W^diiMdty, April 12, 197

Passing A Law Wont Do The Trick

North Carolina will not effectively cope with its problem of youthful lawbreakers by merely changing from 16 to 18 the age at which a youngster may legally stop school.

In a letter to state legislators, Judge Allen Gwyn has suggested that the number of youthful offenders in the states courts could be significantly reduced by requiring youngsters to remain in school until they are 18 years old.

While the suggestion may have merit, North Carolina must do much more than change its school attendance law if it is to deal effectively with the problem of school dropouts and the problem of youthful offenders in its courts.

It is true that there is a correlation between the youthful offenders and school dropouts. But changing the attendance law will not in itself at-

Talk Continues Of Comoromise

By WUXIAM A SHIRES

Reflector Ralri^ Boreaa

RALEIGH Talk continues that a compromise solution may yet evolve out of the East Carolina College independent university status controversy.

Outlines of p(^ble comin'o-mise are vague and dim, but they are in the back^ound. Neith^ side will admit this puhli<^.

From all outward imiica-tions, each side appears determined to force a legislative tdiowdown. Neith^ i^pears willing to back down one inch. But tte fact is that both sides are wmried and uncertain and would like to fnd common grouml lor a mutual settle-meqt b^ore things go too far.

Firm Btaads

E^^rything thus far points to a firm stand and a monumental legislative struggle.

Both Gov. Dan K. Moore and his former priitical ally and friend. Sen. Robert Morgan, have said publicly they want the legislature to dedde. They have submitted their proposals and recommendations, stating opposing and conflicting views on the issue. Neither has mentioned or even fainted of the possibility of comprondse, at least not publicly.

Aside from these principals, however, would - be intcrme-diaries see the seeds of possible oompromise in the situation and file talk ^ings from this.

PMffbOities Cited

For (me tiling, Moore insists that tiwre be no **major change** in the structure of state supported hl^r education at this time, nor before a kmg - range, overall study is conqileted In 1968.

But sources me suggesting, fhe governor might agree to go akmg with some minor changes in the Higher Education Act d 1963, possibly accepting amendments to broad

en, strengthen and upgrade the role of the states senior colleges in the mattCT of research programs, libraries and more leeway and freedom in applying for federal and founda^ grants. This greater freedom in academic development is what Elast Carolina really wants. ECC, of course, feels strongly that the name - change and independent uniyersiti^ status is essential to inove in this dfrection. But it may be wilHng to forego tiie whole cake in order to get a substantial serving.

Trmfee Change

Other sources say East Carolina might be willing to come into the consolidated university system in order to attain certain of its goals provided the present consolidated university trustee system is changed.

Here again, the govmior has taken a finn stand against changing tiie univ^'sity trustee setup at this time. He wants to defer action on fhe recommendations of the blue-ribbon Hodges commission for at least two years.

The governors rccommen-datioR tm this point has been attacked by Morgmi and by others, both Democrats and Hepubiicans. But administration supporters say Moore*s decision on this was <Mm|istent wi& his overall approach to higher education probl^ns in the 1967 session.

Would Vote Aye

It Is the consensus opinion of most legislative sources that House Speak* David M. Britt would have voted a loud aye** if a deadlock had occurred on the Houseapproved vertion of a brown bagging* bill

Britt isnt sajdng how he wodd have voted But he did say emphatically, **had there been a tie, the chair would have voted without hesitation.** Britt pointed out that he has never dodged k vote and anytime it is necessary, it win be cast.

A Republican memb^ of tiie House, Rep. David Jordan oi Buncombe, ^parently was trying to snuAe out the Spea-trring to snMdce out the leakers sratiment on the brown-bag biii the other day by suggesting that every menabe** of the House vote vdicn the roll was called. AQ but ve of the 120 members did, and the recorded voted was 74-41.

tack the basic cause of dropouts. It would not, we suspect, appreciably change the number of dropouts or the number of youthful offenders In our courts.

North Carolina must deal with its problem of school dropouts primarily through its public sehool system. It must provide guidance early for the youngsters who show an inclination not to be interested in school. It must give greater attention to tailoring an educational program which will meet the needs of those youngstera who do not plan to go to college as well as those who are planning to continue their formal education beyond high school.

While there are many strengths in the public school system of the state, there is a decided weakness in the vocational program it offers young people in many areas. Although the state is just beginning to deal with its problem of school dropouts, it is evident that the guidance program in the public school system needs strengthening.

The state, of course, must provide a large part of the funds needed to strengthen the program of its public schools. But a portion of this financial cost must be assumed by local governments through their supplemental school funds. Those communities which take the initiative in providing funds to meet these needs are those which are most likely to effectively cope with their problems of school dropouts and youthful offenders in their courts.

If youngsters could be encouraged to remain in school until they are 18, there would be far fewer standing before judges in our courts. But the trick will not be turned by merely passing a law which says a boy or girl must regularly sit in a classroom until he or she reaches the age of 18.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP)-Short-ly after he became president Theodore Roosevelt expressed bis contempt for Latin Americans, saying he would show those dagos that they win have to behave decently.** That wasnt unusual. For most of its history this countrys relations with Latin America were at loose ends, some of them v^ unpleasant. They are dangling a bit now, but not unpleasantly.

President Johnsons presence at the meeting of Latin-American presidents in Punta del Este, Uruguay, is a mission of hope: that they will agree to set op a common market, knocking down such barriers to easy trade as tar-iffs.

lt*8 a longrange goal The market probably couldnt start working until 1960. But Latin Americas problems are longrange as it gropes thiough poverty, trying to come ain^east of the 20th century. Its pqiulation will be 625 million in the year 2,000. Meanwhile other barriers

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN April 12,1127 The Big Day

Today is tbe big (lay in the eyes cd America, young and old, for it marks tbe tossing of tbe first baU in 6ie 1927 season ot our nati(mal sport. From the smallest boy to the oldest fan, earii has his idols among ^e hundreds that make the baseball teams of the country and each will eagerly scan the sporting pages from now on for deeds of accomplishment of his favored team and players. Baseball is indeed our national sport. (From the editioral page)

Revival Services Well Attended

The revival at the Free Will Baptist Church was largely attended last night. Rev. S. H. Styron preached an able sermon using as his subject, All on tbe Altar.. . .

will have to be smashed, like the huge land-holdlngs of feudal families who look on progress as a threat Latin America is saturated with slums. It is way behind industrially and economically.

Six years ago President John F. Kennedy stirred up the Latin Americans when he called for an Alliance for Progress with them. The purpose was to stimulate thfo countrys southern neighbors to press hard for self-development, with U.S. help.

It has been operating six years and it is no howling success. Secretary of State Dean Rusk says thevprogress has been slow. Ihe common mar-ket idea is an added incentive to get the Latin Americas to w(k together for their common good

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By ART BUCHWALD

So Its Goodby,

WASHINGTON They thou^ it could never happen tiie fact that Chet Huntley would have nobody to say good night to. But it dd end its shak^ the foundation of the American home. Cumples aU over tbe United Statens are. now .saying to each other, If it happened to Huntley and Brinkley, it could happen

to us.**

It can now be revealed what happened that fateful Ihorsday when Chet and David had thefr last meeting.

David, have a drink, said (3iet nervously. I have something to tell you.**

What is it, Chet? David asked innocently, mixing himself a martini

*ive fallen in love with anotiier union.

But how could you, Chet, after all these years? David said, spilling his drink and trying not to let his voice shake. It wasnt my fault, Chet

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Miss Edmoods Honored

Miss Rebecca Edmonds, who for the past two years has been the attractive and efficient secretary to President Robert H. Wright of East (Carolina Teachers College, who will tomorrow leave for the position of secretary to the head surgeon of the Southern Baptist Hospital, New Orleans, was last evening honored by a very delightful travel party. Tte hostesses, Miss Hard, Wahl Bryan, and Westmoreland, of the college faculty, had converted the faculty house into a railway station, with train schedules, time tables, ticket window, porters, and other conveniences and nuisances of travel appropriate to the setting. ...

Bruce Eure of Ayden was iiere today.

J. L. Perkins of Stokes was here today.

G. A. Rouse of Farravillc was a Greenville visitor to-day.

Recently Rusk said from 19-61 through 1966 the Latin-American nations have invested about $91 billion in their own development, with the United States contributing about $6.5 billion, something like $1 billion a year.

Johnson had ho^ to carry with him to Puma del Esto a |t)mfoe, backed by Congress, that if the mmdiinery for a (H)mmon market were (Confimed On Page 5)

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS PIOUS JOm HAWKINS

The famous slave dealer, John Hawkins, had three riiips on which he transported his pathetic cargo. The names of these three shipps were The Jesus, Tbe Angel and The Grace of God.

Quite a religious man, this Hawkins. He believed in taking his religion right into his business.

But the fact that back In the jungles of Africa they hunted these slaves like wild beasts, tore members of families from each other, put them in ships reeking with filth, and then cast the carcasses of quite a number overboard when they perished on the Jour^ ney never seemed to appeal to Hawkins as anything to have a troubled conscience over. They needed slaves in the new world, and John Hawkins bad three good ships in which to transport them; and that was that.

What John Hawkins did with his (mnsdence we are not told, but he must have hogtled U pretty effectively and put it down into the deepest part of the hold of his ship. And it is well he (^. Had he not, he mi^t have been greatly alann-edoy hearing a voice on that good ship Jesus saying: **ln-asmuch as ye have (ione it unto one of tiie least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

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We refused to get excited when the news came out that the NCEA was considering sanctions against the state. Therrimre it came as no sur-inise when the NCEIA, in session in AsheviDc, shelved the stronger proposal calling for sanctions, to a milder one asking for a study of prof^ional sanctions.

The teachers are dissatisfied with the proposed salary increases. Decided efforts have been underway to get the General Assembly to increase the raise from the one recommended by the Adv i s o r y Budget Commission and the Governor. When Forsytii and Stokes counttos failed to pass the bond Issues, this was the last straw and sanctions, with all its D^ess got into the picture.

You cannot justify sanctions with the teaching profession. The teachers or North Carolina teachers have never thought in terms of striking, of sanctions or such ideal destroying tactics. In this state the teachers have the respect of the people. As to the salary increase it may not be as big as desired, for money cannot compensate the dedicated teacher. We are certain it will be as big as the state budget

can afford

This state Is mafting great progress in raising education standards, which start and end with the teacher. The other' facilities, as buil(fing8 and supplies, are only the necessary tools.

No we did not get excited when we read of the threat of sanctions. We knew there were too many dedicated teachers in this state to go that far to deprive the chfl-dren. For when you put out the word that this is not a good place to teach, and to warn teachers not to come to North Carolina and those here to leave, you are hurting the children mote tiian any(me else. And teachers would not be teaching if they did not have the best interests of the children at heart.

There was the threat of sanctions. It was only a threat and it is regrettable the teachers felt even the threat was necessary. Now the resolution has been shelved. This crisis is past for the time being. May it never raise its ugly head in North Carolina again. For sanctions do not go with the teaching professions.

And punishing the children for personal gain does not run true to history of this time honored profession.

protested. It just happened ov^tight. I woke up one m(Uiiing and suddenly 1 realized I hated AFTRA.

Tears rose in Davids eyes. So all those evenings you were saying good night to me, you were playing around with another union.

I wasnt playing aro u n d with another union. I really meant it when I said good night to you. But lets face it. David, we have been drifting apart Youre always in Washington. Im always in N e w York. Im int-ested in t h e Vietnam war. Youre interested in Lyndon Baines Johnson. We have nothing in common any nwrc. Why dont we behave like grownups about this? Surely we can reach an amicable settlement and still be friends.**

You*re so callous about it, David said. Doesnt 10 years of being together' night after night mean anything to you?

It means a lot, David. But this new union means more to me.**

What can a new union give you that AFTRA cant?

(2iet replied, Security, a home of our own. I want to be appreciated for myself. I cant stand this life of running (Continued On Page 5)

By ROWLAND EVANS m ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTONIn the sha* dow of the United States Capitol stands physical evidence of how militants in tbe civil rights movement can sometimes shatter their own dreams.

This is the tragedy of Southwest Washington, which once gave promise of bec(nning an oasis of true racial integration of the schools in a city whera as in other major cities de iacto segregation is the rule.

How that dream was shattered is worthy of shidy, because it indicates how difficult if not imponible it is to achieve racial integration in the present mood of the civil rights movement Southwest Washington, for decades a pestif^eus shim, was razed ly urban renewal bulldozers 10 years ago and replaced by high - rent middle class housing (town houses and apartm^ds) and subsidized public housing. Suburbanites streamed ba(^ into the city to liva in Soutiiwest, both for convenience and for sometiiing more intangiMe: a model, racially - integrated community.

This was to be one part of Washington not ghettoized by race, with quali^, integrated public education. Indeed, the greatly praised Amidon School was built even before the town houses and i^partment buildings started to spring up.

Ori^ally an exprlmental school for the entire city, ^-don gradually became a^i-ghborhood school unique in its racial and social integration. As of last year,^ it contained about 65 per cent Negroes and 35 white. Economically, it was split about 50-50 between the ntddle class and the poor.

These percentages do not meet levels of toleration for most whites, but the whites of Southwest Washington were content. (Consisting of many Great Society bureaucrats, they wanted to educate their children in a radally-mixed environment.

Yet, irrationally, militant (Civil Rights groups began agi-tatii^ against Amidon as pri-marffy a white school (it wasnt) restricted to the middle-class (it wasnt). They demanded that district school boundaries be gerrymandered to place more slum Negro children in Amidon. Whether knowingly or not, these militants were squandering* the rare commodity of urban white children, precious because so scarce, in today's big-city public siihools. Their campaign would lead to less rather than more integration.

Why this counter - productive course? One white liberal Southwest resident blames neighborhood Negro workers under the Poverty Program-;-who seemed compelled to agitate about something. Amidon became a syml^l of all that is not tiirs, this liberal told us.

The unwise decision : cached by the District of (Columbia Board of Education was to poo! the students of Amidon with two nearby Negro slum schools, Syphax and Bowen, and to assign two grades to each of the Aree s<^ools. In theory, the white and Ns-gro middle class students at Amidon would be parcelled out to each of the three schools.

Of course, it didnt wo-k that way. Even before the actual shift, Negro middle ((Continued On Page 5)

3anks Enter Credit Card Fielc.

By ELMER ROESSNER There are today an estimated 1,500 banks sponsoring credit card plans compared with 200 to 300 two years ago.

Several established credit card operations are offering their services to smaller banks to be cautious about are considering a cooperative charge card.

In short, banks are rushing headlong to get into the credit card buceas. And both government and the banking industry is concerned Item: The American Bankers Association has appointed a committee to atndy bank credit cards.

Item: The Fedwal Reserve Board is investigating tito proliferation of baiuc charge cards.

Item: The chairman of the Federal Depoait Insurance Orporation recently warned bank to be cautious about getting into tbe field.

Rem: Oregons Attorney General has issued an opinion

that interest charge- on a new bank credit card violat-es state usuary laws.

Item: A Chase Manhattan Bank official recently called bank credit cards financial

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Russia roulette. Chase should know. R lost a bundle before unloading Its own chare* card operation.

Aatt-Trust Suit And the Justice Departments anti - trust suit still of Csacie Blanche by First National City Bank of New York.

Credit card plans are a precarious venture.

R la costly to ael pro

cedures, merchandise the plan to card holders and card honorers, train personnel, and control misuse of the cards. Such programs require heavy initial investment and are likely to take years to break even.

Fraudulent use of lost or stolen credit cards continues to grow with annual losses estimated up to $30 million. Organized rings are taking over from the occasional deadbeats or wayward sons who used to bilk credit card firms. American Equress, alone, employs some 270 investigators just to keep the lid on fraud.

A cardholding depositor also may suffer. If his card strays, he must Immediately report the loss to tbe Issuer. (2iarge made before the issuer is informed (and a fast operator Can run up thousands of dollars worifa in a few days) are billed to the cardholder.

A bank could get tn i bind whert moMtary poU<7 limits

its loanable funds at the same time it stimulates credit card use.

Changiiig Habits

And a basic, unanswered question is wlKtber or not proliferation of credit cards will change savings patterns so that individuals rely more on borrowing and less on savings, cutting banks* funds while putting more demand oo them.

The question of propriety also arises. Banks, nomimdly. are restricted to operations within their own state. Yet at least two bank-owned credit card operations are being exported to other states.

Moreover, there will be tremendous pressure on retailers to honor a banks credit card whether they want to or not After all, a local store owner whose inventory is financed by ^ contoT bank

is gutsy indeca if he tarns down the banks credit card program.