4The DaUy Reflector, GreeavUle, N. C.Thursday, May 28.1870

School Tax Needs Its Helpers

WHERrs rr au going to end?

It is encouraging that a Referendum Steering Committee has been organized to direct efforts concerning the Greenville School District tax levy increase.

The referendum on the 25 cents per $100 valuation will be voted on by citizens of the school district on June 27.

Approximately 100 citizens attended a meeting at the Pitt County Courthouse Monday night to hear sch(l officials explain the reasons for the proposed tax increase. Following the explanation a steering committee was organized to work on publicizing the school needs between now and the referendum date.

Education Has Scarred Image

By BRYAN HAISLIP

WILSON Saint Paul was a sports fan. His summing up is in the words of the athlete: I have fought the good fight. I have run my course. I have kept the faith.

That seems perfectly natural to Glenn Bass for whom athletics and Christian faith is a life style rather than a metophor. He played professional football rugged and straight for nine years. Now hes in training for a game of greater stakes as a student at Union Theol(^ical Seminary in Richmond. Va.

He came to Wilson this past weekend to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs Richard A. Bass. One semester of study completed, he will spend eight weeks organizing a recreational program for a Virginia state prison of 1,500 inmates near Richmond before summer school.

Conversation began with honresty, a quality he prizes.

Look, he said immediately, I dont know that I am going to be a preacher. Im wide - open about the next three years at seminary. Im excited about the possibilities and the many kinds of ministry. Ill wait to see what direction I will take. Whatever direction it is, he expects to make his life county on the side of the church for a better society where people can live together in love.

These are very tough times we are going through conflict between the races, unrest among the youth. Its time for us to stop and take a long look at where were going. Maybe weve put the emphasis in the wrong places, he said thoughtfully.

In pro football we started training every season, year after year, by concentrating on the fundamentals. We already knew them but we went back to the basic points of the game. 'The same thing holds true in life.

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you is still a pretty basic guide, after all, he said.

Bass played neighborhood sports from the time he was knee -high. He was a light 150

- pounder, soaking wet, in high school whose chief asset as speed. I had two speeds

fast and scared fast, he said.

He went to East Carolina University on an athletic scholarship and played football and baseball, making Little All - America. He had the opportunity to play either professionally after graduation.

My father and I talked it over and decided for pro football, he said. In baseball you can knock around the minors for years. In football you either make it or you

dont, he explained.

He made it. With the Buffalo Bills he was most valuable player his first year. As starting flanker - split end (pass receiver), he played on the 1964 and 1%5 championship teams. After six years with Buffalo he was traded to the Houston Oilers and played there three years.

His brother, Whitty, four years younger, followed his path to ECU. Following graduation, Whitty made the decision Glenn was to reach later. He enrolled at Union Theological Seminary.

This spring Whitty graduated from Union. He and his wife are going to Morrocco with the Peace Corps where she will teach in elementary education, and he will set up a track program working with coaches in the area.

Close family ties gave Bass assurance in competition, in sports and otherwise. The Presbyterian Church was an integral part of family life.

There was dialogue at home, he said. My parents gave me love, cared for me and listened to me. When I make a decision now, I talk it ovei- with them.

The same warmth of feeling is in his own family now, which includes wife Jean (the former Jean Lasater, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lasater of Sanford), and son Brandon, 15 months old.

At 31, Bass is a young man with the poise of physical good looks and mental equilibrium. Free of hangups, he looks at life with clear eyes, open to all opportunities.

Ive tried to pick up varied experiences, he said. Every off - season (about five months out of the year for the pro football player) I did something different. I think everything Ive done will be helpful to me if I do become a minister.

One year he was a salesman for a Buffalo auto agency. Another year he went through the Sears executive training program, and another year he managed a steak house.

During the campaign of former Gov. Dan K. Moore he served as an administrative assistant to the candidate, an exposure to politics that he found exciting. He also worked an off - season as an industry hunter with the State Conservation and Development department.

It may seem I was just bouncing around, not sure of what I wanted to do, he said. But I feel life is full of great and exciting possibilities for all of us. Sure, its hard and we have ups-and-downs. It takes time to work things out, but we can do it.

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If the increased tax is to be approved by the voters then the needs must be understood by the electorate. Scho<d board members and schod officials can furnish the information but it is g<xng to take citizens groups such as the one organized M(xiday to put the issue across.

Board of education members should not be expected to have to go out and seU the public on voting the funds needed to meet the public needs. They can explain what the needs are. Then it is up to citizens who are concerned about the quality of their public schools to see that the public is aware of the need.

This Referendum Steering Committee has taken on the challenge, and this is the way it should be in a democracy.

Spector Of Controls Hanging Over Nation

With inflation still raging, even as business dips, the spector of wage and price controls looms ever larger for the nation.

Even now legislation is being proposed in Congress which would provide for wage and price guidelines.

We are in serious straits, Sen. Fred R. Harris, D-Okla., said in introducting legislation to create a federal board which could freeze wages and prices for six months.

Of course, wage and price controls are unpalatable to both labor and industry. Still it is recognized that in a time of uncontrollable inflation they could be required.

The next few weeks will be critical in determining whether such controls are necessary. If inflation abates then talk of controls will fade away. Otherwise, controls are a real possibility.

California's Leftist Taint

By ROWLAND EVANS and Robert NOVAK LOS ANGELES - Rep. George Brown, prophet of the leftism threatening to dominate the California Democratic party, arrived on the UCLA campus last Wednesday and promptly showed why he now leads for the partys Senate nomination.

Not long before. Browns leading rival for the nomination the more moderate Rep. John V. Tunney had been given a bad time by insolent students on the tormented campus. But Brown, speaking at a student union ballroom festooned with obscene political graffiti, told the students and many other California Democrats what they wanted to hear.

Assailing U.S. leadership as a generation of men who" are no longer responsive to the people of this country, Brown urged the students to continue disquiet on the campus, adding: There must be no letup on this pressure. Answering questions, he proposed the impeachment of both President Nixon and Vice President Agnew, suggested that Black Panther Bobby Seale should not have been indicted, and opened the door to legalization of marijuana.

It is such rhetoric that has propelled Brown, an obscure Congressman with an underfinanced campaign, ahead of the favored 'Tunney. But that same rhetoric can spoil Democratic chances against highly vulnerable Republican Sen. George Murphy in November. Murphys men, consequently, are praying for Brown to beat Tunney in the June 2 IM-imary.

This represents a leftist syndrome for the Democratic party which, though characteristically intense in California, is nationwide in scope. With the most active

elements in the party now on the left, candidates for nominations are moving in that direction. The upshot is not only diminished chances against Republicans in November but narrowed Democratic party base, with conservative blue - collar elements driven off.

Moderate liberals such as Tunney also have succumbed to the malady. Entering the campaign with hostility from the left because of his neutrality in the grape boycott, Tunney emphasized his liberal stands particularly opposition to Vietnam.

The Brown camp, which had feared Tunney gains among largely inarticulate moderate - to - conservative California Democrats, was delighted. The farther Tunney went to the left, one Brown strategist confided to us, the happier we were, because Brown would always be to his left.

But with a private poll showing him 10 percentage points ahead and heavy television advertising to close the campaign (Brown has none), Tunney was supremely confident until last week. He chose not to attack Browns radical rhetoric, such as his equating U.S. and Soviet imperialism.

The Mervin Field poll of last Tuesday changed all that, giving Brown 29 percent, Tunney 26 percent, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn 10 percent. Scrubbing his regular schedule, Tunney and his aides began 48 hours of agonizing reappraisal.

A few aides proposed that Tunney intensify his anti -war position to cut into Browns 29 percent. But Tunney himself and key advisers (headed by Warren Christopher, former U.S Deputy Attorney General) decided hed better aim for (Continued on page 6)

Soviet

Blow

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Spring Cleaning Action

Rumors have been floating around town for the past couple of weeks that Dr. James E. Allen is about to resign as U.S. Commissioner of Education. In this dark and dismal spring, when most of the news is bad, the prospect of losing Dr. Allen seems almost too good to be true.

The gentleman ought to resign. He came to Washington from the friendlier jungles of New York, bringing a reputation as Mr. Busing with him. As a zealous advocate of com

pulsory integration of the schools, Dr. Allen appears to be out of step with the President. His most significant contribution to education came last September, in a speech asserting a universal right to read, but that assertion since has been lost in a fog.

Dr. Allen ought to clean out his desk as a necessary step toward a larger venture in spring cleaning. The whole Office of Education ought to be swept clean. Like many other Federal agencies, the

Other Editors Say

No Political Football

(Washington Daily News) We can evaluate the needs of the mentally retarded people in North Carolina in any manner we choose. We can ignore their needs or we can seek to fulfill them.

Here is a group of people of all ages who on their own have no political influence, and they must depend soley on friends or loved ones to speak in their behalf.

North Carolina has come a long ways in recent years in the help for mentally retarded people. But so long as we still have people needing to enter institutions and unable to do so, and so long as we have understaffed institutions which could be helping considerably, we still have a mighty problem which demands the very best solution we can find.

We can spend a lot of money for research and for medical knowledge, but until we can actually reach the people in need today, we are not doing the job we should do.

Merely providing money for the cause is not of itself an adequate answer. If there are vacant buildings or wings of buildings which could be utilized if help were available, then perhaps the human element itself weigls heavily upon us.

We have mentally retarded

people of all ages and all stations in life. And the responsibility of the state of North Carolina is not lessened according to aies ability to understand.

We cannot say how many of our mentally retarded patients are in hospitals or institutions today. And we cannot say how many there are who ought to be in some institution but are unable to get admitted.

When every new legislature meets, the matter of helping mentally retarded people is before that body. This next session will offer no change. Indeed the challenge will be there, and it ought to be met as fully and as completely as the resources of our state will allow.

Helping mentally retarded people is no political football. There are no paid lobbyists amaig the group, and people so afflicted are totally dependent upon others for whatever measure of help and support they get.

'Die needs must be met, and we have every confidence they will be met. 'They will be met because more and more North Carolinians are realizing that these less fortunate people are our own and we owe to them a responsibility which is cruel and inhuman not to accept.

place is largely staff-run; and the staff in this case, with a few exceptions, is so embalmed in the juices of professional education that an original idea has no chance of survival.

A total housecleaning would permit Mr. Nixon to name as Ck)mmissioner such a man as Mortimer Smith, for many years executive director of the Council for Basic Education. Mr. Smith is a man of keen intelligence, wit, and sound common sense. This rules him out. But if Mr. Smith, or a man of his clear4ieaded views, could be persuaded to take this important post, a great blow could be struck for progress.

For an indication of what is wrong with the Office of Education, consider the predictable fate that has befallen Dr. Allens one feeble attempt at leadership. In September, with Mr. Nixons obvious approval. Dr. Allen plumped foursquare for a right to read. He spoke of the shocking facts: One out of every four students in the nation has serious trouble reading; in major cities, up to half the students read below expectations; about half of our unemployed youth are functionally illiterate.

Dr. Allen was ready to attack the problem. He was satisfied that we have accumulated an enormous amount of research and expertise in the field of reading. Few other areas of learning have been so thoroughly and widely studied. Lets go, he seemed to be saying. Foward!

You can guess what happened next. The staff fluttered about, making murmuring noises in that educationist Swahili that passes for professional English, and Dr. Allens infant idea instantly was suffocated in a cocoon of further research. Contracts are about to be let. You will feel the clammy hands when I tell you that Phase I is to (Continued on page 6)

By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent

Soviet fury ova* Red Chinas initiatives in Indochina leaves the impression that the Russians feel they have been outsmarted and fear that Peking stands to be the long-term and perhaps only beneficiary of events in Cambodia.

Though they may glean consolation from the difficulties Cambodia has created for Washington, the Russians may look upon the turn of events in Indochina as a disaster of sorts for Moscow, too.

While the Kremlin hung back indecisively after the overthrow of Cambodias Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Peking acted swiftly to capitalize on the situation. The result as of now is that Peking has a large section of the Asian Communist movement along with Sihanoukechoing its cry for protracted war.

If the American and South Vietnamese incursions into Cambodia happen to extend the war and make it less susceptive to solution by negotiations, that could be just Mhat Peking wants. Perhaps the situation now really is less susceptible to political solution. Sihanouk is denouncing the suggestion, hinted at not long ago by the Russians, of a new Geneva-type conference on Indochina, 'n protracted war cry also seems to dim chances for any talks.

Sihanouk is acting as if Peking owned him. His speeches in Peking, the base of his govem-ment-in-exile, sound like a replay of Maos as he pledges Cambodia to protracted war.

Nations who love freedom and justice, says Sihanouk, have recognized his government. This suggests that those failing to recognize him are no better than the imperialists. The Russians and ^viet-camp nations have not recognized the exile government though Sihanouk has asked them to. It seems the Russians never trusted the mercurial Sihanouk and probably trust him even less now that he appears to be tucked into Maos back pocket.

But Moscow wants to make points with Asias Communists and thus may find itself forced to recognize Sihanouk. Russian diplomats then would have to leave Cambodia, perhaps not to return for a long time, while Sihanouks allies carried out that protracted war with Pekings help.

Red CJiina can consider it has little to lose by interminable guerrilla war in which it is not directly involved. It could reckon that the losers would be the superpwoers, who because of strains generated by such tension, are unable to agree on anything important and are pushed into a ^iraling arms race. The superpowers must worry about the possibility of a mutually destructive conflict, but China, meanwhile, can pursue its goal of leading a third world revolution.

It is little wonder that Moscow exploded with frustration. Prav-das May 18 editorial of 7,000 words was a cry of pain and outrage, accusing Mao of trying to take over the whole national liberation movement. Mao, it said, dreamed of a great China that would rule at least Asia, if not the world. It said Maoism betrayed world revolution. It hinted Peking was leading the Indochina Communists to the sort of ruin experienced by the Indonesian party when its Chinese-backed try for a coup exploded in 1965.

Strength For Today Inflation Could Be Stopped

LOYALTY Loyalty is a great virtue. Loyalty to ones country is universally praised and should be. Loyalty to friends, to the members of ones family, to certain ideals this is all to the good.

The word loyalty is derived from the Latin word meaning law. A loyal person is one who is faithful to certain pers(Nis, certain causes, certain priciples. Life without loyalty is life without law, and life without law is anarchy and evil.

There is nothing more wonderful than to meet a person who can be relied upon through thick and thin. Theodore Roosevelt used to say that dealing with some people was like trying to nail cranberry jeUy to the wall. We know what he meant. We have seen that kind. We dislike Benedict Arnold, and with cause. He was a man of the greatest ability and un

flinching courage. But he lacked loyalty to his country. He was an able man, but he was an evil man also. The passing centuries cannot bring us to forget his lack of loyalty.

Crime springs from a lack of loyalty. One puts sdfishness and evil purpose before the principles of right and wrong. Business partnerships break up quickly when the spirit of disloyalty begins to corrupt business policies. Husbands and wives who are loyal to each other in thought and act seldom seek divorce.

Religion is loyalty to God. Patriotism is Iqyalty to ones country. Happy family lf Is based upon the Iqyalty of its memben to one another.

No loyalty, no luq^jiness. No Iqyalty, no beauty of character and effective living.

^ Earl L. Dou^ass

By ELMER ROESSNER The war against inflation is being lost. In one way, it is being lost as is the war in Indochina: Failure to fight to win.

So far, the war against inflation has been fought with

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something caUed monetary controls. These consist (tf forcing iq> interest rates, reducing the suj^ly of money and increasing tax rates.

According to the economic texdxxto, these should do the trick.

Hi^ havmL They wont.

Ever since they have been applied, inflation has worsened. The higher interest rates have caused manufacturers to increase

their prices to maintain IM'ofitability. Reducing the supply of money has increased interest rate further and, in many cases, caused employers to furlough workors. And increasing the tax rates and the higher prices for goods is causing wwko's to demand mwe mwey, which gives another twist to the inflaticMiary q)in.

Ambushed Our mcmetary experts in Washington have been ambushed, just as many of our GIs have been in Vietnam.

Inflation, instead of subsiding, has become wOrse than ever. Consumer prices are now rising at a rate of 7.2 per cent a year. Industrial prices are going up. Wages are rising. Corporate profits are declining. The stock market has gone to hell.

The decline today is seriously being compared with die crash in 1929.

How To Deflate Monetary controls having

failed to halt inflation in fact, having worsened it there are still steps that can be taken. For example: a Freeze all prices, consumer and industrial, as of noon today.

a Freeze all wages, as of 12:01.

a Restrict consumer credit, requiring large - say 60 per cent down payments and require full payments within a year.

Those steps will arrest inflation. But a second flight may be necessary later: t Insist that the first three steps can not be compromised. Prohibit price increases because a manufacturer adds a button to a dress; forbid wage increases simply because a job has a new name; stick tiOi the credit rules even if some of the indigent are indignant. Lower interest rates, udiich will take some ci the pressure out of the demands for higher prices and higher

wages.

liniitiiig imports of foreign products that can be made in America.

9 If uiflation doesnt stop dead, increase taxes again and again.

Gedit Where Due TTiose arent my ideas. For the most part, thqy were devised by Franklin D. Roosevelt and his advisors at the start of World War II. ^d, while the pressures for inflation were much higher than they are today, the .S.A. went through World War II with so little inflation that economists have been amazed ever since. The pound was slashed, the franc all but obliterated, but the dollar came through

Sure, these steps wUl affect many people. Their income in dollars may be shrunk. But they will be dollars stfll with 75 cents purchasing power, not 19 cents, which is what they will have if inflation goes on.