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Page Two Ik Ckayd Hill WcA'i LOUIS GRAVES _ Editor St BSCRIPTIOX RATES One fMr *l.s© Sue Months „„ 1.06 Throe Months .75 intmx at •ncußO'Cian matter Febra-irr 2*.. ! Ki, Ml At powefcer *: Cfiapel H;ii, Xwrsi CcroicM oncer thr *H e? Mortis 3. Jt79. The State and Its Prisoners * ■ v ‘The feet of two Negroes have had to be cut off because of the gangrene resulting from brutal punishment inflicted upon them in a prison camp in Mecklen burg count}' and from the lack of decent medical service after the punishment. The outrage has stirred public indignation, and investigations have been launched. Capos Wayniek, chair man of the highway and public works commission (which con ducts the state prison and pri son camps) is investigating. The state board of charities and public welfare is investigating. The legislature has appointed a committee to investigate not this incident alone but prison pun ishment throughout the state. The solicitor of the Mecklen burg district has asked the Gov ernor to order a judicial inves tigation. It is to be hoped that these in vestigations will bring about an improvement in the manage ment of the state's prison camps. “It is our responsibil ity, and we are not going to have any whitewash,” said Mr. Wayniek when he appeared last week before the legislative com mittee that was inquiring into the case of the two Negroes, and we may be sure that Mr. Wayniek will do alt in his pow er to end the barbarities com mitted in the name of “discip line.” Hut can he accomplish much in the face of the law' that binds him? And by law we mean the appropriation law that makes impossible the employ ment of well qualified prison camp supervisors and camp phy sicians. It is not only rebellious prisoners that wear shackles. Mr. Wayniek, the commander in-chief of the prisons and the camps, an intelligent, conscien tious and humane man, who would like nothing better than to have all the inmates fairly treated, is himself effectively shackled. When injustice or cruelty in flicted by agents of the state is brought into public view, the root of it is usually found to be the state's parsimony. The qual ity of any service depends upon the quality of the men who per form it, and you cannot expect to get anything but poor service when your wage scale compels you to employ the lowest order of men for tasks that call for fidelity, judgment, and a sense of fairness. The legislators who failed to provide adequate pay for prison c a’m p superintendents and guards are the most obvious tar get for blame, but the fault goes back to the element sometimes described as “the best people” of the state. Tens of thousands of citizens, amply fed and shel tered, secure in their homes and their liberty, know little or nothing, except on a rare oc casion when some outrage is re vealed, about the life of prison ers. They don't want to know. It makes them uncomfortable ■ ■ Notice to Subscriber* Postcard notices of subscription renewals due March 1 were sent out on that date. Many subscribers have responded to these notices. Some have not. If you are one of those who have received the notice but have not responded—and if you want to continue to receive the * Weekly —we ask that you send in your check at once ($1.50 for a year). If you are going to renew, isn't it just as easy to do It now. instead of later and thus save us the trouble and expense of sending you more notices? Your cooperation in this matter will be highly appre ciated. ~ f - v ' ' to contemplate such a foul con dition. To introduce civilized methods into prison camp man agement would cost them some thing, and they don't want to pay it. “They” means yoU and me and everybody else who has had the advantage of an educa tion and who is supposed to have a civic conscience. Com placent is the proper w ord to describe the attitude of most of us. Fortunately, oar complac ency is rudely disturbed now and then .when some particu larly revolting case of inhuman ity is forced upon our attention. “However appropriate the present flood of investigations may be to fix the measure of in | dividual guilt in the brutal pun ishment and indefensible neg lect which cost two Negroes their feet,” writes Frank Smet hurst in the News and Observer, I “no formal inquiry’ is needed to expose the essential cruelties of our prison system. Fairly be nign regulations and theories are discounted in practice. Cap able and conscientious men are placed in high executive posi tions with no way under heaven to discharge their responsibili ties. Between the executives of the prison system and the point of personal contact of that sys tem the-prisoner, intent has been strained frightfully thin through inadequate provision for a fair execution of the pur pose to be both humane and ! practical.” After setting down the regu lations for punishment—loss of privileges (such as smoking), reprimands, warnings, shack ling, restricted diet, solitary confinement Mr. Smethurst says: “A casual reading of these regulations reveals that hell itself is the limit to which I ignorance, indifference, instinc tive brutality may go in their execution.” There you have it: the cause, “inadequate provision;” the re sult, “ignorance, indifference, and instinctive brutality” in the men employed at the prison camps. Serious Fault'of Examinations Headline in the Greensboro News: “Examinations Halt Car olina Athletics.” At last, then, we have an unquestionably sound reason for abolishing examina tions. Latest Population Estimates * The latest estimate by the United States Census Bureau (as of July 1, 1934) puts the population of the United States excluding Alaska and other out lying possessions, at 126,425,000. This is an increase of 3,650,000 over 1930. The estimates for the South ern states are as follows (the figure in parentheses being the increase over 1930): Virginia 2,446,000 (inc. 24,- 000), North Carolina 3,301,000 (inc. 131,000),* South Carolina 1,750,000 (inc. 11,000), Georgia 2,911,000 (inc. 3,000), Florida 1,675,000 (inc. 107,000), Ala bama 2,710,000 (inc. 64,000), Mississippi 2,067,000 (inc. 47,- 000), Louisiana 2,166,000 (inc. 66,000), Texas 6,073,000 (inc. 249,000), Arkansas 1,876,000 (Inc. 22,000), Tennessee, 2,676,- 000 (inc. 60,000), Kentucky, 2,- 657,000 (inc. 43,000). THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY, CHAPEL HILL, N. C. M. C. S. Noble Is 80 {Continued from page one) tern that North Carolina has to day. The fruit of their siasm and their toil—education for every boy and girl—is now | taken as a matter of course by | the great majority of the people |of the state; only men and wo men who are growing old, who can remember those days, have |a. real understanding of how hard the struggle was—the struggle against poverty and in ertia and against the conviction, held by many' well-to-do and in fluential citizens, that “a man | ought not to be taxed to pay for the schooling of another man’s child.” Mr. Noble was born in Louis burg. His family moved to New Bern, and bis father join ed the Confederate army. When New Bern was about to be tak en by the Unionists the mother and children “refugeed” west ward to Clayton. There in the spring of 1865 the 10-year-old boy sat on the porch and saw Sherman’s army pass by. A few weeks later he was to hear his parents, and the neighbors talk ing about the final chapter of tiie war—the surrender of John ston on the Bennett farm near “Durham’s Station” (the 'Dur ham of today). One of his recollections is of an interview with Sherman him self. It happened that the Gen eral and his staff halted in front of the house in Clayton for their midday meal, and the Genera! came to the porch and sat down and took the boy on his knee. In the course of their conversa- I tion jje said: ‘ I “We’ve got to build a bridge ia iitti* way up the road. Sup-; J pose we just take this house down and use it for lumber?” Mr. Noble recalls just what he replied: “I'll be dad-limmed if you’re going to tear my house down.” This caused the General and his staff to shout with laughter. A moment later they mounted their horses and rode off, and the youngster continued to sit there and look at, the proces sion: the squadrons of cavalry, the lumbering cannon-trucks, the wagon trains, and the plod ding infantry. He attended the Bingham school at Mebane, was at David son for two years, and was graduated from the University in 1879. He taught at Bing ham’s until 1882, and then he went to Wilmington to become that city’s first superintendent of schools. It w r as soon after that that he became associated with Aider man and M<Tver and Moses and Graham and a few other educa tional enthusiasts in the cam paign to build up the public schools all over the state. Charles B. Aycock was drawn into their circle and became the spokesman of the movement on the stump and in legislative halls. These teachers went about the state, whenever they could leave tbeir regular duties, preaching the gospel of the public school. In scores of communities they stimulated the organization of groups friendly to education; they conducted institutes for teachers; they addressed socie ties and clubs; they exercised their arts of persuasion upon town councilmen and county commissioners; and they seized every opportunity to enlist the support of “key men” in this ami that community. Everywhere they went the great question was: money. The state had not recovered from the cataclysm of the war, and poverty eras the general condi tion. Moat men who owned any property were striving desper ately to wring a living out of ft, and an additional tax rate of only a few cents seemed to them ! a mountainous burden. The colossal task of the crusaders was to induce the people to vote taxes upon themselves. Dis couragements, instead of stay ingthem, fired them on. Their labor and their zeal won con vert?; their gospel spread; and before .they had reached middle ag* tjtey saw the public school movement triumph. It is to those pioneers of the 80’s, to their dream and to their action, that North Carolina owes its school system of today. Recognition of his part in the campaign came to Mr. Noble in 1891 when he was chosen a member of the first board of tru'tees of the State Normal and Industrial College in Greensboro (now the Woman’s College of the University). He was on the board for seven years, until he became a mem ber of the University faculty, as professor of pedagogy, in 1898. He was appointed dean of the University school of edu cation in 1913. He was the editor of several j text- books in the course of his | career as a teacher, and in 1932 ’his History of the Public Schools \':f North Carolina won him the Mayflower Cup, the prize ; awarded by the State Literary land Historical Society for the • *-ar’s best book by a North Carolinian. George Hamer’s New Position George W\ Hamer, who since :a«i September has been eon n* cted with the Alumni Associ ation as associate editor 6f the \A'>/mni Review has accepted a J position as executive of the Tus karora Council of the Boy Scouts; of America, succeeding W. E. Pennington, of Goldsboro, who I recently resigned. During th< last year Hamer served as I scoutmaster of the Chap* 1 Hill troup of Boy Scouts. Praises Raleigh Airport Elmer G. Meyers, who aided the late “Merrie” Merrill as 'manager of the original Curtiss Field at Mineola, Long Island, has become the operator of the Raleigh airport, which was re cently made over, under the C.W.A. and the E.R.A., at a cost ){ $250,000. He is quoted in the New York papers as saying that this airport is the most ambi -ious and adequate aeronautical nonument in the relief realm. ‘‘Married out of Their Climate” (Pinehumt Outlook ) Northern visitors, do what they will, are spending these early spring days remembering all the sad stories about bright colored fish taken from the sea and beautiful Icicles brought into the house. The rule on both of ! these is the same—the fish stop being rainbows and the icicles melt. The fish-and-icicle affair this year revolves around the shrubs and flow ers of the Carolina!. Northerners, losing their hearts to them, have been bearing off slips and seeds to West chester and New England for years. The Loch invar gardeners did well with the transplanted beauties for many seasons. But the plants had married out of their climate. It took the cold winter and blizzards of 33-34 to end the honeymoon. That winter, the first real one since the visitors went northward, illustrated some of the great Kipling spirit in nature' about the north being the north and the south being the south. (Both Lochinvar and Kipling are a little awkward here, with their insistent harping on east mm! west, but they’ll have to do until we locate the minor poetry editor). Anyhow, that winter blighted the bride*. Now the New Englanders are look ing wistfully at the plant# again. That little ahrnb, now, would look fine by the doorway. But the burnt gar deners are learning something about the deeper truth*. If you want to see bright colored fi*b, you have to go swimming. If you like icicles, stay outdoors with them. If you’re all for the trees, shrub# and flowers of Carolina, youll have to come down end court them her*. International epic* must be re sourceful. Sometime* one ha* to try sevesal stores before finding a picture poet card of the fort —Detroit New a. j Baseball Prospects Rears Faces Hard Tank; He Haa Lost Many of His 1934 Players “Coach Bunn Hearn will have to build his team almost from the ground up,” says a bulletin from the University News Bu reau abaut the baseball pros pects for this spring. “Losses from last year’s team, which won 20 out of 21 games played, include three infielders, two brilliant pitchers, and a well-nigh irreplaceable' catcher. The outfield, however, remains intact; a veteran is available for every post.” , The pitchers on the squad are Fred Crouch, Leo Manly, Bry ant Spier's, Latcher Webster, Oil Yeager, Bunn Hearn, Jr., Irby Wright, and Ike Jeans. Guy Fletcher, 1934 freshman pitch er, was ruled ineligible in the summer and has signed with the Detroit Tigers. To replace Nor man McCaskill, the catcher now with the New York Yankees, Jim Tatum or Eddie Shapiro may be shifted from the outfield. The University's season will open April 8 with the University of Michigan game in Chapel Hill. D. A. R. Meeting There will be a meeting of the Davie Poplar chapter of the Daughters of the American Rev olution at 3 o’clock tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon at the home of Mrs. Isaac Manning. By Bus to Chinese Turkestan From Suiyuan in northern China to Sinkaiang, or Chinese Turkestan, the distance is 2,917 miles-—forming one of the long est transport routes served by motor bus. Four to five months are required for the trip by camel; yet the Ford units now traversing it make it in twelve to thirteen days; and a Ford truck holds the record—nine days. —The Vfyrd News. v North arid ffouth Carolina, it seems, have not observed any body dying of thirst.— Chicago Nev:s. Ogden Mills says he is not in the race for president. To be filed under the heading of use less information. —Detroit Free Press. Let Us Prepare Your Car for the Holidays Washing—Polishing—Waxing Certified Lubrication—Firestone Tires Texaco Products—Havoline Oil UNIVERSITY SERVICE STATION H. S. PENDERGRAFT, Prop. TELEPHONE 4041 TODAY, FRIDAY TOMORROW, SATURDAY MB. k MRS. MARTIN JOHNSON RANDOLPH SCOTT in in “Baboons” “Rocky Mountain Mystery” MARY ASTOR FRED MacMURRAY ROGER PRYOR ANN SHERIDAN in in “Straight From The Heart” “Car 99” SUNDAY MONDAY KAREN MORLEY “PAT” PATTERSON Upward Arnold lew ayres “Wednesday’s Child” “lottery Lover” TUESDAY WEDNESDAY douglas Fairbanks/ edmund lowe MERLE OBERON T VICTOR McLAGLEN in l in "The Private Life “The Great Hotel Os Don Juan” Murder” THURSDAY FRIDAY JACKIE COOGAN RANDOLPH SCOTT in “Home On The Ranee” SATURDAY 2ilk ‘ “Gold Diggers of 1935” *> , ■ - .#■ Friday, March 15, 1935 A Poster Contest Announced by the Dogwood Festival Committee; Open to All Comers The Dogwood Festival will conduct a poster contest, open, to all comers. The design must include the dogwood tree or flower, but not the cut branch r or flower as in a vase. The con ventional dogwood flower may be used. The posters must be of regulation sixe, 22 x 28. Cray on, water-color, pencil, ink, or oil may be used. Children may use cut-outs. There will be & dogwood medal for the best pos ter and one honorable mention in each grouping. Posters should be sent to Harper Barnes, Dog wood Festival Committee, Gra ham Memorial, Chapel Hill, N. C., before April 22. For in formation, communicate with Mrs. Earle Plyler, Mrs. E. G. Hoefer, or Mrs. J. B. Linker. Mr. Saunders Works Shipp Saunders, the Latin professor, turning away from the intellectual life for a little while, did some physical work this week. He grubbed and chopped among the undergrowth on his lot (where he may build some day) in the Gimghoul woods. Now he ..is going away for a week’s rest. EXPRESSION OF THANKS Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hundley wish to express their deepest gratitude for the many expres sions of sympathy during the illness and since the death of their son, Harold. MANURES FOR SALE For sale: stable manures. Or der by mail or telephone 3727. L. L. Conner, R.F.I). 3, Chape! Hill. PUPS—CANARIES—IRIS Boston, Cairn, Chihuahua, and Scottie pups. Canaries. Iris. Shrubs. K. Tack, Box 70, R.F.D. 2, Chapel Hill. FOR RENT For rent through summer; furnished 7-room house, cool, quiet. Swimming pool and summer house. Call 3736.
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