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Thursday, October 15, 1964

The Newspapers Are Many Things

A newspaper is many things. bornings* and Jyings and all that inte^enes. It

It is a thing that is read and appreciated. It chronicles the events which represent their heights is a thing that is read and scorned. It is a thing of joy, the depths of their depression and all that which is sought by some, ignored by others. It is falls between these extremes. It posts for public criticized, cursed, praised and commended, dep- and lasting record those great accomplishments pending upon the attitude, the viewpoint, the in- that are achieved when a people rise^ magnificently terpretation of the reader at a given moment in to meet a challenge, and those miserable moments

when a people fail in their responsibility to their

A newspaper is as perishable as the change fellow men.

in events of a community from day to day. It is It is a record of the ^ good and the bad, the

as permanent as the daily record of history in the conscientious and the indifferent, the responsible

and the irresponsible which make up humanilty.

In a democracy a newspaper exists not for the power, profit or pleasure of any individual or group, but for the common good. The primary responsibility of a newspaper is to objectively report the news. It is the obligation of the press to provide the public with accurate, timely and complete information about all the developments which affect the peoples political, economic and social wellbeing.

But it is more, too. . ^

Every citizen deserves the stimulus ot "Strong editorial page in his newspaper. The good editor often takes sides, but without arrogance or intolerance. At the same time there is provided generous space for contrary opinion. The newspaper champions boldly the rights of the people, sometimes against government itself. It has, at the same time, a special responsibility to defend the weak, to prod the public conscience and to speak out against injustices of which a majority can sometimes be guilty.

Yes, a newspaper is many things. In the final analysis its achievement must be measured by its service for the common good of the people.

Candidates Are Not Very Gentle

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

HITCHED The one candidate who aw>ears to have hitched his political star most firmly to the rise of conservatism in North Carolina this year is probably young Jim Gardner of Rocky Mount.

And the result of this strategy has been to direct the election contest in the state's Fourth Congressional district not so much toward specific Issues and straight party lines as to political philosophies.

Gardner is the boyish-faced Republican candidate o]K>osing the grizzled dean of the North Carolina delegaitkm hi Congress, Rep. Harold Cooley. He Is hoping frankly to ride a ctmservative tide to victory and is appealing strongly to ctmservative elements of both parties.

CLOSE State Republican leaders, in recent private assessments. have decided that Gardner In the Fourth proba-Wy offers the GOP its best chance to pick up an additimi-al North Carolina seat in Congress this Fall.

They concede it depends almost entirely upon the

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strengkh ctmservative feeling in the district on election day, Nov. 3.

They believe it will be a close election. But they feel that Gardner probably has the best chance of winning a congressional seat since freshman Rep. James Broyhill triumphed two years ago in the Ninth.

PREFER Cooley no doubt would prefer specific issues, such as his accomplishments dur^ 90 years in Congress, his seniority, his powerful grtp as chairman of the House Agriculture c(Hzunittee and his Influence in Washington and throughout the district.

These are tangibles, and Cooley is insisting in his campaign speeches that the only real issue involved is his record.

Cooley is stout and strong in defense of his record and invulnerable on the point of seniMtty, influence and knowing his way through the lal7-inths of Washington politics.

But what causes concern in the Cooley camp is the matter of Gardners defining the campaign in terms of conservative versus liberal philosophy. Apparently there is no easy way to gauge the effect of this, except that it is felt.

IDENTIFY Gardner meanwhile is busily identifying himaell with Barry Gold-water and staunch conservar tive causes.

Throughout the Fourth district. tnere are billboards bearing the pictures of the bespectacled Goldwater and

the boyish Gardner and pro-clsming, Goldwater Ne e d s Gardner.

No other Republican candidate on the state ticket has gone so far to identify himself with the Arizraa ctmser-vative. When Goldwater spoke in Raleigh last month, Gardner was introduced to the crowd of 10,000 and, because of the press of time and perhaps an oversight, the GOP can^date for governor, Robert Gavin, was not.

AIMED Gardners campaign literature calls his candidacy, the ccmservative opportunity to win in 1964. His campaign posters now bear a single, small Republican label, which they neglected to carry at all in the primaries last Spring, and the Gardner appeal still is aimed more at conservative voters than at Republican voters.

His literature carries pictures of Gardner with Goldwater, identifying Goldwa ter as Mr. Conservative.

And it says that a vote for Gardner is a vote for such things as American principles of free enterprise, Fiscal responsibility, "local control over local problems, and a strong two-party system.

His message to every vo^ er pledges to uphold and work for the principles of sound conservative govem-n^ent. . .traditional American ideals of free enterprise, individual freedom and open, honest dealings. . . . PICTURE In his campaign speeches and appearances, Gardner is trying hard to picture Cooley as a yes man for liberals and a captive of the Johnson administration.

President Johnson has made two appearances In Cooleys district this year, plugg 1 n g both times for re-election of the veteran Democrat.

Gardner is contending that Cooley does not reiwesent the will of the Fourth district and charges that Cooley has sold out to the northern liberals and the ADA (Americans for Democratic Acti<m.) He charges that Cooley "has the most liberal record of any member of the North Carolina delegation to Cwigreaa. REPLY Cooley is replying that Gardner has no program and no sollutlons to problems of the district, and no conceptlcm of the workings of the federal govemnaent and the UB. role in domestic and foreign affairs.

He replied to charges of failure to vote for cutbacks in federal spending saying that the .S. "cannot afford to put a price tag on freedwn. Said Cooley, "We all know that the lions share of our federal budget goes to defense and we must keep spending In this vital area if America is to cratlhue backing up freedoms flag on strife - tom comers of the globe.

He added, "no one can deny that U.S. foreign aid saved western Europe from communism and has repulsed the march of Marxism in other parts of the world.

By HAL BOYLB

Man Makes The Culture

Another Opportunity To Register For Vote

Pitt citizens who have not gotten their names on the countys registration books will have another opportunity Saturday by visiting the polling place in the precinct in which they live.

Saturday is the nexMo-the-last day on which the poll books will be located at the respective polling places for the purpose of registering new voters.

There are in Pitt County many hundreds of persons who are eligible to vote, but bave not taken time to properly register. These people, of course, will not be allowed to participate in the election of national, state and local officials on Nov. 3 unless they do get their names on the books during this registration period.

Each citizen has the responsibility to participate in the election of officials. Each citizen likewise has the responsibility V) qualify to vote by seeing that he is properly registered. Unfortunately in each election year there are those who put off registering until it is too late to do so. Many wait until the last day of the registeration peric^ and then for one reason or another dont get around to it.

We strongly urge those residents of Pitt County PH 1 T71 Tl

who are not registered to to so Saturday by visiting v-yLliCi ijdlLLyl O OLAy 111^. the polling place in the precinct in which they live.

A Responsibility Shared

NEW YORK (AP) Once upon a time there was an ambitious young man named QSr rence Frothersbee-Smythe.

Frothersbee, as his friends called him, was doing pretty well as a customers man in Wall Street, plus what he made driving a taxicab on Saturdays and Sundays.

But Frothersbee was a bit of a snob.

"I do not want to be a soulless money-gmbber, he said. "Culture is above cash. I want to be the most cultured man in t world.

So he set out in pursuit of culture.

"Socrates was the most cultured man of his day because he knew everything there was to know then, he told himself. "I will become the most cul

tured man of my day by learning everything there is to know

now,

At first everything went swimmingly. He read all the great books. Then he began reading not-so-great books. He became prodigiously Informed about everything from the Aar-dvark to Zygotes.

Frothersbee became the life of every party, because he conld answer every questi<m so finally, his friends dropped him.

"You are a cultural bore, (xie told him.

Frothersbee still was doing all right at his office, because they found his tremendous fund of information useful. But the day his bosses bought a computer, they fired Frothersbee, who hadnt sold a stock or bond in two years.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - A goiUemanly debate on a high plane is the ideal but not the real in a presidential campaign, as this one and some others show.

Tuesday Sen. Barry Goldwater, while being charged with racism in this campaign by 726 fellow-Episcopalians, was criticizing President J o h n-sons religious practices.

He said Jc^scna visiting "church after church and city after city on Sundays was a "political travesty of the Lords day.

This is the latest in a hardly gentle lists of criticisms Goldwater has dumped on Johnson. The President has made mostly indirect cracks at his rival.

American voters may have forgotten it, because of all that has happened since then, but they watched pretty much the same tUng In the 1960 race

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between Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Sen. John P. Kennedy.

Some of the very words those two men used against each other four years ago have popped up again.

Nixon said Kennedy was a

"deadly risk and an "immature, rash, impulsive man making dangerous statements. And he compared Kennedys promises to a "carnival confidence man selling. . .quack medicine to an unsuspecting public.

Kennedy wasnt any kinder to Nixon.

He suggested "someone had better cut the cards before Nixon dealt. And he pictured Nixon as a baleful kind of individual whose political "career has often seemed to show charity toward none and malloe toward all.

Nixm, to Kennedy, was the "trlgger-luwy. leader of a "wrecking crew.

Democrats this year, and some Republicans before the campaign began, applied "Impulsive and "trigger-haix>y to Goldwater who all through this campaign has been insisting be to neither and this week be told NBC:

"I think the repetttlon o the outright lie that I am trigger-hM>py has hurt me more than anytUng. Thats been the most damaging thing Ive nm into."

Johnson himself hasn't put those tags on Goldwater but when he urged voters to reject the voice of a "raving, ranting demagogue" there was no doubt whom he bad in mind. 0 Even after Goldwater accused the Johnson administration of being "soft on communism* the President refused to be riled into firing back directly. Instead, again without mentioning Ooldwaters name, he said: "I see. . .the new and frigU-(Contlnued on page 8)

(Greoisboro Daily News)

G.O.P. Vice-President Nominee William E. Miller opened his North Carolina campaign at Wilmington with a ringing attack upon one of the states own U. S. senators, B. Everett Jordan, in his capacity as chairman of the Senate Rules Committee.

Senator Jordan was a logical target. As chairman oi the Rules Committee he is in direct line of fire for Republican attacks upon the Bobby Baker case and all of its ramifications.

But Chairman Jordan does not stand alone in responsibility for what the committee which he heads does or does not do. The committee, ordered to resume its hearings into a specific charge of political kickbacks to the Democratic camiMLign fund of 1960, cannot proceed to its assignment without a quorum.

When a meeting was called for Monday, only two members of the committee showed up, C3iairman Jordan and Kentuckys Sen. John Sherman Cooper, who as a member of the minority party had requested the meethig. Under such circumstances, all that Sena tor Jordan could do was declare "no session.**

True, the Democratic majority, If an members were present, could go ahead. But

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there is equal responsibility for Republican members to be present too, especially to press their charges and take a hand in examination of any witnesses who may be called. Senator

C!ooper would have been in much stronger position to place full blame on the Democrats if his two G.O.P. col-^ leagues had been present. But Sen. Hugh Scott real battle and Sen. (?arl braska has taken to the hustings as a member of the touring Republican truth squad.*

Obvioualy there will be no attempt to get the committee together again for at least a week as Chairman Jordan left Washington Tuesday mom i n g on the Lady Bird Special and will remain with the entourage in its trip across bis state.

We doubt seriously that the Tar Heel senator will be able to get a quorum for resumption of the Baker hearings before the election, for all committee members primary interest is in its outcome. Responsibility for any committee failures rests squarely upon all members, and beyond them upon the entire Senate which makes its own rules, shares its own attitudes and character and determines the quality and eHecUveness of its committees.

"Culture may be paying you dividends, but it isnt doing a thing to help pay ours, they said.

Boors! sneered Frothers-bee. Philistines!

Once he was depressed momentarily, when he saw a newspaper item that said the sum of mans knowledge was doubling every seven years.

"It just means theres that much more culture to assimilate, he told himself.

Frothersbee grew a beard. His clothes became tattered. He ate out of garbage cans. He slept in railroad staticms and abandoned houses.

But every hour it was open he spent at the public library.

In time there didnt really seem much that Frothersbee didnt know.

On his 60th birthday, as he sat alone in the public library mumbling and scratching himself, two men in white Jackets approached Frothersbee, threw a net over him, and to<A him to a*booby hatch.

There you can find him still endlessly lecturing his fellow inmates wi such topics as "The historical influence of the zither on Austrian economics.

They dont know what Frothersbee is talking about and he doesnt know that they arent listening.

Moral: It aint culture that makes the man. Its man that makes the culture.

"There is nothing like a dish towel for wiping the contented look off a husbands face."Kingman (Kan.) Journal.

"As long as fashicm designers can keep women dissatisfied. theyll have it made. Bartow (Ga.) Herald.

"Then theres the henpecked hu^tMUid who reminded his wife it was their 25th anniversaryso she let him polish the silver.Charlotte News.

The woman who says that all men are beasts would usually give anything to be an animal trainer. Lexington Leader.

Year O: A Long !Torror

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1964, King Feature!

Syndicate, Inc.

For anyone who cherishes the use of simple intelligence, a presidential campaign year becomes one long horror. Prom the time of the first primaries right on until the end it is impossible to talk about issues as rational men should talk about them, with an occasional "I see your point." or an "I guess you have me there," or a "Yes, but you have overlooked (me thing I would like to call to your attentira.

This year the balderdash bA-gan in response to Goldwat-crs statement in New Hamj> ehire that it might be good to permit a ch(dce between government and private social security. Nelson Rockefeller immediately jumped on Barry with a protest that this would bankrupt the social security system. The statement wai meaningless, for there to no fund apart from a bunch of government I.O.U.s in tho present system to "bankrupt.* The ability to pay out futuro security checks rests on tho continuing taxing power of tho government. That taxing power can be adjusted to cover whatever is necessary. The younger generations support the older through the "wagt tax they continue to pay up to age 65.

Now, if people were permitted to choose between privato and public old-age insurance policies, it would simply mesa a smaller number of pe<le on the government insurance rolls. The smaller number would take out more or less what they had put in, but the per capita take would be the same. The argument can be made that, since rich people dont necessarily get back what they have paid to the government, there is a "plus* to go to the poor people. But to th2 extent that this is true, the poor are getting some of their social security out of what amounts to progressive tax^cxi. The difference between insurance pajmients and what amounts to a progressive tax could be made up out of general funds, and there would be considerably less damage to the truth if this were to be

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done.

Of course, there would have to be some compulsicm involved in permitting a choice between private and government insurance policies Just to keep careless people fitxn becoming public charges in their old age. But this compulsion could be handled through the income tax forms. A person who wished to contract out* from State social security could be forced to swear on his income tax blank that bo possessed an equivalent private company to be turned over to the government in case the owner of the privato policy were to let it lapse.

So much for one issue that didnt get any rational discussion frwn the candidates. Another issue has been that of "nuclear cwitrol. The "moderate Republicans smudged this fearfully at San Francisco when they Immoderately cl(>bbered Goldwater for sug^ gesUng that a NATO ccxnroan-der must be able to fire back immediately with tactical nuclear weapons if he is attacl^ ed by them. While It Is ce> tainly true tiiat a President should make the nuclear decisions, the attempt to deny him the right to delegate pour-er in the case of an emergea-(Continued on Page 5)

Apparel Industry Comes Of Age

For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS BE CAREFUL "Please let me alone. I am comfortable. I have plenty to eat. I live in a nice house. I enjoy the companionship oi in-tmwsting friends."

Certainly all these things are good, but an alarming atmoe-phere stu-rounds aU euch statements because if all we as e natkn can do la to recline up(Mi our advantages, then we are already on the skids and our civUlzation la on the way to dissolution.

R is the duty of every parent to establish for himself and his family e ccnniortable home and see to it that everyone has as many real advantages as money can buy. But let us not st<v there. There are almost three billion people in the world and hundreds of millions of these Uve tbelr

lives through with practically DO comfort and on the verge of etervatlon.

We may not like the ixditt-cal implications of foreign aid, but we rich countries of the western hemisphere are going to have to use our advantages to the benefit of mankind (x- we can be sure Umt God will snatch these beneflta from us and let us stew in our owtt Bi^bness. There is no one vice that la killing the nations of the western world today etrenge u It may seem, we are being weakened by our advantages. Too much comfort le making us weak. Too little sense of social responsibility Is hardening our hearts. We cant push the world away and say, "Let me alone. I am .C(unfortable and have everything I want.

With that attitude we may end up having nothing.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The ai>parel industry is coming of age.

Up unUl now. it has been the most unbusiness - like business In the nation, tt consists of up to 90.000 enterprisers, most of them small, most of them (4>-erating on aboestringa. Small entreiureneuni would rent a 1(^, borrow machines, recruit wcN^era, hire some designers and salesmen and start producing. Then they would' sell their accounts recelvaUe to pay employees and to pay (f f those who had advanced capital, and hope to have some left over for themselves. It was bo(n one season, bust the next. The situation has formed the basU of the plot of many books and movies.

But things have been changing fast. And the other day the industry had a coming-of-a g e party, or bar mitzvah, as guests of the National Udus-trial Conference Board. GROWING RICH AND STURDY

At the session la New Toric. retailers, bankers. Investors and apparel manufacturers ' looked over the industry and agreed that it was fast changing.

Speakers pointed out that there still are many thousands of manufacturers, perhaps as many as there were, but that more and more large ones

were emerging, often by merger!. and that the industry was maturing ectmomicaily.

There was general agreement that their were too catalytic factors:

1. The great Increase in personal Income, which has made much m<M mwiey available for M^rel. and made It possible for more consumers to be sold fashion.

2. The great increase in management tcchnlqucsr including automation and computers, which enables the larger manufacturers to thrive and puts little ones at a disadvantage.

A possible third factor Is the rise of synthetic fabrics. These are produced by large ocxTwra-Uwis which guide manufacturers to greatness, somet i m e s harsWy, by Insisting in quality standards and by showing manufacturers how to exploit their projects, and how to tie in with the large corporations consumer promotion.

MORE MECHANIZATION AHEAD

There has been considerable mechanization in the industry, many speakers pointed out. but more is to come. As Robert M. Dale, vice president of the Arrow Co., pointed out. this will require greater capital investment which In turn will ^mean more mergers and lead to more giant companies.

There will also be greater use of computers again requiring more investment by which manufacturers will be able to chart trends more closely and avoid waste.

There will be more of another kind of mechanization, in which the manufacturers pre-sell their products. "T h e manufacturer is still concerned with placing his merchandise on the retailers shelves, but this to"only hllf his effort. He now works equally hard to help retailers move his merchandise into the bands of the ultimate consumer." declared Sartain Lanier, Oxford Manufacturing Co. chairman. WHAT*S IN IT FOR YOU What all this will mean to the consumer can only be conjectured now. But it may result in:

1. Better styling, as high e r rewards develop better Amer-

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2. Lower prices, relatively. That to. prices may go up as inflation Increases, but buyers will get more for their

money as style and workmanship improve.

3. Better selections, ae

stores get away from buying a little bit from every source because they are not sure

what will click.

4. More reliability in eouro-

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large, reliable manufacturera take over.

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lean designers. This wl lead to more independence from European designerk

AND THIS COULD HAPPEN IN OTHER BUSINESSES

Whetiook H. Bingham, prei^ ident of R. H. Macy, In pointing out how the apparel industry had advanced In the last ten years, said:

"Perhaps you remember the story of Sam who met Joe on Seventh Avenue one day and said. "Joe. I hear you made $100,000 in mens suits,* and Joes reply. Sam, It wasn't suits, it was pants, and tt wasnt $100.000, It was $50,000, and I didnt make tt, I lost it. "

Bingham added, "Thate stOX the apparel Industry to ntany people: a New York garmatt district alive with clever eoh-Izophrenlcs and shrewd free enterprisers, a l4ay full of rumora, usually wrong."

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