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'4. i'; i’1 it ’Sf Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas VOL. II NO. 77 MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1955 The Children Await a Decision (ioiinlics and localities iniisl do more to meet tlieii s( liool hidldin;^ needs. 1 lies :i e not to uail on Sitite nione)'. This is the ine.ssa,^e just deli\ered both by (.oxei nor lIod_;cs ;ind the .State .Vd\ i.sor\ (lonnnitlec-. . .\l the same lime the (.oxernor let it he known in ;i speech at Kinston that hy iplio "there will he :i total nc-ed ol ‘;()i million lor sc hool ( oust i iicl ion." lie looked lorward to a ■■d(.‘ricii ol '',o'' million which will also litcxc' to he raised hy loc;d commnniiies il the needs arc' to he completely met.” Me sut^^L’esled that some reliel might he lonnd hy ccpc'ialing the sc hools in sidlls ; :id by seeking hiiildings to hc' honghi or letised. .\t this |)oinl the cpieslion might he ;isk- rd: Why doesn't the I'. S. (icwernmenl, which can raise billions lor deicnse ag.dnsl an cnemx that conld nexer land cai the.w ties ;tnd loctdities. .Mettntime the people ol the Slate xxill want to know hoxx’ much longc'r the' 2.”, mil lion icmaiiung Irom the school hond issue is to he held hack. Il would :d.so inxite a re).)orl as to how manx' ndllions rem ;n iin- .s|jeni ol the iirst hall ol that hond issnc'? W'hile the cpic'slion ol' school luncls lelcis hitek ;ind lorih hetween locailitie.s. counties, Si.'ite, and Id'clertil goxernmenl. new xvtixes ol' children tire coming lorwiiicl- Survival Schools and Sense Citi/.ens who aic wondc'iing what has got inic» ihc' .\ir I'orce will he inclined to sit])- poll the ('.ongrc'ssman who linds the xixal schools’ run hy the .Air I'orce x.da to he ;i “senselc'ss |rrodncl.'' 11 the prinic'd accomris ol the sur- i n \ e- ot;gaid/.ed lortinmg arc correct, the snrxixtd schools are worse than senseless; they ;n e enconr.iging ;m exil example' ol hrntalily which moie rc- semhlc's that ol Pi nssiani/.ed (.ei inanx' than ol the rsA. The' tortnres inllicled on .American air men in ordc'r to "toiighen " them lor their possible roles as prisonc'ts in the Icinds ol ruinre captors might lc';'''d to ;i hestialiix cm the one hand and a ic-liiu'd crnell)' on ilu' oihc'r that cimld sprc'acl. When degrading mental ttiicl psychic in still is added to phxsicail punishment midei olTicitil gttidttiice, ihc' tixerr-ge citi/c'ii will con tinue to wonder what htis h;ip|)ened in so many ctimps and posts ol the aimed lorces that rccitiils bring back repoiis ol imnecc's- sary hi iiltdi 1 ies which ttre clean otilsitie the .American t radii ion, .\n .Americtm rc'ciiiit does not lose his in- dix idittdily, cit i/c itship, tend his right to clc'- cenl irealment merely, because he puts on the' imilorm ol his country, or because he is in tc remote' camp wheie the orclinarx ilian i ulc's tirc' not obserxed. Sonic' ol the airmen who through the surx'ixtd schools' c(l no physical injury, hut ctni they he ctx - iiaxe say tliC’ pas.sed sulTer- [iroiid to look hack u))on a tnulilicm ol t(>rture|' Pint-Size Case in the Courts i'C'cler.il Judge Wilson Warlick, silling in lIu' I'. S, \\'c'sl III District (ionrl at Sliites- , x illc'. Ic'x ied a ri"C' oi g, lo c'ac h on i.] persons conx'icted ol dc'aiiiig in ])int sizes ol licpior. Me lignrcd that tlic' taxes inx'oix'ed xvould amount to ;i‘houi S pi, wlu're;i,s hc c'stiimiic'd llu' goxc'rnmc'iil h ici snc'iit tthoul .Sio.ccoo to bring lIu' c;rscs to court, |( " ihoiisancl dollars spent to collect Spi — il lie.SC' arc' ibc' proportions to he lounci Jii the iederal courts, what cttti be c'xpecied ol ilu' inleiior courts where less elTiciency is likc'lyi I hc' c iimbroiisiu'ss, clc'kix, ;ind cobwc'bbing that h;mg tdioiit court procc'diires has rectni- Ix bc'eii the theme' ol jurists long .issociated with legal matters. Ibit die pronouncc'inent, by Judge' Warlick that he xxill not longg-r xxasle his time xxith such pic.tyune and dis- jxroporlinnate cases dramali/es the need liir ;i housec k'aning and rex ision oi the xvliole structure' oi the' administralion ol justice in ;dl kinds ol courts, Stale as xxc'll as kederal. Justice' is traditionally represented by sxni bolic iignre.s xvhich arc' blind, lint it .t.ppe.iis tliai the rc'bed iigiirc' oi Justice' xx'oiild be much more' acciiralc'ly represented by moss rathc'i than by marble. Why is the accumulation oi juridical mos.s toleraic'd in a nation that likes to admire its oxxn xcorship ol eliicienc)? W'hx' does tiu' leg al proiession put up xx'ith the xvasle oi time atiel enc'i'gy agisocitilc'd xvilh the courisr Whx’ e jurists content ic) iraxc'l in a donkey cant xchile tlu' rest oi the xx'orld is going past in a 2yt) h.p. aiitomobtle? The Race Toward Ruin riu' Russian lorc'igti ministc'i, \’. M. Mol- oiox , has oiic'ii been pie lured ior the .Amc'i i- c.in pc'opic' as a cold ;mcl sinister iigure, bur wlu'tlu'i hc' is sincc'ic' or not, x\ho tan sax' lu' xxas not talking sense' xxlu'ii Ik pointc'd out in a spc'ech bc'ioic' the' I'nited Nations ill,It lilt' military r.icc' is ruining the' nations?' Said he': ■■ Knornioiis matc'ii.il tnicl liinmui rt'- ,source's .irt' bc'ing dixc'ric'tl lor xcar prc'|w ar.iliotrs instead ol being iisc'cl lor con- striiclixc' pnijX'sc's, to impioxt' the xx'el- l.irt' ol the pc'opIc' and to bt'nc'iil econ- c.miie ally undt'i-dc'xclopt'd coiinti ic's ;mel areas." J he' aiimimenti ligurc's lor Russi.i ;ne tm- knoxxii, but in the' S. xve knoxv that txco thirds—.ilniost Ihi c'c'-loin Ilis—ol the n;ilional budget goes lor mililarx' purposes. II this as- lronomi(;d sum, or anx substanli;d part oi it. xxere dc'X'ou'd to the xilal nt'ccls ol the pres- cni dax, xre might soon xxitness a trttnsloi’- mation in natioird xx'ell-being. I'or example', ii anx decent proportion oi the sum noxx' bt'ing spent on armaments, most oi xxhich xx ill be olrsolele in :t iexr xe;;;s, xxerc' s|)eut on the schools and the' general promotion oi the sciences and arts, xxe mighi bit human progress a xx'hole sit'p and en courage lilt' birth oi a lu'xx' era. Moloiox's motixfS max be douhtliil, hut tert;iitilx his xx'ords arc' not. I’mt hoxx' dot's Secrc'iarx' oi State Dulles receixe his coiii- mc'nts?-' Said he: "It st'c'mt'd to me to he d restatemc'iu "oi 'old positions. 1 didn't see anything uexx' in it." I'lu'rc is indc'c'd nothing nexx' in tiie crtix- ing lor pe:ict' and the' dread oi xxiir. 1 h'csc' tilings art' as old as the earth. I’nit does that condeinn them?-' "H6X» About Hotdirig It Here TO Simulate School Conditions? shores, lic'lj) to delt'iid the childien’s right to deex'iit schooling?-' 'riu' goxerntiK'nf has discussc'd the ide;i. exen ii xx'ithout great enthusiasm; hut exen ii Congress xx'ere induced to appropriate xast sums to mc't'l the' eehieiilional crists xxhi'h groxx's huger xea’r by year, il might attach ;t prox'i.sion sax'ing the' monc'y could not he used ior sc'grc'gated schoc/ls. d'h.it means the ililc'iiima xx'oulel lall tight hack on the' ectun- Any Humor in the Bible"!^ By SIDNEY SWAIM ROBINS Henry Ward Beecher made a good many funny reniark.s in the pulpit, and once .said that if'he could get a congregation to laugh he asked no help to make them cry. As he saxv it, humor i.s a key to tiie human heaH and a real tool of religion. Many great: preachers have hold the same opinion. I once heard a famous revivalist tell his audience, with some offect,"that if the Lord had intended people to make .snioice-^ stacks of their noses life' xvot/l’d' have tinned them the other' vi-ay up. ‘ But in Lucien Brice’s" ‘‘Dia logues with Alfred North' White- head”, they ail agree lliat thete is no humor in our Bible. The philosopher himself comes back to the point several times, and says he is amazed at this lack of humor. One suggestion he makes is that humor may be a rather modern invention. That might make it a religious im- probemenl. Another suggestion lie makes is that the deep ser iousness of religion may be ad versely affected by applying our sense of humor to it. It would be out of place. That idea looks sort of opposite to Beecher’s, even if hc only used humor as an approach-shot. say whether the time to laugh ever comes in the synagogue, or at worship; and he is the second least religious writer in the Bible anyhow. Proverbs and wise saws are a kind of side-line in religion. And another time he says that mourning is better than laughter. In my Cruden’s concordance there are thirty three places where the- words ‘laicgh’, ‘laught er’, ‘laughed’, ‘laughing’, ‘laugh- elii’, occur. In not a single one of them, except where it is God laughing at fools for their fol ly, does there seem to be any thing real to laugh ab'out. When it is, people laughing, they are usually the wrong ones - to do it. It is, a case of scoffers laughing at the pious, or at be- lieyers in God. It is jeoring. A iew times the righteous jeer back at the sinners—a,s if they could not be sinners themselves. In any case there is nothing humorxtus. sympathetic, soul-fill ing, about it. Of course humor does not al- v.'ays lie upon the surface, and maybe .there are instances of it in .the, Bible that have escaped Cruclen. Chips That Fall The first question is certainly whether they are right in their fact, about the, Bible being total ly without humor. Most of us have road, or heat'd read a lot of the Bible, one time or anoth er. Probably we can speak up and say whether we have exTr been struck by an humor in it, anything that made us want to laug'.it heartily. And give exam ples'? How about if? The writer of Ecdcsiastb;§” says there is a lime to weep and a time to huigh; but hc does not Federal Power Plants are Big Aid to Taxpayers From The Oil Worker Are the Tciinessee Valley xx'csiein irrigation itrojeds and •similar rc.sourcos tlevdopmonl.s •suitsidi/ed by the n.ition's tax- Itayers'? Or is the rexei'se nctirer Wie truth: Do T\’.\, iri'igtition projects and other federal resouice de velopments subsidize the .u'eit- erai taxpayers'? The hitter i.s iieiiresl tlie truth, iict'orilin.g to Goiigressman ('hot Holifield of (’idifornia, who used this draiiiiilic way of putting the matted to defend federal resouree dex'elopmeni inxesiments again.-;! Hooxer Coomission eOlidsm. Holifield oiled two studies of tiix returns to prixe his case. T\'.-\ Kxiimple: The U. S. has invested a little more than .SI..5 billion in the Tennessee Valley iiroii since 1933. In 1933. individual income tax- piixers in flte soxen’Tenho.'sce X’allex' states were |iaying 3.4 per cent of all indix'iaital income lax revenues collected by the Treas ury. Twenty years later, xx'ith TVA in opendittn, citizens of llte same area were Pitying a much liirger proportion of individual income taxe.s—(i.l per cent of the natioiiiil total. 'This is a gain of 2,7 per cent in the itroporiion of the tax burden ciirried by the citizens of the area. In 1953 alone, this 2,7 per cent giiin represented an ineroiise ot more than $1 Itillion In i.teonic tax collection trom the -area over the pro-TVA rate. Since the ineeption of TVA, the increased proportion ot laxc.s piiid out ot the valley state.s has iimounted to more titan S8 billion - -about five tinu's 'I'N'.Vs cost. In addition to paying these greatly increased taxes, the TVA is amortizing its full cost over 40 yeais at public tiiiiincing fiiles. lleelamation example: Holitield's second example was a study of 15 woslern irrigation prxtjeets recently published by the Inter ior & Insular Attains Comniill.oo. The 15 irrigation projects cost Undo Sam $209 million. The Bureau of Rcelamation ttibulated income taxes paid by irrigators and others ''whose business or employment stems trom the con.struclion” ot the projects. Tliey found that since 1910 Ihc federal income lax reve nue arising as a result of these 15 projects amounted to $1.3 bil lion. The 38-year adx'antago (o the general taxpayers trom ,the 15 projects altet" ctoducUng the total n;iti(''nal inxeslnicnt in them, thus was $1,031,000,000. “These projeels xvould have paid for themselves live times over, through inereased income taxes, even if irrigation tarmers and power revenues hatl not paid ar.yt'ning," ('ongressman Holifield wrote. “Long after tiie irrigalois and pt'wer rexemies ha'’o ptnd of! all the costs of Ihcsc pro jects, the increased tax revenues from direct and nearby bcnefdc- itiries xvill gn on pouring money into the Treasury," Il is improper to contend that general taxpayers are subsidizing and conferring special be.nefit.s on a lew areas with resources development investments, the Galifortiia Congressman con tended. On the contrary, the pro jects seem to be subsidizing the general taxpayers. Congressman Ilolilicld's exam ples di'aniatized an issue of growing importance in national allairs. The Hoover reports, which xxerc highly critical ol federal poxvers, reclamation, navi.galion. Hood control and resources pro ject investments, climaxed con sistenl Eisenhower Administra tion eftoits to cut drastically such api.roi'.rialions. Tor exiam- lile. Bureaus of. Reclamation funds hax'e I'ceii (-uf p'ntciieiilly' in halt since 1952- If the fact is as the Whitehead group, find it, it is surprising on the surface at least. No people tell more funny stories or have more , funny ones told on them than the Jews. The Puritans, who' stressed Bible religion a lot, maybe didn’t take their sense of humor to church with them, or, find it active there; but ,lo judge, by tliejr . Yankee descendants they , .had plenty of humor in their-system. Is Beecher all wrong tlic.n.'? William ,Ellery Channing, a great liberal preacher shortly before Beecher,, .is said to have made just one joke on the public rec ord. One wintry, icy, morning, pas.sing a wind-searched corner of Boston Common, he remarked; ‘:,Some one ought to pasture a s'aorn Ignib on this corner”. But Beecher has a lot of com pany now.- Ough-f.*. real religion to;^ ,make5,i,„peop!e -’more good-na- tuAedri-lid'-feenial? .-^Why, or why riot? ■ .’■'A.ii, A ' i; i--', ■: ★ ★ ★ In rclereitce to a new and roaiing niultilnde ol tars thtit has swept over the toxvn sint'c the I ttiversiiv' opened, a story is going arotind abttiu ;t Ireslnnaii on registration day being liandcd a card on xvhich to register his t:ar. ilaid he: Do I have to register l)oth ol' then!?" ★ Di- (jC'trge ii. (.uiteit, xxho spends his suniniers in Abtine and has just returned front a latation ti.ere, has a way 'vhen on the road to keep diet slitn a„d hittiseli' hwake. I'or lunch he takes tally two eiij.K oi coliee. -I hey aliord suilicient nntii- |h)n while jtreventing him L'otti noddiug. at tJie wheel. J lie shortest and mo.st eogent utteiance ever tnadc i>i'gilist so far as we bitotx ('ante Irom tiie deleat- ed .Archie Moore W ednesday asked which '>l‘a\-‘5 l)y (.Marciano hurt him the ni-).sf, I,,,;;,';" “'i K' V—■ ■ ''$58'3t,?Si:j||ilON AzVmtjrican bnsiitc's|, wall need about jS80 bHlipn i’|i new capi- lit! betx^'een' now 'ari'd 1965, .re ports; a -new bookI,gt, “The Story Oj Creative Capital” by Dupont. Barring war or economic col lapse.this capital can provide a 20 to 25 per cent rise in living standard.s, create 12 million new jobs, and increase substantially leisure time. An estimated $230 billion will be required to replace woin-out or obsolete facilities, -another $350 billion to provide jobs and a rising living standard for a growing population. A major portion of this capi tal wiil'corae from retained earn- The remainder m'iisl'atthc‘Trom individual savings. I'all began last Ft iday 'viieii the e(|uiiiux arrived to make darkness etpial dav- From now on, the “iR'Fts will g-ain and the d;'vs -sliorien while the snn (Imvn and halts above J^oinli .America on the ver-e o Chri.stmas. Fhe tnelan- V ‘lay-s have come except on lootball Saturdays. Big Question On tiie first school day I know a teacher who was explaining to Fe irst graders that if anyone Fad to go to the washroom, they .-should hold up two fingers The voice of a little girl came from -■e back of the room, “How’s Aea.s-IIcrald Chapel Hill Boy, U Becomes Associate Pyh 'DOC' BLODGETT Far away, but not too long ago, a Chapel Hill small boy stood at the nation’s busiest crossroads Times Square, up in New York and had good reason to teel both lonely and neglected. He had stopped in New York for just one purpose, to buy his favorite pa per which he hadn’t seen for several days. And there, at the goal of all this search, that paper hadn’t come. It reached him later on (in a most Surprising way) but that g.-ts ahead of our story. In com plicated go-’.roii;id, the essence shanes like this: The boy him.self, is Ro.ger While, 11, of 19 Patterson Place, whose father teaches geology here at the University. Now Roger has been taught to think for himself, and his thoughts come up like granite. Kind ot single-purposed. Txvo years ago, Roger pattern ed out his life ahead. The West Coast seemed inviting, and the boy said, “That’s for me.” Seat tle marks the spot. Seems kind of distant, for Roger has not yet been -^'est of Asheville. Washington Post 'j'lte auto mamiiactiii'ei's ttie g'iv'itig' some recogiiitioti to the sal'ety iaetois. koi'd'.s new ear has the wheel built in the ioriti oi a well so that the Fatal (enter post xxnll in case oi collision stiikc the driver last instead oi iirst. 'riiere ate also reports oi salely , belts being bnilt in s(>nM' (Virs. ' but what will Jiigjiwav saletv ('anipaigns amount to when cars are being Ituilt to do more than 120 miles a.n hour in slates xxliose leg al limit is dy Now Roger plans his ^ plans w'ith eyes wide open. He studies V,'hat’s ahead. Today, he knows Seattle like a native son. He can name Rs streets' and alleys, its palaces and dives. The action of its* City Council is his special dish. And how does Roger White catch up with this? ^ Ah yes... the povx'er of the printed word . .. the Post-Intelli gencer. As going on 100 years, that fine old paper has produced some topside dope. And Roger eats it alive. Now rumor says he gets the thing from some-odd local trash supply, but that is neither here nor there. In New York We now shift scenes to lofty spires, and further introduce the “villain” of this piece: Not ling ago, Roger hit New York. It was somewhat more “hit- run” than strictly/‘hit”, for time was pretty scanty. The visit took shape between trains. And trains, themselves, were plenty off the beam as due to Hurricane Di anne. The deal sized up to mainly gawp, and sprint. Now comes the “villain”—ami able, at that—big “Doc” Blod gett, once of Chapel Hill. “Doc” had wandered down from Ithaca, N.Y., to intercept such Whites as he could find and ask about af fairs in Carolina. “Doc” writes copy for the northeast circuit. ■Whites-grown-up had stringent schedules of their o'vn, so he took on the Roger-detail. “Doc” looked at his wat^h. and wondered how to make time count. Said he to Roger. “Shall we try the Chrysler Tower?” Roger settled things head-on. “I have got to go to that ‘place on Times Square’,” he flatly said, “to buy a Post-Intelligencer.” Tracks wore thuswise made. The man at Times Square was friendly, but also just fresh-out. TV HELP IN READING The TV screen now may have a part in tea(?hing Johnny to read better, WUNC-TV has scheduled its first course of the kind, “Reading in the Elementary School,” be ginning Sept. 27. It vMll origi nate from Woman’s College. Teachers may take the course for credit or they—and parents themselves—many take it for their own personal enrichment. Woman’s College has assigned three teachers to the semester’s course, beginning with Dr. Char les E. Prall, dean of the School of Education, and continuing with Miss Edith Huffman and Miss Elizabeth Ann Liddle of the education faculty. The course will be for two half- hour .periods — Tuesday and Thursday—each week, beginning at 8 p.m. It will carry two se mester hours of graduate credit. The nationwide discussion of methods in teaching has focused- interest in the forthcoming TV series. HOW YOU GET HURT Identification by Cornell Uni versity investigators of the majw’ causes of automobile injury as (1) forcible ejection through opened doors, (2) contact with the instrument panel, (3) contact with the header strip and wind shield and (4) contact with the steering components, has been possible because of the help bi North Carolina physicians afd Highway Patrol in collecting (lata. New editions My moment, eare to wait; carcj 1;,,, ""“didn’t budse ! All New Y04 " past, in " from evervrt’ Ihm ,7 ” Jtij All that iust one spit eye-s were ginej, empty nexvsstajj how due. out. I "1 his heart . shaa msitatiomsoflns.^, thing seemed hrsi It up in disgust, . The man atPeaanj the Ithaca express yet, said “Doc'' j tude, 'Til tab a I,(j Hours and itiowj tile Lehigh Valle;» •^ed a vague ifa' Mce upon a tinn.ti ed, hed met fc goncer’s publislet;/ guy,.if reeollecli’5 “Doc” .scared ip j from somewhere and forthwith weilf sultant copy was a as slanted to a lini York and a brew;, boy. He thought till fic washed woaldhi] to, know. The squib got s Shamokin, Pennsjhi forgot the dealialJ of autumn-colored tul put behind fron York” seemed good, Back to thi Now to Chape! || one fell swoop: Her e, as ot yet; the postman loolit AVhite. The postimit, tie”, with bright. C. B. Liiidemai, li.sher, had this toil First, he cxptesidii t’.ie early sell-out ii Then he promisfd Post-Intelligencer, M| a solid year to ook. the best to last, te shapes like this: “...because ot interest in Seattle mi: ty to this like very nnu our staff as lislier. The toii|*i v-ery much ($1 P neither are Occasionally, 1 call on you fa ail«| cism, but I proMi’l den you with dt® . I am enck for one dollar, wit personally as an •?" Ijsher, and I W a great deal ot W® Perhaps it no*» off to spurn Ne* '’>-'1 Now up at ent, friendly sort*! “Doc” — phone — upia® of like a ei's the di ^ er says k w'oot!'*' for Roger: And what says Well, Roger dor-'*'' but those bigto"|sel kind of say: “Gee whizz itei CKAKlB'lLq published every 1 'Thursday by tie ^ Company, ^ Pul Chapel I®'! Street Address^" Tclepbo”'’ Phillips ^ssell Roland L. M. E. J- Haiiili'’ - ^rt Jlint«^ - Entered N. C. 5/I«79
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