PACE FOUETHE DAILY REFLECTOR, GREENVILLE, N. C

' Thursday, July 20, 1961

Thursday, Jaly 20, 1961

Its Not That We Love Them Mor

Best Left Out Of Federal Hands

Although President Kennedys aid to education bill may not be officially dead until the current session of Congress adjourns, action this week by the House Rules Committee virtually blocks any possibility that the vast school-aid proposals will be written into law.

The action of the Rules Committee, we think, will afford citizens of the various states an opportunity to re*evaluate the question of federal aid to education and to^ informL their representatives in Congress of their feeling. It will, we trust, provide an opportunity for a more realistic look at the matter of injecting the federal government into the state-operated school programs and also thrusting upon the federal government a large portion of the responsibility for financing state school systems*

There are few people who question the fact that considerably more money could be spent wisely for public education in the United States. The need for m^e classrooms, morre schools, more teachers and a better of public education is generally recognized.

There are many, however, including The Reflector, who seriously question the wisdom of seeking to

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Me Conflict Over Two Fairs

By Ll^ NISBET

TWO FAIRS There Isnt much conflict and there has been less confusion so far than had been feared between the North Carolina State Fair at Raleigh and the North Carolina Trade Pair at Charlotte.

The State Fair Is a permanent institution, an important function of the Agriculture Department for many years. Traditionally it is held on the third week in October, and nearly a year ago the datea for the 1%1 fair were fixed for October 16-11.

Some months later the Industrial promotion section of the CD department conceived the Idea of an International Trade Fair at Charlotte, the name of which was later changed to North Carol!hI"Tfiae 'FaS-."" The dates selected were October 12-21, which means the Trade Pair will be going on throughout the entire period of the State Pair.

President Kennedy has been Invited to the Trade Pair. If he accepts the invitation, chances are most State officials and other prominent folk who have attended and helped promote the State Fair will switch interest and attention to Charlotte.

Visitors to the Trade Pair are expected to be mostly business men, many of them from foreign countries. Visitors to the State Pair will be mostly North Carolinians, seeking entertainment and information. Por that reason there is no serious direct conflict. There are a few instances where manufacturers of farm and home labor-saving machinery will have to choose which place to exhibit.

With so much going on all the time In North Carolina it Is Impossible to schedule events without conflict. It is unfortunate that two expositions of such importance should have such similar names and be staged at the game time.

OCRACOKE Ocracoke not nly has moved out of inaccessible isolation, but the island and village are getting nationwide publicity about the fact. Greatly Improved ferry service to and from the mainland has made it lots easier to get to Ocracoke. And complete telephone service established several years ago is now being publicized.

Each month for several years the Association of Independent Telephone Compwiles has underwritten nattonal advertising promoting areas served by the independents. The Carolina Telephone Company with headquarters at Tarboro Is one of the biggest of the Independents. A full page advertisement in the Saturday Evening Post next week tissue of July 29) features the connection of Ocracoke with the outside world through telephone

services installed by Carolina.

DIGGING OUTSen. P. D. Midgett Jr., of Hyde, in Raleigh on a business trip the other day, reported that he was digging out from behind a pile of work accumulated on his desk during his nearly five months in the Senate, I can just barely see over the-top of the pile now, be said.

Senator Midgett said he enjoyed his experience In the Legislature, but he confessed that he was amazed at the amount of work required of members and the dedicated diligence which most of them applied to the job. The average business man would have more con.sid-eration and respect for legislators If he had fuller knowledge of the problems they are up against, said the freshman senator.

HAPPY?Beach and mountain resort operators have been fairly happy this week. From mid-May all through June and until near mid-July the weatherman had not cooperated at all with the resorts. Prolonged cold and damp weather was not conducive to playing around on the beaches. This week has been a lot better, but there is still the handicap of a late start, of reluctance on part of recreation-Ists to make reservations, etc.

STUDY - North Carolinians who are disposed to criticise legtMators for appointing study commissions to Investigate and report on situations should not complain. Our General Assembly authorized some eight or ten study cmnmisslons. The Georgia legislature ordered more than 50 and the South Carolina legislature more than 30 study commissions.

CAMPAIGN MONEYBefore, during and after every election campaign there I a lot of speculation about how much money was spent by this or that -candidate or party. A few years ago North Carolina repealed the utterly absurd limit of $12,000 for legal spending for a statewide office, and the law now requires only that a complete and accurate report of all spending be made^ That is almost as absurd, because "Tull and accurate accounting is patently impossible.

The Virginia law is more realistic in the maximum limitation, but just about as hazy as to accurate accounting. A story in the Richmond Times-Dlspatch last Sunday noted that each candidate In the recent Virginia primary was entitled to spend as much as $163,000which was on basis of 50 cents for each vote cast for the Governor In the last general election. Preliminary reports indicated no candidate spent much more than 25 percent of the allow'able maxlmu.

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fill these needs through a gigantic program of federal aid to education. In spite of the obvious needs of our educational program, it has been and continues to be our feeling that the states can in time meet these needs if they will. Over the long run the public education system of the nation tvill better serve the people and fill the needs of the youngsters if the system remains in the hands and under the control of the state governments.

From the financial point of view it will be no more costly to the people of the nation as a whole to meet their educational needs through additional millions or billions in state or county funds than a similar amoupt of federal funds pumped into the educational system. There would be less depletion of tax dollars from taxpayer to school buildings under state programs for education than under any federal aid to education program. And after all the taxpayers will pay the bill either way.

Some federal funds already are moving into the school systems of the states in various forms. In spite of this, however, it appears wise to draw the line on such federal aid to education where it is rather than to greatly expand the program. Whatever else is needed should be, as it has in the past, the obligation of the people of the individual states and the state governments themselves. This policy in the long run will produce better school systems throughout the nation, and will produce them on a such sounder financial basis than possibly can be achieved through instituting a gigantic federal lirogram for financing public schools.

Much To Commend In Choice Of Langston

The selection of former Chief of Police Guy Langston to succeed Chief S. G. Gibbs who recently resigned as head of the Greenville Police Department is, we believe, a good choice.

During the period in which he was head of the Police Department of Greenville from 1950 until 1952, Chief Langston operated an efficient and well-run department. Hi.s background in law enforcement administration, both as Greenville Chief of Police and in other posts afford him qualifications which should stand him and the city in good stead as he begins his new duties.

The task of heading a police department in a city the size of Greenville is not an easy one, and neither is it ea.sy to find qualified men for such an assignment. Greenville has been fortunate in past years in having an excellent police department, and on the basis of Chief Langstons pa.st record in law' enforcement work we feel the local police department under his guidance and direction will continue to serve the community with the highest calibre law enforcement work.

BEEN TIKE PROO/(jAL$

WHO GET THE F^TTeD CALF

By HENRY HOWARD

A BackDorch Marauder

A Lot Of iOiK ''n Weeks Ahead.

It was Tuesday afternoon about five oclock when we first became aware that a night marauder was plaguing our backyard and porgh.

We discovered this while inspecting several ears of green corn that had been left in the shuck from the day before. Our plan on Tuesday afternoon was to shuck the corn and maybe boil it on-the-cob or something for supper.

It was, we thought, a good plan. But, to our dismay, those tender, green ears had been pretty badly mutilated by our little night marauder.

Those who enjoy com-on-the-cob as much as we do during this time of the year can most likely sympathize with the feelings we suddenly experienced upon finding our corn ruined.

The very first thought, then, waa to avenge this brazen act ... or, at least, to prevent a repeat performance.

Sb we set ourselves to the task. And in a half-hour or so we had decided our com-eating night visitor most likely would have to be a racoon. With this decision, w'e quite boldly labeled the prospective villain acoon and began to devise a plan.

Within the hour, the die was cast. Our plan to save any future corn had been perfected and all its details carried out.

We had, through a brief but intensive scouting job, discovered the route followed by the coon from his woods into our backyard and ears of corn. At first we had discussed various means that would serve to bring to an abrupt halt any fur-

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - So far it's just some more conversation between two hard-of-hearing people trying to tel] each other what they told each other before.

All In a few days the Western Allies, answering Premier Khrushchevs threat to get them out of Berlin, told him he was endangering the peace and a Moscow Radio replied that in doing this they were abetting forces trying for war-

No hits, no runs, no errors. If this is confusing to anyone its only because he forgets he was through it all once before as the following series of parallel evenfs the last time and now, will Bhow:

On Nov. 25, 1958 Khrushchev demanded the West get out of Berlin. President ELsenhower wouldnt hear of It- And on Dec. 31 the Western Allies sent the Russian a note saying so at some length.

On June 3-4, 1961 Khrushchev made the pitch all over again 4o President Kennedy in Vienna-Kennedy wouldn't hear of it, either. And Tuesday the Western Allies sent the Russians notes saying so at some length. On Jan. 7,1959 the American State Department put out a pamphlet giving the legal and historical reasons why the Allies were right in insisting on staying in Berlin.

In ft short time the American State Department will issue a 1961 version of the same pamphletcalled this time a White Paperftftying just about what the State Department said in 19.59.

And not long after the Allies sent their note and the State De-ppartment put out its pamphlet in 1959 the Western foreign ministers agreed to meet to talk the whole thing over.

Now in 1961. after the Allies sent their note and it was announced the State Department would issiui A White Paper,

the Western foreign ministers agreed this was announced Tuesday to meet to talk the whole thing over.

Since so far everything that has happened is a duplicate of what happened before, it doesnt need much imagination to suggest there will be some more duplicates.

For instance, the Western foreign ministers met with Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko starting May 11, 1939. The West offered a Berlin plan which the Russian rejected and he offered one which the West turned down.

So after meeting from May 11 till August 5, the foreign ministers of the United States. Britain, France and Russsia. having gotten nowhere, decided to quit.

Meanwhile there will almost sujxly be more notes exchanged and more propaganda since both sides in this dispute dre\s themselves in their Sunday clothe.s to look their best in-the eyes of everybody.

There may be critical days aheadtoward the end of the year when Khrushchev's six-months deadline for a Berlin settlement endsbut meanwhile there should be some bewildering gabble-gabble.

Other Editors Sayings.., ^rlevolt In Newburgh

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Not all adults want to work any more than all children want to go to school. But increasingly it is evident that something in the natuie of compulsory training should be required of those drawing compensation but not able to hold jobs.Raleigh (N.C.) News At Observer.

Society doesnt aeem ready for more worklesaness than most now achieve via coffee breaks, late arrivals and other devices to make the bosa wonder what this generations coming to. Dallas (Tex.) Morning News.

(The Tulsa (Okla.) Tribune)

Newburgh, N.Y., a town of 30,000 people on the Hudson River between New York City and Albany, has been summoned to the state capitol to defend itself against charges of inhumanity.

Last month Newburgh decreed that women who were drawing relief for the support of one or more illegitimate children would be deprived of aid if they insisted on having still more illegitimate children. The town would also limit all welfare recipients, except the aged, blind and disabled, to three montlis relief a year, set up work programs for able-bodied men on relief, and limit the handouts to the amount of money earned by the lowest paid city employe with an equal number of dependents.

All this has caused liberals In the East to denounce Newburgh for its cruelty. The ban against Indefinite subsidy for breeder.^ of fatherless children has been decried as a crime against innocent babies. Now, of course, discouraging a woman from producing illegitimate children so that she may drink up the aid allowance is no crime against babies. Such a woman is no mother. Of course, the babies shouldnt be punished. They should promptly be put Into orphanages or let out to adoption in decent homes. But who really thinks that sweet charity demands that hard-working taxpayers Indefinitely support immoral women

and their idle lovers?

And what is so evil about a community requiring able-bodied men on the public dole to give some return back by cutting the public weeds and maybe even digging a few sewers? What is there in the Constitution that says a municipality with work to be done must pay a healthy man to rock on his front porch? And why should a man with three children who doesnt work at all di'aw down more money from the city than another man with three children who is a regular city employe?

The plain, cold fact is that the welfare state has proceeded to the point in this country where we are beginning to have a class of professional, life-long leeches. They are devoid of ambition or even good intentions. They contribute overmuch to crime. They shirk work and have even arrogantly organized their own lobbies to Insure their perpetual care.

To encourage these drones is to recruit for them, to swell their numbers, and to promote irresponsibility. And to increase the production of hapless children from the lowest class of parentage to be brought up under conditions of immorality and filth is not going to add to the hap-pinipss of any community, either.

Hooray for Newburgh! It has merely had courage to recognize an obvious fact: If you cultivate the weeds theyll choke out the wheat.

ther such shenanigans by ole coon.

What crystallized, though, was much more metallis than crystal. We dug out an old steel trap and placed it strategically in coons discovered path, baiting the same spot with a nice, fresh ear of corn. Then we were ready for nightfall and the night prowler.

But, as ready as we w'ere, somehow it seemed rather offbeat to us. After all, we said, there probably aint no coons in the city anyhow. And even if they are a dime a dozen, we aint trappers and couldnt catch one.

It was in this mood of abandonment of ft well-laid plan that we drifted away from the scene for a couple of hours. And during those hours, thoughts of coons and things like that were farthest away.

Still, the idea of suddenly becoming an amateur trapper on the spur of the moment like that was slightly intriguing, so, upon our return, it vaguely occurred to us that wc better check the traplines, just in case ...

It was near midnight when we dug up the old flashlight and trudged out back to throw % beam do^^'n where the trap had been set.

Amazement wont quite describe our feelings when we saw two twitchy coon ears loom into the spot of light. We caught him, somebody said.

That we did. Catch him, that is. But somehow, it just wasnt any fun then. Granted, ole coon wouldn't be thieving any more corn from the back porchr But he was such ft handsome young fellow.

And, anyway, theres always plenty of corn around here this time of year. We had the feeling it would be sorta lonesome for a while without our night prowler.

Opinions In Brief

Probably the most frightened in the whole Berlin crisis is Mr. Khrushchev himself. His desire for a German settlement Is becoming desperate. The Communist regime in East Germany has palpably failed. Every year a quarter of a million refugee leave East Germany seeking material and spiritual fredom in the West. The Yorkshire (Gr. Britain) Post.

Qispute

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Prayer.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY

Copyright. 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

There has been quite an excitement over the question as to whether children in public school may be required or even permitted to pray. The Board of Regents of the State of New York had worked out a non-sec-Harian prayer. A group of parents objected to prayers of any kind and brought suit. Their grounds were that by having a prayer the State of New York was sponsoring religion. It made it an offense to advocate religion in a school building but not to advocate party politics.

Mind, the state was not ao-(yised of sponsoring a particular religion but any kind of religion. What the parents had in mind was the highly advertised slogan about the separation of church and state. It is presumed that the Constitution of the United States discusses this profound subject. Yet one may search word by word, letter by letter, and he will find not one word in the Constitution about separation of church and state or anything forbidding prayers in school, or the singing of Christmas or Chanuka hymns, or for that matter the reading of a Hindu sutra.

As Associate Judge Charles W. Froessel, who is a top man among Maions, said about calling dally prayers unconstitutional that it is stretching the so-called separation of church and state doctrine beyond reason.

But then there are many who call themselves rationalists who often go beyond reason in matters of religion. They fear beyond words that a child may grow up to know God. or Moses or Jesus, or Micah. but they have no fear of Karl Marx or Frederick Engels or even Stalin. Some persons, these days, are so seciilar that they worry lest their children discover that Man has had a long history and that history did not start in 1933.

Associate Judge Marvin R. Dye called the prayer a form of state-sponsored religious education. How the learned Judge reached this conclusion, it is difficult to understand, particularly as he makes the point that the use of the prayer overstepped a clearly defined line of demarcation between church and state.

If the line Is so clearly demarcated, how come that cases are constantly being brought in the courts on the issue? How is it that there is such a difference of opinion on the subject,

80 that when a decision Is handed down, there is such a division of opinion among the judges? In a word, Judge Dyes defined line of demarcation is not yet a defined line. It is a very shaky Une, about which too many of us are quarreling. It is an issue which wl never be solved because too many emotions are aroused by the very mention of the subject.

In the United States, religious groupings are as intense as na tionalistic groupings are in Europe. Furthermore, the competitive nature of American society expresses itself in religious movements as in all else. Advertising and pubUc relations methods are used to keep adherents in active membership and there is a constant effort to increase membership by propaganda. All religions and sects engage in this activity, even advertising in newspapers and bringing their quarrels out into the open.

Diurlng the Roosevelt regime, the trend in all things became liberal and many liberals moved over into Communism. This was true among the clergy as It was of professors and students in universities, and every once in a while, it was shocking to discover a clergyman upporting and defending a doctrine which is atheistic in its essence, and a party which has made atheism part of its creed. This dichotomy was often explained but it was never understandable.

However, since those days, this trend has lessened, as has the trend to bring sects together into co-operative efforts. 'Today, each reUgious group makes its strongest appeal to its own kind to keep it distinct, separate, and segregated. The assimUaUonist is not as popular as he was when Hitler stirred mens consciences. 'Today, each group prefers to stand alone and brooks no inter- i (Continued on page five) 1

The Magazines Are In Trouble

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS RESPONDING TO THE WIND John the Baptist has always been known as the Forerunner of Jesus.

In a statement made at the beginning of his ministry Jesus gave his estimate of this rugged character, John. What went ye out into the wilderness to see? he asked, *'A reed shaken with the wind? . . .Verily 1 say unto you, among them that are born of woman there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist. (MaU. 11:7-11).

A reed shaken with the wind. What a ttriklng figure. John was as Immovable as a granite mountain. He took his stand on what he believed to be right and went to his death defending the right.

There has always existed the reed-shaking type of person. He responds tremulously to eVery

passing zephyr. He is tremulous because of fear and also because he wants to adjust himself to every passing fancy and opinion.

Society Is stabilized by tha John-the-Baptist tjrpe of person. No matter what our position in life may be, we are constantly tempted to compromise, to do as out neighbors and associates do, to fulfill the requirements of popularity. Such people are reeds shaken with the wind.

Theodore Roosevelt once wrote about the difficulty of nailing cranberry jelly to the wall. The reed-type of person is an affliction to himself, to his community, and a despised betrayer of the human race. He never knows where he stands, nor does anybody else.

Such a person In every age Is a misfortunecxpcclally to himself.

By ELMER ROESSNER

McCall's has topped 800,(KX) in circulation. Fourteen magazines showed gains in advertising pages in the first half of this year; 25 reported increases in revenue.

But the' magazine business is in trouble.

Coronet is to be melted down into mail lists in October. Dollar revenues of 83 leading maga Ines were down 4 percent during the first half of this year and advertising was down 11 per cent, the Publishers Informa tion Bureau reports.

On the other hand, new mag-aslnes are springing up lika mushrooms after a spring ram. But note this: most of the new magaines are directed to highly speclalled readerships, In the arts, in industry, in electronics and so on.

OTHER FACTORS

While specialized readership is an advantage, it is not always attainable, nor is it the answer to the declines In magainea.

A magazine that could win the readership of everybody making

more than $8,999 i year and less than $20,000 could theoretically command a vast advertising revenue. Thats the buy group of America. But while some publications have approached that speclalled appeal, such as McCalls, the Journal and Life, there are still many gaps. Some $15,000 families go for boats, some for shoats.

Diversity Is a characteristic of this Income group. That makes it tough for magazine editors. When they attempt to appeal to every Interest in that income bracket, they may find that they are appealing to none. Remember CtolUers? The Womans Home Companion? The American Mag-alne?

THE ADVERTISING ^LEVERAGE

Since no one magazine can monopcdize an income bracket,' why do a few go up an(l, as at present, many go down?

Advertising is one factor. Advertisers and their agencies determine the life and death magazines.

This determination is not edi

torial. No advertiser pulled out of Coronet because he did not like the ediUwial policy. Pew substantial companies will buy ads in The Birch Beer because they support the Birch society.

Advertising is almost entirely dollars and cents; never dollars and sense. The typical advertta-er would advertise In The Worker if that sold his diamond tiaras; he would not advertise in Fortune if his space wouldnt sell a jewel.

So the reason Coronet will have its head cut out from under it is simply that It did not sell tiaras or baked beans, cummerbunds, Madras shirts, depilatories or whatever it is that Coronet carries ads for. If advertisements in that charming publication would sell Boysen-berry Jam, Smlthfleld haras, Stanley steamers, ATAT stock, Peugoets, dill pickles and eye-patches, It would not be oldif today.

Advertising, apparently one at the most emotional of Uie arts, is completely unemotional. If the Hobo News can bringrin $1.-000,000 worth of auto sales when

Fortune Inlngs in only $900,000, you will see every auto advertiser pull out from Fortune and buy into the Hobo News.

Theres still another factor.. Thats newsstand sales compared with subscriptions.

That wrecked CoUiers. Advertisers found that many of the people getting the magazine were taking it because of the deals they were offered. A "dear* subscriber was not a guy-er. On the other hand, people who pay the newsstand pricq^ week after week are the people who read and use the advertisements.

Newsstand sales are the new yardstick of magazine effectiveness. Art Unger, publisher ot Dstebook magaine told me.

Publishers calling halt to th# numbers race. Ten years of fwc-ed circulation by cut-rate subscriptions and houseto4iou8e crew selUng hss taught them a sad lesson. Too costly; ineffeo tive way to compete with television, says the Gallagher Report in its own peculiar gibber* ft8h. Recent reces^on the eye-opener.

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