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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill, North Carolina 12« E. Umtmmry TeWpbeof MWI at 6491 PiblitM Every Tvcaday and Friday By The Chapel HIM Publishing Coaipany. lac. Loins Graves Contributing Editor Joe Jones 1 Managing Editor Billy Aktht* ....Associate Editor Omnux Campbell General Manager O. T. Watdnb Advertising Birector Charlton Campbell Mechanical Supt Sound a* aacood-ctaa matter Petmiary M SB. at the portctfie* at Oupel HUL North Carolina, tinder the act of March J. Utt SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Orangre County, Year 94,00 (6 months 92.25; 3 months. 91.60) Outside of Orange County by the Year. State of N. C., Va.. and S. C. 430 Other States and Diet, of Columbia 6.00 Canada. Mexico, South America 730 Europe ... 730 A Town on the March We were talking to a person recent ly who was on his first visit to Chapel Hill in ten ypars. He remarked that he had spent the afternoon driving around the community, and that he was con vinced that no town of comparable size in North Carolina had grown so rapid ly in the last ten years. Last week University Chancellor Robert House told the Chapel Hill Ki wanis Club that the University’s pres ent enrollment of approximately seven thousand would increase to between ten and fifteen thousand during the next ten years. This increased enrollment means an increased faculty and increas ed maintenance personnel. It means more restaurants, more clothing stores, more of almost every kind of business already in Chapel Hill. Whether we like it or not, Chapel Hill is growing. Our friend who was amazed at Chapel Hill’s growth over the past ten years will be even more amazed at what is going to happen during the next ten. There’s an old saying that everyone has to learn while growing up. Chapel Hill has learned a lot over the past ten years, and it will be able to put this knowledge to goou use *n the future. There have been some mistakes, but, for the* most part, Chapel Hill has done a good job of growing. It has not lost its beauty or individuality. The town government has been conscious of its obligations, and it has extended its services. The University has carried out its educational responsibility, the>i?ier- < chants, faculty, and townspeople f[ave met their civic obligations. Chapel Hill has been and will continue to be a good place in which to work, study, play, worship, live, and retire. , Working Together j A small boy was trying very hard to : lift a heavy stone. His father, happen ! ing by and noting the son’s failure., said to him, “Are you using all your Strength ?” “Yes, I am,” the boy impatiently ex claimed. “No,” the father replied, “you are not. You haven’t asked me to help.” So goes one of our favorite stories and it proves a very good point. A father and son, husband or wise, work ing together can accomplish so much more than working apart. A father in terested in helping his son solve a boy’s problem is, at the same time, preparing that youngster to meet a man’s prob lem. Working together is an essential part of any community. Both the townspeo ple and the University benefit when they are working for the same program. No one benefits when they art' work ing against each other. It is also well to remember that re gardless of who you are, how smart you are, or how much money you have, there is little you can accomplish by yourself. The final results in any phase of life are usually determined by what you did for your fellowman. Wanted: A New Kind of Graduate (By Sydney Harris in Raleigh Times) Business and industry have been telling us, in recent years, that mere technical knowledge is not enough— that the kind of college graduates they are looking for must have a “broad view” and a “good general grasp of things.” They keep tellipg us this, but their ■ employment ads do not. I have been * looking through the financial section ot The New York Sunday Times, and I find pages of display ads desperately calling for engineers and technicians, and offering the most seductive terms of employment. I have yet to see, however, a quarter page Help Wanted ad by an aircraft or electrical or chemical corporation which runs something like this: “WANTED: A college graduate who knows how to read with understanding, write with clarity, speak with precision, and listen with comprehension. “The young man we are looking for should not he a narrow specialist in some technical aspect of science or in dustry, but should have a sense of his tory and a working knowledge of the needs of modem society. “We prefer someone with a back ground, and interest, in psychology, for dealing with people is more important than dealing with things. “Our biggest problem is finding a young executive whose horizon is wide enough to encompass all the aims of our company—and to help our company find its most effective place in the commun ity and in the nation. “In short, what we are looking for is. a man who has been trained to think in a wide frame of reference, who can communicate with different kinds of people, and who can create an over-all pattern for future progress. . v “We invite all graduates of liberal arts colleges to consider the attractive terms of employment, and the unlimited future, offered by our company.” I suggest that this kind of ad, pro minently placed in the business pages of the daily newspapers, would not only unearth hundreds of young men whose capabilities are badly needed by modern industry, but would also give heart to thousands of other college students who are studying the liberal arts in the wist ful hope that the future does not belong entirely to the technicians. Our Founding Fathers were, for the most part, highly educated men, proud of their broad grasp of affairs; and the greatness they conceived will not, in the long run, rest on our industrial po wer or our scientific ingenuity, but only upon the quality of our social, our mo ral, and our psychological thinking. Why a Turtle Has Ugly Thoughts <Th«' New York Herald Tribune) Turtles think turtle thoughts, a phi losopher once said. As summer dwin dles, ponds shrink and streams grow sluggish, a turtle comes out on a log and thinks Tiow, snappish thoughts. Some authorities say a snapping turtle doesn’t sun himself on a log as other turtles do. But a countryman has his doubts about this. Agassiz, who never said a turtle wouldn’t sun himself on a log, did com ment on the great age a turtle can at tain. A snapping turtle can be around a lot of summers and get dates and in itials carved on bis shell by more than one generation. A turtle moves slowly and may be a slow thinker. But when he attacks, either for food or in de fense, his head darts mighty fast. Experts say a snapping turtle is too dangerous to be considered as a pet. Anybody looking a turtle in the eye will understand that he doesn’t want to be petted. The best way to pet a turtle is to keep him in a screened barrel in a pond, feed him well and fatten him up lor the soup kettle. If a snapping turtle is an ugly cus tomer and indulges in ugly thoughts, perhaps it is because he is annoyed at always having to carry his house around with him. This helps in a hous ing shortage, but when a turtle walks it is as if he were sticking his arms ahd legs out of the windows. Even in a free world a turtle lias little freedom, on or off a log. When Haste Is Dangerous (Richmond County Journal) A Monroe newspaper has made a good case of the fact that at no time does the adage "Haste makes waste” apply more than when an auto driver is trying to rush someone to the hospi tal. According to the newspaper, the same week Rockingham experienced a fatal accident at a stoplight when a man rushing a boy to the hospital hit a truck under the stoplight, in Monroe a woman rushing a boy to the hospital hit another car under a stoplight. For tunately in the Monroe accident no one was killed, but several were injured and the girl being rushed to the hospital received additional injuries. No doubt it is difficult for people THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) rd in the lake. As soon as it hit the water a big bass struck it and got himself hooked and was reeled in. He weighed seven and a half pounds.” • • • Walking at least twice a day between the Weekly office and my living quarters around the block I regularly pass the in tersection of East Rosemary and Henderson Streets. A big sign warns drivers coming down Henderson Street from the Post Office to stop before they enter or cross Rosemary Street. Every once in a while I see somebody disregard the warning and drive right on out into Rosemary Street with out even slowing up, though the view is obstructed in both directions. I am amazed on two .counts: fl) That people are so careless with their lives, and (2) That I have yet to see a collision at this comer. There have been plenty of close calls, though, and they always scare me to death. One took place the other day when a woman with a car fijll of small children came down Hen derson Street and entered the intersection without any slack ening of speed and without looking, while other cars were approaching the intersection from both directions on Rose mary Street. My heart jumped into my throat when I saw she wasn’t going to stop. I expect ed d terrible aeident. But the other two drivers prevented it Snare and Delusion Al Ret»ch in Chatham News I'm getting a mite fed up with those who contend that hard work is the one sure way to happiness. As far as I’m concerned the contention is a snare and a delusion. I believe that work is the worst possible way to make a living and that most of us work because we have to in order to keep body and sou! together. I’m lazy and good-for-nothing! If I could live without working I doubt that I would bother to try. I don’t mind saying that I m not sure about wearing shoes. One of the greatest lux uries known to man, it seems to me, is to be able to go bare footed, rushing to the hospital to realize, but' the fact is that the person they are carrying is in much more danger if nor mal traffic rules are not followed, than w'ith the injury or illness necessitating hospitalization. The highway patrol, ambulance drivers, and fire fighters, with all their red lights and sirens, know the danger of violating traffic rules and do so cautiously. Even so one occasionally hears of an ambulance wreck at an intersection. It does not happen more often because emergency drivers know that people who have the green light are seldom watching the other traffic lanes and many times have on the radio or are concentrating on their driving to the extent that sirens are not heard. We hope none of our readers ever have the occasion to someone to the hospital. If it d-ies arise, however, we hope they will keep in mind that they do not have the warning devices or experience of emergency drivers and the risks of breaking traffic laws are far greater than those of not getting their passengers to the hospital in time. The Fate of the Schools (From the Chatham News) Debate is not ended over the future of Nort h Carolina’s public school pro gram merely because the special session of the General Assembly has adjourned following the passage of the Pearsall plan last week. Between now and Sep tember 8 when the people will be given an opportunity to vote on the proposed constitutional amendment there is cer tain to be a continuance of the debate, probably intensified by public recogni tion that the fate of the schools <*ice again rests in the hands of the people. Prior to last week’s legislative session the people, generally, were silent. They figured that the legislature would take care of the situation. Few took the time to study the proposals contained in the Pearsall plan. The special sessions serv ed to arouse their interest. Now they can be expected to ask questions, ex press opinions and do a heap of soul searching. On what will the people vote? On September 8 they will decide whe ther they want to authorize the General Assembly to provide education expense grants for private education. They will also decide whether they want the clos- by siamming on their brakes and screaming to a crawl, barely in time for the woman with the children to slip be tween them and pass on down Henderson Street unscathed and apparently unconcerned. On another occasion a Uni versity professor and his wife entered Rosemary Street from Henderson Street in a like manner, with no pause what soever, and were saved from a wreck only by the quick think ing and sudden application of brakes by another driver who had the right of way on Rose mary Street but who halted with tires squealing. The pro fessor’s wife was at the wheel and she drove blithely on, with out so much as a glance around to see what all the noise was about. * • • In a recent Chaff column about my mother I said I be lieved her happiest memories are of the year or so she spent here at the Carolina Inn. Emending this statement in a letter to me, she says: *'l am sure you do not want to give the impression that my stay at the Inn was happier than my home life. I was very happy at the Inn, more so than at any place since my home was broken up after your father died and all the children were scattered. It was a hard blow to break up my home, where I spent the happiest days of my life.” Pocket-Size Magazines By Harry Golden In the Carolina Israelite When the Carolina Israelite is late, it naturally distresses me to receive so many com munications asking, “Where is it?” Folks should understand that this is not one of those great monthly pocket-size mag azines. Tjiese million-dollar publications are paste-up jobs which I could do on a half pint of whiskey with one hand tied behind rny back. Every is sue of these profitable maga zines is the same, month after month, year in and year out, The standard contents:' First, an article on the latest cure for cancer; then a psychiatrist gives ten reasons why it is. ing of any school decided by the people on the local level. There have been conflicting expres sions on the provisions contained in the amendment. Opponents of the Pearsall * plan have already become vocative in their contention that it opens the door to mass integration in the schools. Oth ers are saying that it will do away with the public school system. In neither case are these people cor rect i/i their assumptions. if the people within a "local option unit” wish to close a school they can vote to do so. Their decision will affect only the area within that particular lo cal option district. It will not affect schools throughout the remainder of the state. It is important to remember that the September 8 vote will not be direct ly concerned with closing the schools. The voters will be voting on an amend ment that will give them the right to vote on the closing of the schools with in a specific district where a situation arises that the people within that dis trict consider to be intolerable. It is incumbent upon us all to weigh carefully every statement that is made about the impending election. It is not too much to assume that there will be statements made that are not based on fact. The people will render a wise decision only if they take the trouble to search out every bit of information that will lie made available to them; and if they consider that what has been done sets up the machinery whereby the people alone will control the future of North Carolina’s public schools. . Someone has well said, “Success is a journey, not a destination.” Happiness is to be found along the way, not at the end of the road, for then the journey is over and it is too late. Today, this hour, this minute is the day, the hour, the minute for each of us to sense the fact that life is good, with all its trials and troubles, and perhaps more inter esting because of them. —Robert D. Updegraff. A society in which each is willing to surrender for which he can see a personal equivalent, is not a society at all; it is a group already in process of dissolution.—Judge Learned Hand. better for men to have “out side” sex relations. Then, of course, the monthly sermon ette by Dr. Norman Vincent Peak; plus the usual dog story —“How Our Puppy’s Bark Reduced the Mortgage,” then a few reprints from Guide posts, the American Legion Magazine, and Farmers' Week ly, followed by the monthly inter-faith article, “How Cath olic, Protestant and Jew Found Faith in Las Vegas,” and then one that never misses, the new diet—“ How I Lost Forty Pounds W’hile Eating Like a Horse,” and the wind-up on the inside back cover, a poem or historical sketch superim posed over an outline of the Statue of Liberty so heavy you cannot read the text— which is your first break. So, will you now stop wor rying when the Carolina Is raelite is a mere twenty-five days late once in a while? Mighty Ed Sullivan By Ike London in Rockingham Post-Dispatch One of the chief reasons why the great Ringling circus shut down last week was be cause of the nagging, con stant picketing by labor un ions to which it simply would not kowtow . . . Last Sunday night the Ed Sullivan TV show consisted of an hour of Ring ling performers. But Ed spoil ed it all, and insulted his vast TV audience, by thanking the two Labor bosses who control the circus union for “permit ting” the show to be broad cast! A pretty pass when two swivel-chair bosses can 1 “per mit” free people to work at their jobs . . . And another thing; Ed wants the public’s reaction to his having Ingrid Bergman to appear on his Sunday night show—the wo man who expatriated herself in Italy for an affair with the Italian Roberto and became the mother of his illegitimate child. And yet Ed would hold her up to the American nation as a person to be admired! Some folks can get so mighty that they think they can ram anything down the throats of the public, from thanking La bor bosses to exhibiting fallen women. North ( arolinians consumed 1.2.0 pounds of cottage cheese peh person in 1055. i Like Chapel Hill f|gS Our two energy-packed youngsters have suddenly taken an interest in fire trucks. And the other morning they established a fire station beneath the dining room table. At the slightest pretext they roared from beneath, pushing chairs before them, to put out their pretended conflagrations. Abouth that time I walked into the room. “Daddy,” asked Annis Lillian, “you got a fire?” “Not yet,” I replied. “Well, when you do have a fire,” she asked, “will you please call me and Buba?” 0} * * * * Some of the businessmen are often heard remarking “when the students are out of town, we can find a park ing place. What a relief that is!” Yeh. And if the students stayed out of town a long time, the merchants would have more relief—but they’d be on it. * * * * Remember when barber shops used to offer bath ing facilities? I got to wondering the other morning whether or not any now had showers for folks who wanted to perform their ablutions. So, I phoned Bud Perry at the Carolina Barber Shop. Bud said baths were discontinued in Chapel Hill barber shops about 25 years ago. Why ? More bathrooms. More were being put in dormitories, and hot water was fast becoming commonplace in the homes rather than a Saturday night luxury. The answer is as simple as that. Bud recalled that in the days beyond that he and Moody Durham used to go down to the power plant to get their baths. There was a shower there. “And we’d go down about midnight,” he said, “and then go on home. 1 remember yet how we could hear the whistle of the 2 o’clock train going from Durham to Greensboro when the wind was in the northeast.” ♦ * * * However, in Jacksonville where I lived from 194(j£ to 1954, showers are still offered in one or two shops. I remember in the earlier days of the building boom down there, laborers in the rooming house where I was staying had used up all the hot water. So I went down town. Just at the moment when 1 had completely lathered myself all over, the water went off. The wheels of a big heavily loaded motor express truck going down the alley behind the shop had sunk in the ground and broken the water main. And there I stood in the shower stall, all lathered but without rinse water. So I had to towel off the soap and be content with knowing that I had at least tried. But my content ment was sticky. * * * * The cost of living is improving. A man earning SIOO a week can now live on $125. „ * * * * When better motor vehicle laws are made, motorists will break them. * * * * There’s a time for everything, but not everyone recognizes its arrival. ♦ * * * " Some peope have a knack of making big things seem small; others, small things seem big. ♦ * * * It’s much easier to love your enemy after you beat him. * * * * Regardless of how old a woman may be, she never thinks you ..think she looks it. ♦ * * * Bud Perry says his partner Y. Z. Cannon so loves President Eisenhower that he just had to have a heart attack to lie like his idol. AT THE CROSSROADS! HOME OF CHOICE CHARCOAL BROILED HICKORY SMOKED STEAKS—FLAMING SHISKEBAB—BUFFET EVERY SUNDAY Tuesday, August 7, 1956
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