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Page 2-B I •—■— - The Chapfl Hill Weekly “If the matter it important and you are sure of your ground, never fear to be in the mihority.’ , ORVILLE CAMPBELL, Publisher JAMES SHUMAKER, General Manager MUM every Sunday and Wednesday fey the Chayel Hill Publishing Company, Ine. 561 West Franklin Street. Chanel Mil. N. C. P. O. Bex 271 - Telephone 967-7945 Subscription rates (payable in advance and including N. C. sales tax)—ln North Carolina: One year, $5.15; six months, $3.09; three months, $2.06. Elsewhere in the United States: One year, $6.00; six months, $4.00; three months, $3.00. Outside United States: One year, SIO.OO. Sounding The Old Tocsin Against Freedom Os Speech On The Campus Assistant Attorney General Ralph Moody, who with Secretary of State Thad Eure midwifed North Carolina’s gag law last spring, hit the civic club circuit a couple of days ago with a ring ing defense of his handiwork. His performance, although inspired, was disconcerting in several respects. For one thing, it is always a little start ling to see one who has stood comfort ably on all fours in the public trough for years drop the mask of dedicated and selfless service to snarl at hands that feed him. For another thing, it is a trifle confusing to see a man who has put in at least seven years at college earning a law degree try to curry favor with an audience by declaring, in effect, “Look, boys, you can believe what I’m telling you because I’m just as much against education as you are.” The self-effacing approach happens to be a great temptation to anyone who speaks in Dunn, which is where Mr. Moody performed. Harnett County has had, at best, only uneasy truck with formal schooling and the general idea thereabouts of quality education is roust ing Indians from the public schools. Any way, those who yield to the temptation, as Mr. Moody did and as Secretary of State Eure had earlier, can rant with comparative immunity. If reports leak ed to the outside world turn out to be embarrassing elsewhere, the speaker can always claim misquotation with at least an even chance of being right. The most disconcerting aspect of Mr. Moody’s whole performance, though, was his defense of the gag law on grounds that higher education is by its very nature a clear and present danger. “Lenin and Trotsky first became ac quainted with Socialism in college,” Mr. Moody pointed out darkly. “And Stalin first learned about Socialism in a secret club or society in a theological sem inary.” The heavy implication was that if there hadn’t been colleges and theo logical seminaries, there would have been no Lenin and Trotsky and Stalin. Since colleges and theological sem inaries and the like are here and we’ve got to live with them, Mr. Moody seem ed to be saying, the very least we can do to stem the Red tide is arm ourselves with such weapons as his gag law. Mr. Moody also indicated that it would be in the public interest if presumptuous citizens, academicians and newspaper editors would knock off questioning the infinite wisdom of the North Carolina Legislature and the Attorney General’s office. After describing the Communist men ace of our campuses, charging UNC of ficials with failure to enforce earlier anti-Communist statutes, and extolling the virtues of the gag law, Mr. Moody And Plain Talk From A Branchhead Boy State Senator Ralph Scott of Haw River is not exactly what you would call an intellectual aesthete. He is an edu cated man, but he doesn’t wear his learning on his sleeve. Senator Soctt isn’t exactly what you would call a left-wing do-gooder or a soft-headed sentimentalist, either. Hes is a humanitarian, but one with a level and steady gaze and a built-in hogwash detector. He is a man with ideals, but not a dreamy idealist. Normally, he takes the Branchhead view of State politics, which is one of hardheaded realisjm. His style is to weigh the issues care fully, make up his mind slowly, and then to speak his piece in plain and direct language. 1 Senator Scott delivered a few plain and direct observations last Thursday night on North Carolina’s gag law. In ■ characteristic fashion, he chose to beard the lion in his den, unburdening himself Sunday, September 28, 4968 then said it wasn’t really the Commun ists we had to be on guard against after all. The real danger was represented by “innocents. . . . sentimentalists, wrong headed, soft-headed and muddle-headed intellectuals, and the so-called angry young men, neurotic rebels. . . . many decent intelligent people, fundamental ists, humanitarians. . . . lost babes. . . . intellectual educators, liberal left-wing editors. . . . liberal do-gooders.” Al though he didn’t propose it outright, Mr. Moody implied that it might not be a bad idea to broaden thq. gag law to take care of this crowd, too.’]. Hardly anyone would go so far as to say that Mr. Moody is a serious threat to civil rights, individual freedom and higher education in North Carolina. There is always the danger that he will contribute to mental illness and erratic behavior such as that demonstrated Thursday by the pathetic Tar Heel who crashed the White House gates raving that Communists had taken over North Carolina and the populace was being killed off in droves. But in fairness to Mr. Moody, Secretary of State Eure, Senate President Clarence Stone, North Carolina American Legion Commander L. J. Phipps, and others who helped to prop up the Communist bogeyman, it must be conceded that the Washington incident might have occurred even if they had neglected to whip up a froth. The public’s real concern with Mr. Moody’s speech should be that perform ances such as his are exactly what is giving North Carolina demagoguery a bad name. When the late Senator Rob ert (Our Bob) Reynolds used to park his Cadillac and tour the countryside in a clattering Ford, popping his galluses and hunkering on his heels at cross roads stores, it was harmless fun if nothing else. Now the Ralph Moody breed comes along crusading for the simple-minded life with exhortations about “doctrinaire liberals, social recon structionists, and evangels of quantita tive progress.” It’s enough to founder a Harnett County mule. On Guard News item in last Thursday’s papers: CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) A lead ing Russian lawyer will teach in Harvard University’s law school this fall. He is 50-yard-old Boris S. Nikiforov, head of the criminal law department of the Soviet Institute for the Study of Causes and Prevention of Crime. Just so long as he doesn’t try to teach anybody in North Carolina anything.... before Raleigh American Legion mem bers who have been unrestrained in their support of the speaker ban. He called the gag law “the most out rageous abuse of the legislative process I have ever seen’’ and said North Caro lina is “heading for a dictatorship” if it is allowed to remain on the books. “To support this bill is to say that you don’t believe in the power of human rea son to seek out errors,” Senator Scott said. “This kind of legislation is always the last-ditch stand of fearful people who are afraid to argue with their ene mies. . . . When you have to resort to the law to ban the expression of opinion, no matter how objectionable, you’re con fessing” fi\Jack of faith in the system which made great.” Senator Scott obviously is not afraid to argue with enemies and he has not lost the faith. It would help if a few would venture out to stand with him against the forces of fear and reaction. % y\ 'pfehLg- * ML * *> v j 1 wgj*. wllSil •‘i.jimlt | Ijfißmp From England’s Big Ben To Carolina .... Gargoyle On The University’s Person Hall Letter: Another Way To Say Thanks To The Editor: When the North Carolina Na tional Bank’s branch in Chapel Hill opens tomorrow morning, September 30, The Bank of Chap el Hill will have closed 65 years of business. This is the third fi nancial firm within three years to change its name. Many de positors of .these banking firms will be or should be ordering new endorsement stamps. This letter is to suggest that the new rubber stamps include two more words “THANK YOU” in large print. The endorsement would then read something similar to the following: * For Deposit to Name of Depositor’s Firm or Organization Name of 'Banking or Savings Institution THANK YOU As new businesses, education al, religious, charitable, end oth er organizations and activities continue to increase in this area, it is apropos that all the firms and townspeople receiving and disbursing monies give consid eration to stamping “Thank You” daily, in addition to saying thank you upon receipt of funds. Our town would take on a most pleasant atmosphere if all checks received, whether de Now & Then by Bill Prouty Come tomorrow morping about 9 a.m., many folks downtown on banking business will be walk ing into the North Carolina Na tional Bank through the seme doors that had heretofore ush ered them into the Bank of Chapel Hill. For the first time in nearly two-thirds of a century Chapel •Hill will be without a banking facility of strictly its own mak ing and design. There will, of course, be little outward difference between the banks of last Friday and to morrow. The same competent, cheerful personnel will be there to serve your every banking need, in the main office down town, as well as in the Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Eastgate branches. The change which will take place at the bank over the week end will be too subtle for quick notice. It’s like the change that comes over a man between the day before his birthday and his birthday, when chronologically he’s only one day older than he was the day before, but legally, and of times mentally, he's a whole year older. And you'd nev *er know it from looking at the man, or unless he told you. But no matter how smoothly modulated is thii transition from one year to the next, what man does not realize that each an posited or cashed, would bear below the endorsement THANK YOU. The cost .of these two words is very little, but the ef fects are greatly rewarding. Chapel Hill and the surround ing area have been steadily growing. Increased university fa cilities, enlarged student, body, state offices, new "businesses, and those people finding Chapel Hill a delightful place to retire, have caused the bank debits and credits to increase yearly. In many ways the businesses and residents are called on for serv ices far beyond the call of duty, because of the nature of our floating population. However, when checks are made payable to businesses, churches, relig ious or charitable organizations, it is considered excellent bus iness to deposit currently the checks in the name of these business or eleemosynary organ ization. Often in Chapel Hill, checks are made payable to in dividuals, when they should be made payable to the intended charitable organization; it would be preferable for these checks to be made payable directly to the charitable organization, and that these checks be rubber stamped “for deposit to charity in the . . . bank, THANK YOU. It will be a refreshing experi niversary brings more than just one day’s difference into his life? Executive Vice President J. Temple Gobbel, in his recently published open letter to the friends and customers of the Bank of Chapel Hill, lists several cogent reasons why his bank has merged with the North Car olina National Bank. Among these are the added facilities of the older institution's trust and industrial development depart ments, and the obvious conven ience of Statewide banking. ' Undoubtedly these and other advantages are good and suf ficient reason for Mr. Gobbel and colleagues to have joined up with one of the oldest and strongest banking institutions in the State. Certainly, their move is headed in the right, or at least popular direction, because every time you look around some bank is merging with a bigger bank. In fact, merging is now second only in popularity to be ‘Look, Ma, No Hair’ “Mommy,” asked the child, “why doesn’t daddy have hair on his head?” “Daddy thinks a great deal, dear.” “Why do you have so much hair on your head, Mom my?” “Be quiet and eat your breakfast.” —Charity And Children ence to -have the writers of checks to charitable or business firms review their bank state ments to see the THANK YOU stamped on the checks returned by local organizations. Chapel Hill and Orange Coun ty should be proud of the finan cial institutions and their pro gressiveness. Within the past . tftfee years three «f the four financial firms have changed their names. The Bank of Chap -61 Hill, after 65 years under the same name and until 1954 the only banking facility in our town, closed business on Friday, to open on Monday, Sept. 30, as a branch of the North Carolina National Bank. The University National Bank after more than seven years of business became a branch of the Central Caro lina Bank and Trust Company, on October 2, 1961. Orange Building aid Loan Association, established in 1920, became Orange Savings and Loan As sociation on October 26, 1959, and moved into its new home more than a year ago. Home Savings and Loan Association of Durham, established in 1920, opened its branch on October 26, 1959. Let’s rubber stamp THANK YOU daily and get that new feeling. Alton G. Sadler ing robbed, among banks in North Carolina. No doubt our growing Town needs the added banking facili ties to be offered by this ap parently logical and obviously popular move. Yet, being an old fogy, and with no stock to be split, I had rather hoped that the Bank of Chapel Hill would stay just that, sans trust and development de partments, and statewide out lets, and had remained institu tion enough to resist tbe advan tages of the most compelling and controversial movement of the Twentieth Century that old urge to merge. But have no fear, Mr. Gob bel, we old fogies are still with you all the way. We’ll leave our little dabs o fself-rising dough right where they are, entrust ing their kneadings to more, if none the less competent, hands. It’s really just that The Bank of Chapel Hill had such a neigh borly ring to its name. Bob Quincy f A Quick Lesson In Philosophy One does not have to attend college to major in philosophy. You can find it in drug stores, in bars, written on lavatory walls. A soda fountain in Detroit, Michigan advises: “Try our girl pancakes. They’re stacked much better than our boy pancakes.” A Sloppy Joe bar in an Eastern town, which also houses guests, brags to customers: “George Washington slept here and Martha didn t know it.” A delightful spa in a Southern state touts its enter tainment thusly: “Our talented vocalist sings much better than she sounds.” * * * * If you’re looking for bargains, a North Carolina firm has the answer: “Get a free automobile, buy. a set of our tires for $2800.” There is nothing so encouraging as an honest pro prietor a a case. This one is due love: “If you consider the service poor, wait until you taste the food.” A bar which does a thriving business in New Jersey suggests: “Try our famous Virginia gin. For a real treat, try a Vir-gin on the rocks.” Thrifty folks from the old country posted this in a grocery: “Everytime we try to make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” A challenge makes the game of life exciting. So: “We boast of the world’s fastest service. Get a three minute egg in ten seconds.” * * * Every situation has the practical joker supreme. An example is a breakfast house in Indiana. It prompts. “Hold that sneeze until you’ve got a mouth full of cereal.” Restaurants have special sendees. Such as this one: “We have a French chef. He’s a lousy cook, but he’s a genuine Frenchman.” A pet farm offers: “We hate old goats, but oh (!) you kid.” There is always room for a hustling case proprietor. One who takes his politics seriously has painted on his wall: “We collect Federal, State and Local taxes. We also sell ham sandwiches for 50 cents as a sideline.” —Looking Back— From the flies of the Weekly: IN 1923 (September 27, 1923, was the first issue of the Weekly !a which all pages, in addition to the front page, carried a date line)— From Chapel Hill Chaff: “Certain citizens who have seen Archibald Henderson shoot at targets and quail tell me I need have no fear that he will not do himself credit in the use of firearms. He came pretty near winning the championship of Chapel Hill in a marksman’s contest once, being beaten only by Theo. Best. But the situation out in Oklahoma, where they have offered Mr. Henderson the presidency of the University, calls for something more, it seems to me, than accuracy of aim. You have got to be quick on the draw in such country as that. The more I read in the papers about the scrapping in progress there, the more firmly I hold to my opinion that Mr. Henderson would be prudent to stay here In the peaceful pre cincts of Chapel Hill. Were I he, I would rather be whole than President.’’ Big preparations are being made for Durham's Harvest Fes tival Fair week after next at Lakewood Park . . . Twice every day during the fair there is go ing to be a hair-raising act—a woman diving forty feet into a pool while seated on a horse. This is free . , IN 1933 - “R. A. Eubanks has closed his grocery and ended his mercantile career in Chapel Hill ... He be came postmaster recently . . . “Looking out from his store, Mr. Eubanks saw Chapel Hill transformed from a remote sleepy village to the bustling place that it is today. He saw the first water-pipes laid and the first telephone and electric wires strung. He saw buggies and wagons and the Negroes’ hacks give place to automobiles. He witnessed the coming of the radio and the airplane. He oh served the many changes serene ly and not disapprovingly; but he did not change himself or h|s way of doing business. Through all the years he rematai edthe old- fashioned small town merchant--knowing all hits custo mers intimately, chatting with them about neighborhood doings, often being the center of a group, on the sidewalk, discussing poli tics and world affairs. “The closing of his store marks the end of an era on our main street.” “For the first time in Univer sity history women students are regularly taking meals at Swain Hall. Special tables are reser ved for them, but there is no ob jection to their sitting with the boys.” ' IN 1943 - "The newspapers reported last week that a B-26 Marauder bomb er piloted by Homer E. Mont singer Jr., of Durham, shot down three German fighter planes out of an attacking force of 30 in an air battle over Naples. Lt. Mont singer is remembered by many Chapel Hill people as the young man with the fine, sensitive face of a poet who worked as a crafts man in his father’s furniture shop west of Durham on the Hillsboro Road. There are men and women here in the village who, when they read of his heroic performance as an Army air fighter, can lift their eyes from their newspapers and see ex amples of his craftsmanship.” (The only MkmMnger on the Hillsboro Rood Hated in the 1963 Durham telephone directory is Mrs. Homer Montstnger Sr. The only furniture firm on the Hills boro Road Hated In the Dur ham telephone directory is New comb’s Reproductions, Inc., form erly Durham Furniture Co., es tablished in 192b—Ed.) IN 1953 - The schedule of events in the Orange County Bicintennial cele bration occupied two columns by twelve inches on the front page of the Weekly. The celebration began Wednes day, October 7, and lasted through Tuesday, October 13. The cele bration was scheduled to open at noon October 7, "Homecoming Day,” with "salutes, sirens, whistles, etc.,” and was to con tinue with “Hillsboro Day” on Thursday, “North Carolina Day” on Friday, "Youth Day” on Sat urday, “University of North Ca rolina Day” on Monday, and “Chapel Hill-Carrboro Day” on Tuesday. “Chapel HiU-Carrboro Day” was marked by a parade through the two towns with floats and marching units.
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