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Editorial And Opinion Not On Solid Ground In appealing; the denial of their son to the white Carr”~ boro Elementary School, the Negro parents have weakened their request by revealing the obvious underlying factor in their plea. - Mr. tftid Mrs. Lee Vickers of Garrboro, the parents, ap plied this summer to the County School Board lor admission of their son to the*Carrboro School. The Northside School in Chapel Hill which he had been attending was not at tjjat time oped to him because of Carrboro's May 20 rejection of the mergir referendum. Following the second referendum on this issue in Carr boro the Vickers application was rejected, basically because the Northside School, as a result of the favorable merger vote, would be open to Garrboro pupils {igain this coming year. Upon that Mr. and Mrs. Vickers appealed the denial of their assignment request, and made two points. The first was that they lived only a blink from the new Cariboro School, but a mile from Northside School. Tire second was that "We are also appealing from your failure and-refusal to operate the Orange County Sc! mo I system on a noil-segregated basis. ’ It would seem that if thev apfiealed purely on a geograp icaE basis they would theoretically* at least, have a stronger ease in their plea. £pr it has lieen dearly established by the Supreme Court that integration is not required by the,May 20, 1934 decision. But it is aso clear dial segregation, purely 011 grounds of race is not legal. The court Has said that at some future time in different localities that school segregation on a purely racial basis must be stopped. • The Vickers and Walden parents, it would seem. are protesting that thy Orange Comity Schools are not integrat ed. And whatever the other merits of their application, or whatever their true motives in entering this appeal, it seems that tliis appeal is not oti solid legal grounds in protesting be cause the County has lailed and refused to operate its schools on a non-segregated basi s. further, it appeared conclusively as the parents made their first appearance before the Counts' Board of Educa tion. th<jt then role, more than anything else, is that of front for the .small pro-integration white minority in Chapel Hill, who make a fetish of liberality. The Written Word “Write today to those' away." You'll be seeing this thoughtful adviee on (rosters in post offiees, railroad and ait line terminals—in fact, most everywhere you go. f he purpose is to remind VOW to participate in the 21st annual observance of National letter Writing Week, when it is hoped the sound of pens in motion will be heard from Oc tober 5th to nth (Inclusive) and from Portland, Me. to Port land. Ore. (also inclusive). Kven though ;v postage stamp costs more than it used to. a letter still remains the most economical visit to a distant is likely,, to bef even more lasting than ope made in uprsop. Oddly enough, a letter is. frequently mow personal trail a face-to-face visit, since personality is revealed mote of ten in wrung- than in speaking.yt Ami, speaking of authors, it is worthy .of thought how often the world’s great-from the ^orient Creeks to the pres ent day-are remembered by thrtv letters. And you may be sure that the biographers of tlu- famous—authors, statesmen, soldiers, philosophers, scientists and businessmen—first steep themselves in all the personal communiques of their subject tligt can be lotind. Spoken words vanish quickly on the empty air. J l»ev may Ik- easily misunderstood. And even when traits cribed. their warmth and personal revelation seldom approach the emotional and philosophic depths so artlessly achieved in writing a letref Ur <r kindre^ Xpirit. „ And even if you do not expect that scholars will one’day be searching attics and old trunks for vour letters, there’s still another good reason for writing. If you write a letter, you might receive one! Another D-Day? Red Chinese invasion of the island of Qnemoy on the heels of stepped _up pounding from coastal artillery emdd settle most any moment the long-carried question of whether or not the US would defend this offshore bastion of National ist China. I nder the itp."> Mutual Defense T reatv between the I S and Chiang Kai-shek s government in Tai|»eh, we are pledged to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, but Qnemoy and other off-shore islands are not mentioned. However, since that date, Quernoy has been built up as a military strong point until it is occupied by uearlv a third of Chiang’s fioo.ooo men. Queried on his present attitude on the Quernoy attack, President hisenhower told his press conference that develop ments of the last three years have brought -about a “closer relationship’’ between Quernoy and Formosa, but that "you simply can 1 make military decisions until after the event reaches you.’’ Whatever may be in the devious minds of the Red Chin ese leaders, they know now that we will stand with Chiang at Quernoy. If the operation has been an elaborate feint to learn our intentions, there will be no invasion. But if the Red Marines, now massing for attack,’ make an awsault on the beach—anything can happen. . tEfjei&tosi of ©range Count? TMl NIWS, INCORPORATED ^ HDMOIO ud Chapel ®n. N. C. EDWIN J. HAMLIN Editor mod Publisher Eatery at Soooud Clmm totter at the Pott Offiod at h^bbon, Morth Carolina, under the Apt of March *, 1979. Published Every Thursday By Excludr* National Advertising ItopfismilillH MIATM WEEKLIES T«* * Chicago * Dytroit » SUBSCRIPTION BATES ONE YEAR (inside North Carolina) " ' bOL MONTHS (inside North Carolina) ' ONE YEAR (outside .North Carolina) \ $8.50 $1.75 S8.05 KIDD BKtWFRS N (Continued from Page 1) bragging about a holdup . . . and, further • little more, he had been tossing around money a bit reck lessly. Upshot we« tlie arrest of Richard S. Townes Jr. in West Ra leigh .... Seen in friendly walk up Fay etteville Street here last week Cloyd Philpo.t of Lexington and Addison Hewlett of Wilmington . . . and Phil poll going all-out for Carl Venters for Speaker of the House Ed Fried berg and I spent a cou ple of days in NcW York last week , . . and we agreed that Raleigh has it all over the big city as a place to live . . . Ed, a graduate of the Duke Law School and now a prominent tax attorney, lives near us on the west ■side of Ra leigh in a beautiful home sur rounded by gracious grounds . and a wonderful, happy family . . . Ed and his lovely wife, Edith, are as near the same philosophy of life as the Brewer's as we have ever k now n - . -,.■.-■ -- ——■—»■ - And these last, lazy days of sum mer always remind us of a li^e from one of John Charles Mc Neill's poems:: "For Mm who will seek them, the valleys are his and the far quiet hills of September Tlie, fight .over reapportionment in the 1950 Legislature may -be even more bktcr than previous sessions.If strict rule were applied, you would see a big shift ing aBouTTroTn sffiaircFCijaiWIf's to the more populous counties in leg islative strength .... About 25 counties—this will surprise you— now have one-half the State's pop ulation . . . but not nearly one half of the political strength the oilier 75 have when they get their lieads together . . . and thal’s what the fight is all about . . . The hunting season in 1958 comes in the doves . . . on the afternoon of September 6 . . and fishing, dull on the coast all season, is ex pected to be wonderful in October for spots, blues, and trout Better make your plans now- for about the second week in October. Jack Gilmore's Garden Gossip If you are planning to plant pan sy seeds, get them in the ground right away. Forget-me-nots and ‘’English daisies should be planted Within the next two weeks if you wain tltem to bloom next spring. Sweet William, Larkspur. "Ragged Robins” or corn flowers and hardy sweet peas should also be planted now. Divide Coral Bells rigid away so that the new plants will become well established by cold weailirr. Cutting should be made of Fever Few and Marquerile slips for the same reason. Watch out for seed lings while working in your bor ders. Move them into a more ad vantageous place so that they can become strong and hardy before heavy frost. If you are a lazy gar dener you will find hundreds of small seedlings scattered about, however if you are an "eager beaver” that must always be chop ping and hoeing you will find very few of these vluable garden as sets. Since .1 have become too old for lieavy gardening my borders do better and the plants maintain themselves by self-seeding I have even found several magnolia seed lings in my border and up until then did not have a magnolia tree. I expect that one of Vny mocking birds brought the seeds from the Sam Latta trees as a reward for all those suet ball of wiuters past. . WATER THIRST At the present time North Caro linians are using same 914 million gallons of water per day. A study just completed by the State Board ot Water Commissioners credits domestic use with 252 million gal lons per day, industry with better than 301 million gallons and agri culture with more than 360 mil lion, At the present rate of In creasing use, we will require twice this amount, or more than 1,750, JWO.OOO gallons per day by 1975? — Gov. Hodges. ,»v* l.tte Madden for Tire Xnvs Henry Bclk ol (ro Ids boro quotes a iriend a*. proposing an endowment lor Frank P. Crialiam that would bring bitn back to .North (kurafma. Any move that will bring (.raham back to his native' state will have the s.upj>ort ol an army of citizens. The State can use his intimate knowledge and affection lor it.Tiis faith in it, and his energy in its behalf. No one questions the value ol his work lot the United Nations or doubts that his efforts as a peacemaker between India and Pakistan will beat fruit. Hut North Carolina does not wish to see a>ll his talents expended on the resolution ol foreign problems, huge as they may be. The State has peculiar problems of its own. At the moment North Carolina is.at a stasis. It has lost some of the momentum it had a few years ago. Its public life is pitched on a very materialistic plane whereby statistics ol production take precedence over consul era t ion of goals, and horns are blown over the acquisition of an imported industry rather than a healthy growth from within. When a factory becomes more important than a schoolhouse or an efficent teaching (acuity, permanent values tend to become submerged in seas of cost accountings that seem to make the prevalent low wages a greatet achievement than an advance in pub lic welfare. Imaginative business men and industrial engineers arc making a majoi contribyition to the State's life, but their efforts1 would be strengthened in the presence of sects and statesmen. Mr. Bell's friend proposes Crn'ham as an ambassador at large to the people of the State. Better to have him put his shoulder to the wheel so that North Carolina does not sink back into the'Van Winkle daydreaming that once beset it. * • —Selected Reprint Rumors Distort Facts * Mnrgunton News-Herald Have you ever wondered how rumors spread? Perhaps you have received in formation * “straight from the horse's mouth." only to discover later that somebody as well in formed as to tlie facts as your source presented an entirely dif ferent version. You may even be come skeptical of the motives and honesty of your informant. Rabbi Ivphraim Rosenaweig, di rector of the Hillel Foundation at Chapel Hill, recently gave a dem onstration as to how rumors ean distort facts and how witnesses testifying in court can vary in their version of vftiut happened as they saw or heard it. * • -* In a speech at Chapel Hill. Rab bi Rosenzweig chose six ••report ers" fron) among the audience and sent all but one outside. y He showed a slide picture to the remaining reporter who watch ed it for about two minutes. The projection was a street scene In volving some construction work, a dress .sale, seven or eight persons, and a brick about to fall on one person's head. The first reporter went outside, brought back reporter two with him and explained what he had seen. Reporter two repealed tire action with number throe. This procedure was followed until ail wore back in the room. The original story had been somewhat distorted by the time the last reporter related what he had.been told. "Six people in 20 minutes Ijayy taken noid of a body of facts. Part ''), pf what was kept was distorted," said Rosenzweig. After discussing with the au dience why there was a lack of effective communication among the reporters, Rosenzweig listed several factors. “The kind of person you are determines what you see. . Your physical- position also is a very important factor.” , “Often,” he said, “you are so anxious to make a point, to make a contribution, that what you sny haf^nothing to do with the subr. Ject.” Rabbi Rosenzweig also lifted a person's sex, his profession, and what he thought to be important -as additional factors He then ask ed, 'Who makes up our mind?” and answered, “We do. We make up our own mind in the sense that what we think is colored by what _ we see. “Don’t be too sure of yourself," he advised. lie might also have warned: Don’t be too sure that the infor mation you receive from some body "in tlie know” is completely accurate, even if the person has no reason to misinform, unless you know well the nature and per sonality of the narrator. The distortion which accom panies the spreading of a report is old stuff to any newspaper re porter (who has his own troubles trying to present what he sees and hears without coloring It with his own personality and ideas). • • * Every reporter has - tracked down rumors; which proved to be far removed bom actual facts of fered‘by the best informed source available. Some of this distortion is contributed by gossips who take delight in spreading rumors, espe cially when such tales tend to darken the character of the person talked about. This reflects a fiendish phase of personality, even though the gossipmonger may try, in a protective rationalization, to insist that he or she was simply passing along what they had heard from a reliable source. But a fionmalicious person may be guilty of a distortion by rea son of personal coloration, how ever unintended. It* may be a-safe conclusion to GEMS OF THOUGHT GRATITUDE TO GOD Gratitude to God makes even a temporal blessing a taste of heav en,—William Romaine 3: , Praise is the best auxiliary to prayer. He mho most bears in mind what has been done for him by God mill be most em boldened to ask for fresh gifts from above.—Henry Melville Reflect upon your present blessing, of which every man has many: nof on your past misfort unes of which all men have some. —Charles Dickens Gratitude is not only the mem ory but the homage of the heart rendered to God for his good ness.—Nathaniel Parker Willis God has two dwellings; one in heaven, and the other in meek and thankful hearts.—Izaak Wal ton While no offering can liquidate one's debt of gratitude to God. the fervent heart and willing hand are mtt unknown to nor un rewarded Ivy Him.—Mary Baker Eddy THAT’S WHAT THE BOOK SAID! Walter Allen, Jr. Professor of Latin, University of N. C, The poet Martial had a frrend who liked only the old poets and who praised only the dead poets Martial begged his friend to ex cuse him, but he didn’t really think It worth while to die in order to have his poetry praised by his friend. say that when it comes to word ofanouth tales which are injurious to any pereon's character and reputation, one should believe nesting, or little, of what you hear and only half of what you see The chonces are that anybody who fol lows that advir* will come a clpaer to the truth than when he EVERETT JORDAN From what we read in the newspapers and the late Will Rogers used to say: "All I know is what I read in the papers,” it appears that B. Everett Jordan is taking to Washington and Senate affairs like a duck to water. More and more it begins to look as If Jor dan may insist on running rather than stopping aside for Hodges to run as was the general expecta tion when the appointment was made following Scott’s death. Jor dan has had the advantage of a good publicity man in Bill Whit ley, and a good public relations man ^can mean a lot for a man in public office. The way in which Jordan has been issuing state ments regarding farm problems shows that he is thinking of the vote which proved to be so helpful fo Kerr Scott. PH1LPOTT . . . Rep. H. Cloyd Philpott of Davidson County was regarded as a strong Hodges sup porter in the '55 and '57 sessions of the General Assembly. He is now a strong backer of Carl Ven ders for House Speaker., In fact it was at Philpott's lake cottage near Lexington that a group of the Venters supporters met on June 1—the day after the first pri mary on May 31 to devise plans to name Venters Speaker. Word is that this meeting at Piulpdtt’s lake may have cost the Davidson County man the chairmanship of the State Democratic Executive Committee. Before the meeting Philpott was generally regarded as Hodges' choice for the party chairmanship when John Larkins could be eased out. All along Hodges lias been saying that he was keeping hands off the Venlers-Hewle.t race for Speaker. To have named an all out Venters leader Party Chair man might not have set well with the Hewlett forces which at this time appear to be in the lead. . JANUARY CAUCUS . , .Seme of the General Assembly mem bers have suggested an early Jan uary caucus of the Democra.ic House and Senate members to name the Speaker and President pro tern of the Senate. The contest for these positions takes place in the party caucuses and the House and Senate then puts the official stamp of approval on the cau cus choices. Thought is that with January party caucuses, the suc cessful candidate for Speaker could, have his committees named and ready to announce with the official opening of the General Assembly on February 4. . Ui 1947 and 1949, Tom PedrsaU in 4/ and the late Ken*. Craige Ramsey in 49 had their House committee assignments ready to announce when the Session opened in fact they were mimeographed and available for the members on Sunday before the session opened on Wednesday. We dunk January caucuses would certainly be ad visable. HODGES .... Like most public figures, Hodges popularity has gone up and down since he be came governor in late 1954 Right "ow 11 ^n t appear to be too A year ago it went pretty low. Among a good many people who gather at filling stations and talk, they feel that after a rousing campaign for the PearsaU segre gation proposals, that he has I'.ubu. as a And to more people tWnk, Faugus u a real 2 in Nort^ Carolina o ^ this thne last year as ing and integration (T! Penmost that some wJ that Hodges was waS cotton. But chances am North Carolina appmJ knotty integration <Z! Prove of more effect hi ruh in holding back M than will the 'massive Z laws of Virginia which a school must close rat integrate. PUBLIC SCHOOLS ize that the people of V* •strong for segregation, jg the people in .North Ca» the other Southern Statei doubt that many comm, long permit tlie doors of lie schools to be c|nsrt why we feel that in tit the Tar Heel approach to tern is wiser and beti Virginia plan. AUTO SALES . . . Tar| tomobile registrations || showed Ford ahead of i in both cars and Lrurki 1 tine line up: Ford xsk,( 1918, Plymouth 6W, Oldsmobile 469, Pontiac] bier 244, Dodge 173, jfc Chrysler 112, Cadillac m] 85, Studebaker 74, Edad 1 coin 28, Metropolitan K, | 12, Packard 5, Willyj i ( ■makes- - 499; - Mis 2. Total 7,273 as cento 532 for July 1957. New Truck registry Ford 1011, Chevrolet E\| national 164. CMC 121.] Mack 49. White 23. Studebaker 9. Divo 3, Reo 1, Foicign makes uj laneous makes 4. Total I July 1958 as compared! for July 1957. SAFETY . . Witha< creasing number of trucks on the roads and 1 its encouraging to nott | highway deaths in NortfeI -through August 25. 1S| as compared with 654 to| dote in 1957. LOSS OF FAITH I Someone has written t long sweep of history i lianees lose even »lien 1 Most literate Canadian! that a true partner^! Britain and the L niud| might have prevented! wars, as well as: tragic evont of the War II era. Thus it is sobering »• scmp observers are Canadian-Ameruan in danger of becoming njpre military allia that extra spark *1' true cooperation Speaking of the quences of a Canadian I in the reliability 1 States as a trading American Ambassador! Livingstone Merchant, Jj ment to the Senate lations Committee in i that economic factors versely affect the Sen character of our the defense of this Christian Science Mot Good Advice From Adiai StevensoJ
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