Atonday, May 24, 1965

ECC To Turn Away 4,000 Students

Incrcftsed enrollment in North Carolinas col- Through last week East Carolina had accepted leges and universities next fall, appreciable though 4.747 of the new applicants, 2.000 more than it it may be, will not reflect the full picture of Tar had accepted through the same date in 1964. Even Heel youngsters who are seeking to continue their so, the number of applicants that so far liave not

education beyond the high school level.

At East Carolina College, for example, officials_ anticipate an enrollment of near 7,500 students, up 800 to 1,000 above the figure for last September. While this is a substantial increase in enrollment, it will not represent nearly all the youngsters who may have hoped to enroll at East Carolina.

Through last week the college had received

been accepted by the college this year stands at 4,200 . , . twice the number for the same date in 1964.

Not all of those who have been accepted for admission will appear on the local campus next fall. Some will change their minds about attending college; some will attend other institutions. It is certain, however, that some 4,000 applicants will

applications from 8,976 freshmen and transfer stu- have to be turned away by East Carolina alone, donts for undergraduate work beginning in Sep- either because of their lack of qualifications or be-teinher. This figure compares with 4,730 applica- cause of lack of facilities on the local campus to tions received through the same date of la.st year accommodate them,

. . , an increase of more than 4,200 in the number The situation will be repeated by colleges and of jn)])licants from one year to the next. universities throughout North Carolina. The pres-

^ , r~rn* these institutions by applicants can be

\ A / 7" state moves boldly to provide faoili-

V V V J 1 111 IvJ Iv^ handle the increasing number of young Tar

Heels wiio are seeking a college education.

Warmly Argusd Economical Efficiency

By WILLIAM A. SHIRES UPSET Sevei-al of It* ijiembera were disturbed and upset when the Senate Highway Safety committee called in the tates commissioner of motor vehicles, Ed Scheldt, for a talk about some newly - enacted legislation.

It concerned a pelee of leg-. Illation which committee members felt Scheldt doesn't like ' and might balk at administer-iDff.

mLLIAM

SHIRES

TJiey wanted reassurance, they said, that the commissioner and his department would earry out the new law which provides that highway patrol-ment may give warning tickets inatead of citations for minor iraic offenses.

Scheldt opposed the warning ticket plan and reports had reached committee ears to the eff^Ot,. that the new law might be ignored.

To put it frankly." said chairman Irwin Belk. "some of the members came to me and said they heard Ed Scheldt Isnt going to carry this out."

SCHEIDT This, as might -be expected, disturbed a n d ' upset Scheldt.

He said he was surprised and hurt, and spoke of his concept of duty."

My record." Scheldt said, "speaks for itself." And, he added, you can be assured that I am going to carry out the law as written."

During his year. as DMV commissioner, he said, there hasnt been any subterfuge or double - dealing.

I carry out the law?, he aid. "I dwi't make them."

INTENT - After a lengthy and sometimes heated exchange between Scheldt and committee members, Sen,.Gor-don Hanes of Forsyth put It another way. which enabled the unusual half - hour hearing to end (Ml a more polite and fairly cordial note.

"I was afraid, Hanes tnld Scheldt, that we hadnt made It clear what we Intended."

Scheldt said at the outset that there was que,stion about w'hat is a minor traffic violation. And he said he had already asked the attorney generals office informally about it. He said he would request a formal ning, The question of what Is minor appears to be crucial. he said.

Sen. Russell Kirby of Wilson began by a.sking Scheldt if the warning ticket law was so Indefinite it could not be ap

plied. Kirby later assured Scheldt that he had faith in your department to administer it.

RULE Scheldt said use of warning tickets is highly controversial among law enforcement officers and that he felt the State Highway Patrol has a practical, accepUble rule.

We arrest for definite, clear-cut, substantial violations. We dont arrest for trivial, doubtful. technical or borderline violations," he said. In other words, he said. citati<Mis are given when there is no ques-tio.i" In the (rfficers mind that a violation has occurred.

Sen. Tom White of Lenoir asked if this doesnt require' an opinion and added. Do you have any partolmen whose Judgment you would not trust?

Hanes said he felt the rule Scheldt cited constituted and either or situation and one in which we cant suggest, we cant correct."

Scheldt Insisted he felt it is a good rule, and one which Is recognized by leading law enforcement experts.

Scheldt said he could not agree that this rule "put the highway patrol in a strait-jacket." He said the patrol is on duty to serve and he of help.

PATROL Hanes then told Scheldt bluntly that "It is our feeling that the image of the State Highway Patrol in North Carolina today is not a happy one.

He said it was the feeling of committee members that this image resulted from the^pa-trols only contact with t h e motoring public" occurring in ca.se of a clear - cut violation.

This, he said, is so black and white."

"It is our feeling that a warning system, intelligently used, will change the image in the next two years."

DISCRETION - Sen. J. J.

I Monk) Harrington of Bertie. CO - author of the warning ticket bill, said the purpose was that w'e want to give your patrolmen more authority" and allow individual troopers to use discretion.

We do not want you to .sit here in Raleigh and push a button, Harrington said.

Harrington then told Scheldt there are good men of high caliber on the highway patrol and "you have a good department except for one reason, the human heart 'isnt) in it. Scheldt retorted Til put my hiunan heart against yours any day."

White interrupted this exchange to .suggest that the patrol might u.se the w'aming ticket system effectively against slow drivers" who tie up long lines of traffic on the highway.^. Scheldt agreed that this might be effective.

And as a final observation. Scheldt told the committee the difficulties here may be more imagined than real. _

Should Be Guideline

The high cost of operating the General Assembly each biennium should be of as much concern to the 170 members who make up the legislature as it is to be the millions of North Carolinians who send them to Raleigh every two years.

It is not surprising that the 1965 General Assembly session is expected to set a new high record for expenses. In part, this new record will be atribu-table to the higher allowances the legislators have voted themselves. But this will only be part of the overall increase in expenses.

The operation of the General Awssembly, like most other operations of government and private business, is becoming increasingly costly each year.

On the basis of Statistics, however, there is reason to believe that those responsible for government operationsincluding the General Assemblyare as cost-conscious as those responsible for operating businesses.

On the whole North Carolina gets its moneys worth for the biennial sessions of its General As- I sembly. At the same time, there are probably manj economies which could be effected in the legislatures operations if its members would really seek

to reduce the operating cost. * The Chief of Staff of the

As those who set the states fiscal and other polines members of the General Assembly should de?' always be seeking to set an example in efficiency geants to clean up their lan-and economical operation for the states govern- ^uage. in other words, no more ment. Such a goal could be accomplished without aSk tomiS

adversely affecting the quality of work in the Army NCOs whose vocabulary (reneral Assembly, if only the legislators would give ^o^r - letter words has been it sufficient priority. source of communi

cation. Some sergeants were so thrown, by the order that they havent been able to utter a sound since.

But the military can adapt to any situation and many drill sergeants have gotten into the spirit of the new regulation. Just the other day I attend-

By ART BUCHWALD

The New Army Problem

wiaence Of Idealism

ed a training camp where the order had just gone into effect.

The drill .sergeant came into the barracks at six In the morning and shouted, Wakey, wakey, everyone! Its a glorious morning and youre all Invited out on the verandah to join me for exercises.

Say, sarge, one of the privates said. Im tired. Do you mind if I sleep this morning?

Why not, Wozinski? Its your Army. Could you meet us at the rifle range when youre In the mood?"

Ill try, the private said, but Im not making any pro-

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The success of the Pea c e Corps has offered dramat i c evidence of the great idealism of the American people. Now the newly formed Volunteers in Service to America (VISTA i. the domestic version of the Peace Corps, brings this idealism closer to home and promises to draw on the resources of Southern colleges and universities.

This month a class of VISTA volunteers entered the University of Maryland School of Social Work in Baltimore, the first permanent VISTA institution. Other Southern colleges and universities are slated to join the new program as it expands in the near future, according to VISTA officials in Washington.

Among the forty - three volunteers now at the University of Maryland 'there will be 500 in the next 16 months are a retired Marine Captain with an outstanding war record; a young psychologist and h i ,s w'ife, who is a registe red nurse; a ballet dancer from Jacksonville. Florida; a Yale University drop - out; a twenty - one year old English girl photographer; a retired lawyer with the state department; and a sixty - five year old Miami. Florida art teacher who, after a posh round - the - world tour, decided she wanted to do something for her fellow man.

Volunteer.s are quarterecj In an abandoned school house in Baltimore's inner city, are uncomplaining about their a.s-cetic living conditions showers are in the basement, dormitories hi former school rooms on the third floor. Short term VISTA training program.>- in North Carolina. St. Petersburg and Arizona have prepared volunteer.s for work in depre.ssed rural communities. Indian res-ervation.s and migrant worker camps, but training at Maryland empha.sizps work In urban piojeolK.

Volunteers are in training seven days a week for six weeks, attend a few lecturevS and seminars, but devote most of their time to in - service training, working in mental hospitals. public housing projects, Salvation Army Day Care Centers, neighborhood clubs ano with welfare and publ I c health services.

Dr. Daniel Thurz, chairman of the University of Marylands Community OrganizaticMi Department, says, our object Is to teach these volunteers something about what its like to be poor. They need to know the strengths and weaknesses of the poor their efforts to survive. They need to know how community organizations help the poor, what is available through welfare and hospitals. They need to know how to help these people get jobs and what opportunities there are f b r training. The real problem Is the tl-emendous bureaucracy of welfare services it takes great effort and knowledge to navigate through th* bureaucratic labyrinth. My^ r e a t hope is that the VIOTA program will lead to a d*entrali-zatlon of welfare se^ices that the day will co^e when each Inner city neighborhood has its own center for mVdical and dental care, lega l^^ld, etc."

Marylands VISTA volun-teers. who sign up for a year, are paid $50 a month, will go directly to assignments in cities throughout the United States where they will live and work with the poor in a variety of local anti - poverty efforts.

Dr. Thuiz, noting the profound dedication and enthu.sl-asm of his volunteers, belleve.s the VISTA program has "tapped a tremendous reservoir of good udll In the American people. They want to give of themselves - our problem Is to use them effectively.

Maryland.? contribution to

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mises.

Thats a good boy. Wozin-.ski. Now. everybody out on the verandah."

Only half the platoon was dressed. The other half had stayed In theii* sacks.

The sergeant seemed pleased. Well, we have more than enough to start with. I have a surprise for you men. Were going to march over to the mess hall together and Im going to <unt cadenee. -

The platoon started catcalling and b(X)ing.

ART

BUCHWALD

(The Chicago Trubunc)

The Tribune today presents the real Man of the Year.

He was not picked by the Junior Association of C o m-merce, or by the Senior Association of Commerce, or by the politicians, or by any association of newspaper men. You wont find his picture in the papers. You may not recognize him as you pass him on the street. But we hope you do.

Our Man of the Year is in the middle income brackets. He gets up every morning at 6:30 so that he can get to his job in an office or factory at 8 or 8:30. He works hard, not only because he wants advancement, but because he thinks his employer deserves a fair deal. He is honest and dependable.

Our Man of the Year manages Togel alng with one wife. They have three nr four children, whom they love so much they teach them to be respectful, law - abiding, and self - reliant. They have done their best to earn and save enough money to send their children to college, gut the rising costs of higher education make this goal more difficult each year.

The rising cost of everything also makes it harder to put aside money for retirement. Recent federal income tax reductions have helped the people In high Income brackets and low Income brackets, but

the man in the middle has got little benefit. There are no loopholes In the income tax for him, and he cant put any money into tax - exempt securities.

Social security taxes, which started at $30 a year, are now' up to $174. Soon the medicare program will make them much higher. Local property taxes have doubled, and so have the various state taxes. Worst of all. the purchasing power of the dollars is only 42 per cent of what it wa.s when our Man of the Year bought his first Insurance policy in 1937. The little money which he has set aside for a rainy day is worth about half of what it was when he earned it.

One Man of the Year belong.s to a church and works at his religion. He is no saint, but he understands the biblican meaning 0 neighbor and tries to be decent to Ieh^ all races and creeds. You wont find him, however, in civil disobedience" demonstration. He believes laws out to be considered a patriot. He flies the flag on national holidays. He cant understand Americans who Join organizations dedicated to the destruction of America. He cant understrive to undermine law and order, or to feather their own nests.

Our Man of the Year bellvp.s our system of government. He votes at every election, but he votes only once.

For all his merits, we salute him.

Now. come on, lows. Thats not nice. After all. Im your drill sergeant. Why dont we try it? If you don't like it, we w'ont do it again,"

The men shrugged their shoulders and started marching towards the mess hall.

Smith and OMalley," the sergeant said, youre out of step.

Out of .step with what?" OMalley wanted to know.

The rest of the platoon.

Thats no way to talk to a recruit," Smith said. "Were doing the best we can.

Weve only got two feet, OMalley shouted.

Im sorry," the sergeant said. "Forget I brought it up,

Okay, but dont forget w'ere human, too," Smith muttered.

Later in the morning t h e drill sergeant held inspection In the barracks.

Barstow," he said, "why didnt you make up your bed this morning?"

I forgot.

Suppose everyone in the Army forgot, Barstow? Then wed all be living like pigs."

Look. said Barstow, a guys got a light to make a mistake once in a while, I made it up yesterday morning. didnt I?"

I .suppose youre right, Bar-Rtow. Do you want me to make the bed for you today?

Suit yourself, since It bo-(Continued on page 5)

.i^olicy

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Fetur Syndicate, Inc.

It must come as a sobering Jolt to President Lyndon John* son. who has g(xi all-out for aid to educatlcni. to discover that the more vocal element amcmg the academic commun* Ity Just doesnt aiH>rove of him.

The Administration teama which were sent out to th campuses to apeak for the Johnson policies in Vietnam and Santo Domingo were rudely treated in many placea, more so by the students than by the faculty "teach-in participants, although the ix*ofea> sors generally showed their displeasure for having been called gullible** by Secretary of State Rusk.

iOHR

CHAMBYmUR

'The Jolt, however, should nol have come as a surprise to the ex-teacher In the Whito House. What has happened i simply the culmination of academic trends that have been a ItMig time in the making. The other night I listened to Dr. Elseo Vlvaa, Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, hit out at his ow'n professorial guild. Dr. Vivas, who was born In Colombia of Venezuelan parents, has a shrew'd exterior view of many of his colleagues, and he finds them sadly deficient in their con.sideration of the spiritual, ethical and humane strands that go to make up our traditional Christian and western civilization.

The newest academic philosophy, which goes by th name of existentialism., wa characterized by Dr. Vlva.s as mostly mud. As for political philosophy, It is no longer taught at most colleges. It has been largely replaced by th study of political behavior, which does not concern Itself with the moral subject of th "just" State. The trends be-_ ing, what they a.r.. ..It .iljould. come as no revelation to learn that many in the academic community see no importan! nioral issue in the confrontation of Communism and th westeni world.

This colunuiist views the academic scene from a patriarchal perch as the father of six children who have had their various adventures w'lth modem pedagogical practices. One son who Is currently a college sophomore Is preparing for a major in political science, and, when he gets through, he w'ill know all about I in mechanics of the Gallup Poll, and the study of who gels what, when." But he would have to transfer to the University of Chicago, where Professor I.eo Strauss holds forth In lonely splendor, to Icarn that there are "good" and bad" pin-lo.sophical groundings fo-tlcal orders, or that Jame Madison w'as Incomparably .superior to Karl Marx as humane thinker.

Another son. who Is a sophomore in high school, was asked to do a paper on present-day Cuba. He did what any boy in high school would have done. First, he wrote to the Cuban delegation to the United Nations for information about their country. Then he got ont the encyclopedia. The stuff that came from the UN Cubans w'a.s. of course, shrew'd-I.v worded Castroltc propaganda. The point about all this is that no liigh school boy Is prepared to evaluate official documents about a Marxist State and put them together with back history from the Encyclopedia Brltannlca If he hasnt first had a preliminary grounding in such little Itemi as the history of the First and Second .socialist Interna-tionale.s, the Rus.sian Revolution. the doctrines of Lenin. Stalin and Mao Tse-tung, and a course in cofparatlve em nomlcs. The justification for the

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3J Message Indicted Govm't

Strength For Today

Bv KAKI. I.. DDt'GlJ\.SS nn.lGFNCK AND SINiKRITY

"Not slothful In business, fer vent in spirit; serving t h e Lord" I Roman.? 12:11',

Paul was writing to Chri.-

that in lt.sclf Ls supposed to be enough Chrustlan believers of this variety tend to shirk their daily work, to pass their re-sponsiblUties off lightly, to go about their bu.slaess think n g more about themselves and

ban believers in the city of their ea.se than abom^t^^^

Homer He hati -not fOThtlFd-17lT^'1hev re ,suppo.sed to do aid Roman church him.self. but he frequently a?e Sd to do.

looked upon it with great ad tniralion and affection. Paul iiiinsclf wa.s later to vi.sit Rome not a.s a loiin.st or a pilgrim but as a prj.soner His lettei to the Roinau.s, either cou.sci-ou.sly or unconsciously, was the presentation of his credentials to unknown frienrls whom he ho[)ed .'oon to meet.

St Paul foumi in his day as \\t oficij find in our (Jay that soiiii' p'ujpli emplo.v P' 'sonal pirtv as an alibi fot lire nrelrci of dally d'iMes H they are piou.s and religious.

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.So the AjKistle in.sisted that tho.se who were fervent In .splr It .should also avoid l>eing slothful in bu.slne.s.s por goodnes.s, ln said, will not compensate for wastrel hours if an ployer pay.s you to work, then U Is your Christian duty to work. Don t think that because vou are a nice, deceit living tierson you ran be excii.scd for a Iftzv and casual attitude toward yoiii joi Honestv mu.-! domlnafi ih,. ijff of everyone who makes sincere prolc.s-Sion of his r(ligiou.s faith

By ELMER ROES.SNER

President Johnson.? excise tap cut mes.sage to Congre.s.? Is a remarkable document In that It Indicts the government itself lor having perpetuated unfair, business restricting and

wrongful taxes up to 20 years or more.

Mr. Johnson did not indict his own administration, of

course. He ha.s taken the leadership in bringing some order out of the morass that has held back business and employment and has Increased living costs for years, with hardly an adequate gain In federal revenues

But he Indicted, by Inference, the Truman, Elsenhower and Kennedy admlnlstratlon.s f o r thelr acqule.scrase In tin taxes His message Implle.s that those administration.? continued to restrict buslne?.? by allowing opporesslve taxes to remain.

WIN THE war:

Ml John.son said, "Many of our existing excises were born of (Icpre.ssion and war Many were designed to restrain civ-

Ilian demands In wartime and thereby free resource.? for military u.se

ELMER

ROE89NER

And ^ they were, ^nd for ZO years consumers have been paying tax . Inflated prices intended to keep them from buying materials that were needed to win World War II such as light glolK*? and phonograph record.? Judg 1 n g from the President.? message, these taxes have slowed economic growth, cut employment, dragged down con.suinei and bm iness purchasing pow e r. raised prices to consumtrs, hurdeneil low - income famllles exce.sslvcly. hicreased Um cost of tax collections, unfairly tiui-(lened w'orkers and buslnesse.? In Indu.strlfs singled out fur ex

cise taxation, and di.slorted consumers choices in the market place.

Mr Johnson did not say that Iti .so many words, but hi.? implications were clear a.? he told what remission of these taxes would do.

OLD PREJUDICE KEI*T ALIVE

The Pre.sldent did not recommend any changes In spirits, wine, beer, and cigarette taxes except that present rates be made permanent. In doing 80, he contjnqcs to p^.rpe(uate one of the strangest discriminations In American taxation, one generally considered a product of the Bible Belt whence Mr Johnson came.

That Is the tax on cliainpagn-es and sparkling wines. Still w'lnes are taxed 17 per cent a wine gallon. Some time, .iome cent alcohol, while champagnes and sparkling wine of approximately the same alcoholic .strength are taxed $.'{ 4ti a wine galltn .Some Mine, .some place a Mnml gent, probably with a diamond In his Me pin, drank eliampagne from a clior-us gills slipper, and cham

pagne - .sipping sinners have been expiating this act ev e r since.

And. under the Johnson lax reforms, the.?e simpers of the bubbly will keep on pay l n g tribute to Washington for this wickedness forever.

TOKYO BANK SIMPLIFIES BUDilET MANAGEMENT

The Mitsubishi Bank in Tokyo offers housewives six colored envelopes. The housew 1 f e Is invited Jo put money for food Ih the fhg envelope, fo r clothing In the pink envelope, for rent and furnltun* in the grey envelope, for educat 1 o n and cultural activities In t h e blue envelope, for travel a n d recreation in the yellow envelope. and savings in the red one. 1|,

On the back of each of the first five envelopes are blanks for noting how the money was spent. At the end of the month the hoii.sewlfe bring* the red envelope tn the bank, Ihe contents are de.sposlted to her arroiint. and tho bank gives her six new envelope*.