PACE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C.

FrMar. May 29, I9S9

Friday, May 29, 1959

Git Too Tough With M

Elected Official Rightly At Top

The House Education Committee has decided and rightly sothat the Superintendent of Public Instruction should be the top authority in public education matters in North Carolina.

Action of the legislative committee, we trust, will bring to an end the vague dispute which has been going on between the Superintendent and the Board of Education as to the division of powers and authority If the dispute continues, it may well develop into a^ running battle which could only result in handicapping public education in North Carolina.

In simple terms the matter decided by the House Education Committee was whether the Superintendent of Public Instruction, an elected official and a constitutional officer, should have final authority in organizing the Department of Public Instruction, or whether that authority should rest in the hands of the appointed Board of Education. The committee took the right position in its decision that the authority should rest in the hands of the Sperintendent of

Public Instruction.

If an elected official h not free to organize the department which carries on the activities for which he is responsible, how can he expect to discharge the responsibilities which are placed upon him? If he must look to an appointive board rather than to the people who elected him for authority, what is the use of having him elected by the people?

The bill introduced by Rep. Watts Hill, Jr. of Durham would have made the appointive Board of Education superior to the Superintendent of Public Instruction who is elected by the voters of the state.

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Obviously it would have seriously handicapped the Superintendent in carrying out his duties and niaking the policy deciaions which are required of him. It would have required an elective official to go to the people for his votes and then go to an appointive board for the answers to important questions about how public education should be conducted in North Carolina. ^

It would have created a situation which would have been completely unsatisfactory under the present arrangement.

Action of tjie House Committee indicates the confidence which members of the committeeand we believe tjic people of the statehave in the present

system of administering public school affairs of North Carolina. It is a system which should not be changed in order to give a board appointed by the governor complete authority over a constitutional officer elected by the people of the state.

Memorial Day Toll Need Not Be So Bad

ess To Study

Commissions

By LYNN NWBET STUDIES The current General Assembly ha* not been a* easer to pass the buck on controversial mattera to study commission* as have been some of Its predecessors. The study commission route has been a favorite device when majority of the legislator* felt they lacked authoritative data upon which to base action. The method also has contributed a great deal to aound legislation.

The retirement system, the con-solldaUon of the University, mental hospitals, correctional schools and other Institutions were given long and careful study by special group* before being Implemented. More recently the Department of Administration and other governmental reorganiza tlons, Including revamping of the highway commission and an Independent prison system, resulted from study commissions au-thorlaed by previous sessions.

Currently the revision of the Constitution is the biggest Item before the assembly, except money, and the matters In controversy are based on report* and recommendation* of two study groups.

The appropriations and revenue bills are based on continuing study of conditions by the Advisory Budget Commission, Intensified during the six months prior to convening of the General Assembly. The budget report I Rccompanled each time by budget bills Implementing Its recommendations. These bills have great prestige, although In every Instance they have undergone revision at hands of the l,eRlslature. The statues require the Governor ai director of the budget to transmit the report and the bills early in each esslon-

RECOMMENDATIONS - Most legislators reoognlae the value. If not neceaalty, of research and computation of data as basis for - Important legislation, An increasing number, however, are manifesting resentment at the prestige claimed for recommendations of the study groups. Rarely are the factual findings of study groups challenged, except on grounds - - and that not often that the study haa not been thorough enough.

Considerable objection has been raised to the Implementing bills offered by the commission and supported by claims that "these ne men and women have Riven thought to these matters, and their recommendaUons should be honored." One vete ran legislator said the other day he was getting tired of the Implications that the folks who assembled the data knew more about what to do with it than he or other members.

The gimmick is that every resolution authorizing a study commission Included provision that the group should study the problem and recommend legislation, In many Instance* the recommendations have been presented as mandates. Whether accepted to that extent or not, It 1* true that commission recom- mendatlons have great influence on legislative action.

Perhaps the ouUtandlng example of failure on part of this General Assembly to gtf along with study commission Idea* was defeat of the school Incentive fund strongly recommended by the school finance study group, but not by the budget commla-sioo.

BILLBOARDS The public hearing on the bill designed to eliminate billboards on the Interstate highways In order to get a bonus" of one-half of one percent In Federal allocation* amounting to about a million dollar* for North Carolina, quickly produced Information that the bill does a great deal more than regulate billboards. By Implication. If not specific authorization,

It gives to the Federal bureau complete control over lft20 feet wide sUlps along the highway*, without compensation to landowners or recognition of State sovereignty.

Spokesmen for garden clutis, highway beautification groups, landscape architects and others appealed for a favorable report on the bill. A member of the State Highway Commission also spoke for It, basing argument largely on the million dollar bonus. Then spokesmen for business Interest* Involved pointed out that compliance with provisions of the Federal law In order to qualify for the bonus would necessitate the State spending around three million dollars, plus maintenance, to establish the auxiliary Information center* required, in addition to depriving owners of the property beyond the right of way from control over its use without compenaa-tlon for such deprivation. (Mathematical calculations show that the taking over of control on fifiO feel on each side of the right of way along 7(Ki-plu* mllca of Interstate highway* would mean loss of control by owner* of nearly a million acre* of land.)

Nobody has questioned the right of the State to control the 301) feet right of way. or to take other property by due process and for compeiwatlon. Whether control should be exercised except for reasons of health and safety over privately-owned uncompensated property seenvs to be the main question Involved here As your repoaler appraise* legislative asntlment that Idea la not at all popular

The real menace on the highway is the selfish, agifressive and impulsive driver concludes the . S. Bureau of Public Roads, after digesting an assortment of accident data.

That pretty well sums up the feeling of a lot of people; but the Bureau's other findings are real eye-openers.

For instance: most highway accidents happen at low speeds and the lower-powered cars are the most dangerous on the road.

And 75-miie-an-hour is not an especially dangerous speed; the rate of accidents at 40 mph is much higher. This, the Bureau qualifies by adding that speed doesnt necessarily cause accidents but a motorist is more likely to be injured or killed while

driving fast.

Military driver.s, says the report, and not women, are the worst drivers; daytime travel is twice as safe as night driving with the best between 9 and 11 a.m., and worst after midnight.

All this would be be.side the point if it were not that Memorial Day weekend is at hand and the National Safety Council warns that 226 motorists may be dying on highways in that period.

It isnt necessary.

A reasonable amount of caution; a little bit of courtesy and less of the me-first attitude can spell a lot of difference between what the Safety Council fears may happen and what the holiday holds for the motoring public.

By ALVIN TAYLOR

More Than For Footbal.

We don't know what the world 1* coming to when more spectators attend a colleges graduation ceremonies than show up for the Institutions football games.

Thats what happened at East Carolina College last Sunday. Personally we dont consider It such a bad situation.

New Labor Bil.

s In Sad Shape

Ah me, these lawyers.

The other day your columnist met Attorney Luble Stocks and John Ray Hardy, vice president of state Bank on Main St.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) The labor control bill, given a big eendoff by the Senate, is In sad shape now.

In the Senate on April 25 It pot about the fattest endorsement any measure could hope for, short of a unanimous vote. The vote was W)-l.

Since both houses have to vote for a measure before It can become law. the 8enate-pas.sed bill went over to the House for action. There the Labor Conmilt-tee held, and is still holding, hearing*.

A massacre began;

1, President Elsenhower and 8*cretary of Labor James P. Mitchell wanted the Senate bill lightened up.

2, Big labor and big business both came out against It; labor because 11 say* the bill is too tough, business because It thinks the bill isnt tough enough.

3, The 30 member* of the House committee are reportedly spilt every which way on the kind of bill they think is needed.

So if some kind of labor control bill ever gets out of the committee for House action chances are It wont Its pretty certain any bill passed by the Hoiwe will be different from the one the Senate bleased.

That would require House and Senate to get together and compromise on a single hill, since no hlU can become law unlesa both houses agree on every detail

Such a comptomised agree-ment might be lnipn.(*lhle to get before Congress quits this summer for the year

Elsenhower and Mitchell want tlie House to Include provisions left out by the Senate; to deal

with blackmail picketing and secondary boycotts.

The AFL-CIO called the Senate bill a mess and a monstrosity. Its president, George Meany, said his organization would support legislation It considered appropriate for helping unions curb corruption.

But he said amendments written into the labor bill In the Senate would hurt union activity and hinder Instead of encouraging democratic union procedures. The huge APL-CIO promised a battle to get the Senate bill changed in the House.

The . S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Assn. of Manufacturera, like the APL-CIO, have made a section by section analysis of the Senate bill.

The NAM said the Senate bill "falls woefully, In the opinion of experts, to meet the desperate need for curbing the monopoly power of union bosses." It wants unions put under antitrust laws and barred from any form of compulsory union membership. And It wants picketing and boycott bans tightened.

William Barton, the Chamber's general counsel, said his organization frankly would prefer no changes in labor law this year to seeing the Senate bill become law.

He said it would fool people Into thinking an effective antlcorrup-ptlon measure had been passed when, he argued, such would not be true.

On top of all this James Hof-fa. the Teamsters Union president. angered Congress when he was qulted although he later denied It as threatening a nationwide strike if Congress passed a labor control bill he didnt like.

John stopped to chat with yours truly about a picture he needed and Luble waited Impatiently on the sidelines.

The conversation took considerable time and finally Luble broke In Impatiently.

"Come on, lets go," he said to John, "AU the good Im gaining by being seen with you (meaning John) Im losing by being seen with him (meaning your columnist).

The two scurried off to who know* where. Your columnist slunk away dejectedly.

And for the folks who found that their names were not on the registration books after standing in long lines for the recent municipal election, heres a story that wUl make you feel better.

Box Cox, a Chapel Hill merchant, Is president of the National union Chamber of Commerce this year. As head of the Jaycee organization Cox was required to move with his family to Tulsa, Oklahoma.

But Cox is still counted as a citizen of Chapel HiU so when they had their municipal election he flew all the way from Tulsa to Chapel HIU to vote.

But when he arrived and presented himself at the poUlng headquarters, he was turned away. Seems he hadnt registered.

sociation.

What* more the week has the backing of none other than Vice President Richard Nixon.

So lets all run out and play tennis during the coming week.

Opinions In Brief

Finally to steal a little thunder from the sports page we might point out that National Play Tennis W^ek U virtually breathing down our backs.

The week will be observed June I to 7. according to the United States Lawn Tennis As-

"With his axe remaining bright, untarnished and without a nick, the President should feel he can swing It with more confidence than ever. And, with the liberals (liberal with our money) running the patlons foundry, there will be plenty of chopping to do if appropriations are held within several billions of the Chief Executives cher-l.shed budget.*BrookvUle (Pa.) American

Other Editors Saying... No Sterilized Textbooks

Strength For Today

By EARL l DOl'GLA.SS AEYGND tllhllAN IMAGINATION

Lay yuur hand on the table before you. The table seems a solid substance Indeed.

But. of ooutse, 11 la not solid. It is a whirling nuusa of electrons. The wide oia-n spacoH are of the greate.st area. We look out on the beauty of a lamLscape. How quiet and serene! But. of course, there Is nothing serene about It. The earth Ls spinning on Us axis eighteen miles a minute and on Its )r!)tt eighteen miles a seeond. In addition, the poles are moving hack and forth creating the different sen.Hous, If we can imagine a person put In some sort of re-ceptable resembling an eleetrlc clothes drier, and whlrled about as you and I are being whirled alxuil every second, the result, of course, would be quick death. Vet you and I go throngli this In-leiuse agtlattnn all the lime, and by the mercy of God are utterly unawaie of It.

t'ertnlnly some place m Gods vast domain there must liuterd hr rest 110 motion whaUoever. Mwnv people scoff about the heavenly rest Perhaps the heavrnly tt'.Ni meaioi a mAlrrial order o( things in which there is no motion whatsoever. If thl.s l>e true, we may well imagine what

effect It would have upon both our bodies and soub. This would be heaven indeed. Of course, we would have to be utterly changed in order to be adaptable to such conditions.

(Greensboro Dally Newt)

Reorganization of the State Textbook Commission may have It* merits, and with "multiple selecUon" rather than "single adoption" of textbooks well go along. But legislation to curb selection of books and make them conform to some Individuals or pressure groups oplnlwis or Ideas we strongly oppose.

For that reason we question sharply the bill offered by Rep. Rachel D. Davis, Kinston ob-ftretlcian, who frankly admits that she doee not like what Is taught In some of the textbooks now used by North Carolina schools. Dr. Davis Is afraid of socialism. Weve Just looked over the present textbook commission, snd not a single socialist do we detect.

The Lenoir County representative surely should not be sur-prLsed that her own professional background and affiliations were brought Into discussion of her bill. The American Medical Association has voiced similar criticism, and one of the speakers at the North Carolina Medical Societys annual convention in AshevUlle recently took the same tack. Dr. DavLs, in Introducing Her measure for textbook commission overhauling, stated that It had been requested by a group of

Kinston citizens, headed by an attorney and former member of the House. A clearer picture of this group is desirable. How many persons does it Include and how many of her fellow practitioner* are among them?

Some of North Carolinas textbooks may not be what they should be. But the people of the state, we are confident, do not wish them to be chosen by the General Assembly, to be tossed in or out on political currents and to let cither the A.M.A. or the N.C.M.S. do their selecting.

"Multiple selection" rather than "single adoption," already being taken care of In another measure, is something else again; it would provide a desirable variation and flexibility. But under any reorganization plan the state superintendent of public instruction ihould retain a key role and not be frozen out of an inescapable professional understanding, knowledge and responsibility. It is too bad that good aspects of a new textbook program should he mixed up with bad and disturbing factors.

Representative Davis, defeated in her unorthodox effort to deal with unwed mothers, will be shown, we trust, that North Carolina does not want its textbooks sterilized either.

r auits

in His

Worlc,

"Whether or not manual training is an educational frill is a debatable point. But it does seem a little useless to teach a boy to make a bread board In these days of the pre-sllced loaf.Columbia (B.C.) State.

"On principle, we oppose censorship. By censorship we mean somebody's advance judgment on whether the public should be allowed to read a particular book, see a particular movie, or wear a particular bathing suit. Chicago Dally News.

"To supply federal aid, the government first takes away money that otherwise could have been spent directly at the local level, and then gives part of it back. A certain and substantial percentage disappears In the process." Industrial News Review.

"When a feUow la young he tries to avoid temptation. When he gets old he notices temptation avoids him." Bartow County (Oa.) Herald.

"History books credit Paul Revere with saving the country by riding a borrowed horse instead of by borrowing Money." (XU) Journal-Gszette.

The Iseue of financial responsibility in government is vital to every American, We cannot permit unnecessary deficit spending to encourage inflation In our economy." President Elsenhower.

By RELMAN MORIN

NEW YORK (AP) Hal Boyle the regular steward of thi. space, frequently turns poor mans philosopher and makes with homely observations on the passing show. In his absence Hal is revisiting Europe I take the liberty of Introducing a substitute, SOTt of a Poor Poor Mana Philosopher, in the person of one of Americas foremost architects.

Edware Durrell Stone came to fame from Fayetteville, Ark, which he call* "the Athens of the Ozarks. In appearance, manner and mountain drawl, he greatiy resembles the late Arkansas comedian, Bob Bums.

He built the American pavilion in the Brussels Worlds Pair last year, along with museums, embassies, industrial plants, private homes and other structures. His new medical center for Stanford University opens next fall. With financier Robert Dowling, he Is currently working on a replanning project for downtown Akron, Ohio.

Architects generally have pro-nimnced views on subjects not closely relate^ to cantilevers and free-flowing living space. Hera is Edward Stone on some aspects of the American scene: The American Male "I think a womans job Is to rehabilitate not only the physical appearance of this country, Imt the male himself. She must get him out of a hula shirt and Into a dinner jacket. At present, while she may be wearing a lovely, diaphanous frock, he looks like an unmade bed or a one-man slum."

Cities "Politicians always say that if the opposition candidate Is elected to office, grass will grow on Main street. Of course, this is exactly what should happen.

Modernism "Dont be modern. Being modern simply consists of closing your mind to 2,500 years of Western culture and remaining content to copy the next-door neighbors glass building, house, chair, drapery and poodle I have two tests by which you can readily determine whether you are modern or not. If you prefer a bent chrome chair to a rocker, or a high-powered car to a horse-drawn carriage, you need therapy.

The Countryside "Someone has said that In this era of prosperity and overabundance, we seem to be able to afford everything but beauty."

Highways "All highways should be free of billboards and hamburger joints. All should be tree-lined. Recently, a high official of the automobile industry recommended that all trees should be cut down along the highways as menace to motorists. Perhaps thein-dustry could eliminate four feet of vulgarity from the length of the car and better spend the money creating destinations for motorists.

The American Home "Twenty years ago we had living rooms of 20 by 30 feet. Now you can only tell a room from a closet by the hook strip on the wall American Customs "The current rage for informality in American life is a lame excuse for laziness. It is obviously easier to feed the children hamburgers in the back yard than It is to have them sit at a dinner table. This all stems from California which, by the way, Fred Allen said was a fine placa if you were an orange."

Creativeness "If you ara jealous of your Ideas, it is a sign you have too few."

Out-of-doors "Long ago. the government made the farmer realize it is unprofitable to plow land down the hill and let it wash away. Laws protect our forests. But I know of no laws that prevent us from despoiling our beautiful physical heritage. We do everyUiing rapidly in this country and I think that in 30 or 40 years we have converted it from the most beautiful country to one of the ugliest."

The American Woman "H. L. Menchken said no man should ever make an important decision without first consulting his wife simply because she Is a creature of superior Intelligence. There is nothing more terrifying to the male than a woman with a worthwhile cause

Character "Always keep a few character defects handy. People love to talk about your frailties. If you must be noble, keep it to yourself."

More Evidence Of Dizzy Doings

But the Bible definitely states that we shall be changed, "We shall all be changed. In the twinkling of an eye. Change-amt this ktiid of change spells hr veil.

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By ELMER ROESSNF.R We keep telling the boy* down at the Turkish baih.^ that business is a craay, mixed up Institution, but they keep saying were wrong. Heres some more evidence to show that were light;

"Tliiy were in a Depre^.sed Area. No one guaranteed th-^m high prices for anything. Their luily roads and schools were built by them.selves. Ftr Se. curliy they did their own saving, or starved All they had was Character AU they did wa.s Work All they wanted was Self Resvrct nie .sum of thro^e tralt.s l>e<'amc America " KlnR.^v(Ue Tpx Record,

Not oidy dors the ftxtibnll conch nmkr inot'O money, but uubodv eliH t a Latin protessov of (lie Louisville Covuli^

ri-Journal

A tax claim of $702,241 agafhst a bankrupt Oklahoma company w as reduced to $15. Even at todays prices, one can gel quite a few pounds of flesh for $15 . . . Two Wteconsln University blcKhemlst* have discovered that most of cheesea flavors are earned in the fat, but they have not yet ksolated the flavoring chemical substance.^ . . , Roa(b arc beuig built in a German factory Sites are leveled and Kravel bases' leveled, then * Inch-thick slntw <f preconditioned coucreU* arc laid The sy.slem saves four or five weeks

Power steering, air rnmliHnn-in*, and aiitatnallc Iranvmissinn increast gaaoHn* rensumptioa

about 49 per rent, one study shows.

JOB OVERSEAS

Tax-free income is the inducement offered by Insurance companies seeking men to sell In-.uiraiKe In military camps In Europe . . . J. R. Prentice, one of the nation'! largest suppliers of bull semen, has denied Federal Trade Commission chargtM that his dealings with distributors Are In restraint of trade . . The only thing ten years old about some imported wines are the labels, complains Ernest Gallo, chairman of the Wine Institute.

Radia execullve* ar# paid more thaa televWaa executive. fTlniers' Ink learaed frtm a J.K. Iwissrr sludy.

Dont Rhooi if you see a man in a German Afrika Korps De serf Cap They abe now being imported for sale to American males ... A Niagara PaW*. NY, retailer tdverti.swi, "Wei can get it for you retail." ... A mid-

town motel Is planned for New York. It will have fourteen ato-ries on top of a 300-acre garage at I2th Ave. at 42nd St. LENGtllENED HOLIDAYS

One-third of New York City bu&tnes5.es w ill be closed tomorrow. and 38 per cent wiU be closed Friday. July 3. to give env ployees three-day holiday weekends ... A cabana that folds into a suitcase is being marketed by Max Hess, the Allentown (Pa.) merchant . . . Dunn k Bradstreet reports there were 14,964 faUures last year with losses of $738^58.000 - a sum exceeded only in 1931 and 1932.

A Wisconsin brewer describes hi* beer as having vivlty. quenst, brusty and thring, which you will find in no dictionary.

Belgium and Switzerland had more money per capita in clr-culatlon at the start of the year than did the United States The SwLv per capita .was $294 51; the Belgian. $27 1 83. We had only $183.31 a head . . . Department

store sales will soar 5 per cent above last years totals, the National RetaU Merchants Association prcdlcia ... By spreading a $1.25 handkerchief on the floor, some carpet salesmen are proving that carpeting Is cheaper than handkerchiefs. A square foot of liO-a-year carpeting costa only $1.10.

FORTUNE PROVE.S "WORK* IS AN UGLY WORD

Fifteen per cent of aU personal Income today comes from NOT working, the current Fortune points out.

Its figvires show that social security. hie insurance, private pension, federal program, state and local program, dividend, interest and rent Incomes amount to a seventh of the total na-Uor.al income.

It observes that in Uien were 2.7no.)0 able-bodied America ivs not working or looking for work; today there are 5.500,i0. About 1.500.096 are under (5.

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