4The Dafly Reflector. Greenville, N. C.Tuesday, May If, lf70

Actions Are More Meaningful

REAP THE WHIRLWIND!

The Soviet Unions pledge to continue its peaceful coexistence policies during the 1970s, would have far more meaning if steps were taken to reduce the armed conflicts in Southeast Asia and in the Middle East

The Soviets qualified their pledge with a promise to come out against imperialist aggression in any part of the world.

The statements were from the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, which also promised a higher living standard to Soviet citizens.

At the same time, however, the Soviets pledged their support to Arab states against Israel and to the peoples of Indochina against American aggression." There was also the promise to support all revolutionary and national liberation

Counting Cost Of Campaigns

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH. N.C. - Candidates in the May 2 primary now have had time to indulge jn congratulations if they won and recriminations if they didnt, and without exception to count the cost of running for office.

If they follow the spirit and letter of North Carolinas Corrupt Practices law. by next Friday. May 22. they will tell the cost in a verified statement of campaign contributions and expenditures filed with the office of Secretary of State Thad Eure in Raleigh or the clerk of Superior Court in their county .Many of them, particularly at the county level, may not file at all. Few of the reports filed will give anything like a complete and accurate picture of campaign finances. .No one, if precedent is followed, will be prosecuted for violations.

North Carolina has no ceiling on the amount of money a candidate may spend in a campaign. The Corrupt Practices Act does require the filing of a preliminary statement of contributions and expenses 10 days before the primary, and a final report 20 days after the primary date. Failure to do so is a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment or both.

Candidates for state or district offices, including State Senate districts of more than one county, must file with the Secretary of State. Candidates for Senate districts of a single county. House seats, and all county offices must file with the clerk of Superior Court in their county. House seats involving more than one county require reports to be filed with the clerk of court in each of the counties.

The law calls for the candidate to file an itemized statement of all expenditures made by him or which he knows to have been made by anyone for him, and of all contributions made to him, directly or indirectly . . . Similar statements are required by campaign committees active on behalf of any candidate.

Secretary of State Thad Eure, whose observation of the Tar Heel political scene spans four decades, takes a charitable but candid view of the reports coming into his office.

Theres no way in the world to have an accurate check on whether these reports tell the whole story on campaign finances, he said. Money comes from too many sources and goes for too many varied purposes.

Even the candidate himself may be, by inadvertence or design, in the dark about all the money received and spent on his behalf.

One of the ten governors under whom Eure has served, a model of rectitude, appeared at the Secretary of States office following his primary victory.

Raising his right hand, the candidate said; Mr. Secretary, the report I have just filed with you speaks the truth.

1 know he was sincere, because that was the kind of man he was, Eure said, But I also know there was money spent in his campaign that he knew nothing about,

The law imposes on Eures office no duty to determine the validity of the campaign expense reports. His responsibility is simply to receive the statements filed by candidates, and pass along to the Attorney General the names of those who fail to file.

In turn, the law says the Attorney General shall initiate a prosecution for the violation. Each clerk of Superior Court, in a similar manner, is supposed to bring to the attention of the solicitor in the district the failure of candidates for county offices and House seats to file reports.

Eure is scrupulous in carrying out his obligations under the Corrupt Practices law. In advance of the primary, he mailed to every candidate a letter calling to their attention the requirement to file financial reports, enclosing two copies of the reporting form.

After the deadline next Friday, he will send a reminder letter to each candidate who has not filed. After a reasonable time, if the reports still are not in, names of delinquents will be turned over to the Attorney General.

Acknowledging that observance is lip-service rather than struct, Eure is nonetheless a staunch defender of the Corrupt Practices Act.

Some people say the law is not worth a cent. Maybe so, but thats not the whole picture, he said. The main value is psychological. Think what it would be like if we didnt have such a law.

As he sees it, the absence of a law would encourage flagrant abuses in campaign spending. As matters now stand, the law serves as a restraining influence; even though there never have been prosecutions under the law, candidates are cagey enough to know there could be a first time.

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movements fighting against imperialism and neo colonialism.

We contend that if the Soviets were to withdraw from the Middle East there would be no need for any great American support of Israel. That nation has shown it can take care of itself. We suspect that the same is true in Southeast Asia. At this point American troops probably could withdraw and South Vietnam could exist without being dominated by North Vietnam if Soviet and Red Chinas military support of the Communist regime were withdrawn, or at least reduced to defensive proportions.

If all this were done, a dream that the common people of all the countries involved, share could come about.

With a major reduction in arms spending the Soviet Union could indeed afford the higher standard of living the Central Committee talks about The United States could attack its domestic problems with funds saved by reducing military spending. Certainly Red China badly needs to divert some of its military spending to providing a better life for its millions.

With all that is going on there doesnt seem to be a great chance of reducing world tensions and subsequently military spending. However, it needs to be done and we suspect the key to it is going to have to be eventual cooperation between the Soviet Union and the United States.

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Over Insanity By JAMES KILPATRICK

By ROWLAND EVANS .\ND ROBERT NOVAK

GAMBIER, Ohio Tense and dramatic days last week on the normally pastoral campus of Kenyon College here revealed the exient of the crisis for liberal education in America under even the best of conditions.

What happened at Kenyon was a signal triumph by administration, faculty, and students against politicizing the campus despite the volatile atmosphere. While some 450 colleges were shutting down, Kenyon not only remained open but displayed some unfashionable virtues: civility, an appreciation of academic freedom, and mutual respect between faculty and student body.

Yet, even at Kenyon with less than 1,000 students and physically isolated in rural Ohio, worried professors and student leaders warily approach the future fearing the barbarians are at the gates. They wonder how long sanity can survive here while student fury, often abetted by faculty, engulfs Harvard, Michigan, and Berkeley. How long can we stay quiet when all hell is breaking loose around us? asks one Kenyon professor.

Every campus has its own peculiarity, and Kenyons conspicuous success is no prescription for restoring liberal education nationwide or even a surefire formula for saving it here. What the Kenyon story underlines is that a firm stand by the faculty in the interest of intellectual civility is the one essential for survival of the American university.

Following the pattern of every campus today, students and faculty at Kenyon are emotionally opposed to the Vietnam war. Nor were they immune from the campus frenzy over the Cambodian operation and the killing of four Kent State University students. When Kenyons students watched fellow students elsewhere man the barricades via the evening television news, they started planning their own student strike.

Where Kenyon differed from most other campuses was the reaction of administration and faculty. Instead of submitting to student demands, Kenyons professors persuasively argued with the students that

closing down the campus would accomplish nothing and that a planned student march on the state capitol might only lead to more tragedy.

The appeal to reason succeeded. After a long meeting last Thursday night, the students voted not to participate in the Columbus march and to recommend that the college stay open. But they also recommended cancelling final examinations. Instead, they wanted symposiums, open forums, and teach-ins on the Indochina war, on violence and dissent, and on the use of force on the campus.

At most campuses, the Administration would have eagerly gobbled up this seeming panacea. Indeed, a proposal for teach - ins, passe to student radicals, departs from the present collegiate principle that important matters should be settled by conscience instead of intellect.

Remarkably, however, the Kenyon faculty did not accept that easy way out. Realizing that cancellation of final examinations would open the door to disruption of education whenever external political developments intrude, the faculty voted to hold examinations as scheduled but to arrange three days of convocations and seminars on transcendent political events.

Even more remarkably, the students overwhelmingly endorsed that decision at a meeting Saturday night. There was no hissing or booing. When a student actually referred to the faculty as honest men and good men, there was sustained standing applause. This was possible only because the Kenyon faculty has con-sistently opposed politicization of the campus and had implanted that principle with a significant number of students.

Moreover, when a few students at Saturday nights meeting proposed a student voice in determining curriculum and faculty selection, they were politely but firmly rebuffed. President William Capes, a non - academician who retired as a vice president of Inland Steel to run his alma mater, will not permit any such trampling on academic freedom. The fact that (Continued On Page 5)

Capacity For Outrage

A couple of years back perhaps it was more than that Bill Buckley wrote a delightful little essay in which he rued our lost capacity for outrage. I am not feeling so delightful just now, but I mark his remonstrance anyhow.

My erudite friend noted, for example, the reluctance of the humblest diner in the humblest hash-house to complain of bad service. The food arrives both cold and tough; the waitress slops it down with a sneer; the customer says not one word, and he leaves the usual tip. The commuter train is 15 degrees too hot or 10 degrees too cold; the cowed passengers sweat or shiver, depending on the season, but they are inhibited from speaking out.

All of us know what Mr. Buckley meant. All of us have

experienced the rude clerk, the insolent mechanic, the reckless driver of a cab; and we are their captives. We will not make a scene. We are prisoners, if you please, of manners. We are patsies.

Reading the Washington papers, a few nights ago, one recalled the Buckley reproach. It is just as he said; but the captivity grows worse.

There in the papers was a report of the visit of Kingman Brewster, president of Yale. Mr. Brewsters message to the Congress, ever so slightly simplified, was this; Surrender. Quit. Give in. If we fail to give the hard-core students everything they demand, he appeared to be saying, the brutes will burn the country down. Can we let a thing like that happen? No. So sign here. And leave a tip.

I was in Kansas City on

Other Editors Say A Timid Invader

(Winston-Salem Journal)

It was tell it like it is hour on a late - night radio talk show from a New England city last week. All had been going well; housewives and college students and high school droputs and everybody else had called to share their particular bits of wisdom.

Everything was controlled, no one had lost his temper. It was the nearest thing you could get, in the electronic age, to a New England town meeting.

Then a young man called in and broke the good - natural calm; He had just got his orders to report to a Southern army base for training. It wasnt the training he minded, he said, it was just going South.

They wouldnt like his long hair, he lamented (apparently forgetting the Army wouldnt like it either), and they wouldnt like the way he talked.

The announcer was a little more philosophical, but he agreeil: He too had heard that the South was an odious place, a strange and for-boding place to be avoided at

all costs.

Assuming for the moment a smug Brahmin stance, he spoke of what he had heard about the South.

The conversation continued, and went something like this, the young man speaking rather fast and excitedly, the announcer In measured, controlled tones: Young man: You ever been down there? Announcer: A few years ago. Certain parts of it are all right.

Young man: Youre

putting me on!

Announcer: Only parts. (Pause) You see Easy Rider?

Young man: They really do those things?

The announcer agreed that, yes indeed, he had heard they really did those things, though not so often as they used to. Men lead lives of quiet desperation, he mused, then added, Theyre all up tight.

And thus, having combined the wisdom of two centuries, he put the South into proper perspective for all New Englanders who dont go to the movies.

Thursday, and picked up the morning Times. There was an article over the byline of Arnold Toynbee, explaining the vileness of the United States of America. We are everywhere feared and hated, he said. Let me quote:

Would I rather be a Vietnamese who was being saved by the American army, or be a Czech who was being saved by the Russian army* Of course I would rather be the Czech.

Of course, Mr. Toynbee, in the awful alternative, would rather be Red than dead. He would surrender his freedoms before he would defend them. If his statement means anything, that is precisely what it means: Dont talk back to the waiter. Tip him. It is ungentlemanly it might soil ones coat to fight for so small a thing as freedom. Tyranny is no more than inferior gravy. Mr. Toynbee would rather be the Czech. Of course.

The distinguished historian is not alone. I fly back to Washington Thursday night, dump the dirty shirts, and pick up the papers. A gang of insolent bums, it appears, have occupied the office of Welfare Secretary Finch. They broke in without notice or invitation, ousted him from his chair, put their feet on his desk, and proceeded to' belabor him with three hours of abuse.

How did Mr. Finch react? He was calm. He never raised his voice. His visitors were shouting obscenities at him. He took a chair to one side; he attempted to reason with the intruders. As any child might have imagined, the intruders refused to be reasoned with. They cursed him until they wearied of the fun; they sat there all day, and finally, late in the afternoon, they negotiated the terms of cheap arrest and swaggered into paddy wagons belatedly summoned to the scene.

Meanwhile, the Federal Commission on Obscenity and Pornography had been holding a public hearing. A 28-year-old witness by the name of Thomas K. Forcade, coordinator of the obscene Underground Press Syn-

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Learn It All By Mail

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (API - Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail

Exercise, far from overwork- , ing the heart, can give it needed rest. A Swedish physician found that a proper program of physical training slows the heart rate and can spare the individuals heart 10,000 to 30,000 needless beats per day .

In the Tonga Islands of the South Pacific, pigs liver is so prized that it is regarded as a delicacy fit only for tribal chiefs. The highest tribute a Tongan boy can pay to a girl is to say she is a fat liver full of oil. '

/Vthough an ordinary dog wags his tail, a hound, properly speaking, wags his stern. A rabbit wags his scut. a fox his brush, and a deer his single And what does a wife wag Sometimes her finger, sometimes her tongue.

Teen-agers arc notoriously careless about selecting a bal aneed diet, but a government survey also found that women 3.5 and over are among the worst offenders in this respect.

If Picasso had become an ac tor instead of an artist, hed have had a hiird time getting his full name in bright lights on Broadway It is Pablo Diego' .Jose Franci.sco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Re medios Cipriano de la Santsima lYinidad Ruiz I*icasso.

Quotable .Notables: Some

people get the idea they are worth a lot of money just be cause they have it -Dorothy Kotler.

In.sects go on strike: The hVench are testing the possibili ty of using lady bugs to replace health-threatening pesticides. Ihey found that the lady bugs could consume 600 plant bugs a day each, but-after 90 days they found it too much work and hibernated for the rest of the year.

U S. farm populations has fallen so much its still declining that four out of five students in the nations agricultural colleges now come not from the farm but from cities. Most have i no desire to follow the plow. Ihey seek training for jobs in , teaching, farm machinery firms and the chemical industries

Worth remembering: Ability IS what you need to get ahead if ' the lx)ss doesn t have an unmar ried daughter.

It was Joseph Joubert who ob- * served, If we spend our lives in , loving, we have no leisure to complain, or to feel unhappiness.

Public

Forum

To the Editor:

As students at UNC-CH, we would like to express our disapproval of the Cambodian invasion as well as the National Guards actions at Kent State University.

We urge all of the concerned citizens of Pitt County, which is our home, to write Congressman Walter Jones to express disagreement with this futile war.

Sincerely,

G. Howard Clark,

L. Allen Hahn,

Timothy L. Merritt,

J. Dana Pecheles,

Rodney Johnson,

Elaine Stroud,

Janet Pierce.

Strength For Today

More Taxes Certainly Coming

DIVERSITY GIVES INTEREST

What would the world be like if everyody in it were like me?

The answer is apparent it would be an awful place. Your personality may be charming, your intellect of the highest order, your character a model for humanity to follow, but what a dull place the world would be if only your type or mine were present in it.

One of the hardest things for some of us to take is the fact that everyone in the world does not see things exactly as we do, or w(xi( as we do, or like the iings we do. Every family is characterized bv widely

differing patterns of personality and taste. Some people go to bed early and get up early. Some like the temperature of the house kept high, others are suffocated if the temperature gets above sixty - five. Some prefer gardening; others, bridge parties. A man rejoices in. a house full of guests; his wife prefers quiet evenings with the family.

No two leaves in the forest are alike. No two persons exactly resemble each other. No two finger prints are the same. The Lord meant the world to be interesting, and therefore He made it daling with diversity.

By ELMER ROESSNER The tax bite will continue to get bigger and deeper.

The federal budget for the year starting July 1 may run into a deficit. President Nixon originally called for a $1.3 billion surplus, but congressicHial spending may wipe that out and more. The administration is closely watching the situation and may ask fm* a continuation of the surtax, due to expire June 30.

Robert P. Mayo, director of the Bureau of the Budget, has publicly admitted that the surplus may vanish, and if spending could not be cut, We can add taxes.

Henry C. Wallich, xtifessor of economics at Yale and senior consultant to the Treasury Department, has statNl that he woi^ tive the

highest probability to a tax increase to solve a deficit and Mayo said, I think I would agree with Henry.

Other Upward Pushes Meanwhile, the National Association of Mutual

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Savings Banks has called for an extrasion of the surtax to prevent a possible deficit. Several Ccmgressmen (rf both parties have also cautiously put forth the same proposal.

Meanwhile, two business taxes are likely to rise. Congress has passed a bill increasins the unem

ployment tax on employers from 0.4 to 0.5 per cent of the first $3,000 of each employees annual wages. The taxable base would rise to $4,200 on Jan. 1, 1972.

The pending legislation to increase Social Security and Medicare payments will probably increase the annual base from $7,200 to $8,000 or more effective next Jan. 1.

State and local taxes all over the country are rising, partly to meet higher wage rates, partly to meet higher costs of materials and equipment, and partly to get more people 1 payrolls before November elections.

Those higher federal taxes on payrolls^ and state and local increases will, of course, make latxN*-saving machinery less expensive. Other Leeks Ahead

Cocoa, last year around 50 cents a pound wholesale, is now almost half that, but may rise during the year. The price of candy, pushed up by the rise, will stay up.

Another new textile yarn has been developed by Du Pont. It is made of a very fine Orion, 100 denier or less, in discontinuous fibers bound ti^ether by siu-face fibers wrapped around the bundle. Now undergoing final tests, it is said to have many superior characteristics in textiles.

The rise in industrial commodities, especially metals, is not over. Some steel prices will go up June 1. Even scrap iron has gone up slightly. Copper and aluminum may also increase. Chemical prices, despite recent increases, may go up again.