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Swirl About Higher Education

ETERNAL TRIANGLE!

There is a swirl of activity underway in the state efforts to reorganize higher education.

hearings on the matter. Perhaps the highlight of the week was the appearance of former govemoTerry Sanford, now president of Duke UniveVsity.

He advocated a system whereby all of the present regional universities would be taken into

They Tell Drug Story As It is

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UAI.KKH The drug scene is a kaleidoscope world of psychedelic highs, black Iwredom. and a craving that takes $200 a day to satisfy.

It's also rejection from normal society, crime and deceit among friends, and

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death always at the doorstep.

Three who've l)een there told how it is for an audience of social workers last week as tfie American Public Welfare Association held its southeastfn regional conference in Raleigh.

The trio of inmates from Polk Youth Center, ail ex-, addicts serving sentences for drug offenses, told stories which made vivid the human cost of drug misuse and the threatening presence of the problem over virtually every neighborhood. The school yard, the military barracks, the street corner, they said, are places where drugs are easily available.

Those involved in social services for young people

1 prefer to say troubled youth rather than youth in trouble must grapple with the drug phantom, said William F. Kitchens, court services consultant for the Georgia State Department of Family and Children Services and chairman for the workshop. ,

Problem Without Boundaries The drug problem today is one which truly knows no boundaries, social, economic or otherwise. To some extent, all young people ^re exposed;he a tfded.

In a field clouded by in-*^ complete knowledge and understanding. Kitchens ^aid. North Carolina has attracted ^regional attention by moving ahead to do something about prevention and treatment instead punishment.

One part of that effort is the Tell It Like It Is program at Polk Youth Center. Drug offenders engage in rap sessions, trying to find self understanding in their own experience with drugs. Then, on a voluntary basis, they go nut to tell others about the drug scene as theyve seen it.

Over the past couple of years, inmate panels have visited hundreds of civic clubs, high schools, and other groups through the state.

Telling it is therapy. Im helping myself by being ^here; a panel member told the workshop for social workers. If I can help others understand what drugs can do to a persons life. I get something from that that helps me.

Once outside, he said, hed

like a full-time job with a community drug action program or some other agency involved in educating the young about drugs.

Rapport With Youth Kids don't rap too well with adults. What tho read in a book doesn't get thl^h to them. he explained. 'I could talk to them because Ive been there. Maybe they would listen.

A capsule case history presented by one member of the panel.

In the Army, I met quite a few guys who were doing drugs.' said Floyd. One night in the barracks. I got curious and joined their conversation. One guy asked me if I wanted to try speed. I said, Sure, why not?'

After my discharge, my w ife and I had a trailer. I was working and everything was going fine? Our daughter was born. She had trouble breathing and after about two wej^s she died. It shook me up. A friend from the Army was staying with us and he gave me some acid (LSD). My first trip was a good one...

Things got bad. Our parents were hassling us. We decided to leave...

We were staying with some people in Fayetteville. We i^ere tripping and smoking grass every three or four nights. My mind was getting so wipedout I couldnt tell fantasy from reality.

( rime And Drugs I didnt have a job. My wife was pregnant. I had to have money^ broke into a few places and stole some radios and TVs and sold them. Then I asked a dealer to front me some drugs. One of my customers was an SBI agent but I didnt know it until the sheriff came with a warrant.

Now Im getting my head back together. I see drugs stood in the way of my accomplishing anything. My wife had something to do with that. She told me I wasnt going to do drugs after I get out.

The^ree said their drug experience started with a soaring release from reality.

I felt so joyful and full of spunk I didnt want to do anything but go out and have a good time. Johnny recalled. ^

That euphoria dissipates as addiction sets in. The highs wear out with heroin. All thats left is the Jiabit, said Joe.

I didnt want to be around people. I even stole from my ^ister.

Death stays near the drug user. An overdose can end life quickly. So can the shadowy overlords who stop at.nothing to protect their profitable traffic.

I know Im lucky, said Johnny. Every time J stuck that spike in my arm and I cant count how many 8 I could have died.

I wont e\^r take that chance again.

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the Consolidated University for admin|str;ative [xirposes.

-AlsD-heard fronr was WilHam Aycodr, former chancellor of Chapel Hill, who would like to ' see a system with each university having a president and a local board, but with a small overall board to control budgeting and4>rogram offerings.

Also during the week the association of public university heads, with Dr. Leo Jenkins its chairman, drew up a list of guidelines for reorganization, to be present^ to the governor. The contents were not released.

l>ater Jenkins, acting on his own, reiterated his belief in local autonomy for universities. Each institution should be able t() enjoy a continued reliance on the will of our people as expressed through their representatives in the legislature Jenkins stated.

This oast weekend there^ere private meetings legislators with Sen. John Burney at

of

Wrightsville Bech and with Rep. Ike Andrews in High Point. Burney blocked quick action on the governors plan during the regular session by signing up^ majority of the senators to a WR which would have postponed reorganization. The bill never came to a vote since the special session was* set for October to handle the matter.

It is difficult to determine at this point what is happening in the higher education reorganization controversy but there is a feeling that something is developing.

It is possible that one central governing board will emerge, perhaps using the Consolidated University set up, with local boards to handle internal problems,. If that occurs it is likely that the central board would approve new programs and overall budget requests.

By J.J. KILPATRICK

Thomas Pappas Welfare

, 1^ A gentleman in White nlan. if understand it that it natrc

Raises Queries

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - A non-confidential memorandum now under avid scrutiny by a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee is certain to lead to a formal summons for testimony by Thomas A. Pappas, the mysterious, rich Greek-American who operates a multi-million-dollar industrial empire in Athens and has intimate ties to both the Greek military dictatorship and the Nixon administration.

Democratic Rep. Benjamin S Rosenthal of New York, chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Europe, specifically solicited the memorandum during his hearings on military aid to Greece in July. It raises grave - questions about Papass role as confidant of President Nixon himself and as defender of the dictatorship. It is causing extreme nervousness in the Nixon White House.

Holding both U.S. and

Greek citizenship. Republican Pappas and his more obscure brother John, a Boston, Mass., Democrat, are charged in the

memorandum as follows; They used their considerable political and

economic clout in the U.S. to promote, sinyiltaneously, their own finapcigl interests as well as the interests of a ruthless military dictatorship and all this at th'e expense of long-range U.S. interests in that crucial part of the ^ world.

Author of the memorandum is Elias Dem-

etracopoulos, a Greek axile leader of the anti-junta Greek resistance movement. His central theses is that Thomas Pappas used his strong connections with both Republican and

Democratice party officials here to obtain rich economic concessions from various Greek goverhiifints.

As partner, in a highly unusual relationship, of Standanl Oil of New Jersey, Pappas consistently ex

ploited his political connections in Washington to undermine the pre-junta ^ Center Uniorl parliamentary government of George Papandreou and gain more profitable economic arrangements, Demetrac-opouloss memorandum states. Then, when parliamentary government was obliterated in the April 1967 coup detat by the Greek Colonels, Pappas became its prime champion in Washington.

It appears that on the basis of the public record alone, Demetracopoulos said, Thomas Pappas and his brother became public relations men for the junta at the highest levels of the Johnson and later the Nixon administration, as well as in Congress.

Ex-newspaperman Demetracopoulos quotes from an interview he taped with former Democratic Speaker of the House John W. McCk)rmack on Aug. 9, 1966 (and arranged by ' McG)r-macks aide. Dr. Martin Sweig, a Pappas intimate now in jail for perjury). The contribution made by the Esso-Pappas complex under the leadership of my very dear friend Tom Pappas, McCormack said, I know is of inestimable value to not only the people of Greece, not only of today, but in the years that lie ahead.

But Pappass power to sway leading Denibcrats is a mere shadow of his pervasive influence on the Nixon administration. As an executive vi<^ chairman of the Republican Finance Committee and a large contributor to Mr. Nixons 1968 campaign, says Demetracopoulos, Pappass frequent, well-photographed warm public embraces with Prime Minister George Papadopoulos and Vice President Stylianos Patakos convey only one message that the dictoatorship has the Nixon administrations secfet blessing.

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A gentleman in White Plains, N.Y., has come up wi^h one of the most refreshing answers yet offered to a leading question of the day. The question is. What should we do about public welfare? His answer is Abolish it.

That is, of course, only a part of the approach suggested by Leonard M. Greene, author of what he calls the Fair Share Plan. Mr. Greene is no crackpot. He is president of the Safe Flight Instrument Corporation in \VTiite Plains. He is a computer scientist, a mathematician, and the holder of more than 50 patents. Five years ago he was honored by New York State as Employer of the Year for his work with the disadvantaged in his own company.

Greenes revolutionary

plan, if understand it correctly, goes a step beyond all the shcemes yet proposed for a negative income tax or a guaranteed annual income. He proposes to give everyone, regardless of his earnings, an identical fair share to start with for example. $900 for every married adult, $400 for every child.

Then he would do two things. He would first dismantle the whole groaning, creaking, mountainous machinery of public welfare, leaving just enough apparatus to mail out the monthly checks. He would

then revise tax

rates so as to

benefit the poor and, in effect, to iipak the fi(ch. In the process, he would remedy what he views as the worst single fault in the administrations family assistance plan which is

Oth^r Editors Say-Worlds Apart

(Christian Science Monitor)

Byurakan is not, as ahSminitiate might speculate, an obscure planet out on the far side of our galaxy, but the locus of a Soviet observatory in the Russian state of Georgia, close by the Turkish border. It was also, recently, the site of an international conference to consider a wondrous possibility commnicaton with intelligent life on other worlds.

Being space-buffs, of sorts, and long convinced of boi the possibility and probability of other civilizations out there in time-space, we are delighted to learn that the SoViet and American Academies of Science have agreed to sponsor permanent groups to research 4means of communicating with distant civilizations.

" We rather like the pragmatic appfoach, too. Two areas of research are contemplated. One to concentrate on the several hundred nearest stars. The other reaching much further out to galaxies that may contain billions of starts.

Oh, wow! Stanley Kubrick (he directed the space-film 2()01) should be in seventh heaven. Of course, he may have to wait awhile, since a radio nfessage, which limps along only at the speed of light, may take 20 years round-trip to a way-out star.

Thus the fruits of intergalactic communications may be reaped only by posterity, ^ut there could be earlier benefits from the Byurakan meeting. Such as the ongoing communications between earth-bound humans whose ideologies are also, at times, light-years apart. The point was inadverteny made in reverse by one scientist at the Byurakan session, in reference to interstellar comnHinications, when he asked: What if everyone is listening ar^ no one is sending?

Apply that one to earth, comrades, and the revolution will indeed have come.

that it soaks everybody especially the poor.

In his recent speech to the Congress. President Nixon dealt at some length with the virtues of work. Hard work, said the President, is what made America great. We cannot maintain our standard of living, he said, without continuing to work hard. The good life, in the Presidents view, is the working life. And finally: Let us recognize once and for all that any work is preferable to welfare.

Tell it to the guy on public welfare! Greenes point is that under the existing system, and especially under he administrations elaborate plan, it simply is not true that any work is preferable to welfare. Instead of providing incentives toward work, these plans actually penalize work. Why should a person on welfare go out and get a job when 67 percent of his ear-htngs will be taken from him in taxes?

. In testifying before the Senate Finance Committee a year ago, Greene offered Some specific examples of how the thj?n-pending bill would work. Under certain circumstances, a family of four, earning only $1000 a year, might heed the presidential admonitions and find work producing another $5,000 in annual income. This is good? From the familys point of view, this is. terrible^ for the family would pay out $4,513 in taxes and lost benefits, leaving a net improvement of $487 for working all year.

Greenes idea may have bugs in it; I dont mean to endorse it out of hand. But ifis principle is sound. In actual apjdication, starting at zero income, his plan would pay the typical family of four $2,600f a year in cash. If the family earned an additional $1,(X)0, no income taxes would be collected. On the second $1,(XX) in earnings thf family is now at a gross of

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Life

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - What has been happening to your status lately? Is your prestige rising or falling?

This is important to know in a civilization where everything seems to depend on your keeping your best foot forward at all times.

Well, perhaps its time we made one of our seasonal checkups. There are certain signs

which unmistakably indicate whether you are on the boulevard to mbgulism or on the downward path to mongrelism.

For example, you dont have a thing to worry about if

The liquor served you at the cocktail parties you attend is of better quality than it was 10 years ago.

You can now go in and buy your suits at stores whose windows you could only stare at before.

The airlines credit card you carry is good for international as well as domestic flights.

When he takes you to lunch, the boss never bothers you about office problems. He just likes to tell you long tales about how hard he used to work as a boy.

You and your wife can now afford to take a two-week cruise during the Christmas season so you wont have to listen to Jingle Bells so many times.

If its too rainy for golf, you and an office pal can quit work early and go to an off-color movie without fear that your reputation will be destroyed.

You have had at least one attack of gout, a disease which, the doctors assure you, ujsually picks as its victims men of brains and driving ambition.

Now what about the signs , that indicate your prestige is on the skids? Well, it is certainly time for you to push your panic button if

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40 Years Ago Today

ByGWYNCOGIIlLL

Sept.2I.I93I

The War Department budget for the next fiscal year calls for no increase in the strength of any component of the army and has decided to postpone requests for increased pay for officers.

Eight-month schools of the Pitt Ck)unty system threw open their doors to thousands of children in various sections of the county this morning.

The second floor of the house occupied" by Lewis Wilson, on Thirteenth Street, was badly damaged by fire early this morning. The family was npt home at the time. The fire, which was confined to the second floor and roof, was estimated by firemen at approximately $1500.

Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Willard spent today in Raleigh.

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THE FINAL GIFT

Heaven!. What is it? A place, or a condition of mind , and heart?

It is both. Here on earth and heaven begins right here and nowit is a state of mind and heart, but in thelieyond, it is a place. Jesus declared,

I go to prepare a place for you. Place in the spiritual world may be considerably ,, different from place in the material world, but there must be a correspondence between the earthly and spiritual place, else Jesus would not have used the figure he did use.

The teaching of tlje Christian gospel is that* heaven begins for all men and women as soon as their hearts are submitted in faith to Jesus Christ. The

limitations of the flesh and the imperfection of the world in which we live res^ain those heavenly joys within certain limits, but in the final judgement, when this world shall have been dissolved and remade and all that is earthly in us shall haye received a like tiansfofmqtion, our capacity for heavenly joy. shall take on infinite *prbportions.

Obedience here and now simply indiqates who is a fit candidate to live obediently in the heaverily realm through all eternity. (Jod will lift up our poor in- completehess and make it a thing of such infinite beauty': that we may well sacrifice all the pforqised joys of this life in ordei* to attain the final gift. -

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By ELMER ROESSNER

Economists who believe a little inflation is good for the country might look back half atentury at what happened in Germany right after the first World War.

There, a deliberately initiated inflation went completely berserk and ended in one of the great economic disasters. The causes werd'many, beginning with a reasonable inflation started early in thq war to finance Germanys military effort.

M the end of hostilities one impossible situation piled oh , top of another. (Jerman.industry was exhausted by me war. Then came un-realistic reparation demands by the Allies. At one time they insisted QjD $50 billion immediately add an additional^ undetermined amount to be decided later.

Germany was deprived of 14.6 per cent of its hrabie land, 74.5 per cent of its iron

l^pre^ 26 per cent of its coal output, and 68 per cent of its zmc production. All private German property abroad was confiscadas well as its colonies, which were

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probably liabjilities anyway.

In addition, a weak, vacillating Weimar Republic and internal political turmiol sapped cohfidence and

nurtured economic un

certainty.

Rediscount Tactic

Germany resorted to new infaltion to meet ifs

qbligations and rebuild its economy. It was accomplished largely by the Reichsbank rediscounting all Treasury bills offered, at a very low rate. This amounted

to nothing more than the central bank printing money for the Treasury.

Early in the war, 4.2 marks equaled one U.S. dollar. Infaltidh brought the rate to 8.9 by January, 1919, shortly after hostilities ended. A year

latei^it was 64.8 and?going up. Twelve montlis passed and a dollar bought 191.8 marks.

By January, 1923, it was 18,000- marks; August, 4.6 million; September, 100 million; and October, 25 billion. In the last agonizing days, one dollar was worth 4.2 trillion marks.

The evqryd^ effects were disastrous. Just before the. collapse, 30 paper mills* worked at top speed to produce currency paper. Some 150 printing firms had 2,QC0 ^r^ running continuously fuming out the notes. (Companies and cities began printing their own currencies.

But no one wantd the

money. Bartering was common and foreign currency used whenever available. People forced to take marks ridof them as soon as possible * Everyone held on to tangibie property.

Price Rises Shops closed at least once a day to reprice.merchandise. Even so, receipts were not enough to replace stocks. Goods disappeared from shelves because stores sold themselves broke and because industry was reluctant to sell domestically. Accounting was a nightmare. ,s.. P(irchasing power Evaporated. <,Thosq on fixed incomes suffered most. Unionized workers fared better, but still lost ground in the wage-price race. Savings, insurance and annuities were wiped out.

Fitful financial reforms were repeatedly set up only to be steam-rolled flat by the inflation.

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