EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE
Calls For Long-Range Planning
Chapel Hill News Leader
Lsodifig With The News in Chapel Hill, Corrboro, Glen Lennox and Surrounding Areas
VOL. II NO. 94
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, I95S
Not Forgetting The Haw River
The decision of Governor Hodges to ask
for the designation by the University authori
ties of a person to give a hearing to custodial
workers who might have grievances rescues
the University from an untenable position.
The right of peaceable asemblage to peti
tion for a redress of grievances is one guaran
teed by the United States Constitution. It is
a right, moreover, in accord with basic hu
man rights: since an evasion of it, or a refusal
to grant it, can bring on nothing but smolder,
ing resentment, accusations of tyranny, and
finally some sort of explosion.
University officials did not assume this
position by their own motion; it was laid as
an obligation upon them by the resolution
adopted several years ago by the trustees de
claring the University lacked legal authority
to bargain collectively with a labor union.
It might be argued that to bargain collec
tively is one thing and to present a stony face
to grievances is another. But aside from that
point is the fact that the University has many
employees of many different sorts, that ad
justments and changes are necessary from
time to time, and that when grievances arise
there ought to be a time and place where they
can be aired and dealt with.
It cannot be argued that the University is
a mythus or disembodied spirit which is un
able to meet men on an every-day plane. It is,
on the contrary, a human institution set up to
meet human needs.
A basic American tenet is government by
the consent of the governed. If such consent
is denied or evaded, what is taught in the
classroom is contradicted by what is done on
the campus.
Wait Partymiller in New York Gazette & Daily
Driver's Clinic
Laughing At The Laws
Not m-aary witnesses in a local court are as
cynical as the one who on last Friday testi-
fied in a hearing at Lillington, county seat of
Harnett. Examined as to his knowledge of
careless and reckless driving, he testified:
“I’ve been tried 55.^ times, if you want to
know, but never convicted.”
The judge couldn't believe his ears. He
leaned over to ask:
“Did you say three or four times?”
“No”, said the witness, “I said 34 times
and never convicted”.
It can be imagined what effect such testi
mony makes on the officers, attendants and
spectators at a traffic court, on the survivors
of murderous highway accidents, and on the
highway patrolmen who night and day work
to keep the State’s accident record down. ,
It may be that the witness in question was
out to create a sensation. But unfortunately
such testimony tallies too much with prevail
ing rumors in some localities that “influence”
or the hidden “fix” is the deciding factor in
traffic cases and other matters where misde-
A question and answer column
cm traffic safety, driving and
autpmoOiles conducted for this
neiospaper by the State DeparU
ment of Motor Vehicles.
to a lower gear.
Chips That Fall
meanors rather than higher crimes are in-
volved.
Question: Why is it dangerous
to coast downhill in neutral?
Answer: In neutral, the braking
power of the engine is lost, leav
ing the driver with only the
brakes to check down-hill momen
tum. On long dowm-grades it’s
possible to burn out linings by
Corruption in high places is .sometimes ex
posed and punished, but the same thing in
the lower places may be just as corroding controlling the car with the brakes
without being di,sclosed except by some acci- alone,
dent. * * *
Q. How can you easily measure
the effectiveness of the brake
system?
A. With the car standing still,
push down on the brake pedal.
If it can be depressed to within
one inch of the floor-board, the
brakes need attention. Then drive
at slow sppeed, apply the brakes
abruptly. If the car pulls sharp
ly to one side, brakes are un
equalized. At higher speeds it
could throw a car out of control.
It is often suspected that far too much of
the slaughter on the highways is due to per
sons who ought not to have the use of a car
or a highway. What is to be said about a traf
fic violator cynical a,s the one who on- last
Friday testified on trials without conviction.
To Hear Grievances is Common Sense
Q- Many short-haul trips re
quire frequent oil changes. Why?
A. Short trips seldom allow
the engine to reach its most favor
able operating temperature. If
the engine is not operated in the
proper temperature range oil di
lution occurs, necessitating fre
quent changes.
I f the Yadkin River can be freed of f>ollu-
tion, what about the Flaw?
This question comes to mind when we read
in a report from the State Stream Sanitation
Committee that 42 out a total of 82 polluters,
including towns and industries, have volun
teered to help with the program designed to
dean up the streams of the Yadkin Basin.
That, we hope, is the sign of a better day
for North Carolina’s noble rivers. Among
the.se none surpasses the historic Yadkin
which beginning in the mountains widens
into the stately Pee Dee and passes out to sea.
The Haw is not as long as the Yadkin, but
it has spots and stretches of beauty as great,
and after it joins the Deep not far from Chap-
el Hill become the Cape Fear which also runs
out to sea.
Yet the Haw, perhaps even worse than the
Yadkin, has been subject to pollution by dyes,
debris, and di.scharge.s from mills and munic
ipalities.
Q. What should you do if your
hydraulic brakes suddenly go
out?
A. Several things, depending
on traffic, location and other
hazards. Normally, one or more
of these would help: apply emer
gency brake, shift to lower gear,
. . - , cut ignition, steer along the
ities have bee^n set aside for the ITniversity edge of the curb with the right
wheels, steer onto the shoulder of
the highway. Never disengage
Q. How can a newspaper be
useful around a car?
A. Spread out, it can be used
to protect clothing when inspect
ing underneath the car. It can
be used to clean spark plugs and
w'ires. It may be taped to the
windshield and windows over
night to prevent frosting. It may
be left underneath the car over
night to detect a suspected oil
leak. It may be spread on the
floor of a car during long cold
drives to keep the feet warm.
It’s handy for cleaning wind
shields after rainy weather.
Every year there is an increasing demand
for bathing and boating facilities closer to
Chapel Hill than the seashore, and some facil-
at the Buggs Island development.
The broad Haw passes within a few miles
of Chapel Hill and at certain points offers
great possibilities for development. But such
a development will not take place as long as
the bountiful river is fouled up to the point
where nearby residents complain of the odor
and where even the fish cannot stand the dis
charges poured into it.
.•\11 good wishes to the Yadkin, but let’s not
overlook the Haw.
the clutch except when shifting
Q. How do you keep ice off the
windshield?
A. Best are electrical or hot
air defrosters. Glycerine may be
rubbed on the windshield. A small
porous sack of wet salt rubbed on
the windshield is fine for emer
gencies.
Belts Or Shoulder Harnesses
Elkin Tribune
Who Does The Playing^
By SIDNEY SWAIM ROBINS
A clergyman was commenting
on Dr. Richard Cabot’s book,
“What Men Live By’’ (work,
play, love and worship). When
he got to the “play”, he read
from some old Puritan father
who was opposed to it, saying:
“If you let your children play
when they are young, then they
will play when they are grown
up.”
A dreadful prospect indeed!
The preacher said we all need
play to rest one set of muscles,
relax the nerves, and stimulate
the active imagination so that we
can work better and live more.
The speaker went on to say
that we are apt to take too much
of our play by proxy, —that is to
say, by spectating. He said play
was better from the public stand
point when more people took an
active part in it, as well as more
fun to you when you were in
there playing yourself.
what teams .were playing, and
who was doing the pitching.
In the new medium of televis
ion .everything is reduced to a
three - dimensional plane surface.
You miss the contagious enthusi
asm of the fellow in the next
bench to you, and you probably
do not rise and try your lungs at
the seventh inning. The dish is
rather pacifist, designed for com
fort, and in some cases for the
crooked elbow. Look at the ads!
The fact is we are in some
danger of becoming a nation of
kibitzers, which is to say people
whose idea of play is watching
somebody else do it.
Senator Kefauver heads a Sen
ate committee inquiring into the
causes of juvenile delinquency.
The other day ex-president 'Tru
man wrote him that the two main
causes of delinquency were, first,
parents passing up the responsi
bility of being with and raising
their own children; and, second
ly, children not having enough
chores to do.
My wife’s comment on the sec
ond point was that there simply
are not enough chores for chil
dren to do any more. There are
too many buttons to punch. It
struck me though that we make
the matter worse by giving them
so many wonderful toys instead
of just starting them, if they need
help, on making their own. How
often we have seen a man sell
a house just as soon as he has
had all the fun of making it just
to suit him!
I can’t prove this, but I strong
ly suspect that we “retired” peo
ple lose our muscles by not using
them, and our minds in exactly
the same way. And even our
hearts: there is one thing you
can’t risk kibitzing with a min
uet!
Ahdrew J. White, director of
Motor Vehicles Research, Inc., of
New Hampshire, recently charg
ed, that safety belts being over
sold as a cure-all preventing in
juries to automobile occupants.
While is of the opinion that only
shoulder harness prevent injuries
which are caused from the head
being smashed against the dash
board, or against the side of the
car, or roof.
White was not speaking as an
inexperienced safety official. In
fact, he himself recently under
went crash tests with safety belts,
in an effort to find out how much
actual good a four-inch lap belt
did when an automobile experi
enced a sudden impact while tra
veling over 40 mUes an hour.
White reports that when the
car crashed through the test bar
rier, he could brake himself well
enough to prevent his head from
going forward or from experienc
ing sideward motion of danger
ous proportions. He Was using an
emergency-absorbing gadget in
stalled on the dashboard, and
was not — of course — bouncing
his head on the dashboard to as
certain the effects of a crash.
White wore a nylon safety har-
ne_s^ in other tests, and this as
sembly, he reports, prevented his
upper body from smashing into
the dashboard and from crashing
into the top of the car.
The lesson to be learned is that
the safety belt is better than no
thing, but is not as efficient as
a shoulder harness. Aircraft pi
lots have known this all along
and it is for this reason that the
Air Force require all its pilots
to wear a harness. A harness
keeps the shoulders and lower
back in place in most crashes,
and thereby prevents injuries in
a far greater number of cases
than a lap belt alone can or does.
But — with all due respect to
Mr. White and those who seek to
make auto driving safer — if we
reach the place where we have to
spend most of our times buckling
up and unbuckling, we’re going
to lose much of the time an au
tomobile saves us in the first
place. If all drivers would just
use common sense and courtesy,
we wouldn’t need any straps or
harness or anything else to make
motoring safe.
Receptive Play
Funny About Cars
SALEM CANDLE TEAS
How true that must be! I have
so often thought of what a good
time the people up there in the
orchestra must be having. Theirs
is the accomplishment, of har
mony and whatever, in the first
place. They certainly deserve an
audience most of the time, but
surely we overdo the merely re
ceptive kind of play. We go to
see other people play ball, make
music, give plays, put on the
gloves. We are entertained by all
kinds of experts.
CARLTON MORRIS
In Gates County Index
We learn quite a lot, get some
relaxation from work, and through
sympathy get some sense of
achievement and glory when our
team wins or when the maestro
gets the high notes good and
clear. Possibly we get ready to
answer the $64,000 question about
who clouted the base-ball furth
est, and when and where, and
Occasionally, I hear someone
longing for the good old days
when cars were made out of good
material. That line of thought I
do not go along with at all. All
cars are being built better and
better to meet the present high
quality demand. This I know, for
I first owned a Model T and cars
that I owned 20 years ago
wouldn’t last 60 days under the
present service that I demand of
a car. I can recall many bright
sunny Sunday afternoons when I
stai'ted out to see my best girl
dressed in spotless white ducks
and I remember how bedraggled
I looked when I finnally arrived
after spending hours beside the
road repairing a tire on a de
mountable rim. We didn’t have
spare tires in those days, but we
did have a hand pump and a
patching kit or we didn’t venture
far from home.
In those nays, normal pressure
for a tire was 60 pounds, while
now it is 24 pounds, and my pres
ent auto doesn’t even have any
tubes in the tires.
I realize that cars in those days
were supposedly built to with
stand the roads of that era, and
present-day low-slung models
wouldn’t have a chance under
conditions that prevailed then.
I remember when Walter P.
Chrysler came out with his series
which went by numbers. Some
one claimed they would do at
least 60 miles an hour. No one
believed it.
Then I took my first ride in a
Model A Ford. I came home and
told all the boys it would get up
to 50 miles an hoiu* in a quarter
of a mile, and I was convinced
it would do 70 miles an hour at
top speed. Since few of the boys
in our neighborhood had even
seen this breath-taking car and
none of them had been privileged
to ride in it, I was dubbed an
immediate liar.
People are funny about their
cars. Once a man starts using one
particular brand, he seldom
changes and will swear to the
world that his is the best on the
market. And there are more lies
told about gas mileage than all
the politics added together.
Do the duty which lieth near
est to thee; Thy second duty will
already have become cleared—
Carlyle
In the Eighteenth Century com
munity of Old Salem, Winston-
Salem, Moravian Candle Teas
open the Christmas season on
December 1, 2 and 3. On these
dates, from 2 p.m. until 9 p.m.,
the historic Brothers’ House built
on Salem Square in 1768 opens
its doors to the public. Visitors
.see demonstrations of beeswax
candle-making, an enlarged
“putz”, depicting the Nativity
scene and Salem in the 1800’s;
and hostesses in early Salem cos
tume serving the traditional sug
ar cake and lovefeast coffee.
Moravian Christmas stars hang
above Salem doorways. Thin,
spicy Moravian Christmas cakes
are available at local shops along
with Christmas stars and"' the
fragrant Christmas candles which
are distributed to the congrega
tion at the Christmas Lovefeast
at Home Horavian Church
Christmas Eve.
on
“Raleigh, the Mercantile
City”. So reads a line in a
conspicuous sign near the
No. 1 highway. Such a pro
clamation will be surprising
to those persons who have
known Raleigh for years but
have thought of it as politi
cal, or social, or educational,
rather than mercantile. Some.
ho\v the adjective “mercan
tile” looks out of place as
pinned to the name of Ra
leigh. How come that sign
to make that boast?
★ ★ ★
Some of the old school of
weather prophets, noting the
thicker hair on the horses
and cows, are predicting a
cold winter and probable
snow. This variety of folk-
lore never sounds convincing.
In the first place, the w’inter
hair on animals is always
thicker in winter than in
summer, and in the second
place, fairly deep snow falls
in the Chapel Hill area at in
tervals of about five years.
Calculated ‘on that basis,
some snow may be expected
this winter and is likely to
be deeper than that of last
year.
★ ★ ★
A discussion is going the
rounds of the papers as what
attracts tourists to a State,
and there is some agreement
the chief yearning is for na
tive foods with a ba,sic ap
peal. The Charleston, \V. Va.
Gazette declares the tourist
“wants dishes unique to the
locale”.
Our observation is that
hardly anything attracts the
attention of visitors to (his
area like a basket of hush-
puppies on the dining table.
And it is to be noted that in
South Carolina the tourist is
delighted to be introduced to
hoppin’ john and in Louisi-
ana to a po’boy sandwich.
The food should be local
but exotic, and have a local
but exotic name.
•kicir
Now that Chapel Hill has
seen its lajst football game of
the year, the post-game clean-
ers-up will now put their bags
and hooks away until next
September. A regiment of
men has had to work every
football weekend to pick up
the paper alone. The next
most discarded article is
chicken bones. The homeless
dogs of the town get fat on
these during the fall season,
but have lean pickings after
Thanksgiving. Left behind
on and under the stadium
seats are baskets of glov'es,
coats, sweaters, glasses, and
ticklers. And sometimes ex
pensive cameras.
^ ★
Discussion has been stirred
np by the attempt of some of
the actors in the “Pompey’s
Head” film to speak with a
pronounced Southern accent.
^}'Fiich Southern accent?
Virginia Tidewater N C
coastal. South Carolina low
country, Georgia cracker,
MississqDpi Delta or Louisi-
ana cajun?
All these accents are dif
ferent, and are unmistakable
to the initiated.
Our suggestion
makers is that.
London and Washington
of Infht,
RICHARD L. STROUT
In Christian Science Monitor
Nobody can sit at a typewriter
in Washington, as an observer of
the current political scene with
out being struck by the differ
ence in the way they do things
in London.
Over there the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, R. A. Butler, had
just told Englishmen in good-na
tured but definitive tones that
they are going to pay a whole
lot more taxes because they have
been buying more goods than- the
British factories can produce, and
that, with an economy operating
at top level and a labor shortage
the choice is between taxes and
inflation.
Wham! Goes the announce
ment, and every Englishman
knows he has had it. If the tax
payers don’t like it they can pro
test and after some years perhaps
vote the Conservatives out of
power. For the moment, however,
the British budget is going to be
balanced, and overbalanced, the
compensatory theory of economy
is going to be applied, and the
brakes thrown on to a boom
which threatened to get inflation
ary.
power
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PUTchasina
provided thi
M y
competition?®"'!
prices up
Inriation
of old
hespenSr^^'i
'fliat is the sitmii,
whie
economists ’
Phe government 1,!
Plj’mg the brakes, '
increasing effectiy,
inflation for so,.,
“ has sent
borrowing money l i
the availability of f
iy this hasn’t
groups, like the i
dustry which is fijj,
expansion slowed!
Idea behind the mild.I
prolong the preset
boom - not burn i
This is responsible government
under the parliamentary system.
It is easier in some ways to op
erate than the American because
there is no division between the
executive and the legislature.
When the Cabinet decides Parlia
ment goes along.
Things are different here in
Washington. The prospect is that
a number of inflationary things
are going to be done as soon as
Congress reassembles which will
have the effect of increasing
purchasing' power. Everybody, of
course, favors more purchasing
The Eisenhower j
bas^ been quite
maintaining a stable J
the past three year; |
dollar is another -
an economy that is foj
tionary nop deflatiei
has called for nevetai
tor the job is a |
walking a tightroi
long pole, The very s
the task means tli
threatened all the 1
pole tips a bit thisj
that. Over in Loadoai
decided that the poll
ping down toward iii
sudden, drastic aai
countermeasiu'es weti
applied.
Letters to the Edita
r/
ON TRIAL
To the Editor:
I read a reprint of your edi
torial in the New South, a pub
lication by Regional Council of
Atlanta, Ga., entitled “We Are
On Trial”.
1 heartily agree with you
America is on trial, as humans
the world over look to America
to ‘see’ how and w’hy w'e prog
ress and are endowed with so
many blessings.
And they also point out some
of our faults.
I was born and received my
early schooling in Houston, Texas
and I have experienced some of
the problems in the South, for I
am a so-called “Negro”.
We do have a race problem all
over America; some communities
more than Others.
One of the reasons they came
to America was freedom to wor
ship God. Maybe God “caused”
them to come and create a place
where “He” could “work through
them freely”. They had become
“willing to let their light (God)
shine”. (Creating our Constitu
tion and Bill of Rights)
Maybe that Ls why the word
“creator” is mentioned many
times in our Constitution.
I believe our Constitution and
Bill of Rights are two of the
greatest documents in the uni
verse but the job is to teach,
train and encourage all Ameri
cans to grow in intelligence and
wisdom until they reach a degree
that they become willing (not
forced) to apply the two ideals in
their daily living with each other.
There are three ways to see
the problem of mixed schools:
the White way, the Negro way,
and God’s way.
I have faith in God’s way and
if the good Americans of both
groups will meet, reason and be
come willing to let God work
and think through them they will
solve this problem.
We do have some “die-hards”
with mistaken beliefs about each
other, and you may have a few
“fights” (smile), but they too
have a right to their belief wheth
er we agree with them or not.
So let’s love and 1
let God work, on llittl
ness. If God had eiio
to help us create
has enough sense ai(j
not let us break itiipj
So I praise all ini
niunity who are trviijl
the problem of mixeJif
help America react 1
“love (like) ye one iJ
May all continue t)|
blessings of good h!i|
ness, success and divim]
in all your efforts,
Johnnie!
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can uncierstand it and get on
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