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i . I t EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas' VOLUME n, NO. 65 A Rescue Squad Kccfiil c’NC'iils, iiu lii(liti;4 ;i diowniii” and lineal ol’a dc.slni( li\c Ininica'iif, sn;.;;4C.si that amon;.^ the (onnnunitN .s needs is a Kesene .S(|nad. Snell an oi”'ani/,ation inij>ln eonsisl of ^\■ell trained .;ind ailive yoini^ men who \vonlfl he |)re|>a,red to eojje with any disaster and .iL’isc lirsi aid to its victims. They should c.l eonrse have the ad\anla”e ol |rro|)C‘r e(|ni|)- meni : nd complele insl rnc I ions. in last week's diownin” able work eras done by (ihapel I lill and (farrboro |>oli('e and liremen, but they were' handicapped by de lay in not il ic at ion. iL>'oocl Resc lie Scpiad woirld base a leader w ho ecmlcl be reac bed at all limes and irain- c'd ;• rsisianis who ecmlcl help in the exec ulise work. Quick Way to Stamp Out the Schools 11 .Xorth (Carolina wishes to ^c'l rid of its jmblii school swsiem and lincnv back its ecl- nealional hopes into an a'byss ol what (hiv. I lodges has desc ribed as "appallin;^ in ignor ance, povc'iiy, and biilenu-ss," il ecmlcl do no bellei' than accept Allornc‘y (ieneral Rod- man's siir^^esl ion that mi”hl lead toward to tal sn|)pression ol the [mblie schools. lie snrinesls that the' Xorth C.arolina Su preme Court mi”hi title iha'l since the C. S. ^Supreme Court h;is oxeritled the' pioviso lor sejiaiate schools, X'oiih CaroliiKi will no lonj^er be bound to mainiaiii‘any sc hool sys tem at all. IXery lamily having ehildien would then :be on its own: that is. it ecmlcl scaicl the ehil- aiieii to priMitc' sc hools or let them tun wild in the woods. Since the .Xej^ro peojile are r'C'onomiealK worse oil than the 'whites, their .ehildreti would siilTer most Irotn the pit ol ■i^notance in which they ivoitld be lallen. It has already been determined that .Xorth Carolina's low stains iti per etipita income atid in other ectonomic ,sl:atistic:s is lari^cly due to the low income ol its Xeicfo |)cople. The .tbiitulotimem of the jjublie .sehc.)c)l s'j'slem in order to e^■ade obedietiee to the sit])renie law' ol the land would plitni^e the X'e>tc) people into a yet lower eondition: lot an i”iioiatu illiterate employee is ol small N'aliie to anyone. This is wha.'i c:omes of the effort at Ralci!>h to prescribe a definite mode of proctediire for all parts of ibe State. 'I hat way lies trouble- Ihiifoiiniiy (annot be ex|)eeted itt such a complex .situation. The problem c:an best be worked out by local c:ommittees of both races .slucl)'inj) and aetini> loealh. .Any |)lanned eoIlap.sjL: of North Carolina's |)ublie school system would be a collapse heard around the world. Meat and Wages I he .Ameiican .Meal Insiitiile warns the ^public that due to wa4e raises the juiee of ■pneai is likely to rise, 'riiai is a wa\' of sayiii” that the meal p:ic kers do not purpose to pay ■|or these raises ilmmseises: tluw ex|)eel the -public to pry lor liiem. riiis will be inierest- . iii'; to those larmers who ha\e seen the pi ice tol cattle lallin;^ lor the last five years. Cows ;in Oian.'.'e Coimiv ha\e sold down to r, c:ent,s •a pound. .MeaiuiuK- liurlin(,i|on Indiisiiies, which p' -'1'' in sarious places of the State, in- cliidinii Carrboro, savs its wa(>e increase of y cents a.'u hour tvill bring- their people's earnings to an axerage of !ii>i..i4. 'I'hat's .pj cents belter than the |)ro]to,sed Federal hour ly wage. Since the textile industry has been under sexere pressure, this looks like a use ful stej) toward more purchasing poxver for .North Carolina's industrial employees- ih'osperiiv begins, and can be maintained, only when jjeojile have a margin beyond bare necessii ie.s. Retaliation Hatches Retaliation ■I , C - Rex flat icjiis since tlu‘ laie x\ar ended make ‘it |)iain that two peoples were responsible lor creating unprecedented horrors. One xv.is the Cermans with their .X'a/i prison camps. 1 he other was t.he .Americans xvith their atomic attack on lliroshima. Roth groups of a,s,sail;i’nls inflicted horrible punishment on delenseless civilians, and what thex' did in ilm name of xvar will mark the blackest spots in future histories. I'p until the lirsi decade ol the present century it xxas almost unixc'rsallx beliexeci that humau societies were' growing progres- sixc'ly bc'iler. and that the' expanding in telligence ol men would soon rid the xvorld ol its xvoi'st exils. I>ui the lalc' world war opened a'bysses ol cwil not prexiously peeled in human annals. .X'c> great humaniix xvas expected of (•eimaiis with ihc'ir strutting armies Worship ol a consc iencc:lc's.s sc ic'iic c‘. Rut who xxould have suspec ic'd ihc' .kmc'i ican pc'opic', xxilh their strong anii-militarisi tradition. sus- the and ca- |)tible of as luihless an exhibition ;i.s theii ii'iiinen |jut on at Iliroshimt? It is lute ihiit we have shown regret and exen offered forms of titonement. Rut regrets xxill not biing bac:k to normal life the loo,- ooo beings killed or crippled by ;i single blast. 1 raxeleis rej)ori that in |apan many peo ple beliexe their country sinned and are * noxv humble tiucl repentant. Rut there is no gretil evidence of official penitence in .America- Ra.'ther there is a ten dency to boast of huge stockpiles of nuclear bombs with which ''ma.ssixe retaliation" may be cart ic'd out on the next enemy. "Ma.ssixe rc'taliation" suggests that scores, perhaps huudreds, of ruined cities and bun- clrecls of thousands of human x ic tims will vet testily that we haxe arrixed at the summit of human powc'i'. Rut can we suppose that re taliation will end there? Back From Harvard By HUGO GIDUZ Continued .sislc'i' and I Iind planned ;di* . Aly cm a wc'c'lc's trip to New llainp- sliii'e and iMcune In visit tric'iids, blit ot c'oni'se her two I.rnken ribs and the iron In'aee made llial im|)ossilile. So we c'omin'o- niised on takin;^ a lew short trip.s to visit in the nearlcy towns. Oiir lirsi was in C'oneord, Mass., where' we eallecl on friends xxilh whom xx'e have ke|)t in Iher close toiieh tot' well lifly years. Onr next visit to the' .Stale Tiibereulosis |)i1al. .\llleboro. Mass., xxhere Ihc' head of the inslilnlion is an edd Iriend of my xxifc' and me, W'e were lo.uelher in our early days in l-'all Kixer, xxhi'n we xvere both strirepliii” to yet alon.y. billian rec'allc'd llie days whc'ii we bon.idit eooiierativc'ly a ham which we cooked in our fireless cooker. .\nd il was fun to recall many more ineidenis of the clays when ('.arnel was still a strug- gliny cloelor and did not alxvays knoxv whether or not the office' rc'ul would be in hand when due. Things are now different. Fife IS pleasant. The' children through eollc'.ge and on OW'll. are their 'I’herc are a^ few obserx'alions eoneerning some unusual, and for me, interesting matters. As I was trying to find a place to park m,v ear near t'hinatoxvn in down town Boston, near which my re- I'air man for my viola has his sho]), I noticed the name of one of the streets Ping On Street. .^nothl'r was Kclinboro Street. But even more unusual was to note on Beacon Street, and itin erant scissors grimier. I had thought they were extinct, like the horse and buggy. But Ihc're he xvas xvith a truck containing up-to-date equipment and tools. Our next trip was to Province- toxxn. Mass,, where xve called on our old friends from t’hapel Hill, Mr, and Mrs. Singer. When xve got to the house I left my sis ter in the ear to see if there was an.x'one at home. 1 found the door open and called, I was in- x'itecl in, and found Mrs. Singer in the kitchen imieh frightened and .fobbing! In opening a soft drink bottle, a bit of glass had broken off and she feared she had sxvallowed il! 1 tried to allay her fears, but to no avail. Meanwhile I remem bered that my sister was wailing in the ear- fuming, I was sure, at the lonesome xvait. Sure enough, xvhen I got to the ear I was scolded for leaving her alone. 1 told of xvhat xvas going on indoors. I tried to set tle the problem by telling her I would try to get l\frs. Singer to come out to talk to her. I finally sucroeded in doing that. But I .still had txvo upset women to deal with! Both much dis- turbc'd--to pul it mildly! And iMr. Singer was not expected to return before nine o’clock Ihat evening. "November And You?" MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1955 ,Stull an organi/atioii .should not be .sought lor in I'nixeisily dcpai tnients, but should stein Ironi and represent tlie xvbole (oinmun- iiy. .\s I be c'onnnunilx' .grows day by day and ccmiinuallx spicads, the need of a niobile sc|uaci ecpiippcci to meet einergenries and in culcate safely will be felt more and more. Ollier towns are jnofitin.g by the posses sion of trained Re.scue Scpiads, some of wliicli liaxe |o or more members- In Olnupel Mill and Ciarrboro one ol the eixic organi zations might study the silutilion and spcjii- soi' an aclecpiale sejimd able to gixe hcl|) in anx tremble. UNC Facuhy On TV By FRED POWLEDGE There has been talk, ever since educational television station WUNC-TV first opened, that the station xvas offering very little in the way of educational tele vision. The University’s Acting President Harris Purks hinted he had heard such talk when he said, in an interview recently, -that the station “is moving more and more toward programs which are indeed educational and at the same time interesting.” The station, reasoned Mr. Pui'ks, has now more or less achieved a balance — not too much entertainment, not too much education. Such a balance, he said, could not be expected to come as soon as the station started telecasting. But many people close to the University feel the station never xvould be where it is today, had the state not decided to cut hea vily funds for its operation. The cut was looked upon as a bless ing by many, xvho felt that an educational television station, tike a crude, one-room school- house, can turn out education xvith only the bare academic es sentials. The crude schoolhouse, they said, could get along with a good teacher and a stack of good books. Likewise, WUNC-TV can turn out good, educational Reading By Guess (Simeon Stylites, in The Christian Century) As luck xvould have il, shortly after this Mr. Singer did return from a trip to Boston, We did not aeeepi an invitation to go to dinner with them, but bectuise xve .still had a long trip ahead of us. wo left for the return ,iour- ney. My xvife has since heard from Mrs. Singer that she did not have any trouble about •'.sxvallowing" the glas.s. Her fears xxere unfounded, as I had tried to convince her all the time! In the next installment I shall tell hoxv I succeeded in gettin.g back to Chapel Hill in spite of numerous misdireelions and va ried (liffieullies. (1)1 iny lat:t insstallnicnt I per- The points that Flcsch makes are no doubt ox'ersimplified. He claims, as the work of the “lun atic fringe” of progressive edu cation, that children are not taught the alphabet or to read by the sound of letters, phoneti cally. but are taught by “xvord recognition." He says that "xvord recognition" as a sole method of teaching makes reading a gues.sing game in xvhich each xvord has become knoxvn sepa rately. This, he claims, is a me thod outmoded 1,500 years ago. It is, in fact, the method of the Chinese language, in which thou sands of characters must be memorized. Whatever one thinks about these criticisms, txvo things are clear. One is that multitudes of parents are deepl.v concerned over the slow progress of their children in learning to read. A second is that the number of children in "remedial reading" classes in the United States far, far surpass the number in any other country in the xvest. In fact, the need for remedial read ing is almost unknoxx-n except in the United States. Add to this the fact that the ability to read, or the lack of it, rather, plays a great part in .iuvenile delin quency. The recent Epstein re port on juvenile delinquency in New York City points out em phatically: “Reading retardization is one of the special handicaps often associated xvith juvenile delin quency. The retarded reader is unable to meet other children on equal terms, since he is natural ly handicapped in the area of activity that consumes the larg est single block of his waking hours . . . The board of educa tion personnel xvho know this field agree that “the failure in residing accounts for more than any other single factor for be havior problems, friiancy and general school failure.” At present the vogue of tele vision threatens to diminish, if not blot out, the habit of read ing and the lox'e of it. In the language of Fi-ed .Allen: "The next generation will have eyes as big as cantaloupes and brains the size of a split pea; so much for the eye, so little for the mind." niitted a gross error to pass. I let "something orer 100 Bach elors of Art.s" he printed- It s-hmdd have read: ‘'Something over 900 Bachelors of Arts." It teas too late to make any change irhen I discovered the i rroi-. My humblest apologies.) $15,000,000 IN STAMPS , Philately, according to Robert E. Fellers, director of philately In the Post Office Department, Is a large and profitable business for the Goxmrnment. In an inter- viexv last month Mr, Fellei-s said that 12,000,000 or more avid stamp collectors spend about $15,000,000 a year to buy ordi nary and commemoratix'o sLamns from Mie Depai-fment’s Philatelic .Ageney and from pOsr oifiee?;. -■ New York Times. Chips That Foil programs xvith only the telecast ing equipment and the help of the University’s faculty. The faculty, from what I’ve been able to glean, didrt’t exact ly take to the idea of WUNC- TV performances w’hen the sta tion first was started. One re spected member of the faculty here, according to an intimate, flatly refused ‘when asked to present a program for elemen tary school children. But now the faculty seems to be more and more interested in WUNC-TV. Dr. Purks noticed it, and gave credit for the station’s progress to the “support and in terest” of faculty members. Dr. David G. Monroe, of the University’s Political Science Department, xvho’s a cun’ent TV teacher, is a fine example of faculty member interested in the station. It has been reported that Dr. Monroe spent 200 hours in preparation for his political sci ence TV course. Maybe noxv, with very little operating money and increased suppo'rt from the faculty, WUNC- TV will move ahead and continue to offer programs manned by teachers. It’s just a pity that it took the 1055 General Assem bly to light the fire beneath Swain Hall. Mi.ss (iilsoii, alxvays ayid ior ex uleiu'e of' xvhat women can do xvhen they get right doxvn to it, also encloses a clipping- telling of an expe- dition to a peak on the Af ghan border which is 25,260 leet high wliere even Ten zing, the iainoiis climber, had to turn back in the fa'ce of xvind and cold. A Canad ian woman went along and climbed as high as the men did. She ought to have gone higher, what with I'h a t thoughtlul nndercoatiug of lat xv'ith xv'hich nature has ,j)i()xidc'd xvomen. In his book Tenzing tells ol a lady—this time an Eno-. lishxx'oman. He xvas impre.st ed xvith Iter prettiness and noticed especially her good complexion and fine white leeth. In the morning he brought her washing water ;ind he thought he' xvas in the wrong place. "She xvas not young and pretty," he says, "hut a lady xvitii yellow skin and no teeth. 1 put down the pot and pitcher and was about to run. Then 1 saxv beside her some jars ol creams and poxxMers and ni a gla.ss of xx'ater a fine set ol teeth . . . \Vlxen she came ont a little later she xxas as voting and pretty as the day helore." ^ //te in Id roiuui of social hle oi, the Hill 75 Ycq,',v„go; ' 1 H- Chapel Hill corre.s. pondent of the Raleigli Oh- serxer wrote under date of J'""', "Ai mgl., , social, eiut'riainmem xv 1 s I'cld in the I’liixersiiy Li. Variety Is Not He Washington Post Miss .Mary Gilson recently left Chapel Hill for Mon treal, hojxing for a taste of the cool Canadian xveather. She xvas greeted with temp eratures ranging hetxveen 96 a-ml 98.5 "for days on end and humidity tlxat xvilts hu mans and floxvers.’’ Visitors from Nexv York and Baltimore have recentlv spoken gratefully of the cool South- By day Cihapel Hill is no Mt. Exerest, hut nearly all summer the nights have been plea.sant. AJi.ss Cilson has sent us a clipping from the London correspondent of the Mon- Montreal Gazette in which complaints are made of the superheated xveather iii the Old Country. In England when the thermometer gets above 80, the xvorld begins to reel and rock. By SIDNEY SWAIM ROBINS Americans, and especially ed ucators, are accustomed to the idea that there is a genuine va riety of individual gifts, calling for a wide range of occupations and opportunity. It is only the Communists who overlook the need of individual opportunity. But when xve come to the question of variety in institu tions such as governments, eco nomics, schools of art, colleges, or churches, we do not make the same use of the idea of va riety for its own sake. In some directions it becomes heresy. Many people think there is one true form or pattern of govern ment, one true kind of ecenomic set-up, one true church. You need to be orthodox. Persecu tion has derived from this hy pothesis. To maintain that may be nobody is entirely right (not even ourselves) politically or re ligiously; or that most of us have something at least to learn from others; to maintain that no hu man institution is perfect; or that progress is helped by a xvide xmriety of approaches is an her etical idea. It might help the cause of peace, though. likes. But if straight-from-the rectness of speech 7 of d the Methodhfe’^ ^ 'piv ®Place ■ ^ re And Hi Salvation ^ ;.,L ; /n centralked J y -ia agamst the loc, f -‘'f Baptists, Christian ers. 1 For years i y friend (Ralph Harpl)’ operated with othi tions more than ever saw. He helped, wide variety of J through ail of the J riiurches of his 00^; whenever anybody Z mg about church-unit/ Ped out. He used to’si the Lord made a wide „ iiuits, and even of hen* berries, straxx'berriq ries, etc.), he certaiph,, to see and maybe hi, wide variety of cy xx’ould not be xvaste,. than ail the berries s them would meet a others could not Even Protestants lament their, oxvn wide divisions, of which some surely no longer make sense; and ,go on to launch plans for inclusive unity. Some feel that the lack of ecumenical un ity. whatever that is, is sin. It seems as if this might be going too far. We need some bred-in differences. Unless dif ferences of opinion are import ant they will not develop our minds. We have important dif ferences of which we are half ashamed, and we are not too far out of the age of persecution. Meanwhile, if we want a public serxdce conducted with dignity and propriety, I‘ notice we have a tendency to send for an Epis copal bishop. His type of church seems to the front in cultivating beapty. too, and that might be one of the many good things Even I have wo country could staii litical pressure thi ly follow if all 1 'churches got to would promise to s itics, just as the gion did when it w but they xvould fii not. Of course the qu hibition might not soon. But we need ment of thoughtl; and hew ideas , churches. It is too Congressional caw run a brand on cot senators, and to it vote alike. If all were one, where w phets hide, and wh radical new ideas n future hatch out? Ominous Horizon charlotte News In an instant the governor’s xvords outlined a far and ominous horizon. If Tar Heel Negroes do not voluntarily cling to segrega tion, said he, “North Carolina might withhold support of the public schools.” We think it is entirely possible that North Carolina could be forced into a position of aban doning support of its public sehools. Men of malice, and im patience on either side could precipitate a crisis from xxdiich there was no way out except the dissolution of the school system as it has been laboriously cre ated in North Carolina over the last 180 years. The legislature it- oould foster attitudes and poli cies xvhich, in their respective self, or local school authorities, areas, could place the state in the position of defying, or at least of evading, the law of the United States. And in this ‘re spect the governor raises a de cided possibility. But xve choose to believe that he raises it not as a threat but realistically as a deterrent to headlong and irre vocable acts. We choose to be lieve that the governor of North Carolina, this particular govern or, at any rate, faced with the division of dissolving the school system in order not to comply with United States law, would find his hand stayed by his loy alty to state and nation. The public school system is the foundation of North Carolina’s social and economic s(M weilspring of its prora built of the faith of asw dedicated people. It 1 the tragedy of all lime il stitution dedicated to tin of all the people of were to be demolisU the state had not beei to insist upon the ten which such service sii rendered. v This much, we beliei't That whereas the Nortii_ school system in geiteril fitted into the traditW patterns of the preseol ceptions will be niur will tend to increase ra to diminish. Nevertlieli the ingredients of liml tual good faith and pife social and educatioiial can be resolved. With equal force il« that without the exerdsti qualities, ruination can hj ily accomplished. No one would he jui^ taking the position thill ernor did not mean and under the circiii®^ impatience and insisted wrong kind, it is a, sonable to a.ssunie mean it. But. again. to read into his words »J timatum so niuch as 1 In the end North W matter how distastefal let itself be charged «l tion or evasion ofW' at ail costs its must be preserved. im iib lOI Sat brary. Books xv'ere thrown aside, pensive looks discard ed, diwnilied instructors con- xerted into yonthl'nl gallants, and the stern teacher actual ly changed, as the case might be, either into a talking bean nr a laughing belle. There was no dancing, but a xvell regidated, orderly walk-a- round. The library halls 'vere thrown open and here and there might he seen a lew couples strolling steal- tliily li'om the hubbub of the lihiaq-y into these quiet re cesses. The success of the entertainment is verified by the lact that since then all think better of themselves and every one else than be fore." 1 his dispatch xvas signed ■"ith the initial R.P.P., pos- sil)ly Robert P. Pell, after- 'xards president of Conx'erse College. Chapel Published evei? Thur.«day bv the N Company, Inc. 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