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Why Try End Successful Program?

It is difficult for us to understand the motives the small farmer, of some senators and representatives who are seek- The tobacco program has meant a minimum ing to end the price support program which has living for thousands of families who have wanted worked so well for tobacco producing areas. to remain on the farm, where the air is clean and

The program has meant the difference between there is room for their children to play. In a nation staying on the farm and leaving for thousands Of where literally millions are on welfare in dingy

farm operators and workers. If the program were to be abolished by Congress now it is a certainty that large numbers of small farmers in North Carolina, Georgia and other tobacco producing areas would have to give up, sell their land and attempt to work in other areas.

And for what? Do sponsors of such legislation really believe that sources of tobacco would dry up if the tobacco program were abolished? It should be perfectly clear to everyone that a? long as there is a demand for cigarettes they will be manufactured and someone will grow the tobacco. The end of the tohacco program will merelv mean a

city slums, it makes little sense to us to abolish successful farm programs and push still more thouand.s into the cities.

Any efforts in Congress to abolish the tobacco program should be turned back as not in the best interest of the nations farm economy. Shrinking opportunities on the farm will only add to the acute problems Which the cities alreadv" face. W

With All Our Might,

redistribution of the acreage with large producers jt t J rp O *1 1

benefitting. lower tobacco prices, higher profits for iTfl 1 Q ijtlTlK BCLClC

the manufacturers and the end of a way of life for

Sen. Moore Is Intense Worker

By WILLIAM A, SHIRES Reflector Raleigh Bureau RALEIGH - Sen. Herman A. Moore of Mecklenburg County is an intense, hardworking legislator. A relatively young man. he is a iuccessfui business executive with a number of enterpris-ts.

Now in his third term is a late senator. Moore is giving a great deal of attention to revision and improvement of the inner workings o the General .Assembly. Two years ago he became president pro-tem of the Senate and as co-chairman of the Legislative Research Council sought to Introduce new ideas, methods and ways of doing things.

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He could be described as the sponsor of the new "computerized General .Assembly. Moore pushed for and w o n approval of the legislative computers.

Much Study Involved I have spent a great pari of the last two years simp!\ looking at the set - ups in other General .Assemblies, says Moore.

-As a result of this close-up look and study plus his own acumen. Moore has sent up a series of bills dealing with the legislature.

One of these meas u r e r would set salaries for members of future General .Assemblies at w*hat Moor-e regards as a more realistic level.

Other Measures Secondly. Moore sent up a bill which would give the 170 members of the General Assembly a meihod whereby they could convene an extra session of the legislature upon request of three - fifths of the members of eacn House. Turther. Moore intends to

introduce a bill calling for election of the governor and lieutenant governor as a team during the following election.

He also has sent forth a resolution directing the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) to develop and implement a pre - session bill drafting and filing system. If approved, LRC would establish a system prior to the convening of the 1971 session of the legislature. Moore f e e Is that such a system can be implemented prior to the next session which will save a great deal of time and effort which was lost dur i n g this session in the earl y months. There were many complaints and a lot of individual disgruntlement because the new computer system did not include a swift method of bill drafting and filing. To a large extent this was worked out,

Moore, however, wants to head off further and future complaints about the new system.

Moore, having sponsored and pushed many of the innovations and new ways of doing things in the .Assembly. is anxious to see them earned through. He feels a pre-session bill drafting and filing system will be of great help. He also wants to see the Legislative Research Commission continued and strengthened.

Good Neighbor Councils Gov. Bob Scott and i h e states Good Neighbor Council will sponsor a one day conference on Thursday designed to bolster relations between state agencies, nrivaie enterprise and local Good Neighbor Councils,

There will be reports by the newly appointed chairman of the N. C. G 0 o d Neighbor Council. Fred L. Cooper, and an address by the governor at a luncheon.

Charles B. Wade Jr. of Winston - Salem, vice president of Reynolds Tobacco Co.. will make the principal afternoon address on the challenge of good neighbor relations to the business sector.

Once again it appears that the United States has been kicked in the shins by what Pres. Nixon only last year called a fourth rate power.

North Korea has shot down a U. S. Navy re-connaisance plane apparently outside its territorial limits. The tragedy is compounded this time because it is likely there has been a heavy loss of life.

Even with all our might, America is in no position to retaliate militarily because, as North Korea know.s, our public will not support another involvement in Asia.

Sooner or later, however, our military planners must decide to either cease these reconnaisance missions by undefended ships and planes, or to make available the protection they need for fending off such attacks.

Things We Do Without

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) -Things we could all do without: I^k-alike him -and - her haircuts for young marr ie d couples.

Platinam toothpicks. Phonograph records featuring music designed for odd purposes such as to calm

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a barking dog.

Girls who dye their hair strawberry blonde when strawberries are out of season.

Stores that sell pseudo clever buttons to teen-agers bearing leering messages so "blue they make their mothers blush.

People who try to win attention at cocktail parties by doing cad tricks, predicting the future by reading the palms of other guests, or analyzing their character by analyzing their handwriting.

Fluffy wigs that make a girl's hair stand out as if she had been permanently fright-end or shocked by picking up a live fallen electric power line.

Litterbugs of any age and kids who like to break pop bottles on curbstones.

Restaurants that charge extra for bread and butter and think it lends them class if they ask 50 cents for a dime cup of coffee.

Those huge tinted sunglasses that make girls look bubble-faced or like fugitives frc.m Mars.

Four-bit shoeshines.

Jewel-studded collars for dogs and cufflinks for men so big and heavy that just carrying them around makes a fell feel armwearv bv eve

ning.

Plump doctors who tell their patients to become lean and stay that way.

Television commer c i a 1 s which insinuate that you can find a better marriage partner if you switch from your present hair goo, tooth paste, body dedorant or mouthwash.

Pretentious road show movies that charge $5 for a ticket and brassy Broadway

musicals that put a $15 price tag on an orchestra seat.

Weather forecasters who promise sunny skies on t h e day you put on a new suit

and then let it rain from

noon to midnight.

All video panel discussions programs on sex, sin, psychotherapy, or extrasensory perception.

Clay cigar store Indians cunningly painted to look like the real thing wooden Indians.

Girls built like a giraffg's neck who parade around in floppy elephant pants.

Cranky columnists who write complaining articles such as this one.

From these and other plagues in our time, dead Lord, deliver us, .Amen.

Opinions In Brief

Vast federal land holdings have actually become a hindrance to the economic progress of some states. The federal government owns 98 per cent ,of Alaska. 87 per cent of Nevada, 87 per cent of Utah and 64 per cent of Idaho. Surely some Cl that land could be released or redasified without harming the cause of conservation. Alliance (Neb.) Times-Herald.

The States of this Union have the power, though it never has been exercised, to in motion the machinery that can lead to amendment of the Constitution. It is time for them to punch that button now.

With the Supreme Courts opinions last week in the New York and Missouri redistrict-ing cases, a new level was reached in judicial lunacy. Here the high court toss e d comity, common sense, and the Constitution itself to t h e four winds. Five of the judges joined in an Ivory T 0 w er improvisation, remote f r am the real world; Harland, Stewart "and White dissented; Justice Abe Fortas, lamely concurring, brought up the

rear.

New York s legislature attempted in 1968 to meet the high courts requireme n t that congressional distr i c ts should be as nearly as practicable equal in population. A joint legislative commission came up with an ingenious plan. The State wo u I d first be divided into seven regions having generally compatible interests; thirty -one congressional districts would be created within these regions. The remaining ten districts would be formed from county-clusters.

Now, there was a time when such a political experiment would have been lauded as an example of the very meaning of A.merican federa-

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How easy it is to find what the other fellow does funny. How ridiculous he is to do things differently or to look other than we do. The classical Greeks, wise and urbane as they were, believed that everyone elses sp e e ch sounded like bar-bar -bar, and thus called them barbarians. The Chinese call the Russians big-noses, although to many other whites the Russians seem to have small, snub noses.

Now along comes U n i t ed Press International with an article on the Finnish languages, and, to amuse us all, records the following joke word: epajarjestelmallisiyt-tamattomyyksillaansakaan -kohan (we apologize to any Finn if we have missed a letter). It has 50 letters. How fortunate we are in English, some of us are likely to say, not to have such words.

Ah, but do we know what

we are talking about. How many persons using the Massachusetts toll road have recognized a similar word with 47 letters? You doubt it? Here it is: Massachusettsturnpike-authoritymaintenancecent-er. Oh, you may say, that is not one word, but five. But, basically, it is no different from the long Finnish word. In the first place, when spoken (and the spoken language is primary, the written secondary) the words run together into one single ideo-compound or concept. Try it and see. Furthermore, it makes no real difference whether words are run together or writt e n separately, if, as in this English phrase, they are not divided by preposition as is the custom in the Latin languages.

So, next time any of us are inclined to laugh at those long Finnish or German words, perhaps we )Ught to stop and look around. We may be surprised.

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lism. Our States are supposed to be reasonably free to experiment with forms of government. And in this case, New York emerged with districts that in fact were substantially equal The smallest of the 41 had an estimated population of 382,277, the largest of 435,880. Within the regions, variations among districts were infinitesimal.

Missouris General Assembly undertook to apply the same principles of comm 0 n sense and political compromise. Ten districts were proposed, ranging in size f r om 419,721 to 445,523.

In a pair of ruthless^decis-ions, the Supreme Court last week ruled these efforts void. In fashioning congressional districts, geography cannot be considered; common interests cannot be considered; the integrity of county and city jurisdictions cannot be considered; traditions cannot be considered. Nothing is to count but mere numbers of faceless people. The goal is precise mathematical

Policy

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By ROWLA.ND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTONWhen Sm. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and other foes of the anti-ballistic missile (AB-M) two weeks ago began putting together a citizens committee to fight it, anti-.ABM Republican Senators quick I y huddled and quickly concluded they should take no part in this effort.

Their reasoning was sound. They did not want to be link-, ed in any way with Kennedy, the putative Democratic Pre?. sidential nominee for 1972, in a potentially disruptive Senate fight against President Nixon. ,

Thus, anti - ABM Republicans deternidned among themselves that they would avoid any hint of the Kennedy imprimatur a decision carried down to the staff level For instance, a bipartisan meeting of Senate staffers on the ABM April 4 was transferred from Kennedys office to a Republican Senators office because Republican aides didnt like the idea of trooping over to Teddys office.

It was, then, with real anger that the anti - ABM Republicans realized last week that the principal White House strategy in preparing for the whole ABM showdown in the Senate two months hence is to make the vote a choice of allegiance between the President and Sen. kennedy thereby forcing Republicans into the ABM corner.

The White House peop 1 e knew we were keeping hands off anything to do with Teddy, one chagrined Republican Senator told us. Then they come up with this stuff. It doesnt sould like reciprocity to me. Shades of LBJ!

Indeed, the new White House strategy, if perhaps only temporarily, has backfired. Instead of abandoning the fight against the ABM because of linkage with Kennedy, the dissident Republican Senators are more determined than ever to oppose the Presidents Safeguard s y s-tem. At the same timo, the attention given Kennedy has solidified him as de facto leader of the Democratic party. Thus, the White Houses Kennedy ploy has only exacerbated the two conditions that fathered the strategy.

The first of these was the deteriorating situation in the Senate. Contrary to expectations, the super - thin Safeguard system announced by Mr, Nixon March 14 produced the conversion of only one anti-ABM Republican Senator

equality.

This was the key sentence, minority whip Hugh Scott of in the majority pronounce- Pennsylvania. Anti-ABM for-

ment: The command note that astonishing noun The command of Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, that States create congressional districts which provide equal representation for equal numbers of people per-mits only the limited population variances which are unavoidable despite a good faith effort to achieve absolute equality, or for which justification is shown.

Command! What commandment is this? Article I, Section 2, of the Constitution says only this and nothing more: the House of Repre-senatives shall be campos e d of members chosen every second year by the people of the several States. That is all. The rest is pure fabrication.

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ces tally 40 votes for Safe guard, 45 against it, and 15 un-White House aides do not basically disagree with.

Second, the obsession with Teddy Kennedy at the White House has been growing steadily. In office less than three months, Nixon aides cannot erase from their imagination the spectre of Kennedy in 1972. Few casual conversations end without their exploration of Mr. Nix 0 ns chances against him. Thus, to win the ABM fight and also tarnish Kennedy seemed a' perfect strategy.

This campaign wa.s launched, sub rosa, early this month when a story suggesting that one Republican Senator was playing into Kennedys hands by opposing Safeguard ap-

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Strength For Today

Opulence Cuts Rye Production

NATURE OF M.\N

.Many different doctrines concerning the nature of man have been set forth by the sages of the world. Some have called man a beast, the most highly developed of creatures in an evolutional-process, but with nothrig save a few higher mental functions to distinguish him from the lower animals. Others have gone to the opposite extreme and have pictured him .as being perfect at heart and needing only good environment and a bit of encouragement to blossom forth into perfection.

Neither of these extremes is correct. The Bible honors man with the statement that he is made in the image of God and alter the likeness of God. He is called a child or a son of God. But th Bible

declares that the heart of man is desperately wicked.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Because the whole world a little more affluent and a little bit status crazy, rye production today is only a frac-

.Man has something oth- tion of past levels.

er creature has. He has personality, or, in other words, a bit of the nature of God Himself. But he has the capacity to choose between good and evil, and the exercise of this capacity often destroys whatever idealism he might naturally have.

The nature of man is like raw sugar or raw salt. The quality is there, but in order to utilize this quality a process of refinement has to take place. The most effective agent for the refinement of personality is religion.

Religion is the factor God employs to refine human per-sonali^ so that man may behave as a creature made in Gods image and after his likeness.

Earl L. Dougls*

Rye was once the most common breadgrain in northern and central Europe and an important staple of early Americans, but today it is only a feedgrain and a forage crop in many countries, Beverly J. Horsley reports in Foreign Agriculture, a magazine published by The Foreign Agricultural Service.

Rye. is believed to have originated in southwest Asia or southern Russia. It spread across Russia. Cave dwellers and early Egyptians were apparently not familiar with it But in ancient Rome it w a s known as a breadgrain, for the black or pumpniic k e.l bread, and as animal food.

Even in those days there was prejudice against rye. Persians and Afghans art

said to have regarded it as a noxious weed and Theophrastus, a Roman naturalist of the third century, believed that wheat grown on poor soil turned into rye.

Poor Mans Bread For centuries rye flour was the primary breadgrain of Europe. By the end of the 17th century, rye was dominant in Eastern Europe, Russia, Germany and the low countries.

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But as years passed, rye lost ground. By 1918, world rye production was only half

of wheat. Today it is only a little .more than a tenth. In exports, it is only one per cent of wheat shipments.

Rye bread became known as an inferior product because of its dark color and compactness and, as they could afford it. many pe 0 p le switched to wheat. This in turn encouraged wheat production.

In Russia, where rye may have originated and where rye became useful because it would grow in cold regions and marginal lands, the communist government in the 1940s began favoring w h e at over rye. By 1955, rye was grown on Mily 10 per cent of the cultivated area; wheat oh 32 per cent.

Poles, East Germans Still Like It

While Russia re.mains the worlds largest producer of rye, Poland is second and still grows more rye than whfcatg producing

as much as the United States and Canada combined. Almost all is consumed at home.

East Germany grows more rye than wheat. West Germany also grows a large amount of rye, but there is a growing tendency to use more of it for animal food.

In England, diaries of gentlefolk indicate that in the 16th and 17th centuries rye bread was the staple on all except festive occasions. It is little consumed in England now, but is still popular in the other countries of Europe.

In the United States, rye was a standby in early d a ys and in some states tax e s could be paid in rye. William Cobbett wrote of the early days in Cottage Economy, that: Few people upon the face of the earth live better than the Long Islanders, Yet nine families out of ten seldom eat wheaten bread. Rye is the flour that they principally make usg oL