Thursday, June 22, i967 ' '

Elected School Board Is Best Bet

Final approval should be given by the legislature to the measure which will permit election of county school board members throughout the state where they are not now elected.

The measure has moved slowly through legislative channels, but now has cleared all but the last hurdle . . . approval on the floor of the House. If reaction of the House Education Committee is any indication of sentiment of that body, the final hurdle should not be difficult. The House committee gave its approval to the legislation with only one dissenting vote.

There are and have been, of course, a number of counties in the state where members of the boards of education are elective rather than appointive officials. In the vast majority of North Carolinas counties, however, it has been a traditional practice for political parties to nominate school board members usually in the party primarybut for the members actually to be appointed by the legislature.

Some have maintained that election of school board members would pul tlie public schools more into politics than now is the case, and thus be detrimental to the schools. It appears the prevailing opinion in the state, however, that election of county school board members by the voters is to be preferred to appointment by the legislature where the will of one or two men may determine the decision.

The legislation on election of county school

!3ig Stress On

Role

aucation

By WILLIA.M A. SHIRES

Reflector Raleigh Bureau

RALEIGH - Before the 19-67 General Assembly is able to adjourn it probably will have faced as many or more problems and challenging propositions affecting the public ichools than any in history.

This fact has received only passing attention thus lar. possibly because it has been overshadowed by debate and controversy on more spectacular subjects.

It may be surprising to those who recall the cmphasi.s on education during the sessions of 1961. 1963 and liJ.

Nevertheless, the sum total of public School legislation now pending is somcwliat staggering.

massive public education program hacked by the Moore adminVt"ation and spearheaded even further by the United Forces for Education (UFE) is now moving into the legislative spotlight in Raleigh.

WILLIAM

SHIRES

Literally scores of bills have been introduced to implement tfie governors education proposals and carry out additional recommendations advanced by the UFE and others.

Governor Moore places major emphasis on the program, in his budget message to legislators he said, education is the first concern and responsibility of this administration. And he added, North Carolina still has a long way to go to attain the educational system we desire.

Scores Of Bills Pending bills range from

the governor's record $784 million school appropriations requests and UFE's fatter teacher pay increase proposals costing $90 million more to wider use of educational tele-vi.sion.

These are bills for a uniform statewide system of electing local school boards and to streamline county - city school system consolidations. There are bills to reduce the size of cla.-iscs in pubhc school grades. to provide more tree textbooks and free bus transpora-tiun for pupils in city school districts.

Others would authorize eas-ibility studies of public kin-dergarens and a 12 month school year set up on a quarterly basis, to establish pilot u'8 - school programs for deaf children.

.Money Factor

Money, of course, will be a major and frequently deciding factor in determining just how far - reaching and ambitious an overall education program will be enacted.

The administration's teacher pay raise proposals are for a total 17.58 increase over the two years, raising the minimum annual salary for A certificate liolders to $5,004.

UFEs proposals call for increases of nearly 30 per cent, boosting mximums for teachers to $8.500 in 1967-68 and to $9..350 in 1968-69.

One of the stiffest fights of the current session has been building up on the question of increased teacher salaries, but is not destined to reach the floor until the biennial Appropriations bill comes out of committee late in the session.

Also carrying additional 19-67-69 public school appropriations price tags are bills to provide 130 additional special education teachers, more vocational rehabilitation services, additional teacher scholarship loan funds and continuation of the Shakespeare and Sandburg projects.

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board members now pending in Raleigb is Due of the measures which should be written into law before the 19G7 General Assembly adjourns. It is a good piece of legislation and one which is of importance to North Carolinas people and their future.

Now Must Separate Wheat And The Chaff

These next .several days will be hectic indeed for members of North Carolinas General Assembly as they attempt to wind up the session that began almost six months ago.

Back in February there were assertions that in spite of the business before it, the 1967 General Assembly might find its path smooth, relatively speaking, and its progress rapid. But that was back in February. The intervening months have proved otherwise.

A brisk start in the legislative halls during the first clays of the se.ssion gradually slowed to a snails pace. For most of the session, until the past couple of weeks, the pace has been slow and progress difficult. The task of the legislators has appeared more difficult than usual, perhaps because of the lack of vigorous, recognized leadership a sub.stantial part of both houses were willing to follow.

While the pace of activity has increased sharply with a rise in adourment fever in the past week, the task becomes more rather than less difficult for members of both houses. Crammed into the next several days of the General Assembly will be all the items of unfinished business, some major, some minor, but all of imptortance to some people of the state.

The task of separating now the essential business from the non-essential become a key. The time remaining before the General Assembly closes shop lor 18 months will not permit action on all the matters which are pending. These next few days are ci'itical. How the legislature exercises its judgment in deciding what must be acted upon and what is lo be left for another session will to a great extent determine the untimate contribution of the 1967 General Assembly.

Teason Departs N Debate

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By JAMES MARLOW

\VASHINGTO.\ (AP) - It was like a Western with the guys in the white hats and the guys in the black hats. Just who was wearing which hat at any given moment depended upon who was talking.

Thi.s was the condition at the end of the second day of debate on the Isi'aeli-.Arab war at the U. N. General Assembly.

Discussion reached the intellectual level of youre another. Reason departed. Blame was the common language. Distortion became routine. Diplomats used bad manners and childishness to make an impression.

If any earnest and sensible effort is being made to reach a peaceful settlement. It must be going on behind the scenes. There what the delegates say to one another doesnt have to have any connection with what they say in the open.

In public they go through a predictable dance, like characters in a ballet.

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS SET UP LARGE OBJECTIVES

A baseball magnate in this country has described what he calls a dangerous baseball team as one that wins games but doesnt win pennants.

Some people throughout their lives insist on winning a series of minor victories and thereby losing the great triumphs. The man who is unreliable in business may go on for years chiseling a little here and there and making some money thereby. But almost invariably he misses the opportunity for real tinancial success. Some people insist always on having their rights, and generally they get them but that is all they get. They miss the friendship and regard which come from taking a big view of life. Hannibal won many battles, but Scipio won the war. The same was true of Napoleon. It has always been said of England that it loses all the battles and wins all the wars.

An individual life characterized by a series of little objectives is something pathetic to contemplate. The same is true in the life of nations. Little men and little nations win battles; big men and big nations win wars. A dangerous baseball team is one that wins games but loses pennants. A small - sized man is one who gets practically everything he wants in life except Hie one thing he wants or needs mo.'^t.

iss Beating

"Lei Me kimw W iieii YonVe FiiiLlied \oiir Ael, So We Caa Diseie Them Into PJows>hares'

By JAMES KILPATRICK

Tlusion, Reality Collide

Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin is a good example. His purpose was clear before he began: Moscow wants to regain the goodwill of the Arabs whom they let down when the war with Israel began.

So he denounced Israel, asking the assembly to condemn ^ it as an aggressor and tell it' to give back the land it seized from the Arabs. He denounced the United States, loo, but more mildly.

It was a tired kind of speech, full of tlie usual Communist cliches about Western imperialism. He reached a peak of bad taste ia making a comparison between the tactics of Israel and Hitler.

It was a one - sided speech, (Continued On Page 6)

This Date-40 Years Ago Today

By FOY H. DUNCAN June 22, 1927 Pitt American Legion Post Takes Action For Complete Observance Of Armistice Day Members of the Pitt County Post of the American Legion were entertained at supper last night at the Rotary Club building by J, Con Lanier and J. B. Kittrell, the occasion being the regular monthly meeting of the organization. Numbers of the legionaires from the different parts of the county were in attendance and thoroughly enjoyed the program. Dr. A. M. Schultz presided. . . .W. H. Rogers and D. K. Pace declared that the signing of the armistice was one of the most important affairs in the history of the world, and that it should, be so observed by people everywhere. . , .

The President's address this past Monday, laying d o wn five principles for peace in the Middle East, was among his better efforts. Mr Johnson was constructive, temperate, reasonable; his familiar Bible Class accents exuded an earnest goodness: he gave no offense to any man.

Yet li.stening to his speech, and reflecting upon the thun

derclap events of recent weeks, one felt a sense of smog returning. It is the feeling that overwhelms aman as he listens to the debates of the UNs General Assembly. Soft words, in the end, are simply no match for cold steel. When illusion collides head-on with reality, illusion gets the worst of it every time.

Other Editors Saying Riaht Kind Of Aic.

(Christian Science Monitor)

There is much trutli in Harvard Prof. Daniel P. .Moyni-han's warning that etforts to extend AniericiUs political system abroad is automatically bound lo fclii. If there is one lesson which the past several decades have taught, it iS that all lands and peoples must find for themselves the political systems which b'^st serve their needs, are most compatible with their history, and fit most ea.sily into their deeply held customs and outlook.

The recent experience; of Africa south of the Sahara is a strong case in point. De.spite the high degree of political sophistication which Bri t a in (and to a somewhat lesser degree, France) left behind as it withdrew from its former colonies, few of these latter have been able to maintain the political institutions which London bequeathed. As surely as water seeking its natural level, these lands have been forced to adapt, modify, and in some cases wholly abcfidon, these well - wishing but alien systems.

Not that the nations of the West (America, Br i t a i n, France, etc.) have been the major offenders in seeking to

export and fasten on others their political systems. As hardly needs underlining, the Communist world has made a much greater and more rigid cHort to extend its particular brand of political outlook ^than has any Western land. But, other than where armed conquest has backed this effort up, the Communists have been largely unsuccessful in their campaign

Indeed, one of the best lessons learned in the p stwar period is that no one country necessarily know.s what is best tor anollier. And this is particularly true where political systems arc concerned.

One must, however, be careful to make a clear distinction between seeking to impose one's own system on another and merely helping another land find the freedom to choose its own manner of life and type of government. As a general rule, we consider it right (and often nece.ssary) for one power to help another achieve those conditions of freedom which give the latter the opportunity to determine its own future. When carried through sincerely, and with no ulterior purpose, such international aid is an essential part of international brotherhood.

That is the abiding 1 e s s on the Israelis have taught the world once more. There comes a point, in the affairs of men and nations, at which the loftiest precepts and the most virtuous principles no longer suffice. At such a point, sheer self-interest takes over; t a Ik stops; and the gauzy illusions of justice yield to the hard realities of power.

Such moments can have an awful value. For good or i 11, they clear the air. Nothing thereafter can be quite the same. Harry Truman went through this experience 22 years ago, when he gave the command that led to Hiroshima. It was a muinent of unspeakable agony, but agony is among the realities that mankind has had to endure. And the Jap.-nesG surrendered,

.Nikita Khrushchev went through such a crisis of self-interest in Uetober of 1956. If the Hungarian revolution had succeeded, the whole of the Soviet satellite system would have been endangered. While the Western world temporized. he acted with ruthless speiri. And that was the end of the revolution.

History abounds with such examples, and some we see as good some evil: it is all in the eye of the beholder. Jef-erson summed it up in oiir own Declaration of Independ-rncr. \s a general pr position, the rule of prudence holds sway, for men are more disposed to suffer, while evils arc sufferable, than to take up arm.s. But there comes a time when a long train of abuses no longer can he tolcr-atedwhen petitions, appeals, and remonstrances go unheeded, and nothing remains but to face t!ie reality that results when nations are enemies at war.

So, too. w t h the Israelis, (Continued On Page 6)

Chiang

Ching's

Stage

By JOHN RODERICK

TOKYO (AP) ^ She stepped from the wings into the full glare of the footlights a year ago. Despite the jeers and envy of her critics, Chiang Ching remains the mo.st powerful woman in her husband's China.

A few years ago, she apparently was a self-effacing housewife, content to remain in the enormous shadow of her eminent husband, Communist party Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

She shrugged off this role publicly in 1966 and took on a new one: defending of the Maoi.st faith.

Peering priiply from bchmd steel-rimmed glasses, she has gained a wide reputation on the mainland for her razor-tongued criticisms of the Peking Opera, literature, art and theater.

Her work in this field has brought her one important job after the other, as advisor to the armys cultural purge, deputy chief of the party's purge committee and Red empress of Chinese arts Her pre-eminence in the world of Chinese women today is unchallenged. ^

Nor is Chian^hing far from the top in the tough, swiftly changing world of Red Chinas men. She ranks somewhere among the first seven or eight closest politically to her 73-year-old husband.

Once she took over the job of cleansing the revisionists and anti-Maoists, she worked ha. voc among some of the most powerful men in the party. She is said to have had ?. hand in cutting down Marshal Hsu Hsiang-chien, once chairman of the army purge committee; Deputy Premier Tao Chu, the Marshal Yeh Chien-ting.

In one way or another, they dared to cross her; their seniority and fame failed to save them.

What transformed this once-obscure moth into the shining butterfly of IViaoism?

The answer most generally accepted is that beginning in 1959 she saw Mao slipping, o|)-posed, ignored and privately derided by President Liu Shao-chi and his followers.

Once an actress of some ability, she fought back in the area she knew best: the stage and screen. Stubborness and a giit for expres,sion her speeches have been not only sharp but lively and well-organized helped her along.

She knew what needed to be done, what Mao wanted and what wa.s lacking.

.Mao began his comeback in 1965 with mas.sive criticism of a play called Hai Jui Dismi.sed from Office, written by Peking's deputy mayor, Wu Han. .Mao charged it a.s.sailed him and hi.s 1959 dismi.s.'^al of Defense Minister Lin Piaos prede-ccs.sor, .Marshal Peng Teh-h.sai.

I was Chiang Ching who put Mao onto the subversive thread running through the plav Maoists now date the beginning of the purge from the criticism of that play.

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Robbers entered a bank somewhere, we see by the paper, but left without taking anything. We knew the value of money was shrinking, but we thought it was still worth stealing. Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel.

The only trouble with life is you're halfway through before you realize its one of those do-it-yourself deals. Industrial News Review/.

Costs Rise To Meet The Funds

R. R. Lee To Be Married Friday

R. R. Lee, local attorney, left this morning for Blowing Rock, where he will be married to Miss Gladys Brown PTiday morning. The ceremony will take place at the First Baptist Church.

Misses Staton And Fleming Entertain

Misses Blanche Staton and Helen Fleming delightfully entertained on Tuesday morning at Hill Horne Drug Co. . . . The affair was in honor of Miss Elmer Andrews of Princeton. There were four tables 0 rook. High score was made by Miss An ' ews . . .

Misses Eloise Garrett and Margaret Bostic have returned from Sh'.'lby wIktc they have been attending a house party. ^

By ELMER ROESSNER

There is a corollary to Park-imson's Law. It is: Costs of medical care tend to rise with the availability of funds for patients care.

I'he validity of this law is demonstrated by the fact that in 1966, the year in which Medicare went into operation, llie prices for medical services took one of the largest jumps ever recorded, a 6.6 percent leap, according to Bureau of Labor wStatistics figures.

Furthermore from June, 19-66, to March, 1967, the period when Medicare became effective, the prices of all medical services ro.se at an annual rate of 10 per cent. In the same period, doctors fees rose at an annual rate of 7.9 per cent.

Hospital rates also rose sharply and Walter J. McNer-ncy, pre.sident of the Blue Cross Association this week piudictcd that they will go higher.

$70 A Day In 1970

He pointed out that t h e .American Hospital .\ssocia-calculated the cost per patient a day was $48.83 a day in 1966, and that it had gone to $54.05.

McNcrney e.stimates that the cost per day in 1970 will be $69.79. This would be an increase of 42.9 per cent over 1966 averages.

ELMER

ROESSNER

The Morgan Guaranty Trust ('u., after an extensive sur-very medical costs, points out tli;iL government figures .show the prices of medical .services, not including drug.s, rose twice

as fast as the cost of living in the 1956-1966 period. Medical service costs rose an average of 3.9 per cent a year while the cost of living rose 1.8 per cent.

The availability of funds for patients care has been constantly rising during this period of rising medical costs.

At the end of 1965, 156 million Americans had some kind of private hospital insurance and 146 million had some kind of surgical protection. And 52 million were covered by major medical-expense policies. In 1965, health insurance payments to beneficiaries was $8.6 million.

A S45 Billion-A-Year Industry

The number ol pe Ji-le covered is constantly increasing. Blue Cross or similar coverage for entire families as well a.s for worker.s is becoming a standard, undcbatable clau.<=e in union eontr.n 1.", i' T lia.s not alre.'idy beeome .so.

In addition 19 million per

sons, most of them not included in private medical insurance programs, are covered by Medicare and of these 18 million have subscribe to extended care.

In 1965 Congress consolidated a number of government medical programs and, adding more money, created Medi-card in which the federal government pays from 50 to 83 per cent of costs of medical care for the medically indigent when states set pro grams that pay the rest. Most states have set up plans or are working on them.

In all, the Morgan bank estimates that medical care in now a $45 billion-a-year indu.s-try. That includes hospital and nursing home care; the services of physicians, dentists a n d 0 t h e r professi o n a Is; drug.s; eyeglasses and appli-Miic('s. meflieal rc.search; and the fniistriK'tion of medical i'acilitics.