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We Should Hare a Direct Telephone Line To the Raleigh-Dartrem Airport In an editorial about three years aero I called attention to the amazing fact that when you called Chapel Hill on the tele phone from a pay station at the Raleigh- Durham airport you had to make the call through Raleigh and pay nearly twice as much for it as if you had been able to make it through Durham. There was a telephone line from the Durham exchange to the airport and this was used by the airplane companies, but the public was not allowed to use it. When the Weekly complained about this the response of the telephone companies in Raleigh and Durham was a statement to the effect that the airport was in "Raleigh territory" as far as telephone service for the public was concerned. But this didn't alter the fact that for a person calling Chapel Hill to lie forced to call through Raleigh, and pay a much higher toll than he would have to j»ay for a call through Durham, was grossly unfair. The criticism of the practice caused a pmy sta tion connected with Durham to be installed at the airport. This brought about a great improve ment in the telephone service between the airport and Chapel Hill, but another im provement is urgently needed. That is, a direct line from here to the airport, such as the Durham Herald and Sears-Roebuck have from here to Durham. You can call either of these concerns just as you call anybody in Chapel Hill, without having to go through long distance, and that is the way anybody here ought to be able to call the airport. The people of Chapel Hill are extremely air-minded. I doubt if there is any other town of the same size in the country whose population includes more air travelers than we have. And besides our air-travel ing residents there are thousands of visi tors who come and go by air-athletic teams, lecturers, persons who come to do research in the library, or to visit relatives and friends, or on vacations and business errands. Dozens of Chapel Hill-to-airport calls and airport-to-Chapel Hill calls are made every day. 1 shouldn't be surprised if on some days the number runs well above a hundred. It would be a great con ■venier.ee if these calls could be made by a direct line. Os course the airplane com panics would like it—it would help them. I suspect that the reason we don’t have the direct line is that the Southern Bel) Company in Raleigh, which is the one to say yes or no to the proposal, is not sufficiently cooperative. 1 have been hear ing that the company wants around $135 a month for the direct line. That seems to me an exorbitant charge—L. G. The World C alendar and Business In any company, if the subject of Cal endar reform is brought up, somebody is pretty apt to make a wisecrack about it, such as: "There are so many other things to worry about— why meddle with the Calendar?**, or something else equally sparkling. But the main obstacle to the proposed improvement of the Calendar — an im provement that has long been advocated by some of the world’s leaders in science, business, church, and state—is not the jokes that may be. made about it but the notion so many people have that the Cal endar aa we know it is immutable, in the aatnea of a divine institution which it weald ha ancrilegious to tamper with. The Calendar is man-made. It differs among pmpleo and faiths. For example, there are a Chinese Calendar, a Moslem Calendar, a Jewish Calendar. Our own Calendar is the consequence of several changes. In the year 46 8.C., on the advice of the astronomer Soeigines, Julius Caesar borrowed from the methods of the Egyp tian Calendar and added 90 days to the year. This was because the Calendar of the Romans had been so abused that Jan uary was falling in the autumn. The so called Julian Calendar created by this re form was observed by the Christian world for 16 centuries. But it got out of kilter because its year didn’t quite conform to the facts of astronomy. It was a little too long. By the 16th century the accumu lation of the surplus time had so mounted that the Calendar showed equinoxes com ing several days from when they actually did come. In 1582 Pope Gregory Xlll—acting, of course, on scientific advice, as Caesar had done—suppressed 10 days. Roman Catho lic nations adopted the Gregorian Calen dar at once but, because of the religious antipathies of those days, Protestant na tions did not fall in line. It was not till nearly two centuries later, in 1752, that tfie Gregorian Calendar was adopted in England and America. George Washing ton, whose birthday we celebrate on Feb ruary 22, was born on February 12, 1732, according to the Calendar then in effect. Several years ago persons who had given the subject of the Calendar serious thought—one of these was the Astrono mer Royal of Great Britain—recognized that the present Calendar did not suit con ditions of modern life. Out of this recog nition came the establishment of the World Calendar Association, which has branches in all the nations of the world and embraces in its membership men and women who rank high in all realms—re ligion, the learned professions, govern ment, and business. By the World Calendar every year is the same. The quarters are equal; each quarter has exactly 91 days, 13 weeks, or 3 months; the four quarters are identical in form. Kach month has 26 weekdays, plus Sundays. Each year begins on Sun day, January 1. Each working year be gins on Monday, January 2. Each quarter begins on Sunday, ends on Saturday. The Calendar la stabilized and made perpetual by ending the year with a 365th day fol lowing December 30 each year. This ad ditional day is dated *‘W” which equals December 31, called Worldsday, the year end world holiday. Leap-year Day is simi larly added at the end of the second quar ter. It is likewise dated “W,” which equals June 31 and is called Leapyear Day, another world holiday in leap years. The many ad vintages of the World Calendar—all holidays coming at week ends, and so on—have often been recited and I will repeat them. The object of the piece 1 am writing now is to call attention to the fact that business—by which I mean many of the strongest and most influential elements of business—is sup porting the World Calendar. Walter Mitchell, consultant in the field of management planning and economic analysis, for five years managing director of the Controllers Institute, has gathered reports on studies, of the Calendar as it relates to business, made by manufactur ers, merchants, and various service con cerns, and he tells of these reports in an article in the Journal of Calendar Reform. The article goes into detail in its presen tation of time studies, which show that a vast amount of money could be saved by an orderly Calendar. Mr. Mitchell con cludes: "The large savings that can accrue to business in general and the national as a whole suggest that Calendar revision is an urgent matter for consideration by business organizations and government on the national level and through interna tional bodies such as the United Nations." L. G. Some Preferences of Mr. Maugham's From W. Somerset Maugham’s book of recollections and miscellaneous comment, “The Summing Up”: "I have known men of affairs who have made great fortunes and brought vast enterprises to prosperity, but in every thing not concerned with their business appear to be devoid even of common sense ... On the whole I think the most interesting and consistently amusing talker I ever knew was Edmund Gosse. .... 1 have been more concerned with the obscure than with the famous. They are more often themselves. Their idiosyn crasies have had more chance to develop. Since they have never been in the public eye it has never occurred to them that they, have anything to conceal . I look THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Chapel Hill Chaff mobile, another would rather use it for a trip to Europe. One woman’s strongest craving is for clothes, another’s interest is more in house and garden. One family would rather have a television set than books, or vice versa. And so on, through innumerable choices. I* I know a man who for a long time kept on saying to his wife that the greatest comfort a home could have was a servant and he thought they ought to em ploy one. His wife disagreed with him strongly. He said he didn’t like to have her do cooking and dish-washing and other work around the house. She said she would, a lot rather do the work and have the money that a ser vant would cost. There were many other things she would rather spend it for. He re called a good servant they had once had and what a comfort she had been. His wife said that it was not possible to get nowadays a servant like that one. For one thing, nowadays a ser vant fixed her own hours and the hours were much shorter than they used to be. And the schedule had to be adjusted to the servant’s convenience. She asked: "How would you like to have to hurry to come home from wherever you are, or inter rupt whatever you are doing, to have a meal right on the dot at the time the servant says, and maybe when you are not yet hungry?” He admitted she made good points and finally he gave up and quit talking about it. He tells me that he still hates to have her do all that work but he can’t do anything about it except to try to make it up to her by going out for meals now and then. “But that amoVßtet to mighty* littk," Im sa fk shaking his head sadly. "There’s nothing that takes the place of a good servant.” Presently I was off on a monologue to Joe, in which 1 recalled a happy agreement in one family about away to spend money. The family consisted of my mother and my sister and me. That was thirty-five or forty years ago when we were living in New York. You know the cartoon < jokes you see in the news- ; papers and magazines, show- . ing a breakfast table scene in which the wife looks dis- ■ connotate, and sometimes re sentful, because her husband i is absorbed in a newspaper. It is a favorite topic*of the 1 joke-makers. Whenever I see one of these pictures I feel as if I’d like to say to the wife, “What the hell’s the matter with you, looking so sour? Why don’t you read a newspaper, too?” If she could answer me, maybe she would say: "But I can’t. There’s only one paper and he’s got it.” In New York at the time of which I am speaking the two papers that we liked best, the Times and the World, sold at one cent on weekdays and five cents on Sundays. When the three of us went to live in an apart ment on West 82nd street we placed an order with the newsstand man on the Col umbus avenue comer to send us, every morning, two copies of the Times and one of the World. So, each of us had a paper at breakfast No dividing a paper, with one person taking some sheets and another person other sheets. No dissatisfac tion because one person had upon myself as very fortunate in that though I have never mueh liked men I have found them so interesting that I am almost incapable of being bored by them. I do not particularly want to talk and I am very willing to listen. I do not csre if people are interested in me or not. I have no desire to impart any knowledge I have to others nor do I feel the need to correct them if they are wrong. I do not want to spend too Jong a time with boring peo- a sheet that another person would like to have. Nobody annoyed by not having the inside sheet on which an article was continued rrom the front page. No need for one person to ask another for something to be read aloud. Everybody with a complete paper and deeply interested in what he or she was reading. It was a silent meal and a happy one. It wouldn’t last more than fifteen or twenty-minutes and there was time afterward for whatever chit-chat we want ed to exchange. Some of our friends, when we told them about this, would express the opinion; it was an extravagance. But consider the figures. The Times and the World together, daily and Sunday, cost about $1 a month. We were far from affluent and a dollar was not to be de spised, but the three of us were in hearty agreement i that, except for food, cloth-' ing, and shelter, there wasn’t anything else that we would rather spend a dollar a month for than those two extra papers. We knew that some of our friends who thought we were extrava-j gant were spending money on plenty of things that they didn’t need to have any more: than we needed extra news-; papers. It was just a case of their making their choice' jof what to spend money on and of our making our choice. j Newspapers, like every thing else, cost more now than they cost in those days and, what with high income taxes and other obligations, probably many families now getting one newspaper in the morning would think of an, extra paper as a luxury they can’t afford. Well, again, it fall -depends on what you Want to spend your mbM? for. In our house we get two state papers which we read simultaneously, before breakfast or at breakfast or maybe both. On some days each of us is content with one paper. On others we swap and each of us reads both papers. It’s a fine ar rangement. * * * * Most of Ixiren Mac Ki nney’s talk to the Faculty Club on Tuesday about the practice of medicine in the' Middle Ages was serious, asi befitted the subject, but het enlivened it by telling of! some funny stories chroni-j ded in manuscripts that he; found in libraries in the| course of his recent stay in ! Europe. One of these stories | was about a Duke, the ruler of a French province, who' had been feeling ill and had been told to send his doctor a specimen of his urine for examination. The Duke, a prankish person, thought he would play a joke on the doc tor, catching him in a false analysis, and he sent a speci men of a woman’s urine in stead of his own. The doctor, after he had made the ex amination, announced to a company of young men to whom he was teaching medi cine: "Gentlemen, the most revolutionary performance in the history of medical science is soon to take place: Our noble protector, the Duke, is going to give birth to a child.” • • • * After Bob Bartholomew had read my piece about the vogue of the word ‘terrific,” meaning admirable, splen did, remarkable, wonderful, etc., he called me on the tele phone and said: "A friend ple, but then I do not want to spend too long a time with amusing ones. I find social intercourse fatiguing. Most per sons, I think, are both exhilarated and rested by conversation; to me it has al ways been an effort. When I was young and stammered, to talk for long exhausted me, and even now that I have to soma extent cured myself, it is a strain. It is a relief to mo when I can get away and read n book.” '•**' of mine who has just come from New York tells me that terrific’ has been succeeded by *fabulous.’ He says that everywhere you go now, in case and theatre and sports circles, you hear that this or that writer or actor or jockey or baseball player, or this or that book or play or whatever it is anybody wants to praise, is ‘fabul ous.’ " I asked Bob: “Is ‘terrific’ already gone? Or is it just on the way out ?” Bob replied: "My friend tells me it is not entirely gone but is going fast. He says it is still heard now and jthen but that a-person who 1 says ‘terrific’ is looked at pityingly and people say his language is ‘dated.’ ” Random A typed notice on a copy of Van Gogh’s “White Roses" in the lobby of the Person hall art gallery says, “This is one of the reproductions that is for rent” Person hall is in good company when it uses an “is" instead of ian “are" in the second part of the sentence. It is a construction that appears sometimes on the editorial page of the New .York Times and used to appear regul arly in Time magazine, though not in Time’s sister publication. Life, and now only occasionally in .Time. Evidently somebody on 'Time’s copy-reading staff has ;been cautioned to watch out for jit- An elegant brochure the j Weekly received from Charles ton's proud St. Cecilia's Society “Charleston is one of the !few cities in America that reveres its past." A person in the office remarked that it should be, [“Charleston is one of the few cities in America that revere 'their past.” John Motley More bead’s niece, Miss Julie Harris ;of Danville, Va., who was then on the Weekly staff, disagreed and offered to bet $5 that the St. ; Cecilia version was right. To settle the bet, Miss Harris, who was studying at the Univer sity for a master’s degree in Eng lish, took the question to her pro fessors in the University’s Eng lish department. When they told her the had last the bet she re turned to the Weekly office and cheerfully made out a check for $5. She said the grammar lesson she had learned was worth $5. Person hall art gallery gets it for nothing. * O 4 ♦ A bill to legalize the market ing of quail raised on game farms in six North Carolina counties was approved Monday by the House of Representatives in Raleigh and sent on to the Senate. It would permit the sale of such quail to restaurants throughout the state. It will be a sad day for North Carolina quail hunters if the Sen ate approves this bill, which is for the financial benefit of a small number of breeders. Nothing is more deadly to a game species than for it to be legally sold as food. Opponents of the bob white bill , forced an amendment saying that records must accompany every jsale so that game wardens can 1 check on the origin And destina tion of all birds intended for restaurant use. This kind of law is unenforceable. There aren’t enough game wardens to check on all quail that would be sold in restaurants under the proposed bill. If it passes, deadfalls and other traps that can catch a whole covey of quail at a throw will come back. Their furtive users will make good money for a while. Till the quail are gone. Carolina Wins Track Title The University’s track team, coached by Dale Ranson and Joe Hilton, won the Atlantic Coast Conference title here last Satur day in the annual conference tournament. The Tar Heels out scored Maryland, the defending champion, by the narrow margin of one and one-fourth points. The final standings were Carolina, 66% points; Maryland, 64; Duke, 37; South Carolina, 28%; Vir ginia, 16V4; Clemson, 16; North Carolina State, 13, and Wake Two records were set when Carolina’s Roger Morris heaved the shot 61 feet 4 inches and State College’s Mike Shea ran two miles in 9:27.6- I Ojb the Town wmmmmmmmmmmmm By Chock Hauer iMaMaaMMMMHreJ "THE SOUTH,” WROTE JAMES STREET, “can’t be put in a book any more than Pandora can be put in a box or the mystery of life in a test tube.” James Street was wrong. The South has been put into a book, and what’s more, it is "James Street’s South” (Doubleday, 282 pages, $3.75). The book, published yes terday, is a collection of essays on the cities and the states and the people of the South, edited by the writer’s son, James Street, jr. Ail of the material has bqen published before, with the single exception of a story about the Arkansas Gazette, for which the late Chapel Hill author worked in his younger years. To read this volume is to know and understand the South a little better. To read it is to know and under stand James Street a little better. Both are pleasant airi interesting experiences. V Here is the familiar Street wit, the sarcasm, the tongue in cheek, the de-bunking, and the alert thrust of the verbal rapier which never seems to fail to flick home to its target. Here is an exciting word picture of the South of myth and fact, the Old South and the New South, the South that is made up of so many divergent elements that it can (Continued aa paga S) ft For The One You Love Most . . . The Perfect Gift ON A VERY SPECIAL OCCASION Stunning blond modern sj^^9s AS LOW AS *49“ Samsonite LU PfC • Graduation && & FOR • Birthday # Dad’s Day 1 gif .00 All priCM plui World's most popular luggage ... because it's strongest and smartest! f Man who go placaa, go with BtraamllU Samaonita! No other luggage has Samsonite's impressive better-than leather finishes. 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