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1 ft fifii army of youngstersmore than ties for in^rovement. For citizens at large, tho

I8,u stronghaa marched back to the classrooms primary responsibility is to support the school pro-tnrougnout ratt County in the past few days and gram by encouraging through every feasible means are ^ttimg down to another year of school work, better quality in our public education during the ror these youngsters, if they attend school an school year, average of five hours a day, the school year will The efforts o^f each of these three groups during ^present an investment of more than 16,200,000 the next nine months will have a direct bearing on s^dent-hours devoted to classroom instruction. In the success of the school year. No one of these three addition, other millions of hours will be devoted groups can guarantee a successful school year witn-to school work and assignments outside class time, out the full support and cooperaticn of those people For the adults of the county, the new school who make up the other two groups, year represent an expenditure of hundreds of Students and teachers are back in the class-^toA j dollars in operating the schools for rooms now, but those citizens who re not in the the 180 day tera, not to mention the capital in- classrooms must also do their part to produce an-_ ve^ment of millions which has gone to provide other quality year for education in Pitt County, school buildings and equipment.

In terms of student time, and in terms of tax- t T _ n

payers* money, there is a great deal at stake in UO X Oil IxQVG KOOHl t OT Pitt County at the beginning of another school

The students, the teachers and the other citi- A Student At College?

zcns of the county share the responsibility to see

that the school year provides an adequate return Greenville residents who have spare rooms in for the tremendous investment of time, money and their homes can help themselves. East Carolina effort which will go into it. College and prospective women students if they will

For the student, the primary responsibility is r^^it those rooms to the students for the fall to gain as much as possible from the educational quarier.

opportunities which are made available to him. For President Leo W. Jenkins has issued an appeal the teacher, the primary responsibility is to provide to local residents to make rooms available for 156 the youngsters with the highest calibre instruction women students for whom there are no living possible in order that they will not lack opportuni- quarters available on the ECC campus and who

have not been able to locate rooms in Greenville.

New Altitude Record

Glow m 1 Seen Over Dixie

Bj WILLIAM A. aUTRKS

LIGHT A liglit ffkms, pate and pulsing, unexpected In the dead ol nigbt. reflected against low. dark clmids, a gbotft dow in the rainy night aky.

Softly diffused in the clouds and rain, it is a huge,^ sctft. pale brilliance against the clouds, giving no due mbout its source. It may be miles away, across the ridges to the north and 1st, ahead of the lights of the car moving through the darkness.

There are no cities, no towns in the direction of the strange nighttime glow in the Tennes-aec sky.

It is a pbencHnraom, a mys> tery encountered while driving at night one of the mysteries of the night, quiet and cool, awakened by tte rain and visible on the clouds, unfatbom-ed by the occasional traveler even if he should ndic^.

SIGN But the glow in the sky is a sign. A sign of the new and surging South.

S(newhere behind the low hills, a few miles away, men are working at a dam. a hydroelectric plant, a blast furnace or open hearth, a factory perhaps le of the hundreds . of big new industria] plants recently come to the rural South.

It could be a research plant, or an atcHnic facility.

No sawmill, no blazing plantation house, no illicit nuxm-shine stOl, the explanaticms of 'years past, could give a glow like this.

SECRET It was barely tweity years ago that these same hills, alive with new elec-

In response to a similar appeal last year help ease the housing shortage on the local campus,

Greenville citizens made rooms available to 160 women students at East Carolina. We feel certain the residents of the city can do as well, if not better, assisting the college this year with its acute housing problem.

Already the college has placed 105 women ^

stiidents in 34 Greenville homes for the coming year. By HENRY HOWARD

how It was bum, and how the gratifying that this number of women students

secret was kept! They found could be accommodated in Greenville homes with-

^ * special public appeal by the college. But it V J

Lid mad? important to the collegeand it should also be^

BEACON Oak Ridge, in a important to the communitythat the remaining

, beacon for the new 156 ^men students should not be turned away ol^m'k ArteThl Wock"

There still is awe whoi the r^ast Carolina College for lack of housing the afternoon sun from the

hum, roar and vibniUon from facilities on the campus or in town. west plate-glass window of the

The Reflector urges local residents who ca.i station,

conveniently make rooms in their homes available , Manager of the station, re-

to these Avomen students to contact the college and nSlddy " fcr

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static tests of the gigantic Saturn moon rockets shake the earth at Huntsville, Ala., a space-age boom city at the foot Monte Sano mountain.

There is wonder when the sonic booms of jet planes jolt the small towns and cotton planta-U(xis of the Delta.

Since Oak Ridge, the South has come to know many things air-conditioning, television diesel locomotives replacing the old, smoky coal-burning steam engines, fast travel, new highways, modem housing, advances in agriculture, and industry few ever dreamed of in the 30s and 40s.

POWER Atomic power Is coming, although in most parts of the South electricity is cheap and plentiful.

TVA, the power giant, feeds Its va^ network of rural communities. small cities, and coops. Now TVA has effected a huge power swap arrangement, eventually to reach 1.5 million kilowatts, with a number of pri-v'ate power firms, hfississippl Power and Light Co., Arkansas Power and Light Co., to supplement TVA loads during its wintertime peaks., and to assist the private companies during their summertime peaks, TVA's

assist in this matter.

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the antique freight-hauler some months ago. There was little money involved, because the old rattletrap had seen all her better days.

With her roadworthincss gauge reading zero. Big Daddy d^ided to resign the bulky lady (he calls her feminine because of his sea-gotng experience) as nothing more than a window shade.

And whatever else shes not, the hulking antique accomplishes h^r intended purpose. When the hot afternoon sun tries to bake through the plate-glass window, 'the ieml-

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trie power from mighty TVA ' peaks result from demands for

dams, held a secret known to a tight lipped few as Manhattan Proje.

There were wartime restrictions. and few If any occasional, curious travelers.

But It was common know'-ledge through East Tennessee that a new city was being but, huge laborstories and strange buildings constructed, housing snd service facilities, and thousands of workers being employed at* a place called Oak Ridge.

There was a glow In the sk>'. too, and at munitions plants, supply depots and military bases across the South. The difference may have been that no <mc knew what was happening at Oak Ridge, and few did know either, until finally one August day in 1945 President Truman told the world. Reporters went driving these same roads to Oak

electric heating, and the pri-\wte companies peaks .^rom loads for air-conditioning.

PORT At Memphis, far Inland (M the Mississippi river, once the nations foremost cotton shipping port, the city is celebrating its first ocean-going vessel, a merchant ship inau^'-urating regular direct trade between the port of Mempnis and Central America.

The ship, the Ruth Ann. will make regular sailings once a month between Memphis and porta in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras.

cmES Smaller cities cl the Mid South are establishing municipal industrial parks on unimproved suburban lands, issuing industry bonds to build and lease buildings for industries and are ha\1ng success. Some states and communities offer even more lucrative concessions.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON AP) Gertrude ^in called Elzra Pound a village explainer but that was in the days before television and radio had turned America into one big village where milUtms could hear the same explanation.

President Kennedy for former Vice President Richard M. Nixon, in their 1960 campaign debates on television, were in a very real sense village explainers of their positions.

They managed to keep their discussion on a fairly high and unemotitmal plane so that afterwards the viewers were able to discuss calmly such things as Nixons makeup. Kennedys lack of it, whether (me of them looked more tired than the other and some of the issues they talked about.

In time candidates for office in every election all over America no doubt will be appearing singly or in paired debates to do e.xplaining.

Because this will be a new experience in politics since the candidates cant tell whos watching them or what the reaction is the candidates will probably In the beginning try to keep their discussions on a calm and evi elevated plateau.

The novelty of this for many politicians should wear off soon, thus enabling them to fall back like some of their political ancestors on their primal instincts and go after each other in full view of thousands or millions like a pair of alley cats.

If there is such a return to a primitive cemdition, its effect an the American voier= should be fairly well determined within a few years after counting the returns at the pools m the evening of electicm day.

If anyone thinks it unfair to suggest that there are any politicians left with an Instinct for the jugular or prefers to think that political life in America has at last settled down in the green vailey of complete decency he does not have to go back to any further than Tues-lay for evidence suggeMing the ctmtrary,

Tuesday the chairman of the Democratic and Republican national c(onmittecs performed the customary clectitm year ritual of signing a code of fair prao tices for this years congressional and state camimigns.

This code is signed under the

auspices of the Pair Campaign Practices Committee Inc., headed by Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati. The signers were Chairman John M. Bailey for the Democrats and Chairman William E. Miller for the Republicans,

It can be assumed that If It were accepted practice for political candidates never to practice anything but fair practices, the two party chairmen would never have^ to sign a code pledging the two parties to fair^ ness. -

Taft said his committee has already received reports from 15 states indicating that smear attempts may be made In them. He said the greatest number expected this year will be, False accusations of softness of communism, or, conversely, of being a radical rightist.

Even as the fair practices code was being signed, reporters asked a question about an attempt to smear Gov. Edmund G. Brown of California who Is running for the governorship against Nixon.

This question was about the use of auto bumper stickers in California saying Is Brown Pink? Miller said he was sure Nixon's organization had nothing to do with it.

Opinions '.'.n Brief

Throughout mankind the urge to work can often b** seen as a mystique, embodied in the old tag, To work is to pray. It requites, rewards, rejoices. It is all a man can give and all he need take. Hartford Courant.

Other Editors Saying... ; knowing Communism

"Believing your neighbor is a dupe and that your nation is peopled with scheming traitors ia the most insidious form of betrayal there is. A nation exists as a binding idea. Destroy the idea and you destroy the nation. Dallas (Tex) Times Herald.

(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

A realization that young Americans will be inadequately prepared for the realities of the world they live In without a knowledge of Communism, a major C(Mitemporary force, la growing in the public school system. In states as widely separated as New York, Florida and Ohio the subject, unthinkable a decade or so ago. Is being taught. In St. Louis, the bar, the - universities and county school leaders are taking the lead to develop understanding of Communism. But how well the subject will be taught remains to be seen.

Teachers with a sufficient background in the subject are scarce, and the first necessity is to train more. Students ungrounded in economics, unprepared to handle theories on the subject, come to class with some poorly grounded, precon-cived cliches about the Communist system. and Marxism-Leninism stops them cold, one Virginia educational official is quoted as saying. Worst of all, the panicky approach to the subject through compulsory legislation leads timid teachers to play it safe by indoctrinaing students in anticommunist propaganda rather than instructing them in objective facts.

Throughout much of the whole approach to teaching Communism in the public schools there runs an underlying fear the objective educatiMi in the subject may be dangerous, that infor-matioii may become indoctrination and subvert the students. This attitude displays, It seems to us, a remarkable lack of confidence in the ability of capitalist democracy to stand on its own merits, as well as of the students f ability. It leads, furthermore, when expressed, as it usually is, in terms of counter-indoctrination, to exactly the opposite effect from

the (e intended it makes thoughtful students suspicious of what Is being presented to them.

As the Detroit Superintendent (rf Schools, Dr. S. M. Brownell, perceptively says: The facts about Communism and American democracy need to be presented accurately and fairly. Otherwise, what is being presented will be discounted by youth as propaganda; and teachers will be contributing to one of the pcrOs to freedom of learning (through) the presentation of partial truth and biased evidence.

Students who accept It, furthermore, may easily be worse off than those who do not. They will be more confused than fore about the actual nature of Communism and why it has become the force it Is. They will be baffled to comprehend the industrial and scientific accomplishments of the Soviet Union, the Ideological heresies of China, Yugoslavia and Albania, and much of the continuing developments in Communist countries that they read about in their daily newspapers. Dr. John H. Pischer, president of Columbia Teachers College, put it succinctly when he said:

If we persist in teaching sim-" ply tliat Communism is to democracy approximately as villainy to heroism, the student will find it difficult if not impossible to understand the enormous gains of Communism in the last two decades. He will be hard put to account for Communism's appeal to the poor, the Ignorant and the uncommitted of the world

We cannot serve the political system of government by the people or the economic system of capitalism as well as we should unless wc possess a thorough knowledge of the alternatives that are proposed. But It cannot be counter-brain-w'ashing, it must be truly education, which implies respect for knowledge as it stands.

nine old truck stops Old 8ol short. And its cool inside.

Like many a service station, contents of Big Daddys store has a you-name-it; we-got-it variety. But among the items shaded by the bulky lady is a gallon jar marked Big Daddys Christmas Fund for Needy Children. 'The bills-and-coins level is rising daily and the hulking antique by the west window passively views the first Golden Deed In which she shared.

But lately, she has joined another project which promises to further enhance her purpose in avoiding the Junk heapnormal graveyard for all roadwom freight-haulers.

As routine service station days rolled by, Big Daddy and his bulky lady icountered a hard-worldng man whose toils were entering the twilight years. Thwe were 11 children, always scantily clothed, near-ly-always hungry.

This was the conclusion of Big Daddy and the antique truck: A man who works this hard, tries his best to help himself, and still cant make ends meet. . . . This kind of man deserves help. -

'The bulky lady offered the services of her empty body. Big Daddy said hed be collection agent. ^

Now, for the first time In who-knows-when, the keys in her doors are active, when service station patrons bring their clothing donations. Big Daddy and the bulky lady receive smd sort them.

Already tihe hard-working, unfortunate man has graciously, gratefully accepted aid from the clothing bank. By Christmas, the gallon jar and the clothing bank promlst to closely resemble Santa Claus.

On (Xicasions, perplexed travelers stopped for the gas-and-oil treatment at the service station have wondered at the seemingly extravagant and bulky shade of Bi)| Daddys west window.

But for those who stop there regularly, theres no perplexity. W i t h o ujt even knowing the cost of the antique truck, they know Big Daddys got a bargain.

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Are we going to drop our national debt, amounting to over $7,000 for every American family, into the laps of our children and tell them it is their problem to handle as best they can? What kind of morality is that?Marshfield (Mo.) Mail.

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By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Coivrlfbt, 1962, King FeaturM Syndicate. Inc.

Daniel Laor, Public Relations Officer for Israel, sent me the offldftl statement of Israel on the Sobten Case. His letter starts with this paragraph:

1 am sure that many of the_ emotimial comments on the Sob-len case with reference to Israels part have resulted simply from confusion and misunderstanding emanating from the manner in which this story has been cjovered.

This Is a wholly Incorrect point of view. The Issue to most Americans is very simple and will not be confused by legalisms. Of course, each country has a right to Its own laws. Also, each country needs friends and allies. If Israel can afford to lose the friendship of the United States and the American people, that is their judgement.

Dr. Robert Soblen is a con-vlcied spy for Soviet Russia. He was ccmvicted in the United States. He disgraced Israel by taking refuge in that (country. Israel, as a country which has enjoyed the friendship of the United States and the financial aid of the American people, should not have permitted a IsgaUsm to forbid the El A1 aln)lane to bring him back to tlM United States.

Representative Leonard F^b-stein said in the House of Representatives:

"The Government of Israel has defined this step as an act of expulsion;' t^ere is no reason to quibble about legal terminology it is In wiy case clear that what the Government of Israel did on that day did not, to say the very least, make It at all difficult for Soblen to find hnself back in this country. Whoever may have g(x>fed in not keeping an eagle eye on Soblen either In New Yor^ or upon that plane, it is surely not the Israelis wh(n we can blame for that!

It is scandalous that there has not been an Investigation as to who goofed and permitted Soblen to escape from New York. Representatives Celler and Walters and Senators Eastland and and McCHellan have committees to do the investigating. Their failure to act is beyond understanding. unless they feel that party politics are more important than the security of their country.

Represehtative Farbsteln says:

One hears a great deal concerning friends and friendship, but such words re apparently used lightly and freely. I can think of few examples of acts by a foreign government which would prove the spirit of friendship more indisputably than the action of the Government of Israel on the first of July.

This is utter nonsense. The refusal to put Soblen on an El A1 airplane which was in London ()ened the door for further legalisms in Great Britain which acts without consistency. As a member of NATO, Great Britain should ship this spy to the United States for imprisonment. Britains peculiarities are no excuse for Israels peculiarities.

Israel has not yet been stabilized. The country needs friends. The market for its bonds is in the United States. Representative Farbstein does not serve Israel well when he reepats in his statement, phrase by phrase, the apologia of the Israeli Foreign Office. Nor does Premier Ben Gurion serve the Americans of Jewish origin well when he says that those who do not go tb Israel are not truly Jews, 'There is nothing in Jewish history or religion to justify such chauvlntetlc chatter.

I have all my life been favorable to the establishment of a Jew'lsh homeland in Palestine for those who need or want to go there. But I never foresaw the possibility of Israel giving protection to a convicted Russian spy simply because his parents were Lithuanian Jews. Never in his life did Robert Soblen show any evidence of being a Jew or being interested in Jewish life. Some Israeli can say that should he return to Israel, he will be permitted to go to Communist Czechoslovakia from whose Skoda Works. Nasser and other Arabs are being supplied with arms tci' destroy (Continued on Page 5)

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Theres nothing new under the sun. and its the same old stuff under the moon, too. Schalier (Iowa) Herald.

yes Christmas Toy Ads

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS ALERT!

Lenin, who turned czarist Russia into the Soviet State, once remarked that this world has no place in it for people who have any regard for virtue.

It was a revealing statement. Jt indicated the basic philosophy upon which communism rests. Morality is nothing. The only thing that counts is that a group of men more tyrannical than any czars that ever lived get hold of governments and i-un them for the people. The oeople, according to communism philosophy, are not able to govern themselves. They must put eveiTUiing into the iiands of dictators and the dictators will manage things for them.

Khrushchev said probably ill all sincerity that he would bury us. He prophesied that the grandchildren of our present

generation would be'avowed communists. Hitler wrote a book "Mein Kampf, in which he told precisely what he intended to do. Millions of us read it and laughed at the lunatic. But he did precisely what he said he was going to do. and it cost hundreds of thousands of lives to stem the evU tide.

Communism is not another ldeol(y. It is a criminal conspiracy designed by a group of criminally minded men to put us into their own power. Let us never for an instant be lulled Into a sense of security regarding our country. Khrushchev will bury us unless we are mighty alert to see that he never gets a chance.

Communism is an unmitigated evil, a force being wielded by evil men. Let us take our stand, aware of what we confront and dr*e m<i>ed to -ih-stand and, if possiblei destroy it.

By ELMER ROESSNER

This pre-Christmas season, parents may not be driven as mad as they were in previous seasons by televisicm toy advertising.

Both the Federal Trade (Commission and the Federal Communications have warned broadcasters against advertising that misrepresents the actions of playthings, or the accessories that come writh them.

Broadcasters were Put on warning again a few weeks ago by Charles L. Sweeney, chief of the food and drug advertising division of the PTC. speaking to the Georgia Association of Broadcasters. Not confining himself to food and drugs, he served notice that the commission w as deeply concerned about television demonstrations.

He reminded the broadcasters that the FTC had cracked down on advertisers who used prepared plastic to demonstrate how a shaving cream could make sandpaper shav* able, and who used trick photography and petroleum jelly to make safety plate glass ap-rrar superior to other glass. TOY MAN UFACTURERj HIT More recently, be added, the

FTC had issued final orders in two cases involving television advertising of toys. Gne commercial for a battle set showed, in addition to the components actually sold, numerous miniature trees and other pieces of scenery, components that smoke or produce smoke, and toy canncm that fire projectiles which explode.

The other Involved two toys: a radio kit and a chemistry set. The radio demonstration suggests that It contains the parts necessary to construct a radio which will transmit broadcasts. This is not true.

The chemistry set demonstration included a battery and a glass beaker. There is neither battery nor glass beaker included in the set, and the beaker which la included la not aa large as the one depicted. TELL ABOUT BATTERY?

Sweeney said the question of whether toy advertising should explain whether a battery had to be purchased in addltkm la still under discussion. The FTC has not issued a final opinion, he said, but it is necessary to prevent having a child open an expensive birthday or Christmas gift from his parents, and the

anticipation of the entire family being chilled, when the toy does not operate as It was demonstrated on television because no one was told that batteries should be purchased. Advertisers must recognize that these commercials are directed to children, Sweeney emphasized.

False, misleading and deceptive advertising claims thus unfairly exploit a c(msumcr group unqualified by age or experience to anticipate or appreciate the possibility that the representaUcms may be exaggerated or untrue.

The deceptive advertiser, he added in pure govemmentese. unfairly plays upon the affection of adults, especially parents and atter close relatives for children, by inducing the purchase of toys and related products through false, mlalead-Ing and deceptive claims of their performance, which claims appeal to both the adults and to the children who bring the toys to the attenticm of adults. POSTSCRIPT:

Sweeney and the FTC may have overlooked this point: Perhaps it is better that children be fooled by televlsl(m adver

tising. Then they will realize that other things advertised on the picture tube may not be what they seem, and that the mayhem, the sluggings, the shootings and the murders they see on television are not real either.

LIBERALIZED DEPRECIATION TOLD IN NEW

booklet

New rules on depreciation for taisiness tax deductions are showm in tables In a new Internal Revenue Service booklet. It gives a detailed breakdown for figuring reserve rations and possible adjustments for useful life of equipment. For a copy, send 15 cents to the Superintendent of Documents, Washington 25, D. C.. and ask for ms Pub. No. 457, 8-62.

SMALL BUSINESS INVESTORS GOING BACK TO SCHOOL The National Associaticm of Small Bustaess Investment Companies has scheduled an executive seminar for officials of small business Investment companies. It will be held September 16 to 21 at the University of Michigan. All phases of inf* vestment policies will be reviewed.