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Page Two Tke CM H Weekly LOUIS GRAVES Editor scmcmirnos rates Ok Y«r fUi {fax *«"«*»« _ IM Three - Moegfee - —. ’ Xxarnc at anuKiM »aarr f «*>•**-« 31, ' J 9ZI m Urn pwmtithn m Caaae. Hu. S*» rjMwt, t.. pumr fate *c ti' lSarcS X * - 1 -■ Mswn SSands- n the Way of a Republican Victor? !r. *.he Rep;, -ear fsar.j- Users k a strong progressive wi&g. Tfet.pragressSJWt* art net ruzner ouf Ufroagh to v eoutrt*: policies 1 and nomination# but they art s&xnero&A enough to defeat the party ;fftaty put out a third ticket under'a peipuiar Header. a± they did is. 1512, or ;f their re* beiiior take*' the form of voting; for a Democratic candid*** The Reply > -of ojtr u.r.g --c-ot.,Htrvatr> e and progressive, are eager v heat Roo&evek. hut • neither uring is willing to'accept the doctrines or the prograrr. of the other. They both cry for unity, but each. «arts unity on ;t> own Prrr.i A»r r.a *, c friend v-. * vestryman |.of toe Episcopal 'church*it a certain North Caro lina city.. A veetry meeting at j wtskb there were ior.g discu*- *kmi of this ai d that kept him until after midnight, and when he got home he was tired and grumpy. 'There's too much division among rehgiou* people," he said. "Tney ought to get together in one church." i !!.► wife, who had beer, waked up to listen to tfai» declaration,! replied: "ThatU be all r.ght if j they'll all join tbe Episcopal church,’* and turned over and went to sleep again. Giff ord Pinehot, who is so progressive that many old-line j Republicans consider birr, hardly better than a traitor to the party, writes to the New York Hrmbd. Tribune: "There are not enough regu lar Republicans or regular Dem ocrats to elect a President. Franklin owed his vie* tory to progressive Republicans and independents. Some of these voters supported him because they were disgusted with the old deal, some because they believed jn the New Deal. They held the balance of power then and they hold it now. To win, the Republican party must g«* these progressive vot ers back. It cannot get them hack by offering them in 191*6 the sort of thing that drove them away in 1932. ing has progressed. Today the rights of men, women and chil dren to protection and security in their daily lives are more widely acknowledged than ever they were before. Millions of people have been given recogni tion and assistance they never knew before. To take account of those who need help and de serve it is not only expedient but right. i "A Republican Congressman whom I know recently said to a friend of mine who was stand ing up for social security: 'lf that's the way you feel about ft you can't belong to my party.' “The Republican party cannot win thia election by practicing exclusiveness. That, was how it lost Pennsylvania in 1934. Neither can it win merely by abusing the New Deal. The Re publican party must offer a real man and a real platform. You cannot beat something with nothing. “The people are looking not backward but ahead. If forward looking voters should fail to find what they expect in the Repub lican candidate and the Republi can platform, it will be no won der If they torn elsewhere. “Therefore, to nominate any candidate who ie reactionary, Who sifiacka of Wall Street or who can fairly be suspected of being the choice of the financial district of New York, would ; simply be asking for defeat. And defeat of the national ticket would carry down not only na tional candidates but multitudes lof local candidates also. ■"There u a way, however, in which this eiection car, be won. That way u to, keep in mind the miEk»r,t of men and - women wboee vote# carried the last na tional ejection and will carry the .next. ■ \ "To wza. the Republics* party; • rust offer the re,,aoie promise :of an administration sincerely and effectively devoted to the greatest good of the greatest number, honestly bound to the welfare of the plain people, and '-earnestly determined to make the puolk good come first. You can't do that except with a can didate whose record guarantees | his pkdge.' A pretty plan indeed, but the, trouble with it is that it calls for the abandonment by the conservative Republicans cf the; .idea* to which they are most* firmly attached. The policies! ( which Pino hot praises are ihej poikiee which they detest. The; ‘thingi that fee like*. about the* New Dea: are the very things j that they regard as. wicked and The Congressman whom he quotes on social security ("If that’s the way you feel about it you can't belong to my party") lis representative of millions of ‘Republicans and of the influence j dominant in the party. The con jsenative Republicans denounce (Roosevelt and all his works, ’but Roosevelt is little if any more abhorrent to them than would be a candid*‘e who embodied the views here championed by Pinchot. Pir*chot thinks the New Deal ha* many fault*. He doe* not like its method:*. But, a! his statement make* plain, he is in sympathy with its funda mental purposes; and it is these fundamental purposes that are most hateful to the conservative Republicans. They would con sider a triumph by the Pinchots within their own party as calam itous as a triumph by the Demo crats. The Republicans are appealing to one another for unity. They talk of "compromise," but what each wing is really demanding is the surrender of the other. They both go under the name of Republicans, but between them is a basic disunity. They can not come together in spirit, and it is difficult to see how they run com* together in an appeal to the country except with a can didate and a platform that, will impress the voters as wishy washy. The present outlook is that the conservatives will control the convention in Cleveland, that the party will not offer “a real man and a real platform" ac cording to the ideas of Pinchot, and that independent* and pro gressive Republicans, in suffi cient number to determine the result, will vote Democratic in 1936 as they did in 1932. Sensible Talk by a Candidate In his radio talk last week Alexander H. Graham, candidate for Governor, displayed the sure grasp of state government problems and the sound sense that the public of North Caro lina has come to expect of him. Particularly do we commend him for hia position on the sales tax. One of the easy ways for a candidate to gain plaudit* from the crowd is to denounce this levy as a vicious imposition on the poor and to demand its aboli tion, But whatever advantage is to be gained from such an at tack; in the way of popularity, Graham is willing to forfeit be cause he sees that to abolish the eg THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY, CHAPEL HILL, N. C. sales tax would be to cripple edu cation and other essential state service** and to impair seriously the stale's financial stability. He stated his views simply to his audience: "The sales tax was adopted as an emer gency measure, and we should work toward its repeal at the earliest possible date, but that time is not her* yet.” Else where in his talk he gave one of the most compelling reasons why the sales tax should be re tained. saying: "The success of j the public school system depends mainly upon the type of class room teachers employed, and the present, salaries -T. teachers do not represent fair or just com pensation." > T Another or. e of his *ta t emen ts that showed his good sense con cerned the quor problem. He said that : unties in which a ■ majority -of the people voted for {liquor contr 01, instead of prohi bition, shoe, be allowed to have liquor store*. He may or may not be right in saying that the ; revenue shook! be divided be tween state and the counties, 1 but that i- a minor considera tion. It does not , make much | difference whether the counties get all the pr tits from the stores or turn over part of these profits to the state; the important j thing is that a county that w ants to substitute control for prohi bition should be permitted to! do so. Graham go* off to a good start with this rad;o talk, and we hope and expect hi- candidacy to grow in strength as the campaign proceeds. Raleigh Raleigh wa- the guest city of Major Bowe-,’ amateur hour last Sunday. The Major always speaks a little piece in praise of the guest city of the evening. In Sunday's New* arid Observer Nell Battle Lewis expressed the foreboding that Raleigh would ! be described in chamber-off-: commerce booster terms—with population statistics and infor mation about banks, factories, hotels, schools, and paved street*. “A deep-seated pessimism, or maybe just natural contrariness,' tells me," she wrote, "that the net result will be an impression of our fair city about like that which one would get from Keo kuk, lowa.” Now, we don’t know what the Major actually did say about Ra leigh, for we did not happen to listen in, but we thank him for eliciting from Miss a sketch of the city. In anticipa tion of the sort of description she feared would come over the /adio, she presented this one of her own: “Raleigh, an old, slow South em capital, not yet completely ironed out into the pattern of the rest of the U. 8. A. located in the center of the state, the North Carolina capital in spirit is more akin to the agricultural east where the ante-bellum cul ture flourished most, than to the industrial west. Ope of the chief reasons why this leisurely old town is a pleasant place to live in is the fact that it isn't much given to manufacturing, and politics (of no very high order certainly, but often entertain ing) overshadows its business to such an extent that commer cially Raleigh has as little ob noxious bustle as any town of ita size that you’d find in 4his day and time. And fortunately its size, by the way, is nothing to write home about. For almost five months of the year the cli mate of Raleigh is simply atro cious, but ita residents live through the summer in order to experience a brief but halcyon season from October to Christmas. A friendly place, Raleigh, not in the sense of Georgs F. Babbitt's loud mouthed, back-slapping camara derie, but because the families of a number of its residents have lived here for a long time and ,thus have come to know and like each other pretty well. Prdbably in no other city on earth do money and social pre tensions count for so little. "Try that over on your micro phone. Not so good, eh? Oh. well, it all depends on the point ;of view." It's a fine sketch. There’s only one fault we find with it. Miss Lewis isn't fair to spring. She extol* October-tHkChri*tma.* j but has not a w ord to say about ithe months of April and May, that hakyon season when the capi tal- thousands of tree* are in fre-h green leaf, the shrubs and fl* v- ers are in blossom, and the ! bright sunshine is tempered by | soft breezes. . , . But we see how it was. The loyal native didn’t dare give her affection full rein —she didn’t want to lay it on too thick. She wouldn’t be sat isfied with less than the truth, and for fear of the reproach of gushing she couldn't tell the whole *ruth about springtime in Raleigh, Thomp«on-Lyne Marriage Laurence Thompson and Miss Elizabeth Lyne were married last Saturday, March 14, at the home of the bride’s parent-. Wil low Grove, Orange, Virginia. They are to live In Dr. Calvert Toy's cottage on East Franklin street. The Berry hill* Move Dr. and Mrs. Berryhiil have moved into their new home next to Mrs. Toy’s on West Franklin street. APARTMENT FOR RENT Small furnished apartment for rent at once. Telephone $251. ixrr FOR SALE ~ 7 Lot for sale; 2 minutes from campus; 80 by 150 feet; $1,500. Write Box 272, Chapel Hill, N. C. HOUSE FOR RENT Miss Josephine Sharkey's house for rent for the summer. Telephone 4946. i. . . . The Most Astounding Drama the Screen Has Ever Known! H “THE INFORMER" SUNDAY VB ' Victor McLaglen Heather Angel fOn Your Toes Every- .t-*. body for The First Musical in A Year ! nffljjnjfel UHJAT a cast of dancing stars and H dancing fools! Ruby going to town with a sensational new dancing marttw a if partner imported from Broadway! Ml INI) AY Hugh and Louise truckin' for dear uiviwni life a* Dick vocalizes three new song hits! Everything's Oakie-doakie when TIIE'CnAy Jack and Joan go into a dance that lULajI//1I , stops the show! And every second the fun marches on! fnt.ll ' I America’s most widely discussed topic in yean becomes the picture of the moment! THE HIT AND RUN DRIVER” W One of the Crlme-Does-Not-Pey Scries COLOR NOVELTY—“NEIGHBORS" :— mm —WiAsiedey— Theisdsr -Why- —SetaMey— GEORGE BAFT HARRY RICHMOND BERT WHEELER EDMUND LOWE ROSALIND BUSSELL LIONEL gfANDER SORT. WOOSLBY VIRGINIA BRUCE "It Had ts n—"fL TUmm4T "SUIT BaHse" "The Gardea Murder Csss* Coming, April 5-6: Sylvia Sidney —Fred Me Murray in The Trail of the Lonesome Pise* LOST: A CAPE Reward for return of cloth cape with hood marked Hilda Sharkey in back of neck. Phone 4946. STABLE MANURE For sale: stable manure for garden, shrubbery, or lawn. L. L. Conner, R. F. D. 3, Chapel Hill. W-. ROOM FOR RENT Attractive front bed room, ad joining bath, for rent. Gose in. 607 E. Rosemary St. Telephone 4636. HOUSE FOR RENT Remodeled 4-room house, 210 Ea4t Rosemary Lane. Two blocks from post office. $25.00 per month. . Announcement Open Friday, March 20 A Safe Place To Eat Give Us a Trial Brooks' Cafeteria Old Fraternity Row The Carolina Playmakers The Federal Theatre Touring Company in “JEFFERSON DAVIS” . A new play by John McGee Gala Southern Tour Direct from Its A Broadway Cast New York Run of 40 with Guy Standing, Jr. Mr*. Wm. Courtleigh Thomas Carnahan George Duthie MEMORIAL HALL Tuesday, March 24, 8:30 ©Admission $.75, Students $.50 Tickets on sale at Alfred William* Co. —Playmakers Theatre Friday, March 20, 1936 SALESMEN WANTED Men wanted for Rawieigh Routes of 800 families. Reliable bustler should start earning $25 weekly and increase rapidly. Write today. Rawieigh, Dept. NCC-37-S, Richmond, Va. FOR SALE Boat and trailer (for fishing). $27.50 cash. Phone 5121. WANTED Building lot within town lim its of Chapel Hill. Must be cheap. About 50x75 feet. Write ABC c-o Chapel Hill Weekly. PUPS, PARAKEETS Pups! Bargains in left-over Christmas stock. Parakeets (five colors). Canaries. K. Tack, Box 121, R.F.D. 2, Chapel Hill.
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