Thursday, June 1, 1967

Better Schools If Public Willing

ALL IN KNOWING HOW TO PLAY THE GAME!

North Cai:olina laces a dilemma in its public schools which must be resolved if the state is to avoid an unprecedented crisis in the jTars immediately ahead. /

Throughout the state there are assertions about the great public awareness of the needs of North Carolina's schools. From East to^West spokesmen voice what they "say is the desire of citizens to see public schools improved and higher quality educational opportunities offered ev( ry youngster.

In Raleigh, state officials ])ropo<e more funds than e\er before for jiublic education. But the amopnts they adxdcate fall below that which is porosi^nrv to catamdt North Carolina into a more favorable nosition commire.i with other states. Of-f-nhds at the state level say a great effort must be

Melodrama In

The Old Style

By WILLIAM A. SHIHLS

Hoflcctor Ralcisih Riircaii

RALEIGH - Rumb'ai-^ ot decp-throated political \si!ca-no brought worried Democrats rushing back unto the koida tive scene, waving the banners of a regional university for Eastern North Carolina, and hoping to appease the g^ds.

It was a cartoonists dream. In a sense, it all seemed as staged and contrived as an old South Sea island melodrama following a familiar plot.

The gods of the East were offended and angry. The natives were restless and the whole island, rooted in Democratic party tradition and facing other troubles, appeared in danger of destruction. Something had to be done.

This was Act II of the East Carolina College effort for independent university status in the 1967 session of the General Assembly.

Proposes New System

When the first act curtain came down a few weeks ago, the Senate had voted 27-22 against the idea. It might have ended there, but the volcano made noises.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

There were reports of quaking earth and flows of fiery lava, and nervousness ran through the states Democrat-is party and reached the politically - sensitive legislature. There were warnings that time was growing short an election year, 1968, is just just six months away.

Suddenly Sen. John Henley, the bespectacled druggist-le-gislator from Hope Mills, N. C., mixed a prescription which he he hoped would be strong medicine.

He cast himself in the role of medicine man and strode forth bravely with a surprise bill proposing a system of regional universities making East Carolina College the first institution in the new system.

Political Undercurrents

No one could fail to detect the political undercurrents. Henley called attention to

them. There were whisperings uf approval, new hope and renewed persuasion on the part of Ea^t Carolina supporters. There were murmurings of dire warning and impending attacks upon the one univer-.sity concept.

the old chief. Sen. Julian Allsbrook. principal sponsor of the original independent status bill, came over to shake Henley's hand and offer his signature and support.

ECC's young, vigorous war chief. Sen. Robert Morgan, began mustering his forces again and conferring with his lieutenants and top strategists. Henley's bill, Morgan said, would accomplish just what East Carolina had asked and wantedindependent, refion-al university status. He did not know of Henleys decision but was ready and eager to support it.

The forces of the governor of all the islands, Dan Moore, had moved on to other fields of legislative conquest but began hastily to regroup. They sounded a call to supporters of the one university concept and planned countermoves.

Henley In Spotlight Henley meanwhile moved into the spotlight with his brief address to the Senate, warning political implications and future effects of the East Carolina College issue. He acted, he said, because he had worried over the course we have chosen for the state and for the future of education in the state.

Some say we have resolved this issue. I say to you that since I have served in the legislature I have never seen an issue that was worse after than it was before. Unless we resolve this pro-lem this session, it will gnaw at the state for years to come. he said. I feel that this General Assembly must face the concerns that exist in the hearts of our people and exert every effort to carry out their wishes.

He warned that the East Carolina pot is still bubbling and will boil over and scald us all if we dont act and act this session.

What is needed, Henley said, Us a new systema system of universities to serve regions.. an orderly method by which the other four-year colleges may apply for admission to this new system...a way of (Contlnned On Page 5)

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put forth at the local level if North Carolina is to meet its needs in public education. They assert the state is carrying about all the financial load-it can for public schools without increasing taxes.

At the local level, while there is a clamor for the state to do more, there is an obvious lack of , zehl for the local governments to pump more money into school programs . . . particularly if it means higher local taxes. In a number of counties in recent weeks voters have gone to the polls and rejected proposals which would have strengthened local support of schools, but which would also have involved more local tax funds to strengthen the school program. In some instances the proposals have been rejected by overwhelming margins.

If North Carolina is to improve its public schoolsand it must acomplish thisit is going to cost money. It is going to cost North Carolina money, and that money must come either from the state or local governments. Either xvay, it must come from the pocketbooks of citizens of this state.

If citizens are unwilling to support their public schools through greater financial effort at the local government level, they can hardly expect state officials to be convinced of their sincere desire for improved schools brought about by more state funds and accompanying increases in state taxes.

It simply boils down to the fact that North Carolina can have better schools when its citizens are willing to pay for them.

A Reminder For N.C. Highway Commission

Perhaps the Sunday blow-up of a section of East Tenth Street will serve as a reminder to the State Highway Commission of urgent need to give some attention to thtat congested artery.

The buckling of the street Sunday afternoon probably had nothing to do with the amount of traffic it carries. It was just a matter of concrete and a hot afternoon. And besides the traffic Sunday was much less than the street normally carries simply because some 8,000 ECC students are out of town between the spring and summer terms of school.

Nevertheless, the incident on Tenth Street draws attention and improvement. It has suffered too long from the inattention of the Highway Commission and the city has suffered because the vital traffic artery has been ignored.

Trobably Dirty

By JAMES KILPATRICK

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Middle East is like 2 cans of worms, and not nice ones. It's now a mi.xture of hate, religious prej u d i c e, face-saving, egotism, throne-saving, legalisms, and probably dirty tricks not yet discovered.

The ill will between Jordans King Hussein, who got a lot of help from the United States, and Egypts President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who got a lot of help from the Soviet Union, was so intense that on May 2 Nasser called Hussein a stooge for the American CIA.

Tuesday Nasser called him brother after Hussein traveled to Cairo to sign a mutual de-

Strength For Toda'y

By EARL L. DOUGLASS SOUNDNESS OF BODY AND SOUL

A great religious leader some decades ago called forth the ridicule and disdain of his contemporaries because of the emphasis he put on the importance of good physical health. People went to talk to h i m about their souls, and he met them with a barrage of questions about what they ate, how they slept each night, whii. their personal habits were in almost every aspect of living. This is not religion, they cried. We go to this guy to get spiritual guidance, and he ends up by giving us a health talk.

Why not? There is such a relationship between good health, good thoughts and satisfactory living in every particular that wise councilors regard good physical health as something to be sought after by everyone who is anxious to maintain sound spiritual health. It is true that many of the saints have been much below par physically. Some of the worlds villians have been and are persons of radiant physical health. But by and large there is a connection between good health on the one hand and good thoughts, sound judgment, and vital religious faith on the other.

A noted theologian used to say in his classes that Christianity is not the religion of the spirit but the religion of the body. Since there can be no life without a body, it follows that .sound spiritual liealth is usually associated with sound j)hysifal health.

There is not as much conflict between the l)ody and the .soul as people sometimes think there is.

fense pact with h i m against Israel.

Hussein probably did it because he was afraid hed lose his throne if he didnt since his Jordanians are hopping with hatred for the Israelis and full (Continued On Page 5)

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN

June 1, 1927 Lindberch to Head For Home On Saturday

ParisCaptain Charles Lindbergh will fly to Paris in a British plane Thursday and will be a guest of Ambassador Herrick until Saturday and then sail for home abroad the United States Destroyer Breck from Havre, it was learned today....

Slim Lindberch Accepts

Presidents Invitation To Return To Washington

New York, June 1Captain Charles A. Lindbergh will fly from Washington to Miller Field, Staten Island, on June 14th and w'ill remain in the city until June 17th, when he will fly to St. Louis....

League Ball I Proposed For This Section Greenville has been gripped by baseball fever, and as a result plans are now underway for the organization of an Eastern North Carolina League composed of amateur players from towns of this territory.... Sam Carson, captain of the Greenville Club and a former player of the old Eastern Carolina League, is one of the leaders in the movement in this city....

Entertain At Bridge Misses Myrtle Brogden, Bertha Lee Ferguson and Lillie Fentress delightfully entertained at bridge yesterday afternoon at the Candy Palace.... High score was made by Miss Margaret Fleming and low score by Mrs. David J. Which-hard Jr.... Mrs. Roy Batchelor a recent bride and Miss Kathleen Cousins, bride-elect, were remembered with linen tea napkins.

Dodds Four Betrayers

The case of Tom Dodd is simmering just now on the back of the Senate stove, while the Senator prepares his defense against the pending resolution of censure. It is as good a time as any to inquire: What ever became of the four civic guardians who got him into this mess? They ought not to be ignored.

To be sure, their cases are quite separate. Dodd has to be judged on his own conduct, wholly apart from the conduct of James P. Boyd, Marjorie Carpenter, Terry Golden, and Michael 0Hare. But I have written a good deal about the Dodd case as such, and may be coming back tf it when the Senate Committee takes it up on June 13. My own feeling, after a careful review of the Ethics Committee record, is that Dodd probably should be acquitted under the rule of reasonable doubt; but a verdict of guilty could be almost as well defended. For the moment, so much for Senator Dodd.

What a b 0 u t the sticky-fin-bered four? Boyd went to work for Dodd in 1958 a d rose to

be his top administrative aide. Mrs. Carpenter, who was to become the Lady Macbeth of this affair, came on the staff in July of 1961 as the Senator's personal secretary. Jim and Marj got to be chums. From the record:

Q. You had a social relationship with Mr. Boyd since 1963. have you not?

Mrs. Carpenter. Yes, sir.

Q. And he is important to you?

Mrs. Carpenter. Yes, sir.

In December of 1964, Dodd fired both of them for grave misconduct no Senator could have tolerated. Over a period of the next months, the two were overcome by shame at Dodds abuse of his high position. They obtained a duplicate key from a girl still working in the office. They got in touch with those pillars of public virtue. Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson. And over the weekend of June 12-13, 1965 when they began lugging the papers away, their strength was as the strength of ten, ^ cause their heari.', were pure.

I felt I had a public duty. Boyd told the ethics commit-

Other Editors Saying Advertising & Control

(Biloxy-Gulfport Daily Herald)

A stock item of American folklore concerns the oldtime farmer, invariably designated as Rube. When Rube visited the big city the hayseed in his hair was a dead giveaway and he never left town without a gold brick in his carpetbag, or a deed to the Brooklyn Bridge.

Todays counterpart is more likely to be a government administrator, fresh off the campus. The academic Rubes who have been insisL i: that advertising promot e s monopoly, is an ecomomic waste and requires government controls should stop pontificating and read a book which has just been published. Its entitled Advertising and Competition, and was written by Dr. Jules Backman.

Dr. Backman has brou g h t together an impressive array of figures to demolish some old myths being circulated as truths. The discovery of a new product or the improve

ment of an existing o n e, he writes, adds nothing to economic activity until markets are developed. Because management is fully aware of the availability of advertising and other marketing tools, it goes ahead with large investments in research and development of mass markets. This is the job of advertising.

In other words, it is advertising that made possible such things as color tv, stereo sound, permanent press fabrics and a few thousand other things. It has done this by assuring manufacturers they could recover, through advertising, the money invested in their research and development. And this flood of new products, in turn has meant new factories, new jobs, and new industries. What manufacturer would spend millions to develop a new product if he then had to ask a Washington bureaucrat for permission to advertise it?

tee. He took no pleasure out of what he did. To expose the Senator caused me a great deal of pain. He had, in fact, loved the Senator like a father. But Jack Anderson was whispering in one ear and Marjorie was whispering in the other. So, I entered the Senators office for the purpose of removing documents, copying them, returning them, and making them available to the public and to the authorities.

Did he suffer any qualms of conscience? No, indeed. I believe that never at any time in my life did I more deeply demonstrate my belief in Americanism and in the support of the integrity of our free institutions than in those days.

Meanwhile, late in the summer of 1965, little birds began to whisper in the Senators ear. He was thunderstruck. Someone, he said, is stealing my files. He turned to his faithful bookkeeper, young Master 0Hare, and asked for his thoughts on the matter. Aint nobody here but us chickens. boss, the guilele.ss youth replied. Well, said Dodd, let us change the locks anyhow. And this OHara arranged, thoughtfully p r e s e r V ing a spare key for himself. Whereupon, he and his honey bun. Miss Golden, joined the paper safari.

Senator Stennis asked Bo yd if he had considered that his acts might be a violation of criminal law. Boyd said he thought there was such a possibility, yes, sir, but he was doing what I thought to be the right thing to do. and therefore it could not be illegal jf it was morally r^ght." and anyhow, I just thought when all considerations were weighed, that this offense would not be presecuted.

How right he has proved to be! The reporter who inquires to the local District Attorneys office finds that no charges of any sort have been filed against the four. At the Department of Justice, the of-hcial word is that the department is still considering the case.

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At least Chinas Chairman Mao Tse-Tung must be pretty thankful he doesnt have to deliver a State of the Union Message. Catholic Digest.

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

ATHENSIn the early morning hours of April 21, after a handful of colonels had pulled their bloodless coup, a Well-respected Greek politician and former cabinet minister telephoned a senior official of the U.S. embassy.

His plea: give King Constantine all possible support, moral or otherwise, if he attempts a counter-coup.

The reply was negative. Although the U.S. is most unhappy about the coup, he was told, only bloodshed seemed likely to result from an effort to undo it. Besides, the American diplomat continued, he did not want to drive the colonels into Moscows arms because of hostility for the U. S.

At this point, it is necessary to state two facts: th young King requested no help, moral or otherwise, from the U.S. embassy. Even if he had. Ambassador Phillips Talbott had no authorization from Washington to use the Sixth Fleet or other American power against the coup.

Nevertheless, shrewd Greek politicians of both the right and left agree that the King and the U.S. missed a golden chance that early morning of April 21. They believe that Constantine, backed by American approval and perhaps a visit by the Sixth Fleet, would have had a better than even chance to rally loyal generals and troops behind the crown. This bloodless counter-coup then would have established a new royal-appointed regime.

Furthermore, the King and the U.S. have that race commodity in power politics: a second chance. A royal coup this summer almost surely would involve more bloodshed than on April 21. But Greek politicians still look to the King as their hope for a quick overthrow of the military regimeif he is supported and, indeed, encouraged by the U.S.

As we reported in a previous column, the balance of power in the Eastern Mediterraneanquite apart from Nassers threatening gestures may be at stake. If the colonels are permitted to consolidate power with evermore repressive measures, Moscow may stir up guerrilla action in Greece as a counterthrust to Vietnam. Nonmilitary U.S. intervention now not onlv would forestall such disaster but embellish Americas tarnished image as an opponent of the far right as well as the tar left.

The stakes are equally high for the King. Ineffectve meddling in Greek politics starting in 1965 steadily reduced his popularity, hitting bottom April 21 with his inability to control the armysupposedly an arm of the crown.

Even arch-royalists believe the fragile institution of the Greek monarchy is imperiled. But a royal coup would not only restore Constantines prestige but give him towering authority to reform Greeces tawdry political System.

It is generally believed here that Constantine, offended from the first by the presump-tous colonels, is upset by their randi tightening of control. Rut even if he is prepared to act when the time is ripe, the question asked during the wee hours of .^pril 21 remains: would the U.S. back him?

The answ'er remains negative. Fear that harsh treatment of the colonels might turn them toward Moscow has hardened among American (Continued On Page 5)

''nflation Pushes Ud GNP Fiqures

Miss .Mary Lee Pittman has returned, from Currituck, where she has been teaching.

Miss .Mary Lou White, who has' been attending school at St. Marys Raleigh, returned home this afternoon.

By ELMER ROESSNER

James Duesenberry, a member of President Johnsons Council of Economic Advisors, declared at a panel session of the National Association of Purchasing Agents that the administrations target of a gross national pr^uct of $787 billion this year was too high.

This is to second-guess Mr. Deusenberry.

The gross national product for the first quarter of this year was estimated by the Department of Commerce to be at an annual rate of $764 billion, a gain of $4.5 billion over tiie la.st quarter of 1966.

But all of this gain was in price rises. The physical volume of production was off fractionally, the Office o. Business Economics noted.

There Was No Increase

In language you and I talk, that means that the gross national product itself did not increase in the first three months of this year. It actually declined. But the increase in prices made it appear that the nation was producing more goods and services.

ELMER

ROESSNEK

And since there will be more inflation this year caused by government deficit spending, price levels will rise. Thus

even if there is no increase in production, higher prices will make it appear that the gross national product has risen to $787 billion or perhaps to $795 billion or $800 billion. Increase In Debt Limit Sleight Of Hand Exercise

Every year or two Congress goes through its act entitled, Increasing the Debt Limit.

Some years back a reluctant Congiess set a ceiling of federal indebtedness. II was supposed to curb the inflation of constantly spending more than the government look in.

But every time the national d(bt threatened to bump the ceiling. Congress has voted to rai.se the ceiling a little more.

The ever-escalating ceiling means absolutely nothing. But it is amusing to see Congressmen enufiect before this fet

ish of debt limit.

First Fireworks Lighted After Kennedy Round

.Next on the Kennedy round of tariff negotiations: the fireworks. this space predicted last week.

Even before it was in print, the first roman candle went off.

Edmund F. Martin, chairman of Bethleham Steel and head of the American Iron Steel In.stitute, announced at its meeting in New York that is was supporting an up-coming bill to impose a temporary tariff to restrict imports of steel.

Because of tlie lower wage scales in Europe, foreign producers are laying doiwn steel at U. S. ports cheaper than American steel companies can turn it out.