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A Con$ervatlvL View

New Welfare Programs Are An Unknown

TOUGH WEEKEND FOR ROYALTY

Honestly, you just dont realize soinetimes^ what a difficult thing it is to be royal.

Here was, according to reports of peo|rfe who were at the party. Lord Snowden who (at last reports) is Princeas Margarets husband, attonpting to break in on a horse trainer dancing with a countess (interesting, how the social orders have eroded, you know). And the bounder refused, cutting off his lordship with a snippy, This is not America!

So his lordship tossed a glass of wlte wine over the horse trainers shirt front, and, after thihking it over awhile, tossed a glass of red wine at the cad. One may speculate the action really revealed Snowdois less than ro^ o^ns a true blueblood

wwild never have been injjoubt'ova* the pr<^ wine to use.

^ Actually therejaacolie doubt ovor the propriety <rf a lord using a glass oJLwirie on a mo^e h<^ trainer, democratic times we liyo'iliT

" In any event, the rule is: white tie, white wine; black tie, red wine. These things are terribly important, you know, and after all, if we cant depend upon^the upper class to defend the old ways why, then, upon whom can we depent? Aimiston (Ala.)

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GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Older generati(Mis of middle-class youngsters were reared not to wear their feelings on their sleeves or their ^timents in their buttonholes, but not everyone was so enjoined, judging^ from the popularity of slogan-bearing buttons, T-shii^-a^ bumper-stickers.

Want to know what your neightxH* thinfcatlExamine his lapel or automobile. Im Black an|jJBhutiful. Make Love Not War. Keep Of the GrasT.^ Speed Kills. Free Angela. Im Fussin About Busing. Tlie cheeriest greeting that has rolled our way is a bumper sticker that exhorted us, ladylike, to

^ Have a Nice Day.

Not long ago, chriving alng Virginia Beach Boulevard, we overtook a sedan plastered with the motorists oirinions. American-flag decals were flying in the windows. On the right rear bumper was When Guns Are Outlawed, Only Outlaws Will Have Guns. On the left rear: Support Your Lcal Police. Center rear: America, Love It or Leave It. and on the trunk, like the top layer of a wedding cake, I am a Member of the

Silent Majority.

So we had begun to suspect. Norfolk (Va.) Virginian-Pilot

VANISHING ACT Wishing to get into the anti-pollution field, the Treasury Dept, has amended its rules so that worn currency can be destroyed by a method other than burning.

It is now permitted to employ the pulverization method, and theres some thought that the resultant product might serve as

insulation material.

Then, of course, based upon the declining buying power of our currency, new or ragged, it might just vanish of its own accord if allowed to stond long enough. Birmingham (Ala.) News

IS IT RECYCLED OR JUST RECOOKED?

To most people the term recycled means than an article has been used, collected and processed for re-use. Thus the recycling of bottles and tin cans would involve collecting the empties and either refilling them or melting them downto make new containers. Recycled paper would be newspaper or other products once used and returned to the miU to be convert^ into newspaper. Right? Wrong!

Now that there is money and even a little prestige in recycling (junk dealers are now called salvage firms), there is also an element of deception. For example the General Services Administration (GSA) is purchasing some paper products made from recycled fiber and the question of defining recycled has arisen. Some paper companies insist that the definition should include mill waste - paper which, for one reason or another, is damaged in manufacturing or does not meet specifications and is, therefore, put through the pulping process again.

No one would deny these companies the right to remanufacture this paper. It is obviously good business and good conservation. But it is not recycling. Spokesmen for the salvage industry have asked that the definition apply only to post-consumer paper, and this makes sense. If 5 per cent of the governments paper purchases are to be the recycled variety, as Mr. Nixon has urged GSA to do, we hope it will truly be recycled and not the product of the crafty use of the language. -Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal

RIGHT ON. MARC In a New York Times Magazine article recently, rock reviewer Mike Jahn offered a glossary of hip terminology, included Right on, which he defined as meaning precisely or Thats right. Jahn added that the term derives from the old revival meeting practice of having the congregation cheer on the minister during the sermon. The cries of Thats right

have become cries of Right on.

Maybe. But even etymologists can seldom be sure of just where a slang term comes from. And there is an intriguing excerpt from Shakespeares Julius Caesar (Act III, Scene 2) in which Marc Antony blandly tells his friends, Romans and countrymen:

For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech. To stir men s blood; I only

speak right on.

That famous speech, full of verbal irony, attained its purpose of goading the crowd into anger at Caesars assassins while appearing to try to calm them. It may or may not have given rise to the hip expression current today. But rereading it confirms the feeling that Marc Antony was a cool cat who knew how to [each power to the people. Roanoke (Va.) Times.

OUT WITHINPUT Before matters get much furthCT out oS hand, we wish to view with alarm the latest vogue word, input. Input hw 1^ creeping up on us, and now threatens to invade even the loftiest-toned writing and conversation. Qearly, this will never do. For input commonly used in the contest of someones having imput in some situation or another is too amorphous, tw flabby to convey anything. Why cant one just participate in an activity? Or make a contrictuion to it? That may not sund very fancy, but at least its good English, which imput assuredly aint. -DaUas (Tex.) Times Herald

By J.J. KILPATRICK

We had our first smog alert of the summer

season here in Washington a few days ago. It had

a nice symbolism: Just as the haze descended, the Senate Finance CkNnmittee began hearings on the several pending plan* of welfare reform.

Let this be sUted as a fact certain: Nobody, literaUy nobody, has any cigar or reliable understanding of how these^lails.!SOuld work or what they would cost. One feature is generally known: Under Title IV of H.R. I, passed by the House on June 22, a typical poor family of four would be guaranteed a minimum annual income, out of the Federal treasury, of $2,400.

That single provision rises from a legislative mist like the Washington Monument out of last weeks smog. The $2,400 figure provides a certain reassurance to lost sail(HS. I^wn below, out (rf si^t, are pages ipon pages of complex and inccmiprehaisiUe sections and sid>^tions, winding through parentheses to bottonless seas of prospective rules and regulations. This is^ nightmare of the draftsmans art.

The House Ways OMl Means ^dnfifuttee has issued a 386-page Reportjp^ekj^in what its bill is all about. A subi^SMf^l part (rf that Report is devoted to,jvoT incentives. But this past vreek

came a scholarly study, commissioned by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, strongly suggesting that the work incentives, such as they are, simply will not woriL Most of the plans pending in the Senate, committee are based upon a sliding scale of welfare benefits. If the typical poor family of fourWilliam, Mary, and their two children have no outside income whatever, tiiey would get the $2,400. The first $720 that William and Mary earned would be exempt. Up to $3,120, they would be safe fr(nn a tax bite. Butus their earned incmne increased, benefit payments would be accordingly reduced. At cutoff point of $4,320, benefits would stq;> altogether. The practical effect is to hit poor Bill with a tax rate of 67 percent.

The two economists retainedtgMlfe U.S. Chamber, Alfred and Dor^tiqrT^a, have impeccable academicj^idTitwessional credentials. Their sumiseS^on what William and Mary would do, under the assumed dr-anees, are backed by impressive researdi. But it is a working rule that all economists speak Chinese, save only John Kenneth Galbraith, and this is a fair sample of what a ctmgressman must wade through if he wants to know how the experts analyze the bill. From the Tellas study:

Without knowing the form of utility functions it is difficult to determine the extent to which fanlies with pre-plan incomes above the cut-off could maximize utility by re<kidng earnings sufficiently to qualify tor a ju^ptement. However, since it is important to make some estimateof the extent^f effects above the cutoff, we made Uta fdlowing assumption: Uiatttiebead flf^4amily with a inre-idan income above Uie ^statatory cutoff of a negative income tax p^ would find it advantageous to reduce 1^ hours of work sufficiently to enable the family to qualify for a supplemmt if tberelTa level of earnings below the cut(#i^Which tte supplement divided by the Iqsrih earnings is equal to a tax rate that, ^veh our estimated substitution effect of various tax rates, would induce him to rechice his earnings to that level.

All clear? The Tdlas oaumpti^ik^ into En^iah, lead them tq coUclude that to a typical case, Bil^iirobably wwtW atop moonlightii^,^i)ri^t in fewer overtima ioms, and Mary mi|^ well stop wortteg aatagatltar. Otherwise, instead of being better <rffi Oieydie worse off. ^

It is this kind of analysis, over simplified hut comprdiensible, that members of the Confptass desperately need. Finrmer Senator JcAn Williams of Delaware had S' knack of cu^ing throu^ the fog to get at specific examines,'but Williams is no longer around and the fog gets thicker. No one doidits that the existii^ welfare mess is awful, but surely it would be focdish to follow the House bill blindly into clouds of un-^ c1ainty and sheer conjecture. Thats wberathe Senate committee is heading; and Qod help Bill.

Speculations On Peking Trip include Possible^ Visit By Chou To U.S.

By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent

President Nixons CTiina initiative is provoking speculation along some spectacular lines. One possibility now being seriously discussed in some quarters is that Premier Chou En-lai of Communist China will visit the United Nations in New York before President Nixon goes to Peking.

Another intriguing line of sp^ulation is that Secretary-General U Thant of the United Nations may be persuaded to change his mind about retiring at the end of this year because of the dramatic possibilities ahead.

Relatively soon after the 26th U.N. Assembly opens in September, it will come to grips again, as it has for two decades, with this question: which Chinese shall sit in Chinas

seat, the Communists of Peking or the Nationalists of Formosa? It looks as if Peking is as good as voted in already.

Last year, for the first time, Peking won a simply majority, 51-49. It was not enough because the United States had successfully defended once again the principle that the question was important and thus required a two-thirds vote of the assembly. But the 26th session begins to look like an entirely new ball game.

This year the 18 nations sponsoring Pekings membership have moved early to put in their resolution, adding to it that Peking also should occupy Chinas Security Council seat along with the seats in the other U.N. bodies. But the resolution calling for important-ques-tion treatment has not yet been submitted.

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To The Editor:

I wonder how many F*itt County sportsmen are aware of the impending destruction of a very large area in which they are accustomed to do their nearby fishing and hunting.

Within a ^rt penbd, cbhstruction on the Chicbd, Swift, and Little Contentnea Creeks drainage projects is slated to begin. Together these will total no less than 502 miles of ditching and dredging, tree removal from the stream banks, and other improvements designed to allow faster water run off from adjacent lands.

These projects, if completed, will drastically change the extent and nature of a good part of eastern Carolinas best habitats for sport fish, wood-^ck and other waterfowl, and certain fur-bearing animals. Ai^roved and carried out by the state and federal Soil (Conservation Service, they will be paid for, in large majority, by federal taxes taken from the pockets of every citizen.

The three menticmed projects, although among the biggest currently planned, are by no means the whole story: between SCS and the Corps of Engineers, most every stream in the Tar River and the lower Neuse drainage basins have been proposed . for channelization (ditching) at some time in the past, or are held for study in the future. Broad (Creek, near Washington, is currently being destroyed; Tranters (Creti is next mi the list, according toCorps of Engineers plans.

Anyone interested in seeing what might be done to make the SCS and the Corps reconsider these damages to the environment of Eastern North Carolina should ask for further information from:

Mr. Jesse Hicks, State (Conservationist (SCS)

Box 27307 Raleigh E. J. Long Jr.

(Chief, Engineering Division

(Corps of Engineers

Box 1890

Wilmington

and

Natural Resources Defense (Council Project Streams 1600 Twentieth Street, NW Washington, D. C.

Philip J. Adler Greenville

THEN WHERE DO WE GOt

This means that the member^ ship question is ahead on the agenda and will stay there unless the Assembly is persuaded to vote for a change, which seems unlikely at this time. In the past the Americans have had their friends introduce the important-question measure for them, but such help may now be harder to come by. In some respects the Americans pulled the f-ung from under their friends in the Pacific area friends like Japan and the Philippinesby the secret contacts with Peking.

One might even ask why the sponsors of the Peking membership were so eager to get their resolution in early this year, and why the United States has done nothing to assure priority for its important-question defense of the Chiang Kai-shek seat.

In the first place, it would take only a relatively few vote shifts this year to defeat the important-question measure and thus it would be out of the way in any case. In the second place, if the two-thirds vote is not required, (Chiang Kai-sheks regime has had it. Peking will be voted in. And the betting now is that the United States will not even vote against Peking, but simply abstain.

The way then could be clear for (Chou to visit the United Nations and dramatize spectacularly Red (Chinas victory after two decades.

Evans, Novak

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even if the new young voters did not register Democratic they almost surely would vote Democratic. That point was made emphatically by two experienced political practitioners Ody Fish of Wisconsin and Frederick Lippitt of Rhode Island.

Apprehensive though they are, however, the docile committeemen are not about to publicly express misgivings on these or any other counts. For instance, an overwhelming majority favored Miami Beach as the 1972 convention site but meekly submitted (by iT National (Committee vote of 119 to 12) to Mr. Nixons preference of San Diego.

Similarly, committee members showed no inclination to translate their sympathies for Spiro T. Agnew into organized pressure to keep him on the ticket.

Political Notes

Front-Runner Morgan Is

To Be Campaign Target

By JOHN KILGO

RALEIGH - Something you can count on: When Robert Morgan officially announces as a candidate for Governor in January, Hugh Morton will ask that Morgan give up his post as attorney general.

Most people feel that Morgan is the front-runner now and he will be the target of niost of the campaign charges.

Something else that is rather amusing about politics. Pat Taylor, Skipper Bowles and Morton have had some rather strong things to say about each other in the past, but you can look for them to mend some fences soon. Each of those three men feel they will be in the runoff against Morgan and wants to win the support of the two defeated candidates.

Bennett, general of the Sanford wing, is pushing hard for Hunts election as lieutenant governor. The Sanford people want a horse groomed for the future, but Hunt is very careful to insist that his support comes from all factions of the Democratic party.

easy tor no man. '

We reported here five weeks ago that Gene Simmons, the former chairman of the Tar Heel Democratic Party, was giving serious consideration to running against Secretary of State Thad Eure.

Now that Simmons has resigned his party post, he will give the race against Eure even more serious consideration. But as one prominent Democrat said: Beating Thad aint gonna be

Its very possible even likely that former Gov. Luther Hodges and Luther Jr. will be on different sides of

the gubernatorial primary. The younger Hodges is firmly with Pat Taylor, but the guess here is that Hodges Sr. will go with either Hugh Morton or Skipper Bowles.

Bill Booe, the very, very conservative member of the Chariot te-Mecklen burg School Board, says he might run for the U.S. Senate. Booe says North Carolina needs someone in the Senate who will seek a constitutional amendment to prohibit the assigning of school students on the basis of race. BOoe also says he might try to start a third political party in North Carolina.

Jim Hunt of Wilson worked for Terry Sanford in the 60 campaign and now Bert

40 Years Ago

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newspapers daily work.

Tim was looking through the material delivered by one weekly editor last week.

I guess Ill have to call him, he commented. Hes got 17 pages.

As most newspaper readers know, papers almost always Come with an even number of pages.

By GWYN COGHILL August 1,1931 Greenville was the second hottest city in the state yesterday according to B. T. Clark, local weatherman. The government thermometer soared to new heights yesterday when it reached 99 degrees. The temperature in Charlotte, the hottest city in the state, was given at 100 degrees.

from Ottawa on their vacation flight to the Orient.

The series of union services to be held in various churches during August will begin at the Presbyterian Church tomorrow evening at 8 oclock. Rev. W. H. Covert, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church, will deliver the initial sermon.

Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife left this morning

Mrs. 0. B. Peatross of Danville. Virginia is visiting relatives in Greenville.Labor Demands Can Only Hurt Unless Productivity Also Goes Up

By GEORGE BRYANT. JR.

An honest days work for an honest days pay.

That old saw has been around for a long time. And, when you think about it, it < probably never was a completely valid thing. The ancient yen for something-for-nothing is deep in human nature. But whatever validity there might have been to the saying in days past is fast disappearing.

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Take, for example, the railroad and steel ^labor disputes^ Any notion that the nub of these is the hourly rate of pay is so much foolishness. The heart of the thing is how mudi union members are to

be paid for work they simply dont do or, in some cases, for work that doesnt need to be done,

Feather bedding in labor' contracts is nothing new. Unions, where they have the . power, hdve forced this for many years in some industries, with the result that wage bills have pushed up and up with no gain in productivity. The cost has simply been passed on to the consumer.

This is the explanation tor much of the price inflation over the past two years, when excessive wage demands replaced war spending, piled on top of new government social itaograms, as the chid

cause of the shocking living cost rise.

When labor wins huge wage demands, without any corresponding increase in productivity, there is only one thing that can happen the consumer pays more for the same old goods and services through simple price inflation.

TUday, it is the inflation-making process, rather than any lack of economic stimulmits from Washington, whidi threatens the slow recovery movement and carries the real danger of even higher unemidoyment in the future.

The consumer, by any yardstick has more buying

power currently than at any time on record. But he is spending with the greatest restraint on record. This is reflected by the fact that an unbelievable 8 percent of consumer income is going into savings.

The unions, even thou^ their members belong to the great consumer mass, seem to overlook the fact that the average housdiold has a considerable leeway in deciding whether to spend or save, once essential needs are satisfied. And right now,/ many are electing to post" pone, or even forget, nonessential spending. For example, vacations away from home have been a little

shorter this year.

There is little or no prospect, of course, that the cost of living will go down. Oddly enough, even depression conditions have failed in the past to make any real dent in price levels. Once set, they become fixed. Its safe to say that the consumer understands this. Thus, he isnt waiting for lower prices. But he is unwilling to spend with prices continuing' to soar.

This makes it essential that wage increases be accompanied by productivity gains. The present trend means tha^more and more, the marketfi^r things simply will not expand at a rate that

will supply jobs needed by a i^ing labor force.

Even the new postal service was able to win some degree of work load control in its recent settlement with postal workers. It is this win that carries a possibility that maybe, off in the future, the postal service can operate without subsidy from the taxpayer.

In return for the big pay raise, the postal unions agreed not to oppose installation of labor-saving devices. Thus, the service will be able to resort to mechanical, sorters, bun-dlers, sackers, etc. Under any standard, the naw cmi-tract pays postal workers far

above their abilities and skills. One postal executive put it this way:

Never have so many been paid so much for so little.

The railroads know that jf they cant get some control over work loads, more will be sidetracked to the bankruptcy route taken by Penn Central. The end would be direct government ownership and operation. But, then, the rail unions have flirted with this idea for years.

The steel industry is well aware that it will be in bad ti^uble unless its^ productivity can score gains. Imported steel already is an issue and is now costing jobs

in the steel industry.

At the center of the wage-price problem, of course, is the fact tha,t the unions now have so much power that they can bring the economy of the nation to its knees in order to press their own interests. This means that the national statutes which give the unions this power need to be reworked to restore some form of balance. , ",

. But politics operates against this. Democratic Ck>ngres8es made the unions the giants they are today. An a Democratic Gongress isnt about to turn the other direction, especially When the party is beholden to the unions for s6 much 'money.