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The Chapel Hill Weekly
Chapel HHI North Carolina
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Published Every Tuewdas end Friday
By The Chapel Hill Publt*hmr Cowioany. Ine
Lor is Gra.ts Contributing Edttoe
Jot Jo sis _.. - Managing Editor
Burr Aimer? __ Associate Editor
Or.TLii Camphtu _ General ilsnctpe'
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A Measure That Would lie Helpful
The Consolidated University of North
Carolina made up ■ : tn< University
here, the State College in Raleigh. and
the Woman's College :n Greensboro,
ha.- a single board of tru-tees with 100
members Each of the other state-sup
ported institutions ha.- a board of its
own. The State Board of Higher Edu
cation wants all these others to have
the same number of trustees, which is
not the case now, henc< it is preparing
legislation that would set ’he member
ship of every board a - 12.
The Higher Board would d' well to
embrace in its legislation a measure
that would return each of the institu
tions in the Consolidated University to
its own separate board of trustees. It
could do no better service to North
Carolina, and nothing that would com
mend it more to sound public opinion in
the State, than to de-consolidate the
University.
0. Max Gardner put through Univer
sity Consolidation when he was Gover
nor twenty-five years ago. Then, with
the depression well under way, the
State’s revenue- had shrunk until they
were far below expenses. The situation
was. desperate and the most drastic
economies were needed. Other benefits
were claimed for consolidation but Gov
nor Gardners main purpose in it was;
, to save money bv ending the dupl
ication of arrtdcg the three
institutions. Without doubt some rnon
was saved. How much nobody knew
. fr ver w'ili know, because, whatever the
was, it was infinitesimal corn
with the vast increase in ex pend i
t in the subsequent years.
WM. ’hen J suggest University de-con
t.tion I am aware, of cnur.se, that
ns in high authority, including
mor Hodges, have declared against
fja’ the same persons will not be in
high authority always, and some who
are there now may change their minds.
J have been looking through the files
of the Weekly and have come upon a
quotation from a statement which J
Harr.- Pu r kn made in a newspaper- in
terview about a year ago 'This was
when he was: Acting President of the
University and not long before he was
chosen for his present post of Director
of the Higher Board.
“I arn inclined to think,” said Mr.
Purks, "that we are now at points of
size and complexity which require that
more responsibility for sound and effec
tive administration be assumed by the
individual institutions. This does not
necessarily mean that consolidation
should go. In time, when the Board of
Higher Eduucation has gained in ex
perience, knowledge, and perspeetive of
higher education in our Statu-, a re
examination of consolidation should Is:
in order.”
Mr. Purks is now in the best possible
position to make such a re-examination.
I hope that he will do so and that, as a
result, he will advise tin: Board, the
Governor, arid, if necessary, the legis
lature that the time has come to put
an end to University Consolidation.
Major L. P. McLendon, a member of
the Hoard of Higher Education, gave a
talk here, soon after the Board began
to function, about the law that created
it. One thing he said was: “The act
makes it clear that the authority of the
Board shall not override the authority
of the boards of trustees of the indi
vidual institutions in the management
and control of their internal affairs.
This is as it should be. There is im
measurable value in the affection of
the trustees for their respective insti
tutions and to the traditions that have
grown up around them."
When the Legislature established the
Board of Higher Education it estab
lished an entirely new system of higher
education in North Carolina. All twelve
of the State's institutions of higher
learning are now consolidated—not in
the administration of their internal af
fairs but in respect to the delimitation
of their functions —s<- that, with Uni
versity consolidation, what we now have
i« a consolidation inside a consolidation.
As long a- the present set-up is con
tinued we will have ar. overlapping of
cons lidatibns.
The Raieigh News and Observer
stated the case exactly ir. the following
editorial comment that it made when
the new Board chose a director:
"The Board n i which Dr. Purks be
comes the executive officer received
from the Legislature super, i>ory powers
determin< the ma. or functions
tvpes of degrees to be awarded in a,:
state--upported college- to plan for
the development of a system of higher
education and to require t lieges to con
form to these plans: ar.d —perhaps most
important of ail—to recommend to the
ry Budget ( mt r budget
for all of the institutions. If these are
not the powers of over-ai: consolidation
- . ghei earning t v mid •>* hard to
inagine what tho.-e power- would be."
Examine carefully the 1.-t of contri
bution* which persons v. he favor the
present consolidation say it has made
t the welfare of the .State, and you
will find many of these contribution*
were not connected with consolidation
at all—such as, for example the Medi
cal ( enter and the Institute ' f Statis
tics. Other benefit- that have been
'oa.r'.ed for consolidation. directly or
by implication, ar*- the Graduate School,
the University Pres- the Institute of
Research in Special Science, and the In
stitute of Government ah of which
came into existence and had been ex
panding and improving before consoli
dation came into existence.
As. for the benefit- said to be gained
from the close association of the offi
cer- and faculties of the three institu
tion-. the elimination of competition for
students, the allocation of functions,
the fixing of standards: of teaching and
research, there is nothing about .* ach
cooperation and coordination that can
no* be accomplished by conferences be
tween officers and committees of sep
arate institutions just as well as by
.three institutions under a single board
Vjf ®rj»teec. As a matter of fact, that
is the way cooperation and coordination
are accomplished, anyway. With the
Higher Board now in operation, to exer
cise such control as may be necessary
over their relations: with one another,
there is no'longer any pretext for the
three institutions to be under a centra
j
kzed management.
Though M ajor McJ/endon was not
speaking of any particular institution,
the words of his that I have just
quoted ‘‘trie affection of trustees for
their institutions” arid “the traditions
that have grown up around them”—
are relevant to University Consolida
tion. And the point he made is a highly
important one. The wiping out of the
boards of State College and the Wom
an's College and their absorption into
the Consolidated University Board has
been a bad blow to morale. The con
centrated affection and loyalty that used
to prevail in each board have been
largely dissipated. Today tin- Board is
composed of three elements, each one
of which is far more attached to one
of the thr< «• institutions than it is to
the other two. This scattering of at
tention and interest certainly does not
make for th<- spirit that ought to domi
nate a board of trustees. —L. G.
The Hendi-rxm Street “Improvement”
This new paper published last Fri
day an article* saying that the
Town of Chapel Hill had issued a formal
call for bids for the contract to widen
the Henderson street block from Frank
lin street at the post office down to
Rosemary street. The purpose of the
operation is to provide more space for
automobile traffic. This is to be accom
plished by the moving back of the curb
feet on the east side and 10 feet on
the west side. S o that the town will
still have a sidewalk on the west side
the U. S. Government has consented to
give it a slice of the post office land.
The widening plan calls for the de
struction of one of the most beautiful
shade trees in Chapel Hill, the maple
near the steps leading from Henderson
street up to the post office. The dead
line date for the entering of contract
bids is tomorrow, Saturday, December
10, so one more Chapel Hill tree-butch
ery is near at hand. That is, unless the
town government can find some way
to save this tree. When I asked if it
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
had to come down, I was told yes. I
wonder if it would Toe possible to save
it by means of a jut-out into the street,
a miniature park? That sort of thing
Chapel Hill Chaff
(Continued from page 1|
one of hi- many gains and was the longest of the game.
In the F»4 years since then he has become an M.D.,
has engaged in public health service at home and in
foreign lands and then at home again, has at last re
tired. and has settled down to live at the Carolina Inn
here in Chape! Hill.
He was out when I called to take the newspapers
to him. He telephoned to thank me and to suggest that
the University Library might l:k- them for its North
Carolina newspaper collection ar.d I‘said I knew Mrs.
Morehead would be glad, nov that I had seen them, for
me to pas- them on there. 8.. t. -aid Dr. Jacocks, the
Dispatch was in bad need of r*.-t ration. He raid it
ought * v- laminated. He was v ing over to Raleigh
that very day, and would I like him to take it to the
State LI: rary for the opera .on I had no idea what it
wa-. but o.nce he was so - are < i.g'nt to be done. I
said ye-, of course. Three r four days later he said
the lam.r,at: n job had bee:, w-. done. lam curious to
see the r* -*ore3 object. I wil. keep it and the other
paper- a few days longer i'r rr.;. further entertainment
and will then *urr. them over to Mi.-s Mary Thornton,
director of the North Carolina Department of the Li
brary.
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When travelers talk over their travels one thing
they are sure to agree upon is that Tintern Abbey, in
the valley of the Wye in w> - tern England close to
Wales, is marvelously beautiful. Many a one of them
has called it the noblest ruin of them a!!. R. L. Ullman,
the classics prose-.-or, and I were talking about it the
other day. and we expressed the opinion that has no
doubt been expressed by many another visitor: that,
with the roof gone and the top open to the sky, and
with the floor of rich green grass, the ancient pile is
more impressive and charming a- a ruin than it would
be whole.
Os special interest to the people in our community
is the name of the parish in which it stands. Mr. Ull
man told me just as the F. H. Edmisterg did years ago,
and as my nephew Pembroke Rees and other persons
have done since, of having passed the sign, Chapel Hill,
before a little chapel of*the Church of England, as he
and his wife approached the Abbey.
News of Books
By Robert Bartholomew
JEFFERSON CHAMPION OF
THE FREE MIND. By Philips
RusseJl. Dvid, Mead & Co.
New York 274 pp $6.00.
The purpose of this volume
is to provide a timely, readable
and ir.< u.-.ve and authentic
single volume of the life and
work of Thomas Jefferson for
the general reader and scholar—
It approaches the subject frojtt
several entirely new points cf
view and with the help of new
material available or; y recen*
Jy-
For example, it has much to
say about Jefferson’s relations
with the fascinating and int*.-
iectual women of Paris and
Is-mdon, including friendships,
often passed over by other
biographers It was these in
f! .ern es which helped shape
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has been done in connection with simi
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’he rural Virginian into a
po.M-d rriar. of the world and
made him both a political and
social leader.
In addition, it pictures Jef
fer.-.on, not as a Jacobin, but
a ar: adherent to the charter
oTthe ar.'uent Anglo-Saxon lib
erties, following r.osely the
pattern of a libera! and en
lightened English gentleman of
the 18th century, when science
replacing narrow ortho
doxies
In home affairs, the book
shows. how Jefferson was
among the first to realize the
tremendous power of American
demo* ra< y could not be limited
shoft of a continental expan
sion, with the Mississippi, not
as a boundry, but as a channel
of cornrr location and trade.
These are a few of the many
facets of Jefferson’s life and
work a- told in all its varied
interests and dramatic achieve
ments, played against a great
international canvas.
• * •
THE REAL JAZZ OLD ANI)
NEW. By Stephen Longstreet.
Louisiana State University
Pre-- Baton Rouge, La. 202
pp. $5.00.
".More nonsense has been
written about jazz than any
subject except, perhaps, ro
mantic L.ve, I’ the author writes
in his introduction.
Long-treet's book is not non-,
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the:r own story in their own
words. They tel! of the piea
sure ar.d ache of the jazz
world.
This P not a history of jazz
in the formal sense of the
word, cluttered with names
and date- and it is no: an ap
pra -al f jazz from the critics
viewpoint.
For st .dents and jazz his
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found in a dozen other jazz
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a book, this is a prize winner.
It is done in black boards,
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cream Garamor.d Text.
Longstreet is an author,
playwright and artist. His out
standing drawings profusely
illustrate this work. A few of
the titles from Longstreet's
pen include “Chico Goes to the
Wars," “The Beach House,”
H gl B itt in Sh<"The Jol
son Story" and “Greatest Show
on Earth."
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FREEDOMS FETTERS:
THE ALIEN AND SEDITION
LAWS AND A M ERI CA N
CIVIL LIBERTIES. By James
Morton Smith. Cornell Univer
sity Pre--. Ithaca, N. Y’. 464
pp. $5.00.
A most important and in
teresting book in these days
when the cry of "civil liber
ties” is on every tongue.
This volume deals with the
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first major crisis in civil lib
erties in this country. This was
the “cold war" with France
during the presidency of John
Adams when the Republicans
and Federalists clashed in de
fining the limits of public
criticism.
The internal security pro
gram adopted by the adminis
tration of John Adams, pro
secutions under the Sedition
Law and the use of that law
as a political weapon during
the election of 1800 and other
aspects of the repressive leg
islation are brought out and
discussed. Complete text of
laws appears in the appendix.
Lt. Cdr. C. O. FUe, USN,
now a pilot with the U. S. Ant
arctic expedition, has tangled
firsthand with polar bears,
dropped into icy crevasses in
polar glaciers, and fallen over
board in arctic waters.