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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill. North Carolina T 26 E. Ronemsry Telephone 9-1271 or 8461 Published Every Tuesday and Friday By The Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc. Louis Graves Contributing Editor Joe Jones Managing Editor Billy" Arthur Associate Editor Chuck Hauser * Associate Editor Orville Campbeli Genera; Manager O. T Watkins ... Advertising Director Charlton Campbeli. Mechanical Sup : Entered as arcond-class matter February 28 1912 at the poctoffic* at Chap*! Hil) Nortii Carolina, under the act of March 3. 1979 •SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Orange County, Year 14.00 (6 months $2.25; 3 months, $1.56) Outside of Orange County by th< State of N. C\, Va., and S. C. 4.50 Other State and Dist of Columbia 5.00 Canada, Mexico, South America 7.00 Europe ‘ -s* l Public Opinion Will Probably Approve Finding the Present ( onsnlidation The editorial comments on the sub ject of University consolidation that 1 have read in the nevyspajiers, and what alumni have said to me in letters, and in conversation, lead me to believe that public opinion will favor the addition of the present consolidation plan. People, are beginning to understand, as they become familiar with the pow ers and the purposes of the new Hoard of Higher Education, that the establish ment of this agency has created an en tirely new system of higher education in North Carolina. All twelve of the State’s institutions of higher learning are now consolidated —not in the admin istration of their internal affairs but in respect to the delimitation of their functions- —so that what we have now is a consolidation inside a consolidation. If the present set-up were continued we would have an overlapping of con solidations. A clear statement of the situation is given in the PTlTowTrig passage Irorn the Raleigh News and Observer: YThe consolidation of the State’s three largest institutions of higher learning has in res|iect.- gi\ en way to the consolidation or at least the supervised coordination -of all the State-gfbpported institutions <jf higher learning. “The board of which Dr. Purks be comes the executive officer was given by th* legislature supervisory powers to determine the major functions and types of degrees to be awarded in all state-supported colleges; to'plan for thi development of a.system of higher education and to require colleges to conform to these plans : and —perhaps most important of all to recommend to the Advisory Budget Commission budgets for all of the institutions, “If those are not the powers of over all consolidation of higher learning, it would be hard to imagine what those powers would be." “CenteelLsms” Now and then a magazine or the book-review, department of a news pafier will get up a symposium, from persons eminent in the literary world, on what books they like best. A few years ago one such question was as follows: If you were marooned on a desert island and were allowed to have only three _books, and were free to make your choice, what would they be? The answer of VV. Somerset Maug ham was: The Works of Shakespeare, the Works of Jonathan Swift, and Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern Eng lish Usage. I am sure that professional writers, high and low, applauded Maugham’s choice of the book by the distinguished Oxford scholar. If there is any volume, aside from a regular dictionary, that deserves to be considered indispensable for writers, it is the one that many of them, from long familiarity and af fection, call not by its full name but simply Fowler; just as one says Web ster for Webster’s Dictionary and as lawyers say Blackstone for Blackstone’s Commentaries. Henry Watson Fowler of Oxford and his younger brother, Francis George Fowler of Cambridge, after years of teaching, entered the literary world with a translation of Lucian. They collaborated <A The King’s Eng lish, a trenchant and witty book of modern English usage and misusage, and on an abridgment of the Oxford English Dictionary. F. G. Fowler died iri 1918 of tuberculosis contracted dur ing his service with the British Army in France. H. W. Fowler, who also acivsd in the First World War, com- pleted the Dictionary of Modern Eng ish Usage alone and dedicated it to the memory of his brother.. He died in 1933 at th£ age of 75. A possessor of Fowler values it not only because it is useful but also for the entertainment he gets from it. He often takes it from the shelf'hot in order to “look up’’ - something but so that he may read one of the little -essays that reflect a discriminating and humorous mind. Some of these are “Anti-Saxonism, “Battered Ornament- " “Oenteeiisms, “Elegant Variation,” “Sobriquets," "French Words." “Pride of Knowledge," “Avoidance of the Obvious." and "Poly syllabic Humor." I hapja ned upon “Genteelisms" last night and am quoting part of it here: "By ‘genteelism’ h hen to b< mder too/l the sub tituting."Tor tin ordinary natural word that first suggests it to tin mind, of a synonym that is thought to be less soiled by the lips of the common herd, less familiar, Jg plebeian, less • ulgar, less improper, less:apt to come unhandsomely betwixt the mind and our nobility . The truly genteel invite one to step, not come, this way; take in not lodgers, but paying guests; employ domestics in stead of servants; ilrnl have quits for gotten that they could ever have been guilty of toothpowder and napkins'and underclothing, of before and except and about, where nothing will now do for them but dentifrice, serviette, lin gerie, ere, save, anent," The essay ends with a list of words arranged in two parallel eolumnv, gen .teelisms in the first column and cor responding.normal words in the second. “The point is,” says Fowler “that when the word in the second column is the word of one’s thought, one should not consent to displace it by the word in the first column unless an improvement in the meaning would result." Some of the genteel isms listed are assist for help, cease for stop, carafe for water-bottle, edifice for building, endeavor for try. expectorate for spit, inquire for ask, lady-dog for bitch, place for put, proceed for go, sufficient for enough, hither for here, military for soldiers, odor for smell, and peruse for read. In short, Fowler is for unaffected ness, directness, simplicity. These set the tone for the book. L.G. The Manufacture of the "Whammy” The highway patrolman’s electronic gadget that detects speeders .is manu factured in the basement ol a ranch style home in Marshall, Michigan. Ibe boss is the former Marine and former electrical appliance salesman who de veloped the device, and he and six employees do the manufacturing. "It has been used f0rT,500,000 ar rests and we haven’t lost a case," he told an interviewer last. week. “The “whammy,” as the thing is called in North Carolina (and jtossibly in other states?), is small enough to b* carried by hand in a case. 11 works off a pair of rubber tubes. The high way patrolman lays the tubes across the road at predetermined intervals. When the ear’s front wheels hit the first tube a switch is closed and a stop-watch starts. When the wheels hit th* second tube the watch stops. From the dial face of the watch the' officer then takes down the .car’s rate of speed. A Suggestion to Chapel Hill (Goldsboro New*-Argus) Folks-of Chajiel Hill are more vocal, more individualistic, more varied in their views than in most towns of the same size. That is natural. Chapel Hill as the home of the University of North ( aro lina is the home of more college gradu ates jar square block than any other town in our state. Also the strong and true tradition of freedom of speech and of education is nurtured and prized. It follows, then, that Chapel Hill can have more discussions, find itself confronted with more problems, get excited over dogs or cats on the streets, or raise an issue quicker than you can drop a hat. Irately it has been the matter of a new water tank. The Village had to have more tank storage capacity. But everywhere the town fathers wanted to put the tank folks in that area came running, blood in their eyes, and yelling “you can’t do that to us.” A water tank is an ugly thing and no neighborhood wanted the bleak struct ure rearing its . head nearby.’ Come to think of it, even Golds boro's new' million gallon water tank THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY r -- • - y On the Toirn emmmatmmmmmt By Churk Hauser nttymmi*- THE PROFESSIONAL PROPHETS OF DOOM (Athletics Division) have sounded the death knell for amateur football at the University. The Prophets, who hapiM-n to be friends of mine, are Fid Yoder and I/uiis Kraar. the co-editors of th*- Daily Tar Heel. Listen»4o what they have to say: "Amateur football has suffered acute asthma at this school for two decades. With the arrival of .Jim Tatum as head football coach, jit.will draw its last painful gasps and suffocate. Professionalism . . . has . . come home to roost in Chapel Hill." Rather strong statements. But they won’t hold up under a close examination. Os course, they weren’t intended to he examined closely—they were designed to appeal to the .emotionalism of the hard core of pseudo-intellectuals who believe that to claim true amateur status in intercollegiate sports a school must (!) p;; the* minor league . i • against junior colleges and small, liberal arts schools, or (2) lose all or. mo-1 of its games. Under this reasoning, Carolina fielded an amateur football tear: during the fall of 1955 (We lost, you see, to Notre Dame. Oklahoma,.-Maryland, etc.—the "Big Time" teams we played). By thi- same standards, we were professional during the 194 G-1949 j>eriod when we defeated such powers a- Texas., Tennessee # and ( leorgia I agre* that this reasoning •is not too logical, but is it iii. more logical to assume that just be cause the Fni ersity has hired a good football coach (to replace one that was not so good) we are embark ing on a program of professionalized athletics? I like what is usually referred to as Big Time football. I like Big Time basketball, Big 'l'ime swimming.- Big Time ping pong and Bi£**T ime Mumblety-peg. If you are going to participate in a sport, you should field a good team and play • a good game. Yo’Udo not have'to win. Coach Barclay and the Carolina team of 1955 did not have to win •the Duke game, for instance, in order to receive the heartfelt ba 1 ng of the stands (during the’ game) and the heartfelt appreciation of Carolina supporters (after the game). All they had to do was play a good game—show that they were doing their best. Nothing re wa.‘ asked or expected .of* then It Coach Bar clay had fielded a similar team for each of his games, he might haw retained his job. Instead, he produced an errata- group which would on one Saturday put on a magnificent display of football against Duke and on another Saturday would display the worst sort of ineptitude against a less powerful foe such as Tennessee. It comes as somewhat of a shock for the anti- Big Time crusaders to learn there are persons such as myself who are not only for Big Time athletics hut are also for Big Time academics, and who sincerely believe that the two are compatible. Do* t mal ny ditferen< recruit some of our players from the Pennsylvania coal fields (in the case of football) or from tin high schools of Brook lyn (in th*’ case of basketball)? When those boys come to Carolina they are made to .meet tin same academic standards as their fellow st plenty from Murphy and Mebane and Manteo. And they become just as good Tar Heels as main of < ir native born sons. Many of them graduate with just as high grades as native North Carolinians, and many go to work" in North Carolina, returning to the state tenfold its investment in theii education. ■ ' Is it facetious to point out t hat a' boy from Four Oaks who can't make the varsity football team can still play ball to bis heart’s content in intrarnurals? 1 don’t thmJCso. If he’s uncoordinated and incapable of contributing something to a football team he might not even make his dormitory mural team. Is this also professionalism, because there is an emphasis on win ning even in intramural sports? Big Time football pays for the (’Diversity intra mural program. Big Time football permits the Uni versity to field varsity teams which bring in no receipts—soccer, and cross country, and fencing. J.a orossc, for instance, was dropped as an official sport a few years ago. Why? Because University football re ceipts were down and there wasn’t enough money to support that particular minor sport. Big Time football* provides sports opportunities for hundreds of students who would not otherwise get the chance to participate. And, as long as the Uni versity is headed by such persons as Chancellor House, I don’t think there is any real danger of it junking its academic standards in favor of all-out emphasis on athletics. * * * * ADD THINGS THAT WILL always puzzle me: Why do people spend several minutes studying a menu when they go to breakfast in a restaurant? They always end up ordering the, s*ame old’ bacon and eggs, anyway, and everybody knows eggs and bacon are on the menu without looking! ■* < " •* * ‘ ♦ * DOROTHY THOMPSON, concerned about the in discriminate and careless use of the phrase “Cold War,” suggests that what our State Department needs is a Department of Semantics. I guess this is the next best thing to buying a muzzle for John Foster Dulles. is no beautiful creature, but the in creased pressure in the water pipes is a joy at bathtime. Why don’t the architects turn their genius to improving the symmetry and appeal of tall town water tanks? Some thing should be done to get away from the ugly lines and at the same time retain the height which is necessary for pressure. Look what we have done with fire stations. Once a fire station was a fire station and nothing more. Fire stations in residential areas stuck out like sore thumbs, marring the beau- Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from pure 1) I have said, above, that learning the clock time of sun rise and sunset is not as sim ple as you might suppose. You will understand why when 1 quote from a letter Ml. Carney wrote me in response to my questions: “For our purposes, times of sunrise and sunset are obtain ed from 'Tables of Sunrise, Sunset, and Twilight, - a U.S. Naval Observatory publication. By a rather laborious process of corrections we come out with tables for the times at the Raleigh-Durham Airport.’’ Jn his letter Mr. Carney told me that the tables for the Weather Bureau station at State College, published in the North Carolina A Iman a<, showed the' Raleigh times far .sunrise jind sunset, and that those figures could be “cor rected to Chapel Hiil within about a ope-minute plus-or ininus errofl fby adding 2 min utes to the Raleigh times.” The correction, which needs to he made because Chapel Hill is west-of Raleigh, shows that- sunrise here today, Janu ary 13, is at 7:28 a.m. and sun set is at 5:24 p.rn. Counting the time, between sunrise and sunset as the length of the day, though of course there is daylight be fore sunrise and after sun set, the length of December -2J was 9 hours and 44 min utes and the length of today, January 13, is 9 hours and 50 minutes. This is a difference of only 12 minutes but it seems greater because most of the lengthening is not at the beginning of the day, -when people are asleep and are not paying attention to w hen the sun rises, but in the afternoon when they are about and taking notice. Little as the lengthening is this soon after the shortest day, it is being gratefully ac claimed, all the more so be cause of the certainty that from now on every day will be a little bit longer than the one before. I will ignore sun 11se for a moment, since it takes place before we wake up and plays no part in our lives, and will set down here what 1 Lave learned, with the help of Mi Carney - and the -North Carolina Almanac, about sun set times in Chapel Hill in the next two months. Our sunset will come at 5:44 on February 1, at 5:58 on .February 15, and at h:!2 on March 1. Our first full 12-hour 'lay, when sunset will come at o:2b, will be M arch 17. ■ l.ongei daylight cheer- ; ~ up, but what about the cold weal her’.’ We have had an ab normal number of sub-freez ing days in December and so tin in January, raud- the part of the wintei that is usually the worst in Chapel Hill lies ahead. Visitors from the North i ast baleful, accusing glances upon us residents when., the thcrmometei record is discuss eil. They praise the bright sun shine we’ve been having but they would like to have some warmth with it. I heartijy agree with them. I’m fed up on the cold. Oh, for more days like Christmas Day (sand wiched in between two long cold spells) when the sun shone bright andlthe mercury went up to 75! . . A Local Problem (From Charlotte Observer) No single act has done more to muddy and confuse the schools picture in North Caro lina than did the suggestion of the N. C. Advisory Com mittee on Education that local segregation studies be termin ated. No single statement has done more to dispel the confusion, and to reassert a few funda mental truths, than did Gov. Hedges’ comments at the Thursday, news conference. The governor said, first, that the segregation problem will ultimately ’he settled at the local level. He said, second, that the local study committees are nec essary items in the search for a solution. He said, third, that the sug gestion to disband those com mittees may have been “an unfortunate statement.” He said, fourth, that he be- ty of lawn and home. Now the fire station in a residential area is made to fit into the architectural pattern of the area. Unless you see the firemen playing checkers you would hardly know it was a fire station. Why couldn’t the framework of water tanks be enclosed with walls and windows and rooms created? Maybe this sounds futuristic, even queer, but some modern architecture runs off in a queer direction. / It is a wonder Chapel Hill didiyf try out an idea along this line. / ~ f tAUe Chapel Hill Some strange things take place down at The Shack on West Rosemary Street each Saturday morning when a group of University professors and local businessmen gather for a weekly bull session. For instance, last Saturday one man in this group sold another one a Confederate one-dollar bill for a good l nited States buck. Os course, everyone knows that Confederate money is worthless except as a collector’s item. But the funnier part of this deal was that if“was a counterfeit Confederate one-dollar bill. * * * * Some members of the female species don’t consider themselves properly dressed unless they wear or carry gloves. And, from the general appearance of .campus coeds, 1 saw one the other morning who most assuredly was not in proper attire: she didn’t have on white cotton socks, * . * * * The reason Tony Gobbel is all smiles is that he killed a whopping wild gobbler in Chatham County last Saturday. A novice nimrod is Tony, but in about 12 minutes of hunting ho bagged a 19-pounder. “Biggest thing I ever saw,” he beamed while telling of it. "I got his beard and his feet at home now. Also got him, but he’s not in the same shape he used to be.” **- * * Ms. the world owes every man a living, why do we have to work so hard to collect the debt? * * • »ie One day of old-fashioned winter is enough to reconcile most persons to the fact that it is old fashioned. * * ♦ * Florida is said to approve of a 13-month calendar, provided it will add an extra month to the winter season. * * * * The successful man is one who makes his mis takes when they don’t count against him. * * * « Benjamin Franklin said that time is money. Some folks take a lot of it to pay their bills. * * * * Soft hearts often harden, but - soft heads never change. . ' < anu- nwarc of this "confiden tial” suggestion only aftfcJHfe had gone out to the 174 school superintendents of the state. 'I here has been no -doubt all along that the segregation problem is essentially a local piobleni and a local response bility, The 1955 General Assembly declared this to be true in its chief action in the segregation matter It tore down the struc ture of centralized control of the schools and told the local units that they were, in ef lect, on their own. 1 . It paved a two-way street, and the local communities be came free to follow one or the o.thei according to their own < opipelling circumstance*. The forerunner of the pre sent Advisory < onqnittee on Education had n cognized this state of affairs in 1954 when it recommended the establish ment ol local study committees. Gov. Hodges has placed the basic facts m focus again, and in the light of his comments it is Laid to see the Advisory Next Week Ls ■ Week January 17th to 23rd # 250th Anniversary, Birth of Benjamin Franklin 7 } & \V o Ben Franklin * \ | u) \ said it wisely .. . p ' “Little strokes fell great oaks.” •t Benjamin Franklin, Father of Thrift, knew the importance of -persistence in any undertaking. He knew that, little by little, great savings can grow from small beginnings. Start now to make every week Thrift Week . . . open a savings account here . . . add to it systematically ... watch it grow! ORANGE COUNTY BUIUHIHi AND LOAN ASSOCIATION West Franklin St. Tel. 9-8761 Friday, January 13, 1956 Committee’s latest action as anything but a backward step that should be countermanded immediately. Local school boards, not the Advisory Committee in Rqleigh, will be called into court in future legal actions. Local boards, the committee in Raleigh, will be required to show good faith. And it will be an unusual judge who would read good faith into the rib banding of a committee search ing for the best possible mans of complying with the law of the land. Supt. Ben Smith of the Greensboro Schools had called the suggestion from Raleigh “very confusing” and a thing destructive of the concept of a “two-way street.” AH indi cations here in Charlotte are that local school authorities will ignore the advice. it is time for the Advisory Committee to rescind thift harmful suggestion, it is time for North Carolina td get hack on its “two-way street.”
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