r AGE poimTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C.

Tuesday. October 6, IBBil

Tuesday. October 6, 1959

Spnnt Finish

ver-Broadeing Horizon Of Service

Its official now that East Carolina College this educational demands move higher and the auxiliary

year set another record for its enrollment as a new services the college is expected to render are expected

school year began. ^ increase.

The story has been the same every year for more than a decade now. But that doesnt mean it is an old

story.

It is a story that is new and exciting each year for the people of Gfeenville, the people of Eastern North Carolina and people throughout North Carolina who are interested in the progress of higher education. It is a story which tells of one phase of the advancement of higher education in North Carolina. It is a story which'tells of further growth of East Carolina College, of the greater service it is rendering each year to a larger number of young people and therefore to a greater percentage of the people throughout the state.

Under the leadership of its President, Dr. John D. Messick and the staff he has assembled, East Caro-)lina nas enjoyed the reputation of the fastest growing institution in the state in recent years. Its horizons for service have been broadened far beyond what even its most ardent supporters would have guessed several years ago. Its ser\dces to the state and its people have expanded to meet demands which needed to be met, but would otherwise have been neglected.

East Carolina College hai^^indicd become a major institution in the field of higher e)iucation in North Cal^lina, and the scope of its servijde to the people of the state increases each year. /

This year official enrollment figures at East Carolina reached 4,042 men and women in on-campus classes at the college. The enrollment represents an increase of 368 or almost 10 per cent of last falls enrollment. In addition to those students raking work on the campus, the extension courses offered by East Carolina will have enrolled some 1,800 students when the organization of the classes is completed. That brings the total of student of campus and extension courses offered by ECC to almost 6,000 stiulenta.

Space Age With Us In The Popiifer Mind

A dozen years ago East Carolina had approximately 25 per cent of the number of students enrolled on the campus that it has today, not to mention the important extension program which the college now offers. Each year the demands upon the college increase, the number of students to be educ_id increases, the

In the brief span of two years mans space-age achievements have moved from the first man-made satellite orbiting the earth to a space vehicle that is supposed to take pictures of the back side of the moon.

Two years ago this week when the Soviets sent aloft their Sputnik I the world gazed in surprise, ten-sion and excitement. Subsequent Soviet and American space advances have brought more excitement, perhaps more tension, but less surprise.

;No. 2 Spot Not

Political Coffin

In two short years we have moved from the very threshold of the space age to the point where mans greater penetration of space is accepted matter-of-factly. Mans trip to the moonscience-fiction only two years agois now accepted as a certainly and

By LYNN MSBET . LIEUTENANT GOVERNORS-Because no Lieutenant Governor who sought to move up to the top place by election ever succeeded, there has been widespread opinion that the No. 2 position is on a dead end political road. The record does not support that opinion.

The North Carolina Manual lists 23 men who were elected to the oiiice of Lieutenant Governor since the constitution of 1863 was ratified. Incumbent Luther E. Barnhrrdt will not be considered in discussion of what happened to the No. 2 men after they left that office, because the story had not been written. For live others who are still living th record has not peen completed. They are A? H. Graham, R. L Harris, L. Y. Ballentine, H. P. Taylor and Luther H. Hodges.

Five succeeded to the governorship, upon the death or resignation of the Governor. One. Max Gardner, was subsequentlj ele-ected Governor in 1928 after failing to move up directly from the No 2 post in 1920.

Tod Caldwell, first four-year elected Lieutenant Governor in 1868, became Governor when W. H. Hodden was impeached in 1870. He was reelected Governor in 1872, died less than two years later and was succeeded by Lt. Governor Curtis H. Brog-den.

Zeb Varee was elected Governor in 1876, resigned to go to the tJ. S. senate in February, 1879, and was succeeded by Lt. Gov. Thomas J. Jarvis, who later was elected for a full term in his own right.

Thomas M. Holt succeeded to the governorship upon the death of Gov. D. O. Fowle in 1891. The next time a Lieutenant Governor moved up was in November of 1954, when Luther Hodges took over upon the death of Gov. William Umstead. Hodges was elected In 1956 for a full term in hla own right.

UNSUCCESSFUL At least six Lieutenant Governors tried and failed to move directly to the administration of Governor M. M. Scales from 1885 to 1889, was defeated for the top place by Elias Carrin the 1802 convention. Steadman then lived at Wilmington. Later he moved to Greensboro and served as con-fTcssman from the "imperial fifth division for many years.

IVhether or not other second place men sought to move up before inauguration of the popular ^ primary is not known to your re-^ pMtcr. It is of record that in five pnniaries the No. 2 men tried and failed for top place.

These were E. L, Daughtrldee in 1916, Max Gardner in 1920, R".

T. (Dick) Fountain in 1932. A. H.

Sandy Graham In 1936, and W. P. Horton in 1940.

NO DEAD END As noted aboye, Steadman went on to be-comb a great congressman, and Max Gardner later was elected 'Jnvernoi and died on eve of his departure for London as ambassador to the Court of St. James. After he was Lieutenant Governor, Sandy Graham served two terms lis chaii'man of the highway commission by appointment of Governors Cherry ar.d Umstead. W. P. Horton became a superior court judge.

Rufus A. Doughton, who was Lieutenant Governor from 189.3 to 1897, was later commissioner of revenue and chairman of the highway commission. He came back to the Legislature as representative of Alleghany county after. all these high positions, and as chairman of the House finance committee in 1933 was the chief architect of the present State revenue act.

L. Y. (Stag) Ballentine moved from the office of Lieutenant Governor In 1949 to Commissioner of Agriculture, a position he has filled with distinction ever since.

NO PTJRTHER The other eleven men who have filled the No. 2 office under the constitution of 186ft all continued to render service to North Carolina in various capacities, but so far as official p.estige is concerned the lieutenant governorship represented the high point in their careers. As listed in the Manual, with county or residence and aate of incumbency, they are;

James L. Robinson of Macon, 1881-85; Charles A, Rennolds of Forsyth. 1897-1901: W. D. Turner of Iredell. 1901-05; Francis D. Winston of Bertie, 1905-09; William C. Newland of Caldw'ell, 1909-13; E. L. Daughtridge of Edgecombe. 1993-17; W. B. Cooper oi New Hanover. 1921-25; J. Elmer Long of Durham, 1925-29; Richard T. Fountain of Edge-through to seeking the lieutenant Person, 1941-45; H. P. Taylor of Anson, 1949-53.

WHITHER?The 8 or 10 men who are presently giving serious thought ot seeking the lieutenant governorship next year are pondering the odds of stepping stone against dead-end. History doesn't help them. Of the 22 past Ueutenant Governors six moved up to the top place. Five others eleven the No. 2 office was as high as they ever got. in political prestige or public salary.

It ia difficult to realize that in only 24 months, the attitude toward space achievements has changed so completely. People have quickly accepted the space age a.s a reality. The new satellites and moon shots cause no more excitement now than a new jet aircraft did a few years ago ... a new automobile did a few decades ago.

Herter Seldom

Seen Out Front

By JAMES MARLOW Associated Press News Analyst

WASHINGTON (AP) For the first time in years this country has a secretary of state who Is 60 self-effacing he is almost anonymous. He works hard but stays in the'background.

This retiring quality in Secretary ChrLstian A. Herter may have ,,t>een an indirect but major factor in what seems to be a change in American foreign policy as .seen in the new effort to get along with the Soviets.

Herter, a mild and proper Bostonian, talks when he has to, as he did last spring and summer at Geneva in dealing with the Soviets on Berlin. Otherwise, he has little to say. This is a switch in more ways than one.

ha.s had only one in Washington since taking office last April 22.

True, he has been out of the country a lot-at Geneva and then in Latin America for formal con-ferences-but even when he could naturally be hogging the camera, or staying wthin close range, he didn't.

Try to remember seeing him at all when he was in Europe with Eisenhower a few weeks ago. Were you conscious of him in any of the pictui-es of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev taken with American officials?

Dean Acheson, secretary under President Truman, was a self-assured, imaginative and aggressive man who sometimes even gave the impression of arrogance.

It is questionable Khrushchev ever would have been invited here if Dulles had been alive. His whole policy was a rigid, unbending, stiff-arm. This does not mean to imply Herter is any softer. But he may be more flexible.

He made a lot of speeches, was continually in hot water with Congress, took a lot of abuse -particularly from Sen. Josenh McCarthyfought back and yet 60 managed it that Truman appeared the undoubted boss of foreign policy.

The difference between Herter and Dulles is bound to affect Eisenhower. Even when Eisenhower and Dulles appeared together on TV it was Dulles who did most of the talking.

The President seemed to defer to his judgment. Perhaps Elsenhower was always more willing to try new tactics than Dulles but yielded to the older mans more frozen views.

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Not SO with Hertera immediate predecessor. Secretary John Foster Dulles, who was an aggressive man, too, and stubborn. Dulles seemed less imaginative than Acheson. but was continually in hot water with congressional Democrats.

He made a lot of speeches, too. But he so dominated his job that President Elsenhower looked like a secondary figure in foreign affairs, Igavlng It up to Dulles to carry the load.

Herter stays so much out of sight that Eisenhower completely dominates in foreign relatiohs.

Ache.son and Dulles, besides their public speeches, held news conferences regularly. Herter

the only question is the nationality of the man who pets there first. By and large Lne people are now confident that man will get to the moon and in time anywhere else in space he wants to go.

Ic is easy to understand how Eisenhower, when the dominant Dulles was no longer around to to lean on or defer to, had to rely more on himself and assert himself more.

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Always 3uy An

Attic

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) The beat iDvestmeot . young man can make ia to buy ,hme with a big attic.

For he will find marriage turna a bride Into a magpie. He ia likely to fnd marriage will make a magpe of him, too. Both, for example, may want to acoop up aa aouvenira rome of the rice thrown at their own wedding.

The need for an attic ia imperative the moment you leave the altar. Where elae will you atore thoae eight silver-plated aerving traya every young couple recelvea aa wedding preaenta?

Alao, aging relatives on both aldea begin sending the bride and groom precious old famUy memorabilia they cannot bear to destroy a faded photograph ot great-grandmother in her first communion dreaa, a rickety old walnut table hand made by a great-great-uncle during the Civil War.

The young couple also return from their honeymoon with new-bought bric-a-brac, already haloed by their own sentiments, which they will want to pass on to a wryly grateful posterity. Each later trip they take will swell the accumulation.

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Now, there la nothing at all wrong with all this If the young couple has an attic to store things in. As the years pass, they add grandmothers favorite rocker. They add their receipted bills, babys shoes, the childrens outgrown toys, old sweaters or ahoes of-their own they loved too much to throw away.

By ALVIN TAYLOK

?ages Full Of Lawyers

Received a big, fat 101-page book thrcugh the mail yesterday. It was erUitled Civil Action No. 49 C-1071 and w'as an opinion rendered by Federal Judge Walter J. LaBuy.

More specifically it involved Ui United States of America va. E. I. DuPont deNemours and Co., General Motors Corporation, Christiana Securities Co. and Delaware Realty and Investment Corporation.

made in the ruling.

Anyw.iy, It sounded Interesting oo we opened it to the first page. At the top was the word appearances and beneath it appeared ihe names of five per.sons, apparently lawyers for the Antitrust Division.

These four represented General Motors Corp. the book said.

It was. of course, that famous decision handed down Saturday by Judge LaBuy concerning DuPonts disposition of its stock in General Motors. As Saturday's newstoriP said, the judge allowed the giant DuPont to keep the stock for dividend purposes but its voting rights must be distributed among individual DuPont stockholders.

Several other points were also

Next V8S a law firm and a lawyer's name.

Then there was another firm name and five more attorneys appeared beneath. All those represented E. I. duPont deNemours and Co., the book said.

Then came two more attorneys on behalf of the Legal Department of E. I. duPont de-Ncmouis and Company.

We turned the page. There was another legal firm with tiiree lawyers appearing beneath, then two more names from General Motors building in Detroit.

Next there was another law Inm name with two individual ^listed, then another firm with three names beneath. They represented Christiana Securities Co. and Delaware Realty and Investment Corp.

family treasure .vault of memories. Parent or child likes to go i^here alone, or together, as paw throught the layers of debris that tell the family history as rings do for a tree. They know the excitement of reliving the past, of feeling through these heirlooms, useless to anyone else, a link between the warm dead past and the w^arm living present.

They lead an ordered life in the ordered rooms below, and dream in the cluttered attic above.

We turned to the next page.' T.iere were three more lawyers amicus curiae with respect tc the interest of the stockholders duPont. Then two more amicus curiae with re-syect to the interest of the slockholders of General Motors Corp.

Ah, yes, that is life as it should be. The present and past are preserved separate.

But what is a home without an attic?

Ill tell you what a home with-an attic is. It is an attic itself. It becomes an attic everj where.

Other E(ditors Saying,

Checking back we found that 29 attorneys appeared represent-gll ef the various interests in the big complex antitrust case. Anyway, by the time we had linished reading through all of tlie lawyers names we were just too blamed tired to get on into toe opinion itself. Without a doubt that too, makes good reading though.

For 22 years my wife. Frances, and I have lived in city apartments. The family heirlooms and the dear rubble of our own togetherness have piled up year by year.

Long ago the small storage bin in the basement was filled to overflowing. Long ago we wore out the kindness of friends who let us share a part of their attics.

Prefer The Aspirin?, Opinions

(Raleigh Times)

Governor Hodges told his press conference yesterday that he is "terribly sorry it was necessary to cut welfare grants to the needy aged and needy disabled.

Of course Governor Hodges is sorry that it was necessary to make those cuts. No one has ever questioned the fact that Governor Hodges is the kind of man who by his very nature wmuld be sorry to see any fellow human being in any sort of trouble, and not having enough money to go around surely would be classed as being in trouble.

living.

Last year, there was an allotment from the Contingency and Emergency Fund for w'elfare uses. At that time, no opinion was asked from the Attorney General as to whether that allotment constituted an emergency. This year. Budget Director David Coltrane did ask the Attorney* General whether such an allotment did constitute an emergency, and the Attorney General ruled that it did not.

A Brief

Long ago were our own closets jammed. Long ago was there any space left under the beds to stuff boxes. Long ago was it possible to stack the stuff in corners and hide it with a decorative screen.

Failing a school exam, a college student hid four years in a church attic. That should be the world's record for playing hookey.'Henderson Dispatch.

It all came to a climax some weeks ago when we had to stac this debris of 22 years of married life into the center of the rooms while we had the place repainted. There it is-still in toppling piles. *

He has been doing that increasingly since early in 1959 when Dulles began to sink Into death from cancer. This was made easier to do, and pefhaps became more necessary, when the self-effacing Herter became secretary.

For this reason Eisenhower who always seemed more willing to experiment than Dullesmay have felt free to invite Khrushchev here. It is understood Herter fully approved this idea.

Strength For Today

The chief difficulty with the Governors sympathy is that it is coming now and that it didn't come during the last legislature. A news story in todays paper states: "Welfare authorities had sought to solve the problem by a contmgency and emergency appropriation Tills was ruled out, the administration taking the position that the cuts do not constitute an emergency because the Legislature intended for the grants In this biennium to remain at 1958-1969 levels. How-_ ever, the administration and* leaders In the 1969 legislature headed off an effort to provide enough money to take care of increases in . the size ^ of the grants due to the rising cost of

It may well be that circumstances last year did not warrant the asking of a ruling from the Attorney General, and it also may well be that circumstances this year did warrant the request for such a ruling.

If people were as Interested In good government as they are In their standard of living, the standard of living of ex-government employes might become a problem. Laurel (Miss.) Leader-Call.

"Throw it all out, or Ill run away from home, I threatened my wife.

But she says she absolutely doesnt know where to start. She reaches into a box, hands me some papers and says; "These are yours. You throw them away.

The G()vernors sympathy for the needy people who will lose an afverage of $2 a month in this arrangement reminds of a cartoon Bill Mauldin did during World War II. The cartoon showed a weary infantryman who had just been treated at an aid station for a walking wound. The medic was trying to hand the soldier a Purple Heart medal, but the wounded man replied that he ahready had one of those and that he'd like an aspirin instead.

Its altogether possible that the folks would rather have the aspirin-like value of the $2 a month man the gubernatoiial sympathy. ,

The Bishops new secretary, who formerly worked for the Defense Department, promptly set about revamping the filing system. She labeled one drawer Sacred and another Top Sacred." Carlsbad Current-Argus.

"I cant throw these away, I teU her. "These are the menus and gents laundry list for our cruise bn the Mauretania in 1954. In another 40 or 50 years theyll be priceless.

"A 9-year-old won a prize at school for this composition on the subject of manners; I have good manners. I say good night and good morning and hello and goodby, and when I see dead things lying around the house I bury them.Memphis Press-Sclmltar.

Thats the problem. Our home has become a warehouse full of things we havent the sternness of heart to part with. Meanwhile, like doomed Lady Macbeth trying to wash the spot off hcr< hands, my wife still goes mechanically on saving new pieces of string, still looking for a new place to stash another theater program. ,,

It takes a heap of living to make a home an attic, and thats the way were living-in hopea.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NEIGHBORS

Had you visited* the kitchen of any house two centuries ago. you would have seen around the huge open fireplace a number of implements no longer used today. Among them would have ^ been a black metal box with a lid and a handle. This was an important utensil. It was used to cari7 live coals from a neighbor's house to rekindle the fire'' when it went oht.

of those around us. c,an be enriched by new friendships, if we will make even the smallest effort. It is true that when trouble comes we can turn to strangers lor helpbut how much better to turn to friends!

Paradox In The Steel Walkout

By ELMER ROESSNER One of the strangest paradoxes is that the steel strike has actually prolonged the American boom.

With matches and.stovcs. we no. longer have to depend on our neighbors to help us relight* th^ fire. With modern gadgets, the modern hoi^se seems quite seli-sufflcientf..j3!eeding no assistance from outilde.'O'fren, especially in cities, we do not even know our neighbors. We do not care: we think we do not need them.

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(This is true despite the fact that the steel strike has cost the

We think so, that is. until trouble strikes. Then we find out that we are not independent after all. In the case of fire, burglars, accidents, or sickness, we suddenly learn how much we need our neighbors. But why wait until then? Our own life, and the lives

THE UNITED WAY

public billions of dollars, has wasted billions In production, has lowered the American standard of living just when we were showing off to the Russians, and has created unemployment and suffering.

Though it is not evident on the surface, the strike has cost the public billions in lost wages, lost sales, lost taxes. It has wasted billions because a giant complex has been allowed to lie idle and deteriorate when it might have been adding to the national wealth. It has lowered the standard of living beqpiuse, in final analysis, the standard of living is only total production divided by tho.se who share and total production has been cut sharply.

HOW IT STRETCHE.S BOOM The current boomlike every boomwill end in a dwntum. Every boom has.

Most of them so end because booms stimulate production and investment to the point that there Is an overproduction, or an excess of production in relation to the power to consume.

The current boom, at mldFetr, was heading in exactly that di-rfctlon. The economists figured that the public would keep on buying autos, furniture, appliances and other goods and services at an increasing rate until demand wa.s satiated. Then the public would buy less, perhaps saving more, and a slowdown would begin.

Some economists were afraid that this decline in spending might set. In late In the first half of 1960. Some set earlier, some later dates.

PROFITS OF POvSTPONEMENT Then came the stieel strike. It was an unusual strike in an

other way: it was one of the most anticipated strikes in 'history. Everybody knew it had to come or that some business and labor leaders would lose face. Steel users stocked up.

That meant higher production, higher profits and higher wages. These items, especially the last two, helped both sides to prepare for the itrlke. And because of steel stockholders and strikers, the latter aided by savings from overtime, strike benefits and in some statesunemployment benefif.1. the economy held up very well. Despite the strike' everybody had money to spend.

Meanwhile, becaiwe of the strike, much unnecessary spending wa-s postponed. Because of the shortage of steeland the rise in the cost of borrowed moneymuch capital spending has been postponed. For similar reasons, and the decree in government funds availableso has the road-buildii>g program.

THE STRETCH AHEAJD

Many steel workers and others who have been paid off as a consequence of the strike, have postponed plans for buying autos, household and major appliances.

But after the end of the strike, the availability of steel and the resumption of wages will re-ac-tlvate these projects.

Manufacturers who postponed starting new plants this fall will start them in the spring. Strikers and collateral unemployees will have caught up on back bills and be ready to commit income for new cars, new furniture, new appliances.

Families, for similar reasons, will again shop for homes.

And Just when the boom,might have been aboufTo end, it will

be taking on new life.

Because of the losses caused by the steel strike, the peak of the present boom may be le.ss than many expected. But the length of the boom may be half a year more than earlier signs iiuilfiaAadk