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The Chapel Hill Weekly
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
126 E. RoMMary Telephone *-1271 or 8461
Published Every Monday and Thoraday
By The Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc.
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Louis Graves Contributing 'Editor
Joe Jones . * Managing
Orville Campbell General Manager
James E Criicher Advertising Manager
Charlton Campbell Mechanical Sup t
Entered u pecond-cUs* matter February 2 1 190 «i
ibe poit office at Chape* liii*. Norib Carolixte. unite*
tne act of March 3, 1879
SUBSCRIPTION KATES
In Orange Ceunty, Year - 64 00
(6 month 62.25; 3 months, 2l'.BO)
Outside of Orange County by the Year:
States of N. C., Va„ and S C. - - 4.60
Other States tt <d Dist. of Columbia 6.00
•anada, Mexico, South America 7.00
Europe 7.60
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Friendly Raid
Ar the South “raids” New England
industry and brings it down here, so
the University of North Carolina is
intent upon getting exceptional talent
from New England scholars to enroll in
the University.
John Motley Morehead has announc
ed thatYiix private preparatory schools,
four of them in New England, have been
added to the list of eligible schoo|s-from
which Morehead Scholars may be ap
pointed.
Among these are Groton, Phillips
Academy at Andover, Mass; Deerfield;
Phillips Exeter in New Hampshire, St.
Albans School in Washington, D. C. and
Westminister School in Atlanta, Ga.
also are the new schools added.
Each school may nominate two of
its best graduates, and the two come
to Chapel Hill for final screening for
Morehead Scholarships.
This brings to a totaLof 1”> private
school- which are eligible to nominal'
Morehead Scholarships. A total of ‘Zb
privat* school graduates are in tin
finals at Chapel Hill in February.
It u important to note that Mr.
Morehead <3 wants the private school
graduates and the public school gradu
ates to be all together.in tin final..
Besides the prep school boys, there
will be 42 finalists chosen from the
public high schools of North Carolina.
**_ The total of 68 will come here the
last week in February, and the More
head Central Committee and Morehead
trustees will make the final choices.
It, is significant to note, as Roy
Armstrong, the executive secretary of
the Morehead Foundation, lias pointed
out. that Mr. Morehead does not regard
the candidate* for scholarships as be
ing in “competition” with one another.
The private school candidates are
not competing, nor are the public school
candidates competing, after they have
passed by their local school committees
and the district committees from all
over North Carolina.
Mr. Armstrong says tin idea is
that “every Ixiy who is qualified” may
get a Morehead Scholarship. This means
every one ot the 68 who comes to
Chapel Hill has a chance, if he meets
the standards and passes through the
interviews satisfactorily.
Mr. Morehead has already indicated
is intent to get the best. He has in
creased the number taken from year to
year since 1951, and last year was the
largest number—ss.
Mr. Armstrong has stated that the
ultimate goal is to select 10U Morehead
.Scholars a year, if that many qualify,
and that. means eventually there will
hi 400 Morehead Scholars in school here
at one time.
Mr. Morehead has added to his en
dowment each year to take 1 care of the
actual costs of $5,000 for each student
for four years.
So, it appears correct that while it
may roughly be said we are “raiding”
New England for talent, it is raiding
which should be mutually beneficial—
to the young men who come to school
here, and to the University who secures
high-standard talent for the Univer
sity's future.
The Business Research Here
• The revelation of over 80 research
projects by the School of Business Ad
ministration and faculty of the Econo
mics Department reflects a remarkable
record of achievement.
The activities of the exceptional
faculty in the Business School and its
staff are broad and strong, both from
standpoints of depth in fact-finding
and in myriad approaches to problems
which affect the business community of
today.
The economic and business research
ifsheing carried on inside the state and
outride, on the national scene and in
international economics, in industry,
government, in theory of business en
fe'rprises and in applications for im
provement of the lives of people.
>As the report on business research
indicates, research goes hand in hand
to
with good teaching.
Dean Maurice W. !>•»• and his facul
ty deserve the congratulations of those
concerned with education and with the
business community for the outstand
ing accomplishment indicated in the far
ranging and intensive studies.
(rod and the Founding Fathers
From the review in the London
Times Literary Supplement of “In God
We Trust,” the selection edited by Nor
man Cousins, editor of the Saturday
Review:
“The American national jriotto, ‘ln
God We Trust,’ does not date from the
era of the founding of the Republic.
- The name God appears nowhere in the
Constitution, and it is still possible to
dispute (without much hope of settle- ,
ment of the question) whether General
Washington was a sound, believing
Christian like so many later Presidents,
or a deist like Franklin and Jefferson.
.“Mr. Norman Cousins has had the
go'X idea of examining the writings
and cfcqrespondence of the .‘Founding
Fathers’ for the light they throw on
this question. It is a task of some dif
ficulty, for a man like George Washing
ton was not given to carrying his heart
on his sleeve, and the religious doctrines
of Franklin and Jefferson are hard to
separate from their general political and
social teaching. So, when in doubt, Mr.
Cousins has let general professions of
belief in Providence rank as religious
declarations.
“Had he not done so 'his book would
have been shorter but not better. For,
by casting his net wide, Mr. Cousins
makes an important point; the predomi
riantly social character of religion at
this epoch Perhaps it would be safer
to say the predominantly social charact
er of the religion of t lie elite who made
tiie Revolution. For it is odd to note
bow Ijftle. is said or apparently known
of the rising tide of evangelical revival,
of the coming power of Methodism, of
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the decline of ‘natural religion.’
"It was an age when even Yale was,
for a time, a hotbed in infidelity, the
ago in which Harvard was off on its
Unitarian tack.
Tiie wiciness- —or looseness -of Mr.
Coiuhns’s methods keeps his compilation
from being dull. We have Jefferson’s
odd praise of tiie reading of Sterne as
a moralizing instrument; we have the
bland, highly Utilitarian morality of
Franklin. We have evidence of the old
feud between Massachusetts and the
(Quakers in letters of John and Samuel
Adams, a feud natural enough in view
of jlljc political situation in Pennsylvan
ia. The Massachusetts Bay eolohy no
more burned Quakers than it burned
witches’; it hanged them. “Some enter
taining views of human nature are given
us, as in John Adams’s discussion of the
providential role of the Jews. Even had
Adams been an atheist, he would still
haw believed liiat the Jews were ‘the
most Essential instrument for civilizing
tlie nation.’ v - s
“He said: ‘1 cannot say that I love
the Jews very much neither, nor the
French, nor the English, nor the Ro
mans, nor tiie Greeks. We must love
all nations as well as we can, but it is
very hard to love most of them.’
"This may not be very Christian but
it is very Adamic. So, too, some amuse
ment may be got from comjwiring
Franklin’s comment on the forgivness
of debts and the replacement of the
words by ‘that trespass against us.’
“Franklin said: ‘Perhaps the consid
ering it as a Christian duty to forgive
debtors was an inconvenient idea in a
trading nation’.”
Scuffling
"Scuffling on the schools bus” is the
description applied when the accident
happened here the other day on Frank
lin Street.
The disorder on the local school
bus going from Chapel Hill to Carr
boro took place when the driver, 18
years old, turned his head to see what
was going on.
That was the short moment it took
to hit an automobile and have a stu
dent’s head knocked against the wind
shield.
Fortunately no more damage was
THE CHAPEL HILL WEEKLY
BITS OF CHAPEL HILL
We guess that Bill Friday is
probably the only person in his
tory who was ever president of
the No 1 and No 2 college
basketball teams at the same
time Couldn't happen to a nic
er guy.
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The tension mounted and
mounted at the game played
in Raleigh We started out very
relaxed. but it took us two hours
to get to sleep after it was over
And all night 1 kept seeing those
Carolina players missing sou!
shots No telling what 1 would
have seen had the Tar Heels
lost
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Ray Stanley will bear watch
ing He came off the bench and
scored lour points when the Tar
Heel cause seemed lost. Lee
Shaffer made another key bas
ket just as he did in the Cin
c mnat: game Doug .Woe was
great on ball handling and de
fense Harvey Salz and York
Lare.se—do the (ome any bet
ter'' Dick Kepley picked up 14
rebounds and scored 12 points
When you talk about the Tar
Heels you don't talk about one
star, there are five or six
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Don Stanford who has done
a yeoman job working tor ABC '
stop-' igid Don Hay man a moth
Now and Then
The first basketball game 1 ever
saw was played on an outdoor court
just east of what is now the Chapel Hill
Junior High School building on Frank
lin Street.
1 don’t remember the. personnel of
the Chapel Hill team or who they were
playing or which team won the game.
All I recall is that there were two teams,
both of which were trying to see how
many times they could put a round
(in most places) bail through an iron
hoop (no net), which was screwed to
a rectangular wood backboard.
Being a first grader J didn’t know
much about tiie game, of course, but
being of fl* generation whose, parents
didn’t come for their children after
school, but allowed them the privilege
of walking home, J stuck around to see
what was what.
Arqund the edges of , the limed
boundry lines stood the spectators,
ranging in age from the first grade
through the (that's all we had in
those days), cheering or groaning alter
nately as the fortunes of their team
rose and fell.
1 was little and couldn’t see what
was going on at first but in certain
ways 1 had considerable brass (being
a little old for my grade)*, and 1 re
member scrounging around for a place
from which to better view the goings
on. I ended up on my knees between
the legs of a kindly high school student
(he must have been because he had on
long pants!) who indulged me and my
borrowed position for the remainder of
the game. I was .hooked, immediately
and inexorably-
Last Wednesday night, almost forty
years after that first game, I watched
another basketball contest from my
knees; and though, except for the ball
being round and the hoops being 12-
feet high, there was very little resem
blance between the two games, the
spectators’ a*d Ole Bill’s enthusiasm
for the game was just as strong as ever.
The last game was the Carolina-State
struggle, and I'm still sore from taking
pictures in a kneeling position from in
side the backboard standard cage.
In between those two games, so
many years apart, I have watched with
unbated enthusiasm the great White
Phantoms of the early 1920’s both from
done. It could have been wuirse—if the
scuffling had occurred at higher speed
on a highway.
It is proper to give warning to chil
dren that they must behave themselves
on the buses. The school authorities have
given notice that they reserve the right
to forbid transportation of any chil
dren who are guilty of creating a dis
turbance on the bus which might dis
tract the attention of the driver.
School bus drivers in North Carolina
are carefully trained individuals, and
their record for safety is good. At the
same time it is necessary to continual
ly call for vigilence on the part of school
officials, of drivers and of the young-
ber of the Institute of Govern
ment staff, who is working
against them, spoke to the Cha
pel Hill Kiwanis Club on last
Tuesday evening. There was no
official poll taken, but it would
be our guess that at least 80
per cent of the members favor*
the stores.
Don 'Stanford that is) stated
that the question boiled down in
Orange County as to whether
■we wanted to have a controlled
liquor program or prohibition
Don Hayman this time’ offered
several good arguments against
the stores and said that the Yale
Studies on alt-holism have prov
en that -‘‘the easier it is to se
cure liquor the greater the con
sumption "
We don’t believe that having v
the_ stores in Chapel Hill will
make it much easier to procure
same than by going to Durham
We all know that a lot of
liquor is consumed in Orange
„County Why not admit that the
people w-ant it and do some
thing about better control of the
sale of whiskey. Going to Dur
ham is not a problem, but it al
most seems dishoatjt to travel
10 miles to purchase something
tiiat is against the law to buy
ur sell in your own community
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Kveryone from Chapel Hill who
the suspended track in old Bynum Gym
nasium and the cavernous and frigid
old Tin t an; the fine Carolina teams in
the middle and late 1930’s in both the
Tin Can and the Woollen Gymnasium;
the Chapel Hill High School teams fjjom
the outdoor days, their own Tin Can
(almost outdoors!) and down to their
new gym days; and through'the hectic
days of Frank McGuire and his Yankee
Doodle Dandies.
The span covered two national cham
pionship teams, the White Phantoms
of 1924 and the Flaming Five Tar
Heels of 1957. Great basketball names
come to mind—Winston Green, Billy
ynd Cartwright Carmichael, Bill Dod
derer, Monk McDonald, His Perry, Car
lyle Shepard, the McCachren brothers,
Pete Mullis and other stars from Char
lotte, George Glamack, “Hook” Dillon,
and Lonnie Rosenbluth, Joe Quigg, Pete
Breiypian, Tommy Kearns and Bob Cun
ingham, all of the 1957 national cham
pions.
And during this interval the game
has grown in popularity until now it
is seriously challenging the appeal of
football in spectator interest and may,
•in the l not too distant future, actually
overtake the latter's popularity as a
college sport.
There are, 1 believe, two essential
reasons , why basketball may become
the most popular of all high school aiid
college sports.: the speed and simplicity
of the game, and the frequency of the
scoring, both by the winners and the
losers. There are other nC-asons, of cour
se. The play is never static—something
is always going on, even during a free
ze; it’s fairly simple to watch five men
in action; it’s a great team game, yet
• there’s ample opportunity for stars to
shine; the equipment and uniforms are
simple, thus not costly, thus almost
universally obtainable; you can always
cover up your team’s mistakes by giv
ing the officials the raspberry, etc.
And after all these years of watch
ing, every minute of which I’ve enjoy
ed, I’ve come to an astounding conclu
sion: Basketball’s here to stay!
I, for one, am glad of it. Also, I’m
glad I’ve still got that "UNC No. 1
team in nation” plate on the front of my
old heap. I’ll admit it’s a 1957 model
plate, but by now (Monday) it may be
as current as this morning’s newspaper.
sters who are passengers.
The slight accident which might
have been more’serious should serve as
a distinct warning so that a worse ac
cident will not occur.
Regret for time wasted can become
a power for good in the time that re
mains, if we will only stop the waste
and the idle, useless regretting.—Ar
thur Brisbane.
To err is human. To blame it on the
other party is politics.—S. Omar Bark
er. "‘N •
Income depends mostly on output.
attended the Research Triangle
luncheon in Raleigh came back
highly elated over the future of
the project.
*
"How can it fail to -us ceed' '•
, said one Chapel Hill business
man "You have in Governor
Hodges, Bob Hanes, Archie Da
vis and Watts Hill four of the
most outstanding and respected
men in North Carolina They
have all spent hundreds ot hours
on the Research Triangle They
have never associated themsel
ves with failures The project
will succeed, and it will benefit
our community greatly
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Those present at the luncheon
were als*v highly impressed w;!h
George ID Herbert, newly-nam
ed President of the Research
Institute
Here is a young man with a
pleasing personality, a proven
background of achievement in
ihe field of research He spoke
to his audience without notes,
his words were well .ehustn his
logic made sense
We predict that Mr Herbert
will become a well known per
son in Chapel Hill before the
year is out. and that his leader
ship will make our Research
Institute nationally famous in a
very short time —O BC.
By Bill Prouty
1 Like Chapel Hill
By Billy Arthur
In a recent column 1 said that today’s children didn’t
have the grand experience of playing under the house
like the kids of my day.
Well, there have lately appeared in my reverie some
others things 1 enjoyed way back then.
For instance, there was the summer day J stripped
off my clothes and went swimming in the horse trough.
Some others include:
Reading Horatio Alger in the hayloft while the rain
beat on the barn’s tin roof.
Picking up the twine around the thresher and get
ting more wheat chaff down my neck while trying t'ojf
scratch off what was already there.
Hiding the red ear of corn in the area in which i
knew my uncle’s best girl was going to shuck, so they
could kiss and it would be all right with the kin of both
of them.
'' Leaving church to go to the outside plumbing and
taking my time going back so I wouldn’t have to sit
through the sermon.
That reminds me. of something else. The school
authorities seem to have’embarked on a plan of put
ting toilets in the school classrooms rather than having
the cummunai affair of my day. I remember that when
the teacher was about to quiz us on things 1 hadn’t
prepared for the day, I’d hold up my hand and be ex
cused. By the time I got back the lesson was over or
she had passed my name while going down the alpha
bet asking questions.
(That also reminds me what a local lady was tell
ing recently about a classmate always bringing a jar
of cream to drink with her sandwich at lunch, and plac-
ing it in her locker. All morning long, every other girl*-'
who to be excused went by the locker and gave
the jar a few vigorous shakes. By lunch time, the cream
had become butter.)
Going back.to some other things I now recall:
The day Dazzy Vance, Babe Ruth and Miller Hug
gins came to Charlotte and I got their autographs on a
baseball. I still have it.
The night the Oxford hotel had only one available
room and mother and daddy fixed me a place to sleep
in a dresser drawer.
Making scooters from an old pair of skates and two
pieces of a two-by-four.
Making my first bank deposit with William H. Neal,
now vice-president of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co.
And, making my first withdrawal in the amount of $69
to buy a radio -■a one-tube set complete with earphones
and guaranteed to bring in KDKA.
Trying to my drums by listening to the
radio music and unable to hear the music because of
ihe noise’from the drums.
Anticipating playing the Capitol Theatre in New
York, and getting fired after the first performance.
But—the man brought backstage two weeks’ salary,
J brought my baggage back to North Carolina and that’.-
what brought me to the University.
Now, don’t go makingviokes about that, ihe theatrt6|
manager didn’t have a thing against the University »
ot North Carolina. He just recognized talent when he
saw it. And, when he didn’t see it.
CHAPEL HILL CHAFF
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and often fruitless struggle for perfection.
On the other hand, it is uncommon, though not un
heard of, for readers to say thanks when you print
something to their liking. This is natural and to be ex
pected, and we are not complaining. It may be a good
tiling, since the uncommonness of such remarks renders
them more highly acceptable.
By this token, the Weekly is grateful to Mrs. Jane
Whitelield, secretary of the Merchants Association, for
calling to say thanks for the article about the Associa
tion s annual installation meeting last week. And to
Mr.'. Alfred Haywood of Scarsdale, New York, for her v
letter of thanks for the Chaff about Christmas carols.
And for the following note from a member of the staff
1 l the l niversity’s Music Department:
"On behalf of I Jr. Mason and the Music Department,
J would like to express appreciation for the excellent
coverage given the production of ‘Carmen’ by the Cha
pel Hill Weekly.
“Needless to say, your cooperation was responsible
for the fine audience last night.”
Then the other day a woman telephoned to thank
us tor Mrs. Ivey s editorial on the danger of air rilles
in the hands of children. "Our ten-year-old son,” she
said, "couldn’t see why he shouldn’t use the air rifle
an older boy had given him till he read your editorial.
Before that, he strongly disagreed with our ideas on the
subject. But when we showed him the editorial he
put his air rifle away. Evidently he is more impressed
by sees in print than by what we say to him.”
For its many kind readers the Weekly is duly grate
ful.
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Like grandfather like grandson. Archibald Hender
son, former haed of the University's Mathematics I)e- 0
partment, was a proud man when told that one of his
grandsons, Tommy Kelly, had made 95 on math during
the fall semester at the Groton School in Massachusetts.
He immediately went to his defck and wrote Tommy a ■
letter of congratulations with a monetary reward en
closed.
NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS MEETING
Annual stockholders meeting of the Orange County
Building and Loan Association, for the election of a
Board of Directors and for the transaction of such
other business as may come before it, will be hejd
at the Office of the Association, Chapel HilClTc.,
on Monday, January 26. 1959.
4 ' - W 0. SPARROW, Secretary
Monday, January 19, 1951