PAGE POUPTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVUXE, N. C

Friday, January 15, 1960

Friday, January 15, 1960

Kettle Investigates Pot

Too Few Shore In Public Service

If the American people are **flunkin the test of public'service, it cannot be blamed entirely on the fact that college graduates who make up a portion of that public have flunked the test of public service.

Speaking before the annual meeting of the Association of American Colleges, the president of Bethany College told his colleagues that college graduates in the United States are failing the test of public service, and further that their intellectual failure is even more shocking.

What the college president attributed to <:ollege graduates may more rightly be attributed to the citizenry as a whole.

Every citizen of this free nation who enjoys the privileges of adult citizenship likewise has a respon-siblity to shoulder his proportionable share of the total public service load. College graduates or not, there are many people throughout the nation who apparently are content to enjoy the fruits of life their community offers without putting into that community a sufficient number of their own hours for genesal welfare.

In every community there are many, many things that are needed in the general category we term public service. We have religious, business, civic, educational and service organizations by the score. Each, through its program contributes to building a

A Start To ware. New 'Overlooks

By LYNN NISBET

OVERLOOIECSThe suggestion rst made^ln this column some two years ago and renewed last fall for elevated ramps or overlooks on the Halteras road is getUnff some attention. Although the highway runs for many miles within a few hundred yards of the Atlantic ocean on one side and Pamlico sound on the other, the motorist can see neither. It is very like traveling across a desert. Construction of elevated overlooks pose a problem, as does maintenance of the road itself, because of the ocean overflow. A few parking spaces have been provided from which the visitors may walk across the sand to the ocean. Because many visitors do not know what they will see after trudging through the sand, few of them bother.

The need Is for facilities comparable to the overlooks (m the Blue Ridge Parkway and other mountain roads. And a start is being made toward providing them. Robert F. Gibbs, superintendent of Cape Hatteras National Seashore, writes:

.We arc already doing something about this project in our construction program this year. We plan to build a series of parking areas between the highway and the ocean and have them ready for the 1960 travel season. While these parking areas will not give the' added height that you have suggested in your article, they will provide a much needed place for people to pull off the high way and leave their cars in order to enjoy the beach. In our long range plans we have considered the construction of sev-tfal parking overlooks that will be located on some of the highest elevations. Although these will not be built for several years, I am sure they will enter into our program in the not too distant future.

GUESSTIMATE;3 ~ The Ad-vis(7 Budget Commission this week gave tentative approval to estimates of enrollment in a number of correctional and educational institutions as basis for preparing estimates financial needs to be passed along to the 1961 General Assembly for appropriations. These advance figures include the fiscal and school year of 196^6S. Inasmuch as most of the preUm-insry work by the institutions had to be dcme before Christmas. It means that the school folks were asked In 1959 to tell how much money they will need through June of 1963three and a half years and nearly half way through the next Governor's administration. Between now and then there wiU have been two regular sessions the General Assembly, the membership of which will be elected In November of 1960 and 1962.

In view of all the changes that might come in economic conditions the figures now be

ing considered can be classed only as guesstimates, not intelligent estimates.

BUDGETING One objeo-tive of the far-in-advance estimates is to streamline budgeting operations. It has been suggested that with this iniormtr Uon in hand the Advisory Budget Commission can reduce tha time spent on the biennial visits to institutions, during which custom has been to inspect physical facilities and give local officials <H>portunUy to mart fully present their needs. Further argument, for reducing time of the inspection trips is that administrative officers of the Budget Bureau have visited most of the institutions within recent months.

It is an open secret that some members of the Advisory Budget Commission are not nearly as sold on the streamlining idea as are the bureau administrators.

EFFICIENTY - All hands concede that the centralized stream - lined system may be mare efficient from the business viewpoint. None 'of the administrative personnel, from the Governor down, has ever served in the Legislature. Five of the six members of the Advisory Budget Commission are members of the present General Assembly. Senators Arthur Klrkman and WUliam C(H>eland. Representatives Clifton Blue and Clyde Harriss are ex-officio by reason of money committee chairmanships. Joe Eagles. Is a four times veteran Senator and is likely- to be back next time.

The legislators understand, much better than the executive administrators, the difference between government and private business operation. They are acutely conscious that the voting citiz^ insist upon the right to present their ideas of how their tax moneys should be spent. They resent apparent intent to deny thmn their day in court.

A good example of that attitude is the situation with respect to highway administration. Very few people will come out openly and say that the highway department Is not being administered efflcently from the purely business viewpoint, even if the administration costs are higher than ever before.

It cannot be denied that there is widespread resentment over the reinoteness of responsible highway officials from the people who pay the taxes and use the roads. The people feel they have been shut out as persons and taxpayers and have become numerals on a statistical table. Whether that feeling is Justified is not important. It does exist, and it is an issue In the upcoming campaign for State and legislative offices.

Further stream lining and centralization of institutional budgeUng might well result in similar resentments.

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better community and better life in the * community.

Too often however, the chore of keeping the wheels of public service organizations turning falls to rela-tivly small percentage of the population.

An individual who is willing to give of his time and energies in such endeavors quickly finds that many jobs are open to him. He can fill every spTe minute of his days and nights with meetings, projects, programs, all designed to help promote the community welfare. The tragic thing is that there are never a sufficient number of citizens interested in public service to fill all the places and do all the work that is needed.

If it were not for those who are willing to do more than their proportionate share, public service would suffer a great deal more than it does from lack of personnel.

In the highly organized society in which we live today, public service is playing an increasingly important role in the life of every community. It is perhaps more the fault of the society than of the colleges that public service has to go begging for help. Somehow too many people ha^e gotten the idea the world owes them a great deal, and what the world owes it should provide on a silver platter without expecting anything in return. They will enjoy what the community affords in the way of public service and progress, and spend their spare moments critizing the community for not providing more.

To some degree, it is a fault of which almost all of us are guilty. Unfortunately our communities and their citizens individually are the losers.

A Blow Against Crime If Sentences Upheld

The sentencing of a score of top brass of organized crime in the United States on conspiracy charges is gy HENRY HOWARD one of the major victories authorities have registered * against gangsterism and racketeering in recent years.

It remains to be seen now whether the decision of the court will be upheld when the defendants appeal to a higher court.

If the conviction of these men sticks, and they are required to serve their sentences, a severe blow will have been dealt organized crime in the United States.

There remain some 80 other individuals with known underworld connections who were apprehended by authorities at the meeting in Appalachin, N. Y., and there is little doubt they will be faced with similar charges if the conviction of the first 20 is upheld.

Further, if law enforcement authorities succeed in removing from societyeven for a few yearsmore than two-score men.affiliated with the higher echelon of underworld activities, it cannot help but have a crippling effect upon underworld operations.

It will afford law enforcement agencies an opportunity to wreck much of the organized crime operation that preys upon the American public year after year.

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Yesterday, about 1.4 rnUlion steps pounded Third St. in front of the court house here. Probably more steps in one day than It had ever seen.

Sixteen East Carolina College Air Force ROTC cadets and their leader comprised a sharp-stepping drill team that vowed to march continuously as long as contributions to the March of Dimes fund-raising campaign lolled in.

The initial plan was to march as long as donations to the tune of 10 cents-per second plied up. The march began. Contributions were slow.

At the end of three hours at constant drilling, tabulations showed the men had marched

about two-and-a-half hours on credit. Still the cadets nuuched.

Spectators gathered In small qumben off and on throughout the afternoon as a microiflione picked up the sound of the heavy boots rhythmically poond*^ ing the street.

At one point, the team drilled for smnethlnf like four hours without a single donation, a sergeant said. Then morale was boosted by a pair of extra nice gifts. The marching continued.

Cadets gratefully rested and hungrily consumed provided refreshments during the five-minute breaks allowed after each hour of constant drilling. They aat along the curbing during the afternoon and rubbed tired and

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) For many weeks this country has been In a kind of fat and happy mood. The feeling has bra growing ever since Premier Nikita Khruahchev came here last fall, talking of peace and reducing tensiona.

Time may prove this relaxed na.timial attitude was Justified. Or. in the end, it may turn out toq be an illusion and a great, if not fatal, mistake. Americans will feel they were humbugged by propaganda If events take a sour turn.

But the present American mood will probably become even more visible In the light of Khrushchevs announcement that the Soviets plan a big cut in their armed forces.

The deeper this attitude grows, and the longer It lasts in this election year, the tougher It will be for the Democratic candidates to make the presidential race exciting.

President Elsenhowers news conference Wednesday was a good example of the present untense feeling. It was except for one Eisenhower flareup over a political questionan easy, amicable. and at times humorous conference. *

The question asked the President, and his answers, were all pitched in a low key.

This same wcre-not-ln-a-race-against-disaster attitude was reflected in Eisenhowers State of the Union Message to Congress last week. He talked of peace and prosperity but only in a general way of legislation be wanted.

In other ways since Khrushchevs visit Elsenhower has acted like mao who feels he can sit back and take it a bit easy. For example: His December Journey to threl^ continents.

Now, with Congress back on the Job hardly a week. Eisen

hower is planning a brief Western vacation and than a goodwill Latin-American tour, all preliminary to a summit meeting in May.

The Soviets, for their part, have been deliberately less hostile since Khrushchev returned home. This new Soviet restraint is, of course, part of Khrushchevs program for taking some heat out of the earths atmosphere.

Hes still working at it.

While here he proposed world disarmament, a problem which cant be tackled or solved overnight. Thursday in Moscow he told the Supreme Soviet Parliament Russia will go ahead with disanfiament without waiting for the Western powers.

This onjB act would fry several kinds of Soviet fish: It would decrease international Jitters a bit more, be good Soviet propaganda in showing good will, and free a lot of husky men who could be used In industry to boost production or on farms to provide more food.

Any such Soviet move will create problems for Eisenhower and the Democratic-run Congress. If It turns out the government is still too suspicious of the Soviet Union to do any more military cutting here, at least there will be lots of conversation.

Usually, by the time a presidential campaign year rolls around, enough national and International pressures have plied up to give politics a zing and the politicians a lot of argiunents.

If the current mood of relaxation continues, the Democrats will have a time trying to get the voters steamed up on international problems. Theyll have to look for excitement in doings at home.

But. if the country remains in high prosperity, that will be tough, too.

(Washington Daily Newt)

Indians living in Harnett county have a right to resent the fact that their children must ride 68 miles a day on a school bus In order, to attend school. When the public is told that the children must ride 34 miles in the morning to get to school and 34 miles in the aftmioon to get back home, then we have a problem which needs' a remedy.

The fact that the problem exists does not in any way give the people involved any excuse, any right, or any mitigation for bombing the school bus. And the bus in question was des-ti'oyed on the night of December 31 when a dynamite blgst made rubble out of the bus.

Those guilty for such destruction ought to be brought to trial and if guilty, they should be punished to the full extent of the law. We believe they will be. Right now three men are under arrest in connection with this bombing.

But the people of the state of North Carolina should not close their eyes to the problem which exists. We are sure that over the state there are children who ride a greater distance to and from school each day than 68 miles. But It still la not right.

We ought to make a self-case cut of this. With the starts and stops a school bus must make, it is quite conceivable that it would take at least an hour and a half for the bus to make the 34 miles trip in the morning. If school takes In at 8:30 oclock in the morning, it means that the bus must start out at 7:00

oclock. If school lets out at 3:30 oclock, it means that it will be 5:00 oclock before the children are all home In the evening.

The parents must have the children up in the morning shortly after 6:00 oclock. There are many small children' Involved. we understand. If here in our own Pamlico area, children had a bus schedule similar to this one, we feel the parents would be Justified In making a complaint.

The state of North C^ollna, educationally speaking, ought to take steps to remedy an unfortunate situation now. We realize too late sometimes that parents dont always think about what li right and what is wrong when their loved ones are involved. When the child of some man is placed under hardships. then the man himself Is hit a blow in the most critical area possible.

It li not right for children to have to ride 68 miles a day to attend school. We are not facing reality when we think that we can do that and still keep peace. No one can Justify the bombing, end we doubt that many people can Justify the fact that small children must be subjected to such hardships.

The people who are responsible for the bombing are guilty of a crime against the state. By the same token a state which demands that children ride 68 miles a day to school is guilty of creating imdue hardships against the children.

The parents have a right to resent that long bus ride each day.

sore feet.

Doggedly, they continued the long grind. Around six oclock, they paused a quarter-hour for a quick meal of sandwiches. The march continued. * '

At nine oclock, the sergeant reported hed suggested the Marchathoo come to a halt. The boys wouldn't hear of it. They were operating in the red but were determined not to give up. At that point, theyd traveled some 45 miles.

The Angel Flight. a group of E(X; coeds, stayed with the drill team and kept coffee hot as the night grew colder. Still the ca^ dets marched.

As the end of the twelfth hour approached, the sergeant prepared to call a halt to the drilling. He stressed, "Its not their idea to stop. Im making them do U.

During the last few hours of the marathon march, the cadets decided against the hourly five-minute rests. Our feet hurt worse when we stop. one of them explained.

As 11:30 pjn. arrived, the drill team came to a halt. All ^ but four of the original team were still standing. Those four marched falUiful until blistered feet prohibited another step.

The sergeant believed the boys set a record.

Over on the ECC campus last night. It was amazing to watch the basketball Pirates chalk up a consistent string of points while holding Guilford virtually scoreless.

The Bucs ran rampant. Their shooting was excellent. Their defense choked off any hopes the Quakers might have had of leadng the half-hundred mark.

EC!C easily hit the century mark and won handily by a margin of nearly 70 points.

Its hju-d to believe the team visiting here last night could have been the same one that scored their hundred against the Burs earlier this season.

Somebodys improving or else somebodys-really falling apart.

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One common fallacy about education needs to be exposed again and again imtil It Is no longer accept^ as truth. This fallacy is the notion that society can either educate a selected few extremely well or educate a great number somewhat less well, but cannot do both. (Hsndcraon Gleaner ah<t Journal)

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By 8AUL PETT

NEW YORK lAP)Have you ever noticed bow often we human beluga say and do things we dont really want, need, mean or enjoy?

I have in mind the act of compulsion. tlw uttered cliche, the compunction to fill a void that doesnt need fiUiog. the pause that doesnt need refreshing.

Think of aU the little uaeleas acts of human behavior, of the cigarette you smoked purely out of baUt. of the extra highball or coffee cup you drained wltb-out thinking or wanting.

Is there anything on earth more useless than the man who asks when its 110 in the shade,

is it hot raougb for you?

The list of p(Hntles8 acts of human behavior is m'obably endless. But cant we really do something about:

The two old college mates who couldnt stand etch other back on the old campus but when they meet aceidentelly 15 years later insist on excluuig- ing phone numbers and chanting. We must get together.

The mother who says automatically. Be a good boy. whether the boy is off to solitary confinement, a monastery, or a desert.

The driver who. when ptdling away from a traffic light alongside another car, feels compelled to ontrace the other guy.

And pretty soon we have a mobile battle of virility.

Tlie teen-age girls who cant talk wUlxMit squealing.

The baseball batter who paws at the dirt with his toe. digs in hsrd so bis spikes will bold and then sftepe out of the batters box to get the dirt out at his spikes so he can do ths whole thing over again.

The people who Insist on talking louder to children and for* Igners.

The man who cant breathe without asking What's new? and then feels put upon if you tell him.

The departing guests who cant just say good night but must say. You most come over sometime. The impUcatlon is that sometime when theyre not home-

Tbe grandmothers who mutter perfunctorily. Eat. Eat. when the baby already is eating like theres no tomorrow.

The commuter who would rather read your paper than his-

The columnist who would rather carp than think.

Opinions In Brief

'Some people may wonder why our aoU oonsenratUmlste are ao concent over better land and water uses and increased production in these days of agricultural surphissa. but they will, better understand the preesing nature of the conservation problem whm they realise that agricultural planning and future goala must be geared to so estimated UB. population of 210 mtUion people by 1975 and 170 million by the year 3010.The Oregon Journal.

i that the fed-will n^ start r mmmercisl-,16 provide a

It is the general policy of the sdminlstratlon that the federal government will or carry on any industry ftctivity ,16 provide service or product for Ito oam use if such product or service can be produced from private anterpiiae through ordinary business channels. Msurica Stens, Director of tha Bureau of the Budget.

*A friend remarked that if he were the editor, he would deliberately keep half of the people mad at him all of the time. ThU would be easy. Moet editors can do it unintentionally. Lenoir News-Toplc.

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3iggest Year Yet For Boating?

Strength For Today

OF ALL SCHOOLS

The educational situaron at present has an alarming aspect, namely, the (act that there are more children coming on than can possibly be educated in our present equipment. Unless we greatly enlarge our equipment within the next ten years, there will be tens of thousands of bright boys and girls who will not get college education simply because there will be nowhere to educate them and not enough teachers to do the teaching.

This is seriousin faqt. alarming. But let us never forget that the greatest school in the world is the home. We ean almost never get away from our background. It is reasonable to say that 99 people out of 100 are what their homes made them.

No matter what great teachers we may have had in school and college, tha greatest teacher the average person will ever have Is the mother in the home. Formal education will be left to professional teachers, but what the child learns from his parents, especially from his mother, will determine the kind of a person he later becomes.

We are experiencing a crisis in education today, but that crisis will pass if we can raise enough money and erect buidings and train teachers fast enough. But the problem of education in the home is serious now. always has been, and always will be. And the wise mother is the one who roalizes that the world and its future rests in her hands. She la humanitys chief teacher, and the home the moet significant of all schools.

By ELMER ROESSNER This looks as if It will be boatings biggest year.

The growth of the boating industry has been phenomenal. A Federal Reserve study shows that boats were one of the four consumer products of which production increased more than 400 per cent from 1947 to 1959.

The others were air-condition-ers. television sets and clothea driers. These three were all In introductory stages in 1947. That makes , the spurt in the sale of boatswhich have been with us thousands of yearsall the more spectacular.

The boating boom is going on in every section tt the country, Inland as well as aeaboard. except for the few areas without navlgabl* water. Even then retail boating eatabUphments can be found far from water. Youll find them on highways running from populated areas to-'Vard streams and bays. REASONS FOR BOOM There are two principal reasons for the boating boom:

1. The rlM in incomt in en-

ablelng more people to satisfy the conscious and subconscious urges to be on the water. Human beings have a subconscious fondness for wsUer Just as they have for fire and this has been Intensified by the conscious knowledge that water means freedom. Seafaring nations have been the freest; the seaways always offer escape from tyrants.

2. Many people with wanderlust find boating more pleasant than autoing. There are fewer fumes, fewer traffic controls, fewer tolls; autoing is eonfined to relatively narrow strips; boats have far widei; areas.

There are many leaser reasons: boats are accessories to many sports, such as hunting, fishing and racing. They offer opportunities for separateness from population Jams.

So as long as personal*. Income, population and traffic congestion conlipues to Increase, so will boating.

HOW BIG IS BIG?

A survey by the National Association of Engine and Boat Manuiacturerp and the Out

board Boating Club of America found that spending for boats, equipment. Insurance, fuel, repairs and docking, launching and storage fees totaled $2.475.-000,000 last year, an Increase of 20 per cent over 1958.

It found that 37,000,000 persons participating in boating activities, operating 7,800.000 pleasure craft. Including 541.-000 motor boats registered by the Coast Guard for use in Federal waters; 319.000 Inboard motor boats used in other war ters; 4,000 large inboard cruisers registered with Customs; 496,000 sail boats; 3,940,-000 boats designed for* outboard power, and 2,500,000 miscellaneous craft, many used with outboard motors.

All this has spawned (note the aquatic' consistency of the language) thousands of boat and accessory manufacturing and sales establishments. repair shops, dockyards and dockside gas stations. It has also caused the establishment of marinas, chug-ln refreshment establish-boatcJp.

The prosperity has splashed over into other industries. Boating wear and boating fashions are an important part of the apparel industry now. in fact, the SOth National Motor Boat Show will open in New York tomorrow evening with a fashion, show. <w

SALES Reflect

PROSPERITY IN WEST

The 1959 growth and pro6pe^ Ity of the West is shown by Federal Reserve figures on department store sales. The San Francisco district, which includes California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Nevada Nevada Utah, most (rf Arizona, Haw^l and Alaska, showed an Increase of 9 per cent, the largest In the nation. The Chicago distriet. including Iowa and most of Illinois. Wisconsin. Michigan and Indiana, was second with an 8 per cent rise.

The United States total wu 7 per cent, and the other 10 districts had iha$ or leaser