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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1955
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Time But Little Else
The University trustees will, by appealing
from the three-man court decision that race
and color of skin must not determine under,
graduate admissions, gain some time but lit
tle else.
by taking this non-compliance attitude the
trustees have obliged the University to join
those Southern .school authorities who have
allowed themselves lo be forced into a de
fensive position.
1 he University can gain no ground in this
situation or any other by acting always on
the defensive. This cannot fail to be a weak
position.
If the University loses this appeal, its de-
feat will be all the more humiliating-
Friends of the University cannot help feel
ing that the University had an opportunity
to take a magnanimous, gracious, and digni-
field position, but has lost it by taking
refuge in technicalities.
It is to the credit of Federal Judge John
J. Parker, who like some of the other trustees
is a University alumnus, that he dissented
from the decision to appeal. Judge Parker
realizes that the words “university” and “un
iversal” come from the same stem.
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A Long Way to Go
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liberty is not yet secure in the USA.
Waldo frank, author, has been refused a
passport to go to Asia, including China.
And although Dr. John P. Peters, professor
at Yale Medical School, has been cleared by
the US Supreme Court for a classified govern
ment jiroject, he has not been accorded the
riglit of facing his accusers, as demanded by
the US constitution.
And neither has Frank.
I'hus the State Department and the Justice
Department, which are supposed to have the
.special duty of upholding the Constitution,
have been taking the leadership in ignoring it
or breaking it down-
So it cannot be said that the American
Dark Age, through which we have been pas.s-
ing, is Vet done with. We have rolled up some
ol its edges, but publih Officials all sworn to
uphold the US Constitution, are obstinately
clinging to the cloud that smothers it.
In part this situation is the result of ig-
norance ol the US Constitution on the part
of the average citizen. He does not know its
chief provisions, especially the Bill of Rights,
and there exists no agency ready to teach
him.
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Hence he can be bullied by any petty of-
ficial clothed in a uniform and a growl, and
is liable to find his rights canceled by any
Washington office-holder who can wall him
self off from public by a secretary and a door
guard.
Fhe schools are already heavily burdened,
but if they could take on the task of acquaint
ing every pupil with his fundamental rights
as an American and a citizen, there would be
fewer of these impudent encroachments at
Washington and elsewhere.
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Inviting a Reaction
el is Baptist Favorite
The following from the Richmond County
Journal about the recent auto race at Darl
ington, S.C., .should receive consideration by
all citizens:
“A .sportewriter’s comment that if all the empty
beer cans .seen at the Darlington race Labor Day
were stretched end to end the line would surely
reach Milwaukee, was no exaggeration. The drink
ing before, during and after the Labor Day race was
such as this writer has never seen, and that includes
other trips to previous Darlington races, innumer
able college football games, and a trip to the In
dianapolis “500” not long ago.
The race started before lunch and did not end
until late afternoon. By that time many of the 50,000,
drinking on an enipty stomach, were in an ad
vanced stage of drunkenness.
Because of this, ihere were many fistfights
among the spectators, and driving on the highways
after the race was over was dangerous indeed. Po
lice walked by obviously dead drunk men and wo
men because it would have taken hglf the jails in
all South Carolina to hold them all.”
No people will forever allow their roads
and public places to be thus converted into
a unholy spectacle of the kind described here.
If this sort of conduct continues, we should
not be astonished if a reaction sets in and an
other movement toward national prohibition
is started.
We should remember that a totally dry
country resulted once from just such displays
and excess, and what was done once cen be
done again. I'he beer and liquor peo
ple c:‘‘n help the police by doing some polic
ing themselves.
Belier Cadillacs or Better Classrooms?
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at; every crossroads in the
leng|h -apd breath of our State
(is) j\he inscription: “This way to
Beth El Chapel,’”
So ohee wrote Harry Golden,
editor of “The Carolina Israe
lite,’! in discussing the influence
of the Jewish people, as a con
tinuing cultural and religious
group, upon the consciousness
and day-to-day living of North
Carolinians,
Mr, Golden’s impression of the
pletJiOi'8 of Bethels was correct.
The iname, according to a recent
study,by ‘^Charity and Children.”
is thg rndst popular among Bap
tist eljurches in the State. There
are 33 Baptist Bethels (and cer
tainly at least a scattering repre
senting other Protestant denomi
nations).
lory. At Bethel Church on the
Virginia . Peninsula, Confederate
troops from this state “were
first” in an early Civil War en
gagement.
Other names dear to the Bap
tist faith likewise have a grisly
place in records. Shiloh might as
quickly bring to mind a blood
bath as a river baptism. Country
churchyards were a frequent
arena for the God-feai-ing men
who fought the war of the ’six
ties.
Chips That Fall
NOT AN ULCER VICTIM
(By EDWARD P. MORGAN, AFL Radio News Analyst)
The kids are back to school and
in the ensuing quiet, parents may
be templed to limit their thoughts
about education to prayers of
thanks for that handy invention
which reduces household bedlam
at this time of year. There never
ceases to be something new to
learn on the subject, however,
and perhaps the problem of edu
cation has never needed such
full, serious, sober and intelli
gent public attention as it needs
right now.
The building shortage Ims not
been eased. The teacher shortage
has not been eased. One of the
cores of the question, the quality
of leaching, remains below par
because for some strange, irpnic
reason our flowering civilization
is more willing to pay for quality
in a Cadillac than in a classroom.
itable. The person who attends
college, according to statistics,
may expect to earn upwards of
$100,000 more during his lifetime
than the one who does not.
Even so, he notes, parents com
plain of the “current ‘high’ cost of
higher education; yet the rise in
per capita income has been rough
ly three times as great as the rise
in college tuition.”
“During the past 25 years,”
the Harvard president reveals,
“the salaries of teachers in col
leges, measured in terms of stable
purchasing power, rose less than
about one-sixth as much as the
rise of per capita income meas
ured in the same way.”
Financially, one could argue
from that, teachers are not sec
ond-class but sixth-class citizens.
education in the next quarter
center, he says, is training the
exceptional few drawing out fully
the talents of the ablest inem-
bei's ol each age group. “For it
is the exceptional person — ob
serves Pusey of Harvard — one
might almost say the eccentric-
person—who all along has been
opening the way toward a fuller
life for all of us. We ignore him
at our cost.”
Where do you find these ex
ceptional people? You never quite
know. They live on every side of
town.
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The people planning the No
vember White House conference
on education, and the rest of us
for that matter, would do well,
I tliink, to grasp a few fragments
from “The Exploding World of
Education,” as an article by Hai'-
vard University President Nathan
M. Pusey is called in the Septem
ber issue of Fortune Magazine.
Education, Pusey says cannily
to a profit-minder nation, is prof-
KEEP PETS CONFINED
We would like to make two
suggestions which might go a
long way toward the total elimi
nation ol stray dogs and cats:
1. Expand and improve the
dog warden system.
2. A public education campaign
to discourage the cruel practice
of dumping kittens and puppies
out in the woods to fend for
themselves.
We are now in the time of year
when game species are most vul
nerable to stray dogs and cats.
Somewhere near half the prob
lem would be solved if pet own
ers would keep their animals con-
hncd~WiUllife in N. C.
Cities and states are burdened
now: where are the funds ade
quate to education’s soaring de
mands going to come from? Pusey
predicts a'growth of “mixed sup
port,” that is more goveramerit
funds but more contributions too
from individuals, alumni groups,
foundations and industry. Paren
thetically, along with big busi
ness, organized labor is giving
more and more attention—and
money—to education. Unless sup
port scores of individual scholar
ships and some months ago the
American Federation of Labor
made its first grant to Ohio State
University from the William
Green Foundation —$100,000 in
scholarships.
The money may be wasted,
Pusey implies, if our objective is
not quality. Quality in teachers to
inspire the appreciation of hu
man values that are always get
ting lost, or obscured or under
valued, in a workaday world.
Quality in the sj-stem: getting
competence doesn’t mean, neces
sarily, we are also getting wis
dom. Training the millions is a
vast challenging chore, but the
hardest problem facing American
While the population of the
nation has approximately doubl
ed since 1910, enrollment in ap
proved schools of medicine has
increased more than 125% —
from 12,500 to 28,200 students. In
1910 there were only 3,165 phy
sicians graduated from approved
medical schools, as compared to
6,861 in 1954, an increase of
115%. Within the next five years
there will be 10 new four-year
medical schools in operation,
bringing the nation’s total to 90.
— Elmer Hess, M.D., president of
AMA.
TOBACCO BALLOTS
Just hovz strongly the (tobac
co) problem may affect North
Carolina is indicated by the Agri
culture Department’s final tabu
lation on the flue-cured tobacco
growers in the marketing quota
vote.
Marketing quotas for the next
three years were approved by
95.5 per cent of the flue-cured
growers who voted.
Total ballots cast in North Car
olina reached 134,046. Of the
farmers from four other states
who voted. South Carolina had
the second highest. Its total vote
was only 28,454. — Greensboro
Daily News
This “Charity and Children”
studjy is limited to Baptist
churehes'. and in the main to
names shared by 10 or more
“There are a number of surpris
es,” 'notes editor Marse Grant.
“For, example, there aa-e only
four! Grade churches. Temple, an
other Well known name, missed
out in the “10 or more” list, with
only eight churches bearing this
name, Immanuel is the name of
only four churches.
Here is “Charity and Child
ren’s” list of churches which ap
pear 10 times or more in the
North Carolina convention an
nual;
Antioch, 25; Bethel, 33; Beth
any, 12; Beulah, 15; Calvary, 25;
Corinth, 15, Fairview, 13 Mace
donia, 18; Mountain View, 16;
Mount Carmel, 11; Mount Olive,
12; Mount Pleasant, 14; Mount
Zion, 21; Oak Grove, 30; Pleasant
Grove, 21; Pleasant Hill, 13;
Rivetside, 11; Shady Grove, 10;
Shiloh, 11; Southside, 11; Taber
nacle, 10; Union, 12; and Zion
Hill, 11.
Bethel, the favorite name of
North Carolina Baptists, means
House of God. At the original
Bethel, on the watershed of the'
Judean hill country, in Palestine,
Abraham pitched his tent and
built an altar; here Jacob had his
vision; and here was found the
Aric of the Covenant. It was visit
ed yearly by Samuel when he
went on circuit to judge Israel.
Jeroboam welcomed the oppor
tunity to exploit its sacred asso
ciations for political ends, and
Bethel became a royal and na
tional shrine for the northern
kingdom. Situated on the fron-
teir between the two kingdoms it
passed eventually to Judah. Jos
hua destroyed its altar and de
secrated its site. It was one of
the strong places of Judah forti
fied by, Bacchides.
Contrary to the generally held
belief, the big business executive
is not plagued with ulcers and
does not suffer from overwork
leading to an early death. This
is one of the conclusions drawn
from Mabel Newcomer’s new
book, “The Big Business Execu
tive;. The Factors That Made Him,
1900-1950.”
From Hie data compiled/ by
Professor Newcomer we can put
togetlier .a ‘composite big busi
ness exiecutive” that will apply,
of course, to no one man but glar
ingly illuminates the whole mat
ter. The composite executive is 61
years of age, and he will retire at
70. His investments in his com
pany are less than 0.1 percent of
the total stock outstanding. He
is a Republican, an Episcopalian,
and he served the government
as an adviser during the war. He
is a native American and the son
of a small independent business
man. While relatively young and
inexperienced he obtained a
minor position with the corpora
tion he now heads and was pro
moted to the presidency at the
age of 52. — Pleasures of Pub
lishing, Columbia University.
tvell hidden in high grass
just where their four chil-
dren ivere likely to play.
Fortunately t h e copper
head is sluggish and rarely
attacks unless stepped on or
frightened. Its bite can'make
ai victim sick but is seldom
mortal. It can be recognized
by its brownisly coloring.
irimage of
(FRANK P, GRAHAM «f dedkiHon ef
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-Haynie in Atlanta Journal
The North Carolina Garden
Club has not only set aside these
ten acres for the flowers of this
region but also has chosen to
honor the name of a queen who
gave to history the name, Vir
ginia, and gave here ngme to one
of the great ages of history. In
six of the historic ages of our
western history which have taken
their names from rulers, the Age
of Pericles, the Augustan Age
the Elizabethan Age, and Age'
of Louis Xiy, the Napoleonic
Age and the Victorian Age, two
have taken their names from
women.
The Elizabethan Age was the
age in which the earlier Italian
Renaissancse came in rich mean
ings to England. The Renaissance
was the recovery of the ancient
classical culture, the fulfillment
ol the later middles ages, and
the beginning of the modern age.
This efflorescence of the human
spirit came to full flower in the
Elizabethan Age with its Mar
lowe, Spenser, Ben Jonson., Wil
liam Shakespeare, the defeat of
the Spanish Armada, the dreams
of Sir Walter Raleigh the vast
enterprise of the commerical
companies, and the struggles and
hopes of simple men and women
who founded oversease the do
minions, which, in their separate
ways, became the United States
of America and the British Com
monwealth of Nations.
Symbols and Leaders
Today noble women, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II,
Queen Juliana, Helen Keller,
Margaret Chase Smith, MadamC
Pandit and Begum Ali Khan, as
symbols and leaders represent
the present chapter in the long
pilgrimage of women from the
status of chattel property to per
sonality to spirituality in the
leadership of gre at humane
causes in the modern world. The
humanitarian crusades against
slavery, economic exploitation
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Cars roaring up Franklin
Street. Cars roaring down
Franklin Street. Congestion
and traffic tie-ups opposite
the Carolina Cafe. Jams and
standing lines in all the eat
ing places. Last-minute search
for rooms and apartments.
The University opened its
fall term today.
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icco Farmers'
An English setter’s rescue
of a small boy from a copper
head snake, related in Mon
day’s issue, is a reminder that
copperhea'ds are likely to he
stirring around at this time
of year, possibly looking for
a place to bask in the sun-
They are most likely to be
found in dense weeds and un
dergrowth, or a quiet corner.
The John Alcotts recently
found two in their garden.
By JOHN E. PILAND
Johnston County Farm Agent
I met a very interesting fellow
American the other day. His
namer was Joe Eschelman, and
he was from Weehawken, New
Jersey, a portion of that metro-
plitan mass that lies , just Wept
of the Hudson River adjecent to
New York’s borough iof' Manhat
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Mr. Eschelman was on his way
down in Dixie to spend some
vacation time and stopped in
Smilhfield to see the safe of to
bacco about which he had heard
so much. ,
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red back -to Dial fit]
tobacco and toMli
■true that manyl
$750.00 worth oi i
acre. I told him 11
700 acres of tobici
tj’, and it brougkt
■money but into
were some things
know. We share!
among 38,000 fan f
county living in IIS
family units, 11
it requires W
to produce one ani
We entered the warehouse
where the familiar chaiit of the
auctioneer was being heard
across golden rows of tobacco
leaf. He listened for a moment
and turned to me, saying, “I do
not understand anything they
say, but these farmers seem to
be understanding all that is go
ing on.” "
I told him that was nut un
usual, since many people seeing
a tobacco auction for the first
time had no idea what was going
At this he was!
quickly did some lip
head. “Why that is
dollar and
for their labor. Tie (
in my shop gets*
dollai'S per
I informed Joel
culations were wroK
one dollar and li
hour. I
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.ers, fertilizers, ii*
ing equipment
ings necessary
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poisonous snake that
quents the Chapel Hi
neighborhood.
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NO TOWEL
Little Ebby, who had a talent
for getting into mischief, ran into
the kitchen with a brighter-than-
usual gleam in her eyes.
“Mommy,” she announced im-
portanely. “I gave the kitty a
bath.”
“But what towel did you use?”
her mother asked anxiously.
“I didn’t use any,” she answer
ed, “I just wrung him out.”—
Sniithfield Herald
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with saddle shaped markings, of experience in listening, were Jpe,” I said to to
tiiangular head, and pits be- well awaie of the progress of the tiy primming ft®
fore its eyes. It is the only sale. es on a hot da)
’ ’ fre- ' We looked at a few of the should try hreaft
1 tickets that had been marked, ers. You shorn
and we saw them marked at 12 falling of over
cents a pound, 37 cents a poUnd, rain in a montt
46 cents a pound, and 57 cents a was maturing. T j
pound. He picked up a ticket off preeiate, Joe ft*
, a pile selling ^t 53 cents and said .are not so hrigM’
to me -rather excitedly, “Why
that seems like a wonddrful
price. How many pounds of this
can a farmer make per acre?”
I told him about 1500 pounds
in a good year. He quickly fig
ured in his head and said, “Hy
goodness, that is $750.00 per acre.
These farmers must be doing all
right.” I said it was hot quite
that way—^that I wOiild explain
later.
After watching the sale i little
more and answering his many
There’s been a strong hu
man reaction against snakes,
all snakes, since the time of
Eve. Yet most snakes ip these
parts are harmless and even
beneficial. Recently a
car
stopped on a country road
just as a black snake glided
by. The occupants got out
and pounded the snake to
death. They had just as well
been destroying a five-dollaT
bill. The black snake
IS
wouh that much a year in
its destruction of rodents and
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‘ c s. t does exact a toll,' questions, I asked Joe to come
o\\ e\ er, by raiding hen and sit oh a pile of tobacco with
FOURTEEN MILLIONS
nests. We’ve even seen
xh'
egg-
stretching itself over a goose
it me—that there were a few things
Ijre name of Bethel has mili-
tai-y implications to North Caro
lina as well as to ancient his-
The August 13 issue of North
Carolina Facts reveals that at the
end of no fiscal year since 1942-
1943 has sm'plus money in the
General Fund been less than
$14,000,000, and yet we are told
each year that the General As
sembly is “scraping the bottom
of the barrel” to do all it can to
help meet the apparent needs of
our schools. Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!
—JY. C. Education
. community is suffer
ing from the worst blague
of mosquitoes, midges, and
gnats seen since carpetbag
rtavs. The mosquitoes don’t
wait for nightfall or sound
a war cry, but silently attack
by daylight. Recent wet
weather and standing .water
are blamed. We wonder how
much empty beer cans are
Even if we escape the insect
plague, we run the risk of
being submerged tinder beer
cans.
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contributing to the scourge, with
We had just heard that i
recent bride received 23 trays
as ts'edding gifts and sup
posed this was tops when we
learned that a previhus bride
had received 47 trays- Yet
wives say they never have
quite enough bowls to do
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