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EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE
Chapel Hill News Leader
Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrbofo, Gien Lennox and Surrounding Areas
VOL. II, NO. 98
MONDAY, OEGEMBEIt 195$
Maximum Capacity at UNC
One part of Xfajor McLendon’s address be
fore tlie AAUP Tlinrsday which will have a
special meaning for Chapel Hill homes and
habits dealt with the necessities imposed on
the Coirsolicbjted University by annually en
larged enrollments. He made it pretty plain
that since new binldings cannot be immed
iately exjx'cted, greater use must be made of
existing structures. Said he:
'A\'e are going to be compelled .somehow
to teach larger classes and to find some way to
make a greater time-use of buildings, labora
tories and other facilities. The taxpayers are
entitled to know whether the existing facili
ties are being used to their maximum capaci
ty before they are asked to pay more taxes
for enlargements and extensions.”
In short, UNC faculty members may sbon
find themselves teaching more students for
longer hours, and conducting classes after
noons and evenings as well as mornings for
six d.ays a tveek. This trend would be opposite
to that being observed in the working world,
but it is not to be doubted that UNC teach-
will cheerfully cooperate to meet the
ers
Something To Think About
BUT TODAY IT 16 NOT
ENOUCrM TO POSTPONE WAfe;
INSTEAD WB MUST SOMEHOW
CiJrEATE A W0I2LD THAT
MAY I?EMAIN PEKENHIALLY
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NOTED atomic scientist
emergency.
At the same time, the General Assembly
and its appropriations committees ought not
to stop there and shut off future supplies.
If, as forecast, college and University en
rollments may be doubled by (970, buildings
and facilities must keep pace or the young
citizenship will sidfer.
There are schools and departments in the
University here which do not haVe the equip
ment and facilities to be expected in a good
high school. Hence they cannot be expected
to attract teadiers of the first rank. There is
no real economy in such savings.
It was brought out at the Thursday meet
ing that the operation of the State’s 12 in
stitutions of higher learning costs mill
ion annually.
That’s cheap.
One must expect to pay a good price for a
good pair of shoes. Do we think the same
principle does not apply to a University?
A $50 Loan
Are We Living in a Mortgaged Economy?
Ey Aubrey L. Brooks, Donor of Scholarships in Eleven Counties
I have stated elsewhere that
'“Fate made me a Southerner and
Anaconda Gopper profits, up 249 per cent.
Pittsburgh Plate Glass profits, up 123 per
cent.
Aluminum Go. of America profits, up 104
per cent.
Fall in farm prices since 1947, 34 per cent.
Failures in small business, up 7 per cent.
'T hese figures were cited by Senator Kerr
■Scott in his speech at Rocky Mount. Since he
has access to government figures at Washing
ton, we must assume they are correct.
Scott points to these figures as evidence
that “we are li\ ing in a mortgaged economy.”
He declares that declining farm prices are
having a i isible effect on small business, es*
pecially that of toivn merchants.
There c^ii be no doubt that the financial
whoopee being heard from big business part
ies may mislead ns into believing that this is
the best of all po.s,sible countries. Locally the
season looks like a big one, but the Christ
mas Stocking Fund Irere in Chapel Hill has
already acquainted us with the fatt that
there are people in this area tvho.face a Christ
mas without proper food or clothing.
We may not be ]i\ ing in a mortgaged econ
omy hi the sense that implies peril in the
nigh days, but the nation rauSt obviously
concern itself with the people who are losers
in the current economic set-up.
Senator Scott proposes a systeni of farm
price supports following the pattern of in-
pay
come tax law.s—the big fellows would
more, the small ones less.
Fie believes this would increase; the pur
chasing power of farmers. If so, wAfavor it,
but we also favor more pufehasihg pbwer for
all the other productite elements of the.pop
ulation. ’
No prospei'ity need be mortgiged. Nor
should it be one-sided or loaded at the top.
Why Should We Line up with Portugal?
Floods of criticism bate opened upon the
United States Secretary of State for lining up
with Portugal on the colonialism issue and
for referring to Goa, which India claims, as
a Portuguese province. And this at a lime
when the Russians are courting India.
But \iewing the matter from this distance,
it would ajrpear that Mr. Dulles, former larv-
yer for big .Umerican interests, has beeti per
fectly consistent in doing and saying rvhat
he has iti regard to Portugal.
Fhe U. S. Stale Department under Mr.
Dulles has never shown any desire to sup
port basic .A,merit:an principles and, (tradi
tions, except by lip service. So far as it has any
fundamental policy, our State Department
seems to rvish only to jrreserve everytvhere
the status f|tio, to asoid ch.'.'nge, and to keep
things just as they arc. If it had been under
Mr. Dulles in i /yh, it would have lined up
with king (tcorge III and opposed both by
money ;md militaiy the attempt to establish
American independence and freedom.
Followed out logically, Air. Dufles’s, deeds
and policies would make the L^S one of the
most reactionary countries in the world. For
a national policy that wants to stand still and
that opposes every change as if by instihet,
will finally be regarded as a brake on prog
ress and an obstruction in. the human path
toward larger freedoms. .
It ought to be apparent by now that the
once locked-up people of the world intend
to break out of their old shells, and are not
in a mood to submit any longer to dictation
from supposedly superior races. A wise poli
cy would avoid making the USA appear to
be a nation of George the Thirds.
In the present struggle between the big
nations. India occupies a key position. It is
fast taking the lead in the Asian march to
ward increased liberty. Rut Mr. Dulles and
Portugal think this is all wrong. Is there no
one who will remind our State Department
that what is proudly called American free
dom today tvas made possible only by release
Irom the British colonial collar?
What
s the Southern Way of Life?
(WALTER SPEARMAN in The New Orleans Item)
Two contrasting pictures of the
South were painted in “Janies
Street’s South,” in which he
wrote:
“Folks can’t agree if ours is
a land of moonlight or moon
shine, Tobacco Road or tobacco
factories, Texas Cadillacs or ox
carts, Uncle Remus or George
Washington Carver, Hugo Black
or Claghorn, hydrogen plants or
hot air, R.F.D. or TVA, hospitali
ty, violence or tranquillity.”
Contrasts were also emphasized
in W. J. Cash’s somewhat acid
portrait in his book, “Tlie Mind
of the South”:
“Proud, brave, honorable by
its lights, courteous, personally
generous, loyal, swift to act often
too swift, but signally effective,
sometimes terrible, in its action,—
such was t!ie South at its best,
“Violence, intolerance, aversion
and suspicion toward new ideas,
an incapacity for analysis, an in
clination to act from feeling rath
er than from thought, an exag
gerated individualism and a too
narrow concept of social respons
ibility . . . sentimentality and a
lack of realism—these have been
its characteristic vices in the
past.”
Perhaps William T. Polk sum
med it up best in his new book,
“Southern Accent”:
“The South was rural, agrarian,
e;i>,\- gning poor and proud of it.s
distinctive way of life. Now it is
becoming urban, industrial, hard
working, comparatively prosper
ous, and relatively standardized.”
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What IS this Southern way of
life?
It is a life of the senses—or at
least of these following senses:
C Sense of place. Even when
a Southern family leaves its plan
tation home to tenant farmers or
to the winds and the bats and the
owls, or when it allows its city
home to be converted into a
boarding house, its roots are still
deep in Southern soil. This feel
ing for a homeplace, so strong in
the stories of William Faulkner
and Eudora Welty, underlies
Southern thinking, giving it a dis
tinctive and persistent Southern
flavour.
C Sense of family. Where but
in the South would you talk about
“a first cousin once removed”? .
And where can a Southerner go
in the South without soon digging
up either “kinfolks” or “kin
folks of kinfolks”? Perhaps any
where else you wouldn’t even
try. When a Southern girl goes
to her first big ball, why is she
always told to “remember who
you are”?
C Sense of oneness. When two
Southeiners nieet anywhere in
the world—-New York, Paris or
Bunna •tlie> iiTiifiedi,atelN e.sfab
lish a contact that does not de
pend upon their mutual Southern
accent. It depends upon‘a shared
past, born in the suffering of the
Civil War arid Reconstruction,
nurtured in the poverty of lean
economic years and cemehted in
a period of outside critioism of
tlie South. WUU this unity crack
up under the pressure, of indus
try, wealth, a two - yartjy systpm
and disputes over segregation? -
C Sense of proportion. Iii the
past the Southerner hSs krtowu
that graCiouSness may be more
admirable than efficiency, that
personal satisfactions are prefer
able to money, that leisure wisely
employed is better thafi over
work. Will newfound wealth dis
turb this old sense of proportion?
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C Sense of humor. Southerners
feel there is a genuine place in
life for humor—-tall tales about
how Great-Uncle Ed outwitted the
Yankees or Cousin Ed caught an
alligator, Grandmother’s little
family stories with a humorous
twist, aiftusing incidents out of
Negro or mountain or bayou folk
lore, or just plain rowdy stories
for the country club porch or the
small-town Saturday night. Did
we learn to hide our poverty and
our heartbreak—or do We just
relisii a good story?
€ Sense of religion. The South
a.s a r'c.gioiv has been known - as
Colonel William Byrd of West-
over, Virginia made me a North
Carolinian.” For it was Colonel
Byrd who headed fne commission
to survey and establisn the North
Carolina-Virginia dividing line in
i72&—the line whicui xollowed
the Hyc,o River at the northern-
fhdSt boundary of my father’s
plantation in Person County.
Had the line been placed in
another manner, however, I re
main confident that somehow I
Would have become a North Caro
linian. For it is the people of
this state with whom I have
Worked, studied, suffered diffi-
ciilty, enjoyed prosperity, helped,
and been helped, that have in
spired and created the full life
that is mine.
Frolfful Investment
I agree with the philosophy of
Kemp Plummer Battle, one of
the most beloved presidents of
the University of North Carolina,
that: “The most fruitful invest
ment that can be made for a
people is the education of its
i’Oyth. for useful citizenship and
leadership.” I have selected as
thjS: objective of this trust, there
fore, the education of the most
capable, and deserving youth of
brie of North Carolina’s most his-
toricaliy distinguished areas, the
old “Imperial Fifth Congression
al District”
sk lie sfs.
I. deem it proper to state why
I selected the people of the Coun
ties comprising the old “Imperial
Fifth Congressional District” to
be the beneficiaries of this trust:
I was born and reared in Per
son Codnty and began the prac
tice of law at Roxboro in 1893.
The following year I was nomi
nated for the State Senate from
Person and Granville Counties.
In 1896 I was elected Presiden
tial Elector for the Fifth Con
gressional District. In 1897 I
moved to Greensboro and the
following year, at twenty-seven
jmars of age, I w&s elected Soli
citor of the Ninth Judicial Dis
trict, which composed a maority
of the Counties of the Fifth Con
gressional District. I held this
office by re-election for ten years
until 1908 when I resigned and
was nominated for. Congress in
the old “Imperial Fifth Congres
sional District” ' over four oppo
nents on the first ballot. I have
practiced my profession in every
county of the district for more
thah'-sixty years, receiving their
eribbucagement and support. Nat
urally, I have an attachment for
the good people of the district
and the wish to award scholar
ships to their deserving boys and
girls.
1 have designated the Univer
sity of North Carolina (Consoli
dated) and the three campuses
of which it is comprised as the
means whereby the education
and training of those selected
should be accomplished. I have
done this in the ardent belief
that the Univeisity, more than
any single source, has stimulated
and inspired the qualities of pur
posefulness and spirit which have
been identified with the progress
of North Carolina.
ner a service will be rendered
It is my hope that in this man-
to those students involved, to the
University, and perhaps of even
greater importance, to the peo
ple of the state with whom I
have been so closely associated.
Of no small consideration in
my contemplation has been the
knowledge that had I not been
the recipient of a loan in the
amount of fifty dollars I would
not have been able to attend
the Uniyeirsity of North Caro
lina. It is my intention that oth
ers be given a similar oppor
tunity. It is my belief that for
many it will provide the incen
tive which will enable them to
realize otherwise unattainable
goals.
Thomas Jefferson, In founding
the University of Virginia, out
lined for the guidance of the
Board of Visitors of the Univer
sity his ideas for selecting grad
uates from the preparatory
schools so as to “avail the Com
monwealth of those talents and
virtues Which nature has sown
as liberally among the poor as
rich and which are lost to their
Country by want of means for
their culture.” He also provided
that the Visitors shall meet at
the County Courthouse of each
gent and impartial observation
and inquiry of the boys whose
parents are too poor to give them
a college education shall select
from among those some one of
the most promising and sound
understanding’' who shall attend
the University at the. Common
wealth’s expense.
The philosophy here expressed
by Jefferson more than one hun
dred fifty years ago is as true
today as when written.
the Bible Belt for generations. We
Southerners have long gone to
church regularly to repent our
sins-and see our friends. But re
ligion in the South has become
much less the advocate of “pie
in the sky bye and bye” for which
the churches in the mill town and
in the tents on its outskirts were
criticized three decades ago.
The abundant life here on
earth is now regarded as a vital
concern of the church, in its re
lation to housing, education and
other social aspects of everyday
life.
What we have we cherish. What
we are we do not want to lose.
So DOW the question faces us:
Can we retain what is good
from the Old South and still prof
it. spiritually as well as matei-ial-
l.v. fi'om the hles.siiYgs of the New? ■
FAIREST OF ALL
Her raven black hair, copious
both in length and volume and
figured like, a deep river rippled
by the wind, was parted in the
centre and ' combed smoothly
down, ornamenting her pink tem
ples with a flowing tracery that
passed round to its modillion
windings on a graceful crown.
(Note—^I want to remember to
look “modillion” up- in the dic
tionary). Her mouth was set with
pearls adorned with elastic rubies
and tuned with minstrel lays,
while her nose gracefully cno-
cealed its own umbrage, and her
eyes imparted a radiant glow to
the agure sky. Jewels of plain
gold were about her ears and
her tapering strawberry hands,
and a golden chain, attached to
a timekeeper of the same mater
ial, (sparkled on an elc'gantly
rounded bosom that was destined
to be pushed forward by sighs, as
the reader^ will in due time ob
serve. Modest, benevolent and
mild in manners, she was prob
ably the fairest of North Caro
lina’s daughter.” _ Shepperd
M. Dugger in
Industry Di
North Carolina is no Utopia
like any other state, it has its tax
program and its tax problems—
and it does not offer any “give
away” plans to entice new in-
dusti'ies into a particular loca
tion. Each plant must pay its fair
share of the burden. But taxes
are moderate as compared to
many Northern states, and the
tax structure is unusual in that
all schools and highways are un
der state, rather than local, juris
diction. This means that a sud
den increase in population caus
ed by the construction of a new
factory does not result in n sud
den jump in local tax rates be
cause of the increased demand for
new schools and other facilities.
'sposa
created Tl'
startf
scratch in th ^
"‘"’ong 30 or 40 n!
It is wortli J
The Driver's Cli
by Walt Partymiller
Chips That Fall
“Tomtit breakfast” is what
Horace Horse in the Stanley
Netvs & Press calls the pallid
egg, toast, and coffee confec
tion which many of us start
the day with. We recall a
relative with whom we used
to have a breakfast composed
as follows: He opened with
a boivl of mush and milk,
replaced this with a dish of
hain and eggs, followed with
a stack of flapjacks, and con-
eluded with a small steak and
an outsize cup of coffee. After
which he pushed his chair
hack, pulled his hat over his
eyes, and rushed off to his
job.
But he was an outdoor man
and worked long hours with
an energy that required large
replenishments in the boiler.
Breakfasts like that, and
other meals according, would
put the average ulcerous of
fice worker of today in a hos
pital with a heart condition.
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Artificial stocking of fish
has been a pronounced suc
cess, hut not so with pen-,
raised quail. The Louisiana
Coirservationist, quoted by
“Wildlife in N. C., says that
of 144,029 banded birds re
leased in four years only 855
hands were returned. That’s
not much over one half of
one percent. In Pennsylvania
only 74 hands were returned
out of 8,804 ka'tcher birds—
less than one per cent.
So it seems that a bird
from a too tender home has
small chance ot survival in
the tough world outside. But
before anyone draws a
moral from these facts he
should consider the flourish
ing condition of pen-reared
fish. The plainest conclusion
s^ms, to he that by a careful
selection or examples you can
prove anything you wish to.
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Should children he told
the plain truth about Sanata
Glaus? The answer is No. On
tliat the testimony of grad
uated children is a unit. Yet
in a sense S. C. is a deception
and a prevarication. Or is it
only a fairy tale like Jack the
B. S ta 1 k or Little R. R.
Hood? We can only recall
the adage that a lie jumps
up and runs ten miles while
truth is trying to get her pa
jamas off.
It is hard to understand
ivhy the legislature banned
the sale of fireworks and left
BB guns untouched. About
this time last year five chil-
dien in Duke Hospital had
been blinded or partly so by
BB shot. Gum, even air guns,
and young children do not
mix.
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Earl 'Wilson, the column-
sws top seats at Andy
Gnlfith s show in iNew York
are S70 a pair. Andy’s suc
cess is a- product of the crea
tive spark that Chapel Hill
somehow preserves even in
(A question and answer col
umn on traffic safety, driving
and automobiles conducted for
this neivspaper by the State
Department of Motor Vehicles.)-
QUESTION: Does skidding in
crease your braking distance?
ANSWER: Yes, the shortest
stopping distance is achieved by
decreasing the turn of the spin
ning wheels rapidly, while never
permitting them to actually stop
turning until the car has slowed
to only a few miles per hour.
^
Q: Why is the amber light
placed in a traffic signal?
A: To warn a driver approach
ing on the green in time to al
low him to stop or c'| ar the in
tersection before the red light
comes on. An experienced dri
ver is able to judge from his
position when the amber appears
whether he can stop before en
tering the intersection.
Q: How can you detect carbon
mono.xide gas inside youE, car?
A: You can’t because you can
neither see, smell, taste, hear nor
feel carbon monoxide gas. Nau
sea, headache or abnormal drows
iness while driving is a good in
dication that carbon monoxide
concentration Is dangerous.
»
Q: Why is it impossible to
change the direction of your car
quickly at high speed?
A: Centrifugal force tries to
push the car back into a straight ,
path when the car is turned from
a straight line. This force in
creases by the square of the
speed and is nine times as great
to 60 mph as it is at 20 mph. A
3,000 pound ear moving around
a curve with a radius of 300 feet
at 20 mph has a centrifugal force
of 269 foot pounds trying to
push it off the-curve. The same
car on the same curve at 60 inph
has a centrifugal force of 2,420
feet pounds. On a level curve it
would go off.
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Q. Is it safer to park or con
tinue driving during an electrical
storm?
A. It’s probably safer to keep on
driving at a normal speed be
cause most authorities agree if
the driver parked he would per
haps seek shelter under a tree
or near some object that might
be dangerous.
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Q. What is the safest proced
ure to follow if you encounter a
severe dust'storm?'
A. Pull far off the roadway,
stop, and turn your lights on low
beam.
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Q. What is the best way to
maintain control if a tire blows?
A. Grasp the wheel and steer
firmly to keep the front end
headed as nearly as possiole in
the original direction of travel.
Do not jerk the wheel and use
the bakes cautiously after speed
has decreased.
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Q. Why is it dangerous to drive
with an elbow over the window
sill at night?
A. It’s a bad practice during
the day. At night, trucks with no
clearance lights or with part of a
load extending oe*vr the edge of
the body could shear off a driv
er’s arm in passing.
♦
Q. Wby is it dan^rous to
transport a person with a broken
leg in a passenger car?
A. A broken leg should al
ways be splinted before moving
the patient. There is too little
room in a car for a patient with
a splinted leg to lie down, espec-
inic
jshy when it's
“wessjJ
fo*- shock as HU
secrecy
IN GOVeI
balanced
compreiieDsijj
^“’’veyofllj
ion ofinformationbyiij
° the federal J
.lust been publishejJ
lean Civil Liberties J
record it cites is estj
trend toward mores]
shocking one.
A. C.L.U.J
the newspapers InJ
trom^ successful in J
public -to its own sel|.j
this matter. Tht faiU
uted to what is desj
widespread distrust d
itself by a large seJ
population” and lo ||
ment’s power to rej
license radio and telJ
dia.
We have no
are many who may ‘i
efforts on the part ii
as being inspired Ij
rather than a pubi
News concerning!
of government
officials is a conioji|
newspapers have a fc
But it is also i:
the public must haw i
are to perform
telligently.
The interest in h
sources of public infoj
is an interest that is
vital to newspapffi,
and the government-l
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