Thursday, April 3, !969

Reorganization Move Significant

Resignation of Greenville Police Chief Henry Lawson is in the best interest of the depaitment which he has headed for the past four years and in the best interest of the city.

In recent months Chief Lawson had become the center of the controversy which swirled around the local police department. Justified or not, the unfortunate situation had developed to the point where a largre segment of the public had lost confidence in the local law enforcement agency. There have even been indications that some of the other law enforcement agencies had also lost confidence in the Green-

^Real Concern Over Outsiders

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH - One of the aharpest points in Dr Leo W. Jenkins convocation address at East Carolina Uni-%-ersity was his call to reject outside, non - student agitators on the campus.

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It is well documented that much of the unrest, turm o i 1 and trouble on college and university campuses across the nation is being fomented by organized agitators.

This iswhat disturbs res-

fionsible educators and legis-alors alike far more than hearing complaints, protests and suggestions from those primarily concerned with getting an education the best education they can get.

Dr. Jenkins spoke directly on the problem of ouU^ide agitation. He asked students at ECU to reject emphatically the brazen, asumed leader-ahip of those seeking to influence actions for selfish purposes.

Warns .Against Disorder The ECU campus, he said, will not become a rest haven for the indolent, a correctional instiUition for the undisciplined, a remedial institution for the untrained and, most emphatically, it will not become a sanctuary for the lawless.

He pledged that when rea-fails and disorder results, force would be met with force and lawlessness prosecuted to the full extent.

Speaks To All The underlying cause for Jenkins' concern was a list of demands by black students presented March 3 and sub.se-cuent agitation, foment and tension.

He asked for restraint, calm and courtesy and patient understanding. He urged following established procedures for handling grievances and complainL'i.

The problem we face today is exactly like the problems we face evedvday. It is different only because t h ose who have presented it want

to have it solved in extraord-inar> ways.

He stresses that black students were told to present grievances in an orderly fashion and that they w'ould be considered by establish e d procedures which he believes are valid. I do not i n t end them to be subverted or destroyed *

I will not, by force or fiat, order changes without following regular and orderly procedures, Jenkins said.

He added, what he said applies equally to black and white students, faculty and administration.

E.siablisbed Machinery In effect. Dr. Jenkins was saying that ECU wil not be run by granting demands or by executive decree to implement them.

The demands, he said, must be handled by the established machinery* through a procedure which might appear slow. But you must understand the unreasonable ingredients of the situation.

I am presented with demands which call for immediate solutions, when immediate solutions are next to impossible

Urges Forebearance The administration including the president himself has ignored what Dr, Jenkins de.seribe as grossly rude language, recognizing it for what it was.*

He warned against ill-conceived action or rioting which might be prompted by insults, rumors and provocations, and extended a plea for caution.

. .We must continue to use words and logic and reason rather than force and abusive language. , . .1 stress that this system reqii ires that minority and majorT%y groups limit themselves to peaceful procedures. . I am asking for restraint and moderation"

Time Of Change At one point Dr. Je n k i ns said he was aware that h i s address might be taken as a statement for maintain i n g status quo in a time of change.

But you are well aware that I do not have the reputation of a defender of the status quo. he said.

*T am not suggesting that there should be no change here. I believe that inequities suffered by any student or group of students on this campus must be recitified.

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it v\as a cituaLiii laat Greenville could ill af-iord to perpetuate.

Witn tne reM.gnalion of Chief Lawson, city officials must now see to the reorganzation of the department. That in itself will be a significant task. What may be an evn more tedious and time-consuming la.sk is the rebuilding of complete public confidence in the department.

Greenville is fortunate in having a number of well qualified, dedicated police officer.. These men have served under adverse circumstance.s in recent months. Hopefully, that situation will now change with the reorganization of the department indicated by city officials. There is a .solid foundation of con.<cientious, capable officers within the Greenville Police Department upon which to rebuild the kind of law enforcement fhe city needs and deserves.

As they .set about the task of finding new Icad-er.ship for the Police Department, city officials must take care not to tie the hands of the person or persons upon whom that re.sponsibility falls. The per-.on or pepons who ar^e as.signed the responsibility of reorganizing and rebuilding the department mu.st also be given the authority to do so without being fettered by prior concessions and commitments that could render new leadership ineffective.

There is an important job to be done and the first step in getting it accomplished has been taken. The sub.sequent steps in implementing the reorganization. however, are equally important if the goal of a top-flight police department for the city is to be achieved.

The Record Points To A Lengthy Legislature

If the number of measures ratified so far this year by the Legislature as compared to two years ago is any indication, this is going to be a long session.

The secretary of states office reported that 177 measures had been ratified by last Friday, the 65th day of the current se.s.sion. At the same time in 1967, 279 bills had been ratified.

However, in what may be a hopeful sign, fewer bills had been introduced thjs year compared with the same time two years ago 803 to 929.

While numbers of bills do not necessarily indi-caie the days of work ahead for the T.egislature, experience tells us that this se.'ssion will run well into the summer and there will be huge amount? of w ork accomnlisbed in the late stages.

^ T.e.sser legislation should be moved along as rapidly as possible at this stage, so that law' makers r;>n de^oto fl-oir fiH] attention to mainr bill as they arise. Too oft on in vears nast levilafion has been approved in tho late session crunch without adequate consideration.

By JAMES KILPATRICK

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s A Two-Way Street

This is circuit - riding time for some of us old crautaugua speakers. Come spring, we hit the campus trail, go i n g from one great - issues conference to another. Almost every university, it appears, now stages such an intellectual games day. It is hard work for the out-of-shape oldster, but the pay is good and the jousting is fun.

.Much of the pleasure comes from the informal give-and-

take with students. They are a mixed bag; it is not easy to generalize about them. A few of the bearded oafs and stringy wenches have nothing to offer but a brutish insolence: their notion of free speech and reasoned debate is to grunt oink, oink at a guest. Others are amateurs at the oven; their opinions are browm on the outside but half-baked within. Most of the students are civil, informed,

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TOKYO (AP'-Red Chinas ninth Communist party con-pc.s, which opened in Peking Tuesday, is Mao Tse-tung's last great effort to remake his nation.

In the early day? of his 20-year-old regime, w hen he held the reins of both the party and the government, he sought to impose his will through both. Rebellions in the army and at the top of the communist hierarc h y blasted hjs dreams.

In 1966, placing his taith in a great mass movem.ent dubbed the Great Proleiari a n Cultural Revolution. AI a o tried to achieve mast e r y through revoluntionary committees modeled on the Paris Communes in 1871.

The breakdown of partv and government which accompanied his epic purge thrust the often unreliable army into a position of dangerous leadership. Mao countered by decreeing, fruitlessly, that the workers and peasants should take over the revolution.

Now, finally, he has had to fall back on the party he spurned and shattered. He is

trying to rebuild it on Maoist lines from the shambles it had become.

The task of the party congress is to revise the constitution to include Maos political philosophy, designate Defense Minister Lin Piao his successor and name a new central committee for the party.

Mao, now 75 and nearing the end of his turbulent revolutionary life, is taking no chances on failure this time. The 1.512 delegates have been handpicked rather than elected. .As the opening -day comminique put it, they were chosen through full democratic consultation by party organizations at various levels and after e.xtensively seeking the opinion of the broad masses.

The criterion for membership was simple: loyalty to Mao.

Maos fight to give t h e new Central Committee control of the army will be bolstered by a record number of industrial workers and peasants among the delegates to the congress.

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To The Editor;

Public Forum I read an article in which the writer stated that there is only one race of peopleThe Human Race. Many statements in this article were very appropriate for this season, because they serve as a reminder that God not only made man and gave His son for the redemption of mankind not only in Greenville but for the world. So if this world is to be saved it cant be saved by White against Black, nor Bla c k against White but it must be saved on love. Love toward and for each other.

I have filed for City Councilman. If I am elected I shall be divinely led by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ who shed His blood not for one or two individuals but for mankind to lead people.

Since I filed for City Councilman I have been asked to withdraw my name. Since I have thus far refused to withdraw my life has been threatened I have received many harassing calls. I hav# had to call on the police department to check on prowlers at night around my house and my doors have been broken. Part of this unfair affair

was published in the Da i 1 y Reflector, a local paper.

However, on Sunday March 23, after some attorneys had been threatened the Daily Reflector published this article on the front page. The Judge made this statement; We will not tolerate any further threats to these men. This question lingers in my mind Is one mans life or status more important than anothers. Should all human beings be protected fr o m violence? Is wrong wrong regardless. I feel that all men when treated unfair should be protected and it should be published or known as the Sunday morning article carried it.

We, as human beings just as well remember that if we want this a better world to live in we must forget race and practice the Golden Rule. We must keep in mind always that discriminatory p ac-tices in publication, hate toward each other and prejudices cannot make this world a better place to live. Only love for mankind from the heart can and wiU save this torn up world.

George F. Garrett 1300 Ward St Greenville, N. C.

curious, good - humored.

The same words, phrases, questions and complaints recur, The big word this season is relevant. It has ousted alienation, ma i n-stream, and to identify, which were big words a few springs ago. If there is a single, underlying grievance, it is that much of the standardized higher education imposed on todays students is not relevant to their needs of tomorrow. Regulations on student conduct are not relevant to the university's proper role. Old moral concepts are not relevant; the church is not relevant. Old people and old ideas are especially irrelevant. Old people simply do not understand.

Some of this is truth. Most of it is sophomore stuff. One can agree, for example, on the necessity for wholesale reexamination of stand a r d degree requirements. Unless one intends to make a career of chemistry, is anything really gained by much of the lab work? Is the French subjunctive relevant? Are all the rules on off - campus conduct really required? All of them? Fair question, these; they demand responsive answers.

As for the relevance of the old ethical concepts, the old religion, the old polit i c a 1 truths, one can only urge patience. After a while, a loaf of bread gets done. The relationship between man and the state seldom is seen clearly, even by oldsters who struggle all their lives to comprehend it. Young eyes will see with greater clarity later on

It is the business of o I d folks not understanding that gets to be irksome. Here, too, one has to concede both truth and novelty to the student complaint. Todays generation gap is in fact different in kind, and not mere-(Continued On Page 5)

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Bv ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHLNGTON - Phase Two at the Nixon White House is quietly underway with an obscure ajde named John Ehrlichman purposefully assuming direction of domestic policy in a manner not approached during the new Administrations first three months.

Ehrlichman, a 44- year-old lawy'er from Seattle, is now at the center of domestic policy-making. He directed the painful evolution of a single policy on student unrest and is now involved in the prickly business of harmonizing inter - departmental disagreements over school desegregation. Thus, Ehrlichman is eclipsing Wk R. (Bob) Halde-man, who appeared emerging as top staffer in Phase One of the Nixon White House.

More important. President Nixon has instructed Ehrlichman to build a domestic policy-making staff structure that would parallel Dr. Henry Kissingers 25- year- o 1 d foreign policy staff structure funder the aegis of the National Security Council). That would, in fact though not in name, end Mr. Nixons concept of vast policymaking autonomy in Cabinet- level departments.

Phase One of the Nixon White House probably entered its decline when President Nixon returned from his European tour. Taking a good look around his White House, he was unnerved to find a minimum of efficiency and a maximum of personnel; too many aides, too many secretaries, too many janitors.

The ensuing Presiden lia! displeasure was interpreted inside the White House as implicit criticism of Haldeman, the crewcut young advertising executive from Los Ange-Fs who had become de facto chief of staff.

Beyond complaints of over-staffing, some of Haldemans critics on the staff felt be and his young crewcut lieutenants termed The Beaver Patrol behind their backs because of Boy Scout tendencies had emphasized petty intra-office efficiencies while neglecting vital policy coordination beteen government departments..

In defense of Haldemans Beaver Patrol, however, its neglect of policy coordination precisely followed Mr. Nixons desire to avoid centralized dictation of domestic policy by Joseph Califano in LBJs White House and, instead, restore policy-making independence to Cabinet departments.

The result confronting Mr. Nixon on his return from Europe was a bifurcated policy on student unrest. Without any White House directives, Atty. Gen. John Mitchell took a hard-boiled stance (suggesting a campus conspiracy.) while Secretary Robert Finch of Health, Education and

Welfare (HEW) was talking more softly. Haldeman had attempted no coordination.

It was then Ehrlichman moved hard to develop a single Administration position. A White House meeting was

called March 19 with the

Finch to determine a nified policy on both student unrest and school desegregation.

But because White House staffers discovered the basic

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Strength For Today

Business Setbacks In The Cards

COMARNION

This day has been called Maundy Thursday. The word Maundy comes from a Latin word which means to command. It was the day when Jesus washed the di.sci-ples feet and gave anew commandment to his disciples that they love one another as he had loved them. Also, it was the day on which The Last Supper was instituted.

Here we encounter the final discourses of Jesus to his disciples. These precious words have cheered an um numbered multitude of beliet'^ vers through the ages. Jesus drew back the curtain, as it were, and allowed men to i ee the heavenly glories which were in store for them if they submitted their lives to God, cast themselves upon his mercy, accepted the salvat i o n which the divine hand was offering theoL

All over the world on this Thursday of Holy Week Chris-tain believers will be meeting to partake of comm u n i on. They will recall the graciousness of Christ, and their fears regarding the future will he swallowed up in the immense prophecies which Christ would make of future and heaven!'' ories. Gcc* .lid not mnKe men to destroy them. He them in order that thev mi "it return to that image arc! divine likene n which they had been created.

This s what Christianity means Christ did not c>me mto the v.o'i 1 just to improve the wor d or to improve mans mo.' 1 life. He came to transform everxthmg the world and th';.* who live therein. .And especially d i d he come *0 cleanse, the wayward heart of man and make him ready to receive Gods gift of salvation.

Earl L Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

April w'ill probably see some setbacks in business. Heres why;

Income tax payments, heavier than ever before, will cut into individuals spending, slowing retail sales. The tax payments will increase borrowings at banks and finance companie.s, tightening the money supply even worse than at present.

President Nixon's propased extension of the surtax wil! cause all businesses to reexamine their spending pans for the year. Extension of the tax will also be a tax increase. I.ast year, the surtax added 7% per cent to tax bills for both individuals and corporations. This year, as of today, the surtax is adding 5 per cent, since it is a 10 per cent tax f(w* only half t h e year. But if it is extended, the surtax for 1969 will be 10 per cent for the full year. In short, the surtax on 1969 earnings and profits will be increased from 5 to 10 per cent.

.Shock Waves

The prediction that t h e prime rate of banks may rise above the current 7kz per cent rate, made by Roy L. Reierson, senior vice president and chief economist of the Bankers Trust Co. of New York, is sending waves ot apprehension through the corporate community. He declared that if the Federal Reserve means business in -con-troling inflation, then interest rates have not hit their high mark yet.

Treasury Secretary Dav I d M. Kennedys defense of the 7 per cent investment ere d i t now given cornorations did not sway the Senate Finance Committee. Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del., said be favored suspension of the 7 per cent investent credit. He also said he favored extension of the surtax, but at a 7 per cent rate.

There is considerable skep>-ticism over the Department of Commerces survey that showed plans for new plants

and equipment spending by corporations this year were 8 per cent above last year. Some spending is being speeded in fear that Congress may suspend the 7 per cent investment credit; some is the consequence of rising costs of plants and equipment. A n d while the figure has been

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generally regarded as high, it may be trimmed considerably in view of the probably continuaticn of the surtax and the possible suspension of investment credit.

Housing Boom Fading .Although the housing boom showed signs of revival earlier this year, prospects are

now dampened. The rise in interest rates has resulted m an increase in mortgage rates. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board reports that in February, the average mortgage rate advanced to 7.39 per cent, compared with 7.30 in January and 6.62 a vear ago. While it is true that the value of homes will rise with inflation, that their purchase is a hedge against the slipping value of the dollar, and that interest paid on mortgages is tax deductible, the rising rates will discourage many buyers. -

Many businessmen and consumers have been expecting that a decline in business is inevitable because of the surtax and the rise in Social Security assessments. The rise in interest rates, which affects every one of them, will seem like a signal that the eventuality is here. That will curtail spending.

It will be a troubled April. But we can always go out and look at a crocus.