A^Tkc Dally Rdlectir. CirmyWi. N.C-We*wsiiy. May H. IMI

In the Best Interest Of N.C

Governor Scott has taken tbe poaition that is In the best interest of U North Carolina by strongly urging the fyeneral Assembly to restructure higher education as outlined by the Warren Commission recommendations.

If hifther education hi North Carolina is to serve the growing needs of this state and its people, restructure is essential. And it is essential now.

The majority report of the Warren Conunission points concisely at the problems that higher education faces with its present structure. It makes positive and constructive recommendations for

Life's Light Is Still Bright

START OF STAIRWAY TO THE STARS? . Life's

Little

By BRYAN ilAISLIP RALEIGH A good mans life is never lost; tddiere its light shone keeps some brightness after he is gone.

You have to believe it. having known Lawrence Whitfield.

His warm and winning personality drew people to him. both his peers and those older. Gifts of intellect were matched with religious insight. and a commitment to

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worthy purposes.

Last year he graduated with highest honors in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He won a George C. Marshall Fellowship for graduate study at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, another fellowship to Yale Divinity School.

Life stretched ahead, creative and (M'oductive. He planned tomarry, to teach at a college or university, to express through writing his sense of God itt work in the world.

Then the sharp edge of fate ruptured those rosy prospects.

- Descending - from a mounUla climb lift February 27. somehow Lawrence f^. One terrible accident wiped out the prpmise of his future.

. Recflvl^Uie ^^ws Aerm the Atlantic Ocean that Sunday evening, Jim Wbitefield went to the door of his surburban Raleigh home. . The caller was a friend from The J^ews and Ob^er, where Whitfield is business editor. He deciined to come in, but there on the front porch gave Whitfield the news from the wire service ^ dispatches.

I remember saying a prayer before going in to tell Annie Uurie: Lord, help us all,"' Whitfield said. Through the heart-rending tasks of the week that followed, leading to a memorial service the next Saturday, he felt strangely calm and unfatigued.'

How keenly Lawrences spirit had touched those who knew him became apparent that week. Friends came to Raleigh to grieve togethw and console each Other; from Chapel Hill. New Haven and Cambridge, Chicago and New York. ^

They came and stayed," his mother recalled with a trace of wonder, I dont know how they managed to take time off from classes or jobs. It was as though they,, had lost a member of the family."

One evening in the living

room they talked with Whitfield about a memorial.*

A Growing Memorial "It wont be a lot at first," they said, "but as we graduate, get jobs and earn money you can be sure it will grow. Lawrence wont be forgotten."

Keeping his memory green will be the Lawrence Whitfield Traveling Fellowship, established through a Wesley Foundation at Chapel Hill, which he served as president as a senior. One or more awards will be made each year to undergraduate students at the University there, for use in a travel experience as enrichment for their education.

Just such a trip, to Canada the summer after his junior year, meant a lot to Lawrence in his intellectual growth.

Appropriately, a first contribution was the $22.50 refund on his fare to Paris, a trip he had looked forward to at spring semester break, plus $7.28 in his pockets at the time of the fatal fall.

Faculty members of the English department established the Lawrence Whitfield Honors Prize, to be awarded with an appropriate book to the student whose honors essay fmd work best meets standards of excellence set by him.

~ Hpnoring The ideal The Impulse to create the award was explained by Qltirman C. Carroll Hollis in a letter to the parents. Lawrence, he wrote, was near the ideal as a student. "In bringing us to the highest demands of our calHng, he made viS better teachers, and we will always be profoundly grateful for that experience,

^ he said. - ----

The letter is one of nearly a thousand received by the family. One prized, from a young friend who felt Lawrence had helped at critical time, said: "We shall remember him best by what we demand of ourselves.

Few families sustain such tragedy. The Whitfields absorbed it with the faith they instilled in their son.

"None of us questioned why," the father said. "We accepted it because death is as much a part of life as birth. Thats basic."

Lawrence Whitfeld had a keen awareness of spiritual reality, heightened for him by mountain climbing. Last fall, he wrote:

"1 havent ttgured out ye^ what is so compelling about climbing a mountain. The long wet walks, the wind, the cold, the rain, or the thought of doing it?

"Perhaps because one discovers that the spiritual world is more real, more enduring than the physical which may explain why climbers ^selcbm talk about what they see."

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forward-looldiig changes. Gov. Scott, in hii addiw to die General AiamUy, hag itnderscored the reconunendatioDS which caQ for a board of ngentB that woidd have budgetary and program controii, and individual boards of trustees for each of the 16 gtate-suppmrted institutiong.

It is interesting to note that the minority report which protested what it caUs deconaoUdatk of the ConsoUdated University" was signed by oidy six of the 23 members of the Warren Commission. Five of the s who signed the minority report are members of the board of trustees of the Con-sdidated University.

Having begun its work in January, Ihe Warren

Cmnmission has made a tiiorougb study of the

structure of hiid^er education. Ibere is nothing to be gained by postponing for another two years legislative consideration and action on what is certain to be a controversial issue. The legidature should take time in ito current session to resolve the issue. Certainly it would be serving tiie best Interest of aU hi^er education in North Carolina to resolve it in the manner recommended by the study commission and by the governor.

The program recommended by. Gov. Swtt and the Warren Commission offers a sound and reasonable approach to the organization of higher education. It would eliminate many of the most difficul^structural problems which now exist in hi^er ucation. It would pave the way for better coordination, better pianning and budgeting in higher education, and go a long way toward ^Iminating muchof the in-fighting which now goes on in public and behind the scenes in higher education in this state.

Most of all it would strengthen hi^r education in North Carolina and enable the states system to ^ -i-

do a better job of meeting the needs of its people. It /Ji|4 CIS

would do so without damage to any institution. I I I Iwl 11 V^U I I

Indeed, it would lead to a further strengthening of each of the states 16 insinstitutions through better planning and coordination and ultimately through wiser use of funds which are, availabe for highar education.

Gov. Scott put it pointedly and cmrectly when he told legislators, We must do it now. Tomorrow will be too late.

Quirks

By HAL BOYLE NEW YORK (AP) - Jumping to conclusions:

Women take more pride in themselves than men do. You can talk the average man into feeling he is pretty run of the mill or even downright worthless, but every woman believes herself exceptional in some way, whether by beauty, talent, character, charmor a combination of all four, She neyer gives up on herself.

Three-minute eggs usually turn out better if the cook gives

By ART BUCHWALD

Talks Test Of Daley's Power

ERNATiONAL

AiicrUskig rates an4 deagiis avaUaMe upon reqnest Member AmUt Bnrtan !

By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

CHICAGO - The privately stated intmtion of Lt. Gov. Paul Simon to run for the Democratic nomination for governor nxt year even if it meins bucking mighty Mayor Richard J. Daley in an open primary puts the poww reaUties here in a iteW, MgMy complicated perspective.

paley organization politicians here dismiss Simons talk as a bluff, but Democrats who know him best believe he is deadly serious.-Indeed, Simon now plans a statement early this autumn announcing he will enter the primary for governor, wth or without the organizations Messing. That would signal the possibility of the first independent Democrat nominated for governor since Dick Daleys reign began in 1955.

Yet, nothing is so simple in the labyrinth of Illinois Democratic politics. Ironically, a declaration of indepaidence by Simon could have precisely the effect opposite to what he intends: the preservation of the Chicago organizations dominance over the states Democratic party and its national role as supre^(m arbiter in President-picking in fact, looking t events eight months away, that seems the most probable outcome.

Just a month ago, Simon was heavily favored to be endorsed by the "slatemakers (regular party elders headed by Daley) early next year for governor even though he is far from the orgainzations specifications. A downstate weekly newspaper publisher, Simon, 42, compiled a distinguished record as a crusading liberal legislator and once barely missed censure for a magazine expose about the notorious

Illinois legislature.

But Simons hand was strengthened by the announcement for governor last November of Daniel Walker, resigning as $100,000-a-ayear general counsel of Montgomery Ward, to fight the Daley machine. Completely disdaining the"' entire ilatemAkers procedure. Walker promised to go itraight into the Democratic primary agalnkt evezr whelmiAg odds tWalkers crediMiity as a madilne^ V busting reformif would jmff^, however , if the ogre he ms exercising turned out to

Paul Simon.

4 Besides, since being slated for lieutenant governor in 1968, Simon has grown ever closer to Daley and the organization to the dismay of fellow liberals. Ten days ago, three anti-machine Democrats Congressman Abner Mikva and state Reps. Anthony Scariano and Robert Mann met secretly with Simon to warn him that young activists distrusted him and were backing Walker.

But Simons deeper ^ problems have sprouted within th^ organization becoming evident after Mayor Daleys massive ^ reelection to a fifth term. With that extra confidence, key (Mrganization lieutenants hinted they did not need Simon to beat down Walkers quixotic primary bid but could win with one of their own.

And picking one of their own is decidedly safer politics for machine lieutenants who agree with whispered comments of the late Paul Powell, downstate regular stalwart, about Simon as he took the oath of offlce as lieutenant governor in 1969: "Them leopards never change their spots."

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WASHINGTON - A U.S. Army lieutenant friend, a native of New York^ has just written from Fort Hood, Tex., informing me that a movement has been organized on the base to get all American troops out of Texas by the first of the year.

"There are still 200,000 American GIs Rationed here in Texas," he wrote, and most of them would go home tomorrow if they could."

The lieutenant said that American soldiers have no idea what they are doing in Texas and refiise to^ accept the Pentagons word that

they are there to protect the Alamo.

"The natives dont want us, he writes, and our presence causes all sorts of difficulties.

"First there is the language problem. The American troops refuse to learn Texan, and Texans refuse to speak American. This leads to serious misundorstanchngs.

"Secondly, there is the question of size. Most Amalean Gla are at least a head taller than Texans, and this gives the Texans a terrible inferiority complex. The American GI speaks of

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A Better, Way .

- ' tOutein Herald) ^ '

Fortunately for the Atton and its people, Congress acted to end the railroad signamiena ttrike before dknroptioo of raU service serious]^ upaet tie economy. Severn} Omu announced plans to stop production of goods, and more anticipated work stoppage if the strike had continued. Production stoppage, means layoff of workers as wMl as d^rivaticm of consumos.

The affair raises the question of whether strikes can continue to be permitted in this country. The short rail strike shows how easily a strike can paralyze the nations economy, throw workers out of work in a Ixroed apectrum pf Industry, and cut (tff the sttoplies d goods to rehsumdi. The Pelican ecohomy has reached such a stage that strikes must be outlawed in the public intoest.

Elimination of strikes immediately raises the question of how workers can secure needed increases in pay. The answer would be wage regulation boards, a' national board to settle wage disputes (whoi management and labor do not come to agreement) in industries and businesses engaged in interstate crnnmerce, stage boards to settle wage disputes in industries and iHiainesses engaged in interstate commerce.

The authority of these boards should not be limited to wage issues, but should extend to woridng conditions generally. Provisions should be made for court review, if rither party, wishes to appeal, a boards dedaion.

Tbe congressional settlement of the signalmens strike suggests the pattern. The bill passed by bofo Senate and House, and signed by President Nixon, who had requested omgressional action to atop the strike, not only wders the signalmen back to work, but gives them an increase in pay of 13.5 per cent.

Three of the four unions have signed agreements with the railroads, and their members have recdved an addition^ four per cent pay riae, e^tive April 4. The signalmoi would have received a raise of 17.5 per cent if they had accepted the proposal of the emergency board. \

A special wage board seems the fairest way to resolve laboi^ management disagreemoit. It would eliminate strikes as a feature of labor pdicy. At fiie same time it would give workers the opportunity to get pay increases as conditions justify them, e '

his Texas counterpart with contempt and derision, and the Texan thinks of the American GI as a big brute who has no feeling for ancient Texas traditions. This clash of cultures has led to fist fghts and bottle throwing in bars.

"Finally there is the question of Texas women. Texas women are attracted to American GIs, not only because they consider them better-looking than Texas men, but invariably they have more money and harm. Texas men have become bitter about this and most Texas women who marry a GI are socially ostracized if they remain in ie country.

"But the real problem, as far as the American GIs are concerned, is that they dont understand what they are doing in Texas in the first place. Every President has given a different reason why % U.S. soUAers should be tlwe.

"Sane have said that the Amerlcins are there to n protect the Texans from being overrun by the Mexicans.

Other Presidents have said the troops are there to assure that Texas has honest elections, something that has been denied Texans since they joined the Union.

"Some Presidents have defended sending troops to Texas on the grounds that we made a commitment to Sam Houston, and the United States woi4iUlose its credibility if it bac at this late date.

President Johnson insisted we needed American troops in Texas to prevent supplies from coming up the Perdenales River. President Nixon said Satuurday we had to be there to interdict the L.

B.J. Trail.

"But the truth of the matter is, everyone in Texas is getting rich on the American GI, and all were doing is perpetuating a government that at the least is suspected of monkeying with the state banking laws."

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them an extra minute just for Juck.

A woman will go for years without being able to read her wristwatch before shell buy bifocals.

June is the month in which the office cheapskate always takes his vacationso he wont have to chip in for goodbye presents for the girls who are leaving their jobs to get married.

One of the wry things about age is that you still cant do some of the things you couldnt do when youngbut for diffr-ent reasons. Take chocolate eclairs, for example. ^You never could get your fill of them when you were a kid because they were too rich for your pocketbbok; now you cant even take a bite of one because the doctor says it is too rich for your blood.

Ulacs smell sweeter each spring, because no one can Continued on page A-9

40 Years

ByGWYNCOGHILL MayM.itol -A "practical" mediodof ^beginning to reduce* cancer deaths in this country was made puMic tfHfay fit i report by the directors of the American Society. This may be ine. they* state, by the establishment of special cancer institutes, hospUals and clinics.

Following the annual custom, members of the Pitt County Post of the American Legion, will visit the graves of veterans of the county and place upon them a wreath of flowers, on May 30.

Mrs. Hugh Williams, of was here yesterday.

Mrs. A. W. Ange, Misses Louise and Frannie Ange, of WintervUle, were Greenville visitors today.

Miss Alice Lee Hooker left today for New York,

Mrs. J. Knott Proctor spent yst^iffiy in Wilibn.

Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Hall spent the week end in Raleigh.

Miss Christine Windley, of Washington, was here yesterday.

Mr. and Mrs. Earl James, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie James and daughter spent Sunday in Norfolk, Virginia.

Corporations Are For Profits

Strength For Today

THAT LESSON

Do you lie awake at night worrying? Do you get up in :he morning full of discouragement Are you }ppreased by thelTeeling that tK^ifig in your life will come Old ri^t unless you make it do. so?.

This is not a commercial ^ for a pain-killing tablet or a digestive preparatioB^-%j|ft,,.^, * Just a little obeoYatfon dnih tftuilU fact tbatftvat oyiB' ^ misery arises from a deep-seated C(Mivicti(Ni that we can manage the world, or at least that part df it which impinges upon us.

And, of course, we re dead wrong, God has never yt handed his world over to any individual or grotq> of individuals,' and thpre is DO likelihood that He ever will.

This running-the-world complex is one of the most agonizing realities humanity has to deal with. -, Leave something to the "Lord. Jesus aaid, "Behold the lUies of the field." Yes. the lilies, the trees, the green grass, the eternal stars. ^Impudent little man appears to be the only thing in the vi]ra^ryitt^ bis

*'enviroiiBiit< The emiceited ^ttlecNtee putshii^^ Gods place and thiidu be can run the world. He irerries. He fumes. He tears bis hair.

God smiles, and Jesus .^itters^tha memorable words, ' ."Behold the lUies of the field."

Yes, behold them! Pee^ at them! They have a leason for all of us.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER R0ES8NER Thoe is an amonAious, disjointed campaign afoot to make big ^ corporations socially consciot. It has been going on for some time but it has not been effective. It has never beai odiarently organized and consequently charges off in all directions.

Nevertheless, it involves hundreds of thousands of people udK> if ever marshalled. into a single

Tb make them socially amscioitt in otiio* ways: to .use their power Iwth inside the corporation and outside in government, in politics, in civic organizations, in ad-

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in other ways to increase welfare, social tecUrity benefits, pensions, inexpoisive medical care, reform of ddinquents, make educatkm less dtschdlned, end the cfraft, save drug addicts, reform the

organization, could he a powerful force;"" The ob-'jectives are diverse. They include:

. Compelling large cor-^^atioito^to refuse military

contacts.

Jo force corpoiitioAs to^.i^^^.

" ceaae poUutiiig the air, water refarmahle. and soil. ' ' *

. To compel them to hire members of minority groups, n** ushally in ratio to their percentage of the whole populatiiHi.

. To compel them to give bettm: joba to members of the majority, that ia, women.

Save the Worldl

guarantee products, purify advertising, improve products, stop oil spills, save baby seals, protect the whooping crane, and uhats yoiar hangttp?-^^-So far, the White Kni^ts md the White Nighties have* tako) some acti(m beyond the iimrflmrr of-manifestos. They have disrupted annual cor

porate meetings, they have brought a number of suits against corporations, they have picketed a number of establishments and they have blown up a few banks.

They have got some results. Some corporations have announced projects to ^ reduce pollution, others have joined in ventures'to recycle wastes, many have hired minority members, some have cheered on social reforms. i

Dreyfus Corp. announced the formation of a new mutual fund tnat will invest (mly in socially conscious ^eorpofate stocks and boiids. . Th^ fa iH)t exactly a new idea, ^ itece tl^e arf already fi^fa ^ftlilt refuse to irtvest in companies that deal in tobacco, alcohol, medical preparations and other products disapproved of by religious faiths.

Doomed to Failure But the entire idea of' .reforming America by bringing pressure on " the dbminant corporations is

sure to fail.** *

First, the campaigners are so diverse in objirctives that they can never be organized under one banner.

Second, corporations have little pressure on lawmakers, where effective action must be concentrated, and what little sock companies and industry have there they need for their own interests.

Third and most important of all,.the profit motive rules all corporations. Let;a corporation rfuze a war con-r tract, let.a management over - spend money on do - gooder projects, let a company advertise that .JLvCompetitor makes a safer product, and a

quickly voted in. .

You could start a company to manufacture napalm, sell baby seal skins and round up draft evaders, and if the ^company makes profits."^" investor will pelt you with ^ money and the stock will soar in price. s " Prrflts rule Wajl Street, Never forgri that.