PAGE FOURTHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C.

Friday, February 17, 16I

Prtdiy; FfebruaOr 17, 1961

The Accompanist

Underscoring Needs In Education

The past few days hav^rougrht to light addition- large part in our Iom of teacher graduates from the a1 forceful information poinUng up the necessity of colleges of this state. 'Although better salaries else-Noth Carolinas beefing up its educational program where^ probably was'not^he sole reason for North jf it expects to make progress in this important field. Carolina holding only one out of every two teacher A report of the National Education Association ^om our colleges, it certainly, was a major

shows that North Carolina ranks 50th among the states

in increasing teacher salaries during" the past decade." The loss to North Carolina when these young Another renort. this one bv the North Carolina teachers go elsewhere is two-fold. Obviously we lose Education Association showed that one^ut of every teachers~whtch are needed In uur'own public school two teacher gradu^ites of the states colleges is lost systems. In addition, w*e lose young people who have to other states or to other professions. received their teacher training in part at the expense

In the face of these facts, added to the mounting tPyers of North Carolina,

store related to our school needs, it is imperative that Every student in a state-owned college in North North Carolina take positive, comprehensive action Carolina receives in effect a state scholarship during both to retain the teachers it no\y has and to assure each of his college years. The tuition paid by the in-

that in the future more young people will be inclined dividual student in our stat supported colleges covers to the teaching profession. only a portion of the cost of the education he fa pro-

The fact that North Carolina had done less to-, State ppropriations to these insUtutions defray.

I increasing teacher salaries than any of the other operating our collegea

ward

states during the past decade probably came as a sur- unnersies.

prise to most Tar Heels. The state in that period im- The fact that North Carolina is training teachers

proved its schools considerably and made some pro- at taxpayers expense and then exporting them to gress in improving teacher salaries. Compared with other states to teach because our salaries are too low what was done in other states In the realm of teacher magnifies the need for bringing our teacher salaries salaries, however. North Carolina fell far behind. to a more realistic position in relation with those of Toa great degree this fact probably played a other states.

No Dignity Lost

North Carolina can ill afford to continue exporting half the teachers it trains, and neither can it afford to remain at the bottom on the ladder in what it does toward increasing teacher salaries.

"n Accounting

.By LYNN NISBET

EXPENSES Rep. J Y. Jor-dao of Buncombe wanls tn up the expense allowance for members of the General Assembly to $11 a day. The crrcnt rate is $8. fixed several years ago when that was the allowance for other State officers and employees. The budget commission last session raised the general allowance to $9. but did not change the special statute limiting legislative amount to $8.

Jordan indicated that be would upport. if he does not introduce, a bin to Increase all expense allowances to a realistic figure. One point made by Rep. Jordan may not find such popular response That was his statement that it is beneath the dignity of a legislator to require him to file an itemized expense account. Most people do not think it detracts from dignity of any person to require accurate accounting of the use made of any person to require accurate accounting of the use made of other peoples money.

' SPECIAL PAVORS-The con-situation provides lor per diem pay of $15 for a maximum of 120 days of a legislative sesslra including Saturdays and Sundays. Compensation fixed by statute ' for most members of boards and commissions is $7 per day. That rate wplles to members of the Advisory Budget Commission for 18 months of each biennium. For the period between July 1 and December 31 of even numbered years, when almost full time is demanded of budget members preparing the biennial report, the rate of pay is ^ a day. Bud-gete^ and legislators have con-tnrt over their own compensation. and have pretty well taken care of themselves.

The maximum compensation a legislator can draw is $1.800 for the session. The Governors legislative counsel, paid by the same people, and ostensible working for the same people, gets from $7,000 to $10,000.

COMMITTEE TDfflES Final decision on time for holding major committee meetings may be deferred fgip#a long trial period. Old custof^are hard tO'change, and ever since the executive budget act of 1925 provided for one master appropriations bill rather than dozens pf little, independent measures, the Joint'appropriations committee has met Id the afternoon. That made it logical for theJoint finance committeeto meet at the same time. The mornings were given over to other committees, smaller in size but in many instances no less Important, such as the judi

ciary groups, local government, education, roads, etc.

Top legislative leaders this year conceived the Idea of having the money committees meet in the morning, and the others in the afternoon. Arguments in favor of the plan include the fact that members will be keener-minded and more alert in the morning, will CMne to the money groups unbothered by experiences' in other committees and on the floor of the Legislature, and so will be able to render better service to the State. There are valid argiraients against the switch, but the one presented by a Piedmont area

Pitt Countians Hat Is Now In The Ring

Endorsement by the Pitt County Bar Association of J. W. H. Roberts of Greenville for the post of U.S.

Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina _ _ mrT/-T a nirr\r\m^

puts a Pitt County hat in the ring for one of the major A>y irAiKlClA MKlii federal appointments that will be made in this section of the state.

No I Answer To Date

IF Jackie Kennedy changes swan*' hair do.

Senator is not one of them. He has a reputation on his home town of being early at the office and on time for appointments. Butwith respect to the legislative committee meeting he said he had no idea of getting up in time to make a nine oclock date, and he didnt have a very high opinion of the fellows who thought up the plam.

In that connection, it is Inter -esting to see how many legislators who are early risers at home and at thie offices by 8:30 or 9:00 oclock amble into Raleigh gating places places tor breakfast after nine.

TRAVEL SHOW Plans for North Carolinas participation in the big Ohio Valley All Sport, Vacation and Travel Show at Cincinnati next month are shaping up. This venture. Jointly sponsored by the State Advertising Division of C 8i C and the Travel Council of North Caro-hna, with support from Wildlife Resources and other State agencies, represents the first time the State has gone into this type of promotion.

The show runs from March 4 through March 12. and the Nwlh Carolina display will ciMisist of a centerpiece prepared by the advertising division, approximately 8 X 30 feet, depleting the coastal, central and mountain attractions. In addition to the State exhibit seven Travel Council members will have individual or regional exhibits. These include Asheville, Morehead City and Wilmington chambers of commerce: Cherokee 'Historic

Association; the Nags Head area; Fontana Village and Piedmont Airlines.

Governor Terry Sanford Is billed for top place on the entire show program for the opening day "March 4. and other Tarheel celebrities will appear during the weekincluding Miss North Carolina

Arrangements have been made for gifts and prizes and for distribution of a lot of literature about the state.

There are others from other counties of this area who have been prominently mentioned for^the post, but it seems to us whatever weight Pitt is able to swing in determining this political appointment should ker hair style now, what will be thrown behind the attorney the county bar asso- tyle?toe-?a^r he.an in-ciation has endorsed, ____ terested man asked?

Roberts has

Theyd Follow The Style

been a Greenville attorney since Well, what did they do when 1935, served a number of years of judge of the Green- manufacturers tegan

ville recorders court and likewise served as a special bought* paint t^

assistant to the Eastern District U.S. attorney from shoes. But you can bet that a i951 to 1953. . lot of women saved their round

I , . i.1. 1 7 T> A ... toe shoes for the day which

We are pleased to see the local Bar Association would eventually come (they

give its endorsement to a Pitt County attorney for this hope), important post, and we trust the bar association and Probably one factor saved

Recently, we heard about a bridge tournament that was held somewhere.

Prize for mens highacocc was a package of light bulbs (what any man wants). Second high was a container of paint brush cleaner for the man who has everything).

Very interesting.

called *oocupant* mall, tyring to encourage the population to buy their products. (In other words, spend money which will circulate).

The occ^nt mail Includes Samples of materials, perhaps

By GKOROB E. SOKOLSKT

Copyright, 1961. King Featorea Syndloate, ^Ine.

^ Although the outward drain nf ^ gold remains a serious problem,' no one In government has yet come up with a workable solution.

One of our problems k eur short term liabilities which are a potential drain on our gold supply. As of October 1960, these short terin liabilities amounted to about $21,400,000,000, Of this sum, $10.200,000,000 represented liabilities to foreign central banks and governments which are entitled to be paid in gold rather than in dollars. If they prefer gold. They were, therefore, a direct threat to our gold reserve. Of the remainder, $3,-600,000,000 was held by Iniema-Honal Institutions and $7,600,000-000 in other institutions and private persons. Deducting our short term clainos on foreigners, the United States wss left with a short term liability of approximately $18,100.000,000 which exceeded our monetary gold reserve. This set off a period of gold speculation on the London gold market and called universal attention to the American gold 'difficulties.

The balance of trade has been favorable to the United States during 1958, 1959 and 1960. THe difficulty arose not from ordinary trade relations but from expenditures for economic and military aid to other countries and to the distribution of American troops in foreign countries. Even these expenditures, averaging for the years 1958, 1959 and 1960, $3,100,000,000 for Amer-lean military purposes outside the country and grants la aid syeraglng $2.400,000,000 annually do not wholly explain our troubles.

The export of privsts capital has been very large during these

And now they are telling us we are in a recession. Any housewife who buys her own

for car seat covers, to remind that you need new seat covers. And little goodies, such as pencils. etc., to illustrate a product and what aU.

Welli,, we certainly wouldnt mind ^getting some of those pencils.

others will join in supporting Roberta for the position. STSfme'Ce w' r^r^inirMOQ

*6^ the next year as the About the recession, a spokes- Vlo

7T T"N TV skirts and suits have changed man of the post office recently

A Balancing Act 'n White House

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON AP) President Kennedy is doing a balancing act; Attempting to be firm while acting on the theory that a soft answer tumeth away wrath.

Hes doing this with Russia and Congress, trying tof stiff-arm r both without making either angry. He demonstrated it again at his news conference Wednesday night.

Its a technique which is good when it works. Kennedys prob-lem, at,least with Congress, is: Wm it? It hasnt, so far.

Congress has done practically nothing for 45 days. Kennedy has been pleading for action, particularly on the recession. But hes avoided sajrlng anjrthing so tart it would make getting congressional action even harder.

He has been firm with the Russianswarning'them Wednes-

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day night nof to move into the Congo while still seeking to repair American - Russian relations and hoping to do business with Premier Khrushchev.

Wednesday was Kennedys worst in this field.

The Russians, following the killing of the Congos Patrice Lumumba, demanded U N. Secretary General Dag Hammar-skjold be fired and indicated they might Intervene in the Congo.

Kennedy warned the United States would back the United Nations against any dangerous and Irresponsible* intervention by anyone and then .spoke hopefully of peace through improved relstlons with the Soviete.

This was exactly the same sturdy - nice policy with Russia Kennedy laid down from the moment he took office in hLs inaugural address. It seemed to be working at least until Wednesday.

The Russians treated him mildly. And Khrushchev held hLs testy tongue.

But the Presidents problems with Congress are no less Immediate. There, although his own Democrats have a majority over the Republicans, the con

servatives of both purties dominate.

And the Republican leaders have downgraded his plea for fast anti-recession action. It was in his Stgte of the Union message Jan. 30 that Kennedy tried to convey to Congress a sense of urgency at home and abroad.

He used phrases like these: I speak. . in an hour of national peril. . .eanh day the crises multiply. . .each day we draw nearer the hour of maximum danger. ...

Wednesday the Washington Post said the Republicans Senate leader, Everett Dlrksen of niinois, told them Kennedys message had about as much impact on Congress as a snowflake falling on the bosom of the Potomac.

At his news confernece Kennedy referred to that reported statement of Dirksen without referring to the senator by name.

If this is the kind of atUtude and cooperation he has to look forward to from Congress, Kennedy will have to decide whether to abandon his pleasant approach to Congress for a much tougher one.

For a while after President Truman took over in 1945 he had a kind of honeymoon with Congress. In the end he got very tough. So did Congress. What followed was a prolonged cat-and-dog fight. But Truman got a lot of action.

Fpr eight years President Eisenhower never tried the tough approach. He got some action. But a lot he suggested was shoved under the rug and ignored. This was one reason he was criticized for lack of leadership.

It was thought that Kennedys extremely broad use of television for his news conferences would be a powerful force for lining up public opinion on his side and thus influencing Congress to act as he wished.

He may have to reexamine his approach. He has tried repeatedly in dealing with Congress to convey a sense of prgency for what he requested. Judging from congressional response, or rather the lack of response, he has failed to convey it.

from year to year, necessitating new buying. Thats the fact that it cost the shoe manufacturera millions of dollars to make the new shoe molds (so we have been told), from which they make the shoes.

We suppose that answers the question about Jackie Kennedys

post office recently informed us that there was an increase in mail volume, particularly the third class mail.

Third class ma generally Includes a lot of advertising.

It seems that, because there Is a recession, and people are spending less money, the big firms are sending out what is

Brief

Other Editors Saying... Financing Campaigns

We hote #here a large amount of money is spent each year on clothes for dogs. Maybe when a dog sees anottm*# suit like the one he has on causes him to growLLexington Herald.

(Henderson Dispatch)

Out of somewhere has come the suggestion that all expenses ' of political campaigns should be financed throi^h public funds. But this could prove to be a greater evil and more a source of corruption than the present system, whereby the candidate and his friends are compelled to provide the cost of such aspirations to office.

Against the proposal has been offered the suggestSon that many citizens, as taxpayers, would be helping to support the individuals they do not like. Nor would the plan eliminate private spending.

If the public treasury defrayed -expenses, would each candidate be provided a stipulated sum? And would not and his friends simply spend to their own satisfaction all such additional funds as they might feel to their advantage and that they could raise?

Running for office has come to be big business in recent years. Except for the aid of supporters, only the well-to-do can supply the necessary cost of a campaign. The greater the office the more money required to make the fight.

Laws limiting the amount of cash a candidate can spend have been proved meaningless-Outlay for certain es-sentlal costs was listed as legitimate expense. Many times that amount was and is used in the conduct of a campaign. False reports were as common as daylight, and everybody knew they were largely fictitious.

But this does not support the theory'of paying for a campaign from the public trea-sury. It would only aggravate the situa

tion and would breed still greater corruption.

Citizens generally will oot favor any such proposal. Actually, there is already distrust of claims as to costs. Such lack of confidence would only be sharpened by suggestions that have been made.

There is no apparent likelihood that the proposal will even be offered in the current session of the State Legislature. And if it does it will not be enacted into law. It would constitute a further outlet for tax money for a purpose in no sense essential and In every sense of the word grossly unwise.

- Campaigning la expensive . business. It is unfortunate that only those able in one way or another to produce the needed funds can seek public office. But for taxpayers to pay the bill would be an utter monstrosity from many angles.

The best way to put a damper on excesses is for grass roots resentment and opposition to be developed to the point of making itself felt in discouraging such practices. Only in that manner can complete Integrity be restored, if it can be even then.

Regardless of feelings about repeal of Tennessees law for-biding the teaching of evolution, this much must be agreed in Ught of Tuesdays flight of the chimp: Seldom befoi' has It been demonstrated so well that a lot of knowledge can come to man from the descent (and ascent) of a lower animal. The Oak Ridge Ridger. ,

"It will be difficult to find a way for the federal government to hand back to the states some"' of the tax sources that have been pre-empted, but It is imperatively necessary that this be done unless we are willing to undergo a rapid change In the fundamental character of our American government."^Dallas Morning News.

-A headline that is becoming more typical every day read: Man Jailed In Gun Death Of Dad Of 9. It Is getting so that hardly anything can be printed about a man without leading off with the number of children he has sired. It is Just as much a crime to murder a bachelor, though we might not think so from much current news reporting." Alabama Journal

Montgomery.

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It Is the duty of naticms as well as of men to own their dependence 'upon the overruling power of God; to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that, genuine repentance will lead to'mercy and pardon; and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only ere blessed whose God Is the Lord." -p- Abraham Lincoln. 1863.

years and although no absolute figures are available, it Is gen-erally accepted that they are an enorm<nsrtactor in the situation. Many causes entered into this situation, periiaps the principal one being that quota and tariff restrictions and the organisation of the Common Market and the Free Trade Association in Europe forced many of our businesses to open plants in European and Asiatic countries in order to be able to compete and operate In restricted areas. This amounts to an export of Jobs and is a factor in the continued unemployment In the United States.

If all foreign nati(is removed their quotas and permitted the import of American goods, it would be helpful, although that alone would not solve the gold problem or unemplo3rment, particularly as the bafaflte of ex-* change of merchandise is still favorable to the United States.

The entire question of military .expenditures outside the United States requires reconsideration and revision. The United States accepted the heavy load of the reconstruction of friend, foe and neutral in the hope of finding a road to peace. It is difficult to convince the world that our motives have been lofty and moral. The assumption of most peoples is that the American objectives were based solely upon materialistic considerations. We have now reached the point at which the give-away programs, as their opponents called them, can no longer 1^ carried forward without endangering the economy of this country and the stability of its currency.

There can be no question but that European nations and Japan will realize that their own economic stability still depends upon the stabity of the Amerl- ^ can dollar and that it wiU benefit no country, except Soviet Russia, to take advantage of the American economic difficulties.

The fact that the entire Western world is on A gold eKCfaange standard is not readily understood in this country where it ' is only too often assumed that we have had nothing to do with gold since Franklin D. Roosevelt altered ottr gold standard. The fact is that the ourrency of all nations can be exchanged for dollars which in tom ean be exchanged for gold through gownments and central banks.

question thus arises, is there enough gold available to take care of all the monetary needs of the world? The world monetary supply of gold, at $35 an ounce, amounts to roughly $40,000,000,000. This titen i ttie central problem In the gold situation and is hardly one with which amateurs ean do tut much. In a word, the gold reserve of the world needs to be (Continued on page mo)

Not Housing, But New Plumbing

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS QUANTITY AND QUALITY

Ben Johnson, the playwrlght-poet who was a friend of Shakespeare, once wrote:

It is not growlhg like a tree In bulk, doth make man better be.

Size alone is not important size of reputation, size of bank accmint or size of anything else, (Quantity is noS quality. We are too ready to be Impressed by the big names, the big income,-the big car. or the big house. If someone iamous honors us with his attention, we are likely to glow with pridS In the reflected light. What nonsense!

, It Is jjecassar,^ and Uieyitable that there be oulstsuiding men and women in all fields of en

deavor, who.se names are household words. But let us never forget that they are but leaders: the bulk of the good work In the world is done by the thousands and thousands of relatively unknown but productive people without whose effort and power the .wheels would soon cease to turn.

Many men become ehibittered at seeing the fame and fortune of others while they themselves

By ELMER ROESSNER

It may be that what America needs is not more housing but more plumbing.

President Kennedy, in his State of the Union Message, promised to offer legislation to stimulate housing construction, adding. We will do what must be done . .Our cities are being engulfed in squalor. 'Twelve long years after Congress declared our goal to be a decent home and suitable environment for every American family, we aUU have 25,(X)0,000 Americans living In substandard housing. A new

gp compaixtl vfly '"Tfrdrtfii,ftlttl.'Housing - progrant -tmder -r*- new

In their bitterness at missing bigness, they .sometimes forget that they can still achieve goodness. In the Ipng run, it is quality, not , quantity, .that f oMs,. Happinei(&, an4 peace of mind make better companions than fame and fortune.

Housing and Urban Affairs Department will be needed this year

Shortly thereafter, a Census report under the name of his Secretary of Commerce. Luther

cent of the rental housing units in the United States were vacant and that 1.2 per cent of the private homes were unoccupied. LOTS OFSPACE The rental vacancy rate appears to be higher than at any time since World War II.

Commerce Department, noting the figure for the last three ^months of 1960 were unchanged from the third quarter, added, There is an indication, however, of an upward trend in the supply of available housing over the past few years. . .This" U apparent when the average rental. j:aie.,l<ic. .1960^ compared with the average rates for the preceding years.

The 1960 average rental rate was 7.4 per cent, which was substantially higher than the 6.4 per cent average for 1959 and

Secretary of Carneree, Lutner per ccni average lor nu

H. Hodges. sh^8W Chat, 111 the the 5.9 average for 1958. The av-

last three months of 1960, 7.6 per erage home-owner vacancy rate.

on the other hand, remained at substantially the same level. PLENTY OF ROOMS

The Commerce report also said that about seven-tenths of the vacant rental units had thre rooms or mor and that nine-tenths of the homeowner units had at least four rooms.

There is not necessarily any conflict between the Kennedy and Hodges statements. There can be a rental surphia of 7.6 per cent and still be a shortage of decent housing. The Cwn-merce report found that the. proportion of vacant rental units with all plumbing facilities has consistently been about seven-tenths. AU faculties is defined as both flush toUet and a bathtub or shower inside the structure for the exclusive use of the intended occupants, and hot running water.

But ii one of every 13 rental

units is vacant, a dmoat of them lack toUets, baths and hot water. what this country needs is not more bousing ss much as It needs more plumtUi^.

MORE BITS AND PDBCBB OF THE BUSINEM JIGSAW

The worlds total agricultural production in the 1960-61, crop year will be 42 per cent above the 1935-39 averagemore than the world has ever produced before. One study finds that the average ccmipany spends $250 a year to maintain a foiBMlrawer file.Jf retaUers Increased each sale by one cent on the dollar, they-would- seH "letal sf--!--billion*a year. Sales- Management magazine calculates. A 'pamphlet for small manufachir-ers on Selecting Marketing Research Services, la free for asking the Small Business Administration, WasbinstOB M, DA