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One Way To Find Out-Try The Law

There i no way to accurately estimate in advance how effective the proposed five-day mandatory jail sentence for drunken dri\ing would be for deterring drivers from drinking.

The only way for the legislature and the state to fnd out how effective such a measure would be in helping to make our highways safer is for them to write it into law. Whether the legislature wants to go to that extent to see whether it would save lives on our highways remains to be seen.

E\Tn through the proposed penalty for drunken driving is much more severe in many respects that the present statutes, the General Assembly should in the interest of the people of this statje enact the proposed legislation.

There will be a number of arguments against

license. If to 4-his were added a jail-sentence, short though it may be, it would cause a good many drivers to think twice befort^ getting under the wheel after having one drink or a few drinks.

North Carolina must recognize the fact that bold steps must be taken if it is to cope effectively w'ith the toll in lives and property being taken each year on its highways. It must recognize that drunk driving is one of the major causes for this highway toll that has steadily climbed year after year.

Sen. Marshall Rauch of Gaston County has put the challenge squarely before his colleagues in the legislature by submitting the bill calling for mandatory jail sentences in drunken driving cases, it will be up to the legislators now^ to indicate just how anxious they are to put legal muscle behind all the

the mandatory jail sentence for drunken driring pre- bp sendee which has been paid to better highway sented as the measure is considered in the legislature, safety in North Carolina.'

Some of the arguments, without question, will have merit. In the long run, how^ever, it should be evident to the legislators as it is to most citizens that the present laws are not as effective in coping with drunken drivers as the state needs for them to be.

What is feared mqst now where the penalties for^ drunken driving are concerned is not the fines which are permitted, but the loss of ones drivers

A

Serious Rift

' Rotentially

By WILLIAM S, SRTRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH A feud, or at least a hot spat, has boiled up between Secretary of State Thad Eure and Sen. Herman A. Moore of Mecklenburg.

If this continues and becom*

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es more lively it could have loud repercussions in the 1969 session of the General Assembly and perhaps beyond.

The antagonists are not only outspoken and temperamental men. they are quite influential and powerful in state legislative circles.

Its not all that important, snaps Sen. Moore sue* cessful 39 year old Charlotte businessman serving his third term in the Senate. In his second term, when Gov. Bob Scott was presiding officer of the upper chamber, Moore w as elected president pro tern of the Senate.

As such he became co-chairman of the stales little General .Assembly, t h e Legislative Research Council (LRC) which proceeded to institute legislative reforms.

Heated Exchange

Moore pushed for innovations such as installation of the Assembly's new computer system, an administrative director and revisions in the way of doing things.

These were put into effect prior to CMivening of the current session.

Secretary Eure, whose office is responsible for legislative support such as organization, seating,, printing and enrolling of bills and other assistance. watched, caref u I ly, I conveved this to every mem'

her of the General Assembly especially to Senator Moore.

The idea, he says, was to be as helpful as possible.

I heard nothing more from Senator Moore until a few days ago.

There was a heated exchange on the telephone. According to Moore, it was a simple conversation. According to Eure, Moore accused him of stirring up members of the House against the new system. Then, says Eure, Moore added a crowning blow by threatening to introduce a short ballot bill which would make the office of Secretary of State appointive instead of elective. Eure' recently was re - elected Jor a four year term,

I've never been threatened by a member of the General Assembly before, said Eure. I told him to go ahead and that war would be declared. Skirmishing Begins Eure, 69. is the oldest member in point of service on the Council of State and perhaps the most active when it comes to political campaigni n g. He was a member of the General .Assembly the year that Moore was born and la t e r principal clerk.

He wears a soft grey Western style hat a month too early to switch to a straw and smokes a corncob pipe while his eyes flash angrily.

I offered to go all the way in cooperating in any way I could, Eure sa,vs. T don't care what happens tq me, but I will not be threatened.

Eure indicated that he has the power to revoke certain appointments already ma d e by the Legislative Rosear c h-Council (LRC) since no confirming legislation has been^ enacted and might choose to do so if the new set - up doesn't work.

He produced figures showing that after 41 legislative days only 26 bills and resolutions had been submitted to* the Printing and Enrolling Office. In the past we had 200 or more in the first 41 days,*

Russo-Chinese Strain Should Be Remembered

If there is any doubt as to whether relations be-tvveen Red China and the Soviet Union are im-provingr, one has only to look at the most recent border Incident.

Chine.se and Soviet troops last weekend clashed on a disputed river island along the Manchurian border. This was followed b.v Red Guards and work-er.s demonstrating around the Soviet Embassy in Peking.

^ Such incidents illustrate that Chine.se and Soviet relations remain at a low. This is something that the western world should remain cognizant of as we negotiate with communist building bridges to the United States, when we consider the great threat Red China po.ses along the Manchurian border. This is that it is bound to be reflected in any Soviet-U.S. talks. -

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A Chill

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOV.AK

BERKELEY, Cal.- .More ominious to the future of the University of California at Berkeley than the daily campus confrontation betvveeii helmeted state highway patrolmen and long-haired demonstrators is the cold, quiet fear now gripping the faculty.

Ever since the Free Speech Movement of 1964-65 transformed Berkeley into a cockpit for agitation, prole.ssors have criticized student radicals only at the price of rising vituperation from them. Now, faculty members feel, that price is going up. The fear of disruption of their classrooms and even of physical violence is now endemic among non-radical faculty members.

If the fear becomes reality, Berkeley could be headed for the same catastrophe as an educational institution that is now WTecking San Francisco State College across the oay. Berkeley is one of the greatest U.S. universities. Thus its degenerationwell along right nowis a tragedy of national proportions.

The, sad course of events here was predicted to us almost four years ago by worried liberal professors. Ihey forecast descent into chafjs unless Roger Heyns. then new-ly arri\ ed as Berkeley's chancellor, imposed much sterner discipline on the student rebels. Significantly, every one of those professors have since departed for calmer campuses.

In contrast to past presidents of San Francisco State, Heyns is no woolly-headed idealist coddling the revolutionaries. He believes they can actually destroy the university. But as a social psycholo-gi-^:!. Hems has used elaborate strategieseforis at conciliation and continucus negotiationrather than, stem, implacable discipline.

.As a result, Berkeley over the past five years has oecome a haven for agitatorsa fact that has inexorably transtor-

J: eeling Of Fear

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med the campus here. Students and faculty members fascinated by the tactics of radical politics have swarmed onto Berkeley; each year, there are mass transfers of* students from other, tamer branches of the University of California who wants to be ''^1 ^ where the action is. Con-versely, many students and fa-

WA8HINGT0N - Nineteen sixty-nine, according to the Chinese calendar, is the year of the rooster. In the

United States it could become the year of the mother.'* It may be too early to predict, but I think this is going to be

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a bad year for mothers. Portnoys Complaint, the Philip Roth book, does the most de-vasting job on a mother in modern literature; and while its true that she% a Jewish mother, it is a known fact that most American mothers

culty members most interested in the prosaic business of higher education avoid Berkeley.

This has basically distorted the view of politics given the student here. Conventional politicsthat is, Republican or Democraticis absent. Of the incessant speech-making from the .steps of Sproul Plaza, 90 percent is of left-wing radical nature.

Thus, Berkeley is fertile soil for the hard-core 300 or so trouble-seeking student radicals out of a student body of 28,000 plus some non-student auxiliaries (having sympathy of perhaps 5,000 other students), When the university administration, dragged its heels in. heeinning a black studies program, the radicals black and whitefound the perfect crucible for provoking a crisis. *

Moreover, radical faculty members have lobbied strenuously against' strong reprisal by Chancellor Heyns. They are now' protesting publicly the presence of highway patrolmen. - neglecting to mention that reinforcements were summoned only because of growing violence. Before the patrolmen arrived, demonstrators would serpentine in and out of university buildings, smashing window's and destroying property.

Faculty pressures aga i n s t strong action have made Heyns sluggish in cracking down on student rebels, and the Board of Regents, newly packed with conservatives by Gov. Ronald Reagan, has now for the first time seized control of some student disciplin-ging. One regent, an anti-Reagan moderate, while regrett-

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(Washington Daily News) With so much trouble today on our college and university campuses, and with constant backing so often of elements of the faculties, we hear college leaders say if we take drastic steps, it will mean that many faculty members will resign.

If the colleges and universities of America, and the challenge will be a diffi cult one, could get together and adopt a uniform system or code of conduct applying to all institutions, then this grie-vious trouble on our campuses could be licked quickly.

If that code of conduct said that any professor who resigned or was fired. because of demonstrations of, campus troubles could not be hired by any other institution in this nation, then we would certainly hear far less about academic freedom and far more about academic responsibility.

\\hen professors at some institutions not only close their eyes to the demonstrations engaged in by students, but actually participate and a b e t students in the* disorders, then we have an almost intolerable situation. So long as professors know that they can resign from one place and get a better job at another place, then they will continue to engage in activities not associated with education on college campuses. We hear a lot about tenure for professors. If tenure depended on conduct, we would be in a posi

tion in America of know i n g they would think twice before engaging in disorderly conduct on campuses.

So many college and administrators seem to have a mortal fear that if we do not do this if we do that many professors will resign immediately. The code of conduct for American colleges and universities might sound harsh in conception and even harsher in application, but we seem to be approaching a crisis in America and fast when harsh methods must be employed if our institutions of higher learning are to do the job they are created to do educate our young people. Today too many youngsters appear to be in college for reasons other than the primary one of acquiring an education. If by the same token, students kicked out of one college were barred from attending another college, then it would also cause the students to think twice before engaging in disorderly and v/qlent demonstrations.

We are not criticial of orderly and well meaning dissent. We are fed up with the ugliness seen on many campuses where students seek to take over and prevent dedicated youngsters from pursuing their educational activities.

Wholesome dissent is one thing: violent disrupt!cms seeking to change the social order are another. And we need to condone the first and condemn the latter

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are really Jewish mothers at heart.

My Aunt Sophie in Brooklyn is very disturbed about this turn of events.

I knew theyd get around to us sooner or later, Aunt Sophie said.

What do you mean, Aunt Sophie?

First they blamed the government for all the trouble in the country, then they blamed the Vietnamese war, then they blamed the schools, and finally theyve gotten down to the nitty - gritty and theyre blaming us. If it wasnt for mothers, theyre saying, the world would be a better place to live in.

You shouldnt take this personally, Aunt Sophie. Its true that Philip Roths fictional mother is very tough on her son, but that doesnt mean that every mother is like her. Thn why is it a best-seller? You think the people read the book because the hero is such a schmo? They read it because the mother is such a horrible woman and they can identify with her.

Thats just your interpretation, Aunt Sophie. Americans (Continaed On Page 5)

apans i^apic.

Revival

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst,

NEW YORK (AP) A compilation by Lloyds Register of shipping that shows Japan floated 50 per cent of all new shipping tonnage in 1968 points up the nearly incredible postwar comeback of that country.

It was only a century ago that Japan emerged from isolation, only 25 years since its economy was wrecked by war, 15 years since it was an occupied nation.

Last year it launched 8,572,970 tons of shipping, including 19 of 23 ships whose weight exceeded 100,000 tons. Its tonnage pr>duc-tion was, in fact, 20 times that of the United States.

It has now become the second largest manufacturer of television receivers, the worlds foremost producer of radios, the third largest maker 0^ steel products and the second largest automaker.

While some of the worlds oldest industrialized nations are fighting to maintain their export markets, Japan continues to enlarge its share of trade. Last year it had a trade surplus of $2.5 billion.

By contrast, the United States surplus of goods exported eom-pared with imports fell sharply to $725 million from more than $4 billion a year earlier.

The island nations Gross National Product is the swiftest growing of any industrialized nation. With a GNP now well over $100 billion, Japans economy is the second largest of the non-Communists nations and is growing at 11 or 12 per cent a

Japan has,in fact, achieved year.

Japan has, in fact, achieved through ingenuity and trade what it failed to win 25 years earlier by military conquest. It now has its rew materials and markets.

Various reasons are given for the transformation. Japans people seemingly have the intelligence, spirit and the competitive desire to excel. But several other reasons also stand out.

Japans renunciation of violence, for example, means that national defense costs less than in other nations. It has modernized its economic system. And it has benefited greatly from American spending.

There is irony in this American-Japanese trade relationship, for while the United States has, in the eyes of some critics, weakened its economy through military expenditures, these same expenditurtf have strengthened Japan.

The Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. estimated recently that Japanese exports to the U.S. market, and Japanese exports to various Asian countries, in part a by product of U.S. military presence, account for up to 45 per cent of all its exports.

Nobody can say with certainty what chapters remain to he written in this amazing st^ of industrial expansion, but Tmost all forecasts for 1969 indicate more of the same.

Quotes

There are some politicians who shake your hand before an election and your confidence after.Minosqua (Wis.) Times.

In making our decisions we must use the brains that God has given us. But we must also use our hearts, which He also gave us.Fulton Ousler.

The Old Bureauaracy Stays On

Strength For Today

LOOK IX THE MIRROR

Oh," he said, throw i n g back his head and lock i n g his thumbs in the armholes of his vest. Im a practical, hard - headed realist. The reason I, don't believe 'in religion is first of all because I can't see it and handle it, and in the second place because it doesn't seem to be doing a great deal for the people who clairruthey have it.

He thinks he is a veritable mountain of wisdom, but he is a poor, mistaken nobody who so far as the real aspects of life are concerned is not able to see his hand before him. If you don't have some kind of a religion to go by youre not going anywhere you will find yourself right back at the plac^ you started with

bitterness and confusion in heart and mind.

People are inclined to make too much over different varieties of religion. The point is not whai kind of religion you have but whether or not you have any religion at all. ' If you live within yourself you are art idolater bending in submission to the most debasing idol ever fashio n e d, namely, yourself. We can burn, destroy and cast out the silly images made by the hand of man, but it is never until wg cast selfishness, e n v y, greed, sensuality and jealousy out of our lives 4hat we can be said to be living at all

Life is (kid's great gift to us, and the only way to be happy with this great gift is to use it helpfully.

Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

We have changed administrations in Washington but bureaucracy still clucks on in its cuckoo way.

Now its the Federal Trade Commission, which used to be fairly normal when Lyndon Johnson was President.

It has notifed the television industry that advertisements for television sets, particularly those for color pictur e s, tend to mislead ciistomers and that the industry had better do ,something about it or else,

You know what they are talking about. In the slick magazines there will be pictures of beautiful television sets, and in show w ind 0 w s similar sets will be displayed, some genuine plastic mahogany. On the screens will be beautiful color pictures: Jack Benny looking like sweet thirty - six, Dinah Shore in passionate c 01 0 r, all so real that you can see the green m Bennys billiold.

evn though he is a w i n ter overcoat. Dinah so real you expect her to smack you.

Are We Being Fooled?

This, says the FTC, deceiv-

every set in the house, compare the picture, fiddle with the knobs and blow a fuse or two. Thats why color se t s are so expensive; sell i n g

es the consumers because, them takes so much of a sal-

color TV pictures are never never as good as that, even if the displays say, Simulated picture. ' '

Do people see those ads or displays and phone the TV retailer and say, Mr.

Schlock, send me that set shown in Life, or Mr.

Borax, send over that doggie in the'window!? Sure?

The FTC idea is cuckoo because (1) everybody knows those pictures are paste - ins; in fact, you can be pretty certain of it if you walk by a show window because the picture doesnt move like

television pictures do; and (2)

because people dont buy

sets that way.

People shipping for sets read the ads, look at the displays and then go in and ask for demonstratiwis. They have the salesman turn on

esmans time and so. much

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wear and tear 1 the set. Where WUl It AU End

If the FTC can come up with any couple buying their first set who hasnt asked for a demonstration, but rel i e d solely on a pasted-on nicture, rU eat Mary Gardiner Jones, the only tasty Federal Trade Commissioner.

Many other merchants are worrying that if the FTC puts

over this bit of nonsense, theres no telling where it may end.

The FTC did a good j 0 b when it stopped that shaving cream company from using TV commercials that showed a lathered piece of sanc^ap-er being shaved clean, after it found out that ^it wasnt sandpaper but plastic that was being shaved. But handsome lithographs on TV tubes seem far less venal.

If the FTC goes on, it might stop those commercials showing girls being , ecstatic because a new girdle h 01 ds her parts in while, in truth, she may be suffering from gas pains; it might ban those commercials showing the girl falling into the arms of a fellow with hair goo when, as a matter of fact, she is about to retch because of his breath; it might forMd commercials shoing people smiling in enjoyment over a cigarette when in real life the smoke is cauterizing their throats. .....