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Chapel Hill News Leader Keep North Carolina 'Green' VOL. IV, NO. 32 , MONDAY, APRIL 22, 1957 Classification Confusion Part oF the uniiecessary tonlusioii arising from tiic ainouuceci plan of pay increases for State employes is. to be ascribed to the vague use of certain terms, panic.uk.'iiy “classifica tion" and “selective pay.” .Maintenance employees on the campus here and elsewhere liave a right to know Vvhelliet: these terms mean they are to be frozen, in their, pre.sent pay or , scaled downward., In either event they cannot be expected to like it. Employees of the Cihapel Hill police and. fire departments are classified and have the advantage of knowiiig tvhere' they stand and wh;-L to expect as regards pay. On the other hand, the yardstick plan pro- offered by the State Personnel Department is open to question in several respects. For example, the large.st cla.ss of Stare employees numbers 6.779 people ivho are paid RaStp' to a Under the present plan they would draw an increase of I3G0. (These lig- tires are from a table published by the Ra leigh Mews & Observer.) ' But employees drawing above .$8,000 a , year would enjoy a raise of .8720. It is true that the percentage of increase for the former class looks better than that for the latter, but justice does not go by pei- centages and lllere can be sometbiug very deceptive about classifying- humaii beings in .such terms. The State Personnel Department and the supporting Governor mnst niake it clear that vague and undefined terms do not conceal discrimination or injustice. Otherwise there will be a justified suspicion that the lowei ranks of State employees get the bones while the higher rat-ik.s get the gTa\-y. . ' , If Ruinous Brainwashing “,\mericans ha\'c brainwashed themselves about Russia,” .said U., S. Supreme Court Justice \V. O. Douglas before :■ Duke Uni- verity audience. He added: “The people of that country have progressed far ahead of what we have imagined . . . their engi neers. physicists and chemists are very tal ented.” He pointed out that the Russian people likewise get a distorted view of life in the Lb'S, betatrse “a Russian censor .sirs astride ever\ news story.” There is no govermnent contiol of news in the U. S.—Cliin:^ news excepted—, but we have seen many other forces operating to raise such a dust and clamor about Russia that we cannot y.e,c through the curtain thus dropped before ijSir own eyes. Meantime. wi.t{| these twin engines of mi.s- icpresentation Existing on both sides, we see two powerful natipns. which arc just noiv the f'rst : nd .secoim'powers in the world, hurry- itig down the greased track to a point in the distance where there will be a crash and an overwhelming explosion. ft is possible that in such a crash the Russ ian iirstitutions of today will be wiped out and a totally new order will arise. But we shouldn't fool ourselves: the U. S. that sin - vives will be radically changed also. ■Such financial and political centers as .New York and ^Vasbing■ton will do well to escape obliteration: and the great industrial tenters of the .Middle 'West will certainly be at tacked bv nuclear bombs, which even If they miss their economic targets will destroy whole civilian |vopulations—men, women and chil dren. Meantime the country’s economy will be drastically changed. Thus there will be not just one ruined country, but two. On the world horizon we see no leader ship, no siate.sinan. laboring to avert such chaos. Meantime the distortion and the mili- tarv rare continue. Is one the fruit of the other? The Dead Sea Script Spring Has Sprung C. Ji. Dmuei /-m The Keivs Leader By SIDNEY SWAM ROBINS (Special For The Nerrs Leader) Some montlrs ago, after read ing Millar Burrow's ti-aaslation of tlie Dead Ssa finds, we wrote that there was in tiiom no anticipation of the Sermon on the Alou.lt, rather these Qumi-an peoplJ W'cre the kind against wh: m the great teachings of Jesus were aimed. A,gain at the University Lihrnrv-, we have been reading another scholarts rendering of these same documents together with a tew extra fragments. In his p-ctace, Theodor H. Gastner says that he intends to let the texts .speak lor themsel\-es and not to enter into current controversies about them. However he does not succeed too completely in .confining himself to the role of translator. He has a preface, a long and important in troduction, and a we ght of differ ent kinds of footnotes. He asks for a sympathetic ap proach. to these “Essenes,” and even finds in them a kinship with the great mystics of later ages. There arc some tine passages in the Thanksgiving Hymns in Mr. Gastner's translation, vdiich con stantly recall onr Book of Psalms. “Blessed art Tlioti. O Lord, ■ creator of all -things, m'.ghty in deed, by whem all things are WTOUght. ■Behold Thou has .gi’anted mercy to Thy servant and shed upon him in Thy .grace Thine evcr-corapassionate spirit and the splendor of Thy glory.” But on the whole, these hymns are dominated pretty thorou^^ldy by two characteristic old-Jewish ideas: the utter separation .of God and man, or divine and human; and a clear-cut, moralistic, divi sion between saints and sinners. A sense of the visitation of God’s grree in, or upon, the life of thohe who retire to coneenlrate upon -his law, is there too, as it is in the Psalms. But it is a feeling which contradicts the doctrine. cihemy of inner -quietut cuter fanaticism.” He- say their inward feeling ‘‘eternal truths” out’,v outward fanaticism. In ion comes tip the ques aris s about many a Fu ist sect of earh. Mlin dcc-p consciri'.tion and zeal ba.scd i;po» cuiii and rites, we often wo the balance of good a it ever possible that' and the making relig:ib of rigid inoi'es and' 0)r helps people to stand desperate times? There mental drill, like miliu But our original jud these are the kind, of j) was preachihg against i Sermon seems eonfiirin ITiere are important in thi.s new translation Wliereas MilT-r Burro ing says that if an ox f dit h on the Sabbath let liim lie, and if a i they are not to go. | ladder; this new tran^ about the ox but in i the man says they lielp. C’eai'ly this is i uniertrfn text or' s missing word. But it is clear tha- based its religion Up of -Moses in . plenty | details. Religion, was matter of sacrifices Kosher food regiilalio: in fiont. = The rule of levitcs was a fixtiire.- wie read that if lh( feeble-minded, they him under lock and is needed for a mony. Condemnation aimed at those who right in their own e tliat to levites or lav Ediioilal Ill The vSniitlifkld Herald L'^cal” uDii^itioi^s netwuthstand- ^bi'iag has yet to grasp all Clouds Over Jordan Dcs|)iie file loud tiump.esiiigs'about King Hussein s coup in Hashemite Jordan against. aiiti-.Ymcriean and'anti-British members of his entouiagc, there is no means ol know ing just yet whether the Reels have lost a skrninsb or wbetber the -U, S. has not merely added ariothei t:iistoniev to its lengthetiing pavroll. The Iordan king would doubtless be willing to cut oti a few political heads in or der to make a favorable impression on Rep. Ridiard,son of S.C.. who is touring the Mid dle Fast to .see who next gets a good dtp in (he U. S. treasurv, but, at the same time^ he drops pla.'in hints that be is not cutting him self off from Egypt or Saudi Arabia or odicr .\rab connections. The oiilv thing that seems clear is that tirear Britain is passing the Middle East iiin-brclla over to the E. S. and is stepping out from under it. Jordan has recently separated itself Irom the Bi-itisli pa.yioll and is supposed to be rebing on support from its stronger .Arab neigh hots. But if that .source proves to be .seamy, prudence would .suggest a richer tiii- aiicial connection. The only thing th:it seciiis definite at this .Xfiddle Eastern stage is that die U. S. oil companies arc steadily gaining .ground fiom the British, Dutch, and French companies tvbich once tried to bar tlicm out and in these efforts to gain supremacy is getting the ina- tenial support of the U. S. .govermnent. If Jordan can help it will gel on the pay roll; if it fails to do its part, it will gel off. That might be a fair summary of a situation that the headlines do not fully describe. 1 — ’.tcs in iw gentle but firmly I ptiKitizing hold. Y-el it'.s surely on th? way. Evi dence — three widely scattered cases of mental lapses beneficial to sharp, ciarin.g. and perhaps-^' spring-driven lawbreakers. * First inning. Chicago. Yegg was unable to enen a safe late at night, called a locksmith, and. ixislng as -store's owner, get him to take off the door. T'wo police men ca.tne by, chatted as the man continued'hi.s ru.se. When the locksmith took the door to his shop to fix it, man made off with. .js.kOO. Second inning. Hickory, N. C. Man in sports car s-ped through Highway Patrol whammy, clocked at- 97 m.di. .Questioned validity of reading! said his ear simply would n't go that fast. To check it, went back up Hie road a w'ays, got up head ' of s'eam, hurst through' c.-;.bles at 110 and kept going. Cups, v.'ici’oiir license numher and si:- t'i“g' still'.' si-ratched .heads. Third inning. Los An.ge’es. Yourg man walked into loan office, wtent behind counter during business hours, asked one clerk to pardon him as he nudged his w'-ay to cash drawer, dipped in and walked out wdth $16,000. ' Summary: no runs, no hits, three errors, and everyhody left. And Southpaw .Spring hasn't start ed throwing curves yet. To i-ie Editor; I am interested in the report of Raymond .\dams on his archaeo logical research' in Chapel Hill. One deduction. I believe, is wrong. In re:porling on his discovery of the site of the University’s anci ent standpipe, which was erected, 1 believe, in the lOStO's. he writes: ■ Molted lar on the ground shows how' it was sealed and prote-ted from rust. ' I, believe there is another ex planation for the "tar.” In 1933 or 1934. thanlis mainly to George Lawren c, the State Emergency Relict Administration approved a street paving program in Chapel Hill, using emergency relief la bor. .A large quantity of "tar” for One has never met predestina tion more clearly tauglit than in these hYmn.s: God front his heigh Is lT,s settled everything we are to do or say, and w'hether \vc be saint or sinner. Here is truly a doctrine of chosen group, if not chosen race. It is by God’s grace that any man docs righteousnes.s, and God is archetype of absolute jnonarehs. He has picked some ■people to represent goodnes,s. ,\ir. Gastner says that these writings exliihit “a wonderful al- The word “nelghho: mean a hTother of There is a command children of darkness vites are to enrse wl igations” of men who ! and to extend the c dren’s' children, skJ’i art thou beyond al ■ mercy; mayest .thou-l the gloom (7) of file We must .look to contemitorary source,’ be, for u.ngrading : and sinners, for the,: . all hatred, for Wide' i ; the reduction or sire Moses to love of God| Free Wheelinq I IBMOn Wreck Rep The Shortest Route the pi'oiect w.ts temporarily .stor ed in the old standpipe. Roy M. Brown Another glance at the map wiU reveal a geograiphical eircum- slance that has .probably not es- Season Of Renewal It Ls Spring'. New grass, fresh leaves, buds beeuniing blooius affirm tbc fact. Drab brown-grey yields to brilliant, .variegated green a.s a background to the creamy purity ol dogwood blossoni.s and the vividness ol redbud and the rest of Nature’.s bright palette. Ir Is Spring. Flocks and herds increase. Calves and lambs first falter and then frisk Iteside tiicir mothers. Birds rejoice with song and busy tltetn.scives tvith nests tor l.beii' broods. Jt is Spring, and man's heart kno^vs and warms as iveather turns gentler, invites him to the work that will bring the pleasant gain of liarscst in due time. Yet all these signs are of the earth earllily, having to do, for all their pledge of renewal, only with such as the grass that withers and tbc beasts that must perish, lor man. they concein only his aniinal part. Into this, yesterday, came the higher iness- The Faster story tvas told, with its prom ise that every Spring brings not merely fresh bounty of Earth’s produce and of flesh, but ol llic spirit. Truly, it is Spring, for tree, plant, antnial. man’s body and, Easter-betokened, for the their ego.s with straight gin. Something is away, ami.ss. What is' to be d.uie about you—the vast army of so-called Southerners who insist on leading lives of repugnant uprightness? Have you no sense of the dramatic, no ta.ste for the classic 'purity of unbridled viol ence? It you persist in this foolish adherence to decency you will n#\'er catch the beady, talented eye of Mr. Williams or Mr. Kazan. You will go dow'n. unheralded in ■dramatic annals 1 Off with your crinolines and knee breeches! Get in there and fighll Swieat a little! Put some guts in your dialogue!. Breathe heavier! Leer a little! Live a little! Get with it, baby dolt: epped the attention of the oil-stra tegy planners. North-East of Eg yptian territory, beyond Sinai, lies the shortest route from the Bed Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. It runs up through the Gulf of .Aqaba and across the compara tively naiTOW neck of the desert from Eilat to a point near Ash- keloii. all through Israel territory. A smallbore pipeline for domes tic use is notv being laid from Eilat to Beersheba. The route, has been surveyed and obviously pie- seiits no insuperable difficulties in view of the pro-gress being made in laying the Israel pipeline. Peace with Israel is thus a fac tor which, however politically un palatable it must appear to them at this time, the Baghdad Pact countries and the oiHprodncing slates of the Persian Gulf must inescapably take into considera tion for tlie effective solution of their economic predicament. It ' must be stated for the record tliat Persia, Kuwait and Bahrein arc not members of the Arab League and were never officially at war with Israel. Turkey, one of the Baghdad Pact countries, was in the process of fo.stering amicable ties with’ Israel before its rulers bowed to Iraqi pressure and de sisted, though not unapoiogetically. Israel speaks Trash Can Affair .soul. Dixie As Seen By Yankee Writer . ■ . Something Away Down South From Footnotes, Publicatioji of the Fontlight Players, Inc., Charleston, S. C. We are thinking ,'of setting : dP a special fund to send Oscar-win ning, super-realist Director Elia Kazan on a complete tour of all the territory cast of Texas and south of Pennsylvania. This burst of altruism rushed into'flower as v.'e were reading the 'Theater Sec tion of the New York Times, -udiei-e a prominent 'Critic made a few cniighlening remarks about the current controversy over the new Kazan film, “Baby Doll.” Mr. Kazan was quoted as saying that he made the picture “to get on film what I feel in,the South.” This iicsutlfully unequivocal expUma- Uon shook us so severely that we fell against a rotting .Ionic column, spilled p‘Ur julep into the jasmine and kicked the hound dog (low’n ■the stairs. ■', ' . ' ' ', : To fM in-ithe nnlfifon-ned.. ".Raby Doll” is set in a decayed South ern mansion, inhabited by a loud mouthed, middle-aged husband and his addle-pated child-wife. Award-winning local color is sup- ■plied by close-ups of gaw'king Ne groes, squealing pigs and lazy dogs. Of course, everyone sw'cats a great deal and shouts a lot and there is the inevitable seduction scene. Now we must admit that we were quite taken with the Ten nessee Williams—Elia Kazan treat ment Of‘'‘Str-eefbar, 'Named De- sire”—a compassionate handling o' a sordid situation—but, after “Ca,l on a Hot Tin Roof” tii>pear- cd, followed by “Baby Doll, ' we began to get a bit nervous about our environment. Had we b:en liv ing in a fool’s paradise? Could it be that we weren’t talking loud enough or sweating enough? Should we exchange our French poodle for a coon dog? Should we walk .around flic house, more often, in nothing but an old slip? Great balls of fire, how eould w’C have been so un-Southern! Looking around, we’ve decided that most of our friends are as appallingly uu-Southern as we. Practically none of them are caryiiig on with the hireti man. Relalivciy few are locked in tlie bedroom, basUng ]Clym>Uer-york Oazette & Daily (Stanley News & Press) A dispatch from Washington dated Sunday reported the good news that the State Department has scoured the world, slashed red tape and found a waste bas ket that sells for less than $27. Testimony before the House ap- propriation.s subcommittee re leased on Sunday ;,‘hows that the department has discovered “exe cutive” waste baskets could be purchased somewhere for only $10. The subcommittee is reported to have cast a questioning eye on the expenditure of S27 per basket for State Department waste bas kets last year. A check with an Albermarle of fice supply company thio- week revealed that they sell waste bas kets, with the top price for a good “executive” waste basket be ing $7.50. The expenditure o/ $27 each for waste baskets by departments of the federal government is the sort‘of tiling which necessitates big budget increases. We would i-uggest that the State’ Department officials might do a better job of maintaining our foreign relations—and inter nal relations too — if they con centrated rnore on affairs of state in-siead of $27 waste 'baskets. By BILL CROWEIX Reporting From Raleigh FIGURE JUGGLING ... In n moment of idleness sometime, try to imagine how many auto acci dents occurred last year involv ing, say, a' tw'o-door sedan and a panel truck on a rain-roaked high way at 6 p.m. with one drinking driver at the wheel. Impossibly, you say? Not on your life for such facts and figures are obtained in the Motor Veiiicles Department’s statistical section with mechanical ease using the electric brains of a battery of IBM machines. According to legend, the Anmy used them once during World War n to find the only one-armed bas soon player among the 11 million men and women in uniform at the time. ■Considering there were over 49,- 900 auto mishaps last year, pin , pointing such diverse 'factors as weather, driver’s condition, makes and models, road conditions, time, location and so on for each would seem equally perplexing. As a matter of Fact, however, workers in the unit routinely isolate such accidents when needed for re search or study. The process begins wdth a \yrit summary of traffi deaths' and injuries lion tlirougiiout the go to' public iiiforn professkmal and vol workers, local safe others. Little is l^ft for ; planning new, effecti against the nation’s accident killer—tr^ ful such versatile ever make a good sure tell us with precision who did w many times in a sin ten accident report, filed by mo- Chapel HiiaJNp Published every 1 Thursday by the h Company, Inc. Mailing A(li| Boi 74E Chapel HU Street Adress—311,, Carrhor Telephone: iiit-u L»y jno tori Sts and investigating officers A permanent file record of the mishap is made .and the r-aport Boes to the coding section. .Here the report is Teduced to, a set of ■selected codes by a key punch machine. Or more simply, the various factors involved in'the accident are punched, into the fam- ffiar IBM cards and identified ■Kith code numbers. Thousands of such cards are prepared each month under the overall direction of AYallace Hyde, ch ef of Hie statistical section. Once the cards are coded, and when needed, they are fed into the big, gray-painted IBM mach ines which flip rapidly i(400 cards per minute) through .the va.st col- lecUon. At the touch of a button, tb^y automatically will extract any predetermined type of accident for inspection. ■ From tlih- -'informaU'on . -clerks- compile the mor.Hily and animal Phillips Russell -riifil Roland Giduz - 4 Will Taylor Ade E. J. Hamlin — SUBSCRIPTIO! (Payable In .i Five Cents P l; i BY’ CARRIER;^ $2.60 for six’’-^ per annum. ’ BY MAIL; (In Or joining Countip $2.50 six mo., $t 1 (elsewhere in L'. I $3.00 six rao.; (outside U.S.A)' $4.00 six mo. Entered as scccmcKj ot the posloffice a N. C., under the ^ ■ 3, ms. ' I
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