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Friday, March 25, 1960

A Major Stake In New ECC Bid

KoHh^n^i rnnf move up from the would have to be off-set by greater revenues from

North State Conference to the Souhern Conference. athletic events, and other financial resources.

IS again underway in behalf of East In addition to boosting the prestige of ECC, the

colleges entry into the Southern Conference would nf Ik Q fK becomes a part also bring to the local campus bigger name teams on a

L ,n ^ ^ ^sis for sports events. And these bigger and

As in any effort of this sort, supporters of ECC better sports attractions would in turn bring more peo-must show effectively their interest in the progress of pie to East Carolina and to Greenville. It would help the collep and its athletic program, and put forth an the community as well as the coHeg.

actne effon if the goal is to be reached. Greenville and its people have a major stake in

Admission to the Southern Conference would en- every effort that is made to build a better institution hance considerably the standing of ECCs athletic pro- of East Carolina College. Therefore Greenville and its gram, and put it in a conference with some of the other people have a major stake in the current effort to have ma.ior colleges in this state^ South Carolina and a new ECC accepted as a member of the Southern Confer-plateau which could be used for broadening the in- ence. '

Lets Get Together Again

fluence of East Carolina College.

To produce an athletic program of the calibre which would justify its being a part of the Southern Conference, East Carolina must have from the people of Greenville as well as from its friends and alumni in other parts of the state more financial support for its athletic program. In order to compete successfully in this faster conference, ECC would have to produce

In terms df enrollment. East Carolina is a large enough college to be a member of the Southern Conference. In terms of location and size it could prove an asset to the Southern Conference now and in the years to come.

In its own interest and in the interest of East Carolina College, Greenville should exert every possible effort to assist the college in making a successful bid

Cooperation For Industrial Drive

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more powerful athletic teams with more consistency for admission into the Southern Conference this spring, than has been the case in the past. Its scholarship pro-

Senator Symington Is No Longer On Sidelines

Sen. Stuart Symingtons official entry into the Democratic presidential nomination race dispells any previous notions that the Missourian is willing to sit idly on the sidelines in hope of being chosen as a compromise candidate by a deadlocked convention.

Although his official entry into the competition for the Democratic nomination comes late compared with that of his fellow Senators Kennedy and Humphrey, it is not too late to gain considerable voting strength prior to the convention. It must b assumed now that Sen. Symington will go into the convention with first-ballot votes pledged to him. It should also be assumed that he will seek commitments for late ballotsshould the convention become deadlockedfrom delegates already pledged to other candidates on the first few ballots.

Until now there has, of course, been no large bloc of votes pledged or tentatively pledged to Sen. Symington for the nomination. At the same time, neither is there any large bloc of opppsition to Symington anywhere in the country as there is in the case of Senators Kennedy and Humphrey. Although both the other avowed candidates appear to have more pledged strength now than does Sen. Symington, both of them also face formidable groups that do not want them to receive the nomination.

Sen. Symingtons active entry into the nomination campaign will alter the picture of pre-convention activity. It could well alter the outcome of the conventions decision. Although Sen. Symingtons best chance of getting the nomination still appears to be as a compromise candidate, his active campaign for support could send him into the convention as a candidate who will have to be reckoned with by the others.

Not Much Hope Summit

By WADE LUCAS

' Information Officer, Department of Conservation 8i Development.

MEDALS If Governor Luther H. Hodges should decide to award individual medals or letters of commendation to all those who have taken part in the North Carolina industrial development program since the current drive got under way in high gear in 1955, he would, indeed, be a very busy man for a long, long time.

Generally acknowledged to be North Carolinas No. 1 sales-man and a man endowed with seemingly endless energy and

drive. Governor Hodges has made industrial development ot North Carolina to its greatest potential one of the major objectives duriElk his unprecedent-dly long tenure as the States Chief Executive.

Governors, who steered the

good ship North Carolina from the southwest comer of the State Capitol before Governor Hodges took over the helm of the Ship of State in November, 1954, following the death of Governor William B. Umstead. have long recognized that if North Carolinians are to raise their per capita income they

must, or plain necessity, do

something to help themselves.

Rather rapid mechanization of North Carolina farms and the steady advance of automation in many of the States lieutenant-governor. He jteh-

hlt at several of the ten North Carolina Industrial development forums for Governor Umstead, who had originated the idea for the fonuns as part of his program to step up the industrialization of the State from the coast to the mountains.

It was a natural pinch-hlttlng role for the free-swinging, retired industrialist who, to a great extent, amazed veteran politicos b3T winning the Democratic nomination for lieutenant-governor in 1952 when but few apparently realized he knew much about the rough and tumble game of politics that is so frequently played in North Carolina.

After succeeding Governor Umstead, Governor Hodges began to put increased emphasis on the need and necessity for providing more industrial jobs for North Carolinians.

He began to call for increased acUvity at local as well as State level for greater industrial development of the State to help it supply the services its people want and demand. He was not content with mere lip-service from those who openly agreed with him that North Carolina simply must have more industrial plants to provide Jobs for so many of its people in growing need of employment.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS - He quickly began to show more than a casual Interest in the work of the Department of Con-servaUon and Development, the

State's principal development agency, and the Board of Conservation and Development, w'hich makes policy for the C & D Department.

With all due respects to all North Carolina Governors who have followed Governor Angus W. McLean, the one-time Lum-berton banker and businessman who asked the 1925 General Assembly to create the Department of Conservation and Development and its governing board, it is the opinion of this guest columnist for the ailing Lynn Nisbet that no chief executive of the State since 1925 has shown a greater personal interest in this department than has Governor Hodges. Incidentally, this opinion is based on personal observations of the scene for more than 30 years as a reporter and in our present capacity.

This column is not written as a paean of praise for a man because he happens to be the present Governor of North Carolina and the very active chairman of the Board of Conservation and Development. Others far more capable have done that in newspaper editorials or by the spoken words.

But as a matter of fact the cold statistics prove that Governor Hodges has been the lead-i er of an ever-growing number of North Carolinians who have translated thoughts and words into real action in providing for what the late Governor O. Max Gardner like to call "the more abundant life and the late Governor Umstead "a better tomorrow for North Carolinians.

Governor Hodges has Ume and again praised the efforts at the local level as well as at the State level of those who have done so much to help make North Carolina a better place in which to work, live and play. He knows and quickly asserts in most understandable language that what has been accomplished during his administration is not due to the efforts of one man. namely Luther H. Hodges, Director William P. Saunders of the Department of Conservation and Development, or any other individual.

It has. Indeed, been a great team effort. Plain citizens have given of their time, their money, and their efforts to promote further industrialization of North Carolina. Bankers, utility executives, transportation officials, and others in the field of big business have marched shoulder to shoulder with Chambers of Commerce, the States now more than 200 industrial development organizations, the Department of Conservation and Developments Division of Commerce and Industry, the State Department of Agriculture, N.

C. State College, the State Revenue Department, and countless others in letting industry know tha it can find what it wants in the Tar Heel State. (Continued on page eight)

By HENRY HOWARD

Old. Incident Is Retolc.

PROM THE HELPLESSLY, EMBARRASSINGLY RIDICULOUS DEPT.: One of the attorneys in the defending cirle surrounding the Pitt County Courthouse described a two-year-old incident recently.

As persons familiar with the stnicture of and the goings on around the countys official hub know, there are wooden railings guarding the stairways at each end oft he building.

Supporting these railings are vertically fixed square-shaped iron rods spaced about four or five inches apart.

During court sessions here. Its long been a custom for lawys. witnesses, jurors, and spectators to gather on the second-floor staircase landing at the west end of the courtroom and review pending decisions, etc., during brief recesses.

A limited number of the participants in the discussion that sounds something like a autumn Monday morning quarterback session, occupy positions leaning against the six feet of level raU-Ing exposed so conveniently on the second landing.

This particular Incident of two years past began with one of those recesses. As usual, the group gathered on landing No. 2 to smoke and discuss the courts actions.

Being one of the first on the scene, the lawyer referred to above immediately perchedh im-self upon the short length of railing. Being a cautious man. however, be carefully inserted his right foot through a pair of those little vertical irons to maintain his balance.

At the time, this seemed the most logical thing to do since a

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-In time the worldif relations between nations turn sour and savage againmay look back wistfully upon these days as the happy period of conversation without progress.

Por months now the United States and the Soviet Union have been pretty much soft-pedaling their differences to avoid wrecking ahead of Ume the summit meeting May 16 between President Eisenhower and Premier Nikita Khrushchev.

Whether they accomplish anything. besides talking, is doubtful. But at \past while East and West are talking theyre not hissing.

With the summit meeting still almost two months away Secretary of State Christian A. Her-ter already is trying to prepare the American people against disappointment. He told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week:

"Im very frank to admit that Im not optimistic that the summit will produce very great results.

Sen. Albert Gore (D-Tenn> said it appears Eisenhower and Herter are going to the summit "without purpose, without plan, without hope of success And Herter replied: Its a gam

ble.

Herter summed up what seems to be the attitude at this particular moment in historywhen he said In a period of pushbutton war like this one it would be too risky not to sit down and talk,

Eisenhowers press secretary, James C. Hagerty. denied Wednesday that Gore was right In

complaining the President and Herter were going to the summit without purpose, plan or hope of success.

But unless Eisenhower does go to the Paris meeting with some clear-cut ideas he may get a rude, shock from Khrushchev. The Russian seems to know ahead of time what he wants.

He can turn the summit into a propaganda victory for the Soviet Union if he makes proposals which have broad appeals and all the American government can do is hem and haw.

Khrushchev sounds like a man who has no doubts of what he wants at the summit. Within no time at all after arriving in Prance Wednesday he told President Charles de Gaulle the West must back down and sign a peace treaty with Germany.

This would require the West to recogniFe Communist East Germany as an independent nation. The West has stalled on this ever since the war. Its ally. West Germany, wants a unified Germanynot recognition of the Soviet idea that Germany should be permanently divided.

Khrushchev in France harped on another old theme: He wants an end to NATO and the Western European Union, both of which include West Germany as a member.

Since this is the last thing the United States wants, the Elisenhower-Khrushchev summit talks should be lively. But only a country boy with stars in his eyes at this moment can hope the talks will produce any solutions.

(The Dallas Momlng News)

When Steve Allen, California lad of 18, was a little tyke, he assembled radios before he could read. He began building color television sets at the age of 12. Electronics fascinated him. He was deep in that study by the time he was in the eighth grade.

In his junior high school year, 0 In his junior high school year. Allen found him^lf so far beyond his classmate that he quit school, started his school, started his

own company. Now he has 11 employes, did $1(X).000 worth of business last year and hopes to make it $600,000 this year. He has one post - graduate engineering student on his staff.

They will tell you that the last frontier has been passed, the last opportunity exploited, with nothing for the little firm or the little man any more. But dont tell it to Steve. He wont understancB you.

Husband Is An Easy Mark (The Shreveport Times)

The executive head of one of the big naticmal chain grocery companies sayst hat alls uper-markets would like to see husbands do more of the family shopping. Let the wife make out the list, he says, but let hte husband do the marketing. Why?Because, the grocery executive explains, a husband always will threw in half a dozen or so extra items, where the woman will stick to the list. Its the husband, not the wife, who is the compulsive buyer.

We believe the market executive is right. Husbands always seem unable to resist nicely packaged and attractive appearing Items. We recallh earing a man say when the first of the self-service, push - your-basket grocery stores opened several decades ago: "My idea of heaven is to be turned loose in one of these places with a hundred dollar bill!

Ever browse around one of those really top grade hard-ware-variety stores and fight yourself to keep from purchasing at least dozen items which you know you cant use and dont want? Every man does it. Yet. watch the women In such a store. They barrel their way straight to the counter containing the item they want. There they may paw and waste a lot of time, but they dont pick up unneeded items.

The head of a woman's clothing store tells us the same thing the husband do the marketing, company the wife to buy a new dress or coat or both, and the bill will be 50 to 100 per cent more than if the women bought alone all of which knocks to pieces the old stories about the wife running up big clothing bills and the husband being tight.

Probably a lot of soul search-pearing items. We recall hear-is true there. Let the husband ac-out jjust why men are this Ing would be necessary to find wayas to womens clothing, groceries, hardward and variety Items or anything else. The grocery chain executive gave his reason in four words:"Its mans inherent vanity.

person losing his balance and falling backward could only expect a speedy. 25-foot descent climaxed by a very sudden stoP on the stone floor below.

As the recess conversation wore on, this attorney carefully slipped his foot further and further through the narrow opening and soon was indeed confident he could not possibly fall.

After t quarter of an hour or so, the call went out to resume court.

The second-landing delegation filed once again into the courtroom to hear cases that had captured each ones respective attention.

All the delegation, that is except our lawyer. He didnt budge. He Just sat there perched atop that narrow railing one foot firmly lodged behind an iron support and the other dangling toward the floor.

He vainly tried to loose his foot gently. Gently enough to prevent his ftUing abruptly to the floor on either the short or the long and deep side.

He thought hed Just fall for^ ward onto the second landings floor, catch his weight with his hads, then wriggle his foot free and re-Joln the delegation.

"No. he decided. "What if somebodyd come by and see me? Theyd think I was cray. So there he sat. Totally helpless and with no one aware of his pUght.

After a few long moment*, a late-comer climbed the stairs and gave the lawyer a quilcal onceover.

The lawyer solemnly, silently pointed to the securely lodged right hoof and shoe. "Please, he begged.

Nimble fingers untied the shoe-laces and slipped the shoe off. Then the lawyer easily retrieved his foot.

V Wiping perspiration from his forhead and uttering a grateful "Thank you. the lawyer rejoined the delegation.

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We spend great sums of Interest charges on our public debt, but we do not reduce the principle. We carry on massive federal programs which state and local governments could do better. We devote large amounts of money to benefit special groups at rates below those the government must pay its own creditors. We perpetuate federal programs which have long since met the objectives for which they were created. Geneva (Ohio) Free Press.

Friday, March 25, 1960

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COPYRIGHT, 1960, KI.NG FEATURES SYNDICATE. INC-By GEORGE SOKOLSKY

It Ls a truism that to the most impudent go the spaUs.'particular-ly of politics. If (he ipeek are to inherit the Earth, tl day of inheritance is a long way oil. This ii^ as true fn International relations as it is in the private world,

Soviet Russia has never been meek. From the very start o its existence in 1917, it has been aggressive, forceful, attacking. The reason has been that the Marxist is convinced of the inevitability of his success because of the laws, which he accepts, of historic necessity. Believing as he does, that the progress of man is due to the conflicting force* in * materialist world, he feels that what he needs to do is to wait. Meanwhile, Soviet Russia conducts an untiiing war of propaganda and infUtration. As Mao Tse-tunf once said: "Politics is war Without bloodshed. War is politics with bloodshed,

But bloodshed is the least vl^ua of the Marxist devlcee. The worst is the destruction of the human mind. This is aome-times called brais-washlng. a term which is apt but not sufficiently descriptive of what actually happens to the human mind and spirit. Much of life was materialistic long before Karl Marx was bom. We need to eat, to drink, to clothe ourselves, to move from place to place, to provide for a family, and so on.

If one reads Dr. Nelson Gluecks "Rivers in the Desert. he can go back many thousands of years and find that man wss then struggling against his physical environment and with what ingenuity he managed to succeed. But something was added. The spiritual appears in man early in his history that is, a non-physical something, a gossamer Invisibility so strong that it binds and holds one as the conscience does. This is the soul of man. the God In man. The existence of the mystical, the spiritual, the Marxist denies.

The Marist therefore approaches politics, the relations between government and government, with a brutality heretofore unknown to mankind. Even Attila, Genghis Khan, or any other conqueror only killed physical bodies; Soviet Russia seeks to destroy the minds of men. to deprave their consciences, to brutalize them, to cheapen them, to leave them without dignity.

The very best discussion I have yet seen of this process is a little pamphlet written by Mme. Suzanne Labin, a French joar-nallst. Her work is entitled, "The Technique of Soviet Propaganda, and has been issued by the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee.

Mme. Labin recognizes and describea the techniques of destroying thought. The basic idea is to fix ideas in the minds of opponents to that they repeat cliches instead of thinking things out. For instance, the use of the term. East-West. Instead of the Communist world and the Free world. Another is the twisted definitions given the word. Liberal, which in the 19th Century meant the extension of the rights of man but in the middle of the 20th Century means the expansion of the power of government.

Mme. Labin says this:

"Weak or strong, CPs are characterized everywhere by th# following specific features:

1. They are strictly controlled by the Kremlin, whose orders they blindly carry out. whatever zigzags or disavowals that may mean.

"2, They are not organled as parties, but as totalitarian states. They are fanatical, monolithic, intolerant. The top rules and manipulates the bottom, which only serves as a striking force, . .

"3. Its apparatus, in proportion to its membership, is 50 to 100 times better equipped with material and means of iM'opa-ganda than that of any other party. Thus a CP has on the average 1 permanent (e.e., a paid actlvisit) for 25 to 50 members, while other parties have 1 per 1,000 or 5.000 members. Its turnout of printed matter newspapers, magalnes, pamphlets, leaflets, posters, home bulletins, booksis also on the average 100 times greater per member than that of any other party, however rich it may be.

The same proportion holds true for premises, card files, printing presses, and a still higher one for study groups, party (Continued on page eight)

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Ready-Mixed

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLAS.S

BE FAIR WITH YOURSELF

"Jesus turned and looked upon Peter (Luke 22:61).

What a tragic mistake Peter .had madein fact, a veritable cluster of mistakes. He had boasted that though all the world forsake the Master, yet would not he. When accused of being a follower of Jesus he denied the charge. When it was repeated again, he cursed and swore that he did not even know the man about whom they were talking. Boaster, coward, liar, blasphemer.

Theres a fine list of villanles for you. He whom Jesus had chosen to be first among his honored apostles had become about as unworthy as fear and

judgment could make a man.

Yet this Peter stands today in the honored place In church history and tradition to which Jesus assigned him. He fell from grace, and even from decency, as ignominiously as one could possibly fall But he gathered himself up and walked to the heroic end and kept that place of honor and responsibility to which he had been divinely appointed. The story has persisted In the church that Peter himself not only suffered martyrdom, but suffered it in as gallant a fashion as any follower of Christ ever displayed.

God always gives us a second chance. Sometimes we dont give ourselves that second chance. Peter did, and his life and his death were glorious-

By ELMER ROESSNER

When I was a little boy, the ladles magazines dwelt extensively on household budgets. In the days when I was "Stinky to my friends, the second concern of the magaines was budgets. The primary concern was the evils of demon rum.

The magazines stressed this theory that if a housewife carefully budgeted her Incomethen likely to be $28 a weekall problems would be solved.

The magaines stressed tlus point 80 strongly that the idea of family budgeting has prevailed for a generation. Drop into any book or stationery store and youll see an array of little budget books in which women, formerly ladies, can plan the division of their husbands income. And you still see articles in magazines on how to budget Income to have enough left over for the things the magazine advertisements offer.

EVERYTHING READY-MIXED

This has erroneously been called the do-lt-yoursalf age. True, with the shorter work week, theres a lot more tinkering and puttering going on. But much stronger Is the you-do-it-for-me trend. Pastries come ready-mixed. No housewife even peels an onion today; she uses onion salt, onion flakes or something called instant onion. More and more of the frozen foods are coming ready-cooked; whole dinners come frozen to a tray.

So it is with budgets. Each family works under a ready-mix-budget. The . government and creditors have prescribed the budget and the family had jolly well live up to it.

Lets take the Boscage C. Johnsons. Daddyhes Bosco down at the officeearns $179 a week. Thats what they teU him. Thats what they tell him.

Before he gets his coffee-stained fingers on his pay, there are hefty deductions for

Federal and sometimes state withholding taxes. Social Security. and hospitalization and medical care, participating life Insurance plans, retirement fund contributions. union dues, stock purchase plans, Christmas club payments and other desapping items. MANDATORY OUTGO

When Bosco gets home, there are the imperative checks to be sent out; for rent or mortgage payments: utility bills; the fuel bill; church, charity and club pledges; tuition payments for the children; the car payment and the installment payments.

After that come the rigid cash demands. There must be so many dollars and cents for commutation, lunch money, laundry, dry cleaning, television repairs. gas and oil, parking fees, the newspaper boy. the maid. If any. and meat and potatoes.

Whats left over is also earmarked for, say, liquor, hosiery, movie tickets, books and magazines and savings for new clothes.

In short, the homemade budget is no more. The government, the money-changers and the customs of the day have taken the budgeting process out o the hands of the family, Americans are captives of a way of life and should not feel too sorry for the slobs under communism. STRANGE AND CVRIOUS BUSINESS NEWS BIT New rubber expansion joinLs for airport taxiways can expand up to three Inches, keeping surfaces always smooth. . .The average cost of havuig a baby in Cincinnati is $114, in New York, $183, according to the Health Insurance Institute. . The Soviet Economy will still be behind Americas in 1970, Marvin Pran-kel calculate-s in Business Hor.-zons. an Indiana University quarterly. , .Losses by e la January and February w'ere le.ss than in the same months o 1959 and 19.}. the National Board of Fire Undtu writers reports.