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Smoke Signals, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1968—Page
New baffle cry
heard from women
By Christopher Crittenden
N. C. Department of
Archives and History
Written foi* the AP
RALEIGH (AP) — “(Curse)
King William. I’ll drink King
James’ health, for he is the
right king.”
So insisted one John Philpot
in North Carolina nearly three
centuries ago, soon after the
“Glorious Revolution ” of 1688 in
England, when William and
Mary succeeded James II on
the throne.
The record further indicates
Philpot, when admonished by a
friend, replied, “Then (curse)
By FRANCINE SAWYER
The entire October meeting of
the Spanish Club was devoted to
preparations for homecoming
and the float that the club would
enter in competition. The theme
for the float was “The Five Cir
cles of Friendship’—which re
presented the five countries
participating in the Olympics
which are being held in Mexico
City. Each person on the float
represented a different aspect
of Spanish culture.
The November meeting is de
voted to a program in which in
dividual club members will par-
him again. " He was there upon
convicted of speaking “treason
able words” and sentenced to
imprisonment for one year and
forfeiture of his goods and chat
tels.
This is one of thousands of
cases recorded in a new vol
ume, North Carolina Higher-
Court Records, 1670-1696, edited
by Mrs. Mattie Erma Edwards
Parker and published by the
State Department of Archives
and History for $11. The volume
is the second in a new series of
the Colonial Records of North
Carolina,
The new series was begun by
ticipate related to Spanish-Am-
erican culture.
The December meeting is the
highlight of the Spanish Club,
with certain special interest dis
played in the area of Christmas
season.
The principle of the Spanish
Club is to supplement class in
struction. Students are given the
opportunity to speak and relate
the use of Spaish ideas obtain
ed in the classroom. Require
ments for becoming a member
is that the student have com
pleted 2 years of high school
spanish and one year of college
Spanish.
the Carolina Charter Tercen
tenary Commission and has
been continued by the Depart
ment of Archives and History.
The old series of Colonial Rec
ords published by the state
three-quarters of a century ago,
had so many errors of both
omission and commission that
a new series was needed if the
early history of North Carolina
was to be fully and accurately
recorded.
Local courts existed in the
colony from an early date, but
this volume contains only rec
ords of higher courts. The gov
ernor and council seem to have
sat as the highest court, which
was variously designated as
general court, court of chan
cery, palatine’s court, court of
grand council, and grand court.
A number of cases were con-
c e r n e d with “treasonable
words ” against the king, “abu
sive words’’ against the gover
nor, or offenses against private
individuals, but most cases in
volved disputes over debts, con
tracts, land titles, and such. The
volume provides vivid accounts
of the early colonists and their
concerns.
“It’s a far cry from the com
paratively informal Tar Heel
courts of the early colonial pe
riod to the well-ordered system
of courts now being put into op
eration. One can but wonder
that, in something approaching
a wilderness, the colonists were
able to maintain any courts at
aU.
By DAVID ROZENZWEIG
Associated Press Writer
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(AP) — A new battle cry is
being heard in the struggle for
women s rights. Put simply, it’s
“emancipate the men!”
A Swedish government report
to the United Nations on the sta
tus of women says any attempt
to give women an equal place in
the world without relieving their
traditional burden of earing for
home and children is doomed.
Thus, the Swedes reckon, hus
bands should be “emancipated’
from their work so they, can de
vote more time to cooking din
ner, doing the wash, taking
Johnny to the dentist and other
housewifely chores.
Undoubtedly this would mean
giving most men shorter work
ing hours and educating and en
couraging them to take a more
active role in parenthood, the
report says.
It even goes so far as to note
a suggestion voiced in some
Swedish quarters that fathers
are entitled to leaves of absence
from their jobs—with pay—so
they can stay at home while
their children are young.
“The government is well
aware that this view appears
revolutionary and unreaslistic in
the eyes of the representatives
of many other countries,” the
Swedes admit. “A growing opin
ion in Sweden has, however, ral
lied to its support.’
In a country where four out of
every 10 workers are women
and 70 per cent of its women
hold jobs of some sort, the prob
lem of working mothers in Swe
den is a burning public issue.
This lively debate, the report
says, has fostered a new ap
CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) —
Archaeologists searching for the
grave of Osceola at Fort Moul
trie today ran into loose rubble
at the Seminole Indian Chief’s
supposed burial plot.
Digging Within an iron paling
protecting what was beUfeyed to
be the grave site, the National
Parks Service team discovered
lots of loose bricks and mortar.
They had reached a depth of
about two feet early this after
noon with no Indications yet of
a coffin, skeletal remains or In
dian artifacts.
The only readily identifiable
articles uncovered were two
military buttons, one of which
Edwin C. Bears, Park Service
historian, said probably was
worn during the War of 1812.
The other button was from the
1830 period, Bears said.
A marble headstone and its
cement apron were removed
Tuesday from within the iron
paling, erected in 18888 or more
than 50 years after Osceola
died while a prisoner at Fort
Moultrie.
After the cement paving 'was
removed, evacuation revealed
a brick foundation under the pa
ling.The western end of this was
damaged and some of the bot
tom brick missing.
It wss at this point in the
foundation that a Miamia, Fla.,
man said he dug under the ce
ment apron on Jan. 6, 1966. He
later claimed to have removed
proach involving a break from
the traditional habit of regard
ing these problems strictly as
“women's questions.”
“The demand for ‘male eman
cipation’ in family life is sup
ported by the results of recent
psychological research which
have proved that the identifica
tion of growing boys may be
come uncertain in a one-sided,
mother-dominated home envi
ronment,” the report says, add
ing that this leads to “over-com-
pensation expressed in exagger
ated agressiveness and may be
one explanation of the higher
crime rate as compared to
girls. "
■ Public demand has therefore
spurred socialist Sweden to do
more for families in which both
parents work, a practice that is
becoming almost normal, the
report says. It lists a broad
range of family services avail
able to Sweden’s population,
from all-day nurseries to
domestic help supplied by mu
nicipalities.
But does it follow that what's
good for Sweden is good for the
United States?
Yes, says Dr. Margaret Mead,
eminent anthropologist, long
time observer of the role of
women in American society and
editor of a presidential commis
sion report on equal rights for
women in the United States.
“As long as we put women in
the position of caring for two
jobs, it isn’t equality at all, ” she
says.
Miss Mead endorses the Swed
ish approach to working moth
ers, but believes the problem
can’t be solved merely by giv
ing husbands more time and re
sponsibility around the house.
Osceola's “remains " from the
grave and to have placed them
in a Dunnellon, Fla., bank for
safekeeping.
The present ‘dig is a direct
result of that vandalism.
New course
is offered
at Iowa
(ACP) - Iowa State Daily,
Iowa State University, Ames,
Iowa. Black and White, America
1619-1968 will be a new course
offered as History 495M spring
quarter. The course will be
taught by Dr. George McJimsey,
history.
McJimsey said that civil rights
is currently an important social
topic and that its history is im
portant for full understanding
of today s problems.
He said this course is particu
larly appropriate because “cur
rent events suggest that many
assumptions about historical race
relations have been wrong.
The course will primarily be
concerned with social attitudes
and relationships from the Civil
War to the present. Because
Iowa Stateispredominantly white,
the aim of the course is to make
black relations relevant to ISU
students.
We don't speak the language, but...
these students of the Spanish Club do.Professor Carson may be reading from a Spanish
publication as members of the club posed for the picture. Members trom left to right in
the first row are: Mr. Carson, Martha Hill, Ann Shaffer and Jack Christian. Second row,
Hugh Forest, Bonnie Scott, Durand Ward and Marie Eldridge. In the third row are Bill
Carr, Bill McTheny and Ronnie Dunn.
Many cases reviewed
Court history published Grave of Osceola,
' ^ Indian chief, found
Spanish Club holds
meetings; roster grows
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