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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1975
Simon And Corporate Ethics
Treasury Secretary Simon took the kind of stand that needs to
be fully supported by the rest of the administration if it expects
American business to live up to its best ethical and legal standards.
Instead of accepting company justifications of bribery as a means
of doing business overseas, Mr. Simon deplored the Lockheed
Aircraft Corporation's use of bribery and its failure to disclose this
practice. He said that, if the company resumes the payments which
it says it has stopped, he would favor ending the government's
guarantee of up to $250 million in loans to Lockheed under
bail-out legislation narrowly passed by Congress in ignorance of the
bribery. The 1971 law is scheduled to run to September of next
year.
It might well be argued that Lockheed has already forfeited its
claim to government support by what Mr. Simon called its
"apparent long-standing practice of resorting to bribery to sell its
products in foreign markets." But at least Mr. Simon seems to be
saying thus far and no farther. And this is a welcome contrast with
what some senators regard as executive branch tolerance of dubious
practices when it comes to stimulating American arms sales abroad.
Also welcome was Mr. Simon's assurance that the "great
majority" of U.S. companies in business abroad do not resort to
bribery. Lockheed had raised doubts by arguing its $22 million in
questioned payments "are consistent with practices engaged in by
numerous other companies abroad, including many competitors,
and are in keeping with business practices in many foreign
countries."
It is hoped that Mr. Simon's rejection of the that's-business or
everybody-does-it argument for wrongdoing will have an impact not
only against bribery abroad but against the whole gamut of illegal
or unethical practices through which some companies and some
individuals are injuring the free enterprise system from within.
On the record, for example, are convictions of corporations and
executives for campaign financing violations; indictments of grain
dealers for dishonest practices; suits against companies for failing to
disclose political slush funds and bribery; investigations of more
than 100 companies for possible tax violations to do with political
payments. In the realm of payoffs and conflict-of-interest involving
illegalities, the cost to the economy this year is expected to be S14
billion, or 1 percent of the gross national product, according to a
lawyer specializing in such cases. The cost 30 years ago was less
than $1 billion.
In the eyes of consumer advocate Ralph Nader and four
congressmen, it all adds up to a "corporate crime wave" that
requires special Justice Department action including the setting up
of of a division on corporate crime. The group's request to
Attorney General Levi was publicized just the day before Mr.
Simon spoke this week.
An article in the business magazine Fortune this month also
expresses concern about what it describes as "the recent flurry of
business scandals." It does not refer to a crime wave but concludes
that "it is fair to say that there are too many companies toward the
bottom of the spectrum of corporate morality and not enough near
the top."
This clearly so, or so many of America's biggest firms would not
be involved in the scandals. But is less a wave of crime than a
surfacing of practices that need to be corrected. And correction
requires an atmosphere for ethics fostered not only at the top but
by every individual businessman and company. Without such an
atmosphere, all the established governmental anti-crime measures -
or any new Justice Department agency - face the possibility of
cynical undercutting.
Here the Fortune article offers a perspective on ethical conduct
worth applying in any field of organization: "For most businesses,
simply to follow legal minimums of conduct ... would be to live by
lesser standards than their top executives believe in. After all. laws
exist only to prevent what society regards as the grossest of
infractions."
Where do an executive's standards come from? "An internal
compass whose obscured markings are a half-remembered heritage
from earlier religious training." Thus does a hard-nosed business
magazine connect with fundamental sources of conduct. In
America's religious heritage lie the basic tools for revitalizing
corporate ethics and checking corporate crime.
? Christian Science Monitor
Stories Behind Words
by William S. Penfitki
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not have it ao easy, though. Firet built
in fireplace* uaed to be the only way
of heating a building and, at beat, it
vat poorly heated.
Back then a theater audience had to
bundle up in winter, for there was no
heat in the auditorium. There was a
fireplace in the lobby, and the
audience usually retired there during
intermission.
The French word for a fireplace was
"foyer". The lobby or entrance hall ?
the place where the Fireplace was
located - was referred to as a "foyer".
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It's really not fair that books,
plays, and movies are reviewed, when
most of us will never become writers
or directors. The mighty
accomplishments of the common
man go unrecognized and
unrewarded, and we newspaper
columnists shouldn't overlook a
chance to right this wrong, and give
aspiring young artists more notice.
A remarkable, yes, even brillant
composition was written by a new.
sensitive young writer, seven year ?
old Gloria Gluckbaum. Here is an
honest, objective review of this work.
*'Mv Kitty", the latest
composition by Gloria Gluckbaum.
mirrors the complex ambivalence of
the authoress's mind in a manner to
which none but her richly
obfuscating native idiom lends itself.
In sparse prose. Miss Gluckbaum
depicts the dark and brooding
unnatural love of a seven year - old
girl for her cunning feline
"companion".
Fuppy lireek
Philosopher
Dear editor :
I have been puzzling over the idea
some people in Washington have that
the way to conserve gasoline is to
raise the price.
As I understand it. this theory is
based on the notion that people drive
their cars needlessly, so it" you can
get the price of gas up high enough a
man will think twice before getting
in his car when he could have walked
or taken a bus. less and less gasoline
will be used and then maybe there'll
be enough to go around, at least for
those in the upper brackets.
However, some people already are
as thirfty with their car as they arc
with their money, and a man of this
turn of mind is already holding his
driving down to a minimum, which
means, under the Washington theory,
that while he won't drive fewer
miles, he'll pay a lot more for the
same miles. Right here, a man gets
confused over whether raising the
price of gas is a conservation measure
or a revenue measure.
Now as far as making less thrifty
people cut down on their driving is
concerned. I don't believe
Washington understands human
nature. With a lot of people, driving a
car is like drinking coffee. A cup of
coffee used to cost a nickel, then a
dime, and now it's all the way from
15 cents to 30 cents, but nobody is
drinking less coffee. As a
coffee-conservation measure, raising
the price is a Hop. The same goes for
cold drinks, chewing gum. cigarettes
and for all I know lollypops and
all-day suckers. Why. Congress has
just raised the price of a
Congressman, but you don't see
fewer of them, do you?
The American public is hooked on
cars, and while it's hard to see how
we can do it. if the price of gas goes
to a dollar a gallon, there'll be just as
many traffic jams as ever. Actually,
the only sure way to conserve
gasoline is to abolish weekends,
holidays, summer vacations, and
football games, require teenagers
during the week to stay home and
study, and then look out for a
revolution.
I'm afraid Washington has been
getting some bad advice. Raising the
price of gasoline to cut down on its
use is like raising the price of milk to
keep babies from drinking so much
of it. Even if it worked, you'd wind
up with a lot of unhappy babies.
Yours faithfully-.
J.A.
Few writers have successfully
achieved the ultimate fusion of
identities between woman and beast
as has Miss Gluckbaum when she
writes "I luv my Kitty". Notice the
use of the prosaic word "kitty", not
"cat", as a lesser writer would have
used. For Kitty implies innocence
not yet betrayed - a clear forest pool
unsullied by the dead leaves of
experience and pollution.
The very structure of her sentence
aims at a microcosmic synthesis of
the opposing forces that inspire the
overall pattern of Miss Gluckbaum's
work. She is surely conscious of the
impcriousness of her demands when
she laments, "I wish my Kitty would
youse the luttur box".
Gloria Gluckbaum, struggling with
the world no man has made, yet
never attempting to abandon it, has
constructed many worlds within it,
permanently fresh and strange, as
when site writes, "I want my kitty to
play wit me but she wont. She rather
go out and play wit uther cats".
Miss Gluckbaum's previous
compositions, "My New Kitten", and
her never to be forgotten, "My
Kitten Plays Wit a Ball of Wull."
showed the budding talent of a
sensitive observer ol tne ever -
changing history of man's
relationship to the mystical non -
verbal world of the beast. In "My
Kitty", Gloria Gluckbaum shows her
growth and maturity as a writer. She
has at last emerged into the pantheon
of composition ? writing "greats".
A rumor persists that Miss
Gluckbaum is currently working on
still another provocative venture,
perhaps her most ambitious work to
date, entitled "Du/ Anybudy Want
Some Kittens?"
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Browsing in the files
of The News-Journal
25 years ago
Thursday, Agusut 31,1950
Mrs. J.M. Baker, clerk of the Hoke
County draft hoard, announced this
week that 30 men from the county
had been notified this week to report
to the induction station in
Fayetleviile on September 7 for pre ?
induction physical examinations.
Mrs. R. Lee Bethune died at 1:30
last Saturday morning in a
Fayetteville hospital after an illness
of several months, the latter few
weeks of which she was in critical
condition.
June Hall, 12 ? year ? old daughter
of Warrant Officer and Mrs. James
Hall, who live in the old T.B. Lester
home near here, was taken to a
Raleigh hospital this week with
symptons which have been diagnosed
as infantile paralysis, it was reported
yesterday.
The Hoke County High School
football squad, 30 strong, began
workouts for the 1950 season in
Armory park lasrt Wednesday under
the tutelage of Coach Haywood
Faircloth. In his squad of 30 Coach
Faircloth has 10 lettermen from last
year's squad. These are Robert
McGirt, Billy Lester, Doc Ivey, John
McLauchlin. Dave Barrington, James
Tapp, Carson Davis, Fred Holland,
Earl Hendrix and Thomas Alexander.
15 years ago
Thursday, September 1, 1960
One of the landmarks on West
Elwood Avenue is no more ?? Harvey
Warlick has moved his FCX store out
on the 401 bypass so that it can be
near his feed mill.
The Hoke High School Bucks are
coming into their own across the
country it seems. Named to the
starting eleven are Larry Upchurch
and Bill McPhaul.ends; Mickey Riley
and Horace Walters at the tackles,
Johnny Sams and Bill Cameron at
guards, Charles Wheeler at center,
Jimmy Byrd at quarterback, Larry
Phillips and Bill Howell at halfback
posts and Jimmy Guin at fullback.
The budget and admission
committee of the Hoke County
United Fund campaign has arrived at
a tentative budget that will be
presented to a meeting of the Board
of Directors in the Johnson
Company office tomorrow at 4:00
p.m. John Campbell, U-F president
announces.
State and use tax collections from
Hoke County amounted to $107,737
during the 1959 fiacal year from July
1958 through June 1959 according
to figures furnished to the Raeford
Hoke Chamber of Commerce by the
N.C. Department of Revenue.
CUFF BLUE ...
People & Issues
N. Y. CONVENTION ... With the
Democrats having decided to hold
their 1976 National Convention in
New York City, a little digging into
history brings to light some
interesting facts about the last time
the Democrats held their convention
there in 1924 ?? 51 years ago.
William Gibbs McAdoo, a Georgia
native, a son-in-law of President
Woodrow Wilson and a citizen of
California at that time, and Governor
A1 Smith of New York were the two
major candidates, with McAdoo
leading Smith in delegate strength.
That was back in the days when the
Democrats had the "two-thirds rule"
which made it necessary for tire
nominee to receive two-thirds of the
voting delegates to be nominated.
McAdoo who had served as Wilson's
Secretary of the Treasury received
almost 50 percent of the votes but
nowhere near the two thirds
necessary.
That was back in the days of
national prohibition. McAdoo was a
"Dry" and Smith was a "Wet." The
North Carolina delegation supported
McAdoo and it took several days and
103 ballots for the convention to
nominate anyone. Finally after the
McAdoo and Smith forces fought it
out for a hundred ballots, the
convention turned to John W. Davis
of West Virginia as the party's
standard bearer and chose Governor
Charles W. Bryan of Nebraska as the
vice presidential candidate.
BRYAN SPEAKS . . . During the
long deadlock WDIiam Jennings
Bryan who had three times been the
presidential candidate of the
Democratic Party was called upon to
speak. Bryan spoke in favor of
McAdoo but also listed several
Democratic leaders, who he said
would make strong candidates,
among them being the late Josephus
Daniels of North Carolina who had
served as Wilson's Secretary of the
Navy during the Wilson
Administration.
While Bryan's great influence
within the party had greatly
diminished it was regarded as his
influence which brought about the
nomination of his brother Charlie for
vice president.
The Congress has been in its
annual August recess during the past
month and now returns to face
several problems which must be
resolved without undue delay.
Even though Congress was in
recess during August, inflation took
no time off. During the past month
the prices of food, automobiles and
GOVERNOR BROWN . . . New
York City and Los Angeles were the
two major cities bidding for the
Democratic convention. Before the
Democratic selection committee
tapped New York as the convention
site it was brought up that Los
Angeles lacked proper hotel facilities
and to this statement Governor
Brown of California, who we
understand has declined to live in the
governor's mansion, suggested that
the overflow sleep in church
basements, which then decided in
favor of New York.
Referring back to the 1924
Democratic convention held in New
York, the party's candidates were
soundly defeated in the fall election
by Calvin Coolidge and Charles G.
Dawes -- candidates of the
Republican Party.
GUBERNATORIAL . . . With
Former Speaker James Ramsey
having decided against running for
governor. House Speaker Jimmy
Green is expected to make a decision
soon as to whether to run for 4
governor or lieutenant governor.
With Ramsey out of the
speculation and Bob Scott having
taken himself out of running for
either governor or lieutenant
governor in 1976 it appears that the
field is beginning to narrow. Lt. Gov.
Jim Hunt is a sure candidate and Ed
O'Herron and Skipper Bowles are
telling their friends that they are
getting ready to run. While Senator
Strickland has been telling friends
that he is planning to run he has not
made a definite statement
announcing his candidacy.
Bowles and O'Herron are said to
be well-fixed financially and would
be able to run the race without
having to spend too much of tlieir
time raising funds to carry on the
campaign.
BUSINESS 'SHACKLES' . . .
President Ford in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, a day last week, blamed
"federal red tape, restrictive tax laws
and inflation" for strangling business
growth. Well, wc don't know of any
person in a better position to lift the
"shackles" than the President of the
United States. Now is a good time to
act. Two years from oow he just
might be a private citizen.
Report
To The
People
by Senator Robert Morgan
steel increased and there seems no
relief ahead. This was underscored a
few days ago when major oil
companies announced even higher
gasoline prices.
And this is one of the problems
which now confronts the returning
Congress.
President Ford's determination to
end all controls on the price of
domestic oil will surely send the cost
of gasoline and fuel oil higher. I
would not be surprised to sec
gasoline selling for 80 cents a gallon
by Christmas if all controls are
removed.
There is also great pressure on to
take controls off natural gas which is
transmitted through interstate
pipeline. Letters from gas companies
to North Carolina manufacturers
telling them that gas won't be
avilable this winter has caused some
consternation--and in some cases near
panic-in the business world.
These are very real and very
imminent threats to the state's
economy and to North Carolinians
who drive cars or who use natural gas
in their homes.
If all controls are removed, then
inflation will get a boost and the
consumer, already suffering almost
more than he can stand, gets pushed
closer to the wall.
In the case of natural gas, we are
told by the oil and gas companies,
unless controls are taken off the
factories will close and we'll have
more unemployment, which is
something else we cannot tolerate.
If there ever was a time for
compromise between those who
want controls removed and those
who are suspicious that they are
being ripped off, I think now is that
time.
I have always strongly favored the
free enterprise system, but it is not
enou^t to justify the removal of
controls by just shouting "free
enterprise." Competition is supposed
to bring down prices, but here we
have a situation where most of our
energy-oil, natural gas and even
coal-is under the control of a few
large oil companies.
Hopefully, some compromise can
be worked out that will let us have
the energy we need while doing a
minimum of harm to the consumer.
There are other matters the
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