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Page Two The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill. North Carolina 1*» JL famun TfMow »-in w #4«i E*tn Ts**«» *i*d Prwla* By TW* CtaM 1 Hili T*»bli*lunr Cowpan?. !■*- Lons Gxaye? . CtmT~.bvting Editor Jo* Jcnxs Managing Editcr Pr- *-v Ajfthvt Aitociaie Ed it o' Or.tii* Cacti.. General Manage C T Vajcm A dvr-tump 0.-erto- Chaxltcx Cam?*!— AfrrKanical Sup: tri*r«c a. m?- - -’*** ?**--.»*: S 19C- at tkt patcg n . . -.a.-- Hi— N -.« jadcr tr» *--■ c? Mj';: 'i tr?> <1 BSCRIPTION R\TE? I- Year KOC t a r.ta» l-.dC 5 ttir.tt II 60* ra esc* : -* r Slat* of N C- \ a., arc ? C Ouse: :u'« arc Ijj*v of Cc-ru®:;* 6*X Carara Mencc Soolfc Aatr.ci 7.0 t E*-. The Gha?'. That Haunt? the f ugecasterv V ArTftar krori, ib t!»* S*» 1 ork Tsaseei A# L«*dit Day draw: near, and sair.p*<err of the voter? preference be tween :ne President and Adia: E Ste ven?.:: continue tc report by ar. ever- majority tr.a* th* victory of the Republican national ticket is cer tain. \r.e ghost of the v rst f orecast of poht.ca action that - maty of the trite. < f observer? e l -er made is haunt ing- »h«r. This wa? their prognosti cation of the Presiaentia. election of 194*—the year v her President Tru man. marked f r inevitable defeat by every pr-. phet but himseif with 30S eiectora! votes, thirty-seven more than art- required to send a candi date te the White House. The ft host of this prediction will visit the piUows of th« forecaster? through out the night of Nov 5-€. and not until or unless the returns support their pre view viL it be exorcised. Late Swing Toward Stevenson Is Seen CTW Ra**ijr? N>"» and Obttner) The theory of the pollsters now if : voter? change their mind? right up to election day. If that theory is correct, it follow* that pedis must be continued t* the very end of the campaign and each poll may be expected to differ from, the preceding one. . . . Thing? ar» not a* dare for Stevenson a? they were. It i? general y agreed that the tr*-nd favored him. through September and that Eisenhower wa? the beneficiary of whatever changes occurred during must of October. It now appears, however, the pendulum has swung toward Ste venson again. If that be true, and most of the poll? say it is, the present swing car. be expected to continue for one more week. ‘"Expected Nearly Always Happens” 11 '*ju here ib the Battunorr Sun; Os C' _r?e long shots sometimes win and the it*4* election of Mr. Truman is • .«• re-t >\r * to U- f* rgotten. Never theless it is the expected that nearly always happens • politics and certainly the current odds of 4 to I, daily pub lished in New York City papers, are not encourag r.g to Stevenson or to Mr. Paul Butler. Arthur Schiesinger. Jr., and other * f hi? more ardent aide- and adviser?. Eisenhower failed “Darling of fate" The Berkshire E;.gle of Pittsfield, Mass., w • - pj • ’ ing St< V. n .-ays: “From, thi time 17 years ago when he w;is an obscure lieutenant-colonel Mr Evenhower ha? been favored re markably bv circumstances. It is hardly too much to say that he seems at times to be the darling of fate. ""That his luck continues at unabated speed is evidenced by the events of the last few days. Both parties have been apprehensive about some last minute ‘break* which would favor the other side. Mr. Eisenhower has now received not one but two. "The first concerns nuclear weapons. "Mr. Stevenson, in urging his point, has now received support from the di rection from Which he did not want sup port and from the one corner where it is calculated to do him actual harm— Soviet Russia. The gratuitous endorse ment of his position by Marshal Bul ganin, if it is not the kiss of death, is likely to do him much more harm than good. . ‘The second event for which the President could not and would not claim credit is the astonishing revolt in Po land against the authority of Moscow. Mr. Stevenson has contended that the administration has done nothing to im- plement the promise in its 1952 plat form to help "liberate' the satellite coun tries. "In view of the situation up to a week ago. this looked like a good argument for the last twe week? of the campaign. m which Mr. Steven* r. ha? brer, plan ning t unhmber his big gun* against tht Eisenh wer ■ re.p: j* licy ar. . ‘-he •an boner? ai ect inf* ties f Secr-tarv hr. F ~ter Dulles N w Mr Stevens r. ha? beer, deprived : ra? cherished and careful treasure i issues and part circumstance ha? turned then, inti assets fc-r Mr. Eisenh wer. "We are r. t asserting that Mr. Ei>*: - h >wer‘s succ»-■*? ha* ■beer. due exclu sively t- luck. We are merely calling atter.t. >r. t *.n- fact that hi? estimable qua.itie* have Been a- -1? tre by a sin gularly la' ‘*rat*ie fate .. a? max r.a,— pe-r.. Mr Ei?er.hower i? re-elected, we n* ;* tr.a* hi? g--«d wil. ex- X-u cal rr.emte.-r —but rt. >-t : a. t- f >ur year? (,f re torve. health « Elditor - ‘ • Su th< • • • rial ap;«ear*.-d there r.a? beer, still another iuck ■ "break” : - Eisenh wer. the re-volt ir. Hungar;. I t*ret-a-*ler? *»ee Demucratici < ongre?- I s Va»> ibC WoriC Report; The omm •: pre-diet, r • ‘lt ? tc i»e E.*er.h-.wer jr pablv t . a landslide, if it :? all experience sugg> ?ts h well be a Ke-publ. H -s» may:* a Repuuii car Senat* r reewster? lr.,s tim»e are saying that 1956 v ting w.. fly ir the face of history. They are predicting a 1 ongres* with LH-m <ra’.- r. iding ma jorities in b*;’.r. hous*-?. Nixon a.? the Target (( . I* I**-* ir tii* Baltimore Sun) The liberals are just as mad at Mr Nixon as ever. They used to hate him because he waged what they called a “low-road* campaign They are just as irritated with him th:* time because his campaign has beer, impeccably high road. They began by saying Nixon had cal«ed the Democrat# a party of treason. Os course he had not. and the fact was easily proved. Then they said he had accused Mr. Truman f treason, un qualified. What he had said was that Mr Truman was a traitor to Demo cratic part;, principles. This distinction, obvious and und -dgeable. evoked a new torrent * unfriendly i.beral comment, cartooning, etc. Ir. th* present campaigning, it was early apparent mat the Democrats pro posed t make Mr. Nixon a major issue. He was the political heir to Eisenhower and to the Eisenh- wer Republicanism, they argued, and he was unfit for the role. The reason, explained men who had cheered the Roosevelt c urt-pack and the Truman steel-seizure, was that Mr Nixon lacked principle! Ordinary people can s«e at a glance that Mr Nix ■ ? whole care*-r has been built about one d»?:p convicti*>n. one ele mentary and inflexible s<-t of principles. The liberal failur* to detect this fact about Mr Nix r. is all the <>dder since his conviction and his principles bear on the central and paramount issue of the time, namely, the impact of com munism ••. fn-* institutions ar.d free peoples. Not once- has Mr. N.x r. stated that communism i? just another form of democracy He never boasted that good old Uncle J- ?■ w- merely a juml>»-siz** Tammany l* *- *;-.?:!>• manipulable by smart law\»-r? fr> »*. New York or cagey politicians fr* v Missouri. In foreig’ affairs. Mr Nixon never claimed ti. * the Re-d Chinese were mere agrarian reformers. No Nixon address contain? the asurance that Communist colonia:i?e improves on the other kinds. To cal! Mr Nixon a man of expediency without principle or conviction on the transcendan’ contemporary issue is to misunderstand a modern success story in politics. In Campaign Time the Small-Business Man Is the Politician's Darting (Chirin E K(u ia (W New Y*rk Times) Any small-business man might be excused f< r his bewilderment at becom ing such ar. object of concern to cam paign orators in these closing days of the Presidential campaign. Interrupted in seasonal tiffs with un reasonable customers and tax collectors, the small merchant or producer has suddenly found himself the center of po litical attention, idolized by both the outs and the ins. On one side he is pictured as ecstatic over his prosperity and the prospects of lenient tax treatment next year. On the other he is limned as a pathetic figure dinging desperately to fHE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY Chapel Hill Chaff (Continned fro® parr 1) stream. There have been time? in these last few years w her. the Skipper w-as half choked to death by asthma. Mure that once he was just about floored completely. But he never quit. It was sc till "he day of his death. No matter h w he felt, he turned in his full assignment. • * » * A gr up of children were playing in the front yard of a h •.;«* :n Westwood wher. they ?aw a pig come run ning in" the driveway. Th* ?t >ry of the three little pig? :r. tr .ble with the big bad wolf constituted their acqua.ntanci with pigs. But this one wore no clothes and wa- running on all four? Feeing secure in numbers, the children made after the strange creature. With -bouts and sticks, they chased .* through flower bed- and off into the woods toward "her yards and flow* r beds where it probably encour."--re i high-bred dog? that did not know what it was e."her. * * * * A cu'-t rr.er handed a Chapel Hill druggist a small pap»*-r uag. asking him to fill the vitamin prescriptions < r. the > “ies inside. Hilarity broke out when the con tent- of phe bag turned out t be acorns, the treasures of a f-r.iid f the customer, vh hastily returned to her car f r the right bag. At that, the druggist said, who kn w - L..p_that the fruits of the mighty oak contain vitam.r.- aiuable to humans a- well a- to squirrels?. * * * 9 A bus;. Crapel Hill woman turned on the radio, hop ing " .near the new? while taking a bath. The telephone rang wr.iie she wa.? in the tub. As she put on her robe V- answer it she was shocked t hear a gruff command, "D • : answer that phone!" A moment later she rea lized the . ojcam< from th- radio. * * * 9 S* .• ra times lately Grover Bush has been kept awake at night : y barking dogs. ‘T fix them if they come around here in the daytime.” he told his wife. After an incident of a few days ago Mr. Bush is not so sure about his desire to punish the dogs. When a small spotted one came in his yard he threw a stick at it, and the dog picked th<- stick up and brought it to him. solvency until a new and understanding Administration can come to his rescue and ease hi? tax burdens after Election Day. We Have What We Asked For We have a Community Chest because we wanted one. We wanted a group of our own people to make an impartial appraisal of the needs of the multiple agencies of our community. We wanted to pass a month or so without being asked to contribute to something. * We wanted to be relieved of the re sponsibility of determining whether some agency was or was not worth while. We wanted to give generously to charitable organizations, and we wanted to be certain that what we gave was being economically administered and wisely appropriated. So, we established a Communit Chest and it set up an evaluating committee. The Community Chest has approved ten agencies for membership—the Boy Scouts, the Girl Scouts, the Y-Teens, the Recreation Center, the Community Center, the Holmes Day Nursery, the Humane Society, the Chapel Hill High School Library, the Peter Carvin Li brary at the Glen wood School, and the Mary Bay ley Pratt Library at the Chapel Hill Elementary School. The evaluating committee heard the requests for money needed to operate each one year. It undertook the thank less job of determining how much work each agency could doNeconomically and sensibly and what fJ7e cost would be. And, too, it considered what th*- com munity as a whole could afford to con tribute to all ten. For 1%7, it has ar rived at a good budget —a budget of J 27.937. We now have what we asked —now let's give what the Community Chest asks. Give generously. The continued success of this sensible and meritorious organization depends upon all of us, collectively and individually. The Two Parties and Social Security (Th«* Dcs Moines Register) The Democratic party has an im pressive record with respect to the in itiation and enactment of the Social Security and Old Age Retirement pro gram, the encouragement given to con struction of private and public housing, the advancement made in public health projects and the enactment of minimum wage legislation. The Republican campaign speakers would appear ridiculous if they were to deny that these forward steps were taken during Democratic administra tions. The Republicans have continued these programs during their own ad ministration and expanded some of them, particularly the social security coverage and size of the payments. These federal welfare programs are accepted and established functions of Book Reviews By Robert Bartholomem THE LAND CALLED CHI COLA. By Paul Quatt'ebaurn. Un ■■ *rs ity of Florida Press Gainesville, Fla. 152 pp. $3.75. One of the little known Spar.i-h explorations of the ea-t coast of what is now the United States was that of Luca? Vazquez de Ayllon in 152*1. The.-e explorations were made aionp the North and S *uth Carolina coast. A? everywhere in the New Wr d. the Spaniards were looking for gold and other riche-, but Ayllon was also looking for the River Jordan, w.-.r, the result that on the in accurate and* incomplete maps of th*- time the name of this illu-ive -tream was given to every river of any size from the Cape Fear to the Savannah. fven the site of the first Span:-h settlement in the area betwe-r. the Capt Fear and the Savannah Rivers, San Miguel de Guaidape, founded by Ay - lon, is. not certain. However, the author makes out a good case that the location was probabiy near the present site of Georgetown, S C. The w* >k is w* !I illustrated witr. reproductions of the old drawings .-howmg the Caro lina Indians and a number of inter* -ting maps. The author is a retired busi r.«- • man who became inter ested in the state archives wr,... serving in the South ( aroitna Senate. He devoted several years to the study of the ear y settlements along the coast of the Carolina.'. The present volume is the result of this study. the federal government. The only area in which they remain political issues is the manner in which they are administered and in the changes that may be proposed for the future. Election Result May Be a Split Victory “This year may produce a result unique in American political history— the election of a President of one party and of a Congress in the control of the other party,” says the Atlantic for No vember. “Since the advent of the direct election of Senators in 1913, three Pres idents have lost party control of both Senate and House at mid-term: Wilson in 191 k, Truman in 1946, Eisenhower in 1954. Yet, despite the loose American party ties, the pulling power of the man who won the White House has always been enough in presidential election years to give his party a majority in Congress. Historically, Presidents running for re-election do less well than they did when they first sought office. The sin gle exception in our history was the Roosevelt landside over Landon in 1936, a victory which produced the most lop sided Congress in American history. The 1956 campaign gives every evi dence of being in the traditional mold; the Eisenhower Crusade enthusiasm of 1952 has not been duplicated in 1956, and Eisenhower’s party lost in the usual fashion in the mid-term election in 1954. By every evidence of the cyclical trends of our political life, Eisenhower can be expected to lose GOP seats in Congress this year even though he wins a second term in the White House. Watch Out for School Buses (Richmond County Journal) Now ihat fall weather is getting down to business, it would be well for drivers to remember that darker days and poor visibility often add up to tragedy involving school buses. Under the law in practically every part of this country, drivers are re quired to stop when school buses are discharging or taking on passengers. In hilly areas, in poor visibility, or on curves, cars traveling at today’s high speeds are often hard-pressed to stop if they do not see a standing school bus a good distance ahead. Although school buses are supposed to show blinking lights, or stop signals, in the form of a raised sign or in some other fashion, these signals are sometimes flashed dangerously late by the driver, and oncoming cars are given very little time to stop. Therefore, we take this occasion to call the attention of all drivers to the fact that, as days get shorter and winter weather increases its intensity, eyes should he kept peeled for school buses, especially in the early morning and early afternoon, in an effort to avoid what could be the worst possible tra gedy on the highways. ™ f Likp Chapel Hill A bus driver in town recently was telling why bus doors are opened by the drivers when they cross a rail road track: "That's so, if a train's coming, the driver can jump out and run." "But what about the passengers?” 1 asked. "We got plenty of passengers,” said he, "but we're short on drivers.” * * * * The Weekly’s philosopher, Uncle John and I were walking up the street the other afternoon and were “tartled by a blasting automobile horn. "That's it,” Uncle John observed, “some people be lieve in driving with their horns.” * * * * Mis? Billie Williams chided me the other day for not speaking to her when we passed. “You just passed me by without speaking, you and Orville Campbell. That's when you were going in the bank. How come?” “Whenever we go in. the bank,” I told her, “we’re so worried we don’t see anyone.” * * * * A good story I heard last week was about a fellow who took a contract to irrigate the entire section of western Texas. He laid a two-inch water line from the Rockies, just west of Denver, down to the heart of that desert land in Texas. Somebody asked him, “Do you think you can g-t enough water through that line?” He said, “If those Texans can suck as hard as they can blow, they’ll get plenty of water.” * * * * Little Linda Beeson celebrated her fourth birthday last week abobt three months ahead of time. Her actual birthday is Christmas Day, but her con siderate parents want Linda to have a birthday party, too. So they have always observed it on Halloween just as they did this year. * * * ♦ A man may not have a single reason for not joining a club. Then again, he may have a married one. Success depends less upon how much you know than upon the usefulness of what you know. * » * * Without actually departing from the truth, it’s aston ishing what astoundingly different stories two respec table people can tell a jury. THE MATTRESS THAT lasts I ml U |-si£j || Tortured by 270-pound roller at United States Testing Co., Beautyrest outlasted the best of other | mattresses by 3to 1. 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