PAGB FOCI

Tuesday, May 26, 1959

Ever Growing In Size And Service

Purely, Platonic?

The 905 degrees conferred by^ East Carolina College in its commencement exercises Sunday is further evidence of the service that the Institution is yeiiZi^ng to North Carolina.

The list of ECC graduates in the class of 1959 probably contains a considerably higher percentage of North Carolinians than any of the other larger state supported institutions. It also contains the names of more young men and women who will be taking their places in public school classrooms throughout the state next year than the list of graduates from other institution in the state.

Another striking thing about the class of 1959 at ]|C is that the number of graduates this year is almost equal to what the total enrollment of ECC was ton or 12 years ago.

In the past decade East Carolina College has grown by leaps and bounds. Its growth in enrollment fias been surpa^ssed only by the demands made upon it by the young people of this and other sections of North Carolina who are seeking a college education. In spite of its tremendous growth in enrollment, ECC has been forced almost every year during the past ten to turn away students simply because it did not Itoe accommodations for them.

Its growth ha.s been limited not by the desire of young people to attend the college, but by the physical plant which it had. That too has been expanded rapidly m the past decade, but even so, it has not

Some Issues For ;.960 Cdmoaian

By LVNN NISBKT POLITICAL Development of the past ten day* have tended to create some political issue* for the 1960 campaign, without emergence o any Individual as a knight in shining armor to lead the people In any particular direction. To the contrary It almoat eema that as Issue* develop individual champions Jo^e prestige, largely because of croa* current* and overlapping line-ups.

Thi* situation Is illustrated by the progrea* itory of the tax wlihholding windfall plan and development* in the Joint com-nilttee on constitutional revlaiun, particularly in the aiea of courts. With respect to buUi piojects it U* an interim priigre.sa le-port, because final action Ls *till iji doubt. There are polenUid campaign issues in some nmllers which apparently have tM^en settled, *0 far as this Legislature can deal with them, but here too It I* difficult to Identify champion* or award blame and crcfllt.

Outstanding In this Hat I* enactment of a minimum wage law and failure of bills eeklng to upset tlip existing highway department orgainzatlon. These are cretilted as victories for (iovernor Hod es. but in both Instances the result was accomplished by substantial aid from what are usually regar^led as an-tbadmlnlslratlon folks. The proposed Incentive fund for Stale-focal matching of school funds, a apeclal favorite of the Governor, was defeated wilh sul>-Stantlal help from strong pro-adminlstratlon memtKus. lii none of these Instances wsis there outstanding Individual leadership liy any person who can capllall/.e on results In the ,fiext primary. The Oovernar plan* to increase ABC board member* and reduce UtlUtle* Commission ineiii-berahlp were defeated, but agaln by such crosed-line voting as In rllmlnate poesiblllty of any two r three person* claiming credit.

WITHHOLDING While there ha* been acute difference of opinion about the policy of withholding Btate Income taxes, the real controversy has been over the budget recommetulatlons, championed by Governor Hodge*, to use $27.5 million of double-pay-Itients next year to balance the upcoming budget, and over the tiue*tion of requiring corporation* as well a* individuals to pay in advance. The House committee declined to Include corporations; the Senate committee put them In one day, took them out the pext. In these cases the lines within the fommlMees were fairly clear as between pro and anil admlnlstratlnn forces.

It is, significant, hnwever, that tnot of the newspapers in the Piedmont and Western comtmmi ties, where Hodges position as a businessman Governor la hlgh-3y popular, have produced num

erous editorial* pointing out the dbicrlmlnatlon Hi forcing self-employed Individual* to make advance estimates and payments of Income taxe* and relievlng corporation* of this obligallon. WhaU'ver the final action may be on witiiholdlng, windfall, corpora-tlojislti or out. there seems now little cliance any particular catidl-rlate can capltallsie on that resuH as a canjpalgn issue. At the same time, It seems Inevitable it will be an Issue in ttie overall campaign for State and legislative offices.

GONSTITUTION Almost, the same situation prevails \*'Ub respect to constitutional revisions and court refurin. At b^'gin-nlng of the session and tor several iTioiiUis prior to that date there was so nuich publtcHv about the work of the N.C, Har A.ssoclattun study committee ctmlrmaned by Sen. Spencer Bell of Mecklenburg that for a time lie loomed as a prospective re conl7x*d leader. Governor Hodges delivered a special message to a Joint session In which he largely championed the Bell committee recommendation*.

After more than three month* consideration by full Joint com-niiftee and subcommlltee* a court section draft for a new constitution has been promulgated which bears little resem-lilance to the original Bell committee propo.sals. Almost eer-Uiluly H win be subjected to furtlier revLiion before It Is submitted to vote of the people If court reform ultimately Is submitted and ratified by popular vole, the text will t)e so mucti the prodiiel of inany minds as to pre elude Individual credit of aulhor-sbip.

The constitution, like tax wllh-bolding and government reorganization, may well be a major l.s.sue in HMW). Candida tes may en-lorse or oppo.se to their hearts* eoutent. The point is no one In-(Hvuluai can say with full accuracy that lie dumill-or prevented It being done.

Of course, candidates will pick out special Hems In the cunslllu-llon, the revenue and appropriations acts and other legislation, and make capital out of the fact they advocated or oppo.*ed them. On the whole 11 these matters represent composite result of co* operative effort nud no really outstanding leader has devehn>-ed.

While the LegUslnture to date has not produced a shining knight H<ds equally true ibal It has not provided much grist for the rampftlgn mills of outside ludlvidual candidates for high State office. Final aclloii on ai>-proprlatlons, tax levle.s and con-stltutlonnl revision may fford general Issues. They are apt to be negative rather than posillvr. And general negative attitudes without speeific targets liave never been very potent In North

Carolina poHtlcal campaigna.

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kept pace because funds for expansion of the physi-' cal plant have been limited to some degree.

East Carolina has long since passed the period in which it could accurately be termed a small college. It is a big college and its potential for service and growth have by no means been reached.

Each year it renders a greater service to North Carolina and each year the demands upon it for further expansion of its services grow.

It is only natural, therefore, that in its 50th annual commencement exercises, East Carolina College should realize a new record in the number of degrees it granted. In its 50th year of service to North Carolina, the college also has reached a new high in services it renders to the state.

Not Much Rivalry On The Senatorial Front

It's not unusual that a year before a gubernatorial election the list of potential or hopeful candidates for the office to become rather long as is the ca.se now.

Hr tween now and late this year when the campaign lines really shape up some of those now oft mentioned probably will drop from the picture. Others, whose names are not mentioned now in connection with the* gubernatorial race, may come to the fore.

The mo.st surprising thing about the whole I960 political picture a.s it now shapes up is that the field is full of gubernatoridl hopefuls, and there is hardly a mention of senatorial candidates.

When Everett Jordan was appointed to the Senate to till the unexpired term of the late Son W. Kerr .StMiU, there was a great cry in opposition to the ap--pointmenl. In the midst of the confusion and for a wiiile thereafter there were predictions that Sen. Jordan would face stiff opposition in 1960 in seeking election to that office. So far, that oppositionat b*a.st in terms of a .npecific candidate^has failed to materia li/.e.

Meanwhile the list of potential gubernatorial eandidates offer an impressive review of proven politicians from acro.ss Noi th Carolina. Such a )i.st includes Terry Sanford, of Fayetteville, John Larkins of Tren toil, lloii.se Speaker Addison Hewlett, Li. Coventor J.uther liarnhardt, State Treasurer Edwin Gill, and occHsimially the name of Kep. Alton Lennon, a former ,ienator, is mentioned.

It would be unii.Hual indeed if come 1960 all the high jjowered politician.s were in a gubernatorial race batlling against each other, while the high office of Fniied State.s Senator went iincontested to a man who was appointed to till an unexpired term. Particularly is this true in North Carolina where in recent year.s it has b(*en the exct*|>tioii rather than the rule when an appointne to the Senate has .succeeded In retaining his post when seeking a full term on his own hook.

iNorth Carolinas political picture will undergo ninny changes between now and early I960 when the cnrnimign lines are finally drawn. Suffice it to say, however, that the pictures, even though changing, are inte resting.

'Died In Worlc.

He Never Made

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Hather Uniaue Advantage

Your Cjolumritst ha* observed auother advantage of the little foreign car* over the bigger shinier ones which come out of Detroit.

Of course you have to be sort of a screwball clver for this dubious advantage to do you any good.

On a trip to Morehead recently we ob.served a man and his family scooting along the highway In his little French-made auto.

He darted around several cars Just making it back In to the right lane In the face of oncoming traffic numerous time*.

Finally the little car started around one* too often. We held our breath a* it pulled alongside a longer car doing a full 60 miles per hour ~ and another car was bearing down in the

left lane. It was obvious the little car wouldnt make It. We steeled ourselves for the awful crash that was bound to come.

But the two big cars moved over as^ far as they could, to the very edge of the pavement. Lo and behold, there was just enough room between the two big ones for the little foreign car. As the oncoming vehicle moved past, the little car shot past the one on the right and pulled back into the right lane.

So there Is another advantage to owning a small car. Of course, we dont know what would have happened to the man driving the French car and his family if either of the other two vehicles hadnt given him all the room they could or if the oncoming ve- hide had been a tractor-traiier.

Kids are a durable bunch. We

ate at Sanitary Fish Market on the sound at Morehead the other weekend. Bottles of horseradish are kept on each, table there for the benefit pf those who like the red hoL^tuff with their seafood.

A little girl, perhaps two years old, wandered off from her folk* to a vacant table. There was the bottle of horseradish complete with a spoon. The little girl picked up the spoon and licked off enough horseradish to send the average man leaping in the water behind the restaurant.

Did it bother her? Not a bit. She smiled and smacked her lips as a waitress angrily snatched the spoon , from her and

took it to the kitchen for a washing.

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Hv .lAMIC.S MARLOW WASHINGTON <AF) John Foster DuHcr died Mn world He never made. 'I'lie forces which shook ami sliapetl 11 were In nioUun before lie bi'citme sene-tiiry of slate. He spent his six year* In office trying to control them.

It niuy Have lieen * matter of regret to lUin that, before his deatli Sunday, lie liad really settled nothing. But for .*ilx years he managed to preserve peace and hold communism behind the frontiers U had when he became secretary.

'riial may have been the moat any man in his lime could have done,

Tliere were renUy two worlds in the dny.s of ids growing up; the troubled re.st of tlie world, fsaturatert In feuds; Wid llie Ainertenn woihl. Impregnable and self-sufficient In Lsnlation.

That wa.s wt\en distance meant safety and survival lay In alone-ne.ss. The two oceans uuve America time to prepare for any attack and staying onl of foreign allianres meant avutding grief.

It WR.s an American dream that didnt la.si long.

All of It was to changf before cancer flnUhed him Mls.xl1ca have made the oceans look no more difficult than a country creek.

There w ere still tlie two worlds In HHt? when IhiUes was 19 and look his ftr.sl dtp Into forelvn affalr.s tbe Held which wa.s to dominate hts Hie,. ld.s vision and his energy by going to the Hague peace conferenciv WUlUn 10 years altci that com-miml.MU In Ru.sslu began the nnucli whieh was to ehange the history of nmukhut, It may not have .seemed so at the time, for It look two wars to drug Ameii-la out of l.Holaiton and melt two wtirhLs Into one He liad had a hand in tlie melting over the years - a.s lut-vber to Deimaratic presidents uiul secrefarie.s of stale hut until he look office in ll..l he never wa.s to a po.slilon lo diriMCit policy or make It.

By that time Amerlea was deep In foreign entanglement, nuUlary and eeonomlc, made necessary by Hie eold war and the reallza-tton that eonmnmLsm could gorge Itself In disnivlty.

Then suddenly after Dulles took office there piled up on him a series of events never encount-ned bv any American secretary of state

.Forty-four days after Dulles Has sworn in Jo.seph Ktalin died Wllhin R ew months the S<nlet Union exploded its fir.st Indro gen bomb Within a few vear.s it wa.s boasting, of niL^silrf. Hiat ronld nirrv hy(ht*cen war head.s arro.vi Hie oi'ean in mln UllNs

Thus was a new anil terrible power never pas.se.vied any Ainencan enemy, in a few year*

time had lost Its meaning, distance evaporated, and America had to accommodate lUclf to the idea of annihilation without warning.

Diplomacy had always been an inteniatloiial mine field but never so sensitive, so savage or so loaded with the flowers of doonuxday as the one Dulle* had to pick hi* way through.

With Stalin went the sullen, humorless face of communism. Stalin's had been a hand of Iron, dripping blood. HLs successors put on the soft glove. They smiled,

They talked peace. With more Imagination than their old boss they began to make progress in fields closed to Stalin whose tactics frightened nations as well as babies In the Middle Kast. Asia, Africa.

Dulles, like President Truman and Secretary of State Aeheaon, had learned how to handle Stalins actlcs: with iron equal to his own. But now Dulles had to adapt himself lo the new Soviet approach, more effective, twice as deadly For a whilethis was after the KUinmit conference of IQ.^.' he seemed to see Improvement. It didnt last long. Like Truman and Arheson, he froze solid again. He remained that way to the end.

But the new tactics ~ together with the mliWilles and the hydrogen bomb gave the Soviets power, both talking and real, that not even Truman and Ache-json had to cope with.

Dulle.v foreign poHrv was neither original nor ereaUve. It setuned ba.sed on the belief that if war could be avoided and if communism could be iieUl tight ill its present bottle it might, as he once .said, undergo favorable change.*.

He didnt live long enough to Hml out if he was right. He had loo good a sense of hkatory to pretend to be a ptwiltive pro-.phet In lit* last momenU the most he could do was hop' for the iMNst la the belief he had done his lie.st.

Only time could give the answer lo questions w hlch, since he was a thinking .tnan, nnuxt have been on his mind often.

Were his years a secretary the golden years of opportunity for the West in the cold war and had he made the moat of them? Or had he faibd to understand them Or were these years jnsi a minor interval in a long strugRle?

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*11 1,'^n'l nlways snfe to tiulRf a tiiitii bv Hie c<9niHny he keeps. He may be tiymg to uplift snniebixiy " Andeisou S.C.' Indepandt utk i

Other Editors Saying ...

Sight To Happiness

(Charleston (B.C.) New* A Courier)

Some people nowaday* believe they have a constitutional right to happlnea*. They havent any such right, of course. The Bill of Rights no more Includes a right to happiness than it Includes a right to color television or a hotel credit card. American* have been guaranteed a right to the pursuit of happines*. The mad chase to overtake happines* makes crazy, mixed up kid* of many adults.

What I* happiness? Is It a gimmick? Is It a flsh-talled sports car In the driveway of a $40,00) splitlevel? Is U the confidence that comes from a figure kept trim by means of an electric vibrating machine? Some Americans apparently believe that happiness is glamor through gad-gptry. Thatrf wholly mistaken. It* the huckster notion of happines* the notion that hap-plneiui has a price tag. Happl-nes* w'on't come through Uving It up. Certainly, the mechanical and electronic devices of modern living are useful aids in a complex society. But the possession of costly machines and high-priced good* doesnt cheer the inner man.

An older generation of American* better understood the nature of happiness and how it is created. Ro,l)ert E. Lee said that duty is the most sublime word in the English language. No more and no les.s can be expected of a man. It is In the realization and performance of duty

that happines.s originated. Today the notion .seems corny to many of our countrymen.

No rea.son exists why Americans should be permanently confused about happiness. Nor is there any necessity for people to pore over how-to-live books. The facts about happiness are at hand. Adults who have the responsibilities of parenthood should know happiness. Happiness as a parent isnt the result of material gifts from ones children. On the contrary, a parents happiness comes from being on the giving, not the receiving end, of a relationship.

The great, underlying fact of human existence is that adults most completely attain that condition called happiness when they have done what they know to be their duty. Generations of parents. soldiers. Judges and statesmen have known this to be true.

Americana, therefore, should take care to Implant In youngsters an accurate understanding of happiness. Most definitely, happiness Isnt a new convertible at 19 or a whooping allow'ance for clothes and entertainment. Happiness is a by-product of the passion for duty. This is the passion that should be encouraged in this country.

Individuals, like nations, cannot afford to devote all effort to easy living not without failing to mature and gain Strength. Individuals who learn to put duty first in their dally lives have the inner resources to meet all challenges.

East Carolina College graduation has come and gone and we must say some of the grads are apparently impatient.

For instance there was the car sitting on the college campus yesterday complete with boat behind. Was a graduate going flsh-mg immediately after he grabbed his diploma?

Then there was this other car which had been all decorated up with the usual signs friends put on the car* of newly Weds.

Did a grad get married Sunday afternoon and then head for the college for graduation? Or was he or she or they planning to marry just after graduation? Or w'as it just a couple of non-grad_newly weds who were not in any hurry to go an>T>lace?d>y. May 26. 1959

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.:oIk In Suburbs

By SAUL PETT

NEW YORK fAP)Why is it so many people are attacking the suburbs these days?

I have the impression that every time a novelist, social critic, bearded lecturer, campus rebel or tweedy philosopher tries to explain whats wrong with America he finds that individualism is dying and conformity is in the saddle, and its all the fault of the suburbs.

What a federal case theyve made out against us! And all because we wanted a piece of lawn that didnt belong to a city park and a small view of the sky not hazy with smog.

The latest attack comes from Dr. I.I, Rabi, eminent Columbia University physicist. Scientists, he says, should be *'odd balls and curious types. When a scientist goes suburban. Rabi says, he becomes a victim of a commuting schedule, has to leave the lab at a fixed time, riisb es home to fix his leaky ces.s-pool and that night his conversation concerns only cesspools.

Dr. Rabi misses a profound point. The suburbanite could, if he dared, get home later. But what makes him scurry home Is fearfear of his wife, whether shes an apartment wife or a house wife. Hes afraid to mis* dinner.

Dinner, as every male mouse knows, is based on a complicated mechanism and precise timing and painful planning, like a three-stage rocket or Bach fugue, and It wont keep, and if the children eat without father they will develop psychic trauma, and if they wait late to eat a soggy, semipoisonous dinner with father theyll miss iRano practice or do their home work poorly or miss the school dance, and how are we ever going to catch the Russians with a nation of underfed emotional misfits?

Dinner, not the suburb, is the villain, and men scamper home for it in the cities as well as the suburbs. Dinner is the emotional core of a womans life. Missing it is the ultimate hurt.

I even suspect that many marriages w'recked by infidelity would still be intact if only the faithless one managed to get home in time for dinner.

But to the larger point. There is just as much conformity and mass thinking and colorless talk in the cities as In the suburbs.

A hi-fi bore is just as dull and Imitative in an apartment as in a house, except in an apartment theres always the hope that the man downstairs will rap on the steam pipe.

I have seen as many city women blossoms out simultaneously in toreador pants and as many city living rooms cluttered up with cheap mobiles and Japanese prints as plague the decor in the suburbs.

At an avant garde art gallery or precious off-Broadway play,

I have seen as many slavish clods worshiping what is new and different and therefore tasteful, as Ive seen in a suburban hardware store. Ive heard as little independent thinking In the city as in a suburban town meeting or PTA session.

I have sat In city apartments with men of learning, of science and medicine, and heard the wives complain about the diaper service and the men complain about the taxes and how they wished they had more time to keep up with the literature, which means the stock market pages.

Bohemians can get lost easier in a big city. But we suburbanite* have our eccentrics and beatniks and bumbs and frustrated artists and rummies and neurotics and I just dont see where we have anything to be ashamed of compared to city people.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS There was an old saying among the western miners: Never abandon a mine shaft until you*ve gone fifty feet farther.

It's amazing how many fortunes were actually stumbled upon. or found by some chance incident. One man who later became one of the richest men in the whole westland picked up a rock one day to hurl at a languid mule he was trying to drive Into a cwral. He noticed the stone.X unusual appearance. Sure enough It was loaded with precious metal. Others stakt'd out c.lalm.x. anywhere at all Just lo get one staked out, and sometimes ~ not always by any means, but soniettmes they turned out to be valuable.

But many shafts were sunk and then abandoned. Frequently they were abandoned in too much haste, and later someone else came along and made a fortune out of what a less patient man could not slict; with lone enoueh to make it pay. As mining technique improved, it was often found profitable to go to deserted mining areas and work over the trallings which years before had been discarded as waste Dont abandon a shaft until you have gone fifty feet fartheE And herein lies a principle Dont give up people, piojects. ideals, religious convictions and a host of other precious things until you have gone fifty feet farther. It is in patience that we po.ssess our souls. -

?atsy To Liquor-Makars Abrodc.

By ELMER ROESSNEI}

The United States plays piisy to the liquor distillers of the world.

Foreign countries pour in their bottled potions without limit, yet raise barriers agaltwt American whiske.vs,

' Of the worlds major International markets, only the United Kingdom permits the unrestricted entry of U S whiskey, the Bourbon Institute reports Thrmighmit the re.H of the world, quota.x and tariff* block the spirit of corn The u.vual rrasmi for keeping S whtfekey out is the balance of pavmenis Foreign e<mntnes sav that If they allowed the free imiHMlation vd Amerioan his-krvs. Hu'v would run short of dollars to' pav for It rROTErTIDMSM \RRD\D That* nottspn.<i m mA-f in stance*. Xu some unpovriu>hcd

countries, of course, economies can be strengthened by forbidding all except critically neetied hnporLs. Bui in the prosperous countries these seems to be adequate buying power for a nip of corn squeezing* now and then If the pollllclans werent too concerned about protecting the native and British distiller*

Dont be fooled by the title Bourbon lasUtule. It is not an academy of bourbon imbibers, but a creation of Schenley Ipdustrie.s. Its figures are no le.ss valid.

they show that in almost all countries that bar bourbon. Svurteh is readiLv obt.%inabie While the IivsltUUe doe.snT .say so. that looks a.s If the Brltl'h tr.ule cmi*.*aiics have oiltsmar.ted ours.

I*IS( RIMINATION. THATS

WHAT!

In.'fttule figure.i show that Fiance* which thip* |2a.tKK),0W

In wines and spirit* to the IT.S a year permitted only $.'j.000 worth of bourbon to be imported last year. This .vear it raised the limit to $,O.OH and then awarded half of tt^.^uota to Canada.

Italy shipoed'DJ,.>41.0M) gallons of wines and spirits into the U S. last year, but permitted the Importation of only 4.235 gnllons of American whiskey; And most pf that wax purchased by American travelers Spam sclfis $3.00,OIX) worth of wines atwl spirits a year to the U.S . yet bars bourbon from Spain. Rut not Scotch.

The Philippines have restricted liquor import.x hecau.se of the precartous fiuaucial condition.

year U set a qudta

on whi.skey.' and gave it all to Scotch imponer*.

Other nation.x may not limit imports, but they levy such a

high duty or lmpo.se other re-sti'lctioiis which bar oouibuii. Perus tariifs make a bo.tie of bourbon cost $16. Japan Urn x importers' license.x so sharply that bourbon usually e.itci only as PX supplies and. then, exporters complain, the emp.y bottles are refilled with cheap native spirits and sold fo' travcli.>.

The Canadian situation is unique. a* many Americsivs tryliis to buy * shot north of the hord-r have found Canada ii uwrts about 1.310,000 gallons of American bonrbnn a year .Atmrwi rore i.x sold to she pubhc. Mo.st is blended with Canadian spirit* and shipped back to Ihr U i> as Canadian whisky. About lOOoo. nno gallons of Canadian whiskrs are .xenl into the O S.

While Canada does not limit bourbon imports, governmental liquor .stores price it so high few can afford it.