April 13, 1967

Poor SeUing Job On U. S. PoUcies

TO MARKET, TO MARKET!

If there is one thing which is evident from the recent tour by Vice President Humphry it is the growing unpopularity of the American position in Vietnam.

One must recognize that the demonstrations that dogged the path of Vice President Humphrey through Europe were organized by communists in an effort to embaiTass the United States. One must also recognize that these efforts were successful in spite of efforts to minimize the effectiveness of the demonstrations. Most observers were obviously surprised by the support the communists were able to generate among rank and file citizens of the countries for their demonstration against the United States,

Certainly the reaction on the streets of some European capitals to the visit of the vice president of the United States is not sufficient reason for the United States to abruptly alter its policy in Southeast Asia. The United States has arrived at its president policy for good and sound reasons, and it has committed itself to achieving the goals that this policy depicts.

3urden Swells

Jror Lawmakers

By WILLIAM A. SSORES Reflectar Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH The daily calendars are growing noticeably longer and the floor debates lengthier as the legislature approaches the midpoint of its 1967 session.

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With hundreds of bills to be acted upon, this means the lawmakers are busy and harried and legislative lead^s in* creasing concerned.

*T have the heaviest workload in my legislative experience on my desk right now,* says one veteran Hmise member. And thres more piling up every day. '

Also, tl^ Assembly Is still quite l$r horn achieving very much In the way'of inajor accomplishment as yet and this is somewhat disappointing. It means a great deal of debating and decision making will have to be crowded into the next couple of months, which is the pessure codcer of any legislative session.

Handful of Enactments

So far, the 1967 Assembly has not come close to the fast pace of the legislature of two years ago in tackling and disposing of major matters.

No <me has accused the lawmakers of pussyfooting not vet, at least ^ but tfaae has been more than the usual amount ot political maneuvering and partisan political byplay. This has accounted for ome the cautkm and hesitancy.

Rs ironic, says one 1^-Islative veteran. Were working harder and accomplishing less.

The 1967 session record to date shows only a handful of enactments which could be classed as significant in terms

of statewide effect

One, of course, is a law establishing a new intermediate court of appeals under authority of a 1965 constitutional amendment This won almost unanimous approval in botii Senate and Hoiise. A decision to put North Carolinas clocks on dayli^it saving time (DST) this year stirred no real fi^t either.

Few Reach Floor

Actually, vr few really controvmial matters have reached the floor of either house as yet.

The Senate engaged in the lenthiest and liveliest debate thus far ,for two days last week before a bill to reinstate authority for the state highway patrol to use airplanes for speed detection pnqws* squeaked through. This bill may run into a similar stonn of opposition in the House, but the upper chamber was considered its testing ground and it is now expect^ to pass as an additonal highway sa* fety measure.

The House, serving as bellwether, has beaten down every bill to change the states captital punishment laws and only a bill to aboli the death penalty altogetherremains in committee.

*Brown Bag Conflict

About the only other controversial measure of statewide consequence to come out has been legalized brown bagging, and thfa rrflects the con-tnueing conflict over effective control or abolition of liquor. The Senate and House passed conflicting versions of bills .to permit carrying liquor in paper sacks under certain circumstances.

Legislative leaders are hopeful that agreement on a brown bagging law may lead to a bre^through and prevent a logjam on other nigWy controversial matters.

However, any brown bagging law is not likely to end the liquor controversy. There will be further attempts to liberalize North Carolinas liquor laws during this session and tills movement has been gaining steadily during the bog down over brown baggings

What happened on the tour does suggest, however, that the United States has been much less successful in selling Europeans on its reasons folr its policy in Vietnam than the communists have been in denouncing tiie United States for position in Southeast Asia.

Perhaps what is needed is not a review of the Vietnam policy, but rather a review of the work t being done by those whose responsibility it is to interpret U. S. policy to peoples of other nations.

Change Can Pave Way For Airport Progress

Reorganization of the Pitt>Greenville Airport Commission into a County-City Airport Authority is a move which should serve the best interests of the city, the county and the local air facility.

The reorganization has received approval of the Pitt Board of Commissioners and Greenvilles City Council. It needs only the approval of bond attorneys and then action by the General Assembly .which would create the new authority.

Under the new plan, the airport would be under the control and supervision of an authority rather than a commission as is now the case. The authority would be empowered to do things which the present commission cannot do, acting as the agent for the governing boards of the city and county governments.

The change, in our opinion, will pave the way for continuing the improvement program which already has been initiated at the local airport. It will bring into being a more efficient and effective official vehicle through which the city and county can maintain, operate and develop their jointly-owned airport.* ...

The city and county governments have wisely moved to bring this new airport authority and certainly the move should be ratified by the ^General Assembly with legislation that will create this new authority for Pitt-Greenville airport.

Still Bound By Old Tribalism

By HAL BOYLE

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP).-.If tomorrow a nuclear war bathed every continent in bombs, tiie filrvivors would prob.ably damar fw a one-world government as the best hope of ending war forever.

They wouldnt have dreamed of such a solution, or permitted it, before the bombs made it seem a necessity for survival. Without compulsion mankind isnt likely soon to end the barriers between nations.

Since nationalism is only an extension of tribalism, and man is still primitive, he cant without compulsion stop thinking in tribal terms. The transition from me first to

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Apr 13, 1927 Fire Filters Entertained

Forty members of the Washington fire department, who assisted in fighting the fire which last night destroyed the Junior High School building, were entertained at supper by members of the local department last night after work of extinguishing the flame had been completed...The visitors were heartily congratulated upon th record run from Washington to Greenville. The trip was made in thirty-five minutes after the alarm was sounded in Washington... George Clark, chief of the Greenville fire department, was hearty in his praise of the splendid service rendo'ed by the Washingtonians.

me too is a long way off.

No wonder then that neither President Johnson nor any of the Latin-American presidents at the summit meeting in Punta del Este, Uruguay, is apt to come up with solution for the special interests

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NEW YORK (AP) Jumping to conclusion:

Muggings in American cities would be cut in half if women started carrying old-fashioned ,long basins and men wcr allowed to pack sword canes.

Few girls bite their fingernails after they get married.

If youll look around you, youll notice more and more U.S. husbands now walk half a pace behind their wives, ^rtiey do this so that they wont obstruct the view.

The older an executive is,

the more likely he is to have arms on his swivel chair.

People no longer like to talk about the atom bomb, but the unspoken dread of it is probably the biggest s^e cause of anxiety aikl misbehavior in the world.

Love letters turned out on a typewriter never have quite the emotional impact as those written by handunites they are read aloud in court.

What the average board chairman of a firm envi e s most about the messenger boy who brings him his miail

is not his youth but his independence. And if that boy in time becomes chairman of the board himself what he will miss most is the same vanished independence. Com-

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Oxford Orphans To Give Program At College The Oxford Orphanage Singing Class will present a program at the auditorium of East Carolina Teachers College tomorrow night at eight oclock....

Birthday Dinner

Mrs. S. B. Dail and Mrs.

Wm. L. Woltz delightfully entertained at a three course dinner in honor of the birthdays of Mr. Dail and Mr. Wolz, at the attractive apartment of Mrs. Dail on Cotanch Street, Tuesday evening 12th. There were present Mr. and Mrs. Wm. L. Woltz, Mr. and Mrs. S.B. Dail, Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Baker, Mr. E W Rawl, and Mr. E. E. Edwards.

Wesley Phflathea CbuM Meets

The regular monthly meeting of the Westley Philathea Bible Class of the Jarvis Memorial Sunday School was held Monday evening at the hMne of Mrs. J.E. Winslow on Fifth Street with Mrs. E.L. Willard and Mrs. P.E, Harks assisting hostesses

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file Latin Americans went into this meeting with feuds, disputes over borders, and insistence on trade preferences in the common market the United States wants them to create by the 1980s.

The <fisputes, differences and antagonisms of the Latin Americans are even more true of the new African nations which m'e far less advanced and experienced than the Latin Americans who, themselves, are behind the times.

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Strength . For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

TWO PRINCIPLES OF PRAYER

file famous Dr. Grenfell, whose ministry to the people of barren Ldbrador is one of the brightest spots in the history of the Church, has spoken and written much about prayer. The good physician of the North erpressed the whole . of his religious philosophy when he said, Prayer to me means speaking to my Father in heaven. . . I approach Him exactly as 1 would approach anyone else to whom I woidd make petitions, and I address Him as my common sense suggests, in perfect confidence that that is the way He would wish me to tr ea t Him. I credit Him with knowing how much I want a thing, and whether I am willing to do everything in my power to obtain it. That is, I consider He will look to me to be willing to pay the price. I never erpect Him to do my share.

Grenfell has expressed here two of the greatest principles of prayer. The first is that we should approach God simply and with confidence, knowing that He is even more willing to give than we ve to receive, oonfiffent that He loves us and wiAes us wen.

The second principle involved in Grenfells statement is that prayer puts upon us the respoosibUlty of fulfilling our part of the bargain. We can be sure that we always have to do something, little though it may be, to help God answer our petitions.

To The Editor.* *

In the April 6th Edition of the Daily Reflectof there was reported a request by the Pitt County Board of Elucation for submission of a bill to the N. C. State Legislature. The bill would be designed to change the statutes so as to allow condemnation of more land in Pitt County for o school site than is allowed in any other county of similar population, although Pitt County is not the first to achieve consolidation of schools. The reason for the request for the bill was reported to be tl'.e possibility of having to use condemnation proceedings to acquire land for at least one of the school sites for Pitt County consolidated high schools.

The only site to the selection of which opposition has been announced in the Reflector at the time of ihis letter is the property of ray sister and myself. We do not oppose consolidated schools. We do not oppose the use of o^her portions of our land as a school site. We strongly oppose the orbitrary division of a 90 acre farm into a school site and )nto two remaining pieces separated from each other by a new road to be built to tbe school. We have proposed alternate sites ono ur land and have given permission for tests to determine thes uita-bility of those sites. No tests have ben made and yet the Board has dismissed our offers as less desirable. Members of the Board attempted to persuade us to sell by reminding us of their

power to condem, land. A part of the legal procedure preceeding condemnation includes a bona fide offer to buy. We were never quoted a direct price. The Board, belatedly checking the power of conctemnation of the excessive amount of land desired. So now, in spite of our attempts to compromise, we find ourselves in the dubious position of distinction of having the very laws changed to combat us.

The Board has made no at-tenqit whatsoever to determine whether there are owners of land near the site selected who are willing to sell. I know of two cases. The Board hos not attempted to consider the use of land already owned by Pitt County, and yet the unused site of the old Ckmnty Home Is approximately two miles from our site. The Board has given no reasons why a school to educate an estimated 900 students should reqidre a site of 50 acres an area large enough for more than 37 football fields.

In view of the recent School Bell Award to the Reflector for previous editorials favoring consolidated schools and for interpretive reporting, I trust the Reflector will continue full coverage during the implementation of the consolidation. Fuller analysis of the actions of the Pitt County Board of Education, not just reports of the biweekly meetings of the Board, will indeed constitute continued interpretive reporting.

Bruce C. Tyson, Jr

mand is just another kind of slavery.

Nobody looks balder than the man who artfully combs his hair in an attempt to hide his baldness.

The surest way to annoy a millionaire who is taking you to lunch is to order a dish that costs 50 cents more than the one he selects. What he secretly wants you to do is to order the same thing he does. If it is good enough for him, who are you to expect anything better?

In read i n g mystery thrill- ers, women'are twice as likely as men to cheat by peeking ahead to see how the story comes out.

There is nothing wrong in a wifes asking her husband if he really loves her. But she makes a big mistake if she asks him why he loves her. It may set him to wondering.

The loveliest women in the world can be seen on any sunny afternoon on East 57th Street in Manhattan between Fifth and Park avenues. No other two blocks on eartii contain such a concentration of beauty on parade.

When you meet the same fellow too often in the office washroom, you cant help suspecting hes loafing on the job. That makes two of you.

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Dont cry when you send your boy away to camp this summer. Remember, youre not losing a son. Youre gaining two frogs, a turtle, a garter snake and a matched set of field mice. Plymouth (Wis.) Review.

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

This coming Saturday, in New York and San Francisco, several thousand demonstrators will assemble to protst the U. S. role in Vietnam. In Maiiattan, the ringmaster of the circus will be Martin Luther King. It is a sad pro^ct, for the reverend doctor has blown his cool; he has thrown away his effectiveness ju* zt when his people needed it most. *'

The struggle to achieve racial equality in the United States and the fight to jwe-serve South Ifietnam from Communist dontnation have <mly the most tenuous relAtion-ship to one another. In order to find a common denominator, by which a civil rights leader supports the one and opposes the otiier, it is necessary to accept premises th-ioned largely of plain bot^iir. Now, one has come te expect this of, say, Stokely (%r-michael and Floyd McKissfek. Carmichael is a professional firebrand. On stage, whether in Richnioiri or Na8im!|( or anyvdiere else, be is curiouriy sdiizophrenic: of btear is

cool, and part of Um is l|>t, but mostiy he is pure mafeto-lence. In the streets, he pUys with anarchy as children ^y with matdite. And McKisSek, mouth agape, plays me - too to Carmichael Both of them are conte - latelies to the national stage. When they embrace the emotional unreason of the peaceniks, they are doing what comes natinaDy.

But one had come to expect somet^ better from Dr. King. I say thte as a Southern conservative, born to the Southern teadition of race relations, who tte years ' ago viewed King irith instinctive animosity and came in time to respect tiie man for his raw courage and his capacity for moral leadership.

People forget so swiftly. King was one of the three Negro civil ri^its leaders whose names became household words in the period that followed after Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. The others were Roy Wilkins and Thiffgood Marshall, but Wilkins was working mainly from tl New York offices of the NAACP and Marshall was working in the courts. King was the first Southern N^ro to hit the streets in the segregated South. He preached non-viotence in a violent landj he rallied his docile and feateful people, lifted them up, and raised a spark of human dignity that no fire hose coud extinguish. King put on his go - to - jail clothes, and for the cause he went to jail.

Later, others would co m e along; and the public would come to identify a doztei Negro leaders of vastly different temperaments and backgrounds Adam Claytcm Powell, Bayard Rustin, A. Philip Randolph, James Meredith, James Farmer, Edward Brooke, Julian Bond. But King was somehow detached from all of them, a mystical fellow, intent, single - minded, humorless. You could denounce his ciildlike notion that men are not bound to obey laws they regard as unjust; you could damn him for hobnobbing with Communists; 3^ou could question his judgment and his associatte. Never mind. In gaining for hi^ Ne^o people the effective exercise of their civil ri^its, he was a driving force.

But now? Last week King leaped to the lunatic fringe of the Vietnam objectors. In a (Ckintinaed On Paga 8)

Corporations' Record Profits

By ELMER ROESSNER

CorpOTatlons set a new record f<M* profits in 1966, ac-cordinig to First National City Banks tabulation of th records of 3,850 leading companies.

Total profits were 138.2 billion, compared with $34.9 billion in 1965, a rise of 10 per cent. Their net worth was $315 billion at the start of 1965 and 1340 mUrn at the start of 19-66.

The average percentage gain <m net worth d the average margin on sales were little cWiged fem 1965 to 1966. Tbe returns on net worth were up 0.1 per cent to 11.2 per cent, and tilt margin on net sales was down 0.1 per cent to 6.5 per cent.

The fattest gains percentage -wise in net income were made by a group of 25 fire and casualty eompanite, up 69 per

cent, which is surprising since these companies have been constantly complaining that the rise in fire losses and auto accidents ttireaten their sol-vence.

Shipping Companies Profit

Second largest gains were made by 13 shipping compan-

ies, probably aided by the step - up in the Vietnam war. Third were 65 nonferrous metals companies, up 38 per cent, also a result of the war.

Two groups showed a siz

able decline. Seventeen cement companies showed a drop of 19 per cent in profits, and 15 auto and truck makers reported a decline of 15 per cent, largely due to the drop in sales of autos after the 1967 models appeared.

Nine mail - order companies saw profits drop less* than 1 per cent, leaving them only 8347 milli(m.

First National City observed that although earnings set a new record last year, the improvement in profit margins came to a halt

It added, Several important strikes, notably in the airline, electrical equipnumt and chemical industries, also affected profits adversely. The 19 airlines gained 9 per cent in profits, 315 electrical equipment companies gained 28 per cent, and 78 chemical product! companies gained 6

p- cent

Discover America Bietee Of Mnlti-MilUon DoUaf Drive

A score of industriei have been recruited in a dilicUver America campaign orginiz-cd by Discover America, Inc. Next week has beoi deidgtiat* ed discover America VJica-tion Planning Week, and, the theme will hie followed up during the entire vacation season. Close to IlOO million W1 be spent by participating Industries, according to Donald V. Mc(toy, executive director.

All 55,000 U. S. mafi trucks will carry discover America messages in April and May, Hertz rental carr'wlll cariy Insignia, radio and television will carry messages. Alrllned Will spend milflnns in advertising, United appropriating $1 million alone, almost every media will be #6d to put over tha idea.