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Wednetdiy, Dcmb#f 11, 1961

Should Be Close To The People

EACH IN HIS OWN WAY!

We feel tic Board of Higher Education ki proceeding wisely in not pushing the recommendation tliat a state super agency ba created to over-aea higher education budgets.

There are some good recommendations in the boards long range plans, but they could dtdckly be forgotten if there were a major fight over the super agency idea.

It is almost a sure thing that there would be a fight if the board attempted to push the agency plan. Already spokesmen for The Consolidated University, as well as the Regional University, have voiced their doubts about the proposal.

Number of legislators have expressed doubts about the overseeing agency, which would take over some of the budget making power of the State

?riction Among

Good Neighbors

By WILLIAM A. SHtRBI Beflector Raleigh Bureau

. .RALEIGH There are fi-tiier strong indications that perhaps the North Carol i fl Uood Neighbor CouBcU fthould do more practlcinf of what it preaches.

In a numbar of tostaiie

' Aere wat fHction and lack of accord and rtcU harmony at the CouneiPi ann u a 1 meeting in Raleigh last week. There was some backbiting and barbed remerka were made. There were some vehement arguments off the podium.

; vOn tba surface things ap-

giared to be going smoothly, ut there was a certain tensc-nese evident to most obaerv-Vs.

" The recently appdnted act-,Jng chairman, Dr. James T. Taylor, reacted sarcastically k> a question about why tha mayor of CharloUa, Sian Brookshire, did not attend. ;Brookshire had been eehedul-. 'td to appear on a Human Re-lations panel.

Taylore Reply " He didnt know, Taylor said. The miyor had not sent word,

. and wert waiting for him/* _ Taylor added.

Anyway he was not to ' -epeak. He was just to attend, thylor said.

Otlwr fiourcee said Brook-ihire had notified Council of-^lleials two weeks earlier that lia would ba unable to attend and appear on the panel. And ^hii name was not listed on the jmgram.

In any cast, the panel "which was to follow an ad-" ' *.4ress by Charlee Dunn, ad-* Riinistrative assistant to Gov. : pan K. Moore was delayed - ^ wnd the participants dianged.

Another Absent Another program partid-pant was absent and Taylor inentioned this.

> He told the Council and at

tending audience that a Negro

minister, the Rev. Aaron J. Jdmson, had telephoned him the previous day to say he could not come because he "was needed" in Hyde County, the scene of recent radal damonstrations because of fdiool integration policies.

Taylor added that he knew the Rev. Johnson did have something more important" to do. If this was an attempt at humor, no one Umghed.

Taylor, a Nagro, has stepped Into the ahoes of the late Davkl S. Coltrane as chairman of the Good Neighbor Council. Hopefully this is a group working toward goals of racial harmony and cooperation, tlie ingredient Coltrane felt was most needed wai patience and understanding. The Council itself showed very little of either. Sidewalk Argumenta

In the sidewalks and in the hotel lobby, whites and blacks argued about approach.

A Negro membtr sho u t e d that "Aey don*t understand. You must remember that these people (Negroes are emotional."

This spokesman and others argued that Negroes who have been economically and socially andarprlvilegad will react quickly and m nnaxpeo-ted, sometimas violent wayi.

The reply waa that these are ways which violate the law and which ttw majority of the community can neither understand nor condone. Violence and lawleeanest, they aaid, ii not the answer.

Other Instailo

There were other Inttano es of racial division. Tha Negro members and other Nw groes attending fills two day conference choee voluntar! 1 y to segregate themselves. They sat together. They talked together. They walked tt^ether and in groups they shunned white company. From interviews, it may be reported that they would have been welcome in groups of whites elfiier in the hotel, the auditorium or In the dining rooms. In fact their presence would have been received warmly.

Dunn expressed it this way. "We are talking about mans ability to get along with, to hve among, to develop his talents along with thoee of his fellow man." It it. he said, far more difficult fiun 1 had first imagined.

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Th thought of any agency which would plan budgets for the stataa universities and colleges should be laid to rest permanently. Budget making for higher education should be as close to the peo^ pia as possible. The super agency idea merely takes it another step away.

Boys Club Project Is About To Get Started

Tha announeament of an axecutiva director for the Boys Club of Groanvilla shows that this worthwhile project is about to gat underway.

Pmaidant R. W. Howard* Jr. announced that J. Richard Ullom hAa been named aa director for the local Boya Club.

Offlcera hope to find temporary quarters and begin operations here by March 1, ld60. The club wli be open to boys ages six through high school and it will offer varied activities for them.

The local club will be Aliated with Boys Clubs of America and H will be supported through public contributions.

We feel that Bo3ts Club of Greenville will fill a great need in our communty. It will help our boys to develop their lives along consiructve lnea.

We hop# that all citizens will lend their efforts to the development of the local Boys Club during this crucial organizational peHod.

There Is much to be done before Greenvilles Bovs Club is opened. We should not fall in this effort.

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Small Windows

By HAL BOYLE

NEW YORK (AP) - We cannot live in our time with email wfndowi," said Renee Theobald. We must open them more feel the poe-smtim and chalRnies of life more, and express them more."

At 42 the beautiful and exciting Parlsiaa artist, well known both In this country and in Europa, has been doubly successful in opening the wtndowi on walls" of her own hfi.

Her pafaitinfs, notabia for vivid colortng and optimism, hava drawn warm pra i s e from some noted critics for their "vklii touch" and the "aeit and Joy" they demon-atrata. She has hid 20 one-man riiows. Twenty of her paAitings were snipped up by collectors during a recent two-week exhibition at the Bmlli Walter Gallaries here.

At Wife and mother, Mme. Theobald has been equally successful. She is married to Duboli de Montreynaud, a French statistician and insurance company (tfcial, and they have five daughters, ranging m age from 10 to 18 years.

She has found no conflict in pursuing two carters. Monngs and evenlnii are given to her family, afternoons are apent at her easel.

IVained at the Sorbonne she resumed painting alter and Biiux-Arta de Paris, she reaumed painting after tha birth of her fourth dauifii-ter.

The children canoe so quickly that I felt I had to open another window In my own world to keep from be-hif trapped by diapers and baby care," she recafied amil-ing.

"I felt I had to show I could do something else, too. It was a kind of sport to prove I was not e prisoner of oo-casion and recurrence.

I feel my husband and children are proud of my painting. Each of us has his own intellectual interests as well as our wfx)ie life togethtf. I fed it important that every family be enrkdi-ed by the way each member of it reaches his own inaids

harmony.

Mme. nieolMdd, who is brown eyed and chestnut-haired, at a girl wanted to be an avlatrix becauet she had a yearning to fly.

Now 1 try to By by my patoting," me said. But it

Is not e way to escape. It is a Way to assume ones self more, to lila in a stronger way.

Art is a means to selie or grasp more of life, and then to communicate to others what you see and feel. Ihat, I bdieve, It what life is for to find happiness yourself and then try to hek> give it to others"

She is an impressionist painter, and hai little Inter-in turning out tibe kind of abstract or geometric pictures which leave many a viewer uncertain whether they are iMaag rigbtslde up or not

Opinions In Brief

"When love and skin work together, expect a maste^ piece. John Ruskte.

While Jutt government protects an in their religious ritec, true religion affords government its surest support George Washington.

Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do.Elbt Hub-' bard.

An investment in knowledge always pay the best intereet Benjanaln Franklin.

Strength For Today

WATCHINQ THE GAME

Ihere are milUoni of ekier-^ p^^sons today who Sit before television for hours watching athletic contests. The wife of one of our recent Presidents could keep e bov score in baseball game and fiiis even the most ardent fans find difficult

Of course we expect young people to be watching an athletic contest Many a man In the evening after a hard day watches a football game on television. The kids laugh at the programs their elders of-tan choose. Why not get programs that have something to themaction, excitment, such as games, fights, track meets?

On the whole there is probably no factor In our mMin lif* more wholeewns than is interett in sports. It can be overdone as cverythtoggood and bad-can be ovMdont.

By JAMES KILPAT^ICIC

!-irst. We Must Listen

What is the first thing to be done with Americas diseo-chanfed and reisellious student leaders? it is to listen to them.

That was the sound counsel extended last wek by Margaret Mead, the sal^ old anthropologist, and by J. Irvin MtUer, foimer president of the World Council of Churches. They tunied up before a meeting of the National Association of Manufacturers, on a panel discussion of crises in America lift. Ihey botii made fiie same vital point: The war babies of

194M948, now the youi^ people of 20 to 26, comprise a generation vastly different from the gentfation of t h t Ir parents. The differences have to be comprehended.

They are memb^ of the first generation that wiU have to face, throughout their Uvea, the possibility of mankinds Uteraijy deatroying itself. They ire the first generation of file sateUite, which caniea such awesome capabilities for good and evil. They grow into adulthood in a world that is figwatively much smaller than fiieir pa-

Other Editors Say TV Sensationalists

Goldsboro Newt-Argasi

The current isue of Publishers AuxiUary points up a problem which snould not go unnoticed by representatives of all news media.

In a front page article, the Auxiliary reports on the activities of television reporters on the scene during the Manning-ton, West Virginia, mine tra-gedy.

*rhe article was based on interviews with other newsmen on the scene, largely news-papm- editors who Uve and work in West Virginia.

Richard Parrish, editor of a smtU aftMiioon daily newspaper 10 miles from Mannington had a reporter photographer team on the scene.

My stiff was appalled, Parrish said, by the way TV men went after their story whM they saw them shove cameras into the relatives facet bombard them with intimate questions, wait until they began to cry and then start the cameras roUing.

One TV cameraman was quoted as asking of a young wife: Whit do you plan to do this Christmas without your husband?"

John Quigley, managing editor of a newspaper 35 miles from Mannington, said he was utterly ashamed of the per-fcamance" of TV newsmei.

They were harrassing the victims famiUes, putting words In their mouths and trying to get them to be ovei^ ly crificil of the company, Quigley related.

Linda Biason, who edits a weekly newspaper 40 miles from tha tragedy, reported the big city TV men would talk to the people until they wtffked them into an emotional state."

Let it be said that in our experience we have never seen a TV news team representing a N(th Carolina TV station conduct Itself in the manner witnessed at Mannington.

But wa have seen network TV crews come in like a band of prima donnas and if the story they envisioned when they left New York (or wherever) didnt exist they would do all in their power to create** the story.

We had a personal experience with an ABC-TV network team this past summer. It was immediately apparent to all thfrthe team had not come to covw a news event, it had come to lumduce a show.

The TV reporter and cameramen repeatedly interrupted a pro^am to insist that thosa on me program do things that had not been scheduled.

Since our own N(wih Carolina TV men have never been accused of such carryings-on and slnca no criticism was made of newspaper and radio reporters at Mannington, ona might ask why we. here, should be concerned.

Our concern stems from tha fact that the conduct of any media" r^rter reflects on all of ua. The lack of credibility of a TV newscast detracts from the credlblltiy of a newspaper or radio report

rents world a world of mixiKi perils and (^jportunitl-es unlike those we knew in the Twenties md *111111168.

Add to these elements the frustration of the black American; the sexual emancipation encouraged not only by the Pill" but also by womans changing status; toe ethical problems presented by such prospects as compulsory p^julaton contrds and organ transplants all of it adds up to a crusting weight upon tne children of *42-48. In their diseiKhantment with established institutions, which have protoiced the problems but not resolved them, no wonder this dissident generation cries out to be ustened to!

So let us listen earnestly, thoughtfully, and not defensively. Let us llsttti to their criticMiw of higher education, of capitalism, of the policies of government at K>me and abroad. We of toe middle and older generations have no monopoly on wisdom; we can learn.

But there is another side to the proposition. If the middle and older generations are to cease toeir indifference and <^>en their ears, the young rdlltants must abandon their arrogance and open their ears as well. It is Impossible to listen carefully over the sound of smashing glass.

Before this crisis of misunderstanding can be resolved before any constructive ef-f<H*t can be made toward brid-Ing the gena'atlon gap order will have to be restored. This Is the first condition. *There can be no temporizing with it.

In the course of a single 24-hour period here in New York last week, students imprisoned the dean of Forcftiam in his office by erecting a barricade of desks; down at New York University, other young anarchists forcibly prevented lectures by toxith Vietnams Nguyen Huu Chi and The New York Tlmess J t m e s Reston. Meanwhile, black high school students were rioting in the subways. Across toe continent, the agony of San Francisco State C o 1 lege continued.

Just as it is a time fc* listening, so also is it a time for cracking down. For too long, college administrators and

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Control;

By ROWLANO eVANS wj ROBEWr NOVAK ,J

WASHB3TbN - 'the reason Presiitettt - eleck Nte* on will not send a person^ Observer to Hit Vietnam peace tofti in ^kris is decisions tovolving evi fite smeBest detatii are made not in Paiif but in President Johnsons White Hones office.

Seldom If ever before has a skilled negotiating team bad $0 little freedom to operate on its own as the tJ. I. team headed by Ambassador Ave* reU Harrimatt tfid Cyrni Vance. .

The restdk, although none ^ toe principals will toscuss II freety even in total privacy, has been toision and frtiitra-tion within the U. S. team in Parte whteh on occask hM reached close to tite outer limits of forbearance.

One such occasion tot emotitoi - fraught days ju^ before Mr. Johnson made hia Ot 31 speech announcing toe id of the bombing on the baste of the now - fmoua undt^tandtag with Hanoi: that the demilitarized zone between North and So nth Vietnam would not be to launch offensive <^>erati o n against the South and fliat the large cities would be immune from rocket attack.

}^n Hanoi's agents at the Parte talks finally agreed it this understanding in late tober, after months of tough bargaining, tile agreement to end the bombing was consummated. It was to be announto ed by President Johnson fro-mediately.

Suddenly, and without any wamkig, Mr. Johnson tossed a bombshell at his n^otiat-Ing team in toe form of a ^ condition. !

The added, condition wA e demand on Hanto that toe first *^meetlng of toe enlarged negotiating teams expanded by the addition of tiie Viet-crnigs National Libwation Front and toe govwwneiit of South Vietnwa - take place toe day alter the bmnbing-halt announcem^it.

This sutfrten and whoiiy unexpected demand from the White Houae stunned toe Presidents n^otiators to PaHi. Not only did it demand the impossible, from Hanois p<^t of view, but It raised a basic question as to whether the Harriman misi 1 o n could be trusted to keep its word. The reason for that was that the already - consummated agreement on the bomb - halt specifically left open toe question of exactly when toe expanded talks would begin.

When Mr. Johnsons new condition start the talks the day after toe announcement was taken to the Hanoi negotiatori, they at first refused even to consider it It would be impossible, they told toe Americans, to round up representativea of the NLF and get them to Paris for perhaps several weeks, much ie^ one day.

'nieret^wn ensued several angry days of intense bargaining on toe tlmkig question, ^th Mr. Johnson per* sonally calling the shots from hte desk in the Oval Office. The Communists rluctantly agreed to advance the starting date of toe expanded talks to sev! days after Mr. John-eons annouDceent of the bombing halt, and the President held out for a starting date three days after the announcement.

While this narrow gap of four days continued to separate the two aides, the bombing contimitd, and Saigon Itself began to be shefted. Hi# (Cootiiwed On Page i)

Aometimaa we are so hicUn-ad to wmtoh otoars who toeir akiU in aporta that wt take BO physical interest in them ourselves. But we can be pretty sure that when we are watching any kind of an athletic contest eithar aeated in a stadium or before a television aereen we are In pretty good company with acoras oif milliotis of our contemporaries and engaged in somalhing that will no lead to trooNe.

Hie Roman people went too far and cared for notiting but gladiatorial games, but these were no wholesome contests but boldly and oftwi fatal brawals. It wu the desire for games and bread that contributed 1AN|^ to Romes down-tn.

But i wMeeome totwmt in athletie eonteats lifta up the mind and tends to purge it of tvlL

Eaii L. Douglass

Christmas Sales Runnina Wei.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Christmas sales have started off even better than the most optimitic predictions. Reports from al lover the cou-ntiy tell of sales ruimtng 6, 10 and higher per cent above a year ago.

Reasons are: i

1. The latineas of Thank-giving, delaying the start of all out Qiristmas shopping, thereby causing a bulge in spend-

The high spending powtf.

3. Good weather or, at least, the lack of disruptive Sturms in most areas.

4. The continued flight from the dollar and the Infiation psychology that causes many people to believe that prices will be higher later and that it is safer to hold goods than cash.

Runaway Spending QaestioHed

However, a survey for the National Industrial Conference Board does not reflect a flight from the dollar although It ahowi toat families are far more optimistic about the future than they were last summer or a year ago. The survey waa by National Family Opinion, Inc., and covered 10,000 representative families.

Of these, 42 per cent think toe current business situation it good, despite higher taxes, and less than 13 per cent think jobs are hard to get. About 22 per cent expect business conditions to imnrove over the next six months.

Martin R. Gainsbrugh, chief NICB economist ,concluded from the figures: Consumer optimism about general business conditions has not been

translated into any upsurge in demand, a fact registered m the recent moderation in retail trade figures. 'The lUrvey would suggest that consumers have adopted a guarded, wait-

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It now appeart that consumers are a bit more optim^c than Mr. Gmintbrugh.

The survey indicated that fewer families Intend to buy cars In the next six montlis.

4.7 per cent compared with 4.9 per cent e year ego. It also showed toat fanulies Intending to buy new homes were 2.4 per cent, compared with 17 per cent a year ago; that plans to buy major appli-cances are down to 17 pw* cent from 39 per cent.

Other Christmai Records

Meanwhile, other Christmas records are being broken this ysar. Shoplifting end employee pilfering appear to be headed to now records end Bstter Business Bureaos are warning that swindlers are more active than ever.

While it might be -xpected that such crimes rise in bad times and dimtoiih in prosperous times, the reverse ts true. Perhaps it is tot abundance of money and goods, nol hunger, that stirs mens avarice.