'ho own a mower pow'-ered by a gasoline motor get a concentrated dose of heavy exercise trying to start it after it is a few months old. Easy living, indeed!

In general, the nutrition experts recommend that men cut back 300 calories a day from the total recommended in the groups' 1958 tables, and women 200 calories. For example: The 1958 tables recommended a daily intake of 3,200 calories for a healthy moderately active, 25-year-old. 145-pound American male. The new tables say he should reduce the intake to 2.900 calories. In tenns of food, 3(W calories w'ould be six pats of butter or two martinis.

We shall not try to estimate how many carloads of butter would be added each year to the nations surplus stocks if every man gave up six pats a day, but the total undoubtedly would be substantial. However, for those who wish to keep trim, thats what the nutritionists advise.

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"i'oure getting old when that gleam in your eye is from the sun hitting your bifocals. Cleveland <Ga.' Courier.

They blamed the accountre-ments of modern living for dc-crea.sed physical activity that calls for fewer calories. Power lawnmowers were suggested as being among the accountre-ments. A great many men w-ho wrc.stle power lawnmowers on week ends will take issue with the thought that they' make for

Good Question

A philosophical friend who has been employed some iears in a government post seeking jobs for the unemployed, told us the other day not to be surprised if in the not-too-distant future social security payments w'ill begin at age 45. Employers will complain to high heaven. he added, but some of them are asking for just such a development.

Our friend took todays hiring practices apart, declaring they are making a tragic mockery of accumulated skills of Americans whose only disability Is reaching the stge of 40. Hiring practices in many firms actually prohibit employment of woikers past 35. he said, and In some instances the limit Is 25. With 55 million beyond the age of 45. the doors are thus closed to a large .segment of the whole population.

All of tlie doors except one. he pointed out. Govenimcnt in mo.st cases hires through the age of 55. Ls it any wonder, he wanted to know, that under such pressure government payrolls continue to grow and grow? It was a good question. The Tulsa (Okla.)

to do with the Communist party and who do not go along with the Senators philosophy. These people should be protected against the Communist smear.

We think we have the solution.

Between now' and the election, anyone who feels strongly aginst Sen, Goldwater should apply for a Certificate of Non-Communism w'hich he could cairy around in his poc-ets. This certificate would certify that although he is going to vote against Barry Goldwater he is not now nor ever have been a member of the Communist party, nor to his knowledge is he a dupe of any foreign power or philosophy W'hich would advocate the overthrow of our goveniment by force.

Who would Issue these certificates? We think the F. B. I. should be the agency in charge of clearing all Goldwater opposition.

If someone is against Sen. Goldw'ater he would write to J. Edgar Hoover requesting a certificate.

Mr. Hoover or one of his agents would run a check on the person, investigating his background, talking to his employer and friends, and interviewing his school teachers.

If it is discovered that the persOTi Is a registered Democrat (tantamount to being a Communist dupe, according to many Goldwater supporters) he would be asised to take a lie-detector test. He would be Questioned on his feelings to-w'ards social security, the TV A, civil rights, the United Nations, Medicare and foreign aid, and if it w'as found he supported any of these hi.s certificate would be withheld.

The Certificate of Non-Communism would be free and the cost of the investigations w'ould be borne by the taxpayers. But it would be worth the co.st to find out the people who are again.st Barry Goldwater because they are political convictions, and those who are against him because they are members of the Communist paity.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyilght. 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Every four years those of us who were W'eaned on the antibunkum prose of L L. Mencken, the irreverent sage of Baltimore, wonder how we are going to survive the nonsense that goes by the name of campaign oratory.

The current gambit of the orators is to lump practically every great Republican Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt the early" Herbert Hoover, 3ce Eisenhower and Bob Taft into one indiscriminate ball of wax and label it the mainstream" tradition. To anyone who knows any history at all, this makes just about as much sense as tossing Babe Ruth, a Rabelaisian man who enjoyed staying up to all hours in roistering ciwnpsmy, and Bobby Richardson, the second baseman who likes to do Y. M, C. A. work, Into one container and labeling it the New York Yankee type." I am indebted to sports writer Jimmy Cannon for pointing out the absurdity of trying to make a tradi-lon" in sports on entirely clashing elements, and mean to use his scalpel here for my o w n purposes.

Lets begin with Lincoln. He W'as great both as a polltlcan and as a statesman. He wras also an extreme pragmatist. His habits of temporizing have been pretty much forgotten, and it is not considered cricket today to look very closely at his politicking on the race issue. He fought the Civil War, not to free the slaves, but to hold the union ti^ether. The Emancipation Proclamat I ttn was strategic in its origins, a move to discombobulate the South, Lincoln did indeed hate slavery, but in the middle of the Civil War he told a group of Negroes that, in his opinion, it would be wise of them to establish their own country in Central America. He treated habeas corpus cavalierly in the middle of war, I do not in the least doubt that Lincoln would have taken the lead in pushing the civil rights bill today. All that I insist upon i.'^ that he w'as not a plaster saint ideologue in his own time, but a human being whose ideas, even as yours and mine, changed their shape with the pressure of events. - %

As for Theodore Roosevelt, he was the original shootem-from-the-hip man in U. S. politics. He wanted Perdica-ris alive or Raisuli dead. He advocated going into Cuba, not to turn on the w'ater. but to throw out the Spaniards, Who, like the Russians that infest CMba today, were representatives of a foreign European power in this hemisphere. .

He let his own equivalent of the CIA foment a revolution in the Panamanian province of Colombia in order to make the Panama Canal a reality. In his letters to the first Henry Cabot Lodge he breathed fire and brimstone. At one point he welcomed the possibility of trouble W'ith Great Britain, which W'ould permit us. as he said, to take Canada. In 1912 he campaigned for such far . out Progressive ideas as the initiative, the referendum and the recall. The recall" referred to a proposition which would have let the voters overturn the judicial decisions of the Supreme Court. Fi-anklin D. Roosevelt, in his court-packing plan, did not dare go this far in trying to tamper with the judicial process.

The lumping of the early Herbert Hoover into the indiscriminate ball of wax is peculiarly offensive, for it assumes that Herbert Hoover changed hLs spots W'hen he was elected President. As for including Ike Elsenhower and Bob Taft in the .same mainstream. this does violence ,to the whole history of the Rerv ublican Party in the Nineteen Fifties. Ike wa.s promoted for Prf*sident in 1952 by a group that iQi^ed upon Taft as the Goldwater of his day. T h i .s group even dared to call the painfully honest Boh Taft a thief when he tried to get his Texas delegates .seated at (Continued On Page 5>

They found 40 microphones in the U. S. Embas.sy in Moscow', We knew that oiu' statesmen talked a lot but we didnt know that, they needed that ex-teu'ive an electronic network to Pick up all the loose talk. Random Lake iWis.i Times.

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By EARL I.. DOl GL.VS.S MAKE VOIK (HOICK

The Bible .spcak.s trequently of the power of sin. Both in the Hebrew and the Greek one of the most prominent of the words meaning to .sin" has the basic meaning of "missing the mark." To .sin mean.s lo mi.ss tlie mark.

Tliere are people .so under a'h evil power that tliry .eetn t()> go throu.gh life nu.ssing the mark all the lime. They are tempted to lie and he di.shon-e.st When they find themselves rontronting a situation involving the limptaiion to be sc'x-nallv immcual, th'W tind their will power slmplv refuse.s to ojx'rate. lliry eu'-ih tall into the habit of hating people. They are unkind to ttie ones who loit them most. I'lvy know that in a siinalio.t of great re.spon.sibility the.^ w<iuld probably coliap.se and do eith

er the wrong or the Ignoble thing.

There i.s an awful power to this thing called sin. 'We can only believe that in some wavs it i.s demonic in its origin that is, it comes from the devil him.s?lt. It causes people to do things which in a period of recovery they w'onder how they ever could have done.

This powcl' of sin leads pco-l)le to say things which make deep wound.< that perhaps never heal and always leave scar.s. Wf are dealing with a Veal power when we are dealing with sin. But we are also dealing with a real power w'h'n we deal with religions failh, with eonfidcncc in God. with rdpmee upon Je^'us ChrLt as Re.sciiei Power again.st power! Make your choice.

By ELMER ROESSNER

It looks as if it will be up to the U. S. Supreme Court to decide what another four-letter Airglo Saxon word really means. The word is free.

The essential meaning of the word has long been debated by Federal agencies. Better Busi-nes.s Bureaus and linguistic purists for many years. Back in 1948 the Federal Trade Commission bsucd a ruling in which it said that "f r e e meant "free," and Better Bus-ine.ss Bui-caus cheered. No one. the FTC said, could advertise anything as free unless it was given away without consideration, as well as Without charge.

"Buy one and get another free. the FTC .aid. was contradictory. A store could give away balloons or a bar could give away snacks a.s long as there was no condition to the gift Rut If you had to buy something to get the balloon, or a drink to get the snack.s, the cliarni of freeness had vanished with the breeze'. BC.SINE.S.S KtHt TOD.AV ( 0\T KHI'K KKidMES MORE OR LE.SS FREE

This was an unrealistic ruling foi' those hurly-burly postwar years. Merchants kept right on offering things free if customers paid cash for another item. Besides free was becoming a .sort of sacred word, with those million.s of people behind the Iron Curtain.

So in 1955, the FTC issued a new ruling in which it conceded that if the price of the first item was clearly stated, and there was no extra payment for the second item, then it was all right to say that the second one was free.

The basic trouble with both the.se rulings was that the FTC was trying to j^shape the Eng-li:h language, rewrite the dictionaries and revise the addled pates of almost 2(X) million Americans. They knew that free is free, and if you have to buy one. the .second one is .still free, regardless of w1iat the item was.

WHOS IN (HAK(;E here?

This resistance to ukase stx-iuR to have annoyed the FTC and during the yea i .s it cited .some of the more flag-nanl abuses of the use of the woid free, such as when there

was an extra charge for the free item after buying the fii'st one.

Then it seized upon the Mary Carter Paint Co.. of Tampa, Fla., which had long annoyed the larger paint manufacturers by its insistent use of appeals in selling cans of paint, Buy one, get one free." The FTC figured that this was simply offering two cans for the price of one and in 1962 ordered the company to stop using the offer.

The company challenged the ruling in Federal Couil and the other day the Fifth U. S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans reversed the FTC order. Some Interpreted the ruling as a judicial decision that Americans are not complete dopes, and that when they see a legend, "Buy one and get one free, they know * that it doesn't mean, Buy none and get one free anyhow.

Now the FTC has two choices. It can bow to the Circuit Court and allow advertisers all over America lo offer free cift.s, presents and dri-counts as long as customers buy something else, w it can

eppeal the deciMon to the Supreme Court.

Since the FTC has rarely taken judicial reverses supinely, it is likely that the lop court will hear from the commissioners. After all, it Is a free country.

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