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Tuesday, May 6, 1969

Small Price To Pay For Preserving

The federal governnient should act immediately to restore ^i.a million in funds lor stabilising the ^orth Carolina Outer Banks shoreliine.

Gov. Scott has made a wise move in requesting that the funds be made available to the National Park Sen ice.

T cannot sit idly by and allow erosion to continue to destroy and diminish the North Carolina c^ast line as well as the sand dunes which are so valuable for the protection of life and property during a hurricane, the governor stated in making the request. "These sand dunes are the only means of protection available to the residents and tourists during a huiTicane.

The governor cited a stormy two weeks in February \vhich caused considerable damage to the shortline.

The angry seas have been chewing away at the narrow islands which make up North Carolinas outer banks for many years. It is imperative that action be taken now to stabilize the shore.

North Carolinas Outer Banks have become a vacation area for millions of people all along the east go^ast. It would be a shame indeed, to see these

7he Month For Liookina Aheac.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

R.ALEIGH .And now it is May, the month of flowers brought by .Aprils showers.

It is the time for azaleas and roses, lilies and iris, of dogwood and cherry trees in bloom. It is a month of Springtime softness and planning for weddings in June.

roads but offered to suspend the sentence and place the youth on probation.

The defendant told the judge, "No hard feelings, but no thanks."

V He chose four months the roads.

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WILLIAM

SHIRES

It is tim.e to look forward to summer vacations and trips to the beach and lakes.

Also. May is the month during which school children throng to Raleigh in great numbers to see the sights ot the states capital and, every other year, see the General Assembly in session.

The largest concentrations of school classes ever seen in the city visitpd Raleigh o'.er the past few days.

Special buses, school activities buses and charter buses literally janvned the streets around the State Capitol and Lpgislative Building, causing traffic problems.

And the students themselves, in groups and long lines, crow'ded the state captol area find later the downtown cafeterias.

Lloyd G. Parker of Moorcs-ville has two attractive dating age daughters. And he has equipped his living room with .several "dating m.eier" lamps.

The boyrriends Avho drop by for an evening are expectpd to drop mjns in the meters to keep tlie lamps burning. Oih-erwj.se. a Jjttle red flag prps up and tiip light gops off. ^Iien thi.s happen.s the boyfriend must go home.

Parker is a field engineer for a company whirh .manu-faclure.s traffic control equipment and "invented" the meter lamps.

He figures it not only helps pay the electric bill for lights, radio, television, refrigerator, record players and otJier appliances but also provides control. After all, Parker was a policeman for several years.

TTipre may or may not be an election in Cove City, N. C,. this week The only candidates who filed were the present mayor and all five incumbent aldermen.

.No one else bothered.

There was a defendant in Rowan County Court the other day who, for reasons known to himself, turned down the judge's offer of a suspended sentence.

He had been convicted of breaking, entering and larceny. The judge sentenced him to four months on the

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lonely, windiiuept islands gradually eroded away. Tlie $1.5 million in federal funds is a small price to pay for preseiwing one of the nations great recreation areas.

All Who Defy The Law Should Be Accountable

"Anarchy is anarchy and it makes no difference who practices it, it is bad; it is punishable and it should be punished."

So said Thurgood Marshall, the first Negro member of the U. S. Supi-eme Court.

Speaking at the predominantly Negro Dillard ITiiversity, Justice 'Marshall said that black mili-tants who defy the law should be made to face the consequences.

We are in full agrP'=menf7eTrppf to add that all militants who defy the law should beTtteM accountable. More and more thouT^htfiil neople in this nation are coming to realize that militancy is a serion.*! problem in this nation. There is a real danger that if leftist militants continue to rampage unchecked. a rightist threat will arise to counteract it.

The. laws of the nation must bp applied where-p\er they are broken. We think the nation is coming around to this, as it applies to the militants.

Sing A Dirge

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For The Dollar

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - T>et UR sing a dirge today for .money. It appears to be going the way of the dodo.

In another generation it may become extinct.

There was a time, and not

A bill "to prohibit unauthorized parking of occupied motor vehicles in cemeteries during the hours of darkness" passed it's third reading in the House this week over the mournful objections of a few members.

Rep. Archie McMillan of Wake County told the members that "one of the greate.t moments of my life was in Oakwood Cemetery." After the roar subsided, McMillan explained that it was in those grave surroundings that his wife accepted his proposal of marriage.

too long ago. when the three most respected things in .America were motherhood, the flag and the almighty dollar.

The surest way to show you were a person of importance was to carry in your back pocket a bankroll big enough to choke an ox. Pretenders lo wealth carried what became known as "Philadelphia bankroll" one $5 bill wrapped around 20 $1 bills to give an impression of bulky affluence.

Today a wril - to - do man rarely carries around a bankroll big enough to make a mouse gag. .Anyone who flashes large bills is regarded as a crude and illiterate show-off, more to be laughed at pityingly than cen.surcd.

Money simply jsnt money any more. A penny, once the bright shrine of childhood, is simply a nuisance, useful only in paying nuisance sales taxes, the bane of the present day.

Other coins have been similarly downgraded. The half dollar piece has practicaly disappeared from circulation, and you can go weeks or months without seeing one.

Dimes and nickels havent much purpose now except to he shoved into machines that dispense coffee or candy bars. The quarter has suffered the most dismal fate of all. You can hardly tell one from a nickel, and It will hardly even buy what a nickel did at one time.

Worst of all Is what

has happened to the almighty dollar. It seems to be stricken by an incurable pernicious anemia, and its strength visibly ebbs year by year. About all you can buy for one is a shoeshine and a thin magazine.

Yes, let us sing a sad song today for what has happened to money. It has fallen upon evil, evil tkmes. Purchase a suit in a department store and offer to pay for it with* rash, and the salesman stares down his nose at you as if you were a hermit or an uncouth pariah. He takes the cash in his reluctant fingers as if it wTTe infected and would soil him.

Money has been replaced by the charge account, the checkbook and the credit card. A man's status today depends upon the number of credit cards he carries in his wallet; if he has fewer than three you can figure he is probably receiving public assistance of some kind.

Of course, here and there sr.me recalcitrant fuddy-duddies are still saving money, hoarding it in baskets in the ba.'^ement or hiding it in crotch holes in backyard elm trees. They think that money, like the South, will rise again.

Rut if you want to prove youre with the "in" crowd, you'll take any old money you have left lying around the house, buy a money shredding machine, turn it down the incinerator. Otherwise, you .may be regarded as a hopeless old stick-in-the-mud who is giving the neighborhood a bad name.

Bipop IS NEEDE

"Runawavr

By JAMES KILPATRICK

War-Is-Hell Hang Ud

In the unfolding debate over proceeding with an anti-ballis-tic missile system, the arguments against President Nixons proposal fall into four main groups-

Some of the objections are scientific: The things wont work when the button is pressed. Other objections are financial; In terms of cost-effec-tiveness, even the modified plan is too costly. Still other arguments arise from political considerations: An American ABM system will escalate the arms race and present a new threat to the Soviet Union. Finally, one hears a tactical - strategic case; By the time our ABMs could be made operational, even if they worked to perfection, changes in the technology of weaponry will have made the missiles obsolete.

On careful examination, arh of these arguments falls apart. The scientific objections, for example, are essentially an echo of the old argument against a hydrogen bomb; but the bomb worked. The problems of mounting an

ABM system are fearfully complex, to be sure, but so were the problems of developing a moon - shot. If there can be no iron - clad ^arantee of successful design, in the absence of an actual test, the guarantees are reasonably solid.

The financial arguments are the least impressive President Nixons recommendation is for an $800 million investment, but more than half of this roughly $450 million is for research and development. Virtually all the opponents have conceded the necessity for continuing research. The fight on budgetary grounds thus boils down to $350 million only. In terms of national security, this is peanuts.

Perhaps the loudest complaint Is that by going ahead witi an anti - ballistic missile system, the United States in some fashion will escalate the arms race with the Soviet Union. This is nonsense. In its "Washington Report" for April 21, the prestigious American Security Council provid-

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To The Editor;

If the Greenville citizens are vitally concerned about the chaotic conditions that exist in our society, then why not join in with many others who are sending in letters similar #to the following along with a petition to our president. Senators, Representative, and Governor and demand action!

"We, the undersigned American citizens and residents of North Carolina, the First District, do hereby petition you, our State Senators and Representatives, in regards to the following decisions recently reached by our Supreme Court Judges, namely, Bible reading and prayer out of the

schools, communists in defense plants and schools, licensed pornography, and law enforcemtnt obstructions.

"We ask that you consider these points and we further request that these decisions be reviewed by the newly elected Supreme Court Judges and that you do all within your power to see that these decisions are rectified We appeal to you for "teeth in our laws to check this poison of perversion which is so rampant in our land today, and that this trend of events be brought to an end.

Thank you.

Mrs. John C. Moran 405 Hillcrest Drive Greenville, N. C.

es stunning documentation documentation from Soviet sources themselves of the Soviet Unions own anti-missile defenses. It is not necessary, in this regard, to make guesses of future strength. "The fact remains," says the Council, they have ABM forces in being and we do not-"

The tactical - strategic arguments are highly speculative. So far as the Soviet Union is concerned, the President and his advisers have had to act upon the intelligence available now. By every indication, the Kremlin is proceeding steadily with deployment of its fantastic SS-9 missiles. These terrifying weapons, carrying 20 to 25 megaton warheads, are much larger than our own inter - continental ballistic missiles. They repre-sent the threat that must be countered now and by now", we are talking of 1973, when the first minimsl phase of the proposed Safeguard system is confete.

In the end, or so It seems to me, none of the familiar, rational arguments can prevail. What the opponents really are saying, out of their hearts and not their heads, is simply that war is hell. The disenchantment with Vietnam, the horrors of atomic conflict, the awful imaginings qf whole continents aflame these essentially emotional reactions have clouded the reasoning mind. It is Hamlets pale cast of thought Some of the Senates ablest men are, suffering from the hang-up.

Of course war is hell. If we lived in a perfect world, aJl nations would beat their swords into plowshares. We would (tefuse our missiles, scrap our bbmbers, and dump every weapOT in the depths of the seas. But Presidents and Senators have an obligation to deal with hell as It is, and not with heaven as it might be.

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By ROWLAND EVANS and

ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTONThe House Ways and Means Committee had barely started closed-door sessions on tax reform last week before bipartisan cooperation between Chairman Wilbur Mills of Arkansas and Rep. John Byrnes of Wisconsin, the committees senior Republican, showed signs of strain.

If popular demand for tax reform is to be translated into legislation, a smooth-working relationship between Mills and Byrnes is essential. But they exhibited a marked difference of approach last week in considering proposed limitation of the tax exemption for foundations a reform highly popular with Congress.

Suggesting that some exceptions might have to be made, Mills discussed the problemf of the Kellogg Co. of Battit Creek, Mich., much of whose stock is owned by a tax-exempt foundation. Bymef snapped back that he dnt feel Congress granted the tax exemption to foundations for the convenience of large corporations The discussion dragged on to no firm conclusion.

Byrnes also objected to Millss suggestion that Mc-George Bundy, head of the Ford Foundation, be permitted to talk to the committee behind closed doors to defend the case for tax exemption. Byrnes contended that Bundy had his day in court during the committees public hearings (when, in fact, Bundys performance was less than impressive).

However, the real barometer for tax reform is about to come on President Nixons proposed repeal of the 7 percent investment credit. Steel and railroad lobbyists have been pounding Congressional corridors pleading for retention of at least part of the investment credit and sre now boasting privately that they will get their way. If they are correct, prospects for sweeping tax reform seem out of the question.

A footnote: Railroad lobbyists have a potent ally in their fight for the investment credit Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, who wont hesitate to impose the Administration <m thii question.

Nixon and Vietnam

The Nixon admlnistrattens skittishness over talking about Vietnam was displayed recently in its refusal to present a position to a prestigious group of businessmen seeking a quick end to , the war.

A highly respectable organization called Bussiness Executives Move fca* Vietnam Peace is meeting in Washington today and sought a high State Department official to give the Administration's position. The organization chose as ita emissary a Manhattan banker with strong Republican credentials: J-

Sinclair Armstrong, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Assistant Secretary of the Navy diu*ing the Eisenhower administration.

Armstrong wrote a Dear Bill" letter to Secretary of State William P. Rogers asking him to attend. Four dayi later, in a telephone conversation, an assistant to Rogers informed Armatrong, that the Secretary would be out of the country. Under Secretary Elliot Richardson would be too busy, and Marshall Oreen, Assistant Secretary of State for (Contlnned On Page 8)

Strength For Today Business Will Fight The Kooks

RECOGNITION

The meaning and value of life are to be found in the recognition that we are children^ of God. Imagine what life would he like if this were not true. There is scarcely a person livmg today who does not feel at times the confusion and terror which ensues when the problems of life become so serious and the abundance of them so overwhelmmg that we know not where to turn. Everybody faces situations such as this sometime in life* Everyono us, therefore, has to be able to refer life to something that is above life, and that thing thatris ..above life is God, the Giver of Life.

Jf we ran keep in our iniHds at all times the realization that we are children of God, then we can still Ihe rising doubt, we can brush aside

the terror of what we believe to be impending catastrophe, we can walk unafraid along pathways that ordinarily might be too horrifying for us to contemplate.

When parenthood is really good it is about the best thing we encounter on the earth. The great parenthood is the parenthood we all have under God, and whether we are worthy or unworthy, we are Gods children. Sometimes we cannot see this truth when our eyes are full of tears, our minds full of doubt, our re-^olution broken and inef-fertiVe.

What we nCed is recognition that we are children of God, and our willingness to hand over to Him those situations in life which we cannot handle with our own poor powers.

Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER kOESSNER The kooks may be in for a shellacking if they try to assault business as they have American colleges.

Businessmen arc next on the list of extremist groups, William C. Sullivan, head of the Federal Bureau of Investigations domestic intelligence unit, told a recent U. S. Chamber of Commerce meeting. According to Sullivan, the harassment of corporate recruiters on campus is the beginning of the attacks spread to the industrial sector.

If he IS right, the extremists will face tougher opponents under a different set of rules than when they disrupt colleges and universities across the country.

(ampuses have certain hiiill - in tactical advantages for the lunatic fringe. Scg-niciils of the administration

and faculty frequently are sympathetic to activists beliefs and demands. Even those opposed often lack the determination or conviction to fight back.

S. I. Hayakawa erf San Francisco State College won nationwide fame as an exceptr ion to the rule. Most businessmen would be equally tough. Field Of Battle

Another difference is that campuses are generally considered public places and jur-isdictioc is often vague. Law enforcement can get hung up on indecisicm and technicalities. Business, in contrast , is private property. Legal pressure can be brought to bear quickly and forcefully.

Moreover, college officials answer to students, facirity, students'* parents and alumni, who may or may not be concerned. But business answers to its stockholders

and bankers, who are known to become mean and testy about matters affecting money and profits.

Behind this formidable defense line stands another

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force that could come into play -7 labor. Labor is not noted for its liberal outlook except in matters of pay raises, overtime rates and working conditions.

Traditional Foe Workers tend to be traditionalists and inclined to be

suspicious of higher education and anythtog connected with it. They are also more concerned with everyday realities than with principles, theories and ideals.

Labor irJght very well decide a lunatic fringe attack on buiinais was a threat to the old paycheck. Their reaction based on depth experience In strikes, lit - ins and walk - outs ^ could be swift and baavy * bandad.

Finally, changing attitudes are on businesss side. Revulsion to campus disord^s is growing. Sharper criticism of capitulators to the New Left is heard more and more.

Even Bayard Rustin, an activist ehdl rights leader himself, has told college and university officials to stop giving in to students* stupid demands. If the academic world isnt listening .to his cue, tha business world is.