PACE FOmiTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE. N. C.

Tuefday, May 24, 1980

Tuesday,May 24, 19C0

Gives You A Warm Feelin^-

ECC Role Underlined

Its Grads

eet these demands, the college re-

The place of increasing importance East Carolina keep pace ^ ^ i r i^n-aii

College ocfcupies in higher education in North Carolina quires greater support not only from the state legisla-

is emphasized by this years graduating class.

The graduating class of 938 students set a new record for the college which has seen its number of graduates increase steadily over a period of years.

Of those receiving degrees at East Carolina on Sunday, 94 per cent were from North Carolina, representing 74 of the 100 counties in the state.

There was a time not too many years ago when East Carolina was looked upon as a little college serving a relatively few counties in the Eastern section of the state. Its sphere of influence was regarded as limited, and its position in higher education in North Carolina was viewed as one of secondary importance among the colleges and universities.

Such an interpretation of East Carolinas position

ture, but from the citizens of the state who realize East Carolinas importance to higher education in North Carolina.

East Carolinas potential for service to the state is limited only by the means with which the state provides for it to be of service to North Carolina.

We Can Expect More Strain On Relations

- TO TH' VouNG F0LK4

NVCrt RESPECT FOR

TREIR ELbER^

Little by little more irrated relations between the United States and Russia can be expected to come from the U. N. Security Council debate of the espionage

in higher education has now almost completely yanish- issue.

ed. No college which graduates the number of students that East Carolina does can be regarded as a relatively unimportant part of the structure of higher education in North Carolina. No school whose graduatiftg class includes students from almost 75 per cent of the counties of the state can be looked upon as an institution seiwing only one specific area. In addition to these fac

Espionagespyinghas long been accepted as a

part of the vital game of international politics in which all nations have participated. It should be realized, however, that the United States is a johnny-come-lately into high-powered espionage activities. Only since World War II has the United States developed a wide-

- . . 1 spread intelligence network to keep tabs on the activi-

tors, few -if any of the major institutions of higher other nations around the globe.

learning in North Carolina will have a graduating class u u u t .a

with a higher percentage of Tar Heels than does East Further it should be realized that the United

Carolina College. ' States violated a long-standing tradition by openly ad-

1. mitting a few weels ago that it had sent planes over

. t As East Carolina the Soviet Union for the explicit purpose of gaining in-

its facilities in recent years, North Carolina as-a whole cntrinio riri nnf nnvnn# +n hnvp

has come to depend more heavily upon it for providing college education for young people. Year after year the number of applicants for admission at East Carolina grows. The demands for its services comes from an increasingly larger area of the state. In order to

actuations in Voters SuDDort

formation the Soviets did not want anyone to have.

Traditionally it has been policy of nations to deny any spy activities, regardless of how effective or widespread their operations of this nature were.

It is extremely unlikely that members of the Security Council will condemn the United States as Russia will insist in its debate before the U. N. agency.

It is not unlikely, however, that what the Soviet representative and the United States representative say in gy DON SCHLIENZ

the debate will cause a further deterior.',f.ion in the re- ^

lationship which now exist betw^een the tw'o nations.

ihey Can But

Guess

McNauffU SjradictU, Inc.

By LYNN NISBET REPERCUSSION - With the state convention four or five

days bea.nu and t e pr'mary three or four days ahead, politically minded, folk are listening for echoes that might enable them to determine how much influence convention activities haci on rosuits of ]jr:m-ary voting. The reverberating echoes leave the political prophets even more confuted than they were before the convention

Apparently authentic factual reports indicate considerable regional and county fluctuation In the strength of the several candidates for Governor. The candidates themselves and their avowed supporters delight in pointing out now much tney have gained here and there, but of course never mention just as obvious loss in position elsewhere.

Two or three facts seem certain: There are four candidates for Governor in the Democratic primary Saturday, not just one or two as some enthusiastic partisans claim. ^ There will be no majority for any candidate. and there is small chance that any one will have a sufficient plurality to discourage the second man from calling a run off.

As of now. it looks like Sanford will be high, with Larkins and Seawell accorded almost equal chances for second place. Lake to run fourth. Some e.x-pericnced observer.^ predict less than 25,000 votes difference between high and low men. There was evidence at the convention. and more has developed since, that agreements have been made for combining forces of all the other against the high man in the run off.

The race for Lieutenant Governor among C V. Henkel, David McConnell and Cloyd Phil-pott is still uncertain, with a run off assuredif there is a second race for Governor.

FUTURISTICThe concept of long range planning which has been emphasized by the incumbent State administration, and the old belief that Governors are hand-picked years in advance, both found support in sideline activities at the recent convention.

Most interest naturally was In the current campaign, with arguments about the qualifications of the several candidates. But there was a good deal of back stage propaganda for Woodraw Jones of Rutherford for Governor in 1962 and Law-

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rence H. Fountain of Edgecombe in 1768,

Jones is present state chairman. foumer representative of Rutherford county in the General Assembly and of the 11th district in Congress. Fountain is the second district congressman. followins a career a* reading clerk and member of the State Senate. The promoters of these candidates respect the east-west rotation plan, under which the governorship next time will go to the west and four years later back to the east Neither of the principals participated in the discussions about future candidacies, only smiling when as:ed about their imerest in the idea.

Of course theie are hundreds iOf other men of equal or younger age who may develop ' ambitions to the Governor before the next election comes around. The Jones and Fountain backers no harm in getting in on the ground floor with suggestion but not with actual campaigning.

While the record will not support the popular belief that governors are picked far in advance, it Is true that no man has been elected Governor of North Carolina who had not established a prior record of service to the State and to the Democratic party.

LAWYER-Pciends of E. L. Poteat Jr., candidate for the Legislature in Caswell county, have taken a different approach from that used by most sections of the state. In face of . the commonyl voiced resentment that the General assembly is dominated by law-yers, and there ought to be more laymen elected to the law-makihg body, the Poteat supporters have bought advertising space in the county newspapers urging the nomination of their candidate on the grounds that it has been 28 years since Caswell county #had a lawyer in the House of Representatives and it is time to elect one because legal training is essential to the enactment of good laws.

Time was when lawyers did comprise a majority of the membership in the Legislatme. That has not been true in recent years. The 1959 Manual lists 23 lawyers among the .50 senators, and 47 among the 120 representatives less than half in each instance. And several of the members listed as lawyers do not earn the major part of their livelihood from the practice of law.

Messenaers Doina

Feets Bit Of Freedom

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Twice

in two years Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demanded a summit conference; twice he blew it up. He said only the heavyweights could settle anything; now hes compromising for the heavyweights messen- , gers.

Two years ago he balked at doing business in the United Nations Securiily Council because he said it was loaded in Americas favor; now hes going to the council which is stUl loaded in Americas favor.

In 1958 when this country sent troops Into Lebanon to defend it, Khrushchev demanded a summit meeting, finally agreed to hold it in the Security Council.

The council is made up of 11 nations. It has five permanent members; The United States, Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the pro-American Nationalist Chinese. Some of the other six always have been, and still are, pro-American, thus giving this country a majority.

One week before the meeting Khrcshchev called it off, saying the lineup was rigged on the American side.

Soon he was crusading for another summit meeting, this time outside the Security Council. President Eisenhower said the Big Fours foreign ministers would have to meet first to lay the groundwork.

Khrushchev agreed but said it was a waste of time. He talked of the ministers as if they were messengers for the big

men, which in a sense they are. He said they couldn't do much because only the heavyweights can settle things.

Eventually he got agreement to hold his summit conference and then last Monday blew that one up too, with bitter words about the American U2 spy-plane down over the Soviet Union.

Now he is charging this country with aggression and demanding that the U2 case go before the Security Council which meets today. The heavy-weights wont be there. Only their representatives will.

But Khrushchev not only contradicts himself; he repeats himself.

This year, after breaking up the summit meeting, he excited the West by announcing he would stop off in Communist East Germany on the way home. He did. But he did the same thing after the summit conference in 1955.

When he finst demanded in Novembtr 1958 that the Allies get their, troops out of West Berlin, he gave then a six-month deadline. That would have been in May 1959.

But by March 1959, when the Allies said they wouldnt budge, he said he wasnt putting a deadline on Berlin at all. He said: If it Is not settled in six months, let It be settled in seven.

That sounds like what he said this year. After exploding last weeks summit conference he said another could be held in six to eight months.

With the Return of summery weather we have an added attraction (which will soon become a bore); that would be washing the family chariot.

Now that the thermometer is reaching the persplratlon-level, no one minds a little unnecessary splashing. Too, those tender, sensiUve feet. . . .protected through the fall, winter and spring months. . .can be let out to breathe.

Im not a back-to-nature faddist, but after the first few tentative barefoot steps there is a

certain sense of exhlleratlng freedom around the pedal extremities while walking on wet grass.

One is a bit mistrustful, at first; but so too. is a bird on being let out of a cage.

But, without shoes there is a lightness long forgotten; and treading the springy grass adds to the lightness of step and Spirit.

When ^le really hot weather arrives tnerell be less inclination to wash the car (a la barefoot) and a greater tendency to

and the

avoid physical effort bright sunshine.

Welcome though It weekend sun did slightly forehead and nose.

Still, it was fun while It lasted.

w*as. the sear

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By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE WILL TO BE HAPPY

Most people are happy or unhappy depending upon how they feel.

If we allow feelings to dominate us in matters of this sort, we can be pretty sure that most of the tlrne we shall be unhappy. For a poor nights rest, a badly digested meal, a protracted season of a poor nights rest, a badly digested meal, a protracted season of work which leaves the nerves frayed, will furnish the physical basis for bad mental states which range from petulance to melancholy.

Psychologists today lay great stress on mental states in their diagnoses of the many bizarre altitudes which people frequently assume. It would probably be better if they emphasized a

bit more the physiological conditions which contribute so often to dejection and a sense of despair. The body is a delicate chemical instrument, and a little mal-adjustment can interfere with Its normal functioning as surely as the grounding of electric current can bring an internal combustion engine to a standstill.

If we are going<4o be happy, we must make the exercise of the will the chief factor in producing happiness. This is but another way of saying that we are usually about as happy as we make up our minds to be. Fatigue, indigestion, irritation, and the Influence of the uncon* scious mind can make us unhappy if we let them, but we can overwheln^, them with good chccr and whole.^ome sense of .courage if we will.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

In reviewing the problems encountered by other Southern states, such as Virginia and Arkansas, and to a less extent by some other states, one must agree with Col. W. T. Joyner when he told the North Carolina Democratic Convention in Raleigh that the major accomplishment of the last four years is the keeping open of our public schools without a defiance of the courts or a breach of the peace.

Joyner, in delivering the keynote address to Democrats gathered at the convention said: The magnificent result of our Democratic leadership up to this date is that our schools are open, our children are being educated there has been no school-connected violence. Under the states law for pupil assignment, local school boards in several cities have admitted a few Negro students to previously all-white schools.

There are those who believe this is surrender to integra-tionists to the extent that North Carolina is complying with the U.S. Supreme Courts 1654 order to end segregatlonn, then one could, by some stretch of the imagination, term it a surrender. But if one were to take a look at public schools in Washington. D.C., then^ It is plain to see that North Carolina has done a commendable job in maintaining the status quo in the school system.

Most Democrats are of one mind when it comes to the school Integration question in North Carolina. One prominent Democrat, I. Beverly Lake, gubernatorial candidate, has taken issue with the states method of meeting the problem. But the other three candidates. Terry Sanford. Malcolm Seawell and John Larkins, haVe endorsed the present approach.

Several items included on the proposed platform to be adopted by the convention are wA)r-thy to be adopted by the convention are worthy of mention. One long overdue matter is the question of legislative reapportionment. The platform would pledge Democratic members of the 1961 General Assembly to take some positive action on the question of reapportlon-ment. Members of the platform committee agreed this plank would leave the way open for the Legislature to reapportion its membership under present provisions of the state constitution or to submit to the people and amendment changing the constitution. For the last decade the Legislature has refused to reapportion although the constitution says it should be done after every iederal*" census

Another matter vital to the working .-Mppje of North C&ro-lina oonc^ns'the states right to work la^. the proposed platform endorses this by pledging support to laws which will guarantee employes the right to work, and employers the right to conduct their business, as citizens in a free and demo-craUc society. This policy is entirely correct, for no organization, group or authority should have the right to tell a man he cannot work in a certain place merely because he does not choose to Join some union.

Overall the Democratic party meeting in Raleigh, has adopted a sane and reasonable, as '"well as constructive attitude toward major problems that are besetting the state. These same problems face other states. That we have met and dealt So successfully with them in the past is a credit to the state and its leaders.

It's a rare thing, but perhaps every five or six years a copy of an Orlando tFla.) newspaper falls into my hands.

Orlando used to be home to me. That, of course, was a long time ago.

Nearly all of my grade school and high school days were lived in that central Florida city. It wss then known as The City Beautiful, and it was pretty. The population then ran about 35,000; I'm told It has more than tripled over the past twenty years.

I haven't wanted to go back. . . just no Inclination. But those infrequent newspapers that come my way are gone over with a fine tooth comb In an effort to piece together the gaps in the picture caused by time. Even the advertisemcDts provide some clues.

Yesterday another copy of The Orlando Sentinel fell Into my hands and provided hours of reading. In it, I learned for the first time one of my buddies In school had been kiUed in action, in Germany, during WW II, As news goes, It was pretty old; but to me, stUl news.

On Saturday night well have a new election Scoreboard mounted in front of The Reflector building.

Its going to be a king-size job.

Counting up all the candidates, the precixtols, and a special panel for the First. District race, we figured the board would have to run not less Uian 20 feet wide and 8 feet deep.

Thats the largest scoreboard weve had since Ive been here; and the figuring and head-scratching it has already occasioned makes it quite a thing.

By GEORGE E. SOKOUKY Copyright, t**- 1^*"* Featares Syndicate, Inc.

Politicians usually regard themselves as very practical. This obviously cannot be so, lor one of these Jove-Uke creatures must be defeated at each clccUon.

It can then be reasoned that the one who is out is the one who knows less than the one who gets in. Actually no such clear-cut conclusion can be reached. Politicians guess, the same as you and I.

This is a curious country because the population is in a constant state of flux. It was not so many years ago that the number of Americans who attended college was few. Colleges were comparatively coetly. Graduate schools were not too available in this country. Those who sought higher education went to Europe, principally to Germany. In fact, our system of higher education was modelled on the German rather than tha BritUh universities.

Today, although some of our colleges are not superior to earlier high schools, It is true that millions of young people attend colleges of some kind. They learn how to read and If they are over-maj<aized, they nevertheless have had some contract with ideas. Politicians do not find it so easy to deal with the current crop of young people. Some of them, like the Beatniks, may lotA queer and even have funny Ideas, but they can, if they want to, read. This makes it very rough for the practical politicians.

Look at the ages of the current breed of Prcjudential candidates: Kennedy. 42; Nixon, 47; Johnson, 51; Symington, 58. These are comparaUvcly young men, younger than candidates usually have been, although Theodore Roosevelt was only 42 years old when he became President.

Candidates for public office have to speak the language of their own generation. The brassy, shouting, boy-from- the log-cabin candidate has nothing to say to the current generation. Hubert Humphrey talked an era of inilatlon. be sounded about what might be called bread-and-butter questions and in an era of inflation, he sounded like William Jennings Bry'an berating William McKinley, It had no meaning against John Kennedy who spoke a Harvard broad A and looked literate. Humphrey had once been a university professor. come to Earth and gone liberal. So what? The youngsters know lots of professors and many are squares.

Also the politician has to note the rise in white coUar workers. Their Income amounts to 53,4 per cent of all income. They own lots of small bouses sU over the place. They have pretty wives who dress up and like good things. An astonishingly large number of these workers are professionals, chemists, physicists, biologists, technicians of various kinds, accountants, and all sorts of specialists. Most of these are not only college

graduates; many have at least

an M A. They are employed in every growing industry and hit the time clock the same as any other worker but they have the advantage of being specialists. Actually, there Is always a shortage of top white collar

workers, from presidents of corporations down to first-rate

stenographers.

The politician has a hard time with this new element. Adlal Stevenson thought in two campaigns that he had these college-trained voters. He talks their language and he has advertised himself as an intellectual rather than a politician, but twice, he was defeated. Whatever it was, Stevenson has never been able to win as much popularity among this element In our population as he had expected.

Stevenson, In fact. Is a political phenomenon. Practically unknown, he became Governor of Illinois. The politicians permitted him to run for the Presidency during two campaigns when no Democrat could have been elected. This gave Stevenson statute, but he hardly did much about it. He saw John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson Johnson garner the delegates for the 1960 Convention, but he went travelling in South America, whence (Continued on page five)

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Opinions In Brie.

verybody Cheated By Inflation

War, we dont like to think about. Maybe that's why we have forgotten, to a degree, the men who prepare to fight it. Gastonia Gazette.

of the Russian people that any enemy plane could have penetrated 1200 miles into their country before it was detected. Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer.

Our government is doing a good job trying to tell other countries the truth about tljings here and abroad, but po ohe is telling us hi^re at home. It is-hard for Americans to realize hie under Communism, since we have never experienced it.

Ail of us are too nonchalant. Neither our .schools or parents are bothering to lielp tlie children to get on the riKlii Iracle. l*;ii/abelh City Dally Advance.

Raising the floor of the minimum wage will almost automatically move the unions to demand compgrabl* pay rajses. Labor leaders sty this would be necessary *to maintain existing wage differentials. Elizabeth City Daily Advance.

Nobody loves North Carolina" who makes It hl^ bu.suc.ss to Mir hate in it.-Raleigh News and Observer.

It could be that behind all the Summit row liCb the tliock

The elderly are becoming a more iini^iriant pulltUal and social fat lor each year. In tiiis matter of relirenunt, we pay them not to work, while tlure is plenty of evidence iliat plenty of the aged would mucli rather be paid to work, and are willing and able to continue as productive members of society. The Atlanta Journal.

By ELMER ROESSNER Inflation, it has been said ov-^ er and over in this colum and elsewhere, is a tax on savings, annuities, pensions and insurance. It is a levy on the old and thrifty to pass a simulated prosperity on to others.

But It bits more than the aged and weak. It bashes big corporations and little businesses. Examples: In 1940, the father of a new-born so look out a 20-ytar endowment policy for $5.000 to send the pon through college. That sum would have done It in those days, draft laws permitting. Now the $5.000 will barely get the boy through his sophomore year, even if he washes dishes for his ineaLs.

In 1940, the Top Acme Cor-poralion spent $l.uOO,txK) for a new plant with a 20-year life expeiUaiicy. Under tax laws, it has been allowed to accumulate $1.000.000 tftx-iree dollars as ainnrtlzation over the years. ROOKED This being I960, twenty years after the original plant was

calculated to wear out, Top Acme finds it necessary to replace the plant.

But to' buy the equivalent plan, it would cost Top Acme $3.000,000 And to buy a replacement plant geared to modern production methods, it would cost $10,000,000.

As Father William T. Hogan, S.J., Fordham economist, write in the cuiTcnt New York University Challenge. American industry finds itself faced with a curious paradox. In spite of record profits, many companies have not had' the capital necessary to replace and modernize their plant and equipment. . .One third of the American indu.slrial innohine Ls obsoleto.

Father Hogan died inflation M* decline iu purcha.sing power of" the dollar, especially the construction dollar, which had dropt)ed to 35 cents in the last 20 yeai's, and the tax laws. FORCED TO RAISE MONEY

He gave this example; Equipment Installed In 1939 at

a cost of $1,000,000 cannot bo replaced today for less than /$3,000,000. Nevertheless, under the present fax laws it is possible to reclaim only the original cost of the equipment: $1,-(KMI.OOO.

He observed that a 55-ton freight car cost railroads $2,550 In 1940 and $9.000 today; a blast furnace installed for $8.-000,000 in 1945 cant be built today for less than $26.000,000.

To raise the money for costlier plants and equipment, a company may borrow, but this would be feasible only when the return on newly installed equipment is great enough to * amortize the debt and pay in-tere.st on It as well, he pointed out. Belling additional stock would reduce the original stockholders share of the bu.slness.

A third alternative is to reinvest profits, but this had draw* back.s. Because industrie.s are not allowed to charge off adequate sums for depreciation, profits are overstated and ex* cessively taxed, he pointed out.

To provide funds for replacement out of profits, a company will raise its pricesif It can.

Father Hogan suggests a change in tax laws that would pefmit companies to charge off, before taxes, enough to allow the investors to recover the purchasing power of the dollars represented by the original Investment. Plant and equipment, under this plan, would be revalued annually. And, he added, it should be revalued down in, periods of deflation as well as being valued higher In Inflar tions.

DEPARTMENT OF AGIIICULTURE LEARNS ABOUT ADVERTISING

The Department of Agriculture participated in a teat of apple salea lii 72 supermarkets in six Midwestern states. It found tliat when advertising by the Washington State Apple Commission was used, sales of that state's apples were 32 per cent higher than when there was no advertising.