4-lhe Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C."nwtsday, Octoter 14, 1976

Some Things Best Left Unsaid

NABOUT IN CAMPAIGN COAnAll RIDING!

The subject of independence or Russian domination among countries of eastern Europe shouldnt have been raised in the second Ford-Carter debate.

No matter how he tackled it, Ford was at a disadvantage.

For many years it has been widely known and understood that east Europe was under the Kremlins thumb; but succeeding administrations have refused to concede that control because by so doing they would put a stamp of official recognition on Russian overlordship. The same policy was followed in the darkest days of World War II when France, Belgium, The Netherlands, Denmark and Norway were overrun.

.Foj pe President of the United ^tates to concede Bulgaria, Romania, CzecRftoslovkia, nearly half of Germany, Hungary and other small states were no longer free

and independent nations would play navoc with the whole global political structure. When he said they were ruled by their own governments, each claiming national borders ... hence free ... he opened the doors to criticism that now abounds.

The best the United States and free world can do under todays circumstances is to hope the spirit of national identity in the countries of eastern Europe will someday re-emerge.

Attempts to clarify the words he used in the debate and the appeasing of dismayed East European ethnic groups have not made clear the ve^ dlffidult position the U. S. is trying to maintain in foreign pffairs.

Pretense is part and parcel of diplomacy. Attempting to call a spade a spade in that field would not only put a lot of people out of work, but add still more unbearable tensions to day-to-day living.

A Few Days' Delay Just To Make Sure

It doesnt seem Ihiely'that the'wine Bit shots were the cause of three-]^ths in Pennsylvania; still the Pitt Health Department Showed good judgment to temporarily halt, the bival^ type immunizations. t,

The bivalent type is given to persons (|^er 60, and the chronically ill. Monovalent type, those under 60 and healthy will be continued.

THIS AFTERNOON

All reports indicate that the deaths of three elderly persons who had had the bivalent shots were due to causes other than the shots. Nevertheless the deaths are being studied by authorities.

We have little doubt that the bivalenjUw munizations will prove to be reasonably sall<1wt a few days delay in administering them in County wont matter.

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At-Home Treatment Fails

ByBnXNOBLITT

RALEIGH - Once-enthusiastic work aimed at getting non-criminal children out of the states reformatories by midsummer of next year has come to a screeching halt.

Bogged down in bureaucratic power struggles, legalistic nitpicking, and the active opposition of the states judges and court counselors, the idea of community alternative treatment programs for status offenders appears to be dead before it was given a chance.

Status offenders truants, runaways, and others locked up not for criminal behavior, but undisciplined behavior are by state law supposed to be out of the juvenile training schools effective next July.

No Hope

But next July will come and go with nothing happening, says Raymond T. Shurling, director of the Youth Services Division of the Department of Human Resources. The next step, he predicts, will be substantial change in the law by the General Assembly; possibly even repeal.

The object was to provide community services (group

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homes, counseling, runaway shelters, etc.) so the youngsters could stay at home or in the community.

Regular schools, job training, rehabilitation programs would replace the cages of the training schools. Typically, about half the children in training schools are there tor non-criminal reasons.

Early this year the word went out to the counties: get a plan underway so we will know how many children you will be keeping at home, and how you propose to handle them. Then, state and federal dollars can be got to help fund local programs.

All but a handful of counties responded with beginning plans. Existing programs would be used in some cases; new ones built in others. The state moved to sign contracts to get the ball roiling in several community programs. So far, none have been able to clear the multitude of state or federal hurdles.

In what has become widely known in some state agencies as The Alice In Wonderland memorandum, D. T. Dickey, chief of management services in

youth services has detailed the months of hoop-jumping in hopes to get the program moving.

But he says a "seemingly endless amount of red tape makes it extremely doubtful the Division will ever be allowed to spend any of this money ... the bureaucratic levels of State and federal government have been totally unable to arrive at a decision and stick to it.

Law And Order

The chief culprit is the Governor's Law and Order Committee which doles out federal Law Enforcement Assistance Act money. A J250,000 grant was approved over a year ago.

But wrangling over legal details, opposition from (directions Secretary David Jones, objections from Bert Montague of the Administrative Office of Courts that some efforts encroached on his court counseling turf, and politicking by judges who complain that they must have power to send children to reformatories have bottlenecked the program.

To date, some $2.2 million in federal community program grants have been locked iqi by the Law and Order Commission; some

$450,000 in community ^ant applications from various localities have been axed; and a $300,000 grant application to pay for required training of youth services personnel was killed.

Community treatment -our ability to move kids who ought not be in there out of the training schoolsis dead. We have only some $250,000 in state funds, and only a glimmer of hope for any future funding says Parks Todd, assistant youth services director in charge of community treatment.

"The effort to divert kids into community treatment has been next-monthed to death... delayed over forms, lousy paperwork, petty jealousies, and politics. Even worse, our credibility has been destroyed with the local people. They set to work setting up programs and building momentum to get these kids out of training school... now we are dead in the water, "Todd said.

What about the children? Todd was asked. They are the product of all this misery pie. All those people can talk for days about rules and regulations and protecting their own turf and never mention a child.

Ford Failed To Challenge

By ROWLAND EVANS

AND ROBERT NOVAK

SAN FRANCISCO -Primed by advisers to expect a Jimmy Carter assault on the Helsinki Treaty, President Ford responded by freeing Poland with the slip of a tongue casting shadows well beyond the Polish-Americans and hard-line anti-Communists who were incensed by his blunder.

A smirking and sarcastic Carter, though less than attractive, entered the Palace of Fine Arts Theater with a well-conceived tactical plan which provoked Mr. Fords Polish blooper. In contrast, the President seemed badly briefed and personally incapable of

improvising beyond his briefing book.

Im very much afraid that this was the real Jerry Ford, one high-ranking administration official confided to us. That implies a disorganize White House inadequately supporting a President so be fuddled by criticism that he was unable to probe Carters many vulnerable points.

. In a two-hour session with Secretary of State Henry Kissinger at the White House last Sunday, Mr. Ford was warned that Carter would be coming at him from the right rather than the left. He was told that Carter had attacked the Helsinki Treaty-and a secret speech by State

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Department counselor Helmut Sonnenfeldt as ratifying Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe.

So, Mr. Ford entered the debate intent on refuting the Sonnenfeldt Doctrine implying . U.S. support of Soviet dominion over Eastern Europe. The result was verbal overkill absurdly claiming no such dominion exists, even in Poland. But that does not explain how Mr. Ford could so confuse reality to forget about four Soviet army divisions permanently stationed in Poland.

Typically, the Ford apparatus perceived no great harm done here. Talking informally following the debate, Mr. Fords top political aides expressed no great dismay over the Polish blooper. Stranger still, at the daily 8 a.m. White House meeting back In Washington Thursday, aides congratulated each other on the chiefs fine showing. No surprise, then, that Mr. Ford, campaigning in Los Angeles, did not apologize for his

Polish blunder until Thursday afternoon.

The Carter performance, by both candidate and staff, provides a vivid contrast. Besides readying himself to go for the jugular this time (as described by a top aide) Carter heeded advice from moderate Democrats to take a hard line, not only on Helsinki-type "freedom issues but on defense, Surprised Pentagon officials were elated that Carter said not one word about cutting defense, returning troops from overseas or eliminating all nuclear weapons.

A reason for those omissions may have been the late briefing from Dr. James Schleslnger, fired by Mr. Ford as Secretary of Defense. Thanks to information sup-plled by hard-liner Schleslnger, Carter pointed out that Mr. Ford dropped plans to cut defense spending only after Ronald Reagan threatened for the nomination. Caught off balance by that, Mr. Ford CmiUnuedoapigel

Strength For Today

THE BESETTING SIN

In the twelfth chapter of the Epistle to the Hebrews, we find the Injunction, Let us lay aside the sin which doth so easily beset us."

A New Testament scholar recently pointed out that in order to get the literal meaning of these words, we would have to Invent a grotesque translation"Let us lay aside th well-stood-around sin. This Is the popular sin which day by day thrusts itself upon us. About it there is a band of admirers, and beyond them another group, and farther out from

these still other people who want to participate in this admired sin.

In every generation there are sins which have been popular. Dissolute living has been particularly admired and emulated at various points in history. Duelling, with the death and maiming It entailed, was a sin whose commission conferred much honor on the participants.

What are the admired sins today? It would be wise for us to identify them and stay away from the crowds which surround them.

-by Elisha Douglui

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Philosopher-Politician

In the whole of this smoggy, sulfurous presidential campaign, one breath of fresh air keeps intruding. It emanates from Eugene McCarthy, philosopher, politician and poet. His independent candidacy is the victim of the kind of anticompetitive conspiracy that in the industrial world would send its perpetrators straight tojaU.

In theory, other independent candidates also are being treated unfairly. In fact, McCarthy is the only independent whose candidacy might have a

significant impact. Under the Election Reform Act, he is denied the funds that might permit him to wage an effective campaign. Under the networks make-believe view of a new event, he is denied access to TV.

The pollsters have demonstrated for several years that neither of the two major parties commands the allegiance of a majority of the people. The Republicans are thought to have 18 to 20 percent of the voters, the Democrats perhaps 38 to 40 percent. The Rest are independents. Yet the Election

Other Editors Say The Tar Baby

(Greensboro Daily News)

Governor Holshouser created a straw man in his attempt last week to attach statewide Democratic candidates to the right-to-work tar baby.

In a press conference, the Governor charged that Lt. Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, and John Brooks, Democratic candidate for Labor Commissioner, both threatened the states economic well-being by supporting efforts to repeal the states right-to-work law, which permits workers to choose whether or not they wish to join unions. The only problem is that neither Hunt nor Brooks supports such repeal. The Governor grossly misrepresents their positions.

Hunt has repeatedly stated that he favors retention of the law. Brooks has taken a neutral position, arguing correctly that the law has little to do with the commissioners (unctions and that in any case the commissioner should maintain a balanced position between labor and management.

Governor Holshousers swipe Is part of an apparent effort to link these candidates to each other, and by association to the national Democratic platform and the state AFLCIO. The Democratic platform supports repeal of section 14-b of the Taft-Hartley Act, which permits states to decide whether they want right-to-work laws or not. Governor Carter has said he would sign such legislation into law. The state AFL-CIO also supports repeal of North Carolinas right-to-work statute.

But Mr. Carter is not running for governor of North Carolina. Neither is Wilbur Hobby, state AFL-CIO chief,running (or Labor Commissioner. Yet Governor Holshouser persists in his distortion. Brooks, he said, is' 'very clearly the union candidate. .. Everybody knows hes not going to be neutral. The Governors assessment is presumably based on the state AFL-CIO's endorsement of Hunt and Brooks. But these are not the only endorsements the candidates have received; it hardly suggests they are creatures of organized labor.

If neutrality is the issue, the Governor should take a took at his tpartys own candidate for Labor Commissioner, incumbent T. Avery Nye Jr. According to recent news accounts, the Nye campaign is gearing up a coalition of businessmen and industrialists to help defeat Brooks. By the Governors yardstick, is Nye any less probusiness?

It is unfortunate that the Governor has chosen to interject such false issues into the campaign. There is no groundsweli to repeal North Carolinas ri^t-to-work law in the General Assembly. Hunt and Brooks have justifiably steered clear of it.

Reform Act proceeds on the bland assumption that only the two major parties matter; their candidates get $20 million each from public funds. McCarthy is caught in Catch 22. If he had funds, he could attract the votes that would make him eligible for funds, if he had the funds. His campaign is broke.

Exposure on national TV, especially under the dreary circumstances that now obtain, might generate a substantial sum. No contrived news event is in sight. That the League of Women Voters debates are not news events in the ordinary sense was embarrassingly revealed when the audio failed in Philadelphia. Suppose, the audio had failed in the ninth inning of a playoff game between the Phillies and the Reds. Would the players have stood around (or 28 minutes? Humbug, The Republicans, the Democrats, the League and the networks are cocon^irators in a comfy little deal to evade the fairness doctrine. The effect is to freeze McCarthy out.

McCarthy ought to be heard. He is a man of ideas mostly misguided ideas, to be sure, but a man of ideas nonetheless. He is a gentleman of intellect, humor and wit; no other candidate can make that claim. In Whos Who in America, McCarthy identifies himself in the single world that sums him up: educator. He is the quintessential teacher, whose role is not to indoctrinate, but rather to stimulate, to examine, to question.

Let me seek to avoid misunderstanding: McCarthy's views are not my views. His hypothetical Cabinet nominees are not my kind of nominees. His concept of a strong national defense is far removed from my own. But in McCarthys case, these specifics are immaterial. He is never going to be Chief Executive or Commander in Chief. His usefulness lies in other areas entirely. His role, again, is to educate: to make us think.

McCarthy spent much of this past summer loafing around on a farm not far from my own in the Blue Ridge Continued eaptgeS

Carter Had Tax Shelter

By R. GREGORY NOKES Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres ident Ford paid a larger share of his income in taxes than did Jimmy Carter last year because Carter was able to take advantage of a tax benefit tied to improvements in his peanut operations.

A comparison of the financial information provided by the two presidential candidates showed that Ford reported gross income of $251,991 last year and Carter reported gross income of $136,139,

Ford paid total federal taxes of $94,569 in 1975, which was 38 per cent of his gross income. Carter paid taxes of $17,484, equal to 13 per cent of his gross ncome.

Carter was able to take advantage of a business investment tax credit to substan-tiauy reduce his taxes. He also took advantage of income-averaging features of the tax code lU i urther reduce his taxes.

Carter has made public his tax returns from the last five years. Ford has not revealed his tax returns but has released a statement of his finances, including the amounts of tax he paid for the past 10 years.

The bulk of Carter's 1975 income, $119,244, was from his peanut-seed business, Carter's Warehouse. He also reported $3,293 in income from his book. Why Not The Best?

Most of Ford's income, $200,-000, was from his salary as president. He also got $),000 from the presidential expense account.

Carter was able to reduce his taxes by claiming an investment tax credit of $41,702, equal to about 10 per cent of the $410,646 he ^nt for equipment for his peanut business.

While Carter has pledged to eliminate many tax shelters if elected, he says he probably would retain the investment tax credit as an incentive for business to invest.

Congress recently raised the investment tax credit from per cent to 10 per cent after Ford recommended a boost. Thus, Ford indirectly contrib-

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40 Years Ago Today

Oct. 14,1936 Dedicating a world war memorial site in St. Louis, President Roosevelt declared today that we best honor the memory of those dead by striving for peace that the terror of the days of war will be with us no more.

In what we have done during the last three years to promote recovery at home, to extend the hand of the good neighbor to the nations of the world, to break down the barriers to commerce which divide nations, we are promoting the course of peace throughout the world, he said.

Henry Ford officially declared his support for Governor Alf M. Landon today as the Republicai; presidential nominee.

I admire and believe In him, 1 hope he is elected, the motor car manufacturer said in a statement after conferring with the Kansas governor.

I am not criticizing the New Deal, Ford continued, 1 am only saying that we have had enough of it. We have had about all the country can stand.

Barbara Mathew

The Existing Housing Market

ByJOHNCUNNIFF AP Business Analyit

NEW YORK (AP) - The housing market is lacking in vigor, we are told. New housing starts for the entire year will come to only 1.5 mtlllon; prices are too high foY'm^py families: lenders are restrictive.

Turn now to the existing housing market and the story is entirely different. Sales are booming; prices are holding (airly steady: mortgage money appears to be plentiful.

The existing housing maritet is not thought of as one of those economically significant or glamorous areas that the government statisticians report on regularly. It gets relatively little official attention.

Still, the amazing vitality of this market through the entire year, and even through

much of the recession that preceded the recovery, indicates that Americans are involved in some very constructive activities that there is more vitaly and spirit than might be depicted by traditional indicators.

The National Association of Realtors reports that For the first time, sales of existing single-famliy homes pushed through the three million-level during August.

"The seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3,070,000 sales in August was 5.9 per cent higher than the previous month, and a full 23.3 per cent above the level of a year ago

Reports such as this are rare, even In fairly good economic times. But the strength of the existing home market isnt freakish or restricted to one area or one

type of single-family dwelling. It is pervasive.

Records were either equaled or broken in each of the four regions, the latest report continues. The Northeast reported a 14 per cent gain over the July level. Sales in the North Central region rose by 7.5 per cent, in the West by 3.5 per cent, in the South by 2.7 per cent.

At its current pace, the resale market is zipping along at an annual rate of $133 billion, well above the $101 billion rate for the same month a year ago, the realtors report.

Explaining the activity, they observe that thrift institutions - the savings and loan institutions that provide mortgage money have received a strong volume of new deposits. At the same time, the slowdown in the rate of economic growth as

muted the demand for funds by the business sector.

There is more to the story than that.

There is the ability of homebuyers to recognize bargains. There is their recognition of the quality, the workmanship of existing homes. There is a willingness of buyers to develop properties, to paint up and fix up.

Since much of the buying Is in older, established neighborhoods, there Is a recognition also that what is old isnt necessarily bad, and that It might provide facilities that newer neighborhoods won't acquire for years. Despite the strong demand, the realtors report that 1976 "may mark the first time In three years that gains, In family income will keep pace with the advance of. existing home prices."