fhurtJay, October 25, 1952

Where Would The Dropouts Go?

tudents, where would schools. It is evident, however, that a comprehensive

additional Dunila*^ classrooms for the program to reduce the number of dropouts must be

. . . accompanied by a long-range program to meet the

addftionai school needs in terms of more classfodms dropouts among children in public schools. Most more teachers.

citizens, also, recognize the necessity of an active With sufficient cooperation from citizens, the

pro^am to encourage youngsters to complete the schools of Greenville and Pitt County can and shoud pJblic school program being offered them. Too substantially reduce the number of dropouts. Such many citizens, we are afraid, have not given thought program should be undertaken together with planto meeting the needs of public schools if the tide ning to provide additional facilities as the local of dropouts is stemmed. school enrollment moves upward.

in 1961, Greenville and Pitt County schools . counties of the state are making

had graduated 64 per, cent of their 1954 fifth strides toward providing their youngsters with better gradersinstead of the 44 per cent that were, actu- educational opportunities than ever before. The pro-auy graduated^it would have meant an additional better educational opportunities can pro-

180 students graduating from high schools. It would maximum benefits only if the maximum num-

also have meant an additional 180 students in need J^oungsters remain in school to take advantage

of classrooms and teachers during that school year. opportunities offered.

Generally speaking, there is no surplus of class- rooms or available teachers in our public schools ATTl01*1 r^riTIQ IWflief Qaa tod^. Generally speaking, also, the number of new IwUUS ITiUSI d0G

studento enrolling in public schools each year is wi i w _

increasing. This in itself calls for additional class- Vv uGGlS IC@On -Til 1*11111 rt rooms and additional teachers each year. X Uruluy

fn prospect of global militarv

to 200 students retained in school by reducing the action heavy in the air, it becomes increasingly im-

f perative for all Americans to carefully consider

to curb dropouts must be accompanied by a program their respective roles

countyTpuMc Ku.' that * themselvea

houId*^*h^ studente protect, has struggldr^own and^now ves**bathed

should not be encouraged to remain in school be- m an atmosphere of abundance. They mustobserva

that this voyage'Jias been borne by the backs of

Strictly On His Own

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'Day Of Beauty

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

C30WANBarely 200 miles to tte east hurricane Ella was ,_ralng In the AUanUc and squalls, zales and gusts ^ were brushing the Outer Banks. But the October day dawned blue, bright and cloudless down east Hertford County The sun shone on brown stacks of peanuts drying in the fields and the air was cool and cri.;p Down at historic Winton an olddmer sat in a flatbottomed skiff among the lilypads and cy press knees rear the shorn of the silvery ad rippling Chowan river. A pleasure craft cut white, and foamy troughs up the placid strepm. making easy turns. It idled past the solidary fisherman, so not to disturb his peace with the world.

PRESSEditors and publishers of the Eastern North Carolina Press Association, their la dies and hosts came touring through Hertford, meeting at Ahoskie. breakfasting at Winton and proceeding on to Murfrees

Plans had been for a boat trip up the river, which Easterners claim is the most beautiful In North Carolina and probably In the country.

But Ellas threat spoiled this Small craft warnings were up the day before and Coast Guard regulations would not permit the assembling of the necessarv flotilla.

As it turned out the storm had little effect almg the Chowan. It dropped the water leveJ on the river when the tl(tes rose along the coast, but otherwise there was no sign of the mighty storm out at sea.

THOUGHTSInstead of concern for a storm, the beauty of the day contributed to a turning back of thoughts to a time ^ not so many years ago when an idea was bom along the banks of the Chowan.

That dream, that \dsion which was the way Chowan College president Bruce W. Whitaker described it, had brought the representatives of the news papers to Hertford Countyfor dedication of a new building of the schod of Graphic Arts, the Roy Parker school of Printing, at Chowan College.

This spacious jiew addition to the unique school of printing houses 15 Unecastlng machines 10 presses of various types

including offset, darknxHTis and PhotograpWc studios, lithographic equipment, a machine shop, teletypesetter equipment, classrooms and (rffices. The cost to date has been $41,000, and newspapers and newspapermen have contributed more than 125,000 for it, in addition to other gifts of equipment and materials.

OCCASIONThe occasion on ihe wooded canious ai Murfreesboro was dedication of the new building, a amablning of the old and new' plants of the printing school. The new addition and modernization provides a faciiity of 11,000 square feet of space.

The printing school w^as started only 10 years ago in a tiny budmg of 15 by 15 feet, with one tjT>esetiing machine and one small press.

The school of printing was the project of the late J. Roy Parker Sr.. widely know'n inur. nalist, teacher and partner in the Parker Brothers publishing

guest of honor at the dedication DEDICATE Parker s brother and partner. Mayon Parker, told of the struggles encountered in establishing Chowan College and its program of practical technical education along with its liberal arts program.

Mrs. Elizabeth G. Swindell, editor and publisher of the Wilson Day Times, traced the role North Carolina newspapers played in choosing the school of printing at Chowan College as a special project of*the Eastern N. C. Press Association. She spoke of the values being derived from the opportunities and challenges that it offers, both now and in the future.

A. .DIRECTOR^-rJoiti McSweeney has been

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ed. His staff has been increas ed to take care of the enrollment w'hich averages some 50 students a year.

It is the purpose of the school, McSweeney said, to keep abreast of advancing technology in the publishing and printing fields, to offer the best in practical instructlwi and training and to furnish capable, valuable and well-trained employes for the printing trades and graphic arts industries of the region.

Americans:

They must observe that their nation has steered her^lf through severe trials of her right to harbor ----

P'enty- They will By DON SCHLIENZ

recognize the present crisis looms as the most criti-

cal, the most severe.

Citizens have watched and listened as U.S. mili-tary machinery has been deployed with orders to

halt further progress of a communist ^advance to weird, but for the last do better this year. I got a tip

America s doorstep. They must observe that defense Ive been hav- *

organizations-Iong developed, poised and ready S to

I- Odd Vision Has Reeurrec

fnr rricoo icauy coming in mia-october; and

crises were horn and are sustained through IU leave it to the individuals successful productivity by the substance of as to how unlikely

Americas power, her citizenry. .k

rriv ^ 1 , , , They re always the same, so

1 he people must clearly see that U.S. eapabili- it from the top:

ty to protect its vitality depends ultimately upon the * l)-

thinS aTd t h** he clear mo-nTs, rute^

cnmKiiig and the continued productivity of its The cast comprises three young citizens. mothers, gtUhered for a coffee-

muetl,! oLVa''' eed P-'tt Countv wS!f

mii.t join other Americans in facing this gravest of children off to school.

crises with a resolute determination to continue to nnri thi.v*va. rr.

turn the wheels at home.

City Problem

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By JOhN^ney

MEXICO CITY - It appears that anybody who doesnt support at least wie psychiatrist and drive a foreign sports car these days is wa-a-ay down the list.

When I w'as wearing flour sack underwear and taking apples to my third grade teacher, the ladies sat around talking-about recipes for tea cakes and how' much salt pork you cook with okra.

Today, the exchange symptoms.

The science of symtom-trad-ing, even in Mexico, has reached such an advanced stage that people are now treating one another.

Once theyve got routine complaints, gossip and commiseration settled, the crux of the story comes up with Mrs. A sighing I personally dread it, but we really have to face up to the trick-or-treat campaign before much longer, and so I move we take up preliminary discussion now.

The ritual of seconding and

from my neighbor that theres a subdivision (mi the other side of town where the kids can hardly carry all their swag.

Such an announcement sets off a flurry of finding maps of the city and pencils for high strategy.

Now over here, on this street, murmurs Mrs. C, our kids did pretty good last year, and I think well go back there again. And she carefully marks off a couple of blocks on her map. But, adds Mrs. C, theres one house well skip. . . some lady wanted to know why MY children didnt haunt their own neighborhood.

And Mrs. A observes that you had to expect a soured outlook on life from some; Mrs. B volunteering that she wishes someone would dare to spoil her childrens night out on the town.

I d really tell them something", she said. But theres

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So her partner inquires, Whats the matter. Hyacinth, arent you taking tour triduo-i^ntablatt every four hours? Oh, that's old stuff, Hyacinth says. The doctor put me on theroludenphletz last month but Im still depressed. The rear view mirror of my Mercedes Benz has thumb prints on it and Harrison wont buy me a new car.

Then CHie of the other ladles says. These are the hideous cros.ses we must bear, my dear My doctor has me taking polt-stridenzole with Vitamin C and it works miracles.

The other three ladies write the name on slips of paper and deal a new hand.

Doctors say this sort of thing is a city problem and ladies Who inhabit rural communities of Mexico have 1 e .s ,s complex lives.

For Instance, a farmers wife in a \1Uage tells her husband I feel lousy. Benito. Looks like Im getting the miseries again.

So he says. You better get in the hammock. Clotilde. Ill 4 heat a brick in the fire and put It on your stomach.

Clotilde strokes Benitos hair affectionately and says. You always know what to do, my love.

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ladies Uve under all sorts of social stresses and pressures that have not yet penetrated the boondocks. This is partly due to trying to outrun traffic and standing w'ith an ami-load of groceries looking for a taxi and partly the fault of husbands who beUeve women need everything they claim they need.

Here, we can take the case of the city wife who comes home from a party In tears because another woman had a beehive hairdo exactly Uke hers. She Ues in bed listening to cars and buses in the street until its no use, then asks her husband to get the tranquilizers.

He gets up half asleep, turns left Instead of right and walks through the door to the balcony and lands in the rose bushes. Then has to explain why it took him so long to get back.

But consider the husband and wife sleeping on their straw niat in a thatched hut in the country. A fierce storm blows in with thunder and Ughtnlng and torrents of rain.

After a while, water trickles through the palm thatching and the wife says gently to her husband, Jorge. I think the roof is leading. Sdmethlng Is dripping all over my neck.

And Jorge mumbles. Put the bucket over your head. She does and snuggles up to him thinking how marvelous it is when somebody takes care of you.

According to the medical reports, the ancient Indians long before the Aztecs nev-et had such problems. Nobody knew about c(xnplexes and the approach to symptoms was much mort direct.

A lady and her mate would be eating supper on a big rock they used for a table and she would complain about a headache. The husband would pick up the skillet and put a lump on her head that glowed in the dark, then say. Pass the biscuits, And there was no more discussion about who felt how.

The scientist say women were not nearly so nervous in those days and even the witch doctors had a struggle making a decent living.

experience with Halloween. And if early returns dont live up to expe<;tatlons, Jim can drive the youngsters over here (drawing another ring on the map) where they had an easy time year before last.

Surveying her map. Mrs. A concludes a section ten blocks to the east would bear looking into, and quietly marks the area off. Not much sense In telling them, she thinks to herself. Would uranium-hunters tell their prospecting plans?

And so it goes.

At the close, maps are folded and the strategists break up, each to her own chores. Mrs. A, Mrs. B and Mrs. C, hav* settled their Halloween plans for 1962.

As I said, this vision is very weird; and it has recurred the past few Octobers; and I won* der what significance one could attach to it other than the ob-

in that guys subc(xisclous.

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Junior and Little Sister snouid people havent had much past

Oth^r E(ditors Saying Opinions How Free Is Enterprise? In Brief

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

A textile mill chain in South Carolina has been ordered by the National Labor Relations Board to rehire workers idled six years ago after the mill shut down when the workers were organized by a union. Furthermore, the mill was ordered to make good their pay losses.

promptly asked the appeals court to go further than the NLRB and require just that.

One dissenter on the board maintained that any firm may legaUy quit business any time it wants. Thats what we always thought; apparently thats not the case at all. The majority maintained that the com-

New lesson each year from history of U.S. diplomacy since World War II: We should have taken a firm stand in dealing witti Russia the year before. Lumberton (N.C.) Robeson-ian.

,pis could run IMo mlions' of^. panrwas largely responsible for

dollars for the firm. Now, the NLRB might make out a case that sounds fair, with this ordering about of a private business enterprise, maintaining it was for the welfare of the workers who lost their jobs when the mill shut down.

Certainly the boards decision was welcome news to the workers. But there is another way of looking at it. Lets examine that NLRB order from the viewpoint of Thomas Jefferson and .some of the others who helped found this republic. What would they say If they heard of the government forcing an industry to hire people and pay them wages for six years they didnt work?

And on top of that, shice when is it illegal for a company to close down if it wishes for whatever reasons? Have the unions gained such a stranglehold in the halls of government that they can command American in dustry to run or not run? The NLRB majority steered clear of asking the mill chain to reopen the plant In question, but the AFL-CIO textile workers union

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the plight of the workers. The firm denied it closed because of labor reasons. It contended the mill was closed for economic reasons.

The boards denial of the right of an employer to go out of business in the face of economic threats such as were posed at the Darlington mlU, places unwarranted obstacles in the course of American bushiess-men in their efforts to adapt their operations to a rapidly changing economic scene.

But even If that were not so, why is it that the company no longer has the power of decision over its own fate? How deeply does the governments control of private business run? Were afraid It runs so deeply in this case, for example that when one uses the phrase free enterprise he is using a term that perhaps applied 40 or 50 years ago but one that has no place hi modem language.

For business today and this cannot be denied operates not with the blessing of big government, but by its c(Hisent.

the Internal Revenue Service.Buffalo Center (Iowa) Tribune.

By GEORGE E. SOKOLSKT Copyright, 1962, King Features Syndicate, Inc. in New York State, a third party will appear on the ballot. This will be the Conservative Party. For many years, there has been a Liberal Party consisting of labor union leaders, Socialists and intellectuals who have been able to amass about 400,(X)0 votes, more or less, in each election (and therefore are a power to be reck(med with. The strategic leader of the Liberal Party is Alex Rose, a labor leader, who has astutely put himself in a position to dominate the local Democratic Party through his associations with the Mayor of New Yort: and the President ci the United l^es.

The C(mservatlve Party la New York is new. It is responsive to what mlfirht be called the cOTscrvattve explosltm that appears In many parts of the country. However, this is a serious, well-c(mcelved and conservatively - directed movement which is led by serious-minded businessmen and c(hi-servative intellectuals. It is worthy of respect.

Some of the Republican poU-ttelans tried to keep this new party off the balhrt but Governor Nelson- Rockefeller c^ypos-ed this. R may be true that the Cwiservatlve Party will draw away votes frcan the Rockefel-ler-Javits ticket, but it will also draw off Democrats from the Moi^enthau ticket, as most Democrats do not know why Moi^enthau Is running and who wanted him to run.

The (jonservative Party believes firmly that New York is a no-party state. Governor Rockefeller has, up to now, closely resembled the ideological attitudes of President Kennedy, Senator Jacob Javlts has boasted that he has supported the position of President Kennedy in domestic matters.

The Gtmservatlve Party be- . lleves In the two-party system and expects the opposition party,to oppose sufficiently so that the true facts of a situation are publicly disclosed. They regard the no-party arrangement In New York State, where per-scMiaUtles are more potent than principles and where candidates try to build structures of temporarily loyal minorities to keep them in office, as im-American.

The greatest strength of this new party is In Onondaga County, of which Syracuse Is the principal city. Syracuse has long been a center of antl-Com-munist activity. The Conservative Party is anti-Communist. However, the party has develop-

leans find themselves a tiny Island surrounded by seas of minorities. The Conservative Party could devel() into a revolt against minority domination.

The essential difference between the Conservative Party and the Republican Party is that the conservatives are capitalistic; the Republican Party, while it has not quite reached the New Frontier, accepts the fruits of the New Deal.

It is obvious that the Cot-servative Party will not carry the State of New York and that its candidates wlU be defeated. That is the fate of new parties. On the other hand, it is by many Repiibli-

Its the job of a congressman to vote for or against important legislation. Its the job of his administrative assistant to tell him why he did.Kansas City Star.

In view of the low quality and high quantity of recent publishing, one critic sutoiits that a number of books that have been bound should have been gagged, too. Wall Street Journal.

Success In politics requires the same ingredients as success in other lines of endeavour. These are intelligence, hard work and money, mostly the latter two.The Seattle (Wash.) Argus.

Why is it that a child la scolded whin it flies into a rage and pounds the ground with a stick, but an adult can carry on the very same way and pass it off as golf? Lexington Leader.

cans, that if the Conservative Party gets a large enough vote, say 300,000 or so, It wlU, In certain areas, take over the Republican Party.

Thus far, the Conservative Party does not produce the leadership that can do this. The Liberal Party, from the beginning, depended upon such labor leaders as David Dubinsky and Alex Rose to work out their political strategy. These were men with long experience in the more difficult labor union-planning and manipulation. They knew all the tricks of politics, which is the control of men. They outmaneuvered Tammany Hall. They used patronage to build strength and managed to get patronage.

I do not see anyone in the Conservative Party who can do this. I see well-meaning, sincere businessmen who are weary of me-too politics. I see brilliant Intellectuals who ^ tired of time serving politicians. But I see no politicians, no men who <n manipulate votes. This may be refreshing, but Is it possible to bud a party without technicians?

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xplaining The Reserve Boarc.

By ELMER ROESSNER

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS

HOW ABOUT YOUR WINGS?

A man and liLs wife were looking over snapshots taken many years before. One shot showed the husband dressed up for a Christmas party and having a large and imposing pair of wing.*., His little daughter asked, W^y did you have wings. Daddy? Oh. I guess because I was a good boy. he said. Then the youngster look ed Intently at the picture a long time and said. Daddy, why dont you have them now? Yes. why dont we have them? The innocence and promise of childhood so often wears thin and sometimes wears out with the passing years. Habits begin to for*m. Influences get in their evil work as well as Jheir good work. A terrific conflict be-

h

gins between the high and the low in every nature, and It begins early. The result Is that we soon lose our alngs'.

Jesus had a great deal to say about little children. He declared on one occasion that theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Little children are not always Ut-Ue angels, in fact, they arc sometimes precisely the opposite. But the child-llke spirit Ls the spirit which God loves and which fits into the projects of the kingdom because the child trusts its parents and looks to them for security and guidance They may often appear to be looking for anything but guidance and to entertain anything but trust in their parents. Yet down in their hearts they are doing precisely this.

"Tl:cirs is the kindm of heaven.

The action of the Federal Reserve Board in reducing t h e amount banks must hold in reserve against savings and time deposits is puzzling many businessmen.

Some think it is the start of a campaign to force interest rates dow-n. Others think it Is a wamhig that a recession is coming. Still others think it is an action to prevent the reservoir of business funds from running dry. ---

Actually, it appears to be nwie of those things.

This Is an attempt to explain what happened and why.

HOW SYSTE.M WORKS The law requires banka to hold reserves against both demand and against savings and time deposits. When you deposit $1()0 in a checking account ( a demand deposit) in a bank In the Federal Reserve System, the bank must keep part of It on hand to meet checks with. In cly banks, it must keep *16 5'^: in cou'rv banks. $12. When you deposit that amount in a savings account or a tme ac

count, the bank previously had to keep $5 handy.

These reserves are designed to speed banking transactions. When you drop in to cash or withdraw your deposit, the bank need not say. Walt until we call a loan. It can and does pay you instanter.

On October, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System reduced the amount banks had to hold In reserve against savings and time depths from 5 to 4 per cent. Since banks have about $76.7 biUlon in these types of deposits .1 this means that banks will have ^67 million dollars (1 per cent) which they need no longer keep In reserve. They can lend It or invest it.

LITTLE OF BOTH S(MTie will be loaned; some put into government bonds and bills.

The action was not forced because banks were running short of lending money far from it. There has been plenty of money in the banking system for those who have security and went to borrow.

Neither does the action appear to have been made in fear

of a recession. That much in lending money is small compared with the amounts already available. And it does not appear to be an action to force interest rates down. The Federal Reserve has a mqch simpler ifiethod to do that: It can simply lower the rediscount rate but lets not go into THAT today!

There is a much simpler reason. Every year about this time the Fed acts to put more money Into circulation. Stores need more money to finance added inventories and extra payrolls; customers withdraw money from banks and saving accounts for Christmas shopping; Christmas clubs take money out of banks and put it in the hands of savers; businesses draw heavily to purchase gifts and pay bonuses.

The usual Fed action is to buy back Its own bills. This action would tend to force the price of these bills up, thereby lowering the return on Investment. That might encourage hivestoi-s to put money in other securities, possibly foreign Investments. Putting mon

ey in such Investment would increase the gold drain.

So the Peds action is neat: It releases three-quar

ters of a billion dollars Into the monetary system, without affecting its own borrowing position.

UNCLE SAM GETS 1.32 Cents OF EVERY $1 SPENT IN food CHAIN pe annual Harvard Business School report (xi operating re-chains Indicates that the chains average 1.26 cents profit on each dollar, a decrease from 1.32 cents a year ago, but more than the 1.21 wnU in its first year of study, 1955,

Wallace N. Flint, vice presl-of the National Association of Pood Chains, said the report Indicates that discount focxl stor-* cs will de-emphastze stamps, advertising, house brands, cou-lower-moving Items. Since the earning figure was after corporate Income taxes, the figures indicate that of every $1 the housewife spends Ig a food chain, Uncle Sam skims ofi 1.33 cenU.