EDITORIAl & FEATURE PAGE
'M
Chapel Hill News Leader
I
Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas
VOL. II, NO. 88
f
The Pose of Poverty
Al certain tiiiies in .North (iarolina, and
parlit iilarly prior to the le!i,i.slaltire s nieet,-
in,!4. all hand.s at Ralci,t;h ;ind elsewhere are
loid to lie low and not ash loi' anythin” he-
eause the money in the treasnry has rnn onl
;iiul the State is on its way to the po' house.
Vet here is a I’iscal lepoit. to the ”)\ernor
iVoin the icvenne eonnnissioner showin”' that
collections lor the t>encral Innd to date have'
risen by 7 millions to netirly y, i millions;
that October income' tax collections were
netirly ti million and a ball, np b\ ,S2;i7.,|.|2:
and thill, siiles tax collections hist, month weie
iieivrly 2;; millions, np. nearb' 3 millions o\er
the siime jteriod last yciir.
t r
So the treastiry is not nearly empty itnd the
Stiite is nowhere ne;ir the po'. hotise: in lact.
the rexenne commissioner iidmits "we're in
'I , .'I
■I ,
, (
id'
ill
I!
’‘1
i!,'
I
i‘
k' r
(•'if'
Not a One-Way Street
(b)\'. 1I(,h1”'c.s, commenting' in ;i speech ;tt
.\she\ille on the new itidnstries that ha\e
moM'd into western North (atrolina, empha-
.si/ed that "miiiiiigemenL is liighly ple;tsed
■with the (pialitx' ol employee xrhich they lind
among onr highliinder.s.''
It. i.s important of course to base industries
I'eel jtleased with the cpiality ol cm|rloyees
ihiit they lind on moving into North (iaro-
lliiii: but it is no less im|roilant th.it .North
(iarolina working people leel pleased with
the (piality ol then employers.
'riiere have been times when certiiin .North
(iarolina e.tnjrlovers Tailed to exhibit cpiali..
ty—notr.'bly in opposition to any raise in the
.Slate's jritiTul little legtil minimum w;ige.
by so doing ihev not only prevented several
hundred thoustind Nortli Cairolinitins Trom
1' 'P it
'AT .rufit
A New Fhase in Schooi Situation
'J'he declaration by T. J, Pearsall, chairman
ol the .Stale Advisory (iimnnittee on Pclnca-
tion, that North (itirolina's citizens are hiw-
abiding. that there is no way to escape the
Supreme Conit's non-.segreg;ition decision,
;uid that the Stale's "sole purpose is to pro
vide an educ.ition Tor every child in .North
(Carolina", indicates the arriv al oT a new phtise
in the present school siliiaiion, at least in
this Stale.
Abandonment oT the public; .school .s)'.stem
is out.
I he .Vjtix tiltilude (cleTying the lightning)
is out.
Sece.ssion Trom the is onl.
\'olunl;try segregation with any hint oT in-
timidiiiion is out.
J, hat means the Stale can get down to the
Who Are The Chosen People”?^
Harry Golden in the
Carolina Israelite.
At Kouscs I^oint, N. Y., as you
prepare to cros.s into Canada, or
wlien you leave San Diego to
c‘ros.s into Mexico, tlie border pa
trol asks you some cpiestions ...
where were you born, where do
you work, etc. But it you were
born in Ca'lina, Gavvgah, or Tex
as, IBs like (he PNiirth of July!
They break out all the flags,
wli.stle Dixie, and smile you
acro.ss the border without any
further ado.
lation could get through without
his knowledge and consent)., but
nevertheless he says the “North”
is after him. He holds the balance
of legislative power over all the
48 states, but he is always belly
aching about the “rights” of one
of those states. Everybody's after
him. The “foreigners” are after
him.
Big deal! Big threat!
T have long ago come to this
conclusion: The best thing in the
world to be is ... a white, South
ern Ih’otcstant. What a combina
tion! What a passport! There’s
nothing like it anywhere in the
W'estern world, or in any other
part of the world, for that mat
ter.
That the white. Southern Prot
estant is conscious of his com
plete polilical and social preem
inence and “immunity” is evi
denced by tll^ fact that he is a
"bellyacher," which is the occu
pational disease of Chosen Peo
ple. Everybody's after him. The
“North” is after him. Since 1935,
through his Congressional sen
iority, he has been running the
North (not a single piece of legis-
He fragmentizes himself into
niiiny societies and organizations
for “protection,” when all the
time he carries with him the only
“carte blanche” membership in
the world, that of a white, South-
ei’n Pi'otestant, the “open sesame”
to every nook and corner of our
civilization. He has written
thousands of last wills and test
aments in which the No. 1 be
quest was “the copper still on
the back porch,” but he remains
the undisputed symbol of Ihety,
acknowledged by all the world
as the True Custodian of the
Hebrew God and all the works
of Jeremiah and Isaiah. He rare
ly hangs out an American flag
and pays hardly any attention at
all to July 4th, but he remains
the Undisputed Custodian of Love
of Country and American Pa
triotism. He is the only man in
our society who can even tell
jokes about God and it is not
blasphemy. His motives are nev
er questioned! His words are
never suspected! Take a con
troversial matter of moment. To
morrow morning, if a white.
Southern Protestant in the Sen
ate were to say, “Let’s go over
there to Mao Tze Tung and do
some trading,” hush would fall
over the legislative halls of the
land. Even George Sokolsky
would keep quiet, and you could
bet your bottom dollar that
America would be embarking on
a new phase of foreign policy.
For a whole generation Presi
dents Roosevelt, Truman and
Eisenhower have been but the
“chairm9n,” while the white,
Southern Protestant has controll
ed the "Board of Directors.” and
whenever it looked as though the
folks may be jumping the traces
a little, he doesn’t even wait for
the final tally. He just walks the
hell out of the whole convention.
But with all the whining, the
white, Southern Protestant car
ries with him the seeds of free
dom, and the price he exacts may
not be too high at that. And be
cause he remains the One True
Individualist left in this world, I
love him with all my heart, belly
aching and all.
It's Always Best to Talk Things Out.
Understanding Gi
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 195i
CONFFKEWCfl
(New York Times)
iris
”()()(1 shape' at tl,ic pi'cscn,! time".
What, tlieii, vvtis the reason Tor the dolcltil
Bilk last faiHiary, why .'vre State supported iii-
stiliitions told to wear their old clothes .in
other two years, ami why must 72 nid'orl unale
people at (loldsboro be packed into one truck
and told to ;.>'o out into the Tields .'uifl work till
(lark so that the hospital Tund may be ke])t up
to par?
Is there no vv.iy to :\'rt'ive at a reasonablv
correct estimate oT the State's receijMs and
monies at ;uiy ”iven time?
IT not, what dependence c;in be ))ut on the
hollow ”t'oan.s and headshakin^s that issue
Trom Raleiph whenever budt>ets are drawn
up and requests submitted?
I.s the potentially wealthy State oT North
(!ai()lin;i to maintain Torever its pose oT latzar-
us at the mite?
'Walt Party}iiiller in York, Pa:, Gazette & Daily
Those who have made special
studies of girls have found that,
especially during the pre-ado
lescent and adolescent periods,
young women-to-be show the "ef
fects of the extra rigidity and
anxiety that our culture imposes
upon them. Behind the facade,
so well know to cartoon artists,
of sloppy sports clothes or over
done glamour, behind the pro
tection of giggles and endless
phone calls, the research speci
alist see a bewildered, frighten
ed, unsure little girl trying va
liantly to grow.
Confused, and sometimes ex
asperated, parents of the grow
ing girl may find her at times'
a puzzle too complex—or irri
tating—to try to fathom. Actual
ly, her behavior, viewed in con
text of what has gone before and
what is still to come, is as logi
cal as the stages through which a
baby passes as he learns to walk.
Each stage of physical, social and
emotional growth brings its own
challenges, challenges that must
be met successfully if a child is
to pass smoothly to the next stage.
lenges “develT
pa>^ents who ^
both delightful
(aiN especially fatt
like to read
should welcome "
leaflets, “Toward uT'"*
stages clearly a,u 6
Just thiatlT'
Pi'‘se a simple b ''
sive picture oJr I'®'-
gu'l takes on herroaj?’^
up.
The
“Un^la-standij;,
leaflets cover middle J
. (roughly 6-8), u. Tj
®:V’- *ii,i
tral Atlantic Area Y a,
45 Bleecker StreeU'J,
J. Also of interest
Helping Boys and Girls r
stand Their SexRoieyJ
from Science Researct i
ates, 57 West Gtaid 4
Chicago 10, Ill,),
From The Outside LooKmg In Chips That Fall Governs Anti-Sem
lies
(Southern Pines Pilot)
Imviii,"' any decent iiurchasiii” power, thereby
li:ii'min)>' every enterpri.se with atiylbitio' to
.sell, but held back the due dcvelopmcnl oT
the Slate's liTe.
Ii is to be expected that every eitiployer
will demand boucsty, elTicieiicy, and consid
eration Trom his cmj.ilovec.s, and oT course be
wdl willingb concede the ri”ht oT cmjiloyees
to exjoect the same virtues Trom him.
II the (.overiior i.s able to assure iu(|uiriii”'
industries ol the tjuaiiiy oT .North (iarolina
employees, be cannot do less than assure em
ployees concern ill”' the merits oT prospective
employers.
In that way the welTare oT the; State-vyill
not be a one-way alTair. but will have two
sides e.'vb oT which will do its duty by the;
coimmuiitv. ,, ■ , u ;,i ic;oit ;cb■,
If we lived in Pennsylvania,
say, or Michigan, we think vV'e d
be interested in North Carolina.
We'think we’d want to visit this
state—the Sandhills, the - Sek-
coast, the mountains, Chapel Hill
and the industrial areas.,
state which draws such wide in
terest and has so much to offer.
NO FIXED MEANING
The noiirest thing to a; clash
If we drove into Southern
Pines, we think we’d like the
town—would want to spend a few
days here, meet some of the
people, look around the resi
dential areas and the stores and
of course, drop by to have a
chat with the folks at the week
ly newspaper. Which brings us
back to interviewing ourself in
imagination.
between liberalism and conserv
atism in North Carolina politics,
was the 'bitter senatorial con
test in 1950 between Frank Gra
ham and Willis Smith. Graham
Somehow, when actual visitors
drop.; in, on; 'lis;|this way, we are
never at a loss for words. Other
residents hme must alsp, have ex-
, pierieniyecl^.thi?.iWji>iife''ihere with
.i.ouf mkhtyd'afeacUbins dflnd get
used to them. When a stranger
wants to know about the state
Of , tlye,_^t(!iwn;,' 'i'jWe find that en
'.‘'ihjislASi'h: biiniofeitPasily. There i
really a lot to say.
IS
was a liberal, politically and in
tellectually. Smith was a con
servative in fact as well as in
name. But even in this campaign
there was no hard and fast divis
ion of voters into liberal and con
servative blocs. Graham had plen
tiful support from conservative-
minded, ,1 ipT .Hegis ,vyho, had come
to love Grahann during his long
period of seryice at the Univer
sity of North Carolina. And many
a conservative 1 farmer who knew
little about . Graham personally
stood by, him o.n Election Day
because Graham had been Kerr
Scott's choice for Senator.
Dr. I'Jriiest Uraige oT Mem-
oiial Hospital, who is to
.sjicak tonight at (Treeusboro
Ltelorc the Cone .Memorial
Ho.spital ,\uxiliary is not on
ly a eardiologist but a car-
loonist and reinlorces his
talk.s. with t.vt. He was a pu
pil oT Dr . ITiul Dudley
^Vhite, the heart specialist
who attended Piesident Li.s-
ciihower. .At a time whqn
marital alfairs are being con
duced with Ituckshot, bowie
knives, and poi.son, he is to
sjtealv tonight on "Conserva
tion oT the Spouse”.
business oT Tiiiding a way out oT the cloud
oT emotional reaction that hats bitherto oc-
(iipied the .scene.
\Vc have to recall that the Supreme Court
has never Called Tor the "Torced integration "
that so many ot'ators have imagined.
A\'e have to recall that pi-ients oT either
race will nalnrally prcTcr to send their chil
dren to places where lliev will Tind congenial
surroundings and companionshi]).
We Itave to recall tha-t in any tiidy demo
crat i(' community both races are entitled to
make ilicir viewpoints known in regard to
what should be done, and .should be repre
sented on all commiiiecs. boards, and other
oigani/aiions concerned with the school ques
tion.
Finally we Itave to recall that the world is
looking on to see how we settle this cpiestion.
Widespread interest in Nortli
Carolina is not just an accident.
The fact is, tne. State-. is being
well and widely publicizecl
through the eflorts ot tne. State
News Bureau whicii sends paid
auvertisements and news materi
al to publications or inspires edi
tors of out-of-state puDlications
to come here ana cio uieir own
stories about what interests them.
It is stimulating, therefore, to
imagine ourselves on the out
side, looking in at North Caro
lina, and to wonder what would
claim our interest—and then to
return, with a new sense of en
thusiasm, to actual life in this
Personal friendship and per
sonal gruciges have much to do .
with shajling the North Carolina
political picture.'The temper of
the people steers them toward
the “middle of the road.” Voters
with conservative leanings, often
say that-things are moving too
Siowly and act accordingly at.
election time. And other voters
vvith Lberal sympathies frequent
ly decide that things have mov
ed fast enough and join the ranks
of the "slow downers.”
Some years belore the Cavil
War PioT. James Phillip.s,
who started the Presbyterian
(ilitirc:h liuilding here, and
Ilisliop Walliani .Mercer
(ireen, who started the F.pis-
eojial Cihtireh about .the same
time, used to exchange pu/./.-
Tes, rebuses, and other Tirain
twisters, below i.s one oT the
(Carolina Israelite)
George Eaton Simpson and J.
Milton Yinger in their admir
able book, “Racial and Cultural
Minorities” (Oberlin College-
Harpers), elaborate on the Freu
dian thesis with respect to anti
semitism. In part anti-semitism
is an assault upon Christianity.
The anti-semite is protesting
against the demands on his be
haviour that Christian teachings
make. A song of Hitler Youth
declared: “Pope and Rabbi shall
be gone. W'e want to be pagans
once again. No more creeping
to churches.” Another said: “We
are the joyous Hiller Youth. We
do not need any Christian virtue.
Our leader Adolf Hitler is our
Saviour.” “No more creeping to
churches,” an important phrase
of self-revelation. Anti-semitism
thrives abong those who feel
Chi'istianity as repression. Mau
rice Samuel too insists that this
is the cause 'of anti-semitism—
the unconscious hostility the anti-
semites feel toward Christian au
thority over lives, is displaced
onto the Jews.
Thomas Mann, the German
novelist-philosopher, wrote in
1937: “It was only with the ad
vent of Christianity that Ger
many ehtered the m
leading cultural peoplt;
Christianity however m
Mediterranean-Oriental t\~
not German, and which H(|
mans from time to time it
to deny. Each time Hitl
resulted in a lapse into p
rism into something wkas|
historic and not jet t
only tribally Germanic til
earmark ol this relapsefc
vvays been a
Germans to anti-semitii!
hatred whict^ ■ freslu
time to tittle'^against
really aimed at
that is higher m
self; it is the linpassiHe
to oust trom the hodv
German culture an' elemi
to be sdmbeflfend alien
the fact that itus tie vi
ment wh.eh enlightens
form, is human; in otte
the Meaiterranean eleine:
racial representatives in
are the Jews. Always *1
semitisra breaks
that the people M if
under the Jewish
cu m tneir evil designs
are doing wrong;
ing hooky from
kind.”
lign
ind
stirvivor.s oT this exchange.
1 he Tirst iinn-stiTtscriber oT
the .News T.eacler who sends
in a solution will receive a
ten week siibscripfion Tree:
Where Church Is Wea^
(iiit oTT niy head and singu
lar 1 act.
Fact is, there is no fixed mean
ing of "liberalism” and “con
servatism” in North Carolina.—
Smithfield Herald.
(itiL oTT nty tail and plural
I t'pjtear.
%
Ciut oTT iny bead and tail, ()
wondi'ous Tact,
At Home With The Hopis
Although my middle’s lel't,
there's notliino- there.
^V'hat is my head cut oTT? .A
■sounding sea.
A Hopi household is a self-
directing group, the members of
which seem to achieve an auto
matic co-ordination 'of their ac
tivities. No one tells the others
what they should do, or when, or
how. No one exercises authority.
The various mem'oers seem to fall
naturally into a pattern in which
the abilities of the individual
and the needs of the household
are satisfactorily served, a pat
tern which probably was evolved
so long ago that it requires no
direction and is accepted without
question.
To a'visitor, a household sel
dom, if ever, gives the impression
of being in a hurry or working
under pressuic. It does not time
its duties by a clock. Indeed a
clock is not likely to be anywhere
in evidence, and I doubt if most
households own one, or keep it
wound if they do.
The- family doo^ not usually
operate on the basis of duties or
appointments which must be ful
filled at a certain hour. The
members are likely to sit clown
to a meal when the food is ready
or when they so desire
In the summer months, the
evening meal may be eaten out
doors aftter darkness has come
and the bright stars illuminate
the desert sky. In winter, bed-
fnuch can be done in weaving or
basketry or other crafts in dark-
!'mp may come early because not
ness Or by light of an oil la-rap. -
The sun has much to do with
home activities.
In winter or summer, there is
little likelyhood that anyone will
desire to sit up late in order to
look at a newspaper or listen to
a radio. Newspapers are seldom
found in a Hopi home. They offer
little that is of interest in com
parison with affairs nearer at
hand. The world of the cities,
with which newspapers are nat
urally concerned, is a long way
from the Hopi world. The realm
of new and complex invention is
interesting but not vital.
AMliat is tiiv tail cut oTT? .A
I'lovviiig river.
Far in the.ucean's depths T
Icmrless play.
(Aver ol sweet souiuls, yet
imite Torever.
The devastating events on other
Continents, the wars and pros
pect of wars, the complexities of
conflicting civilizations, are alien.
Being terrible and destructive,
they should not be thought about
too much. As for radios, an oc
casional H^pi ^lome possesses
one, but they’re rare. Since they
are batteiy powered, and since
the battery is probably run down
and is not important enough to
be renewed, a radio program,
whether news or something else,
seldom is heard.
To a Flopi, the affairs of his
own household and those of his
neighbors and his village, the
raising and harvesting of crops,
the practice of traditional crafts,
the preparation for ceremonies
and participation in them, the
visits to and frinom relatives—
these are the matters which com
mand interest. They are close at
hand, understandable and con-
stguctiye; they are worth think
ing about.—from “The Hopis:
Portrait of a Desert People,” by
Walter Collins O’Kant
Smiinier in Chapel Hill
tanie to aii eiul 011 the night
ol .Nov. ,p .Next morning tlie
reds, yellows, and blues in
the gardens were a blighted
black, overcoats appeared on
the streets, there was a silence
111 the air, and so winter had
shown stimmcr the door.
Herman N. Morse, in "These
Moving Times"
One thing that becomes in
creasingly clear is that this fate
ful period has unfolded before us
the tragedy of an age in which
vast material, mechanical, scien
tific, and intellectual progress
has been accompanied by a con
fusion of ethical and social values
and the blurring of spirtual
meanings. This is one logical out
come of the increasing seculari
zation of our life. Today it be
comes apparent to how great a
degree many of our ideas of the
Chirstian roots of our social or
der are challenged by the trends
of modern life ...
Over a span of years the
churches liave lost much of the
social and intellectual monopoly
they once enjoyed, much of their
monopoly in relation to social
service and reform, a consider
able part of their monopoly in
the field of ethical and spiritual
leadership in the community.
The Church as a whole is in
calculably strong in imponderable
aspects and stands as the strong
est bulwark of a baffled world.
But in practical functioning, the
local church is likely to be weak
est in tile areas of greatest so
cial change and most severe ten
sion. It is likely to find its ma
jor difficulty in benig explicit
and convincing in relation to the
issues of deepest moment. Its
testimony is not clear and united.
It has no present means of con-
C(
nos
157
fronting
Christian influence, Th
cannot speak with 1
voice; they have not..
think with a common uW
ganizatiohallR- they are v
tended for their-resonreet-
divided for their iieeii
where they should ■
and often weak .at ®-
that most need uiiiwi"™
th. There ha (11
in which eiteaiw .Jt*
istry is not luOiv d.tl.-“i'
was a generation ago and''
it is as well pei'formei-'
visions weaken and toal?
that socTety often ten**
count the Church au ^|j,
around it when deal«iW
sues in religion to w
Church should he A
There is in the er.terpra
Church too mii«>; ‘®'
rigidity and too h® f'-
power.
I'bere is no better buy Tor
the money on the market
nov: titan chicken and eggs,
pi tecs ol which have plunged
to bottoip depths. Many
Jaimeis can no longer joay
theii way out, and those whto
have borrowed money to
binid new poultry liouses
and eqinpment will be push
ed to meet their obligaiioas.
I be situation is bad enough
in tins county, ljut in (iiiat-
bam County it is worse. It
Yaiiild help Chatliam people
il Chapel Hillians ate more
Hucken just now.
ART APPRECIATION
The American couple was in
Paris, doing the Louvre on a
Cook's tour.
“'What time is it?” the wife
asked.
“What’s the name of that paint
ing?” the husband answered.
The woman walked up and
examined the picture’s title.
“Mona Lisa,” she replied.
Her husband scanned his
Cook’s itinerary. “Then it’s quar
ter past two if we’re on time,”
he told her.—Christian Science
Monitor.
V
IE
til
N
CHACttHluJll'll?
published even
Thursday b? tbe 1^'
Company, , ,,
Mailing Addreit
Box 749
Ciiapel HilU
Street Address- ®
Carrboro
TelephonejJ^
Phillips
Roland
L. M. Folla'i®’'
''ThS®-:.
BV MAIl: I "
f AS >
for three ,