4The Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Thursday, June 17, 1978

More For Human Problems?

THAT FEELING OF POWER!

As Jimmy Carter ties up the strings on his Democratic presidential nomination, we still are seeking to determine in what directions he will carry the nation if he becomes president.

The New York Times recently published an interview which might give the best insight into what a Carter administration would advocate.

Carter told The Times that his campaign would include commitments to guarantee civil rights, end racial discrimination and alleviate poverty, hunger and inadequate housing.

Carter felt that the blacks, the elderly, the Uliterate and the sick had lost during the Nixon Administration. He also felt that neither Presidents Kennedy nor Johnson had done enough to bring blacks into policy making positions. Johnson did more in this area than Kennedy, Carter indicated.

Kennedy was not one of them. He didnt understand their special needs.

Carter thinks he does have that understanding because of his long relationship with the poor. Thats where I came from, he said. Thats where I live. Ttiose are my people-not only whites, but particularly blacks. He cited his support from such prominent blacks as Rep. Andrew Young, D-Ga. and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr.

They know I understand their problems, Carter said.

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Those are general philosophies uttered by the probable Democratic presidential nominee to reporters, but if they are translated into practical programs, we could expect to see bigger federal appropriations for solving human problems.

Reason To Feel Better About Hospital

Pitt Memorial Hospital officials are feeling considerably bettef this year than they were at the same time last year.

In 1975 the hospital was faced with the possibility of accreditation loss. That necessitated a trip to Chicago for a visit with the Joint Committee on Accreditation to point out all the planning and

THIS AFTERNOON

building that was underway to provide a new hospital.

The crisis was survived and at the hospital board of trustees meeting this week it was announced that the hospital had received a years accreditation, unreservedly.

We should all feel a little better.

Just No Easy Solutions

ByBILLNOBLlTT (First of Two Articles) RALEIGH There are no easy answers to the complex problems in North Carolinas public schools. Nor, even, easy listing of the problems.

There are as many sides to the situation as there are people involved: parents, educators, legislators, state officials, students.

And it is all too easy to see only problems in the schools. There are, in fact, a lot of gratifying success stories: children learning who Would once have been locked away in an institution; children reading who once would have been locked away in an institution; children reading who once would have spent their lives in the fields; children working and playing together who once would never crossed paths; children havBig doors opened to new and exciting worlds they never dreamed of.

Many Directions Yet the problems remain and from a dozen different directions are coming scores of suggested solutions.

The race between Craig Philips and Ben Currin for state superintendent of public instruction will hdp focus

THE INSIDE REPORT

some of the problems and no doubt generate some suggested solutions.

Already, candidates in the governors race are bringing out their chief concerns and suggested solutions.

Several different legislative committees have been touching on particular areas of interest, and w!' continue aldig that line, and one in particular a joint committee rewriting state school law has held public hearings and will produce a major report for consideration and action in the 1977 General Assembly.

Several different legislative committees have been touching on particular areas of interest, and will continue along that line, and one in particular a joint committee rewriting state school law has held public hearings and will produce a major report for consideration and action in the 1977 General Assembly.

Here, in a simple listing without elaboration, are some of the multitude of problems as perceived by different groups; if most get the attention promised them, 1977 will be an important year

for education in North Carolina, in the General Assembly, the governors office, and the Department of Public Instruction;

Some Areas

BASICS Reading, writing, figuring must be guaranteed by a minimum statewide standard course of study and testing; large open classrooms are in trouble; teachers must qualify in basics regardless of other specialty, and teach basics even in science or history class; graduates may have to prove basic skills before difoma is granted.

DISCIPLINE - has racial overtones, and complicated by court rulings on due-process for students expelled, suspended; a local responsibility in which parents blame teachers, teachers blame the homes; relaxed dress codes and student freedom in open classroom hinders; students ready to dropout but held by law until age 16 a major factor.

TEACHERS - College training and in-service training both criticized; lack of merit pay system penalizes the dedicated teacher, rewards the incompetent; tenure after three years

makes it all but impossible tc remove a bad teacher; recent shortage has turned into oversupply situation, but many good teachers cant find work; teachers complain of too much state supervision and record keeping at expense of classroom work with students; teacher certification and testing mechanisms at both state and local levels fail to weed out incompetent or undesirable applicants.

GOVERNANCE - A superintendent elected statewide implements policy set by appointed state board; state handles funding, textbooks, building plans, general supervisions, but local school boards and superintendents are autonomous in most things; state funding formula varies from local schools systems, and both local and federal funding is sharply different in different places.

While the elections will find various candidates callng attention to various suggestions, the real action will begin next December when final proposals are unveiled for rewriting the state school law.

Carter's Tour (de Force

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON-On Wednesday morning at 8 oclock, an informal group of liberal Democratic Congressmen held their weekly breakfast meeting and gravely considered swallowing their misgivings about Jimmy Carter to endorse him for President in order to beat George Wallace to the punch. Unknown to them, they were seven hours too late.

At 1 oclock the same morning. Gov. Wallace placed a telephone call from the executive mansion in Montgomery, Ala., to his longtime political manager, Charles Snider. While sharing the liberal congressmens misgivings

about Carter for opposite reasons, Wallace saw the future more clearly, and quickly came to a hard decision; he told Snider he would endorse Carter for President.

The spectacle of Wallace and the liberals racing each other for Carters bandwagon explains how Carter could back into clinching the presidential nomination only hours after losing two of the three primaries that day against ragtag opposition.

That Wallace, so long the devil to liberal Democrats, should tip Carter over the top with his own delegates is the supreme irony. It also underlines the extraordinary tour de force of Jimmy Carter, who originally sold himself to those same liberals

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as the outsider from Plains, Ga., who would slay the Wallace dragon.

The tour de force resulted from Carters flat refusal to yield to demands from politicians, the press and his own advisers that he make far more specific his positions on issues. That refusal left the road open for both Wallace and the liberals. By fudging on the issues. Carter became the Democratic consensus nominee no one dreamed would be possible.

Carters feat is all the more remarkable because his campaign emerged from obscurity as solely an anti-Wallace commando raid. Other candidates cleared out of the Florida primary and such prominent liberals as president Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers and California political philanthropist Max Palevsky were first drawn to Carter only for the Florida campaign. But once Wallace faded. Carter became the second choice of many Wallace voters.

Having thus used the Democratic partys lurid fears of Wallace as a pretext for his candidacy, Carter turned this reasoning on its ear last week when he mused publicly he might not make it on the first ballot but Wallace delegates would put him over on the second ballot anyway. The warning to liberals: climb aboard or Ill ride to triumprfi with Wallace

A few liberalssuch as doughty old ADA crusader Joseph Rauhhave resisted this. Im going to wait to see whether Carter clarifies his fuzzy position in our direction or in the other direction, Rauh told us. But he also acknowledged that he will be waiting alone while his colleagues leap for the Carter bandwagon.

The reason Rauh is a voice in the wilderness is the inevitability of Carter, which can be partly traced to Sen. Hubert Humphreys decision of April 29 not to become a candidate following the fall of Sea Henry M. Jackson in Pennsylvania. That opened (Continued on page 8)

Strength For Today

GUIDED IN OUR TROUBLE

One of the hardest things for people to become reconciled to is the suffering of the righteous. Very often it seems that the wicked go through life with their heads held high, enjoying good fortune, prosperity, sound health, and the absence of any serious trouble, while those who serve God best seem to suffer the most. Why does God permit this?

No answer, of course, can be given to the question, except to say that the Bible nowhere promises that the righteous will be kept out of

trouble. It does promise, however, that the righteous will be kept through trouble. They will be sustained and guided as they experience it.

The great difference between those who have religious faith and those who have none, is that the former have a consolation amid their troubles while the latter do not Those with faith may not know why they are afflicted, but they (to know that there is a just and righteous God in heaven, and that eventually everything will be made to serve His will.

by Elisha Douglass

OUR TIMES

Battle Without Victor

By SMITH HEMPSTONE

WASHINGTON - Given the bitterness engendered by the acrimonious, down-to-the-wire race for the Republican presidential nomination, it is difficult to see how the GOP can hope to recapture the White House without a ticket that either:

includes both President Gerald Ford and former Gov. Ronald Reagan, or excludes both men.

With only 18 per cent of the population willing to own up to being Republican, it is an indispensable requisite for success that the GOP ticket

(a) commands the undivided loyalty of party members and

(b) appeals to be a broad spectrum of independents and dissident Democrats.

Yet the polls indicate that more than a third of Reagans supporters, angered at the Ford camps portrayal of the Californian as a warmonger

who cannot hope to win in November, will vote for Jimmy Carter (if he is the Democratic candidate, which he almost certainly will be) rather than supporting Ford if he wins the nomination.

In their turn. Ford loyalists, embittered at Reagans all-too-successful attempt to unseat a Republican president, indicate they will desert to Carter in about the same proportion should Reagan get the nomination.

Without Ford on his ticket, Reagan, fine campaigner that he is, could hope to do well only in the West and the Southern border states. Were he to pick a moderate such as Sec. of Everything Elliot Richardson as his run-ningmate, Regan might do reasonably well in the East. But it is hard to believe he could beat Carter in the Middle West, and the

Other Editors Say More Nauseating

(Henderson Dispatch)

The more that comes to light about morals on Capitol Hill the more nauseating it becomes. The more that is heard the more uncertain it appears as to who will be caught next in the net.

By far the majority of House and Senate are presumed to be above reproach, whUe at the same time some seem to think membership in Congress is license to indulge in an orgy with immunity. Some evidently have not read, or if they did have forgotten, the biblical warning to be sure your sin will find you out. It has now for some.

What the reaction of voters will be in primaries and the general election can only be speculated in advance. Rep. Wayne Hayes constituents have given him the nod of approval, despite his admissions. Thats the primary; he still has to face whatever opposition he may have in November.

Americans need to ponder the question as to what they may expect from their representatives who in this manner go astray. Swapping of sex in return for votes is sickening. Yet, according to reports, that is taking place Are honest. God-fearing (iitizens to choose between this type of public official and others who can be trusted? Will they return men to office who have been trapped in the web? The speculation is justified in the face of revelations that have come to light

Nations in past history have engaged in such conduct as has been reported in the Federal government and have disappeared in the dust of time without a trace, in some instances.

Where the evidence is conclusive, those involved should be retired by popular verdict If they are sent back to the seats of the mighty, it could in turn reflect upon constituents.

It could be that America is at the crossroads of history. What has been revealed calls for a general house cleaning in the national capital. The times call for tall men, strong men, and men of character and integrity.

Georgian certainly would sweep the 11 states of the Old Confederacy.

A Ford-Reagan ticket the best solution in that it would both reunite the party and have broad appeal to independents and conservative Democrats would be difficult to put together for image reasons. Having portrayed Reagan as a man who cant be trusted around the nuclear button, it would be difficult to justify his presence a heartbeat away from that button.

But the defection of the Reaganites to Carter would be a disaster for the GOP. Aside from the question of numbers in itself serious enough in a minority party it is the partys conservatives who traditionally have done the dull but essential work such as manning telephone banks and seeing to it that elderly Republicans get to the polls.

The second option, a Republican ticket that would exclude both Ford and Reagan, could come about if neither candidate was able after many ballots to reach the magic number of 1,130 delegates needed for nomination. In such a standoff, if no compromise were possible, an exhausted convention might conceivably turn to someone like former Gov. Connally of Texas.

That sort of thing does not happen very frequently. The last time it did was 1940, when the Republicans met in Philadelphia to nominate the candidate who (unbeknownst to them at the time) would oppose Franklin Delano Roosevelts bid for an un-precendented third term.

The GOP frontrunners were Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, Sen. Arthur Van-derberg of Michigan and New Yorks young, racket-busting district attorney, Thomas E. Dewey (who had shown a lot of foot in the primaries). All were, to a greater or lesser degree, isolationists associated with the partys conservative wing.

With the convention deadlocked after five ballots, the delegates turned to a 48-

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Advice

Stirs

Scorn

By DON KENDALL AP Farm Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Government pamphlets explaining work dangers to farmers are sparking controversy because of language one congressman says must have been written for a New Yorker about to visit a farm for the first time. The booklets, prepared at a cost of almost $500,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, are designed to help farmers and farmhands understand new federal safety rules.

One pamphlet, Safety With Beef Cattle, declares in large, bold print that hazards are one of the main causes of accidents and explains, You can make your work area safe by finding hazards and removing them.

Sen. Carl Curtis, R-Neb., says the language is so incredibly arrogant and insulting that it nearly leaves me speechless. He said OSHA material for other industries is not so childish and that apparently only farmers have been singled out for such treatment.

The beef cattle booklet has the American National Cattlemens Association laughing with tears in our eyes with such advice as; When floors are wet and slippery with manure, you can have a bad fall. You could also trip over junk or trash.

The pamphlets are being distributed in cooperation with the Extension Service in the Agriculture Department. New federal rules affecting farmers who hire outside labor have been announced by the agency.

One cluster of regulations affecting protective shields around machinery was to have gone into effect June 7 but was delayed until Oct. 25, partly because the informational material, including the pamphlets, were not ready.

Rep. Thomas Hagedorn, R-Minn., .said, The material in these pamphlets seems to be written for a New Yorker about to visit a farm for the first time. He said 155,000 copies of each of 28 pamphlets are being printed at a cost of $347,220 and that the government paid experts at Purdue University $119,500 for developing the ma-(erial.

Among the pamphlets are: Safety with Front-End Loaders;

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40 Years Ago Today

Sharp cleavages developed in the solid South today over the new proposal that the Democratic party abrogate its century-old two-thirds nomination rule.

A survey among party leaders showed such division of opinion that it was impossible to determine how the bulk of the sectors 270-odd delegates will vote if and when the matter comes before the Philadelphia convention next week.

According to South Carolina delegation chairman Cloud Sapp, the two-thirds rule was adopted to protect the southern states. He said South Carolinas delegates would vote against the proposal.

North Carolina party leaders withheld commen.

'The Greenies defeated the Tarboro Bunnies 4-0 yesterday to take first place in the Coastal Plain League. Barbara Matthews

Concerned By Over-Regulation

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP)-As the man soon to be in charge of one of the worlds largest accounting firms, Norman Auerbach feels he has a crows eye view of the separate and interacting affairs of business and government.

What he sees disturbs him a trend to increasing government regulation of business, negative attitudes toward business by legislators, and a popular feeling that it is smart to be antibusiness.

Auerbach, who takes over Oct. 1 as managing partner of Coopers & Lybrand, believes that if these trends continue, the process we have come to place our reliance on, private enterprise, is going to be in serious trouble,

He brings to bear on the

subject a considerable amount of educational and business experience.

A product of the University of Michigan, he attended both Michigans and Harvards graduate school of business, and is a lawyer as well as a certified public accountant. He will preside over 300 offices around the world.

The United States, he believes, is on a course disturbingly similar to that in Britain, "a push for security and increased benefits which are not related to increases in productivity.

This process eventually strangles industry, he continued, "and then when it is strangled, people say let the government take it over and run it, the inference being that government knows best how to do so.

Along the way, Auerbach

feels, the pride of achievement, the sense of contributing, the relationship between output and reward, is sometimes lost and must be restored.

No longer is it clear to the worker how he is being measured, he said. By the shop steward, or by what he contributes to the production process?

Too often, he continued, a worker is encouraged by collective bargaining to limit rather than contribute as much as he can. We need personal incentives for personal achievement, he said, contrasting it with the collective benefits that are common in union contracts.

During wartime, he noted, the sense of personal contribution was recognized and rewarded, and the resulting levels of production often

were amazing by todays standards. Worker, company and country all benefitted.

Shouldnt the same techniques work in peacetime? he asked.

Asked what advice he would offer Congress, Auerbach replied in an instant: Please, let the private enterprise system work.

Congress, regulatory agencies and the judiciary all have dealings with business, and each of them looks at its own responsibilities and focuses on areas not mutually exclusive.

This overlapping results in all arms of government reaching into the fray when something happens. Ihey bombard business. In their search for information they paralyze business with paperwork, he said.