4Hie Daily Reflector, GreenvUle, N.C.TburMlay, February 24, 1172

Air Of Cordiality Offers Hope

AND YOU CAN BET HiS EARS ARE BURNING!

Pres. Ncons historic visit to Peking is well underway now and, if cordially is any guide, it could lead to better relations between the two nations.

The presidential reception at the airport where Nixons plane landed were formal and stiff and his led to speculation that this might be the tone of the entire visit. Nixon was mt at his plane by Premier Chou En-lai and other high officials, along with a band and an honor guard. Still there was no great outpouring of people to welcome the visiting dignitary.

As the round of banquet proceeded, however, things looked better. Next came the surprising early meeting with Mao Tse-tung. There was another four hour meeting with Chou En-lai. While little has come out as to what was discussed at the meetings or what agreements were reached, there was much to indicate that progress had been made.

A big indication that things were warming up for the American visitors was reflected in the fact that Chinese newspapers began to print news of the visit. Chairman Mao Meets President Nixon a headline

The Rural Way Now In Jeopardy

By BRVAN HAISLIP RALEIGHUrbanization is a tide which threatens to wash out the traditional character of the South, leaving sprawling cities like those of every other region.

The Southern heritage is a rural way of life, close to nature and self-sufficient.

Today it is in jeopardy. If its values are worth

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preserving, planners and elected officials must exert efforts to control growth patterns and end the continuing migration from countryside to town.

Means to that end will be explored this spring by a conference of the regions leaders in Birmingham, Ala. It is being arranged by the Center for Urban Studies at Duke University, under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.

"Redevelopment of the Rural South is the theme. Seminars and workshops are part of the format. Gov. Bob Scott will serve as chairman for a panel of Southern governors, addressing themselves to the topic. Avoiding Examples Elsewhere

The only way to keep Southern cities from being like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and other places is to make rural areas more attractive so their people will not have an incentive to move to the cities, said Dr. Thomas Naylor, director of the Duke Center.

We believe that the new South had better not become the urbanized, industrialized South, he said.

Dr. Naylor also is executive director of the L.Q.C. Lamar Society, a non-profit organization formed in 1969 to give intellectual thrust to the search for solutions to Southern problems.

Gov. Scott, a farm boy, often has talked of the need for rural development as an essential component of a sound economy for North Carolina.

Problems In Perspective

He takes the position that problems cant be neatly packaged as "rural or urban, but must be seen in the context of the whole. Increasing regional and national attention focused on the rural scene, he explained, comes from the realization that many current problems of the cities had their origins in changes taking place in rural areas.

Modern technology has brought a decline in farm employment. Lack of jobs in rural areas has sent people to the big cities, both inside and outside the state.

Taking the jobs and services to people where they live is the only alternative to having the people move where the jobs and services are.

We can no longer tolerate a situation where North Carolinians are forced to move from a rural poverty situation to an even more cruel urban poverty situation, Scott declared.

Census Illustrates Trend

Figures from the 1970 census illustrate the urbanizing trend. Nine counties had 36 per cent of the states population. More significantly, they showed two-thirds of the states population growth from 1950 to 1970.

Sixty-six counties had 30 per. cent of the population, and over the 20-year period accounted for only 3 per cent of the states rise in population.

A closer look at the figures shows emerging population centers, though not recognized as cities. For example, Goldsboro had a 1970 city population of 26,000 which served as a center for an urban cluster that totaled 50,000; Rockingham was listed at 6,000, but had an urban cluster of 25,000; Asheboro had a city

population of 11,000, but a total urban cluster of 26,000.

I am convinced that the foundation of rural development in North Carolina must rest on the . creation of a network of small urban centers, which along with the larger cities, can maintain a reasonable

balance they can obtain the level of public service that we have come to expect in todays world, Gov. Scott said.

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across the top of the front page of the Peking Peoples Daily. The entire front page was devqted to the meeting between Nixon and Mao and other news of the visit, complete with pictures. In a nation with a controUed press, the publicity is doled out according to the wishes of those in power.

It would be too hopeful to expect too much immediately from the presidents visit to Giina. Yet, the smoothness of the talks will set the pace for future negotiations between the two nations as they attempt to solve their mutual problems. The way the visit has gone so far has to offer some encouragement.

Serving Both Today And Those Tomorrows

The more we have reflected on the car - removal program by the Greenville Police Department, the more we enthuse.

It is a case of serving both today and the future.

Big cities that moved late into the business of removing discarded automobiles have an expensive problem on their hands. We can assume that in many cases a backlog of junk has gotten out of hand.

By offering to remove disabled and discarded cars now, before the unsightly litter has had time to accumulate out of all proportion, the police department is avoiding future headaches, as well as making life in Greenville a little more attractive.

Somebody cares.

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By JJ. KILPATRICK

Morton Grew Old Questions Re-Raised In Importance .

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RALEIGH - Hugh Morton made a talk last Wednesday night in Burlington and threw some sharp verbal punches at Pat Taylor and Skipper Bowles.

Then Morton got into his car and drove to Durham, where he met with Mack Pearsall, his gubernatorial campaign manager, and with experts from the Social Systems firm, a computer outfit that was also working in the Morton campaign.

They got an early read-out on a poll that was taken in Mortons behalf. The poll was conducted after Morton ran a series of 30-minute press conferences on television across the state. He was hoping this latest poll would put him in a competitive position.

To put it bluntly, the poll was discouraging. It showed Taylor in first place, Bowles second about 15 points behind, and Morton with about 10 per cent of the vote. Morton wasnt moving in the polls.

The one bright spot came in the undecided column. A large number of North Carolina voters didnt know Which person they planned to vote for in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Morton was told that he had a chance but a large amount of money would have to be spent on media advertising. They were talking in terms of $500,000.

Morton was not doing well raising money. Small contributions were coming in well enough, but the big money that a candidate has to have wasnt available. And his latest showing in the polls made it extremely likely that raising money would be even more difficult in the future.

With just a handful of people present in that room in Durham Thursday morning, the decision was reached about 1 a.m.: Morton would pull out of the race.

He had planned to pay his

filing fee in Raleigh Thursday afternoon. Hundreds of Morton supporters drove to the State Capital Thursday to be on hand for the big occasion. They took over a huge ballroom in the Sir Walter Hotel. The Morton Salt girls were there, Ralph Smith and his cracker jacks led cheers: "Whos Gonna Be North Carolinas Next (lovemor? Hugh, thats who.

They thought they had come to Raleigh to cheer (I^aesar, not to bury him. But Morton took the podium around 2:30 p.m. Thursday and announced that he would not run. Surprise? Baby, this was a smash.

What went wrong with the campaign?

Morton got into the race very late into the day. He decided last summer that the Governors office was his cup of tea and started running.' Skipper Bowles had been running for three years and rumor has it that the neanderthal man was Pat Taylors first campaign manager for Governor.

Bowles and Taylor had not only been planning and building political organizations, they had also cultivated the all-important financial sources.

Morton was behind in the polls and in the money race and it would have taken a super miracle for him to have caught up.

He didnt want to put his friends through a game of desperation politics, so he got out. Hell be second-guessed but the move was a wise one.

What d^ Morton do now?

Taylor^nd Bowles were going after his vote the minute that he made the big announcement. At one time, Morton had planned to back Bowles for Governor. But he said he and Skipper had some "serious differences over principles that led to Mortons entry into the race in the first place.

Morton has also been

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Last weeks decision of the California Supreme Cburt, banning death sentences in that State, raises anew some old questions of law and public policy. In my own view, the decision was clearly wrong.

The California court

construed Clalifomias own State Constitution. The decision is therefore final and not subject to further appeal. It applies solely to California, and serves to nullify only those death sentences that had been imposed by California courts upon more than 100 prisoners awaiting

execution.

Yet the action of the California court cannot be viewed so narrowly. On January 17 th- U.S. Siq)reme Ck)urt heard argument in four cases (the most heinous of them, ironically from California) that directly challenge the concept of capital punishment as a violation of the Eighth Amendment. The amendment says that cruel and unusual punishments shall not be inflicted.

'The problem presents two separate questions. The first is, Is capital punishment

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To the editor:

American children are suffering from widespread parent failure. Parents hardly know what to expect of their offspring, are in conflict to what their values are, while others lack the confidence to impose discipline and many other doubt their rights to structure a childs attitudes, beliefs and conduct.

How a child develops into an adult depends majorly on whether parents care enough about their children to assert and defend the necessary values. It also means putting home responsibilities first.

Rearing our children is the most important task most of will ever undertake.

Love and discipline are the foundation of all values. Children need discipline if they are to develop comptent, self-confident personalities. Unfortunately many parents are letting other children and the media, specifically television and the movies, do the job.

If one has a religious faith, it can help solidify a sense of family and help guide a child in his ethical development.

It is equally important that parents put forward a positive attitude toward their own racial and ethnic heritage. No (Mie should be ashamed of his familys past because misplaced shame is self-crippling. Anything a family does together whether it is eating at home, in a restaurant, camping, going to church or going on a vacation is worthwhile, because it promotes a family spirit. Children may resent at times that they cannot do what every other child on the bl(x:k is doing, but, for outbalancing that resentment, they gain the security of family membership.

If a child is to learn to be an adult, he has to begin by respecting the adults he know, his parents and, if they are alive, his grandparents. By learning to obey his father and mother, a child has the freedom within the sure boundaries they set for him to discover his own identity. By learning to respect other peoples right, a child gains the self-confidence to claim his own.

Mrs. J.W. Maye

Greenville

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By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Re-marks that a man (m the water wagon gets tired of hearing: "All I can say, Harry, is-^t was about time.

Whatll you have, Harry another cup of coffee?

unconstituticmal? The second is, Is it immoral, unwise, or ineffective? The (]uestions have nothing to do with one another.

I do not see, for the life of me, how capital punishment, as such, possibly could be held unconstitutional. The Fifth Amendment imirficitly sanctions it: No person shall be held to answer for a cai^lal... crime, unless on a presentment or indictmwit of a (k'and Jury. Both the Fifth and the Fourteenth Amendments give further sanction in terms of due process of law.

Mr. Justice Stewart made the point during oral argument last month: One of the things that bothers me about the Fourteenth Amendment, he said, is that the dejMivation of life is expressly prohibited without due process of lawand thwefore by implication is approved when there is due {*ocess. And this is why I say that to met it is more than just a semantic fwoblem. Now were not talking about the express wording of the Constituticm.

Precisely. Even if one embraces every activist theory ever advanced about our living, or flexible, or evolving Ckinstitution, only the two adjectives of the Eighth Amendment would be subject to judicial interpretation: Is a particular method of execution cruel and unusual? Disemboweling a prisoner, or boiling him in oil, might thus be unconstitutional. But unless the legislative judgment of 41 States is to be discarded altogether, the electric chair and the gas chambo- cannot be regarded, at law, as constitutionally impermissible.

The California court confused the two qpiestions. Hie majority declared that capital punishment, as such, degrades and dehumanizes all who participate in its (Continued on page 5)

What do you use for a chaser after you drink a glass of water?

It must be nice to see only gray elei^ants again for a change.

Ill give you two weeks at the most. Then youll be back with your foot glued to the bar rail again.^

Its okay with me, Harry. The less you drink the more therell be left for me.

I hear youre off the sauce, Harry. I hope this means well see you more often at the Rotary meetings.

I guess about the only exercise you get is climbing on and falling off the water wagon, isnt it?

All I did was wave the cork under his noseand he fainted.

Well, its no big loss to the rest of us barflies if Harry turned pure. He hasnt bought a round since Firpo knocked Dempsey out of the ring anyway.

One of the nicest things about being dry is that you find the conversation of your wife and children so much more stimulating.

Theres nothing worse than a reformed drunk.

Well, I guess hes had enough hangovers to last him the rest of his life, anyway. Better you than me, Harry.

How about a mug of root beer, Harry? You havent tried that yet.

What are you going to do with all the money you save nowleave it to me?

Let me slip you a fake Bloody Mary, Harry. Nobodyll know I left the vodka out. (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

' By GWYN COGHILL W. Chester Harris, local attorney, today made public the announcement of his candidacy for judge of Recorders Court subject to the action of the Democratic primary in June. While there have been reports of many candidates for the various court offices in the coming primary, Mr. Harris is the first that has given the press a statement endorsed by the resolution of the Pitt County Tax Relief Association.

Employees in state buildings at Raleigh are being denied any ice water during the remainder of the winter. The action is a means of cutting down expenses, one of the several adopted by the state the last few months.

Strength For Today Wages And Jobs Related

RIGHT AS USUAL

The Bible declares that jealousy is cruel as the grave (Song of Solomon 8:6). The expression You can say that again applies to this situation. The jealous person is miserable and will continue in misery as long as he (or she) continues to be jealous. Jealousy is a disease, and it can make a person sick and keep him so. To want something somebody else has constitutes a continuous self-torture. 'There is nothing complimentary about jealousy. The jealous person is definitely afflicted. He had better search for a remedy (or a cure) and start on the project immediately. Jealousy never makes people happy it makes them miserable.

You may retort that God speaks of Himself as a jealous (}od (Exodus 20:5). In all such cases the Hebrew

word for jealousy really means zealous. If we have that kind of jealousy, okay. No one will complain or criticize, but the jealousy of wanting what we do not have and cannot have because it belongs to someone else this is an unmitigated evil. It is a form of self-torture. We like zealous people. It is a stimulating sight to see them at work on a project. They have a smile on their faces and frequently a song on their lips. They are zealous.

Some of us are old enough to remember diseases that have been definitely eliminated. More of that type of scientific triumph is in store for us. But being ill-natured and glowering and muttering all the time this is illness. The Bible calls it strong as death cruel as the grave. And the Bible is right as usual.

By Earl Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER Unemployment in Detroit is estimated at 10 per cent of the labor force. The United Auto Workers, the citys dominant union, has asked for a committee of business, labor and civic leaders to demand that employers explain why they are quitting the Detroit area.

CX)MMENT: Detroit, like many other cities, is plagued with crime in the streets and racial tensions. But there is another factor in Detroit: high wages.

Federal-Mogul Corp. closed two roller bearing plants late last year. An official said that wages in the Detroit area averaged $2 an hour above scales of the companys competitors in other areas. 'The Detroit work will be divided between Mogul plants in the South and in rural Illinois.

Ex-Cell-O Corp., which has previously moved some

operations out of Detroit, says it plans to move others because of the high-wage problem.

That isnt the end. Detroits products, a multitude of other manufactured goods, must

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cost more than products made in other areas. Fortunately for the auto industry" U.A.W. scales prevail wherever autos are made.

(jleneral Motors said it will buy 154,322 net tons of Japanese steel, double the amount it purchased last year. A Southern pig iron facility has closed because customers can buy foreign pig iron cheaper than U.S. pig iron.

COMMENT: AGAIN

THERE IS THE PROBLEM OF HIGH WAGES. Lower U.S. wages are unthinkable. The alternatives: new

voluntary quota agreements with European and Japanese steel producers; higher tariffs on steel; or federal quotas on steel imports, just as we have on meats.

COMMENT: This is only part of consumers savings. In addition, there were deposits in thrift accounts in commercial banks, purchases of E bonds, mutual funds, securities and real estate.

If only half of the amount saved were spent for goods and services, a lot of mer-:hants, service firms and jnemployed would be singing, Happy days are here again.

U.S. Users Eye Foreign Steel Industry Week reports many U.S. steel users are seeking bargains abroad. A Chicago mill says price shading is necessary to keep orders in this country.

Savings Bank Deposits Set January Record

A total of $710 million was deposited in the nations mutual savings banks in January, a new high for that month. In addition, $165 million in interest brought the total to $875 million.

Cameras Oversee Florida School Children Eastman Kodak reports that its automatic camera security system has been installed in schools in Polk County, Fla., to detect disruptive conduct and to provide positive identification of trouble-makers.

COMMENT; Big Brother is watching them, and it isnt 1984 yet! ^