Elsewhere in this issue of the bulletin is a report on the status of a bill pending in the Legislature which proposes much-needed educational standards to qualify applicants for broker and salesman licenses.

The Licensing Board has found that North Carolina license applicants consistently score lower on the Princeton Educational Testing Service uniform real estate examinations than the applicants from some fifteen other states who take the some examination. This vividly points out the fact that North Carolina applicants are not as knowledgeable as they should be.

The standards proposed in the bill are at best minimal. Compare them with license requirements in other occupations. For example, to qualify for an apprentice barber license, an applicant must complete an eight month course in a state approved barber college. Then he must work under a registered barber for eighteen months before he can take the examination for a registered barber's license.

The key to professionalism in real estate is education. If the real estate industry is really interested in professionalism, every broker and salesman will urge his Representative in the General Assembly to support his important change in the Licensing Law.