Saturday, July 21, 1962

Bottleneck For Planning Program

AwfIy Sorry, Chaps, But-

Steps taken by the Greenville Board of Educa- location.

tion to provide temporary classrooms tor the coming Finally and thk i n V *

school year attest to the need for removing obstacles planning situaon as it pertains to the Greenvit which now block any comprehensive planning for school districtr-it requested a meeting with the long-range development of local school facilities. Winteryille School Committee to discus problems The board has authorized purchase of a mobile caused by the overlapping of the Greenville cor-school room to be used this fall at Elmhurst school porate limits into the Winterville school district to handle increased enrollment there. It also ap- ^With the growth of Greenville, both from the .proved lease on a house across the street from the standpoint of children of school age and from the citys junior high school to house students of the standpoint of geographic area, it is evident that lYainable School and to be used for band workshop additional school facilities are needed now and areas for junior high students. more will be needed in th? years ahead. The fact

The board reaffirmed its earlier action which ^ of the residential growth of the

will give children living within the Greenville school 5 Winterville school

district priority in attending schools of the district , presents tIi~prd5T^ of finding suitable

locations for new schonis a _______

aisirict priority in atienaing scnoois ot the district ^/----- unaing suitahie

over students living* outside the district. Children ^ iiew schools. As the situation now

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from outside the district will be placed in schools distnct co not build a new

where there is room for them, although the schools f ? ijf. Vymtervnlle district, and it is not likely

j _____ , that the Wintervjllp ,*_____ .l. /

10 wnicn they are assigned may not be the most : . uxauicc woum incur further

convenient from the standpoint of geographic to build a school primarily for chil

dren who ive in the Greenville city limits, Ithnnah they also live within the Winterville district.

me PuDiisiimg OfVancePaDers

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES political events and discussions

VANCE

If the needs for additional school facilities and the education of the youngsters are not to be disregarded, it IS essential that the Winterville School Committee, the Greenville Board of Education, arid perhaps the Pitt Board of .Education seek to resolve the problems which have now become paramount.

It IS not unlikely that any reasonable solution to the problem invohdng more than one school dis-

cvcuw <u:u *----- iiiuic Ulan one scnooi dis-

The papers of Zeb- in the pre-war period and con- trict in Pitt will require approval of the leiri-

nce. Kovemor of duct of the states busines.s lo + i.i-o u___i_____legls

uloo B. Vance, governor of North Carolina during the Ci\11 War, are to be published next year.

Historians call it a priceless project, but Dr. Christopher Crit-tendon, curator and custodian of tte largest and most imiMut-ant of the Zeb Vam^ coUec

duct of the state's business as part of the Confederacy.

Actually, according to Dr. Crittenden, the state has two Vance collections one of official papers and another a large collection of private and unofficial papers, including his love letters and letters from po-

lature before it can become effective. If that is the case, and if the matter cannot be presented for consideration by the time the legislature meets early next year, there will be a delay of at least two more years before legislative approval could be obtanied.

tions, dirwtor of tHT^State D^ Utical enemies challenging him hensive program for e'Tif^ndtn0- compre-

partment of Archives and His- to duels.. lu a I e.xpanding facilities to meet ''

tory, is a bit more modest. in addition, there is a Vancc needs Ot the school children of Greenville tvouli

Dr. Crittenden does agree that collection of 13 items and one ^ serious setback for the school system and for Rv 1-1 A I P/ "IVT 1?

auch papere are extremely volume in the Southern Histori- the educational opportunities offered the vonno- I lull,

valuable and irreplaceable. cal coUer.tion nf the Universitv g^^j.g f ^uiuuca uiierea me young-

The needs are evident, but___

meet those needs cannot be logically the problem of district lines is resolved.

We urge the Greenville Board of Education ^ap) _ side-

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valuable and irreplaceable.

There is a great deal of pride attached to their publication and the anticipated response from scholars and historians.

COLLECTION - The Vance papers are among the most val-

cal collection of the University of North Carolina. This includes telegrams to Vance from such , men as Jefferson Davis, Thomas L. Clingman. James Long-street and W. H. C. Whiting.

Duke University has a num-

icxcu luc yuuiig- ^

ally planned ^untii Attitude Toward Money

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papcrs are among uie most vai- Duke University has a num- me ouaru or riaUCatlOn, oiae-

uablc, significant and import- ber of other Vance papers in- interv'ille School Committee and the Pitt Si # ^ pavement

ant of the historical collections tpr<;Tv>r<qAH s-ith vnrinnc /'nllo#'. RfiijrH nf P*-iTirto f I.-,,., ... latO.

ant of the historical collections housed by the State of North Carolina in Its crowded, cramped archives bene^.th the Education Building in Raleigh.

Vance, who lived from 1830 to 1894, was not (mly governor of the state during the Civil War period but also was U. S. Senator during Reconstruction. His papers are invaluable in providing an Insight into North Carolinas role in the Civil War and its relations with the D-federacy.

The collection in Raleigh is catalogued. Indexed and is available to scholars and researchers. How long the original documents can be preserved Is debatable, even under most Ideal conditions perhaps an- otiwr 100 shears or so. Thus publication is important in this respect, as well as to make the papers more accessible and useful.

PUBLISH The first volume Is being prepared, with Dr. Frontis W. Johnston of David

terspersed with various collections.

ARCHIVES Is there neglect or lack of interest in such items of historical interest as the Vance collections? Are they properly cared for?

Archives and History occupies the first floor of the Education buding and is bursting at the seams.

The departments offices, research quarters, search room and publications occupy one wing, with the HaU of History on the other side, and the offices of tli^ State Board of Higher Education squeezed into the rear.

In Archives and History, desks and tables crowd the hallways and space is at a premium.

But the chief concern of the departments 88 employes Is the care and condition of the old documents, records, letters and other papers in the stacks and shelves in the basement spaces. These archives occupy two lev

Board of Education to consider the matter w ith the One of the best ways to judge urgency it demands in order that this bottleneck ^ Person is by his attitude to-

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to educational progress can be removed.

^Lxcuses Aheac. For Old Folks .

son College doing the editing, els of the basement. Both are It will cover the period from June behind thick doors, in presum

1843, to December 1862.

Beyond the first volume plans are to publish the Vance papers in a number of sulwe-quent volumes as the work of compiling ajMi-L editing can be done. In addition Dr. Johnston Is woridng aa a bic^raphy of Vance.

The chief source material is the states collection which includes 18 volumes of mounted papers id six boxes containing 1,150 Items of loose papers. This includes voluminous cor-resprmdence ranging from Vances mothers writing to announce his birth near Weaver-vlUe In Buncombe County to his death.

OTHERS Vance, of course, was a dominant figure in North Carolinas history of 100 years ago. His papers, both public and private, are rich in political topics of the day. They refect his concern, his closeness to the people and the way of life of the state of a century ago.

There are letters, records and documents pertaining to the

ably fireproof quarters which are equipped with air conditioning. It is of extreme importance that heat and humidity be controlled, or the papers will deterioriate. And there is a problem causing concern.

PIPES PU)es including the main steam pipe of the states central heating system pass through the upper floor in the basement archives. The pipes are asbestos covered, but still give off heat. Workers have moved the stacks and shelves as far from the pipes as possible, but the major concern is what will happen when the heat is turned on this winter, and how it may affect the preservation of the precious original documents and records of state and county officials, famous men of North Carolina, census records, deeds, microfilms and literally thou.sand.s and thousands of other historically valuable and important papers and records which, like the Vance papers, may .someday be considered irreplaceable.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) - Medical care for the aged will be a political punching bag for Democrats and Republicans in this years elections although both parties, in their 1960 platforms, pledged a program.

Now the old folks who wind up without a program must listen to the excuses. The fact is that Republicans blocked passage of President Kennedys program and so did his owTi Democrats.

The Democrats in both houses outnumber Republicans so overwhelmingly that, if they had stuck together, they could have rammed Kennedys prbgrara through with ease. They didnt.

Nevertheless Kennedy who can hardly'claim his Democrats made an all-out trycalled the failure a most serious defeat for every American family

In the Senate, the only place where the issue came to an open vote, it was the Republicans who stuck almost solidly together to defeat the measure, but only with the help of Democrats who joined them.

As a foretaste of what the old folks can expect from the Republicans, explanation in this years elections. William E. Miller, Republican national chairman, called the administration prt^ram a cruel hoax anj'way.

All of which adds some heat * to the dispute but not much light for the old folks who are around to watch the political footwork in Washington.

The Kennedy program was supposed to get Its first test in the House. But. before it could get up to the full House for a vote, it had to be approved by the Ways and Means Committee wliere Democrats outnumber Republicans 15 to 10.

This meant certain approval if the Democrat.s stuck together. They didnt. What goes on iq such a committee this one is headed by Rep. Wilbur Mills, Arkansas Democrat is supposedly secret.

But the bill never got approved. Five of the 15 Democrats reportedly joined the 10 Republicans to bottle up the medical rare bill and prevent its getting to a vote in the full Hon.se. MiUs wa.s against It.

The Democrats in the House where they outnumber the Re-pubTican.s 201 to 174-could have used a well-known and often us(d device to wrench the bill

out of the committee so it could be voted on.

That was to get up a petition to bring it to the floor. Such a petition would have needed the signature of 219 of the 261 Democrats, plus any RepubU-cans who wanted to sign/Such a petition was not tried.

Why? The answer seems simple. The Democratic leadership didnt think it could get enough signatures. The fact that there was no petition looks like something less than Democratic fervor for the medical care bill.

And there is no public evidence that Kennedy put any heat on Mills to make him change hjs position or on any of the other committee Democrats who, ke Mills, opposed the Kennedy-sponsored program.

On the Senate side the bill ordinarily would have gone to the Finance Committee whose chairman, Harry Byrd of Virginia, has been giving Kennedy a bad time on other proposals, like tax revision and tax reduction.

But the Democratic leadership, to bypass Byrd, tied the medical care bill to another piece of legislation and thus got it up on the Senate floor for a vote.

This w'as a much weaker bill than the one Mills committee had bottled up. It was heavUy compromised for those who did not like the other one. Finally the vote came In the Senate where Democrats outnumber Republicans 64 to 36.

This was the vote: 52 to 48 against the bill. Voting for it w'ere 43 Democrats and 5 Republicans. Teaming up to kill it were 21 Democrats who joined 31 Republicans.

Yet, even if the vote had been the other way, the whole business was pretty much an empty gesture. The reason: there was practically no chance for the bill on the House side to get out of Mills committee for a vote.

What it adds up to is a lot of waltzing to political music.

Ward money.

Show me a man who has no regard for money at all, and I'll show you a man who is either a simpleton or a saint.

Show me a man who measures the value of everything in terms of money, and I'll show you a fool who has wasted his life.

Pi-actically everyone now and then expresses the desire to be rich, but most people have too much common sense to make that the main goal of their years.

It isnt easy to beconie wealthy by your own efforts. Unless you are unusually lucky, it takes a lot of hard work, energy and single-minded devotion to the goal of making money. But almost anyone witii a brain in his head can become wealthy if he is wUling to pay the price.

At least a number of self-

made millionaires have told me this.

It doesnt take extraordinary ability to make a million dollars,'* one said. But it does take drive, and often you have to do without a lot of pleasures along the way.

The big question is whether the money is worth what you miss. Im not sure that it is. To me a really tragic figure is a self-made millionaire w^ho decides late in^ life that money really isnt everything, and that now it is too late for him to achieve the other human satisfactions he lost.

This realization sometimes comes with stunning force to many wealthy men in middle age. They w^ere so preoccupied with piling up money that they never paused to consider what they would do with their lives when they at last had a sufficient pile.

When they do finally pause, they often find what they lost is human loye. They often have a spoiled wife, spoiled and snobbish children, few remaining

real friends. The people who fawn tin them because of their money have no more character than the gnats that circle round a piece of overripe fruit.

The rich people most contented with their lot are those w^ho have had big money in their family for several generations.

Having known nothing but the fat dollar since birth, they have no carefree poverty-stricken youth to recall, no memories of struggle. They take their social position for granted, and they use their money as a casual girdle of comfort to protect them from lifes dismays. They never work for money; it works for them.

Being at ease with money. It confers on them an interior .elf-confidence and assurance the self-confidence and assurance the self-made millionaire Iare-ly achieves.

So if you want to be a happy. satisfied man of wealth, dont moil your life away earning it. Just arrange to be bom in an old rich family. In which huge bank accounts are traditional.

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Any invasion that government legally makes upon our purse, property or per.soii. it cioe.s .so with the w'ariant we have given it;Dr, Wallace Sterling, President of Stanford Univ.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

Defense Secretary Robert McNamara has a tough job ahead of him: he must try to slash the overseas dollar-drain by another $900 million annually without cutting U. S. fighting power abroad. This is ap almost impossible task, for in order to Jteep up our, mititary forces overseas we must spend dollars abroad. The objective, says McNamara, is to achieve without reducing our combat effectiveness abroad or creating hardship for the individual serviceman or his dependents. The aim is to reach this objective by 1966, with over half the $900 million savings coming through reductions in spending overseas, most of w'hich is done in Europe.

McNamara admits it is going to be a tough job. The three-year drive to cut the dollar-drain to a billion dollars a year may well increase the defense budget which is now running nearly $50 billion. If the U. S. reduces on-the-scene buying of supplies for overseas bases, it would be forced Into more purchasing in this country. This would Increase over-all co.sts because many U. S, prices are higher and added transportation expenses also would be involved.

One of the steps involved in cutting dollar loss definitely wont effect the flow, of dependents ovenseas. Military families only recently began traveling to Europe again after an eight-month ban which wa.s imposr d to save doUai-s. But McNamara Is hopeful the Pentagon can expand a .so-far experimental pro

gram of rotating 1,500-man Army battle groups to Europe for short tours of duty without their families.

The savings in this category would he considerable. For example, McNamara estimates a saying of almost $3,000 a year per soldier. For the past year an a ttalf the Pentagon ha.s been working by various means to cut by $1 billion the military share of the balance of payments deficit. This is a commendable goal. The military ' makes up the lions share of the total federal budget.

Therefore any effort on the part .of the Pentagon to effect savings is certain to be translated into many millions of dollars. It has been mentioned before, and The Telegram reiterates here, that one of the most substantial ways of saving dollars overseas is to see that only a trim, lean fighting force Is in the field. All the peacetime paraphernalia that usually accompanies American troops car. be done without in zones likely to erept with violence.

Troops should carry their own weapons, supplie.s and vehicles. That is sufficient to get the job done. Both the Ru.ssians and the Chines get more return for the dollar from each soldier than do the Americans. In oiir armed forces there are too many typi.sts in ratio to the number of machinegunners. and too many elerk.s as agaln.st too few riflemen. We can .^ave dollars, but there would tx* some squawking from the mamas and the congressmen.

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To use the taxing pmver to direct and to control our energies and our rights is to lay the foundation of dicta^or.'^hip. ^Tndu^iTal News Review'.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKY _ Copyright. 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The strikes of school teachers in various cities, particularly New Yoric; the docto^' strikes in Saskatchewan and Vienna are straws In the wind. The professional man Is weary of earning less than a plumber; he sees no Justiflcatlon for the trend to proletarize the intellectual classes. In an era in which revolution has become almost permanent, the attitude of persons and governments to those who have devoted their time and energy to the development of the mind Is disrespectful.

At a time when It Is believed that everyone is entitled to his opinion, it is true that only the expert can have an opinion on an increasing number of subjects. For Instance, how many persons in this country have the qualifications to have any opinion whatsoever on the structure and fiinctlon of the cell and why some cells go wild and produce what is popularly called cancer? How many persons In the whole world can have an opinion based on any knowledge as to the functioning of the pituitary gland when affected by certain hormones? How many of us base opinions on hearsay and slogans without adequate knowledge whether the slogans and hearsay have-any basis in fact?

I receive a very large mail and like to publish letters from time to time. It once occurred to me, after checking a number of statements in such a letter, that it would be cruel to publish a letter from a writer who wrote of the foundations of the United States without any specific knowledge of the subject, although he could have found the required information with a few hours of effort.

The professional man may not be as smart as the plumber who charges by the hour and keeps his tools so distant from his work that hours are spent walking to and fro. He may not be as smart as the butcher who squeezes water into tongues or who puts 50 percent fat into hamburger meat.

But the professional man does know how to deal with a sick kidney or a fractured heart or with the physics and chemistry of life prolongation.

It used to be that human beings respected each other for their worth, but today the motto seems to be, Im as good as you are. How does one measure worth? No one has an Inherent right to anj^hing except life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And there are enormous limitations upon these rights. What an individual does not earn, he does not deserve.

The great honors in this ago go to scientists because the success 0 the survival of any nation depends upon the achievements of science, but such a survival may be an empty cas< if the spiritual, the non-material, even the mystical life of man is not preserved and cultivated. The totally secular life, which seem.s to be the aim of some of the justices of the Supreme Court, can leave ms so bankrupt that our survival may not be worth-while.

The doctors in Saskatchewan have performed a very valUabte

If a little knowledge Is dan-gerou.s, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? Thomas Henry Huxley.

To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.George Wa.shington (1790), ' . ' '

Conimuni.sm is. only one of several modern experiments in government and society (fascism is another). But Americanism wa.s the first and by far the most revolutionary, and on its performance to date it has nothing to fear from any honest comparison. Charleston * W. Va.) Daily Mail.

Some extremist politicians talk as though they wish that government of the people, by the people and for the people would perish from the earth. Memphis Pres.s-Scimitar.

We notice that baby diapers are being rationed in Ea.st Germany. Things have certainly hit bottom over there.* - Green.sboro (Ga.) Herald-Journal.

service becau.se they have r.s-tablished this: the professional man. who is everywhere few in number, cannot be treated by the politician as the politician dare not treat a truck driv>'. If the truck drivers can unite for their protection, so can pro-fes!?ional men.

The scabs who went to . Saskatchewan from Great Britain and the ,IInited States have learned that those still have freedom of choice, e.xercise it. We want our doctors. was the outcry of the people. But when a professional man becomes a scab and a strike-breaker against his own class, he is not serving mankind. He is denying the advantage of a professional class experimenting, analyi^g, researching, discovering in an atmosphere of free trial and error.

How would such a scab like to work under such conditions as existed in Soviet Russia when Stalin determined what was co.-rect in the field of genetics') Tt was only when Khrushchev saw American corn grow in freedom. where anyone could experiment in genetics who knew how, that he realized why we are over-produced while people (Continued on Page 6l

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Is inoiioramy a .succes.s?

Cornpai'cd vith polygamy it protiaply is. But compared with th(,* high .standards that every vaiiety of .sound religion sets up for marriage, it certainly ha.s been far from a success. In a recent year there were one quar ter as many divorces as there W'ere marriages. Domestic matters have really come into such a state today that the problems within individual homes cat) be said to be even more alarming than the problem^ which exist among nations.

Why do so many marriages go on the rock.s: There are iin-donbtedly a number of reasons. Hasty marriage Is one of these. Again, husbands and wives seem to get In all sorts of tangles over money matters. We must

always rememljer that modern .serious problem.

lulkways have trained wonuni fur careers and then suddenly after, marriage they find iheni-seh'es in homes with drab, uninteresting types of work demanding their attention. They remember the Interesting days in office or store or factory They niefully examine their pocketbooks.

There undoubtedly is too much freedom among young married people today - men and wo men being entirely too familiar with persons other than their spouses. They keez too much was the comment of a little French girl who was horrified by American social customs

Mutual love, respect, religious faith, willingne&s to sacrifice -the.se are the foundations upon which Kuccesfifnl marriage l al ways built today. There is no quick and easy solution for this

By KEMER ROFS.SNEK

Flirtner inove.s by the Goveni- ment to bolster the economy are likely if .some of the busne.ss Indicalors dont .show more live line.ss In the near luture.

Several key indices showed weakness recently. Rdall sale.s for June continued the slight dowmard trend of May. Personal income and industrial production ro.se slightly laht niontli but at a slower rate than earlier in the year.

Iron and steel output were still off as inventory reductions continued and auto production was curtailed by labor trouble.

While the overall picture j.s one of a slowing of growth in the economy, not of an actual decline, the Administration and Its budget are in a squeeze. FVd oral spending w-as scheduled on the basis of sharply il.sing economy.

DUAL PURPOSE

One action taken w hich should

help " little wa.s tlie reduction by the military in off-s h o r e pTOiMirement. Off-shore pro-(iiffmpnt i.s (he pureha.se (jf foreign good., to be u ed by live armed torces abroad.

iliiLs niove Is lo reduce U.S. purchasers over.sea,s and thus help the balance of payments another pi obiem the Kennedy Admlni.stration is grappling with. But It will also increa.se Government expenditure in the States and give business and Industry here a boost.

Sevetal other courses are open to the Government if the economy appears to be slipping a bit. It can fpi' instance, accelerate purcha.ses planned for this ,vear. Thl,s l,n done by or dciIng eaillrr than planned and IbriThy nMmnlng a greater ainouut nf mnney into (he ecnii-omy sooner

PAVING HIE nPEK

The tronl>le gs (hai jf (|,p pf.. onomy docsut icspouU sati&iac-

torily. It will be hit a heavy blow later liv the year when the Government niu-st reduce purchasing to compensate lor the earlier splurge.

A general tax cut also pumps more money into the economy by increasing the amount In the hands of consumers and business. Here, again, the economy must respond quickly. If it docs not. and there isnt a sufficient rise in taxable income, then the Govemment will be even shorter of funds to meet its obllgation.s than it is at present.

Tax deducatlons for plant and equipment spending may be a dubious move because Industry probably already plans to do all the expanding It can afford under the recent write-off benefits.

APPARFI. FAIEURES Up BIT IJABHJTIES DIP

Retail apparel failures increased 8 per cent to 722 in the

first half of this year over the same 1961 period, Credit Clearing House reports. But their total liabilities W'ere only slightly over $30 million compared with more than $35 million in the 1961 period.

New business starts in the apparel field in the first six months of this year totalled 1,-136, off slightly from the year-ago period's 1,176.

DEER CROSSING SIGN SPEEDS SALE OF LAND

A postcard from the Old Promoter, vacationing at Hampton Bays, N.Y.:

A real estate hustler at this end of^Long Island has a sign readl^^-Deer Crossing. When h( has a farm to sell, he puts It along the highway adJAcent to the farm.

Deer hunting Is prohibited on Long Island, but* this sign al-w'ays speeds the sale of the farm. There must be a UtUe poacher in all of us.