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As the cost o! politics grows, pol iticians and their parties adopt novel and often desperate measures to finance election campaigns. The talk of Washington recently has been the gala put on by the Democrats to pay off a million dollar debt left over from the 1962 elections. This was not the ostens ible reason for the double-decker affair; party faithful who gathered from all over the country assumed ly were celebrating the second an niversary of President Kennedy’s first inauguration. Moreover, they paid hands9mely for the privilege. Seven hundred DemticrSts paid $1, 000 each for a dinner at the new International Inn in t h e national capital At the Washington armory another huge throng paid $100 each to see a floor show, but no dinner. The President and Vice-President and their entourages showed up at hoth occasions, and the whole thing was an apparent success. Massachusetts, on the other hand, which produces more droll politics than any state',we can think of, is still chuckling over the testimonial dinner the insurance industry plan ned for State Insurance Commis sioner C. Eugene Farnam. This was apparently a good-will affair intended to imprdve insur ance firms’ relations with the state government and the legislature. But sponsors overlooked the fact that only recently the lawmakers, fed up with purely political "testi monial” /dinners intended to pay election debts or build a campaign fund for the future, enacted legis lation against the practice. So, aft er a ruling by the new Attorney General that the dinner would vi olate the law, it was called off and ticket money returned to about a thousand Bay Staters. It should be noted that Repub licans raised the question of viola tion of federal law (the Hatch Act) against Kennedy’s gala, but were only laughed at for their presump tion. (The GOP is now planning a $500,000 Goldwater dinner of its own.) This does not necessarily prove that the Kennedy adminis tration’s ethics are showing. It does, so far as we are concerned, ring an alarm bell over the increas ing cost of running for public of fice in this country, meanwhile noting for record that hardly any one is doing anything about it, in a constructive way. Perhaps this is tiresome repeti-v tipn, but the nation ought not to drift into a1 situation whereby only rich men can afford to run for high office, in'the states' and the fed eral government, unless they .are willing to accept help from special interests that inferentially has strings attached. There is something of a' Roman circus atmosphere about a lush Washington affair that' attracts 700 persons able and presumably will ing to shell out a thousand dollars each for the privilege of saying “I was there.” It causes us some anx iety, looking toward the future, but it and similar events will continue until public opinion recognizes the potential risrks involved, too. Veterans Comer Q — Vflhat is the present maximum amount of a GI home loan the Vet erans Administration will guaran tee? A — That part of a, GI home loan guaranteed by the government may be up to 60 percent of the amount of the loan or not more than $7, 500. The limit on direct loans made when no loans from private lend ers are available is $15,000. Q — How does one get the free American flags for use at the fun erals-of veterans? A — These free burial flags are used to dr a p the casket, during funeral service of a deceased vet erans with wartime service, dis charged under conditions other than dishonorable, or with peacetime service for at least one enlistment unless dicharged or released, from duty for disability incurred in the line of duty. They are then pres ented to the next of kin. Flags may be obtained from VA offices and some post offices as well as from U. S. State Department of fices overseas. Q — Can any wartime or peace time veteran get a free physical k PARAMOUNT Sturts Friday "Sodom and Gomorrah99 Technicolor Stewart Granger BRIGHT LEAF Drive-In Theatre .Starts Sunday First Kinston Showing EDGAR ALLEN POE’S Raven” .'Technicolor . Vincent Boris Karloff STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! Call Eastern Rulane Sales Corp. Gas and Appliances or USED'yf^ ... NO DEPOSIT ON BOTTLES OR TANKS FREE SERVICE! FREE PARKING! 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