Thursday, June 8, 1967

Time To Cheer Is When War Ends

People who know about war don't chec/ when their government decides to take the plunge.

Rather, there is a feeling of apprehension and forboding ... no matter how just the cause, how confident the .-spirit over its eventual outcome.

We would think this doubly true in today's world, wherein people live under the con>tant shadow af implications inherent in the contest between two massive powers.

We were thinking on this when reading of newsmen reporting exultation in tl:ie streets of Cairo and other Arab capitals as the long-preached 'holy

New Confusion On Water-Use

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH - A further cloud 0 confusion anu apparent contradiction has blown up during committee attempts to write new and far-reaching water u.nc. and management legislation for the state.

This chore, assigned to respective House and Senate committees, has been described as possibly the most important as well as difficult and complex work the 1967 General Assembly has to face. The two committees have eight bids bn^ed on recommenda-ti'ins of tiic Stale Hoard of Water Resnurces and dT'awn c:^scntial!y irom a >tudy conducted by a team of consultant- hired by tae slate.

It turns out that one member of tin- three-man team of coiiiulling engineers disagreed sharply with his fellow memrxn's cn efreets of phosphate mining in Beaufort County.

Tiii- cunsU'tant. Dr. R J.M. De Wic-t of Princeton. X. J.. ward famous in the science of hyrdology. considered writing a i'> r.-, i t ; n-

ing out hi.- "uut-tandinj di;-fcrences of opinion " on the subject.

Cites Difference

Before Dr De Wie.-t cuuid x^rite a minority report now-ever. his services as a iaghiy paid consultant suddenly were terminated.

Even beoit this, iegisiaturs

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have learned, Dr. De Wiest served notice that he would sign the consultants report-only if a copy was first suu-mitted for his approval.

This may shed some light on the previously-unexplained lengthy delay in publishing the final report When issued, it listed Dr. De. Wiest as one of the consultants but the letter of transmittal bore only the signature of the cnairman, C. E Jacob, of Los .Angeles.

In the interim Dr. De Wiest \\ent to Belgium where he i a visiting professor at the I niversities of Gent and Louvain. He is now in Eu-ope. Subsequent letters, however, confirmed the disagreement.

Certainly from what we have learned, the consultants report on which this proposed

iegiblalion is ba.-ed w,3S not unanimous," says Sen. .V-hley B. Fntrell of Beaufort, chairman of ihe Senate Conservation and Development committee.

In >ome respects we are nii-re confused then ever, Futrell says.

Lc4ters Received

Letter.- from Dr. De Wiesi indicated that as of last .May 29. he apparently had seen the final report of the team of consultants of which he was a member.

His capacity as a consultant for the state agency was terminated last .Mai cb 10. four days before a preliminary draft of the report was trans-miled to the governor and Other state officuds. A letter to Dr, De Wie,-t from director U administration F. L. Rankin Jr. cited the scientist'sina-bility to work with and cooperate" with other members of the team of consultants.

In a letter of h*s own, Dr. De Wiest cited "outstanding differences of opinion with -Mr. Jacob as to the magnitude ') iiae . - wilue

the storage txefiicient. hi-conv iLis.uH:; , i.. uic contani-inaiion by salt water or brack-i.'h water.... in the Castle Hajne aquiticr which underlies the rich phosphate depos its in Beaufort County. Texas Gui; Siiiphur Co. wni.h i-mming the Beaufo-'t phu-pnatc contends that fears of salt water intrusion into the ground water table are exaggerated.

TGS also feels that certain pruposed water legisialiun af-lecting ,'ti operations is too restrictive.

Proposed Legislation

The consultants' report signed by Jacob recommended certain specific legislation. This includes a permit system by the newly created Board of Water and .Air Resources for operation of wells with a pumping capacity in exces,- of 100.000 gallons a day; licensing of well drillers; iiiandatory standards anr specifications of drilled wells.

Then it proposes that operators of phosphate leases be urged, or persuaded, to convert trom dry pit mining to dredging or other m*nhods.

TGS is using open pits to mine phosphates on its S88 million Lee Creek site. This necessitates almost continual pumping to lower the ground water table to prevent flooding of the huge pits. The consultants proposes legislation to require such industries to meter total dischargeMf their wells and to determi e characteristics of water withdrawn by such pumping operations.

war" tu dcsiruy laiael became a reality.

The impre.-^sion conveyed by correspoiideuls at the scene was one ul unrestrained joy.

There are reasons, wed guess, apart and beyond tiie inflammatmy prologue to battle.

For example: the overwhelming number of Arab people who had no role, no stakes, no deaths to count in World War II: the va.^t majority were far from the scene of fighting which resulted in the birth of Israel; they were spared the price of humiliation and widespread loss of lives and property a decade ago, when the Suez war was stopped by outside interests before that conflict really warmed up.

it follows that the great majority of people in the Middle East have no comprehension of war as it i.s waged today. We suspect there was an even greater feeling of apprehension here, thousands of miles from the scene, than was felt by the teeming Arab throngs who cheered announcement of war.

There i.< little for them to cheer tliough main population centers are re scathed and for most their lives have been untouched.

So we wonder about a decade from now, or two decades from now. Will the same unreasoning flames sweep the Middle East again'.

People who have been there, know war can be a great maker of pacifists.

The time for cheering is when a war is ended.

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"s Continuation Biblical War

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By JA.MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON' fAP) - The Midcast war i- a bridge between tuo wnrld.s. th^ ancient world and the one we knaw for it is linked to both and in a very real sense is like a chapter out of the Bible.

Over 3.300 years ago the \\andering Hebrews saw Palestine. called the land of Canaan then, wanted it. fought the Canaanites for it. and conquered them, making it their homeland.

Later cnder their hero king, David, they subdued the neighboring Philistines too. Today the Jew- have another hero against the enemy, Gen. ^Io.-he Davan.

Lr.d^r h..s leader.<iiip in the brief war of 1956 the Israelis .''mashed through Egypt to the Suez Canal, olthough they later witndrcw.

Now once again in the crisis with Egypt Iasi week Dayan was brought in by popular demand as defen.se minihter and a few days later the war began with the Israelis ooce more smashing through the Egyptians.

in Dayans day. as in David'.''. the basic issue was real estate, the strip of land called Palestine from which the Jew.- had been dispersed by the Romans about 1.900 years ago.

They had been wanderers until 1948 when, with the blessing oft he United Nations, they were allowed once more to call Palestine thoir home, or at least a part of it, and set up their own government there under the name Israel.

The Arabs have never accepted this intrusion into their particular world of the .Middle East With the creation of the Jewish state. .Although the Moslem and Jewish religions became a towering factor in the Jewish-Arab relations, it was Palestine itself which remained the central issue.

In this sense the war is a continuation of the past and is not an ideological war like the one in Vietnam where the United States is fighting against Communist domination of the country.

But where the .Mideast war touches the modern worlo is in the possibility - not yet over - that this revival of an ancient war might involve in a global war the two great ideological opponents, the Soviet Union and the United States.

Those two, judging from what they did Tuesday night in the I Security Council, are not eager to let'a biblical war suck them into a world

nent of war. about today, '( elatively un-

W^iT.

Nevertheless, in the decades ahead there will always be this danger, if not in the Bible lands at least ever>-w here where the interests of the giants meet, a danger that will be multipled a thousandfold when Red China becomes By JAMES KILPATRICK a full-fledged nuclear force.

And the interests of the giants meet, since both are in nonshooting war for the mind of mankind, practically everywhere even when the small nations fight for reasons as simple as those of the biblical tribes.

Mosco'w and the United States, although the former supported Egypt and the lat-(Continued On Page 5)

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llie Man From I -X-I-T-E-D-^-A-T-I-O N S

Nixons Campaign HQ

This Date-' 40 Years

The philodendron on the bookcase is an English pea. or Romney. green, but everything else is a dazzling red. white and blue. The address is 1726 Pennsylvania Avenue, just a block up the street from Ihe White House. The sign under the eagles out front says .Nixon for President." and upstairs is a San Diego

obstetrician. .An old candidate is being born anew.

The reporter who trots up two flights to talk politics with Dr. Gaylord B. Parkinson discovers. soon enough, that obstetrics has advanced a long way from midwives and country doctors. The gentleman is presiding over this pregnancy with everv device of anahsis

Other Editors So.'/mg

Ago Today Battle Is Not Yet Won

By FOY H. DUNCAN June 8, 1927 Finals Held Last .Night

The awarding o; diplomas to the sixty-two members of the graduating class of tne Greenville High School last night brought to a close in a most impressive manner, the best year in the history of the East Carolina Teachers Training College, and were witnessed by a large audience which filled tlie immense building. The spectacle of the entire class gathered in a large simi-circular on the stage was one which will long remain in the minds of those who saw it....The address was delivered by Hon. Summer Burgwvnn of Northhampton, w'ho spuise to the clas.s on the subject of "Where Goest Tlx ....

Says Greenville Is Best Policed Town In Slate

Greenville is one of the bc.st policed cities in North Carolina. according to the information made public yesterday afternoon by E. P. Renner, private detective of the Brant Detective Agency. New York City, who has just completed a two week's investigation here.... "There ,s less vice and immorality in Greenville than any small city I c\er ever operated in, the detective stated. "It is not only the cleanest city from the standpoint of morality, but protected by the most efficient police department to be found anywhere in a town of similiar size.

Strength For Today

(Washington Daily .Newsi

Senator John Henley o Cum-'Derand county, a legi.slatur who voted against independent and separate university status for East Carolina College on the cio'iier bill, is sponsoring a new bill to give ECC university statu now on a live year regional basL.

In essence, this bill does everything the earlier bill did except give to the college the right to grant doctoral degrees. .And in earlier debate, it was ,-tated quite iranki> t.iat if university should come, the new university did not plan to award doctoral degrees for several years. It was pointed out that when the university ot North Carolina gained that status of university, it was 30 years before the first doctoral degree was given. When Trinity College became Duke L'niversity. it was four years before it awarded a doctoral degree.

While It is evident from this .-taiidpoint that the new bill does not suit ECC supporters as well a- the first bill did. it nevertheless does do es->en;iall> what the first bill would have done.

For this reason, most if not all ECC univer.sitv status supporting the Henley bill. .\nd several .'senators who were

against the first bill have

aligned themselves now with the Heniey bill. They include, of course. Senator Henley, Senator Jack White oi Cleveland county, and Senator Ralph

Scott of Alamance county.

Several other senators are expected to support it also who were against the first bill.

Then Lieutenant Governor Bob Scott has come out without reservatio n s for the Henley bill. Several other leaders, includ i n g House Speaker David Britt, are now in favor of this bill.

On the face of the subject, the picture looks promising now. But Governor Dan Moore is still strongly against this bill. A lot depends on how much strength he can muster in opposition to it. If he can he ucccssful in holding the line, then he must go all out in opposition to the point of bringing immense presc^ure. Then the Board of Higher Education is against ECCs bid for university status.

In taking a good look at the picture as it is today, including the fact that all the larger newspapers in the state are still against the bill, we must not forget that the fight i> not won yet even though it is not over. .A lot of things can happen along the wa>.

If East Carolina College is given university statu.-, it has five >ear.': in which to prove the wisdom if it cannot prove that wisdom in five years of the decision, then a mistake will have been made.

Leaders of ECC believe that it can prove its mcriU in ii\e years. They say frankly they will accept the bill and that once a university. ECC will take Its rightful place among other distinguished universities in proper time

known to the healrr.g arts. Seven months hence, when Richard Nixon formally announces. Dr. Parkinson wiii be able to proclaim the emergence of a candidacy in perfect health.

Toward this happy end. there has been created the national .Nixon for President Com.mittee, Gaylord B. Parkinson. chairman. Within t ii e next few weeks, the national committee will hatch a dozen regional committees. These will spin off State committees, which will create local committees, down to the final precincts and wards. Quite a nursery is in prospect.

Each of the approved offspring w ill be entitled to make use of the new .Nixon symbol, a white N-shaped bolt of liglit-nmg that flashes across a sea of red and blue. Dr. Parkinson and his colleagues are testing the trademark n o w for market appeal and consumer recognition. First returns look good. Their burgeonmg organization will have i t s share of old Republican stalwarts. but at every possible point the emphasis will be on youth and hustle and a certain savvy know-how.

The whole effort will be governed. in spirit at least, by the "eleventh commandmen, that Dr. Parkinson flung down from the hills of Sacramento in guiding Ronald Reagan to his governorship last year; Thou ,'^halt not speak unkindly of any other Republican. Parkinson' law. in brief. i.s unity, unity, unity. Confron-.-ing an is.-ue on which rea.son-ably minded men may disagree, the reasonablv minded men will be expected to find agreement instead.

On this point, the gregai lou Dr. Parkin.-un speaks in .'sohc; tones. He has counted t h e noses of registered Repnhh-cans and finds their number wanting. Without signif.cant help from nominally Dein'-craiic ranks, no Republican can make it. And if Republicans themselves should fail to stick together' It cannot be allowed. Therefore, unitv; and (Continued On Page 5i

Bv ROWLAND EVANS and

ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON Ironically, the boiling, over of the tne Middle East into a shoot ing way may just extricate the the United States from w.iat was becoming an impossible diplomatic situation.

Indeed, the outbreak ol war in the early morning hou s Monday may not be the total disaster it seemed but in-t. d an opening toward a settle

ment.

To understand this, it is necessary to appreciate the impossible U. S. position pr ,r to Monday. From May 22

when Egypts Gamal Abdol Nasser closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli-bound ship-ing until Mondays actual outbreak of hostilities, the U. S. has no chance to seize the initiative.

For example, it isnt generally known how really reluctant the Johnson admin

istration was to confront the Egyptians on forcing passage into the Gulf of Aqaba.

The idea of international

maritime powers forcing Egypt to back down on its closing of the gulf came originally' from the British, not the U. S. But the more the cabinet of British Prime Minister WTl-son examined the plan, the more reluctant it was to go ahead.

Likewise, the White House was increasingly bearish, for a bread-and-butter reason: the possibility that it could choke off the flow of Middle Eastern oil to the West,

Even more to the point, any effort by the U.S. to confront Egypt would have ended .anv pretense of American "neutrality in the Middle East. Washington then would have found itself dug in on the siae of Israel, and advocate unable to play an eventual role of mediator.

Reinforcing this U.S. reluctance to become publicly e::i-broiled on Israels side as a participant was a tart of .American politics discu.s-sed only in softest tones in Washington. The shrewdest politicians in the Democratic party have been deeply concerned ever since the crisis began that it could produce a wave of American ant.-Semi-tism if it led to U.S. military involvement.

With casualties ri'ing in Vietnam, the pros p c c t of American interven t i o n in another remote part of the world has terrified these politicians. Tlius. Secretary of State Dean Rusk has recn privately warned these last lew days by powerful lcadc'S of Congress; you will not have our backing in any uniLiteral U. S intervention in the Mid-le Ea;t.

One other factor kept the U.S. from taking the initiatae during the last two weeks. At the highest levels in Washington there has been a strong conviction that Israel could lick the Arab states again in a shooting war of relatively brief duration.

This conviction is not univ-

Jhis conviction is not universally held. Nevcrthclc.'^s, It was a key factor in U.S. diplomacy during the tense days leading up to the moment that shooting started.

When Israel stnu-k againM the Arab states Monday morning. whether in retaliation or not. President Johnson was all at once off the liookrelieved of the excruciating problem of how to proceed in the Gulf of Aqaba war of nerves.

The shooting transformed a a situation that had been inflexible and uninoving into sudden movement and (Continued On Page 5)

By EARL L. DOUGLAS A FORMULA

What constitutes true success'.

The first thing necessary to success is to have in view some end that is honest and worthwhile. Men sometimes make a million dollars and according to their bank books arc successful indeed. But there are a host of people round about them who know that their success is false, to say the least. A person who.'e life is characterized by commendable aspirations has met the first requirement of success.

The second qualiav of succes-is persistence. Jesus once spoke a paral be of a shower whose seed fell on thin and stony soil which resulted in quick wilting and quick death. The person of vacillating

jiiood.s and policies never

reaches any satisfactory degree of success. He has to be firm but at the same time reasonable and kindly.

The greatest element of success is. of course, some variety of religious faith. We look up into the heavens at night and realize that the little planet on which we live is as a grain of sand compared with the area of a continent. In cur thinking we have to take in the heavens as well as the earth, the stars as well as the landscape, the divine ulmates as well as the practical situations of everyday living. And religious faith can really be defined as ones attitude toward the univer.i^. If we are mere worlding.s, we are little in (nir sight and must be immeasurably so in the sight of God and the angels. .

Believe something. Stick jj it. Thi.s is the crowning *rtt'-quircmcnt of siicccs,';.

.Masser Will Help Boost Taxes

Hv EL.MER ROESSNER

Federal taxes now see m certair to rise. Taxpayers can blame Gamal Abdel Nasser.

Losses by our Air Force liave left us with few^ more plane.s than are needed to fight the war in Vietnam. Our reserves of other materiel are low. as evidenced by the furore raised over the sale of .M-16 rifles to Malaysia. The most readily available m a n-power for fighting is already in \'ietnam or on the wa\; there are no large pools nf men available for defending .American intere'^ts or fuUill-in,i> nur pnuiiises to Dioiel. wliatever tlie\ are.

Not The O^lv Reason Therefore it appears certain that military spending inu.'J be increa.^ed, and thi.'s will require more la.xe.-.

Prcndent J()hn.''on.-' request tor a 6 per cent income lax surcharge i.s still in the Congressional freezer, bat there

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are now- indications that the administration may ask f o r fjuicker action.

It had been expected t M a t the proposal would be called up in late July or August, with an effective date of Oct. 1 or even next Jan. 1. However. action may be taken much earlier, with a Ju1,\ 1

oitectivr date And tiicrc .is nothing to prevent Cong r e s ^ from making the sur<-harge retroactive to lat Jan. 1.

Nasser is not the sole reason taxes may go up. Others:

The escalation of the war in Vietnam threat,em an enormous deficit. Some uhsrrvrrs i'oy it may be ?20 bilUnn m the nr.xt fiscal year, ^rG^ldf^ Johnson is expected to send a revised budget esumate to Congress which would put the deficit on record Thi.'>. of it-elt, could be a ba'.is tax surcharge.

Ihe behaviur of thi* ('C()nomy threalen.s tn uiii 'Ci; tlie deficit. Corptjj'ate profits, j rich .source ot federal taxation, have been dec'mino. Jnventor-ie.s are high, threatening la>-ofls this ammitci. uond prices lia\e been sliding luviMjrii Ik

tor a

pomi where the Trca s u r y may have to buy more to maintain prices. That, too, would cost money.

Some Economic Gains

However, the th'-eat of war on two fronts may trentually improve business conditions.

Stepped up militar, procurement would solve the invcn-tqry problem; companies woijld happy to hMd them for use in making milit a r y goods or as a hedge against shortages.

Whatever true unemplo.v rnent remaining would be ab* .'-orbed.

Government spending tor materiel would swell spending.

Fear of shortages, or at least of higher prices, would cause consumer spending to