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M EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas VOL. II, NO. 78 Three in a Room 'I'lic ainiouiKciiK'ni by llic 1'nivc‘rsil.y hoiisiiyi'' olTiccr, f. b. Wadsworth, that wlicii ;i, vactiiicy occurs in a ‘>|-inaii room, the two students lelt nitty reitiiu the room by jtayiiig it small extra sum, illustrates to what an ex tremity the rnixersily lias been dricen by the room sliortrvge. At the present rate ol growth, the I'lii- xt'itsily ouglti to be opening one to ttvo nc’.v dorniitoi ies ecery yettr. Ltist year, in the lace ol' .t.he knowledge that enrollment would be up. the legislature approjrritited nothing (or dormitories or other new housing. ' In consef|ucnce students Ittu'e been crowd ed three to a room. Ilotv mnch stud)'ing can be e\|)ected under such circmnstances? Mow much will health and .saniimion be threaten ed? Is the State ol North (itirolina so indil- Icrent as that to the welhire of the vounger generation.-' It would be a lit ting punishment ior a ciillous legislature il its inctnbers could be Ike^s Popularity President Kiseiihower’s illness has made it pj.ain llnil he is e\en more pojnilar than ^vas supposed: he is the most popular president since, I'lieodore, Roosecelt. Rooseceli made ItimseH' po|)ul:ir by taking the '. side p.l’ common men agaainst the big In-istling,corporal ions, which were just begin ning to'show their power and their teeth, j Itisenhotvi-r has shown no interest in com mon men. On the contiarv, he h;is an o\'er- weening respect For the heads ol Ihg busi ness. Mis closest political friends, associates, and dinner companions hate come almost exclusivch' from corporation exet utit es. The -National Security Oouncil, tvhich seems to, guide his decisions, is largely made up of theni. 'I'liey are the President’s giamour men. ,VIr. Kisenhower's popularity seem to coine from his averageness- T-Ie is safe in his opin ions ;and actions. He is not a thinker, luit an intcllecl,.u.'''l like Woodroty AV’ilson, of tvhoiii his ccjimtry! teas always somewhat donbtini as bpfng a highbrow: and Ike would net'er rock: dim national boat like K. 1). Roosevelt, whoiaps: always mnithema to the nation'.s tip per masses even when he tvas pulling them out (iit'a hole. Mp |■.i,senhower•is a team-man and bcliex'es teani^lvcark is the tniswer to all jtroblems. He dislikes disputes and hates to make enemies. He follows his army training in hnoring de cisions arrised at behind closed doors trith a few top men. F.ven the journalists on his side constanllv condemn the administration’s tendency totvard secrecy. riie grotvlh of the democratic idea (open covenants openly arrived tit, the consent (;f the go\erned. faith in common men), has not prospered under the Kisenliotver administra tion. 'which has strongly inclined totvard jrlutocracy, or the rule of riches. Ike’s i';opularity is largely a personal matter. His ready grin, his family life, his golfing and lishing. his milittiry record, have all de lighted his countrymen. Nothing off center tiboiit him, nothing to tvorry alrout. .\nd to cap all, he stands glamorized as n pc’ace tidvocate. His going to Koiea to end an unpopular tvar and his speeches at Geneva tvere moves that outsmarted all the politic ians, tvho thought the nation wanted pre paration for a new -war and an increased campaign against Gommunists and detiation- ists of every kind. His good luck lets been something to mar- v'el at. Tlie entire country hopes his- good angels cvill see him safely througli the inesent crisis. t The Executive's Disease i I he President's lieart attack emphasizes some figures that come close to home. Mbrc than htilf the deaths in North Garo- lina last year were due to heart disease—the exec ulive's disease. In fact, diseases of the heart and blood vessels were more than live times those due to cancer, nearest riv'al in ftUalities. I he State board of Health rejKtrls ih.ogy detilhs cine to heart diseases and gyhS due to cancer. W'hat causes these hetnt conditions? Some of the commoner answers are: the modern pace ol living, too many tensions, overheating, and overwork. Nhrdoubt all the.se arc factors, but rc,search, admittedly incomplete, shows that some priiiiii.ive peoples liave a high incideitce heart failure. of Medical men point out that the heart is just as a mu.scle, an extra totigh one. and does not give up easily. It has ways of handling bur dens and recuperating Irotn strains, but 't must not be alrused. \\diat are the abuses, and how may they be avoided? AVhy do women suffer less from heart cliseaise than men? AVhy is the Negro rtice more exempt than the white? Does the root of the trouble lie ra'ther in p.sychology than in physical conditions? Is it primarily a worry and anxiety disease: in short, is it a fear ailment? Jo provide the ansiver to these ciucstions lurthcr research is needed. This can be tar ried out only il lunds are provided. It is a good time to contribute to those Junds and do it generously. How a Confederate Soldier Died in Battle By H. V. ROSE (In Smithfield Herald) Lt. Col. Joseph B. Mitchell writes a book, “The Decisive Bat tles of the Civil War,” summing up the events of all of the princi pal battles of the war. lie makes a statement to the effect that more Americans were killed and - otherwise destroyed in the Civil AA'ar when the population of the United States stood at 31,000,000 than . were killed in both World War f and 11 with an approximate poplilation of 131,000,000. Mrs. Nolia Gurley Ward has in her'.pdsscssion a letter that gives a vcjry graphic description of how Tholtnas Woodard of near Smith- field lost his life in'thc great War Between the States. Her letter reads as follows: Near Richmond, June 9, 1864 Mr.: Henry AVoodard Dear Friend: 1 sit myself to, inform you of some sad news which 1 regret to have to do, that is of the death of your son, Thomas. He was killed yesterday morning w'hile we were skirmishing with the Yaifkees at the Chickahomany River where the Yoi'k River Railroad crosses the Chickahomany. He was stand ing trying to ketch a site upon a 'Yankee which was about 50 or 75 yards off. We were behind some little breastwork and whenever we wocid raise our heads above them a Yankee was ready to shoot us. But Thomas thinking they would not see him continued to keep himself exposed to them and was ordered to sit down and not to look over too long. But anyhow he stood as long as he pleased and then went to sit clown and before he had set down a Yankee shot him. The ball went through his neck killing him in stantly. He was standing between me and James Langley, We had stood there together all night and passed off time the best we could and now and then we would shoot at the Yankees and they would do the same at us. So my feelings was hurt very badly when Thomas fell and 1 saw' at the crack of the gUn that Thomas was killed, and immediately my self and James Langley laid him out the best we could and brought him off the field and to day we buried him. I w'ent off this morning and got a saw and hammer and some nails and we made a box and all we liked of burying him nice was some bury ing clothes. He is buried On York River Railroad in an old field by a peach tree and the grave is marked, “Thomas T. AVoodard, Company E, 24 N. C. State Troop, Killed June 8, 1864,” in plank letters. The Captain and all the boys w'ere favorable in assisting to put him aw'ay as nice as pos sible and I can tell you we all mourn his loss but hope that our loss is his eternal gain. The Cap tain suggested the funeral to lake place this A, M. Your letter came that was directed to Thomas W'hile we were digging his grave and the Captain requested it to be broken open to know how Josah was getting along. But Thomas could not hear it read. I had read sq many letters for him and was then helping to dig his grave but he is dead and will be badly missed in the Company., One thing more, I wish to men tion and then close. Me and Thomas had made a bargain for whichever one of us got killed first, if either of us was to get killed, for the other one to take his things out of his pockets and send them home if he could, and if not, to do the best we could with them. Well I takened his things; pocket book with two $5.00 bills in it and $1.00 of stamps and one small breast pen, and one note against Le. M. Lee for $20.00 and Thomas said that Sergeant Drifus, a man that stay ed at headquarters, ow'cd him $40.00, I think this is lent money; and several men ow'ed him that I know nothing of. His watch, tooth brush and pair of gloves 1 have got. His knapsack which he captured at Drew'ery’s Bluff I have sent to Petersburg with the rest of our baggage. I tied a hemp rope around it so as to tell it. The rope won’t come off un less it is taken off. The knapsack contains the fine Yankee officer’s overcoat, four linen towels, one linen handkerchief, three neck ties, one oilcloth that I kept w'ith mo until Josah retiuns and then 'You're The Best Cook In The World, Mama!" MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1955 w sciHciKcd to spend a week in a typical I’ni- \'cisity dormitory witii its o\'erc:ro\vdnio tint! its noi.se. II the State were broke or completely pox- erty-stricken. excuses might be lound lor the herding ol its xonng people into conditions where their health is tlneti'lened. lUit no such destitution exists. It is tine that at the opening ol the last legislaiixe session the black llag ol economy was waxed, and dire x'oices prochtimed the depletion ol the treasury. A’et as the months xxent on, it xxas discovered that more and more monex' xx'sis available atul the State ol North Garolina tvas not down to a cruise ol oil. A'et students at Ghapel 1 lill must study and sleep three t(t a room. The whole condition is no credit to the State ol North Garolina, and indicates small interest in its student population. fx\ ■' 'W>“ “1, rmi u. s. 7 w .y>- - :: wi rMi .—Smithfield Herald Two Little Operas By JAY ZIMMERMAN A pair of one-act operas were presented to a responsive Hill Hall audience as the Tuesday Evening Series opened its 1955 season. Under the direction of Robert C. Bird, the Grass Roots Opera Company gave ‘Sunday Excursion’ by Alex Wilder and Arnold Sundgaard, followed by ‘The Jumping Frog’ by Lukas Foss, Jean Karsaxdna, and Mark Twain. ‘Sunday Excursion’ is a clever twist on the boy-meets-girl theme,. The setting is the interior of a New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad coach in the year 1910. F’our students, two male and txvo female as luck would have it, are returning from a disappointing weekend in New York City. When Jennings and Robert Bird realize that they have a nodding acquaintance from botany class, the plot begins to move. It hits high gear as the omer girl, Theresa Ledoux, dis cover each other and decide that an introduction is in order. Ham pered by the shyness inherent in college students and interupted by William Beck, a seller of candy, the struggle goes on. Gn- ally the goal is reached as the train pulls into New Haven sta tion. Boy and girl are paired off with the promise of many happy^ hours to come. Best Singing Mary Jennings, soprano, and Robert Bird, barotone, turned in the best singing while AATlliam Beck showed a fine bass in the part of Tim, the candy man. Al though not up to the high stand ard of the former, Theresa Le- oux, mezzo, an'dv David Wither spoon, tenor, did well, and the amusing libretto of Arnold Sund gaard pleased the audience. ‘The Jumping Ffog’.is an adap.'- tion of Mark Txvain's tale of the gold rush days. Barotone Martin Ledoux stole the snow in his role of the gam bler. Credit is due his acting as well as his .voice. Catherine Frantzis was convincing as Lulu, the barroom queen, and Alec Dantre, as Uncle Henry was a vocal standout. William Allen, Raymond McGuire, AATlliam Beck, and James Edwards filled out the cast as various local color per sonalities. 'Sunday Excursion,’ shorter and simpler,' succeeded where ‘The Jumping Frog’ was lost on the auuience. If most people hadn’t read Twain’s version it is doubt ful that “they would have known exactly' what was going on. The acting was generally ex cellent, a fact which made ‘Sun day Excursion’ enjoyable. The vocalists, accompanied by Mrs. Aileen Lynn, left the audience fax'orably impressed. The double presentation made for a light, enjoyable evening’s entertainment. from the other approach,—the Glen House. I do not know how it is in mid-summer, but now in September you can buy for eight dollars a “package” containing rights to a room with twin beds at the Tip Top House, with sup per (dinner really; they served fried chicken) and breakfast. Not bad! I was sorry I had eaten a big dinner below. The accomodations are not fine, but good enough for peo ple who do not demand their! mountains altogether tame.' ' ' ; In th-e morning you will prob ably see sunrise above the clouds if you see anything. The old mountain has a tendency to xvear a cap. This morning, all was clear above a sea of clouds with mountain tops popping out here and there like buttons. I think it was the only sunrise I ever saxv which you could describe defin itely enough for other early- risers to be cure-you were really there and not maybe grasping at the prize of eloquence. There was an enormous crimson bird over head for a long time. There was a specially deep little crimson pool about which I had been wondering “AVhat the Dickens?” for three minutes before the sun rose out of it. Finally the sun had a broad black sash around its middle, one fifth of its diame ter, at the very moment its bot tom rim cleared the nether world. Who Has Highest Mountain'i^ Chips That Fall By SIDNEY SA/VAIM ROBINS Being entirely on my own for a couple of days, I tooK the fam ily bus to the Mt. Washington Base Station, and then the cog railway to the top of the moun tain, where I am writing this next morning. Mt. Washington’s tip is the highest point East of South Dakota and North of Carolina and Tennessee at least. Many Tar Heels know that there >sre fifteen or twenty mountains in Western N. C. that are higher above sea-level. But they don’t look as high as Mt. AA'ashington, dont loom so much, because they do not reach us so high above the surrounding country. Highways in Western N. C. rise in several places to 5,000 feet or more above sea-level. The Crawford Notch road (Notches are “gaps” in N. C., and “passes” in Colorado) rises to 1800 feet above sea-level on the West side of Mt Washington, and the Pink- ham Notch road to 1700 feet of the East. The cog railroad rises from the Crawford Notch and the carriage road from Pinkham. Science or Art I may take charge of all these things belonging to Thomas. The watch I will get him to take so that if I get killed you will know who has got it, also the pocket-, book, etc. I will have to take a piece of your letter to finish mine on as this is all the paper I have with me.” (End of letter) This letter, written 91 years ago, is on good paper and is well preserved. It is most regrettable that it is not clear as to the authorship of the letter. Thomas T.AA’oodard and my father, the late AAA N. Rose, Jr., were mem bers of the same company and regiment, and 1 have often heard my father speak of Woodard as a brave and daring soldier, and this is substantially corroborated by the letter quoted above. Whether North Carolina or New Hampshire has the higher mountain, may, possibly, depend on whether you are- talking in terms of science or of art. Mt Washington has a commanding position none of our Southern mountains seem'to have.'So does Katahdin, over in Maine. The last time I was up here, maybe ten years ago. Wake Forest boys were helping to run the cog-railroad. This time they were Dartmouth boys. ‘Qld Peppersass,” first cog railway engine ever built” and of course first on this route, now poses in retirement and lots of fresh paint at the Base Station. Built in 1866, il was made to nose into the mountain and keep its own level most of the time. You can buy a round-trip tick et from «ie Base Station to the top fop. four dollars and a half, which is fifty cents more than it would cost to come by carriage The weather scientists maintain there is no con nection between the equinox and the heavy rains that ol- tx^n occur belore, durinq, or alter the ecjuinox. The lact remains, hoxvexer, that Ax'eather disturbances do oc cur about this time, Sept. 22, and one prool is the doxvn- pour ol last Friday night, Saturday, and yesterday. .An other lact is that alter the etjuinox is p.ast, the weather becomes crisper and points t(jxvard xx inter. Cilvde W. Floyd, the oil distribiitoi, say he keeps a calendar ol cu.stf)ineis xvhere- by heknoxx's when their oil supply iieeds renexval. It is a (aid index, - xx’hit.h means that alter the day’s work ol dnx ing a heaxy tank is over lliere is paper work to Ire flojie ill the evenino-s- II the Avorld is bloxvn to pieces some day. the site wdl probably be'marked by a doud ol yellowing jxapers drdting through space, ail of them haxing been done bv persons who xvould rather have done something else. ★ ★ ★ When Jackson Fou( By JOHN A. PARRIS (In Asheville Citizen) MORGANTON,—For years one of the favorite stories along the frontier xvas how AVaightstill Avery gave Andrexv Jackson his comcupnance and threxv a slab of bacon for a laugh. It’s still a good story after 167 years, and neither time nor re telling have chipped away any of the drama. Most folks remember AAGight- still Avery as the first attorney general of North Carolina and pot as the man xvho bested An drew Jackson in a duel. For the Morganton lawyer won his fame and made his name in the courtroom, and that’s where, strangely enough, Jackson spoke out of -turn and got himself into a peck of trouble. ' It all happened across the mountains at Jonesboro in what is now Tennessee. The date was Aug. 11, 1788, and the scene was the Jonesboro courthouse, a crude one-story structure of logs. Laxvyer at 21 Jackson, red of hair and tem per, was a flecigHng lawyer of 21; Avery, dignified in manner and dress, was an experienced attorn ey of 47. They had known one another ' since the close of the Revolution ary AA^ar when Andy came this way and applied to Avery to take ! him as a boarder at his country home and instruct him as a law student. Avery had just moved to the place and w'as not in a position to take him in, so Jackson went on to Salisbury where he studied law under Judge Spruce McCay. However, Avery kept in touch with young Jackson and w'hen he started practicing helped h i m through some rough spots. So, when the two appeared in court at Jonesboro, nobody ex pected anything but the most courteous of exchanges between them. But they were in for a sur prise that would set the xx'hole frontier abuzz. 9^1 j A.ndy was arguing a case , against Ax'ery that day. Time and again he quoted from Bacon’s “Abridgement of the Law.” In fact, he quoted the source so often that Avery laughingly ooni- ! mented aloud that Andy was cer tainly slicing the Bacon. Jackson sprang to his feet, his face flaming and shouted: “I may not know as much law as there is in Bacon’s Abridge ment, but I knew enough.not to take illegal fees.” The color drained from Avery’s face. He look straight at Jackson and demanded whether the young lawyer meant to charge him with taking illegal fees. There was a tenseness in the courtroom, a hushed silence. “I do, sir,” Jackson replied. Avery clinched his fists and hissed at Jackson: “It’s as false as hell!” Then Avery went back to his case, and, .as he talked, Jackson hurriedly scrawled a challenge, which was passed on to the older man. Avery put it in his pocket, re summed his case, and didn’t even give Jackson a look when court adjourned. That night a number of friends of both men went to have a talk xvith Jackson and tried to per suade him not to insist on a duel. Jackson explained he had not gone all summer, opened Ins backyard cottage and lound a dried dead bodx' there. It Ax'as a squirrel's. He had got in somehou’ and couldn’t get out, and in his-paiuc bad gnatved the interior wood- AX'ork .so extensively tliat a large repair bill xx'as run up. Glia]rel Hill stiuirrels, pot bellied and spoiled, have graduated Irom being a pic- ture.s(]ue element into be ing a nuisance-. A houscliold alter bcin>' O ★ -Ar ★ 1 he ox'erload ol cai's in Ghapel Hill makes itsell par ticularly lelt on rainy days like Saturday when there Avere siiarls and jams at corn ers a.nd congestions at cross ing harldy less delaying than tliose ol a metropolis. Park ing space AX’as not in sig.ht, and people xvith definite oli- jectives like jobs xvandered around looking lor an open ing and getting a wetting al ter thev xvere lucky enough to find (.me. ddiere are times in Ghapel Hill xvheu a smaJl and handy ox cart would be more xvel- eomc than the biggest and la.slcst car in the world- I meant to illegal fei ‘‘* *1 amount , Jaol on a duel, *' iitj -Ike followingnw dispatched , “"f It read- dmSnr'' u.ei stand me, jiy kave injured; « have insulted me in, a court and a kj, I theiefore call up, gentleman togive^,,^ for the same. i fnrm .'fe give me an mediately without and I hope you eaj dinner until the |,„a, inr It IS consistent* acter of a gentleman -iures a man to mail paralion; therefore will not fall in mee day your Honorabl 'Ars. Andw Jackson, “P-S. - This El- court is adjourned," This time, Avery j challenge. He sent' John Adair, latep Kentucky, to notify) There are two ve what happened next One is that, throi Avery and Jackson a shoot at each other go through the toma charge their pistols in to the ground. But the late Judge who got his story tri er, Col. Isaac T, .Are of AA'aightstill, said this way: After the usual [ Avery allowed Jacks at him, but did not fire. There pun \ young jacKson' ann lecture to ti j style of tamer woiiM luring a son. ’ The two men sliooli just as JacKson lurneli handed the young laitii age. “I knew it I liad; Avery told him, "anl killed you, your greil* fort would have beei' present.” Piece of Ba« Jackson tore awayll ping and there was 1 well cured bacon, cut li act size of a hw hoi For a moment it apts Jackson would demil duel. Finally, he tried 1 then walked ok- AA^hen Avery left ll« field he carried led challenge home aii as he was accustomed* his letters and papers,ij is “Challenge son.” Avery had been tan. He was a Pr opposed the pi’iDcipl'* He was a gradual'' versity, winning th ors of his class of mained there a year' He -studied law and®; brated Jonathan Edwjr? famous Dr. Wither signed the Declara.« pendence as a repr®®] New Jersey. litii CHAeaHmNsJ Published every Thursday by,the- Box 7® Chapel Hill. ^ Street AddressMlaff Carrhoro Telephone: Phillips Ras^ Roland GiduZj '[T^'p^der- Robert 3SCBIPT10N (Payable w Five Cents P« Ibrii I am I
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