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Chapel Hill News Leader
'Don't Worry. It Won't Take Long To Grow Back!'
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VOL, IV, NO. 31
THURSDAY, APfelL IS, 1957
No Polifics Wanted Here
1 he separation ol jjri.sous Iroiji hi"iiway.s.
long expected ttnri long oveidne, has becotne
the tootball ol politits at Raleigh.
It itt.t y be that a recolt tigaittst (lov,, Hodg'tts
uttd liis pet nleasttie.s was only to be expctl-
ed. attd it nitty be grtinted there is iiieiit, iit
the contentipii that higltways sbptikl nett be
asked to pay for prison upkeep: bttt the lact:
rcniains iliac ilie State Higineay Camitnission
has one I'tiiiclidti and tite ,pi isoii systetn asi-
(jther. and tlteS slittnld be no longer conlnsed
or merged.
Stale prisoners were |)iit tinder the control
of Highways ycais ago only as an'eniergency
and to meet a pgrricular condition. .\ll tliat
has pa.ssed atvay, and the prison .systeni is
readv for indepciideiKe and control ol it
self.'
fioine of the iroist scandals iiixohing hid
den cniehie.s and sadism have resulted from
the control of prisoner by highway agencies,
and North C'.arolina wants no more of tlieiii.
It is one of the chief arg'uinents of the
Higiiway Cointnission that it lo.se.s money by
working prisoners and that it would prefer
to operate willi fice labor.
Why then does it keep its iton grip on the
pri.son sy.stciii and cling to it as if. it were a
particular trea.sure?
The anstrer i.s partly financial but mostly
political. The unfavorable report given to
the .separation bill last week was based on
the euutenlion that tltc liigliway fund still
pays lot piison support. That arrangement
can be altered. But harder to eliaiige will lie
tlte higliwav departmein's proneitess to pttli-
ties.
Bureaucrats As Monarchs
The effronterv of Postmastei C.cncral
Snnniieifield in the weekend einiing of post
al services was one of the worst examples ol
bure;.’uerae\ scyii in this coiintry since Bnrl-
esoii set lip as mail ccti.sor some go 5eais ago.
If Congiess Istibmils to .Suminerfield cm
Ills demand for iiiore-iiioiiey-ot-else, it will
tlieiebs tiLidge mliei biiieancrats to go rind
do likewise, and we .sliall see eweiy dcpari-
ment of the goveniiiient directed bv pint-
sized itiontirchs manning tbeif prisalc bal-
llcmcitls.
The rctiinis are iic.tt yet in. Inn it will
soon lie realized how immense were , the
losses and dclavs iinnrred by the arbitaiy
sltutting ofl of postal services last .Satindas.
No sttcli sttildeii and violent cliatige in a
basic go\ ermiteitlal scrv'it c onglit to be al
lowed ivithoiu due notice long ahead of time,
and without giving the nation ample time
to iiieet the emergency.
Senator Netiberger argues that I’ostittastcr
iTt'iieial .Sininnevlield was less guilty titan the
lb S. Budget Director Bmndage. who, he
thinks, slioitld have known about aiiv postal
need.
W'hoexcr may be held resp(.>ii.siblc. the lact
rcina.iii.s that any departinent head may now
speiid his appropriation as fast as he chooses
and lliciiagiil to.(longress. litr jliovc monex
niider. llireai'ol a strike .of .services.
, If, flic postal'ivorkers of. the land, all of
wlibni deserve a.rai.se: in pav, had pulled this
strike., the iiaxion watuld have been in an
iibroar. Is the natiuii to sav, nothing w'lieii a
barnifnl stopjrage i.s' ordered-by a Intrean-
cralf
(’. Jl. Dmiici For Fhr Xt'W.s I.{'fider
Wiil Pearsall Plan Stand Un. Too? . . .
Pupil Assignment Law Meets Test
Paris And The Queen
It niav be taken as a bacl iJial the gala
loiir-dav rece|)t.ion given to the Bi itish (lueeii
in Paris xvas not 'pist a hospitable gestnre.
Modem goxcrnnicnls do not resort to .such
lax islt lib.sfJTtafitfes xviihbiit .i political or eco-
nuniit mbtix e ItiddeiV soineivlici c in the-fpsjw.'
tix'ities, and Oneen Kli/abelh's recent Palis
xisil was the first of its kind siine the iltiV.s ol
Queen \'icloria. which lends fiirtliei pctiin to
the opinion that then' was iiioie lit the slioxv
than xvliat met the tourist's eve.
Practically ex cry iiio'xe now being made
by any importaiii govermiieiii. xvlietlier so
cial or oilterwise. has .some soi l ol relereiice to
ilie IbS.V.
Til the .Suez affaii Biilaiii aifd Prance lo.st;
a heavy round, to the I’S. and neithei is likely
to forget it. (kmscquetitly they feel the need
of dt axviitg togetlier and derix ing what com
fort tliev tan from each other’s support. In
a .seii.se the queen.'s xisil xvas :t recognition
bv botli govertifiiciits lhat fhev have become
'ecotidary to tltc IbS and paiily sardlile.s of
it. • , -
Brit,ain's po.sitiftn has beconte st> sfiaky ihal
■ I'he-oM : Rrittsh 'arrogaiK e has gix-eii place to
pie; s for understanding and frieiidsliip. The
present (loii.serxalix-e goxei ninent i.s reeling
from the Itloxx-s given it by ,\tieurin Bex’ait,
the labor pat tv onitot . xx lto sees llie TS ((ler-
itianv being gone) as the ix-orld'.s next menace,
and is getting iiuuli support by his crusade
againsl Bijti.sli nttclear bombs.
Newer ha.s I’S power been more genet ally
recogni/ed and tiexcr xvas this nation more
isolated. J liis pexx’, .poxx'er. nyea.ns increa.scii
resilbnSi'biiiues and inefcased clangers. Mcaii-
tiinc tlte- L’S i.s xx-itlioni a x isible friend. It
niigltt ask itself: ix-bat has caused this isola
tion?
Ain't Pharmacy Grand!
Still thev (:onie--iiicdiriiiehicalIe(l tranquil-
izers and nrfjod allevianrs. .
Latest among' tliein—;lasl lime tve bad a
chance to look—is one that lolloAvs an almosl
standard siory line. It was developed to ireai
something else, tuberculosis, hi this case, but
lias switched lo the meiilid Held. It s reconi-
meiided foi' depressed persons, Tvho olten
have been f'urtlier depicssed by earlier drugs
that allei emotions. A IV)otn()te remarks that
this substance lielps arihritics stand their
pain.
All extremely line and hopeiiil. hut it's
the .sort of song that's been lieard before,
starting fortissimo and trailing ofl. The an-
nouncemeiu neglects to quote ilie hosannas
about conquest of tuberculosis Avith Avlnch
the drug was en.tered in a lic'ld ol mc’dicine
now apparentl) abandoned.
If all the pills and such pul on tlie market
or proA ided to medical rc.searcli teams in the
last lew years had livc^d up to prospectuses,
hnmanitv rvould be healthier and happier
than it has been since the gates ckmged on
The (;arden of Kdcn. But lliat's not .so.
idTcre’s a peril in the hoopla about ■'iTiii-
acle drugs." Folks may get tlic idea they cani
be cured of anytliiiig. Work or plav so viu-
Icnitly that vou go mad. That s O.K. I hey 11
give you (doo]>amidc. and you’ll get Avell at
once. Run vourself doAvn. and fix it Avith a
jjepper-upper: wind yourself up too light,
and relax Avith a, sootiieV“doAvner. Ii doesii t
Avt)rk that way. uathout risk and damage, in
spile of the gaudiest claims and ihe greatest
expectations, maybe the iruit ol honest op-
limism. but too, .frequently proving AA^onuy,
sour.
Someone Avho’d surely get credit except
for a lamentably mislaid clipping said re
cently U'lat a clear conscience beats any
tT^anquili/er a pharniacv can prov idc. I liai s
a raft ol sa^lsci^
Fram The Southern Pines P lot
.Wien t’'e of Xor h Caro-
Ijina . la.st, Foil voted on. and ap
proved. the “Feawsall PIhji” In
deal with Thfe piobleiu of rac'al
s-o'/regation in the ■ public, schools
of.'Nor h, Caroi'iia.. T’-'e PU' t ''n-
posed the plan’.as being basically
xA means to evade, rather than
ooiie. vrilh. the re.=ponsibi.l‘t’es
♦lirivst upon the state by the U. S.
Supreme Coiiri's school s'^i-ega-
tiou decisions.
The Pearsalh'Plan p'-ovides Stale
tuition grants f'‘v priv te -scho 1-
ing to children whose parcii's a"e
'iniwilUng for them to attend a
racially mixed .school. .^Iso. the
Plan allow.s rosideni.s of a school
district to close schools by v.'tino.
Before these procedures are in-
Toked. however. Negroe.s applying
for admission to a AA'hite school
miLst comply with the provisions
of. the State’s Pupil Assignment
Act which was written into law
by the 195.? legislature.
Procedures Set
The Pupil .Assignment Act au-
Ihorizes' assignment of all pupils
to certain schools and sets up a
chain of appeal procedures—to
The school board and then to the
J^late Superior Jourt—for inmil.s
whose parents are not satisfied
vitli. the school assignments gb’-
en their children. Such assign
ments. the law provides, are not
to be made on the basis of race,
but ai’e to . be tho.se deemed best
for the school and for the child.
It Avas this Assignment Act that
AA’as tested recently before the
U. S.' Supreme Court, to the ex
tent that a group of Negroes'ap
plying for admission to the Old
Fort white sfdiool v'cre told they
must apply as individuals and use
the procedures of the assignment
Commeniiug on the recent Su
preme 'Court decision, (he p-pb-
iems if raises and its relation lo.
ihe Pearsall Plan. The Sm'thfie'ci
Herald. whi''h also opposed the
Pearsall Plan, summed up clear
ly what the xuitloak is on th’s
pn blem. also just what the Old
Fort decision. means in the , larger
picture of school .segregation, and
llie attempts to end or modify it.
In North Carolina. Said The He.--
Ldd;
' 'i'et To Come
•’■•'Xort.h 'CaiNdinahs Pupil '-Assign
ment Law has weathered a legal
storm. Tout the' con.stifutioiial test
of the Peai:s>ill Plan adopted by
The voters last. Septertiber is yet
to come.
f ■•The -TJ. S. i^uprome C-iurt has
tTu-iied down an appeal from Ne
groes seeking to eni'dl Iheir chil
dren in a wdnie school at Old Fort.
The high court agreed with a
lower court ruling that the^ .Ne
groes had not exhausted adminis
trative remedies open to them un-
.der the North Carolina Pupil As
signment Law'.
■‘In the opin'on of .Attorney fJen-
eral Patton, the recent Supreme
Court decision settles the question
of whether Ihe Pupil Assignment
Law is ujiconstitutional on its face.
•• Tf they- thought it was.’ said
Patton, they would have noted it.’
•Tf Attoi'iiey General Patton is
correct in hi.s view. North Caro
lina’s schcol forces arc slrength-
eiie'd in their .search for sane sol-
ution.s to the problem created by
the Supreme Court lecision ban
ning racial segregation in the pub
lic scluiolis. Both proponent.s and
opp.nieiits of the Pearsall Plan
ha\e contended that the Pupil As
signment Law, -which gives county
and city boards of education the
aiilhoriiy-to assign -pupils to vari
ous schools, is a much needed
facility in peaceful compliance
Not As Dramatic—But Just As Important
LABOR COSTS A HEAP
Self-Slain Nations
(CaroliuB Israelite)
The factories . are tjopmiiig, and- ,
due to the cold xx-ar. the Germans
are e.xperieuciiig a great financial
prosperity. But the ‘'good ifoxtune"
is only .skin-deep.
Tjo one can get away xxith it.
Iso one exec htek.
Fixtm 1880 to- 1914 .Germany
filled the XV01-U1 xvitli learning,
.science, mu.sic. philosophy, ami
commerce. .'Was it a coincidence
that this happenscl during the pe
riod of tremendous Jexx'ish pre.s-
tige in Germanx-? Hitler promis
ed tliem a thousand years of
■‘health through .joy.” but since-
his da.x they hax en t produced
.nivtliiivi xiori’i-xriiile in belle-let-
tres. music, the fine arts, or even
as much as. a single. “new- idea”
of any intellectual, technoldgica,!,
or commercial nature.
The Gommunlst.s xvith ail their
lilusler and vaunted ‘‘inteliec-
tualism” liax-eii’t produced a
novel, a play. ir an opera worth
the . co.st of translation. They
haven't cxen come up- xvith, a
technological idea xvhich tliey
didn't steal from someone else,
.Vnd thi,s from a people xx-ho. be-
txveen 1880 and 1915, produced 36
new operas a year and gave tlie
world Tolstoy and Do.s-toev^y,
the equals of tiicir t\x-o mightiest
contemporaries of the linglish-
spea.kin.g cix'ilizat.ion. C h a'r 1 e s
Dic-kens, and George Bernard
Shaiv.
If you, tamper with tlte artist,
xxriter, intellectual, thinker, Jexx.
dissenter, or any oilier of your
■'odd-fish,’' no matter hoxv much
you may dis’Jke him or his viexvs,
you .VIUST be prepared to pay a
frightful price. There is no escape.
If the' Spaniards hadn’t destroy
ed their Jexi ish community in the
Inquisition of 1491-1550. they would
probably stdl oxvn California to-
dey. A fexv years after they klUed
or deported the Jews of their
country, they began their long
X'igll in -creative silence and in-
Icllectua; darkness. Tic tooLs.
iiiillf) — ') Ol ‘•'rjHc & Diiil^i
They Just Want
Norman Irgrey in Tlie Christian
Science Monitor
^'1
BUENOS AIRES
In Temperley. an outlying but
built-up southern district of th s
capital city, I took an early no n
meal at a table next to some
construction \\'orker.s in a modest
restaTirant.
They ate long and th'ck rashers
of beef, each of AVh'ch must have
been half a pound in weight, ac
companied by, it seemed to me,
smaller amounts of bread. The
meat was juicy and savory and,
with the preceding soup and the
succeeding Kberal portion of fruit
salad, heaj-d them c'lmplaining of
Ihe high cost ot the “almiierzo —
twelve pesos, or about 3() cents,
each.
It was tlie price of beef which
raised theT* ire. They each must
have eaten well over a p'^unci- but
the cost was about 40 per cent
more than in the previous moidh.
T he n-d similar eri iclsm later on
when I drove further into the
cfuntryside. Some truck drivers
had hastily devised an ‘’asado”
under a mimosa tree. They were
eating even bigger steaks than
those in the restaurant, with even
smaller pieces of br
down, I caught the-
remarks—the liigh p
:\'Ian does not live \
but he comes near t(
tin'y despite the t
snack counters and
ilowntown Buenos *'1
“criollo,” or native
plains about the
Avhich are the che
Vt'orld for American
on foreign currency
he just goes on eatir
ily. perhaps more th
Only last Aveek :
Aleat Board chairmai
J. Alonso, admitted .t]
sumption of meat hai
“unheard of” annual
pounds per head, of
94 per cent represer
the rest mutton an
these figures apply t'
ixjpulation today at 
Tlic Italians, the [
other Europeans wb
immigrants soon lea
Argentine way. Evei
the comparatively
American business 
perted to setfe d-jw
hrlnings of lo'-al gIk
IhtA juicy ‘‘lomo” cut
Trustee Horse Trat
Greenshono Daily News
The race is on for 25 vacanc cs
on Ihe Uni\ersity of North Caro
lina bourd of trustee.s.
According to reports from Ra
leigh, trafficking for the posts has
heguti earlier and is going harder
this scss'on of the Legislature than
r.t any time old hands can remem
ber.
Tbero wa.s a day when trust es
were selected principally on the
basis of abiriy and capacity for
service—with a minimum of poli-
lics. Now the process has been
with the segregation ban.
“But Norlh Carolinians should
not read into Monday’s Old Fort
decision things that aren’t there. ,
If the Pupl Assignment Law is
not unconstitutional on- its face,
it remains a law that holds temp-
lations for iin''ons‘ituFonal- ad-
miiiKstration.. Th'j Supreme Court
has not reversed or modified its
decision banning racial segreg.-
bon in public schools. We may
sure that the Supreme Court av’H
not uphold any attempt to use
the North Carolina Pupil As'-ign-
ment Law to preserve. full segre
gation of the races. Race still can
not be the basis for pupil assign
ment.
“Nor does the Old Fort decision
safeguard the Pearsall Plan. The
Pearsall Plan Avill stand only if
the courts are convinced that it
IS not a plan to nullify the segrt'-
gation ban.
“The point to keep clear is that
compii’sory racial segregation is
still unconstitutinhal and plans or
actions to evade compliance with
the law of the land will not be
countenanced by the courts. Vir
ginia, for example, has been un-
successful in the courts with its
policy of massive resistance to the
anti-segregation decision.
Two Hopes
In prcvserving peace and order,
we niust bank our hopes on (1)
reasonable attHude.s on the pai’t
of both races and -2) reasonable
court decisions sanctioning grad
ual good-faith moves toward com-
a>iiance with the antFsegregation
decision. And it should be remem
bered that the courts,, are not
likely to be reasonable when un
reasonable leaders resort to open
•tefi^nce of law or to subterfuge
in tiuJlifying the effect of law.”
Chips That Fall
.\igiiiiieiils aitioiig the iii-
tel'i,geiu.‘-;i;.' deal witli the
que.stioii of xx'liat uiidesii-
able leaeliuiis. if any, result
Iroiii the use of traiiquiliziiig
drii.gs. One scliool eon tends
tlicy iip.set one's iiilCTiov.
aitollier say.s they .raise blood
pressures, and a third sdiool
iiiaiiitains titcy- liaxe no bad
el lens at all. Miieli depends,
of eourse. on the eoiilenls of
the dnig- anti on tlte iiidixid-
turnecl lii'o a le;
trade, and .p iIiLcs it
ttredient.
The .stench rcaclta
txvo x’ears. age.
trustees selected xx-e
tied: others, ; s the
server exqi-es eii i
no more qualiCicatio
on the universit}’’
they did for a sect
Energy^ Commission
ter itist happened to
iiivers or have good
the laxx-makers.
The Un’versily ol
iina, taxpayers of N
.students rgiid faciiltit
unixersity units d
than to hax’c their t
t-d on such a “ha
basis.
University trustees!
test that can be for
.latix'e “pets.” The!
semWy this session ]
degrading habit moi
to D;eep South ‘‘st:
one xvhich incx'itab
.standing of tlie Unix-
Garolina.
The case of an Albemarle mo-
tori.st isn’t at all funny.
He had a Slight accident which
crumpled hi.s fender. The garage-
man estimated that cost of re
pair would be .S45.
Knowing that he didn’t have a
prize in the car, the owner in
quired: '‘Hoxv much will you give
me for the xvhole car?”
The garageman appraised it
xxitli a sweeping' eye before an-
sxvering: "Fifteen dollars.”
Incidentally, the repairs xvere-
n't made. But the case goes to
show what ..'.range values are
created in a glutted market (like
the used car business, for ex
ample) involving a commodity in
cotnparlson xvith work which re
quires man-hours.
It’.s a strange but not a surpris
ing situation —Morganton News-
Herald.
-Mniiy of the arguiiieiiu
leail to a leductiu ad ah.surd-
Lijii. ft is nsktd. for iiistaiKe.
xx'liy most of the troiitiled
souls of lileratiire, liisloix,
and fable (^Vasllillg■toll at
Valley t-'orge, fur cxatttple)
eoitldit’t just Lake a trtt'itqui I-
izittg drug attd forget the
xx'ltole thtttg.
■k -k -k
Reports are cotttitig itt
that tlte wood thrush has ar-
lixed attd slat ted singing on
the nort.lt side of toxvn, hut
not on Lite south side. Some-
tiling queer here. I he mi-
graius arc supptwed to be
eomiiig up froirt the south
and it's on that side that
Lite first songs should be
heard,
k k:
Dll the recent cold nights
gardtiers and Itorticulttirists
swung into action xvith Fruit
jars, paper caps, jute hags,
and other protective devices
spread over young- plaiiLs.
Old-timers say fruit jars
keep out frost but not cold,
and that paper is the best
ntsuUiLor. But no lest came.
1 he tetnperaiLire in toxvn
nexei lell to the freezing
point, rite hastCT freeze i.s
becoming cliroiiic, and aiiv-
one who finds a way to break
111) the sdiedtile will he
lliaiiketl.
*
Chapel Hill is piohably
the xvistaria qneeii among
-N. toxviis. lo spell it
xvtsteria lails lo preserve the
name of Dr. Ernest M’islar of
Philadelplua, for xx-Jiom it is
called.
LOVE Sti
O, Chapel Hill! O.
With all thy faultsjl
For that thou hast r
ters —
Those vile, voradou
A bachelor or a b
choice—may meant 1
person didn't care -a
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Lions can be fairly easily driven
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tj.it never i'rttm fre.shlx’ killed dome.s-
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whv.
home of choice CHARCOAL BROII
flaming shishkebab