4The Deity Reflecter. Greenville. N.CTiiMday. December. lf7S

Prudence Now Will Be Helpful

HARD AND HARDER TO MISS IT!

*nie state is not starting a day too so<hi putting a holddown on expenditures.

It was reported last week that, while there had been no public announcement, Gov. Holshouser has asked state offcials to minimize spending.

Budget Officer Kenneth Howard said there was nothing specifc. **We*re just ti^tening down generally.**

Corrections Secretary David L. Jones said the governor has requested administrat<x^ to look closely at budgets and cut every way possible. **lnstead of putting on a freeze, he thinks we have the ability to cut anyway,** Jones said.

State revenues have been running below expectations so far this fiscal year. Although things are improving, these early disaf^inting months are not expected to be made up.

If the state is to have any money left over at the

end of the fiscal year, it will have to be saved out of the operating budget and that appears to be the reason for the cautious spending.

We approve of the tightening down order. It is the one way the state can build up surplus funds so that pay increases can be granted to state em> ployees and teachers, without resorting to a tax increase.

Since both were denied pay raises this year because of the financial problems brought on by the recession, it seems essential that some increase be granted next year. At best, state employees will only be staying up with the inflation rate which has still continued to rise, despite the economic slump.

If the state spends prudently now, it can have funds for salary increases in the next fiscal year; thus the holddown on state spending is proper.

No Question Of Need For Fire Station

Itie City Council last week approved $242,009 in bids for c<Histruction of a new fre station on Memorial Drive.

The station will replace an older fire house on Chestnut Street, a project that has been planned for sometime.

THIS AFTERNOON

The location of the iw facility was controversial, but the council fnally decided it would be built at 2405-2407 S. Memorial Drive.

There is no question that the station needed to be relocated. Getting the building constructed and in use will be beneficial to the city.

Panel School-Change Idea

By BILL NOBLITT RAL.EIGHA legislative study group has quietly formed its consensus of which way re-organization of the state's public school leadership should go.

By everybodys admission^ we must decide that we don't want the State Superintendent of Public Instruction elected. Boards at the state level like the local^need to be in charge of the superintendents," says William E. Poe. Charlotte attoxTiey. nine-year veteran school board chairman, member of the legislative commission to revamp school law. and chairman of a subcommittee charged with seeking some answers to the complexities inthe public school hierarchy.

"It certainly came out in the public hearings across the state, and has come forth prominently in other studies conducted . . . that we need a change, Poe said.

Clear Need State Rep. A. Hartwell Campbell, D-Wilson, also a member of the subcommittee

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on organizatio, said there is a clear need for "both the superintendent and the controller to be diminished in size.

"Something needs to be and must be done to resolve possible confliq^s between the superintendent, the State Board of Education, and the controller," Campbell said. "I'm not speaking of personalitiesbut of structure."

The record shows, however, there have been constant conflicts of both personality and structure in the public instruction leadership. The superintendent is elected statewide, the State Board of Education appointed, and the controller set up to monitor budget and spending operates independently of the superintendent.

The situation has produced numerous conflicts between Supt. A. Craig Phillips, Board Chairman Dallas Herring, and Controller A. C. Davis.

While the solution put forth by the Poe subcommittee is still tentative and subject to

change, the entire commission on public school law has endorsed it without disagreement as to philosophy. Some discussion of details continues.

Plan Proposed

Here is the Poe plan;

1. An amendment to the State Constitution would remove the state superintendent as an elected official. He would be hired (and fired) by the State Board of Education, and serve as chief administrative officer to the board, carrying out policy and implementing decisions. That, basically, is how locai school boards work.

2. An amendment to the State Constitution would change the method of appointment and makeup of the State Board of Education. There would be 11 members; one from each of eight school regions, and three appointed by the governor.

Each local school board would nominate one person, and the 147 nominees submitted to the General Assembly for selection of the eight members. The governor

would submit his nominees to the legislature for approval, and would take into account minority (race, sex, political party) representation in his nominations.

3. The financial officer would work for the

superintendent as an

assistant or deputy superintendent

Poe said his group finds the attitude strong both among the public and the commission for change. The biggest problem would be convincing the public that none of the top school people would be elected.

If either is elected, you run the chance that somebody will {Hit up a lot of dollars and win the race. Our feeling is that the General Assembly should be responsible, and with 170 members only one step removed from the grassroots, you will have protection of the public interest . . . also, you will have grassroots representaton by the nominations from local school boards, Campbell said.

ReaganRevivied Memories

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON Late Saturday night. Dec. 13. in Houston. Tex., Ronald Reagan sent shudders up supporters spines by evoking grim memories of the 1964 Goldwater debacle and pointing the way to his own possible self-destruction.

Suddenly ahead in the Gallup Poll for the presidential nomination, Reagan was riding high at the Southern Republican conference with President Ford conspicuously absent and Ford operatives making conspicuous mistakes.. But when asked from the floor following his banquet speech about insolvency in the Social Security system. Reagan began describing a highly com pi ica tedand questionablescheme for wholesale Social Security reform.

The scheme, involving

government retirement bonds, certainly would not make Social Security voluntary. But that's what it sounded like to many old pros, including a newspaper reporter who stated as much in his story.

For Republicans, coupling voluntary with "Social Security is bitterly evocative of 1964 when just such a proposal by Sen. Barry Goldwater doomed him in the New Hamshire primary and helped bury him in the general election. Thus, even though Reagan did not and surely will not actually propose the retirement bond plan (which does not make Social Security voluntary in any event), he offered succulent goodies for party foesincluding Ford operativeswho want to make him the Barry Goldwater of 1976.

Indeed, the Ford camp

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hopes Reagan has ruined himself among the large retired populations in the key primary states of Florida (34 per cent of Republican voters) and New Hampshire <27 per cent). But deeper damage to Reagan stems from questions raised about ideologues influential in his campaign and about the candidates own lack of discipline.

Conservatives with undying loyalty to Goldwater throughout 1964 are not willing to suffer another campaign of ideological disasters and another undisciplined candidate. I will not go for Reagan if he's going to be another <^ld-water, a nationally prominent conservative, regarded as pro-Reagan, told us. "And hes going to be another Goldwater if he gets all mixed up in philosophy.

The Social Security gaffe in Houston reflects division within the Reagan camp between philosophic theorists and practical politicians. Jeff Bell. Reagans brainy idea man (who authored his politically dubious scheme to transfer $90 billion of federal spending to the states), feels

the campaign must put forth new ideassuch as the Social Security scheme.

Practical politicians enlisted in Reagans army strenuously disagree with such high-risk tactics. You cannot educate in a campaign," says the astute Rep. Philip Crane of Illinois. Cranes views were vigorously endorsed this week by Reagan political advisers during secret meetings in Los Angeles planning the campaign.

But Jeff Bell cannot be made scapegoat for Reagans bungle in Houston. Reagan himself failed to show the personal concentration and political sensitivity characteristic of his two campaigns for governor of California and essential for his presidential campaign.

Lack of concentration was shown in Houston when he forgot careful advice to preface any Social Security discussion with a pledge to "save" the system so the aged will continue to get their checks; instead. Reagan dived into a full discussion of the hideously complicated retirement bond plan. His (Continued on page 5)

Strength For Today

TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH Whi the Christian church began centuries ago, it was a great witnessing movement. There were no colleges or seminaries or church buildings. There was no church organization. The apostles in Jerusalem were surrounded by a multitude of people who considered it their duty to witness to the resurrection of Jesus Christ and to his potency in tran-sfcH'ming the soul and making life new.

This witnessing told the good news to neighbors, and so tbe gospel spread raikdly.

Then came persecution. Christians were scattered to all parts of Palestine, and ultimately, to all parts of the Roman world. Wherever they settled down, they again carried the good news, and Christianity then became a world movemmt.

From these circumstances surrounding the spread of Christianity we draw the eternal spiritual principle that the place most effectively to begin to build the kingdom of God is right where we happen to live and in the circumstances in wdiich we are placed.

by EHsha Doaglass

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

A Better Way Is Needed

Hubert H. Humphrey, the famous non-candidate, appeared on the CBS morning news last week. He said little that he hadn't said before, this being the rule observed by all non-candidates, but he said something about the presidential primary system that merits passing thought.

The present system, said the Happy Warrior, is emotionally, physically, and financially exhausting.

The Hump should know. He has probably traveled more miles along the campaign trail than any other politician now active on the national stage. He has the hide of a bull elephant, the stamina of Gunga Din, and most of the time hes had enough money. But when the trail ended in California in 1972, Humphrey was drained, bone-tired and broke.

Oregon conceived the

presidential primary in 1910. LaFollettes Progressives took up the idea; it caught on like the hula hoop. By 1916, no fewer than 26 states had taken it up, but the fad went out like streaking. There were only 17 state primaries in 1968. Then the fad came back. The 1972 election saw 23 primaries. This time around, a record 28 have been scheduled.

Over the years, critics have denounced the presidential primaries as absurd, chaotic, fatuious, insane, irrational, and so on down the alphabet to zany. Sen. Walter - F. Mndale of Minnesota says that "our present nominating system is something close to anarchy and in desperate need of fundamental and comprehensive change.

Let me say amen to all of the above. The quadrennial lunacy begins in New

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Before the ink even got dry on the bUl allowing New York City to borrow $3.2 billion and pay it bade over the next 10 years, the word is out in Washingtcm that the D. C. government must come up with $45.5 to $56.5 million through employe layoffs <ar tax increases between now and July 1. The city had already approved new taxes for the current fiscal year amounting to $46 ixiillion. City administrator JulianDugas says there are <mly two ways to get the needed moneyfurther layoffs or an immediate tax increase. Folks residing or doing business now in Washington, D. C. are probably saying Virginia and hlaryland, here we come.

It was also reported in the Washington repK>rt that for tbe past several years the city had paid a c<xisiderable part of this years bills from next years budget In other words, the city^ does not pay for certain expenses incurred near the end of the fiscal year C June 30) until the beginning of the next fiscal year (June 30) until the beginning of tbe next fiscal year, when the payments are then made out of the new year* 5 budget

As the Washington Star points out the D. C c^>eration is much the same thing as charging all your Christmas {esents so you can delay payment until January.

This informaticxi is furnished mainly for you to put in file B. The same situation will be repeated in hundreds of cities throughout the country in 1976. The demands of the people who cannot pay taxes are becoming so great that the demands of the I>e<^le who do pay taxes are going bankrupt That leaves a collision course that dictates the two groups must <^>erate in c^posite directions if the country is to survive. When there are cmce again fewer handouts and lower taxes, there will be hope for survival In our bicentennial year it would be a good time to give more than passing thought to the pri^lem and do something about it

' Hampshire on February 24. It winds up in California, Arkansas, New Jersey and Ohio on June 8. It will be remarkable if any two states have identical ballots. The Democrats work by one set of rules, the Republicans by another. In some states individuals run for election as delegates to national conventions; in other states the presidential candidates name their own delegates. Degrees of commitment vary.

The whole business is wacky, and the nature of news makes it wackier still. Next month the safaris to New Hampshire get under way in earnest. The mating call of sound trucks will spread across the snowy land. From base camps in Manchester and Concord, the several candidates will hunt the wary voter. TV crews will come inpack trains; reporters, bearing portable typewriters, will march in ritual files. On the morning of February 25, we will bag the trophy known as

Significance; we will interpret What It All Means.

It will mean mighty little. New Hampshire is a greaj^-stateall the states are greaf^ statesbut by any yarc^icks of population, race, religion, age, education, occupation, and political affiliation. New Hampshire has no national meaning. None. But it comes first: Numero Uno. That makes it news. The

Massachusetts primary on the following Tuesday, March 2, will be more important and less regarded. Who can name the second guy on the moon?

Mndale has introduced a bill to introduce some sense of order to what he describes as "this mindless process." He proposes a series of six primaries, two weeks apart from late March to mid-June, to be conducted by region. No state would be required to conduct a presidential primary; no candidate would have to run in all that were held. But Mndale would have one set of uniform ground rules, and his plan would eliminate most of the mad and costly scramble from coast to coast.

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Kimchi Is Pure Korean

By LEON DANIEL

SEOUL, Korea (UPI) When I lived in Japan I worried about the future of a people who ate seaweed and threw away turnip greens becauae they considered them inedible.

As an East Tennessean. 1 was raised on turnip greens.

I couldnt understand how the Japanese could thrcvw away the greens and eat only the turnip, a vegetable as unintereeting in Tokyo as it was in Knoxville.

The Japanese made out Just fine, however, so now I have turned my concern to the dietary habits ot the Koreans, who eat kimchi, a fiery side dish of vegetables pickled with red peppers and garlic.

No Korean meal is complete without kimchi. It is the ultimate in Seoul food.

It Is estimated that this year the almost seven million residents of this capital city will devour 114,000 tons of cabbage, the staple ingredient of kimchi.

But it is the 4,600 tons of red peppers and 2,480 tons of garlic that go into Seouls annual kimchi production that makes eating the stuff a character-building experience.

All who eat Kimchi emit a powerful odor when they breathe outward. This presents no problem because Just about everyone foreigners included eats kimchi.

They eat it because they like it, not necessarily in self-defense.

This is the season for making winter kimchi.

The markets here are filled with women in brightly colored Korean dress sniffing red peppers and squeezing those oblong Chinese cabbages some call celery cabbage.

There are many recipes for kimchi, but all Korean housewives employ special touches which give their own an individual flavor.

In addition to cabbage, garlic and red peppers, kimchi often contains in various combinations turnip, cucumber, spinach. onions, parsley and ginger. Fruit and fish can be thrown in for extra pungency.

When tbe ingredients are mixed they are placed in a large earthenware jar and allowed to ferment for a month or so.

If that sounds like a recipe (Continued on page 5)

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40 Years Ago Today

December 23. 1935 Colonel and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh and their son, Jon, have sailed for Europe, his friends and business associates disclosed today, giving rise to contradicted speculation on whether they will make their home in England.

The New York Times said the famous aviator and his family would establish a permanent residence in England because of repeated kidnap threats against Jon.

Business associates of Colonel Lindbergh in Pan-America airways confirmed his departure for England, but said his connection with the line as research head was unchanged.

At Englewood, N.J., home of Mrs. Lindberghs mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Morrow, a close friend of the family insisted they had gone away merely for a Christmas holiday trip.

James Kyle

Letters To The Public Forum

To the editor:

Your editcMal of Dec. 15 tells it like it is: Congress Votes fw inflation. It is true that deficit spending by the Federal Government is the CAUSE of

Hofwetver, your eiqplanation of why it causes inflation is not exactly correct If the Federal Government did in fact borrow tbe money from our ecMKxny, it would not cause inflation < but it wotild ke^ businesses from growing by tying up available moo^). Bcxnrawing money does not cause inflation. It no

difference if you spend your own money or if the government borrows it and spends it That does NOT cause inflation.

A lot of people were taught that banks must balance their bodes; that is, Uiey may not lend more money than tbey take in in deposits. Our school teachers continue to teach that as a fact to our ctaldren. But it is not true Tbe Federal reserve autfeorized by congress to increase tbe money supply. As the country grows that is necessary and if left alone they could do a good iob of it But when congress decides to spend more money than they collect in taxes th^ make up the difference by bavii^ tbe Federal Reserve Bank increase the money by the

amount of the defknt In other words, tbey print that much money.

When this worthless money is sped it crestas temporary shortages and inflatian follows shortly thereafter.

Just think, the federal governments deficit year is bigger than evefi

Skseereiy years, Jsssph C. Hast

To the editor;

It is that time againthe Christmas seasoh a remembrance of tbe birth of Christ, Prince of love and peace.

The customary greeting "Merry CSiristznas in the year 1975 somehow, to me, does not seem fitting.

Throughout tbe Universe there is strife;

Chrisdans and Moslems.

Catholics and Protestants in Ireland,

Arabs and Israelis,

Chinese and Russian Communists,

Basques and Spaniards,

Communists and Non-Coaununists in PortugaL

There are victims of malnutrition and hunger at a wbm there are people living in an overabundance of luxury. There Is the over- uxkilgence of the haves versus the frugality of the ooedy have nots. Greed and selHshness appeer to be overpowering drives of many people in all walks of life apathy is a fault of many

Ldusmakeita"Merry(niriatmaafortbechikken. But. for

Chnst, let us resolve, each and evcryooe of ua, to give a gift of personal mtegrity. Hopefully, personal integrity eo maaae ****>* leed to national integrity.

Blessed CMstmas, blessed Oiristmas!

Sincerely, Helee Y. Ti npp