W*drmdy, Septemowr lO, 1964

Area Playing Key Political Role

Keports that both President Johnson and Sen. the great advantage that could be gained for their Barry Goldwater may personally bring their cam- candidates if the Democratic margin in the East paigns into Eastern North Carolina between now could be reduced. Even if the East remained in the and November suggests the importance of the vote Democratic column in the general election, auffi-in this area to both the Democrat and Republican cient inroads by the GOP in this Democratic strong-parties. hold could have North Carolina into the Republican

In recent days it has been asserted that each of column, the presidential candidates may come to Greenville It shouldnt be surprising, therefore, to see the for a major area speaking engagement Although Democratic strategy give emphasis to holding the there has been no firm announcement by either partys strength by giving special attention to this candidate that he will visit this area, the very fact area. Neither is it surprising to note that the GOP is that the party strategists are considering the pos- also putting special emphasis on its campaign effort sibilities emphasizes their interest in the Eastern in this area in an effort to cut the Democratic vote. North Carolina vote. The vote of the eastern area remains a key

As the margin of difference between the Demo- factor in determining how North Carolina goes in a

cratic and Republican national tickets in North national election.

Carolina has dwindled in recent years, the vote of .

this part of the state has become increasingly im- TUf^^ H 11

portant to each of the parties. In the case of the 1TLOa0 xO aIlCuICvIU^ aa

Democrats, the Eastern North Carolina vote has

been heavily for Democratic candidates.. It has . rvii * Ti

provided much more than the margin of victory on fjQCll I HflTl SCIVIUCT It

a state-wide basis. 'WWVA* j

The Republicans, on the other hand, recognize

Mommy, Why Are The Other, Kids 'Fraid T'Play With Me?"

Needed: A Key To Enthusiasm

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

ENTHUSIASM Strategy makers for the states Democratic i>arty candidates are DOW searching diligently for something to put fire and fla-voc into the Fall campaign and generate greater partisan enthusiasm.

This elosive something could be almost anything politically attractive, old or new, from slogans to issues and personality.

WThatever it is. party strategists and idea men are hopeful of finding something during the next few weeks to bring masses of Democrats out of the doldrums and into fighting stance for a hard-hitting campaign in October.

If new fervor can be aroused, it could be worth a great many votes in the Democratic column on Nov. 3.

DEVELOP Thus far, the Democratic campaign eff o r t has been devoted largely to organization, in laying groundwork and in striving for better Intraparty unity.

It has developed cautiously, almost timidly insofar as the national party ticket is c o n-cemed, and observers have noted a lack of boldness, color and excitement.

This may change in the near future as the campaign gets Into high gear. The Democratic candidates (mi the state ticket are already "runn i n g scared and are on a whirlwind 100-county tour as a starter.

Back in headquarters in Raleigh, however, the planners are busy conferring and mapping overall strategy for stepping up the effort.

GOP Meanwhile, the Republicans are trying to seize tbe initiative in stirring voter Interest in their cause.

Big blue and white Barry Goldwater billboards are blos-oming across North Carolina.

Goldwater himself is stumping in the state this week, baking hands, making speeches and attracting crowds. Gaily decorated soundtrucka were making appeals on the streets Goldwaters arrival

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In various North Carolina cities.

And at the same time, the Republican candidate for governor, Robert L. Gavin, is

campaigning yigorously at a faster pace, with better organization and more confidence and optimiam than he campaigned in 196(1.

EFFORT AWazw of this sUuatkm, the Democrats strategy team aays things are developing satisfactorily.

They believe the campaign issues wrill be shari^ defined and come into better focus as the statewide effmt takes SHAPE. A major push by the Democrats will come from the grassroots after a solid foundation has been laid, they say.

They are anxious to avoid reaching a peak too soon. And they say the Democratic partys record in Nwth Carolina provides i^nty o precedent and experience to answer any GOP attacks.

The Important thing at the moment, they believe, is to weld Democratic unity and oil the partys organization into an effective force.

WORDS -- The Democratic party leaders and candidates embarking on the campaign trail this week were not unmindful that the party has faced schiuns in its ranks in the past.

In fact, some veteran party leaders have been studying past history in search of lessons which might prove useful in healing today's intrapar-ty splits.

They cited one chapter of two and a Iwdf decades ago in particular, recalling these words of the late J. MelvUle Broughton Sr.. who was the Democratic nominee for governor in 1940:

Sound government Is the best liberalism; sane progress is the best conservatism.

WROTE - Under stress of the 1940 election campaign, BrougMon added that he would describe the Democratic party in North Carolina neither as liberal nor con.scr-vative but rather as having given the state a constructive form of government.

Broughton wrote in the Democratic party does cot consist simply of its leaders or its nominees for public office. It consists of precinct chairmen and committeemen, party workers in counties and precincts throughout the state, and in the hundreds of thousands of loyal men and women in every section of the state who are devoted to the principles of our great party.

Those citing these words of nearly 25 years ago feel they are especially appropro to the situation today and might well serve as guidelines for tne new state party chair man, Broughtons son. J. Melville Broughton Jr.

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For East Carolina College to officially becor a university is one thing. For it to become part the Consolidated University of North Carolina . quite another.

Robert Gavin, Republican candidate for governor, proposed in his official platform not long ago that as a part of his program for improving higher education in the state that ECC and Western Carolina College be elevated to university status.

While it may sound good in a political platform to propose that a college become a university, it should be remembered that there is more to achieving such a goal that just saying it. In the case of Gavins proposal, it should also be remembered that under the North Carolina system of higher education, there is only one University and that is the Consolidated University with its several branches.

We seriously question whether ECC or WC(^ or the supporters of these two institutions are anxious for them to become part of the Consolidated University of North Carolina. We seriously question whether the Board of Higher Education in the

state would look with favor on such a move. We also rn a vri

seriou.sly question whether such a move would be in By ALVIN TAYLOR the be.st interest of the state, the two institutions in question and the service they can render to North Carolina and its people in the future.

East Carolina College has set its course toward becoming an outstanding liberal arts college and meeting the needs of this area of the state in whatever manner is needed. As a state-supported college outsid the Consolidated University system, it has made tremendous progress in its service to the state.

There is rea.son to suggest the course that is being followed is not sound or that it should be suddenly changed to channel ECC into the Consolidated University System.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Supreme Court has come in for harsh criticism inside ahd out of Congress.

But the justices have been undeterred. They have gone on handing down new decisions and moving into new fields, which got them fresh attacks.

On that evidence and its the only evidence available theres no sound reason for thinking the justices now will suffer a chill even though ott>-cr courts in the past backed up and played mouse when the going got tough.

Chief Justice Earl Warren, now 73 and going into his llth year on the bench, has wam-e ed against self-satisfact 1 o n with law in its present form amidst a fast-changing world.

He has said: As conditions change so do the problems, the rights, and the obligations of the people change. If the law is to serve its tcue purpose. It too must change tb meet those changed conditions.

And he has said: We cant be guided by what people think or say except in legal discussions. We cant be guided by public appraisal. If we did.

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wed be deciding cases by other than legal means.

The court has been particularly accused of usurping the powers of the legislaUve branch of government.

But in the two most notable exami^ in this area civil righto and rcapportionment

the court acted only after Congr and state legislatures had long failed to act. In short, it filled a vacuum.

For more than half a century Congress failed to pass a single civil rights act to give Negroes the beneiito and protections guaranteed all citizens under the Constitution.

On May 17, 1954 the court declared public school segregation and the very princi-ciple of segregation uncmi-stitutional. The crltlciam poured on the court by white segregationists for this ruling hasnt ended yet.

But that decision opened the gates for a march by Negroes to greater freedom and more protection of their rights as citizens than they had ever had since the Emancipation Proclamation.

Earlier this year 69 prominent Negroes named Warren the white man who has done the most for the American Negro. Since that 1954 decision. Congress has passed three civil rights laws,

Steadily the court broadend ed protections for individuals of all races in the succeeding years and the violence of the attacks multiplied as the court moved into other fields, like religion and politics.

Warren was the main target. His impeachment has been de-, manded. He has been hanged in effigy.

Extremists peddled booklets or displayed signs which said things like these: Nine men against America: Is the Supreme Court Conununist? Read the facto. . .Eari Warren. ex-American, head of Oswald whitewash committee, is betraying the UB. to the international anti-Christ Ui the Kremlin.

Warren, under appointment by President Johnson, is also serving as chairman of a special commission Investigating (Continued On Page 5)

We journeyed to Channel 7 studios in Washington last week for a preview of NBCs fall programs.

Tbe hour long closed circuit show was rather interesting, seen as it was on the most elaborate color television set it has ever been our pleasure to watch. TTie preview itself was in the hand of none other than Jack Benny who, along with Richard Chamberlain,

made the whole thing entertaining.

We didnt seem much new in tbe entertainment line in the preview. Many of the old standby NBC shows will be back, of course. Theres Dr. Kildare, Bonanza, Hitchccffk, The Virginian, Pery C<mo,

Bob Hope, Jack Paar and others. 'Tbe new NBC shows do not aw>ear to be particular trend setters. The Rogues was

one and it ixemiered Sunday night. It turned out to be a pretty good show, with David Nivin carrying the lead.

On the whole, however, television entertainment promises to be along the same lines as last year.

What attracted our attention, however, were some >e-cials that could prove interest-ing, if tbe previews are any guide.

There is one coming up on the Louvre in Paris. We cannot claim to be art patrons, we must confess. However the Louvre, we have heard of through the years. This is a prc^ram we plan to see in color if at all possible.

.History does interest us, however. So we expect to be by a television set when the story of the Lewis and Clark expedition is told. This expedi-

Other Editors Saying... Hospital Labor Costs

tion, of course, opened up the west for the United States.

There is to be a show <m the Cstoitol in WashlngUm that we would like to see and one on famous ghosts of England that should prove interesting.

No body has to tell us that these are not the kind (rf shows which draw those all Important audience ratings. That we know. Still there will be a lot of people who W'lU eagerly look forward to these informative shows. To us. it is the sort of thing that television can do best, taking us on world famous tours which most of us will never be able to afford personally.

We are not one of those who think television should dump all the westerns, comedies, va-* rlety hou's, doctor shows, hill-

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True, your hospital bill was high. But toere Is a goo(i explanation.

Hospital labor costs have Increased 545 per cent since World War n. the American Hospital Association reported in its annual survey of t h e health facilities. Other figures impress one with magnitude of the rise: The average cost for each day a patient spends in a hospital climbed from 19.39 in 1946 to $38.91 In 1963 - or an increase of 314 per cent. In the same period, the total expense of an average stay In the hospital, slightly more than a week, increased from $85 to $298.

AHA cites several factors that have caused the upsurge in labor costs, chief reason for the bigger bite on the pocket-bo^ of patients; Ho^itals are working to raise salaries to levels comparable to other fields; Increased medical specialization and advanced technology have resulted in hospitals needing many more skilled, well-trained individuals who must be paid according to their abUities; last year 241 employes were needed to care for every 100 patients in shortterm general hospitals but In 1946, the ratio was 148 to 100.

New equiixnent, new special services and the publics demand for better service and more facilities have also helped push up hospital costs. It was explained. Hospitals dont hike their charges simply to fatten the till prof it wise, often considered the case by those whovc recently used one. The aforementioned figures reveal that these increases simply are the result o irresistible economic pressures.

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Unearaed Dividends

One of tbe fringe benefits you dont bear much about is not in any labor management CiWtract thieving by employes. The Wall Street Journal reports that many big flnns have installed cloued circuit television and other elaborate security measures to red u c e losses.

Bonded employes alone swiped $73,000,000 in cash and merchandise last year, up from $45,000,000 In 1960. Add to that total the pillaging by unbonded employes and its clear that when the Department erf Commerce computes the material well-being of American workers, it has omitted from its statistics a significant fact(Hr In the good life. Montgomery (Ala.) Alabama Journal.

billy shows and all the others. After all, the ratings are not entirely wrong. More people do watch these.shows. But we are thankful for at least a smattering of the informative specials. We suspect the TV world will be just a little bit better'because of them.

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The FDA Is about to wipe ixilyunsaturated off the vegetable oil labels, says its misleading. Which we doubt. To be misled you have to know what the word means in the first place.Knoxville News-SentineL

Wives are hard enough to live with at any time, goodness knows, and they will be impossible now that a court has ruled that a housewifes value to her husband from the age of 20 until infinity is $417,000.The Baltimore Sun.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The biggest phony in this political campaign is the scare that is being worked up about giving tbe Commander of NATO in Europe tbe power to decide on the use of tactical atomic weap<xis under certain conditions.

Let us put the case few this statement as simply as possible, and in laymans language. Let us say that Khrushchev, in some mad moment, decides that a small-scale Pearl Harbor is possible in middle Europe. Knowing that no American would ever be the first to pull even a small-s cale atomic trigger in Europe, he might order his forces In East Germany to use tactical nuclear weapons in a descent on West Berlin. The NATO Commander, hobbled by an inability to order his own forces to defend themselves by replying instantaneously in kind, would have to get on the wire to Washington before coming to any decision.

Well, you might say. In an age of quick communicatlcm the President of the United States could be reached almost immediately. This Is tha theory. But let us supposa that, as the Russians are at^ tacldng with the tactical nuclear weapons, the President is on his way to Detroit to speak in CadUlac Square. He has taken a smaller plane to save money. This time, let ua say, it is the Presidents plane, not the one behind him, that develops some mechanl cal trouble. Let us say that, in the efforts to find a safe landing space, everybody on the Presidents plane is distracted. What becomes of Instantaneous communlcatlOT with NATO headquarters in such an event?

Or, to take a less portentous possibility. Let us say that the President, on a weekend trip to his Texas ranch. Is bounding over the countryside in his car. No doubt the communications equi p m e n t in the car would be in good working order. But how would the President, as Cwnmander-in-Chief, be able to focus at once on the problem presented to him while bringing his car to a halt, cutting in his Pentagon advLsers, and listening to the details about what the Russians are doing. In the

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five or ten extra minutes required by the questing NATO Commander to reply in kind to tbe Soviets under such circumstances, isnt it conceivar ble that every NATO soldier in West Berlin would be wiped out without any destruction of the Russian attacking f(re whatsoever?

Or, to take an even less portentous hypothetical instance. Let us say the President is at the south end of the White House grounds, talking to a retinue of ambulatory reporters. Is he going to be able to retire behind a rose bush and commune with that NATO Commander in Europe? Wont he have to get back to his desk to function properly? And wouldnt a critical five minutes be lost in doing this?

.The point is that if a commander on the spot is deprived even for five minutes of the power to defend himself with the same type of weapon the enemy is using, he might not be around to get the word from Washington.

Tbe really crazy thing about the scare campaign under way is that no Goldwater supporter has publicly adted Dee Elsenhower or former NATO Commander Larry Norstad to comment on the hypothetical question of depriving the commander on the spot of tbe power to answer a tactical atomic attack in kind withoiR walUnf (Omtiniied on Psft M

Inflationary Aspects Obvious

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS CHECK ON THE ANCHOR A boatman was once asked What would you do if something went wrong with your engine and your boat started to drift toward the rapids? Why. he replied, I would put down my anchor. No sen-.sible man would venture out from the dock without an anchor.

There are times when all we can do Is to put down our anchors and wait. St. Paul and his companions experien c e d shipwreck and we are told that when at last they came to the end of their re.source.s, they cast four anchors out of the stem and wished for the day.

Many a person carries no anchor In the craft with which he sails through life. He is ambitious and so gives all at-tenticm to machinery and sail.

Or he Ls modem, and cares only that his craft be so designed that it shoot through the water like an arrow. BOt concerning the anchor that is old fashioned stuff. The long-faced and pious Insist that men must carry in their craft the anchors of faith and moral principle, but this, says the self sufficient worlding with a shrug of his shoulders, is sentiment and nonsense. The object is to get somewhere in life.

Yes, the object is to get somewhere. But there will be stoims. There will be times when the best we can do Ls to cast out anchcM-s of ancimt principle and faith and pray God to hasten the coming of ll'iht. It Is as true in the realm of living as it is in the realm of l)oating that no .sen.slUe man will venture from the dock without aa anchor.

By ELMER ROESSNER Many politicians and economists are talking as if the Chrysler - United Auto Workers contract is not inflationary*

That's nonsense.

John D. Leary. Chrysler vice president oL administration, said he did not think the auto settlement would be inflatian-ary and that we do not want to be party to an Inflationary settlement. Union negotiators were less precise, but none saw any dangers of Inflation in the settlement. Theyre cockeyed.

Earlier this year, the Presidents Council of Econo m 1 c Adlers found that labor agreements that were no higher than the 3.2 per cent longterm rise in productivity were noninilatlonary. The CTirysler-UAW agreement increases benefits to workers about 4 per cent, ^

BY DEFINITION: INFLATIONARY Therefore, by definition erf the Presidents Council, the set-" tiement Is potentially Inflation-try.

But this is abstract theory compared with the realities of tbe matter:

The settlement will obviously Increase Chryslers labor cost, probably by about 4 per cent. Chrysler has three major alternatives; to cut its profits, to take something out of the product, or to raise prices.

There are some minor choices: to sell more cars, to increase automation, to stir workers into greater productivity.

Lets assume that (Thrysler sets its chin and does not raise prices, and that General MoUxs and Ford make similar settlements and do not increase prices, all nnaintaining top quality.

Meanwhile, other unions will demand increa.ses comparable to the UAW deal. Nonunion workers will press for somewhat higher wages and Somewhat sweeter fringes. And next year, the Steelworkers will demand beneficences comparalrfe to those of toe Auto Workers. PRICES WILL RISE ,

EvNt kafora these events

take place, businesses here and there will start inching up prices to hedge against higher wages. And when they do occur, business will make higher prices firm Indeed.

And auto manufacturers, even though they try to hold their price line, will find that in addition to wages, the cost of every material and every component will be higher. Then. Inexorably, the prices of

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woiters and other uni(8 follow the UAW iMittero.

And when the price of autos rises, the cost of living will get another upward nudge, because auto prices are a very big fao-tor in tbe cost of livtng index.

In other words, no matter what they say in Detroit or Waahlngtm, the auto wage aet-tlement will accelerate another round of Inflation.

Test: Tear out a supermarket ad today, circle the jxrlce of a loaf of bread, and file It for next year. The price will be a cent a loaf higher Sept. 15. 1965.

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autos will go up.

Even before that, the wages of auto workers will rise because there is a cost-of-llvlng clause In the Chrysler - UAW contract, which pushes up wages as the cost of living rises nmI it wUU wtun tba Ikeal-

PREDICnON HERE COMES TUBE In this column Aug. 1: Tha present boom in retail sales will cooOnue, growing even better as tbe back-to-obo<rf period approaches.

Press dispatches, Sept. I: Total retail sales In AuguH. on the basis of preliminarf data, established a new alK timo high, taking seasonal factors i&to coaaidcratlon.