Thursday, August 3, 1067

A Few Bad Apples In Huge Barrel

TWO-FRONT CAMPAIONI

In a program as broad and involved as uid fed* ral anu-poveriy unuertaKing, tnere are Douna to be cases ol waste, misuse o autnoriiy or lunas and diversion of resources into cnannels lor wnicn tney were not intended.

Kecent weeKs have brought to light such incidents in the charges that anti-poverty officials and employes have in some cases been involved in civil disturbances . . . some even in positions ol leadership. In an entirely different aspect, three Charlotte dentists have been charged with malpractice in connection with work they did on children last summer under a federally financed program.

What action, if any, result from any of these and many other incidents in connection with the anti-poverty program remains to be seen. The recurrence of a great number of situations in which there has been misuse of funds or authority or where the program has been pointed in a direction it was not intended to go, certainly will put the program into great public disfavor. It is unrealistic to assume even now that there is not already a considerable amount of opposition to many facets of the present anti-poverty program.

At the same time, a program as vast as the antipoverty effort cannot be judged by what is done by a relatively few individuals involved with the program. The dedication of literally thousands of conscientious workers in the program should not

may be found in the huge barrel.

There is significant merit to many phases of the anti-poverty program being carried out in numerous communities. This should not be jeopardized by allowing those who misuse funds or authority in connection with the anti-poverty program to go unpunished.

Political Atmosphere Does Exist In Govmt

Whatever political consideration may have been involved in sending federal troops into Detroit to deal with the terrible riots, they should not have taken precedence over the urgent need to end the trouble.

The discussion of political maneuvering by Gov. Romney of Michigan and President Johnson over the matter of using troops to bring Detroit under control certainly will continue for months. Whether either will seek to make the matter a political issue in the next presidential campaign is now a matter of conjecture.

Of all the considerations involved in that moment of crisis, the unfortunate thing is that either the governor of the state or the President of the na-

be disregarded simply because a few rotten apples tion have to give consideration to the political implications of their action before doing what urgently

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Out As A Lobbyis

By WnXIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Relel^ Bureau RALEIGH George R. Uz-aells last asrignment in Ra-Icl^, e dty he loved very deeply, was an unfamiliar one tor slightly stooped, soft brown-eyed lawyer and veteran state legislator from Salisbury.

He worked for a few weeks hist Spring before being triKdc by fatal illnesses a legislative lobbyist, buttonholing people around the halls, corridort and in the palm courts.

It was hard to forget that this was not Rep. George Uz-aell of Rowan who ought to be seated on the floor, up front, right, and guiding a river of legislation into enactment or oblivion. And sitting <m the sofas outside the House chamber Uzzell himself was never entirely comfortable nor at ease in the role of a lobbyist. It was not the same.

Woo Respect Certainly while sitting as a member of the House longer than anyone In modern legislative history 15 regular and three special sessions since Ittl Uzzell Inore

legislative fights thai(he lost.

Moreover and mor^, importantly, George Uzzell won and commanded the respect and admiration of all who served with him.

Fw of these will forget fcbn his soft voice, friendly persuasive arguments, his log-fe and knowl^d^e of the law, and above idl Us siiscere conviction. Put together this was on unbeatable combination.

Win Be Remembered An editwial in the Raleigh Times upon Uzzell's death last Monday said George Uzzell was a legiriators legislator and a taxpayers le^lator at one and die same time.

Dariiig his 15 terms as a iiSiiflator, he oame to know tha Assembly paths and bypaths as few men have ever

known them, the editorial said.

In addition, legislative reporters will remember and shed a tear at George Uz-zells passing because they owed him much. In the State Capitol, prior to 1963, it would be George Uzzell who would come behind the speakers stand in the midst of%ebat and explain a bill or complicated piece of legislatiiMi to a befuddled neoiAyte reporter and tell him what was going on. When occasion arose, he would do the same thing for the Speaker of the House when things appeared to be getting out of hand. At times, it was the strong hand of George Uzzell that guided the N. C. House of Representatives, and speaker after speaker recognized this. "nie 1967 House Speaker, David Britt, often appeared at a loss because George Uzzell was not in his accustomed seat keeping an eye on the fine technicalities and mechanics of a particular piece of legislation and ready to sound an alarm about a bad bill.

Also Remembered

George Uzzel was never speaker of the House. His friends and admirers said it was a shame, but if it was an ambition he never complained. He seemed to prefer his role as a watchdi^ of legislation that came onto the floor and as an expert in parliamentary |a*ocedure and the knack of enacting sound, solid legislation.

There was no shyness about him when it came to fundamentals and i*inciple. He could and did deliver ringing speeches on the floor when the occasion arose.

More often he preferred the subtle approach of simply pointing out the flaws and weaknesses in bills he disliked. And he did so witi clear logic, common sense and without emotionalism.

needed to be done.

It if not possible, of course, to take government out of politics. Decisions by elected officials are al-ways In the realm of politics simply because they are in the realm of government. There are many times, however, when the political considerations iaaacc

must be disregarded in order to accomplish a task JAAAc5 KILPATKICK

which is vital to the interest of the people as a whole.

'j^omney Ignored Candle In The Window

Jrovonte Iheme

By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP)-Mich-igan Gov. George Romneys complaint this week I think the Prmident of the United States played politics in a period of tragedy and riot was not the first time he bad accused President Johnson of pla}^g politics with a critical situation.

Last FelMtiary Romney, who is expected to try for the Republican presideiitial nomination in 1968, found a lot of fault with the way Johnson was handling the Vietnamese war. He said some of the ad-ministratiazrs decisions were made on a basis of political expediency.

But when reporters asked if he would cite an example, he repUed: No, I will not.

said some lives might have been saved if the troops had arrived sooner.

The administration position is that Romney consumed a lot of time trying to make up his mind to admit the situation was out of control and to say so in the kind of legal language the administration thought necessary before the troops could be sent.

Asked by a newsman when he first began to feel politics were getting involved, Rom-ney said later: When the attorney general the only high Washington official whom Romney telephoned began to insist on cerfification one of the legal words involved that we had an inairrection another l^al word that was out of

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A reporter asked: Why?

And Romney replied: Be- | niQ TjOtO

cause I choose not to. * iilD

In the case of the Detroit riots last week Romney made a major pdnt of the time it took to get the Johnson administration to put U.S. troops into the riot area after Romney asked for them.

He said about 24 hours elapsed between the time he first called Atty. Gen Ramsey Oark about Ms iMoblem and the time the troq reached the riot zone. In effect, he

Just around the comer from

the White House, in a book-lined office ten flights above Fifteenth Street, one of the most useftil organizations in the world of education keeps cheerfully on course. This is the Council for Ba^c Education. It merits a solid round of applause.

Most of the news of education fliis summer has little to do with learning as such. The National Education Association, obsessed with its overweaning power, imposes sanctions upon Fla. and Baltimore. The AFL-CIO Teachers Union presses its militant demands. The U.S. Office of Education functions primarily as a U. S. Office of Integration. Here in Washington, Judge J. Skelly Wright has ^pointed hknself to all seats on a super-school board.

The Council for Basic Education, by admirable coi^st, stands apart from these diversions. Its (e abiding in

terest Is to hold up a literate standard to a sadly illiterate world. In the old^ashioned view of the CBE, the function of schools is to teach, and the role of the pupil is to learn. As the Council sees It, too many school systems have lost sight of both the function and the role.

drama, mythology. Th^ had d English

The Councils resident proprietor is Mortimer Smitii, a mild man, soft-spoken. He looks like everybodys eye doctor. But the decorous spectacles conceal an irreverent twinkle, and his gentlemess belies a mordant pen. For nearly 20 years, through his books and through the CBEs publteations, he has been exposing the follies of American schools and unstufling the shirts of pontifical professOTS. So noble a wtark, alas, is nevw done.

Smith got kito this field as chairman of a regional school board in his native Connecticut. He was astounded to learn that the old disciplines of his-

successfully avoided grammar. When he complained of all this, he was told to stop fussing. The pupils had mastered something more important. They were socially adjusted.

Smitii rebelled. He wrote a couple of books that landed explosively on target. In 1956 he pined with a dozen other criticsamong them Samuel

40 Years Ago Today

Other Editors Saying Student Bill Of Rights

Strengtn For Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN August 3, 1927 Arrange Date Fm* tuning Of Pitt SchoMt

Nineteen long term schools, coming under supervision of the Pitt Clounty Department of Education, will open for the 1927-28 session September 19th, according to information made pubUc tiiis morning by the Department of Education.

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE CHURCH IN THE WORLD

The word Church is, in tiie New Testament, the translation of a Greek word, ek-klesia, which means a group of people set apart. They are in the world yet not of it. They move with friendliness and understanding among all kinds and conditions of men and women, yet they hold certain high standards, believe certain things, especially about Christ as a Saviour, and give themselves to the living of a life consistent with the teachings of that Jesus of Nazareth who founded the Church.

Peq}le often scoff at the idea of a (3iurch made up of people who are set aside. That, they say, is segregation. Let us have integration in all its aspects. As soon as people gather together into a group and begin making claims about religious belief and righteousness which others do not make, then you have hypocrisy and double dealing.

Not necessarily. As a matter of fact, not usually so. For the Church is not full of hypocrites, as so many seem to believe. It is full of imperfect men and women who stumble and fall but who after each fall arise and press forward toward what they believe to be the Christian ideal.

Church people are not perfect people, but they are aspiring people. They beUeve certain things and ti7 with all their imperfections and weaknesses to put these things into operation.

The Church is the body of Christ through which God per-fcff'ms his among mezL

Receive Kds For Erectkm Of High School Bids were opened on the new high school yesterday morning in tiie office of the superintendent of schools with a large number of bidders on hand... The lowest bidder on the general contract was the T. A. Mitchell Ckinstruction Company of Kinston, whose bid was $69,700,00 ... The highest bidder was the Barrow Constructi<m Company of Raleigh, whose td was $95,000.-00. . . .

Local Jewlw Makes Splendid Improvements

One of the outstanding improvements to buildings by the various business houses of this city is that just cornplet-ed by W. L. Best, jeweler . .. The interior of the building is a scene, architectural splendor, and is not only a credit to Greenville, but to the entire section of the state. . .Remodeling has taken place in the workroom, storage room, and shipping departments, but more pronounced improvement is noticeable in the main part of the building which has been repainted in a most attractive way. The show window has been remodeled. The front is constructed of a light colored tile. The

(Christian Scimice Monitor)

The cmitroversy swirling around students rights has led five responsible groups representing college students, professors and administrators to appoint a committee to pin down these rights. Sponsoring poups include such well-known organizations as the American Association of University Professors and the National Student Association.

The committee has come up vdth a joint statement of principles amounting to notiiing less than a bill of rights for students. If ratified by the spoBsoring organizations, the statement should help to clarify and protect student rights.

The committee holds that students should have the freedom to invite and hear controversial guest speakers, to engage in off-campus protest activities without university interference, to examine and to discuss all questions of interest . . . and to express opinions publicly, to establish stiident newspapers as independent corporations financially and legally separate from the university, to be

subjected to disciplinary proceedings only for violations of standards of conduct formulated with significant stu

Flagg Bemis, Alfred A. Knopf, Joseph Wood Krutch, and Mark Van Darenin foundli^ the Council Basic . Education. Helped along by grants from several foundations, the CBE has been campaigning for quality ever since. Its budget is only $95,000 a year, the merest petty cash to the NEA, but it is enough to pay the rent and to publish a lively stream t btdletins and occasional papers.

Looking oack over this past decade, the old eye doctor is generally pleased with what he sees. Few persons any longer promote tiie virtues of social adjustment. The more extreme apostles of per-ndsfiive educatkm have wandered off. There is far more

dent participation and publish- - Hibject matter in the qualified in advance, and to be pro- cation teadiers. EkiucatioD

lected against Improper disclosure of student records or of information on their political beliefs or associations.

Unqualified agreement with every point recommended is not necessary to recognize the value of spelling out student righte. The tradition of acar demic freedom in America is a strong and vital one. It benefits not only the academic community but the whole country as well. This Magna Carta of student rights should help to assure a continuation of that tradition in the face of ill-conceived attempts to make thought and action conform to this or that persons notion of what is good or expedient.

Rights, of course, are not unlimited. And they do call forth corresponding responsibilities. The more responsibly students exercise their righiB, the more likely they are to be able to maintain them.

in science and mathematics has greatly improved. Most encouraging, a frend back to phonics is evident in the teaching of reading. And people are talkiag about textbooks instead of gym suits.

Smitii claims no particular credit for his own gadfly achievements. Reforms in the teaching of reading doubtless would have come, even without tiie CBEs incessant pressure, if only because fed-up parents and employers would have demanded them. But within the sometimes foggy world of education, the Councils bulletins strike like shafts of sunshine and have a tonic effect. Smith used to have a fine time in the deadpan reporting of dizy studies and doctoral dissertations in the field of education, but lately his wells of nonsense have run

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By ELMER ROESSNER Bfuikers have a new trick. Come, now, dont say bankers always have new tricks. This is a real tricky trick that other businessmi might adopt.

It came to light after a man with a gun walked into a bank at Rosedale, N. Y., and demanded money in $10, $20 and $50 denominations. He was handed a stack. The teller, at interior tthe same time, tripped a

Much Progress Made By Local Beauty School

The Beauty Culture school which as been conducted by the Vanitie Boxe of this city the past several months, has turned out a number <rf ^aduates who are now established in various towns of the State. . . .

switch timt activated a camera tiiat photographed the robber.

The money was largely stage money, sandwiched in between a few real bills. And, the police disclosed, many banks have similar bundles ready for other stickers up.

The curious part about this case was that the robber was not caught while trying to pass a bit of the banks stage mo

ney, nor yet directly by the photograph of him that tiie bank teller took. Instead, he was nabbed in a routine police check of auto regisfra-tions. His was forged and the gun he carried was a fake. You Cant Trust Anybody

All tills may prove that you cant trust anybody these days. A robber with an unregistered get-away car bolds up a bank with a phony pistol and gets imitation money. The only thing real in the whole transaction is the jail cell in which the roWier, who gave the name of Kenneth Malloy, is in durance awaiting trial.

However, the case points up the fact that if business-men-^d the Rosedale branch of the Meadow Brook National Bank were as smart as the small - time crooks, there might be few bank stickups.

For some time banks have

been using hidden and still cameras to photographs robberies and, as the Rosedale case disclosed, stacks of stage money for them. But they and merchants could do more. For example:

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They could dust a special stack of money with that chemical that turns skin touching it red, and makes it redder the more it is washed.

They could have hidden recorders at tellers windows

tory and geography had vanished in a mist of pe^stivc social studies. Pupils could not read serious books or write coherent papers. They knew pitifully little of poetry,

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROMIRT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Cta top of all his other .poUtical miser-Govemei, Geofgc Rom-

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ney of Michigan now faces a severe money crisis ih his just-begun drive for the Republican Presiilentiill nomination.

It has not by ahy means reached the stage where Romney Aasociatei, the cover name for the Roinney-ior-

President organization, cant pay their biib. But Romneys

money raisers have fallen far behind their ambOtous $^0-dule. And with it^so-

ciates maintalnhig nifji .paries, of mid-campaign pltiwr-tions in bo^tb Limsiog and Washington, %at i^llf real trouble ahead.

Ironically, when the Boxnney Presidential effort began last November, fund-raising seemed the last thing to worry about. On hand wera tills all-star trio qf jptmy-raisers:

Detroit milDonatra Ift a z Fisher, a maJor tood-raiser for the UnUed Jewish Appeal (UJA) wttfa momy sources not only in the Jewish community but in the oil industry as wtil; restaurantho-tel ma^te J. Willard Mar^ riott, of Washington, eipected to hit his fellow Monnons as well as other businessmen; Washington financier J. Clifford Folger, who as Richard M. Nixons formn* diief fundraiser is thorouiddy familiar with tile conventional sources of Republican campaign money.

But that all-ftar trio has been plagued with aome failures and a lot of bad luck. Folger simply hasnt brought in the money expected of him Marriott was struck by serious illness and is out of the campaign indefinitely. Bscause of the six-day Middle East war, the UJA called on Fisher to touch his sources who might have been giving to Romney.

Normally, Romney might be able to recoup from these money setbacks through Gov-*uTK>r Nelson Rockefeller 0' New York, who has personally contributed millions to his own and other Republican campaigns. But believing that the party should no longer be propped up by the Rockefeller fortune, the Governor has chosen this particular time to drastically curtail political contributions. That means Romney has Rockefellers unequivocal endorsement but little of his money.

Yet, for all of this ill for- tune, the Romney fund-raising operation would be in no great difficulty if his Presidential prospects and polls were nearly as high as last November. Fund-raising is often a good barometer of a candidates progress, as shown by one recent backstage incident.

Len Hall, Romneys campaign manager, explained the diminishing state of his war chest to former Governor William Scranton of Pennsylvania and asked for his help in raising some money. Scranton rea-dy agreed. But despite Scrantons immense prestige inside the wealthy Eastern establishment, his first fundraising efforts were less than successful.

This is a clear signal from the fund - raising barometer that Romneys year - long plunge has not yet hit bottom. Fearful that Romney will not survive New Hampshires Presidential primary against Nixon next March, Itepublican money sources who want a mdderate mminated falter at pouring money into a losing cause.

which, at the press of a button would record the voice of a suspicious person, as w e 11 as start a movie camera. However, the Supreme Court might knock out the use of a voice tape. That would be making a robber testify against himself, wouldnt it?

And, of course, the Benders might steal an idea from Get Smart and iocUide a micropbone hidden in a ailver dollar. nly the jerkiest thieves woidd ignore a silver dollar these daysl

Ways To Overcome Hi N<HChair Ploy Prentice - Hall reports that one Tom Nolen, a top executive of an unnamed coim>any gets more work done by removing every chair except his from his office. Visitors, he said, cut short their visits when they have to stand.

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