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Thom a* Jefferson Said It: “The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches; we must be contented to secure what we car, get, from time to time, and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade mer, to do even what is for their owr. good.” It’s I p to the East Franklin Street Merchants to Save Themselves A group of Chapel Hill businessmen in the East Franklin street trade area re cently formed a corporation for the pur pose of acquiring, by lease or purchase, property close by to provide off-street parking facilities. The charter has been granted, and it was registered at the county seat in Hillsboro this week. Now the corporation can«,do business. What caused these businessmen to think such a corporation was necessary.' 1 hat prompted their agreement to support it financially? The answer several months ago, when it was conceived, was a scarcity of parking space on Last Franklin Street. Wheii the charter wa.- applied for two weeks ago the answer was the same. And seven days ago, last Friday and Saturday to be specific, the scarcity of parking spaces was emphasized. Yet the crop of automobiles attendant to the regular University semesters was absent, and the number of cars was even less, than during the first session, of summer school. Still parking on East Franklin street was at a premium. Surely it was because mer chant- of Chapel Hill and Carrboro had joined in a sa.es promotion. However, customer- did have a choice of where to shop within both the towns. Not all of them chose East Franklin street. Hut many of those who did want to shop in the area were forced- to drive around the block numerous times or park at an in convenient distance. We have detailed this to point up the fact that parking in the area is scarce even when student cars are not overrun ning the town, that even in the so-called slack business periods, potential customers still have trouble getting parking space in the Fiast F ranklin street area. There fore, now that the businessmen are in ac cord on the need for off-street parking and now that they have seen what poten tial customers experienced last Friday and Saturday, it is time for them to support financially this corporation, to get busy and quickly lease or purchase property in close proximity to them establishments and provide the necessary parking facility. It will be the difference between a contin ued profitable existence or the loss of business to shopping areas and centers elsewhere. Rally Tomorrow Likely to Be Kick-Off Os the 1956 Political Campaign** More often than not political rallies are duds and dull, save for the opportunities they afford men of kindred minds to agree again with one another, to continue their friendly and convivial associations, and to plan and plot against the opposition party. But that could hardly be true of the Young Democrats rally apd workshop at Winston-Salem this coming Saturday. It can, and more than likely will, be what it has already been labeled: ‘The kick-off for the 1956 campaign." It can be more. The entire nation will look to the gath ering and the principal address of Con gressman Carl T. Durham for more words of hope for world peace. His report will |>e the first official one on the recent Geneva conference on peaceful use* of atomic energy. However, his speech and “report to the people” will hardly be cam paign material as we know it; that is, Democratic ideas versus Republican. True there might result from the rally some plan by which North Carolina Demo crats could wallop the Republicans more soundly than usual in next year’s Novem ber balloting. But. more so, we see in the rally and workshop the so-called kick-off of a bigger contest: Democrat • versus Democrat in next year’s spring primary in the state. In addition to Congressman Durham, on hand at Winston-Salem Saturday for “re ports to the people" will be Governor Luther Hodges and Senators Kerr Scott and Sam A. Ervin. Also on hand for un adulterated politicking on the ground level will be scores of state officials, con gressmen. and lesser office holders and aspirants. Almost all of them will be in the campaign lists next spring; and, as never before, they will have to answer questions on national and state issues, about which they, would prefer to be con cerned only personally. Up for renomination next spring will be Governor Hodges and Senator Ervin. (So does Congressman Durham come up, but we hope our home town neighbor has no opposition.) The public will expect the “reports to the people” to contain un equivocal statements in relation to issues certain to be fought out in the primary. The most controversial one, of course, in the state presently is the matter of racial integration in the public schools. And that relates in part to taxation on state and local levels. Governor Hodges already has spoken, pleasingly to some, not so to others. He is expected, therefore, to indi cate what his campaign strategy will be next spring. Doubtless several potential gubernatorial candidates will be present, just listening and readying themselves. Likewise the report of Senator Ervin must explain his position on F’ederal aid to schools and roads. Although Senator Scott does not run next year, he already has publicly and clearly indicated his interest in the guber natorial and senatorial campaigns. His vote gathering records in two state-wide campaigns show him to wield the most powerful political influence in the state. Therefore, he will doubtless have a part in determining whether Governor Hodges or Senator Ervin have opposition next year; and, if they do, whether they win or lose. The non-office-holding Democrats at the rally will be aler l to any and all words and act -of any and all public officials present. Alignments and re-alignments doubtless will result from the gathering. Surely it will b*- the kick-off of the 1956 campaigns. Plural, that is. The Farce of the “Neutral Team” (New ) ork Daily Mirror) It lias always been a lie that the United Nations neutral team in Korea is neu tral. It lias been a lie because Boland and Czechoslovakia are members of the Soviet Universal State and therefore are con trolled by 4l»e Kremlin. When old Syngrnan Rhee, fighting for his country’s liberty, with dignity and forthrightness, wants the Polish and Czech members of the United Nations team withdrawn from his country because they are spies for Soviet Russia and for Red China, he is right. They are spies. They should be with drawn. If not withdrawn, they should be kicked out. The North Korean Communists have violated every clause and phrase of the Panmunjom truce, but we have yet to see any evidence that any member of the United Nations team, established to see that the truce terms are carried out faith fully, has done a single thing about these violations. A report issued by the Senate Commit tee on the Judiciary shows that the com mittee’s staff studied nearly 1,000 treaties and agreements of the kinds both bilateral and multilateral, which the Soviets have entered into not only with the United States, but with countries all over the world. The staff found that in the .‘lB short years since the Soviet Union came into existence, its government had broken its word to virtually every country to which it ever gave a signed promise. It signed treaties of nonaggression with neighbor ing states and then absorbed those states. It signed promises to refrain from revolu tionary activity inside the countries with which it sought ‘friendship’, and then cynically broke those promises . . .” There has been no secret that the ne«- traF team has been aiding North Korea. Editor Mitor THE CHAPEL HILTWEEKLY Maybe Hurricane Connie or Diane was responsible, but we came up with a real treat one night last week. We went home, and we didn’t have to go out at night. No meetings, no nothing. For those who haven’t experienced it in some time, we can report that it is a fine occasion. We • got to play with the children, even helped to put them to bed. We watched TV, talked with the wife, read a little, and fell asleep in our favorite chair. It was really wonderful. The truth of the matter is we’re going to try and take a more active interest in that organization in the future. “We,used to avoid talking religion and politics with our friends,” we were tell ing someone the other day. “Now we try j not to talk about religion, politics and segregation." The person to whom we were address ing our remarks smiled and reminded us The Communist world is one. All Com munist-countries work together. When the United Nations put Poland and Czech oslovakia on the watchdog team, they put no neutrals on that team. They installed Kremlin agents. And that raises again the trick that Krishna Menon is trying to put over on the United Stateft of having a “neutral” nation examine Chinese students in the United States to discover whether they are being kept in this country against their will by the American government. The impudence, the gall of the proposal beats everything that has yet been tried by India to humiliate the United States. It is an effort to reduce our standing among nations, to make us lose face, to sub ordinate us. The Chinese students will not submit to j such interrogation. They will answer no questions, we are informed. They will boy cot the proceedings. It would be a sad day for us if these students displayed a great er dignity than our Government. Nehru’s Hostility to America Victor Kiesel has sent from Karachi, Pakistan, an article which is appearing in many papers in the U. S. “Here on the streets of Karachi,” he writes, “the American escapes the hatred which the New Delhi Indians breathe down the neck of most American visitors. “India hates us. Its leader, the pious Nehru, privately is bitterly anti-American and is emotionally for the new world of socialism and the communism of Russia and China. ♦ * # “Yet he has taken $72,500,000 from u in outright gifts and long-term loan- in the year ending June 20, 1955. “These American funds have followed hundreds of millions of dollars the C. S., in the past, has given the Indian govern ment—whose leaders are second only to the Sovietized Chinese in hatred and de nunciation of our government, our lead ers, our people and our capitalist system. “Officially, they are polite; privately they smirk, mock, and degrade us among the Asiatics. * * * “I dispatch this report not to urge that we stop feeding the grimly hungry mil lions of India, but to point out that Nehru might at least not be our enemy while he’s taking our money with both hands. “There is no doubt that India is giving great comfort to the Communist world. “Some of Nehru’s highest advisers and . representatives have been members of the Communist Party, or trained in Moscow, or are so valuable to the Soviets that it makes no difference whether or not they are card-carrying members. "The Communists have a tremendous hold on the intellectuals, newsmen and col lege professors who turned to Moscow out of sheer hatred for the British during the colonial days. • * • ‘The Indian labor movement, in which we have some friends, is as shot through with Communist agents as the govern ment is with pro-Soviet activities. The Reds control vital textile, rail and steel unions. ‘That great moralist Nehru knows all this. He knows that we, above all others, have helped his people. Now, why doesn’t he implement the ethics he so piously pro- i fesses and at least be neutral? l>et him take our money, but let him not kick us in the teeth in return. 1 * “This time, like all times, is a very Rood one if we but know what to do with it.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson. Bits of Chapel Hill that segregation was a definite part of both religion and politics, and Jhat we couldn’t possibly discuss it without get ting into one of those fields. , We know a lot of people like the deter mined frog in the story by B. C. Forbes i which is printed below; i “Does the going sometimes seem a little tough? Maybe it will help to recall the story of the two frogs that fell into the can of milk. Try as they would, you may remember, the frogs could not leap out of the can, but fell back into the milk each time they jumped. Finally, one frog whines, ‘What’s the use of trying; we can never get out.’ So he curled up and was drowned. But the other frog, possessed of | more determination and perseverance, kept on struggling, until lo! the milk be gan to be churned into butter, and then it was easy for him to get out of his diffi culty. Keep on struggling!” The Apathy of Students (The Greensboro Daily News) In a press interview Dr. J. Harris Purks, acting president of the University of North Carolina, declares that what he re gards as one of the greatest problems of the big school—the application is general but will naturally be viewed and analyzed hereabouts in connection with the institu tion which Dr. Purks heads—is student apathy. Such apathy stems from failure of the institution to “convey to the stu dent the spirit of the institution.” In iJTfference is the result. Bigness obviously is not the answer to the situation which Dr. Purks cites; rather it is a, if not the, major cause. Qualities of the spirit, ideals, personal re lationships between student and professor, the real and lasting power of a teacher, the true test of teaching greatness, to mold and influence a student’s life for the long years ahead, are endangered and in too many instances-lost. Perhaps the most significant thing about Dr. Purks’ interview is his recogni tion of what is happening with clear im plication that he intends to do something about it. The University of North Carolina has a great heritage of the spirit. Its tra dition is as rich and full as it is great. The maintenance and perpetuation of its in tangible qualities constitute th*- Univer sity’s primary obligation. How well it meets that obligation can be gauged by its reflection in the lives of students as they absorb what campus and classroom have to offer and move out to become a community, state, national and world leaven. Apathy and indifference are an tonymous with faith, hope and courage. Birthday for a Princess (Npw York Herald Tribune) “1 can write J can sew. 1 can bathe myself. ’’ That’s quite a list of accomplish ments for a little girl to compile on her fifth birthday. Os course, this little girl happens to be a Princess, and Princesses are said by legend to be wiser and more accomplished than non-Princesses. Still, <ine has always wondered. Bathing and writing would seem to be essential quali fications, since Princesses are always ex pected to look their best and to communi cate with the rest of the world. Sewing is something extra, an optional accom plishment which seems to have fallen into disrepute among large portions of the female population. It is true that sewing conjures up rather ! startling images of Princesses fastening i loose buttons to Princes’ shirts, to say nothing of darning socks and trundling out the ironing board. Such eventualities may never come to pass in the life of Princess Anne, but it’s good to know that she is preparing to meet them just the same. P'ew Princes even in this democra tic world know how to darn their own i socks. All in all, Princess Anne seems to be progressing soundly toward both woman hood and royalty, and she has the good wishes of the world as she travels the 1 road to both. "There is a disturbing trend in these parts. A great many drug stores and road-; side places put lettuce, a slice of tomato, and salad dressing on hamburgers! This i isn’t just a bit of information to be shrug ged off. Men who will floss up a hamburg er in any such fashion are to be reckoned with and will stop at nothing. Next thing you know they’ll be trying to feed us rice with milk and sugar on it. Addicts of raw onion and ketchup, arise!”—C. A. Paul in the Elkin Tribune On the Totem MM By Chock Hauser mm (While Chuck Hauser is at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, for Army Reserve training, some of his col umns will be guest written. Today’s “On the Town” is bv J. A. C. Dunn, Chapel Hill Weekly staff writer.) EARLIER THIS WEEK, AS WE WERE walking down the alley between Berman's and the City Optical company, we happened to remember that the buckle on our watch strap was broken and that the immediate moment might be as good a time as any to have it fixed. We took the watch out of our pocket, looked at it, turned around and started back up the alley as we did so, and just then a gentleman walking past asked “You want your watch fixed?” Startled a bit by his apparent clair voyance, we said yes, as a matter of fact, we did want our watch fixed. “Well, go up to the top of those stairs and I’ll be back in just a minute and see what I can do for you,” said the man. Somewhat dazed by the suddenness of this merchandising attack, we obediently “went iqjUto the top of the stairs" and waited. In a minute or two the man returned and led us into a rather self-effacing little shop on the right. “Come right in here,” he said. Our new-found benefactor turned out to be P. R. Durham, the proprietor of Durham’s Watch Repair. Mr. Durham is tall and thin with a shy smile. “Let’s see your watch," he said. We showed him the watch, and he diagnosed that we would need a new strap altogether. “One-piece or two-piece?” he asked, as if we were buying a bathing suit. We said we wanted a two-piece strap, and Mr. Durham took the watch over to his little high work table, enveloped the instrument in his hands, flexed his | fingers a couple of times in a purposeful sort of way, and before we knew it there was a brand-new nylon strap (two-piece) fastened on. This was not a very impressive operation, really, but it interested us all the.same. We asked Mr. Durham if he wouldn’t mind showing us something about watch repair j work. Mr. Durham rubbed his chin with long, gentle fingers for a moment, and then started on one of the most i rapid, involved, and fascinating lectures we have ever sat through. “This is a watch cleaning machine,” he said, indica ting an arrangement of three glass jars filled with some sort of fluid and a metal jar, empty. “You put the parts of the watch in this little cup here*,” (he took a small cup made of very fine wire mesh with different-sized com partments in it from his table) “and, well, now you see these hooks?” We saw those hooks. “You just fasten the cup in here with the watch parts in it and then )J#)k it in this holder like this. Then you let it down into the first jar here. I his is cleaning fluid. Then you turn the motor on here and the cup spins around in the fluid and deans the parts. Coes in reverse too, like this.” The cup went in reverse. “1 hen you let the cup down into these other two jars. They’re for rinsing. Then you let it down into this metal container here. This is for drying. Then your parts are all clean, see?” “Now this over here,” and he did a quick switch to the other side of the table, “is a little lathe for cleaning rust and corrosion off little parts. You see these brushes? 1 hese are very fine steel Vi re "brushes, and you lit them in a chuck like this and hold the part against the bru,sh and it takes the rust off. These chucks are made in Germany. 1 hey’re the Ixast chucks you can buy. This machine costs about two or three hundred dollars.” AH these little tools here are all different-sized screw drivers. ’ He picked up what looked like a dentist’s probe. Ibis is the largest size, and these other five are all mailer. I hey have these colored places on the handle so on can tell -what size they are. Now this is a hand re mow r. You fix these little claws under the hands and pre s down wilh this lever here and you pull the hands nyiit Oil a watch without damaging them. \ery delicate things. You can get yourself in an awrul mess if you just try and pull them offwithout this twl.” 'A, saw how we could quite easily get ourself in an awful mo- even if we used the tool. “This is another kind of muid remover, Mr. Durham went on, and showed us a liff'e item absolutely crawling with articulated teeth and folding arms and a plunger which operated the mechan >m, and demonstrated by pulling an imaginary pair of watch hands off his thumbnail. We asked what the little glass tubes were that looked like hypodermic needles. “Those are oilers,” said Mr. Durham. “You see they .iv: a little piece of paper in one end to keep dust and dirt from getting in and the oil comes out the other end. Bike this.” Mr. Durham oiled his thumbnail with a leather-light flick of two fingers, and we saw a small spM of red oil. How long did it take to take a watch apart and clean it and put it back together again? “Well if you don’t lose any time you can do it in two hours and then clean it, and then if you don’t lose any more time you can maybe put it together again in two and a half more. It’s not good to work that fast, though, because you make yourself shaky.” It appeared to us that we would be shaky if we took two and a half days, and asked if Mr. Durham noticed a big change between work ing in sub-miniature at his table and going out on the street tp contend with such everyday things as cars and people at the end of the day. “Oh, you get used to it ” he said. “It’s just like shutting off a light.” There was a cut-away diagram of a Swiss w;»i propped up on the counter and we wondered if Mr Dur ham would explain the workings to us? We couldn’t un derstand why Mr. Durham was so reluctant at first but after we had persuaded him to tell us-which wheel drove which, we saw why he didn’t want to. We cannot possibly retail a single syllable of his incredibly complicated de scription of a watch. Mr. Durham flew from wheel to • firing to pinion to wheel as nimbly as if he were explain ing the principle of the lever, and we can’t remember anything he said. "You had your watch serviced lately?” he inquired as we were about to leave. We said we hadn’t, and that come to think of it, that ought to he done. Mr Durham did it. We went back in the afternoon, and since the lecture the watch had been dismantled, cleaned on the lathe, run through the cleaning fluid, subjected to the hand pullers and the screwdrivers and the tiny oilers, been stared at intently through Mr. Durham’s magnifying monocle, and was running beautifully. “Anything else you want to know,” said Mr. Durham. “Just come back any time.” Friday, August 26, 1955
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