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EDITORIAL COMMENT The Education Bill The aid to higher education bill passed recently by Congress was the only bill the Roman Catholic Church would allow to pass, and is therefore a victory for that church. The bill allows federal," public money to go to church colleges (of all denominations). It is subterfuge, in clear violation of the letter and spirit of the U. S. Constitution. Because the Supreme Court can wink at the violatloh, per haps in view of the social cli mate and the great strength of | Catholoc opposition to public ! school aidonly, sponsors, back ers and churches who want fed eral money hope they have an important victory. Congress passed this bill in spite of the opposition of many Protestant and Jewish churches and church spokesmen, who tes tified that giving state monies to the schools of churches was a ; clear violation of the constitu tional principle of separation of church and state. Arlington Cemetery / There is in effort underway among some government offi cials to find and huy more land for Arlington National Ceme tery. This would mean tear ing down buildTngs and -mov ing government installations. Representative Charles Ben nett(D-Fla.) thinks such a move would be a mistake. We agree. Bennett says Instead of spread ing the national cemetery over the hills of the Potomac, we should reserve half the remain ing space for decorated Ameri cans, who were honorably dis charged from service. Though many Americans do not realize it,, it is not particu larly difficult for the family of 1 a serviceman to have him bur iedin Arlington National Ceme tery, regardless of his record. Bennett tried two recent cases which emphasized this point. One man recently buried there was a former serviceman who was killed trying to escape from prison and another involved a man who had allegedly sold military secrets to Russia. The suggestion is almost cer- I tainly in the interest of main- I taining the dignify and atmos phere of the national cemetery. ' The Military Cuts President Lyndon Johnson, master politician that he is, is taking on a sure political head ache in closing military in stallations. Two results are certain from the beginning. The citizens who profit from the bases and local mayors and delegations will protest loudly, as will sena tors and congressmen from the states affected. This will not help in the presidential effort to gain influence with Congress. ?-Secondly, votes could be lost in the areas affected, and mem ories will not be so short that closings will be forgotten by election time in 1964--only after most of the bases and na val yards are to be closed. Nevertheless, after a look at the budget, President Johnson quickly decided the cuts must be made. He did not hesitate and he put the situation in the proper prospective when he called upon the Pentagon to co operate with his decision. The President says he will not cut combat, efficiency or strength but only'' the fat, the excessive administrative mon ster, the rear echelon baggage train gang. Some of these free loaders will now have to go to work. The Top Men Immediately after President John F. Kennedy's death there were widespread reports in the newspapers that many Of the late President's closest aides, and some members of the cabinet, would resign. Several of the personal aides atthe White House, it was "re liably" reported, couldnot pos sibly stay on ? so great had been their attachment to the late Pre sident. And then there were the storeis telling us of the new team President Lyndon John son would bring into the White House. ' " Names were named and the team was widely expected tobe gin taking over. But none of these inside stories proved very prophetic.- The President kept the Kennedy team almost to the last man? and probably should have. -r If President Lyndon Johnson i)s elected next November, he will probably feel freer about replacing this man or that man, or this cabinet officer or that cabinet officer. And as for the resignations, and all the talk and rumor about resignations, all the top men were ready enough to stay on. All the President had to do was ask them. The truth is that most of them probably feared getting the boot, initially, and spoke boldly about resignation as a possible graceful route, for themselves and the Presi dent. The Best In 1963 Newspaper readers in recent and current days have been and are exposed to the votes of vari ous groups as to who was the bestin this or that in 1963. We have been told who the best ath letes were, who the best dressed were, etc., etc. It is safe, at the beginning, to throw out all serious considera tion of about 90 per cent of this publicity. In the remaining 10 per cent are many sports votes, as to athletes. While there is some following of the crowd in this field, there is not much arranging, exceptin All-Ameri ca football lists, where there is definitely some. The main point to keep in mind through it all (and it will pass on after January for the most part) is that the selections are not necessarily what they are re presented to be. They repre sent selection-groups. The best college footballer, the best dressed man or wom an, might be some little-known chap or housewife in Podunk, the sweetness wasting itsel.f on the desert air, that individual never to be discovered or even appreciated. The Fra^tin Times ? Established 18 70 ? Published Tuesdays & Thursdays by THE FRANKLIN TIMES. INC. Bickett Blvd. Louisburg. N. C. .Dial GY 6-32S3 A. F. Johnson. Jr., Managing Editor Elizabeth Johnson. Business Manager * N A T I O N A I EDITORIAL,. I AsTbcrATl"?N Advertising Rates I'pon Request ? SUBSCRIPTION ? Rates 13.50 per year; 16.00 (or 2 yrs. Salea Tax .11 .IS Total $3.61 |6. 18 $4 50 per year Outside State Single Copy 5c Entered at the Postoffice at Louisburf, N. C. as second class mall matter. *? THE HARDER YOU PUU. THE TIGHTER IT BINDS. IF Report From Washington flome's Chance For England? Kis Personal Views 3arry's Revolution First Since 1932 Washington, D. C* -- Lord Home holds In his hands what nay be the last chance to bring ibout vigorous free-enterprise expansion and competition to English economic life. Because )f this, he may prove a far ougher opponent of Labor than former prime Minister Harold Macmillan would have. Harold Wilson of the Labor Party may now suspect he has tackled quite an opponent. It is not because Wilson has so quickly leaped to the attack (he attacks every time the press wants a statement), but be cause of the line of his attack. Wilson Is trying to split the electorate along class lines, branding Home as representa tive of the aristocracy. He knows there are many more working men than titled, tradi tional families. But this tac tic might not be appropriate for Home. Home was selected by Mac millan because he makes few enemies and had a very broad general popularity among party faithful. That same talent, and his appeal for action and eco nomic expansion maV win him added support. Moreover, he is dynamic and will conduct a fighting, vigorous campaign. He has proved, in his post of Foreign Secretary, that his initial critics were wrong about him and in fact, he turned out to be the out standing recent addition to Mac millan cabinets- -though his choice originally caused mis Ki lilir.l) ? ( ronipton s wide ?al? corduroy in a light ramel fluid.' is used lor this hand some suburban eoat. Pile lining and shawl collar add extra warmth and good looks. givlngs. The key to Home's appeal is his contrast with more social ism. He tells British business It must be willing to gamble for expansion, and tells Labor the old cliches they are using are outdated, were appropriate In the thirties. He appeals to to join him and expand the eco mony with traditional free en terprise vigor and creatlve ness. As the days and weeks pass, it becomes apparent why Mac mlllan himself gambled on Home, with the Conservative Party In a critical position. Home is" not personally ambi tious but most energetic. If he loses to Labor In next year's elections he will lose after a fierce, tireless cam paign. Senator Barry Goldwater's chances for the G.O.P. nomina tion continue to increase and it is becoming more and more ob vious that he is the first con servative who is not being lured into major compromises in years. He Is sticking to his conser vative philosophy and what he says shocks many Republicans. In short, what he lsireally of fering the American people is a social revolution. It would be? if he wins in 1964 or 1968? a greater social revolution than any which has crossed the U.S. scene since 1932. Goldwater would sell TV A', he would be tougher with the com munists in both word and deed, with them and deal with them and he would not endlessly talk --for better or worse. He would , cut the size of the federal bu reacracy and curtail some so cial services. He would, in other words, rudely check the trend toward bigger and bigger government, which has been in progress for decades. He would r?ly on states' rights to a great extent. It would be a rude shock for many ? thus the*- howls, ^iold wfcter is too conservative for others, who would violently op pose him. But he represents a mass of people who have long thought the trend to the left has gone long enough, or who are red-hot for him- today. And Goldwater, like so many other candidates of recent times, sticks to his surprisingly con servative position in the face of all sorts of pressure from within his party and without. The growing suspicion is that even if Goldwater loses in 1964, running against a Democratic President, he will be in po sition to control much of the party, and perhaps win an elec tion in 1968. For he does not betray his conservative sup porters and they feel they have WE BUILD PONDS AND CLEAR LAND. ALSO EQUIPPED TO HANDLE ALL PULPWOOD AND TIMBER. SEE US FOR FREE ESTIMATION LOUIS DORSEY CALL FRANKLINTON, N. C. 3591 JJ^ALU*BURM9M43^ In him the first dependable con servative champion since the late Robert Taft of Ohio. Senator Sam Sgys J Washington- -The enormous burdens of the presidency and the current vacancy in the office of Vice president have focused attention again on the problem of presidential succession. prior to 1947 members of the Cabinet were next in line of succession after the Vice president. That method enact ed Into law In 1886 started the order of succession with the Se cretary of State and went through the Individual members of the ^Cabinet. Justification for that approach was that it was the best way to achieve continuity in government. Pro ponents argued that the vacancy ought to be filled by a cabinet member having similar politi cal views to those of the Presi dent. In 1947 the "cabinet method" was changed by an Act ofCon gress which designated the Speaker of the House of Re presentatives to act as Presi dent in the event of "death, resignation, removal from of fice, Inability, or failure .to qualify" where there is neigh er a president or Vice Presi dent "to discharge the powers and duties of the office of Pre sident." This change came about largely as a result of the recommendation of presi dent Truman who felt that Con gress ought to put an elected official as next in the line of succession rather than con tinue the old system of succes sion by appointive Cabinet members. Although I think that the 1947 law now governing the order of succession was a move in the right direction, it seems to me that Congress could de vise a better system than eith er the old or the present me thod. The weakness of the present system Is that (or prac tical purposes It restricts the choice to the members of the House of Representatives and permits only House members to vote for his election. This Is true, except In the moit un likely circumstances, because the House votes for the Speak er of the House, and should he become president then It would choose a new Speaker who would again be next In the line of Presidential succession. Morever, a Judgment on who would make the best Speaker of the House of Representatives might differ from a Judgment on who would make the best Presidential successor. I favor a new system which would be based upon the prem ise that Congress should choose the best man for the office of president at the precise time when the potential need for succession takes place. This could be done by a statutory law allowing the entire Congress to elect the successor either by a Joint-ballot of all Sators and Representatives, or by a Joint ballot granting each state's re presentation one vote, or by allowing the House to nominate the candidate for this position and the Senate to confirm the nominee. The person so elect ed should be designated as the Acting Vice president and would have all the powers and emo luments of that office. Since this matter Is of con cern to the country, I am hope ful that I can put my thoughts Into a bill during the Congres sional recess, and Introduce such a measure for the con sideration of the Congress. It's a good Idea to take some time off for recreation, provid ed you don't take so much time off you overlook your work. SPRING HOPE DEPT. STORE'S JANUART CLEARANCE SALE STARTIN6 THURSDAY 9th. THRU 18th. 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