Monday, April 4, 1966A More Elfective Board Possible

I KNOW HOW YOU MUST FEEl, JOE!

One of the pbirits our fellow editorialisHs raise as thsy seek arguments against the very logical proposal to raise East Carolina College to University status, is that the whole thing is a plot to destroy the Board of Higher Education.

This they usually coupled with the argument that if the state has more than one university there will be wasteful duplication of facilities and efforts.

This bit of smokescreening is to be expected as some newspapers seek to defend an outmoded, depression born system of administering higher education. For we are sure it should be very obvious to them that a multi-university system will mean a stronger Board of Higher Education.

Since its formation, the board has had little to decide when it came to programs proposed by the Greater University. We do seem to recall many years ago the Board bucked the University on some question. The board was promptly bulldozed and it has shown little inclination since to lock horns with the University. Its principal assignment

Sensitive Over ?ay-Off Hints

By WILUAM A. SHIRES

SENSITIVE - The Moore adminstration is almost painfully sensitive about an^ hint or indication of favoritism or charge of poltical pay-off to any of the big business or banking interests which supported aDn K. Moore for governor in 1964.

This sensitivity was evidenced once again last week in the administration's swift o end rather far-reaching action in the new well-publici^d Holding case.

Its action, while not altogether successful, demonstrated several thi^s. One, it L willing to admit that mistakes occur. Secondly, it is willing to go to extreme lengths to set the record straight, to remove any tinge of impropriety and establish additional safeguards to reassure the public.

Also, it slK)wed it retains full confidence in one of the states most sersitive and frequently criticized regulatory agencies, the State Banking Commission, and in Lewis R. (Snow) Holding

HOLDING - The Holding case obviously touched a particularly sensitive administration nerve.

It involved an apparent, on-the-surface, conflict o.* interest

on the part of a member of the State Banking Conunission who was one of Moores most active and influential political fuppmrters.

No matter that Holding was appointed to the Bapking Com-mhion by former Gov. Terry Sanford, not that the young, dynamic head of one of t b e states largest chain banks. First atizens Bank and Trust Co., may himself have future political ambitions.

No matter, either, that there have been reports in political circles of a split between Holding and Momre and of a possible feud brewing between them.

It also involved one of Moores closest and mo- trusted advisors. State Treasurer Edwin Gill, who is chairman of the Banking Commission, and the governor himseir.

IMPORTANT The important thing, from the adminstra-tions standpoint, was that an error had been made and that error was committed by a man who was close to Moore politically in 1964 and presumably still is.

It was by a man who played a major role in financing Moores campaign for the governorship.

The error was that Holding participated in discussions and in voting on three applications by Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co. before the Banking Commission on March 23. It was then revealed that Holding owns stock in Waccamaw, worth approximate!) $600,000, and his participation and voting was in apparent violation of state banng laws and regulations.

It was an inadvertent action, Holding said. My stock interest in the Waccamaw Bank and Trust Co. did not even enter my mind during the sometimes heated discussion of that banks applications. He issue a public apology to the governor, to Gill and to other members (tf the Banking Commission.

FOLLOWED - As swiftly as the edministration moved in the case, Holding himself acted faster.

At no time, he said, has he attempted to withhold information about my personal interest in banks which ha' matters pending before the Banking Commission. In all those pertaining to banks in which he holds a significant financial position or connection, he said, he bad abstained from participating in Commission actions.

Holding added that he had inadvertently acted under similar circumstances on four other applications by banks in which he has a financial interest, one dating back to 1963 three months after his appointment

In each case, he said, the applications were approved unanimously and my vote had no effect whatsoever on tiie outcome.

since has been to police other state supporte*d college making certain they do hot infringe bn matters which the tiniversity feels should be left to-it. -

Obvio'usly in a multi-university system some agency is going to have to decide what programs can best be offered ki particular institutions. This will, in all likelihood, fall to the Higher Board. Now, of course, such decisions are made in Chapel Hill.

We feel sure that loss of this power is not appealing to the Greater University administration. No one likes to givfe up even a little control.

An effective Higher Board of Education will never be possible until it in fact does have something to decide.

Last-Ditch Battle By Irresponsible Leaders

It is a sad commentary on union leadership when some 8,000 people, striking in defiance of a court order over an issue that was settled years ago, are able to put upwards of another quarter million people out of work.

That was the situation with the strike of railroad firemen against eight major railroads in some 38 states. The firemen were seeking to prevent the elimination of some 18,000 workless jobs on the nation's railroads. But it was decided long ago through arbitration and through the courts that the unjustifiable featherbedding of railroad jobs was unrealistic and the railroads were given authorization to carry out their announced intention of eliminating the jobs.

The current strjke was a last-ditch effort of irresponsible leadership to inflict injury wherever possible in its dying moments.

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The Soviet Communist partys leadership has had a week of its 23rd congressthe first congress without the noisy presence of Nikita S. Khrushchevin which to project its image before the Soviet public. It has offered little for the average Soviet citizen to cheer about.

The leaders have denied Stalin again and voiced their aversion to Stalinism. But they have retreated into some aspects of Stalinism, evidently out of apprehension over the future of the entrenched top-level bureaucracy.

Basically, what seems to have happened is that the relaxations of the post-Stalin era had gone too far for the leaders own comfort. Criticism of the Stalin era implied criticism of the party itself.

Now, in some respects, the leaders seem to be intent upon returning to some aspects of the past. They seem to want to clean up that picture of the Stalin era, the butt of so much out-spok e n criticism in the past 10 years, and to upgrade the partys history. The object appears to be to halt an erosion of party authority engendered by cynicism among young people and intellectuals.

The leaders have revived the terms Politburo and general secretary, both indel i b ly stamped with the Stalin era. There appears to be almost a desperation in this, to make clear that the Communist party of the Soviet Union remains the Bolshevik party of Lenins and Stalins day.

The first party secret a ry, Leonid I. Brezhnev, who presumably now will become general secretary and cha i r-man of a Politburo rather than a party Presidium; Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, President Nikolai Podgorny, ideologist Mikhail Suslov and others at the top all are linked with the Stalin era.

When they return to its terms and tools, they evoke memories of a dictator who, as general secretary, ruled his party, Politburo and na ti o n

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The tasks and responsibilities of the United States are almost terrifying in their magnitude. We, in Australia, like all free men, should thank God for the United States protection and friendship, and her contributions throughout the world to the cause of peace. Sydney, Australia, Sunday Telegraph.

Strength For Today

THESE PRESENT TIMES

The times in which we live are in some ways the most wonderful humanity has ever been privileged to enjoy. We have more comforts today than ever before. There are more opportunities to live interesting lives than our forbears could possibly have had. The scientific, intellec t u al, and mechanical advances of (he past century have made presnt-day life something com-pl e t e 1 y unprecedented in world history.

But there is another aspect of the picture which is not too encouraging. We have killed more people in wars in the past fifty years than during the whole of human history before that time. Without war being declared, we. in the United States, are sending men to different parts of the earth to figlit blood battles.

There are riota-ifi the east and west. The race problem is becoming acute and d a n-gerous. Many people feel that personal, everday morality is taking a beating, and they may not be far wrong.

One thing on which we can alb-agree is that the days through which we are passing are the most exciting humanity has known for some decades, perhaps even for many generations. What will come out of these times? No one, of course, can prophesy. There are some who claim to be able to look into the future, and most of these say that there is rough weather ahead. On the other hand, there are optimists who keep telling us that we can make everything happy and satisfactory if we will just use a bit of common sense.

Where do you stand on these issues?

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with a hand of steel. The term Politburo has not beeni#used since the 19th congress in 1952, just before Stalin died, when the political bureau of the party was transformed into a Presidium.

Soviet intellectuals now can begin worrying about sterner discipline and more rigid control of what they can say and do. The restoration of the old terms has bridged a 14-year gap, overleaping the whole Khrushchev era and its promise of liberalization, and reestablishing a link to the Stalin period.

Obviously, some in the party leadership are unhappy with matters as they have been recently. By official count, there are 11,673,676 Communist party members and 797,403 candidate members, which means that one in every 18 Soviet men, women and children is a member of the party. That is more than five million above the number in 1956 at the time of the 20th-de-Stalinization-con-gress.

Membership in the party one was difficult to achieve. It was considered the only reliab 1 e stepping stone to a successful career. Khrushchev, as a consummate politician, increased party ranks to buttress his power. Those who sought membership purely for reasons of personal advancementbasically the cynical unbelivers swelled party ranks and diluted party authority.

Today, party membership is no longer necessary for a successful career. Indeed, many do quite well outside the party ranks. The goal of pa r ty membership o b v i o u sly has been cheapened, as Communists view it.

When the flying saucers were sighted over Ann Arbor, Michigan, a few weeks ago, the first reaction from one of the residents was, Dammit, there goes the neighborhood. It has been reliably report

ed that occupants of all flying saucers are little green men and this raises a serious problem. Do we want our children to go to schooTwith little green children? What happens to real estate values when the

Other Editors Saying

A Serious Injustice

(Ayden News-Leader)

In finding two men guilty a few days ago of Demonstrating Without A Permit, the Greenville Municipal C o u rt, Judge Charles Whedbee presiding, has acted unjustly. An injustice not only to two North Car-olina citizens, who undoubtedly are members of the Ku Klux Klan, but an in jus tice against all citizens of t h i s state. The Greenville Police Department and the Greenville Court, in its zeal to make Greenville an unhealthy place for Klan activity, has, in fact, gained sympathy for this organization by charging and convicting on evidence that probably wouldnt even stand up before an all-Negro jury.

And in stating this opinion, it is probably necessary for us to restate the fact that we are not in sympathy with Klansmen or the aims and purposes of the Klan. We agree with many of our peers that if the government were run by the Klan, the rights of many of our citizens would doubtless be violated. But this does not excuse police officers or municipal officers for building a case where law has not been broken, or intent to violate law cannot reasonably be established.

Two men, one robed, riding in a car with a Be a Man Join the Klan sticker on it does not constitute much of a demonstration, because no one is being demonstrated against by their action. The laws of the United States have already given the man the right to wear the robe, providing the face is not covered. The laws of North Carolina granted the driver license to drive the car, and displaying a sticker, or even posters, on a moving automobile is hardly evidence of a demonstration. We once had a Visit the Battleship

North Carolina sticker on our car, but we were not aware that we were demonstrating.

Left alone, these two men would have furnished Sunday afternoon entertainment for those who saw them. Its doubtful that they would have persuaded many to Be a ManJoin the Klan. Arrested and convicted as they were, they liave caused many to wonder who is discriminating against whom! The end result could prove beneficial to the Klan. When the conviction is finally reversed by a higher court, as it doubtless will be, then they will have furth e r grounds for the complaint they were railroaded.

The Ku Klux Klan can only thrive on nourishment provided by such irregularities as Greenville Police and the Greenville Court provided in this action. Harrassment and injustice cannot eliminate the Klan. A hundred years of it failed to stop the American Negro! Even the Nazis, with mass murder, failed to eliminate the Jews.

All citizens, Klansmen, Negroes, Jews, Indians, etc., are entitled to protection of their rights by men of law. None, regardless of how distasteful their views, should have to resort to higher courts to gain protection from the law.

The U. S. Supreme Court has made many decisions which seem to be at odds with the Constitution of the U.S. But, since no appeal can be made from their decision, they can get away with it. Fortunately, the Greenville Court is not graced with such permanency of its decisions. Conviction on such evidence can be rserved.

But for the sake of justice, this action should never have been taken!

little green people start moving in on the block? Will the gt*een people be responsible for a rise in the crime fate? These questions have to be answered before there is a mass invasion of them and we have a situation that will make Watts look like a tea party.

I sopke to the president of the NAAGP (the National Association for the Advancement of Green People) the other day.

He said, We are very con-cerned about the treatment that the little green people will get when they arrive in the United States. Im sure that the first few will be cordially received, but as more and more flying saucers arrive, we will have a serious social problem.

But the Jolly Green Giant has been well-rceiv e d in America, I said.

Yes, but hes in show business. What were concerned with is the average green person who^as no special skills and is more or less a drag on society.

What do you think will be the main problem?

For one thing, the gr e e n people will not be able to read or write English at least, we dont think tlipv will. So

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1966, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

MEXICO CITY - The Mexican government has been enormously patient witli Fidel Castro for reasons that have to do with Mexicos Twentieth Century internal history. The hope has been that the Cuban Revolution would simmer down and become constructive in imitation of the Mexican Revolution. But this expectation will never come true, for, on the basis of the Mex; can leaders analysis of their own history, the revx)lutions in the two countries do not come from the same parent stock and cannot end in the same pace. The Mexican Revolution has created a big middle class; the Castroite Rev-olutloi has destroyed a previously dklstent bourgeois society. On the Mexican analogy, the 'uture leaders of a true nationalist Cuban revoluti o n are all in Miami, Florida. They arestarting the businesses theresports clothing manufacture, entertainment, Bacardi rum, and so on that Castro, if he were to imitate the Mexicans, would be welcoming for Havana.

These conclusions are my own personal deductions from an interview with a most charming and knowledgeable man, the Mexican Fore i g n Minister, Antonio Carr i 1 o Flores, who constantly emphasizes that the Mexican Revolution had , the great good luck to start before, the Russian Revolution.

It was, as he says, one hundred per cent Mexican, with no international hostages in the way of idealogies. Fascism didnt even exist, and Bolshevism was still a cafe table preoccupation with some straggling Russian exiles in Switzerland, when the Mexicans toppled Poriirio Diaz, the dictator who had granted such enormous favors to foreign capital.

The Mexican Revolution aimed to give land to the Indian populaUon and to re-

well have to make allowance-es for that. For another, it will be very hard for them to get jobs. Oh, they could prob-^ably get work as maids or (Bcooks or waiters, but when it ^comes to competing for a white-collar job, I dont believe a green person is going to get' it.

Why is that?

Most people are nervous about green people. They feel superior to them and at the same time theyre afraid of them. It might have something to do with sex.

What does the NAAGP plan (Continued On Page 5)

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possess for the nation such natural resources as oil. But it also aimed to free the middle classes. As President Plutarco Elias calles insisted in the nineteen twenties, there could be no social justice without economic development. Clalles established a basis for State central banking road construction, the building of dams and irrigation districts, and government sanitation and health. But these, in the modern phrase, are in-frastructure, not the superstructure that gives real life to a society.

For the rest, Calles wanted the middle classes to take off. And this, despite the trade union flirtaition with Communist ideas in the Thirties, has been the concern of every Mexican President since.

The stability from the Mexican fliberation of the middle classes cannot be .lad in countries whose revolutions gave hostages to either Soviet or Maoist Communism. For these revolutions kill all potential sources of the national stability that comes from freeing (Continued On Page 5)

Call For Boycott Is Possibility

By ELMER ROESSNElw as a nonmilitarv, project, to embarrass the Johnson admin- we gained in the halanpp nf

West Germany may have-opened an overripe barrel of sauerkraut in backing that deal to build a steel mil! In Red China.

Right wing organizations in this country are likely to call for a boycott of German products. This would hurt the Bonn government far more than the profits on the steel mill deal would benefit it.

Under the deal. Demag A. G. a Ruhr steel and machinery company, along with a group of other companies, sad to include French, British, Italian and Swiss firms, has agreed to sell a $150 million steel mill to Red China.

The most amazing part of it is that the Wst (erman government has guaranteed 87.5 million in credit to seven German companies involved.

A CIVILIAN MILL?

The mill has been described

turn out steel for civilian purposes. However, once steel is produced, it can be used for almost ''ny purpose, and there is no assurance that some of the steelor even all of it might not eventually find its

way down the Ho Chi Minh trail and be used to kill American soldiers.

This possibility is likely to be seized upon by various right tist organizations to call for a boycott of German goods. They could be joined by other organizations who might want to

istratkm, especially Secretary of State Dean Rush.

A boycott could hit the sale of German cameras, b e e rs, wines and hundreds of other products including those what-do-you-call-em? autos.

When the deal first came to Washingtons attention, the State Department took a neutral possition, in effect giving its approval. Since then, possibly as the result of rumblings pf discontent, Mr. Rusk hw asked Bonn to restudy it. WHAT BOYCOTT WOULD MEAN

The government is not likely to encourage a boycott of (Jerman products. One of the reasons is economic; we like to make a profit as well as the Germans. Last year West Germany sold us Approximately $1.37 billion worth of goods; sold West Germany above $1..53 billion.

At fir.st glance it looks as if

trade with (oermany, and that if an American boycott of German goods developed, German would be so pinched it would forced to boycott or impose barriers against American gods.

Howevf, there is another American export: the spending of huge amounts by American forces stationed in West Ger-many, and by American tourists in the free republic.

Ther^ore, if the State Department determine dto apply economic pressures oq West Germany, if the U. S. government would withdraw troops which are needed in Viet Nam anyhow and if the government discouraged travel West Germany and took a neutral view of boycotts of German goods, Chancellor Erhard and his Bonn government would be quick to give up projects to strengthen the sinews of Red China.