There Must Be A Good Answer

HEAVILY MINED PATHWAY!

There must be some answer to the rapid growth in the rate of serious crime in this country. It must be found quickly if the nation is not to become a constant nightmare of terror for many of its citizens.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has reported that serious crime increased 148 percent in the past decade while the nations population increased only 13 percent. Perhaps more meaningful, says the FBI, is that every Americans risk of becoming a victim of a serious crime has more than doubled in that period.

Injmany metropolitan areas crime in the streets has been a matter of serious and growing concern for several years. There are now in this land of

Strike Sparks In Internships

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government is a huge, inefficient bureaucracy with here and there little pockets of liiange at work "

My .supervi.sor always seems to b<* busy doing

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something . but I never see the results of anything hes done , He's too busy to discuss ideas

I know my outlook is definitely more realistic now that Ive seen what happens and how it goes on. I didnt think 1 was all that idealistic, but 1 did think some of us since there were so many would bring about some change if not in policy at least in attitude. But once you get in there, you find out just how ineffective you really can be

The young people speaking have spent the summer observing and participating in the day - to - day work of state government.

They are three of 2,500 students, learning by doing under projects coordinated by the North Carolina In ternship Office, jointly sponsored by the Department of Administration and the Board of Higher Education Three Give Impressions Mrs. F'aithel Smith of Kings Mountain graduated in June from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. After her husband completes Air Force service in New Mexico next year, she expects to continue graduate study in chemistry. She was an environmental intern in the Water and Ajr Resources Department.

Tom Smith, a rising senior at Shaw University in Raleigh, held a "Minorities in Planning internship funded by the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) department. He worked in the Corrections Department. Lawrence Whitfield of TlaleigTT,a'" gradale 0^^^ University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, carried out research in the internship office He plans to continue study, either at the ' University of Edinburgh, Scotland, or Yale Divinity School.

My intern experience started out as frustration," said Mrs. Smith. "Almost total frustration the first couple of weeks, then it smoothed out What helped most was inter-action with other interns, not my own little project

"It was a real cultural shock, in a .sense, agreed Whitfield I was very disturbed and depressed at the lack of imagination that I saw among people in state government It took me a while to get used to that. "In Corrections we had good interns and we had bad interns," said Smith. "I mean by good interns people who really wanted to do something and by bad in-" terns, those who just wanted to collect a ckeck for the summer

I.arning on Both Sides Im thinking of three interns who went to the youth facility at Polk. They definitely got a lot of reaction

dont know whether it

was altogether negative or positive. First of all, they didnt want to cut their hair. They didnt. Second, they had a lot of ideas that they wanted to get across for the inmates There developed I supposed youd call it some friction but I think there was some learning , I dont know if Ive really changed anyones attitude or not. They know how I fell about problems, and what I think needs to be done

"For the most part the interns have had an impact on their agencies, in one way or another, said Whitfield. "It may be in the quality of research they do, or it may be in just having a student in the office and seeing things from another perspective.

"Im not sure that state government has really seriously evaluated how it could better use student manpower to meet community and agency problems. Im really very skeptical about that. Im a little bit more sure, though, that the internships have been helpful to the agencies which have developed them."

Career Interest Aroused "They told us at Corrections that one of the reasons for the internships is for you to develop some interest in it as a career. And 1 did," said Smith "Ive already made my career plans, but I still may go back to Corrections.

"Its one of those pockets of change. Id like to be involved in that. I think I ooqld- have HKMue 4ft-putr f

have some ideas. I think, somebody migh^ be receptive to

Sometimes I got the feeling that the internships were sort of a token. s.aid Mrs, Smith. "There was a short period when I felt some of the employees had a sort of resentment to the fact I was there

"1 dont think its an age-youth barrier as much as it is I dont know a thinking barrier," said Smith. "Two of the people 1 worked with. . .

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freedom, people who dare not go out of their homes at night for fear of being seriously harmed. There are cities in which friends do not visit in each others homes simply because of the high risk of becoming a victim of crime if one undertakes to travel from one part of the city to another after dark.

But the increase in serious crime is not limited to the metropolitan areas. In almost every size city and town, there has been an alarming increase in the rate of serious crime in the past 10 years. To be sure, the streets still seem safe at night; one does not fear to walk in his neighborhood or drive across town, as is the case in large cities. But the fact remains that in the small city, and even in the rural areas, crime is growing at an alarming rate.

There is evidence that more needs to be done at the federal level to combat crime, and to provide funiils with which this may be done. It is also true that much more needs to be done at the state and local level to combat the alarming increase in serious crimes.

Greater consideration must be given to the needs of local law enforcement agencies. Greater attention needs to be given crime prevention programs. Greater efforts must be directed toward reinforcing and broading the base of citizen support for work of law enforcement agencies.

The problems with serious crimes now faced in the metropolitan areas need not necessarily become the problems of the smaller cities and towns. But the smaller communities will in time face those same problems unless they begin now greater efforts to prevent them.

Hard Drug Suppliers Resistant To Control

It is not good news when the director of the Narcotics Bureau tells us that the government has failed to reduce the amount of heroin available in the United States.

John E. Ingersoll has reported that cutting off the supply at the borders is impossible. Efforts are now being made to curtail overseas sources. Of those who sell the stuff, Ingersoll said, For everyone you arrest there are a number of others standing in the wings.

Hard drugs are a real problem in the nation and we must find some way to cut off the supply and to deal with those who push dope.

Nixon-Agnew Political Plan

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERTNOVAK

WASHINGTON - To dramatize the extraordinary importance he attaches to Vice President Spiro Agnews campaign for a Republican Senate this fall. President Nixon dispatched his top aide, H^.R. (Bob) Haldeman, to a seCret Agnew campaign-planning session last Monday (Aug. 10).

The presence of Haldeman, Mrs. Nixons appointments secretary, surprised the partys top politicians when they met with Agnew in the Executive Office Building. It also signified Mr. Nixons intent to run the campaign from his own Oval Office.

Present also were Presidential counsellor Bryce Harlow (who will head the large White House delegation assigned to Agnew this fall), political aide Murray Chntiner; Sen. Jotirr Tower of Texas who runs the Senate Campaign Committee, several Agnew staffers, and officials of the Republican National Committee

The two - hour session rapidly made several decisionsbut left open many sticky problems not easily solved.

For example, what should Agnew do when he is invited to come to Syracuse, N.Y., for a major fund-raiser?

New York (Jov. Nelson Rockefeller, running for a fourth term, wants no outside help meaning interference from Washington. Mr. Nixon, aware that an

Agnew visit would infuriate liberal voters Rockefeller needs, has graciously acceded.

But conservative leaders of the Republican party in upstate New York view Agnew as a godsend for local candidates. Hence the question, which Mr. Nixon himself will have to answer: can Agnew go to Syracuse to help upstate Republican candidates without hurting Rockefeller and the liberal Republican Senate candidate, Sen. Charles Goodell?.

Another sticky problem is Tennessee, where party professionals worry that an Agnew visit would simply enhance Sen. Albert (lores claim that he is "the number one target of the White House. These politicians see Rep. William Brock, Ciores Republican opponent in the Sehafe race, TF Agnew visit would only create sympathy for underdog (iore.

As of today, however, Agnew has a tentative Sept. 23 visit to aielby Cbunty (Memphis) on his schedule (a "decision made without checking Brock).

Or consider Virginia, where most of Mr. Nixons aides regard Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr., a Democrat -turned - independent not Republican nominee Ray Garland as the strong favorite. The tentative decision made at Mondays meeting was to avoid Virginia, on the pretext that

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Strength For Today

W IN OR PERISH

Hie menace of drug addiction is probably the most alarming menace that has threatened our country in the whole of its histroy. Addiction to alcohol is bad. Smoking no doubt frequently causes lung cancer. But being hooked by any form of habit - forming drug is about as terrifying a situation as one can imagine.

It is not entirely hopeless. Hwmas De Quincy (1785 -1859) was a drug addict, and his Confessions of an English Opium Eater gave him an established pUce in the fleid of literature. But it also kept him from being a great man. His addiction increased as the years passed. All evidence points to the fact that a man wiio might have been outstanding in his personal {ife lived unhappily and wrestled with an in

creasing addiction as years went on.

Nothing can more surely ruin our nation than the growth of drug addiction. We will make a mistake if we try to excuse the use of some of the milder drugs and reserve only heroin and other hardcore drugs as the enemy to be met and conquered. We need to be severe on pushers. Hie most extreme of all penalties should be used against those who ply their trade among teenagers and young people in the twenties or thirties.

Here is a situation that calls for a national uprising of indignation, education and prosecution. No moral issue as dreadfi^ as drug addiction has ever before confronted our nation. Heres a place where ^we have to viin or perish. ,

By Earl L. Douglass

By ART BUCHWALD

Women's Lib In Tahiti

TAHITI Womens

liberation is working in Tahiti as well as, or better than, any place in the world. I discovered this when I visited the beautiful island of Bora Bora which inspired James Micheners Tales of the South Pacific. We stayed at the Hotel Bora Bora where, instead of hotel rooms, each couple has its own grass covered hut overlooking the crystal - clear fish - happy lagoon.

One of the first things I noticed was that there were only women working in the hotel, at the desk or the bar, as chambermaids or

waitresses.

One morning I made a discreet inquiry as to where all the men on Bora Bora were.

A Frenchman who lives on the island said, Theyre probably still in their huts, sleeping. Hieyre very tired celebrating the 14th of July which, as you know, has been going on for 10 days.

But dont they have to go to work?

No, monsieur. The tradition of the islands is that only the women work. "What do the men do? "Sleep, sail, fish if they feel like it. They manage to keep

busy.

But if the women work, what do the men use for money?

The women give them the money they make.

But thats wonderful, I said. "Hiis is a country of true womens liberation.

It has its advantages, the Frenchman said.

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Other Editors Say Enough Is Enough

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(Henderson Dispatch)

Hie postal reform bill, after long hanging fire in Congress, has been passed by both houses and signed by the President and is now law. It takes the Post Office Department out of politics and makes it a semiindependent service.

Users of the mails, which means just about everybody, have been harassed in recent years by steadily deteriorating movement of first class and other types of mail, and have suffered from inefficiencies. They have hoped for more economical management, swifter and more convenient service, and an end to almost biennial increases in charges, which, wiieri put into effect, seemed to make bad matters worse, and did not curtail the deficit. New spending was introduced and there was no improvement in any direction.

An eight-cent stamp will be required for first class mail beginning next January 1. But Postmaster General Winton M. Blount says even this is not enough and there will have to be still another rate increase.

We submit that enough is enough. Since World War II there have been three in-' creases in rates, from three

cents to four, then to five and at present six cents for a first class letter. Now there is to be an increase of ^one-third, and that is said not to be enough, with more to follow.

We wonder if it would be just as well for the government to get out of the mail business entirely and allocate it to private business, where there would be better service, greater efficiency and probably at less cost.

There are few departments of the Federal government where there is poorer service to the people and with more unreasonable cost than the post office. Hie government has always held a monopoly (MUhe postal service,Jwhich4s-^ proper, to be sure, but with the expectation of reason in charges. If two additional rate increases are in the cards under the new system, maybe we would be better as things are now. Nor is there assurance of improvement of a^t cents or even ten cents. The idea seems to be that as long as the people can be compelled to pay more and more, well and good. If first class rates go up to eight cents in January, with two cents added later, where will it end? The government could price itself out of the| market if it did not own a monopoly.

children?

The women.

Who does the cooking, cleaning and washing? The women. You see, monsieur, the men here respect their women and let them do everything. As a matter of fact, there arent enough hours in the day for a woman to fulfill herself. What about marriage? Some people get married, some dont. If a man tires of his woman, he can find another one.

Then a woman here does not have to be tied down. No. As soon as her man leaves her, she is free. This is a womens lib paradise, I said. It must make the men angry to know the women have all the jobs. Not really. You must understand that the Tahitian

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the American. Many, many years ago, Tahitian men discovered that there wasnt anything they could do that their women couldnt do better. Once they made this discovery, they decided it was stupid to compete with them.

If only American men could learn this, I said, we would indeed have a happy country.

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Riches In The Mind

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) If you had a million memories and could sell them for a dollar each, you'd be a millionaire.

But who would part with a wonderful memory for a measly dollar bill? (3ood memories are pricelessand, anyway, it is more fun to share, them than try to put them on the auction block.

Perhaps you dont have a million memories Vet. But youve got a pretty good stock if you can look back and remember when

Bluebirds were so plentiful you could see one almost every day in summer.

A good cook would rather

hear her pies or preserves p-aised-than her character. After all, nobody would dare say a word against her character.

There was some perturbation throughout the country when word got around that one of President Woodrow Wilson*s favorite sports was tennis. Tennis? Wasnt that a game played between sissies and young ladies?

The old-fashioned icebox had room for only about a fifth of the goodies a modern refrigerator or freezer holds.

Bedbugs were so common in poor neighborhoods that it wasnt so much a question of whether but when a household would be infested by them.

A girl didnt know whether to be pleased or insulted if you told her she looked like Theda Bara, the famous movie vamp.

We were all so young and innocent that a fellow could become the life of a cocktail party simply by putting a lampshade on his head.

Adolf Hitler was painting landscapesbefore he learned the art of destroying them.

People were still so friendly that if you got an attack of hiccups on a street car at least 10 strangers among the passengers would volunteer a helpful suggestion on the best way to cure them.

Airplanes were so much of a novelty that lots of folks rode out to the airport every Sunday in hopes of seeing one fall.

Grandma laid down the law to grandpa by informing him that he could either keep his beard or go on chewing tobaccobut he couldnt do both.

You could keep a pet dog from birth until death and never spend more than $2 cash on it for a collar with a brass nameplate.

Everytelegram^ irad ten words, and the tenth word always was love.

Those were the days-remem-ber?

Opinions In Brief

A university is a place where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

Robert Ingersoll.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, conscience. George Washington.

Test For No-Fault Insurance

By ELMER ROESSNER At last America is about to get a real test of no fault auto insurance. Cov. Francis W. Sargeant of Massachusetts has approved

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a bill passed by the legislature to make the idea the law of that state.

For several years, the mwits of no-fault systems compared with the present liability system have been debated in a vacuum. In general, it does away with the idea of blame in auto ac-^ cidents and it abolishes payments for pain and suffering.

It authorizes insurance that pays for auto damage and medical and hospital bills of all persons involved in an

accident, regardless of which driver was at fault and there is no recompense for agony.

The idea has been debated pro and con. Proponents have held that it will cut auto insurance rates, perhaps in half; that will end jury verdicts based on sentiment, reduce court congestion, and that it will end attempts to make 12 random individuals to be instant experts on psycholody, physics and other causative elements in auto accidents.

On The Other Hand Opponents of the plan say that it will encourage careless and reckless driving and possibly even drunken driving; that it will reward those responsible for accidents; that it will not repay sufferers of psychic injuries that may be far graver than physical hurts, nor will it ccmpensate for disfigurement, loss of limbs, etc. , V

Hie counter arguments are

that it will provide quick settlements instead of payments long after the wronged party is dead and that it will abolish the present system in which the person with the most touching presentation and the sm(X)thest lawyer wins.

It has also been pointed out that metropolitan lawyers usually favor the no-fault plan because few of them are involved in auto liability actions, but that small town lawyers are ofti opposed because much of their income derives from such cases. Insurance Companies No Uke

In general, insurance companies oppose the idea. Obviously, if insurance losses are cut, states will insist that insurance premiums be reduced, which will affect profits. Further, some companies fear it will be a step toward government insurance. -

' However, many years ago

injuries to workmen ran into interminable litigation, just as auto injury suits do today. Then Hiram Johns()n,

governor of California, proposed the first workmens compensation law, which has since been adopted by all states to the satisfaction of both workers and employers. Sponsors of no-fault

legislation say that their plan wll dq the same thing for autoist.

. But the proof of the pudding wUl behow the plan works out ^ in Massachusetts. If it succeeds, it will sweep the country. If it fails, we will be stuck with the old theories for years to come.

M e a n w h i 1 e , in Massachusetts big insurance companies have called upon their agents to cease writing auto insurance. Attorney (ieneral Robert Quinn has ordered an investigation of whether the insurance companies have violated anti-trust laws.

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