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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill North Carolina 12* E. Row man Telephone MITI or M*l Published Every Tuesday and Friday By TV Q>aw\ Hill Pablmhinc Company, lnt Loos Graves ConmbuJsnc Editor Joe Jones .Woriajymc Editor Rr l v Arthxtr .... .AtSOCUIIt E dltor Chtck Halts!* Awoetctf Editor Orvuix Campbell Geneve', Manager O T Watkins Advenxstng Dt-ector Pari Dali _... Circulation Manager Chailton Campbell Mechanical Supt. Er.ierrC *> mconc-CKi* rr.«tl*r February 3t IMS at the poaiorfire at CJiape H.l. Nonr, Carolina under tt>c ac*. of March 3 In SUBSCRIPTION RATES It Orange County. Year lA.CK) (6 month* 12.25: £ month* . SI .50» Outside oi Orange County by the 'iear; State of X. G, Ya.. anc S C. Other States and Diat of Columbia 6.00 Canada. Mexico, South America TOO Europe _ . - - " -6Q A I lan porous Intersection At a board of aldermen's meeting recently various traffic problems were under discussion. Some of us who live on Battle Lane were there V a*k that something be done t make for Safety for automobilists and pedestrians on that narrow thoroughfare, Cars tear along there at mad speed at all hours of the day and night. They are constantly parked in violation of the law. on the side of Battle Lane where parking is forbidden and by the hydrant at the head of Hooper Lane. Many a time I have found a car parked so as to block the driveway into my yard. Policemen come along and tag cars, and I suppose our neighborhood, in com parison with others, gets its fair share of attention. But this is not sufficient to make people driving cars behave de cently on Battle Lane. No doubt the main reason for this i* that the town doesn't have enough jxjlicemen. At the aldermen’s meeting there was unanimous agreement on this: that the intersection at the south end of Battle Lane, where it comes into East fameron Avenue and where a third thoroughfare, Country Club road, goes off at an ob lique angle, exceedingly dangerous. Mayor Cornwell said: “I pas,- there about half a dozen time- a day and 1 don’t believe Eve ever seen a more dangerous intersection.” The fact that the mayor of the town holds that opinion raises the hopes of u- Battle Lane re-idents that a stop light v bt inst a lied 1 hei e. L.G. Tributes to I rank Graham At th< Presentation of Hi* Portrait to The University on Saturday, May lit B\ Hiden Kamsev Too often w< delay in giving praise to those whom we love deeply and who have served greatly, with the sad re suit that our tributes indict our thought less neglect while they honor the ab sent. Today we are paying tribute to the living. Surrounded by scenes and friends dear to him, Frank Giaharn can hear with his own ears our words of affection. 4 4 4 Frank Graham was a truly great President of the CnLersity of North Carolina. 1 ' \\ hen he .‘.a* chosen for this high position tin University was a good and growing university with fine tradi tions and a record of distinguished ser vice. When he resigned to accept ap pointment to tin United States Senate the good had ripened into the great: it was a great University, great in stature, great in spirit, great in the reach and excellence of its service, great in the opinion of educators everywhere; 4 4 * He had at all times the confidence and the goodwill of the people of North Carolina. Their faith and their support lightened his burdens, inspired his best exertions, and made his efforts fruit ful. * * * The mark of the truly great leader is his ability to wring from good, for tune and bad fortune the maximum which each can furnish in value and virtue. Frank Graham-never lacked for obstacles that had to be surmounted and that gave him an opportunity to show what one of Shakespeare’s most vivid characters called “tne mettle of his pasture.” * * * It is difficult from the vantage point of these prosperous times to appreciate the grievous ravages of the depression —a veritable Black Plague. What we now recall seems to be an evil dream, wholly unreal and incredible. Truly for the American people these were the years that the locusts had eaten. The ability of the State to support the Vrljyersity kept shrinking as eco nomic conditions worsened and the abil ity of the people to pay taxes faded and almost disappeared. Salaries were rigorously slashed again and again with shattering impacts or. the morale of professors and other emj ioyees. Fami lies. finding mere solvent existence a matter of touch and . had to with draw their sons and daughters in dis tressing numbers. At tim*-.* it seemed the most the University c >uld hope to ci was merely to survive through the practice of the sternest austerity. resting ii his efforts strong in his faith, confident always that the lane if economic troub:* w - uld have its turning. Frank Grahar: carried the University through ti.- - .i-trying crisis with hi* own efforts and 'ru efforts of those whom he infected with his in domitable spirit. He ral .ed behind this institution the coFvfideni* of the peo ple, telling them agan and again in w ords of commanding * . .quence, “W hat over happens we must educate the young men and young women of the State.” Many a student was able to continue his studies 1 r to enter the University because Frank Graham, found somewhere some way, fund.- to place at his assistance. * 4 * The University which Frank Gra ham turned ov'er to 11.- successor was a vastly stronger institution —-stronger in its physical facilities, in the quality and scope of the instruction offered, in the professional qualification* and re pute of its faculty, stronger in the faith of the people of North Carolina. ~ It had taken its sec up rank among.the truly distinguished universities of the nation, a source of lively and loving pride to North Carolinians, and an ob ject of unstinted oraisi in academic circles everywhere If has become a national university in it* reputation and its attractiveness to ambitious youth. * * * Frank Graham believe* in free minds, free people, a free society. This has implied for him ‘lie fulle-t academic freedom within the broad boundaries of elemental decency and integrity. Bj Chancellor House, Accepting the Portrait My official task is easy and delight ful. I* is simply to ay that tin- Uni versity of North Carolina receives this portrait of Frank Porter Graham with deep gratitude, and that she will pre . er\< it. honor it. and ever seek to draw from it, the joy and inspiration she never fails to derive from the living presence of this tier most beloved son. Thank God his is still a living presence. Why seek to tell at length what everybody knows? Jt would Ic presump tuous in any voice permitted to express our sentiments to do more than indicate the many voices that crowd into our theme Frank Graham, our love for his person, our devotion to his ideals, our loyalty to his leadership. We love each other better and the place just seems to go better when he is around. Then is that inner circle of his classmates who call him “Buck,” indi cating that ordinary mortals cannot hope to know Frank as they do. There is his whole class of 11)011 and all who have lived and worked with him on this campus. ’There is that larger campus, the world the capital of which is the United Nations area in New York. There 1 have seen Frank stroll with his friends as simply as from South build ing in Chapel Hill, with all Manhattan visibly softening around him. There is not one of many, many thousands who hut feels that no one can speak for him the special intimacy he feels for Frank—everybody’s best friend. The work of the artist speaks for itseif if haply his art can fix the dyna mic person of Frank Graham on canvas and keep him in a frame. Toward dusk it will undoubtedly get out for a stroll around the campus, down by the play ing fields, about the village, if indeed it has not already taken off on the wings of the morning to the uttermost parts of the earth on some mission of love, light, and leading. Our portrait, whether in painting or words, is a symbol of something more deeply signified, an unbreakable i unity of love, thought, and action. Its realism is as detailed and alert to prac ticality as a Scotch manager, a Syrian pedler. Its idealism blends a Hebrew prophet with all mankind as his chosen people; a Greek poet or philosopher with all the world as his Hellas; a Ro man general in peace no less than war; Saint Francis with an eye to children and flowers amid the guns and bombs; THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY On the Tonrn -~'V- • By Chock Hauler : , , "V*l PILOT, May 24—If you say you’ve never heard of Pilot and don’t know where it is, I won’t be surprised, because until about noon today I was in the same boat. Pilot is in North Carolina, to be sure. I didn't question, that at all. because 1 didn’t see any state-line sign* on the road today, but there was some question about what county we were in. What happened—and the reason Pilot figures so prominently in this story—was this: I was accom panying Congressman Harold Cooley on a whirlwind, old-fashioned, traditional, stump-speaking and hand shaking political motorcade through rural Wake Coun ty. Pilot was one of the stops on our itinerary. “Colonel” Hubert May. Mr. Cooley’s law partner from Nashville, made a brief political speech on our stop here in Pilot, and in the course of his talk he delivered himself of a remark which went something like this: “Down in Nash County we‘re going to turn out in overwhelming numbers for Harold Cooley, and I hope you good folks in Wake will do the same.” Well, one of* the local residents who was standing on the sidewalk listening to the speech came up to Mr. May as the caravan wa* about to pull out, and said rather pointedly, “Don’t think I'm criticizing your talk or anything. Colonel, but this here is Franklin County, and not Wake.” There are probably smaller communities in North Carolina than Pilot, but I haven't seen one recently. Pilot is one of .these little farming centers which you don't even notice unless you slow down your car in order to avoid hitting a dog asleep in the road. But politicking bv motorcade through the cross roads communities as well a.- the big cities is an un diminishing aspect of American political life, for my money. You have to use radio and TV these days, at iea.-t to enough of an extent to match your opponent, but nothing will replace good old-fashioned barnstorm ing. Estes Kefauver has taught Adlai Stevenson a lesson in that department, and 1, for one, am glad that Mr. Stevenson has learned the lesson, because I think the country badly needs someone >A his stature and courage to replace the present do-nothing administra tion in Washington. Now how did I get off the subject of state poli tics and onto the national level? It was probably the result of a subconscious motivation not to dwell at too much length on a political race that will he cold turkey hash by the time this column sees print. In the m-xt Friday’s edition of the Weekly, if you all aren't sick and tired of hearing about the 1D56 Democratic primary by that time, I plan to do a brief post-mortem of th< campaign in the Fourth Congres sional District as J saw it from Raleigh. It may not be profound, but J think it will he informative. ~« a Highland chieftain with all nations for his dan. As Wordsworth wrote: *'Jt is the generous Spirit, who, when brought Among the tasks of real life, hath wrought I pon the plan lhat phased his boyish thought: • Whose high t ndeavoi - are an inward light That makes 11t* -put} b n I . [wj . bright: Who, with a natural instinct to discern What knowledge can perform, is dili gent to learn; Abides by this resolve, and stop- not there, Hut makes his moral being his prime care; Who, doomed to go in company with Pain, And Fear, and Hloodshed, miserahk train! Turns his necessity to glorious gain; In face of these doth exercise a power Which is our human nature’s highest, dower; Controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves Os their bad influence, and their good receives: By objects, which might force the soul to abate Her feeling, rendered more compas sionate; Is placable*—because occasions rise So often that demand such sacrifice; More skiilful in self-knowledge, even more pure. \ As tempted more; mere able to endure, As more exposed to suffering and dis tress ; Thence, also, more alive to tenderness.” Critic or Faultfinder By H. C. Enfield In Morganton .News-Herald Many unkind things have been and are being said about public school teach ers. There is a calibre of mind unable to grasp the thought that teachers are one of America’s assets rather than lia » , biiities. A personal grievance must now grow into a class grievance. Too often, criticisms of teachers—underpaid, over pupiled, worried by undisciplined pup ils, burdened with numerous extra-cur ricular activities —are made by those least qualified to make them. Fault-finding is detrimental. Con structive criticism is beneficial, and ap preciated when properly given. Fault finders are those who do more talking Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) able, between one place and another. Chapel Hill, for example, with abundant forests round about, and with pood-sized feedinp streams that are free from the run-off of water that has been used by other towns, has a reservoir with a capacity of about 700,000,W0 pallons and durinp a larpe part of the year enouph water to fiil it. The daily consumption here is between 2 and 3 million pal lons. Call it 3 million and the capacity of the reservoir is 235 times the daily consump tion. With allowance for dry seasons that draw down the water level behind the dam, there is still a tremendous margin of supply over demand. Thouph’ Chapel Hill ha* no trouble about its supply of wa ter in the reservoir, it does have a serious water problem; that is, inadequate storape of water immediately available for use. Just as a chain is only as stronp as its weakest link, so .is a water supply useful only to the extent that it can be put throuph a filter, pumped into towers to provide pres sure, and sent out through pipes to consumers. For the storage of enough immediately available water to meet the current demand, safe margin for an emergency, a new tank is needed, and. the University (Which owns and operates our water supply sys tem) is going to build one with a capacity of a million gallons. The site is in the woods near the hospital. Construction is expected to begin in June and to be finished in four or five months. 1 am sorry to have to add anything in nature of a tale of woe, but when the new tank i- finished anVi'connected with the pipes, there will still be a problem for the people in the suburbs that are not reached by the water supply system. Horne-builder* there are dip ping well*, and of course, being without ewers, they are com pelled to use septic tanks. This j not only making difficulties for some individual home-build er* hut • also causing concern to money-lending agencies that finance home-building, mainly the hanks and th> building and than thinking.’ Sound critics are those who do more thinking than talking. In other words, they say little unless they ha’.i- something worth saying. t I'mm remarks of some so-called ciitic.-, one gathers they are not keep ing abreast-of the times. They do not seem to fully realize that w< are living in the twentieth century instead of the nineteenth. The scope of the school Curriculum in “the good old days ’ was the famous “Three R Today, the ten dency seemingly is to give a "taste” of everything under the sun. Another reminder is that the State Department of Education sets up the school educational program. The coun ty unit must carry out what the State presents. And the local schools must accept and execute the program offer ed by the county. It is, therefore, the busines- and duty of the teacher to put this program into operation in her in dividual classroom, as well as do her part in its execution in the school as a whole. The teacher is just one cog in a wheel and not the wheel itself, as some seem to think. There seems to be a remnant of thinking extant in a few communities, which was quite general decades ago. And that is, that a teacher is a public servant whom patrons of the school (at least certain ones) feel it their responsibility to chaperone. So they undertake to inform her as to the plac es she might go, And with whom, also as to the time she is expected to re turn at night. My knowledge of teachers is such that 1 find the majority of them ready and willing to cooperate with those vitally interested in the welfare of the boys and girls, and in the good of the school. Hut there is a right way and there is a wrong way to approach teach ers. Courtesy and kindness will do much. Efforts of intimidations shut doors of opportunities. The highly train ed, disciplined, experienced teacher of today is not likely to receive with open arms a self-appointed fault-finder as the “Guardian Angel” of her classroom. Do we wonder that there is such a tremendous shortage of public school teachers! Are we surprised to learn of a multitude of former teachers, re turning from services in the armed forces not going back into the class room? Are we disappointed when told by high school seniors, on the verge of graduation, and ready for college en trance, “No teaching for us?” I Like Chapel Hill Speaking of bankers, David Fonville of the Uni versity National Bank was soliciting with the Jaycees for the cancer fund recently. One of the contributors gave him a check, which, it was discovered when the funds were being counted, was post dated. The man in the next room to me at Memorial Hos pital recently was an insurance salesman. And, honest ly, I'm not kidding: he sold two hospitalization policies while he was there. I overheard him asking one of the doctors if there was anything wrong in that, and the doctor replied: "Fellow, if you have that much confidence in us and Ji the patients, and the patients do too, you go right ahead and sell all you can.” * * * * Another trouble with the usual Hollywood ro mance is that the time is too short between courtship and court. * * * * By the time the meek inherit the earth the un meek will have found a means to take it away from them. * * * * Now they’re making tractors that plow hv remote control. That’s our idea of farm relief. 4**4 Scientists probing into the outer world say that all they are doing is an experiment, and that, after all, man is only an experiment. Maybe so, hut after man God created the real thing. 4 4 4 4 “A news item says that eventually machines will do all the housework. In that case, it will at least be done. loan association. 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