Wednesday, August 26, 1964

Arranging A Smooth Separation

Attorney General Robert Kennedys announce- It will also mean, of course, that in the fall ment that he will seek the Democratic senatorial campaign President Johnson may be in a position nomination in New York State and resign his cabi- to lessen the association between his own adminis-^4. tration where it appears politically expedient to

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net position provides a smooth parting of the ways for President Johnson and the controversial brother of the late president.

There seems to be little question about the attorne/ general being handed the Democratic nomination at the state party convention in New York next Tuesday.

Politically, it will mean a number of things for President Johnson who will be nominated for a term in his own name in Atlantic City this week.

do so.

As for Robert Kennedy, the fall campaign will be his first bid for elective office even though he has played a ke^ role in top echelon national politics for a number of years. How he fares as a candidate instead of a campaign manager will be up to the voters of New York.

Everjrthing considered, the arrangement is tantamount to separating the close ties which have

Before the week is over he will choose a vice presi- naturally existed between the administration of

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dential running mate for the national ticket Within the next week, he will have the opportunity to bring into his cabinet in the sensitive attorney generals post a new person who may provide a different political shading to contrast with that which has been attached to Robert Kennedy.

Shortcoming In Iducotion TV

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES REACH Officials estimate that the states first and thus far (Hily educational television station transmitter, that o WrUNC-TV located in Chatham County, can reach an estimated 1,645,000 residents of the atate.

This means that approximately three miUioi North Carolina residents are still outside the range of an educati(mal TV station and the 1965 legislature is being 'asked for further help in remedying this shortcoming.

Nine other states already have blanket statewide ETTV networks in operatiwi.

One for North Carolina is still several years away. It will re<iuire eventually at least nine ETV transmitting points or station, probably supplemented with a system of cables, translators and other facilities to fill in the gaps.

UHF All but two of the nine ETV stations planned for the statewide network are scheduled to be assicmed ultra high t:r''nncy (UHF) cban-

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nels.

This poses an additional pro-ble^. Most television sets now in use in North Carolina are not equipped to receive UHF. Officials and ETV backers believe this will remedy itself through new requirements that all sets now being manufactured be adapted for UHF <cep-ticm.

The Industry believes the changeover to sets equipped for UHF will be at the rate of about 20 per cent a year, meaning that in about fve years a large majority (rf TV sets in private homes will be able to receive both VHP and UHF programs.

Inquiring about this point, the Advisory Budget Cmnmis-sion was told that styling of new television sets is a factor which will help >eed up the changeover and purchase of aec<Hid sets for homes.

FUNDS In addition to $1,250,000 already appropriated for extending Uie pnvosed statewide ETV network and $1,830,000 in state funds asked for 1965-67, about $682,000 in federal funds is available to North Carolina for educational TV purposes.

A federal grant of $207,000 is being used to sun;>lement state funds is establishing a VHP channel ETV factility at Odumbia, in Tyrrell County, which is the most advanced

of the new facilities toward becoming operati(Mial.

Officials explained that funds of various types and purposes are available irom a multitude of federal agencies in the ed-ucatimial TV field. A grant of s(nething more than $100,000 from federal agencies is being made for a local ETV project in Charlotte and Mecklenburg County.

ARTS An increase in emphasis on the arts and humanities was evident in budget requests of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for academic affairs.

Actually. UNC officials explained. much has been done in recent years in the way of capital improvements, buildings, laboratories and equipment for the sciences and such departments as English and History have been somewhat neglected.

But they stressed that Ehig-lish and History are two of the most distinguished departments" of the University. They lead in graduate students. There are 110 faculty members in the English department alone.

The UNC Chapel Hill requests for C" budget items placed high priority on a $950,-000 English department classroom and faculty office building and on a $1,740,000 addition to Wilson Library."^

First priority was given a $1,880,000 item for a new Law School building to be located in the area adjacent to the Institute of Government. This, along with a proposed $860,000 addition to the Institute of Governments Knapp building, would create a law and government center in the southeast sectira of the UNC campus.

The new law school, while given first priority, would also benefit English and History and the general college in midcampus by relieving o v e r-crowded c(dlti(xi8 in that area, ofcials said.

Also, they said, law is a separate school with its own faculty and its * own student body.

STATE North Carolina State of the University of North Carolina at Raleigh, a name for the Raleigh branch of the cons(^dated university system which Is likely to be changed again, is asking the biggest building program in the University system for the coming biennium.

State submitted requests for $26.3 million in state funds for its two-year building program which would cost $35.1 million. None <rf the State requests were for new land, but Chancellor J(^ T. Caldwell said land acquisition fw the burgeoning west Raleigh campus is an eventuality which must be faced.

A new $1,215,000 forestry school was given first priority in the State requests.

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President Johnson and the late President Kennedy.

Important politically, the separation apparently will be accomplished without any open break between the Johnson and Kennedy forces in the Democratic party.

No New Ground Broken By Partys Platform

The platform adopted by the national Democratic Convention last night follows the predicted middle-of-the-road pattern.

By contrast with earlier platforms of the party national election years, the 1964 document does not plow new ground. For the most part it is a re-statement of the principles set forth in recent years. It takes the appearance of a hold-the-line platform rather than one which pushes for expansion of new frontiers in governmental operations.

Readily seen in the framing of the platform planks, we think, is the influence of PreMdent Johnson and his efforts to avoid bruising clashes within the party over specific parts of the platform.

While the civil rights plank may not be pleasing to many Democrats, particularly in the South, it is a relatively more conservative statement of party position than might have been expected. In substance, if not in specific language, it is much the same as the civil rights plank adopted by the Republican party at its convention several weeks agp. * r tttxt rn a xtt

The fact that the platform was adopted with- ^ ALiVLN 1 AYL<OIi

out a floor fight reflects the vigorous effort of the t T C platform committee to write the planks in a manner that would be acceptable by both the conservative and the liberal elements within the party. As a whole, the Democratic platform is relatively more consen^ative than those of the past.

Human Life Ud There?

Main Line O:: The Campaign

By JAMES MARLOW

ATLANTIC CITY, NJ. (AP) The Democrats have laid down, in a speech and a platform, the main lines they will pursue in the 1964 campaign.

But the platform showed the controlling hand of President Johnson, even though he was still in Washington, as much by what It left unsaid as by what it pinpointed.

Its a compromise document plainly intended to prevent party-shattering splits. Particularly it tries to avoid alienating Negroes or Southerners, city-dwellers <m* farmers.

Yet, the very conscious, and apparently successful search for harmony here Is going to make the Democrats, get-together even duller than last months Republican .convention, where the forces of Sen. Barry Ooldwater completely dominated the show.

Here are those main lines voters can expect the Democrats to follow;

1. Americans never had it so

JAMES

new programs such as expanded aid to education and broader health facilities, to name a couple which would mean even broader participation of the federal government in American life.

The Republican platform promised some new programs too, but because of its heavy emphasis 00 less government

We have just wound up a few years membership In a monthly record club and It leav(^ us wondering if there are actually any humans in offices from where the records and all the paperwork are sent.

Month after m(mth we received a printed magazine and a card with many funny little holes punched in it. If you wanted the record featured that month you did nothing. Pretty soon automatic cycling would see to It that the record was delivered to your door.

If you didnt want the record, you marked a little box

on the card and whisked It off to the company. Presumably it was then digested by one or more ctanputers and the record automatically designat e d for you was shuttled to one side.

Of course, once a record was delivered to you, another card punched full of holes was forthcoming with the amount you owed printed on it. This card was to be returned with a check.

This went on for many many m()th8, and we must say that the system works well. You get the card, lay it aside and along c(Hnes a record. Mark

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good, and were never militarily so strong, as under the Kennedy - Johnson administra-Uons. The Democrats claim the longest and strongest peacetime prosperity in our history.

2. Extremism will be a persistent Democratic target.

The platform condemned it, specifically naming the Communist party, the Ku Klux Klan and the John Birch Society. Pastore said the Republicans have been taken over by reactionaries and extremists.

The RepuMican platform avoided repudiating extremism and, while Ooldwater later said he did not want the support of the Ku Klux Klan. he did not do the same about the Birchltes.

3. The platform prcxnlsed

ocratic document.

It was on some very sore subjects that the DemocraUc platform was most cautious. For Instance, civil rights.

It promised fair, effective enforcement of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, This is the least it could do without alienating Negroes and Northern liberals. Because it was a minimum, it would not infuriate the South.

.The best evidence that this was the language of political compromise is that Northern and Southern members of the Platform Committee acclaimed their work as a unity platform and a winner in November.

It said but didnt attempt to promise, even if the Democrats are in control that Congress should change its rul-to end filibusters after reasonable debate. The filibuster is the Southerners, main weapon against civil rights bills.

And, for the first time since 9 World War n, the platform omitted any demand for new civil rights legislation.

Even though Ooldwat^ voted against the 1964 civil rights bill, the Republican platform on this subject seemed a little stronger than the Democrats.

While it promised full im-plementatioD and faithful execution of the cIvU rights act sonable debate. The filibuster is the Southerners, main weapon against civil rights bills. Quired.

But the Democrats' platform entirely ducked and here Johnsons hand was plainly at work any mention of the proUem of reMX>ortioning state legislative districts 00 the basis of population.

The Supreme Court had 01^ dered this to give all voters a more equal voice in tneir leg-(Ccntinued On Page 6)

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President Johnson pointed a path to peace at home and abroad when he told the American Bar Association the same dedication to legal order which will keep the peace in this land will bring us nearer to peace in all lands.

A great deal has been said lately about civil rights, and much has been done to uphold and extend them.

But what about the larger rights of every American?

How does that fit into the pattern, and just who is thinking and doing something about It?

President Johnson made that trip to New York to tell lawyers of this country at their national meeting that no person, whatever his grievance, can be allowed to attack the right of every American to be secure in his home, in his shop and in his street. That is something that needed not only saying, but It needs backing up by all good citizens.

The President cited Americas role in maintaining freedom wherever it is under attack or world peace wherever it is threatened. But peace at home got major emphasis when he said;

We wni not permit any part of America to become a Jungle, where the weak are the prey of

the strong and the many."

And such abuses must be stopped and punished-whether they occur in Mississippi or New York he declared. Where help is needed, or Federal law is violated, he promised help to local authority to punish, all lawbreakers whether they be murderers in the countryside or hooded night riders on the highways or hoodlums in tJie city.

And he also had a word of advice as wp as warning of the demnstrate- ^ and rioters for civU rights. Fulfillment of rights and prevention of disorder go hand in hand, he said. Resort to violence blocks the path toward racial justice.

But he recognized at the same time that denial of rights invites increased dlsor(ler. Those who would hold back progress toward equality and, at the same time, promise racial peace are deluding themselves and the people, he admonished as he pledged orderly pr(^ress and exact enforcement of law as the only path to end of racial strife.

It is difficult in the heat of election year campaigning for Mr. Johnson to separate his public image from that of political utterance, but what he told the lawyers was spoken like a statesman.

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won. Along came a letter from someone in the collection agency division, who threatened to turn the whole thing over to our local credit bureau if he didnt hear from us. He also Included a complicated form that demanded much in-(Contlnued On Page 5)

the proper box, send It back, and no record.

But the whole thing was so impersonal we began wtmder-ing If there were actually any people up there In Fleasant-ville, N.y. where we mailed our checks and cards.

Maybe Readers Digest, which administers the whole thing for RCA, is not made, up of people at all. Maybe it is just a series of computers which condenses the articles, publishes the magazine, operates the book club, and delivers the RCA records In its spare time.

For that matter, maybe RCA is just one big machine. Maybe Gen. Sarnoff, himself, is a typewriter who pecks out In-structl(Mis from a giant vacuum tube brain.

can see how the could worry a man, 80 we decided we would withhold payment of a record for awhile just to see what would happen.

Computers arent easily fooled and it wasnt long before additional bills began arriving, some even with postage paid envelopes to facilitate payment. Others Included form letters literally begging to know what was wrong. Still there was no proof of human habitation, so we stood ohr ground. It was man against machine.

Finally we thought we had

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Quality

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

ATLANTIC CITY - This C(mvention, at least in its early stages, has the quality of strained baby food. The master, Lyndon Baines Johnson, has prescribed blandness and only a few mavericks from Mississippi and Alabama, plus Joseph L. Rauh Jr., the ADA-er who is acting as general counsel for the kfississip-Freedom Democratic Party, have had the temerity to act up at alL

Tte blan(iDess is all over the boardwalk. Atlantic City has been described as Republican" in tone, and it Is true that much of the local architecture is a holdover from the age (rf Calvin CooUdge. But the thousands who march up and down and stare with wonder at the sea look no more like CooUdge RepubUcans than .any crowd at the Yankee Stadium. They buy paper from Willkes-Barre, they watch their kids riding toy autos <m mag-netlcally gul(^ tracks, and they act so universally like the vast center of American life that Goldwater would win in a walk if they were what it takes to make Atlantic City "Republican. A more likely suspicion, of course, is that a majority of them are ever so blandly Democratic.

The blandness extends to the people who ought to be partisan for one or another of the vice presidential hopefuls. If anybody has had the ebut Uence to wear a vice presidential button. It has escaped this reporters eye. Ths Hubert Humphrey people say its 98 per cent sure for Humphrey, but If Its someone else they wtmt raise a peep. A current theory, as I write. Is that Johns(m, pursuing blandness to the last inch, will pass over everybody who has been mentioned for vice president and nominate Genei> al Maxwell Taylor, the ambassador to South Viet Nam, to run with him. Taylor is politically neutral, and is just as far away fr(un this convention as Henry Cabot Lodge was far away from New Hampshire and Oregon. He might make a good vice president, but he would be the ultimate as a convention pacifier. There could be no hard feelings among Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Tom Dodd, Pat Brown, and Bob Wagner if LBJ were to pass over aU the political pros to pick a military man.

Blandness Is all over the platform, too. The Democrats point with pride to Kenndys stance in the (hiban missile crisis, but there just aint

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nuthin about the Bay of Pigs. Theres something alleg--ing that out of thirty-one African nations formed since World War n, not, one has chosen c(iununlsm. But theres nothing about the millions of bucks which this country put up to get Tshombe out of the Congo and on the strange circuit that brought him back to the Congo a year or so later. Theres something about forcing Khrushchev to forego a pesu:e treaty with East Germany, but the p 1 a t-form doesnt explain the rise of the Berlin wall. No Democrat will ever complain that the man who dictated the planks on foreign policy is trigger-haw>y; he just wants everybody to remain calm, calm, ciUm.

The note of blandness sounds insistently in the economic secti(X)8 of the p 1 a t-form. After a thousand days of John P. Kennedy and some (Continued on page 5)

Program Paid By Stepchildren'

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TEA WITHOUT SUGAR In her delightful poem, The White Cliffs, Alice Duer Miller tells of an old Scotch nurse who brought up an English boy and did much to mold him into strong manhood. If at any time he dlqdeased her or broke the unwritten code which she believed to be binding among English gentlemen, she would say, Lad, Im thinking youll have no sweet In your tea this evening.

No w(Mider she made a man of him. Sweetness is very precious to children, and I should imagine that in later years, as trouUe came upon him. this youngster remembered the bitter tea he had drunk many an evening because in some way during that day he had been careless or had disregarded the code. It must have been

easier for him through the years to take the buffetings of life bec;ause this wise nurse had early taught him to reason from cause to effect. He knew that wrong meant punishment. He knew that the tea was bitter, not because (he-family was stingy with sugar <M* because he had been imposed upon, but because be had been dealt with justly for some wrongdoing.

We all have to drink bitter tea at times, and It is a great help if we really know why the sugar has been left out. Tbe undisciplined ahrtys raise a great cry when they discover that sweetness has been withheld from their cup; thoee who have learned the lesson tbe old Scotch nurse taught, drink what Is set before tbem and are content.

By ELMER R0E8SNER When President Johnson signed the Federal-Aid H i g fa-way Act of 1964 he said, The program is not costing the general fund of the United States Treasury a single cent. He also said, For much too long, the man who owns and drives an automobile has been treated like a stepchUd. We require him to pay for the highway he uses and we require him to pay in advance. We divert his taxes to other uses but we delay the building of the roads that he deserves. The kindly President Is absolutely right in his statement that the program is not costing the general fund a cent. But the program Is cost 1 n g the little stepchildren, the auto drivers, and it may cost them even more next year.

$21 BILLION SO FAR The 16-year-old highway program was voted eight years ago, in good part due to the guidance of the then Senator Majority leader, Lyndon Johnson. Since then, 40 per cent of the 41,000 miles (banned has been c(xnpleted and opened. To pay lor this and other Federal highway projects, motorists have paid t2\ billion into the Highway Trust fund, about $17 billion in gasol 1 n e taxes.

Tbe 1964 act provides for bet-

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ter primary and secondary highways where states pay half the cost, and for improvement of roads in forests, on public lands, in national parks and similar places.

When this program will be coordinated with the original program, it Is expected that both programs will get an overhauling. In fact, early next year a broad reawraisal is expected.

The reappraisal will consider the fact that highway coastruc-tioa costs have been rising steadily over the last eight

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jrears. In fact, the demand for labor and materials created by the program is partly to blame for the rise In costs.

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One estimate Is that higher costs will add $3 billion to the total for the rest of the system.

In addition, proposals have been made that tbe highway

care of newly developed areas, system be extended to take and that highway funds be used in the program to subsidize commuter lines that are suffering because motorists and the Interstate highway system have taken away so much of the commuter business.

With these proposals have c(xne plans to raise the added mllliODs needed, and these are all for Increases in Federal gas taxes. States would then be likely to Increase their gas taxes to raise funds to match Federal highway spending.

This could make auto driving even more expensive than it is now. Federal and state taxes now average more than 10 cenU a gallon. In addition, city sales taxes are sometimes , levied on top (4 that. In New York City, for instance, a 4 per cent sales tax is levied not only on tbe price of gasoline. but on the state and federal taxes too.

When all these taxes are increased to pay for the expanded highway program, total taxes may go up to 15 cents or m(zre a gallon. And much of the money paid to cities and states is not used for highway purposes, but is siphoned off for other purpose. President Johnson said the

highway program had already put one million pers(X)s to work. Is saving 3.000 lives a year, and is saving $6 billion in user benefits a year, with more to come.

So the stepchild autoist, tooling along in his heavily taxed auto, propelled by multi-taxed gasoline, can comfort himself with the thought that he is one of the undecorated heroes <rf the auto age.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS

Despite those high gas taxes, thieves stole 35,731 autos In July, 18 per cent more than the previous high in July, 1963.

Employers are reminded that the minimum wage goes up for many workers a week from Thursday.

Employee dlshcwesty cost Insurance companies more than ever before in the past year, according to Norman Jaspan, management ccmsolt-ant.

A majority of podiatrists polled declared that sneakers would not harm people with normal feet.

The U. S. Department of Agriculture says that thiabendazole added to food eliminates gapeworms (cq) from turkeys.