Wednesday, November 1, 181

If We Had a.Choio

Cant Help But Wonder At Tactics

The new official Soviet line of denunciation of the former dictator Joseph Stalin is bound to have a significant impact not only upon the people of the Soviet Union, but upon people throughout the world

as well. - a, o *

For the first time the former head of the So^et Union, who in the past has been praised m one of the great communist leaders, has been branded a tyrant whose purges rained death upon literally thousaims of innocent people within his party and among his countrymen. The unprecedented speech of Premier Khrushchev in which Stalin was denounced came simulUneously with the clearing of Stalins reign of terror as a topic for open discussion among Soviet

people.

Within a matter of hours the image of Stalin the great leader, Stalin the great worker for the good of comman man, Stalin the very bulwalk of communism, has been changed into an image of Stalin the murderer, SUlin the monster. ^

Present Soviet leaders, m usual communist fashion, will use the denunciation of Stalin to boost themselves to new heights of purity and devotion to the good of humanity. They obviously are seeking to

Most Interest In Good Govm't

By LYNN NISBET MOTIVES More than 1,000 Democrats from 83 counties in every comer of North Carolina converged on Asheville last Saturday night for a political powwow. They paid $25 each for a fteak dinner they could ha\fe gotten at home end eaten in mwe comfort for five bucka or leea, and they listened to orne epeechmaklng that was not very interesting.

Why did they do it? One man taid the attendance was due to aalcamanahip, to the ballyhoo buildup that had been give the affair by the Democratic party organisation. And it was as well organized and as thoroughly promoted as any event of its kind In many yearzi Another man 8X the folks came out of curiosity, they Just wanted to see and near at first hand what other people are doing and saying. Another said the occasion afforded a reasonable excuse for taking a trip to the highlands and the gorgeous extravaganza of color thrown over the moilhtainaides.

Undoubtedly all of these and other factors entered into the decisions of people to attend the first Vance-Aycock Democratic fund raising dinner A few had more specific and selfish reasons. They were the active candidates for elective office and the mall groups of sup-poners around them.

It was quite evident that for mosi of the guests the motivating desire w-as somewhat more than curiosity. It was a genuine Interest and concern* for good government, and a sort of public confession of belief that good government is more certain under Democratic administration than under other conditions.

CLEARINO HOUSE The Grove Park Inn for the weekend was a clearinghouse of political and economic information, a forum for the exchange of ideas and opinions. The atmosphere was filled with optimistic determination to Increase Democratic majorities In the next election; but there were small clouds of warning that the Republicans also are optimistic and determined.

Two or three impressions were Inescapable. One is that the Sanford administration faces a major test in the bond election next week. Although the bonds are supposed to be non-partisan, and many Republican leaders are supporting most or all of them, the Sanford administration has adopted the project as a major objective and the Republican organization has announced opposition to all but the college and hospital items. Failure of the bond to carry, or if they win by a very narrow margin in a small vote, will tend to depreciate the administration prestige ar.o leadership. And a small vote seems Indicated.

There was evidence of feeling

that the people . ought to be given mor time to digest and assimilate the increased taxes levied by the 1961 General Assembly before adding another $8-10 millions to the debt service obligations every year, for the next quarter century. The size of the total vote and the margin of victory for the bonds will have substantial influence on the prestige of the Sanford administration.

ORGANIZATION . Another impression gained from casual conversations around the lobby and the rooms, as well as by some more formal interviews, is that the Democrats are both happy and disturbed over the wav the Sanford-Bennett-Hyde group is building the party organization.

' They are happy because there is coming back into the picture an organization commanding and demanding respectful allegiance of the rank and file voters and local nartv worker.s. oFr rrjist of the Hodges regime Party integrity was not a vital consideration. Gratification over restoration of the dignity and integrity of the party, as such IS slightly dimmed by fear that the new organization may be "too new,* that manv of the oldtlmers who have borne the burden and heat of the battle are being too rapidly replaced with younger inexperienced people. Lacking knowledge of the historic efforts, these younger folks are inclined to personalize rather than idealize the Issues, and to "follow the leader" Into a personal machine.

IMPEDIMENTA WhUc the Sanford-Bennett faction definitely was in majority at Asheville, ard they had the backing of the Washington members of the Kennedy staff, they were acutely conscious that other ideas were represented.

Beverly Lake, who ran Sanford Into a scared second primary last year, was much in evidence surrounded by a staunch corps of loyal financial and working supporters. Lake is not "running for Governor" now but its easy to get bets he will be in 1964. Woodrow Jones, sided by Ben Sumner and other conservatives, was the center of a lot of attention. So was joe Hunt. Speaker of the 1961 House and now more or leas actively campaigning for Governor.

What most of the folks went to Asheville for was to find out, if they could, how these several potential candidates are getting along. Perhaps no positive conclusions could be drawn from the information gathered, except the general opinion that the next two or three years will be very interesting In North Carolina politics, and that predictions now about what will happen in 1964 have little factual basis.

cTeate for themselves a popular image that they are the ones who have suddenly discovered the misdeeds of Stalin and have taken swift and forceful steps to see that such misdeeds never again happen under

communist rule. * *

Some people in the Soviet Union and around the world may swallow this line and nod in agreement* Most people, however, probably will call back men> ories of the high praises which have been heaped upon Stalin, before his death and since, by some of the same Soviet leaders who have now branded him a tyrant and murderer. It will be difficult for them to accept this new Soviet line as a sincere effort to purify the tradition of communist government.

Noting that Khrushchev has made an all-out effort to annihilate the image of a dead leader that threatened his own dictatorship, one cannot help but wonder whether he would not do exactly what he is accusing Stalin of doing in order to perpetuate his own rule.

Reaching Goal Awaits Those Final Reports

Pitt Countys United Fund so far has received approximately 85 per cent of its $91,000 goal for the current fund-raising campaign. It needs now for its workers throughout the county who .have not completed their solicitations to do so quickly so that the total goal may be achieved.

Many communities throughout Pitt already have reported contributions equal to or exceeding their fair share quota of the total United Fund budget. In other communities, however, contributions have been repor^ ed at a slower rate. In spite of this, United Fund officials have expressed confidence that the goal will be reached. In their opinion, it is just a matter of volunteer workers completing their assignments by calling upon the people they are supposed to see during the campaign.

The month of October, which was set aside as United Fund Month in Pitt has now come to a close with many potential contributors to this county-wide undertaking still not contacted. It is important to the United Fund campaign and to the many agencies which look to the United Fund for their financial support, that workers who have not completed their assignments do so within the next few days so that the campaign will not be dragged out.

Citizens of Pitt, we are confident, will come forth with the remaining 15 per cent of the funds which is needed to put the United Fund campaign over the top. We trust that workers who have not completed their assignments will make a special effort in the next few days to do so. We also urge citizens who have not made their annual contribution to the United Fund to do so within the next few days.

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And Astronauts Have...

Tidbits from the old corner cupboard, especially for the modern world:

II an athlete has athletes foot, what does the astronaut have? "MissUe-toe" of course.

Classified ad classic in a'mid-western paper went something like this (and its the honest truth): FOUND: One huge black bull wandered into our pasture, breaking down fence. Nruinlng tool shed and damaging several buildings. Creating havoc among

cattle in particular and people in general. Owner may claim same by tomorrow noon. Otherwise, the bull will be sold at public auction. Proceeds,go to pay for repairs to property.

The following seems especially timely with the recent United Nations Week observance:

"In 1946 when the ballot box o. the Security Council was first used the tellers found a slip of paper therein with the following words; March 22, 1946. May

I. who had the privilege of fabricating this ballot box, cast the first vote? May God be with every member of the United Nations and through your noble efforts bring lasting peace to us all, all over the world. Paul Antonio, mechanic. " (Westminster Methodist Church bulletin, Kinston.)

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) At the very moment when he needed the utmost freedom and support at home in dealing with the West on Berlin, Premier Khrushchev has stifled his critics and gotten the full support of the Russian Communist party.

For him the throwing of Stalins body out of its tomb meant getting a troublesome ghost off bis back.

Stalin died in 1953 exactly at the end of an era. Khrushchev took over at the beginning of a new one which needed new ideas for dealings at home and abroad.

So long as Stalin remained a Communist saint, emtombed in Moscow Square alongside Lenin, those who disagreed with Khrushchevs way of doing things, when they differed from Stalins, could accuse him of heresy.

This is exactly what was done by the Red Chinese, the Albanians, and some of the <^d Bolshevik companions of Stalin, like Vyacheslav Molotov who, although reduced to a minor position, this year still condemned Khrushchevs tactics.

If Khrushchev, in anger of exasperation. had sought by himself to downgrade Stalin or banish him from his tomb to get rid of the memory of him, he would have been accused not only of heres but of sacrilege. *

So he had the Russian Communist party at its 22nd congress this month do it for him when more than 5,000 cheering delegates ordered Stalins body taken from its tomb and a monument built In Moscow to the victims of his tortures and purges.

Now the Molotovs, the Albanians, the Red Chineseif they stm want to find fault must do it with the entire Russian Communist party, not with Khrushchev whom the party has so grandly supported.

But it has taken Khrushchev five years to achieve this final degradation of Stalin, pretty good evidence that after he first denounced Stalin In 1956:

1. The myth of Stalin, who the Russian people had been

taught was always right, still persisted and remained a meas-uidng sUck by which to Judge every new or different actiod Khrushchev took.

2. He had encountered a lot of criticism and even opposition within the Russian Communist party Itself in his efforts to free -his hands from the grip of the dead man.

Even one year later, in 1957, Khrushchev must must have felt a little uncertain about how far he could go in trying to destroy both the myth and memory of Stalin, In that year, despite what he said in 1956, he sUll called Stalin a "great Communist and added "this Stalin we do not want to abandon.

As late as 1959 Khrushchev conceded some Communist party members had opposed his attempt to demolish the Stalin image. So long as his anti-Stalinism could be Interpreted as a one-man crusade, he was open to conflict at home, even though minor. And the Stalinist Red Chinese could go after him individually.

But now, after the action of the 22nd party congress, Khrushchev can claim full support by his party got his anti-Stalinism for whatever he does that Is the opposite of what Stalm might have done. Anyone who differs with him now Inside Russia or outside must be considered antiparty and anti-Russian but not anti-Khrushchev.

By the time Stalin died in 1953 a new world, different from the one he always knew, was coming to birth. New nations, freshly freed from colonialism, were being bom.

New techniques for dealing with them were needed. The Russians couldnt overrun Africa and Asia as they had overrun the satellite nations of Europe In the war. Stalin was unsubtle. Men in authority have two main Instruments for trying to impose their W1 on others: persuasion and power. Stalin knew only power as he demonstrated In Korea and the Berlin blockade.

At the time of his death, Russia lacked the power of its main (Continued on Page 7)

(Wilson Times)

Two interesting items in the newspapers recently point up a good lesson In the field of education. The first is that there \^ere 4,300 qualified students turned away from the colleges in this state at the beginning of the school term, because the rolls were filled.

The second is the story that tells of the citizens of Greenville, the alumni of East Carolina college and other interested persons who are giving the money to build the new stadium. It is to be named for the late James S Ficklen.

Greenville and East Carolina college arc pointing the way to providing both classrooms and extra curricular facilities. By building stadiums, and other de-.iirable college extras from private funds, tax funds are left for classrooms and academic needs, as science buildings and me like.

When 4.500 students seek a college education and there is no room for them in the colleges of their state it is time for a bond issue to provide the necessary requirements. This in Itself is good argument for the $31 ml-1 Don dollar Item In the bond issue to be voted on on November 7. This money is to provide capital Improvements in state educational institutions.

As long as there is a need for classrooms and other related bu ldings the tax funds should be spent for these. Stadiums are splendid, they are a necessary part of the college program. so it seems, but tax money should not be spent for anything but needs until all qualified students seeking an education on the college level can obtain one.

The citizens of Greenville,

anc all others who are giving funos to build the stadium at

East Carolina college are setting an example for East

ern Carolina. The stadium will cost $250,000 and will eventually seat 30,000. It will be a great asset to this section of the state. The gencrocity of the people

is worthy of the highest praise. When our citizens provide the extra college facilities, and.tax money the necessities, a full and adequate educational program is assured.

A Challeoge to Kinston (Kinston Free Press)

East Carolina College has reached a new peak enrollment of 5,263 students. This includes a freshman class of 1,977 persons, but does not include the more than 1,800 students now taking extension work at ECC branch units at Camp Le-Jeune, Cherry Point and Seymour Johnson Air Base, as well as other points over Eastern Carolina.

There are some unmistakable conclusions which may be drawn from this record enrollment. The first is the face that demand for higher education is still on the rise and is not falling as some predicted it would. Secondly. the need for larger facilities at Greenville, which is being met in every way possible, will reach a limit as available space is converted to new dormitories and college facilities. Finally. It means the need for more community colleges all over the area has not been fUed and until it has been, the greatest potential of ECC Itself cannot be reached.

The effort to secure a community college for Lenoir County, which is now nearing a new and crucial stage in the completion of another survey, is an issue that should be pushed with ail possible vigor. The people should know how much It will mean to them in savings for their own childrens education, and In the total picture for the whole State.

East Carolina Colleges growth over the past half-century has been phenomenal. There is no lood reason why a similar beginning here should not experience comparable growth and development in the next half-century However, it has to be started befor the growth can begin.

And now another observance is on the way, and it seems an Important one. since it effects so many peopl American Education Week, begining Sunday Nov. 5.

Relating to this observance, we received some information that tells us the school bus system is the largest transportation system in the world.

This is why: More school buses carry more children to and' from school now than ever before. according to recent statistics from the U. S. Office of Education. The number of school buses in service last year totalled 161.391.

In addition to these, some 18.-389 station wagons and other vehicles driven by education minded mothers transported children to school.

Over twelve and a half million children are transported to school at public expense.

Nexy week, after American Education Week starts, tip your hat to the orange transportation system as a reminder of schools and children who attend them, and the teachers in particular.

Opinions In Brief

"Thought while listening to lecture on development of synthetic foods: Wonder how long it will take them to produce such a surplus the government will pay them not to do it. Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat.

"The art of politics demands that the practitioner make the true sound false and the false sound true.Atlanta Journal.

"We are convinced that a lot of those admittedly self-made men have relieved God of a lot of responsibity. Elbertson (Ga ) Star.

"Soaking a wedding ring In dishwasher three times a day will make it last longer."Lexington l^eader.

Ji woman considers herself of marriageable age from the time she reaches sixteen until she dies.Miami Herald.

Terror

O The Spirit

By GBRGE E. 80K0LSKY Copyright, 1961, King Features Syndicate, Inc-

What Khrushchev has been doing by his war of terror has been to frighten some persons ir many countries so that they would be willing to accept whatever he has to offer except physical death. It is degradation of the spirit of man in the presence

0^ terror.

C. R. Vann of Newark. Ohi(). wanU me to give the other fellow meaning himself, his day in court, meaning this column. Why not? Mr. Vann has an opnlon which he states clear- ly:

"You ought to know that Com-, raunlsm may yet turn out to be the best thing that ever happened to this old warlike murderous planet. If it should; th^

I am going to

per cent. Another thing. If such comes about thru peaceful means then I am for it again. You should know that certain groups. Pious and all but ^ry untrustworthy such as the K.C. s are at the bottom of most of . this anti-commie propaganda. The outfit spews words about God and Patriotism but never a word about protecting our Constitution. Good reason too, they would destroy it because it separates Church and State which Inadvertently has given * them all the good things they attribute to God and his various assistants, the Saints."

Vann writes this in the month of October 1961 after Khrushchev has exploded 25 missiles to scare the world. He writes while the Communist Congress 'is taking place in Moscow at which Khrushchev threatens all of mankind with destruction. He writes when we are forced to send our boys to Berlin and Laos to protect our existence and to risk their lives for our

survival. _

There must be something very wrong with our educational system that a man can, in 1961, be oblivious to the menace of Communism, not only to world peace but to the survival of this country. Or does it not matter whether the United States survives as a civilization? It is pi^ible that some see no particular value in such survival, thej not understanding the nature of our civilization which is .based on the concept of freedom of choice and the rights of the individual.

Vann says that Communism might turn out to be the best thing that ever happened. I wonder what he means by that. The Marxist concept of the dic-Utorship of the proletariat, in practice means that a people are held in tutelage by an oligarchy who possess such complete power that they can destroy not only their opponents, hut their own associates. We have a current example of that in the attack on Molotov, who not only is one of the builders of the Soviet system, but is presently representing his government in Vienna. In Stalins day Molotov would hav been killed as Trotzky was killed. What is to happen to him now?

Unfortunately Vann speaks of Communism being achieved by peaceful means. But the essence of Marxism and Leninism is the permanent revolution to which Stalin and Khrushchev have added the concept of permanent war Whereas Khrushchev denounces Stalin, he follows many ot Stalins concepts, particularly the permanent war which is now, this very day, being employed to put the entire world into terror.

What then is Vann talking about? Unfortunately, there are many Vanns in this country, men and women who fail to recognise the nature of Communism and who are so moved by anti-Semitism or anti-Catholicism or anti-Negro, that they get lost In a world of better hatreds. For instance, blaming the Knights "of Columbus for anticommunism is like blaming the American Jewish League Against Communism for the emergence of Khrushchev. It makes no sense, but there are those who find solace in small bigotries, Ignoring historical facts and rejecting the course of events.

I have given C. R. Vann his day in court and what has he " produced? He has established that he does not believe that "all good things are to be attributed "to God and his various assistants, the Saints. But do all good things emanate from Khrushchev and his assistants who murder to hold power? There must be another, answer to virtue. It surely is not in (Continued on Page 7)

New Status Symbol In Japan

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

are you?

The story is told of a certain Irishman who one day entered a fashionable restaurant intent on getting himself the meal of his life. He ordered the first iterr on the menu and It was aoup. Then he ordered the sec- ond item. That was soup, also. Then the thirdsoup. Then the fourthsoup.

At lut he pushed bsck his chsir snd wiping his mouth Witl the back of his hand said. -"Patrick, you had the change of your life to have a swell meal, and youre full of soup."

Many people today are in the same altuation. Wonderful books have been written through the centuries and these people waste thej- Ume jMding trash. There la good musicheavenly muaio which has been composed to

solace and thrill the heart of mer yet many people content themselves with s variety of discords which threaten to drive some of us oldsters to distraction.

There are opportunities for culture which many of us fail to take day by day. for we are full of soup. We cant appreciate tht best because we have glutted ourselves perhaps with the good, or ths mediocre, or the bad. Read 'carefully and with discrimination. Some great books tie being written today. Musical masterpieces have never died. Culture is being created right now. not so fast probably is it wi in the days of Pericles and his fellow Greeks, but never-tbelfss quite rapidly.

Life offers us tremendous op-portunittM. Let us not turn sway from them because we are full of soup.

By ELMER ROESSNER'

In the wonderful world of business: A refrigerator with a freezer compartment is becoming more of a status symbol in Japan than a television antenna,'Ysmalchi Securities reports. . . -Soft drink distribu-tois in Alaska heatnot cool trucks to prevent bottles from freezing, "Teem" distributors report. . . .The msgnesiura industry is trying to sell the ba.sebsU Industry on magnesium

bats. /

Of the several systems of selling in the home, one (White Shield) U nelng projectors end S-by-g-foet screens te show the merchandise tt sells.

The Chinn Bowl restaurant In New York lisU "Chow Foon 8hee, cellophane noodles with lobeter meat or ahredded pork roast ". The noodles are crisp, not saggy. . .Pullman, Inc.. has patented a "Hydroframe-60 freight car to withstand impacts so well it can save shlp-pen $180 million a year in damages. .Your chances of

being Indicted for income tax fraud are Increasing. The gov-einrnent Indicted 50 per cent more people in fiscal 1%1 than In fiscal 1960.

FEWER FAILURES

Only 80 faUurcs In September, compared with 169 failures In August, wer recorded by Dun & Brsdstreet. . .The maximum monthly retirement benefit of $127 to individuals will not be apallable until sometime in 1963; even then the top benefit will not be available to those who do not work for sometime after their 65th birthday. Thats what the law says. . .The dateline or a processed mail promotion Is "Today, 1961.. It is arrest-114and avoids stale dating.

How mach do yon pay for chopped noat|? The U* S. Department of Ajplculture has jost bought almost million pounds at less than 41 cents a pound ....ooked and canned, too.

Foreign investments in the 8. are now almost $7 billion. the Department of Commerce reports. . .About 70.000

families will buy shell homes this year, finisbing the insides later, according to one estimate . . . .Three out of every four West Germans now smoke filter cigarettes. . . .Canadas export will exceed imports for the first time this year since 1952. estimates Hardwick 8tlres. chairman of the Committee of Canadian Investment Companies-PRINCESSLY GIFT

Max Hess, the un-shy AUen-towc merchant, is sending an elegant bassinet to Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon. . . Company costs for em-pioytts medical services rose more than 10 per cent over the past five years, the National Industrial Conference Board reports. . . .Of U. 8. manufacturing companies sclllnf .abroad, one In three utilized foreign sutaaldiarles, one study shows.

Advertisers are demanding that magaziiies eliminate cut-rate fubscrlptlona from their totals, the Gallagher Report

*^ymakera estimate that.

come Christmas, they will have spent $25 millions to advertise ttieir products this year. . Market values of farm real estate advanced in the four months ended July 1, the Department of Agriculture reports. .An upturn in s a 1 e s of major appliances la scented^ by Business Week.

NEW SALES PROMOTION PLANNED IN 43 AREAS

A new way to promot goods has been developed by 8hoppl''g Center Showcase, Inc. It plans to erect modem steel and gUiis buildings in $3 shopping areas, and to lease sections in which ciknufacturers and distributors demonstrate new products, ideas and services.

Weekly give-aways of televl-slcn sets cars, trips abroad and furnished houses are expected to keep shoppers coming into the centers, where samples, coupons, and consumer testing will be Intended to spur buying interest.