4Tile Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Tuesday, June 16, 1976

Court Ruling Adds Confusion

STILL HIS BIG WEAPON!

The Supreme Courts extension of conscientious objector status on other than religious grounds is bound to mean confusion in administering of the draft laws in the months ahead.

The decision means that draft boards and courts will need to possess the power to peer into a mans mind in order to determine if he truthfully objects to serving in the military because of personal beliefs. Since this is impossible, it is obvious that there are going to have to be more court testings of this new Supreme Court ruling before draft boards and lower courts will have the guidance they need in deciding such cases.

Obviously the Supreme Court did not rule that young men who object only to specific wars should receive conscientious objector status. The ruling applies to young men who are in mental agony

about participating in war all wars but not on religious grounds.

Our nation has long recognized that there are grounds for conscientious objection to war due to religious belief and this in an extension of this.

However, there will undoubtly be a flood of appeals made on this ruling and the authorities and courts should remember one thing each time they rule. That is that for every young man who is exempted as a conscientious objector, some other young man must take his place. This will be true as long as there is a draft and it is something that should be kept in mind as authorities search for sincerity in those who seek exemption. For this reason draft boards and the courts should proceed very carefully in granting exemptions under the new Supreme Court ruling.

Tho GoVGrnor commission Should Be

Said To Do It

Valuable To Nation

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH Governor Bob Scott said do it. So I did.

Welcomed a visitor to North Carolina, I mean. By the Governors proclamation, June 14-20 is Welcome a Visitor Week and its observance is commended to all good Tar Heels.

Welcome to North Carolina. How do you like our state?

Weve enjoyed it, said Mrs. Merle Ohlsen of Terre Haute, Ind. We like the nice, rolling country, and the weather has been delightful. Yes, I think the people are friendly and make you feel welcome.

Mrs. Ohlsen and son Ron spent an afternoon at the North Carolina Museum of Art. The family was in Raleigh one week while Mr. Ohlsen participated in a guidance conference at Meredith College.

Ron said North Carolina is a lot different from Indiana, which is pretty flat. I suggested a trip to the coast. He said hes like that, but there just wasn't time enough.

Bill F. Hensley, director of the Travel and Promotion division, said I handled it just ri^t. TTieimportant thing, he said, is to be courteous and helpful, make suggestions but dont over-sell. Tell it like it is, he advised.

It sounds corny, but its true. The nicest thing that could happen to a visitor to our state could be you. Say you see a couple at a street comer, obviously unfamiliar with the area. You ask if you could help give them directions, suggestions for things to see or do. The best memory of North Carolina they take back home could be that personal contact with a friendly stranger, he said.

Hensley is the idea-father for the North Carolina observance of Welcome a Visitor Week, sponsored nationally by the Society of American Travel Writers. The event is aimed specifically at foreign visitors, in recognition of increasing travel from abroad, but takes in all tourists.

North Carolina gets few foreign visitors except those on specialized tours. The jumbo jets, and the states overseas travel promotion efforts, promise to Ixring a change in the future.

Welcoming a visitor is an act of courtesy with economic overtones. Travel is North Carolinas third-ranking industry, last year accounting for $752 million and it is on the rise at a rate of about 9 per cent per year. Tourism is so important

for our economy that anything done to enhance it will benefit everybody, Hensley said.

TTie Travel and Promotion division doesnt leave welcoming visitors only to the man in the street. Two Welcome Centers, staffed year-round with specially trained personnel, are in operation at 1-85 entrance from Virginia north of Henderson and on 1-95 at the Virginia line near Roanoke Rapids. Mrs. Sarah Hardison has charge of the Welcome Centers.

Under construction and expected to be open in September is a Welcome Center at the Tennessee line on 1-40. A fourth is being built below Shelby at the South Carolina line on 1-85. Three others are in the planning stage; 1-95 at the South Carolina line, Lumberton 1-26 at the South Carolina line, Tryon; and I-77, Virginia line, north of Mount Airy.

Last year almost half a million visitors stopped at the Henderson and Roanoke Rapids center, which were opened in August, 1968. The count at the 1-95 center totaled 283,544, and at the 1-85 center, 163,120.

Traffic picks up all the time. Through the first three months of this year, the centers have welcomed 107,030 visitors, 80,158 at the 1-95 center, and 26,872 at the 1-85 location.

Four girls work at each center. Before they begin, they get a three-week training course which in: eludes grooming, history, mapreading, and a tour of the states attractions. You cant very well recommend something you havent really seen, is Hensleys theory.

TTiey are instructed in a low-pressure, soft-sell approach. In the vernacular, we want them to tell it like it is, said Hensley. Its better to say, You may find mosquitos a problem at this location this time of year, than to have the visitor come away mad that you didnt warn him.

Cards are provided for visitors to mail back their impressions of the state. Leafing through a days returns in a gratifying experience. Cited as favorable impressions are things such as: native hospitality, friendly attitude of the people, courtesy of the girls at the welcome center. An unidentified Maryland visitor phrased it nicely;

North Carolina impressed upon me the beauty of simple things. Almost everywhere I looked I saw beauty, whether in the friendly, smiling faces or in the lovely landscape.

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iSINTERNAWONAL

Aiecrtiiing rules and dsndHnos availaUf up re^nest Member BMm if Oredbte.

President Nixon has made a good move in appointing a nine-member commission, with former Pennsylvania governor William W. Scranton as head, to recommend ways to control campus violence.

This commission should seek the ideas of our young people and search for ways to avoid further tragedies such as that which occurred on the Kent State campus and at Jackson State.

There has been too much campus unrest, and certainly all of it is not unjustified. It is time now to listen to the young and correct that which can be corrected.

String Pulled

By Mitchell

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK WASHINGTON - The fine hand of Atty. (}en. John Mitchell, top sergeant of the Nixon Cabinet, was pulling strings behind the scenes in the surprising switch of Elliot Richardson from the panelled halls of the State Department to the bloody battlefield of Heath, Education and Welfare (HEW) last week.

Mitchell, architect of the Southern strategy, told

President Nixon that

Richardson was his first choice to head the job being vacated by HEW Secretary Robert F'inch, bloody after repeated bruising confrontations with the Attorney General.

In view of liberal Richardsons commitment to school desegregation and his Eastern establishment political base in Boston, his sponsorship by conservative Mitchell would be incredible save for this fact: Mitchell had become frustrated to the point of apoplexy in his dealings with HEWs chaotic bureaucracy.

With Finch, an admittedly poor manager, having been eased out, Mitchell advised Mr. Nixon to replace him with a self-assured administrator capable of knocking heads together. Specifically, Mitchell wanted someone who could take a position and stick to it, without backing and filling, Mitchell intimates say he recommended Richardson because he was convinced, after studying Richardsons handling of the flabby State Department bureaucracy and watching him in innumerable White House meetings, that he had the mental discipline to end disorder at HEW. Even before that, Mitchell had been high on Richardson, recommending him for Under Secretary of State to serve as a buffer between the troublesome Foreign Service and Secretary of State William P. Rogers.

A footnote: Southern

Republican leaders, including most of the state chairmen, have been warned by Mississippi State Chairman Garke Reed not to crow over the registration of Finch (a Southern hairshirt for 17 months). Richardson, according to Reed, may be tougher on civil rights than Finch.

Food Flap Dr. Jean Mayer, former special hunger consultant to President Nixon, sharply criticized the Nixon administration s handling of the anti-hunger program in a private letter to the White House.

The June 5 letter to domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman confirms reports that Mayer has been troubled by the Nixon food program since his return to Harvard Universitys school of public health in January. Mayer organized last Decembers White House conference on hunger and battled fiercely and surprisingly successfully for an expanded food stamp program.

In his letter to Ehrlichman, Mayer cited persistent rumors of the probable elimination of food stamps without a sufficient compensatory money allowance and the possibility that the family assistance plan might be financed through a decrease in the already dangerously low health budget of HEW (the Department of Health, Education and Welfare). Mayer urged that these rumors be denied soon by an Administration spokesman of stature.

In addition, Mayer told Ehrlichman that HEW has fallen down badly checking on the state of nutrition of the poor. HEW administrative measures. . .have been confusing to all of us and disheartening to many of my colleagues, he wrote.

A footnote: The rumored

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Other Side Of A Coin

SCRABBIE, Va. - These are homecoming times in Rappahannock County, just as they are across the land, and suddenly the place is swarming with young people returned from the college wars. They are done in by examinations, and done in by the rigors of the academic year, but not so done in that they cannot stay up eating and talking all night.

One of these flights of meadowlarks turned up the other afternoon, among them a young lady, aged 20, name

of Lizbet, who had just finished her sophomore year at a Midwestern institution that has figured in the news of campus demonstrations. She was slim as a sixteenth note and clean as Sunday morning. with long dark hair and eyes the size of cookies.

I see your column now and then. she began and I wanted to tell you I disagree with you all the way. I mean all the way, and I wanted to tell you this to your face because I think its always better to sav what vou think.

Other Editors Say

Single-Car Wrecks

(Continued on page 5)

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Although your chances are one in five of being involved in a single vehicle accident, the chances of a fatality are five times greater than it would be if you were involved in an accident with another motor vehicle.

The zaniest part of this whole bundle is that when the road is straight, the highway of a superior type, and traffic congestion is least, you stand a better chance of becoming involved in this type of accident than you do , when driving on a crooked rural road or in city traffic.

Another thing that doesnt seem to tally is that such accidents are easiest to prevent because they usually involve factors within the control of an individual driver.

Fatigue, inattention, speed too fast for existing conditions, drunkenness, illness of the driver and occasionally a mechanical defect are the usual causes within the direct control of each driver.

Of course, there is always the pedestrian, the kid on the bike, a bird or animal that intrudes abruptly into your path. Nevertheless, you as a driver cannot divest youi'self of responsibility by blaming it on the intruding other guy for in each case you are the other guy the guy who

had the responsibility to maintain his vehicle under control and in good mechanical condition at all times, so that he would not be involved in a preventable accident.

No driver can afford to lose his alertness or ability to act promptly and properly within the capabilities of his vehicle when behind the wheel.

Neither can he afford to drive at speeds too fast for conditions or to drive equipment that is deffective in condition.

The impact of hitting an object at 60 miles per hour is equivalent to driving your vehicle off the top of a 10-story building. Your own chance of living through a crash at 75 miles an hour are one in eight, and at 80 miles an hour death is a near certainty.

The record shows that obedience of traffic laws puts you in a better position to survive the hazards of the road. On the road hand, most traffic accidents are caused by some one violating a traffic rule. Pe reasonable about what, when and how you drive. Drive defensively, de-escalate your speed, make needed rest stops to relieve muscle and brain-cramping tedium and chances are you wont get hung up in a singlevehicle accident.

Those

Bright

Hours

right out, you know, and not behind somebodys back, like, if you cant be honest, what've you got?

' Ivook. Lizbet said, let me tell you how it is. Its prison, I mean, like being in prison, you cant talk to anyone, and the house rules, you know, are ridiculous 12 oclock week nights and only 1 a.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and if youre going out of town you have to sign all these forms. You cant imagine. Were not children, you know.

"But it wasnt just the house rules. It was everything, you know, the food in the Union was terrible, I mean it was really greasy, and nobody wanted to come back after CTiristmas. Well, 1 asked, if she had known about the rules, and thought they were all that bad. why had she gone back a second year

"You dont understand, she said, After all, I mean, we students are it, If we dont insist on change, who will? But it wasnt just the rules and the food and all that, it was the big things - Nixon and Agnew, and this unjust immoral war. and half of the professors in the Chem Lab are doing some kind of defense work, you know, and then Mr. Beasley got fired he had been there four years, you know, four years, and fired, just like that.

Ah. I said,

He was the only good teacher they had. I had him for English Ut the first semester. I mean, he was sincere and dedicated and honest, and wed talk about Vietnam and that corrupt puppet government they have, and wed write about injustice and all that, and he was relevant. Really, he was relevant. Then it got out that his contract wasnt being renewed, and that was it. Yes, I said.

We had this big meeting at one of the boys apartments, and we worked all one weekend on our manifesto, and I mean we worked on it. (Continued on page 5)

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) TTie poor mans pnilosoiACT:

You never really know another human being until he tells you about his childiood.

Aside from the weather, which is usually only mentiaied rather than discussed, the thing most people would rather talk about than any other subject is their childhood.

It thaws them out as a south wind does a frozen pond in March, melting the icicles of protective reserve that gieral-ly insulate them from their fellows.

Childhood is a form of remembered wealth better than any other riches because it never fades, never loses its value, and cant be stolen from you. It is never more than a thought away.

The child is father to the man, wrote William Words worth. No truer observation was ever made.

Why does everyone treasure his childhood, whether he later measures it by such pumpish terms as good or bad? Because he can remember it as a time when

An agate marble was worth more than all the fabled rubies and diamonds of India.

He could win a red-haired girls admiration by showing her how to spin a top.

Playing hide-and-seek was only a game, and there was always a good place for him to hide.

No matter how often he got punished for doing wrong, he knew of something else he was guilty of that his parents hadnt yet found out about.

Adults were pompous, pica-yunish, preoccupied with trifles, and often unfair, but not deliberately evil.

While it hurt to skin both knees, pain was brief. It was also consoling to think of how the scabs would be envied by playmates and how much fun it would be to pick them off later.

With a lucky dollar found on the street, he could buy enough candy, popcorn and ice cream cones to get sick enough to stay home from school two whole days.

No present war summoned him with bugles, but it was awesome to sit on the front porch and listen to tales his uncles told of older wars they had fought in other lands far away.

Hot, quick tears scalded away any grief; sorrow rarely lasted beyond tomorrows sunshine.

God was in His heaven, and neither dead nor dying.

The puzzling thing about childhood is not that it retains such power over people, but why they ever leave it. It never leaves them.

Opinions n Brief

Every man carries with him the world in which he must live. F. Marion Oawford.

There is no history but that of the soul, no peace but that of the soul. Dag Hammarskjold.

'Hiink of your own fault the first part of the nigl when you are awake, and th faults of others the latter pai of the night when you ar asleep. CTiinese proverl

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Administrotonn^eeds Magic

LOVE DIVINE TTiere is a saying which runs: TTiere are three ways in which a man expresses his deep sorrow: the man on the lowest level weeps; the man on the second level is silent; the man on the highest level knows how to turn his sorrow into song. The word vicarious means acting on behalf of or as representing another. Vicarious suffering is the sacrifice one the innocent for another, generally the sacrifice of thqjnnocent for the guilty .

Christians believe that Jesus Christ was the only perfect and innocent person ever to have lived, and although he had no sin himself, he suffered for the guilt of humanity. FYom our standpoint it would appear that be, of all men, shoidd not have experienced suffering. Yet die nature of love is such that it gives itself for others with no thought of consequences. The perfect love

of God gives itself perfectly for disobedient, defiant, sinful man. The test of love is whether it asks anything in return for love. Usually it does not. God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).

When we deal with vicarious sacrifice (someone sacrificing for someone else, generally the innocoit for the guilty), we see love at its best. When we see God Himself suffering through the death of his Son, putting upon his death of his Son, putting iqKHi his Beloved the burden of sins he had not committed, having him die as the result of these sins, having him break the power of death by his resurrection and in that resurrection vindicating the truth of all Christ had said and done here we i-counter divine love set forth in all its beauty and power.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER The Nixon administration has painted itself into an economic comer.

The problem of inflation is beginning to overshadow that of the war in Vietnam. In-

elmer

ROESSNER

flation in America with its attendant recession is endangering the economies of the free world.

The monetary controls have not worked. They have slowed down business, blowed the stock market and increased unemployment without slowing down inflation.

Furthermore, the federal budget is heading into a

deficit, which is purely inflationary.

It is certaiiPthat the administration will have to take new steps, seek a new approach to the problem of inflation.

It is also certain that the administration is considering various courses.

Incomes Policy, Controls?

Under consideration are wage and price controls and something called incomes policy. The latter has never beoi sharply defined, but it appears to involve naming a commission. In football, the old rule has been, When in doubt, punt; in government the comparable rule is, When in doubt, appoint a commission.

This commission would set guidelines, apparaitly setting a top limit on wage increases, perhaps tied to increased productivity, and guidelines as to when and how much prices could be

increased.

-- The administration would try to make this effective by jawboning, that ,is by talk, exhortation, pleading and pointing the flying fickle finger of fate.

Jawboing, it will be recalled, did not work for President Johnson. I wont work for President Nixon. The authoritarian jawbone has no teeth.

Controls Under Attack

Controls of wages and prices, with few sharp teeth in them, might be more effective, but not much. During World War II, when the nation was far more united for victory than present, they were partially successful. With a divided country, they would fail dismally.

Even their mention has stirred up a campaign against them. Banks and businesses have declared they are oi^iosed, that they wont work, that they are

unduly authoritarian.

One alternative woul( higher taxes. Taxes incre are partially inflation Workers demand pay creases to meet th merchants and manu turers increase price: maintain profit levels.

Only reaUy tough tax h would work, say heavy U on increased income increased corporal profits.

That, in an election y would be politically possiUe.

The Nixon administra is not to blame for inflatio started back in the depression and the ministrations of Roosei Truman, Eisenhow Kennedy and Johnson h all contributed to it.

But its Mr. Nix( problem now. And to mix

metaphors, to get out of i

comeTf he has to pull a ral

outof hishat. And a biK(