4Tlw Dllv Rfflector. Grrenville. N.t Thur*dy. July *4. I5

System Spawns Monstrosity

It is clear, or should be, that the burden imposed by socialistic government upon private citizens is the root cause of both inflation and severe unemployment.

Remove ones incentive to work and produce and you destroy both his initiative and productivity. Til ere is no reason, no incentive, to invest time, wOTk and money in a business or industry producing goods or services which cannot be bought and, therefore, for which there is no market. The demand may exist for the goods or services, but the price is too high to pay (inflation). The price is high because of the cost of labor, materials, taxes, benefits, of complying with bureaucratic guidelines, emulations, requirements, harassment, endless paperwork, insurance, lawyers, more taxes and fees.

All this wipes out incitive, and without incentive and competition in a free enterprise system, productivity declines. Jobs are reduc^. Then government and bureaucratic monopoli^ proliferate and flourish under guise of welfarism in

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the public service.

A private citizen, whether engaged in farming, business, manufacture or service, then lies at the mercy of the bureaucrats and monopolies, oppressed by heavy costs of living, taxation and regulation, and is forced to surrender.

If he seeks to produce and hires employes, he must pay dearly and add the cost to the price of his product (witness the priced-out-of-the market cost of new automobiles )-Hnot only the employes wages and fringe benefits but also the costs of his social security, unemployment insurance, the keeping of records, making reports, following guidelines ad infinitum.

An alternative is not to hire anyone.

Forget in this day and time, the idea of making a profit honestly.

If y(Hi should, the tax structure will shrink it to a bloodless hulk.

And for what, why, must we support such a monstrous bureaucracy in this so-called democracy, the land of the free?

GET USED TO HIM-HES MOVEDJNL^ _ End Of

Apollo

A Shifting Tide For GOP

By BILL NOBLITT RALEIGH-With formei President Nixon almost out of sight, President (Jerald Ford doing rather well in the polls, and critics lambasting the recently adjourned session of the North (Carolina General Assembly and its Democratic control. Tar Heel Republicans feel it is too early to toll a death bell over their party.

One such is Human Resources Secretary David T Flaherty, an almost certain entry into the bid for the Republican nomination for the governorship in 1976.

The former Broyhill Furniture executive has from time to time thought about running for governor, but confesses he had pretty much dismissed the idea. I and a lot of other Republicans didnt think we had a chance But it looks now as though the fortumes of the Republican Party have changed, Flaherty says.

Likely Candidate

He now admits candidly a keen interest in running, says he will probably do so. and

has not discouraged a number of friends and colleagues working on early commitments of support and funds.

"If those activities prove to me that I could be a viable candidate . .then Im likely to do it, Flaherty says

A former member of the North Carolina Senate, Flaherty is extremely well liked by Democrats in the General Assembly, and is often chided by colleagues for what must be considered liberal social reform action taken during his tenure as secretary of Human Resources.

Attaching labels are misleading. Flaherty said. 1 tend to think of myself as extremely conservative in fiscal matters. But, I feel government has got to have a heart, to identify with the needs of people, and we have got to meet those needs.

"It is not necessary to spend more money to accomplish this.. .you can work harder, and carry out programs more effectively.

Flaherty has also stuck his neck out before numerous legislative committees for

children across the state, stumping hard for the early childhood screening program particularly.

Thats not being a liberal, he says. "I am convinced that if you spend the money on kids, in the long range you reduce the cost of government, and you also provide an opportunity to more people to enjoy a fuller life.

While some of his Republican colleagues drew sharp Democratic reaction by firing a number of employees upon assuming office under Gov James E Holshouser, Jr., Flaherty has largely kept his sprawling agency on an even keel. He says he relies on experience and ability, not politics, in making job decisions.

Not Patronage

Too many politicans try to buy support through handing out two or three-hundred jobs. . .1 dont believe in that. 1 believe people will look at the man, see if he is honest, look at his record and how he has handled himself in adversity, and make a judgement.

Flaherty believes his duty

overseeing the maze of health, mental health, social services and related activities of his department has prepared him for the office of governor, another reason he has delayed formal entry into the race: I had to prove to myself that I could do it.

While still waiting on signs of support before making up his mind, Flaherty is certainly talking like a candidate. He also confesses that if he enters the primary, it will be with every intention of campaigning hard, then working even harder to win the governors office, not just to make a token Republican effort.

To be a candidate requires a tremendous investment in time and money. 1 must be sure that I have some practical opportunity to be an effective candidate before making that commitment, he said.

It is probable that a firm decision one way or the other will be reached in the coming weeks, not only for Flaherty but for his Republican and Democratic colleagues now nearing the decision point of 10 return.

By JAMES J. KIIPATRICK

The Rifkind Revolution

A considerable indignation is being pumped up these days against what is termed the commercial or the merely frivolous exploitation of the American Bicentennial. The chief pumper-upper is an outfit organized under the name of the Peoples Bicentennial Commission, headed by a young hell-raiser named Jeremy Rifkind.

Up to a pointa point that Mr. Rifkind seems not wholly to comprehendthose who truly believe in freedom will defend the PBC. These young radicals have every right to picket, to demonstrate, to hand out their leaflets, to sell their $10 kits, to promote their books, and to hang an effigy of Mr. McDonald, the hamburger man, from any old gallows tree.

The point of demarcation is reached when Mr. Rifkinds hyped-up rebels, in the name of freedom, undertake to deny freedom to others. This was what they sought to do at Concord last April, by disrupting a commemorative event in which many persons had invested time, money, and their own sense of values.

It also is possible, up to a point, not merely to defend the PBCs right of free speech, but to commend its hot-eyed view of the Revolution. Our nation has grown old; it is embarrassed by its youth. We were in fact born of a violent but familiar convulsion. When such a convulsion succeeds, it is called revolution, and its leaders are termed patriots; when it fails, it is called rebellion, and its leaders are

The INSIDE REPORT

What The Russians Said 0*^: say

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON-Confi-dentia! diplomatic cables reveal that U.S. Senators seeking neutralization of the Indian Ocean met icy indifference from High Soviet officials in Moscow, not the warm desire to negotiate naval limits being described on C^apitol Hill The cables, in fact, contradict claims by Sen. John Culver of Iowa that the

senatorial delegation's visit found the Soviets receptive to Indian Ocean discussions. The U.S. embassy reported home a cool, evasive

response from key officials, who argued their fleet has the right to sail anywhere. Culver himself is described in the cables as disappointed.

The solitary basis for claim of Soviet pliability is private reassurances of one Russian whose official mission is to massage visiting U.S.

legislators. Indeed, both Ciulver and Sen. Gary Hart of Colorado are quoted in the cables as saying they realize this official's soft talk did not represent Soviet policy but is'

an attempt to stop the proposed U.S. naval base on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean (statements denied t^ us by both Senators).

The increasingly bittel fight by Culver-led liberal against Diego Garcia can the only explanation failure to fully dUddi^ the official Soviet With

efforts to pooh-pooh the Soviet Indian Ocean base in Somalia demolished by aerial photography and personal inspections, the liberals now demand delay on Diego Garcia while seeking negotiations with the Russians. The Ford administration position that the Kremlin has no intention of neutralizing the Indian Ocean, so that waiting for negotiations would only increase the Soviet headstart there is buttressed by what the Soviets really told the Senators.

Negotiating an arms-free Indian Ocean was brought up by Culver at the Senators' July 1 meeting in Moscow with Supreme Soviet members. Culver, a freshman Democrat, presented

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foreign policy proposals including reciprocal reduction of naval movements in the Indian

In responding, the Soviet deputies ducked the Indian Ocean question. When Culver persisted, a reply came from Boris Ponomarev, candidate member of the Politburo. Indirectly responding to Culver. the embassy cabled, he said that the U.S. justified a great armament build-up simply because the Soviet Union sails into the Indian Ocean. Fleets can sail anywhere, said Ponomarev.

Sen. Hart, like Culver a freshman Democrat, responded, according to the cable, that it is not helpful to say that fleets are built to cruise in all waters. That generated softer language from two less influential Russians Georgy Arbatov and Nikolay Inozemstev, directors of think-tanks on international relations. While offering the possibility of negotiations, they suggested 29 nations bordering the Indian Ocean would have to be represented. Arbatov further fogged matters by saying his government had made a specific propcal on the Mediterranean and it might be useful to begin with that a proposal removing the U.S. 6th fleet.

The embassys cable described Soviet deputies retreating behind a thicket

of generalities. A later cable asserted the Soviets sidestepped question of their willingness to negotiate bilaterally on naval limits in the Indian Ocean, adding: (Xilver was disappointed by evasiveness of reply and expected it to come up during talk with (party leader Leonid) Brezhnev, but it did not.

That evening, (ulver dined with Vasily Kuznetsov, first deputy foreign minister. With its officials not present, the embassy cabled back: According to Culber, Kuznetsov also was evasive about (Indian Ocean) bilateral negotiations.

But on July 3, Arbatov introduced a new complication. Unable to find Culver, he approached Hart, saying that he feared Soviet side had not made its policy on Indian Ocean clear. To clarify, he said the Russians of course w-ere interested in discussing naval

limitations.

It is this slim reed that Culver and Co. clings to in demanding that Diego Garcia be delayed pending

negotiations. The immensely congenial Arbatov is sometimes regarded as a disinformation agent purveying purposely misleading facts. Moreover, the embassy cabled: In

discussions with (State) Department escort officer, both Hart and Culver. . . said

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Unwise Proposal

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Legislative proposals to federalize unemployment compensation standards and to turn the unemployment insurance program into a form of universal income H'otection threaten to undermine individual initiative and free enterprise upon which the American economy is based.

Particularly disturbing is the fact that union officials and others advocating such a system are trying to push it through Congress during the present period of high unemployment, which can really be termed mily a short-termemergency.

It ought to be remembered that Congress has already extended special and supplemental boiefits to those jobless workers hardest hit by the recession, dnd the present situation must not be used as an excuse to make permanent changes in the 40-yeai^old federal-state unemploymait insurance system.

If fedo-al standards were imposed on state unemployment compensation programs, increasing the benefit levels would become entirely a political issue.

As with Social Security, each election year undoubtedly would iM-ing pressure for placing more and more money in the hands of the unemployed.

The results would be continually increasing taxes on em-loyers and, ultimately, higher prices for consumers as the increased costs were passed oa

Costs of the unemployment compensation program have increased over 500 per cent since 1970, when $3.8 billion was paid out.

With the recent extensions in special and supplemental benefits, 1976 payouts are expected to exceed $26 billion.

Employer taxes to fund these biefits will have to be paid in 1976 along with the increased Social Security taxes, increased pension contributim rates and other federally mandated increases in the cost of doing business.

This increased spending takes corporate dollars that could be used to create new jobs and channels them instead into a relief IM-ogram for the jobless, increasing inflation while doing nothing to solve the problem of putting people back to work.

called criminals.

The Revolution of 1776 succeeded, and in the ensuing 200 years we have dressed its leaders in wigs and powder; we have preserved them, stuffed and mounted, for patriotic display. Mr. Rifkind performs a useful service in reminding us that Sam Adams and Tom Paine were revolutionaries; that their purpose was to overthrow the existing government of the colonie and that such venerable figures as Jefferson, Henry, and Franklin were radicals in a Tory time.

So far, so good. The next thing to be said is that the PBCs arrogance commands not admiration, but contempt. Mr. Rifkinds peculiar notion is that he has some kind of lock on the Bicentennials proper observance. History is to be interpreted his way, and no other. We are to suppose that the PBC alone has a true understanding of the principles of the Revolution, and the PBCs views alone should prevail.

But the PBCs views are mostly hogwash, and Marxist hogwash at that. 'The number one idea is to take privqte property from you, you , and you, and to redistribute it among me, me, and me. The PBC demands an economic democracy where equal access to Americas wealth is a reality. The PBC has delivered itself of a Declaration of Economic Independence, which perverts the language of Jefferson to the rhetoric of Lenin.

The locus of the PBCs sympathies may be seen in its view of the war in Vietnam. In a flaming editorial, the PBCs Common Sense saluted the Vietnamese victory as a testimonial to the courage and self-sacrifice of a people determined to be independent and free. These were not the South Vietnamese people, mind you, but the North Vietnamesethe Communists. The notion that Hanois government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed, or that the Communist masters of Saigon are concerned with the lives and liberties of their conquered subjects, is a notion writ in Newspeak. (Continued on page 6)

Today is Booster Day in Ayden and a program designed to furnish entertainment for several thousand people has been provided by the program committee.

Ayden has imported a number of new baseball players and they are expected to provide the main thrill in a scheduled bout with Snow Hill this afternoon.

While the ball game is the main event of the program, it was also stated that several additional entertainments have been provided for the afternoon.

James Kyle

The Consumer Is Unconvinced

Strength For Tociay

TWOW.AYSOF SAYING AMEN What does amen mean** .According to one definition. Amen means that I am in favor of the proposition and am willing to bear my share of the expenses.

There are many people who can say amen in church or vote aye in a public meeting where there is no sacrifice involved. Some church members enthusiastically applaud the preachers denunciation of sin even though secretly they cherish the same sins in their

own lives. Amen for these people means that they agree that these sins are wrong but will not bear their share of the expenses by accepting the sacrifice and inconvenience involved in putting these sins out of their lives.

But the definition of amen quoted above makes it quite plain that to say the word with sincerity means not only to favor good causes but to work for them as well. Amen means not only aye but also I stand ready to put my shoulder to the wheel. by EUsha Doaglass J

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst NEW YORK (AP) - The doubling of the consumer inflation rate to 9.6 per cent in June reportedly surprised the administration. It didnt sur-{x-ise food shippers. Theyve been reading prices, n<X forecasts.

Consumers remain steadfast in their belief that you can't talk your economic troubles away. The recession has been declared over by the statistics readers in Washington. Consumers doubt that it is.

Reality exists on the consumer firing line Faced with rising prices, consiuners discard their dreams and become bd^vers in sensible household fiscal policies. They cut where they can The extraordinarily high

savings rate of 10.6 per cent of takehome pay suggests the insecure mood of ctm-sumers. Consumer polls, though they vary in specifics, show clearly that ordinary Americans arent convinced.

They arent convinced that the recession is ova* not with close to9 pa- cent of the job force unemployed, with probably another 1 per cent that might be classified as having given up.

A first National City Bank poll, conducted nationwide, showed consumers are growing increasingly skeptical over the so-caUed economic recovery process," des{xte fcxecasts.

A sizable majoriQr, the rq>ort found, feel it will take anywhere from one to more than three years for the economy to start improving,

a feeling that runs counter to numerous repots from private economists and government estimates.

"The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, a Paris-based association of the leading trading nations, doesnt see much cooling (rf inflation for the Western world during the next year.

More ominous, it fears that unemployment in the major industrial nations could be worse by thea For the United States it forecast Unemployment is likely to remain high, piiap6 around 9 per cent in the middle of 1976. The OECD does foresee the United States coming out of the economic slump. "A relatively sharp rise in reel GNP is forecast in the third and fourth quarters, it say^

Then it gives some reasons why.

Among the reasons, as listed by the OECD: lower rates of inflation, a marked easing of monetary conditions, the likelihood of an upturn by private consumption and hous^Hiilding in the third and fourth quan ters.

It is now the third quarter. Inflation still is a serious concern Mon^ry policy has stiffened rather than eased. Consumers are saving rather than spending Housebuilding rates fell in June.

Forecasts, such as that by the OECD, which are at variance with the facts as the consumer knows them are suspect And so, it seems, are government and business forecasts that are polished up to encourage the consumer.

Flights

By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL Associated Press Writer

SPACE CENTER. Houston (AP) - Always before, there was another mission; always before, there was another American waiting to vault into space.

jsjow there are no more, at least for years to come.

The console screens in mission control go dark, to sleep until they are awakened some day by the Space Shuttle.

The voice of Apollo stills, for Apollo will be no more. Just as Gemini and Mercury, the generations before it. are no more.

Mercury was the hesitant stab into space. With Gemini, spacecraft lost their running boards: men learned to live in space, to walk in space, to meet in space.

Apollo was the dream that began as a nightmare. It had not yet left the ground with men when three ^ astronauts died in rehearsal for the flight to come.

But always there was another mission. Apollo flew.

Apollo 7, around the earth.

Apollo 8. From around the moon, men read from Genesis.

In the beginning.... A man- |

made star was in the sky on Christmas Eve.

Apollo 9. a test of the lunar lander near earth. |

Apollo 10. a test of the lunar |

lander around the moon.

Coming as they did, in two- |

month intervals, the flights |

generated excitement even as |

they stretched mans reach from his planet.

Now, Apollo was ready. Apollo 11 would carry men to the moon.

Eagle. The ungainly, spindle-legged creature of mans technology, designed to take men to the moon and to rocket them off again.

The Eagle has landed, said Neil Ai-mstrong on July 20, 1969. Man was speaking from the moon. The unconquerable had been conquered.

Apollo 11 proved it could be done. Why again?

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40 Years Ago Today

July 24,193.5 The Hankov Red Cross Society announced today it had picked up 30,000 bodies of persons drowned in the present floods along the Han and Yangtze Rivers near Hankov alone, and reports from other districts indicated an even greater loss of life. ' While centra] China turned to the gruesome business of counting its dead which were piling up by tens of thousands along the banks of rivers from which flood waters were receding, the northern provinces continued to battle with floods from the Yellow River.