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Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1963 Above All, A Deep Love Os Country By JOSEPH ALSOP Os all the men in public life in his time, John Fitzgerald Ken nedy was the most ideally form ed to lead the United States of America. Such, at any rate, is this re porter’s judgment, perhaps bias ed, but at any rate based on long experience and close observa tion, and no longer possible to suspect as self-serving. To be sure, judging Kennedy was never easy, for he was no common man, to be judged by common standards. Courage, intelligence, and prac ticality; a passion for excellence and a longing to excel; above all, a deep love of this’ country, a burning pride in its past, and unremitting confidence in the American future—these were the qualities which acted, so to say, as the mainsprings of Kennedy the President. Kennedy the Man, Kennedy the private face, was half the enemy and half the reinforcement of Kennedy the President. He had an enviable grace of manner and person. He enjoyed pleasure. After Theodore Roosevelt, he was the first American President to care for learning for its own sake. After Abraham Lincoln, he was the first American Presi dent with a rich vein of personal humor—which is a very different thing from the capacity to make jokes. This strange dry, detached, self-mocking humor no doubt aid ed him to assess men and events: but in his public role, it was a handicap. Certainly it was not the same sort of handicap as Lincoln’s humor, which actually, prevented great numbers of otherwise intelligent persons from taking Lincoln seriously. Kennedy’s humor instead in hibited him from showing the depth of his feelings. Any pub lic exhibition of emotion gave him gooseflesh. So foolish people said he was a cold, unfeeling man, although few’ men in our time have had stronger feelings about those things that mattered to him. After his country, what matter ed most to him was to live in tensely, with purpose and effect. He was in some sense the ulti mate personification of the ob servation of Justice Holmes: “Man is born to act; to act is to affirm the worth of an end; and to affirm the worth of an end is to create an ideal.” The ideal that Kennedy affirm ed in action was singularly simple: for no man was ever more contemptuous of the theolo gical complexities of ideology. (It was hard to know, indeed, whether he held a more sover eign contempt for the doctrinaire mushiness of the extreme Amer ican Left or for the doctrinaire hate-preachings of the extreme American Right. He was slow Students Donate Thanksgiving Food By EVE CAMPBELL and GAIL POE Beginning Monday the students of CHHS began bringing canned foods to contribute to food bas kets. These baskets were given to the Red Cross which distributed them to needy families as the Ischool’s Thanksgiving project. Each homeroom competed for the largest contribution. Peter Bream, treasurer of CHHS, stated that in Septem ber there was $2700 in the school treasury. $450 was used in pay ing bills. To date there is $2300. Peter said that now the bills have been paid, CHHS’s bank account should grow. The school’s Christmas project will be voted on ct a special as sembly after Thanksgiving vaca tion. The student body will de cide whether to contribute to a : local project, to contribute to .the migrant workers' welfare in North Carolina or to support Thom, a young girl in South Viet when Requested * Phone 942-2960 COLONIAL RUG CLEANERS HOW IT'S PEPSI for those who think younj!@m Bet sn extra carton todayl to anger, but these made his gorge rise.) His ideal could be completely summed up in only a score or so of words—a nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are cre ated equal: the proud strong hold of a new birth of freedom; and the standing promise to all men that government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth. The noble, ancient phrases, the pieced-together tags from the finest of all American utterances, are as well-worn by now as antique coins, whose leg end is illegible. But he could read the legend still. He still took this definition of our na tion’s purpose with perfect liter alness and this was the ideal that his actions sought to affirm. Whereas Franklin Delano Roosevelt took office when the nation was clamoring for leader ship and crying out to be shown a new course, John Fitzgerald Kennedy took office in a time of violent, yet hardly comprehen sible, change. Too many, then as now, confronted the vast rev olutionary processes of our time either with fatty complacency or with shrill, embittered indigna tion. His task was therefore a hard task, and he was untimely cut off before his task could be half done. Yet if we look at our country arid the world in which we live —if we honestly compare the prospects now opening before us with teie prospects as they seem ed when Kennedy's Presidency began—we can see that there has been a new birth of hope. It is perhaps pardonable, at this moment, to be’personal. Speak ing for myself. I have not dared to hope as I do now since those first pnonths of the Korean War, when such overiy high hopes were born from the strong sense that America was grandly ac complishing a high, historic ser vice. That service had its heavy price. I still remember watch ing the Wolfhound Regiment through a long, hard fight, and how the bodies of the fallen were carried in when the fight was won, and how 1 suddenly could think only of Simonides’ epitaph that was inscribed for all to read, on the tomb of the dead Spartans at Thermopylae: Go, stranger, and in Laca daemon tell That here obedient to the laws we fell. The President who is lost to us, like those when who were lost so many years ago, was no drilled, unthinking Spartiate. He was the worthy citizen of a na tion great and free—a nation, as he liked to think, that is great because it is free and this was the thought that always inspired his too brief leadership of this republic. Nam for a third year. The girls’ and boys’ basketball teams have been practicing for two weeks. The girls’ coach is Mrs. Rhocia Bisbing and the boys are coached by Robert Culton. The co-captains for the girls’ team this year are Susan Culbreth and Jill Hickey. The boys’ co-captains are Randy El lington and Kenneth Hackney. The first basketball game will be played against Ragsdale on December 10. It will be a home game. Tuesday of last week was club day at CHHS. The first three pe riods of the day were shortened fifteen minutes so that there (would be time allowed for a club period. ' Dr. (Martin of the Classics De partment at UNC spoke to the Latin Club about the life of Ju lius Caesar. The Latin Club also has begun making tentative plans for « Christmas dance and for its annual banquet. The French Club has made plans to put out a French news paper. Martine Wargny, Bea trice Rhyne, and Libby Corn well are to act as tri-editors. For Uie first time at CHHS there is Current-Events Club, This club, organized by Miss Wilkin, history teacher, gives its members a chance to discuss and analyze world news. ai trie Frocoman Club meet ing it was decided to put out a newspaper, probably be fore Christmas- Mary Mac Gregg and Kay Marley were elected co-editors. Page 5-B f Prices Good Friday A Saturday, Nov. 29-30 Eg HH EASTQATE IN OHAPEL HILL Wtß * Bi Bm • W Limit 2 with a $5.00 or more food order f\ Jim Dandy | A Red Mill | A Grits «£• ll r Mustard llr JU S& H GREEN STAMPS M Mild Jergens aJa Thrifty Maid Golden Cream a A Soap r IIP Corn t- 10' JBSL Cow oll Good at Winn-Dixie Nov. »* 36th BN Dawn Fresh Steak m Nfe Astor Full O' Fruit MMS ™ bJ—EEIMIB Sauce s £h? llr Cocktail "£• Ur highest quality—blue on white Hjj| Ej Jgk fl Large fi Nj|jj| WwsElMs&m mm BNn HhBF BBEbIf sb-SI Wm Limit 2 Boxes HH IB m® , W!t>l ° r JpP f Superbrand Be:. 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