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EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE
Chapel Hill News Leader
Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrhoro^ Cle.n Lennox and Surrounding Areas
VOL 11, NO. 97
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1955
Thinking Ahead to Next March
"W’hai do you knov about (juf .s( ho(j]s iii
Oranyc Couuly and (lliapcl llillr
■'Ibnv arc our schools liuanced?
"Who is empowered to allotate scIhjoI
luiifls?
"How ;wlc(]uatc are our school buildings
and lacilitics-'"
I’hesc eptestious ,irc ttsked by tlie local bid-
Ictiii ol the bca,t>iie ol Women N'oters. Tliey
arc ])crtiueut in \ ienv of the Fact that next
March 2o a county-wide vote will determine
whether two millions iii’ bcands sliail be is
sued For school ctipita! out lav purposes. Cm
this \()te c\'ill depend the educational For
tunes oF thousands ol children For the next
scw.c'i'.d \ears.
How mreny ptirents, or other interested per
sons, can answer the a.bose ejuestions?
Most ol us would assert that the welFare ol
out ( hildren comes closer tci us than ;iny other
matter, and yet Few cal us can claim anv exact
kuowlcd,t>'e conc:ernino' the way their schools
;ue operated, supported, or limniced.
It IS ,an unlortainate Fact that the schools as
subjeca matter at piFblic meetings can gene-
late more ill will thttn almost any other tojric:
ctxcept religion.
\'et the schools need lar niwre light sited
upon tiiem titan they do heat. Ilitherto we
hate been satisFied to let them dril't along
undei the direction ol a Few devoted super
intendents. piincipals ;uid teachers. /
but tve know now that the drilting poFicv
h 'S run out to a thin end. The richest coun
try in the world is subjecting its .school chil-
ch en to pot erty ;tnd crotvding.
We are glad the Letigue ol Women \'oters
is taking hold oF tins tpiestion. In school
cptestioiys the \o-league oF .Men NMters has
been a lailure.
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York Gazette And Daily
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Uncle Tomming'" on the Athletic Field
When Copley Painted
Chips That Fall
i he rcN'olt ol (reorgia Tech students against
the attempt to prevent the l ech game tigninst
Pittsbuigh because the latter htis ;i .\egro on
the lootball scpitid illustmtes whtU has become
e\ident to all—that, there is a dilFercmcc on the-
s''gree;uion issue between the younger and
the older generations.
The'voting people lend to accuse their el
ders ol "I'ncle romitiing" on the race cpies-
tion. while the latter accuse the voungsters
ol being unrealistic.
I he ;i( tion ol alumni and other elder peo
ple' in (iecirgia intlicates they retili/e a. rigid
attitude ctumot be maintained everv time a
rttce (piestion comes tip. f.ox, (iriFFin's high-
hamletl action tended tolnake ridiciilons his
views tdiout who (ould pho' whom in Footbtill.
I Fie tigiiatifai looks jiarticularly absurd
horn this (piarK'r whei'c rejieatedly in recent
years visiting athletic teams have brought Xe-
gro players here and used them without com
ment.
In Football, baseball, and other s|)ort.s X'e-
groes have played against white players on
(ihapel Mill Fields without incident and with
out any ol the dire consecjuences thiit the
(ieorgia goveTnor seemed to (oresee.
Ibesent positions on the race question, whe
ther liberal or rigid, will natuiallv be subject
ed to a process ol evolution. Changes will oc
cur in avcord with circumstances and necc.s-
sities. 1 he Ceorgia governor a|)parentlv
thought he could prevent this evolution oF
thought and opinion From taking place. It
was like an iittempt to push back an ocean
tide bv shouting at it.
Power to Meet Power
I he merger ol the American Federation oF
Labor and the Congress ol Indusiri.tl Organ-
i/titions with iti million members is an eco
nomic phenomenmv but it is also the biggest
political lact ol modern times in the Fh S. .\.
II the conduiu'd vote ol such a body could
be vvr;t])ped up and delivered to anv ca.'ndi-
date or p'uty. mo'h h >rm might result', but
the ]:)-i liisto' Y (,j .\nic,'ii,an oigani/ed work
ers sh M liu'v split up and act upon their
own poiiticiil views much ;ts other segments
ol the population do.
On the economic Front matters might pro
ceed dillerently. The si/e and power oF a Few-
great moneyed corjiorat ions httve grown to
a.'U extent that causes ahirm. It has Iieen seen
that they can sway governments, determine
policies, ;uid inlltiencc decisions in the most
vital matters, and always in their own inter
est. In the Ftice ol such grinding power the
\
lb S. government itsell has at times appeared
'lielpless.
'Ilterc is only one power that ctm .h'lset
such strength. 1 h;il i.s the labor oower. It has
shown its ability to bring the biggest corpora*-
tions to their knees.
F.abor power c;ui lie misused, lh;it is clear,
■'^'c h'tve iust seen an example in .Argentina,
but money |iower can also be—and more th;m
once has been—misused.
In the last Few years corporate power has
grown bohl, even arrogant. It has shown its
muscle not only in domestic but Foreign at-
liiirs. (For example, the property of an .\mer-
ican mining (ompany in Cvprns is being guar
ded by british soldiers). It mav be llpit tlu'
laboi unimis can set bounds to such power.
Fhat would be in the nation’s interest. I hat
is our hope in this merger.
Ii' you lived in Boston during
the seventeen-sixties and w'anted
to have your portrait painted, you
would certainly apply to Copley,
who enjoyed a monopoly of the
best business. The young man who
meets you at the door of his paint
ing room is fashionably clothed—■
John Trumbull found him dress
ed for dinner in ‘a fine maroon
cloth with gilt buttons,’—but he
lacks the air of a Kneller or a
Reynolds. His stocky figure seems
more that of a prosperous artisan,
a silversmith or perhaps a cabi
net-maker. As matter-of-factly as
any tradesman, he shows you his
w-ares and quotes prices. Then he
sets a date months in the future.
When you object to the delay, he
motions you to look round his stu
dio, ‘a large room full of pictures
unfinished which would engage
me this tw'elve months if I did
not begin any others.’ There is
nothing to do but wait, since it is
unthinkable you would employ
anyone but Copley.
spends most of its time motion
less in his hand. Pondering with
a coirugated brow, he stares un
til you become embarrassed. Then
he starts to mix a color, pausing
momentarily to stare again. At
last he takes some pigment on his
palette knife, and walking up to
you, matches it , to your face.
When at last he touches the brush
to the canvas, it is with a tight,
unrelaxed motion.
Painted A Head
A contemporary remembers
that Copley’s manner was ‘very
mechanical. He painted a ivery
beautiful head of my mother . . .
She sat to him fifteen or sixteen
times. Six hours at a time; After
several .sittings, Copley' left the
room. ‘He requested that she
would not move from her seat
during his absence. She had the
curiosity, however, to peep at the
picture, and to her astonishment
she found it all rubbed out.'
Short Takes on Japan
If, familiar with English studio
practice, you are looking forward
to being enteitained by your sit
tings, you will be disappointed.
With an efficient nod of greet-.
ing, Copley motions you to a
chair. Behind his distant manner
you sense shyness, but when he
gets to work the shyness vanishes;
indeed, he seems to have forgot
ten you are alive. Far from enter
taining you with gossip and anec-,
dotes, he labors in complete sil
ence. The flashing brushwork
with which the Old World por
traitists awe their sitters is com
pletely lacking; Copley's brush
The contrast between the speed
of the English painters, w'ho
could complete a head in a few
hours, and Copley’s slowness, in
dicated a fundamental difference
of method. The transatlantic art
ists were applying an already es
tablished technique: like virtuosi,
they played a few variations on a
familiar melody. But Copley com
posed his piece as he went along.
Faced with peculiar shadows on
a hand, he could not remember
how Kneller had solved the prob
lem, or Raphael. He had to solve
it for himself, a most exacting
and laborious task.—Frc^m Amer-
can Painting: First Flotvers of Our
Wilderness, by James Thomas
Flexner.
(From our own correspondent)
TOKYO
PHYSICAL FITNESS is every
body’s business in Japan. Organ
ized exercises are held daily in
the .schools, beginning with the
kindergarten. From our bedroom
window we can see the priests at
the temple next door doing set-
up.s at 6:30 in the morning. The
coaxing piano music from the
neighbor's radio—aired especially
for the purpose of exercise cad
ence—leads that lamily in a daily
do/cn.
At lunch periods, or before
tt'ork begins many Japanese can
be seen throwing ball or sprinting
or playing volleyball. Long dis
tance running is a favorite, too.
and every day you see schbol
boys jogging along in the streets
and alleys.
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BECAUSE THE cost of moFor
vshic'les is 30 pnohibitive, few
Japanese own them. Thus, for
eight million citizens, Tokyo does
n’t have the vehicular traffic say,
of New York. Yet the pedestrian
best be agile, for taxis are the
scourge of tbs living, Taxi driv
ers are a lamented group, but be
yond jumping out of their way no
one seems to do anything about
their recklessness. Adding to the
bedlam is the legality of U-turns
anywhere.
' on the Japanese islands several
days after the Russians’ big test
and one might think the accusing
finger so often directed at Amer
ica would find a new target, at
least temporarily. Not so. Re
member, they tell you, that be
cause the U.S. has the bomb and
continues to test it, Russians must
too. Tlie memory of the dead
fisherman is still as clear as the
day our bomb killed him nearly
two years ago.
Sibelius Opus Played
By JOHN K. HILDEBRAND
Phillips Russell Editor
Rnlarul Giduz . News Director
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LONG UNDERWEAR apparent
ly enjoys good sale. Peeking from
trousers legs and coat sleeves of
almost everyone on streetcars and
trains these wintry days arc long
handle.s. Americans who live in
Japanese-houses find them com
fortable sleeping gear. The
hou.ses arc not insulated and are
thinly constructed. An hour after
the heat's off the wind's in. Bit.
SEVERAL NATIONAL inci
dents have occurred in the last
six months regarding pure foods
and drugs. Nearly 50 babies died
and 4000 were made sick this
summer when a prominent con
cern's powered milk marketed
with a quantity of arsenic in it.
Formaldehyde in drinking alco
hol caused a sensation this fall.'
Now come half a dozen court ac
tions and scores of complaints on
hair lost—all of it—because of
defective beauty preparations on
the market.
After listening to the Univers
ity Orchestra playing Sibelius’
S.ymphony No. 2, in D., op. 43. at
Hill Hall Tuesday night, we did
net think this had been a good
choice for a tribute to the great
Finn bn his 90th birthday, which
came today.
Sibelius has done better things
than this. It was cloudy and re
petitious in spots, as if the com
poser was not quite sure what he
was driving at. And the orchestra,
though willing and hard-working,
was not quite up to the handling
of it.
The Egmont Overture by Bee
thoven was much better done, and
the piece was within the compass
of an amateur group of this kind.
Flandel s suite fiom ‘‘Music for
the Royal Fireworks”, as ar
ranged by Hamilton H a r t y.
though prosy, had its good mo
ments, and the musicians picked
up notably in the bourree and
minuet. The audience enjoyed it
all.
aid Fouse, Richard Weitzman and
Thomas Matthews.
String bass; Neal O’Neal, 'Vir
ginia Bryan. Thomas Rice and
Beatrice Allston.
Flute: Tish Harrer, Mary Gould.
Oboe: William Roumillat, John
Shannon.
Clarinet: Donald Jefferson)
Florence Morris.
Bassoon: John Renner, Herbert
Fred.
French horn;, Guyte- Cotton,
Harris Mitchell, Richard Willis,
Richard Frank.
Trumpet: Eddie Bass, Philip
Nelson, Lawrence Slifkin.
Trombone; Donald Hall, Dale
Glover, Mickey Young.
Tuba: Clifton Metcalf; Percuss
ion: Fred B. McCall, Jo Ann
Goulson.
WHAT'LL YOU HAVE?
THE WHITE MAN'S burden is
right articulate these days. Japa
nese stuclent.s are particularly ex
citable on the color question. The
vernacular newspapers here front
paged the Mississippi Till case.
Why did thi.s happen in America'.^’
students ask. Why could men so
deeply implicated go free? No
doubt. U.S. segregationists are
tired of being told that their line
is harmful lo American prestige.
But it's true.
R.MHOACTIV’E rain water fell
AN ENTIRE generation of Jap
anese children are growing up'to
the sight of the foreign, soldier’s
uniform. Army khaki has been in
Japan lor 10 years now and like
ly to remain several more. Though
the people are eager to have the
U.S. Army leave one wonders how
Japan’s sagging economy can
make up th» tremendous gap
which will be left when troops
ai-e pulled, out and their dollars
spent elsewhere. Related margin
al occupations will suffer, too.
One need know only the fear in
a Southern town when an .Army-
camp drastically reduces forces or
close,s completely to understand
the thinking running in the biisi-
nessuian’s mind.
Edgar Alden was the conductor,
with Earl Slocum playing among
the violins. The other players
were:
■Violin: Bertran Davis, Lutz Ma^’-
er. D. A. McPherson, Dorothy .Al
den, J. L. Mor-rison. Mary Ellen
Bierck, Sydney vom Lehn, Albert
Linch, Keith Mixter, Joanna
Scroggs, Patricia MacKay, Burt
Linker. Mary Jo Buckley, Mary
Lou Shepard, Fern Ashby, Ger-
aldyne Ca.ssidy and Nancy Riley.
Viola: James Andrews. Glen
Haydon. Julia Mueller, Margaret
Grainer Jean Vavoiilis, Marjorie
Renijer, Marriam Slifkin and John^
Ticftpinan.
■Violoncello: Mary Gray Clarke,
Dewey Brett, Ernst Peschel, Don-
Sociologically speaking, more of
the country’s population is es
sentially urban than is so class
ified by the census. The 21 per
cent who are called ‘‘rural non-
farm” generally have the social
and economic characteristics of
urban populations. Furthermore,
Improvements in transportation
and communication have brought
almost all rural people relative
ly close to urban centers and ur
ban ways of life. The farmer’s
daughter now wears blue jeans
not as work clothes but because
is it an urban fashion. Ref'enUv
in a farm home, a five-year old,
when asked at the breakfast tala-
le, ‘'M'hat 11 you have?” replied,
“Pab-st Blue Ribbon.” Consterna
tion of the parents concerning
this influence of television was all
the greater because they were
tctotalers!—Gordon W. Blackivell
A Christmss Gift for
$5
'The Woman Who
Rang The Bell"
by Phillips Russell
Old Chapel Hill, its customs
rules, manners, comedies, and
-mishaps, are faithfully mirrored
in this book which was a May
flower Cup winner. Many fine
pictures. Handsomely bound.
At all bookshops, or post
paid from University Press,
Chapel Hill, N. C.
Next to ‘‘Adenauer” and ‘‘ham
burger.” the German word most
on American lips these days is
“Volkswagen.”
This beetlelike little automobile
is bound to be even more a topic
of man-in-the-street conversation
now that its manufacturers have
bought a 'WMrld War II Stude-
baker plant in New Brunswick,
N.J.. for assembly of 'Volkswagens
for the United States market.
One of the backbones of Ger
man post-war economic recovery,
this typical efficient German pro
duct may become o^ne of the chief
means of Europe’s getting dollar
exchange in these preconvertibili
ty days.
he tells“Vi
‘■hen a seven-dav'
h® per cent more
all workers werecM^'
plants seve?'
when would they fjf®
anden "I r
to mention
and Chryslers?”
Troubled I"'
But already a red, flag has gone
up in Arn.erica. It was not raised
.-At ;t time tvhen all the .si^iis
point to a booming prosperity
it is hard,'to realize there are
people in Chapel Hill and the
county ^vho lace a Chri.stmas
not onh' witliout a bit ol lesti-
\ itv or luxury, but without
pi'oper Food or doth ing. '
.Among tliem are children
and lonely old people. .Mrs.
)ane FLarker. head ol the conn-
tv rvdlare, vouches For their
deprivation and need.
How about a tithe Fund? For
every ten dollars we spend on
onrsehes and on-r' iamihes.
whv not take oitt a dollar and
send it to the Junior Ser\ice
F.eagiie. IFox ‘57,4, Cha'pel Hill.
Or notily the league il yon
ha\e Food, cTothes. and toys
you can spare.
Xo child, no lonely man or
tvoman, in the Chapel FI)'11
area ought to go without his
bit ol Christmas. ■'
★ ★
Is the mockingbird that
sings so gloriously in puldic
just an old brute at Itome?
I'iie ladv mocker.tvlio raised
ttvo sets oF ,young ones the past
Slimmer, also raised lier x'oice
fl. atainst cats, exopwed i-i
Follow her husband to his win
ter' home in an evergreen 1114;
(ter the eaves ol uie house.
’-"I -u e\ery attempt by her
he falls upon lier and beats
iier, pursuing her aenrss the
lawn with hoarse rasps ol his
\'oiee. it's plain he expects to
occupy this Favorite perch all
by himsell. ■
★ ★ '
Xot worth a red copper,’’
Y'as a siving ol years >0.
So the penny died out ol
the respectable cla.ks. Is the
nickel so doomed? It is a shock
to stop in one s la\(>rite relec-
tonv and retid the grtm signs:
"SoFt drinks (it . CioFFee 1 (/(■."
A\ e can stand the neec.s.sity oF
adding a penny to a nickel For
a coke, but somehow a dime
lot eotlee irks us and carks ns.
Partieul.'vriy if it's Chapel Hill
eoFFee. AVljy docs the local
brew often taste as if it were
made I rout at:orn,s or dr ied
peas? Two things arc needed
lor good col lee; ample grounds
and no boiling. I-'or (he lawcFs
sake, people, don't let it set
and boil.
* ★
Mrs. W'alter Pridiard Faton
suggests tiiat CXC could sa\-e
money and space by just m:-’;-
nig jim Tatum hoih Footbalf
coach and president of the Ihi-
i'ersity. Pete Ivey thinks in
I hat case the town might Ije-
etmie known as Tatunr Hill.
by American manufacturers com
peting with a $1,530 car but by
labor unions. New Jersey CIO
president Paul Krebs dug up and
flung in the face of Heinz Nord-
hoff, president of the, Volkswagen
Corp. in West Germany, a speech
the latter made recently when the
FOOO,000th Volkswagen came off
the assembly line in Germany.
He proceeded to e
Herman manufaetj,
of Americ
“American ,,
explained, “are not
the emptiness and
ness’ of a two-day ,,5
use the weekends to,
neighbors, and reso,
autos. They see ano
tbeir children. Thev
their wives. They 4
homes. They go p a
branes, parks, piayg
In short, tney |jj
er. more satisfying ij,
d’ulge in all thi
give warmth
activities J
Nordhoff Speech
In the speech, Mr. Nordhoff,
who learned sales and production
methods on the staff of General
Motors before the war, defended
the six-day work week, antediluv
ian in the United States but still
pi-evalent in the federal renublic,
despite a campaign of the Federa
tion of German Trade Unions for
the 40-hour week.
human being,
on Saturday ;
than on any
week—that Ar
man values ;
property value
five-day weeks
jeotion of the
nist philosoph'
human beings
private proper:
Mr. Krebs has struck back with
a vigor typical of the American
Every thing is po,
who possess courage
and to the timid a
everything is imnos
it seems so.—Scott i
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