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Lef*l anc tabular. 1 Uw. 70c per iaefc £ timer, ®Sc; S or more timet, wt ■ • • • Reaoert *■ aeparate from reading matter anc clear, y irtrtK; ♦•fcp\. ** 70c. Political (n. aar~aact ), *wc. The War in Korea Has Not Been Futik The writings of political commentators here and in Europe. and statements by lead ers- in public affairs, show the opinion to t»e general that the international situation if rnuch better than it ww a little while ago. These commentator* and statesmen do not say, of course, that the world is not still ir. serious trouble. What they do say is that the danger of a third World War has diminished. In the world today no development couid be more important than that. A* ar. example of the expressions of ho r mfulne- - I quote these passages from, ar. article in the Christian Science Monitor by distinguished Joseph C. Harsch. written after his return from a survey of conditions in Europe: ‘Trie old dread of the -Soviet Army that ha* lain aero.** Western Europe for the bel 4 er par* of six year* isn’t there any more. “Few Europeans could explain to a visi tor why the feeling ha,* changed. Few stop to try to figure out the reason. And there are not many statesmen- or military leaders; at the top who car. give a convincing ex plariation of why they, Wi, have dropped from their calculations the possibility that at any moment and without warning the Soviet Army might suddenly move out of its: East German barracks and start rolling westward. “Nevertheless the fact remains that the fear is gone. Europe the western part thereof —Do longer believes; that the Rus sians have within the range of their in tentions or plans the launching of a move which would start W’orid War 111 “Is there sound reason behind the dis pelling of the fear of the Soviet Army in Western Europe? “It is easier to ask the question than to answer it. However, there is substance behind it. “One element is certainly what General Eisenhower has been able to accomplish with his Atlantic Pact forces in the last .twelve months. It remains true that Moscow commands ground divisions and, air squad rons which far exceed the forces under General Eisenhower’s command. Rut, there is, a difference between the defensibility of the West now and a year ago. When General ..Eisenhower went lo Paris nothing existed which could be cafled a combat formation. There were trained units scattered about Europe with no strategicjor tactical rhyme or reason. The American supply bases in * Germany wye mostly nearer the Soviet Army than wer*^ the troop units. It was a hopeless posture for even a token defense of Western Europe. * “Today this situation is changed. New supply lines are beinjr France. The supply dumps in Germany are being moved back behind the lines. Training units have been brought to combat strength and have been deployed so that real resistance be offered. Air power has been moved into Western Europe and located so as to be capable of giving support to the front line. “In short, today there is a combat ready screen stretching across Germany from the North Sea to the Alps. It is only a screen, but it is enough to.deprive the Russians of the ability they enjoyed for some five years to seize Western Europe in / a sudden surprise blow. To seize it, they \ would have to engage in preparations suf ficiently large to be detectable and report able well in advance of the blow. There would be warning—perhaps as much as two or three-months. , “Many things can be said in criticism cf the methods employed in Western re armament The North Atlantic Treaty Or ganization is ik« shining example of perfect efficiency or harmony. There is dragging of heel* all over the European lot on the part of everybody. A congressman hunting for ammunition for his stump speeches finds no dearth of material. “Yet the fact is that the defense of Europe has become more than a gleam in a few optimistic eyes. The skirmish line exists. The Russians would have to break it to take Europe. The breaking of it would start the big war. and there is no evidence that the Russians want lo risk a big war. “Europe is beginning now to think more and more about its long-range problems than about the fear of Russian invasion.” The fundamental cause of the removal of the fear of an attack by Soviet Russia is the increa.se in the armed strength of the United States, and that increase is the d.rect result of the war in Korea. After the end of World War II in 1945 the United States disbanded all but a pitiful remnant of its armed forces. This was one of the most shameful episodes in our his tory. It left us virtually pow-erless against the might of Soviet Russia. In the next five years our Army, Navy, and Air Force were progressively weakened by the failure of Congress to support them w ith adequate appropriations. The main responsibility for this failure, though, does not rest on the members of Congress. It rests upon the public a.* a whole. The Senators and Repre sentatives were obedient to a mandate; a negative mandate but a mandate, none the less. They reflected the blindness and ig norance of the majority of the people. The Communist assault on Korea caught us tragically unprepared. It waked us up to the Ru-sian threat and to the necessity of making ready to meet that threat. It caused ar. immediate abandonment of our fatuous policy of unpreparedness;. A Sec retary of Defense identified with this pol icy. a professional politician, wa.* replaced by a man of proven ability who had been in eclipse for the very reason that he was an advocate of the policy of maintaining the nation’s armed strength. With appro priation- made by a now alerted Congress:, the building up of the Army, the Navy, and the Air f orce wa* put promptly under way. And Congress provided support for the concerted action of American and Western European forces in preparing for resistance to Soviet Russia. Sometimes you hear the war in Korea spoken of as being “futile.” This is a very wrong view. A war that has caused us to build up our armed forces and thereby to diminsh and, as now seems likely, to remove the danger of a third World War has been anything but futile. The war in Korea has been a tremendous, a terrible, price to pay, but in the long range of the year.*; the benefit that grew out of it, the prevention of a vastly greater dis aster, will turn out to have been worth the price. Effort* to Solve the Refugee Problem The Minneapolis Tribune: “The millionth refugee settled by the In ternational Refuge Organization has arrived in New York.''He brought his family from Communist-ruty-d Czechoslovakia to begin a new life in the land of freedom arid oppor tunity. "This is a dramatic reminder of the tre mendous job of resettlement IRQ has ac complished since it was set up after World War 11. Everyone who ha/1 a hand in it deserves the warm thanks of the free world. “Responsibility for solving the refugee problem, of course, is not ours alone. Rut surely we can afford to do more than we have in the postwar years. We have accepted 280,000 displaced persons, or about 28 |>er cent of the total resettled. Yet our share of the resources of the free world is far more than 28 j>er cent. As the story of this country’s phenomenal development proves, we can only grow- stronger by keeping our doors open to the world’s weary and oppressed.” j lhe Sanford Herald, now a semi-weekly, iif to be converted inio an afternoon daily. W. E. Horner, owner and editor, is selling —Dn interest in the paper to James R. Mclver. Expansion plans include the erection of a new building. Chapel Hill’s revenue last year from three other-than-local tax sources*-the “Powell ' bill fund for street construction and main tenance, the State beer*and-wine tax, and JthgJßate tax on intangibles—amounted to $32,000. THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY, CHAPEL HILL, N. C. Thompson in Turkey, Is Charmed by the Manuscripts in the Libraries and Mosques Lawrence Thompson, alum :r,us of the University here and Librarian of the University iof Kentucky, has written Miss Cornelia Love a letter about his explorations among manu scripts in libraries and mos ques in Istanbul. Turkey. Mr. Thompson was sent to Turkey by the L". S. State De partment at the request of the Turkish., government to make a survey of library facilities and to give some (lectures at gatherings of Turkish scholars. He went to Istanbul (Constantinople) af ter three weeks in the capital city of Ankara. He expects to came home in March. “I enjoyed my three weeks in Ankara but I didn’t know what delights there were in Turkey before I came to Is tanbul,” he writes. “It has been raining, snowing, and sleeting ever since I arrived, but mv enthusiasm is one part of me that has not been dampened. “From morning until eve ning my bibliothecal ciceroni have been taking me to the ancient libraries of mosques and medresses (religious schools), and I have seen a wealth of manuscripts such a* J never suspected before. In the Millet Library there is an illuminated Koran in ele phant folio which I consider more beautiful than the Book of Kells. In the Sulemaniye (originally founded by Suley man the Magnificant) there are manuscripts full of mag nificent Persian miniatures. The bindings are equally scrumptious. I suspect there are many book* here that would fetch a better price than the Bay Psalm Book if Dr. Rosenbach ever got hold of them. <■ "Quite contrary to our no-j tion of the ‘Terrible’ Turlj, the Turks have been poets, j scholars, gentlemen, and book (collectors down through the |ages. Less than ten years af ter Mehmet the Conqueror took Constantinople in 1453 he built a mosque and a li brary. Yesterday I had his personal Koran in my hands in that very library. “The Hagia Sophia was never desecrated by the Turks. They have restored it, and they established a library in it over 200 years ago! But in this particular case I hope that the present librarian never hears israfel’s trumpet and that he is consigned to the lower hell of Islam. He has ‘repaired’ countless priceless and unique manuscripts with Scotch tape! One Persian manuscript with a beautiful hunting scene had a big gooey strip of this tape all the way across. . “Turkish administrative of ficials in the various parts of the Ottoman Empire brought back manuscripts from every where to Istanbul. There are nearly 200,000 Arabic, Per sian, and Turkish manuscripts here in libraries, and more can be bought in the Bazaar. In the last five years the Turkish Ministry of Educa tion has been making a noble effort to consolidate the collec tions, catalog them, and make them generally more available to scholars. One of my big jobs here is to make recom mendations on these matters. “Many Turks who collected manuscripts founded and en dowed libraries. They wanted tin-collections to be used, and even resorted to publicity de vices to attract readers. A fellow named Ragip Pasha started a iibrary and spread the rumor that he also had three hairs from the Prophet’s beard which he would show to readers. The present librar ian confided to me that he sneaked them over to the Uni versity of the Istanbul Medi cal School to be examined and received the verdict that they were cat hairs! “But old Ragip had even better notions. He had some vague idea of library service to children, and therefore he set up an endowment which provided clothing and food for children who came to his library to read. And all this was 20h years ago. "I told you that manuscripts are still to be had. Prominent families that have fallen on evil days are always bringing manuscripts, especially Ko rans, into the great covered Bazaar to be sold. I have bought for a song—five to ten dollars three magnifi cently illuminated Korans, a Persian divan (collected poems) with five beautiful miniatures, and some miscel laneous Islamic treatises on canon law. “Most of the antique dealers in the Bazaar are Sephardic Jews who speak 15th century Spanish well mixed with He brew words. I found that I could deal with them on the easiest terms when I combin ed my Puerto Rican water front Spanish with a little Yiddish I picked up in the Second Avenue vaudeville. “They will sell you any thing. When I come back I am going to get some brasses and copperware for Algie, ants i have my eyes on a rug in one of the booth*. "But''badf -to manuscripts. Tom d'lark or Mr. Hamilton would go wild in Istanbul if 'hev w< re orientalists.-I ed a 15th edition of the Deci mal Classification Sulemanige Libi/p\ for nine ancient invent'/wes of mosque librarie* whiujp happened to m duplicated A. friend at Robert. CoWeild gave me four long let tee* from Ataturk urn political /matters. J believe that the/ University of Keri- Uucky Library already has the best collection of. Oriental (manuscripts in the South, and I’m goi/ig to get more. “Yesterday i went out to Roller! College, i left the Galata Bridge on a boat and went up the Bosphorus in a driving snowstorm. All the way up there were glimpses of Ottoman and Byzantine re mains. When the boat pulled in at Bebek I climbed a steep | hill to get to the college, which is just behind the tower 1 \ * | of the Rumeli Ilisar (‘Castle of Europe’) built by Mehmet the Conqueror. "Robert College has a mil iion-dollar location overlook ing one of the most historic spots in Europe (or Asia, whichever you please). It has Cornell heat all hollow for scenery, and the only college I know that can compare with it is Hanover College on the Ohio. Unfortunately Robert’s financial condition is in in verse proportion to its geo graphic location. Like our private colleges, it is having a har/i fight for survival. But it did a noble job in the days before the Universities of An kara and Istanbul existed, i “Today (Sunday) I took a tram out to the Hippodrbme, [the Hagia Sophia, and the Mosque of Ahmet the First (also known as the Blue Mos que). There are some magnifi cent views of the sea of Mormora and the Isles of the i Princes from the rear of the Blue Mosque. It was rather amusing to reflect that the few old nags I saw at the | Hippodrome are ready for the glue v factory by Kentucky standards. “I he city and the streets are remarkably clean. ReaJly, the only thing oriental about the Turks is their religion. They look, act, and tllike Western European*. Newer parts of Istanbul and Ankara don’t look much different from what you see in Western Europe. “The currants are just fine, and the Smyrna figs are as delicious as I expected. But I do miss Algie and Sarah i Musical Comedy to Be Given Next Month “Spring for Sure,” a musi cal comedy written by Miss Catherine McDonald of the University’s drama depart ment and Wilton Mason of the music department, will be giv en February 1,2, and 3 in Memorial hall by the Carolina Playmakers. It will be the or ganization's third major pro duction of the season. Reserv ed seat tickets will go on sale Tuesday at Ledbetter-Pick ard’s. The play was tried out in 1950 by the Plavmakers. It was so successful, and so many people have been ask ing for it to be repeated, that the organization has decided to give it again this winter, with added songg anjFchore ography. The tuneful musical tells the simple leve story of Cindy and Jeremiah, Smoky Mountain be came estranged by the arrival in their community of a Park Avenue female .socialite. She would like to take the hand some Jeremiah back to New York, arid he is faced_with the decision of whether to be come a city slicker or to re main in the mountains with Cindy. The play has a cast of 19 actors and singers, with two i settings arid a large array of colorful costumes. John W. Parker is the director. Following its three perform -1 anees here, the play will lx i taken on two separate 12-day ■/our*. The first (February 4 Ito 16) will be in this state, kfhh second (March 21 to Beth, i would swap the whole Bazaar for an hour with |’hem.” (Algie and Sarah Beth are Mr. Thompson’s wife and daughter.) THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY IS on sale at Miss Stella Lyon’s in the> post oil ice lobby, Drugstore, Carolina Pharmacy, Danziger’s, Eubanks’ Drugsftire Jeff’s, Sloan’s Drugstore, Village Pharmacy, Scuttlebutt, Colonial Drugstore, Carolina Inn, and (in Carrboro ) Senior’s Drugstore and Andrews- Riggsbee. WANTED: STANDING TIMBER, small or large tracts. J. B. Gold ston, Carrboro, N. C., Phone 2-3911. CUSTOM-MADE BUCKLES, BUT toris, and belts. All kinds of dress materials. Carolina Drapery Shop. UNIVERSITY TRUCKING COM pany; local and long distance house hold moving, contract hauling car go insurance. 100 East Franklin St. Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Phone 4041 or see Ross or James Norwood at University Service Station. WE CARRY A FINE SILVER polish, a fine brass polish,, and a fine furniture polish. Each one is the best you can get for its pur pose. Whitehall Shop. ANTIQUES: FURNITURE Glass, china, decorative items, lamps. Blackberry Farm Antiques, Hillsboro Road. Mrs. H. W. Carroll. ENGRAVED WEDDINGS. IN formals, calling cards, tiopery. Prompt delivery. The Uni versity Printery, beneuth Sutton’s. Phone 2-7701. CUSTOM MADE SLIP COVERS and draperies made in our own work room. Carolina Drapery Shop. WANTED: TO BUY IA)GS OF all kinds except gum, delivered to my plant in Carrboro, N. C. J. B. j Goldstein, Carrboro, N. C., Phone 2-3911. FOR RENT: FURNISHED apartments conveniently located; ulso houses for rent-or sale. J. B. Golds’on, Phone 2-3911. RUGS WE CARRY IMPORTED and domestic hooked rugs. Also Klearflax linen and all-wool rugs. Whitehall Shop. FOR COMPLETE COVERAGE OF sports, national and international news read the News & Observer de livered in Chapel Hill. J. M. Pope, Chapel Hill, N. C., dealer. Phone 4906 or write Box 1326. CARRBORO BEAUTY SHOP open day or night. Operators Sar ah Rhodes (formerly of Beauty Box) and Wilhelmina Cole. Phone 8951. WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN THE hundreds of Chapel Hill families who wash the automatic way at our laundry. It is economical, sani tary, convenient. Shop at nearby super markets while your laundry is being finished. Complete drying service. Yes, the Cheshires would like to serve YOU at Rosemary Automatic Laundry, 829 West Rosemary Street Telephone 6121. Friday, January 18, 1952 April 5) will include perform ances in South Carolina, Geor gia, Alabama. Tennessee, and Kentucky. Boy Scout Council Meeting Roy Armstrong, Russell Grumman, and Dr. W. G. Morgan of Chapel Hill and Bonner Sawyer of Hillsboro went to Raleigh day before yesterday to attend an execu tive board meeting of the Oc coneechee Boy Scout Council. Mr. Armstrong, council presi dent, called the meeting for the purpose of reviewing the financial status of the coun cil and,determining its bud get foi/j952. Reports for 1951 were heard, and plans for the 1952 program were submitted for tl)e approval of the board. The board members also re viewed plans for the council’s annual recognition dinner, to be held here next Wednesday at the Carolina Inn. American Home Dept. | The Community Club’s American home department will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday, January 24, at the home of Mrs. J. A. Warren at 301 Hillsboro street. Mrs. R. L. MacMiliNn will talk about “Hobbies.\frs. Phillips will be assisted by several co ; hostesses. Guests are invited to the meeting. Jane Howson Tate A daughter was 'Lorn to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Mc- Dowell Tate of 511-A East Rosemary street January 8 at Duke hospital. Her name is Jane Howson. Mr. Tate is a University law student from Morgan ton. Mrs. Tate was formerly Miss Mary Keeble of Hythe, Kent, England, near Dover. GROW YOUR OWN FRUIT. COM rfvUi line of fruit trees, nut trees, berry plants, grape vines, and orna mental plant material offered by Virginia’s largest growers. Write for free copy 56-page guide in col or. Salespeople wanted. Waynes boro Nurseries, Waynesboro, Vir ginia. NURSERY STOCK FOR SALE: Apple, blueberry, grape, peach, pear, crepe myrtle, forsythea, nan dina, pyrocantha, weigelia, weeping willow, roses, azaleas, camellias, pansies, perennials and pot plants. Homestead Gardens, 324 W. Rose mary St. Tel. 21496. D E PE N D A B EIT WRECKER service 24 hours a day. Poe Motor Company. Phone day 6581, night 2-3441. A NATIONAL CREDIT AGENCY has an opening for a local repre sentative to make part time investi gations in Orange County. Replies should contain three references, in cluding one bank. Address com munications P. O. Box 2448, Ral eigh, N. C. TYPING AND SHORTHAND class; winter quarter; 7:15 to 9:15 P M. Mondays and Thursdays in New West. Registration still open. Call 8407. FOR SALE: BEAUTIFUL WOOD r,d lot situated on hilltop over looking Chapel Hill. Flowers, shrubs and a three-year-old apple orchard started on this property. It has a hill, a slope, a stream and is within 5 minutes drive of Chapel Hill. Write: W. L. Flowers, 820 Clark Ave. New C. GAS TANK TOP AND RING OF keys found Tuesday on Durham highway in front of Orange Plumb ing & Heating Co., where they may be claimed. FOR SALE: WESTINGHOUSE 17-inch console television. Take up payments and pay me less than one-half amount invested. Can be seen at 3rd house on left on Weaver Road in Carrboro, or call 2-8642. FOR SALE: 1948 HUDSON 4- door Super-Six; excellent condi tion; 5 good tires; low mileage. Call 7581 or write Box 1027, Chapel Hill. FOR PRACTICAL NURSING call Mrs. Annie McCauley, tele phone 2-9339. 102 Mallett St. FOR SALE: USED SINGER sewing machine, treadte type, re cently overhauled by manufacturer. Call 5211. ALL KINDS OF ALTERATIONS on Women’s and children’s clothes. Phone 2-2166. HOMEMADE CUSHION MINTS for sale at Fowler’s Food Store and Colonial Drug Store. FOR SALE? NEW 48-INCH Youngstown sink with built in dishwasher. Regular price $389.06, sale price, $299.96. New Youngs town dishwasher, regular price $289.95, sale price, $229.96. Og bum Furniture Co.
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