4Hie Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.--Moiiday, November 9i 1970 -

Romorkable BockTe^Election

One of the iore remarkable results of last week-s-electioa Mras the victory of James Buckley. Conservative Party candidate in New York.

' Buckley was running against two liberal minded candidates Charles^ Godell, the Republican, and Richard Ottinger, the Democrat In such a three way rac Buckley, of course, failed a Ihajbrf^

candidates to take the New York seat in the U. S. ^Senate. Elections analysts pointed out time-after-time ihat,while Buckley won, the combined total i^ote of his two liberal opponents^was far greater

than his own. , -1^----

This is true, of course, and it is not likely that -Ruckley*s election means a strong fairn to the right

in New York thinking. However, it is not entirely fair to compare Buckleys vote with the combined totals of his two opponents. Remember that Goodell ^ndOttinger wererunning^as the candidates of the

nations and New York States two major parties Consequently each of theih was certain to receive huge~iroi]^rsaf"yotes^rem the-^ loyals --hundreds of thousands of people who are registered Democrats or R^ubHeans and are certain to vote

that way. . ..

^ -Buckley, on the other hand, was carrying the

stenifti^ fdr

outside New York. Thus he had to win over every vote that he received.

Buckl^ was an attractive candidate and no doubt-he benefitted by the growing trend^f Americanslo voteimoreiGrihe candidate an^ less for the party. He captured the ima^natibn of more ^n two million New Yorkers and, according to the

Briarpdtch Of Jury Verdicts

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH. Youre a landowner whose property will be crpssed by a new high-wayrraaking it necessar^i^ the state to ac^rr right -of-' Avay.^-......

You dont like it. You want to receive a fair price for the land takefi. wni you gt lT If youre like'SQ per cent of the Tar Heels in such cases, youll accept a settlement worked out after a value is set

Another 502 right - of way oasea^ were settled-!^ -s^f lawyers without going to ..triaUo the tune of $6,O90^OQP,. Hiat was 55 per cent above the^^;;OT3,000 deposited by the-highway department. ^North Carolina paid $18 million lasf year to acquire ri^t - of -way for new and improved highways-- The expenditure would have been many millions more had every landowner, rather than only 10 per cent, chosen the route of legal action.

Procedures Analyzed As an aid in the search for a solution, a study of right - of -Vay procedures in the con-

- mail twu

Wall street Journal,-be had many young people among his.sujiiorters.

The Buckley win is going to keep New York politicians pondering its meaning for some timefo ^i;omerltwasone^ttie-moFe4ntei:estinrmUs of this generally inconclusive election.

Tobceo Morket Paid Nor $7 Million More

Greenvilles $73.04 average for the tobacco selling season which ended last week marks a successful year.

The market paid out $38,606,741 this year an increase Of $6,892,786 over the money paid out last yeaPr

This should be helpful to the farmers, although there is no doubt that rising costs this year have pretty much offset this increased amount.

Still it was a better year than last and perhaps the extra money will help the hard pressed tobacco farmer to stay up with steadily rising costs.

No Wasteland To Democrats

by the State Highway Departments appraisers.

you hire a-lawye* andge to court, as the other 10 per cent do, chances are the amount negotiated by attorneys or awarded by a jury, will be several times the initial offer.

The disparity between state ' appraisals for right - of - way and final settlements based on jury verdicts is a problem with both monetary and public relations implications.

Does it mean the state is systematically using appraisals below fair market value, thus short- changing the thousands of North Carolina paroperty owners who accept settlement short of court action?

does it reflect ineptness on the part of attorneys represiting the states interests once the condemnation procedure is in court?

Brlarpatch of Problems Jhat it is a thorny.

demnatiohsl^e hasHBeen compiled by Dr. James A. Webster, Jr., Wake Forest University law professor. Questionaires were ^ circulated among Superior Court judges and staff at-rdrhej^Mi'otliefs^ interviewed in the course of the research, which included analysis of many cases resulting in trial and jury awards.

Contents of the report are confidential, Morgan said. It will be used in attempting to work out methnds of acquiring right - of - way which will both Save the state money and keep the respect and good will of citizens whose land is condemned.

The Attorney General readily agreed that his staff is handicapped in handling right - of - way condemnation suits by the heavy burden of cases and the relative lack of trial ejq[)erience among staff attorneys.

Ten staff lawyers are assigned to the highway departnient under Assistant Attorney General Bruce White for work in right - of -

By ART BUCHWALD

By ROWLAND EVANS andROBERTNOVAK

WASHINGTON - A private telephone conversation this week, between Sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine and Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes of Texas symbolized the sudden transofmation of the Southern Democratic wasteland into a potentially fertile source of 1972 votes.

Muskie, front - running Democratic Presidential prospect, and the youthful, dynamic Barnes, reelected with nearly a 70 percent vote, did not discuss the 1972 national ticket. What they did talk about was the need to reestablish the Democratic partys historie -attiance between North and South, Uliose steady disintegration was hastened by the 1968 election.

In truth, that alliance may have been, reborn Tuesday. Defying the Nixon-Agnew law-and-order campaign throughout the South, the Democrats have placed noji-racist moderates in the governors mansion in

troublesome area is acknowledged by Attorney General Robert Morgan wliose staff becomes involved in the legal condemnation of property fpr highway right -of way.

Jury verdicts are astronomical, running far beyond what the highway department has deposited as representing the fair price, he said.

Seventy - five right - of way condemnation suits were tried by the Attorney Generals staff in the past fiscal year. Jury verdicts in the cases amounted to $1,149,00.

This was approximately 120 per cent greater Jthan the $520,000 uhich the highway depattment hadd@PQ8it^^

way casesrRight now, 1,400 - Arkansas (after two terms-by-

cases^are pending, an average of 140 for each staff member.

Staff Overloaded that means each one has about 1.7 days per year to spend on each of the cases assigned to him, Morgan pointed out. No human being can do a good job with that kind of load.

Salaries for staff iiositions are at levels which mean many are filled by recent law schottf paduatesrmost with*' little or no trial e^pertence. They go into court i^aTnght -of - way condemnation suit facing the best and most experienced counsel the landowner can secure. Its an uneven match.

Morgan said he is taking steps bodi to beef up the staff-

woneiHH^-me TO cases, recniitaient, and to

Rpublican Winthrop Rockefeller), Florida (replacing Republican Claude Kirk\ Georgia (replacing racist Lester' Maddox), and South Carolina (continuing the moderate Democratic regime <rf Gov, Robert McNair). ^

In Texas, modrate Democrats turned back a powerful Republican challenge in a possibly decisive election. Already holding NMTiamCfKis new breed of Southern Democratic moderate now controls six of eleven Dixie states a bitter harv^t reaped by President Nixons Southern strategy.

The only Republican holdouts are Tennessee, now a bona RdeBepublican tate^-

That leaves the Deep South Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, which George Wallace can have for the asking in 1972.

Moreover, only one Southern Deffioeratic^House seat went Republican Tuesday, and that district (in Virginias conservative Shenandoah - Valley vacated by a Byrd Democrat) has been destined for the Republicans for years.

There were, of course, special circumstances in each . ot, these Democratic . triumphs. In Florida, a long -standing feud between Kirk and anti - Kirk Republicans was further inflamed when an overly cute White House backed Kirks decision to run ex-Judge Harrold Carswell against Kirks enemy. Rep. William Cramer in the Republican primary. Oamer waUoped Carswell, but both Cramer and Kirk were damaged for the fall campaign.

_ Eurthermore, Cramer

blundered horribly when he personally held up three FederaL judgeships cleared" by retiring Democratic Sen. Spessard Holland, galvanizing Holland to take the stump for state Sra. Lawton Chiles against Cramer. Hollands campaign assured victory for the statewide Democratic ticket headed by Chiles and Gov. -elect Reubin Askew.

Beyond such peculiarities, the Chiles Askew team fairly reflects the new Southern democracy: un-' 18\ftShed* by* bitter'^' 'racia battles of the 1960s and unconnected with the partys Northern power base of big labor. Eastern intellectuals, and New York money.

The other new Southern governors Jimmie Carter . in Georgia, John West in . South.Xaroiina^ Dale.3um^

How Nixon Went Wrong

WASHINGTON - The question that everyone is trying to figure out is where the Nixon strategy went wrong. Heinrich Applebaum, elite professor of political science at Moribund University, believes he can pinpoint the exact moment when President Nixon lost his chance to gain control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

^plebaum told me, My surveys indicated thaj up until the Sunday morning before Election Day, President Nixon had it made. The violence issue, thanks to San Jose, had taken hold and an indignant nation was waiting to go to the polls and vote out those candidates whom both Nixon and Agnew indicated were permissivists who condoned student unrest. I have never seen a better

orchestrated campaign, and I was willing to cede the Senate and House to the Republicans.

But what happened. Professor, to change the picture?

The pro football games. Thats what happened.

I dont understand.

The Republicans bought time on both NBC and CBS for a special political appeal by President Nixon to be _ aired between halftimes of air the pro football games in the country. It was a blunder of colossal proportions.

I dont understand.

"Who watches football on Sunday in the United States?

The Silent Majority, I said.

Exactly. The very backbone of this cbuntiy . Now t Silent Majority is willing to

listen to anything the President of the United Sfates has to say six days a week. But Sunday th^ set aside to watch football. They dont want to hear about the Vietnamese war, the economy, law and order or

ART

BUCHWALD

Other Editors Say Day Of Purpose

(Rociar Mount Telegram)

Observance of Veterance of Veterans Day, next Wednesday, will mark the ending of World War I more than 50 years ago.

Ifistory reveals that 50 years ago, just as ^ years ago, or even in the days of World War II, only a little more than a generation ago, there was an overulielming dedication and belief in the United States. Patriotism wasnt something to hide, or submerge in cynicism. Strong convictions about the American way commanded respect; no one doubted our destiny as a nation.

Now, as we approach another Armistice Day or Veterans Day^ the in-thing among many of the discontented is to shin convictions or allegiance to any cause or principle. Pursuit of such a ))hilosophy to its logical conclusion would be the abandonment of observation of all milestones in the history of the nation, or in the history of mankind for that matter.

If nothing matters, there is nothing to observe; and if there is nothing to observe or believe m. uhat is left but vacuum indiere once di'ere 4ras a great nation anlS a greSt people.

Just as on other days that are important in the record of the United States, citizens :tum out jn tribute to Veterans Day

violence in the streets. All they want to do is drink their cans of beer and watch two football teams try to kill each other on the gridiron.

That isnt asking much, I said.

Up until halftime, the Silent Majority was willing to vote the straight Nixon-Agnew slate, Applebaum said.

But, suddenly, President

representing what it con sidered a fair purchase price for the land involved.

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and Virginia, whose moderate Republican party headed by Gov. Linwood Holton was humiliated when the White House refusedi to help it against the Senate campaign of newly in-dependoit conservative Sen. Harry F. Byrd, Jr.

pers in Arkansas also are non racist moderates. In stor, then, is the strong ixospect of vigorous party rebuilding in these states. Untroubled by the hitter legacy of the 60s. In store, as well, is an alliance with (Continued on page 5)

great and for iKhich^many of their fellowmen have given up their lives. November 11, in short, is a day of purpose.

Nixon appeared on millions of-screens all over the country. The Siloit Majority couldnt believe it. They were expecting to see a halftime show with a marching band, drum majorettes, baton twirlers' aifd all the things that make pro football worth watching.

In fry, they changed to the other channel only to discover President Nixon had also bought time between the half of that game. And, Instead of talking about football, Nixon was discussing politics.

It takes a lot to get the Silent Majority angry, Applebaum said. But this was too much._When-your ihess around with their-football games on Sunday, ft

hurts.

All over the countrv. (Continued on page 5)

By BOB HARING Associated Press Writer east BRUNSWICK. N.J (AP) Never throw anything

away. ............

That may l^ejbem awm--advice throughout history, but it iiHghr to be commandment day.

-rJunk, aged long enough, b --comes valuable.

Even the desk where you . carved ymir initials in third grade will probably be worth twice

whether you become president or not.

If (^d light bulbe and used spark plugs retain dollar appeal, almost anything is .worth money.

New York City is a salvagers paradise. Old buildings falling to die wreckers ball to make way for new buildmgs offer the adventurous prospector a mother lode.

Dooricnote, old apartment mail boxes, ironwork radmgs. the very bricks of the faUen walls may be valueless on Ne^ York City streets.

But transported to suburbia, diey are the instant antiquity of some modern decorating prizes.

Surely an international cmrtel -should be organized to transp^ New Yorks junk to the points vdiere it acquires value. And viceversa.

Old milk cans are no prized

hills, where people still use them. And used flat irons hold little attraction for the hill housewife who can still- buy them new at a discount store and clearly remembers her mother using one.

But Manhattanites freshly fled to greener suburbs will part with cash for both those items, as well as such oddments as real cowbells, old carpentor tools, even glass-topped Mason jars of the sort that boys broke 30 years ago by the dozen with slingshots and b-b guns.

Hie array of roadside antique stofffi expands yearly. Flea markets stretch from New Yorks asphalt parking lots west, offering a network fof junk to exchange its way around the nation.

And it is true that age alone creates value. No one collects Barbie dolls yet but the man who in 50 years has the last six in the world may claim some-ttiing of value.

Throughout history it has been true that todays modem is tomorrows antique.

Perhaps the lesson for parents JaiJLyfliLwouldifiave your chil-

dren a real legacy, save their toys so that when they retire they will boast an instant collection of rare (and priceless) antique toys.

Opinions In Brief

Ideas are much more fatal things than guns. Why should any man be allowed to buy a printing press and disseminate pernicious opinion calculated to em-barass die government? ^^lkolai Lenin.

A pMple who mean to be Iheir own governcN^s must arm themsrives with powqr which knowledge gives. James Madison.

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Substitute For Surtax Move?

Strength For Today

LIGHT AND DARKNESS INLIVlNG

The Goldm Rule is one thing, and the rule of gold is something quite different. The first runs, All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them. The second is phrased in these words: M(Hiey talks. Get as much of it Us you can, by fair means or fdul. To ha^ money is to have happiness and the fulfillment of all desires,

The individual who builds his, life on the Golden Rule comes to kpow the meaning of true riches. Likewise the nation which in Its dealing with oidher nations followi this rule of squareness and. consideration for others comes to be ixinorcd by its neiiMyt and Teared> by tu

foes. The rule of gold, however is the most fascinating will-o-the-wisp that ever lured men along the broad pathways of wrongdoing and over the precipice of disaster.

Many people make the rule of gold a fundamntal principle of their lives. Many are ftank in saying that they r^ard money as the chief Old in life and that they intend to neglect no opportunity to get as much of it Us possible. But there are others whose devotion to the rule of gold is quite unconscious. It is onl^hen they stand before Fsome" great temptation to secure money by unworthy or perhaps dishonest means that they rmize that,the Goldqi Rule iheanS little to them and the rule of gold means much.

By Earl L Douilau

A value - added tax is under consideration by . top government officers and may be proposed as an alternative to re - enactment of the "surtax to meet th^^wm^ rise in govmment spending.

A value - added tax is a levy imposed on each manufacturing stagebf a product. It is a multiple sales tax, since it may be levied repeatedly on a product. A rubber company would pay a tax on its materials; Its tires wotdd be taxed again when sold to an auto manufacturer. Resins woi^d be taxed when sold tq a plastics manufacturer; the plastic fittings would be taxed w^en sold to an auto maker. Other components would j>e similarly *taxed, some of them many times as they moved from one processor to anothw, and the completed car would be taxed once more when sold. '

, i^lier this year Treasury Secretary KenHedy announced, that.the govmmment hs4 begiffi s _itiidy of thfe.

value-added tax. As the budget deficit rises in this fiscal year, and appropriations threaten to rise furtherin the fiscal year 'Rafting July 1, Me study has been speeded and the tax may be proposed to the new Congress *in President Nixons budget message next year.

A Lousy Tax

The value - added iax can be sti^ed live because it is being tried in France and other European countries. There is an added gimmick: the tafC is refunded on export goods. This is necessary because, the multiple tax would price taxed goods out of the export market.

The value added tax is a iQUsy tax for g number of reasons:

1. The fact thatithas to be remitted on export goods proves that it boosts jurices of domestic goods exorbitantly.

2. It is a secret*tax; it is

paid eventually by the con-Miy. yttlM hii an way of

knowing how much it is. So it never can be deducted from income taxes and the consumer never knows how much he has been had.

taxes, since the added^ value taxes increase the retail price of goods, it will increase state and local sales taxes.

7- It is an unfair tax since,

3. Like all secret taxes, it encourages governments to spend and spend without thq public realizing their bufdeh.

ELMER ROESSNER

Contributes To Inflation

4. It is inflationary, since it increases prices consumers pay.

5. It is inflationary since it increases prices manufacturers must pay for com-p(xients ; they must inrease their lrkups on the t^ as ^1 u the basie cost.

8. it creates uno

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for example, stamping out metei plates increases the value of the metal very little, while fashiiming a jewelry design increases the value of metals and stones very much.

8. It is a regresslvi tak, since it is paid by the con-*summr, regardless of incorhe, hitting the poor as hard as the rich.

9. It will hit international trade, since such a tax will require import taxes to prevent giving away much more of~^ the American market.

10. JH will increase government expenses, since if will reate a new corps of tax collectors to crawfl over the books of every manufacturer even the little fellow who ties fishing flies and to collect new;^ compensating Uxes on im^

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