PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Saturday, July 23, 1960

Saturday, July 23, 1960

The Dream Ticket*

Guest Editorial

Meeting The Changes In Education

Editors Note: The following guest editorial was prepared by O E. DOWD, principal of J. H. Rose iiigh SchooL

The American high school of this century is entirely different from those of any other century or foreign equivalent. Under one roof and in one high school building we are trying to give each student a good genera! education, provide elective subjects for a group to develop useful skills, and to educate those who have talents for handling advance subjects in math, science, and foreign languages.

To meet the changes taking place in education today, a high school must study its philosophy of education and adjust it periodically to meet the needs of boys and girls in the community. There must be a willingness to experiment with new ideas and then to study the changes that need to be made and evaluate for results. The school staff, administration, school board, and community must have a part in the study of the high school program.

The general purpose of an effective educational program must be twofold: First, to bring students to full self-realization of their talents; second, to assist the pupil in finding himself in worthy group membership. Generally, the work of the public high school could be stated in this manner; First, the school should concentrate on doing a thorough job of reading, writing and arithmetic in all subjects; second, provide for individual activities and as broad an educational program as possible; third, prepare capable students for higher education; fourth, give adequate training

Small Unique nits In Gaston

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GASTONIA The State of North Carolina has three insti-tutiona in Gaston county, all small and each unique in its field. The visit of the budget group to these places was happy, because there were no requests for capital improvement money at two and very little at the other.

^ The Vocational Textile School at Belmont is about ready to let contract for an auditorium-classroom addition to the main building, for which funds were allocated in 1959. Needed minor repairs are being handled through the operating "A budget. This school was estab-Bshed in 1943 for special training in textile work. The student body of about 400 comes chiefly from employees in nearby mills. One of the most popular courses is in tailoring. The school has a board of trustees and an advisory committee of business

Sen. but it is in fact attached the division of vocational education in the State Department of Public Instruction. ^

The North Carolina Orthopedic Hospital was established in 1921 and for many years has been a favorite of budget commissions Requests for money arc very modest, and proven re- suits highly gratifying. With rated capacity for 140 patients average occupancy is one or two more than that.

Chief need is a new tevator to take children from tie first floor wards' to the operating room. Estimated cost $15.-000. Next requirement is replacement of laundry equipment at $10,000. Other items include renovation of the colored ward kitchen, and miscellaneous painting and repairs.

The laundry request occasioned discussion of the whole policy of handling State institu-, tional laundry through the prison enterprises system. Dr. W.M. Roberts convinced the budget folks that need for retaining control of awrgical linen and the distance from Raleigh justified the laundry operations here.

Dr. Roberts noted the change in tjrpe of patients now as compared with earlier years. Arthritis TB cases are rare, and it is difficult to get enough polio cases for teaching purposes. The stay of patients is longer, because this hospital gets only the more serious cases. In 1928 there were only five orthopedists in North Carolina. Now there are more than 50, and most of the simple cases are treated at home.

The hospital operates a clinic at Goldsboro one day a month at which about 125 patients are treated, including adults. The school classes here fit into

the State public system. One of the interesting sights is a class of seventh grade kids sprawled on beds or sitting bolt upright in heavy casts, with twisted arms and legs and bright eyes, studying history.

The Gaston Technical Institute has the status of a two-year junior college in engineering technology, a branch of State College at Raleigh. Present enrollment is 210, with a goal of 350 as soon as faculty and laboratory equipment can be obtained. The institute is housed in a large building donated by Firestone several years ago-Students come from 95 counties and three other states. There are no dormitory facilities on the campus but a privately owned house nearby houses 30 boys. The others find quarters out in town.

A few courses are offered for which credits can be transferred to higher classes in four year colleges, but chief purpose is a two year terminal qourse in engineering technology. The 69 graduates this year had an average of six job opportunities each. About two thirds of them stayed in Nortb Carolina a considerable number with the highway commission.

The Institute has Its own admission tests although majority ^ of the students are referred here through the State College counseling service. The budget for this school is included in that for State College, so details were not discussed. One of the immediate needs is an adequate library.

for vocational work to stirdents who need these opportunities; fifth, extra-curricular activities should be provided, but so as not to interfere with or detract from the instructional program; sixth, assist each student through guidance to find where his abilities are and to provide for and develop these abilities to the fullest.

Our citizens want educational opportunity for every child regardless of his ability. A school should operate in a climate that will assist each pupil in discovering his talents. Quality teaching makes quality learning. Quality education can only be provided when each agency assumes its proper role in providing such a program. Society therefore should provide the framework to give each individual student a sense of purpose and direction in his life. Favorable learning environment for the student will develop him mentally, emotionally, and physically. Education therefore is everyones business and should be supported by all our citizens.

Not Much Of A Tiger, But Its Time To Act

Three sugar mills and properties estimated as being worth around $75 million were seized yesterday by Castros Cuba.

The announcement said the American company involved was accused of failing to liquidate its obligations, leaving thousands of Cuban cane growers in a state of ruin.

This hardly clarifies the case for readers in the United States. Accusations here are not yet tantamount to judicial conviction.

However, such action does fall in line with the traditional acts of totalitarianism ; as have other such characteristic traits as muffling the free press, unbridled propaganda by government, secret police, military tribunals, the avoidance of elections and appeals to the mob spirit.

Such things, coupled with anxious toadying to the Moscow line are symptomatic of Communist rule ... a possibility anticipated by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles six years ago when he got the Inter-American Conference at Caracas to agree that domination or control of the political institutions of any American state by the sovereignty and political independence of the American states.

True,. Sec. Dulles \vas not at the time thinking of Cuba as a festering sore in the Western hemisphere, but of Guatemala. Still, the agreement remains in effect today.

Trouble is, while were satisfied Castro and Co. are within the Red fold, he disavows Communist influences pervade his thinking; and is apparently able to denj party membership with no proof to the contrary.

.All in all, it seems the time has come for Uncle Sugar to stop pretending the big striped cat that w'alks like a tiger, eats like a tiger, growls like a tiger . *. . is not a tiger; and act accordingly.

It isnt that Castros Cuba makes a very good tiger, but the real front lines are elsewhere; and those distractions made-in-Cuba should be promptly handled.

-altering Plan Of Containment

By ALVIN TAYLOR

Now A Mobile Ham

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Charlie Wells of Southern Bakeries dropped in the Reflector office yesterday aiterno<Mi.

He told ycHir columnist he had something outside.

I went out with him. Parked in front of the office was a newly-painted bus complete wiUi Chaz> lies amateur radio call letters.

Charlie, an avid ham operator, plans to install all his equipment in the bus, thus creatinjg a mobile unit.

When he is operating his rig at home the bus will be wired for 110 volt current and his tall antenna will be plugged in.

But Charlie also plans to install a generator on the bus and an antenna on its top.

The outfit could prove invaluable in time of severe emergency at some future date.

Charlie received national attention a few months ago when he made contact with Ghana in Africa and helped arrange aid for an IsraeU boy critically injured in an accident.

Strange thing about human nature. One afternoon this week your columnist was walking along Fifth St. between Evans and Cotanche.

There was a recently completed manhole squarely in the middle of the block. I couldnt resist the temptation to look inside, of course.^ And, of course.

there: only a concrete hole

awaiting the installation of underground electric lines.

Just to prove I wasnt nuts, I watched other people passing by to determine their reaction to a hole in the street.

I didn't take an accurate count, but Id say two out of three walked over and took a look in the hole.

It must be simply human curiosity.

FVankly, I tMnk those who looked ^inside would have been more surprised if there had been something there.

Other Editors Saying Tax Relief Is Possible

POPPOURRIThe print shop at Jackson Training School does some printing for other State agencies, but the only thing sold from the farm, said Superintendent Frank Scott, is chitlins. Elton Edwards, Greensboro attorney and member of the State Board of Correction and Training, got a laugh from the budget party when he referred to a gift from the Kings Women when he meant the Kings Daughters . . .waiting lists bother most institutions, but Dr. Roberts at the orthopedic hospital is not happy without a waiting list of 100 or more. He wants to keep tab on prospective patients to know how best to treat them when they come in. . .One member of the budget party, who declines a direct quote, has discovered the qualifications for service on that commission. There is nothing like a background of universal experience to qualify a man for service on the budget commission, he said. In short, it is better to know everything if you are going to be able to discuss everything learnedly.

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By JAMES MARLOW " WASHINGTON (AP) It was like drawing a circle around a frog and telling him not to jump out of it. This is what the United States did with Russia. And it worked, too, until the frog jumped.

And thats what put America in its latest dilemma.

Back in 1947, when George F. Kennan was head of the State Departments policy planning staff, he outlined an American plan followed ever since. As he said, it meant holding the line and hoping for the best.

The idea was to ring Russia-then infinitely weaker than the United Stateswith military

bases and alliances to keep it from pushing or overrunning her neighbors.

At that time, 13 years ago. the Soviet Union had no hydrogen bomb, no missiles, and Red China didnt exist. The mainland was still being run by Chiang Kai-shek, the American ally. But Kennan was doing some wishful thinking:

1. That this containment policy military encirclement would not only keep the Russians behind their own frontiers but would put internal pressure on the Soviet government.

2. That the pressure might hasten Soviet collapse internally or at least force a change of direction or intent because. Kennan felt and wrote, Russia contained within itself the seeds of its own destruction.

Up till now the containment policy ha.s kept the Russians from bulldozing their immediate neighbors. But, contrary to Kennan's hopes, instead of collapse the Soviet Unions internal development has been phenomenal.

Now, 13 years later, the Rus

sians have the hydrogen bomb, missiles probably capable of hitting America, an industrial production second only to that of the United States, and a population apparently content and loyal.

Russian strength has increased so tremendously that only this week New Yorks Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller said the balance of power has shifted to the Soviet Union. The Russians have been acting as if they believed that, too.

They still cant, without risking war. push directly against the American circle drawn around them. So that they have done the obvious and next-best thing for them. They have leapfrogged out of the circle.

They have done it not only by the usual propaganda and intrigue but by promises of both economic but even military help to countries on the American side of the circle. This is the most glaring example; the economic deals with Prime Minister Fidel Castros Cuba and a warning to the United States to keep hands off. Thus the Russians, withut resorting to war to smash the circle, have hopped over and are trying to set up shop in Americas backyard.

This almost certainly is only the beginning of such efforts to penetrate, by one means or another. the Latin American world. And Russias efforts to penetrate Africa will be even more barefaced.

The American government can hardly dissuade the Russians from encroaching in areas close to the United States by complaining this is our backyard.

The Russians can answer by pointing out that for years the United States has linked itself to the Soviets next-door neighbors (Continued on page six)

((Rocky Mount Telegram) Long overdue tax reform and major tax relief, both possible in Congress next year, may depend entirely upon congressionm action next month. Whether the hope for tax reform and relief can become a reality will depend can become a reality will depend largely on the fate of the unbudgeted spending bills on which our congressmen and senators will vote following the convention recess.

Passage of these bills would definitely lesson the possibilities that our tax system can be reformed and the, tax burden cut in the near future. These possibilities can be attained only if the line is held by congressmen who remain firm and keep in mind vital national economic goals.

The need for a major overhaul of federal tax policies and structures is widely recognized as being long overdue. Last year the House Ways and Means Committee opened the first major review of tax laws In this century. The committee may advance major tax-revision legislation next session, and its chances of passage will be greater if some surplus is in sight.

The Treasury estimates that government revenues for this fiscal year could total $84 billion. The Presidents budget recommended programs costing $79.8 billion, a figure which Congress may raise, on Jhe basis of pending and likely legislation, to $81.1 billion.

However, the final budget total will depend on action Congress now takes on unbudgeted spending bills. These include new or enlarged domestic subsidy and welfare programs for education, housing, urban renewal, com

munity facilities, depressed areas and other programs being pushed by special-interest groups.

It is evident that major efforts will be made to push through much spending next month, for election time is nearing and politicians always figure that a dollar spent is a vote gained. Already Congress has let down the bars on unbudgeted spending in passing the $750 mlllion-a-year federal pay raise, despite the Presidents veto.

If only one or two more unbudgeted spending bUls are enacted. surplus prospects may quickly fade and a deficit will loom. It is well to keep in mind that the Treasurys revenue estimate is based on continuing business expansion and improving economic conditions. And it makes sense that a thorough revision of restrictive, self-defeating tax policies and structures would both improve the economy and serve the best interests of all citizens.

By working for such a revision Congress can at the same time cut down on preference-group spending, deficit-producing items, prohibit the government from going into costly new and unjustified ventures and keep federal hands out of areas and functions which rightfully belong to states, localities and even individuals.

A fair and realistic tax structure is a worthwhile goal for everybody. More than anything else it can provide incentives for greater effort, drive and productivity. It can boost our national income, and more effectively produce revenues for national defense and domestic essentials.

Received a call yesterday afternoon that a workman has fallen through the aluminum awning at Roses Store.

I raced down to see what it was all about.

Someone had, indeed fallen on the metal overhang.

The aluminum Meeting was crumpled in one section. I asked a workman at the scene if someone had fallen.

Yeah. he replied. There he is up there.

The man had luckily escaped injury because the aluminum overhang didnt break completely through. Apparently it was all in a days work, for he had re-mounted his ladder and gone back to the job of drilling holes in the brick wall for banging Uie sign.

The man on the ground said he didnt know the name of the worker who had fallen. He was too high up and his drilling apparatus made too much noise for me to attract >is attention. I decided against climbing the ladder for additional information.

The crew works for Colonal Sign Co. of Columbia, S.C.

Opinions In Brief

In the next ten years, 26 million youngsters will enter the labor force for the first time. The outlook; Thirty per cent of them will not have a high school education. During their best years, most will be averaging less than half the pay of those who have been trained in skills. Danielson (Conn.) Transcript.

rhe key question to ask about the strange political strategy being pursued by Governor Rockefeller is: What is he really running for? And the answer that keeps coming beck is that he must be running now for President In 1964.Buffalo (N.y.) Evening News.

Soviets Not So.

Smart

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright, U60. Kixg Features Syadtcate, lac.

At the Democratic Conven-ticm, too much was made of the perfections of Soviet Russia. The impression was given that the Democrats really believe that Soviet Russia has taken first place in the world particularly in production and that the United States has become a second ranking nation.

These statements cannot be sustatoed by facts or figures. They are assumptions as to what may happen by 1970. One speaker, I can no longer recall who it was, made a point that although we are the greatest manufacturing nation on Earth, Soviet Russia beat us to the Sputnik. But what is the rec(H*d todi^? Are we not ahead ol Ruskla in actual accomplishment in missiles, rockets and atomic submarines?

Much was made of the rate of growth. If Ghana went in for steel produeticHi, its rate of growth would be greater than that of the United States and greater than that of any country in Eurc^, including Soviet Russia. Starting at aero, if they produced 100 tons of steti a y^^r. they would have a rate of growth of 100 pr cent. For the United States to show a similar rate of growth, we should probably have to produce about 250,000,000 tons of steel a year.

The rate of growth Involves many factors, some of which are to be made more complicated if the whole the Demoeratio platform is to be implemented as, of course, it cannot be. The travail of events moves too swiftly and the Russians make as many errors as we do, and they make them for the same reason that we do, namely, that the pressures are so numerous and so constant that it is impossible stiways to find the exact solution. John Kennedy will face this difficulty as Richard Nixon will face It.

For example, I have come across an article by Professor Kenneth V. Lottich, published In The Sudeten Bulletin (in Munich), in which he calls Berlin, Stalins greatest blunder. In the West, we have generally held that Berlin was an American error, that we agreed to hold part of a city without an assured entrance or exit. We have held that this error has turned out to be very expensive to us, in the cost, for example, of the Berlin airlift and the necessity of maintaining large numbers of troops, etc. But Professor Lottich puts up a very good argumeiR for his side of the case. He says:

Pr<Mn the Soviet standpoint a tactical error in geopolitics occurred at Berlin an error of the first magnitude. The free world gained an outpost, a showcase, as it were, weU behhid the Chirtain.

While this much Is easily recognized (and a great deal is said about it) it it is the reality that seemingly escapes the West. Only the Illusion that Soviet occupation of Germany is temporary can account for this quirk in British and American thinking. The Soviet frontier in fact, as well as the fiction of Peoples Governments in Germany, Poland, et al, lies at the Elbe rather than at the Oder-Neisse or Curzon Line.

Lottich further calls attention to the fact that Soviet Russia has made many attempts to correct this errw. The so-called captive nations are all countries which for centuries related to Germany and even more pgr-ticularly to Austria. Lottich says:

Allied contrcd In West BerUn may well be the key to estoppel of Communist aggression in central EurtH;)e. (Certainly U is this WestTi foothold in Berlin that blunts the Soviet thrust westward. *The Bed Army, entrenched In the north Omnan plain with solid bases In Poland, points its swcxrd towards Western Europe.

This is a novel point of view but It is w(n$hy of consideration. Sometimes the smartest men outsmart themselves.

Perhaps the beet example of that is Khrushchevs atimpt at intervention In American politics. Thus far, nobody who is even suspected of being preferred by Khrushchev has had a chance. The suspicion that Adlal Stevenson has found favor in the Russians eyes has hurt Steven* (Continued on page

Scare Buyers Pushing Prices .Up

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS THE SCHOOL OF LIFE

We often find It hard to believe that there Ls purpo.se in all that happens, even in the mistakes ^we make and in the sorrows we endure. The idea that this world is plunging on, thoroughly out of hand so far as God 8 concerned and beyond his control, is a tragically mistaken notion for anyone to hold. There is a reason for everything that happens.

The poet Keats died when he wa. a very young man. and his great contribution to English literature was made as he experienced much physical suffering. In writing to a friend, Keats once said: The common cogno

men of this world among the msguided and the superstitious is a Vale of Tears. Call the world, if you please, a Vale of Soul-making. Do you not see l|ow necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school our intelligence and make it a soula place-where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways? As various as the lives of men are, so various become their souls, and thus does God make Individual beings souls of the sparks of his own essence" We were not put into this world to be rich, happy, or anything else usually deemed desirable. We were put into the world to grow souls and to prepare out-selves for an eternal riestinv in fellow viUi

By ELMER ROESSNER

Retail sugar prices will rLse.

Theres no sugar shortage, nor will there be. But these are factors that will puch the price up:

1. Because of the cutback in the purchase of premium-priced Cuban sugar, many housewives are fearful of a shortage and are stepping up purchases, despite warnings here and elsewhere.

2. The shifting of sources from Cuba to other nations will create some delays in shipping, making a temporary, technical shortage.

3- Speculators are taking advantage of the situation and are bidding up prices.

Best advice: Dont go in for scare buying. World supplies are adequate, despite rising U. S. consumption rate, despite Soviet purchase of part of Cubas surplus. Eventually, prices will return to normal.

Note: The United States could lower retail prices of sugar by authorizing buying of current requirements on the world

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Cubas quota to other nations. A PARADOX IN PRICES Other look-aheads in business: More meat, costlier met. Prospects for the rest of the year indicate the highest meat production ever in the US-, and higher prices than at present. Production schedules indicate the years total will be more than 34 billion pounds, with biggest increases in beef, veal and poultry, and a slight drop in pork production. Pork prices will rise noticably and beef and veal, despite larger production, will be modestly higher because of greater labor and shipping costs. And while poultry will be more plentiful, prices will not fall because even a moderate drop can break the broiler industry.

New cancer scare. A new report on lung cancer by the National Institutes of Health, relating cases to cigarette smoking, may have repercussions in Congress not to curb smoking, but to spend more money for an exhaustive study of the causes of lung cancer.

LUMBER IMPROVING

Better lumber demand. The lag in new housing has decreased lumber sales, but Indications of a modest building boom is proving a tonic to the industry. Political rivalry when Congress resumes may result in heavy government encouragement for housing, which could lead to a revival of the lumber boom.

Tomato Juice concentrate. With government approval, concentrated tomato juice has been quietly tested in a few consumer markets and the public seems to like the stuff. By adding three parts water to one part concentrate, consumers get the equivalent of government-standard tomato juice. With U.S. Department of Agriculture approval. new concentrates may become as popular as orange juice concentrates.

Retailers eye Kennedy: Statements by Senator John F. Kennedy have caused many retailers to fear that he will campaign for extension of the minimum wage law to more retail stores. His threat to return to

Washington to take chargo of the Wage-Hour bill Is causing some retailers to consider Merchants for Nixon <Mvani-zations.

OLD PROMOTER TURNS ON HIS OWN CRAFT

The Old Promoter had a clipping in his hand when he came in today- It contained the words of Milt Grey, a marketing consultant. In which he said that its not what you say but how you say It that counts. The Old One read:

The cosmetician never mentions hair dye the word i* tint. A wrinkle is a *la,ugh line. Rather than call attention to dull hair, you suggest something to bring out the highlights. Teen-agers dont have pimples, they just have problem akin. Tact and diplomacy often make the difference in a sale.

And the Old Promoter added his own comment. You can fool some of the women some of the time, all of the teenagers some of the time, but Milt Grey can fool you all of tha time.