The Daily Reflector, Greenville^ N. C.Wedneaday, December 10, IMl

A Milestone In 3 Projects

Greenville took a major step forward in its educational facilities with the dedication ai three new projects Sndy.\

Being dedicated with one ceremony were the new Aycock Junior High, Eastern Elementary and a major addition to Rose High School.

All told, the recently completed construction represents an investment of around $3 million. Eastern Elementary provides additional space for the fast growing grammar grade population in the city. The Aycock Junior High, named for Board of Education chairman Dr. E. B. Aycock, replaces the old junior high at Fifth and Reide Streets, which burned last year and has since been demolished.

At Rose High, critically needed classroom space and other facilities have been added to make the building adequate for the increased enrollment brought about by the consolidation of Eppes and Rose High.

Greenvilles city schools have faced great changes recently through growth and integration. In the years ahead we can expect major population increases here which will further tax the citys school facilities.

Perhaps a community is doing no more than it should to provide the facilities necessary for the education of its young. Still in so many cases school bonds are being turned down and the children must make do with whatever facilities are available. The citizens of Greenville and Pitt County have

recognized their responsibilities in providing the funds for new schools. The completion of these new facilities in Greenville is a testament to that.

Preparing For Future

After hearing from many individuals and groups in sessions throughout the state, the Democratic partys 60-member study commission has broken down into committees to consider changes in the party organization.

The commission to study reorganization of the party divided into several committees which will draft changes in the party plan of organization.

Through this study commission the Democratic party is taking a good look at itself as it prepares to streamline in preparation for meeting the challenges of the future. This is something that needs to be done and it is to be hoped that fruitful recommendations will come from the partys study commission.

Tax Mess For

Brooks Was A Leaclers

Marked Man

By WILI.IAM ,\, SIUKKS

RALEIGH-John C Brook.s, has parted company with the General Assemby and the only surprise is that the parting did not come sooner.

The fact is that Brooks was a marked man almost from the lime he became the Lqiislature's first fulltime administrative officer at the beginning of the 1%9 .session and set out to change ways of doing things. Of course that was his job.

He should have known and probably did that some changes would be resisted and others resented.

TTie idea of hiring anad-mini.strative officer was to mondemize and streamline the legislative machinery in Raleigh.

. .(>p|Nised - To do so Brooks had to deal not only with 170 elected lawmakers but with dozens of clerks and secretaries and a new and rather complex computer system which at times didn't work.

dedicated job which served a very fine purpose Meanwhile members of the Legislative Services Com-mi.s.sion said the intention is to continue to try to steamline and improve efficiency. Thercare numerous things which can be done, McGeachy say^ They are being studied carefully."

.lustice - The Sir Walter Hotel in dowtown Raleigh is more than a hotel, according to one of its permanent guests. State Treasurer Kdwin Gill.

"It is. syas Gill, an institution, which touches the life of our state at many important and significant points." Gill spoke at a ceremony honoring the hotel's bell captain, Stewart Jaslice, who was runner-up in an international hptel, Bellman of the year competition.

He hired and fired cla-ks and secretaries and other legislative employes and stepped on some toes.

it was a difficult period of transition.' says Senate pri'sident pro tern Hector McGeachy who accepted BnKiks' resignation. Some things got beyond his <Br(M)ks) control"

Brooks himself charged that the General Assembly is inefficient and a majority of members opposed to change. His efforts to effect changes such as requiring personal standards for secretaries collapased.

Clashed McGeachy. chairman of the Iegislative Services Commission, conceded there were personality clashed" involving Brooks, legislators and legislative employes.

Even tough McGeachy and House Speaker Phil Godwin finally decided to ask for Brooks resignation. .\It<ieachy said Brooks had done an intelligent.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

..Gill said Justice has been my good friend for many, many years.

I have known of his splendid character and of the higli quality of service that he has rendered . . . Stewart Justicx is not just a bellman. He too, is an institution that has touched the lives of many thousands of people, both in North Carolina and beyond.

In an age which some believe is hard, brazen, bras.sy and competitive, it is wonderful to honor Stewart for he has been the exception to many ruleshe has majored in politeness, in courtesy, in pure natural kindness, and in consideration for others. Many a traveler coming into Raleigh, weary and lonesome, hhd had his or her life brightened by the famous personality of Justice."

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - When Republican Congressional leaders gathered at the White House last Thursday for their weekly meeting, a grim, tight-lipped President Nixon posed this question for Charls Walker, Under Secretary of the Treasury, seated down the table from him: What happened yesterday?

Mr. Nixons concern was justifiable. Less than 24 hours earlier, when the Senate voted to increase the $600 personal income tax

cxamption to $800,

Republicans were in chaotic disarray. An astonishing absence of communication betwetm the White House and Senate Republicans, ineffective party leadership in both Senate and Administration, and deep personal animosities among Republicans were peeled bare.

Although the Republican mess on Wednesday probably wont influence the final tax reform bill, it raises the deeper question of whether Mr. Nixons soaring popularity, source of boundless White House euphoria, can be maintained while vital fundamentals of government are neglected.

Few Republicans could disagree with the Administrations opposition to a costly hike in the personal exemption with inflation running out of control. But despite this, few could agree with the Administrations convictionuntil a few days before the actual votethat the $800 exemption offered by Democratic Sen. Albert Gore of Tennessee might be defeated.

That was the assessment of Under Secretary Walker. Operating in the unique Congressional relations arrangement now in vogue. White House Congressional lobbyists have stayed away from the tax reform bill. Treasury Secretary David Kennedy seldom deals with Congress (and was at the NATO meeting in Europe last week anyway). Thus, the able but overworked Dr. Walker, in addition to many other duties, has been a free agent counting heads and calling shots.

Two days before Wed

nesdays vote. Walker had finally come to agree with Senate Republican chiefs leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania and assistant leader Robert Griffin of Michigan that the Gore amendment was sure to pass. The question then became whether to fight it anyway or sponsor .an Administration substitute giving Republicans a chance to vote for popular tax relief. That crucial question was not answered clearlyuntil too late.

The politics of the situation can be argued endlessly, but the real indictment of the Administration is its failure to develop and coordinate strategy with Senate Republican leaders. That failure was compounded at the weekly Tuesday luncheon meeting of Republican Senators when Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois proposed an alternative to the Gore amendment designed to minimize the revenue loss during the present inflationary period and give the Republican an out.

Edwin Coehn, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for taxation, made technical suggestions at that luncheon. But neither he nor Walker, also jM-esent, rebuffed Percy until the luncheon was over. Only after the meeting adjourned did Walker tell a knot of Senators that the Administration could not back the Percy amendment even as a tactical ploy.

Incredibly enough. Walkers verdict was not heard by Percy or Griffin. The fact that Treasury technicians worked into the night Tuesday perfecting his amendment was misinterpreted by Percy as tacit approval. Scott got the same idea after chatting with Kenneth BeLieul, chief White House Senate lobbyist. Amazingly, however, Scott and Walker did not discuss the matter together at anytime Tuesday.

So, early Wednesday mwning, Griffin ordered a telephone call to all Republican Senators which described the Senate party leadership as favoring the Percy amendment. Sen. John Williams of Delaware, senior Republican on the Finance Committee and Mr. Fiscal

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Strength For Today

Therapeutic Religion The word therapeutic means pertaining to the healing art; concerned with remedies for diseases; curative.

When religion is soundly held and made to operate in every aspect of ones life it can be called therapeutic religion. It cures moral diseases. It keeps one in a healthy state spiritually. It is trfe that many of the most saintly people appear to be plagued with annoying and painful physical ailments, especially as they grow older, but taken by and large sound religion would appear to go a long way toward making one physically fit. The expression that the godly die young is not true. Some fine people die in youth, a multitude in middle age when they try to put on pressure and bring theni-

selves to high successthis is a familiar situation. Most genuinely religious people appear to be enjoying satisfactory health. No matter how satisfactory our health may be we cannot keep the pressure on decade after decade without feeling the strain or, in. fact, experiencing breakdoWn? But in dally living, as in all things, we should use our cmnwn sense. The body and mind will take just so much pressure and no more. If a person takes no vacation and boasts of the fact that he does not need one, his family should tip off the physician on whom they rely and ask him to sound a few warnings.

Therapeutic. Curative. If religion is not therapeutic it is not the kind that will brighten " up life and make it / significant. '

by Earl L. Douglass

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THE LONGEST TREK STARTS WITH SINGLE STEP

Demos Go About Their

By JOHN VINOCUR

An Island Of Propriety

PARIS (AP)With a card sharpers flashing hands, the little man outside Notre Dame flicks open two small packets. The eye caught only a seconds glimpse at what looked like intertwined flesh. Deerty peectures, he says.

If a sale goes through, at $2 a packet, he ducks quickly into one of the cafes across the street from the cathedral. He is selling as pornographic photos what are actually just reproductions of nudes from the Louvre Museum. It doesnt make for happy customers.

You think Im crazy, selling real porno? the man who calls himself Theodore said in the cafe while heating up his hands over a hot rum. First. I wouldnt even know where to get the real stuff. Second, Id get three months for selling it. The cops dont fool around, kid.

Yes, this is Paris, a dry

island of propriety beyond the tide of flesh on the news stands and in the mails that has swept over the United States and Scandinavia.

The nudest skin-trade magazines on sale near Place Pigalle, come from places like Astoria, N.Y., and Burbank, Calif.

ITie titles are all in English, like Blonde Babes and A Different Kind of Love. But sexual acts and com|dete nudity are not pictured. The prices run to $9 for a magazine, more than double the American price marked on the cover.

After all, the news dealer explained when there was a complaint about the price, this is the real thing, and imported from the United States.

Ironically some of the pornographic books are pirated American editions of paperbacks published here

Other EcJitors Say

Get Out The Vote

during the freer 1940s and 1950s.

There are two explanations for Frances distance from pornography.

One is that there is still a residue of official puritanism fr(Mn the De Gaulle era, which tended to suppress anything that did not reflect the high moral tone the general wanted associated with France.

The people who explain the situation this way believe that France will gradually go back to its habitsof centuria. They said this is already happening with a series of sexually oriented advertisements in major magazines.

The other explanation comes from Jean-Louis Ginibr, editor of Lui or Him, the mens magazine that is the countrys largest.

Ginibre says there is little pornography in France because basically there is little demand. He considers the French the Wests least sexually frustrated people and the least likely to be excited by the prospects of pictures of other people making love.

(Kinston Free Press)

It is a matter of state-wide interest that the total registration of voters in North Carolina stands a,t 2,077;538, which is down some 210,211 from previous reports las December 10. The reason is a purge of the rolls to vliminate decreeased voters and those who have moved out of North Carolina. --Many new registrations have been held and this reflects a more accurate roster than the State Board of Elections has ever compiled before, according to Executive Secretary Alex Brock of the state agency.

'ITio'e is no virtue iri a large registration as such, unless it is an accurate representation of the total number of qualified voters. It is evident that in a population of over

5,(XK),000 however, the total should be much larger than two million.

The biggest challenge before the voters of this State in all parties is how- to get out a full vote. In general dec-tions there has never been more than 50 to 60 per cent of the total registration who voted. That means that each major party should concern itself not only with getting tip quality candidates out for the various elective offices, but to make certain all qualified voters exercise their franchise.

If two million voters actually voted in any election in North Carolina it would do mwe for improved government than even this purge of the election rolls, as vital as the purge is for all concerned throughout the State.

Public

Forum

To The Editor.

find it very interesting that Dr. Craig Phillips and Gov. Bob Scott are concerned about the disruptive effect that the recent total desegation order will have on the involved students. TTie first desegregation order was given in 1954. Fifteen years could have been a healthy transition period, 1 tliink there is good reason to doubt sincerity of concern.

Yours truly,

R. Allan Schlick

Desires

Never

Cease

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) ^ This nation and other growing nations might be able to pay for their social needs if only they could order a moratorium on growing aspirations. But that day, human nature prescribes, will never come.

It appears inevitable instead for new desires to emerge almost simultaneously with the satisfaction of old ones. And in a way this is probably just as well, for it keeps all of us striving to produce.

The immediate result, however, is a tendency to spend beyond income, to avoid reality, to dream, and thus to face crises from time to time in personal, family and governmental iMid-gets.

Relating this view to todays news, it appears safe to assume that in the opinion of the administration, the Senates eagerness to increase the personal income tax exemption to $800 and Social Security benefits by 15 per cent, fits the description.

The President has, at any rate, indicated he will veto a tax reform bill if it includes these two jM-ovisions. They are viewed as inflationary, which is a way of saying they cannot be affaxi-ed.

In fact, the prestigious monthly economic letter of the First National City Bank suggests that spending pressures mi^t already be forcing fiscal policy out of control.

Despite the administrations determination to keep outlays within the self-imposed ceiling, it comments, this level could be pierced by such uncontrollable outlays as farm subsidies, social Security benefits and interest on public debt.

Exerting even more pressure on budgets are actions being contemplated by Congress which, in the opinion of Budget Director Robert P. Mayo, couW lead to spending increases of |5 billion.

These pressures pose threats not just to the administrations much-advertised budget surplus, but in the opinion of some economists might cause the so-called peace benefit to be all spent up before the Vietnam war ends.

Opinions n Brief

(ommon senst' and good lutlure will do a lot to make tlx* pilgrimage of life not too dillieull. w. Somerset Maugham.

"Genius is eternal patienec' Miehaelangelo.

"Too many ptxiple are iliinking of seeurily instead of opporlunity. They .seem more afraid of life than death." James F Hvrnes.

"Never mind your hi pine.ss; do your duty.M Durant.

Help Cities With Their Money

By ELMER ROESSNER Some pretty wild ideas have been advanced to solve the rising costs of government. Many governments have tried to solve their problems by simply printing more money. Germany tried it after World War I, and what a mess that made, especially for the Allies!

ELMER

ROESSNER

In California, the Townsend

$50-Every-Thursday plan came near to adoption during the depression. The state was to give every elderly citizen a warrant for $50 every week and, by law, every business had to accept it at face value. Each merchant would put a 2-cent stamp, purchased from thexstate, on the back, and

after it had accumulated $50 in stamps, the state was to redeem it for $50. Thus the plan would cost the state nothing because the sale of stamps would provide more than enough money for redempUon, the oldsters would have ample spending money for the times, and business would swell because everybody who was forced to accept some of this funny money.would send it as spon as possible.

Other Ventures , The scheme was something like the old cat-and-mouse farm idea: the mice were fed to the cats, the^ cats were skinned for their fur and their carcasses were fed to the mice. But fortunately, Californians rejected Dr. Townsend's plan and the state is still solvent.

At another time, a cult proposed that all work be prohibited and eveiybody be issued a weekly book of chits which could be exchanged for

food and goods at stores. Stores had plenty of food and goods in their cellars, leaders pointed out.

Now an equally nutty idea is being bandied about the country.

It is that the federal government finance the cities.

Many cities are going broke. Civic wages and salaries are soaring. Buildings are being torn down because taxes and the cost of keeping them up are greater than rentals. Mayor John V. Lindsay estimates New Yorks deficit in the coming year will be $l billion.

in San Diego, demanded the federal government take over welfare, relief, unemployment benefits --land assorted deficits. That sound you hear is Doc Townsends bones applauding.

National Gimmies At the White House Conference on Hunger, one group

demanded a guaranteed annual income of $5,500 for each family of four, which would eliminate state and city welfare and draw the money out of the Treasury.

< American mayors, meeting

It sounds like a loverly solution. The federal government is already paying for 90 per cent of / major highway construction costs, it is pouring millions into housing for the poor and many other give-aways. Why not do everything? ^

There is only one little question about the idea: Where will the money come

from?

It cant come from rural America because the government isy already pouring money there to keep prices up so that farmers can live.

So it can only come from the cities, that is, the people who live and work in the cities. Its as simple (as that.