4The Dally Renector, Greenville, N. C.~Tneady. April 28.1970

A Satellite Sounds Warning

There is nothing to be optimistic about in view of Communist Chinas launching of a 380-pound satellite over the weekend.

While the satellite launching seems peaceful enough, it means that Red China now has the capability o( building missiles which can carry nuclear warheads anywhere on earth.

Communist China must be rate the most belligerant nuclear power on earth at this time and its possession of the rockets needed for delivering nuclear bombs must be viewed seriously by the rest of the world.

More than once the opinion has come from Chinese officials that Red China could survive a nuclear war, with people to spare. There is some reason to feel that their officials don't really telieve this. It is obvious that presuming many Chinese did survive a nuclear war the destruction and deaths would be horrible, even for such a highly populated country.

Nevertheless Red China is feuding with its neighbor the Soviet Union; it is anything but a friend of the United States and other western nations. All of these nations must be viewing the satellite launching as a most ominous event.

As the Chinese satellite circles the earth sending forth the revolutionary anthem The East is Red it

Paying Price Of Slackness

By JOHN CL'NNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) -During the boom years of the 1960s, when jobs were so plentiful that employers were forced to relax standards, some workers prematurely instituted the four-day week: They got sick on Fridys or Mondays.

One effect of such deception was to help ruin a good thing: productivity per

manhour went dowfTT prices went up, inflation caught hold, the government fwced a slowdown, layoffs began...

TTie country is now being forced to recognize the embarrassing and dangerous fact that the productivity gains of the American worker, on average, fdl to less than one per cent last - year, or about one-quarter of the average postwar rate. Absenteeism wasnt the only cause, of course. There were miny other factors, among them:

Industry was forced to employ marginal workers in order to keep pace with the boom. Their skills were few, their output below average.

Management became lax in its habits and permitted all sorts of costly inefficiencies to develop. Some managements were not innovative. They failed to develop technology and methods that would have improved productivity.

Secure in the knowledge that their skills were tradeable, workers felt free to change jobs frequeny. During their periods of adaptation, their skills were lost to both the old and the new employer.

One result of this slackening in the rate of productivity was to put both worker and management on a treadmill. Despite higher sales, corporate profits ceased to keep pace. Because of higher prices, pay increases evaporated.

No matter how many reasons are given for the declining rate of productivity absenteeism must be high among them. A report by Morgan Guaranty Trust notes that nonagricultural absenteeism last year was 77 per cent higher than in 1961.

Disturbed by the trend. General Motors Chairman

James Roche commented recently:

Many haw suggested that higher absenteeism is a byproduct of the affluence of the '60s. If so. I suggest that it is time the fundamentals of our affluence he recognized for what they are.

Our ability to improve our standard of living depends directly on oia- willingness to work to create the goods and services we enjoy.

So long as production increases. wages can be raised without any inflation resulting. But productivity hasn't kept pace with wage and price increases. The result: inflation.

The remedies for this laxness by both management and labor are going to be difficult. First off, one remedy entails jobs; unemployment is rising steadily after being near an all-time low l^e in the 1960s.

tinues to risea direct result C/ government attempts to wring inflation out of the economy management is going tobe in a better position ' to crack the whip. Illness will be a less acceptable excuse.

Attempts will be made also to root out inefficiency at the management level. White collar laxness, although better disquised. has a more pervasive effect on prices than that of skilled labor; one manager's actions might affect 1,000 blue collar workers._

The goal of these attempts is more efficiency, more productivity per manhour.

Opinions In Brief

The road is a long one from (he projection of a thing to Its accomplishment" .Miiliere.

is certain that the event is being carefully considered by both the United States and the Krenilin.

It appears obvious that it is time for the United States to try to develop a better dialogue with ^e giant Red Chinese nation. Our country has a hot line with the Soviet Union to handle unforeseen emergencies. Soon unforeseen emergencies could set off nuclear war with Red China. Somehow we have to prepare to head off such emergencies.

Remember: An Hour's Sleep Has Been Lost

If you are still waking up yawning these mornings, remember that an hours sleep was lost Sunday morning because the clocks were turned up an hour to accommodate Daylight Savings Time.

We can take some comfort in the knowl^ge that the change will mean longer afternoons, however. As the days lengthen even those early risers who are now finding it still dark when they arise in the mornings will begin to appreciate the extra hours daylight in the evenings.

For right now though, there is still an hours sleep which was lost Sunday morning. Many of us will need a few days to adjust to the new time but then it only happens once a year.

Arguing While Threat Grows

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands" Sir F'rancis Bacon

Happiness is as a butterfly. which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you." Nathaniel Hawthorne

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By ROWLAND EVANS - and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON A bitter struggle between the Interior Department and the Budget Bureau has now delayed for almost six weeks Interiors emergency request for more inspectors to stop oil and gas pollution in the Federally-owned Gulf Coast continental shelf.

Secretary Walter Hickels formal request for a supplemental appropriation went to the all-powerful Budget Bureau on March 19. Although the amount involved is only a piddling $400,000 to add 25 or so Federal inspectors to the outrageously inadequate force of 46, the Budget Bureau has been sitting on the request with no indication of quick approval.

The dispute betwWn Interior and the^Budget Bureau is not over the need for more inspection, following the massive Chevron Oil Co. (Standard of California-owned) oil spill off Louisianas Gulf of Mexico coast on Feb. 10. Both agencies agree that tighter policing of. repeated oil company violations of Federal regulations requires more inspectors.

But Budget Bureau specialists claim that the Interior Department plays footsie with the big oil companies are penalized for breaking the iaw instead of slapped on the wrist, say these specialists, more inspectors would cure nothing.

Thus, the Budget Bureau is demanding that Interior draft stiff enforcement procedures before it approves the supplemental request.

Interiors answer to that is Hickels own order shutting down Chevrons operations for weeks as a result of the Feb. 10 blowout (an unprecedented punishment) and Hickels decision to prosecute Chevron for scores of alleged violations. A grand jury in New Orleans is now investigating the case.

Interior ^officials claim that, although top-level policy on punishing violations under the Johnson administration was dont raise any hell with the oil companies, Hickel has already proved to be far tougher. Hickel is asking not only more inspectors, but

light aircraft for quick spot checks of the vast array of rigs in the oil-rich continental shelf.

The Budget-Bureau wants more than that. It wants specific enforcement procedures spelled out. If they arent forthcoming. Hickels appeal 'or more inspectors and pledge of tougher enforcement may be lost in a bureaucratic wrani,ie, with pollution and lie oil companies the winners.

Rep. Wilbur Mills of Arkansas, powerful chairman of the taxwriting Ways and Means Committee, is harvesting a potentially valuable crop of political lOUs from liberal Democrats just in case Speaker John ^McCormack should change his mind and yield the speakership next January.

Mills has travelled across the country at least twice in the past few months to speak at fund-raisers for such members of the liberal Democratic Study Group (DSG) as Rep. James Gorman and Rep. B. B. Sisk of California, Rep. Jacob H. Gilbert of New York, and Floridas Rep. Claude Pepper.

Millss stock with some liberals went up when he pushed President Nixons-welfare-reform bill tjirough the House without significant change. Mills intimates say that he regards his sponsorship of that bill, together with Medicare which he shepherded through the House in 1965, as strong underpinning for some liberal backing in case he decides to go for Speaker, despite his opposition to civil rights bills.

If the aging McCormack insists on running for reelection, Mills will not contest him. But if McCormack yields to growing complaints about his faltering leadership, Millss political forays for liberal Democrats, most of whom are members of his own committee, will pay important dividends.

A footnote: One Northern liberal, who says an appearance by Mills in his district would be good for at least $40,(X)0 in campaign contributions, has not invited him for one reason: I dont want to get indebted.

Strength For Today

Prison Bars Unavailing

In this day of religious freedom it appears unthinkable that men should e\er have been cast into prison for their religious convictions. Yet the centuries have been stained with this dishonor.

John Bunyan was cast into Bedford jail, and if one goes to Bedford, England, today he sees the lock which secured the door against this glorious man of God. For twelve years he lay in jail. He might have been forgiven if he had sunk into bitterness. He might even have lost his faith. Certainly the best one could have hoped was that he would come forth, his health unimpaired, with some good fai(h and cheer left to sustain him.

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

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It Is Not In Our Stars

Not An Age Of

Letters

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Curbstone comments by a pavement Plato:

However this chaotic age is remembered in the future, it wont be'recalled as a period of great letter writing.

It has neither the leisured grace nor mellow philosophy or even the passionate desire to communicate ones thoughts that stimulates the creation of great letters.

Folks today arent so much interested in telling each other what they think as they are what they heard on a television talk show the night before.

Ah, for the shades of the great letter writers of yesterday Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Dean Swift, Lord Chesterfield, John Keats, Lord Byron, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, to name but a few.

Unable to pick up a telephone and exchange their opinions and ideas offhand, they sat down, took a sharpened goose quill in hand, dipped it in an inkwell and by laor of mind and gift of wit turned out long letters that are part of the endless glory of the English tongue.

Their letters took time to write and a much longer time to reach their recipientdays, weeks, even monthsbut they said something not only to him but to all mankind.

HICKORY, N.C. On the after - dinner road again, headed south first, then to the West Coast. It is getting on toward midnight, here in this dreary motel room, and the column will not come. It has to come; tomorrows deadline sits on a heavy stomach, but the typewriter is cold and the trash basket full of bad leads.

The room is green. The walls are sea green, webbed in seaweed paper. The carpet is the green of snap beans. The curtains are green, the bedspread; the blanket is turquoise. It is like writing in an aquarium.

Tonights audience was receptive but the speech went poorly. One for four, and a scratch single at that. Sometimes youre up, says

the song, sometimes yourq down. This was a down. This * was a down night, and I have come back to this dugout in the blue dumps knawn to hitters who fan with runners on base. The typewriter looks at me like an unfed dog.

So I have been sitting for a while in the green - tweed chair, watching Kansas burn on the TV screen. The color control is'out of kilter; I am too tired to correct it, so the smoke comes out purple and the flames a putty yellow. This is the dawning, so they say, of the Age of Aquarius; I herald it from a motel, darkly, in the livid light of a university set afire.

In the name of God, what has happened to our country? If this were Columbia or Cornell or Berkeley, the

Other Editors Say Freedom Pays

(The Wilson Times)

Nineteen states now have right to work laws. It simply means that an individual has the right to join a union and also a right to refrain from joining a union without losing his job. It would seem that this is a basic civil and human right.

We hear a great deal about freedom, civil rights and the curbing of discriminatory acts against U.S. citizens, regardless of race, creed or color.Yet.what could be more fundamental than the right to work without paying tribute to any coercive agency. Apparently, because of its political explosiveness, this fundamental right and the issue it involves is avoided by most politicians. It is interesting to note, Tiowever, that in states that have right to work laws the rate of in

crease in-jobs per capita personal income, . hourly earnings and industrial development outstrip such development in states permitting compulsory unionism.

For example, new manufacturing jobs between 1957 and 1967 in right to work states increased 37.2 per cent against a rise of 7.3 per cent in states permitting compulsory unionism. Per capita personal income in right to work states rose 60.9 per cent in the same period against 53.2 per cent in states with compulsory unionism. Hourly earning by manufacturing workers increased 39 per cent. Average weekly earnings of production workers in right to work states rose 41.6 per cent compared to 35.3 per cent in states permitting compulsory unionism.

flickering image might not sear the heart. Scar tissue grows. But this is Lawrence, Kansas, heartland America; here, too, the arsonists torch. And tonight it is not only Kansas. At Penn State, the president and his wife have fled their home to escape the stones of dissenters. Demonstrators seize a campus building in upstate New York. The virus of nihilism, nothingism, spreads its destructive infection.

I am not cheered, not tonight, by the thought that the anarchists constitute a small minority of the whole body of American students. Whatever it is that has infected this minority, it is no worse than the wasting disease that has paralyzed the numb forces of decency. What was Burkes epitaph for mankind? All that is necessary to the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

How have we fallen so weak, so sick, so spineless, nerveless, gutless? Is this the consequence of some lunatic obsession with equality that all ideas are equally good, all modes of conduct equally permissible? Have we so corrupted our values as to accept the suicidal notion that in a society based upon order, disorder deserves equal time?

So its the Age of Aquarius, is it? The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars but in ourselves. We middle Americans have signally failed to look after first thing first, to cultivate in our public institutions those rules of law, civility, and grace that might have kept the whole thing in balance. Somehow we forgot and this is Burke again that liberty exists only with order and virtue, and cannot

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It is getting harder every year for anyone to achieve lasting fame as a letter writer even though he sets out deliberately to do so. There are other factors to blame besides the more practical efficiency of the telephone, the telegraph and the office dictating machinesplus the time-wasting allure of television.

Who will take the troub^to write a clever letter to a jgiant corporation when he knows it will be read only by a tired white collar office underling and answered by a bored computer? Even George Bernard Shaw couldnt win a literary duel with a pompous computer.

Heres another problem: Suppose poet John Doakes, disturbed by the predicaments and paroxysms of civilization, indites a masterful letter to his friend, poet James Doe.

Rosebud, says Doe. turning to his wife. This letter from Doakes is too good to be lost. It is our duty to save it for posterity.

"Oh, no, we dont, replies - Rosebud. There isnt room in this apartment for anymore junk. We dont even have space to save our income tax returns.

And into the wastebasket goes Doakes masterpiece.

Yes, the tradition of great letter writing appears headed for the same oblivion of the goose quill and lamplight that spawned it.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY

A Little Of Everything Bad

But while he was in Bedford jail, John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrims Progress. For pure, unadulterated literary skill the piece stands almost without parallel in the language. It is English prose at its best. But its literary value is insignificant compared with the spiritual power it has infused into the hearts of people through long generations.

The only real prisoners are the people who make themselves prisoners. Man cannot incarcerate his fellows in prison. Men behind prison walls can still be free if their hearts are free, and those who are in truth prisoners are the ones whose sins and weaknesses have made them so.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER Remember the old schoolboy puzzle: When an irresistable force meets in immovable body, what happens?

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swers: An explosion. He marries the girl. And so on.

We may get a provable answer soon. What happens when the irresistable force of inflation meets the immovable body of recession?

Thats . the way the economy is headed. Recession is continuing, by all government figures, by all private calculations. Tl^ rise in the gross national pnduct is slowing down. (To^^rate profits are shrinking. Unemployment-^ technically is rising.

,\ Little Of Everything

Inflation is continuing, too. Prices and wages are rising and government largess is pouring into the laps of taxpayers, Social Security beneficiaries, federal employees and organized workers.

This is a remarkable situation. The United States is the only country in the world that can afford inflation and a recession at the same time. Reminds one of the quip during the Depression: The U.S. is the only country in which the old^ folk^ can drive over the hill to the poorhouse ifi an auto.

Grimly: The current

outlook is for both more inflation, more recession.

Both, of course, cannot go on for long. A good guess is that inflation will go on. It has resisted all manner of fiscal controls so far. The recession will on for a while. But the inflationary drives will eventually run over it, and inflation will become

dominant.

.More Business Futures Here are more glimpses over the business horizon: Capital spending will get further corporate reviews, with more postponements. Two principal reasons for delaying capital expenditures are the high cost of financing and the decline in corporate income.

Also slowing: inventory accumulations. A Commerce Department survey indicates manufactureres will add about $2.9 billion to inventories in the first half of this year, compared with $3.5 billion in the first half of 1%9.

Also slowing: the rate of mergers and acquisitions. With drops in profits, many candidates for take-overs look less attractive and high interest rates keep the costs of acquisitions high.

Higher appliance prices are probable. Both copper and aluminum have gone up. ^ and this is likely to bring another round of price in

creases.

Things To Watch

The governments suit for $16.7 million against the .First Chicago Corp., parent company of the First National Bank of Chicago, has Implications for many other banks. The Internal Revenue Service challenges tax deductions' for interest expenses on indebtedness which it says was incurred to purchase or carry tax-exempt securities. First Chicago maintains the claim, for 1965 and 1966, is unsupported by law. If the IRS wins, it could hit First Chicago for other years and affect many other banks.

New tests of microwave ovens are being conducted by both government agencies and manufacturers to determine if they emit dangerous waves. Unfavorable findings could hit sales hard. Meanwhile, some hospitals, beauty shops and other users are suspending use.