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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill. North Carolina 12* E. Rtwrmtry Telephone or Published Every Tuesday »nd Friday By The Chapel Hill Publishing ( ompany. i»»t Lons Gravis Cowrnbuf.nc Editor Joe Jonis Managing Editor Billv Arthtf. - Assacuite Editor Orville Campbell General Manager 0 ,1. Watkins Advertising Di-ecur Charlton Campbell .Mechanical Supt. Enterec 4i* pec-ond-c***? rnJU*r February 2t. *' tr* pasioit.Tt o*. Chape H:L North Caro.in* under the ac: oi Marrr. 3 iftTV SI BSCUIPTION RATES It Orange Cour.ty. Year 14.00 (0 ir."nth4 s—2s: i, ir.'?r.:ti- s*•&* 1 Outside us Orange Coun:> by the ear Suite of N. C • Ya.. and £ *- 6 ° Other State? ar.d Dial, of ( .umbia 6.00 Canada. Mexico, South America • 7.00 Europe * Poor Dad \Vili flau- to l’a> Tno prediction by ('.'.an - . • a : Hou>s< that trie University <>t N .rtr. 1 arolina'.- enrollment will aim i * during the next ten year.- poser n icr. bigger problem, than that of .us! finding enougf faculty, hous.ng at 1 c.assrooms. Tn* r*-a. problem- control • ‘he parent of those students wh< are nov. in high scho •: and eiementar;* school. It - going to 1 more money .for these youngsters l< get an education. Ther. to*. the studer t wr,o doesn't make the grade jgt.hoiastically will find it hard to get a second chunc< because ail institutions, large and small, are going to have tremendous waiting lists. Leading educators predict that the increased costs will amount to approx imately 25 per cent during the n* xt ten years. At the present time the average cost in our state colleges and univer siti\- for state re.-idents is SBOO arid for non-residents $1,050. Private col leges and universities in the U. S. average $3,480. This means that dad is going to have to find from S2OO to S4OO more per year to send his child to college. Along with increased costs all along the line, it would seem to in dicate that more and more students will be forced to work part of their way through college. While the national average for the U. S. for state residents for state uni versities is SBOS, the average in the South is $715. This includes tuition, board and room, arid fees. Nothing is allowed for spending money, joining a fraternity or owning a car. Ted Williams Ted Williams is one of the great est baseball players of all times, and we formerly thought his feuds with the press and the fan- were part of a well calculated campaign to make him more of an attraction, more of a draw ing card, more money at the turnstiles, and more monetary return to his fish ing tackle business. Every feud has so far resulted iri Ted apologizing and, when once again estabished in the public’s good graces, commiting some other disgusting act. The reason has been given that Ted is hot-tempered, unable to take a “riding.” That could well be a natural characteristic. But a man able to -de velop his athletic skill should certainly be abe to control his temper and de velop hi- personality. He could find no better example of a man so qualified than one of his own teammates, Jim Pier-all. Called the “wacky boy’' of baseball and the psycho case of the big leagues, Piersall has overcome his mental lapses and retardations to become one of the most level and able men of the national pas time. But Ted, in addition to the blasts in the press which were well-enough covered to present his side of the story, added a “repulsive gesture” to the na tional pastime. Again, he was forgiven. The background of his latest epi sode is well-known. He made an error, the fans booed; he made a great play seconds later; the fans cheered. Any other player or public figure would have remembered the cheers. But not Ted. He couldn’t take it. He commitcd the filthy, nasty act of spitting at the fans, not once, three times; then, throwing his bat 40 feet into the air. All in full view of a television audi ence, radio announcers, sports writers, and 20,000 fans, including children who idolize the man for the figures in the record books. The Bame man who heads the nationwide Jimmy Fund for cancer research among children. And, in a game called the national pas- time. because of its wholesome appeal. Ir. an athletic contest, which, as others, l- said to develop character. Mr. Williams should be made an ex ample of. He should be thown out of baseball. The game and all athletic con- • test- ar< much bigger than he. but w;i: not continue t - • be s' long a.- such acts as those b> Ted W.llium- art permitted and punishable by a fine commensurate with what the man i.- able t pay. Mi am.‘ 1 - ■ - 1e < ' explain why he does such things. and v. h new sav- he s s »rry. should stop spitting at peopk, In-tead he should spit on his hands and take a good hold of himself. —B. A. \th ire to the Lada \nd Gentlemen. Too Pete Ivey, head of the University New.- Bureau, recei ’.y addressed the \ ( Council of V 'men’s Organiza a-.out how to present their club publici*y to newspaper *■ •' lll rs. Mr. I I-;, said in part. “Do! ' argue with tn* newspaper eci.tor a: . try *-» insis* printing «,a: 1 new- or pr.r • g it exactly a.- vou have wri’*ei D : t be Insist ent Don't talk back. “Th»- editor kii' W .-' n - >w • newspa per neeu- arid the be-' thing to do_ i> „vr:*» -th* new - briefly, accurately, arid fully a: (: let him be the . <dg« of wheth er it' !.• w - and what spa* - * - i* will get. v ;. the need.- of ♦ r.e newspaper, and find out what best suits the news papers. “Be th* kind of press agent who is so helpful and non-demanding that when the editor sees you coming he will greet you with a cordial .-mile and seem gen uinely glad you have brought some thing to the newspaper.” The Weekly subscribes to Mr. Ivey's recommendation- and wishes to add a few more of its own, specially in hopes they may be heeded hereabouts: 1. Take the publicity or news of the meeting to the editor the next morning, early. Don’t wait. Yours is not the only story he has to prepare or get in tin paper. You’ll get a better story if your copy is in early. 2. Make certain all names are cor rect. Give both first and* last names, and, in the case of married women, use the husband’s initials or first name. Don’t write only “Miss Jones;” there are hundreds of them. Make Miss Jones happy by giving her first name. 3. Don’t ask the editor to run a story of a forthcoming event or benefit in every issue of the paper between the time you bring it in and the day of the affair. Buy some advertising—-if you want it plugged that often. 4. If you want to promote a cause or benefit, discuss the complete publicity campaign with the editor. He can help you think of possible stories; then, get them to him. 5. Don’t tell the editor if he doesn’t give you a long story, you’ll take it to the other paper. He knows you’ve al ready been there or are going anyway. (i. Don’t ask the editor when the story will appear. He’ll try to get it in the very next issue. Again, yours is not the only story he has to think about, and although his judgment is not in fallible, the editor makes a sincere ef fort to put in the paper first the hot test news he has. 7. Don’t ask him to put your story on the front page. If you don’t believe the inside pages, specially of the Week ly, are avidly read, just let us make one little teeny, weeny error on one, and we’ll refer the calls to you.—B. A. The “Giveaway” Congress [The following editorial about the 84th Congress appeared in the August 3 issue of the U. S. News and World Report and was written by that pub lication’s editor, David Lawrence: The freest in spending, the most ex travagant in giving away the taxpay ers’ money, the biggest in “log-rolling” deals —the system whereby members reciprocate in aiding each other’s pro jects—this is the strange record of the 84th Congress. More than 60 billion dollars were ap propriated at this session, and much of it as a plain subsidy to big voting groups. On the list is everything from expansion of federal payment for milk to be given free to children in public schools and summer camps—ir respective of their parents' ability to pay for it—to big projects benefiting particular localities and privileged groups in the electorate. It is perhaps the biggest variety of items in legis lative history. Even in the 34.6 billion dollars for THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from page 1) on what to name the restaur ant -hi (pirate? on Frankin Street between the ;< r-Pirkard Store and Danzi r‘ ( fff*• Shoj The estab lishment hau i<>ng been known a? -hi Cat no Pharmacy, hut tha - nan ( wouldn't do any m< n t«-. n,,?( M ?? Helen Du pun:. till pharmacist in the coni' m . >.• -g store and res ta .-ar, - bu?;ne-?s. had resigned ©frn th- partnership and the far ..na Pharmacy was no longer pharmacy. Th* name Mr?. Grogan fin a..y decided on was Carolina Food l She fancied th. name a r..fty one till she talked • a candid friend wh claimed r wa? no good. "Kesta jrant? and everything around here are named Caro.ina.' h< -aid. "Half the armumer,*. the “log rolling' for mili tary expenditures by repr* sentatives certain states arid locaHtie- was pa; pa bn Thus. 900 million d* bar- more than 'h- Executive a.-k*-d for was giv en him ' spend. The Air Force, on w.f., r. .jnty was bestowed, must nov tr\ ' figure out how t .-pend it. What a travesty on government that Congr* • des surj is be fore th*-r* ..- even a request fi m the Exec;,' . *- or a planned project lor its use by • th* military department most concerned! Beginning with the “soil bank” for the farmers, which cost 1.2 billions and which was designed primarily to head off a bigger “giveaway" by the opposite political party, th*- Kepubi . can Administration laid down the prin ciple that the Federal Government and the local governments should share in the development of natural resources. This now has been interpreted by Re publicans and Democrats to justify the largest series of projects of benefit to their particular areas that ha- been ushered in since the days when “pork barrel” legislation was the order of the •lay. To meet the inflationary trend of the times, there were increases of pay voted for legislators, judges and executive officials. Increases in pensions were authorized, as well as new grants under the Social Security system, and, with all of this, the beginnings of a program which may open the door to medical insurance. Though the nation is in a period of unprecedented prosperity, Congress authorized the largest amounts of “wel fare” money ever voted. Many of the schemes, moreover, call for relatively small payments at first just a few millions a year now—but they build permanently into the gov ernmental scheme of things a new se ries of expenditures which will pile up new apppropriations for future Con gresses to provide annually. Broadly speaking, this was a non radical Congress, in the sense that a coalition of conservatives in both par ties managed to prevent the govern ment-ownership advocates from getting the upper hand. The latter were balked iry their efforts to get public-power projects enacted that could start the downfall of private electric power com panies. There was a failure to break down the Taft-Hartley Act. This is Be Sure You See The National Political Conventions on Television . . . Join Our Conuention - TV Values Buy a C. E. HI from $99.95 Now is the time to buy your first IV’ set or re- Register Eor A J||f c l/X place the old one. You can keep up with the news FREE being made hourly at the National Conventions. Mw X/ \ Join ~anide # oin 2 to Johnson-Strowd-Ward to I ■ W ///JwKfT take advantage of our Convention of G. E. TV Val- PORTABLE I f 111 !' i j| E& ues. Register today for a FREE G. E. TV Portable To Be Given Away After I Ml' if HHa'l August 25th. IP MW H 422 W. Franklin St. Chapel Hill Mmm 8-451 people don't even know them apart Why add to the con f'Ho.-r with another Carolina? Y"..'vt already got a perfect r< ;i .y-made name for your re- - i .rant. Ruby's. That's ap pr i-r;at< - and it's a name easy • remember. When somebody say-, meet you at Ruby's.' the person he's talking to won't have to stop and say to himself. ‘Let’s see, now, which one of these darn places is tha - "’ When he hears Ruby's h< know right off because i verybody'll know w here and what Ruby’s is. They can't forget it." Mr? Grogan had already r riiere a -ign painter to put i arohr.a Food Cupboard on i.t ■ ; .a - ,e-glass w indow, hut . tening to the above i e a.-ked him to hold because the Southern Democrats were able to block action on amendments. Fear that more unionization in the South would upset their own political power was the main reason. There was a not ticeable opposition, to ~ from conser vatives in both parti*-- to various fea tures of public housing. If it hadn't been for the segrega tion i.-sue, a construction fund for public schools to a total of 1.6 billion d'll'ar- would have been voted. As it was, more than 368 million dollars was appropriated for school aid ir; areas where military installations have caused unusual increases in school populations. Only in foreign aid was there a ten dency to economize drastically. The Administration’s original program was cut down bv more than a billion dollars. In the face of all this spending, al most nothing was heard about reduction of income taxes. The Treasury’s sur plus of 1.8 billion dollars was not enough, of course, on which to base a program of tax reduction. But who can say that restraint on spending would not have provided the American people with a bigger surplus which could have been used either to reduce taxes or to cut down the public debt? This debt now stands at 273 billion dollars. Where is all the money coming from to meet the new obligations just piled on the taxpayers by Congress? It may turn out that the 84th Congress made a new record of some kind in prevent ing any income-tax cuts for many years to come. The spending drive now is so strong that, if the American people* do not check it, they will find the 85th Congress outdoing its predecessors in giving away public funds. What is needed now yre nonpartisan groups of taxpayers in every congres sional district to organize a lawful revolt and to encourage those candidates to run for office who will check the spend ing streak. For the 84th Congress was the “giveaway” Congress of the cen tury. Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind ex tinguishes candles and fans a fire.—La Rochefoucauld. Man never fastened a chain around the neck of his brother, that God did not fasten the other end around the neck of th** oppressor.—Lamartine. off and let her think it over a few days. She finally came up with Ruby's Food Cupboard. That name has now been in scribed in fold letters on the front of the restaurant, and it .? turning out all rifht since of coutm- people are disregard ing th< Food Cupboard part and calling the place Ruby’s. One of Mt>. Grogan's cus tomers say? Carolina and Ruby's are both poor choices. He maintains the place should have been named Willie’s n stead of Ruby's. His reason ing: At th* tune Miss Pu g.ud left and the place quit being a pharmacy, both its waitresses wire named Willie May. t- janitor was named Wiiße Rag*, and Mrs. Grogan had to close the place several days because she worked so hard she got the wiliie? and the doctor ordered her to take a week off. f Likv Chapvt Hill J Let me be formal at least in the first sentence and call the gentleman Roland McClamroch. Then, let me tell you about Skin McClamroch trying to raise 82(io here to take to Chicago and turn over to the Democratic National Committee. He arrived at the Coffee Club on a recent morn ing. greeted us all warmly and got warm greetings in return. Then, he proceeded to tell us that he was receiving contributions of $1 and up for the campaign fund. 1 here re usually lots of chatter and arguments over the coffee cups, but at the mention of money a severer _ silence enveloped the group. Several members pushed back their chairs as if to leave. “Wait.' called Skin. "I don’t want to be embar rassed when 1 get to Chicago and they call on me as a national delegate to report if I've made my quota. All 1 can report is^one dollar, only one, that a lady handed me in Fowler's yesterday. Now, that's all I've raised. Surely you fellows don’t want a blot against th* - good name of Chapel Hill and Orange County.” It was evident the boys weren't thinking of blots, because all of them crossed their legs and pushed their backs and bottoms closer to the chairs so nothing could drop out of their pockets. "All I want is a dollar,” Skin went on. So I gave him one. It didn't make me a bit popular with the rest of th* - fellows, but I figured it this way: if I could get out with just a one-dollar contribution to any political fund or candidate, I’d better do it before inflation set in. i figured that one buck was cheap. Maybe the other fellows felt the same way, too, because they began contributing according to their means —a dollar each. Skin probably netted $25, if that much, out of the crowd. That was Monday a week ago. He was so pleased that, he promised to buy them all coffee the next day. They arrived to enjoy his generous gesture but discovered Tuesday is the day the Coffee Shop is closed. That irked the fellows somewhat, but Hank hurt was the most surprised. “You mean to tell me h< - actually is going to give that money to the Dem ocratic national committee?” Hank asked. “Well, I didn’t know that. I’m a Republican, and the only reason I contributed was 1 thought he was some character just trying to get up money enough to get to Chicago.” The rest of the club, however, felt differently about the thing as the week passed away. They began to feel that Skin has done a good job and that the good name of Orange County would be preserved among good Democrats. To make sure that both would get proper recog nition the club Saturday dispatched a telegram to National Committeeman Everett Jordan aboard the special train en route to Chicago advising: “We think you should know that Roland McClam roch raised sl,l (X) for the Democratic campaign fund, most of it at the Carolina Coffee Shop Club, and that he.soHld he recognized for his achievement.” * * * * Dick Young has been interested in buying my camera, and I've been interested in selling it to him. But we hadn’t been able to make a deal when he and Jerry Hudson came in the other morning to represent the Service Insurance and Realty Company at our daily conclave of gentlemen. I had been thinking of the proposition, and then was the time to make it. “How about you just going out there arid stealing my camera?” I proposed. “Then I can collect insurance from Baldy Williams and your firm, and you can insure it., then I’ll steal it back, you collect some in surance, and you can then buy it and pay me what I want for the cam* That way, I’ll get a good return on it, an’l it won’t cosb you a thing and you’ll have some profit to boot.” “That’s all right, in a sense,” Dick admitted, “but Jerry’s connected with the insurance department.” “I know. That’s why I wanted him here when we discussed it.” “But we can’t trust Jerry,” said Dick. “How come?” tfk “He might squeal on us. He’s crooked.” Tuesday, August 14. 1956
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