Ifonday, November 11, 196S

When You Were Dying

More Industrial Jobs Are Needed

The greatest economic problem which faces Fitt County today is the need for more industrial em* pioyment.

In the past-decade the county has gained a better balance between industry and agriculture. Even with the moves toward a better year-round economic situation, however, Pitt remains a county which is heavily dependent upon agriculture for its income. It remains a county in which industrial jobs although they have increased sharply during the past 10 yearsare not sufficient in number to pro

vide employment for those who are annually leaving the farms in search of other gainful employment.

Pitt County has every reason to believe that its potent agricultural economy will cOrltinue to be more and more productive in the long-range picture. It

Signs Of Bitter Siaht Are Seen

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES

RALEIGH Political notebook:

Proponents of the little federal constitutional amendment are girding for a hard campaign that will kick off a year of major political significance for North Carolina.

The forthcoming fight <m this constitutional chance affecting makeup of the legislature will occupy center stage for the first act of the 1964 poUtical drama.

There are signs It will be bitter. And what happens may well have considerable effect upon the script for the rest of the year.

In a sense, it is an unexpected development (me that was not foreseen a few mcmths ago. But it is now materializing into one of the more crucial and certainly the most immediate poUUcal issues facing the states voters.

EFFORT Organization of little federal supporters, initiated by legislators who pushed the plan through the October special session of the General Assembly, assures a vigorous effort for Its approval.

In turn, efforts (m behalf of the amendment are likely to spur opponents into action.

Opposing lines are drawn rather sharply. In effect, it is a struggle between the smaller but politically powerful counties of eastern and western North Carolina and the populous, often politically-divided Piedmont.

Sen. Thomas J. White Jr. of Lenoir County says it isnt that clear. He defines it as an effort to keep the reins of North Carolina with North Carolinians. . .a deadly serious proposition for the good of government in North Carolina.

SPEAK White told a meeting of about 65 amendment supporters gathered in Raleigh that opponents are the Republicans. some conscientious residents of pcmulous areas, intellectuals and the larger newspapers in the state..

White, a frequent critic of the press, referred to the fact that a number of smaller newspapers are supporting the amendment.

The smaller newspapers, he said, can do us a tot of good, editorially and in the news columns.

Senate president T. Clarence Stcme told the same meeting that not everyone in the Pied-m(mt opposes the amendment *Tm from Piedmont, but whenever the power gets In Guilford, Mecklenburg and Forsyth counties. God help the state.

Im for Eastern North Carolina. Stone said. Thats where the Democrats are. I think we can get this over to the people, and I Uiink we can get this amendment passed,

STRATEGY Amendment supporters named a four-man steering ctwnmittee and mapped strategy which Includes a series of area meetings and marshalling of voter support In farm organizations.

The state Farm Bureau federations president, B. C, Man-

gum, said the farm bureau Is supporting the amendment and plans rallies in every county.

The strategy calls for a vigorous campaign, necessarily a brief one. The amendment election is Jan. 14 which is only two months away.

The amendment support e r s expressed hope that the description of the amendment as little federal plan might be discarded. They felt the word federal would have a detrimental effect at the polls.

Sen. Robert Lee Humber of Pitt said it correctly is an amendment to establish a system of checks and balances which, he said, should have been done 100 years ago.

CRITICAL Amendm e n t supporters pointedly criticized several top Democratic party officials including Gov. Terry Sanford. State party chairman W. Lunsford Crew and House Speaker H. Clift(Hi Blue.

Criticism of Sanford was expected in wake of the governors decision not to call a $100 million state school bond referendum on the same date as the amendment election. Amendment supporters felt that holding the elections simultaneously would help their cause. Sanford felt it would jeopardize the school bonds. Sen. Staton Williams of Stanly County called the governors a(?tion a backhanded slap at proamendment forces.

Williams accused Sanford of having favored the amendment but refusing to support it because he felt it could not be pushed through the legislature and approved by the people.

Rep. M. L. Daniels Jr. of Dare said he felt Crew should say he spoke for himself and nc the Democratic party when he publicly opposed the amendment. Other pro-amendment legislators said they felt Blue, who cast the vote which allowed the amendment to be voted on by the people, went too far In saying later he will vote against it In the election.

NOTES Robert W. (Bob) Scott of Haw River, feeling the political pulse in Mecklenburg County this week, reported a surging Interest in his becoming a candidate for governor.

Scott says he will study the situation carefully and If all systems are go. Ill go. He said he is finding the voters are lukewarm toward the already-announced and other potential candidates.

Scott said there is some cpies-tion about his age. He is only 34. But, he said, How can you get experience as governor of North Carolina? You cant serve but one term.

Candidate Dan K. Moore of Sylva told an audience in Hickory that he does not rule out the possibility floating a state bond issue to finance needed highway construction especially if it can be provided without new taxes. Moore says he doubts that current highw a y revenues will meet needs in areas of the state neglected by road-building program.s of the past and the present.

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musLiace up realistically, however, to the fact that agricultural operations in the county in future years probably will require fewer people than it requires today. As fewer people are required in agriculture in this area, they must find jobs in other phases of the local economy or move into other areas where job opportunities are better.

This, of course, has been the situation throughout the agricultural area of Eastern North Carolina for more than a decade. Many counties of the area which did not look ahead and recognize their need for industry to supplant vanishing agricultural jobs lost population in the decade between 1950 and 1960. It is not unlikely that during the current decade some of the counties of the East will show a population decline for the same reason.

In many respects Pitt has been able to hold its own by attracting new industries and other busi-nes.ses which provided additional jobs. Even so, there remains in Pitt County a large pool of surplus labor which much of. the year is unemployed or underemployed.

The responsibility of attracting new industry and continuing to develop an increasingly better climate in Pitt for industrial development must rest with the entire citizenry . . . not with just a handful of the countys citizens.

In part, acceleration of the countys rate of industrial development may be achieved by a few citizens contacting prospects and selling them on the advantages Pitt has to offer as a location for industrial plants. But in a large measure the general attitude of the county toward industrial development and industries will determine Pitts success as it strives to fill its great economic need through attracting and establishing new plants and new job opportunities.

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BY JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright. 1963, King Features Syndicate. Inc.

I know, that I should be val-' lantly exercised about tiie current scandals and rumors of scandals in Washington. But. to be^^ perfectly honest about It. the stories about Bobby Baker, Navy Secretary Fred Korth and others* leave me with very mix-, ed feelings.

Tihiat seems so ho-huitr idxiut it all Is that minor scandals are quite unremarkable when they are projected against a background of what might bo termed total scandal. Here wo have Bobby Baker being acr

cused of the crime. If it ^,ls , a crime, of using his rcpufc-. .

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Good, Yoling Citizens

A lot of specially designed weeks come down the pike these days, but none is more significant in our opinion than Youth Appreciation Week sponsored by Optimists Clubs throughout the nation.

For one brief week out of 52 it calls specific attention to the fact that the vast majority of todays teenagers are good, conscientious young citizens who apply themselves just as diligently to good citizenship practices as their older counterp^-rts. It gets across the pointsomehow overshadowed the rest of the yearthat the words teenager and

By WINFRED L. GODWIN

Yardstick For Colleaes

juvenile delinquent are not synonimous.

For every youngster who runs afoul of the law, who gets kicked out of school for misbehaving, who youthfully assumes the ttitude that the world owes him a living, there are literally many hundreds who with determination and dedication are goingabout their daily task of maturing into good adult citizens ready to assume their responsibilities in their community, state and nation.

There are the youngsters who make up the great majority of our teenage population today just as they have in previous generations. The young punk, the delinquent, the irresponsible teenager is no more the typical representative of his age group than the beatnik is of his generation.

Monday marks the beginning of Youth Appreciation Week. Adults should make it a point to give the vast majority of our youngsters the pat on the back they so richly deserve as good citizens.

Accreditation Is the badge of legitimacy worn by all Southern colleges and universities of good standing. It is an important factor in many decisions about where to go to college and it Is the barometer registering an institutions independence in the face of social, economic, political, and athletic pressures.

In many ways accreditation Is a nebulous term, but for definition it can be said that accreditation is recognition of the academic respectability of educational Institutions. It is a typically American undertaking of self - government the setting of standards and measurement of achievement by groups of institutions rather than by a national board or federal agency.

Institutions In six regions of the nation have formed regional associati(ms to determine standards and measure achievement. But this does not mean that accredltatton is a secticm-al matter, only that It is best handled through groups of workable size. The regional associations ar the only agencies which can accredit an entire institution. They do not certify that every unit or department is of equal quality, but rather that no part of the In-stituti(Mi' is so weak as to undermine the educaticmal effectiveness of the whole.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools is the accrediting agency for Institutions in Alabama, Florida, Georgia. Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Caro-

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Greshams Law

Again A Threa

BY ROGER BABSON

BABSON PARK. Mass..-During my travels I have watched for young men who have original ideas and I found one in Scott Ciity, Missouri. His name is Edison E Shrum, who wrote for me most of the following, based on Greshams Law. Mr. Shrum is Secretary of the Magic Circle Educational Foundation.

WHAT IS GRESHAMS LAW?

One of the oldest and most generally accepted monetary theories is known a.s Greshams Law. This is the principle that bad money tends to drive out good money. This means people tend to hoard ilie good mcHiey" that is, the money they have confidence m and tend to pass on 'he bad money. The term bad money refers to money which is less valuable than the so-called good money, CLIPPING THE COIN

The remarkable validity of this law is demonstrated in the extremely interesting example of what happened to Englands money in the period from 1663 to 1700. Prior to that time, English coins were of the hammered variety, without milled edges. This made It easy for the edges of these coins to be often ground off. Thus, In time, most of the coins became les valuable.

Around 1663 new full-weivht coins were minted, with milled or inscribed edges. These

coins began disappearing into hoards. By 1690 this had reached a critical point. Then a group, including Sir Isaac Newton (who was then warden of the mint) convinced the go-veniment that it should call in the defaced coins. They were then melted down, and reminted at full weight with milled edges and outline inscriptions. Then the good money came out of hiding! THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE Here in the United States, we too experienced the painful workings of Greshams Law during the Revolutionary War period, in 1797, 1818, and from 1837 to 1842. At the time of the discovery of gold In California the working of Greshams Law was also evident when the increase of gold was so rapid that its value declined to the point where silver was driven out of circulation and hoarded.

Then came the experience with the Civil War greenbacks In March of 1862. These products of the printing press were not backed by either gold or silver reserves. Hence, people took to hoarding gold and silver coins.

OTHER CRISES In 1890, the Silver Purchase Act caused gold to flow out of this country. This precipitated a rush to hoard money, culminating In a crislls in the New (Continued on Page 5)

From now until the time the amendment Is put to a vote January 14, you can expect the large dailies in North Carolina to develop screaming meemies against the so-called little federal plan.

This plan, embodied in the amendment which the General Assembly voted at its special session to submit to the people, would reduce the size of the lower house to 100, with one representative from each county, and would Increase the size of the senate to 70, to be distributed according to population.

We happen to favor this plan for a very simple reason. It would tend to help prevent the control of our state government from falling Into the hands of the well - organized big city blocs.

This is very important In North Carolina, where our legislature is supreme. Un 11 k e the other 49 states, we have denied veto powder to our governor, thus removing one of the most valuable checks against a runaway legislature.

This Is a fact often overlooked by the head count school of political scientists, who would assign equal weight to every voter in the state and settle all questions with slide rule accuracy.

Neither In the national Congress nor in arv of the states, except North (Carolina, can a simple majority legislate against determined opposition In the executive department. In most cases It requires a two-thirds majority to override an executive veto. And here we see, often In Its rawest form, mathematical minority

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blocking the ardent efforts of the majority.

No such safeguard exists in North Carolina. An act passed by the barest majority of the legislature becomes law, for good or evil.

So, it seems to us, It is especially important in North Carolina to have some sort of built - in protection aga i n s t machine control and manipulation of our legislature. Such an unwholesome situation is far more likely to materialize from the shifting for more and more power to the big city areas, where blocs often vote solidly and where tighter organization Is possible.

As things now stand, the big city areas already have a 20 per cent advantage in the lower house. Under the sen a t e redlstricting plan approved by the special session, they will pick up c(isiderably more weight in the upper house. Unless some change and as the little federal plan is approved in the meantime, 10 to 15 of the big counties could pretty well have their way In both houses following another shifting of representation.

All local considerations aside, we are ctmvinced the state will enjoy better government over a more sustained period if the control of at least one house in our legislature can be kept In the hands of the smaller counties.

Whether the big cities corrupt the politicians or vice versa, It is an undisputed historical fact that the most sinister political machines of the 20th century have developed In the mass population centers. Do we want our own North Carolina brand of that?

lina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and one in Mexico. Institu-ti(ms in Arkansas and West Virginia are under jurisdio-tion of the North Central Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. Delaware and Maryland are in the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools.

In the Southern Assoclatitms area, actual accrediting of higher institutions is done by a 54-man college commission representing all the states Included in the Associati(Hi.

For colleges, accreditation serves several purposes. It encourages them to improve their programs by providing for them standards or criteria established by comi>etent bodies. It serves to facilitate the transfer of students from (Hie Institution to another and helps Inform those who employ graduates of an institution about tlie quality of traning which its graduates have received.

Accreditation is concerned with standards n(rt with standardization. A standard may set a minimum level of tiain-ing for faculty, or minimum enrollment; or it may delineate a basic organizational pattern or structure for institutions,' broad enough to include the differing purposes and objectives of a great variety of colleges and universities. In another instance a standard may Identify and define basic principles of academic freedom or academic Integrity to which accredited institutions are expected to adhere. The standards are not encased in concrete, immovable, inflexible.

Accrediting procedure Is much the same all over thenation. The first step Is to establish standards. Then competent persons evaluate institutions to determine whether the standards or criteria are met. The accrediting association publishes a list of Institutions that measure up to standards.

Periodic reviews are made to see if accredited Institutions continue to meet the standards. In the South, accredited colleges are required to make a comprehensive self - survey each 10 years, the self-study in turn being evaluated by a qualified committee of educators representing the association.

In all of their efforts, accrediting associations are committed to a policy of preserving the integrity and freedom of institutions of higher education. An official of the Southern Association has said, We need no standard for faculty unless fhelr teaching can be free, wc need no standard for administrative organization If administrators are intimidated or controlled by organized Ignorance which gains support In a period of fear and tension.-

ation as an Inlluential Secr> tary to the Senate Majority In ways ttiat have enabled hJm to make a lot of extra-curricular money. But whatever power Bobby had was merely a reflected power If he could trade on Influence, It was only because certain of his employers In the U. S. 8eni(t9 really do have Influence. No* body would have given Bobby a nickel he shouldnt have had *

If there hadnt been a fear tbat retributloo might be lurking at the hands of somebody who could really affect tl distribution of governmental rewards.

This matter of Influence Is so all-pervasive to modem politicalized society that it is next to impossible to frame an ethical course for anybody save a hermit. Some things are right by sanction, and some are not, but the sanctions themselves frequently make no logical sense.

For example, it to considerj^,^ ed quite all right for the m- ^ yor of an Important city togo to Washington to the middle atX an election campaign and co^ * home with the announcem'eht that federal funds are about'to be channelled to some bit of local urban redevelopment. This is merely a traditional way of attempting to swing a few vote.s. Everybody accepts this sort of thing as being part of the great game of politics. The result may be to perpetuate a group to paying city hall jobs bqt no charges of influence dling are bought.

When Navy Secretary Fred Korth, a former Fort Worth. Texas banker, alledgedly uses, hto personal prestige to help-some banks he once headed .JtJ , hardly differs in its ewentml -marrow from a tip from a do-; ;iilnant political party that It* would be wise for a relief agency to get out those relief chicks a week before the elections instead of the week after. But Korth. for hto supposed indiscretions, gets It in the neck..

The moral would seem to; be | ; that if you want to give or't get the benefits of ImHu- * ence to Washington, you should do it not as an todividwal but through a registered pr-sure group.

No individual farmer to licensed by our present moral code to get a special benefit at the expense of hto feUow taxpayers. (He might try to do i this by faking on hto Incon^e^ tax. but if he were caught in. the act he would assuredly pav; a fine or go to jail.) However, it to perfectly all right for * farmers as a group to pressure their senators into giving them special benefits at the expen^^e of all the urban taxpayers taken together. !

With group - theft sanctioned by a law that results from the tug of pressure group fo'c-es, scandal has been so dif-* fused throughout our soctoW,; that it doesnt seem scandal-'* ous at all. Everybody iS', 11- * censed to live off everybody else, and who cares?

Even when it comes down to a question of Individual benefits in government from influence, the sanctions of our modem society seem incredibly confused. It was all wrong

for Sherman Adams, to Eisf^ bowers time, to take the loan

of an oriental rug from todhs- trlallst Bernard Goldflne ffut. ' it was not wrong in the least for the late Senator Kerr of Oklahoma to pass on legislature affecting his own Industrial empire to oil.

In a grey world, the alleged blackness of Bobby Baker. Fred. Korth and others to not something that can offend the great.' (Continued on page 8) ' *

Gettina The Shoppers Started

BY ELMER ROESSNER

Strength For Today

BY EARL L. DOUGLASS IS THERE CHRISTIAN COMMUNISM

We sometimes hear the statement that Communism to just attempt to put the principles of Christian truth into operation.

Nothing could be more absurd or mistaken than such a statement. The Bible does not put its approval on any form of government. Neither does it come out and in so many words endorse any particular economic sy,stem. But it must be admitted that the parables of Jesus seem to reflect his approval of what we call today free enterprise. JesiLs ham'ielf worked with his hands. His parables particularly the Parable of the Talents and the Parable of the Ponnd.s - indicated that he aeceptfd and anproved Ihe R.ystom of production, buying and selling, which we some-time.*, refer to today as fi ne enterprise and at other Mmes as

capitalism. This system involves fair wages for the worker and the management of industry and the collection of profits for the pers(Mi who furnishes the capital with which to begin and operate any industry. *

Early Christianity once encountered communism. The church at Jerusalem decided mistakenly that they were following the Lords will when they gave up individual ownership and owned all things In common. The reilt was that the church at Jerusalem was soon on the verge of starvation. Paul had to go among h churches, which operated In a free enterprise society, and collect money to keep the idealistic ( not political) comnum-Ists fnmi starving. * Christianity teaches that the laborer is worthy of his hire and the enterpriser of hto profits. It has no use for com-muntom to any form.

Whether retail sales in the next six weeks top last years records to touc^ and go. The short Thanltgiving-to-CJhrist-mas period this year is a major difficulty. There are psychological difficulties in getting the typical American shopper started until after Thanksgiving Day. This may be a residual from the days when the mistress of the home spent the week before Thanksgiving in an 18-hour-a-day flurry of mincemeat. plum pudding, cranberry sauce, pie - baking, nut-roasting and scores of other duties.

Retailers, alerted to the situation, have already started one of the largest Christmas advertising campaigns in his-^ toryin fact, it may be the largest ever before it is through. The money being spent could support another crusade, or the American campaign in Viet Nam for several days.

Curiously, the key tb the success of this campaign may not ix*. the size of advertising campaign but the wratheF ii-

fielf. An early, harsh winter

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might defeat It; continuation balmy weather can break the sales record.

VIDEO TOY PROMOTION

More TV toy advertiaing:

This seasons toy promotions on television VIH be more frequent than ever. Toys will be more alluring than ever and in many instances, cheaper. However, under government and industry regulation, the demonstrations will be closer to the facts this season. Of course, there may be some fudging but, on the whole, the toys lyill do close to what they do In demonstrations

NOTE: If you are a parent, lay in a few flashlight batteries. Manufacturers and retailers continue to deliver power toys without batteries, breaking thousands (rf childrens hearts when new toys wont work.

Auto sak* to level; The amazingly high rate of auto sales is due to reach a plateau to the weeks ahead. Christmas shopping and rugged weather diverts interest from new cars. Sales will pick up again in .spring.

REVERSING THE SEASON

Boating sales to boom: This winter may become the biggest year so far for boats and accessories. The big b(,ttag market to shifting frcan spring to winter, when landlocked enthusiasts sit home and have time to study catalogues and magazines. The same thing happened in the farm equipment industry. After crop money comes in and farm work to lessened by winter, fanners plan purchases they dont have time for during the rest of the year.

Trading stamps on platean: Since A&P capitulated to trading stamps, there are not many more fields to con(juer to the United States. However, the stamp craze to spreading in Britain, wfth many . S. companies participating. In the period ahead, the number of stores adding stamps will be largely offset by stores dropping them. Of course. If the .stamp companies can .%11 one of the big auto makers*

Trotvlcal fish boom: Interest Is rising in tropical fish. Tanks are about the size of TV sets and theres no extra cliarge for color. Thats a gag. Prank More seriously, the raising of

finny fantastic to growtof fast. Two causes: expendable toc(Hne to rising; more doc-* * tors recommend watching the : Wigglies as a reUef from ten- sions.

OLD PROMOTER ADVISES REDUCING PROFITS THIS YEAR

There to still a chance that the tax cut will be effective, next year, so tell your busl- nessmen readers to shift pnv; flts from 1963 to 1964 to cut* taxes on them, the Old* Pxthl moter said on hto visit today.

I think I have covered that and have made cheats out of every reader, I said What have you to mind? ;

Its not cheating, he snorted. Its just do^ what the law win command. Tell businessmen to make their 1964* charitable donations this year' as far as possible. Tell them to stock up supplies. Prepay to-* terest and taxes, if permitted. December 31.

These apply to busteessmen. but not all of them apply te Individuals. ;

. So now you have it from the horses frontal erlflce. I