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’ ■’i' :* • ''I I is M 'f*i5 'j 'i ’^3’ II 51' '•'-l! :i;i.. mi ■ ,;;'i B '■« 'i ili EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE Chapel Hill News Leader Leoding With The News in Chapel Hill, Corrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas VOL. II, NO. 69 A Calculated Risk for Children |■,l('^ ('ll .Miiiill hodifs were s( ;il Ici c-d aloii^ llic r;dlro;id liiicks wIk-d :i school hiis and a train met ;n a crossing at Spring (a’M, I’cnn. •Snell an aeeidcni is not iinpossihle in .\orili (ii.olina, which likes lo hoasi ii has the largest anci c hea(K'sl sc hool hns s)'slein in the \M)rld. It ina\ indeecl he ilu. largest and cheapest, hnl is n the salesi? .\orlh (lai'olina puts its school husses in the hands not ol nialnre nu'ii hnl of leen- iit’e drivcia. I'hese ch ixers have made a \von- derlnl iceoicl ol e.ire and salcix, hnl the most skilllnl drixina. in ihe xxenid will not make np lor delec'i ixc mec hanisms. Ihe jiresc III svsiem ol inspeciioii and re pair li.Ts wc.irked wfll .so lar: and .Xoitli (iar- make sure il has no xx'cak spots. •Now dial : new se.'Hson is here, cantion and pre-eanI ion on ihe Inis.ses should he dcmhled. Revolt Answered by Guns Iscxcih answered by aims, Snell is die pallern now heina lollowed in die I'reni li-i cinlrolled areas of .Xorlli .Arrifa. Il is one ol die olclesi palterns in hislorx', and one ol die most Indie. I lu leaind ol the old ladx iryiiia lo sweep hack die ocean xxith a' broom is sensiblv by ecmip.irison. 1)111 aoxernmenis do iioi use sense. It is easier to order oni die mililarx' .ind start shoolina. riial was die rormnia lollowed by die lliilish f^oxei nnieni under (leorac- III xxhen die .Americ.nis rcwolied. .And il is .i lorimda whic h has liardlx' exer xaried except in dc'iails. I he resnli is alw.iys die sa'iiic'"-blood, dis- rnplion, sinnied !4ro\xdi, and Iona reeox ei')’- \’el lliere is noihiiia sacred about a aoxern- meiil, or the sxsiem that supports il. (ioxern- iiienls and systems do not come Irom heaxen, bill are man-made dex ices intended to c arry out certain pm|)oses. When they work sne- cessriillx lor the laraesi number ol people*, then ihev .ire kept up: when ilic'x no lonax'i .serxe their pm pose, llu'y as e c ast out. I'll.It is whx one of the eliiel planks in the American Dec lartttion ol Independence dec lares that xxhen a people become dissalis- lied with their aoxernment. they haxe an in herent riahi to alter or abolish it, Il w;is in pnrsnance of that rif^hl that the ,\nierican republic xxas set nj). ;tnd in tiscord- .nic c* xxith that irtidilion that Ameiictni politi cal j’lowili has been maintained. Il is a recognition that dianj^e is embedded in the law of lile. l)ut the Bourbons—tlie name ”ixen lo peo})le who beliexe th;it lile consists o! iron oi'. cement—cannot endure chiincce. I hey xx’ill invite destruction belore they will reco^id/e it. It would be etitsy Icii the Bourbons to keep control except that the weaker peoples ol the earth liaxt* read President’s Wdlson's \/\ Points tnid the .Atlantic Charter ;i.s draxvn uj) by Roosexfil and Churchill. I'hose two docu ments Ilia) haxc bec’ii a misttike- But it is loo late lo withdraw them noxx*. I'rom the Bour bon point ol X iexv it is alxxays a niista'ke to cclucaie |)ec)ple, and parlic iilarly to eductue them xvc'll. No Real Scientific Secrets When tile IkS !:’si disc'oxcred how lo make the atomic bombs that shattered the Japtinese cities. It iricci to kc*ep the sx*c ret axxtiy Irom the rc'sl ol the xvorld. Il exen relus' ' to share* the secret xxith its closest ,dlx, (.ie:U Britain, ihetc'bx' pixiup much I I' irsc, Its .'Xc tisc* xvas that il xxanled to prex'ent the .eciei Itom beiiyi^ knoxx'ii lo Russia. ^'et in :i xc'ix short lime Russia’ xxas niakiu,” atomic bombs, nicl is exc'ii noxv suspected ol hax ill!,) sui|)assc'cl the I'niied .Stales in nuc lear c'xpei imeiits. Ihe* clo);--in-l he-m,m>c‘i attitude had ncxc'i' jiaicl, but >>c)x eruuu'iits olten lad to see this truth, clue perhtips lo their belie 1 that bi)!,- ness excuses sell ishness. Comment int; on the lailurc* of the cciuceal- metil atlc'iiipi, W.iller l,i|)pman, the colum nist, sa'xs: "Ihe Cenexa ('.onlerence* on .Xii- clcar |■',nel ”X has prox e cl com liisix e*ly xx hat scientists haxe* loii” be'en .sayin;^—that scienti- lic se'crels do not last Ion,” because xxhat one scientist can discover, others—since thex' de;d xxith the same natural xvorld—xvill discoxe*! loo- It is also plainer than it xxas ;i I'exx’ xe'ttrs :ia,o ih:i! xxh:il von can hide lemportirilx' Irom the Russians, yon must hide tilso Irom xour oxx ii sclent die comiminily.'' Il is plain noxv that the Cniteci Slates not only stood in the xvax ol its oxvn scientists, but ”axe ollense lo manx ol them bv suspect- in,” them and inle‘rlerint^ xxlih them. One re sult hr.'c bee'll a se'xere* .shorta,'>'e ol en”ineers and technic ians in the xei)' lielcls in xvhich the Cniteci .Siate*.s h;is bc'en Iryiii”' to be loremost. lloxv loll” xvill it lake the liimian race, e'spe'c i.illy the* most poxverlul iroriions ol it, lo se'f that inlelli,”enee cannot be monopo- li/e'cl, and that benelits are increased, not eiii clown, by shariii” them? Tar Heel Finds Class System in Russia Bruce Jolly in Greensboro Daily News 'riu* Hll.'^si;ln tarine'i* is a trieiul- l,v pe'r.sDii xvhii siiu'e'i'c'l.v xvaiits xxorici iic'ae'C', knows iiolliinp about the U.S.. is Ihorou.uhl.v incioetri- iiate,l in Cominunist iclc'alo.^ie's, .Siul is e'omparativel.v sati,slic'd xxith his lot. ■At tile same lime, his stanelard of lix'iny is far below that of an.v U.S. fariiu'j', he has no o|)por- liinilv tor inclixiihial enterprise or aclvaneemenl, and lie [la.xs the sime pelc'c'nlat;i' of basic taxes as those in hi,i;her ineoine brae*- kets pa.v. He has no fear of eeonomie d- in'C'ssions. Those xxerc' the findings of Dr. William K. Keed, dc'an of the Sc'hool of .Vgrienllnre at .A & T ('ollc'ci' in (Iri'enshoro, on his fixe-wc'c'k tour of farms in the ik.s.s.i;. Only Negro Included lieeci xxas the onl.x- Ne'aro in the C-'iian grcaip (»f U. S. farm observers that xvent from this conn!IX to Knssia as a eouterparl of til” Sovic'l ,grou|-. c)! farmc's xvho eame here, in an "c'xehan.ge’' that marked the' first xvicle hrc'ak ill the iron ('iirtain, III' x'.c'iit lex Russia .'irmed xxith eiiriositx- and a dc'sire lo |)lant "a fexx- seels cif .good xvill" lliat mi.gh.t help dc'erease international ten sions. lie returned with a better imderstanding of tlie Scixiet na tion and a gemmu' likin.g for Hie farm peoples he had met. ■'I'he.x .ire friendly. We xvere reeeixed with all Ihe hospitaiil.x they eould extend. The people* are gc'nerally iinsophistieated. Rot thc'y .irt' refiiU'd in their ha bits and down-to earth. The xvo- mc'ii are .eliring and thc'y don't like lo be Haltered. I’.ul there' is . a genuinely friendly attitude, and they xvere anxious to meet us,” Rec'd said. lie found no raeial segregation and no discrimation aeeording to color, "But tlierc is a definite ‘cla.ss’ system, based on ability and Hie position one holds," ho said. Reed compared that system to Hie line of demarcation xvhich ex ists under strict military routine' belxveen '.’privates, corporals and ser.geants, anci extends to the of- fieer eehelon. * 1): lie called the Sovic't tarm pro- ,'gram "the bi,ggc.st biireauciMey Rve exer seen." and asseited that the.x- end up with a large number of superxisors to ox'cmee tlie work of a few. 'Peace - Conscious' “1 found the Russian farmers xc'ry c'onseious of xxo'-ld peace. To them, the exehange of farm peo ples seemed lo be an avenue to- xvard .greater understanding. But xery fexv asked me questions about the fl.S. 1 got the impress ion that they think there are a large number of rich people, but man.v w ho are x ery poor. But the.x didn't seni too concerned, one way or another," he stated, Reed, xxho is 41. returnc'fi in advanee of most of the other 12 Ik S, ohserx'cis. He spent today at the Department of .Agricullure talking to officials there, A press conlereiiee for Hu* observers xvho have toured Russia xvill be held on Frid.iy. In toda.v's uilerx'iew, RVed men- tioni'd only one exehange in wliic'h Ilu* merits of the txvo na- ions were discussed. Il iiwolved a Russian eorresponclent xvho had lieei, to the I iiiled Slates and seen the slums in South Chica go. Tells Of State ‘‘1 told him I couldn't talk on that, but I'd toll him about No'th Carolina. I said that Negro farm ers in North Carolina, despite all their wants .are much better off than Russians—that they have radios,a great many have refrig erators, man.v hax'c cars and some have television sets. I said I had seen none of those things on Russian farms. "He had nothing more to say," Reed added, except, " ',Iusl give us two more year's. tVe suffered during the xvar.’ " * t * Reed and his 11 colleagues covered about 11,000 miles through Russia, by train, auto, and boat. The.x' touched many farms throughout the U.S.S.R., ineluding some in Siberia. 'Gee-This Is More Fun Than A Barrel Of Monkeys'" MONDAY, AUGUST 29, 1955 il" V oliiin p.irciiis ctiii iKXcr .I’ixc t*iic)ii”li thnnk.s to ilic' iiispc'c'tor.s and drix'cr.s wlin luixc kept dc* illi and iiijiiry tci a iiiiiiiimmi. \l I lie* s.'iiiK' time' tlu' I'i.sk. llic)ii,”h a rtii- c'lilaicci one*, is llicrc'. .A nc'xv setison ol sfliool li: isporiaiion i.s about to be,gin. It is not tlu; bc'.st sysic'iii ill tlu* wuiid. It c auses jjartic iilar lull d.sliips lo iii.ui)' pai t'iiis atid c liildreu xx lio lixe III tlu* cDUiitix'. I lu* claiigc'!' tuicl ilK' litird- ship is doubled ill the iiioiitlis when snoxv ;ind ire* grip llic* roads. 1 be sxsiciii Icuilcis iij) bi,g. .'■c'liools and Ids tlu* siiuilk'r (.xiu's willid'. Il f'W mu In the Russian approach. Reed lound himself given second choice in quarters and other factors xxhero selection wa.s necessary. He xvas topped only b.x the dele gation chairman, "I interpreted it as a matter of Russia's 'class' dberimina- Hiui," Reed said willi a smile. His doctor's degree placed him on a lox'cl xvith Dr. AV. V. Lambert, Unix'e'rsity of Nebraska dean of a.grieulture xxho headed the U.S. farm clelegation. Reed found the Russians ''axvay behind the U.S. in agriciiiiural developments. Rut he said there aie indications of tremc'iulons progress. m \ iK't'ds ox t'l linuliii” ct'x t'rx now and i)k’U to P -Si > J h iimmm am -Hugh Haynie in the Atlanta Journal Middle-Class .Shoplifting Chips That Fall (Christian Science Monitor) Park Forest, Ill., is a new, planned community of 22,000 persons, 30 miles south of and 45 commufing minutes from Chi- go’s Loop. Each month 200 more families move in, and 100 fam- ilie.s move out. Average income is about $8,000. The average fam ily numbers 3.7. People are concerned about shoplifting in Park Forest. , It is more than .iust disc^ji- certing to a community of mid dle-class young families to learn that a number of their house- xx'ix'es have been caught in the act of shoplifting. It is, therefore, even more than merely hearten ing to the people here to learn that their Police Department, blazing new law - enforcement trails, is solving this problem. Police Chief Milan Plavsic ex plains that his policy is to try to help the housewife out of her difficulty, not necessarily to pun ish her or make an example of liei. In this correctional effort, he turns to the husbands., the community chaplain, ministers, and psychiatrists. No Repeaters "Thus,” he says, ‘‘xx'ithout any indictments, W'e have a record of no repeaters. And, more than any thing else, xve have not ruined the lives of the house-wives we have arrested.” Cliaplain Joseph Hughes fig ures importantly in the rehabili tation. He is at the store xvhen the arrest is made, being called in at the same time as the police squad care arrives. He sits in at the interrogation at police headquarters. He counsels each culprit and xvorks as the liaison betxvcn her and the Police De partment during the life of the ease. His appraisal: "The results are mo.st hearten ing, the best cooperation I hax'fi seen anywhere. The couple (the women arrested) are so xvillin.g, willing to avoid a recurrence, willing to make amends for their wrong, xxdlling to seek a solu tion for their trouble—xvhether that mean.v going lo a doctor, a psyciiologist, a psyeliialrist, or making religion a real force in tlieii lives," Laboratory Study I’ark Forest’s shoplifters, ac cording to Sheriff (and crimino logist) Joseph I). Lohman, xvould be unnoticed in most other places, where .juvenile delinquen cy and crimes of violence occupy the attention of police anj the public. Here, hoxvever, shoplift ing stands almost alone, and. be cause of its isolation in t'.iis xvhol- ly middle-class community, an interesting laboratory study emerges. Park Forest’s .shoplifters are not what are described as men ial cases. They seem like ordi nary lioiisexx'ives from families xxitli good incomes. Many of their luLsbands are in the junior execu tive class, rhirty xvomcn liaxe been prosecuted in the last fexv years; many others Ifaxe been re leased ailer a xvarning: and stiil oHh'is have been released by store managers xxdthout the police being called in. Police Chief Plax^sic says: "I wish I knew the ansxver. Appar ently .all ot these housewives are the same class of people, for their answers folloxx' the same pattern. But there probably are as many reasons for their actions as there are in any sociological problem. 'Escape Routes' "Part of the trouble xx’ith these xvomen seems to be a lack of knowing xvhat to do with them selves. So they seek various es cape routes.’ ARE SECRETARIES OBSOLETE? A Nexv York engineering firm says it has plans -on its drawing boards for a machine which will be able to take dictation and transcribe it into written letters, which in turn il would sign, put into envelopes, seal and affix postage. The banishment of secretaries, hoxvever, seems hardly likely. The machine presumably xvould write letters as they are dictated. This would mean that errors in grammar made by the boss xvould go out to the world as uttered. Re placing a secretary with it also would mean that the boss xvould have no one to remind him of his xvife’s birthday, and no one to xx'hom he can brag about the big deal he has just put over. AVithout disparaging the ma chine. its trial might make a boss realize what a jewel he has in his secretary.—Hoiu^ton Post SUCCESS—A TO Z Armed services brass who have gotten into hot xvater by speak ing out of turn might consider a story xvhich Representative Sid ney R. Yates (D.-Ill.) tells about the late /Albert Einstein. Asked to give his formula for succcs in life, Einstein said he could do' it in a mathematical equation. “If ‘A' is success in life," the mathematician said, "I xvould say Ihe tKiuaiion is ‘A’ equals ‘Z’, plus ‘Z.’ ‘X' being xvork and ‘Y’ being play.” "But xvhat is ’Z"? asked the in to rviexver. ” ‘Z,' " Einstein replied, "keep ing quiet at the right time." —Philadelphia Inquirer CALENDAR WIT Knox AA’ilson xvas an eas.y go ing, droll comedian of some 30 or 40 years ago. In one of his shoxx's, as he cloxvned his way Hirough three acts, he went about, asking xvhimsically, "AA'hy (that i.s the xvay it sounded xx-hen ho pronounced it) is the Fourth ol July?" The more he xvouid repeat the question. Hie funnier it xvould get. Finally, just before the cur tain xvent down, a pretty girl snuggled up to him and said, "now tell us, April Fool, why is the Fourth of July." "AA ell, said AA'il.son. ’'here it is: J is one, U is two. L'is three and A-’ is the Fourth of July" - Coluntbia (S.C.) State A\'h e 11 Huliert Xex'ille, teller in the (iiirrliord oli'ice ol the Bank oi Chapel Hill, Yas on xaeation in the moun tains recently, he stayed at. Ahnonci. N. C. J'hat part of North Carolina bordering on 1 ennessee is lull of cjuaint names: lor example, Luck. Sioux, and Sunburst. Tliere are also a mmilier of melo dious names ending in Latin- like xoxvels xvhich the hue Shepherd Dugger used to .say xvere Spanish relics left lie'll lud by De Soto's expedi tion. ^ ★ I'lie name of Hugh H- Bennett, L.\C graduate and -Anson Conntv, X. C.. native is xxell-knoxvn in Russia, say.s lA'. AA'illiam K. Reed of C1 (.ciisboio, xx'ho has receiit- Ix' returned Irom Russia ;is a member oi the group* of Anieiican lanii obserxers. Bennett, as bead of the .soil tonsetxation serx ice, xvas one of the men encouraged by L. 1). Roosexelt. He eveiunal- Jy became knoxvu as "the lather ol soil coirservation". i ong ago be foresaxv the U'onble that xvould ensue on the land by improper plough ing and the lormation of gullies that swept tiway the lop soil. ben a student in (Lapel Hill, Bennett mijored in '!tt'im.strx. The faet that his Dame is honored in Russia ■seems to indicate that the Russians are thinking of DL nv other things besides Broppiii” bombs on the LS A * -Mr ★ A small and frail Chapel Hill Roman w,is at a .seashore Avoiding Brain Erosion By SIDNEY SWAIN ROBINS ddie newly organized State Tourist Council might ad vise service stations to keep their restrooms neat and clean. There has been a vast improx'ement in this respect, lint here and there remains a station that inaLes a poor impression on the traveller and goes far to conxince him Lira the South is still heed less, careless and insanitary. On the other hand, the outdoor tables installed by the State Highxvay Depart ment are mostly well placed, clean mid attractixe, and coii- .se()nemly make a good im- pre.ssion. One question the Coun cil might answer: AA’Iiv does Chapel Llill haxe no histori cal markers to guide and in terest the increasing number ol tourists that visit ns or ]iass (Ilrough excrx' year? ★ ★ ' ★ I was reading the other day about a sniall-size Electric Brain, or computing machine, which re places fifteen or txventy clerks. There are much larger ones. The remaining clerks punch keys, once the machine is set up and they have learned a few ropes. You only need one or two men around who really understand the machine. The extra clerks go back to the labor-pool. This is of course just a new and striking example of the mechanization of inductry, and behind or beyond that of our xvhole life. It is progress of a plain kind. It is more economical production and makes things cheaper. It is nice to think of hearly everybody having a bit more money to spend as industry speeds up, — a more modern house, a tiled bathroom maybe, a kitchen full of gadgets, and of course a nicer auto. And if any body thinks ■ the television sets are going only to the people xvho can well afford them, he needs only to take a ride in the suburbs and find out different. But where a machine operation is purely mechanical and doesn’t take any brains or cleverness on the part of the worker, you can’t have men loving their work. Perhaps we had better stop call ing what they do “work,” which is an ancient and honorable name, and call it “drudgery.” What xvould you call just going' through a set of mechanical mo tions? From the human standpoint maybe our hope is that the labor unions will insist on shorter and shorter hours, so that a mechanic or clerk can make his living in the morning and then pursue his hobby or real work the rest of the time. Sort of like my telling people that I am not “retired,” but have just gone to working for myself. We can still be skilled work men improving our yards or making a garden to taste, especi ally with neighbors out to win the prize too. We can hax'e a work-bench down cellar and go to work onwhattte.,, about. The,.. and games too Picture ' it (not; up a musical i ’ ai'o Plently of to readop '^het our minds Lord,; get tired enough, n harder to med farm, xvith all the j,; than any shop, ti,j , as a livi„.' real work, ■ Maybe all question to religion, i j,,,, the old shoe-cobbi( somebody his b(»i. was praising God, shoes just for a lb machine age drh more religion, or friendships? aiiJ But there is which offers con** to this happy ontht^ future: “Necessity isii,,' of invention." Take'/ drive of necessity ail will be too fataily east, of us, to just get j,' a television set and«] one of the most t overstuffed chairs yei The automobile ta, “evoluted” our leg oil, there seem to be more, people who can't nl the corner for a Give it time tbo „ librarian tells me it large increase of teks last winter there k drop in the use, Maybe it was the oi books that didn't get ii do you think I don’t know but fc bees show us one possit mechanization. They il how to use their brain freedom, so now thy freedom and their brain to “instinct.” The beat the drones, which uii idea. But they reoiiil Communists in other'ii that. Letters To The Edita FOR SPECIAL ELECTION To the Editor; I do not have any right to ex press my views in the News Leader, but I appeal to your sportsmanship to give space for the expression of viexvs at va riance those of your editorial page. In your editorial of August 15 on the current status of the de segregation issue you conclude as follows: The occasion for the editorial apparently was W. B. Rodman’s observation that a suit recently instituted by the NAACP in this state asking that the segregation requirement in the section of the N. C. Constitution establishing the public school system in the state be stricken down might re sult in a ruling that the whole constitutional structure for the public schools might fall with the fall of the provision for segrega tion of the xx'hite and Negro chil dren in the schools of the state. How you can arrive at the con clusion that this state is planning to destroy our public school sys tem is beyond my comprehension, or that the Attorney General is working up any such scheme. He is a conscientious official and an exceptionally good l[awyer. He was certainly rendering the state and all its citizens a real service in pointing out the probable out come of such a suit. Let’s apply a little gray-matter to the situation we noxv find ourselves in. Anyone familiar xvith North Carolina history knows full well that North Car olina’s public school system is a segregated system and that you can’t lop off half of an indivisi ble whole xxdthout destroying the whole. The status of our school system is now one xyithin the dis cretion of the General Assembly, as there is no constitutional man date for the support of an inte grated schools in the state, for which condition the NAACP and its backers should be given full credit. I .suppose the NAACP is acting on the assumption that the sup porters and backers of the North Carolina segregi . system, like the reift the child contestei l« .. the famous judge wbis bisecting the child iii '' “ each an half, xvill yidli *1^ to the fraudulent cliig Since the U. S. Sop;^ “ has not attempted li will not say that f' must maintain any system, let’s call toi election and integrated schools oi school system in Srt and do it this yearai everybody in suspd* next 20 or 30 years as! we will have any p# and if so, whether 1? worth a tinker’s ' floi lb! 11 fi making every candid# General Assembly dfil self as to whether or ti support, that is, vote I* riations for ordered ^ schools or not, and teachers, parents andt- such ordered inteS»lJ in doubt as to their vote on an araendnieit' ganic law and ilos lack Ires! tors; game luw r- ^ argument, confusion" !de ness; otherwise, «'f * little hell here and r state of ours. And this is to do things for now great demand. John"."" -y pittsboro, •' n ^ y , Published every Thursday bv tbe I*. ear aiK JI( laid liss thai ar of lie Hae Gl( w er I f Box Te.sort xvlieii the second liinri- cane came up. Though the ax'IikI xvas menacin” she in- •ststed on hax ing a surl hath. ^Vhen the exacuation order Axas issued a guard came up. ou'II hax e to come out, little girl", he said. "Little girl hell ", said the lady. "J’m sixtv s'ears old-”
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