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Time To Solve The Issue For Good

Today North Carolina\? legislators gather with a chance to lay to rest once and for all one of the greatest problems to plague higher education in some time. -

The lawmakers were .summoned to Raleigh to deal with the highly emotional Speaker Ban Law.

As almo.st eveo'f>ii^ reads newspapers

knows, the law has threatened the state's institutions of higher learning accreditation. It is anticipated that, if the law is not modified, the -Southern Assoeation of Colleges and Schools wdll take some action soon.

It would be too pat to say here that the legislators should simply vote the act out and be done with it. The issue has become too emotional for that. Besides it is evident that there ia considerable popular .support for banning communist* from the campuses.

At .the same time it is clear that higher education will suffer greatly if something is not done to modify the law.

Governor Moore wisely appointed a study commission to look into the matter. They held hearings and after careful deliberation recommend-

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ed ^ plan for amending the law.

It called on boards of trustees to adopt policy statements to the effect that communists speakers would be invited infrequently and then only when it would clearly serve the advantage of education.

The governor accepted the commission's solution and called the General Assembly to special session with a recommendation that speaker control be returned to the trustees.

This solution to the problem seems logical to w ouf' hope that the General* Assembly

will not bog down in bitter debate over the issue. We urge the legislators to accept the policy statements approved by all the boards of trustees. We urge them to accept the recommendation of this blue ribbon commission and that of the governor himself.

North Carolina has directed too much of it* energies to the fight over this particular piece of legislation. It is time now to resolve the matter and turn our attention to building a stronger system of higher education for the state.

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By WILLIAM A. SHIRES PLAN The plan of grand trategy by staunch supporters of the Speaker Ban law is shaping up as a delaying action in an attempt to retain the conUxwersial law without amendment.

Outlines of this probable Strategy bq;an to appear in pro-Speaktr Ban Circlles over the weekend despite apparently heavy odds ag^st its luccess.

There were strong indications that diU was the real purpoae bdilnd increas i n g talk of *itrengthenlng" amendments to be offeri^ in this week's special legislative session to tne Speaker Ban com-promiae submitted by the Britt study commission.

Most pro-Speaker Ban legislator! Interviewed insisted they would prefer to keep the law aa written, without compromise and without amendment*. T h y oppose ' n y amendment including that of the Britt commissionwhich they feci would weaken the law. ^

STRATEGY According to' reports, their specific strategy will be to try to block quick approval of the Britt plan by debate on amendments they Will offer.

Then, in the meantime through delay and furth# arguments they hope to swing enough votes to deadlock the extra session.

Part of this overall strategy

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may have been revealed in the attempt by Sen. Thomas J. White Jr. last Friday to get the Consolidated Ucdversity turstees to change the key portion of the Britt plan, a carefully worded Speaker Policy statement White's attempt to put the speaker policy statement in much stronger terms failed.

His motion died on the floor for lack of a second. But ob servers saw the attempt itself as an opening gambit by pro-Speaktr Ban forces in the General Aasembly.

WHITE White is a newcomer on Uie Consolidated University board of trustees, but he is a veteran legislator, a staunch supporter of the Speaker Ben law and one of the more Influential and powerful ntembers of the General Assembly.

Addreiting the UNC trustees he conceded that he might be "as one drying in the wilderness" and expressed hope that "anything I say wi 1 not cause and discord."

He urged, however, that the trustees "adopt a police which can be effective, positive in its Btatemants, and in which nothing would be left to conjecture.' His policy proposal would have Imposed rigid ban on speakers now prohibited under the law except in cases In which a 15-member trustee committee screened speakers and determined that they "can impart knowledge which is useful and advantageous for educational or scientific purposes not availabel by any other means.

This, he said, "would be constant with the feelings and desires of the people of North Carolina."

AMENIXAfter his motion failed and the UN trustees voted to adopt the policy statement suggested by the Britt commission with White casting the only dissent White was surrounded by newsmen.

He declined comment on whether it was part of a would be offeied to the Britt bill in the legislature, or whetjer it was part of a strategy move. He said, however, that his acoo in the trustees meeting was his own idea,

"No one had seen this amendment until I off e r e d it," White said. He said he had not discussed it with anyone J advance. He added that he sees "nothing wrong" with the Speaker Ban Law as written.

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By WINFRED L. GODWIN

This fall, many a homecoming grad, strolling the campus or just listening, has shaken his head in amazement at what he has seen and heard.

A fall round-up of "What's new" by the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges spotlights not only the building bwm but efforts to improve and personalize undergraduate education, new teacher education programs, new curricula, and new research.

The building boom, which testifies to the vitality and growth of higher education In the South today, ranges from $9 iriillion worth of new cyclotrons at Texas A&M and the University of Maryland to a Space Institute at the University of Tennessee to the first permanent apartments for married students at the University of Texas and Auburn. The new skyscraper in Columbia, South Carolina, is a 20 story University of South Carol n a dormitory for women to male students "The Tower of Beauty.

Even as they grow rapidly, however, institutions are increasingly concerned for the individual student. Thus the University of Nori Carolina has established a small, experimental college within the academic community in an effort to counteract some of the effects of bigness, and Florida State University Is planning a similar unit. Louisiana State University has a free tutoring program for lagging students. Honors Programs for outstanding students have been established or expanded at the University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma State University, Tennessee A&l, the University of South Carolina and other institutions.

A renewed emphasis on better teaching is apparent on many campuses. The University of Texas S>^tem is launching an extensive survey of its total teaching program, while launching a new program to select outstanding advanced graduate students as "teaching associates. At the University of Kentucky, 20 professors have returned to the classroom after a summer's work, financed through the universitys new program of teaching fellowships, to im-

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prove instruction in their disciplines. The University of Maryland awards to recognize excellence has established five $1,000 awards to recognize excellence in teaching.

New curricula reflect a mowing sensitivity to new problems. This fall a new graduate center for Slavic and East European studies and a department of Urban and Regional Planning opened at Florida State University, and Virginia State College Is one of a number of Southern institutions which is offering added courses in Russian language and literature.

Preparing better public school teachers is a major con-of higher education today. The University of Georgia will instruct 500 elementary school teachers in the "new mathematics this year in an experimental in-service program, the first and largest of its kind in the country. And the* University of Virginia is experimenting with a salaried fifth year paid internship teaching program in selected Virginia school systems which may eventually replace student teaching.

These changes are but a fraction of those occurring in hundreds of Southern Institutions large and small. But our public colleges and universities, because they must expand rapidly and provide many new servicw, are especially challenged to increase quality while coping with quantity. There is much evidence that they are responding to that challenge.

Opinions In Brief

Its hard to drive in todays congested traffic in a lawful manner and adopt a turn-the-other- cheek attitude towards the deliberate violator. Its hard to resist the feeling that 'If he can get away with it, so can r. . . . It takes a strong person to keep his or her temper when taken advantage of by a willful violator. But it takes real guts to keep from joining him. Delphi (Ind.) Journal.

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By JOHN CHAMBERLAIN

Copyright, 1965, King Feature* Syndicate, Inc.

Business has been a very definite part of the Lyndon Johnson consrnsus. But the first faint rumblings of a break in business adherence to the remarkable coalition that LBJ'put together to beat Barry Goldwater are unmistakable.

... But men I Said. .Turn Out The T Jghtsr I Didnt Mean... , By ART BUCHWALD

The Anti-Poverty War

One of the big debates going on in Washington this week is whether the poor people should have a voice in the war on poverty. Everybody has been heard from on the subject except the poor people themselves. So I decided to go out and Interview a poor person and ask Wm what he thought about it. It wasn't easy to find one, because nobody likes to admit to being poor. Also, poor people are suspicious ot strangers asking questions. They believe, and rightly so, that no good can come of It.

I finally found a man in a bar In one of the rundown sections of Washington who

was willing to admit he was poor and also willing to talk about it.

1 asked him if he thought he would like to serve on a committee to see what could be done about poverty.

"Mister, if I had any ideas what to do about poverty, I wouldnt be poor.

"But there is a school of thought in Washington that poor people are the only ones who know the real problema of the poor and they should be strongly involved in the program to formulate and implement anti-poverty programs.

"I wouldnt serve on such a board unless they paid me.

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"What a difference this world would be if people would magnify their blessings the way they do their troubles. Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution.

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"Abundance is not enough. The strength of peoples and powers lies in the qualities possessed by those who celebrated the first Thanksgiving independence, a profound sense of individual respott-sibility, a deep spiritual belief, and dedication to freedom for all. Industrial News Review.

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A friend stopped by the other day to speak of the Decline of the West. As conclusive proof he offered in evidoice the electric ash tray. "Its fascinating, he said. And indeed, the West had so far declined that he himself had bought one of the gadgets, thereby putting himself out of twenty-five bucks.

"Did you ever see a more splendid way to go?" he asked He pushed the button. Two little silver trap doors opcai-ed in the bottom of the tray and the ashes were swept silently away. It had a battery in it somewhere that relieved the smoker of the exertion of pushing down on an old-fashioned mechanical plunger.

The Surgeon-General can say what he wants, he said, "but this labor-saving device will enable the weakened addict of the filthy weed to be neat even as the victim expires. The Decline appeared to be of the long, malingering kind.

These remarks pul us kt mind of a hot item on the novelty market a few seasons back, A small black plastic box had an impressive-look-ing switch marked, irresistibly, OFF and On. When switched on, the box began to grind and shake, then the lid slowly lifted. A little hand came out, turned the switch off, then popped back In,

Now with such inventiveness rife in the Nation, it seemed that the Decline could be staved off by a combination of both items. The external appearance of the electric ash tray would not be changed. Inside there would be modifications.

The smoker, despairing to quit, but weakening in his resolve, would incautiously lay his freshly lit cigarette on the lip of the tray. This would immediately activate the mechanism. The doors would open, the little hand would reach out and snatch the cigarette away. That way the smoker could quit with no ifs, ands, or butts.

he said.

"Oh, Im sure they would pay you. If they agreed to pay you, what is the first thing you would do?

"Id movs out of the neighborhood.

"But if you did that, you would lose contact with poor people and you would no longer be able to speak for them. "Exactly. Poor people dont want to be spoken for. They Just want to get the heU out of the neighborhood. Asking poor people how to win the war <m poverty is like asking the Japanese how to win World War II.

"Youve got a point there. But there is a great deal of pressure to have poor people worjc out their own destinies in the anti-poverty program. "Okay, then let them put everybody who is p<Kjr on an

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As this column is being written, the President and file aluminum companies are in a sort' of muted hassle. There has been no blast this tima at people my dad always said "^ere s.o.bs. Lyndon Johnson does not like to shout but the suggestion that the time had come to work off some of the "excess in the governments aluminum stockpile could only be coiKtrued as a threat of interferencie with market forces. And the former chairman of the Presidents Council of FiConomic Advisers, Walter Heller, was simply not believed when he sai(i that recent gains in wages are not in excess of the government guidlines wh i 1 e the stated aluminum price increases go beyond guidepost justification.

The hassle over aluminum is merely one portent in the sky. WhUe questions of price control touch the producers, the international monetary question touches just about everyone. What is not yet clearly understood is that John sons attempt to bring our

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anti-poverty committee and pay them all a salary. Once theyre on a salary, youll solve every problem a poor person has. And theyll all move the hell out of the neighborhood.

"On the surface this sounds like a good solution to the problem, but it would put a great financial strain on the government.

"Yeah, but if you put people on salary, you wouldnt have to make welfare payments, and the poor people would pay taxes, so it would eventually even itself out.

"I agree, I said, "but if you put all poor people on antipoverty committees and paid them, you would eliminate poverty and there would (Continued On Page 5)

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foreign payments into balance by cutting down on the flow of dollars to other countries is creating a hint of revolt in the U.S. Senate. Some of the Democratic Senators in the Influential class of 58. headed by Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota and Vance Hart-ke of Indiana, hold very strongly to the idea that the attempt to keep American business from investing oversea* must have an inevitably depressing effect on American exports.

The argument is simple: if Europeans and Latin Americans cant get their hands on dollars, they re not going to step up their purchases of American goods. What wa have, according to the Hartke-McCarthy school of thinking, is a Treasury Department and a (Commerce Department that are working at cross-purposes. Our annual deficits, this school points out, actually flow from the non-commercial commitments of the U.S., such as maintaining an army ia Germany, a fleet in the Mediterranean, and a big military force in Southeast Asia. T.h* proof that the dollar is not fundamentally weak is proved by the fact that wp couM easily balance our payments if we were not usbg o if money to shore up the political foundations of the Western world. This, acc*ording to the Hartke - McCarthy school, gives us a tiinlly superior trading position that could be used to bring world stability without sacrificing either ou^ exports or our foreign investments.

Since the D e m o c r atic "class of 58 in t e Senate is demoDstrably pro-business In situations where business (Continued On Page 5)

Strength For Today

No Need To Return The Bottles

By EARL L, DOUGLASS RESOURCEFULNESS

How much oserucfue -rl ness do you have? (hr rather, how much resourcefulness do you employ in your daily living?

We can be sure that the people who get ahead in life are the people who use to best advantage the resources they have. There are dishonet men in tlie business world although comparatively few but most successul business men reach their success because they are resourceful. They indelfy themselves with enterprises in which less resourceful people can see no advantage. One of tlie highest-paid officials in the United State isa man whose huge salary is paid him because hq knows precisely whst the people will buy.

Successful playrights pick up some little item of interest and make a fortune out of its dramatic presentation. There are artists and artists, and some of them appear pretty hideous to most of us. But they have a following. They cater to this following. Sixty years ago the automobile was a high-pric-rich could buy. Then Henry Ford decided he would make a car and offer it at such a low price that the men who worked in his factory could buy it.

Many years ago I knew a man who made a fortune out of sawdust. Many of us remember the da/ a man came through our town selling a device he had invented. the zipper. No one of course would put money in a silly tiling like that. But some did and grew rich.

By ELMER ROESSNER

That rumbling sound you hear is my grandfather, Ferdinand Wilhelm von Rossner, taring over in his grave. My grandfather was a thrifty man and when he went to the comer for a pail of beer he always rubbed a little lard around the top of the fowler to keep it from foaming too much, and when he got beer in a bottle he was careful to return the bottle to get his deposit back. So indeed he must be distressed at the great American trend to non-returnable containers.

It is a by-product of the great wave of prosperity. Just as wives want beans already strung and cut,iabands want ncmretumable beer containers and the children wapt pop n^etumable bottles for which there was a 2-cent return. "Run out of money, sonny?

I asked. "No, he said. Im trying to keep the beach clean.

ni take these to the dump. WHO NEEDS SMALL CHANGE The fact is that with incomes as high as they are, most people, even children, do not think it is worth 2 or 5 cents to bother taking a bottle back to the store. May-

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be they are right If a person can sell his time for $1.50 an hour, and it takes him mom than 48 seconds to return a 2-cent bottle, he is losing money. And if it tak' hir more than two minutes to take back a 5-cDt bottle hes stilck.

Years ago, when glasswork-ers had their anual picnic, they always ordered beer in bottles instead of in kegs, and after draining each bottle, they smashed it The loss was small and the workers felt thkt part of it was regained in added employment. And their employers were happy about the ritual.

But the breakage Is not necessary at todays picnics. Glasswo^ers, it may be assumed, JRsist in beer in bottles instead of kegs or cans, but they dont have to go to the trouble of breaking non-returnable bottles.

BUSINESS WEEKEND,

THE NONRETURNABLE BOOM

The fact that many people cannot afford to return bottles, and others simply wont be bothered, has had a double impact on the economy.

First, it has stimulated bottie-making tremendously.

Demand for bottles has ris6B so much that several manufacturers have offered to establish plants righ* in breweries and soft-drink bottling plants.

Bottle-makera have lost part of the milk-container business to waxed paper ana plastics; they have lost much softrdrink and beer business to can manufacturers. However, nonre-tamable bottles have made net gains large.

Second, a violent battle has broken out between aluminum and steel can manufacturers. Because people wont take bottles back, a margin of about a cent a can has dev^oped. In other words, a bottler using nonretumable bottles must charge, a cent more for his product (A 2-cent depcit bottle is worth only a ceat after' costs of handing and sterilizing.) This gives can-makers..a cent margin to work in, and they are nsl^ It