The Daily Reflector. Greenville. N.CfMooday, January 17, lt72

Real Winding-Down Underway

The announced withdrawal of 70,000 additional troops from Vietnam represents a real winding down of the United States involvement in the war.

President Nixon announced last week that the withdrawals would be accomplished by May 1. By that time there will be an authorized troop ceiling of 69,000 in Vietnam and the president said there would be a further announcement prior to May 1.

Most observers expect that troop reductions will continue until 25,000 to 35,000 Americans are left in Vietnam filling technical jobs that the Vietnams are not yet trained to handle.

It still remains to be seen whether Vietnams troops are adequate to fight the war on their own. Probably a spring offensive by the Communist will determine this.

It is apparent, however, that the war for U. S. ground troops is over. Barring all-out world war, we

The Standards re Color Blind

By BRYANHAISLIP RALEIGH Professional standards for law enforcement are color blind.

Theres no room for special treatment, or discrimination, based on race or creed, said Col. Edwin Guy, commander of the State Highway Patrol.

If a man cant be proud to wear the uniform, knowing the organization is clean and fair with all its members, you cant keep em, said Col.

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Guy. Our standards have got to be high and our ranks open to all who meet the qualifications.

North Carolina has nine blacks and three Indians^ among its 987 highway patrol troopers.

If the percentage is small, it still represents giant steps in recent years.

The first black patrolman joined the force in August, 1967. He was one of a kind until a couple of years ago.

It took us 41 years to hire one black trooper, Guy remarked. Weve added eight more in the last two years.'^ Thats progress Im proud of. I wish we had more (minority race patrolmen) like those weve got.

N.C. Sets Example The Tar Heel patrol sets an equal opportunity example for other states, North and South.

Massachusetts has one black, only recently hired, on its 725 force. Michigan has six out of 1,895; Indiana, three out of 917. South Carolina has four blacks in its 543 patrol; Virginia, three out of 1,052; Georgia, two out of 710. Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana have none.

Col. Guy sees no reason why the trend will not continue. Applications of 11 blacks currently are at some stage in the process of consideration. Some of them may be in the 50 - man contingent scheduled to be added to patrol strength next July 1.

We welcome qualified applicants of any race, creed or color, he emphasized.

Black troopers themselves are the best recruitment device forthe patrol. They demonstrate that there is opportunity. Their presence, and their record of performance, encourages others to apply.

Few Problems Encountered

Problems have been minimal. Isaiah Green, Jr. of Raleigh joined the patrol last May but resigned almost immediately because he couldnt find suitable housing in the county to which he was assigned. Since then, he has rejoined the patrol and been assigned to Wayne County.

Blacks report they are accepted by fellow patrolmen on equal footing. They work side by side, all troopers assigned on the same basis.

Col. Guy made the decision to split up the black patrolmen instead of placing several in the same district. I felt if we were going to break the barrier as we should, they would have to be assigned just like any other trooper without any consideration of race. It has worked well, he said.

The patrol commander doesnt blink at discrimination of the past, in the patrol as elsewhere. We all recognize, I think, there have been injustices in the last 100 years, he said.

Now that change is here, why not be constructive about it?

A reminder of the segregated education pattern of the past is the fact that black applicants have a tougher time with aptitude tests. Col. Guy said.

Standards Must Be High

At the same Hme, he said, strict adherence to high standards of qualification and training are essential to a force of professional cablier.

Out standards are high. We cant tower them to take in any trooper, regardless of race, without compromising the quality of the patrol that belongs to all the people, he explained.

The public has accepted black patrolmen easily, Guy reported. Only one or two written complaints involving black officers have been received, he said, and hes not sure they stemmed from race.

The public respects the patrolman who does his job professionally, with courtesy and in accordance with policy, he added. His advance to all troopers is that theres no place in law enforcement for the loss of cool under verbal abuse.

The promotion route will be open to minority patrolmen on the basis of their record, Guy promised. It may take time, because loyalty is a hallmark of the patrol. More than 200 of the force have service of 20 years or more; annual turnover is in the range of 4 per cent.

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doubt that we will evo* again see large numbers of U. S. ground troops fighting in Vietnam.

New Planning Board Already Is Of Service

The countys new planning board should prove its worth in many ways as rural areas of our county develop for industry, business and residential use.

The board has already gotten a request from Greenville Utilities Commission to work on a plan for water service areas west of Greenville.

Action was taken after Frog Level residents requested that the commission either agree to furnish water service or relinquish the area.

Water districts are developing all over the county and the county planning board can help determine where the service areas are to begin and end.

It is just one of many planning services that has been needed by the county.

shattered Plan For Restraint

By ROWLAND EVNAS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The careful White House strategy of restraint toward the right-wing challenge by Rep. John Ashbrook of Ohio against President Nixon in the primaries was splintered when a high-level

Presidential assistant delivered a private tongue-lashing to William F. Buckley, Jr., that could backfire severely.

Shortly after Ashbrook

announced his candidacy, senior White House aide Peter M. Flanigan

telephoned Buckley, the erudite conservative columnist and editor of National Review, with a harsh reproach for his support of the right-wing

challenge by Ashbrook.

What makes this so ironic is that Buckley privately opposed a frontal challenge to Mr. Nixon in the Republican primaries and endorsed Ash-brooks effort only after it could not be stopped. Some White House aides now fear, however, that Flanigan, a Manhattan financier and socialite who has been a stout Nixon man for years, may have provoked Buckley into a more hostile attitude.

Recalling the long friendship between Buckley and Mr. Nixon, Flanigan labelled the columnist an ingrate. Specifically, he charged Buckley with forgetting the fact that White House intervention in the 1970 New York Senatorial campaign had elected his brother. Sen. James Buckley, who ran on the Conservative party line. That was treatment to which Buckley has never become accustomed.

The incident is a curious one. Flanigan apparently acted on his own, without the Presidents prior blessing. Moreover, his phone conservation with Buckley came after Ashbrook had made his formal announcement, far beyond any possibility of Ashbrooks changing his mind.

It was Buckleys position that he, as oracle and intellectual leader of Republican conservatives, must back Ashbrook once he announced publicly despite private misgivings. To do otherwise might reduce Ashbrooks primary vote in New Hampshire and Florida, thus further diminishing conservative influence within the Nixon administration.

Political pros in and outside the White House want all the Nixon lines open to Buckley and the conservatives, for a very good reason: they want and need conservative

political shock troops when the campaign against the Democrat# starts next summer.

But Flanigans potshots at Buckley do not lead toward that mood of eventual reconciliation. To the contrary, there is fear inside the White House that Bill Buckley might now be in a most unhappy state of mind.

That could harden his line. Instead of merely giving Ashbrook passive support, Buckley might vigorously join conservative efforts to demand moves toward the right by Mr. Nixon in return for their endorsement. In particular, they want Ashbrooks candidacy to force Mr. Nixon toward their position on heavier defense spending.

Buckleys tenure on the U. S. Information Agencys advisory commission ends later this month, the question now is not whether he will be reappointed but whether he will accept reappointment. The decision to keep him has already been made by Nixon.

Washington Thinskins

How little the reflexive attitude of the White House senior staff has changed during three years in power can be measured by its outraged reaction to the vigorous questioning of Mr. Nixon by CBS correspondent Dan Rather in his Jan. 2 televised interview.

Rather was merely performing his professional function as a reporter, and Mr. Nixon did well in his responses. But the reaction at the top of the White House staff boiled down to this: how dare he ask those em-barassing questions to our President! That reflects the enduring preoccupation of the aides in trying to protect Mr. Nixon from all outside criticism.

Even more revealing is the private staff attitude toward a new book, about the Nixon Presidency by best-selling novelist Allen Drury called "Courage and Hesitation. Although it contains criticism here and there, the book is overwhelmingly favorable to Mr. Nixon and all his works.

But the occasional criticism is too much for the Presidents top staff. Having given conservative Drury the run of the White House (including a rare interview with Mr. Nixon), the protective aides complain bitterly that they have been betrayed because the book was not the glowing panegyric they expected.

Strength For Today

STRETCHING THE TRUTH

^ No Parking from Here to Corner

He can read as well as anyone else; and furthermore he can see that the front wheels of his car are already abreast of that sign. There is no more parking space left.

But whats he doing? Heavens above, hes parking right in front of that other car. Well of all things! Hes moving that parking sign up to the front of his own car. And there he goes down the street whistling and stopping now and again to look into a store window. He hasnt broken the law; hes stret* ched a city ordinance to meet hit convenience.

Some people treat all laws that way, especially the Ten Commandments. When these interfere with convenience they stretch them out a bit. When high heaven itself sets a limit in matters of conduct beyond which they cannot go without breaking the moral law and violating their conscience, they should worrythey move the parking sign. Their slogan is. If you dont like the way a law operates, make it operate the way you like.

It's amazing how far some people can stretch the thou-shalt-nots of the Decalogue without really breaking them.

By,Earl L. Douglass

;s Learn It All ;|;By Mail

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his mail:

One reason eleirfiants have fewer dental problms than people is that th^ may grow from six to seven sets of teeth during their lifetime. But some monbers of the alligator family have been known to grow as many as 40 sets.

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By ART BUCHWALD

Who Is Howard Hughes?

WASHINGTON - There is far more at stake in the Howard Hughes-McGraw Hill-Life magazine affair than whether Mr. Hughes did or (lid not sell his autobiograi^y for publication.

'The American people, who have been reeling from one credibility crisis to another, are now being asked to decide whether two of the most distinguished publishing companies in this country or one of the richest men in the world are telling the truth.

The evidence is strong on both sides. Howard Hughes in his famous telephone interview says there is not a shred of truth in it. McGraw Hill and Life both insist they have the real thing and plan to go ahead and publish the autobiography no matter what Mr. Hughes says.

'The problem for the public, which up until this time has remained neutral, is that Mr. Hughes is such a mystery man that we dont even know what he looks like any more, and its

causing tremendous paranoia in everyones home.

For example the other night my family was watching the news, and suddenly Hubert Humphrey came on the screen to announce he was once again a candiate for President.

You know, my wife said.

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Other Editors Say Excellent Choice

(The Raleigh Times)

The appointment of Sam Ragan as North Carolinas first secretary of Art, (Culture and History Department is a singularly appropriate one.

Ragan, a veteran North Carolina newspaperman, is no johnny come lately in the field of cultural affairs. He has been active as an award - winning poet himself, has taught creative writing courses, has been an active book reviewer, has always gone out of his way to support the arts both personally and professionally. At the same time, he has been and is a trained and hard -working newspaperman who has never forgotten that a good newspaperman is always basically a reporter. Because of this, he has kept in touch with the people of the State, knows their feelings, their ambitions for their state, and is able to translate their feelings to state officialdom while at the same time getting to the people with what is going on in the fields of culture.

It is important that the man heading the culture department of state government be in touch with all the people, not with just the relatively few who are actively engaged in the practice of things cultural. It is easy to have an inbred culture which is of interest only to those few who sit in their own little circles and communicate only with those in the circle. But, what is needed for all the people are c(mtinually enlarging circles which will bring into their influence more and more people.

Ragan can do such a job. He is as interested in finding a lover of poetry who runs a farm for a living as he is in finding a poet on the campus. He is able, too, to get through to the poetry lover -farmer as he is to the professional writer.

His quarter century of experience as a newspaperman in Raleigh will make it possible for him to move with relative ease through the red tape and the bureaucracy of state officialdom. This will be a real factor in his favor as he undertakes to apply the state government reorganization plan to the agencies combined in the new department.

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its funny, but I get the feeling that that isnt really Hubert Humphrey.

How can you say that? I said, looking closer at the screen.

Suppose, she said, just suppose, that person was Howard Hughes.

Impossible, I said. I know Hubert Humphrey. Thata his voice. Besides why would Howard Hughes want to be Hubert Humphrey?

Nobody knows why Howard Hughes does things, she said. It would be a perfect disguise for him. Everyone would think he was locked up in the Bahamas, and all the time he would be going around the country making speeches and meeting people and looking for new things to invest in.

I cant believe it, I said, with my face pressed as close to the screen as I could get it.

Well, we all know Humphrey has no money. Its very in teresting that he ^ would an nounce for President right after Howard Hughes denied he had sold his autobiography.

Im sure its just a coincidence, I said. You have to come up with something more (Continued on page 5)

limes tells it as it is and sometimes tells it as it isnt. But, in any case, its publicity costs have gone up 1,000 per cit in the last decade.

Speaking of governmental expenses, members of the House of Representatives have improved their lot considerably since the old days back in 1789 when a Representative got $6 a day and the Speaker got $9. Today a Representative gets |42,-500 a year and the Speaker $62.500-plus fringe benefits for both.

Where is the world's watei .supply? Well, 93.9 per cent of it, according to the National Georgraphic Society, is concentrated in Earths four main oceanic areasPacific, Atlantic, Indian and Arctic. The rest is in rivers, lakes, ice, glaciers, underground and clouds.

Has your wife had an accident in her kitchen lately? Per-haps it was because the kitchen was too noisy. A University of Wisconsin researcher found in a survey of typical American kitchens that their noise level was so high it might impair efficiency and coordination, thus increasing the likelihood of accidents.

Quotable notables: No civilization has died from an attack of doubt.Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gasset.

How they started: Poet John Keats was an apothecarys apprentice before his lyric gift won him fame. Producer Bill Rose worked as a secretary and shorthand expert. Merchant prince J.C. Penney opened a butcher shop that failed.

Lifesaving note: If you ever have to give mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to an infant, use only the air in your mouth. To breathe with the full force of your lungs might damage the babys lungs.

Pet fact: People today are going for all kinds of unusual animals as house pets, ranging from ocelots to mongooses. But if you would like to have a pet wolf around your living room, remember this: no one yet has been able to housebreak a wolf.

Economical: The Japanese, who rarely waste or throw away anything, have found a way to make a profit out of wornout tires. They grind them into a powder. The powder can be used as a highway paving material or as a base for the production of other rubber goods.

Worth remembering: The man who marries for looks usually spends the rest of his life getting dirty ones.

It was Nicolas Chamfort who observed. The ability to utter (Continued on page 5)

Pressing For A Four-Day Week

By ELMER ROESSNER

The persistence of unemploymoit of over six per cent of ie working force is certain to increase demands for the four-day week. Not only will organized labor agitate for it as a share the work plan, but employer resistence will lessen as they face [M^bable increases in assessments for unemployment benefits.

Across the country, a scattering of companies have adopted the four-day week. Results have been mixed, although no disastrous results have been reported and some employers are content.

For example, Eberle Architects-Engineer 8-Pl a -nners of St. Paul is en-thuiastic about its shift to a four-day, 36-hour week last June 1. It reports:

Productivity has in* creased from six to lo por

cent.

. Absenteeism has dropped 30 per cent from 1970 rates.

. Employee turnover has decreased 24 per cent from

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1970 rates. Eberle has added some frills to the shorter work week. There is a two and a half hour quiet period each morning when normal office routine is suspended, providing time for individuals to think, create, plan, correspond and handle detail work. This is followed by a six-and-one-half-hour more concerted day, This arrangement is credited for boosting creativity and productivity, It might be difficult to adapt this idea to

General Motors, for example.

Eberle adds that punctuality has improved, coffee breaks are passe, staff morale has improved, its recruiting program has benefitted, rush hours are avoided, and client acceptance has been excellent. Key personnel rotate for Friday coverage.

However, a general shift to a four-day week suggests some difficult problems. For instance:

. A change from a 40-hour to a 36-hour week would undoubtedly bring demands for nocut in take4)ome pay. In some industries, the rise in efficiency would not offset the loss of hourly performance.

. Where a 35-hour week previals, a change to a four-day week would bring demands for a 32-hour week, with no reduction in pay.

. In many plants, a four-day week would encourage moonlighting. Employers

would gain nothing from better-rested workers or reduced absenteeism. In fact, productivity might decline.

. In some industries and some companies, a four-day week would increase labor costs by up to 25 per cent. This would mean higher prices and more inflation.

A universal change to a four-day week might create a drastic labor shortage. Since it would require up to 25 per cent more workers, the six per cent unemployed would not be enough to meet the change.

^ . A four day week would greatly increase travel, sports and other leisure activities and this, in turn, would create vastly more employment, making the labor shortage worse than suggested above.

The four-day work week will come eventually, but it may still be i little early.