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^ ^ ' -It EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE Something Must Have Slipped Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News In Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas m m VOLUME 1, NUMBER 49 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1954 Bank Deposits Show Our Ability To Pay f/» } An increase within one year of total batik deposits in Cliapel Hill amounting to $1,285,- 000 is pointed out by Philip P. Green, Jr., as evidence that the community can aflord to meet the $24,72 i budget requested for the Community Chest. Indeed this sum looks very modest when it is seen that it is to be distributed among ten agencies and organizations. Included are the Mary Bayley Pratt library and the Pete Gar vin library, also both the white and Negro recreation centers. A stranger might wonder that so many good enterprises can be kept going on so little money. The State looks to Chapel Hill for leadership in many ways, and the town should accept that leadership and uphold it in full. The activities that the $24,721 will, if raised, pay for might well be copied in other towns, thus benefitting the whale State. \ /V / it i: J ft 1. / . i / ' J Is There A Get-Tough Schoolln Army Camps? A !. .0,1 If. Ill ;} h'- iU, tw. Is there a get-tough school in army camps? The charges against a hard-faced second lieutenant of cruelties and indignities inflict ed on the recruits at Camp Gorclon make one wonder what influences are at work on army mentality. At one time the US army seemed to be try ing to imitate the worst British practices, par ticularly in a snobbish separation of officers from men and the drawing of rigid social lines. After Robert Ruark, UNC graduate and columnist, exposed the antics of an army com mander in Italy in his attitude toward enlist ed men, the army promised reforms in the treatment of the common soldier. But reports emanating from Camp Gordon and other military centers seem to indicate that a treat-em-rough school has come back to the top commands. Are we to stop imitat ing the British only to begin imitating the old-school Prussians? The USA is now the greatest military power in the world, and its officers have a corre- sj)onding power over the lower ranks. Such a situation offers a swell chance to the sadists, toughs, and goose-steppers who lurk in every human group. An attitude in imitation of German Nazis ought to have no place in the American scheme of things. A citizen does not cease to be a citizen just because he is called to the army. Indignities visited upon recruits will finally get back to the knowledge of the home folk and consequences will ensue. Outmoded practices taken over from Old World militarism ought to find no rooms in Washington Post and Times Herald Sons And Dads At Chapel Hill chips That Fall Bignall Jones in the Warren Record US army camps. India As Mediator “The Indian government has not been con tent with neutralism of a negative sort. It has tried instead to be a mediator between the great contestants. When the history of the time is written dispassionately it will perhaps cause surprise to see what a usefid part India has often played in helping to stave off the final collision which all fear.” This excerpt from a late editorial in the Manchester (England) Guardian exhibits to what an extent the outside world looks on in apprehension as the war dogs try to force the US and Ru.ssia into a fight, and how it is prejrared to honor India in refusing to be drawn in by either side. India is a fairly recent addition to the circle of great nations. Its situation in Asia and its long history of peace with other countries qualify it as a counterweight to the westein powers whose history is a tale of wars, con quests, maraudings, and oppression of weaker peoples. So far as we know, India possesses no atom bombs, no reactors, no poison gas, no disease germs. Men now living may yet see it grow ing in majesty and power while around it lie the bones of the nations that love to call them selves advanced. Crimes Of Violence In North Carolina (Greensboro News) Tar Heels have been puzzled by FBI Uniform Crime Reports which show each year that North Carolina leads the list of states in aggravated assaults by a large margin. At least part of the explana tion for this leadership in vio lence may lie in methods of re porting such crimes by various police departments. Thus Chief of Police Jeter Williamson of Creensboro notes that Greens boro reported 79 aggravated as saults for the period January- June, 1954, as against 220 for the same period of 1952. The reason for this apparent reduction of violence is that heretofore when a man threatened another with a knife that was reported as an “aggravated assault” to the FBI. Now Greensboro no longer re ports such crimes as coming in that category. The definition in the FBI Uni form Crime Reports of “aggra vated assault” is as follows: Includes assault with intent to kill; assault by shooting, cutting, slabbing, maiming, poisoning, scalding or by use of acids. Does not include simple assault, as sault and battery, fighting, etc. If other police departments in North Carolina included threats with knives, et cetera, under “ag gravated assaults,” and police de partments in other states did not, then it is easy to sec how North Carolina attained its apparent pre-eminence in such crimes. If other Tar Heel cities follow Greensboro’s lead in reporting, this state’s relative position in violence can be corrected and made to conform more to the facts. As it is the Seminnual Bulletin of the Uniform Ci'ime Reports covering the period January- June, 1954, shows the following urban crime rates in aggravated assaults per 100,000 inhabitants: North Carolina 161.7 Virginia 118 Georgia 106.3 South Carolina 50.2 Compare this with Massachu setts 5.6, Pennsylvania 22.7, Io wa 4.4, and Oregon 14.2. Illinois runs 41.5 and New York 424. Any way you figure it violence is all too prevalent in the South. It appears, however, to be de creasing a little in the South, aS it is over the country. The FBI reports show that in the nation for the half year ur ban murders decreased 2.1 per cent, negligent manslaughter 6.4 per cent, and aggravated assaults 0.5 per cent. In rural areas rape declined by 3.5 per cent, negli gent manslaughter 0.8 per centj On the other hand rural mur ders increased 5.8 per cent and aggravated assaults 1.8 per cent. Sizable increases in both city and country came in robberies. burglaries and larcenies. This seems to indicate that as a people we are becoming a bit less violent except where the need of money is involved and that then we are somewhat more inclined to get money by vio lence, if necessary, than we were last year. It is a tragic and shameful condition which we must seek to change by sterner law enforce ment in the short run, and by the civilizing forces of education and religion in the long run. I was standing in front of Old East at Chapel Hill on Saturday afternoon when a boy came down the steps, walked over and kissed his mother on the cheek and spoke to his father. The mother was pretty and I thought how young she looked to have a boy in college. Almost the first words uttered by the boy after he had greeted his parents, were “I am suppose to meet my date in ten minutes.” It seemed to me that I detected a slight note of irony in the fath er’s reply. “Well then you can perhaps spare us ten minutes,” and then if a little ashamed of this, a mumbling something about “your mother.” It was perfectly obvious to me that the man was hurt by his son’s apparent indifference, and I had to resist an impulse to walk over and put my hand on his shoulder and tell him not to let it get him down. While a case could be made about lack of gratitude for the sacri fices made for the boy and the hunger for hos love on the part of the parents, I have no idea that the boy lacked any devotion for his parents and the chances are good that he loves them deeply, ut Bthe thing is that he is just a child turning man and filling hos own concerns. But as I reflected upon this, I thought of another year when a close friend of mine told me about going to Chapel Hill to see his son, of taking hime out to lunch, telling him about places of interest at the Hill when he was a student there, and finally taking him to the ball game. There was hurt, almost horror in his voice, as he told me, “But I could sense that he didn’t even want to be with me.” And this cry is echoed over and over again by parents as their children returning from school dr distant cities spend about ten or fifteen restless minutes at home before finally uncomfortably blurt ing out that they thing they will go down the street for a little while and the little while turns into hours. Without trying to pose as an expert on'the matter, I would point out to the parents, and better understanding of not only their own sons but teen-age boys in general would save them much heartache. A little better memory would help, too. For we went away from home, too, when we were boys, and we came back and we were restless, too, as we mumbled about seeing the boys for a fjg,^yjninutes. And certainly we loved and appreciated our parents. , . Many years ago I decided that frequently ’^yefi advice by students of child behavior for fathers to be pals with their sons was a bunch of hoey. A father belongs to one age and a son belongs to another and there is no bridging the gap. A normal boy wants to be with his own age group and he firmly believes that his daddy should be with his own. 1 think he is right. Are We Afraid Of Knowledge? (DAG HAMMARSKJOLD AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY'S BI-CENTENNIAL) ' The Naming Of Nashville In 1779 Richard Henderson for North Carolina and Thomas Wal ker for Virginia, accompanied by numerous commissioners, troops, surveyors and axemen, I’an the dividing line between North Car olina and Virginia. The French Lick (present Nashville) was found to lie within North Caro lina; and Judge Henderson now projected a great colonization advance into Middle Tennessee. This time he selected as leaders of two parties of settlers John Donclson, of Virginia, famous pi oneer and father-in-law of An drew Jackson, and James Robert son of Wake County, able head of the Watauga Settlement in Tennessee. The first party went by water, the second overland; and they were joined at the French Lick by Richard Hender son, his three brothers Samuel, Nathaniel, and Pleasant, Nathan iel Hart, William Bailey Smith, and others from Boonesborough. Hero was signed by some 259 pioneers, headed by Richard Henderson, one of the most fam ous pioneer documents in Amer ican history, the Cumberland Compact, wi'itten throughout by Judge Henderson in his own handwriting and still preserved in the archives of the Historical Society of Tennessee at Nash- vlle. To the settlement he gave the name Nashborough, later changed to Nashville, in honor of his friend. General Francis Nash of Hillsborough who was killed at the Battle of German town. Among the most notablei of the clauses of the Cumberland Compact was the one providing for the first use of the principle of the recall of judges in Amer ican history.—Archibald Hender son at Henderson, N. C. SHORT SIGHTED “The United States, Great Britain, Russia, and France ap pear more, interested in their in dividual nationalism, which may have a tendency to prevent them from seeing some of the wrongs in themslves and rights in oth ers.” iMr. Tubman said Liberians feel “one of the fundamental and far-reaching developments of the present century to toe the restless underdeveloped peoples of the earth and of their un remitting demand for equal jus tice, national independence, and opportunity to achieve their own economic security.” “These are questions that the big powers seem to feel are only theirs for solutiopk” the Liber ian President continued. “I seem to hold a different view. If the smaller nations that are in the majority were given an oppor tunity to express themselves they might be able to advance some suggestions that may be help ful.”' ■'This should not becloud, ob fuscate, or coiifuse the true and genuine nature of the visible urge to freedom and a share in the fruits of progress. To so err would be to encourage and fos ter fear and hatred whose cor rosive backwash is revenge, bloodshed, and misery.”—Presi dent Tubman of Liberia at a luncheon of press cori'espondents. In order fully and freely to ac cept knowledge and what flows \rom knowledge, we have both to muster the courage and possess the humility that enable us to accept change. .In the develop ment of human society, know ledge and the fruits of knowledge are revolutionary elements. They have proved to be forces which time and again have driven man from his Eden of accepted forms and privileges. They have led to the creation of new forms of social order that succeed one another in response to the forces set in motion by new conquests for knowledge. Optimistic Faith Lost Goethe’s Faust, that symbol of modern man, would be lost to Mephistopheles if he were to yield to the temptation to resist the eternal flux of life and pray that the fleet, “fair” moment would be his forever. We have lost the optimistic faith held by some of our pre decessors that new knowledge would necessarily—almost auto matically—lead to new progress in civilization. We have learned that whether changes resulting from knowledge will be for the better or worse finally depends on ourselves. The very fact that we feel this burden of responsibility, and see more clearly the dangers with which we must cope, increases the temptation to resist change—and to fear knowledge. We have seen among us the re surrection of practices and atti tudes belonging to, indeed justi fying, the name of the Dark Ages. In losing the easy optimism of a preceding generation, we must not act as though we had also lost the deep conviction of our pre decessors of the value of know ledge. We must act with undiminished faith in freedom of thought, free dom of research, freedom of speech—^in full knowledge of the dangers involved in the changes we may set in motion, but also of our own responshibility to give that change creative direction. Fear of Knowledge A fear of knowledge, inspired by the wish to safeguard estab lished interests, may for a time block an unavoidable develop ment. But, in so doing, it may create situations where change finally comes into, being with the vio lence of an explosion. There are those who, wholeheartedly and in a liberal spirit, accept knowledge and accept also the consequences of knowledge. There are those who, in a spirit of sound conservatism, wish to maintain continuity in a peaceful organic development. STORK NEVER SLEEPS IN N. C. The increase in the number of births in North Carolina since 1945 is now making its impact upon the public schools. Total live births, according to statistics from the State Board of whe.at straTV. T. A. Health, increased froin an aver- Ulionipson of Cliatham Couii- age of 85,821 during the 8-year Ly has gathered two baskets of period 1938-1945 to an average locust pods in preparation for beer season and has promised this column a beak- iod 1946-1953 For the more recent 8-year period, the number of live births totaled 872,240, whereas during the next preceding 8-year period the figure was 686,569. And for the period 1930-1937 the number of live births for the State totaled 618,614. The increase from the er of the best. ★ ★ Mary Lindsay Spearman, whose father is one of the pro fessors in the School of Jour- 1930-1937 period to the 1938-1945 i^^lism, has made her first ven- period was 67,955, whereas the tLire as a reporter and has con- increase from the 1938-1945 per- sen ted to have her story ap- iod to the 1945-1953 period was pear in the News Leadk- Is follows: 185,671. . An average of 23,209 more children were born, the figures show, during each year of the more recent period than were born during the 1938-1945 period. Only 8,494 more births, on an average, were annually recorded for each year of the JVe the Spearmans have had a strange kitten around for about 2 iveeks. It is buff and white and tan. It is a pretty kitten. It has good disposition. It has 1938-1945 period that were record- pftik nose. Our cat Malty likes ed for the average year during H hnd so does our kitten Mid- the 1930-1937 period. nirht. A Good Shopping CenteJ merchant wholourhtTt ginning. ^ To use a familiar'opfi- I the seven chain Smithfield and wha ! have? Nobody could deny M chain stores have helpe/^!!'l Ifu as a shopping, Nobody will question the Li?' the chains have bre.gl ' W more people to Smlthf J.,, That’s why it k on ; ■ for all other merchants munity to welcome ' Thunderstorms in Novem ber are fairly rare, and so is the sound of thunder at day light, but both were heard T u e s d a' y morning. T h e y brought a little more rain which was welcome, for though the hurricane brought some needed water, the springs and branches, and even the wells, are dry in many parts of the area. The slopes are dryer than they have been in yea^s. They don’t seep with the moisture that feeds the streamlets be low. ★ The first killing frost of the season came promptly on Monday, Nov. 1, laying low the flo-svers and many other summer things. The hard hundred days of winter are now beginning. About that many days stretch between the first frost and the first daffodils of February. “Daf fodils tliat come before the swallow dares”. The first winter birds are here—the ■white-throat sparrow, the to- whee, and the myrtle warb ler. Summer birds like the catbird and tanager have al ready gone soutli, while the box terrapin has buried his nose deep in the woods. * -k -k People who’d like to liave birds come up to the break fast room window regularly have only to build a shelf there and install a hit of suet and a few bread crumbs. Best of all bait is crumbled cornhread. If it can he mixed ivith sunflower seed, all the better. For shut-ins, sick peo ple, and children tliere is no greater ivinter show. * ★ ★ It is getting to he the time of year when locust beer, or simmon beer, as it is various ly called, tastes good, for it should he well chilled to he at its best. In an argument the other day it ivas maintained ‘ that it gains in flavor from having cornhread mixed with it—tvvo or three panfuls to the barrel-and must he strained henry DIGGS IN SMITHFIELD HERALD A good many business men are ities and it has helped to blame for the failure of their ’ - communities to grow and prosper. They see industry, new success ful stores and other marks of progress entering other towns and cities and almost invariably won der why that doesn’t happen to their town. A good many business men can look only to themselves dor the answer. Let a new store with like merchandise come to some towns and the established merchants immediately begin to fight to run the newcomer out of business by the shortest and most direct route. They fail to realize that the more successful stores a com munity has, the better services it can offer, the more compelling reasons there are why the con sumer shops in that partcular town. Saw a Dragon A couple of decade ago there was a great hue and cry over the appearance of chain stores. The small merchant, established in the security of his own mono poly in his own community, tried to paint the chain as a vicious dragon, ready to swallow free enterprise, prepared to complete ly destroy the little man in busi ness. Probably less than five per cent of the smaller merchants in today’s economy will come any where close to espousing such an idea now. not go after it tooth™?? until it is driven away. Tb stores you have in yourtr, better you can entice b!;:;; the stores don’t have to be ck , or big department business, business, no matter how s J can offer something to »! munity, and bring some peJ even If only a half dozen, t t.1 for shopping. ” Thanks Competitors Not long ago I ran across! tribute to competition wkkki pass along: , “My competitors This is not to set up two camps of “big business” and “little bjis- iness,” for the little merchant is still a strong part of the backbone of American economy. The inde pendent operator, I sincerely hope, will always be the really important man in our nation. But the fact remains that the chain store has not been the terrible in novation it was supposed to be. On the contrary the chain has been beneficial to most commun- - sometimes j,I as much for me as my fr J My friends are too polite to out my weaknesses, but myoJ petitors go to great expense l advertise them. . ‘.‘My competitors are effideJ diligent and attentive. They mi* me_ continually search for buj to improve my service. , ,“My competitors would take«, business away from me if | could. This keeps me alerttoloj what I have, get and create ew more. “My competitors prevent ml from 'becoming lazy, incomptiaij and careless. I need the discipi'J they enforce upon me. “My competitors deserve I highest praise. I salute tie They have been good to me,” N. C. Gets Big Share Of Income From Agriculture! (UNC News Letter) The following table shows the total and per capita income pay ments to individuals in North, Carolina from 1929 through 1953: Per Total income capita Year (in millions) income! 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 $ -$ 1943 1944 1944 2,536 1945 2,651 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1,006 294 1,077 312 1,011 239 1,090 308 1,131 316 1,436 396 1,872 519 2,270 627 2,270 627 3,012 S08 3,223 860 3,446 898 3,351 850 3,880 951 4,350 1,053 4,383 1,049 1953 4,599 1,097 It is interesting to note the major sources of income in North Carolina and how we compare with the nation, as a whole, in these items. The following table shows the percent of total in come derived from various ■! ces for North Carolina, the United States. One outstajj ing observation is that in fel United States 5.3 percent of ill come is derived from agricnlkj while in North Carolina, it i| 12.8 per cent. There is not i difference in the percent iHij bution from government pifl ments, manufacturing pajroH| trade and service, and laneous items. U.S. M, I % ul Agriculture — 5.3 lllj Govt, payments 15,9 ffll Mfg. payrolls — 25.7 2tll Trade and service ....26.0 !3i| ■Construction payrolls4.0 111 Mining 14 Iq The total income of tlieil#| in 1953 amounted to $4,5 lion. This is the largest tilil| amount in history. The ti come was nearly 200 million HI lars higher than the previ®| high total of $4,404 milMi 1952. A breakdown shows II wages and salaries accounteiifJ $3,053 million; proprie^fj come $901 million; property.sl come $362 million; and otherij come $283 million. In eacljl stance, except proprietors il come, the total for 1953 arfl ed the total for 1952. As aii‘| ter of fact, proprietors’ini*l in 1953 was $120 million 1 under the figure for 1951. Fast Fact No. 2 HOSPITAL SAVING ASSOCIATION (BLUE CROSS-BLUE SHIELD) Is North Carolina's Leader In \ ^ Membership \ * Benefits Paid ^ Prestige so
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