Tuesday, September S, 1967

Observers Were An Empty Gesture

Sending prominent office holders from the United States to South Vietnam to observe the first election in that nation is sort of like sending a blue-ribbon committee of football coaches to watch two teams whose members had never seen a football game, or read the rule book, or even had a coach who really understood the object of the game.

It was rather silly.

If the U.S. observers served any purpose with their visit it wag to provide the administration with some affirmative head-nodders if anyone asks about the fairness of the Vietnam elections. Although they were on the scene during the last few days of the election, the U.S. observers opinion on the fairness of the election would be superficial at best.

While those office-holders who were sent by the President may be well qualified to evaluate the election process in most any American community, it is highly doubtful that any American politican is qualified to render an authoritative evaluation on the Vietnamese elections after only a few days In the country. Even the Vietnamese themselves, unfamiliar with the workings of Western democracy and western elections, probably were not really

North Carolina Summer Scene'

By WILLIAM A. SHTOES Reflector Raleigh Bureau CLAYTON - A hawk perched motionless on a branch high In a tall tree at the upper end of the pond, watching for a mouse, a frog or a fish to catch for supper.

It was late irt the day and the sun was going down. Its last rays glinted off the mirror smoothness of a still farm pond and there was a breath of coolness in the air.

A lone fisherman sat in a little boat fishing deep for bluegills which werent biting.

The water was high and the pond muddy from recent rains and runoff, but it was quiet in the fading light of a summer day and there was time fbr reflection.

and pastures and finally on the water of the pond. Now it is dark and time to go.

In western North Carolina, where mountains rear massively against the sky, autumn comes earlier. Columnist John Parris of the Asheville atizen-Ttmes describes the turnirig into September:

The dawn comes in chill and heavy with mist and the sun burns away the mist and sets the streams a-sparkle.

Along the winding country roads burnished spires of gold-enrod stand sentinel in the sun. . .the days grow shorter-and the nights come more quickly. . .now comes the time of golden sunlight, sifting and quivering through tree and flower and shrub. . .

.sure of what wa.s going on. They were going through a strange ritual that probably had little meaning to most of them.

The visiting politicians were going through a much more familiar ritual of pretending, for the sake of political expediency, they understood a .situation about which they had only the vaguest information.

Must Provide Money To Licensing pivision

If Gov. Moore wants results, it is evident he will have to insist more firmly and more decisively that the State Highway Commission turn over to the Department of Motor Vehicles funds in the highway contingency placed there by the joint appropriations committee for use by the DMV.

Obviously it is a confused and complex situation. There may be grounds for the Highway Commission refusing to turn over the funds which the DMV needs for its licensing division, since those funds are in the Highway commissions contingency budget. On the other hand, the request coming from the governor and the Council of State leavqs little doubt that the funds were intended by the legislature to go to the DMV licensing division to cover anticipated deficits in current operations.

Certainly the action of the Highw^ay Commission in rejecting the request of Gov. Moore and the Council of State is a slap in the face of the states highest elected officials. While the Highway Commission is responsible for the operation of that agency, it is part of the administration. The governor and the Council of State have to consider the overall operation of all the states agencies and resolve occasional financial and inter-agency coptroversies. in the final analysis, the governor is responsible for his admiiii.straiion and for actions of those commis-sion.s which serve under his appointment and direction.

The licensing division of the Department of Motor Vehicles must be provided funds which to carry out its functions, and those should come from the source intended by the legislature. ^

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The fields nearby, owned by State Sen. Jesse Austin of Johnston County, were ripe with golden tobacco now being pulled and barned, and pungent with the smell of harvest time.

The pastures were a lush, deep green, soft and luxuriant with growth. Whitefaced cattle grazed near the pond.

In the bordering, dark woods an owl hooted in the gathering dusk. The crickets chirped and frogs began to croak in the wet, muddy reeds.

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Finally the hawk sailed hito the pale sky and began to circle. And something a good-sized bream tugged strongly at the fishermans line and the cork went under.

This was a 1 a t e summer icene typical of rural North Carolina not Walden pond nor Grays English churchyard but with shades of each. Rather, a quiet time of leisure and relaxation and a return to the pleasure and quiet joy of the countryside.

Reverie is interrupted by the roar of automobile engines, the honk of horns and queal of tires on the nearby blacktop road and a four-lane superhighway not far away.

But dusk somes quickly, in t gold and purple sky falling <m the pines and in deeper shades of green on the fields

There's the cidery smell of early apples on the ground and the first tang of wood smoke curling from a chimney.

The Daily .Advance of Elizabeth City takes note of another item of interest to wildlife and nature lovers reports that Ivory-billed woodpeckers, believed extinct, have been found in the Big Thicket country of East Texas.

By GORDON TAIT GOLD COAST CITY, Aus-

ralia (P) Gold Coast is SHIRES a 21 - mile stretch of Pacific playground with plenty of sun, sand, surf and those lovely creatures young Australians sometimes call sheilas.

And this is a place where tens of thousands of American soldiers from Vietnam are slated to rest up for five days under the furlough sche m e started Sept. 1. Other Americans will stay at Brisbane. .50 miles to the north, and at Sydney, 450 miles south.

The plan for the Gold Coast

This Date--40 Years

Also, the newspaper reports, A (TO OC'

old timers in the Albermarle 2

insist the bird is still around... hidden deeply and happily in the cypress brakes <rf the Dismal Swamp (in North Carolina). The Daily Advance edi-,. tor hopes it is so.

This makes for inspiied speculation and must bring a thrill of anticipation to our local nature lovers, he writes. But he fears that even in the murky, watery swamp man finally will prevail.

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this date 40 years ago today ep By FOY H. DUNCAN Sept. 5, 1927 Plane Brings Load Of Tobacco To Local Market Tobacco soared higher here today than ever before when an airplane brought in 200-pounds of bright Igaf from Bertie County to be sold on the opening of the Greenville market today. . . .The plane, bearing the golden leaf cargo was piloted by Jack Bellamy. After circling over the city, the birdman headed for the landing field where, a truck a short time later conveyed the tobacco to the floor of a local warehouse. . . .The tobacco, according to Bellamy, was the property of Ed Cowan, McKeel and Taylor. . . .The trip of 83 miles was made in 65 minutes. . . .Mr. Cowan, who lives near Colerain, is one of the largest tobacco producers in the section where he resides. . . .Announcement that the first load of the season would be sent to the market by air, caused growers from miles around to gather at the farm to see aviation play its first part in the tobacco industry.

is to have 1,000 Americans here at all times, living in hotels and motels that will provide each with a good - sized room with bath to himself.

The surf and the sand and the fun - spots of the Gold Coast have been long-standing vacation attractions for the young people from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. There always seem to be more girls than hoys; you see them in their tiny bikinis sitting around in twos, threes and fours, talking among themselves.

When the word got out that the Yanks were coming reservations of rooms by girls for the period after Sept. 1 suddenly skyrocketed.

The Gold Coast welcomes three million visitors a year, and they leave behind 70 million Australian dollars ($78 million, in U.S. currency). City administrators estimate 1,-OW Americans here all the time would leave an annual bonus of $10 million ($11 million U.S.), with each Yank spending at least $45 ($50 US.) a day.

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Strength aor Today

In fielding questions the other day on Meet the Press, Harold Howe was asked about the use of Federal funds to subsidize the writing of textbooks for use in public schools. The U.S. Commissioner of Education scooped up the ball with practiced ease. Nothing to worry about, he said in effect; and threw his questioner out at first.

The reporter who looks into Federal grants for educational research is inclined to agree up to a point. So far, and

the emphasis has to be put on so far, the governments p-rogram of educational subsidies appears to have been administered with great prudence. There is nothing to indicate that Howes office is embarked upon a ccmspiracy to indoctrinate little children ill officially approved theories of genetics, anthropology, economics, American history, or anything else. Howe and his top people are adamantly opposed to any such thing.

The governments budget for educational research, admin-

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Eastern Tobacco Market In Readiness For Opening ' Tobacco from 27 counties has been pouring into this city for forty - eight hours for tomorrow morning opening.

Quiet Wedding In Christian Church

A wedding of quiet simplicity was solemnized in the Eight Street Christian Church last Saturday morning at nine oclock, when Mis.s Agness Campbell was married to .Mi . R. E. Swain of Georgetown, S. C.....

Miss Melene Congeton has returned to Siler City to resume her teaching.

James Burton James Jr. has returned from Camp Green-briar at Alder.son, We.st Va.

Van Stringfield of Clayt 0 n spent the weekend here.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

ON PROBLEM-SOLVING

Not all problems in life admit of solution. There is a Pol-lyanna type of optimism which leads us to believe that we could know all the answers if we were only wise enough. But this undoubtedly is not the case. There are some things we are never intended to know. There are other things involving knowledge which the human mind is not fashioned to grasp.

Everybody has to live with certain problems in his life which can never be solved. They are not intended to be solved; they are intended to be endured. Most of our problems can be solved. But no one can ever explain to us why some great and unaccountable tragedy overtook us. No one can ever work out human relationships in such way that we will live pleasantly with all people. There are some over whelming problems in our life that are not solved, that never will be solved, and that are not intended to be solved.

This should not discourage us. We shall have plenty to do solving the problems of life that can be solved. When we cannot solve a certain problem in life we have to make the best of it, problem or no problem.

Many a person would be much happier than he now is if he would give up frantically trying to solve certain of his . pn>hiems and be content to live with them.

(The Salisbury Post)

A chilling warning has been delivered on the ultimate cost to the nation of failure to resolve its racial agony and soon.

I feel very deeply, John A. McCone told the Senate Judiciary Committee, that unless we find an answer to this problem it is going to split our society irretrievably and destroy our country.

This is one of the strongest statements yet heard on the possible consequences of mounting racial strife. What gves it special weight is the source.

McCone is not given to hyperbole. A conservative Re-ipublican businessman, he has served three administrations in the Defense Department, as head of the Atomic Energy Commission and most recently, as director of the Central Intelligence Agency. If anything, sober understatement has marked his public pronouncements during a long and impressive career of service.

He would be the last to cry,

Wolf!

For the past two years. McCone has headed a California commission investigating the Watts riots in Los Angeles, and it was in this capacity that he appeared at the committees hearings on the House-passe(J antiriot bill a measure he found reasonable in itself, but it would be a mistake for Congress to pass this bill and think it is going to stop riots.

The short - range answer, he suggested, is in jobs and the long-range in education, but the ultimate solution is not going to come quickly or easily. But find it we must, resisting the temptation to resign ourselves to belief that the situation is hopeless.

Somber words, but useful. From such a source, they serve to underscore the indispensable basis for the search for a solution realization, if any can still doubt, that today and right here at home we are confronted with perhaps the gravest challenge of our national experience.

istered through Howes office, now runs in the neighborhooci of $100 million a year. Of this sum, only $6 million is marked for curriculum development that is, for the preparation of materials that deal directly with course content.

The rest of the budget goes principally into what might be called the methodolopy of teaching. Education of the handicapped gets $10 million a year; vocational education is down for the same amount. Some $15 million goes into research on the teaching of reading. Another $20 million helps to finance such regional laboratories as the Learning Research and Development Center at the University of Pittsburgh. Still other substantial grants have been approved for library research, audio-fisual research, and computer-aided instruction. While some of these experiments provoke sharp controversy within the teaching profession, none of them seems likely to arouse the wrath of Senator Eastland.

It ought to be said, too, that even within the narrow field of curriculum development research, the. Federal grants present little to ignite the suspicious eye. About half the $6 million budget is being invested in some promising experiments in individually prp-scribed instruction, by which each child in a classroom proceeds at his own speed in each of his subjects. Other course material, subsidized with Federal funds, has to do with biology, physics, geography, and esoteric languages. Not even the most captious critic could complain.

Why, then, the reservations? The answer is simply that some powerful pressures are being exerted on Howe to subsidize the writing of the

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Repubh-can National Chairman Ray C. Bliss, operating with h i s habitual secrecy and caution, plans to surprise the National Committee meeting here by unveiling a compromise scheme to control the runaway Young Republicans.

It gives Bliss and the partys elders far more power over the rambunctious, ri-'.iti.st YRs than the YR militants will accept. But as a personal agreement between Bliss and the new YK National Chairman, Jack McDonald, it won't satisfy many party moderates who demand basic institutional reform ending the YRs* bizarre existence as a party within a party.

Here is another example of a Bliss band-aid, covering tbs partys open sores as a Presidential election year .approaches but not treating the real disease: inability of the right-wing YRs to recruit the nations youth. Moreover, tension between "YR leaders and party moderates is so intense that the Bliss band-aid may not hold in this case.

Bliss was provoked into some kind of action by t h Wemrtat YR ? convention hf Omaha last Defying

Blisss modest requests throughout, the convention refused to surrender a shred of autonomy. It rejected all regular party authority by refusing to seat a New Jersey delegation certified by State Chairman Webster Todd and seating a Rhode Island delegation de-certified by State Chairman Howard Russell.

Advice to crack down hard on the YRs and perhaps even cut off their funds was pressed on Bliss by prominent party leaders including the two members of the National Ck)m-mittce named by Bhss to oversee the YRs Don Ross of Nebraska and Tina Harrower of Connecticut.

But Bliss was not about to risk internal bloodletting so close to a Presidential election. Instead, he began quiet, methodical negotiations with McDonald. The climax came Aug. 22 when Bliss, Ross and McDonald met secretly in Washington. Bliss extracted concessions from McDon a 1 d which might not have satisfied Ross but did represent some YR yielding to parental authority.

McDonalds cone e s s i ons were put down in writing the next in a personal letter from Bliss to McDonald (which Bliss requested McDonald to sign and return to him). Among the 11 guidelines* listed were these new controls over the YRs:

Employees of the YR National Federation will be subject to the approval of my (Blisss) administrative assistant who will clear them with regular state party officials.

Materials published by the Young Republican National Federation (YRNF), which often have a far right flavor, will be subject to prior review and approval of the Republican National Committees public relations director.

No funds of the YR National Federation will be used, either directly or indirectly, to promote any candidate prior to nominationthere b y cutting off any undercover YR push for Governor Ronald Reagan.

The annual YR Leadership Training Schools program, usually indistinguishable from a right - wing rally, shall be coordinated with the Nation-

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'-.esson Far Tad ay: 'Organize'

By ELMER ROESSNER

The great lesson for today is: organize!

The American democracy is so set up that the organized get what they want. The others get whats left.

The classroom models,, are the Negroes, the welfare recipients, the Democrats, the Republicans, the Mafia and, of course, labor.

Labor unions claim a total membership of 17 or 18 million persons, which may be high A recent Labor Department release put the number of men under union contract at 10 million. Government figures put the civilian labor force at 80 million. B^Jt whether 22.5 percent or 12.5 percent of the labor force are dues-paying, card-carrying members of unions, this tightly organized minority surely .''.wings a long and heavy tail. Power Of The Organized

Two years ago, a few thousand men were able to tie up the great city of New York. It was quite illegal, but the power of those few thousand was so great that no one dared to impose penalties and the legislature was actually pressured into rewriting the law.

Today, the United Auto workers, an organization of 1.3 million men, are threatening to strike and, in striking, can tie up the national economy. This gro^, or less Than one per cent of the population, has the power to send all business into a tailspin, to bankrupt countless businesses and to cut your income, whoever you are.

Organized labor has repeatedly shown its power to force price increases. Strikes by Steelworkers have repeatedly pushed up the price of steel; strikes by Teamsters have increased the price of almost

everything portable.

Higher prices to meet higher labor costs are of course inflationary. And the grim jest here is that labor itself is a group that inflation hits hard. However, organized labor can get successive increases offsetting the effects of. inflation, while most other workers cant.

Consider the Building Trade

The building trades unions are one of the most tightly organized in the country. It is extremely difficult to get into these unions. Most Negroes never make it.

The Department of Labor reports that as of July 3, the average hourly wage scale of unionized building trades workers was $4.85, which was 5.6 per cent higher than the July, 1966, average.

Laborers got an average of $3.78 and those with more skills, or tighter unions, got

more, with plasterers getting $5.12, bricklayers $5.31, and plumbers $5.35. In Oakland, Calif., plumbers get $6.92 an hour. Overtime rates are generally 50 per cent more, and some unions insist on overtime after the sixth hour.

The lesson is clear; organize!

Join your civic association. Join a party, Join a church, join a union. Join the chamber of commerce, the Main Street Merchants Association, your industrys trade association.

But be damned careful about the anti-truit lawf. They operate on a different baiif ttun the Taft-Hartley Uw.

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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all, are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.Herbert Spencer.