Thurfdy, September 25, 1967

Bulk Of Population Is Spread Out

COLOSSUS OF ROADBLOCKS!

With all the talk of the last few decades about Americans forsaking the byways for the bright lights of the big cities^ one gains an impression pf the United States with the bulk of its population living in New York, Chicago, Lps Angeles and a handful of other cities.

The statistics show it doesnT work out that Way. ^ .. In fact, figures t>ublished by Nation's Cities'* show that only 9.8 percent of Americas citizens live In five cities of 1,000,000 or more population; 6.2 percent live in 16 places of 500;000 to 1,000,000 population; and 6 percent live in 30 places of 250,000 to 500,000.

It is only below the 250,000 level that most Americans will find the locality in which they live: 6.5 percent live in 81 places of 100,000 to MO,000. ' ^

7.7 percent live in 201 places of 50,000 to ..100,00p. . ^ ,

8.3 percent live in 432 places of 25,000 to . 50,000.

9.8 percent livein 1,134 places of 10,000 to

2.5.000.

. 5.5 percent live in 1,394 places of 5,000 to

10.000.

-4.2 percent live in 2,152^ places-of-2,500 to

30; 1 percent live in 4,151 places of 1,000 to 2,500. ^ s ,

The figures were cited in a recent edition of United Business Service, a business advisory publication. Some 42 percent of Americans live in towns with populations of 2,500 to 250,000 and another 30 percent live in what would be considered rural areas. -

It can be seen that, while the problems of the major cities'are of concern to us all, they are not necessarily the problems of the majority of Americans. Since the migration to the largest cities seems to be coming to an ond, the politicians should keep this in mind as they chart the internal affains of the nation in the years ahead.

Unpleasant As It Is, Costs Must Be Met

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Araument Fails

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By ROBERT (Guest Crii A.

THOMPSON for William

S),

RALEIGH-All the talk about conflict of interest which we hear in and fr(n Raleigh, Washington and even Podimk has reached the point cd ab-w^ts a judge sitting on a ase during which his judical approach may be warped by his pocketbook interest. Nor does anyone want a Highway Chairman or roads commissioner subject to the same moral and economic strain. But what about a member of the state legislature or of Congress voting for or against a bU which may hurt or help his bankroll? But of course we dont hear much about that. The legislative branches of both the State and National Government set the rules.

Truth -r The actual facts of both political and economic life mean that the cady public oMcial who is not on 0C-. calidu faced with a conflict bCinSferest is a hermit or a vegetable become a man or woman. How about c(m-i flict of interest among reporters and editors? If so, that would rule out all members of labor uni<ms, all whites, all blacks, all churchmen and women ~ and any and everybody who could render valuable service to government. We havent had a governor or a Senatw or a Congressman, or legislator, or a judge from JP on up, or a newsmau and certainly no edittff who has not on occasion been required to decide between his own interest

Raleigh and Washington or most of it just doesnt make sense.

Approach State ^perin-lendent Craig Phillips, who succeeded Charles Carroll after he retired, was not and is sfill not well known In North Carolina. But if he c(tinues to be as successful in his No.

1 project as he has been to date, he will be both well ' known and popular. After the annual meeting of County and City Superintents, Riillips innaugurated a series of small group meeting <* discussions which are AtiH going on. School superintendents a n d . principals were brou^t in. But i (didnt end there. By no menas. He brought in a nunti)er of community leaders, members of PTA, and some of the students themselves. He has been very quiet about these meetings aU of which he has, or is, or will be attending. Everybody takes their hair down. They discuss s<Kial and-or racial relations changes. They listen to high school students and inro-fessional educators. But perhaps the most effective thing being accomplished is that PhilUps and me educators on the scene bring in business and community leaders and sometimes It is hard to get them. But hes done well at that.

Object There will be those who argue that Phillips is jH'imarily interested in raising school costs and school teachers pay. Thats just half right. What he is really trying to do is to improve pub-

It is regrettable that the Pitt Memorial Hospital boa^ of trustees'^ has found it necessary to raise room ra^es by $5 to $7 or 20 to nearly 30 percent. It is particularly discouraging to those who must be admitted to the hospital, since rates were increased up to $7 only a year ago.

We are mindful that the hospital faces ever-increasing personnel cost. Administrator C. D. Ward also pointed out additional equipment and services have been added as medical ^eatment grows more complex.

Allj this is of small comfort to the average person who must be admitted to the hospital and bear the additional cost.'

V ' We are frank to say we can pose no solution to the problem, since costs must4>e met. We can only implore Pitt Memorial officials to operate as efficiently as possible in hopes of avoiding future increases of this magnitude.

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ey JAMES K1LPATRICI

A Promising Milestone

Moscow Knows Somethings

an(fwhats right and legaL lie education in North Caroli-We know all that when we na and any possible means

elect people to office, or have them appointed by those we did elect The one and only question is whether those elected and appointed are honest If they are, OK. If they are not, wellthere are the courts and impeachment pro-:ceedings. But the Congress and ti legislature etc. cannot lay down hard and fast rules because there are none. Really the whole argument in

involve the business and civic leaders of the conununities in the drive. He has been a little relectant to bring in the press. Headline hunters could seriously injure his entire project But to give him some uninvited advice hed do well to bring in a few editors and top-fliit news edit(N's. Maybe he has, but the news hasnt got ba^ this far. '

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Moscows odd denial that it knows anything about Mao Tsetungs health suggests that it may, in fact; know something about what is goin on in Red Chinaiperhaps a jockeying for position in advance of a power struggle yet to come in Peking.

Soviet officialdom used the device of a cocktail party-strictly for non-Westem correspondentsto spread the word that rumors about Mad attributed to Soviet sources were provocative. By that, it may mean tha those who spread such reports are trying to arouse new Peking suspicions of the Kremlin.

If there are now factions maneuvering in Peking in an-ticipati(i of Maos retirement from the scene, Moscow may not want to rock the boat. The Kremlin may be hopeful, that a new group will emerge in CTiina with whidi the Russians can talk business.

The Kremlin interprets the belligerence of China as a manifestati<m of deep political trouble, and it may be right. Red CTiina will celebrate on Oct. 1 the 20th anniversary of its founding. As usual for such Communist celebrations, a selection of slogans was imb-lished for the guidance of the masses on that day.

(K the 29 slogans, four bear down heavily on the possibility of war, including atomic war. and single out the Soviet Uni<m as a potential ^e-my in that conflict. Three slogans directly attack Soviet revisionism and social im-perialian, a phrase intended to indicate Moscow designs on (Jiinese territory. Only three slogans salute Mao and Maos thought.

The tenor of this propaganda suggests to the Russians that tile regime in Peking is in trouble and that thus it must have the nearby threat of catastroj^esuch as war with a big neighborto keep the nation from falling apart.

If Mao Tse-tung is in failing

LOS ANGELES-The United States Post Office Department scored an important in-(fictment here last week, when a grand juj7 brwight in 27 counts against 40-year -old Marvin 1 Miller on charges of mailing obscene material.

It was only nine months ago that Miller was convicted on > similar charges, fined $22,-500, and sentenced to five years in prison. The Department charges that while he was out on bond, pending ap-, peal, he carried oa his filthy business as usual. Hundreds of American households have received his promotion material, under the names of Covina Publications, Collectors Publications, and G & M Enterprises. Miller is a big-time op-

health, or if he and his anointed successor, Defense Minister Lin Piac, Should be losing their grip, another grim power struggle would seem inevitable, like the one which took place under the pise of Maos cultural revolution.

<1 The leaders of Chinas army appear to have a powerful position in the nati<m how, but they seem to be divided into factions. Some of them probably still entertain hopes of patching up the squabble with the Russians.

Moscow may want to watch and wait quietly to see what happens. Thus, the Kremlin is sensitive when reports at- ^

g"eS't What Lincoln Said

Russians want to meddle in ^

(Henderson Dispatch)

erator in a big-time business. He reportedly grossei $10

million a year.

What makes the new indictment important, from a legal point of view, is that the Department is aiming not at Millers material as such, but rather at his advertisements offering the material for sale.

. In the present state of the law, a book or magazine can be held obscene only if it is social importance, but no

such lofly standard would appear to apply to advertisements.

Millers promotional come-ons, according to the indictment, have g(Rie broadside into tiw land. One flyer went to the Holy Ghost Catholic . School in Hammond, Ind. Ano-

Other Editors Say

Chinas internal politics.

Opinions "n Brief

Guard within yourself that treasure kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. George Sand. >

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.John Burroughs.

Justice remains the greatest power on earfii. To that tremendous power alon will we submit. Harry S. Truman.

It Is worth a thousand pounds a year to have the habit of looking on the bright side of things. Samuel Johnson.

To much of the noise-plagued public, Heaven might be best described as a place where all the motorcycles are equipped with mufflers. Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. '

For whatever it may be worthand its worth a lot Abraham Lincolns comment on human nature andt he economy is passed along here. The statement appeared in print recently fw the millicffltii DK)re or lesstime and was sent to the editor. What Lincoln said follows:

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

You cannot keep out of troubl by spending more than your income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.

You cannot establish security on borrowed money. You cannot build character and courage by taking away mans initiative and independence.

You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could should do for themselves. +

Where is there a man in ikiblic life today with the plain old common horse sense that

propelled the Civil War President into service and prominence and in the esteem of his countrymen? If there be such an individual on the horizon or beyond, it is high tim he were appearing to make himself heard. Never before has this country needed a man of Lincolns stripe to the extent he is needed today. And never before had it been more urgent for this free country to take stock of the direction in which it is headed and the reddess, hapless pace at which it is travelipg. ,

Lincolns common seise philosophy is as essential now as it ever wa. It served him perfectly in his day, and could do as much to set the country (Ml the right track again as did in a former era.

Thomas R. Marshall said when he was vice- president under Woodrow Wilson that wwhat America needs is a good fiveK:ent cigar. But infinitely more than that does it need to face, the realities of the proper relaion between government and the individual citizen which <Hice was accepted as basic and which led to greatness. Lack of it today is leading the nation pell meU in the opposite direction..

ther went to a Baptist Sunday Spr^field, Mo. Most of his mailings, of course, went to far more likely customers for the salacious items Miller has for sale. In the Departnients view, this is pandering; and the U S. Supreme Court, in the famed Ginzburg case 'of 1966, laid down the rule that where the purveyors aole emphasis is on the sexually provocative aspects of his .publications, that fact may be decisive in the determination of obscenity.

This is the favorable ground on which .the Department proposes to wage a stepped-up war against the merchants of filth. It is a war that cries out for relentless proseciitiwi.

1 may have said this before, but I make the point again. Nine years ago, when I was writing a book on the obscenity racket, I undertook through various fictitious names and addresses to , obtain specimens of the pornography then offered for sale. The racket in really offensive material was then largely underground. Plenty of ordinary nude photographs could be had, but these were mostly of the kind to be found in nudist and girlie mogazines. Gross lewdness could be obtained only with some effort, and ordinarily froip foreign sources.

All that has changed. In a series of liberalizing opinions, the Supreme Court has breached all the old dams. Todays tides of filth defy description. In every major city, pornographic book stores freely sell magazines jammed with photographs depicting male and female genitals. Paperbacked books, crudely printed, carry obscenity to new depths of depravity. One-hundred - foot coIot films, which used to cost $100 and up, can be had for as little as $10 to $15. Justice Potter Stewart wice remarked that he might not be able to define hard-core pornography, but he knew it when he saw it- This is the hard-core stuff.

Taking advantage of the redeeming social importance criteria, son^ of the cynical merchants have come up with (CoDtfaraed Ob Page S)

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By H. L. SCHWARTZ IH

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has passed, a sweeping liberalization of .the food stamp program that could end up fattening theTiberal leadership po-sitiMi of George S. McGovern as ^ much as the stomachs of the na-tions poor.

In a major personal triumph for McGovern, the Senate voted 54-40 Wednesday to chuck the recommendations of its own Agriculture Committee and adopt proposals by 4he Soiith Dakota Democrat aimed at making food stamps available to every poor person in" ie nation.

Then, ignwing conservative cries that it was creating a monster and signing the death sentence of food stamps, the Senate sent the proposals on to the House by a vote of 78-14.

What happens now Is anybodys guess.

The McGovern proposals go first to tile, House Agriculture Committee where Chairman W.

R. Poage, D-Tex., harbors deep-seated hostility to such programs.

Essentially - the McGovern amendment to the Food Stamp Act would authorize $1.25 billion this year, $2 billion next year and $2.5 billion by fiscal 1972. [

It would make free stamps available to families with incomes under $60 a month, allow any family making le^than $1,500 3-*year to buy them with only their signature attesting the income, and set up machinery to force every county ^ the country to provide food stamps.

The administration last spring asked for doubling of this years $340 million food stamp recommendation and a hike to $1.5 bil-lione ach of the next two fiscal years.

The administration proposals would have allowed free food * stamps for families with an income of less -than $30 a month, would have left it up to the \ states to continue certifying who could participate and would ' have moved more slowty in di- * rection ofmaking stamps avaiL * able to all. .

The administration sought to | allow families up to $100 a ! month in food stamps while the * McGovern proposals allow up to . $125 a month.

Sen. Allen j. Ellender, D-La., chairman of the Agriculture Committee said the House ; would never accept such a vast increase in the program. ;

Although the proposals that passed the Senate were co-spon- ; sored by such leading liberals as Democrats Walter F. Mon- ^, dale of Minnesota and Edward .Kennedy of Massachusetts the * credit is most likely to accrue to McGovern.

For more than a year the former political science professor has made a campaign to end hunger a keystone of the same liberalism that drove him to bis unsuccessfully for tiie 1981 Democratic presidential nomhiation.

As chairman of the Senate Select Committee on NutrithHi and Human Needsbetter kiKiwn as the hunger committalM^ Govern has roamed acriis the country on fact-fihdinf and speech-making trips ain held cwintless hearings while making a case for expansing the food stamp program.

At the same time, credit has gone to him for prompting what have stemed to be dramatic turn-arounds by, the White House. y During last springs White House agonizing over where to trim the budget, word fraked out that a decision had been made not to put any money into

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Strength For, Tbtday

!^w To Beat Computers Toils

THE HAPPY LIFE

There are millions of people in the world who are continually anxious about the state of their souls. Are they living a life pleasing to Godt Have they met the ruei qer-ments CSuist set up f(* Us followers? Are they confident of what the great Christian leader, John Henry Newman, called a safe lodging and a holy rest, and peace at t h e lost?

The life of the Christian believer is fulfilled In the rela-timship he maintains with God day by day. We should nut become discouraged because our lives are not perfect. Jesus urged his followers to be perfect even as their Father in heaven is perfect, yet Jesus himself is the only person who ever lived the perfect live. We are not hypocrites be

cause we stumble and lall The matter of overwhelming importance is that we p i c k ourselves up and press on toward what St Paul described as the high calling of God in Christ Jesus (Philippians S:-14).

If we are sincere in our desire to live a life that will to some satisfactory degree measure up to the teachings of the Bible and the confirmation of conscience, we ned to meetGo^ in prayer, in the sincere facing of our moral problems and in that overw^Im-ing sense of Gods ix'esence which we can and will experience as we strive to understand better what God would have us be and do.

The Christian life! a happy life, and God smiles upon those who continually try to live such a life.

By Earl L.Duugiass

By ELMRE ROESSNER early for a date with her boy-Suppose some creditors friend and wont pay any at-

compter doesnt like the tention to it. Or shell press

way you spell your name, has a button and youll get Form

a thing about your Social Se- Letter No. 1898762, which wiU

curity number, or is simply warn you to pay up- or else.

pr(^ammed in error and ' But there are things you that thereafter you get bills can do.

fw things you never bought, No Blowing Tcqw _

demands for payments youvo Dont lose your cod. Don't

already made, and threats to get mad. Just \ realize that

put you in Convenfry or jeo- ydir brain has been joined in

pardy, what can do do? battle with a machine and

Some credit card compan- that your brain cells can out-

es, such as the Diners (Jlub, wit any machine ever made,

have set up special units to Then, with grim determina-

track down computer boo* ion and a lijit heart, t r y

boos. A phone call or wire these:

may get the matter corrected . Phone the company, cre-

quickly. But if your credit diUiard Issuer, retailer

bas no fuch unit, there are whaever. Dont ask for Mr.

, other steps to Uke. Bunk, who doesnt exist. In-

Firt, dont write to Mr. J . sist on talking to tije execu-

Bunk, whose name may . ap^ tive vice president. - WI f h

ipear on the threateniiig let*; luck, youll get his secretary, ters. There is probably no su(P Tell her you are sure he will person. Its a house name want to talk with you before

and your letter will "go to a you file a million-dollar suit,

girl who is trying to -get out ' If she s^ys you'll have to

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talk to the company attorneys say, But they dont know anything about our baby. You will get through. The baby, of coiise, is not an infant but ycHir name for your problem. Let the creditor take it from there."

OB88NEI

. If that doesnt work and your dunner'fools around with punch cards, do as Alan Miller of New York did and add some me holes to the card and send It back. That got him action.

Dont Lose That Cool! ^

. If these approaches arent

successful, still keeping your cool write a letter of complaint, spelling out your trouble in detail. D(xit accuse anyone of being a gyp, but you can say without danger of libel that asking you to pay a bill ycHi have already paid and threatening you with dose to extortion.

. Make copies of your letter and send one each to tha U.S. district attorney, the county district attorney, postal Inspectors at your local post oflfce, the state atorney general, the local Better Business Bureau, the local Chamber of Commerce and. If you have one left over, to the New York Tlmjis, New York 10036.

. If all tilt fails, consult^ your attorney. He may find you have ground#- for a suit for damages for mental distress, ruining your credit rat

ing, libel, slander and scar- ing he padts off you. ,

But don't lost your cooL -