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O^tobCT 1962

Preposterous Precedent For City

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The preposterouajjreceient set by Greenvilles then it should be done in a duly constituted election City Council XhupsdayTb approving a special in-

that is binding upon the city government. Quite terest groups purchase of a special election on a obviously some members of the Council have been public issue goes far beyond the reasonable conduct unwilling to accept the verdict rendered by the of business by a democratic government. voters in the previous referendum. If the people

By a three to one vote, with one abstention, of the city are to take their time to go to the polls the City Council approved a request by a group of again to express themselves on the issue, they citizens opposed to public housing that the city should have some assurance that their expression authorize another election on th^ q^uestion which will be. iollowM

will paid for t>yfhe^pm group. It is no more reasonable for the city to accept

In the first place, citizens of the city voted on the offer of a special interest group to finance an the question some 18 months ago, along with the election than it would be for the city to accept the question of an urban renewal program, and gave otfer of a defeated candidate to pay for a special their approval by majority vote in the referendum, election in which he would have a chance to make This indicates to us that another referendum on another try for the office.

the matter is entirely unnecessary. Obviously the matter of another special elec-

If, howe^'er, the City Council feels the matter tion, privately financed, is being offered because should again be taken to the voters for a decision, those making the offer wet^ not pleased by the outcome of the first referendum on the question. If

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BABIES Nothing the human heart deeper babies. Nothing involves a wider range of human emotions than children.

And there is nothing in public service and government more canpUcated and risky, more demanding of careful ad-ministratit, wise decisicms and strict supervisi(n than that field in modem society which deals with placing of children for adoption.

In North Carolina this comes under the Department <rf Public Welfare which, administers the states adoption laws and supervises the placement of children for legal adopticm.

The law provides for placement of children for adopticm in three ways; U) relatives, (2) Bgendes such as county departments of public welfare or licensed private placement agencies and (3) direct placement. _

RELATIVES In North Carcha tiiere are more adoptions by relatives than by any other placement method, a total of about 1,000 a year.

In years past, these children may have been taken in and Just grew up in the hones of relatives. But modem day laws and programs require clarification of a childs legal status. Officials cite evidence of the increasing importance of completing legal adoptions.

In the case of ad(^on by relatives, state irfficials report relatively few problems but emphasize the importance of having an attorney handle the legal procedures involved^ With competent legal help, this type of placement is fairly simple.

ADOPTIONS Because of the role of children in the family, the desire of couples to have children and to assume the role of parenthood and its

says, we are locking for security, stability and affection. Our first concern must be for the welfare of the child."

There are complaints that the required procedures are too slow, that couples are forced to wait, to undergo exhaustive investigations.

Many of these couples may turn to direct placement of a child by its mother, a procedure which is legal and sometimes quicker but which Dr. Winstcm calls the most dangerous method of adopting a baby.

It may seem easier at the moment, but it Is harder la-ter on, she says.

STUDIES SOTietlmes it does not take substantial time to make the necessary studies, to find the right child for the right home, she says, "fiut the experience of many agencies in many states over the years has indicated the soundness of thoroughness.

Having (mes own child is not a speedy proc.ss, she adds.

We are concerned,'as are child welfare people throughout the country, about direct placements in which the parents release or give a child to a third party vho does not have re-sponkbility under law for making plax^ments.

There are provlsiwis in t|' law for short-cuts in time for adoptions but only when all legal requirements are met. Dr. Winston considers that the law had pn)er safeguards.

No couple can visualize itself as not being suitable parents, but sometimes this Is found to be the case one of them may be emotionally disturbed, or they may fear the marriaige is not going to work and think that maybe a child would hold it together. The law. she says, thus protects the Qhild.

In cases in which a third

the city goes through with a special election on the issue, financed by people opposed to public housing, .vould the Council subsequently approve another special election privately financed by people in favor of the issue?

Or, if the result of the election paid for by the opponents of the issue is not to the liking of those who pay for it, will the Council allow them to purchase yet another so-called election in an effort :o defeat the matter, or kill it by delay?

In the scope of the democratic process of government, there is no logic whatever in the action taken by Greenvilles governing board to allow a special interest group to purchase a special election in an effort to serve its own special interests.

The Council should immediately reconsider fnd rescind us unwise and unprecedented action of Thursday night.

If it is not worth the citys money to have the voters go to the polls again and decide the matter in a properly constituted election, then it is not worth the voters time to go to the polls just be- f cause private special interests w'ant their way.

If th Council allows its action of Thursday night to stand, it has opened*the door for any special interest group to rightfully expect that it can offer to pay for a referendum on any matter of interest to it, and the governing body will call the election.

Such a philosophy would make a farce of ^democratic government.

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By HAL BOYLE

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More Recognition Of The Danger In Cuba

Unanimous agreement by 19 Latin American foreign ministers that hemispheric nations should take measures to prevent shipment of military goods to Cuba is indicative of the greater general concern over Cuba than was present even a few months ago.

While the statement issued by the foreign ministers of the 1^ Latin American nations, together

NEW YORK AP)Things a columnist might never know he didnt open his mail.

A bachelor Is never safe at any age. The Census Bureau reports:

If youve reached the half century mark yourself, the odds are that youll live to see your 75th birthday. If you make it to 70, the chances are youll live beyond 80.

Everyone has heard of P.T. Bamum, the celebrated 19th century showman, but few know his full name. It was Phineas Taylor Bamum.

Professional pickpockets refer to a mans right hip pocket as the sucker's pocket because it is the easiest of all to pick.

In Kentucky, where most of Americas whisky Is made, more than half the population

lives In dry counties

Thi-ee out of four American families now own at least one car. In the last five years the number owning two or more cars. has increased from abmil four million to seven million.

Napoleon and Churchill found their bathtuhs a favorite source of inspiration. So do writers Agathie Christie and Angus Wilson.

F. W. Woolworth, founder of the fivfe-and-dime chain, was once hired as a janitor for 50 cents a day by a retail store owner who didn't think Wool-worth had enough business sense to wait on customers.

Li Iraq, a man cant bring home a seccmd bride until he first proves in court that he can afford to support two wives.

Americans drink an average of 189 bottles of soft drinks a

year.

A suntan lotion now on the market does double duty by also serving as an insect repellent.

ministers oi tne 19 Latin American nations, togetner T' J *4. O

with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, was not as JLjClltOrS i^ClVinQ[ . ..

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mand for adoptions.

The placement by relatives accounts for approximately half of the adoptions each year in North Carolina. The others go through agencies or direct placement.

And thtre are more applicants to adopt children than there are children suitable for adoption. This fact In Itself creates pressures and presents problems. The situation is improving in a number of ways officials are finding it relatively easier to place older children, handicapped children, children of varied backgrounds through an Intematicmal agency, children from foreign lands. Work is being d(me in placing lhaian

But In all cases, the woric Is time - consuming, exacting and presents various specific problems.

LAW North CaroUna is fortunate that our adopticwi law is clear and gives such great protection to children who are adopted. says Dr. Ellen Winston. state commissicmer of PubUc Welfare.

In adoptions, Dr. Winston

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ment of a child illegallv without a license either through ignorance or knowingly, officials act quickly to point out the violation and stop it. Dr. WinstOTi said. This is not widespread. but occurs occasionally in an isolated case.

SUPPORT Dr. Winston reports fine support from the legal profession, the medical profession, ministers and courts of adoption, the clerks of Superior courts, for the state adoption laws. Costs including attorney's fees are relatively modest and in some cases legal aide is provided.

In all proper adoptions, every effort is made to protect tlje plural

and adoptive parents, Dr. Win-.ston said. Neccessary studies take into account all relevant factors, in independent placements none of these protections e.xist.

Recent studies in Florida, she said, dramatized the dangers of direct adoptions and the problems that come in later years for parents who did not want to follow the established legal procedure for adopting a child.

(Washington Daily News)

We understand that there is considerable apprehension in some quarters over the proposed plan to build 15 state sup-

appreciable significance.

It was only last January at the inter-American .U.ii 11 AiiLJi UJ.L o

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group split sharply on some of the anti-Castro proposals. It appeared then that while Castro had no open supporters among the 20-nation group, there were those who opposed sanctions against his island _

state. Now it appears that there is more recogni- ported~junior coUeges in the tion of the threat a communist armed camp in Cubs ture, poses to nations of this hemisphere.

With a solid front of nations of the Westen;

Hemisphere posed against the communist threat in Cuba, it will be considerably more difficult for the Reds to exploit their Cuban position by moving into other Latin American nations.

"A flying squirrel cant really fly, but it can glide distances up to 125 feet.

In California, if you catch a sperm whale under 35 feet long, you have to throw it back into the water. In Barre, Vt.. an old law required everybody to take a bath on Saturday night. And in Macon. Ga., it was illegal for a man to put his arm around a woman in public without a legitimate reason.

In Palo Alto, Calif., some baby sitters are demanding and gettingthe cost of their husbands dinner in addition to their regular fees.

About a fourth of U. S. college students are married.

False teeth have beea.; found in the skulls of some early American Indians,

Women lose more earrings than gloves.

Ohly one his wife s clothes sizes.

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Bv JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON (AP) The explosion at Ole Misswhile dramatizing the Negros struggle for equal rights and opportunities in the South is only one more episode in a painful book far from ended.

The Southern Negro has been making some progress toward his goal. He still has a long way to go. White resistance to treating him as an equal crumbles slowly.

And, ju.st because it does, what happened in Mississippi is in the long view just one more roadblock removed on a long march.

The riots and murders at the University of Mississippi, over admiting just one Negro to one state public school, come when the United States is trying to act as friend to the newly free but recently colonial Africans, How does this look to the rest of the world? C. L. Sulz-bei-ger of the New York Times, writing from Athens, says that in effect Southeni treatment of Negroes is America s own form of colonialism.

The American State Department, which has to try to impress Africans and Asians with the good will and enlightenment of the United States, might wish the white resistance would collapse with its defeat in Mississippi.

But it wont. The defeat wa.s single and not total. The resistance there will continue, even if without bloodshed. It demonstrated one thing only:

That if a state defies a court order, as Mississippi did in trying to keep James H. Meredith a Negro, from registering at Ole Mi.<^, the federal goverament will use all its power to smash the resistance.

The example of the diery defeat at Ole Miss will hardly affect the quieter forms of Southern resistance, which for years has been delaying equal treatment of Negroe.s.

In all of this there Is a double irony.

The Supreme Court has ruled it uuconstitutioiial for a Negro

to be kept out of any American public school because of his race. This means the Negro has a constitutional right to admittance.

It might seen therefore to a foreigner that the Negro should be able to enjoy his rights at once since the Constitution guarantees them. ,

But the longer Negroes have to wait to get into white schools or for other rights, like voting the longer they are denied their rights and only because Southern whites, out of prejudice, wish to deny them.

Therefore, those who urge a very slow approach to the whole problem are actually suggesting the Negro citizen be patient about wanting those rights which under the Constitution and the Supreme Court Interpretation of it belong to him.

There is hardly persuasive to the Negro. Nevertheless, because of the very nature of the American political system in which men seek to be elected to office, eventually the Negro in the South will have a tremendouij voice.

He'll have it only when Negroes everywhere in the South can vote and do vote a.s freely as white men. Progre.ss is being made in this field, too. but. despite efforts of the Kennedy administration, that also is very slow.

White politicians who now advocate segregation will in the end, in areas where the Negro vote can defeat or elect them, have to seek the Negroes' help and promise benefits to get it.

We read where such present and time honored colleges as Loulsburg, Chowan, Wingate, and Campbell are worried lest the wave of state supported colleges should make it impossible one day for their colleges to exist.

All of the above named junior colleges have given great educational service to thousands of young people in their time. These 'yotmgr pbpTe"'W^ Tew' years ago are now alumni of the colleges, and in most cases they are very loyal and they have an effection for their alma mater which they do not wish to see destroyed.

It stands to reason that tax supported Institutions can exist where private schools fail. Everyone has to pay taxes, but the financial support for such schools as Louisburg. Chowan, Wingate, and Campbell comes as a voluntary thing and not through compulsory tax p r 0-grams.

If we look at it another way, we might begin to unders t a n d better. Suppose that a man, an average citizen of our state, is interested in education, and he usually is. He pays his taxes because if he does not pay them, he will have his property sold for taxes. Part of his taxes goes for education. This same man then is called upon by his church to support a junior col-ege affiliated with the church. He does not have to support the college-related school. He has to support the tax-supported school. If he supports h i s

church school in addition to the measure of support he gives his state institutions, he is called upon to give above and beyond that which his state requires. It places a heavy burden upon him. And if he is hard pinched. he can just overlook the annual contribution to his church-related school.

That is exactly the concern today of church related schools. They see the future dangers of the state building 15 junior colleges.

We are told that even some of the smaller four year colleges are worried. We have read that such schools as Atlantic Chris-

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some of the others are looking at this proposal with great concern.

Education is a most important function of the state. However, many see the proposal of building 15 more junior colleges as a means of erasing the fine service now being given by many small non tax supported colleges.

Of course, well gain nothing if we build a junior college and at the same time put a church college out of business. The state apparently feels that this will not happen. But there are fears and apprehensions now that it could.

Actually we need more colleges than we now have. By 1970 several thousand more boys and girls will be seeking college admissions than sought them last month in our state. We'll need far more colleges than we now have. Something must be done. The slate has a good argument, and we cannot deny that.

The next legislature or the next might have a difficult decision to make.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT

Cdpjrlght, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

National Newspaper W e k comes in October and is designed to remind the American people of the value of Its free press.

In many parts of the world, the press is ccxitrolled either by the government or by a p^tl-cal party. Such newspapers and magazines and the news on radio are not free. They are the voice of those In authority. They exist to perpetuate those in authority. They twist and slant and omit news In order to serve those In authority.

A press can only be free under two condlti(xis:

1. That there is ample competition. 80 that if one publi-catim chooses to serve a particular cause, a limited point of view, another publication will provide the other side. Com-petiticHi is the heart (rf truth. In the United States, where there are many cities in which oay one newspaper can be economically published, the competition cranes from weeklies, columnists of various shades of view, radio and television.

2. That the publication earn its own way through circulation and advertising, so that it need not fall back on any kind of covert subsidy. The cost of publication, both for labor and newsprint, has become so high that many newspapers have suffered In recent years. Nevertheless, no newspaper has become a government or a party organ as is customary In Europe. Many newspapers publish a variety of cGiumnlsts to mMntaln a balance of view and often what the columnists say Is different from the policy of the newspaper. This overcomes the lack of a competing newspaper.

Freedom Is of the spirit. A publisher who takes'^advantage ' of his opportunity to prevent his readers from seeing both sides of the coin is intellectually dishonest and there are few such in this country. Nevertheless, it must be pointed out that the greatest strides in preserving freedom of the press have been made by courageous publishers and editors who practiced what is called personal journalism.

They attacked abuse. They fought corruption. They were the public tribunes defending the rights of the people, fighting privilege of every kind. It is true that sometimes they went beyond good taste, but viewed objectively and at historic distance, the work of such men as Horace Greeley, Joseph Pulitzer, James Gordon Bennett, William Randolph Hearst, William Allen White and a host of others in small ci-ti^ afid helped to,

lop hj teis ooutiT ^ great and decent nation.

Some of what they did has come to be called Yellow Journalism, by which is meant over-emphatic, excited, over -stimulating journalism. Taken on the whole, such journalism served the United States well.

Take for instance, Hearst's slogan, Remember the Maine. Was it not superior to the powder-puff attitude we take these days toward Ciuba which The New York Times, after four years, is just beginning to recognize as a Communist Revolution, conducted under Russian auspices? Surely, Remember the Maine was a total nationalistic concept, just as Buy American,'^''' *madcsense'' SJid' makes sense today.

The function of the Press Is not only to inform the people but to give them a literature (Continued on Page 8)

THE UNITED WAY

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS POWER OF THE SPIRIT Religious life consists in our getting into the stream of the Holy Spirit and staying there.

What do we mean by this? The Holy Spirit is the spirit of the living God operating among men. Jesus Christ left the world at a certain definite time promising that he would send the Holy Spirit the Comforter to act in his behalf. There is a way in which Christ has never left the world, but he declared that he would be with his disciples always. Yet he ascended into heaven. In a way he has departed, but in another way he is still here.

This, of course. Is confusing as spiritual matters always are, because the finite brain Is not well suited to reasoning on mat

ters characterized by Infinity. The Holy Spirit is Gods living, creative, guiding Spirit in the world. We become truly religious, we find peace, joy, comfort, and power when we swing our lives into this spiritual orbit and go along with it.

You may have tried to do this and apparently failed. But you have not failed if your efforts were sincere your success has only been delayed. The child practicing rai the piano and not succeeding always in hitting the right keys has not failed. He is learning. Likewise you and I In our apparent defeats are learning.

Gods presence Is In the world! If we are In the right orbit, we are on our way to glory and triumph. There Is no failure for the truly sincere.

A Busy Calm For Management

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It i.s cle.sirable that bu.si-ne.s.-mtu. as well as fanners, le^islators, labui union officials and others, express their views on national fTolicie.s and make recommendations for lepi.'^lalion. They should be eu-cotiraRcd to do so. Des Moines (Iowa) Register..

By ELMER ROESSNKR A calm a busy cahn Is about to descend on top management. Congress is about to adjourn. There will be no more niptures, no more fears of ruptures of business practices until after the new Congress is elected in November and takes office next January.

But in the next few weeks almost every businessman must take a look at legislation passed in the last few days and signed by the President. Operations of his business must be adjusted to the new laws. Main Street, no les.s thart Oxford, Miss., must conform to the law of the land.

Changes in tax laws are mo.st important to businessmen. At this writing, all changes cannot be reported. Later columns will evaluate changes most signifi-cajit to business.

Rise In auto sales: Previous predictions of increases in sales of I9(>;j auto .sales aie hereby reafiirmcU. Sales of n e w

models are rising, often more than manufacturers expected. About 700,(XK) cars will be produced this month, a new Octo-bo- record.

Higher bank earnings: Bank profits for the quarter ended September SO indicate a rise in profits in the last three months of the year. Eamings in the third quarter show that most banks are coping with the rising cost of money, with indications of better profits ahead.

Larger farms; The trend to larger farms seems to be stren-ghtening. Smaller farms, constantly buffettcd by rising costs, continue to vanish in mergers with larger farms. This means growing markets foi' makers of farrh machinery.

MOBE JAPANESE SALES

Rise in Japanes^e imports: Ja pan has lowered barriers against many U. S. imports and, with an improved foreign-exchange position, i.s willing In buy more Amri'ican made good.s. Manufacturers should re-examine possi

bilities In this export market quickly.

Boom for Los Angeles; Demands for higher fees by San Francisco pilots will make it more economical to divert many shipments to southern ports. New demands will increase pilots average takes from $25,-0(M) to $32,5(X) a year.

Off-beat travel rise: Advance travel reservations indicate an increase in travel to the South Pacific, the Far East and South Asia, as well as along the beaten travel path to Europe. This winter more foreigners than ever before will have an opportunity to laugh at American travelers.

Inventory rises: Look for gentle increases in inventories. With no Vain clouds on the horizon. industrial purchasing agents are inclined to build up In-vmtories when prices are favorable.

,\OX PENITENTIARY NOT I'ENITENTIARY

PROMOTER INSISTS There was a smirk rai the Old Promoters face when he bu'g-ed in today.

A correction Is In order, he said. You have been talking about the new architecture as Penitentiary architecture, or the 'packing case' school.

I want to call your attention to the fact that piiscms are no longer being buUd like middle - income housing projects. They have vistas, wide open spaces and architectural adornment. I Having seen architectural plans for some of the new federal prisons, we confessed the fault. Hereafter, your columnist will describe and correctly, too new housing projects as In tee packing-case school of architecture.

A thought: some of our re* tired generals might better serve the nation in dynamiting these monstrosities than waste their time leading charges on universities.