4TW IMIy Reflector. Greeevflle. N.C.Mendey. October M. 1172

Living On A Budget Does Hurt

President Nixon has said that he is vetoing nine bills passed by the recently expired Congress, because they w<Hild **break the budget by about $2.75 billion.

One of the bills vetoed was for the apinropriation of $30.5 billion to finance activities of the HEW.

Teachers Want Decision Role

By BRYAN HAISLIP RALEIGH - North Carolina teachers have their ^hts set on access to the decision-making process as it affects school operation.

BRYAN HAISLIP

Their first [Miority, other than money items, in the next legislature is a state law to authorize negotiatimis with ^loeLauthorities on matters such aT^y and economic benefits, tiwking conditions and pera^el policy, and curric^tim.

Professional negotiations is the phrase they use to describe the goal. What they're talking about is the right of collective bargaining.

State law now forbids it for all public employees, including teachers. Gettind the law off the bodis is a large order, because many regard it as the protecting barrier against strikes and disruption of public services.

The objective for educators is legal machinoy to accomodate and lt>aden the kind of consultation that already goes on in many places, said Dr. A. C. Dawson, executive secretary of the N.C. Association of Educators.

TeachCTS ought to have

in-put to the policy-makers. he argued. Many oi op- local units, particularly in urban systems, now have contacts with jioards of education but it is ^ an informal basis and agreements readied cannot be legally bindmg.

First Effort Defeated

The NCAE struck out its first time at bat for the c(icept. It lobbied for a pofessional negdiations bill in the 1971 session. When that failed, it urged a study of the subject Ixit that, too, was defeated.

A preliminary apparisal indicated chances arent improved. NCAE staff members have talked with

legislative candidates and f(Hind serious reservations on the propc^l, Dawson said.

While the outlook is dim for success with lawmakers, a route through the courts is being taken to achieve the same goal:

A suit in middle district federal court has been filed by the NCAE unit at Winston-Salem. asking that the law prohibiting negotiations be struck down as unconstitutional. The Winston-Salem group went to court after it felt the local board of education violated an understanding on salary supplement funds.

The NCAE board of directors has voted moral

and financial siq>port for the court action. Dr. Dawson reported.

Ovr the years, doubts have been expressed on the c<mstitutional validity of the statute but this is the first direct challenge, he said.

NEA Developed Idea The National Education Association originated pittfessional negotiations as a procedure to counter the collective bargaining sought by the American Federation of Teachers. Fwrner NEA Presidait Donald Morrison defined it as a legal framewoiic for a ratimial process of dialogue between employers and employees organizatHms.

Twity-nine states have enacted professional negotiations laws. In some states. negotiated agreements are binding on both parties; in others, the agreements are not legally binding.

North Carolina is one of only two states (Texas is the other) which specifically prohibits negotiations or are eligible to participate in the process. Dr. Dawson said.

Experience elsewhere indicates it woilis well, he added, in spite of the argument by opponents that it opens the door to teacher strikes.

May Prevent Strikes Some people say professional negotiations actually prevents strikes, since it provides the machinery to resolve differences, he explained.

An alternative to inrofessional n^otiations is professional participation, a method to reach agreements which, while not legally binding, serve as the guide for educational policies an(^ practices.

So far, NCAE units for the Winston-Salem, Forsyth and High Point school systems have tried to implement professional participation. The court suit in the first instance indicates the weakness in the plan.

Actually, the NCAE actively pursues negotiation on behalf of teacher interests but its efforts depend on persuasion rather than a formal procedure. Proposals are discussed with the state board of education, and efforts made to reach agreement on goals.

When the legislature is in session, NCAE lobbyists work hard to sell its package to the lawmakers.

A big gain from professional negotiations would be in teacher morale and self-respect. Dr. Dawson commented. After all. teachers know as well as anyone what goes on inside the schools, he said.

They are not trying to usurp the authority of the local school board to make decisions, but they do want the feeling that they have a real part in the decisions which are made.

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Nixon said that MU would overspend by $535 million.

It is obvious that thm are some essential funds in the bills which the president is vetoing and we are Certain that he fuUy anticipates that the next Copgress wiU renew some of the appropriations.

The presidents announced intention is to limit federal outlays to $250 bUlion for this fiscal year. This must be met, Nixon states, if a tax increase is to be avoided.

Tf I were to sign these mesures into law I would, in effect, be making promises that could not be kept since the funds recpred to finance the promised services are not available, and would not be available without the h^er taxes I have promised to resist, the president stated.

Of course, every governmental action at tMs stage of an ection year has to be viewed as to its possible impact on the votors. Still we must a^ee that the $250 billion spending limit is a notable aim. The ceiling must be realized if it means that it will hold off a tax increase. We know of no other point of greater dissatisfaction among U. S. wage earners than that over the prospect of higher taxes.

Federal spending must be brought in line. We cannot stand the spiraling deficits of recent years and certainly the politicians must have gotten the message now that the tax payers want no new taxes.

Tobacco Can Also Be Sold In Trade Effort

That the United States is serious about expanding trade with the Communist world comes with the announcement of a 300,000-ton com sale to China.

These sales of farm products are going to be helpful to the U. S. farmer and certainly our tobacco interest should be at work finding new markets in China and the Soviet Union.

If we can sell wheat and corn to the Communist we can sell tabacco, too, and this will be of great benefit to our area.

Chicago Black Vote Wavering

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

CHICAGO Flimsy hopes that an overwhelming vote in Chicagos black slums might yet bring Sen. George McGovern a miraculous upset in Illinois are being undercut by such strange happenings inside the ghetto as the activities of Dr. Charles Hurst.

Hurst, flamboyant president of Malcom X College with firm credentials as a black militant, is no Republican Uncle Tom. He supports President Nixon (along with three other Republican candidates) not because he thinks McClovem is any worse but in hopes that black political power can milk Federal benefits for the ghetto. In that role, Hurst travels to Washington every other week to meet Nixon campaign officials, including Mr. Nixon himself the last time.

What gives Hursts efforts at least some substance are his hard-boiled plans for election day. He is placing tough, young street blacks in polling places to guard against the usual vote manipulation that produces unbelievable Democratic majorities in Chicagos ghetto. Hurst has instructed his muscle men to use force against any hanky-panky, even if that requires physically closing the polls. , Privately skeptical of Hursts effectiveness, Mr. Nixons managers doubt how well he can fight city hall Nov. 7 and believe he cannot approach his goal of 20 per cent for Nr. Nixon in the West Side wards. In 19668, the

Presidents vote in the allblack, tightly controlled 24th Ward was 2 per cent, and Nixon operatives doubt he will do much better this time.

Nevertheless, Hursts operation is but one of many interconnected factors that could erode the black monolithid vote here: several independent black Democratic leaders urging ticket-splitting, black apathy toward McGovern, black hostility toward law-and-order Democrat Edward Hanrahans reelection as states attorney for Cook County (Chicago), customary bumbling by the McGovern campaign.

'These factors are mirrored ^ in other big cities with disappointingly low black registration and a prospectibve low black voter turnout. Thus, although blacks constitute the only element in Franklin D. Roosevelts old Democratic coalition loyal to McCJovem, there will not be enough of them. TTiis ruins McGoverns strategy of compensating for defection of white ethnic Democrats by massively increaasing black voting.

A partial list of unusual developments in Chicagos black wards, apart from Hursts operation, follows:

Item: State Sen. Richard Newhouse, a black anti-Daley Democrat, is campaigning hard for Republican Gov. Richard Ogilvie (and saying privately he will vote for three other Republicans). Ogilvie was escprted through South Side public housing projects last week to meet Newhouses startled black

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Strength For Today

LIKES PROPER DEQUENCES

Great emphasis is being laid today on hobbies. We are assured that we must have a hobby else we may fall into all sorts of disagreeable states of mind. Hobbies relieve tension, get our minds off the duties which if unduly pursued overwhelm and overburden us.

That hobbies are necessary and advantageous no one can deny. But there is a lot of nonsense in the hobby idea today, and such nonsense arises chiefly from the fact that people who advocate hobbies often make too much of them. We have entered upon a sad state of our existence when any hobby becomes first in our lives. As an occasional diversion, as relief from tension and constant application a hobby

is a fine thing. But hobbies sometimes keep people playing at them until mature adults, who should know better, become as dependent upon play as are little children.

There is not a wholesome hobby one can mention which is not a good thing if properly pursued, but by the same token there is not a hobby which does not become disastrous and decimating if pursued too lopg, too constantly or too vigorously. Happiness largely consists in getting our satisfactions arranged in proper sequence.

Hobbies are important, but they are not of first importance. Work, woridiip and family relationships all come before hobbies in a life properly arranged.

By Earl Douglass

-Ia'I I s l^mi*r Our \ ins and Oarrv a Bijr Stick**

By ART BUCHWALD

Skeleton In The Close

WASHINGTON - Zim-t^Iist phoned me at 11 o.clock the other night. I have to see you right away, he said nervously.

What is it, Zimbalist?

I cant tell you on the phone. Please see me, I beg of you.

All right, come over,* I said.

Twenty minutes later a haggard and distraught Zimbalist arrived at the front door. Where can we talk privately? he demanded.

Anywhere. Theres nobody in the house.

He looked over at my wife and asked, Can she be trusted?

Shes my wife Zimbalist, I said. Shes like one of the

family.

Im sorry, he said. Im a nervous wreck. Im going out of my mind.

We took him into the library. Tell us about it, I said soothingly.

He sipped hot coffee. It happened three days ago. I was walking down the street when this man came up to me. In one hand he was holding a clipboard and in his other hand a pen. He said he was a Lou Harris pollster and asked if I would mind answering a few questions. I wasnt thinking, so I said I would. First he asked me my name, then my age, my religion, my income bracket and fainlly he asked me who I was going to vote for on Nov. 7. I told him Nixon.

Other Editors Say Gill's Warning

(Henderson Dispatch)

Counties, cities and towns that are about to receive their first installment payments on the new-fangled idea of Federal revenue sharing have been given a solemn warning by State Treasurer Edwin Gill on how to use the free handouts. They will ignore his advace at their own peril.

In the first place, there is no certainty whatever that the plan will become permenent or even by continued for a short while. . Because of that, it would be dangerous to use the money for anv sort of continuing program, only to discover commitments had been made without funds with which to cover them in the future.

Allotments to all local units in the State have been worked out. The total amount coming to Vance would be $573,399. That breaks down to $263,333 for the county ; $297,725 to Henderson as the only city over 2,500 in the county; and $12,341 for towns under 2,500, which means Kittrell and Middleburg as the only areas qualifying.

This cash may not all be available at the outset or in a single payment, but spread over a given period.

It can readily be seen that city or county could get into fiscal difficulty by spending for a continuing program, when there might be no additional Federal gratuity.

The program is not a sound one in the first place. The Federal government does not have the money to distribute except by deficit spending or by borrowing, and thus increasing the public debt. If Congress had more money than it needed, it would be different. Rut the truth is it hasnt. North Carolina, for example, is in far better financial condition than the Federal government. It doesnt need Federal deficit money. But since it is being offered. certainly it will be accepted. But the manner of using it calls for extreme caution. Treasurer Gill has sounded a warning which sould not be passed over.

Theres nothing wrong with that, I said.

Zimbalist put his head in his hands.

I lied. Im really going to vote for McGovern.

You lied to a Lou Harris pollster? my wife asked in disbelief.

Zimbalist looked at her. tears welling in his eyes, I didnt mean to, he said, but I didnt know who the guy was. He could have been from the Committee for the Re-Election of the President or he could have been working for the White House. I was scared. Ill admit it. I just blurted out Nixon without thinking.

But I represent 5(X),000 votes. Now Lou Harris thinks everyone in my age, religion and income bracket is going to vote for Nixon. It could throw off his whole poll by 5 percent.

I never tnought of that, I said.

For the last few days Ive been going crazy, Zimbalist sobbed.

Ive been thinking about turning myself in. But if word got out that I lied to a Lou Harris pollster it could destroy me professionally. I have to think of my wife and the children.

What am I going to do? What am I going to do? Zimblaist moaned, rocking back and forth in his chair.

Look, I said, I think the best thing to do is make a clean breast of things. Well call Lou Harris in the morning and tell him you made a mistake. Well say you were temporarily insane and didnt know what you were doing. Maybe he wont press charges. Lou Harris may be a pollster, but he does have a heart.

Zimbalist, a shaken man. grasped my hand gratefully. I dont know how to thank you, he said. Ill never forget this.

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Learn It All By Mail

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

One of the commonest health problems affecting Americans today is foot trouble. Podiatrists estimate that 85 per cent of us over 35 have some maladjustment of the feet. Wrong shoe styles and increased dependence on the automobile are among the chief factors blamed.

Vermont still has a few old round bafns and puzzled tourists often ask why they were built in such an odd shape. Explained one Vermont farmer: They built them round so the devil couldnt corner them.

Few people who leave money are in a hurry for their heirs to collect. But probably the most ingeniously annoying will ever written consisted of a series of envelopes, one within the other, and each marked, To be opened 12 months from today When the last envelope was opened, 10 years after the death of the testator, the relatives, who had already been kept on-tenterhooks for a decade, learned that the fortune they coveted was to be left to accumulate for 100 years before being distributed!

Prosperity note: Each year holders of winning tickets totaling $1 million at the nation's horse racing tracks fail to cash them. Most of the tickets are tossed away by mistake.

The high cost of sports: Each year some 17 million people are hurt badly enough to need a doctor's care while participating in sporting events, says Dr. James A. Nicholas, an orthopedist for the New York Jets football team. This includes one in every three children under the age of 15.

Worth remembering: If you'think everything these days is coin operated, ask your teenager to shovel snow for a quarter.

Opinions in Brief

Ignorance of the law is no excuse. And there are now more than two million federal, state and local laws, with more than 100,000 being enacted. We need only ten. basic laws, and Moses helped us with those. And ten federal laws, which stand as the Bill of Rights. If you must be tol to keep off the grass, thats your problem. Montrose (Calif) Ledger.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -Oliver Wendell Holmes.

They who are in highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty because they are most observed. John Tillotson

Impact Of Peace On The Market

By JOHN CtNMFF .\P Business .Analyst NEW YORK (AP)*- Will peace be good for the stock market? Analysts almost invariably believe it will be, although as the prospect for a cease fire grows closer there seems to be a tendency to discount the positive impact.

It will be there, almost all agree, but some analysts seem inclined to believe it will be a muted rather than a sharp explosion, more like the uplift from an underground detonation.

The market will rise, they say. more from a sense of relief that a burden has been removed. it will be the change

of public psychology as much as any rearrangement of economic factors in a postwar world, they argue.

Pro. Paul Samuelson, the Nobel Prize winning economisy belieyes for example, that relieved investors might express their hope in the future by raising the price-earnings ratios of stocks.

The P-E ratio, as most investors know, is an estimate of the future. If investors are confident of the economys strength or of the future of a certain company, they are willing to pay more per share for a piece of the action.

Other observers believe a

cessation will mean that many thousands of investors who deserted the market in the past few years will be inclined to return.

In the strictly economic sense, the impact wilt be more long-than short-range.

In all probability the wars end will give the country a further chance to bring back economic stability. But it isnt likely to give a sudden injection of funds into the civilian economy as was believed a few years ago. In effect the dividend has already been spent.

To explain: The Vjetnam war isnt ending suddenly. If it did theii perhaps there

would have been a cash bonus. Instead the war has been wound down over a period of years. The $25 billion war of 1968 is a $6 billion war in 1972.

There is a bright side to this also, and its that the market isnt likely to be plagued by a postwar recession or adjustment. That too is behind us. The 1971 recession was that adjustment.

Sam Nakagama chief economist of kidder Peabody & Co. puts it in these words: The adjustment is already in and weve paid the price. The negative adjustment has taken place; now it is mainly positive.