4The Daily Reflector, GrecavUle, N.C.Thanday. Febmry 17. lt72

We Try For A Better World

STICKIER AND STICKIER!

In the past week weve seen two projects intended to build a better world get bad marks.

One was the experiment in contract education.

The other was the federal antipoverty effort in Appalachia.

People who follow such things, know of course that more than 30 cities have experimented with performance contracting in educating

youngsters. Computerized teaching materials and programmed reading materials were supposed to make the difference.

Millions of dollars went into the experimental school year which involved 13,000 children. The post-mortem, experts say, indicate little if anything was gained by the chilcten above and beyond the scope of regular teaching systems.

The Gaieral Accounting Office put a cloud ova* the federal antipoverty campaign in Appalachia. A

Sees Improved Teacher Ranks

By BRYAN HAISUP RALEIGH - An abundance of teachers is a challenge, not a it)bleni.

Dr. A. C. Dawson, executive secretary of the North Carolina Education Association, takes the positive approach to the rising supply of young people trained to enter the profession.

Their presoice, he said.

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gives the opportunity to improve the quality of instruction Uirough reduction of class size and expansion of kindergartens, and to seek better distribution of qualified teachers to remote and rural areas.

I would not discourage young persons interested in a teaching career, alUiough in fairness Uiey should have a realistic picture of employment prospects, Dr. Dawson said.

Competitive would be a one-work description.

North Carolina and the nation are in a state of oversupply of teachers, a reversal of the shortage which prevailed many years. Authorities in education look for the situation to grow more acute.

Big Jane Crop Forecast Last June, Tar Heel public and private institutions graduated an estimated 7,751 new teachers. That was an increase of about 1,000 over the previous year, and next Junes class is expected to be larger than 1971 by another 800 or 1,000.

Replenishment of the states teacher force opens about 4,000 new positions each year. The other 3,000-plus must find out-of-state teaching jobs, or switch to other flelds.

The National Education Association says that if present trends continue there will be a surplus of 730,800 beginning teachers in five years.

The statistics raise serious questions for education, particularly for teacher training institutions, said Dr. Dawson.

Limits On Admissions Some are answering by limiting admissions to their schools of education as a step to slow down production. Others try to persuade

students to oiter those flelds where there is still nnsaUsfled demand vocational education, early childhood education (kind^arten and elementary), and special education, such as teachers for the mentally and physically handicapped.

Oversupply is felt more keenly in the fields of secondary English, social studies, and physical education.

Steering young people away from teaching is a negative approach, said Dr. Dawson. Teaching is the mother of professions, a calling with a potential for community leadership and service appealing to todays youth, he said.

Besides, he asked,how do you tell a young person who wants to become a teacher that he cant do it?

Teacher distribution, both geographic and by flelds of study, Is part of the solution, he suggested. Students ^ould be aware of choices with most opportunity, he explained, and guided in those directions while in college.

When they graduate, they should be encouraged to locate in rural and out-of-the-way schools where qualified teachers are needed, he added.

Supply Can Be Used

North Carolina could use to advantage the teachers it is producing, Dr. Dawson maintained. He pointed out that the legislative program being fashioned by the NCAE for the 1973 General Assembly gives emphasis to expansion of the teacher force as a means of upgrading classroom instruction.

A high priority item is $25 million to reduce class size, with a statutory limit placed on maximum class size. The goal has support from the public as well as educators, Dr. Dawson said. Tlie public readily agrees that teachers cannot do the same job with 40 pupils that they can do with 25 pupils, he remarked.

Another $10 million is asked to accelerate the move towards a statewide system of public kindergartens. Tliis would open hundreds of new teaching positions at the early childhood education level.

The thrust of the remainder of the $200 million total package is aimed at salary scales and fringe benefits to enhance the career status of teaching, thereby retaining experienced teachers in the classroom.

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carefully-worded report indicates there has been little real progress in upgratfing the sections economic ^tus despite the vast effort to date.

We took pride in the dreamers who dreamed on a big scale; and the fact that two such dreams, in education and the effort against poverty, have not met the criteria of success is disappointing.

If you can call them failures, they were at the very least magnificent failures. We learn by doing, by trying, by failing.

We try. Lord, how we try!

But the better world must still await better methods. The ideas and the dreams are still sound stuff.

Mitchell Resignation Came As No Surprise

It hardly came as a surprise when Attorney General John N. Mitchell resigned to head President Nixons re-election campaign.

Mitchell managed the presidents campaign in 1968 and he is a close personal and political advisor of the president. It had been expected for months that he would play an important role in this years campaign.

Nixons strategy will be quiie different from four years ago, since now he is running as an in-cumbant who must protect his record.

Nixons campaign team will include many familiar faces however, with John Mitchell at the top.

Life's

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By JJ. KILPATRICK

John To Miss Wallace Kindles Crowds Political Life

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ByJOHNKILGO

RALEIGH-Im going to miss it more than Ive missed anything in my entire life.

Thats the way State Sen. J<in J. Burney of Wilmington reacted to his announcement that he would not seek reelection.

Sketch a picture of a politician in your own mind and youll come up with John Burney. Sli^tly heavy, big shoulders, a prominoit nose. If fog could talk it would sound like Sen. Burney. Friend and foe in the Tar Heel Senate called him Big J(^.

A year ago we talked to scores of legislators and picked the ten most in-fluoitial moi in the North Carolina General Assembly. Without question. Sen. Burney got more first-place votes than any other person.

Sen. J.OllieHaiTis of Kings Mountain was a rookie in the last legislature. Listen to him;

John Burney was the most outstanding man in the Senate, in my opinion. He didnt go off half-cocked. Being a feshman, I learned that I could count on him for leadership. He had a gift that many dont have. He was open-minded on just about all issues. Some people gave you rhetoric. Burney gave you facts.

Burney wrote his statement not to seek reelection on Nov. 13 and stuck it under the blotter on his desk top in his Wilmington law office. Every few days hed pull it out and read it and then slip it back.

I really loved serving in the Senate, Burney said. I enjoyed the work. I got a great satisfaction out of driving around the State and seeing buildings (hi college campuses that I might have had something to do with constructing.^

Burney served in the Senate for three terms. His rise to power was fast and complete. He was chairman of the Senate Finance (Committee during the last session.

Herman Moore of Charlotte has served in the Soiate for four terms. Hes been on Burneys side in legislative flghts and hes opposed him.

The Senator from New Hanover will always be John Burney, Moore said. Hes a stable, solid guy. Every bill was important to him.I would say he was well-respected out of respect rather than mit of power. He offided some people because they felt he was overbearing. But if Burney ran ova* you, he did it with facta, not emotion.

Burneys getting out of politics for the time being to devote more time to his law inractice and to his jxrivate business, (hrolina Treets, a firm that makes barbecue sauce.

If you try to do a good job, Burney said, so*ving in the legislature is a time-consuming job. But I still believe were better off with an amateur legislature than we would be with full-time, professional politicians. Professional politicians wmild vote on issues to get reelected. We have a lot of dedicated people in Raleigh.

Burney feels the Tar Heel legislature could improve itself. He thinks it takes each session too long to really get started. He believes the State Government should inrepare their bills six months before the legislature gets to town. They know what theyre going to introduce, he says. Its no need for them to wait until were in session to dump those bills in our lap.

Lobbyists also play a large part in the General Assembly.

A good lol^yist has a lot of power, Burney said. Hes the kind that will tell you the truth evoi when it hurts him. But the good lobbyists are few and far between.

Burney will not be out of politics for a long time. As a matter of fact, if they hadnt made the lieutenant governors position full-time, he says he probably would have run for that.

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JAC1CS0NVILLE, Fla. -George Corley Wallace, governor of Alabama, arrived a few minutes early for a TV interview here the other night. He sat (m the sound stage, awaiting the stroke of 10:30, for all the world like a boxo* waiting on the bell. like him or loathe him, the guy is a scrapper.

His handlers were all around him, fetching water, pressing advice. His beautiful wife was at his side: Is your collar button buttoned, hwiey? Out in the studio, 40 or 50 rooters had assembled; it marked the first time, in a series of such interviews at

WJXT that an audience had turned out. At 10:29, the studio mcmitor shifted to a Hubert Humphrey commercial. The crowd softly groaned. Wallace, playing along, made a face at the TV screen and winked at a straw-hatted Monde in the second row. An audible sigh of pure delight came forth.

It was the old electricity flowing. Wallace has it. Few candidates do. In other years we saw flash-point igniticm with Elstes Kefauvor and Adlai Stevenson, with Jrim Kennedy and later with his brother Robert. Barry Goldwat^ could kin(Oe a

Other Editors Say Feel AAis-Hughesed

(Jacksonville Daily News)

The tension is mounting. Is Howard Hughes alive or dead? Did he or did he not authorize an autobiography? Will he or will he not make a puWic appearance? It is all at least as exciting and nearly as significant as the current crisis among Joanne, Tony and Sam on Search for Tomorrow. ,

With all the talk about the mystery surrounding the ultimatdy nongregarious billionaire, nobody seems to be examining the biggest mystery of all: why everybody is so concerned about Hughes in the first place. There are, after all, those of us who have managed to muddle through the last 15 years even though Hughes has been in hiding and we may be excused for wondering why anyone cares if-wbo-e-how he is.

If Hughes ai^red <xi the Tonight Show or ddgned to let Time interview him, it would not really strfve any ecolt^ical proNems, Old the war or remedy our econmnic proUems.

Yet we find journalists representing most of the nations largest and most powerful news-gathering organizations solemnly sitting around listening to a disembodied voice purported to be that of Hughes as if they were being connected wi a direct line to God.

Where are you when we need you, Mr. Agnew? Here we see the Great Eastern Liberal Press Establishment at its worst, scurrying about trying to gathor information that is basically meaningless, exerting its considerable resources in a trivial cause, proving itself adept at making mountains out of mole hills.

There are a lot of other peode otho* than Howard Hughes who want to avoid puWicity, and most of than have better reasons. There are the people wdio are involved in organized crime, for instance. There are plenty of govonment offlcials who are even more hung iq) on secrecy than Hughes. There are businesses and labor organizations insisting that they have a particular right to be exempted from wage and price restrictiofis that apply to everyone dse.

It is one thing to climb a mountain because its there. It is another thing entirely to build the motntain yourself and then climb it because it is tha:^.

crowd. Eugene McCarthy had the touch in 1968. It is an indeflnable something that sets a current of hi^ excitement in motion, and it is more pric^ess to a politician than six high powered posititHi papers.

The red lights of the cameras flame into action, and Wallace, a one time semi-pro boxo-, is instantly in the ring. He leans forward to meet his questionov, left shmilder high, tuuMto flailing, feet moving. Tonight the questions cover familiar ground. He is hit only (nice, when an antagonist surprises him with a left ho( on President Allende of Chile. Wallace clinches, then turns the attack with a general reqxmse on foreigh aid. At 11 oclock he is dcme, and (mce again the crowd is all around him. It is like sitting close to an open fire.

By every indication, Wallace is going to win this donocratic {x^mary down here (m March 14. Jdm Lindsay is gaining, so they say, and Hubert Humphrey is coming stroig, Henry Jackson is hanging in with the fleld. The state is awash in oraUxy, and the papers are struggling to keep up with the news. Whoi Humphrey on Monday promised to nominate a woman justice to the siqreme court, a story that would ordinarily have won top headlines got three paragrafriis instead.

The name of the game is Wallace. He is turning out the biggest crowds3,000 on a rainy night in St. Petersburgand not merely turning them out: he is turning them on. The question of amnesty comes up. Wallace grimaces with distaste for draft dodgers. No, maam, he says, rapping a hard answer in his soft flannel accent, I wouldnt grant amnesty. Out in the audioice, clenched flsts of approval fly iq> like arrows.

He is still the same old Wallace, still jabbing at intellectual snobs, still

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By HAL BOYLE new YORK (AP) - Things that nuto life amrtti living:

A woman smiling and saying **thank you after you b(dd the apartment house elevator for her.

The ecsUc yelps of beagle hounds chasing a surprised rabbit.

The biggest pot of the evening in the middle of the green taUe dothend four kings hidden in your hand.

The shimmalng trail <rf beauty a full moon makes across a breezcriiqded lake.

Feeding a breaded veal cutletyour least favorite foodto the dog under the dining room table while y<Hir wife isnt looking.

Winning a kewpie doll for your girl at the carnival by knocking all the rubber milk bottles off the stand with three latched balls.

Eloping with the snippy young lady who once said she wouldnt marry you if you were the last man on earth.

The soft sheen of candldight falling on old silver.

The taste of the flrst tomato to redden in your backyard garden.

The comradely wink of an old schoolteacher who gave you a better flnal grade in algebra than the one both she and you knew you really deserved.

Buttering up Dad for an extra dime as a child and hearing him tell you with mock seriousness, Dont throw it all away (HI one girl, son.

Thumbii^ through an old family 4ioto album and being startled at how young and near and human the faces of the vanidlied dead now seem. Whoi you were young, they lo(Aed so (]uaint and far awayalmost as if they werent actual peofde at (Cootinned on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

ByGWYNCOGHILL Feb. 17.1932 One of the flnest stills captured by offlcm in this county in sereral months was taken in a raid in an open fleld in Falkland township yesterday afternoon but the oporatcH^ escaped. The raid netted thirty gallons of whiskey, twelve cases of one half gallon fruit jars and eight vats. The still consisted of a large co{q>ar kettle of (me hundred twenty^ive gallon capacity and was the first of the kind nabbed by either federal or county officers in some time.

A Greenville furniture store offers a sale on all types of furniture for this we^ only.

iron bedsteads $2.50 to $4.00 sideboards $5.00 to $10.00 kitchen safes and cabinets $5.00 to $12.00 wardrobes $12.50 IflH-ary tobies $6.50 to $8.00 porch swings $2.00 to $3.50 phonograi^s $4.00 to $20.00

Strength For Today More Social Security

IF WE ARE aVILIZED

If there is a hungry person in this broad and fruitful land of ours we should look upon such a situation as a national disgrace. There will always be a few uho are hungry because they are inejX. But there is enough food in our country to feed ourselves and the world if need be.

As to pain, let us just remember that until a comparatively few years ago amputations and other varieties of surgery were performed without anesthetics. George Washington had a carbuncle on one of his thighs, and the surgeon (if you could call him such) took a piece of flesh as large as a human flst out of Washingtons thigh. It must have taken most of the Continental army to hold him down, but he got up and went

about his business without complaint.

The present goiwation of iXiysicians and surgeons are a blessing to our nation and a group of committed men seeking every day to make human life at least tolerable and happy, if possible.

But think of the people some thousands of miles away from us who are starving. Think of people right in our own land who never know udiat it means to have their hunger completely appeased.

We might transfer our thinking over into the spiritual realm and speak of peof^ who are q>irituaUy hungry.

Hunger is a menance any way you take it. It needs to be abolished, it can be and is on the way out if we are really civilized.

By Earl L. Douglass

By ELMER ROESSNER

The AFL-CIO has gone (Hi record opposing the proposed five per cent raise in Social Security benefits on the grounds that it is too low. The labor organization says that it should be at least 15 per cent retro-active to January 1, with a 10 per cent rise next year. It also favors raising the taxable base from $10,000 proposed by the legislation to $15,000.

COMMENT: Social

Security payment scheduleis will be kicked around endlessly until they are tied to the cost of living. The AFL-CIO is opposed to adopting the Gmsumer Price Index as a guide to increases in Social Security payments because, as Andrew J. BiemuUer, its legislative director, says, it would lock the elderly in their present inadequate poverty-level benefits.

It is true that many people

keep on working beyond 65 because they could not exist on Social Security paymoits, it is true the cost of living always rises before boieflts are increased, and it is true

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that the Ccmsumer Price hutex is admittedly an imperfect yardstick.

Nevertheless, Social Security rates will constantly be a political football ey7 election year until some method is devised to increase boiefits as the cost of living rises and to increase Social Security taxes automatically as more benefit money is needed.

For that matter, the financial affairs of the nation and every family in it will be

paign now. There can be a flood of $5,000(xmtributions to any candidate before ^[vil 7. FedMwl Reserve To Ease Mmiey Supply PuUicati(H) of the minutes . of the Open Market Committee of the Federal Resove System meeting on January 11 disclosed that the Fed is increasing the suiqfly of m(Hiey. The acthxi is taken because the economy hu not recovered as fast as idanned: COMMENT: If the Fed increases the money supply, it will make money cheaper to borrow and that will encourage businesses to expand and increase inventories. But lowering the interest rate will discourage the return of dollars from alnoad. Raising interest rates would attract dollars back to America, but that would slow business expansion here. Its a predicament wrapped in a quandary.

in a constant state of uncertainty until the government devises some way of creating a noninflationary, non-rubbery medium of exchange. The United States does not need a good five-cent cigar as much as it needs a 100-cent dollar.

Campaign Contributions Disclosure Required

Presidoit Nixon has signed the law requiring all presidential and congressional campaigns to disclose contributions. Because of Congresss delay in passing it and Mr. Nixons delay in signing it, it will not be effective until April 7.

COMMENT: The new law will probably increase the amount of campaign spending more than the old law would have. The old $5,ooo limit per contributor is gone; John D. Rockefeller can give $500,000 to the Nixon cam-