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Page Two •The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill. North Carolina Ilf E. Rosemary Telephone lk-1271 or ><46l Published Every TueMiay ami Friday By The Chapel Hill Publishing Company, inf Lons Graves Conrribunnc Eduor^ Joe Joses Managing Editor Billy Arthur * Associate Editor. Chuck H.‘ uses Associate Editor Orville Campbel: Genera'. Manager O T Watkins . Adur-tuinc Director Chariton Campbell Mrrhomcal Supp £ r’.ert. »'* se. F< i -air .SL. .t. & pSnsW At Chap* Hil. North Carolina under the March 3 1 ff^* SI BSCRIPTIOV R_m> In Orangt 1 mt> v . •at W • ■ Outbid* f Orange ( ' : I* t Slate of N C, Va.. and r * it*:.- at ■■ mbil Canada, Mexico, South Amer.ca 2*°® Europe - Thu Stirrinjj-l p of Partisan Animosity When L nit > I- So Urgently Needed I i-.v. ;*r* >.-*•;: a.- • . erybod;. is by th.- n* w.-"that come.- from all over tht worm ir. .these day:—lrom Europe, where th* - free nation.- stiii tremble in thf shiidov. of S' i*’*. Russia; ? * fK*.„ India, t when 11 : . * i.'.'V* Mo r'.-tiiding mut ♦■ r that dfprme ’.a- nothing do with. worid newF. except incident iy. It is what 1 find in the official organs of the tw p-.mtical parti*-.-. * D**ni *crati( Digest" and "Republican News. It is clear to any reader of these two periodicals that neither of them is inieres* *-d in tel imp th* t rut r* Each of them is devot'd to praising it- own party and abusing the other. I* pic tures its own parts leaders as men of profound intellect and noble.ideais, and the leaders of the "’.h*-t party 'a*- bun .glers and sordid s* f-s**ck**T It distorts the record to put it- own party in a good light and to mak* the other party api>ear a- a gang "I unscrupulous I schemers. These tv }»*•!•.•-:.' a- are condu< t*d in the interest of group-?- ot }»*>liticians with whom the welfare of the country counts, for little, be-ide then burn ing d*;r«• • wi 1 . •i.t r • *•’ t *.<• government and t r,*-r*-b> po----ss the pay, the pc seer and to pr* ’ig' L that cotm along with -that con’ro! These groups of cynical iytrig-n-r * ' stitute only a tiriy fraction of the pop . lation "f the Country, but beeau.- >■. of being at*.* to play ui*ott v.id< -pi< ab * spirit of partisanship th**\ p'-r-uad'- great n irnhirs of peopl* to .-wallow -their propaganda without-a quiver Here w* m*i a deliberate effort to stir ui> division and discord. In peace i easj time w ! n ight i>e *-> < lsed for taking this performance lightly, even for laughing at it. Rut in these - times when dangers beset us on all sides-; when wc- so urgently need unity in the face of these dangers, tht- stir ring up of partisan animosity among our js*ople i- a tragi' spectacle. L.G. Mr. Ramsey's Excellent Summing-1 pof Our Educational Problems Tiii la ’ uv-rning-up of North Car olina’.- ed .i ,- at loi.al problems that i have, read ti * a-idre.-.- delivered recent ly by D H ■ n R.imsey, chairman of tin i.t is -Mg.i IP- rd-of Higher Edu cation. nit")' ti' N'ortii Carolina f ol ]c gt- Corfi-rc-r.i' 1 am quoting here somc pa-.-ag* - ’hi- address*. -L.b. f i,i J-.'-non- Overcrowding ■fro <• and universities in Nor far r< literally bui'sting at ti.eir a> Our state-supported institutions have already enrolled 2,000 more stupe nls tl s year tiian last year. Our private ii -titutkqns are crowded to capacity. "Most.of our ,-tate institutions were compelled by the lack of accomodations to refuse admittance to many prospect ive students, this year. The. almost unvarying rejjort is: ‘We could have added 200, 400, 000 students to our enrollment if we had had the facilities.’ “As We- -look’ out into the future and try to estimate, the vast army of boys ajid girls that .will be beleaguering pur colleges and universities a decade hence, the problem created by our present crowded conditions becomes gloomier and more challenging. “The next ten years will bring about a sharp- increase in our college-age population. There will be more young men and women clamoring for admission to our colleges and univer sities because there will be more boys and girls in the appropriate age group. The heavy birth rate of the past few years—and it shows no real down ward, trend —makes that certain. Without delay without stint, we must provide more classrooms, more dormitory rooms, more teachers for our college- and- universities This means Inescapably larger; state ftjjpropriatioiwj and more genenmis public supj>ort "f our private institutions. i - ft » ' •> The Need of Engineer " The need for expansion of our col lege- i« pointed up for us by the de • maud fron -p*- ia! an*; ,r< sj"»i;s bl* quarter- for m»ri college graduates with sjM-cial training and aptitode.- "Industry is asking rit .> for engineer-, m-T* *-T.r ti*-* r-. sti’ v,of* engineers. It declare- that the indus trial progress (d the nation may tw Mil-iwed down if our college- do not pro-- ~ ;d* iuorl- ted i.'Cai y trained per-ons. D minds rs that m ■ am lal r m '»* r . f .engineering graduate- j.a- bee;, halv ed in x ri«-f . r favrabl* - .me what despairing, com j«t r-ions between the Ru.-stai and American output of engineers. Industry proves th" -sii.eerily of it- -app* a! by bidding alt t ' ant <ly th ther «-ntic< .rn'-nts a;id >* i jc* .on.- for the 'service -of graduating Engineers. j . * *• - * The Need "f Teacher "Th* - need for rm»re - school teacher- - has been wit?: us too long to requir* aii*y"'labored i • ital '*\ e have mad,*' "?>(«• jTogres- ii rneetieg thp ne*'-*i n North (.'arolina, thank- to the effort.- -)! our cojlli’ge- and to the dedicated - pirit • f ih'ise wh'-. eqter the } rof**.— -ion. Today there an- 8,000 more pr*»- fes-ional quaTifrr-d teacher- in the ser vice of our -tat*- schE*ol system than, • here wer* t« i. ■ ear- ag' . “But the need for mor* teachers remains and will increas* in the year ahead as o.r birth rat.*- {sjur- more children into our schools and as the nation appreciates more fully the dir** necessity of lowering th* pupil load per teacher. \\ • must never forget . - * must t :rn out more teachers ’bar ftoetors. lawyers arul engin*-er- combined, 'reach ing is the basic profession, without which there can Is- no other proses ■ i V. 1 an, pply *tf •-competent school teachers, colleges W",ld wit her aii'f/lie for want of the matriculate.- that must be fashioned nt.o *i•!i g* materia! by public o and* l>rivat** schw>l t**a<'fißi’s. i;tt If. Th* Rasic Need: Money "Jo expand the facilities of our existing colleges and to establish new institutions rt quire money, prodigious sums of money. Colleges have no licenst to mint monev. They must hxsk be * yond their own walls to governments, foundations and individuals for theiC funds No/onr can seriously projx/se that higher education should be mail*' self-supporting. Such a solution would decimate our colleges and restrict ed ,rathe,ai opportunity to the privileged and i:<i 1 n« ' c.-sai .t In most promising few. “One of the l.rightest sign.- on the tod the greal i r interest which industries ar*- show ing in the financial .strengthening of t*rivate institutions. " !'iii pri\ate colleges and universities of North 'Carolina art doing an ind.is- IKUisaljlc job. They account roughly for 47 per cent of all the students on rolled in our institutions of higher learning. If they shobld close their ; doors the State would have to double its appropriations for higher education b> do single-handedly what is now be ing dorivT by "both private and public institutions." *■ * * 'The Junior College “Many states are meeting the prob lem of increasing enrollment in par! through the establishment of junior colleges supported entirely by state funds or through community colleges maintained jointly by state and local funds or entirely by local funds.. “In my opinion the junior college has a* very distinctive role to play in any comprehensive system of higher .education. It provides a terminal edu cation for young men and women who need and seek something less than the full curricular fare of the senior college. If junior colleges are widely and wisely distributed, they bring edu cation within she economic and geo graphic’reach of an increased number of young people. They can be fruitful feeders to our senior colleges. “In North Carolina We have merely scratched the surface of the junior college. In 1950 there werejmly 5,000 students registered in all of our junior THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY • Hy Churk llau-i-r , t ONCE I’I*ON A TIME, in a little Southern town, ihcre lived a family named Smith. There was Mr. Smith, and Vlr- Smith, and nine-year-old Junior Smith, and six-\ear-old Judy Smith. The Smith family was ne of modest means. !,t had only one car (two years old), one bathroom, and one TV set (VHF only). Mr. Smith had a respectable-job which paid him a respect able salary, but it wa- j.ust barely enough to provide for household expenses, buy clothe.-, put a .little cash away each month for the children's college education, and make the payments on the house, the car, the 'IT -et. the washing machine, the sewing machine, the dish washer, and th* new sofa m th* Irving room. Christmas always hit • the Smiths pretty hard. Not Christmas, exactly, but.the Christmas bills which always arrived in the mail on January E The worry over meeting these obligations-anmially put a damper on the Smith’s holiday activities. Otii year, on the evening of January "., George Smith was tting at the dining ro n t tble making out check- anti msucce--fully, trying to balance the family budget Mr.-. Smith wa.- relaxing In the parlor di - . id ing her between Arth r (joritre;. on channel 5 and the aft*■> christma- sale.ad'' r Isemuritv in the " e n* . Foi onc< tl n< spaper winning out. “All the-), wonderful sales >lr» ..>rr:i*h exclaimed, to-her V- . ii t ft hey w ere the - weel . • e*f th< w Th • ti ick her* as such an o'rigina! and pro found thought that she n'f** j at*.d it for her husband’s benefit. “Fat chan* * of that ever happening." grumbled Mr. Smith. “Tr.i only way -we’ll ever balance the budget this time of year." he added sarcastically, “is to postpone ("hr-’mas a week and do a our shopping during the after-fjhriatfnas sales." “George chortled Mrs. Smith. “What a perfect 13' marvelous suggestion I” • .< - n*-xt »;ear, the Smiths ! their plan w..- into effect Th* • sehdulisj their family Christmas on New" V*-ar’.- Day and, to benefit the budget, did -all their shopping th* week before, d iring th* aftpr-Christ ma.-, sales. The idea was a complete success. Th** family budget at one huff off and <->.• -third off prices came through in unusually good shape, and the Smiths discovered that ’heir Christina'- wa- ju-J a- much fun,an*l only half as expensive as everyone els* ’s. It didn’t take long for the word to spread. By the end of the week nearly everyone in town had called up to congratulate the Smiths and ask for. ad vice- • ■ • ms such as how to explain . to the . ren that nta Clau had revised his itinerary to vi.-it them a week later ’liars usual. The following year every family in Iqwn post poned it - Chri.-trn; one week and did all -hopping during the after-Christmas sales. Kveryon* was hajt pv *x*< pt the shopkeejH'r.-. .Cno felt that something , was wrong with the sys-tem. Th*-y discussed the probh-m and came to the conclusion that the next: year they would hav* to pu-t oft their aft*-r-Chri-tpias -ales until the .week after N«-w Year’s Day The shopkeeper.- decision didn’t bother the Smiths, or th<- other familii - in 1- wm Tire next y-ar Ih* . set *ij* ear |x>ols, drove inti* the county seat to *b> their shopping during the .-. o s, and had their delaCed -i Yu ist nas all th* sarn*. R- oj I* seal caught onto th** idea and delayed THEIR Christmas**?, a wenk. The county .-ea,l shopkeep* rs caught onto . the idea, too, and *i<Tayed THEIR after-< ’hris.tmas sales. So everyone started going to the-Big City 15 miles away to shop. The idea of tin p*>stjx*ned Christmas spread like wildfire- Within a few years every family in the state was observing the custom. The practice crossed the state line exactly seven years after the Smith first originated it, and within another decade it had .-wept tfrCTtiuntCiiMNNo on* even jp-memb* red' that the Smiths had started the whole business, but every body was sold *,n 1 he-idea. And with everyone in -the United Stales observing * hri.-tmas a week late ;n oder to Ink* advantup ol the after-Christmas -a •s, wliat do you suppose everyone did on. the real <hi istmas day December 25? Why, tin", went to church and celebrated the birth -of Jesus ( hrist. Sonic people were even heard to remark that i* seemed like such a good idea they couldn’t understand why no one had thought of it. before. .* * * * FOR YOUR COLLECTION of quotable quotes: liouis Armstrong, in a di.-rus.sion of his favorite sub ject: “There ain’t Out two things in music—good and bad. And anything you can pat your foot to it doesn’t matter what it is that’s good music.” colleges and only GOO of these were en rolled in community colleges supported Gy public funds, it was not until this year that the North Carolina Genera! Assembly made a token appropriation for the support of the community col leges now m existence.” Flying Saucer Is Shot Down (Klbin Tribune) The Air Force has shot down the “flying saucer.” After long and tho rough study (and no one can discount th and carefulness of the investigation), it has concluded fh’ere are no flying ships in. the earth’s at mosphere carrying little men from other planets. The findings of the eight year sur _ vey, checking on yearly 5,000 reported sightings of “flying saucers,” is con tained in a 316-page, book. Air Secre tary Donald A. Quarles has announced. But in doing so he disclosed that a 1 new type of aircraft is being developed under an Air Force contract with A.vro, Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) Robert H. Wright. He wa.- again elected captain, for 1 t*S’ • • Mu’ he derided he had better get down to real work for the • , rt medicine, and s > after a few nays heie that fall he went to the IP.iv* T-itv tis Margin re I, The second year after that he .was captain of the Maryland team. The lette: from hire that .1 found in n.y jumraaginn ,wa written in l!*l!. The game he described was one played 4t* years earlier, between *'a'rolina ■ and Ciem-on. I don’t keep up with football ;t: th-.-st- days but some of the ,r:cidei.ts i.rg.ganies of fifty-five years ago art- as clear in my memory a- if they happened ye-terday. For example, there was the terrible jolt J got on a day in -November IPOO in Atlanta when 1 w<is run into and knocked down bj- a bu.i of a . n Sew anee nam ed Sicbels who. had -'-t a-bed through tiie line 7-n*f put iiuo 'the open. Somehow J managed to hang on :on* -hj i ■ • l long enough for out end and Captain, Francis Os borne, to eateh up with him and bring him down. And 1 remember •ail eij ,;.by pan.l . . mi .vitl a 2UU-pound tackle on Virginia named \\ aiki-t in a game play ed the rv-xt yeas in Norfolk in an almost freezing rain. When J say the * oliision-.aw paitifu! 1 n.< a-. t<s me, not to him. 1 don’t believe he even noticed ii H< ist. bow led me over uini- w* nt on. Jiuriter Carp enter of V l J 1. was anothei man who ga\* that same sort of tieatment. Seems to me wliat 1 remember most dearly about tiie football games J played in Was getting knoeked over by baJ. tote: or blockers whose impam wa- -omething fright f .. Ibe i i i ion for Joe Whi take! : > 11* r to me was a statement, about the origin of the forward pas.-, that had been mad*- by a sports writer New •• r ai.d reprinted .paper.- aH over the country. The .statement was that the p; • wa fir t ised in a game bt-tween North Caro • a ii. ; < • on i: 1 J■ . jdayed quai'. : hai k foi < ~i , ,r * 1 n that game and* he ot* to tell roe j. -1 how tic - fi,j ward pa. - i.aj pi tied !•, b" mad*-. ()f co ii - 1 ■ am. ’> waid pass was illegal then, nut It. - one was on the border • r>* tween lateial and foiwani, and the umpire called it good. The o.i y . - i 1...1 I;. .... lleissmaii, the < M iii-c.r, < oa.-h, lie idea 'I jeg,'lij,,ng tile for v. ai : pa.- - arid that he piop-0.- i-I Ih< , hang' to ~t '.'-g . oai h* ■ and so rriimy of them liked oe pj, po-al that they pt i-uad ed ihe i tiles com rut tee to adopt Nicest Way to V isit I Continued from- Page 1) W* were flying at J.Olid feet Jntie was a iilgOi ceiling and we had a clear view of wood.- and -fields, net works o't road- and streams and lake and ponds, foi many miles around. I ii«i .is, during most of the flight. For a littit while we flew fhio.gr a I ailislo't'in that oi'Siuied the view Ihe plane i - well insulated against the noise -of the engine, and propeller-. We could all talk with each other w;ith only a slight raisjng of Jerry answered n-ailily the questions 1 plied him with. He had gone, over this terri tory often and was thoroughly familiar with it. "Columbia is about 170 air miles from Chapel - Hill, in .-aid. "That means it takes us, oiiijewhire around an hour to gey there. We may make it i/■ ie- if w* ha i a ’a i-w mil Asl take a straight fh* tim* maj 1 ■ longer if Ltd., of Canada, which may result in even more reports on top of those w hich have followed from weather balloons, reflected lights,- and assorted optical illusions. A 19th century statesman said of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that if it, had not existed it would have been necessary to invent it. Evidently aero nauts ha /e come to this conclusion about the flying saucer; it is too good an idea not to develop. But while they are at it, how about some extensive research by the physicists in the field of optics to discover what can spark so many flights, of fancy. “People argue whether women or liquor are more dangerous. Well, we’ve noticed that liquor will let a man alone if he lets IT alone.” —11. C. Diefenbach. In countries ruled, by -dictators, the custom seems to be to name a street after him one year and chase him down it the next. . # Like 4 hupvl Hill rll||jfg /.eli Council yrrecte*l me on the street, “How g r oes it? Tell nit* all you know ; it won’t take but a minute.” * * ♦ * T' Carrington Smith, back from Florida and points i below, is critical of Cuba. "It mime me lose my re • ligion." he-said. "How much did you carry over there?” asked the Rev. Charles Hubbard. "All he 10-t over there won’t help anyone,” Bill x Thompson interrupted. * ♦ ♦ * , The souvenir Mack Ereslar brought Norman Cor don from Siam definitely defies description, * ***#., Robert M. I.A'ster arid Shell Henninger were com paring note- on the way some men hold their coffee j cups, particularly gripping the cup in both hands. And they sav that is characteristic of railroad freight . men, that they g-t in the habit of putting both hands around the cup to warm them after being out in the cold, or that the habit stem- from holding the * up in both hands to keep-the coffee from sloshing out in a rough riding caboose. That’s what Messrs i Henninger and luster have heard. Any others? * If * if Add things that strike me as being funny: Harry Golden’s Carolina Israelite advertises ham, bacon and -a usage. , * * * * \ ■ ' „ When he awakens in the middle--of the night, Joe Jones claims he can tell what tirrfe it i- by feeling ’ his whiskers. Did you ever hear the store about the man who kept all his New Year resolutions? No? Well, we 1 haven’t either. t , t. - j we go around a bank of clouds or a rainstorm, or if there’s something wC want to turn a-ide to see.” , The sun had come out bright . now there below us. was the t"wn of < andor. Jerry turned on the radio and we heard ■ niehody-.'inging "Hail! Hail' Ihe Gang's All Here!” It’s a jolly' song and it was in our tnoo'i. We pas ed me) Eller be, and , the Peed'* Rivet (th*- name tie J.adkin change- to a if goe- south’, and Wadesboio. “WeYe about half way now,” -aid Jerry. "It's ten fifty-eight and w* yi h'-n gone from * haju-l Hill U'i minutes. A couple of minutes later nc had crossed the state line aid Wei*- over South < arolina. 1 Then- i’ageland was on one - d* of ii.-, < h*-terfieUi on the n'hei; i hen Kershaw to the light, .-then * aniden to-ujhe left. W* landed at Owens Field, about, two miles from -.* olum ' hia. aflei being in the air just ire bout ami l'i minute- From the plane windows as we tax icd to a stop w> saw George * of fin laylm 1 hud telephoned him w* wen coming and he • had diivt'i. out to meet us. lie drove us around the city i ami . miie of On suburbs, and then to where he lives on ' ollegt street mar the Uni * ••»-> ity grounds Mrs. Taylor x eleoim .f**Us at the d'"<i of then roomy ami comfortable \ V flHr i HAS BEEN DECLARED AS OUR DIVIDEND FOR 1956! With /(W New Year, we have a New Dividend Hate . . . •i *.:'. . I his means greater return to you on your savings foi 1956. .So start early in this New Year with an ag gressive new savings plan . . . start saving today with the Orange County Building and Loari Associations -You’ll enjoy the security of a large sum of money in your savings account when January Ist roll.- around -again and you’ll earn more on your savings in 1960 too. Deposits Made by the 10th v v Earn Interest w . From the First! - * HHailHl 4 Ml "M | aMi > Maa | MM aßHHaaa ||a aaHaßnMaaH i^^^ • ORANGE COUNTY BUILDING AND LOAN ASSOCIATION West Franklin St. Tel. 9-8761 Friday. January 6, 1956 "h-.-o-dt-licious! luncheon of oy.-ter st*-w, salad and fruit cake. What fun it was to- .-•**» the Taylors' again! This was a meeting we had been look ing forward to a long time. We left Columbia at .1 o’- rloek and landed at Chapel Hill at fj minutes past 4. ' ollier’s- car was waiting, just where it had been left, - dropped us at our gate •it about 4 I a OnC time in Ibe aii bad been 2 hours and IM. minute.-,, oui total time away from borne ti hours and 15 minutes. Wt have been thinking and talking about the speed and comfort of this trip in con trast to one from here to < olurnbia when you go there ground floor apartment. A few minutes iater we were led *into’’ th« dining room to an in your iar or by train or bus. On the ground it takes practi cally all of one day to get there and all of another day to get back. The hours drag tediously and when you get to your journey’s end you are worn down with fatigue. When you make the trip by air you feel as fresh at the end of it as you did at the start. Ami whgt a blessing not to have any traffic to contend with!\Going and coming, we saw oimy—one other plane. No wonder we tali traveling by air the nicest possible way to go visiting.—L.G.
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