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fThe Chapel Hill Weekly
I Chapel Hill, North Carolina
■26 E. Rosemary Telephone 9-1271 or 8461
| Published Every Tuesday and Friday
By The Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc.
■Lons Graves Contributing Editor
IJoi: Jones Managing Editor
Billy Arthur Associate Editor
ICbuck Hauser Associate Editor
IDrville Campbell . General Manager
K>. T. Watkins Advertising Director
Bred Dale > Circulation Manager
Charlton Campbell Mechanical Supt
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I Compulsory Liability Insurance
I Again the newspapers are publish
ing articles and editorials about, the
leffort to persuade the New York leg
islature to enact a law that will coni
■x;l all automobile owners and drivers
■n the state to carry liahftity insurance.
I The most vigorous and outspoken
Bdvocate of the measur* is the State
■Superintendent of Insurance, and al
lied with him are representatives of
■several of the state's most important
zivtc organizations, Letters-to-the-edi
lor in newspapers ranging from the
l)ig city dailies to the village weeklies,
lind reports of speeches made and reso
lutions adopted at gatherings of citi
zens, show that public opinion strongly
■supports the reform. Some of the writ
■rs for the New York City newspapers
Ivho have devoted special study to the
Subject are of the opinion that the
Khief opposition to the compulsory in
surance hills comes from the casualty
Insurance companies.
1 Efforts like those in New York,
■o get the legislature to enact a com-
Imlsory liability law, have also been
Inade here in North Carolina, and they
nave failed here as they have failed
■.here. The legislatures of both states
nave done what is called, in the words
Its the old proverb, locking the stable
■ifter the horse is gone. That is, in
stead of providing real compulsory in
surance, they have enacted laws which
■ompel the procurement of a liability
Insurance j*olicy only by an automobile
l>wner or driver who has already been
nuilty of causing death or injury or
Property damage.
I Suppose, for example, that Jones
Boses a leg in an accident that Smith
B* proved guilty of having caused, if
■Smith is unable to pay an indemnity
Bnd is uninsured, all the consolation
■hat Jones gets is that now’ Smith will
Be compelled to take out insurance
Bhat will recom|>ense the next man he
Bijures. if Jones is as good a Christ-
Hin as he ought to be he is glad that
B person unknown to,him stands to be
Bidemnified, at some time in the fu-
Hure, because of his. Jones’s, loss of
■ leg. But it would be asking a good
Heal of Jones to ask him to be satisfied
H’ith that. It is pretty certain that he
H’ould prefer to have an indemnity
Hor himself. And it is only fair that
He should.
|i The one state in the C. S. that
Hssures the victim of an accident of
Hn indemnity, by means of compul-
Hory insurance, is Massachusetts. J
Hope that our Orange County repre
sentative, John Umstead, and other
Hiembers of the legislature who ad-
Mocated compulsory liability insurance
Ht the last session, are still inlere.-trd in
Hi’fecting th<*ir urgently ju eded reform
Hnd will try to get for North Carolina a
on the Masachuset 1 s model. —L.G.
■ Right after George Wright 111, 14,
■rogram he was asked by a reporter
he planned to do with the money.
|He replied that lie hoped he would be
|Ht>le to buy a 10-string ukelele.
H George, at his tender age, has prob-
Hbly been led to believe that the cost
jjHf a ukelele is about all that’s left of
amount of money after taxes.
|B£| r
Pf Trying to Kill Prank Merriwell
■ Under penalty of losing all state-
IHd funds, librarians in all South Car
olina public libraries have been order
■l “not to purchase, not to process
Hid not to circulate” certain specified
fHtoks for children.
BB Among those now forbidden in
|Hate-aid libraries are:
H All Horatio Alger books, the Bobb-
sev Twins series, The Wizard of Oz,
Tom Swift, the Tarzan series, Five Lit
tle Peppers, The Hardy Boys, The Lit
tle Colonel, Don Winslow, Jack Arm
strong, the Torn Slade series, the Lone
Ranger series, the Frank Merriwell
series, the Carolyn Keene mystery
series, and thousands of others by more
than lf>o authors.
The AP account of the hap said
that most of the books which were
ordered removed "have approached
ranking as classics, at least with older
generations." Most of the hooks, I dart
say, rank as classics with the younger
generation too.
The writer is in his middle thirties,-
hut most of the books mentioned bring
back nostalgic memories of many hap
py reading hours. A Horatio Algei
story always left me feeling that right
would win out. Every hero had to
overcome many handicaps, and in the
beginning he was usually penniless.
But by working hard and long and
saving his money he usually ended up
owning part of Uie business, and in
some cases he, went so far as to marry
the boss's daughter. It was atid it still
is a good American philosophy.
Tom Swift, the Hardy boys. Jack
Armstrong, Frank Merriwell and the
others taught me the importance of
playing the gam* fair and square. They
were my heroes, apart from anything
else in my young life.
Taking full and sole responsibility
for the banning of these books is Miss
Estellene P. Walker, executive seen--
#*•
tary of the South Carolina Library
Board, in Columbia. She told a report
er that to read one of these bodies was
a ‘‘stupefying experience” for any child.
There is no doubt that most of our
present-day leaders suffered such a
“stuj»efying experience” as a youngster.
And I have yet to hear one-of them
say that he did not profit by it.
In this era of space ships and Davey
Crocketts there is perhaps little likeli
hood that the present-day generation
would take the time to read the books
that are now banned. Moreover, the
philosophy of the youngster of today
has changed. He’d rather watch it
on tele\ ision than read about it. But
in spite of Miss Walker’s decree, the
likes of Horatio Alger and his friends
will continue to live. And before it
is all over, I'd venture a guess that
such books will stay on the library
shelves of South Carolina for a long
time. —:0.8.C.
How to Learn How to Write
From the recently published “Advice
to a Young Critic,” letters from George
Bernard Shaw to Reginald Golding
Bright, edited by E. J. West of the Uni
_ versity of (’dorado:
“I wrote five long books before I
started again on press work. William
Archer wrote a long magnum opus on
the life and works of Richard Wagner,
a huge novel, and a hook on the drama,
besides an essay on Irving and a good
deal of leaderwork for a Scotch paper
before he began his victorious career
on The World.
“You might go through that mill too;
and you can’t possibly start too soon.
Write a thousand words a day for the
next five years for at least nine months
every year.
“Read all the great critics —Ruskin,
Richard Wagner, I>-ssing, Lamb, and
Hazlitt.
“Get a ticket for the British Museum
reading room, and live there as much as
you can. (Jo to all the first rate orches
tra concerts and to the opera, as well as
to the theatres. Haunt little Sunday
evening political meetings. Study men
and polities in this way. As long as you
stay in the office, try to be the smartest
hand in it: I spent four and a half years
in an office before I was twenty. Be a
teetotaler; don’t gamble, don’t lend;
don’t borrow; don’t for your life get
married: make the attainment of effi
ciency your sole object for the next
fifteen years; and if the city can teach
you nothing more, or demands more
time than you can spare from your ap
prenticeship, tell your father that you
prefer to cut loose and starve, and do
it.”
We wonder what has become of the
“Ingersoll Dollar Watch.” It was handy
to have around when one’s other watch
was being cleaned or repaired. And
then there is the three-minute glass for
cooking eggs, but if one really wants a
perfectly accurate hour glass there is
a firm in New York which still makes
them. The price? $65 to $125 each.—l
Percy B. Lovell in the Morristown, N.J.,
News Chronicle.
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
On the Tourn
B> Chuck Hauser t . ■■ *
OLLA RAY BOYD, WHO used to be a very funny
fellow, has changed his act, and I, for one, am slightly
nauseated.
(ilia Ray, in case you haven’t heard of him, is
the Pinetown pig breeder and perennial candidate for
whatever major post happens to be at stake in just
about any election that comes along. He has run for
governor and senator and has even threatened to be
a presidential candidate this year.
His purpose in running for these offices has been
twofold: he apparently gets a laugh out of it, and he
considers the filing fees darned good advertising in
vestments for the pig business.
But Olla Kay has gone too far. He has doffed
the clothe of the funnyman and donned the togs of
the demagogue. His fun has ceased to be fun.
What he has done most recently is announce his
intentions to oppose Luther Hodges for the guberna
torial nomination in the forthcoming Democratic pri
mary. Thi- iri itself is not unusual; it's just what
might be expected of him with filing date approaching.
However, in announcing his candidacy, Olla Ray
released a platform: “I am determined,” he said “to
keep school.-* segregated if elected —by law or by force.” -
He called himself a white supremacist, and said he
commended'tlie : action of the students at the Univer
sity of Alabama who staged a riot to protest the ad
mission of a Negro student. He added, “I hail as a
victory, ft*- th< white man in the South the actions
of the Alabama . tudejnts for keeping by force Negroes
out of their school.”
Mr. Boyd ~ syntax is deplorable, but his intention
is quite clear: He is going to help the modern crop
of redshirts stir the coals of race hatred in a state
which has seen no serious race trouble since the Wil
mington roits ol 1898.
The candidates for major offices in the spring
Democratic primary will, of course, he asked for their
views of the integration problem; this is only right,
since it is one of the most important problems facing
this state today. But the last thing North Carolina
needs in the coming campaign is the exploitation of
racial prejudice sway votes. Mr. Boyd, naturally,
doesn’t expect to get elected, but he can stir up enough
unrest and trouble harm race relations regardless of
whether he .is a serious candidate.
You used to be a funnyman, Mr. Boyd. But we’re
not laughing any more.
* * * 4
“FORBIDDEN GAMES," THE FRENCH film
which played at th> Carolina Theatre last week, has
w«vn a Grand Pn/.< ;.t the Venic* Film Festival, a First
Brize as tin. b< t f--n-jgn film • f the year in the New
York Film Crit.V I' y.iini tin acclaim of sensitive
movie-goers'acr the nation, l! I had a pocketful
of additional priz> I could throw at this film, J would
do so right now. It is certainly one of the finest things
J have ever seen on tin- screen, and 1 am not in the
habit of playing fast and loose with compliments of that
.type. m
This is also one of the most moving films 1 have
ever had the pleasure of viewing. It i.- a subtle pastel
portrait of death as pictured through the eyes of two
children. It is a touching story of wartime France in
1940, skillfully brought to life by Director I’aul Joly
and cameraman Robert JuiHard. It. is a delicate blend
of tragedy and comedy, laced gently with the horror
of war and the delight of children at play.
The story, briefly, concerns the activities of Michel,
the farmer’s son, and Paulette, the war orphan, in
maintaining an animal graveyard in the ruins of an
old mill. The death theme runs throughout, beginning
with the killing of Paulette’s parents, and continuing
with the deaths of her dog, Michel’s brother, a mole, a
cockroach, and assorted other creatures.
If I’m not mistaken, last week’s showing was
the film’s second visit to Chapel Hill. If it turns up
for a third time, don’t miss it.
* * * *
THE TEAM OF GOLDOVSKY, LUBOSHU’TZ and
Nemenoff sounds like a wrecking crew straight from
the Gominform, but don’t get worried. They’re just the
artists who performed Friday with the Mozart Piano
Festival under the auspices of the Chapel Hill Concert
Series. After all, whoever heard of a concert pianist
named Smith?
Chapel Hill Chaff
(Continued from page 1)
keep on living, maybe even
through a normal span of life,
hut can also keep on doing
the work he has been used
to if he will be careful to
get enough rest and to be
prudent about what he eats.
The phrase used by Dr,
W bite in one passage of his
talks, “a tough of heart trou--
hie,” was of special interest
to me because “a touch” seems
to apply to me—that is, thus
far* and probably applies to
a good many men in every com
munity. (1 say men because
Dr. White said, as other heart
specialists have said after stu
dying the statistics, that men
make up a big majority of
the victims of maladies of the
heart. He said the reason for
this has not been positively
settled. My own theory about
it is that men are meaner
than women and that God is
therefore giving them that
much extra punishment.)
A couple of years ago Dr.
Orgain had me walk up and
down a flight of stairs in Duke
Hospital ten times and put
me through other tests, and
took my blood pressure and
made an electrocardiogram.
After examining all the evi
dence he said my blood pres
sure was all right and that
my’ heart was ill good con
dition; but, since I felt a short
ness of breath after steady
walking, I take it that I had
that “touch” that Dr. White
speaks of -something not bad
enough to he called by the
name of a disease but some
thing had enough for me and
a doctor to he aware of. Dr.
Orgain gave me the medicine
J needed.
Dr. Kemp Jones, after ex
animations now and then in
the last two years, has found
what Dr. Orgain found and
has given me a verdict that
seems to correspond to that
“touch” mentioned by Dr.
White. And he says what Dr.
White said about exercise
that it would be good for me
to take regular walks, extend
ing the length of them little
by little. I take a pill every
morning and two at bedtime,
the purpose of which, 1 be
lieve, is to ease the passage
of blood through the arteries.
Almost everybody is said to
enjoy talking about his symp
toms, but not many a man
has a newspaper column that
permits him to enforce them
upon the attention of the pub
lie. However, I am encouraged
to do this by a person who
says that readers who have
“a touch” of heart trouble,
and think it is worse than it
is, may be made more com
fortable by reading my report
on Dr. White’s remarks and
on my own experience. I feel
I might to add that, “if any-
| The J ]
Kount! about
■
Papers
J. A. C. Dunn
MY EXPERIENCE WITH
celebrities is trifling. I once
saw Gary Cooper walking
down 69th Street in New York,
accompanied by his wife and
small daughter, and followed
by a couple of very tough look
ing bodyguards with (1 youth
fully imagine-di suspicious
bulges under their left arms.
As a small boy I was once
introduced to Captain Eddie
Rickenbacker in a New York
restaurant (a Shrafft’s, I
think it was, though J arn not
sure Captain Eddie would con
descend to grace Shrafft’s
with his presence) (on think
that over, it Occurs to me that
Captairv Eddie, having at that
time just recently completed
hi- famous 21 -day tour of
starvation in a rubber liferaft
on the Pacific, might not balk':
at a Shrafft - at all). Captain 3 ”
Eddie a.-ked me my name and
where I went to school and
patted me on the head and
said he would send me two of
his bdoks, autographed. He
did.
J have talked with Henry
SeideJ i anby at a party; but
only briefly.
And, last but not least, 1
am convinced 1 once saw the
King of England look out of
a window in Buckingham Pal
ace many year- ago when J
was taken to '-e the changing
of the guard My mother ha
repeatedly tried to dampen
this conviction by tolling no
that the face in the window
only beloi ged to a butler or
something, but I persist in
adhering to rny King-of-Eng
land theoilt’s much more
exciting, particularly when one
consider.- U.aJ. the reason the
King wa. t.’’’outside with every
body else watching the gua/ds
change might possibly have
been that tire King was actu
ally wearing iris bedroom slip
pers and dressing gown; this
seem- to -bear a good deal of
the veneer off the King, and
make- him much more human,
and J find that nothing is quite
so reassuring as the reassur
ance that celebrities are in
reality only people who brush
their teeth on occasion and
drink grapefruit juice before
breakfast.
1 had another experience
with celebrities recently. Not
a very close brush with the
halo of fame, I must admit,
but close enough to make it
worth talking about. A week
ago last Sunday night 1 heard
via a rather roundabout chain
of chance reports, that Bette
Davis and her husband, Gary
Merrill, were laying that
n. 1 1 at the <f< olina Inn. 1
whirled around to the Inn and
a.-ked the girl at the desk if I
could speak to Miss Davis tat
this point it, was about eleven
m the evening'). Miss Davis had
gone to bed. How about Mr.
Merrill? Well, 1 could use the
telephone on the desk The girl
hu/zed the Davis Merrill men
age, and 1 used the telephone
on the desk. A drowsy man’s
voice answered:
“Yeeeees.”
"Mr. Merrill?”
“Yeeeeees.”
“Did i wake you up, sir?”
“Yecegc, ”
I said J was very sorry and
that 1 was from the Chapel Hill
Weekly and if he wanted, 1
would continue, hut if he’d
rather go back to sleep, he had
only to say . . .
“I’d rather go back to sleep,”
said Mr. Merrill blearily.
J acquiesced and hid Mr. Mer
rill a hearty goodnight. The
next morning I went over to
the Inn again and waited for
some time hoping Miss Davis
and Mr. Merrill would come
down for breakfast, at which
time I could claim an “in” with
them by apologizing once again
for waking Mr. Merrill up the
night before. They hadn’t come
down at quarter after rfine and
I had to leave. I left a note
of apology for Mr. Merrill (I
realize now that at that point
I was fanatically determined,
by some means or other, to
tell Mr. Merrill I was sorry
to have woken him up). 1 went
thing happens,” for any cause
but old age or some stroke of
hard luck, it won’t be any doc
tor’s fault but will be my. own
fault for not carrying out
orders.
On the job
75 YEARS
LLlgr— f hike Chapel Hill
They’re telling a story (the truth for which I
do not vow) about Andy Gutierrez leaving his car
at George Barclay’s station to be serviced.
And, they say, when George phoned Andy it was
ready he advised hint:
“1 don’t know whether you Know it or not, Andy,
but you’ve been driving without any innertubes in
your tires. So I put you in four tubes.”
* * * *
George reveals that he and Carrington Smith have
bought two steers, “and if one dies, that’s Carrington’s.”
♦ * * *
Senator Kerr Scott had to go to the hospital to
h-arn that he should go on a diet. I found it out when
J tried to button my pants.
* * * *
Bud Perry was taking his lime and giving me a
dollar’s worth of hair cut when Y. Z. Cannon spoke;
“Hurry up, Bud, and get through with Billy and
get him out of here; I want to say something I don't
want to see in the paper.” ■ , -•
*** * -
-v ( ounty politics then was mentioned, someone want
chig to know who would run for commissioner in Ed
Lanier’s place. I suggested Y. Z.
“Huh,” someone else snorted, “Y. Z. couldn’t carry
the .barber shop.”
* * * *
Two ways for Sunday—the way to, church and
the way back home.
The Fairway Fox
Across the No. '■> fairway at
the Sanford golf course the
other morning, during a sunny
period between showers, a red
fox trotted.
His black-muzzled head was
held high hut not in alarm;
His step was light and leisure
ly He seemed young and, con
sidering his classic role in the
hunt and the number of po
tential cpntestant>*about, fool
ish.
Foolish ?
Well, the fox was not burden
ed with clubs and hag nor
did he seem to he concerned
with the whereabouts of a white
pellet or distance from flag
marked patches of green. He
neither sagged in despair nor
plodded in weariness. No one
would expect a fox to swing
hut there was nothing in this
fox’s demeanor that suggested
he was of a humor conducive
to swearing.
And further, the fox’s flame
around later in the day to see
if the note had twenowlieetpd.
It had. I leered across the
desk at the clerk and asked if
Mr Merrill had said anything
when he got his note?
Mr. Merrill had said “Thank
you.”
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of Chapel Hill
Tuesday. February 28, 1956
coat and dark brush were more
complementary to the setting of
grass and trees and pond than
the purple and pink and yel
low and blue of the shirts and
shorts, male and female-stuf
fed, that went along with the
clubs and bags and little white
pellets.
Do foxes laugh? We weren’t
sure the one we saw on the
No. S fairway did. But we
would have sworn we heard a
giggle, and everybody knows
that golfers never see any
thing funny.— Sanford Herald
Insult to Intelligence
(('. A. Paul in Elkin Tribune)
i doubt that a wailing, rail
ing speaker could ever con
vince me of anything. When a
speaker shouts at me I con
sider it an insult to my in
telligence. it is as if he thinks
rny skull is so thick he must
yell his words, like a carpen
ter hitting a nail extra hard
to drive it into a piece of tough
timber.
’ “If critlciftfn Wad any - real
• power to harm, the skunk
would he extinct by now.”—
: Fred Allen.
Tact is the unsaid part of
what you think.