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Today's Talk Thomas Purpose Must Greenville, S.C. Published Every Morning Page Four Thursday, July 20, 1972 By GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS B.H. PEACE 1873-1934 James H. McKinney Jr. Editorial Page Editor CarlD.Weimer Executive News Editor Judicial Reform The proposed judicial reform amendment to South Carolina's Constitution may well prove to be one of the high marks of the 1972 General Assembly.

The amendment, if approved by the voters in November, will bring new order and economy to the administration of justice in the state. The amendment basically provides for a unified judicial system with the chief justice of the State Supreme Court as administrative head. He would be authorized to appoint a court administrator whose duties would include keeping a uniform record system that would allow circuit judges to be utilized anywhere in the state according to need. The reforms in the amendment are aimed at replacing the present loose administrative system controlled by the legislature that has resulted in no system of records or management and many wasted court days in some small circuits, while other larger circuits face impossibly overloaded dockets. The proposed changes would make the maximum use of court officials and court time.

i All courts in the state would come under the new administrative umbrella which would create a clear division between the three branches of government executive, legislative and judicial that has been lacking in South Carolina. None of the provisions would change the authority or power of state courts, but would only unify and modernize them to better serve the public and the cause of justice. The passage of the proposal in the Senate is a tribute to Greenville's Sen. Richard V. Riley, who led the tough floor fight, and a citizens' group including many Greenville area people, which organized in March to push for judicial reform.

Sen. Riley credits the citizens' committee with having a tremendous influence on the outcome of the legislative battle. "It was a good example of how citizens can be effective," he said. Other upstate legislators who were instrumental in passage of the judicial reform amendment included Sens. Harris P.

Smith of Pickens, John Drummond oT Greenwood and Jim Stephen of Spartanburg and Rep. Lowell Ross of Oconee, who was House floor leader for the measure. I do not believe it was the Creator's purpose to put people upon this earth, and then leave them alone to work out their way the best they can, without endowing them with a will and a purpose. We were put into this world to be of some use, to ourselves and to others. If we follow this out we can expect a certain amount of personal satisfaction and a good share of happiness and a successful career.

Each one of us should recognize that our endowment of will and purpose is God given. The man or woman who has a purpose in life, and who follows it out, will have few complaints and a reasonable amount of happiness to keep him or her upon an even keel. Life with a will and purpose can be one in which a goodly share of success is sure to be metered out. All success has as its base usefulness, and if we are useful Foreign Policy MIAMI BEACH The conduct of American foreign policy is going to be a paramount campaign issue between Democrat George S. McGovern and Republican Richard M.

Nixon. McGovern made that clear in his acceptance of the Democratic presidential nomination. Ordinarily, domestic issues like unemployment, the cost-of-living and all the items catalogued under "prosperity" are the keystone of a Democratic campaign for the White House. They, of course, will not be forgotten. But McGovern is going at it differently than other nominees, perhaps because his candidacy has been different ever since By J.

F. TER HORST the day he jumped into the race for the nomination on January 18, 1971, a full 18 months ago. McGovern began as a "one-issue candidate," running against the Vietnam war. He made it plain again here that the Indochina conflict is still the focal point of his quest for the presidency. Indeed, the words he used back in January 1971.

are almost the same as those he used in addressing his cheering supporters at the convention: "I will halt the senseless bombing of Indochina on inauguration day," promised the Democratic nominee, looking ahead to next January 20. "Within 90 days of my inauguration, every American soldier and every American prisoner will be out of the jungle and out of their cells and back home in America where they belong." Eighteen months ago, in a televised address from his home state of South Dakota, McGovern entered the race by pledging he would, if elected, "announce a definite early date for the withdrawal of every American soldier" from Vietnam, a war he called a "dreadful mistake." He has never wavered from that stance. But he has, in recent months, broadened it into an issue encompassing the full range of national security policy, asking whether much of defense spending might not be better diverted into solving problems of education, urban blight and the environment at home. McGovern thus is directly challenging Nixon foreign policy and, in a larger sense, the policy that has prevailed in America, from one administration to the next, in good times and bad for almost 40 years. The contest between Mr.

Nixon and Sen. McGovern has already begun. McGovern headquarters, for example, has disclosed a full endorsement from "families for immediate release," an organization of some relatives of American captives in Vietnam. Meanwhile, McGovern has had to go on the defensive against critics who charge he would "beg" for the release of POW'S from Hanoi if that were necessary. Even Democrats like Hubert Humphrey and Senator Henry M.

Jackson, his defeated presidential rivals, have taken McGovern to task for saying that. McGovern is not unaware that Mr. Nixon may be able to achieve an end to the Vietnam war before election day in November, by truce or perhaps by fuller settlement at the Paris peace table. Mr. Nixon has said he will not let the war be an issue against him this fall.

Jackson said the other day that he "fully expects a stand-still ceasefire" by November 7. Thus McGovern, in his acceptance speech, stressed a broader line of attack on foreign policy, an attack on what he called "excessive preoccupation overseas." ROGER C. PEACE 1899-1968 R. G. Avakian Managing Editor Is Vital Issue The opposition came from a small, but powerful group of small county senators, who were against the relinquishing of any of the General Assembly's authority over the judicial system.

It is a sign of legislative maturity in South Carolina that they lost their battle. The chief justice, under the amendment, would set court terms and regulate the workloads of judges, but two amendments added to the proposal during the final Senate debate will assure that no county would be denied a court term. One of the amendments, offered by Sen. Riley as a compromise measure, provides that the chief justice shall set a term of at least one week in any county within 60 days after receiving a petition from the county bar association. The other amendment says that each county shall be entitled to four weeks of court each year to be set by the legislature.

Sen. Riley said lie and other reform proponents feel these additions will not hamper the modernization of the judicial system as proposed by the amendment. The legislature would still appoint a judge for each circuit, but with the key change that more than one judge could be appointed and the number of circuits would be left open to be determined by need. At the present time nobody really knows what is needed because there are no uniform statistics available on court loads and activities. This would change with the appointment of an administrator to keep such records as a tool in deciding on assignment of judges and court terms.

All of the changes included in the amendment are long overdue in South Carolina. The ideas are not new. At least 40 other states already have uniform systems with an administrator to prevent undue delays in the dispensation of justice with real savings to the taxpayers. Such a system has been working successfully, for example, in North Carolina for 10 years. There is every reason to believe that it will work just as well in the Palmetto State.

Judicial reform will be one of the most important issues on the November ballot, and deserves careful consideration by South Carolina's voters. The 12 nations involved, which supplied '--the 1.1 billion pounds imported last year are listed as Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, Ireland, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Amounts supplied varied from 600.4 million pounds from Australia to 2.6 million pounds from Haiti. Even with additional imports there is the possibility that prices won't hit a toboggan slide as long as average income is high enough to satisfy our enormous appetite for The congressmen said they were told that Peking hopes disarmament will not be unilateral and expressed specific concern about the possibility of American disarmament and continued Soviet armament. Just so.

Despite Peking's constant cries of outrage over "U.S. imperalism" in the Asian region, the Red Chinese don't really mean it. They fear the Soviet brand, the only real imperalism in today's world. By Valentine Have Objective we are bound to be happy. It follows as the night does the day.

fc Purpose must have a "forward look." It must have an objective, and that objective must have motive power behind it. The mind and heart must be co-partners. All of us should be far more happy than we are. All idle worries and fears have no place in the healthy human body. They are resented! We must have an ever increasing purpose to guide us over the rough spots in life.

We must take advantage of every opportunity to be useful, and we should give courage to the faint of heart, and we ourselves should have the kind of confidence that moves mountains, no matter how high or how far away! Have purpose and you will inspire it. Is Main Issue "America must be restored to her proper role in the world," he told the cheering delegates. "The greatest contribution American can make to our fellow mortals is to heal our own great but deeply troubled land." McGovern warned that, in an age of nuclear power and hostile ideologies, it was still necessary that the United States remain militarily strong. "America must never become a second! rate nation," he said. "I give you my! sacred pledge that if I become President of the United States, America will keep its defenses alert and fully sufficient td.

meet any danger." i His re-ordering of national security spending, he said, would include "schools' for our children as well as silos for our missiles the safety of our streets and the condition of our cities and not just the engines of war." Fully one-half of McGovern's address concerned foreign policy. Again and again, in his concluding moments, McGovern reiterated a theme he first uttered back in Pontiac, in October 1970 "Come Home America." Now a familiar McGovern signature, those words impressed some in the convention hall as a much different; direction in foreign policy than the 1960 challenge put by the man McGovern considers his forerunner in the new politics, John F. Kennedy who, in his acceptance speech, said "we can do better." McGovern has indicated he intends to stand firm on the broad defense changes he put forward during the primary, campaign, instead of accepting the blander language of the Democratic platform. The fact that he will be painted as an isolationist, does not seem to daunt McGovern. My Answer By BILLY GRAHAM I am convinced that all men, married er single, will stare at a nice looking woman.

Does this mean that they are dissatisfied with their wives or girl friends? Do they do it for kicks, or is it just the natural thing to do? My fiance says that all men don't stare at women, and that when they do they intend no harm. C.R.O. It is wise to turn to the words of the Savior when, confronted with a question like yours. And it happens that He had something significant to say on this subject. "Whosoever looketh upon a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery already with her in his heart." Matthew 5:28.

Though I have disciplined myself not to "stare" at women, I do not criticize those who glance at a pretty face. After all, women are among the most beautiful creatures God created. Some men I'm sure have no lustful thoughts when they glance at a pretty woman. Perhaps they admire them like they do any object of beauty, such as a handsome dog, or horse, or a bouquet of roses. I have a friend who says to his wife on occasion: "That is a beautiful woman over there, don't you think dear?" And his wife who is secure) usually agrees with him.

In fact, I have heard women say of other women, "Isn't she beautiful?" To admire a beautiful woman need not be evil or lustful. But, of course, when it is, it is a sin. lt is the lascivious look tl.at Jesus warned against. There is such a thing as committing adultery with the eyes, and C. with all the pornographic visual aids we have today, I'm sure many men commit J- fornication and adultery with their eyes.

This, Jesus said, was sin. DIAL-A-PRAYEK B.H. Peace Jr. Senior Vice President MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reoubheation of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as all AP dispatches. All remittances should be made In the form of Post -Office Money Orders, Cashier's Checks.

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P. O. Box 1688 ZIP CODE 29602 305 SOUTH MAIN ST. ji Letters To Truest Democracy In The World Today, Douglas S. Powell voiced questions about the political process let with 44 per cent of the vote, take 100 per cent of California's delegates.

He agreed that the result was legal. But he wondered about the value of his vote, recognizing that he must vote. Mr. Powell's questioning is something we all need to do and carry further. What he talks about is at the heart of the political process, just as truly when the winner gets 80 per cent of the vote as when he gets 4-! per cent.

When decisions are made politically, everyone can only "buy" the same thing no real choice remains. Where the economic decisions are made entirely politically, as in the U.S.S.R., for example, only one make of car is offered, in a few models. Here, there were not many models offered by the few makers for many years. Then a small percentage of auto-buyers started asking for and buying real choice, as evidenced by Rambler and a few imports. In less than five years, the American auto market totally changed, with a tremendous model variety from each maker and many makers, thanks to fairly free trade and thus foreign competition.

But note that the politicians (Nixon, this time) got into the act last year with various devices to cut off the foreign competition and thus to limit competition and free consumer "voting." The truest democracy in the world is in the stores of a capitalistic country with minimum governmental interference. In such stores, each person of any age may and can cast his vote for whatever he wants, in infinite variety. He can get what he wants, or as near to it as any combination of human beings has the ability and desire to provide. Perhaps no one has the competence or inclination to offer exactly what you want: Why should they? But you can always find pretty close to what you want. Maybe the price is high maybe many times what you want to pay.

What do you know about what it takes to provide just what you want? But in any case, real choice is available not Tweedledum Humphrey and Tweedledee Muskie, and so on. The moral? Never use the political process if there is any other possible way. Our troubles today result from too much government, not too little. The discontent of youth is well-grounded. But the avenue to solution they seek will only make matters worse.

Let's all combine to cut governments city, state, and national. STERLING L. SMITH Rt. 9, Greenville Inhuman Treatment Of Jail Inmates I hope all your readers carefully digested the front page article by Jerelyn Eddings, "Former Inmate Complains About County Jail Conditions" in the Sunday edition, July 16. It made me think of medieval Europe and the cruel cages of Vietnam.

I wonder how many readers were horrified as I was? Even if the report is only half true, it is still a modern example of callous cruelty. Here we are in a modern American city of Christian culture, a city that has two universities and a Christian church on about every other corner, where people claim to practice the teachings of Jesus, and unspeakable dehumanizing cruelty is practiced every day in our county jail. Preachers and church people ignore this matter brought to our attention a number of times by the people of the press. Why does the church say nothing, and do nothing? It has been weeks since conditions at county jail were made known to the public. Prisoners merely request the opportunity to talk to a reporter about the treatment meted out to them.

Why lias nothing been done? Why has County The Editor Council continued to be silent on this matter? The jail "has been the scene of five mattress fires since Thanksgiving Day of last year," and still no response by officialdom. Why? Surely we know that these fires were the product of desperation. What sort of justice is it that pens human beings up in such conditions for months on end "without a From what we see and hear, this jail (like many others in this state) not only dehumanizes the inmates but also the jailers. This might be said also of County Council and the Greenville citizenship. We went to church yesterday, clean and well groomed, and we heard sermons about love and mercy, and we went home to fine, dinners feeling good.

Did we have a right to that when scores of other human beings endure the sort of treatment described in The News? This Jesus our preachers preached about is quoted in Matthew 25 as pronouncing dire judgments on those who ignore the inhumanity of prison cells. yes, they do have preaching at county jail! According to the story, many of these people have not even been tried and proven guilty. It is a safe bet that they are all, or nearly all, from the black community, people who have had little chance at the good things of our society. Take this fellow "Perry." He has been there, and society has done nothing for him but embitter him. What a travesty! Guilty or not, our treatment of prisoners in this state makes a mockery of both our Christian faith and our democracy.

R. C. GRIFFITH 56 Nottingham Greenville Instability Of Some Democrats If this country is eventually given over to communism, it will not be the fault of George McGovern, Senator Fulbright, Bella Abjug and Father Drixan who probably believe in the ideology they espouse. My quarrel has been, and is, with the so-called "local Democrats" who year after year declare privately that they don't go along with any of it. And yet to protect the offices they hold, or by putting their party before their country, they either publicly or by their very silence support these people and by their support have allowed them to get where they are today.

When will the people of this state begin asking each candidate for public office to let us know whether or not he supports his national party's candidate and its platform? And will they ask him if he does not, then why does he remain in that party and allow his name to be placed on the same ballot with these people? MRS. FRANCES B. SMITH 466 Pimlico Greenville Questions About Chess Fiasco Has anyone considered the possibility that Bobby Fischer may in fact be a new Soviet secret weapon? Just contemplate it for a minute. Who would every have believed just a few short weeks ago, that a large number of average U. S.

Citizens would be rooting like heck for an American to get his tail whacked by a Russian at anything even something as remote as chess. But at any moment we may see a flood of "Go Spassky" or "beat him Boris" pennants and bumper stickers. I firmly believe that Bobby Fischer is a diabolically clever invention of the Russians designed to shake our faith in our fellow countrymen. I think we must insist that at the conclusion of this match, either as the grand prize or the consolation prize (depending on the outcome), Boris Spassky be awarded full possession of Bobby Fischer. That'll fix 'em! DONALD ANDERSON 6 Red Fox Trail, Greenville Call For Meat Imports La.st year total meat production in the United States was estimated at 23.3 billion pounds.

Imports of 1.1 billion pounds provided the nation's consumers with a total of 24.4 billion pounds, which proved to be insufficient to keep a brake on prices. In order to provide a brake the State Department has advised 12 major meat exporting countries that this country's market is now wide open and we will take all they can send. In other words, quotas, for the time being at least, are off. 'Please, Yank! Don't Go Home' One of the most illuminating stories about conflicting realities of international affairs is the report of U.S. Reps.

Hale Boggs and Gerald Ford on their recent trip to Communist China. The two congressmen said "high Chinese officials: don't want the United States to withdraw from the Pacific or other points They believe our presence is important for the stability of the world now and in the future." Signs Of The Times Established 1874 J. Kelly Sisk President and Publisher Edmund A. Ramsaur Executive Vice President, Associate Publisher Subscription Rates When Delivered Bv Carrier In Greenville, In Cities and Towns Where Carrier Service Is Available, and on Rural Routes, Daily bv Mail and Sunday by Carrier: 113 6 1 WK. Mo.

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