Friday, February 8, 1963More Grads Must Go To College

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North Carolina clings, almost tenaciously it the states future economic strength will be seriou'?-seems, to its dubious distinction of ranking 49th ly jeopardized.

among the 50 states in the percentage of its high It is essential that existing units of the states

school graduates who go on to college. system of higher education be given the facilities

The State Board of Educations survey of 1962 with which to meet the growing number of appli-high school graduates shows a slight decrease cants for admission. And the number of applicants rather than the expected increase in the percentage is continuing to increase in spite of the smaller of students who enrolled in colleges. percentage of 1962 high school graduates who en-

While an increasing percentage of high school rolled in college,

graduates in most other states are continuing their The proposed system of community colleges

formal education at the college level, North Caro- for the state is another facet of the overall program lina has taken a step backward from its alr^y in- which will put higher education within reach of a ferior position. It is not sufficient for citizens )t larger number of young people in North Carolina, the state to dismiss the matter with an assertion Still another part of the overall picture is the that North Carolina always has ranked near the oeed for better guidance of youngsters during

bottom in the percentage of high school graduates school years. There is a wide spread be-

who go on to college. tween the percentage, of graduates from larger

It is an economic fact of life that college **8:' ,P collep, and the per-

training for the individual is becoming more aiul '''tagc from smaller high schools who enroll in

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more important. An increasing number of job opportunities carry the prerequisite of a college education. More important, the trend is expected to continue.

Unle.ss North Carolina can interest more of its youngsters in going to college; or bring college education within reach of more of its youngsters.

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colleges. To some extent this may be due to the difference in academic programs offered by the larger and smaller high schools. It is also likebv that the difference is at least in part due to the better guidance programs that are normally carried out in larger high schoqls.

North Carolina must move positively and forcefully to overcome its deficiency in the percentage of its young people who continue their education at the college level. It must attack the problem by every reasonable means.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRE.S FIGUREA chain of events that began nearly 10 years ago pointed the path of State Sen. Th(xnas J. White of Lenoir County toward a position of power and prestige in the General Assembly of 1963.

And events of opening day of the session magnified this picture and projected Sen. White clearly into the limelight as perhaps the most influential man of this legislature.

The day, of course, w'as that of the new presiding officers Senate president T. Glarence Stone of Rockingham County and House Speaker Clifton Blue of Moore. But it might well be described as Whites day, too.

WHITE White shared the legislative spotlight, and not merely because of the gleaming new $6.2 million Legislative Building which bears Whites stamp.

He Is chairman of the Legislative Building Commission and was the man primarily in charge of planning and overseeing constniction of the unique new building. But the building and his role in it is only part of the story of Senator Whites position In the current legislature.

The political star of the attorney from Kinston has been rising for 10 yeare, in his home towm and county and in the legislature as a representative and State Senator.

Whites Influence in various official state government functions and affairs has been growing steadUy, if not spectacularly, through a widely diverse career in government.

POSTB-Not only did Whites work as Legislative Building chairman bear fruit this year with completion of the new structure, but he served as a member of the highly-important and powerful Advisory Budget ComiiilssiiKh-This work on the Advisory Budget Commission and his work as unofficial campaign manager for Senator Stone paid off for White in a committee plum, chairman of the all-powerful Senate Appropriations Committee.

Appropriations was one of two committees named by Stone in the course of the eventful opening day. Sen. James V. Johnson of Iredell County w'as appointed Senate Finance chairman.

White, on the night before the opening, presided as chairman of the Democratic cau-. cus of the Senate. It was in this caucus that the formality of Stones unoposed nomination for Senate president pro tem was accomplished. Upon his election as president pro

tem. Stone automatically be- j

came Senate president bp- I^

cause of the vacancy in office of lieutenant governor and Associate Justice Susie Sharp administered the oaths for both posts in quick succession.

Sen. Ralph J. Scott of Alamance then was elected president pro tem.

MOVE-In the old Hall of the House of Representatives, before H. Cloyd Philpott of Lexington left the legislature and ran for Lieutenant governor, Philpott occupied a front row seat as representative from Davidson County. His seatmate in that session of the Assembly was the Representative from Lenoir County, Thomas J.

White.

The two men differed frequently on specific pieces of legislation but were close friends.

It fell then, on the opening day of the 1963 session, the lot of Sen. White to send up the first legislation of the new session, a joint resolution in memory of the late lieutenant-gov-emor Philpott.

The resolution sailed through, under suspension of the rules, and was adopted quickly in both Houses. Both chambers adjourned their initial sessions in memory of Philpott.

BUILDINGThen as chairman of the Legislative Building Commission, White sent forward Senate Bills 2 and 3. The first would affix an official name to the new building, the State Legislative Building, This went to a judiciary committee.

The second, for which White asked rules suspension and immediate passage, called for establishing a six-man Legislative Building Governing Commission. This group would set policy for use of the new building, allocate space and promulgate rules and regulations.

White said such authority is needed immediately.

He urged that the new building not ever become a place for depositing segments of overcrowded state agencies and that its unique legislative function be preserved. A few questions weie raised, but the measure cleared the Senate. In the ouse. Rep. David Britt of Robeson asked that it be read, then moved its immediate passage if there were no objections. Ta case of objection, he said, he would let it go to Sen. George Uzzells rules committee, and Rep. Roger Kiser of Scotland objected.

Importance of the bill.^ Kiser said, is greater than its ur-gei^cy. Im not opposing the bill, but opposing the technique of passing It here and now.

Speaker Blue sent it to rules.

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By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (APi The rumpus over the size and kind of Soviet forces in Cuba lost much, if not all, of its steam today after the Kennedy administration took unprecedented steps to answer its severest critic on the issue.

Of first concern to Americans was the answer to this question: Are the Soviet forces in Cuba a threat to the United States?

Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara said no. To prove this case he made a two-hour television presentation late Wednesday, photographs and all, as evidence this country through aerial watch keeps a constant check on doings inside Cuba.

But Sen. Kenneth B. Keating, R-N.Y., w^ho had been charging tre Russians were keeping offensive bases in Cuba. sai(l McNamara had disputed none of his charges.

However, Keating had toned down some of them in an interview in uivance of the McNamara presentation. He agreed he doesnt think the Soviet weapons are poised against the United States or that an invasion is a threat.

And in the interview he backed downi from a statement he made only a week ago that there is continuing absolutely confirmed and undeniable evidence the Soviets are maintaining the missile bases involved in last Octobers Cuban crisis with Premier Khrushchev.

He conceded in the intervdew' that he was not talking about hard bases for intermediate range missiles. He said he knows those bases have been broken up.

But it was precisely those bases and those" missiles, capable of hitting almost anj^here in the United States, which were involved last fall when Khrushchev backed down and pulled the missiles out.

Next question: Are the Soviet weapons of the kind that could be used for offensive purposes at all?

Again McNamara said no. And, when he said that, he included Soviet tanks, planes and certain kinds of missiles of very short range. He said the planes could not be used for bombing to back up an invasion.

He said I am satisfied there are no offensive w'eapons in Cuba.

The most Keating could say on this was that he thinks the men and weapons present a threat.

Next question: Could the Soviet forces In Cuba, men and weapoms, be an inva.sion threat to any Latin-American country? If they couldnt be an invasion threat they could hardly be any threat at all.

Once more McNamara said no. He gave hLs reason: That Fidel Castro doesnt have the kind of shipping necessary to move the Soviet equipment from Cuba to any other coimtry.

Keating was very cautious on this one. He said he thinks the Soviet forces in Cuba are forming the ba.se of operations in other Latin - American countries. He said there were still bases in Cuba for missiles with a range of 1,000 miles.

McNamara denied this. He said the only ground-to-ground missiles in Cuba will go less than 30 miles.

But Keating said he doesnt think it possible to launch, a great invasion from Cuba against some Latin - American country although its possible to get personnel from Cuba to other Latin - American countries without our knowledge.

What then is left of Keatings warnings and misgivings about the Soviet men and arms in Cuba? Not much. He said the Soviets have at least 20,000 men in Cuba. McNamara said they did once have 22,000 but now have only 17,000 and that only 5,000 of them are in combat units.

Before McNamara went on the air the American intelligence chief. John A. McCone, gave senators a fill-in. Some of them later ^ said the problem was critical or of concern. That was before McNamara talked.

Last August Keating began warning of a Soviet buildup in Cuba. The Kennedy administration minimized his warnings then. But the buildup was real, as the administration found out and admitted later in its showdown with Khrushchev.

This time as before Keating has offered no proof but this time his arguments looks overinflated. Soviet weapons and arms, so long as they stay in Cuba will be a problem. But thats a long way from being a danger or threat.

But if Keating accomplished nothing else, he pushed the administration into doing something brand new in American history: Defending itself for two hours on television and even showing aerial pictures it took of Cuba. This in the end may work against the U. S. intelligence efforts.

McNamara .said on the air: We considered it so important to expose to you the extent of our knowledge that we have done so, even at the risk of degrading our intelligence capability.

By HAL BOYLE

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In ineir Lives

NEW YORK (AP)-At breakfast you read the cereal box.

On the way to work you mem-oiize the car cards. One elderly gentlemanstockbroker type was recently observed on the subway thumbing through a copy of Shakespeares MacBeth with a look of quiet disapproval.

Thats the way it is In a city that has been without a major newspaper for two months.

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No other instrument ot vlcili-zation fills so many various roles as does a dally newspaper. Nothing else serves so many wants, satisfies so many curiosities, circulates so many kinds of information.

Other mass mediaparticularly radio and television stations have moved massively here in an attempt to satisfy the peo-

The hunger for print is so, pies right to know.

.strong that people will read practically anything. But nothing fills the gap.

I feel like Im living In a void, complained my wife.

Thats the way several mU-lions of New Yorkers have felt ever since a strike shot down the peoples universitythe daily presshere last December.

You never know how much you miss a thing until it is no longer there. And people who have taken their daily newspaper for granted are surprised in how many ways they miss it now that they can no longer guy

But the job is simply too vast for them. It is one thing to watch a television announcer read a news bulletin to you. It is quite another thing to pick up a newspaper yourself and read through Its almost infinite variety as you choose.

The bare b<Mies of big political events can be given adequately over the air. But people are interested in smalle v-ents, too. and other kinds of information only newspapers carry in detail.

Housewives miss the food ads and the recipes and articles on

and save. The businessman misses the announcement of pro-moticms in other firms, and the news of fresh products.

And everybody frwn teen-agers to pensioners misses the advice to the lovelorn, the interviews with sports and entertain-mmt notables, the Hollywood love squabbles, the medical advice columns.

Most big newspapers/ carry all thes things. But strike here has demonstratec^at just any newspaper wont do.

Many thousands of newspapersincluding s<yne of the best in America^have been shipped in and sold here during the last two months. But they haven t filled tte gap cither.

Pe<H>le like best the local newspaper they are used to. They are most vitally interested in the affairs of their own coti-munity. It Is big news to them who died, married or was born herenot somewhere else.

And y their own local newspaper can tell them that.

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"The right of free speech becomes an empty shell when the power to tax is used to levy a heavy burden upon the groups and enterprises which wish to speak their minds on i-ssues that, in their opinion, affect their own future and the future of the nation as a whole. Industrial News Review'.

No good man can write a textbook without letting his owm ideas creep into ithis own prejudices, opinions, obsessions. Because of this elementary truth, very few really good men write textbooks. (We are talking of .texts in hLstory, political science, economics and the like.). The Richmond News Leader.

My humble heart aches when I think of the destitute and the needy ones of the human race. Our great country is striving to supply the w'hole world. Yet like the knight who W'ent out in search of the Holy Grail (looked over it, looking for it) for when he had exhausted himself in .search, on returning home he found it at his gate.

Within our borders are the hungry, the needy, the destitute. the abused, the downcast, the outcast, the bomed, (because they desire first class citizenship) and anything else one can think of. Why can we not do something. . .something to help relieve this distress.

I read of one of the instructors of East Carolina College, who resigned to go to Africa to teach the African w'omen how to make homes. If someone would just step acro.ss the track and teach some of the lowly here. .yes, right here in our fair, city, how to make homes. . .they could teach s(Hiie others how to pay fair wages. Think of 50 cents per hour, think of the few (Oh so few) who get the few jobs. . .and the others who must depend on the welfare. I know that many w'aste the meagre pay they get on wines, beer and bootlegged liquor. . . .yet, they are our people Americans. I think that we should strive to make our country, state and community better. Let us remember, , , charity begins at home.

Some few days ago, I talked with a great American of Greenville. He said people need to

want something. . jieed the desire to be helped, then try to help themselves. I agree, yet we must have compassion on them. Jesus came to ungrateful people. They made Him to be born in a manger. And when Hed fed the hungry, healed the sick, raised the dead, opened the eyes of the blind (because His ideas were different from theirs) they crucified Him. We are still the ungrateful people who still crucify our Lord.

People do not wish to be looked upqn with pity, and handed out a crust of bread: but rather to be looked upon with respect. esteem as another human being. Hand him not a crust of bread, but rather look on him with compassion and love. . .such as a Job with a decent wage, that he may provide for himself. That he may respect himself. Yes, give a man a chance to be a man.

Listen my friend, let us face the facts of truth, read the word of God. . .1 hear our Lord and Master say: In as much as yr have done it unto the least of these my little ones youve done it unto Me.

As we become acquainted with Christ, as we fill our minds with His goodness and strength: concentrating on Him, instead of filling our minds with our own importance and greatness: marvelous changes come about. For in spite of ourselves, we are enslaved by a very wonderful love for our fellowmen.

Rev. K. T. HALL 410 Howell St.

Greenville, N. C.

As we have often said, there is a glimmer of light for someone in even the darke.st situation. The New York ncAs paper strike is no exception. But for this extended strike, a weekly newspaper in Chicago could not have advertised as it did: "The paid circulation of last weeks Near North News was greater than that of the New' York Daily News and the New York Times combined. Savanah (Ga.)

Morning News.

There will be occasions during this session when the Legislature will have to choose between being truly statesmanlike or being Just plain little. 'The record (Shows that the statesmanlike approach has the odds-on chance of being followed. The Raleigh Times,

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copuright, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc. Professltmal students of de Gaulle and de Gauliism (and who these days is not? are busy convincing themselves that the French leader, once he has banished the Anglo-Saxons tram the councils of Europe, will seek a master accommodation with Khrushchev. This makes for a piquant commentary Ml events, for only recently, when President John F. Kennedy was busy announcing the removal of Jupiter missile bases from Italy and Turkey, the phcaie lines to this columnists home were being scorched wdth fears that It was the American President who was about to be making a begging trip to the Kremlin.

If both sets of fears are right, w'e will soon be seeing a strange competitionand some mean-spirited caricaturist will certainly exploit the Pancy meeting you here theme as cartoon figures representing de Gaulle and Kennedy sit facing each other in the anteroom to Khrushchevs inner sanctum. But if there is to be a compe-titl(xi between the French and American Presidents for an agreement with Khrushchev, it must, in the nature of things, be a struggle to get really significant Soviet concessiMis. This, In itself, is a pretty good reason for feeling sure that neither de Gaulle nor Kennedy would ever dare offer Khrushchev the key to West Berlin.

There Is, or course, no rea-sMi for antl-Communlsts to trust de Gaulle. The French leader, though he could hardly be called a racist (if he were such, he would not harbor animosity toward his Caucasian cousins, the Anglo-Saxons >. has a mystical conception of EunH)e as SMnething that extends from the English Channel to the Urals. This puts Eluropean Russia inside the GauUist pale. The purely continental CMiception of Christendom, which has no historical warrant, excludes not Mily the British Isles (Christian since the Dark Ages: but all the overseas children of Elun^ in North and Latin America, South Africa and the Antipodes, It may explain, incidentally, how de Gaulle could so cavalierly have sacrificed the French extension of Cfaxiiften-dom that had rooted Itself on the southern shores of the Mediterranean in Moslem Algeria.

Well, with a basic conoeption of Europe that excludes the Anglo-SaxMis and IncOTporates at least the western half of Russia, de Gaulle would certainly be willing to entertam a revival of the old pre-1914 Franco Russian entente.' He once headed a national French government that included Maurice Tborez. the French Ctmmmnist, in a coalition cabinet, which would argue a singular willingness to accommodate Marxists. But the Channel to the tlrals notion of Europe has no Internal cohesion or substance. To make it a refdlty, de OauUe would have to count on a complaisant Germany. And what makes anyone think that such a Germany can be had?

For myself, I would rather guess that the Germans, having tasted the good red meat of economic freedom, have no desire to be cooped up In a OaullLst urope" that would tend to limit West German markets. German economics profe.ssors who were instrumental in 1948 and afterward in r turning Adenauer to the idea that the way to abundance and prosperity was to free the market, are still high in the counsels of the Bonn govern-, ment. These professors were i among the earliest to enroll in the international Mt. Pelerln Society of libertarian eoono-i mists. They believe In free trade, or at least In freer trade, mi a scale that Is far bigger than that provided by the Inner Six nations of western EunH>e, and assuredly they will continue to fight for it. And one of their number, Dr. Ludwig Erhard, may yet succeed Adenauer as head of the German government.

To satisfy Khrushchev, de Gaulle would have to give him something at West German expense. He would have to bar-(Ck>ntinued on Page )

Whatever the caui?e of the growing laxity, honorable men in charge of oui elections will wish to do what is necessary to eliminate abuses and to preserve the sacred nature of voting ~ The Smithfield

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A Horrible Waste In Figuring

Strength For Today

By EARL L. DOUGLASS YES. A MISTAKE

Or.e of the most serious mistakes we can ever make is to discourage others. If we are truly wise we should be aware of the fact that everyone has within him potentials of wisdom and achievement which he never uses. We are all capable of doing many times more things and better things than we ever do.

Most people seriously and honestly want to do the right thing. Children that seem to have no piomising ability sometimes turn out tq be leaders of their generation. Helen Keller, blind, deaf and unable to speak in early childhood was a pathetic figure apparently destined to institutional care. She has become one of the great personalities of this age, a woman of rare literary ability and pro

found personal Influence.

There is certainly a place for pessimism and caution in the world but whatever you do think better of yourself than circumstances seem to justify, and urge those alx)ut you t to achievements which it may not seem altogether probable that they will attain. Children need rebuke and discipline at times, but at all times they need love and encouragement. Help them to develop whatever capacities they appear to have, and if they appear to have none do not lose hope. Thomas Edison was sent home from school because he was too stupid, apparently, to learn anything. ' '

Dont discourage others. Its a sin to do so and, as a noted cynic once remarked. Its worse than a sin, its a mistake.

By ELMER ROESSNER There is a horrible waste millions of man hours in the time people now spend trying to figure out what the income tax law is, what they owe and what methods are open to them to minimize tax liabilities, declares the First National City Bank of New York In its February letter. It adds;

The penalties for faulty homework are heavy?

If Congress and the Intenial Revenue Service simplified tax laws, regulations and reports required, there might be those millions more hours for selling goods and spending money. Each of those activities would increase prosperity,

But the tendency of recent tax legislation, and that proposed by President Kennedy for this year, is to increase the complexity. CASE IN POINT The new regulations on expense accounts are an example. In trying to conform to the law, one company insists that employees asking for reimbursement for entertainment outlays itemize the lunch, drinks and tips, the date and Ume of ex

penditure, the business purpose, who entertained and relati(Mi-ship to business, and wheie expended, including address and description. ,

In answer to the last item, one man I know wrote, Entertained news source at Overseas Press Club, 54 W. 40th St., New York, an 11-story building in baroque style that was formerly the NatiMial Republican Club. Walked source frMn lobby to dining room up circular staircase on which Alf Landon and Herb Hoover once trod.

It is Interesting to note that reporters, now heaidly unionized. can afford a clubhouse the Republicans couldnt,

EVEN JUDGES CONFUSED Back to the National City letter: People cannot determine accurately their tax liabilities when the statues become so complex that even the ex-peits and the courts are confused as\to what the language is Intended to mean,

A year ago the President had promised that a major program of reform would be aimed among other things at simplification of our tax struc

ture. This objective has got lost In the shuffle.

In discussing proposals for the proposed minimum standard deduction and floor under itemized deductions of individuals, the letter went on: The minimum standard ded-ucti(xi is a device to. excuse several thousand people from paying any tax; it would make deductions dependent upon family status, just as personal exemptions already are.

The floor under itemized deductions is not a floor at all but a boom unmercifully and Indiscriminately cracked down on the heads of people who Itemize deductions. It would make the first 5 per cent of lawful deductions unlawful. . . . SHOTGUN ATTACK

There is no excuse for such a shotgun attack, covertly repealing present equitable provisions and stripping rate reduc-tlMis of practical meaning for many people.

On the budget, it adds, What damage does a program 0( tax-free handouts do to the self-reliance and employability of the beneficiary?' Converaely. what

damage do 30. 40 and SO per cent Federal Income tax rates Ml top of still other levies on Income do to the desire of industrious people to seek advancement?

Unfortunately, the specific proposals have lost sight of fundamental objectives reinforcing the American prindide of additional reward for additional effort.

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HOW TO SAVE MONEY DESPITE POSTAGE HIKE Heres an Idea for locality merchants whose mail promotions are hard hit by the postage increases, and for locality printers:

Form a group to Issue weekly. fortnightly or mMitUy advertisements and have them delivered In one envelope by hand. Boys, working after school may be best. Manufacturers printed material may be included.

Another Idea: Keep a supply of envelope stuffers. coupons and other small advertisements <xi hand and use them to bring first - class mailings of bills, etc.. up to full ounce.

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