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■ I EDITORIAL & FEATURE PAGE Watchful Waiting Chapel Hill News Leader Words That Went Leading With The News in Chapel Hill, Carrboro, GI&} Lennox and Surrounding Areas VOL. II. NO. 102 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1955 No Bargain Basements In Schooling More than 55 per cent of the farmers in South’s low income group have less than eight years of schooling: this is the finding of a report by the IJ. S. Department of Agri culture. North Carolina and other southern states occupy the lowest position in the national economic scale, and North Carolina enjoys the poor distinction of being near the bot tom in per capita income. The states in question cannot maintain a standard of living below the rest of the coun try without risking deterioration. It is their task without further delay to find a way up the ladder of well-beina'. O If any southern state finds itself handicap ped because of poor or scant schooling, it can begin there. It can study, for example, the history of Scotland. Scotland is a poor country, being covered with rocks or thin land except in a few favor ed valleys. Yet Scottish men are leaders wherever you find them, and Britain’s history would have been far different if it had been deprived of their help. Scotland’s strength lies in her schools, and the schoolmaster stands at the center of Scottish life. North Carolina’s history has been some what parallel. When at the beginning of the century Aycock, Alderman, Mclver, Moses, and Joyner began the campaign for free and efficient schools, the Stare began to lose its lethargy and reveal a growing economic health. Whatever progress it has made during this century has had its base in the schools. But we must quit looking for educational bargains and cease to expect educationa'l mir acles unless loaves and fishes are provided in the first place. Adequate local and supple mentary taxes must come to the aid of funds from state sources. Bargain basements should have no place in the State’s eclucational structure. I>‘ A A / Denys Parsons in "NoMiing Brightens the Garden Like Primrose Plants" It is proposed to use this do nation for the purchase of neW* wenches for our park as the pres ent old ones are in a very dilapi dated state. — Carrolton (Ohio) Chronicle. Lady desires post; domesti cated, fond of cooking children. —English weekly paper. Thirty thousand pigeons were released, filling the air with the fluttering of a million wings. Commentary in a news film. Mrs. David Miller has a new baby boy at her house. Dave is just as happy as if it was his.— Ohio paper. Alderman—stated that he had recently had a dring of beer to test it. If the beer had been in- toxicaty, he would certainly nog have ben ystre um lubsicating. Canadian paper. When the baby is done drinking it must be unscrewed and laid in a cool place under a tap. If the baby does not thrive on fresh milk it should be boiled. Women’s magazine. A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Klientop, Leigh Asfr during (Pa.) p4 went ac stood With u. • watmth, stapi with home « served J Processing Is Not Learning ^ .• be hous, ‘*^ys-'Minnesoia": Graham as well as anv to see a bit 1®'"' mustard brees '“he “wite. *1, Sr,T,r‘*'' Stoss Thy lifti.. In the darknei me. •« rust glass, dip cloth rub hard.-Ka„s„.| Mr Cheney is Uj and Mrs. h w ri, Hill News Leader lass he jJ / Pressure On Pensi( "The great danger,” .says Director John E. Ivey, Jr., of the Southern Regional Education Board, "‘in the growth of our present state universities and land-grant colleges here in the South is that they will be pressured into becoming huge diploma mills, concentrating on processing quantities of students rather than growing in stature through creative re search, advanced graduate and professional teaching, and serving as nerve centers for di rection and service of the economical and cul- lural growth of their area.” .At the present rate of enrollment. South, ern institutions must expect an increase of more than 50 per cent in the next ten years, while by 1970 they may have to take care of flouhle the present number of students. Under such pressure there will be a temp tation to run students through a kind of roll er mill. Classes will be larger and teachers will be asked to work harder. But that kind o( remedy can be only temporary. Dr. Ivey thinks some relief can be found in the establishment of ‘‘decentralized state programs” through community colleges and four-year state colleges. He would have state universities concentrate on graduate and pro fessional research, training, and service. One avenue of improvement might lie in more attention to science and engineering. Yet to man such departments adequately, high-grade teachers would be necessary. Here ■Southern institutions would run into a' handi cap. Their salary scale is low compared with that of the North and West, while they could not begin to meet the competition for engi neers set up by industry. One more department won,Id remain to be adequately manned. That would be the department of imagination. The South is undergoing marked changes economically, politically, and culturally. New conditions call for fresh minds. Eor these latter the South cannot pay too much. .4.‘ (Congressional Quarterly) New York Times Pressure For Conformity Chips That Fall Getting Stoned In Jordan It is strange to Americans who remember when their country was well regarded every where to read that in the little Eastern coun try of Jordan the US consulate has been stoned and the American flag derided. Several thousand Jordanians thus resented the attempt of their rulers to line up their country with the Western Alliance which is competing with Russia for the allegiance of the nations of the Middle East. Such an incident is bound to provoke the question: What is the US doing in the far-off country of Jordan that can stir the natives to . violence? The answer is that there is hardly a capital in the world vvdiere US diplomats or agents are not trying to exert some kind of politi cal influence. In older days such activity was (ailed meddling with the affairs of other na tions and always brought down condemna- tion. But at present similar attempts are identified with patriotism and are officially encouraged* or connived at as praiseworthy efforts to beat the Reds. The US political victories in the smaller countries of the East and Middle East are perhaps as numerous as those of Russia, but they have one drawback: they seem to in crease the suspicions and latent hostility of much larger and more important countries like India. So we have to ask: What profit is there in winning Jordan if we lose India? The Ru,ssian envoys who recently visited India were laden with garlands and hospitali ties. But the visits of prominent Americans receive no such acclaim. Are wc snaring the minnows while the big fish get away? If so, we are conducting a futile diplomacy even if we don’t allow it to be called meddlino,. From an address by Gordon W. Blackwell at Columbia University The individual in any society faces the necessity of charting his own course of development somewhere ' between putty-like conformity to prescribed cultural norms and legal prescriptions in the one hand and autonomous personal action on the other. In American society the pressure for conformity is great, though varying from region to region, from community to community, and among different social strata and groups. Although these pres sures are certainly real, our analysis has shown a culture and structure in considerabile fer ment and change. If individuals, in the course of their personality development frequently find themselves on shifting sand, this is of consider able concern to education. If the teacher is to understand and work effectively with his raw ma terial—the students—he must give attention to these problems of social adjustment on the one hand and to the development of individuality and personal integ rity on the other. There .is also the responsibility of education for helping to mold, new social patterns within which individ uals of the future may work out their adjustpient and integrity with higher chances ,of success. Thi.s being the centen- Books From Chapel A few weeks before his death, William T. Polk of the Greens boro Daily News, author of ‘‘Southern Accent”, submitted to the University of North Caro lina Press his own selection of his best short stories, written ov er a period of twenty-five years and dedicated to the state and region that he loved and served. This collection, “The Fallen Angel And Other Stories”, will be pub lished in May. The stories—rang ing in time from Sir Walter Ra leigh to the 20th century—deal with yesterday and today in the South and are notable for their qualities of perception, brilliant humor, and understanding. Near ly half of them appear for the first time in this volume to be published by the University of North Carolina Press. man figure than the stylized frontiersman, backwoods politic ian, and Congressman of legend- fame. Mythical heroes and comfort ing legends, long before the fall of Troy, took the fancy and ob scured the real historical facts. Since his death in 1836, David Crockett has remained on of the most fascinating and legendary figures in American history, shrouded in fiction and myth and error. In May the UNC Press will publish “David Crockett, The Man And The Legend”, by James Atkins Shackford, which offers, for the first time, suffic ient authentic material for a just estimate of the man. For almost ten years Mr. Shackford has por ed over every primary and sec ondary source; the result is a ‘Gentlemen of distinction’ have flourished recently in the popu lar magazines; one of their earl iest appearances in the Ameri can press dates to 1724 when “The Present State Of Virginia”, by Hugh Jones, was first publish ed. This book, long a collector’s item, will be reprinted in March by the UNC Press for the Vir ginia Historical Society. “The Present State Of Virginia” con tains a remarkable amount of in formation on the mores and man ner of a third of the continent of the time; the author—“Mathemat- ickal Professor” at the College of Willigm and Mary and later rec tor of North Sassafras Parish in Cecil County, Maryland — found both congenial and profitable to associate with ‘gentlemen of dis tinction’ and with ‘persons of the greatest figure.’ “The Present State Of Virginia is edited with an introduction and notes by Richard L. Morton, chairman of the department of history in the college of William and Mary. Two years ago the definite biography of a great but neglect ed Revolutionary leader won the Pulitzer Prize, “Edmund Pendle ton”, by David John Mays (Har vard University Press). On Feb ruary 25 the UNC Press is pub lishing for the Institute of Early new picture of David Crockett, a American History and Culture the vastly more complicated and hu- definitive and first biography of an equally neglected and possibly greater leader in the formative period of the Republic. Scottish- born James Wilson, Philadelphia lawyer, signer of the Federal Con stitution, one of five Associate Justices of the original Supreme Court, espoused more of those principles which have since be come prominent features of Amer ican democracy than any other delegate to the Philadelphia Constitutional Convention — his political theories were more in harmony with what would be the future pattern of American social and political development. In 1787 he was the Federalists’ most skillful orator, helping win accep tance for that new abstraction so grandly termed ‘the people of the United States.’ To Wilson must also go much credit for the conception of the Supreme Court and for guiding its first uncer tain steps. His 1 a w lectures, among the first given in the new nation, and his theories of the nature of law are unique in American jurisprudence. By in dustrial ventures and land specu lations, he built up a vast finan cial empire and took a leading part ‘ in developing the founda tions of American finance capital ism. He died in distress, a fugi tive from debtor’s prison. “James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742- 1798”, by Charles Page Smith, re stores James Wilson to his prop er place among the great found ers of our nation. Charles Page Smith, assistant professor of history in the Uni versity of California at Los An- The many new social patterns provide a maze of multiple stat ures and roles for each indivi dual, often involving frustrating conflicts. His probable mobility adds to the complexities facing him. Changing values in the so ciety make it difficult for him to keep his social moorings. The culture and social structure often do not provide him with suf- fiently clear guidelines and high predictability in inter-personal relations. The social situation is often not clearly defined for him. Social adjustment too frequently proves difficult. According to Williams, “If such disillusion of the social pattern involves values central to the person’s self-iden tity, the shattering of stable so cial expectations seems catastro phic for personality integration.” “Anomie” is the term Durkheim has given to this sort of situation in'” which so many find them selves in American society today. Truly the individual in no way is isolated from the culture and structure of his society. FOREST FIRES MAN MADE Fire is the forest’s most deadly enemy. It is particularly destruc tive in the South. 81 of every 100 acres of forest land burned in the United States are in the South. In 1954, fire and its after effects destroyed almost as much pulpwood as was used by all the Southern pulp and paper mills combined. Such tremendous los ses of this great naturaUresource not only affect the laniiowner; they also strike at the welfare of many communities. ary of Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of Grass”, it might f)e interesting to recall what William Winter said of him in “Old Days”: “In my Bohemian days it was my fortune, or misfor tune, as the case may be—to meet often and to know well the ■ American bard Walt Whitman. It is scarcely nec essary to say that he did not impress me as anything other than what he tvas, a common- place, uncouth, and some times obnoxiously coarse writer, trying to be original by using a formless style, and celebrating the proletarians, who make the world almost uninhabitable by their vul garity. With reference to me Walt’s vietvs were expressed in a sentence that, doubtless, lie intended as the perfec tion of contemptuous indif ference. ‘Willy’, he said, ‘is a young Longfellow’. But I remember one moment when he contrived to inspire Aid- rich with a permanent aver sion. ‘Yes Tom’, .said the in- WASHINGTON — With dollars and cents on the line, pressure groups will lobby hard in 1956 on proposals to expand Social Security, Congressional Quarter ly has learned. Senate hearings will be held in 1956 on a bill, passed overwhelm ingly by the House in 1955, which would affect the pay checks and retimement plans of about 1.3 million Americans. The House voted to pay Old Age and Survi vors Insurance benefits to total ly and permanently disabled workers at age 50, to pay pen sions to widows and other wo men at age 62, and to extend coverage to most of the occupa tions still excluded. Social Se curity taxes would be raised to buy the package. No special OASI benefits now are paid to disabled workers. They must wait until they’re 65, like everyone else, before draw ing pensions. in the best interest otj concerned . " More than 90 pen working population is OASI. The pending bill j tend (Coverage to of those still exclu self-employed physi the major profession, v| out of the system. “As experience is j erage should be extei ually all occupations sli ed, the Chamber of l has. declared. Labor uj other groups agree, LIBERAL TO TEM The Congress of Industrial Or ganizations (CIO) favors disabil ity pensions, declaring that “there can be no serious question as to the reasonableness, need, and hu- manitarianism” of the proposal. The American Federation of La bor (AFL) agrees, and the Amer ican Association of Social Work ers says that disability insurance “has been tried and found sound.” A means test would be “psycho logically” unsound, the social workers say. On the opposition side, the American Medical Association ob jects, saying the federal govern ment would jump “firmly in the NAME THE PUl . , . middle of medical practice” difficult to believe, but spued \Vhitman, I like your through supervision of disability RED PEPPER SAUSAGE We don’t know the origin of country sausage. The kind with most Southern forest fires are started intentionally — some ev en maliciously. More than 60% of all fires are deliberately set. The incendiaries— and these in clude those fires maliciously set in someone else’s woods — caus ed almost 40% of all forest fires. Another 22.8% are caused by brush burning. .p Of the remainder, most are caused by carelessness. Who is guilty? The smoker who discards a lighted cigarette, the camper who does not bother to kill his campfire, the logger who has not doused his warmnig blaze. Even the sparks thrown from a loco- I like them very tinkles; well’.” Sometimes a portrait of a sitter turns out to be a por trait of the painter. ★ ★ ★ Bruce Strowd was a man who could be called truly companionable. He could start and carry on a conver sation with anyone anywhere and with a natural ease of manner. With his curly hair, which grayed rapidly, he was also a singularly handsome man who attracted attention certifications. AMA also fears that patients seeking disability certification would apply “press ures” on physicians. And the pow erful medical group contends dis ability payments “might under mine . .. rehabilitation.” The Chamber of Commerce of the U.S., the Life Insurance As sociation of America and the American Life Convention agree with AMA that training to earn a livelihood would help disabled workers more than pensions. And the insurance groups contend, pensions “would tend to become a lot of sage and red pepper, motive cause fire, for it tgkes from strangers whenever he depres^o^^^”^ benefits during The kind that sizzles in a skillet only a single live spark in dry ' at daybreak, with biscuits in the oven and coffee ready to boil. The countryman knows sau sage for what it is—a satisfying sufficient ballast on which a man can last out a long day mending fences or plowing in the field. On a cold morning it’s good to walk out in the air^ go to the barn and come back to a smell of sausage and ribbon cane syrup in the kit chen. Sausage on a cold morning compares favorably with corn chowder or red-flarinel hash the latter to be served piping hot with cornmeal muffins and green-tomato pickles. Gourmets keep speculating on food of the future—how maybe we’ll take a pill on arising and consider it sufficient for the day. We can’t imagine a pillular sub stitute for hot biscuits, butter, country sausage and coffee. We are not anti-pill. We are pro- sausage. —Dallas Morning News. grass or pine straw to start a raging wild iire.—Southern Kraft Div; Int. Paper Co. walked by. He belonged to Reduction of the pension age that older school of Chapel women from 65 to 62 would Hill hu,sme.s,s men who could working women to retire MISSISSIPPI PENALTY The State greatest handicap of Mississippi has carry on an enterprise with out being overwhelmed by it. ★ A special name is needed for the stretch of days be- tween Christmas and New perienced in many years is the Year. They are like a row nf reaction to the Till murder and - ' early, shorten the widow’s wait ing period for survivors benefits, and increase retirement income for many male workers. Current ly, a retired couple’s pension is increased by 50 per cent if both spouses are 65. Eligibility for wo men at 62 would encourage a geles, was associated with the Baltimore Sun and is at present a feature writer for the Los Angeles Times. kidnapping trials. Whoever kill ed that dimwitted Negro boy rendered a disservice to Missis sippi which lis inestimable. The attitude of Mississippi peo- ,ple suggests that we fell for a divergent attack. We approached the Till cases as if we had suc ceeded in placing the NAACP on trial. By failing to find and con vict the murders and kid nappers we assumed that the NAACP was getting a kick in the teeth. The truth is that we sup plied that organization with propaganda material which has been used to defame our state in every country of the globe.—Me- Comb (Mississippi) Enterprise- Journal. zeros. It is not on record that worker to retire at 65 even if his anything of importance was ever accomplished in this nameless period that closes on December 31- wife were a few years younger. Women should get pensions at age 60, the AFL and CIO main tain. The CIO argues that “con stantly increasing productivity” makes early retirement “econom ically feasible.” The Chamber of Commerce disagrees, contending that “premature retirement is not Chapel Hill Njl'i Published every Thursday by the Nwi j Company, Inc. Mailing A Box' Chapel Hill, N. t Street Address-Maii Carrboro Telephone; [he Itid Two great revoliit taken place in the ik cation in the last hi one cultural and one s has resulted from the c expanding technology]^ trial advancement The first great chJ been the transforimtioJ American college fromj arts sanctuary to one technical training in a and the physical scie come to have so ii place. In 1900, out ot ill college students, sontlJ ment of apprixiiiialely| than 11,000 were ’ in technical fields, or il per cent. Today, 1 per cent of all co) are in engineering aloJ inre. Starting in North Cjj is possible for a ■ due west and pass 1 Carolina into South ft then into South C®*! then into South Ciii^riiaj finally into North Caul more without est change in direclioij Where would; ganton News-Herdi !Td; «nd Phillips Russ^ Roland Giduz — t Ufnj L. M. Pollander - ‘ E. J. Hamli^ (Payable In Five Cents F BY CARRIEE: months; by mail: ?4:50 $2.50 for SIS n for three mon Entered as secofti at the postoffiss e N. C., under W 3, 1879. III FIRST OF 13,000,000 On December 17, 1933, the Hospital Care Association paid its first maternity benefit. This first “Blue Cross Baby” was Ann Woodard, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Woodard, of Chapel Hill. Not only was Ann Hospital Care s “first baby,” she was also the first “Blue Cross baby in birth more than 13,000,000 babies have been nuR NEW delivered under the Blue Cross RESERVATIONS NOW ^ r program. ^ 9-6091—OPEN THROUGHOUT ^ years im
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