Friday, December 24, 1965

Find The Spirit Of Christmas

"Now, Let's See, Have I Forgbtten Anyone?"

How does one find the Spirit of Christmas?

By seeking it, of course, as the Wise AAen sought the birthplace of the Christ Child.

The spirit of Christmas is love and generosity. Il is the spirit of God's love for man reflected in man's love for his fellow men. It is the spirit of giving unselfishly, not only of things, but of oneself to others.

It is the spirit which led the Magi to follow a distant light, through toil and hardship, across a hostile and unfamiliar course to reach a goal worth far more than they could imagine.

The spirit of Christmas Is the song of angels praising God for His Majesty, for His goodness to man, for the Peace and Good Will He offers

ones Star tec. With An Edge

By WILUAM A. SHIRES

SUCCESSAfter the success cf Walter B. Jones in the special primary called in the First District it may be difficult to convince would-be candidates that short political campaigns are best.

Also, Jones* clear triumph In the first jnlmary last weekend should encourage more first time losers to try ^ain.

It was Jones' second bid for the seat of the late Rep. Herbert C. Bonner In Congress. In 1960, he opposed Bonner himself and lost by a margin of 7,936 votes. But Jones then polled a highly respectable 19,581 votes against the veteran First District congressman and had made no secret of the fact that he probably would "^run again someday.

Now by outdistancing four other candidates in the first primaryas he predicted Jones smells success. He has Republican opposition on Jan. 22, but in the past Democratic party nominaUon in the First District has been tantamount to election.

SHORTJones* opponents in ttie primary undoubtedly feel the relatively brief time allowed for campaigning hurt their chances.

Jones clearly had a head start. He was better known, bad wider political backing, more connections and the nucleus of a ready-made organization across the 15-county strict. This proved decisive as Jones carried every county in the voting.

Ready and waiting, Jones Was the first candidate to announce after calling of the special primary and election to fill Bonner's unexpired term.

After some indecision, Gov. Dan K. Moore called the special primary on Nov. 18 and set the date barely a

month away. Nov. 29 was the deadline for candidates to file and three Democrats and the one Republican, all of them political unknowns, squeezed in under the wire.

It meant, in effect, pitting die field against Jonesand that Jones opponents were forced to spend what little time they had trying to catch up and perhaps force a runoff. Obviously they failed.

SPEAKER BAN-The Virginia legislature is being asked to enact an anti-communist Speaker Ban law.

The request comes in a formal action by the American Legion at a departmental meeting in Roanoke, Va., last weekend. It asked for enactment of a carbon copy of the law enacted by North Carolina General Assembly in 1963 a law which stirred great controversy and which resulted in threatened loss of accredi-taton of state-supported institutions of higher learning.

The North Carolina Speaker Ban law was amended during a November special session of the legislature called to consider recommendations of. a special Speaker Ban Study commission.

Earlier this year legislatures of several states including Alabamas rejected proposals to enact Speaker Ban laws.

FUNDThe North Carolina Fund has approved a $38,875 grant for an Incentive program in rural, low-lncome communities in four mountain counties. Yancy, Mitchell, Avery and Watauga.

Grants will be offered on a competitive basis for community development projects aimed at particular problems of the communtiy. Fund officials said the program will stress involving local people in solving common problems such as sub-standard housing, inadequate sewer systems, poor garbage disposal systems and unsanitary water supplies.

Meanwhile, Fund directors also approved $37,131 for a comprehensive employment program in Charlottes low-lncome areas.

Project workers in neighborhood centers will attempt to make employment service a part of urban communtiy action in hard core poverty areas of the city.

The Daily Reflector

INCORPORATED

DAVID JULIAN WHICHARD, Chairmar> of The Board

Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Ettabiished 1882 JOHN S. WHICHARD-DAVID J. WHICHARD Publiihert Biiertd at Poet Office, OreenvlUe, N. C. aa Mcond class mall matter.

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It is the spirit of humble shepherds whose response to the message of angels brought them into the very presence of the Christ Child.

Its radiance is reflected in the grateful face of a smiling child. It might be glimpsed in the warmth that glows from faded eyes of an aged one whose heart is filled with the wisdom of /ears and with gratitude for the knowledge of Christmas.

The spirit of Christmas is in the gentle touch of a mother's hand. It may be seen in the sweat of a father's brow as he toils to provide for his young. It may be sensed in the love that radiates from a family circle In which the Child of B^tl.lchem is no stranger.

Where may one find the Spirit of Christmas?

In many places, in many forms.

But he who would find the true Spirit of Christmas at this season would first diligently seek it in his own heart.

Humphrey Ou Of Limeliaht

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)- Hubert H. Humphrey is the busiest vice-president in historyunless Lyndon B. Johnson wasbut in a very unsen-saUonal way, which is the way President Johnson wants it.

This is a switch from those days 16 years ago when Humphrey first arrived in the Senate, a noisy, controversial liberal who talked too much and antagonized the old-timers.

Hes still a liberal but over the years he learned how to do business in the Capitol, got along with the old-timers worked smoothly with Johnson when Johnson was Senate majority leader.

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And now he is a Sir Echo of all Johnson wants and stands for. His liberalism hasnt diminished but as he says: I did not become vice president with President Johnson to cause him trouble.

Its an impressive sight to go through a newspaper library folder on Humphrey and look at the pile of stories which show how he has been hopping around.

Just in the early part of this month alone on one day he spoke in Washington on better cities and on the same day in New Hampshire talked on disarmament; on another day he talked in New York about closing the science gap between nations and on the same day in Massachusetts about propaganda.

This was after returning from a Western speechmak-ing trip in which he denounced antiwar demonstrators as irresponsible, indecent and unpatriotic. In between speeches this year he has been mixed up in the Peace Corps, voting rights, school dropouts, antipoverty, talked with mayors, dashed to Paris with Gemini astronauts, presided at a carnival.

If it seems strange all this activity has not stuck In the mind, and it hasnt, its because Humphrey is carrying out the role assigned him by Johnson, a busy one but secondary.

This is exactly the position Johnson was in when he was

vice president under President John F. Kennedy. As presidents, Kennedy and Johnson seemed to have had an identical view of vice presidents:

They should be seen, but not in critical situations; heard, but in a minor key; and they should always be on deck to run errands, patch up various kinds of bruises, and play handyman on a moments notice.

Now after Christmas Johnson is sending Humphrey to Japan, Korea, Formosa, and the Philippines on a goodwill mission, which makes him the highest U. S. official to visit the Far East since Kennedy sent Johnson there in 1961.

And before either of them, back in his first year in office In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower sent his vice president, Richard M. Nixon, on the grand tour of Asia.

Through it all Humphrey has been his bouncy, cheerful self. Hed better be if he hopes Johnson will back him for the presidency in 1972. This is assuming Johnson runs and is reelected in 1968, which is likely, to say the least.

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By ART BUCHWALD

The Nuts From Chicaao

The box of pistachio nuts arrived two days before Christmas. The card said With love. Bob and Ginny. Whos Bob and Ginny? I asked my wife.

I dont know. It came

from Chicago. We dont know any Bob and Ginny from

Chicago.

The nuts came from Chicago, I pointed out. Bob and Ginny could have ordered them by mail.

But, my wife said horrified, that means they could be living anywhere.

Lets not panic, I said.

Do we know any Bob and Ginnys,

We know a Bob and Kathy, a Bob and Alice, a Bob and Lucille. I cant think of any Bob and Ginny.

What was the name of that couple we met at Easthamp-ton who were friends of Frank and Joans.

Frank and Joan who? You know, Frank and Joan from the beach club.

Oh, that Frank and Joan. Lets see their friends names were Adolph and Phyllis. Not those friends. The other friends who had the

Other Editors Saying

Ooinions Still Responsibility

In Brie:

The confirmed bachelor sneers at this talk of new no-iron bedsheets. Hes been using them for years.

Just let the government try to eliminate sex discrimination in marriage!

Telephone companies are installing phones at rest areas along interstate highways. This is a convenience for tourists to phone ahead to see where the highway goes, after missing an exit ramp.

Each and every man is endowed with two individual characteristics: toughest beard and superior sex appeal.

A red traffic light means car stop. A caution yellow light means the pedestrian takes a chance.

Sure way to convince the North Vietnamese we mean business would be to march them through a department store toy department to see the kind of war weapons kids are getting for Christmas this year.

(Christian Science Monitor)

The United Nations General Assembly has done well to extend for three years the mandate of the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). Doubtless it would have been better if the extension had been for the minimum of five years asked for by Laurence Michelmore, UNRWAs Commisioner-Gen-eral. As he said in his latest report, Shorter-term extensions make it exceedingly difficult to plan and administer the agencys programs, in particular its educational services, and lead to unnecessary expense and even to inefficiency.

The reportand the General Assembly debateraised the question of whether UNRWA should accept some measure of responsibility for third-generation Arab refugees from Palestine. These are the babies now being born to young couples who themselves were not born when their parents were uprooted in 1948 from their homes in Palestine. Where there are large refugee camps or settlements it would be both

inhumane and narrowly bu-eau-cratic to deny this third generation access to infant health services and schools maintained on the spot by UNRWA. Although the General Assembly did not specifically authorize such access, it is to be hoped that Mr. Michelmore wiil follow his own kindly instinct and permit it.

There is a school of thought that is impatient with the Palestine refugee problem and blames Arab governments for artificially perpetuating it. Of course, it is a problem that is exploited politically by governments. But anybody who doubts the genuineness of continued refugee feeling should read Mr. Michelmores reportand simultaneously recall the traditional attachment to the land of Palestinians through the ages. Naboth and his vineyard set a pattern that persists today.

And if the international community felt it had an obligation because of past wrongs to put through what it did in 1947 and 1948, surely it cannot shirk the obligation of responsibility for xose uprooted in the process.

Volkswagen bus.

You mean Peter and Mary.

Yeah. Well, it couldnt be from them.

What about Bob Kingsbury.

Hes married to an Ellen, I said.

But they werent getting along very well. They could have spit up. He might have married a Ginny, for all we know.

By the same token Harold and Ginny Clyde could have split up and she could be married a Bob. Its more likely in their case.

Its driving me nuts, my wife said. I dont know who to thank.

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BUCHWALD

Hey, wait a minute, I said. Whats the name of the couple in Los Anglels who came to Washington and we fixed them up with an FBI tour?

His name was Bob.

Right and what was her name?

Ill look it up in my diary. She came back a few minutes later, her face hanging. Bobs wifes name was Bobby.

Bob and Bobby. Thats a funny combination for a married couple.

Thats what you said when you met them.

Why dont we write to Chicago and ask them who sent us the piistachio nuts? Because it will be too late. We cant very well thank Bob and Ginny in February for sending us nuts in December.

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Values

Hisina

By ROGER BABSON

Babson Park, Mass., Rea ers continue to have a high interest in real estate and in building. . .judging from the number of questions on this subject which we receive. For this reason, we discuss today some thoughts on land and coming changes in its value and use.

Many of the problems currently facing America arise from tile fact that our population has increased 50 per cent in the past 25 years. We are not yet bursting the seams of our large country, but we are increasingly having to come to grips witii difficulties brought on by this population boom. As we are required to share our land area ( which can never 1^ very greatly expanded) with more and more people, additional upward pressure is placed on real estate prices.

We are now on the verge of a new wave of family formations which will tend to increase that upward pressure. The youngsters bom during the baby boom of World War II and the years immediately thereafter are now beginning to start families of their own. Land prices all over the U. S. are also being bid up by expanding industrial needs and by the fact that so much land is being taken for highway construction.

This heightened interest, which in a number of in--^ stances has exploded into mad scrambles for specific acreages, promises to increase before there is any appreciable letdown. However, this does not mean that land pricex everywhere and always need point up. Each plot of land is unique in itself. How much it will bring in the market is quite as much dependent ^on its own special characteristics as it is on land price trends generally.

Without much question, the underlying price trend in real estate will be up in coming months, assuming that no serious economic downturn gets under way. Even so, all. land prices will not be participating in this rise to th same degree. Some may even lose ground.

The population explosion of the postwar era has already led to some changes in t use of land. We have seen the development of hundreds of shopping centers on the outskirts of cities and towns. These have been set up to serve the millions of people who have forsaken the cities to build or buy homes in the inner and outer suburbs.

We are on the threshold of a radical change in subdivisions. New population centers of varying size will be developed. We forecast that these will be so designed that people will live, work, and play in the same general neighborhood. This type of three-way residential, industrial, and recreational planning will help prevent further huge tracts from being gobbled up for highway expansion. We now have a work week of 40 hours. Yet many working people spend as many as 20 hours each week commuting. That waste must be stopped.

Currently, the balance between supply and demand in farm land is narrow. We predict that interest in farm land will hold high because of the trend toward larger farm enterprises, because of expanding population, and finally be- * cause industry and government are taking more farm land for non-farm uses.

Strength For Today

Tax Rise-A Christmas Present?

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NO ROOM

And she (Mary) brought forth her first born son and wrapped him swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn. (Luke 2:7).

It is not bting to hard on ourstivei ind our contemporaries to sty that there has been precious little room for the Holy Family and for holy things in the world through (he centuries. We easily become preoccupied witli matters which drive religious tliuuglits out of uur mind. Our mor^ compromises lead us to put evil things, or perhaps things half'g<)^, before the stern requirements of Ckxds La.

Think of the preparations which would have been made by the innkeeper and everyone living at the time of Christs birth had they but realized who this Babe was and what his significance to the world would become. But they passed him by. No vacancy, said the inn-keeper shortly. There is hay in the stable if you want to make your bed there. And the heavenly host looked on. The angels gave praise and brought the iight of heaven to the dreary manger. The Wise Men brought gifts and laid tl)ein at the feel of the young child.

No l oom ... no room . . . Du room. The words pose a question and utter a warning to us all. As it was two thousand years ago it is often so in our own day. No room.

By ELMER ROESSNER

LBJs Christmas present to the American people may be a tax rise.

It wont be announced today or tomorrow. Only an idiot or a nonpolitician would call for a rise in taxes during the holidays. It may not be talked up for several months.

Bill D. Moyers, White House press secretary, last week said it was premature to talk about a possible tax increase. No one, he said, had suggested it to the President.

Well, Bill, Elmer Roessner now si|ggests that President Juhnsuu cousider a tax increase in 1966. If he doesn't consider it, the country may be in quite a mess.

COSTS GO UP

The last federal income tax cut worked out very well.

While it cut the rates, it did not cut the governments intake, because the cut stimulated business activity and generated more profits to be taxes.

But that wont work forever, because the law of diminishing returns must eventually take over.

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Now the administration is faced with the rising costs of financing the Great Society and the even faster rising costs of the war in Viet

Nam.

Even if wages and corporate profits increase in 1966 as it seems they surely will the tax take will not meet the increased costs.

Then, if taxes are not increased, the only recourse is borrowing more money, which is directly inflationary. And inflation is one of the major problems of the adminiafcra-tion in the year ahead. FLEXIBLE TAX MECHANISM

One proposal, if you believe Bill Moyers, no one has told the Pr{ident about yet, Is that Congress grant (lie Pi esiUent power to change tax rales within certain limits.

This would put the White House on a par with the Federal Reserve Board. Its control over tax rates would be just as effective in braking the economy as the Feds

power to raise interest rates.

However, it is not likely that Congress will abdicate more of its constitutional power to levy taxes. , That is one ctf the prime powers of (Congress under the (Constitution, and,* it is not likely to share it with Lyndon B. Johnson. ,

Another proposal, which LBJ may not have heard about, is to change the withholding rate by Congressional action directly or by delegation to the administration.

This would not be a tax increase, but by reducing take-home pay, it would postpone buying power and thereby slow down expansion.

However, the administration might not like tills grant of power. As long as tliere was one unemployed person, it would be criticized for any action slowing down the economy.