Thursday, April 10, 1969

One Way Of Helping Local Govm'ts

THAT GUY SB A S

County commissioner.'! are once apain wrestlinjf ^'ith the old problem of helpin.c finance welfare programs over which they have no control.

The commis.<ioners were told Mondiiy that they face a 35 per cent increa.<e in the welfare depart-Tient's public assistance budget for the 19fi0-7o fiscal year due to the federally sponsored Medicaid program. The increase will amount to about $115,000. If other programs now before the state Legislature are approved the budget might be increased by an additional 30 per cent, or a total increase of 65 per cent.

All of this cannot come as good news toVthe

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A Softer Line

Ry WILLIAM A. SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bure3u

R.ALEIGHSome state and local officials in North Carolina belie\e they have detected a softer, more lenient attitude on the part of federal authorities toward school te-iegregation since Oie X ? xon administrator took cffic?

Many others say they ha\e

found no real evidence of this. The latter end to adnbute indications of a slowdown or relaxation of pressure in federal demands for total integration simply to the problems of political transition.

If anyone has evidence that the Nixon administration has ordered a slowdown in public school integration or has specifically encouraged any local officials to delay and stall it has not come to light. On the other hand, there is evidence that the new administration is w illing to review and reconsider school integration plans cn the basis of local condi^ tions and problems.

.More L^nderstanding A highly placed state sch,->ol o'':''icial tliinks it mav be 'vishful thinking on the part 0 local districts whicn hr-'e school integration proble m s but the fact that in certain cases the federal Healtn. Education and Welfare (HEW) officials have agreed to review and reconsider.

There is evidence obtained by North Carolina officials that HEW secretary Robert Finch is anxious to get a better understanding of local problems.

Finch recently told a Lexington, N. C,. citizens dele-gpKm that HFV t'" add professional educators to its staff of civil rights comnii-ance acents because in m.my rase' the compliance acents not understand educaiion-e1 problems,

Tie and other Washir.ston officials told the Lexincton group that disruption of established school sc'stem? hy busing and transfer of facultv

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countys taxjeayers who must provide the funds for financing the countys share of the increase. Ye^ the county commi.s.sioners have virtually no control over the welfare budget. State regulation.s require them to provide the funds necessary to finance the operation.^ of the department.

We have no solutions to offer for the rapidly rising welfare costs, but we do recall a talk made by Commissioner Bob Martin of Bethel concerning welfare.

He maintained that welfare, historically a county re.^ponsibility, had become largely state and federal controlled and thus the programs should be administered and funded on the state and federal level. With the county faced with a possible 65 per cent increase in welfare cost, Martins reasoning becomes cry.tal clear.

One way for the state and federal governments to aid local go^*ernments with their ever increasing burdens would be to relieve them of some responsibilities over which they have ro control. The welfare program would be an excellent candidate for this.

fo achieve racial balance is not justified if it affects the quality of the educational program. Finch also said, according to the Lexington delegations reports, that freedom of choice plans were acceptable and legal and are in effect in many parts of the country.

Weldon Approved At Weldon, the local school board has been notified that a desegragation plan which it filed last August prior to a September, 1968, deadline arid which w^as rejected then has now been approved.

Getting approval of the Wfl-don plan required conferences with federal officials in the regional offices in Charlottesville, Va., and furnishing of much additional written information. Finally, however, the regional civil rights director. Dr. Eloisei Severin-son. wrote that after a conference on March 12 the Weldon plan was reviewed and found to be acceptable. Others Refused Not all of North Carolim? public school districts have been so successful not by any. means.

Survey Results A statewide survey by the N. C. -Association of Afternoon Dailies through 35 member newspapers indicated a huge mish-mash of school integration situations and problems.

There are 156 separata adrn'oistrative units or disfrict.s in the state. Only 35 of ihc.se. mostly in western North Carolina counties, are presently regarded as naving total integration. Twenty -five other.s are under federal court orders to achieve ^pub 1 i c school integration by various plans subject to court approval. The rest are trying to work with HEWs administrative procedures which are less cosily hut often more complicated than the court order s\ stem.

The Charlotte - Mecklenburg County school .sy.stems are in court, arguing that it would be educationally and economically un.sound to end the concept oL neishborhood schools for the sake of getting a 'racial balance. Rut the federal at-tornc-' contend that ^aih of the 107 schools in this system m.ust have 70 per otnt while and 30 per cent black enrollmient since this is the nercentase spread for the entire svstcm. .

In the place welfare recipients often have a way of moving about so that a county or city unit becomes re.spon.'^ible for them even though their productive years were spent elsewhere. Welfare has now become a national program and it is doubtful that taxpayers on the county level should continue to have to bear the burden.

Assembly Should Not

Act In Futile Haste

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Tuesdays hearing in House Judiciary II Committee on the matter of obscene literature provided a reminder that the simple job of barring objectionable material to minors isnt really so simple.

The complexities of writing legislation'to cope with the flood are infinitely more difficult than a plain Thou shalt not . . by the hostile public.

It is well the committee has available a national model bill to use as a guideline.

Objectionable materials on the newsstands is nothing new in the land, but the flood of such material is rising to a most unwholesome level.

Our legislators should not do in haste w^hat would have to be done over again two years later. By that time w^e would have an even bigger dragon to slay.

By JAMES KILPATRICK f

Wanted: Chief

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Suppose, to be supposing, that you picked up your paper one day, ran an eye over the classified ads, and blinked at the following notice:

A Rebel Gets

Awfully Tirec.

HELP WANTED

Outstndg atty, law pro^or experienced judge sought for nomination by Pres, of U. S. to serve as Chf Justce of D. S., for life term beginning July. Need man betwn 45-55, Prot. or Cath., pfbly fr o m South or West. Must be conservative but not reactionary, non - controversial, recmnded by bar. Sal. $62,500, generous vacation, other perqsts. Fine opptnty for right man. P 1 s. .send smmry qualicatns, etc., to R. Nixon, 1600 Penn. Ave., Washington, D. C., 20500.

say nothing of propriety and tradition, would forbid it.,J^e-vertheless, this is about what President Nixon is look i n g for.

In Thurgood Marshall, Ihe Supreme Court already has a Negro member; it would be exceedingly unlikely, to state the matter mildly, that a second Negro would be considered. In Abe Fortas, the Court has a Jewish member; in the inheritance of Brandeis-Frankfurter - Goldberg, the unwritten rule is one Jew at a time. Nixon needs a relatively young Chief, beca use the President would like to help shape the course of constitutional law for the next 20

sense.

Bv HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)- Remarks that a student rebel gets tired of hearing:

'Change the world tomorrow, Malcolm. Today you have to stay home and mow the lawn,

We cant issue any more

manifestos unless everybody on tlie committee chips in two bits apiece so we can buy some more ink for the mimeograph machine.

I dont see how you can lead the human race to salvation, Malcolm, when you can't even find your way to the barber shop.

Oh. oh, here comes the cops. Now I guess well get our lumps.

It looks like rain today. Can t we call off the demonstration until tomorrow? There isn't much pomt in demonstrating if theres nobody on the street to watch us. The mayor says he is too busy to see your delegation, 'out he said hed be glad to treat your whole bunch to a free ice cream soda on the

city.

No, I wont take one of your handbills, young man. I think what you all need is a good spanking.

If you came here to get an education, why dont you just go to class and get it? It isnt the generation gap between us that worries me so much, Malcolm. Its the common sense gap.

(Jhange the world tomorrow, Malcolm. Today you have to stay home and wash the windows,

All you kids seem to want to do is to tear dowm everything it has taken mankind centuries to build up. Dont you have any constructive ideas about anything.

If I gree to raise your weekly allowance by two bucks, Malcolm, you wont spend it all on bombs, will you?

Here comes Malcolm the boy malcontent.

Do you know that mother and I have decided to give you for (Thristmas this year. Malcolma brand- new soapbox of your very own.

You can hold a sit-in in the deans office as long.as you want to, boys. He has just left town on a two-week trip. He left word for you to make yourselves comfortable. Fd love to attend the protest meeting with you, Malcolm, but the captain of the basketball team has asked me to be his guest at the game. Change the world tomorrow, Malcolm. Today I want (Continued On Page 6)

Youre not likely to see any such ad. The Equal Employment Opportunities Act, to

years.

Geographical considerations have only minor importance, but with Chief Justice Warrens retirement, the populous Pacific Coa s t

Other Editors Say Remodeling US. Image

(Jacksonville Daily News)

The U. S. reputation has become tarnished during recent years. Public attitudes toward our country are now reported to be at a 50-year low.

Fewer people aboard consider the United Stales as their best friend.

Fewer people believe that our nation shares a mutuality of interests with them.

The words are from a recent report, The Future of United States Public Diplomacy, by the Fascell Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, based on hearings conducted last year.

The subcommittee found three factors chiefly responsible for the deterioration of Americas image abroad: The Vietnam war, the race problem and crime and lawlessness. The most devastating impact, however, came fro the assassinations of Sen. Robert F Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King.

Overseas reaction to these tragic events was overwhelming, says the report, and

resulted in a sharp drop in confidence in U. k leadership.

The subcommittee ma k e s three recommendations.

First, since foreign policy begins with domestic conduct and since people abroad judge us on the basis of what we do rather than on what we say, this countrys qualification for leadership have to be contin u a 11 y reasser t e d through concrete actions and accftmplishments.

Sec(Mid, the United States must learn to speak effectively to foreign audiences.

On this third point, t h e subcommittee calls for a complete overhaul of the op-' erations of the U.S. Information Agency.

In its report, the House subcommittee noted four ma i n channels of foreign affairs: Diplomacy, trade, communications and force. Today, the United States spends 95. per cent of the resources de- voted to foreign affa 1 r s through the fourth channel, only 5 per cent through the other three.

Isnt it about time to start changing that ratio? It asks.

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will lack representation on the Court. The Souths only representative is Hugo Black, dean of the bench; at 83, he has only a few years to go. New York and New England now have four members --Douglas, Brennan, Harlan, and Marshall. Justice S t e-wart is from Ohio, Jus t i c c White from Colorado, Justice Fortas technically from Tennessee but more accurate 1 y from the District of Columbia. A Southern or Far Western nominee would ma k e

The major qualification, of course, goes to political philosophy. If the Presidents nominee is identified genera 11 y with a conservative view of the law even a moderately conservative view Mr. Nixon can rekindle the enthusiastic support of the conservatives who produced his victory in November. But if his nominee is philosophica 11 y faceless if he leans toward free and easy construction of the Constitution all hell will break loose on the right.

Doubtless Mr. Nixon is aware of conservatives concern, but it may do no harm to emphasize the point. This is the big rock. The nomination of a successor to Earl Warren is critical. Conservatives can forgive the President a scattering of liberals here and thei^ in the executive branch Finch in Welfare, Moynihan in urban affairs, Allen as Commissiuner of Education. They can swallow his advocacy of the nuclear non - proliferation treaty. They can restrain their impatience at his failure to dismantle the poverty p r o-gram and to dispel the mists of Foggy Bottom.

But they know, as the President knows, that the high court is different. The nine for all practical purposes of most powerful men in the nation. On the consensus of five of them, constituting a majority, depends the whole course of our law.

Todays justices cannot be labeled absolutely. Black and Fortas, regarded as liberals, cast a conservative vote now and then. White and Stewart, regarded as conservati ves, (Continned On Page 6)

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The remarkable fact that a hignly political priest from Houston, Tex., named Father An.onio Gonzalez has been hold i n g down a desk in the Sma 11 Business Administration iSB-A) the past several weeks typifies the new operation there run by Hilap Sandoval as the agencys chief.

To the amazement of civil servants in both the SBA and other agencies, the Cathoiic cleric suddenly surfaced as a key advisor to the Sinad Business Administrator. Apart from what damage that might do to the doctrine of sepa^ab ed church and state. Father Gonzalez is a troubling figure on other scores.

For one thing, his background is almost wholly poi-tical, including an effort to corral the Mexican-America vote for President Nixon last fall. Indeed, he ttlls SBA bu-re^uc'ats he is Sandovals number one political ace.

For another, he does not hide his combative favoritism for Mexican-Americans as opposed to Negroes. It became obvious early this year when it seemed Sandoval, a Mexican - American businessman from El Paso, Tex., would not get the SBA job as promised. Father Gonzalez complained angrily aroun- Washingt o n that Sandoval might have to play second fiddle to some Negro.

The concern over Fat her ^ Gonzalez, in fact, extends to ' Sandovals entire operation at SBA. There is emphasis on Republican politicians (particularly of the Southwo.st variety) and de - emphasis on SBAs embryonic program of easy loan to black ghetto merchants.

What makes this significant is that Sandovals predecessor, Howard Samuels, was developing a promising program of loans into the ghettoes > similar to what Mr. Nixon proposed during the campaign as black capitalism.* Moreover, the atrophy of black capitalism at SBA reflects its low priority in the Nixon administration generally.

However, the way in which Sandoval was finally appointed by the President only after intense maneuvering inside the Administration helps expla i n current developments at SBA. Suspicious of enemies in the White House itself, Sandoval has sought to surround himself with trusted political associates. Because Samuels (a New York Democrat) lobbied behind the scenes to keep the SBA job, Samuels men at the agency were looked on suspiciously by Sandoval.

The result was a quiet purge of Samuels associates including key men in the minority-enterprise operation. One such official offered to stay on for 30 days to brief his successors but was fired with two days notice. When he left, his knowledge of the minority loan program left with h i m. Sandovals choice to run that minority program Phil i p Pruitt, a young Negro stockbroker from Manhattan has to experience or contacts in the ghetto.

Pouring into SBA, simultaneously, have been businessmen and politicians from the South and Southwest unfamil-liar with the black ghetto: businessmen Arthur H. Singer of El Paso and Irv i n g Schwartz of Albuquerque, N. M.; William Murfin, Republican state chjtirman of Flori-

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Strength For Today Sound Business Practice Finec.

PATRIOTISM

What is patriotism? The dictionary defines it as love of country and devotion to the welfare of ones country. The word patriot comes from a Latin word which means fellow countr>man. It goes back to the word pater,

which means father.

A true patriot is one who loves his country and who, conscious of the fact that his (M)untry often makes mistakes, is nevertheless loyal to it. The responsibihty rests upon all to tn to correct the faults (rf our country (for every nation has plenty of faults), but to attempt to correct them not with riotous demonstration but with service to the public good. This may mean bearing arms. In the overwhelming majority of cases it simply means being a good and loyal citAft IB tbB VBB IB

which circumstances have placed us. Patriotism does not involve the waving of flags. Again we remind ourselves that the word patriotism goes back to the Latin word pater, which means father, Patiotism is devotion to the fatherland.

One does not have to be blind to his familys faults in order to be a helpful member of the family. Parents are the very first to admit that they have plenty of faults and have made plenty of mistakes. There is not a community in our land that does not have problems crying out frantically fca* solution. Because our children have problems we do not put them out of the house and forget them. We try to work things out together.

Our country is a blessed fatherland. Let us love and serve it

By Earl L. Duiglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

The state of New York, in a decision that may have secondary effects in other states, has fined the 13 Ro-yal-Globe Insurance (Companies $20,600 f(H* having cancelled 206 fire insurance policies in the Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant areas of New York City.

These cancellations were part of Royal-Globes policy of reducing its risks in areas that have been torn by riots and Molotov cocktails bombings. They are largely inhabited by Negroes and Puerto Ricans.

There was no allegation that Royal-Glc^ was racially prejudiced; in fact, the decision of the State Insurance Department tound tnat Roy-al-Globe was not motivated by racial hostility. Furthermore, many of the properties cn which poIici^..wert cancelled are not Qwii^ by Negroes and

Puerto Ricans but by whites and corporations. And there is nothing in the law which prohibits insurance cancellation Fine Points

The decision agreed t h a i the companies were motivated by business and underwriting reasons, but that this didnt alter the fact that Royal-Globe made a racial distinction in cancelling the policies, and racial distinctions are against the law. The decision said:

It is clear- from the evidence that the respondents intended to do that which they did do: cancel policies in Negroes areas. '

The decision also ordered RovAl-Globe to withdraw the cancellations and continue ie policies in fore.

It developed that Royal-Globe thought that its policy holders could replace cancelled policies with new policies from an insurance pod that

was set up after riots became common a few years ago. The pool is prohibited from considering areas in granting policies. However, the pool was not required to provide immediate coverage and apparently has not been able to.

The case is of national im-

Court with the question: Does the (Constitution protect the white folks from discrimination?

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portance because property owners in slum areas in many states have difficulty in obtaining insurance, and because Rovrl-Glcbe has announced it will appeal. This may eventually present the Supreme

Bank Earnings Surge Above Year-Ago Levels Heres a postscript on that recent column reporting that banks were profiting from high interest rates and the money shortage created by the Nixon administration in an at-temnt to slow down inflation: The Morgan Gua r a n t y Tru=t Co.. now part of the J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., holding company, reported earnings of $20,452,869 in the rst th'*ee months of this year, 10.2 per cent higher ian in the same 1968 p^lod.

The Charter New York Corp., which holds the Irving Trust (Co., repOTted earnings of $6,604,537 in the flrst three months of the year, 13.9 per cent above the first three 1968 months.