AAonday, August 22, 1966

Shocking Facts Should Stir Action

Publicity about the revolting conditions that have violated the law and have been punished by have existed in a first offenders prison camp in the courts, they are also there to be rehabilitated Raleigh was disgusting and shocking to most North in order that they may take their places again in a Carolinians who read the news stories last week, wholesome, law-abiding society. Only a small frac-The fact that information about the deplorable tion of those who walk behind prison walls do not conditions has come to light will, in the long run, return to walk as free men in a free society. The serve the best interest of the states prison system state must exercise every effort to be sure that and hopefully will provide better protection for conditions such as those revealed by Director Bounds those confined to prison camps. are stamped out of the prison system and are kept

Prisons Director Lee Bounds related to the out.

Advisory Budget Commission how a number of cases Although the vast majority of North Carolinians of venereal disease was spread through the youth- may never see inside the prisons of the state, they ful offenders camp by homosexual activity. The cannot close their eyes to what goes on behind those sordid story also told of forcing homosexual acts walls and barbed wire fences, on young prisoners, of drugs, dope, payoffs in the prison camp.

Certainly Director Bounds and those in his department have moved to put a stop to this kind

of thing at Polk prison camp. But if it is occurring ^ m t i

at the Polk camp for first offenders, there is little I T.0T70I IJTT

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camps of the state prison system and in Central Prison in Raleigh.

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Teacher Shortages Do

Prospects of North Carolinas public schools

T , * * XI- 11* Ml- X opening within the next few weeks short some 1,800

trn ,"t, public IS Willing to teachers is not pleasant for anyone to contemplate.

PriLns thev seem tn iessnn '".re ter V'hes/^nnTh!: ore years than not, however, North Carolinas

other .Mo of +h I those On the puijijc schools come up to the beginning of a new

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!?ier-Fishing Is Given A Break

By WILUAM A. SHIRES PIERS A newly-adopted state regulation forbidding trawling within 1,500 feet of the end of ocean piers affords added protection for the states fast-growing pier fishing business.

It is a regulation which doubles the 750-foot limit on all sides of a fishing pier set by statute in a law enacted by the 1965 legislature. The law forbids trawlig witnhin

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law off piers south of Salter Path.

DEFERRED The idea of an inshore trawling limit for the entire coast, or even that north of Salter Path, subsequently was deferred for further study at the summer meeting of the C&D board in High Point.

Inaction by C&Ds Commercial and Sports Fisheries committee, however, brought a fresh burst of protests from pier operators and sports fishing interests. They contend

apparent

shortage of teachers seems to disappear.

That is not to say that North Carolina does not have a problem with respect to teachers. Certainly a number of teacher positions are filled by persons less qualified than would be the case if there were not a shortage of teachers. There are classrooms which have more students than they would have if there were a sufficient number of teachers to meet the demand, not only in this state but in all the other states.

North Carolina must recognize that although it Bv ART BUCHWALD has begun a program of quality education, it cannot assume that it has solved all the problems of

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more people to enter the teaching profession must continue to upgrade teacher salaries. It must

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wii^i fif X r XU racial unrest in the cities.

While the prospect of the state s public schools and the status of the economy.

opening this year wath fewer teachers than they while the first two are verv

problem that has been with North Carolina for son; the nations economy is

ture.

Yol seem worried, he said kindly.

I am, I admitted. Im worried about ination.

You have nothing to worry about. Its true that there

750 feet of an ocean pier and permits additional restriction by regulation.

The latest action is the third extension of protected limits, either by law or regulation, in three years for the operators and patrons of 32 sports fishing piers along the North Carolina coast.

These piers are used by thousands of sports fishermen each season. The industry is a booming one, and adds considerably to the total economy of the coastal area.

LIMITS - In effect, the latest regulation adopted by the State Board of Conservation and Development fixes the off-shore trawling boundary very close to a half mile limit recommended for the entire coast last Spring by a subcommittee <rf the Commercial and Sports Fisheries Advisory Board.

The half mile recommendation was compromised by the full advisory board, by a 5-4 vote, to a half mile limit along the entire coast north of Salter Path, on Bogue banks in Carteret County, but with no restrictions except that by

that close-to-shore trawling, several year.s and one that may continue to be with something everyone under- inflation at the moment, eitehr in shrimping or com- the state unless it makes greater strides in improv- stands, particularly if one you *^uow, a little infla-mercial fishing operations, is ing its public schools. keeps abreast of the govern- tiou isnt really a bad thing.

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detrimental to the sports fishing industry.

These protests were voiced strongly at a public hearing by the Advisory Board at Manteo in July and to individual members of the C&D committee.

REGULATION In Asheville last week, C&D committee member Gilliam K. Horton of Wilmington decided he was ready to bow to the wishes of the pier operators and sports fishermen in the matter of increasing the end-of-pier protection zone.

The real question involved, however, was one of enforcement. With a 750-foot trawling limit implicit in the law, the question was whether effective enforcement was possible without marking buoys.

It was agreed, in effect, that if a pier operator doesnt think the law is being or can be enforced effectively it should be up to him to put out buoysto stake out the protected zone. Cost to the state to put out such buoys for protection of private pier operators would have been in excess of $3,500.

Hortons motion for an increased end-of-pier limit included provisions that pier operators, if they desire, purchase the necessary buoys and rigging gear. These will be installed by the state fisheries division upon request.

keeps abreast of the government pronouncements as well as reading what our leading economists have to say. I was very fortunate to run into an economist at a cocktail party the other day who was

It isnt?

Im not saying its a good thing, he said. But when you have a booming economy, prices tend to rise. The important thing is to produce

more. Yet the danger is that, if you produce more, you have a shortage of labor and materials which drives wages and prices up.

Then it would be better if we had less employment and people didnt buy as much?

Not necessarily. If people

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By WILLIAM L. RYAN

AP Special Correspondent

At a time when Indonesia is reported seeking help on an urgent basis from the Americans, President Sukarno has flung another defiant go to hell at the United States. It can be a matter of critical importance to Americans to understand how and why Sukarno gets away with it.

In the long run, the future of vast and enormously rich Indonesia likely will be more important than Viet Nam to the United States and the West Americans who urge rapid aid to Indonesia say it can be far less costly to defend that island nation against the designs of Chinese and world communism.

Westerners in close touch with the Indonesian situation say it would be a mistake to take seriously the tirade delivered by Sukarno in his independence day speech Wednesday. They say it would be a mistake to permit Sukarnos fiery words to deflect or frighten away the sort of help which can lace the country beyond the grasp of Red China.

Aging and ailing, Sukarno seems to be making a last desperate stab at reasserting his leadership. His slogan with gard to W'estern monopolies, he said, remains go to hell. But the new regime, instead, probably will go to Washington, and soon, with an official bid for help.

There is no more telling testimony to Sukarnos loss of power than the news from Moscow that the Soviet Communist party failed to mention his name in saluting Indone

sia's independence day.

Whatever happens in Indonesia, the Soviet Union, as its major creditor, is likely to want in. Moscow is not unhappy with the downgrading of Sukarno, whose policies pushed the countrystead-ily toward the violently pro-Chinese Indonesian Communist party. The Soviet Union is not going to offend the new regime of a country which some day may again be up for grabs.

The Soviets seem to read the Indonesian situation carefully and to conclude that, despite his posturing as great leaders, Sukarno is definitely out of power, reduced to figurehead status.

Sukarno is permitted to retain the title of president and make speeches, even though he tends to embarrass and dismay those Indonesian leaders working behind scenes to mend the nations relati o n s with American and the West.

Sources intimately familair with what is going on say the new regime under its strong man, Lt. Gen. Suharto, is re-tant to belittle Sukarno openly because he still has a wide following among the nations 105 million after years of veneration as a father-figure of the Indonesian revolution.

But, say these sources, Sukarno has been told he has a choice: to go down in Indonesian history as a hero, or to be reviled. The new regime is reported to have enough evidence linking him to leaders of last falls abortive Communist coup to disgrace him before the nation and put (Continued on page 5)

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(Washington Daily News) When this democracy of ours was created, three separate and equal branches of government were established.

They are legislative, executive, and judicial. In recent years it has appeared to a lot of Americans that the judicial branch of government was becoming dominant, and that the constitutional equal i t y was fading away.

A few days ago a judge of the U. S. District Court issued an injunction against a congressional committee ordering it to call off hearings aimed at anti-Viet Nam demonstrations.

Immediately the congressional committee defiantly announced that it would defy the court injunction. Within a matter of hours the U. S. Court of Appeals had dissolved the order.

It makes little difference that the order was dissolved right now. What we are considering is the order against the holding of meetings issued by the judicial branch of government against the legislative branch.

If the order had not been dissolved, it is quite possible that the'court might have tried to hold congressional members of the Un-American Activities committee in contempt of court.

This was averted, and yet the very act of issuing the injunction in the first place

ought to cause the legislative branch to stop and take inventory. It must never happen that the judicial branch takes over the powers of the legislative branch. Had the order been allowed to stand, then it appears to us that this would have been the case.

In so many high court decisions in our country in the past few years, it has appeared that the court was kst becoming a quasi-legislative branch in addition to its judicial duties. This latest order dissolved as it was, it still is a slap at congress and the legislative branch.

If the court can make a decision and then turn around and say how it is to be carried out, then at that point it might be understood that only judicial powers are being exercised. But when a court can a meeting of a congressional committee, it seems to be an infringement upon legislative powers. Tlien when a court can even go farther and take on powers seemingly belongng to the executive branch, we do have a picture to present to the American public which makes it appear that the judicial branch is pushing both the legislative and executive branches in the background.

In America that must never happen. The three branches are and must remain separate, independent of each other, and equal one with another.

.rorce . Work

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

Unless there is a war on, a really and truly declared war in which everyones ei-forts, travels and consumption are subject to patriotic control without favoritism, there is no possible way in a democracy of making people work by compulsory method. Instinctive knowledge of this rather than any professional cowardice or delinquence is what has made both Congress and the President wary in their handling of the air Une strike.

When a person is a skilled man, the absurdity of attempting to chain him to

buy less, you may have a recession problem, and while you dont want your economy to heat up too fast, you certainly wouldnt want it to cool off, would you?

Heck, no, I said. I think it should be like wine and be kept at room temperature. Of course, theres the British pound, he said casually.

What about the British pound I cried in alarm.

Its waging quite a fight against devaluation.

Whats that got to do with us?

My dear fellow, it has absolutely everything to do with us. If they devalue the pound, do you think the dollar could defend itself

I was hoping it could, I said honestly.

Not without vast gold reserves. Unfortunately, our reserves are down, particularly since France has been cashing in her dollars.

I knew France was behind all our troubles, I said.

It isnt just France. The real problem seems to be our military commitments in Germany.

I knew if it wasnt the French it would be the Germans.

I would say it wasnt the Germans as much as the American tourist. Hes spending all our hard - earned dollars abroad.

The dirty rat, I snarled. Yet I think we could weather all this if it werent for the wage guidelines set up by (Continued On Page 5)

work bench becomes particularly obvious. Certainly it stands to reason that anyone with a transferable skill is not going to stay put very long in a time of high employment if he doesnt like the deal he is getting. Air line machinists have distinctly transferable skills, so how are you going to keep them from drifting away from their present jobs if they figure they are getting the short end of the stick in an economy of rising prices?

The basic reason for labors defiance of the Johnson 3.1 per cent guidelines is the rise in corporate profits, which went up by some fifteen per cent after taxes last year. A profit rise does not bother the sophisticated economist, who knows that profits go back, by way of investment, into machinery that makes more jobs at better rates of pay. The spread between wages and profits has never been as iniquitous as the Marxists would have the working man believe. Even so, workers, like other people, are subject to envy. And it is a standing wonder to me that people with some influence over economic decisions cant figure out a way of harnessing the driving power of envy to the general needs of industrial society.

The obvious way to reach such a desirable end would be to tie the worker to the profit drive. It so happens that Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Committee on Ways and Means, who is a Democrat, and Representative John W. Brynes, a leading Republican member of the committee, have in their possession a bill drafted by E. S. Hall of Farmington, Conn., that might accomplish just such a thing.

Mr. Hall, a familiar Don Quixote on Captiol Hill, has been urging his idea on Congress for a longtime. What he proposes is to give tax advantages to corporations that are willing to cut their workers in for a share of profits. The ingenious thing about Mr. Halls scheme is that if offers a formula for determining the investment worth of a workers time. Mr. Hall would pay profits equally on money invested in a business and on the time worked as measured by wages. A man earning $7,(M)0 a year would bet the same amount of profit at the end of a year as an (Continued On Page 5)

Strength For Today

More Lookaheads In Business

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ONE WAY OUT

Paul, in writing to the Corinthians (I Ck)rinthians 7:31), declared that the fashion of this world passeth away.

Certainly the fashion of the world is forever altering, taking on new forms, making new and unprecedented attacks on moral character.

In Noahs day violence was the fashion of the world. In the day of the prophet Elijah, idolatry assailed the people whom God had set aside for the purpose of revealing Himself to the world. In the days of Christ, power vested in the Roman government constituted the fashion of the world. Perhaps today the love of money, comfort, and material things constitute the fashion of this world.

are dealing here with

something in the heart that must be dealt with as the physician deals with disease. We find ourselves living amid conditions we did not create and over which we have little power. About 90 per cent of the circumstances of our lives are given us, and there is very little we can do about them. Little but that little is effective and important.

The fashion of this world lures our young people into circumstances which keep us worried. The fashion of this world creates business situations we do not like and which perhaps hurt our conscience. The fashion of this world is changing the modern home.

The only truly effective way we can deal with such situations is spiritually. We have to cast ourselves upon the mercy of God and let Him do for us what He alone can do.

By ELMER ROESSNER Here are more look-aheads in business:

Steel output to rise: Summer vacation production cuts have ended; auto manufacturers are increasing orders; military demands are rising. Steel production which has already begun to increase, will rise further.

Funiture prices escalating:. Higher production costs and higher demand will soon, move furniture prices up. But theres a brake: the slump in housing construction will slow future demand.

New back-to-scbool item:. Both maufacuters and retailers will push tape recorders as back - to - school musts for high schoolers and collegians. Would you let your child flunk just because you were too cheap to spend a few bucks to make sure he could play back every lesson? Well, saels pitches won't be that

high - pressure, but they will be close to it

PAY UP, SAY SUPPLIERS Wholesalers will tighten col-, lections: Retailers will begin to force rising demands for prompt payments of their bills.

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Two reasons: higher interest rates make it more expensive for wholesalers and distributors to carry retalles; rising operating costs are pushing many retailers close to failure and suppliers dont want to gamble.

Air conditioner bargains:. Best retail bargains in air conditioners in years will be

availablbe in the next few weeks. Reasons: costs of carrying unsold stock is higher than ever before; improvements in 1967 models will out-date many models now on shelves.

Tuna scare will pass: In a short time, the tuna botulinus scare will pass from the minds of shoppers. Three reasons: the publics memory is short; there have been no recurrences of botulinus poisoning; higher meat prices make tuna a greater protein bargain. In fact, tuna sales are already approaching former peaks.

PINCHES IN RAW MATERIALS

Hi^er critical commodit-. es: Materials needed for military and space devices, already high, will rise still further this fall. In short supply are aluminum, copper, brass, molybdenum, platinum, hardwoods and chemicals. Al

so in short supply arc castings, forgings, electric equipment, bearings and porcelain resistors.

Tougher labor legislation: There isnt a chance in the world that Congress will try to restrict labor before the November elections. But the next Congress, especially if there is a swing to conservatives, which is not at all unlikely, will take up the problem of labor excesses and labor strikes against the public, as distinguished from strikes against employers. Tougher labor legislation may result.

Cereals in bowls: Dry cereals in plastic bowls wiU soon be in your su^rmarket They have been trie dexperiment-ally in the institutional market and are now being tested in some markets. Unless consumer reaction is bad, they will appear all over.