Friday, ^ptember 8, 1861

Decision In Keeping ^ith Program

Let Me Sweetoi the Cup

The ruling of the Pitt County Board of Educa-ton that student trips to the State Fair should be made outside school time is an abrupt departutfe past policy, and yet it is in keeping with the state-wide program of improving the quality-of public school instruction for the youngsters of North Carolina.

In recent years there has betn an increasing awareness that extra-curricular activities not only were requiring considerable after-school time of students, but that such activities were likewise encroaching on the time the students were supposed to be

spending in the classrooms. . , , , .

Trips to the State Fair, which have become a part of tradition in many schools throughout North Carolina, have been regarded officially as educational excursions for the students. This line of argument asserted that the exhibits at the fair were well worth the youngsters taking a day off from school to see. The action of the Pitt County Board of Education reflects the more realistic view that it is not worth a day of the student's time away from school to travel to Raleigh primarily for the purpose of enjoying the carnival aspects of the fair ... and admittedly the fun activities of such trips far outweighed the educational activities.

The County Board of Education has also announced that it will evaluate other school trips such as jaunts to Washington, Williamsburg and other historic points which have likewise found a place in the school year in some schools of the county. It is well, we think, that the County Board of Education carefully evaluate such trips made on school time to determine whether they are justified from the standpoint of enhancing the quality of education the youngsters receive in public school. If the educational qualities of such trips do

Zarly Fight For ?arty Contro'.

By LYNN NISBET

DEMOCRATS The first real battle for contr(H of DemocraUc party machinery in North Carolina between the Sanford folks and the oldtimers in the party may come earlier than next aprings primarica. It may well develop within the next few weeks, not over candidate* or peruorialities, but over th revision in the Plan of Organization for the Democratic Party In North Carolina.

There are well founded rumors that some of the changes proposed by the committee charged with rewriting the Plan are meeting determined resistance from oldtimers in party councils.

Chairman Bert Bennett of the state executive committee has requested the top brass of the party organization to meet with Chairman Thad Eure and perhaps others of the redrafting committee to discuss provisions and procedure. Information is this will be an executive" session from which newsmen and the public will be banned.

Further Information is there is as much controversy over procedure to be followed in adopting the new Plan as over its specific provisions. From the time the first written Plan of Organization was promulgated in 1918 through the latest revision in 1960 the Plan itself and all amendments have been adopted by the State Executive Committee, and have been .regarded as "legally" blinding and controlling upon the rank and C of party membership.

Now there is strong sentiment, shared by some members of the redrafting committee, for submission to and approval by the full state convention before any ne# provisions can become effective.

SUICIDE That course would completely destroy hopes of those Interested in getting the Plan revised to govern organization of party forces in time for prectoct meetings, county and atate conventions next year. Under the present Plan there Is no provision for calling a state convention before next summer.

Advocate* of convention approval Insist they arc not necessarily opposed to the new plan. They contend that such procedure offers much better chance of approval, because otherwise incumbent members of the state

committee would be asked to commit suicide by adopting the proposed changes. And they are not apt to do.

No official statement has been issued, but rumors arc current that the new Plan would have the state executive committee composed of the county chairman, along with some other exofficio members from the state party organization.

The effect of theat provision would be to remove nearly all the Incumbent members of the state committeeand also to deny to many Influential leaders at state level the power they now have to pick committee members. That power would be transferred to the active party workers at precinct and county level. Convention approval advocates argue that the hand-picked members of the committee will never vote for such a changebut the whole state convention might.

If revision in the Plan of Organization is delayed for full convention approval next summer, the organization for the 1962 primaries and election will have been set up under the present plan, and there will be no chance for improvement (?) untU 1964.

TIME The procedure for approval, and the time thereof, may well be as significant for principal sponsors of the new ideas as the ideas themselves. The contest over timing and procedure is coming up. and soon. And the line-up of opposing factions if very interesting.

The "New Day Sanford folks want approval now. and in accordance with accepted procedure ever since there has been a written Plan of Organization. Opponents of the proposed revision want to delay action, thus going against the tradition which they established. So we have a situation where the New Day folks are appealing for maintenance of tradition, and the old-llners would abandon established policy in order to retain their control of party affairs.

The interesting thought is that neither can win without losing. That should make for good entertainment for disinterested spectators. Unfortunately, there are no disinterested spectators, because the oi^come of this scrap will affeCT to some degree every citizen of North Carolina for many years to come.

not ni^sure up to what the school officials think they ehould. certainly the trips shou^^ not be allowed on school time.

If North Carolina is to achieve the quality of education it seeks for its young people in public schools, the educational aspects of every phase of the school program must receive paramount consideration.

The Pitt Board of Education is to be commended for the policy it has set concerlng trips to the State Fair in Raleigh, and it should carefully evaluate the value of other similar school-sponsored trips on the basis of the contribution they might make to the child's formal ^education. Those which do not measure up from an educatienal standpoint should not be allowed to take the youngsters away from their classroom work. .

Adding Equivalent Of New Industry Here

Announcement yesjterday that a new District Social Security office is to be located in Greenville will mean the equivalent of a new industry moving into the city, and an industry which obviously has growth potential.

The initial size of the office staff or the date for the opening of the new eight-county district office here have not been announced. Whatever the size of the initial staff, however, it is a good guess that it will grow over the years because of the constant growth of the number of people who are being covered under the Social Security program.

It is gratifying that Greenville and Pitt County were selected as the location for the new district office. Certainly the efforts of Congressman Herbert Bonner in behalf of the establishment of a district office here played a major role in the decision of4he Department of Health, Education and Welfare to establish the district office in Greenville.

Also significant, in our opinion, was the united local effort to acquire a district Social Security office here which was initiated by Walter Jones of Farmville and resulted in endorsements from the Pitt County Commissioners, the Pitt County Development Commission, the Town of Farmville, the Farmville Economic Council, the City of Greenville and others in support of the request that a Social Security office be located in Greenville. In Pitt County it represented a united effort toward filling one of the needs of the needs of the people of this and neighboring counties.

The presence of the Social Security District office here will assure better service in this area for recipients of Social Security benefits and for the increasing number of people who will qualify for these benefits in future years.

.S. Commies Fake The Raos

Giant

By HENRY HOWARD

Syadicate, Ini.

Differences In One Day

Its amazing all over again every year, the difference a day can make.

We were vacationing during the long holiday weekend up the Virginia coast. Our timing was suoh that we arrived before the bulk of the Labor Day traffic and stayed put a couple of days afterward while the multitudes of cars cleared out.

As on every Labor Day we could recfiUl, the beach was jammed with happy vacationers. Streets and highways were filled bumper - to - bumper everywhere.

Activity all over indicated nothing but the peak of the beach season. Actually, as It turns out every year. Labor Day was more

like the brink of a steep cliff than a peak.

Because the difference in Monday and Tuesday was little short of the differic between w'hite and black as far as vacationing is concerned.

With the tremendous contrast, it seemed a little strange that the weather on Tuesday was just as perfect, if not more so, than Mondays. It seemed a shame that so many people had been forced to abandon the summer season at the beach because of the calendar.

We got a charge out of a story a friend we visited told.

It revealed human nature at Its best, we thought.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON <AP) Soviet flip-flopsthere have been some beautsare done with sheer gaU and handy, if unconvincing, sanctimonious explanations. But In each case, as now. Moscow acts without visible embarrassment.

The ones who get embarrassed are the Communist party members outside Russia, particularly American Communists, but only temporarily. When the Soviet line is suddenly changed, they have to quick-step to join the new line.

Thats happening now with the American CommunLsts. They've been strauigely silent since last weeks Moscow announcement that Russia, which for three years suspended nuclear tests and said it opposed them, would resume testing.

When they collect their wits, the American party members will approve as thejubave approved one Russian^^iff after another through the years. Take a look at some of the classic flip-flops, by Russian and American Communists;

During the Hitler years up to 1939 Stalin was the enemy of Nazi fascism. In those years American Communists called for a united front against Germany. William Z. Foster. American party head who died last Friday in Moscow, was urging the United States to end its isolation and jump into the European power struggle.

In August. 1939, Hitler and Stalin signed their nonaggrcsion pact. Within a month Hitler started World War II and he and Stalin carved up Poland.

Communist party members here and in France and England were stunned. They soon got in line. American Communists began- urging the United States to stay out of war, cooked up the slogan "The Yanks are not coming," and oppa*>ed American de-feiuse proparation.s.

After the Nazis smashed the nonaggression pact with Stalin by invading Russia on June 22, 1941. the American Communists reverted overnight to the "united front against nazism.

The American Communute became so carried away with the

idea that, under th leadership of Earl Browder, they changed their name to the "American Political Association." They called themselves a "nonpartisan association of Americans."

This was all right with Stalin until 1945, with the war in Europe almost over, he decided, although this country didnt realize It at the time, to drop the united front" cooperation with the West and begin the cold war.

There was a simple explanation for this. Hitler was crushed and Stalin didnt need Western help which might be an inconvenience in taking over Eastern Europe. But Browder didnt understand.

He was still living under the illusion that harmony with capitalism was what communism wanted. Stalin had so much contempt for the American Communist party he didnt evey notify it directly that the line had changed.

He got a French Communist leader, Jacques Duelos, to do it in a letter he published in a Communist paper in Paris. Cueles ridiculed the absurd spectacle of American Communists cooperating with capitalism.

In this way the American party members got the word about the new flip-flop. In June 1945 they announced a new "Marxist" policy to bring to an end the "period of collaboration with the current political and economic setup of the United States."

Browder, on the rocks, denounced thi.s as "bohemian anarchism." Poster. Stalins hand-picked disciple of the new line, denounced Browder as a "bourgeois reformist." The Communists wartime "political association" voted itself out of existence and once again became the American Communist party.

Foster was named the new party bass although Eugene DennLs, who died last Jan. 31, became the real one and Browder wa.s thrown out.

But Communist party mem-bcr.s everywhere except perhaps in Red Chinahad their greatest convulsion on Feb. 24, 19.56 when Russian communism made the greate.st and most (Continued on Page 6)

Other Editors Saying High Heels For Roots

(Richmond New# Leader)

One of the most persistent dreams of mankind is that of Pygmalionthe dream of making a grande dame out of an Eliza Doolittle from the streets. Shaws story is just one of many turning on this plot device. (There were the movies Kitty and Cluny Brown). This ancient dream recently was served up anew by Time, presented as a true-to-life tale. In Kenya, the wives of the new African diplomats are as unpolished a batch of raw material as any Henry Higgins could wish for. But the Afrians are determined to carry on politics and diplomacy Western-style; so the wives must learn how to put on cocktail parties and seven-course dinners. The Nairobi YWCA has started a school to teach them how.

With its customary whimsy the magazine describes the strange training that must be offered introduction to the labyrinthine ways of Western underwear, the art of balancing on high heels, of mixing a cocktail. "Students find the toilet the most fascinating of all Western gadgets, happily finish it repeatedly. True to the Eliza Doolittle pattern, the account ends with one of the women successfully passing her test, "giving a bona fled cock_ tail and dinner party, with hardly a mishap."

This pleasant little success story Is actually and unconsciously, a terrible indictment of the whole movement of African nationalism and "anti-colonialism. It reveals, In vivid syn-bol, a number of the tragic mistakes on which this movement is based. First, the Insane mimicry of details of Western life (like high-heeled shoes) show's that the hatred of "colonialists Is not based on true

love of African ways but on envy of the west. Yet what the Africans envy is not the precious, often hidden, reserve of wisdom and tradition that have mi^e the West great. They envy the material comforts, the "status symbolsthe Cadillac that Lumumba drove around in, the cocktail, the elaborate binding and bandaging of female "high fashion." A stock comic figure in tales of Americas West w'as the Indian who wore nothing but a high hat he took off some scalped white man. But the new savages in Paris headgear are praised; their opinions on the world are consulted; their inarticulate gropings toward expression are placed beside the Declaration of Independence.

The West Is not balanced on such frail pillars as cocktail-glass stems and stUletto heels. It is founded on the classical Hellenic, the imperial Roman, and the mediaeval Christian traditions. It has spiritual reserves that it has itself forgotten. Men cannot put on its characer like a new glove from Paris, or wield its complex institutions as they learn to flush a toilet.

The only real result of the new schools in Africa will be to take away from Africans the real bases of their own societytribal, symbolic, and natural to them. Given some native discipline and established social forms, progress might be fade toward more sophisticated kinds of awareness and cultural expression. But losing the essentials of society as Africans, and learning only the trivia of life from the West, the "emergent" societies are becoming explosive societies. We take away their roots and give them only weapons. for their own destruction and for ours.

He was Idling how h# bad

moved into a new neighborhood and begun to settle down. Naturally, whether a person has moved into a new neighborhood or not, certain routines of living still must be carried out. This is true in spite of the fact that a person may be quite unfamiliar of a new environment.

So our friend went about hi# daily tasks, learning new faces and places every day. Then It came time for his first haircut in the new community.

He sought out a nearby business bedecked with the traditional red-white-and-blue barber pole, inside he foimd a large square sign that proclaimed the prices for haircuts.

Hie sign said in large, red letters: "Regular, $1.25; Students, 50c. Our friend is young and could easily pass for a student and, seeking a bargain like everybody else, asked for the student trim.

He remembered that the haircut required a little longer than previous trims hes had, but he also remembered that hed not been in any particular hurry at the time and was not bothered by the extra time Involved. Hed told himself: "This must be a good barber. He's probably taking pains with my haircut so Ill c(wne back here next time."

Soon, however, the haircut was finished. The only strange thing about it, our friend remembered, was that the j^oung barber never turned him around to face the mirror. And ttie mirror told the story.

I When the haircut was finished, our friend says be only had to glance In that mirror to discover with a shock that the barber, and not himself, was the student.

Opinions n Brief

"History teaches that those who are prepcued for the ag* gressor rarely ever have to defend themselves against blustering bulUea. Kinston Free Press.

"One of th# expert* says parents should limit the help they give with the homework. Parents dont have any option, actually, since most of them cant help with the kind of homework children have now." The Raleigh Times.

"Many Americans still say they would prefer to die before liviiog under ground like moles. Yet as the choice narrows down to survival they may have second thoughts. Greensboro Daily News.

lo me South

By GEORGE E. S0K0L5KY

Copyright, 1961, King Features ^ Syndicate, Inc.

It has become habitual to spe^ of two continents as though they contained only one country. Africa is an area of varied peoples; South America is even more complex. There was a time when the entire continent south oi ie United States was referred to as Spanish-America, which It was not. The largest state and in many respects the most important of South America is BrazU, principally Portuguese in language and atmosphere.

Brazil is 3,300,000 square miles in size, the fourth largestjeoun-try in the world. The are

mixed aborigines (<Med Indians) Portuguese, Negroes, Italians, Germans. The Portuguese never practiced racial discriminaon and therefore since 1500, there has been constant assimilaUon. It was thi sugar cane which first interested the Portuguese in Brazil. They brought the cane from their native land and fiMind that the soil of Pemjunbuco was suitable for this crop, During the 16th and 17th centuries, Brazil was the worlds chief supplier of sugar. It was this crop which gave the country It* economic "start, but as there was insufficient labor, Negroes wer# Imported from Africa.

The land-owners wer# extraordinarily rich and this attracted the attention of Europe. The French and the Dutch tried to establish themselves In Brasil but they did not last long.

In due course, gold, silver and diamonds were found in Brazil. At one time more than 40 per cent of the gold of the Earth was found in Brazil.

Brazil became a republic In 1889 and has since suffered from considerable political disturbance. In 1930, Getulio Vargas, a strong man, became President and served until 1954 when, during a political crisis, he committed suicide. Hi# place was taken by JusceUno KubitchPk in 1956. He was followed in 1961 by Janio Quadros who was elected by a popular vote, but who resigned a few week# ago because he could not meet the pressures of inflation and popular dissatisfacti(m.

The future of Braall depend# upon the development of the interior, th vast Amaaon basm, a region of great potential economic wealth. The principal crop of Brazil is presently coffee. President Kubitschek sought to vary the productivity of the country. One of hi# method# of opening the interior was ths building of a new city, BrasJ-la, which serves as the capital of the country and from which modem roads run in all direction. In addition, air service has been developed beyond anything that could be expected in such a country.

To pay for all this, Brazil entered upon a program of wild inflation, the cruzeiro fating from 20 to the dollar to about between 220 to 240 to the dollar. It is the fall of the oruzeiro which is causing most of the trouble in Brazil at the present time and of which the Communists are taking full advantage.

The budlng of Brasilia is an excellent idea but the Brazilians have tried to fit a 50 year pr.>-gram into as many months. In fact, Brasilia, as it is laid out and as the buildings are going up, is the most modern, the most highly developed city in the world. The creaticHi of Brasilia has in no manner interfered with the growth of Rio de Janeiro or Sao Paulo. In fact, all of Brazil is on a costly buUdlng spree. The potentialities^ .this country are beyond knaginalio^ Brazil is rich in aH minerals, in food products, in woodlands.

The present revolution could, of course, arrest Brazils development. This struggle is between Left Wing groups associated with Chiba and Red Chiina and the conservative military forces of the country. The Left Wing elements are associated with Castro and their victory would extend Castros influence throughout South America. Should the military prevail, they will be forced to establish some type of dictatorship to iwld the country together and to resist CJommunlst influences.

To keep the Soviet world out of Brazil, it is essential for the United States to act swiftly. Brazil borders on Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina. Venezuela and the Gulanas. A basic political and ideological change in Brazil (Continued on Page )

Emotionally Disturbed Employees

Strength For To(day

By EARL L. DOLT.LAS.S ITS UP TO YOU To what extent should we bow lo the necessity of conformity, and to what extent should we be rebels?

This i# a question everyone has lo answer for himself Conformity has its advantages and at times rebellion also- When there is evil in the world we .hould rebel against tt. When we encounter something which appears to us to bb right and advantageous both (or ourselves and others, we should conforni ourselves to things as they are. Every religious system requires a certain amount of conformity on the part or its members. Good citizenship requires conformity to certain basic requir-ments of order and justice-The person, o( course, who worries us Is the boy or giil

who either conforms all over the place to social practices as they exist and the boy or girl who rebeLs against everything from parental duscipline to the criminal code. Some conformity we indeed inu.st have. Tlie human race cannot start at .scratch With every new blrtj|. What the past ha.s handed down ha.*? some meaning. But along With the good which has come down from the past there are evils which need to be opposed

So the normal individual most balance conionnlty and rebellion in hi- nature whether he be a teenager or a person of mature years. Life is primarily a matter of balance. God insists on giving us choices and compelling us to make them whether We want to or not.

You have to decide whether you will be a conformist or a rebel.

By ELMER ROESSNER

The w'idely accepted notion that nothing can be done to help the emotionally disturbed employee unless he wants to be helped has been challenged by Dr, J H. Baillie, regional medical director of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada.

Alcoholics are Included in his definition of einotioually disturbed.

His conclusion is of considerable importance to American business. In most large companies and in many smaller companies, when an alcoholic u.sks for help, he is aided in a generous degree. Men of valuable ability and skills are sometimes put on sick leave for treatments; others are kept on the job and given time off for psychiatric carebut only if they say the magic works. *T want help." THE BARRIER THEORY

The man who does not ask for help is assumed to have set up a barrier against successful treatment and, if alcoholism interferes with his work, he is

fired.

This pattern of thinking has cost business countless millions of dollars worth of talent that might have utilized for the benefit of the business and the economy.

Curioasly, many unions which have fought vigorously for sick pay, hospitalization and other benefits for those suffering from other afiliction.s, readily agree that an employer has the right to fire an alcoholic.

If Dr. BaiUies findings get general recognition, we may see unions demanding the same care for alcoholics as that given tu-berculars. aenemlcs and pregnant union women under present contracts.

Dr. Baillie made hi$ point before the Personnel Association of Toronto, on the experiences of his own company,

2 OF 3 IMPROVE In the past 10 years about 60 per cent of those employees who had undergone treatment had been referred to the medical de

partment by management, he said: 15 per cent were recognized by the medical d^artment and the remaining 25 per cent sought help on their own.

Analysis of the results shows that so far 9 per cent of the cases have not responded: 10 per cent have made some effort and then slid back; 15 per cent have shown some change for the better; 28 per cent have significantly improved; 22 per cent have abstained from liquor up to two years and 15 per cent have not touched alcoholic beverages in more than two years.

The significance of this data is that 65 per cent of the total have shown Improvement, although only 25 per cent of th total sought help from the department on their own initiative.

CONFIRMATION

His conclusions have been paralleled by other treatment centers; Dr. Baillie said A Danish clinic, for example, repcarted It had iust as good retults with

patients sent to it by courts as it had with people who came in off the street seeking help.

Management should not wait, he stressed, until the alcoholic indicates he wants ^elp. "Whenever an employees drinking significantly interferes with his health, job performance, or social well-being, he should be offered help, even if he has not asked for it," Dr. Baillie said.

7 OUT OF 10 DISCOUNTERS SEEN FAILING IN 5 YEARS

Discount store owners attending the annual Discount (liberators National Show In New York were warned that 70 per cent of the existing stores jvpuld go go out of business in the next five years. The warning wai made by Herbert Grief, general merchandise manager of the Grand Way discount chain.

He urged sounder busine&i methods and constant study of competition by depari-ment stores.