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As \ reeuh of petitions from reeidentf and summer visitors, the Navy has fiver: assuranoe that it will not put suck a base or Martha's Vineyard except in case of mobilisation or some other acute need. New England if commonly ihoygbt of as a thickly populated region; and it is, compared with most of the rest of the United States. But it contains stretches of uninhabited country, specially in Maine, arid if the Navy needs to train jet pilots in New England it can certainly conduct the operation somewhere else than in a settled community. “The plan to adapt the land field for yet training was completed in considerable detail,” says the Vineyard Gazette, “and if there had been no objection fund' for the project would have been asked next |near. The type of trainto; intern plated wooM have meant the virtual of the Vineyard as a summer resort in the trad*- tiona) sense. Many factors are involved: the speed and noise and power of the jets, the altitude at which they would fly in maneuvering, the limited space of the Island, the fact that the resort industry of the Vineyard is ar. outdoor industry carried on in the outdoor months of the year and involving enjoyment of beaches, highways, and countryside in gew?raJ. “A recreatiofiaJ industry may sound like play, but the island’* $20,000,000 summer resort business is just at real a contribu tion to the overall economy, and just as real a means of livelihood, as a manufac turing butines*. “Jt is easy for anyone who wishes bo do so to assume that defer, oe of the 2,977,128 square miles in the United State* defiends upon jet training in the Vineyard's 100 square mile*. We do not go along with this, nor do we think that uncritical en dorsement of every proposal of every Army or Navy officer is the equivalent either of the higher patriotism or of superior judgment. "The Navy itself see* no reason at present why the Vineyard should he used for this purpose. AIJ in all, the solution now arrived at seems firmly grounded in common sense and to involve no lack of respect for our fighting men, no lack of patriotism, and no peril to the security of the nation." This reminds me of'the project, two years ago, for the establishment of an Air Force training base at the Raleigh-Dur ham airport. If it had gone through, it would have brought about a great build ing expansion and an increase of several thousand in the population of this area. Hence it was eagerly promoted by booster minded elements. It would have meant more trade for the stores, and it would have put money into the pockets of real estate owners and agents. It would have created serious problem* in connection wfth housing, schools, sani tation, and public services in general, but, worst of all, it would have brought into action pHTIes that would have rent the air over Durham and Chapel Hill and the ad jacent countryside, day and night, with hellish noise. It was a happy day for all of us around hett, except the limited few who stood to benefit financially from the project, when i" the Air Force decided to establish its Jet training base somewhere G. “Vukovich Killed in 5-Car Crash” was a tag headline is the Tuesday morning newspapers. The killing was as incident of the annual 500-rriie automobile race in Indianapolis- Hus account of the tragedy is giver > the Associated Preass: ”A spin by Roger Ward of Los Angeie* started the big pile up. Eh&iar. and Keller whipped their cars into the infield to miss Ward but Boyd hit the retaining wall. Vukovich. who had led 50 of the first 56 laps, tried to miss the wreckage his car flipped outside the £~foot high harrier The car caught fire while lying upside down. Vukovich was dead when be was removed from the cockpit-” “It would be interesting to know,” says Dick Herbert in his sports column in the News and Observer, “how many of the 130,000 spectators in the arena were there it anticipation of seeing a bloody event.” It’s anybody's guess. MiDe is: a great majority. Some forty or fifty years ago. when I lived in New York. I went to an auto mobile race on a track on Long Island- It was the most uninteresting sight I had ever seer, and I never went to another. Around and around went the cars, every circuit just like every other How long it lasted I don't remember, but to me it seemed interminable. I have never experi enced more dreadful monotony. It's different if you go to one of these races in the hope of seeing somebody killed, with the knowledge that there is a good chance of the hope’s being fulfilled. In that case you will find the spectacle exciting and highly enjoyable You may be disappointed because of the lack of a fatality, but that's a disappointment you wifi not suffer till the race is over. For, up to the last second there is the possi bility of your having the thrill of seeing somebody crushed or burned to death. What causes people of today to go to see a deadly dangerous automobile race is the same primitive lust for blood that caused the Romans of twenty centuries ago to go V, the arena to see a giad-ator stab to death the adversary he had felled or to see human beings torn to piece* by wnd oeaata. it if the same primitive lust for bkMdtfeat draw* shriek* of joy from the spectators at a prizefight when they see the winner’* blows rain down on the weak and tottering loser, beating him to the floor.—L. G. The C ourt Approve* This State’* Proposal When it announced its decision on segregation a year ago the United States; Supreme O/urt invited the affected states to submit proposal* for way* of putting the decision into effect. Os all the re sponse* to this invitation the one from North Carolina, the brief prepared by At torney General Harry McMuliari and hi* associate, Beverly J.ake ( and presented to the Court, by Air. lake, gave the clearest and most forceful statement of the great differences, in respect to inter-racial con ditions, la-tween one state and another and even between sections within the state The Court hail already mentioned these differences, in the opinion accompanying its decision, and had suggested that, be cause of them, compliance with the de cision ‘‘forthwith' I — that is, immediately —might not be a wise course. Now the Court issues a decree calling for exactly the proceeding proposed by North Caro lina: leaving it to the federal district courts to decide upon the means of carry ing out the segregation decision. The presentations made by the states, says the Court, “were informative and helpful to the Court in its consideration of the complexities arising from the tran sition to a system of public education freed of racial discrimination in public schools." The Associated Press, having inter viewed political and educational leaders representing various shades of opinion on segregation in the schools, says in a dis patch from Washington: "Both sides found sstisfaction in the ruling." They ought to like it, for it is thoroughly sensible.—L. G. The world is as fresh as it waa the first day, and as full of untold novelties for him who has the eyes to see them.— (Thomas Huxley) Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and pari iamenta.—(Ben- jamin Franklin) When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me.—(Montaigne) The last thing in making a book is to ’ know what we must put ftrfct— (Pascal) 4-54* THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Chapel Hill Omt (Cowthwnd from page 1) Saturday through Tuesday, there were 11 columns of these job-wanted ads. The reason for my special interest in them is-th* con trast they present to the lack of desire for jobs on the part of the University stu dents here. I have been * householder ir. Chape! Hill for 34 years, since 1921. For the first 20 years ca- so of that period there was always a large number of student* who wanted to earn money by doing job# at people's homes—tending f urnaces. mowing lawns, planting, cleaning windows, anything. ;You could engage them by telephoning the self-bureau at the YMCA. The usual price paid for this labor was 25 cent# an hour. Now you cannot get a student to work for you at a far greater rate of pay. A month ago I wanted done at my home some yard work that any able-bodied young man could do, and I offered $1 an hour for it. ( But I could not find a work er through the medium of the University’s self-help bureau, nor toidd one be found for me by a student, a friend of mine, who has a wide acquaintance on the campus. Other householders in - Chapel Hill tell me that they have had the same experi ence a# mine when they have tried to get students to do jobs around the home. There are many students who have self-help jobs of the regular sort, such as 1 waiting on tables in the Uni versity eating hail and other places. Jt is non-regular, by the-hour work for which they are not to be found. I suppose the main reason for this is that we are now liv-j ing in flush times and a far greater proportion of par j ent* are able to a/me across with money for thdr chiU dren’s education than ‘tuad to be the case.' • • • • Navy Lieutenant Charles A Northend, whom all his friend* know as “Chuck" Northend, is here on a vaca tion and is with his mother, his sister, Mrs. Ferguson, and his nephew, Robin Fer guson, at their home on , Pritchard avenue. He grad uated from the University's Naval ROTC in 1951, having ! specialized in nuclear phys | ics. The last time I had seen him before we met in the ;Carolina Inn cafeteria one evening thin week was when he returned from a cruise to | the Arctic. For the last two and a half year* he ha* Is-en j stationed at Albuquerque, New Mexico. His assignment there has been delivering lectures on atomic power. At first hi* ciasse* wen: com posed of enlisted men; now they are composed of offi cer*. Admirals and generals have been among his stu dents, and recently Under Secretary of the Navy Gates came from Washington to Albuquerque to take one of his courses. He has the same boyish look that he had when he was an undergraduate and it is hard for me to pic ture him giving instruction to the high brass. Seniors Honored Mia* Carol Du Plar, from Dav idson, and Tom Craaay, of Gret na, Va., both Uaivarsity seniors, hava bean named by a special student-faculty committee as “Miss Alumna** and “Mr. Alum nus'* of the about-to graduate class of lt)(i. The two seniors will be honor ed at tba annual Alumni Lunch aon on Monday In Lenoir hail to which ail seniors and their par ents art Invited. Certificates are awarded an nually by tho General Alumni As sociation to tha two members of the graduating elaas who in tba course of their campus careers best represented “those qualities which symbolise loyalties of the ‘good alumna’ and the ‘good al umnus.* ** ir" 1 ■ " 1 Tour purchase of U. S. Savings Bonds helps your govanMtant control inflation and helps yon prepare for a secure future. i '**. i ~ * 4'" .fit Newsweek Magazine Publishes Article About the University’s Business School The Unrrervity of North Caro lina's School of Business Admin istration is the subject of an arti cle in Nevmdf’i current issue. Entitled “New Talent for the New South.” it describes the vital rok the school performs in train ing cnticaliy needed, potential leaders for the South’s growing industries. Here is the article: How does s university serve a regjor. in the midst of industrial ferment* What ear. a business school do to help along the South's resurgent business com munity ? The University of North Car-j o!ir.a has one answer: It* School of Bus:ne*F Administration. Here is a report on the way that the school has taken an in struction method devised for an other region, grafted it onto its academic curriculum, and given tha*. method s Southern accent: Chape. Hill, where the Univer sity of North Carolina has been mellowing since 1795, is a place of easy informality. Ancient trees cast deep shadows on the cam pus. Brick walks circle the oaks, and classes meet out of doors in the spring Ir. this drowsy setting, near the center of the campus, stand the i three bustling buildings of the School of Business Administra tion, s new SI .5 million by-pro duct of the ferment that is known at the New South. To the 493 students, graduate and under graduate, it is a “very disciplined j school” caught up in the excite ment rjf j, region throbbing and jthr.v.ng in ar. industrial boom. jTo the liberal art* students who hem it in, the school is “Wall i Street " Their geography couldn't be ‘shakier. “BA School,” as North Carolinians label it, i« stubbornly j looted ir. tr.e business community! .that surrounds :jt. “I have taught ir.ree fifth* of the students in the junior ciass,” says L. R. 1 1 Kush j Jordan, ar: ebullient in iUjrUjr in personnel administra ] tiof , and they are looking mostly to ,‘obs ir. North Carolina There are not as rr.any looking . . . to laaid the major corporations." 'I he placement service confirms jJ "iar. - judgment. Severity -eight l.oer cent of tr,e school'* graduates jget jo os in North > aroiina. i And the wsooi'a orientation to ward the South itsfcif can m ?een the **y Harvard*' famous fljflae Me' hod ha* beet, adapted rWe use th* Harvard approach,” eon«-« d. - Kir r.ard It < alhoon, pro feasor of pernor net management and human rela'.ior.p. “but v.* a/e rapidly working it. regional cave*. Students car. identify thern-e!'.• • mon completely with the *itua-> lion. 'I he) g«t more meaning out of the case- from the horn * area , Gerald A ar Barrett, ass'X'iate profeeiaii of buainees law, tells of the way he u»ee the met ho] “J invite the president ar.d vice p/<-« iderit from the company my <as« is about to the < lass when vie di' cun* it,” he explains. A burr headed and round faced former Wall .Street lawyer, Barrett i elass-room Mil of fire who en joy* reporting the reaction of eis'-h corporate officer* • “7 hey e. It and lleten to my dent* kick the hell out 'if the company. Make* a terrifu hi’. It ha* often result'd in the com pany reconsidering the policy,; even if they had thought it war firm." Barrett, a* with most of the other 42 faculty members, spate as much time as possible from teaching to lake outside employ merit. He arbitrates labor di* p«te». "The ijuestion I’m giving! the boys now," hr says, “is one thrown at me a few weeks ago.” “If a student feels that you ran work in > business, he has more confidence in you as a teacher," •eyi Dr. Clarence Henry MrGre gor, professor of marketing Mc- Gregor is a powerfully built, can did man, full of skepticism and typical of the restless spirit of tbs faculty and students. He eon auits with Belk Htores, a big Southern department- store chain, to prove "he can work in a busi ness." Nor, insists Dean R. J. M.J Hobbs, doss BA School mean to settle for a product who is mers ly at borne in business. "We want n man who sees oar whole econ omy and his place in it, a man who understands our government and Its problems," Hobbs asserts Hobbs is a deliberate man whoae combination of gray hair/ and stasl-rimmed spectacles gives i him a remarkable resemblance to John foster Dulles. He is a pro fessor of businsos law who fills the office of dean temporarily but will wear the unofficial title of “Judge” forever. The fact that the school is look ing for a permanent dean is char acteristic of the place. It has nev i or boon a static institution sine# its founding in 1919 as the School of Commerce, four instructors and twelve students started the school in an ill-lightod, badly ven tUntod room In Alumni Hall. The i room became a floor, n building, ovwntonUy three buildings. Os these first twelve students one man, William Donald Car michael. Jr., became vice presi dent and finance officer of the university. Another, William H. Ruffin, is president of Erwin Mills, Inc., and a former presi-! dent of the National Association of Manufacturers. In 1950 the school changed names—from School of Com merce to School of Business Ad-' ministration and deans from Dudley Dewitt Carroll to Thomas H. Carroll. The first Carroll/who i was no relative of the second, fought for three decades to give j the school academic solidity based upon the university’s economies curriculum. The second Carroll, | who had been dean of the Syra- j cuse University business school and, before that, assistant dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, put the seal on the BA School's union with business of the state. The second Carroll left lav. June to join the Ford Founda tion. "He was a tall rawboned felkiw,” another professor re calls. “Talked a helluva lot. Was n’t satisfied with Class-A ball— he wanted to get in the big league.” Thirty years younger than some of his staff, Carroll hounded some people, stirred up others, and tried to squash com placency whereever he found it. His sympathies lay with busi ness, and businessmen were quick to know it. Under him, the Business Foundation of North Carolina, Inc., something that had been established in 194f>, took great strides. The foundation was devised to raise money to do re search, bring up faculty salaries, and help meet traveling ex penses. The foundation is not the I school’s only link with busines* of the state. Endowed chairs, for j instance, include: Wachovia chair in banking (Wachovia Bank of Winston-Salem); the R. J Rey nold* chair in human relation* in • ndurtry (tobacco); Burlington cha.r in business administration (textile'); Julian Price chair in life insurance (Jefferson Stand ard Life Insurance Co.). Ar.<J there j« Dr. R. S <Kex) Winslow’s Bureau of Business Services and Research, which, ha conducted 'l‘\ adult-education pro- ! grains, mostly with trade ansocia tion», within a year. Winslow, a zealou • 04, draw* on the »taff of the entire university to handle the training of about IJbOO busi nessmen a year. “Them hM tana I a transition from the slide rale technician to the businens states man,” he says, "V'our business man has got to be retrained.” t Winslow has worked with the Southeastern Institute of th<- ,Chamber of < ormnerce, for in stance, from a stage when i> members wanted ‘’immediat* practical gimmicks” until they were ready for “basic mental t»«ol* and 'kills for high-level work.” Dr. Willard Graham, who wa in ought in from the University of Chicago for the purpose, heads the executive-training ptograni < ompaniei pay SI,OOO a man for those who participate in Gra ham's course. 'Jhe men meet on eight alternate week ends and during two full weeks. Graham, a deceptively lelaxed individual,! ; feels "that a part-time program is more effective than a full-time program.” To help turn out more of such leaders as John H Graham, for mer Under Secretary of the Treasury;. Herne Xwink, a vice president of Cannon Milla; and 'I homas L. Imnier, treasurer of the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., the school • pend* about $400,000 a year ori its student body, which ia hardly distinguishable from the other 6,000 university students. They live in the same comfortable three- or four-story brick dormi tories, the same fraternity houses. The sole difference, one student believes, may be that business school boys are closer to the faculty than boys in the oth er schools." The business students start out on tho mm footing with liberal arts students. Their first two years are identical with the ex ception of two courses in account ing during tho sophomore year.' Although primarily an under graduate school, BA does offer graduate degrees. But North Car- 1 olina ia determined that the 'school should not become a voca tional insdtuto. As Milton 8. Heath, chairman of Graduate Btudies and Research remarks: “We try to concentrate on the training of judgment, to Increase the thinking capacity as the student. We try to keep away from splinter courses . . . Busi ness is an art, not a science." Cammlssisasrs to Moot The Orange county Board of i Commissioners will meet at 10 | lam. next Tuesday in tha now Courthouse In Hillsboro. Tho i commissioners will boar budget , requests from the heads of nr . TIT' ** !Om ike Ten j mmmmmmmmmmm By Chock Hamer .—nwj INCIDENTAL INTELLIGENCE: In the fancy candle rack at University Florist is a box of candles labeled “Avocado” color. MY FAR EASTERN CORRESPONDENT. Rolfe NeiU, reports from the village of Tongduchon-ni, Korea, that he received the Far Eastern edition of the latest Readers Digest, and it contained: (1) An article setting: forth its new advertising credo, forcefully pledging never to accept advertising concerning patent medicines, alcoholic bever .ages or tobacco products, and (2) 12 full pages of cigar ette, beer and whiskey ads! THE LATIN PHRASE “SINE DIE” became a b£- word in Raleigh during the last few weeks of the .breaking 1955 session of the General Assembly. Every time I turned around someone was making a comment, or pun. or hopeful reference to “adjournment sine die.” Every time I picked up a newspaper some columnist or newsman was speculating about when the Legislature would “adjourn sine die.” Now, let me explain that I took two years of Latin in high school (although my teacher at the school I at tended in New Orleans during the 9th and 10th grades spoke Latin with a decided French accent) and I’m not exactly stupid when it comes to “amo. amas, amat, amamus, amantis. amant.” (If one of those verb forms is inaccurate, please ignore it.) Calling on my strongest powers of memory, I recalled that “sine” meant “without.” “Die” escaped me com pletely. The entire phrase, “sine die.” referred. I knew, to the final, last-day adjournment of the General Assem bly. But what did that word “die”.mean? I began asking the newspapermen who were tossing the phrase around so freely: “Hey—just what does this ‘sine die’ mean exactly, anyway?” No one knew. They all had lots of guesses, but no one knew. They kept using the phrase in their news stories, however. That is where I drew the line. If I didn't know exactly what “sine die” meant, I decided, I certainly wasn’t going to use it in my stories and have some poor ignorant reader cuss me out for writing over his head. I watted until I returned to Chapel Hill. This, I said] to myself, is the seat of Southern culture. If I can’t ftaflj a I .at in scholar in Chapel Hill, where can I find one? I found one in Chapel Hill: Dr. B. L. Ullman, head of the University’* classics department. I put the question to him. “Sine die,” said Dr. Ullman, means “without day.” In other words, the legislature adjourns "sine die” without setting a day to reconvene. Dr. Ullman pronounced it “SY-na DY.” I stopped him there and inquired about the pronounci ation. I had heard it called every thing from “SY-nee I)Y” to “SIN-ee DY” to “SIN-na DEE.” The Latin pronounciation, said Dr. Ullman. would he ‘SIN-na DLE-ay. but he preferred to use the F'ngliajL form “SY-na DY.” , 1 thanked him and adjourned our telephmfe con versa* lion ohm (He. AND WHILE WE RE ON THE SUBJECT of the [legislature, let’s correct one myth that has been perpetu ated and perpetrated by every newspaper in the state of North < aroiina. That's this business of the gavels in the Senate and House falling "simultaneously” as the General Assembly adjourned sine die. (I can use that phrase, now that I have explained it above.) If you aren't familiar with the ritual of final adjouMH ment, lets review it briefly: As each house finishes up] its final details of business, it sends a message to the other! notifying it that work has been completed and requesting! the other house to swing open its doors. The assistant sergeants-at-arms push open the mas sive wooden doors to the two chambers—the doors which at all other times during sessions remain dosed except t# let people in and out. With the doors open, the president of the Senate atflp jthe sjieaker of the House can see one another across thfl? capitol rotunda. Here let us pick up our story of lank Thursday: The senators, representatives, committee clerkfli pages, and sundry capitol employees crowded into thfl aides «>f the t wo chambers and into the rotunda where could see Senate lYesident Luther Hamhardt and llouflß Speaker l-arry Moore. Even Governor Hodges joined tM crowd in the rotunda to watch the ceremonies. At about the same moment, Bamhardt and Moore bJ (Continued on page A) DON'T WAIT TO . . . SWELTER Jp |p) jar M«t Um Pi|Ml! OPEN FRIDAY EVENINGS TILL NINE CLOSED WEDNESDAYS AT ONE “Ovality la iwwhwd Um* after price is farsatten” 422 W. Knuddla St. Plte—4-4*l Friday, June 3, 1955
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