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The Chapel Hilt Weekly
"If the matter is important and you are sure of your ground,
never fear to he in the minority."
ORVILLE CAMPBELL, Publisher JAMES SHUMAKER, General Manager
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One Characteristic Chapel Hill Has
In Common With The Mill Villages
Chapel Hill’s public school teachers
are low down on the professional totem
pole, according to Superintendent How
ard Thompson. They are not respected
as professional people as highly as they
might be.
Teachers here, according to Dr.
Thompson, are often made to feel like
“second-rate citizens, not a part of the
community.”
Os the teachers who have left Chapel
Hill in the last year, twenty per cent
departed because of what they felt to be
the community’s attitude toward them
as professionals.
The reason for this feeling of pro
fessional inferiority results from the
long shadow cast by the University.
Ph.D.’s, if not a dime a dozen in
Chapel Hill, are at least three for a
quarter. But we have a notion that the
degree syndrome is not at the bottom
of the trouble.
Public school teachers here, we be
lieve, are simply faced with one of
the facts of life in a one-big-industry
town.
The one big industry in Chapel Hill
happens to be higher education. The ef
fect is the same you find in a North
Carolina mill village where life is dom
inated by the mill. A man who says,
“I work at the mill,” is automatically
identified as a member of the in-crowd.
It doesn’t matter whether he is a looper
or vice president. Anyone who doesn’t
work for the mill is looked at askance
and with a certain amount of condescen
sion, whether he is president of the local
bank or the village idiot.
Question: Who Is Right Or Wrong?
No matter how it starts out and who
is involved, conversation in Chapel Hill
these days seems always to work around
somehow to Topic A, which is integra
tion.
Perhaps it’s like that everywhere in
the South now, and everywhere in the
East, if not throughout the Nation.
A Franklin Street restaurant operator
and a couple of his customers had work
ed their way around to Topic A one day
last week and were bearing down hard
when one simple question closed out the
talk.
The question was put by the restau
rant operator: “Who is right and who
is wrong?” After a couple of false starts
everybody gave up trying to answer.
There has to be an answer to this de
matically declaring, "You are wrong.”
< thought, it would seem that the logical
answer is everybody’s right and every
body’s wrong.
i It seems to us that unless a man were
willing to deny his American heritage,
the brotherhood of man, and our basic
Beverly Lake & The Foreign Invaders
The Greensboro Daily News
In his unsuccessful 1960 campaign for
governor, Dr. I. Beverly Lake raised the
goblins of race and taxes. Since North
Carolina refused to quake with fright,
Dr. Lake is turning now, it appears, to
the oldest of goblins—the “foreign in
vaders.”
These “foreign invaders,” Dr. Lake
darkly informed the Wilson Jaycees the
other night, are “deeply entrenched in
our classrooms, pulpits and editorial
rooms.” Their objective? It is, accord
ing to Dr. Lake, to “capture the minds
of your children for a faith in the social
ist welfare state . .
Really now, Dr. Lake knows that this
is the purest fantasy. It has the dull
ring of some of the more bizarre pages
Sunday, August 11,1963
The only non-University people who
consistently escape this sort of con
descension in Chapel Hill are those with
a direct connection with the arts and
those who don’t work at all. A foreign
accent will often give temporary im
munity, as will an impressive title, but
neither carries any long-term guarantee.
Dr. Thompson thinks something
should be done to improve the profes
sional status of our public school teach
ers, and so do we. But we would balk at
razing the University and the only al
ternative seems to be the infinitely more
difficult job of changing human nature.
/
Ongoing (?)
Perhaps you noticed that after Presi
dent Kennedy put a new gloss on it,
the word ‘vigor’ (vigah) became a part
of the working vocabulary of nearly eve
rybody in the administration, including
some part-time mail carriers.
The same sort of phenomenon has oc
curred in Chapel Hill, with another word
and on a somewhat less exalted level.
The word currently in vogue here is
‘ongoing.’ ‘Ongoing’ didn’t come from a
dictionary; in fact, we don’t know where
it came from. But ‘ongoing’ has been
used to describe everything from the
campus greenery to the University’s
grandest dreams.
‘Ongoing’ is meant to indicate, we are
toid, continuing progress. This is a good
thing to know. For a while there we
were afraid it was something subversive.
matically declaring, “You are wrong.”
tfien he would have to agree that what
the Negro is struggling for is right. If
you grant the Negro the right-ness of
his goal, then it follows that those who
are trying to deny him are wrong.
It seems equally apparent, however,
that some of the means now being used
to attain that goal are wrong. Even
granting that demonstrations, picket
ing and sit-ins were necessary in the be
ginning, any reasonable man would have
to agree that irritants are hardly con
ducive to a permanent solution.
Direct action has served its purpose
remarkably well. There is no better
proof of that than that our National
conscience has become virtually saturat
ed in one way or another with integra
tion. The time is now at hand when the
hope for solution lies, perhaps entirely,
in negotiation.
And any negotiations will have a
much greater chance of success if the
parties concerned enter asking them
selves, “Am I right”, instead of auto-
of Robert Welch’s Birch Society Blue
Book, a gospel of suspicion and discord
which has not sold well in North Caro
lina.
If we are mistaken in this, then per
haps Dr. Lake will supply the names of
these “foreign invaders” who are subtly
working their craft on the minds of Tar
Heel children.
Until he does name names—and we
venture to predict that will be a long
time off—the ghoulies and ghosties Dr.
Lake is drumming up in these speeches
should not be mistaken as “conserva
tism.” There is plenty of room in North
Carolina for reasoned, factual and per
suasive conservatism. But even in the
palmy days of McCarthyism and Birch
ism, the foreign devil theory has not
marketed well in this State.
Letters To The Editor
Demonstrations And ‘The Old Well’
Dear Editor:
Re “Blood on the Old Well”
and its author whom I have not
met:
One day when I was 9 years
old my playmate in whose yard
we were playing used a bad word
and his mother heard him.
According to the prevailing
custom, she called him in and
washed his mouth with nice
soapy water.
As he came down the back
steps after the ordeal he mutter
ed angrily what seemed to me
to be a very pertinent question.
It was: “And how did she know
it was a bad word?”
Yours very truly,
Robert W. Hudgens
Dear Sir:
I joined the protest demonstra
tion in front of South Building
on July 7 for a few minutes, but
withdrew after reading the signs
carried by some demonstrators.
Several signs in the group de
manded the passage of a public
accommodations law, a measure
that I oppose.
The civil rights of the Negro
or any citizen are no more sa
cred than the right of the small
businessman in running his busi
ness as best suits his purpose.
If a law is created that forces
the private businessman to serve
all persons without discrimina
tion, he may find it impossible
to remove any undesirable hum
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I Like Chapel Hill By Billy Arthur
The leanest man I know of
has just left town after having
spent the first part of the year
here. He was a frequent visitor
in the Carolina Barber Shop
and never told Y. Z. Cannon he
was deaf.
* * •
Picked up a couple of good
stories in Washington. Accord
ing td The Star, Congressman
Jack Shelly tells of the aesthetic
and somewhat severe old Irish
Catholic pastor and his young as
sistant who were opening Christ
mas presents in the rectory be
fore midnight mass.
The young priest was delighted
when he came upon a pair of
thick Turkish towels but, when
he unfolded them, was dismayed
to find them embroidered “His”
and “Hers.”
“Perhaps we had better give
them to the next couple that
comes to the church to be mar
ried, Father,” he said sadly.
But the pastor said:
“No, let’s keep them till we
see what the Ecumenical Coun
cil is going to do.**
• • •
The other story was told by
Charlie Clift of the FCC, and
it was about the lady superin
tendent of a borne for unwed
an element from his premises,
no matter how damaging to his
business, without fear of facing
suit or trial for discriminatory
business practices. Further, eco
nomists claim that small busi
ness is already smarting under
legislative restrictions. Each
further restriction further re
duces the attractiveness of priv
ate business as away of life and,
in reducing the number of small
businessmen, weakens the buf
fering effect of the entrepre
neur between the very rich and
large corporations and the poor.
Non-violent demonstrations by
Negroes and sympathetic whifes
should continue until equal treat
ment is realized, but public ac
commodations laws, while a
seeming easy road to victory,
may cause greater long range
damage to private enterprise
than the Negro will suffer in the
next few decades if such laws
are not passed. Accommodations
laws would do no more than in
crease the rights of one group
at the expense of certain rights
of another, and would thus hard
ly increase the common good.
Certainly the attitude of bellige
rent white segregationists in the
deep South, who have already
announced that they would dis
regard national accommodations
laws, will not be changed
through legislation. Persistent
attrition is the only way to re
duce their deep-rooted "bigotry
to compromising levels. If na
tional accommodations laws are
passed, and are not struck down
mothers. The Junior Chamber
of Commerce made the home its
pet charity and made the lady
superintendent an honorary mem
ber of the Jaycees.
She became so infected with
the Jaycees’ enthusiasm for pro
gress that she started bragging
about her establishment while
showing it to visitors.
When the visitors would con
gratulate her on how well kept
they had found the home, she
would reply:
"Thank you very much, and
furthermore I want you to know
that we are getting a- higher
type of girl every year.**
* « *
Last summer little Stevie
Zunes swam across his tt-foot
pool 31 times. He was so proud
of it he asked his father John
Zunes what he would do if he
swam it 100 times.
"I’d put it in The Weekly*
father replied, never thinking
Stevie could do it.
But last week he did. Now
forth across the pool 101 con
secutive times, and he’s been
looking for the write-up in The
Weekly. So here H to. Daddy
is no promise-breaker.
• • •
When Commerce Secretary
by the Supreme Court, bloodshed
will probably be averted at
many places in the deep South
only by the imposition of Fed
eral martial law.
Negro leaders should remem
ber that 40 years of non-violent
noncooperation were required to
achieve equality in India. Had
Gandhi deliberately followed a
course that he knew might lead
to bloodshed, thousands of his
living countrymen would not be
alive today, and the remaining
million might still £e under Brit
ish rule.
Sincerely yours,
H. D. Wagener
Department of Geology
Chapel Hill
Dear Editor:
Teachers, preachers and edi
tors of North Carolina had bet
ter start packing their bags.
Dr. I. Beverly Lake, North •
Carolina’s self - styled political
savior, announced to a group of
Wilson Jaycees that “foreign in
vaders” are about to take over
the state.
He pointed out that these four
eyed demons of destruction are
already entrenched in our class
rooms, pulpits and on the edi
torial staffs.
In 1960 Dr. Lake attempted to
excite our emotions with the ra
cial issue. Recently, another at
tempt was-made with the “com
munist under every rock” gim
mick. Now this.
Luther Hodges wants “Love” all
he has to do is press a button,
according to a capital newspap
er. But it’s not the love you
or I are thinking of. It’s Jim
Love, the secretary's expert on
textile matters.
I had remembered that our
townsman, when he became sec
retary, went all over the sprawl
ing Commerce Department build
ing, and it was reported that
some workers said they had been
there for years and never before
seen one of their top bosses.
So when we went to the Aquari
um in the basement, just for the
sake of conversation I asked one
of the employees if Secretary
Hodges ever got around to bis
department.
"Who?” he asked. “I don’t
know who you’re talking about.
I never get out of this cellar.”
Donald Bishop, University grad
and public relations expert, has
moved from New York to work
for the Secretary. He sends
regards to Chapel Hillians.
• • *
Camp Pow Wow is loyal to the
Tar Heels. Chief Joe Hilton
teaches the youngsters to sing:
“You can’t gut to heaven in a
red canoe
“Cause the Lord's favorite col
or is Carolina blue,"
A Greensboro Daily News edi
torial called the good doctor’s
hand on Sis latest gubernatorial
attempt. It read:
“Really now, Dr. Lake knows
that this is the purest fantasy.
It has the dull ring of some of
the more bizarre pages of Rob
ert Welch’s Birch Soc.iety Blue
Book, a gospel of suspicion and
discord which has not sold well
in North Carolina.”
The editorial points out that
Dr. Lake’s philosophy should not
be mistaken for “conservatism.”
It continued:
“There is plenty of room in
North Carolina for reasoned, fac
tual and persuasive conservativ
ism. But even in the palmy
days of MeCarthyism and Birch
ism, the foreign devil theory has
not marketed well in this state.
Dr. Lake knows that. And we
cannot imagine why he is dis
playing this tattered line of
goods.”
Sincerely,
David C. Daughtry
Goldsboro
Dear Editor:
We, the players of the Chapel
Hill All-Star baseball team, wish
I —Looking Back— |
From The Weekly’s files:
IN 1923
“Out in the section of town
behind the old Baptist Church,
Church Street, the colored
people are anxious to have wa
ter mains installed. The Univer
sity, which provides water for
the whole community, is plan
ning to make the installation as
soon as th§ new water supply
system, for which the last legis
lature appropriated funds,
complete.
“Chapel Hill’s health officer,
Dr. Nathan, has found that near
ly all the surface wells, upon
which the dwellers in that section
depend, are polluted. Os course,
there being no water supply,
there are no sewers. The conse
quence is that the conditions of
life are extremely unsanitary, an
encouragement to typhoid and
other diseases . . .
“The new supply is to come
from Morgan’s Creek, across
which a dam is to be built about
a mile and a half from Carr boro.
Careful calculations by the en
gineers show that this will give
the University and Chapel Hill
a bountiful supply for many years
to come. ‘We ought to be able
to get enough water there,’ said
J. S. Bennett the other day, ‘for
a city as large as Durham.’ ’’
IN 1933 -
“Henry Horace Williams, pro
fessor of Philosophy in the Uni
versity, will be 75 years old next
Wednesday, August 16.
“Mr. Williams has a vigor
not ordinarily associated with
the age of 75. He rides a horse
with the same enjoyment, and
with the same erect posture, as
forty years ago. He gets up
early in the morning, prepares
his own breakfast, and often does
odd jobs about the house and
yard. Usually, when he goes
uptown, he prefers to leave his
car at home and travel afoot.
He retains his lively interest in
talking, upon all manners of
topics with whomever he hap
pens to meet on the street or in
the stores—fellow faculty mem
bers, students, merchants, visit
Those Little Foundations
THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH
We are always reading about the millions given to
the great foundations which play such an enormous role
m American life but little is heard of the small ones.
F. Emerson Andrews, director of the Foundation Li
rary center m Newton, Mass., has been telling about
some of them.
There is, for example, the Benefit Shoe Foundation
in Providence, R. 1., which is dedicated to the sole pur
pose of collecting single shoes from manufacturers for
the use of one legged people.
In Boston there is the Lollipop Foundation of Amer
ica, which adds another hospital to its list of bene
ficiaries whenever its income is increased by 114 pounds
a year; each hospital receives 25,000 lollipops—a year’s
supply for child patients.
In Vermont the State Cribbage Foundation is de
voted to playing the game on Palm Sunday in Burling
ton, Vt., and at Framingham, Masa., the Research Foun
dation for the Study of Heaves in Hones exists in the
hope that equine research may lead to more knowledge
of human disorders.
One odd foundation is the Henry G. Freeman Jr.,
in Money Fund, established to provide the wives of Am
erican presidents with $12,000 a year to spend as they
please.
to thank all those people who
helped support us and shewed
Interest in us when we traveled
to the State baseball tournament
in Charlotte.
We want especially to thank
Mr. Wiley Franklin, Mr. Miles
Fitch, Mr. Ted Talbert, Mr.
Wimp Carroll, Mr. Coy Durham,
Mr. Grady Snipes, Mr. Earl Wal
ker, our coaches Mr. Jimmy
Farrell and Mr. Albert Brinkley,
our manager Tommy Williams,
Dennis Osborne, and Tim Riggs
bee. v -
We don’t know how to thank
any of them enough. .
(Signed) Eddie Talbert
Rodney McFarling
Jimmy Andrews
Marvin Talley
Billy Martin
Donnie Pendergrass
Pat Thompson
Bari Ellington
Eddie Skakle
Graham Burch
Cliff Patterson
Dave Harrison
Donnie Carroll
Joe Snipes
Eddie Durham
Phillip Walker
Price Heusner
ing alumni, whoever comes
along. He is as alert and keenly
interested in discussing the Na
tional Recovery Act in 1933 as
he was in discussing the cur
rency question in the McKintey-
Bryan campaign of 1896 ... He
joined the University of North
Carolina faculty in 1890.”
IN 1943 -
j “If you heard somebody re
mark that the squirrels were
/raiding his vegetable garden, you
might take it as a kind of joke;
anyway, as nothing much to wor
ry about.
“But squirrels have become a
serious pest to vegetable garden
ers, and in some cases to fruit
growers, in Chapel Hill. Rab
bits are doing damage, too, and
there are complaints of rats by
some gardeners; but just now
it is the squirrels that are caus
ing the most trouble. They are
winning a great victory over Vic
t tory Gardens.
“‘I have planted corn five
times this yew and haven’t bad
an ear for myself yet,* said
John W. Umstead, Jr., yester
day. ‘The squirrels have got it
all.
“ ‘l’ve shot three recently. I’ve
always liked to see the little
things playing around, and I
wouldn’t shoot ’em ’til I actually
saw ’em in the act. I killed
one when he was going up a
tree with a small ear of corn
in his mouth, and the other two
I killed while they were sitting
on a com stalk and eating corn.
We’ve had some good squirrei
stew, but we’d rather have the
ro’s’n’ ears . . ”
IN 19W -
Two polio cases have been re-
P°rt«i in Chapel Hill, according
David Garv >n. district
health officer.
“They are Mrs. John Persh-
Mfa/rinl 18 '® Glen Lennwt “ d
Mbs Gladys Worman of San Di-
f g0 ‘ Ca f tf ‘ who has been visit-
i nend here ’ 8001 were
reported in ‘good’ condition at
JJ en^ ,a ‘ Hospital. According
both ° Spital adnd ® J ’ s tr a tia»,
both cases are non-paralytic.”