4The Daily Reflector, Greenville. N.C.TuesdayMIdeceiiitier 12. It72

Whdt Voters Told The Party

Congre^man Walte^ Jones has shown through the years that his knowledge of politics is unsurpassed. Thus when he speaks of the rebuilding job the Democratic party has to do he knows what he is talking about.

Rep. Jones spoke on Parfy Politics and Its Delimmas before the Pitt Young Democratic Club last week.^

Certification Rift Runs Deep

By BRYAN HAISLIP

RALEIGH. N.C. - The state's two top public school officials are divided on a new procedure for the certification of beginning teachers

BRYAN ^ HAISLIP

Dr. Craig Phillips, the elected superintendent of public instruction and professional administrator for the school system, praises the plan as another positive step in the long process of improving the quality of what happens to kids in school."

Dr. Dallas Herring, appointive chairman of the state board of education and the ranking lay voice in school affairs, says it downgrades academic preparation of teachers.

Education ought to respect scholarship. This scuttles it, commented Herring in the wake of the boards approval last week for the fresh approach to evaluation of those preparing to enter the classroom as teachers.

Herring was in the minority of the 8-to-3 vote by which the board accepted the plan worked out by a committee of educators, representing teacher training institutions, caching professionals, and he North Carolina Association of Educators. New Factors Considered Proponents describe the aim as evaluation of the prospective teacher not only on the basis of academic achievement, but also the potential for professional performance and the personal and social characteristics of a good teacher.

The direction of the procedure, which is a first not only in North Carolina but among the states, is away from the use of the National Teacher Examination as a basic measure for competence.

When it is implemented, the practical result will be to open a bit wider entry to the teaching profession. It also will work to bridge the gap between graduates of institutions with differing levels of academic standing.

Tlje real point of controversy is in the weight assigned to academic preparation of teachers. In the past, it has been a major factor. A cut-off of score on the National Teacher Examination was a principal determinant in whether a prospective teacher received certification.

Quality Remains Good The shift does not mean a decline of interest in quality, insisted Dr. Phillips. It

recognizes that other qualities in addition to acquired knowledge are necessary in the make-up of a good teacher he said.

An opposite view was expressed by Chairman Herring. "This proposal constitutes a severe blow to the cause of academic achievement in public education, he asserted.

I have always believed that there is no substitute for scholarship. Few, if any, values in education excell it. Nevertheless, this proposal makes it possible for a person who is a complete failure as a scholar to be licensed as a teacher. It gives higher value to such doubtful characteristics as personal magnetism and the ability to speak a local dialect than it assigns to scholarship. It would have us believe that the blind can lead the blind, said Herring.

Field Tests Anticipated

The effective date for the certification change is July 1, 1973. That will allow lead time to prepare a procedures manual, train evaluators, and field test the program, said James Burch, assistant superintendent for special services.

It meas next Junes crop of graduates still must make a minimum NTE score of 950 to qualify for a teaching certificate.

After that date, the test still will be required but the result will be much less significant. The test score and the candidates rank in his graduating class will measure academic achievement, as one of three equal factors in evaluating readiness to teach.

Using the class rank assures that the candidate is measured by the local norm of his own institution, as well as the national norm of the NTE score, said Burch.

Some people just dont take tests well, he said, explaining the move away from primary reliance on the NTE score.

Two added categories for evaluation are professional performance and personal-social characteristics. At least three observers must rate the prospective teacher in these two areas.

A graduate can score a mximum of 50 points in each category. He must tally a minimum of 100 out of the possible 150 points for certification.

In theory, at least, he could wash out completely in the academic area and still qualify if he rated the maximum in professional performance and personal-social characteristics. In practice, the plans advocates argue, it is as unlikely that a college graduate would be totally lacking on academic skills as it is that he would be perfect in the other attributes.

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"The Democratic Party is in trouble, he said Qatly.

Since Pres. Nixon won the North Caroiina vote

in 1968 and repeated it in 1972, the Democratic Party has to unite and forget its dissensions in order to regain its power and popular appeal.

He went on to say, The Democratic Party is not did, however. This is evidenced by t^ fact that the party still has the largest registration and elected a lieutenant governor and attorney general.

The Democratic Party must regroup, recoup and make changes. It must seek out the candidate with the most charisma and ability to lead the party back to uhity and organization.

Congressman Jones is not often wrong in his assessment of the political situation, and in this case he has clearly pointed out what the party must do rebound in North Cardina.

Certainly intra>party squabbling must be end^ if the Democrats are to improve their position in future elections. The party must renew its appeal to people in all walks of life, the young, blacks and middle class citizens. It must be remembered that while the party suffered some set backs in this years election, it was not a sweeping defeat for the Democrats. Obviously the party has appeal to the rank and file citizen, and what the voters were telling the party was that they were dissatisfied with some aspects of the way things were going.

As Congressman Jones says, the party must regroup, recoup and make changes if it is to bring back the voters who defeated to Republican candidates this year.

Flunked Tests Of GOP Plan

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By ROWLAND EVANS and ROBERT NOVAK

WASHINGTON - The sacking of Peter G. Peterson as Secretary of Commerce in the wake of his triumphant intervational economic negotiations is the key to the otherwise baffling makeup of President Nixons second-term Cabinet.

Peterson flunked two tests of Cabinet-making which have guided Mr. Nixon and his inner circle at Camp David: first, the Cabinet member must fit the political grand design for a new Republican majority; second, he cannot be a genuine personage, possibly unwilling to subordinate himself to White House aides.

Besides eliminating Peterson, those tests insured a second-term Cabinet both faceless and symbolically political. That was the intent of the five Cabinet-makers at Camp David: the President, aides H.R. (Bob) Haldeman, John Ehrilchman and Charles Colson and that immendely influential Houston lawyer, John B. Connally.

Nowhere is their intent clearer than the Commerce Department. Stripping the Secretary of foreign duties fits the scheme of concentrating still more power in the White House. The new Secretary, South Carolina textiles e)|^i^utive Frederick Dent, meets both tests: first, a political novice, he is unlikely to challenge the White House; second, he helps cement the Southern wing of the new Republican coalition. Indeed, the Cabinet-makers considered only Southern Business executives to replace Peterson.

Conversely, Peterson was deemed unfit for multiple reasons; his high visiblity, his liberal friends on the Georgetown dinner circuit, his favorable press notices. The last straw was the Dec. 4 edition of Time declaring; After less than a year in the job, he is wielding more clout

than any Commerce Secretary since Herbert Hoover.

But Petersons biggest disability may have been his failure to fit Mr. Mixons political grand design. In White House descussions, aides grumbeld about Petersons past business association (at Bell & Howell) and continuing friendship with Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois. Since the White House targets Percy as Public Enemy No. 1 who must be kept from the 1976 presidential nomination, a Percy ally in the Cabinet is intolerable.

As we reported a week ago, Peterson was asked to become ambassador to NATO with greatly expanded duties in intervational economic negotiations. Mr. Nixon and his national security adviser, Henry F. Kissinger, intended this as a major position for Peterson. But the European base, making the mission harder to perform, would have pushed Peterson out of Washington as desired by the White House staff. The requirement to move to Europe also, less than coincidentally, led to Petersons rejecting it for personal reasons.

Similar logic dictated a new Secretary of Transportation. Despite public statements to the contrary, John Volpe wanted to stay. But the former governor of Massachusetts was too publicity conscious, too independent and too much the politician for the Cabinetmakers.

At one point, defeated Sen. Gordon Allott of Colorado was mentioned as Volpes successor. But there was no desire for Another experienced politician there. The eventual choice, Gaude S. Brinegar, is described by those who knew him at Union Oil Co. as a bland organization man sure to submit to White House orders.

Construction union leader Peter Brennan as Secretary

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Strength

LETS LISTEN

The youth problem is always with us. Adam and Eve had to confront it in the lives of their two,children, Cain and Abel. We may think that life is different in every age, and so it is to a certain extent, but there is also a pattern to history and to human Jife in general which must be followed. In his Epistle to the Ephesians (6:4) the Apostle Paul urged his followers to provoke not their children to wrath but to bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

We may criticize our young people to day for the frank and apparently disrespectful attitude they sometimes take toward their parents. But this has its good side as well as its bad. Children today come right out and say what is on their minds, and any parent who believed that he or she

For Today

can make children tow the line and obey without asking any questions is in for disappointment and strife.

One of the characteristics of this twentieth century is that people cannot get away with things as easily as they ^ used to. Tliey have to give reasons for what they think and what they do. the present generation of young people are not lawless and rebellious outlaws. They are an inquiring group. If soniebody (eyen their parents) requires something of them they want to know the reason why. Their attitudes and actions often call f^ firmness. But this does not mean that they must be disregarded inwhat they say and think. If there ever was a time wdien we needed to listen to youth, that time is ri^t now. Highhandedness has no place in modem life.

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By SMITH HEMPSTONE

Is Letter-Bomb Kosher?

James J. Kilpatrick is taking a weeks vacation. Smith Hempstone is substituting for Mr. Kilpatrick, who will resume with the release of December 19.

WASHINGTON - That Zionist terrorists of the notorious Stem gang may have tried to assassinate President Harry S. Truman and various member of the

White House staff with letter-bombs in 1947, as revealed in Margaret Truman Daniels new biography of her father, Harry S. Truman, comes as no surprise.

The Israelis did not invent theletter-bomb. That dubious distinction belongs to a Swede named Martin Eckenberg who killed himself in a London prisin in 1910. But

Other Editors Say How Far Down?

(Washington Daily News)

Just how far down the line will Governor-Elect James Holshouser go in firing state employes and putting in his own people?

That que;stion is being asked all the time among a large group of people in North Carolina right now. In fact, one newspaper article recently printed says that the new governor, if he wishes, will have around 5,000 jobs to fill.

Of those 5,000 position, some of course are top level ones, some are on boards and commissions, and some are lower level full time jobs.

Mr. Holshouser has made it very clear that he wants to get his own team in the saddle in North Carolina. That is to be ex-pectedv and whenever any new governor comes into office, getting his own people in high ranking positions is a certainity.

But how about state employes in secondary positions such as secretarial help, career people not protected by the state personnel act, and many others? Will they be fired too?

There is an old saying tliat to the victor belongs the spoils. Maybe Andrew Jackson said that, but it has been a political reality as long as we can remember.

Surely, there will be a lot (rf wailing when the new governor sets about the task of filling many jobs. Mr. Holshouser has said that secondary employes need not worry about their jobs if they are doing a good job. But w^ will determine whether or not they are doing good jobs? '--J A lot (rf people will be fired, and we can be sure of that. One leader has said Mr, Holshouser cannot afford to fire too many Democrats, because Democrats elected him governor. There is a lot of truth to that statement, but again a new governor has the inherent right to appoint to office or position those whom he wishes to name. North Carolina does have some top-flight personnel who have never been directly involved in politics. To name one, Lee Bounds, Corrections commisssioner, holds his position, not because of politick but because it is his lifes work. How about him and others?

We realize that Mr. Holshouser is going to appoint his friends to high (rffice. It would be our hope that friendship and ability will have equal status in making the determinations.

But again, we must say he has the right as governor to appoint whomever he chooses. That is the system under which we operate in North Carolina, and be it right or wrong, it is the new governors right and responsibility to have his own team operating with him.

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By HAL BOtLE NEW YORK (APA-- Remarks an author gets tired of hearing:

Why dont you write a cook bocA? Everyone else has.

Zionist terrorists perfected the death-by-mail device since apparently turned against Israel by Palestinian Arab terrorists and tried unsuccessfully to assasinate at least eight prominet British politicians and military figures at about the same time Mrs. Daniel says they went after Truman (former Stern gang leader Nathan Yellin-More denies that his group tried to kill Truman, but admits the attacks on the Britons).

On Sept. 3. 1947, a parcel-bomb addressed to a brigadier engaged in intelligence work at the War Office exploded in a London post office, injuring two men. Two days later, eight letter-bombs mailed in Italy were detected by British counterintelligence.

It is known that Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Stafford Cripps, Minister Without^ Portfolio Arthur Greenwood,' Minister of Food John Strachey and Maj. Gen Sir Edward Spears, former minister to Syria and Lebanon, were among those to whom the letter-bombs were addressed. Mrs. Daniel, who is the wife of New York Times Washington bureau chief Clifton Daniel, identifies Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin and former Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden as other intended recipients of the deadly missives.

The attempt on Trumans life was first mentioned in a 1949book by Ira R.T. Smith, a long-time employee in the White House mail room. But Mrs. Daniels book, which will go on sale in a few days, contains the first public confirmation by anyone close to the former President.

With the establishment of the state of Israel in November of 1947, the flow of letter-bombs to Britain slowed but did not stop. The last one sent until this year, was addressed to Gen. Sir Evelyn Barker, the former

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Ill tell you why I think you should use a nom de plume because I dont think anyone could make Willoughby Wilber-force Willoughby a household name.

You didnt put enough sex in it.

You put too much sex in it. I hear they are going to give a cocktail party when your new novel comes out but theyre going to hold it in a teleiriione booth.

I must say I havent read a word youve written. But I have read all the reviews of your books, and some of them didnt sound half bad.

What do you do besides write books?

Why dont you write a book on ecology? Ecologys big right now.

I wish my wife were here to meet you. Shes the one in the family whos gaga over literary lions.

Willoughby, this one really would have knocked them dead 50 years ago when the Saturday Evening Post was going strong. What do you plan to do with it now bury it?

I told you before you started the book I didnt like the idea in the first place. Now that youve written the book, I dont like the idea in the second place.

Well be glad to send you your royalties, Willoughby, as soon as they amount to more than the postage it would take to mail the letter.

Why dont you write a novel about astrology, Willoughby? Nobody can write a book on astrology that wont make a profit.

Why dont you spend your winters on the French Riviera, like most successful writers do?

Im afraid youll have to go back to driving a cab for the Christmas season, Willoughby, or else Santa Gaus wont come to our house this year.

If that guy is a literary lion, (Continued on page 5)

40 Years Ago Today

ByGWYNCOGHILL ^December 12,1932 Faithifully portraying events in connection with the Nativity, a pageant, Prince Of Peace, was presented at the Presbyterian Church last night and a large crowd attended in spite of inclement weather. Seventy-five people took part in the pageant and the choir rendered special Christmas numbers which added to the presentation.

A Christmas stocking campaign has been

inaugurated by the Salvation Army for the purpose of raising funds for

the Christmas dinner and three to be given to the poor through the annual Christmas three this year.

Calling Signals For The NAM

By JOHN CUNNIFF AP Business Analyst

NEW YORK (AP) - You may remember the new president of the Naticmal Association (rf Manufacturers as the smooth quarterback who handed off the ball to Blanchard and Davis, the touchdown twins of the great Army teams (rf the mid-l940s.

E. Douglas Kenna, much honored himself as a football and basketball player and coach, now is calling signals for an organization that generally doesnt hear the applause of the multitude or the praise of the critics.

The NAM is made up ht 12,-275 members, all top officers of thdr* organisations, all

men and women of very positive opinions that they seldom fail to articulate. They wouldnt be there if they didnt, said Kenna.

One job facing Kenna is to attract more members to NAM. Like other associations in recent years, it has shrunk in size. In 1962, its rolls numbered 16,327, but recession and business consolidations have taken a toll.

Although he accepted the job (Ml very little notice, Kenna expects he will be aMe to work easily with the as^iations 172-man board, eVen though that .board often is not in total agreement.

The common goal that

unites them despite differences on matters such as import controls is, said Kenna, that they are all for a good and healUiy business environment.

Does such an environment sometimes conflict with other national goals, he was asked? Yes, Kenna replied after reflecting, there will be areas of conflict. There must be tradeoffs.

He spoke clearly, very calmly, very certainly, with a slight Mississippi accent, drawing slowly on a fine, slim cigar. He is 48, still athletic looking and inclined to dress less conservatively than some NAM members.

"We need a policy in which

you wind up with a compromise, he said. We must take the rational cpdrse. That is the policy we seek.

That philosophy was restated many times by Kenna as he prepared to take over from W. P. Gullander, who held the job of per-manent president for lo years, at the recent annual meeting.

It is not unusual as it might appear for a West Pointer to follow a business careef after fulfilling his military obligations. At least one study shows that service-academy personnel, on a per graduate basis, ^occupy more top corporate jobs than the product of any top business school.