4The DaUy Reflector. GreenvlUe. N.C.-Tharday, February 1#, 1172

No Limits On Total Spending

The nation may be making some progress in the field of high campaign costs under a new campaign spending law signed by the president Monday.

Taking effect in 60 days the law requires that candidates for the White House and for Congress must disclose every campaign contribution over $100 and reveal how the money is spent.

The law limits to 10 cents for each eligible voter the sum a candidate can spend on (^mpaign advertising in a primary or general election. Not more that 60 percent of that amount may be spent for television and radio campaigning.

Since the law aslo requires that broadcasters charge their lowest rates for political advertising,

Couldn't Cope With The Rush

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALIEGH, N.C. - If every criminal case pending in North Carolina courst were tried within the next 90 days and only one-fourth of the defendants sentenced to prison, it would take a corrections system double the present capacity to handle them.

Thats the size of the challenge for criminal justice

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reform.

Methods of dealing with prisoners other than incarceration must be developed. Probation and parole must be used more effectively. Rehabilitation must aim for the reduction of recidivism repeaters who come into the system again and again.

These steps go hand in hand, according to Gov. Bob Scott, with the effort to clear jamnied court dockets and assure every defendant a speedy trial.

The alternatives, he cautioned, is the kind of disaster which faced Florida recently when officials said they could not accept more inmates into filled prisons.

Backlog In Courts

Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan has estimated that 42,000 cases are backlogged in the judicial system, including the district court. He com-templates asking the 1973 General Assembly to set a statutory requirement that every case be tried within 90 days.

The present population of North Carolina prisons is 10,000. The prospect of many thousands more, without proper planning, would compound problems of inadequate facilities and personnel.

Building more prisons is not the answer, either in economic or human terms, said Fred Morrison, legal counsel to Gov. Scott. Confinement alone ranks as the most expensive and least successful means of dealing with most offenders.

The Penal System Study Committee of the N.C. Bar Association, formed at the Governors request, will turn its attention to the area as soon as it completes an investigation of juvenile corrections, Morrison said.

Juvenile Report Next Month

The Governor anticipates the juvenile study report next month. Then, the bar committee will pick up its work in adult corrections with the aim of drafting recommendations in time for the 1973 legislature, Morrison explained.

Taking those convicted of "victimless crimes out of the system is one approach to be explored. For example, Morrison noted, persons convicted of public drunkeness and drug addicts might well be routed to treatment centers rather than prison.

A recommendation to do away with the crime of public drunkeness passed the House in the 71 session, but failed in the Senate.

Prison population has remained fairly constant in North Carolina over the past decade, due largely to expanding use of probation, parole and work release.

Parole Use Expanding

From 1%1 to 1971, the number on parole went from 1,535 to 2,262. The work release program, started in 1961 with 161 inmates, swelled to 1,701 last year. Another 577 were under a conditional release program for committed youthful offenders.

Approximately 22,500 persons convicted in the courts are on probation. Expansion of the probation staff looks to its wider and more effective use. Twelve new officers are now in training for addition to the force of 236 officers and 17 supervisors; another dozen will be added next July 1, and 13 more new positions are in the budget for Jan. 1, 1973.

Under other circumstances, all of those on probation, parole and work release could be inside prison walls. That would be an intolerable burden on present facilities.

A promising new program, funded with grants of about $95,000 from the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, is called "late parole assistance. An inmate within 90 days of release is placed on parole and given help in finding a job and a place to love. The funds added two new parole officers in each of the states six divisions.

The transition back to society goes better under parole supervision, Morrison said. The man with parol experience also is less likely to return to prison.

The recidivism rate for parolees is around 20 per cent, compared to 70 per cent for those released without parole, Morrison explained.

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there may be just as much of it in the national campaigns this year as there was four years ago.

There are still loop holes, however, the advertising limit covers television, radio, newspaper, magazine, bill board and paid telephone campaigns, but it does not cover direct mail costs. There is also no limit on a candidates total campaign spending.

It is becoming more and more obvious that it costs too much to run for most political offices in this nation. It has also been true that major contributors to election campaigns were not usually known to the public. The voters have a right to know who is financing candidates for office and any citizens also has the right to be able to seek public office without facing exorbitant campaign costs.

The new law which will take effect in 60 days will not cure all the ills of political campaign financing; however it is a step in the right direction.

A Better Response By Blood Donors Needed

The Ayden visit of the Red Cross Bloodmobile was one of the most disappointing in some time.

Despite a strong effort by the Ayden Jaycees, only 24 units were collected and four donors vyere turned down. The quota for the day was 135 units.

If Pitt County is to keep the blood program there will have to be better response on future visits. The Red Cross Blood program is too vital to lose. We must meet our quota.

Diplomats For Rockefeller

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By ROWLAND EVANS

AND ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The unprecedented loss of prestige and influence of the once-preeminent State Department has now produced a surprising consensus among middle-level U.S. diplomats: only Nelson Rockefeller can reverse the decline of the State Department in a second Nixon administration.

That strictly private consensus is fed by the growing opinion that President Nixon may actually have decided to tap the Republican governor of New York as successor to Mr. Nixons intimate friend, William P. Rogers.

More important, however, it rests on a conviction that only Rockefeller has the clout and guts to match Henry Kissinger who, as the Presidents national security adviser, is the real Secretary of State in terms of raw power and influence over U.S. policy abroad.

The loss of the State Departments dominant role in foreign policy goes well beyond Mr. Nixons reliance on the remarkable Dr. Kissinger, however. For example, in a highly unusual White House reversal, a debt-rescheduling negotiation has been taken away from State. The U.S. delegation now in Paris for talks with Western European creditor nations on rescheduling the massive external debt of Chile is under the chairmanship of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Petty.

The reason given privately for this new slight to the State Department is that Secretary John B. Connallys men at Treasury will keep Chiles feet to the fire in a delicate negotiation complicated by Chiles expropriation of Kennecott and Anaconda copper properties in Chile worth half a billion dollars.

The White House gave the top negotiators job to Treasury because it felt State might pay too much heed to diplomacy, not enough to

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money.

Moreover, the decline of State has reached the point where ambassadors accredited to Washington from abroad are in a constant state of apprehension about how to conduct their diplomacy with the Nixon administration.

They fear that if they go to the regional assistant secretaries of state, where important matters are traditionally handled, nothing will happen. These highly responsible and intelligent officials seldom can make decisions without the approval of Dr. Kissingers powerful secretariat at the White House.

But if foreign ambassadors bypass State and take their business direct to Dr. Kissinger, as frequently occurs, they risk serious deterioration in their relations with the State Department bureaucracy a profound risk for any ambassador.

Beyond that, Rogerss loyalty to the President, based on years of intimacy, sometimes acts as a choke on the flow of essential information from State to the White House that might conflict with policies or tilts known to exist inside the White House.

A case in point is the apparent White House decision to withhold U.S. recognition of Bangladesh until after Mr. Nixons visit to China. While conceding that that decision may well be correct, high officials at State claim that the full diplomatic impact of the delay is not known by the President because State has not been asked for its opinion. Worldwide diplomatic reports on the issue are gathering dust in a State Department filing cabinet. Such shyness for battle in the bureaucratic wars is not Rockefellers strong point, a fact that demoralized State Departmoit diplomats are well aware of.

Moreover, Rockefeller, now in his fourth term as governor, was schooled in the

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By JJ. KILPATRICK

Order On The Campuses

MOUNT PLEASANT MICH.This is Thursday, s it must be where? Ontral-Michigan University, somewhere morth ol Saginaw, the country sheeted in snow, flat as a queen sized bed. It is the sixth campus since the lecture trail resumed the first of the year, and everywhere the story is about the same: things are quieter now.

The peripatetic lecturer operates like a beetle on a grapevine of shared impressions. He talks with students and professors who have just talked to other speakers who have talked with other students and other professors. The word gets around. The word this year is sober.

That was not the word three

years ago. Then the word was, maybe, crazy. It was as if master chef had mar--shaUed the ingredients and given instructions: In a bowl of young people, mix together four parts Vietnam, two parts draft, two parts Nixon, two teaspoons Swahili, seasoned with sex, marijuana and Mao Tse tung; and bring to a rolling boil.

In those days you felt the ferment, the pot tops trembling, the hall full of steam. Campus bulletin boards were shingled with notices, nailed on with bang-marks: "Rally! This means you!, ad hoc committees were huddling everywhere, for black studies, for pass-or-fail grading, for anti-war demonstration, for open dormitories. A visiting ac-

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UnrealisticDemands

(Jacksonville Daily News)

Ludwig Erhard, the man who masterminded West Germanys post-war economic miracle, turned 75 today and concluded that his people have lost all sense of proportion.

Erhard blames the Social Democratic party government of Chancellor Willy Brandt for awakening unrealistic demands by the governed.

All sense of proportion is missing, Erhard complained in an interview released by the German news agency (DPA).

That was what Erhard contended during most of 1966, his last year as West German chancellor, and he still thinks so although few paid much attention to his fears then of now.

Nevertheless, Erhards name remains synonymous with the seemingly miraculous recovery of the West German economy from the ruins left by the fighting and monumental bombing campaigns in World War II and the removal of much of what had been left of the defeated nations industrial jdants.

Leaders of all political parties, including Social Democrats who fought his program to throw off the shackles of government economic regimentation a generation ago, paid tribute to Erhard today.

And as we continue to pour endless tax demands into an ever-increasing U.S. Budget that plunges this nation deeper into debt with each succeeding secor^ it would profit all to take a closer look at the words of this 75-year-old statesman. All sense of proportion is missing...(in) awakening unrealistic demands by the governed.

tivist Jane Fonda, Dick Gregory, William Kunstler, Julian Bond, Jrry Rubin could expect an audience churning with hot blood and bursting in wild acclaim.

The heat has been turned down. Not (rff. Just down. The campus revolution has not ended, but the burner now is set at simmer. Here at Central Michigan, primarily a teacher-training institution, the mood is anxious; teaching jobs are not easily found today. Faculty members share the disquietude; a young speech instructor active with the American C^vil Liberties Union, wants a new post in the fall at a livelier institution, but in what is known as the academic slave market, bodies are selling poorly. The supply of hungry teachers far exceeds the demand.

The economic outlook, a visitor is told, is only one among a dozen factos that have contributed to the new sobriety.

Vietnam has almost ceased to be an issue with the draft effectively ended, the risk of personal commitment has lost its cutting edge. There is some concern about amnesty, but the concern is not keen. A number of Vietnam veterans have returned to campus; few of them, it appears, have much interest in launching political combat.

Faculty members, after a long period of permissiveness are recovering a sense of values, as Will Herberg and Sidney Hook recently have observed, in a report on academic freedom prepared for The American Entenx-ise Institute, order is indispensable to the teaching process. A year or so ago professors began to com-pr^end the threat to their freedom posed by the new barbarians; and they have (Continued on page 6)

Niche 61 In

Living

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) Theres much to be done at 61.

But with my 61st birthday lomning on the horizon, I feel pretty much inclined to relax and let the other fellow do it. If a man hasnt been able to re-fwin the world in 60 years, it is only wisdom to pass the prob

lem (HI to other hands.

Frankly, right now Id rather float along with the world tluui fight it. I feel like the guy who rode over Niagara Falls in a big rubber ball. He didnt change thembut he did survive them. Thats my goal, too.

Being 61 doesnt call fcH* much celebrating. Its pretty much of a blah birthday, just another niche and foothold in a long climb up the mountain. .

There arent many notable days in a mans life really. They are the day he is bom, the day he flrst goes to kindergarten, the day he first puts on long pants, the day he gets his first real job, the day he marries, the day his first child is bom, any day he pays off a mortgage, the day he retires and the day he dies.

Ctti, yes, and the day his father tells him about sex. This day didnt take long in my case.

Son, your mother thinks its time I told you about sex, my father said unexpectedly. What do you know about it?

Well, I know a little boy isnt supposed to get a little girl in trouble, I said. My father thought that over for a moment.

Well, he conceded, I guess thats about all you need to know. But if you do get one in trouble, come and tell your Dad about it first.

As it turned out, I never had (Continued (Hi page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

ByGWYN COGHILL Feb. 10,1932 Greenville merchants completed preparations today for the observance of Dollar Day tomorrow. Feverish activity marked the efforts of nine participating merchants and tonight will find every display window attractively decorated with bargains to be offered tomorrow.

Considerable progress was made yesterday in the Salvation Army budget campaign. The college turned in $68, the Junior Womens Club turned in $35 and other workers turned in $123. The total now is $1266.05.

'The Indians of William and Mary will play the E.C.T.C. basketball team on the home court of the college campus building Friday night. This will be the second game played between these two teams this season. The teachers dropped a close game to William and Mary in Norfolk last week.

Strength For Today Impact Of Devaluation Delay

PRAYER

In one of his Epistles, Paul urged his followers to pray without ceasing (I Thessalonians 5:17). Did the Apostle mean that we should spend our lives on our knees? Not at all. Our everyday lives are full of problems, situations, errands to be run, persons to be contacted and conversed with, which would appear to mean that we would never have much time left to praying. Yet the Apostle Paul urges us to pray without ceasing.

Undoubtedly he means that we must be constantly in a state of prayer. We must be fUled with the realization that (3od exists, that He is still completely in our every act, that He is bringing the universe and all He has made therein to a triumi^ial end.

We can tell the ay-ers

when we encounter them. Some few people go through life never uttering a prayer or at least not uttering a prayer until they find themselves in trouble with apparently no way out. Then even most of the atheists drop to their knees and begin silently to petition God for help.

Our lives are characterized by moMls. We have moods of exultation amd moods of dejection. We have moods of worry (which are generally sinful for we would not worry if we trusted God implicitly). A person whose life is characterized by continual moodiness is a sick person. Maybe he needs to see a doctor or a psychiatrist.

One necessary attitude for the growth of the spiritual life is that we should glorify and enjoy Him forever.

By Earl Douglass

Bv ELMER R0ES8NER

The price of gold abroad this week hovered around $50 an ounce and the Administration showed signs of delay in asking Congress to raise the price of gold from $35 to $38 an ounce. The Administration is blaming misadvised speculators for bidding up the price of gold.

COMMENT: Speculators

are undoubtedly influenced by Treasury Secretary John B. Connallys recent statements that the federal deficit this fiscal year would be in the neighborhood of $40 billion, that the deficit would be $25 billion in the next fiscal year, that $50 billion rise in the debt limit probably wont be adequate past February, 1973, and that taxes need not be raised next year.

That sounds like a thum

ping lot more inflation and has been read as a warning that there will be another

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devaluation of the dollar ahead.

The Administrations delay in asking Congress to increase the price of gold $3 an ounce, i.e.: devalue the dollar, has given rise to fears or hopes that the Administration must ask for a larger increase. Obviously, some foreign speculators believe the increase will or should be $15 an ounce.

In its action toward devaluation, the United States overlooked the text

book axiom on devaluation; Whoi such a step becomes necessary, action should be instantaneous. The announcement that the dollar was to be devalued should have been followed in minutes by the request to Congress for an imme(tate increase in the price of gold, with a demand for immediate action. Such moves would have eliminated that current attack on the dollar abroad.

However, the Administration thought it necessary to first negotiate satisfactory trade agreements with Conunon Market nations, Japan and Canada. These have not yet been completed.

Says Big Store Closing No Aid To Competitor

Saks Fifth Ave. store in New York expected big gains

when its neighbor Best & Co. closed, but its own business fell off in certain areas, Allan R. Johnson, Saks chairman, told the Federal Trade Commission. He was testifying on behalf of a competitor, Bergdorf Goodman, which was asking approval of its purchase by Broadway-Hale, Inc. He said this proved that when stores go out of business, their customers usually do not go to their competitors.

COMMENT: Thats a

conclusion that should not be accepted blindly. It may prove true in some circumstances, but not in others. There are hundreds of cases in which retailers profited greatly by buying out and closing down competitors?^ has even happened in newspaper publishing.