Page Two 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. — ■ ■ - 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 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 V 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. • * • 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 * * * 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 • • • . 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 ** ' * 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 * » * 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 'Continued from Page D r 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. * * * 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