4Tbe Daily Reflector, Greenville, N.C.Tlanday, January s, am

Matter Doesn't Involve Court

Lou Holtz, coach of the University of Arkansas football team and former coach at N. C. State, won his game in the Orange Bowl against the powerful University of Oklahoma.

He did it after having to suspend three of his players who promptly got lawyers and threatened suits.

It was an important victory for Holtz and it perhaps might be even more important from the standpoint of allowing administrators the right to

run their organizations.

Holtz took an administrative action in suspending the three players. There is really no law involved here.

We cant blame the players for being unhappy in the matter or their lawyers for taking the case. The judges, however, should see to it that such cases dont drag on in the courts. In cases like this, the courts should take a position of non-involvement.

It Would Be Easier To Ignore The Law

There were news reports that Gov. Hunt briefly considered, then rejected the idea of halting extradition proceedings to bring Joan Little back to face prison escape charges.

No doubt it was tempting to the governor to leave the fugitive in the hands of New- York authorities and rid the state of the problem.

THIS AFTERNOON

If we are to live by the law, however it must be followed to the letter and that requires that attempts be made to bring an escapee back to serve the remainder of a jail term.

The easiest course in such matters is not always the right one.

Shift In N.C. Emphasis

ByBILLNOBLITT

RALEIGH - Top-level policy in state government is gradually bringing about a shift in emphasis for a number of social, rehabilitation, and detection programs in the fields of health and mental health.

It is still too early to define the situation with firm statistics, but key officials in the Department of Human Resources are elated that the shift is underway and appears to have the backing of Secretary Sarah Morrow and Gov. James B. Hunt, Jr.

We are aimed toward this becoming the Year of the Child in North Carolina ... if things keep working in the direction they now are, says one high ranking health official.

But it is not only in the area of health in which the apparently disconnected activities are taking place:

A study commission is at work rewriting juvenile law; the goal is to keep delinquents out of institutions where a breeding ground for future

criminals exists:

Examination

The governor is drawing plans to cause every child from one to five years old in the state to see a pediatrician at least once a year;

Fledgling steps at clinics to help pregnant women with nutrition, health, and emotional adjustments and to make certain the unborn child gets its best opportunity to survive healthily are now underway with plans for expansion :

A program originally designed to test all children entering kindergarten for signs of emotional, mental, or physical problems which would hamper learning has been re-designed to accomplish this even earlier in life;

Genetic counseling to help identify potential problems with children yet unconceived are functional all across the state:

There are the beginnings of debate over whether the public schools, in the so-called sex education pro

grams, are truly teaching important information, or whether the curriculum needs to be changed to provide parental training. The cliche explanation is that you have to take drivers education, pass a test, and get a license to drive a car . . . but anybody can get married and have children.

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All of these activities and more are aimed in one policy direction: prevention of

future problems as opposed to treatment and rehabilitation later in life. Institutional care, for example, can cost taxpayers a million dollars for one individal who requires a lifetime of treatment.

Earlier The purpose at this stage is to move everything up to the earliest possible age on the

premise that the quicker troubles are pinpointed, the better chance for success.

Genetic counseling, as one example of this theory at work, actually gets into the area of advising potential parents of future hazards. Such expertise is barely a decade old. but already North Carolina is one of six states with a comprehensive genetic screening and counseling program.

Mongolism, for instance, one of the most prevalent mental handicaps, can be diagnosed: brain damage

results from a concentration of amino acid in the blood which can be spotted: and expansion programs are in the wprks for tests to determine possible hypothyroidism which can be treated, but can result in severe mental retar-datiqn.

Gkrtic counselors work with famly members to seek the caus of genetic defects, looking ai the family history, chromoswijie studies, blood tests, tissue cultures and a host of cytogenetic studies.

WASHINGTON TODAY

Maintaining Momentum

By ROWLAND EVANS

and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - Quickly following the predictable deadlock between Egypt and Israel over Arab Palestine, a compromise is being cooked up by President Carter for hard selling on his trip abroad a compromise demanding greater concessions than Israel has yet been willing to offer.

The essence of the compromise: hold forth to more than one million Palestinian Arabs the prospect of gradual withdrawal of Israeli troops and a nearly independent state with voluntary political and military links to Jordan.

This plan appeals to the Israelis by freezing the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) completely out of the action. Besides that, it looks to a future perhaps five years when the security of Israels eastern border with the autonomous Palestinian state would be under control of a United Nations contingent (containing no Americans or Russians) plus small units of Jordanian and Israeli forces. Thereafter, assuming a successful experiment of living side by

side along an open border, Israeli security forces would be entirely removed the unappealing part for Jerusalem.

Mr. Carter has been little more than a spectator since Egyptian President Anwar Sadat made his electrifying journey to Jerusalem on Nov. 19. But he has been brought back into the center of play because of the Ismailia Christmas deadlock between Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin. What worries the President and his advisers is that the sudden end of spectacular diplomatic breakthroughs will give too much time for building political resistance to any further compromise particularly in Israel.

That danger of regression to intransigence seems real, so much so that some prominent Jewish leaders here are worried. Any endeavor inside Israel to shoot down Prime Minister Begins peace efforts is not going to be viewed with enthusiasm in America, Rabbi Alexander Schindler told us. As chairman of the most powerful Jewish organization. Schindlers words are usually listened to by Israeli politi-'

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What particularly disturbs Rabbi Schindler and other Jewish leaders here is the phenomenon of politicians from Israels Labor party who always have been decidedly more dovish than Begin starting to denounce the prime minister for selling out Israel. Former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is a classic example.

When he was here briefing Mr. Carter on his solution for the West Bank, Begin told the President he was confident his plan for "self-rule would be acceptable to his hardline Likud party. But the vote of confidence Begin won so handily in the Israeli parliament was based on a West Bank political plan easy to swallow compared to the minimum Mr. Carter feels must be offered Sadat.

The problem is to keep negotiations moving fast enough to prevent an outbreak of political trench warfare in Israel which might gradually corrode the immense popularity Begin has amassed since his election last spring.

Partly in the interest of promoting speed, and partly to explain the U.S. position, the President has decided to send Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to Jerusalem in mid-January. when Israel and Egypt start West Bank political talks. Vances real mission: to persuade Israel that Sadats offer of genuine peace for Israel deserves a

larger Israeli concession on the West Bank than mere self-rule. with no loftier expectation.

If this effort succeeds (about a 50-50 prospect). Sadat would then be in a strong position to justify his one-man diplomacy with Israel, He could claim that he had pulled Israel further along the road to a fair settlement on the West Bank than any Arab leader dreamed possible before Nov. 19. That would free Sadat to pursue an Israeli-Egyptian peace that will return to Egypt almost every square foot of land lost in the 1967 Six-Day War.

But if the effort fails to persuade Israel and Israel decides it cannot afford to sweeten Begins self-rule offer to the Palestinian Arabs, Sadat will face the ominous possibility of isolation, The ignominious prospect of unending Israeli military occupation of the West Bank makes the Begin plan fall short perhaps far short of acceptability either to the Palestinian Arabs or to such moderate leaders as Jordans King . Hussein or Saudi Arabias King Khalid. The rejec-tionist Arab world is already screaming for Sadatshead.

Accordingly, the plan now being cooked up by President Carter seems essential to preserve Sadat's credibility as a peace-seeker and to stop the Mideast from yet another descent into the maelstrom of war.

Strength For Today

PHILOSOPHY IS NOT ENOUGH

The younger Pliny. Roman author and orator, wrote to a friend upon his daughters death: Give me some fresh comfort, great and strong, such as I have never read or heard. Much of a comforting nature comes back to my memory, but my sorrow is too deep to be reached by it. At the time Pliny wrote, thousands of men and women in the Roman world were finding comfort in their sorrow because of a new religion called Christianity, which was just beginning to make itself felt among the masses.

NOBODY THOUGHT IT WOU^ BE A JOYRIDE! |_ucky

Drivers Alive

By DAVID TOMLIN Associated Press WiUct

KALKKill. N.C. (API - Out Oicrc somewhere arc more than HKi hiekv North Carolinians who were supposed to die in traille accidents last year and somehow managed not to,

The state linishcd the year patting itsell on the back for killing only 1,422 per.sons on the road, compared to the 1529 who died in traffic mayhem during li)7(>

Man> who heard the news douhlless assumed that the 55 mile-an-hour .speed limit was responsible (or the safer driving record, or rising fuel prices had suppressed travel or that somi' other rational force had hfi'ii tirought to txar on highway deaths But a closer examination of 1977 accidi'iit statistics reveals , no reason why tatal accidents did not increase la.st year. Virtually every other category of Irallic accident did.

Total accidents rose in dramatic lashion for the first 10 months ol the year from 112,925 111 197(1 to 118.115 last year. T'h.it jncludes latal accidents, iii|urv accidents and accidents involving only property damage

F igures have not been tabulated yet (or the remaining two montfis ol 1977. so the com-p,u'i.son IS based on January through Octolx-r ligures. But of-licials ex(xcted the remaining two months would not alter the trend toward an increase.

Accidents involving severe injuries where txmes were broken or blcKKl was shed rose from 8.-94(. Ill the first 10 months of 197(1 to 9.189 in the same period last year Accidents involving less serious but .still visible injuries which required ambulance tran>.porlation Irom the scene also increased Irom 26.:J06 in tlie I li st U) months o( 1976 to 27,298 in the same period last year

And .iccidents in which per.sons were complaining of pain but did not need to l)e carried to hospitals increased Irom 29,-478 in the (irst 10 months of I97(> to :fo,2;i7 in the same peri-(k1 last year There is little comfort in these statistics for adherents of the notion that North Carolinians drove more safely in 1977 than fhey did the year before that It would appear that the drop in traffic deaths was little more than a lucky break for the (oiks who might have been killed in .serious smashups and only got hurl instead

By JAMES J. KILPATRICK

Worst Is Yet To Come

Al Jolson had a memorable line. Halfway through a show, after the juggler, the seal act and the harmonica king had brought down the house, he would spur his audience to new peaks of anticipation. Folks, he would say, you ain't seen nuffin yet.

E'er the past several years, college presidents, high school principals and school board members have been fretting against the arrogance of federal bureaucrats in the enforcement of civil rights decrees.

Folks, it must be said to the educators, you ain't seen nuffin yet. Joe Califano is about to double his bureaucratic army. And he is newly pkxiged to what he describes as "aggressive" enforcement.

The .secretary of Health. F.ducation and Welfare last week entered into a consent agreement with plaintilfs in two longpending lawsuits. The agreement, formally imposed by Federal Judge John H Pratt, runs to 55 pages. It is comprehensive. It covers the landscape. It leaves no

Other Editors Say No Miracles

(Richmond Times-Dtspatch)

The Christmas summit meeting in Ismailia between Egypt's President Anwar Sadat, the host, and Israels Prime Minister Menahem Begin, obviously produced less than the euphoric ex pectations that participants and nonparticipants alike had .set for it.

Both nations' delegations made the mistake of declaring midway through the conference that a joint declaration of principles for a Mideast settlement could be expected at meeting's end. When the statement wasnt forthcoming, its absence made the whole exercise look like a failure.

The fact of overriding importance, however, is that the direct dialogue between Egypt and Israel, started by Mr. Sadats Nov 19 journey to Jerusalem, continues. That in itself is a vast improvement over the lack of communication between the Arabs and Israelis in the 30 years since the Jewish states creation.

Indeed, the talking is to increase as a result of Ismailia. The Cairo conference of middle-level diplomats is to be upgraded to the foreign ministers level, and U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance may join the discussions. Furthermore, a joint military committee will meet in Cairo and a political committee in , Jerusalem to work on technical details

There is, to be sure, a danger of the Israeli-Egyptian dialogue becoming all talk and no action as a result of failure to agree on anything of substance. But it is not reasonable to expect final results overnight. The participants have only begun to know each other and to probe and test each others positions ' The Middle Easts reputation as a place of miracles not withstanding, hard work toward a gradual solution of the many Arab-lsraeli differences is more to be anticipated than speedy progress toward a complete settlement.

The Palestinian issue may be the hardest problem on the agenda at this stage. Mr. Begins proposal for limited self-rule of Palestinians living on the West Bank of the River Jordan and in the Gaza Strip is still some distance from Mr. Sadats in sistence on full statehood for the Palestinians.

A major problem here is that Jordan, which has a great in terest in the question of a Palestinian state, since Jordan would either be federated with such a state or a close neighbor of it. has not yet chosen to send a representative to the talks.

If President Carter in his meeting in Iran, during his foreign trip, can persuade Jordans King Hussein to join Egypt and Israel in the negotiations, that would be a big plus for Mideast peace hopes, and a major justification for Mr. Carters journey

concci\ablc area ol civil rights iintoiiched Its purpose is to assure eijiial educational opportunities tor women, blacks, the handicapped and other minorities wherever the lederal dollar is involved

That i.v just about every where Ttie order, ap plies to lIKU's activities in grade scIhkiN. high schiMils. colleges and universities txilh piitilic and priv.'ite .-Xnd unlike IlFAV's-i'ecenl as.sault ujion higher education in six 1 0r111er 1 y segrega! ed .'-(oulherii .'tail's this attack will apply across the nation Till' agreement requires thi' secretary to hire an addi tional 898 eiilorcers in the ()t-(ice lor Civil Rights Their lirst jot) will (h to clear a logjam of long-pending complaints Iheii they can make life miseratile in academic groves

For an inkling ol what lies ahead, educators may want to liKik back at just one part of the litigation covered liy the current agreement, dealing with the narrow issue of public higher education only ill .Arkansas. F'lorida. (ieorgia. North Carolina. Oklahoma and Virginia Back in .Inly, under court order, the secretary proiiiulgatcxl a set of criteria lor dest*grega-tion The delendant states have bi'eii struggling to keep their sanity ever since

Callfano s purjiose, txiikxl down. IS to control every substantive as|)ecl ot public higher education in the six states. This control would be achieved through his assertixi power to review every decision made by a college administrator that might "directly or indirectly affect the mo'ting of racial (juofas.

To 1k sure, the secretary denies that he is fixing quotas, (rut this is a Humpty-Dumpty kind of thing. Califano wants specific numtx'rs of black txidies and white txidies, and he wants them according to specific timetables. Such goals are not ijuotas in the same way that canines are not dogs. Whether he calls them goals, guidelines, benchmarks, criteria or minimal standards. he IS demanding (Continued on pages)

40 Years Ago Today

January 5,1938

J ust ice George Sutherland of the Supreme Court notified President Roosevelt that he would retire from active service on that bench on January 18

Numerous names were mentioned as officials in Wa.shington speculated over a possible successor During the first six months 0 the fiscal year, Pitt County collected a total of $290,764.47 in taxes. $221,831.14 of the total being collections from the 1937 original levy of $403,723.97 For the period the county collected 45.73 per cent of the original 1937 levy. Uncollected 1937 taxes amount to $186,892.83.

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The Malady And Prescription

Pliny knew of this religion, but regarded it as an ignorant superstition. So he asked for comfort from philosophy.

The remedy was at hand, but this upright and sensitive Roman man of letters would give it no consideration. Those who had faith drank of the refreshing water that springeth up into eternal life, t^t he who had nothing but the philosophy of men which upon which to rely cried out in the bitterness of his anguish. F*hilosophy is never enough. Only the gospel explains and comforts, by Elisha Douf^

ByJOHfiCUNNIFF APBusitiess Analyst

NEW YORK(AP) - From the nations productivity center comes a New Year message portentous in its content. It describes a malady and it prescribes some medicine, but it doesnt promise a cure.

The problem is lagging productivity, which isnt to be compared with nagging backache or tension headache, or other disturbing but often superficial ailments.

It goes much deeper: its a malignancy, but it gets very little attention from the public.

Productivity growth is achieved by the skillful, efficient use of labor, capital and technology. It is what has given Americans their high standard of living and position of economic

dominance.

But in recent years the United States hasnt been able to maintain its old rate of productivity growth. Between 1967 and 1977 the annual average dropped to 1.5 percent from 3.2 percent in the period 1947-1966.

In fact, output per hour in manufacturing increases more slowly in the United States than in any of the 12 major western industrial nations between I960 and 1976. More slowly than in Britain: half Italys rate

Meanwhile, greater demands are being made on the U.S. system, not just to deliver more goods and services, but to produce the less tangible products of equality, security and environmental purity.

In a letter to President Carter and Congress. George Kuper. executive director of.

the .National Center for Productivity and (Quality of Work Life, wrote: "Our most recent piTformance should be taken as a w arning

The warning, said Kupor. is that the American belief in bigger and better can no longer be taken for granted, "Our economy may not be able to deliver on our exp<ctalions. he wrote.

Already, some of the delivery has ticen cancelled.

If priKluctivlty over the past 10 years had increased at its earlier. 3.2 percent rate, the ' 1977 gross national product would have bt*en $100 billion higher.

In all likelihood, that would have meant lower prices, more jobs, a smaller trade imbalance, a stronger dollar. In Short, a bigger pie so that everyone could have a bigger slice without cutting into the slice of others.

As if is. people today seem to be nibbling at their neighbors portion because we arent as effectively as before managing our labor, capital and technology.

The problem is not simply that people may not be wiHing to work as hard as before, although that certainly might be a con-tributant. The changing work force is believed to be more of a factor.

For example, an influx of women and teen-agers into the labor force, many of them with minimal skills, is believed to have added to production costs. The early retirement of skilled men has hurt also.

Capital, meanwhile, has often been hard to raise, and expensive when available. High energy prices have hurt. And business uneasiness over the extension of government regulation is cited as a factor.