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Page Two The Chapel HOI Weekly , (torsi ii rs OBHfi Cl *7 Tear tmw* ' T ' r ~ -HZ Ui aiw'btbpc um chariy %. Psfcaeai tie ad- A Siapie. Ear? Wav far Purple to Avail The executive secreuury of the Mer ft-.tr'. A&socihtxic was kepc oafy hat week xurwensg telephone auf frees hossebolders wac cc*Epatir.«c About Btr*Eger? wac hue come to their hoE** offeraf •'MrpiM* of oce kiad <r aaother. Same of tae householders cad aL*owec themaeive* to tie pwiadied. other* had too mad: aecae for that and were calks* just to spread a vxmag to their fekow-cti zem. Some made a protest, ar o*c familiar oae, a*aicat the cufh-preseure aehamr of aoucitors for Tna*aziae suhacnpßioos- Tuoe anc tiwn* a*aic through the j«ar» there have uses icvawocs of Chapel Hil. by rtraafen reeam* to separate res aderts from their mooey oy fawd tala about the low priced and the *?eat value of the wares they vtftcdtnrf. After every one of there invasKirky w&etSMi Mt after ward but whiie the] visitors were stii here, householders have beet warned. by them friends, by the newspapers, ay the Mer chants Association, not to buy th:a*s from men and women whom they know nothin* about. One of the activities of iact wtoek was tfca aribßg If rug* by ptrwua pben for istipw dap here. Another was that of a photographer, in a nearby city. In this case the complaint was not that the article offered was inferior or the price too high but that the call was made is such away aa to deceive the resident into thinking it was part of a radio qaa program. Why will people who have been warned again and again continue to fa., for the “lint” of these strangers? One word is sufficient to save you your wet? and to pot an end to annoyance. That word is No. With any magazine purchasable at one of our own stores or by mail aubamptioc; with the studios of excellent photograph ers right here within five minutes' drive of any home in the town or its suburbs; with reputable concerns along our streets offering for sale the best of ruga, furni ture, clothing, and other articles, why in heaven’s name should anybody buy from a stranger wboae reliability he cannot possibly be sure of? Here, then, is a problem for which everybody has a perfectly simple and easy solution: merely, refusal to buy. It is also a situation which recalls the famous saying by Phineas T. fiarnum about the prevalence of a certain speoes of mankind,—L.G. After a period of financial distress, whm it bad to be suspended, Chowan College, in Murfreesboro down in eastern North Carolina, has been revived and rejuven ated. Its new catalog, which I base jset been reading, a well written and weU printed booklet illustrated with attractive photographs, dascribes a vigorous stand ard junior milage with a student body (nun sad wobmb) of 260 and n faculty and administrative staff of 26. Tbs stately and dignified mala building, “The Columns." which I reaesmber easing and admiring when I was on n trip down east several years ago, was bum in lfl6l and for a long that was the only bafldtag including a gymnasium, a rlsseriiian an nex, and buildings for agriculture, adaan* graphic aria, and business education. One of the college's mat drlsini is the Boy Parker School of Mi aapapai Printing in which young men and young eassos In the pridfag of a uawapapm. wfl» front u narigabie river, the Mefaerrm. Ta£ pees betder the circular drive in frost of "The Columns." and a beautiful cedar Vw, bisecting the circle, leads to the eectrai door of the building. There are «*«»*» trees, shrubbery, and flowers. Ax elevation of 100 feet makes the campus a “moautair" in that fiat region of North Carolina, and the nearby hills and vaSeys are suggestive of the Pted- Hertford eocnty, it which Murfreesboro is situated, being sear the coast, was settled it the early Colonial era. It was fiocrstt&g plantation country in ante hrfiane days and there are many homes a century or more cod in the country around the etkegt One evjoeaa of Chowan's rejuvenation is the froctispaece of it* new catalog. I wonder what my great-grandfather, the Bcvergad Wiliam Hooper, who left the Epascopa. for the Baptist ministry and was ymaadest of Cbovran College ( then named the Cbo-war, Baptist Female In stitute*. would have thought of this pbotogrmpc of seven co-eds in modern hmrh-'Tf suits i that is to say, almost nude, a* everybody is who goes in swimming in these days*, posed for a dive into the college swarming pool The Beveread Mr. Hooper surely had the ideas that prevailed in hi* day, about modesty # requiring complete coverage of the female body from neck to feet, but hi* writing* reveal him as having a good share of humor and tolerance. They indi cate that he was a mar, who believed in keeping abreast of the times. Undoubt edly baihrng suits of the type now worn would have shocked him when he was at ■ ghu wan—hut I doubt if he would dis approve of them .*f be were there in 1955. He died in 1076, so nobody can know what he’s seeing now. But if he is up tnere in heaver with robed angels clus tering and f.utter.rg around, I can easily believe that he would enjoy diverting his gaze for a iittie while to the co-eds on the br-rk of the pool in Murfreesboro. For, aocnrVjdy m the present-day administra te*—Presides! F. O. Mixon, or Dean of M ooes Mane Smith wick, or Dean of Men R. Wright Wilhelm, or whoever it was at Cfcowar who selected these young women for the photograph—certainly made seven good choices. They all look beautiful. —U G. - ■ - ■■ ■■ 1 Relative Safety m Ways of Travel Is a statement published in this paper recently Mr. Goodwin of the Eastern A.r .nes said that in 1954 travel by air was 20 time* at safe as travel by auto mobile. 1 don't know bow he figured this out. Maybe he based it on the passenger-miles flows by airplanes and an estimate of the pasaeeger-nuks gone by automobiles. But how could there be anything but the wild est guess about the latter, since the pass- j ergere is a car may be anywhere from one to six or eight, or many more if you take is busses? Mr Goodwin was making a broad state-■ meet about airplanes and automobiles in general, but anybody trying to calculate the relative safety of ways of travel runs into many complicating factors. For ex ample: Are accidents only to regularly scheduled passenger planes to be consid ered. or shall accidents to private planes be counted in also? And shall the com parison be made with only one kind of automobiles, say private passenger cars, or with all kinds, including busses and trucks? Well. HI ask Mr. Goodwin how he arrived at the 26-to-l comparison and wifi report, in a later issue, on what he says. However. I don't think many people's fears about this or that way of travel are determined by statistics. It'a just a mat ter of boar they fed about it Strangeness * a the main factor in causing fear. The first flight in a plane causes nearly every j body to be more or leas frightened, but when you have flown two or three time* yea think ao aeon of danger than pea do whan yon go by train or automobile. 1 have kaoara some peapie who becaw of fear waited for years to take their first flight and after they made it declared that henceforth they hoped they would sever have to tread any other way. My self. 1 fed there ia lots lees risk in riding in an airplane then there is in riding in an aatnaanhita When 1 went on a Navy cruise summer before last I aaw a man carried across a etretch of see from one ship to another by “high Bne"—that is, a chair hitched to a cable with both ships steaming at about 26 knots an hour, if by chance the two ships were not kept at the earns apaad, that would reap the cable and the urea nuuM be dunped into the water. This THE CHAPELHILL WEEKLY looked frightening to me. bus I saw the operation w many tanas that it became crsriwMffudarr. and before the crane war over 1 made two of these high-fine ship to-ehip trips without any goners at afl. By the time my ten came hundreds of men had bees high-Iming it safely, so why should 1 be afraid? I didst get a chance to go down in the submarine that was with the fleet. If I had been sevrted I would have been ashamed not to go, but I'm sure I would have been frightened. The scariest means cf treed within my experience is the iittie car that hangs from a wire repe and is polled by a wind lass across as abyss about 500 feet deep to the Sugar Loaf moertas: at Rio de Janeiro. When I was on my way to board this car and saw it from a distance it seemed about as big as a postage stamp, and the wire rope supporting it couldr't be sees at aZL Apparently it was just crawling through the air. I almost turned back but decided to go ahead. Wber I arrived at the starting point, a neat sta tion as for hisses or railway trains. I found a crowd of men, women, and chil dren, waiting to get on the car. They were talking and laughing. When I saw how coccpteteiv unconcerned they were about any danger in the trip ahead, that re assured me and a few minutes later. when I looked down into the abyss, 1 was ony a iittie uneasy.—L-G. Chapel Hill Chaff change in what met the eye. But there ha* teen a vast improvement. The three men who have come to hv* in sight of my home in the last few yea n are Joseph Warrer. Kay Kyaer, and Colonel Robert Carter Burns, and every ace of these men brought a beautiful wife to adorn the scenery. • • • • Back snout 1915 in New York I had a friend named Louis D. Froebck. He was a Princetec graduate who had spent two or three years ■in China aad Mongolia. In stories about the Boxer Re bellion I had read about U. S. troops ghirg up from Tientsin os the Shantung Peninsula to Peking. I had always pronounced Shantung the way it is spelled a Eng lish—that is, giving the t the sound of our t—until I met Froelicfc. From bins 1 learned that Shantung was pronounced Shaadung. I recalled that when I beard radio broadcasters talking about the Tacben islands pronouncing the word as though it were spelled Dahchen The Reverend J. H Mc- Mullen began teaming the Chinese tengnage when he went to Chian shout fifty years ago. He head them Chinese so thoroughly that he spoke it nut only for the purposes of ordinary daily , life but ateo hi lecturing to Chinese students on psych-. oiogy and phOosaphy. I trie phoned Mr. McMalhn end sailed him to replete this t and d business If a Chimes; symbol, for a certain sound, was to be repmeceted * English print, why ahenftdali them he need an character that had the same If the sensed uyfinhte te Shantung and the first syl lable in Thebans begin with the d-aound te Chteaaa. why ahwddhtJMteMmed te the teMn'the 1 dtifesenee between the Ckd> which te the naarn nf the language. The d eased, in the wards 1 lans mentioned, is derived from dteteeu and tern been pepater School Tn Kite (Cmtfnesd tea p*a» 1| Cl -vLLTtS r f —wwu.“ I ate Gußes and Brick Wais: A Centres! Heavy rains in the last few weeks have had the same result that heavy rains in Chapel Hill have had for many years: they have made gullies in sidewalks all over town. The first thing that strikes you about these gullies is their ugliness; they are like scars oc a face. The next thing is that they make for uncomfort able walking. But there is something about them that is even worse: they are actually dangerous. Many injuries, in scene cares the breaking of bones, have reen caused by these gullies. There are many places where at night they are prac tically invisible and are traps for pedes trians. One of the worst of the sidewalk gullies I have seen is in front of the President's House. 1 walked up Franklin street from my home yesterday 1 saw this one and others nearly as bad in front of the Presbyterian church. Then, a few min utes later, I saw a walk alongs.de the Town Hall at the Coiumbia-Rosemary street corner. This is made of brick, the same sort as is oc the University campus, and it makes as firm and smooth and beautiful a sidewalk as I ever saw any where. What a contrast, between this perfect walk and the ugly, dangerous gullies! What a fine thing it would be if the alder men would replace the ugly, dangerous guHies with brick surfaces like the one at the Town Hall!—L. G. Liquor Referendum 4Cactisa«S treat page 1) w rs statutes, that affaet a yannar JacaLty." Ow acl a»»n. arfco ask*4 ttat fcis zaM* sxst i* e*ed, said. “If ttwirty 'oc**d wat, a -»»?** nic Sad crwsdi for mrrs-z* water of tte qs**»- ooe «f AB>: »-.< r+* is O&ajtti H— 71a’. t jam tte way tte tea ttas^te' Auat fjvar tte quartiotu, wrack a re E.s.*r--.,f ate tevc v*n«d aimn, tte practical qaaateae. as viat tte ccwauacc.- tn trail of callsxg aa ABC *ott lu artarst- Ate tte m cob rimnain hurt u. Chapel Hill, SL J. M Hate* ate bdaia Lanier, bctZ aaiS ttej c te«e U> wait asUl tte PTA a ngbcimT reqaest caw* krfwv tte Board cf Con - Tte neat aaeruac cf tte cmb mtaiwe*n m aetetiitte for tte fm Mwdaj .* March. If tte ceara, laaeaen OaciSte act to call far aa ABC referetesm, a pebuaa «f at halt IS per cent as tte nr»‘-cte eaten wte tut tetw. ia tte teat tectm for (•averse* c«*M tetaaa awe. It m tte peweral awdrrrtaad.iif ter* that if tte roamuiwmi nf ** t* call far aa ABC vote, a petitaae wiU be atarted Pre awaably, tte petauewer* could get a refervadiiw as mw a» tte Caaaty Beard as Lucuou re ceived thatr request Tte General Statute* as tte State aay that tow type as thetm cannot te teU aa aay blear,tel eiectioa far raaaty sdfcrere «r v.thia SO day* ‘•f sack rtertM* However, ■wtteag m tm»i stxwt aiaaicipai etectte*. the* there would be M banter* te prevent a vote thi* Or»Ht cawtj teid tu last rtbrttoa oa tte ABC issue ia ; A*pw*t as IVX7. and it veted dry. At that tuae, Ikarhaai county aa the east was alrvwdy dry and [Ah— was aw tte otter aide was ate* teldiag aa ABC vote. If aa teto asdas tte* by wot coua- Ua*. it prababiy <wa«M have •ated for ABC stew '•wee agawTlwM a vete aw ABC isr ‘ te w repart w tte teal PTA. with a mrnmmm'mt Vojm aad Itouteyter TWfte tea* h ia aaoarel taaatsta te apda as tte law,’* te aaU. -They eto away wtU * uadw a ■■diifttg aartiaa 1a tte l afl l E. to terat, tte item chair waa as tte heard as raamiiai»a an. aa*d tte tax was cat because Vth torn*baf*tea*T*kfl rt"to 2?“ the profit* yo for erlcrcesneat. tfces tae county n.azi»K,t«n Key *p proprut te the money in any way they *ee fit. The PTA* request for the ABC vote »a* statue by the need for school funds. Although be *a.d that be preferred act to cornrcer.t or tte ABC vote. School Superintendent C. V. Davis enumerated these needs: gymnasium* at both the wfe.te and Negro achoois, and Class room* There was also kme talk thi* week that a request far ABC store* in Chapel Hal alow*, aad not Orange county, would be made. Six towns in tte state have ABC stores although tte counties in which they are lo cated are dry. These towns, in cluding Greensboro and Wiastoa- Saiem, obtained the stores by special acts of the General As sembly. Tte major portion as profits from these town storm goes to the isatonpal goaaHM meet. A special act of tte GadH era! Assembly would be required for ABC stores to be set ap ia Chapel Hill alone 141 WuTZnSTnm m & * '*""*" r ‘ ”-* •' -I- • ■* *■ s *» S*t (far wi H%tkimm4m -krmtv priced TV crwwir ,n RCA Victor* bar ary! Y«i*U enjoy RCA Victor• (kmw pc- ir . g| New high-style console gives you a bigger picture RCA VxtaiTV *■*«■ in a smaller cabinet! --• —-J—KW-*. -ORN TODAYS TILL NINE ■ JdKWR .• Om the Tmwm By CM Haver I KNOW THIS SOUNDS like heresy, but I just cant go along with all the people (including the architectural “experts"! who say that the state capitol in Raleigh is a beautiful building. Let me qualify that: To me, the capitol has a massive and stately sort of beauty, which becomes even more pleasing to the eye under the spell of the pastel-colored lights which illuminate the structure after dark. The trouble is. all this beauty is spoiled by a monstreasly ugly sort of filigreed gingerbread crown perched high on the capitol's dome. Yes, the capitol is a beautiful building, if you can succeed somehow in blot ting out the sight of that green and unpleasing atrocity which surmounts it. WHILE GORDON GRAY outlined the Consolidated University's budget requests before the Joint Approprte. tion? Committee last week, he set a new time record mr a single appearance before the body, according to veteran capital reporters. After Mr. Gray finished briefing the legislators on the University’s requested increases, he answered questions from members of the committee. In all, he was on his feet for more than two hours. THE ROAD TC RALEIGH takes the driver past a large billboard which proclaims for all the world to see: “Now! Less parking worries in Raleigh!” After driving around for as much as a half hour looking for a place to 'task mv buggy. I am prompted to ask, “Less than where?*’ EITHER PRESIDENT EISENHOWER is watching the world through the rosiest pair of glasses around, or Drew Pearson has got Ike pegged all wrong. According to Pearson, Ike “does not feel that the replacement of Malenkov is a harbinger of war.” One of the reasons why Ike feels this way, according to the columnist, is: “Ike believes Malenkov was relieved because he was commit ting Russia to too much support of the Chinese Commun ists, a position untenable to the 'peace’ propaganda of the Kremlin." That was Saturday’s Pearson column. Drew is no doubt ruminating those words now. For Monday after noon’s papers indicated that either Drew or Ike missed the boat somewhere. Item: “Radio Peiping and Radio Moscow exchanged a series of congratulatory messaaa today on the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Sovir- Chiaese Treaty of Alliance, and both claimed Formosa for Peiping." Item: “Moscow Radio today pledged Soviet support to Communist China in its efforts to ‘liberate’ Formosa and the offshore islands.” MISS JACKIE GOODMAN, a University coed from Norfolk. Virginia, was commenting on the recent column item about people saving the little red cellophane strips from cigarette packages in the mistaken belief that some one or some organization was offering s Seeing Eye dog to the proud collector of 35,000 strips. Cemds at Wfllhai and Mary, where she went to school [prior te transferring to the University here. Miss Good bnaa ttpatted, win taking the cellflfrßane strips in the be lief that a certain number of them would entitle the col lector to a wheel chair. Anyone try for an iron lung? Friday, February 18, 196$
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