Monday, October 26, 1964

The Greater Merit Rests In LBJ

As the important election day approaches it Sen. Goldwater has voted for, rather than against, becomes increasingly clear that President Johnson civil rights measures.

and the Democratic ticket offer far better leader- writings over the years. Sen. Goldwater

ship for the nation and for North Carolina repeatedly and firmly that government

than that offered by Sen. Goldwater and the Repub- programs, crop controls and price supports

lican candidates. should be eliminated. As this campaign has pr<>

Everything that has been done by President however, he has seemingly contradicted his

Johnson during the year he has been in the White g^rlier statements with the assertions that the farm House has not been pleasing to many North Caro- should be gradually reduced.

*1?'* President Johnson, in contrast, in his years tn

eidered, however, ^emostic policies, fiscal pol^^^ Congress, as vice president and as President, has

foreign policies and administratis of the ^0^^ * support of sound agricultural pro-

ment, the leadership ^ by the grams. His understanding of the problems which

.rn^^n^"?or the ni^sidency f^ce farmers is obvloualy more intimate than ttiat

Republican ^ slle of his opponent. His effort to provide sound leader-

roMwater^^^^^^^ *l>ip for agricultural programs that meet these

SSle^illce^nfcTwf R?ghUme:LpL*sed by nee'ds has been evident at both the .legislative and

Congress. But North Carolinians and residents of the executive levels.

other states should not be deceived by this one vote. in the area of fiscal policies, President Johnson On every other ocasion during his years in Congress, has made concrete steps to reduce federal spending,

up efficiency in federal operations and gain the objective of balanced budget operations. Although the methods he has followed in moving toward this goal are not as drastic as those proposed by his opponent, this enhances rather than diminishes the relative merit of his leadership.

Where foreign affairs are concerned. President Johnson has maintained a firm position of the United States without tendencies to trigger-happi-ness. He recognizes the problems involved, and the necessity of dealing from strength without being rash or unnecessarily endangering the lives of the people of this and other nations.

It is apparent, we think, that President Johnsons knowledge and approach to the domestic needs of the nation are much more realistic than those of Sen. Goldwater. We do not agree with all that he proposes in this area of government responsibility; but we find that in contrast to what Sen. Goldwater proposes, the Johnson program as a whole offers by far the best immediate and long-range approach to domestic problems which face

Yes, There IS A Cholee; IBJ Is Ourt

Bond Issue Has 'Urgent' Labe.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

URGENT The $100 million Ute school bond issue to be voted on by the people of North Carolina next week bears an urgent label.

It has been hanging fire, awaiting a referendum, for nearly 18 months. And during this period of a year and a half, a shortage of adequate public school facilities across the state has been growing.

Those pushing for passage of the bond issue say it has reached a point where rejection would pose an almost h o p e-lese situstloQ in regard to meeting the needs in many localities.

hi some areas. In fact in a majority of states 100 counties. a need for financial help existed when the school b<md Issue was authorized by the General Assembly in the last Spring oi 1963.

And now educators and school administrators are saying the needs of many localities are at the critical stage, and the hour is late.

LABEL Urgwacy the school bond issue, in the thinking of state (gfldais and school administrator, is the reason for choosing the letters URGENT to can attention to it.

The letters stand for United

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Resources Gain Education al Needs Today. which its spoo-sors hope is an attentlon-get-ting slogan.

The chairman of the URGENT drive. State Sen. David Clark of Lincolnton. calls the bond issue a shot in the arm" needed to aUow hard-pressed localities to catch up with their school building nee^.

Not even the $100 million, if apiNTOved, will take care of all of the local school buUding needs only the more urgent es.

HELP The 1963 General Assembly, however, recognized that the school construction, physical plant and equipment needs had leapfrogged beyond the point that localities were able to cope with them.

It called the situation an *emMgency and authorized the bond referendum to enable the state, with superior financial resources, to cwne to the aid of counties and locall-ttes tn meeting school construction needs ( a catch-up, <ne-time basis.

KNOWN The fact that most of North Carolinas local

school units were struggUng financially was made clear ii-or to the 1963 session d tht General Assembly.

A report by researchers d the State Board d EdueattOD In 1962 concluded ttiat all d the 174 local school admtnidrap tlve units In the state were Inadequately financed. It said there were too many small, financially weak and inefficient units.

Tbit particular study recommended that the General AM sembly authorize the State Boarii d Education to reorganize the structure d local administrative units, and that after this was done to require local financial sun>ort to a given percentage d local financial ability.

The legislature, however, cboee to recommend the atate bond laaue as a method d enabling local usiti to eateh and. In effect, give Impetus to greater loeal school efttMrts voir untarily.

TIMINO l^xnsors d the 1963 school bond act had Intended that II be submitted to a vote and that made j^ar.

Such was not to be the case. The school bond referendum despite Its urgency, run Into delays dietaled by cautl and the political winds.

R was the duty d Gov. Terry Sanford to set a date for the sclMg}! bond referendum, and Sanford wanted to choose a date which would give the bond issue its best chance d approval. He wanted to keep it apart from political considerations.

R Is no secret that Sanford hlmaelf would have preferred to have submitted the school bond Issue and had R approved many months ago. But because of the storxny poUtlcal sltuatian which hM gripped the state since the summer d 196S. be chose to wait.

CHANCES - More than a yMur ago, Sanford told newM men be oonsldered approval d the school bond Issue s matter d greater urgency than s constitittloaal amendment on legislative redlstrletini.

But leglslattve redistricUng came first, with a touchy, heated confllet between larger and smaller counties growing out d a special session d the legislature In October, 1963, and the resulting fight on a proposed little fedwal amendment last January.

As much as Sanford wished to submit the school bond issue to the people as early as possible, he kept It clearly apart frn the little federal fight. Then, to avdd even more bitter poUtical feeling from possibly doomlnf Its chances, he delayed it until aftw the Democratic primary wars of last Spring and summer. _

the people of the nation.

Many people who go to the polls on Nov. 3 will gy AJRT BUCHWALD find that neither of the presidential candidates fits ^

exactly with their individual opinons on all matters. 0 ^ 1 n 01 1T\ ^ "P

Yet a choice must be made by each individual l\ U.1^i k-/IWiv^-L

voter. * ^

By far the greater weight of merit, for the Good of the nation and all its citizens, lies with the choice of Lyndon Baines Johnson as the next president of the United States.

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN The numbers game is not really a racket its the chief past time of college administrators and faculty members. And the game is getting tougher.

This faU, for the 20th consecutive year, college and university enrollments broke all previous records. About 4.8 mUIkn students are seeking degrees In Institutions of higher education.

But the enrollment wave has not reached its crest. Moving up towmrd college age are 47.6 million youngsters in elementary and high schools and if the current trend continues, a larger percentage of high school graduates will seek college admission in the future.

College and university enrollments, on a percentage basis, are outstripping population increases. Auburn University President Ralph B. Drau-ghon recently cited dramatic statistics. He said;

Prom 1900 to 1960 the population of the U.S. increased about two-and-a-half times, but enrollment in our colleges and universities increased 15-fold.

In every Southern state, students are crowding to the campuses, filling classrooms, laterstorles and dormitories.

Georgias public colleges and imiversitles have about 30,000 students a number equal to the population of a small city. The University of South Carolina has a 13 per cent increase above last year. In Alabama, the University has enrolled about 16,000; Auburn, 10,800. Freshmen and new students alone numbered about 6,000 at the University of Texas.

At the University of Tennessee, space Is at a premium. Set for an enrollment ci about 12,900, 14,000 students arrived on the Knoxville campus. To-til for all University of Tennessee units Is more than 21.-000. Lounging rooms in the dormitories have been turned into bedrooms and the university has helped students find housing In private homes.

Finding enough classrooms and faculty members for the overflow hatnt been easy. At Tennessee, 79 sections of first-quarter EhigUsh had been planned this was Increased to

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95 sections and 11 new Instructors were added.

This is indeed one of the most serious crises in tiie University histOTy, said Tennessee President Andrew D. Holt, not only because of the present heavy enrollment but also because it Is Just the beginning of the long-anticipated postwar baby boom increases that will accumulate, up through the Ph.D. level, for the next decade. We cannot serve the increases coming up next year and the years after unless we get relief from the 1965 legislature.

Dr. Holts predictions are reinforced by the U.S. Office of Education, which anticipates that, by 1973, about eight million students wiU be enrolled in colleges and universities almost double 1964 enrollments. And the trend Will continue upward, for by 1973 It Is estimated that the U. S. will have more than three million high school graduates.

But It isnt necessary to consult a crystal ball to see the effects of the student boom. It is here now on campuses all over the South and the nation.

State colleges and universities in the South are under greater pressure than private institutions to take care of the crowd, since state - supported schools educate 71 per cent ci the Souths students. Southern imiversitles are becom i n g small cities within themselves. They now provide food, housing, medical service, entertainment and parking space as well as education for thousands of young people. Only by boUdlnf and increasing all available facilities will colleges and universities be ready for next years crop ot students.

Virginias Governor Albertis Harrison, speaking recently to the Southern Governors Conference In Texas, dramatized the present enroQmit situation in these words: Texas alone has Just raroUed 70,000 more students in her public InstuUtions alone than attended all Southern institutions when I finished law school.

Any legislator, governor or trustee who thinks that all we have to do Is ride out a temporary enrollment wave should think again.

Probably the toughest thing to be in this world Is a Soviet student. No matter how well you learn your lessons, It doesnt necessarily mean youre right.

Por example, last week at Peoples School 113 In Moscow, a teacher was talking to his eighth grade class.

Boys and girls, today the brave Soviet cosmonauts, Komarov, Yegorov, and Peoktis-tov, have returned from their glorious flight into space. The first question is: Who Is the man who Is responsible for this unbelievable feat?

The chUdren shout, Comrade Khrushchev!

Why Is Comrade Khrushchev responsible, little Vladimir?

Because, Comrade Teacher, he is our glorious leader, and

he has sent our space ships teto the heavens to show the decadent Western capitalist nar tlons the Soviets are first to science.

Very good, Vladimir. Now, lltUc Katrina, what else has our beloved Comrade Khrushchev done?

He has kept the peace to the world, has spread the message of communism throughout the globe, and has brought prosperity to the pe<>le8 of all the Soviets.

What else, Ivan?

He has made the corn grown high, the wheat grow strong, and the flowers blown. And what about steel production?

Thats good, too.

"Little Boris, who is the greatett leader against the reactionary adventurist and chauvinist line of the Chinese gov-

Public Forum

emment?

I dont know.

Stupid lout, Boris. What do you mean, you dont know? Im not sure.

Stay after class. Boris, and we will see If we can refresh your memory.

As he is talking, the principal comes in and whisp e r s something into the teachers ear. The teacher goes white. He nods and writes down some things on a pad.

Then he addresses the class again. Now, once more. Who is the man who is responsible for our great victory over space?

Comrade Khrushchev, the class shouts.

Idiots! How many times do I have to tell you? It Is our

ART

BUCHWALD

TO THE EDITOR

People say that Christians should not talk poUtlcs to church. What should Christians do? R seems that Christians do not understand what they should do. If you are a Christian, you are a servant oi Jesus Christ. If you are a Christian in name only, I think you will accept most anything. I would like to refer you to Gods Holy Word, Revelations, Chapter m, verses 15-16.

I know thy works, that thou are neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. So then because thou art luke warm and neither cold nor hot. I will spue thee out of my mouth.

God seems to indicate that a luke warm person makes him sick. You are for Christ or you are for the Devil. My friends, if you are for Christ you will stand on Gods Holy World. You will not stand for vlolaice as this administration has done. You know the story of the CivU Rights dictatorship after the bill was passed: Johnson asked Congress for fourteen milUoa dinars to force people to accept it. Good people, is that Christianity?

Again, I would like to refer you to Gods Holy Word, Matt

hew Chapter 5, verse 9: Blessed are the peacemakers for tiiey shall be called the children of God. The Civil Rights Bill was passed for self gain, not frcnn the standpoint of a Christian. Some of you good Bible students tell me where I can find that kind of law to the Bible? I know that some of our preachers say that it is Good Neighbor policy. But I would like to refer you to St. Luke, Chapter 10, verses 25 through 87.

And behind a certain lawyer stood up and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall 1 do to Inherit eternal life? He said unto him: What is written to tlx law? How reacXst thou? And he answered saying: Thou Shalt love the Lord Thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbor as thyself. And he said onto him. Thou hast answered right; this do. ind thou shalt live. But he, wiUing to justify himself. said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbor? And Jesus, answering said: A oertain

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glorious leader, Leonid Brezhnev, the enemy of the cult of personality and brother o the working classes.

He looks at little Vladimir. Now teU me, little Vladimir, what has Comrade Khrushchev done?

He has sent our space ship Into the heavens

Stop! Comrade Khrushchev is a reactionary phrase-monger, a harebrained, inept, bragging fool, and an enemy of the people!

Katrina raises her hand. But did he not keep the peace to the world?

Daughter of an Imperialist! If Ive told you once, Ive told you a hundred times, Aleksei Nikolaevich Kosygin is a man of peace. Khrushchev is a drunkard, and a criminal with paranoid tendencies.

But it says in the book. Never mind the book! They are all going to be confiscated. I am ashamed of all of you for not learning your lessons. The only (ms who has d(me his homework is little Boris. Little Boris will someday be a great Communist leader.

Nixon's

Guba

Views

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1964. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Every citizen ought to go to the polls. But before going, the voter ought to look carefully in the looking glass and ponder the state of his own ignorance. This might lead to cocksureness about cert a 1 n issues. A humble vote is apt to be sounder than a vote registered in arrogance.

These thoughts are prompt ed by an article by Richard Nixon on Cuba, Castro and

JOHN

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John P. Kennedy that is schM duled for appearance to tht forthcoming November Issu of The Readers Digest.' Nixon, as he has been reminding RepubUcan audiences In his whirlwind campaign on behalf of the Goldwater candidacy, lost the 1960 election by the margin of a gnats whtok-er. As he looks back on things to his article, he thinks he was beaten when John P. Kennedy plastered him with a soft on Castro charge Just prior to ttie fourth and lart TV debate between the candidates. There was a tremendous irony In this, for Nixon was powerless to combat the absolutely baseless charge for reasons tha$ had to do with the security of a top-secret CIA project for invading Cuba that had already been set to motion by the Eisenhower Administration.

Nixon admits that the controlling elements inside the Eisenhower government had goofed in their original estimate of Castros character, although he himself had sent a memorandum to Allen Dulles, boss of the Central InteUigence Agency, (including that Castro is either incredibly naive about Communism or i$ under Communist discipline. Regardless of the original mistake, however, Eisenhower had decided by early 1960 that Castro was a Communist agent. Says Nixon, In a top-secret meeting. . .at which I was present, Eisenhower authorized the CT to organize and train Cuban exiles lor the eventual purpose of feeing their homeland from Ckstros Communist rule.

It was just six months later that John F. Kennedy leveled an attack on Nixon for being a member of a soft on Castro Administration. Said Kennedy, We must attempt to strengthen the non-Batista, democratic, anti-Castro forces in exile and in Cuba itself who offer eventual hope of overthrowing Castro. Thus far, these fighters for freedom have had virtually no support from our government.

The Kennedy charge left Nixon in a heads-he-wins, taila-I-lose situation. If, in the next TV debate, Nixon were to tell the American public about the existence of the program for preparing the Cuban exiles for an invasion of their homeland, pointing out that he was one of its strongest advocates inside the Administration, it would pull the rug out from under Kennedys posi-tiwi. But, says Nixon, if I did so, the project would be doomed, and also the lives of brave men, both inside and outside of Cuba, who were receiving training and assist-tance.

So, facing his own conscience, Nixon had to go on the air with what could easily be twisted into a soft on Castro position. Kennedy proceeded to reap the advantage, which was probably crucial in view of the fact that a shift of less than one-half a vote a precinct would have made Nixon the winner a few (Continued on page 5)

Strike Gosts Economy Millions

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS POWER

Whats the matter with ms?

Many people keep asking this question and then at last they betake themselves to a specialist. Brother, says the specialist, what you need Is a new set of spark plugs and pfton rtats- Then the surgeons begin removing what we are not supposed to have, and the speciallitte in totemal medicine begin filling us with vitaxnibf and other things which we are supposed to have. Leet oC aU. the faooleet specialist of the lot goes to work on us - the psychiatrist. He tunes up our motor.

After it is all over, we find we caimot get going any bet

ter than before, and the reason is that there is no gasoline in the tank no money In the bank, no energy to body and mind.

Religion Is power. Rs gasoline in the tank. The promise of Jesus to his ^sciples when he left them was: Ye shall have power.

Briefly stated, the position of the Christian Church is that the fundamental problems of life cannot be settled apart from religious faith, fiufiery. medication, psychiatric treatment play an important part in modem life. We may need new equipment and a tuning up of our motor, but above everything else we need gasoline in the tank before we can get going. Religion is power.

By ELMER ROESSNER There will be a little less tinsel this Christmas. Although little noticed, the failure to settle the General Motors strike is costing the American ec(momy millions of dollars a day.

Auto sales have been con-ttoutog at record marks. But the eupiAy oi GM cars is running low and s(Hne models are difficult to get to some sections. Ford and Chrysler are dotag wen, but their produc-

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tlon Une cannot make up tot what GM Is losing. And. at this writing, there Is a danger oi a strike at American Motors.

The situation adds up to this: Many auto workers have been out of Jobs. Strike benefits are less than regular pay. Their famiUss are spending leas. Auto sales are* certain to decline because of lack of new cars, even if the strike is end

ed.

Washington Is not mentioning the seriotMness of the situation. perhaps because of po-Utics. PoUttci? Washington? OTHER BUSINESS FUTURES Here are more bustnese lookaheads:

Higlier steel prlcett They are keetong up with predictions toere, flmitog aU the time and inching up on selective bases. By the end of the year, iM'ices will be generally higher.

NoBferroiis metals rising, too: Rises to nonferrous metal prices, also repeatedly predicted here, are ccNtning fast. Lead and zinc have both gone up, and osmium and iHod^, In the platinum group, have also risen sharply. PredlctieB! More nonferrous metal rises ahead.

Flood Of H-lBch color TV sets: When more 19-lneh color tubes become available, almost every TV manufacturer will have sets on the maiTet. RCA has already shown dealers 19* Inch rectangular sets with 90-degree tubes and other com-paniet are working <hi 19-inch receivers.

OHOflTS INCREAilNO RALBf Biggest halloweeB yclt Retail sales of Halloween candies and eostumea wffl reach a new high this year ii Uttic

goblins and witches get grownups to spend. National magazines are fat with advertisements for Halloween candy, department stores are using heavy lineage to seU costumes. One big help: Halloween falls on a Saturday, when there is no school.

Bank earnings rising: This will be a record year for bank earnings They have been increasing during most (rf this year and are likely to toorease furtiier to the next two months. An increase to interest rates, not likely until after Nov. 3. would push earnings up further.

Costlier spuds: Potato futures have been rising and higher spot prices seem oertain. The higher prices will be passed on to consumers.

three were withdrawn.

The top eight reasons listed to meet expectations and one of the three were withdrawn.

The top eight reasons listed for failure were, in this order; inadequate market analysis, product defects, higher costs than anticipated, poor timing, competition, insufficient marketing effort, inadequate sales force, and weakness in distribution.

7 OF 19 NEW PRODUCTS SUCCEED, SAY MANUFACTURERS New producto we much more successful than many people think, I would have guesaed that eight or nine out <4 every ten failed. Yet a survey by the National Industrial Confe^ ence Board of 87 manufacturera, reports that three out of every ten new producto to the last five years failed to meet expectations and one of the

Ol|> PROMOTER DEVISES NEW BELL TRADEMARK I have drawn a new trademark 1 hope to sell to the Bell System, the Old Pr<noter announced on his visit today.** Something to do with jing-lly bells? I asked.

No, here it is. he said, tts a tree shaped like a Y. All over the country 3r(Wll find them, slashed that way to get the vitaao linea through. If used right, every time a customer saw a tree like that, he'd be reminded to pay his phone bm.

Sorry. I aald. I dont think you can trademaik that. It has been to . use !(* more tiian half a ontury by electric companies as well as the phone companies.