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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Cfcapd H*. North Carofaaa W E. Nunir. Tritytot MITI er MCI PsMmM E»wt TMi? rriity By TW ClMri Hill PubtotoMt *■*- Lera Suva Cu*itr£bmxmg Jot Jams Memagme E&ita* ttriT Ararat Anoacu Editor Qei'cx H>rszz Assook* Ed^-tr f>KT:i run— I . Gewni Ksxxifff’ O T Timass - Aeerttßßf Ih-ee-Kr CmjkMLTCfK ri«wr: McrNcsucc: Stfpt Xz.M-nc u nrDoft-iwi »»■" fnrar? * I*3. a*. M aactaUkre at Cbaar.. m Karer. Carolzii. -ja*e Baa ac*. a* Mart*. a SUBSCRIPTION RATES lx Oraar* Cnoj, Year C 4-9C 1 • < uinnrta t£_2s f months, St .34* Owiaidf of Ccsarty toy itoe Year Staxa of N C. V*_ ux EC Cuae? Stale* aac lims. of Colombia b-0® (umx Mextexi, Soon Amanea • ? At lorept ~-^ 1 How Voters Refuse to Foikru the Ad tic* Os a Preside*! Wham They Admire Twenty-three years ago. it. the elec tion of 1932, North Carolina grave Franklin D. Roosevelt a tremendous majority. The next year the state held a referendum on the question of the repeal of the 18th (Prohibition j amend ment to the Constitution. Roosevelt was strong for repeal and had maoe it an issue in his campaign. For the repea., zg amendment (the 21st > to become effective ;t was neces sary that three fourths of the states (36) approve it After Roosevelt took office in March 1933 one state after another said yes to the proposal. But the number of states approving it was still short of 36 when North Carolina held, its referendum. So eager was Roosevelt for the state to appro, e repeat'that he sent his chief politkal manager. Postmaster General James A. Farley, here to whip up pub lic sent.merit for it. Fariey gave pep talks to the state's political leader* and issued statements to the people. He was explicit and emphatic in telling them that, in arming their support for repeal, he was bearing a persona! re quest from President Rooseveit. Result: Repeal *a- defeated r. North Carolina by an overwhelming majority. Several years later Roosevelt at tesr.ppj; u* bring about the defeat, in state Democratic primaries, of two Sen ators one from Georgia and one from South'Carolina, who had opposed some of his New Deal measures. What he was trying to effect, in teinng Georgians and South Carolinians how he wanted them to vote, is known in political history as "the purge.” The attempt turned out to be a fizzle. The voters of the two states,, who had given Roosevelt himself big majorities., now gave big majorities to the Sentaoru whom he asked them to defeat. Several months ago President Eisen hower ga.e his endorsement to th<- He publican candidate for mayor of Phila delphia, Than her I»ngstreth. Result: The Demerratic candidate, Richard lol worth, defeated I»ng?treth by 131 ,000. In view of the record, nobody will dispute the statement of Karl Mazo, Washington correspondent of the New York Herald* Tribune, in his comment on this week’s elections: -‘‘Jt is as dif ficult as: ever for a popular political personality to transfer his popularity to anyone else."—L. G. The Composure of Spectators Many people who are themselves sacrificing nothing in connection with the breaking-up of the romance of the Princess Margaret arid Group Captain Peter Townsend are entirely willing for the Princess to be sacrificed. The com posure with which they view her forc ed renunciation calls to mind Rochefou cauld's celebrated maxim, "We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others."—L. G. A Marylander Views the We*t Mark 8. Ilobba, native of Baltimore, former aaaoeiate editor of U»e Baltimore Evening Kon, former viec-preaident of Gourher College, and a truntee of Gourher for the laat twenty-two year*, i* now director of the (,'ivie Develop ment Bureau of Baltimore'* Anworiation of fJommerce and chairman of the city'* Develop ment f'ommiaaion. He went on a tour of the Weat laat aunntr and he baa written for the Baltimore magazine, Gardena, llouaea and People, an article giving hi* impreaaiona of the region. Here is part of the article: It was Horace Greeley who said "Go west, young man, go west.” It was also Horace Greeley who stayed in New York City, It may be that Horace honestly thought the West was a good place for young men. On the other hand, it may be that Horace was fed up with the young upstarts of his day and* wanted to get rid of them. How many took his advice only to decorate the great Amer ican desert with sun-bleached bones will never be known. All this writer knows is that anybody who wants Southern Coiorada. New Mexico. Arizona or— this is blasphemy but here goes—Sou thern California can have their, so far as he is concerned. These solemn, insulting conclusions have beer, reached :r. the after-contem plation of a summer tour through these dehydrated states Headed for the Pacific from Chi cago via the Sar.te Fe route. I retired to nay sleeping accomodations as dark ness fe” upon a living, verdant world. Hours later I awoke as dawn was bring ing visibility to a dead, grayish tan ex panse of scorched earth, tumbleweeds, sage brush and occasional tufts of what some poor, decoded, despondent cattle think is grass. A rough calculation sup ports a guess that it requires at least ten acres of that juiceiess forage to stave off starvation for one head of cat tle. The wonder that any head of cattle bothers to stave off starvation rather than welcome it as a merciful release from a weary land. As a backdrop to this exceedingly reaiustic picturizatibn of Joseph's seven jean years, stand the jutting crags and yawning crannies of the Rocky Mountains, its moribund as the plains they overlook At their best they achieve a grandeur of desolation. At their worst they are an overpowering satire or. natural beauty. There they stand in snaggle-toothed array defying God and rr.ar. to make them fit for hu man association. That was the southeast corner of Colorado tran versed before entering up on another dry kiln known locally as New Mexico. More nature in the grip of rigor mortis. Miles and miles and miles of it. Vegetation is so sparse as to be virtually nonexistent. The only live thing seen in many square miles: of shimmering sterility was a disconso late. flop-eared jack rabbit that would have headed out of there as if it had rockets for hind legs if it had known which way to go. As w.rh New Mexico, so with Ari zona. c 'is ry to an awesome climax in the Grand Canyon of the Colorado Riv er. Here was magnificent desolation in overwhelming dimensions. The Colo rado's removal of of tons of -lit to car.e a gully 218 miles; long with an average width of seven miles and depth of or*- mile stagger- the imagin ation. Vet there seems to 1/e no other ex planation for this; king-size ditch but erosion. And down at the bottom of this terrific gash in the face of nature the perpetrator of the deed can be seen boiling over its rocky bed and still car rying with it a heavy burden of silt. Southern California’s ballyhoo art ists may convince this visitor to their "sunkist’’ state that Marilyn Monroe is an incarnation of Venus, Psyche, and all three of the Three Graces but never again can persuade him that the lower reaches of their state are more like the garden of Eden than the garden of Kden was. If someone were to forget to turn on the water in the roto-rain contrap tions and irrigation ditches for two weeks, Southern California would make the apfel schnitt condition of the late Kameses II look like !x water-soaked sponge. Around the synthetic beauties of Gjk Angeles, Hollywood, Pasadena, lies a desert menace that looks greedily on man-watered vineyards, orange groves, carrot-crowded acres and fields of salad makings. A grim reminder this that a pipe-line that brings water from over the hills and far away is also Southern California’s life-line. The Sun kist State? Indeed, yes. And what a buss! Without that pipe-line it would lie a kiss of death. San Fransico has its points. Its many peopled hills rising from expansive wa ters, its sometimes mysterious and sometimes not so mysterious orientals, its fine hotels and department stores, its Fisherman’s Wharf and even its ca ble cars combine their various appeals to make an interesting, attractive city. Alcatraz looming up in the middle of San Francisco's bay could Ik? a disturb ing element for some people, if they have been careless with their income tax returns. But the man whose con science is clear can look at it with com posure and Ik? glad he marie a practice of telling Satan to get behind him. When one leaves San Francisco to go northward, the more miles he puts' be hind him, the nearer Tie geTs to real natural beauty. Few cities anywhere can boast a setting that surpasses that of Seattle. The city clusters on hills that rise THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY 7AI« I# f Jk# Imr By Rdbrrt E. Lee (R«*r tkr C. Bar Amtittiwii SAVINGS BONDS May U. S- Saving* bond* be used by a peraor. as security for a soar. * No. Individual? earning U. S sarin** bond? cannot pledge their, as c- ".aterai for a loan or use then a? security for * Soar. May an earner of U. S sav ing? bond? sell or give them to another? No. Saving* bond? are not transferrabie and are payable cr.iy to the owner named there on. If a saving* bond i? register - ed in the name of one person only, and he dies, it is consid ered a? belonging to his es tate and will be paid to hi? executor or administrator. May a U. S. savings bond be issued in the names of three or more person?? No. A savings bond may be issued in the names of two <bu: not more than two) per son? in the alternative as co owners. for example: “John A . Jones or Mary S Brown.” No other form: of issuance or re girtratH r. co-own ership j» authorized. if a U. S. savings bond i? ssued in the names of two persons, may either of the co owner* obtain payment with out the signature of the other* Ye*. During the live? of bov co-owner* the bond wili be pa A to either upon hie separate re quest without resquiring the signature of the other. Upon payment to either co-owner the other person ceases to have ary interest in the bond. If either co-owner dies, the surviving co-owner will be re cognized a* the sole and ab solute owner of the bond. Pay ment will be made only to the survivor, a* though the bond were registered in his name only. I- there a limit upon th< amount of U. SI. savings bonds that a person can buy during a particular year ? Yes. Individuals cannot bu> bond» of Series. E in execs of 120 000 during ar y one ca. endar year The limitation i s-et a*, a higher amount for rorr.e of tire other Series. Serie- E is. the type tha* most persons have purchased. How noon after the purchase may an owner of U. S. savings bond* redeem or get “cash money” for hi- bond- ? A bond of Series K rra.. be redeemed at ary t;rne after ”*o months from the i- .*■ date without advance r.ot.< The owner will be paid the ap propriate redemption valu* as shown ir. the table printed on the bonds. Bond* of any Series other than K are generally redeem able six months from the -- sue date and on one month’s notice in writing. Do U. S. savings, bonds, of sharply from the waters of two beauti ful lakes and Puget Sound. The streets in much of the city rise tier upon tier on the hillsides, each hy its elevation a vantage point from which watery love liness can be viewed. And, speaking of things being watery, the term can be applied to the land a- well as the lake and sound areas of Seattle. Tlx- soggy truth is that Seattle i>. as water-logged as Southern California is sunkist. Most of the Seattle™ will d<-ny it even when the rain is trickling down their necks, hut during long periods of time rain falls some part of every day. All of which accounts for lawns like oriental rugs and flowers in profusion far into a winter season moderated by an ac commodating Japanese Current. And there is no burning summer, thanks to ocean breezes. Scores of scantily-clad young ladies adorning numerous floats that appeared in the annual Sea Fair parade ori July 29 can testify to that. In a 62-degree temjs-rature they ex posed to public gaze some of the most beautiful gooseflesh this traveler has seen. For this very provincial person, there is no beauty that surpasses the soft, leafy peacefulness of the Blue Ridge and Allegheny hills and here, in deed, "The valleys stand so thick with corn that they laugh and sing.” A Lively Funeral From “Atlila and the Hum,” by the Britiah arholar, K. A. Thompaon, publiahed by the Ox ford Univeraity Prraa: Before the campaigning season of 453 A. I). began Attila decided to add yet another to the long series of his wives. On this occasion his bride \yas Idico, and we are told she was a girl of great beauty. After the wedding Attila dmrfc far into the night, and, when muSPof the following day had passed and he did not reappear, his Senes E earn interest after the date of maturity ? Y'es. Owner? of bonds of Senes E which have matured since May 1, 1951 have the op tion of retaining the matured bonds for a further ten-year period and earning interest up on the maturity values thereof. Letter to Editor To the Editor: Have you no better use for your editorial column (Novem ber 8. 1555 1 than to fill it with a discussion of the matter of Princess Margaret and Captain Peter Townsend (which is none of our business in this count ry!. and at the same time criti cize three historic Churches be cause they stand by Christ's teaching about divorce? “The ancient idea* and practices” of which you do not approve were Christ's. Why not criticize Him and be done with it? Has “the advance in civilization” made Christ's teaching obsolete, or just those teachings which you do not like? It is easy to understand the interest in Princess Margaret and Capt. Townsend. Ail the world loves a lover. Not often do we have a true love story to read about. We resent foreigners, es pecially the English, for cri ticising our way of life. If the way the English have han dled this matter suits them, that is none of our affair. If they want a change, they have procedures for doing so. If the Princess is a “victim of ecclesiastical barbarism,” her people, who have a repu tation for fair play, will see that she is rescued. The En glish Church and the English government have gotten along for centuries without the un solicited help of your Weekly. Honor and Duty have been compelling ideas and ideals for many Englishmen. They have stirred their hearts and have been the cause of many de cisions—both for and against proposed courses of action. “I could not love thee, dear, so, much loved J not honor more."' Just as “England expects every rnan to do his duty” so the royal family knows that the commonwealth’s well-being de pend- upon their living up to the nobles* traditions of their people. The Princess has been tr.e to what she felt wa- duty. The decision must have been hard r. view of h*-r love for a fine man. Writing as one who has been in and out of broken homes for over forty years, we pay a high price for our easy div orces. The cost is reflected iri the lives of children. I know at times there seems no other way, but “the hand that wrecks the cradle wrecks the world." The very day your editorial appeared the front servants shouted loudly outside the door of his room arid eventually forced an ‘entry. They found their master dead and his bride weeping beside him, her face covered with her veil. Attila had bled heavily through the nose during the night (as, indeed, he had often done before), and being heavily drunk had suffocated in his sleep. His body bore no trace of a wound. The Huns were dumbfounded. They cut off their hair arid slashed their faces with their swords so that (in the words of the historian, Priscus) “the greatest of all warriors should he mourned with no feminim- lamenta tions and with no tears, hut with the blood of men.” Attila’s body was laid in a silken tent pitched on the plains over which he so often led his men to war. Horsemen chosen for their exceptional skill from the whole nation galloped wildly around him, so as to (in the words of another historian) “gladden the heart of dead chieftain.” A war song was sung over the body. In the meantime, his barrow had been heaped up, and, when the lamen tations were overs the Huns celebrated his burial with wild revelry, mixing their grief with joy in a manner that amazed the Gothic monk whose chron icle haH come down to us. When night fell the body was removed from the tent and laid in the barrow. They covered it first with gold and silver, then with iron. The precious metals indicated that he had received the tribute of both Roman empires, the iron that he had conquered all the nations. The arms which he had strip ped from his enemies, along with gems and other treasures, were placed in the barrow. Those who laid him to rest were slain over his body and rested beside him. I page* of our daily carried the story and the picture of a woman of our country who has been married six times. Which ? do you admire—the Princess or this other woman? Yours truly, Robert E. Gribbin. Winston-Salem, N. C. Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued frtrjn page 1) cided that they would be taken over by Mr. Odum's son-in law and daugljter, Mr and Mrs. Philip Schinhan. Now, after almost a year of opera tion. the Schmhans find them selves as wrapped up in Jer sey breeding as was their pre decessor. What's more, the herd has just received its first American Jersey Cattle As sociation ranking under their administration and has come through with flying colors. The entire herd of 53 animals won a high rating, while one four year-old bull, Louise Oxford Basil Designer, was given the highest possible rating of Ex cellent. Most of the management of the herd is being done by Mr. Schinhan, with the assistance of Walter Neville, who has been the farm’s herdsman al most twenty years. “I am vitally interested in the project,” Mr. Schinhan said, “and I have learned much about it since Mary Frances and I D/ok it over. But I realize I’ll never be the expert Dr. Odum was. He had a rare and wonderful intuition about cattle. He could look at an animal and see capabilities no body else thought were there. Other breeders marveled at his uncanny knack.” The Schinhan* are concen trating on the development of a /train of polled (hornless ) Jer seys. “It is desirable to have horn less animals,” Mr. Schinhan said, “but it is a costly nui sance to have to saw off the horns. There are polled beef cattle and even a strain of polled Holsteins, but so far nobody has been able to deve lop a strain of fine hornless Jerseys. We are working on , it and should have some indi cations of progress within five years. It may take about ten years to tell whether or not we are going to succeed.” When asked if his cattle breeding was a money making proposition, Mr. Schinhan said, "Jt wasn’t for Dr. Odum be rau.se be gave away so many of his finest animals. As our plans develop, Mary Frances and 1 hope to put the farm on a paying basis.” As it was with his father in-law, cattle breeding is a sideline with Mr. Schinhan. Along with Robert K. Dickin son, he is co-owner and co operator of the Simplified Farm Record Book Company, which has its headquarters here in the Glen lennox office build ing, with subsidiaries in sev eral states. On the Town ' wMriai-UMi MMNBMiwa By Chuck Hauser I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE a new Andy Griffith in the making in the person of James Sechrest of Thomasville. He played the role of Jimmy, the younger brother, in the Carolina Playmakers’ production of “The Rainmaker.’’ which closed Sunday evening after a five-day run. In voice, gestures and stage presence, he seemed a young carbon copy of the former Carolina student who is now appearing in the title role of one of the most successful comedies to hit Broadway in many years. I don’t mean to say that Sechrest was imitating Andy; he wasn’t. He just happens to have the same qualities that have made Andy a hit as a comedy star. ‘The Rainmaker” was well done. The members of its cast*, led by Jim Heldman and Louise Fletcher, were, almost without exception, perfectly suited to their roles. The two leads presented smooth, effortla®, polished performances which completely won over We audience. * * * • i have a feeling e. e. cummings doesn’t like encores. or else, why would he have pulled our leg by reading ( with a poker face ) a poem. in a language which no one could understand 7 * a a * SERGEANT C. E. KING of the local police depart ment has a just complaint against the excitable Chapel Hillians who jamrm?d the police telephone and hamp ered official business with hundreds of unnecessary calls last week to ask when the power would be restored. The callers should have realized that effort was being made to remedy the situation as .4ft as possible. As Sergeant King put it, “I wish we could teach people to be calm when something like this happens.” There is another side to the picture, however, which Chief W. T. Sloan pointed out. At the scene of the automobile accident which caused the loss of lights in the village, calm and level-headed citizens gave invaluable help to the police department and the Public in general by taking charge of the situation arid helping to direct traffic at the scene of downed poles and dangerous live wires. As the Chief put it, If it had not been for those boys, someone might have been killed.” | # Like Chapel Hill Jj By Billy Arthur Give Daylight Saving Time back to the television stations. I now have to stay up too late to catch my favorite programs. * ♦ * * And give a hand for good advertising to trie Church of the Holy Family. They dubbed the “white elephant” section of their bazaar “Attic Treasures.” * * 0 * Small towns are all alike. Down in Jacksonville last week the merchants were talking just as they do in Chapel Hill. They couldn’t exactly agree on Christmas decorations, nor on the time they should be put up; larger merchants felt smaller ones were riot footing their share of the cost; businessmen in one sector of town felt those in another were un cooperative; they have a coffee club every morning where they cuss or joke one another; and they event ually get together on their town-wide projects and do things up nicely. * * * * Jacksonville has just opened a beautiful count™ club and nine-hole golf course. Incidentally, the course was designed and built by George Cobb, now of Chapel Hill. It’s a beauty. Further evidence all small towns are alike: The folks who pooled their funds to build the club have run out of money, too. But they’ll make it. * * * • Just purchased a couple of suits from Bob and Monk, and am worrying about how I’m going to pay them. Think I’ll tell them to come get ’em and put ’em in stock; then when they have to mark the prices down because nobody’ll buy ’em, I’ll take ’em off their hands. * • And all the while I thought I was a farmer! At heart, at least. But not until the other afternoon had I ever heard the poem about planting four grains of corn to a hill: “One for the blackbird, One for the crow, One for the cutworm, And one to grow.” The Real {fruelty (Wall Street Journal} The new housing credit regulations, as might have been expected, brought some pretty anguished cries from segments of the home building industry. . . , Well, it is certainly worth a look at any Govern ment regulations for which such cruelties are claimed. And it is at once plain that they do make housing credit not quite so easy as before. Under the old regulations, to make a comparison, a young veteran who wants to buy a $10,500 house will without putting up a penny. In return for which he mortgaged himself for up to thirty years and assumed (Continued on Page 3) Tuesday, November 15, 1955
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