Page Two ‘ The Chapel Hill Weekly Chapel Hill. North Carolina f lJf E. Rosemare Telephone SF-12T1 or fc 4sl ' : * Puhh-hed E'erv Toewl*? and FruU; ‘ B» TV Chape! Hill Pnbltehmr Company, In* * * Lons Graves Contributing Ednor Joi Jones Managing Editcr BniY Aethvr _ Associate Editor Oevita Campbeu. Genera.’ Konc^e* C T Watkins .. Acvmiszng Director Chak-Ton Camfbeh Mecncnica'. Supi Erlerec se'-onc-".*** r ir.r Ff! '3 i«i~ a: tr* postcfiirt a*. Oiape H*l. Nu*!r. C-frrobrit under tr* a:- of l It?.- SUBSCRIPTION KATES lr. Ctrar.pt County. \ ear $4-00 it months $2-25 , i month? 12.50' Out-.at of Orangt County t> tne \ tar Start of 5 C, \t. ar.c it C. Other State? anc In*t of Coiun.t.t E-0C Canada Mexico. Souls. America 7.W ~ Europe TM The Proposal That the Democrats Hate A Celebration of Their Victory A dispatch from WasringTon brings the news f an interesting suggestion by Senator Humphrey **f Minnesota. He hat written a letter t a. members of the executive comm.ittee ' i the Demo cratic National Comm ”.ee, proposing that tr.e Democrats have a great Vic tory Bal. at the opening cf C-ongre-- Boon after the end of the year. As I see it. tire obvious comment upon that is: “Why not'." For. the Democrats won an impor tant Viet ry in tine recent election when they cincr.ed their contro. of Congress, keeping' their 49-to-47 margin in the Senate (wmch. though smail, as just as good as a 10 or 20 margin would be as authority for then t tak< charge of organizing that body; and increasing their margin in the House of Represen tatives from 30 to 34. A good deal of attention has been given to the fact that while the Re publicans won the Presidency the Dem ocrats won Congress, but even so I doubt if the "Democratic victory has received the emphasis it deserves:. Specially when you think of it in connection with the future. This: year is the f:rst in mors than a hundred years when Congress was. won by one party and the Presidency waa won by the other. There is little doubt that in the mid-term elections two years hence, with tr.e Republican candidates | having no Eisenhower coattails; to rang on to, the Democrats will get a still larger .eac in Oj.ngress. And what a big advantage trey w.U have in the next eii-c’.ion on a nat.cnal scale, that of I 960! Tr.e Repuo .oans haven’t a ciianoe of having tr.er a 'candidate for President with anywhere near the popu larity of Eisenhower. Tr at is to hay, they w. D w.thout the -oie asset they had for winning the Presidency this year. Nixon is tai/.ed a Dost as the most likely Republican candidate- in 1960, and I doubt if there a political observer in the country of any standing who, if asked his opinion, wouldn’t s.ay that the Democrats could wipe up the floor with Nixon. I have, rr.yself, never sym pathize! with the abuse that the Dem t ocratic sj/jkesmen have poured on him, and believe he may corne into much better favor with the public than he is; , now’, but I do not foresee his becoming the really popular candidate that the f Republicans; are going to need. /» AH in all, the Democrats: have gour c untry h;.-' harmed as we! a- helped by the word ‘democracy'. That chameleon-..ke w rd. which means so many d:fDrer.t thing" to so many different people f witness the interpretations the Russians put upon it’/ ar .uses emotions everywhere. We Americans would iav down our lives f r the meaning which we devoutly be lieve in and value. We ought to lay if not our at lea-* a good barrage against the twisted meaning ar. - : rr isuse * f . t that threaten" to WTecx the quality of our ecucatior. ' ‘Democracy is fundamentally a po ut. ca: term, applying to political units or gr ~p" f human be.r.g- We follow democratic principle--. I r o;»e, in the gov <-rr..merit of our nation our - late, our •- • ■ ag ir w hich I j.vi- But when we begin to apply ‘de mocracy’ in the fields of education or --or' lar.-hip grave per;.- descend upon }. a Li One of these peril" the fetish of tr.e majority vote. In operating any political government we have to depend upon a vote to determine what policies ar*- to be adopted, what persons elected to represent v- and carry out those poli cies The majority, under limitation"’ impo"*ed by the Constitution and the courts, must determine these things. It is a convenient way of setting political action. We have not been able to find a better one. “The peril is: that this useful dew e for settling political matter- comes to be regarded by people at large with a kind of superstitious reverence, as if a majority vote could settu the truth of a theory or proposition,.n the field of scholarship or education A few mo reen’.-’ serious thought will con vine*: anyone that even the most august con vention, the wisest meeting of the Par ent-Teacher As-v.-iation, or of the American Legion, even of the Senate of the I.’nited States, cannot by major ity vote determine the truth or the falsity of, let us say, the latest Einstein theory. That has V. be decided in the long run by the innumerable tests of time and experiment. Even for ques tions far J< • abstruse and complex than the Einstein theory truth or falsity must be weighed and determined by the politically indifferent scales of time “To a lesser d»-gree this is true not only, of the* scholar's search for but also of matters of ed u* ationai Vet we have to settle a jrood many ques tions in schools and colleges and uni versities, important questions of educa tional policy such as the requirements of the curriculum, by a majority vote of the faculty under the safeguards of parliamentary law. Yet. we should never forget that this cannot possibly estab lish their verity or wisdom; the de cisions should always be open to later reconsideration and further discussion. In the fields of scholarship and edu cation it is also important to remember 'hat popular opinion polls or the major ity votes of school hoards, trustees, or legislative l>o*L/-" cannot determine the ultimate value of the research project or the educational method or aim. Even Research f'oun'-ils, though they have to decide what projects to aid, cannot real ly determine this. “I was immensely impressed in my youth by that remarkable book ‘The Life of lyouis Pasteur,'by Valery-Radot. The early portion tells how the young Pasteur sjsnt the first years of his scientific re-earch studying racemic acid, the peculiarities of the left-handed and right-handed crystals of racemic acid. Nothing could more foolish to the average citizen than to have a promising young man waste his time in this obscure and apparently useless re search. And yet, from adding to man’s total knowledge of truth, Pasteur’s researches in the long run were to have stupendous practical value, saving the lives of thousands of human beings and billions of francs for the silk industry of France.”—-L. G. A liberal is a man who is willing to sper\d somebody else’s money.—Carter Glass. THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY CHAPEL HILL CHAFF ■» (Continued from page ll per. which was standing on its handle, described a line pointing downward through the North Star to eight on an imaginary clock dial in the heavens. The lights .’■played in an area below and be:ween the two “dippers” (ur-a nay r and ursa minor). In measuring the spatial extent of the illumination I observed that it covered generally a -kv area equal to the size of my own hand held up broadside, palm outward, at a handbreadth from my nos*. “Gradually now, the red--uffused area became barred with vertical rays of a lighter hue, which, fading away towari the top. resembled the effect produced by sunlight sh.ning through brol ■r. clouds. The color of these ray- r bars varied fitful I;• from white light to a ’very paD apple-green tint, and the intensity of the light als? deeper.“d and waned from one second to another. (The most impressive thing am -t this phenomenon, to me. is the " Cotie. shimmering alt - ration in shape, color, and brighw-ss which occurs continuously.) This rest less deeper, rg and fading is hardly rapid enough to be called flickering: it probably suggests nothing so vivid ly as the m m.ing and going of • .ushes on a human face. Even the r/r is similar: scarlet with just a trace of blue interfused. The peculiar bar-like rays would be come \: • :b> by degrees as if < merging through a mist, although *r< atmosphere wa- perfectly clear; then, as unaccountable they would di.-mp'ar. leaving only the redr.<--. Th-re was still no trace ' f dawn by five-thirty, when the whole spectacle had almost faded away. “The ma.esty of the scene was enhanced by the pn ■ • • ft - , very large bi ght n rning stars ir the eastern sk;. one about twenty degrees and the other per hap- forty above the horiz r They were evidently the planet- ’Ar.u- and Jupiter for they did not twinkle but shore w.th great br hi lance, the moon having gone down some time before. "Undoubtedly the chill, dry weather (near freezing at the i, accompanied by an unusual transparency of the atmosphere for several days past, favored obser vation. A friend of mine had mentioned receiving with incredible clarity, the evening before, several far-distant radio broadcast". HUH* 1 used the word culmina’.on n what I wrote last week about Archibald Henderson’s career a- the bi ographer of George Bernard Shaw. Now he uses the same word in a far less agreeable -ens:e In a note to me he speaks of his “almost unbelievable epistolary activi ty' 1 for fifty years and says: it ha" been “eventually tes tified to by the bursitis.” Anybody who has heard bursitis described by a person who ha- been attacked by it knows it is extreme ly painful and naturally suppo «-s that a victim would be eager to find any way to be freed of it. So, when Mr. Henderson mentioned his bursitis: to me a couple of weeks ago and his mention of it was a bitter male diction I a-k«-d him: “Why don’t you.do your writing ■on the typewrit* r?” For I kr#w that the arm and finger movements: required for typing were not the sort that caused bursitis. 11::- reply was that h<- never had been able to learn to compose on the typewriter. When he had tried it, he said, the buttons, the key- and all the rest of the ma chinery staring him in the fan- had blunted hi;-: thoughts. “The trouble is,” I said, “you quit trying too soon. A little while longer at it and you’d have found it com ing easy and you would have gone through life saving yourself a lot of time and trouble and a lot of bursitis ” Then, to give pres:tig*- to composing on the type writer, J reminded him that. Woodrow Wilson had mad* a regular practice of it. But of course he knew this: ai ready and there was no use of alluding to it, When a man of Mr. Henderson’s years and experience, and u* cess at getting people to read his letters and answer them has mad*- his choice between typing and penning or \a nciling you are wasting words to try to change 1 this choice. You might as, well just end your effort bv saying U mean to yourself, not aloud) : “Oh, well, if he likes to have bursitis better than he does to take my advice, to hell with him.” Wh<-ri I quoted to my wife what Mr Henderson had said in his talk with m<- and in his later note, -h<- said: “Hhillips Russell doesn’t compose on the type writer, either.” This reminded me that Mr. Russell had on*-e told me about some sort of unusual method he had followed ifi his writing. I had forgotten what it was, so I tele phoned him to ask What h<- does 1 never heard of an / writer's doing before. “When J am working on a book,” he said, “I use three fountain peris of three different, shapes and change from one to another. That keeps my finger from getting set in one fixed grip and 1 believe explains: why 1 don’t, have cramps, bursitis, or any other such trou b!<- from my w-ritirig. “After a pen-and-ink manuscript with pen-arid ink corrections is finished I type the whole thing off. Then 1 make more corrections in pen-and-ink,’ and then 1 have a professional typist make the final copy.” But in his newspaper writing Mr. Russell does all his composing on the typewriter.’ Relativity in Geography By Sidney S**»irn Kobirih My newspaper was telling the other day of the Russian soldier just arrived In shat ter* d Budapest and Koirijc around a?kiritf for the “canal, canal.” It seems he was look ing for the Hi»ez canal and sup posed it was somewhere in B ti da pest. That is not too much of a story alongside the whopper they used to tell when I was at the Hill, about the man up in one of the western-most counties getting elected to the legislature and preparing for a sea-voyage on the supposi tion that he had to cross the Atlantic to get to Raleigh. And neither one of them is any bigger yarn than the true one I have to tell about the man who did most all the house moving around Asheboro in tto days of my youth His name was Winborrie Connor and he was popularly dubbed “Wid” Connor. H* was a Confederate veteran. After the Civil War he went west for a while; arid when he came back he report er! numerous adventures, among them "digging coconuts out in Wymaho.” He stoutly main tained that the earth was flat, and his clinching argument was that the Bible spoke of the winds coming from the “four corners” of it. How/could it have four corners if it was just a ball? I myself once argued with him on that, declaring that men had actually sailed around the world. “Oh. pshaw," said he, “they git up by that f ■ ' .exmu -i From Our Files I ,ii. ’ .. u r- '1 . 5 Years Ago A highly favorable review of -Manly Wade Wellman's new boon f r JuvenileSj ‘‘The Haunts cf Dr wrung Creek.” appears in the November 10 issue of the ’’The Saturday Review of Literature.” Noel Houston has written a play based on Richard Bissei ‘s novel, ‘A Stretch on the River," ar. i has signed a con tract with Jose Ferrer for its pro&ikti n. 10 Years Ago The trustees of jh.e estate cf the .ate William H. Ackland have decided that the money left ty h.m /estimated at 11,- 3957/00; for the erection and maintenance of an art museum in the South will come to th»- University here. Jt i'-okr as if Caro ina will have what the spirts writers /■ail a " -light edge” in the game with Duke tomorrow. 15 Years Ago D-keV. undefeated team beat Carolina, JO to 0, last Saturday at Durham. An opportunity to make Christmas gift- do double duty prov.ueu by the British War R<-..•■( Tf.::ft Shop, where at tractive gifts are now on dis ' The prof on the sal/ < f ti./--*- ar*.' /•• will be u-ed for tr* re.ief of d'--titute fami lies. ir. England. there North Bole and git turned around and corne back.’ 1 If or.’/- of us are getting a li’ve better ir, geography than rr. -t of us - r id wi- now cover by auto at sixty. Ore leaves oof account the a.rplar.e, to keep from getting dizzy over thus ; rogre -,ve di m.riution of *,ur favor;*/- plane’ The other reason is t.haat, what for war ar.d one thing arid another, the boy. arid girls are now making trips a:! over the worjd am) ir, great num ber , o that the home folks are bound to gel a urr.i whal -* ■ imaginary and more real . ’ n< count of the far p,a< e 1 her *- 1 - a.o old t fir in tp. ; r. ■ ortra-i r. New Han, p - r. ire whose rock - and gra.i »tarv«-d or emaciated several f.,n ..* , and wool/1 bet ter /-hooiing *o.e >,f 1 r./- boy- now l .l, a mode-t. gio/i-i , !ri.a/i ab- it r,. ■ nepbi wo he aid on* o! tnern*was at In* Mil acte,-*-tt Institute of le. bnology ihring v. hat 71 I >■:>• r. r.g ‘town t >,< i * “ A rul w bat , !b* *,t tii-i <1 mi g ' " Asheboro b/re in Ka-updph < builty, North * ai'ilina t*. find himself a wife That, was a good move but all the same our old world is, getting 100 small | 4 doesn't take the son of a prophet to till how Daniil Boone would have felt about ' What people think they an- doing is “gel | ting there" faster; what ihey are really doing is jamming the ends of the earth together arid destroying the rnysti* romance of the far places. Os course the recourse left is. /«, dream of the moon and Mars, and of learning to rocket thither. God save us vision ami mystery and hope! But if there is. anybody who thinks he ran travel any fur ther iri a day than my grand pa and 1 traveled when he hitched old Frank to the car riage and drove us to Greens boro to see Barnum’s circus the day after, maybe he ig ding himself. He doesn’t go fur ther; his world is just fifteen times smaller than my grand pa’*. Dutch Were Out-Traded From an article by Weimar Jones in the Franklin Press: I had never been further north than Washington, and I especially looked forward to gp ■■ f WAt o'hapo*l Hill The other evening when I put Anils Lillian to bed, she strutted down the hall singing, all the girls away . . ta . . ta . . ta . . da . . da . . keeping all the girls away.” ) Surprised, I asked where she learned that. “Don’t you know?” she asked. “That’s the tele vision commercial for Wild Goose Cream Oil.” * * * * That s about like the story of the lad who cama. home from school one day with “1776“ pinned across* his shirt front. When his mother asked what that meant, he grumbled: “You don’t know any more than the teacher. That’s what she wanted to know.” “But what does it mean, son,” the mother persisted. “That ,-tands for the ‘Declaration of Appendicitis’,” he replied proudly. * * * * And another: Marjorie was enjoying with her grandparents a rare treat of home-made bread. The par ents little realized what an impression such delicious bread made upon the child, who was accustomed to the store-bought variety she got at home. But they did that night, when she was repeating the Lord's Prayer and asked: “And give us this day our daily home-made bread.” * * * * But, getting back to my family. The Missus had tried to get me away from the Redskins football game on TV to do a bit of yard work. Yet, she failed. “Why is it you don’t want to help me around the house, like the other men do in this neighborhood?” she asked. So I told her: “Honey, I’ve tried to be good to you and help you the best I can. I’ve tried to be a good provider and bring home the wherewithal to do things with, and all I ask of you is that you take care of the house and the children and the yard. That’s all.” “All!” she exclaimed. “Yes, all,” I said, “unless you want to take over some of the other responsibilities.” .So, I picked myself up off the floor, dusted myself® off and struggled to get to the living room to lick my . wounds. ♦ * ♦ * The person who attempts to flatter you is either a fool or thinks you’re one. * * *> * When one becomes a man, he puts away childish things. But some men marry and accumulate them. Book Reviews By Robert Bartholomew ( A J'JAIN I.ITTI.E AX. By James .Street. J. B Lippincc&t ( o Philadelphia 377 pp $3.95. Little Ax Towbridge, 15 arid fresh out *if military school, follow: hi.- father, Big Ax, off 4| . war He ,-,<*-? him die at hiioh, where, of 73,000 men ,ri Mm- and gray, Little Ax, in gray, i.- probably the youngest, • •itainly the smallest. Spurned by the Confederate A.iiuy, but determined to serve ti./- cause of the South, the youthful warrior places him "••if m command of a group of under-age ruffians:. Captain Little Ax whips the ragged in ■o t-iil crew into tough maraud er young faces with cold iiearts, soon known far and wide as the Cradle Company. f rom the action filled pages / me/ges n hardened young man, worthy of a commission iri the Confederate Army The book has this, among other, information on the au thor, “For several years prior to his death in 135-1, he lived in * 'impel Hill, N. C, where he concentrated on collecting ‘good comrades, good tobacco and goo*l stories’" * * t IHL HALLOWED GROUND. By Bruce Gallon Doubleday & Go, Inc. Garden Gity, N. Y. 437 pp $5 95. "The Hallowed Ground” is tin- story of the Civil War a-- seeing New York city. We didn't leave the train there, but we saw a lot of it, none tbele.s. And my considered judgment is that the shrewd Dutch who bought Manhattan Island from the Indians for $24 were out traded! Even if eveiybody there were rich, even if everything in the city were beautiful, even if the streets were jraved with silver and all tin- buildings were of solid gold, 1 wouldn’t give $24 for it, now. Because it appalls me to think of human beings so crow/h-d mile after mile of apartment houses, stuck close • together, reaching into the sky. Htaiting with Baltimore, in fact, an the train hurried through one city after another, I was depressed by what 1 saw, one slum after another. The sameness, the drabness, the ugliness, left me with a sick feeling in the pit of my stom ach and a great pity for the people wiio have to live there. vr—£> THANKSGIVING DINNER at the RANCH HOUSE *2 5 ° CHILDREN UNDER 12 HALF-PRICE SERVING FROM 5-9 P.M. Friday, November 23, 1956 seen from the Union side. For the first time the author has written a hook that deals with the enti/e scope of the war, from the months of unrest and hysteria that led to Fort Hum ter to tin* days of tragedy and hope that followed Appomat tox. The end paper in the front of tin- hook is a map of the Western Theater, including North Carolina. The back of the book has a map of the Eastern Theater. Mr. Cation's other books for adult readers are “U. S. Grant and the American Military 1 radition,” “A Stillness at Ap pomattox,” “Glory Road,” "Mr Lincoln's Army,” and “The War Lords of Washington.” Mr. Cation is winner of the Pulitzer Brize ami the J 954 National Hook Award for “A ■Stillness at Appomattox.” As a working newspaperman for almost 20 years, hi* has written for tin- Cleveland Plain Dealer, tin* Boston American, and the Cleveland News and served during World War 11 as Washington correspondent for the NEA Service. He is now editor of American 11/-ri tape, the distinguished rnaga /.ini- of Airier nan history - • • MIRACLE IN THE MOILS' \ TAINS By Harnett T Kane with Inez Henry. Douhleday * Co., Die New York 320 pp, $3.95. No woman in the South or any other part of the nation had a life like Martha Berry’s. Horn to plantation wealth, she refused to ignore those living in the mountains who had less. A Il all slutted one Sunday afternoon at a cabin near her home when she met three grimy little hoys who told her there was no Sunday school in their community. This was the beginning of Martha Berry’s Georgia school. Out of the log cabin has grown the Berry School, one of the most distinctive educational institutions in America. Its campus is the largest in the world, 30,000 acres of forest, mountains, fields and lakes. It is about the size of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Most of the buildings have been put up by the boys them selves and they have built most of the furniture. The girls learn homemaking, milk the cows, do weuving and help keep the buildings in order.