i^The Dtlly Reflector, Greenville, N. C.Frklay,^November 28,1969

Ready And Willing To Step in

Attorney General Robert Mor^ has stirred another hornets nest with his forthri^t declaration that North Carolinas controversial marketing controls on milk should be removed.

It is another case of tte forceful Attorney General rocking the boat ratlier than following the easy path of not getting involved in things which he could stay out of if he chose. He is sure to be accused againas he has been in the pastof sticking his nose into something which is none of his official business.

It should be reassuring to most North Carolinians, however, to know that the state now has an Attorney General who is willing to stick his nose into matters he feels needs his attention. For too many years North Carolina has seen its top legal office operated in a passive manner, making no utterance unless called on to do so, and then sometimes reluctantly. There were too many times in the past when more forceful leadership in that office would have brought about needed reforms for the public good.

Attorney General Morgan, in less than a year in office, has stepped on a good many toes around

Sectionalism

Diminishing

RyWII.LIAIVI A.SHIKKS RALEIGHThere are ever more frequent signs that sectionalism which has plagued and divided Nortr

Carolina for lack of understanding is being pulled apart.

Differences between East, West and Piedmont may never disappear but mor and better understanding will serve to unify and strengthen all of North Carolina.

The basis for this tying together more closely has been known for many years. A geographer wrote more than a decade ago that MAnteo man who would go th Murphy, in hia owa state, would travel 543 miles, cross several geological ages, surmont the Estern con tinential divide and many mountain ranges. It would have been easier for him to have gone to Albany, N.Y. Savannah, Ga , or have sailed to Bermuda.

GEOGRAPH Y-Or from Murphy, it would be nearer to the capitals of seven other states than it is to Raleigh. Charlotte is twice as far away as Atlanta.

The geographer wrote, "every town in South Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and Kentucky and more a< cessible to a Murphy man tha is Manteo."

DIVISION-Whatever has divided North Carolina has not been geography entirely. The geographic division is being cut down by better highways and other modes of transpflation and communication.

Economic differences exist. The East is agricultural. Its lifeblood has been tobacco The West depends on tourists and has a highly developed tourist industry, the Piedmont is industrial.

Of course, all these descriptions are generalities. Each section has more, much more.

What about political differences. probably the most interesting question of all?

For many years there was a coalition of East-West in the legislature resisting the more popukwffi Piedmont bloc.The coalition usually won because the Piedmont itself would split.

CHANGING-Now things are changing. The change has been slow but there is ample evidence that it is taking

place. The separate sections of the state are drawing closer together

J.P. Huskins is ijresident and general man.ager of the Statesville Record and Landmark which means he is ed'.V.',T and publisher of a very fine, respected newspaper. And Huskins, a Piedmont, has just returned from a three day tour of Eastern North parolina and reports "we have news foryou who think of the East as the place where first dark comes first. They are waking up earlier, too."

Huskins is a member of the State Board of Higher EDucalion which held its most recent meeting on the campus of East Carolina University in Greenville.

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SHIRES

If you think those people arent thinking big, you are thinking wrong," he wrote.

Hereport(-d on a large new industry, one of the biggest industrial plums in the state," being dropped right in the middle of Pitt County. The East, he said, is moving to meet the challenge of the arrival of such industrial giants as Weyerhauser, Texas Gulf Sulphur and Burroughs Wellcome.

And he mentioned smaller industries, such as Chris Craft opening a plant at Edenton, a gem of a town of 5,000 on the crown of the Albermale Sound, once a village. Now it plans to double the size of its hospital, let contracts for a 100 unit unit public housing development, 30 units for retired couples and other fadlities. He mentioned highway developments in the entire area of Eastern North Carolina, and this is a report by a Piedmont editor.

"Eastern North Carolina is coming alive," Huskins writes, thanks to air conditioning and the labor surplus created by the mechanization of farming."

It was a small dig by a Piedmont editor but a pretty large step in the way of understanding.

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Raleigh and elsewhere. His latest statement to the Milk Commission, urging them to do away with the marketing controls on the product under their jurisdiction^ is another example (rf what Morgan meant when he said the Attorney Generals office would become more deeply involved in protecting consumers in this state. The Attorney General l^ taken the position that marketing controls on milk are holding the product at artificially high prices in this state, a point that is heatedly disputed by many associated with agriculture and the milk industry.

Whether Attorney General Morgans position is right or wrong in this instance, his voice is being heard and it is causing another more penetrating look at the status quo. That in itself helps to set the stage for something constructive to come out of this latest controversy in which his office has involved itself.

A Vote Of Confidence In Value Of Research

North Carolina farmers have again shown they recognize the value of research by approving the nickels-for-know-how assessment program for another six years.

The program is expected to bring in almost $1 million for agricultural research during the period. It was favored by almost 90 percent oi the farm families in the Tuesday referendum.

A five-cent per ton assessment is made on feed and fertilizer with the funds supporting agricultural reserach and education at N.C. State University.

Nickels-for-know-how was begun in 1951 and it has proven tobe a successful program. Our farmers are progressive enough to know this and they have shown it by overwhelming approving its continuation.

Cautious Over Passion Play

By BENNET BOLTON AP Religion Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - The \merican Jewish Congress grants to see the tangible evi-ience of the text itself before it vill believe that a revised ver-iion of the famous Oberammer->au Passion Play has really rid tself of notoriously anti-semit-c overtones.

It is unlikely they can cure a iefect they cannot even perceive, says Dr. Joachim Prinz, ihairman of the AJCs intema-ional affairs commission, about changes the Bavarian town has lUSt made after long relutance.

Oberammergau has been fa-nous since 1634 for its lavish )ageant portraying the final lays and death of Christ, a ipectacle staged every 10 years ts an expression of popular religious fervor over the theol(^y of nankind's salvation from its iins.

The story of Jesus is the Christian story of God come to rth as a Jewish man in a Jew-sh carpenters household and )reaching to his fellow Jews as he promised Messiah, only to )e crucified by some of those lews and their Roman colonial-stsa self-sacrifice r^uired in heavenly plan to^ redeem nans fall from grace.

Christ started a new religion vhich became non-Jewish in its irst few centuries. Christian ;ulture was gradually dotted at imes and places with the notion hat all Jewsand they alone ire to blame for the sorrows of iood Friday.

A high point in correcting this dea came in 1%5 when the Vat-

can Council declared tha> such hinking was both theologically tnd historically wrong. It said 5od never rejected the Jews, tnd any injustices of any kind oward them can never get Ro-nan Catholic support.

Prinz, a Berlin rabbi expelled )y the Nazis in 1937 for opposing Vddf Hitler, said the Oteram-nergau play version used since I860 was praised by Hitler in 1942 as a help to German war-ime morale. Hitler called it vital in convincingly portray-ngthe menace of Jewry.

Rabbi Prinz and the AJC ap-3ealed to Julius Cardinal Doepf-ler, the archbishop of Munich, ;o try to get the townspeople to *evise the play before it goes on or more than 500,000 interna-:ional tousts from May to Sep-;ember 1970.

The cardinal already had iskeda local priest to prepare a lew script, but the town reject-iil it. The priest told the AJC lere that Oberammergaus citi-ens had learned from world-earned from worldwide travel agencies that the 1970 play tickets were sold out, .herefore "their already weak will to reform the play disap-leared completely. They had Deen promising to modernize since the 1950 play.

Two weeks ago Mayor Ernst Zwink of Oberammergau an-lounced the adoption of revisions which he said freed the play of anti-Semitic tendencies ind will stand up to any criticism."

The AJC attitude is that seeing is believing, and it has asked the mayor to please send aver a copy.

Other Editors Say

Need Not Have Been

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AvertitlBf rato* tad deadllilM avallabk upon rtqnest Member Aiill iiirMtt t tircttlatioii.

(Henderson Dispatch) True enough that Nixon is the first President since Hoover to lost his fight for a nominee to the Supreme Court by Senate rejection. But he might not have been. President Johnson avoided that rating by withdrawing his appointment of Abe Fortas last year before a vote was taken. Actually, that was a defeat for him. Nixon could have kept his record clear, loo, had he pulled back on Judge Haynsworth. The President might have done that had there been greater certainly as to how the vote would turn out. He didnt know he was beatert. Johnson did and decided to avoid the snub to his own prestige.

No President wants to lost his fight s. But Nixon is not the first to have that experience. Nor have past chief executives been limited to court appointments. President Wilson, for instance. Inst his fight to have the United States join the old League of Nations at the end of World War I. It broke his heart, resulted in a stroke from which he never ^recovered, dhd contribute td his death at the age bt 67 two

years after he left office. Had this country joined the I.eague of Nations, World War II may never have occurred. But a little handful of senators defeated the proposal, largely through political maneuvering, even as that was a factor also in the defeat of Judge Haynsworth.

Thats all part of the game as politics is played in this democracy. Senators, as well as other public officials, act at times, and perhai often, through expediency, meaning what they consider the effect will be on their future fortunes on the public payrool.

President Nixon will come up with another nominee to the court to fill the vacancy which still exists. When that happens he will win, both because of the caution witji which he acts and bec?ause senators will not repeat the performance of last week. Even a conseralivc if appointed. will not ! ' turned back next time. Ni.xon is not expected to act until after the first of the year when the second session of the 9lst Congress convenes. At that * titil, he will fbre bette*.

Gee, But Its Nice to Make a Big, Ha^y Splash Now and ThenT

By ART BUCHWALD

Explaining Thanksgiving

WASHINGTON-! A little girl in Orleans. France, has written to me. Please, dear sir, would you explain your great Thanksgiving to me? I understand you have explained it before, but I was too young then to read the newspaper. So. for that little girl in France and little girls everywhere, I shall try once more.)

One of our most important holidays is Thanksgiving Day (known in France as le jour de merer donnant .)

Le jour de merci donnant was first started by a group of Pilgrims (plerins) who fled from IAngleterre before the McCarran Act to found a colony in the new world (le-nouvenu monde) where they could shoot Indians (les i)eaux-rouges) and eat turkey (dinde) to their hearts content. They landed at a

placecalled Plymouth (now a famous voiture Americaine) in a wooden sailing ship called the Mayflower (or Fleur de mai) in 1620. But while the pelerins were killing the dindes, the peaux-rouges were killing the pelerins, and there were several hard winters ahead for both of them. The only way the peaux-rouges helped the pelerins was when they taught them to grow corn (mais). The reason they did this was because they liked corn with their pelerins.

In 1623, after another harsh year, the pelerins crops were so good that they decided to have a celebration and give thanks because more mais was raised by the pelerins than pelerins were killed by the les peaux-rouges.

Every year on the jour de merci donnant, parents tell

their children an amusing story about the first celebration.

It concerns a brave capitaine named Miles Standish (known in France as Kilometres Deboutish) and a young, shy lieutenant named Jean Alden. Both of them were in love with a flower of Plymouth called Priscilla Mullens (no translation). The vieux capitaine said to the jeune lieutenant;

Go to the damsel Priscilla (allez tres vite chez Priscilla), the loveliest maiden of Plymouth (la plus jolie demoiselle de Plymouth). Say that a blunt

ART

Strength For Today

BUCHWALD

BE CAREFUL

One of the worst mistakes people can make is to omit God from their livesfrom their thinking, planning, pondering. From their little two-cent decisions and their milliOn-dollar decisionsif they are ever called upon to make such. Religion cannot be handed over to the minister, the assumption being that since he has been trained in such matters he will know what todo and will do it. The six-year-old child can be taught to think in terms of God. For such, God is Father,4-the Good Man in Heaven, the Person the minister preaches about on Sunday, the Being people mention when they say grace before meals.

There are people who jvill argue for atheism any time they have a chance. You cant see God, they say. What proof

do you have that He exists? The simplest answer to that is to raise the question as to whether the created world we see round about, qs could just have appeared to come into being. Is there no Creator behind the stars? Is history just a record of stupid mistakes made by unbelievably stupid men?

When we see sunlight, playing over the fields and the starry heavens at night apparently looking upon us with something akin to benevolence, the contentions of the atheists go out the window. There must be design behind all this. That design is good. We call the design God.

We all make mistakes. Let us not make the biggest of all possible mistakes by omitting God in thoughts, plans and aspirations.

By Earl L. Douglass

old captain, a man not of words but of action (un vieux Fanfan la Tulipe), offers his hand and his heart, the hand and heart of a solider. Not in these words, you know, but this, in short, is my meaning.

I am a maker of war (je suis un fabricant de la guerre) and not a maker of phrases. You, bred as a scholar (vous, qui etes pain comme un etudiant), can say it in elegant language, such as you read in your books of the {^edging and wooings of lovers, such as you think best adapted to win the heart of the maiden.

Although Jean was fit to be tied (convenable a etre emballz), friendship prevailed over love and he went to do his duty. But instead of using elegant language he blurted out his mission. Priscilla was muted

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Tourist?

ImportI

Tangle

By WHAYNE EISENMAI^* AP Business Writer -

NEW YORK (AP) - On a,trip to Europe you took advantage (rf low foreign prices to buy Christmas pits and youre going to bring in two Leica cameifas, three bottles of Chanel No. 5 and two Caravelle watches.

Legally, however, youre entitled to return with only on^, of each of these trademarked products, regardless of duty paid.

And if you exceed the linrit, customs officials will hold tjie merchandise until you get g.jet-ter of permission from the various U.S. companies that own the exclusive rights to bring these and some 4,(KX) other pr-eign made products into ^is country.

We were catching hell from tourists all the time, sajd a Treasury Department official.

One extreme example,; he said, was the soldier returning from Vietnam who had bou^t a camera at the post exchange. The GI had asked the trademark owner in the United States for permission to bring it home, and was refused.

To get permission for the soldier, the Treasury official said he had threatened to advertise the companys attitude all over Vietnam.

There is one way around some impOTt restrictions, however.

If you remove the trademark, you can bring in an unlimited amount as long as you pay the duty.

Thats an easy job for a bpttle of perfume wash off the label. For a camera, or silverware, its more difficult when the trademark or company sym-bd is engraved on the product.

Proponents of the restrictions say they prevent bootlegging impwters from getting a free ride on the advertising and marketing expenditures of .au-thoriased U.S. trademark pwn-ers.

Even the foreign manufacturer is prohibited from im*x)rting his own merchandise jnce he has granted tie rights to a U.S. company and that company registers the trademark with the Treasury.

The laws have been criticized as a barrier to competition.

The pratical effect... is to permit a foreign manufacturer indirectly to enlist the aid o( the U.S. Bureau of Customs to, exclude ...goods ... which might undercut a higher price charged in the United States than abroad. said Chicago Law School Prof. Kenneth W. Dam in a law journal article.

In 1954, the Justice Department brought suit against three American marketers of trade-maiked toilet goods, alleging they were really just an arm of foreign manufacturersnot in-dependent-American trademark ownersand their practices CiMistituted a form of monopoly selling.

The Justice Department won its case in district court, but withdrew after the firms appealed to the Supreme Courta move some experts believe has contributed to the confusion over the laws as they apply to affiliates of foreign manufacturers.

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Two things profoundly impress me: The starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Immanuel Kant.

FTC Rules For Supermarkets

By ELMER ROESSNER There will be differences of opinion, to put it mildly, before thp Federal Trade Commission in Washington on Jan. 20 and 21, when the FTC holds a hearing on two proposed new rules for supermari^ets.

The rules appear reasonable: the appended notes will probably draw fire.

The rules are that it is an unfair practice to:

(1) ffer any product for sale at a stated price. . .any advertisement disseminated inan area served by any of its stores which do not have such products in stock and readily available to customers in self-service areas of such stores. (If not readily available on a self-service basis, clear and adequate notice shall be provided at the point where customers would normally expect the products tobe offered for sale, that the

item or items may be obtained upon request.)

". . .It shall constitute a defense to a charge. . .if the retailer maintains records sufficient to show that the advertised products were delivered to the kt(Hes in quantities sufficient\to meet reasonably anticipated and conspicuous disclosure in all.. .advrtisements as to all exceptions with respect to specific stores, products, or

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ROESSNER*

demands.

If Not At All Stores-(2) Fail to make the advertised items comspicinously and readily available fo sffle at or below the advertised prices unless.. .there is clear

prices otherwise included within the advertisement. The notes that may rile merchants are:

NOTE: ' I. General disclaimers in advertising relating to product availability will not be considered to be in compliance with the disclosure provisions of the rule. Exam^rfes of such general disclaimers would be:

(a) Not all items available at all stores.

(b) A statement that a particular item. . .is Available at most stores. " (c) Available at stores featuring delicatessen departments. In this case the specific stores where the advertised item is either available or unavailable shall be disclosed.

NOTE; II. , Some food retailers have utilized a raincheckf policy wherebjr cusiomers may subsequently putthase at the advertised

prices, items which were unavailable during the effective period of the advertisement. Such a system will not be considered as compliance with part (1) of the rule.

Tmigli On Meicliants

These notes. rather than the rules, appear to burden supermarket managers. They would have to guess accurately what demand a bargain would create.

If they ran out of an advertised item, they would have to produce books to. show that what they ordered was a reasonable guess as to demand; if they order too much, they risk being stuck. If the exwss is perishable, the waste would tend to in-citase food costs.

The outlawing of the raincheck, which supermarkets developed, without nudging from the government seems particularly utlfair.