4-The Daily Renector. GreoivUle, N.C.-Thursday, January 28,1982

Trends Can Be Reversed

HE KNOWS ITS STILL THE PLACE TO PUT IT!

Chief Justice Warren Burger is on the right track in urging that an arbitration system be developed rather than resorting to the courts for every wrangle.

Chief justice Burger said we need to consider moving some cases from the courts to administrative process. He cited workmans compensation, mediation, conciliation and arbitration.

Remedies for personal wrongs that once were considered the responsibility of institutions other than the courts are now boldly asserted as legal entitlements, he said.

The remarks were made in his annual state of the judiciary address

Changes in the deluge of petty cases wont occur, though, without

some leadership from the top the Supreme Court itself.

The court, through its rulings, can encourage lower court judges to dismiss cases which are clearly frivilous and deny any kind of award which is undeserving. It should also be looking more closely at exorbitant monetary awards which are being given from time-to-time by juries around the nation. The courts are rapidly becoming some sort of national sweepstakes. If one is lucky enough to come up with some wrong and can get the right jury in the right part of the country the payoff can be huge, indeed.

The Supreme Court has the power to abate these trends, but it will take firm rulings on the cases which reach the Supreme Court level.

Are Storm Operations Safe?

There have been two major airliner accidents recently as planes sought to take off and land at major airports.

The world is all too familiar with the .Air Florida crash at Washingtons National Airport killing 74 people. The cause is still not known although icing is suspected.

Then a World Airways jet with 208 people aboard skidded off a slick

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runway at Bostons I^)gan Internation Airport. It is a miracle that all but two survived.

It tells us that a closer kx)k needs to be taken at the conditions under which airport operations will be continued during winter storms.

Perhaps present procedures can be shown to be safe. Nevertheless two major accidents under wintry conditions recently raise some doubts.

By JAMES KILPATRICK

So Far, Conservative

Wood As Energy

ByBILLNOBLITT

RALEIGH - If your image of someone who burns wood to keep warm is that of a slightly eccentric chap who doesnt mind huddling around a smoking stove on freezing days just to save a few bucks, you had best take another look.

Wood is developing into an important energ> source in North Carolina, and some new technologies on the drawing boards, such as de-nsified wood in high-energ> pellets and gasified products promise to boost use even further.

Already there have been nearly :K)0 firms in the state using wood-fired energy systems identified by the Wood Energ\ Coordinating Council. Most of those are wood-product firms using their own waste woods. But not all.

Several brick companies, Dover Mills in Shelby, the Moland-Drysdale Corporation in Fletcher, and Old Fort Finishing Company also use wood. Nine other firms have installed wood energy systems; six are in the works.

Prison units in Greene and .Montgomery Counties, and both Pfeiffer College and Appalachian State University will join the list soon.

Unloading

The sight of a huge truck trailer hanging in midair, upended over a sprawling conveyor system may soon become a common sight in North Carolina. That is how the wood chips are delivered at an experimental wood energy project at Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh.

The furnance bums between 15,000 and 17,000 tons of green whole tree chips annually. The chips are made from recently devel

oped equipment which can take standing timber at ground level and skid it to a chipper which produces chips about one and one-half by three-forths by one-eighth inches containing bark, leaves, needles, trash wood, scrub and so on. A ton of greenwood chips is equal to a barrel of oil.

In producing steam heat, it costs $6.66 to generate a million BTUs. Natural gas

doesn't produce oil, gas, or coal, McGec' sees w(X)d as an important native product not subject to outside control and pressures. In fact, McGee said in a recent article published in ' VVe the People of North Carolina, the magazine of the Citizens .Assicia-tion, two-thirds ot the million acres in North Car^ lina is commercial forestland .suitable for growing trees in quantities needed for commercial wood products. Some 20 million tons of logs and pulpwood are produced (Please Turn To Page 5)

W'.ASHINGTON - Nineteen opinions do not a full term make, but so far if looks as if Justice Sandra Day OConnor will be joining the con.ser-vative bloc on the U.S. Supreme Court, The courts first woman justice has sided with the liberals on only one of the 5-4 divisions to date.

A paragraph probably should be inserted to acknowledge the irritation felt by the justices whenever they are thus labeled by the press. The high court ,is not a kind of judicial taench show, the collies here and the poodles there. Nevertheless, when the court divides narrowly, we generally find the "libc'ral Justices Brennan and .Marshall on one side and

the conservative Chief Justice Burger and Justice Rehnquist on the other.

Justice OConnor seems to have suited up with the Burger-Rehnquist team.

Through Jan.^l, the court had acted on 21 cases. Justice

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costs $6.43, Wood chips at $16 per ton costs about $2.66 to generate a million BTUs of steam.

A big problem has been production, delivery, and storage of wood chips. Those matters among others are on the agenda of the Wood Energy Coordinating Group.

Lawerence B.* McGee,-wood energy project coordinator for the states Department of Natural Resources and Community Development division of forest resources, believes that wood will get more attention as the availablity improves and the information on its use is spread.

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Other Editors Say A Fleeting Joy

(High Point Enterprise)

David Flaherty is like a sheep in the pasture who is pleased when a wolf claims another and leaves him alone. He doesn't . understand that his turn may come tomorrow.

Flaherty, chairman of the N.C Republican Party, thinks he was spared the wolfs jaw last week when the U.S. Supreme Court let .stand a lower court ruling that allows political action committees to raise and spend unlimited sums of money on behalf of a presidential candidate.

Flaherty was gratified by the decision liecause most of the money raised and spent by such political action committees in last year's presidential race benefited' the Republican candidate, Ronald Reagan. Flaherty praised the court ruling: 'it means this philosophy of government which w'e support will now have a better opportunity to get across its message. The more they can appeal to the people, the more (money) they can raise and the more money they can spend on conservative candidates'

The sword, though, cuts both ways. The same ruling that means conservative organizations can raise and spend $10 million for one conservative presidential candidate also means that liberal organizations can spend $20 million or $40 million or $400 million for a candidate of their bent.

And 1980s record shows that the money isnt always spent to present the truth. Massive television campaigns can mislead and distort and make or break any candidate. Elections, simply, can be bought.

Flaherty is not at the cutting edge of this new style of campaigning, In fact, no political party is. Instead, it is the narrow-interest organizations that are learning to control the political tides. Their power, financed by massive solicitation efforts, is frightening. The conservatives are a step ahead in the market for dollars and votes, but the liberals won't be far behind

Yet, all these groups are within their rights - according to the courts. It is viewed as a First Amendment privilege to be allowed to support with limitless dollars the political cause of ones choice. Thats a good privilege to have, in principle.

But it's a hazard of democracy, perhaps, that voters can be persuaded to a cause throu^ subtly hypnotizing media saturation. It seems to be a fact of life, but it is certainly nothing to rejoice over.

There has yet to be a constitutional amendment requiring that people be honorable, or even truthful!

Strength For Today

JAMES J. KILPATRICK

O'Connor had participated in 19 of these. Of the 19, only two were unanimous, decisions, and in these two Justice O'Connor herself spoke for the court. In the other 17, the court fell apart like the one-hoss shay. I havent checked the statistics, but 1 suspect that some sort of record was set at this point in a term of court, w'hen four of five decisions on Jan. 12 were reached by 5-4 divisions. This is not the most congenial court that ever came along.

Justice Brennan has succeeded the late Justice Douglas as the most acerbic dissenter on the court. In one of the 5-4 decisions of Jan. 12, this one involving the gift of federal property to the Valley P'orge Christian College in

That Verbal BananaPeel

Pennsylvania, Justice Brennan charged his colleagues with obfuscating the issues, turning the Constitution on its head, producing specious and tortuous distinctions, and being blind to history. After that he tossed decorum to the winds.

Justice OConnor, still feeling her way into such fratricidal bloodletting, has written only one dissent of her own. Her maiden plunge into these turbulent waters came in a case involving the right of a single employer to withdrew from a multiemployer bargaining group. She spoke with asperity, but not with a Brennanish acidity. The lady may have claws, in the feline fashion of such memorable juetices as Black and Frankfurter, but she has yet to unsheathe them.

Early on, in a caseinvolv-ing federal authority over state tax laws, a conservative majority mobilized in the form of Rehnquist, Burger, White, Blackmun and Powell. This one time. Justice OConnor sided in dissent with Marshall, Brennan and Stevens. It was her only fall from grace.

Since then, we have found Justice OConnor on the side of the angels. In a rash of 6-3 divisions on Jan. 13, she stood staunchly with the Burger-Rehnquist conservatives in support of strict construction and judicial restraint. The gentlewoman shows great promise.

But over here cn the conservative side, let us keep fingers crossed. The history of the court abundantly demonstrates that justices will not stay tied. In his first

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By HUGH A. MULUGAN AP Special Correspondent harvard YARD, CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - This is our first seminar in Obverse English in the winter term. Class, please come to order.

Obverse English, as you may know, is the splendidly individualized speech form that turns every cliche into a verbal banana peel, so that we end up with a fly in the oatmeal and a monkey wrench in the cookie jar.

From Canada, we begin todays lecture with a really world class entry that fell twisted and broken from the lips of. Bob Thompson, a much quoted politician: If this idea ever catches fire, it will snowball all across the land.

Thompson, my Canadian sources tell me, had an originl way with words that threw even the Royal Canadian Mounties off the trail of his logic. His style is reminiscent of Sir Boyle Roche, the logician in the old Irish Parliament, who apologized for missing a committee meeting because of a prior speaking engagement. Not being a bird, he told the Dail, the Irish Parliament, I cant be in two places at once. He brought down the house one day with The cup of Irelands sorrows has been overflowing for centuries and isnt full yet.

It was Sir Roche who thundered out the memorable Damn posterity, whats posterity ever done for us"? Or, as a member of the Louisiana House once phrased a similar question: WTiat will our future forefathers say

Last week I heard of a stern old German nun who made her parochial school third graders clean off their desks ever>' morning with a damp paper towel. "First, ve vill make dem shpick, she ordained, unt den ve vill make themshpan.

Dr. Lois DeBakey, the sister of the famous heart surgeon and a lecturer in speech at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, devotes considerable time and energy to the tiresome, often unresponsive task of teaching physicians and surgeons and laser beam specialists how to communicate in the English language. Their speech forms are often more difficult to comprehend than their handwriting. Ms. DeBakey, a frequent contributor to our museum of mangled mots, has isolated this fine specimen from a survey published in a prestigious medical journal:

The patients in this sampling were broken down by age and sex.

Yes. Arent we all.

In the glory days of Yogi Berra, the Yankee dugout was often littered with fractured phrases as well as broken bats from his habit of lunging at a mot juste as if it were a low sinking curve.

When the loud speaker announced one day that only 9,000 were in attendance for a double-header against the last place club. Yogi phUosophized: If fans dont want to come out and see the games, you cant stop them. He is supposed to have said of his favorite steak house near Yankee Stadium, youd have to go a long way to find a restaurant this close.

Ireland, of course, remains an island of startlingly original speech. Since the days of Goldsmith. Sheridan and Swift, the Irish have taken the Queens English hostage and beaten the starch of snobbery out of it.

Stiletto-sharp Irish tongues have a way of puncturing pomposity with a flick of wit that is seldom as innocent as it sounds.

Charles Laughton once proudly announced in the Gresham Hotel bar that he had come to Dublin to do a one-man show.

Thats, grand, said the barman. "Whos in it?

A newly ordained priest, fresh out of the seminary at Maynooth, asked the old pastor at his first assignment in a remote County Mayo parish how far he could go in pushing the theological reforms of Vatican II.

Hew the straight and narrow between good and evil, and youll be fine, the old man assured him.

Touring Ireland this past summer, I heard the story of a grizzled old farmer in County Armagh who was anxiously awaiting his brothers return from America after an absence of 42 years.

Im not sure Ill recognize him after all this time, the farmer worried out loud to his cronies at the crossroads pub, but hell know me all right.

How will he know you? the publican took the bait.

Well, I havent been away.

Then there was the young Irish missionary, back from his first three-year tour in Africa, making an emotional appeal in his home parish in Tipperary for shoes for the footless children of Swaziland.

The total take in the collection indicated that slipping on a verbal banana peel often brings sizable insurance compensations.

Yogi winds up on TV talk shows more often than the last Rhodes scholar to play in the majors, whoever he was. Probably one of those intellectual types whod talk the ears off a fence post. Or was it a brass monkey?

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Living In Different Worlds

. WHY TURN TO GOD?

Many people are turning to religion today with a passion and enthusiasm which surprises some members of the so-called main-line churches.

The reason often given is the threatening position in whict humanity finds it,self. The impact of two world wars, social changes, the decline of natural resources, the threat of war in strategic places like the Near East, and the overarching possibility of nuclear holocaust are ofen cited as causes of religious revival.

These reasons have some

relevance, but they are certainly not the whole story. If we turn to God only because we are in a bad fix, then we are likely, as soon as the trouble passes, to turn back to the world again.

The only lasting motive leading men and women to seek after God with such a passion that they finally find him is the realization that they are being sought after by God himself. The gracious invitation of God remains forever the central message of true religion. - Elisha Douglass

ByJOHNCUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - People are either wjth him or against him, supportive or nonsupportive, confident or frightened, encouraged or despairing. Little concerning Ronald Reagan lies in between.

Or so it might seem, if you read only the divergent views of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the AFL-CIO and ignore all opinions in between.

But the two views do suggest the potential for development of a sharp division of U.S. opinion as the Reagan economic program pursues its policy of pain today for, it says, a happier tomorrow.

According to a recent release from the Chambers news department, the economic numbers look good indeed. As does the wind direction, which it measures by falling inflation and interest rates, indications of slowing government costs and a rise in savings.

In a statement now familiar to its members and others, it goes on to declare the chamber is committed to the Reagan combination of spending and tax cuts to

restore stability in the economy, and then offers a comment from Richard Lesher, president.

Coupled with the other forces leading to the decline in interest rates, I think you are going to be very surprised when business demand picks up, particularly durables and housing and autos, because there is an enormous pent-up demand that going to be unleashed, Lesher says.

The chamber is believing, supportive, confident and encouraged by the Presidents economic program, and it lets hardly a day go by without saying so by means of speeches and interviews, and through articles in its newspaper, magazine and TV show.

The AFL-CIO is of opposite mind and just as active - in speeches, other public appearances, comments to the media and in its newspaper and magazine. As the Chamber praises, the AFL-CIO castigates.

Reagan and his programs received the full treatment, for example, in the latest AFL-CIO News.

It began with a grim story of the fourth-quarter economy, below which ran a

photograph of Minnesota labor and citizen groups assembled to bring pressure on the legislature and the congressional delegation to initiate action to counter Reagan administration economic policies.

On page three the editors chastised Reagan for using incorrect job data in his assessment of his first year. In answer to the question Are Americans better off after a year of the Reagan presidency? the lead editorial concludes No, Mr. President. No way A cartoon ridicules Reaganomics, opposite which is a column, A Factory Workers Perspective, which is headlined The Cruelties of Reaganomics.

There is more. Below the factory workers comments is a warning from Arnold Cantor, AFL-CIO economist, that excesses and inequities of the Reagan tax program will drive the economy deeper into recession and could send unemployment as high as 10 percent.

Page eight, the final page, hits Reagan hard. Economic Slump Signals Collapse of Reaganomics declares a headline on one of two stories making up most of the page.

Economist Sees Disillusion With Reagans Programs, is the other.

Throughout, neither word nor hint of praise for Reagan, and the distinct impression that his economic program is a disaster without parallel. There is praise for a president President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who is remembered as workers ally. But none for Reagan. His programs, says Thomas Donahue, secretary-treaurer, are based on 18th and 19th century theoretical models.

It is another universe that is described in the (Tiambers various reports, a world which finally is coming to terms with reality, correcting the mess brought about by federal involvement in the private sector, looking forward to prosperity and personal freedom. Reagan, it is strongly suggested, is a 21st century man.

Aready worlds apart, the perspectives are heading off in different directions. As the Chamber sees the economy improving and the union sees it deteriorating, the i^ace between them grows wider everyday.