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Visitor Can See Education Stress

* couple of miles and havent havent visited it in yeare, are amassed at IW aia Men much but property and buildings devoted to of the college. For some reason they a amatt

education. ^ campus with a few buildings and a

The statement of the man from Piedmont about They still haven't awey^ III#

North Carolina, an infrequent visitor to Greenville, Carolina is the fourth largvat

hocted m. ffe didnt weaw it cHealTyriD^^^

he was favorably impressed with public school and place.

college facilities in Greenville. In spite of their closeness to the volkfe and

It was a couple of miles from the site where awareness of its size, many Greeaville

the new Ficklen Stadium is being constructed on realize the sigidteanve of RasI

the East Carolina Campus to the Junior High School Carolina in this community and ia the slatt^ on Fifth Street And we had driven through the

downtown.

-taking a short cut-on our way Thot IndOUlS

Although Greenville people are well aware of 1^* "La* Wl* i_ i

the growth of East Carolina College in recent vears, IT IQjLltlllQf MGlClllOOrS

it is accepted as part of the community and doesnt ,

make a spectacular impression as we drive by or It is a bit ironical that India, which has often through the campus week after week. Many visitors taken sides verbally with communists of Red China to Greenville, on the other hand, are amazed at and the Soviet Union, should now find itself having of Greenville covered by educational to fight for its territorial rights against its com-facilities. ^ munist neighbor.

With its growth in size, as "well as with its If the major border battles between India and growth in importance in higher education in North Red China develop into full-blown warfare between Carolina, East Carolina has attracted considerable the twe nationsas well they might-India w*ill

Ultimatum

attention throughout North Carolina. Many residents have to look to Western powers of the free world of the state who haven t visited the campus, or for military support. Red China, quite obviously

Thinking About

will received the assistance it needs from the Soviet Union.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

FUTURE Numerous thoughts and ideas are be in g projected and talked about around the state concerning the possible future emploinnent of foriD- Gov. lither H. Hodg-es-

The present Secretary (rf Commerce b a man who has never wanted for a job, a man wbose talents and energies always have been in demand, and a man -tout wbem ab

roost always is speculatic about what be b going to do.

R has been going on for a long Uroe, and its still a popular guessing game what b Luther Hodges g(ng to (k>?

CLEIAR One thing appears sure. Hodges plans to retire Iran politics when be leaves the Kennedy cabinet. He has made that dear in a statement that be cannot conceive of hb becoming a candidate again.

Of course no one really knows when Hodges might become available for sometidng else, when be might leave the cabinet, tt might be months or it might be years.

Rumors that Hodges plans to

Hodges also originated an idea f(M- a stsUewide Rotary gathering which now has been scheduled for Feb. 11 in Winstcxi-Salem. The date has bei set by the governors erf the four districts.

REUNION The Winston-Salem meding in effect will be a reunion, bringing together for the first time all (rf ti clubs in the region which was embraced in the original Rotary oi^i^batios b North Hodges made thb suggestion in an address he gave at the meeting of district 773 in Fayetteville last Spring.

His idea for the greatest gathering of North Carolina Ro-tarians with old timers as guests of h<mor drew formal endorsement and work began to set up Uie event.

INTERNATIONAL The plans were laid around a visit of Rotarys-Intemati<mal president, Nitish Laharry of Calcutta. India, to the United States.

Laharry has acceiAed an in-vitatiwi to be the principal speaker at the event. Hodges also will be (m the program.

Kumors inai rtooges pians ro John W. Harden of Greens- L. ^^TTTT resign as Commerce Secretary boro, a district governor him- f^ \/\/

apparently are unfound. The best self, was named by toe other ^ ^

infonnation b that he Intends to district governors to be gener-

stay in that post as long as al chairman of toe event. The

President Kennedy wants him. other district governors are

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Parents spend money and youngsters ^nd unregalnable years expecting to get an education, not only with the ambition of getting a Job but in too h(g)e of training and broadening their minds so that they may njoy a better life. Some succeed; most fail. B b not so much a question of marks as it b that too many hlgli schools and colleges in ts country would benefit the nation and mankind if they closed down. Their product b too defective.

Thb view I have held for a long time but 1 am not an obstinate person and eouM only believe that I meet and endure the worst of tiie cn. One, in any country, ordinarily assumes that a cultured native with , some years in c<dlege, knows the languagecan spell it, read it, write it nnd compose simply in it. I am always as-t<Hilshed when five syllable words become unprauxmceable and that simple spelling like ^receive" and believe were not taken care ot somewhere In the fourth or fifth grade. We used to* be taufiiit geography and knew where places were, what ' latitude and Icmgltude art and the difference between the tropics and the North Pole. These days, geography b not taught as civics b generally not taught. And what I wonder is what these Uds wo in school, hour after hour, day after day.

I see that I am not almie In thb. HorizOT magazine, a civilized publlcatlcm, has an artl^ cle in its September 1962 Edition entitled, The Noi-Teach-ers. Thb b about teachers who

It is reasonable to assume that the Western powers would immediately respond to an appeal from India for assistance in its military conflict with Red China. This, in spite of the fact that India, with its declared neutrality^ and its frequent criticism of Western policies,^has often failed to^ give even oral support to the West when it would have mean a great deal.

Even if the border conflicts between Red By ROGER BABSON China and India do not develop into a full war, the ^ situation should open the eyes of Indian leaders with respect to the ultimate goal of Red China in Asia. India, which has previously so often been

on the sidelines as communist agression took place r,Ancr*M badit ,

in Asia now finds itself the obiert and victm nf * PARK. M^., not be dbturbed by a nuclear Maricet before Canada could

in Asia, now imas itseil tne oDject and victim ol Thb b a touchy subject..Cana- world war. hope to do so. Furthermore.

attack. In past months its leaders have said repeat- dians are often Inclined to look The character of the Canad- the original charter of toe Com- -

ediy th nation would fig^ht to protect its territory ^ people of-toe United -1^ p^b^^ aiwa^^^ mon Market demanaed toar an acce^ mtyersl-

from encroachment by Red China. The critical test starts* some wsl^don^ " " " ^ ^ "

now appears to be in the making. blame them. For many years

T .qU" sense, the situation between Td'S'ofTiT:

India and Red China could set off a global war just ployees there are loyal native as quickly as Berlin or any other trouble spot that Canadians, has been the source of great concern. Indeed, the

crisis between India and Red China may be more Canada has an area of about likely to touch off a global conflict than a crisis 3,850,ooo square mUes com-in Berlin, Laos or some other dot on the map.

The situation may be the opening of the final ed States,not including Alaska

stage of the long conflict between the free world Haw^. The mineral assets

of Canada are very great, including oil, natural gas, even gold and uranium, and about every other mineral. Moreover, these natural resources are all underground, and hence might

and communism for domination of Asia.

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ed me. They are politically alert. Studying the politics of Canadian people, you would assume they are quite socialbtic. Thb b especially true of the political parties in the western part of Canada. On the other hand, they are fair; when ilk-Ing over private properbMhey usually pay a fair price., Thb b evident now as the government b moving to take poses-sicwi of some of the largest developed waterpower companies.

WILL CANADA JOIN THE COMMON MARKET?

I have already, dbcussed the Common Market of Europe in a column which was publbhed a few weeks ago. England, of course, must join the Commrai

to-do business executive more than 10 years ago. also will retire as a public ofticial.

Perhaps toe man least concerned about what he b going to do then b Luther Hodges himself.

There are many who hoped Rodges would see tit to run again for governor. But he has dbnobsed that idea.

So there are other possibilities being raised.

Among these, for example, b omethlng in the Research Triangle which Ho^es envisioned and started. Or there may be a high post in Rotary Intema-ticmal for Hodges. Thb b an organizaticMi in which Hodges has been active for many years.

Either of these jobs could be based in Chapel Hill where Hodges has a home and where he intends to live.

ROTARY - Talk about Hodges possible future role in Rotary perhaps springs in part frran hb leadership in Rotary activities both in North Carolina and previously in New York.

Hodges served as dbtrict governor of Rotary Intemati(Mial when North Carolina comprbed <Mie dbtrict. It now has four separate dbtricte and nearly 7,-000 members In the state.

Tarboro.

A number of North Carolina clubs already are planning to charter special buses f<w the Winston-Salem trip.

TEXTILES A price differential, a so-called two-p rice cotton marketing system b being cited as a major factor in huge increases in foreign-made cotton textiles on the U. S. market.

The American Textile Manufacturers Institute says thb two-price system makes it possible for foreign manufacturers to buy American - grown cotton $42.50 per bale cheaper than the price paid by domestic, textures companies. ATMI contends that the future of the U. S. cotton farmer and U. S. textUe industry depends on solving the question of raw cotton pricing.

The price differential, in effect, b the result of an export subsidy for sales of raw cotton to foreign buyers. Thb difference between domestically supported and world prices for raw cotton b now cents a pound.

ATMI says the stake that both textUe manufacturers and cotton farmers have in thb b linked for the reason that U. S. textile mills use two-thirds of the annual U. S. cotton crop.

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countries belonging thereto should be adjoining. England expects to get thb stipulatlwi revoked.

Recently Prime Minister Mac-miUan brought the heads of the Britbh Commonwealth countries to London to see if they could agree to Englands joining the European Common Market. After ten days of haggling in London, the fifteen Prime Minbters of the Commonwealth Countries issued, on September 19th, a communique which was rather blind as well as bland. The communique said; The final decbion must be left to Britain alone; we, however, withhold final judgment until the full terms of entry are known. One fact b certain, namely, that even if England b accepted, there b no hope for Canada to abo be accept-

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Finally the Congress has adjourned. It has been a long session, one of the longest in peacetime hbtory. And it has been one in which, on both sides, politics has been played to the hilt. With the election _only days away, it has become increasingly difficult to get a quorum in either house, and some bilb have been passed without a quorum present.

The Administration has had some notable victories. Probably most important was the Trade Expansion act, which conferred upon the President the greatest tariff powers any chief executive has ever had. We have a new tax bill, but it b a far cry from what the Adminbtra-tion wanted. It contains an unwise investment tax credit, but does little or nothing to close so-called loopholes. The net result will be a loss of revenue to the government.

Postal rates have been rab-ed, but along with thb have gone wage increases, which will more than offset the higher rates. Thb means that the Post Office Dept, will continue to operate at a deficit. A new drug control bill has been enacted which gives the government increased powers in thb field. The foreign aid bill provides a billion dollars less than the Adminbtration requested, which reflects the growing feeling within the Congress that thb program needs overhauling.

On the other side, the Administration has been defeated on several of its recommendations. Perhaps most notable among these has been the attempt to 'create an urban affairs department, medical care for the elderly under Social Security, federal aid to education, another extension of unemployment benefits, stand-by authority for the President to reduce taxes and a new over-all farm bill giving the Secretary of Agriculture greatly increased powers.

These, of course, are merely some of the highlights of this session of the Congress. Scores of other bills have been consid

ered, and many of them have been passed, and many others will be re-introduced in the next Congress.

President Kennedy b well aware of thb and b taking on one of the most ardent campaigns ever seen for a chief executive in an off-year election. He not only wants more Democrats, but more Democrats who will vote for what he recommends. He says that thb has been a productive Ccmgress, but that much remains to be done and he must have more persons who agree with hb solutions. The Republicans, according to Mr.Kennedy, just automatically say no^ to what must be done. The record does not bear out such a charge, and it cannot be true because in both houses the Democrats have an almost overwhelming majority. But the accusation may be good campaign oratory.

Former President Eisenhower abo in mi the campaign trail in a more active manner than he ever has before In an off-year electicm. He gives the impression, too, of being deeply irritated by some of the criticism by President Kennedy of the Ebenhower adminbtration. In hb public statements Ebenhower has limited hb blasts to domestic affairs and to the manner in which the present adminbtration b attempting to run the country. He obviously has no confidence in many of the persons around President Kennedy, or in the advice they give, and believes that the only solution b the election of Republicans.

In spite of the nearness of the election, there are few who are willing to make firm forecasts on how the two parties will make out. It is customary for the party in power to lose seats in Congress in an off-year election, and most pensons believe that record will hold this year. But no responsible political expert thinks the Republicans can win control of the House, and the Senate Is certain to remain Democratic.

(Richmond News Leader)

Recently a highly placed ofticial of the State Department, closely connected with the foreign aid program, undertook to explain the why of foreign aid to some visiting newspapermen. It all seemed elementary to him. He couldnt understand why it wasnt clear to everyone ebe.

Let me give you an example, he said. A little nation, anywhere in the world, gets caught up in the waves of independence and nation albm that are sweeping the globe. Its resources are undeveloped. It wants to move ahead. So its representative comes to us and says, in so many words, either you help us or we will have to turn to the Communbts. And of course we help them. In the long haul, its in our best interest to do so.

Lbtening to the gentleman, we were swept by all kinds of fresh doubts about the whole philosophy of foreign aid. The dblogue attributed to thb typical representative of an undeveloped nation had a most familiar ring. It echoed the blindfolded character in Moon Mullins who pokes a pbtol in Lord Plushbottoms tummy. *Yer money or yer life, he says. And Plushy forks over.

Well, If that b the best justification that can be advanced for spending $3.9 billion in foreign aid next year, perhaps the time has come to scrap the whole sorry prc^ram. The alternatives of the highwayman offer a choice beneath the dignity of a great country. If you dont help us, well go Communist. The answer to that, b Git!

More explicitly, it w'ould seem to us that a wbe foreign policy

would suggest to these loincloth Talleyrands that the United States b willing to help only those nations that first of all help themselves. If an infant nation exhibits some awareness of liberty, of individual freedoms, of a fierce desii'e for independence, certainly, let us sit down and bargain together. But the infant country that b willing to sell out its own nationhood for a peck of rubles, and accept the ruthless domination of Soviet Russia in exchange, will never be a help to us. In the long haul, it WilL be no help to Soviet Russia either.

^ The State Department spokesman would not accept thb line of reasoning. One newspaperman asked if these impudent extortionist tactics ever worked in reverse. Doesnt a country such as, say, Yemen, ever threaten the Communbts: If you dont help us, well go American?

It seemed a novel idea to the State Department man. Surely, he said, no one wants to let anything like that happen. Look at Cuba, he said. Would we want other Cubas all over the globe? Before the yes-and-noes of that question could be argued, the meeting broke up. It seemed to us that perhaps it might not be catastrophic If the Soviet Union were pushed into a few situations of yer money or yer life. The Communbts are stretched thin now. Why not stretch them thinner still? The Russian bureaucracy, in our view, is even more imcompe-tent than our own bureaucracy. Instead of racing the Communbts to the moon, why not race them to bankruptcy? They might get there first, though the way things have been going lately, it doesnt seem likely.

Market, and will be much concerned if England b accepted. MY OWN FORECAST AS TO CANADA. GREAT BRITAIN, AND 'IHE united STATES

Canada and Great Britain are gradually working apart politically as well as economically. Although the Englbh Prime Minister now nominates a governor general for Canada for appointment by the Queen and continues to supervbe or approve certain military and fiscal legblation, yet Canada b rapidly drifting away from the mother country. Thb, moreover, is true of Australia, New Zealand, and others of the fifteen Commonwealth nations. My forecast is that if Great Britain heartily joins the European Common Market, it will push Canada and the United States closer together as one nation. Although a boundary line now nearly 4,(X)0 miles long separates Canada from the United States, yet it contains no defenses on either side and b one of the greatest examples of world peace.

A joining of the United States and Canada should be of advantage to both countries. It would give the United States a great new body of natural resources, and would help Canada industrially and give much additional employment to Canadian people. The two countries would supplement each other well from an economic as well as a political point of view. Thb would enable the two nations to balance up their population and cljmatlc changes. Canadians who could afford it would drive to Florida winters while our own people would drive to Canada summers and enjoy the wonderful lakes and mountains of the Canadian Northwest.

ties but do not teach students. ^ Professors are too high up In the world 'to teach students. They do research or make surveys and prepare volumes of statistics which no one reads. Some of them work for the government as experts which they usually are not because" their training b against understanding people.

The "Horizon article says: In the large fnxit-rank universities, teaching, at least to undergraduates, has too clearly been losing ground as a major concern, and the higher a mans standing, toe less he has to do with students. For four or five decades university teaching as such has had to C(hi-tend Increasingly with the competitive attractions of research and writing. . .But more recently, with the flood of grants and

teachers fnrni classroom and lecture hall has become a stampede.

But you -pay your money theoretically to get the best that money can buy In the classroom. And the best ought to be braJns and character and understanding. But you are very lucky if your youngster gets some<me who b hanging around waiting for a Ph.D. on a thesb explaining why a crab has so many feet or why a politician should be made extinct while experts govern us.

I have always believed that the top professors in a unlver^ sity should teach freshmen. Early, I had Roblns( and Beard and Shotwell and folks like that whom I never forgot, but when I see a pimply-faced, hungry graduate student attempting to introduce the young mind to learning, I feel sorry for the kids. There b no inspiration to such a teachers soul; what he wante b to go some place where he can think about himself and his mberies.

Some boys (mce told me about an Englbh teacher they had at college who went to a saloon each night to get tanked up because he so hated to teach. He and hb friends were ambitious to write a play and they were dbturbed In their noble thoughts by the students who wasted so many hours writing Illegible compositions because they had never been taught their ABCs.

A student told me that although he had tried to make the acquaintance of hb professors, he went through hb entire freshman year without meeting one personally. The wily ad-minbtrative ofticiab he ever met were deans on stated and formal occasions.

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Youth Must Have Car To Drive

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

NATURE OF REAL LIFE

And they lived happily ever after.

The fairy tales of old invariably ended with these worcb. They represented a certain amount of truth, but they also constituted a dbtortlon and represented error. For It has nev' er happened in human hbtory that two personalities could be brought together and live from a quarter to half a century together without at times experiencing unhappiness. There would be sickness at times and anxiety over children. There might be financial loss and frus-'tratlon, Dbappolntmcnt b the lot of everyone at some time or other. We want promotions, we do not get. We lose jobs we have long cherbhed. We retire

too early or too late.

Once In a while an individual pops up who appears froqj birth to death to have nothing but blessings and triumph. Likewise there are a few unfortunates who seem always to get the Tfrorst end of things. But after we have counted out these two we can be pretty .sure that th^ other 98 have about the sam amount of satisfaction and sorrow, dbap polntment and delight, frustration and triumph.

God put us in the world to grow not to s&rcad ourselves like a green bay tree in perpetual happlne.ss nor to lie prostrate on the ground stricken by disappointment and defeat. Life is a mixture of good and bad. We have to take them both. It b only-when we realize this that we live happily ever after.

By ELMER ROESSNER

In the first 10 days of this month, dealers sold 250,670 new autos, the highest for that period in hbtory. Manufacturers are revblng their estimates of sales during the 1963-m o d e 1 year. While It wont set a new high, it may be close up there.

One of the strongest reasons behind the strength of auto sales b that people have money. But another strong reason is a curious recent development In the American mores. That b that a youth, on reaching the legal driving age, must have a car, some kind of a car.

In ancient times a boy became a man when he reached lib thirteenth year, when he became a flunky to a knight, or when he spent three days in the woods, living by his.wits and hb arrow.

But custom today ordains that a boy becomes man when he takes possession of a car.

A ME.SSY BUSINESS

Thb has become so welded into life in America that many youths, unable to take legal

possession of an auto, steal one. This sometimes leads to gunning down by the police but the hapless youth dies a man instead of a boy.

In more legal circles, youths go to almost as great lengths to own a car. Some cajole parents: some cash in savings, and many drop out of high school or college for a year to earn enough money for a car.

Its part status symbolbm; part sexual symbolism. The youth who fails to possess a car when he reaches 17 or 18. depending on state laws. Is lacking in stature sunong hb friends; he Is lacking in appeal to females of the same agesome of whom die In crashes caused by novice drivers. In many ways, the auto is both the Malluch and the Juggernaut of today.

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In serlocs economics, the com-ing-of-age driver b one of the strengths of the auto market.

The new driver can rarely afford a new car. He must buy a used car. But he must have one within his means: one that he can get with hb savings as

a down payment, and on which he can meet instalments out of allowances and earnings.

.THE $2,000 DREAM

Thb, in an amazing frequency of cases, means a used car at around $2,000, with somethbg less than $1,000 down and Instalment payments stretching over 36 montos. On a car costing less, a youth might have to pay off in 24 or 16 months. But because he cannot meet the higher instalments, he usually buys a car near that magic figure: $2,000.

Thb reinforces demand for used cans near that figure, so much so that it has underwritten tliat market. Used cars in that bracket bring $100 to $200 more than they did a few ye;ars ago.

So when the ouoier of a late model drops into an auto showroom just to look around, after a little palaver he is surprb-ed to learn that he can get considerably more than he expected on a trade-in. A dealer may be confideht of both a quick and a good resale and. If he will shave his profits a little for a

fast turnover, the customer may get a new car for $300 or more less than he figiu-ed.

With that temptation, he may be inclined to buy a 1963 model. May be? Look at toe sales figures!

So next time you hear about some youth driving a car Into a utility pole, remember he was going through a sort of tribal maturity rite, An(J remember that he was helping'to support the great auto industry, and that he had Increased the amount you can get mi a trade-in for your car.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS The New Yojlc State Supreme Court held that the town of Glen Cove could not tax movie ad-mbsions 5 per cent unless It' applied a similar tax on bowling aUeys, private clubs and cabareb. . .Total retail sales in September were slightly lower than in August, but well above September, 1961. . .The Matson liner Mariposa b throwing in a beauty cruise leaving San Francisco November 25.

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