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Chapel Hill News Leader Sit Down And We'll Talk About it \ t free Wheeiing • ■ Leading Wftfi Tlie f-t4WS IT, Chtipei H*M. tmfrinr*. Lanrmc and S'jrreutmling Anm VOL. IV. NO. 30 MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1957 Advance Over Moses Passii'^e l)y Slaje Sc^jiale of u l.ill would allo\\'t|3iisniK‘i;s .ton^ ;of; mjsiEl^;]: uuTunrs lo tvw'k (lutsiik' l(’u:ui,s*;Mie tbyf^idr renirii to ( clfs oil >U!*fus antr UTi“keutk is a step louard recognition of the fact that the tcorst ptinisluiienl olteii falls not oit guilty UK'U hut on their wives and ehildyen. >1 j It is also reitigttiliou of tlte fart that dras- lit and inliuinan punishittctits do not act as detetreiils.^&,14lj, often as iiicfreinetiU to. luip ihci criines. ' ' . ' . ' rndci (leorge 111 children convicted of petty thefts,, in I'.ngland were sotnetitties it: iiged 0111)1 tilted, hut these lerocions ptiii- ishnienls did-tiot sU)|) the petty tliieving. The Wi'it.s^on-.Saleni jiKlge who last week sentenced an, expectant ttiother to jail for six monrlis for stealing a ■'(i-ccnt hag ol haitanas exhibited ail'attitude coininon in the i8th cetitHiv—xliiit 'piopcilv is inovf sacred than hjHnaifffifjCUM f;, ' . ft ff' iKVe'iie,ayf?*uif |nclp’ at apnitid,!; and three ceil'iliries have not taught usitthtit so-called deleiTing punishments do not deter; and though we call ourselves a Christian nation ,,He st,Hl,-l^ve tinder an'Old Tcslamncnt the- *oli),gpafvat''tea'ciies‘Tel'aliafion and not the ethics of )esus who said, ’'Cc,) and .sin no inoi-e. vS’fmlc ioftii Of puiii.sffitiehf is'hoiind ti) fol low crime, but gnilty men can best make atonetnem through some form of steady and disciplined labor front which not only theii victims bur cbeiv families mav benefit. .\iid this labor can best be done outside. .\dvaiice conics slowly, bin one of these (lavs even the law may raise itscH one step above ,\loses. Facing Forty Per Cent In ifiV' tide of children born in tlie I !.S came sveepiiig across the continent and’ for the fit St time four million babies were born in one year. , , In ; loilici to veins these ehiklreii tvillfft® on tlte verge ol enliauec to Itigh school, apd; the Populaliou Reference llnyean, estipi^’tPS that hy i()68 .to pci cent hiore stn({ent.s''l,hano now will be knocking for achuission to live ,, schools. The colleges rad nniveisiiies like wise will noi, even bv high fees, be able to bar their doors. ^'c l tlu- TS.'wcddiliiest'nation on eartli, is still piddliiyg with this question. I'lie gov- einment’s grant.s lo militarv preparations and to foreign count ties, some ol them lar removed. -ttvcsMfav ishiv bestowed, yet a cpies- tioii i'll help for the nation’s scliools lies (.on- giess 'iini knots. Tlu* Slate and local comunniiiies are not , tlpin,g iiitich better. Legal questions, fiiianci- af y|iie,stioiis. race ([iiestions. cut across every 'iifle'idpt to contrive prograins that will meet .tliitf ifo pci ('6d increase ■ XV'e' Speii'cf -biflions -for weapons, all ol i'which will in a few years become ob.solete and useless, but we caii'i find a way to Irair till* pupils V)ho will one day have to niai those weapons. We lack the housing, classrooms, and ecpiipmcnt adccjuaie lor today’s ihildren. What will we do and say when the fide of p'iipils tops the. pre.sent flood by go per ceiilr A Kick For Drag B.y BILL CROWELL Kep»rUiig rrom Raleigh DRAG RACING, AGAIN . . . T)VO items in a single edition of the Raleigh Times last week oiig^t t» come like a kick In the .groin to some people. The “sanctioned drag racing enthusiasts and iegts- latprs unwilling to tighten up ex- ist'iu.g laws against such lunacy. The news items, of course, related cases of highway C. H. Iramel For i he Tsexes Leadei Village Archaeology, Continued . . two separate racing in which three persons were MlIed---one in Foesyth, two others .in Franklin. Presumably the drivers of the death cars were only “high spirit ed ’ youngsters, deserving yet of clemency because youth in trouble must not be harshly treated. Vow we have delinquents who cheerfully strangle and knife strangers, who kick-in the heads of ei'izens encountered at random, \ ho murder with speeding auto mobiles. And who receive the same leniency accorded, say, a panty raider. It’s incomprehensible to me why a deliberately invited disas ter is not punishable in like meas ure. We’re far too socially “ad* vanced” to reinstate the old pie- icept of rerribution—that is, award ing criminal conduct with a com parable exactness to ifit the crime. Bnt to excuse, and excuse is Uie right word, the perpetrators of such madness as highway racing with a threat of 'losing their driver’s license or paying off a burdensome fine is absurd. Drrggers aren’t without their support, thou.gh, and what the more thoughtful of them say often sounds reasonable. “Give us drag strips, supei*vised by jK^lice au thority, and highwa end,“4s their loudes But policemen ar Only recently the p national Association Police turned ihui: such pr.:positLoiis.^ equally inbuential^ Council, in a recend; iition which conU I’ke . . while clubi term ‘hot-ixid’ oftc worthwhile activitie- pai'ent that the ch such organizatioiis . tion of racing even! NASCAR (Nation: for Stock Car Autoi u the country’s fore of motor racing. It’s ing cot poratioii, nou and parts manufaet by shrewd, lanky Bi an impoverished himself. NASC.\R, a porary, the Natiqna sociation (of Soiithi froth with safety. bers of both associa form to rigidly lai rules. They either \ rules or they are to race. In the Elizabeth, of the state’s first s strip, the Daily Ad\ plained editorially ized racing on US ; remembered, thou^ the draggers’ prem that when supervi established, open 1 ends. Well, the lACP d ihe National Safety think so, the Mote partment doesn’t I don’t thinlc so! Remnants Of Earlier Campus Days Rest Of The Quol Too Big A Spread By RAYMOND ADAMS (Special lo Ihe News Leader! (continued) lb per ('(‘111: binii prices riiod pritc.s up down i.| per I'eiit. Tills is the nisi oi n re|>()rt I'roiu the House A“Ticiiltiire .Subcoiiimittec at Wa.sliinc'ion (Overiii^ the last lO years'. .-V spreiid ol tlr»-kind ■ ao«-)iH>luitl -lo- * ’I-" ' _ ]ter cent points to a weak spot.iti.tlic eroitottly and iiicliiate.s lltat while some classes are tliriv iii» on ihe prii e.s beiii”' pushed upward, other el.Tsses are beiii" jmnished. Inclnded are not onlv tmitier.s, 8tnl'all persons■ living on more or'It'-ss lixed’ilidoiiies. . The re[Km .says’ thai in 19,17 aveia'^e dtv lamily spent ,8 1 ,o(io for food hiil in the food bncf^el had eftmbed to .'*» 1 ..lOO- this increase |avmei.s received ahont .S40 or 9 per cent, ifie rest tveiiL to interests .other than the pro(|ji(iiiV' intere.st, 111 shorl. ll||t part Of ilie coiistimer’s dollar o'oiit.o to thefSoi i,i;inat prodnc.ei ol loods less ihaii a (finic.' iVlqle 9b .eeiits is ent up amono I'he distributors. , - riiis siinaiion is far fnini healthy. It in dicate,s ihtil not all the parasites are 10 be . fonncl cliiinina, lo infetnccl ftiods. .* In the period front. 1947 to 197,b the repoi t notes these diflcrcnees: Farm meat prices down 29 per cent and retail prices down 5 per c^t.. Farm poultrysaiid csg price., down 21 per cent and/iOtail prices down jl3 per cent. . Firm wheat prices i down 7 per cent and retail prices of edreais aind ‘liakery products up 34 per cent, ' Farm prices for fruits and vegetables down 12 per cent and reiail prices up 7 per cent. Farm prices of milk down 16 pei’ cent and retad prices down 3 per cent. How l.int; can a prosperity stand np that one lei> missiji“? the campus itself in this same .sector of touu contains arebaeo; logical remains. There vs an out: ,cronping of granite rock across Ihe path to the west of the Ue.ihh Department building on '‘Old Frat Row.” Reside these rocks and at the head of the p^itl]^,l^^sidin;g .between Hill Music Hall and ihe Methodist Church is an almost buried concrete step. This is the bottom step of the onetime Beta House. That house burned down. ' But some future archaeologist can dig up chunks of c-harcoal and stone footings enough to e.stabl sA from.remodeling. Carved inro the stone is the inscription "W. 1833,” His*, first initial has broken off. Whether he was H. W. and J. W. or some otlier W. we do not know. •V liit'e searching of records might determine who “W. 1833” might have been. But even now he a kind of immortality, for “W” made his mark in college a cen- a quarter ago. ) .}n .gardensb and lawns.,, . down Franklin Street are-bases and capitals of columns, the scat tered pieces of the porch from the south .side of Gerrard Hall. I'he .scars of the porch show on the walls of the old building, the foundation stones were uprooted only a few years ago. But the porch itself, scattered like the fourleen pieces of Osiris, lies here and there in the village for arch aeological reconstruction. Thus under our feet are rem nants of an earlier day. I am but a superficial archaeologist who has not dared d.lg up the public • sidewalks and the university cam pus. T have, found only what still lies upon..the surface. A little dig ging might discover much more. Someu’here hereabouts is the buri- ■y ed cornerstone of the 1793 Old East Building, and nearby must be the clay pits whence came the bricks for the South Building. Itas Summary Summerfield 'The .AiiieiictL’n retephoiie mid fele- “I'liph C'.ditipmiy am uni need i()da,y that im- Glotiure.s.s "laiited it cerlaiii, -tax reliel within one week it wmild abolblf ipltirnia-. lion service, cease to accept calls bettvettii .9 p.tii. and 7 a.111., and iC-Stiui all leleplKUie (■Olivers,",tioiis to tour niitiiiles. Hotv would that vor It woidd’t ,40. at all! ^■el Ihe Post Ollice r)c|iai-liiieiir and the telephone systeni are in inaiiy way.s alike, a.s iililioiiwide conninniicatiotls luoiiopolies. .and tvlievf the Post Office i.s part ol the gov- eiitincin, ,\TX.-'r is under strict govermiient- al regnlatioit. ^^'l. Postmaster (.cneral Siiiii- tncrlicld issued an nlliniatuni not niilikc the one (pioled as soinethiiig the telephone coni- jtaiiv never would dare .say. lie suddenly tipped tvilli a thical ol dias- ticallv reduced servite, closed offices, leiver deliveries, eliniinalioii of tliivd-claims mail whidt, though oltcn a nnisajtce log ger, . Is. the I'oinidation Of . sonic ' btisiiiesseX ,Attj.l nlio’d suffer? Voi'i .giiessed witliont ji ntoiti- e'ni's liesitaiioii. I be public. I's, yon. me. Xol-dte men with wlioitt he had his (pi.ii- rcl, iiiemhcrs of Congress. He didn’t .say t.heie'd he ...an end to their fraiikiiig privi lege, that sends ibeir mail fiec. ' ".!,.Snmmci field kDew long ago how tinicb .■iiimtey be had at hts stti vicc. He also hoped ■fdr.'m'oie, but prndeiice hews to die tine ol knoviedge, not hope. If it iieemed inevila: hie. he eoiild ^ b* paring here and there, over a fair periixf, rather than nishing to an exitlosive, “Cimttie! Or else, "boa!” . _ , . Postal service is sometli'ing that’s provid ed. often at a loss, lor public benefit, f.on- gre.ss ic(koits how .great that loss sliall be. Ti tells the Postmaster Ceiieral what figures ii has decided on. and then it’s np lo him to tailor accordingly. He sent out a dead letter — dead to the odorotw,point.-— with the altynipt to black jack .Congressyby making it hard for the j(>iiti,uvnfolk,s|.t((). say, by maili I love >011. 'Tleiise remit," or ”Ho come over for tea.” the hcii.se and date the fire. Alsu on the campu.s, dire- tly be hind Swain Hall, is part of a large cireiilar cement foundation. Only an arc is visible, the resi has been covered by the pave ment of a ytarking lot. This circle was the base on which stood the old'Standpipe of Chapel IliU's fiivsi water system. Huge iron bolts stiow how the cylindrical tower was anchored. Melted tar on the ground .shows how it was sealed and protected from rust. Behind Gerrard Hall lies the neglected corneTstmie of the ori ginal cavernous and unbelievable .IVIeinorial Ifalh a stone dragged like some St.onehen.ge monoljlh out .of the wav when the .prisent Me morial Hall was built, and left flat on its back marking nothing exc'Pt man's forgetfulness. Other stones have been moved, hoi,-rowed, and built into new struc tures, For instance, the top stono in the abutment of the steps lead ing to the Carolina Inn from Cameron Avenue is a broken piece of a brown sandstone window sill from one of the oldest campus buildings, a bit of rubble left over Are Things Too Good? Carolina Israelite There is no parallel for this SHlll. lory may America of the year 1957 in all the history of mankind, including the Xanadu of Kubla Khan; ”\Vlicrc Alph. the .sacred river, ran through caverns measureless lo man, down to a sunless sea. ’ 'God i:orbi.d that there should be even (lie suggestion of a depres- Tn the study of world his- we have -found that people give lip profits if necessary, and even jobs; but it is a dif ferent story when they are con fronted with the loss v)f ^atus. In the, depression of the 1930’s only a very small segment of our peo ple was “declassed." In fact anany folks actually achieved a STATUS they had never known. The decline had been preceded by a period during which the two-dol'lar bet tors were no longer interested in the results of the sixth race at Havre de Grace. They now wait ed for the closing price.s on the York Stock Exchange. Sten ographers and bootblacks discuss ed dividends, earnings, car-load ings. and the' Federal Reserve re discount rate. Thus a fellow fin ally bought fifty shares of Skelly Oil. at eight dollars a sliare in partnership with the short-order ciK)k at the delicatessen store. Then came the crash, and the fel- iow stood at a bar with a five- cent glass of beer in his hhnd, and told all about how the stock mar ket willed him out. He thus achiev ed a STATUS he had p#ver dream ed of—identity with^ J. Pierpout Mors^aii, who also lost money in tile stock market. New Will It Be Force Or Reason? Patchwork ISdikU arfliv.st ’issued I’or spccilic, ble prtyjt-cts. 11 l1k.-s(-' art; til tlic sort tltiit "’.ii! take ill revettue, ami ]>ay ilu* securities (>1*1. so much the belter, (iovernov Hodges’ plait to shuffle aiouiid .110,000,000 in bonds id provide pav iiicre.ases lor u-achers ;iiid olbei public cmplotes isn t a bit like that. ■It’s a tiickv sort ol deid, in ■"liich money is lifted I'roiii the bind I'or permaiiein iui- provcmc.iil-s. which is then reimhnrscd with a bond issue. I'hai wiiiild make iht- bonds , coiiioiin to a proper lormnla. hnt theyd .still actually he issued to hike pare ^Vllal would hap|,eii when .still htglicT public salaries were desired? More .swindl ing, more hoiids.-' It - .seems-^tlSrly that -the- State W-iH- have ' enough money to grant the inrrea,ses, aiiy- wa\. There wiaiildn't be enough, though, lor tiia'V aitd to Vt-visi- raxes to altrat.t net\ iii- .dustrv,. a priiject-.tleai to Mu Hodges. It.s a (I'liesiion nhetlu-i husiiie.s.s men would rush ui move to a State lliat juggled money as proposed, even though tax rates - which always cr.’ti be cliaiig,ed again — were low at the monient. , . Taxes are far irom the mam determiiiaiit ill .setiiiig up plants. Availability ol raw ma terials aitd ol lalKir, nearness to transporta tion lines—those come ahead. North Caro lina isn’t the scene of nihacco factories be cause of tax rates, lor instance, but because it's ceii'trjil tohacco-growing region. Peihaps the ('.eiteral .Assembly will try to do evervihittgTor-all jteople. anth-adopt tlte 1,011(1 stratagem. It still seems a muddled way lo reach the goals. _ . Rs- • DECENT PLACES OF detention •AhhlTIONAL PSYCHIATRIC facilities for study ing CAUSES OF tDELiisiqUENCY • better housing A.ND SCHOOLS, • spiritualtraining . SUPPORT OF SOCIAL A5EHCIES Today it 'ehtMy' different. The slightest depre.ssion would au- tomatlcally -‘DECUAS'S” sixty per cent of our population. Six weeks wnthout a pay check to meet the installments, and everything tomes out—down to the waffle iron. Millions of our .people have entered the middle class during ' the past twenty years, and they have all Uie wonderful things this STATUS implies: beauty .contests, garden clubs. League of Women Voters, automatic dishwashers, electric refrigerators which open by themselves, a baking oven which tiiT-ns the roast over au tomatically. country clubs, swim ming pools, and the suburban churches and temples with kit chens. vestments, processionals, book review's, Air. and Mrs. Clubs, and brisket, spaghetti, and bingo nights. At no time in the history of the world have so many people had so much; and- in a way this is frightening. I suppose this comes from something my mother dinned into my head night and day: “It’s bad when things are too good.” By B, MAYNE ALBRIGHT (In a meeting of the Current T. pies Club, Rocky Mount ) Now that members of the Gen eral Assembly have reflected, and the Governor has changed his position and agreed, the duty and the op.portunity of this General As-embly is made clear: Our choice i.s not between proper tax adjustments and proper teach er salaries. Our choice is between meeting or failing to meet a real crisis in public education, both in public sch:)ols and the University. That choice shotild be clear. Papular education has been our chief boast; we cannot allow it to continue to decline. Tlie State University has been our pride, we cannot surrender it do mediocrity. Of course wc can and should afford a plane for the Governor. Of course we can and should afford $12,000 salaries for the Council of State. Of course we can and should remove any tax inequities that impede our industrial develop ment. We can afford these things just as we can afford to supjport our hew Aid Museum and our State Symphony. But we cannot afford them un less we are determined that we can also afford adequate appro priatioiis for public schools, for state employees, and for a first- 1‘ate State University. And in these times “adequate” support means more than a grudg ing gift of the necessary dollars to make up a 19.31 per cent in crease to meet what the State Board of Education believes the' essential minima. It means that we need to renew our faith in public education; to renew our determination not on ly to support but to increase and strengthen and improve our pub lic schools. We need to plan now for the pre dicted “tidal wave” that the next decade will bring into our schools and colleges. We need to make it clear that we recognize this “tidal wave” of school childrc: students not as. a a blessing; not onl est expenditure, be est resource. We need a nev ment that our abi bill is not so much present financial n measured by thb sources of our mh and by the firtmne: mination to pw worthy of our st: ture. In a changing S( North Carolina ne try and educatior and increased leac take strength ifrom prcgi-ess in the p Betvyeeii our n( north and southy, called “a Valley between two pea! but let us not foi the quotation. The miliation,” as Ala man points out, i Pilgrim’s Progres describing the says: ”. . . yet I muf that in former men have met ? have found :pear and have in tt the words of Chapel Hill IS Published every Thursday by the Conipatiy, Inc. Mailing A Box I Chapel i Street Aclress—3i Carrb Telephone /No . Norlli Ca PtESS ASS —— ‘•mft Phillips Rufsell Roland Giduz STAND OF (JUDGE rtAE1=Y LinDEMAN president OF NATL COUNCIL OF j juvenilE’COlSzT Jt/1>6E5 j ' I‘ailyinilli-i-yotk Gaxcilc & Daily QUESTION OF STATUS The Gentile women do not seem to have the yearning for STATUS that the Jewish women have. The Gentiles sit there smug and happy in their ' thirty-dollar hats; they are on all sorts of committees and appear to be enjoying them- .selve.s. and I believe they are. The natural interference is that QUIZ champions The Quiz Cltampion is part of the current decline of the Intellec tual and the distrust of the scholar. -He is our new knucklehead. He nas succeeded in reducing “ scho larship” to the level of knowing the population of Tokyo, and the batting average of Babe Ruth,— and 'thu-s, unwittingly perhaps, he has helped to shut the door a bit tighter on—Original Thought—and the e.vptoration of a New Idea. L. M. Pollander -I E. .1. Hamlin SUBSCKIPTI (Payable In Five Cents , their men are not so desperately essential to them, and their cul- lure is that of a matriarchy. They sit comlbrtably -B-ithout that bereft, forlorn, conspicuous, and self-coti-, -scions feeling that you, easUy re cognize in the lonely Jewish wo- Carolina Israelite BY CARRIER: I $2.60 lor six I per annum, i BY MAIL: (In i joining Coimli $2.50 six mo., i (elsewliere in t $3,00 six mo.; i (outside U.S.A $4,00 six mo. | Entered as seco at the -postoffke^ N. C,. under th 3. 1879.
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