The Responsibility Is Shared

We are certain that (Jov. Holshouser, judges, and law enforcement officials throughout North Carolina are as concerned about the rising crime rate in many communities as were the demonstrators who greeted the governor several days ago in Gastonia.

The governor was on one of his peoples day visits to Gaston County. The demonstrators wanted the governor to do something about the rising crime rate. ^

It is easy enough for us as citizens to place the blame for unacceptable conditions in our society at the feet of officials at various levels in government. In many instances, however, the officials are limited in their power to alleviate the unacceptable conditions without the full support and active assistance from the very citizens who want them to take action.

Those concerned about the rising crime rate are quick to point to leniency of the courts as a source of the problem. Yet it is rank and file citizens who sit on the juries and determine whether the accused should or should not be punished.

Citizens are quick to blame law enforcement agencies for not stemming the growing tide of major and minor crimes, but all too often the officers are thwarted in their efforts by rank and file citizens who do not want to get involved.

In most communities of North Carolina many of the conditions which contribute to growing crime* and delinquency, especially among the young, could

Young Inmates Turn To Paint

HARDLY THE TOOLS FOR SOCIAL BETTERMENT!

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGHPrison doesnt have much going for it in the way of inspiration to a budding, young artist except time.

That, at least, is the way two young men, students in an inmate art class at Polk Youth Center, feel about it.

I never did really take an interest in drawing till I came to prison. But here, I figure if youre gonna waste time, you might as well waste it on something good, says Ronnie Earl Smith, 18, a Gaston County lad serving a term on an assault conviction.

Smiths thing is flowers. Its just my thing. I like flowers. Sure, the other guys in here give me a hard time about my flowers, saying things like you must be ready to die so you can see some more flowers.

Smith doesnt see many flowers inside the prison unit on the outskirts of Raleigh, and he doesnt use his time to draw pictures of the things he does see. I like to draw things that make people happy, and theres not much inside here to be happy about, he said.

Might Sell He plans to do a little painting when I get back on the street, figures he might sell some paintings, but at any rate will enjoy it as a hobby.

His release may be a little bit delayed since Smith cant seem to make honor gradea condition for parole. He keeps skipping classes. But I never did skip art class. . .1 skipped all the rest sometime, but every Wednesday Ill be sitting right here in class.

Every Wednesday is when Mrs. Nell Chadwick puts here Palette Art Studio in the small town of Cary behind her for the drive to Polk Youth Center. A happy lover of art, Mrs. Chadwick is a happy lover of her class at Polk

She and a teacher at the school, Harvey Jackson, put together a class show recently. Like all such shows.

the final days were a rush to get everything ready. Smith, with his delicate wildflower portraits, took in best in the show using all medium.

Its surprising, inside those bleak walls, to find such colorful and delicate paintings. Smith does many of them from memory, but now and then Mrs. Chadwick brings him a fistful of flowers which he sneaks into his dormitory to paint at night.

Painting is just a good friend. Someone to turn to when theres nobody else to talk to. Man, I can be feeling so blue, and pick up a pencil and start drawing, then Everythings all right.

The art show wouldnt have been nearly as big if it hadnt been for a 19-year-old Winston-Salem man, Elbert L. Haley Jr. Haley put 12 pictures in the exhibit, copping a first for water colors, a third for pencil drawing, and three honorable mentions.

Turned Out Haley, an eighth grade dropout who has learned welding while in prison, said he has been drawing all his life, but has really gotten turned on to it while in prison. It helps get your mind off this, he said, glancing around the concrete block interior of a classroom.

Haley will get out in late June after serving 26 months on a breaking, entering, and larceny count. The one thing he figures prison has done for him is to provide time to think about art, time to draw . . and thats what I want to do now.

He hopes to get a welding job for eating money, and Keep on with my drawing. Haleys favorite subject is wildlife, and his amazingly detailed sketches of squirrels and birds show an appreciation for nature. The drawings are done from other pictures, and Haley is looking forward to a chance to stay out in the woods a lot and draw firsthand.*

Nowhere in the art exhibit by the 25 Polk inmates were there any prison-life pictures. There are plenty of flowers and streams and animals, normal life settings

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be improved with the volunteer help from a large number of citizens. But most of us, unfortunately, are too busy with our own responsibilities to lend a helping hand. Too often those conditions which breed crime get worse rather than better simply out of sheer apathy on the part of too many citizens.

Certainly Gov. Holshouser, the courts and the law enforcement officials may be able to do many things to stem the rising crime rate in North Carolina. But whatever they attempt to do will be much more effective with the wholehearted support and active help of thousands of citizens in hundreds of communities.

We as citizens must share the responsibility with our officials.

The Non-Legacy Of Gov. Reagan

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

LOS ANGELES-An intense backstage dispute over California Republican fundraising points up an unpleasant fact of life for Gov. Ronald Reagan of California; after todays primary election, his last hurrah attempt for the presidency will have a shaky political home base.

David Packard, the millionaire industrialist from San Francisco and former Deputy Secretary of Defense, privately complains that Reagans fund-riasing is undercutting the Republican campaign for governor by state Comptroller Houston I. Flournoy. That means Packard, an increasingly important Republican figure here, is by no means solidly in the Reagan-for-President group. Nor is Flournoy a moderate liberal who will point up ideological differences with Reagan conservatism once he wins todays primary.

Thus, the political and ideological legacy of Reagans two terms as governor is threadbare. Not only will the preponderant substance and tone of the Flournoy-led state political ticket be to Reagans left but the emerging new political state Republican power structure is not locked into his 1976 presidential ambitions.

Packard has been atop that new power structure since returning from the Pentagon to the Hewlett-Packard Co. in 1972 and becoming deeply involved in Republican politics for the first time. Reagan insiders have expected Packards towering reputation, safe counsel and^ luxuriant bankroll in their 1976 presidential campaign. Indeed, presidential politics was involved when Packard convinced Republican money men to back Flournoy for governor against erratic Lt. Gov. Ed Reinecke, darling of the right-wing precinct workers and now under federal indictment for perjury, a Republican governor would help Reagans presidential campaign, and independent, scandal-proof Flournoy was the best bet.

But Packard has become committed to Flournoy in his own right, as witness his reaction when the Reagan-controlled Republican state committee scheduled a $250-a-plate dinner for June 26. The purpose was to reassert Reagans political authority and enrich his own policitCl warchest with the usual 20 percent off the top. Packard was bitter that, with Republican money so scarce in post-Watergate California, Reagan was siphoning money from the campaign for governor.

Packards unpublicized criticism buttresses belief that he may have thought himself committed to Reagan last fall but is not now If Packard is uncommitted that is one less reason for Flournoy as governor to back Reagan Contrary to rumors. Flournoy made no com

mitment about the 1976 presidential nomination in return for getting his fat cats.

To win the Republican primary. Flournoy has papered over old ideological differences with Reagan and flinches when Eastern columnists correctly identify him with the Hiram Johnson-Earl Warren tradition of progressive California Republicanism. Over television recently, Flournoy adviser standing nearby grimaced and whispered: Wait until June 4.

After June 4, his advisers confide, Flournoy must point up past disagreements with Reagan over such matters as mental health and educational policy to woo independent and Democratic voters and organized labor support.

Those plans show that Flournoy has not converted to Reaganism. He now praises Reagan to escape the fate of former Sen. Thomas Kuchel, who lost the 1968 Republican primary for failing to make peace with Reagan. In fact, Reagan and Flournoy have not conferred personally in nine months.

Nor is the rest of the ticket clearly Reaganite. Packard recently raised money for the state comptroller campaign of Assemblyman William Bagley, who years ago buried his feud with Reagan but still takes civil rights and civil liberties positions far more liberal than the governors.

The Reagan inner cmcle can live with Flournoy and Bagley but cannot accept the possibility that John Venemana sharp critic of Reagan both as a liberal state assemblyman and as the hard-charging Under Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in Washingtoncould win the nomination as lieutenant-governor against heavily favored conservative state Sen. John Harmer.

Flournoy promised the money men not to support his old friend Veneman (after having decided on neutrality anyway.). Packard recently turned down the hard-pressed Venemans plea for funds because of a similar commitment. Although Reagan is officially neutral, Harmers friends say the governor has personally assured Harmer of his private support.

Even if Veneman does not score an upset, the primary will end eight years of a California Republican party monolithically devoted to Ronald Reagans interests. But a far greater obstacle facing Reagans higher ambitions is the presidential crisis of Richard M. Nixon, a subject for our final report from California.

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The world is divided into people who do things and people who get the credit. Try, if you can, to belong to the^Xirst class. Theres far less competition.Dwight Morrow.

Strength For Today

' FACING THE STORM The great British painter, Joseph William Turner, once told the writer, Charles Kingsley', that in order to paint a storm at sea he engaged a Dutch fisherman to bind him to the mast of his boat and then take the boat out to sea in the face of a storm As Turner said later of the experience, That storm blew itself into me until I came back a part of it. Only then could I paint it as it deserved to be painted.

An English bishop, com

menting later on this incident, wrote: Life is a great mingling of happiness and tragic storm He who comes out of it rich in living is he who dares to accept it all, to face it all, to let it blow its power and its mystery and its tragedy into the innermost recesses of his soul.

All men cannot paint like Turner, but they can live gloriously if they are willing to be tied to the mast and face the storms of life through to the end

By Elislia Deaf lass

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

The Country-Style War

SCRABBLE, Va.It is not surprising, when you come to think about it, that farmers have had a melancholy press. Country living is one constant, unending, altogether maddening struggle for survival. The only reason that farmers stick to the land is that theyre too durned stubborn to quit.

Virgil had some dreamy things to say about farming, but Virgil was a poet, and poets are daydreamers, anyhow. Thomas Jefferson used to get lyrical about the lush fields of Monticello, but Mr. Jefferson had somebody

else to do the work. Otherwise the literature is mostly gloomy. Thoreau once remarked that It makes little difference whether you are committed to a farm or a county jail, and Shakespeare, speaking through the drunken porter of MacBeth, once got in a dig at the farmer who hangs himself on the expectation of plenty. Emerson wrote of the embattled farmers of Concord, and though he was talking of the historic shot heard round-the-world, the adjective will do for everyday use.

Other Editors Say Price Supports

(Washington Daily News)

We have a right to expect higher tobacco prices this year, 1974, than were paid last year, 1973.

The U. S. Department of Agriculture has announced that government price supports for the 1974 crop will be raised 8.7 per-cent above last years level.

For all practical purposes, this means that flue-cured tobacco will be su[H>orted this year at 83.3 cents per pound as compared with 76.6 cits per pound last year. Burley tobacco will be supported this year at 85.6 caits per pound as compared with 78.9 cents per pound last year.

Thus, we can figure that tobacco support prices will be 6.7 cents per pound higher this year than last year.

Now it is so very easy for one who knows very little about the tobacco story to look at the figures and to say that the increase will mean that tobacco farmers will reap much greater profits this year than last.

Those who might say this just do not realize how much more it is costing to produce this crop. They do not know about the cost of machinery, the cost of fertilizer, the cost of labor, and the costs of getting the crop to market.

Unless a substantial increase had been offered, what it would inevitably mean is that many tobacco farmers would be put out of business.

There is another factor right now which is ever so important. Riis 1974 crop is yet to be made. Weather conditions between now and time to pull tobacco will tell a big story. 'This story is that of quality. No one in all the world right now can tell what the 1974 tobacco quality will be- We could very well haye. an 8.7 percent increase in support prices and if we have a low quality crop, then we are hurt badly regardless of support prices.

Last year the Washington Tobacco Market averaged $88.87 per 1(X) pounds. If we have a crop in 1974 commensurate in quality with the 1973 crop, then with 8.7 percent increase in support prices, we might expect somewhere around an average of $96.60 per 100 pounds in Washington. But we can never know, and again the quality and poundage will tell a very big story. If quality is low, then we also can expect lower poundage.

Let us make it clear in simple terms that the price support increase will not automatically mean that tobacco farmers will get rich. 'This cannot be the case under circumstances which surround the growing of this crop.

But the increase does offer us a measure of encouragement.

Embattled! That is what the farmers are. If you have flown over the Midwest lately, looking down at the flooded lands, you may wonder why farmers keep farming. Half the black topsoil of western Iowa, more of less, has gone floating down the Missouri. There is no way to reckon the damage. The figures are meaningless. Corn that would have been planted cant be planted, so notes at the bank that would have been paid, cant be paid. Its not a disaster, by definition, in Iowa. Its just farming.

One of the differences between city life and rural life is that most of the harassments of city life are man-made harassments: Traffic, litter, and smog; sirens shrieking and trash cans banging; officious cops and petty regulations. City life is no bed of roses, either.

The farmer also has to cope with man-made problems, chiefly the shortage of baling wire and fertilizer and the high price of tractor parts, but most of his troubles arise from the perversities of nature. For the past two weeks my neighbors have been making hay, and they have been dying by inches. Everytime they cut a few acres, it rains; and when they cut some more, it rains some more.

It is one thing after another. You wouldnt think that just 90 miles west of Washington, a couple of bears would come down off the mountains and kill a sheep, but it happens. Of course it happens in Washington, too, but there its different. Out here in the Blue Ridge, frost kills the peaches, rain wets the hay, cows die for no reason you can think of, and something has got into the fish. They arent biting

I may have little sense, but I have sense enough not to get into farming myself. City-bred boys ought to know better. So we just watch, but on a very small scale, we do a little gardening. Tomorrow we will plant cucumbers for the third time. The rabbits ate the first two sproutings

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'Dirty

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By MICHAEL PUTZEL Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Jeb Stuart Magruder says he was told that President Nixon approved at least one campaign dirty trick in 1972a ^ony write-in campaign for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy in the New Hampshire Democratic primary.

Magruder, who goes to prison today for his part in the Watergate scandal, recounts the incident in his book, An American LifeOne Mans Road to Watergate, scheduled for publication June 26.

Most of the first-person account retraces with some new detail the Watergate events spelled out in his dramatic Senate testimony last summer, but Magruder discloses a few new incidents.

He said the write-in was conceived by former special presidential counsel Charles W. Colson to create confusion among the Democrats and sow ill will between Kennedy and (Sen. Edmund S.) Muskie, who was considered the front-runner in the Democratic presidential race.

Magruder, who was deputy director of President Nixons re-election campaign, said he opposed the multi-thou^nd-dol-lar plan because it seemed like a large outlay for a dubious result.

Then, one day in February. I was in the White House and encountered Colson just outside the Presidents office, Magruder wrote. Weve got to get that mailing going, he told me. Ive just come from talking to the President, and he thinks its crucial.

Magruder said White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman told me that what Colson said was true, the President did want the pro-Kennedy mailing in New Hampshire.

The mailing seeking Kennedy write-in votes did go out but netted fewer than 1,000 votes. Magruder termed it a waste of time and money.

The Senate Watergate committee investigated the incident last year but apparently was unable to trace the mailing to its source.

Magruder implicated former Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell in the decision approving the break-in and bugging of Democratic headquarters in the Watergate complex and recounted the careful plans to cover up high-level involvement in the abortive scheme.

He wrote that shortly after the June 17. 1972 break-in. he played tennis with then-Vice President Spiro T Agnew. who (Continued on page 5)

Public

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To the editor:

Having read several rebuttals to Mrs. Phillips comments on the language used in the school play, TTie Brick and Rose, it seems to me that Mrs. Phillips has been lambasted enough To see who is right on the subject we have but one place to go and that is the Word of God. In Exodus, chapter 20, verse 7. we read Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. Enough said.

Charllf W. Harris Rt. 6. Greenvillr

Incredibly Complex Questions

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - The anchovy, a major source of protein m^al for livestock feed, disappeared from the waters off Peru. It forced cate raisers to depend more on soybeans, which rose in price, forcing up beef prices.

Belatedly recognizing their enormous marketing power, the nations of the Mideast arbitrarily raised their oil prices, thus driving up the prices of countless products whose manufacture depends on energy.

Crop failures developed in the Soviet Union, Australia, China and Southeast Asia, and drought plagued huge portions of Africa. Enormous deman^g^for U.S. grains resulted, and prices for food

rose everywhere.

The worlds underprivileged nations sought to raise their living standards by introducing greater variety and more protein into their diets. This added to demands on available food supplies. In response, prices rose.

These factors are part of the incredibly complex inflation problem that every American must deal with today. Its not only individual citizens who are appalled by the immensity of the problem; government are too. *

What can Washington do about anchovies that change their living habits, perhaps in response to litUe understood changes in ocean currents? Can it prevent drought or

excessive rain? Or keep the underprivileged deprived'^

The futility of the inflation battle is found in the statistics gathered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, made up of more than 20 of the worlds leading trading nations.

They show an annual rate of inflation in Greece of 33 4 per cent through Mar<^. In the same period, Portugal and Iceland also had an inflation rate of at least 30 per cent. In Japan, prices rose 24 per cent; in the United States, 10.2.

Assuming that 1970 prices equal 100, the spot price of wool at Sydney, Australia reached an index of 344 in 1973 and is only slightly below that fgure now Caribbean sugar at the Port of New York was at an index of 530 in

April.

U.S. wheat at Kansas City reached 242 in 1973 and was 280 in mid-April. Ghana cocoa reached 187 at New York last year and was 345 in mid-April. London zinc leaped to 287 last year and almost doubled that, to 535, in April.

Are there other factors involved in luch increase? The OECD maintains that the price surge are exacerbated by speculation, by the philosophy of buy now because youll have to pay more tomorrow.

While recognizing the growing dangers of in-flaUonary Imbalance, there isnt one of the worlds trading nations that can implement a mete plan to protect itself That, at laet has bean the record.