4Tbe Daffly Reflector, Greenvle, N.C.Thursday, July H, 1977Funds Will Benefit Very Few

A recent news release from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, D. C., announces that grants totaling $382,689 have been awarded for researching, compiling, and publishing a five volume set of books by Yale University, Common Debates 1628.

The books describe dramatic developments that took place in the English Parliament of 1628, debates which had great influence on expressions of freedom and rights later embodied in the American Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

We do not belittle the Importance attached to these debates and the significant effects they had on forming our early views of individual ri^ts and laws. It does seem, however, that awarding well over a third of a million taxpayer dollars to carry

out an essentially scholarly, specialized publishing venture that will be seen and read by only a very small segment of the American population is a decision that raises some valid questions.

With the constant legitimate demands for grants from limited National Endowment for the Humanities funds, we feel that first priority consideration should be given to projects that will have a wide public context.

We think it is only reasonable to suggest that a project of such limited public access could better be funded through private sources. Endowment funds from taxpayer sources would more fully serve the intent of the funds by being applied to projects that will benefit a much larger number of people.Still Priced Out Of The Labor Market

The Carter administration reportedly has reached a compromise agreement with organized labor to support an increase in the minimum wage of 35 cents per hour to $2.65.

No one can argue that a household head supporting a family wont live handsomely on that wage rate.

On the other hand we are back to the old problem that many parttime teen aged workers, and people who are limited in their work capacities are going to be priced out of the labor market.

This is a particularly vexing situation for which an answer needs to be found.

THISAFTERNOON

'A missionary named Carter? No, I dont recall anvone by that name."

,By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Children Aren't Well Off Finally Wore Her Down

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ByBILLNOBLITT

RALEIGH-There is a place where, despite ready availability, more tha 60 per cent of the two-year-olds have not completed their basic , immunization shots for routine diseases; where half of the. children fall in the bottom 25 per cent on the national scale of physical development; where an overwhelming 79 per cent of the one-year-olds and 48 per cent of all preschool children have inqdequate diets.

Measurements show preschoolers shorter and weight less than most other children their age; and school tests consistently show the children falling far below national averages.

Despite generally good health conditions, 19 of every 1,000 children bom alive die, to constitute one of the highest infant mortality rates in the industrialized world.

In North Candna

These statistics might be expected to come from a primitive, undeveloped country, not the 12th most populous state in the nation in 1977. says John S. Niblock, associate director of the Learning Institute of North Carolina (LINO. Those facts

relate to North Carolina, Niblock said, where state policy toward children has been uneven at best, and guilty of neglect and abuse at worst.

The heart of the situation, Niblock feels, is that public intervention in child development doesn't enter the picture until, in most cases, age six when the child enters public school; but study after study presents positive conclusions that most of a childs intellectual development takes place during the first five years of lifethe first two years are gaining increasing importance.

Put simply, the results of all these early childhood problems are that children who enter first grade behind their peers usually fall further behind in school, Niblock believes.

Such findings are one reason behind North Carolinas shift away from a statewide screening program of four and five-year-olds and emphasis on screening at birth or in the first year or two to determine mental and physical problems. Dr. Sarah Morrow,.. director of the Department of Human

Resources is currently quietly engineering that change in direction. Meanwhile, Niblock is preparing for the 1980 White House Conference on Children when national attention will be drawn to the problems, and suggested solutions.

BILL

NOBLITT

In The Home

To Niblock, the solution lies in the home, with the North Carolina, he notes, devotes a lot of money and effort to teaching high school students to drive a carbut nothing to the skills and responsibilities of parenthood.

Past White House Conferences, says Niblock have been ponderously ineffective and a waste of time and money, but he hopes to see the issues clearly focused at the next.

Some of his suggestions:

Examine how we prepare people to be effective parents;

Require family impact statements in new and

existing law, just as environmental impact statements are required for construction;

Since money is a prime problem, examine a minimum family income or childrens allowance;

Study idea of public schools becoming single port of entry and manager of all childrens services in local communities rather than numerous conflicting and competing agencies;

Given inadequate diets and immunizations, and the fact that only about a third of the two-year-olds regularly see a doctor, its time to study availability of medical care, and begin control. Most effort to date has been keeping money flowing so medical professionals institutions can be paid____

We (through welfare) make the father leave, give the mother about $55 a month to care for the child, then go in and take the child away if were not satisfied, saying shes not caring adequately for child. Then well give a total stranger, a foster parent, twice what we give the childs real mother to care for the child, Niblock said.

JIMMYS WHITE HOUSE

Large Carter Vocabulary

By FRANK CORBOER Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) -President Carter is causing problems for those who edit his public pronouncements for official publication. He uses unfamiliar words that send them to their dictionaries.

A veteran editor of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, published by the Office of the Federal Register, said in an interview that Carters vocabulary eclipses that of any other president since the first issue came off the presses at the Government Printing Office in August 1965.

By her measure. Carter has a greater command of language than Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard M. Nixon

and Gerald R. Ford. One can only speculate how she would have rated John F. Kennedy, who had an impressive way with words.

The editor, Margaret Donohue, credited Carter with eliminating one problem that was commonplace in some other administrations finding an appropriate heading to place above each separate question-and-answer in news conference transcripts.

With some presidents, she related, there often was a tenuous relationship between questions and responses.

Do you base the heading on the question that was asked or on the question that was answered? she mused.

In Carters case, she related, the response is usually closely related to the_

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question, so theres no problem. Without mentioning names, she said some others seemed to prefer to respond to a question they wished theyd been asked, but werent.

Reporters often found that to be the case with LBJ and, at times, Nixon.

The Weekly Compilation contains alt of Carters public remarks, selected documents such as messages to Congress, his daily schedule and a digest of White House announcements. Anyone can order a subscription from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, for $15 a year.

The publication is in the news now because, starting this month, it comes out in a smaller format - 9 % by 6 % inches instead of 11 Vs by 8 Vi.

Theres a reason for the shrinkage, but not the one you might guess. The aim is to save type, not paper.

It seems that many of the items printed in the Weekly Compilation also appear in annual hardcover volumes of

collected presidential papers. By having the page size of weekly issues match that of the books, the government saves a lot of typesetting.

It took Uncle Sam only 12 years to discover the fact.

Carter has a youthful staff, which may go far toward explaining his associates zest for softball. The White House team plays often, takes the game seriously and, if you believe its members, wins more often than it loses.

One of those losses came Sunday when the White House team bowed 8 to 7 after being challenged by an Indiana team that journeyed here from Indianapolis by chartered bus. The bus ride alone, by some two dozen players, might suggest that the Hoosiers enthusiasm for softball more than matched that of the home team.

The Indiana team represented the Indianapolis Star and warmed up for the big contest with the Carter folks by losing a Saturday contest to the Washington (Continued <m page 5)

Strength For Today

IS CONTENTMENT A BLESSING?

Someone has said that there is only one thing worse than discontent, and that is contentment.

At first sight, this statement mi^t seem to be an inane denial of common sense, but actually it has a great deal of truth. If contentment arises from a complete satisfaction with the world as it is, then it is an evil. If a persons contentment is pure animal contentment, then every power of the soul atrophies under such a condition.

Over at the State Department, down in Foggy Bottom, they called her the dragon lady, the battleax, and the old witch of K Street, only they used a variant ^ling for that last appellation. Ail the names applied to one wonderful lady: Frances Knight, director of the Passport Office. The bad news is: Shes been dumped.

As of July 31, thanks to cabal in Jimmy Carters administration, Miss Knight will give up the office she has directed for 22 years. The President, whose favorite boast is that he wants efficiency in the federal bureaucracy has himself is that he wants efficiency in the federal bureaucracy, bas himself approved the ouster of the most efficient agency head in Washington. Sic semper Frances. It had to happen some time.

But its too bad, all the same. The ostensible reason for firing the lady is that she will be 72 years old on July 22. If ever there were a walking, talking argument against

compulsory retirement by reason of age. Miss Knight provides it. Shes in excellent health; her mind functions as smoothly as a high-priced watch; her experience in federal affairs stretches all the way back to the National Recovery Administration of Franklin Roosevelt in 1934. But the Carter administration has made a very considered decision to shove her out. Ave atque vale! Hail and farewell.

The ulterior reason for all this, sad to say, is that Frances Knight has been a little too efficient, a little too independent, a little more fearless than official Washington can tolerate easi-ly. The lady would neverwell, she would never exactly go along in order to get along.

This became apparent when'She first took over the Passport Office in the spring of 1955. As WUlard Edwards describes her debut, she found the office swarming with the sons and daughters of Foreign Service officials.

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To the editor:

In your editorial of Monday, July 11, you observed that the neutron bomb can kill all peqile in a given area, but leave most buildings intact, thus allowing invaders to take over an area after clearing out the bodies. Shades of Auschwitz!

In a further comment, you observe that a nation remarkable enough to create such a bomb ought to be able to solve its energy proUems. How appalling it is that we seem to prefer killing people to merely destroying property I Perhaps we can develop an even more sophisticated weapon which will destroy not only all living things, but also all works of art, all books, all musical instruments, and all toys, leaving behind only machinery and buUdings. Such madness seems to be a horribly appropriate next step in the deadly arras race. One wonders about the values of a society which places buildings above human life.

G. Philip Koonce

To the editor:

The other day a friend and I were buying luncb in a local hamburger establishment on 264 Bypass and a young lady walked in and began selling peanuts. She introduced herself as a missionary for the Christian Youth Organization. She appeared innocent and in great need. She approached customers all around and most everyone was donating to her cause. Some people gave only change, but some were giving bills. When my friend asked her who she was working for, we found out that she was part of the Moon Organization.

These people had been giving to support the function of an organization which is a growing cult. The head. Moon, is said to set himself up as the Savior, Jesus Christ. His followers are mostly young people who have literally been brainwashed into accepting him as Jesus Christ.

My plea, as a Christian who believes in the virgin birth of my Savior, Jesus Christ, is for the citizens of Greenville to be aware of who they are donating to and the cause their money is going to support. Simply ask the person(s) who approaches you. Dont just give because you think that you are helping a good cause.

OonieMiller

Greenville

enjoying summer vacations at the taxpayers expense. She cleaned out the loafers, and incurred the lasting enmity of Foreign Service nabobs who tend to regard themselves as a class apart.

This was only the begnn-ing! Miss Knight soon began to tange with the high-and-mighty on the issue of diplomatic passports. Official policy in this regard could not have been established more clearly. The policy was based upon a fundamental principle, which is that a

diplomatic passport shall not be issued to a person who has not actual diplomatic

status.

But the official policy, she discovered, existed to be winked at. In every presidential administration, but

especially in the Kennedy-Johnson years, directives constantly came her way to make exceptionsfor retired Supreme Court justices, for retired ambassadors, for the grandchildren of retired ambassadors, for members of Congress and their wives and wandering offspring.

Miss Knight protested in vain against these abuses. Last November she put together a 118-page report documenting the issuance of thousands of diplomatic passports to big-shots and little-shots whose foreign travel was not even remotely related to the conduct of foreign affairs. She named names of lordly fellows who felt humiliated by the prospect of traveling on regular passports like ordinary Americans. She objected bluntly that the U.S. diplomatic passport is at an all-time low in respect and integrity since it is being issued like lollipops at a carnival. Her stubborn resistance got her nowherenowhere, that is,m until her principles got her bounced a few weeks ago.

Miss Knight wUl survive. She has been happily married for many years to millionaire publisher Wayne Parrish. ' They travel widely. Their private art. collection provides continuing pleasure. She has a book she want to write. But it hurts to give up the devoted labors of two decades, especially at a time when her chief project, the machine-readable international travel document, is so close to fruition. And it rankles to see an office that for 50 years has been headed by a woman turned over to a male Foreign Service officer, 51-year-old Loren E, Lawrence, despite his good credentials for the post.

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It Sure^ ^ Is 2nd ^ Best! "

By JULES LOH "J

AP Special Cotrespoodral

HILLSBORO, Ore. (APf -Lifes a drag. Theres n^',adventure left. Walk a tightrope? Scale a canyon? Tame a lion?

Ho Hum.

Anyone who has flown ip, an open cockpit over the Orcpm countryside with a mere sli^f a girl at the controls, ."gnd looped the loop and rolIe^,the barrel and generally cavorted upside down in the sky, laibws that no other damn foolis^qess exists.

Theres nothing like aerobatics and no way to describe the exhilaration, the euphoria, said Patti Johnson. Some people think its better .;ttan sex. I doht, but it sure iiaec-ond best.

Patti Johnson is one of fewer than a dozen women among the nations small group of pilots, about 150, who are serous aerobats.

She is 24, stands 5-4 and weighs 110. When she tucks her short brown hair into a leader helmet and pulls big goggles over her skyblue eyes and climbs into her tiny biplane she is Amelia Earhart reincarifate, freckles and all.

For all the kicks her daily life provides, though, Patti Johnson is in no way frivoious about aerobatics. ~

We resent being called* daredevils, or stunt flyers. TTiose words have a ring of 'tre- ' lessness to them. Aerobatics is an art, a combination of dscience and an art.

You work on your airplane until you know exactly hew it will perform best for you,"me-chanically. Thats the scihhce. Then you fly your maneuvers precisely in an imaginative, flowing sequence. Thatd^'the art.

Were judged in competition sort of the way figure skKters are judged. We do re^Mred maneuvers - loops, rolls, spins, and endless variations of tliem. Its how you put them togijher and perform them that Ifnat-ters.

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The way Patti Johnson'"performs them has ranked her among the nations top'one-third in the advanced eatery, a cut below the elite unlimited class. I

She figures that when she gets her airplane balanced and tuned to her satisfaction s^ie will take on the 15 or so flyers in the unlimited division. Aerobats compete in two events a year, one at Fond du Lac, Wis., the other at Sherman, Texas.

Average the scores at both

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Data For Investor Is Outdated

But where contentment arises from great faith,' deep love for ones fellows, and an undefiled conscience, then it is a blessing.

The worlds great souls have seldom been contented. They have agonized over their sinful lives and the misery of their fellows. Because of the constant efforts they exerted to improve the world around them, they never had time to be contented.

For most of us, whether our contentment is a blessing or a curse dqiends upon \riiat it comes from.

by Elisha Douglass

ByJOHNCIJNIFF AP BUSINESS ANALYST

NEW YORK (AP) - A new booklet produced by two environmental groups said to be a guide to 60 industrials for responsible Investors, Is based on out-dated and perhaps misleading data.

The publication, The Pollution Audit, was published by The Council of Economic Priorities with encouragement and a small grant from the Sierra Qub.

Copywrited this year, and with a forword signed by Michael McCioskey, executive director of the Sierra Club, the data nevertheless are from studies

that are from five to seven years old.

The original studies by the council, a nonprofit organization were exhaustive and generally highly regarded, even by some the companies criticized. Since then, however, public concern, legislation, and company efforts have resulted in considerable pollution abatement.

American Can Co., which was ranked among the worst of pulp and paper polluters, maintains it is now in complete compliance with state and federal r^^ations on air and water sta^ards.

A spokesman saw that since the miglnal data, wre

compiled in 1970 the company has spent $40,6 million for air and water compliance at pulp and mill sites and has won numerous citations, including a clean water award this month from the Izaak Walton League.

Told of this, Alice Tepper Marlin, founder and executive director of the councU, indicated the information in the booklet nevertheless might be useful because it was the only data available.

Asked why the findings werent updated before publication, especially since it was acknowiedged several years ago that American Can had budgeted adequate

equipment even if it wasnt installed, she replied Because checking it, up-; dating it, takes one and half years and $40,000-$60,000, .

The booklet also ranks, ini relation to each other, the( companies making up ,the iron and steel, petroleum refining and electric utility industries, again based on studies made several years ago. ;

Mrs. Markin said two ol these studies, of steel and utilities, are now being brought up to date, perhaps for publication later thU summer. Conceivably, hhesd-studies could make sub; stantial changes in the rankings of companies.