-The My RcflMtar, Gracnvttle, N.C.*niy. October I*. If72

Nothing Certain About Peace

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH The race for U.S. Senate is taking shape as the tightest on the general election ballot, in the view ot editors of the sutes afternoon newspapers.

BRYAN

HAISLIP

Nothing is certain in the Vietnam peace talks these days except that the secret negotiaUons are obviously going at a greatly increased rate.

Kissinger has spent several days in Pans engaged in the secret negotiations and most recently he has flown to South Vietnam for consultations there.

We would not dare try to preihclat this point just what it all means. There has been speclaton that the truce will come before the U.S. elections,

Senate Contest Believed Close

Helms in the lead.

Intease Senate Campaign Both candidates are campaigning hard for the prize of a six-year term in the U.S. Senate. Galifianakis, a Durham native with a dozen years' legislative experiwice (six in the stote ligislature. six in Congress), beat incumbent Sen. B. Everett .Iordan for the nomination in last springs primary.

Helms, once an aide to a Democratic U.S. Senator, switched his party registration in recent years.

A Raleigh broadcast executive, he is running for public office for the first time.

Helms support was evident not only in the east, where he is well known as a television editorial commentator, but also in the piedmont and west. One editor referred to his conservative image as a factor favoring Helms.

Bowles, Greensboro businessman and former state senator, was seen as the leader in the race for governor by 21 of the responding editors. Those who cited percentages gave him a margin from 55 to 70 per cent.

Only two editors in normally Republican territory said Holshouser is likely to carry their areas. One of those said Bowles will run well, and has a good chance for a slim majority.

The same results held for the lieutenant governor contest. Hunt was picked over Walker by a count of 21-to-2.

Nixon Heavy Favorite In contrast to the Democratic preference in state races, the editors predicted the GOP presidential ticket will be the overwhelming -choice of voters in their communities.

Twenty named President Nixon as the probable winner. One said the race is close. Two gave an edge to McGovern.

One of those came from the rural northeast, heartland of traditional Democratic strength. This area has not in the 20th century voted Republican for president, said the editor. It will be the closest ever this time...by Nov. 7 McGovern will likely have a narrow lead.

'The other McGovern area was a university town in the central part of the state.

A conclusion from the survey is that coat-tail benefits will be slight and ticket-splitting widespread. Lot of talk of jumping party linessome will not vote for president and vote straight party ticket the rest of the way, reported a mountain editor.

Sixteen editors rated interest in the campaign as moderate. Five termed public reaction apathetic, and only two found keen interest.

A poll of the N.C. Association of Afternoon Dailies confirmed that President Nixon is far ahead of Democrat George McGovern in the bid for Tar Hed electoral votes.

It showed an impressive margin for Hargrove (Skipper) Bowles Jr., the Democratic candidate, over RepuUiCan Jim Holshouser in the gubernatorial campaign.

Jim Hunt. youthful Democrat making his first try for elective office, placed well in front of Johnny Walker, his GOP opponent, for lieutenant governor.

In contrast to those races, the editors saw the Senate picture as a developing battle between Congressman Nick Galifianakis. the Democrat, and Jesse Helms on the GOP tidcet.

While a majority said Galifianakis is leading in their areas, the survey indicated strength for Helms that could take the race right down to the wire.

Interest Generally Moderate

Twenty-three editors, representing all areas of the state, participated in the poll. They sized up public interest in the 72 campaign as generally moderate, apathetic in some instances, and kei only in certain places and specifc races.

Ek;onomics, including taxes and rising prices, is the predominant issue in the minds of voters. The war in Southeast Asia, school busing, and lack of credibility in political leaders are other concerns.

One editor said personalities overshadow issues. I wonder if one local man didnt say it right: This election, he said, is directed more to voting against someone, rather than for someone, he commented.

The survey response does not reflect editorial endorsement of any of the in-dividual afternoon newspapers, but simply gives the judgment of the participating editors on voter sentiment of the communities.

Thirteen editors 'placed Galifianakis ahead of Helms in the Senate race. Two called it close, although one thought Galifinakis might have a slight edge. Eight ranked

that it will come later and that the shadowy comings and goings are only a part of American politicking.

We are inclined to think that serious, efforts are underway to end the war immediately. CXir first thought would be that North Vietnam would choose to wait ou{ the elections in hopes of getting George McGovern as president.

On the other hand, the Communist can read the American polls, too. They know that the odds are they will still be dealing with Richard Nixon after the elections. They also know that Nixon is unpredictable. This he has shown by resuming bombing in this election year and mining the North

Vietnam harbors.

President Nixon has also established better relations with both China and the Soviet Union, North Vietnams two principal suppliers and this means that these two countries would be less willing to risk these improved relations in order to continue the war in an obscure country.

President Nixons stand on a settlement may stiffen after the election and he could allow more strategic bombing in the north. Thus there are many reasons why North Vietnam might agree to a cease-fire before the election, if they have any thoughts of doing so any time in the months ahead.

We believe a cease fire in Vietnam is going to come rather soon. While we are not knowlegeable enough to say it will come before the election, we would not rule this out. Many sigit point that way.

Using Tactics Of Desperation

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By ROLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK ST. PAUL, Minn. Sen. George McGoverns spectacular return to the Vietnam war issue last week was an admission that he is now threatened with potentially grave defections among voters originally attracted to him for one reason alone: his pledge to end the war.

That explains his decision to broadcast an anonymous tape from an alleged Vietnam war veteran to a huge student audience at the University of Minnesota here, a war is hell lament so emotionalized that it stunned his antiwar audience into shocked silence.

Yet, before McGovern played the tape over the loudspeaker, his reception here, despite the size of the student audience, was only mildly oithusiastic. Indeed, even on this activist campus the antiwar passions seemed to have nm out. Little white buckets handed through the audience for contributions to Mc(3ovems campaign went empty from hand to hand. Hie huge crowd was cheerful but clearly uninspired as McGovern once again outlined his well-known peace plan.

The potential loss of McGoverns credibility on the war issue is partly explained by the overall erosion, remarkable in its intensity, of voter confidence in him across the board. That erosion set in during Sen. Hubert Humphreys attacks on McGovern in the California primary and became apparently irreversible during the Eagleton catastrophe.

That it should now threaten to undermine McGovern on the war issue is ironic in the extreme, considering the Senators efforts the past two months to shed his image as a one issue candidate.

Thus, until last week, McGovern had soft-pedaled Vietnam in favor of the corruption, inflation, drugs and crime-in-the-streets issues. He culminated his attack with a charge in New York two weeks ago that President Nixons administration is the trickiest, most deceitful in U.S. history.

But while the Democratic nominee was desperately

trying to find a non-war campaign issue that might begin to whittle down Mr. Nixons huge lead, polling data from both his own campaign staff and such outside experts as Louis Harris and Dr. George Gallup began to show grave . deterioration in his voter standing on the war issue itself.

That data, comporting with our own scouting expeditions with Oliver Quayle in such traditional Democratic areas as Macomb County, Michigan, and Brooklyn, N.Y., traced a steady decline in the credibility of McGovern to end the war in a way acceptable to American voters.

Dr. Gallups poll of Oct. 13, in fact, showed that even amng young voters between 18 and 29, McGoverns end-the-war plan lagged behind Mr. Nixons plan by a fatal 33 to 52 per cent.

As dubiously interpreted by McGoverns top political advisers, that meant one thing: MGoverns soft-

pedaling of the war had smudged his once-clear-cut pledge to remove every vestige of U.S. military power from all of Indochina within 90 days of his inauguration, end all support for the corrupt Thieu regime and trust Hanoi to return all U.S. POWs.

Such a finding dictated an immediate return to the Vietnam issue, and the Senator proceeded to do just that with his half-hour speech over the CBS-TV network last Tuesday (Oct. 10) night, following an antiwar speech earlier that day at Western Michigan University.

The new strategy is filled with political danger. For example, the Senator risks a stunning blow to his credibility if the emotionalized words of the alleged Vietnam war veteran broadcast here should turn out to be fraudulent.

Moreover, Republican strategists disagree with McGoverns own managers that his sudden new appeals to his old one issue constituency the antiwar movement - are working. A Republican survey among Democratic voters in New York City Immediately following the Senators

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Ai_so|CANT^ Deliver

Us Ali; Amen

By HAL BOYLE new YORK (AP) - Tilings

we could til do without:

Peori^ who say, I toW yon so.

People who say, If 1 were

you, Id.

People who laugh at other , people for wearing toupe. (editors note: Boyle must be getting ready to buy one himself.)

Puppy iovc after 40.

By J.J. KILPATRICK

So They Cancel Title

A letter is at hand fron% a sevoith-grade teacher in a Southern city, commenting upon how things are going in the Year 18 A.D., which is to say. After Desegregation. Things are not going too hot.

My correspondent formerly tau^t at Columbus Junior High School, all-white. In the Great Shuffle of 1909, she was transferred in town to Crispus Attucks, all-black. In another Great Shuffle in 1970, the black eighth and ninth-graders from Attucks were ordered bused back out to C!olumbus, while the white seventh-graders from (Columbus were bused in to Attucks, thus creating at

Attucks a thoroughly integrated school dealing with seventh-graders only.

All clear? Okay. She inquires rhetorically, How has the education of the ghetto children improved? And she writes:

Buses are frequently late. First and second period classes are interrupted by groups of latecomers in the halls. They have missed early morning announcements, as well as part of their classes. The class they enter is often held up while the teacher repeats instructions for these students. Sometimes we must take some extra time to check and see if Student B does indeed ride Bus 23, and

Other Editors Say Follov/ Procedures

(Washington Daily News)

We realize that from the practical standpoint it is more difficult for the North Carolina Department of Transportation to follow normal accounting procedures than it is for other departments.

This is particularly tr.ue when it comes to the matters before the Highway commission. With so many roads being built all the time and with so much money involved, what the price is today might change tomorrow, and if we understand correctly, commission members do have a leeway in Carrying out their programs.

However, this running battle in recent years between the State Auditors office and the Highway commission ought to be settled. and it ought to be settled according to law.

With millions upon millions of dollars being spent in every administration lasting four years, we must realize first of all that all the monies being spent are taxes collected from the people.

There is no indication that any Hanky-panky has gone on, but even then normal accounting procedures are necessary in order to avoid any suspicions anywhere along the line.

Henry Bridges, State auditor, has been elected by the people of this state to do a job. When he finds something not being done according to the rules, it is his job to make the audit according to what the picture actually is.

Sometime ago when this running battle erupted into a public thing. Governor Scott ordered the Highway commission to follow the procedures in most instances. At this writing, it is impossible to know just how well the commission has followed the governors orders.

Reportedly, the commission says it cannot follow the procedures exactly without data processing equipment. It is our understanding that there is data processing equipment available in the state but not located within the highway commission building.

It is unfortunate that this matter has become a sort of tu| of war because there is much service to be rendered and much money to be spent. And people of North Carolina are most sensitive to roads needs anyway.

Where practical to do so and within the limits of good business practice, the Highway commission should follow state accepted accounting methods the same as other departments have to do.

And this running battle should be stopped immediately.

was Bus 23 indeed late this morning, or has Student B been smoking in the restroom for the last half hour?

No more after-school activities, as 60 per cent of the student body is shipped out at 3:15. Attempts at having after-school activities during the school day have been disastrous thus far.

Teachers have difficulty i|i grouping students according to ability, as this often results in all-black groups and all-white groups, and this is a no-no.

Discipline has suffered as we cannot keep white students after school, and most white female teachers are unwilling to stay on the school grounds after hours either with discipline problems or parent conferences. During the first year of integration I tried keeping black students after school but found that they resoited the fact that no white children were kept after school. According to them I was prejudiced.

The most ridiculous problem has been the Title I program. Im sure you are familiar with this federally funded program which was supposed to broaden the experience of able but disadvantaged children. So long as the school was all-black, the Title I program rocked along with no problems. I dont know that it did any good, but at least it was there and I suppose the black people felt Big Brother was trying to help.

But when the whites were shipped in, we found ourselves with an all-black Title I class, which, according to the Powers 'That Hold the Pursestrings, equals inferior education. 'The only trouble was, the disadvantaged white families didnt want to put their able but disadvantaged white children in the Title I class. In other words, the po whites didnt want to put their children in with so many po blacks.

So an appeal went out to the more intellectually inclined families. The class really was an elite group, we said, with special privileges, broadening experiences, etc. Thus we had white children from $80,000 homes with

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Dogs that would rather bite than bark.

The wave of the future. (Its all most of us can do to keep our noses above water at high

tide now.)

Pretty girls who, no matter what you suggest, say, Thats a no-no.

The fatalistic attitude that our present highway mortality toll is simply a necessary price that has to be paid for progress.

Mankinds habit of going to war just to kill time.

Lazy housewives who spend most of the afternoon watching soap operas on television, then rush to the supermarket and crowd it more at a time when people who have worked all day are trying to do their shopping.

Middle-aged tenors at cocktail parties who wait until midnight to prove that they can sing all the stanzas of Sweet Adeline withqut making a mistake.

Snow before Thanksgiving. Rain on Easter Sunday.

Twins who think its cute to dress alike after they are 18.

Husbands and wives who. at any age, think it is cute to dress alike.

People so proper that they become shocked and upset if they see a baby lick its runny nose.

Meaningless baseball statistics, such as. This is the first time in World Series history that a left-handed shortstop with asthma was caught trying (Continued on page 5;

Forty Years Ago Today

By (;WYN CCKillILL October I. I9:i2 Prices continued to climb on the Greenville tobacco market yesterday and the highest average of the season was recorded. With 996,678 pounds of bright leaf on sale, the market averaged $13.39 per one hundred pounds. The total amount paid out by the market was given at $133,447.19.

Daredevil Jack Derby was ali set today for his one hundred hour automobile drive which will begin Thursday. He will drive a Chevrolet sedan under auspices of Brown and White Chevrolet dealers of Greenville. Derby will be handcuffed to the steering wheel .ahd guarantees not to. stop for four days and four hours. He will drive over the route from Kinston to Greenville. Derby holds the world's record for endurance automobile Vacing.

China Poses Vast Trade Boost

TRUTHFORM AND SUBSTANCE

Truth never changes. Forms of truth change but the truth itself never changes. Down at the bottom everything that it true has been and will be true for all time. Men will pour eternal truths into new thought forms but the truth itself will not change.

Through the centuries men have been making the mistake of believing that the forms in which they held the truth were the same as the truth itself. But the forms in which the truth is held are like the human body which will die and sink into dust, whereas truth itself is like the soul which will live forever. The body perished. The soul lives eternally. Mens thought forms change from generation to generation.

Truth is the same yesterday, today and forever.

When people believe that their thought forms and truth are one and the same thing they quickly grab up the club of persecution and go after anyone who differs with them. Isnt this person opposing the truth? Not necessarily. Probably this person is opposing only the form in which truth manifests itself.

Wisdom consists in being qhle to differentiate between .the kernel and the husk between truth and the forms in which men conceive and express the truth. The ex-iernal cover will pass away. The internal abides forever. Truth never changes only our conception of it, the form we give it. '

By Earl Douglass

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - A (3iina authority who helped prepare President Nixon and Dr. Henry Kissinger for their Felx'uary trip believes the United States is about to play a multibilliondollar role in Chinas industrialization.

Harned Pettus Hoose, who was born and raised in that country and wdio represented 14 American companies in trade negotiations at Canton and Peking, believes that American businessmen, almost literally, are being invited to do so.

I asked then what they wanted to buy, said Hoose, who spoke for many hours with numerous trade officials of TTie Peoples RepuUic, In almost every instance, he

said, they replied: Modern industry.

Their needs, he said, are for sophisticated capital equipment rather than consumer items for heavy machinery, entire plants, machine tools, computer controls and oil-mineral discovery, extraction and processing equipment.

We have su[^lied our human needs, Hoose said he was told, now we will be developing the technological and industrial facets of the economy.

Hoose stated that thpre are great pressures for doing so. First is Chinas difficulty with the Soviet Union. Second is the threat the Chinese see in Japan being the dominant economic power in Southeast Asia.

We are unwilling to let the Japanese or any nation have such a position, so we will be buying very heavily from foreign sources if relations continue satisfactory," Hoose said he was told.

Hoose, now a Los Ang^s lawyer, said4ie..was-als^old that:

1. "We^ill not be ywJing heavilyjwith the people to the nortina referenpto the So-viet^niom^^ifewause of our current-ii^Wems.

2. We must reduce the percentage of trade with Japan. Japan accounts for 20 per cent of Chinas foreign trade and will continue to be a major factor. But the percentage. Hoose was told, isn't likely to grow.

3. We will be seeking more

trade with the United States. Western Europe and the

East.

Since the "East presumably means the relatively small nations of Albania and Romania. Hoose interprets what he was told to mean: This is a race between American and West European trade.

The United States. Hoose believes, has definite advantages. Like China, for example, it is a "can do culture with a strong work ethic. TTiere is. Hoose believes. a certain understanding and appreciat ion of American niethods.

(The implications of Oiinas mineral asst'ts will Ix* discussed in tomorroivs column.)