Page Two 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 (Continued 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 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 (Continued ori Page 3) 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