-tfce Daily Reflectar. GreenviUe. N. C.-Thorsdy. May 7.1970

Shouldn't Give In Too Soon

BOOK-OF-THE-MONTH!

Compromise between private and public ownership and coexistence between development and natural environment may prove the only pathway to a settlement of the Baldhead Island dispute.

We hope, however, that Gov. Scott wiU not be too quick to give in to private development of the uinque island or to travel the road of compromise We would also express the hope that if the state is finally able to acquire the island, there will be no hasty move to establish a research station or other man - made improvement on the island.

Baldhead is valuable to North Carolina for what it is: a unique island that furnishes a nursery ground for valuable marine life. It is valuable because it has been allowed to remain undisturbed and stands as one of the last islands o its kind.

Research concerning the island and what it does for marine and other wildlife can be carried out without disturbing the island itself. Obviously a research station would not change the island as much as the development of a plush resort area, but it would change Baldhead nonetheless.

If Baldhead is worth saving, and in our judgment it is, it is worth saying in its natural state.

Compromise Is Needed } In Middle East Area

Tax Repeal Is Live Issue

By BRYAN HAISLIP

RALEIGH, N.C. Repeal of taxes enacted by the 1969 legislature remains very much a live issue, to be debated and decided when the 71 General Assembly is in session in Raleigh next spring

Primary elections across the State last Saturday gave no further clue than that on citizen sentiment regarding the cigarette, soft drink, and gasoline levies. No clear - out. across - the - board demand either for repeal or modification of the taxes, or for their retention, emerged in the primary results.

Instances of incumbents defeated in races where taxes were an issue such as State Sen. Edgar J. Gurganus of Williamston who lost to former State Sen Ashley F'utrell of Washington - were balanced by victories under similar circumstances such as State Sen. William Staton of Sanford who won over former legislator Shelton Wicker of Sanford Next important questions, as the primary results are analyzed in the days ahead, are.

Will Republican candidates take up tax repeal as a party issue in the fall general election, and to what extent will it figure in their campaigning*

How will Governor Scott and his lieutenants assess the primary results in planning administration strategy for the coming legislative session*

Of course, strategists for tobacco, soft drink and gasoline forces in seeking repeal of the taxes will not be idle during the summer months. Undoubtedly, they correctly regarded the primaries as a preliminary skirmish and now they will give attention to the general election and legislative battlegrounds. Indeed, the primary results are likely to put more muscle into their future efforts.

The day when the Democratic primary settled the make-up of the General Assembly is past. More and more races are settled in the general election, which means that the party line on issues such as tax repeal becomes increasingly important.

Republicans drew a line on taxes in the *69 session, incurring the wrath of Governor Scott and setting the stage for an issue to take to the voters. How aggressive the GOP will be in pushing tax repeal in the fall campaign remains to be seen, and will be influenced by the analysis party leaders make of the primary results as an

indicator of voter sentiment The Governors own stance when the '71 session convenes will depend upon turns in the economic situation as well as upon political factors. Clearly, he will resist alterations in the tax structure which would im peril funds for the continuation of his programs. At the same time, he might well go along with tax adjustments which would not stop the flow of revenue Governor Scott did not include the soft drink tax in his proposals to the 1969 legislature. He has indicated he would not oppose its repeal provided the removal of ^the tax would be reflected in retail prices, and conditioned upon the impact of its repeal upon the slates revenue situation.

No doubt the call for an unconditional and unlimited ceasefire by Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan will see little results.

This will be particularly true if Israel stands by its determination to remain on the banks of the Suez Canal.

The government is ready to reestablish an unconditional and unlimited cease - fire even if this will enable Egypt to reorganize and put up SA3 missile sites, Dayan said recently.

However, he reaffirmed Israels determination to retain the territory captured along the Suez.. He said his country would fight to hold the lines even against Russian aid.

It is not likely that there will ever be peace in the Middle East until there is some willingness to compromise. Israel captured the Suez lands in repelling an Egyptian attack. However, Israel has little use for the desert lands.

We have long stood for Israels right to exist in the Middle East. However we feel that someday these lands are going to have to be returned to Egypt if peace is ever to come in the area.

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.Study of the primary results may have significant bearing upon tVie administrations thinking as it prepares budget proposals to submit to the 71 session.

Conclusion jumping in the aftermath of primary elections is risky business. Selection of party nominees for General As.sembly seats is a l(Kal process, decided on the basis of local interests, issues and personalities.

For example, in the Second Senate District. Futrell and Gurganus are both capable man who have demonstrated their ability in legislative service. A disputed rotation agreement between their counties for the Senate seat was involved in the race, in addition to the tax issue.

The case was similar in the 13th District, where Staton defeated Wicker. On the basis of the results, it would be difficult to reach the objective conclusion that Democratic voters in the Second District are fired up for tax repeal, while those in the 13th are content with taxes as they are.

The sound conclusion, and that a tentative one in light of the primary results, is that voters are concerned about taxes as they always have been but that sentiment for repeal of the '68 tax package is not so strong that it can override all other considerations.

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See, not one word about postal unions. Anniston (Ala.) Star.

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By .lOIIN ( I NNIFF AP Business Analvsl NEW YORK (AF) Th electronic computer, to which many companie.s hitched their wagon during the explosive expansion of the 1960s, is beginning in some instances to drag like a weighty millstone as the economy contracts One of the best illustratio.is of the developing situation involved the collap.se recently of the McDonnell & Co, brokerage firm, but there are many other examples. A typical situation is this:

During the late 1960s a companys business is increasing rapidly, so fast, in fact, that it cannot hire enough experienced clerical help to deal with its paperwork, A computer, it reasons. could do the work of 50 clerks.

Projecting a continuation of increased sales and earnings for the next five years, the company decides that it might as well plow' a considerable amount of money into expensive equipment. No sense getting caught short again.

Aiding in the decision is the new electronic data processing manager who argues that while the new machinery might not pay off immediately, it certainly will become profitable by the 1970s. And so the company buys a big new computer.

Then the economic expansions stops. In fact, the companys sales begin to sag and, looking over the books, the management group decides it must cut back. But where? It could have cut 25 clerical workers. But its stuck with the big computer.

More and more companies are facing such situations today, according to consultants at Brandon Applied Systems. Inc., which advises computer owners on management and technical matters.

We think it reasonable to expect further collapses of the McDonnell kind, said a spokesman. as well as reduced earnings for corporations with a heavy investment in data processing. Insurance companies, banks and brokers may be dragged down the most."

For this and other reasons, many companies are taking perhaps their first critical look at their computer systems. No

Opinions n Brief

One thing seems pretty sure. The N. C. Legislature will hardly be called upon to furnish money for additional dormitory space for a long time to come Washington, N.C. Daily News.

People

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Revolution In

Finance

longer arc they content to sit back and believe that wonders are being worked.

The heginning of the computer revolution is over and this beginning has been a failure in terms of what might have been achieved," says a spokesman for the consulting firm of Touche Ross,

He adds. Many business managers stood back in awe of both the machinery and the per-.sonnel of the .systems operation, and a lot of the technical people didnt deliver workable business systems."

Approximately 1.500 students attended a special convocation at North Carolina State University this morning.

Dr. John T. Caldwell, N, C, State chancellor, was one of about 25 speakers at the gathering. (Tnly a few of those who spoke were in favor of the Vietnam war.

In referring to the four deaths at Kent State, Chancellor Caldwell told the group, The error of Vietnam has poisoned the nation and now has wounded it in one more grievous way."

He also said. The war has wounded our universities. Uniquely valuable to humanity as places of learning and freedom of thought, universities are now threatened by efforts to convert them into political instruments, which will destroy them."

Leaflets were distributed calling for a march after the convocation on the ROTC headquarters on the N, C. State campus.

William Campbell, a 35 year - old Republican from Los Angeles, formerly was assistant administrator of the second largest elementary school district in California. He now is a member of the State Assembly. In a nice twist on the man - bites - dog approach to the news, he is

happily sponsoring a bill that has his former colleagues aghast.

What Campbell proposes, in brief, is a revolution in the States entire system of public school finance. He is proposing a system of tuition grants that improves upon the plans fostered in Southern

Other Editors Say

Court Needs Defense

(The Raleigh Times)

Attorney General John N. Mitchell, w'hose rough law -and - order pronouncements have helped bring much criticism of the Supreme Court, has come to the defense of the nations highest tribunal. He warned that irresponsible and malicious criticism" of the court has reached the danger point that threatens the nations constitutional liberties.

This defense would be wonderful at any time. At this juncture in the Courts history and in the history of the country, it is especially valuable. For. it comes at a time when the court has been attacked and attacked and attacked for its rulings on such matters as desegregation, one - man -one - vote, school prayer, criminal procedures, and obscenity.

So much of the attacking has been mindless, even though so much of it has been led by politicians who are not only politicians but also are attorneys. Attorney General Mitchell himself so often has been a hard - line law' and order man. and inevitably most of those who pay heed to such a line wind up blaming the Supreme Court for what they see as the dangers to the

country.

Mitchell, in a Law Day address, urged that the public debate over the court be considered in a responsible and restrained manner, calculated to increase public respect for the court rather than to undermine it.

I believe that recent events have imposed upon me the obligation as Attorney General to give my own defense of the Supreme Court and to call for an end to irresponsible and malicious criticism which will not only damage the Supreme Court but will undermine all of our courts and our respect for our system of laws."

The Attorney General even defended the Courts much -cussed Miranda decision. He said that all responsible citizens agree with the fundamental principle of that case that all criminal defendants must be treated equally regardless of their financial status."

The matter of equal treatment is what has caused most of the criticism of the Court in recent years. The Court has simply insisted that there shall be equal treatment under the nations laws for all the nations citizens black as well as white and this has brought the frantic attacks on the court.

States during the years of resistance to school integration. His partner in this remarkable adventure, to make the heresy worse, is a black member of (he Assembly from Watts. Leon Ralph.

The story takes a little time to tell, but it is worth the telling. Campbells basic concept is sound. After years devoted to public education (Campbells wife Margene was for ten years an elementary teacher), the young Assemblyman concluded that nothing short of an earthquake could improve the public schools of California. Costs of the system have been soaring, with no effective means of determining whether the costs are valid. The productivity of teachers is getting no better, and may be getting worse. Under the present system, no prospect for improvement is in sight.

Ralph takes the same view. The most conspicuous failure of the system, in his eyes, is its failure effectively to educate the under - privileged black children of the cities. If public schools cannot teach the Negro pupils, he reasons, maybe private schools can.

The Campbell - Ralph plan is simplicity itself. They would first impose a statewide property tax to create a massive school fund. Then they would tap the fund to provide annual vouchers of perhaps $600 or $700 for every child of school age in the State. During a pre -registration period in the spring, parents would decide whether to present the vouchers to a public or to an accredited private school for redemption. Racial and religious discrimination would be flatly prohibited. (Continued On Page5)

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Sdewalk comments of a Pavement Plato;

The American people feel blue.

*rhey have the taste of ashes in their mouths.

ITie whole nation is in the dumps.

Hiere is a sickness j in our souls.

Who can remember a time when everybody felt so bad about so many things and so few people had any idea of a remedy that would make us feel better?

We are cut up and divided more ways than an af^le pie in a cheap boarding house. We are like a dazed pedestrian caught on a siqierhighway. wondering from which direction he may be hit next.

Here we are the richest and supposedly the most powerful land on earth, but we are as uneasy as the dwellers in a wooden castle whose pillars are riddled by termites.

Power* What power* Internationally, many nations are looking down their noses at us as military bums because of our adventures in Indochina. Like Bre er Rabbit s epochal struggle with the Tar Baby in the Uncle Remus fable, the harder we fight the more we get stuck. Our brush war in Vietnam has become a long bonfire we seem unable to put out.

Domestically, our plight offers small cheer. One month we are scared to death of inflation, the next month we are scared to death that the steps we take to combat it will lead us into a major depression.

Money wont buy what it used toand neither will credit. As a matter of fact, credit is getting almost as hard for the average man to find as money.

The rich are worried about the predatory poor, and the poor keep pressing the government for more welfare and a fairer shake. As for the middle class, it is convinced it is being squeezed out of existence.

A w idening generation gap has left youth contemptuous of age and age fearful of youth. If things keep up this way much longer babies will probably soon be born with picket signs in their hands.

We are immersed in a bath of violence. There is so much crime it has become a national crime that we put up with it.

Our college sons and daughters, the hope of tomorrow, are the despair of today. They dont know what they stand for-only what they are against.

Our police threaten to strike, and our schoolteachers do. Parents try to dull their woes with martinis; the younger generation turns to a newer opiate marijuana.

The problem of how to live is accompanied by the problem of where to live. Rents are going uplike everything elseand young couples complain they cant mortgage their future by paying the interest charges on a housing mortgage.

About all we can point to with pride are a few souvenir rocks brought back from a couple of round trips to the moonand if you look up at the stars at night the man in the moon seems to be

laughing at us for our labors.

Transport Restrictions Hit

As one can understand readily enough, that old saying about death and taxes being inevitable, it is also true that in the case of taxes, they seem to grow and grow. - Rocky Mount Evening Telegram.

DAVID JULIAN WHICHARD. Chairman of the Board JOHN S. WHICHARD-DAVID J. WHICHARD PubUshers Second aaas Postage Paid at GreenviUe. N.C.

Strength For Today

By ELMER ROESSNER

B.F. Biaggini, president of the Southern Pacific Company, has sounded a call to end the hamburger of American transport.

One of the things wrong with this screwed-up country is the chopping up of its transportation. Each form of

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CONSIDERATION

Judge not that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. (Matthew 7:1-2).

This is one of the Lords commandments found in the so - called Sermonan the Mount. It is not an easy commandment to ob^. Some people are just so impossible in their behavior and attitudes that it is hard not to pass judgment upon them.

But we should remember that this is a commandment not to judge people. We are to judge situations aU we have a mind to, and we would be insipid nobodies if we did not j stand up when occasion required and call some things

good and other things bad, some things wise and other things foolish. The thing we are to avoid is passing judgment on people. We know too little about their background and what they have passed through, and what they have to endure, to be free in our judgment of them. They may be living the evilest kind of lives. Certainly we are to pass Judgment of people is a sin we can avoid if we want to or foolish acts. If we were but in the position*they are in all the time, if we had their heritage, we might not only be as bad as they are we might be a great deal w(N*se.

Judgment of people is a sin we can avoid if we want to and we had better want to.

By Earl L. Doaglats

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transport must operate within individual areas. For the most part, one form (rf transportation cannot team with another. Example: The Fanaiha Canal Act of 1912 keeps railroads from owning or operating ocean vessels.

Early laws were enacted to keep various kinds of transportation in competition. Bqt today this has reduced the potential efficiency. Fingers In Pie

Furthermore neatly providing more government jobs various forms of transport are regulated by a host of government agencies. The Federal Aviation

Authority and the Civil Aviation Board control air transport; the Interstate Commerce Commission rules rail, bus and truck transport; the Department of Transportation is boss of auto transport; the Maritime Commission is in charge of ships; and the 50 states have commissions, boards and agencies to regulate every form of transport except roller skates, which would be under control of the Federal Pediomobility Bureau, if there were such a bureau.

Biagginis main plaint is that railroads cannot utilize cargo planes, barges and trucks fully to move freight efficiently and economically. Rails were allowed to operate some buses, ferries and pipelines.

LetEm Walk The Southern Pacific executive told the American Railway Engineering Association that railroads should be permitted to discard services that have outlived their usefulness, such as passenger trains. He did not, however, suggest that the Southern Pacific give back to the government the millions of acres of public lands gained by promises to

construct railroads and. by implication, carry passengers.

Biaggini cited the Motor Carrier Act of 1935 which restricts railroad-owned trucking, and the Civil Aviation Act of 1938 which keeps railroads out of airline ownership. Airlines cant own railroads, either.

He pointed out that lettuce from the same field, bound for the same market, might be loaded out of one side of a packing shed into rail refrigerator cars under regulated rates, and from the other side into proprietary trucks free of regulation. If any of the truck trailers are later loaded on piggy-back flat cars, they become regulated.

To the average bill-payer, it would seem that all transport companies should be allowed to use all conveyances.

Southern Pacific could then take a consignment from Connecticut to New York by its Sopac truck, fly it to Chicago by S.P. Air Freight, send it by train to Los Angeles, freight jt to Honolulu (H) the good ship Espee, and deliver it to the consignee there by a

Southern Pacific Pedicab Service. Other railroad, airlines, ship lines could do the same.

Then wed have some real competition.

Hotpoint Isnt Hotpoint .Any .More Hotpoint confesses it no longer makes the appliance on which it built its name. Early irons seldom got heat to the point, where it was most needed, so in 1905 a company introduced" the first electric appliance that won consumer qccpetance, and took its name from its hot point.

Now, 65 years later, it produces millions of dollars worth of electric appliances a year, but no Hotpoint irons.

The Hotpoint iron was invented by Earl Richardson, a Californian, whose wife pointed out that a hot iron was needed for pressing around buttonholes, pleats and ruffles. It was first advertised nationally in the old Life magazine, later in Colliers and in 1909 was the first product to be featured in a double-page spread in the Saturday Evening Post which, like Hotpoint irons, is no longer produced.