Momay, July> 5, 1965

By ART BUCHWALD

New Strtiins Face School Capacity pp

Thoe who have been thinking that the pressure on educational fafeilities would be reduced as soon as the postwar crop of babies were educated obviously wcre mistaken;

A report released by the National Education Association last week pointed out that the bumper crop of pOvStwar babies are now getting through school and having families of their own. It will be

to catch up on demands being made upon them. The deficiencies in classrooms^^teachers and other facilities now will only make the_future educational problems more acute.

Most public school systems and institutions of higher education already are hard pressed to meet demands being made upon them. It is folly to hope the situation will ease off of its own accord in a few

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only a few years before their youngsters will be years because of a decrease in the number of young-

starting their formal education,

The national birth rate which reached S.9 million in 1947 tapered off a bit from then until 1950, but by 1954 the rate had topped 4 million and -reached 4.t million last year. The expert say the birth rate may reach 4.6 million this year and top 5.2 million by 1970.

This increasing birth rate, plus the growing emphasis on education at the public school, college and graduate level points to a continuing struggle to provide sufficient classrooms and teachers to meet the needs of a growing number of youngsters.

^ The situation adds emphasis to the need for each community to keep abreast of ite current school needs as nearly as possible. There is little possibility that the schools will get even a few years

sters to be educated.

The only answer 4s to begin immediately a concerted effort to overcome existing inadequacies. And even with that, construction of educational facilities will have to be carried out at an accelerated rate in future years to keep pace with demands for education.

Delicate Geographic Balance By Governor

By HARRY KELLY WASHINGTON :\P) -With a full six months of work behind it. Congress still faces some of its bkgest battles on domestic ISflidatlaQ amid the continued debata oo H. S. policies in the Vtet Nam war.

The White House's January hopes for a midsummer sd-joumment on CSpRol Hill faded long ago.

Not that Coofress has been aleei^g at tbs switch. President Johsson has pilad on a heavy load and is already talking about next year. So far Cooffress has enacted three of his top priority items; excise tax reduction, federal aid to seccndary schools and aid to the Appalachia area.

Destete some sound and fury CoQiress is almost certain to approve the Presidents request for a v(Alng rights bill, a program of health oara for the agwd. an urban affairs department. housing and higher education bills and a proiMaed constlUitional amendment on presidential disability. Some of these are well along the road to final action. Many other measures have been acted cm or are progressing ihroufh the legislative machinery.

Although the Demcrata have top-heavy majorittes in both the House and Senate, taking the suspense out of much of the cohgressJonal tuggiiiff vid hauling, there have been Indications that the road ahead will not be entirely smooth.

Despite White House ^foits. Congress gave the President

less than he wanted last week in reductions on the amount of duty-free goods American tourists can bring home frwn overseas. The celling had been $100 wbolesale.vriueestimated at the equivalent of $167 retail value. Johnson wanted this cut to $50 retail to help atem tha flow of dollars atnroad. Congrese voted a celling rt $100 retail.

Also last week,' the admlnls-traticm was faced with defeat on the controversial rent subsidy provision of Its $5.3-billi(m housing measure. The subsidy amendment survived by s 900-W2 margin ^r Democratic leaders agreed to major modl-flcaUims. The housing bill then won approval on a 24S-169 rcdl call vote.

The House also has dealt a rebuff directly to Secretary (rf Defense Robert S. McNamara and indirectly to the adminis-tratkm by shouting apiwovil of a military construction bill giving Congress a veto over the closing of military bases. The Senate, howe***r, declined to go along with 'hat and the issue will have to be dlclded by a Senate-House conference.

Not all the disputes have been confined to domestic policy. The debate over the Presidents Viet Nam policy has been growing. With increased American involvement, congressional debate and tensions are likely to be heightened.

While the chief OMioem mi he Viet Nam, most of the tol Kill work OMiterB on Johnsons d(nei41c programs.

If the make-up of the first two major bodies appointed by Gov. Moore is any indication of the dig-ibution of his future appointments, there will be a delicate geographic balance on state boards V.^iriSr and commissions during the Moore administration.

It is also evident from the initial appointments j that Gov. Moore is carefully avoiding being tagged JLjCIC C as partial to the Western eection by weighting boards in favor of that particular section of North Carolina.

The new Board of Higher Education, first body appointed by Gv. Moore, is made up of three members from the East, five from the Piedmont section and one from the West. The geographic balance of this board may be shifted somewhat as six additional members are named by trustees of various state institutions.

On the new State Highway Commission, there are five members from the East, six from the Piedmont and three from the West.

The identification of members of the boards by geographic areas may depend to some extent upon where one draws the imaginary lines that divide North Carolina into Eastern, Piedmont and Weston sections. It is evident, nevertheless, that Gov. Moores initial appointments are giving representation to all areas of the state.

It appears too that Gov. Moore is seeking geographical balance in his appointments as well as the qualifications of the individual members he is naming to various boards and commissions.

Most bills are now sent out on perforated business machine cards that say In large letters DO NOT FOLD, BEND OR MUTILATE. I have a friend who doesn't like to be told what to do with a bill, and one day, to my horror, I saw him fold, bend and mutilate a card right in fnmt of my eyes.

You shouldnt have done that, I aald, quivering. There la a curse on anyone in the United States who folds, bends, or mutilatea a bill. He laughed at me. Thats an old wives tale. This 1* a free country, Iwit It?

Only If you dont fold, bend, or mutilate.

Youre chldken, he said. No computer Is going to tell me what to do.

I didnt see my friend for

several months. Then I finally ran across liim In a bar. He was unshaven, dir and obviously had been on a bender.

What happened? I asked. The curse, he croaked.. The curse got me.

Then he ^Id me his story. He had sem back the folded, bent and mutilated card to the company and received another card in a wedt, saying, We told you not to P.B. or M. THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE.

I crumpled irar the card and sent It back? he said. Still thinking I had the uM>er hand. Then it started.

First my telephone, went out on me. I could not send w receive any messages. I went down to the phone company and they'were very nice

until they looked up my name. Then the wonum said, It says here that you mutilated your bm.

"I dlttat mutilate my lAonc bill.

It doeaot make any difference what bill you mutilated. Our computer la aware d what you did to another computer and it refuses to handle your account.

How would your computer know that?

There is a nmster computer that informs all other computers of anyone who folds

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Quality-Teaching Goa.

By WINFRED L. GODWIN

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Strength For Today

By EARL U DOUGLASS

THE NATURE OF GOOD EVIL

There are some thing In the world which are definitely evil, such as theft, murder and betrayal. There ere other things which are eeeenttally good, such M ktttdnee. helpfulness and love. But there are many other thtaga which are good or bad depnuUng on tlw use we make of them.

Sex is good or bad depending upon whether it operates within the boundarlet of law and love or outside Uwae boini-darles. Violence la good or bad depending "upon whether it Is carried rai to protect weakneee or carried on to further the aggressive will of some person or nation. Some things are good, (rfher things are bad, but many things are good or bad depending upon tha-motlve^or tbaeenUment which lies be.

hind them.

To the pure all things are pure. To the evil-minded aU

Many of the current headline Morles about student unrest on the campus^ dte student oonu;>laint3 about tte neglect of undei^aduate teaching.

Some student demoni^-tiojoa have damned the pub-li&h or perish doctrine, which they feel governs completely the hiring and promotion of mofessors. to the detriment of teaching.

Thera la no doubt that the rapid growth of research and put^c service oblteatlons of

things are evil, A man who is ^ most universities his had an

honest himself takea the hon-eaty of his neighbor for granted. A man who la dtehoned balieves that all hitman action is motivated by some aelflah desire. What does he get out of it anypay?

The queeticm all of us should ask ourselves la whether we are advancing good or evil by the attitude - we take toward things and persons. If we are suipiclous, Jealous, selfish, then we are playing Into the hands of Satan himself. If on the other hand, we are generous, loving, thoughtful, then we are cooperating with that God who Is the source of iH good things.

Much (rf the good and evil ki life become good or evil depending upon our attitude of mind and spirit ----

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hnpact on teaching. But perhaps the greatest threat to tb^ quality of teaching today lies in the combination- of spinJ-Ing eminent figures and the Bwtft ralargement of knowledge itself which is challenging the reeouroea of every slghlRcant campua in America, today.

To meet this chaUenge, the University of Kentucky has re-<^tly established some twenty Teaching Improvement Fel-lowahlpe for faculty members who wish to improve their teaching skills. The response to this program has been .ovei-whetoilng, according to a university spokesman. ^

The fellowships will give faculty members extended periods of time to redesign courses, especially at the under-gradoatf levr.^

The faculty members who

will go back to school this summer include a professor who wishes to develop visual aids for his courses in animal science, a Fellow who plans to work out a terminal program for engineering aids and one who Intends to develop methods for evalus^ng student performance in freshman English. Each of them will be working on his own to meet what he believes to be the most

pressing need teaching field.

This special program is but one facet of a farsighted, long-range pUa to Improve the quality of teaching at the University of Kentucky. A repcxt recently aubmitted to the' Board of Trustees by Univer-Mty Prestdent John W. Os--wald, calls for the develop-/ roent of an orlentatkm program for graduate teaching fellowa and new faculty members. It recognizes the tanro of insuring that freab-men and sophomore students receive Inatruction from the most able professors in the'' university. It points out the neoessity of finding more accurate ways to measure supcr-it* teachtog. And It calls k>r the improvement of such student programs as orientation, advli^ and lecture and cultora! aeries.^

The University also will seek wider rec^nition for excellence in teaching by establishing more outstandi n g teacher awards.

The Piiidents report points out that the university riHist take inxnediate steps to preserve and strengthen its teaming program before the institutions aize and complexity becomes such as to make these steps less efiec-Uve.

The University of Kentucky plan grew out of a thorough academic analysis and various faculty committee studies.

It appears to be a determined effort to strengthen the education of undergraduates In a large university that also has many comltments in reaeareh and in advanced study. As such, It may prove of interest to many universities which reci^ize that the knowled g e explosion and burgeoning classrooms have created real danger to teaching excellence.

(Wadiisgtoii Daily News)

When any oi us talk' about what phosphate mining might do to the water resources of our own area here, we are bmind to be speaking from a lack of knowledge rather than from a atore d knowledge.

This statement applies equally to the state of North Carolina as well as to Individuals. We suspect that if the truth is known right now, tho'^ phosphate companies on the scene here in Beaufort county know far more about the technical side of the water resources picture than does the state of North Carolina.

We suspect that the officials of the Water Resources commission and the Stream Sanitation oommiBsion of our state have recdved most of the knowledge tlutt It possesses right now from engineers hired and paid by the phosphate companies.

To say that we are not concerned about what might happen is untrue. But to take the dark and dim view that we are going to be ruined insofar as our water supply is concerned or that salty water eventually must seep into our underground sources Is to view the picture with-<nit the necessary information.

We feel certain that the phosphate companies are not taking this matter of adequate water resources lightly. They know that they cannot ruin our water ipply. They know that they must cooperate fully and completely in the effort

to work out the problems which will come wh phosphate mintog.

The state of North Carolina Just does not have the water englneCTing staff amilable with which to draw the conclusion from adequate knowledge that our water supply is to be ruined.

In time It might be necessary to have some regulatory legislation in this area, but when that time cmnes, we would su^ct that most of the information upcm which the necessary l^dslation is to be based will be that Information fathered and given to the state of North Carolina by the phosphate companies.

The idea of a debate between engineers d phosrtiate companies and those of the state of North Carolhia might serve to enlighten the people more, but it also might serve to coiiuse people and thus place many people In the tragic position of taking sides in a controversy brought on before the full and complete technical knowledge is ava-able. However, we have no objections whatsoever to such a debate. We doubt that the state will accept the challenge.

Speaking from a lack of knowledge la not only misleading. but also it might have tragic renUts. It is our opinion right now th^ a great deal <rf the knowledge that the state possesses right now was gained by Information furnished to the state by phosjrfiate engineering studies.

or bends or nuitilates a card. Im afraid there is nothing can do about it.

My friend took another drink. The same thing happened when my electricity v WM cut off and my gas. Ev-eryime was sorry but they all claimed they were unable to do anything for me. i Finally pay day came but there was no check for me.

I complained to my boss and -he just shrugged his shoulders and said, Its not up to me. We pay by machine.

You poor guy, I said.

But that isnt toe worst of it. One d toe computers got very angry and instead of can-celhig 6ubscripti(Hi to the Readers Dige^ it muUliriied It. Ive been'''getting 10,000 Readers Digests a month. Thats a lot of Mgcste.

I said.

My wife left me because she coultet stand the scandal, and besides, she was afraid of behig thrown out of the Book of the Month C3ub.

He started crying. , you're in bad shape, -1 said. You b^ter go to the hospital.

I cant be cried. They canceled my Blue Cross, too.

By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN Copyright. 1965, King Features Syndicate, Inc.

The domestic news out of Washington, D.C., these days stresses the give - away. Its nioney for anti - poverty, money for housing, money ior everything else. Representat i v e Barber Conable (R.-N.Y.) refers to it as undifferentiated goodness. But there is resistance to accepting undifferentiated goo(toess, even thcmgh the stories itoout it tend to get blotted out because d the heavy concentration of our journalistic talent in the ha^ tional capital.

There is the story d Doyies-town, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. for instance, which I would not have known about if I hadn't known acme Bucks County folks. This (toronlcle properly begins two year ago when Mrs. Arthur Baum, the wife d a well - known magazine writer on buslnesa subjects, persuaded a town meeting of citizens to revene its original Incliiation to accept an offer of $500,000 from Washington to pay for renovat 1 n g the downtown areas in Doyles-town. The town meeting decided on- moral grounds, as was explained later in a letter to Presl(tent Lyndon John son, that a healthy commimlty such as ours has no right to accept tax money from around the cmtotiy until we had first tried all our own ideas and resources to solve our own downtown problems.

Out of toe town meeting grew the project called Operation 64. was headed by two CO - chairmen. Prank X. Shelley Jr.. a Democrat, and Joa-

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Russian scientists claim to have produced artificial caviar. Hiey said it has been produced in a laboratory and that it tasted exactly like the sturgeon. Theyve already done prirtty well with the red herring.* Nashville (Tenn.) Teimessean.

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eph R. Krony. a Republican. wtx> delight in arguing with each other on public plat-forms. Operation 64 began by taking itoot(nqto8 all the store fronts hi Doylestown, which has its mlxtore d old pro - Revoluticttary and Victorian bufidinga. Then it hired a good water colorist to provide a P(tfoIlo of sketches to show what toe old buildings might beccane toe accretions of age and bad taste could 01^ be shucked rtf.

The towns merchants became quite exdted when fiiey saw the difference between phot(raitos and water colors. Wbat has happened since is that Doylestown has been remodeled as fast as it could get local labor to do It, The painters and the carpenters rt the area have been busy touching up old fronts and tearing off gewgaws that bad disfigured sound archltector a 1 plnns.

You wouldnt know the old Fountain Hcxise now, for that old and dilapidated pre - Rev-oluttonary inn has blossomed out as an up - to - date furniture atcne. The Doylestown bankers, getting into the spirit rt the thing, offered the towns merchants retwilding loans at low interest rates. But most of the merchants managed to accomplish the changes recommended by Operation 64 without borrowlnf any significant mma.

As Mr. Shelley (Democrat) and Mr. Kenny (Republican) wrote recently to Lyndon Johnson (who should have been lmpimJ by toe consensus). our Opermtioc 64 program. . .banded together all our local talents and tinan-cial ab^es in a apontaneous remoddmg of dom fronts and Interiors upMpJ down aU our business streets. Our goal Is now an unprecedented 1(X) per cent cooperatiMi of all landlords and tenants in clearing away accumulated dutter, coordinating colcns and adding plantings.

The CO . chairmen decided to write to President Johnson because his daughter, Lynda Bird, had talked about her daddys Interest in proroot n g the dignity of self - suffici

ency. We are concerned,

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A henpecked husband Is one who has been described as understanding everything his wife does not say. Bartow (Fla.) Herald.

a Kleenex Position. That is to say, he is useful, but disposable. Chattanoo(?a (Tenn.) Times.

Give-Aways On Japan Air Lines

Although a fifth will go Into three with nona left over, there may be one to carry. Ton-kawa (Okla.) News.

Novelty is not necessarily a .sign of merit, and the pedagogical graveyard is filled with discarded tl^riea. Shreveport (I*J Journal,

Politics makes strange Bedfellows, but they soon get used to the same bunk. Clark County (Kan.) Clipper.

It Is suggested that something besides gold may eventually hava to underlie the worlds economic system. Trading stamps maybe? Mobile (Ala.) Press.

The national debt, accord-ind to the figuring of Rep. Richard Poff (R-Va.) Is rising $2$.000 a minutebut that's not all. If you work an eight-hour day, the first two hours 20 minutes of your work goes for Federal, state and" local taxes. The national debt is on top of this. Chattanooga (Tenn.) News-Free Prese

A Ipog-legged ^eep in the

Himalayas is run forty

.^rcSit's the kind

miles an hour, of little lamb to follow Mary nowadays. Greenville (TernJ Sun,

After an electrical' storm in Avon Park. ^ Florida, a stores wall clock began running backward. Heres to bigger and better electrical

storms. Jackson (Tenn. Sun. '

A columnist In The Wall Street Journal reports that uia of the principal figures in the Dominican counter-revolutionary Junta ha.s. In the, cuiTCiit Jargon of geopolitics,

A'woman parking a car Ls like a preacher getting new members forhis church. They both giva It all theyhre irot. and b9th are happy to settle for oply a little headway." Fitzgerald (Ga.) Herald,

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By ELMER ROESSNER "The intematiooal Air Transport Association ought to lo<A into the operation of Japan Ah* Lines.

True, JAL charges (xy the lATA cartel passenger rates.

But the give-aways are astounding. I took JAL plan e s frdm San Pnmcisco to Honolulu, Tokyo, Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Taipei and back by way rt Osajlca, Tokyo. Honolulu and Los Angeles. And I picked up so many souvenirs and gifts that I was 22 pounds overweight on my return.

The Japanese have adopted the American airlines theory: Nobody can complain when hlB mouth is full. So they feed the passengers.

EAT, EAT, EAT Every few minutes a hostess comes around with food. Flrot, Japanese ig>peti zero. Second, American appetizers. Third, entrees. Fourth, Cheeses. Fifth, dessert. Sixth, fruit. Seventh, coffee.

Between courses, the hostesses bri^f cocktails, cham

pagne. stlU wines and high-ba^. After courses, more lmi

chmpame.

A traveling companion, Stewart Ramsey rt Business Week, td a hoeteas. In mock

She brought a highball glass with four lumps rt ke and filled to the brim with bpur-txm.

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seriousness; "We havent had anytWng to eat. Ip JEUteen minutes!

In great embarrassment she rushed off and returned with a platter of raw fiih.

And when the lAL crew la not feeding you, they am wining you. Every odd hour la cocktail hour.' And tha cocktails!

On the Tokyo to Honolulu fUght. a hostess asked me What I would carp to drink. I suggested a bourbon on |lia roeka.

YOUR PICK. PLUS

On the Tok^Hong Kaag leg. a hostess taught around a basket of miniatura botiles rt French liqueurs. I hesitated over my choi(te, finally selecting a botUe rt aprteot Tha hostess appeared to be Impatient at. my delay, Here, she said, grabbing a handful of the inlnlatures and putting them in my.lap.

Food and drink arent aU. On every teg rt my flight I got a new set rt JAL sUppen and a Japanese fan, phis a collection of maps, gufdsbookt and an up - chuck bag.

Then in addition I' was presented, somewhere oa every leg. with a JAL key chain, a silver spoon, a coupon goqd for % drink of orangB jnice at the next touch -7 down, a package of cigarettes and a pair of chopsticks.

No jade earrings? I asked one hostees..

"Na Jade earrings. aha

Then the wag(m came by again, with choice of cocktails and highballs. JAL is no line for Baptist minister.

Another time, after receiving a collecting d aouvenirs and gifts from a hostess. Ramsey said, I thliik this 1* a plot to load passengers up with an much loot that they win have to pay exoea baggage.

Ah. so!" said the hostess.

STATISTICAL PICTURE OF J^ANES^ people Here are some randcxn n<^ on Japm: It has 96 miUit 259 pec squara ntiiea. O toese, 28 per cent are in agriculture. 31 per cent in manufaeturtng and mining.

pei cent In other wwk^ and toe rest too young, too

(dd or pregnant.

The gross national inuduol In 1963 was $59 blUn, ono-tenth of that of the UJ3. That yielded a per capita tacoma of $620* An(J coimimer pricea have risen 30 per cent in the last lew gears.