Page Two 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 ■Entered as second-class matter Keoruary 2» 19ILJ at ■the postoffice at Chape! Hill, North Carolina, under Phe act of March 3 U 79 | SUBSCRIPTION RATES ■n Orange County, Year *4.00 ■ (6 monthii $2.25; 3 months, SI.BO) I Outside of Orange County by the Year: State of N. C., Va., and S. C. 4.50 bther States and Hist, of Columbia 5.00 f anada, Mexico, South America 7.00 Europe 7.50 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 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. 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Now $5.20 , qt . size> was *5.95. * Now $4.15 A Small Down Payment Will Hold Any of These Items At The Sale Price! . > ebanzigex i 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.