Page Two The Chapel HiU Weekly Chapel HiU North Carolina US E. Biisfrj Teleyh— t S-’i?7l «e MSI Published Ewry Monday aad Tbomday By The Ctapel Hiß PaMiaton lac. Louie G*mts . C or.tr.bv: me Editor joa Jones. - Managing Editor Orvru-r Campbell Crono-t. Kcncpr* Jakxs E CaircEH Menaper Cbouok Mechanicc.' Sup: KUtrrC at m»n*r February A ÜBI •< Hu par office •* atutp* H.l Sortc Carolina ul •» the an of Marct : l£7t SIBSCRIPTIOS RATES 1e Oranpe County. Year SA.OC (6 BiOT.lt 15L2E, S TconChs., Sl-bC) Osuuot of Orange County by tbe Year State* of K. C., Va. ai»c S. C. AM Other State* and Diet of Columbia t W Canada Mex»r; Soots America '■ -Ot Europe .._ . - 'M 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? 'Continued on Page lli 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

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