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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill North Carolina IX E. Ramuri Telephone M2TI or Mil i— ————— Published Every Tuesday end Friday By The Chapel Hill PoMtshinr Company, l»c Loos Grave? Connburm* Editor Jo* Joke MciuipmJ Editor Bxl.lt Akthtt . Assoaau Editor Chtcs Harsra Associc'.e Eduo * nm\-rzT Cxssrvcji General Manager O T. Watkixs Adverustng dr-ecto~ F*e Dai* Ctrruiatior. Manage’ Chae.tos Campbell Meehcnteal Sup'. Er.'-erec as ««cn6-ciaas :a*rter Fetyruary X MX at tat porurf&r* »? CAaat. HU. Ncrtt. Carolina uoOor toe or? ct M*rr. k i WT# SUBSCRIPTION rates In Orange Coontv, Year H-OG if month* KL2S; 2 months. *1.501 Oatstoe at Orange County by it* Year State at -V C, V*., and S. C _ 4Jf Other States and Dm of Columbia £OC Canada, Mexico, Scale America _ 7.00 Europe 7 hC The School Bond Issue Can Be Defeated Next Tuesday If Its Supporters Are Too Complacent to Vote “We urge you to vote YES or. the school bond issue for March 27th. We realize that pood schools are essential for the well being of this community. We know that additional facilities must be built during the next five Years to take care of increased enrollment The only way Orange County can finance it's school needs is through the support of this bond issue. We are going to vote YES. and we urge you to vote YES on March 27th.'' The above paragraph heads up the wording or a petition that has beer, mailing the rounds for the past few weeks. Chances are ten to one that your minister, your banker, your neighbor, your fellow worker signed it. Chances are also ten to one that you affixed your own signature to the document. Tne Weekly adds a hearty AMEN. We are most happy to note that over 90 per cent of the civic clubs, FT A 'groups, merchant groups, and church groups are working for better schools: for their children. But it will take much more than the signing of the petition. We must get out the vote next Tuesday. E'v er. with the overwhelming sup por* that seems, to be in evidence, the bond issue could be defeated. Those who 1 are against it will ce rfcin! y go to the polls and vote. Our neighbor, Durham, l voted on a $5.4 million dollar bond issue last weekend. Less than • ight per cent of the eligible voter went to the polls The margin of yes. votes over the no votes was about 500. We assume that most of the 28,283 Durham v oters who didn't vote were in favor of the bonds. I The complacency that was shown on I the part of the Durham voters could I have easily defeated a very important I bond issue. If that same complacency is shown jin Chapel Hill our school bond issue I could be defeated. The rest of the county I does not favor the bond „e as strong- Ilyas we do. There -orn*- organized I opposition to it I Don t Quit When Votes Are ( ounted I Our interest in the school bond ■ issue should not stop after the votes lare counted next Tuesday. We should ■Voice our thoughts and voice them ■strongly on how the money is to 1/e Ispent. Our local and county school ■boards will be. happy to listen. An ac- Itive interest on the part of all taxpayers ■will 1/e a good reminder that careful ■deliberation is necessary on the spend ling of every dollar. I (Mary) Margaret and (Elbert) Clifton I For some reason we had been won- Bdering all week how the New York ■Times would report in its Sunday’s woundup of the week’s news the forth ■coming wedding of Margaret Truman Hind E. Clifton Daniel. The Times did Hiot disappoint us. Under the heading of ■Margaret’s Man the paper had this to Jay: I The listings in the 1956 edition of ■‘Who’s Who in America” includes these ft wo: ■ TRUMAN, (Mary) Margaret,, con vert singer; born Independence, Mo., yeb. 17, 1924; d. Harry S. Truman (33d Vres. of U. S.) and Elizabeth Virginia ■ Wallace) Truman; grad. Gunston Hal!, ■Vashington, 1942; A. 8., George Wash ington U., 1946. Radio debut as concert linger with Detroit Symphony Orches- Ira, 1947; concert tour 1947-48; 1949 I * * Appeared on Carnegie Hall pro- Jram, 1949, 1950; network TV appear ances as singer, comedienne, actress i 960— * * *. I DANIEL, (Elbert) Clifton Jr., newspaperman; b. Zebulon. N. C.. Sept. 19. 1912; s. Elbert Clifton and Elyah D. (Jones). A. B. U. N. C.. 1933. • * • With Asso. Press in N. Y. C-, Wash ington, Berne. London. 1937-43: corr. N. Y. Times 1944—. stationed in Lon don, * * • Paris, in Middle East, in Ger many. in V. S. S. R. 1954 * * *. Las: week, in the Carlyle Hotel in New York. (Mary) Margaret Truman introduced a> her fiance f Elbert i Clif ton Itamel Jr., back from Moscow and_ n< to "the foreign editor of TheHftw York Times, and announced they would be married in Independence, Mo., m April. A Bow to Eastern Air Lines Eastern Air Lines, which is noted for its courteous way of doing business, has provided a new service for the peo ple of Chape! Hill. You no longer have to pay long distance toll charges when you phone Eastern at the Raieigh-Dur ham airport. Just dial 8404 or 8405 to secure information or place your reser vations. The two,circuits are on rotary service, which means that if one is busy, then the connection automatically switches over to the other number. Tne Weekly has felt for some time that, considering how many Chapel Hillians use air service, there should be some way in which they could secure the necessary information without hav ing to pay for it. Eastern is the first air line to provide free phone service, it deserves congratulations. No doubt other lines will follow suit, but we are glad Eastern was progressive enough to see the need and realize its importance. iWe Like “The $64,000 Question” We must admit that our week isn’t complete if we don’t .suffer with the TV contestants on ‘The $64,000 Ques tion.” The other quiz shows, even the one that gives away SIOO,OOO, don’t in terest us one whit. But “The $64,000 Question,” perhaps because it started this thing of gigantic give-aways, seems to be a part of the family. Since “The $64,000 Question” went on th*- air forty-two weeks ago it has given away a -half-million dollars, or approximately $12,000 per week. Jn this day of spectaculars arid the fantastic prices that are paid for guest spots, $12,00# is strictly small change for a program that has dominated all rating reports. Only one contestant could not an swer the first question asked. All three who tried the $64,000 prize were successful. Once a contestant gets past the $4,000 plateau he never seems to miss a question. Only six consolation prizes (a Cadillac convertible in this case) have been given away. New Slant on Do-It-Yourself An Editorial Contributed by the N. C. Society tor Crippled Children and Adult* Do-It-Yourself is a slogan learned by many young j/eople in the course of their camping chores. Camp life helps children to develop their abilities, to mature, to get along with others, to do things for themselves, to develop inde pendence. That is the got/d that camp does for normal children. But the camp is good, also, for the crippled < hild. In camps for handicapped children, those with limited physical abilities are permitted—and required— to do things for themselves, as far as they are able to go. In the Easter Seal Camps in North Carolina, crippled children are invited to develop and to participate in camp life to the limits of their abilities. Doctors, camp counselors, physical therapists and others declare crippled children like it and appreciate doing for themselves all that they can do. Two camps have been organized this year through the N. C. Society of Crip pled Children and Adults, one at Camp New Hope near Chapel Hill, the other at Camp South Toe River near Micaville and Mount Mitchell. You can help a crippled child attend one of these camps next summer by contributing to the Easter Seal Sale. You can do this by letting your Coun ty Easter Seal chairman, Dr. O. David Garvin at the District Health Office, know that you want to help send a crip pled child to camp this summer. Essential characteristics of a gentle man: The will to put himself in the place of others; the horror of forcing others into positions from which he would himself recoil; the power to do what seems to him to be right, without considering what others may say or think.—John Galsworthy THF CHAPEI, ILL WEEKLY On tkr Town | Chart Banner * rmx&tui. r. .-l •-•*«' am I HAD NOT PLANNED TO ATTEND the organi zational meeting last Friday night of the Orange County chapter of the Patriots of North Carolina Inc.; 1 con sidered the address by Philippines Ambassador Carlos Romulc much more worth my while. Rut I wound up in Hillsboro instead of Memorial Hall just the same. The reason I went to Hillsboro was quite simple; U*had been invited NOT to go there. The invitation to stay away had arrived in Friday morning's mail, and it read as follows: “For your information and to avoid embarrass ment, the \public meeting of Patriots, to be held in Hillsboro Courthouse, Friday night, on segregation will not be for publication. News reporters will not be wel come. Official report!* of the ipeeting will be forth coming." The letter bore the typed signature, “The Com mittee." No return address was on the envelope, which carried a Chapel Hill postmark. I immediately called the state president of the Patriots. W. C. George, who was scheduled as one of the speakers of the evening. I read him the letter and asked him if it were true that reporters were not wel come at the meeting. He replied that it was not true, and he had no idea who might have sent the letter. When I arrived in Hillsboro I learned that the Durham Morning Herald had received a similar note, and had reacted in a similar fashion, except that the Durham paper sent a reporter AND a photographer. No other news media in this area had received such a letter, although in addition to the Weekly and the Herald, correspondents were present from the Greens boro Daily News, the News and Observer and the Ra leigh Times. It was a well-covered meeting. No officials of the Patriots could shed any light on the question of the origin of the letters. And no one gave any indications that the press representatives were not completely welcome. I’m glad I went to the meeting. I consider it an educational experience of the greatest value. I learned many things, including the facts that (1) these people are serious and determined in their efforts to abolish the public school system of North Carolina, and (2) they can legally do it, if they are able to capture a majority of the votes in the statewide election which would have to 1/e called to amend the Constitution. If former Assistant Attorney-General Beverly Lake’s proposal to substitute a system of private schools for our present public schools (with GI Bill like tuition grants to students) becomes an accom plished fact, two serious problems will arise in the educational picture: (1) The likelihood that the over all cost of education to the state will he increased (in the face of the fact that more than half the state’s in come now goes to education); (2) The loss of the com pulsory attendance law. The first point is admittedly debatable, and I do not have the facts at. my disposal to debate it at the present time. I am of the personal opinion, however, that the total cost wiJ jujnp considerably. (If for no other reason, because lfce many hundreds of children now attending private schools will be in a position to demand tuition grants along with the children who are switched from public schools into the proposed new private school system.) The second point is extremely serious. I presented it to Mr. l>ake following the Friday night meeting. In answer to my question: Is there any way the compul sory attendance law can be salvaged under the pro posed system of private schools? His answer was: "1 don’t know ... I’ll have to give it some thought.” Mr. I>ake then said he believed the problem would <y not be as serious as I seemed to indicate. He said he thought all parents who had been to school would want their children to receive an education, and compulsory attendance would be enforced on the family level. I can’t agree to that, of course. I am fully con vinced that the elimination of the compulsory attend ance law would result in a sharp decrease in school attendance among the people who need schooling the most—the poor, whose kids will wind up in the cotton patch when they should be in the classroom. Let me sound a warning: Don’t laugh at these people. Don’t bury your head in the sand and hope the Patriots will go away. Don’t pretend that North Caro lina’s public schools are safe from destruction. These people are serious and sincere. lYiey arc determined to do anything short of violence to block integration in the schools. Expense to the state amj loss of universal education are not obstacles in their eyes. 1 pray that the General Assembly, when it con venes in special session this summer (as it now def initely appears it will do) will tackle the problem with cool heads and common sense. ’The race issue, how ever, is something which is not noted for its ability to inspire common sense and cool thinking. If the General Assembly adopts a constitutional amendment eliminating the clause requiring the state to operate a free public school system, the decision will be up to the voters of North Carolina to approve or disapprove such an amendment. I would like to be able to say that I am confident the people of this state will never vote for the elimination of public schools. I would like to, but I’m not so (sure any more. Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) he’s worth half a million now,” the customer said. “Some of the students used to work their way through school by cutting hair in their dorm rooms. I remember Coley Wil liamson had a chair in his room in Battle about twenty five yeurs ago. “Anyway, every now and then a student getting a hair cut in Marley’s room would forget his books and never come back for them. At the, beginning of the next term Marley would sell all leftover books to other students. That «u J»ow he found out there was good money in old books. He quit harboring and opened a second-hand book store next to the post office on the sec ond floor of the Tankersley building. He seemed to do all right, but he knew he could do a lot better if it-wasn’t for Milton Abernethy, who had a better location in the Intimate Book Shop. He couldn’t find a suitable ground-level location where he could compete with Abernethy, so he moved his business to Durham, and there it grew into the biggest sec ond-hand bookshop in North Carolina. “But like many people who The '■ Roundabout Paper** or. J. A. C. Dunn DID YOU EVER WANT to go to sea and rollick saltily about the world yo-ing and heaving and ho-ing in a turtle neck sweater and peaked cap? Certainly you did. Perhaps you still want to. In any case, Jan de Hartog, the author of "The Little Ark," and “The Four poster," actually did g0...t0 sea —at the ape of ten, and ap pears to have been hobbling around in boats ever since. He has written a book about it too, called "A Sailor's Life,” which, he says, started out to be advice to a young man about going to sea and what to do when he got there, and wound up as an intimate portrait of the author as a middle-aged seafaring man. "A Sailor's Life” is not a story; it is simply a long se ries of short essays on some 200-odd phases of life at sea, ranging from what to pack in one’s duffel bap and how to handle one’s mother at depart ure time, through captains and bosuns and cooks and crews and seasickness and ghost stories and navigation and foreign ports and lascars and lifeboats, all the way to what it feels like to retire from the sea and come home for good. Evidently Mr. Hartog just de cided it was time to talk about shoes and ships and sealing wax and went right ahead and talked about everything in cluding why the sea is boiling hot. Needless to say, it’s a fasci nating book, told with both humor and poignancy, and with Mr. de Hartog’s extraordinary economy of words. I found it a sort of vicarious sea-voyage, and felt sufficiently brine-en crusted at the end of it to qualify as an experienced mar iner. If the humdrum of a settled life is beginning to get you down (or up, as the case may be, in restlessness out of your favorite chair), I recommend you buzz around to the Inti mate Bookshop and snaffle a copy of "A Sailor's Life.” It has the most wonderful effect. * * * THE CAROLINA QUART ERLY has sliced another notch on its doorframe, so to speak, with the recent publication of the Winter-Spring issue. I have read everything in this issue except William J'oteat’s duly footnoted an d undoubtedly mouthfilling words on tragedy. Mr. Roteat will have to come later, when I have time to sit down for an hour and am pre pared to be intricately philoso phical to the exclusion of all other demands on my attention; at ieast, I assume these con ditions will be necessary, judg ing by my experience in Mr. Poteat’s classes, which are stimulating but highly involved intellectually. As far as the rest of the Quarterly is concerned, I must say in all honesty that it did not loosen my roots. The fic tion was well-written, but had on me about the same effect as being given only half a glass of water when 1 need a whole one. I liked the story about the revival in the back woods, “Cry in the Wilderness.” I differ with Ed Yoder’s com ment in The Daily Tar Heel that “Cry in the Wilderness” was not a story because it had no conflict. How about the con flict between Birdie and the call of religion, Mr. Yoder? No conflict there? No? Well, there wasn’t much, I admit, but enough to make it a story, J think. Anyway, the author had a good idea but didn’t ex ploit it as fully as possible. i got awfully tired of the pregnant woman wandering around in the garden contem plating hanging herself to the nearest mundrone tree, or have had a taste of Chapel Hill, Marley didn’t like to iive in Durham. He had his eye on an apartment on the second floor of what is now the Port Hole Restaurant, but he could not get it at his terms. So he bought the building and moved into the apartment. This left him with the whole downstairs to rent out. In the same build ing with his bookshop in Dur ham was a commercial artist’s business operated by M. M. Timmons. Marley suggested to Timmons that the two of them form a partnership and open a restaurant in Marley’s build ing in Chapel Hill. Timmons said he was a commercial artist and didn’t know anything about the restaurant business. "But Marley talked him into it and that’s how the Port Hole Restaurant was born. With Timmons still running it, it’s been a success, though hardl/ as much a one as Mar ley's Durham book store,' which they tell me is still going strong." I Like Chapel Hilt SjSjS Parents of children attending the Little Red School House got two pieces of unwelcome news on last Friday when the tykes came home with a note pinned to their collars. The first item was that Spring holidays would begin March 29 and extend through April 2, and the second was: “The children here were exposed to chicken pox on March 13.” Reading the note, my Missus asked: "Y'ou reckon I ought to take Annis Lillian to the doctor? Still, chicken pox doesn't bother me as much as worrying how I’m going to get along with both her and Billy Jr. under my feet for five days.” * * * * Mrs. Eugene Hargrove washed the breakfast dishes and left sons Skeets, Tom and Bill home while she went away for an hour. Upon her return there were, by actual count, 36 dirty glasses in the kitchen. Every time they pass through the kitchen they got to have something to drink, and they never use the same glass, it seems,” she said. ‘‘Well, I’m putting a stop to that. I’ve got some paint and painted their names on three glasses, one for each. Skeets and Tom know theirs, and you can bet your life I’m teaching that Bill Hargrove to read.” * * * * Whenever you hear a man say poverty is a great thing, you are probably listening to a millionaire. * * * * The proposed reform of the calendar has both good and bad points. It would not only add another pay day but also another rent day. * * * * * The millennium will arrive when it takes as long for nations to start a war as it does to pay for one. * # * * A pretty girl in a store will make every man in town feel like buying his wife a dress. * * * * Some memories are nothing more than a row of hooks to hang grudges on. ***.•» With all our present day crime, it’s nice to know that the sun and the moon have haloes. whatever particular brand of tree it was. I finished the story,* but found myself left hanging at the end. Whether or not the woman was left hanging I leave up. to the reader to find out for himself. Another good idea riot fully exploited, 1 think. And then there was that lit tle thin# at the end about the crotchety old man and his slightly irreverant—but wholly excusable—son (he had millions of matches at the end, Mr. Yody; not millions of ciga rettes, unless my understand ing is at fault). 1 received the distinct impression from this little vignette of senility that the author had high hopes of there being a deep inner mean ing behind a formless piece of writing. I gather that the au thor’s deep inner meaning went no further than a state ment of the fact that old peo ple can be irritating; but then a fairly blunt mind, upon the square wheels of which the fates have evidently forced me to roll through life, may be my undoing, and i may be missing something. I did miss something in that story, as a matter of fact, but I ara not Sl4* IS OUR CURRENT DIVIDEND! You 11 find it hard to save money anywhere else and draw such a large dividend on your savings. Not only ure you getting a fair return on your savings When you deposited it with the Orange County Building and Loan Association, you are also safeguarding your future. In case of an emergency such as illness or accident, you’ll have a ready supply of money to fall back on to help you through the emergency. So start saving today at MAINE COUNTY BUILMHQ Ml UU HSMUTIN West Franklin St. . Tel. 9-8761 Friday. March 23, 1956 yet convinced that what I missed was the deep inner meaning. The poetry made me im patient. I am tired of poetry that slaps me in the face with word arrangements, of the same character as that prac tical joke in which all the furniture in a room is fastened to the ceiling and then you let someone wake up in the room with a hangover. Please, Von’t someone write some poetry with just plain old everyday ordinary straight forward syntax instead of verses that, so to speak, tie their shoelaces together, laugh lightly, and start off on a hundred-yard dash? Not "Mary had a little lamb,” of course, or “There was an old man of Peru, who . . Just some thing 1 don’t have to sweat at. There’s enough sweat to be sweated without sweating it over poetry too. Poetry is for relaxation, not penal servitude. The magazine was very well put together. It looks fine. A good editing job. 1 look for ward to the Faulkner issue, which is apparently coming up in the spring issue.