|M*rch 15, 1965 . .

Time To Display Responsibility

Prenident Johnson has made it clear that he vailed, intends to see that every qualified American, re- Responsible leadership in state government gardless of race, color or place of residence, is demands that the states, through their appointed accorded his constiutional right to participate in or elected officials, put an end to schemea deaigiied lections. to deny voting rights to citizens who are qualified

This is as it should be. and in this effort the to participate in elections. Responsible President should have the cooperation of state among Negroes demands that the practice oi maK-officials. These officials in turn should have the cooperation of all citizens of their respective states.

At the same time there is need for a genuine efforfr on the part of officials and citizens to restore domestic tranquility in areas where marches, demonstrations, violence and near-anarchy have pre-

Assembly Path Pleases Moore

By WILLIAM A, .SHIRES

PLEASED Gov. Dan K. Moore, for one, Is pleased with the way things are going in the 1965 General As.iemhly.

Tints far unbrutsed by di.*i-appolntment or a single setback, he has reasoq to be pleased. He feels good pro-pres.s Is being made and that it w'lll turn out to be a short, harmonious legislative session with ad.1oumment possible in late May or early June,

At the same time. Moore Is hopeful that a great deal can be accomplished In this ses-ion. He feels confident that most of his own 1965-67 legislative program will be enacted without undue difficulty and without sparking controver s y and dispute. This, of course, remains to be seen and Moore and his aides recognize that a lot of hard work lies ahead.

There are a lot of issues and Cnntrcvers4e5 that Moore Intends to leave alone.

'T dont Intend to get Into every legislative battle that develop.s." he says.

BUDGET The governor Is .scheduled to unwrap t h e meaty part of his program, his specific budget proposals, within a few days.

It is no secret that Moore and his top advisers have devoted more time and effort to budget matters than anything else during the past month. They feel now that these are In fairly soiind .shape, and With a final touch or two will be ready for presentatiiwi to the As.sembly.

The governor, hopeful that his budget will be well received, kept details of his recommendations to himself at last W'eeks press conference, parrying each question Intended to ferret out a fact or two.

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For example, he turned aside a question about speculat i o n that state revenue estimates will not be sufficient to provide for increased exemptions for state income taxpayers a tax cut pos.sibility Moore mentioned in his legislative addre.ss.

PATTERN ~ Administration sources are predicting that Gov. Moores budget approach may well set a pattern for incoming govemor.s in the future. regardles.s of whether fu-ttire governor.vclect automatically l>Pcome members of the Advlrory Budget Commi.sslon.

Their reasoning is that nec-es.sary budget information relating to revenue estlm a t c .s, trends and credit balance does rot become available until Mareh and sometimes early April. In the past, governors

have sent their budget messages to the General As.semb-ly within a few days after convening and in almost every ca.se these budgets have had to be revised and reworked in the Spring.

Moores contention, and his answer to criticism about slow-nes.s and delay. Is that what he has done In assembling the laie.st. most up-to-date .information wiU save time for the legislature.

He feels that having sent an Incomplete budget message or one contingent on the revenue picture in the Spring w'ould "have confused the issues more."

WORK ^ While Moore and hl.s administration advis e r s have been w'orkiug on the huge line-ltem budget, the legislature has been tackling some other matters.

It has given speedy enactment to several administration-backed proppsals such as reorganization of the State Highway Commission, approval of a $300 million highway bond Issue and establishing a branch of the consolidated University at Charlotte. Another administration measure, restoring continuing contract provisions for .school teachers, is ready f o r floor action.

'The Assembly also ha.s received and begun .study of landmark court reform legislation. It has come to grips w'lth such issues as capital punishment and daylight saving time. It is engaged in the recurring struggle over and N. C. State name change.

WAIT As yet. however, the legislature has done little more than .scratch the surface on a^ major high w a y .safety legislation, and delays occasioned by an outside dispute have cropped up in Moore.s negotiated apparent settlement of issues between private power companies and rural electric cooperatives.

Developments In tbe.se two areas are coming. Moore has pit)mjsed a .separate message to the General Assembly on highway safety and disclosed that a .subcommittee of his traffic safety advisory council is working on specifics.

.Statu.s of legislation to implement the RF. A-private power agreement depends largely on whether further compromise can be reached with the N C. League of Municipalities and various cities and towns which w'ant to .safeguard their utility franchising authorl t y. Meetings are being held and mo.st sources .say the questions involved must be worked out around a conference table before they arc handed to the legislature.

FACT - The fact sheet for the State Democratic party's annual fund-raising Jefferson-Jack.son Day dinner April in eacefully polnt.s out that the dinner speaker. Sen Herman E Talmadge of Georgia. Is a Democrat.

Talmad.ae's name on the fact .'^heel Is followed by a large capital <D),

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ing streets the buttleground for rights be brought to an abrupt end as well.

Mo.st re.sponsible citizens, we think, agree that every citizen who is qualified be given his right to participate in elections, whether he lives in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina,

New York. California or any other state. Most responsible citizens likewise agree that the rights of citizens to domestic peace should not be disrupted by endless marches, demonstrations and dramatizations* which infringe on the rights of other citizens.

On both sides of the conflict there has been a failure to recognize the citizenship righte of others.

The situation has prevailed too long. It is time now for responsibility to prevail in the interest of individual citizens, ip the interest of individual states, and in the interest of the nation.

Its Only Fair To The Peopk Paying Taxes

Greenville Utilities commissioners were perhaps reluctant to double water rates to domestic customers outside the city limits, but actually they had little chpice.

Furnishing water and sewage disposal to Greenvilles citizens has never been a money making proposition. By the time water lines are extended to customers, a water purification plant is operated, overhead storage tanks arc constructed and all the other expense of providing pure water are taken care of there is nothing left in the way of so-called profit.

In recent years the city has begun providing sewage treatment with an expensive plant. Of course one might argue that many customers beyond the city limits are not tapped on to sewer ' lines, but providing ^vater and sewage disposal By ART BUCHWALD must be looked on as related expenses.

If Greenville realizes little profit from its i^water sales, then water must be viewed as a service to Greenville citizens. And since residents within the city limits must pay city taxes, then they certainly should have a favorable rate on this nonprofit operation.

The people who live beyond the city limits are very much a part of community life. Often for one reason or another they can not request annexation even though they might wish to.

Still the fact remain.s that the man whose home i.'i located within the city limits is paying a con-.siderable tax bill each year. It is important that he not be requred to pay for city services being furnished to others who do not pay the same taxes.

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Soviet Mercenaries

The recent student attacks on the American embassy in Moscow had some very interesting sidelights.. It wa.s reported that all the students who demonstrated against the embassy were foreigners, mostly from Asia and Africa.

From a very reliable source, we have learned that the Russians are now hiring mercenaries to attack our embaEsy rather than using Soviet stu

dents.

The reason for it is quite simple. The Soviet government has discovered that the student demonstrations have been interfering with the studies of its youth. There have been so many man - hours lost to attacks on the American embassy that the Russians are afraid that they may not have a grad-uatihg cla.ss this June at Moscow University.

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A shake-up In the Soviet Bureau of Spontaneous Demonstrations took place about a month ago and a new commls s a r. named Serge Brakeyltch, was appointed to the post.

Brakevltch ruled that no Soviet student could attend a demonstration against the American embassy unless he maintained a B average.

The Soviet students cal 1 e d the ruling arbitrary and unfair. They pointed out that Chinese students, Bulgarian students, and Czjechoslovakian stude n t

1 ougn Politics in LA

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Featurei Syndicate. Inc.

LOS ANGELES A visitor to California quickly gcU the idea that virtually every local political figure has a past. Ronald Reagan, the Hollywood broadcaatlng star who made by far and away the best speech of the whole 1964 campaign (or Barry Ooldwater, used to be a Democrat, and once, so It Is now charged by some of hje enemies, unknowingly consorted with Lefties In an Umoetnfc front. (The answer to thta might be. *Who didnt?'** Ben-ator George Murphy, long a R> publican, also began hla pell* oal life as a Democrat. Mayor Sam Yorty of Los Angele has always remained a Democrat, but he Imported Dick Nixon against John Kennedy. This la a chameleoa atafet, polUlcaUy m;>eaking. and evidently It doesnt matter ae much what you wera ae when yea changed.

A far more basle troubla. It would appear, la that a erne people dont change at all. Theres Congressman Jimmy Roosevelt, tor example, whe wants to take the Loa Angeles Mayors Job for himself In the coming April primary which will see him runnliif against Incumbent Yorty and a Republican named Pat Mo-Oee. Jimmy stands right whera be was. the darling of the Left. Year after year he has been In the forefront of the fight in Washington to abolish the House nAnierlcan Actlvltlee Committee. Nobody ' accuses Jimmy Roosevelt of any sinister motives in this, but at this juncture in California affairs un-American activitlea are an Important Issue.

This la the state that has witnessed the quickest growth of the W.E.B. DuBols clubs, which take their name from the Negro scholar who, at the age of ninety or so, turned his back on a llfe-tlme of cMistnictlve activity to become a Communist. The recent campus liota

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at Berkeley were a mlxed-bag affair, with Maolsto, DuB o 1 s clubbers and even Right Wing Goldwaterltes making a unit-on a

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By mNFBED L. GODWIN

The .same learning theory that enables bright students to make profitable use of teaching machines and other new mechanical aids may hold special hope for the menta 11 y retarde(l.

A most promising test of the theory and application . of the technique is going on at a state institution for mentally retarded children in liouisiana. Here with the assiMancc of faculty members from Florida State University, Peabody Col 1 e g e and the University of Alabama and others, exciting Inroads are being made into the age - old progler.i of how to teach and train children who are so retarded in their intellectual development a.s to be almost helpless Through application of "operant conditioning" children up to the age of 16 who in the beginning could not dress them.selves, feed themselve.s, or take care of other bodily need.s have become able to learn many of these .'kills.

Equally exciting is the fact that the actual training of thc.se children has been accomplished by attendant personnel in the institution. These attendant.s do not have college training. They are for the most part individuals who have an intere.st in working with the .severely handicapped and an inborn ability to meet the challenge and hardships such work invariably pre.sents.

This is but one Illustration of the extensive new attack on mental retardation. In which unlvcr.'^^lties are playing an Important role.

For example, some predict that within the very near future every medical school will have major new facilities for re-

were permitted to demonstrate ^ed front on a specious free with a D average and in some Nspeech issue. But the P. B. I. ^ + was quick to notice that "stu-

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search and treatment for retarded children.

One such estimate comes from Dr. Robert Cooke of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, which has just received a $2,-4(X),000 federal grant to build a special retardation center In Baltimore.

Peabody College in Na.shvUlc l.s, xleveloping one of the nation's most ambitlou.s research programs in mental retardation. thanks In part to a recent seven - year grant of more than V'z million dollars from the new National Institute of Child Health and Hu-mn Development. Peabo d y plan.s a comprehen.slve center for mental retardation and Intellectual development, for which Peabody trustees recently provided a half million dollar,s in con.structlon funds and $J(X).(X)0 a year for 20 yeans to help operate it. These .steps, plus other expected grants assure Peabody a most prominent status In the field.

Every Southern state now has .special teacher training program.s to help meet t h e shortage of classroom teachers of the retarded. More than a million dollar.s of federal funds have been awarded to South-er-n in.stltutlons dtirlng the current >Tar to provide fellowships. undergraduate tralnee-ships. and summer short term trainee.ships.

The.se arc but a few of the encouraging .signs of the belated move to deal with the neglected problem of mental retardation. President John P. Kennedy directed national attention to tHe problem and gave It a degree of urgency and inspiration that it had never had. Routhem colleges and universi-tle.s will be prominent in ad-anclng the cause.

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A friend recently report e d that he was disappointed In a reitarant of some fame. The establishment had pretentions to gentility, the decor wa.s clever. the waitresses had smart uniforms, and the table appointments w'ere fine. The management provided lots of rolls, scads of butter, and whole platoons of silver. The ingenious menu had received much attention from the graphics de-.signer, and its offerings promised to be dramatic and exotic. Only the food was bad.

That Is to say, by comparison it was bad. It attained a gamey feeling of mediocrity, of almost but not quite. Of salad dre.sslng that was faintly rancid, of vegctable.s that Were steamed out of existence, of meat that was cooked until it W'as worthless. The meal wa.s the production of a showman, not a cook^ But far more disturbing than the Indifference of the managers was the indifference of the public, who thronged the dining rooms and parking lots.

TiOts of shams are successful: but If one - tenth the attention devoted to the surround-lng.s had been lavished on the food, the results would have been quite acceptable. Yet, would anyone have noticed? Tlie decline of craftsman.ship appears to be accompanied by a decline of standards Imposed by the consumers. People who eat good food at home are Inclined to be overaw e d by the ritual of dining out.

and their taste is satisfied by golden apples that turn to ash.

In the same way, the wonderful advantages of the new synthetics have introduced a tasl4 for horrible colors. Rugs glare in hard, jewel like tones. Childrens clothes Invariably come in chemical reds or pinks and blues. Mens suits flash with gangster Irrldes-cence. Plastic kitchenware unfortunately comes in color.s. h u t It also comes In white. These things are fishhooks for the eyp.s.

An expensive new house, recently offered for sale, had a formal picture window on the front portico looking right into the .spare bathroom. A major bank in a moment of fervor instltutpd "customized" clieck-book.s which cost the customer more, and leave him inadequate room to record the transaction. Bread turns to library paste; and a dowmtown motel erects a sign that ought t he classified as a felony at law

In times past, the complaint was of the cheapening of ta.stp to meet the rna.s.s market. Wliat we are now witnes.sine Is not mere vulgarization; it is the falsification of taste, so that alluring new values are substituted for tho old. The new values are highly .sophisticated, require a host of specialized talents, or were technologically lmpo.s.slhle a decade ago. Rut the desires they satisfy run counter to the real nerds of good planning or essential nature. They substitut.e gaudy shadows for solid substance.

In discussing the protest with the students, he said, Demonstrating against the American embassy is a privilege, not a right. It is a reward for good grades. Im not going to per-

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mlt students to enjoy themselves breaking windows and throwing ink bottles when theyre not willing to w'ork in school for it."

The Moscow University .students called a mass meeting and voted to bo.ycott all demonstrations against the American embas.sy until the order about grades was rescinded.

This put the Soviet government in a spot. If they called for a demonstration against the American embassy and no one showed up, it would be very embarrassing for them.

V'et if they gave in to the students, it would show they werent In control of the school.

To make matters wor.sc, a few days after the boycott the United State.s started bombing North Viet Nam and it was imperative that the Soviets hold a demon.stration against the . ftontlnued on page 5)

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veteran Communist leaders of the Nineteen Thirties were present on the Berkeley scene, putting In a prod here and a poke there.

One question In Los Angeles is why Jimmy Roosevelt cares about protecting DuBols clubbers and Maoists from the possible probings of Congressional investigators. Mayor Sam Yorty has not always pleased conservatives, but people In both political parties who tal^e the safety of the Republic seriously recall that Yorth, as a state legislator, once played a prominent part in starting,6n Inveatlgatlon of Communist manipulation of the State relief administration. 'The mem-y of this Is bound to get, am Yorty some Republican votes come April.

The Left-Right split In the Los Angeles mayoralty r a c picture shades off into other splits, which are exacerbated by the feuds In both parties. In Yortys corner, if only unofficially, there Is Jesse, or Big Daddy. Unnih, the Democratic Speaker of the State A.ssembly. This means that Jimmy Roosevelt can claim the support of partisans of Governor Pat Brown, who feuds with Unruh, The Left Wing of the Democratic Party, the Council of Democratic CIub.s. constitutes ll'ielf a chowder and marching club for Jimmy Roosevelt. Tlila meaas that Jimmy has the support of many labor firroups. and he is claiming the ethnic grnuo vote. Put the CDC couldnt keep Pierre Salinger from .snalchlnc the senatorial nnml-fContinupd on page .6)

More Safety In New Car Models

Strength For Today

Bv EARL I.. DOLGI.ASS

THAT IMPORTANT AREA

After all is said and done, after councils meet and world rulers get their liead.s together, this little entity which we call the home is the mo.st important grouping of human beings on the planet. That word home" may represent a mud hut in A.sla, or a house made of ice blocks in the Arctic, or a gorgeous apartment house in one of our cities, heated and air cooled, or a mansion on a hUl. or a humble -house on a village street.

But wherever or ,lvhate v e r the dwelling place may be,, we call It home; and not only do w'e love it more than any other place, it l.s more important than any other place. The Capitol pushe.s up its lofty dome iq Wa.shlngtoq. The houses of

Parliament and the royal pal-ace.s of England attract t h e traViler. The mighty cathedrals of the continent and the Taj Mahal In India. Among this group only (he palaces palaces are dwelling places, the rest are public buildings, save the Taj Mahal, which is a. tomb. People travel around the s world to see these buildings, yet the most important place for everyone of us is the plac where we happen to live.

Is the place where we dive really a home? That depends on whether or not we make It 0. It may be only a house * or an apartment. It becomes a Jiomr when we put love Into it, whenj^lt shelters people who work together for their own good and for the romrnon good.

Home Is the mo.st important area on the plfnet.

By El.MKR ROE.S.SNER

The 1966 model car.*;, due later this year, will have many new safety features and the 1967 models out next year will have even more.

These changes will res u 11 from a goveniment drive for more safety devices, insurance companies demands f o r safer construction, adtl from the pressures of the survivors of the 47J800 pen;ons who died in highway accidents last year.

The General Services Administration. which buys about 9^-.iOO cars a year for the government. is considering 17 recommendations fbr greater safety in those cans. They will be announced on June 3(1, and their standards will influence the purchase of some .50.0(K) more cfira by other gobem-ment agencies.

Furthermore, Sen, Oayl o r d Nelson. P., Wls,. ha.s Introduced a bill requiring auto man-ufactiirens to install in all vehicles I he safety festures that the GSA lnslst.R upon. INFLl'KNCE ON CAR BLYKBB

Unless Senator Nplu)n's bill is pas.sed. the GSA action will be binding only on the purcha.se of O.'iOO cans. However, not only will Its actloi) influrnre other government buying, but it will carry weight with private car buyers, e.spcclally after the first manufacturer advertl.se.s that his cars mcrf govem-ment safety standard.s.

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Co., has taken leadership of insurers in deqianding that automobiles be made safer. Other insurance companies take the same attitude, and add the disturbing fact lha unles.s cars arc made safer, insiiranee rates are sure to rise.

The GSA is coiuslderUig these proposal*;

Pas.scnger haitie.vsc.s; padded da.shes and vl.'-ons; rcce.s.sed in.stniment panels; impact-ah- sorbing .steei ing wheels and columns that will not stab drivers in .70 - mile - an . hour crashe.s; a device to lla.sh tail-lights slmultanrou.sly; .saf e t y glas.s; a dual braking .system; .standard bump r heights; standard gear shift.s; electric wind-.shleld wipers and washers; outside rear vision mirrors; safety tire.s and rlin.s; glare reduction surfaces; back - up light.s, and anti - smog cx-haiust controls.

Eagle, in addition to most of these devices. l.s also asking for- more rugged and effective defrosting and windshield equipment; reflectoiized license plate.s; bumpers that are more protective than decora-|tlve; white turn lights instead rx'lleve, but the pure bath 1 n g of amber or red now required,

V and tire* rated to carry six pa.asengers plus baggage.

Eagle polnt.s out ttiat drivers and local Koyernments have respon.slbllltles, too. It suggest.s that ach ear qarry A 98 - ocai bund fire czUo-

gulsher; that slates with litah slandaid.s for te.sting diivens bar drlver.s llcen.sed by mher states; ttiat anlo - driving courses be leqiiiird for giad-nallon from all high .scliool.s; that drivers of ui.all c.ns le kept aware that they arc often Invisible In big cais; that drivers n.se snow tires and carry chains In wmtei; thit wom tire.s be irp.aeerl e:rjl-er. and that all cars l>e fq ip. ppd with --fail safe" tra'; 1 n g systems.^whirli would Increa.sa costs by only .<l..70 a rir A tall - .safe braking system is a vrr.slo-i of dual braktnp s.vs-terns in wliicli a second one becomes operative when t h o first one falls.

Auto buyers can write ja the Congre.ssmen a.sklng .support for the Nelson or aimi 1 a r bills; they can ask their auto association to get into the battle: they can insist on safety deblces when they buy new cars.

Safety equlpineut, of course, will lnrrea.se car prices. But these Inerease.s must lie weighed against higher insurance rate.s and the rising cokU of burying the dead.