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Wednesday, July 1, 1964

Senate Rule Not Too Much To Ask

Under xTi^e Southern Crossr

Evidence disclosed during the Bobby Baker by the committee, would require Senators and em-investigation strongly suggested th wisdom ployes of the Senate to disclose the name of all of instituting sonie stringent new rules with respect corporations or private businesses in which they to-possibje conflicts of interest on the part of mem- hold an interest with a market value of more than bera of the Senate and Senate employes. half the individuals Senate salary. It would not

It 18 evident, we think, that the investigation require that the total value of the holdings be dis-made a much more vivid impression upon the public closed, or that income figures would be disclosed, than it did on members of the Senate. The investiga- In effect it would only provide a list of names tion of Bakers dealing while he was secretary to of corporations or other private business in which the majority of the Senate was pulled up short before Senators and Senate employes own interest.

it could inwade the financial lives of individual members of the Senate to any extent.

Even^so, it appears that members of the Senate may be more inclined to adopt new rules with regard

Frankly, we do not think the rule is too much to ask. If anything, it falls far short of the kind of new rules many people expected the Senate to consider in the wake of the Bobby Baker irivestiga-

to private financial dealings than has previously tion.

been the case. The Senate Buies Committee has But there is still the question of whether a

adopt^ed a resolution offered by Sen. Jordan that majority of the Senate will go along with adopting -1 recommendation of the Rules Committee.

calls for partial disclosure by members of the Senate

and its employes of their financial assets. ^ v

V Although the rule, at best, may be regarded as liVrtTXrtn TtI

only a token measure, it would be a significant ^ XU

step in the right direction if it gains approval of a majority of the Senate. The proposed rulei approved

!VIoore Chosen Over Year Ago

Those Larger Budgets

Growth experienced by most Pitt County municipalities during the past year is reflected in budgets adopted or in the process of adoption for the new fisical year that begins today.

A review of the budgets shows that in most cases

' By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH ~ PoUUcal note-b(xA:.

Dan K. Moore, the Democratic nomkiee for governor, was a rank political unknown in most of the state as recently as eight months ago. But the fact is that more than a year ago at least one small group with its roots in western North Carolina was already forming behind Moores possible candidacy. .

The legislature was in ses-si<Hi in Raleigh and from his seat on the House floor one day Rep. I. C. Crawford of Asheville ^)otted a face in the crowd In the galleries.

He quickly left his seat and came upstairs and approached a group (tf reporters in the press section.

Where is he? Crawford asked. Have you seen him our next governor, the next governor of North Carolina? The reporters lo<dced around, searching nearby seats for a glimpse of someone they thought might be Bert Bennett Jr., Dr. Henry Jordan, perhaps Woodrow Jones, or although Crawford is a staunch Democrat. possibly even Rep. Charle R. Jonas.

Who is it? the reporters demanded. Who are you looking for?

Why, said Crawford, Judge Dan K. Moore, of course. Havent you heard?"

BOOSTER Crawford now claims, on basis (rf the p r e s s gallery incident, not only to having been one of the fi r s t Moore suMx>rters but also to having given newsmen a reliable and accurate tip.

Crawford adds that he understands how it was. The reporters didnt believe him either, he says, when he told them that his bill to ground the State Highway Patrol airplanes would pass because the pe<vle wanted it.

Crawford authored the 1963 legislati( which stripped the highway patrol of authority to use airplanes to catch speeding motorists.

MORGAN One of the Ug) political suwwrters of Dr. I. Beverly Lake who-came openly and actively into the Moore camp for the seccmd primary missed the election night celebrating.

He was State Sen. Robert B. Morgan of Harnett County, who was Dr. Lakes st^ campaign manager in 1960.

Morgan is a comiAander in the U. S. Naval Reserve and had to report for active duty on the day of the June 27 runoff. He went to the polls in LiUington to vote, but then had to drive to Wilmington to board his ship and was on duty when the vote counting began.

AIDES A large number of

top Lake aides and Dr. Lake himself were on hand, however, to congratulate Judge Moore.

They included 1964 TaIt*. manager Allen BaUey and Lake campaign treasurer Alex Brock and a number of Lake regicMial managers and county managers. All told, more than 90 of Lakes county managers Joined the Moore campaign effort for the second primary.

They mingled freely with Moores top aides and many of Moores chief supporters including Woodrow Jones, former House Speaker Joe Hunt Jr., Lewis R. and Robert Holding, Malcolm Seawell, Senate president Clarence Stone, Frank Snepp of Charlotte, C. V. Henkel of Statesville, Robert F. Morgan of Shelby and I. T. Valentine of Nashville. -SPIRITS The winners camp was in high spirits. Henkel. former state' senator who was an unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 1960, said he had predicted that Moore would get a minimum of 60 per cent of the vote. Theres been nc^hing approaching this. he said, as the returns mounted. Its devastating.

The people have spoken, he said. And they didnt stammer and stutter.

Another aide said that Henkel and Moore supporters in Statesville and Iredell County furnished an early Uiming-point in the primary campaign. That, they said, was a rally for Moore in Statesville at a time when our spirits were mighty low. More than 2,000 people turned out and our grassroots support began showing. CANDIDATE ** Moores campaign chiefs said a great deal of credit for turning the tide must go to the candidate himself.

Dan Moore made an ideal candidate, they said. He is the picture of rugged honesty and integrity. He was easy to sell to the people. They liked him and*they could tell he lik-' ed them.

Another aide said the description of Moore as a mountain man actually helped unl-ite the state behind him. He predicted:

It will be a long time in North Carolina politics before another candidate is called that mountain man.

GILL State Treasurer Edwin Gill said he could not recall such a landslide in any previous hard-fought political campaign.

Judge Moore has received a clear mandate to lead the party, and I am sure that because of Judge Moores pledge the party will be united behind him. Gill said.

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of the county have found it necessary to appropriate more money for government operations than was the case for the year just ended. Providing services for a larger area or a larger number of people or both required more money than was the case in most of the cities and towns when last years budgets were made up.

At the same time it is encouraging^to note that the municipal governments are not having to install tax increases on a wholesale basis. In most cases the existing tax rate of the cities and towns is expected to provide, sufficient revenue in the new fiscal year to meet the higher expenditures.

In a large measure this reflects the economic growth of the communities as a whole.

In most cases the valuation of property on ' which the tax rate is levied has increased over that of last year because of construction of additional Bv ALVIN TAYLOR homes, commercial buildings and other facilities. -Increases in other sources of municipal revenue also indicate better economic conditions for the cities and towns.

The factors all point to a healthy growth in the communities of this county, and at the same time the budgets reflect a ^general healthy situation in municipal government operations as well.

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Culture

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'That Walking Behemoth

iOdge IV. Get Steamec.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Henry Cabot Lodge came home from Viet Nam to try to stop Sen. Barry Gold water but from what he said, or rather refused to say, you might get the impression he wasnt exactly belligerent. But you never can tell.

Pennsylvanias Gov. William W. Scranton, who Is trying to beat Goldwater for the Republican presidential '-nomination, started off on a no-name basis, too. It took him a while to get steamed up.

Lodge quit his job as . S. ambassador to help Scrantons , fight, arrived here Monday, made a farewell report to President Johnson at the White House, and then held a news cwiference.

He said ie Republicans must not nominate an imprudent man, an impulsive man. But he wouldnt criticize Goldwater by name. Asked if he regarded the senator as impulsive, Lodge said peopl^ can draw their own conclusions.

When Scmaton announced June 12 he was going to cam-, palgn for the nomination, making It a clear stop^Joldwater move, he sent the Arizonan a telegram, telling Goldwater how much he respected him, and adding: _ ( ^

I W1 say nothing in the weeks ahead to diminish that respect. On the issues, I will be vigorous with all the power at my command. On personalities I will be silent.

But almost at the moment he disclosed this telegram he was without mentioning him- by name a weird parody of traditional Republican principles.

He attacked what he referred to as the shoot from the hip. rather than think from the head foreign policy, again without naming names. As he warmed up he threw out phrases against radical reactionaries. ' "

Goldwater responded with I welcome Bill Scranton into the race as one of the outstanding governors of the nation.

Then the senator said that on Dec. 18, 1963 a couple of

weeks before he officially announced his candidacy he received the following letter from Scranton who is now trying to block him from the nominar tion: ^

"I read in the newspapers that you are reappraising your own situation |to decide whether to be a candidate foi the presidential nomination. I hope you decide to run, and I would like the opportunity, albeit impertinent, to discuss this with you.

Goldwater siad they later discussed it. Scranton, asked about this letter after he started running himself, said he had * sent a similar letter to two other persons whom he refused to name..

For some days after starting out in pursuit of Goldwater, Scranton didnt mention the senator by name.

But he attcked the dime store feudalism of radicals of the right and said this is not the time fb join extreme reactionaries who are anything but conservative.

But he warned some of his volunteer worftrs: i dont want anybody ih the least way getting personal; we need every vote we cab get. One of Goldwaters supporters. Sen. Norris Cotton of New Hampshire. spoke-ufT shortly afterward.

He must havs' been having the same.thoughts as Scranton for he said if the governor continued to attack the senator and took opposing sides on issues, he might make himself unacceptable to Goldwaters supporters, even if he succeeded in stopping the Arizonan at the Republican convention this month.

But by last weekend Scranton was criticizing Goldwater by name and, in making one of his sharpest attacks on him, said he lacks the qualities required of a president.

Meanwhile, he had said repeatedly he would support Goldwater if he gets the nomination and runs for the presidency. Since the convention is still two weeks away. Lodge has time to get heated up enough to mention Goldwater by name.

That announcement about awarding of contracts for a giant excavator for phosphate mining staggers the imagination.

Texas Gulf Sulphur is having the thing built for phosphate mining in Beaufort County. Described as a walking behemoth it will weigh 4,348 tons and will be able to reach the length of two football fields to scoop up 72 cubic yards of ore at a time. It will walk on shoes 72 feet long and 12 feet wide.

Sort of prompts one to comment; Wed rather see a walking behemoth than be one.

Anybody who has ever had a tire blow out can sympathize with the crew that cut Into the natural gas line In Belvedere yesterday.

The lines carries 600 pounds of pressure, which can create quite a blow out.

wives, who must think they are coming in for considerable attention at the late date. How many are still practicing in Pitt County? Four.

And the board of health has adopted extensive regulations for the countys practicing mid-

Other Editors Saying... Signal--Ta-Peking

Let us say here that we like the bell tower which Hooker Memorial Church dedicated Sunday. The church has one of the most beautiful setting to be found, in the wooded area on GreenviUe Boulevard. The addition of the bell tower with its accompanying landscaping adds even more to this already Irwely spot.

(Christian Science Monitor)

The dangerous but necessary course with respect to Laos was to Uft it out of a local aggression into an Issue directly engaging the United States and Communist China. A warning from the Red Chinese Foreign Minister shows that this is now well under way.

When President Kennedy met the earlier crisis in Laos the object was not quite the sam4. The split between the Soviet Union and mainland China had not broken into the open. The Russians were the chief active support of the Pathet Lao. The best American strategy at that time was to lift the local action into a blg-power concern The neutralization that resulted was to be a big-power affair.

Now it is a direct confrontation between Washington and Peking. It is possible that this might result in a cleaner solu-tlwi. It could be a form of partition.

Right now the process of diplomatic escalation is proceeding according to the book. The Americans are necessarily taking the initiative. They are faced with an aggression in Laos w'hlch is war so they are the ones to respond by warning to China which is still short of war with China in their .effort to keep the peace. The warnings are supplemented by the use of reconnaissance and fighter planes in Laos under the authority of its Premier, Prince Souvanna Phou-

ma.

Statements both by President Johnson and Secretary of State Rusk forced the Chinese to raise the level of their counterwarnings. So their Foreign Minister, Marshal Chen Yi, has made the first formal reply from the ruling circle.

Analysis of the 1 a n g u a g e shows that the men of Peking are resisting the process of escalation because they know what is being done to them that they are being forced to recognize the joint determination of the United States and Laos not to let Laos go.

The great difference between this process and that of an American attack on North Vietnam is one that needs to be understood by Americans generally. The present process signals to the Chinese and to every knowledgeable country and person looking on-that the object of the United States is to keep toe peace by stopping the aggression. The alternative, an attack on North Vietnam, would signal to Peking that the United States was possibly coming after China itself and that Peking might well fight at once. The result could be a war that the United States did not want if the Chinese could be kept frcxn aggression by other means.

There is every reason tp hope that the peace-keeping process will succeed for a while. Then doubtless it will need to be re-'Peated again.

East Carolina Colleges School of Art was featured by Gwen Lewis, Greensboro Dally News Art Editor, Sunday.

He described it as the states largest art school and the largest collegiate art center in the south.

The article pointed out that there are 19 faculty members, 264 art majors and 1,200 to 1,500 students taking art courses every week.

There are 146 candidates for the BS degree in art education, 75 for the AB degree in liberal arts with a major in art and 36 undergraduates trying for the degree of BFA, There are also seven graduate students.

Opinionti In 'Brief

Sometimes when a speaker has his audience on the edge of their seats, theyre trying to muster the nerve to get up and go home. Mattoon (111.) Journal-Gazette.

Ample scholarships are available for top students, but mediocre to poor students without funds face increasing problems in our technological society. St. Louis post-Dispatch.

If we can be the agent to keep the free world united one, dictatorships cannot long threaten the peace of the world. _ Bristol (Conn.) Press.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, *

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Better mark his name down. Its Josif Brodsklj or, in its Anglicized form, Joseph Brodsky, and it could be that this young man, rated by his con-tempwaries as being a gifted poet, will compel Nikita Khrushchev to make a final decision one way or another in this business of liberalizing intellectual existence inside the Soviet Union.

Brodsky Is currently In a labor camp in the'far north of Russia, near Archangel, where he has been cmdemned to carry manure and do other demeaning work on a state farm for five years. His crime, nominally, is that he is a "parasite or a vagabond. Like other independent intellectuals in the Soviet Union he would have disappeared without trace if prominent personalities in the Soviet literary and art world Samuel Mar-sak, the composer Donitrl Shostakovitch, among others had not protested his sen-, tence, which was decreed even before a trial.

The protest was smuggled out of Russia to form the ba- sis of an article in the Li^ erary Journal edited by End-re Enczl, a Hungarian anticommunist, in Paris. What makes it worthy of international note is that its dgners, who are too important for Khrushchev to touch without tearing the fabric ot Soviet intellectual life apart. Insist that the trial of Brodsky was a staged trial. It was, so the protesters letter reads, nothing but the condemnation of the profession of writing itself. The shouts, interrupting the proceedings, such as 'all writers are parasites! or kick them out of Leningrad, are the result of the hatred of in-tellectualism, fomented in order to further the prep-paratlons and proceedings of the trial, and a natural consequence of same.

So there the issue is Joined by leading Soviet writers and artists against the bureaucrats and party functionaries who resent giving intellectuals any freedom to think. Brodskys downfall resulted from a diary and a few manuscripts which he wrote at the age o^.. 16 or 17 (he Is now 24). The diary came into the hands Of the Leningrad KGB, or secret police, who deduced from it that Brodsky, as a boy, had "fostered antl-SovIet feelings.. Although poems and translar tions which he wrote at a later period attracted J;he attention of such well-known Soviet writers as Anna Ahmatova and Kornyei Chukovsky, the old diary was made toe basis for an accusation by a Stalinist functionary In the peoples militia of Leningrad that Brodsky was an irrespcmsi-ble and cynical parasite.

On the day he was released from a Moscow sanatorium, where he had gone to be treated for a nervous collapse, Brodsky was seized for tr^g to evade the proceedings of the law. There followed the staged trial, and the banishment to the far north.

All of this was taking place at a time when Khrushchev* was trying to create an image for himself as the man who had brought an end to Stalhv ist persecutions of artists and writers. The ironical element In Brodskys arrest as a vagabond is that the same ' charge was once made against Maxim Gorky, one of the grand luminaries of Russian literature, by the Czars government. (Gorky was arrested in the city of Nizhni Novgorod, which after the Revolution was renamed Gorky. So its a case of the old Russian despotism cropping up under new guise "the more it changes, the more its the same thing. The protest of the intellectuals In the Brodsky case puts it firmly up to Khrushchev to fish or cut bait in the matter of purging Soviet cultural life of Stalinist repressl(His. The odds are that Khrushchev will WTiggle a bit and then end up on the side of a disguised sort (Continued on Page 7) .

No Downturn Seen During Year

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS BUT STILL WE ARE SURE St. Augustine in his writings makes the statement that if <me asks him the nature of time, he Is pretty well convinced in his mind as to what time is until he begins to explain it; then he is baffled and confused.

What Augustine says of time we can say of most of the great principles by which our lives are guided. We all know what honor Is but If we try to explain it. we become baffled

and confused. Likewise happiness and true love which makes romance .glorious these things many people uiv-derstand through experience;^ but they cannot .explain them. To try to explain them spoils them. Just as Augustine felt

that he knew what time is but was thrown into confusion when he tried to explgin it. so we know the nature of many things very precious to us which we caimot explain.

Many people today are so materialistic in. outlook that they are constantly saying that the things which cannot be explained are unreal. But they arc not unreal. Love Is not unreal, nor Is religious faith, nor fidelity, nor honor. Yet these things can never be adequately defined nor explained

Put your faith iri them whether you understand them or not. The greatest values in life are often apprehended (Hi-ly by the*^ emotions. But they re real. We learn through the emotions* as well as through the mind.

By ELMER ROESSNER

There has been so much said here as well as elsewhere about the current surge of prosperity that the possibilities of a downturn have been overlooked.

A downturn this 3rear is not likely, for two reasons: the effects of the tax cut are beginning to take hold and the Johnson administration will do anjdhlng within its power to keep the boom going through the election and, if there are means, forever.

Nevertheless, it should be understood that prosperity Is never automatic, never certain. And there have been a few signs here and there indicating cracks in toe foundations of-present prosperity.

NEW ORDERS, CONTRACTS DIP

Some, quavers;

. New orders for durable goods fell (n May from the record marks set In April. However. they were still above all previous months.

. Housing starts in May were slightly below those In April, but 7 per cent below those In .May, 1963. Starts In May weft at an ipdjusted an

nual rate of 1.501.000 units, compared with 1,515,000 units in April and 1,618,000 units In . May. 1963.

. Contracts for future construction in May were 4 per cent below those in MayT 1963,-according to the F. W. Dodge Co. They were unchanged Irotn April, this year. Mays contract total brought the first year-to-year decline in new (xmstructlon that has been reported since early In 1963, observed George A. CTulstie, Dodge economist.

. Dr. Marcus Nadler, economist for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co., made this statement: If Inflationary forces should reassert themselves, they not only would have an adverse effect mi the balance of payments, but would also cause the current business upswing to degenerate into an unsustainable boom. Wurra, wurra!

. The stock market has not shown consistent gains. While the broad picture is not yet disturbing, there have been a number of dlpe and dull days. ON THE OTHER HANIV

These troublesane activities have been somewhat offset 1^

other developments, such as:

. Personal Incwne continued to rise in May, gaining $1.35 billion over April, at adjusted annual rates. However, that was less than the average monthly rise in recent months. Personal Income for the first five mraitos of 1964 has been running 5 per cent above a year ago.

. Cash oorporatiwi dividends reported publicly were 11 per cent more in May than a year ago. The May, 1964, total was $454.2 billion, more than $44 million over May, 1963.

. A survey by the Department of Conomerce and the Securities and Exchange Commission shows that businessmen have Increased plans for investing 'in plant and equipment and that expenditures are expected to rise steadUy and be 12 per cent higher this year than last.

. Top qcoijomlsts at the American Statistical Association conference in Chicago two weeks ago .were of the general opinion that Immediate prospects are good and that the economy would continue to wax through-toe rest of the year.

The conciusioD from

perhaps conflicting outlooks Is that a continued boom cannot be taken for granted; neither will- a decline be automatic. The best thing an Investor or businessman can do Is to keep alert to changing business barometers and be (xmstantly ready to shift positions as de-vel(^ments indicate.

Thats a lot of ecmiomic jargon for, Watch your step!

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