Saturday, November 9, 1963

Methinks They Do Protest Too Much

Not All Due To A Scarce Rainfall

Water shortages faced by some North Carolina many other municipal difficulties. Others have found communities cannot be blamed entirely on the ab- themselves in the position of having to undertake normally low rainfall in the past few months. heavy bonded indebtedness in a crash program to

To be sure, the lack of sufficient rainfall has niake up for a period of years " been the immediate cause of water shortages. But ftention was

there seems to be an indication in many instances A adeauate means of

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^ '*carefut lonK-rMe*planning tor public facililies town already is too hiyh.

in smaller cities and towns of the state is a fairlv Even long-ranp planning recent innovation in municipal operations. Only in community will not be

recent vears has any emphasis been placed on the But adequate planning for ^

necessity of trying to Castimate needaS one or two give officials an idea of what problems the city may dccadeasin the future, and planning to have adequate face in future yearsMt can abo provide them 'vnth facilities in operation by the time they are needed, reasonable information on which to set up a time-

A1 though such long^taiige planning has more thn proved its worth to communities, there is still a reluctance on the part of many citizens to condone spending appreciable sums to make plans for something 10 to 20 years in the future.

Because of the lack of adequate long-range, planning, many communities have found themselves without adequqate utilities, faced with pressing street construction or maintenance problems, and

4able- to plan capital outlays year-by-year toward a future goal.

Growing communities find their present and future needs increasing in size and complexity with each passing year. If they are to avoid serious pitfalls in assuring their orderly development, they must lean more and more heavily on long-range planning.

Sanfords Own niaue Interest

Soviet Market Lacks The Needed Resources

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

WRITE The word* were, *lf you want to go the college but don't have the money, write to me,

It was an open invitation extended to thousands of young high school graduates across NorUi Carolina by Gov. Terry Sanford. And thousands of let-' ters poured into the govemora office.

Sanfords aides now estimate that hundreds of students are in college in North C^troUna this Pall because the goveraor took a pers(mal Interest and either helped or inspired them.

There were more than 4,000 letters received in response to *^the governor's invttatlwi first J extended more than a year . ago.

LETTERS In most cases, the students themselves wrote Some of the letters were writ-*> ten by iuents, some by friends and by oiers who were interested.

Almost an of the letters were handwritten. One was written on a piece of wrapping paper. All of them received the governors persaial attention.

They told of hardships and . poverty, of Illness and death of breadwinners, of crop failures and other financial troubles.

They tended to prove to Sanfords satisfacti(m his statement that weve invested much In education, but we havent done It all. As long as a single child i.s denied an education beyond the high school for reasons of lack of funds then we are fall-Ine the challenge.

ACTION Sanford read all the letters. Some he replied to perscmally. Others he referred to existing student loan funds, scholarship and other programs for student-help.

On occasions, he suggested that a student see a hometown banker.

This was not the full answer, however, but Sanford has a keen interest in this sort of work. He asked a group of leading bankers and businessmen to help and the result was a revitallzatioo of a College Poun-dati<m Inc., with a program dcvel()ed by the N. C. Bankers Assn.

The Foundation, which had available in a student loan fund program, was beefed up to a potential Iwidlng power of $3 million by a voluntary bankers drive.

LOANS About 85 per cent of tlw banks In the stare are cooperating to the College Foundation Inc. by pledging one per . cent of capital reserve for low-Interest student loans.

An official explains that it Isnt a giveaway, but a flscal-ly-sound repayment plan. The

loans are made to students entering college college entrance and the first years financing ispear to be Hie biggest hurdles and are not due until after the student graduates or leaves college.

The 1963 General Assembly gave a further boost to the program by enacting a law enabling 17 year olds to borrow money for educational purposes and, if necessary, without a cosigner.

The iMuiker-backed College Foundation Inc. thus stands as a source of loon funds if the student cannot get financial help from another source.

STUDENTS - At the start of the 1963-64 school year the College Foundation Inc. made loans t(H;aJtog $78,750 to 188 first-year college students.

These 188 students are now enrolled at 34 colleges and Universities, laige and small, public, private and church-supported, across North Carolina, Numerous other applicants ,who wrote asking for help and advl< received financial assistance from other sources. Only those who were unable to get help from another, established source were granted College Foundation Inc. loans.

The recipients of these loan.s generally are good students, with proven records of excellence. There often is a human circumstance or possibly a tragedy In the background.

One is the seccmd son in a mountain family fo five children whose father died before he finished Wgh school. Another is the eldest of nine children of a rural farm couple. Another Is from a family whose financial recources were depleted by a long, tragic Illness.

LIST Following is a list of the various colleges and universities and the number of students attending each under a College Poundatlcm Inc. loan this year:

Atlantic Christian 9, Livingstone 6;

Appalachian State 19. Louis-burg 2;

N. C... AT 3, Mount Olive 2; Barber Scotia 6. N. C. College 19;

Belmont Abbey 1, N. C. State

8;

Campbell 9, N. C. Wesleyan 1;

Catawba 4, Peace 4;

Chowan 3, Pembroke 2;

ECC 7. Salem 1;

Elizabeth City State 2. Shaw

9:

Fayetteville State 6, St. Andrews 8;

Gardner-Webb 3, St. Augustine 5;

Gaston Tech 4, UNC 3;

High Point 4. Wake Forest 5; J. C. Smith 16, WCC 9; .

Lees-McRae 2, UNCG 6: Lenoir Rhyne 3, Wingate 1.

Sale of U.S. wheat to the Soviet Union has sharpened the appetite of many American businessmen ^to move more heavily into trade with Russia

on many fronts.

They see the huge population' of the Soviet Union, deprived of many consumer items we take for granted, as a major untapped market ^to which U.S. products may move. They see signs that the Soviet government may be interested in expanding its trade with the United States.

But until the Soviets have more than their pres- 'DTir'tJTXr A T T^

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with the U.S., the Soviet market for American goods will be extremely limited.

One major stumbling block is the lack of gold resources of the Soviet Union. The sale of U.S. wheat to the Soviet Union is supposed to be for cash . . . for gold. Presumably the sale of other commodities to the Soviets would also be on a cash-and-cany basis. And apparently the Soviets do not have the gold resources or reserves to do a huge volume of buying from the United States. Certainly, there would be little pressure even from businessmen to extend additional huge amounts of credit to the Soviet Union in order to enable them to purchase U.S. products. ^

On the surface, it may appear that the Soviet Union and its millions of people represent a potential market for American commodities. But there will have to be a great many chances within the Soviet Union and in the international situation before that market would be a practical one for U.S. to move into.

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Book Review Last week the Washington Post asked us to write a review of our own hook, I Chose Capitol Punishment. The -review was so fair and impartial (hat we have been asked by readers everywhere to m a k e it more widely available, which we are reluctantly doing.

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By JAMES MARLOW WASHINGTON <AP) - Congress just got a belt in the face by one of its own members for not getting done with the work it was sent to Washlngtwi to do.

This Is not the first Congress to drag its feet. But this one is a prize dawdler. This week Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn., attacked the do-nothtog performance of Democrats and Republicans alike, and lashed the leaders.

It was like an echo, but more ferocious, of President Roosevelt's anger when he got fed up with the good fellowship in Congress and complatoed to his own Democratic House leaders.

RoosevelUs complaint was in a letter to Speaker Sam Rayburn and the then House majority leader, John McCormack, the present speaker who succeeded Rayburn. Roosev e 11 said:

What I want to get across to both of you before the next .session begins is that good fellowship for the sake of good fellowship alone, an easy life to avoid criticism, an acceptance of defeat before an issue has been joined, make, all of them, less for party success and for national' safety than a few dragdown and knock-out fights and an unwillingness to accept defeat without a fight. Since Congress hadnt been able to get its work done in day sessions, Roosevelt suggested they have night sessions, too.

And that was one of Dodds Idea.s this week.

The 55-yeax-old Dodd, onetime FBI agent and government prosecutor, is serving his first Senate term. His freshman status didnt deter him. He started off by asking: Why are wf not working later?

In one of the greatest understatements of the year he said; I am conscious of the fact that my .statement will be construed as criticizing the leaders h 1 p and. Indeed, I am. This was

his complaint, boiled down;

Congress iait doing what it is being paid to do, which is work; it is keeping bankers hours while bills needed to produce money to run the government lie unpassed.

He said of our major objectives this session -7- a tax cut. a civil rights bill', a general aid to education biU, and a medicare biU none have a real chance of enactment this year.

All through his talk he tore ab the Senate leaders of both parties: his own leader, Montanas Mike Mansfield of the Democrats, and Illinois Everet-M. Dlrksen, the Republican leader.

Dodd first cushioned the blow on Mansfield by calling him gentle, then roundly condemned him for not doing his job of leading. He was even harsher on Dirksen, once called the "Wizard of Ooze by one of his critics for his soothing voice, Dodd said;Y

The Republican leadership is 50 soft, so cozy, that it does not count for much. I hear the minority go along all the time, in dulcet tones, voiced by the minority leader whatever the Kennedy administration wants.

Both Mansfield and Dirksen were absent frwn the Senate floor when Dodd attacked. Next day Mansfield said alm(t nothing in reply but Diricsen said plenty and it wasnt soft, cozy or dulcet.

He said quite a number of things can induce cerebral Incoherence. I dont think I ever encountered anything quite so incoherent to the Congressional Record.

Then just before the Senate locked up Thursday night It worked that night Dodd tried to creep away a bit from what he said. He got up and told the other senators that all day Thursday be had felt like a skunk at a lawn party."

He said Mansfield got to touch (Continued on page 8)

It is rare when an author is given an opportunity to review his own book. And yet there is probably nobody as- objective about a work as the person who created it. The author is not blinded by petty jealousies and prejudices which you discover in many book critics. He is not disturbed if the book has been sold to the movies or to a national book club. He is unaware that anyone else ha^ attempted to do the same thing.

Therefore, because he lives In a world of his own and doesnt readinybody else anyway, be has a perspective of his work that no book critic could ever hope to have.

In my case, I have ready my book, I Chose Capital Punishment, from cover to cover with relish and delight. I am amazed how I have managed to capture on paper the drama, .the mystery, the heartbreak that is Washington. Where have you been hiding? I keep asking myself.'

I Chose Capitol Punishment Is basically the story of a man who, as an innocent abroad, loses his innoc^ce and is driven back to Washington. Beset by financial problem^, hounded by a wife who understands him and three children whom he doesnt understand, the hero flounders from the Pentag 0 n to the Senate, from the Trea

sury to the White House, searching without success for someone to love.

In the book we meet such Interesting fictional characters as Big John Kennedy, the boss of all bosses, Ids brother Bobby, a jovial news manager named Pierre, a tall dark stranger known as de Gaulle, a sinister Cuban named Fidel, and a beautiful career woman whom everyone calls Christine.

While on the surface the author deals with world events, underneath runs a current of passion and desire and raw emotions, because, as the author points out, behind every cocktail party to Washington stands a lonely love-starved woman.

Although It is a modem day political story, as well as a burning, passionate love story,

it could In many ways be considered a thriller* because, since Punishment Is nothing more than a collection (rf the authors columns, no one can Possibly guess what happens at tlw end.

If we are to find any fault with the book, it is that the

author quotes too liberally from Record

so

the Congressiwial

what should have been a serious book sounds In many places like a farce. He also never quite explains what he is doing in Washington and why. if he doesnt like it here, he doesnt go back where he came from.

But why carp? On the whole. I Chose Capitol Punishment is in this reviewers humble opinion the best book to be published this year. I couldnt put It down.

ODinions In

To a woman, a perfect husband is one who thinks he has a perfect wife.Pensacola (Fla.) Gosport.

simply reduce the real purchasing power of every mans labor in every country where they are imposed. Eugene (Ore.) Register-Guard.

Although the 1963 General Assembly appropriated funds to pay for 68 full-time attendance counselors (they were once called truant officers'), number of counties that

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need them most appear to have no intention of asking for them. 'This is a ridiculous situation. The Asheville Citizen.

The old .saw that two can live as cheaply as one is being proved daily this fall. The two are Mom and Dad and the one is daughter in college.Wichita Eagle.

Trade barriers benefit no one in the long run. They

Experts agree that mental activity does not decline with age. 'The problem Is that by the time we learn the answers the questions have changed. Carlsbad Current-Argus.

iublic Forum

EVERY GOOD OUT

To The Editor:

Three Cheers for Books Is the theme for this years National Childrens Book Week. November 10-16, 1963.

What do students do in school libraries obviously is the first question one asks. They do these:

Find answei-s to specific questions that arise either from the teaching process or from ordinary curiosity.

Carry out study hall assignments; that is spend a specific amount of time studying in the library.

Find material for projects such as a written report, a book review, a debate brief, or a research paper.

Learn how to use the keys of a library - card catalogs, reference books, bibliographies, per

iodical Indexes, etc.

Look at motion-picture films, filmstrips, or other audio-visual material.

Locate quotations, excerpts, or data for speeches or projects.

Read just for the fun of reading-one book or a hundred.

Browse through current magazines and newspapers or look at the new book shelf.

Talk with other students.

Let all of us, parents and teachers, encourage our children to read, not only this week, but every week throughout the year. Teach children to love the library for whatever they want they will find' it in books.

BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyiigbt, 1963, King Features Syndicate, Inc. ^

If you were the fCHielgn Ister of a countirlet us csH it Burttanla. so as not to seem invidiousJust how would you go about making sense of . S. foreign policy?

The first test, yw might say, would be to determine whom the U. S. regards as its enemy.

Is it Khrushchev?

No, it cant be Khrashchiv. The U. S. has signed a nuclear test ban with him on terms acceptable to Moscow. It made no protest when its neighbor to the north, Canada, sold ai lot of wheat to the Russians! indeed, it followed tiie .Canadian sale with an offer of wheat on its own. Clearly, the U. S. wants a thriving Soviet Union and peaceful dealings wltb on the basis of the post-Yalta, post-Potsdam status quo.

Can the enemy of the U. 8. be Mao Tsc - tung? Averell Harrinian has so identified'the enemy. But whenever Chlang Kal - shek sends his sen, or his staff of military plannersi to the . S. from Formosa to ascertain just how an attranpt to undermine and overthrow the Red Chinese government would sit with Washington. hi$ gets a negative jKesponse. Tha U. S. Seventh Fiteet is to Asiatic waters, so he, is protect Formosa Strait, not to give protection to Chiuig Kai-shek troops who might hope to leave the strait behind them, going west toward Nanking and Peiping.

So we cant be very serious about Mao Tse-tung as aq enemy. We dont want him In the United Nations, but .recognize, to a round-atx>ut way. that he is the boss of mainland China.

Can the enemy of the U. S. be Castro? Yes, up to a pdnt. We express our displeasure at his anti - U.S. stance by enforcing a partial embargo against him. This is to say that U. S. ships are not sailing with supplies into Cuban ports. But we have yet seriously to twist the arms of any of tou* allies who persist in selling anything to Castro teat be can pay for.

The foreign minister ot Ruri-tania, looking more closely at our Cuban policy, would discover some mystifying things. We merely deplore It when Castro fires on a U. S. cargo boat carrying bauxite from Jamaica to a Gulf Coast port. But when a British-ship puts into Key West with a load of Cuban refugees, we arrest the captain for not giving the U. S. Immigration authorities notice that be wishes a docking permit.

So is Castro really our enemy? If you were the foreign minister of Ruritania, would you believe it?

Still, we must have enemies. The foreign minister of Ruritania, looking at the Dominican Republic, might receive a clue. There a military dic-tatorehip rules, having recently deposed the democratic** Juan Bosch. The British have rec(^ized the dictatorship, but Washington refused to follow suit.

So the foreign minister of Ruritania might reasonable argue that the U. S. doeimt like dictatorships. Lifting his gaze fr(Hn the Dcxntolcan Republic* and staring at South Ifietaam,; where we have at least tac-1 itly helped in overturning a tough govemmoit, the foreign minister of Ruritania might fancy that he had discovered a corroborati(Hi of his insight. Im asmuch as it is ten to

that Ruritania Is itself a tatorshlp , this could hardly sE

very well with the puzzlgij^ foreign minister. ^

Still and all. the Ruritanhm satlsfla

could harly remain for very long that he had hit upon the key to our foreigii policy. We dont really care about dictatorships provIfiD-ed they are old enough, and large enough, and. not to put too fine a point upon It. enough. We lend m(mey to

tator Tito. We give Sukarno tijg wherewithal to buy General rfjb

Mrs. Beatrice C. Maye.

Librarian Robinson Union School Winterville

GIVES THE UNITED WAY

namics' surplus Jet planes, dont seriously Uy to get mitigation of the represslveneew practiced by Hie satellite dlEa tatorships of eastern Eurofiw when we make our deals ot sign our treaties with Khrushchev.

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i^eassurina Stock Mark^

By ELMER ROESSNER

Strength For Today

BY EARL I.. DOUGLASS

ETERNAL IN THE HEAVENS

If our earthly house of this tabernacle be dissolved, we have a building of God. a house not made with hands, etenial in the heavens II Cor. 5:1).

The tabernacle was a tent to which the Hebrews worshipped before they built their temple. After the temple was built, the tabernacle was rolled up and laid aside. The time came when the usefulness of the tabernacle was at an end. Then the Hebrews turned to something more substantial.

Sk Paul likens our bodies to the tabernacle. The time will come when the body will have nn further n.sc. We call this df*Wh. The tabernacle of the flesh Is rolled up and laid

aside. But the thrilling faith of the Christian is that when this takes place, he has something better, a building of God, a house not made with hands, eternal In the heavens, Religious pretension of any variety to on rather shaky ground if it does not include-a belief in life after death. If these few years here (wi earth comprise the whole of life, then life Is, to say the>least, a tragic enterprise. It is unfinished. Pull justice is not accomplished in this life. No mat; ter how successful and satisfying our lives may have been, we leave them with a sense of incompleteness if we do not look fondly to something greater beyond the tabernacle of the flish - that building of God, that hou.se not made with hands, eternal to the beaveiu*

The recent strength of the stock market has largely been derived from the substantial profits of the listed corporations.

The act of earning those profits to reassuring to investors.

The act of declaring those profits as dividends to e v e n more reassuring, since it indicates that directors believe it to not necessary to retain the eaniings as a hedge ag-. ainst future losses.

The current business upswing. already more than two and a half years old, costln-ues to produce good corporate profits. the November letter of the First National City 'Bank ob.serves, with something less than a scoop. THIRD-QUARTER GAINS SOUND

The third - quarter results are all the more encouraging in view of the specia'if boost to second - quarterprofits from hedge buying against a possible .steel strike and the catching up of losses sustained in

the dock strike, said,

While steel continued Its erratic eamtogs i>attem with a sharp third - quarter drop, its profits were more than double those of a year ago.

The banks tabulation of the profits of 901 leading corporations shows that they were 12 per cent higher than in the first nine mtmths of 1%2.

The fattest gain was by 37 iron and steel companies whose net Income was 42 per cent higher than to the first nine months of 1962. The pext biggest rise and this is surprising is the 34 per cent jump to earnings by 22 printing and publishing companies. Many publishing companl e s have suffered setbacks recently so this big gain to arresting.

TRANSPORTATION

PROFITS

The third largest gatoerji con.stoted of 11 tran.sportation companies not included to the group of 40 railroads or 20 common carrier tnicking cor-pcyation*. Thto group, largely

the bank airlines, showed a rise in prof-^ 32 pet cm.

Twenty - five service and amusement corporations showed gains of 20 per cent and 36 petroleum production and refining corporations registered a 19 per cent increase. Forty railroads showed a net Increase of 18 per cent In profits, and all other groups showed less.

Only three groups showed declines. Twenty nonferrous metals corporations made 7 per cent less than a year ago; 39 cement, glass and s t o p e companies showed a 3 percent decline, and 29 paper and allied * products corporations dropped 1 per cent.

Note, however, that these drops are not losses. The 29 paper companies, while not meeting previous nine-mcmths Income, were still makimM184 million in the first nto*niunths of this year.

Shed no tears.

lending m(iey; they are *1-' lering 18.7 bliilon to borrow-'***'^'' able cash thto fiscal year and offer to Insure another billion to other loans. . . J41ne-ty per cent of thto country*! overseas trsule to carried 'to foreign bottoms. Those you see pacing the embarca eros are unemployed sean|3{

. . .The Bourbon Institute pecte that bourtx sales will exceed, 100 mlllkm gaU(n8 t year by 1970. Whoopee t. . .

The Puerto Rican police havs just bought 82 pursuit and patrol Renaults while American automakers napped. . JPe.tto tocrease but horses decrent in the United States, fio M demand for Imported hora meat grows. Paraguay Is (SI latest country to get to on Hm dog - food demand. It has vised regulations to tooreaat exports of horsemeat to tfii U. S.. . Jlighest savtoga interest rate in the country la tog offered by the Berkshire Coiraty Savings Bank of Pita

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS Twenty Federal agencies are

field, Mass.. now c^eftat- ^ per cent on regular savtoga

posits and 5 per cent on tkna deposita. ^ "2:

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