4The Daily Reflector, Greenrille, N.C.-Thuraday, Decemtier l, W77Obsession Can Lose Us More

Of all the potential state projects which could affect our immediate area, perhaps the one with the most appeal right now i a limited access U.S. 264 from Greenville to Wilson.

Such a route would tie in with the limited access highway now under construction from 1-95 westward. The need is so obvious that area people are completely behind the project.

One knowledgeable observer of Raleigh warns that we might become so obsessed with the Wilson to Greenville highway, that we in effect trade off other project that are badly needed.

Given the way things work in state government, something like that could happen, but we simply shouldnt let it happen. We should be seeking the Wilson-Greenville highway because it is badly needed and we are paying the taxes and supported

the bond issue which can build it.

That doesnt lessen the need for other highway improvements, however and we should Met it be known that throwing one bone wont stop the baying.

In addition there are many other areas where state gqyemment can better serve the east beyond highways. Building a road here and there should not mean that these needs can go unmet so that the funds can be spent elsewhere.

For too many years easterners have paid their taxes only to have to beg for a reasonable share of state funds when various projects were doled out. That should not be our attitude anymore. We are a full partners with the rest of the state and our needs should be met <mi an equal basis.

Better Mutual Understanding Is sGoal

The Greenvilie Area Chamber of Commerce sponsored a Farmers Tour Tuesday, and it was termed by Andy Warren, chairman of the Agri-Business Committee a tremendous success. Some 55 farmers toured area businesses.

Too often as cities grow, contact with surroun-THIS AFTERNOON

ding rural areas becomes more remote. This should not happen in our county. Events such as the Chamber sponsored Farmers Tour can bring about a better understanding betw^^ rural ana urban residents.

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Private Colleges Gaining Religion in classrooms

ByBILLNOBUTT

RALEIGH A program of state financial aid to private colleges and universities is proving that the effort can increase enrollment at those schools.

"This program has proven to be the significant factor in increased enrollment in the past two years. We have turned around the percentage of students going to private schools which has been on the decline for a decade and a half." says Cameron P. West, president of the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities.

And that situation, comments State Rep. H. Parks Helms, D-Mecklenburg, raises the bigger question: shall the state use its resources to direct students into particular institutions, thereby perhaps saving the investiment in public colleges and universities; using more fully available space and programs at the private schools?

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Since 1968, enrollment at private colleges or universities has remained eitherTHE INSIDE REPORT

stable or declined slightly. This was during a time when enrollment in the public institutions soared by more than 34,000 students. The private schools, m effect, didnt get a share of the booming growth. The reason, by all accounts, is substantially higher cost at private institutions while taxpayer subsidies work to keep costs lower at the public.

The decline reversed last year, and continues with current enrollment trends. West said.

Private school undergraduate enrollment now totals 43,003, up 605 from last fall.

"Were extremely pl< at this second year of e^ll-ment increase. We are/even more pleased that there is a large increase in the numbers of North Carolina stunts enrolled as compared to t from out-of-state, West

Tar Heels make up 25,613 o> the total students enrolled.

Enrollment gains were recorded at Campbell, Duke, Elon, Greensboro, Guilford, Lenoir-Rhyne, Livingstone,

Methodist, N. C. Wesleyan, Sacred Heart, St. Augustine's, Salem, Wake Forest, and Warren Wilson.

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At junior colleges, gains were seen at Brevard, Louisburg, Mount Olive, St. Marys, and Wingate.

North Carolina now provides $11.2 million in public funds for students attending private institutions. Eyery Tar Heel student receives $300; and another $200 per student is earmarked for the needy. The nnoney is not paid directly to students, but is a credit against the cost.

OOmt Factors

West said the reversal demonstrates that many students want to attoxl a private institution given some equality in cost. Many favor the smaller schools, the climate of personal attention.

the empahsis on moral and ethical values, and the individuality, he said.

The key factor, he adds, is that the state is beginning to view higher education as a total system. "It is not a matter of public or private, but that we are all resources within the state. Private is part of thwhole, and renders a puUic service

Representative Helms, who chairs a legislative study commission looking into state aid to private colleges said the goal is to develop basic policy guidelines to shape future decisions on amotmts of aid and any strings to be attached.

It is clear, he noted, that the nxNre aid, the more increase in enrollment. The way in which you implement aid will have significant affects. State strings raise questions; flat out grants raise other questions ... and there are pressures frcHn all sides.

We hope to come up with some recommendations on these issues. Helms said.

U.S. Stance Is Relaxing

By ROWLAND EVANS

and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - A congenial visit here with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance by a moderate black African leader opens a sliver of hope that the Carter administration will reverse course and help an internal Rhodesian settlement long advocated by Prime Minister Ian Smith.

Vance conferred privately Nov. 15 with the Rev. Ndaban-inghi Sithole, who returned to Rhodesia last summer after two years of exile. To insiders. Sithole expressed pleasant surprise that Vance did not seem wedded to the Soviet-backed Patriotic Front (PF) as the future government of Zimbabwe (Rhodesia under black rule). Any U.S. nod toward Sithole takes on importance, for he is vital to the proposed peaceful transition to pro-Western black majority rule under one-man, one-vote that Smith announced last week.

Whether the Carter ad

ministration really has embarked on this course remains to be seen, considering President Carters refusal to see Sithole. But even a trial separation of the U.S. from its marriage to the Patriotic Front would be significant, for the misalliance certainly has promoted neither Western interests nor peace in Rhodesia.

Actually, Smith privately committ^ himself to one-man, one-vote during his 1975 talks with then- Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. When we visited Rhodesia last June, it was taken for granted that Smiths public demand for a qualified franchise vote weighted for whites was merely a bargaining point to be negotiated away.

At that point a Rhodesian settlement may have been closer to realization than anyone realized with South African foreign minister R. F. (Pik) Botha, a political nwderate, deeply involved in secret diplomacy. But all hopes were dashed by the

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Aug. 5-6 state visit to Washington of President Julius Nyerere of Tanzania.

Nyerere returned to his capital of Dar-es-Salaam claiming Mr. Carters agreement (in writing) that the Smith regimes security forces would be disbanded and that the army of Zimbabwe would be dominated by patriotic Front guerrillas. That alienated the South Africans, outraged Smith and blasted hopes for a solution.

Although the State Depari-ment officially denies any pledge in writing to Nyerere, there is little doubt that the Tanzanian leader was correct in substance (as later confirmed by the Anglo-American proposal on Rhodesia). In short, the Carter administration tied its Rhodesian policy to what Tanzania and the other so-called frontline African states wanted: a Patriotic Front government, which guarantees a Zimbabwe with no future for white Rhodesians, Western interests or black moderates.

But in recent weeks, the "frontline states have fallen out among themselves. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia has been pushing to establish his client. Patriotic Front leader Joshua Nkomo, as leader of Zimbabwe, postponing elections to some

dim time in the future. Nkomo controls a Soviet-supplied guerrilla army based in,Zambia but has little popular support within Rhodesia. Nyerere, linked to Nkomos rivals within the Patriotic Front, has vehemently opposed Kaun-daspush.

At the same time. Smith was showing gains for an internal settlement. Although Sithole since his return to Rhodesia has been willing to negotiate, the other nationalist leader outside the Patriotic Front, Bishop Abel Muzorewa (also back in Rhodesia), for months has refused to talk to Sithde, much less Smith. But Muzorewas lieutenant, James Chikerema, has recently given favorable signals a breakthrough for talks prompting Smiths statement last week.

Muzorewa remains the most popular figure among Rhodesian blacks, though some key followers have defected to Sithole. Together, they probably conunand over 80 per cent of the coimtrys blacks and an unknown number of Mack guerrilla fi0)ters nominally loyal to the Patriotic Front.

SitlH^e is a legitimate nationalist (frequently arrested

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Strength For Today

A NEUROnC NATION

We are told that there is a pressing need for more psychiatrists in the United Statesmore people to treat the insane and h^lp borderline cases on the verge of being institutionalized.

We might well wonder what has gone wrong with our nation. Here we are, the richest, the most resourceful society in the world, and yet half of our hospital beds are occupied by mental cases. At a time when we ought to be training peopel how to ^t more out of life, teaching them how to stay healthier

and live longer, we constantly need more (jkxtors to treat the increasin^y vast group of peopel with neurotic or psychotic disturbance.

We can all think of reasons for this increase of mental problems. In addition to traumas arising from childhood, the fast pace of taodem life and competitive pressures take their toll Psychiatric treatment can help, but certainly will not solve these problems. A good does of religion might be a more effective therapy than 'most doctors think.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. - In a provocative essay just published by the Institute for Humane Studies, a leading constitutional lawyer has raised a fine constitutional question: What is a% establishment of religion? Are some of our public school classrooms trespassing on the First Amendment?

The lawyer is William B. Ball. Twenty-odd years ago he was a professor of constitutional law at Villanova; for the past 17 years he has been practicing in Harrisburg, Pa., and if that seems an odd place to And a great constitutional schcdar, so be it. At 61, Ball ranks at the very top of the list of lawyers who specialize in areas of religious freedom. He has fought for the rights of Amish, Mennonites and Dunkards, among others, and his name is engraved on such landmark cases in recent years as fnsooosin v. Yoder

andOldOT.Wiitaer.

Balls essay deals with four constitutional aspects of education in America today. He is concmied with compulsory attendance laws, with state control of private schools, with certain applications of tax funds, and with rights of consci)ce in public education. In this last area, he turns around on a novel proposition. To paraphrase; He wondas if the educational establishment that mystic amalgam of educationists, school administrators, federal bureaucrats and textbook publishers has imposed i4>on the classrooms a body of thought that is con-stitutionally in-distinguishable from an establishment of religion.

It is an intricate argument, but it is worth your time to follow his thinking. The First Amendment says that (Congress shall make no law respecting an establishmait

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Again, North Carolina Wayne (County emerges as the hub of the nations heroin traffic.

The State Bureau of Investigation has charged two men in connection with a single transaction involving heroin worth $76 million in street sales.

Even at wholesale, the heroin was worth $650,000.

When that much is involved in a single transaction, we are not dealing with the street corner pusher.

State Attorney General Rufus Edmisten and District Attorney Don Jacobs hint that the latest developments may result in the biggest blow yet to the heroin traffic.

'They ^>eak of possible arrests in other states, with New York and New Jersey specifically mentioned.

Hopefully, the arrests will be massive.

We have far too many people running around in big cars, living in fine homes and clothed in respectability who are, in fact, realizing their fortunes from the most despicable of crimes.

Those who deal in heroin deal in the nnost horrible of drug addiction. They deal in armed robbery. They deal in murder. For these are the results of heroin addiction.

Attorney General Edmisten said as much when he expressed his offices pleasure in having removed a large volume of heroin from the streets.

But how much has passed undetected?

How many millions already have been made in heroin and other drug transactions by people who walk the streets today?

Our people should liot rest imtil this scourge is behind us.

North Carolina represents the big^st drug conspiracy in the world, larger than the French Ckmnectkm. Our law enforcement officials were told that recently by federal authcMities.

At whatever cost in undercover operations and in overt activities at every levd, the drug syndicate in North Carolina must be destroyed.

of religion. The proscription, by judicial decree, long since has beenil^tended to the states. (All the states, in any event, have such a proviskm in their own constitutions.) The cusUmi has been to regard the phrase, edaaiishment of religion, solely m the traditional sense of ecclesiastical teaching. Thus, in the famous New York prayer case, it was held imconstitutkmal for public school pupils to recite a 22-word prayer composed by the state regents.

Vay well, says Ball. But why stop thoe?

I believe that it is possible, he writes, not only theoretically, but practically, to offer proof of the estaUish-ment of (Secular humanism in given public schools, but I perceive the proUem of rights of conscience in the public schools as being broader than the scope of secular humanism. There are many practices in public schools that are offensive, not because they are idet^ifiable as part of a secular humanist pn^ram, but because they directly offend beliefs and attitudes of given children and parents.

On this point. Ball recalls the flaming controversy a coiq)le of years ago over a federally ftmded program of moral indoctrination known as Man; A Course of Studies, or MACOS. The program so outraged members of Ckxigress that the National Scioice Foundation was compelled to back away from it.

The forbidden prayer in New Ywk, Ball notes, was the merest expression of theistic sentiment, which, even if persisted^ was not going to radicaUy alter any chUdslife.

That 22-word prayer is now unconstitutional. Compare that with such programs as MACOS or HEWs latest job The New Model Me. These latter programs go to the very vitals of a childs existence, probe into his family relationships, directly attack (Kristian values pertaining to many areas of morality, and are capable of severely disorienting a child psychologically

Ball cheerfully

(Continued on page 5)Checks But No Funds

By DAVID TOMLIN Asaodated Preas Writer

RALEIGH. N.C. (AP) -Shades of Bert Lance. The state of North Carolina b^is written checks totaling $K)0 million or more with no funds in its account to cover them Strangely, state Treasurer Harlan E. Boyles doefnt seem worried about those (Uncovered checks. In fact, he enjoys talk ing about them.

Its like this, he says. Youve got $10 in the bank, but you know youre getting paid tomorrow. So you go to the store and write a check for $50 worth of groceries, knowing your paycheck will be in the bank before the grocery cheek gets there.

In state government, of course, the scale and the poten-(Coatimied 00 pages)40 Years Ago Today

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The $46,000 Armory was officially opened here this afternoon at dedicatory exercise marked by an address by Governor Hoey and the presence of high state and military officials.

The program got under wy with a parade down the main business streets. At the completion of the parade in front of the new structure, the Colors were raised over the Armory for the first time and the program was continued in the inside of the WPA built Armory, the cost of which was shared by the WPA, city and county.

Two representatives seeking approval of a proposed 30O-bed veterans hospital for Easterii North Carolina said they were told something may break'4n a short time.

Representatives Doughtn and Barden, both Denraocrats bf North Carolina, said the project awaited action by the budget bureau and President Roosevelt.

The ho^ital, estimated to cdst around $2.000,000, was recommended by the Veterans Bureau some time ago. '>

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Creating An Inflationary Bias

ByJOHNCUNNIFF APBusIim Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - In a consumer society we honor the consumer. We provide him and her with warranties. We hold before the consumer the latest idyll of the good life. We work to make it achievable with easy credit.

And, says a credit authority, in so doing we create an inflationary bias in the economy.

We do this, says Sidney Homer, by directing credit into consumption homes, cars, luxuries rather than into production, such as for new factories that wifi enlarge the suf^ly of goods available to the consumer market.

This latest criticism is one in a growing list whose common divisor is the fear that our emphasis on consumption is at the expense of production. And without production, there can be no

consumption.

To paraphrase the many commentators on the theme: We are all busily eating the pie instead of devising a recipe to make it bigger. We are absorbed in our rights as consumers rather than with our responsibilities as producers.

There is much statistical docuipentation of this. In the past 15 years, for instance, gains in worker productivity have averaged less than twothirds the rate of the immediate post-Worid War II period.

Homer, limited partner in the Saiamon Brothers securities firm, told a meeting of the American (Council of Life Insurance that credit to finance consumption will rise five to six times faster this year than rate of new capital going into production.

Ever since Worid War II, he said, goveipment policy

has consistently stimulated consumption and consumption credit, and has in many ways discouraged capital formation and productkm credit.

Producthm credit is needed to make jobs. It is needed to improve and expand' production facilities. It is needed simply for the survival of existing concerns, to say nothing about the formation of new companies.

How would he direct the flow of more capital and credit into production?

First, (by) putting a ceiling on mortgage formation that is aided by the government so that in a housing boom all availaUe credit will not be usurped by the great mortgage market, he said.

Tough words for housing. To the housing people, their industry goes into cyclical slumps primarily because capital is drawn from them

into higher paying industri uses. They would not like ^ lose nijore of that capital, ifqiigh words also fw bonsumers of houses, new and used, who this year wijl number more than 4 milliorC Isnt it a consumers right aC an American to own a houser Isnt that why 67 percent ( families do? Z

His second proposal^ Permit savings and loair associations, which are th? nations biggest mortga^ lenders, to buy corporate; bonds, and thus funnel some of their funds into production rather than consumption^ credit. Z

I do not doubt the benefit of more and better homes ani other consumptioi facilities, Homer explainetC My protest is against thj gross imbalance between the huge amount of long-term credit going into consumption and the small amount going into production.