5aturdly, May 1^ 195^

Saturday, May 16, 1969

Innocent Bystanders

Someone Had To Bring This Up

Trusteees of East Carolina College would have been negligent in discharging their responsibilities to the state and to their institution had they not pointed out forcefully to the Joint Appropriations Committee the discrimination in suggested increased appropriations for institutions of higher learning.

l^eaders of the Joint Appripriation* Committee had suggested that from the extra $16 million in estimated revenues for the next biennium, a total of 3.2 million be added to appropriations for the Greater niver&ity and that 1.11 million be added to appropriations for all other state-supported colleges.

While we recognize the fact that the Greater University must have additionl funds if it is to carry out the program expected of it by the people ofKorth Carolina, we also recognize the fact that higher education in North Carolina is not a one-shot proposition. VVe must strengthen our great university, and at the same time w-e must also strengthen our other institutions of higher learning. To neglect one segment of our Mystem of higher education for the sake-of emphasizing the other would be folly indeed.

Already appropriations of $614 per capita have been recommended for the Greater University compared with recommendations of appropriations averaging about $353 per capita for East Carolina College, Appalachian State Teachers College and Western Carolina College, Thts gap would be further widened if the Joint Appropriations Committee follows the suggestion that approximately 75 per cent of the additional funds for higher education be designated for the

A Bigger Bite On Deserters

Bjr LYNN NISBET

DESERTERS Dr. Ellen Winston. commissioner of welfare, told t House committee the other day that about one-fourth of the welfare load for aid to dependent children is occasioned by deserting fathers. Every one of the 49 States has Joined in adopting basic principles of the uniform reciprocal support act, under which responsible fathers when found In another State can be brought Into court and required to contribute to support of his children.

North Carolina's Judicial machinery for enforcing the act has been Inadequate chiefly becftuse responsibility has not been definitely fixed on any particular official, and because pro-reedlngs could be Initiated only In a domestic relations or county superior court. Bills Introduced by Sen, Elbert Peel, passed by the Senate and now In House commlttefss, would authorise ac-lion In any court of record < which Includea most of the recorder courU) and would aped-ilcally charge the superior court solicitor or a specially deslgnatr c(l attorney with responsibility for carrying them through.

Dr, Winston said the State Is now collecting around $400.000 a year from fathers to aid In suP' port of deserted children, and she thinks provisions of the Peel bills wiU make It easy to collect more than twice that amount.

These bills are in line with sentiment expressed by several editors at the Eastern North Carolina Press AsMoclatlnn last week that enforcement of the support act should be strengthened and localised as a major step toward reducing the burden on public welfare funds for children born out of wedlock or deserted by the heads of fam-Ules,

NOMENCLATURE - Objection raised to designation of North Carolina as a "Christian State" In the proposed new consUtii-tlon was quickly overruled on the ground that the accepted meaning of the term did not llm-K H to belief in the Christ or ia those who are affiliated with ome denomination In which a baslo tenet is the divinity of Jesus. It has a broader connola-Uon closely analogous to olvUla-atlon and enlightened.

Pupils of public schools W) years and more ago will remember that tle peoples of the world were bracketed In four major classtflcationR; savage, barbarian, olvlli/ed and enlightened. Used In that sense the term la not offensive to Orthodox Jews, Mahommedans or other non-Christian religious sects.

Similar loose iise is made of -the designation of our social orrt-,Tar as "Anglo-Saxon." While -most of the stabitory laws of ~JIorth Carolina stem from the

old English common law, many of the customs and much of the real culture of the state Is affected as much by Celtic, Teutonic and Roman influences as by the narrow Anglo-Saxon.

The so-called English language Is replete with redundant phrases like "aid and abet," "tp have and to hold" and hundreds more indicating the Influence of the Prench-Latln element after the Norman conquest upon the ancient Anglican language.

So when reference ts made to a Christian state or Anglo-Saxon culture no offense Is Intended tfrward adherents of non-Christ-lan religions or descendants of Irish, Scotch, German, French and other non-Anglican forebears. Somewhat In the same way common usage makes nearly all cameras Kodaks and most food cooling gadgets Refrlgera-Uirs, although these are trade mark names for particular products.

GERRMANDERINO The visit of David Clark of Llncoln-lon'to Capitol Square this week revived interest in probability of North Carolina losing a re-{iresentative In the Congress under the IIHK) census and some of the "gerrymandering" that might result from redlstrlcUng the state to accommodate U Instead of 12 representatives.

Clark is an active candidate for Congress In the 10th district, where last year he ran a close second to Republican Incumbent Charles Raper Jonas. Jonas Is the only Republican In the Congress from North Carolina, has held the seat since 19.53 Democratic leaders have more or less openly said that a redlstrlct-Ing plan would make sure that Lincoln was put In a reasonable sure Democratic district perhaps in one where a Dernocra-llc Incumbent lives. That would "take care of" Jonas, but it also might block Clark from going to Congress.

Redlslrlctlni cannot be effected J)cfore the 19l General Assembly and action then will be Influenced by result of the JiMH) election. If Clark wins the districting Strategists will revise present Intentions. If Jonas or some other Republican wins, the plan likely will be carried through to gerrmanrter Unes so as to Include him out.

Meantime, Clark and his friends are not worrying alMiut 1961 and thereafter. They are concentrating efforts on winning the 1960 election. Tlte 1958 campaign in the loth dlslct was not complicated by state or national races, although It did get Involved In some comty contests. It Is conceded on all sides that next years campaign will be Influenced by the presidential contest, as well ss stale races for Governor and United States Aenator

Greater Univeraity and only 25 per cent for the other institutions.

Considering the matter, it should not be overlooked that the predicted average enrollment of the Greater University during the biennium is estimated at 16,800 while the predicted enrollment at the other degree-granting institutions is estimated at 14,900. These 1^1,900 students in the other state colleges should not be penalized during the coming biennium to provide even higher education appropriations for the benefit of the 16,800 students who will be enrolled in the Greater University.

It must also be recognized that the institutions other than the Univen/ity turn out the higher percentage of teachers who enter the classrooms of North Carolinas public schools. Unless these teachers are prepared, unless the institutions charged with the re-s^on.sibility for preparing them have adequate funds with which to work, the overall fabric of education in North Carolina cannot be strengthened. If teachers are not well prepared for their responsibilities, how can our public schools turn out students who are well prepared for the higher education opportunities which are before them?

By pointing out the discrimination in the proposal for dividing these additional funds, the Board of Trustees of East Carolina College has performed an important service to higher education in North Carolina. They have been criticized already for their action. They have been accused of selfish motives in behalf of the institution they represent.

Such accusations notwithstanding, the ECC tru.s-tees spoke out with sound words at a moment when someone needed to point out the shortcomings of the proposed division of funds. Their words, we trust, will not fall on deaf ears in the Joint Appropriations Committee. I" *

Safety Interests Lose An Important Adjunct

In killing the controversial drunkometer bill, the legislature has denied the courts of the state an instrument which would have been of considerable value in determining whether a person charged with driving drunk was actually guilty of the crime.

It denied the courts the use of device that would offer greater a.HSurance of convicting those guilty of driving drunk and actjuitling those charged with the crime but not guilty of the offense.

7'he bill would have permitted a much more scicntitic manner of determining whether a person was actually under the influence of alcohol, while driving. And by doing so it would have strengthened the arm of the law in dealing with those drunken driver who endanger the lives and property of others on the highways.

The idea behind the drunkometer tests i.s sound and certainly North Carolina should not indefinitely deny itself the use of such equipment which has proved so effective in other states in dealing wdth cases in which person.H are charged with driving drunk.

The better North Carolina i.s alile to enforce its highway safety laws in the courts, the better program of highway safety the state will have.

Unfortunately, the death of the drunkometer bill at the hands of the legj.slators probably will mean the unnecessary death of North Carolina motorists before vehicles operated by drunken drivers.

Proposals That Neither Acceot

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Our Senators Not Happy

United States senators are considerably less than happy with their new multi-million dollar office building in Washington, Engineering News-Record reports.

The senators have a list of grievances that add up to half a million dollars or so In necessary modifications. The money for the changes in the building, which cost the tax payers originally $26 million, will add up to half million dollars.

Voted for over a decade ago. the building was finished and waiting for the law makers at the end of the Easter recess. By and large, they liked what they saw

a gleaming seven-story structure of white Vermont marble, with Impressively big hearing rooms equipped with the latest In public address systems, handsome bronze light fixtures and heavy walnut doors.

But then It began to dawn on the senators that all was not well. After the lawmakers had tried their wings Ih the building, some went so far as to call it a "colossal blunder." * Blunder or not, the senators do have a lot of grievances.

To their horror, they discovered that due to louvered doors and insufficient soundprooflng their private office conversations can be heard plainly in the public hallways.

Driveways to the two-level underground garage apparently were designed for cars of another era. The lowslung 1959 autos drag at the center on the inclines top and drag on both ends at the bottom.

Fixing this will be costly and expensive since automatic electric snow-melting equipment is Imbedded In the concrete drive.

Other Editors Saying ... ;-ight Over Education

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Hv .lAMEH MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Il is only realistic to expect very little from the foreign minlU*r meet-ing In Geneva or. If It la held later, from a autnmit meeting between President Elsenhower and Premier Khrushchev.

The following posslbllUles seem all that can be expected from all the discussions for a long time:

1. The West and the Soviet Union eventually may reach some agreement Ui stop nuclear weapons testing to av(Ul fallout tlangffs; and they may find some way of easing their dispute over Weat Berlin.

2. If the talks can continue without an explosion, there ?nny he what diplomats like to call an easing of ten.stojis. That's a phrase made of rubber. It could turn out to he real and helpful. It could prove to be a dangeroiui myth.

Here are aom# reasons for not fxperUng arnatlonal agree-menUs, starting with the broadest problem disarmament and going on to the dlsrii.nslon.s at Geneva now among the foreign minister* of the United States, the Soviet Union, Rritaln, France,

A truly broad disarmament aareemenl aeenus out of I he que.vtlon for years. Tlie West la Imgely outnumtrered hy the Cotu-immist world In mtUlary manpower. The only thing the West ha.s to offset the numerical sutx'i'-loiity ts nuclear weapotvs

So long as the West and (ha Soviets retain nuclear weapons, talk of a general disarmament la more idealistic than practical. Hut Isnt U po.aslble the two shies may agree on banning nuch'ftr weapons, too? Not for a long, long time.

Nuclear te.sUng may be detected. But .scientists now have no way of detecting sUxkpUes of nuclear weapons which a nation wants to conceal. So even If both .sides agreed never to tuse nuclear weapoivs in wai, thl.i would be the result;

Neither aide could feel safe about the promise unless both slde| destroyed their nuclear aeapon auppllea. But neither side could be sure such a promise was carried out. when neither can trll whether the other cheated and has secretly stored such weajKina for future iLse

At Oenrva hotli slde.s are making propasis, rueh with its own Interest.H in mind;

The KovieUs a ant the We.st to recogni/r the Cninmunlat govern mrnl of East Germany as the

legitimate govenunent of that country, The West refuses.

F.nch recognition would suit the Soviets tecause It would atrength-en the Communist grip on East Germany and all the other European satelUtea, Any hope the people In those countries atlU had for freedom from Red rule vould be badly diminished.

uut the West wants to keep hope alive in the latellile peoples. Further, the big Western powers are silled with Weat Germany which wants the two Oer-manys united and hopea such unification will mean a Germany linked with the West.

At Geneva the West unveiled a program for eventual unifi-cBtion, with the people of the two Oennanys voting on the kind of Bovcrnmeiit they want.

The West seems to have no doubt of the outcome--a government linked with the West--or it wouldn't have made such an offer. Further, in any voting the West thrmans would outnumber the Ea.ai Germans by better than two to one.

Khrushchev already has aald he w'oulrtnT let Cotiummist East Clermany go eapltallst. So while there may be a lot of gumbeatlng at Geneva over the Western propaiRl whtcl^ the Soviets have sccMned the proposal ace ms doomed

The Soviets want Ihe Western 'Big Three to get their trooiw out of We.vt HerUn, No wonder. That part of Berlin is lOO miles within Communist East Germany. Ita the most real and advanced Western outpost inside the Comnninlat world.

Its a constant Ix'acon of hope for East tlermanys who want to flee to the West. It dLvi>eb any doubt* of those East Germans that the West is standing fasl against total Soviet domination of Ka.at Germany.

But the Weat Insists, for the reason given, plus oiheis. that It won't pull Its trooivs out of berlin. Ami the deadlock n*mains.

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(Raleigh N.C.) Times)

There is never a good time for the forces of education to be fighting against themselves. And, right now Us Just about the worst time for that to happen in North Carolina. ,

Therefore, the resolution adopted ye.sterday by the trustees of East Carolina College la extremely unfortunate. That resolution took some cracks at the Consolidated University of North Carolina for aeemlngly hogging state appropriations. And, whether It meant to or not, that resolution also took cracks at the people who are and will b making those appropriation*.

Tha University people have been careful In all their tppeaiancea before the legislature to speak out for all public education in North Carolina, not Just for the University. In a meeting here just this week, the UNC trustees executive committee closed its statement with: "In our opinion, the people of Nortli Carolina are willing to give the necessary support to the University and to all other State Institutlowi of higher education."

Those who would hold .state spending for all education to the barest minimum, or even below that figure, would like nothing better than to see East Carolina and the Consolidated University In a dogfight, and a public one at that. They would like nothing better than to have a knock-down-and-drag out between the public school people and the hlpher-^education people.

There cannot be any cla.sh of Interest hetween the fb*st grade in the public chool and the senior class at the Consolidated University or at Ea*t Carolina

College, Each of those widely varying classes Is a vital part of the states educational system.

Under that system, the state has allocated professional and graduate training, other than education, to the Consolidated University. Under that allocation. the Consolidated University is charged with the specilized and highly expensive professional training in such subjects as law. medicine, nuclear physics, highly specialized engineering of many kinds. That kind of highly specialized graduate training is expensive, both to the student taking it and to the state.

In their statement of yesterday. the ECC trustees make much of the statistics that the state appropriation per student at the Consolidated University is $614, while It is $353 at East Carolina and the other state-supported colleges. The difference is great, admittedly ao, but It should be noted at 'the same time that the difference in types of training given at the institutions also is great and must be great in view of the allocation of functions made by the state.

East Carolina has done a terrific job during its short lift time, especially during the postwar years. Its stature as an institution of higher learning has grown by leaps and bounds during recent years. Undoubtedly It could wisely use more state appropriations.

But. until more state money is available, the appropriations' for ail slate Institutions should be on the present basts of allocation of functloiw.

And. iU the forces for education should stick together.

In the hearing rooms, the senators sit on a raised dias that keeps them a considerable distance from witnesses, and with elections due soon they no longer show up In the background when the witness is photographed.

Too, one committee worried that the senators when stepping from the raised dias into an adjoining room, would neglect to make the step 4^n with disastrous consequences to their dignity and bone structure.

As a result, a raised platform complete with shiny hand rails was extended into the adjoining room.

The office building was equipped with the latest in automatic elevators. But someone fcmgot that impatient senators traditionally buzz iree times when they want Immediate elevator service. The new machines are not set up to record anything beyond the first buzz.

As a stop gap, two eleavators have been set aside for senators. Now the experts are trying to "retain" the elevators to recognize and answer a senators urgent call.

There were even complaints about the slick, rubber tile used throughout most of the building. Two girls already have been hospitalized from falls on the flows. Whats more, the tile fails to act as a sound absorbant material.

So wall-to-wall carpeting is being proposed for all offices at a co.st of $150.000.

In the new hearing rooms, each senator is provided with individual control buttons to turn his microphone on and off. In practice, frustrated law makers have found themselves talking into dead mikes one minute and having their private asides to their neighbors broadcast to the room the next.

And the amplifying system is hooked to the bell system by which senators are summoned to the floor for Important votes. The belles are designed to have a soft, soothing tone, but they hoot like a fog horn when amplified by the speaker system.

When it comes to placing the blame, the collective senatorial face turns red. Design and con-strucUon were supervised and approved every step of the way, by the Senate Office Building Commission a group of senators chosen by Hie Senate Itself.

One of the many problems which arose was solved by the senators just like we common people might have solved It.

The new desks for employees proved to be so low slung that secretaries could not get their legs under them. Solution was simple, if crude wooden blocks were installed under the desk legs.

Said He Was No Singer

By WILLIAM GLOVEH NEW YORK <AP> When Jim Morris was in seventh grade back In Greensboro, N.C., he couldnt sing in the Christmas choir.

"They said I had no voice." Morris says with the satisfied grin of a guy who has loi^ since proved teacher dead wrong.

Jim was recently chosen from several hundred candidates to p<Miray Stephen Poster in the summer - long melody pageant about the famous composer scheduled to start June 26 at Bards-town. Ky.

The slender. 31-year-old baritone aims to liberate Fosters folk music from its latter-day reputation of too-swect sentimentality.

"Some jaws drop when I tak# tie verse of Old Kentucky Home* at twice normal speed." he says. "But then people relax.

There Isnt any disrespect it's just injecting the origihal vitality*

"Poster has been mundanely treated, with a lack of flair. But when you read about him singing his own songs you discover he,had a whale of a flair. People who knew Poster said no one could sing his music as well as he could."

Jim was in Europe last year, hard at his own singing career, when he heard about the Foster project. His dad. James Rouse Miwrrls Sr., who hails from near Bardstown, read about it.

"I write the producer," recalls young Morris, and was more extrovert than I usually am, and told him I somehow felt I would be right for the part."

Jim set his sights on a musical i career in childhood. After his vocalizing failure in grade school he developed high skill on the oboe and other reed Instruments. After completing high school, his mother, an amateur singer, got a local teacher to give him voice le.ssons.

The results this time were better, and Morris moved on to'the Juliiard School of Music in New York, joined the Robert Shaw Chorale and garnered wide experience in various stage musical productions.

After two years of military service, Morris returned to singing and in 1956 was in the original "My Fair Lady" company.

Jim was born In August, 1827 at Thomasville, Ga., but the family home soon after became Greensboro. He is married to Myrtle Oakley, of Wilson, N.C., a stunning former model.

They have a young son, James m, who hasnt yet indicated whether he will sing, act or play an oboe.

Strength

For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE OLD AND THE NEW

On a square, brick building In a mid-western town I saw these words built into the outside wall: A.J .Smith. 1881, Livery Stable. On the first floor of the building were two large stores, one selling TV sets and the other high priced automobiles.

Eighteen hundred and eighty (me to nineteen hundred fifty ninefrom a livery stable to a building engaged in the sale and distribution of the most modem types of merchandise. The masthead of the old days was stUl prominently displayed, but so was the adaptation to new conditions and demand* as set fortti in the two modern stores on the first floor.

Happy life consists in the capacity to accomodate ones self to new ccmditions and circum-statKies. Too much adaptation and one has compromise; too little, and one has stagnaticm and death. Anyone who would have persisted in the livwTr stable stable business and harness making and selling in the face of the growing demand for automobiles, would have been foolish Indeed. Anyone who would have thrown up hands and given up before the 'onrush of modern modes would hsvs been even more foolish. Yet thousands of people who plunged into the sutomoblle business fifty years ago went broke.

The right thing at the right time. Balance does it. A.J. Smith, whoever he was, taught his dea-cendents kow to t um livery tables Into modem, well equipped stores.

Two Sides To Franchise Picture

Ry EI.MF.R ROESSNFR

So you're going to start a bu.l-ne.s-s! Hhould you plunge In with your own siout heart or should you buy g franchise'*

You can get franchises to oper? ate roadside restaurantii. ice crearu and custard .stands, gr^ eery stores, dnig.stores. molel* and many other kinds of busi-neivse.s. The neu est one I* a home-owners club; if you have $25,900 to start, Ernest Curtis of Detroit will get you Into bivxine.*;* in 99 dav.i.

There la no pat answer.

M.any enterprisers have plunged ahead on their own and, ait-ting in the ruins of their busi-m"-.se.*s. have wondered whydhey hadn't avoided trouble by making a franchise deal, An<1 many other have taken franchisfs only to bemoan the fact that thev didn't rely on thenwelves, per-hap.s as their w ive.s had urged -them'

BOIII siHFS OF SCAI F.

There art aUvantage* and dis-

advantagei to fianchises. Ad-lautages:

You get know-how. The companies offering franchises have bought a lot ol talent to tell you thing* you might not know.

You get experience. Mr. Cur-tts. for example, spent 18 months and $75.909 getting his first club operating. Other franchise seller# it raw from the success and failures of dozens of other franchise holder*.

You get a plan. A good franchise scheme will tell you what steps to take in what order, something in innocent investor might have to figure out for himself and then figure wrong.

You get promotion. Franchise operators offer not only a package of newspaper, radio, television and billboard promotion, but they often offer their own advertising in print and on the avr

You get reeogniiion. Potential customer recc>gnize vour establishment. Example; Hundreds of

travelers never eat tlsewhert when theres a Howard Johnson restaurant nearby.

These are disadvantages!

You pay. All franchise systems charge down payments and continuing percentages.

You sacrifice control. You have to follow the franchise plan, even if you think a variation would be better However, these rules are spelled out in initial contracts.

Youre bound. Because you have greed to U. you usally have to obtain supplies, etc., from certain sources. If you dont, you're penalized

You waste experience. To *onne extend, you have to do things the way the franchiser says, even if you know a better way.

You share otliera* faults. An

abandoned ice cream stxnd bearing the same name as yours may hurt your business. A few travelers never eat at a Howrard Johnston restauraut becauM ol

aomo fauU in th aervice at a aingle shop.

THE NEWEST VARIETY The home-ownera club Idea is this: Franchisers line up plumbers, radio and television repairmen. gardeners, carpenter* and other fixers and offer them bui-neas for 10 per cent of the bill, providing they follow certain rule*. Then the franchisers sign up homeowners at $12 a year, usually.

Por that theyre guaranteed emergency service at any hour, reasonable ratea on emergency and guaranteed work.

Contractors get new business and collection o their bilJa Whether one should buy a franchise under any plan dependa on many factors: the plan itself, his own abUUiea, his temperament and his experience.

And surely no one should sign a franchise agreement without Consulting his own lawyer and without talking to other franchi&a holdcra.