Thursday, August 27, 1964

Diploma Important To Your Future

"If I Can't Run The Ship I May Just Run Out!"

Should I try school for another year or just forget about it? , . 1. 4.U

' Thifl question is doubtlessly going through the

minds of a number of boys and girls in Pitt County as another school year approaches. Most of those who are asking themselves this question have reached the age where mandatory attendance of public school is no longer required of them. They are probably one or two years away from receiving their high school diplomas and they are seriously considering the question of whether they will be better off spending their time in some way other

than going to school.

We trust that those youngsters who are asking themselves the question will decide to return to school when the new term begins. We hope they will recognize nowrather than later^the fact that at least a high school diploma is important to their economic future. We hope they will realize now that the opportunity they have for an education may be lost forever if they choose to join the ranks

;N.C. Delegates ODen-Minded

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

OUTWARD - The North Carolina delegation to the Democratic National convention went to Atlantic City outwardly <>en - minded about the choice of a vice presidential nominee.

Insofar as most of tte delegation were concerned publicly, anyone chosen by Lyndon B. Johnson to be his running mate w(mld be acceptable.

This was an expression of faith and confidence in Johnson and his political wisdom and a pledge on the part of the delegation and state party leadership to support the ticket.

It was also, however, tacit admission that North Carolina really would have little if anything to say about the matter. Unless the iH^sident should choose to throw the vice presidential nomination open, and this was considered a rather remote possibility, the choice would be entirely Johnsons.

SECOND It developed then that North Carolinas delegation was open-minded. But this did not mean it had no private preferences.

It v'-s evident on the eve of

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the convention that there were scNTie reservations after a 11. and privately at least some second thoughts.

It was realized that the matter of nominating the right man for the No. 2 spot was. after all, tremendously important from the state political stand^int this Fall.

And there was awareness of the fact that s(Hne of the posr sibilities emerging a conven-tiwi eve would be far less acceptable back home among rank and file North Carolina Democrats.

NAMES There was sonjc restiveness and a great deal of speculaticm as the North Carcdina delegacm moved into Its conventiiHi headquarters at the Marlborough-Blenheim hotel and set up shop for the big week.

One report that went up and flown the Boardwalk was that the vice-presidential nomination might be thrown open, at least to the extent of a limited number of names.

This procedure, the report had it, might be deemed wise politically by providing sane healthy politicking and enlivening of the conventicm.

If true -- and there was no confirmation who would North Carolina support?

The names mentioned most i frequently included those of Undersecretary of Commerce Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Sen. Thomas J. Dodd of Cwinectd-cut and, of course, Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.

DODD Another report which swept the North Carolina delegation was that, despite pre - convention denials there was a private "understanding and agreement in White House circles that Sen. Dodd would be the man chosen by Johnson.

Delegation leaders said this rumor, again without confirmation, was widespread and that they had heard it from many sources.

SEATING - The big Texas delegation is seated up front, just to the right of the rostrum in huge Convention Hall.

Immediately in front of the rostrum is the delegation of the host state. New Jersey. Rhode Island and Connecticut occupy the space just to the left, corresponding to the Texas seating on the right.

Other front row space on side aisles is assigned to Missouri and California to the right of Texas and New Mexico and Pennsylvania to the left of Rhode Island.

Slightly behind and to the right of Texas, in the front section of a shorter aisle is the North Carolina delegation. Massachusetts. Georgia and Indiana are to the side of North Carolinas delegates, behind Texas, and Arizona is <mi the other side.

Behind Rhode Island and Cwinecticut is the big New York delegation.

Convention Hall has 18,500 seats for delegates and alternates. convention officials, spectators and news media. There are special platforms and stands for news corres-pwidents and photographers.

TOTAL Newsmen including photographers actually outnumber delegates and alternates.

There are 5,260 delegates and alternates from the fifty states and an estimates 6.000 representatives of news media. The entire lower level of Convention Hall is filled with communications facilities and worUng space for newsmen and additional space on the Boardwalk level has been taken over by radio and television network crews.

Spectator facilities are at a premium. In the North Carolina delegation, for erample, there were requests for more than 400 spectator tickets. However. only 130 tickets were allocated.

Even so, there were more delegates, alternates, (rfficials, news media representatives and spectators packed Into Convention Hall than ever before in the history of a national political ccmventlon.

of the drop-outa now.

With each passing year job opportunities are becoming less and less for those people who have not completed at least a high school education. The person without a high school diploma increasingly finds he has two strikes against him when he competes for jobs which are available.

Aside from the economic conciserations, there are other reasons for a youngster continuing his formal education. The world is getting more complicated every day. Greater demands are being made upon each individual, and those who continue their education through high school ^ are better equipped to cope with the problems that will confront them in the future than those who do not.

Maybe it will be tough to stick out another year or two of school in order to get a diploma. But that year or two will not be nearly so tough as the years in the future may be for a person who doesnt take advantage of the educational opportunities offered him.

Bring In Your Coins; Together, They Help

The nations oft discussed coin shortage extends down to Greenville, a survey of local banks has shown.

Bankers report that they send off orders for coins to the Federal Reserve and only a portion of their order is received. This, in turn, means fewer coins available to businesses to use in making change for their customess.

Reason for the coin shortage seems to be the big growth of vending machine industry, with each machine tying up coins from a few days to weeks. It is also attributed to a widespread interest in coin collecting.

To help matters the Treasury Department plans to double the rate of coin production within a year and the 1964 date will be continued on coins indefinitely to discourage coin collectors.

But even though the vending machines get much of the blame for the shortage, they also turn out to be a major source of supply, at least on the local level. One bank official said that when the college opens for the fall quarter, when its multi tude of vending machines are back in operation, much of the problem will be alleviated.

In the meantime, bank officials called on the public to bring in pennies and other coins which may be lying useless in piggy banks or dresser drawers. This will help ease the situation until more coins are available.

A penny Or nickel or dime does not seem like much in this big money era. But these insignificant pieces of currency are absolutely essential to our economic system.

A Convention Of Moderation

By ART BUCHWALD

An Aura Of Seriousness

The one thing that strikes you about the Democratic National Cwivention in Atlantic City is the seriousness of purpose of the delegates. The Democrats could have chosen a fun town to hold their convention in like Philadelphia or Chicago or Kansas City, but because of the gravity of the situation they have chosen Atlantic City, which is all business.

"We didnt come here to laugh and have fun, a delegate told us as he tried to get some salt water taffy out of his teeth. "We came to nominate a Presidential candidate.

We spoke to another delegate as he got off the ferrls

wheel. "How does it look to you, sir?

"This is my third convention. be told us, but its the first in which every one is determined to show the country that a political convention doesnt have to be all fun and games.

At the Dodge Em car rink we crashed into an alternate delegate from Texas.

"What do you think the issues of the convention are, sir? we shouted.

"Peace, prosperity, and ahhhhhhh! Someone hit him from the back and knocked his car across the pavilion.

On the beach we met a group from Kansas who were

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This is the dullest political convention since the one the Republicans held in 1956, and for the same reason. Yet, it has its own special fascination In the things unseen and unsaid.

In 1956 the Republicans met to go through the motions of approving the uncontested renomination of Pres i d e n t Dwight D. Eisenhower. Here the Democrats are doing the same for the uncontested nom-inati(xi of President Johnson.

Then and now there was the usual routine of blasting the opposition.

But the Democratic speakers, reciting the wonders of the adnnistrations of Johnson and the late President John P. Kennedy, bracket both men in their eulogies without mentioning the differences between them.

Perhaps the greatest difference was this: Kennedy was an individual kind of president; Johnscm is far more the organization man.

Kennedy at the time of his death was still young enough to give a sense of youth to the

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presidency. Johnson cant. Re is deeper in middle age.

The words of Kennedy, a far better read man than Johnson and therefore more literary in his thinking, had a sparkle which Johnsons more pedestrian speeches never achieve.

There was a sense of gaiety about Kennedy, a wit and detachment about himself and his job, which is lacking in Johnson who sounds more

partdcularly in Congress to melt their differences to do what he wanted or some of what he wanted.

He works at organizing his forces in a way Kennedy, just because of his detachment, might never have mastered. It seems a basic part of Johnsons make-up that he must succeed, * not entirely, at least a bit.

Its this part of Johnson which showed up at this convention while he remained in Washington. There can hardly be any doubt his guiding hand is running the show.

If the tone of this convention could be summed up in one word it would be: moderation. The moderation has a double purpose obvious before the convention ever opened here Mcmday.

The object Is keeping thq Democrats united while attracting as many Independents and Republicans as possible. This is the usual political tactic, of course, but this year it has a special significance.

Sen. Barry Goldwater, by his positicMis on issues and tlje uncompromising tactics of his supporters at this years Republican conventlcNi, has antar gonized a number of Republicans.

The proof is in the fact that after the convention he found it necessary to have a unity meeting with some of the Republican lesulers.

To preserve party unity Johnson from the beglnxxlng took the opposite course, although total unity seems impossible in those Southern areas where whites have alrq^dy expressed their antagonism on the racial issue.

But. as the platform shows. Johnson tried to straddle this tickUsb situation by the language of compromise.

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President Johnson has signed Into law the anti-poverty bill. We, as Americans, will agree that it is the responsibility of a responsible society to do all within its power to eliminate poverty.

While the aims and aspirar tions of this law ^re worthy, the fact remains that eliminating poverty by legislation which will cost a lot of money might not achieve the aims desired.

There are and always will be people who do not want to rise above their present level. There are people who do not want to work and produce but who are satisfied with the poverty conditions under which they exist.

Frankly, there are people who rebel at the very thought of getting a job. They prefer to bemoan the fact that their fate of life has not been as kind "as the fates of some others.

If the anti-poverty bill happens to give any sense of dignity to laziness, then a great mistake has been made. We can honestly try to eliminate poverty among those who are honestly trying to rise up frtwn their present surroundings. We have a great deal of compassion for anyone who Is suffering provided he or she is tr^g. But we havc^ little understanding of anyone who wants something for nothing. We have people in our midst

today in America who seek welfare aid when they really do not need it. We have people in America who seek unemployment compensation when they would not work if given jobs. We have people who seek free food who really do not need it.

The very idea of "something for nothing appeals to many people. F'-'iblishing youth camps for i jse who seem destined now to follow the wrong path in life might offer a partial answer. If the program Inadvertently tends to make more "bums and not fewer, then it has been misdirected and Americans will be paying a terrifically high price for a package all wrapped up In glittering gold.

Make no mistake about one point. We are in favor of eradicating poverty anywhere it can be done. But we want to make sure that the program Is carried out on a basis of teaching responsibility a 1 o ng with that of costing taxpayers a lot of money. Americans have a right to expect good results.

If responsibility, training, and a higher sense of values accompany the effort, then while we might not eliminate poverty, we will Improve the lots of thousands of people. This offers a real challenge. It is now up to those in charge of the program to justify and vindicate the wisdom of It.

meeting around a volley ball net.

"Why do you think this convention is so serious? We asked the fellow serving.

"Because President Johnson wants it that way, he said, hitting the ball to a girl in a bikini. "Weve got a lot to do before the election, and you wont find any of us laying down on the job.

The entire Nevada delegation was caucussing in a room on the boardwalk.

"This meeting is not open to the press, a delegate said.

"I just wanted to find out if you had made any plans to have fun In Atlantic City.

"Are you kidding? Well probably be In this bingo parlor for the next four days. Everywhere we went it was the same story. A New York delegate in a pin ball parlor said. "Id like to talk to you. son. but if I talked to you Id have to speak to the rest of the press.

"Will your delegation back President Johnson?

"He gave us a Senator, so its the least we can do.

Its too early to teU, but if our survey at the Pokerlno machines, the Whip, the Go-Cart track, the Fun House, and the Wax Museum is correct, Lyndon Johnson is still the favorite to get the Democratic nomination.

"But if he doesnt win on the first ballot, a lady aa the merry-go-round said, just before she made a try for the brass ling, "I think hes bad it.

The only ones who dont seem to be taking the convention seriously are Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, Mike Mansfield, and Gov. Pat Brown.

A friend of Sen. Humphreys said, "Hubert thinks this is all a lot of fun and since he doesnt have a stake in the convention hes determined to

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"Every boy goes through the awkward stagetoo old to ride a bicycle, too young to drive a car and too lazy to walk.- Pattonsburg (Mo.) Call.

Nobody Wants A Figh

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

ATLANTIC CITY One lesson to be learned from the lobbies of Atlantic City is that the Democratic Party is as seamed and fissured with antagonistic elements as the Republican Party. But nobody, save Governor Wallace and Bull Connor of Alabama and the two sets of delegates from Missiscdppi, seems to want to do anything about it.

For example, the two senators frtnn Georgia, Dick Russell and. Herman Talmadge, appear to have made themselves scarce. They might, conceivably, have some mild objections to certain planks in the platform, something of a voltage to be compared to Governor Romneys attempted "Improvement on the Republican civil rights planks (though in a different direction). But the Georgia senators arent muddying any waters; they are being graceful about things.

Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia doesnt seem to be here, cither. His friends say this is nothing unusual. So nothing Is made of his differences with the high cranmand of the party.

On foreign policy, the "covenant of unity (thats the official description of the platform) makes a lot of promises that will be assailed from^ both extremes of the Democratic Party that very next time an Issue reaches the floor of the U. S. Senate. "We pledge uh-flagging devotion to our commitments to freedom from Berlin to South Vietnam, fays the platform.

But Wayne Morse (Democrat from Oregon), Ernest Gruen-ing (Democrat from Alaska), and even Montanas Mike Mansfield, who was on many lists as a possible vice presidential nominee have advocated a cut and run policy in South east Asia. On the other hand. Senator Tom Dodd of Ctmnecticut Is known to consider the broad statements In the Democratic platform on peace and foreign policy to be weak from the anti-communist point of view. Dodd might agree with what the platform says about the "intemat 1 o n a 1 communists loss of unity. However, when the platform announced that communism had lost Its "momentum, Dodd raised a skeptical eyebrow. He reads the news from South Viet Nam and the Congo differently.

But, after all, what difference do the differences make? Unlike the Republicans, the Democrats are always forgiven by the fashionable "liberal opinion - makers who seem to carry the day In the U.S. with the liberals, the Democratic Party has the same sort of dispensation that the Mexican party of revolutionary institutions recelv e s from the Mexican voters. The Mexican party is all things to all Mexicans. To the Indian In his agricultural commune. It is still the party that, Lenln-fashlon, "expropriated the expropriators and made land available to everybody. But the "bourgeois elements that have been gathering strength

"You can depend on fat menthey never stoop to anything low. Dawson Ooimty (Oa.) Jtdvertiser.

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in Mexico have discovered they have very little to fear from any party of revolutionary institutions president. The Mexican President, today, is the president of all the people, and his party is the party of all the people. Lyndon Johnson aspires to preside over a similar mexicanization of his own party (left, right, and center segments) and nation.

Not everybody in the U. S. is willing to let Johnson have his way. Johnson can argue that the most recent poll records (which he flashes on visitors very much as he used to flash his bill of cardiac good (Continued On Pags 5)

Travel Insurance And The IRS

Strength , For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS RESTLESSNESS

It is said that the average American family lives only two years In any one conunu-nity.

It may be that if we can answer the question why the American nation appears to be so continually on trek, we could discover the secret of many ot our national problems.

The soul of America is restless. What is the matter with our people? What is the matter with us? Restlessness usually arises either from boredom or from a lack of a sense of security. We try something for a while and get tired of It and want to move on to something else. We hear about oth

er parts (rf the country where (H;)portunltle8 are so marvelous, and we leave our drab surroundings for the green fields in the distance for the golden windows in the bouse on the next hill.

(Xbers are constantly filled with the fear that they are getting nowhere in life, that they will come to a great crisis without sufflcient money to see them through. Maybe to give up this job and take a job somewhere else which seems to have more iM^omlse, will be better.

We can be made very unhappy by our restlessness. America is a young nation and America Is a restless nation on trek.

By ELMER ROESSNER The Internal Revenue Service is still trying to decide what to do about a ruling by the Court of Appeals in the Third District holding the proceeds of flight insurance is not subject to estate taxes.

For 35 years, the courts have held that travel insurance was life Insurance. And unless life insurance is payable Irrevocably to one beneficiary, it becomes part of the estate of the insured person and therefore subject to estate taxes.

In sddlticm, the Internal Revenue Service has held that fUgbt insurance was part of the estate ot the Insured because the insured has the right to change the beneficiary.

NEAT TRICK This Is a curious ruling for the Jet age with its many nonstop flights. An Insured passenger would have considerable difficulty In effecUvely changing his beneficiary in a plane from which he cant even toss out a note in a bottle.

But the old rulings have been reversed by the Appeals Court, but on different

grounds.

One Noel took out two policies totaling $125.000, naming his wife as beneficiary, just before he took off. The poUcies provided payment to his wife in case of death, to him in case of injuries, and gave him tie right to change beneficiaries.

Tbe plane crashed, killing all passengers.

The IRS claimed taxes on $125,000. Tbe Tax Court agreed, holding that the principal had been established 35 years earUer. The widow appealed at the Court of Appeals.

NOT A LIFE POLICY

That court held that whe life and accident poUcles are similar, a flight poUcy la essentially an accident P(dlcy, because the insurer la insuring against an event not likely to happen. An accident policy which provides for payment of a prtaclpal sum In event of the Insureds accidental death is not converted into a life insurance policy by such a provision, it ruled. (Noel, CA-3, 6-17-64.)

The IRS has three choices. It can acce( Um dedsion as

basic and revise its ruling. It can accept the decision in the Third District but stick by its ruling in all other districts, in which case taxpayers can fight the matter out again in other district courts. Or it can appeal to the Supreme Court.

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If it accepts the decision, tt would appear that proceeds from all types of accident insurance would escape estate taxes. Because this would cost the government milllcxwi In taxes. the ms is likely to sppeaL

FRESH DEMANDS SEEN FOR "PORTABLE

PENSIONS Expect labor unions to increase their on "por

table pensions, that is, pension rights that can be taken from job to job. Under such a system, a worker gets a funded right in his pension. If he quits or is laid off, the value of his pension is transferred to his next Job. He may have many jobs before be reaches retirement age, but the pension will increase just as If he had worked for the same company all the time.

The closing of Studebakers auto works at South Bend, Ind., cost many men pension rights. The mraiey available went to men near pension age, leaving almost nothing for men under 60. This was in keeping with the contract. A slml 1 a r situation arose when American Bakeries closed 103 Cush man bakeries in the New York area. And in a four-year period, 1,832 pension plans were terminated in the country.

Because so many workers have seen their dreams of pensiwi evaporate, labor leaders are certain to Increaa e d demands for funded pen s 1 o n rights a worker can take with himself from Job to Job.