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” ;i , ;! I i J ! i i-. : '15 i n I ? i: EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE Chapel Hill News Leader Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas VOL. II, NO. 86 How Much !s Due The Community? AVMicii ])C()plc inoNC in numbers to a cer tain locality, hnid \alucs innnecliately rise. I'he more people, the higher the \alnes. No th in,:[>■ need be rloiie to im])ro\'e the land, d be incomin,^ j^eople raise the \a|iies. 'I'hat the increased wcallb thus produced on,>ht to be used lor the benefit of the whole community w.as one (jf the tenets of. llenrv (jeor>'e, the single t;ix tich'oca'te. He would lax these risiiyg \alne.s beaNfly, and make this the only lax permi.ssible, ;trgn- in,g that it would p;iy for c\'erything. The .sort of situation \vhich dro\e Heniv (ieorge to these cthiclusions is like th;U now being cretited in this community. Ifoth Chap el Idill and Carrboro are spreading far he- yotid their old boundaries. Popuhition is on the rise. Newcomers set ujr a demand for land, building lots, ;ind bouses. I be effort to meet this demand has caused the creation of tracts of hnul which can be cut into lots :uk1 sold to incomin.g people. Some ol these ;ire;is tre contiguous, soitie not. but all nafurally want to be linked to the |)re\.'tiling municipal sersiccs and erase sess- ers, lire. ])olice, and other protections. What Can Be Done About Alumni? Iti his latest report to the CNC trustees, I’resident (.ray expressed "continued con cern" in re,gat'd to athletics. This accords tvith the sentiment expressefl s\hene\er college ttd- ministrators ,gcl together—that athletics gi\e themt ntore betidaches than all other jM'ob- lems combined. Mr. (.rtiy spettks of "the pressures seeking to deleritiine athletic operations". No one doubts where these jsressttres cotne from. They cotne from the necessity of big giite receipts if bi,g-titne athletics are to be .sujrportcd, and frotn alntniti. .Munnii arc creatures svho loyttlly sitpport their alma mater except for a possible period of about ten rveeks in every yettr wheti alma mater's foot])all team may fail to win oftett enoit,gb to make big Itetidlities in the Sunday ]xipers. Iti such j 'liocls ttlumni have been knowti to tttrn s(.ur and call dd abna mater itgiy mttnes. To what extent have the collc,ges and uiu- eersilies broitglit this situation on them seKes? , A\dien legislatures .fail, hard-pressed insti tutions go to alumni. When the colle,ges need netv buildin,gs and impro\emems, they make it known to the alumni. When problems re;u h the breaking point, thes' unload oti alumni. .Alumni, strange to say ;md after all, are much like other people; that is, they cannot be expected continually to ,gi\e something lor nothing. If they tvant their retvard in the form of footbtdl s ictories, that may be child- i.sh but is understandable. Clertain \ iewers of the scene have said the ):cmedy is to abolish or cut down athletics. .An alternatixe mi,ght be to abolish or cut down alumni. .Athletics must be kept in their place, it is agreed. A\'hy not hvork on aluro.ni? fsery Ready To Explode (ieoi .e \'. .Allen of Durham, tvlio is an ol- fuer in the lb S. State l)e]):trtmcnt, brings close to home the trouble in the Middle East between Israel and the .Arabs tvhen he says: ‘‘The most ])athetic asjsect of the prolrlem is the fact that poo.ooo Ara'b refit,gees from Israel are li\in,g in mud huts, under miser able conditions, on the border. They sit there .sulking, angry, bitter, and dreaming of the dtiy they will jmsli the jetvs into the sea.’’ J'hc efforts of a new nation like Israel to establish itsell and to set up civili/ed life un der pioneer conditions hase mitnrally attract- sympathetic notice in the Tnited States: but this should not blind ns to the fact that the jieople of Israel have attttined relative pros perity while the .Arabs expelled from that jiart ol Palestine which Israel wanted and won ;ire liv in,g like abandoned animals. Such a situation contains gunpowder and will threaten the world’s pettce as the big powers back one side or the other. When something le.ss than a million human beiipgs consider themselves double-crossed and ill- used, it may be expected they will crave and ,get help from any .source that offers itself. 'idle outside world has ,gained the impre.ss- ion that Isiael is largely the protc,ge of the I'S. and that the US is maintainiiyg it for po litical purposes. This belief is calculated, of course, to make the .Arabs who have lost their homes feel all the more embittered. If the US is in any way playing a hidden part in the affair and is bestowing more favors on one side than the other, it cannot get out of the situation too soon. Playing with fire is as risky for nations as kids. Why Should These Millions Be Held Up? (Greensboro Daily News) Sentient North Carolinian must be dis.appointcd, disturbed and increasing impatient over further postponement by the State Board of Education of adop tion of a formula for distributing the second half of the ,$50,000,000 bond issue voted by Tar Heel citizenry back in 1953 for State aid to counties and cities lor school buildings. We understand the difficulties of devising a satisfactory formu la and recognize that the U. S. Supreme Coui'fs desegregation decision and the confusion which ensued have brought added com plexities and complications. But the board should liave had plenty of time to work at this matter during the intervening years: and other considerations should, in our opinion, outweigh more recent developments, in pressing the agency to whom ev’- olvcmont of an allocation formu la was left to meet its primary responsibility. board of education’s cumulative delays offer the strong likelihood that badly needed and hoped for buildings can and will not be available for the 1956-57 school session. We shall need school construction, regardless of what may happen in North Carolina. The Daily News, despite all the hubbub, remains confident that Tar Heel citizens and parents are not going to leave their off spring and successors in ignor ance and darkness; and wc, look ing straight at the State Board of Education, had best be about providing it. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1955 FACTS VS. FEARS For Progress Situation Worse While only $17,000,000 ol the ,$25,000,000 por'.ion of the bond issue for whose distribution the General .Assembly fixed the pat tern has been definitely allocat ed and the second half of the is sue. as set forth in a preceding paragra.ph, has not even been touclied, the school house situa tion in North Carolina h.as gone from bad to worse, with peak ■ enrollment yet to come. And the Our own convictions are ac curately summarized by Leroy Marlin, Raleigh banker, member of the State Advisory Budget Commission and recognized con servative spokesman, who in for ceful language told the Albemar le Schoolmasters Club, meeting at Elizabeth City last week, that our best though.ts and efforts should be devoted to the expansion and further progress of thp public school system instead of talking about the po.s,5ibility of abandon ing public schools. We recognize that what Mr. Martin counsel ed is easier said than done: but with North Carolina’s future at stake, we had better bestir our selves about the doing. ,4nd school agencies themselves, instead of holding back, uncertain and ti mid, must provide the leader ship. The truth seems to be that the great structure ol internal security does not rest upon hard facts at all, but on a series of in definable fears and unvcrifiable assumptions. Some of these a.s- sumptions are: that all Govern ment secrets are of vital import ance; that all Federal and many millions of private posts are “sensitive”; that it is possible to determine with considerable ac curacy whether a person is a “security risk”; that not only all Communists but all persons with any past Communistic leanings or associations are risks. Finally,, (here is the general assumption that by erecting a massive in quisitorial system for identifying all such “risks” and screening them out of all Federal employ ment. all private employment on classified defense contracts and in the maritime industries, and (if the Butler bill is passed) in most general industry as well, it is po.ssible to contribute material ly to the national security. That all of these assumptions are un founded is probably true; the Government, at least, has never presented any real evidence in support of them. Yet only by ac cepting them all as articles of faith can one sustain the structure of a secret political police and a security bureaucracy which we have, almost absent mindedly, as it were, erected upon t h e m.— Walter Millis in Saturday Review DARKEST AFRICA. ■* u . 5 ! WSSTSR N ' j p D S ■ This ha.s crcatcfl a problem, or rather, a .series of problenrs, ivhich the community must deal W'ith. For these problems promise to increase rather than fall off. (,)n these de\'elopments, ivhich should come first, the houses or the ser\ ices? Is an ea bare ol houses to bi’''considered a dexclopment, or must dwellings be erected first? Ought the proposed dcselo.pments to be immediately contiguous and actually touch piescnt limits, or is separation not an imjxut- ant consideration? Mow much in adwalorem taxes would re sult Irom a new area opened? In Uhapel Mill all such tpiestions are com plicated by the fact that certain utilities tire controlled b)' the Unisersity tvhile the totvn controls certain serx ices. For this reason off-hand anstvers can rarely be g'isen. Pnit one thing is certain: the in creased pojiiilation has brought itew increases in community tvealth. One of these dtvys we ought to figure out a Av:iy lor the comnninitv to get its due.share of the ivealth it creates by its own growth. ■■Jf \ / f I / hr 'Si Aesthetic Controls Lega (From Popular Government) For many years it has been a rule of law that regulations de signed to further purely aesthe tic ends were beyond the scope of the police power (i.e., uncon stitutional). Although some com mentators have suggested that the underlying reason for this rule was the courts’ reluctance to get into the controversies which rage over what is aethetically “good” and what is “bad,” the courts themselves have merely declared that beauty is not on a par with the generally-recognized ends of “public health, safety, morals, and general welfare” which the government may seek to attain through regulation of private property. The North Cai'olina Supreme Court went about as far as any court in its 1924 decision of Turner vs. New Bern, 187 N.C. 541, when it declared that while aesthetic considerations alone Russian VTay Of Life (Harrison Salisbury in New York Times) The Russian peasant, like peasants the world around, is canny, suspicious, devious, tough- minded. fie readily draws about himself a protective mantle of presumed ignorance. “We are dark people, ignorant people,” peasants say. But if ignorance exists it is the ignorance of the book, not the ignorance of life. The present rulers of Russia are not starry-eyed young intel lectuals of the nineteenth cen tury. Nor are they peasants. But they are Russians. And if their character shapes current Soviet policy, is is essential to remem ber that Russian character is founded upon broad factors of history, geography and environ ment. What we so easily forget is that when the Communists chang ed their country’s name to “The Union of Soviet Socialist Repub lics,” they didn’t change its geograpli^o And, as Russian Marx ists' themselves are fond of say ing, “you cannot escape history.” Rulers change. Geography and national resources do not. If Rus sia displays a certain desire for conciliation, the first jiface to look for the cause is in the bal ance of international forces. If Russia today is followin a “soft” policy in international affairs, we must try to find an explanation in Russia’s necessities, her eco nomic position, her technological resources, her own estimate of her defense capabilities. If all the NATO powers in Europe were ranged on the Soviet side; if Russia had long-range bombing bases all around the United States frontiers and a huge lead in nu clear weapons it i.s just possible that the “New Look” would be a bit more stern. ALL FROM CALIFORNIA HEART STOPPED 20 MINUTES California produces about 43% of the total national friuit crop; 80% to 100% of the national crop of almonds, olives, figs, dates, grapes, and walnuts; nearly one third of the nation’s deciduous orchard fruits and nearly as large a part of the citrus. About 40% of the nation’s fresh citrus ship ments and 20% of the processed tonnage originate in California. The state produces very few limes and only 5% of the coun try’s grapefruit. How'ever, it ac counts for nearly one third of the oranges and all of the lemons except the few grown in Arizona. In addition, since the war, Cali fornia has grown over one half of the total national crop of decid uous orchard fruits—other than apples—and has packed almost two thirds of the canned tonnage of these fruits and over 95% of the total dried. It cans all of the fruit cocktail and fruits for salad Cnp TTnited States; nearly all of the clingstone peaches and ap- rieots and fruit nectar: and a substantial majority of the can ned pears and baby foods made from fi'uit,—Cal/fornia Agricul-. ture A young woman whose heart stopped beating for more than 20 minutes while undergoing an operation here for injuries re ceived in an automobile accident returned to life after her hus band had been informed by at tending physicians that she was dead. Dr, Wayne H. Stockd&le, Smithfield surgeon, termed the miracle the “Master’s work up stairs” and reported Mrs, Mar jorie Barbour Raynor, 30, of Four Oaks, should make a com plete recovery, barring compli cations. Mrs. Raynor was critically in jured in a three-car collision Fri day at 12:30 p.m. on Highway 301 one-half mile south of Four Oaks. — Herman D. Lawson in Smithfield Herald. MAYBE Perhaps if we wait long enough farm relief will settle it self by turning all our farms into park ing places, flying fields and golf courses.—Los Angeles Times. Ik \ \ / I ■s f ■ / 7 could not serve as a basis for police-power regulation, the fact that they were the major object of a regulation would not defeat it if it could be supported on some other basis. A major break in the tradi tional doctrine was forecast last winter by the United States Su preme Court’s decision in the case of Berman vs. Parker, 348 U.S. 26, upholding urban rede velopment as constitutional. Jus tice Douglas, speaking for a un animous court, declared in the course of his opinion that “if those who govern the District of Columbia decide that the Na tion’s capital should be beautiful as well as sanitary, there is no thing in the Fifth Amendment that stands in the way.” While this statement may have been nothing more than dicta, it has already been seized upon by a statq supreme court to up hold a zoning ordinance imposing aesthetic controls. Chips That Fall •k I licre have been touches ol Iro.st ill the country, hut none in toivn. ,A oeneral kill ing Iro.st is likely to lall any Hear night from now on. One day the llowers of sum mer are still smiling; the next they hang their heads in a winter stillne.ss. Mate most ol all to see the lieaven- ly blue morning glories wip- t’b nnt. 1 heir trumpeting t lusters, tlie color of the sk)g have been one of the delights ol the iall—new every morn- ni.g. ".All blue is precious", ivrote Ijaudelaire. Foxes are becoming plenti- Inl ;md bolder. .Mrs.' J. Har- iis Purks, wife of the UNO provost, .saw one in the woods fieliind her house a few days ago. Fhis i.s on Laure Road, within the town limits OIL IN NEXT 20 YEARS The atom undoubtedly will con tribute importantly to the world’s over all energy pattern. But we believe oil will provide the larg est share of energy growth for at least the next twenty years. When we look at forecasts for that per iod, we see constantly increasing oil consumption everywhere. By 1075, the free world will probably be using double the amount of oil products that it does today,— Eugene Holman, Chairman, Standard Oil more like IT Sometimes we wonder why the season isn’t called simmer in stead of summer, — Davenport Imies. RicgI In Brilliant Co By BERT DAVIS Ruggiero Ricci, who opened the Chapel Hill Concert Series last Thursday, is an American burn violinist of rare attainment. He was born in San Francisco July 24, 1920, and made his New York debut eight years later. His program consisted of three sonatas for violin and piano, Vi valdi, Beethoven, and Brahms, and the Bach chaconne for unac companied violin. : Tiig -Gonciuding group of .short er works, as well as the two en cores,'served to display Mr. Ric ci’s iijpredible technical mastery. Here the, Vccsey study in chro matic. thirds and .sixths and in the Paganini the display‘in doub le-stops of fingered harmonics were particularly brilliant. ' Mr. Ricci and his accompanist, Ernest Ulmer, succeeded admir ably in presenting the sonatas need within the h. case. The 'I Brahms sonata contrast m Ptsier times , Perforna, technical briiii/' ship of a iiiance j| Sonati ■a in A Ma Scaata in a Sonata II Chaco D Minot III " mie IV Aus der Heiniat Humoreske ' LeVent. I Palpiti Delicious Lane Nciv York Times Sidelights on the Uhapel Jlill automobile situation; VVonian drixing a big black ;uid red 'ear turning curve ivith one hand on wheel and the other holding a match to end of a long cigarette hold er: Police checking parked cars at midnight, some of them completely blotking sidetvalks: Student dri\cr leaning out of (ar to yell at gray-haired profes.sor whom car had barely missed; Driv ers deli\ei'ing horn blasts a); car ahead which failed to get g(.)ing the iristaiit green light (.lomes on at intersection. While Drake and his fellow Sea Dogs were “singeing the King of Spain’s beard” Sir Wal ter Raleigh started moving colon ists through the “very great gap” that opened into the New World . . . Raleigh’s first expedition, an exploring party, reac’aed North Carolina in July, 1584. The fol lowing year he dispatched “the first colonie of Virginia” in seven ship.3 under the command of Sir Richard Grenville .... Grenville left the group on Roanoke Is land and returned the next year with supplies. Early reports from the Amer ican coast fired Michael Drayton to rhapsodize of ‘‘Virginia, Earth’s only paradise.” It was a “delic ious land” of “luscious smel.s” where cedars reached to kiss the sky . . . the Virginia Company of London was cheerfully pro moting the advantages of life ov- verseas with the sort of gush that would shame the most irrespons ible modern advertiser. Virginia, wrote the author of Nova Bri- tcmia during Jame*,, '"g bniU’ aboundej; and resource; of even;. -yi and clymate; and wholesome,’’ “fei i, fowies, Deere, p- Hares, wit.i nisny rcote.s good for',, mountains making proffer of hidden ire John Donne, poet anj Paul’s, was persnadij a sermon, afterwards boosting the colony, blurb he received a stock in the compai all its blandishments pany had “to take ant Fe got on any te® contemporary EnglisV ed: “We are knome the worlde to'lovet'ne our ovi'ne -chimneyes; hopes of great adta: not likely to draw n from home.”.., in America,” by Mar; vidson. fel OBS! ends ss r Not Much Time To RAYMOND ADAMS Ssfore Phi Beta Kappa Socitli J>i uc'c Strenvcl .says a ring' in the nose has a psychologi- (::il effect on a bull. He owns one which ha.s sliakfen horns at him and tlireatciied to o\- ertiii'ii a wagon. Cauglit him at Iced trough and put ring in his nose. Ncx day bull act ed like a perfect geiitleman. Cum tiiink oi other males wlu.i would benefit by a ring in the nose. In 1955, even in a university, there is not much time to wear a thinking cap, to brood, to con template. Students certainly find little time for intervals of com- templation, and they make for themselves even less time than they might otherwise find. These are times that try young people’s 'souls. So even college students join the general public in the avoidance of thinking. They are endlessly active, they live in an atmosphere of noise, they study with a radio turned on; and if a period of quiet comes that might be an interval of contem plation, like Joe the Fat Boy they fall asleep. Many -have con cluded that it won’t do to think too much; so shrewd students make do what will do. “dean.” But deparlK'; schools hunger for th policies and for arlit of contemplation so t it is too late we caat U our guidance some thoughts. V an ed c 0( apl «ur nter ir Faculty members can secure few intervals of contemplation either. A great influx of stu dents and a great efflux of re lative income from appropriations or endowments has left the teach er little time for creative think ing. The machinery of a uni versity down in the ratchets and escapements where the class room teacher is one of the cogs (that is down where the machine really ticks) has truly become a fantastic mechanism c o n- suming time and energy when it should be salvaging time and energy. With what result? With the result that in a modern uni versity, especially in a modern state university, very little crea tive thinking is done by the fac ulty. Articles get published; but most of them are gatherings of data that never went through the alembic but appeared in print as items of data properly footnoted. Books get edited. But how few books get written! One can gather data on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons and on Sat urday afternoon unless the lawn needs mowing and get a reputa tion as a scholar thereby. But one won’t get a reputation as a thinker that way. No Better Nor is it any better among the big wheels of the collegiate machine. The intervals of con templation never come for the dean. Creativeness doesn’t have a chance, Bein.g a dean must be a good deal like being a dish washer. no sooner do you get one mess cleaned up than the next mess starts demanding attention. There’s no perspective and no future in being a dishwasher. It was never much help to that func tionary to call him a “pearl di ver, and I suspect the college functionary doesn’t think there’s much percentage in being called Presidents and tlz| need to be ariicu top functionaries liave il time of all to be mifer must be giad-handinj 611 tor, smoothing down tHj fled feather that istl on the campus, ma remark.s to every; visiting firemen, see&sj and' (I am sure) droppiiji ted into bed night allsj Statesmanship is cannot be delegati mittee nor to a contfsj to a chain of eomi mittee never conti thing. 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