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Full*Time Registration Is Possible

TARGET OF THESE TIMES

Ayclrn ami Farmville town boards have sub* niittecl resolutions raising objections ta the county commissioners. The objection seems to be that citi

zens of those communities would have to visit Green-^ ville in order to register.

This does not strike us as being a major imposition since most peo)Ie who wish to register would be in Greenville at some time during the year. However. we see no reason why the registrar could not spend a day at the time in the various countv towns periodically during the year. This would make it

e feel certain that the counly can work out fl plan vhich will be satisfactory to all sections of tlic county in instituting a lull time voter registration .<;y tern,.

Such a system has been propaied to the county commissioners by Elections Foal'd Chairman Fruie Koonce. Cnder the plan a full time registrar would maintain an office in Greenville to register voters at any time during the year. The only time when voters would not'be able to i-egiser would be the 21 days prior to the election.

At present the registration bonks are open at convenient for those who might; find it difficult to specified times prior each election and the re- see the registrar in Greenville, gidrars are stationed at the polling places on Satur- ^ We feel that a full time registrar keeping definite office hours five days^ a week would render greater spiwice to all citizens of the county. New people moving in could register as soon as they vere eligible and those reaching voting age could register right away. It would also make it convenient for anyone to check his registration at any time.

We hope the county commissioners will be able to arrange some method which will make the system CQiUeiiient to .alL The^full time registration system should be instituted without delav. It will be a step forward for Pitt Countv.

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WIIMAM A. SHTBES

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F.WEIGH - Legislative notebook;

The Baugh - Carson all or nothing* liquor bill introduced last week following defeat of a statewide, local option liquor by the drink bill created a furor in General Assembly Circles.

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?om Ipgislatne leaders Were furinii'v.

Let's go ahead and move it out 0^ ('ommhtrf'. ' snappy ! on<^. "Then ur'll see how iiie\ really feel about it it ud scare th'^m to death and we ll have all o' .Merklenburg Coun tv down here."

The hill introduced b\ Fep: Jack Baugh and J i m Carson of ^Ipcklenbur2 ( oun-tv calls for a statewide refer-endtvp nn prohibition of alcoholic beverages or to permit open sale of liquor by t li e drink ith the sbnulriion t' at any county, by local referendum. niicht choose between mixed drinks and brown-bagging.

Strike Bark Several legislators viewed the Baugh-Car.son bill as an attempt to strike back, rather peevishlv. at those who had voted fi7-12 in the House Iasi week to kill the liquor by he drink bill It doesn't amount to much." said one legislator in-Itrumenta) in getting i mil call on the liquor by the drink bill n*hr vote whirh WasTak an Wednesdav should havt irttled it for this session. But thpy ithe Mecklenburg Coun-C' representatives) won't ac-cppt it They want some mnre puhlieitv."

Baugh told reporters nr frpls that since dry forres made such an issue of hnw tbr prnple of North Carolma fre! about liquor that the on-Iv Place to decide it is at thr polls

This Is what they said hf*y wanted, so I think we should

give them the chance." Baugh added he tliinks that it a referendum is called, the voters w'ould support more liberal liquor laws in North Carolina. We already are being made a laughing siork about drinking wet and voting dry.

It isn't what the people want

First In Years

All or nothing'' liquor bills were introduced in nearly every legislative session during the 1940s and 1950s. Bui this is the first one that can be recalled during t h e 19f''0s.

Many close legislative ob-mrvers hrlievF that thr oen-dulum has swung to the point that dry forces in the state prefer to fight demon rum on a local rather than a statewide basis, and are not nearly so coniident that they could win a statewide

ro'rrrndivn to make North

Carolina dry Vet the argument wa,v umd in debate on liquor bv the drink. Baugh and I'arson are identified with (be :n-called W e t " group wliifh favored con-trollcfj mixed beverages in anprnvpd restauran'^ and taverns. Tlie 'drys' liavc not and have gi\cn no indication of introducing a statewide liquor refercnrlnni measure.

Some Are I'psct .^omr loeislators are iip,-,ei about attacks upon them in chnrch pubhrations and from pulpits because of their stand on liquor legislation.

It wouldn't and doesn't bother .me personally, what they say about me, says one legislator. --But it's upsetting my familv. M> relatives have been caUing. They don't un-derst.and. That does bother me "

This legislator takes the position that he believes in the hif people to deride and vote on questions such a? more liberal liquor laws.

W> cannot set ourselves up as dictators, and J believe we must be responsive to the uit^bes of the ppople," He add^. I don't think w'e ran nr -.hnuld trv to legislate mi/-raK.'

The same legislator who feels he has been subjected (o unfair attacks is a lifelong Baptist, and he has been a do.-iron in his rhurch. a .iin day Sehon) teacher and held other rhurrh offices.

Confidence Grows In U.S. Space Capability

The United States seems on the way to another successful trip to the moon.

After a perfect takeoff the three astronauts e.xperienced only small difficulties before their craft was committed to the trip to the moon.

There are, of course, difficult maneuvers ahead; in fact some of the most difficult that any spacemen have ever carried out. The lunar mod ule must be separated and flown to within 10 miles of the moon. Since this has never been done before no one can really say how things will go.

With the United States record of space sue-ces.s, however, we are confident that this mission, too, will go off without major mishap.

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ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - It has now been established beyond doubt that some Syrian-trained commandos in southern Lebanon are actually regular Syridn ar-my soldiers in commando uniform, raising the most serious alarm over Syrian intentions in the boiling Middle East.

Ostensibly, the Syrian -trained commandos, called Al Saiga, are in the rugged Mt. Hermon area to hara.ss Israel from a refuge within Lebanon-Mt. Hermon lies athwart the borders of Syria, l^ebanon, and Israel.

But in fact, the Al Saiga commandos in southern Lebanon. seeded with camouflaged Syrian regulars, are now serving a rtouWe arrd hrgbly instdf* oils purposeboth to harass Israel and to create dangerous political tensions, possibly civil war, within Lebanon itself. Syria has long had covetous eyes on the Lebanon, a nation of bankers and traders which the French carved out of ancient Syrian territory as a homeland for Christian Arabs.

The more orthodox commando units in southern Lebanon belong to Al Fatah, whose leader, Yasir Arafat, is the re-rogni/ed boss of the Palestine liberation organization and the chief spokesman for the million and a half Palestinian refugees Al Fatah commandos all have a Palestinian connectionrefugees or sons of refugees. Most of the Syrian-trained Al Saiga commandos also are Palestinian refugeesbut the fact that some of them are Syrian regulars confirms t h c rising suspicion in Beirut and here that Syria's real game is to destroy Lebanon.

Giving further support to this bleak suspicion is the ominous impasse between the Soviet Union and ,Syria. This was dramatized last week when Sy

ria sent its army chief of staff, Maj. Gen Mustafa Has, on a secret mission to Peking and at the same time postponed a long-planned visit to Moscow by Dr. Nureddin Al Attassi, Syrian head of state.

The explanation for this can only be Syrian anger at Soviet pressure to cool it in southern Lebanon.

Moscow, in fact, has been bringing heavy pressure on Damascus to get Syria to break its long isolation and join Egypt and Jordan, along wth mild and pacific Lebanon, in the search for a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Syria has never even recognized the United Nations mission of Dr. Gunnar J a r r i n g, of tlie United Nations resolution of Nov, 22, 1967, which .set terms ta^nd up ihe six-daw war of June that year Diplomats here and at the UN in New York say that Soviet pressures on Syria have accomplished nothing. To the contrary. Syrias decision to look for help in the camp of Russia's mortal enemy is proof that Syria has no more intention of accepting any solution that might come out of the Washington-Moscow settlement efforts than Israel herself.

With Syria determined to go its own way, ignoring the settlement appeals of both Egypts President Nasser and Jordans King Hussein, and with the Soviets having little more influence in Damascus than the U.S. has, the only check to the Al Saiga r o m-mandos in southern Lebanon is Lebanon itself.

But Lebanon is still under a caretaker government, a result of the previous regimes resignation on the heels of the fatal pro-commando Moslem riots several weeks ago.

The caretaker governmenl has been negotiating with the (Continued On Tage 5)

Fifteen years have passed since that historical Monday morning in the court room: Every seat taken, the counsel tables crowded, the reporters jammed in their pillared cubicles at the side. Word had spread that an opinion was coming down in the four test cases on school segregation.

Then Chief Justice Warren was reading from the printed text before him: These cases come to us from the States of Kansas, South Carolina. Virginia, and Delaware . . .In each of these cases, minors of the Negro race,

through their legal representatives, seek the aid of the courts in obtaining admission to the public schools of their community on a nonsegregated basis. . .

Warren scarcely moved his massive head: The plaintiffs contend that segregated public schools are not equal and cannot be made equalj and that hence they are deprived of the equal protection of the laws

So far there was nothing to indicate the courts ruling. Thurgood Marshall was there, his face racked by tension. Then the drift of the opinion

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The best way for the Supreme Court of the United States to recover from the damage done by the Fortas case is for the court itself to establish even stricter rules and customs for the guidance of Its members.

There should be a tliorough and ungrudging disclosure of all sources of income. There should be severance jf all outside ties which might in any wise seem to make a ju'tice susceptible to influence. There should be no further outside speaking or., acting for money. And there should be an even stricter code in regard to the justices personal lifemoral, eccno-mic, social, and political.

It came as a great shock to Americans that a member of the high court could and would art as did Associate Justice Abe Fortas Although there has been widespread discontent on the part of many over a number of recent court derisions, there was, at the same time, a strong and touching confidence on the part of the American people that, personally, the iustires were above taint of this nature.

In a democracy such as

Americas, it is of the utmost importance that a court, which wields so monumental an influence over the lives of more than 200,000,0(X) persons, be unquestionably above suspicion. Doubt on this score can be a corrosive, eating into the heart of the nations trust in its system of government and this systems highest public servants. And there is no time in American history when, given the present-day disaffection of so many young people and so many members of minority ethnic groups, the country could less afford a weakening of confidence in one of the three top branches of government.

In a certain sense the whcle Fortas career on the high court was a mistake. His appointment by President Johnson had strong personal and political motivation behind it And President Johnsons later attempt tc elevate Justice Fortas to Chiel Justiceship ended in tragedy, when a Senate filibuster brought it to naught because of senatorial unhappiness over Justice Fortas continuing political role with the White House.

This chapter is now closed. The Supreme Court and the country can leam needed lessons from it.

became evident. Marshall gave way to relief, then to tears. Warren at last reached the key question before the court; Does school segregation in itself, regardless of facilities, violate the Constitution? We believe that it does. No Justice dissented.

That was Brown v. Board of Education, now enshrined in the court reports as 347 U S. 83. In any listing of the greatest cases ever decided by the court, Brown surely would rank among the top ten. On that fateful Monday, seventeen Southern and border States still maintained racially separate public schools. Pupils also were segregated by race in the District of Columbia. In tre tick of a clock, though formal decrees would be delayed for more than a year, an era ended.

Many of tlie principal figures in the case have died or disappeared from the public view. Of the nine judges who heard argument in December of 1952, only Black and Douglas remain on the court, eed and Clark are retired; Vinson, Jackson, Frankfurter, Burton and Minton are dead. Death also has taken two of the leading attorneys for the South T. Justin Moore and John W. Davis. ThurgfXKi Marshall, chief counsel for the plaintiffs, has become the first Negro ever to sit on the high court. One of his associates, the able Spottswood W. Robinson, sits on the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Washington.

Most of the actual plaintiffs and defendants have dropped out of sight. The case took its name from the Rev- Oliver Brown, assistant pastor of St. Johns A.M.E. Church in West Topeka, Kans. It was his indignation, back in the summer of 1951, that produced the key suit. His 9-year-old daughter Linda was compelled to go 20 blocks to the black Monroe School, while the white Sumner School was only four blocks away.

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By PETER ARNETT Associated Pres Writer

MY THO, Vietnam (AP) When the sound of war coines to this northern delta city, and it comes every day, the woundd civilians inevitably follow.

This day the sound was particularly loud. Air strikes and artillery shells were hammering the countryside. The hospital walls shook.

Dr. Alfredo del Rosario glanced at his watch as his Filli-pino medical team swung into action.

They swabbed out "ttr yellow walled operating room. Tliey checked out the surgical equipment. Then they began figuring out what patients they could prematurely discharge from th chronically overcrowded My Tho Public Hospital, and what others they could double up two to a bed.

Wait just two hours, Rosario commented as the noisa receded. Theyll start coming in around noon. They always do after the artillery and the air strikes.

And at noon the first arrived. A woman with bloodied legs hugged a baby. A man was carried out of a small, threewheeled bus. Someone said others were on the way.

Hospital officials say they have admitted an average of 20 seriously war wounded Vietnamese civilians each day for the past four years at least. There are 40 hospitals like this in the country and dozens of smaller ones.

The toll of dead and wounded civilians generally depresses American doctors sent over to help.

This is a terribly bad thing,* commented Dr. Alexander Fit-zhugh, a pediatrician from Griffin, Ga. As chief public health adviser in Dinh Tuong Province he spends much of his time in the My Tho hospital.

We have still not discovered the humanitarian answer to inis war, how to stop killing the innocent, he declared. We have to find this answer, particularly because this might well be the war of the future.

Rosario, a surgeon, said both sides inflict the wounds. The Viet Cong kill and maim with mortars, rockets and bobby traps. The allies strafe, bomb, use artillery, helicopters and river boats in the ceaseless prosecution of the war.

The civilians are inevitably hurt because there are so many of them in the lush delta countryside. __

As in every Vietnamese public hospital, the patients at My Tho are virtually stacked in wards and along corridors. Two patients to a bed are common.

The chaos that reigns at Vietnamese hospitals is the result ot unimaginative planning, he believes: We just planned for a short war, one or two years at the most.

He sees the need for five or 10 years planning, and postgraduate training for the Vietnamese doctors.

Civilian war casualties have a low priority in Vietnam. First preference is given the soldiery. The My Tho Military Hospital has 11 surgeons, the civilian haspital two.

Concentration on the war wounded means that people with disease are prettv much ignored.

"nflation Seems Here To Stay

Strength For T'oday

By EARL L. "MIUGLASS DEDICATION

David Livingston stands nut as one of the great missionaries and explorers of all time , His work as a missionary in Africa has never been surpassed in any field. They found him dead one morning, kneeling beside his col. H i body was taken back to I^on-don and committed to its last resting place in We.stminster .Abbey. Willing and loving hands carrjed his body a thousand miles and put it on shipboard Royalty attended his

and his w'ork that will forever inspire good men and women everywhere to smg praises to his memory.

The editor of a New York City newspaper sent Stanley to find Livingston some years before his death, and the confrontation of Livingston and Stanley, with the new.spaper man asking, Doctor Living.s-ton, I presume? has become one of the treasured queries, with a little hint of humor in it.

God does not create David Livingstons very often, yet it must be said in.all justice that funeral. Crowds lined the ' Livingston took an ordinary

streets of London because one of Englands great heroes had been brought bark to his final resting place. This all occurred just about one hundred years ago, but there w a somelbvL^ shout Livingston

life with ordinary background and caused it to stand out resplendent on the pages of history.

God creates us all and then sets us to work re-creating ourselves.

By ELMER ROESSNER

It begins to look as if the government's campaign to arrest inflation isnt going to work Inflation, like sex add poverty, is here to stay.

As a matter of fact, there is no reason to expect it would succeed.

The campaign has consist^ ed of a moderate increase in taxes through the surtax, and a tightening of the money supply by increasing tlie rediscount rate and increasing bank reserve requiremrnts.

Theoretical Ijf, this should stxip mflation. Higher taxes on individuals and corporations gives them less money to spend and thi.s, in theory, would force sellers to lower prices. A shrinking of the money supply would slow down business expansion and this too would cause businesses to lower their prices.

Therefore, acoordmg to theory, prices would generally drop, thereby arresting inflation. A. few people would be thrown out of work Because there was less demand for money for expansion, interest

rates would return to normal, whatever that is. And the dollar, if not worth 100 rents, would at least stay pegged at the 45-ccnt mark. BUT IT DOESNT WORK

Thats both the classic and the Keysian concept. But things dont work out that way in the kind of economy we have today

Note that between the ,-end of World War II and what we rail the present boom, there were four or five dips in hus-me.ss. .Some were called recessions, but not depres.sipiis. Yet in each wie of them, prices continued to rise. Even when- unemployment increased and there was less buying power in the market place, prices continued to rise.

And the reasons why prices continued to inflate in those periods and continue in tlie present war against inflation are tJiese;

1. Wage contracts have built - in increases, making wage costs constantly higher. As wages rise, they constitute ever-larger shares of

the cost of production, hence exert ever - greater upward pressure on prices.

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3. Government spending is increasing, partly due to the Vietnam war. A real anti-inflation program would c u t government outlays.

4. While federal budget surpluses are promised, it is doubtful that there will ever

be one. And every dollar spent above income is purely inflationary.

5. Wage and price freezes are necessary to bring a halt, though temporary, to inflation. But neither the administration nor Congress has thi courage even to propose such a measure.

6. A tough increase in taxes, say a 50 per cent surtax, is necessary to iwing inflation to a stop. Again, Washington hasnt the guts.

But bigger than all tliese reasons is the fact that America is operating on fiat money. Hie dollar is no longer worth an ounce of Silver; $35 will not buy an ounce of gold. The Treasury is even eliminating silver corns.

Everybody knows our money has only one intrinsic value; the value to pay taxes. Beyond that, It is mrtly fiction And thats why people and corporations will continue to convert dollars into stocks, real estate, art, gems, metals and other tangibles, constantly making more inflation