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The Chapel Hill Weekly
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The Neat Trick Os Standing On Three
Sides Os The Gag Law Simultaneously
If you take the utterances of Orange
County’s own Judge L. J. Phipps one at
a time, it is easy to conclude that his
stand for the Gag Law and against
Communism is as consistent as bed
rock. You might deplore his blind in
transigence but at least you know
where he stands.
The illusion might obtain forever if
Judge Phipps were not given to mak
ing speeches elsewhere. In Maxton re
cently the Judge conceded that the Gag
Law had been enacted with undue
( haste and that' it definitely needed
terminological nut-tightening. In the
shocked hush fallowing the law’s pass
ing Judge Phipps was heard to say
that it was a good and necessary law;
later he defended the law before a
group of students, on each occasion
glossing over the principal objections
of the University Administration: that
the law was not properly considered,
that no one had been given a chance to
testify on its merits, that it was so
vaguely worded as to be almost unen-
So Long, Old Kidd, And Best Wishes
Goingrto jail is not exactly a laugh
ing matter in most cases, not a real
belly-buster anyway. But you’ve got
to hand it to Kidd Brewer for doing the
best he can.
Facing eighteen months for peddling
influence in the procurement of State
highway signs, The Kidd is holding a
“Going In Party’’ this afternoon.
The setting will be the Brewer home,
which faithfully reflects The Kidd’s
flamboyant personality. The house is
high on a hill overlooking Highway 70
on the Durham side of Raleigh. It has
two swimming pools, one inside, one
outside, separated by sliding glass
doors. Purebred cattle graze the slopes
and flatlands of Belle Acres and there
is a steel cantilever bridge at the High
way 70 entrance, near the big roadside
sign announcing YOU’LL BE GLAD
YOU DID, The Kidd’s trademark
Large-bore State officials, including
a Governor, used to partake unstint
ingly of The Kidd’s hospitality. One
notable soiree was the party christen
ing The Kidd’s house, with Our Lead
ers cavorting over the premises in Gay
Nineties swimsuits. But that was a
A Hard Frost Is Seen In The Land
Just as you begin to think the impos
sible will happen and winter will never
really come, the first hard frost grips
the ground. Adolescent maples turn
bright red, perhaps in embarrassment
at the prospect of spending six months
naked. Older, more experienced trees
turn a stoic brown. Grass huddles down
and curls up among itself, and the air
rebuffs your face as you step out into
the early morning.
After the sun gains a little toehold
on the sky the ground is patched with _
the silver-gray of frost in the shadows,
and the tawny brown of dying grass in
the sunlight. You know the day i 3 not
far off when the sun will have to do
more than breach the horizon to melt
the frost. Pretty soon the ground will
be rock-hard all day, but now there is a
little sense “of relief at finding sun
warmed earth resilient to the foot. It
means a small reprieve.
/ Cattle might make good furnaces, if
you got enough of them together. They
don’t seem to mind cold. Angus are
scattered across a broad sweep of tan
turf early in the morning, selecting
still-green tufts and breathing tranquil
puffs in the sharp air. Like the unfroz
en patches of ground, the cattle are an-
Sunday, November 17, 1963
forceable. Whatever his reasons Judge
Phipps went out of Town to concede
that the law had shortcomings, and
that University officials were at least
partially justified in objecting to the
manner of the law’s passage.
The admission did not, however, pre
vent Judge Phipps from charging dur
ing a speech in Lillington that the law
is not being enforced by the University
and leaving the heavy implication that
University officials are deliberately
ignoring and willfully breaking it. A
lesser man would have trouble reconcil
ing the two statements—one to the ef
fect that the law was flawed and pos
sibly difficult to enforce, another to
the effect that it was being purposely
subverted.
No matter how you cut it, the Judge
has assumed at least three distinct
positions on one issue, a practice sel
dom associated with judicial prudence.
Nevertheless, it might pay to with
hold judgment on the Judge. In time,
the Speaker Ban might turn out to the
Gag Law that even isn’t there.
long time and several highway signs ;
ago. There won’t be many, if any, pub- •
lie figures in attendance this after
noon.
Governor Sanford’s office indicated
that Terry won’t show. Invitations also
were sent to members of the Council
of State, Justices of the State Su
preme Court, Wake County and Ra
leigh officials, to the solicitor who pro
secuted The Kidd and the judge who
said eighteen months. Chances are
they won’t even send regrets.
But the Going In Party will go on
just the same. Bread and water will be
served and, according to the invita
tions, "Kidd will issue a public state
ment at 4 p.m. and hold a press confer
ence immediately following.”
There’s no telling what The Kidd
will say, but it’s a good bet he will leave
those in earshot laughing, which is
more than you can say for some State
figures still at large.
We realize The Kidd cracked some
thin ice and he’s got to take his dip
ping. But we wish him well just the
same, and wHI be looking forward to
his “coming out.” It will probably beat
the Terpsichorean Ball all hollow.
other small reprieve: you are not really
beset by winter until they are herded
into shelter and fed on silage.
Down in the hollows, little streams
trickle 'icily, shrunken by drought.
Your fingers hurt for a moment if you
dip your hand in the water, and a
splash on the face is a shock. Pretty
soon the water will flow black and
frigid between banks of snow, crusted
in the backwaters with brittle sheaths
of ice, and birds will leave tiny trident
tracks in the snow, searching for food
you cannot imagine they could ever
find. But they do, and when the first
frost is reversed months later by the
first thaw, they always manage to sing
about it.
Saws For Today
In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and
the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central
heart, *
Nestles the seed of perfection.
—Walt Whitman
Letters To The Editor
Community Chest, The Gag Law
Dear Sir:
I am a visitor here in Chapel
Hill for only a short time and
probably what I have to say will
irritate some of your local towns
people to the point of telling me
that I should keep my mouth
shut. However, I can’t help
but get a good laugh out of you
Americans at times—or perhaps
I should feel sorry for your ac
tions. After glancing over the
organizations that are to receive
allocations from your Communi
ty Chest drive, I was startled to
find the Animal Protection Socie
ty listed to receive SI,OOO in con
tributions. I was told that the
Community Chest was looking for
contributions to help the needy
such as poor people, the aged,
the welfare dept., etc. I have
never recalled any city, town,
county, or state contributing
money to the Animal Protection
Society except on an individual
basis and as paying members
who attend meetings. Who or
what person in this organization
is going to decide which animal
is the needy one? It appears to
The University's Kenan Memorial Stadium
/ Like Chapel Hill
The Pilgrims gave us Thanks
giving.
Because they were persecuted
and burned at the stake, they
left their homeland and came
over here where they could
have freedom of thought, word
and action. Not many years
after they landed they began
burning people at the stake, be
cause they didn’t think as they
did. And in that way the Pil
grims established freedom of
thought, word and action.
About this time of the year
the Mayflower descendants will
meet. They are people who
claim their ancestors came over
on the boat with the Pilgrims.
How 10,000 ancestors could be
crowded into a 100-passenger
ship is beyond me! Yet that's
about how many ancestors it
would take to produce all the
Mayflower descendants we sup
posedly have today.
Some of them go back be
yond the Mayflower to sub
stantiate their claims. Tliey say
their relatives were presented
in court and knighted, but they
don’t tell if any were ever
presented in court and sen
tenced.
Sometimes I supped a few
of the Mayflower claimants get
that way because their lap dog
is a great-great-;; reat-great
grandson of a hound that sneak
ed aboard just before the gang
plank was lifted.
I’ll confess I can't qualify
for the organization, because I
can’t trace my ancestors on one
side any farther back then the
time one of them was aban
doned on a doorstep.
But my folks enjoyed
Thanksgiving. There were 10
brothers and sisters on one side
who gathered every Thanks
giving Day at the old home
place in Cabarrus County. I’d
rate them as an average old
tune large family. Some of
them were good and some not
so good. Some had married
well and some not so well. They
were all kinds.
They came to my grand
mother's on Thanksgiving to
count their blessings instead of
calories. They came and gave
me that these people should be
able to take care of unwanted
animals through their own mem
bership drives due to the fact
that most of their members have
good incomes to support their
own animals.
I also noted in the breakdown
of allocations that your Commun
ity has managed to allocate SIOO
to the Association for the Aging.
Since they are allocating SI,OOO
to the Animal Protection Society,
is it possible that your animals
need 10 times more loving and
care than do your old people?
But again I say, you Americans
are always good’ for a laugh.
Sincerely yours,
Jon Gelber
To the Editor:
Yes, we Americans are always
good for a laugh, and your let
ter is good for an enormous
guffaw. At least, you exercise
the prerogative of irate Amer
icans who scream nilly-willy
about matters they know noth
ing about.
thanks for their freedom and
for the free dinner grandmother
had fixed.
As they arrived during the
day, they were met on the
porch. They hugged and kissed
and they cried, and they said
what a blessing it was they
could all be together.
Then two or three of them
would get apart from the others
and say how much nicer it
would be if sister had left her
sorry husband in Albemarle.
They didn’t like her because
she complained at the noise her
husband made while fixing his
own breakfast.
They just didn’t have any
affection for either her or the
man sister married. As for the
sister, she would have divorced
her husband, but he didn't have
any property or cash or any
thing. And there’s no happiness
in a divorce without money or
property. So she stayed on and
put up with him. After all, he
had a heart of bourbon; and
since he had married her, mo
family had been without an
idiot, but ours had gained one.
The reason he never spent
Thanksgiving with his family
was they passed out food as if
it were uranium.
So, all the relatives and what
they'd married and what they
had produced came to grand
mother's on Thanksgiving. There
Or, if brother had come alone
and not brought his wife they
might be able to divide up
grandpa’s estate in peace.
Seems as if none of the fam
ily liked her. They said she was
so narrow minded she needed
only one earring,
were so many for dinner die
had to serve two and three
tables. The kids that 'in
cluded me ate at th« sec
ond or third? whichever was
last. And all we usually got
was a wing, a biscuit and a
spanking for wanting more. We
would have fared better if we
could have eaten what the hun
gry in-laws slopped on the
table. The fronts of their
cleftes, too, were worth a toon
sand calories, at least.
In the first place, the Commu
nity Chest is not designed to
“help the needy—such as poor
people, the aged, the Welfare
Department, etc.” We all sup
port the Welfare Department
through taxes. Os the total
Chest budget of $43,000, perhaps
the only 100% ascertainably
charitable—by your apparent
definition—sum, of around $12,-
000, goes to the American Red
Cross. Most of the money goes
to 'Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, rec
reation and Y-Teens. Most of
the children benefiting from
these programs are from fam
ilies living in an area whose
annual family median income is
$7,500. The Community Chest
never has included any outright
allocation to what would simply
be defined as aid for impover
ished people.
Numerous studies of the Com
munity Chest have been made;
the present Chest is what hard
working citizens in Chapel Hill
have put together as represent
ing non-government areas of
greatest need. From its incep
Then, we kids gathered up
all the wist:bones and made
wishes. Mine never came true.
1 guess Pearl White, Ruth Ro
land and Mary Pickford thought
I was too young for such things.
Anyway, after I grew up,
married and raised a family, it
was natural for me to want
| —Looking Back— |
From the files of the Weekly:
IN 192 J
PREPARING FOR
15,0 M PEOPLE
“More people are going to be
in Chapel Hill on Thanksgiving
Day this year than have ever
been here before.
“Fifteen thousand is the esti
mate, by Graduate Manager of
Athletics Charles T. Woollen, of
Upe attendance at the Virginia-
Carolina football game. Special
trains, some with Pullman sleep
ers and dining cars, are coming
in, and automobiles will stream
hither from every direction.
“Half a dozen cities of the
state have been drawn upon for
special policemen to handle the
crowd. Those who are used to
traffic duty will be stationed at
important corners to make sure
that the flow of automobiles goes
smoothly.
“Elaborate preparations have
been made to get people to and
from their seats easily. Reserved
seats for 13.500 will have been
erected before the big day, and
each section will have tickets of a
special color. And each section
will have its own entrance bear
ing a sign of the same color as
the tickets.
“Alumni headquarters, with an
information desk, will be estab
lished at the College Well. A
lunch counter will be there, and
all the restaurants and Swain
Hall are to have lunches ready
for visitors. The Y.M.C.A. will
conduct a parcel check room,
and the new law building will
tion, many years ago, the Chest
has always included funds for
Kie care of unwanted, hurt,
and abandoned animals.
Chapel Hill is one of the few
towns in the state that do not
maintain an animal shelter.
'Loose, ill animals threaten
community health. The Or
ange County dog warden simply
captures animals, the overwhel
ming number of which are de
stroyed. Though the good of
fices of Vine Veterinary Hos
pital, househould pets—some
times slightly damaged are
frequently returned to their
owners, and homes are found
for many kittens and puppies
that would otherwise be de
stroyed. No sophisticated society
can afford to ignore this aspect
of civilized life. Below the assist
ance of the county and the
municipality of Chapel Hill,
there lies a large grey area
which Chest funds help fill.
Not all people who “own”
animals, Mr. Gelber, “support
their own animals.” Other ani
mals are victims of circum-
By BILLY ARTHUR
company at Thanksgiving.
That’s the reason a few days
ago I telephoned a friend down
in Onslow County and asked,
“How’d you like to have
Thanksgiving dinner with us?”
They said, “Fine?”
I said, “Good, we’ll come
down to see you.”
be used as a ladies’ building for
the day.’’
IN 1933
Dachshund in Satchel
“Driving along the main street
Tuesday evening, I saw Mr. and
Mrs. Raymond Adams on the
corner by Spencer Hall. Mr. Ad
ams had in his hand a small
traveling bag, or satchel. I hail
ed them and offered to take them
wherever they were bound.
When they got into the car I saw
a dog’s head protruding from the
partly open satchel.
“ ‘lt’s our Dachshund,’ explain
ed Mr. Adams. 'We're going to
the library, and we don't want to
leave him at home by himself.’
My information is that this
Dachshund, in library’' or class
room or wherever it is, sits in
the satchel, or maybe ambles in
a restricted area around his mas
ter’s feet, and never breaks in
upon the scholastic peace with
barks or growls.”
IN 1943
“Four grocery-markets—Fowl
er’s, the A & P, Pender’s, and
Shields’—announce that because
of the shortage of help, and in
order that their employees may
get a hot lunch, they will close
from 1 to 2 o’clock every day
except Saturday.”
IN 1953 -
"The Community Chest drive
went ‘over the top’ this week,
with pledges and cash on hand
yesterday totaling Just over $23,-
000.”
tances over which they have no
control, and many demented
persons are viciously cruel to
animals.
The SIOO allocated to the As
sociation for Aging and Commu
nity Relationships is the sum
approved for that group for its
pilot *work. Chapel Hill’s geria
trics problem is perhaps not as
acute as that of other towns,
but it is undeniably here. The
people who request funds to
continue to work in the field
probably coukJ have justified a
large increase in the allocation
for this purpose, and probably
would have received it, had
they simply requested it.
I do not know what country
you come from, Mr. Gelber, but
Chapel Hill never has been, and
probably never will be, a true
reflection of the whole of Amer
ica. You are wrong about ani
mal organizations not being in
cluded in othre drives for com
munity funds, but I cannot take
the space to show you specifical
ly where. Thus, the composition
of the Chest agencies here is
‘radically different from many
of those in North Carolina and
in most respects totally differ
ent from those in other states,
primarily the North.
I hope that Mr. Gelber will
leagthen his visit to Chapel Hill
and continue to offer his grati
utious advice, comments, albeit
sarcastic, and heb fill our lives
with the glow of his opinion and
philosophy. Surrounded by so
many Americans, perhaps he
may at times feel uncomfor
table. He may then wish to
seek the companionship of a cat
or a dog while writing pungent
commentaries about'Life in the
Funny States.
Joe Nagelschmidt
To The Editor,
Several months ago while
visiting with one of our senators
in Washington, he told me that
the most distressing condition
in Washington to him is the al
most overwhelming attitude that
the United States owes some
thing to everyone around the
world except the American tax
payer. Apparently, the situation
is now worsening.
For months now the duly elect
ed representatives of the North
Carolina General Assembly have
been sibjected to scorn and ridi
cule so intolerable thdt I must
add one small non - influential
toied 1 to their defense with res
pect to the Anti-Communist Law
designated by the press as the
Speaker Ban Law.
The fact that I was wounded
twice in an infantry rifle com
pany in Europe in World War II
does not qualify me to speak;
because others gave much more,
many their lives. It grieves me
me deeply that the families of
those who fought and died for
our system of government now
find that it is more fashionable
to promote the interest of our
enemies than our own citizens.
It is highly understandable
why the administrators of our
State-supported institutions de
sire maximum freedom. How
ever, the deplorable part of the
situation is that it was the ap
parent violation of this very
freedom by some administrators
that convinced our legislature
that such a law was needed.
As gloomy as the situation ap
pears, there is a ray of hope.
This hope rests in the fact that
your newspaper with its edi
torial power can be instrumen
tal in requesting that this 'prob
lem be settled by a State-wide
referendum. I am confident
that our citizens will exercise
for more wisdom (as they always
have) than some people will give
them credit for.
We had better remember that
this fellow Khrushchev was not
raised in the pleasant confines
of a country club but ki the
mines of Russia. Even Presi
dent Kennedy can vouch for the
fact that he and his followers
are not soft traders. Witness,
for example, his outpost now a
mere 90 miles from the coast of
Florida, and his- wheat bins
about to be filled with American
wheat at a cost much less than
what we Americans must pay
for our own wheat.
At the same time Russia is
arresting our professor Pro
fessor 'Fredrick Barghoorn of
Yale, why are we coddling
theirs? This kind of trading did
not build nor will it sustain our
great country.
Broadmindedness may be vir
tuous; but if Khrushchev is go
ing to bury us, isn't it going a
little beyond the call of duty to
furnish him with the shovel?
Thanks to the free enterprise
system our standard of living is
the highest the world has ever
known. We should guard this sys
tem with extreme jealousy.
The General Assembly des
erves a vote of thanks rather
than ridicule for passing the
Anti-Communist Speaker Law,
HB 1395. They will probably re
ceive it, at the polls, next election.
Let us vote!!!
Very truly yours,
B. B. Walker
Asheboro