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i:-Back To Rhodesia And The Charges We Are Backing

OFF TO TfflC HILLS AND FAR AWAY

Between now and the re-opening of school next fall, says Sylvia Porter, 15 million Americans will go camping. They will overload their cars, over-ex tend their credit and, in the end, over-populate the wildaness exactly as they have over-populated the cities from which they flee.

What they get mit n is anybodys guess. Not peace and *guiet, surely. Ivy poisoning is more likely. What they prove IS .iomething fundamental and a sobering commentary upon all the efforts to make the city habitable.

The truth is so one really wants to live in the city. Living in the city is a compromise. It is a way to make a living, to keep the kids in school and prepare for the day when it isn't necessary. Come this happy day, everyone will <k) what he wanted to do hi the first place. He will quit the city forever and settle dows wiiere a man can hear the com grow in the intoxicating din of the birds and the bees.

It isnt poMible, but the illusion persists and, in moderation does no great harm. - Charleston (W. Va.) Daily Mail

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Anthropologist Margaret Mead, who recently proposed universal military service for both inen and women, also has warned that women should not be permitted to enter combat because they mi|^t fight too fiercely and turn warfare into a massacre.

Writing in Redbook magazine, she declared that, from boyhood, males are taught rules which govern the conduct of fighttng and control the techniques of warfare. Through games, sports and mock battles,' they lepn to accept the rewards of keeping the rules and the pimishments for breaking them. So also, in warfare they learn to restrict killing, honor a tuce and negotiate for peace.

Dr. Mead continued: We know of no comparable way of training women and girls and we have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of fraining that teach men both courage and restraint would be adaptable to women or effective in a crisis. But the evidence of h&ory and comparative studies of other species suggest that women as a fitting body might be far less amenable to the rules tiiat prevent warfare from becoming a massacre and, with the use <rf modem weapons, that protect the survival of all humanity.__

The foregoing Is presented, without comment, as a public service. Bristcd (Va.) HeraktCourier

YOirVE GOT YOUR WISH

Remember those days last winter when the chill never left the outside air? Do you recall what you said when there was sleet, snow and ice underfoot? The slow-starting car, the frozen water line, the coating on the windshield, the runny windows what was it everybody had in mind?

Well, now that the outside is getting to be an oven, the green Is fading before the blazing sun, the moisture turned from surplus to deficit, the hot dayUght hours seem to last and last - yoove got your winter wish. (Wy this^ youdc like some of that excess coohng the winter of 1967-68 produced.

The weathsr Is "never just right, or is it just right at the wrong times? - Wichita Falls (Tex.) Times

By JfAMES^^KILPATRlCK IIow fortunate were the American colonies! Dean Aches<m observed the other day. They had no United Na-tkms to confront in 1776.

The former Secretar'^ of State was speaking to an audience of specialists in international law, gathered for a sectional meeting of ike American Bar Anujat i o n. His topic was the wrongness of American policy toward Rhodisia. He put it bluntly: It will surprise some of our fellow citizens, though hardly anyone here today, to be told that the United States is engaged in an international conspiracy, instigated by Britain, and blessed by the United Nations, to over-tiffow the government of a country that has done us no harm, and threatens no one. This te barefaced aggression, unprovoked and unjustified by a single, legal or moral principle,

'The charge that Brita i n brings'Rhosesians, Mr. Ache-scn continued, is the charge

that George ni brou g h t against Americans 192 years ago. c The rebellious and un grateful Americans were proclaiming independence! They felt It necessary, in the declaration that Jefferson penned here in Philadelphia, to dlssdve file political b a ods which had connected them with apother people, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws Nature and of Natures God entitle them.

It is good to come back to the quiet walks of Independence Square by twilight, lilis was where it all began, the dream, the poetry, the sadness, the burstii^ heart. Tom Jeffoson was here; and Ben &'anklin, John Adams, the Lees. We think of them as heroes; and on Independence Day, in a thousand village squares, we mark the birth of the Republic they conceived. They were the founding fathers.

And what an irony it is, that Independence Day of 19-

68 finds todays America n s committed to an official policy which treats Ian Smith and his brothers in Salisbury as a rebel, racist regirrie. If these mute bricks bad tongues, they would cry shame upon Lyndon Johnson, upon Dean Rusk, upon Arthur Gold-bCTg shame upon all the lickspittle poUfidans who have repu<tted our own history in a sick effort to today up to file Afro-Asian bloc.

The parallels between Rhodesia today, and the cdtmies then, are not exact. But if Independence Day Means something more fii^n a sweaty afternoon at the beach, or a few more beers on some suburban porch, we ought to thii^ upon these things.

One of file sins charged to Cedi Rhodes and his feliow pioneersis that they took their land from . the native blacks. Our own found n g fathers, it will be recalled, seized their land from the native Bidians.

The mfe immedia Te

charge against Rhodesia

the charge that has produced the conspiracy and the aggression Dean AchesiMi had denounced is that Rhodesia has refused to provide for majority rule by the countrys largely illiterate blacks. The charge, in brief, is political immorality.

Do we dare examine that charge in the light ot our own history? Oi^ own heroes_ stand at the tr just as guilty, just as innocent, just as realistic, as Ian Smith and the patriots around him Our own defenders oft he equality of all men engaged in the -slave trade; the frames'* of

our own Ccmsfitution treated black* a* other personsj votele*, rtiere chattels. Under file supreme law of our land, the escaping slave had to be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labw may be due. Look at file record ! The infant United States of America, which now gazes with such tainted virtue on Rhodesia, couldnt have cared less about majority rule. N o rib and South, we denied our own blacks tile right to vote or to own property. (In Rhodesia, blacks ^ botii.) We denied the vote to women. (Women

vote in Itiiodesla.) We proclaimed our independence, and embarked upon the processes of gradual enlignten-ment that have brought us, nearly two centuries later, to the point in time wc occupy today.

Rhodesias daima to independence from Great Britain are better in every way than the claims advanced by our Continental Congress. A decent respect for our own history should compel us to renounce the expedient U. N. resolution, and to perm i t Rhodesia to go her own way a^i we went ours.

SOMETIMES IT MAKES YOU WONDER !

Jackson State Park Plan May Be fabled

VEST-POCKET PARKS

Birmingham ha Uunched p-oject which can te recommended highly to Auguilans. It is designed to provide a pl^-ground within waBdng distance of every child m the city.

Known as vestpocket parks, the.'locaoM are small vacant plots leased from ownm for *1 pleted to one days Ume, with contractors toatmg bi^ ^zers and workers to clear weeds and city providing swings, sandboxes, basketball goals and monkey bars. Residents have helped with labor.

Augusta might find even the small tovestmrot to equip ment difficult to work into the budget, whm the agrgate Snt Is considered. But why couldnt servia clubs, clubs and other groups each sponsor one park. It sounds hke something that would help niany_^^^Today In History

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Today is Sunday, July 7, the 189th day of 1968. There are l/7 days left in the year.

Todays highlight in history:

On this date in 1937, the Sino-Japanese War began with a clash between Japanese and Chinese soldiers at tiie Marco Polo Bridge near Peking, Cliina.

On this date:

in 1801, the Negro general Toussaint IOuverture. proclaimed Haitis independence from France.

In 1854, Commodore Mathew Perry arrived in Japan.

In 1918, a-itish naval forces bombarded Constantinople during World War I.

In 1865, four persons were haked after being named as accomplices of John Wilkes Booth

in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

In 1898 the United States annexed the Hawaiian Islands.

In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower-signed the Alaska statehood bill.

Ten years ago: The Soviet Union released the nine crewmen of a U.S. Air Force transport plane which had wandered over the Soviet Unions European frontier and was shot down by MIGs. None of the crewmen was seriously injured.

Five years ago: A disabled Marine jet crashed into a day camp near Willow Grove, Pa., after the pilot had bailed out. Seven persons wwe killed.

One year ago: West Germany announced that its army would have to be cut to balance the todget

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES RALEIGH - There are strong indications in official circles that plans for a proposed new state park in irioun-tainoi Jackson County will be placed on a shelf to gatiier dust

The plans have been more than two years in the making. But now one source close to the Parks and Tourism committee of the State Board of CJooservation and Developi-ment (C&D) says he believes tile idea of a new state park in the far western county is dead, at least for the present. As yet i there has been no formal, official report on ciir-rett status of the project, and perhaps The decision is not firm and final. Some clearer word may be forthcoming at the CJ&D boards summer meeting at Wrightsville Beach in early August.

Meanwhile, all signs point to efforts on the part of toe pr^ent C&D board and its committees to win approval of a broader, fuller program of state parks and urban pocket parks developmen.

Broader Program The broader, bigger parks development concept has come into being within toe last year, largely under the influence of a study urged by C&D Board' and Parks and Tourism chairman J. W. (Wil-Ue) York.

York told newsmen about the long range study idea more than a year ago, and then presented it to the full C&D board at a meeting in Goldsboro in April, 1967.

He said he.felt the idea of developing a sound, 10-year program of developing state parks and recreational facilities has great possibilities. The state of Virginia already had embarked on a $50,000 state parks study.

York said he felt North Carolina has been woefully lacking in long range planning for both parks and forestry. He pointed out that toe Virginia study resulted in recommending a $44 million program of land acquisition and development in the next decade.

Earlier Plans Prior to the shifting of stale parks development sights and Yorks push for a new study a year ago there were plans for approximately 30 state parks projects and certain additional land, acquisitions. C&D parks comniittee prepared to

ask toe 1967 legislature for slightly more than $1 million for land and capital improvements.

York thought this was too short-sighted, and be began thinking about a more ambitious program to present in 1969. He added a couple of C&D board members to a revamped parks and Tourism committee, taking both Gil Horton of Wilmington and M. L. Daniels Jr. of Maneto off the Commercial and Sports Fisheries committee. Then he began inviting proposals for new state parks areas and urging consideration of other concepts such as urban pwk-et parks, and greater utilization of existing parks land.

An outgrowth of this was the detailed plan for utilization in the umstead State Park in the Raleigh-Durham area presented at toe April C&D board meeting. Some aspects of this ov^all plan have met opposition.

Careful Selection

Undaunted^ York continues to push for his idea of better overall developmit and more varied use of toe spacious acres located in Umstead Park. Primarily, this park is a wilderness, second growth forested area lying along Crabtree Creek between the cities of Raleigh and Durham.

Ckinservationists and others want'it preserved and oppose the idea of bulldozers, land clearing, buildings and golf and tennis courts moving In. Probably the last wild turkey flock in Eastern North Carolina survives in the park. There are plants found nowhere else in the region. The flood plain is an ecological wonder, and there are many biological and other scientific research projects which would be disturbed and , perhaps ruined. Those who want the sylvan park nature of Umstead preserved point out there is plenty of similar undeveloped land available in the same area across U.S. 70 f(x* example.

Meets Demise

The indicated demise of plans for a new state park in the mountains of Jacks o n County came about in another way. York Jed an expedition of C&D board members on a tour of prospective state park sites in the western part of the state a few weeks ago.

Obviously, advocates of development in the Pilot Moun

tain area and.toe Sfime Moim-tain area made a better case for parks development. Approval of both of these appears Hkely. But Jackson CJou-nty was another matter. The suggested area proved inaccessible. It took more than an hour to reach from the nearest paved road. Also, the land for which $200,000' has been appropriated to purcase, already adjoins national park land in the same area.Evans-Novak...

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bordar as though it did not exist and acting as a potentially dangerous fifth column.

CJoupled with the frenetic political upheavals in China itself, and the continuation of virtual civil war in southern Chinese provinces, Hanois growing fear of China is reducing the influence of Peking (which has not vet even acknowledged the existe nee of the hated Paris pe a c e talks) and increasing the influence of Russia.

But even with this highly si^ficant shifting of -elation-ships between Hanoi, Peking, and Moscow, it must be emphasized tiiat evidence of genuine deescalation of the war in South Vietnam is still far from solid.

True, infiltration of North ern troops into the South was markedly down in June and continues down in July, far under the record troon movement of early spring. But this could have resulted from factors having nothing to oo with planned deescalation. Hanoi might be running out of trained reinforcements.

Similarly, the latest indica-ti<Mis that a mortal Communist assault on Saigon no longer looks so imminent as it did several weeks ago could be the result not of planned deescalation but of sim p 1 e lack of capability.

But the objective facts nevertheless hint that deescalationan intentional but unacknowledged response lo the U. S. partial bombing pause may now be underway, even though heavy, sporadic fighting continues. IF so, the intact on U. S. Presidential politics would be vast, with Vice President Humphrey, the probably Democratic nominee, the main beneficiary.

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Not so. Within the past few months, Warren has bei appointed as a member of t h e states budget - planning Advisory Budget Commission and become president elect of the state bar. Both posts present challenges and opportunity.

There are some who begrudge the fact that Wan* e n, alone among senators from Eastern North Carolina, opposed the bill to make East Carolina College a regional univer sity, and spoke against ECUs university status. Many others, however, praised him for stating his: condition and said privately that he gained politically statewide. If Linos a y Warren chooses, they ^aid, he can become governor someday.

Certainly, in 1969, Lindsay Warren Jr. must be and will be counted among leaders of the legislature.Gulick Col....

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meager, and there are arguments about the figures that are available. In the case of the Philadelphia law, enacted in 1965, the March issue of the magazine of the league, Nations Cities, said: Although theres no available statistical data to indicate that the law has reduced gun-related crime, a Philadelphia police spokesman said he

felt it has helped and has kep guns out of the hands of irr^poneibles.*

*nie annual uniform crime report of tiie FBI lists homicides in the major metropolitan areas and the rate per 100,000 persons but does not say what percentage of the homicides in each city was by guns.

In testimony before Con-ess recently. Mayor John . Lindsay of New York said that of 746 murders in his city last year, 235, or less than one-third, wero committed with firearms.

Opinions In Brief

Write it on your heart that every day is toe best day of the year. Finish every day and be dime with it You have done what you could.Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon toe heart. The spirit should hot grow old.James A. Garfield.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS LET UP

In the town in which we live there is a bronze tiger mounted on a large block of marble and standing at the head of one of our squayres. ^ certain dog comes there once in a while, sits down in front of that tiger and barks and ^wls for o fuH hour. All tose years he has never learned that the tiger is not real.

There are millions of people toe world over who set themselves down before certain circumstance* in life thoroughly unrealand keep barking at them throughout their live* to their own unhappiness f and everyb o d y elses annoyance.

She just doesnt like me and I know it. Im un

happy every dayfull of fear* and I can hardly tell you why. Sometimes I can hardly get to sleep at night thinking about that contemptible guy and what Id like to do to him if I can ever get my hands on him. f dont know why but I just dont trust him and I wouldnt believe a word he said if he swore to his statements on a stack of Bibles. She was cool to me today, so what (to you think she meant by that?

Dh, let up, let up. There are plenty of real trouble* and sorrows, and problems in life to keep us agitated and our minds furiously employed. But stop barking at unrealities. TTie tiger isnt real. No slight was intended. The contemptible guy might not be so bad if you got to know him better.An Early Tobacco Planter Would Say This Is Where I Came In'

By GEORGE BRYANT Specid To The Daily Reflector If by some chance or other, a tobacco planter of the early colonial times returned to his earthly haunts he would find much of todays new a sort of warmed over hash. He could not escape a feeling that this is where I came in. ^ He would be mystified, of course, by whats called technological progress. Such things as lights without tallow, talking at great distance without shouting, seeing pictures in boxes, the auto, jet plane, atom bombs, rocket probes of the moon, etc., would Iwing on a hit of perplexed head scratching.

So would political chan g .

He probably would approve of some of the shifting of the rails that has taken place. He didnt Uke the British crown,^iii the first place, or he wouWnt have been here. He might even chuckle at the idea of toe crown begging from the colonists. But this, too, would take time understanding.

But he would feel right in his element over at the corner drug store. The array of merchandie would pop his eyes. But his ears would soon pick up a familiar beat. After listing a bit, sipping his first soft drink and getting the drift of things, he would fee! right at home. The current problems of tobacco, af t e r more than 350 years, wo u 1 d

have almost familiar ring to him.

Just such a situation comes to the mind after rereading Tobacco Coast, by Arthur Pierce Middleton. The author is a well tonown authority on colonial history, especially in the Chesapeake Bay region. The book details the role played by tobacco in the colonial economy of the area, which was great. It also recounts problems which tobacco faced at what can be considereu its commercial start in this country and faces today.

After closing the book, its easy to sit back, reflect on the old saw which goes the more things change, the more they are the same, and imagine some conversatiwi ever

at the drug store. After ordering a second drink, toe ancient planter got started.

Take this health hazard issue, he said. Its old. Different pe(^ are saying different things. But the issue is toe same. My daddy told ;me when I was a boy up in toe Jamestown section that it started with the govemmenL He said it was old King James. He was the one who was handing out the concessions. He wanted the settlers to ship him martime stores, food and furs. But the settlers found there was more in tobacco. And you know what James said about tobacco?

Tobacco Coast gives the old planter an answer to the question by quoting King James as

saying that tobacco is loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain and dangerous to the lungs.

The conversad resumed on a different line.

Cto. said the old planter, youre talking about amug-glers. You call them bootleggers. Well we had them, too. The thing that happened in my day was that it di(tot take the government long to find out that it could get a lot of money out of tobacco. It put on more than the trade could bear. Thats when toe smugglers came in. They would load loose tobacco In their ships. That way, they c ou I d duck Into some little land i n g and slip it ashore. Buy e r s would be waiting.

The book notes that the tobacco trade, hedged ab o u t by rules and regulations and almost buried un^r the weight of financial impositions, proved a fruitful soiurce of revnue both to the r o y a 1 treasury and the coloniaU governments of Virginia and Maryland. The British levie$ ranged from three to seven times the price of tobacco in the colonies.

These surpluses are wore-some, the colonial continued. We had a bad situation in less than 50-years after tobacco got to going well. We over-loeaded the market and prices went to pot. The governments' of the colonies stepped in. They tried to limit the number o^ plants you could

put out, toe number of leaves to the plant and cultivation to specified days. But it didnt work. We got help iftor trade barriers wre eased to open up markets.

The book tells how the English market ^ame glutted with the colonial product by about 1660* and prices fell so tow that planters were scarcely able to exist AH efforts at production control, which spread ovor a period of nearly 20 -years, came to V67 little, according to t h e book. The reason apparently was that London based its taxes on weight, not on price. In this way, government revenues were jHetty well protected, no matter what happened to the farmers. The London attitqde, however, did help

North Carolina at the time it was becoming a competetor to Virginia and Maryland.

Us Virginians were planning to flx^ou Carolina growers but good, the planter recalled. You didnt have deep water ports handy for shipment and had to use our ports, So, in 1687, the Virginia Assembly voted to bar your tobacco from our ports. It was low grade, you see, and hurt the marketr- damaged our reputation. But it didnt work out. You brought it up by land. Before we could close this loophole in the law, the king stepped in because his revenue was threatened. And there was something about restraint of trade."

The old fellow departed, saving this is whero7 *