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The Chapel HiU Weekly
Chapel HiU North Carolina
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Published Ewry Monday aad Tbomday
By The Ctapel Hiß PaMiaton lac.
Louie G*mts . C or.tr.bv: me Editor
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A Vicious Alliance
The 18th (Prohibition ) Amendment to
the Constitution of the United States
•was submitted to the States by Con
gress December 18, 19IT. After it had
been approved by 3€ states. > hL-axasippi
being tne first, January B. i9l» and
Nebraska the 36* r. January 1€ 1919)
it became effective January IG, 192‘?
The Amendment read as follows
‘"After one year from the ratification
of this article the manufacture, sale <>r
transportation of intoxicating liquors
within, the importation thereof into, or
the exportation there- f fr-m the Unit
ed States and all territory subject to
the jurisdiction thereof for ne\erage
purposes is hereby prohibited. The
Congress and the sever a. States sr.a..
have concurrent j-wer to enforce tr .-
article by appropriate legislation :
The enforcement law (common.y
known as the Act wa- re
turned to Congress by Pres idem Wood
row Wilson with his veto tries sage Oc
tober 27, 1919. and immediately pas-'d
both house-- over the veto.
Tne enforcement of the pro-. * d
to be impossible. Smuggling and tne
illicit manufacture of liquor were prac
ticed successfully on a large scale be
cause of the widespread public opinion
hostile to prohibition, The campaign
for the repeal of the 1 cU. Amendment
tame to a victorious enif in 192-1 wh<-r.
the ratification of the 21st (refSaß
Amendment was proclaimed by Presi
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The real strength of the repeal move
ment wa- not in people who wanted
prohibition overthrown so that they
would be free to drink whenever and
whatever they wanted. It was in a
highly respected company of men and
women, leaders in government and poli
tics, in business, in education, in law
and medicine and other professions,
who saw the bad consequences of na
tional prohibition.
I have recited this record because,
although national prohibition began
only % years ago and repeal came only
25 years ago, there has sprung up a
new generation to whom these events
are no more familiar than ancient his
tory. Indeed, they are probably less fa
miliar. No doubt there ar<- today mil
lions of high school and college stu
dents, and graduates who could come
nearer to answering questions about
the Greeks and th<- Romans of 20 cen
turies ago than about the bitter, all ab
sorbing controversy of the 1920’5.
Everybody who has given the sub
ject any serious thought knows that
there is no perfect solution of the liquor
problem. The best solution that can b*
devised is bound to be a compromise, a
choice of evils. When national prohibi
tion had been in force a little while, or
was supposed to is in force, a growing
number of good citizens, themselves no
era versos liquor, rs-ame convinced
that it was doing more narm than good.
For example, Nicholas Murray Rub
ier, president of Columbia University,
said in a public address hi Boston in
April 1927|
“The 18th Amendment must come
out of the Constitution because it does
not belong there. It affronts and dis
figures it It contradicts every prin
ciple upon which the Constitution rests,
and the difficulties, the embarrass
ments, the shocking scenes reported
daily from every part of the land are
the natural and MCtnary result of the
inner contradiction between the Consti
tution as it was and the 18th Amend
ment added to it in 1919.
"We talk of law enforcement. You
cannot enforce conflicting laws—some
thing must give way; and, when it is
the 18th Amendment and the legisla
tion baaed upon it on the one hand and
the whole body of the Constitution, the
Bill of Rights, the whole of political
English and American history on the
other, w hich do you suppose will have
to give way? It must be the new and
invading element in our public law.
1 quote thi- pas-sage not because of
its substance —1 suppose it could be an
swered plausibly by a clever advocate
of another view, just as any statement
can be —but because the speaker was a
university president. Hundreds of per
sons of ec..a rank in their vocations,
arid uncounted thousands who. though
not so prominent, were just as highly
respected it. their communities, were ad
vocates c f repeal. If it had not been
championed : y this element of the best
repute, if ;t had depended upon the
noisy fa-. ,r f drinkers, it would not
have had a chance.
People nac become aware of the hea
vy drinking that continued to go cm. of
the farcical yet tragic failure of the
Volstead Act. They hoped and believed
that a system of control would be intro
duced. after the repeal of national pro
hibition. that would reduce the volume
of drinking.
They approved the part of the repeal
amendment w - ,ch said; "The transpor
tation or importation to any State,
Territory, or Possession, of the United
States for dt :very or use therein of
intoxicating ./quors, in violation of the
laws thereof .- hereby prohibited."
]♦ would .-•‘■err. just as reasonable to
forbid a.- tr.e tranportation into these
areas of per/xhea - carrying liquor ad
vert, sement- but the proposal to that
end was defeated. If it had been suc
cessful the liquor manufacturers could
not now be using the ma.is to spread
their advert.-emerits throughout the
country
The freed rr to do this, which they
now er. ov. e.nt.re y contrary to the
purpose that the opponentof "mat ional
prohibit, -n r.ad mind when they ad
vocated repea .
The ./puor manufacturer.- employ
the be-t ta,- ht :r drawing and paint
ing and wr.’.i.g. to produce advertise
ments that »ocourage the drinking r.a
bit. The-e ac.erti-emerit- are not at
a.: neces.sary to persons who want to
get liquor. T'he.r only purpose is to in
crease drink .-ng and to create new arm
ies of drinkers, for the profit of the
distiller- and the advertising media.
7'he effort to prevent the use of the
mails to take liquor advertisements in
to the states where there are laws
against the sale of i.quor would have
been easily successful if it had had the
support of the press. Rut the press did
not support it, and now the newspapers:
and magazines are receiving many mil
lions of dollars every year from liquor
advertisement*. (There are some who
refuse to accept these advertisements.)
Tne people of the United States see
every day when they turn the page*- of
their newspapers arid magazines, evi
dence of a vicious alliance between the
liquor manufacturer- and the press.
—L.G.
Travel
krom the Autobiography u1 Mabel d* Mvntaigß*
I love change and moving about. The
lust for new thing- and the unknown
contributes for rny desire for travel,
but other circumstances lend a hand to
it I arn glad to drop the cares of gov
erning my house and rny estate. There
is, I confess, a pleasure in ruling some
thing, if only a barn, and in being obey
ed under your own rs/f. Rut it is a mo
notonous pleasure and is spoiled by a
multitude of vexations; now the pov
erty and oppressive conditions of your
tenants, now the quarreling between
your neighbors, and again their en
croachment on your rights. All in all,
God scarcely sends a sjsdl once in six
months when your bailiff doesn’t com
plain.
Taking one thing with another, no
outsider can know what it costs you to
maintain the show of order which is
seen in your home.
In any event, the damage caused by
my absence is not such, as long as I can
stand it, as to warrant my refusing any
opportunity to slip away. Something
is always going wrong-useless wor
ries, or sometimes useless, but always
a worry. It is misery to be in a place
where everything occupies you and
bothers you. I seem to enjoy more
freely the pleasures of another man’s
house than those of my own. Diogenes
was asked what wine he liked best and
he answered: “Bomebody else’*." When
I am absent from home I would be less
concerned at the collapse of a tower
than, when at home, by the fall of a
tile.
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
“North And South They Knew Our Fame! Gray Ghost
Is What They Call Me—But Luther Is My Name”
' .1 Jr W
Now and Then R> Bill Frouty
There's: a man hereabout* who used
to plant a fine garden every spring un
til the year - finally caught ,p with him.
He told me with a twinkle in his eye
one day as we looked over his plot:
“Rill, I never plant more garden than
rny wife can tend.”
He didn't either. And hi- wife- tend
ed it with loving care. He did his work
and she did her’s; 1 never saw a happier
couple.
Today, such a statement, though it
might be admired by incredulous males,
would surely be the butt of derisive
comments by their wives. The trend,
Hir, is definitely in the other direction!
For instance, did you see in Monday’s
papers where a Columbia professor told
a wholesale grocers’ convention that
Ma has Fa so busy washing dishes and
baby tending that he has no time for
world problems?
“No other civilization,” said Miss
Margaret Mead, “has let responsible
and important men take care of little
babies to the extent American culture
is today.” If thi- is true with “import
ant men” how about the "unimport
ant” men like you know who?
Miss Mead, who is an expert on primi
tive cultures, told th<- grocers that our
gadget-filled modern home looks effi
cient "but it takes all of father’s time
as well as mother’s to run it.”
Now, there’s nothing particularly
startling about these words, though,
coming from a woman, they are some
what thought-provoking. The hand
writing has been on the kitchen, nurs
ery and home laundry walls for many
years for all those harassed males who
hail time to look.
And there are those among the ladies
who will note that Miss Mead, being
single, could not possibly know what a
rough time modern home keepers and
mothers have of it. Others might point
out that, being an expert on primitive
cultures, Miss Mead would naturally
find the contrast between women’s
part in the old and new civilizations
worthy of comment.
No matter from which angle you
view it, though, the fact remains that
Dad is spending more and more time
with Ma’s problems, or problems that
used to be heris exclusively, and pro
portionately less time with his own.
There’s no doubt, then, that the gad
get, with which man has sought to less
en his mate’s burden, has done just
that; but at the same time, it has add
ed to his own burden. It’s as if the
man of whom we spoke, who planted
the small garden to be sure that his
wife could tend it all, suddenly found
that he himself had to tend it, and that
he’s planted much too large a plot!
Rut whether or not you contend that
man - taking over more and more of
woman’s burdens is for the betterment
or the detriment of human society, the
fact remains that the gadget is ju.-t
another tool by which man is burying
his once predominant position. The gad
get is a by-product of our changing so
ciety, not the cause of it. The real
culprit (from man’s viewpoint, of
course) is a little piece of folded paper
upon which is printed a m urn bo-jumbo
of legal sounding and scarcely intelligi
ble sentences.
It is, of course, the life insurance
policy—the little garden planted by
man which, instead of being tended by
his mate, has kept him so busy scratch
ing for a living that he has hardly no
ticed that he has handed his spouse the
world on a silver platter,
Often it goes something like this, in
the United States anyhow: The young
married man, or even before he’s mar
ried, in order to impress his mate or
future spouse, feels compelled to load
up on life insurance with her as the
sole beneficiary. This, of course, is
okay with the young lady, who in ma
ny case- would have settled for less.
Then come the children- -and the in
surance salesman. There must be edu
cational policies, of course, and though
the extra premiums will Ik- a burden,
Ixtd will somehow see it through.
He does. And after forty years of
slaving, figuring, re figuring, tighten
ing up on the finances, borrowing mo
ney on the policies, begging for raises,
doing homework, badgering his wife to
spend less money, and in general mak
ing himself miserable, he finally pays
out the policy.
Also himself. At G7 he dies quietly
and unspectacularly, safe in the knowl
edge that he has provided for his fami
ly and that his children have been edu
cated and are married. His widow, of
course, outlives him by several years,
and sometimes takes a trip to Europe.
And if Dad’s policy was big enough, she
sometimes even marries again.
When man signed the first life in
surance policy, he doomed himself to
second place among the sexes. This
is in no way meant to belittle life in
surance. It’s good stuff. If it weren’t,
insurance salesmen wouldn’t load up on
it, working themselves to an early
death selling it to other men.
No, American men brought it all on
themselves, through the mistaken and
ridiculous idea that their women were
not able to take care of themselves.
They didn’t even ask the women H they
could. And the womanfolk won it all
without saying a word. For this, they
deserve everything they gained.
I Like Chapel Hill
By Billy Arthur
Dick Pope, the publicity man for Cypress Gardens
and a lot of other Florida enterprises, also likes Chapel
Hill. He spoke at the last Thursday session of the
Southern Short Course in Press Photography. He fin
ished about 3 o’clock and began packing to catch a plane
back to Florida.
“Got to go," he explained. “I like the weather here
so well that if I get much more of it, I might stay.”
* * *
Hank Halburt tells about being flattered while in
Atlanta several weeks ago at the same time Johnny
Weismueller was there.
“1 walked into an elevator, and the operator asked,
’Ninth floor?’ I told her no, the sixth. She looked at
me and said, ‘I beg your pardon, I thought you were
Tarzan.’ ”
B*l
I don’t know why Orville Campbell got miffed at me
the other morning. He telephoned to say that he would £j
have to break our luncheon date because he had a busi
ness appointment at 1:30 in Durham.
All I said was, “I hope you’re on your game today
and have a good ‘round.’ ”
* * *
Have you noticed the hitching posts on the campus?
They’ve put down a line of them in front of South
Building.
I understand they’re going to put up a chain between
them to keep students from walking on the grass and
make ’em use the brick walks.
That’ll be the day! In the first place, the chains
will be just low enough to jump over and just high
enough to stoop under.
Folks around the University evidently have forgot
ten Frank Graham’s philosophy. His was that where
the students walk, there, should be a brick walk. That’s
the reason that today we’ve got some nice short cuts.
Maybe putting brick walks where students cross the
grass wouldn’t make a lovely symmetrical picture from
the air, but who’s going up there to look at it?
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CHAPEL HILL CHAFF '
(Continued from Page 1)
ment came as a big surprise to the Alexander family
m Chapel Hill. Before it got to them many people in
the village knew it, for it was the custom in those days
for the telegraph operator, whose office was out at the
railroad depot, to acquaint the community with any
interesting bits of news that his instrument ticked off
for him.
1 remember how excited everybody was. The num
ber of diplomatic posts were far less numerous then
than they are now. One man would represent the
United States in more than a single country. Mr. Alex
ander’s resounding title was: “Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary to Greece, Roumania, and
Servia.”
* * *
The loveliest of spring days. Looking out now and
then at the sunshine and the flowers and the buddings
trees takes part of the curse off of having to write™
something for the paper. A chirping, or maybe I should
say twittering, anyway a chain of bird-notes, comes
from the bamboo hedge.
A cardinal, whose flaming red coat marks him for
a male, drops from the foliage, lights on a tiny statue,
and peers down into the bird-bath that is sunk in the
grass. His mate, less spectacular but in her olive coat
no less handsome, flapping her wings and making a
spray that sparkles in the sunlight, rises into view.
That makes rne know he is there as a protector, to warn
her against an enemy, for visiting cats like to lurk in
the hedge as they seek prey. She goes into the bath
and comes out three times, flapping and spraying, as
he stands by. Then they decide there has been enough
bathing and fly off.
The calendar and the flowers say it’s a spring day,
but the heat, with the mercury up in the 80’s, says it’s
summertime. This sunny east end of our place is com
fortable enough for birds but too hot for human beings.
So, when Miss Mary Thornton and Mrs. Shipp Sanders '
drop in, chairs are placed in the shade under the blos
soming apple tree at the other end of the house, ’way •
away from where 1 hang on the typewriter. I’ve got no
business being there, 1 ought to stick to my work, but
J join the gathering for a few minutes.
Suddenly there is a chattering on Rattle be
yond the high rock wall, and a moment later five little
girls, in gay-colored frocks, burst in upon us. They
are three Kysers, Kim, Carroll, and Amanda, and their
guests, Ashley and Emmy Oettinger. They make a
charming sight as they frolic about and then go to the
porch and plunge their hands into a can to get seeds to
spread around for the birds.
Rut this is not until they have come and spoken to
everybody in the company. They are as sweet-manner
ed children as I have ever seen. I say to myself as I’ve
said before when we’ve had these same visitors:
body's been doing some good raising.” But of course <
somebody is not the right word —it ought to be a plu
ral: parents, and whoever else may have given help.
Rut whom have we here, these two other visitors
who have just joined the gathering? They are the
cardinals, the same who were a little while ago at the
bird-bath. We know they are the same because only
one pair of cardinals live on our place. They are almost
at our feet, beside a row of violets, eating the food that
the five little girls put out for them.
BUFFET EVERY SUNDAY 6:50-7:SO
Thursday, April 24, 1958