Tuesday, October 19, 1965

A Disservice By Demonstrators

Demonstrations against the nations policy in individuals ready at the drop of a hint to pick up a Viet Nam are a disservice to this country by citizens new sign and join a new picket line, who parade to een^e their own desires for ther own That the demonstrations compromise the posi-motiv^es rather than putting first th welfare of the t1on of the United States in seeking a settlement to nation as a whole and the free world. the Viet Nam comflict is generally recognized. They

Some of the participants in the demonstrations, compromise the nations position only because the to be sure, may be sincere in their desire for peace, deijiionstration in the country may be misinterpreted By and large, however, we suspect the vast majori- abroad as representative of prevailihg sentiment in

ty of them are either seeking to feather their own nest in one w^ay or another, or are simply misguided

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By WILLIAM A, SHI1U:S INSnrOTE ^ ~ Announce* fnent Is beta* made today of a history'in tklng new program of water resoureea research by the University of North Carolina.

It lavolvef the formal es* t^)lishment of a Water Re* ourota Research Institute m a oBlm^y-wlde basts, with headquarters on the North Osrouna Rate Univertlty cam* tus in Raleish.

This wtD' hi the destimstpd agency In North Carolina to lecelvp federal funds for a wide range of w^r resources research projects under a 1964 act of Ooogreis.

A number of sjch projects have already been ai^roved and fundedamounting to $S7.> 60 last yaar, ^.aoo this year an(* approximately fioo.ooo ext year. cMjciala said. In addition, some of the projects arrj matching funds.

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A1CNONC1! Apiutjved on taper mom than a year ago. aimomioenwnt of the establish* ing of the Water Reaources Researtt luUtute was to be nude by Oov. Dan K. Moore.;^ Conadkbded UBhreraf^' pres* Sdent wmiarn C. Friday said tt '^represents a slmllcJant new development In University pro* granas."

Operations of the Institute will emb.wce work throughout the University system. Friday said. "R is truly a University-wide enterprise that makes maximum use of the full range of talents within the Universi* ty aiiich can be brought to bear upon the Critically important resources of water," he said.

SCOPE - Officials said the Water Resources Research Institute Is patterned after the ooopeimve federal-state uni* verty relationship In operation of agricultural extensi(m ser* vice txperlement stations-It will work In cooperation with the U. S. department of Dntartf- mu^ as the experl-meot etatltms have worked with th# U. S. department U .4trl* cuitare. Under terms of the federal law, esch of the states U lo establish such an institute few water resources research* FSfsonnel and Ruuny units f the university of North Oaroltna's actlviUes will be Involved in the overall program.

ThiSe include fields of en* ghNOTlng, textUes, oils, bot* suiy* bacteriology, biological and agricultural engineering, ^lenlstry. mineral industries, recfoatlOQ and park administration. anvlnHimental sciences, InumiBology. the Institute of Oovwnment and geography.

In addition, federal stats and private agencies and institu-tleM will be involved as the pro^ Ust expands.

PROJECTS InJfial projects already being carried out under the new program include several with direct bearing on current problems in the state.

One Is a study of movement of salt water Into coastal aqui-flers which may sh*fd light on the controversy raised by operations of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co- In lowering of the water table In Beaufort County Tbr the mining of sub-surface pliosphate deposits. The question involved Is whether lowering of the water table will result in salt water en^ crwchment.

The same project may facilitate planning of wells to supply fresh water needs In rapidly - developing recreational areas ai)g the coast and elsewhere. Another project will work to set standards for evaluating quality of water based recreation facilities.

PROBLEMS Other problema already being investigated include methods of locating dependable ground water suppUet for ciUea in the Piedmont. many of which depend largely wi surface water.

The town of Cary, near Raleigh, which has been unable to develop an adequate grmuid water supply for growing needs is looking for other sources of water. Research is being done under the Institute program on ground water yields in the Raleigh quadrangle.

Another project seeks to determine the extent to which soil removes agricultural chemicals from water, a question raised because of fish kills in rivers and streams eontam-Inated by chemicals.

Several projects deal with pollution control.

WATER In its initial report to the U. S. Mce Water Resources Research, Institute Officials said that wdth expanding industrialization and Increasing population, more competition \a expected for quanUties of water already exist In some locations.

The director ot the federal office. Roland R. Renne, told a conference on water resources, problems and programs at Oiapel Hill last Spring that there are serious water pollution problems in the rainfall-heavy Southeastern states.

In general, Renne said, the concern about water la states west the Missiaslppl is generally about the quantity of water available. East of the Mississippi, he said, the concern is about quality (rf water.

EXPLAIN Renne explained the 1964 act under which the Institute Is established k a federal-state partnership "getting the states more adequately Into the field of water resources research <m a continuing and Intensive basis."

The act, he said, provides for annual amsToprletitma to the state Institutes and also authorizes appr(g>riatiOQs annually to match, dollar for dollar, funds made available by state and other non-fedtril sources.

The federal government, through various departments and agencies, hu a water resources research budget of approximately $102 million for this fiscal years.

the United State toward the fighting in Viet Nam.

As in many cases, the antidraft and anti-Viet Nam conflict demonstrators are a tiny minority of the American people. Through organization, however, they have been able to gather around them other misfits and malcontents who are ready on the spur of any moment*to join what they consider a crusade for a cause . . . any causue whether worthy or unworthy.

They represent the worst rather than the best in the American life. They represent the lowly sel?^ fish interest of their own desires rather than the high ideals that have made this nation great.

Ultimately their efforts will fade away, their whims will attract them to a new effort for other objectives. But carrying the signs and walking in parades will be the same faces, the same people, following their same irresponsible selfishness.

Qualifications Leave Much To Be Desired

The fight over appointment of Francis X. Morrissey as a federal district judge in Massachusetts has boiled down to a tough political fight between Morrisseys close associates and members of the Senate who seriously question his qualification to fill the post.

Even to one who has casually followed the Information brought out on Morrissey, it is evident that his qualifications for the federal judicial post leave much to be desired.

Yet, this long-time friend of the Keiyjedy family who has been recommended by President Johnson has won a split endorsement from the Senate Judiciary Committee.

With the questions that loom about the qualifi-cation,s of this individual, it seems to us the Senate would be following the wise course in rejecting the nomination. It may not be politically expedient to go against the wishes of President Johnson; but neither ^ ^ would it be wise to appoint to a federal judicial post an individual whose qualifications appear to leave much to be desired.

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By JOHN OIAMBERI^IN Copyright, 1965, King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.

When he was a Senator from Texas, Lyndon Johnson yielded to no man in saying harsh things about compulsory unionism. But, as a President standing on the Democratic Party jdatform of 1964, he felt he had to sponsor an Administration bill calling for the repeal of 14(b), the section of the Taft - Hartley Act which allows the states to make up their own mind* abcut banning the union shop. Lyndon Johnson bad, In effect, got himself a new client naimd "organized labor." But what he failed to recognize la that the client Itself Is spUt down the middle on this Idea that compulsory unionism la good for labor. The astounding repulse which the repeal of 14(b) met in the U. i. Senate was at least partly due to bldp den labor nmport of the fUi-buster that kept the Admiii> IstratloD from brtnglnff th* !* au* to a vote.

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By JERRY BUCK

Horns Keep N.Y. Rollina

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NEW YORK (AP) -Barnes and all his traffic theories and patterns to the' con

trary, there Is only one thing that keeps New York City's traffic movingthe horn.

Slow T o Change

Other E(ditors Saying

New Battering For Ruby

By J. W. DAVIS

WASHINGTON (AP) Tobacco mokers dont change much over the centuries. 'Iheyd rather smoke than quit.

Back In 1604, King James I d England wrote a famous "Counterblaste to Tobacco." He urgedebis people:

"0 citizens, if you have" any .sense of shame, or dred of Infamy, left in your boscnne, lay aside the use of tobacco, a custom attended with ignominy, received through error and established by stupidity.

"Tobacco is a substa nee loathsome to the sight, disagreeable to the smell, noxious

This Date-

40 Years Ago To(day

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By JOHN G, DUNCAN October 1. 1KS5 First Step Slash In Nations Tax Bill Taken Today House Waya and Means Committee assembles to con-siiter downward revision of present levies.

Tralaing School 8 8 Teachers Opeas Meibodlat Charch

Sunday School and church workers and prospective workers of Greenville and vicinity, between 75 and 100 in number, attended the opening sea-sJ(m of the G^een^^e Standard Training School which beta at Jarvis Memorial Methodist Church at 7:30 last night. Methodist. Presbyterian. Christian, Baptist, and perhaps other denominations were represented In the enrollment of this training school which Is being promoted by the Methodist and Presbyterian board.

to the brain, injurious to the lungs, and by its clou<te of black moke nearly resem-bUng the horrid steams of hell."

Three hundred and sixty years later, In January 1C34, the United States government, through ita Public Health' Service, declared as firmly as King James, if not as flamboyantly:

Cigarette smoking is a health hazard of sufficient Importance In the United States to warrant appropriate remedial actltm."

The more you smoke, said the services scientists, the greater your chances of an early death.

They said cigarette amcAing is the major cause of lung cancer, and male cigare 11 e smokers have a higher death rate from heart disease than nonsmokers.

Th^-flndings were publicized far and wide.

And what happened?

Cigarette smoklnf drop p e d off a little, for a while. The drop in 1964 was 2.5 per cent.

But this year, the Agriculture Department has reported. Americans are nnokihg nearly 5 per cent more cigarettes than last year. They are expected to average 216 packs per smoker In 1965.

The department figured the total domestic consumption this year at 536 billion cigarettes compared with 511 Milln last year and the previous record of 524 billion In 1963.

In 1966, it said, chances are good for a new record.

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(Kannapolis Independent)

Under sentence of death for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the Kennedy assassin, Jack Ruby leans for Ms principal hope of escaping the electric chair to be found insane. Another hearing to determine Ws state of mind Is scheduled for Mon-, day, Oct. 18. His "mental processes" are reported to be undergoing serious deterioration In a death cell.

CHily Rubys sanity at the present time will be at issue. His sanity at the time of the slaying presumably was settled by the jury which earlier found him guilty. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has refused to hear Rubys appeal from the murder conviction until the question of his present sanity is answered.

Even if the 53-year-old nightclub operator should be found insane, he would not be certain of escaping execution. Un-

der Texas law he would be committed to a state hospital until he became sane.

Meanwhile, it has been leam-*ed that Juttee Joe B. Brown, who presided the the Ruby murder trial, Is writing a book about the case. What the Washington Post calls (Sept. 14, 1965) this highly Irregular and grossly improper attempt to exploit a case that came before him as a Judge" led to attempts to dlsquidify Judge Brown, although he had voluntarily withdrawn from any further connection with the case. Another judge declined, however, to Intervene. The Post comments further: If the man who killed President Kennedys assassin should be executed as the outcome of judicial prodedures which seem to be tainted by commerciallan, another grave reflection upon American jus-tic will be added to the tragedy of the assassination.

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World Famous Farce Coming To Tmra

It Is a surprising thing, Indeed, that the moviemakers, havs not filmed "Charlie's Aunt" before. Now, It is about ready to arrive by cinema and is advertised for Whites Theater today.

To the Editor,

Have you been out to the Ball-park or the Circus lately? If you miss the laughing and the shouting of the old ball-game or the joke-cracking air of the circus, by all means go out to Pitt Memorial Hospital during vlalting hours. You will hear aU (rf this and more,

I am writing this as a patient from a Hospital room. I have not been seriously iU, for wMch I am thankful. But. how about the patient who Is desperately sick?

Is the socializing group in the halls, prior to and during visiting hours, more important then the very ill patient?

This situation is a disgrace to our fine Pitt County. Surely, our citizens are kind, considerate, and civilized pe<H>le.

But, do they think oi the damage they are doing to the sick in our hospital by their thoughtless and stupid actiwis?

We of Pitt County feel thankful and justly proud of our long-needed and well-equipped hospital. As always, the weak link In the proverbial chain is the human link.

Do you. with your hard shoes and high-pitched voioes, give the picture that you are at the hospital to serve and to hasten the recovery <rf our sick citizens? Family reuntons and conventions should be held In rented halls and not in our hospital. Lets give the hospital back to the people for whom It was originally intended the patients.

Margaret S. Brown

On a good day New Yorks traffic flows like ^old lava. On a had, things get worse.

Rising up the canyon walls of every street are the bcep-beep and honk-hwik that brings Joy to a traffic policemans life. These are the animal sounds of progress on wheels.

The horn is the one Piece of equipment without which Traffic Co. umissloner Henry A. Barnes, dominion would fall apart at the seams. Without it, New Yoik would have to pave over the jammed-up vehicles and start all over again.

You could rip off the bumper. Its only use is to nudge the slrwpoke ahead <rf you to let him know the light is about to, change from red to green.

Tear out the motor. Anyone adventurous enough to brave New Yorks traffic would find a way to overcome this handicap.

Even the taxi meter could go. The only thing its good for Is to remind the passenger to count his change.

But the homits very sound waves send traffic surging.

The hom is at its best beneath the nimble fingers of the cabbie. Wielding It like a rapier, he fences his way through the insurmountable barrier of vehicles.

Olxserve how the cabbie uses the hom:

Somebody tries to cut in frontwise him up with a blast.

The light Is about to change to green in a minute or two-get set, honk.

A pedestrian walks In frwit as hes turningmake him jump a little.

He's got the street all to hinelfBlast away, somebody somewhere is bound to hear It.

Horns come In all sh^s and sounds. A no-nonsense hom is best, but be certain Its tuned up enough to short circuit a hearing aid at 20 paces.

Driving schools might do well to throw in a course in horn blowing.

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"Beauty shop: Where men are rare and women are well done.Welser (Idaho) American.

As long ago as last spring a non - partisan, n(m - profit group known as the National Right - to - Work Committee, run by the remarkable Reed - Larson, predicted that the Congressional effort to klU state right - to - work law* might turn out to be Lyndon Johnsons equivalent of Franklin Roosevelts disastrous Supreme Court packing plan of 1937. The National Right - to-Work Committee hasnt yet clinched Its victory, for there Is a bare possibility that the Issue will be revived again when the Senate reconvenes in January, 1966. But "organized labor," meaning President George Meany of the AFL-CTO and his top officials, will be badly advised If It Insists on reopening the subject. For compulsory unlcmism happens to be the one dlvlalve domestic issue that could kill the 1966 ambitions of many Democrats who will be running to succeed themselves in Congress. /

The curious make-i> of the Right - to - Work Commlttes should be a tip - off to George Meany and the rest of labors high command. This committee has a membership (tf 20,000. It has been called "reactionary," but in point of fact it gets less than ten per cent of Its monetary support from corporations which are among the 500 laixest in the country. The vast buHc of ths Right - to -Woik Committees strength comes from small contributors. And 8,000 members of the Right - to Woik Committee happen to be bona fide rank and file members of labor unions. Thla means that an organization that Is two-fifths labor beat back the attempt to repeal 14(b).

Just how badly Georgs Meany and Walter Reuther misjudged the temper of the country on the 14(b) repeal Issus Is apparent from letters that are still coming Into Washington after the big defeat. Tbs six Democratic Congressmen from Iowa who voted In th* house of Representatives for repeal are now very much worried about their chan^ for re-election In 1966. And adverse mail has been inundating even some pro - repeal Congressmen who come from industrial states. They may soon wish they had never beard of 14(b).

The high command of organized labor was never in control of Its sinister crusade to Impose a uniform compulsion in fifty states. Andy Biemiller, who is George Meanys man in Washington, thought he had at least fifty -four votes for cutting off debate In the Senate when. In reality, he had only forty-five, or less than a majority. E3mer Brown, the president of the Ritematlonal Typographical Uhlon, quit*

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Pushing For A $50,000 Liability

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS IN OUR OH'N HANDS

Do you live your Ufe with vigor and purpose day by day or do you simply go through the motions of mere existence? If life is only a matter of mere existence, then the person who struggles with such a life fails to get out of it what the Creator of Life evidently intended life to be.

For if we have faith, love, unaellishness. sincerity, and goodness of life, then we have factore of such value that no earthly reward can be compared with theml Some people shufile along through life with heavy feet, bent head, and downcast eyes. Others have radiaitcr .stiuiiiiR from every feature. They find life an ex-rftlnf adventure They pursue It a.s a pllglmaag# so ' nlfi-

cant that no objective in life can be said to ctnnpare with it. Ttiey are eager, .enthusiastic, resilient, full of delight and expectancy. Such people are really getting out of life what God evldentiy intends we should get.

And to an extent that many people do not realize, the difference between mere existence and vibrant living is something that depends largely on ofur will-power and our determination. We cm make out of life just what we set ourselves to make of it. Every life has Its sorrows, its disappointments. Its reverses But every life alw) has Its marvelous opportunities To a greater e:%nt UUJ we usually rcaiuw, Nip issties of life are largely in our own hands.

By ELMEI^ROESSNER

International airlines are working on a proposal to increase their liability to $50,000 for each passenger killed or injured. At present the limit is $8,600.

This tow figure was set early in international air transport because a serious accident might otherwise Iwinkrupt a young airline. In 1955, the airlines agreed to Increase the maximum liability to $16.000, but the United States refused to ratify the agreement, leaving the limit at $8.600.

Senator Robert P. Kennedy (D., N.Y). has prt^oeed that the United States withdraw from the 1929 Warsaw Convention, under which the $8,600 limit was set. and then pass a law requiring American airlines to carry $50,000 insurance on each overseas passenger.

This would force other overseas airlines to carry the same amount because, IT they didn't, even their own nationals would prefer to fly on U.S. lines. i'OUNTFR ruorosAi.

TTie foreign overseas airUn-es are apparently takjiig tliis

threat seriously; thats whats behind the current proposal to raise the liability to $50,000, Such a step would blunt Senator Kennedy's proposal.

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However, there is a difference between $50,000 insurance and $50,000 liability. With insurance, a passenger or his heirs would get the sum in event of any accident; under liability, a passenger or his heirs C(Ad collect only if they proved tiie airline was at fault a difficult thing under some circtunstanoes. such as when a plane disappeared over the ocean.

Thr bill lo requirr $.">0.000 insurance on all overseas passengers is now before the Senate Conmicrce Committee.

STEP FORWARD

The $50,000 insurance poal, or even the $50,000 lia-Wllty meawire, would be a stride toward the proposal mads In this column that all U. S. airlines, domestic as well as overaeas, be required to carry $100,000 tnsuranoe ( each pasauiftr.

If $50,000 in proteotimi is required for overseas flights, there would he strong demands for the same protecttoo on domestio flights. And once domestlo ptssengers had $86,-000 coverage, demands would grow for a $100,000 policy.

It was pointed out that insurance at group rates would cost the airlines little; in fact, the Insurance plan might Increase traffic so much that the costs would be <rffset by increased fares.

ed oonstoerable interest in the $100,000 Insurance proposal, but the objective was raised that it would encourage disturbed people to blow up planes to collect insurance on members of their families.

Planes have been blown up to that end. And wives have P<^ned husbands to collect insurance. But that has never been a reasou for abolishing life insurance.

It was also pointed out that insurance rates at airport booths and vending machines are excessive; that airports take up to 3S per cent of the amount paid and that other costs leave only half the fee for insurance.

Several Congressmen show-

SHORT AND SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS rtSMS Cutting down on cigarettes will pay for an average fami* lys TV set, a Bnff^ appU-ance dealer advertises.

Personal income in August, as predicted here, rose $1 billion to a seaeonally adjusted annual rate of $5iU billion.

Cleveland Is plannliig a four-mUe rapid transit extension to Hopkins Airport to msks it the first major dty With a guicB-UFget-to airport.

Says Charlss A. Sweeney of the Federal Trade Cbmmis-mL*Hsion: "We win not hesitate ^to recommend complaint against auyon* we find with his hand in the cookie jar."

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