AAonday^ March 2^, 1964

Only Through Our Own Initiative

No matter how many agricultural and industrial experts from other areas come into Pitt to point out potential for further development of our agriculture and' agri-business, the development which' actually talj^es place is going to depend primarily on the initiative put forth by people of the county. T V

Pitt County has soil and climate conditions which have made it a naturally wealthy agricultural area. Through generations it has developed agricultural know-how that has steadily built up the farm economy of the county. In a nutshell, Pitt County has the natural and human resources to surge forward with agricultural development that is yet undreamed of.

With this potential for agricultural development, it likewise has the further potential for developing more businesses and industries closely allied with agriculture.

Hardly a week goes by that an acknowledged leaders in some phase of agriculture or agri-business development is not in Pitt County'speaking to various groups on the doors of opportunity which are open to the county. Without exception, however, it is always pointed out that it will be up to the people of the county to determine whether these opportunities will be tested, or allowed to remain dormant. '

Pitt^and raise new' crops or produce additional agricultural income for the farming interests of the county. No expert from somewhere else can come into the county and single-handedly add to the agri-business development of the county. All they can do is point out the opportunities, cite experiences of other agricultural areas, and suggest courses Pitt County may consider in its program of economic development. The rest is up to the people of the county,

Pitt County, in our opinion, needs to put forth a greater effort than is now being made to realize its development potential in the field of agriculture. It needs to put forth a greater effort to develop through its own initiative processing plants and other industries that are closely allied with its agrcultural economy. It needs to recognize that in these fields its accomplishments are'going to depend largely and the effort put forth to pull the county up by its own bootstraps.

Administration Will Wear A Johnson Brand

Don't Think I'm Rushin' You, Son

HON'ABLE thing By OUR 6ALf

It has been evident for some time now that No expert from somewhere else can come into there has not been room in the White House for

the Kennedy team that surrounded the late president and the new team of close advisors that is being brought in by President Johnson.

The resignation of Press Secretary Pierre Salinger late last week to enter the Senate race in California is the most recent of the Kennedy team to leave a key White House post. Unquestionably there will be others within the next few months w'ho will leave the- posts in which they served the late president to take up other positions. In their places will emerge the new team of faces that has been steadily assembled in the White House since the last w'eek of November.

With the changes in the personal staff of the ^

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By ROGER RABSON BABSON PARK, Mass. Every reader of this column is Interested in reducing taxes. We see In the newspapers much about the cut in federal income taxfes, but almost nothing about a cut in state or local taxes. I believe this will be discussed much more duri n g the next year or two as readers become better acquainted with what computers can do, to reduce county taxes at leas't. Readers who wish to reduce local and state taxes should end for a salesman from a leading computer manufacturer. such as International Business Machines.

WHAT A. FLORIDA COUNTY IS DOING In a talk which I had recently with Mr. Paul Pickett of Orlando, Florida, who is on the Budget Committee cf O ange County. I gained some very interesting informatlcm. He tells me that one of these computers, at a rmtal of about $7,000 a month, should save the county a net of over $20.000 a month on extra help. Now such a modem computer could do the schedule programming In a few days that It takes school teachers (supplementing their regular 'employment! s e v era! week.? to accomplish. When I asked Mr. Pickett whether the school teachers would complain, he stated, Many of them wiU be glad to have extra days off; while many of those who take their places when they have time off are housewives with no regular employm e n t. Thus the employment sltuaUon as a whole should not be up-aet,

In view of the activity of salemnen of the leading companies. It is probable that many more counties may be making this same saving. Whatever the facts are, I am only passing this alwig to readers as an Illustration of what the introduction of computers may accomplish, or upset according to the circumstances.

REVOLUTION IN EDUCATION As the Federal Government Is constantly assuming m o re of the cost and maintenance of road building, the present trend Indicates that the greatest local" expense will be our public schools. It looks now as If the education of our children could be cwislderably Improved at lower cost by the use of computers.

I feel certain that fewer school house.s will be built and that computers may materially

reduce the construction of new college buildings. The taxes which voters are now assessed for the maintenance and operation of buildings used for educational purposes can be considerably lowered and the efficiency of the teachers increased.

TIME NOW WASTED

For some peculiar reason, parents want their children to spend more time at sch o o 1 Are they really anxious to have these children learn more; or are they using the school a,s a sort of "parking lot for the care of their children a good portion of the day? Of course, I am opposed to the large r.vm-ber of drop-outs; but the present educational system may be more responsible for these drop-outs than the children.

At any rate, from visits I have recently made to schools, I do not see much change in the methods of education from when I was in school many years ago. Most leaders of Parent Teachers Associations and other organization probably agree with me. The immediate question Ls ; Who runs the school? Do the parents, or the teaches, or the taxpayers, or the politicians? It Is a very complicated sltuatlwi; in most communities the school committees are made up largely of businessmen and others who know very little about proper Improvement of their schools. When some one committee member makes a study and tries to bring about a reform he is persecuted as one who simply wants publicity.

IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTERS

The early part of this column explains how the budget commissions of many states are using computers to reduce expenses, but I forecast that computers must also be used to Increase the efficiency of teaching. Parents seem to believe that the amount of time .spent In school determines their childrens education. This will someday be done with greater use of computers.

There are several companies which will demonstrate how this can be accomplished resulting In fewer teachers, better education, lower taxes, and children trained to concentrate and get real Jobs for which they are best fitted. Research and new machinery have entered almost every pha.se of family life except education, I believe education Is on the verge of a revolution hi which computers will play a promine n t part.

By ART BUCHWALD

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President a.s a front-runner, there unquestionably will be more far-reaching changes in other key administration posts as President Johnson moves hia own close associates into sensitive positions. Certainly by the time the fall campaign ends, it may be expected that members of the Cabinet who ap- Ple to inform on those who are

pointed by the late president will begin to see cheating on their incomes tax-

their resignations accepted by President Johnson.

Although President, Johnson pledged, when he assumed the presidency, to carry out many of the programs and policies initiated by President Kennedy, it has been evident that the new President had hi.s own methods of operation. It has also been evident that he had ideas of his own as to how the government should operate, and he has not hesitated to put the LBJ brand on his administration to di.stinguish it from the JFK mark of his predecessor.

The distinction between the administrations of cases. And many a man has the late Presdent Kennedy and that of President regret the tax secrets

Johnson will become more pronounced as the weeks moved toward the end of 1964 when the former vice president confidently expects to win election to the highe.'^t office in the land in his own right.

Policies, programs and personnel will increasingly bear first and foremost the Johnson label rather than the Kennedy label.

Tax Dodaers' Informers

The Internal Revenue Service doesnt like to talk about it, but it still encourages peo-

es. The IRS will pay up to 10 per cent of the money to collect through an informer.

A spokesman at the IRS In charge of the care and feeding of informers said that people tend to turn in tax dodgers more for revenge than for monetary rewards. Rejected sweethearts, embittered wives, and heartbroken secretar! e s are among the main source of lnformati{Hi for tax-swindl i n g

Inferior Quality Will Cost More

Editors note: Todays guest columnist, suljstituting for William A. Shires, is Dr. William C. Archie, director of *the State Board of Higher Education since liMil. In the first of three articles presenting an in-depth picture of tlie higher education situation in Noith Carolina, Dr. Archie discussed what lies ahead.)

By WILLIAM C. ARCHIE N.C. Director of Higher Education I have long felt that one of the things that we must get away from in the South Is the willingness to come to terms with less than the best in our system of education.... Nothing is more costly to a people than Inferior education. ...Although the coming into the funds that are needed for the support of education in the South is not an ea.sy task, it is by all odds the most important thing that we have in front of us. And unless we are willing, for we are able, to pay that price, we will seal the doom of this section. We shall end as a second - rate mediocre section of the United States.

It Is a sobering fact that the great majority of North Carolina's leaders in government and education agree with these words from Colgate Darden, former president of the University of Virginia, a rt'cent governor of Virginia, and chairman of the Southern Regional Education Boards commission which authored the recent report, Within Our Reach.

This report eloquently and simply defined the pressing educational needs which must be met if our region is to control its own destiny. Particularly, it Informed and stimulated our Governor's Commission on Education Beyond the High School (the Carlyle Commission), whose work led to the breakthrough legislation enacted by North Carolinas General Assembly last year. The Higher Education Act of 1963 has been rightly acclaimed as the most significant milestone for Tarheel progress since the Aycock era.

Even so, I doubt that many Tar Heels are familiar with the structure of higher education in our beloved State, or that our citizenry as a whole comprehend the enormity of the task ahead. Hence, w behalf of the Board of Higher Education, the heads of our University and colleges and other key figures in the field, I welcome the opportunity to discuss in this and two subsequent columns. the salient facts underlying our problems. Today we limit ourselves to tbe quantity

aspect: the sheer numbers of boys and girls who must have at least an opportunity for higher education.

We now have 86,085 students learning. iThis does not include the Industrial Education Centers or new' community coln our institutions of higher leges.)

By 1965 we can expect at least 100.000.

By 1970 we can expect at least 125,(K)0.

Some of these, may go to the community colleges and lECs, although the majority of their students may *well be over and above the projected college population.

These modest projections mean tJiat our campuses must have more of everything: more classrooms and laboratories, expanded libraries, more cafeterias, dormitories and, above all. more prcrfessors by 1970, at least 2.000.

To provide the necessary facilities and people by 1970 will be at least double our annual higher education bill.

By 1980, with more than 150.0(X) students expected, the cost will likely be four times what It Is today.

No one can predict precisely so far ahead; many variable factors will affect the end result. Not least among these is quality, the subject of my second and third columns. Despite all variables, however, certain facts that we know to be true mean that the cumulative cost of higher education by the end of this decade will be staggeringly high. Let me cite a few.

We are dealing with boys and girls already bom the biggest generation in history. The brute numbers are hard to comprehend. By 1965. more than half of ail of us in the U. S. will be under 25. (Recording one birth every 74 seconds, the census clock on Lincolns Birthday ticked off 191 million.)

For the current school year, with 47.6 thousand students in North Carolina's public colleges (55,3 per cent of the total enrollment L the States share of operating costs is just over $36 million. (State appropriations are .supplemented by the colleges receipts from fees and other sources.)

To maintain operations on the prcFicnt scale in 1970-71 will cost the State an estimated $68 million. By 1973-74, the bill will rise to nearly $90 million.

These estimates do not include capital Improvement outlays additions and expansions for instruction and housing: for iContlnued on page 6)

he whispered into his lov e d ones ear.

Relatives also happen to make worthy informers. The spokesman said somewhat regretfully, I have .seen mothers turn In sons, daughters turn in fathers, and brothers turn In brothers.

If a son turns In a mother Its known as matritaxcide and if an offspring turns in a father it's called patritaxcide. It goes without saying that inlaws are always trying to help the Internal Revenue, Service, as a patriotic duty.

Bookkeepers, former friends, and^'ex-partners are anot her soiu-ce of information for the tax people, but theyre not the only ones.

Many tips come from jealous people who claim their neighbors are living 'above their means. A new mink coat is like

a red flag to a neighboring hou.sewife, and if some poor oaf buys a Lincoln Continental the IRS is bound to hear about it.

Of course a lot of the tips, the spokesman said, "are based on envy, but occasionally we do find someone who has been monkeying around

It is interesting to note that when a neighbor turns in a neighbor, he rarely demands any money. The satisfact i o n of seeing someone get caught seems to be enough of a reward for the informer.

Being a tax inforrner d(jes have its hazards. For one thing the IRS usually checks out the return of the informer before they check into the person that has been informed upon. Last year an informer from New York state complained to Sen. Keating that he hadnt been paid for turning In a tax dodger. When Sen. Keating checked into the case he discovered that the informer hadnt filed his ow'n tax return for three years.

Unfortunately, the rewards paid by the Internal Revenue Service are taxable as regular Income. Not long ago an informer who was paid $69,000 for putting the finger on a tax dodger demanded a spread of the money over a three-year period. The IRS refused to pay it to him that w'ay, so he took the case to court. The judge rtJled in favor of the IRS, so the poor fellow had to take the money all at once.

Public

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To The Editor:

Sometimes think we all live in glass houses in a sense, if we are not seeing somet h i n g that is not just right around us, the other fellow Is trying to see in so he can see somet h 1 n g wrong with us. Sure there is WTong within, there is wrong without; but I think it is the way we see or look. You can look so long at one thing until it becomes completely out of reason. No one person can make wrong right, but all working together not at each others throat. The man or the woman who loves their fellow man seldom throws stones; they try to help and redeem rather than hinder. We owe. absolutely the debt of righteousness to God, to our fellow man and to ourselves.

When the devil can do nothing else to destroy wisdom and goodness he stirs his emissaries to pick notes out of the eyes of the saints and to hunt flaws In the character of angels. Christ and HLs apostle (Mo.ses and the prophets before them) the good and the great ever

since have been the victims of scandal and sla 'der. Bar' of all is the popular effort to hurt the reputation of good and w'ell-doing people.

Help me, dear God, to clip my tongue fir.st Lest on me this gossip blow-ed up balloon bunst:

Let them without sin cast the first stone,

God grant that we as Chri.s-tians. let others alone.

Help us to get into the (same' lifeboat Together in unity w'ell keep it afloat.

Ob' What a life itwould be If God in all our talk we could see:

There are so many beautiful things about others to say.

Lift up your voices to God. this is the wonderful way.

If we love others as much as self,

There will be only good to talk about left Carry us, dear God, on this lifeboat home Together in heaven, all of us. No more to roam.

Mrs. H. L. Bowen

By EARL L. DOUGLAS OUT OF THE BURNING BUSH

We read in the third chapter of Exodus that the Lord caused a flame of the fire to break out in a bush on the desert, and the bush was not ccmsum-ed. The humble shepherd Moses. who w'as tending his flock nearby, turned aside to see what this great sight was. And when he turned aside to see, God spoke to him out of t3ie burning bush.

Gods message is reserved for those w'ho as they go along lifes pathway turn aside to see what its circumstances really mean. It happens to us today, as it happened to Moses more than three thousand years ago, that when we turn aside to see, to investigate, to try to understand, God speaks to us out of the circumstances of life, circumstances which are sometimes as fearful and amazing as a burning bush.

To express all this In modera terms we heed to remind ourselves constantly that every event which takes place in our life has significance. God will speak to us out of circumstances some of which appear insignificant and others which appear as did the burning bush which was not consumed strange, unnatural, incomprehensible.

We can be sure that If we turn aside to see, God will have a message for us. He will speak to us out of circumstances, sometimes circumstances that burn and scar. Our disappointments, our fustrations, our failures, our sorrows these all have significance, th?se all have some message necessary for us to hear and ponder.

The IRS also refuses to pay out a rew'ard to an informer unless it collectes the money from the tax dodger. And it isnt enough to finger someone. You have to produce evidence that is not available, to the revenue people.

But tax Informing has Its advantages, You can make your own hours and even do it In your spare time. You can avenge a wrong and help the government at the same tin$p. If youre lucky, you can even send the person you dont like to jail.

As for tax dodgers, we have only one word of advice. Promise her anything, but dont tell where you plan to get the money.

Strength -or Toiday

trench-Look A Mexico

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright, 1964, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

When the United States failed to back up the Free Cubans at the Bay o Pigs, Charles de Gaulle, rightly txc wr(mgly, drew two conclusions. The fir^ was that Americans, though verbally committed to come to the aid of their Wends by virtue of NATO in Europe and the Monroe Doctrine in the western hemisphere, could not necessarily be counted on in a pinch. The second cwiclu-slon, which followed from the first, was that a power vacuum threatened In Latin America.

It is this second conclusion that explains the de Gaulle appearance In Mexico. The de Gaulle tour may not produce very much, for the Meidcans are (julte competent to take care of themselves In their relations with foreign powers. But when de Gaulle stood up in French Army uniform beside President Lopez Mateos of Mexico, It stirred old diplomatic hands to an ironic reminder. No Important French official had appeared In Mexico In armj uniform for important state purposes since Marshal Francois Bazalne skedaddled out of the place a hundred years ago after the collapse of Emperor Louis Napoleons dream of filling the Latin American power vacuum of 1861-65.

In that time of the American Civil War, the' American President, Abraham Lincoln, had much less power to protect the western hemisphere than the U. S. has now. He would have had to take a Bay of Pigs if it had been presented to him. Unable to act, Lincoln merely brooded when the Elmperor of the French sent llaximilian, the unemployed brother of the Hapsburg Emperor of Austria, to sit on a newly created throne in Mexico. Nevertheless, Lincoln was not in the habit of taking things lying down.

When someone asked him how about the French army in Mexico? Lincoln spoke his mind. Im not exactly skeer-ed,' he said, but I dont like ^the looks of the thing. Napoleon has taken advantage of our weakness In our time of trouble, and has attempted to found a monarchy on the soil of Mexico in utter disregard of the Monroe Doctrine. My policy is, attend to only one trouble at a time. If w'e get well out of our present difficulties and restore the union, I propose to notify Louis Napoleon that It Is about time to take his army out of Mexico. When that army Is gone, the Mexicans will take care of Maximilian.

The Civil War continued while Lincoln still brooded about the power ^ vacuum in tropical America. Always creative, Lincoln let an emissary, F. B. Blair, make a visit behind the lines to the Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Blairs proposition to Davis was to call off the Civil War, put both the northern and souther-troops under the command of Jeff Davis himself, and then turn the combined forces loose to throw Maximilian and his beautiful Empress Carlotta off the thrones of Mexico. The Blair mission failed but after the Civil War was over the French took the hint and departed from this hemisphere.

Our ancestors of a hundreii years ago, if they are now looking down upon us, must be amazed to see Khrushchev repeating the adventure of Louis Napoleon on the soil of present-day CJuba. And they must be equally amazed to see a modern French leader, Charles de Gaulle, concluding that Khrushchev can get away with it where the Emperor Louis Napoleon failed.

It is not necessarily written in the stars that de Gaulles conclusion is correct. The . S. may be up to its neck in troubles, but they are nothing so bad as a civil war. The story is that W'hen the Cuban missile crisis was upon him. President Kennedy kept a card on his desk labelle<l Berlin. He did not at the time have the information that Russia could not count on feeding itself in a war. Now that we have that Information, we might do something to revive the spirit of Lincol., Watching Johnson on TV last week, I kept wondering where I had seen that veiled, half-suspicious, half dont mon-key-wlth-me look that greeted (Continued on Page 6)

More Look-Aheads In Business

By ELMER ROESSNER

Here are more look-aheads tn business, based on analyses of developing trends;

Tougher teamster demands: The very natural reaction to the conviction of Jimmy Hoifa is coming frtrni the Teamsters Union. To show it is not cowed by the c(viction. other leaders are under compulsion to step up demands this year. If you .doubt this analysis, ask your psychologist.

Steel build - up: Steel users have already started to Increase their inventories and will build them further. There are two main reasons; the expected Increase in demand for goods because of the tax cut, and the probability of higher steel prices because of the tax cut.

More trade with Russia: Pressure for lowering bars to Russian trade is rising and the Administration appears to be going along. Note that Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges Is urging mone trade In noucriUcai mater4Xls and

whats critical Is a matter of definition.

Note: Any Increase in trade with the Soviets would improve the position of Amerlcan-ilag steamship lines.

WHO RUNS THE TIME?

Tighter time control: Coming confusion over daylight time zones, which make the U. S. look like a Dali design for a vest, is prodding Congress to take firm acticxi this year. Crazy - quilt patterns could be a danger in war, and C(Migress may move to take over Americas clocks. There may even be a proposal to reduce the U. S, to three, even two. time zones.

Brewers stocks may rise: Consolidations have reduced competition in the beer market. Sales have been rising again. And the tax cut may boost them even higher.

A year for color: This may be the year that is for color television. The tax cut automatically makes perhaps >'iH!ons of families into coior-TV pros

pects. RCA Is Increasing color TV production 50 per cent this year, *

MORE MACHINES FEWER GIRLS

More business machines: The rising trend In wages, soon to be accelerated, will result in a boom in computers and business machines. Every time Annie costs 10 cents an hour more, automatic machines cost 10 cents an hour less.

Car-rental competition; There will be a mad race for auto rentis this summer. Other companies have been cutting in on the market dominated by Hertz. Hertz has formed a subsidiary to meet lower prices. Competition is heightened by prospects that the market will be bigger than ever.

More phone mergers; More of the smaller phone companies will be merged Into the Bell System this year and In a few years there njay be Bell alone. Costs rise with the efficiency of new equipment and devices, and smaller companies

have difflcuites In raising mon ey to pay for the high costs ol new devices. Lower cooperation tax rates will give A. T & T. more funds with,-whick to buy smaller companies.

OLD PROMOTER WOULD SOLVE TWO PROBLEMS AT ONCE

There was a gleam in the Old Promoters eye when he dropped in today.

I have a great idea, he said. It may win the nomina tion for Vice President for me. On which party?

Parties, schmarties: Who cares? My idea is to turn over the war in Viet Nam to Jimmy Hoffa. Hes dealt with rebellion before; he can handle the Viet Cong.,

Whats to be gained? 1 asked.

Plenty. Well solve two problems at once. Well get rid of Hoffa for awhile and get th* Vietnamese off our backs at the same time.

Are you reading. Dean Rusk?