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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel flfi, Nsrth Onfaa WKr - r 111 j * S-OTI m MCI % TW CWri B SLS|*r»p-y. lm. Local Quin Costriiwxaw Kto Omsk Cumu Gneni Motor mSSSm\i l oL*K~K&. < Klnfc Qute V l>» grwaumw rates h Oruff County. Yssr JIM (6 *oeti». S2-2S. S wretfcs. fUO) OettsiAr of Otng* Gocntty by the Tt*r: B&fee of X C, V*, and S. C UC Other States aad Dm. of Cohusdn* 4J® Cmmto Relate. Sooth America €M grope - €M ADVEBTISrXG RATES Rations'■, for afOKio, Me eoL met. . . . Local » occanoßal. Me; re*uiar, SOt. . . . Qaaaif»«d. pay able it adroee. aussanm. 50c for 12 words. every additions! word. fc. .. . and tabular. lam ?#e per met: 2 tune*, ©c; 3 or more tune*, 66e *2*»om’ icparau froir readies leaner aad cleoriy marked “sd*..*’ TOc Political (m ad- Thts County Should Hav* the .ABC System The Weekly is in favor of the legal sale of liquor in Orange county. The stores where liquor is legally sold, as in Durham and about thirty other coun tie* in the State, are called Aiif' Ftores. ABC stands for Alcohol Beverage Control That is what we should have instead of the pretense of Prohibition that we have now. , The legal ban or. the sale of liquor has no effect on the quantity of liquor con sumed in the county. Anybody who wants liquor can get it in nearby Durham or, if be feels like taking a little longer drive, at Momsville on the highway from here to Raleigh. Or he can get it right here in Chapel Hill from one of the bootleggers who sell legal liquor and get their profit from what they add to the regular price. All that the legal ban does is to deprive the county of the many thousands of dollars of tax revenue that it would get if the people of Orange who want liquor could buy it at borne instead of in Dur ham, Wake, and other ABC counties. Os the county’s many needs for more money, the most urgent is the need of the schools, for both expansion and mainten ance. So it is appropriate for a Parent- Teachers Association to be interested in discussing, as the Chapel Hill PTA did at its recent meeting, the possibility of finding new sources of revenue. At this meeting President Godfrey said that the lowest estimate of the tax revenue that might be expected from ABC stores in Orange was $70,000 a year, and it might be a good deal more. The PTA showed good sense in voting in favor of a petition to the county commissioners for the hold ing of an election on the question of j establishing ABC stores. Under the law the commissioners must call an election if petitioned to do so by 16 per cent of the registered voters. Eighteen years ago the proposal to * establish ABC stores was put to a vote in Orange and was defeated. But that was not a true test of public opinion. Hie main reason for this was that the election was held in August when a considerable part of the population, including many of the most ardent ABC advocates, was i absent from the county. August is the season for revivals out through the coun ty, and some of the revivalists inveighed bitterly against the ABC system and those who supported it, I was presenting in the Weekly arguments in support of ABC stores, and one of the revivalists told his that he had it on good authority that I was getting a fee of ten thousand dollars from the distillers. An aspect of the contest that had a humorous angle waa that some of tbs bootleggers in the section of the county where bootlegging flourished on a big scale were known to be helping the cam paign against ABC stores. Which was reasonable on their part sines the stores would interfere with their business. Os course I do not mean to say that there were not people other than the kind influenced by the torrid appeals at country camp-meetings who were opposed to ABC •tores. Many educated people were among the opponents. But the appeals of the re vivalists, coupled with the absence from the county of a large number of ABC advocates, were an important factor in determining the result of the election. When another election on the question of establishing ABC stores is held it should be held at a time at the year when the full population is here to vote. And i the ABC advocates should not be content merely to cast their own votes, which was ftll that those who were here at home did ] eighteen years ago; they should conduct a < vigorous campaign of education, one that will convince the people of the county whose minds are open on the subject that the ABC system is superior to the present ridiculous phony system that is falsely called Prohibition —L G. Cheering News for a Harvard Alemans An article that appeared recently in a New England newspaper surprised me. It was about the exterior design of homes and school buildings, and the reason for my surprise was that the writer of the article set forth opinions quite different from those I remembered he had form erly held. Before, he had been an ardent advocate of ‘‘functionalism.” He is a Harvard alumnus and perhaps he had been influenced by Walter Gropius, who introduced functionalism into the scene at Cambridge and. as Dear, of Harvard's Graduate School of Design, became the leading exponent of the doctrine in Amer ica. Anyway, whatever the explanation, this Harvard mar, now expresses himself as not pleased with structures expressive of this doctrine. It is not that he is op posed to buildings’ being functional—that is. serviceable; it is just that he believes they car be functional on the inside without looking the wav they do on the outside. His remarks were inspired by an ex hibition of architects’ drawings of schools and homes. “These exhibits made me very sad,” he wrote. “They reflected a high level of technical excellence, but the schools look ed just like schools everywhere else now being erected by the new crop of archi tects. and the houses looked just like the houses now going up in the suburbs of Austin, Texas, or Nashville, Tennessee, or Santa Barbara. California, or where are you. School houses of one section should not resemble those of another like peas in a pod.” There was a time when homes were characteristic of the regions where they were. “If you saw a long street lined with stately houses bearing two-story Corinthian columns all around them, you knew- you were in Athens, Ga., but if you saw a long street lined with severely bare three-story houses, bare except for won derfully delicate and beautiful porches over the ornamental front door, you knew it was Choate* . “But new you att an oblong wooden packing box joined at a slight angle to an outside Aone chimney, which is in turn joined to another packing box which is trying to huie beneath a flat cover too large for it, and you don’t know whether you are in Lenox. Massachusetts, or Dallas, Texas, or Omaha, Nebraska. “As for the schools, I am silent.” But he doesn't embark upon his silence until he has written this paragraph: “Probably they have more and better light, more and better air, are easier to get out of in case of fire, and in all ways are more functional than the schools of old. And m time we may get so used to them that when we see one we can tell it from a factory. But at present that is impossible. They all look alike, the coun try over, and they have none of the dig nity we have been taught by tradition to associate with a public building.” A day or so after reading this article I read the latest report of President Nathan M. Puaey of Harvard University, and on page 14 1 came upon the following quotation from Jose Luis Sert, who has succeeded Walter tyopius aa Dean of the Graduate School of Design: ‘Today we have lived through what we can call in architecture a revolutionary period which developed around the twen ties and early thirties in this country. As in all movements of that type, everything had to be swept dean and nobody waa supposed to talk any more about such things aa aesthetics, beauty, or history of art and architecture. Techniques and funtionalism seemed aU-indusive. Today we have a certain experience; we no longer believe that form necessarily follows func tion and sines, fortunately (thank God!), it doss not ahriys do so* wa can quietly reconsider the whole matter and reeog nixe that, although form should not be anti-functional, at the same time it should be beautiful. Form shouldn't strictly fol low function because sometimes function alone won’t necessarily result in beautiful forms—and we want to see architecture humanized and beautiful.” President Puaey comments: “From this and other things Dean Sert has said in the past year it is dear that he has s strong interest to see recognition of n wide range of human needs in archi tecture.” Dean Sert’s declaration, which seems to proclaim a sort of counter-revolution, ought to be cheering news for the Harv- THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY History, Reminiscence, and Comment on | . Present-Day Developments Are Combined In an Address by John Motley Morebead I have been reading the pamphlet edi tion of the address which John Motley Morebead. 3rd. delivered at the dedication of the Port Terminal at Morehend City. It combines, in extremely interesting fashion, history, reminiscence, sod com ment on the materia] and cultural develop ment of North Carolina. The present generation knows Mr. Morebead as the founder of the More head Foundation which awards scholarships to the University, as donor of the Morebead building (embracing art galleries and the planetarium), and as .co-donor of the Morehead-Patterson BeD Tower. Older people in North Carolina, and others who are familiar with its past through read ing, know him not only for his achieve ments in industry and for his benefactions but also for his connection with a family that has played a commanding part in the building of the State. I am reproducing here some parts of the address. Those parts which are quoted verbatim are enciodbd in quotation marks: others are condensations. “The name Morehead was given to the families in Scotland who, since they lived at the head of the moors, came to be variously known as Moorehead. Muirhead. and Morehead” . . . “The Morehead- had lived at the head of the moors of Scotland as fanners and shepherds, served a- mem bers and chiefs of Highland clans, as parishioners, pastors, and bishops, as crusaders to the Holy Land, as knighted lairds, as minister? of state, as Scottish rebels against English kings, as mer chants in Edinburgh and London, and as colonisers and colonists in the new world.” • • • • The Morehead® came to Virginia in 1630 and later settled in the fertile valleys be tween the Banister and Dan rivers which join to make the Roanoke and tie to gether much of North Carolina and Vir ginia. The first John Motley Morehead was born July 4, 1796 in Pittsylvania county, Virginia. When two years old he was brought to Rockingham county in this State. His boyhood home was not | far from the battlefield of Guilford Court . House where General Nathanael Grckj chicked the advance of LA#tlorihaliajl He was in the das? of 1817 in tIH IM»1 Chapel Hill Chaff (Coe tinned fnn pegs 1) termination and fortitude’ that make* a man sit down at the typewriter and go to it and stick at it. Have you ever read a piece called “Gathering Goal Feathers?” Probably not; it was written a long time ago and is not anything like so famous as “Pigs Is Pigs,” by the same author. Ellis; Parker Butler. Gathering! goat feathers means finding excuses for doing all man-, ner of things to delay your settling down to the work you ought to do—like changing the position of a picture on the wall, or prun ing a bush that you wife would like to prune and could prune much better, or sharpening many more pen cils than you need, or mend ing a toy for one of your children. Writers from the highest level to the lowest, are notoriously addicted to gathering goat feathers, and I am convinced that nobody waa ever a worse addict of this demoralising habit than I am. --1 The Problem of Student Cara (CwtM from pc* 1) taken vigorous and effective action to prevent the park ing of student can on the campus, but the main trouble about student can is the part they play in crowding the parking places and the traffic lanes on the streets. The suggestion has been made at various times that the Administration forbid the possession of can by students. The ban need nor be absolute. It could be sp ar'd alumnus who wrote the article for the New England newspaper. For, it indicates that the guiding genius of his alma mater’s Graduate ! School of Design cherishes the same views as his own. L.G. | versity here, (tee of kis feßow-studects and friends was James K. Polk. He had high respect for Polk- but campaigned against him in support of Henry Clay, his Whig party favorite, in the Presidentia. campaign of 1*44 tPcik woe.* “At Chapel HSI Morehead came under the influence of President Joseph Caldwell and a young graduate and instructor. Archibald De Bow Mcrpfcey. Both of these leaders, with their vision of public schools, constructive public investments, and build ing programs, exerted a profound influ ence on his life and his leadership of the people of North Carolina. “Archibald De Bcw Murpkey’s Report to the legislature in 1817. aad President Caiewell's teachings and his letters to the press and to the people, written under the GOBI de plume of Cark-to®. in behalf of public sch<w>ls. roads, industries. rairoads. and internal improvements, are among the great documents of our State which express the vision without which the peo ple perish. "Near the center of Morehead'? dream was the invention by his kinsman in Scot land. The steam engine, the motive power of the new factories in England, became the pulsing heart of the world-wide Indus trial Revolution through the invention of James Watt, who wa? the so® of Agnes Muirhead of Scotland. Stephenson put the steam engine or. rails in England; Robert Fulton put the steam engine in big boats on the Hudson. John Motley- More bead put the steam engine on rails ir. North Carolina to meet the steamships which, in his vision, would some day pit ad the seas of the earth * Morehead fought for the equal repre sentation in the Legislature of the people of the more heavily populated piedmont and western counties. He said he “shud dered to think that the poor freemen of the State should be excluded from legis lative councils . . . To whom did this coun try belong when it burst the British fet ters and became independent ? It certainly belonged to the whole community and not to the wealthy •lane.” | (QthSgpwmuges from Mr. Morehead** IsflHpMlWfll appear ir. next week's issue.) —LG. | Joe Jones became my associate on the Weekly eighteen years ago and is ' still writing for it beside? being managing editor. The man who has been my ( fellow-worker longest is John W. Johnson, the Negro janitor, who has a record . ;of nearly twenty-six years’ service for the paper. j The first subscriber to the .Weekly was Albert Coates. ;A law student at Harvard in March of 1923, he happened to be in the hospital when 1 he received a sample copy of the first issue of the 1 paper. Fortunately he had j reached a state of convale science that enabled him to , handle pen and paper, and i he wrote a check and mailed it right away. Bound copies of the Weekly since its hrgmi.n.g are in the North r«nJi»* ! room in the University Li brary. The oaly individual subscriber I know of who< has a complete fie of hound 1 copies is Mias Alice Noble. 1 1 t pU*d, iay # to the lower no- j - dergraduate rlssacs, and, * possibly later to all under- { i graduate classes The Gnus-' i mittee recognises, and i states, that soms categories i of students should be per-1 ! mitted to have can; for ex ample, commuten aad eoese i married and professional : students. Then there are I students with physical dis- { abilities and students who j need can for work they do t in the way of self-help. J The Visiting Committee i I avoids interfering in matters 1 that are properly in the pro-1 ’ vince of the Administration. * It does not dictate aad com- * Imand. it suggests aad pro poses. So it is with respect to student cars. The Com-; nuttee's remarks on this < subject in its report are in a tone deferent**] to the Administration. But a per son who has read what the j Committee has sajd in pre vious reports, and n«ow reads what it says in the present one, sets the distinct im pression that the Commit- ‘ tee is trying to induce the Administration to take effec tive action to limit the num ber of student cars. At (ImA mi Mr FmmOf Smxu Um v —--J u the i • hwrch d tlf Huj FaaJj will be ts fdieet: iki) CceuigMM, 1 am.; fuiiij tervtce u 4 Mr- ( «4 11 am; jmU arts " Ow. s F*i rearer. ~ pm; *u*dj (rwp, T:U j>jt. hwa M«e4; timet Fnst; e* ••A week, ams« stL he read daily ia the CMnt at !•* a*, tai eeewuvf pojtr at S MW <AhwtMWtM> DIAKY OF A GIFT A ANTIQCE SHOP Dear Diary, Since me had that touch as spring the first of the uaek everyone’s been “an tifurmg." We’re no excep tion. pat busy last meek aad finish sd sp two-chests aad a wish stead One cheat has a hour front and ia ’with a white amvble top It has simple tines and the need ia baaatifuL The other ■ ahm wahurt with three drawer pntis. The top ia Plain instead as marble. We’ve get one snore piece •taut ready- ft's a pretty *ashstaad with a tight pink ■arble top and brass drawer pels. It’s different from the osaal washstaad in that it hat two little drawers on one side and a door on the other and then one larger drawer •cross the top. It's molly too difficult to explain how food looking these pieces •fe, you’ll just have to come down and see them at the HEUUMAC SHOP HI A PiMUn St. 0m th+ Tmwm By O-tk l I AM PICKING MY WORDS carefully, because this is the first aad probably will be the only occasion I wfl! ever have to agree with Joe McCarthy. I refer to the comment made by the junior senator from W isconsin when he was told Harvey Matusow had accused him of inspiring Matu ?©w to campaign against certain Democratic senatorial candidates. Matusow. as you know, is the repentant ex- Communist who ha* spent a great deal of his time spin ning an enchanting network of lies around innocent peo ple in front of Congressional investigators and courts of law. McCarthy's comment was to the effect that he didn't care to answer the charges of a man who was an admitted liar. I feel the same way. Matusow has admitted that he iied in court and before member? of Congress. Who can say that he is telling the truth? For my money, nothing Matusow say? from here on out should be accepted with out a thorough investigation. Unfortunately, however, some of the same people who have heretofore attempted to discredit and minimize the testimony of ex-Coosmanists are gleefully accepting Matusow's current confessions as God's own truth. Why? Because his current testimony hurts Joe McCarthy. It i? no credit to asti-McCanhyites to use McCarthy tactics. HERE'S THE LATEST NEWS on the new wrap-up state school law containing that interesting provision which would force the Orange County Board of Cotnmiss kocer? to Lost the 12-cent Chapel Hill supplementary school tax up to the full 20 cents authorized by the voters. Last week I was under the impression that the tax section of the law would slip through unnoticed with the rest of the till. I still think it will be passed by the General Assembly, but there are parties already gunning to kill it. This came to light on Tuesday afternoon at a joint public hearing held os the bill by the Senate and House Education Committees. The first person to thing the matter up was Wally G. Durham of Winston-Salem, first vice-president of the Association of County Commissioners. He commented on a situation in Forsyth county similar to that in Orange, where the county commissiooers cut a supplementary school tax following property revaluation. “We would like to continue to have the authority to i control school budgets.” said Mr. Durham, supposedly speaking for his fellow county commissioners around the state. And he pleaded for the legislators not to strip commissioners of the power to veto the will of school dis trict voters. J. Harry Weatherly, representing the Guilford county commissioner', also pleaded with the committees not to tamper with the commissioners' powers. These gentlemen were answered by L Stacy Weaver, superintendent of Durham city schools and secretary of the study commission which drew up the new school statutes. Mr. \\ eaver first pointed out that under present law, county commissioners may not cut a supplementary school tax approved by the voters. He conceded, however, that some counties have cut the taxes under a conflicting section of the present law— a conflict which would be eliminated under the new law. “Thi? goes to the very heart of a public school system,” Mr. Weaver said. He defended the right of the p**yle to ievy taxes on themselves “to educate their children.” And he went on: “This is the most vital provision of the school law. If this provision is taken out. then education can make no progress in North Carolina aad there will be no hope for progress. These taxes—aad this section refers ( only to supplementary taxes— are imposed on the order of the people. The county only acts as the agent of the school board to collect the taxes. “Previous speakers have said a higher body should check school budgets to make sure there is a real need before they allow a big supplementary school tax. They should know that in a supplementary tax election, you have to make a showing of need—real need—or the people won’t vote for the tax. This business of a people aUe to tax themselves is a fundaareatal precept not only of rood education but of good government.” ' >: «llll| SJSfc'' *»’• v««n•»- * * tmr Us A Vwtar', TrT*ui th hs 1. m! D.l tanks Helm OPEN FRIDAV EVENINGS TllX NINE m W. FnAI, St. Friday. February 25. 1955
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