4Tbe Daily Reflector. Greenville. N.C^Thnrsday. Jaaonry IS. if72

Drug Use Is 'Getting Worse'

BEGINNING TO LOOK CHRONIC!

Hardly anyone who watches the court column would argue with Dr. Ben E. Britt, director of the drug abuse division in the state Departmehil of Mental Health.

Hie drug t>roblem in North Carolina is bad and getting worse, he told an Associated Press interviewer.

I think we are in line with the national trend, Britt said. Our big cities have big problems and our small cities have small problems.

A Footrace On The Treadmill

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH - The fight against illiteracy is a footrace on a treadmill.

Efforts to reach those adults lacking in basic educational skills are offset by the number of young people who drop out of school.

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The backlog of need is so great that present programs only touch the edges of the problem.

An answer lies in relating literacy and manpower goals involving adult basic education directly in planning to utilize and develop manpower resources.

Gov. Bob Scott pointed out that approach recently in his charge to the North Carolina Manpower Council.

Illiteracy must be

eliminated and we need a specific, practical deadline for doing it, Scott said in outlining objectives for the newly-created Council.

The Governors words heartened Charles M.

Barrett, adult education director for the Community Colleges Department. Encouragement for Future This is very encouraging for the future of our

program, he said. One of the drawbacks has been that we were limited to literacy education, period. Tying to skill training can improve the motivation to enroll, and the will to stick with the classes. North Carolina ranks high among the states both in the scope of the problems and its efforts to solve it.

Based on the 1960 census, used in figuring allocations of federal funds for literacy training, nearly one million Tar Heels 25 and older never finished the eighth grade.

That means some 20 percent of the states population is at or near the level of functional illiteracy handicapped by lack of education in getting and keeping adequate employment, or even coping with demands of moderan society such as shopping in a supermarket.

Only four other states (New York, California, Pennsylvania, and Texas) have a larger number of illiterates.

If North Carolina has farther to go than most, it was among the first to get started.

N. C. Led Attack When the nation launched an assault on illiteracy under the 1964 Economic Opportunity Act, Barrett recalled.

this state was the first to develop and secure approval for a basic adult education plan.

'The classes, designed to bring its students through an 8th grade equivalent, are offered through the technical institutes and community colleges. They are taught wherever they can be located convenient to those who need them. (Tlassrooms at the 54 tech institutes and community colleges are used; so are churches, civic centers, correctional institutions, and in at least one instance, a tobacco bam.

Enrollments have totaled almost 180,000 since the programs start. For the 1970-71 school year, the figure was nearly 25,000.

At that rate, assuming successful completion for every student (which is not the case), it would take 40 years to wipe out illiteracy in North Carolina.

The conclusion, Barrett agreed, is that more must be done if the battleground is to be moved off the treadmill and into range of victory.

Perhaps, he said, the manpower councils planning can be helpful in that direction. ^

llQi.^ Million Since 64 Federal adult basic education funds are provided on a 90-10 matching basis to the states. For the 1970-71 school year. North Carolina had some $2 million for the purpose. Since 1964, more . than $10Mi million has been spent from federal, state and local sources.

Illiteracy in a society is an indicator of failure, on the part of institutions of education or individuals. That stigma attaches to those who need the program.

The adults we are trying to reach have learned to fear failure, They have reservations about establishing a trust relationship with a teacher. They dont want to ri^K failure again in front of their peers, Barrett explained.

That is a factor teachers must deal with, both in recruitment and retention of students, he noted. Former students as aides have proven helpful in many instances. In-service training also equii teachers for the special demands of adult basic education.

Individual success stories illustrate the programs effectiveness a man who went from day laborer to welder, a woman who opened her own millinery shop. A study now in progress, following up the 1%9 group of students, will give a broader perspective on operation and possibly point of modifications for the future.

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He also noted that drug abusers are getting younger.

We had persons admitted to our hospitals for narcotics addiction who are only 14 years old, the -doctor declared.

think it is continuing to get worse. This is borne out by statistics, hospital admissions, police records, school surveys and by talking to addicts.

It is estimated that 10,000 people in the state use heroin and about 500 of these are addicted.

Last year more than 1,000 persons were admitted to mental health facilities for drug abuse treatment.

You can almost take your choice of what they were using: hard narcotics, sedatives, stimulants, hallucinogens, marijuana, gasoline sniffing, glue sniffing and other things.

The state is tackling the problem through local treatment centers and 12 have been placed around the state. It is said that some of the community-oriented centers have boasted cure rates of 90 percent or better.

There are those who will argue about the effects of marijuana as compared to hard narcotics, but almost no one can deny that the problem is here. Columnist Jack Anderson has described Fayetteville as second only to New York in drug abuse. Certainly narcotics, sedatives, stimulants, hallucinogens and other substances are circulating in Greenville because of the large group of college age young people.

To cope with the problem we must educate our citizens to the fact that drugs can be harmful and they are really not needed to chase away the cares of life. We must learn that coping with lifes problems and frustrations is the real answer to happiness.

For those who find themselves on drugs there must be treatment by understanding .professionals to help them find their ways back to the real world.

Drug abuse is not going to disappear by itself. Education and understanding of the problem will be required if we are to see a decline soon of this serious situation.

Poll Says Pat Taylor Gained

By JOHN KILGO RALEIGH - Gubernatorial candidate Pat Taylor has picked up 60 per cent of the vote that was going to Robert Morgan before Morgan pulled out of the Governors race, according to a poll that was taken for Taylor in December.

Oliver Quayle took the Taylor poll in mid-December, about a month after Morgan announced that he would not run for (Jovernor.

We obtained a copy of the latest Taylor poll and it indicated that 60 per cent of those who favored Morgan for Governor had now switched to Taylor, 13 per cent to Skipper Bowles, 7 per cent to Hugh Morton and 2 per cent to Reginald Hawkins. Some of the Morgan supporters, according to the poll, are still undecided.

With the undecided vote included, the poll broke down the Democratic primary for Governor like this:

Taylor 52 per cent

Bowles 29 per cent

Morton 8 per cent

Hawkins 7 per cent

Leo Jenkins 4 per cent The poll had at least one bit of discouraging information for the lieutenant governor. It noted that since the poll was taken in July, that Taylor had lost 15 per cent of his vote to Bowles, while Bowles had lost only 7 per cent to Taylor.

The Taylor poll points out that Bowles is the lieutenant governors main opposition in the race for the Democratic nomination.

It was also indicated that Bowles, while running a distant second to Taylor, has staying power. The poll said 77 per cent of the people who said last summer that

they favored Bowles for Governor were still in his corner in December.

As for rating them on the way they are doing their jobs, the poll said 13 per cent of the people think Taylor is doing an excellent job as lieutenant governor, 45 per cent say hes doing pretty good, 21 per cent say only fair, 2 per cent think hes doing a poor job, and 19 per cent arent sure what kind of job he^s doing.

Bowles, who served in the State Senate in the last legislature, was given an excellent rating by 7 per cent of those polled, 38 per cent rated his job performance as pretty good, 18 per cent said only fair, 3 per cent said poor and 34 per cent werent sure.

Gov. Bob Scotts favorable report was down four points from 61 per cent in the July Taylor poll to 57 per cent in the December poll. However, the pollster says this is way above the national average for Governors and recommended that Taylor stay on a friendly basis with the Governor.

According to the poll, 32 per cent of the Democrats polled felt Bowles had been too critical of Gov. Scott, 33 per cent felt he had not been too critical, and 35 per cent werent sure what to think.

National Democrats who feel President Nixon is slipping in North Carolina wont like part of the poll. Of the Democrats polled in December, 55 per cent of them gave the President a favorable rating on the way hes doing his job. Add Republicans to this question and the Presidents rating would have reached about 60 per cent favorable, the poll said.

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Strength For Today

CHANGE OF WORDING

We wonder today if our mixed-up world is ever going to get straightened out sufficiently to let us live in some sort of peace, goodwill and kindliness of spirit. Almost t'tt'o thousand years ago the Price of Peace allowed himself to be sacrificed for human welfare and salvation. We have certainly made some progress. We can easily become discouraged that the progress is not greater and more incisive than we know it to be.

But hand-wringing never got individuals or nations anywhere. We may beat our breasts and ask what the world is coming to. The answerif we could know it rightly at this present momentwould not be of much help to us. We cannot live on dreams, on ideals, on governmental policies, on

sermons within the Church and out of it; Persons of faith everywhere are seriously alarmed about present-day trends. And we need to be alarmed. But we can be sure that alarm alone will never get us anywhere. The reformation of the world has to begin with individuals, and if you want to know who stands most in need of reformationuse the mirror. There used to be a

declaration Consult the box office. It meant that if you were in doubt as to this policy or that, check up on whether or not it is doing somebody some good. Jesus said; By their fruits ye shall know them (Matthew 7:16). Some people would like to twist that about to read: By there roots ye shall know them. The world is not much impressed by a change of wording.

By Eari L. Douglass

By J.J. KILPATRICK

End Of The Beginning

With Hubert Humj^reys announcement, coming on the heels of Ed Muskies Yankee philosophizing a week ago, we pause at the first milestone in Campaign 72. This is the end of the beginning.

All the big mules, except for Ted Koinedy, are saddled up and accwjnted for. It is some stable. Congressional (^arterly has identified no

fewer than 29 men and two women who have figured in presidential speculation over the past year. With most of them, of course, the figuring is just about invisible; it is down in the sub-basement with the smaller fractions of one-tenth of one percent. Even so, the rollcall suggests no shortage of sacrificial prospects willing to be afflicted with what Jefferson

Other Editors Say Won't Take Over

(Jacksonville News)

The anti-establishment young are neither going to take over the country in 1972 nor vanish into the woodwork of the system. But both notions have had some nurturing.

When voting finally became a reality for 18-)-year-olds, one young militant said to his father;

Good. Now well take control.

Dreams like that are being clutched urgently by some of the young people who in a month or two may be flooding into the Democratic partys precinct caucuses in several states. These events may bulk large in the partys opened-up presidoiUal nominating processes.

Here and there, concentration of effort surely is going to produce results, most likely in the shape of convention delegates for Sen. George McCJovem or New York Mayor John Lindsay.

Yet the rewards probably are going to be limited. TTie reasons are already well recited. Many of the young are not going to vote. A good proportion of those who do are unlikely to go all-out for the more strongly liberal candidates. And, it should not be forgotten, there are millions more voters than ever in the middle and upper end of the age spectrum. Adult suburbia is enormous today.

Some among the young like to tell us that many things, like the Communist world or the working class, are not monolithic. Well, they arent either.

Only a third are in college. That heralded 18-20 age bracket includes not only millions of nonstudents but housewives, members of the armed forces, and workers on factory and farm.

The many 1971 samplings of the campus mood suggest, too, that things are just basically quieter these days. Militancy doesnt have the appeal it once did. Student reactions at candidate rallies finds many kids laughing scornfully at the far-outs.

None of this, however, means the anticulture young folk are about to do a fast fade.

Neither McGovern nor Lindsay nor the most dashing hero imaginable could quickly change the prospect. Affluence desired seems a romantic cause. Affluence achieved seems strangely empty.

So Kristol is probably right. The anticulture young are going to be with us for a good while to come. Their deepest concerns do indeed touch the grave flaws of the affluent industrial society. Unable to take over because they are too few, their limited yet, not inconsiderable influence upon us will come from the outside. Until the day when they learn there are challenges inside.

called the splendid misery.

And why not? With all its burdens, frustrations and disappointments, the office of President of the United States remains the most powerful office on earth. The job pays $200,000 a year, but its not the salary that counts. For any man who avidly hungers to Get Things Done, this is the head of the table. A Presidoit may starve now and tho), as Richard Nixon has starved at the hands of a Democratic Congress, but as a goieral proposition he eats pretty well.

Nothing else in our public life approaches the glamour of the White House. Being a senator, especially after your first re-election, has its attractive aspects; there is something to be said for serving in the cabinet or becoihing speaker of the House; after 20 years, even a congressman rises to a kind of pitchers mound Olympus. But when a President passes by, all the rest boils down to small potatoes.

This is the great glittering prize that prompts otherwise sensible men to take leave of their soises, to go into debt, and to wear themselves down to exhaustion. Take Vance Hartke, for example. The Senator from Indiana has no more chance of winning the Democratic nomination less chance, indeed than Tiny Tim, Jimmy the Greek or Wilt the Stilt. But for the next six weeks, you will find Senator Hartke trudging his way through the snows of New Hampshire, spending a small fortune in his own and other persons money, and all for what? To have a little piece, once in a lifetime, of the biggest action there is.

We of the working press are not immune. You might suppose, after so long a time, that it would be like Agnew and the slums: If youve seen one, youve seen them all. Dont you believe it. I was covering a police beat when Roosevelt ran against Dewey in 1944, but I caught the presidential bug at a Strom

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Boyle

Views

Life

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) ~ A young man starting out now (emt have the pick of Jobs be did a few years ago.

Getting any kind of job seems to him today about the most impmlant thing in the world.

But there are and jobs. If posnUe, a fellow should try his best to find one that he can fit into grow into.

Here, fw example, are some

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jobs we wouldnt want to risk our future in:

Teaching Casey Stengel the English language.

U.S. Marine drUl so*geant of a class containing Muhammad Ali.

The fire insurance salesman who sells policies to wax museums.

A cowboy in India, where cows have the right of way at all times.

Guardian angel for Frank Sinatra.

Mayor of New York City, when everybody in town is on strike except the street chestnut vendors.

President of the United States, when half the people want you to get into a war and half of them want you to boycott it.

A bomb inspector for the Saigon police department.

A kilts salesman in Tel Aviv. A marriage counselor in an Eskimo village.

Presidential campaign poetry adviser for former Sen. Eugene McCarthy.

The mens charm school director who has the task of making Sen. Edmund Muskie look both like a matinee idol and a (Continued on page 6)

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40 Years Ago Today

ByGWYNCOGHILL Jan.13.1972 The Greenville tobacco market will close for the season Friday, January 29th, it was announced today by supervisor of sales, K. W. Cobb. The market disposed of more than 225,000 pounds of leaf yesterday.

The announcement that Galli-Curci will give a concert here has created a great deal of interest throughout this section. East Carolina Teachers College is on the list of artists and their managers for engagements. The date for the concert is January' 25th and tickets are now on sale for $2.00 and $2.50.

East Carolina Teachers College lost their first game of the basketball season to the smooth playing team of Campbell College. ECTC will play their second game of the season with Atlantic Christian College in Wilson tonight.

Two Freezes, Different Goals

By ELMER ROESSNER

The success of the Nixon wage-price freeze is being compared unfavorably to the Roosevelt wage-price-credit freeze in World War II.

The comparison is unfair.

True, they both had one object in common: to check inflation. Only time will tell which freeze will do most to check inflation, but at the moment, FDRs game plan seems to have been a better one. Both wages and prices appear to be rising faster today than in the early days of World War II.

But the World War II freezes had other objectives. They were:

To move skilled labor from civilian jobs to defense work.

To curb spending for luxuries to divert earnings and profits to war financing.

. To stress to the people that it was their, war, to remind them in as many ways as

possible that they were participating in a great crusade and they were sharing in the sacrifices.

The goals today are different. Roosevelt shut down auto production because he

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wanted the great automotive plants to turn out tanks and other material, because he didnt want workers using their overtime pay to buy new cars. Nixon wants auto plants running full blast and is happy that workers are buying and can buy cars.

Roosevelt restricted consumer credit because he didnt want the people encouraging the production of luxury goods instead of

buying war bonds. Nixon has been careful not to restrict either consumer credit or interest rates. And Roosevelt wanted makers of luxury goods to shift to war production. Or enlist.

And the biggest difference of all is that Roosevelt had both Congress and the people enthusiastically for the war. Nixon has inherited a war of doubtful poiHilarity and a Congress consisting of a large number of members who are seeking to run for President themselves. j

The purchasing power of the consumer dollar, because of inflation or thaws in the freeze, declined approximately from $1.19 in 1940 to 93 cents in 1945. That made inflation less than 5 per cent a year, a remarkably low figure for a full-scale war. It is close to the rate of inflation in our half-hearted war against communism In

Indochina.

In World War II, a few price-finaglers were convicted. Juries were quick to convict. But in this war, it is doubtful that anybody goes to jail for boosting prices.

And the threat of jail was another factor that made the Roosevelt freeze as effective as it was.

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