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Ahiani Giving, a Splendid Eenterpris* The University's Annua! Alumni Giving - Program keeps on growing. When the books for 1954-55 were dosed last week they showed that the receipts for the year amounted to about $50,000, an increase of $5,000 over the receipts for the year be fore The number of doDOTE went up from 2300 to 3300. During the last academic year there were 50 grants for research and 40 grants for travel to members of the faculty. In addition, there was the allotment for the Faculty Retirement Supplementation Fund. Nine professors, whose retirement allowances from the State are at excep tionally low levels, receive supplements from this fund. Sums were turned over to the Univer sity for the Library- for student welfare, and the Chancellor's Emergency Fund. Money designated for graduate research is administered by a committee headed by Dear, Pierson of the Graduate School, and the Arts and Sciences Travel Commit tee ha>. the responsibility of making ap propriations for travel grants The Annuai Alumni Giving Council will meet early in the fall and will make a distribution of money for the coming year for the same purposes, in general, as those for which last year’s distribution was made. Alumni Giving provides urgently need ed aid for important projects for which it is not possible to get State appropria tions. I have been reading reports of its operations, and have been hearing about it from persons well acquainted with its record, and I am deeply impressed by its usefulness. It is altogether a splendid enterprise and deserves the enthusiastic support of all alumni.—L, G. dt Avoiding a “Rather Melancholy Approach” Eugene Meyer bought the Washington Post in J 933 when it had lost its prestige and wa- in din- financial straits. Then fifty-three years old, a wealthy banker, he had been Governor of the Federal Reserve Board and had held many other import ant Government po.-t*. With the collabor ation of hi- wife, Agnes E. Meyer, who had started her career as a reporter for the old New York Sun and ha/I become active in public life, he Luilt the Post into the gn at new-paper that it is today. He was editor till 1947 and now, at 80, he is chairman of the board of the Washington Post Company. Recently the Meyers turned over half a million dollars’ worth of the stock in the company to its 711 employees. This, an anniversary gift, followed a profit-sharing plan put into effect two years ago. The Post article announcing the distribution of stock said that when Mr. Meyer bought the paper it was “a derelict with 50,000 circulation" and that now it had a circula tion of 380,000 daily and 410,000 Sunday. The new stockholders are those with five years or more of continuous service. They received amounts ranging from 4 to 20 shares, apportioned according to their length of service and their respon sibilities with the company. When he announced the gift at an anni versary luncheon attended by the em ployees Mr. Meyer said: “'For some time Mrs. Meyer and I have been thinking about the fine people in this organization. We (have a lively memory of your valuable • service in helping to bring About the success of the paper. We have wanted to find some appropriate way of marking our appreciation. Some people remember their old associates *in their wills. But Mrs. Meyer and I thought that a rather melancholy approach, so we work ed out this plan to recognize you today.” What interests me in Mr. Meyer's talk is his remark about the “rather melan choly approach." 1 have often wondered, as I suppose many another person has, why people who posse*? far greater wealth than they will ever want to use’ for their own support and pleasures wait until they die to dis tribute the part of their surplus that they intend for beloved relatives and friends. Why don’t they anticipate death with a distribution that will enable these rela tives and friends to get some use and en joyment out of the money before they themselves are tottering or, the edge of the gTave? Maybe what Mr. Meyer said about his own and his wife's decision to avoid the “rather melancholy approach" will set 4 other rich men and women to thinking about the folly of hanging on to all their money until they die. Mr. Moneybags and Mrs. Moneybags, everywhere, can relieve a great deaj of distress, and cause a great deal of happiness, if they will follow the Meyers' example—and this without deny ing themselves anything they need or want in their everyday life.—L. G. Bum per-to-Bumper Holidays One day some thirty or thirty-five years ago, when automobiles had become num erous enough to clog the roads around New York City on Sundays and holidays, a friend of mine who had just bought a Ford invited me to go with him to spend the day at one of the Long Island beaches. There were far fewer roads leading to the seashore then than there are now, and after we had crossed the East River and passed through the built-up part of Brooklyn we found ourselves halted in a long line of cars. They stretched ahead of us as far as we could see, and when we looked back ] we saw them stretching behind us in a similar endless line. We would creep for ward a few feet, stop, creep forward again, stop again, and so on and on. I don't know how many hours it took us to get to the end of our ride, but it seemed an eternity. And we went through the same ordeal on the return. Those two rides, going and coming back, have fixed tjiat day in my memory as one of the most boring in my life. It was my first experience and it has been my only one, with the bumper-to-bumper holiday traffic that in these days we often read about in the newspapers. It is recalled to me once again by the following editorial, entitled “Holidays In Town and Out," that I have just been reading in the New York Herald Tribune: “There are two schools of thought about New York on a holiday weekend. One holds that it is a good place to 1/e; the other, that it is a bad place to be. Curious ly enough, it is the people who are not in the city who are likely to reflect most thoughtfully upon its virtues. They have plenty of time for such reflection, for they must have something to think about as they sit -Weltering through a traffic jam upon a parkway, or as they wander dis con.-olateiy on a crowded beach trying to find some tiny stretch of sand not yet covered by a recumbent form. "So they envisage the city, virtually empty of all human beings, with plenty of air-conditioned movie houses and cool, dark taverns available. They may even contemplate the pleasures of a quiet day at home, with those two modem conveni ences, television and home air-condition irig, on hand. “But strangely enough, the man in the city is likely to cast his thoughts else were. He thinks of the cool ocean breezes and the even cooler ocean, of the greenery along the highway and the roadside re freshment stand. "It’s an interesting difference of opin ion, and it might make for a lively argu ment—except that for the man in town and the man out of town alike it’s really much too warm to argue." I suspect that there are more people than the writer of the above piece thinks who are well content to stay away from the cool ocean breezes when they reflect upon the price they have to pay—in long, hot waits on the road, in gazing out the car window at rows of ugly in the smell of gasoline fumes, in ail-round fa tigue and boredom —in order to get to the ocean. Week after week I read about and see pictures of the bumper-to-bumper traffic on the roads around the big cities, and the beaches so crowded that men, women, and children are pressed close to one' another in a gigantic mass, and I marvel that people can get pleasure out of this kind of a holiday.—L. G. THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Learning Haw to Read Faster Alan Green, who is contributing ’Trade Wind*” to the Saturday Review .while Bennett Cerf is away on vacation, writes in the July 9th issue: “Like a Jot of other people I have long considered myself a medium-speed reader. I can read a fairly light, average-length novel in about four and a half hours. This means reading at the rate of 275 words a minute. I assumed this was my speed and that nothing could be done about it. I was wrong, t can now ’■•'ad a'tNhe rate of 425 words per minute and hope present ly to read at more than 500. “ThL« is the result of going back* to school and learning to read. The school is the Reading Institute of New York Uni versity. where they not only teach read ing skill to retarded readers but also teach it to average readers who want more time for reading. Inasmuch as one can’t length en the day or shirk one’s other duties, the only way of reading more is to read faster. “When the idea was first suggested to me by a publisher who had himself taken the course I was dubious. I feared that, as my reading speed increased. I would suffer from loss of comprehension or would feel some strain. Again I was wrong. A normal adult can learn the art of reading sentences where he used to read phrases or of absorbing paragraphs where he used to be lucky to take in a line. In a total of some twenty pleasant and interesting hours of study the acceleration is achieved and made permanent, and comprehension is actually increased. “Whether you are a businessman, snow ed under by the amount of reports, trade journals, and other business literature you have to read, or a casual reader who would like to enjoy two books where only one book could 1/e enjoyed before, I commend Chapel Hill Chaff , (Continued from pare 1) ;and she answered "Petun ias.” That reminded me of a jstory that dates from the time, some forty or fifty years ago, when the casual, rambling essay was in vogue. This form of litera ture was most flourishing in what people sometimes call ed the “quality” magazintti ] —the Atlantic Monthly,! Harper’s, the Century, and Scribner’s. Many such es says contained a good deal of talk about flowers. The story is that a mother asked her son, who was at high school age and had be gun to show a bent for read ing, if he would like to read the latest Atlantic,/ which had just come in and lay on a nearby table. He replied: “No —too; many articles about petunias by ladies with three names.” People who know about flowers arid associate names with the flowers they belong to probably think the names as well as the flowers are pretty. But most males who may enjoy looking at flow ers without knowing any thing about them, just as Segregation and Integration To the Editor: Governor Hodge* and other public-spirited citizen* b< Sieve that the majority of the voter* in North Carolina, both whit * ami colored, favor segregation; yet a small minority ran upset the en tire public school Hyntern by de manding integration. Hence, the fate of the North Carolina public school system de pends, it seems, upon the colored citizen* of our State. If they vol untarily continue segregation, North Carolina will continue its program of improvement for all its secondary school*. If our col ored citizens fail to do this, if integration is enforced, then the entire system will deteriorate and private schools will result. The white citizens who oppose integration and who are finan cially able, will send their child ren to private rather than public schools. Consequently, they will lose interest in the welfare of the state-aupported schools and therefore will discourage neces sary appropriation* by the I,cgis lature. Lack of fund* will lead to deterioration of buildings, inade quate equipment, fewer teachers, and lower salaries. Further, many white voters who cannot afford a private school education for their chil dren may be even more opposed to integration than their more affluent neighbors and will sim ply take their children out of school. The legislature will then annul the compulsory school at tendance law rather than enforce integration. When this ia done, to you the Reading Institute in New York and—hopeful that they exist—to similar institutions in other cities.” The Gordon Gray Appointment (From the Christie* Science Monitor) It is generally accepted that most major posts in an administration should be held jby those of the President’s own party. Such a custom works toward strengthen ing the two-party system and enforcing party responsibility. The American sys tem of government benefits. But there are areas into which partisan politics should not enter. One of these is national defense. And, Eisen hower has been under some legitimate criticism for failing where his two pre decessors did not: in symbolizing through important appointments the non-political ( nature of this truly national function. He has moved now to rectify this situa tion by naming Gordon Gray as Assistant Secretary of Defense for ‘ International Affairs. Mr. Gray is a happy choice. Emphasiz ing bipartisanship is the fact that Mr. Gray is not only a Democrat. He is a Democrat who, unlike Secretary Oveta Hobby, did not lead in a pro-Eisenhower movement within the party in the 1952 elections—a Democrat, moreover? who held conspicious posts in a Democratic administration. From the standpoint of value to the Defense Department, Mr. Gray served both as Assistant Secretary and Secretary of the Army under President Truman. And for both the incumbent and the last ad ministration he has headed with distinc tion boards of great military and intema i tional consequence. The appointment is no mere gesture on any count. It should be welcomed. they may enjoy listening to beautiful melodies without i knowing anything ' about • music, think of flowers’ ' names merely as names, and . find some names much less i pleasant-s ound in g than : others. I like the names, i morning glory and crepel !myrtle and sunflower and ijviolet, but somehow petunia! .land begonia are, to me, ex-1 l.tremely silly-sounding. « • • • When I was passing through the Carolina Inn lobby Tuesday afternoon I (saw two girls and two boys playing around. Alumni: Secretary Maryon Saunders told me they were the chil-j dreri of Mr. and Mrs. Wil lliam Mehaffey, graduates of jthe University in the class of 1943. Mrs. Mehaffey is the former Miss Mary Jane! McCaskill. The family, who live in New Orleans, made a one-day stop-over here on their way to visit Mr. Me haffey’s mother in Pennsy lvania. The children are Mary Frances, who will he 10 iri September; William, Chambers Jr., nearing 8;! Nancy Anne, 5, and Lloyd Austin, 3 1 '■_>. I many colored people, a- well as whit* people, who simply arc riot interested in education will drop out of the public schools, The resulting decrease ire school enrollment will lead to a idecrease in the teaching staff The first so he released will per haps be the colored teacher, who 1 presently is enjoying a superior professional rating and a better salary on the average than the white teacher. Perhaps, among the colored raee, only the teach er* realize what thin would mean; to them; and doubtless, if they! had the power, they would re tain segregation in the State *o that all of them, including the 1955 graduates, would I>c assured a teaching career, the State’s most remunerative profession open to colored women. The secondary school system of North Carolina has proved that both race* are given the oppor tunity to accomplish the highest of which they are capable. This is the aim of education. Will inte gration promote the phenomen al advancement in the next half century that the colored race has made since 1864 under the pres ent educational set-up in the State? Or will it deal a death blow to all our public schools? Belle Hampton Arnold Naah to Rpeak Arnold Nash, University pro fessor of the history of religion, will be the guest speaker next Sunday, July 10, at the 11 O'clock worship service at the Chapel Hill Baptist church. Margaret Lynn Knox. A daughter was bom to Mr.! and Mrs. Charles E. Knox of! Charlotte on June 4. Her name! i is Margaret Lynn. Mr. Knox was, graduated from the University's! School of Law several years ago 1 ! and worked for a while for the University’s Institute of Govern-! ! merit. Mrs. Knox was on the l office staff of the University’s: l Alumni Association while she and Mr. Knox were living here, j Borden on library Staff Arnold Borden, a native of 'kpoldshoro jmd in rscent years ■'a resident of Morehead City, Ml 'been appointed librarian of the I General College Library of the .'University Library here. He was from the University .'some years ago and received a degree in library science here, ' last month. (Hampton Ocean Crosaer •j E. H. Young, professor emeri- j . !tus at I/uke University, will bet • making his 79th crossing of the Atlantic when he sails from New York for Europe on July 20. His return voyage in September on the Queen Elizabeth will be his , HOth crossing. Buy this beautiful GE 10-inch Fan for only *17 95 ** * ■ ■ Visit our store for all your fan needs. Wo have ... k Window Fans Twin Ventilator Fobs Dash Fans Floor Cirenlator Fobs Wall Faas Roll-About Pedestal Faas ® Ml H MB GENERAL ■■■ HBM MMi ELECTRIC OPEN p R*DAY EVENINGS TILL NINE - CLOSED WEDNESDAYS AT ONE "Quality ia remembered long after price is forgotten” 422 W. Franklin St. Phone 8-451 Many of the acts passed by the 1955 General Assembly became effective on July I—last1 —last Friday. One of those acts—and easily one of the worst laws passed by the most recent Legislature—was the comic book censorship law, House Bill 1085, which carried the title, “An act to pro hibit possession or sale of certain crime comic publications in this state.” The bill, introduced by Reps. Sam Worthington and | Walter Jones of Pitt county, was nothing more than simple censorship, inspired by the well-meaning but misguided pressure of hundreds of women’s organizations and home demonstration clubs across North Carolina. Let’s get one thing straight: No one, including this writer, denies that numbers of objectionable comic books are on the news stands today. My argument is with the method of dealing with them. Censorship is abhorrenLin any form, and, except in reference to obscene materials probably unconstitutional. There are already laws on the books to protect the public morals from contamination by obscene literature. This new act is so sweeping, so ambig uous, so open to interpretation, that I am personally con vinced it could not stand up in a court test. The law applies to publications which, through the medium of pictures (that is, comic books), portray may- v hem, sex acts, or use Qf narcotics. However, it was amend ed in the House to make it clear that it applied only to “crime comic publications” (in other words, it does not apply to newspaper comic strips). The amendment also made sure that possession would not be considered a vio lation of the law unless it was for the purpose of sale. (So the kiddies don’t have to clean out the nursery close? and consign their collection to the incinerator) A comic book which portrays “mayhem"' is, under the law, banned. Now, just what is “mayhem”? Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (Mr. Graves would use the Oxford English as a reference, but I am forced to resort to what is at hand), 1948 edition, gives the following definition: “Law. The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members necessary for him in defend#® himself; also, often extended by statute to cover all wm* ful disfiguring of the body.” Okay. As George Gobel would say: So there you are. Or, as Sen. Max Thomas of Union county told his Senate colleagues one warm day in May: “I like Fearless Fosdick. Fearless Fosdick shoots holes through people—great big round holes. He would be outlawed under this bill.” {£ Actually, since Fosdick appears only in newspapers (up to now, at any rate), he won’t be affected by the law. But the Thomas speech on the floor of the Senate serves to show how ridiculous this legislation really is. The act also bans comic books which portray “sex acts.” Now, if THAT isn’t a broad term, I’d like someone to find me a broader one! “Use of narcotics” is a little more specific. The comic strip entitled “Kerry Drake,” which appears in the Dur ham Morning Herald, is now running an episode dealing with the use of. narcotics. Under the new North Carolina law this sequence could never he incorporated into a Kerry Drake comic hook and sold in the Tar Heel state. Yet the strip is educational and is definitely in the “Crime Does NOT Pay” category. Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, hut it seems to me that the proper agency to keep children from buying objection able comic books is an old-fashioned one called “parents” —not the State Legislature and not the Chapel Hill police department. If the General Assembly, blindly yielding to blinder pressure, gets away with outlawing mayhem in comic books, what will he next? Mayhem in movies? Mayhem in newspapers? Mayhem in classic literature? Our only hope in this matter is that some conscientWus publisher or distributor will make a test case out of the law. If that happens, I feel sure the courts will throw the act off the statute books as clearly unconstitutional. On the Town m By Chock Hi utter *a Friday, July 8, 1955
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