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Page Two Hie Chapel Hill Weekly Oapd Hffl. North Carolina wK.Fn i-y Wnilm HTI > M«1 PAfaM Every Tuesday and Friday By TW ONtpd Hill PuHwhiac C—paay. !■* Lots G*avb Ccmnbvfmc Editor Joe Jokce Managing Editor BtiT Amna Associate Editor Chdcx H*chb Aaocta* Edtlor OmvjLLM Cano well General Manage* Q t. Visns Adve*using Dtrector Cbuuw Cimu. Mfctewce! Svjx~ Interact as neonO-clMi matter FeOniary M. «« tat j—mew *t Chape: Hill. North Carotaa. linear the act at Marti- t ln» SUBSCRIPTION RATES lr. Druft County. .Year %dM <€ motithc t&JZ. * mentis, IUW Ouvsi at of Ora nr* County by the Year: State of X C, Va_ and £. C Other State* and Dial of Gohnnbia MS r ktimAm Mexico, South America IM - —— 'iMj The Preskknt CooW Be Relieved of Unimportant Chores That Mount Ip To a Great Weight of Fatigue The Republican politicians are evi dently much more hopeful of President Eisenhower’s consenting to run for re election than they were a little while ago. He hasn’t said he would, but— and they take great cheer from this— he hasn't said he wouldn’t. The news papers reported that Leonard Hall, chairman of the Republican National Committee, after visiting the President the other day, “emerged bubbling.” He told the reporters: “I am happy to say that ail the reports about his con dition have been confirmed. He looks a million per cent. I have never seen him look better.” James Reston, the exceptionally well-informed and judicious political analyst for the New York Times, com ments on the Hall statement: “TYur is in keeping with the main political objectives of some of the President’s principal advisers: to maintain freedom of action on the 1956 Presidential nom ination, to convince the President that he can win the Presidency again with out undue physical strain, and to per suade him that he can run it for five more years on a much easier admini strative and ceremonial routine. “For a 15-7 ear-old man who had a heart attack ten weeks ago he is re markably active. There is a thinness at the neck, and there is no serenity in the eyes, but he is. agile, and his voice is brisk. “Consequently, the impression car ries through into the pictures that he is as good as new, and this image is carefully nurtured by his associates who proclaim, as the Assistant to the President, Sherman Adams, proclaimed Thursday night, that his recovery so far is ‘complete.’ “This has certain important advan tage*. It lifts the President psychologi cally, an important point in itself. It reassures the American people that the man they love and respect is back in control of the Government. It consoles the allies that, in the event of an emer gency, his wisdom and moderation would be decisive, but it does not justi fy the mounting conclusion that he will run again. “The real imponderable in the situ ation is that nobody can know, now or in January when he gets his ‘final’ check-up, or in the spring when he must finally decide whether to run again, what the world events of the next five years are going to be and therefore what the pressures will be on th American President during that period.” In what way, and how much, can the strain upon the President be dimin ished? To what extent can he be freed 'of office routine and engagements which are, both, of trivial character but which, in their whole volume, may add up to just as severe tax upon his strength as do his really important duties? Pertinent here to a paragraph from the statement that the President’s heart specialist, Dr. Paul D. White, wrote for the Associated Press a few weeks ago: “Os course the major strains of the principal national and international de cisions must doubtless remain, but many of the chores, such as the signing of documents, speech-making, excessive press conferences under the glare and heat of the television lamps, and hand shaking, traditional and popular as much of this may be, could, it seems to me, be wisely delegated to various other government officials. There must be some way in which auch a revision of the Pirceident’s job could be effected/’ Everybody who has ever thought about the matter at all must have been impressed by the tremendous de mands. of the kind Dr. White spoke of. upon the President's time. He pro bably likes some of the unnecessary contacts but he would probably be glad to avoid the vast majority of them if he could do so without giving of fense to friends, political associates, various groups of citizens. and miscel laneous callers. Because of President Eisenhower’s having suffered a serious illness, and because the whole country knows that its not recurring depends upon his having as much rest and relaxation as possible, he is in the position of being able to escape a large proportion of unimportant but exhausting con tacts which have hitherto been regard ed as a necessary part of the President s life. Most of the demands upon him for his presence at ceremonial gather ings. and for handshaking receptions, spring from vanity and curiosity— small-minded people's eagerness to ac quire importance by association and the idiotic craving to meet a celebrity. lend er the present circumstances maybe this vanity and curiosity can be, as the military men might phrase it, de-acti vated. Since I started writing this piece I have seen a dispatch from Washing ton which says: “The Justice Department has draft ed proposals, including some suggested new laws, to lighten the workload of President Eisenhower and future chief executives. “The avalanche of tedious, time-con suming small chores handled by the President has been under review by legal experts for some time. But Presi dent Eisenhower's heart attack hasten ed the study. “Several Congressmen are drafting bills to lighten the President’s routine workload.” This is a splendid proposal and I hope it will be carried through into law. Winston Churchill had a stroke a couple of years ago, recovered from it. came back to Parliament to speak with understanding and vigor, and at 81 he still has a keen, active mind. His stroke was probably a worse physi cal blow than President Eisenhower’s heart attack.—L.G. The Basic Cause of Accidents “Vaughan’s car failed to round a curve and went into a ditch.” This is a sentence from the re port of a fatal accident near Durham last Sunday morning. “Failed to round a curve,” “left the road on a curve,” “got out of control and left the road.” Phrases like these, with the car the subject of the verb, as though the car were a conscious agent, are seen every day in newspaper reports of accidents. What it means is simply thal>the driver was going at dangerous speed. Os course he wasn’t compelled to. He could have gone more slowly if he had so desired. But, when you view the whole frightful picture of automobile deaths and injuries, it is not so far wrong as you might sup pose to hold the car responsible. Every competent person and or ganization that has ever made a tho rough investigation of automobile ac cidents has come to the conclusion that they are caused mainly by exces sive speed. And excessive speed is the result of the high power of automobile engines. If there had never been made a car capable of going over forty miles an hour, millions of people killed would be alive today, and more millions ser iously injured would be whole and well. Would people in general be any less happy if such a speed limitation had prevailed? Would civilization be any less advanced than it is? Answer these questions for yourself. While the world continues to wring its hands in despair over the killing and maiming, more and more power is put into automobile engines. All the persuasion for more careful driving, all the horrors laid before the eyes of newspaper readers by photographs and realistic descriptions, all the urg ing for better law enforcement—all these do little good. With the population including such a large element of in considerate, stupid, and reckless people, the free use of the modern automobile engine, with its tremendous power, can not have any other result than a ter rible toll of deaths and injuriea on the streets and highwaya^L-O. THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Bacoa aad Eggs for Baby (New York Herald Tribune) If nine-week-old babies could read, they would undoubtedly be overjoyed at today’s news, which is that infants of this age are now entitled to bacon and eggs. The bearer of these glad tid ings is a Miami pediatrician reporting to the annual convention of the South ern Medical Association. After experi menting with 700 babies, the good doc tor has arrived at the conclusion that babies are best off when they get solid foods almost from birth, begin to eat three meals a day at the age of ten weeks, and give up their midnight bot tles early. Since the problem of infant feeding has long been a profound concern of mankind, parents will turn with inter est and hope to this latest discovery. The next things for the doctors to at tack are certain other related problems, such as how to induce baby to eat his bacon and eggs instead of spreading them around his face or throwing them on the floor. Respect for breakfast comes to man relatively late in life; in his adolescent years he frequently prefers sleeping to eating, and many a youthful breakfast is never consumed before noon. Babies, of course, are never so un predictable as at meal time. The tasti est of dishes, even including a minia ture serving of bacon and eggs, can produce no reaction other than a cold stare, while the strangest assortment of odds and ends will frequently be gob bled up without the slightest coax ing. One cannot help suspecting that the 700 babies involved in the doctor’s experiments reacted in 700 different ways, and probably enjoyed the busi ness no end. And as for the rule against Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) j-ai'J no they wcie going to see a spid*-r web. The clots and its teatnor left the school .•soon alie/ 'J o clock and they we;e Jucky in that it was one of those damp mor nings when the dew hung like strings of pearls on all the spi ce; webs they taw ori walls and bushes. Kor tne children, aliea dy hopped-up with spider lore, it ww a walk through an en chanted land to the - home, where they fours** Den nis’s web, also dewelad, an chored on on* side to the chim ney and on the other to a wail of the house The spinner had died or disappeared, but the web held a few insect husks and a nice plump egg sac The egg sac was taken back to the classroom and placed in a glass jar with holes Place Name* Vary By C. A. Paul In the Elkin Tribune Faith and Devotion are pret ty far apart in North Carolina. Faith is a town in Rowan bounty while Devotion is in Surry. But if you’re looking for Trust it’s even farther a way, in Madison County. Place names in North Caro lina vary widely. But as any one with a smattering of know ledge of the state ought to know, names such as Faith, Devotion an/1 Tru»t are found in the west. You have to go toward the east to find names like Merry Hill (Bertie Coun ty), Merry Oaks (Chatham) and (xignac (Richmond). Joy and Worry are emotion ally widely separated, but in Burke County it’s just eight miles from one to the other. You can find a Suit In Cher okee County. If you need Vests, same county. But Coats is ’way off, in Harnett. Tuxedo that's in Henderson. Cutthroat Ridge is in Wilkes, but not far away, in Ashe, is Civil Cap. And there’s Wel come in Davidson. Those who bestowed place names on North Carolina spots must have liked girls. There are Lola (Carteret), Inez (War ren), Mabel (Watauga), Mag gie (Haywood), Mamie (Cur rituck), Olivia (Harnett), Ituth (Rutherford), Sophia (Ran dolph), Stella (Carteret) and Thelma (Halifax). Juet for good measure there’s Marga rettsville in Northhampton County and a Vixen in Yancy. Ask for Joe. You'll find it in Madison County; It’s natural that many place* in the west should bear names associated with heights. There are High Point (Guilford) and Highlands (Macon), for ex amples. Lowgap (Surry) is suggestive of mountains des pite the “low." Perhaps leaser known is Highahoals, in Gaston County. At the other end of the state there's Sealevel, in Carteret County. There’s . a Fork in Davie County. But nowhere in the state it there a Knife or Sjßxm.^ But If you're interested in midnight feeding, there’s no use in the scientists telling it to the parents. What is needed is for some one to tell it to the baby. A Pernicious Practice (Greensboro New*) Not in the memory of man, we are confident, has the Daily News spoken up for book-burning nor organized a hunt for a witch. This morning, how ever, we are powerfully moved in that direction. It has come to our attention that the pernicious practice of putting sugar into North Carolina spoonbread is npt only, epidemic, but that it has official sanction in certain cookbooks now being circulated. Obviously, this poisonous propa ganda is being placed before a younger generation of cooks, earnest, willing, appreciative of proud traditions—but in their innocence ignorant of the un pardonable sin they are committing. This may or may not be the work of the Sugar Lobby, but there must be no delay in uncovering the source. In addition to making about half our spoonbread output unfitten to eat, the practice is fast putting weight on Tar Heel Womanhood, which is hardly in shape to stand it. The culprits have not even the grace to conceal the practice. Only weeks ago a leading Raleigh restaurant eur blandly confessed to the debase ment of an ancient and honorable recipe —and whispered that he had full autho rity, in a cookbook accredited to some Junior League or other. No major candidate for governor or other high office should be allowed to overlook or straddle this issue. punched in the top so the little spiders could get air when they hatched. Two or three days later a quiet period the class was having was broken by a sWtiut from Gregg Edmister, whose de*k wa- in the ha<k of the 100 m. "The baby spiders have hat/hed out,” he exclaimed. "Here's one on Susan!’’ He had seen a little spider spin ning out a thread of silk from the shoulder of Susan Pat terson, seated just in front of him. It was discovered that the spider eggs had indeed hatched and that the little spiders had emerged through the holes in the jar lid and were loose in the room. Most of them had spun strands of silk on the toy animals and other decor- food there’s a Fig in Ashe County, a Cranberry in Avery, Citron iri Alleghany, Toast in Surry and Turkey in Sampson. To say nothing of Chinquapin (Duplin). There are places to suit your moods, too. There’s Harmony in Iredell, Relief in Mitchell and, for a Climax (Guilford) to complete the Cycle (Yad kin), there’s a Sly in Ashe. It it’s Speed you desire, it’s in Edgecombe. For Method, go to Wake, but for Candor, try Montgom ery. There’s a Three Mile in Av ery, but just what is three miles away isn't disclosed. It couldn’t be Spot, for it’s 'way down east in Currituck. There’s a Stem ir. Granville, hut a search of the state fails to turn up a Stern. Apparently there are three places in the state named for Daniel Boone, but none for Davy Crockett. There’s a Boonville in Yadkin and a Boone in Watauga. But did you know there's a Boonford? It’s in Mitchell. There are several place names which include “bear.” There’s Bear Creek in Chat ham and Bearwallow in Hend erson. And someone must have treed a 1/ear once upon a time in Rowan for there's a Bear Poplar. Similarly, there's a Bee Log in Yancey. Folks down Pamilco County way must not have been very trusting in early days, for there's a Cash Corner there. The mame of a place in Dup lin causes one to wonder if some shipwrecked West In dians wandered inland. The town's Calypso. If you want a Bath, go to Beaufort, of course. If you're not superstitious there's Buggaboo in Wilkes. Also a Radical. There's an Oval in Ashe, but apparently it’s the only shape name in the etate. Un less you want to count Horse Shoe (Henderson). Comfort can be found in Jonee. Devil’s Court House is in Traaeyhrania., And in this be* alive articles on the window siiis. Jn their study the children had learned that new spiders travel from their birthplace by spinning a tiny thread and floating away on it, and now they asked that the windows be opened to see if their lit tle spiders would do this. It was a balmy day and permis sion was quickly granted, es pecially since Miss Barefoot is one of those rare adults who don’t have to counterfeit the sense of wonder and ex (itemerit all children have. As with her pupils, it is a genuine part of her nature. So the windows were opened and one by one the baby spi ders detached themselves from the toy animals and floated away, out the windows and across the schoolyard, each on its tiny filament of silk, while the children and their teacher watched with shining eyes. You Never Know By Jim Parker in The Chatham News My fathcr-in-law, a retired minister who has been living in Montreat, is now in Florida where he has charge of a church which is looking around for a permanent pastor. I.ast Sunday he preached a sermon ori the material things of life, taking his text from a newpaper columnist’s note about a rich man who pur chased eight Cadillac auto mobiles for his children all at one time. After the service a man came forward, obviously mad about something, and told my father in-law that he was the man who had purchased the Cadil lacs for his children and that he didn’t think much of the sermon. "Hereafter,” he said, “I’ll at tend the Methodist ( hurch." My father-in-law did a little investigating and found, sure enough, that the man about whom he had been preaching was the man who had gotten mad about the sermon. A young Smithfield ma tron wanted her new maid to he pleased with her job. "You’ll have an easy time of it here,” she said, “since we have no children to annoy you." “Oh, I like children,” said the maid. "Don’t go restricting yourself on my account.”— From the Smithfield Herald “A girl in slacks the other day was wearing eye makeup, lipstick, rouge, and earrings. Probably trying to keep people from mistaking her for a man.” —C. A. PaulHn the Elkin Tri bune. “Each succeeding Monday morning finds me leas anxious to get down to work.”—E. A. Roach in this Chatham News. bop age it's odd to find a “Cat's Square” in Lincoln County. And to bring this piece to an end, there’s Whynot in Ran dolph.^ MRS. NELL JUSTICE IS NOT a gambling woma at heart, but she doesn’t mind placing a small wage on the outcome of an athletic contest from time t time. When she does this, she usually comes out th< winner. For instance, consider the bet I made with her on the Carolina-Duke football game. I had placed several other bets on the game, and collected them all (my winnings amounted to $1.25 in cash, one steak dinner, and two beers). The reason I won these bets was not that I bet against Carolina—indeed, I did not. I took the points which the Duke supporters offered to show how convinced they were that the Tar Heels would be badly beaten. I got from 10 to 17 points in the various bets. As everyone knows, Carolina lost only six points, and I won my bets. However, Mrs. Justice is too shrewd a gambler to throw points around indiscriminately. She felt Duke was going to win, but she also had a feeling the game would be close. She would agree only to an even bet. I accepted her challenge for 60 cents, and of course I was the loser. Mrs. Justice has lost one important wager this year, in spite of her usual success. She lost 50 cents to my father on the Army-Navy game. This was another even bet, with Mrs. Justice picking Navy to win. I was in Philadelphia with my folks for the game, and before we returned to North Carolina my father mailed Mrs. Justice a bill for the 50 cents. He wrote it on the back of a fancy souvenir ticket stub from the Pennsylvania Railroad "special” on which we rode up to the game from Washington. Mrs. J. got her revenge. She wrapped 3 50-cent piece up in yards and yards of tissue paper, stuffed it into a shoe box, and mailed it to my father in Fayette ville—COD. * * * * AS I GLANCED THROUGH the last issue of the Weekly, I came across something which made me think for a moment I had mistakenly picked up a copy of another newspaper. The something was an advertisement placed by the Carolina Sport Shop ex tolling the virtues of the “New Webcor Pixie Fono graf.” Get that, will you: Fonograf. Not but Fonograf. Now, the only other place in the world you would run across such a unique system of phonetic spelling is the Chicago Tribune, which blatantly and unasham edly calls itself the “World’s Greatest Newspaper.” Many years ago the late Col. Bertie McCormick, pub lisher of this journalistic Goliath, decided that the English language was a pretty silly business and why shouldn't we write the way we talk. He came up with his own spelling system, which is still in use on the Tribune. Well, all I’ve got to say is, a system of phonetic— pardon me, fonetic—spelling may be all right in Chicago, Jwt the nicest thing about Chicago if that it's far from Chapel Hill. And besides, my old dictionary ha« got to last me another few years. * * * * MAYBE ITS ALL RIGHT, but I can’t help wonder ing just whom the Chapel Hill Concert Series expects to sell tickets to by placing all its Bach Aria Group posters in back alleys. * • * • LEFT OVER FROM THE LAST ISSUE: I have just discovered in my notes a reference to a place called the "Bayou” in Washington, D. C. f and I figured that I i had better mention it while I’m on this travel binge. It s on K Street in Georgetown, under the new Freeway, and offers Wild Bill Whelan and his Dixie Six ham mering out Dixieland jazz at a breathtaking pace and an earsplitting volume for a half hour at a time on the quarter after the hour. If you like it, you’ll really go nuts over this place. I didn’t believe the nation's capital could do it. It& no A, TRICK m Kood balance in your savings fj i bjf account, if you save before you * spend , * — The aecret of piling up a substantial . f balance in your aavinga account in V tJ> i V aa Dimple an tbia: Deckle how much you can put aaide out of every pay K check. Then, make it your invariable B practice to deposit thin amount, every mh*\ payday. It make* a big (in your favor) when you do your B V Having BKPOKI! you do your upend* & OUIME COMITY mum no iu> uucutm W«t FruUfa 81. Tri. M7*l Friday. December 9. 195 On the Town m By Chock Haoaer ut