4Tlie Dally Reflects, Grivttle. N.C.Wednesday, October 17. 1173

Perhaps Crisis Can Inspire Us

Concern is mounting in this country over the energy crisis. This concern has been increasect by the Middle East War and the possibility that oil supplies to our nation will be drastically cut because of our support for Israd.

In North Carolina, the Energy Crisis Study Comniission is considering recommendations for reducing energy use. Suggestions have ranged frn banning electric advertising at night to restricting use of automobiles.

Watson Morris, executive director of ECOS Inc. told the commission, There simply is not enough petroleuip in the earth to sustain the present rate of

Resist Change In Committing

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGH-When a public hearing is held October 19 in Raleigh on the states new law on commitments to mental institutions, law enforcement officers and court officials will bring the bulk of criticism.

Many District Court judges across the state are upset over their involvement in the due process procedures for commitment; sheriffs officers are bearing the brunt of the change and are most upset of all.

The old law only required an interested person, usually a relative, to bring an individual before the clerk of court to get an involuntary commitment..

The law effective Sept. 1 requires a law enforcement officer to sign papers against the individual, bring him before a magistrate for hearing of cause and if the individual is held, he must be brought within five days before a District Court judge. If committed, he has all the rights of appeal through the court system. And if held longer than 90 days, a District Court judge must conduct a new hearing at the end of that time, and every 120 days thereafter.

Here, pulled together from a wide variety of sources, are the basic complaints which have prompted State Sen. Julian R. AUsbrook to hold the hearing with an eye to change or repeal of the new law:

Sheriffs Complain Sheriffs and other law enforcement officials complain that they are the ones who must initiate proceedings, families can no longer do it themselves. Officers must sign papers finding the individual either dangerously violent or completely disabled, and they argue that they dont have the competency to do that.

"nie law officers say they have to go into the home and pick up the individual without a warrant or other authorization, opening the possibility of false arrest suits and that they have no officials to help them either make the judgment, or prepare the case against the individual. One sheriff even went so far so to say bluntly: I cant do do all of that; Im just not going to bring anybody in.

Sheriffs complain that officers must transport the individual to a hwpital or clinic while awaiting District Court proceedings; and must travel extensively conducting individuals to and from court and institutuions for the initial hearings and future rehearings required by the law.

This often requires long trips beginning at early hours and involving people who doht understand at all what is taking place, officers complain.

Court officials, especially judges, argue that the five-day time period causes them to make special trips to hold court for mental hearings, especially in rural, isolated counties; that they are legal experts, not medical doctors, and have no right to take jurisdication in such matters; that the hearings and re-hearings will glut an already crowded court docket; and that nobody is responsible for preparing the case and presenting evidence, even though the individual by law is entitled to an attorney and the right to face his accuser.

It StUl Works

Despite these and other problems, however, officials close to the process think it is working, but can be improved.

Basically, its working because eveybodys making it work, said Taylor McMillan, counsel to the state courts. It is having some intended effect of reducing commitments, and while there are things that can be done to improve the procedure, the philosophy of the act will prevail and I dont see us backing up from the protections of due process, McMillan said.

Rep. Howard F. Twiggs, who drafted the measure, agrees that changes are needed. He thinks it might be possible for hearings to be held in the mental hospitals rather than courts; the courts in counties where hospitals are located should recieve more personnel; that persons should be allowed to sign papers to start the process rather than leaving this to the discretion of a law enforcement officer.

But he argues that this state, and all others, must have some procedure of this nature to protect individual rights to freedom.

Certainly, to go from where we were to where we are is a shock to the system.

It was an abrupt change from a commitment by con-veniaice system to one of due process, Twiggs said.

What we have now. .bends in favor of the patient. But that is a matter of working out procedures. But you cant force treatment on someone for mental illness anymore than for any other illness.

Poor Uncle John We had people who had been committing poor old Uncle John or their mother-in-law or more especially (Continued on page 6)

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auto use.

He urged increased use of public transportation and disagreed with the contention that nuclear energy plants for generating electricity should be licensed in shorter times.

Well, the energy crisis seems to be building to major proportions and it seems that our society deals best with a problem when it becomes a crisis.

In World War II, for instance, when rubber supplies were cut off, a synthetic rubber was developed. This opened the way for many synthetic materials and now much of our clothing and other fabrics are made from synthetics.

We have little doubt that if a crash programis instituted fuel can be developed by science which can replace petroleum products. Perhaps it can be produced from coal, or it may be compounded from other chemicals.

Then there is the sun, which has been long looked to by mankind as a potential source of energy for electrical generation. Its heat, however, is not available at night and is dissipated on cloudy days.

Now, though we have the capacity to build space platforms which could gather the suns rays on a constant basis and beam this energy down to earth stations even on a cloudy day.

We believe the answers to the energy shortage can be found, if we are willing to commit the necessary funds and manpower to such a project.

The committment was made to develop atomic energy and it was successful. We made a committment to land men on the moon and again it was successful. These projects seemed outlandish at the time they were proposed.

Our nation, must develop new energy sources and we must do it soon. Such a project can be expensive but its long range benefits will be enormous.

Sympathy Israel In

For War

By GEORGE GALLUP (Copyright 1973 Field Enterprises, Inc. All rights reserved. Republication in whole or part strictly prohibited except with the written consent of the copyright holders.)

PRINCETON, N.J., - The sympathies of the American people are 8-to-l on the side of the Israelis, as determined by the latest nationwide Gallup survey, but nearly half of all persons interviewed lean to neither side in the conflict or do not express an opinion.

The survey, begun October 6 when fighting erupted in the Middle East, revealed that nine in ten persons had heard or read about the crisis in that part of the world. This aware group was then asked the question:

In this trouble, are your sympathies more with Isreal or more with the Arab states?

Following are the findings based on the award group: Sympathies More With Israel Or Arab States? Based on Aware Group With Israel ^7

With Arab States 6

Neither ^2

No Opinion 25

To gain insight into the reasons Americans give for leaning to one side or the other in the present conflict, an additional small-scale national survey was carried out Wednesday evening, Oct. 10.

Reasons given most often by those who express greater sympathy for the Israeli than the Arab cause are: (1) sympathy for the underdog; (2) Israel is fighting for survival; (3) Israel was attacked first; (4) the Israelis have a right to have a homeland.

First Reactions Of The Public The mood of the U.S. public regarding the Middle East crisis is reflected in the following comments from persons interviewed by the Gallup Poll.

A 61-year-old retired homeowner from New York City had this to say:

My sympathies are with Israel because theyre trying

to build something over there and theyre just defending what they have. We would certainly fight back if Canada and Mexico started piling in on us.

A 41-year-old Pennsylvania resident, the owner of a lumber business remarked. It looks like the Arabs jumped them first. All differences can come to some kind of agreement by talking, but the Arabs have refused to do so. Israel has given them every chance to talk and the Arabs have ignored them. Here is what a 44-year-old mechanic from Minnesota told a Gallup Poll interviewer: Im in favor of the Jews over there because I think they have a rotten deal. The Arabs are in cahoots with the Communists and I dont like Communists.

A young New York doctor offered a similar reasons: I just feel that the position of the Israelis is one of self-preservation and that only by taking a forceful military stand can they exist surrounded by enemeies. Israel is a new country and has never had a chance to grow and become a peaceful nation, commented a 55-year-old Massachusetts ((Continued on page 6)

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Forum

To the editor:

On November 6, Christians will have a chance to prove that they are against alcoholic beverages by voting no. But if they stay at home and say, Well, its going to pass anyway, it probably will pass.

If every Christian who believes alcohol is evil, and believes the verse I Thessalonians 5:22, that says to abstain from the appearance of evil, will get out and vote on Nov. 6, there will be happier homes, more peaceful restaurants, and safer highways for all of us.

Mrs. Sarah Heath Greenville

Strength For Today

NOT CIRCUMSTANCES BUTSOUL Thomas Hood, the English poet, was a man of whimisical humor and rollicking fun, yet his poems and drolleries emanated from a man who was slowly dying of tuberculosis. The funny answers he wrote to imaginary correspondents constituted the first humorous column for newspapers. In addition he wrote poetry of surpassing beauty which gave him a place among the the most notable literary men of his day.

Gaiety and gloom are the result not so much of the

outside world but of the inside, not of circumstances but of the attitude we take toward them. There is a certain attitude of mind which would make one unhappy no matter where he lived or under what circumstances. There is another attitude which turns every cloudy day into one of pleasantness and even wrings from the misfortunes of life a tribute of understanding and power.

Tilomas Hood, a man with these latter characteristics, was certainly an unusual person and can be a model for us in times of adversity.

By E. P. Douglass

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A New Kicker

WASHINGTON - Playing Coach Dick Nixon paced up and down the sidelines of the football field. His team was on his own 10-yard line, and he was being forced to punt. To make matters worse, his only kicker, Ted Agnew, had been thrown out of the game for unsportsmanlike condiKt and had been put on probation for three years and fined $10,000.

Sitting on the bench, all suited up, were Johnny Connally, Rocky Rockefeller. Ronnie Reagan, Billy Rogers, Mel Laird, Barry Goldwater, and Big Elliot Richardson.

Send me in. Coach,

begged Connally. I can save the game.

I cant kick, Rocky said, but if you need me. Ill run with the ball.

Ronnie Reagan said, Dont forget, I was the original Gipper of Notre Dame.

Nixon just walked up and down the sidelines some more.

He was in a terrible dilemma. If he sent in a strong player, the Democratic team vowed to block the kick. If he sent in a weak player, he might lose the game.

He looked over at Johnny

Connally. Johnny was his first choice, but he was a problem for any coach. He had played on the Democratic team, the Democrats seemed to have it in for him. Nixons scouts had informed him that if he sent in Connally the Demos would smear him.

ART

BUCHWALD

Other Editors Say Revising Taxes

(Rocky Mount Triegram)

Despite a tremendous amount of tax activity earlier this year, most Washington observers believe it will be 1974 before Congress fmally enacts any major tax changes.

Tax Foundation, Inc. repents that the powerful but ailing chairman of the taxwriting Ways and Means (Committee, Rep. Wilbur Mills, said on Sept. 9 that plans to adjourn Oxigress in November have ruled out the possibility of tax legislation this year.

TTie House Ways and Means Committee spent over nine weeks last winter hearing the views of 350 persons on what ought to be done or should not be done to revise the fedoral tax structure.

TTie tricky path of tax revision this year began in the c^>ening days of Congress in January wdien a heavy flow of tax revision bills were proposed.

At the first hearings in February, 56 invited witnesses covered 11 broadranging areas of taxati<Hi including cmitroversial matters such as capital gains and losses, capital recovery, minimum tax and tax shelters, estate and gift taxation, taxation of foreign income and others.

Many contrasting views were presented not wily on specific provisions of the tax law, but even wi major goals to be sought in tax revisi.

One such example was the highly cwitroversial role of taxes in redistributing income.

As the tax revision hearings continued, the whose thing expanded. There were thousands of pages of testimony taken, all to be analyzed before a bill could be comideted.

Hie administration program, through Secretary of the TVeasury Siultz, calls for titter tax rules on so-called tax-sheltered income oi wealthy individuals, new tax credits for property taxes paid by the elderly, for private school tuition and for cxplw*atory wl drilling.

Putting all the various prqiosals together into a tax bill usually takes Congress two years. Even at that, it is remarkaUy fast, considwing the complexities of tax laws.

The crowd, shocked by Agnews sudden departure from the field, kept screaming for a substitute.

But this punt meant a lot, and Coach Nixon was not about to be rushed. He walked to the Republican cheering section and said over the loudspeaker, I need your help. Would everybody please list you three choices for a substitute kicker, put them in a sealed envelope and send.them down to the field? The Democrats were furious. How long are you going to have a time out? one of the players yelled.

Nixon ignored him and walked down past his bench.

Everyone looked up hopefully. Ronnie Regan said, Coach, I know your game plan and Im a team player. Give me a break. Rocky said, You have to send in someone whom the fans can rally around. You cant think of today, but of the big game in 1976. You wont be sorry, Dick.

Barry Goldwater played it cool. I dont give a damn if you send me or not. Coach, but you could do a lot worse. The fans were passing down their sealed envelopes and Mel Laird started counting names. Every time he came across a list in which he wasnt mentioned, he , threw it away.

Coach Nixon went up to Bi| EUliot Richardson. Elliot, i' (Continued on page 6)

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But \oii (IohT Hiiiit iiu to resign Iiijjli [losition.

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

Ever wonder why you never see a snake in a Turkish bath? Well, one reason might be that snakes cant survive temperatures above 118 degrees Fahrenheit.

If your fiancee is sick of the engagemoit ring you bought her, it may be because she is among the 11 per per cent of people who are allergic to cheap jewelry. The offending ingredient is usually nickel sulfate, found often in low-fMiced nickel-plated costume jewelry.

Biting off more than you can chew can kill you. In fact, the National Safety CouncU estimated that choking on food is the nations sixth leading cause of accidental death and is responsible for 2,500 faUlities annually. When such deaths occur in restaurants, they are often mistaken for heart attacks. Such cases are known in medi^ cal circles as cafe coronaries. Steak is the food on which a majority choke, and the victims are often either heavy drinkers or elderly people who have poor dentures.

The water in a giant redwood tree weighs more than the wood in it. A tree 200 feet tall contains about 4,700 gallons of water.

(^table notables: What a magnificence might be made of life!-H. G. Wells.

Wasted money: There is no known instantaneous cure for arthritis. But the National Arthritis Foundation says that American sufferers spoid $315 million yearly in the false hope of finding one.

A fish thats all teeth: The shark has several rows of teeth in its mouth, which move forward to replace older teeth as they wear out or fall out. But its entire skin is also covered with smaller toothlike structures covered with hard doi-tine. Cabinet makers once prized these rasplike scales in the making of a fine abrasive.

Worth remembering: In

marriage, no wife ever gets what she expectedand no husband expected what he gets.

To the winner: In old Samoa, after a tribal wedding, the newlyweds adjourned to a field be-(Continuecl on Page 6)

40 Years Ago Today

By SUSAN PRICE October 17,1933 Carman scientist Albert Einstein is in the United States to take the chair in the institute for advanced study at Princeton University. Dr. Abram Flexner, director of the institute, said he would see that the scientist got through New York with a minimum of fuss so that he might take up his work without any confusion.

Boasting that her husband, George Machine Gun Kelly will break out of his jail and rescue her before Chi^tmas, Kathryn Kelly left Memphis today for Cincinnati after a final parting with her mother, Mrs. R. G. Shannon.

(Jeorge will see me at CTiristmas, Mrs. Kelly told officers, He said he will break out of jail by CTiristmas and get me out. He always does what he says he will do.

J.H. Rose, suprintendent of the Greenville City Schools, said today that childrm will not be given a half-day holiday for the fair.

Executives Just Overwhelmed

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - The complex and relatively hostile business environment of the 1970s is overwhelming many corp<n'ation iresidents and forcing them to quit, according to a management psychologist and consultant.

The executive suite today is a bunch of important people who individually cant do much and who together cannot decide what to (k), said Dr. Eugrae Jennings, after reviewing findings oi a continuing study.

Jennings, professor of management at Michigan State University, and a amfidential adviser to top executives, found that the

resignation rate among presidents of the nations tc^ (XKpwations averaged nearly four out of 20 from October 1971 to October 1973.

More than half of them, all at the highest level of the nations largest companies were forced out, Jomings said. In the past, such a rate

voluntary or involuntarily

was identified with recession rather than boom.

Twenty-five years ago the professor began studying the characteristics and techniques of executive success by means of interviews, observations and computer analysis, and since then has produced seven books on the subject.

He said that in the 1960s ex

ecutives acted (m the noticm that the^world was eager for corporate products. Even inferior thinking and products could succeed.

But now the environment is complex and even antagonistic, as exemplified by the consumer and ecology movements. Now, he said, even a good idea might fail, r^ardless of how strongly it is held.

He believes another reason for ie presidential exodus is the condition of the stock market, where buyers arent as willing as before to pay high prices.

He explained that in the 1960s, corporations sold investors on the importance of the price-earning ratio. They

stressed a high P-E ratio as evidence of vigor.

"Now they are being hung by it, Jennings said, alluding to the frustration of

executives who see their

shares selling at 5 to 10 times earnings after becoming accustomed to at least double that ratio.

A third reason, he believes, is that many companies expanded so fast during the 1960s that they developed a management gap. They grew faster than their ability to develop personnel qualified to handle ccmiplexities.

The summary consequence is a higher resignation rate than in the 1960s, when the highest rate found was only 2.2 for every 20 executives.