Thursday, September 2, 1965

N.C. Needs The Accrediting Agency

Proponents of the Speaker Ban Law will have er Ban I^w in North Carolina, we reallsse. But the to find some other reas on than the proposition that public ahould never listen to the reasoning that we do not need the accrediting agencies. we can get along without the Southern Afuiociation

TTiere can be no question that North Carolinas or any of the other accrediting agencies. They set institutions of higher learning need the Southern the standards simply because they are made up of Association of Colfeges and Schools more than the all the institutions which they serve. It is a good sys-association needs ua. teoi and it is one that North Carolina or any other

There are many accrediting associations for state singly cannot upset, colleges and every one of them has its place. Without them we would have no idea how our medical schools, law schools, nursing, pharmacy, business administration schools stand in relation to other institutions. '

Somebody has to set the standards for our institutions of higher learning. It is simply a matter of every game must have its umpire. We might not like how the umpire calls balls and strikes, but the only alternative would to be bring our own.

That is just what some people like Thad Eure propose that w^do in setting up only a state wide accrediting agency. The trouble with this flimsy reasoning is that nobody trusts an umpire which belongs to the home team.

There is considerable sympathy for the Speak-

We Don't Like To Guess!

!!^ussia Taking

A Great Gamble

By ELMEK ROESSNER

SotM Russia Iwa embarlE-f d oQ whiU may be the most precarious adventure R has ever undertaken. The conae* qoencee could be more important to the Free World than Berlin blockades or Moscow poUcy on Viet Nam.

The communists art experimenting wlUi the caidl^Utaitlo philoeo^y that pnrfUa are the best device for refuladng an eocmomy. Unitl recently, Soviet idanners decided what was to be produced, what the price and quanUty should be, and who wia to get the product.

Recently leading Soviet <k^ nomtsts have been tayteg that profits were perhaps just the stimulus that the economy needed. They (Ud not say that Individuals should get luwfits; Instead Uiey said that the success (tf any enterprise ahould be measured by the profit tt returned to the state, not by the number of items it pro-

KLMEl

ROESSNER

NEW COMMITTEE FORMED

A few days ago tiie government created a State Committee on Pric^. This committee Is expected to introduce the elements of suigily and demand in controllinff piices, allowing prices to seek their own levels.

This small atep toward free cnterpriae appears to have

Opinions In Brief

Senate has paaead a

bill to pay the rent lor people who ceat aiford It. Now if they'd iuat paas a bill to pay the taxea for people who cant afford it."Fort Myers (Fla.) Newa-Presa.

"A headline reports 'Wall St. Bandits Qet H.8 Million Stocks. Bonds. This is news?* Chicago TrilMine.

Though we all work for the government, consider the wisdom of the politician, since he gets paid for itAtchison (Kan.) Olobe.

duoed.

been taken because the old top-controlled production and price system hss been faltering, while soim experiments in natural prldng in P(Aand and Csecboslovakla have stimulated the econ<milc8 there.

Under the old system, factory managers (Udnt care what they were producing, whether H was delivered to the right pISiM at the right time, or whether the consumer wanted It at aU.

Aa a result, segments of the Soviet economy frequently have deteriorated Into shambles, Warehouses bulged with goods that werent wanted, and tiiere were shortages of needed Items.

PROFITS PRESCRIBED

To cure the ailment, several consumer induetriee, notably, apparel, have been put on a profit Incentive tsis. Manufactureros are expected to show a prtrflt. To do so, they must meet retailer and consumer demands.

Some in the West hall this experiment as a major defeat for c(wnmunlsm. They hold that the Ruaelans have admitted their system isnt working.

Others point out that the experiment is wi a minor scale; that it can be ended when expedient; that profit motivation is only one of many Russian Incentives; and that U profits don't go into manufacUirers pockets anyway. SIDE-EFFECTS

But the political and psychological consequences o(wld be shattering. A free, eupply-and-demand. profit-oriented market is economic democracy. The consumer has the vote. If enough consumers dont buy. they vote the supplier right out of business.

Soviet Russia Is, in effect, giving Its people more and more freedom and freedom is habit f<tntng. Recently it was announced that all consumer goods in Moscow and Lnilngrad would be marketed on a profit basis.

S(xne Russian publications are even advocating heavy industry be imt on the same baida. And StaUnwho eliminated hundreds of thousands of kulaks in his campaign to end Russian farmers Independent ways must have turned in his grave when a Red agricultural engineer suggested in Pravda that farmers be allowed to run the farms their own way.

Profit motivation and consumer choice are potent medicines to prescribe for com-munisma economic Ills. Who knows? With luck It might even kill the patient.

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Another Highway Test On Labor Day Holiday

North Carolina motorista face another holiday test during the Labor Day week-end when more highway traffic may be expected to bring more accident, injuries and fatalities.

The state's law enforcement officers will be concentrating their attention on preventing accidents, apprehending traffic violators anci reminding motorists to drive safely. But this alone will not be enough to assure a safe holiday week-end on the highways of North Carolina.

Highway safety during the holiday week-end will require the skill and attention of every driver in the state. The degree to which drivers devote themselves to safe operation of their motor vehicles will largely determine whether the Labor Day week-end traffic toll will be high or low.

Highway travel can be made safe only if drivers exercise extreme caution and cooperate fully with the effort to prevent accidents.

Television Sets A New Pattern

Realist

By ART BUCHWALD

By JAMES MARLOW

WASHINGTON (AP) - The country is getting x new kind of presidency. Television and changing times are part of the reason.

This week President Johnson looked like an (xi-the-ball chief executive when he went on television to announce he had obtained an eight - day postpwiement in the steel strike.

The idea wasnt quite new with him. President John P. Kennedy did pretty much the Same kind of thing. Johnson just does more of it.

Kennedy used a televised news (xmference in 1962 to congratulate the steel mioa and industry for what he thought was an obviously nonlna-Uonary" settlement.

^ Then when the industry, to his chagrin, raised prices, Kennedy used another televised news conference to denounce the steelmakers, who backtracked fast and dropped the price boost.

JAMEA

filARLOW

Gradually, as the American society and the economy have become more interdependent among all their parts, there has been less room for delay or undecislon.

The efforts of Truman, Elsenhower, Kennedy and Johnson to prevent or stop a steel strike, which would have meant far less 50 years ago, were all thought necessary to prevent critical economic damage to the whole natlw.

And, as the United States moved out of isolationism in the 1940s, firm and fast foreign decisions became a necessity, too. These requirements will grow greater In the future, not less.

This In turn undoubtedly wlU mean that president sin the future will at least have to give* the Impression of being not only good men which seemed the only criterion too many times in the past but strong ones, too.

The old - fashkmed. back porch presidential camilgn where only a handful of the citizenry could get a look at the man asking for votes is long gone. al(mg with sole reliance on short whistle stops.

Thus, as the nation grows increasingly aware of the need (Continued On Page 5)

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Oh Say Can You See--

The cynics may scoff and the left wlngera may grumble, but the Daughters of the American Revolution pulled off their biggert coup of 1965 when they got a New York girdle manufacturer to withdraw from the market a red. white and Nue garment called Stars n Stripes.

The pop art girdle made by the Treo Company was attacked by the D.A.R.s flag committee, who called it a shocking caricature and a de-cration oi the American flag. The president ot the Treo Company Immediately announced he was withdrawing the girdles from distribution and they would cither be destroyed

or given to a foreign charity.

It wtxild be a pity if the Treo ComiMUiy destroyed these girdles, particularly since so much time, effort and Imagination went into them.

At the same time I cant help agreeing with the Daughters of the American Revoluticai that no red - blooded American woman should wrap herself In the stars and stripes, which represents, If youll excuse the expression, the foundation of our liberty.

So I would buy the Treo Companys second idea which is to send the girdles abroad.

It is a known fact that 70 per cent of the people in the

Public Forum

Date-Ago Today

ty much as it happened. But, A \T _

sUll using the steel industry Zil J Y

as an example, they werent kj

Kennedy and Jotnaou were doing two things:

Taking action and* letting the nation see it close up pretty much as It happened. But,

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the only preMdenta who took strong action.

Dwight D. Elsenhower, after getting a postponement but then letting a steel strike start in 1959, finally asked for an injunction to cool it off. In 1952 Hairy S. Truman seized the steel mills to prevent a shutdown.

All four men had to take de-clslve steps in many fields which would have seemed extreme to presidents in the 19th century and to some of them in the first 30 years of this century.

But, with television so handy, presidents in the future, after the exan>ples set by Johnson and Kennedy in using it In tense, national m(nents, will be expected to go on the air to tell the nation the latest.

Further, since they wl be on screens from coast to coast, they wont dare look wishy-washy and must at least try to give the impression of decisive acti(Mi even w'hen theyre hedging.

But since the depression of the 1930s, when the nation had to look to the White House for actlwi. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the pattern for the future by acoeiXlng true responslbUlty.

Since Roosevelt eveiy president has found himself deeper and deeper in monumental problems that oouldnt be Ig- nored or let slide and the reasons for that are obvious.

By JOHN G. DUNCAN

September 2, 192.) ____

549,358 Pounds Weed Sold Tuesday Average $14.65 Sales blocked on open i n g day with more than three quarters of a million pounds of tobacco on the floor; all sales finished today by mid afternoon.

Traffic Census Shows 8000

Vehicles Entered And Left City Tuesday

Traffic at various checking points was as follows;

River Bridge ~ Inc(n 1 n g 1,148; Outgoing 1,145; Total 2,293.

Falkland Road Incoming 479; Outgoing 456; Total 935.

Parmvllle Road Incoming 548; CKitgolng 500; Total 1,048.

Ailen Road Incoining 75.5, Outgoing 787; Total 1,-522.

Cox Mill Road incoming 493: Outgoing 516: Total 909.

Washington Road Inc(n-Ing 624; Outgoing 716; Total 1,340.

Fifty million pounds is the goal set for the sale on the local tobacco market this season. With nearly a million pounds on the opening day. prospects for reaching the goal are more than favorable.

To the Editor:

Because they. . . have spoken lying words In my name, which I have not commanded them; even I know, and am a witness, saith the Lord. Jer. 29:23.

I have not sent these prophets, yet they ran; I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied.* Jer. 23:21.

Today, in visitation amcxig my church people, I had occasion to drive by an open field where only a few nights ago a great crowd had gathered. Still standing In the center of the open field were the remains of a burned cross. My four-year old daughter, upon seeing it there, questioned me, Daddy, what is that?

Did you ever try to explain to a little girl who has already experienced a great portion of the love and compassion of Jesus CHirist in the healing of her little body, that there are Godless men who blaspheme the sacred symbol of our faith? Suddenly I realized that this was the task which was set before me. I realized that in her mind when we talk of Jesus, we are talking of the measureless Love of God for all mankind. Would she be able to realize that there are those among us who honor Him with their Ups, but their hearts are far from Ifim? My conclusion was that even as I am unable to comprehend or understand such Godlessness, even she would not be able to understand. I decided that in order to answer her (luestion, I must deal with It In spiritual terms. I realized that in order to do this, I would be introducing her to the spiritual warfare of our age. As our discussion, progressed, however, I discovered that her understanding was aided by the Holy Spii'it, and what had seemed to be a hopeless task at first, became a spiritual exercise for me.

Honey, that is there mains of a burned cross. It was set there by the Devil himself. ^

Why did he set It there. Daddy, and why did be cause

it to te burned?

He set it there and Ixiraed it to frighten people."

But it doesnt frighten us does it. Daddy, because we have Jesus in our hearts.

Thank God for the faith of a Uttle child. How it sets our faith straight I We are in a spiritual battle, alright, but Jesus already is the Victor 1

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Ephesians 6:12.

It would be useless to point at a man, or at men, and accuse them in the issues of modem spiritual warfare. They are but envoys of the Master Deceiver, Satan. Oh, how the te*ophecies of Jerema-iah and Ezekiel are being fulfilled in these days. It does not astound me at all that there are some ministers who desecrate the call of God upon their lives by joining forces with the Antichrist, for this is the fulfillment of prophecy, but the thing which breaks my heart, is that there are so many people who have sat under the preaching of the Gospel o Love all their lives, and can then in perfect spiritual insanity,, join forces with the Godless, Lovelesa, and blasphemous forces the Ku Klux Klan!

I am very aww^ of those In the movement who can say, But ycm have to be a Christian to be a member of the Klan. To be a Christian, you must be a follower of Chrtet. To follow Christ is to be one of His disciples, and Jesus has said. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, that ye love one another." Certainly no member of this Satanic ideology is gt^g to say that the Klan is embracing this most basic requirement of disciple^p. I am aware that there are members of my congregations who attrad tbe rallies of the Ku Klux Klan. There may be some who are active members of the Klan.

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world who receive American foreign aid have no idea who gave it to them. The communists In many countries are constantly removing the U.S. aid stickers on the gifts, and there have been situations where they have even substituted the hammer and sickle.

This would be the first opportunity for us to give something to a foreign country where there would be no mistaking its point of origin. By giving American stars n Stripes girdles to a needy nation we would not only gain a great propaganda victory in the cold war, but we would also win the battle for the minds of men.

ART

BUCHWALD

I believe that in order to have the most impact the girdles should be distributed in backward naUons where they could replace the sarong or tbe grass skirt as the only garment worn by a native woman. In this way the stars and stripes would be on display day and night reminding everyone that even In the jungle the United States al w a y s there.

One suggestion was made that the girdles be sent to Viet Nam so our O.Ls could tell the loyal Vietnamese women from the Viet Cong women, but there was some fear that they might fall into the hands of the Viet Cong and confuse everybody.

It was also feared that the stars 'n strife could cause friction between American and South Vietnamese troops. So that idea was abandoned.

A third suggestion was to give them to the Soviet Union to show them how far ahead of them we are In the race to contain space.

But the D.A.R. rejected the idea on the grounds that supplying the Soviet Union with girdles would only give aid and comfort to the enemy.

While theyve probably got a point, I still believe that we Would be losing a great opportunity to do some good abroad If we destroyed the objectionable garments.

The D.A.R. deserves credit for calling the red, white wid blue girdles to the attention of the American public, and Treo deserves cre(flt for agreeing to yank them off the market.

Now Its the governments turn to decide what theyre going to do about It. An aid official told me: First were going to send one up a flag pole to see who salutes.

Jrrom

Asia

By JOHN CHAMBERI.AIN. Copyright, 1965, King Fea'..ures Syndicate, Inc.

From time to time l have written columns about a mythical Foreign Mltiiater of Rurl-tania, putting words into his mouth which, to me, convey the more common - setisical views of International relations. I never thought to run into the Foreign Minister of Ruriiania in the flesh, but not so long ago I did meet him. at a party in New York City. Only he wasnt a mythical diplomat from a make - believe land, he was a very real person named Thanat Khoman, the Foreign Minister of Thailand.

Thanat Khoman, who will be in this country in the autumn when the United Nations once again comes out from un d e r wraps, Is a man of salty wit who speaks a most colloquial English. If there is any move-ment to promote a phony peace in southeast Asia that will only serve as a cover for continued Communist expans Ion, you may be mire that Thanat Khoman will raise a most realistic voice against it.

JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Dr. and Mrs. J. E. W. Ctook and Miss Mai^aret Cook went to Oriental today.

This man, who carries the fate of Thailand on his weary back, sees through the Communists as most of us, In mir soft and easy - living land, do not. It might embarras him if I were to quote him directly on certain American commentators who argue that Southeast Asia is outside our sphere of Influence and who say that we cannot police the world. But Thanat Khomans own questioning about the univer-saJist drive of the Communists cuts sharply through the nonsense that We shall very likely hear this autumn at the teach-ins which the forces of the Left are now planning for scores of college camiHises. Have you ever heard anywhere, so Thanat Khoman asks, of any Communist power, be it from Asia or from Europe, recognizing that the free world, the western world, has a sphere of influence? In this world we cannot expect the Communists to recognize any American sphere of influence or any British sphere of influence, or any French sphere of influence. They consider the whole world their sphere of Influence. We have seen it in Africa, in Latin America, not to speak about Asia.

Thanat Khoman served in the underground during the time of the Japanese occupation of his country. Thailand, of course, had been the one nation of Southeast Asia never subjected to European colonial occuiwtion during the nineteenth century. It had become used to freedom, and Thanat Kbtenan was fiercely outraged when Japan, an Oriental nation, succeeded In turning Thailand (which means land of the free) into a conquered province where all the powers of Europe had failed. He is just as much outraged now when he hears complacent voices saying that the freedom of Southeast Asia is no ccm-cem of the West.

The problem, he says, is one of peace and survival. We in Thailand have no place to retreat. So we shall make our first stand and our last stand there.

The Red Chinese have already declared war on Thailand, In Thanat Khomans opinion. He points to the statement made by the Chin ess Foreign Minister, Chen Yl, that guerilla warfare would be wracking Thailand by this autumn. Thanat Khoman admits that his country has always bad a bandit problem in its less civilized reaches. The northeastern part of Thailand 1 Wirticularly wild and rugged. But banditry does not explain the emergence in Thailand of traders who have come frn aerse the Mekong River, Infiltrating through the paddy land. It doee not explain tbe rise of something called "the patriotic front of Thailand, which is a carbon copy of the National liberal Ion (Conttnued cm page 8)

Strength For Today

A Time To Be In Best Of Health

By EARL L. DOUGLaSS BURDEN OF A HEAVY CONSCIENCE We read in the Bible <I Samuel 16:14) that tbe Lord sent an evil spirit () King Saul which troubled him.

This statement has (rften perplexed Bible readers. Would God send an evil spirit upon a man to trouts him? He certainly would. He certainly did, and He certainly does to this very hour.

A person who has any conscience at all experiences considerable discomfort every time he does anything wrong. We can be pretty sure that it is the spirit of God Rimself--and not the spirit of Satan which gives us a troubled conscience under these conditions. That idea of God which looks upon Him always as the GIvTr

of pleasantness and plea^re finds no justification for such beliefs in the Bible, The Lord is indeed full of mercy and loving kindness, but the very laot that He is, causes Him to be extremely severe in His treatment oi erring men; not for the purpose of punishing them but for the pup* pose of turning them from tbeUr evil. God sent the spirit dis-c(Mnfort and misery on Saul not to punish him but to make his wickedness so a{H>arent to him that he would see it in all its hideousness and turn from It.

The next time you have a sore conscience, tldnk about it as one of heavens best gifts. Oid has sent a spirit of heaviness and distress upon you, not that He might repay you for your evil, but that He might redeem you frpni it.

By JOHN ABNEY

MEXICO CITY Kids down here often lack the toys and heaps of equipment their U.S. cousins have but it nev e r sUhis the fun. There is no shortage of imagination nor Ingenuity.

I watched this pair of peasant youngsters set up their own hospital under a tree outside our gate and learned more abcAit medicine in five minutes than I had in the past forty-six years.

The nurse was a chocolate colored young lady about five years old. The doctor couldnt have been n)ore than seven. He kept brushing his straight black hair out of his eyes with an air of surgical eWiclency. You could picture him removing 8omebody''B gtnard with this confident sweep of h i s hand.

When he appeared, canying a large flour sack with his in-

strummits, the nurse was sitting quietly beside a ripped cardboard box. The yo u n g physician put down his bag and asked, where is the sick one?

In tbe box. the nurse said. He should have air,** d medico observed patiently. How can I cure hhn if be does not brestbe?

"He breathes. There Is air in tlte bc."

I will examine him.*

The nurse opttied the box and removed a dismal looking tom cat. The saddest you ever saw. Persaially, I would have given him a square meal instead of medication.

But she laid him (m bis back in her lap and our intrepid fiuxfecHi proceeded with the examination. ,

First, he took a rock with a piece of string tied around It from the flour sack, put the rock DO tbe cats chest and lis

tened to the other end of the string.

His heart Is all right. Check the temperature. He handed the num a twig from the sack and she slipped It in one comer of the cats mouth. The patient lay there resigned and unconcerned.

Now we must banda f e him, el medieo said.

"No bahtUkge." the nurse said. We used It aU on tl man in the train wreck. Ah yes, recaUed the doc. He ran away barking at a car and took the bandage. I wiU make more.

He tore his bag into stripe and wound enough flour sack around the victims midsection to truss an Egyptian mummy.

*'He has fever, the nume announced. Studying the she had taken from the sletpf cats mouth. About fifty grees above normal.

TImM oouid iM bad. He must

have an int^ai wash im-znedlstely. The enema, please.

smaU

tck and handed it to the doc-ter. And the doctor applied It quickly and with great fikiU. At which point the patient oame to life with a whoop out in a

terruMe fashion.

So the medical team watch-screening over the hlU trailing many yards of b^dage. Like a low - flying

WeU, he appears to be cured, the medic announced sol-elmnly. Who else do we tove? The nurse scratch e d her face and looked around Very thoughtfully. But by the time her eyes reached our pte guess who ducked behind?

Frankly. I never felt better la my Ufe. . *