FACE FOimTHE DAILY REFLECTOR. GREENVILLE, N. C

Wednesday. October 14, 1959

Wednesday, October 14, 1959

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Our Colleges Share In Bond Vote

What will be the share of East Carolina College if voters of North Carolina approve the $18.9 million bond issue for educational institutions wh^n they go to the polls on October 27?

Oi the bond money which would go to institutions of higher learning for capital improvements, a total of $1,490,000 is earmarked for projects at East Carolina College. They are improvements East Carolina must have if it is to meet the demands being made upon it. They are improvements which >yere requested of the legislature this year, but ^'ere noi appropriated because of the lack of state funds for the current biennium.

A breakdown of the bond issue money which will go to East Carolina shows the following:

$189,200 for an addition to the campus heating plant.

$50,000 for improvement of the campus electrical system.

$96,800 for an addition to Graham Building, a classroom building.

$334,000 for a new' wdng to be added to Flanagan Building, a classroom building.

$78,000 for an addition to the infirmary.

$117,00 to renovate two mens dormitories. Slay and Umstead, to be used as womens dormitories.

$625,000 to off-set 50 per cent of the cost of a ne,w dormitory for 500 men students.

These are permanent improvements which East Carolina College must have if it is to serve the students that w'ill look to it in the immediate future for a college education. They are items which cannot be postponed tw'o years, five years or 10 years if the needs of the college and the young people it serves are to be met

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nwritten, But Air Of Solidarity

Citizens of Greenville and Pitt County who are interested in East Carolina College, and citizens from throughout the area seiwed by the college should recognize the fact that if the proposed bond issue fails to gain approval of the voters in the forthcoming referendum, these improvements may have to be postponed indefinitely. And if these permanent improvements are delayed longer, the college will be seriously handicapped in rendering the service expected of it.

The fact that feast Carolina College is slated to receive almost one and one half million dollars for permanent improvements from the bond issue should prompt residents of this area to take an active interest in seeing that the bond issue is approved when voters go to the polls later this month.

The bond issue projects for East Carolina College, like those proposed from the bond money for other institutions of the state, are urgently needed.

While there is still time, w'e urge the people of Pitt County to see that they are properly registered for the .state-wide bond election. When the time comes, we hope they will go to the polls and cast an affirmative vote for the bond issues w'hich are needed by institutions throughout North Carolina.

By LYNN NISBET

KEYNOTE There wasnt a regular keynote address at the Southern Governors Conference in Asheville, but the keynote idea was that the South is and will continue united in purpose, but without compacts or agreements of unity among the States. The expression State rights was seldom heard, but almost every Governor voiced the opinion that while each State should act for Itself and the best interests of its own citizens, it is essential that they have common objectives.

Chief among the objectives is affiliation with the allegiance to the Democratic party. With almost monotonous repetition each of the Governors in press interviews and public statements followed the lead of Governor Hodges, who held the first news conference, in saying the South would be foolish to leave the party or to permit itself to be thrown out of a position of influence. Emphasis was put upon the belief that if Southerners keep cool heads they are in better position that in many years to exercise real influence in the national convention.

In answers to questions by aome very smart newsmen. Governors Hodges. Collins of Florida and Patterson of Alabama, indicated belief that the South will atand together. At the same time they deplored any effort at agreed upon solidarity on specific questions.

Hodges set the pattern when a reporter asked whether he thought the North Carolina policy on race relations should be adopted by other States. He said he had no recommendation for action or policy by any other State, that each must meet the problem in light of local conditions.

There was unanimous agreement on the point that the States should handle the issue, without coercion on part of the Federal government. Governor Patterson said that one of the worst things that has happened to Alabama in many years was the visit of the Federal civil rights commission into his state. It made relations between the races much worse, and did great damage to relations between the State and the Federal governmentand accomplished no good. He added there is not a single case pending in any court affecng the school integration issue in Alabama. Not a single Negro has applied for entrance into a white school, and there is pending a bond issue f $100.000,000 for schools, on top of the biggest annual appropriation for public edu

cation ever made.

BULLISH All the Governors present were bullish about the future of the Southeconomically. politically, and otherwise. There has never been a time when prospects were so bright for allover development. They disagreed vigorously with conclusions voiced by Robert Kennedy. long time counsel for the Senate committee on labor-man-agement relations, at the recent League of Municipalities convention. that labor gangsterism is an inevitable result of industrialization. They did not question Kennedys sincerity, but again Governor Hodges set the pace for comment when he observed that if you spend five or six years working with patients in mental hospitals you are apt to conclude that everybody Ls crazy. Kennedy has lived so long and so closely with labor-management crookedness he thinks it is common everywhere.

POLITICS The situation with respect to national politics among the Governors is very much like that found in any group of North Carolinians with regard to State affairs. Governor Patterson openly avowed support of Sen. John Kennedy for the presidential nomination, and Governor Collins (against the wishes of Hodges) said he thought Governor Hodges would make an excellent vice presidential candidate. For most part the politicos are watching developments waiting to see what happens during the next few months, before picking candidates.

Consensus seemdd to be that uninstructed delegations to the national convention would be wise, but unpledged presidential electors (not committed to the Democratic nominee) would be a serious blow to party solidarity. Opinion expressed by Governors and other State officials general** ly supported Governor Collins position that the Democratic party should seek the men, rather than having prospective candidates campaigning for President and Vice President like they would for the city council or county offices; and that the nominee for President should have large voice in naming his running mate.

There was no indication that the southern States would get together on candidates before the convention. It seems virtually certain qiat, if the chief executives can influence their fellow-citizens, the nominees of the Los Angeles convention next summer wl have united support in all the State represented at the conference.

Minor Regulations Add To Safety Factor

Pitt Countys Highway Patrol organization is to be commended for its current campaign to impress upon motorists the importance of avoiding even so-called minor infractions of highway safety regulations.

The campaign, which emphasizes one particular kind ot infraction each week, points up to motorists common faults of which many are guilty at one time or another, not because they intend to break the law, but simply because they are careless.

To make the campaign more impressive, patrolmen devote particular attention during the week to the kind of violation which has been selected for .Special attention. Ju.^t in case youre interested, this week patrolmen in Pitt will be on the look-out for drivers who let their vehicles drift across the center line of the highway.

In recent weeks they have given special attention to improper passing, drunken driving, failure to stop for a stop sign. In the weeks ahead, the patrolmen wiil have other phases of highway regulations marked for special attention.

While some motorists may take exception to this particular kind of campaign on the part of the Highway Patrol to emphasize the importance of obeying even the minor regulations, it is our opinion that the campaign will pay dividends in terms of safer highways in Pitt County.

After all, most highway accidents are caused by just plain carelessness on someones part. It doesnt hurt us to be reminded now and then that disregarding even minor safety regulations can cause major highway accidents.

They Can Turn Into CoDitalists

By ALVIN TAYLOR

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By WILLIAM L. RYAN

The Soviet Unions Commun-Lst.s will make conservative cap-talLsts of themselves yet if they dont watch out.

And if the Soviet Marxists turn into old-fashioned Tories, Nikita Khrushchevs gambling will have played a large part in the transformation.

From reading the Soviet press lately, one gets the idea Khrushchev learned sonjpthing from his tour of the United States. Indications are that he didnt like what he learned.

Since his return to his own stamping ground, the No. 1 Soviet Communist has been nagging, badgering, prodding and cajoling his Cummunists to get on with the job of accomplishing the improbable: Catching up

with the over-all U. S. economy.

Strange items appear in the Soviet newspapers, where nothing Is printed by accident. A likely conclusion is that the items are part of a deliberate drive to put pressure on the Soviet bureau-cracy-to build a fire under it.

Moscow dispatches tell of a letter to a Communist newspaper from a worker who said he was fed up with Sputniks and airliners and anxious for the regime to come down to earth and produce shoes.

The newspaper professed to be peeved by the outburst. It said the letter writers fellow workers w'ere angry with him for it. But then it went on to quote some of them as saving they also wanted better clothing, furniture, shoes and television sets.

This example is one of many such popping up since Khrushchev returned from America. He himself, added steam to the campaign. In Vladivostok, he cheerfully chided the bureaucrats for rushing goods to the stores in time for his visit. He demanded a more sensible approach to problems of supplying the con

sumer public.

For some time, a key phrase in Khrushchevs program has been material self-interest. Its obvious appeal to the acquisitive spirit sounds odd for a regime professing to be building communism.

Last week Soviets for the first time began buying consumer goods on the installment plan, something they learned from Americans. Now the papers tell them to learn more from Ameri-cans-how to produce more goods per man, how to raise food output.

Possibly such things as material self-interest and installment buying are intended to be temporary, as stimulants to labor productivity. But in the background is an unmistakable note of impatience.

Khrushchev has seen a number of non-Communist countries, and he has just seen the United States. He would be unlikely to confess it publicly, but there is a good chance he was annoyed by the obvious superiority of the American consumer economy.

The Soviet f Premier seems willing to take on added risks in an attempt to get his own consumer economy show on the road. Behind his activity is a persistent public pressure for more consumer goods, by now fairly obvious to outside observers.

In spreading a doctrine of material self-interest, Khrushchev takes a chance of making the Soviet consumer more and property-conscious. For world peace, this should be all to the good.

The better off the Soviet public is, the less it will be inclined to risk its gains for the glory of a misty doctrine. Historically it ha.s been demonstrated that well-fed, well-clothed, property-owning people tend to be conservative. from a desire to keep what they have acquired.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS TRY TO I.MAGINE

Have you ever wondered what the revelation God has made through Jesus Christ would be like if it had been made in the twentieth century instead of at the beginning of the first century?

Suppose Christ were to have been sent as a little baby about the year 1925, and had arisen from the dead. Suppose you had known Him and talked with Him. Your memory of Him would be of a man dressed in a business suit taking part in Jife as we live it, going to baseball and football games, being wcl^ corned as a guest at dinner par* ties. He would touch illness and it would disappear'. He would

About that SOB group which w^as recently formed at East Carolina College for male alumni.

The initials, according to Henry Oglesby who was named new Chief SOB, Saturday can stand for a lot of things.

In the case of this club they are an abbreviation for Soviety of Buccaneers. Of course, they can be used in the same sense that Pres. Truman used them a

few years back in referring to columnist Drew Pearson.

And the same initials appear in the august chambers of the Senate Office Building in Washington. There all the towels are marked SOB, according to Oglesby.

Conversely in the House Office Building the towels are marked with a less-eye-brow-raising HOB.

Other E(ditors Saying... Frills In Education

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

A continuing public discussion concerns the endlessly climbing ing costs of education. For those who are more interested in discovering why this is so than talking about it. a good yardstick is a comparison-of the functions of schools of today with those of yesterday. The school in many communities has evolved from a center of knowledge to the hub of social activity.

Allowing for the many-fold expansion of legitimate education subjects which Is largely the result of scientific achievements during the past decade, the modern school has assumed responsibilities far above those demanded by the three Rs. It has become a speech clinic, where handicapped children may receive the benefits of special attention and equipment: it has developed a long list of avocations, including dramatics, art, hand crafts and machine shops in which the young generation may cultivate interest in a hobby.

It has become a focal point for activities such as swimming instruction: band, choral and orchestra organizationsO debating societies and a complete line of team ties.

It brings in paid lecturere and performers from man parts of the world to inform and entertain the student body in completely equipped auditoriums. It

has built-in cafeteria.s, only partly reimbursed by student purchases.

And more and more now have fully developed student driving programs, visual testing devices and a full-time faculty member. Columbia University has received a grant from the New York State Automobile Association for the exclusive purpose of instructing teachers from all over the United States in the best

techniques of driver education.

These are some of the activities which have created the need for more teachers, larger and more de luxe buildings and a long list of expensive equipment in classrooms. Schools no longer educate the young people only in the facts of professional, political and personal life. They have consolidated a wide range of social, physical and art activities into one channel through which all w'ho pass are expected to assimilate at least a sampling.

It is the expansion of .school authority which is partly responsible for the enormous rise in costs and which must be evaluated before it Is possible to find a leveling off point. Financial burdens will continue to grow as long as society feels it proper for schools to ab.sorb more and more non-academic fields of jurisdiction.

We arent saying that the friUs arent useful. We know they serve a valuable purpose. Still they are rather expensive, too.

Roy Hardee of television station WNCT and your colurnnist journeyed to Raleigh Monday night for a preview showing of the grandstand act of the N.C. State Fair.

If you should happen to make the trlb to the fair watch particularly for the trained dog act in the Grand Stand show. Its hilailous.

There are also a couple of clownsone turns out to be a girlwho play by xylophone. The gal for a finale plays the thing, first with a cover over it and then blindfolded.

The Rockets a chorus line of well trained girl dancers, is a precision group which is also worth seeing, in our* opinion.

Some of the other acts we saw, were good and others not so hot but all-in-all it was a pretty enjoyable show. *

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We gripe about the rising costs of hospital care and doctor's bills. Because they hit us when we are down they seem worse than other costs of living. But there is an unnoticed silver lining. We live longer, stay well longer and get really sick . less often than in days of yore. More sick people get well, and get well quicker than In the good old days. Houston (Tex.) Chronicle.

Anyway, In accepting the bull throwing trophy which makes him head of the Soviety o Buccaneers for the coming year, Oglesby said he w*anted to make the Initials stand for something else.

He urged all the societys members to make their motto Service or Bust.

That sounds like a mighty fine motto for all alumni of the college. Someperhaps many who attend and graduate from the institution sever their ties when they walk out the doors that last time. This shouldnt be.

Oglesby, incidentally, carved a niche for himself in East Carolina College history back in 1932 when he graduated there.

Graduating in itself w-as an accomplishment in that dark depression year, but Oglesby was the first male student to receive a degree from the college.

Since, the Grifton resident has become secretary to Congressman Herbert C. Bonner. He also was recently appointed to the Ea.st Carolina College Board of Trustees.

Worn

Words

Heard

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP)Teen-age remarks that parents get tired of hearingor overhearing;

Ill do it later.

The trouble with you and Dad Is that youve forgotten what Its like to be young.

Hey, Sis, I hear Dad got a five-bucjc raise. Lets ask him to double our allowance,

I know its a weekend night, Joe, but youd better go now-even if it is early. The old folks need their rest.

Hey, Mom, can I borrow $19.95 to take this muscle building course by mail?

Mother, pul-l-Uease act your age. You cant wear a dress that short. It makes you look ridiculous.'

You thi!nk the pictures in your family album are funny? Boy, waitll you take a look at ours. What makes all parents such squares? Were they born that way?

Sure. I said Id cut the grass and I will *- tomorrow, when its cloudy. You dont want a fellow to get sunstroke, do you?

You know how hard Dad says he had to study when he was a kid? Well, I found one of his old high school report cards in the attic, and guess what.

Tell me. Mom, what was life really like in the old days, when you were young?

Whats wrong with me, Mom? Here I am 13 and not even going steady.

Yeah, Im looking for a job after school, too about five years after.

I dont see why youre so shocked at what I wrote in my diary, I found some of your old love letters and.

Why cant I? Every other kid my age does.

Every family in the block has a new car but us.

If you think I tie up the phone 50 much, why cant I have a phone of my own?

Papa, whats a depression? Yeah, and they danced something called the Charleston and the Big Apple, and made fudge in the kitchen. Werent they quaint?

Wonder what Dad looked like when he had hair. Was he handsome?

He says that since its Saturday night we can stay out until midnight. Big deal!

Well, if the televisions broke,

I guess I might as w^ell do my homework.

Go on. Dad, the walkll do you and Mom good. I cant spare the car tonight.

What do you and Pop know about love anyway?

Opinions In Brief

For your information, the Federal Government is the largest electric power producer in the country, the largest in.surer, the largest lender, and the largest borrower, the largest landlord and the largest tenant, the largest holder of grazing land, and the largest holder of timber land, the largest owner of grain, the largest warehouse operator, the largest ship-owner, and the largest truck-fleet operator! In this year of prosperity, we are not requiring our government to live within its income from Federal taxes. We are going further into debt, borrowing from future generations devaluing the dollar more and more in order to obtain mor government handouts today. Benton (Mo.) Democrat.

THE UNITED WAY

The Bureaucrats Are Closina In

preach, sometimes in pulpits but more often in the open field or on street corners. And some would be impressed by Him and some made angry.

We do not know exactly what Jesus looked like 20(X) years ago. What do you think His appearance would be today if this were the era of His ministry? Do you think it lowers Him to Imagine His going about as we do, dressing as we do, eujaying the common satisfactions of life as we do?

No. it would seem that at any time Jesus entered the stream of history. He would really enter It. He would be like the men of HLs ageonly infinitely above them, divine, and always the avior of the world;

By ELMER ROESSNER

In the past year, there has been an upsurge of civic consciousness in business. Business leader after leader has declared, We must face our responsibilities as citizens. And many have added, not exactly as an afterthought, We must take as active a part in politics as labor does.

Now the bureaucrats are closing in.

They arent trying directly to stop business from participating in politics. But they are trying to make business pay for the privilege.

The Internal Revenue Service has proposed regulations that will make it more expensive for business to use either advertising or lobbying for political purposes eveh if the purpose Ls the survival of the business itself.

It has proposed regulations that would limit deductions of money spent for advertising to promote or defeat legislation, evcu though

proposed legislation would affect the taxpayers business. NAKED BEFORE ENEMIES

Companies could not deduct money spent to influence members of a legislative body, directly by urging or encouraging the public to contact such members for the purpose of proposing, supporting or opposing legislation. or influencing the public to approve or reject a measure in a referendum, initiative, vote on constitutional amendment, or similar procedures.

Four bills in Congressand pending legislation did not die with adjournment, but can be brought up at the next convening would give the force of law to these regulations.

By extension, these regulations and laws would also affect deductions for lobbying.

In other words, a venal city council could impose a confiscatory tax on. bottling plants, which might seem like a good idea If the only bottling plant in

town was owned by a member of the opposition party. The plant could advertise to ask people to write to the council, it could use space to ask for recall of the councUmen.

But all this would have to be paid for out of profits. BUSINESS URGED TO ACT

It would be only a short step from such a legal concept to propose that corporations be not allowed to deduct the costs of legal expenses. If a company cannot decut the cost of an appeal to the highest court in democracythe people them-selves-why should it be allowed to deduct the costs of appealing the constitutionality of oppressive legislation or, for that matter, any legislation?

The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants said, The disallowance of proper expenditures to promote or defeat legislation is an unfair penalty. Business enterprises should be permitted to combat injurious

legislation or support favorable legislation and consider such expenses as part of the cost of doing business.

Persons opposed to the IRS rules can have a public hearing, if they file requests before October 19. They may write to the IRS. Washington 25. D.C.

CO-OP DOLLARS A-BEGGING, SAYS ADVERTISING BRE.UU A folder telling appliance dealers how they can get extra promotional dollar,s by participating In co-op advertising campaigns has been published by the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishens As.socta-tlon, 485 Lexington Ave., New York 17.

Only one-third of eligible dealers are getting full shares of appropriations totaling $1 billion a year, the presentation states. It is designed to tie In ..with the national appliance promolinn, Make your Home Happier with a New Appliance. running from November 9 to 21.