LBJ Shaped America's Course

PUniNG IT ALL IN ONE PICTURE!

Lyndon Baines Johnson, 36th president of the United States, is dead at the age (tf 64.

His death was sudden and totally unexpected; yet the nation knew that with his frequent heart {Xoblems the possibility o sudden death was always there. o

Few men have helped shape the course of our country as did Lyndon Johnson. As Senate majority

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Ervin Voiced Teamwork Plea

Ry BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH Two crons-pyed men going in opposite directions bumped into each other on the street.

Why dont you look where youre going? one of them demanded angrily.

Wouldnt do any good. the other retorted, "because you arent going where youre looking.

The story is from the repertoire of Sen, Sam J. Ervin Jr., master spinner of yarns, expounder of Constitutional philosophy, and exhorter of unity for the Democratic party.

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Divided Democrats must look straight in the direction of closer teamwork for future campaigns to come back from defeats of the past. Sen. Ervin told the installation banquet here last Saturday for state officers of North Carolina Young Democratic Clubs.

The party has room for deversity on issues, Ervin said, but it must stand together for its candidates from top to bottom of the ticket.

Tbe 76-year-old Senator, now the pre-eminent incumbent among Tar Heel Democrats in elective office, got a resounding respote from the largely youthful audience. Some 500 faithful, most YDC members but with a sprinkling from the senior party, attended the affair billed as a unity demonstration.

Homage To A Leader Bursts of applause and standing ovations given Ervin showed both esteem for the man and accord for the cutting edge of his political analysis.

Daniel Russell in 18% and Jim Holshouser in 1972, Republicans at the two ends of a line of Democratic governors, both were elected because Democrats failed to present a united front to the voters. Ervin declared.

Without calling names of fixing blame, Ervin chastised the campaign strategy employed in the general election last fall. He was appalled to find, he recalled, that candidates had separate campaign managers and through choice or necessity, raided their own campaign funds.

It was every man for himself and the devil and the Republicans take the hin-dermost. he said. We must never again allow such a situation to exist in North Carolina.

In previous years of success, he reminded, the state committee raised the money and managed he campaign for the Democratic ticket as a

whole. The appeal was made on behalf of all candidates, not leaving each on his own. Ervin urged a return to that practice in the future.

Strenght In Unity United we stand, divided we fall. If we had stuck together as we should have we wMild have swept North Carolina, in my judgment, the Senator ad^.

As it was. President Nixon carried the state overwhelmingly for the GOP, giving a coat-tail ride that helped elect Holshouser as governor and Jesse Helms of Raleigh to sm^e alongside Ervin as a U.S. Senator.

Ervins trenchant comments reached the ears of State Democratic Chairman James Sugg, one of those seated at the head table.

Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles Jr., the titular party head as its nominee for governor, did not attend the banquet. A conflicting engagement was given as the reason for his absence.

As top man on the state ticket. Bowles set the tone and style for the past campaign.

Some Were Missing

Other vacancies in the ranks at the first big party gathering since the election included Bob Scott, whose term of governor ended with Gov. Holshouser's inauguration; Nick Galifianakis, the Congressman who lost to Helms in the Senate race; and B. Everett Jordan, whose Senate service was shortened by his loss to Galifianakis in the primary last spring.

In addition to Ervin, the banquets roster of speakers incliKJed Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt, Atty, Gen. Robert Morgan, Htnise Speaker Jim Ramsey of Person, and Mayor Howard Lee of Chapel Hill, the partys state vice chairman for minorities. They harmonized a chorus of praise for Democratic achievement and hope for the future.

Tom Barringer of Raleigh, installed as state YDC president, recalled that the organization was born when the party was divided in the year of the Herbert Hoover

A1 Smith campaign. In line with its unifying tradition, he promised efforts to profit from mistakes and rebuild for victory,

I dont intend to be .standing in the rear of the crowd when we inaugurate our governor in 1977 a l did a few weeks ago, he affirmed.

Sen. Ervin said party unity does not demand that all think alike. There is room in our party for every man and woman in America who loves our country, he declared.

Diverse philoso{rfiy is a strength, not a weakness, he added. The conservative keep the liberals from becomein radicals, and the liberals keep the conservatives from becoming reactionary, he explained.

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leader he guided legislation for presidents who preceded him. He used bis wide influence on Capitol Hill for President Kennedys pn^rams, li^ile serving as vice president Finally he saw far reaching social programs become law in his first years as president.

Lyndon Johnson will have to be remembered for instituting some of the great social programs of our time; yet some of the groups which stood ft* social reform reviled him as he neared the end of his full term of office.

The reastm, of course, was the Vietnam War, which was President Jt^nsons weak spot as the nations leader. The Vietnam problem was something he inherited and somehow, he Qever found the way to come to grips with it militrily.

Thus he surprised the nation on March 31,1968 when he announced in a television speech that, *T shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party as your President.

Ironically, this withdrawal paved the way for the Nixon era and it may yet be that the man from the opposition party will save Lyndon Johnsons place in history.

President Joynson was a consensus president. Perhaps this was astute at first, following the traumatic assassination of a popular president. The nation needed to be brought together by a unifying president as much as it ever had.

Possibly his mistake was in not moving away from Eastern Establishment type advisors quickly enough. Many of them never forgave him just for succa^ng to the presidency. It is possible that if Joynson had brought together admors in whom he had had absolute trust, the Vietnam matter would have be^ handled in a different fashion.

At any rate, the record of Lydon Baines Johnson is now written. Viewed today, it looks good in the domestic field and bad in the area of foreign relations. As'with all presidents, it will remain for future events to prove or dis-prove the policies he set for the nation and only time will determine Lyndon Baines Johnsons place in history.

Reagan's Eyes On Presidency?

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK SACRAMENTO, Calif. -Gov. Ronald Reagan plans to announce within the next three months that he will not run for the U. S. Senate or any other office in 1974 a decision, oddly, that could help propel him into the 1976 presidential sweepstakes.

Completing eight years of controversy as governor, Reagan has also abandoned his old dream of reverting to rancher in the California desert to live out his remaining years on horseback. Instead, he will take to the national banquet circuit, perhaps as head of a conservative citizens group, and preach the gospel of limited government.

The businessmen, politicians and staffers who advise Reagan view this as the best path to the White House. Aware of Vice Presidoit Spiro T. Agnews low estate there, they see Reagan (62 years old on Feb. 6) as thelogical heir to the conservative domestic policies of President Nixons second term.

The first step down this IcMig path is the decision irot to run for anything in 1974. Ther is no truth in current rumors at the state capitol that Reagan wil seek a third-term to avert a bloody Republican primary. There remains an outside chance he might run for the Senate, but his key advisers are against it.

For one thing For one thing, its too risky. Private polls show Reagan running behind Democratic Sen. Alan Cranston, up for re-election in 1974. A loss to liberal, colorless Cranston would end Reagans fabulous political career.

However. Reagans

popularity here seems rising again after its recent decline, and the issues during his last two years as governor seem on his side. He is pushing anti-crime legislation and calling for taxpayer distribution of an $850 million budget surplus. He will be extremely active pushing capital punishment l^islation against adamant opposition from the Democratic-controlled legislature; considering overwhelming passage last November of a capital punishemnt referendum, Reagan has the popular side.

At the same time, abrasive issues that damaged Reagans popularity taxes and higher education are subsiding. Nor is Reagan today nearly the zealous partisan of his early years as governor. His recent State of the State message was conciliatory, and he has developed surprisingly warm relations with Democratic Assembly speaker Bob Moretti.

All this means Reagan would be a formidable foe against Cranston. But to what avail? Reagan has no zest for the Senates back row, and his supporters regard it a poor launching pad for 1976.

Instead, after campaigning nationwide for Republican candidates in 1974, private citizen Reagan will go on what he calls the mashed potato circuit. Plans are barely begun for a foundation to promote Reagans philosophy (maybe sort of a counservative Naders raiders, says one Reagan insider). Like Richard M. Nixon in l%7-68, Reagan would be troubled by neither governmental duties nor

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Strength For Today

CUL-nVATE IT Friendship is one of the lovely realities of life. Some people have the gift of friendship. One of the finest things Jesus said to his disciples was: I have called you friends (John 15:15) There are some people whom we know as loners who seem to have no friends. Sometimes they are sad and dejected over this situation. There are actually some people who like such a situation and would regard friends as extra weight to be lugged about to ones inconvenience.

Such people are indeed loners. Nobody likes them and they like nobody else. And the word else is very important for such people always like themselves every deeply. The most unhappy state one can be in is to be wra|^)ed up in ones self that

nothing else in life seems to have any value. The word friend appears to be derived from the word meaning love. A friend is defined in the dictionary as one who entertains for another such sentiments of esteem, respect and affection that he seeks his society and welfare. He is a well-wisher; an intimate associate, one whose life is full not of thoughts about himself and plans for his own well-being but full of thoughts about others.

There can be friendship between nations if we work hard enough to establish that friendship. There can be friendship between different branches of the Church. There can be frimdship even with those who would appear to be enemies.

Cultivate it.

By Earl Douglass

GROWING NEEPTO PEVELOP NEW AND RELIABLE SOURCES OF ENER&y

By ART BUCHWALD

Truth-In-Lending Plan

WASHINGTON - The United States Navy has just loaned $54 million to the Grumman Aircraft Co. The Navy has defended its role as banker on the grounds that the mcmey was not really a loan but raUier an advance on F-14 airplanes which Grumman says it cannot deliver.

When my frimd Morris Sans (no relation to the 'former secretary of commerce) heard that the Navy had gone into the banking business, he immediately rushed down to the Pentagon.

He said to a Wave at the desk, Id like to see someone about a loan.

The Wave asked Morris to be seated and then started to make some telephones calls. Finally she said, Go to the third floor to BuNav BOC and ask for Commander Smiley. What does BuNav BOC stand for? Morris asked.

Bureau of Navy for Bailing Out Contractors, the Wave repled.

Stans went to the third floor office of Commande Smiley

who was talking on the phone. Yes, sir. We can loan Litton Industries $100 million at 5.5 per cent. No, sir, there are no collateral requirements.

Your name on the note is good enough for us. Yes, sir, Mr. Aril, the check will be in the mail tom<MTow morning. d!ommander Smiley turned to Morris. What can I do for you?

Id like to borrow $500 to make some improvements on my house.

Im sorry, the Navy doesnt make loans for home improvements, Commender Smiley said.

But the house is on the water, Morris said, on Cape Cod.

Well shy didnt you say .so? Commander Smiley asked, taking out a form. First 1 must ask if youve applied for this loan from a commercial bank.

I applied to seven banks. They all turned me down. They suggested I see the Navy because they said youll loan money to people that no bank would touch.

Thais our business, Commander Smiley said. Our motto is the Navy is Impossible loans are our busines.s.

I though it was Dont give up the ship.

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I Public Forum !

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To the editor: ^

Tlie following is my pers(xial (pinion concerning the outcome of gossip.

Gossip can destroy both the gossiper and the people gossiped about. It can cause a persons personality and reputation to become destroyed and may result in an isolation caused by shame.

The reputation of a gossiper is one that no one in his right mind would want. People no longer trust him.

Pe(^le gossiped about are usually truly angry with the gossiper when they learn of the gossip. They may go to extreme levels such as to commit suicide (n* even murder. These people are sincerely ashamed and hurt deeply. ,5

Hie friends of the people gossiped about come to reject and refuse to see or listen to these pecqile. Their friends come to know them as unfit peqile to be associated with.

The outcome of gossip is something of a great tragedy. A gossiper cannot foretell the troubles in which his gossip may end. It may break up families by divwces or bring families close together at the foot <rf a freshly dug grave. He has no way of knowing the outcome of his doing and neight do you and I.

Each one of use may be faced with the decision of becoming a gossiper, but it is not a life tor one who wished to have a good reputation and friends, which everyone needs.

Lynn Dai] Falkland

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It All By Mail

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail:

One reason for the fuel crisis today is the sheer difficulty in keeping pace with civilizations growing needs for power. Within the United Stotes alone our use of all kinds of power has increased twentyfold in 100 years.

Few things depreciate quicker than a new car. It drops about $1,226 in value the first year, about $735 a year over a

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Times have changed, Smiley said. Now would these improvements on your house benefit the Navy in any way?

Welt, I want to repair my dock for my sailboat, but the Navy would be free to use the facilities to tie up an aircraft carrier or something in case of war.

We very well might, Commander Smiley said, filling out the form. How do you propose to repay the ioan?

$10 a week, Morris replied.

That seems fair. Smiley said. I must tell you under

the Truth in Lending Navy Act that we will have to charge you 6 per cent interest.

But I just heard you tell Litton Industries you would only charge them 5.5 per cent, Stans protested.

Thats because Litton owes us so much money. Now if you wanted to make a loan of, say, more than $20 million we could give you a more favorable rate as well.

No, Ill stick with the $500.

Very good. Just sign here. This booklet is your payment schedule. Just make your checks payable to the Department of Defense. Thank you very much. The Navy wont be sorry they trusted me.

Im sure we wont, Smiley said, shaking Stans' hand. On your way pick up a new toaster or a coffeepot or an electric blanket in the lobby.

Free? Morris asked.

Of course. Why do you think Grumman Aircraft came to us instead of Bank of America? They know we give out the best premiums in the country.

five-year period. Incidentally, if you an average owner, do you know what your car casts ?*^ If it is a standard car, it costs $6.37 a day to operate. The average for compact models is $4.44, that of subcompacts $3.09.

Earth isnt in style with the times. It isnt getting thinner: it is getting fatter. Its weight is increased by the addition of plant life, which turns the energy from sunlight into matter, and by the fall of some 730,000 tons of cosmic dust each year as we wheel through space. But the amount is so comparatively small that even the man in the moon probably wouldnt be aware of any change in the earths silhouette through the centuries.

(Quotable notables: For good or ill, your conversation is your advertisement. Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind. Bruce Barton.

Smile, kid, smile; A Swiss psychiatrist says that children are very vulnerable to depression during the first year of life. The recommended treatment is to give them more attention. But this must be done as early as possible else you may be helping to create a^ child who may grow up to be a sour and melancholy dyspeptic,, one that will be a pain in the neck to have as a neighbor.

A fine crop: Just as now and then a vineyard produces a truly great wine, so do some years occur on earth when the world produces a breed of vintage men. Such a year was ISOO. Among the notable men bom (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

ByGYWNCOGHILL January 24,1933 Its quite a while from January to April, especially with player changes being made at the rate recently popular in the National Baseball League, but Sergeant Gabby Street has a pretty fair idea how his 1933 Cardinals will take the field. And as good a guess as any to start the new season on the mound is Dizzy Dean, eccentric twirler who hung up an enviable strikeout record last season, his first in the majors.

Playing at the State Theatre this week is A Bill of Divorcement starring John Barrymore and Katherine Hepburn. Also featured is a Charlie Chase' Comedy titled Young Ironsides.

Youth To Fore In Prosperity

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - Corporate management, in a generic sense, reacts with more assurance and unanimity to challenges of an expanding economy than to a recession or shrink situation, a study just completed suggests.

In more nolroal times, which have come to mean prosperity, you can predict just abait what age group will supply the next corporate top man. Most likely he will be 7 to 12 years younger than the outgoing b(^.

After studying leadership changes in three recessions since the early ifSOs, Dr. Eugene Jennings ot Michigan State University concludes that companies react to tiie relative

ly unfamiliar stress of bad times by:

1. Putting older men in the top spot, the intention seemingly being to utilize his experience and industry knowhow to get back on a track that will best protect it from the economic elements.

2. Putting younger men in the top spot, the intention apparently being to encourage innovation in areas that the rest of the industry may be over-lodcing.

The pattom shows up consistently and with amazing clarity. As Jennings puts it: Rebels and conformists in a shrink economy pop out in bold relief.

In the 50s and 60s, for example, about 8 per coit of chief

executive appointments were 15 years or more younger than their predecessors. But during recessions the percentage doubled.

In the same two decades, again <mly 8 per cent of the top spots were filled by men five years younger or older than the departing boss; in other words, by comparatively older executives. In recessions, that rate also doubles.

At the same time, the number of ai^intments coming from the middle-age ranges shrinks appreciably.

All ttiis mak^ Jennings, whose statistical studies (rf corporate personnel patterns have led to numerous books and have made him widely sought as a management advhwr, just

a bit apprehensive.

He sees corporate management as being foreceful and assured in periods of expansion, but he questions its ability to deal as effectively with recessions.

We are apt to have agreement on what kind of manager we want in a growth situation, he said, but we disagree violently on who is the best manager in a shrink economy. We fall apart ideologically when it comes to paring the fat.

Prosperity, he indicated, has cost the nation some of its management idele^. We no -longer know who is the good * manager for recession's chal- i lenges and so we experiment with youth.-ideas and age-ex-perience. *