Monday, June 4, 1962 v

9

Nothing New In Refresher Courses

In spite of the eyebrows that might have been crally a conscientious desire on the part of those raised about the courjes in English Grammar and men and women who preside in the classrooms to Western Civilization to be given public school be in a position to give the best possible instruction teachers of the state beginning this fall, going back to their charges.

to school _is nothing now for tho men and women in recent years businesses and other professions who usually stand at the front of the classroom. have taken a page from the teachbrs book and have More than their counterparts in other profes- been sending executives and employes back to sions, teachers generally are updating their formal school for various kinds of study. But in this respect, education from year to year by, returning to the business is far behind the teaching profession. And classrooms as students during vacations or after- yet there are few businesses that dont give their school hours. They have been doing it for years. salesmen and other personnel special courses from One reason, obviously, is the realization among time to time. Not that they dont think their person-tcachers that what they may have learned in ihe *^<'1 i^* doing a good job, but rather they are confi-classrooTOS years ago is not In itself adequate for dent that a chissroom refresher course will enable their instruction of youngsters today. It reflects gen- their personneTto do an even better job.

, As for North Carolina providing this new series

Willina

Bureaucrats Arise!

VWmtETHE federalN Power

(under ike)^tood IDLV By, TOr/A/-ELECTfHC ENEkCy U^E IN THE U>S. NCfEA$El> ATA fANTASr/C ^

AArpr

To Wait

For Hiaher Roac.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

PARKWAY - Present poUcy of the NationalPark service is that it is willing to wait, if wait it must, as long as necessary to get the high route it wants across Grandfather Mountain. gPark Sen lcc director Conrad Wirth made it clear that he will accept nothing less than right of way that would swing over the 5,939-foot mountain at a point elevation of 4.640 feet Including a tunnel under Pilot Ridge.

Unless this Is obtained, there Is no indication that the Park Serrice will act on finishing the final 11-miJe link in the Blue Ridge Parkway now blocked by the long coitrpversy over the Grandfather Mountain routing.

Wirth is willing to wait. He aaid as much several times in his hour-long presentation to the State Highway Commission In presenting the renewed request for right of way for the high route. His opponent. Hugh Morton of Linville and Wilming-tcHi and the owner of Grandfa-iher Mountain, said he felt Wirth was counting on com-promlse but there was nothing In what Wirth said to indicate

It._

FEUD Morton Is fighting again the Insistence of the Park Service that it must have the high route to maintain the high standards of aesthetic values, superior views and engineering desired for the entire length of the 477-mile Parkway.

Wirth asked for the opportunity to make the presentation to the Highway commission which would have to act to acquire the right of way by condemnation and against Mortons opposition. Morton was given equal time to speak.

Morton and Wirth have been fighting the battle over the Grandfather Mountain right of way for years, and both came well prepared.

Wirth brought a number of colored maps, photographs with superimposed lined, a couple of large scale models of sections of Grandfather Mountain and a piece of string.

Morton came armed with a slide projector, a huge screen erected on the stage of the highway building auditorium, colored slides and a pungent phrase.

They shook hands, and then had It out.

As far as I am concerned tterc Is no feud, but every time the National Park service tries to run over me there is going to be a fight, Morton said. Whether it is a fight or a feud, he (Wirthi started it Wirth touched a nerve with his statement that unless the high route Is obtained, he favors continuing to use the existing U, S. 221, the crooked, winding old Yonahla.ssee Trail, for parkway traffic until some time In the future when a settlement, Involving other parties, is possible.

If it Is obtained, he said, the Blue Ridge Parkway started back in 1933 -r can be completed by 1966 or 1967 and added, we are quite pleased about

It. Virginias sections of the Parkway* he said, are completed except for the Roanoke bv-pass which is under contract. Grandfather Mountain apparently Ls the only remaining roadblock.

If we cannot do It <now> on the standards we <The Park Service have set. lets use the standards the state has set, Wirth said.

ARGUMENTS Morton re-minded his audience that his grandfather, Hugh McRae, built the old Yonahlassee Trail for stagecoaches between Linville and Blowing Rock back in 1889 and 1892 at a cost of only $14,000 and that the road, with a blacktop service and stabilizing, has been satisfactory ever since. It Is crooked, he COTceded, but also is scenic and It is actually higher than any of the Parkways first ^ miles. He contended that it or another middle route just about It. on which right of way was obtained In 1939 could be used.

He produced evld^ence to support a claim that the U. S. Bureau of Public Roads has never made a study of either of the lower routes for possible use, and that the reason was that the Park Service never asked for such data.

Morton ^claims flatly that the Park Service has designs to steal Grandfather Mountain. He hinted too that It has designs on Mt. Mitchell, highest In Eastern North Carolina.

Wirth used his piece of string, pulled to dispute Mortons claim that the high route would detract from the scenic attraction. He pulled it down on jthe scale model to Indicate that at only one point couldt he proposed Parkway link even be seen from Mortons M11 e-High Swinging Bridge on the heights. He used the photographs of other sections of the Parkway to support his claim that the road would neither mar the natural beauty nor scar the face of Mortons mountain.

STANDOFF - Morton caUed some of Wirths figuring sleight of hand. He used his slides to show the massive, rugged w'ildemess character of Grandfather and then employed the phase he had been saving.

To cut a road across the face of Grandfather, he said, would ' be like taking a switchblade to the Mona Lisa.

Morton dislikes the catch phrase, and debated for hours the night before the hearing whether to use that one. Finally, because he felt it was emphatic and appropriate, he put it in his repertoire^ ''

And in his formal statement, Morton pleaded for support against the waiting policy of the Park Service for some action to change the Park Ser-bice's position. After 23 years, he said, it was time to act.

If he I Wirth learns once and for all that the state Is tired of foolishness, and I think that he will, then maybe he will get dowTi to business completing the Parkw^ay. We In North Carolina have done our part. Now let u.s see the National Park Service do theirs.

of courses for its classroom teachers, we commend the State .Board of Education for providing this additional instruction for teachers in the public school. At the same time we commend the teachers of the state for their willingness to cooperate in the program in order to do a better job in the class-room.

Some citizens may be tempted to jump at the conclusion that the teachers are having to go back to school themselves because of their lack of qualifications to teach. More mature consideration of the matter, in our opinion, is bound to bring the conclusion that it stems not from inadequacies on the part of teachers, but rather from the determination among the people in the education profession to give our youngsters the advantage of the best can be offered during their years in the classrooms.

Action Shoul(in't Be Inspired By Politics

For weeks and month.sand perhaps for yars By GEORGE SOKOLSKY economists will be talking of the gyrations tbat ^

have taken place on the stock market in recent days. \ A / O Za T'f T T \ A /

They will come up with varying explanations V V C J I /\ VI I \/^ V V V* )l C

of the cause and effect of the sharp decline, dra- xx l j v

S;'.iT.'ZS " .T r;T

Tiwi 4.U i. -11 t- -X X- Whenever one says: But why

W hue the economists will have interesting ex- not w'ar?, the conservation

planations of what caused the drastic market flue- freezes. War is a very dirty

tuations and what it means to the American econo- moment.

my, explanation.^ piven by politicians probably will American1?ws TnTSaUaid:

prove even more interesting if not as enlightening, war in Indonesia, a concentra-

The stock market and business conditions fion of troops in West Berlin,

throughout the United States have ceased to be a .J^^ses in foreign

__ ^ . X. XT- X rr-1 lands, missile bases all over

problem of concern only to the economists. Thev the world.

have become primary political factors that no office But there is no war, in fact.

holder or prospective office helder can overlook. supposed to believe that

Indeed, on more than one occa.sion economic con- peacrBufSfere\VTacel ciitions have been a prime issue in elections. More our budget for 1962-63 is a war than that, this factor figures in almost every election budget and we would be jus-campaign from the district and state level up to a.ssuming that the war

the national level. "S'

It is only natural to expect, therefore, that the Surely, on thts most pressing politicians will have just a. much, if not more, to problem, we need to be realis-say about the dramatic shifts in the stock market admit what ac-

recently than will the economist.^. Certainly we mav tHc rSson that it Is possible expect from both the economists and the politicians for politicians- to assume that a wide range of viewpoints on the subfect. The view- war does nc^ extst is that the

points of the politicians, at least, might be reflected ".Y F

+1, X- J 1 I forent methods and by differ- ful to relieve them of the fear

in partisan action both in ihe executive and legisla-

tive branches of the government as m'^easures affecting the nations economy are considered.

Whatever government action comes as a result of the stock market gyrations, we trust thev will be the product of sound economic considerations rather than political considerations.

ent weapons. For Instance, the Russians spent - a month exploding hydrogen bombs and now we are doing the same thing, in the name of science,-Actually, this is a form of battle, each side saying to the other, Look what Ive got, "Look what I can do.

It is this curious war which overlays the world like a cloud. Every act of government is affected by it. Each government gauges the strength, at the moment. of the opposing sides. Presently, for Instance, de Gaulle believes that he can restore France to be the central nation of Europe that Is, West-em Europe, which has so long been dependent upon the United States. The great success of the Common Market leads the Western European countries to believe that they can free themselves from economic and political dependence upon the United States and at the same time

Other Editors Saying ... Air Force Case

xiie

J: actors in me Stock Decline

The Da3y Reflector

INCORPORATED

Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday Established 1882 DAVID JULIAN WHICHARD. Publisher

Ekitered at Post Office, Oreenvllle, N. C.. u second elaa mail matter.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier (In Towns) _ Week 30c

By Carrier (Motor Routes) 35r

BY MAIL, Payable In Advanc^c

Greenville Po.>t Office, Pitt County, Robersonvllle, Vanceboro

Washington and Chocoulnity.

Six Months ..........................

One Year ........................

North Carolina (other than listed above)

Three Months ..... ......

Six Months ........................

One Year ........

Plus 3% N C Sales Tax All Other Outside North Carolina

Three Months .......................

Six Months ........................

One Year

MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS

rhe Associated Press is exclusively entitled to use itx publication all news dispatches credited to it or not otl^nwisd credited to this paper and also the local news pumlshed herein Ah rights of publication of special dispatches bera are siso reserved

By RALPH ROBEY

It was inevitable that in time we would have a decline of prices on the New York Stock Exchange. But what has happened is more than had been expected, at least by most persons.

As measured by the Dow-Jones industrial average the high of the market was last December 13, at just under 73.5, Following that, the market ju.st jiggled around and on March 15 it was 724. The average is now more than 100 points below its high, and there is no assurance that the liquidation is over, although we should have a rally before the market falls much more.

The two great que.stions are, why has the market had such a break and what is the significance?

Among the factors causing the decline the following are important;

The market was extrarordin-arily high. Yields on common stocks ,were well below those on top grade bonds, and when one can get more from a United States Bond than from the shares of an indu.strial company he has fair warning that a correction can not be too far away. In relation to eaniings, too. Stock prices were far above

historical .standards, and that does not indicate a sound, or lasting, market average.

The bu.siness recovery isproceeding at a much slower pace than had been forecast, and profits continue to be squeezed. Many persons, in fact, are convinced that we either already have reached the peak of aggregate corporate profits for this recoveiT. or are on the verge of the peak. This obviously is not conducive to higher and higher stock prices.

There is a widespread belief that the pre.sent Administration is anti-business. This feeling, of course, was aggravated by the manner in w-hich the President handled the attempt to increase steel prices. Whether there Is adequate justification for such a characterization of the Ad-minLstration is largely beside the point in so far as the behavior of the stock market is concerned. The mere existence of this feeling creates a disinclination to hold common stocks, and in many Instances a refusal to, add to ones portfolio.

As to the .significance of the decline, the big que.sfion is whi'ther this is forecasting an end of the recovety and another recession. In the judgement <Continued on page .six

(Kinston Free Pres.s)

In a meeting in Goldsboro this week representatives of the Air Forces Tactical Air Command Headquarters answered for Rep. David Henderson and a group of citizens questions that have arisen relative to the agencys need for high-level practice bombing range between Lake Mat-tamuskeet and the Alligator River in Hyde County.

First, the Air Force needs the area because it is the best for its high-level practice runs within a 200-mile radius of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base. Some 21 potential sites have been studied. The area in Hyde County is best be-cau.se flight patterns of commercial planes would not be involved, as would be the case if an area further inland were secured.

Second, the question of usage of the Navy and Marine target areas already established is unfeasible because they are now in use one hour a day. and the Navy and Marine Corps cannot spare them for further periods. The Navy range off Stumpy Point is a sunken ship which does not provide the Air Force and its pilots with a realistic range situation.

Third, the question of wildlife molestation was refuted. The range management program would provide for greater abundance of wildlife, rather than less. The bombs used in>practice are no larger than .shotgun .shells, hence would can.^^e only smoke dis

plays and no heavy detonations. The Navy range near Pea Island on the Outer Banks is about the same distance as the proposed range would be from Mattamuskett. There has been an increa.se In wildlife on Pea Island, because of management programs, and there has been no adverse effect from Navy practice bombings.

The Air Force further pointed out that there w'ould be no fire hazard, since a helicopter would supervise all practice bombing and be re^dy to extinguish any small fires that might occur. The area would be aided ecbnomically by employment of some 12 civilians with a yearly payroll of some $50,000. The urgency of the need is evident from the fact that pilots now' have to rotate their service to Nellis Air Force Ba.se, Nevada, every six months to keep up-to-date in their practice. If a suitable range cannot be located in the, area, the unit at Goldsboro may have to move where such facilities would be available.

The case is a strong one for the Air Forces side of the is-.sue. Since there is no evidence that wildlife in the area would be molested, it would be helpful if a satisfactory site can be secured and set aside for thj.s important practice range. Surely Ea.stern Carolina, which has benefitted so much from the TAC headquarters unit at Goldsboro should be able to supplement this 24-hour protection of the East coa.sf with an adequate practice range.

of conquest by Russia. '

Thus the current phase of a prolonged war is being fought by new and unusual physical and political means and w'e need to adjust our minds to that reality.

Had the United States served its original purpose, it might have been able to force this war into a debate within its halls. But the United Nations is actually a weaker body than the League of Nations w'as. Perhaps it is the diffusion of power which comes from having too many members and too many groups; perhaps It i.s due to the age which sems to breed inefficiency. But it seems quite clear that the United Nations is not the place to settle the major issue of war.

Nor do Summit Conferences lessen the war activities of the conten^iing nations. Beginning with Teheran (1943) and continuing to this very moment. Summit Conferences have occurred or have been planned.

Only at the Sumniit Conferences can some agreements be reached minimizing the cost and consequences of the present war. Thus far, the Summit Conferences have failed to accomplish anything of value, largely because of Russian stubbornness. This stubbornness Ls produced by Russians success-e.s. Should Russia encounter failure, the Russians might become more willing to make concessions.

But these concessions can only be temporary because the Russians dare not move too fan from their evangelical purpose which 5 that all the w'orld rnust sooner or later be subverted to Marxism,

Wars for territory are easy to describe but psychological wars are often beyond understanding. They suffer from a fanaticism which reduces humanity to a theory and one side or the other plunges into methods which they themselves abhor. The goal is so clear that the means seem trifling, as long as they seem to be pragmatically efficient. There can be neither law nor morals in such a situation.

This is our present situation but it is very, very bad manners to talk about It in such tenn.s. No, indeed! One calls It peace and bombs are exploded for scientific advancement. Also the astronauts circle the Earth In pursuit of pure .science! "Also we are going to the moon with the same objective. Peace! Aint It wonderful!

It Is because we find it so pleasurable to tease ourselves into believing the best, I suppose that is w'hy marijuana is becoming such a business. However, we need to face facts as they are and live accordingly. We are at war with the Soviet Universal State. Our enemies

(Continued on page six)

Future

Aid To Brains

By ROGER BABSON ^ BABSON PARK. Maas., There la much criticism by taxpayers of the amounta that are spent on education. In almost every school committee some one or more members insist that education has not increased In efficiency and in reducing cost per capita. I. myself, feel that my grandchildren go through almost the same educational routine aa 1 did fifty years ago. I am no educator, but according to by reckoning my grandchildren are obliged to spend twelve years learning what I g(rt in ten years.

THE BRAIN

A PHYSICAL ORGAN The brain may be basichlly no different from the heart, or the stomach, or the liver. Certainly the brain Is made up of physical cells. When something Is the matter with our stomach,

the doctor gives us capsules to help remedy the difficulty. This sort of treatment, however, ha.s seldom been used for retarded children. Only in a few cases has a physician been called In to help retarded children.

It Ls now recognized that the difficulty with a retarded child iimay be his eyesight, or his hearing, or some other physical Impairment. Hence, the child is given glasses, or possibly a hearing aid. We are also attempting to help these children psychologically. These are steps that have only recently been taken; but good results are being secured by these aids. Such work needs the en-. couragement of every school committee and every parent.

DNA AND RNA The real purpose of this weeks column is to call attention to the wonderful possibilities of these new chemicals in connection with education :DNA, w'hich stands for deoxyribonucleic add; and RNA, which stands for ribonucleic acid. These are two new and very important chemicals which the drag companies are carefully studying. Also such companies as dePont of Wilmington, Del., and the American C!yanamld Company of New York, which owns the Lederle Laboratories. These companies are endeavoring to solve the genetic connection between two chemicals (perhaps male and female) w'hich may lead to the origin and continuity of life, through the synthetic develpment of cells. Work on this is being done In conjunction with the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases at Be-thesda, Maryland. They hope the work can result in the manufacture of specific proteins, one of lifes most complex and Important molecules which appear in all living cells of tho brain. It is believed that DNA is material of which the cells of genes arid chrom(^omes are composed.

DNAs function Is to transmit genetic intelligence from one generation to Ihe -next. They make up a template or mold. This mold Is supposed to carry these specifications on to RNA, the messenger that in turn directs the manufacture of protein necessary for education and life. This Is done In a way similar to the dots and dashes in the Morse Code spelling out over 10,(XX) meaningful words from only 26 letters of the alphabet. I short, every child has the equivalent of 26 letters, but the childs future depends on the arrangement of these letters (or molecules).

PROPER FEEDING OF THE RETARDED It Is believed that the childs system might be directed to produce normal brain cells or perhaps even bril|iant brain cells. These experiments may lead to the possibility that educators w'iU combine psychology with chemistry and use of TV. My grandchildren may be given capsules as part of their education, or they may be exposed to seeing proper TV programs from the time they are three days old. This may seem revolutionary, but I believe It will happen to give us better memory and Judgment!

When this time comes, teachers will have no trouble obtaining increased salaries because taxpayers will recognize that the efficiency of education is increasing while the cost per capita Ls being reduced. DNA and RNA and TV may do for education what |ertlllzers are doing for agriculture. These chemicals may enable all students (not only the re-(Continued on page six)

m

iDtrength tor loday

ncle Sam

Was

oser

$87#

By EARL L. DOFGLA.S.S

7 00 -

REFLE(TION ON AN

1300

L\1 PORTAN I M AH ER

Whal Ls culture?

1 4.00

There rare a few lidiculous

7A0

people in ihe world wliu* Ik'-

14.00

lieve it has to do primarily

witli accent, and they m a k e

themsehes ricluculous by tjyiiig

t iM

loftily to act and talk like the

d.00

people whom tliey regard as

15 00

cultured. Culture Ls .something

NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENT ATIVBt rhntnas F Clark" Co. Inc. New York. Chicago Atlanta Member Audit Bureau of Circulation

All advertising copy must be received at least one day t>efore publication date.

va.stlv more than accent. The world cuituie" comes from a Latin woi^d which means to cultivate. It Involves lefinement of taste, but it extends beyond that to include the achievements and learning which cctain races, nations, and groups have built up. We speak of Greek 'culture, Roman cultuVr, Gei-F manic culture. We are cif-ating a culture in Uie inodei'n nations in wliich we liVe. and thi.s culture will someday stand to he judged before the bar of his

tory.

What k'lhd of culuire are we really l)iiUdiii{.- in Ihi.s Norlh Auiencan eiununnient? We are rich tieyoiul the dreains ol antiquity. We have curniort.s which alJ the nche.s of former cultures could not have been piucha.s-ed. We hope W(* are not as savage as were our foielx'ars,, yei two World Wars give us a jolt froni which we find it hard to lecoecr.

bur scientilie knowledge is prodigious and magnificent. We have higher aspirations for ourselves and the world than pre-v.ous generations have had. We have not ve. uroduced a cul ture we arc in the procr.ss here in North America of pro ducing one.

Whal will It l)c like'.^ Will it stand up well with the culture.s of Greede. Roinr'. atrd the European Rcin'i.'^saucc?

Heres something to think about.

By ELMFK ROK.SSNER

The bigge.st single losei In the .-^lock market .slide w'as yonr Uncle Sam. The total sk'id in values a week ago today was e.srimated $20.8 billion.

There i.- j way to tell how much of t. lo.s.ses were realized by selling depreciated .shares: there i.s no way to tell how much of the realized los5e es were capital los.ses. Assume that the realized losses weie $1 billion, and that h^ of them came out of capital. The Treasurys loss would then he a Toss ot $125 000,000 in potential taxes un eapit?! gain.s.

"Wait a minuie!-you say. "The market bounced back. V.ont that mean taxable capital gains?

Some day. perhaps. But not , "I'iil ih' u ' >ije r.'*aliz"d. Of couivsc.. those who play for quick profits will be liable for ordinary Income taxes.

States, too, will 4osc in income taxes, inheritance taxes and, where losses slop investors

from buying at retail. In sales laxe.s. Kenneth L. Cowan, director of New Hamp.shires State 'Tax Comml.s.sioci inlieritance di-\i.-iion. estimates that that state alone lo.st $2.50,(XK) on the Monday .slump.

CO.NCiHE.KS. SEC. FED ALI. MAV .AIT QI K KLA'

That Thiiig in the stock market la.st week is likely to speed Congressional action in tightening up law.s governing the sale of shares. The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Re.'^erve are already reexamining rules and regulations and may do a bit of tiphte'nitig themselves,

The S. E. C. has been conducting - an investigation of brokers practices siqcc last September, w'hen Congress appropriated .$7.50.()(K) for a study, with a deadline set for Jan. 3, 1962.

The S.EC ) $200-.

0')0 more and an xtciusion until

ApiiL liMi

The investigation, under the direction of Milton H. Cohen, has been conducted In a leave u.s not rock the boat" atmo.s-pheie. While .sensational facts have been uncovered, that has been done slowly and with an eye to avoiding headlines. FA.MILIES GET RIC H

For instance, it was brought out that families of several partners in a New York brokerage firm made handsome profits on advance information on stock that was touted in a market letter sponsored by the firm.

Iri another instance, strange, practices in the sales of mutual funds were gently brought to light. Many funds had little or no training for salesmen, it was disclosed. There was a great turn over in part-time salesmen.

Brokers pfactices wcre also looked into. There w'as little check on qualifications; one witnc.s.s told of hiring a convicted larccnist as a salesman. IROFirS FROM INSIDE DUPE

Other testimony showed some dealers and salesmen made personal profit from Inside information they did not pass on to customers.

However, the Inquiry did lead to changes In the American Stock Exchange, although the New York district attorney had already started an investigation into cases there.

Because of stock market tumble, and because of the growing belief that the little investors, who have more votes than the big ones, were taken to the cleaners. It is probable that many Congressmen will move into the situation. Representative Wright Patman (D., Tex.), chairman of the House-Senate Joint Economic Committee, has already advanced the date for # its investigation of stock market practices.

In addition, there may be a lot of sleeping headlines in the s. E. C. study which ipany Congressmen w'ould like to wake up this election year.