4The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Friday, December 14. 1973

Coming To The Horfi Decisions

WHOOSH!

Those who have to decide how we are going to allocate our dwindling energy supplies are now coming down to hard decisions.

And the administration has decided that gasoline production must give way to ^sential needs.

The Administration energy chief William E.

Common Cause Is Taking Aim

By BILL NOBLITT

RALEIGH Common Cause, a national lobbying organization founded by former HEW Secretary John Gardner, is spreading its grassroots citizen involvement methods to the state level.

North Carolina is joining California and Alabama as the first of the states to set up units zeroing in on state issues and state legislatures.

Tagging itself nationally the movement that has proved that citizens can fight and win. Common Cause operates on the basic theory that tried and true lobbying methods which have worked so well for vested interest corporations and associations can work equally well for just plain folks.

That approach will be the keystone of Common Cause North Carolina launched this week. Basically, the group is organized at the U.S. Congressional District level across the state, with membership currently estimated at between 3,500 and 3,800 in the state. This organization will provide some Common Cause member in virtually every county, able to make direct contact with members of the N.C. General Assembly.

No Labels Cart Carmichael, Charlotte lawyer and native of Greenville, is chairman of the state program. He rejects political or philosophical lables for the movement, saying that ideally both Democratic and Republican party chiefs in every county would be members.

But Carmichael concedes that most of the membership consists of professional people, lawyers, college professors, and a lot of women active in leagues of women voters or similar action groups.

There are not, as you might perceive, a lot of the so-called blue collar or hard-hat working group in the membership'. I suppose you could generally categorize the movement as somewhat liberal, Carmichael said, although ideally we will take varying positions depending on the issues at hand.

By its rules. Common Cause will not endorse candidates or help fund campaigns. Anybody who wants to run for office who is a member of the state* program committee must drop off that list.

Were not a threat to any candidate or person or group or organization or representative. Some perceive of Common Cause as constituting a threat. . .but in reality we are a champion of the system, but intent on making it #work for the people, Gp^ichael said.

.Nooning Rules The officers or steering committee will not take action on which directions for the group to follow or issues to be taken up. The entire

membership is polled, even occassionally using public meeting methods reminiscent of the New England town meeting system, on what issues are most important and what should be done. The system works superbly, Carmichael said, because we are not locked in by a lot of suffocating rules such as Roberts Rules of Order. Things are done by open debate and arguing and reaching consensus. We have yet to restrict things by having a motion and a second before something can be done.

The first two items on the Common Cause North Carolina agenda are campaign finances and legislative ethics. Camrichael said Common Cause sees a move to make corporate contributions legal in North Carolina contrary to the public interest and a clear and present danger.

The group sees some form of limited public financing accompanied by individual donations and strict spending limits as the right direction.

On ethics. Common Cause seeks rules governing any public official who has any discretionary power in our lives, Carmichael said.

He said those two led the list because they are the hottest issues in the state right now. Additonal goals will be set through the state meetings compiling a list, members will rate to assign priorities and the program action committee will form a position and strategy for follow through.

This elaborate system is essential, Carmichael said, to guard against any one or two people using Common Cause for their own ends.

A full-time paid lobbyist will be working in the 1974 General Assembly, providing liaison with other lobbying groups which will be used whenever aims coincide, reporting on pending legislation, relaying Common Cause positions to legislators, and staking out lawmakers on positions in controversial issues.

Stake Them Out

On our issues, we will definitely try to get the legislators staked out in advance, let the public know where each stands, and when the vote comes, remind him of his position, Carmichael said.

That accountability of public officials as responsible to the public in both procedural matters and in substance of his action is the real guts of Common Cause, the chairman said. Our purpose is to see that public officials are responsive to the needs of the people and are accountable to the people.

Carmichael said he doesnt expect any overnight miracles in working at the state level. Common Cause will be crawling for awhile. . before we car walk.

The Daily Reflector

INCORPORATED 309 Cotanche Street, Greenville, N. C. 27834 Established 1882 Published Monday "nirough Friday Afternoon and Sunday Morning

DAVID JULIAN WHICH ARD, Chairman of the Board JOHN S. WHICHARDDAVID J. WHICHARD ^ Publishers Second Qass Postage Paid at Greenville.N.C.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES Payable in Advance Home Delivery By Carrier Motor Route Monthly $2.25

By Mail. One Year Six Months TTiree Months

$27.00

13.50

6.75

(Prices Include Tax By Mail except In Pitt Co. Add 1 percent)

MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use for publication all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited to this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publications of special dispatches here are also reserved.

Simon, proik)sed that gasoline production be reduced leaving a 25 percent shortage. From the 75 percent that is left priority would go to emergency services, fuel production, public transportation and agriculture.

It is expected that the drastic reduction in gasoline production will cause an increase in production of other fuels for industrial and heating uses.

Controls on the distribution of heating oil, diesel and jet fuels were also proposed, however, with vital servicesand manufacturers getting priority. Residual oil would be allocated with fuel production, food production, essential services, marine shipping and heating for health services getting priority.

The reduction in gasoline will of course, mean that pleasure cars will be getting far less fuel in a short time. The allocation of fuel oil will mean that households will be required to cut their heat back by six degrees and other buildings by ten degrees to make the supplies last through the winter.

The cut backs, which are proposed to take effect Dec. 27, are not going to be to everyones liking. The gas cutbacks are going to mean all us do considerably less driving. However, we agree with the philosophy of taking care of essential needs of our nation rst.

Next Time We'll Hear From Precinct No. 10

Voters in Greenville will find a new precinct when they go to the polls next year.

^ Greenville 9 is being split and a new Greenville 10 will be established. It will be south of Greenville Boulevard and east of Highway 43 and will vote at the E. B. Aycock School.

The change should make voting easier for citizens living in these two precincts.

Greet Idea Of Wallace Visit

UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL

Advertising rates and deadlines available upon request Member Audit Bureau of Qrculation.

By JOHN KILGO RALEIGH-Jim Sugg, chairman of the North Carolina Democratic Party, says his office has received nothing but favorable response since it was announced that Alabama Gov. George Wallace would speak to Tar Heel Democrats on Feb. 16.

Weve had comments from all sections of the state concerning Gov. Wallaces visit, Sugg told me, and its all been favorable. Im sure there are some Democrats who are less than enthusiastic about Gov. Wallaces visit, but I think even they know the man can help us get together.

Sugg says Wallace still has a tremendous following in North Carolina, as his victory in the presidential primary showed.

A great many voters identify with Gov. Wallace, Sugg said. Our invitation to him in no way is an effort to turn back the clock. But some Democrats who felt

estranged last time will know that their point of view will be recognized, with other points of view, in the North Carolina Democratic Party.

No one is talking about it publicly, but one reason for Wallaces visit is to bring back some of those

Democrats who felt jilted when Democrats approved the so-called quota system for committees and convention delegates. It brought in more blacks, women and young peoplebut it kicked out some old-line Democrats who had worked for the Party for years.

Were looking for a big crowd, Sugg says.

Mail has poured into Suggs office since the Wallace visit was announced.

One Goldsboro man thanked Sugg and Skipper Bowles for arranging the Wallace visit, saying: Finally a shining light comes through murky skies. Wallace never left the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party left him. A Henderson man wrote Sugg: My parents and

Strength For Today

POISONED CHALICES

A story is told of an ancient King who one day when being handed a cup filled with poisoned wine, made over it the sign of the cross and uttered the name of Christ. The cup immediately fell from his hands and was dashed to pieces at his feet.

Actually there is some truth in what we might regard as an absurd story. If we bring Christ into the dangerous and threatening situations of life which confront us, we may avoid the

poison they have in store for us. If we bring to Him the best we know every day and ask Him to put it aside if it does not match the best He has in store for usthen the worlds poisoned chalices of temptation will not harm us.

The way to separate the false from the true, the evil from the good, is to bring all things before the Lord of life for his judgment. What is evil will disappear; what is good will become our strength and inspiration.

By Elisha Douglass

By ART BUCHWALD

They All Feel Better

WASHINGTON-Vice FTesident Gerald Ford said last weekend on Meet the

Press that he expected Americans to "feel much better after Mr. Nixon

grandparents were Democrats, but when Gov. Wallace ran for President, I actively supported him. Bringing him to North Carolina is a step in the right direction.

Sugg says he feels North . Carolina Democrats are much more united than they were a year ago when they lost a seat in the U. S. Senate and dropped the Governors Mansion to the Republicans.

Everything isnt peaches and cream with us, Sugg says, but were unquestionably more united that we were 18 months ago. I think weve learned that primaries must be run in a way that winners and losers can grasp hands and work together for the Democratic .Party in the general election. We learned the lesson the hard way, but sometimes thats the only way to learn.

What would happen to the Democrats if they have a heated battle for the U. S. Senate, between Sam Ervin and Robert Morgan?

Knowing both of those men, Sugg said, Im certain they would run a primary in a way that they could get back together after it was over and support the winner in the general election. I dont think either man would get so out of joint that he wouldnt work for the other in the general election. The same can be said for Henry Hall Wilson. I hope all of our primaries will be loyal to the Democratic Party.

Sugg says its hard to tell what effect Watergate has had on North Carolina politics.

But if we rely on Watergate to win for us, Sugg said, wed be sorely disappointed. We must get out there and work hard for the next election. Anything less than a total effort could be disastrous.

Quote

What you say and what you do must be one. Chiang Kai-Shek.

Other Editors Say The Same Fight

(Jacksonville Daily News)

(Considering the decade immediately behind us, the stout warning from the heart of the Eastern intellectual and academic community that Arab oil is not important enough to the United States of America to have us give in to blackmail gets our immediate attention.

The stature of the men giving us the warning makes it par-tftularly timesly because it comes during the early, impression forming period of debate on the subject. They include economists of stature such as Dr. Paul Samuelson of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dr. John Kenneth Galbraith of Harvard and Dr. Merton Peck of Yale.

Their conviction is that the foreign policy of the United States should not be deflected in the slightest by the Arab oil embargo; by the fact that we may have to save a few gallons of gasoline a week or lower thermostats a few degrees.

It would be more productive, say the Ivy League ^ofessors, for the consuming nations to confer on such countermeasures as witholding food and manufactured goods from the Arabs. In short to consider a counterembargo.

At the core of the educators thoughts, however, is the central warning that blackmail on one issue in one part of the world invites blackmail on every issue on every part of the world. They believe that even if the Arab-Israeli differences in the Middle East are resolved, the Arabs will continue their policy of oil blackmail.

If memory serves right, many of these professors were among the vangard of academicians who insisted during the last decade that the United States should not honor its commitments in Southeast Asia. Now they are insisting that there is no parallel between Indochina and the Middle East.

However, it is not hard to draw one. South Vietnam, like Israel, has a commitment from the United States to assist in its survival. Like Israel, it is struggling to establish a free state. Southeast Asia, with South Vietnam as the linch pin, is the rice bowl for millions of people in the Third World, as Israel is a foodbasket for much of Africa. Both nations are threatened by (Dommunist imperialism and both were at the center of a larger strategic confrontation between the free Western world and communism. The survival of both Israel and South Vietnam is in the best interest of the United States.

We applaud the Ivy League professors for emerging from their cocoon of isolationism to speak up for the strategic Middle East and to warn Americans about the infectious nature of blackmail.

On the other hand, we. do not believe that they should protest too much about what they believe is a lack of parallelism between near Asia and far Asia.

released his financial records to the press.

He did add that some people might continue to wonder if the President paid enough income tax.

Monday I decided to make an informal survey among my acquaintances to find out if indeed they did feel better now that Mr. Nixons finances are a matter of public record.

ART

BUCHWALD

The first one I asked was a taxi driver. He confirmed Vice President Fords statement.

I feel great, .he said as we were stuck in traffic on K St. I just discovered that I paid the same amount of taxes as ^e President of the United States.

But he made a lot more money than you did, I said.

That shows you, the cabdriver said, that Nixon is a man of the people. Despite his friends, his position and his wealth, he still insists on paying the same taxes as a little guy like me. It proves he hasnt lost the common touch.

When I got to my office I ran into a tax lawyer on my floor who also said he felt much better since Nixon released his financial statement. Four new clients have called me this morning wanting to know why they had to pay capital gains on their property, and the President of the United States didnt.

What did you till them? I asked him.

(Continued on page 5)

Life's

M

Better~ Things !

NEW YORK (AP) Things hat make life worthudiile:

A wide-gapped grin in a freckled face ... shafts of bright sunlight through troubled clouds ... the steaming breath of cattle on a winter day ... ^ the drowsy murmuring of a happy wife going to sleep after , a long but cheerful day. Sneaking a forbidden taste of ] the icing on a chocolate cake wh"en no one is looking.

HAL

BOYLE

Wishing on a winter morning , that the ice-rimed tree outside your window was really what it looks like a great-branched multimillion dollar solid dia- , mond. ,

The dying away of the raw pain in a scraped knee ... pink , rosebuds glorifying a rotting old wooden fence ... the mixture of awe and fright on the face of a young child sitting for the first time on the knee of a department store Santa Claus.

The honking overhead of a flight of wild geese seeking a late-in-the-day landing.

Listening to the eulogy at the funeral of a friend and hearing the minister praise him for a deed of anonymous charity he had kept secret during lifetime.

Overhearing a child making up chant songs to himself as he plays all alone pure poetry in knee pants.

Watering the lawn when a pair of hummingbirds are darting in and out of the flowers like vibrant jewels.

Catching a turtle and then feeling vaguely Godlike as you decide aizainst keeping him as (Continued on Page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

By SUSAN PRICE December 11,1933 Sheriff Sam Whitehurst returned last night from Washington where he went to confer with a ballistics expert regarding bullets taken from the body of a man who was mysteriously slain on the old Stokes road last Wednesday.

T. T. Hollingsworth, deputy tax collector, has received a new ruling from the Department of Revenue Sales made by a lumber dealer or a hardware store to a contractor. The ruling applies to brick mortar, cement, paint and other building materials. An individual who buys a small quantity for their use is subject to the regular 3 per cent sales tax.

The Department of Revenue has received numerous inquiries asking whether or not churches are exempt from paying sales tax. The Department ruled that churches are not exempt.

Ne>A/ Data In Housing-Deprived

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) A new statistic has been added to the numerical portrait of the United States: some 13.1 million of the nations 63.4 million households are what is termed housing-deprived.

This figure is a brand-new one, simply because nobody had defined the category until the JointtCfenter for Urban Studies took on the task. But while the terminology might be questioned, the figure cannot be.

The center, a cooperative venture of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard, studied the situation because of the obvious defects in analyses that had been the basis for government action.

The most important of these earlier studies was that made in *1968 by the Presidents Committee on Urban Housing, from which emerged the popular forecast of a need for 26 million new housing units in 10 years.

That assumption was made up of an expected need for 18

million to 20 million units to satisfy growing needs and the replacement of 6 million to 8 million units deemed physically inadequate.

The MIT-Harvard study questions the significance of that figure. Housing deprivation, it maintains, results not just from physically inadequate facilities but for other reasons too, such as high rents.

And the solution, it adds, is not to be found in merely building new units. In fact, it states, many of the people classified as i being housing-deprived are living in physically sound buildings.

This is what the centers director, Bernard Frieden, and [H-incipal investigator, David Birch, included in their definition of housing-deprived:

1. Physically unsound units.

2. Physically sound but overcrowded. ^

3. Physically sound, not overcrowded, but too expensive.

4. Physically sound, not overcrowded, and reasonably ixiced, but inadequate neighborhood.

Their figure of 13.1 million households is conservative, they maintain, because no households with income of more than $10,000 was considered deprived and because they were unable to obtain data on the fourth category.

In summary, they concluded that a decent home should be not only in physically sound condition and in suitable environment but should contain sufficient space and should not place an undue burden on budgets.

The fact is, say the authors, that housing deprivation has actually declined in the past decade or so by more than two million units. In 1960, based on their definition, 15.3 million households were deprived.

More important, however, is that the composition of deprivation has changed greatly. In 1960 about 71 per cent of the problem was physical inadequacy. In 1970 that had dropped to 53 per cent and was still falling.

The growing problem now, they say, is the burden of high rents^In 1960, this complaint was only 24 per cent of the problem, but 10 years later it

had grown to 42 per cent.

The obvious significance of this finding is that the U.S. housing goals wont be met solely by building more units or by improving those that already exist.

The authors didnt say what course they preferred, but the matter of providing direct housing subsidies, as opposed to construction incentives to builders, received such attention in the question-answer part of their presentation.

' Such subsidies are a part of the Nixon administrations position, and Arthur Newburg, an administration housing official, sat beside Friedan and Birch during their presentation.

A production goal is not a housing goal, the authors emphasized. Some 23 million units are likely to be built in the United States during the decade of the 1970s, they predicted, but this will be mainly to satisfy population growth.

They warned that you dont add 23 million and 13 million and say the nations housing needs total 36 million units. The two situations, they said, are distinct.