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ECUS student Government Association has taken the initiative in organiadng a voter registration campaign aimed at newly enfranchised voters between the ages of 18 and 21.

SGA President Glenn R. Croshaw announced the campaign at a press conference last week.

We feel this campaign will provide a chani^^ for change for young pro^e, and it is a much more legitimate and effective exercise than that of various possible demonstrations,^ Croshaw said ^ making the announcement. ,

The campaign will include informing young'

Heroeis Spurred Jim Beatty On

Ry BRYAN HAiSLIP

CHARLOTTE - Jim Beatty^rew up with a galaxy of heroes.

Popping flies in sandlot baseball, he was Joe Dimaggio. Knocking a tennis ball against the house, he was Jack Kramer. Dreaming^ history and ^^litical achievement, he was Thomas Jefferson.

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HAISLIP

Which helps explain why hes where he is today, and why he aims higher.

Heroes taught him the urge to compete and the thirst to win. The drive that made him a champion athlete now fuels a bright political career.

Set your goals high and difflcult to reach, advised Beatty, a dark-haired, three-term Mecklenburg Representative. "Be (K'epared to work hard and sacrifice, looking for inspiration to those whose accomplishments you hope to copy.

Once a goal is realized, he added, raise your sights to the next one.

For him, that could be Congress or a statewide office. Next year might not be too soon.

Beatty, 37 and a Democrat youthful in appearance and outlook, has made a mark in the state l^islature. For the session now in recess, he served as education subcommittee chairman for House Appropriations (recommendations for spending in education), and vice chairman of the Mental Health committee.

Looking To OUier Goals

I have every desire and intent to compete at higher levels, he said of his political future.

Beatty, sisles executive with a maintenance supply firm, has hero status himself in the world of track.

His name is in the record book as the first to run the indoor mile under four minutes. That feat in 1962 brought him the Sullivan Award as Americas Amateur Athlete of the Year, international acclaim, and the chance to make friends in 30 countries.

As a boy, Beatty played every sport in its season. He discovered by accident his aptitude for track.

He started running; the mile from his house to where he picked up newspapers for his delivery route in order to build stamina for defense of the boxing championship in his weight division at

(Charlotte Central High. Each day his time improved.

He bugged the track coach to let him run in a meet. The-coach wouldnt hear of it at first, but finally relented.

Record First Try That good feeling knowing you can win came to Beatty in the last lap on the mile event. He kicked hard, finished first and set a new school record.

Three weeks later he won the state championship. He was on his way to the pinnacle.

Maybe that sounds easy. It wasnt. Through collegiate years (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Beatty kept to a hard discipline. He ran 100 miles a week. Losses came, as well as victories.

Every loss is a big loss. They all hurt, he said. Each loss made me work harder, that much more determined to win next time.

Track was the most important thing at the time, but he never let it be the most important thing in life. He enjoyed stardom, but didnt try to prolong it.

Now and then someone will suggest he try the track again. No-o-o way, laughed Beatty. After 10 years, it would be foolish.

He keeps fit with tennis and swimming, jogs only when hes really trying to get in shape.

Political Atmosphere He absorbed politics at Chapel Hill. He roomed at the home of the late John W. Umstead, a track fan and a power in the legislature. On Sundays, the black limousine with No. 1 license plate often brought Governor William B. Umstead calling on his brother.

John Umstead lived to see his protege seated in the House. Each term, Beatty has served on education and mental health committees, carrying on Umsteads abiding interests.

Young people in politics offer great hope for the future, Beatty said. Motivation is the key. In the next school year, I hope to do something about actively organizing voter registration drives at high schools and colleges, he said. Now that the franchise has been extended to 18-year-olds, I hope they will seize upon it. Beatty has old fashion ideas about star athletes and their hero image. They have tremendous influence with young people, he insisted. Like it or not, they have a responsibility to communicate positive ideals. If they fail to do so, they are not worthy of themantle.

Maybe a kid somewhere is running around the block pretending hes Jim Beatty. Jim Beatty doesnt intend to let him down.

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people of registration places in Pitt and all other counties where ECU students might be voting. While efforts will be focused on ECU students, Croshaw said theSGA will coq;>erate with any dvic group to make the information available to young peopte. ^

Certainly 90 more worthwhile project can be taken on t^ university Student Government Association. The vote has now been extended to 18 to 21 year olds; however a right of dtizenship is worthless if it is not exercised.

We Do Have Start On Public Kindergartens

One of the more hopeful inpftjvements in education for North Carolina Is the development of the public kindergarten;

For Pitt Coity, one of 35 new state kin-derpirtons approved this year, will be located at the Qon School, Pitt Supt. Arthur Alford has announced. - - ~

The program, with a $31,750 budget will provide two kindergarten teachers and two teacher aides at Griffon. ESEA Title I funds are providing one kindergarten teacher for each school, which means that the Griffon program will have three teachers.

While this is by no means the complete kindergarten program needed in the county, we do have a start. Hopefully it will eventually expand into a full program for the entire county.

Dictators'

Power Seen

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK ATHENS The callous disregard of the Nixon administration to a secret appeal by the two top leaders of the political parties that ran democratic Greece before 1967 provides shocking new evidence of the dictatorships power to influence Wa^ington.

The appeal took the form of a long, analytical letter to Secretary of State William P. Rogers on April 12 this year. It was signed by Panayotis Kanellopoulos, the last prim minister before Greece was plunged into dictatorship by the colonels coup detat and George Mavros, leader of the Center Union, the largest (now illegal) political party in Greece.

Kanellopoulos signed the agreement with the U.S. making available Greek Mediterranean ports for missile-firing nuclear submarines. Mavros has held the defense portfolio in several governments. Kanellopoulos is strongly conservative; Mavros a moderate. Both are highly cultured, sophisticated politicians, both strongly tied by conviction and association to the United States.

Their letter, the gist of which was made available to us by a third party, flatly repudiates Rogerss glib assertion in his March foreign policy report that some progress had been made in the restoration of civil liberties.

American policy toward Greece, marked by the full resumption of military aid last year, is being based on half-truths and erroneous impressions, not facts, they said. Thus, the claim of some progress in civil liberties is exactly opposite to the true state of affairs here in the fifth year of the dictatorship.

The letter proceeds to a pointed attack on the matter of civil liberties:

Citizens can be and are sent, on the whim of the military, for trial by extraordinary military tribunals, denied legal advice, and held for months without legal recourse. Authorities with no

connection whatsoever with the issuing of passports can and do cancel the departure of any citizen at the last minute.

So much progress has been made in freedom of the press that statements made by Kanellopoulos and Mavros cannot be printed in the newspapers, and the people get their news from foreign radio stations, as they did during the Nazi occupation.

The threat of arbitrary prosecutions and arrests hovers over all citizens at all times.

Taking issue with the rationale of President Nixons decision to resume full arms shipments in the name of NATO and U.S. security interests, they told Rogers that this support for a regime kept in/power by its own force of ^rms is an inadmissible intervention against the will of the Greek people.

Tlie use of that language was intentionally ironic. A cardinal principal of the Nixon administration in handling the latter-day Greek tyranny is to explain its cooperation with the dictatorship on grounds of noninterference. Thus, in his testimony in (ingress on July 13, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Roger Davies primly stated that we have carefully avoided any direct interference in the domestic politics of Greece.

To Kanellopoulos and Mavros, however, the arms resumption not only perverts and undermines the central purpose of NATO, which told Rogers was formed for the defense of the very ideals smashed by the colonels. It also has persuaded many Greeks that the real motivation for resuming military aid was to place the U.S. squarely behind the colonels, help them consolidate their hold on the country, and make Greece safe for NATO.

Whether that judgment is accurate or not misses the point. What is significant is that the two foremost ex-piametryleaders now in Greece believe it to be so. For four years the colonels have

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Strength For Today

WATCH OUT What is Gods purpose in the world? We cannot, of course, answer such a query in a way that will be oitirely satisfactory. (Sod the Oeator is illimitable. He is perfect in knowledge, power and love. Our little minds are not able to encompass the magnitude of Gods purposes. The Perfect One is' at work carrying out a plan. Sometimes we may be terrified at what appears to be that Plan. But we can be sure that the God of love will not do anything to hurt us or to hurt the hirnianity of which we are part. Sinful as we may be, God is not waiting to get his hands on us and give us the -punishment we deserve. God is*love (I John 4:8). If He were seeking revenge, He could carry out that terrifying project at any

time. But God is not interested in revenge. He is interested in our salvation. His object is to make our lives better and to bring us at last to that spiritual maturity He wants us to have.

Siould we fear God? Not unless we are perversely doing something contrary to his will. Elvai then his idea is not punishment but redemption. God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world'but that the world through Him might be saved (John 3:17).

If we are doing something defmitely evil then that evil thing will work itself out to our discontent^ grief, punislv ment. . ' ,

But we are spiritual beings,, and God is not seeking our punishment but our redemption.

By Earl L. Douglass

Recall

Yester

Years?

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - Memory can kill as well as reward.

If all the guilt or regret we have felt over what we have dime or what has happened to us stayed full strength in our minds their poignancy would destroy us. We could not bear their intensity.

Fortunately, however, memory is selective and ameliorating.

It softens the blow of past guilts and regrets; it casts a mellow glow around the years gone by ; it stirs in us a sigh

All liigelhcr, tmofis! We galla nm I Iwfoni Hcxl gears liatller

By ART BUCHWALD

A Wait-And-See Mood

WASHINGTON - Despite all the excitment about President Nixons announced visit to China, everyone has remained calm in Washington and there are very few visible signs that people have been affected by it.

Its true that White House aides are now eating with chopsticks, and large posters of Henry Kissinger have appeared all over twon with

the legend LET A THOUSAND FLOWERS BLOOM, and many Republican officials have ordered fireworks to celebrate Mao Tse-tungs birthday.

But the mood here is still one of wait-and-see.

There are many problems which must be resolved before any normal relations can take place between these two great powers.

First, there is the question of a name. Its impossible for anyone in this town to keep

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BUCHWALD

Other Editors Say The Hard Way

(Winston-Salem Joumal-Sentinel)

Nothing better illustrates the sad shape of the economy than ^the fact that m(H'e and mwe people are seaking favorably of direct wage and price controls as a means of stemming inflation.

Former Gov. Luther Hodges was quoted as saying, the present administration is not going to lick this inflation and the unemployment rate with any kind of voluntary jawboning ... Wage and price control is the answer and still is the answer.

And George Meany, AFL-CIO president, said that if he were in President Nixons position he would impose wage and price controls. I dont see any other way that his situation is going to get unde- control, he said.

The government has had cmsiderable experience in this business, although it has never before waited till a war was six years old befwe it acted. In World War I we had the Food Administration, the Fuel Administration, the War Industries Board, the Price-Fixing Committee and the War Trade Ooard, all directly or indirectly cmtrolling prices. In Wwld War II, the names were different. They were the Price Statlization of the National Defense Advisory Commission, the Office of Price Administration and the National War Labor Goard. In the K(M-ean War it was the Economic Stabilization Agency, the Office of Price ^abilization and the Wage Stabilization Board.

It seems unlikely that President Nixon, who dislikes exerting any kind of pressure on business and labor, would have any reverence for those old agencies or for often dictorial powers they exercised. Then too, econcunists tend to disagree over whether the controls exerted in the Korean War did any ap-(M-eciable good.

Still, Mr. Nixon may change his mind.

Even if the new agencies created did a poor job of controlling inflation, they wouldnt be total loss. The large bureaucracy entailed would hire, all by itself, enough government employes to reduce the unemployment problem considerably.

referring the the Peoples Republic of China.

Its too long and it certainly doesnt fit into a headline. Many people would like to go back to Commie China. Others would like to refer to it as Red China and then there are, of course, the names that Taiwan would like to call it.

So the first order of business for Mr. Nixon is to say to Chou En4ai, Before we get down to business, could you come up with a new name for your country so it (jbesnt take so long to say on television?

There are some people in Wa^ington who are still suspicious that the Peoples Republic of (Jhina will not change its attitude toward the United States because of President Nixons visit.

But a China-watcher I know said that there is no country in the world that can change its mind faster than the Peoides Republic of China.

All Mao Tse-tung has to do is announce that he just hsd a goqd thought about the United States and everyone in the country will have the same thought the next day.

That is the beauty of dealing with a country which has had a Cultural Revolution.

My China-watcher friend (Continued On Page 5)

rather than a cry for all those unforgotten yesterdays that somehow taught us to live.

Youve got a long string of memories yourself to stretch from there to here if you can look back Qpnd remember when

One of a childs favorite toys was the china egg a farmer put under a bemused young hen to inspire her to lay.

Kids who did their homework on a kitchen table lit by a kerosene lamp felt sorry for Abraham Lincoln because he had had to do his arithmetic lessons by firelight on a wooden shovel with a piece of charcoal.

Alhough Grandma was glad to get her fine new gas stove, she hated to throw away the old coal stove she had labored over most of her lifetime.

The big reason a mother didnt want her son to become a policeman was because he might end up with flat feet.

All a young boy knew about sex was what he read on washroom walls and what he overheard the big boys talking about.

A stenographer who dared to go to work wearing a skirt above her knees was quietly told to look for another job unless the head of the firm was a leg man.

A bartender in most saloons could go a whole day without being asked to make a martini or manhattan.

You could tell whether a man was wealthy or not by the way he dressed.

The two most famous fat men in America were former President William Howard Taft and Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle, the movie comedian.

A dope was a kid who did well in school but didnt know the names of the horses ridden by Tom Mix, Roy Rogers, and the Lone Ranger.

The two most common cures for the common cold were, in order, the juice of a quart of bourbon taken internally, or a chest poultice made of flannel cloth soaked with hot lard. Often the second cure was tried after the first proved ineffective.

An American taxpayer could feel pretty sure he wouldnt have to pay for more than one war in a generation.

It was thought far more important to have a kids teeth straightened than send him to college.

Those were the daysremember?

Doubts Over Inflation Brakes

By ELMER ROESSNER The rise in bank prime interest rates and the Federal Reserve discount rate once again raises doubts whether monetary controls can halt or even slow down inflation.

The Federal Reserve action was a reversal of policies earlier this year. As Harris Trust and Savings Bank of Chicago points out, the money supply rose at an annual rate of nearly 10 per cent during the first six months of-1971. From January to May it rose over $9 billion, equivalent to a 13 per cent rise at annual rates, rose another $3 billion ~ in May and slowed in June. In the same period, time deposits rose 23 per crat, adding to lendable money.

This appeared to be an Administration attempt to make iq) for ecoiKunic losses ^ during the Geno'al Motors strike and boom the eomomy. Business did im-. prove, but it was far short of . boom. And die monetary move was purely inflationary.

A UUIe Braking Then, apparently, the

Administration, that is, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury, began to see inflation as a worse danger than the failure of the economy to boom and applied a monetary brake, a higher discount rate.

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ROESSNER

Howevwr, it may be too little and too late.

Inflation, largely created by the expansive monetary policy, has assured the economy of 10 per cent wage ^ increases this year, in 1972 and 1973.

The United Auto Workers got increases in that range last year, ttiis year and 1972. Copper and aluminum workers have wpn similar 'wage increases iq 1971,72 pnd 73 and steel workers, strike or no strike, udll win a similar increase. The phone workers have won similar three-year

increases, postal workers, raises over two years. Western Union strikers are likely to get similar increases. Construction workers, whose gains have been running ahead of almost all other trades, are still winning increases in that range. And the minimum wage will go up 20 per cent next year.

Spreading Effects

These increases will affect the pay of all other workers, including the unorganized. It is almost certain that wages generally will average 19 t 10 per cent a year over lhe next two or three years, probably from 6 to 9 per cent.

In the last decade, the cost of labor has risen much faster than the cost of matHlals. The major facUn* in the price of a dish of ham and eggs used to be the cost of the ham %nd the eggs; today it is the pay of the cook and Hie girt wk) serves it.

With wages going up for the next three years, so will there be inflation for tfae.next three years^ no matter whether the

government turns the spigot on the money supply to the left or right.

Commodity Exchange Embarrasses Treasury

The West Coast Commodity Exchange in Los Angeles is dealing in gold futures. Contracts are designed to permit speculative purchases and sale of British sovereigns minted before 1934.

Taint legal, says the U.S. Treasury. Tis legal, says David Callahan, president of the exchange.

The Treasury is ptt^baUy motivated by the fisct that a free market in gold mi^t lead to skyrocketing prices, thereby exposing the weakness of the non-hold^ dollar in world markets.

However, if it wins out over the exchange, it may find itself oUigated to cracik down on almost every gold coin dealer in the country. They are ddvertising that British goldsovereigns are an in-tere^ing speculation and that they cost litUe more than bullion in world markets^