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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chape! Hill North Carolina EL Rwfß»n Telephone MtTl or B**l Publisher! Evenr TdowUj and Friday By The Chapel Hill PohUshinf Company, lot. Loins Graves Contrrbutm# Edam jor Jokes Mcnagxnp Editor Billy Aimrrr Axsoeurte Edam Cbtck Hai’sh Assonctf Edam ry.-r- -r Campbell Gmmai Mora:pm 0 Z VaSBI Advmusinc DtrtCtpr jyyr - Circviauo* Kora:pm Chaxltcw Carswell .Merharnrc; Sup: Erlerrc m •eeonc-ci** matter Fenruar* » I*2L at Si noctofbrr a: rtiApe. HiL. Nortr Carolina under tn« an oi M*~rr S lE7* SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ir. Orange County, 'ear t 4 W if months- tL2i : month? 11 .M • f Outfioe oi Orange County by. the 1 ear State of N C. H- anc S C 4J>(- Otfier States anc I»ist of Colunsba t.OO Canaoa Meticc-, South America - TW Euro?* —1 jjj. New York’s Automobile Insurance Ia» : An Example This Male should Follow After rr.&ry years of pleading by :ne state insurance cmmissioner and other -late and city poternment of* ficiais civiT orpan-zati; ns. and innumer able individual citizens the New Y’ork legislature has enacted a compulsory automobile insurance law . If will become effective January 1. Until now Massa chusetts has been. the only state with compulsory automobile insurance. New York has made only a pretense of as surinp ,nuemn.i. f .-' c tc accident victims. Instead of comj>e..inp a car owners to carry iiabi.ity insurance it has put un der such com; vision only persons who have already beer, guutv of causing death or r. ury. r damage to property, on the streets a.nc r.igr.ways. That is ail the protect/..-, to victims that the laws of Nor..-. Care lira and many other state.'- provide. As I have remarked be fore. t.i.s fits the old saying about lock ing thf tablf ' after- the horse is jjfori* Under New Y rk new law no mo tor vehicle may operate in the state without in.-urance coverage of slo,ooo' for an accident Involving one person. S2O. Wj •' - " -*■- van one, and for pr' :*<--• y 4amage. Only an estimated 700.000 of fr.e -late - 5.000.000 oar owners r about at-seventh, are al ready comply.r.z. of their own volition, with the new lav. The adeptk»n'*"f a really effective automob..e iian...t;■ insurance law by Ne w York -houid ex< rt a good mfiuence e.sewhere. T. r .< rr.er fact that the na tion -r' v* p'.pu/ , late has-embraced this reform, will help to build up a popu lar ©pimen in favor of it Arid the re port -of investigations into the auto rr. r j's. jv ifib Lirfcnot problem b v the state insurance cor©mis Goner and otr.er -tate and municipal officials in New York well be availab.e to 2e-gisla ■tor- and government off/.a. through out *r.e country and should be of great • a.U<- ir, guiding legislation. Os course conditions vary among the states, and a law- that suits or/ may not be exactly what suits another, but ai! of them have the same simple need: a iaw saying thtat no person shall be allowed to operate an automiobile uni* -- he has an insur ance policy that will provide, in.case he is guilty of can -mg an accident, an in- ■ demnitv for the victim. J hope that North Carolina will be prompt to benefit from the information that New York has accumulated on au tomobile liability insurance. As; a result of the efforts of some of its leading members (among them Orange County's representative, John W. Cmstead), our I legislature has made a beginning I toward a good lav. It .should finish the I job at the next session.—l,. G. ‘The Kenan Profehsonihips” Often, when you l:ear a book de- I scribed as “a handsome volume,” that I means the binding, th»- paper, the print- I ing, and the illustrations are so im- I pressive that they dim the merit of I what the book says. “The Kenan Professorships,” which I has just been issued by the University I of North Carolina Press, is a handsome I volume indeed, and that may well be the I first thing you notice about it. For, it ■ takes a little while to get started to I reading a book. It can l>e said to the I credit of this one, though, that before ■ you have finished reading its first page I you have forgotten all about how hand- I some it is. Os course you can return ■ later, at your pleasure, to contemplating ■ the book as a fine specimen of the ■ printing art, and you will get special ■ enjoyment from the black-and-white portraits by William Meade Prince and Adrian Lamb. ‘The Kenan Professorships" is by A. C. Howell, who has been a member of the University faculty in the Eng lish department for thirty-six years and secretary of the faculty for thirteen years. It is divided into two parts: first. ’ A History of the Kenan Professorship Fundi" second, “The Kenan Profes sors." consisting of fifteen memorial biographies and thirty-eight contempo ra r> / hi ogra ph i es.,' The donor of the professorships was Ma ry Lily Kenan, whose first husband was Henry M. Flagler and whose second husband was Robert Bingham. The first chapter in the book is entitled "Henry M Flagler and the Kenan Family." It :.- mainly historical but it is contempo rary in that it contains a record of the career of William R. Kenan. Jr., who gave the University the stadium which bear- his name and ha« contributed to many University funds for equipment and for research projects. Ir. the second chapter. "Mrs. Bing ham’s Bequest." it is revealed that Colonel Robert Bingham of Asheville, Mary Lily Kenan's father-in-law. was the first to suggest to her the founding f the professorships. The revelation is ir. the form of- a letter that Colonel Bingham wrote August 17. 1917, to Edward Kidder Graham.. President of *. h e U niversit v. The third and fourth chapters, “The Kenan Professorships Fund. 1918-1930,’’ and “The Kenan Professorships Fund. 1930-1955,” are devoted largely to fi nancial and legal matters pertaining to the fund and to the selection of faculty members for the professorships. The roll of the Kenan professors is given in the fifth chapter. Then follow two hun dred and fifty page- of biographies. Th< first five prof< ors appointed in January 1918. were William Cain, Few In Greenlaw. William deßerniere Mac Nicer, Francis Preston Venable, and Henry Yar. Peters Wilson. The r/-xt ten (1920-19301 were Eugene Cunningham Brar.- n, William Chambers Coker, Jo- Gregoire eie Koulhac Hamilton, Howard Wa-r mgton Odv-m, Henry Hor a<- V« . am- J/v. - Round Wilson, P/ '/ rt Legge- Wimberly Connor, James F.r.eh Ko.v--.er. Archibald Henderson, ar.: G‘ rge Raleigh < off man. The next v-ven (1931-1934 / were Frederick yjer.ry Koch, William Morton Dey, Gu.<p Jave AflJ’phus Harrer. Edgar Waliade Knight, Arth ,r h>iward Ruark, Geo rge ( ffjr. Ta ■ lor and Erich Walter Zim merman. The total number of Kenan profes r- appointed ,-ince 1934 is thirty-one. The book can be ordered from the University of North Carolina Press. One nice fact about i* that 1 have saved to end up with i- that it doesn't cost but ten dollars—L. G. Stevenson and Kefauver An Associated l’r> - - dispatch from Chicago on the front page of the Ral eigh News and Observer, Thursday, March 22,. the second day after the Minnesota primary: “Stevenson said today: ‘1 am no longer the front-run ner.’ ” . From an editorial in the News and Observer on the same day: “Steven son is the only Democratic candidate with an established national follow ing . . . and because of Senator Kefau ver’s low standing with the leaders who select delegates in most of the states he must still be regarded as the front runner for the Democratic nomination.” This shows what differences there can be in the interpretation of election results. Observe that here the disagree ment is: not between political foes but between a candidate and one of his most ardent supporters. On Sunday the 25th, three days after the apjiearance of the statements just quoted, the News and Observer went out on what seems to me to be a mighty long limb in declaring it to be "a clear fact” that “the race for the Democratic nomination boiled down to a contest between Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver”. . . .“This news paper does not share the j*>or opinion of Senator Kefauver held by some Democrats. However, it does feel de finitely that Adlai Stevenson would be the strongest candidate and, if elected, would be a President of whom the whole country would lx; proud. But regardless of the choice, a choice must be made between the two leading can didates in any national sense. Both of them cannot be ignored without the party’s risking, if not inviting, ignom inious defeat.” • ' From its limiting the field to Steven- THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY On the Totrn jj By Chock Hauser J An Open Letter To: Dean of Student Affairs Fred Weaver Dear Dean Weaver, During our conversation of two weeks ago I be lieve we agreed that student ownership of automobiles has created a serious traffic and parking problem for the town of Chapel. It is not a campus problem, because students are not permitted to park on the campus. At the same time, the University must take the responsibi lity for solving the problem, because it has jurisdiction over the more than 2.000 owners of student automobiles. 1 have been critical in the past of both the Uni \ersity administration and student government leaders for failing to arrive at a solution. Since I have criti cized. 1 think it is only proper that I offer my own sug gestions for improving the situation. Don’t Restrict Ownership First. I would like to go on record as saying that I. like you, would hate to see students prohibited from keeping automobiles at the University. However, until I arrived at the suggested solution below, I had about decided that restriction of ownership was the only practical way to deal with the situation. I still consider such restriction a possible solution, if alternate plans (such as my own) prove unfeasible or unde.-irable. J Two-Point Plan Hire. then, is my two-point program to solve the parking and traffic problem: 1. Charge students a license fee for registering their automobiles, and use the money for (a) Construc tion of new parking lots in the Kenan Stadium woods, and (b) Enforcement. 2. Establish a student no-parking district extending out two blocks from the perimeter of the campus. Tax Is not Unreasonable It is not unreasonable to expect students to pay a "tax” for the privilege of maintaining an automobile while they are at the University. As’to the amount of this tax. I don’t think ?2 per semester would be ex cessive, and it would provide enough revenue to begin work on parking areas and also allow for additional law enforcement personnel. The town would be entitled to some of the money earmarked for personnel, because town policemen would have to perform the function of tagging the student cars found parked in the no-parking 'district within two blocks of the campus. Few exceptions would have to !/• made to the rule. Physically haridicappeciNfctudents would, of course, con tinue to receive on-campus parking permits. Married -tudents should receive special permits to allow their wives to park .within the no-parking district to shop ar/J run normal household errands. Student- who commute to the campus from Dur ham, Carr boro, Glen Lennox, or other areas outside of town would not ba. granted special privileges, since thew-could park their cars in the Kenan Stadium woods and walk from there to the campus. Few Problems Anticipated Students who live in town at location- more than two blocks from the campus could quarter their cars near their residence-, of course. Students who Jjve closer to the campus could also park their cars out.-ide the two-block boundary, but the number of person- in this category is not large enough to create any problem. There would probably also be no problem of dormitory residents parking out.-ide the two-block boundary line, because they would then be walking the same distance to class as if they had used the lots in the woods’. Time is drawing short in this matter. The Uni versity’s Board of Trustees is looking to the administra tion for a solution to the problem, and if a solution is not arrived at before long, the Trustees will un doubtedly set up their own committee and lay down their own law. That law may well prohibit students from bringing their car - to school with them. son and Kefauver you' riffght suppose the Raleigh paper had never heard of' the nomination of compromise candi dates and dark hordes. Yet it has hap period many times in both parties. W. J. Bryan was practically unknown be fore he was nominated at the Democrat ic convention of IK%. Alton B. Parker won the nomination in 1904 by vigor ous artificial boosting, he was an un magnetic, solemn bird and the number of votes for him was no greater than any candidate free of a prison record would have got. James M. Cox in 1920 and John W. Davis in 1024 were with out appeal on a national scale. On the Republican side Warren C. Hard ing (1920) and Alfred are examples of compromise candidates. 'lTie Democrats are in such a hope less mess with their family quarrels that there is little prospect of their winning the Presidency no matter whom they nominate (though they have a good prospect of winning a majority in Congress). But, whatever the party’s outlook is, I feel sure it is a mistake to rule out this long in advance all can didates but Stevenson and Kefauver. There is Harriman, and there is Sym ington; either might come in at the finish. And the labor union bosses and other left-leaners are so powerful in the Democratic party that they might even put over Soapy Williams of Mich igan. 1 would be willing to lay a bet that Kefauver does not get the nomination. For two reasons: (1) that he has not impressed the people as being a man of Kswsrs'f'sw. l «wiiii>;i3 _ Roundabout Paperm J. A. C. Dunn I SPENT QUITE SOME time the other evening, strain ing. panting, twisting my way through Hal Sieber’s latest hook, “Something the West Will Remember.” which ap pears to be a 225-line poetic equivalent of that gruelling steeplechase they have every year in England. I sprinted and charged and clutched and reversed, trying to get some sense out of Mr. Seiber's elus ive lines, but my efforts were all neatly dodged, nimbly side stepped, laughingly brushed off. Ninety-nine per cent of the time Mr. Seiber’s meaning is simply not to be pinned down. Just as a keyed-up athlete makes frequent trips to the bathroom before the game, I made twelve trips to the dic tionary during the poem. I cannot say the dictionary help ed me much, though I did run across some interesting bits of information by accident (did you know that “chrism” is “consecrated oil used in bap tism, confirmation and ordina tion, etc.”|. 1 even scribbled (desperate little queries in the margins of Mr. Seiber's 18- page booklet. To give you an idea of the paths of bewilder ment into which I was led, 1 quote here some of my scrib blings: “Dylany? Reference to Dy lan Thomas?” “Contradiction in ‘sootyftbut clean?’” “Refer ence of ‘august second?'” ■'Who was Peter Quince?” “Musquash equals muskrat. Aigonquian origin. Algonquiari linguistic grouping of several American indian tribes. Why was musquash root chewed? Home come ‘too much? Re nato Corsini, who? Apologist for what?” “M J. R?” “LiPo: Chinese poet a translation < of’ whom was included in Heibei s first book, ‘lri This the Mar ian Year.’ ” “Three times three times three times three equals 81!” You /-e, perhaps, what I mean? Mr. Seiber makes me f«-<-1 iik*- a third grader whose homework for the day is to ghtread the Rosetta Stdhe. All right, orneone says, so you don’t understand the poem; can't you even say what it is; the W*t Will Remember ? Yes, as ~ a matter of 1 •an On page sixteen Mr. .Slsi ber finally hauls off and tells all, and in surprisingly co herent language, too. Unfortunately, before read ing the revelation, you will have to outseek your second thought-, chew a little too much musquash root, wade through a terribly clean swamp, *-<• unseen shadows against iionbar <<hoes, sit through the -.evenly seventy screams of the folk, reach for khaki to apron the loin of our riudemost pose, decide about' quotidian remind ers, of our zooid heritage, arid listen carefully to “Kettatettet Ping. Ping.” You will also have to smell the blood that boils on the moon and find out (if you can) what Cemuetlichkeit means. Hut after you have success- high enough quality for President, and 12) that he's got the cards stacked against him by the party-bosses. Speak ing of going out on a limb, I’ll go there myself: I predict that Stevenson will do better in the primaries he is still to enter than he did in Minnesota; that the bosses will end up by favoring him above any other candidate; and that he will be nominated.—L.(l. One Hundred New Families When 100 new families arrive in a community the size of Chapel Hill a Jot of things happen, according to “('hanging Times.” For example, it means a population increase of about 400 people including 100 school chil dren, 07 in grammar school, thirty three in high school. This will neces sitate additional school room space cost ing about $120,000. Four new teachers will be required, and the school operat ing budget must be upped. It will also cost the municipality twelve to fifteen thousand dollars more to operate, because of the increased services that must be supplied. vAn additional 10,000 gallons of water will be pumped each day, and traffic will be increased by 140 additional cars. There are other figures concerning the amount of additional money that will be spent for groceries, clothing, shelter, etc. It makes interesting read ing, and it reminds us once again of the great contribution every newcomer makes to our community. HHH I Like Chapel Hill tsar- ■ By Billy Arthur - ■ ■ Sorry I couldn't attend the sessions of the N. C. Academy of Science last week and hear the illuminat ing explanation of "how to make wasps sterile and how to prevent such sterility." But you can bet your life if they ever extend that research project to roaches and chigprers I’ll be on hand for a report. a * * * S Ob)e Davis postcards from Tampa, Fla., that “the fish are biting. Two of us caught 50 speckled perch that weighed 102 pounds. Also caught an 8 1 ,5-pound bass.” I told the boys at his filling station what he had written, and they said: "’ieh, we got word he's coming home this week. He’s caught a lot of fish and has got to come back to tell us all about them.” „ * * * * I m confident I would have won the Durham Sun’s Coinword puzzle contest this week. Last Saturday I poured myself into it, anticipated the catchy clue words, and really did myself proud. Buil couldn’t mail it, because the Missus six years ago changed my way of living. As a bachelor, whCh I saw something in the paper that I wanted to keep. I ripped it out right then and there. She didn’t approve of that, specially when she hadn't read the paper. Once or twice since I’ve forgotten and had to answer for a tear-out job. But not lately. So I left last Saturday’s paper intact; and what happens. The Missus contributed it to the Jaycees’ Paper Drive Sunday afternoon. -ir * * ■ 1r Harry Golden in the Carolina Israelite tells of a real collector’s item he possesses. Mr. Golden had written a New York politician, soliciting some printing business during the campaign then in progress, and the politician replied by letter: “Dear Golden, get me about 21,000 of these circu lars. I want 10,000 with the union label and 10,000 without the union label.” fully staggered through all these phases of “Something the West Will Remember,” Mr. Seiber will suddenly stop coy ly lacing his fingers and wild ly wea/ing cat’s cradles on his typewriter and inform you gently (and truthfully) that .Something the West Will Re member is . . . Ah, now go and find out for yourself! * * r# J DON’T UNDERSTAND modern poetry. 1 can’t see why modern poets don’t just say the words, instead of winding themselves up in “verbal trick ery” las 1 have heard it called) like kittens tangling with a hall of ydrn. I refer to passages like the following, from “Some thing the West Will Remem ber;” “am chrisrnon am monkey’s brother is another am neither am both these rather a wordsmith by trade.” Now look. I’m a wordsmith by trade, but I’ll be a monkey’s brother if that SAYS any thing to me. Undoubtedly it says something to Mr. Seiber, but what about, me? I’m the reader, don’t i count? I want to know what in the name of chrisrnon Mr. Seiber is talk ing about. If I’m going to read poetry I don’t want to play 7fmi ant tufa &idt& tb f tvt/uf Com ! SAVING AND SPENDING are the two sides of every coin. 1 Your success in getting ahead financially depends largely on Which side you look at FIRST. If you look at the SPENDING side first, you may never get around to the SAVING side at all. Better attend to your saving before you even start spending. Deposit the FIRST dollars out of every pay envelope in your savings account and spend what’s left over. It’s the only method of saving that really works! MANGE COUNTY BUUMM HD LOM ASSOCIATION West Franklin St. Tel. 9-6761 Friday, March 30. 1956 little linguistic games; 1 want to get something from the poem, and get it quick, and then think about it afterwards. 1 don’t think that’s asking too much. Why does modern poetry flaunt its ohsecurity this way ? 1 ran across an opinion the other day which is, while not necessarily correct, at least food for thought: Modern poetry nas turned itself into the “cult of obscurity,” said my informant, because it has nothing to identify itself with. We have great poets when there is a definite expanding mweme#! in society—like the Renaissance, or the Industrial Revolution. But there is no great move on now and so poets, .n order to identify themselves with something, have latched onto this idea of riot making any sense and concocting strange word com binations. Jf this is true, 1 wish poets would latch onto something else. If they don’t 1 shouldn’t he at all surprised if people in a future age look at these years and remember “when the world: (Third) was succeed ed by the fourth when the baw beeworth heavenism overcon verted this gypsyry of then” an*l shudder.
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