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Speculations about Nixon
The performance ir. office, the bear
ing- and behavior the character ant!
ability anti spec-ia. .'.tore of
Kichard M. Nixoi continu* to stir the
interest of writers or. politic.-.. They
assess him. some fa - , orab.y, sons un
favorably; they remark upor. the fact
that, if he is elected, h‘ will gain in
power because the oniy man ahead of
him in the government will be ineligible
for another term and they s.jx-eulate
upon how he will use tne increased pow
er.
Tne latest comment upon Nixon that
J have seen is one by Frank Kent in the
Baltimore .Sun. He write-:
"The Democratic propagandists hav*
been making a violent anti-Nixon cam
paign for four years and apparently
intend to continue it till election day.
It has: been one of insinuation and utt*-r
vagueness:. Yet it has been cleverly
conducted by well-paid experts: aided
by a good many volunteers in the journ
alistic, political and radio fields. It has
been a dirty campaign. In four year- it
has certainly had an effect, and there
are a number (no one knows how many)
of people in the country who have a feel
ing that there is ‘something wrong’
with Nixon.
"The extraordinary thing about this
long-sustained smear of Mr. Nixon is
that so few of them can offer a reason
for their hostility. Asked why, the
reply is almost always vague and in
consequential.
"Mr. Eisenhower apd the convention
delegates were not influenced by the
campaign against Nixon. The Demo
crats will, of course, continue to use him
as a target, but his friends believe he
has emerged a stronger and better man
than he was in 1952.”
“Stronger and better rnaft” 'These
words applied to Nixon, and the article
in last week’s New Yorker by the maga
zine’s Washington correspondent, Kich
ard H. Rovere, remind me of a conver
sation I had with the late Charles A.
Beard, the celebrated historian, when
he and his wife were in Chapel Hill sev
eral years ago. conversation Is hardly
the right word, though. He was no mon
olbguist—he was ready and willing to
listen to anybody but I had nothing to
tell him. J was quite content to do noth
ing but put in questions enough to keep
up the flow of his fascinating talk.)
Mr. and Mrs. Heard stayed here three
Or four weeks after he delivered the
Weil lectures and sometimes they would
drop in at our home. We would ramble
any subject—incidents in the
current news, sport, travel, politics,
anything—and i remember that once he
talked of growth in famous men in his
tory. One of the examples he gave was
Abraham Lincoln. 1 can’t repeat his
exact words, but the substance of what
he said was that ten or fifteen years
before the Civil War Lincoln was just
an ordinary run-of-thc-mine country
politician; that he had in him, unbe
knownst to himself or anybody else, the
seeds of greatness; that observation,
thought, struggle, the pressure of
events, caused these seeds to burgeon
and produce the Lincoln that is known
to history. Mr. Beard gave other ex
amples to enforce his point. His studies
had convinced him of the possibility
of remarkable growth in men. Never
feel sure, he said, that a man who has
made a poor record in his early years
is going D) keep on going that way—
he may undergo a development that
people who have known him from his
youth thought impossible.
“Speculation about the kind of Presi
dent that Nixon would make,” writes
Kichard H. Rovere in the New Yorker,
“has taken on a new meaning and ur
gency. The impressions one gathered
at the convention in San Francisco were
those who thought that love for the
Republic demanded his early elimina
tion.
- "There has always been a certain
.«Jaek of specificity about these fears;
people have been bothered by Nixon
without being able to say precisely why.
Ther* are doubtless many people who
continue t< feel that way about Nixon,
despite the fact that he has lately been
laboring with great zeal to remove any
jiossible reasons for being unloved. He
ha- been very much or. his dignity. Ir.
hi.- meetings with the state caucuses.
h« recommended that th* 1956 campaign
be conducted on th< highest possible
m ra. ievei. and pa' * *.:>*• delegates his
11 :nj i that Adla; s ■ *-r,son anti E-tes
Kefau .er were hortorabi*- and patriotic
American.- who ,-b . j.d ir; no circum
• ta.ve- be accused of ha'. ;r;g ba.-e xno
tY f* > .
"H: acceptance .-;-‘-ech was close
enougn to liberal orthoU'-xy to qualify
n.rr jo- *iWKHcal!y, a' any rate—: >r
memoer n:p or, th* national board of
.American for Democratic Action. He
t
He; r . Wallace stood 1954. He had
bar* • .-at down when r.,- detractors
began to explain that it v.a all .subter
fuge
"Ha- detractors, howe\eh are slight
ly fewer in. number than they were a
wrdie back, arid there art some people
here who think that the new Nixon is
an authentic creation. The\ think that
th< temper of the time- and the magic
of the Presidency an at work upon him.
The temper of the times seems, to de
mand that any man in or approaching
a high administrative office talk and
act like some species of liberal, and the
magic of the Presidency, to which he
is now so near, seems capable of creat
ing maturity and a sense of responsi
bility in some of the least promising of
men.”—L. G.
The School Amendment
(Continued from Page 1 /
talk about it is familiar with all the
arguments for and against it, I will not
repeat them here. Th* Governor, the
members of the Advisory Committee,
and other advocates have called the plan
a "safety valve.” 1 believe that to be a
fair term for it and that it is the best
move the State can make under the
circumstances.
In my opinion Mr. Pearsall talked
sense when he said at a recent meeting
in Rocky Mount: “The plan takes into
* consideration the emotions, customs,
mores, and traditions which the Advis
ory Committee found to be genuine and
powerful. Whether good or bad, pleas
ant or unpleasant, the fact remains that
these feelings do exist and must not
be ignored. 'Those who would wear blind
ers and refuse to recognize and admit
the existence of these feelings would
do public education an injustice.”
Jn the same tenor is the statement by
D. Hiden Ramsey of Asheville, long
time pcjycational leader and now chair
man of Um ptate Commission op Higher
Education:
“The Pearsall plan should Spare us
the disorders which have developed in
other states and which have embittered
the relations between the two races.
“J do not belive that North Carolina
has ever had a chief executive more
sincerely interested in the public
schools than Governor Hodges. J am
confident he can be trusted to do what
ever is necessary, in the troublous month
ahead, to preserve them.
“North Carolina cannot set itself in
defiance of any decision, however ab
horrent. of the Supreme Court. l.’n
happily there is no obvious road we can
choose in the confidence that it will
carry our public school system safely
through the present crisis. We must take
calculated chances, never losing sight
of the supreme objective of saving the
schools for the children of both races.
"The Pearsall plan is not a perfect
solution of our problem, but it appeals to
me as the best solution that has been
suggested.”
'The Raleigh News and Observer,
which opposes the Pearsall plan, says,
“all extremists will vote for it.” Ob
viously this is something nobody could
know; th«- statement is a mere supposi
tion. Os course saying that all the ex
tremists will vote for tjie Pearsall plan
is not the same thing as saying that all
who vote for the plan are extremists,
but by implication it comes close to
identifying approval of the plan with
extremism. It is pertinent to recall, in
this connection, that the plan has been
formally endorsed by the Directors of
the North Carolina Junior Chamber of
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THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
Carolina Education Association, the Di
rectors of the Association of School
Boards, the Association of School Su
perintendents the Association of County
Commissioners, the State Board of Ed
ucation, and the North Carolina Gener
al Assembly. When I reflect upon the
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, which makes a lot
of }*eopi*- (including me) angr> from time to time, has
to lx- gi- en credit for tenacity in its current campaign
to remind Governor Hodge- of a statement which Em
sure he wishes he had n**\*r made.
Ev*ry day for week.- (maybe longer, but I just
got back :f. the country and I might have missed it)
th* Raieigh new.-paper ha- oe* i. printing th*- following
reminder on it- editorial pag* :
"Ju.-t on*- year ago Governor Hodges said: ‘Aboli
tion *.f th*- public school- a.v: th*-:r replacement to a
m«-t uncertain extent by pro ate«.ne- i- a last-ditch and
double-edged weapon. If tha* weapon i- ever used in
' ■ *th Cat ina, ;t- r<-- ling in ignorance,
p< \ * r’y and bitterness.’ ”
Tr.- year-old comment r. *the Governor rather
sticc.net 1; states my reason- 1 r fearing th* Pear-all
Piar. amendment which i- in voted on by the people
* ! N'.rt? Carolina tomorr v..
Proponent- of the pear-all Plan in.-ist that the
“-afet;. aiv*” provision- wk, probably (they say this
■ • ■ ’ • and 1 op* fu ) *-r b< u<d. lam afraid
th*-- are kidding them-* !:.*-- 1‘ th*. Plan is adopted, i
ha . e an< r on- feeling in tr.* ; of rny stomach that it
will provoke more t*- -1 ca-*- '-.an it will quash, and we
will see schools closing tn< .r door- in many places in
North Carolina. 'lds*.- children wX suffer, and, of course,
the state will suffer.
I am against eliminating th*- constitutional provi
sion to-require the state to provide a free and uniform
system of schools.
I am against eliminating the compulsory school
attendance law.
I am against gambling the education of the children
of North Carolina on a system of private- schools which
will be supported with state tax money but which will
not be under the supervision of state educators.
1 am against risking tier fate of North Carolina’!*
schools to popular shotgun referendum* in which emo
tions can sway 51 per cent of th<- voters to deny to 49
per cent of th*- voters the right to send their children
to public school.
I don’t think the Pearsall Plan is constitutional, and
J think it will have died a violent judicial death Jong
before the helpful provisions of the school assignment
-kaw, passed in 1955, are fully appreciated by the people
of the state.
J don’t believe any children can receive a decent
education for ? 155 a year, and 1 don’t believe the major
ity of school districts‘in theXstate will vote generous
enough school tax supplements to increase that $155
to a reasonable level. (And if they did vote sufficient
supplements, they would be in the position, again,
of voting public tax funds for private educational pur
poses, which is a shaky proposition at best.)
In short, I don’t believe the Pearsall Plan will
work. I credit its backers, for the most part, with sin
cerity and an honest desire to find a solution to one of
the most critical problems ever to face us in the South.
But the fact that they are sincere doesn’t mean that they
are right.
Chapel Hill Chaff
(Continued from page 1)
years old), Carrol! (8 years
old), and Amanda Kay (near
ly 4 years old): They ornament
our neighborhood and they
gladden it with their guiety
arid good manners. How sweet
it is to have such people came
back home
We are all prone to think
that the season that is w.th
us is giving us unusually rough
treatment, in heat or eold or
winds or dryness or wetness.
1 have been saying, and have
been hearing others say, that
not for a long time have w#
hail a summer that could match
this one in the number of very
hot days. I asked Max I). Saun
ders, director of the local
weather bureau, to look tip the
records of this summer and
last summer and tell me what
he found. This is what he re
Welsh Educator’s Explanation
of Eisenhower’s Popularity
The Manchester Guardian
publishes a letter, entitled
“Why Is It That Ike Is Liked,”
from Alan Conway, a member
of the faculty of the Univer
sity of Wales:
"Why does President Eisen
hower enjoy such popularity?
With no pretension to good
looks, almost bald, a compe
tent speaker but no orator,
Eisenhower has secured an
emotional hold upon the Amer
ican people unequalled by
Franklin Roosevelt even at the
peak of success.
“Still a major contribution
to this popularity is his mili
tary career. Washington, Jack
son, Lincoln, Grant, Theodore
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ports on the maximum tern
peratures in the 3 months pe
riod of June, July, and August.
ltd or over: *j days in 1955,
8 days in 1955 .... it*) to 95:
34 days in 1955, 41 days in
1950 .... 85 to 89 31 day- in
1955, 33 days ,n 1950.
Combining the 85-to-89 and
the 90-to 95 maximum tin
number of 85-to-95 days wa
exactly the same in 1955 a.-, in
1950; ititt Ik, (15.
There was no day this year
on which the mercury in the
official thermometer went up
tO 100. The single 100-degree
day last year was in June.
Os course there uri excep
tional years in respect to
weather, but when the record
is consulted it shows that there
is not nearly as much differ
ence between one year and an
other as we thought.
Roosevelt and Truman found
their military exploits no hin
drance in their political ca
reers, and Eisenhower has the
added advantage of having
been the victorious command
er-in-chief of the Allied forces
in a war which secured for the
United States world leader
ship. Linked to this is the
Cromwellian sense of destiny
with stress laid upon duty and
service in the context of a
Christian conscience. .
The second strand 4ot his
popularity is the log-cabin pio
neer tradition, the ability to
be folksy without being a
‘hick.’ This is a virtue that
Eisenhower shares with Lin
coln. He is also the ‘ordinary
guy,’ like Truman, but with
out the shadow of the Render-
make-up of these bodies and others
which have taken the same stand, and
uj»on the character of the men and
women of my acquaintance who have
told me they favor the Pearsall plan. I
am persuaded that it does not depend
for support upon the extremists, —L. G.
From Our Files
5 Years Ago
Jam*- K. Farlow was reelect
< : president of the Orange
C _n ’y chat -er of Young I>em
c ra’ -a - a le-er.t meeting here.
Th*- poj Xation of Glen Len
nox—rrlen, women, and chil
(j J*| ft j - , ,’J.
)0 Years Ago
The Cr.api-l Hill Swimming
Club w r. the boys and girls
Mid-S* .tii Champion-hip- and
finish*-'! -<-'ond in the junior
vomer.’*, uni-ion last Friday
and S’a? - :ay at Wilson in the
Mid-South Imitation Swim
ming Meet.
].» > ear- \go
Gra-:;. Pi Xhard, -tar line
man < • the University team
twenty year ago, i- going to
he!;. • th- Chapel Hill
high . football team th.-:
year
Wh< - J was at Mi-- Alice
N-.b.c' Sunday afternoon I
hear-: ■ r make what seems
t . rn<- ;.ri excellent suggestion
for th<- -aving of gasoline in
th: community: let the L'rii
v<-> *y -Mudcnts he forbidden
to . * automobiles. Chapel
HiH ( haff. '
gast machin*: in the back
ground. Like both Roosevelts
he ha- great charm—not the
polished charm of thi- draw
ing room but the barefoot,
Huck Y inn charm of the
American boy going fishing.
“Thirdly, Eisenhower is es
sentially a family man, arid in
spite of the high divorce rate
in the United States the fam
ily is a strong and highly re
spected unit in American life.
Finally, it may be most signi
ficant that not only could Ei
senhower have had the nom
inal ion from either party in
the l'J52 election but also that
he stands midway between
Democrats arid Republicans in
that no man’s land of., the vit
ally important uncommitted
voter ’’
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a mallet by slipping a rubber
crutch tip over the hammer
head.
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Some folks were kidding Ben Crutchfield about
trying to save his money. "You can’t take it. with you
when you die,” he was told.
id better, replied Ben, “because I’ll sure run
into someone I owe.”
* * * *
Tony Jenzano was commenting on how red the
planet Mars is now in the early evenings.
"I haven't seen it,” I told him.
“That I can understand,” quipped Tony. “YoiTlSll
not as ck*se to it as the rest of us.”
/ * * * *
Lob Bartholomew has been working on a novel for
some time now which, he says, is being written for the
cigar store and pool room trade. A young lady here in
Chapel Hill heard about the book and asked Bob if she
could look at the unfinished manuscript. He consented.
Eh*- read one chapter, laid the manuscript down, and
said. ” J here’s no need to worry about who will take the
place of the late Dr. Kinsey—you’ll fit in nicely.”
* * * *
Another good story I heard recently concerned
the -aleman who had just completed a course in sales
manship and had tried out th*- principles he had learned.
Later he was asked how the course had helped him.
*\*-il. I did everything I was told,” he said. "I greeted
the customer warmly, J smiled at him, asked him a lot
of questions about himself and 1 listened to hinr for
hours and agreed with everything he said, and when
we parted, I knew 1 had made a friend for life. But,
brother, what an enemy he made.”
* * * *
Didn't I mention something herein recently about'
•rating at the second table when I was a kid?
Anyway, when we went up to our grandparents for
Sunday dinners, there were so many relatives around
that we kids had to wait until they ate first. Our dinner
was called the “second table.”
Jt’s already been said that some kids ate at" that
shift so much they were adults before learning a chicken
was composed of anything except wijngs, • backs unA
necks. fP
But the newest along that line came from my
Missus, who had a relative who was the youngest of
15 children and outlived almost all of them. “I was the
last to he fed,” he explained, “therefore, I was the
healthiest, because I got all the vitamins—the pot lik
ker that was left.” ry
Sh** recalls that her parents were beset vVith rela
tives every summer. “They always knew when, we had
plenty of chickens and ham, and they’d come in droves
for dinner. But daddy fixed ’em,” she says. “He didn’t
like their coming down to visit him just to get their fill
of ham and chicken, so every time a hatch of relatives
showed up during the summer, he waited until about
an hour before it was time for dinner, and then cut
three or four big watermelons. The kin folks couldn’t
resist digging into them, and got too full to* eat much
chicken and ham. Dad was smart.”
Friday, September 7, 1956