Thursday, January 20, 1966

Conversation Pieces For Congress

Prsident Johnaons proposal to changa axiating laws pertaining to political contributions and spending for political campaigns sounds more like a conversation piece than a legislative matter Congress can get its teeth into.

There are now on the books laws governing political contributions and campaign spending by candidates for federal office. For the most part, however, these laws mean nothing so far as regulating campaign contributions or campaign expenditures. Members of Congress themselves have never shown much inclination to abide strictly by the spirit of the laws now on the books with respect to campaign spending and contributions'.

There are so many loopholes in the existing laws that they mean little.

It is not likely that Congress will take to the idea of a strict accounting of all campaign contributions or expenditures. It is not likely that the leadership of either major political party including President Johnson himself has made a full public disclosure of the financing that went into a recent major political campaign.

New laws to regulate political contributions and

campaign expenses are likely to wind up in the same category as those now on the books. They are conversation pieces and that is about all.

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Prime Minister Jndira Gandhi becomes the fir.st woman in modem history to take up responsibilities as head of the government of a major nation.

Her election as head of the government of India came as no surprise as the world watched. Somehow it did not seem unnatural that the daughter of the late Prime Minister Nehru should succeed in the top government post the man who succeeded her father. During the 17 year period in which Nehru headed the Indian government prior to his death in 1964, Mrs. Gandhi was a famijiar figure in Indian government circles. And it was not just as the daughter of the Prime Minister.

It may be a good many years before England or France elects a woman as prime minister, or the United States elects a woman president. But this woman of India, schooled in politics, a political prisoner for a short period before she was 21 years old, somehow seems right for the job in her native land.

Certainly she has the overwhelming support of her ruling party in India. And certainly the nation which becomes her responsibility faces as many grave problems as any nation in the world.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES FIELD Many will wait for a few more days to see what a federal court will say bout the states recent legislative and congressional re-districting but vanguard of 1968s expected host of political canmdates already is in the field.

Announcement of intention has come from about a dozen incumbents in the General Assembly most of whom plan to run again. Several, however, do not.

Sen. Gordon Hanes of Win-ton-Saiem was among the first to announce he will not run again. Now, veteran Rep. Steve Dolley of Gastonia says he will not seek re-election to fifth term in the House. But Dolley may have other political plans.

years ago, then defeated Harris in a 1964 furimary race.

Also announcing for re-election this week was incumbent Sen. Oral Yates of Haywood County. Yates, a vet-cran of two terms in the House and two in the Senate, will run in the one-senator 32nd district comp o s e d of Hay wo o d, Henderson and Polk counties.

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try for a State Senate seat al though there are two incym-bentj, Lin Hollowell of Gaston and Jack White of Cleveland, who are likely candidates for re-election in the two-couoty, two-senator district.

ANNOUNCING - Wayne County which was the states most under-represented prior to one man-one vote House reapportionment gains a second House seat and the incumbent, Mrs. Nancy Chase of Eureka, has filed for one of them.

Without fanfare, Mrs. Chase went to the Board of EHections in Goldsboro and paid her filing fee to seek nomination for a third term In the May 28 Democratic primary. She defeated former former Rep. Roland Braswell and triumphed in a run-off against Col. Ivey Harris four

FILING ~ The deadline for filing In the May primaries is March 18, still nearly two months away.

Election officials report actual filing by candidates has been very light and scattered across the state, b u t expect things to pick up considerably during February and early March.

Most of the legislative and congressional candidates have held back to see what would happen in redis-t r i c t i n g and reapportionment, says Alex K. Brock, executive secretary of the State Board of Elections. Many of them are still waiting.

First to file for a major statewide office was Sen. B. Everett Jordan who observers say stands a good chance of getting by without primary opposition for a second full six year term.

FIRST Gov. Dan K. Moore will mark a first for any chief executive in the country Jan. 28 when he delivers an annual Heart Fund message via citizens band radio.

Moores message will be broadcast from the governors office to an individual citizens band operator. Dr. John H. Lane, specialist in internal medicine and hematology in Durham. Transmittal between licensed individual CB operators is required by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) but there are approximately 14,000 citizens band operators in North Carolina who can listen in.

The governor was chairman of the Haywood County Heart Fund drive three

By FRANK CORMIER WASHINGTON (AP) -This looks like a big year for presidential travel to all parts of the country and, perhaps, to points overseas.

President Johnson set a record in the 1964 campaign year for travel by a chief executive. But his wanderings slumped sharply in 1965 because of his Oct. 8 surgery and because, earlier, he felt Washington at a time when Congress faced a heavy work load and he was confronted by hard choices on Viet Nam.

Viet Nam and the Dominican Republic crisis also put an end to presidential hopes of visiting Europe, Latin America and had things worked out better the Soviet Union.

Johnson didnt even get to attend the London funeral of Sir Winston Churchill, though he badly wanted to go. An executive flu bug put him in bed for nearly a week.

But this is a new year and another important election year. Johnson and his White House aides again are beginning to canvass travel possibilities for the months ahead.

son programs, some ow which the President would like to promote at the grass roots.

Money must be raised for Democratic campaigns this fall, and Johnson is the partys biggest drawing card at $100-a-plate dinners.

The President Knows that with rare exceptions, the party in power loses ground in off-year congressional elections. He doesnt want that to happen In November if personal campaigning might help tip the balance.

Last year Johnson had hoped to finish strong in the travel department. When he got word in September that gall bladder surgery was needed, he and his staff were deeply involved in planning autumn appearances in all parts of the country as far west as Hawaii.

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By ART BUCHWALD

3obby Saved The Day

Nobody knows to this day of the important role Sen.

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settling the New York subway strike which paralyzed the city for 12 long days and nights. Next to former Mayor Robert Wagner, who had set up a special strike command post in Acapulco, Mexico, no one did more to help Mayor John Lindsay than the junior Senator from New York.

and the Mayor briefed him on what transpired for the past 12 days. Mr. Kennedy grimly listened to the story and then went out to face the television cameras and reporters.

With Mayor Lindsay standing at his side. Sen. Kennedy said: This is an intolerable situation.

strike as a catastrophe. You could see the look of gratitude on Mayor Lindsays face as the Senator spoke.

Then Sen. Kennedy dropped his blockbuster. He said, The difference between the parties is not so great. In fact, it is relatively small. There must be give and take on both sides.

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The President feels that, especially after his surgery, he needs to visit the voters in widely scattered parts of the country.

Presumably an influencing factor in his own popularity rating as measured by public opinion polls. The year-end polls showed he had slumped a bit in popular estimation, though his approval rating still topped 60 per cent. Johnson attributed this to his enforced inactivity after surgery.

In considering future travel, however, Johnson is not concered solely with his personal popularity. There are several compelling reasons to undertake a new meet-the-voters effort:

By JOHN G. DUNCAN January 20, 1926 Tax Reduction Bill Presented to Senate Today Senate will not be asked to take up bill before M o n-day.

It can now be revealed how Sen. Kennedy saved the day for the city. On the twelfth day oLthe strike, when everyone In New York was down on their knees and weary from the interminable negotiations which seemed to be going nowhere, Mr. Kennedy flew into LaGuardia airport. He took a helicopter to Wall Street and then walked to City Hall where Mayor John Lindsay anxiously awaited him.

Sen. Kennedy talked with Mr. Lindsay for 40 minutes

There was a gasp from the press. No one had put it that way before. Mr. Kennedy continued. He called on men of goodwill to reach a settlement and he said, It is no longer a question of principle. It is now a question of protecting the city and the poor people this strike has hurt the most. One reporter said to another reporter standing next to him, He makes a lot of sense. The other reporter said, if he had only said it at the beginning of the strike, everyone would have been willing to listen to reason.

Mr. Kennedy described the

As the Senator spoke, negotiators for both the transit workers and the Transit Authority watched In their suites at the Americana Hotel.

Thats it, cried one of the members of the Transit Au-fiiority, there must be give and take on both sides. Why didnt we think of that?

I.ocal Legion Post Adopts A Scout Troop J. B. Kittrell spoke briefly on the Boy Scout work being carried on in Greenville. Action was taken whereby Troop 1, of the local Boy Scouts was officially adopted by the Legion Post.

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A transit labor union leader said, He said the strike was a catastrophe to the city. No one told us that before.

One of the three mediators of the strike who had averaged two hours sleep for the past 12 days said, I dont think anyone has a better grasp of the picture than he has. What would we have done without him.

To the Editor:

Mr. Whit Harriss, Master of the Greenville Lodge 284 A.F. & A.M. left yesterday for Raleigh to attend the Grand Lodge which is in session in that city.

The congressional election to be held on February 5 is of great importance to this district. It is vlUl that all voters think carefully before making their decision.

Congress will be dealing with a new basketful of John-

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Messers. E. H. Taft and Z. P. Vandyke left yesterday to attend the furniture exposition in High Point to purchase stock for Taff and Vandyke.

Senator Walter Jones is a man of unquestionable Integrity. Nevery has a dishonest deed been attributed to him. Integrity is the highest tribute which can be paid to any man, especially a politician. With no reservation, one can say that Senator Jones Is honest.

Adam may have had his troubles, but he never had to listen to Eve talk about the other men she could have married. Tombstone (Ariz.) Epitaph.

Mrs. Paul Davenport of Pactolus was a Greenville visitor today.

What the world needs most is more mistletoe and fewer missiles. Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel.

Mrs, William Quinerly of Ayden was a Greenville visitor^ yesterday.

The ability to pass legislation is the most important of all in the list of a politicians assets. There Is no man in the First District as able as Senator Jones to achieve this end. He has proposed two very important bills to the state

legislaturethe establishment of alcoholic rehabilitation cent-tcrs to be financed by a small tax on whiskey and the creation of a two-year medical school at East Carolina College. Although these accomplishments are n o t e-worthy, they do not compare with Senator Jones rec o r d of always voting according to the needs of the people he is representing.

Senator Jones has a mind of his own. He will not be a puppet of any administration, neither will he try to attract support by aggravating the racial issue.

Elect a man with a distinguished record of s e rvice. Elect a man who has already proven himself, both as a politician and as a gentleman.

Sonny Mcliawhorn Wlnterville

Mr. Kennedy revealed that he sent a telegram to the panel and the Mayor urging the Transit Authority, as well as the union, to accept the findings of the mediation board.

No one knows if it was the telegram or Mr. Kennedys appearance in New York that turned the tide. But the next day the strike was settled. Sources close to Mayor Lindsay say the Mayors warmth and gratitude to Sen. Kennedy, for coming in at the end of the strike, have never been higher. The Mayor just has no words to express it.

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There might be something to reincarnation after all, the way some people come to life at quitting time. Greenville (S.C.) Piedmont.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1966,

King Features Syndicate. Inc.

The Foreign Minister of Ruritania was ta!fu|ig about the pei)chant for using high-level abstractions that seem to be the stock In trade of ^ certain U. S. pundits,

I know that its not considered decent in America for one writer to criticize the Ideas of another and name him at the same time, said the Foreign Minister. So out of courtesy Ill restrict my remarks to a discussion of wavs of dealing with problems.

But I really am bugged by the notion expressed by one of your columning fellows that America is fatally afflicted by a passion for something called globalism,' and that you are going out of your legitimate geographical sphere when you interfere in the affairs of the Asiatic continent. The proposition has been raised that the U. S. is a sea beast, a whale, and that Red (^ina Is a land beast, or an elephant. And the sub-proposition that derives from this exercise in what might be called contrapuntal metaphor-slinging Is that the U. S. should let the continental Asiatics settle the fate of South Vietnam among themselves.

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CHAMBERLAIN

Now what Id like to submit to you is that the U.S., as a whale, has never in its history tried to interfere with the true sphere of influence of any nation that might properly be called an elephant. Your country did not get Into World War I until the Germans, stepping out of the elephant role, went in for unrestricted U-boat warfare in the whales natural habitat of the Five Oceans. Why, the very pundit that is so concerned about U. S. globalism now was busy writing back In 1917 that it was Woodrow Wilsons business to keep the Atlantic world open.

In the Inter-war period, after your country, as a whale, had rejected membership in a League of Nations that included both whales and elephants, not to mention a few shrimps and guinea pigs, you let the French handle the deals that tried to balance the small east European states against the elephantine form of Soviet Russia. And when World War II came, you, as a whale, hoped that the elephantine Nazis and the elephantine Communists would somehow trample each other to death In what Sir Halford Mackinder, the British geographer, called the east European heartland. It wasnt until Japa, a minor-league Oriental whale, hit you at Pearl Harbor that you became concerned about England, one of your West European brother-whales, to the point of waging real war on two fronts.

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a struggle for Southeast Asia. 'This happens to be a part of the world that concerns the International League of Whales just as much as it concerns the elephant of Red China. Australia and New Zealand are a couple of smaller whales who could be menaced if the Red Chinese elephant were to reach into (Continued On Page 5)

Dr. and Mrs. Cecil Carrington of Bethel spent Tuesday in this city.

Fresh Ideas For Businessmen

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS LOOKING FORWARD AND BACKWARD

Recently I met a friend at a preparatory school class reunion whom I had not seen for 40 years. We spent considerable time together reminiscing over the eventsmostly pleasant, some tragicwhich had characterized the intervening years. When he left me, he handed me a piece of paper on which were written these words. Whether they are original or were gleaned from his reading he did not say, but I pass them on .to readers, feeling that they may be helpful, as indeed they have been to me:

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort, of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh facts nor

measure words, but passing them all right out, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away,

It is inspiring to stand at the beginning of life and look up the dazzling pathway to the crest of the hill upon which we believe stands the heavenly city of achievement. But it is equally pleasantand no doubt much more profitable to stand in the late afternoon or twilight of life and look back.upon a life spent in ardurous climbing, in the solving of problems, in the meeting of joy and pain with equanimity, and" in comradeship with, good friends which indeed lights up the pathway of life anti makes all going easier.

By ELMERROESSNER Here are some fresh ideas for businessmen:

Be cautious when planning to use the photo of a living person in an advertisement. Best: have your attorney

check out all angles. Professional models and their agencies supply legal releases. But the release you write, or even another company offers, may not be binding on the person involved unless he or she also signs.

A cse in point: Lufthansa arranged with Twentieth Cen-tury-Fox to use a still from the movie Do Not Disturb, But Lufthansa did not get a release from Doris Day, who was in the still, and now she is suing for $50,000.

prices. Atlanta has been plagued by such operators who collect deposits up to $500, then file for bankruptcy. Meanwhile, the principals Incorporate under a new name and start over at a new location. Losses to shoppers are estimated at $50,000.

check with the Better Business Bureau.

LET GO OF THE BEAR Watch temporary overtime situations. Frequently, use of overtime in a depart- . ment, or on a special job, is much cheaper than adding workers. But often these arrangements are allowed to continue after the emergency. ^ A case in point: In the New York transit strike, many employers found holliing available workers overtime saved money. But those who have not snapped baclc to regular schedules are losing money.

ent than others and much more determined to turn out good production. Check local organizations, trade associations and both state and private employment agencies for such workers.

Note also skills availablt among Cuban refugees. Try same sources.

BASIC COMMUNICATION

THE NEW CARPET RACKET Be alert to operators who op6n carpet stores and offer carpeting at less-than-cost

I^egitimate merchants have united for a' series of ads warning home owners of the racket.

Aside to home owners: When an unknown company offers carpetsor anything else much below standard prices,

SOURCES OF SKILL Seek handicapped workers if you are badgered and bewildered by shortages of skilled employees. Government surveys have shown that handicapped * workers are, within their skills, more efflci-

Use an old-fashioned blackboard to get special messMes over to employees. A West Ck)ast company, after failing to get important ideas over to employees, erected a blackboard at the pafeteria entrance. Even messages chalked in small letters got attention.

Note: The company preserves effectiveness by not using it for unimportant messages. There will be no Valentine messages on U)C board.