Thursday/July 11, 1^68

Equal Justice Is Law Of The Land

District Judge Francis Ford put it concisely vhen sentencing Benjamin Spock and others to active prison terms for their conspiracy to aid, abet and counsel young men to avoid the ,draft,____________

^Almst every week In this court, Judge Ford observed, young men are sentenced to three years in prison for evading the draft. It is reasonable to conclude that the defendants were instrumental in inciting some of these men to flout the law.

" The law concerning conspiracy to encourage' 'people to violate the draft law is just as clear as that concerning draft evasici|jir T!he fact that Dr. Spock and his associates in this matter are w'ell known personalities should not and has not made them immune from the law. More important, it should not make them immune from the punkshment prescribed by the law. . __

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Airoort Grants

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH More on the states fledgling airport , aid program. State aid grants totaling $60,000 have been approved and checks will be mailed shortly for new airport construction at Monroe and Oxford Henderson.

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certain amount of state aid up to 25 per cent has been requested include:

Andrews (Cherokee C o u n-ty), lighting; Chapel Hill, paving and lighting; Sampson County, lighting; Elkin, paving; Macon"' County, paving and lighting for a new airport; Goldsboro, additional parking ramp, taxiways; Mount Olive, paving; Roanoke Rapids, parking, paving and other projects; Washington, extend apron and clear-

This brings to $121,000 the amount of slate money allocated for eight local airport projects under a pioneer i n g $250,000 of the initial appropriation remains and there are requests before the governors aviation committee and the state board of Cun-servation and Development (C&D) for aid totaling approximately $180,000. Obvious 1 V what is left must be parceled out. - r-

, Off The Ground

It isn't what we asked nor what we needed," says State Rep. Roberts H. Jernigan Jr. of Ahoskie, principal sponsor of the airports aid bill in the Iasi legislature.

Jernigan feels, howev o r, that the $250.000 appropriated for 1967-69 got the program off the ground and has been enough to fund a least $1 million in airport construction and improvement projects. Actually, dur i n g the past fiscal year, federal ' airport aid for North Carolina projects amounted to $2.5 million. This, Jernigan feels, is a good start.

Projects Listed At least two sizable projects were listed in the ap-' proved funding column. The largest was $472,219 to begin construction of a new airport at Jacksonville, and the Rocky Mount-Wilson airport prr ject received $440,052 in federal funds.

All told, federal funding was approved for 19 airport improvement projects across the state. In the previous fis-caf vear, $1,771.792 was made available for 11 projects.

State aid projcets^ already-approved include Tri-County f Ahoskie) for lighting and clearing, $6,000; Pitt County, lighting, $3,500; Statesville, lighting $3,500; Martin County, new airport, $30,000; Sam" pson County, paving, $13.500; Richmond County, light i n g and new apron/ $7.500; p'us $20.000 for Oxfnrd-Hnders o n and $4h,00a at Monroe, both for new local airports.

Needs Are Great 'I'hese figures are cited by officials in pointing out that some progre.ss is being made. But they concede an ev e n greater need exists and much more needs to be done if North Carolina is to even catch up with neighbor i n g states in providing adequate aviation facilities. Thus far it is only scraching^ the surface.

Even with large amouW-s of federal aid, airport pio-jecfs now approved are only piecemeal. The state is providing $20,000 toward the Oxford Henderson pi'oject whldi ^will cost $116,000 for an airport which will have neither lighting nor paved runways. Monroe asked for $70,000 in state aid toward a $280.000 new airport and rccei v e d only $40.000. Enough money isnt available.

The states few larger airports capable of handlin.g commercial jet traffic ao have long - range mas t e r plans but little if any money to implement them. Public funds tax money cannot be used for airport projects without a vote of the people, according to a recent North Carolina Supreme Court derision.

in at least one case Wake County, the commission c r s have balked on the matter of calling a referendum for airport iinprovement money. Some other long- range uro-jects also appear to be at_a_

In imposing the sentences, Judgl Frd has carried out this latter point,

in sentencing these men for their conspiracy,. Jdgfi^nrdJias^adfi it ^clear .thaFtheiaw api) lies to the well-known and the wellip-do as to

the unknown individual whose cas in court does not attract reporters, tv cafneramen, does not become the subject of demonstrations or catch the attention of the nation as a whole.

The fact that an individual does not agree with the nations foreign policy does not' give him the right to evade the draft. Certainly a^pers(M*S '"dis-"' agreement with domestic policies does not give hiin the right to refuse to pay taxes through which those policies are earned oiit.

The right of free speech and the right of protest are recognized by the public as w'ell as by the - courts. But-these rights,mustJie-exercised^Nvithin-Fhe law if the rights of others are not to" be trampled under foot in the process.

National figures such as Dr. Spock should be required to pay for their violation of the law of the land just as every-day citizens are required to submit the punishment prescribed for theTaws they violate.

The Mojo Failed To Affect Federal Agents

Moonshiners should take the lesson to heart A mojo'did not keep Federal agents'from making their second-biggest bootleg whiskey haul in North Carolinas history last Monday night. .

^ A mojo? '

Well in this case it wus turtle musk or parts of a- dead turtle, hanging in a government whisky bottle," ahd~strpeFstitousfnM)elevWvtB^^^ away evil spirits and lawmen.

The projects for which a near standstill.

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It didhTTieep aw^y The^awmen and there were probably more evil spirits in the 2.622 gallons of white liquor lawmen seized than any mojo could deal with.

Voodoo just doesnt work like it used to; but the bootleg-makers must have been hard-working people. )

The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax Unit officers figured the liquor they poured out was worth S40.000 if sold by the drink. _______________,-

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By ROWLitND EVANS and ROBERT NOVK

WASHINGTON - The reason the Senate Republican at-tack on the nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice is crumbling under carefully regimented White House pressure is that from the, outset it was almot entirely an instinctive partisan attack against President Johnsonr--

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As such, there was not enough starch in the attack to avoid wilting under the pressure, and the Senate probably will confirm Mr. Johnson s cbuTt appomtmente hefore -it~ adjourns. Instead of ga i n i ng adherents the original 19 publicans'who agreed to fight the nominations are breaking ranks. . -x==

To understand this, it is necessary to go to the source of the " Republican opposition. Contrary to the avowed argument that a lame duck Pre-sident should mot set-the future course of the Court, what really triggered the Republican Senators was their conviction that the switch of Fortas for Earl Warren was a.typical example of Presidential cronyism ana thereby fair gamej Tor an Ttin - year^ Oi^ slaughb

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Thats big business; and lends credence tq .suspicions that bootlegging is still a large-scale industry in North Carolina,

And that bring up another point:

With all the state, county and local law enforcers North Carolina has on its payrolls, how come it took federal revenuers to make the pinch?

Are federal agents tlie only one$ immune to a mojo?

?orty Years Ago

hoy]] MAKE Us Happy

Thqse^Rprohlicans felF the decision to promote For tas, Mr. Johnsons closest personal adviser and old Texas

friend Homer Thornberry, a U. S. Circuit Court Judge, could be used to dramatize all the Presidents political liabilities.. Moreover, it was the first chance the Republicans have had since March 31,

when Mrrdhhnson dropped out

By FOY H. DUNCAN July 11, 1928 Noted Violinist At College This Evening dhe violin recital by Bernard Ocko at East Carolina Teachers College this evening will begin at 8:30 oclock and will be held in the old auditorium in the Administration Building. . . .Ocko's playing \^as so much liked by the staidents last summer that his return was requested, and the college audience is looking forward with great pleasure to his recital this evening. . .He is'one of the leading violinists , of the younger group, having won many honors and high praise from Ih critics. ...

Little Miss McCormick Entertains

Lttle Miss Ann McCormick entertained about 50 little frends yesterday in honor of her birthday. Many interesting games were enjoyed.. . .

A pretty pink and white birthday cake with candles formed the centerpiece for the table. . . .Humming birds on sticks were given each guest as favors. . . .The little hos

tess received quite a number of pretty gifts.

Miss Florence Pheips Entertains

One of the prettiest parties of the season was given yesterday afternoon when Miss Florence Phelps entertained at bridge at her home on Evans Street. The occasion teing the birthday of the hostess. . . .Miss Agnes Gaskins 'was given garters for high score, low score v/as made by Miss Mabel Glenn Best who was-given a checker board. Table prizes, faa-cv dolls, were won by Misses Mabel Glenn Best, Banche Staton, Cotton Skinner and Mary Frances Whitehurst.... Cutting of the cake afforded much amusement. Miss Margaret Tyson cut the money. Miss Margaret Tillet the thimble, Miss Helen Burnette the wish bone and button, Miss Helen Gaskins the heart and xMiss Helen Fleming the ring . . . .Misses Marion Wilson and Dorothy Tillet. served a tempting ice course with salted peanuts. Miss^Wilson and Tillet were presented fa n c y dolls. -

The fiye-member Fed e r al Trade Commission, splicting 3-2, called on Congress a few days ago to pass -a law that woiild put an absolute ban on cigarette advertising by radio and television. As it happens, the Congress has other things on its mind just now, and is not likely to pass such a law any time soon.

Even so, the FTCs report and recommendation ought not to be passed by. It is one more manifestation of that maddening paternalism which increasingly characterizes o u r super - state. The assumption is that government agenc i e s

know what is good for us, ana should use their powers to make us be frugal, healthy, and long - lived.

The operative words here are know and make. Men and governments ought to creep humbly upon these terras. There was a time when the very best bureaucrats knew that the earth was flat. The very best physicians once knew that the finest treatment for a fever was to bleed the patient. W^hole libraries are filled with the assertions of good men who knew that certain things were so.

These monumental colect-ioiis of error, in one sense, are

Other Editors Say i^rodding Is Needec.

Strength For Today

Bv EARL L. DOUGLASS GENIUS

The word genius is derived from a Latin word which means to beget. Geniuses are not just cert a i a bright people who hive astounded their generation by their brilliance. They are persons whos(. minds begot something new. They lathered an idea which was later to have significance. Some of th e m wrote poetry or music. Others painted pictures. Albert Einstein was a genius who turned the world upside down when he arrived at a formula which proved that energy equals mass times the square of , the speed of light. We believe that even greater discoveries will be made in the future' than have been maoe in the past. Yet all this may npt be beneficial after all for we may get to the place where a malicious or idioiic pea-en blow us off tlie planet.

But let us ponder the signi ffcance of genius and thank Go4 that into the multitude 'Of tJhe common folks of which we are part God has here and there caused a genius to spring up. If you have a child who appears to be somewhai queer and does mot alw.iv?; keep his mind on what he is-

doing,vutch out for him. He may be another Thomas Edison or Albert Einstein. The people of Princeton, New.Jersey, used to smile at the queer old man who was often seen on Nassau Street munching an ice. crea^m cone. But this was Einstein,, and Einstein ushered in a new era.

Genius is real, rare, qnd immensely transformmg and important. Dont dismiss it with an epithet, raised eyebrows or a grin.

Quotes

A thief IS a thief, an arsonist is an arsonst, a troublemaker is a troublemaker. May the day come soon in which they will be once again recognized for what bey are: enemies of society. Rockland (.Me.) Courier-Gazette.

(Raleigh Times)

One of the principal changes proposed in an interview by Dr. Gordon McAndrew was decentralization of school control and returning decisin ma-king from Raleigh to local officials. -

Dr, McAndrew, executive director of the Learning Institute of North Carolina, was interviewed^ by three newsmen on-University of North Care lina educational television. Hes leaving the State July 15 to become superintendent of Gary, Ind. schools.

During the interview he perhaps felt he could at lust voice his true feelings without furth--er fear of political reprisals from those whose feathers might be ruffled. At any rate, he said the Departmene of Public Instruction is oo bureaucratic and too centralized. He said local school boards could make better decisions because they would be mere acquainted with local condi- tions.

That would be an ideal situation, but experience has shown it isnt a practical one. Many rural counties of this

State have never gone overboard in providing for^ education and what they have done was directed largely at t h e white middle and upper class students. The urban centers have been better, but some of them havent lavished educational opportunity upon their youngsters in generous doses.

It is sad but true that county and city school boards still need to be prodded by someone before they will do as much as they should and could do.

Left to .their own devices, many counties would slide back instead of forge ahead. Bureaucracy is bad but, in this case, the alternative ' is worse.

North Carolinas low ranking in public education is due also to a lack of suitable orod-ding by the Department of Public Instruction. The superintendent of public instruction is an elected official and he must not ruffle too many feathers either. Some local boards, therefore, havent bad the forceful urging they need.

All our children could profit from a changed attitude among all oor public officials.

no more than the rocks and potholes that obstruct mans long road from the primeval swamp. They are a measuie of how far we have come, it is when the state combines (a) the assumption that it knows with (b) its power to coerce, that we get into trouble. In a free society, the combination ought to be appi i e d sparingly, Judiciously, and with a reverent sense of our own shortcomings.

Unhappily, little of this restraint is evident in the current crusade against the cigarette. The FTCs report is not couched in the objective and dispassionate language of men who hold their own powers in awe. The report is flip, supercilious, pejorative, and marvelously self - assured. The cigarette manufacturers are treated as rogues, villains, seducers of the young. Those w h o dare to doubt the coneiusions of the Surgeon - General are disdained as a contemptible minority. The report is full of action verbs: A cigarette

spews tar. The concurr i ng statement of - Commissioner Elman rings with the stridency of a hot - eyed reformer baying on the trail.

Patience, one would like to say to the FTC; gentlemen, have patience. The evils of tobacco have been with us tor generations; every man who lights a cigarette knows in his heart that the damned thing is bad for his lungs and bronchi. But he also knows, because the evidence of his own eyes will tell him so, that m a n y heavy smokers live to an advanced age; cigarettes are not like cyanide: true, they may shorten his life, out so may the hurtling taxicab. Meanwhile, tiiey e him pleasure.

You would never dream it to read the FTC report, but the makers of cigarettes are not fiends in human form. Cigarettes are as lawful as potatoes. Indeed, while one arm of the government i.s slashing at (Continued On Page 5)

of the 1968 race, to cash in on these liabilities.

But such political reasoning was not sufficient to withstand the pressure- that started the very day that Sen. Robert Griffin of Michigan, a shrewd Republican moderate in his freshman term, announced that he and the other 18 Republicans would fight t h nominations. Although tne Presidents well - known capabilities for infighting have infuriated the Republicans, they have been effective.

Special target of the White House pressure has been Gnt fin, who was so aroused he called a press conference last week to protest. Among those who sought to soften Griffin's attitude was Republican industrialist Max Fisher of Detroit, a major bankroller of G a v. George Romneys aborted Presidential campaign and a national leader in the Jewish community.

James P. Bass, the politically potent American Airlines lobbyist, urged Republi can opponents to ease off. High officials of other powerful companies, including former vice president John Bugas of Ford, made similar efforts on behalf of the Administration.

The White House has other resources. The possibility of rejiggering appropriation bills around to the disadvantage of anti-Fortas Senators was seriously discussed.

Even without thisxampaign. Sen. Thruston B. Morton of - Kentucky, one of the original 19, has defected. He now intends to support the nominees and to oppose any effort to filibuster ie nominations to death before adjournment.

Several others among the 19 have no intention of engaging in a filibuster. Sen. Gordon Allott of Colorado and Sen. Clifford Hansen of Wyoming will do nothing to prevent a vote in the Senate (although both are committed to vote no).

In fact, the very thought of a filibuster by Senate Republicans now seems implausible.

Businessmen Fighting Outlawry

Vlolence breeds violence, contempt breeds contempt, and justice breeds justice. Barnesborh (Pa.) Star.

Do the duty which lies nearest thee. Thy second duty will already have become clearer. '-^Thomas Carlyle.

By ELMER ROESSNER^

Somebody ought to tell Leonid Brezhnev that outlawry is so prevalwit in the United States that all over the country groups of small businessmen are linking their st o r e s with push - button electric alarm systems.

With the.se systems, if a store is held up, anyone by brushing a button with a fin-' ger or toe can set off an alarm light in five, six or more neighboring Ftores. A light will indicate which store is^lieing held up and people m the other stores are to phone the po* licc.

It would be a simple mat^ ter to tie In loud speakers that would automatically go on in other, stores wheri an ~ alarm button was touched,^ or - to tie a recording machine into the system. Either would

provide convincing evidence if the cops arrive in time to make an arrest.

These , signals can also be linked up to the nearest police station, the cops willing. Government Will Help

Some systems are on the market in package deals, but a competent local electrician could set up a system tailored to local needs.

And somebody ought to tell Leonid that the governm e n t will help finance the instala-tion of such an alarm system. If a group of businessmen get together and determine the kind of system they require and get a price, they may apply to the Small Business Administration, Washington, D. C. 20416, for a pool loan.

Manyyfire and theft insur ance companies are refusing to insure property in hazard

ous areas, or are increasing rates to prohibitive levels. Electronic protection systems may induce them to issue policies or even cut rates.

BLMER

ROESSNER

Meanwhile, small businesses, with or without such neighborhood protection systems, can take other steps to reduce risks. Here are some: What To Do y

Protect store fronts with gratings and other defenses

during closed hours. Buying light - weight gratings may be poor economy; they may be pried open with an ax handle.

Do not display expensive merchandise in \)/indows. Use cheaper items or cutouts and other displays. Or copy some Fifth Avenue stores and use curtains at night.

If possible, do not keep cash registers in the^fore part of the shop. If necessary, such as in a lunchroom, keep locking surplus bills in a safe and make frequent bank deposits.

Check skylights and rear and side windows. Make sure they are entryproof, but not escape - proof in case of fire.

Keep interiors well light e d both day and night. If the cost hurts, buy stock in the local / electric company.

Ask i^lice to check y o u f precautions and suggest more.