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Another Bailout Plan Offered

Another bailout plan emerged at the economic summit conference being held at San Juan, Puerto Rico last week.

Under the plan a multibillion doliar fund.wouid be established to aid western nations with financiai problems.

It is poesibie that the Umted States would contribute as much as $2 billion to the fund which might toUl $6.1 billion.

Financialiy troubied Italy might be the first recipient of aid from the fund and Great Britain, with iU aiiing economy, might be another nation which wouid receive aid.

Leaders of the United States, Britain, Canada, FYance, Itaiy, Japan and West Germany issued a statement on the pian.

"We recognize that probiems may arise for a few developed countries which have speciai needs, which have not yet restored domestic economic stabiiity, and which face major payments deficits," the statement said.

It would be expected that nations receiving aid wmdd put their fiscal houses in order by balancing thdr budgets and taking other austerity moves.

Sending money to other nations is not very palatable, but this may be a necessary and even desirable move for the United States to make If we are to protect the free enterprise system.

The communists have already made gains in recent Italian elections and if ecmomic conditions worsen there we can expect still further communist strength.

We might look on the western aid program as a form of insurance similar to the Federal Deposit Insurance which protects our banks. If me segment of the western economy weakens the troubled country can draw on the fund set up by the allied nations. It should be expected, of course, that once Italy or Great Britain or any other participating country gets back on its feet economically it, too, would contribute to the fund. This might be the only way the free enterprise system can be maintained worldwide.

Mostly Locally Contrived Celebrations

Americans celebrated the 200th birthday of the nation Sunday in a way which surprised even our citizens.

For the most part, the celebrations were planned locally and citizens joined in with an en-

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thusiasm and patriotism that hasnt been seen perhaps since World War II days.

It was a great day for our natim, and after years of kicking ourselves we seem at last to be developing a new appreciation of how fortunate we are to live in the United States.

A Push For Foreign Trade

ltyBII.I,.\OHI.ITT HAI.KIGH II will takp some inonlh* possibly a year or two -but North Carolina is moving to the front in capturing foreign Irade activities Two factors are at work There is growing interest across the sUte In Foreign Trade Zone legislation lucked away in the slate's ap proprlations bill by the recent session of the General Assembly.

-Trade experts foresee a major shift of Industrial firms from Japan and Western Kurope to the United Slates

Charlotte is in the lead in terms of establishing Foreign Trade Zone facilities The Chamber of Commerce in that city pushed the idea early, gaining support from officials of the Stale Department of Natural and Kconomic Resources and from the State Ports Authority.

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Then, Chamber President William J Veeder and the Mecklenburg legislative delegation worked at getting

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state authority to use federal Foreign Trade Zone provisions adopted by the General Assembly even though only budgetary matters were on the agenda at the May session That was accomplished by wording which allowed the industry-hunting agency to spend money for the purpose Charlotte sources remain mum on what is developing In that area as a result of the push for Foreign Trade Zones, hut it is known that things arc moving in the direction of a facility of several acres in the form of an industrial park, in which several foreign firms would be quartered The attractiveness of the Foreign Trade Zone concept IS that goods could be Imparted from foreign areas for warehousing and distribution, manufacturing processes, or assembly and processing without the Import duties being paid at the time of receipt Duties'would be collected when imported items were shipped for sale in the United States If the as,sembled or manufactured item were

exported to another foreign country for sale, the duty would never be collected Establishing a Foreign Trade Zone In a community Is both costly and time-

consuming. Strict federal regulations must be complied with, and heavy security steps are required, thus, automatically limiting the

sire of such a zone. Customs officials must keep strict

control of the imported goods from the port of entry to final shipment out of the zone The benefit to a com

munily, Charlotte Chamber President Veeder says, will lie In the form of Jobs created by the new firms

Six Ports

North Carolina has six ports of entrytwo on the coast and four airports The Kalelgh-Durham area, in addition lo Charlotte, is looklcg into the Foreign Trade Zatne concept There are now some 23 areas of the country which have such zones under a 1934 federal law. with some close competitors of this state moving rapidly to get into the Some experts are

predicting a ripe market for expansion of Industry as the result of pending shifts in the world economy laibor costs In America have traditionally been higher than those ig.Japan and Europe, but economists now see that pattern changing due to increased cost of "social legislation" abroad in which industrial firms pay higher costs of health services and other items for their employees The result is Interest among foreign Industrialists 10 escape the socialist trend by migrating to the United Slates, and experts also expect the direction of such moves to be to the South in search of better climate, lower labor costs, and workers who are more devoted to their jobs; the same factors which have lieen attracting companies leaving the northern states in Ihis country.

Stales industry hunters say the combination of Foreign Trade Zones and revenue tiond financing for industrial development give them a potent tool in working with foreign clients

Connolly Gains Support

ByKOWUANDEVAN.S and ROBERT NOVAK HAUPPAUGE, N Y -Only minutes after former Texas Gov John B Connally laid them In the aisles Wednesday evening with a ilam-bang attack on Jimmy Carter, spiced with uplifting optimism about Republican victory in November, party leaders in this conservative Republican stronhold were quietly promoting a Ford-Connally presidential ticket Calling Connally's 31) minute off-the-cuff pep talk "the greatest " ever deliverKl in Suffolk County iwhcre Ronald Reagan read his speech last October), Edwin M. (Buzz) .Schwenk, county Republican leader, told us

that Connally is the "obvious" vice-presidential choice if President Ford wins the presidential nomination Indeed, added .Schwenk, Connally's presumed Southern appeal was by far the best Republican riposate lo Carter 's own Dixie Accent. This was true, he said, even If Reagan did not mean what he said in Mississippi lu days ago, that there was no way " he himself would accept the second spot on a Ford ticket Schwenk a studied en thusiasm for (mifly as Mr Ford's running-mate followed the party's annual fund-raising banquet at the gaudy Colonie Hill Inn here twhich netted over I2D0.000I Republican operatives here

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fell the mere fact Schwenk privately plugged a Ford-Connally ticket strongly implied that he and six other uncommitted delegates to the Republican national convention are locked up for the President. Schwenk refused to tell us when or how the seven delegates he heads nearly hall this state's acknowledged uncommitted bloc of delegates would finally make their decision. But others among the seven said privately that, barring some totally unexpected development, all would move into the Ford camp en bloc, denying Reagan a delegate conquest which would have carried immense rewards, both arithmetical and psychological Schwenk's appraisal of Connally as the much-preferred vice-presidential choice - if Mr Ford wins the nomination - sent a shock of pleasure through Texas Republican slate chairman Kay Hutchison, who accompanied Connally here and who has been aggressively promoting a Ford-Connally

ticket

What gives the project a solid foundation is Connally's acceptance by most Republican conservatives, including Reaganltes, plus Connally's unique assets as a Southern counterpoint to Carter The problem Is Reagan and Connally's political immobility. If Reagan loses the presidential nomination, the vice-presidential spot would be his for the asking, no matter what Mr. Ford - or any other anti-Reagan Republicans wanted

Far more subtle, however, Is the problem of Connally having to remain politically blind, deaf and dumb. Connally must scrupulously preserve his present neutrality In the Ford-Keagan battle The slightest move toward Mr. Ford, for example, would alienate most Reagan defegates and automatically bar the vice-presidential door. Likewise, undercover campaigning by Connally lor the vice-presidential nomination

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Strength For Today

ll.\SG()DKE.SIGNED?

A printer recently made a mistake in setting up a church bulletin A responsive reading wa.s supposed to contain the line, "The laird reigneth. let the earth rejoice " But the printer set the type to read, "The Lord resigneth, let the earth rejoice '

There are are many people who believe that the laird has resigned They think that he has turned the managemeni of the world's affairs over lo .Satan, or to dictators, or lo scheming pollllciana and

chiselers But everyone who liases his reasoning on such an assumption Is due for a rude awakening The chaotic condition of much of the world might lead an ohaertM*' to believe that the laircThta resigned Evils teem to multiply with no end In sight. But anyone who thinks that this silualton means that the laird has resigned la making a great mistake The laird still reigns over the universe and al the end of all things will vindicate the righteous -by Elisha Douglass

Oh, Dear Lord... pirage tell me that thH U onlv a bad dream!"

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

The Judges And Literacy

The U. S. Supreme Court winds up Its annual term this week, leaving lo others the wearisome task of reading what the Court hath wrought. After four hours of groping Ihrotqpi the ground fog of jurlsprudentUil prose, I am minded to grumble a journalist's word or two. Why do judges write such wretched stuff?

Many of my lawyer friends privately ihare this laymans critical view. They venture several reaiona. Moat judicial opinions are hard to read, they say, becauae the

subject matter Is complex; opinions cannot be simplified without sacrificing precision to clarity. The language of the law is in part an unknown tongue to ordinary readers Finally, moat of the high courts majority opinions are the end products of the committee process; and In the history of mankind, no committee ever wrote anything that could be en-joyably read.

Doubtless such reasons expliln a good deal. Allowing for all that, I still am minded to grouse. High court opinions

Other Editors Say Likely To Worsen

ITheWUsoaTlmes)

If it were as easy to find a way to stop the increase In " hard-case" crimes as it is to predict the growth, the statistics would be more valuable Past experience shows the increase in crime but very little is being done a nywhere to help the conditiona We recently saw two young boys In tholr early taena being carried to the courthouse after flnt being taken to the police statloa There is no question as to the number of young persons going into crime as a way of Ufe Ym, more young people are getUng longer prison sentencea "Hard - case" priaoners with longer sentences are causing the moat serious crowding at Central Prison In Raleigh, the states major maximum security unit

CondiUons are bad now, but not as bad as they wUl become, as offlcisis foresee things getting much worse as the trend toward crime increasee By the end of 1977, an Inmate population of 15,036 is expected, by the end of I960 it may hit 18,7 and by 1963. 17,396.

This is not a situation to look forward to ss there are more than 13,1 prisoners jammed into space designed to hold 10,079. Plans caUfm'addingl,015 new cells at 13 prison units across the stale Some addiiUonal space Is being developed at juvenile training schools ss that populaUon decUnee But the future condlUona of the prisons are obvious as shown by t report, "A Changing Direction," just pubUthed by the Department of Correcttona Reviewing the hiitory of the system In North CaroUna, taking Block of the presenL and looking ahead cauaed Ralph 0. Edwards, director of prlsona. lo observe "The future wlU require expanded prison facilities if the goals of reasonable protection for thoae In jail u well as for the general pubUc are to be reached"

The most significant trend was the young agea of thoae sentenced and longer terms for more serious crinm Now you can find the staUstlca which prove the young are bacoming criminals at an early age, but lo data no one has ccma forward with a plan to stop the trend

dont have to be tedious. The country has known good judges who were good writers also. Go back, sometime, and read the collected opinions of John Marshall. The great Virginian wrote sentences that fell like shafts of sunlight, illuminating the whole of the law, Holmes and Brandis and Jackson turned many a fine phrase. More recently. Frankfurter, Douglas and Black exhibited pith and punch. They were lively writers. Alts, we have a dull lot now.

Between June 10 end June 25, the Court delivered itself of 22 opinions. On a recent rainy afternoon I read them ail, from Tennessee v Dnnlsp through Msssachnsetis v. Murgla. It would have been easier work to cut high grass in the noonday sun. In the whole turgid mats was not s single good sentence. Not one. Rehnquist almoal made it. In a dissenting opinion involving the Serbian Orthodox Church, he twice came close lo a lucid line. In the first attempt, he lost to verbosity, in the second he left an orphaned antecedent

Otherwise, the afternoon was althogether grim. It would be pleasant if the Chief Justice, as first among the nine, would introduce his brothers to the interesting puncuation point that follows upon this word. That dot, he might say. Is known as a period Sad to say. the Chief has yet to be introduced himself He writes a sentence of 65 words as sodenly as he writes a sentence of only 58.

Rehnquist. bless his conservative heart, tries hard. At leasl he breaks up his long sentences with short Mies But he cannot resist the out-of-town word. Thus he speaks of "a lucuna In the statute." In ordinary parlance, a lacuna la a gap. a hoke. a blank space Why not say so? And acknowledging that here Is. of course, no (Csatlnued on page 5)

Peace

Corps

Abroad

By DAVID MINTHORN Asseclated Press Writer

BONN. West Germany (AP) - The Peace Corps. says Hedwig Maursch of West Germanys Volunteer Service. "Is our ancestral mother Its a shame American volunteers have been made scapegoats for the Vietnam War and the CIA.

Inspired by the U.S. Peace Corps. West Germany and other western European countries have sent thousands of skilled volunteers overseas for grassroots aid project! in former colonies and emerging nations of Asia. Africa and Soiith America.

The European aid workers keep low profiles and try to avoid the type of political controversies that forced the Peace Corpa to leave ei^t countries in receni years

West German volunteers must sign pledges that they wont involve themselves In host country politics while overseas Weve never been asked to leave a host country. Thats one of the advantages of not being a world power," said Miss Maurach

France,Brilaln, HoHand, Denmark. Sweden and Austria also sponsor volunter services like the U S Peace Corpa, but they put more stress on experts doctors and nurses, sgron-omists. engineers and crafli-men rather than Amerlca-style generalists and classroom teachers.

Al Its peak in the mid-I96aa, the U.S. agency had over 15,000 volunteers In 48 countries and i budget of 8114 million Now II has 8,690 volunteers in 68 countries snd $67.1 million for fiscal 1977.

Michael P Balzano Jr., director of Action, overseer of the American program, says the Peace Corps can only meet 70 per cent of host country requests for highly skilled volunteers.

"We think the Peace Corps has reached its optimum size given international and domestic problems," be said last month

West Germanys govenuneni-sponsored service now has 8 volunteers overseasmostly in Tanzania, Equador, Peru, Zambia and Cameroon down from more than 1,000 at its peak in 1969.

Bonn has had a decline In acceptable candidates but tries to keep standards high Fewer than I per cent of our volunteers (ail to complete their Iwo-(Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

Jalyl. 1936 Dr. Ralph W McDonald pulled a 2.418-vote majority in Pitt County in the Democratic gubernatorial run-off primary, although the bitter adminiatration foe was defeated by party stalwart Clyde R Hoey of Shelby Unofficial returns for the county showed Ihal Pitt voters favored Paul Grady, alio defeated, for lieutenant governor.

Thad Eure, nominated (or secretary of stale, was the only winning candidate on the state ticket (or whom the county cast a majority of its ballots

The Greenies took two of three games played since Thursday of last week by defeating the New Bern Bears 5-0, dropping a game to the Ayden Aces Saturday by a 6-3 score, and noaing out the Snow Hill nine yesterday with an 8-7 acore.

Barbara Mathews

Dangers Of Numbers Obvious

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP BaslMss Aaalyst

NEW YORK (AP)-Now It is the Whits Houie Itself that claims the lalast government ilaUsUca which show the job leu rate in June rose to7.8 per cent from 7.3 per cent the month before, ere tncorrecL

There ere more Important obtervilioni to be made than to point out the Irontw of that poaitlon. Every American ihould recogniza, for example, (he dangcra of numben that are not naarly u perfactas they might leem to be

But we cannot forget that It wu the White Houm (hat prevloualy took iuch pride In celling ittenllon to the numbert, end which In (act haa run Its economic policy

by the numbera Over the past year, when theee economic numbers were Improving, the White House used them to demnstrate what a good job It was doing It almoat naver called attention to the later iwvielona Time after time those numbera for ulet end inflation and Gran National Product and more that looked so good on the Init'ial release were quietly revlted later to how that things reelly wervi't quite ao good But seldom did inyone take peine to tell the people thia In claiming that the rise In unemployment from 7.8 per cent in May to7 5 per cent In June was due to faulty aaeionalatUualli^ the White

House may have an argument, deipite the Bureau of Labor SUitiitics' claim to accuracy.

Seasonal adjusting not only Is tricky. It Is fraught with ponibilitlea for error It Is not nearly the scientifically accurate measurement that we assume It to be. It went wrong last year. It may be wrong this year.

The Ideal of seasonal ad justing is to remove the recurring factors that are peculiar to a certain time of year, such as the bulge in jobs during Chris tmasandinsales during Easter, so as to detect the underlying patterna

The Bureau of Labor Statistics has had problems with this factor and has even gone back and corrected Its

errors. By its own admission it goofed on some months last year, and it has changed some procedures this year Because problems also have occurred In collecting raw data acknowledged by the bureau but not very well publicized there ii almoet never any assurance that t)w figures announced are s precisely accurate indication of economic activity W hile only God knows what bad decisions human beings have made by the numbers, the immediate and urgent danger is that, coming on the eve of our presidential nominations, we might even elect president by the numbers Without even knowing whet the numbers meen

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