Must Channel Competitiveness

CHEAP BY WHAT STANDARDS?

It came as no surprise last week when Dr. William C. Friday was unanimously dected president of the new University of North Carolina system.

The selection was made by the board of governors of the system, meeting at UNC-GreenslxNTO.

The selection was made in executive session, but Gov. Scott announced afterward that the election was unanimous.

It would have been better, of course, if the

Frustration In Budget System

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH, N.C. - The way North Carolina makes up its budget is geared more to perpetuating agencies than achieving purposes.

Thumbing through a summary of the nearly W/z billicm budget for 1971-73, its easy enough to find out the cost of operation for a particular department or institution.

Its difficult when not impossible, to tell what it costs to perform a service. Lawmakers battle that

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frustration every session. They are called upon to decide where the money goes without clear guidance on what it will accomplish. Long hearing before the A[^ropriations committee, with agencies bidding avidly for funds, often leave more questions than answers.

What legislative leaders hope will be a way out of the woods is a fiscal research staff, authorized by the 1971

General Assembly and now being organized.

Hard Questions To Answer Hard questions of priority and purpose arise in the budget-making process, agreed Mercer Doty, director of the new le^lative arm.

Should an agency receive more or less than its request? Givm the need for a new or expanded program, how can the legislature cost it out?

For the conscientious man, they are difficult to answer, said Doty. The system we employ is not well designed to tie costs to programs.

TTie legislature needs to develop sources of information which can relate expenditures to accomplishment, he said. Thats the mission for the staff hell be recruiting in the mmiths ahead.

Those who voted for it and provided $125,000 to get it started saw the fiscal research division as a legislative watchdog over state spending. A primary assignment is to see that directives laid down in the budget by the legislature meet compliance from state departments and agencies.

They gave it clear independence from the executive branch, solely responsible to the General Assembly, and spelled out that every state agency shall furnish to the fiscal research division any information or records required by it.

A Budget Scrutiny Among other things, legislators wanted the division (established under the wing of the Legislative Services Commission) to give severe scrutiny to the A budget for continuing services at currit levels and point out areas for greater efficiency. They forecast savings into the hundreds of millions of (k)llars could result.

Economies can be realized, said Doty, a retired Army officer and West Point graduate who learned Tar Heel bureaucracy as director of the state government reorganization study.

We can do a better job than we are doing in many ^ area, he observed. Tagging a dollar amount to potential savings, he added, would be pulling figures out of the air at this early stage.

North Carolina followed a national trend in creating fiscal research capability for its legislature. Perhaps as many as half of the states have gone the route, using a variety of approaches, Doty reported.

Legislative Authority Eroding Theres a general feeling among l^islatures that their authority has been eroded to a certain extent by the executive branch, he explained. They feel a need for objective budget information as the basis for the kind of decisions they have to make.

When all they know comes for the agencies with a stake in the outcome or an administration favorably disposed, lawmakers have less than a full partnership in the budget preparation, Doty said.

Sen. Fred Folger of Surry is chairman of the committee which serves as Dotys pipeline to the Legislative Services Commission. Other members are: Sen. Ruffin Bailey of Wake, And Reps. Norwood Bryan, Jr. of Cumberland and David Bumgarner of Gaston.

Seeing how other states do it can add perspective to the divisions start-up, Doty said. He has recommended a round of visits to the committee, suggesting Florida, New York, Wisconsin, California and Hawaii.

Hawaii sounds like a boondoggle, but its not, he insisted. Its legislature is very highly regarded for the initiative it has taken in seeking management improvement in the legislative branch.

Will the division have in-put in the 73 session?

I certainly hope so, said Doty, conceding time is short. How much depends on how well we anticipate the concerns of the session, and how well we do our work.

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selection of the man who will preside over all of the states universities had b&i in a public meeting at which citizens and the ress could have been present. Nevertheless the matter was handled in executive session and there was hardly ever any doubt as to who the new president would be.

Two other men previously called for interviews decided not to be considered and did not appear. A third appeared, but said he was not interested in the job.

We feel that Dr. Friday can be a good chmce for the job of consolidating all of the states universities into one system.

He is certainly familar with higher education in this state and he has presided well over the old Consolidated University system which contained Chapel HiU, N. C. State, Greensboro and lat^, Charlotte, Asheville and Wilm^ton.

We would dismiss any feeling that Dr. Friday would cater to these campuses because of his past affiliation with them. We hope he is a man of too much vision for that.

r" Higher education battles have been spirited in this state and there has often been bitterness as new schools arose to prominance during a period of unprecedented demand for college level training.

Dr. Fridays task now is, not to quell this spirit of competitiveness, but to channel it so that every institution works in the direction where it can fill the greatest need. North Carolina does not need dull universities locked in uninteresting programs which do not best meet the public need. The state does need the spirit that has characterized hi^er educations growth in this state in the past 20 without the hard feelings that have often accompanied it.

Building a system of higher education that gets the best there is out of every state university campus is quite a charge. We believe William Friday is a man who can do it.

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Lost Cause In N.C. Primary

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

GREENSBORO, N.C.-The breakdown of Sen. Edmund S. Muskies front-running strategy has transformed prospects for the May 6 Presidential primary here into a nightmare for liberals that reflects the instability now permeating the Democratic party nationwide.

Under drastically altered post-Florida conditions of the race for the Democratic nomination, an active campaign here by Muskie would only improve Gov. George Wallaces prospects. Now past the deadline for getting off the North (Molina ballot, the best Muskie can do is to ignore the state and hope his name does not draw too many votes away from Wallaces only serious challenger here: Terry

Sanford, the moderate former governor and now Duke University president.

That is a startling comedown from three weeks ago, when Muskies advisers counted on winning this progressive Southern state. So, North Carolina is a case study of how the Muskie strategy backfired.

That strategy was a three-legged stool: (1) enter all primary elections; (2) recognize no favorite sons; (3) get commitments from state Democratic leaders. So long as Muskie was first in the polls, that strategy was well designed to lock up the nomination at an early date.

It certainly seemed to be working well here. Muskie agents had enlisted Gov. Robert Scott and his political organization. Muskie polls showed him winning the state in a three-way contest with Wallace and Sen. Hubert Humphrey.

Consequently, Muskies managers were outraged when Sanford indicated he

would become a candidate for the first time in 12 years and enter the North Carolina primary. Sanford, fumed the Muskie men, was a front man for his old friend Hubert Humphrey and his entry risked splitting the moderate vote and delivering North Carolina to Wallace.

To serious political students here, the concept of Sanford as Humphreys stalking horse is ludicrous. Rather, from the very first he doubted Muskies poll ratings and feared that a plethora of liberal-to-moderate candidates would insure first place for Wallace.

Sanford eloquently made his case with Max Kam-pelman, Humphreys longtime adviser, and with Sen. George McGoverns aidesbut not with the Muskie camp, frozen into its rigid strategy of contesting every primary and honoring no favorite sons. If the game is delegates, asked Muskie strategists, why surrender our share of the 64-member North Carolina delegation under proportional representation?

And there was Gov. Bob Scott. Having committed himself early to Muskie and pried some scarce money for Muskie out of his friends, Scott was not about to be left high and dry. But in fact, during his last year of a less than popular governorship, Scott might do Muskie more harm than good. Insensibly, the governor had been transformed from an asset to a liability for Muskie here.

This was the situation Feb. 25 when Sanford journeyed to CHearwater, Fla., for a secret meeting with Muskie. Both wanted the other to step aside, and both failed, although Sanford felt he had convinced Muskie he was no front for Humphrey. He also felt he had planted seeds of

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Strength For Today

ATTIRE

Are you a well-dressed person?

You should be provided you do not sacrifice something even more precious than appearance in order to be well dressed.

Some people have the capacity to turn the simplest forms of attire into attractiveness. They can wear anything and be attractive-looking as a result. Other people may spend a fortune on clothes and in the end look bedraggled and haggard. The question is not how much we are going to spend on attire but what the end of such purchases will bring forth. The person who has no interest in how he or she looks is a person that will not have many friends praising him or seeking his companyor hers. If a person pays little

attention to attire of any kind his appeal to others varies from indifference to revulsion. Get the right perspective on attire, and it is a factor that will make life significant. Get the wrong attitude toward attire (a willingness to sacrifice anything for appearance), and ones life is set for unhappiness.

Fortunate is that person who knows how to live within his means or hers in the matter of attire. Fortunate indeed is that person who can exercise commonsense and good judgment with reference to the matter of being attractively dressed., We need to balance a number of factors in our consideration of what it means to be properly and appealingly attired. Cost is not the only facotor. What is?

By Earl Douglass

By ART BUCHWALD

Aptitude Test For You

WASHINGTON-If there is one thing America prides itself on, its that anyone in this country can grow up and run for President of the United States. Nothing has proved how true this is more

than the New Hampshire and Florida (Himaries.

It is quite possible that tho'e are thousands, perhaps even hundreds of thousands of people who would like to run for the Presidency. But

Other Editors Say Morgan Right

(Durham Morning Herald)

Lack of adequate funding to do the first-class job that should be done obviously plays a big part in over-all deficiencies in care provided by the state for the mentally ill. Like many other state programs, mental hospital iograms do not have all the m<xiey they should have to meet their i^eds. That fact of life is well recognized, and certainly it calls for more attention public and (rfficial in the future than it has received in the past toward the objective of more adequate funding to meet the needs of the mentally ill.

But money alone does not and will not s<dve the iroblems. How the money is used bolds th key. And it is to that IN-oblem which Atty. Gen. Robert Morgan addressed himself the other day when he asserted that the defense of lack of funds should never be raised, as it has been in the present controversy over conditions in mental hospitals, until one is completely satisfied all available resources have been used to their maximum effectiveness.

Mr. Morgan, while recognizing that the mental hospitals do need additional financial resources to upgrade staff, obtain more doct(H^, irovide better facilities and dozens (A other things, has questioned whether maximum use has been made of resources available. And it is his opinion, apparently based in part at least up(xi investigati(His by the State Bureau of Investigation and the North Carolina Mental Health Association, that the state has not been doing the best it could with what it has available.

The point is well taken, as are others made by Mr. Morgan, including the advice to mental health officials to admit the weaknesses of the system and at the same time to try to ccMivey to the public a sense of mission for treatment of the mentally ill, and the suggestion for re-examining the present plan of grouping patients acccx'ding to geograi^ic areas rather than the types of illness. And certainly not be overlodced is the charge of backstage maneuvering to kill a drug abuse treatment apprqpriatimi the Department of Mental Health publicly supported.

Mr. Morgan has put some fA the issued in better perspective, and in particular he has given the public something to think about by raising questitms regarding the use of resources available. The public needs to be told more officiallyand specifically the SBIs findings in the Cherry Hospital investigationabout conditions in mental hospitals. The public is well aware that improvements are needed and that additional expenditures will be required. But it would be illogical to expect the public to demand large increases in spending unless there is assurance that the best use will be made of resources.

they are not sure if they have the qualifications. Therefore, as a public service, I am printing the first presictential candidate aptitude test. If you can pass this test with a s(re of at least 65, then you are as worthy of running for

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By WILLIAM L. CRAZE > AssocUted Press Writer

PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga. (AP) It was raining outside the comtdnati<xi cafe and restaurant. The counter man had a hangover and the owners mynah bird, a small one named Joe, was singing On Top of Old Smoky.

The bird was also Xacticing his w<df whistle and generally amusing himself on a cold winter day. Evo7 time the bladk and yellow tdrd hit a high note the counter man would shrug and roll his eyes and gaze at the ceiling.

That little bird is seven kinds of hell on a bad head, said the counter man, vho was pale, graying and in his late 30s.

Im standing here telling you, mister, that you wouldnt bdieve the things that whistle can do to the inside of a mans head. Its something. Im telling you.

He popped a can of beer for a customer, kxdied tong-ingly at it for a long second or two, then handed it over. He volunteered that the bird was regarded by many as the most talented mynah in the state and had been bou^t by the cafes owner for $35. Hii cage, he said, cost more than the bird.

People drive from all over to see that bird sing Smoky, said the man. A few weeks ago,'this bunch of salesmen, from up at AtlanU, drove down just to hear him sing Smoky. But when they got here, Joe wouldnt let <mt a peep. Hes (Continued On Page A->

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this office as any of the candidates who have announced so far.

Get a pencil, and no cheating, please.

First, multiple choice.

1You and your wife have been attacked by a hardhitting, unscrupulous newspaper publisher. You

(A) i^ore him and go about your business; (B) attack him on TV; (C) cancel your subsciiptim to his paper; (D) break (lown and cry in front of his building.

2You are asked where you stand on the issue of school busing. You reply (A) my record speaks for itself;

(B) I am not for busing or against busing, but for quality education; (C) schoolchildren should not become political footballs; (D) I will support the Om-stitution of the United States, at least until I am elected President.

3You are addressing a Bnai Brith dinner and are asked what you would do about unemployment in the United States. You reply that you would (A) give Phantom jets to Israel; (B) make the Suez C^anal an international waterway; (C) send the Sixth Fleet to Haifa; (D) attend the wedding of Moshe Dayan.

4You ^e asked to speak at a St. Patricks Day communion breakfast and the question of Social Security is raised. You suggest (A)

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By GWYN COGHILL March 22.1932 Alton Hardee, former member of the Greenville High School Glee Gub, has gained recognition as a song writer, and his first production, Carolina Sweetheart, has been published by Frank Harding, New Yoric puUisher. The music was written by Jack Mahoney, of New York. First copies of the song have been received here and have be^ greeted with considerable intorest by friids of the young composer.

Spring is here, and for millions of Amolcans the twelve mmiths just ended will linger in mnory as the year without a winter. The last six m(Hiths saw the most freakish weather in the history of the U.S. Weather Bureau. In the northeast youngsters with new CSiristmas sleds waited in vain for snow. It fell instead on OTange groves of sunny Califmmia. Most of the United States hardly knew winter was around until it launched a cold wave in the second week of March. From the Mississippi valley eastward the mercury hovw'ed from eight to ten degrees above normal while in the west in hung six to eight degrees below normal, and the east had one of the lightest snowfalls ever while the west dug itself out of blizzard after blizzard.

Scoffs At Organic Food Craze

By ELMER ROESSNER

The Department of Agriculture is looking with a jaundiced eye at the organic food craze that is sweeping the country and accounting for an estimated $50 million a year in retail sales.

Organic foods are grown only with organic fertilizers, such as humus, and without chemical fertilizers. Organic farms also usually avoid other chemicals including fungicides, herbicides and insecticides.

Dr. Ruth M. Leverton, science adviser to the administrator of the Depart-ments Agricultural Research Service, warns in a report to consumers organic foods may not be as rich in vitamins and minerals as ordinary produce.

She said that enthusiasm for pure food is welcome, but that too many people have become self-styled experts on nutrition without benefit of training. There is nothing wrong with choosing to buy organically grown food. Dr.

Leverton said. Such food may have desirable characteristics not always found in the usual food market; it may be fresher and more flavorful. However, greater values in vitamins and

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minerals are not likely to be one of these characteristics, the report said.

She said that research has established that, generally, elements essential to plant growth enter the plant in inorganic form. If an element is originally in the soil ia organic form, it is broken down to inorganic form by microorganisms in the soi| before the element enters the plant.

Dr. Leverton said some people follow fad diets to hazardous ^ extremes in carrying out strict

vegetarianism and ideas about natural and organically grown foods. The misinformation about nutrition and food is serious and growing more serious.

%e also pointed out that not all food described as organic or natural is. actually organically grown. Logistics alone set a limit on the use of organically grown foods. It is one thing to grow tomato plants on a balcony or in a home garden using organic fertilizer, but it is another thing to grow enough food for the nation by such methods, she said.

This fact, she added, is reflected in the higher price of organic foods, estimated to cost at least one-third to one-half more than the same foods found in the usual food market.

Now Uncle Sam Levies A Tax On Matrimony For years single people have complained that government has penaiu them for failing to marry. A

married couple has in the past paid less federal income taxes than two single persons getting the same total salary.

But all that is changed, as married couples will find out between now and April 17.

C;k)mmerce Gearing House cites these examples:

Two married people with no dependents, each earning $3,0(X) for a total of $6,000 and taking the standard deduction, would pay $556 for 1971. Two single persons with similar incomes would pay a total of $2,297 if married and only $2,136 if single.

If a widower with two minor children and an income of $25,000 a year married a woman with no dependents making $10,000 a year, assuming standard deductions, their tax would be $8,192. But if they dont marry, their total tax would be only $6,913, a saving of $1,279.

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