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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel HiD, North Carolina E. RoaemarT Telephone >-1271 or M<l Poblkhcd Every Taeadsy and Friday By TV Chape! Hill Publishing Company. i*c Lons Grave Contributing Editor Jot Joves Managing Editor Biu-Y Arravß Editor OmuA Campeeu. General Manager O. T. Watkins -Advertising Director Charlton Campbell Mechanical Sup: Enlerec as set-c-no-c.ax? n-i*ti*r yeoruar- 2k 192£ at m* jxosiofJier »t Cr,«p* Hi.. Nortr. Carolina uncet Uw act o) March I IS?* SUBSCRIPTION RATES It Orange Cour.ty. Year M-0€ U month* 12.25; 2 months tl.bCo Outside of Orange County by the Year: State of N r Va and ( 4.5 i Other States ant but. of Cosurr.ttt t.OC Canada. Mexico, South America Europe 7.50 Ohcar Coffin Oscar Coffin’s yift for writing, his wide acquaintance, and r..~ understand ing of public Affair* made r.m a notable figure in North Carolina journalism when he wa* yet on;;, a few yean- out of college After he joined the Univer sity faculty thirty years- ago hit in fluence spread and deepened through the expert craftsmanship that he im parted to hir student 1 -. And it wax the public s good fortune that he continued, while teaching, to contribute editorial* and a column of comment serious and humorous by turns, to the Greensboro New*. f Scattered ail over the world today are newspapermen—reporters and desk men in cities, foreign small town editors —who owe their success, and delight to say so whenever the op portunity offers, to the training that he gave them. He taught them not only how to know news and how to- write it but also how to apply their knowledge and reasoning powers to interpreting it. That they learned these things from him explains in large measure why they are successful. In all the time he, was here the Uni versity had in its; faculty no more striking personality than Oscar f/jffin. In his own home or anybody else s, at a tavem table, or in any social gather ing he was pungent and humorous, given to unexpected verdicts on ail man ner of questions. 77)is flavorsome char acter put him in high favor a" a com panion. Sometimes he had a rough way of talking that might puzzle strangers, but we who knew him knew it for an aspect of hi» humor. We were always well aware of his warm and generous heart.- —L. G. The I/eague of Women Voters It happens that, just as the League of Women Voters in Chapel Hill prepares; to launch its annual fund-raining cam paign, I have been reading an article on “The Women’s Vote” in the New York Times. Magazine: The 7'imes .article is just what you would exp*-ct from its title: jt is about the numbers of qualified women voters, how large a proportion of them vote, what issues they are most interested in, and the ways the politicians have of ap pealing to them. But in the letters and bulletins w-nt. out by Chapel Hill’s I>-ague of Women Voters, describing its activities and purposes, there is nothing to indicate that it is any more concerned with women voters than with men voters. And, as a matter of fact, it isn’t. Its. functions are of a nature that would give it a better right to some such title as the league for Political Information. We all ought to be glad of this. It is fortunate indeed that, while we male citizens permit ourselves Vj lie buried in our various ruts (teaching, preach ing, writing, printing, practicing law or medicine, managing the municipality and policing the streets, borrowing and lending money, mending pipes and elec tric wires, conducting restaurants and filling stations, delivering mail and newspapers and milk, playing tennis and golf, gazing at television screens, attending football games, fishing and hunting, and so on) we have a company of public-spirited women gathering in formation about the persons and ques tions we are to pass judgment on, im parting this information to us so that we will know what it’s all about, and then making sure that we don’t forget to go to the polls. I have no doubt that the League of Women Voters conforms to its name better in most communities than it does here by concentrating on women; that is, by providing them with information and stimulating their interest in politics. But that is not the need in Chapel Hill. Here the women are so intelligent and well educated, and so attentive to their civic obligations, that they already know more about political affairs than the men do. It is not necessary for me to go into a detailed description of what the Chapel Hill League of Women Voters does. All of us are familiar with the meetings it holds, at which represen tatives of all sides speak: its literature that comes through the mail at cam paign time, giving us information about candidates and issues; and the services it performs in getting voters to the polls. The purpose of this piece I am writing now is to urge the people to give the League the support it so well deser.es of them. It can't operate with out money. Members of the League are soon V mare a round of home- and places of busmens to solicit contributions. But why not save them and yourselves trouble by contribut.ng without being called on’,' My advice V one and all is; mail vour check, to ’he League of Women Vo>r- Box 108; ( hapel Hii! r,r de ver vour check or cash to Mrs. Richmond B Bond, pr«--ider.t or to ar... of tnese memoir: of the finance com mittee: Mr- W. ('. Coker Mrs. Kashi F* n, Mrs. A Hughe- Bryan, Mrs. Charles H Burnett Mr Emil T. Chan )»'tt. Mrs. W. W Cort Mr-. John N. Couch. Mrs William ( Friday, and Mrs John P. Gillin.—L.G. 7he Preference of a Member of the Staff I am going to vote for Eisenhower. This does not mean that J agree with all the extravagant praise that Repub lican spokesmen have showered upon fc>s; administration,' but I admire hirn for his character and ability and I be heve that the country !<• more apt to be safe, and that people of all c las see will be better off, with him as Presi dent than with Stevenson. Here I am not speaking for the Week ly. This is merely a statement of the preference of one member of the staff. I have not talked with other me misers of th** staff about the election and do not know how any of them are going Vj vote. It seema to me that as the campaign has proceeded Stevenson has been grab bing desperately at anything he hoped he could make an issue of. And his two most important proposals, Vj abol ish th*- draft and Vj stop the H-bomb tests,, are actually dangerous. I would certainly rather trust Eisenhower than Stevenson to be our commander-in chief and Vj answer these questions that vitally affect the nation's safety. Eisenhower has done everything he pose jhi y could to persuade Soviet Russia to enter into an agreement, safeguarded by an inspection system, for the aban donment of atomic tests, but has met only with rebuffs. He has declared him self ready to open negotiations not only for this step but for genera) disarma ment. For the United States; to give up its best protection, the power to answer attack by attack, would lie to put itself at the mercy of a potential enemy that has proved itself merciless. Our country’s voters may be divided on many lines. For example, one division is between men and women. Another is according to place of residence (New England, the South, the Middle West, etc.). Another that has become impor tant in recent years, also residential but in a different way, is; between city-dwell ers and suburbanites. Another is ac cording to occupation (farmers, “white collar” work* r fartory workers, “small business” men, etc ). Appeals for votes are made on various occasions, on the basis of all these divisions. But as a campaign approaches its climax the division that is most inter esting to both 1 lx- spectator and the professional politician, and puts the lat ter into a frightful state of worry, is between the partisan voters and the in dependent voters. All the writers on [sJitics agree that Eisenhower’s big margin over Steven son four years ago (electoral vote, 442 to 89; popular vote, 23,936,000 to 27,- 315,000) was due to his winning the support of such a great number of in dependent voters. The prevailing opin ion is that his proportion of the inde pendent. vote will not. be as large this year as it was in 1952 but that it will still be large enough to re-elect him. Independent voters are in two main categories. Some do not belong to any party. Others are enrolled with this or that party but are not what are called thick-and-thin members. They usually vote —ith it but do not hesitate fHE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Chapel Hill Chaff (Continued from pare 11 Mr. Cutten has dispelled any possible doubt about the matter bv telling me that he has never met Mrs. Post. So, it seems that the butter couldn't have been any body’s but Mr. Day’s. * * t * One more exemplar of a long North Carolina tra dition—that the name Willie is pronounced Wiley— was in-the village last Saturday, and Collier Cobb did us the good turn of bringing him and his wife in to call on us after the football game. Before I leave the subject of Wjllie and Wiley let me recall that two of the illustrious, names in North Carolina history are sounded Wiley Jones and Wiley P. Mar.gum but are in all t'he written and printed records a- Willie Jones and Willie P. Mangum. O.r cai.ers were Mr. and Mr-. Willie Long of Oarys burg In Halifax county. Th*.l -n on a farm alongside the Roar r.e river, and live a much more peaceful life now that the river has. been tamed by dam.- than they used r w r.*-r, it was; uninhibited and went on frequent rampag--. “Eig.n* hundred acres of rr • land, planted in cotton and peanut-, were washed away in 1940,” Mr. Ling told r ■ "They sav that’s; n or*- crop land than any other one person ever lost in a -ingle flood.” I envisioned a vast hole left, as an eternal curse on the landscape, by the receding waters. “What became of the place where your land had been?" J asked. “W<. aid Mr. Long, wltr. the happy smile of a man who . remembering a s*r /*• of good fortune, “the river cot 1 red it over with, a beu a foot in depth of rich black «oi.. -o rich that th*- next year I got a crop worth twice a- much as the one I lost. ’ Mr. Iy,r.g attended the John Graham school in War renton among whose other are Frank P. Gra ham. Robert B. House, and 1 oilier < obb. Mr. Ling and Mr. Cobb were students together in the University here. While Mr. Cobb stayed on to be graduated Mr. Ling quit college aft*-r two year- and went back to Halifax county Vj join the family in farming. From all I hear he hasn’t lost anything, either in assets\*jr contentment, by cutting short his academic career. Ari'd 'his manner of speaking during his lively narrative of the Roanoke river’s assault on his farm and the disappearance of his cotton and peanuts showed he had plenty of culture. I couldn’t see but that, in polish of language, he achieved a stand-off with hi;- accompanying bachelor of arts, Mr. Cobb. Maybe he's been absorbing education year by year from his communion with our North Caro lina’s 01’ Man River. Music in a Chaotic World (Editor'll Note: In this w*<-k of frijfhteninjK developmwits tsrourid the world, some of the observations made in a re*ent article by Benjamin Hwaiin, dif*-*-f/.ir of the N. C. Sym phony Orehfcetra, are poignant- to break loose if the oppoCfcion presents, a candidate they like better than their own party’s. Here in the South there has been for many years a large element that sup ported Republican national candidates while never failing to vote for the Ix-rn ocrati'* candidates for Congress and state and local offices. For example, four years ago Chape! Hill gave Steven son 2.0H8 votes Vj Eisenhower’s 1,698, which was 65.1 per cent against 44.9 per cent. In the same election Chape] Hill gave Carl Durham, running for Con gress, 2,986 votes against his Republi can opponent’s 668, which was 81.7 per cent against 18.3 per c*-rit. North Carolina’s vote for President four years ago was 54 p**r cent for Stev enson against 46 per cent, for Eisenhow er, a close contest, but the vote for Gov ernor was 67.4 for Umste&d (Democrat) against 82.6 per cent for Seawell (R< publican), a walkover. Eisenhower car ried five Southern stages (Virginia, Florida, Texas, Tennessee, and Okla homa) because so many habitual Demo crats turned independent. It is not only obscure rank-and-file party members who break the bonds to become Independents. Sometimes the topmost leaders do it. A famous declar ation on this subject was the one by Franklin D. that he would riot hesitate to vote for a Republican candidate who he thought was a* better man for the job than the Democratic candidate and that he had done so in his home district in New York State. He mad** his first, appearance on the politi cal stage as an insurgent against the regular Democratic organization, and the organization leaders sought to brand hirn as an outcast. There are so many millions of jieople who now vote without regard to party ties that in many a state one party’s candidates for Congress and the other party's candidate for President are elect ed at the same time. Th** election of Ei senhower arid a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress is now being predicted by some of the best known pollsters and political writers. In most Presidential elections I have voted for the Democratic candidate. I cast my first vote in for Alton B. Parker against Thebdore Roosevelt (which I wouldn’t do again if I had the same choice to make). I voted in 1928 for A1 Smith, the Democrat whom Ijr appropriate Excerpt* quot ed here attest t/i the val i<# inherent in the muaictl ex perienre available to N. f cit izen* through their Symphony, ' irren’ y completing it? local North Carolina turned down to go for Hoover. I voted for F. D. R. every time he ran, and for Truman against Dewey. Four years ago I voted for Eisenhower. J have always voted for Democrats for offices other than President and Vice- President. One Democrat I have been voting for ever since 1938 with excep tive pleasure is Congressman Car] Dur ham. When I lived in New York there was a sizable and sometimes successful Fusion (“anti-Tammany”) party for city elections, made up of Republicans, independents, and temporarily indepen dent Democrats. I voted with the Fusionists and once held a minor ofD< <- in a Fusion administration Tarn many was in such bad <Aor that some people prominent in the national Democratic party were Fusionists. FDR, when Governor, had a Tammany mayor, James J. Walker, expelled from office. Woodrow W'llson was hostile to Tam many (which had showed its hostility to hirn at the 1912 nomination con ventiorij and favored the independent Democrats in New York with federal patronage. Now as to the candidate who has been the most bitterly attacked in th** present campaign: Not only have Democratic partisans been making Vice-President Nixon a special target for criticism; many inde pendents and Republicans have ex pressed themselves as being reluctant to vote for Eisenhower because they can’t vote for him without voting for Nixon too. It’s only a guess how many votes this reluctance will cost Eisen hower; you find much difference of opinion about it in the newspapers. I think the Democrats have gone too far iri their abuse of Nixon. Os course he has said foolish things, but who hasn’t? It seems to me he has made creditable, progress toward growing out of his foolishness. He has performed the duties of his office well and as time has passed his political manners have improved. In fact, in his recent cam paigning he has been more courteous toward his opponents than they have been toward him. There is another point to be maxle. The voter has got to make a choice between Vice-Presidential as between Presidential candidates. I cannot see any reason to vote for Kefauver in pref erence to Nixon.—L.G. I . -- - * r ' <**;- From Our Files I .IV ■ •••: • ■ . ; 5 Years Ago The football team that is ranked No. 1 in the U. S.— that of the University of Ten nessee—will play Carolina to morrow in the Kenan Stadium The Chapel Hill Community Club an affiliate of the Gen eral Federation of Women’* Clubs, is participating in the Federation's campaign to raise money for 150,000 CARE pack ages to be sent to Korea. 10 Years Ago When W. C. Coker, the bot anist, was on his way from home to Davie Hall Monday, he saw a pure-white chipmunk playing on the rock wad that forms the east boundary of the A■ • • •<• chi pm are very ’rare. Next T uesday is election da; Then ar<- two Constitu tional amendments to be voted or.: one to rai-e the pay of member- of the leg: -'at urc, on* 'to make women el gifcie for jry duty. " * * ("7 15 Years Ago V urge new batch of cloth ing Yor Engush boys and girl-, /very garment bearing th* ia ybel > f the Chapel Hii Com munity W-rk Room, i-- now on its way to England. On To*- - day ♦',*. women of the Commun ity Work Room proudly wrap pe<i the *>o boys’ shins, the 102 gif.-’ cotton dresses, and 50 g;r woolen shirt , and i*-nt them on their way to the export Lie pot of the Red Cross in Jersey < ity. membership enrollment.) During the fourth and fifth centuries, some of #ur for*- fathers, probably ate human flesh. They lived iri a world of savagery, violence, ignorance, and superstition Although civ ilization has progressed or some fronts, the world is still a chaotic world. It is a world ndden with debt and wricked by war and destitution. It is a world in which there is an appalling increase of thought controls, racial c<mflicts, and social dilemmas. Goya, the Spanish painter of the nine teenth '<r.'.iy. caustically de picted civilization as one ass trying V, teach another. Tobacco, peanpts, fish, cot ton, overalls, towels, and *ig arettes may he symbols of one kind of progress in North f Like Chapel Hill =~- 11 ~ Bart Bartholomew is public information officer for the LN( Division of Health Affairs, which includes Memorial Hospital. Last week he was unexpectedly admitted to the hospital as a patient and called UNC News Director Pete Ivey to tell him. Petes laconic reply was, “Don’t expect time and a half overtime pay just because you’re going to be at the hospital 24 hours a day.” ♦ * * * Paul Lytle’s in the dog house, so to speak. He’s charged with the operation of the Bank of Chapel HiliT drive-up teller window on East Rosemary Street, but he cap t duck out for an early morning coffee break and it% mighty lonesome out there for a person accus tomed to seeing a lot of foot-traffic. However, Paul seems to be mighty happy playing president of his own little bank. But, I'm not wholly happy about the situation. I like Paul and 1 like the bank, and I think I should be the one to help. But the bank's officials don’t think so. I offered to relieve him, but the top brass miscon strued th*- meaning of my offer. “Relieve him of what?” they asked. "That’s just what we're afraid you would do—relieve him and us, too, of ca^h.” * * * * Over in Raleigh recently I chanced across a friend of long-standing—Ed Buchan of Kinston. He was there with his Mi.--.i-. enjoying the comfort of the hotel lobby and the pleasure of renewing friendships with people who had come to the State Fair and to the Democrats’ banquet. “Uncle Ed"—that’s what 1 always call him —wanted to know about people hereabouts, especially Carl Teague. v “I’m particularly forid of Carl," he said. “You know, he and I roomed together when we went to school at Buie’s Creek and later when we attended Univer sity. You want to get Billy Carmichael to tell you about the time Carl and 1 got religion at the big camp meet ing.” J* That I've got to hear. * * • * Without looking up the number in the telephone book, J tried to dial Walker’s Funeral Home the other day. A voice answered: “Carolina Inn. Ridout speaking.” “I was trying to get the funeral home,” 1 told C. F. Ridout. “Well, Billy, you got the Inn,” he said nicely. J couldn’t resist the .temptation, so I let go: “But I didn’t miss it much, did 1?” How Mr Ridout maintains such an even disposition and is as pleasant as he is all the time is beyond me. C arolina, but th*y arr not ••r*!'* in themselvfcx. Things *houl*i never he *n*is in thems»iv*-s. Th*- emphasis should rather be on what happens la-tween things, for we live in an era when explorations and di.vov erie* change our material val ues swiftly and dynamically A physicist at the turn of the century was reputed to have stated that everything that was worth knowing _jn the realm of physics had ill ready been discovered. Little did he realize that during the first half of this century, the lives of people ail over the world would la- virtua iy revo lutionized by momentous dis coveries in physics, chemistry, and other fields Go*ai music is a significant type of thinking that ennobles arid inspires man, and it con stitutes virtually the only .'in ternational language in the world today As such it should la- used as a factor for peace, good will, and understanding among peoples. Like education, science, anil nature, it should belong to all the people. Good music, iik*- oxygen, is in some tpraritity virtually everywhere. It is not only a great human und social art; but it is a complex, technologi cal science and one of the large, mechanized industries in the nation. It pervades the spirit of (.'hnstmas ami Easter. It is heard in public schools, homes, churches, concert halls, and theaters. It is requisite for dancing, and war, arid it has become a major study in col leges and universities thiough out the nation. As an antidote the de terioration of human relations in the world, 1 should like to reiterate a suggestion which I have already made to the head of the < ujtural Division of the United Nations: that w<- have, under the sponsorship of the Cultural Division of the United Nations, an annual world scries of symphony con certs, and perhaps, perform ances by choral, operatic, and theatrical organizations to ire given in all countries of the world as an instrument of peace, good will, and under standing among peoples. ||.**»E .11 * li**M I CHARCOAL BROILED HICKORY SMOKED STEAKS—FLAMING HII IKK EBAB—BUFFET EVERY SUNDAY Friday, November 2. 1956 Book Reviews By Robert Bartholomew WOODROW WILSON AND THE POLITICS OF MORAt ITY. By John Morton Blum Edited hy Oscar liandhn Little, Brown A Co. Boston 215 pp. f;; 50. As a young boy Woodrow Wilson dreamed of glory by distinguished speech *-.* that would move people ami governments to great things It was a mark of greatness that he remained true to his (Ream and -that his dream so largely came true. On the other hand, the stubbornness with which he followed his ideals at times blinded him to people and bis dealings with them. Wll.vm left bis touch cn each job he undertook, but it was us President that he left hi* most enduring* murk. A» h* had hoped to do, he led * on press to great achievements and his party to large vic tories. This is one of the Library of American Biography series that has been edited by Uscail Maadlin Other volumes of the series are biographies of Grant. Franklin, Webster and Hughes, just to mention a few The author is professor of history at MIT. lie i» aiao author of “Joe Tumulty and the Wilson Era" and "The Re publican Roosevelt.” • • « I.ES GIRLS. By Constance Tomkinson. Little, Brown A Co. Boston. 274 pp. $3Jx5. This is an unconventional and funny story of a very un usual young lady, Constance Tomkinson, whose path from a small dancing group to the famous Folios was strewn with surprises, admirers and a go<*i ly amount of just £.ain work In Italy, where the plumbing was prehistoric and the- men even more so. Tommy and her friends found three em-orts safer than one. This nonfic tion work, written by a minis ter's daughter who ends up m the chorus of the Folies Her gere, is one of the better humorous books of the season A delightful series of drawings by Knight captures the spirit of the book.
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