Wday, December 15, 1961 ,

Greatr Public Awareness Of ECC

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Although East Carolina Coll^gi for aeveral years of the student bo-dy of East Carolina College their has ranked, as the fourth largest college in North contribution of 264 pints of blood'to the Red Cross Carolina in terms of enrollment, it has only recently bloodmobile at one visit.

begun to gain appreciable recognition with the public Legislative appropriations' for operations and

in many parts of the state. capital improvements at East Carolina College have

East Carolina College is, of course, well known reflected a growing awareness by the states lawmak-in this section of the state and has for years been ers of the needs of this college and its increasing im-recognized as a major educational institution. In the portance to the state.

Piedmont and Western sections of North Carolina,' This trend, plus what appears to be an increased

however, there seems to have prevailed only a vague public interest throughout the, state in East Carolina, impression that there is a little college down near the suggests that years after it moved from the ranks of coast called East Carolina. small colleges into the ranks of the large colleges of

From reading of newspapers across the state in the state, ECC is beginning to be regarded as such, recent months, however, we get the distinct feeling This transition in the public impression of East Caro-that this vague impression of East Carolina College, lina College throughout the state should prove another its size in terms of student body, and its importance important asset to the college in its efforts to meet to higher education in North Carolina, is rapidly the demands being made upon it and to achieve what changing. ' it feels to be its rightful position in higher education

Considerable state-wide interest was generated in North Carolina, by the fact that citizens of Greenville and Pitt County

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came forward this fall to contribute more than a quarter million dollars to the college for construction of the new James S. Ficklen Memorial Stadium. A great deal of interest was shown throughout the state in the naming of Clarence Stasavich of Lenoir Rhyne, one of the outstanding coaches in the college field, as the new head football coach at East Carolina.

Just this week Gov. Sanford, at the outset of his regular news conference, took time to praise the efforts

!-inds No Case Of Travel Abuse

By LYNN NISBET

NO ABUSE Governor Sanford told newamen at hia weekly conference with them that the report on travel, especially out of itate travel, by State officials failed to juatify the open charges made a few weeka ago by Charles R. Hollaman. head of the budget btireau, about exceaalve time away from offices attending conventions on part of State officials and employees.

While admitting that more careful study of the report might Indicate some places where travel could be cut down, the. Governors comment was in effect a reprimand of Hollaman for exaggerating the situation. Hollaman made headlines with his charge that one official had been away from his desk .58 days in the past four months, and the definite Implication was he was attending conventions at State expense. Hollaman refased to name the chief offender or any others. Governor Sanford also declined to make public the full report which he had compiled, but said any questions about any specific official or trl^ would be answered. ,

The Governor Identified Holl-amans chief offender as Dr. Justus Bier, director of the Museum of Art. who spent about two months In Europe on a trip that had been arranged and cleared with authorities before he assumed his duties at the museum. No other identification was suggested, but Governor Sanford emphasized that in all the detailed report he found no evidence of abuse of traveling privileges, no trip that did not have as its purpose and major result service to the State. There are some instances In the record where several people from one department attended a convention when perhaps on representative would have sufficed. It Is in areas such as this the Governor thinks some savings may be effected.

EXAGGERATION - It is not nnusual for public officials to greatly exaggerate estimates of savings that might be made if their pet scheme were adopted. Some years ago Governor Kerr Scott promised to save five million dollars by cutting out petty graft and waste in use of State stamps, stationery and telephones by employees. A check of the budget book showed that less than five million had been appropriated for the biennium for all these services. If they had been abandoned entirely the saving would not have been as much as promised.

Just a few days ago a spokesman for the Department of Public Instruction said the public

schools throughout the state were collecting some $40 million a year In feesin addition to ill the State and local taxes paid. Since there are some-thing less than a million and a quarter pupils enrolled In the public schools, that would mean about $35 In fees collected from every pupil In all grades, one through 12. That is patently absurd.

Governor Sanford has said he believes that Dave Coltrane, whom he transferred from director of administration, where he had official authority and responsibility, to a position of consultant In fiscal policy, where he has neither authority nor responsibility, can save the taxpayers some $15 million a year by cutting out waste. Every taxpayer will Join In the hope that prediction will pan outprovided the saving is achieved without serious detriment to service. The question inevitable arises, however, as to where Administration Director Coltrane and Ms associates were when such glaring waste of public money was b#ng perpetrated. When Governor Hodges persuaded the General Assembly to establish the Department of Administration his chief argument was that it would accomplish exactly the same purpose to which governor Sanford now looks to an off-side consultant.

PEPPER Some of these exaggerated claims of saving and of spending remind of the old stories about the prayer meetings that were held when food supplies ran scarce. There is the story about the old elder who had so much faith in the efficacy of prayer, who really believed he would get what he asked for in time of need. HL people were hungry and needed food. He called a prayer meeting to ask the Almighty for what was needed. He led the prayer, in which all the congregation was supposed to join. The elder prayed for good harvests of field crops, for good production of meat In the swine yard, for all the essential needs of balanced food.

As he got warmed up to the subject matter of his prayer he asked for needed meat and for barrels of com and barrels of flour, barrels of molasses and barrels of sugar and barrels of pepper. Then he caught him self and interjected Into his prayer the petition "Walt a minute. Lord, thats too damned much pepper.

Whether or not they realize it many of the folks who claim such great savings if their particular schemes are adopted are just asking for too damned much pepper.

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Kinston Is Developing A Tourist Attraction N

In our neighboring city of Kinston there has been undertaken a sort of community do-it-yourself effort to establish a historical tourist attraction.

W sje speaking, of course, of the efforts to raise the Confederate Ram Neuse sunk near Kinston during the Civil War. The old ship has been at its present resting place for the better part of a century, and its presence has been through the f^ears a well-known fact among Kinston residents.

Only now, however, has the community shown any appreciable interest in seeking to share this rather, unique historical item with the rest of the state . . and of course any out-of-state tourists who might like to come see it

In this era when historical attractions of all kinds are becoming so popular with the increasing number gy PATRICIA MOORE of tourists, many communities are looking with envy on those which have cultivated over a period of years attractions of a historical nature. Other communities like Kinston, are doing something positive by taking" something of historical value they have had all the

time and making it into a potential tourist attraction. iSe'nXlnX " Wng in'

No many Eastern Carolina communities have old formed about a very different 'ship.s lying at the bottom of their streams, but most king of art work, we wixh to of them have sites or items of historical value which ^ght^nment!^ could be made into genuine tourist attractions if some- Tj,ere ar two forms of this one took the trouble to dust them off and put them workyou could hardly call it in proper condition for public display. painting or any of the conven-

Kinston is setting a good example for other thTliiist^xnd we uS^

Eastern Carolina communities by taking a long- artist most loosely) takes some-

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ignored item of historical value and transforming it ^1*^* ^ke a buys from a

into a tourist attraction.

' Disunity

Stir Up

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON fAP) The Allies are a picture of disunity and confusion. They cant agree on how to deal with the Russians on Berlin, theyre miles apart on what to do about the Congo.

This is so much gravy for Premier Khrushchev. He began his rumpus on Berlin last June, kept It up a couple of months. By Septemoer the Allies were clearly split on how to handle him.

He quieted down then, has been quiet ever since, letting them wrangle. Driving a wedge between them may have been the most he ever hgjed to accomplish from creating the trouble in the first place.

Rich Katanga Province in the Congo, with its huge mineral resources. Is the economic backbone of the country. Without It the rest of the Congo Is sick. Katangas President Moise Tshnmbe pulled it out.

His native Katangese troops, who probably have no particular loyalty to Tshombc but are working for cash, are led by hired, white, outside professional soldiers, a band of mercenaries^

To restore peace the United Nations sent In troops to rout out the mercenaries. The United States backs this U>N. action.

The British. French and Belgians do not. Rich Britishers, FYenchmen and Belgians reportedly have enormous investments In the mines of Katanga.

This split sliowed up again Wednesday in the one place where It Is most embarrassing: at a meeting of the NATO foreign ministers. NATO Is the Western powers, military alliance against Russia.

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Secretary of State Dean Rusk, at the NATO meeting, assured this countrys 14 Allies It would never:

Bsrter away the war-won right of Western troops to* stay in Berlin, weaken free access to Berlin through Communist East Germany or permit damage to

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West Berlins economic and political freedom.

But he said the West must exhaust every chance of a peaceful solution to avoid the possibility of war with Russia. This means he thinks its a good idea at least to discuss the problems with the Russians.

smashes it and stomps on it. Then, without disturbing its position, the artist begins the painstaking task of gluing, screwing and hammering the pieces to a blackboard exactly as they fell on it after the destruction. ,

Then the artist may sell this valuable composition for^a very

handsome price, which has not been defined In dollars and cents for us, but handsome Is still handsome.

The second form of this work Is more frenzied and many people might regard it as being executed by someone possibly mentally and emotionally disturbed. We might be one of those people.

At any rate, the artist collects an assortment of carefully selected items and meticulously places them on a background. This is merely the beginning.

The items may include a shoe, a bunch of flowers, some fruit, an old pocketbook, and other things.

Then come the clinchers some plastic bags of oil paint and a rifle. (Thats right!) The artist puts the plastic bags of

Other Editors Saying... UN In Serious Trouble

The British agree. The West Germans are said to agree. But French President Charles de Gaulle apparently not only doesnt want any bargaining, he doesn't even want any talking.

He thinks even discussing Berlin with the Russians is a show of weakne.ss. Rusk says patience is not weakness. This back-and-forth bit could go on and on.

The point is that six months after Khrushchev first stirred up the Berlin trouble, the Allies are at sixes-and-sevens.

There was a time before De Gaulle came to power that the United States could pretty well call the shots. De Gaulle, who has made a career of being his own man, is demonstrating he will decide for himself.

'This is all very impres.^ive. But Khrushchev, in the next moves he makes, will .show whether its also very practl-cal. The allied disunity is an encouragement to him to push his luck a little harder.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

A serious question has arisen concerning the United Nations organization. How effective is the U.N. as a world body, and can it continue to survive without the support it needs? For example, during its recent operations in the Congo. Britain and France have disagreed sharply over the goals of U.N. policy there, and Britain has gone, so far as , to withhold a supply of bombs far U.N. planes until it receives a satisfactory answer from the U.N. on this question.

Under these conditions how can the U.N. hope to continue a successful guardianship of

world peace if its own charter members question its motives?^ On the other hand, what slip-' page of deliberative macMnery caused the U.N, to embark on the Congo operation to begin with unless Britain approved it at the time? And if the British originally approved U. N.

operations in the Ongo. 'what has since caused London to

change its mind?

At this time the . N. is practically broke and heading for bankruptcy, according to

_ Acting Secretary - General U ^ Thant. He has estimated the I U.N. j-ear-end deficit in 20 days will total $107 million and that by next June 30 it will be around i $170 million, with only $40 million collections In sight for the next six months. Why is this?

For one thing, the entire Soviet bloc of 10 countries, as well as France, South Africa and Portugal, have refused to pay Congo charges ordered by the General Assembly to be paid at the same rate as the regu

lar U.N. budget. Under such circumstances we caji easily see that future U.N. military operations against agression will be practically impossible,, for there will always be a clique in the U. N. that will refuse to pay the costs QL,8Uch military functions.

And if the U.N. is impotent, militarily, and financially in the red, how can one expect the whole world body to maintain any semblance of respect and Influence? A tattered and bankrupt agency has little to say aboct what more affluent personages can and cannot do.

There is a serious question about whether these recalcitrant nations can refuse to pay their assessed share of the Congo operations. The General Assembly has indeed asked the World Court for an opinion whether the Soviet and these other feet-draggers have the right to refuse payment. As members they should be required. Otherwise they ^uld be kicked out.

Thai Britain should question U.N. motives In sending military units into the Congo is sufficient action to seriously impair further U.N. successes in that savage conflict. Britain wants to know what is going on in Katanga. So would everyone else, including the U.N. Its that kind of controversy, complex, Intricate and interwoven.

But its up to the U.N. to determine the problems and then ascertain whether It has Jurisdiction over such a controversy as that in Katanga. If it does, then Britain and all the other members should support such a move. If not, the U. N. should stay out.

Hardly a progressive step Is taken that someones toes aren't stepped on.-Richmond County Journal.

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paint above the Items on the background, stands back a few paces, lifts the rifle and begins to fire.

Bang, bang, bang and bang right on.

The artist shoots the plastic bags and paint streams down over the selection of items and there is a work of art.

The artist in this case believes the moment of truth in the creation is the destruction. There is beauty in death and destruction, in war. The one moment when the art Is most fully realized is when the trigger of the gun is pulled and the paint streams down. At no other time will It be the same.

Thats fine. We saw this with our own eyes during a program on TV the other night and since GreenvUle is an art-interested town, we though perhaps some who didnt see this might be slightly interested to know about it.

However, we always had the Impression that art is something beautiful and lasting, something the painter creates of himself and wMch others may seek to enjoy because of the creativity by means of talent. Naturally tastes differ and people enjoy different things in art. At least thats what we always thought.

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Opinions In Brief

So much is said these days about the Radical Rights in the Republic that it may be useful to state the paradoxical fact: There is really no such thing In the USA as an historical Right.. Richmond News Leader.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT

Copyright, 1961. King Features Syndicate, Inc.

According to a report In the New York Herald Tribune, Herbert Matthews, an editor of The New York Times, who in a large measure was rebpon-slble for the acceptance of Cas-pro by the United States as the savior of Cuba, said, when Castro declared himself to be a Marxist; .

I dont believe anything he uys. Hes fantastic, incredible.

Today Castro may believe hes a Communist, but ^tomorrow be may believe sometMng else. I dont think you can give him a label. Hes too wUd. too discM'gaiilzed.

This is not what Herbert Matthews said when he inddctrinat-ed Ambassador Earl E.T. Smith. Smith was instructed to take o lessons from Matthews In Cuban affairs upon his appointment. It was unusual for a diplomat to be instructed by a newspaperman: nevertheless that is what Smith was told to do. When he discovered that Castro was a Communist, Smith so notified the State Department but his notification was ignored and he was set aside. Now Smiths judgement has been verified by Castrof himself and it is clear beyond doubt that Castro Is a Communist. Matthews now admits that he may have made some slips in his judgement of Castro, but has he ever apologized to Ambassador Smith for his attitude toward ' the diplomat or is he. like his newspaper wMch does not admit error? Ambassador Smith* was rejected by Switzerland because of his difficulties with The New York Times, an error of Judgement that will never be forgotten by this Administration and by many Americans. We all make mistakes in the course of a lifetime of writing but he is indeed guilty of evil Intent who will not admit error under any circumstances.

Matthews takes the position that if Castro is indeed a Marxist, "he is going to be a very bad and unruly one. This is, of course, a sentence of no significance. If Castro is a Marxist, as he now says that he is, . it does not matter whether he is bad or unruly. What doe.s matter is that he has become a peril to the United States. According to the Herald Tribune account Matthews said:

(Castro is) the most dangerous person to the United States who has ever arisen in the history of the Western Hemisphere.

This is true but this is not what he said to Earl E.T. Smith when he indoctrinated the Am-bassadorJior is it what he wrote in The New York Times when his articles were influencing Americans to support Castro. Nor is it what he wrote in his book on Cuba. Too late, Herbert Matthews had discovered that his protege is a man of evil; too late has he discovered that his support of Castro has been a betrayal of American Interests.

Our only comment can be that It is most unfortunate when so-called authorities lack the depth of understanding and lead us In incorrect directioois. It makes one wonder how often D happens. Certainly, it must be said that the articles that Walter Dunmty wrote about Soviet Russia at the beginning of the Revolution have not been justi-field by the course of events.

It would be Interesting to study the activities of the CIA during the past four years to discover whether what was told to the President and the State Department has at all been correct. Certainly, too many errors have been made and we have no explanation who made them or why. The Katanga activities of the United Nations are queer and are without ex--planatlon. That picture requires better explanation than we have had. Certainly, we do not know enough about the Katanga situation to justify an opinion as to what program-concerning Katanga is correct.

Much needs to be disclosed and understood before we close our minds. Surely, we do not know enough to understand why so great a fuss Is made over little Albania. Nor is it clear why the troubles in the Dominican Republic have developed into such a serious revolution. How much of the Dominican trouble* are manufactured by Castro; how many of them ara (Continued on Page 0)

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Season

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NATURE OF TRUE REFORM

On one occasion Jesus told of two men who went up into the temple to pray. One was' a Pharisee and the other a publican. The Pharisee thanked God that he was not as other men. The publican beat his breast and cried, Ood be merciful to me a sinner. Jaaus declared that the publican went down to his house justified rather than the Pharisee.

Let us guard against trying to reform our nelghboix before we have reformed ourselves. The Pharisee looked around about hlmsrlf and was pleased by the contrast which be observed to exist favorably between himself and others^^e publican, on the dlher hand||||x>ked only into his heart.

Give a cold and appraising

stare to those people whose primary idea In life is to remodel society. Very often these people who spend so much time talking about the necessity of making the world over are only trying to hide from themselves and others the fact that they need such a transformation right within their own chara-ters. The world certainly needs to be reformed, but the only people who have the alightest

chance In the world of reforming It are the people who have reformed themselves. The kingdom of God begins in our own

hearts and extends to the fur

thest reaches of heaven. Reform begins in our own lives and goes out to society. We should distrust any proposed reform which does not follow this pattern. ' The world can only be re

formed by reformed men.

By ELMER ROESSNER Its a strajige and wild toy market this Christmas season.

There has been a tremendous rise In production of higher priced toys; that is those costing from $10 to $49. One reason is the great interest In electronic. automated and motorized toys; the other is the greater ability of parents and uncles to pay for toys in these higher price ranges.

Toy merchandising, more than almost any other line, has become a* donnybi^ook in prlci^. Despite what the toy industry has done to level out demand throughout the jrear. with promotions of toys at Easter and other give days, an enormous part of the induatrys consumer sales are still eing made between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Eve.

TV A THIRD FACTOR Another basic is the role of televlalon, a media on which cer-tain toys, usually in the higher brackets, are artfully (temon-strated oo the rdceivlng bets to

the end that parents are kid-pressured into buying the, gtr&og-est. highest mark-up toys.

Over the last 10 years, the median price of toys has constantly gone up. Personal income has geen rising, and toy manufacturers, naturally, have been trying to fill the gap, just like the maker of every other product and the purveyor of every other service.

People have more money; why shouldn't toy makers get their share?

However, that pricing scramble has led to a new complex. Makers are asking not. "How much is this toy worth? but How much can retailers get for it?

WHICH LIST?.

Thats a broad question ba-because department storea. toys stores, discount houses, cooperative outlets, supermarkets, flowwr shops, 30-day sidewalk vender and mKu-or-der houses are all selling toys this yearas well is . newsstands, card shop, drug stora.

five-and-dimes and anybody else with an urge for a (juick profit, fit.

A friend, seeking a toy that had been exploited on TV, went to four outlets and found the toy with Ust prloet raiiging from $19.95 to $24.95, and each outlet offered a different discount. He found that the department store, not the discount house, offered the biggest discount and the lowest prioe. But. he found, there were toys in the other shops that were lower than the department stores price.

TELEVISION PQUCING

Meanwhile, the National Asan-^Uon of Broadcasters is trying-to keep toy demonstrations from kidding the kids. Of 97 commercials submitted, 47 were found to be under standard. Four were ruled off and the other 43 revised. However, commercials made earlier than last June were not subject to this acniUny.

By the time the Federal Trade CcanmlsHlon, the. Federal Communications Commission and

Better Business Bureaus get around to looking Into toy promotions, Chrifitmas will be over.

However, it appears that price-cutting competition among toy outlets has caused many to over-buy. This wlU lead to even deeper cuts after Christmas and, in many (^ases, dunvptng unsold toys for whatever they will bring.

Happy are the lads and lassies whose birthdays oome in January!

CREDIT CARD BUSINESS NOT, WELL. BOOMING

Todays issue of Forbea Magazine reporta that of the three leading credit card oompaniea, HUton and American Expresa lost money in ftseai 1961. The Diners Club. It reports, la still msklng moDsy, but earnings per share have inade UtUe progress since 1958, and for the first half of the currtol fiscal year were running 30 per cent behind 1960.

Forbes says Diners*, wants to buy out rivals at banralti prices, but antitrust laws may naake It difficult.