Newspapers / The News of Orange … / July 31, 1958, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
• «« I Editorial And Some Fun - Fur Khrush The worldwide breathlessness and hubbub over the sum- , mit conference that a little fat Russian called Nikita Khrushchev has ordered recalls the words of Cassius in Julius ' Caesar: “Why, man ,he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.'' By the tinfe you read these words, this misguided con ference may be upon us, or the Matter of the Kremlin may be amongst us, surrounded by his' private regiment of spies and footpads and gunmen, and by the most extensive 1,1. S. security guard ever contemplated by this country. At this moment we visualize Khrush gleefully packing his epithets, while a harassed New Y'ork City Police Department plans pro tective measures expected to involve as many as 4.000 police men. and the U. S. Secret Service, the FBI, the II. S. Marines and the L’N security detail make their own plans to protect* a man who makes the late Julius Caesar look like very much of a plaster saint. We understand that President Carnal Abdel Nasser has expressed a wistful desire to attend that summit conference that Top Dog Khrushchev has arranged for us and some other farmed nations. ikasmuch as we are under the iuyprrssion the meeting is intended to do something about the Middle Fast, which Mr. N’lJier lias been busily stirring into a frenzy that has reached as fat as Washington, this might be a good idea. Il there has got to he a meeting. Nasser might just possi ble be as much help as tlw.s»M-AtahJUituiL __ .. . Kids fc> Be frood Of As an antidote to lurid reports of teen-age gang “rum bles,” knifings, shootings, muggings and sex offenses, consider the 'jglli animal conclave of Roys' Nation, just completed in rlje Nation's Capital under sponsorship of The American Legion. - This is tlie traditional convocation of 17-year-okf “sena tors.'' two front a state, and-elected by ilu- 20,000 high school juniors who ate members of the forty-seven Boys’ States, and their etpiav. 11 en is Til tTte C'Oteleis f)iatrkj^otiCofh m hi a ^wrf— Panama Canal /one. As in the past., these ambitious and civic-tmitded youngs men also toured the Capitol, visited tire senators from their respective states, laid wreaths at the Tombs of the Unknowns,* attended a special Pentagon briefing and generally "saw" of ficial Washington. Tlu‘ niajor impression gained front it all Wy President Laniel M. Lund, of Culver City, California, the victorious Tederalist.candidate, is that “politicians^ arC sin <g*re. qualified and dedicated men wlto are doing their best under considerable difficulty and deserve support instead ol sneers. If he and his fellows can persuade a few of their el ders that public service is no joke, they will he doing a noble deed. . The legion is to be congratulated on initiating, support ing and promoting Ross' State and Boys' Nation as practical, nationwide exercises in good citizenship and training for statesmanship .and as a demonstration at the community level tb?t juvenile delinquency is not, after all, a mysterious ailment of our times that we have to put up with. NAACP Take Notice Samuel S. Thomas, 37-year-old Negro of Greensboro, i« planning a national organization to secure first class citizen ship for his race without recourse to racial strife or integra tion pressure. Outlining his pfan for the Mutual Association of American Negroes, Thomas told I.ane Kerr, staff writer for the Greensboro Daily New's:- “I contend that we. ait Neg roes. can gain first class citizenship through economic devek>|> ment, high moral standards and intellectual achievements much faster than T>y forced atceptance through courts and litigation.” Thomas lias a, college degree and two extra years of law. hut he is no starry-eyed reformer. Rather, according to Kerr, he is an ex-jailhird. freed after serving ten months of a two \o four year sentence for subornation of perjury. He is mak ing his comeback and feeding his wife and two children by Xvorking two eight hour shifts a day, six days a week, one as a hotel bellhop, the other in a cigarette factory. The Thomas story reminds us forcibly of a bristling ed itorial in a recent issue of the Negro magazine F.bony which laced up to a problem that reformers of neither race have heen willing to see. It noted that "the percentage of Negro offenses has grown to such alarming proportions that a growl ing number of people are asking ‘What is the Negro doing about Negroes?" In much the same spirit as Thomas, the mag azine pointed out to the reader the need to police his. own" race in his own interest. It charged him not to "sit idly by while a few irresponsible members of his race destroy the rights that have taken years to obtain.” We hope that the officials of tire National Association for the Advancement of Colored I'eonje are regular readers "of Ebony; and that they also learn of iiiomas’ MAAN. In its general belligerency, this organization has l>een much too concerned with the conduct of whites and too little interested in the true advancement of Negroes. Jirtos of ©range Count? tHB NEWS, INCOHEORATBD «Uteb#ro sad Ctopol Wl. ML C S^STTeJSSST tiitor md Publisher atSacond dm Matter a* the Moat Oftfcs at batebaro, Vprti Carolina, wndar tha Act of March S. ldTt. Mo»M«had Eofry Thursday tKdnrtv* National Advqrthftic Jtai ' OttATM WMMLIfft * Chtdtfo * MnM * BUBSCMPtlON RATES ONE YKAIt (inside North Carolina) JMX MONTHS (iaaida North Carolina) OWE YEAH (outside North Carolina) 92-30 9173 ISM (Continued From Page 1) room And as they Quarrelled about who was to do what, their moth er thought of their girlhood, of how she had brought tem up in a God-fearing home, of their mar riages to well-to-do, successful men. Now it had come—in the lonesome, latter years—to this. The hissing, the bickering, the yelling grew louder. T*hen the telephone rank. The old mother went to answer it. “Why. yeg, yes. Of course 1 do! Have known it 'since my childhood! It is one of my favorites, and the naime of it is: How Firm A Foun dation." said the mother as the daughters, quiet for one moment, listened. This radio station had been mak ing calls over a wide area to names in telephone directories and. as fate would have it. they called Mrs. -. If she could tell them the name of the song, they would send her a check for $2,000. The mother returned.to the liv ing room, told the daughters she would not be needing their help for some little while—and possibly never again — and they swiftly slithered out of the house and back to their mansions across town. How firm a foundation .... NOTES . . United States Steel Is publishing four-color_photos. full-page, of Charlotte's nrw Wa chovia Bank Building in most of the big, national magazines .... Ten years ago this week North Carolina had over 800 cases of polio, led the Ration .... Febru ary-.! une meetings of the Legis latuie have resulted in the instal lation of 40-ton air conditioners for the House nod Senate. Coat: about $60,000. Will be ready by September. GEMS OF THOUGHT LITERATURE Boys like romantic tales; but babies like realistic tales — b« ,cause they find them romantic.—• G. K. Chesterton Any man who will look into his heart and honestly write what he sees there, will find plentdy of readers.—'Edgar W. Howe • Reattsm will at length be found to surpass imagination, and to suit and savor all literature.— Mary Baker Eddy Writtng is like religion. Every man who feels the call must work out his own salvation. — George Horace Lorimer Literature is a great staff, blit a sorry crutch — Walter Scott The writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowl edge, and takes from him the least time.—Sydney Smith THE GOLDEN RULE The Golden Rule works tike gravitation.^-C■ F. Dole To do as you would be done by. is the plain, sure, and undisput ed rule of morality and justice.— Lord Chesterfield As you wish to be treated, see that you treat another. What you do not like yourself, do not do to another.—Columbanus Be as just and gracious unto me. as I am confident and kind to thee.—Shakespeare To do as one would be done by. and to love one's neighbor as one’s self, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality. -J. S. Mill New Radiation Course at UNC “Radioactivity in Water, Food, and Air” is the title of a new course in the field of radiation now being offered by the UNC School of Public Health as the result of a new radiation laboratory that has recently been completed in the school's Department of Sani tary Engineering Established on t grant et fti,061 from the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, the laboratory will be used for re search and teaching graduate stu dents in sanitary engineering, san itary science, sanitary chemistry and biology-. If Patrick Henry thought taxa tion without representation was so terrible, he should see it with representation. I Tve seen worse headlines, Ike • • V (.. H. Hamel for l lie Aries Industry-Backed Schools The wntroversy over the Amer ican educational system has set roe to thinking of what construe tive efforts might be made in new ways of financing and bat tering the quality of education, while offering oeicr educational opportunities to bright students who might otherwise not have the chance to develop themselves. I suggest that each of the mtt jor industries (auto, steel, tobac c&,‘ etc.) in combination with their respective unions and the gov ernment finance thj> construction of a four-year prep school to ac commodate 200 to 500 students. The purpose of this school would be to give a solid education to the sons (and daughters, if so thought feasible) of members of the individual industry, these stu dents to be chosen -by-test and impartial interviews. Parents would pay a nominal fee each year, say $700 (cost of food at home), or on a scale ac cording to their ability to pay. To cut down overhead-, jeach stu dent could be required to work a certain number of hours each week around the grounds, in the kftrhrn, rtcEach year the defied would be paid by the companies and the.union. The board of trus tees would be made up of com pany and union members, with perhaps a representative or a sen ator. It cannot be doubted that many industries are already doing much to finance education through scholarship programs, research grants, and endowment plans. -.-.These programs deserve thf ap "FlatTST- 7rf—the" A irtrw*H- -people^ ’ However, there is a crisis in Our educational system, and a crisis must be met with bold policies, hard work, fond sacrifice. The private school is a nvarjor solution in solving the problem of individual development of tal ent. If only 10 major industries students, there would be gradual ing each year 1,000 more stu dents who have had education made attractive, the responsibili ties of education made clear and the instillment of the rugged dis ciplines of the mind brought to bear. Our society needs individu als with such a background in ever-increasing numbers. Alan L. Whipple. In The Christian Moni tor. Tar Heel PEOPLE & ISSUES By Cliff Blue i — -; IN DRIVER’S SEAT . Say what you please but Sir LuUter Hartwell Hodges seems to be back in the driver’s seat so far as the Tar Heel Democratic Party Machinery is concerned, — that is if he was ever out since he succeeded to the Governorship on November 7, 1954.. A year ago this summer Governor Hodges' stock, according to many pros and amateurs in the political field were saying that he was walking in "low cotton” so to speak. Then’ tjhis spring when he appointed B.j Everett Jordan to the U. S. Senate to succeed th? late Kerr Scott, he was'criticised from one side of the state tt) an other. ' But in Raleigh last Friday the party machine was grinding out his orders with hardly a squeak. No doubt Hodges is hap pv to get rid of John Larkins by kicking him "upstairs” to become Democratic National Committee man; and Larkins \vas probably glad to make the change since ho realized Hodges didn’t want.him as State Chairman. Former Con gressman Woodrow Jones, the new State Chairman is an able man, but had a very conservative voting record in Congress. Some one has made the statement that Jones voted more often with the Republicans, and that Jonas* vot ed more often with the Demo crats than they did with their respective parties. GOVERNOR S PROGRAM ... In .Charlotte last week Governor Hodges gave some indiealion of what the people may expect in the way of major issues coming -Tip fur rnn'ddrrntitm b»f»ro HuLU 1959 Gene-al Assembly. He men-W» tinned added taxes, reapporlien menl, reports tin the reorganiza tion of state government, public school financiang and a study of the state’s revenue structure. During our years as an observ-. er of Tar Heel legislators we have -noted that most of I lie time the General Assemblies will go along with a governor in revamping commissions. cje.. but when it comes to reapportionment, liquor 1 referendum and added taxes, the Governor’s influence is quile i weak and ineffective. On these i and other key isues, the legisla- ; tors are going to make their own. 1 decision, pretty independent of ] what the-governor may think or ] wish. Governor Ho(|Biv will have to show 2 get oked by the 1959 sembly. However, We showing statesman^ the long run, good ftb getting ready for a#: program for '59 even tt whole package may We accepted. YDC ... A real figh( the State YDC presid. twe,en Louis C. Allen, j, ington and Art Vann of* Both are visiting oven as much as possible lay, port for the shew-do, will come at the State tion in Greensboro, Octal There may be a third ( in the person of Voit Gi Southern fines who * YOO National Cornrnittee ing 1954-55. BRUCE ETHERIDGE in Dare County. "Bruce] Day" has been procl] Thursday, July 31, the I day of one of Easterns olina's most distingue zens. “Uncle Bruce." or '• ' h •; has served eight term House and one in the Jo first term in Ms- it 1903 while Charles It Ajt serving as Governm Fori from 1933 until lMO-he Director of ('onset\jim velopment. In 1951 hri to the House where he I served and ha . been rent for the 1959 sw-um "Uncle Bruce's" 1'n-mdj over Tar lie- I , ■ genarian on the oeeasi* PRESIDENT l‘l:o TfJ •eal race is on fur l"r«i fin of tJie 1959 Senate Hubert F. Moreau i t Ski 7. V Henkel of Svh'svi ■s' opponents are ::riw6j is the admin: Intern q A'e undei Ian I that Hi ■ fa iliving a I.. <n nents and tlint M.irranl ng in excess of 30 Hi nake about 59 ulemas I lie membership e only he e a. ill tepubliean in the lossibly two or t hr -e A Glimpse At 'Unto These Hills' . . . 9 - ‘ . . Chapel Hill Actors Important To Outdoor Dram By BETTY SINCLAIR Actors from the University of North Carolina are as important to outdoor drama in and beyond the state as mustard is to the hotdog. Never was this fact more clearly shown-than in the current produc tion of “Unto These Hills” at Cher okee. In the beautiful setting of the Mountainside Theatre high in the Smokies the play is a sure-fire at traction to tourists, and has been for nine years. Much of the his torical action depicted in the play actually took place in these same mountains. And when the organ music swells out and the stage is lighted against the backcloth of FOSTER FITZ-SIMONS AS 'MAJOR DAVIS' Photo by Ewart Bali - iT dark mountain shadows, shivers are sent up and down the spine. ... Chapel Hillians 'Spark It But every play is as good as the actors that perform in it, and the Chapel Hill contingent at Chero kee undoubtedly spark the produc tion. William Trotman, UNC gradu ate from Winston-Salem plays the patient and courageous Ju naluska. To this part he brings the same polish he exhibited in such Carolina Playmaker produc tions as "The Crucible" and "Ar senic and Old Lace." Foster Fitz-Simons portrays the bluff Major Davis, in his eighth season at Cherokee. His wife Ma rion plays Mrs. Perkins. Both give finely rounded characterizations. There are also two other Fitz-Sini ons in the cast —Sean and Gordon — who are already following in the footsteps of their talented pa rents. x Karl Wynn departs from his more usual role as Director of the Communication Center at Chapel Hill to give a robust performance as Drowning Bear. This is Mr. Wynn’s first season at Cherokee. A Newcomer Another newcomer to Cherokee this year is John Sneden, June honor graduate of the University. He makes a most convincing De Soto in the first scene, and returns later in a very fine portrayal of Daniel Webster. This last perform ance might easily qualify as the best of the evening with its elo quence aAd, dignity. Graduate assistant Bob Katlor is saan as Kotanga and William Henry Harrison. William Dixon, star af Lft Petites Dramatiques production of "Antigone," plays Monk. Both combine confidence with tsl*i|. - Other Urn? personnel play lead ing roles in ‘The Lost Colony," “The Common Glory,” and several more dramas. And all summer long ex-Playmaker Amanda Meiggs hai been quietly filching scenes from seasoned professionals in the Dur ham Star Playhouse. •AH this seems to add up to one very/significant fact. The Univer sity continues not unty to attract acting talent but to develop it in he best possible way — by giving it room to grow in ali en that is not purely theit purely academir but blending of both. BILL TROTMAN A:
The News of Orange County (Hillsborough, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
July 31, 1958, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75