Tidjy, April 20, 1963

Eventually Facing A Confrontation

It is entirely reasonable to presume that in any deterrent our government chooses to make with communist aggression, there is the likelihood of Russian or Red Chinese involvement.

As the twin taproots of communisms design for conquest, we should recognize that Moscow or Peking must back their followers wherever and whenever it is to their interests.

It %vas true in Korea; it was true in Cuba. It may be expected to hold true in Southeast Asia.

So there can be no real surprise in the surmis-ings that a missile defense complex may be in the works for Hanoi, or that Russian volunteers may be permitted to fight in defense of North Viet Nam. Actually, these prospects pose a far less real threat to stated' U. S. policies than may appear at first glance.

The recent communist rumblings can be interpreted as a weird wooing of North Vietnamese

allegiance, with Russia and Red China vying for that support. (Castro, too, has offerd to send volunteers . . . for whatever that was worth.)

Too, the missile defen.se system for Hanoi, if it ever develops, appears to be more of a token gesture than a real threat. American planners do not count Hanoi as a potential target.

So thus far there appears to be more smoke than fire in talk of confrontation. Even so, the possibilities of such a confrontation are not to be discounted; nor are they particularly to be feared.

Tn.stead, the risks must be accepted.

If the United States is sincere in its intent to stop Red aggression, there is bound to be some sort of confrontation sooner or later. Refusing to face up to that wdll solve nothing. r

Spectacle Of April In

Viet Nam ^ T more sticky thistle,

When Hos chin bristle...

'Peak Year For Richest setting

N. C. Colleges

By WnJ.lAM A. SHIRES

PEAK - This Fall, says Gov. Dan K. Moore, will be a peak* year in terms of increased demand for enrollment at colleges and .universdti e s - titer which, the governor be-heves. there will be a level-ina off percentagewLse although not in actual numbers.

The peak" which likfe will bring to college and university -^campu.ses is a result of the explosion in the birth rate which followed World War n. There are others, but this is the biggest contributing factor.

In the two .vears immediately fdlowing the end of World War n, tliHE* number of births in North Carolina increas e d from 87,401 to 112,877. or by 20.1 per cent. The peak year W'as 1947 and the babies born In 1947 are now 18 years old and clamoring at the doors of the colleges.

RATE After 1947, the annual birth rate receded but never feU back to the pre-war 01 wartime level. It dipped to r low of only 106.486 births in 1950.

Then a second peak, the highest in history for number of births in North Carolina in a single year, was reached in 1956 when 116,274 children were bom.

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SUIKES

Percentagewise, however, this 1956 peak was nor nearly so shaip as that of 1946-47. Also. children bom in 1956 are now only in the second or third grade in school and there will be a few more yeans before they are mady for college.

INCREASE Discussing the pa-esent coU^e tnroUm e n I crlsi.s, the governor said it is too late and we cant do anything about fee many thousands of applicants who will be turned away this Pall for lack of space and facilities.

This was not necessarily an indictment of North Carolinas efforts in higher education.

On the contrary. Moore said that escept for being able to meet this sharply Increased demand in this peak year, North Carolina has done and is doing well. There, he said, new dormitories and additional facilities ready now' and others under Construction. The states higher education efforts is also increasing and being strengthened.

ActuaUy, while all the demand cannot be met. there will

be an anticipated Increase of more than 30 per cent in fie.'^hman class enrollment this iall. And overall, colleges and universities in the state expect to take care of 107,800 students which, will be an Increase of nearly 16 per cent ever tile Fall of 1964.

GROWTH While the dramatic peak demand of 1965 is attributed to the baby boom of 1946 - 47 and other fact o r s, growth in college and university enrollment has been fairly steady during the past decade. In the past lO yeare. Pall enrollments have doubled and it is expected that they will more than double again in the next 10 years.

There will be no less demand for dormitory and classroom space, equipment, facilit i e s and faculty.

Projections indicate that the number of full time students in North Carolina colieg e s and universities will climb from 87.800 last year to 180.-500 in 1974 and 188.000 in 1975.

FIGURES The governor presented some figures compiled by the Budget Division to back up his contention that North Carolina is doing an excellent job in higher education.

These listed the state appropriations by' fiscal year and percentage increase dat i n g back to 1946-47. along with enrollment figures and appropriation expenditures per pup-.

In 1946-47, enrollment was only 21,275 and the appropriation expenditures were $4.384,-192 or $206 per student.

By 1950-51, this had jumped .54.3 per cent and had reached $9,230,747 or $400 per student. Enrollment then was only 23.-080 in the states public senior colleges. Increases in the next decade averaged approximately 20 per cent for each biennium, with the exception of a decline in 1956-57. Bid by 1962-63. expenditures had reached $29.330,825 Which was a per student expenditure of $791. Public senior college enrollment w as 37,082.

For 1964-65, the state appropriation was up 39.3 per cent, to $42,526,306 and an expenditure of $932 per student for 45,645 students. Recommended for 1966-67 In the budget now before the General Assembly are appripriations of $56,024,-80.3, a 35.2 per cent increase, bringing per student expenditures to $1,047 for 53,507 students.

STEADY The<se figures. Moore said, inaicate a healthy, .teady growth in state support and effort which he proposes to continue.

This approach, he said, Is .rounder than embarking on a crash program which would not be able to produce results untU after this Falls peak i.s passed.

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April flatters eastern North Carolina, or, eastern North Carolina flatters April. Take your pick.

No matter 'what the decision may be, ones only conclusion can he that the month and the area compliment one another.

Ill no other month ^8 there Oie sublime combining of all that i.s finesC in the atmosphere of spring and the richness of North Carolina soil which sprouts dazzling greenery and heady coloring in banks of flowers and blossoming trees.

If we who have seen this natural miracle of April in our section find an annual thrillfor eye and heart, the spectacle must likewise prove a wonder to the fortunate visitor who is introduced to April in its richest setting.

Th|y woulcT always remember.

Still Questions On S. Viet Nam

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with Russian Missile.

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By HAL BOYLE

By J.\MES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) Pres-ident Johnson and his administration have not made clear whether they are talking about temporary or permanent solutions for South Viet Nam.

He says he wants peace there and a truly independent South Viet Nam, and he has promised the United States will clear out when that independence is fuUy guaranteed.

This could mean a neutralist South Viet Nam whose safety from attack is agreed to by a combination of larger powers. But in time it could be captured by communist without outside attack.

Two examples:

1. South Viet Nams government might become so corrupt, unstable or tyrannical that the people would abandon hope for it and voluntarily welcome absorption by Communist North Viet Nam.

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2. The same result, without outside attack, might be achieved through Communist intrigue or revolution.

For eight years under President Diem there was dictatorship. After his assassination one goveniment after another was toppled. Without the American presence, South ViefNam might have collapsed in chaos.

Johnson has said the people of South Viet Nam want their country Inflependent. But hov. does he know? The South Viet namese leaders with whom this country is dealing may truly want their country independent.

But recently, it w'as reported, only 42 per cent of the people support their American-backed goveniment, 8 per cent support the Communist guerrillas and over 50 percent, sitting on the fence, are indifferent.

With the United Slates withdrawn, South Viet Nam might truly collap.se or wi.sh to join with the Commimi.st North. Would the United States attempt to go back in if this happened?

It would be interference'then with South Viet Nams internal affairs.

One thing is frure. Red China already is the dominant force in Asia. In a few years, when it has its own nuclear weapons, its power will be enormous and .so will it.s self-confidence in dealing with the United States,

The hi.stoi*y of China has beeh

one of aggression and attempts to absorb its neighbors, particularly Viet Nam. 'There is no reason to expect a change under expansionist communism when China Ls in a better position to assert itself.

Would the United States be willing to risk war In Asia for the sake of Viet NamIf a truly strong, nuclear China in one way or another, short of direct attack, tries to absorb Viet Nam or make it totally submissive.

Johnson foresaw that when he recently said:

There are those who say that all our efforts there in South Viet Nam will be futile that Chinas power is such it is bound to dominate all Southeast Asia.

But there is no end to that argument until all the nations of Asia are swallowed up. But that doesnt answer the question.

In this same talk two week.s ago Johnson also said: We will always oppose the effort of one nation to conquer another. In this case oppose does not necessarily mean the United States would be willing to fight anywhere, any time to stop one nations aggression against another.

It wasnt, for instance, willing to go to war with Russia to prevent the Russian intrusion in Hungary and its sup-pre.ssion of the revolt there In 1956.

Right now Johnson is Intent on getting peace restored in Viet Nam. It isnt a happy situation, even without war with China. He acknowledged this past weekend criticism of his policy of bombing North Viet Nam.

Actually. Johnson is In a box not of his own making. He inherited the obligation to help South Viet Nam from the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations which pledged American aid.

But he ha.s reaffirmed that pledge and, without getting .specific. seems to be broadening it to the Wihole world with the ^statement that this country will 'alw'ays oppase the effort of one nation to conquer another.

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There 1.'=; nothing like a di.sh towel for wiping th.at contented look off a married mans face Blackwell (Okla.) Journal-Tribune.

earned From The Mai'.

NEW YORK (AP) Things a columnist might never know if he didnt open his maih

If you think life is lough in your house, man, be thankful joure not a male ostrich. He has the problem of pleasing several wives. Then they all lay their eggs In one nest, and guess who has to sit on them and hatch? Papa.

It costs you at least $2.17 a day to own your own car, even if you let 11 Just sit in a garage from one month to another.

Musip while you wait: A barbershop ill Tahiti provi des guitars instead of magazines so customers can entertain themselves while waiting their tura in the chair.

Some 49 out of/every 50 ad

ult Americans have been treated by a physician some time in their lives, but about one in 16 has never visited a dentist.

Quotable notables: "Save a boy friend for a rainy day and another, in case it doesnt lain Mae West.

Drunken flying is even more dangerous than drunken driving. Research has show'n that a pilot can get tipsy aloft on only one fourth the amount of liquor that would affect hia operation of a vehicle on the ground.

Even if you do build a better mousetrap, it may be some time before the world beats a path to your door. The U. S. Patent Office is so far behind

Household hint: Culinary ex-pei-ts advise that the best way to clean a well-aged ham before cooking is to scrub it well with soap and water. Yep, thats right soap.

Seven out of 10 prescriptions today are for drugs unknown only 15 years ago.

Bathtubs still are so scarce In some sections of Britain that parents lure reluctant baby sitters by offering them free tub privileges.

in its work that it takes about 312 years now to get a patent.

Other Editors Saying. N. C. Welcomes IBM

"Regardless of what the Supreme Court say.s, therr will be prayers in our schools n.s long as there are exams.--Mattoon (111.) Journal-Gaz-ette.

(Rocky Mount Telegram)

North Carolina, ever on the go for new industry for the .state, landed a maj o r prize last week with the announcement that International Business Machines Corp. is going to locate a $15 million plant in the Research Triangle Park. The significant thing about this plum is that the decision ended six months of secret in-.spections and negotiations. Without ever knowing it, Durham and a dozen other communities across the nat ion were competing for this plant.

At one time or another during the past six months IBM representatives were touring Durham, Chapel Hill and Ral-L eigh. IBM officials explained the procedure is a standard one followed to get an impartial study of the community under con.sideration for a possible IBM site.

Why did IBM, a firm with an international dreputatlon, choose North Carolina's Research Triangle area? Oiie of the things which impre.s-sed us Immediately was t h e apparent abundance of persons with advanced skills in the area. .said Andy Rendino, an IBM official.

Of cour.se IBM I.s an industry of the type which not only the Research Trian e )ieed.s but also North Carolina needs. A leader in its field, its choice of the Tar Heel site

enhances the reputation of the area as a location for research facilitie.s.

But it should be noted that just as IBM is a desirable and attractive addition, so too the desirability of the present occupants of the Research Triangle park as neighbors played an iinportant role in IBMs decision to locate in the state. Thus, the high caliber of those who have already chosen the park is the best inducement for attracting other residents 01 the highest caliber.

The park has thus land e d two choice plums in rcc e n t months. Not long ago the federal goverament announced Its decision to locate the federal Environmental Heal t h Pe.search Center in the .state. With IBM added tc the list, the park.s continued expan.slon is in prospect.

Perhaps a lot of people wonder how the Re.'^earch Triangle is able to attract nationally known re.seareh organizations. For one thing, plenty of land is available. IBM, for example, will require 400 acr-e.s. Another rea.son i.s the close proximity of three universities: UNC. Duke and N. C. State. It makes for a fine research area. That is why IBM cho.se the Research Triangle, ai ever growing commniiity of re-.earch facilities which is fast liecomlng the envy of ot h e r I'arts of the country.

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Folklore; A piece of wood taken from a gallows will keep away ghosts. A baby must fall out of bed three times before its first birthday or it will grow up stupid. To get rid of a wart, rub it with a piece of pork stolen from a neighbor.

Some 8.5 million Americans change their jobs every year.

It was Maurice Cheval i e r who observed. Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he w'ould not have chosen a suit by it.

Ooinions

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If .Abraham Lincoln were alive today, he wouldnt have such a hard time getting an education.Ili.s height would automatically qualify him for a ha.sketball scholarship. Plainview (Tex.t Daily Herald.

The idea that employers ran go on forever paying the W'ape.s of workers who perform no n.seful work Is wildly im-prartiral In any indn.stry, aside from being por.sonally degrading to the wnrkcr.s involved. Wall Street Jaur-nal.

i iger

In U. S.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The Lelt in America U a paper tiger. It ha huffed and puffed In recent weeks, but aim ply because Lyndon Johnson hasn't backed away in South Vietnam its empty pretensions to muscle have been exposed for all to see provided, of course, they htvo eyes.

The fact that the President hasn't folded must be caueing a great gnashing of teeth in Moscow, in Peking, in Hanoi, and among the brethren in the United States who set in motion the contagions that result in those newspaper peace advertlsemente calling upon LBJ to get out of Vletnaxn lest he be mistaken for Barry Gold-water. True enough, Johnson has said he is willing to confer with anybody, any time. But he has also said he wont let the South Vletnameae he taken over by phony nwtrals and this te wluit t! Left paper tiger aant Moiw ent of the way.

JOHW CHAMWEBLAIlt

The Left is a paper tlgar In America because it Is aU front and no real substance. Those peace ads and letters look very Impressive when they string out long names of signers to back up their sophistical paragraphs. But Just whom and what do they represent? A hundred and fifty members of the Yale UnlvereHy faculty got up a pseudo-moralistic missive the other day to send to Lyndon Johnson, and I was appalled when I read it. But when I asked Professor David Rowe, Yales most knowledgeable Par Eastern expert, about It, he said, Dont be misled. The university has a thousand professors, eight hundred of whom failed to sign it. either because they disagreed with it or werent Interested. This means that less than one-fifth of the faculty is duped by the boys. And Professor Rowe went on to tell mo about an undergraduate group which circulated its own petition to the President to stay in South Vietnam. In a single day this group collected a thousand undergraduate names which Is evidence that the one hundred and fifty peace-mongerlng pro-fe.ssors can hardly say they represent the community of scholars at Yale.

The Left in America ha.s sounded big because it knows how to command access to white space and how to tura out its demonstrators at short notice. But it.s techniques are threadbare leftovers from the Nineteen Thirties, when ^ the the idea of using inn^ent fronts and transmission oelts had its first big efflorescence. The phony front and the hoked-up demonstration at the US worked to get Tshomlx' out of Katanga, and the use of dl.shon(>.st scholarship endorsed by .suppasedly objective foundations had a lot to do with collapse of U.S. policy m China and Indonesia. But the old liipper-dipper stuff hasnt worked this time, and If Lyndon Johnson keep.s hl.s nerve it will never, never, never work again.

Thi.s expo.5ure of the paper-l.sh quality of the Leftist tiger has not been due to the clever-ne.'^.s or pe'rsl.stence of the nou-Communi.<<ts among us. nr C'.-rn to the brave but relatively ineffective sniping of tlic anti-ComnnmLsts. What has hapo!n-_ ed hn.s resulted from a com-' 1/ination of two Ihincs. .stnuid-Uv on the part of onr enemie.s and the in.stinct of a Texas politician for the realltie.s of power.

The first stupid error on tin part of our opponents wa.s Sukarno',s. when he threatened last >rear to Invade Malaysia. Tlii.s forced the British to irove .5(1,000 .soldiers to the Far Fa,St. Up to that time no good Labor Party politleinn In Brl-

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Whats black and yellow, and goes zzub? A beeflying backward. The Charlotte (NC) News,

Steacdy Market In Governments

Strength For Today

FI I.I. I.IFK WITH ACTIVITY

A mis.sionary who lives and works in Persia went several years ago on an itinerant mission into the hill country. When he had finished his labors, he had an opportunity to ride back to Teheran with an acquaintance who wa.s driving an empty qa.soline tank - truck down to the capital. The ml.s-.sionary told me that the ride was a rather harrowing experience because the combination of bad road.s and an empty truck made riding so rough that he and the driver were almo.st jolted to piece.s by the time they reached home.

The driver as.sured h 1 m that when he drove up into the hills with tlie truck filled to capacity the riding wa.s as .smooUi as anyone copjd dc-

.sire.

As I rode along, said t|ie missionary, there came into my mind the thought that .so often we think we are getting a rough ride in life because we are burdened, while In reality the thing that makes the rld( .so rough Is that we are empty. Wlicn we are loaded dow'n with re.sponsihillty, life goes much more .smoothly than when it Is empty and care -free. Burdens may l)o hard to bear, but nothing is so hard to bear as a vacant and empty life. If people only realized the trae nature of things, they would complain less about their burdens. and they would know that the source of rp.stle.ssne.s.s and unhappiness In life is not hecau.se they carry a load, but because their hearta are empty. '

By ELMER ROESSNER

For many years to come, the richest, growinge.st market will be federal, state and local governments.

Foreign markets may slnink as nationalism and protectionism cut imports of American goods. The inevitable end of the boom and the rise in taxes may eventually slow down the growth of consumer markets.

But the federal, .stale and local markets will grow, come hell or high water, and the more hell and high water that come, the more they will grow.

The rea.sons for Increa.ses In government spending at all levels are:

1. People are Insisting on more goveiTimenlal servlc e s. cradle - to - casket .security, medical care, unemploy ni e n t compensation, home relief, higher education at lower prices, and subsidized transportation. There are demands o r psychiatric treatment and tree dlvorcpH. and you may see both before voii die.

MORE IKOI'LE, MORE SERVICES

2. The population 1s ris 1 n g and the demands .seem to In-crea.se geometricaUy rat h e r than arithmetically. That is. if the population of an area increase from 1,000 to 2.000. demands will increa.se, not twofold but thousandfold.

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ROESSNER

3, OoverruTient programs are ixpandlng. In education, federal aid requires more state and local spending. In medicare federal .spending requires more local spending.

4. Redi.strlcting. required by the SupreuK Court, w'll] mean a .shift ill power from rural to urban (ll.striels. and that will mean more spljhdlng for housing, urban renewal, waUw pollution, smoke control and on

and on. by state and local governments.

5. Conge.stlon will re.sult In other projects: Government bodies must provide more transportation, more highway.s, more parking, more parks, more hospitals, more psychiatric hospitals, more courts, more cops and more ways to permit people to live elbow to elbow, butt to butt.

FEDERAL .iPENDING

6. Defense .spc'nding, which showed' signs of leveling o f f during the la.st two years, will porbably start to increase as communist natlon.s show le.ss wlllingne.ss to negotiate.

7. Foreign aid may resume an upward course, despite re-eeut cuts. The Presidents willingness to spend more than $1 billion for the development of Southeast Asia,A" including the harnessing of the Mekong River, opens the possibilities of vast .sales of machinery and mateilal.s

More billions than ever before will be spent in coming years by federal, state and local governments.

Almo.*it no bu.sine.ssman can afford not to ask, How can I get some? or, What do I make or .sell that I can in-tere.st government buyers in?

The first .step is to detenu-ine what governmental agencies arc bu.vlng. Vl.slt.s to field offices of the Department of Commerce and state and local purchasing agents may help. A second step i.s to get on mailing ILst.s of invitations to bid at all three level.s. A third step i.s to talk with local chamber of commerce officials: they

will hielp local men try to .spoon up some of the grtvy. A fourth step may be to examine the local, state and na-tioijal political .situation and see what can be done.

I would be misleading readers if I did not remind them that political favorites, companies in politically aensltlvo areas, and businesses that know the angle.s often get the cnam of government con-tiarts. 1 am not sa.ylng we are living under a venal ays-teni of government. On* rea-ion; that'a not newi.