Friday, June 22 1962

Year-Round School Use Is Growing

It Proves He Loves M

, While many chang.es he taken place in the obtainiiiK tfT^^formal education they will need irt field of education in recent years, perhaps one of later years.,Mote so than in previous years there

the more significant changes is the move to great** seems now to be a greater urgency on the part of er year-round utilization of school facilities. young people to get their formal education behind

On both the public school and the college level, them so they can move into the work-a-day world.

summer school enrollment has grown rapidly and most part the youngsters Recognize not

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the variety of courses offered during summer sessions has likewise been expanded.

There was a time not many years ago when summer sessions on both the public school and college levels were lo(?ked upon as make-up*' sessions for students who had fallen behind in their work during regular school terms. Now summer

only the need for college training, but likewise the need for graduate work in an increasing number of fields of employment.

The transition which has taken place in summer sessions of school in the past decade is, in our opinion, a factor in improving the quality of education on both tli^ high school and college levels.

schools generally are conducted more to enable t^Q^^Jli^^stions about the fact that great-

studcnts to do advanced work than to provide a period for making up work missed in other regula? terms.

On the high school and college levels, summer sessions have liecome increasingly popular. Manv high school student'! use summer sessions to gel in

er utilization of the summer months by schools helps to overcome some*of the problems involved in crowd-ed classrooms and other facilities during the regular school terms.

It may be' years yet before summer school enrollment even "on the college level approaches thnt

more coui-ses ihiriiip Ihcir Iiiyh school careers than "f he regular school term, hut the gap is being would he possil.le if they attended only regular '<''=^<1 " each passing >-ear.

school terms from late fall to early spring. An in

creasing number of college students look upon class attendance as a year-round job rather than a job for nine months out of the year. More and mor*^ students are using summer schools to enable them to complete the normal four-year college course in three calendar years.

As education requirements for the many kinds of jobs increase, it is natural to expect that more and more young people take a greater interest in

Criticism Important Only If Constructive

Where Are

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Grads

me Goina?

By WILLL\.M K, SHIRES GRADUATES This being June a n d Commencement month, ulth thousands of young men and women receiving diplomas and saying farewells to

al state-supported college as th^ fourth boy. it is a school strategically located in the geographic division of the stale in which the to^^-n is located, and the college is less than 100 miles

high school classmates before go- from the students home touTi.

ing out into the world, it is perhaps fitting to take a look as to where they are going.

A study was made of the stated intentions of the graduating seniors of a typical small town North Carolina high school. It gives fair indication that immediate employment opportunities for high school graduates, even the most promising and talented, is severely limited-. It further indicates that only a small percentage of both boys and girls in the graduating class plan to go to college More than two thirds of each sex have immediate plans that do not include furthering their education. These plans ranged from marriage to indefinite.

SCHOOL For purposes of the report, the school and the town will not be identified.

It Is typical of dozens of smaller North Carolina towns located in predominantly agricultural areas vith little if any local industry. There are only one or two majbf industrial plants anywhere in the immediate vicinity, There is no college or university within 30 miles.

There were 34 graduates in the senior class this June with 15 boys and 19 girls.

The valadlctorian, a boy, will go to North Carolina State College in September. The saluta-torian. a girl, will enroll at Womans College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro.

COLLEGES - The plans for college by the valedictorian and the salutatorian of the senior class were the exception rather than the rule for the majority of graduates.

Barely 25 per cent of the boys had plans fpr college and only 30 per cent of the girls listed plans to go to college.

Three of the boys signified Intentions to attend North Carolina Stateone of them specified the school of agriculture.

Only one other of the 15 boys listed an intention to go to college. He planned to attend another state-supported school. Not one of the 15 boys had plans to attend a private or church-ipportrd college or University.

One of the girls planned to attend the. same co-education-

Seven of the 19 gills listed plans for College. One of these is a technical school rather than a college, i.e., a beauticians school. Another is a business college.

One. the salutatorian. plans to attend Woman's' College and three plan to go to church colleges. One listed marriage and a church college education.

In addition to the seven planning college work, one girl listed intentions to study X-ray technology at a general hospital in an out-of-state city.

OTHER - Seven, of the 19 girls planned to do secretarial work. One of these seven listed marriage and secretarial work.

Five of the girls listed plans for marriageone to man;y and work and one to marry artd go to college. \ \

One girl planned to worlr ai a nearby out-of-state city. Only one of the 19 girls said she was undecided about her future.

One of the seven who li.sted secretarial work for her future plans was one of the sehiors with outstanding scholastic and extracurricular records, including Beta Club and also having been a contestant in a. local beauty pageant.

OUT-OF-STATE - Two of the boys listed military plan.';, both specifying National Guard service. Two, in addition to the one who specified thp State college school of agriculture, planned to go into farming presumably immediately after finishing high school.

One planned to enter civil .service. Two of the 15 planned to take jobs in the plant of the one nearby major industrial concern. Two planned to go to work in an out-of-state shipyard. And two of the 15 boys undecided as to their future plans.

STUDY Earlier studies showed North Carolina ranks near the bottom of the list in number of high school graduates attending colleges. This percentage ha.s caused conceni and there are numerous studies of cause and effect being made, There are'also programs either in effect or planned to encourage more, graduates to continue their formal education.

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In political life, the opposition party or the party on the outside*' has a responsibility that reaches far beyond that of just heaping criticism on the leaders of the ins".

There is a place for criticism, to be .sure, but it should be constructive criticism that will lead to solutions of problems at hand. It should not be just criticism for the sake of taking a slap of the proposals qf the o.^pojng political party or its individual leaders.

Assertions by Democrats that Republican strategy is merely to criticize proposed farm legislation-.of the administration without offering any p r\r\\i cr'U T TTT'XT'7 alternate solutions to the problem is stoutly denied /j

by the GOP. There have been many cases in the past, however, not only in Congress but elsewhere, where it appeared that criticism in itself became part of the strategy of opposing a proposal.

' Such critici..m u.-^iiall.v doe.s not take into con- The Rhyme of the Ancient

.sideration the problem itself or the need for solv- Mariner teaches us early in life

ing the problem. It merely declares that the pro- t^at while it is risky to walk po."ed .'ioliition is unsound, unrea.'^onable and with-? under ladders, and ri.skier to out'merit. The strategy, of course, is to focus at- break mirrors. , .it is just plain

tention on the proposed solution with the idea of niadnesvs to kill an albatross,

killing it. There appears to be little concern for Not ever.vbody is in a posl-the problem itself or means of solving it. tion to kill an albatross, because

Certainly constructive criticism pla.vs an im- the great proportion of our pop-portant role at any level of government. But the ulation does not live on the criticism plays an important role only if it is'con- coastline. . .which is a godl ^tructive. And uniall.v it is con.^tructive only if it Srie. provides some alternative for solving a problem sets and crossboFs could not that is recognized to exist. avoid tempting fate and thus

Fortunat^ely in our democratic society every S^SrhfstooT amS Citizen has the right to criticize the government or country whose future rested In officials connected with it. This right, however, the hands of a generation of al-carries with it the responsibility to provide con- ^^^ss-hunters.) structive criticism, to seek sound solutions to prob- Less well-known is the tra-

About

ddie

Gilbert

By GEORGE E. SOKOIJSKT Copyright. 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

uck Of The Albatross

luctant to let humans In on so much good luck, so they use it all themselves.

But the other day I was told of a Greenville lady who rescued an albatro.ss in the worst kind of distress. (Sorry, no names. You have to accept my second-hand version and live with it,)

lems of a public nature. This responsibilitv is not Jhen that he who helps an al-I u. 1 j* -j' I 1 batross in distres.s IS as.sured of

discharged by the political group or individual who j^^ch luck they can retire

The story began at Nags Head W'hen Mrs. X saw a sea bird being mauled and pounded by the .surf. She went into the water after the bird, psesumably unaware it was an albatross and the rewards involved. I would alsa guess she gave no thought to what a frightened bird with a long beak and tremendous wings (they .sometimes .spread to eleven feet) could do to a person.

batross w'as de-larred and rested; and after a suitable length' of time returned to the beach where with a running start it was again airborne. ,

On hearing the story, it struck me that the albatross had almost used up all his luck and there wasn't much left for Mrs. X. Others scornfully insist the writers knowledge of albatross-luck is woefully inadequate for making any kind of conclusion,

and that obviously this was the luckie.st bird along the Atlantic .seaboard. Otherwise, they say, he wuldnt be a bird with a fu- * ture.

So be It.

criticize.s merely for the -sake of criticizing. 1

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from hunting four-leaf clovers and, horse shoes, and even afford to walk back and forth ua*-dcr a ladder, with aplomb.

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its rriae, 100

There is a catch to so much good luck (there always is): one seldom finds an albatross in distress. They are naturally re-

Well, the bird was pulled frorh the surf, and sure enough it was an albatross whichr had had the misfortune to become coated in tar or waste oil products from a passing ship.

Mrs. X. apparently has 20 years of good fortune to look forward to. But w'cre I in her shoes. Id play it safe and keep an eye out for one more albatross in distress.

Just to be sure.

A local wildlife representative was contacted, and the al-

By RAYMOND J. ( ROWLEY

WASHINGTON (APi You d^ better smile, pardner, if you call the U. S. House of Representatives the lower hou.se.

tf-m of conference committees, i-When Senate and Hou.se pa.ss a bill in different form a conference committee usually is appointed ta reconcile the differences.

Other

Cobb

ditors Saying .,.

New Tria'

The end of the fiscal year for the blood bank is staring at us, and Pitt County has to dig up 257 pints to balance its account.

Gets

With the bloodmobile in Farm-ville next Tuesday and in Greenville the following day, there is a fair to middlin chance it can be done.

Otherwise you re in with House members.'

trouble

For there Is nothing in the Constitution which says the Senate is higher than the Hou.se. They are co-equal. As a matter of fact, .some authorities feel that if either branch is expendable it is the Senate, not the House.

Working in secret, conferees wield great power. Sometimes in the past they have altered legislation almost beyond recognition. And sometimes, especially in session-end logjams. Congress has passed the conferees' "compromise without knowing exactly what was in it.

But though House members pet the same pay$22.300as senators, it has long been sur-inKsed that many of them have ridden inferiority complexes.. For oncvthing. the size of the House (437 as agaimst 100 senators tends to dilute an individual member's prestige. And to get any work done, the Hou.se has developed rules which regiment its run-of-the-mill members. No repre.senta-ti've can make a marathon speech, for example.

Sugge.stions .iometimes have been made that America could get along with a one-chamber Congress. Many foreign countries and one American state, Nebras'xa, manage to do it. But it is inconceivable that either Senate or Hou.se would vote for a con.stitutional amendment to put itself out of business.

At any rate, the House has long su.spected the Senate of haa.ghiness. So now representatives have their backs up. They are in.s:.sting that the chaiiTnaii-ship of Senate-House Conference Committees appointed to iron out differences in appropriations bills shall rotate instead of always being held by a .'^eri ntoi. This di.'ipute has tied up seyo'al appropriatiou.s bills and rpany '-overiiment emo)o>s face payle.s,s pavday.s. including the valiant Sc'crct Service,

The pre.sent clash* between Senate and Hou.se, though tense. Is conducted quietly in gentlemanly fashion. Both chambers have rules against using the floor to speak ill of colleagues in either house.

Gone are the good old days when Congrassman (.Sockless Jerry") Simpson (1842-1905. of Kansas could arise on the House floor and call a colleague a political cannibal autocrat.

1 hough the Cton.stitUlion makes no tnentiou of it, , some people contend Gougre.s.s has a thiid liou.sonamely its ,sy.^-

Novvadays the steam .seems to have gone out of presidential language too. It is hard to imagine President Kennedy .saying of any .senator what President .Andrew Jack.son wrote of John C. Calhoun in

, Hi.s l)est former ir iends .say

he ought to he hanged."

(Wa<Jiington Daily News)

The North Carolina Supreme Court has granted a new trial to William Cobb, chairman of the N. C. Republican Executive committee, after a jury in Madison county found him guilty of libel.

The .jury awarded Zeno Ponder. Madison county Democratic bo.ss. the sum of S40.000, and two others were awarded four dollars after a lengthy trial.

When the Superior Court trial was completed^ this new.'i-paper said at the time that the $40,000 fine seemed to be too much, and that we wondered how much politics figured into the case.

Now the North Carolina Supreme court not only has award-ed Mr. Cobb a new trial, but as we interpret what the high court has said, w-e understand the meaning to be that Cobb gets a new trial, but we doubt that there is sufficient evidence of malice prevalent to get a conviction That might not be what the high court really said, but as we read the Supreme Court deci.sion, that Is what v. e believe the justice.^ have .caid.

If we are correct, then it is quite probable that the case will never co|ne to court again. After a, Mr. Ponder ,and his group will have to .start all over again in bringing the suit, and such a .suit is costly, win or lo.se. If he tee Is that he has 110 chance of winning at all, then he might just drop it. ^

In political campaigns many things aie said which should not Iw* said. But the high court luts ruled that Mr. Cobb wa.s .saying what he did as chair

man of a ma.ior political party, and that as such he had done so without malice. The high court said that the presiding Superior court judge, J. Frank Huskins. erred in his charge to the jury.

When anyone goes to court in any trial, the political party with which he is affiliated, the color of his skin, his economic position or .social prominence ought to have nothing whatsoever to do with ascertaining the truth. The fact that William Cobb is a Republican and what he was saying wa.s directed at Democratic election officials does not change the truth nor les^sen the need for justice one bit.

The more we read and hear about Madison county politics. ,the more w'e wonder just when the political atmosphere there will be cleared.

Ever so often there are char-ge.s stemming out of Madison county. Just recently a ballot box was thrown out there when it was believed that many more ballots were in the ballot box than there were voters casting ballots.

We do not agree with the poltica! philo.sophies pf William Cobb in any .sense. He Is a Re publican, and this editor and tills newspaper are Democratic But jiLStice is for all, and we feel that the Supreme , court does not feel that justice wa.s found at that trial.

And we sincerely doubt that another trial will be held. We believe the Supreme court has .said wcll give a n'W trial, but we doubt, that a conviction cun be lound.

It w'ouldnt hurt our blood-giving record to match the blood-taking. . .and were close enough for a good try.

The county can meet its goal providing two ifs" are overcome:

If. a lot of new faces show up at the collection centers (the majority of donors alw^ays seem to be repeaters.)

And if. the lets-get-aw'ay-from-it-al!-on Wednesday-after-noon impulse can be curbed just thi.s one time. (There will be other Wednesdays.)

But its the new faces at the blood collection centers that are really needed; and to them, a word:

Try it. For days afterward, you have a convenient item of conversation. . .1 started in 1958 and havent quit talking since. There is less pain involved than stubbing your toe; you feel good" afterw'ard, there is a p.sychological lift (and only a couple of generations ago the family doctor prescribed a little bleeding for what ailed you.

Aside from giving, you receive.. There is a phy.sical checkup and free advice if youre found wanting: and it represfnts a bit of insurance for yourself and your family if the occasion .should ari.se when blood or plasma Is suddenly and urgently needed.

Give once, and odds are youll come back. The number of repeaters at the collection center is testimony, to the fact.

For several years, I have seen Eddie Gilbert about New York. He had moved from the wrong side of the tracks into the social and moral morass known as Cafe Society. By the w*ay his name appeared, with regularity, in certain gossip columns, he must have had a press agent ^to Droclaim his significance and to make his adopted name and his profession as a financier a household word.

Eddie Gilbert bought friendships by picking up the tab for his social superiors. He gave parties at which were present some who are always present at parties and whose presence requires a headwaiter to give a preferred table, if any table Is ever really preferred.

He owned a house on the Riviera, which is a European Gaza strip where ladies and gentlemen during the season disport themselves, as they do during another .season at Palm Beach and as their ancestors used to do at Newport or Atlantic City. It Is the thing to do and does not cost too much if you know someone like Eddie Gilbert who has sleeping space for distinguished names and whose Sunday breakfasts, with champagne and an orchestra, brought together those who go everywhere and are known to everybody.

Eddie Gilbert sure made it. Now, of course, he has, taken refuge in Brazil, which is a sanctuary for American swindlers. If you have any intention of .being a swindler, do not junrip out of a window, if your conscious pricks you. Just take a plane to Brazil and join the colony of expatriates there.

Eddie Gilberts partner in this gaiety was a rather demure young lady, his wife, Rhoda. She did not go to Brazil with Eddie because they are now living apart. Rhoda recently got into a tizzy over some jewelry which she picked up at Carti-er.s; not one piece, but a couple of handsful. She e.xpected Eddie to pay. He declined. She was forced to return the jewelry.

HLs fortune, estimated at $15.000,(X)0 had disappeared in the complications of the deflation of paper values. He not only was broke but he had helped himself to $2,000,(XXI or thereabouts and ran off to Brazil. He said in an interview that he hoped to pay everybody back and make ever^hlng whole .some day. That Is the spirit! But W'hen is some day? Meanwhile, Eddie is. in Brazil and if he has any of the $2,000.000 that he swiped from his company, he can, of course, trade on European exchanges, even in American securities, securities, evading Income taxes which will be a help. If he is found to be trading on American exchanges, his funds will probably be seized. Eddie is not likely to do that.

Eddie, in this purported Interview, says that if he returned to the United States, he would be cnicified. He is in error. We do not crucify. He would undoubtedly be arrested. Indicted by a Grand Jury, tried by a judge and jury in a Court of Law and he would perhaps be convicted and sent to prison. After 10 years or so, he might get out of prison for good behavior and probably find that all those for whom he picked up the tab in fancy restaurants, no longer knew him. It Is a habit in those circles, to run fast from trouble.

Eddie holds that he did nothing to hurt anybody intentionally. Nevertheless a great many people suffered because of Eddies financial genius, particularly those whom he guaranteed against losses. One of Eddies corhplaints is that a lot of important people on Wall Street disappointed him. 'This is not surprising.

There are very, few important people on Wall Street. In such an extremity as the present one, the brokers and bankers of Wall Street strip themselves of refinement and become Shylocks who deman their due. It was Wall Streets hardness of heart In its dealings with the Bank of the United States that got the 1929 Depre.s-slon rolling. Anyone who believes that he can depend on important people in Wall Street might just as well depend oa an IBM machine.

Eddie must have picked up the tab for those important people. Now. they dont know him. Had he asked anyone who has had dealings with Important people. he w'ould have been told that they lways run away. When, In trouble, it Is best to go. to unimportant people.

Strength For Today Not Much Fear .Of

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Bv KARL I.. IX)K.I,ASS I.F/r LS NOX FOR(,ET

God Is the Ci'eator of the , Vvorld who hath measured the watis Jon - the hollow ~ol his hand. He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. He who created the ends of the earth giv-cth power unto the faint The I Almighty .who made all and is over all stoops down to carry my. burden. ' The Creator in whose hands the universe came into being looks upon my frustration, *depre.ssion and 'defeat and. ugaches down to iTcreaio You and I. We-can engage the forces of the univer.se to help us in our Jouniey,

Emerson 'counselled us tfj,' hitch our wagon to a star, hut . we can do bettcr than that hy

hitching it to the Makt'r of the stai. God 1.S not a radiant ab-ftUaction: He Is agracious Person who knows our frame and rcmemlxTS that we are dust,

So often in life we have to turn to the comforiing power of God s care. Everything about ps goes down in iuin. We experience 01 row W( had great expectallois \ h th did hbt rna-tcriaiize. We had .sufficient of this V01 Ids goods and then cx-pe);tnced Jos;,,

In such lime.s we have to be able to look up to a Power which Is above us. We. have to have an anchor that we can cast out to keep ourselves from being dashed to pieces on the ri)ck.s. I

Let u.s rcm' nilx r these things

In the dark hours.

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By FFMFR KOFS.SNFK

Regardle.ss of how you tcel. ll'ic rest of the world is lioL alarm'cd about cancer from cigarettes. New figures by the Foreign Agricultural Service .shows that exports of unmanufactured tobacco last year wa.s almo.st 17 billion pounds, a new record and a 10 per cent rise over the igso figure.

Tlic FAS attriouted the rise to grow ing demands for cigarettes in -most countries, smaller domestic crops in some consgm-ijig countries, 'and som^ stopk building.

United States exports in 501 (Kin,0011 pounds worth $390, H(K).(HK), set a tjew record West

Oermauy. Japan," Thailand and Denmark al*-o reportorl gain;;. West European maiktts took

ifl-'oul 7ti per cent of the total Ann rican exiwrts. Thailand, al-sh an impoitei, Japan and Au.s-li alia weiie also large buyers ^of American leaf.

OlllFR RFCORDS SET

Exports from the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland also .set record.s, Turkish exports W ere equal to the 1957 exports and Greek exporus were close to the 1957 record. India was a heavy exportc;r. ranking behind the U. S. and .phodesia and Nyasaland in flue-cured .shipments. Indias host markets--ts'ereBritain. Aden, the Soviet Union. Belgium, France aiid the Nelh-crland.s.

Braz wa.s .a larvcr export('i\ sh'ippirig out 107,(H;o.(;(Hi pound.s. a mark exceeded nnlv in 1947. Curiously, the U.-S. was a big

importer of Brazil leaf, taking in 900,(KK) pounds, compared with 3(K).(KK) pounds in 1990.

Other major exporting countries included Columbia. Algeria. Italy and Canada. Exports from Cuba. Jugoslavia and Indonesia fell from 1960 marks. THE IMPORT PICTURE

Britain, where most'of the ag-igation again-st cigarette smoking flourished last year, cut its exports, but only slightly. It imported 365 million pounds in I960, and 343 million pounds last

year..

NEW PHODI CTS IN BLSINlsSS TODAY,

- (iHmes: Ten gaines citn be played on a new' board 26': by 15 7-P, inches. It can be used on t.l'.e floor or on taislriQp. Efiuipmeiit' iiiciudes /tvi^ spiink'-

loaed cue sticks, 6 magnetized disks, 10 numbered disks, a cue disk and a rack. The board has six pockets and nine hidden magnetized spots. (By Mattel, Inc., Hawthorne, Calif.)

Cleaner: A new portable electronic air cleaner is said to remove 90 per cent of alr-bome impurities i^nd 99 per cent of polleh and bacteria. It weighs 28 pounds and is 16 inches high by 16 by 11 Inches. (By Mln-neapolis-Honeyw'ell Regulator Co., Mineapolis. Miss,)

* Accoustical: A new coating to be sprayed on ceilings and wails Is sound absorbing and riire resistant. It has a texturrd finish and bonds directly to various shapes of sound backing. (By Deseo International Assn., ' Box' 74, Buffalo, N. y.)

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