Thursday, October 26, 1967

Act To Make N.C. Highways Safei

Howls of protest notwithstanding?, the newly announced state policy of suspending licenses of chronic traffic violators is more to be admired than condemned.

In spite of the controversy which is certain to result from this new policy announced by Motor Vehicles Commissioner Ralph Howland, the policy offers another realistic means for North Carolina to deal effectively with the states growing traffic problem.

Commisvsioner Howland pointed out that some licensed drivers have as many as 50 arrests on their records. Such chronic violators, he said, will be called for hearings under the departments authority to suspend drivers license for good and sufficient reasons. It is the 10 per cent of flagrant violators were after, he declared.

Together with the newly announced policy for tlie Highway Patrol to begin a more vigorous enforcement of traffic regulations, this repre.'-'ents a new two-pronged attack by the Motor Vehicles Department. The new attack is certain to have its repercussions, It is certain to draw criticism from some resource.'^. At the same time, the new program probably will help reduce the deplorable toll that is being taken on the highways of this state.

Much of the public continues to insist that North

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same public, too often, becomes infuriated when of- al matter when it opened. Now, we are told, it has iicials take necessary action to help make those

patrolmen apprehend violators are too often viewed as giving the officer unfair advantage over the vilatr and are nt permitted.

Too often the public is more concerned with who is going to be arrested or whose license will be suspended than in really making the highways safer for all North Carolinians.

In the case of the new policies announced by the Motor Vehicles Department, they are of sufficient merit to warrant the overwhelming support of the citizens of this state.

Setting An Example Of What Can Be Done

Last week in High Point an 11-story 375,000 square foot addition to the Southern Furniture Exposition building was dedicated.

The wing includes 375,000 square feet.

What struck us about the event was the information that the furniture exposition building opened with 4.5 acres of showrooms in 1921. Now the vast complex contains 30 acres.

The High Point furniture market was a region-

highways safer. Law^ enforcement officers are seldom provided new tools with which to work without a lengthy controversy. Techniques which may help

Sco Stage

^y WnUAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Burean

RALEIGH U. Gov. Rob-trt W. (Bob) Scott is in the third stage of a carefully planned quest for the governorship of North Carolina.

TTic fourth and final stage, the decisive one, will begin with Scotts formal announcement and official opening of liis campaign, probably some-

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time after Jan. 1. He wants the timing of this to be just right because the fourth stage may last only a ouple of months or extend over nearly a year.

Right now, as any food farmer or political aspirant should, Scott is preparing the ground and planting the seed for 1968s campaign.

Holds Political Interest

Of course, what Scott is saying and doing holds particular interest among the states political observers.

The 38 - year old son of the late Gov. - Sen. W. Kerr Scott certainly is the front - runner at the present time for the Democratic nomlnati o n next Spring. Some predict he will escape major primary opposition, and Scotts own strategy and that of his supporting organization is swinging gradually to more of a partisan viewpoint looking toward certain Republican opposition and perhaps the most strenous GOP effort on record a year from now.

Scott has made no secret over the past few years of

his intention to seek the governorship someday at the Tight time ond under planned circumstances.

Began Earlier

He expressed such intentions four years ago while the 1964 gubernatorial campaign was in the budding stage.

But he chose instead to run ^

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ship and that campaign was the final part of the first stage. The second stage was to devote himself to the state's No. 2 office and its legislative tasks presiding over the State Senate through two regular and two special sessions and acquiring political experience and knowhow.

By following this rather rigid regimen, Scott is now immune to charges that he is a political newcomer. He isnt.

On the other hand, it may be charged that he is following in his fathers footsteps but Scott is taking steps to neutralize that sort of attackthe implication that he is rural-oriented by his third stage pronouncements and development of an overall campaign theme.

Cites Urban-Rural Relations

His speech in Asheville this week showed Scotts blending of an urban - rural approach.

He tied problems of the city and country together.

Our metropolitan areas would not be confronted with so many critical ills today if the problems of rural areas had been effectively s o 1 ved some years ago, he said.

And he said fiiat a solutiwi to the problems will require positive action in both rural areas and the cities. He described the mounting problems of cities and urban areas and suggested programs to provide economic opportunities in rural areas to hold our people there.

become the national center of the furniture world. And along with it this area of North Carolina has become the center for furniture manufacturing.

There is a simple lesson in all this, of course, and that is that even the largest institutions more often than not start small.

Perhaps the growth of the Southern Furniture Exposition Building has now exceeded even the wildest dreams of its founders. But there it stands, a symbol of what can be done here in North Carolina. It is a credit to those who worked through the years to make it so. It should he an inspiration to those who have dreams of other projects which can make North Carolina an even greater anj more prosperous state.

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The five Republicans most talked of as their partys presidential candidate in 1968 dont agree on how to handle the war in Vietnam but, with one exception, they have managed very briskly to team up against President Johnson.

The on^ exception is N e w Yorks Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller who says he doesnt want to be a candidate at all.

The other four sound alike in questioning the John son administrations truthfulness in telling the American people about the war. They are former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, Govs. George Romney of Michigan and Ronald Reagan of California, and Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois.

Of the five Republicans, Romney is the one who has been all over the lot. At one time he said America had a moral right to be involved in the war. At another time he said getting involved was a bad mistake.

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EARL L. DOUGLASS THE HEAVENS DECLARE

When astronomers begin to speak about the distance between. stars, the rate at which our planet revolves about an axis and traverses an orbit, we hold up our hands in a gesture of complete bewilderment. And certainly we are justified in so doing. The stars are so far apart that although they are rushing past one another at terrific speed there is no danger of collision. We have not the faintest idea where we are going, but certainly we are on our way. The advancing years teach us that as a matter of fact we know practically nothing about the planet on which we live and the solar system of which we are a part. This little planet called Earth is so insignificant that it can be likened to a grain of sand compared with the area of a large city.

Yet the Bible tells us that The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth his handiwork (Psalm 19:1). We cannot understand. We cannot gr a s p the immensity amid which we live. But what we can do is to acknowledge the presence of higher powers, the reelity of a Creator, the steady hand of a Sustainer and the continuation of a divine process, bewildering but real.

If we stand before these astronomical wonders and have no religion in our hearts, then we are in for a bad time. We cannot understand, but we can hold on and trust if we believe that the God Who created is a God of love, mercy, understanding.

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stepping up the bomibing. But now hes against it. At the same time he is also against pulling out. He talked about the moral rightness of American involvement in November 1965, after he and other governors had visited Vietnam,

This year he said he was brainwashed in Vietnam by American diplomats and military men but its hard to see how, since he came away with a gloomy picture, predicting things, might get worse before getting better.

Nine of the governors who went to Vietnam with Romney disputed his brainwashing charge. And Nixon, who went to Vietnam nine times to Romneys twice, said he had no complaints about the briefings he got on his visits there.

It was on Romneys brainwashing complaint that Rockefeller came closest to joining the chorus against the credibility of Johnson. But he was very guarded.

He said Romneys use of brainwashing wasan attempt to dramatize his views that the administration was giving a one - sided picture of the war.

But Rockefeller, unlike the others, hasnt made any complaints about Johnsons han-(Continued On Page 5)

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By FOY H. DUNCAN Oct. 26, 1927 Local Man Is Honored

Robert Humber, son of Mrs. and Mrs. R. L. Humber of Greenville, former Rhodes scholar, who is studying law in Paris, has been grantd an International Fellowship, according to advices received by relatives here, . . . Mrs. Humber was one of the eight young men chosen out of the hundred contestants. He will soon complete a course at the University of Paris, leading to a degree of Batchelor of Letters of the State which is considered the highest degree in the world. There are only about six such degrees in the United States. Mr. Humber was recently a guest of a private luncheon given in honor of General Pershing at Paris. He discussed various subjects with the distinguished American military leader, including the flight of Col. Charles Lindbergh which had been recently made at that time.

How To Civilize Africa?

Journeys end. Tomorrow it will be back to Beira, and thence by the big jet to Lisbon and New York, the Muzak playing, the steward bending; back to wall - to -wall amenities, and back to political questions that have simple solutions the tax bill, urban renewal, the Republican ticket.

But tonight, in this vast game preserve, there is time for candlelit reflection on the immensity of Africa, and on

the fearful complexity of its problems. The day has been spent in the bush, photographing the game that aboimds lions as regally somnolent as old women, rocking on remote verandiahs; elephants as ponderous as moving vans; baboons, war hogs, wildebeest, the impassive buffalo. Now the encampment and the soft-breathing African nignt in sable folds; far away, an eerie cry. A hyena is searching in the darkness.

Other Editors Saying Sea Study Center

(Ck)ldsboro News-Argus)

Beaufort and Morehead City have taken a distinguished place in the nation as a center for marine biology study.

'The step-by-step progress has been made so gracually that all of us have not realized it was happening. Latest example is the christening of the trawler built for the fisheries diversion of the Department of Conservation and Development, And there is a fitness in naming the half million dollar vessel the Dan Moore. Our governor is a mountain man and the people of our mountains and our Piedmont, as well as of our (Coastal plains, stand to profit from the studies carried on by the various groups of scientists in Carteret.

Another example of the which is serving other states and nations is that of the sea life and geography exploration ship The Eastward. Though in sfer-vice for only a couple of years, The Eastward already has attracted coopera-ative study projects from

scores of universities and colleges.

Now the Duke ship, built especially for 'oceanography and marine life study, is on an international research trip. On this trip the Eastward hopes to explore the bottom of the ocean in the Caribbean, which is known to be 5% miles deep, deepest ocean ditch known to man.

And the University of North Carolina is completing of splendid new building for study of the sea around us and its creatures. The University has had a laboratory for many years. But the new structure will exceed in completeness anything previously located there. UNC and Duke have cooperated in studies of sea life in the region for years, but not until recent date have the laboratories been of a scope equal to the significance of tiie waters off our coast.

The various projects and facilities at BeaufortMore-head are destined to play a role of greater importance in a science which is just now

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This is the time of the burning bush. Here the seasons are reversed. What passes for winter has ended; spring comes to the yellow fever trees, but the bush country is still brown boot brown, nut brown. From the air, it is as if a cobbler had sewn the landscape together from old scraps of leather; and everywhere there are fires. The natives set them, partly to protect their clay compounds from animals, four - legged and otherwise, and partly to put down the weedy underbrush. The fires burn slowly, patiently, over thousands of acres. Then the rains of late October come. Tonight the haze of distant fires obscures the moon.

No Westerner, one suspects, is capaible of understanding Africa, no matter how he tries; there are too many Africas to understand. At best, and with hard work, he can catch no more than a glimpse of the dimensions of the land. It is like comprehending the distance to Betelgeuse; one must learn to think in light years. Here the decades are mere grains of sand in an hour glass of eons. What values apply?

Surely they are not the familiar subjective values th a t Westerners would impose nationalism, free press, due process of law. The ethical values are different; the status of woman is different. Our own economy Is geared to the instinctive drive, as we see it, of all men in search of a split - level house; we are fueled by ambition; work and virtue are equated. Here in Africa it is not so; not now, in any event.

One looks intently at the mud huts, the miserable cages of chickens, the grass (Contioaed On Page S)

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By HAL BOYLE

T NEW YORK (AP) - It has become something of a game to give name tags to the different generations.

For example, the period following the U.S. Civil War nas been called The Gilded Age. And Gertrude Stein lumped all the sad young men in Paris after the close of World War I in the expressive term, The Lost Generation.

How, then, could the present older generation be classified? That would cover anyone 50 or over.

Why not The Bossed Generation? They certainly have besn bossed by change, circumstance, challenge and children.

Members of the Bossed Generation have never quite been able to keep their feet on tie ground because the ground has kept sliding out from under them.

In mankinds past, many generations have known a period of safety, serenity or certaintya lull in lifes storms.

Not the Bossed Generation, however. It has never h^d a chance to get set, to lick its wounds, to recover from the blows that have continually bewildered it.

Consider the plight of one of these hardy veterans:

He was bom to the sound of the vanishing hoofbeats of the horse, and before he was out of knee britches he had to acquire the new art of ducking out of the path of automobiles.

He has weathered two great wars only to emerge into a time when every bush seems to be burning with a new brushfire war. He has heard of peace but only as a recurrent rumor.

Hard times came knocking at his family door in his boylwod, and he grew up in the shadow of one of the worst depressions in history. When he got out of col- % legeif he didnobody seemed

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to want him. A job was not his right or privilege. If he found one, he thought it was kind of suspicious miracle.

He has lived on into a time of uneasy prosperity, but he cannot feel quite safe in it. For it has come a bit late to him. The accent is now on youth, not experience, and a new generation is already shouldering him aside with the cry, Out of the way, grandpa.

\^en he was a lad he was taught to be polite to his elders. Now he must learn to be subservient to his dlBcourteous posterity.

Yep, nothing has stood still for a momenf in the lifetime of the members of the Bossed Gen. eration.

They are too dazed by it all, however, to feel mwdi self-pity. If you ask one of tiiese hoary sui^vors what he thinks o life, he is likely to reply:

Waitll I catch my breath, young feller. Now which life do you meanthe life I had planned to lead, or the one Im still trying to catch up with?*

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By ELMER ROESSNER

If, as the chairman of the Food and Drug Administration says, smoking marijuana may be no more dangerous than drinking liquor, the thing to do is to legalize it, then tax it.

Dr. James L. Goddard, the FDA chief, whistled up a hurricane when he declared

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that whether or not marijuana is a more dangerous drug than alcohol is debatable. I dont happen to think it is. He called for repeal of laws that make possession of marijuana a crime. Resigpatioa Demanded

Since then there has been violent protest. Dr. Robert W. Baird, director of the narcotics control commission for Suffolk County, N. Y., and many others, including several newspapers, have called for Dr. Goddards resignation. Some commentators have declared that even if the effects of marijuana have nc)t been scientifically determined, th FDA chief was irresponsible in making his statement.

Meanwhile, the authorities seem to be losng the fight against pot.

An increasing number of lawyers defending persons arrested on charges of possessing, selling or smoking marijuana are challenging the constitutionality of these laws on the grounds that smoking the weed is not harmful. Hence, they argue, neither the federal or state governments have the right to prohibit it use.

Their cases are getting support from a number of authorities other than Dr. Goddard, who declare that pot is exhilirating but not dangerous. There are also some authorities who declare mild doses of LSD and other mind-bending drugs arent dangerous, either.

In many areas police have been unable to prevent pot smoking. In New Yorks Tompkins Squm*e Park flower people openily smoke marijuana while the police indifferently look on. Revenue-Raising Possibilities

If pot should be proved to be harmless, or even if it cannot be proved dangerous, it could provide a remarkable opportunity for the country to close the gap between government spending and tax revenues.

Since marijuana cigarettes sell for as much as $1 and

cost only pennies to make, they could sustain a tax of up to 90 cents' a cigarette, or $18 for a pack of 20. Since the alcohol tax raises about $4 billion a year, the pot tax should produce as much. It would 1^ amusing to see the hippies pay for the Vietnam war.

There is ample evidence for using what many people consider vices to raise money for using what many people consider vices to raise money or government purposes. Fedwal, state and city governments already tax alcoholic beverages and tobacco. Two states, by running lotteries, use gambling to raise funds. And in ancient Greece, the state religion used prostitution to raise money. And in many cities in ttie United States and Europe tx*ostitu-tion has been perndtted in order to raise money the government or fcK* tile controlling political party.