Tuesday, September 26, 1967

Needed To Back Up Law And Order

It is not surprisinir, perhaps, that some citizens do not like the idea of National Guard units being u-ained to deal with riots or other civil disorders. They look upon the training as a threat rather than a safeguard for the state and its peopl%.

It is our sincere hope that no community in North Carolina will face a civil disturbance that will necessitate the calling out of local police, or state law enforcement officers, much less the National Guard. In spite of that hope which is shared by all citizens, it must also be recognized that it is better for the Guard trained for an emergency it may never face than to have it called to face an emergency for which it is not trained.

If the National Guard units are to back up local and state authorities in maintaining law and order in cases of extreme crisis, they must be given the training to enable them to carry out the tasks assigned to them. To deny them the training they

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3ehind Scenes

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGHThere has been a strained, uncomfortable official silence thus far but there is seething anger and reaction behind the scenes in Raleigh.

The reason for reddened faces and clenched teeth is the hiring of Howard Fuller of Durham as a lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at a time when restraint and removal from poliical controversy was considered essential to restore tranquility and stability.

Disclosure of the Fuller incident was dynamite. With a slow - burning fuse.

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SHIRES

Politically, there could hardly be anything more embarrassing in Raleigh than news that a controversial anti-poverty worker accused of racial agitation and instigating of rock - throwing demonstrations on the streets in Durham is to be paid to lecture as an expert on community organization in the graduate school of social work in Chapel Hill.

Made A Target

Such a position involves paying Fuller from state funds at a time when federal funds for his former anti poverty post in Durham have been suspended because of activist activity.

Also, Fuller and his activities in Durham have been a prime target of Republi can Rep. James C. Gardner who has accused Fuller and Durhams anti - poverty Operation Breakthrough of stirring up racial trouble, improper political activity and agitating violence.

In a relatively brief time, Gardner has become a painful thorn in the side of North Carolinas Democratic party organization by pointing up Inconsistences in its moderate, middle - of the - road

positions and criticising liberal policies of the national administration, also Democrat.

Trying Times Furthermore, the state administration in Raleigh has experienced trying times with the image of the University in Chapel Hill and repercussions which it inherited.,

It labored to amend the bitterly - opposed and vehemently-condemned Speaker Ban-law of 1963 which was directed pointedly at Chapel Hill. It felt it reached a reasonable and workable compromise and one which the legislature would live with. It accepted stoically stfch things as the Apthecker wall and ot h e r insults and recriminations, about things beyond its reach.

Now, however, the Fuller incident has revived much of this same controversy and criticism, and no one in Raleigh connected with the administration nor the moderate wing of the Democratic party likes it.

Many do not understand how it was allowed to happen, and feel there must be corrective action.

Governors View After a week or more, the governor let his own views be known by a brief statement through his press secretary. He was unaware of the fact that Fuller was to be given such a post, he said, and he feels it was a serious mistake.

But neither the governor who is chairman of the UNC board of trustees nor University president William Friday would comment further on the matter.

Familiar Story It amounted to a fairly familiar story. Any public criticism of such a step would be condemned as political interference and denial of academic freedom.

The same charges were levelled during the Speaker Ban controversy and accreditation of the University by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools was reported to be in jeopardy because of so-called interference by t h e legislature in internal affairs of the university. The Speaker Ban law prohibited known Communists or persons with suspected Communist affiliation from speaking on state-supported campuses.

might need to deal with an emergency situation would be the height of folly.

Obviously the state must provide by every reasonable means to protect the lives and property of its citizens against civil disorders. It is just as real an obligation as that of a community to provide police or fire protection.

Gov. Moore has made it quite clear in numerous statements that lawlessness and mob action will not be tolerated in North Carolina regardless of its source or its participants. This view is shared by the vast majority of citizens of the state. The governor obviously intends to back up those words with action if ^at should become necessary. In this too, in our judgement, he has the support of the vast majority of North Carolinians.

Voice Of The Tobacco Grower Must Be Heard

Farmers of Pitt and other tobacco producing counties should not hesitate to let their congressional representatives and officials of the Department of Agriculture know how they feel about the proposed loan program for flue-cured tobacco.

The proposal should be a major step in alleviating the mass congestion which now exists on flue-cured tobacco markets. Growers would not be under the present pressure of trying to sell their crop before the specified period for marketing untied leaf ends. Pressure on auction markets and processing plants would be eased and a more orderly manner of marketing the tobacco could prevail.

There is little doubt that farmers in this area welcome the proposed loan program. The Department of Agriculture should move swiftly and positively to activate the program to meet the needs of tobacco growers.

Washington Hac Same Problems

Remember Way Back Last Summer We Called Him M-M-Miekcy Mouse?

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EditorsThis is the first of several articles on the ancient but never - ending contest between the .president and Congress over how much say each should have in foreign affairs.

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - If President Johnson thinks he has it bad, he should have seen what happened to the first president. George Washington got so fed up with abuse, not for getting the country into a war but for trying to keep it out of one, he said hed rather be dead.

That was the start of the All-American game of heckling presidents over for e i g n policy but few have been hit harder than Johnson for the war in Vietnam. His critics are a mixed lot of doves who wanta softer war or none and hawks who want a tougher one.

One of the most critical doves, Sen. J. W. Fulbright, has come up with a plan for clip-pi.ng Johnsons wings, although he says it isnt meant to. But the resolution the Arkansas Democrat proposed in the Senate speaks for itself.

It would give the Senate a lot more say in foreign affairs

Strength For Today

By EARL JL DOUGLAS

THE JOY OF FAITH

Does your religious faith make you happy or unhappy? The question, as a matter of fact, should not be put this way because if what we call our religious faith makes us unhappy, it is not religious faith. It is religious pretension. This does not necessarily mean that it is hypocritical, but it certainly means that it is mistaken.

One thing true religious faith always does for people is to give them an inner sense of satisfaction, peace and joy. We can, in fact, measure the quality of our religious faith by asking ourselves whether or not faith, as we know it, produces within us these qualities. A sour, long-faced, dour Christian he is just a church member. True Christian faith is written on the countenance of a person who possesses it Some people are by nature solemn, and others vivacious. Christian faith does not necessarily change our disposition, but it does change our character. Some very sincere and helpful Christians are people of solemn exterior. Others are vivacious and cheerful. But down in the heart of both the solemn and the cheerful must be a feeling of peace and conviction which confers joy on its possessor.

Dont get discouraged over this. As we have said before, no sensible person claims to be a Christian, but aims to be a Christian, Were in this thing together, and if we are sincere God is pleased with us. Sincerity is a primary Christian virtue. In fact, It stands first, for without sincerity nothing else counts.

than the Constitution provides and, therefore, Johnson less. If the Senate approves the resolution, Johnson can ignore it, and probably will, since it does not have the effect of law. But ignoring it would irritate the critics even more.

While Fulbrights move reflects dissatisfaction with Johnsons role in the drag-ged-out war in Vietnam, its just one more ploy in the old and endless struggle between the White House and Congress over which has the right to do what in foreign affairs.

Its roots are in the Founding Fathers* vagutness. They were muddle - headed, inexperienced and superficial in foreign affairs when they laid down the rules for the new government in the Constitution of 1787. ,

After their resentments and frustrations with the British royal governors in Colon i a 1 days, they were bent on separating the powers of the various branches of the new government through checks and balances.

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

Compulsory Union Tes

It passed almost unnoticed in the news, but one of the years most significant cases in the developing law of human rights was filed this past Friday in California. The lawsuit has been carefully drawn to present a question that ultimately the Supreme Court must answer: Is t h e right to work, without being compelled to join a labor union, a constitutional right?

Twice in recent years, opponents of compulsory union

ism have attempted to make the Court stand up to the question. Each time the Court ducked. In the second of these cases, in 1961, Mr. J u s t i ce Black objected vehemently to his brothers refusal to face the issue squarely. The constitutional question,* he said, is bound to come back here soon with a record so meticulously perfect that the court cannot escape deciding it. Precisely such an effort now has been launched by 24 rank-

Other Editors Saying Seaufort Deserves It

This Date--

40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN Sept. 26, 1927 Free Circus Tickets For Twenty-Five School Children Boys and girls, 14 years or younger, have an opportunity to witness John Robinsons Circus here Saturday, Oct 8 as guests of the Reflector. All grade school children are invited to participate in a great Essay Contest and all who enter will be benefited. . .The way to see John Robinstms Circus, boys and girls, is to write an essay of not more than 100 words on any animal. . . .Essays must be neat and accurate and written on one side of the paper. . . .

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Quiet, sleepy, beautiful Beaufort was awarded a plaque in recognition of its work for restoration and preservation of historic structures. The award was made at the annual convention of the American Association of Local History Association in its Toronto, Canada convention.

Beaufort is rightly puffed up with pride over the award. The Beaufort Historical Society members were so busy working on further projects they had not even filed in the contest. No doubt Dr. Cliristoph-er Crittenden, longtime b i g wheel in the Association, or Sam Tarleton, saw that Beauforts work was nominated.

That award will be just the incentive Beaufort needs to fire new enthusiasm in local history study and preservation. The Society on its own power and purpose and without government aid of state or federal origin has restored two 200 - year - old homes and has more such plans in the works.

Volunteers during the sum

mer manned tours through two gardens and homes, complete with period furniture, which have been restored. The volunteers who kept the homes opep, throughout the summer for the benefit of visitors have shown an example from which the several restoration projects, on a local scale, can take example.

Beaufort killed two birds with one stone in its summer history display. At one of the restored old houses, an art show was staged throughout the summer season. At all times at least 100 works by sectional artists were on display. The name of the a t show has the interesting name of Fish Town. Once Beaufort was called Fish Town.

Scores of sales of pictures by Beaufort, Morehead and area artists were made during the unusual display.

The unusual art show arous ed so much interest, both locally and among visitors, that a firm foundation is built for resuming the show when the next opening of the old homes is started.

and * file employees of the McDonnell - Douglas Corporation. Under the companys contract with the Intemati(-al Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (lAM), these workers are compelled to join the uraon, and pay dues and assessments to it, in order to hold their jobs.

The employees suit, filed lin a Federal District Court, is predicated entirely upon constitutional grounds. The plaintiffs contend that the compulsory union shop deprives them of civil rights guaranteed by the First, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments of the Constitution. What they are seeking to establish is that nfans essential freedoms work in two ways: The right to speak is accompanied by a right to remain silent; the right to assemble embraces a right to stay away; the right to vote carries with it a right not to vote. And in the immediate case, involving members h i p in a labor union, the right to join must be balanced by a right not to join.

On any other basis, it will be argued, freedoms are meaningless. If a man must speak, his right of free speech is a hollow right, for the essence of freedom is a freedom to choose. A citizens choice of a job cannot be made to depend upon the suirender of his right not to associate. When he is compelled to associate, and compelled to pay union dues against his will, the first principles of constitutional freedom are violated.

If the California suit can be kept within these flght constitutional channels, the Supreme Court may well uphold the workers position and thus kill the union shop. Justices (Continued On Page 5)

HUD'S

I Role Is Harmec

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - By making an unprecedented personal attack against House Republican Leader Gerald Ford at the worst strategic moment, Secretary Robert Weaver of the Housing and Urban Development Department (HUD) has given one reason why Great Society programs under his care have so much trouble in Congress.

The Weaver - Ford hassle made few headlines, but it has been the subject of intense discussions in the House Republican cloakroom for t w e weeks. For the long run. Weavers influence on Capitol Hill has been whittled still more. For the short run, eventual House approval of appropriations for the rent subsidy pro-gram has been made more difficult.

Until Weavers outburst, the prospect for rent subsidies in the House had been brightening. Senator Everett Mclnley Dirksen, the Senate Republican leader, suddenly supporU ed the housing scheme in a charactwistic flip-flop. Moderate House Republicans such as Representative James Harvey, from Fords state of Michigan, were privately

pleading with Ford to do the same or at least not make hii opposition a party matter.

All this careful groundwork was undermined on August 29 when HUD sent out on its press distribution list a statement 1^ Weaver excoriating Ford for bis opposition to rent subsidies. Aside from the fact that this alienated Ford and other House R^iublicans needed to pass rent subsidies, nobody can remen)er a Cabinet member using sudi language publicly gainst a Congressional opposition leader.

Weavers statement began on a vituperative note, asserting that Ford is callous to the housing needs of low-in-come Americans. By his feeble criticism, Weaver continued, the Republican leader is turning his back to the problems of urto America and its poorer residents.

Weavers strident conclusion: Mr, Ford is an old enemy of legislation for decent housing and national assistance to orderly processes of urban development.

Republican supporters of the rent subsidy program such as Harvey (who recommended Weaver for the Cabinet job prior to his appointment) were flabbergasted. They believe the anti Ford broadside must have been the product of an overzealous HUD press agent, not even-tempered B(A Weaver.

They are wrong. Weaver wrote the statement himself in longhand, then sent it over to the public information section for distribution.

Nor is this the first time Weaver has been guilty of partisan over - kill. Earlier this year when Senator Charles H. Percy of Illinois was one of the few Republicans backing rent subsidies, Weaver unleashed a scathing attack on Percys own low-cost housing scheme.

Considering heightened Congressional awareness of the urban crisis, Harvey mky yet win over enough Republicans to approve the rent subsidy appropriation in the Hou$e. But if he does, it will be po thanks to Weaver.

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Birth Announcement Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Whic-hard announce the birth of a daughter Monday, Sept. 26, 1927.

Obsolescence From Labor Cost

Miss Martha Moye has left for Raleigh, where she will attend Peace Institute.

Howard and Jesse Moye are attending the University at Chapel Hill.

Miss Inez Hooker of Laurel Hill is visiting Miss Emma Mallison.

Mr. and Mrs. John P. Carroll, and Miss Beth Carroll of Winterville, were Greenville visitors Saturday.

Mrs. Leslie Smith and Mrs. J. C. Spencer of Farmville were here today.

Home of Joab Tyson Destroyed By Fire

The home of Joab T. Tyson, who resides near Greenville,' was completely destroyed by fire early Friday night, according to information received in this city today. The entire contents of the building were destroyed.

By ELMER ROESSNER

A new kind of obsolescence is affecting many consumer products. Its a labor - cost obsolescence.

For years, various consumer groups and critics of things as they are have been accusing industry of building obsolescence into their products. Products have been designed for a short life so that the manufacturers could sell their customers all over again and again, they have charged.

It is true that the fashion industry brings out new styles before the old ones wear out; it is true that the auto industry and several others bring out new models to deliberately outdate the last one, and in many instances the new models are not as good or as safe as the old ones.

Model change - overs both make and lose sales for the auto industry. They make sales because many people want

newness; they lose sales be-(jause other people turn to foreign - made cars that are made to last many years and not be put out of date by frivolous design changes. However, the industry must gain more sales than it loses with style changes. Otherwise it wouldnt make them. And so the public, not the manufacturers, is really to blame.

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ROESSNER

Built-In Failures Rare

But the old accusation that manufacturers deliberately

put in one weak screw, one limp spring or a faculty fuel

pump to make sales has been rarely proved. True, it may have happened some times, but on average such trickery would probably lose more sales than it would make reseal-es.

But now we have a new phenomenon. Its the obsolescense that comes from high wage costs and the fact that it requires as much labor to repair many things as it does to make them in tiie first place.

For $2 more you can buy a new one, has become a common statement. I recently had a power drill and an electric canopener conk out and a music box break. In each case I was told, For $2 more than the cost of repairs you c a n get a new one.

There is no gyp involved. A professional repair shop might have to send away for parts, have a skilled mechanic spend considerable time taking the

device apart and replacing the defect. And to make a profit he would have to charge almost as much as it cost in the first place.

Disposable TV Set?

Just how far this labor-cost obsolescense idea has spread is shown by the fact that Gordon E. Burns, a (General Electric official, told the recent convention of the National Alliance of Television and Electronics Service Association in Chicago that lome day ioon a $39.95 black - and - white television set may appear on the market.

There were groaoe from the aervioe men. They have already loit revenue from repair of small transistor radios, because they have become so cheap that most people throw them away and buy a new oea when something goes wrong.

And when a $40 TV set ra-quired $38 worth of r^airs, users would threw It away, too.