LOCAL EDITORIAL COMMENT
Guns In Viet Nam ,
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Kindness In Carolina
Nearly two hundred profes-i
sors at the University, of North
Carolina have threatened to re
sign unless something Is done
about the speaker ban law. T*he
first reaction to most citi
zens Is to say, "Let them."
There Is no question but that
the Trustees should run the
University. The legislature
cannot and should not attempt to
operate the schools. But In the
field of speaker selections, the
Trustees have ' shown over the
years, particularly at Carolina,
that they do not use the discre
tion they should In these selec
tions. ,
The speaker ban law does not
hamper free speech. To the
contrary, It enhances the chanc
es that we will always have our
freedoms. Why Is it thatother
wise well learned people are
taking up the fight to get this
law repealed? In what nam e are
they Justifying their stand?
What, other than the spread of
Communistic doctrines, would a
repeal' accomplish? We would
say publicly that they desire to
associate with known Commu
nists? And what can a Com
munist speaker tell tjie students
at these Institutions that is so
earth shaking as to, require the
people of North Carolina to
maintain facilities for the pur
pose of furnishing these Com
munists a platform from which
to' spread their message of
hate?
It may not be of importance
to some, but the fact that
American boys are dying In
Southeast Asia and In Latin
America In the fight against
Communism Is foremost in our
minds and In the minds of roost
North Carolinians. Who are
these teachers who would
threaten the people of North
Carolina wltfi their resignation
unless Communists are given
the plush treatment In our uni
versities?
Before any legislator votes to
repeal this law, let him seek the
advice and counsel of a G.I. in
Viet Nam or his- widow. If we
meet Communism with guns In
Viet Nam, certainly we cannot
meet them- with kindness in
North Carolina, regardless In
what name thlk is attempted.
If the professors at the Uni
versity are the type this threat
indicates, our young people will
be better off when they do re
sign.
What Communists , Mr. President?
If the reason given by Presl
dentJohnson for the invasion of
the Dominican Republic Is to be
taken at face value, some furth
er explanation Is necessary.
The President would have us
believe that the troops were
senHnto this foreign country to
prevent^ Communist take-over,.
This may well be true, and If It
Is, there certainly Is some Jus
tification for our doing what we
would not stand for, should
someone else do it to .us.
, However, now the Presidential,
advocating a coalition govern
ment, made up of parties from
both the rebel and the military
regimes. Where are the Com
nlsts? There were only two
sides Involved In the revolu
tion, the rebels and the military
Junta. Which contained the
dreaded Com munlsts? Were the
Reds there a few week's ago and
have they now quietly gone
away? We think not.
We think that here again Is a
perfect example of President
Johnson's attempt ' to be *11
things to all people. His action
"to protect American citizens in
the Dominican Republic was
probably rightfully taken. His
Involvement In the Internal af
fairs of the country Is another
matter. We might not like the
ones who might ultimately lead
the Dominicans, but this gives
us no right to force our way
upon them .
The people needtoknow where
the Communists were that caus
ed Americans to die In Santa
Domingo. If the Communists
have gone away, why cari't we
withdraw? If they al-e there,
how can we support a coalition
government, which Is compelled
to be made up of one half Com
munists? Either the rebels or
the Junta have to be Communis
tic if we are to take President
Johnson^s word for the cause of
our invasion there. And if they
are, why dlchve shoot them yes
terday and are cooperating with
them today? Too many Ameri
can boys arfe dying today in
causes notclearly deflned.^Thls
nation owes to them and their
-families a clearly stated pur
pose. . It looks frolh here as
though* the government has
botched another one.
Financing Political Campaigns
A bill now pending hi t'ongrvss
\sjMilii Imr candidates hi federal
elections from receiving contrilm
tioiis In Mil outside till' State in which
thev were campaigning.
It's In' no moans u now idea. The
same sponsor, has iwopoM'H it with
out success before. and chance* tn'
slim for better luck, this time.
The practicalities of politics. being
what tho\ are, verv few member* of
Congress are gifing to vote to cut
off their own potential sourvetKof
revenue. Hecnuse campaign ex- ?
penses are Nigh, the candidate with
resources of his own or .enough
supporters in his hornet state to foot
the staggering bill is a relative
rarity.
r
So I he majority must get the money
fmni sp mew here, and frequently a
major source is the Senate or House
Campaign Committee, or the national
.headquarters organization of his
partv. Obviously, such funds come
I'roni all over the country.
While we agree with the sponsor
of .the legislation when he -says
existing practices come fairly close
to pill ting public office up for the
highest bidder, we wonder about the
proposed solution. It seems that
complete honiivstate financing migl\t
lend itself to more corruption by
direct and outright "Inlying" of the
candidate in question.
There must lie a better solution to
rfh admittedly complex problem.
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"The Governor's Leadership Looks
Right Large To Me..."
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Viewpoint --
Committees For Special Purposes
t. By JESSE HELMS
The latef* Alben Barkley never
had mi'Ch use for committees,
aven though he appointed many
of them and served on quite a
few himself during a long ca
reer. The decisions made by
a committee, he used to say,
almost always depend upon who
appoints the committee. If you
want something fouled up, hi*
would comment with a twinkle
In his eyes, Just turn it over to
a committee. The gentleman
always suspected that a giraffe
was really nothing but a horse
put together by a committee.
Lyndon Balnes Johnson sent up
to. the Congress last week a
legislative giraffe, put together
by a committee he had appoint
ed in late January. It is to be
hoped that the Congress, for
cmce during this session, will
take a long, hard look at the
committee recommendations to
which Mr. Johnson happily gave
his blessings. And why not?
It is clearly a proposition that
the Congress surrender more
of its authority and responsi
bility to. the White House and
thus convey to the President
an additional amount of awe
some political power.
The President's proposition
w^s burled deep In a message
cauk*g for salary Increases for
federal t employees totalling
$853 milflon starting next Jan
uary. Mr. Johnson's mes
sage ^llcussed quite per
suasively the need for paying
some federal personnel more.
More than half of the $853
million will go for additional
compensation to our military
people, many of whom now re
ceive less money for serving
their country than is paid some
families on welfare. There Is
room for argument about the
President's claim, however,
that all federal workers are
underpaid. That Is something
the Congress ought to study
carefully.
But the really disturbing por
tion of Mr. Johnson's message
related to his discontent with
the present practice "of his hav
ing to ask Congress for the
authority to raise salaries. The
committee which Mr. Johnson
appointed last January wlihes
to change all of that. The com
mittee's suggestion is that Mr.
Johnson, and succeeding Presi
dents, be given the power to
tell Congress h< much salar
ies are to be * '*."d. Under
the new plan, tin. alary in.
creases would go into effect
automatically unless the Con
gress, within 80 days, happened
to veto the Increases.
And who can Imagine the Con
gress doing any such unpopular
thing? There Is a political dif
ferenne between falling to raise
a salary and overtly voting ft>
cancel a salary Increase an
nounced by the White Housel
One can Imagine tpl*Congre*.
slonal stampede In election
years to approve every salary
Increase announced by the
President. It would be a matter
of "heads the President wins,
tails the Congress loses." It
would make the President so
immensely powerful that no
member of Congress would ever
again think seriously about
Economy in government.
The federal Treasury already
is the greatest vote-catching
mechanism in history. Senator
Byrd of Virginia recently esti
mated that more than 50 million
Americans get federal checks
of one sort or another. More
than five million wage earners,
Including service men and wom
en, receive regular paychecks
from Washington. Both the
President and the Congress
know that these people vote.
And every wage earner has
relatives and friends who vote
also. The potent power of Mr.
Boiled Grass Diet
Yukon Territory, Canada?
Sgt. Kenneth Keen, of the United
States Army, proved you can
stay alive by eating a gallon of
boiled grass a day. He told
rescuers he had been marooned
since a forced landing. A doc
tor said he was In good con
dition although he had lost 30
pounds.
A Dowy At Last
Barcelona ? Manuel A rtoba
received a belated dowry when
he Insisted his bride give up her
French home -and move to
Spain with him. While cleinlng
out her attic, she found a iusty
old violin dated 171B which jbore
the signature of Stradivarjous.
Linda Obrian
"Miss Wil"
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Johnson's suggestion becomes
Immediately apparent.
The proposal to vest in the
President such immense politi
cal power- -and to take it away
from the Congress? came from
a so-called * 'Special Panel on
Federal Salaries" appointed
last January by Mr. Johnson.
Not surprisingly, the head of
that panel was a gentleman
named Marion B. Folsom, who
has been in and out of govern
ment, for many years. Most
recently, Mr. Folsom was head
of the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare. The
gentleman is by no means un
acquainted with ways and means
of spending the taxpayers' mon
ey.
Purely from a practical politi
cal standpoint, we cannot im
agine the Congress applying its
rubber stamp to this proposi
tion. Clearly, the President
is asking for too much power
to spend too much money. We
certainly have no objection to
paying federal employees what
they are worth, but Congress
men should not relinquish the
purse strings. If they do, it
will no longer be a matter of
how many dollars, but how
many votes --regardless of
who's in the White House.
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THINK
OF IT..."
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frank count
The fellows collecting money to pa^ for tlj? limits at the new
Softball field tp Louisburg coulcf have reached tlieir goal Tuesday
night if they had only thought Of selling liniment at the opening
games..*,. You could hear the old bones crack all over town.|.._.
Louisburg has already had two casualties Birdie says he's
heard of fellows getting hurt in a game. ..and he's even heard of
them getting hurt following a game. ..but he says Kyle Prince..
(Police Dept. jjCe)..is the first* player he's heard of who got
hurt getting ready for a game The nimble-toed police team
secret weapon.. (light reflecting off his high forehead blinds the
opposing hitters).. broke a bone in his foot while dragging the
field In preparation of Tuesday's opening' games.
While Prince is, relaxing in local pill fadtory...Wyatt Freeman
is up and around. ..(no pun Intended)... with 'a thumb which sticks
out like a sore one..... Suffered in the manly art of acting sever- '
al years below his- age.. .but, as Birdie says, don't we all.
Birdie says Uncle Walter' and Cousin James had some trouble
with their water pver in Raleigh.... some phosphate outfit sorta
cut them off.. ..in trying -to pass a bill to control the use of
public water resourcels.....And Dapper Dan, the Speaker-Ban
Man.... finally made upl his mind to listen to the people and
backed off the support he was expected to give to a repeal of
the ban law Good thinking, Birdie says Come t<5 think
of it, we agree.
Senator Sam Says
Washington, D. C.--The Fed
eral voting control bill, the
most controversial issue de
bated thus far this session,
has not prevented orderly con
sideration of other legislation.
The Senate Finance Commit
tee has concluded three weeks
of public hearings on the House
passed, Administration-backed
proposal to provide medical
care fqr persons 65 years and
older. The Committee con
tinues its study of the bill in
executive sessions this week.
Appropriations bills, an an
nual priority concern, have been
undergoing hearings at the Sub
committee level. Ready for
Senate consideration Is .the $1.2
billion Interior Department re
quest, and most of the other
spending measures are moving
in the normal course of con
sideration.
Next month, the Constitution
al Rights Subcommittee, of
which I am Chairman, begins
consideration of a 9-poipt
legislative package designed to
guarantee American Indians
constitutional rights and privi
leges enjoyed by other Ameri
cans-.
NC WATER PROJECTS- -On
May 18, Senator Jordan and I
appeared before the Senate Ap
propriations Public Works Sub
committee to request morethan
$5 million for North Carolina
water projects. If approved,
the funds would be used for
seven flood control, seven navi
gation, and five hurricane pro
tection projects. .
Included in our Joint-requests
were funds for the New Hope
Dam, the Kerr Scott Reservoir,
the Falls of the Nfuse Reser
voir, and the Yadkin, Tar^Cape
Fear, and Kanawha Rivers,
Navigation projects recom
commended were those for Wil
mington Harbor, Masonboro,
Beaufort, and Hatteras Inlets,
Rollison Channel, Pamlico Riv
er, and Manteo Bay. The hur
ricane and beach erosion prd
jects recommended are for the
coastal and seashore area.
The recommended projects
are fundamental to the develop
ment and preservation of North
Carolina water resources.
Rivers and harbors are Im
portant adjuncts to our State's
economy. Development and
conservation of inland water
resources is essential to in
dustrial needs- which require
large, supplies of readily ac
cessible water.
EXCISE TAXES? Swift Con
gressional action is expected
on the President's $4 billion
excise tax-reduction proposal.
House Ways and Means Com
mittee approval of the phase
out of many excise taxes as
sures a House vote soon. Sen
ator Byrd of yirginia, Chairman #
of the Senate Ffnance .Com
mittee, has indicated that no
public hearings on the bill will
be necessary.
I expect to support the ex
cise tax-reduction bill. Most
of the excises sought to-be
reduced or repealed originat
ed during depression or war
conditions. The war-enacted
excises had the purpose of re
ducing demand for certain goods
"rather than producing revenue.
Most of these excises have long
been controversial, and cur?
cent Congressional sentiment
is Jthat Federal revenues ought
to be obtained in a more equit
able manner.
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