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Citizens Ignored Public Business?

The kind of situation w4iich has developed in the^ chool system of New York City should be a matter of-serious concern to every citizen in every state. ^ There is no valid excuse for the scandal^dden school system of the nations largest city getting into the situation it now apparently is. Charges of construction fraud, poor maintenance, kickbacks and payoffs that have been made in connection with the citys school system must have some foundation.

There can be do doubt that officials who are responsible for administration of the affairs of the city and its schools will haver to shoulder a larger portion of the blame for whatever corruption there may have been so far as the school operations are concerned. At the same time, however, the citizens of New York must likewise assume a portion of the blame for what i^pparently has been going on in their school system.

It could well be that there has been a prevailing attitude among the people of the city that public school affairs were the business of someone other than themselves. Too many individual citizens left it to the other fellow to worry about whether the citizens were

getting their moneys worth from the tax dollars that were being spent for school facilities. They were so busy with their own affairs that they didnt have time to worry about the public business. What was everybodys business gradually became nobodys business and corruption crept into the school system.

The school scandal in New York began to unfold as more people began to take new interest in what was going on in their school system. It is likely that more dirty linen will be stretched on the school lines now that Gov. Rockefeller has called a special session of the New York legislature to take emergency action try to correct the situation in New York City.

In the future, there is good possibility thai the people of New York City, and those of/that state as well, will take a great deal more interesan their public school affairs than has been the case in the past. And there is ^Iso an excellent possibility that if the people of New York had taken greater personal interest in their public schools in the past, the present situation would never have grown to its present proportions.

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Making An Exchange

By LYNN NISBET TRAVELERS Maybe the Travel Council ought to award certificates as Tar Heels Travelers to Tom Woodard of Wilson and Cliff Blue of Aberdeen. In case you dont get significance of the names these are the men who are avowed and working candidates for Speaker of the House of Representatives In the 1963 Legislature.

They have not traveled anything like as many miles since the 1961 General Asvsembly adjourned as the Tar Heel perambulating Governor. They may not have traveled any more miles than some of the long-route rural mail earners, who make the aame trip six days every week. Most of the Governors mileage was in the air and there wasnt much new from day to day along the mail routes and those taken by the Intercity bus drivers.

The categorical staicinenT is made that Cliff Blue and Tom Woodard have traveled more dif-

Exchange of a Cuban patrol boat held in the United States for the U.S. airliner held in Cuba hai ening local organizaUons for brought about the first bright spot in U.S.-Cuban relathe big push in 1964. tions in many monthi^.

There is some Indication

The exchange doesnt necessarily mean that there has been or will be any long-range improvement in the relationship between the two nations, but it does hold out some hope that Fidel Castro has finally realized that the United States would not continue indefinitely absorbing Cuban insults.

that the dominant faction in the Democratic party may be playing the same game. The pattern of the Sanford administration program was pretty well set by his first Legislature. Members of that body seeking reelectlon will be challenged for their part in the program, but there will be general understanding that the policies will mostly prevail for another two years. The 1964 election will be another matterand a much more significant event.

COMPLICATION A complicating factor, which might give the 1962 eleoiion more importance, is congressional re-distncting. Every incumbent of the National House of Representar ive.s except Horace Korne-gay of the sixth district must campaign in new territory, if he seeks reclection. Despite de-riiais of "line-up arid" collusibn, it IS an accepted fact of politics that local county and legislative

ferent miles of roads, into more candidates want to stnd in with communities, and talked with tfic congressman from them district.

DEFERRED In several of these instances the indications are the real fight will be

more Individuals and small groups than any other North Carolinians since July 1.

This activity represents an entirely new angle on campaigning for the Speakership. It has been common practice for years for prospective candidates to announce their purpose before the Legislature adjourned. But the statewide traveling and button-holing of current prospective membens of the next House, who wUl not be elected until November of the next year has usually not started until there was some indication of who might run and what their chances of election might be.

Both Blue tnd Woodard now elalm commitments from enough members of the 1961 session to elect the Speaker, but they have no assurance that these members will have a vote in the 1963 session,

PREDICTION - Your reporter Is going to stick his neck out for a prediction about the 1963 membership, which admittedly has as little Justification in provable fact as do the head counts of aupport for the Speakership candidates. Here goes:

Thera will be a larger turnover is membership of the 1963 House, more new names and faces, than for several sessions past. It Is quite likely there will be fewer than the present 15 Republicans. Traditionally Republicans do better in Presidential election years, and next year ia out of season for voting on President and a Gov-ernw.

Information filtering in to your reporter is that next year the Republicans will concentrate on the county court houses, make major effort in behalf of county commissioners and sheriffs. with a view to strength-

delayed until 1964. Congressional and local candidates are sort of feeling their way around now. Tiicre hasnt been time to organize alliances and build machines in the new areas. And. in the background of political thinking, always is recognition that the Sanford administration in North Carolina and the Kennedy administration in the nation have two years more to go.

So it is that 1962 Is sort of a preparation year for the big deal coming up. The Democratic party in North Carolina is revamping its plan of organization to give more Influence to the precinct workers. The Republican party is driving for control of more county court-hou.se governmental units.

Becau.se of this general attitude, Sen. Sm Ervin, the only statewide candidate eleclting popular interest, is likely to get by without more than token oppositioneither in the primary or the general electiofi. And seats in the General Assembly will not be as vigorously contested as they may be in 1964.

Results of the bond election called for November 7 may have considerable influence on the fate of legislators seeking reelection. A big majprlty for the capital improvement bonds would help legislators to go back. A negative vote on the bonds would increase hazards for reelectlon of legislators who voted to submit them.

The whole picture is now confused and uncertain, and commitments of support for Speaker In 1963 obtained from 1961 members could not be accepted as good collateral for a bank loan.

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It is significant, perhaps, that the current exchange of the airliner for the patrol boat was suggested by Castro in response to U.S. demands that the hijacked plane be returned. So far as there being exchanged an item for an itemr^t afforded Castro a face-saving method of returning the airliner. So far as the relative value of the exchange items is concerned, however, the patrol boat is worth several thousand dollars while the airliner is valued at $2.5 million.

There is reason to believe that the Cuban dictator, in spite of his bitter denouncements of the United States, has come to realize that the patience of the United States has w^orn thin. Perhaps he is well aware that another serious provocation on the part of his dictatorship will be answered by a decisive move on the part of the United States in redress for the grievances it has against his government.

In dealing with a dictator such as Fidel Castro, the United States can never be sure w hat his next move will he. On the surface, how'ever, the exchange of the patrol boat for the airliner w'ould appear to he at least one ray of hone that suggests better relations between the United States and Cuba/in the future.

Barring A War, Years Of Crises

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By DON SCHLIENZ

Homina Piaeon j-anciers

Meet George O. Harrington, \ Jr. ^

Hes fourteen, weighs a shade over 165, stands 62, and looks like the kind of raw material high school athletic coaches would like to have around for football or baseball seasons.

But Junior (everybody calls him that) has another interest; and that is pigeons.

He was telling me about his hobby last night, and It was an interesting topic. His enthusiasm la contagious.

Junior started raising what he called bam pigeons maybe eight years ago; became interested in the racing birds, and joined the East Carolina Club of the Racing Pigeon Assn only recently. The local organization, he says, ha* thirty or forty members.

A race is programmed for the homers on September 3, from Raleigh; and Junior has on^ bird he thinks is ready. He teUs me that for a race of that di.s-tance the pigeon should Idc at

least six months old . . but like people, pigeons vary in their development.

To prepare for such a range, the entry is carried to the starting point and allowed to. fly home ... to familiarize the bird w'ith the route. Junior is counting on three such preli-mininary trips for his bird.

He tells me that owners may enter almost as many birds as they wish.

His loft consists of about twenty birds and four or five nestlings.

Have you ever seen a baby pigeon?

I did. Its amazingly homely as contrasted with the sleek lines ,and proportions of older

birds.

Juniors loft includes one bird that is not a homer. Its a pet he just keeps around.

Theres a reabn.

This pet is a tumbler pigeon, and its something to watch.

The tumbler gets Its nama

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Berlin crisis is gruesome for mope reasons than Just the chance of war.

Without war this wl be only one in a series of crises around the world for years between the West and communism.

Even at his inauguration President Kennedy, looking to the anxious years beyond, said there would be no finish even perhaps In our lifetime.

And in his July talk to the nationafter the Berlin crisis beganKennedy said That isolated outpost is not an isolated problem. The threat is worldwide.

Since the Russians and Red Chinese are dedicated to taking over the world, but can't do it all at once, they will keep trying a bit at a time.

In the future the rest of the world probably will loik back on this timewhen the United States and the Soviet Union alone had nuclear missiles big enough to blow each other off the earthas a omparatively comfortable time.

More and more nations in timeparticularly Red China should have similar weapons of race massacre.

So. while two giant dominate the world now, eventually others. armed like giants, can act like them. This will simply compound trouble.

For example, at this moment the Red Chinese. itlU lacking nuclear weapons, are soft-pedaling their claim to Formosa whlck ia occupied by Chlang Kai-sheks Nationalists and is under American protection.

Theyve banged away at the tiny Islands Chlang holds clo.se to the mainland. They havent tried to attack Formosa Itself for a limpie, good reason: The

United States has the nuclear muscle and they dont.

This will change when they get the muscle. Then will the United States for the sake of , Formosa risk a nucleah war with Red China which would almost certainly mean war with the Soviet Union?

If not, then the other American Allies in Asia may lose faith in this country. At the same time some of those same Allie.s, plus the European Allies, may prefer seeing Formosa lost to risking nuclear wsu* for themselves.

This is just Mje of the dilemmas ahead, without

threats from Red^hina. Formosa may be \ thrown into internal crisis wMi^^jChiang dies. And places not even thought of now will become critical areas in the struggle with communism.

Africa, for instance. Or countries in Latin America where communism, through Fidel Castro. ha.s an ideological launching pad in Cuba.

Then theres Korea The Communists were stopped once from taking it by force, But It lies next Red China and Red North Korea.

The Communist effort to take it over, by force or subversion, will not end.

Another place: South Viet

Nam which the United States is committed to protect but where the Communists from North Viet Nam have already infiltrated. That country is wobbly already.

If that goes, all Southeast Asia is in jeopardy. And the places mentioned here are just the obvious trouble ipots ahead. Therell be other.

Does the picture look gloomy for those who dreamed of happy days? It sure does.

Other Editors Saying... Qualifications First

from flipping over backwards while in mid-flight. *'A show-off. says Junior. This particular bird is especially liked because it is a high-flying type, as contrasted with homers , . who are mcwe inclined to fly just over the tree-tops. When Junior lets the birds out of their loft for exercise, the tumbler flies up and away, often carrying the other birds with him.

This, Im told, Is a good thing.

The extent of area interest in pigeon-raising and racing surprised me. The Harrington flock was the first Id seen hereabouts; and if Juniors enthusiasm is any indication,* the local fanciers must be a pretty dedicated bunch.

You learn something every day.

Opinions " In Brief

It seems today that It la easy to acquire a conviction on controversial matters, but quite another matter when it comes to backing up that conviction. Dumas (Ark.) CHarion

(Greensboro Daily News)

Governor Sanford, asked at his weekly press conference whether he intended to retain Edward Scheldt as commissioner of motor vehicle-s, replied that I havent made that decision.

This specific assertion from the chief executive, which leaves Commissioner Scheldt and some other top-level state officials in doubt as to their future followed a general declaration that he will not be vindictive in changing people. We will change from time to time. . .but it will be in the light of providing better government. . .1 have an obligation of getting good government and running the government effectively and efficiently.

That is the kind of assurance the people like to hear from their Governor. And the test comes in its implementation.

That gets us around to the case of Commissioner Scheldt. He came into the government as a career mana lawyer and veteran FBI memberearly in the Umstead administration. So far as we know he had done a good job; he has stayed clear of politics and political involvement; and he surely must be given a substantial (Uedit for the efficient operation of i "the far-flung Department of ^otor Vehicles, with particular emphasis

upon the State Highway Patrol which we have regarded as the most capable and effective law enforcement agency in tRe state.

Governor Sanford knows Commissioner Scheldts record and ability. We assume that he will weigh these qualifications and make his decision accordingly: Obviously it does not help the cause of efficiency to have Job uncertainty hanging over the head of any top-level administrator at Raleigh.

Whoever heads the Motor Vehicles Department should, in our opinion, be a career official,* named strictly on the basis of qualifications for that particular role. The department deals directly with hundreds of thousands of North Carolinians And in handling its assignments, especially In highway patrol re-sponsibiliUes for fair, yet firm and Impartial law enforcement its top-level officials and the Governor who appoints them should lean over backwards to avoid any taint of politics and the havoc which politics might wreak.

If Governor Sanford is as smart as we think he is, hell do nothing whatever to tarnJsh the high regard which the public has for the one agency wholly dedicated to highway safety in North Carolina.

If the best way to forget your troubles is to wear shoes a halfsize too small, that may be the reasoning in back of the Army edict banning shorts and bikinis for American personnel and their families in Berlin.Mattoon (111.) Joumal-Gazette

America Is a nation of contradictions and inequities. Right now we have an overabundanca of wheat, com, and cotton but a terrific shortage in materials that go into womens skirts. Lexington Herald

Polks who drive over 65 miles an hour should be sure to watch out for the other idiots.Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press

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Worlc. Given An Idea

By GEORGE E. SokbtSKY Copyright, 1%1. King Feature Syndicate, Inc.

The death of Prank Buchman removed from the world a prophetic figure who adopted the idea iat man can change their personalities by free will. A clergyman, Frank Buchman recognized that young people were not accepting orthodox forms of religion, even if they belonged to formal religious groups. He sought a method of solving pei> sonal problems by voluntarily changing ones personality, by personaUy accepting Gods gui^ ance in re)onse to silence and prayer.

ls movement started very small and I can recall when some of hto followers came to rny house in Sandisfield. sat on the grass under ancient maples to talk of life and personality. Prank; as b chose to . ed, was then holding his hous parties In Stockbridge. a suitable village for such a purpose, for It was In Stockbridge and the neighboring villages that the thought and art of America found its atrongest expression during the nineteenth century.

More tian 20 years ago I was impressed by the sincerity and profundity of Buchmans followers. What 'toey represented in the current history of ancient religious movemento was the enthusiasm of the Essenes, of whom John the Baptist was one, who beUeved that "one could change from wickedness to virtue by baptism, by washing away the stia. So Buchman answered mans willfulness by willing change. Not only was vice replaced by virtue, but futility by usefulness.

The young men and women who serve in Moral Re-Armament do not sit about and praY or sing h3rmns. They go out into the world to battle against social and political wrongs. Whereas the Salvation Army has battled against personal viciousness, such as drunkenness and poverty. Moral Re-Armament moved toward the barricades where it fought Communism as the evil of our day.

Buchman possessed no quality of bigotry. For him, there were many roads to God and each man had to choose his own. His movement had no priests or leaders; members united into groups of usefulness and spread themselves over the Earth wherever they w'ere most needed. They financed themselves as best they could and no great treasury was developed but those who wanted to help did and those who wanted to give, gave. And the teams w-ent forth to preach the doctrine of peac and human brotherhood.

I knew Prank Buchman well and admired him for hts utter selflessness. What he had to give to humanity were his beliefs in the essential goodness and usefulness of man and those who joined him were not abject followers but comrades in arms fighting ior the better life.

Buchman was 83 when he died in West German village. His Movement assembled each year in Switzerland to discuss problems and then went to Mackinac in Michigan for other sessions. The great and the small came and many found in these assemblages the opportunity to open their hearts and expose their souls.

To a Buchmanite. confession is not merely an admission of ain; it is a social acknowledgment that virtue is possible and can be fruitful if one is willing to serve usefully and with sincerity.

No one in Moral Re-Armament was ever told what to do. No one was given orders or instructions. No one was required to obey anyone else. No one bound himself by oath to serve a master. It is a voluntary organization In which one serves by the inspiration of prayer.

Is Moral Re-Armament anarchic? The surprising characteristic of this movement is its orderliness. No one has ever been elected to be a president or a vice president but somehow when a job had needed to b done, men and women fell into place and the team functioned with extraordinary efficiency. Will it continue in this spirit and manner now that Frank Buchman to gone?

The only comparable movement I have ever encountered is the Hasidlm among the Jews. They are followers of the Baal-Schem-Tov and believe that Gods law to cheerful and comes (Ck)ntlnued on page five)

Computers Helpful To Lawyers

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DGUGLASS A BIG QUESTION

Should we try to explore outer epace or reach the moon? The eetlmated cost to enormous. Is the project worth what it will probably coet?

Honest people differ In their opinions on this matter. Quite evidently we could not live on the moon or on any planet ot which we have knowledge. So why bother? If it to a metier only of curiosity, if such discov-try will probably not open for us any new markets or result in biological mixing with any beings we may find on these heavenly bodies, why spend bimons Just for a look behind the cosmic curtain? So reason some.

It would be Interesting to have our curiosity satisfied on &iany of these presently hidden matters, but cunsolty alone to certainly not worth bUlions

piled upon bUlions. But to it not sound procedure to learn all we can about everything w can? Columbus sailed across the Atlantic and what did he find? Only strange new lands inhabited by savage red-skinned racesno mountains of gold, no fountain of youth, not even a shorter route to the far East. So it was a waste, was It not?

Hardly. Columbus discovered so many other things beside a few little islands tnd a handful o! savage people that ws have been building on Columbus' achievement ever since.

As long as there to anything to learn, let us keep on learning. Let us find out all we can abqut outer space. Beings may exist out there who can overnight put us a thousand years ahead in our thinking, and make life for us a thousand times better.

We favor exploration.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The computers will keep many lawyers gainfully employed, judging from the lead article in the August tosue of Management Review by Roy N. Freed, himself a Philadelphia lawyer.

The computer Introduces many ^ legal problems. Mr, Freed points out. Many of them have not been settled by courts. Examples:

An engineering firm, relying on data from a computer, designa a bridge that collapses. Who to responsible, the firm er the company that made the computer?

A computer Incorrectly okaya a large order of merchandise for a customer with bad credit. Who itands the lou. the company or the firm operating the computer?

A railroad uses a computer In cennectlon with a device for Inspecting for boCboxet. An undetected hotbox causes an accident. Who to responsible? MIS.MANAGEME.NT?

Companies in one Industry now u.sc computers, excepting one-If that company suffers a loss

in its competitive position, to it liable for a stockholders suit on the ground of mismanagement?

In addition to the possibilities of unusual cases such as these, Mr. Freed points out that the day-by-day operation of computers involve legal problems,

The legal problems that arise from the use of electronic data processing begin when a computer to purchases or leased, he wrote. A lawyer who to intimately acquainted with the actual situation of the particular company will be in a position to recognize an array of legal questions that should be answered as the planning {H-ogreases.

He continued, It to essential to spell out In the formal papers to exact terms xnd conditions. ... If the manufacturer is to provide machine maintenance, cloee attention should be given to the promptness with which it must respond in- epse of a breakdown. . . .

ANY PATENT RIGHTS?

If you are buying a specially designed computer, are you entitled to batent rights that may result from the development

work?. .Will the labor agreement of the company renting out its machiAe permit your personnel to run the computer on your work? . . . Can you obtain a guarantee that the company will keep its computer in running order to avoid interruptions in your operation? . .

If your company will not be able to keep its computer running full time. . . .will your labor agreement permit personnel of another company to come on your premises and run one of your machines?...

After reading this or the full article In the American Management Association pubUcatioo, businessmen may be tempted to say. "The hell with ccmiputers. If they are that messy legally, we wont have anything to do with them.

Walt a minute! As Mr. Freed points out, a company that fMls to make use of a computer may be liable for damages Just for that reason. He cites a hjrpothet-ical case in which all railroads but one ^se a computer In scheduling trains. If the one railroad has an accident that

could have been averted by use of a computer, it may be liable for heavy damages.

The aituation to analogous to the failure of a ship operator to utilize radar after It had been adopted by other lines," Mr.* Freed wrote.

PLANT OUT OF DATE? EXPORT m

Many American autos, too decrepit for sale here, are rcfur-btohed and *aold in other countries.

Now Spokanes first mechanical garage, already out of date on continental United States, has been knocked down and shipped to Hawaii.

INTERESTING, IF NOT SIGNIFICANT, ITEMS

The largest scrap metal yard in Detroit reprooeases enough steel in a year to make 280,000 new cars. . . .An all-night bea-ty salim in New York is soon to be Joined by an all-night tmrber shop. . .Each year Canadians spend $750 million more in the United States than Americans spend in Canada.

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