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EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE
Billions For Bombs, Pennies For Schools
Chapel Hill News Leader
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Leading With The News inChapeiHill, Corrboro, GleT) Lennox and Surrounding Areas
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VOL. II, NOr 9S
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1955
To Keep the Community Clean
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An example of what Chapel Hill must do
to preserve its individuality and i)rotect it
self from undue encroachments not only in-
town but on its outskirts is to be found in
the moving in of advertising signs, billboards,
and other structures to areas where they are
in conflict with the zoning ordinance estab
lished eight months ago.
Ever since the present growth began, it
has become evident that tfie community
must be on its guard to see that elements not
in keeping with its nature and traditions do
not slip in and gain a foothold.
d’he town has a right to ask that it enjoy
the benefits to be derived from its own ex
pansion. There is no point in trying to con
vert Chapel Hill into a commercial town
with a commercial outlook and purely com-
mercitd interests. Despite pressure of various
kinds, it has managed thus far to preserve its
unicjue atmosphere as a Elniversity town with
a history of simplicity and serenity.
Any lowering of these standards will be a
detraction from a respected tradition and a
step totvards a hard-faced exploitation of a
natural beauty and dignity.
The community will stand solidly behind
the building inspectors and other officers who
are upholding the municipal laws. If any in-
terests dislike these laws, they have a right
to ask for their repeal but not by violations
that show disregard for community standards
and traditions.
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Extermination by Rivalry
"I he announcement that Russia has just
exploded a bomb equal to a million tons of
TNT will probably be followed by an an
nouncement that the US has exploded a
bomb of two million tons.
On the other side from this is the indicated
start of a peaceful competition which will em
ploy useful production instead of an all-in
clusive destruction.
In this race Russia is at this stage in the
In fact, it is declared in behalf of the US
that it has already perfected bombs of many
times the Russian power.
But what matter a few million tons more
or less of explosive material when we now
realize that even a'li infant-size bomb of the
sort that destroyed Hiroshima is capable of
creating horrors that only a few years ago
could not even be imagined?
What we have to avoid is a bomb-produc
ing race that can end only in a race toward
extermination on a wholesale scale.'
lead, sending; out missions which offer to
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lend money and build dams and productive
works while the US hurries along under mil;
itary guidance leading towards purely mili
tary objectives.
Below this two-winged competition lies
that fermenting mass of people in Asia and
Africa who rvant to climb out of poverty, ig
norance, and disease to a status hitherto en
joyed only by the colonizing ^Vestern nations.
When these peoples ask for help are we to
have nothing better to offer than bombs and
bayonets?
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Lino Cut By Neal Thomas
Happy Land For Tourists
(Christian Science Monitor)
"Preventive War" Up Again
The outbursts of comment and headlines
on the detention in East Berlin at gunpoint
of two US congressmen and the wife of one
by Russian police shows how tenuous is the
peace line betwen the US and Russia despite
recent friendly visits and banquets.
Since tlie . pecond Geneva conference col
lapsed, theredias been a renewal of talk about
increased aiiiiainents, and in the present bell
icose atmosphere any small incident may be
used to start a fire. There is even a new mum
bling about “preventive war”, winch means
there are military elements who want to
unless the President intervenes, are holding
to the concept of striking back only after be
ing struck.”
The best offset to gi'owlings and threaten- ■
ings is a sane utterance like tliat of Secretary^,
of War Henry L. Stimson who in 1945, at
the War's end, said:
“Unless the Soviets aye voluhtarily invited^
into the partnership upon a basis of coopera-
precioos indeed to a man earn
ing only 2 or 3 pesetas an hour.
One S:uch restaurant at least is
operated with all the personnel
—^waiters, cooks and dishwashers
—equal partners in the enter
prise; this one is among the
cheapest'to be found.
Chips That Fall
tion and trust. We are going to maintain the
Anglo-Saxon bloc
throw thd first bombs now'and bring on the
third tvorld war. This is confirmed by such
references as the following in the US News
and World Report:
“Diplomats and military officers are in
sharp disagreement over U. S. defense policy.
Military commanders are mote and more
convinced that this country cannot tie its de
fense to a policy of waiting for an enemy to
strike the first blow with thermo - nuclear
weapons. Diplomats, who boss the military
and . ,, . such a con
dition will almost certainly stimulate feverish
activity on tin? part of the Soviet torvard the
development of this bomb in what will in ef
fect be a secret armanient rate of a rather
desperate character .... The chief lessqn^ 1,,
.sQ,up,^ meat,, salad,'.
have learned in a long life is that the Only" bread and beverage for .unde;
way you can make a man trustworthy is to 10-pesetas.*!
trust him, and the surest tvay to make him un- Tie ecohomicos are df all tpyes
trustworthy is to distrust him and show your
distrust.”
Co-existence or co-obliteration — there is
the
back to face
Being addicted to traveling,
but unfortunately- without suffi
cient income to make it possible
to do so in style, we find our
selves at present- trying to see afl
of Spain on less money than the
average tourist spends , in a week
in Madrid. , - , , , .L ,.. Economy
^Oim-pf. the:-j;5^^Vhh|tii|^''here,' Buying food in’‘the markets,
heref when opdfSt'ifig-©h^^rictly.,,. vvhicl) in itself,is an interesting
limited funds, is the^ .extreme.,, experience, is also a.way to ecom
pheapne^ of ..both.itn res-..^.pr^ize. Since .pur car, in addition
ta^ra:^tg;^d The,j.,.,tp j.ppps.iiining.all. our money in
current rate of 'dxi^ha'ri’g^* gives. oil and .repairs was of such
approximately 40 pesetas’-to the . , an .ituide-pendable -nature that we
foliar; WQ/|iavl;J^.vii|:bging,,Ll,W?6.:-i0rced.'tq.carry tent, sleep-
20 -pesetas, a;’ day^ ipg.,jjags, 'and. primus stove, not
or a dollar for the fwo'of us. j ;,„,-kfipwing.,inhere we .might have to
. AlUT-ypes'-iand-Friciia A “'spend the night, we were in
There.arp restaur-ahtk-^Uiie sd-... .the, hahii .pf carrying fopd at all
called econpmiPosUiWhiPS^';'servhf; .tunes,,,,, ...
The sight of the red blos
soms of Japonica spurting out
from an occasional bare twig
a reminder that there
month of the year m
is
no
a. nieal of
choice that the world has been brought
Is It Folk Lore?
By SIDNEY SWAIN ROBINS
No doubt informed people know
the answer to a lot of little quest
ions that come up for others. High
respects to all folk-lore authori
ties!
A few weeks ago 1 was in the
office of an insurance and real
estate man in Amherst, Massachu
setts, who had known me as a sort
of pinch-hit clergyman. With a
grin, he quoted at me this jingle:
“King Soloman and King David
led very merry lives.
With very many lady friends
and very many wives;
When old age came upon them,
with very many qualms
King Solly wrote the Proverbs
and King David wrote the
Psalms.”
As it happened, I could prove
that he had come up with nothing
new and shocking to me. Out of
the pocketbook I dug up a poem
of ten stanzas, of which the one
he had quoted with only slight
variation was the last. A distin- ■
guished woman had lectured in a
town where we lived and had quo
ted some of the lines. I think she
was from Virginia. A friend had
got all of the poem she knew, by
“Oh Noah was a weather-man
and he predicted rain.
The people said that they’d be
darned if they'd be fooled
again.
They all went on a picnic, the
rain began to fall.
But Noah went in Noah's ark
and never got drowned at
all.” ■ •
The insurance friend had never
heard any of it but his own pet
stanza. He wanted to know the
author’s name. So would I like to
have it.
A week later, those same jingles
were read to a clergyman and his
wife in western New York state.
The lady immediately came up
with some variant lines. The first
line of the first stanza was differ
ent to her—something impolite in
it, the use of the word “coons.”
About Jonah she had:
“Jonah was a sailorman, so runs
the Bible tale.
He tried to cross the ocean in
the steerage of a whale.
The whale’s accomodations were
not the very best, . .”
She was once a missionary’s
daughter in Japan, and said she
had heard the versis from a mis-
dictation; and had given me a copy, sionary lady out of Vennont. She School? Is
She had known nothing of who knew nothing of the author,
wrote it.
Another week went by ancj the
I wo other of the stanzas ran: same jingles were read to a pro-
‘Oh Jonah was an immigrant, so fessor of speech in Wichita, Kan-
runs the Bible tale, sas, who is known far and wide as
He booked for steerage passage a narrator and reader of funny
stories. Some of the lines were
familiar to him, those the Amherst
man had quoted most of all. He
knew nothing of the author and
looked in his indexes in vain.
on a transatlantic whale;
He found the whale’s interior
was crowded at the best
So Jonah punched the button
and the whale did the rest.”
He had one rathehr scandalous
stanza which I reckon we had bet
ter quote, since we are raising
what is to us a literary problem:
“Pharaoh had a daughter who
surely was some class.
She brought Moses to her father,
a dutiful little lass;
She said that she had found him
in a basket in the grass,
But Pharaoh winked the other
eye and let the matter pass.”
In another stanza which he re
called there was a short line and
some further news about Noah:
“Along came Noah, a-stumbling
in the dark;
He found himself a hammer and
built himself an ark;
In came the animals, two by
two, —
The John-Jim-o-remus and the
kick-kangaroo.”
Those last two lines, by way of
Wichita and Ann Arbor, had a cur
ious effect upon me, for they
brought up memory of having of
ten as a child heard two lines
something like them:
“In came the animals two by
two,
The elephant and the kangaroo.”
Is there somewhere an original
poem about a darky Sunday
it all folk-lore, like
Mother Goose, --something that
everybody has fell to build
upon and improve or extend? Has
the poem been dropped by com
mon consent because it unduly
ridicules the colored people in a
field where we don’t know too
much ourselves (we white people),
besides being to blame for their
and prices, although probably thp
most expensive of this classifica
tion is at most only twice as high
as the cheapest. Some of the bet
ter cater more to local white col
lar workers and persons of simi
lar .social standing, as well as to
economy-mined tourists.
The poorer ones, at some of
which we have eaten, are almost
exclusively patronized by labor
ers, dressed here as elsewhere in
overalls or Similar garb. Tto-these
restaurants many of' thb Clients'
bring their own bread, thereby,
saving a few precious centavos— .
, We found that cheap though
the restaurants were, we could
.eat, just.as well for less money
by buying food and cooking it
ourselves. Here In Spain a steak
can be bought for 8 to 10 cents,
tomatoes for 3 cents a pound,
and other fruits and vegetables
for comparable prices. At these
prices many a meal for two has
come to . less than a quarter.
Of co.prse, w'e are not going to
recommend this type of living
to all travelers. It takes a will
ingness to “rough it” and a de-
, sire, to meet the people in their
.own places. In Spain that can
be a rewarding experience, as
people here are w'onderfully open
and friendly,
Armor For Motorists
which Chapel Hill does not
have flowers, e\en though
they are reduced to a corpor
al’s guard in November and
December. The Japonica is
one of the best imports we
ever got from the Orient. In
good seasons it puts out blos
soms for six months of the
year, stretching from January
to June. Those persons who
want to have blossoming
branches in the house at
Christmas should cut some of
thCi budded tivigs now and
put them deep in water.
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Now that the football
season is over. Chapel Hill’s
unclaimed dogs face a boring
winter. A few are looked af
ter by the newspaper carrier
boys, ivho have their favorites
among them, and others
adopt a regular calling route,
proceeding from door to door
where they can be sure of a
handout. Some dogs drop
out of bourgeois life entire
ly, preferring the irresponsi
bility and not fearing the
fleas of a hobo existence.
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Orange County’s gain of
bad schoolihg?
Washington Post and Times
• Herald
A race seems to be on to de
termine whether the new safety
devices for motorists can keep
up with the growing horsep-ower
— and speed — of motor cars.
Safety belts are here, along with
safety door latches and padded
dashboards. Shatterproof mirrors
and rear-facing seats with high
shock-absorbent headrests are be
ing talked of as protection in
accidents. More defense of some
nature (possibly a coat of mail)
is being urged for the occupant
of what is called the “death seat’’
on the right hand of the driven
Yet at the rate motor car
horsepower is going up, more ra
dical safety measures may be
needed. New 1956 cars in the me
dium and high priced range will
feature more engines of 200-
plus horsepower, with some as
much as 300 horsepower. What
a jump from 1910 when a lux
ury class, seven passenger model
boasted 60 horsepower! Car man
ufacturers insist that high horse
power is designed to give flexi
bility rather than speed, but with
more super-highways higher tra
vel speed seems likely to remain
a constant temptation. And pro,b-
lem drivers ai’e multiplying.
The safety experts need to
come up with some suitable ar
mor for motoring. Something on
the order of the outfits worn
by footbair players, undersea di
vers, or, better still, outer space
pilots, might be worked out. Why
not?’ We outfit men for the bat
tlefield —: yet more persons have
been killed on our highways than
in all our wars.
. HIGHWAY MISSILE
He who travels over 60 miles
an hour is not driving his car—
hes aiming it.—Dallas Morning
News.
GUIDES
An eldmly lady from Boston
who drove down to visit Wash-
„ ingtop.sa-id she had no objection
to the American habit of littering
the highways, with beer cans
pitchedLfrom car windows.
“It helps me drive at night,”
she explained. “All those things
shining ip the car lights show
me where the edge of the road
is.”—Minneapolis Tribune.
14.2 per cent in population
between 1950 and 1954 as re
ported by Felix Grisette may
be accepted as largely owing
to the attractions of Chapel
Hill and tlte growth of its
several institutions. This was
the fourth largest gain in the
State, ivhich saw 18 counties
lose population. This coun
ty s total is given as 39,263.
I he State s growth as a whole
suffered a check, being only
four per cent in this period
against the nation’s seven.
Meantime the State’s young
people emigrate to other
states in a steady stream. The
reason why would seem to be
a much more important ques
tion than some others that
agitate the citizenship from
time to time.
She Wouldn't
By DON C. BARRIE
“No Compromise” is the key-
note of Fanny Gray Patton’s
story as filmed in “Good Morn
ing, Miss Dove”. I noticed the
older people were more impress
ed with her precept than the
younger who haven’t been fully
tried yet. It is what makes us
cry, after we have laughed. It is
what makes us think seriously
on the way home after our first
doubts of the possibility of such
a thing. We’d like to think that
we could be capable of never
compromising.
Paradoxically, Mrs. Patton pic
tured the best in us, and the
story is of us. She showed our
best side only. This is why the
tory will live as long as Hilton’s
“Goodbye, Mr. Chips”. We would
never have forgiven her if she
had shown us as we are com
pletely. ^ ^ ^ 'uifeSiil.l
In the screen version, Jennifer
Jones, as the “terrible Miss
Dove”, gives a smooth, true per
formance. The young doctor, in
t’ne person of Robert Stack, is
recreated to perfection. There is
no flaw in the acting of any of
the rest of the cast. Each one did
his and her part superbly.
Laurel vmeaths are in order for
the casting department of 20th
Century Fox as well as for everj'-
one who had to do with the pic
ture. The sets are masterpieces.
Apparently, with all of this,
Mrs. Patton has taken time out to
live — Housewife, Grandmother
Patton of Durham, N.C., bom
106 on Blount Stret in Raleigh,
N.C.; her mother nee Mary Mc
Rae, first coed to register at
UNC; her father Robert Lilly
Gray a well known editor; one
brother, an editor, this is Rob-
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A P ece of Bread” .,
of the beststoL
the United states h
other moments rich i,
and satisfying fedk
P'-esentworkonaroi
Carolina folk, ,
to reading it.
I was well awan
story was one-sid,
showed only the
people’s natures. 1
characters in the si
ed ill real life cou:
tect, all sunshine
But, when an ani
to play-pretend «
does delineate shi
dimensional chara
go through life am
compromise with
and puts her delie
human interplay h
a closely knit compi
theatre, you find it
deny your aceeptai
gument.
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Driver's Clinic
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(A question and answer col
umn on traffic safety, driving
and automobies conducted for
this newspaper by the State
Department of Motor Vehicles.)
Question: Why are some pass
engers killed in an impending
wreck before the cars collide?
Answer: With excellent brakes,
the driver can apply them with
enough force to throw a passen
ger in the right front seat against
the windshield or instrument pan
el with enough impact to kill
him.
Q. Why does it take nine times
the distance to stop at 60 mph as
it does at 20 mph?
A. A moving car develops ki
netic energy. This energy in
creases in proportion to the
square of the speed. Sixty is
three times 20 and three squared
is nine. In stopping, this energy
must be dissipated in some man
ner. In an automobile it is turned
into heat energy through friction
between the brake shoe and the
drum and the tire and road sur
face.
feet if you locked
20 mph?
A. On glare ice. M
takes this distance tjsi
mph.
Q; How many s
take to safely
60 miles an hour?
A: At 60 mph yduj
ihg 88 feet per
decelerate’at the rate (!,
per 'second, it
six secon.ds to stop,
rate . is. comfortahle fn
it can, throw ,a
of the seat.
Q: How can you ideiill
sign if it is ohscurefil
snow?
A: By its octagonal i)
Q: Why should,
walk on the left side of#
A: By facing opco|
icies they can judge I
speed and load and 1*
tion to quickly
danger threatens.
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Q. How many person ai^e killed
in North Carolina traffic acci
dents each day?
A. Approximately three.
SILLY QUESTIOI
The social worker, di
inmates of the local«
asked a vaa-iety of
she went from cell to
Finally, of one
a long rest at tkili
mg
pense, she asked:
“W1
Q. Why should youngsters
ride their bicycles on the right
side of the road?
A. It aids in forming good driv
ing habits when the rider is old
enough to drive; a bike rider on
the left majy feel safe, but he
gives oncoming drivers the men
tal jitters; a bike-auto head-on
collision would be four times as
dangerous as a tail-on colliision,
and riding on the left puts the
rider in an extremely hazardous
position at blind corners.
love
of liquor that I*
here?”
“Heck no, lady,” sW
inmate. “You can't get®
here.”—Tracks,
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Q. Why is driving a privilege
rather than a right?
A. Streets and highways are __
constructed with public funds. Roland Gidux
The regulation of traffic upon
them, therefore, becomes a func
tion of government. The State has
, the power to prohibit individuals
from using public property. And
since the State can deny the use
of the highway to an individual,
it follows that an individuals pres
ence on the highway in a motor
vehicle is indeed a privilege.
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' A young Smithfield matron
wanted her new' maid to be pleas
ed with her position. “You’ll
have an easy time of it here,”
she said, “smee w'e have no chil
dren to annoy you.”
“Oh, I like children,” said the
maid. “Dont go restricting your
self on my account.”—Smithfield
Herald.
A vei-y chic young lady walked
into the furniture store and
sought out one of its decorators,
wanted advice on how to aug
ment her present furnishings.
What,” asked the decorator, is
the motif — Modern, Oriental,
Provencal, Eai’ly American?”
^^“Well,” was the frank reply
^'e were married only recently,
bo the style of our furniture is
sort of Early Matrimony — some
of his mother’s and some of my
mother’s.”—Capper's Weekly.
Q. Why has a pedestrian little
legal protection unless he is at
a designated cross walk?
A. Because the law gives the
pedestrian the right - of - way at
a crossw'alk.
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Q. Under what driving con
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