Wednesday, August 1, 1962

Now The Liberals Using Filibuster

Count the number of times that Southern Sen- scathing attacks of those who would use the un-'

ators have been denounced by high offidls and limited debate in an effort to kill legislation!

other leaders for employing the filibuster to thwart legislation which they did not favor.

Compare the outcry which so often has been directed at Southern Senators when they employed this legislative tactic with the lack of denounciation

of the filibuster that has come with the effort of

lib'erals in the Senate to defeat the administration's space communications biill.

The difference is startling.

When conservative Senators in the past have many counties of the state, embarked on a filibuster to defeat legislation, there has been almost an instantaneous outcry against this effective legislative weapon. Usually it has been the more liberal member of Congress and other liberal leaders who have led the verbal attack on use of the filibuster.

Now the shoe is on the other, foot and many of the liberals who have been so outspoken in denouncing conservative filibusters are themselves en- .1

gaged in the same tactic to carry their point in the of^f<>od distributed through the program may not Senate. -

They are using it as a means to defeat the administration proposal which would create a private corporation to own and operate a space communications network.

We have no quarrel with the liberals for em-

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Check-Up Indicated In Surplus Food Program

From various parts of North Carolina in recent months have come rumblings over the surplus food distribution program that is being carried on in

There have been reports that persons not properly qualified have been participating in the pi^i-gram, that a portion of the food which is distributed through the program is being wasted or thrown away by recipients, and that sufficient attention not being given to details of the program.

While scattered reports from around the state of loose administration of the program, and waste

reflect the overall situation, a sufficient number uf such reports have been received to warrant a careful look into the matter in every county.

Although the food distributed through the program is free to the needy recipients, it is a program operated at taxpayers expense. Even in a give-away program of this sort, it is the responsi-

ploying the filibuster to accomplish their purpose bility of officials to see that the greatest possible

so far as this particular piece of legislation is concerned. Wc trust, however, that the next time the consem^atives employ the tactic in connection with legislation the liberals will refrain from their usual

irue Heroine Of Crossnore

good is being received from the tax dollars spent at every level for the program. Like most other government programs in the field of welfare or any other field, the effectiveness of the program in the long run is dependent largely upon careful administration f^d operating the program on a sound basis.

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES CROSSNORE The cozy, comfortable room with Its hooked rugs, leather chairs and hardwood tables and Its windows wilh views of the mountains will never be the same.

The woman who made the room and her world alive with her presence is gone. Her spirit, which she preferred to call the spirit of Crosaiore, is stlU here and probably always ^111 be as long as there is a Crossnore.

It was a room at the end of a wing of the administration building of the Ci-ossnore school up on a hillside from the tiny town of Crossnore, reached by a steep, shady drive.

PARLOR The room was the parlor, sitting room, study and office for Dr. Mary T. Martin Sloop, founder of Crossnore school.

It was there that she received visitors from all over the world dignitaries, officials, educators and even newspaper reporters, and there they became her friends.

She loved to spend hours In that room, in conversation, in thought and reflection, in work and in awaiting for her husband, whom she called the doctor. There w'as a telephone nearby, and Dr. Sloop usually had a stack of papers and mail nearby.

She won many a battle for Crossnore without leaving that room.

AUGUST August always was a busy month for Dr. Sloop at Crossnore.

School superintendents and state education officials meet at Mars Hill, barely 40 miles on U. S. 19 from Crossnore via Spruce Pine, over Chalk mountain and down through Burnsville. Many of the officials who go to Mars Hill made U a point to stop by Crossnore and, if they didn't. Dr. Sloop sometimes would send for them,

A reporter who visited Dr. Sloop one August day a few years age mentioned that he was en route to Mars Hill for some of the meetings and was instnicted to carry a message for some of the officials to be sure to come to Crossnore to discuss several matters.

SLOOPS The founder of Crossnore school, now a world-famous institution, died last January at the age of 88. Her husband, the doctor, Dr, Eustace H. Sloop, died a year earlier

at the age of 91.

The Sloops came to Avery County back in 1908 and devoted their lives for half a century to medicine, education and a better way of life in the mountains.

Highways, more schools, communications and other improvements came during the years, and Crossnore school grew.

On a Sunday afternoon, a rainy, foggy October day in 1956, the Sloops stood together, theii eyes glowing with pride, for the dedication of a new chapel, a building they always had wanted on the campus.

REUNION - There was a re-union of foraier students at Crossnore school last week, and the annual meeting of the board of trustees now expanded to include people from other parts of the state.

It was the first such meeting that Dr. Sloop did not attend.

But everything on the campos, even the flowers blooming outside the administration building. reflected her work and her years of service, now being carried on by her daughter and others at the school and at the hospital.

ROOM A room in the wing of the administration building, being remodeled now. is to be a museum dedicated to the Sloops and w'ill be called simply, the Founders Room.

Mrs. Norman Cordon of Chapel Hill presented the room on behalf of the tnistees and Miss Martha Guy of Newland accepted it for the school. MLss Guy is president of the board.

The room will include portraits of the Drs. Sloop, hung " over the long rolling desk used by Dr. Sloop. The worn leather easy chairs of the famous couple flank the desk. The walls will be pine-paneled and hung with diplomas, certificates and awards received by the Sloops. The tables will hold a collection of their surgical instruments, books, w'eather instruments and other items they used.

It will be both a museum and a visitors' center. But in truth, the campus of more than 25 buildings and the hospital and the town of Crossnore itself w'iU stand as a monument to the Sloops.

The school itself was started first in a tent, then in a one-room, weatherbeaten, window-less cabin.

With an increasing number of complaints from individual counties about the food distribution pro- ^ a

gram, it behooves officials in North Carolina at both By HEInRY HOWARD the state and county levels to re-evaluate the pro- ^ gram and the manner in which it is being adminis- T tered. \

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Auspicious Choice And With No Undue Delay

Pitt Countys Board of Health is to be commended for acquiring the services of a new, well qualified health officer in considerably less time than might have been expected for them to fill this important post.

The naming of Dr. Robert Eugene Fox to the position as head of the Pitt County Health Department brings to that position a man with a broad background in public health work, and one whc should be able to continue a comprehensive public health program in this county.

During his 32 years in public health work. Dr.

Fox has worked both as a director of county health departments in North Carolina, and with the county health program with the State Board of Health.

This background should well equip him to direct a progressive health department for Pitt.

It should also be reassuring to the citizens of Ec itOrS EnVlTirT

this county that in addition to obtaining the services I-J'U.J.LWl O Y

of a man who appears well qualified in his chosen T~i TM Ti i eeatea lu a ui uiic

field the Board of Health has been able to fill the FQII P-QV .7 OF .^UeitO PlCO

position without undue delay. On occasions in the ~ --------

past when the position of director of the local (Richmond News Leader) health department has become vacant, it has often Turn about is (air play. The taken many months before the post could be filled. U. s. both secretly and open-

WTTH the outside temperature in the sultry 90s Tuesday morning, it was surprising that Sen. Tom Woodard fingered feverishly the brim of his characteristic straw hat and squirmed uneasily around his chair cushion in Dr. Leo Jenkins air-conditioned office.

The senator and the Advisory Budget Commission had been listening for about 30 minutes to East Carolina Colleges capital outlay requests of nearly $10.5 million for the next biennium. Toward the end of the session, Chairman Woodard was obviously growing impatient.

If the weather outside had been more comfortable , it would have been reasonable to assume that the senator, who heads the Commissions coverall tour of state institutions, was merely eager to keep the tour rolling. It takes

little calculation to gather some idea of the scope of the Commissions several-week task. It follows that the chairman, as a matter of routine, would be anxious to move along.

But the mechanically-regulated temperature in the college presidents office was so comfortable and the weather Outside so sultry hot. It would have seemed quite normal if the senator had been content to tarry a few moments longer before the mid-day auto trip to Rocky Mount, bnce outside, though, the justification for Woodards impatience was obvious as he turned on the ignition and whirred the motor in his air-conditioned Cadillac.

AMONG reasons for the brief delay In Dr. Jenkins office were questions asked by members of the commission.

Sen. Ralph H. Scott of Haw River wanted to know several

WHILE all members of the commission were attentive during Dr. Jenkins explanation of East Carolinas $10.5 million request, one senator seemed especially reluctant to miss any single bit of information or explanation.

Sen. Tom White of Kinston, seated in a comer of the

Suca has not been the case this time.

Obstacle Race Of 18 Months

ly, has been maneuvering other western nations away from their influence in backward nations. The great god Self-Determination is now pointing its faithful finger at America. On the tenth anniversary of Puerto

would be ripe for Communist infiltration. Puerto Ricos 2.5 million people are more crowded onto their little island than the citizens of Rhode Island. The latest figures (1960) set per capita income at $622. Without Puerto Ricos privileged entry into the U. S., her economy would collapse. To the west is Communist Cuba; to the south'

Ricos Commonwe^th status the - jg British Guiana, whose presi-

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) If Presldelit Kennedys first 18 months with Congress looked like an obstacle race, it was foreign affairs which truly kept him hopping.

Events abroad piled up but, because they were scattered over a year and a half and none yet has led to an explosion for the United States, many of them may have looked like minor episodes.

In one way or another, the United States had a stake in all of them and for that rea-son they were all problems for Kennedy,

His most visible mistake was in permitting the disastrous U. S.-backed Cuban invasion, at least in the way it was carried out. His biggest success was holding finn on Berlin until Premier Khrushchev cooled off.

If anything could be called his biggest frustration it was in the failure to get agreement on disarmament or a ban on nuclear testing. President Truman and Eisenhower could understand this; they went through it, too.

Latin America was one of the busy plac^.

Besides the various bedevilments of Cubas Castro, assassination ended the 31-year dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, anules in Peru and Argentina threw out the elected governments, and civilian-military conflict in Brazil led to the departure of an elected President there.

In between time.s, Kennedy got hearty approval from the Latin American-s for his Alliance for Progress, although his hesitancy in recognizing military regimes showed he doubted progress comes through armies, and assassinations by the secret army, won its Independence from Prance only to be thrown into chaos by the rivalry of its own Moslem factions.

Those old enemies and next-door neighbors, Lsrael ancJ Egypt, developed rockets. Syria broke loose froih its union with Egypt. India and Pakistan were still In their'luarrel over part of Kashmir.

Daspite Its moralising about peace, India Invaded and seiz

ed Portuguese Goa.

At home in Portugal, dictator Salazar began to have some trouble. So did dictator Franco in Spain next door. The United States has bases on Spanish and Portuguese territory.

The Congo got explosive, quieted down, and may really explode again in the unsettled dispute between the central government and the secessionist province of Katanga.

The United States got more deeply involved in South Viet Nam to save it from a Communist takeover, sending In troops and weapons to sharpen the Vietnamese in guerrilla fighting.

There has been no enthusiasm in this country for getting in- volved in a war in landlocked Laos. Kennedys toughness in the spring of 1961 about stiff-ai'ming pro-Communist pushes there melted away and he finally settled for a so-called neutralist government which may dissolve into communism anyway.

Meanwhile he sent American troops into neighboring Thailand to bolster its defenses against any invasion by the Communist guerrillas of Laos.

Even Thailand and its neighbor, Cambodia, got into an international dispute over a temple. This was settled without shooting. Red China massed troops on the mainland opposite the offshore Islands of Quemoy and Matsu but so far nothing has come of that.

The Dutch and Indonesians took to shooting over the ownership of New Guinea. And in Burma the military under Gen. Ne Win took over.

Khrushchev demanded that the post of U. N. secretary general be replaced with a troika a threeman secretariat This was settled for the time being when U Thant of Burma was picked to fill the late Dag Ham-marskjolds place as acting sec-rctai-y general..

In Europe, where the worst ^ explosion could have happened because of Khnishchevs demands on the future of

Britain in 4hej European Com-..lon Market still Is undecided.*

In addition to all this; Kennedy met a lot of people in 18 *.ionths, here and abroad Far and away the most Important nieetjng was with Khrushchev In Vienna.

other day. President Kennedy was moved by holy fervor to say I agree that this is the proper time to consult the people of Puerto Rico.

Another plebiscite among the illiterate can only wreak havoc for both the U. S. and Puerto Rico. The U. S. has controlled the territory since it w^as ceded by Spain in 1898. The plebiscite would have the people choose either to continue the CommonWealth. declare independence, or ask to be admitted to the Union as the 51st State.

As a practical matter, the

present Commonwealth status seems to be the best arrangement. As U. S. citizens, Puerto Ricans serve in the U. S. Army, but pay no Income tax;

they only have observers in

Congress, but have complete autonomy over internal af

fairs. The island is on the receiving end of Operation Bootstrap, nearly $350 million in public works aid that the U. S. has poured In during the past twelve years. The tax concessions that have brought $500 million in private investment in the same period would disappear

dent declares himself a Communist; to the southwest is Venezuela whose president was once a Communist but is now merely left-wing.

The platform of the Statehood Republican Party Is equally inappropriate, Puerto Ricos per capita income is only half that of Mississippi, the poorest State, and barely a third of the national average. The island is not merely Isolated like Hawaii it is blocked by other islands of the West Indies.

Its Spanish culture finds it so hard to assimilate U. S. ways that the number of Puerto Ricans returning from New York now annually exceeds the number leaving home. With the special problems of Puerto Rican life, it Is hard to imagine the new voters comprehending the Issues of an English-speaking country miles away.

Only two weeks ago Representative Adam Clayton Powell Jr. of New York complained that without Statehood, Puerto Rico has neither complete liberty nor complete equality.

Granted that the potent voting roll of Puerto Ricans In his constituency includes his wife, It Is

Dr. Jenkins spoke. He interrupted his writing occasionally to ask a question or to ask that a specific figure be repeated.

At the end of the 30-minute session, Sen. White had several pages of what appeared to be a sufficient collection of facts and figures about East Carolina to serve as an accurate tape measure of the schools rapid growth and urgent needs.

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specific facts about East Carolina's admission requirements.

Names of two or three more institutions were mentioned in the course of the discussion. It was pointed out that one particular non-state college accepts as students only the top 10 per cent of Its applicants, Dr. Jenkins noted East Carolinas range is considerably wider.

Sen. Scott, In a manner reminiscent of the late Oov. Scott, opined aloud that state schools should not limit their enrollments to the bright boys alone.

He reasoned; We have to educate the average boys so therell be somebody to give the bright boys a job.

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By ClEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright. IN, Kin* Features Syndicate. Inc.

A distinction must be made between those Negroes who believe in desegregation and those who believe in separatlom De-segregatk means that the Negroes seek the same opportunities as the White Man to education, jobs, living quarters, etc.

The separaticmist wants the Negro to be separate and distinct. Tl^ leading group among the separationists is the Black Muslims of which Elijah Muhammad is the leader.

The Black Muslims do not like to be called Negroes; they refer to themselves as Black. They regard the Black Man as superior to the White Man.

The Herald-Dlspatch, a Negro newspaper, says;

To say we teach hate Is childish. We teach the American Negro that he is the original man. We teach him the truth, which has been hidden from him. We refute the lies his enemies have taught and are teaching him. The American Negro has suffered for four centuries at the hand of the white man more than 3(X) years in slavery. He has been murdered, branded as a common animal, has seen his father and brothers lynched and hanged from poles; their bodies thrown into the rivers; Negro men in the South castrated . . .

The Herald-Dispatch does not believe in Integration. We do not believe that it is physically or humanly possible for a nation to Integrate with another which considers Itself superior . .

The Nationalists prefer to be called Black rather than Negro for the following reasons:

The word Negro implies nothing; it contains no masculine prefix or suffix. Note: in China, a man is referred to as a China-man; in Germany as a Ger-man; in England, as English-man; in Ireland, an Irlsh-man. Either the masculine suffix an or the word man is added. Note also that all racial groups are identified by some geographical place on the earth and, even a poodle Is more important if it is a French Poodle. The word Negro Is nothing but a stimga ... This movement Is not to be Ignored. It is effectively organized. it Is well-financed; it sets goals which to a degree are attainable, such as operating stores, boycotting stores owned by VTilte Men. Its major goal is to establish a separate States, taking over two states nation within the United for this purpose.

Elijah Muhammad, whose true name is Elijah Poole, calls himself the Messenger of Allah and Is so recognized by his followers. Associating his movement with religion, he said: According to the past histories of the major prophets, one comes 2000 years untU the end of the World of Sin. Moses came exactly two thousand years after Yakub (the God and Maker of the evil Caucasian race). Je sus came two thousand years after Moses, and the last prophet came 2,000 years after Jesus fulfulUng much of the histories of the Prophets before him; especially Moses, David, Jesus and Muhammad. The man Allah (God) raised up from among the American so-called Negroes in the West will unite his people to Islam with the guidance of Allah with a book of Scripture for his people prepared and written by the fingers of Allah (God.)

Elijah Muhammad is definitely anti-American. This is what he has to say on the subject:

. . . You own nothing here but the freedom to be a fool for White America. The college-trained Negro clergy, politician (Continued on page five)

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under statehood or independence, still not fair either to the is-

The Independence Party has been losing ground lately. But if It should be able to Influence the pleblsci(e. the rapidly deteriorating Caribbean situation

land country or to the U. S. to press such premature claims. Fair play for Puerto Rico means to let the country grow in peace.

By EARL L. DOUGLASS NOT AN END BUT A MEANS

There are some people who consider work a curse. There are others who make It their chief end in life and the only thing of value. Both point* of view are mistaken.

There are indeed types of work such as drudgery which are a curse. There is unremitting and unprofitable work which the cruelty of man has often imposed upon his fellows. But work cheerfully entered into every day, work characterized by purpose, work that Is clean and profitable not only from the standpoint of money but primarily from the standpoint of satisfaction this type of work has upon it the blessing of God. It is one of His

greatest gifts. To engage in it Is a privilege. To be denied it Is a deprivation characterized by frustration and sadness.

But We must always remember that work is not an end In itself. It is a means. It is like a bridge which is not a place on which people live but a place which they use In their journey from here to there. The miser makes work an end in itself. The man who neglects his family for his business makes work an end In itself. Some housewives put good housekeeping above the happiness and welfare of the members of a family.

TflBse are all wrong. These are using work as an end in itself. It is not an end but a mea;is. It is not a curse but a blessing if rightly used.

Britain

By ELMER ROESSNER

Has Its Problems, Too

Orville L. Freeman, the U. S. Secretary of Agriculture, has plenty of headaches, but his migraines are probably no less than those of his opposite number in the British government.

Britain has Just completed its annual wrestle with grain prices. The results were unchanged. The governments price supports are the same as last year.

This Is how It works out:

For wheat, the government divides each marketing year into five accounting periods and fixes a separate standard producer price for each. These prices gradually Increase throughout the year to encourage orderly marketing. For each of the other grains the government fixes only one "standard price for the entlrp year.

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British faimers sell grains only to private traders at regular market prices. After the end of each accounting period in the case of wheat and the end of the marketing year in the case of rye, the at farm prices received by all the registered growers in^ the country for the mlllable wheat and rye they sold during the period or year are averaged.

If the average for wheat or that for rye falls short of the corresponding standard price, the government will pay each registered grower a deficiency payment equal to the difference multiplied by the number of bushels of the grain he sold during the period or year.

In the case of barley and oats a similar average is calculated at the end of each year, but the shortfall, If any, Is con

verted to a per acre equivalent by multiplying it by the national U. K. average yield of the grain during the Immediately preceding 5 years.

And theres more.

If in any year there Is a shortfall in the case of barley or oats, each registered British grower will for each grain, receive from the government a deficiency payment equal to the corresponding pre-acre equivalent multiplied by the number of acres he had in grain during the year.

Freeman has a tough time. But hed probably swap his problems of farm control with the British and throw in Billie Sol Estes to boot.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS People delinquent in paying bills will soon be offered Plaid

Trading Stamps for prompt settlements ... The Greater New York Safety Council has found that most traffic accidents happen on straight, uncrowded roads to sober motorists. Drink, weave and live!. . .The U. S. exported 177 thousand pounds of snuff and chewing tobacco in the first four months of this year, a decline of almost 40 per cent since last year.

The distrlbtors of the height Increase system have denied Federal Trade Commission charges of misrepresentation in saying that the course will add inches to the body height. , . French cigarette imports reached a new high In 1961. . .A new liquid petroleum mulch is said to have Increased crop yields as much as 111 per cent, according to the American Petroleum Institute, 1271 Sixth Ave., New York.