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Friday, April 24, 1964

Problem Is Not The Souths Alone

It Won't Help'Your Cause

~ It is ironic that two of the leading southerners in the Senate should demand that the U. S. attorney general and the federal civil rights commission should inyestigate charges of police brutality in connection with civil rights demonstrations in New York.

^ The demahds of Sen. Richard Russe iT of Georgia and Sen. James D. Easterling of Mississippi will be taken with considerably more than a grain of Fait in much of the nation. If they receive any attention at all in the Senate, they are certain to bring sharp retorts from the representatives in New \ ork. ,

If the demands ser\e any constructive purpose, Jt is to point up vividly the fact that civil rights demonstrations have become a national prob-blem. It reflects the fact that racial differences, lotig looked upon as a problem peculiar to a benighe-ed southland, are in a very real sense a national _^rather than a regional problem.

It is not likely that the attorney generals office

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or the federal civil rights commission will make a great stir over the flare-up between law enforcement agents and demonstrators that have taken place in New York and elsewhere outside the South in the past few weeks. What took place in York by no means istifiea wfiat took place in Birmingham, in Jacksonville or any other city in the nation. It does focus attention on two important facts, however.

It focuses attention on the fact that the racial problem is by no means confined to any specific geographic area of the nation. It also focuses attention on the fact'that the problems which face members of all races which make up the citizenship of the country cannot be solved in the streets or in the subways or even at the gates of the Worlds Fair.

Attcmptn to install mob rule has never been constructive for any purpose in the United States. It has long since outlived its usefulness as a tool to help resolve the racial problems w^hifh exi.st in the nation*

Ot Of Tolk A Tribute To Scouting

About Brewer

By WILLIAM A, SHIRES BREWER - Kidd Brewer, man about Raleigh, is quite political curiosity these days. Theres no easy way to catalogue him.

Neither is it easy to ignore him, as the major candidates in the campaign for governor are finding out.

Fresh from a stretch of four and a half months in the penitentiary for influence ped- dling,** and with a grudge to bear along with his parole. Bivwer himself Is a candidate for governor In the May .W Democratic primaiT, like It or hot.

And by tempering hLs grudge with a .sense of humor and knowing how to keep his political opponents gues.sing and stewing. Brewer Is proving to be something more than the ordinary, run - of - the mill perennial also - ran.

HLs Is no major, lull-Dlowm, heavily - financed campaign. And no one really expects Brewer to do much better than he did in 1956 when he polled only .^6.227 votes as an also - ran for lieutenant governor.

FEELING If not exactly a serious contender. Brewer at least has Aroused. aJpL of talk and speculation.

There Is widespread belief among tho.se casual political observers that Brewer can and probably Intends to make things as uncomfortably warm and uneasy for certain other candidates as he possibly can.

It apparently is going to disappoint a lot of people if Brewer fails to come with some .shocking disclosures about what's really going cm" in state government. The nimor mill credits him with having a ready supply of really inside Information about state poll-tiCJS.

Whether he docs or not remains to be seen.

INTEREST - The fact is. however, that this belief is pre-VTenraTog taiw WmlSers o^ the average man on the street.

This Interest grows. Brewers name is m everybodys lips in dlsciusvsions of the gubernatorial campaign. A frequent questicHi is whats Kldri Brewer going to?" and what's Kidd got up his sleeve.

In the meantime. Brewer keeps them guessing. HLs Insistence on being allowed Jo participate in a proposed statewide television debate between the major candidates sharpened tlie growing curicxsity.

Brewer dangled more bait by telling reporters he plans to release a fair play" platform containing "positive and cwi-troversial propo.saLs well worth debate on TV or anywhere cl.se. Refusal to admit Brewer to ihe debate arrangement ne-Rotiation.s and to con.sider his participation serv"ed to strengthen the conviction that he know's something.

GOING His Ls no high-

pow'ered political campaign, but Brewer has quite a iew things going for him.

Not the least of these Is a large number of friends. Many of these are firm and fast friendships which have endured through thick and thin. Secondly. his name is widely khow'n.

He has been a colorful figure since hLs Duke football days, and later at Appalachian. He ha.s been engaged in numerous business ventures acro.ss the state. He has beeti identified with the Raleigh political scene for yei^s, and used to write a readaBle political column for a number of new's-papers.

More recently, of course, he was a principal in the much-publicized Brewer-Burch highway signs scandal and resulting trials, cwiviction.s and pri-.son sentences. He kept everyone guessing then, and laughing too, by giving a going In party and later by announcing his candidacy fioni a cell at Central Prison.

One of the guesses, amid all the half joking and half seriousness, wa.s perhaps that

The tent city which went up at Pitt-Greenville airport today to hou.se an estimated 5,000 youngsters i.H a tribute to Boy Scouting in Eastern North Carolina and to the host of adult Scout leaders who are responsible for the camporee.

It vvill be one of the largest gatherings of Boy Scouts at one place in the history of the state. It will bring to Greenville literally thousands of boys and adult.s from throughout the northeastern section of the state. And from the outing the boys will take home with thesi not only their memories of one of the highlights of their young lives, but likewise their impressions of the city which is acting as host for the camporee.

Preparaton for the camporee has -involved a countless number of hours on the part of those who TV "V" X ' 7\ '

have been making arrangements. Certainly it has /A \ /-A

cost u considerable amount of money to make pos- ^ Y X M Lv^X X X xJs.y v-y V sible the event. But if the Boy Scouts are beneficiaries of the time, effort and money put into making ])ossihle the camporee, Greenville as the host city for the event i.s also a beneficiary.

Animus

Giftec,

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

By ART BCHWALD

Pulitzer

We have just been named Literary Fater of the Year by the National Fathers Day

Committee. It is the highest

Any time a community is selected as the host for honor any writer in America a large gathering of young people or adults, it is notch

papermen fathers ai-e rarely every home. In checking dowm the list, the committee discovered we averaged at lea^ tw o - and a - haif days a week at home, which was a record

nrovifled with nn Avr>p11fnf ..f Uc, '^ve the Pulitzer Prize, and * for someone in our business.

prOMCleri \Mth an excellent opportunity to put its ^.pre very humble about it. Any newspaperman who sees

ne.st loot iorward to win neAV friends, enhance its This is how the honor came his kids that often has to be

prestige and create a better image for itself in the about. Most Washington news-mind.s of the people of the surrounding area.

The Reflector joins with other citizens of

The honor came to us when we were on a trip to the West Coast for a lecture swing. Our wife and children were so excited, they called us right away.

"Youve Just been named Father of the Year, our wife said. I thought youd like to know.

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Dr. Woodrow Wilson Sayre, who comes from a distinguished family is apparently being dr()ped from the faculty o# Tufts Universivtyv < the news la that S COTtract will prcrimb-ly not be renewed) because ol a failure to publish scholarly works. There is no quarrel over Professor Sayres clas^oom work, which the Tufts authorities say 1^ been effectiv" over a seven-year period.

The attitude of Tuft is In line with a general tendency In this country to regulariza everything. The gifted amateur, the original man who lacks a Ph.D or an M. A. degree, the fellow who came up the hard way and missed tmiching one or more cwiventional ba.se, is more and more excluded from our going institutions.

In Dr. Sayres case, tha man's academic sin is that ha took off. two years ago, on a mountain climbing expedition in the Himalayas. He subsequently wrote a book about it, Pour Against Everest. Tha book, while p<^lar, is not scholarly. But Dr. Sayre, who teaches philosophy says his work deals with the nature of loneliness, which is a philo.so-phical problem. Would it hava been better if he had written a derivative work based on other writers disquisitions on loneliness, with yards of footnotes and an Impres^ve bibliography of the sort which, as every writer know's, can be gotten up in an hours consultation of library catalogues? The Tqita authorities would have had to accept the latter type of book , as evidence of scholarly actW vity.

the Father of the Year.

Brewer had been singled out ^ warm %velcome to the Boy

for persecution. Out of all this Scouts and adult.s who are here ?or the East Caro-

evolved the element of curiosity and W'ondering w'hich is proving to be both a conversation piece and Brewers mOvSt effective campaign tactic.

SIGNSMaking people gue.ss is nothing new for Kid Brewer.

A few years ago, when he was running for Lieutenant govenior. he erected a large prominent sign on Ihs property along the busy Raleigh-Durham highway which read simply, Youll Be Glad You Did.

Thats all It says. For years, people have seen the sign with Its large red letters and wondered what it meant. During his 1956 campaign, among other unusual gimmicks. Brewer adopted the slogan "Jfoun Be Glad You Did. Vote for Kidd. But he never added the la.st three words to the sign out on the highway.

Newcomers, vLsitors and tra-veleis were always Intriqued by the woi-dlng.

The sign is still there, not far from the hilltop home overlooking Crabtree Creek where BiTwer used to entertain governors, senators, politicians and others, big and .small, numbered among his friends. It fell into disrepair during the ordeal of the highway signs scandal and trial, but recently has been fixed and reiMilnted

And Brewer is using another, equally enigmatic sign idea In this campaign. At the recent Jefferson - Jackson Day festivities he put up a handmade sign in a Raleigh hotel lobby. It consisted of a placard and a broom, asked for vote.s for Brewer and promised a clean .sweep.

lina Council camporee thi.s week-end.

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Atmosphere Die.

I knew I was up for It, we said, but I was afraid Sonny Liston would beat me out in the finals.

When a.re you coming home,^ Daddy? our son asked bn the extension.

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By ROGER RABSO.N BABSON PARK. Mass., Most of my readers tliink there are .so few perfectionists that it is a waste of good paper for me to wrtte about them. But Perfectionist is too often simply a professional word for mvoTrter. of whom there are a laige number who read my weekly column.

WORRY. THE RE:AL t'RIPPLER One of my dearest friends died suddenly a few days ago of a coronary heart attack. He always wanted ..everytlung perfect; and consequently I could leave any work for him to do and I could forget It.

Since thLs friend's death. I liave been thinking about per-fectionLsm per se, and about worry as a "natural corollary to perfectionism. Inasmuch as these two qualities so often coincide in tlie .same person, my plea to my readers this week is to be content to do the best you can, but not to woriy. Worry is the great depleter of strength and energy. This distinction must be made by all successful bu.sinessmen and women, by fathers and molh-ei-s.

NEWTONS LAW OF ACTION ANO RE.Yt TION

My present feeling is that a successful life must bo a balanced one. We must remfmber tiiat Sir Lsaac Newtons l.aw of Action and Reaction applies to all our doings. This law seems to determine our health and our judgment, and hence our financial success. It is the reason it takes two people to make a successful married life. Conversely, it is also the reason two people can make a married life unhappy and unsuccessful throwing all relationships .out of balance and resulting in business failure and unhappiness. Hence, I believe In long engagements: and if a mistake has been made, a legal separation or divorce may

be wise, especially if there is no mutual marital harmony.

WH.AT JESUS TAUGHT One of the chief teachings of Je.sus was that worry is a sin that we should not be anxious about the morrow and that sufficient unto the_ day is the evil thereof. It is interesting that this thought was also fundamental in the teachings of Buddha, Confucius. Mohammed, and other great prophets throughout the world. In fact I understand that Jesus Sermon on the Mount was ba.s-ed upon teachings of famous prophets who had lived many centuries before.

Not only this; but my friend Dr. Rufus Cole has written two laige volumes to prove that there is nothing new under the sun, and that whatever happens today is dependent upon all that has happened for generations before. Whenever we try to pick out and eliminate from the past one thing anywhere. we find this one thing is Involved with every other John Muir long ago. Surely niany who have suffered untimely death have worried when there was no need of it. This thing in the universe, said might have been due to a desire to be a perfectionist, or perhaps to a lack of galance In .some other wav.

WHAT HISTORY HAS TAUGHT ME I must not close tls column without telling readers that the ablest physicians, scient Isis, bankers, and businessmen I have always known did not worry. When thinking of this today, I cannot call to mind One who was a worrier. These men included Edison. Ford, Otis. Gillette. Pillsbury, Eastman, Lincoln of Lincoln Electric Co. and even J. P. Morgan. None of these men were worriers;. they Were'cOriteht alw&y.s to do the best they could, believe-Ing that all would turn out well (Continued on page 10)

(('hristian Science Monitor)

It is easy to say all the wrong things about the drunken bash at a Long Island debutante party last September which has just been excruciatingly reviewed at court.

The host w'anted to be compensated for $6,000 worth of damages to a rented guesthouse. The Associated Press reported that he supplied 20 cases of champagne and 12 cases of whisky and gin for a two-day orgy. What did he expect? The boys mostly blamed the liquor. Who but they choise to drink it?

The older generations, those who are not amused or merely frustrated, fit this into the general decline of moral .standards. Many of them try to talk of the moral code, wdth the sinking feeling that the old powerful w^ords dont reach those who need to be reached and often go right past their own children. The wonder what their own guilt has to dn with this and it weakens their ability to help.

There was a little more insight from Eaton Brooks, one of the boys w'ho were all ultimately acquitted of any actual crime. Obviously defensive, he wan reported by the New York Herald Tribune as saying:

t'm not ashamed of anything I did. . .If you had been theve inside the house you w'ould have upderstood the spirit of that party. Consider the fact that we were drinking for two days and nighLs without sleeping and without eating and wc kept that up for 36 hour.s, out in the hot sun half the time, .so when we got to the Ladd house we w^eren't the same people.

"Theres too much drinking going on today. Brooks said. I know' that. Every'body knows it. But what are you going to

do about it? Your own New York State allows people to start drinking at 18. They would sell me drinks when I was 14 because they are all out to make a buck. Everybody knows the morals of this country are going down the drain.

That same issue of the Herald Tribune reported from Albany the final collapse of what might have been a reform of the liquor laws. A series of scandals had been followed by one effort after another to sidetrack the real issue. The liquor lobbies rode high at Albany. Reform finally came down to the degree of competition with which package stores were free to pursue their customers. The decision was for more.

Returning to Brooks, A certain atmosphere, he said, caused It all. The atmosphere prevailed. He seemed to be groping for something beyond this one small if irritating incident.

We could say many thhigs about that atmosphere. It is the enemy. It is the animal nature that humans inherit from the jungle. It bilngs self - Indul-' gence and riot but much more serious than these, it is the enemy of the mind and of character in all our society, and ultimately of human life itself. We, too, would like to do battle- against it. and thunder forth the moral code because we believe In it utterly and In its power to reshape society. But this may be a better time, faced with boys like Brooks who wiU decide for themselves, for a little humility.

We W'ould like to ask them in all candor: What kind of society and w'orld do they w'ant? What effort are they w'illing to put forth to achieve I? This is not just a challenge. We are eager to have them' talk. We wodld like to listen.

I must be out another week, we told him. I have speeches to make all over the country.

Youre always away, he complained.

That shows how much you know. If I wasnt away so much, I would have never been elected Father of the Year. They dont give these awards to nobodies. They give them to successful persons. What a succe-ssful person?

Thats somebody who Is never home.

Our daughter got on the phone. Are you going to bring presentsJ --------

Of course I am. What kind of a Father of the Year do you take me for?

If you come home right now, you dont have to bring any presents. she said,

I cant come home and you know it. Why cant you kids get anything straight? You dont have to shout at them, our w'ife said.

The animus of Tufts agalnsi a philosopher who philosophic e.s but does not pub 1 is h research contributes to the evidence that our country Ls leaving its creative age behind It. Time was when a Charles Townsend Copeland, a great lover of literature who never did any so-called scholarly* research, could teach at Har-vard. "Copey would havt been unacceptable by the standards which Tufts is now ai> plying to Dr. Woodrow Wilson Sayre. Yet Copey, who wrote very little himself, taught a long list erf important American writere the art of distilling thought and the experienco into disciplined literary form. Among his students were John Dos Passos. T. S. Eliot, Walter Lippmann, Robert Sherwood. Brooks Atkin.son. Robert Benchley, Kermit Roosev e 11, and Bernard Ve Voto. Our guess is that these adornments to American literature would have benefited far less from Copelands teaching if the man had been compelled to spend much of his energies on producing scholarly workkJrim-self.

Im not shoutin?, we shouted. Here I am. trying to make a living, and all I ever get from anyone Is when are you coming home?

Our wife said, It*s not a bad que.stion when you come to think of it.

I have a good mind not to go to New York and pick up the aw^ard.

You mean you have Jo go to New York to get the award? Of course I do. They w'ont give it to you If you dont show up for the luncheon.

That means youll be away again.

You dont understand. In order to be w'orthy of the award, you have to earn it. You have to be seen around. People have to get to know you. Who's going to know youre Father of the Year material if you spend all your time with your family?

The battle over teachlng-versus-scholar.ship once swirled around the head of Professor Robert French at Y a 1 e. Bob French was an In.splred teacher of a much beloved course called The Age of Chaucer. He made the ag live and breathe for his students. But he never published anything on his specialty himself. YaJe almost got. rid of him at one point in his life for failure to publish but so many of his former students rose up in wrath that the execution was stayed. It Is .safe to say that Bob French had far more Influence on his students than did Profes.sor Tucker Brooke, a man who couM spot every dl.splaced c o m m a In a Shakespeare tex t biit who couldnt convey enthusla.sm or knowledge to an undergraduata class.

The fact Ls that the art of teaching and the science of scholarship are often opposed to each other. Moreover, scholarship, so-called, is often the enemy of wisdom. I w o u 1 (! think twice about exposing a son or daughter of mine to the thought of some profe.seor8. Here we have two Harvard (Continued on page 10)

A Ueiense For Executive Vices

btrengtn For loaay

By EARL L. OOUGLALS TOO BAD!

He had too a big mouth.

EverylxKly said so. Years ago when he was in high school teachers and fellow students complained. Later in college it was the same line. Prom the standpoint of talent he is above average, but for years he has moved about from one job to another. Ask his former employers why and they simply shrug their should-erst A little mrc piU'sistent inquiry reveals the fact that he has too big a mouth He Is always talking and generally alwit nothing at all. What raises up enemies against him is that he like.s nothing .so much as to break into a normal conversation and begin telling yhat he thinks

It is ama/jng how seriou.sly lile IS frequently damaged' by

little things. In fact, it can be said that few liv'C^s are ruined by great disasters. Most of them simply go out of circulation because, like General MacArthurs old soJdiers. they just fade away. At the age of 60 or 70 some men whose lives have always been characterized by energy and considerable intelligence spend their declining years explaining their failures and with t^at gush of irritating conversation . that wa.s really the cause of their mediocre, unsatifactory and disastrous careers.

Too much talk. Too few observations that will start the other person thinking. Such folks always knew more than everylxKiy else but never enough to remain silent once In a while and give the other guy a chance to talk

Pathetic. irritating but none the leSvS pathetic.

By EL.MER ROESSNER The problem executive who drinks '* or who inns around with women not" his wife Hiay need those vices to prev e n t himself from becoming seriously ill. Mortimer R. Pein-Ph;~-Dr;" art - Jndustrifti psychologist, w'rites in the May issue of "Business Management.

Dr. Peinberg answers a series of questions corporate presidents seldom ask but to which they need answers. The chief question is, "How and under what circumstances should I get involved with a mans personal affairs?

The path of many an executives downfall is paved by the presidents good intentions, he wares. Dont get Involved, he advises, unless the man's work is being affected by his alcoholism, his extramarital affairs or whatever.

MAY NEED THOSE MARTINIS

And if the executive says, I want to prevent any interference before it occurs. What can I do? Dr. Feinbergs, answer Is*

I believe in prophylactic rnea.surcs, but they wont work in cases like these. When the e.\eciitive s personal problem

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is not interfering with problem luider control.

He added:

' 'What's more, he may need his drinking, or his extracurricular sex, in 'order to keep functioning. A neurosis is an adjusUn^nt -^ Joadequata,. pr haps but its an, adjustment In order to keep himself from becoming more seriously ill. And- you certainly w ont help him by saying, Look, you're sick. Y(hiU destroy him.

Never approach him on the moral level. If you feel you must get through to him. . , use an objective argument: hes way over his budget, his personnel turnover is high, he's endangering an important account.

"Say, Compared with t h e man you were, you are nr longer that man. I dont know if its the women you are seeing in Dallas and Chicago. All Im telling you is that youre not hitting the ball like you used to. If this continues. I cant keep you on the team

"A neurosis will not yield to a pep talk. If it would, you, as president, wouldn't have any problems because we all get the.se jJep talk.s in church, in the synagogue, at the FIA ^ and from company presi-

By ELMER ROESSNER try to reach a man through his wife. She may repeat all the negative comments you make, and this can dest r o y him.

OTHER ANSWERS

.To.. .Uw..-quertiaR r How did"

I fire a long - time associate, a good friend? Dr, Peinberg says there is no easy formula, but to make it short, make it sweet, offer to help h i m , find another job and dont criticize anything about his character or professional competence that he cant do anything about.

Other question.^ he tackles are: What is the most effective way to praise my executives? How* can I tell if an executive has real potential for top management? How do I handle an executive w' h o over-rates himself: How can 1 hold on to an ambitious executive for whom I dont have a promotion at the moment? How can I inspire an executive who lacks confidence in himself? How can I make a tough job more appealing? How can I handle a sensitive executive who needs improvements in his personal appearance?

Of the la.J, Dh'.> Feinl>erg work, he feels you are med

dling; he thinks te'c got that One other caution: never s^tyg. This is relatively easy, Among his solutions: Buy him a suit occasionally . . .Send him to your tailor.

STATE SPEM)ING RISES; FOURTH PAID BY UNCLB SAM

While spending by a t a t e a rose almost 10 per cent to $39.6 billion in fiscal 1963, not. all of it came directly from state taxpayers. Nearly o n e-fourth came from the Federal government and $900 million came from U(juor stores op> erated by 16 states. Of the expenditures. $4.3 billion were benefits for the unemployed, the retired and beneficiaries of other state insurance trust systems.

SHORT & SIGNIFICANT BUSINESS NEWS ITEMS A survey of advertising executives by Printers Ink shows 35 per cent of the respondents have given up cigarettes. . . Canada is considering prohib-itinp the sale of artificially colored potatoes. . .Most fire and ca.sualty insurance c o m-panie.s will increase earnings thl.s year, the Value Line Investment Survey predicts, dents.., . ,

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