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How much quality will come out of the new better job. term of public school which begins in mo.st parts Regardless of how much is done by officials and of North Carolina within the next few days? educators to provide a better school system, how-

That question has been asked frequently these ever, little is gained unless the students also put past two years as the term quality education has forth greater effort to take advantage of the oppor-become almost a by-word in the state. tunities offered.

Looking back over this brief period since the In the past two years North Carolinians legislature two years ago began implementing a real youngsters and adults alikehave become increas-

quality education program for the state, it is evi- ingly education-conscious. Many additional millions dent that considerable progress has been made, of dollars have been pumped into the education Teacher salaries in North Carolina have been im- program. In turn there has been greater pressure proved to a considerable degree, and this in turn by adults on youngsters to make the most of what has eased the pressure throughout North Carolina is offered. The youngsters, on their own, likewise for acquiring good teachers in its classrooms. This appear to have gained a glimpse of the challenging year when the fall term of public school begins, future and recognize their need to get the most out the average students per teacher is expected to be of public school years.

the lowest in the history of the .state. Here again, 'fhe education progress which North Carolina the .suggestion is that with le.ss students per teacher, realizes during the coming school year will depend the teachers and the students will be able to do a not only on how much learning is done in the class-

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room, but how much studying Ks-done by the students out.side their cla.ssroom hours.

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House Target Could Be Spending In General

By WILLIAM A. .SIflRE.S

BENNETT ~ Up untU the moment that Bert Elennett Jr returned to North Carolina from the Southern Governors Conier-encee In White Sulphur SprinRs this week, it was generally assumed that he would be a candidate ior governor In the Dem-ocratk: primary next May.

His candidacy was regarded as almcMt a certainty. Various polls and surveys earlier this year placed Bennett In the front-running position among p<gen-tlal Democratic candidates.

Then, suddenly, upon his return from White Sulphur Springs it was not so sure.

A fresh report was out saying that Bennett now Is expected to decide against making the race.

Bennett, contacted In Wln.ston-Salem, did not deny It, And not denying It appeared to lend substance to the report.

factors bearing on the eventual Bennett decl.sion which had to be cleared up before he would - or could give a firm yes or no answer.

The biggest factor, of course, is the political climate in the state. No political organization worthy of the name can be effective without being attuned to the trend of the voters. There are other factors, all of which must be measured, before a would-bc candidate Is ready to commit himself. This Is true In Bennett's case, and on the basis of all the known factors, close Bennett associates said

Hou.se action in from the foreign aid

trimming a lot of dollars authorization measure repre.st*nts a severe blow for the administration and for the foreign aid program.

President Kennedy has cho.sen to place blame for the reduction in authorization of funds to a concerted effort by Kepublican.s in Congress. It mu.st be recognized, however, that the Republicans alone, would not have been able to put through the cut without the cooperation of many Democratic members of the Hou.se.

As much a.s anything el.se, the action may reflect a desire on the part of the House to reduce

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they would be surprised if Ben-nett had. In fact, made an ir- the foreign aid program. It may also reflect" an

*^POST ASe?matter bear- ^viniou on the part of the majority of House members that the forfu'gn aid authorization measure offered a logical place to trim the federal budget. CT'rtainly the United States cannot withdraw

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ing on a final Bennett decision is that of his position In the state party state Democratic chairman.

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It is, at the present, more economic and military aid from all parts of the Southern high school^ will go to

SURPRISE The effect was certain that Bennett plans to world. The manner in which the foreion id nrn c<>bege next fall under the Na-

Tf in,* U. Iranian ao .toi* nofiv irrum , i r. rw) I i U t J i tlODal McHt ScholarShlp Program was reduced by the House appears to be gram. They are winners in this

electric. If true, It would rank as the major political surprise in the state thus far In 1963, Whether founded or not, the report caused shock and con-etematlon among Bennett supporters. It caught many of them entirely flatfooted. Among those who were dumfounded were close aides who had accompanied b(Ah Bennett and Gov. Terry Sanford to White Sulphur Springs.

Rumors had circulated for several weeks that Bennett wa,s undecided and having second thoughts about making the race for governor. Close associates scoffed and sought to smother these rumors. Bennett himself Just a week earlier denied that he had decided definitely to withdraw.

Hr called these reports wild rumors and predicted that they would get wilder as the time for definite decisions di*ew near.

SAID It is true that for more than a .vear Bennett himself never once said yes" or no to the question of whether he would run for governor.

Neither had he done anything to discourage the generally-accepted belief that he eventually would make the long-awaited formal announcement The word therefore circulated through the Democratic organization which elected Sanford In 1960 ~ the organization which Bennett hlmseli was Instrumental In building that Bennett would be the man In 1964, Bennett certainly knew of this, and again did nothing to discourage It.

The organization was geared and being tuned up for a Ben-nett-for-govemor campaign.

FACTORS Such a political altuatlwi, no matter how prepared nor how eager, is subject to change. Bennett knew this.

Beneetts statement of Intention, consistently, had been that he had not decided and that he did not Intend to make a final, definite decision until the Fall. There were several

resign very .soon as state party chairman than his deciding definitely not to be a candidate for governor.

A decision that Bennett apparently did reach within the past few days was that to resign as state chairman before making the announcement that he will or will not run.

Neither does Bennett plan to try to dictate the choice of a successor as state chairman. That wUl be left to the State Democratic Executive Committee.

Bennett felt that If he had tendered h 1 s resignation as state chairman prior to going to White Sulphur Springs with Sanford it would have been regarded as tanatamount to announcing that he would run for governor. Apparently he did not want It Interpreted that way. and now Intends to resign flr.st and decide whether to run later.

DECISION Divorcing hl.s role as state chairman from the decision he must make on becoming a candidate may tend to explain Bennetts silence on the recent reports that he will decline to enter the race.

It may also explain Bennetts prior reluctance to say anything more than he would make a decision later,

It had been felt, even w'hlle Bennett and Sanford were In White Sulphur Springs, that Bennett might couple his resignation with an announce ment of his political Intentions. Nor It Is expi'cted that they will come fwparately the first In two weeks and the other In a month or .six weeks.

In the meantime. It Is believed that If Bennett choo.ses not to run himself he and the Bennett-Sanford organization will seek to agree upon a singly acceptable candidate who can command the combined backing of their organization and that of the supporters of former Gov Luther H. Hodges and Sen. B. Everett Jordan against the expected challenge of Dr. I, Beverly Lake of Raleigh.

the nation take the National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test. The three-hour examination is given In the high schools and is a well-designed test of educational development.

ademic selection. They consider the leadership, citizenship, grades and extracurricular activities of each finalist as well as his test scores.

arbitrary, without careful consideration of where years screening to determine reasonable reductions might be made. Particularly cream of the nations crop is thi.s true, we think, with respect to aid which the .

United States might give its Latin American neighbors.

Whether the Senate will restore to the measure a sub.stantial portion of the funds which the House cut remains to be seen.

Any analysis of the Hou.se action, however, cannot overlook the fact that it may have been prompted more through a general effort to reduce

Of the 423 Merit Scholarship winners from the South, only 224 will use their awards to attend Southern colleges and universities. Others will take the scholarships outside of the region to attend undergraduate colleges of their choice.

High school students all over

From this test, 10,000 students who are the highest scorers in their states are selected as finalists. Each of these 10,-000 finalists is considered to be fully qualified to receive a Merit Scholarship, but since there are only some 1,500 scholarships available, additional screening and tests are given to determine the final winners. Final selection is made by the Merit Scholar Selection Committee, composed of national experts in ac-

Soutbem students this year won 27 per cent of the 1,500 scholarships available. But only 15 per cent of the total will attend Southern colleges or universities.

Recent figures about graduate fellowship winners show that 47 per cent of the college graduates going on to graduate school with fellowships chose to use them in colleges or universities outside of the South. The per cent of Merit Scholars going out of the region is exactly the same.

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BY ROGKK BABSON

BABSON PARK. Ma.ss., -It Is ainii/.iiiK lo me how many people today .seem quite happy to live It up without any regard for their pocketbook.s. Our so-called welfare .state has made people take the problems of uueniployment and old age .security far too lightly. When I talk to young people, I find they are giving little or no thought to their financial futiuc.s. The result is that they nevei accumulate even the few dollars they need to .start them along the road to sensible budgeting and a program of succe.s.sful Inve.stment. THRIFTY MKN (O.MK OUT AHEAD

My father I have never forgotten u.sed to vvam me that the man who .spend.s le.ss than he geUs will be an employer. but that the man who constantly spend.s all that he gets will always be an employee. The importance of saving, my father in.slsted. was in no way related to how much a man had or how much he brought home on pa.vday. He believed that a poor man who .saved .something was far wi.ser than a wealthy man who had no .system of saving whatsoever

I have often thonglit atiout my father'.s words. And I have noticed that partners in biisi-ne.ss and partners in niar-ricd life always get along bi't-ter when tlim have some cash in the Inuik A great many of life's troubh's begin when bills come in and tlii'ie Is nothing to pay thi'in with I <ie-eided I was .'<1111 ver.v

young tiiat I wouki rather TKLI. my dollars where to go than A.SK w here flii'v liad gone AIU OK INDEPENDENCE St'p miniljei one in lieginning an investnunit program is to set aside '-(line of vour income every single week, Thi.s In

volves budgeting regularly and Intelligently, putting first things fir.sf. It is obvious, for example, that It Is better to pay the grocer than the doctor, even though food costs may be fairly high. Household labor co.sts and general expenses are also high today, plus Insurance, taxes. repairs, etc. But oftentimes children or other members of the family can help lessen expenses by doing more of the chores and or by bringing In some extra money from outside jobs.

My observations of present conditions indicate that a man with a family of four bringing home earnings of $5,000 (after Income and social security tex-es> ought to try to hold his living costs under 85 per cent of that total. About 43 per cent would go for food and clothing, and 39 per cent for housing and transportation. I have said before and I stm believe it la true that many families are paying too much for transportation. This Is particularly true of lho.se in |,he lower income brackets. Unless they buy more for cash and buy less on credit, they will never get startl'd on a sensible financial basis for the future.

Even with reasonalble allowances for benevolence and church and for personal and niLscellaneous Items, there should still be at least 5 per c(>nt left for insurance, savings accounts, and Inve.stments. or. more specifically, about $2.50. I heartily advl.se you to put half this amount into life insurance and the other half into .savings. Starting on such a tight budget Itely not make at tills time \:'stment.

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A little book tunied up t h e other day, fresh from the pen of Sidney Hook, that merits the widest reading (The Fail-Safe, fallacy. Stein & Day. $1.50). Indeed this ought to be made required reading for every American who read last years runaway best seller, Fail-Safe, by Eugene Burdick and Harvey Wheeler.

It seems unlikely that many persons could have missed the Burdick-Wheeler novel by this time. The book has sold millions of copies in hard-covers and paperbacks: it was a top-ranking Book of the Month Club selection, and soon will appear as a movie. Briefly, the story deals with a malfunction in a certain vital machine in the underground headquarters of our Strategic Air Command. Just at this moment, by a combination of plausible events, radar indicates (falsely) that Russia has launched an attack on the United States. Six of our bombers, loaded with nuclear bombs, at once head for Russia in a retaliatory strike. Because of the machines breadown, it becomes impossible to call the bombers back. In the end. two of them get through to Moscow and destroy the city. As an eaniest of American regret, Mr. Kennedy orders one of our own bombers to destroy New York In return.

If this Burdick-Wheeler yam had billed simply as science fiction, the book w'ould have received little attention. But it was published, rather, as truth. In a foreword, the two authors declared it inevitable ' that nuclear war some day would result from some such accident as they imagined here. Because of their publLshers good reputation in the .scienti

fic field, the novel won enormous acceptance. It stirred long debate in Congress. It has frightened a very liarge number of Americans. The forthcoming movie could scare the country witless.

Dr. Hooks penetrating essay knocks the stuffings right out of the Burdick-Wheeler thesis. The supposed accident, he says, is possible but the possibility is so remote that reasonable minded men may safely ignore it. Such an accident is not as possible as Mr. Kennedys or Mr. Khrushchevs suddenly going insane and ordering a nuclear attack; and this possibility scarcely figures in anyones thinking. In any event, the consequences imagined by the writers. Under long-estalished safety procedures, such a mechanical failure would operate not to send the bombers on, but to prevent them from completing their mission.

Dr. Hooks icy exposition of these matters of fact carries the bell-like ring of authority. More than this, he flays the unwarranted portrayal of American military men (stupid, vain and unresourceful automatons) and for their pastel portrait of Khrushchev ( asad philasopher, full of statesmanship and high-flown rhetoric).

This is literary criticism at the highest level, couched in the effective form of an extended essay. Dr. Hook, chairman of the Department of Philosophy at New York University, is a burr under everybodys saddle; he has one of the keenest minds at work in the country today, and in this brilliant rebuttal he has turned his mind to an important target. Some of the Foundation money that is Iving around could be well spent in achieving nation-wide distribution of this reassuring book.

Higher tuitions in the private schools are not a detriment to Merit Scholars since their scholarships are tailored to fit the needs of the individual, depending on the financial position of the parents and upon the cost of attending the institution chosen. The institution chosen by a Merit Scholar also receives a grant according to its expenditure per student for educating a student.

Only two per cent, or 21, of the Merit Scholars from outside the South will use their scholarships in Southern schools

the same percentage as that of graduate fellowship winners deciding to come into the region. Of the 21 imports, 18 wUl attend private colleges or universities in the South: and 9 of these chose Rice University in Houston to study the physical sciences, mathematics and engineering.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation was launched in 1955 through grants of $20 million from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Because its screening devices are widely respected. many of those qualifying for Merit Scholarships, but not winning one of the 1,500 available, are granted scholarships and aid from other sources.

At the undergraduate level, as well as the graduate level, the South is losing much of its brightest talent lo colleges and universities of other regions, and is not attracting enough of the outstanding high school graduates from elsewhere to Southern colleges. These facts, like it or not. exist because the South still has far too few of the nations best undergraduate and graduate programs.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963. King Features .......Syndicate, Inc........

Isaac Don Levine, who has written for many years (Hi Russian affairs, returned frcn the Soviet Uni(m the other day and, though he is a journalist interested in maricetlng his own product, submitted to a couple of interviews about his trip. He had much of a newsworthy nature to tell. But quite aside from the things he had to say, the fact that they' ~ meaning he Kremlin and the Soviet Politburo let Mr. Levine, who speaks a fluent Russian, walk for miles through the streets of cities like Kiev and Tiflis without being shadowed Is a prime bit oi evidence that the post - Stalin thaw in Russian life Is real.

Letting Mr. Levine Into Russia and giving him freedom to circulate Is almost, but not quite, the equivalent of letting, say, a Whittaker chambers make the same sort of trip. For It was Don Levine who, often laboring In great disrepute with pro - Soviet American liberals, nursed the spark of opposition to everything connected with Stalin for a period that extended from the Nineteen twenties up to the very recent past.

I first met D<mi In the early Thirties, when I, as a gullible Innocent, was inclined to think the Russian experiment, as it was then called In liberal circles, might prove a practicable alternative to democratic capitalism. We both lived (m Bank Street, In New Yorks Greenwich Village, in those days. I would run Into Don on the street comer, and he would twit me with his amusing sar^ casms. He told me he had turned against the Bolsheviks when they savagely suppressed the rebellion of the Kronstadt sailors at the very outset of the Revolution. The Communists, he said, had stolen money from the Sacco - Vanzettl defense funds. As for Stalin, Levine said he was a <x)mbination of old - fashioned Tammany boss and Chicago gangster.

In the course of time Don Levine became a major part of my education. He persisted in making telling blows against the idea of a popular front with the Russians In the Thirties. It was Don Levine who took Whittaker Cfhambers to Adolf Berle in the State Department at the outset of World War n. Chambers, then loath to stick the tag of traitor on anybody, old Berle about Marxist study groups toslde the government which. In view of the existence of a N a z 1-Soviet agreement, should be carefully watched. Berle, so the story goes, was pooh-poohed when he submitted the gist of the Chambers interview to Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Don Levine was the man who, practically singlehanded-ly. started conservative magazine journalism on its way to a comeback in the nlted States. With money put up by Alfred Kohlberg, an Importer of goods from China who had been duped once too often by the believers in Mao Tse-tung as a Jeffersonian agrarian reformer, Don Levine started a little magazine called Plain Talk. He pulled an Important news beat when he exposed the so - called Amerasia case, which indicated that all was not well in State Department security circles. Plain Talk kept up a running fire of opposition to the Teheran nd Yalta agreements with Stalin.

It exposed Communist manipulation of the Institute of Pacific Relations. It could have been accused of McCjarthy-isn and this long before the country had heard of Joe McCarthy save for the fact that no one could question the accuracy of even its smallest detail.

In time Plain Talk gave way to other conservative magar zines, most of which used editors and writers who had worked with Don Levine. Don himself went off into book writing.

He exposed the true identity of Prank Jacson. the Stalinist Spaniard who assassinated Leon Trotsky. When I first knew Don, he was already the author of a non - adoring biography of Stalin. He brought this up to date not so long ago with another book that gave evidence for believing that StaJ-

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Tlii'f' i-. no patlnvav uoithy I'f 111!' tool of .stioiu, (let'oni men and women but tlie pathwav of lo\tv Ttie pathway ot hate enmi\s out of hell and leads hack into it again Tht' patli-wav of SC'-rn eoines out of the davknes. of i.Bnorance and laads back into' the aby.ss of folly. Ttiei'e i' no pathwaviworthy of ^oiir feet a> (1 mine but the path-wav of ;o\ e.

And lo\e. let its remmd eur-.sehe.s, i.s not mere ><entiment Love i ft liolv purpo.'!' Love determmation to do what is ritiit no matthr how mncli u co.'l>. Love V the wliliieme.ss I ) pat otlier.s iiefore otir.sch ei Love the quiek torcmo in'o oiir minds of a kindly and urn-eiuus flumuht wlien eerlain out-rayi'ou.s persons have made u.s ^0 angry or du^giustcd that wc

want eitlier to demolish them or turn our backs on them forever.

Have you ever thouglu what Je. us would have done if Jucla'^ Lscariot had truly re-P'nted, prostrated himself at the Lord's fei't and asked his forgivenc.vs? I think he would li.ave received it and that Judas would have become one of the most stalwart of the apostles. The troubh* with poor Judas 'vas that he could not repent, turn tiaok. change his ways. He wo pt out. fool (hat he was. and Iianged lumself.

The Bilde ajssures its that God Ls love Love, as we have so often reminded ouiselve*;. is the substance of which God is made. And not only God but the universe ;t^elf is love. If we walk m tile pHtliway.s of love wt' walk in the pathways of ri'ulity.

By ELMER ROKS.SNER

This is a report on idea.s bus-niessmen can adapt to their own operations:

1. Hale them though you may, artificial plants are caj)-turing the public s imaginalion or, if you will, lack oi imagination, They were hot numix'rs at the Gift Show in New York last week and may sweeten

profies of stores everywlieu. Note that no kind of store has a natural monopoly on these awfuls; they can be .sold in supermarkets. llower shops, hardware stores, departm e n t stores, decorator shops, furniture stores, gift shops and so

on.

2. The Hagerstown Md.) Trust Co. gained national fame-made money and had fun last year by selling gift - wrapped mone.v. This year it will oifer ten new items, including cold cash money in a plastic ice

cufcx". a book of money con,: taining five to 25 new $1 bills; a di'vice tlial offers six magic tricks reqquiring money, with enou|^ mone.v to play them, and various other ways to present money as gifts. Other

banks are limited only by their

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3 Tlie American Automobile A.ssociation is changing its rating .system, starting with its Florida Tour Book later this niuiilh. New raliiigs will be out.standiiig. excellent. very good, good and other satisfactory. If you run a hotel. motel, tourist home, restaurant or other accommodation, any place in the U. S.. contact the AAA and then improve your facilities to get the hi-h (and profit making) ratings,

4 See if fancy foods can increase your profits. Sales keep rising as incomes in-croa.se. The National Fancy Food and Confection Show that opened in New York yesterday reflected the fact that more and more merchants see profits on mo<1eratp inventories. Butchers, vegetable markets. .snpermaikets, specialty shop.s, bakeries, candy stores, ga.s stations and many others are .setting up gonrmet kec-tious.

5. Are you overlooking rental income? More retailers are

renting various equipment to sweeten profits. In addition to power tools, autos and household equipment, dealers are now renting paintings, extra furniture for parties, furs, butlers for one - night stands, gold-plated .silverware, pots, yachts, wigs and almost everything else.

DIAMONDS ON ICE

6. Montgomery Ward in Carlisle, Pa., froze four diamonds, the best worth $100, in ice cubes and invited .shoppers to pick a cube from a refrigerator. The store al.so used red, blue and green cubes, each entitling those who got them to discounts of from $1 to $10 on purchases. Yellow cubes were worth a gift, totalling $5.00 worth. The stunt attracted traffic. some sales.

7. Grocery bag advertising is working for a Increasing number of stores, now that bags are becoming brighter, gayer and pack more sell. Sal-eshav's Promotions Inc., Ard.s-ley. N. Y.. reports that it ha.s produced ads on 100 million bags, and that many housewives have carried advertisements aiound with them. The

trend is toward brighter, more colorful bags that can readily b recognized by other shoppers. Local printers may turn out sensations.

8. If youre in furniture, ask the Department of Commerce for full informatlcai about American participation at the 1964 International Furniture Pair at Cologne, Germany, January 29 to February 2.

9. If you have a product that has more than one use, write to Hesss Awards Committee, Time & Life Building, New York 10020. Its annual awards bring inexpensive International publicity to products that win prizes and often result In immediate sales to distributors and other outlets. It Is not necessary that items entered be sold at the store of the sponsor. Hesss, Allentown, Pa

10. Underwood Is offering $595 natural mink stoles for $345 and three wrappers from its deviled ham at supermarkets and other outlets across the country. If you sell something eLsc, you may be able to work out another sensational deal with your local fur dealers and gain publicity as well.