Editorial Intimidation Won't Settle Greyhound Strike Greyhound Bus Lines is preparing to return to the road this week after being shut down for two weeks by a strike of its drivers. Until Mon day, the drivers' strike was simply another in convenience to travelers. Plans announced by the carrier on Monday, however, have raised the question of the strike's implications for public safety. Company officials have announced that they will begin to hire workers to replace the striking drivers. These newly-hired drivers will take to the road after a two-week training period. In order to induce the paying public to return to riding Greyhound, the company has announced plans for half-fare travel during the profitable holiday season. Despite the assurances of Greyhound of ficials, the inexperience of these drivers must be called to the public attention. Drivers with, many years of experience will be replaced by new employees unfamiliar with the operation of the equipment or conditions of many of the highways the buses must travel. On-the-job training for the hundreds of drivers that may be hired only increases the risks of holiday tragedy on our highways. Emboldened perhaps by the Reagan ad ministration's handling of the air traffic con trailers' strike, Greyhound management is pro posing the wholesale dismissal of its experienc ed drivers. The union leaders charge that Greyhound is attempting to bust the union. Greyhound's latest action in the strike would appear to support the union leaders' charges. Hie wage and benefit concessions which Greyhound demands that the drivers concede were agreed upon during collective bargaining. By threatening to replace the striking drivers, Greyhound management has rejected the col lective bargaining process, replacing it with union-busting intimidation. Greyhound bus drivers are not federal employees. They are conducting a legal strike against their employer. Hie loss of their jobs should not be the price they pay for exercising their fights as American workers. Before the hopes of unemployed workers are raised unrealistically, before violence breaks out on the picket lines and the safety of the public is jeopardized by inexperienced drivers, it is time for the federal government to step in and bring both sides back to the negotiating table. No one will be wellserved by the proposal Greyhound has presented. Negotiation and accommodation, not in timidation, will resolve the conflict in a satisfactory manner. wwwo)re,w?iiK$WMi?)srBST*?? Heard And Seen : -V By POP STORY Patriots Displayed Courage Local football fans seem to have mixed emotions about the final games of the 1963 season. As far as the high school season is con cerned, needless to say, most fans are glad to see the season end. It has been a disappoint ment season for our Madison High Patriots who were winless in their 10-game schedule. On the other side of the coin, however, the light and inexperienced squad showed courage throughout the season in giving their best efforts every week realizing that they were outmanned by their opponents who, by and large, had larger and more talented players. Now that the 1963 season is history, players, coaches, ans fans must look toward to an improved season in 1964. Congratulations are due to the players, coaches and fans for their loyalty, despite the win-lost record. Election Night Orderly Here Those in charge of conducting the election results here on Nov. 8 did a fine job and main tained a quiet and orderly atmosphere for the hour session at City Hall. Congratulations are in order for Billie Jean Haynie, who served as clerk and public address announcer; Vader Shelton who called out the results, ballot after ballot; Wade Huey and Mrs. Garland Brown, who served as judges; Billie Jean Redmon and Gary Moore, who tallied the results. It was a tiresome job and well done. Know Comment By JOSEPH GODWIN Dear Saint Peter, Dear Saint Peter, Please do not think 1 am a week-kneed Christian who is always disgruntled about something. I certainly am not! On the other hand, I do find it necessary to write to you again because I am disorganized, depressed, discouraged, downhearted, and otherwise discom bobulated. t My problem is some of your people. Well, not the people themselves, really, but what they say and how they act and some of their attitudes. To begin with, will you please send, me the number of Heaven's WATTS line? I'll ap preciate it tremendously. The time was when I would never have thought of asking for such a favor. However, periodically ? and more frequently ? I find some fortunate soul who is ab solutely sure he has God's word. He is bound to have been on that WAITS line all morning talking to the Man in your Oval Office. These people are always saying such things to me as "I told God," and "God told me." Naturally, I would not deprive them of this intimacy; I just like to get in on it myself. As you know, I have been a minister for 46 years. I have loved being a minister and have enjoyed a happy hard time. Yet, 1 envy every one of heaven's spit-fire servants who are "sure ? absolutely positive ? that I am the center of God's will - So you see, the WATTS line number will help me out a great deal. 1 gather a difference of opi nion that adds to my confu sion. Our brother, John Paul, thinks that he is your suc cessor to be in Christ's place on earth. Maybe. , What bothers me most is the people I know around here who think the same thing about themselves. Not too long ago, one of these loudly proclaimed, "I hear some of you talking about what God would have you to do ? where you should serve in His kingdom. Well, you listen to me! When God wants you to know what you should do. He will tell me. Then I'll let you know. That's what He placed me here as pastor for!" St. Peter, if that were true, why did the good people of the church act the way they did? Half of them left, and the other half ran him off. Sometimes I wish human nature would change, but it doesn't. Today, there are American religionists, like the Jewish religionists of your day, who think they are the on ly potatoes in the hill. If any one of them were intended to think thoughts for me, why am 1 having to carry this head around all the time? These same people will long and loud about freedom and independence ? freedom for themselves while they de mand conformity on the part of the rest of us. If you ever ran into that, you know how frustrating it can be. St. Peter, I'm not quite ready to use a passport and visa to your Place yet. Still, I'd like for you to send me one. Some people I know already have theirs and wave them in the faces of the rest of us. I know all about what it means (o be saved by grace through faith. That part is no problem. My problem comes daily as I try to work out my own salvation through fear and trembling. It seems to me something terrible to still be working out my salvation through fear and trembling while my friends board the maiden run of the Rapture Express. One other thing. Exactly what is the official language at your Place, anyway? If there is more than one language permitted, why do some peo ple think we can speak only one language here in prepara tion for our emigration to your City? Of course, some good people I know feel sure that only those who can speak the language of King James (and the apostle Paul) will be able to communicate with you and make their needs and wishes known. Thou knowest, O St. Peter, if this be true, thou shouldest in struct thy servant before it is too late. Wilt thou do so? Your brother, Joe We just can't seem to put the pain of Vietnam behind By CLIFTON B. METCALF The war in Vietnam touched us ail more deeply than we have cared to show, until now. F or the young men and women who came back, there were no parades, no speeches, no fireworks ? none of the usual honors with which we greet our veterans. Divided over whether we should have sent them and never sure of what we had ask ed them to do, we let them slip back into the national fabric with hardly a notice. We couldn't even find enough jobs for a construc tive, new beginning. As a country, somehow we could not separate our embarrassment at what we had done from our pride in the men and women we had asked to do it. A decade had to pass. When it had, those who came back from the war had to summon us to final muster for those who did not. And for that we owe the handful of men who make up the Association of Haywood County Veterans of Vietnam one more debt The dedication on the courthouse lawn Friday of the monument to those 21 we lost in Indochina was heavy with emotion. It served also as a reminder that the business is not yet finished. We still do not know the fate of 2.4M men from many small communities who served us in Vietnam, in people or to the highest levels of our elected government officials, the president, the Con gress.. .that there would be something done," Hendon said in an interview after the ceremonines. "There is no president alive who would ever have reclassified Freddie Hall., or anybody else., presumed dead if they had seen what I've seen. "Jimmy Carter was the great human rights advocate, a fine, decent man. ..no ques tion. He would never have allowed that to hap pen if he had known, but it happened in his ad ministration, while this stuff is sitting there way down deep in the stacks." The "stuff" to which Hendon referred is information collected by the United States government and by the National League of Families which Hendon and the League feel offer irrefutable evidence American ser vicemen are still captives of communist governments in Indochina. This is how Hendon thinks it happened: "(Former President Richard) Nixon, in the Paris Peace Accords Article 21... which (Henry) Kissinger initiated and Bill Rogers signed on behalf of the country , .said that the United States of America will participate in the healing of wounds of war and in post-war and so forth. And if I'd been in Congress, I'd have said, 'No.' "So the Vietnamese said, 'Here are the prisoners back. Where's our money?' "Nixon said, "Sorry, I can't get it through Congress.' Hendon claims he can "document" all of that. That Americans are being held hostage "is clear," Hendon said because the fantagon and the State Department have evidence that communist governments in Southeast Asia and individual communist leaden have told others they are. Why are the president and Congress be ing kept in the dark? Hendon has an idea about that, too: "I'm not sure whether you can say it's a great conspiracy where everybody (in the Pentagon and State Department) got together in 1973 and said they (men reported missing in action) were all dead... although I believe that and I've been told that.. .but I don't have any real proof other than what I've been told. "But it was an untenable situation for the country. The country was torn apart as everybody remembers, and there was a feel ing we had to get out of over there. And I think the intentions were not that bad at the onset. "1 think they thought we can work this thing out. Let's just get the heck out, as the Paris Peace Accords direct, and we'll work it (accounting for the MIAs) out. Of course, the communists are pretty hard to deal with, and they never worked it out. "I'm confident we came to a point where we said we're not going to legitimatize, for ex ample, the Pathet Lao movement. ..or whatever... by negotiating with them, so they just turned and watted away. "But then the evidence started coming in (about Americans still held prisoner)." "Reports initially were not classified un til the stories started getting so hot ttoey (Pen-" tagon and State Department bureaucrats) couldn't take it, so they stamped a big na tional security stamp on it. That's nothing to do with national security. National pride is what it is. And they don't want the American people to know that they left our guys behind. "It's hard to believe, but I am totally con vinced, based on what I have read and what I have seen, that these things never get to the decisionmakers." With thoughts like those, no wonder Hen don has spent some sleepless nights. Did we leave almost 2,500 men in Viet namese prisons? Have mid-level bureaucrats been witholding evidence of that from the president and the Congress? FTom the American people? If the final muster for our own lost men can, in some way, spur the country to find the answers, it will make the pain a little more bearable. And it will be a little easier for our young men and womeato respond the next time we ask them to march in the national interest. Washington Post writes off Jesse Helms' reelection bid By PAUL T. O'CONNOR RALEIGH - The political editor ? of The Washington Post must have lost their col lective common senese a cou pi* of wista ago. They ran a story in the premiere edition of their national weekly say ing, "For Jesse Maims, it's all over but the counting. There woa't be any ? of the titans against Go* Hunt in MM because Helms can t win." The story was written by Richard Whittle, formei Washington correspondent I political obituary. He simply restate* some historical facte from the careers of Helms and Got. Jim Hunt, Helms' ex pected 19M opponent. Whittle certainly could have a good case that Helms