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Mrs. Eubanks .
Dies In Durham
Graveside services were held
Friday morning for Mrs. Stella
Pritchard Eubanks, who died
Wednesday night in Hillcrest
Nursing Home in Durham fol
lowing a long illness. Mrs. Eu
banks was 88.
The services were conducted at
the Old Crapel Hill Cemetery by
the Rev. Robert L. Johnson, di
rector of the Wesley Foundation
in Chapel Hill.
Mrs. Eubanks was born in Or
ange County and has lived in
Chapel Hill since childhood. She
attended school in Chapel Hill
and at Elon College.
In past years she was active
in the Chapel Hill Community
Club and the Chapel Hill Garden
Club.
She is survived by her hus
band. Clyde Eubanks, and one
son. Paul Eubanks, both of Chap
el Hill: dnd one brother. John
W. Pritchard, of St. Petersburg,
Florida.
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of the University’s Department of
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—A Talk With
(Continued
receiving a post-hypnotic sug
gestion: after an hour you can
remember the ideas and the facts
that he gave you. but you can’t
quite recall where they came
from.
“The problem we are attack
ing,’’ he said, “is that many
people in North Carolina and
this is true all over the country
are caught in what Governor
Sanford called the cycle of pov
erty. They have no chance to
improve their situation, they have
no opportunity to realize the great
American dream not ‘rags to
riches,’ it’s another term, I
can’t think of it right now. Dwight
McDonald used it.”
In effect, the term means start
ing low and rising above your
beginnings, not in the moralistic,
melodramatic Horatio Alger
sense, but in the purely practical
sense that with education and the
utilization of good opportunities
a man can escape the frustration
of a welfare existence and be
come at least an earning citizen,
if not a white-collar manager of
something or a respected profes
sional.
“In North Carolina fifty per
cent of the children who enter
the first grade don't finish high
school. Os the fifty per cent who
do finish high school, thirty-one
per cent don’t go to college. Os
the nineteen per cent who do go
to college, only six per cent fin
ish college. Our educational sys
tem is concentrated on this six
per cent.”
This concentration results in an
unfortunate burden being put on
eighty-one per cent of the popu
lation. A man starts out as an
on-off worker (quite possibly his
father was employed only spora
dically), and the result is often a
home which gives his children no
sense of opportunity and no mo
tivation to find, or even use, an
opportunity and they too grow
up to be sometime employees,
I Moving Ahead I
p in GARRBORO |
George Esser—
from Page 1)
and their resulting situations have
the same effect on their children.
Thus, the cycle of poverty.
There are two ways of ap
proaching the problem.
“There has been some experi
mentation with teaching in the
first three grades of school. Carr
boro has done some experimen
tation along this line. The un
graded primary system contains
some aspects of it. The idea is
to establish teams of teachers,
so that instead of having three
first grade classes with twenty
five children and one teacher
each, you have three groups of
children, three teachers with one
principal teacher, and one per
son, not necessarily a teacher
but some qualified, educated per
son to assist the teachers during
the day. The children move from
one level of learning to another
at their own speeds, and the chil
dren who move faster get less at
tention. The idea is to teach the
children to really be able to read
by the end of the third grade, to
really be able to write, to be
able to handle numbers. It has
been demonstrated that a child
who is slower than the other
children falls behind the others
after the third grade, doesn’t
really know how to read or under
stand. and by the eighth grade
he has fallen so far behind that
he doesn't see anything in school,
he’s disgusted, he doesn't have
any motivation to learn, and he
doesn’t feel he’s learning any
thing—and he isn’t. This is one
approach to the problem.”
The other approach is a little
more in Mr. Esser’s line and is
actually being tried in some of
the nation's large cities—Boston.
New Haven, Philadelphia, Oak
land.
“You look at a community,
and it has its government which
is concerned chiefly with the
physical aspects of the commun-
I ity. It also is responsible for
law enforcement. There are also
county agencies, with their own
particular areas of concern,
health, welfare. And there are
various private and charitable
organizations—community chest—
that have their own interests. All
of these agencies are concerned
THE CHAPEL HILL' WEEKLY
with helping people, but they’re
all used to thinking in their own
ways, approaching problems in
their own ways, and they don’t
always understand what the other
agencies can contribute.”
To help people caught in the
cycle of poverty, the State has
authorized funds for vocational
training. The proposed system
of community colleges is being
developed. Other efforts have
been made in various directions
to alleviate to the problems of
the “invisible poor.” But this is
not enough. Community health,
welfare, and other assistance
agencies continue to approach
fragmentarily the total problem
of the left-behind people.
The North Carolina Fund’s
planned function: knit all these
agencies together to form one
concerted assisting and improv
ing force in each community,
eliminate the waste resulting
from the dispersal of official en
ergy.
The idea is to create a central
agency in a selection of -North
Carolina communities, giving a
good cross-section of rural and
urban, eastern and western,
which will assist "local health,
welfare, law enforcement, gov
ernmental, end other agencies
to "think total, and stop thinking
segment” about the problem of
citizens whom circumstances
and background have forced to
drag their heels.
The problems faced by the
people themselves are various.
Automation is one. “It used to
be that e man with a strong back
could always get a job,” said
Mr. Esser, “but that isn’t true
any more. A lot of people are
not qualified for the available
jobs, and there are a lot of
qualified people for whom there
are no jobs. Automation is put
ting men out of work.” An or
chestration of community agen
cies devoted to helping people
could possibly retrain men who
have been automated into un
employment.
Home background is another
problem. “We can’t do much
now about children until they
get into schools. A lot of them
come from homes where there
are no books, often where there
is no television, and the result is
that a lot of children have simply
not been prepared to accept an
education. The various agencies
work at these problems in their
own ways.” But an effective re
duction of the incidence of this
kind of pre-school background
cannot be achieved by the piece
meal efforts of several agencies.
They have to work together, or
the effect is spotty.
Housing is another problem.
“In Washington they’re experi
menting now with tinding peo
ple housing they themselves can’t
find, even teaching the how to
use good housing teaching
them to plan meals, to live on a
small budget, to furnish and run
a home on a small budget. Un
believably basic things. A lot of
families have the income to live
in better housing than they do,
but they haven't the contacts or
the opportunities to find it.”
Mr. Esser plans to work with
a small staff in setting up these
experimental combinations of
community agencies. Within one
hour two calls came to him from
people interested in working on
the project, and “quite a large
number" of other applications
have been made to him. But his
staff will remain small.
“It’s not going to be easy to
bring these agencies together so
that they work together and un
derstand each other. The public
health nurse has been thinking
like a public health nurse for
years, the social worker has been
thinking like a social worker, the
town government has been think
ing as a town government. None
of them really understands how
they can work together, because
none of ‘them understands fully
what the others can contribute.”
Mr. Esser’s staff will attempt
this on an experimental basis,
first to find new methods of ap
proaching the problems of the
“invisible poor,” second to
spread the use of the most ef
fective methods discovered.
Finances he will not discuss.
The money for the Fund will
come, “almost certainly,” from
various foundations. “And the
Federal government has money
for this kind of thing too.” But
since no actual funds have been
made available, Mr. Esser is not
counting his balance before it is
in the bank. “But we wouldn’t
have gone into this the way we
have unless we were pretty cer
tain of getting the money.”
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for short plays.”
“Well,” he said, “she’s had a
novel accepted by Harper’s.” So
I went down to her home on
North Street, in one of Miss
Alice Jones’s apartments, inter
viewed her, and published the
story in the Weekly.
The acceptance by Harper’s
was a sensation, but it was only
a start. It was followed by the
choice of the book by the Liter
ary Guild, which meant the sale
of about eighty thousand copies
in one block. Then the sales sky
rocketed, and (Betty Smith be
came one of the great literary
names of the year.
“What’s the total sales of “A
Tree Grows in Brooklyn, to
date?” I asked her in our tele
phone conversation yesterday.”
“The latest report from pub
lishers and foreign booksellers
gives the number as about six
million,” she said. “That em
braces both hard covers and
paperbacks. It has appeared in
sixteen languages. I have just
heard of the latest, Spanish.”
Miss Smith bought one of the
oldest of Chapel Hill’s houses
and moved into it in 1945. It was
known as the Mickle house be
fore the Civil War. The Mangums
lived in it later, and today’s own
er calls it the Old Mangum
House. She did a good deal of
renovating but the place retains
its old character and charm.
Her 17-year-old granddaughter,
Candy Carroll, a sophomore in
the University, lives with her,
and her son-in-law and daughter,
Mr. and Mrs. Degobert Pfeiffer
and their three children are now
visiting her from Switzerland.
When I went to call on her
on that day twenty-years ago she
told me that Tom Wolfe’s writ
ing “Look Homeward, Angel,”
had given her the idea of writ
ing a novel. Both books are bas
ed on personal histories and she
told me she asked herself: “If he
can write the story of his life,
why can’t I?”
So she worked every morning
before giving her two daughters
breakfast and getting them off
The Chapel Hill Weekly,
issued every Sunday and Wed-
I nesday, and is entered as sec
| ond-class matter February 28,
1923, at the post office at Chap
| el Hill, North Carolina, publish-
I ed by the Chapel Hill Publish
| ing Company, Inc., is under the
I act of March 3,1879.
to school. “I worked two hours,”
she said, and she told me the
same thing yesterday. “I do my
writing early in the morning,”
she said. “It’s the quietest time
and the best.” ;
* * *
About a month ago ,1 reprint
ed passages from an article by
the New York Times music Crit
ic about the 150th anniversary
of the birth of Wagner and Verdi.
He gave Wagner unstinted praise
as a composer but characteriz
ed him as a “monster” and pre
sented examples of his frauds,
cruelties, and immoralities.
These were stated as unques
tioned facts.
A couple of weeks later the
Saturday Review came out with
an article on the anniversary by
another eminent writer on mus
ic. This article was not nearly so
tough on Wagner’s behavior;
the only offense that he mention
ed was the composer’s extorting
money out of the Mad King of
Bavaria. He didn't say anything
about the drinking and wild wom
en and the bad treatment of
friends that the Times critic
had charged against Wagner.
I have no doubt the Swalins
and Mrs. A. C. Burnham and
Mrs. Fred McCall and Norman
Cordon and other music people
I know will prefer the second
article and, if asked to weigh
the record in the balance, and
pronounce a verdict, will say that
the Mad King of Bavaria ought
to be fortunate *in history for
the privilege of having had mon
ey pried out of him by as great
a genius as Wagner.
* * *
William Cochran, secretary to
U. S. Senator Jordan, came home
Friday before last for the week
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Miss Julia Graves Graham on a
visit to relatives. Mrs. Cochran
met them at the airport and re
turned them there Sunday after
noon. What Mr. Cochran told
her in a letter that reached her
two days, later was this: The
plane, taxiing along about to
rise, was grounded by a violent ,
thunder-and-lightning storm. It
was not air conditioned and Mr.
Cochran and Miss Graham and
the other passengers had to stay
there on the airship, in htaehet
there on the airship, in the stif
ling heat for two and a half
hours until the storm ended.
* * *
Mrs. Harry McMullan of
Washington, N. C., is in the
hospital here. Her granddaugh
ter, Miss Patricia Rumiey
brought her up by automobile
Thursday and went back home
the same day.
* * *
All normal Americans, reading
the newspapers, certainly think
how fortunate they are compared
with the victims of earthquakes
and other great disasters in far
parts of the world. Everybody
is able to help. Contributions
marked “For Skopje Relief” can
be sent to the American Red
Cross, Box 777, Chapel Hill, N. C.
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