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The- peraocs wfec are it tie be-r*. posi tion to kata whether or not it is -mpcrt art—atosEje aaesttista tie Prerideßt azc «iw r-xsevfc officerj of the Go vert meet, tit members of tie committees of C«cfm« having to do aritfe tie Qefer.*e of the aat.oi. mLrtary leaden, writers art* hast pm. serious study to the sub ject—ctcare that it it. Aid they oecuart it with all possible emphasis Wt oufht to trust them to t r.ow what tsejr ait UiDnt about. Not to hast respect fer their offriiot. wiser u is wrtualiy ■Mauu, unaffected by attachment* to any party or ary cast, it to prwuaim our lata of fa-th u. ox w r.o.e syrterr. of demo cratic goverurect r>r the very basic idea of this iy»!«r. x that, by majority vote wt choet as our representative* tbe person* whom wt oa-sder moat compet er.t to study the problem* of government —defer.se, fore-gr. relation*. tie tariff, taxation or fi a tie rest—a.vi make Ce a*/jt* about tiers., Os course wtes these represents'.. v>* d:v>o and d.spute it is proper ;r. fact it i* .r.remt in tie system, for u* to ester tit c.*p-te or. whichever *jde »e ..ee aid rag*- and roar to our hearts cur test, But w r>-r. they do not dispute, when they art ali agreed os a qest/e. vita. to the satiosaj safety, ctr taiiiy they deserve our oor fidesct I am. not aayxyr that a mar. d>es not have a perfect r4rht to re a d.awer.ter, even if he bt the otiy mar. it a million or a hundred ns-LtxuC h'jad ha op.r.i'jr., but we are under no otiigatior. .jster. to him if we do not want to; not more than a mo ment in pas-ir jr. anyhow. Here 1 ami talk ing not a/o', jot* wolves but about the ordinary rvr. of people In eoanectioc w.th the danyer of hydn>- yei. Ujit. % attacks yvu near and read a great deal aoout "dispersal" and ‘‘evacua -1100-" The d:.*t*rsaJ of p"p..ialiofi (that i*. the moving out from L.g c.ties, for perma nent *tay| if a lor-g-range pkicy. It his been under way for several years, quite independer.tiy of the danger of enemy at tacks, and now more of it *e i*ing urged as a means of diminishing the panic and tbe slaughter in cities if the bombs begin to drop. is something very different. It is an emergency operation. It means getting people out of New York or Boston or Khiladelphia or Chicago or Detroit or any other big city with the greatest possible speed after an alarm about approaching bombers has been sounded. If you think you can imagine what a task that would be, you are wrong, for the difficulty of it is inconceivable to even the ssost daring imagination. And the idea that it could be performed by any sort of makeshift state or local agencies, with the aid of civilian volunteers, is dangerous nonsense. And a makeshift is what any controlling agency other than a division of the United State Government is bound lobe. d*T» population calls fer Uw mrt thorough, the most serious and the most fcwhd study, the most Intelligent plan- ting. Embracing, as it does, fire-fighting, the reguistioc of traffic, the distributism of w*w«k« wnri the taking of other measures against radiation, medical and surgical services, and ali manner of ministrations of relief, it calis for exhaustive advance training not osdy of technical experts but of administrators capable of directing this »wr fearful enterprise-. W tics is nest 1 1 say, at ail. that civilians sbouk: no! be called up** to help Os course they should be. for the sate of the efficiency of the operation and for the sake of the n*rmceaje. ; art as the Rec Crose and other auxiliary services have teen called spec t. hel; it all oar wars, just as cmhat sp.tters w>re ta-.>ed upc>z by the Navy and served with such remarkable sacoess aga.r-st Hitler’s submarines along c kit coast, just as civLans are now being cabec -per. tc ae.; spot enemy fkar.es. As it is n:w. wt have an agency called the Federa. C.vl Defense Administration, estanli&hec ic the executive rranen of the Gc .emmert four years ago “to pr.vsde a ptan of crrL defense for the protection .f life and property ' Tne prone.pa. re spcKssSiilrty :* vested in the states, with the Government providing co-ordiratior anc guidance There the great mistake. For the Government to stop with co-ordin ation and guidance is fol.y. Over-al. direc tion ant tne ma.nr share of the actual performance of the various service- em braced in an e •a. -atkn—these sho-.d tne functions A a personnel employed ty the United States Government. Civil Defense should be mace a part of the Department of Defense. Tr.ere should be a Ovii Defense uniformed force, with officers and er..-ted men as there are in the Army and the Navy and the Marine Corn* and the Air Force. There should lie ! training schools for this new force ;u.-t as there are for our other forces. Os course, precedent to ail this, and essential to it. is an adequate appropriation of money. I return to the question: Is Civil De fense important or is not important? If it is not important, stop talking ar.d fuss .r.g anc f urnirg about it. If it i*> important, then I, as ooe catizer., make this plea to •r.e Pre-.'ießl, to the members of Congress, ar.d to oar other leaders in Washington: Do rak. keep or trif.ing with Civil Defense. Give it the &enous attention it deserve*. That mean*: maae it a direct responsibil ity a der.r :te operation, of the Govern ment.—L. G. Prince** Margaret’s 1 jwt Affair Some of the newspaper writers who ra.e commented on the question of whether Princess Margaret is to marry the mar of her choice have drawn a paral >. her situation and that of King he ware nineteen years ago. The compari son is a far-fetched one. The two cases are vastly different. Edward was. already King of England. Margaret i* third in the line of succession ai<d there is only a remote cr.ar.ce of her coming to the throne. When she reaches the age of 25 in Avg-.-t she may marry without the per mission of her sister, the Queen, provided she renounce* all claim to succession to the throne for herself and her children. The generally accepted report is that she is quite willing to do that, and there is no reason why it should cause anybody else concern. In British law Parliament has the right to choose the monarch, and if the two persons who stand ahead of Margaret m line of succession (the Queen’s children, Charles and Anne) should die or for any reason should be ineligible, then Parliament could choose anybody it pleased. Margaret would be satisfied with that solution to the prole iem of the succession and so probably would the public. The man whom Margaret is said to want to marry u Captain Peter Townsend of ; the Royal Air Force, forty years old, ! equerry to the Royal Household and a frequent escort of the ITincesa until two years ago when he was sent to a post with the British Embassy in Brussels. The fact that he ia divorced causes people devoted to the teneU of the Church of England to disapprove of the Princess’s marrying him. Whether or not the majority of the Brit ish people attach much importance to that ia debatable. Ideas about divorce have changed a great deal in the last genera tion or so. Great Britain’s antiquated laws on divorce were relaxed substantially some fifteen or twenty years ago in con sequent of the persistent campaign carried on by Oxford University’s representative in Parliament, A. P. Herbert. One of the effective instruments in this campaign was his book “Holy Deadlock ” It helped to wake people up to how brutal the divorce laws were. Om reaeon for suppoeing that the Church of England’s views may not he an THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY When Penn’s Baseball Team Came Here 57 Years Ago Dear Mr. Editor: You may be interested to know that last Sunday night a gentleman from Phil adelphia stopped st the Carolina Inn or. his first visit to Chapel Hill since the spring of 1898. That be waited so k*Rg to come back you will perhaps understand, when you hear his story. The gentelman is Mr. C. L McDvaine. and in IK*S he was the manager of the baseball team of tbe University of Penn sylvania. Those were the days when stu dent managers arranged the .schedules and attended to the finance*. Mr. Mcllvaine had arranged to pisy U.N.C. for a guaran tee of s2o'), and his team arr.-.ed here in a chartered Pullman, in which they dresi-ed, and w ere driver to the field. His recollec tion is that the field was about where it is today, and Mr. Carmichael, sr., confirms this. At any rate, the layout was such that a ball hit to deep right, over the fielder’s head, rolled down a steep bank and was irvar.abiy good for a home run. In the very first inning a Carolina bats man hi: deep over right fiexi. and the bail disappeared over the brink, with the Penn sylvania fielder in pursuit. Tne batter trotted leisurely to first, and was trotting to second, when the Pennsylvania fielder important factor in deciding Princess Margaret s course is that the proportion of the British people adhering to the Church is not nearly so .arge as it used to oe. Dissenters are now said to com pose more than haif the church-allied population of Great Britain.—L G. Chapel Hill Chaff I (Coetinoed from page D mi versa ry of. the birth of the late M U. S. Noble, leader ir. public school education, pro fessor and dear, in the Uni versity, fires ident of the Bank of Chapel Hill, and winner of the Mayflower Cup for hi* history of education in North Carolina. When my wife and I passed through Clayton one day last week I recalled what he u*ed to tell me of hi* meet ing there with Generai Will iam T. Sherman. That wafa in the spring of 1865 when Sherman, having come up from Georgia and South Carolina, was pursuing Gen eral Joseph E. Johnston to ward Raleigh. (A few days later came Johnston's sur !render near Durham.) In a halt at Clayton, Sherman and his staff had their midday meai on the porch of the ■ Noble home. Young Mark i was 10 year* old. The Gen eral took him on hi* knee and they had a conversation. Mark asked him if it were true, what people had been aaying about the march through Georgia, the burn ing of house* and the tear ling up of railroad*, and all that. Well, some of it, may , l>e, said Sherman. He point ed to a bridge a little way down the road to the we«t, on the edge of the Noble place, and asked solemnly: “What would you think if 1 tore down that bridge?” Mark, indignant, declared in a tone of command: “I’ll tie dad-burned if you're going to tear down our bridge!” The exact word* of Sher man’s reply Mr. Noble didn’t pretend to remember, but in substance they were: “Oh, well, if you say not, then I won’t.” Presently Sherman finished his meal, told Mark goodbye, and departed. All the afternoon hi* troops were passing over the . bridge. When the lost of > them had disappeared to ward the setting sun Mark saw that the bridge had been I left just as it was before they come. *•• • 4 We went on to Goldsboro and called on Mr. and Mrs. Herman Weil. We had heard ! about the illness that had struck Herman suddenly at t Jacksonville, Florida, caus ing him to leave the train and go to a hospital for a couple of days, and we were , glad to see he had regained hia strength and was looking well. He was walking about 1 his yard looking at the trees and shrubs and flowers. Last October's hurricane destroy ed seven trees on the piaei^ 1 but the ground where they had stood had been mads appeared over the brim, and threw him out at second. That was tbe end of tbe gome. The Carolina team insisted that the Penn sylvania fielder had a ball hidden in his pocket, and the out was a dirty trick. The UP. team resented this charge. «Their right fielder declared the ball had lodged in a little depression just over the rim. The U.X.C. team said nothing of the sort had ever happened before. (So far as I could make out, it didn’t occur to any body to send a search party down the slope to establish whether or not another ball was down there.) The manager of the Carolina team refused to give Mr. McDvaine the $250 guarantee, but scooped all the gate receipts into his pockets and departed. The Pennsylvania players re treated to the railroad station to change back into street clothes—and found their Pullman had been hauled off somewhere, as they were not expected back for two hours. They were not happy. Mr. Mcll vaine was even less happy. He needed that $250 badly. But neither then nor ever thereafter did he get it. And it was 57 years before he returned to Chape! Hill. Is there anybody now in town who re members that game? Perhaps you do. Mr. Editor. If r.o bah was ever found at the foot of that bank, I do believe Carolina owes a belated apology to U.P. even though the payment of the $250 may be written off under the statute of limita tions. Ever yours, Walter Prichard Eaton smooth, and the jrratss on it I *a- s m flourishing, that we ■ would have believed, if we hadn’t been assured to the t contrary, that the hurricane 1 had skipped the Weils. I asked Herman if he ' knew whether or not Former \ President Truman was < coming here to deliver the . Weil Lectures. He said he didn’t know anything about ■ it. When I got back home ] 1 found that nobody in the \ iL'niversity did. either, i telephoned President Gray's * office and they said they., were still waiting for Mr. < Truman to let them know when he would come. Other friends we saw in Goldsboro were Miss Ger- j trude Weil, Mrs. Clarence < Wilkins, Miss Helen Kirby, i Mrs. Emmett Robinson, ax»d 1 Mr. Stansbury, the man- 1 ager of the hotel. Just be fore leaving for home we \ : went by Lloyd Griffin’s i place on the Wilmington road and got a carton of the 1 i famous barbecue made there. Mr. Griffin was away ‘ but we were glad to renew our acquaintance with hi.- , I right-hand man, Parnell i Smith. We told Mr. Smith 1 with what pleasure we re- 1 membered the feast he had 1 , served on the University campus, down by the Li brary, three yeans ago. He was here again last evening. ’ to serve barbecue for the i guests of Mrs. Purks and; ; Mrs. Pierson at the Country! : Club. j Ummmm la Altbwi Turkey On UWariM Robert B. Downs, former Uni versity Librarian here, now di ’ rector of the University of Illinois Library ami Library i I School, recently flew to Turkey [ to begin a stay of six months at | library adviser to the Turkish | . be to establish a library school at ' the National University at An bars The project is sponsored 'j by the Ford Foundation. I Mr. Downs will interrupt h;» I j visit in June in come home fori . the marriage of hia daughter,! ' Miaa Clara Downa, to William J j Keller, a student in the Univers ity of Illinois Medical School ! > Then he will return to Turkey . with hia wife and their daughter , | Roberta. On the way there they | will make short atopa at Lisbon, , . Madrid, Rome, and Athens. * Coming home in September in ‘ the fall, they will stop at Zurich, I Copenhagen, Fans, and London. I 1 Lounshury lecturing Here j * I Floyd Louiubury of Yale Uni-! ’ versity’s department of aathro-i ; pology is here to give two lee- 1 , tures in linguistlca under the ; . auspices of the U.N.C. depart ' aent of sociology and anthro ' pology. His Aral lecture was r given yesterday (Thursday) and r the second will be givee at I • I o’clock this (Friday) nftoraoea I »** hoping the Theatre Guild television production of "No Time for Sergeants” for the United States Steel Hour Tue»- day evening would be a cracker jack show, because I wanted to be able to write an extremely complimentary review. It wasn't, and thi- isn't. However, Ar.dy Griffith, the Tar Heel comic with the Chapel H.il background, played Andy Griffith to the fcik ir. his charar terixatior. of Will Stockdale, the lead, and that’s good enough for anybody A phrase which l- not exactly original, but which is strikingly appropriate, ran be jsM to describe Andy’s perform ance: No one but Andy could have done justice to the part. I haven't read Mac Hymar.’s Bock-of-the-Month C lub selection or, which the show was based, so no criticism I offer here can be construed as one of these "they didn't-foiiow-the book” routines. The show was, for my tastes, a bit too slapstick, and the slap stick w»* thrown into sharp con trast against Andy’s delightfully restrained performance in the lead. The production (which, inci dentally, came over NBC via Dur ham’s WTVD) was impressive It was obvious that a* greet dea. of effort and expense went into the effective sets and smooth staging The diierllon, however missed the boat as far as minor characterisations went. The sup porting players turned out to be such burlesqued types as to be practically indistinguishable one from another. Just an the blame lands in the right lap, it migh be well to name the director as Alex Segal. Brother Griffith, the indomi ! table deacon of the Carolina cow pastures (I seem to keep coming • back to him!), delivered his lines j with the same sort of unconscious * rural grace which is his trade mark and which has boomed him to popularity on Capitol Records and in nightclubs throughout the country. Infectious is his humor and captivating is hia abibty to radiate the personality of a faith ful dog who licks your shoes and wags his tall after you have just booted him in the nba. Andy is typically nt borne when deliver ing such lines ns: “You've got to excuse Erwin . . . Erwin's been sick ... he had ROTC, you know . . . for a whole year . . . that's right, R-O-T C j. . C.H. in the University Library’s as sembly room. A small collnrtioa of pertinent readings has been placed on reserve in the grade ate study fifth stack at the Li !brary. Major Kingman in Washing too Major Allen Kingman, jr., whoso parents live nt 10 Davie circle, recently arrived in Wash ington to join the staff of the Walter Reed Army Medical ( en ter. He is assigned to the neuro pathology section of the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology He was formerly stationed at the Tokyo Army Hospital in Japan. Ho received hia M J). degree Arum Georgs Washington University r.“ZJ LEGISLATIVE BULLETIN: From the lower boose: Orange county Rep. John W Umsteod told me Monday evening he received W letters from voters in the county opposing any extensSsc of the sales tax to cover food. “Anv letters epposaqp a tax or tobacco * * I asked, i “One.” It’s unnecessarr to point out the obvious, but a 160 to 1 margin in favor of tobnoc - taxes instead of food taxes (and the legislative fight willy boils down to the choice between tfceatl is fairiy ceoclmsive as to the sentiment around here. “Every time I go tc the grocery store in Chapel HiUT Mr. Umstead coatmmed. “the w.;««sb jump or. me abort that food tax. They say. 'Put a tax on our cigarettes. Isa leave the food akte ’ “ Mr. Umstead toid me. just prior to the eor-vering of Monday night’s televised session of the House, that he would introduce that evening kis till to prohibit members of the General Asserr.: y fns serving on the University Board of Trustees. The purpose of the bill he explained, was to prevent the erstkisan which has always arisen in some segments of *he state's jzess about the legislators voting themselves seats on the t«**rd. Mr. Umstead. who is oc the beard and a member of its executive committee, said he introduced a similar measure in the H use in IHI And to his posi tion at that time, he said, he resigned from the board. The bill was given an unfavorable committee report (the single affirmative vote was cast by Mr. Umstead). and the General Assembly promptly selected Mr. Umstead to fill the vacancy or. the board created by his resignatioa. From the upper h« --e: Sen. Ralph Scott of Alamance county, who also represents Orange county in the upper chamber, cleared up. at bt request, his stand on the secrecy rule passed by the Senate early in January. I had thought I knew where Mr. Scott stood w the | secrecy question Ike voted FOR the secrecy nkl. But I I had beer, puxzied when, during a speech favoring re» I apportionment of the H „-e of Representatives, he said I failure to reapp* rtke would damage the confidence of the 1 people in the General Assembly, as had the secret se&sky 1 of the 15-53 Legislature. % “Wasn’t that speech contradictory to vour vote on the secrecy rule?” 1 asked Mr. Scott. No, he answered, and he explained that while he personally is against secret ses sions (and he said he wouSd vote against secrecy in the appropriations committee if the question arises) he had agreed to a coKproeasm on the secrecy question worked t out by the rules committee. In order to get the secrecy law (a state statute I repealed, it apparently was necessary for a majority of the Senate to go along with the secrecy rule (a by-law of the house* of the Legislature). Mr. Scott had pledged ongp—t to Sea. Robert Morgan of Oeve ’ laud, a -ecrecy pnpMHrt ami a member of the committee. When Sen. < utter Hwe m Bahama, a secrecy opponent . and Morgan’s fat her-m- law. moved to strike the secrecy . rule from the Senate by-laws. Mr. Scott voted ia the i lC«mo*e «* ;4|y Hi Samsonite Luggage J ’’ 4 |P gjW*j p| ' -W ' ’'■ ' ’ ■' MF Ckwk bwoor pua as arcs, su «U World's most popular luggage ... because it’s strongest and smartest! f *■( **■— -SH ‘iTMSllll^l . OTEN nUOAT EVENINGS HU. NINE w w. ram a. rmuai Friday. March IK ISSS
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