Page Two
The Chapel Hill Weekly
Chape] Hill. North Carolina
£. Rosewsrr Telephone 9-1271 or 8461
Published Every Tuesday and Friday
By The Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc
Louis Graves Contrttmtinp Editor
Joe Jonxs Managing Editor
Bn;v Arthur I Associate Editor
Or\tlu Campbell Genera! Manager
O T Watkins Adi>enistng Director
Charlton Campbell Mechanical Supt.
ICnterec *econa-cl*» matte Fehruary 3t IB2L •'
thr pcatoffirr m Chap*: H\L North Carolina, under
' the art mt March 3 IBTI
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
It Orange County, Year tA.OO
<€ month* J 2.25; 8 month?, $1.60)
Outside of Orenge C«BQty by the Year:
State of N C„ Va., and S. C. - L6C
Other Stater and Dim of Columbia —— 6.00
Canada. Mexico, South America 7.00
Europe - . • 7JO
Notes on Smoking
Stuart Symington, United States
Senator front Missouri, who is being
talked about extensively as a dark
horse, and less dark that, any other,
for the Democratic nomination for
President, was the subject of a biogra
phy by Joe Alex Morris in last week’s
Saturday Evening Post. Because of its
large volume of information about him,
its liveliness' and humor, and the tre
mendous circulation which the Post
has given it, this article will add great
ly to Symington's prestige.
One statement it makes about him
is: "Senator Symington has not smoked
for years.”
This interests mp because 1 have read
the same thing ir: the last few ymar
about so many men prominent in go,-
ernment, in the pr f ess ions, in tne art.-,
and in business. And of course for
every one person who is sufficiently
important to have b-<-n written about,
or to haw. beer: ashed t* tat*- his own
record in a new.~pap* r or a magaz.ne
article, there are thousand- * f obscure
persons who hate gi\en up the habit
without proclaiming it to the public.
J have beer, impre.-sed by "the large
number of persons ir. my own acquaint
ance who have quit. The six of us at a
dinner one evening last week, all of
whom had once been smokers, failed to
realize till the party was breaking up
that not one of us had lit a cigarette.
It turned out, from the testimony, that
we had all quit the habit long enough
ago to 1a; sure it was for good. And
J am coming to be in gatherings similar
to this one, if not exactly like it, more
and more frequently. Among the people
I know the proportion of smokers is
unquestionably becoming smaller.
But tßis may not mean much, for
obvious reasons. Since I am growing
older, so naturally is my whole acquaint
ance. Os course there are a lot of us
who don’t take as good care of ourselves
as we should, but on the average we
look after our health better every year
than we did the year before. Not much
better, maybe, but a little. We have
to if we want to keep on living.
The statistics of sales show that
the consumption of cigarettes is not
falling off. There’s no mystery about
this; it’s because of every year’s tre
mendous new crop of smokers, boys and
girls. It’s a tough fight for grown
people who have placed themselves in
the grip of the cigarette habit to give
it up. It’s the easiest thing in the world
for boys and girls; to acquire the habit.
The silly young things are doing just
what we were doing thirty or forty or
fifty years ago, and it’s no good scold
ing them or preaching to them about
it. There will be a big proportion of
them who will recognize later on the
go od sense in what we say—but by that
time there’ll be another crop of boy
and girl smokers. And so on and on.
It will take a long time to tell wheth
er or not the danger of cancer of the
lung, or other dangers to health, will
become powerful enough persuasions to
put the cigarette habit on the perma
nent decline. The colossal financial in
trest on the other side—always building
it up, building it up—does not make the
outlook encouraging.—L.G.
The Hodges-Pearsall Plan
(Smithfield Herald)
The Hodges-Pearsall plan is hailed as
a plan to preserve the public schools.
But is it likely to accomplish that
worthy objective? This is the all-im
portant question before the people of
North Carolina.
We should look at the Hodges-Pear
f.ii plan honestly. It is a plan to evade
compliance with the Supreme Court
decision against segregation. It is not
a plan for gradual compliance with the
decision. It is a plan that holds out
hope—a false hope—that North Caro
lina somehow will be able to maintain
its segregated schools on and on and on
without defying the law of the land.
Because it is a plan to circumvent
the declared law of the- land, the* Hcidg
es-Pearsall- plan may be expected * in
vite- strong action from those wh arc
working to break down the walls of
segregati *n. It will invite suits from
Negro parents to compel admission of
their children to unsegre-gate-d schools.
It is logical that, in its pursuance of a
plan to prevent implementation of the
Supreme Court decision. North Carolina
will be confronted w ith numerous court
actions to force integration. Extremes
beget extremes. Stubborn positions
breed stubborn positions. The Negro
wno welcomes tthe Supreme Court de
cision. we may be sure, regards the
Hodges-Pearsall plar. as one of stubborn
resistance to desegregation. It should
not surprise anyone if he reacts by
taking a rigid aggressive position of his
own.
And we may as well face this truth:
If ctourt actions are brought to force
integration, the integrationists will win
decisions They will won every time if
th< evidence show - that a state or com
munity has made no move at a!, toward
compliance with the Supreme Court
decision and has failed to show the
"good faith” in observance of law which
is required by the high court
On the other hand, if North Caro
lina demonstrate.- good faith and moves
toward compliance, under a plan of gen
uine gradualism makes use of the state's
as-;gr:rr,cr.t law ana recognize- the un
wisdom of trying to rush desegrega
tion in the many comm unit;* - not pre
pared to accept it, the probability is
that suits to compel integration will be
few in North Carolina if not non-exist
ent. And the further possibility is that
when good faith ha- been demonstrated
the court-, if actions should be brought,
w ill car* fully c* nsider the variations
< f loca. conditions in handing down
ruling- and will not’ be harsh toward
communities confronted with genuine
"intolerable situations.” The Supreme
Court already has indicated that it un
derstands the South’s; problems: and
i wishes to take a reasonable rather than
an iron unsympathetic approach to en
forcement of the ban against segrega
tion.
The author- of the Hodges-Pearsall
plan are disturbed by the possibility of
"intolerable situations” and provide for
escapes from such situations —for ex
ample, local option elections on abandon
» merit of the public schools. The reality
is that pursuance of the Hodge,s-Pear
sall plan likely will create intolerable
situations as it invites suits to compel
integration. And the plan creates in
tolerable situations, it may be expected
to set in motion local elections through
which emotionally stirred voters will
abolish public schools. Thus the plan
hailed as; a plan to preserve the public
schools is in reality a plan that will
breed the likelihood of a destruction
of the public schools.
Does North Carolina wish to abandon
the public school system? Public edu
cation has undergirded all the progress
our state has made in the past half
century, and we ought to seek solutions
to the problems created by the anti
segregation decision without opening
the door to abandonment of the public
schools. Jn the search for ways to live
with the Supreme Court decision, we will
need to strengthen, not weaken or de
stroy, our system of public schools.
Sees Merit in Plan
(Chatham News)
When the special session of the Gen
eral Assembly is convened on next Mon
day North Carolina’s people will be fully
aware that its members, led by Gover
nor Hodges and members of the ‘‘Pear
sall Committee’ have made an honest
effort to put forth legislation that will
save, rather than destroy, the public
schools.
In order to better understand what
the proposals are attempting to do it
should, first of all, be conceded that the
people of North Carolina are opposed
to mixing of the races. Because, Gov
ernor Hodges said, the attitude of the
people has been decent and moderate,
it should not be construed by anyone
that any great portion of the state’s
people are inclined towards integration.
Although silent and often inarticulate
in open debate, the people have a deter
mined intent to resist integration to the
utmost.
Memebrs of the Pearsall committee
and the Governor have long been aware
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
Nine Days on University Lake ...
Eric Crabtree, Born and Brought Up in This Community,
Has Served Chapel Hill as a Fireman for Seven Years
By ( harlie Robson
Whin 1 went over to the
Town Hr. the other day -to
taik to Err * rabtree, he had
just return*-: from fourteen
days vara;, r. Nine of those
fourteen cays he spent fish
,np or. Ur vers;ty Lake. That's
■ne ff the things he l.kes
to dc most.
Another thing he l.kes is
being a fireman. He doesn’t
say murk about it. but you ran
tell by the way he acts.
"I guess about the biggest
fire for me was that one at
the fratern,ty house, just as
it was for M• bane Durham.”
he said Right now, though,
the Fire Department hasn't
beer, tor busy, he said. Summer
is their “quiet season.”
An interesting thing is that
ir, recent weeks they’ve an
swered more raiis outside of
of town ir. the newiy created
fire district They’ve put out
a coupe of rrass fires, ana
then there was the fire at the
home of Cesro Mayse on the
Durham Jioac. About the only
f:re m town recently was in
a srr.a.. storage shed.
For fighting f.res in the
c strjrt the Department has;
a system a., worked out and
approved by the state insur
ant* man he said. If there
are. two or m re firemen on
at the stat, r. at the time of
a ca.i, and there are usually
three of them on duty, one
of then. w;.. take the fire
'ru'K out to the fire. They
Billy Graham
A) Resoh in ( hatham News
Or.e of the outstanding fea
tures of th<- press association
meeting in AsheviJie last
week-end wa the appearance,
a a banquet speaker, of F.var.-
geii.-t Buiy Graham, i suppose
that a.or.g with many other.- I
had formed an opinion - of the
man that prejudiced me against
burn to some extent. After lis
tening to him i came away
convinced tr.at J had develop
ed a completely erroneous:
opinion. J was; impressed w-th
his complete- sincerity, the ab
sence of guile and his willing
ness to Lay on the line” his:
main objective- to win people
to Jesus Ghrist.
In discussing his appearance
before us with a number of
North Carolina newspaper
of this although some of their critics
have contended that the silence has
denoted approval of the Supreme Court
decision. Such thinking is extreme op
timism not supported by a real evalu
ation of the situation.
Suggested legislation, in our opinion,
makes it possible for the state to con
tinue to support its public school pro
gram while restricting “intolerable
situations” even to a single school.
If any community in North Carolina
is desirous of making a start towards
compliance it can do so without having
to conform to a statewide pattern.
Neither integration or segregation is
being forced on any school district un
der the provisions of the suggested leg
islation.
Permission to make adjustment on
the local level is the chief "safety valve”
in the entire program. To make such
adjustments on a statewide basis would
no doubt engender more bitterness than
has thus far been observed.
The new legislation and the proposed
constitutional amendments by no means
are a final settlement of the problem.
The program’s proponents make no
claims that such is the case. What it
sets out to do is to put the operation
of the schools on a local option level
in every respect. It sets up legal per
mission for tuition grants for students
who might be assigned to schools they
do not want to attend because of "in
tolerable situations.”
Much of the program continues to
hinge on the Governor’s original sug
gestion that progress can be made
towards maintenance of segregated
schools on a voluntary basis.
What all of us must try to understand
is that Governor Hodges and his advis
ers, aware of the danger to the public
schools, are doing everything possible
to preserve them and, at the same time,
keep down the flames of extremism
which would surely arise if no “safety
valves” were incorporated into the pro
gram.
The earnest hope of the majority of
the state’s people is that the schools
can continue to operate as public schools
with a minimum of disruption and
without extreme action that would in
flame them to more articulate opposi
tion to integration.
—Photo by Lavergne
ERIC CRABTREE
will' sound 52, which means
asembie at the fire station, and
when the “call men” and other
regular and non-regular fire
men come in they are sent out
to help with the fire. That way
there is still someone at the
.station if (here were to be
another f.re in town at the
same t.me.
Eii- Crabtree was born and
brought up in and around
r 'c rrh: ”, and so was his wife.
She i- t'he former Ruth Ray
and r-- brother, 8.1 l Ray, is
a fireman, tpo. It wa- through
him. trcl Mr. Crabtree tame to
P“'-; I* I learned that they
were curious as; I was to see if
tr.- y w uld be given the oppor
j j tfc't trio riiix. rr.ag-
L...\ Grar.am has tremc-nd
power. It is instantly ap
parent w her the man arises to
speak to an audience. It is
c'.mpi*- - . y communicable. The
man * -..ts a start... - g efful
g' -.'i tr.at convinces one that
it •- larger tr.an life r.se.f.
New-paper people ar< what
can be termed a ‘'cold” au
dience. 1 suppose that there
wa- more than the usual
amount of skepticism in evi
dence ir: the room as Mr. Gra
ham arose to deliver his
speech, it was amazing how
puickiy he captured the audi
ence. Within minutes he had
every man, woman and child
cupped in the palm of his
The Wilderness Bill
(Christian Science Monitor)
When Europeans first came to what
is now the I nited States they found
the wilderness an enemy they must
subdue to survive. Houses huddled to
gether and at the very edge of roads
still stand in old towns, giving mute
testimony to the pioneer’s yearning for
the company of his fellow rnen.
'Today the picture is reversed. In
stead of having to seek for neighbors
it is hard to find wilderness. Yet there
is enormous value to society in preserv
ing refuges into which men can occas
ionally escape from the overwhelming
man-made aspects of civilization.
Ihe national (and state) parks rep
resent an endeavor to fill this need—a
need which has several facets. One is
for as many as; possible to behold mag
nificient natural spectacles and to sam
ple, at least, nature as little spoiled as
possible. This means roads and facili
ties for the millions with limited time
to spend.
Another is for those who have the
time and the appreciation to immerse
themselves now and then in a world
where rocks and streams, the woods
and beasts reign undisturbed and su
preme.
There are quite a number of des
ignated wilderness areas. The danger
lies in the fact that their status is
not-firmly defined in law. Nor is there
provision for orderly planning for fu
ture needs.
Overwhelmingly backed by the con
servation societies, Senator Hubert
Humphrey has introduced a bill to set
up a National Wilderness Preservation
System. It would create no new bu
reaus. It would, of itself, take no new
land for public use. It would simply in
sure that existing wilderness areas in
national parks, forests, and wildilfe
refuges remain as they are. It would
respect existing private-user rights and
permit use consistent with these rights.
And it would coordinate policies and in
sure planning under a National Wilder
ness Preservation Council representing
Congress, the departments, and the lay
citizen.
A forward-looking measure, worthy
of support.
work for Chapel Hill Fire De
partment.
Mr. Crabtree has been a
fireman about seven years. Be
fore that he was an electrician
and also did a little excavation
work around Chapel Hill. Dur
ing the war he was an elec
trician at the munitions plant
in Carrboro.
The Crabtrees have four
children, three girls and a boy.
The older three, Kay, twelve
years., Sally, ten, and Elgie,
seven, go to the Carrboro Ele
mentary School where Mr.
( rabtree went as a boy. The
youngest girl, Sarah, four
years, will be going there in a
couple of years.
The family lives in a white
house on the University Lake
Road. Very convenient for Mr.
Crabtree’s fishing. In his
spare time he also does a little
tractor work, plowing and that
sort of thing, around the coun
ty.
Just before I left the fire
station Sergeant King of the
Police Department came in,
puffing on his usual cigar. He
gets h:s vacation this week
and he persuaded Mr. Crabtree
to go down to the Sand Hills
today, Mr. Crabtree’s day off,
and help him pick and bring
back about 50 bushels of
peaches. They said they’d been
down several times and had
been getting pretty good ones.
Anybody want to buy a couple
of bushel- of real good
peaches ?
hand. There was hardly a
sound in the room. He spoke of
his “jot . „-t readily as we
newspaper people .-peak of the
mechanic- of ours. He insisted
that th<- teaching- of Jesus
Christ provided the sole hope
for world peace.
When he finished there was
a sharp burst of applause but
u seem* d to me that it was:
quickly . *if.<-d because the
people f'.t as though they
weie app.audmg in church.
1 had a brief opportunity to
chat with the man and sensed
that hi - d< dication to the
cause of Christianity was
deeply rooted in every fibr<- of
his being. I shall long remem
ber the experience.
Every dog has a lot of sense
unless he belongs to a neigh
bor.— The Franklin Press.
p=- # Like Chapel Hill =j==-==
I never saw such a frustrated group of men as
walked up and down East Franklin Street shortly after
it ok-lock last Tuesday morning. I never was so frus
trated either. And it was all because of Johnny Pav
likas’ closing the Carolina Coffee Shop every Tuesday.
Shell Henninger. Bill Thompson, and 1 barged out
of the Bank of Chapel Hill and went all the way across
the street before we remembered the Coffee Shop was
closed. So we started for Danziger's and en route picked
up Bob Lester. But Danziger's was closed.
"Let’s try Ruby’s, it’s right next door,”
said. We did. You guessed it —closed also.
"How about Sutton’s, we know they’re open,” the
voice said. So off we went only to discover it was
crowded and we couldn’t get a seat.
"Let’s skip it.” someone suggested disgustedly.
And we did.
* * * *
E. Carrington Smith’s just back from Miami and
Havana, telling folks of all the things he saw on the
trip which interested him most was a church.
I’ll buy coffee for all who believe that.
Knowing him to be an ardent foe of tipping, I
wondered aloud how he got along down there. “Didn’t
tip the first time,” he replied.
"Then you didn't eat in the same place twice, did
you ?’’ we asked.
“Yes, I did, but I always waited for the waiter to
get on the other side of the room before I’d get up to
leave. But.’ he confessed, “I’ll admit one time I had to
wait an hour for him to get there.”
Again—l’ll buy coffee for anyone who doesn’t be
lieve Carrington waited the full h6ur.
* * * *
Two Bobs, C ox and Bartholomew, were telling each
other tales the other day about when they were in the
Marine Corps. Bartholomew came up with this one, “I
was on recruiting duty for two years before going over
seas. I joined the Fifth Marine Division in the Pacific
and found a large number of men in my outfit were
men I had enlisted back in the States. When these men.
got discouraged and depressed, they used to come ir*
my tent and say, “Sarge, I’m feeling awfully blue and
despondent. How about giving me that old spiel about
the wonders of the Marine f orps that you used to give
the boys in the recruiting office.”
* * * *
The Durham Sun reported last Wednesday that
Barry M. barber of Greensboro had sent to the Durham
BolicO Department from Moscow, Russia, two Soviet ru
bles as half-payment of a five-month-old $1 parking
ticket. He asked to lie hilled for the remainedr upon his
return to the L. S. I he Durham city manager said it was
go**] to know that the long arm of the police department
,k«at a response from behind the Iron Curtain.
city manager so think. As for me, I see in
it the handiwork of mischievous Chuck Hauser, former
ly of the Weekly staff and now touring Russia with
Mr. Farber.
* » * *
I imes never change. Even in the olden days women
figured their age from the year of their marriage and
not their birth.
* * * *
' |
Through chemical treatment, scientists tell us,
trees will be able to supply our food. Let scientists have
the stakes, and we’ll stick to steaks.
* * * *
It’s just as weU that the meek inherit the earth.
Who else could stancKjthe inheritance tax?
* * * *
Many a girl used to be married in mother’s or
grandmother’s wedding gown and was proud to let the
fact be known.
* * * *
The farmer who once hated automobiles passing
his home is now busy hanging out “No Vacancy” signs.
* * ♦ *
One of the nicest things about having a comfort
able home is that it’s someplace to go when there’s no
place else to go.
Chapel Hill Chaff
(Continued from Page 1)
turn, was annexed to it on the
south. There 1 was x-rayed.
" The ray, when first pro
claimed to the world, was call
ed the Roentgen ray for its
discoverer. He was disting
uished for other achievements
and received the first Nobel
prize in physics, hut his other
achievements were overshad
owed in fame by this one.
He called the new ray x-ray
because of its mysterious prop
erties. I don’t remember wheth
er or not the name Roentgen
had been supplanted by the
name x- when the magical
ray was turned on me, but it
probably hail been. The ma
chine was invented in 1895,
and the date on the photo
graph found by Mr. Shearin
is 1897. The University had
pitifully little money for equip
ment in those days and I
know Mr. Gore must haye done
a great deal of earnest plead
ing with President Winston
(1896-96) and President Alder
man (1896-97), and maybe at
faculty meetings, before he
HOME OF CHOICE CHARCOAL BROILED HICKORY BMOKBD
STEAKS—FLAMING BHISKEBAB—BUFFET EVERY SUNDAY
Tuesday, July 24, 1056
succeeded in getting the nec
essary money alloted for the
purchase.
Mr. Gore told me that mine
was the first x-ray photograph
taken in North Carolina. It is
not certain, however, that the
one found by Mr. Shearin is
the one of me, for there’s no
telling how many x-ray photo
graphs Mr. Gore took. One of
these skeleton views looks
just like another after sixty
years. Mr. Shearin tells me
one thing that makes me
doubt if this one is of me;
that is, that there is a sus
pender buckle showing in it.
I don’t believe I wore suspend
ers at that age; but I may
have, in the winter time.
Dr. Sprunt, in the x-ray di
vision of our Memorial hos
pital here (who is out of town
now), is writing a history of v*
the x-ray in North Carolina.
He may dig up some data about
Mr. Gore’s early experiments.
I hope he’ll find something to
connect me with them so that
I can shine in the reflected
glory of Wilhelm Conrad
von Roentgen.
4