4^The IhiUy Reflector, Greenville, N.C.-

October , 1170

Ample Time For Joint Action

Following the troubles at last weeks Rose High football game it seems likely that something needed to be done before the next and final home game.

Nevertheless it appears that university authorities acted in announcing that playing of the game would be allowed only in the afternoon

Similar Theme At Reidsville

By BRYAN HAI8LIP

REIDSVILLE. N C. V, Homage to past leaders and exhortation to elect present candidates set the tone for Rockingham County and Sixth Congressional District Democrats at the fifth annual Governors Recognition dinner in Reidsville this week.

Congressman Richardson Preyer plugged for party nominees to the General Assembly and to local offices.

"Redistricting is coming up next session," he reminded I want Rockingham to stay in my district. The way to do

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that is for you to send Democrats to Raleigh."

Congressman William Jennings Bryan Dorn of South Carolina, the featured speaker, put in an endorsement for Preyer. A nian marked for good, for leadership in the Congress, Dorn said of the Sixth District representative.

Rockingham Democratic Chairman Allen H. Gwyn, Jr., presiding for the dinner, urged support for the entire ticket. The time is now for the party faithful to get out the vote for victory in the November 3 general election, he said.

In format and theme it was similar to political affairs now going on all over North Carolina as the* off-year campaign heads into the home stretch. Designed to raise party spirits and enrich the treasury, the $10-a - plate dinner of turkey, yams and green beans was eaten by 500 or so local Democrats and a smattering of state officials from Raleigh.

Low-Key Campaigning

Missing from the menu was the partisan rousements typical of such rallies. The opposition hardly got a mention except as the other party and no one drew a bead on any specific Republican.

Preyer called it campaigning on a high level. We dont have to call names or bring in personalities, he said, with the obvious inference that some one else did.

, Such low-key tacffis may be simply commendable strategy. It also may indicate an uncertainty as to the average voters reaction to broadside attacks on

President Nixon, Vice President Agnew, or the Republican party generally.

Praise for recent

Democratic national ad

ministrations was as scant as criticism for the present Republican one. Dorn harked back to Jefferson and Jackson as the founder of the Democratic Partywhich he translated as people

power but he came no

further into the 20th century than Franklin Roosevelt.

In Preyers case, it is a campaign approach leading from strength. The concensus among Democrats gathered in Reidsville was that he rates high in the district and will be an asset to the whole ticket. We helped you elect Preyer last time, an Alamance County party leader told a Guilford compatriot. Hes going to help us this time.

Local Ticket Confidence Confidence was evident, too, for the local ticket with the exception of the race for state Senate. Rockingham and ^Caswell counties form the 16th Senate district. Under a party rotation agreement, it is little Caswells time for the seat . and W.C. Taylor of Yan-ceyville is the candidate.

His Republican opponent is William F. Simpson of Reidsville! The population edge in Rockingham gives the Democrats cause for concern. I saw Simpson bumper stickers in the parking lot here tonight, a Reidsville man reported.

As far as campaign issues went, those touching the pocketbook got the most attention. Preyer said inflation and unemployment are rising at the same time under the present national administration.

It proves that if you. want to live like a Republican youve got to vote like a Democrat, he said.

Redistricting Worries The imminence of redistricting based on the 1970 census gives a particular edge to Congressional races in North Carolina this year. Incumbent Congressmen who have made themselves comfortable in their present grouping of counties will have to run with a new combination in 1972.

Rockingham is one of the counties which has been shuffled about in the redistrictings of the recent past. It is reluctant to look forward to another shift by the 71 General Assembly.

Gwyn echoed Preyers sentiments for a Democratic state legislative delegation . from Rockingham to work for keeping Rockingham with its present Congressman. The four counties of the Sixth District have too many people to stay together. Somebody is going to have to go. Everybody in

Rockingham wants to stay with Congressman Preyer, he said.

-The' Governors Recognition dinner honors the six governors

Rockingham has given the state Alexander Martin, 1782-84, 1789-92; John Motley Morehead,, 1841-45; David Settle Reid, 1851-54; Alfred M. Scales, 1885-89; Robert B. Glenn, 1905-09; aod Luther H. Hodges, 1954-60.

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without coming to a clear agreement with school authorities.

Since the next home gaipe was three weeks away university authorities had ample time to discuss the matter with school officials and to attempt to work out acceptable solutions to the problems. It may well be that the decision by all concerned might have been to play the game in the afternoon, but certainly the high school should have some say in it.

No one can deny that Ficklen stadium stands on state property and its use must be controlled by university authorities. Still, tens of thousands of dollars were raised among Greenville citizens and businesses to build the first section of the stadium at a time when there was no other place to turn to obtain these funds. If this had not been done there is a good chance that ECXJs athletic program would not be nearly as advanced as it is today. The understanding at the time of the fund raising was that the stadium would be available for high school use.

No one can blame univesity authorities for being concerned about the problems which developed Friday night. Everyone in the city is concerned, too. Just as the universitys problems are city problems, so too are city problems of concern to the university.

The important thing is that decisions which affect both the city and the university should be made after counsultation with officials from both sides. In this way a spirit of cooperation can be maintained that will be beneficial to all.

Panmunjom 'Incidents' Can Only Be Dangerous

Incidents such as the one at Panmunjom, Korea recently cannot help the already difficult situation there.

Through a misunderstanding, a fracas developed which resulted in an American soldiers being beaten with shovels by Norto Korean workmen. He suffered severe head injuries but is expected to live.

Negotiations have been going on atPanmunjom for more than a decade-and-a half and at times things have been quite unsettled in the divided nation.

An incident such as this could explode into something major and that would be a tragedy, indeed.

Mayor Thinks Some Swayed

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By JAMES KILPATRICK

The Welfare Failures

By JOHN KILGO CHAPEL HILL Howard Lee, the Mayor of Chapel Hill and the only black mayor of a predominantly white city in the South, has learned that its tough to work within the system and retain his credibility with all of the black community.

Dont, misinterpret that statement. Its not a major gripe. As a matter of fact, the 36-year-old Chapel Hill Mayor says:

I love this job so much that I really have to grope to find a major disappointment. But some distrustfplness has been directed at me from parts of the black community. Because I work within the system, some blacks think Ive sold out or that Im an Uncle Tom. That would be my major disappointment in this job.

On the brighter side, however. Mayor Lee says many blacks are beginning to believe that the system can work. There are flaws, he says, but they can be corrected and he adds:

I believe that the gap between people must be closed in the political arena. The poor whites, the blacks, the young...New blood is coming into politics in North Carolina and particularly in Chapel Hill and it holds for us f-a bright future.

Lee came to North Carolina in 1964 to do graduate work at the University in the Jield of

social work. He liked the State so well that he brought his family here from Georgia in 1965 and now he sys with a smile: I expect to live and die a Tar Heel.

He serves as the Assistant to the Director of Medical Education at Duke University.

While optimistic about the futureespecially North

Carolinas futureMayor Lee is cautious not to paint an overly bright picture.

From the outside, he says, North Carolina has a reputation of being progressive and forward-thinking. It doesnt look quite so good from the inside. We will have more controversy in the future, more debates, more finger-pointing, but maybe now we can argue and debate as friends.

Being black and the mayor of a predominantly white Southern city, Howard Lee has emerged as a national celebrity. He has made talks in New York, San Francisco, Washington, Atlanta, New Orleans and the list goes on. Just last week, he turned vdown speaking engagements in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and New London, Conn.

As nice as its been to speak in other parts of the country, Lee says, I must say sincerely that I received more pleasure speaking to the Kiwansis Club in Penti-(Continued on page 5) .

It required no special skills of political meteorology to observe, six months ago, that raindrops were falling on the Presidents Family Assistance Program (FAP). His radical concept of welfare reform was in trouble from the moment it reached the Senate Finance Committee. The question now is. Where do we go from here?

For the welfare mess remains. Every criticism that Mr. Nixon leveled at the existing chaos of welfare

programs is as valid today as it was when he addressed the Congress in August of 1%9. Go back to that speech for a moment: ..i Nowhere has the failure of government been more tragically apparent than in its efforts to help the poor, and especially in its system of public welfare . . . Whether measured^by the anguish of the poor themselves or by the drastically mounting burden on the taxpayer, the present welfare system has to be

Other Editors Say Some Good Advice

(Goldsboro News-Argus)

For anyone to pretend the future of the Democratic Party in North Carolina is not at least, in question is to refuse to face the partys prospects squarely.

There can be no questkm but that the party has tak) a swing to the left. While this might well be advantageous to the party in the populous and more liberal Piedmont, it certainly puts a bit of a strain on Democrats in the more conservative east.

The real salvation of the party, it seems to us, might well lie in an observation and a warning sounded by Senator Hargrove Supper Bowles back in November of 1%9.

The senator was speaking to the Democratic Study Commission at a meeting in Greenville.

Here is what he said in summing up his presentation:

I think we have to make every possible effort to retain our traditional Democratic base in Eastern North Carolina* The worst thing we can do both from the standpoint of the partys survival and from the standpoint of the states o>^ best interests is to give the cold shoulder to conservative Tar Heel Democrats who have stuck faithfully to the party through thick and thin.

Our more conservative Democrats obviously dont agree 100 per cent with the political philosofrfiy of some of our younger, reformmiinded Democrats. But these same conservative Democrats just as obviously dont agree with and never have agreed with the basic principle'of the Republican Party. Our conservative Democrats need the North Carolina Democratic Party and the party needs them. We have to have a party spread broad enough to shelter Conservatives and liberals, young and old, black and white, workingmen and businessmen.

What I do not want to see us do, under the pretext of broadening the partys base, is to narrow it down in fact to what could become essentially a liberal-labor-Negro-youth coalition, with everybody else left out. I do not think that is the formula for victory or progress in North Carolina today, nor any time soon. The Democratic Party would do well to consider the logic and wisdom of the senators plea.

A Man

Might

Decide

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Curb-sUme comments of a Pavement Plato:

Some social scientists worry over vtiiether man may destroy himself not by the hydrogen bomb but by too much leisure.

They estimate that the productive needs of civilization may be met by the end of this century by a work week of 20 hours or less. What will man then do with more spare time on his hands than he has had in any previous period of his history?

For some reason many intellectuals believe that they alone know how to use leisure time wisely. They feel that the average man, if he is allowed to lift

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judged a colossal failure.

Our States and cities find themselves sinking in a welfare quagmire as caseloads increase, as costs escalate and as the welfare system stagnates enterprise and perpetuates dependency. What began on a small scale in the depression 30s has become a monster in the prosperous 60s. The tragedy is not only that it is bringing States and cities to the brink of financial disaster, but also it it is failing to meet the elementary human, social and financial needs of the poor.

The President went on, in that speech last year, to propose that the bloated program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children be abandoned altogether, in place of a new family assistance system based upon equality of treatment, a work requirement, and a work incentive. For the family of four now on welfare, with no outside income, he recommended a basic federal payment of $1,600 a year. The States would supplemait that sum. Recipients would be encouraged to work. To the President, the plan seemed very simple.

In retrospect, it is clear that Mr. Nixon was far better at diagnosis than he was at prescription. The ills of public welfare are just as he described them. It was his concept of therapy that failed.

For three reasons. First, the administration had not done its homework on FAP, and its opponents had. You will seldom see on the battlefields of Washington a more devastating barrage than the American Conservative Union laid down against the Nixon bill. TTie U.S. Chamber of Commerce

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his nose from the grindstone ever so slightly, will spend that extra time debauching in a saloon, fighting his neighbor, or beating his wife.

This viewpoint, of course, reflects an arrant class snobbery a democracy should outgrow. Given more leisure, it is the intellectual , not the common man, who is more likely to use it to create chaos and stir revolutionary violence.

Your ordinary fellow is more likely to add to his educatim, mo<mlight on another job in order to buy a better house or a iriace in the country where he can grow a bigger tomato or a finer rose.

Fbr example, now that financial credit for any purpose is so easily obtainaUe, if work weeks were made shorter or vacations longer, a man might decide to Raise penguins in his basement.

bivent a telephone system that works.

Sail on on a raft to Tahiti.

Write more advisory letters to his congressman.

Travel more widely and build the largest collection of stolen hotel soap in his neighborhood.

Figure a faster route through his local supermarket.

Staggor Wall Street by becoming the first investor in modem times to comer the market in sarsaparilla.

Fbmd an insurance company that will iM-otect playboy husbands against exhorbitant alimony awards.

Patent a machine that will shoot arrows into the tires of any car parked in the wrong parking [dace.

Gome up with a beer can made of some kind of material which will evatorate thrown on a public highway.

These are but a few of scores of ways in which a man might use more leisure profitably, ft is "only by having extra time to make a better world that mankind will ever get the job done.

Opinion Brief

Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind. Rudyard Kipling.

Strength Jor Today Fast Gain With High Interest

NOTHARD TO PRONOUNCE

Thanks.

This is not a long word hard to pronounce, but it is a word that some people find hard to say. Also it is an inspiring little word that can bring the sunshine out on a dark day if we are willing to have it so. Thanks before meals. Thanksgiving in our prayers. A real feeling of gratitude for those who have done so much for us.

Did you say something about the generation gap? It has always existed, and have you stopped to think how much we have to be thankful for? Millions of men have laid down their lives to release us from tyranny and establish

Scientists in laboratories have discovered cures for some of the most deadly diseases. Wealthy benefactors have established foundations which do much

good. The overwhelming majority of persons in public life are honest and doing the best they can to make the world a better place in which to live.

And now to the young folks. Do you have any idea how much it costs for parents to feed children from birth to maturity? If a college education is thrown in, the figures run up to quite a few thousand dollars. (Tothes cost money. Taxes of all varieties come high, and we have to pay them if we are going to maintain the high standard of life to which we have become accustomed.

And parentsaren t you thankful for the kind of kids you have even though they mak^-^tkS while' and on the whole think you and Mom are preiiy stupid?

Say thanks. It will bring out sunshine on the dullest day.

' By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER On Sept. 9, (Congressman Wright Patman, D-Tex., chairman of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, wrote to David

" ELMER ROESSNER

Rockefeller, chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank, stating banks went on an unnecessary and highly unfortunate interest rate bringe after the election of President Nixon in 1968, and callinfcjor a rollback of the ^ priifJ^mte^ls

On Sept. ' 18, David Rockefeller, in a page ad in the Wall Street Journal, headed Bankers dont like high interest rates and tight money any more than you

do! addressed Dear Patman: Like yourself I

would permit the lower interest rates that you and I and the country as a whole earnestly wish for. Rockefeller said interest rates were fixed by supply and demand; that bankers do not like high interest rates and tight money; that Chase had lower earnings, in 1969 than in the previous year and lower earnings in the first half of 1970.

Rockefeller denied that Chase had been a leader in raising rates or had met with other bankers on rates, or that election-year considerations had influenced banking decisioijs.

Rockefeller may be right. prim

22 from 8 per cent to 7t^ pier cent, pretty late to have much influence in the third quarter.

And on Oct. 7, Chase Manhattan Corp., the holding company of Chase

Manhattan, announced that its third-quarter operating income rose 37.1 per cent, to $37.9 million from $27.7 million, for the same quarter in 1969.

In addition, non-operating income, largely from profits on securities, brought total earnings to $41 million, compared with $26.2 million in the same quarter a year ago".

Chase also reported that for the first nine months of the year, its net income was $87 million, compared with $70.4 million in the first nine month of 1969.

Ciiases total* assets on Sept. 30 were $23.6 billion, compared with $20.6 billion a year ago.

apologize. Or should he? ,

U.S. Spends $49,000 To Find Why Sourdough Is Sour The Department of Agriculture" is spending

$49,0000 of your taxpayers money to find San Francisco sourdough French bread is that way. It signed a contract with Oregon State University for a two-and -a-half year study of why the bacteria involved acts the way it does only in San Francisco.

If it can get the answer, then every city can have its own sourdough French bread- There could be Fort Wayne sourdough French bread, Chicago sourdough French bread, and, in Alaska, sourdough bread, .thus ruining th^ domestic export market for S. F. bakers.

As an old Californian, I will testify that present day S. F. French bread is not like the sourdough French bread when

days, the bakers kneaded the dough down three mornings in a row, and the bread was really sour, nice and chewy, with air holes in it as big as marbles.