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The Chapel Hill Weekly
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
116 E. Rosemary Telephony 5F1271 or **<6l
Published Every Tuesday and Friday
Br The Chapel Hill Publishing C ompany, 1«*
Lock Graves ..Contributing Editor
Joe Jones Managing Editor
Billy Arthur
Oryili.l Campbell - General Manager
q t. Watkins - Advertising Director
Charlton Campbell Mechanical Supt.
Entered a* second -clan matter February 2fc
the postoffice at Chape! Hill. North Carolina, unde
the act of March 3. I3?fr
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
in Orange County, Year *4-°°
(6 months 12.26; 3 months, 11.60)
Outside of Orange County by the lear:
State of N. C.. Va., and S. C -
Other States and Dtst. of Columbia 6.00
Canada, Mexico, South America
Europe 7 ' 60
Something Forgotten about Repeal
The 18th Amendment, commonly
known as the Prohibition Amendment,
became a part of the Constitution of the
United States in January 1920. The
Volstead (Prohibition Enforcement)
Act was passed by in October
1919, was vetoed by President Wilson,
was passed over his veto, and went into
effect January 17, 1920.
There has been a vast volume of mat
ter published about National Prohibi
tion. and it is nut intended to give here
more than the briefest summary of this
episode in our history. For the present
purpose the following few words from
the Columbia Encyclopedia will suffice:
“In spite of the strict Volstead act,
law enforcement proved to be almost
impossible. Smuggling on a large scale
could not be prevented, and the illicit
manufacture of liquor, mostly strong
spirits, sprang up with such rapidity
that authorities Were unable to suppress
it.
“There followed a period of unparal
leled drinking (often of inferior and
dangerous beverages) and lawbreak
ing.”
A vigorous, movement for the repeal
of the 18th Amendment was launched in
the 1920’5. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Pres
idential candidate of 1922, endorsed r«
peal. The 21st Amendment, repealing
the 18th, became law in December 192”.
When you consider what a vast
• change the population of th< country
has undergone in twenty-three years -
the millions, of people w ho have died, the
millions now at or near voting ag* who
were not born in 1922 and when you
reflect how faulty tin human memory
is, it is probably not surprising that
there seems to be lit' > realization today
of the character of the campaign lor
the repeal of National Prohibition.
The strength of that campaign, tin
force that gave it victory, was not pri
marily peoples desire to get all the
strong drink they wanted. It was the
conviction that not only did prohibition
bring bribery and other corruption but
that it actually caused more instead of
less drinking. Instead of being a move
ment for excess, as the prohibitionists
called it, repeal was really a movement
for moderation.
But as soon as repeal was achieved, as
soon as it was safely on the law books,
the people who had been chiefly instru
mental in putting it there, the moder
ates, were shoved asidt by the element
that was interested only in financial pro
fit. This was made up mainly, of course,
of the liquor-makers and liquor-sellers.
Nothing else could be expected of them
except that they would try to sell all
the liquor they could—that was their
only reason for existence—but the
country did have the right to expect
that the press would not become as
sociated with them in building up the
taste for liquor, as it is doing, by its
best arts of text and picture. The great
stake that the newspapers and maga
zines hold in the manufacture and sale
of liquor in this country Vxlay is a
shameful situation. —L. G.
The Purpose of Education
(The Washington I'ost)
The meaning of education like the use
of science may change with each gener
ation. But the purpose is always the
same. It is, in the words of the Eng
lish historian, Herbert Butterfield, “to
elicit and train the imaginative faculty,
the creative qualities of the mind. ’ Mr.
Butterfield’s fresh definition, given the
other day at the annual meeting of the
Harvard Alumni Association, was part
of a call to the universities not to lose
sight of the chief objective of education
ami not to oppress their students with
the burden of too much knowledge. In
A Memorial on Harry Woodburn Chase
There is a lawyer in New York named
George Whitney Martin. He was bom
in Rochester in 1887, attended Groton,
and was graduated from Harvard in
1910. His law practice was interrupted
twice by military service: he was com
missioned a first lieutenant in the F irst
World War and rose to - lieutenant
colonel in command of a regiment, and
in the Second \S orld War he was a
brigadier-general. He was decorated
with the Silver Star.
Distinguished though he is in his
profession and for his service in two
wars, he is admired by his acquaint
ances in New York chiefly for the qual
ity of the memorials that he writes as
historian of the Century Club. There is
a saying among the members that it
is worth dying—well, almost — to have
George Martin write your memorial.
This one that he wrote on Harry W.
Chase, who was President of the Uni
versity here for several years, has just
been published in the 1956 Century.
Club Year Book:
“Harry Woodburn Chase was Eighth
Chancellor of New York University. He
graduated from Dartmouth in 1904 and
took a Ph.D. from Clark University in
1910. From 1919 to 1930 he was Presi
dent (jf the University of North Caro
lina. from 1930 to 1932 President of the
University of Illinois, and from 1923
Chancellor of New York University
until he retired in 1951.
"Thirty-two years is a long time to
be a university president, and Chase
was at the wheel during some stormy
weather. He went to North Carolina
during tin First World War and steered
the University through the astonishing
and disturbing period of change in the
19205. He left it the most progressive
and vigorous institution of higher learn
ing in the South.
“In New York, while he was Chan
cellor, there took place the organization
and building of the great New York
Uni versify-Bellevue Medical Centre and
the consummated devt lopment of Wash
ington Square as the Law Centre for
the University. These remarkable ac
complishments were achieved while the
country was successively wallowing in
a financial depression and involved in
the Second World War.
“Chase was an exceedingly skilful
administrator. He not only knew exactly
what he wanted to do and how to go
about it, hut he captured and held the
loyalty of his faculty and the confidence
of his trustees to an extraordinary de
gree. The fact is he minded his own
business and got through it in good
order, aqd he expected everyone else to
do likewise; and they usually did. This
system saved lnm so much time that
h< gave an impression of being leisure
ly and unhurried.
“He was a tall, handsome man, with
a ruddy color extending over his bald
head. His eyeballs protruded and were
ever alert, not only in their natural
orbit, but also at an angle of 45 degrees,
* right and left, without the turn of his
heauk— clothes fitted him; h< talked
with a certain preciseness; he bore him
self with a natural dignity; and he was
good fun withal, could he counted on to
contribute his share of provocative re
mark.-, and knew very well what he was
talking about.
“To be a good administrator is to
deliver one’s fellow-workers from the
gratuitous frustrations of faulty or
ganization and the exasperations of
vacillating leadership; to the lotxr
thousand members of his faculty Harry
Chase brought freedom from the ills
that flow from sloth and complacency
in high places.”
1 am indebted to Robert M. lxsster,
member of the Century Club and resi
dent of Chapel Hill, for a copy of this
Memorial. —L. G.
the modern world, a vast amount of
knowledge is necessary before there is
understanding—a knowledge of history,
of science and of human personality.
Yet the mere accumulation of facts can
easily degenerate into a memory test.
“We sometimes too easily forget,” Mr.
Butterfield said, “that we are living in
a world in which imagination, original
ity and flexibility of mind are at least
as important as knowledge itself. One
ounce of originality is worth a ton of
mere learning.” But hi w can the univer
sities fulfill their obligation in this re
spect? It is a problem that has plagued
every thoughtful educator since Plato. *
John Dewey caused a revolution in ed
ucational method when he asked the
question and proposed the answer. Now
there is a movement away from the
Dewey methods back toward more con
ventional teaching. Mr. Butterfield
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
quite rightly said that in order to ful
fill its function a university “has to be
a place where work is actually
carried on and original things are hap
pening.” v '-'^
There, indeed, is the test of a great
university and what sets it apart from
an undistinguished one. The imagina
tive teacher and researcher inspires
the same quality in his students, by
clothing facts with meaning and ideas
with power. There should be a direct
and conscious effort “to feed and cul
tivate the more imaginative side of
human beings—the source of true orig
inality.” Mr. Butterfield said that at
Chapel Hill Chaff
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by—harbor five beautifully be
haved children.. Starting at the
west and going clockwise,
these girls are Mary Carter
Burns, Kim Kyser, Carroll
Kyser, Amanda Kay Kyser,
and Gay Warren. The Burns
family has lived across Battle
Lane from us for three years,
the Kysers arid the Warrens
have lived beside us much
longer.
We have special reason now
to reflect upon how nice this
company is because it is more
than half absent. The Kysers
are in California. We can look
forward to their coming home
in September, but then Mary
Carter Burris will be gone for
good because her father, com
manding officer of the Naval
ROTC, is being transferred
this month to ' amp Lejeurie.
However, there are shreds of
consolation on the Burns
front. Colonel and Mrs Burns
say they expect to come to
Chapel Hill on visits, of course
bringing Mary Carter with
them, and they hope that when
retirement time comes they
will build a home here.
We’re glad that one of our
young next-door neighbors,
“Peachy” Warren—that’s what
her family and friends call
Gay—is booked for Chapel Hill
all summer except for one week
when she will be at the beach.
The wildlife in the garden,
secluded from the street by a
rock wall, is our home’s chief
attraction for the children.
They see chipmunks running
iri arid out of the wall and
through the bushes, and .some
times this is an infrequent
treat a terrapin emerges from
a border arid makes its slow
REPORT OF CONDITION OF THE
01 FILERS
O,JVK M:,::::'"‘ KU - Lniversily National Bank
J (
O. GORDON PERKY
Vice J’m -.- idcnt and ' a shier of Chapel Hill in the slate of North Carolina, al the Close
, „. AII of Business on June JO, 1956 published in response to call
vice i*ri -iiicnt made by Comptroller of the Currency, under Section 5211, IJ.
DAVID 1.. FONVJLLE Revised Statutes.
Assistant < ushier
J{ ASS ' :IS
f *| < a.-i. balance-- with othet bank.-, .Deluding rest-rv,- balance-, and c-a.-h items
J | process of collection $ 350,713.07
1 11 it r 1 'nit. d Mat.-.- Govei nrm-nt obligations, dir*-.,-t and (Guaranteed 550,084.06
l J THE l Obligation:- of States and political subdivisions 28,308.77
) I fKJIV/P P C|TV ) Corporate stocks (including $4,500.00 stock of Federal Reserve bank ) 4,500.00
J U jNIV LIV}I II i J/iaii- and discounts 701,106.46
J NAT IONA l Rank premises owned $60,840.82, furniture an<l fixtures $40,040.68 110,781.50
c . , Other assets 7,646.51
J BANK Total Assets $17772,220.37
OF
i CHAPLL HILL | liabilities g
| NORTH CAROLINA | Demand deposits of individuals, partnerships, and corporations 964,773.42
C l Time deposits of individuals, partnerships, arid corporations 195,144.09
» - n-y . Deposits of United States Government (including postal savings) 11,768.56
W s y Deposits of States and political subdivisions 336,236.08
- -■ —/ Deposits of banks 10,523.99
Other deposits (certified and cashier's checks, etc.) 54,421.31
Total Deposits $1,572,867.45
Other liabilities 14,650.48
Total Liabilities $1,587,517.93
CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
DIRECTORS Capital iock:
Comirwi stock, total par $100,000.00 100,000.00
Surplus 60,000.00
HENRY I*. BRANDIS, JR. Undivided profits 34,702.44
OLIVER K. CORNWELL Total Capital Accounts 184,702.44
Total Liabilities and Capital Accounts . $1,772,220.37
JOHN M. FOUSHEE =====
henry S. HOGAN MEMORANDA
W. VANCE HOGAN Assets pledged or assigned to secure liabilities and for other purposes 588,382.83
ROY S. LLOYD , ,
I, O. G. Perry, Cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the above
JOHN T. MANNING statement is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
UR. ROBERT A. ROSS G - C “ hl ' r
w r ctaam Correct Attest: Roy S. Lloyd .
W. 1.. &duain OHver K. Cornwell J, Directors
CARL }A. SMITH W - Vante Ho K“ n /
WILLIAM S. STEW'ART State of North Carolina, County of Orange, ss:
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 7th day of July, 1956, and 1 hereby certify that I
BERNICE L. WARD am not an officer or director of this bank.
Anne H. Wright, Notary Public.
My commission expires November 3, 1957
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University National Bank
MEMBER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Cambridge University stress is laid on
arts and on religion. Perhaps there also
should be a course in the problems of
human personality or, if you will, phil
osophy, for the guidance' of students in
the application of knowledge to life.
Many educators have tried to devise
such courses, which obviously are the
most difficult of all to construct. They
are more than a course on ethics or
morals or philosophy. The successful
ones in this field embrace the mind in
all its activities and help the student
to meet the problems of life not only
with imagination and thoughtfulness
but with grace and sanity.
from page 1)
solemn way across the garden's
brick-paved, grass-chequered
floor. Because it was night
time the ch.ldran missed the
'possum that came and squat
ted on our window sill not long
ago.
The pastime of which the
children never tire is feeding
the birds, and they like best
of all the cardinals. These make
themselves at home on the
porch, in the apple tree and the
holly and the bushes, on the
millstone arid the walls, every
where, arid after birdseed are
spread out for them they come
fluttering eagerly in response
to the tinkling of bells.
Sometimes the children are
read to by my wife, and some
time . the> sit down on a sofa
or a swing with pads ano a lot
of crayons and make colored
picture.- What we observe
about them is that, while they
have plenty of spirit and love
fun, they are polite and con
siderate, arid of course we
know they are that way be
cause they have been taught
to be that way. If anybody is
saying maybe that’s “company
manners,” and asking slyly
how these children behave at
home, I have an answer to
that: In the first place, com
pany manners wear thin and
wear through very quickly—
they are a fraud that doesn’t
fool anybody more than a few
minutes. In the next place,
families that are next-door
neighbors live their lives so
close together that, without
ever doing any eavesdropping
at all, a family is bound to
know how the parents on the
other side of the hedge or wall
bring up their children. They
are too close not to know. If
the F. 8.1. investigated about
this as they do about loyalty
to the nation, and if they came
around to me to ask what I
knew about my neighbors’ suc
cess in cultivating good man
ners and developing good be
havior in their children, these
investigators would get doubie-
A-plus bills of health for the
Robert Burnses, the Kay Ky
sers, and the Joe Warrens.
Letter to Editor
The following letter is from
a Chapel Hill teen-ager:
To the Editor:
Here is a bit of information
which I think you might be in
terested in. I entitle it: “-To
Those Who Smoke.”
Smoking usually enters the
minds of those between the
ages of 13 and 17’4 years.
The question always comes
up among these people, “How
can I smoke without letting
Mother and Daddy know?”
The answer is, you can’t! You
always leave simple clues.
Among them are tobacco par
ticles’ lefv iri a shirt or blouse,
tobacco in a girl’s pocketbook,
arid nicotine stains on your
teeth.
I asked some of the Chapel
Hill stores that sell cigarettes
this question: “What percent
age of those buying cigarettes
are teen-agers ?” The shocking
average of the guesses I re
ceived was 29.63 per cent, al
though some of these buy
them for their parents.
From 7 till 11:30 o’clock one
night last week 1 sat out at
the Frozen Kustard. Sixty
seven teen-agers, riot counting
those which 1 surmised to he
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f Like Chapel Hill
= By Billy Arthur =
Vic Huggins has a department in his store that’s
going to the dogs. And the cats.
Doubtless many of you have seen it. So this is
for the enlightenment of those who haven’t. *
The department features such things as pet jewelry,
cat comfort, scratching posts, rubber bones that actual
ly crack when gnawed, feeding dishes, and even imi
tation fire hydrants. Fascinating to me was the cat
comfort station—a tray filled with some sort of ab
sorbent and deodorant mix which cats can dig in
covering-up purposes.
Another item is the scratching post, complete
with rugging or upholstery for your cat to sharpen its
claws on instead of your carpet or furniture.
And jewelry, too, mind you. But that’s just a mo
dern name for tags. However, its popular with Vic, as
he’s provided jewelry for Chapel Hill dogs by the name
of Little Bit, Q, Scholar, Zamp, Othello, None, Sable,
Inkus, Beanie, and Piper.
But nothing yet for Esmeralda. In fact, Esmeralda
hadn't been heard from in more than a year when I
was with Vic about three weeks ago. Except for one
year, since 1951, she has had two litters a year, total
ing about 65 puppies in all, which have been given
away by and with the aid of Vic to happy youngsters
about Chapel Hill.
She belongs to the Harold Hotellings, and is most
ly pointer with a fox terrier shaped head.
When she took up at the Hotellings, she didn’t
bring along any statement of pedigree, but her manner
of living prompted them to name her for the beautiful
gypsy in Victor Hugo’s “Notre Dame de Paris.”
But our Esmeralda has been a productive perform
er since joining the Hotellings.
“She is well and in good health,” Mrs. Hotelling
said when 1 telephoned to know if (.Here was any pros
pect of more puppies soon being displayed in a box in
front of Vic’s store.
In the past Esmeralda has accompanied the Hotel
lings to Huggins’ when she was to be separated from
tier offspring. And as the puppies have been removed
from the car and placed in the box, she has
protectively. Upon leaving them, she has seemed to say
goodbye and be good.
Then she has gone home to her mate, who most
often happens to be Sir Walter Raleigh, the Stephen
Emerys’ dog, although one cannot be too certain be
cause of Esmeralda’s definite gypsy inclinations.
Howeyer, what Sir Walter doesn’t know hasn’t
kept him from being attentive at all times. They sit
and lie around like old married people,*and when Es
meralda is about to have her puppies. Sir Walter per
forms the husbandly act of pacing the yard.
Are the puppies as productive as she? Mrs. Hotel
ling answered: “We and Esmeralda haven’t tried to
check up. Foster parents shouldn’t do that.”
Friday, July 13, 1956