EDITORIALS, FEATURES . . .
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invasion of states’ rights, as Southern seniors have argued vigor
ously.
Even so, we have no reason -to shout gloatingly over the apt
parent success of Southern opposition to the legislation.
What remains untouched by aal the eloquent speeches against
the administration bill is the injustice that give rise to the legi
slation.
The administration bill was designed to end racial discrimi
nation in application of literacy teats by registrars in some South
ern states. What prompted the bill specifically was the disqualifi
cation of Negro college graduates as “illiterate” because they did
not pronounce a word or interpret a constitutional provision to a
registrar’s satisfaction. ■' ''■■<■■■ -x.- - '
Are -the Southern senators who spoke eloquently on the un
constitutionality of the literacy hill deeply concerned about the in
justice of disoualifying voters because of their color or race?
Will the Southern senators who have onoosed the administra
tion bill on grounds of an invasion of states’ rights use their in
fluence in oersuading the states to fulfill their responsibility to
be fair in the registration of voters?
Could the omvosed literacv hill he anv more unconstitutional
than denial of the ri"M of literate citizens to vote on public offi
cials and oi’Wj/* wsu6s?
States do have constitutional rights as well as neonle, but
hwt when «nUe of^tate^-rtvKte**" ts used to pernotuate the prac
tice of deovtnw ‘■ome nualifiod citizens their right to vote what
has hannenM to the «p«rft of the constitution that was so wisely
conceived hv the founders of the TTfrited States?
The South mav have won a hatti* in -Congress. B»rt democracv
suffhrc defeat as long as voting injustices prevail in any part of
the nation.
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Scholar John Sanders
(Editorial in The Smithfieid Herald)
Johnstonians welcome the appointment of John Sanders as di
rector of the Institute fo Government with pardonable pride. We
*** not simply proud that a Johnstonian is going to succeed a
Johnstonian as head of the Institute. We are proud that a young
Johnstonian meets, all the high qualifications necessary for filling
the role played admirably by the older Johnstonian who founded
- the Institute and has directed its work rfrom its infancy.
The older Johnstonian, Albert Coates, bad a dream and acted
on it. As a teacm-.' oi law on a university campus, he became
greatly disturbed by the “gap between the way law is taught in
the classrooms and the way it is practiced iii city halls.” But he
was no ordinary professor content to sit in his ivory tower- and
mutter such words as ‘‘something ought to be done.” He went
into action and did something. He established, nurtured, and guid
ed to maturity a unique research agency which has strengthened
democratic government by helping town, county, and state govern
ment function with a high degree of efficiency.
Scholarship and practical politics often have been poles apart.
The Institute of Government has succeeded because Albert Coates
the scholar made it his supreme business to understand the prob
lems of John Doe the practical public official. The campus scholar
learned hard realities from the Courthouse fellows. And the Court
house fellows learned more than some of them would admit from
the campus scholar.
John Sanders, a native of Four Oaks, is a scholar who knows
the ways of the campus thoroughly. And he also is well versed in
the ways of practical politics and government at all levels. He’s
a young man Who can dream and he’s also; a young man who can
act on his dreams effectively, in a world of hard reality. Like the
hwn> he will succeed, he can be at home in the Courthouse.
The Greensboro Daily News, expressing confidence in* the new
ly appointed Institute director, sizes him up well in these words:
“TTis keen, dry, analytical and precise mind will serve him well.
And his many friends suspect that behind the everyday mien of
the meticulous and scholarly lawyer, there lies a streak of Albert
Coates’ stubbornness, humor and flair for experiment that have
made the Institute notable—and will continue to* make it so."
WUNC-FM closes down
for summer vacation
1 WUNC-FM, the campus oper
ated radio station of the Uni
versity left the air on Sunday
May 20 for the-duration of the
summer.
WUNC-FM will resume broad
casting. activities next fall. At
that time, the frequency - mod
ulated station, located at 91.5
on the dial, will continue its
expanded 50,000 watt coverage.
The station has been ' broad
casting quality music and dis
cussion programs of several do
mestic and foreign - networks
since December (with some in
terruptions) when its power was
increased from 15,000 to 50,000
watts,
WUNC - FM wishes t0 thank
those, who have been patrons of
the station this year and ex
tends an invitation to both eld
and new listeners to join us in
the fall.
Tar Heel People & Issues . .
Farm vacation exchange plan
urged on N. C. development body
DEVELOPMENT . . . Recently
we 'attended a meeting of
the •. North Carolina GounciT on
Community and Area Develop
ment la Raleigh.
Representatives from Mitchell
and Watauga counties gave re
ports of Development organisa
tions in the two Counties whifch
have attracted wide and favor
able attention.
The two 'mountain counties are
good examples at what counties
and, communities can do for
themselves with the proper leader
ship. All our counties have much
in the way of untapped resources
and (the job is to tap the re
sources and the job is to tap the
sources. The resources are in
both people and natural resouces.
FARM VACATION PLAN
The Sandhills Area Development
Quarterly out;
awards noted
Annual Literary Awards total
ing $200 have been awarded to
eight writers by the Carolina
Quarterly, literary magazine pub
lished at the University. —
Winners of the 12th Annual a
ward§ in fiction and poetry were
announced in the just - published
summer issue of the literary
magazine. The awards are made
to writers contributing to the
Quarterly over a year’s period.
'Fiction prizes of $50, $30, and
$20 were won by Richard Mor
ton for his story “A 'Place of
Light”; by Leon Rooke for two
stories, '"The Walrus Feeders”
and ‘‘Those Days Around the
Tree - Town Corner Now”; and
to Harris Downey for his story
“An Initiate.”
The 72-page summer issue, pub
lished Saturday, contains selec
tions by three of the prize win
ners. Edited by Jerome Stem, a
UNC student, * it has six short
stories and contributions form 17
poets. Five writers are native
North Carolinians or students at
the University. Two short stories
by 'Rooke, from Roanoke Rapids,
are included, a poem by Kay
Barnhart who studied at Greens
boro College1 and now is a Junior
at UNC, and poetry by Sally Nix
on from Stanley and iRichard
Rickert, a UNC graduate now
teaching in Maryland
“-—■r.. -- * - - __
don be given to “Farm Vaca
tions” by North Carolina farm
ers. The idea is somewhat similar
to the international exchange of
boys and girls on farms in
Europe. The proposal would run
something like thim:
Farmers desiring to take a
family for a week would register
their facilities and charges wun
a central state agency like the
C&D travel division. The state
could advertise this along with
Assocation recommended to the
Travel and Recreation Committee
of Rw NOOCAD that considers
its golf, its fishing, its mountains,
etc. It would be* something
unique. Many people from the
big cities have probably sever
spent a night on a farm and for
them to make a farm home their
headquarters for a week migfejt
just he appealing!
The NCCCAiD committee on
and Recrettion presented the
plan to the full council with the
recommendation that it be
studied between now and the .
next meeting which will 'be held
on Thursday, July- 12 n Mont
g'cmery County. - ~~-—
• Historic Hillsborough
C. J. Sauthier's Colonial Map
Any Investigation into colonial
Hillsborough leads straight back
to a beautifully drawn old map
of the town—that of C. J. Sau
thier, dated October, 1768. Colo
nial Williamsburg has based its
restoration in great part on “the
Frenchman’s map”; if Hillsbor
ough is ever restored, (the recon
struction will undoubtedly owe
much to Sauthier’s survey.
Claude Joseph Saufkier (pro
nounced So-tee-ay) was an emi
grant surveyor from! Strasbourg
(a French-speaking town inside
Germany) employed by Governor
William Tryon as his official
cartographer. Tryon directed Sau
thier (and it is one of the royal
governor’^ best accomplishments)
to draw maps of ten North Caro
lina towns In terms of their mil
itary usefulness and to begin with
Hillsborough ib “the back coun
try.” .
*
The Strasbourg Surveyor'could
hardly have come to a more dan
gerous spot than Hillsborough in
the early autumn of 1768. Tryon
had called out the militia and
the Regulators had rallied in
force. Still, the map (which Try
on sorely needed) was finished
and dated, “October, 1768 ” In
.1769 Sauthier completed six
more; and in 1770, three more to
round ont the ten. The maps
were then dispatched to the head
quarters of the British Army,
and today they rfre in the Colo
nial Williamsburg Archives in
the British Army Headquarters
Papers.
* * *
It- is Important tor remember
that the Hillsborough map is a'
military map. Four-fifths of the
map is devoted to the terrain
roundabout—hills, rivers, roads:
the “Road from the Haw Fields,”
“Read to the Quaker Settlement,”
“Road to Cross Creek (Fayette
ville),” “Road to Halifax,”* et*.
Here to one side on- the curving
River Eno is the “Race Ground”
{the only other one is on the New
Bern map).
* * *
No bridge is shown over the
Eno, and the main (Churton)
street makes a perfectly straight
approach from the river into thg
town: At Margaret Lane fno
street names appear on the map),
a fairly spacious • towri square
opens out with the town jail in
the exact center of it. Thus, the
approach across the Eno into
town would Have given the visi
tor something of-a view— except
for the jail. A courthouse, a mar
ket-house, two mills on the Eno, ..
and a church on heavily wooded
Lot No. 98 are shown. Tryon,
Queen, and Wake streets are just
beginning to emerge.
* * * ,
Only one thing' about' Sauthier’s
finely drawn map seams'unlikely:
a formal garden, (or what fcertain
ly seems - to be a formal garden)
of eight rectangular beds with -a
circular one in the middle is set
at the southwest corner of the
market square. Exactly the same
formal gardens appear near the
governor’s palace on the New
Bern map at a time when no gar
dens could have been there—so
perhaps we can take the formal
garden in a town of 30 or 40 per
sons as a gratitious flourish of
Sauthier’s penv*
Piedmont Packing Co., Hillsboro,