No Candidate Can Fully Please

THE POLL WATCHER!

We b^r so often, as major elections approach, the lament that there is noone to vote for.

At this time of year^ when most races have come down to two men, the complaint by potential voters sometimes is that neither man in a particular race is worthy of election. Finlly, the conversation sometimes concludes, since neither man is worth voting for, the voter will just stay home and not cast a ballot ^

Wtl, there are times when neither man in a particular race is exciting to the voters, but never

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A Revolution In Rural Life

RALEIGH, N C. -The 20th century agricultural revolutinn boosted production, but uprooted peo{^.

Mechanization and the substitution of capital for labor in fanning spurred migration to the cities and weakened the base for public services in rural areas.

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In the economic perspective, low rural per cafHtal iiKx>me (only three-fourths that of urban residents) gives emphasis to the thrust for rural devek^ant, said Dr. W. D. Toussaint. North Carolina State University eomomist.

Urban congestion and poUuticm adds urgency to the need for rund development, he said. Natkmally, planners have come to recognize that solutions for metropolitan problems are directly related to revitalized rural areas, he exjdained.

In North Carolina, he noted, urban sprawl ^nd spoil can be avoided only as the quality of rural life is enhanced and the rural econ<Hy stablized.

"We are being asked continually by our city friends to the north what we are doing to develop the rural areas of North Carolina so that the migration out of our state into urban centers may be reduced or stoi^)ed," Dr. Toussaint commented.

Agrkal^e Has Changed

AgriculiWe changed little in the first 100 years of U.S. history. The best estimate, said Dr. Toussaint, is that in the colonial era one farm worker produced food and fiber for our persons. Up to 1920, the ratio had only

The rapidity of change can be seen when we note that from the beginning of our nation until 1940 we had a change from 4 to 11 in the number of people supplied food and fiber by one farm worker.'Since 1940 we have had an increase from 11 to 50.

Significant mechanization has come. about in North Carolina only since 1^. A parallel trend. Dr. Toussaint said has been the decrease in the number of arms.

"There were approximately 300,000 farms in North Carolina in 1930 and still about 290,000 farms in 1950. However, by 1964 the

numbCT of farms had fallen to apiMXiximately 150,000, and today the number is less than 120,000, he said. Communities Feel Impact Depopulation of the rtural community, bnmght about by "changes in agriculture, has ^left a deep ecmiomic and social maiit. Dr. Toussaint listed these changes:

"It has resulted in the closing of many businesses which depended primarily on rural customers.

It resulted in a shrinking of the ec<Hiomic base, and hence the tax base, to support public faeilitiea and services in these local communities. Many uneducated and unskilled adults who formerly served as farm wage workers or tenants were left without job opportunities. The net restdt of all these changes'^ he concluded, "has ' been low income, underemployment and generally poor quality public facilities and services, such as health, education, recreation, transportation, communication and related services.

Problems Severe Elsewhere Dr. Toussaint, head of the NCSU economics department, is a native of North Dakota. All of the rural problems cited, he said, are less serious in North Carolina than in much of the Midwest and the Great Plains.

"Nevertheless, they are still severe problems, and they occur in part as a consequence of the agricultural revolution, which left many 8malP< farmers with few resources and low levels of mamagerial ability unable to take advantage of technological ' developmen-* ts, he said.

"These people receive few benefits from commerical ^agricultural policies. In essence, they have been bypassed.

Location of industry in rural areas offers economic advantages, ,he agreed, but efforts must be concentrated on those suited to the environment.

"Most companies want to be near some city even one of only 10,000 people which is growing and progressive and can provide them with adequate community facilities, he said.

Rural development depends upon a sound agricutlure and good public services. Dr. Toussaint asserted.

In farming, he said, there must be larger, more efficient units which can take advantage of the new technology. In cdmmunity facilities, multicounty planning regions provide a way to look at problems from other than a county or local community view, he added.

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does this justify the conclusion that a voter should, not cast his ballot ,

It should be remembered, as we approach the November election, that often the various candidates have reached their positions only after long and often grudling primary dections. After coming through all this, they should be the best their party has to offer and, if they were chosen by party members in primary elections, they are definitely the ones who the party members preferred. .

So every vot*, whether he is enthusiastic or not about candidates in a pi^icular race, should take it upon himself to examine the positions of every candidate. Then each should make his choice, based on the merits of the candidates and cast our ballots on election day.

Tha*e are important differences between the candidates and we should study their statements carefully to determine how they stand. None of us will agree with the candidates we choose on every issue; however each of us will find we agree with one candidate than we do with his opponent.

'Moralism' In

The Campaign

Holum, described by another McGovern Ueutaiant as "a carbon copy of George McGovern," is now his closest aciviser. Another old Senate bsBd, Gordra Weil, reappeared at the Senators side a month ago after being exiled to McGoverns Washington headquarters in August by politically experienced newcomers to McGovcths high command.

But those newcomers are now isolated from McGovern. It is dou|)tful whether the pleas to stress the economy sent by California supporters to McGoverns Washmgton headquarters ever actually reached th Senator. A staff memorandum discreetly su^esting that McGovern tone down his moral fervor went unnoticed. Important state Democratic leaders find it impossible to get McGovern on the telei^one.

Even in face-to^ace conversations with the Senator, staffers and politicians outside his inner circle are not certain the message gets across. McGovern listens carefully, thi politely expresses thanks without agreeing, disagreeing or even discussing the recommendations.

Thus, McGovern seems what he has always been: a loner from the Plains who trust only old frien(te, asks help from few and keeps his own counsel.

He long ago turned down recommendations to launch a neo-populistic attack on big government and big spending, wooing the Wallace vote. Buttressed by Holums concurrence, he has emphasized heavily the Watergate incident even though most state politicians feel it alone cannot close the huge gap between him and Mr. Nixon.

Nor does McGovern seem changed in the slightest by the unique experience of running for President. In the face of overwhelming defeat, he has ended with a campaign identical in tone to what he was saying as a lonely, ignored candidate of the Democratic partys left fringe nine months ago.

Both McGovern and his closest aides take comfort in the retuen to him nationwide of some, but almost surely not enough, defecting blue-collar Democrats. However, their return was inevitable, unrelated to McGoverns furious campaigning. Oblivious to political reality even as that campaign ends. McGovern retains the

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By ROLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

LOS ANGEUES - Within hours after the White Houses Thursday announcement of an iitimineht Vietnam ene-fire, an adviser to Sen. George McGovern recommended a new emphasis for the campaigns last ten days: feed public doubts about President Nixons ability to guarantee jobs once the war is over.

That course seemed particularly appropriate with McGovern arriving the next night in California, a state whose aerospace and d^ense industries suffered heavy unemployment during President Nixons first four years. Moreover, well before Thursday, California Democratic leaders were _ pleading with McGovern to say more about bread-and-butter issues and less about Vietnam. His visit here a week earlier, concentrating on yietnam with monomaniacal intensity, brought thse state leaders to despair.

In response, McGovern did talk about jobs during his speeches here. But he scarcely switched emi^asis to the economic hazards of a post-Vietnam Nixon administration. Instead, he concentrated heavily on questions of moral corruption, even describing Mr. Nixons vetoes Friday of spending bills as "a moral outrage" and ending his speeches with biblical quotations. Even though the Vietnam issue now is clearly in Mr. Nixons favor, McGovern was unable to stop attacking his war policy. To a San Fernando Valley rally Friday, he escalated his rhetoric by calling Vietnam the most barbaric experience in the history of this country.

Indeed, throughout his frantic crisscrossing of the continent, McGovern has shown himself congenitally unable to do what might actually have generated wholesale defections from Mr. Nixon: attack the

Presidents handling of the economy, stressing such mundane matters as grocery prices,

McGoverns persidtence in reducing the campaign to Good vs. Evil reflects how completely he has reverted to his roots as the son of a prairie Methodist minister who became a lifelong peace crusader.

In recent weeks, he has fallen back on his old Senate staff, which shares his own outlook. Ex-Senate aide John

Strength For Today

BLOT OR BLESSING?

An officer in charge of a large number of men on a naval vessel once told me, I never cease to be amazed at the complicated network of human relationships. If Jones breaks the rules, then Smith wil^ If Robinson decides to do his work extra well, thr Brown and White wi, too. Occasionally 1 am lucky enough to find someone like Black whom almost every ' man looks ^ always does tte right thing. But everyone, down to the newest seaman aboard, has at least somecme wlK)m he particulary influQtces..

One of ^ the' greatest responsibilities ift life is a responsibility that many of us

By ART BUCHWALD

Let's Draft Money, loo

WASHINGTON - As the war comes to an agonizing, screeching halt, great minds are at work in this country trying to figure out a way we can avoid getting ourselves into such a mess again.

Many solutions have been offered. My favorite is the Haak Plan, suggested by Leo Haak of East Lansing, Mich.

Mr. Haak told me, The reason the war lasted so long was that only the young people in this country were truly involved in Vietnam. While the rest of the country grew rich and fat, this small minority of the population, with no political clout, was

shipped off to Indochina to hold back Communist aggression. TTiis made it rather easy for the rest of the Americans to show no urgency to end the war. Thats true, I said. "But what do you propose?

"The Haak Plan provides that if you draft young men to fight a future war, then you must also draft the money of the men too old to go, to pay for it.

"How would it work? When a man became 40 years old, he would register for a wealth draft. His peak earning years are from 40 to 53, just as the peak physical

Other Editors Say Hirsute Triumph

(Greensboro Daily News)

The baseball season is at last over, will after the first frost, but the fashion in which it ended already has us looking eagerly forward to spring training and the season of 73. The pastime may or may not be national, depending on ones point of view, but in the World Series just concluded it certainly was glorious.

The tritimph of the Oakland Athletics has been compared in a number of quarters to the equally improbable victory three years ago of the New York Mets, but what it most puts us in mind of is the 1%9 Super Bowl and Joe Namaths Jets. Like the Jets against the Colts, the Athletics against the Reds was a case of the Mod Squad against the Super Squares, and in each case the hirsute rebels triumphed over crew-cut vitue.

The victory of the mustachioed Oaklanders is being widely ascribed to an extraordinary visitation of luck, and doubtless there was much timely forttme involved. What it was mostly, though, was a case of good pitching beating good hitting, a formula that almost always works in short baseball series. The Oakland twirlers had a relapse in the sixth game, to be sure, but aside from that they kept the Cincinnati basemen off the bases or, if by some lapse they permitted them aboard, kept them from home plate. The Oakland hitters, meanwhile, led quite unexpectedly by one Fury (Jene Tenace, scored just enough to win four ball games, each by one run.

The ^ries was thick with excitements and old-fashioned baseball tension, and for North Carolinians its pleasures were heightened by the performance of two native sons. In a losing cause, Tom Hall (born in Thomasville)' repeatedly came out of the Cincinnati bullpen to silence the Athletic bats with a whipping fastball and a great, Sweeping curve. Though most of the post-Series applause went to Rollie Fingers of the Athletics, Hall - was the outstanding relief pitcher in the seven games.

Then, of course, there was Catfush Hunter of Bear Swamp, a suburb of Hertford. He won a gritty victory in the second game, then came in as a reliever in the seventh to hold off the Reds while his teammates applied the clinching runs. Catfish came home to Hertford a couple of days after the Series and was honored with appropriati^ly enough, a fish fry. We have no doubt that every fish in the Perquimans River would gladly make the supreme sacrifice in order to adorn the Catfish platter.

years of a young man are 18 to 26. a lottery would be held and the man would be assigned a number according to his birthday. Those with low numbers would have to turn over all their money to the government to finance the war.

Those with high numbers could go about their lives just as young men with high draft numbers go about their business without fear of being called up.

Would you have draft boards? I asked.

"Yes, Haak replied. They would be composed of young men under the age of 26.

"Why young men?" I asked.

"Well, you have older men sending off young men to die in a war, so you should have young men deciding who mt&t give their money to pay for it. The draft board could give exemptions in hardship cases and deal with conscientious objectors.

^%y conscientious objectors you meant ose who refuse to give money to a war because its against their religion?

Yes, exactly. If a man can prove he is a serious conscientious objector, we would let him donate his wealth to a hospital or an educational institution.

What about men over 40 who would flee to Canada to avoid having their money drafted?

The Haak Plan does not provide for amnesty. We think its the patriotic duty of every American to protidly serve his country, if not with his body, then with his fortune.

How much of his fortune?

"Everything. Haak said. When we draft young men We ask them to give up everything, dont we?

It somids,,,like a crazy plan, I said.

No crazier than what we ve bwn doing for 10 years. Had the Haak Plan been in effect when we first got into Vietnam, the howls of the (Continued on oaire S)

Dream Job In Offing

By JOHN COTTER Assodatod PrcM Writer

PITTSTON, Pa. (AP) - At 20 minutes to one on a fall Friday the young man with the mustadie and Philadetphia Phillies baseball .cap slammed a $5 bill (i the bar and announced his retirement.

Its the end of an era, buddy. and it might as well stop here. Give em all one on Mo. With that Joseph Mo Mul-larkey, a master of time and space in .his early 20s, 8tei^)ed down from a job^that had made him a hCTo to his peers: driver of a beer truck.

Mullarkeys announcement drew the expected reaction from the older afternoon regulars in Lous Place. Hands quickly shot <wt to empty the

tween the whii^y shelf and the $5 bill on the bar.

But two young guys next to MuUarkey groanedf Impossible, said one. Say it aint so Mo, said the other, smiling a bit that he used the line.

Amen, I say unto y(NJ, said MuUarkey, giving his shoulder-length hair a tug and breaking into his madman giggle.

The two guys returned to their beers, but they werent through. 3oth were fresh out of coUege and headed for computer and life insurance lives. Driving a beer truck was the modem dream. Ah, the romance of it all.

I mean, its got everything, said one. Good money, no hassles. Youre out there cruising, ftian. You caI^clo anything you want.

Kegs, said MuUarkey. Huh?

Ill never lift another one in my life, he wit on. Theyre heavy, buddy. And its gettin cold again

He took a swig from his beer. They think youre always (Continued on page .5)

40 Years Ago Today

^ ByGWYRCOGHILL November 1,1932 The price situation took a pronounced jump on the GreenviUe tobacco market yesterday and the highest price average of the season was established. Hie high average was recorded on over a million pounds of bright leaf and farmers from many sections of the belt benefitted by the price rise. The market handled a total of 1,095,012 pounds of tobacco for 157,175.62 at an average of $14.35 per hundred. Offerings were comparatively light today in face of the rainfall throughout the community and there was only about 400,000 pounds of leaf on the warejiouse floors when sales got under way.

Playing tonight at the State Theatre is Rackety Rax starring Victor McLaglen.

Skiers Move Into Controversy

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP)-If you view skiing as an industry, you gel one point of view:

overlook the example we set for others. We all know how others influence us, how we admire, imitate, even envy ttiem. But it is harder to remember that there are always people who are looking the same way at us.

The Reverend John Cummiitg r*

Every man is a missionary, now and forever, for gooid or C(r evU, udiether he intends and desi^ it or not. He may . .be AJdoL radiating his-iiarlE influence outward to the very circumference of society, or he may ISF' a blessing, spreading benedictions over the length and breadth of the world. But a blank he cannot be.

By Earl Douglaf s

Business never was better. Ski lifts ..pre crowded all day long, say the resort operators. Sales of ski clothing and equipment are soaring. Hotels and motels are booked far in advance. Farmers have a winter in-

There are about 4.5 million skiers now, and the number is increasing at a rate of 10 to 15 per cent a year, says the United States. 1*1 Skiers mean dollars.

It is difficult to txeak out the dollar figure for retail purchasei of ski equipmenC, vbut you obtain some Idea of the trend by examining the total spent on all winter sports equipment.

In 1951, about $9.9 million was spent. By 1970 the figure had grown to $88.4 million. And the National Sporting Goods Association projects a minimum of close to $184 million by 1975.

If you are a skier, you might have a different viewjimint.

Skiing gets more enthusiasts each year, but the quality Of the sport is declinmg,"

Erickson, executive vice

spend more time standing in line than we do skiing.

headquarters in Denyer, estimates fFatT'bh aibsjr weekend at wme popular areas, a skier may spend 20 minutes waiting for a two-or three-minute ride up the mountain just to make a 304 second descent.

And so, a- battle is

developing that is likely to dispel the illusioq.that winter weekends are one big frosty carnival of rosy cheeked

enthusiasts who have left all cares behind in the city.

Sin^e the sport is now

almost nationwide, with an estimated 312,925 skiers residing in the South, according to Daniel SUirch & Staff, and tours making it to

Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth and others are opposed'.

"Jgkiers love the out of doors as much as the conservationists, says Erickson. Thats what is so ironic about the controversy. We are just as concerned that an ecology balance be maintained.

If the sport continues to ex-

pand as it^ has, the pressure also is * for land inevitably will grow.

also is

national.

ocw aspect of the coming battle, skies are pitched against resort operators, who "quite UTiderstaTidably 1 ike crowds. In another, it is skiers against conservationists.

The courts already have becom^ the battleground for the latter. The USSAJis..J:c^^ lively*campaigning to'open public lands to skiers. But the

for land inevitably will grow. And so the USSA, which once concerned itself almost solely with competitive ski pro^ams,....ifi. developing a m^er^ liha ptSgrkW.

Erickson insists that skier should be represented when decisions are made about using the 187 million acres of riational forests, just as are jr^servationists and mining, liimber. agricultural and leisure industries. *

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