Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill, North Carolina E. Rcwemar* Telephone or *<*l Published E'er* Tuesda* anti triday By The Chapel Hill Puh)i*hinc C.impan*, Inc Loris Graves Cottmimnnp Editor J?tr Joses M *• Editor Billy Aktbvr ... A**ociat* Editor Chvck K.tsek Associate Editor Oknulx Campbslx Genera'. Manager O T. Watkins .Adrertuwip Director Charlton Campbell .Wchamcc: Supt £n;«r%c «*• seconti rr.&'i*’ F*bnwtr> liCi. *t Uk poiUifaKt a\ (ZibUMt* HiL. North Caroimw. unaei thf a*: Off Mar-C*' 2 SI BSCRIPTIOV KATI> • ii tt n orths $_.27 in nths, S. of > Outside of Orange County hy the Stau i N C., \ a.. ar.G C 4-*0 Other States unci List ‘ folumbia GOC Canada Mexico, S utr. Amenca ”.W’ Europe 1 The \ irginta Voters' Decision By a mar pi i f ipore t han t« ' >n< of Virginia voted, - sit a >;*- cia. election las* wc*-k. it direct tht g*-n --• era’ a>st*mb:y call a convention t" amend the constitution so that state money cat. be ‘used {or non-seetanan private >cnoo.-. All the predictions had b*-en that th« convention cal! would in approved, but nobody had expected the majority tc be so iarg* Only on< congressional dis trict (the 10th, the one in northern Virginia made up of counties adjacent to Washington and Maryland) voted no, and the opposition tner* vvu.- not nearly a.- strong as expected, tn* cunt being 26,164 to 20,18-' In som>- south x side counties, where th* Negroes con stitute Go per cent or more of the popu lation, there were no votes in the nega tive. Counties in the Shenandoah Val v ley and in the southwest upset predic tions by turning in majorities lor th* convention. The best editorial comment on the outcome of the election, that 1 haw seen is ’hi n< it th< Baltimore Sun. J -re produc* heri • • ng with •my own opinion: “The overwhelming vote in Virginia for tin {.iroposed •con.-tituti"iiai convn tion means that tin people of \ irgirua are determined to do all they can within the i%w to prevent th* enforced integra tion of whites and Negroes i i the pub lic schools. “The steps to be taken are several, of which the calling of the constitutional convention is but the first. The del* - gates to the convention must lx- elected, UF* -uggested amendment adopted, and the result submitted to a referendum. After that the relevant statutes must be changed and th* unoney must be found ~ ’/v. to pay the private school tuition of those children If hose parents refuse to send them to the rfonsegregated schools. The promise has been made that the public school system will not be abandoned. This means that parents who/ are will ing to accept integration will be able to send their children to the state sup ported schools as heretofore. “Will such a system work? if it does work, will it be accepted by the Su preme Court when it is challenged, as it certainly will be a.-, sotjn as the issue is clear? For that matter, it may be challenged eve,n earlier. pro\ ided Hu la wyers can formulate a case. After all the court said that its ruling must be carried out with ‘deliberate speed.' Does ‘deliberate speed’ comport with the complex program to which Virginia is now about to be committed? “No one can answer such questions at the present time. But there are cer tain factors in the, situation which are certain to count as the movement pro gresses. Virginia, like Maryland, is not a unit in its thinking, despite the over whelming vote against integration. The tidewater counties contain a much larger proportion of Negroes than those in the highlands and those nearer Washington. Several of these latter counties voted against the effort, to continue segregation by legal means. Their opinion will count in the final out come. , . “Also, among the Negroes' them selves, there are many who do not relish being party to the friction and ill-feeling which enforced integration may produce. All too often we are led to believe that the members of that race are unanimous in their desire to bring matters to an issue. There is much evidence that this is not the case. * The relatively small, vote cast in some counties even by the Negroes eligible to vote is partial proof of the existence of such a feeling. ~ “The Supreme Court’s decision, as we sard at the time, presents painful dilemmas for. both white? and Negroes. Virginians, realizing the difficulties th*'\ face, have tried to work out an acceptable compriimis* w. tht law *■ a> given then:. For our part. w. are by no means certain that their plan wil be accepted ii .. i ngl n But 'it not ; rssiblt t dismiss it .. - Were e\usi->r. dictated by racial prejudice It rat .her statesmaniiki effort to avoid what many thousands of decent citi zens fear is real public danger. On that basi- we must leave it until the Courts., haw finally given their deci sions."-—-L.G. 1 \ Health Many a tim* in th* past a nation beet nt< r< sted ii thy- health Os it s chi< f•an : ha be< ri c irio . -about n»w much longer /,« was going * > • : , bee '- - curi : .’y of person- <,->s- * t > ' tro. seat of power And w«u wdi remember from ' «* - iur history books that usually, when a king w m tho ight t bt failing, it was not the tear that lie would die tf.at distressed the courtiers and other nang'-rs-on. On the contrary, wha* dis tressed them wa- th* fear that! hi would keep on living. They wanted .• - -• to is- a daw dk r o\er dying b t to go ori and get it over with. Os pours 1 hey didn t dare say this aloud. Most of them probably didn’t dare even to whisper it, for if 'the wish wen- reported in th* wrong plae* the wi.-her might die ahead ot Pi ma - ’.. But e\ •i y ’ »d> knew w hat everybody else was thinking and hop mg How different a situation do w< haw in the Fnit*-d State- today! 1 am not uWi *-re igh ver.-t-d o, history to know w het tier or not it can be called unprecedented. Os course there must have been times when a monarch - subjiets or a civilian chief fellow citizen- haw wished him to r< - oner from an iljniis.-. But J suspect that in the * xtent and depth of anxiety it ha,- caused, in the sincerity of the goodwill it ha- brought to light, and in thi * intensity of the public desire for a full recovery, the illness of Hre.-i dent Eisenhower kas been without parallel. id.i que-tion of whether or not in will iii a candidate . for ?re .'election is spiii unsettle-d. When they rami out of his latest press conference, tin news paper correspondents felt sure the chances that he would be a candidate were, much grealer than they had beei any ’ imi ii ce he was taken ill. The Alsop brothers, who rank high among columnists for fullness of in formation, good judgment, and trust worthiness, write: “Three months ago hardly any’ one thought thi President would, or could, run for reflection. As recently as one month ago, even the optimists among his friends put the chances of hit* run ning at no latter than 50 per cent. Now almost * very one w ith access to the President believes he means to run unless, after returning to work, he feels unusual fatigue or unless the doctors advise him against it when they examine him in February. "Men close to the President -a • they are sure his present strong in clination iis to run. not because tie has revealed this intention in so many words but because of the way he talks and acts, lit* not only looks well, but what is far more important in* feels well. He has remarked jokingly to friends that * ‘it must have been some other fellow who had that heart at tack.’” The magazine, U. S. News and World Report, has had. an unusual poll taken by a researen foundation. The foundation obtained from»the Directory of Medical Specialists the names of 444 physicians formally certified as heart specialists, and then sent to every one a questionnaire containing these questions: 1. Do you think a man who has suffered a heart attack can be regard ed as physically able to -serve as Presi dent ? 2. Based on what you have read about the nature of the President’s illness, and assuming a normal conva lescense in the next few months, do you think Mr. Eisenhower can he re garded as physically able to serve a second term? The nubiber of physicians who re sponded to the questionnaire was 275, or 62 per cent of the 444 polled. Some who responded :did not answef the questions directly. The numttr who THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY it Was Rough in the Thirties .. Fire Department Captain Gaston Baldwin Says That When His Phone Rings, It's Probably a Student Who Needs Help lt\ I > n I o t-rman Wi. - :;t (-inn*- ring- at the h -m* '-f *a; tail: Gaston S. Baidw r. <>f the Chapel Hill f:r• -lepartmet t, it’s hk*-iy to h. a ' i yet' student ask ing him to <• n.« •over to his I ty t, .. ■ and fix a lock, a w .vi- w. hjild a cabinet, ot mi .oth a ii r jamb. "Tr i-v . riie up.” Cap • • t . v. r *<■. < •-.*..y "I g..»-f r - «u-< I worked r r.g ' r the University : • merit. ’if 1 eat • get th* r. right away, they' ;■ "wait, and Hot Th- reiat. p with the start* rt* grew .er the period , < j*. \«-;i? - ■ g which Cap ta i. Baidw.’ w *rt-d with the ( i.i ler - itlr ..• rnities and or-.rity hou-.- me word ha passed fron - ass to at ■•tner that < ap - a t Baldwin i the mar to ea.. f there..is some f xir.g to' d»- wr. - r i erjuires a • • . more cat ;■< ntrv skill tin.r, I I a - posse-** -t udentf i apta r Ba.aw - came to Chapel il. . fr n Burlington ir 11'Zl.i witt. wife, Le-sie .Since that ti.m* 't.ey have liv id in the .-am* r.ou.M- at 421 UjKsLe.ro Street where they • art- raising th- ’ of four children, - - year >ld':. "Arc! ie % I Like I'hapet Util By Billy Arthur Then -a ladder that leans. again.' t the Varsity Theatre and-almost spans the vveli-traVi-ied alley which runs along-idt the movie house. And it - annoying to the superstition- people who make um- ot the short cut from East Franklin to Rosemary Street. They posi tive! \ will not walk unfler it, and. then fore, have started a new path around it. * d «F Jen y J dsok tell- how tracing oik 's antecedents at times produces interesting and amusing reside-. Not long ago an enterprising young man was looking through the records of a southeastern North Carolina county courthouse for. information about one of his great grandparents who was reported to ha\e lived in that area along about 1840. Not finding any thing of pertinent value in the office the Register of Deeds, lie made inquiry for other likely source- of information and was told that one of the files in the sheriffs office contained some documents of the period. Among them w r as found an unserved warrant for the arrest of bis ancestor on Ihe charge of murder. On the bottom of the paper, scrawled in a bold hand were the letters' “(J.T.T.” Curious as to the meaning of tin- inscription, he asked an attendant and was informed, “Oh! that means he was gone to Texas before the officials equld find him.” * * ■* ¥ * * Why can’t we see oi. television a uniqm defective story wherein tin my-ti.ry is solved by a regular detective? * 4 4 4 '4 4 The person who sigi “How soon we are forgot ten, has only to miss a quarterly payment on his income taxes. 4 4 4 4 4 ‘ Man wants but little here below; And you will win your bet If you wager 'money That little'.- ail he’ll get. answered question No. 2 directly was 224. Os these. Ml said they thought the President was physically able to serve a second term, !K> said thought, he was not. Thus more than out of the 10 heart specialists who answered the question about the Presi dent, do not regard a heart attack in itself as a physical disqualification for the Presidency. What does "the layman, the ordinary citizen who has no medical knowledge, think about the matter? Os course you may say, with considerable sense, that it doesn’t make any difference what he thinks—he doesn’t know enough th make his opinion worth anything. But mosFof us ordinary citizens are perfect ly wdlling to express ah opinion on al njost any subject whether we know ’ anything about it or not. As to whether or not the President is physically able to run, those of us who have read the thorough state ments to the public by his consulting heart specialist, I)r. Paul Dudley White, form our opinions partly on that. But probably what has more weight with i any one of us than any doctor’s'state V*. jjm . SK;., PnutO Ly Lav *rf <. \STO.N S BAI.DW IN ! ai-hv • . The < afii.ii? ".2, a volunteer Uremar fron I'.CJG until 11*44 "* wfji*!. i • employ«.ul shotgun ar.d lead sot the fields for a little hunt :ng in the summer, like many of Ik- colleagues, .he take- off for the coast, or Florida to get in some fishing. “After you spend a 24-houi shift here,” he said, "it's tin.- to get a. little pleasure The Uaptair a father of four, -L-. also a grandfather <■!" four. Hi- older daughter, Felda, wife of Master Sergeant Frank f Brad naw at Fort Benning, Georgia, 1- the mother of thiee children. His 25-ytar-old son, Gaston Bald - - Jr a-- - - ' ' Electric?* The f of one child. His ybunge-t-daughter, Nor ma. i- a secretaiy for the die tary .departrr.er-t at Memorial Hospital hen . Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) in any othei " state the rave lit- gi\es oui s. "There ar>- over.pou gn Is en rolled at. Salem College and the ■ Academy nearby,” be write-, and if there's an ugly one in 11 .*• lot these tired, old eye. fa.led to single her out .Students ambulate gracefully along corridors and pathway .aid o,t' by foresighted ..Mura vian.- way back in 178*1. “The ambulations of oik- g.il weje -nificiently spectacular to make me inquire, ‘Who's that 'liiat, said Jc- Byrd, in> g-iide, 'is Tony Gill, tls ciianijjion baton twiilit of .'7/»rth *’arol-iria.’ What strange -uhjeet- g-ui- major in now aday- 1 At any rate, Mi.-s'Gill obviou-ly stems headed, baton anti all, straight for Holly wood. "R.-ed .Surratt, editor of they Winston Salem Journal and Sentinel,, maintains sueh a dis ' .. I. *- 1 i- *•! if that A.:. Battei .-(ill w<>op- down peii odicaliy from hei Long 1 land eyrie to entice . -mu-body away fii New -day “Before 1 left W ins ton Sale rn 1 Mid a' real 11 eat-: ( laude -1 1 k k land and ‘lag’ Mon’ag.t took me to a tobacco auction. 1 tie auctioneer, ( banting unin telligibly (just like the TY ((>».- iik-i rial! ) walked rapidly pa-t neatly slacked piles of law tobacco, followed by some fhii ty nail wiio didn't ,-eem to pay any -attention to him what evei Yet when we reached tin- taj end of the warehouse 1 wa- told he ju.-t had sold over $ of bigli-gi adc "My. but those girl- in North ( arolrna an- good b>ok mg' Betty Grain, w Iki inu-i viewed me for the 1) .rhum Heiald, and Jill Spence, who bos.-i-d me al.iTTf* tin- i nivci sity, were right in a .ag ie with that baton tymno . ».o Salem. After n.y lecture I nt William Blackburn, .cele brated English prof (two' of whose recent student - wen- Hill • •Styron and Mac Hyman).” “My grandfather alway- said lhat living i.- like licking honey . •off a thorn. Louis' Adamic On Shv Toirn | • • ■ By < hu «T Hauser t , - - .„ NOW TH/. T THE SIX-YEAR search for the Brinks roblxTs i- ov-t-r. it looks like the Mountios will have •to rive way to the FBI in the “always-get-their-man” 'limelight. * . * ♦ 4 4 4 I DON'T OFT TO WATCH television very “Often, but when 1 do get to spent! an hour or so in front of someone's set 1 am Tf&Sally amazed to discover (1) how terrible the bad shows are, and (2) how fine the good shows are. There i< fine drama on TV these days. There are good adaptations appearing, and some excellent original shows are being produced: ■ If you’re looking for pure entertainment, there’s Croucho arid Perry and Jack Webb. And then we have (ugh) Arthur Godfrey and Jackie Gleason. Which reminds me ... I feel highly vindicated now that Como is about to eclipse Gleason during that time period •in which they’re competing on (lifterent channels. (You suppose Buick could buy up the rest of Jackie’s multi-million dollar contract and "'get rid of him once and for ail?) 4 4 4 4 AN f) TALKING ABOUT TELEVISION, it wasn’t \ery Jong ago that 1 sat, fascinated,.in front of a set and watched Grandma Moses give Ed Murrovt 'a hard time on “See It Now.” Morrow was looking over some of Grandma Moses’ -tuts, and he asked her, in a chip-on-the-shoulder tone ot voice, why she never (tainted biblical scenes (I ex pected him to break out in a chorus of "The Old Rug ged ( rpss at the drop of a cathode ray tube). Showing admirable restraint, Grandma M. told Murrpw she didn’t paint biblical scenes because they would be based too much on "guesswork” rather than on things -he had seen with her own eyes. She should have told him flatly she didn’t WANT to paint biblical scenes, and why didn’t he think up an intelligent question to ask for a change such as why she didn’t cat blueberry pie every day for dessert. '1 he camera panned down to show Grandma’s hands as she painted. They were wrinkled, hut steady as a rock. Cut to Morrow, slightly bug-eyed, to im press audience with the fact that he is impressed with Grandma Moses. Cut to Grandma Moses, who looks up at Morrow. 'Grandma: “Anyone can paint, you know.” Morrow: 'I couldn’t.” . Grandma: “Yes, you can. Here; take this brush and draw something. Draw a picture of a man.” < ut to Morrow, straining as he draws picture of a man. ■ ""Marrow: “I think I'll draw a tree. I used to be* able to draw a tree . (Short pause while Morrow draws tree, which we haven’t seen yet) . . . There.” At this point, you expect the screen to cut to a view of Morrow's handiwork. But, no. His tree masterpiece is discreetly withheld from the view of * the coast-to-coast audience. e Then Morrow asked just about the stupidest ques tion he has ever asked on or off television. Grand ma Moses had just finished explaining that she was four years old when Abraham Lincoln was assas sinated, and could remember her mother telling her the President was dead. At this point Murrow looked profound and asked with a poker face: “Grandma Moses, what would you say are th* major differences between the administra tions of President Lincoln and President Eisenhower?” 4 4 4 4 SOME FOLKS LOSE THEIR heads and start mind ing other people’s business. Those missionary fellows down in Ecuador.started minding other folks’ business and lost their heads. Which prompts me to ask whether it s possible that those Aura Indians are jierfectly hap py hidden away back in their jungle and want no part of the white man’s juke boxes and television sets and thermonuclear devices. . •r 4 4 4 1 -M Ql ME SI RE THOSE seven children who* were taken from their mother’s side in Short Greek, 1 tab, are much happier now that they have been de liu red from the evil influences of a polygamous com niunity. After all, they were too young and naive to K an/.* what a terrible situation they were living in. Alter a few years in a foster home I’m. sure they will understand that, when society decides away of life is wrong, it must protect everyone from that way of life. Add the mother will undoubtedly dry her tears and forget all about her children in 10 or 20 years. Humans Aren't Obsolete (Christian Science Mxinitor) Jn a certain city in a certain subway station there appeared one day a neat metal box about the size and shape of a two drawer file case. (Jn its top were * two slots, and lettered by each slot simple instruc tion.-. .“Insert's.wo dimes here” and “Insert fare token here,” and below, “Then push plung er.” Behind the box was a head-high entrance turnstile. On either side were one-way exits. That was all. No change booth and no change-maker. Only mechanisms. C{ime a white-haired little woman. Nothing unusual about her. One might see hundreds like her at any subway station. She opened her purse, stepped to the box, pushed the plunger, and entered the turn-istile. it would not turn. "I put one dime in this slot HOME OF CHOICE CHARCOAL BROILED HICKORY SMOKED STEAKS—FLAMING SHISKEBAB—BUFFET EVERY SUNDAY Tuesday, January 17, 1956 and one dime in that slot,” she explained plaintively to the next would-be passenger. "What do I do?” He tried the turnstile. He pushed the plunger and tried again. So did the next man. A queue began to form, grew rapidly. Suddenly out of nowhere ap peared one of the subway’s special policemen. Disposing of the lady’s plaint with a “Follow instructions, ma’am, follow instructions,” he reach ed into an obscure little open ing, tripped a spring, got back the offending dime, put it where it should have gone, and the. queue spun the turnstile. moral of this story is: Jf there’s a human equation on one side of a machine there has got to be a human equation on the other. Or: “Automation” hasn’t got us yet!