Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill. North Carolina IK E. Rosemeri Telephone 9-1271 or < '4til Published Every Tuesday and Friday By The Chapel Hill Publishing Company. Inc Dovxs Graves Ccm r-ibu Editor Jot Jokes Managing Editor Arraus Anocuitc Editor OF'IUi . General Manager O T. Watkins Advertising Director Char;, ton Camrzu Mecharr.r:.. Sup: Er.terec aj* .nd is.- *. *. *e ■ Ter.’**’ -• I*l. *’ tm pcatc??:** a' '«:*■ H... N V .*• .. a..gc ■ V . • ■ SUBSCRIPTION RATES ir Orange County, Year 14.00 ' n ■ i. - Out=.oe of Orange County tj tne jtar. State cf N C., Va„ a:.: h. C 4.60 Other State- ar.c Dint of 6.00 Canada, Mexico, Fcutr Alter. » 7.00 Europe 7 M —1 - Speculations about Nixon The performance ir. office, the bear ing- and behavior the character ant! ability anti spec-ia. .'.tore of Kichard M. Nixoi continu* to stir the interest of writers or. politic.-.. They assess him. some fa - , orab.y, sons un favorably; they remark upor. the fact that, if he is elected, h‘ will gain in power because the oniy man ahead of him in the government will be ineligible for another term and they s.jx-eulate upon how he will use tne increased pow er. Tne latest comment upon Nixon that J have seen is one by Frank Kent in the Baltimore .Sun. He write-: "The Democratic propagandists hav* been making a violent anti-Nixon cam paign for four years and apparently intend to continue it till election day. It has: been one of insinuation and utt*-r vagueness:. Yet it has been cleverly conducted by well-paid experts: aided by a good many volunteers in the journ alistic, political and radio fields. It has been a dirty campaign. In four year- it has certainly had an effect, and there are a number (no one knows how many) of people in the country who have a feel ing that there is ‘something wrong’ with Nixon. "The extraordinary thing about this long-sustained smear of Mr. Nixon is that so few of them can offer a reason for their hostility. Asked why, the reply is almost always vague and in consequential. "Mr. Eisenhower apd the convention delegates were not influenced by the campaign against Nixon. The Demo crats will, of course, continue to use him as a target, but his friends believe he has emerged a stronger and better man than he was in 1952.” “Stronger and better rnaft” 'These words applied to Nixon, and the article in last week’s New Yorker by the maga zine’s Washington correspondent, Kich ard H. Rovere, remind me of a conver sation I had with the late Charles A. Beard, the celebrated historian, when he and his wife were in Chapel Hill sev eral years ago. conversation Is hardly the right word, though. He was no mon olbguist—he was ready and willing to listen to anybody but I had nothing to tell him. J was quite content to do noth ing but put in questions enough to keep up the flow of his fascinating talk.) Mr. and Mrs. Heard stayed here three Or four weeks after he delivered the Weil lectures and sometimes they would drop in at our home. We would ramble any subject—incidents in the current news, sport, travel, politics, anything—and i remember that once he talked of growth in famous men in his tory. One of the examples he gave was Abraham Lincoln. 1 can’t repeat his exact words, but the substance of what he said was that ten or fifteen years before the Civil War Lincoln was just an ordinary run-of-thc-mine country politician; that he had in him, unbe knownst to himself or anybody else, the seeds of greatness; that observation, thought, struggle, the pressure of events, caused these seeds to burgeon and produce the Lincoln that is known to history. Mr. Beard gave other ex amples to enforce his point. His studies had convinced him of the possibility of remarkable growth in men. Never feel sure, he said, that a man who has made a poor record in his early years is going D) keep on going that way— he may undergo a development that people who have known him from his youth thought impossible. “Speculation about the kind of Presi dent that Nixon would make,” writes Kichard H. Rovere in the New Yorker, “has taken on a new meaning and ur gency. The impressions one gathered at the convention in San Francisco were those who thought that love for the Republic demanded his early elimina tion. - "There has always been a certain .«Jaek of specificity about these fears; people have been bothered by Nixon without being able to say precisely why. Ther* are doubtless many people who continue t< feel that way about Nixon, despite the fact that he has lately been laboring with great zeal to remove any jiossible reasons for being unloved. He ha- been very much or. his dignity. Ir. hi.- meetings with the state caucuses. h« recommended that th* 1956 campaign be conducted on th< highest possible m ra. ievei. and pa' * *.:>*• delegates his 11 :nj i that Adla; s ■ *-r,son anti E-tes Kefau .er were hortorabi*- and patriotic American.- who ,-b . j.d ir; no circum • ta.ve- be accused of ha'. ;r;g ba.-e xno tY f* > . "H: acceptance .-;-‘-ech was close enougn to liberal orthoU'-xy to qualify n.rr jo- *iWKHcal!y, a' any rate—: >r memoer n:p or, th* national board of .American for Democratic Action. He t He; r . Wallace stood 1954. He had bar* • .-at down when r.,- detractors began to explain that it v.a all .subter fuge "Ha- detractors, howe\eh are slight ly fewer in. number than they were a wrdie back, arid there art some people here who think that the new Nixon is an authentic creation. The\ think that th< temper of the time- and the magic of the Presidency an at work upon him. The temper of the times seems, to de mand that any man in or approaching a high administrative office talk and act like some species of liberal, and the magic of the Presidency, to which he is now so near, seems capable of creat ing maturity and a sense of responsi bility in some of the least promising of men.”—L. G. The School Amendment (Continued from Page 1 / talk about it is familiar with all the arguments for and against it, I will not repeat them here. Th* Governor, the members of the Advisory Committee, and other advocates have called the plan a "safety valve.” 1 believe that to be a fair term for it and that it is the best move the State can make under the circumstances. In my opinion Mr. Pearsall talked sense when he said at a recent meeting in Rocky Mount: “The plan takes into * consideration the emotions, customs, mores, and traditions which the Advis ory Committee found to be genuine and powerful. Whether good or bad, pleas ant or unpleasant, the fact remains that these feelings do exist and must not be ignored. 'Those who would wear blind ers and refuse to recognize and admit the existence of these feelings would do public education an injustice.” Jn the same tenor is the statement by D. Hiden Ramsey of Asheville, long time pcjycational leader and now chair man of Um ptate Commission op Higher Education: “The Pearsall plan should Spare us the disorders which have developed in other states and which have embittered the relations between the two races. “J do not belive that North Carolina has ever had a chief executive more sincerely interested in the public schools than Governor Hodges. J am confident he can be trusted to do what ever is necessary, in the troublous month ahead, to preserve them. “North Carolina cannot set itself in defiance of any decision, however ab horrent. of the Supreme Court. l.’n happily there is no obvious road we can choose in the confidence that it will carry our public school system safely through the present crisis. We must take calculated chances, never losing sight of the supreme objective of saving the schools for the children of both races. "The Pearsall plan is not a perfect solution of our problem, but it appeals to me as the best solution that has been suggested.” 'The Raleigh News and Observer, which opposes the Pearsall plan, says, “all extremists will vote for it.” Ob viously this is something nobody could know; th«- statement is a mere supposi tion. Os course saying that all the ex tremists will vote for tjie Pearsall plan is not the same thing as saying that all who vote for the plan are extremists, but by implication it comes close to identifying approval of the plan with extremism. It is pertinent to recall, in this connection, that the plan has been formally endorsed by the Directors of the North Carolina Junior Chamber of - n7^«M-cLiha-MMlh. THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Carolina Education Association, the Di rectors of the Association of School Boards, the Association of School Su perintendents the Association of County Commissioners, the State Board of Ed ucation, and the North Carolina Gener al Assembly. When I reflect upon the THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, which makes a lot of }*eopi*- (including me) angr> from time to time, has to lx- gi- en credit for tenacity in its current campaign to remind Governor Hodge- of a statement which Em sure he wishes he had n**\*r made. Ev*ry day for week.- (maybe longer, but I just got back :f. the country and I might have missed it) th* Raieigh new.-paper ha- oe* i. printing th*- following reminder on it- editorial pag* : "Ju.-t on*- year ago Governor Hodges said: ‘Aboli tion *.f th*- public school- a.v: th*-:r replacement to a m«-t uncertain extent by pro ate«.ne- i- a last-ditch and double-edged weapon. If tha* weapon i- ever used in ' ■ *th Cat ina, ;t- r<-- ling in ignorance, p< \ * r’y and bitterness.’ ” Tr.- year-old comment r. *the Governor rather sticc.net 1; states my reason- 1 r fearing th* Pear-all Piar. amendment which i- in voted on by the people * ! N'.rt? Carolina tomorr v.. Proponent- of the pear-all Plan in.-ist that the “-afet;. aiv*” provision- wk, probably (they say this ■ • ■ ’ • and 1 op* fu ) *-r b< uem c ra’ -a - a le-er.t meeting here. Th*- poj Xation of Glen Len nox—rrlen, women, and chil (j J*| ft j - , ,’J. )0 Years Ago The Cr.api-l Hill Swimming Club w r. the boys and girls Mid-S* .tii Champion-hip- and finish*-'! -<-'ond in the junior vomer.’*, uni-ion last Friday and S’a? - :ay at Wilson in the Mid-South Imitation Swim ming Meet. ].» > ear- \go Gra-:;. Pi Xhard, -tar line man < • the University team twenty year ago, i- going to he!;. • th- Chapel Hill high . football team th.-: year Wh< - J was at Mi-- Alice N-.b.c' Sunday afternoon I hear-: ■ r make what seems t . rn<- ;.ri excellent suggestion for th<- -aving of gasoline in th: community: let the L'rii v<-> *y -Mudcnts he forbidden to . * automobiles. Chapel HiH ( haff. ' gast machin*: in the back ground. Like both Roosevelts he ha- great charm—not the polished charm of thi- draw ing room but the barefoot, Huck Y inn charm of the American boy going fishing. “Thirdly, Eisenhower is es sentially a family man, arid in spite of the high divorce rate in the United States the fam ily is a strong and highly re spected unit in American life. Finally, it may be most signi ficant that not only could Ei senhower have had the nom inal ion from either party in the l'J52 election but also that he stands midway between Democrats arid Republicans in that no man’s land of., the vit ally important uncommitted voter ’’ You can use a hammer sis a mallet by slipping a rubber crutch tip over the hammer head. iJliroWlbimiiniMn/ Open Friday Night Until 8:30 p.m. «. ft) t ' sh.es and widths .. . and that shoes 0 shoes must fit right in the first place, /jfe The Stride Rite shoe knows this, does this •• • ar *d millions of mothers know that it does! (We know it, too. X That’s Vrhy we carry Stride Rites, and fit them so carefully.) 7.60 to Bjo SHOE 1 Likp < hapel Hill Some folks were kidding Ben Crutchfield about trying to save his money. "You can’t take it. with you when you die,” he was told. id better, replied Ben, “because I’ll sure run into someone I owe.” * * * * Tony Jenzano was commenting on how red the planet Mars is now in the early evenings. "I haven't seen it,” I told him. “That I can understand,” quipped Tony. “YoiTlSll not as ck*se to it as the rest of us.” / * * * * Lob Bartholomew has been working on a novel for some time now which, he says, is being written for the cigar store and pool room trade. A young lady here in Chapel Hill heard about the book and asked Bob if she could look at the unfinished manuscript. He consented. Eh*- read one chapter, laid the manuscript down, and said. ” J here’s no need to worry about who will take the place of the late Dr. Kinsey—you’ll fit in nicely.” * * * * Another good story I heard recently concerned the -aleman who had just completed a course in sales manship and had tried out th*- principles he had learned. Later he was asked how the course had helped him. *\*-il. I did everything I was told,” he said. "I greeted the customer warmly, J smiled at him, asked him a lot of questions about himself and 1 listened to hinr for hours and agreed with everything he said, and when we parted, I knew 1 had made a friend for life. But, brother, what an enemy he made.” * * * * Didn't I mention something herein recently about' •rating at the second table when I was a kid? Anyway, when we went up to our grandparents for Sunday dinners, there were so many relatives around that we kids had to wait until they ate first. Our dinner was called the “second table.” Jt’s already been said that some kids ate at" that shift so much they were adults before learning a chicken was composed of anything except wijngs, • backs unA necks. fP But the newest along that line came from my Missus, who had a relative who was the youngest of 15 children and outlived almost all of them. “I was the last to he fed,” he explained, “therefore, I was the healthiest, because I got all the vitamins—the pot lik ker that was left.” ry Sh** recalls that her parents were beset vVith rela tives every summer. “They always knew when, we had plenty of chickens and ham, and they’d come in droves for dinner. But daddy fixed ’em,” she says. “He didn’t like their coming down to visit him just to get their fill of ham and chicken, so every time a hatch of relatives showed up during the summer, he waited until about an hour before it was time for dinner, and then cut three or four big watermelons. The kin folks couldn’t resist digging into them, and got too full to* eat much chicken and ham. Dad was smart.” Friday, September 7, 1956