4Tile Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Wedneiday, October 14, if7#

Hard Work For All Tor Heels

Associated Press writer Yvonne Baskins recent article on pollution in North Carolina should make us all realize that we Tar Heels are going to have to work very hard to keep our environment as clean as

it is.

So far our air and the water ways in North Carolina have remained relatively clean and some people fear that this may be part of the problem.

Trends Set In Varied Centers

By BRYAN HAISLIP HIGH POINT - Its Paris for hemlines. Its Detroit for autos. Its High Point for furniture.

They are world fashion centers where whats new is news first, where the decisions are made which set the trends for what you see when you go shopping.

Right now the atmosphere in the Souther Furniture Exhibition Building and along the route Westward knowTi as Furniture Highway is that of backstage before a Broadway opening

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as decorators complete displays for the fall market which begins October 23.

The comparison fits not only the electric anticipation of the event but the nature of the exhibits. Each is a room setting worthy of a major theatrical production in artistic effect and in expense, aimed to enhance the appeal of furniture and accessories.

The eight-day market will attract upwards of 18,000 visitors from all 50 states and a number of foreign countries. Together, they represent 85 per cent of the buying power of the nations retail outlet for furniture.

An Unlikely Capital

It would seem you couldnt pick a more unlikely place for the world furniture fashion center, acknowledged Leo J. Heer, managing director of the exhibition building which dominates the High Point skyline.

The city has a 60,000 population and the image of a friendly small town, borne out by the number of private homes which make available guest rooms to help take care of buyers attending the market.

Production know-how, not happy accident, made High Point the furniture capital. Within a 200-mile radius are factories accounting for 60 per cent of all wood bedroom furniture, 52 per cent of all wood dining room furniture, and 28 per cent of all upholstered furniture, for the nation.

Youthful management prompt to sense the demad for quality design in mass-produced furniture and aggressive in building the industry propelled High Point ind North Carolina to the top.

Heer is a Kentuckian. His kindly face and * courtly manner suggests the owner of a thoroughbred racing stable, or a fried chicken impresario. He clinched the leadership of the High Point market with a reference to the Derby. It wasnt necessary to ask wiiich Derby.

Sensing the Future

The market itself is something like a horse race. It deals with the ability to identify future trends, and make the correct decisions in advance.

"The logistics of the industry are such that buying decisions must be made four to six months ahead, explained Heer. The buyers at the October market will be making commitments for their spring business.

A mood of optimism prevails that the fall market will provide a good volume of business for manufacturers. There are signs that the downturn in the economy is about over, and that improvement will become noticeable within the next 30 to 60 days, Heer said.

All portents are that it will be a rewarding kind of market which should manifest itself in orders over the next few months.

TTie 30 acr^ of display space in the Southern Furniture Exhibition Building is a major facet in the furniture market complex which stretches to Thomasville, Lexington, Hickory, Lenoir and Drexel. Along that route is another IV4 million square feet of display area in the showrooms of individual manufacturers and in satellite markets.

Buyers scatter over the route. As a rule of thumb, Heer explained half will b^in the route in the west and move east, while the other half starts east and goes west. Coverage of the entire area is necessary for the buyer who wants the total view of what the market has to offer, he said.

Design for the Masses

Between the world wars, Americans in the middle income groups bought utility furniture. Quality design was available, but it was limited to the upper 10 to 12 per cent of the market.

Immediately before and following World War II there came the realization of fashion as a factor in dioosing home fumiriiings. The challenge was to provide furniture of good design and quality construction for the mass market.

At the same time, the shelter magazines were developing an audience among homemakers and stimulating a consumer interest in homes which would have beauty and taste for individual expression as well as utility.

TTie convergence of these trends gave emphasis to the South as a furniture production center, Heer said. Gradually other markets began to lose prominence on a national basis, he said. Regional markets have continued, and have proliferated over the past decade. There are markets which may exceed ours in attendance, but in buying power represented there is not another one which can challenge us.

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That is that pollution will have to get worse before the public becomes aroused enou^ to do anything about it By then, of course, it could very well be too late.

Earlier this week Greenville was shrouded by a heavy smog. No one is certain just what caused the smog since there were no reports of major emission problems in the area. The best guess seemed to be that the fog mixed with the usual fumes and smoke to cause the problem.

It is rare for Greenville to be afflicted with the smog problem, primarily because our city has not grown to the size where there are enough fumes to cause it. However, the experience earlier this week is a good example of what can happea If exhausts and fumes are not controlled in the future, then the problem can become more severe here and throughout North Carolina

North Carolinas five million people are relatively spread out; consequently environmental pollution problems have not yet plagued us as they have more populous areas. It is a i^ituation where we have to run to stand still, though. We must control unnecessary burning of wastes; we must control the dumping of sewage and chemicals in our water ways and each of us must resolve not to dump our trash irresponsibly along the highways.

We can keep what we have, but it will take effort

Farmer Takes Risks; Gravy To The Govm't

It must be discouraging to the tobacco farmer to learn that while he takes all the risks in growing his crop the government gets the gravy.

That seems to be the case, however, according to figures releasjed by the Tobacco Tax Councils executive director William A. OFlaherty.

He says the tobacco grower grosses about $1,407 per acre. At all levels of government the tax on tobacco produced on one acre amounts to $7,462.

It is just another example of how small the farmers percentage is of the total dollar for which his product is sold.

Psychological War By Nixon

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBE'TT NOVAK WASHINGTON A still muffled chorus of complaints from political critics that President Nixon should have presented his cease-fire proposal in the privacy of secret negotiations instead of over worldwide television misses the basic point of the Nixon plan.

The President and top advisers who have been closely watching the North Vietnamese government were certain that Hanoi would unleash its usual invective against any cease fire plan. Before the Communists get down to hard bargaining at Paris, they must improve their military position probably starting with a swallowing up of Cambodia.

Accordingly, it made no difference whether Mr. Nixon proposed his plan in secret or in a shout. The results that the Nixon administration hopes will flow from it, though nothing so dramatic as a battlefield truce, are vitally important in the realm of psychological warfare. What those few critics of Mr. Nixon^s public diplomacy failed to realize is that a private proposal would have had no such effect.

First, and most obviously, Mr. Nixon was seeking a proposal that would attract a unanimity of support among U. S. politicians not seen since autumn of 1964. Since Hanoi has always counted on winning the Vietnam war in the United States, unanimity here might in time induce North Vietnam to scale down war aims. '

Second, Mr. Nixon was seeking to undercut the hitherto high resolve of thei

North Vietnamese population. Recent telltale signs of home-front troubles for Hanoi could multiply when the word gets out that the government has rejected a cease-fire and prisoner exchange.

As a result, even though a negotiated settlement is still a long way <)ff, the U. S. psychological warfare position is better than at any time since President Johnson intervened massively. For a change, the next move is Hanois.

Tbe attempt to build a broad range of home support behind Mr. Nixon to impress Hanoi, strongly urged by Ambassador David Bruce, has been a success so far. Words of praise from former Ambassador Averell Harriman, frequently quoted by Radio Hanoi as a war critic, could impress the Communists. The Administration worked hard at it. (Jeorge Shultz, powerful head of the office of Management and Budget, on his own called prominent doves outside of government urging them to watch Mr. Nixons speech and, if they like it, to comment on it. conceivably more productive goal of dividing Hanois home front is based on unmistakable signs of disquiet from North Vietnams war widows, dependents of soldiers now in South Vietnam, relatives of captured soldiers, and repatriated wounded veterans adding ~up to an incredible 50 percent of the entire population by some estimates.

There is strong evidence that low-level Communist cadres are gobbling up (Continued on page 5)

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By ART BUCHVVALD

Bank-Building Nation

WASHINGTON Every time an old building is torn down in this country, and a new building goes up, the ground fl(X)r becomes a bank.

'Die reason for this is that banks are the only ones who can afford the rent for the ground floor of the new buildings going up. Besides, when a bank loans someone money to build a new building, it usually takes an option for the street-floor

facilities.

Most people dont think there is anything wrong with this and they accept it as part of the American free enterprise system. But there is a small group of people in this country who are fighting for Bank Birth Control.

This is how Huddlestone Hubbard, the BBCs chairman, explained it; ^

Whenever you see an old building torn down, Hub-

Other Editors Say The Major Feature

(The Raleigh Times)

Uquor-by-the-drink advocates say they believe the 1971 (lleneral Assembly probably will approve local option votes on that matter.

The Assembly may do just that, or it may refuse to do so. In its consideration of this potentially e3q)losive matter, the l^islators should keep the two major issues in the forefront of their thinking;

This is an attempt to secure passage of a law to permit some North Carolina individuals and businesses to make a personal ix-ofit from the sale of liquor.

This is a direct attack on the basis of North Carolina liquor legislaticm, ^ieh is the state ctmto)l of alcohol sales and the limitation of profits from such sale to governmental agencies.

Advocates of liquor-by-the-drink call their committee the Right To Vote Committee of the North Carolina Travel Ctouncil. The reasoning they are trying to sell the puWic and the legislators is that the basic feature of the bill is the right of local communities to decide on vriiether certain restaurants shall be permitted to sell liquor by the drink. The idea is that such sales will boost travel and convention business, \riiich would increase the personal profits of those individuals and businesses which deal with tourists and convoitions.

Former Governor Dan Moore opposed this measure when he was in'office, on gromds that North Carolinas liquor laws are based on state control. His on>osition was well grounded then, and it is well grounded now. The legislature followed his advice at that time, and it should follow that sound advice in 1971.

When the 1935 legislature passed the first ABC laws, it made the word Control the key word in that legislation. It has continued to be the key word, and it should continue to hold that position.

The State ABC Board sets up rules and regulations controlling the sale of liquor by local govammoital units across the State. It sets the prices, it determines (Ahich brands shall be sold, it determines the manner in \riiich they shall be sold. The law <x>ntrols the way in which liquor shall be consumed, limiting it to home use except in cases of brown bagging. The custom of brown bagging has served acceptaUy.

IMder State law, only governmental units now get the profit from liquor sales. This is part of the control motive, in that the . governmental units take the position that their chief point is to control alc(^ol, notto make a profitout of it.

This dual basis of control and of no private profits should be continued in North Carolinas handling of liquor.

bard said, you usually see a candy store, a dry cleaner, a delicatessen and possibly a florist tom down with it. These shops are all replaced in the new building with a beautiful glass, aluminum, wall-to-wall carpeted money-factory.

Now from an esthetic viewpoint, a bank looks better than a dry cleaner, ^ candy store, a delicatessen and a florist. But from a practical point of view, its a sheer disaster. If you want a newspaper, a candy bar or a chocoloate milk shake, you cant get it at a bank. Nor can you run out to a bank for a pound of Swiss cheese and a six-pack of beer when you have guests coming over.

A bank is great if you want to buy a car, but its useless if you want to have your dress cleaned.

And while a bank might

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By SHIRLEY CHRISTIAN Associated Press Writw

NEW YORK (AP) For the younger half of my life I planned to be a ballet dancer. I divided the world into people who danced and people who didnt.

Dancing was the neat, disciplined, healthy world of orange juice and steak. Journalism was the most opposite extremegiven to coffee, cigarettes and tension.

As fate would have it, journalism is where I wound up, and my colleagues smoking habits continue to amaze and appall me.

Take the first editor I met. He interviewed me with cigarette m hand.

I was so busy watching the ashes dribbling down his sleeve and chair onto the carpeting that I missed the part where he explained how cub reporters were supposed to leam their craft on the job and that I shotdd, therefore, spend my college summer working six days a week for a salary Im still trying to forget.

Today, I know a very charming \riiite-haired editor and former foreign correspondent, who dresses immaculatelyand deposits the butts from IVi packs on the floor at his typewriter every day.

I once worked a shift starting at 7 a.m. and the man who got off at that time smoked a pipe which apparently was cleaned out onto the floor periodically during the early morning hours.

By the time I sat down on the . desk, the floor crunched like the bottom of a monkey cage. I requisitioned a broom and swept out every morning.

A magazine advertising artist I knew composed her best layouts stretched out on her stomach on the floor, puffing a cigar.

Smokers have a special talent for arranging their tobacco objects in ashtrays so that the smoke wafts away from them and under the nose or into the eyes of the closest nonatnoker.

I have a sj)ecial affection for the few airlines which ask if you want a smoking or nonsmoking seat.

Would that bars, party-givers and offices did the same.

And to be absolutely, perfectly honest, a whiff of tobacco at the wrong time can do more to kill a romance than a whole passel of other women.

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buy flowers to give itself a human image, it doesnt sell any when you want to make up with your wife.

What youre saying then, Mr. Hubbard, is that every time a bank goes up, something in all of us dies. Exactly. One of the reasons kids are getting in so much trouble these days is that there are no candy stores" to hang around any more. W^n they tear down a delicatessen, the tangy smells of potato salad, salamis, corned beef and dill pickles are lost forever. Unless youre trying to make a loan, no one ever salivates in a bank.

Its true, I said.

The^ situation is more crucial than anyone thinks, Hubbard said. At the rate theyre tearing down consumer stores and replacing (Continued on page 5)

Opinions In Brief

The humblist citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a^ rightoiis cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error. William Jennings Bryan.

You can never have a greater or a less dominion than that over yourself. Leonardo da Vinci.

A fanatic is a guy who cant change his mind and wont change the subject. Chicago 'Tribune.

The short skirts of today make it a lot easier to get up stares. Waterloo (la.) Ckiurier. -

Federal aid to education should start with the teaching of arithmetic in Washington. Austin (Minn.) Herald.

Strength For Today Risking Insurance Regulation

POLLUTION

We are hearing a great deal today about pollution, the problem that has crept up on us without our realizing that it existed.

There undoubtedly is a great deal to what authorities in this field declare to be true. Certain manufacturing processes create waste that when dunrped into rivers or sent out into the air endangers the life and health of hmn beings. Our planet is surrounded by a blanket of atmosphere, and it is easy for this atmosphere to become contaminated. We have been turning waste material into streams for so many years that it doesnt seem to manufacturers that any other

is reasonable to suppose that we may sometime so p<)llute the air, water and other physical factors upcHi which we depend for life that it would be hard for the human

race to keep on going.

Think of the massive energy that is thrown out into the air when smoke rolls out of the smoke stacks of manufacturing concerns.

This is a system that, of course, cannot be changed in few months, but it had better be changed before we get to the place that we have no more strength left to change anything. We all need an added sense of resp(m-sibility to keep our environment clean for ourselves and others.

And let us not forget that we are primarily spiritual beings and as such we can be spiritually corrupted polluted. Moral and spiritual pollution constitute the most T^y " variety of s^h-hazard.

Alert government^, school, industry, church. Here is a great problm that simply has to be solved.

By Earl Doglass

By ELMER ROESSNER 'The insurance companies of America are risking federal regulation and possibly state or federal competition.

The insurance industrys

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image has probably never been worse. It i$ not entirely insurance companies fault. Their labor costs have shot up. It is no longer possible to hire a girl for $30 a week. This and other costs have forced

f '-up

Automation has become a ^ requisite, demanding greater / capital investment.

Even worse is the great American generosity with , other peoples money. (Must

go deeper into that some day, including how much fun it is for Congress, school boards, city governments, etc., to spend other peoples money.) Juries awards in insurance cases are often fantasticly large.

In some jurisdictions, . attorneys are not allowed to tell jurors that compensation awards are' tax free and jurors, in their ignorance, increase aWards to cover imagined tax bites.

Multiple Regulators

Because Congress has left policing of insurance companies to the states, 50 state regulatory Ixidies have been created. Most charge the insurance industries fees and all of them have different sets

insurance companies costs, which are passed on to customers.

Because of financial burdens, plus a swig of mismanagement, a number

of companies have failed during recent years. 'This has not improved the industrys image.

Casualty insurance companies have been denoiinced for their refusals, not without imperative reasons, to sell insurance in ghetto and riotprone areas. Only a week ago the District of Columbia city? council- rapped companies and the district insurance superintendent for failure to provide crime insurance at affordable rates.

Auto Insurance Problem

Many companies have aroused antagonism by getting out of auto liability insurance, or taking only exceptibnally fine risk's. Many states hve set ' up aSsigned-risk j^ans whereby people who cannot buy insurance in the market are assigned to insurance corhpanies in proportion to their business in the state, for special policies of limited

amounts and at high rates.

This sykem increases the rates careful drivers must pay.

So many insurance policies were cancelled in New Jersey that the st#te, in an emergency action, interdicted further cancelations. Meanwhile, policies are being cancelled by thehundreds in New York, Connecticut, Illinois and other states.

In Massachusetts, where no-fault auto insurance and a 15 p<er cent rate cut goes into effect Jan. 1, almost all insurance companies are pulling out even before the plan is tested (It could save the insurance companies millions). The state is oon-i sidering fqrniing its own insurance system r 5-

Kentucky polled 2,140 persons at the states 1970 fair and found that only 39.6 per cent of policyholders thought insurance companies" treat policyholders fairly.