4ne Daily Reflector, Greenville. N.C.Friday, October 23, 1170

South No Longer Dissimilar

Roscoe Drummond, writing in The Christian Science Monitor, takes a new look at the South in a recent column.

He finds a New South in whichT racial segregation is no longer the issue which overrides all others.

Economically the South is making notable progress, he writes. Its industrialization is not yet equal to that of other areas but it is nearing it The standard of living is going up steadily. In 1959 the gap between the average per capita income in the Southeast was 30 percent lower than that in the rest of the county. In 1969 it was only 20 percent. In the past year the average personal income in the South has risen more than it has nationally up 9.5 percent in the Southwest, 9.2 percent in the Southeast.

Drummond reports that a two party system is taking roots and this is good for the south and for government. The make-up of the population has changed. Racially the Souths black population has been reduced 50 percent In the past two decades alone 3,500,000 Negro Americans migrated

Politicos Hove Uncertainties

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH Climactic events in a curious campaign come within the next three days with politicians still confounded as to the voters state of mind.

National Democratic Chairman Larry OBrien in AsheviUe on Saturday, and Vice President Spiro T. Agnew in Raleigh on Monday are the big salves for their respective parties as the November 3 general election draws nearer.

OBrien will be the speaker for the 10th annual Vance-Aycock Dinner, a fundraising affair which will draw Governor Bob Scott and other

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Democratic leaders and faithful together for a revival of spirits to close out the campaign.

Vice President Agnew will be the attraction for a public rally which Republicans hope will give the steam to peak efforts for their candidates and win over the Democratic and independent voters necessary for victory.

Both camps will give. maximum fanfare to the occasions, with a window dressing of enthusiasm and confidence calculated to impress the public.

But one peculair aspect of Campaign 70 has been the difficulty in assessing just v^diat does impress the men and women who will mark the ballots to decide the election.

WUl Voters React?

Granted that the campaign showpieces will attract throngswill what the Democratic National Chairman or the Vice President has to say influence any votes? More important, will it have enough impact to make any difference to the outcome?

Reading the public mood this autumn is tricky. One beyond the professional optimism of politicians, its hard to find anyone willing to hazard forecasts on voter trends.

An uneasiness likely to have bearing on the election pervades the air. Schools and racial integration, with the possibility of extensive

busing, obviously is a cause for deep concern. Inflation, economic uncertainty and taxes worry many people. The whole complex of social change discomforts the middle class and the middle aged.

Tar Heels are restless, but it is characteristic of this campaign that definite currents fav(M*ing candidates or philosophy of either party are difficult to sense.

In fact, some observers note a disillusion on the part of the citizenry more disturbing than the complacent apathy of the past. I dont find many people who really want to talk about it, said one knowledgeable man who has traveled the state during the past two months.

Theres a lack of enthusiasm for any candidates. It is almost as though peale were saying, Were fed up with all politicians, he said.

No Statewide Focus

There are no statewide contests to provide personalities around which the campaign can be crystalized, and on whose coat-tails lesser candidates can ride. Races for state legislative seats, and for House seats in the Congressional Districts, each have a local setting.

Yet, much more than, in past off-year elections,

Republicans and Democrats have'aimed for an audience broader than the immediate area of specific races.

The active roles taken by State Republican Chairman

Jim Holshouser and Governor Scott, for Democrats, almost has created the impression that they were running against each other. The Governors defense of taxes enacted by the 1%9 General Assembly, and Holshousers persistent contention that the axes can be repealed without cutting state services has emerged as the dominant campaign theme.

Whether it has touched a resp<xisive chord will be told only on the basis of the outcome of legislative races in which the GOP has candidates.

The Congressional seats are the big stakes. Republican hopes of picking up one or more is the real reason President Nixon and Vice President Agnew included North Carolina on their campaign schedules.

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from the South mostly to the North and Far West Drummond concluded: The cause of racial justice is no longer a Southern problem. It would be well if non-Southemers quit pointing the finger of empty piety at the South.

Some northern politicians find it easy to hurl epithets at the South to distract attention from conditions in their own states. What is increasingly visible is not how different is the South but how similiar it is becoming to the rest of the nation. Those of us who live and work in the South have been aware of the changes which Mr. Drummond, cites. Social customs of only a few years ago are now virtually forgotten and there is reason to believe that Negroes living in Southern states will wind up in a better social and economic position than their cousins in Northern states.

Not only politicians, but too many journalists have ignored the problems at their own doorsteps because it was popular to write about Southern shortcomings. Now many of the Souths problems have been corrected and it is good to see a journalist of Roscoe Drummonds stature recognizing this.

DST Appears To Be Extended Overly Long

Through the summer months Daylight Savings Time has been pleasant Indeed, it has become normal time to most of us for the summer.

Tomorrow night, however. North Carolinians will move their clocks back one hour and Sunday they will be on Eastern Standard Time once again.

We wholeheartedly approve of Daylight time but we wonder if it is not continued too long to carry it through October. This late in the year children are often getting off to school before daylight, which is not desirable.

Certainly Daylight Savings time should be continued, but perhaps some thought should be given to changing the law nationally so that the clocks are turned back sooner in the fall.

^Now, Just Because Fni Backing Arthur Goldberg, DonH Jump to Any Conclusions-s-s-s-sr

By ART BUCHWALD

Nixon Took A The Curse Is Working Huge Gamble

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

EN ROUTE WITH NIXON The fact that President Nixons most intimate political advisers have had their breath taken away by the audacity of his unprecedented off-year electioneering proves how much Mr. Nixon himself, not his political high command, is persmally calling the signals in this crucial election.

That signal-calling specifically includes Vice President Spiro Agnews intrusion against Republican Sen. Charles E. Goodell in New York and the undercover Administration assist for Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr., the Democrat-turned-independent, in the Virginia Senatorial campaign.

But far more important, it involves a high personal risk to Mr. Nixon himself in a campaign that will take him to 20 or more states to elect new Republican Senators, reduce GOP House losses to the minimum, and safguard his partys present control of governorships.

The sudden, unexpected addition of such states as Minnesota, Wisconsin, and North Carolina to the growing list of Nixon targets took some members of his political high command by surprise. The decision to go all out, in other words, resulted not from carefully-staged White House strategy sessions, with possible gains of a Presidential visit minutely balanced against possible losses Of Presidential prestige.

To the contrary, Mr, Nixon decided weeks ago in private talks with H. R. (Bob) Haldeman, his top White House aide, and Atty.-Gen. John Mitchell, his general political strategist, to invest his prestige to the hilt, whatever the consequences.

Picking and choosing <ily those states that seemed pr(nising, he decided, would negate his role as party leader and expose him to an undercurrent of bad feeling from those left out.

Moreover, with a dozen Senate races as close as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, the picking and dioosing mi{^t well lead him to invest his prestige in exactly the wrong state, with a calamitous loss of Presidential prestige.

Mr. Nixon jokes privately these days about the similarities between his own 1970 political investment and the quandary of the famous Republican merchant, John Wanamaker, who said he knew that half his advertising paid off and half did notbut he could never discover which was which.

Faced with a similar problem, Mr. Nixon drew a bold conclusion and, despite the risks, decided to bet it all <wi the 1970 election.

That means a Presidential campaign going far beyond the Senate. With most states facing Congressional redistricting. Republican governors will be essential to prevent the veto of new, '^rrymandered districts set up by Republican legislatures or to veto gerrymandered districts set up by a Democratic legislature. The party that controls redistricting can gain a mathematical advantage which would directly influence the makeup of the House of Representatives for the next ti years.

Thats why Mr, Nixon will campaign in Minnesota and Wisconsin two states where Democratic Senatorial candi(^tes are prohibitive favorites but where the campaign for governor might be tipped Republican by the hoopla of a Presidential visit.

WASHINGTON - There is a great deal of soul-searching going (m in this country as to why things have gone wrong. The Democrats blame the Republicans. The Republicans blame the ra<fical-liberals. The students blame the Establishment. The Establishment blames Doctor Spock.

The one thing everyaie seems in agreement on is that were in a mess. The only thing no one is in agreement on is how we got into it.

I can now revral the exact date and hour when things started going downhill in the United States. I can also reveal, for the first time, the

reasMi why.

On Nov. 10,1958, at 11 a.m., a small brown package insured for $1 million was delivered to the &nithsonian Institution. Inside was the famous Hope diamond, a gift to the United States from Harry Winston, one of Americas famous jewelers.

The Smithsonian was thrilled to^ have such a beautiful stone to display to the public. But what the American officials did not take into consideratiin was that the diamond had a curse on itit brings bad luck to anyone who owns it.

Here are just a few of the things that happened to-

people who possessed the Hope diamond.

Louis XIV gave it to his mistress, Mme. deMon-tespan, and immediately abandoned her. The king himself contracted an incurable disease and finished his reign in disgrace.

The beautiful Princess Lamballe wore the diamond and was beaten to death by a mob during the French Revolution. Ha* head was paraded before Marie Antoinette, her closest friend.

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Public Forum

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To The Editor:

I am disturbed to read that the Rose High homecoming dance is being canceled because it is danga-ous to have a dance after dark.

I agree, but if the chief of police and the city manager would give police officers out there strict orders to enforce the law, not to just sit and watch as they did Friday night, October 9, maybe it would not be. The officers were called out wi Itth Street and they sat idly by while several hundred students were cursing peq)le passing by and throwing objects at passing cars and attacking smaller children.

I do not find fault with the officers themselves for they have to take orders from their superiors and they can do no more than they have orcfors to do. If they do more, they are subject to lose their jobs. But I think the chief of police and the city managm* should stand up and be counted and see that this type of thing does not happen again.

I hope they do not wait until someone is seriously injured or killed. ECU students have been injured; a young coiq>le was attacked; and a 13-year old Negro girl was injured.

I am certain that the citizens of Greenville would back Chief Gladson 100percent if he would adopt a get tou^ policy and strictly enforce the law and show these trouUe makers that Greenville citizens are just not going to tolerate this sort of thing in our city.

It is in the hands of the Qty Manager to do this and, with the help of Chief Gladson, he should see that it gets donefor the safety of all the people of Gheenville. Studoits oughtto be aUe to attend school activities and not fear for their lives on the way home afterwards.

Mrs. C. V. Dillman

King Louis XVI, who inherited the stone, anc his lovely Marie didnt fare any better.

The diamond was missing for several years. Then it turned up in the possession of Wilhelm Fals, a Dutch diamond cutter. Fals died of grief when his s<m Hendrik stole it from him. Hendrik committed sucide.

Francois Beaulieu, a Frenchman who owned it next, died of starvation after selling it to ta Englishman, David Elias<Hi, who sold it to an Irishman named Henry Thomas Hope.

Hie diamond was sold at auction to Jacques Celot, a jeweler who went insane and committed suicide. A Russian prince, Ivan Kanitovski, also owned it at one time. He was, as everyone knows, stabbed to death. Catherine the Great is said to have worn the diamond, and she died of apoplexy.

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Those

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) ~ The human memory is like autumn, a season of both recollection and prononition.

It is also like autumn in that it is a harvest. The reward of the green and growing years is the golden sheaf of memories one is left with in the Indian summer years of life.

Your own memory crop is bountiful if ^u can look back and rememh^ when

There "really wasnt much need for an alarm clock because there was always a rooster

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somewhere in the n^ghborhood to announce the dawn.

Many a farmer made pin mcHiey by hitching up his team of horses and charging Sunday motorists $5 to haul their stranded cars out of mudholes.

Everybody in America seemed to start munching raisins all at once after word was spread that they put more iron in your system.

During the flapper era of the 1920s, women for the fihst time b^an to invade mens barbershops, thereby riling the old-timers and forcing barbers to hide their copies of the lurid Police Gazette.

The nation had mwe pot-bellied stoves than pot-bellied people.

Sometimes the lights in a movie house were flashed on and the film stopped so the manager could come out and announce, The show will not continue unless you kids in the front row quit shooting beans at the piano playa:.

The best horseshoe pitcher in a small town was looked up to even though he always seemed too busy to find steady work.

Many a man who lived a long life died in the same bed and same room he was bom in.

Neither babies nor dogs were expected to subsist on canned foods.

The favorite pinup girls of World War II soldiers was Faye Emerson and Betty Ghable.

Kids when digging a backyard cave always conjured up the dream of going all the way through the earth and wcmdered if the first person they met on the other side wmild speak Chinese.

Every child also hoped to be the first to catch any new disease that appeared in his class.

The most populiu* air conditioner in hot weather was a cardboard fan.

The keyword of the American credo was opportunitynot security.

Those were the daysremember?

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If Sales Slump, Raise Prices

Strength For Today

LIFT UP YOUR EYES

A woman who was greatly worried felt it necessary to consult a psychiatrist. He gave her this prescription:

See a few big things Niagara Falls, the Great Pyramid, the Alps. (3o for the big things. . Said her physician, The big things you will like to remember when you are bothering about pouring water in and out of tea cups.

The tonic of big things is . often good for our small niinds. We tend to drift into small anxieties, s,mall pleasures, small ideas, small talk. John Bunyan writes in one of his books ;^ When.I was thus afflicted with a sense of my own damnation, there were two things which made me wonder. One was when I saw old people hunting after

the things of this life, ps if they should live here always; the other was when I found IH*ofessing Christians much distressed and cast down-when they met with outward losses. Lord, thought I, what ado is here about such little things as these!

Usually it is not the big burins which break our hearts, but a multitude of little burdens. It is not some great trouble which robs us of all power, but little anxieties which we should be ashamed to harbor. We easily tire of the microscopic what our soul really hungers for is the majestic. If life has lost its relish for us, it may be that what we need is contact with things that are truly big. Littleness may have wrought its evil-work in our heart and minds.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER That low, distant rumble you may be hearing may be the bones of Adam Smith rolling over in his grave in Edinburgh.

The substitution of Keynesian economic reasoning for that of Adam

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Stoith in The Wealth of Nations is producing some strange effects.

Take the airlines. For competitive reasons, the domestic lines have contracted for a large number of 747S at a cost of $24-million q>iece, give or take a dime, just at a time air traffic is falling off. They are cutting expenses, substituting snacks fOT full meals on short flights and dropping movies on. . mcMming flights. Adam Smith

would have approved.

&it they are also seeking higher rates and permission to engage in the monopoly practice of cutting competitive flights. There go Adams bones again.

Under older, basic economics, when you couldnt sell your biscuits you cut the price. But under the newer concepts, if you dont sell them, you raise the {xice. Fewer New Products ^ Take new products. Ihider basic economics, when demand for your products fall off, you tning out new and better ones.

But a survey by Alan Bemi Corp., marketing and design consultants shows manufacturers are introducing fewer new

[xoducts. In the past 18 months, new products among 50 major toiletries, food and housewares manufacturers have declined 38 per cent in comparison with the previous 18 months.

The hi^ cost of product

developmoit and recession budget cuts are ascribed as causes.

The high cost of product developinait and recession budget cuts are ascribed as causes.

Take labor. Unemployment, hit by plant closings and strikes, has fallen sharply. Under the old economics, wage$ would fall, tempting employers to hire more people, in effect sharing '^ the work.

But today the United Auto Workers, the Steelworkers and other unions are demanidUng unprecedented increases in wages.

There is, of course, a reasoning behind this strategem. Union ecmomists will tell you that if those with jobs get higher pay, they will spend more for goods and services and that will automatically increase employmoit and wages for other people.

Meanwhile unemployment is increasing. The last

government figure was 5.5 per cent of the labor force, and that 'doesnt include strikers nor cuts in the work week. The real unemployment may now be well over 6 per cent and may keep on rising until the Christmas surge starts.

Hey. Libs Youre Being Cheated on Salaries The Chase Manhattan Bank calculates that the over-all wage gap between men and women has beoi widening in recent years.

hi 1955 the median wage for womoi employed in full-time ' and year-round jobs was 64 per cent of the median male paycheck, it finds, while in 1968 it was only 58 per cent.

The bank attributed the decline to several factors: that women are generally employjed in fower-level jobs ' and that the marked increase in women in the labor force has created greater competition for jobs open to them, thereby depressing wag for those jobs.