Wedneidey, Wovmbf 4, 1964

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A Voice Heard Throughout The World

Electioneering Is A Big Business

yesterday by a record vote aw^ Ute" For almoR a year no* and in ome cases

ally million? of doUars have oee e ^ nolitical speeches, bilUone of written word?,

behalf of candidate for tho^nds of TV appearances aU pointing toward

to the courtboue. Buttons by the millio ve?terdjiy when the indiridoal voter would make

his choice.

If there were any remainmg doubt that poHUcs has become big boiainess in the United State*, that doubt is dispelled after this election year. If there were any doubt about statements that the cost of winning public office was growing by leaps and bounds, that too has been removed by the activities of this election year.

The outcome of the election will be discussed for months perhaps years but at long the 1964 election campaign has ended and the nation will begin to return to it* non-elcction-years

normality. . ,

But as the results of the election are evaluated against the background of the long campaign, we may be sure that the politicians already are designing new stratedgy for two or four year; from now when we'U go through it all again.

the manoiacttircd. Leaflets, poster, brochure^ pam-

Optimism Part Of Their Duties

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TV of e!ectloc rre

^redxac by pw-ty beadqira^ ten i* ptcal tradioc of ioc suad2:y. Ji 1 isTtriab.y C3t tad drj?d tad tekScc: a^y-tiaaa ra-<-a or nirpraiaf bot i: 1* etaeriy TV eta C0E1*. on

tv prwScoo fctUaf frost pae ipoce tad they beVre ths:. property pcrtted tad f*v~ orsbLy repor,ed tbey terre t purpose.

effect TV pcrpoee of evme li to ptis: the most op-

aad oocCdeace-mtpir-tiz pfctare poaibie.

TVre were so sorprws thus ttnie from either Broofhum or Suoc Id neftVr case was tV word defeat evea menilflDed-Boch predicted sweeisaa tIc-tories. Erea ta eoeiesu In which mow oVerren are IVir caadidaies rirtoay no chance, Uwy said tVre wta reason to be Tnr hopef^ TV obieet Is aU this prt-manly Is to aft tV mora> of p*rty woiicers. exhort loyal porters tad inspire them wh renewed seal on the e?e of tV Todaz- '

i; this Is aecompnshed. a lack of franknesa and loreWght may V foryiven later.

result TV poiidriaaa may claim that such predic-are phrased as candidly ard accurately as peatiblr from tvir potm of view.

NevertVleas. the oweial! effect of such rosy and gkrwiny partisan predictioo-makiiiy is sometimes questioned by bn-partial observers.

One result, when a set 4 predict'oiw on electioo eve directly contradicU the other.

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nrjy be to leave the average voter a bit nae confused than ever. He wopders which if el-tVr is worthy of beliei.

If tv predlctk V chooses to rely upon proves wroBS. the voter may feel be haa been hoodwinked.

CONFSINO DetaUed analysis of course must await the voters' final verdict in the various races, but it was evt-dent on electiori eve that tVre was much that was confusing and perplexiaf in the campaign just ended.

This fact, indleaicd by a treat deal of indecisloo and silence, made the task of predicting the outcome and probably margin difficult and precarious.

R was a campaign which, for North Carolina voters st least, appeared fflled with par-

sdoBces asd coBCrsifiethsss.

There were fscsors and ** uaocs which eisher were entirely new or whkh had merer Sgnred so proBsmeatiy in past eiiCtkES Sonae ofaaerver fra fSroBgly tVt IV state was ia a period of poiMical trans-TVse obserrer* said that whatever tV result oo Tuesday it wouki Doi reflect true Demo-c-aUe nor trae RepnWicaa streEgtfc te tv state.

feeling For exarcplc. there was feeSng in both Droge mod ReptdiemB camps through tV campalgB that a riihsg tide of coBservattve vs^ irg screagth in the state woeid aid -their caose.

Droocratc strategists pofas-ed to Dan E Mooee'i laadshde victory ia tV second primary las: J^me in widcii Moore, a^ moderate - eoaaermxtre caom-da> carried of IV state s 1 coCTties. ^

TV GOP meaawhDe bejeved that tV pendnhnn was iwxf-*r-f to such ts extent that w<td brtag about a change to c*ie sd**^toiitFstiop from roocratie to Hepub^ candidates piainly hoped t^ tv candidacy of conaervave Bairy Goldwaier would pve tv pecdulan Its neeessary sd-

tona! pcWi.

TAPU3ET - Moorv- however, did Doe offer tV state's Re-priblicaas a clear choice V-tween conservartve and ber-a: to tv race for tv gov^-norship. In fact. Moore's pos4-tion on some issues was mwe deeply coraervative than that of his opponent. Robert L.

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FunVrmwv, the ssze <rf ta.-get offered by Gov. Terry St^ ford and tv Sanfon! adminis-imtioo for GOP campaign was reduced to almost zero -cause Moore Vd Vaten 8^ ford's candktote and was a foe of the Sanford administration.

Bit working againW Moore arid giving aid and comfort Jo the Republican-s was *

and dissatisfaction Democrac party ranks, bere was a clearer conservative division

Moore was assailed within hia own party and by the Republicans alike for choosing to keep his campaign apart from tVt of tV Jolmsoo-Humphrey ticket. TVre was concern that Moore might lose tV Negro vote. tV labor vote and that of enthusiastic Johnsoo-Hun-phrey supporters, all of which might normally be counted for tv Democratic caodkiate.

eve Moore spent election eve at borne in Canton, tv paper mill town nestled in tv hills Just west of Asheville, and Gavin was at home in Sanford. Both men cast their ballots in tVir home precincU, knowii that in a few boun one of them would be elected to tv states highest office.

Both spent the final hours of the campaign in tV places wVrc their campaigns began months ago. Moore was in Canton wVre he made his decision in tV last summer of 1%3 and announced matter-of-factly in a telephone caD to tv newspaperf.

Gavin roeanwhe was in Guilford County wVre V was given tv Republican nomination at tv GOPs sUte convention in snow covered Greensboro la.st Feb. 29, and where V established state campaign headquarters in High Point.

Each Pitt Voter Can Take Pride In Turnout

Whether he voted for winners or losers, each voter in Pitt County should take pride in the ACt that yesterday saw a record numher of ballots cast

in this countt*.

During the 12 hours from 6:30 yesterday morning until 6:30 yesterday evening more people went to the polls in Pitt County than on any other election day in history. The new record number of voter; reflects not only the mterest the citizen* of this county have taken in this election, but their sincere desire to make the outcome of the ballouing as nearly as possible reflect the aTVTM TAVTjOR

will of all the people of the county. DY Al-ViW lAXUUIk

The ballotting by some 16,-500. Pitt Countian* f 7^ ^ J "D

vesterday surpassed by approximately 500 the /H { jt M ^ 1 1 T OlJ I

previou. high number of voter* to participate in li ivJ. Vw^i- X x X ^

an election in this county. In spite of this sharp

iocrea.se in voter.; which is commeni^ble, there know what I *P-

were vtill several thousand eligible voters in the proprlate in a ctrfumn that win

countv who did not get to the polls. Pitt still has appear tV day elec:^.

Tlong uay to befle it c.n boast that it, citizen,

exercise to the fullest extent their privilege and ^ t* presdeat tu. to

their responsibility of casting their ballots in gen- read.

giral plprtions ^Dc thing Is cerUin, ^

The record vote of yesterday should be a .source of pride for the people of this county, but j by tv time you, the

it likewise should present a challenge to seek an reader sees this, you win even greater percentage of eligible voters to cagt their ballot* on the next election day.

know, and we would regret a forecast that looked ridiculous.

We will foreca^. even on the riay after the electk, that the vote was big. We nc^er went with the idea that this year's election would iMlng out a iigK vote because of the landslide jedicted by many po takers.

We suspect that tV

bittemese of it, will have brought out a record vole. Were we right? Well, turn over to the front page, read tV electiODs stories and find out.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON fAP> Now with tv lalUiig done and the candidates borne after logging enough miles to reach three-quarters of tv way to the moon, a familiar, haunt i o g quest^ remains, more vivid than ever.

Some of tv candidate* themselves raised It as the 19M race dragged toward a close: Is tV brutal length <rf the American presidential campaign necessary?

There seems no intelligent rea-son for tV length of it. But, as to tv past, almost certainly nothing will be done to shorten . Yet. a much sVrt-er campaign would be physical blessing to the candidates and a kindness to tV voters.

The British election campaign last* three weeks. The Amerkran spreads over months. Surely all tV candidates have to say could be said ta a month or less. That was particularly true this year.

The views and positions of President Johnson and Sen. Barry Goldwater were so well known before tV campaign began that all their speechma-king added nothing basically new.

More than ever In these days of teleN-lsion a candidate doesn't have to dart into every node and cranny of America to "meet tV fdks. He can state his case close uP on the television screen in practically every U%ing room.

n doesnt make sense but the best explanation why nothing wiD be done is that tV stretebed-out campaign has become an American tradition which every four years now requires bands, boos, cheers, processions, speeches in cd-Lseums and on street comers, and assOTted brands of com.

Yet. tv presidential campaign as we know it is new in this century. geUlng Its sU I in a mild way with Presidents

Tbeadore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and working up to jets, autos, whistle-stops and amdifiers.

AVaham Ltocota, for instance, not only didnt campaign for the presidency to 1S60 or for re-election to 1864. he thought it inaimoper to vote for himsell. He had to be vr-suaded to vote at least for his fellow Republicans.

Between them Johnson and his vioe-imcsidential nmn i n g mate. Vn. HuVrt H. Humphrey. ta this years campaign traveled about 90.000 miles and made about BO speeches.

Goldwater and his vtee-pres-Idential partner. Rep. WiBiam E. Miller, Vd a mfleagc over 100.000 with around 330 speech-_ es. AH four ?m^y repeated themselves.

Moodav. Humphrey spoke of tv brutality of tV campaign ta its physical effect i the candidates and wondered wVlVr it couldn't be shortened.

Last week Goldwater thought out loud it might V a good idea if "we could change this crazy system to this cointry whereby we have to campaign for month* and months.

He saw. "How nice it would V if we couW run a campaign like tVy do ta England and get it over with, but I guess we are not going to be able to do It."

Humphrey mentioned the possibility that tV nominating cooventtons could be held in September inatead of July, when the Republteans met, or August, when tV Democrat* got together.

September av e n t i o n s would five tv candidates no more than four to six weeks of speechniaking, handshakln* and racing arosnW tV country. Handshaking alone can be a Vvastating experience for a presideid, a* Johnsons bandaged band siwfwed.

To the Editor:

The new inspectkm code concerning dwellings, nxwp. apartments, etc., for tV city of Greenvme has finally seemed to arouse some of you "spfcelesa. "gutless." "jel-lyflsh*' citixens and taxpayers a* to what is Ving die. and trying to be dooe to (not for) mine and ^wr city. You have finally given a faint protest to oned t incident, when there should Vve been protests to doeens more of the sanae senseless, unheard <rf. laws and codes that have been instituted and passed by tV "dlcu-tors of City HaH? TV slogan of "rule or ruin is tV motto tVre. and has been for tV past 18 months or 2 year*, but lightening hns to strike you "fun in the face before you can stop your "VUyaching* and "grumbling. to even attempt to arise and let your "voice of tv people be Vard. Now It has gone so far that every cltiien that owns or rents a home, nxm, or apartment can literally and forcefully V thrown on tV streets if tv city council and mayor are allowed to pass this dwell-tof proposal. The originators and instigators of such a fanatical. craxy. scheme to condemn and confiscate the citizens and taxpayers property must Vve .ost all sense r* retsop., right and wrong- A city government is supposed to propose cUy administration to Vlp and protect tV people, not to rule and destroy tVir democratic, legal. God given rights by force and "closed cwincil" meetings. Hitler, his "storm-troopers. and "gesta-pbo." must have, to some wav. been re-incamated.

names of registered. quallTi-ed. voters erf the city of Greenville can remedy a situation Hke tv one we face now. We must destroy, de^ocraticany. what we tried to build democratically to good faith. TVre must be sound, sensible. city govemmeni, or tVre must be a "Recall'*, and ano-tVr election. If not one or the other, then everyone best consider tVmselves <and everything tVy own or possess' entirely lost. Believe me, things win become worse if they are allowed to continue toward tV goal, that Inhabitants (rf City Ha, have set. If a city of 26.-

000 populatkm sits back and "grumbies and Vllyaches while Tfseven' individual*, acting as a team of military commanding officers totally destroy and steal a fine wonderful Vautiful city, then God helD this city of 26.000 nuts.

This Is (e of a series of approximatelv 10 letters that

1 h<^ to find the time to write to this pavr. and tV people of this city and county, in reference to some of tV intimidating, useless, non-sen-sible. dictorial. laws and codes that tVse few people have imposed upon you, not to mention the useless squandering of taxpayers money. I shall continue to fight for tV "rights of all, even if I am crucified at 5 vtots. and this can happen, Vfore all of my facts, figures, and information, in this, and otVr letters to you. and this paper, are finished.

Respectfully, Bin Griffin Buccaneer Restaurant, 2801 Jefferson Drive GreenvQle, N.C.

Most North Carolinians will breath a sigh of re'-ief today. Not necessarily because ibeir candidate woo, but Vcause politics Vre at Jong, long last Is over for a time.

Tar Heel voters, their ears still ringtoe with campaign oraUory, can look back more than a year when guVmator-ial candidates for the Democratic nomination were making iVir first campaign promises.

This led many months later to a fifst primary, which didn't settle things. Then followed a bitter second primary which ended with a nominee finally being chosen.

Normally North Carolinians settle back after this and watch the fun on a national scale. But. atas, pany leaders on both sides found that North Carolina was a closely c o n-tested state in the national election. So it was back to tv campaign trail for more months of plugging both state and national candidates.

Even Vre in the east, where a Republican is indeed a rare thing. tVre was an entirely different situation this yea r. TVre were thousands who swore they would split the ticket this year or perhaps vote a straight Republican ticket.

So it was a great year for politics to North Ctarollna. But thank goodness it is over.

(hty Manager Harry Hager-ty tells about a man who had to m.ove out of a condemned house. He found another house nearby, but found it did not have a commode. So he went back to the first house, unbolted the commode and carried it over to his next home. There he bolted it In place. He had complied with the law.

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Small Business Has Problems

"Poise: The art of raising the eyebrows instead of the roof. Areola (111.) Record-Herald.

l,abor

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN .

Copyright. 1964. King Pelaires Syndicate, luc.

Harold Wiison, the head of Britains new Lahor govern-mcni, has begun hi* regime by putting a fifteen per cent aurcbarge, or tax. <hi impon*, which is a trick out of the bock of the nineteen thirties when aK the nation* were doing ttjeir best to defend tVir heme economics by "begger my neighbor devices.

The exciise offered by Mr. wason i* a good one from the abort term point of view. The British have been importing too much and exporting loo little, which nwean* they have had to worry about a balance of payment* situation that ndghL have ended with a disastrous gold drain and an erosion (rf tv value of the pound. Something had^ to be dons about it. and if tv Oonsena-tive Pany Vd remained in power it probably would Vvs yd recwrse to the same sort of defensive tactics.

Even 50. wVt ha* happs*-

JOHX

CHAMBEUtoAl

ed in England is a warning to the rest of tv world that the ec(xiomic health that goes with clearing tV channels of Intematiimal trade cannot V restored as long a* we have tv doctrine of Socialism to contend with. For it was tV threat of a LaVr Party victory that Vivd aggravate the British import-export crisis in tv first place. Knowing that tv British Socialists would take restrictive measure* to solve the balanv of payments problem, British biKinessmen started a few moiths ago to stock up on imports. They thus compounded tV problem, bringing on tV equivalent of the sort of crisis that cofes when factories become overstocked on inventory. Too much money going out. not enough coming in.

The reassuring word from London to Washington is th^t the British tax-on import "temporary." The LaVr gov-emraent prvoses to give tax incentives to btMnc manufacturers in hopes that they will modernize tVir plants to th point wVre tVy can underseTi their competftors in world markets and so bring the .Im-port-export situation into a natural balance. The trouble with this idea, however, is that no government with CMn-mitments to socialist Ideology is in a good position to belt an economy renovate itself. Why should a British steel manufacturing company Invest in new and efficient melting or rolling equipment when It is under the threat of Ving nationalized? And why should any business concern be moved to enthusiasm when an orthodox leftist from tV Transport and General Workers Union. Frank Cousins, who has no love for automation. Is put in charge of a Mlnls^ of Technology? Or when * nOf-ellst, C.P. Snow, is made Ooo-slns assistant? True enough, Snow, a physicist, knows something about science in the abstract, but the adaptation of science to business Is something that demands a special t5T)e of approach, one that blends engineering, mar k e t research and cost accounting In a way that government bo-reaucrats never seem to understand.

Cousins has been quoted w saying that It will be difflemt to "bring science Into Industry. Because this is such a brand new thing." Such a statement reflects an almost tb^ mal Ignorance of history. The whole history of the Industrial Revdhition, from the InventKto of the steam engine on down, has been a matter of brlaglng (Continued on page >

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Strength For Today

good.ness of heart

If we can lift one teaching out of Christianity and say. "Thto is It. Thi* 1* both the center and tV suroming up of It all," undoubtedly that (me teaching would have to do with the toner nature <rf the Cluistian life. Jesua continually taught that external religion is not only wtthout vahie but le a mlUstfDc draggliig eves weU-intentiooed pepp 1 a io lower depths and soihetim-es to dlxaater. The Pharisee* were religious men. but tVlr religion was external. Jeus told Nicodemus. that be must be bom again. , *

In other dords, JefHk eoo-tinually taogtrf and emphasiz-td that the only goodness to the world 1* goodness of heart. It is not what we do that counts 10 much In God's sight a* the kind of person we are.

If we do good gets with calculation. if our main deaire le to be thought weQ of by our contemporaties sad to get aVad to tV world by oor de-, ceocy and honor, then such goodness ha* very Itttie value. The widows mite wa* valuable becAUse tV poor wom-ao gave the last thing she had oo tv face of tV earth and was probably a&bamed of the fact that ft was so Ifttie-

God rJolce* ta the People who give a cup of C(rfd water not because tt will get them anything, or ralte them to someone's esteem, but becao thi* Vipful refreshment need* to be given.

Why be hteieet, Pdi*. tea-tie. eager to serve? Because the Impulge to do so rtoes uP In tv heart and impele u* to follow Its urging. TVre is no real goodness bat goodness of Varl.

By ELMER RGSCSSNER So^ business is having a dilficuft time, A recent survey abowed that tV number of enterprise* is lower than a year ago desptte tV tacrease ta population.

One reason, may V that mall enterprisers do not realize that they are sellmg more than goods. 1 have talked with many. TVy have urfd me what they pay to good*, what tvy sell them for and what tV ' margin Is, TVy have, almost to a man. crxnplained that chains and supermarkets use their power to Vy cVavr. hence sell cVavr.

They have overlooked IV tog lact perhaps tV biggest of their live* tVy are not *eU-W\f only goods. Each one Ik aelltag goods, service* and gfiee* of their Uva*. the SL*BTILmES OF , fffJiVICE Take Max. tV comer defl-catessm man. If V iells no more than tV 4^ things you can find (I picked that figure out oftv air) ta a comer de^ Vatesaen, V is licked before V starts. TV comvttag chains can underprice him. at least until V is out of busl-ness.

But V sells a 436th Item:

acrvice. He greets people as tVy roTe ta. V advnse* them oo what to buy to go al(g with IV comer beef or the gef-ufte fish. V tells Mrs. Cnwn-agnon how to cook that package of beans so tVy won't end up mushy.

He may not deliver, V may not cash checks, but V sells otVr, meaatagiul services. -

And with every sale. V sells a part of Max. He sells a slice of smile, a dish of understanding, a bag of good cheer. Sometimes V throws ta a few gentle Max Jokes.

He sells a two - hour chunk of himself when V stay* open for two towirs after tV chain ^ store closes, for those two hours may eventually come off tv (Aber end of his life. He sells a .Uttle bit of Max wVn V leu Mrs. Grogan promise to pay him tonorrow. He sells a little bit more of Max wVn he stays up two hours after doting to make sure the potato salad and tV corned beef will V freaVr than that sota to the supermarket tomorrow.

A KEY TO SLCCEbS And H is only wVn Max and Joe tV cleaner, Rudy the baker.^HuVrt tV druggist. Tony the fruiterer, John

Mamie at the Poppa and Momma store realize that they are selling part of themselves and service as well as goods that they can truly evaluate their position as businessmen.

Once they do. many of them would close their doors tonight and never (Hpen them again because they would realize how small or even nonexistent their profits were on goods, service and their own lives. Others would reprice their entire Itoes and ask for fair pay for themselves.

And if Max raised the priV' of his hot pastrami from 65 lo 90 he would not say to a late customer: "Thats 5 cehts for

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tasty sandwiches. 4 cents for staying open so late, 2 cents more to offset the risk of late stuck-ups, and a greasy dftne for profit,"

No, he would not say that. But unless he thinks and prices that way. he is on his way to Join the thousands of small Iwstoesses that go bust every year. And that goes for Jae. Rudy, Hubert, Tony. John i^d Mamie, too.

HERES A MEASLUE OF BANKS PROSPERITY Bank Income is setting a nw record this year because-tata-rest rates are high and (^* mand for money is good. Just how good ft is Is indicated by these statistics:

. As of Sept. 15. 1964. nat^ bank assets were $176 WBtan

wtwswp with a catottl B. per rmnt

above the level of a year afU-number of banks In oper-ROESSNEB cwnpared with

4.5T7 a >-ear ago. With bran-

, cVs, the total numVr of hk|ik

(rfflces were 12460. tV hightst in ten years.

my rent and utilities, 50 cents So why are you wasting

for the bread- and meat. 2 your time malting patinnni

cent* for the calories I bum-,* sandwiches. Mix? Why dont ed up in giving you that hear- you start a bank Max? Max?

ty smile when you walked in. Max? Why dont you answer,

7 cento for my skin (n making Max?

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