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Chapel Hill News Leader LitadiYiy With A^ews in Chapel Hill, Carrhc^o, Gft.n Lennox and SurroijndHg Arsos VOU. Ill, NO. 61 MONDAY, JULY 30, 1956 Negafive Solace In The Assembly's Actio n I h.‘ Legi.s'aturc'.s passage, a.s expected, ul the Pcai.sail Plan for public sdiools opera tion in the State may be better than some of the more dn .tic proposal.s aired in the licat ol the Assembly'.s brief debate,s. But any .sat- i.slaciion tnei the course that North Caro- lina ha.s chosen to cope rcitii integiation imi.sl be jmttdy negatiye solace. It i.s not that tve fear the destruction of the piibiic .school .system of this state—tlie dire prediction made by some hxal s|ieakers t- tlie Assemblv hearings. .Not do we fear the consequences of such integration as may lake place—in the free’of which many legisla tors would ratlicr close the public schools. Rathci. we (ear, the Cieneial Assemblv, at the behest of tlte Gosernor and many good citizens of this state, has indulged us iii a Iruitiess delaying action that mav eventtiallv throw our public schools into the hands of die-hard extremists ivho will led that pub lic education .should indeed be abandoned before a single Negro is all(.>tyed to enter a white school. rhe biggest gap in the Pearsall Plan, what ever merit it may have, is that it does not pro'ide for coopeiatbe effort between the laces. Rather it can widen the ftreacli be tween them and encourage the vciy lausuits School Prospects Are Gratifying Tlie prospect at last of a solution to the long-standing inequity between the Carr- boro and Chapel Hill school attendance dis tricts is gratifying. And more encouraging yet is the jiossibility that a new era of har. mony ttnd coo]ieration betiveen school of- licials of tlie tiro systems in this one com munity is in the offing. Improvement of Chapel Hill - Carrboro relations—the .strengthening of ties between the two big neighborhoods of the over-all ■community of fliapd Hill—has been one of the main founding objectives of this news paper. While miu icinal governing- bodies of Carrboro and Chard Hill have in ieceut years exempliited the finer; ■.h'n ('(.loperative assist.-! t ■ cadi other, we have felt keenly lliat thi.s spi'. ii needed to be furthered in the tuo school .systems. to be spelled out. we feel that the die for this has been cast in the accomplishments of this meeting. I They ivere: (i) The agreement that some compcn.sation wa.s due the Chapel Hill school System lor its failure to receive supplement ary tax payments lor Carrboro (and W'liitc Cross) children sent to its .schools: and (2) the Can boro Committee’s decision to study its own situation and to siigge.sl a target date for an election on one or more of sescral methods whereby supplementary lax money could be raised in its tlisiricl- ; The methods suggested were—a supplc- metary tax in the Cairboio Disltict, joining- in a possible supplementary tax for the Orange Comity System, or joining the Chapel Hill Special School District. The joint meeting on AVedne.sday evening ol the flatiboio School Committee and its • parent bodv, the Orange County School lloard. with die Chapel Hill School Boaid, uas a session nearly two years in being Inouglit about. It was au historic octacioii iuasniiKh a.s it was the fiist such iiieetiug held in the memory ol sthool officials here. At'hile the details of working out tlie sup- jilementarv tax disparities between ftie Cltap- el Hill and Carrboro schouls at eas are still There is merit to each of these piopost.'ls. At this juncture, however, we arc more de lighted that they are being considered at all than concerned as to which one should be followed. Can boro's citizens have, an opportunity notv to match in quality of education the ex cellence of the school Ituilding they will soon hate, bach is ii.seless without the other. We are confident that now that the first hurdle has been cleat ed the second one- will be much easier. Parade Of The Elephants Black. Stc r and Gorham, jcweler.s. recent ly put an adverlisernetit in the Netv 'I'orkcr magazine, "lliat Certain Party of Yours,“ it teas lieaded. and went on to urge, “Flaunt youi irolitical |»any .symbol in ■ . . i,Sk gold. 1 liesc solid, hilly carved charms with nibv eyes tvere handmasie to onr order." few of the members of... that jjarlv would see file adverli.sement. y\'hy .skip the don- kev? J his text admitted the existence of mote titan one paits, hut the picture of the charnis that t\-ent with it, showed two elephants. 1 here ivas room to [jonray a donkey, but the advci riser must have thought it best to double up on the Rcupblican symbol. (flanciug at the price of the haiibl'es .sug gests a reason. Fiiey cost .$82.yo each, and even though that takes in Federal lax. it's a pretty bit to pay. Republicans are mote likely, by and large, to have that much to spate foi a political trinket. Someone with ruby-eyed 18k gold charms to sell has a right to think of tlieiii a.s a better market than Democrats. With its libci al editorial. policy, the Nc;w Yorker has Democratic readers. ,so their em blem can't liavc Iteen .scorned because too F'orttmately, although a Republican may hate more dollars than a Democrat, each of them haa pieci.sely one vole apiece. ? For A Cup Of Coffee Tliis rear's world coffee crop will be ‘{8,- 700.000 bags. 'I his year's world coffee crop will be 'W'.ooo.ooo bags. Which expciLs do you lead' Fhat's ItoW far they are apart. l\'Iio’s riglit will make a big difference in how- mncli Chapel Hill hon,setyives htive to pay tor coffee in montlis ahead. It might change the restanrant price pc-’r cup. File larger ligiirc comes from the U. S. Department of .kgriculture. the smaller, from the Rra/ilian Coffee Institute. The differ ence shows wlial folk.s liereahonts, who grow- other crop.s already know—how hard it is to bring those estimttte.s outright. It a'Iso suggest,s that ihcre'.s .sonic wishlnl figuring. The Tnitcd .Slates, eolfee buyer, foresees a large ciop, which could mean lower prices. Brazil, coffee seller, foresees a small one, which would semi prices up. When the nvo leading estimators differ so w idely, other folks can do little but w-onder and w-ait. One prediction seems safe. If the c;rop is .small and prices therefore, or for any reason, go up the way they did a few years ago, liuyers may balk again. Flicic'll come a ctoffee break, which avon't be a" pause for refreshment. It/will be a halt in buying, and that's another w-av to loice prices down. 'I Hereby — Uh, Pardon Me — Launch Thee th.it it is seeking to avoid. (.)n the other hand, (he negative merit we sec in this plan i, th ■' its enactment, for the time being at least, has jjrevented ns from he-iig saddled with sometliing worse. Some ol its giealcst proponeiits have proclaimed this as a .^^^mg point in its favor. 'Fhis will lie all right, so long as this plan is permitted to staiicJ, aucl wc; hope ii will not he struck di.tvii In llic coiirls.' A\'e sh ill not be siu prised if the I’etvr.sall I’lau. as a "safetv valve, " is ne\cr exercised and il it is not that will of cemrse be to the good- But it caunoi lie said thtit its enact ment is helping to better'educate the chil- dieii of our slate iii our public schools, and il may be harming this piocess. I'he cumbersome prC)vi.sion,s of the Pear sall Plan will undoubtedly be brought iii- t.o operatise law b\ approval of the' voteis ill the special election .six weeks hence. But Xurih Carolinians should cast their ballots with ihouglilful understanding as a guide, rather tlian ingrained emotion and a.svish to liike almost any aettion, so long as it’s action. Noilh Carolina has a mighty cross to bear in' Liying to parade something mediocre as t. good thing—even though it might base done fat, W'oisc. Haynie In Greenahoro Daily IVeu's School Construction-An issue? Remarks of Rep. John Lesinski J' ., O. Mich., in the House; From the Congressional Record: In making liis cxpccLed state*- ment that he would run for re- election, the President said that he intended to take up certain specified issue.,* in the'campaign this fall. One of the issues he mentioned i.s the school construc tion bill. Just what i’ort of an issue dues he intend to make of this? Docs he plan to be honest and toll the people that his own Republi can Party deserted him when this legislation was up for a vote in the House? Mr. Chairman, it \V:^s a fore gone conclLK'ion that the inclu-S- ion of the Powell amendment in the school comstruction bill would havg the effect of killing it I knew that, as did the other mem bers of this body: and surely the President himself knew it. True, he did make half-hearted public statements that the school con- kdruction bill was a necessary piece of legislation but as he has done so often, he substituted w’ords for leadership. • What happened on the vote? Some 148 Republicans ignored their titular leader and put politi cal expediency ahead of national interest and the Powell amend ment was adopted. Then on the final vote, on thij piece of legisla tion that the President wants en acted. only 75 members of his political party supported him. One hundred nineteen voted against the bill. The 96 members of his own party who voted for the Powell amendment and against the school bill held the balance of power that could have given the President the legijla-. tion which he deems to be so im portant. Of course, when one realizes President Eisenhowers record in not .standing by those legislators who go out on the limb to support him. wc can per haps understand w’hy so many of them may be reluctant to go along with his vague policies. I believe the school construc tion bill should be an' isjue in the campaign this fall, for it is just another illustration of how the present administration is fail ing to provide our Nation with the leardership it needs. Leadership cannot be perform ed in absentia or -belatedly. Presi dent Eisenhower, of all people, with his military background should realize this, It appears to me that if he is as fit and as capable of handling the affairs of the Pre>ldeiicy as, it is claimed he is, he certainly would have exercised some leadership over ’ the members of his own party and the school construction bill would have passed. If he cannot do this, how can he be expected to lead the country? Mr. Chairman, there are many vital i-;,jues facing our Nation to day. The welfare of America is much too important to be left in the hands of |an individual who cannot devote full lime to the tasks of the Presidency. Our country needs a leader who can provide strong, effecive leader ship the moment it is needed. Mr. Chairman, let Mr. Eisen hower brin'g up his issues in the campaign this fall. We Democrats will be pleased to discuss them and to point out that on each one the mi.ssiiig factor was the admin istration’.* failure to face its re sponsibilities of leadership. Chips That Fall Tiiat fascinating gadget— the brqivn gibhe wi.h the light that winks as a shield revolves around it — in the Flectric Construction Com- pany window on Fast F-rank- Ihi Street isn’t anew, com pact radar, oi an elcciionic insect trap, or anv ol the things many folks ha\e guessed. It’s precisely what it seems to be—an attention- getter. If \on owned a gaso line service .station, von niiglu w.uit to |)iit one up.. ★ ★ ★ Chapel Flill bride-to- be is having trouble witli aunts. Yes. aunts, not ants; the ant tronhle migh come alter she stalls housekeep ing, hilt there's a. ready rem edy for it. The aunt.s are tell ing hei just how to run lier tredding. and she'd as .soon they didn't. When a gill's going to get a new relative, can't the old ones give her a mite ol peace? ★ ★ ★ One of our friends defines, the awkward age in girls as "too old for teddy bears and too young for wolves." —JIason City (Iowa) Gazette, "The average woman has a vo cabulary of only 1.800 words." If is a small, stock, but think of the turnover. —Exchange, Fathers, All Kind: “Back in 1880, when I was a child, I asked my father for a cent * * * He heard me gravely and then informed me just as gravely that it looked 'to him as if a Democratic President would he elected that fall, and that it behooved every prudent man to exercise especial thrift. There fore he would be obliged to de ny my request.” — Calvhi Coo- lidge “My -father belonged to those natures who. although they feel •deeply, considered everj^ ex- pi'ession of feeling a weakness, and concealed them with an as sumed strength.”—Go-ethe. ■ “My father was a failure: on ly his latest years could be called happy. I am conceited enough to believe tjiat it is just as well that he didn’t dispose of me in a tit of'low spirits.”—George Bemcird Sheuv. “Upon all sorts of counts my father was a better man than myself * * all his days he was a happy and appreciative man with a singular distaste for con tention or holding hi.* own in the world.”-aH. G. M'dla. “My father liked to have at his table, as often as he could, some sensible friend or neighbor to converse with, and always took care to start .some ingenious or useful topic for discourse which might'tend to improve the minds of his children,” — Rcn.jourdj., Franklin “The only lessons I ever learn ed were those my father taught me, for he terrified me by des cription of my moral degradation and he humiliated rrle by my likene.ss to disagreeable people ’i' B. Yeats. l^echnology niarches on, and puis .such marvels iu our hands as radios with ])riined circuits. Kxcellentl But fiave you tried in Iiase me o! those repa''red' Tliat tunrs out not so simple. “[My father’s] bark was al ways more to be feared than his bite. He would threaten lo.udly but punish mildly or not at all. But he improved the fields, he cleiired‘-the woods,- be battled Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, who said, “Millions for defen„*3, hut not one cent for tribute,” was obviously a piker. He couldnT think in billions. — Richmond Times-Dispatch. with the rocks, he paid his debts and he kepi his faith.”—John One North Carolina Viewpoint: Living With Court Dec It’s been j)oiiued out oi- ten ihai'- Negroes got. little chance to say what they thouglit should be done about the .scliools and the Pearsall plan. Another group, deeply involved and little consulted, con.sists of the children. What are iheir— not ilicir parents'—id.eas? ★ ★ ★ By REED SARRATT Executive Editor, Winston-Salem Journal and Twin.C (Excerpt.^ from a speech be’ fore the Conference on Fuhlic Ismes at Illinois State Normal University.) I believe that the South can live with the Supreme Court’s decision without doing violence either to the decision or to its own cu.stoms and traditions. You may ask ask how' this is possi ble. My answ’or is: Through full compliance w'ilh the court’s man date by removing .face as a fac tor in as.signing pupils to schools Wherev’er a gradual approach is needed, both the timing and the location of the changes arc important considerations. If the transition is to go as smoothly and effectively as possible, plans must be kid wdth considerable thought and with proper atten tion to the sequence in which successive steps will be taken. This planning can best be done by the school authorities working closely w'ith citizen advisory groups composed of stable peo ple w’ho are as nearly impartial •as possible. Groups such as the NAACP are clearly entitled to bring court action and have every right to make their proposals, but they certainly cannot be con sidered impartial, and they have no responsibility for over-all educational planning. Of overriding importance to the future of public schools and interracial good wdll iu tlie South will be community attitudes. Where the attitude- is one 'of de fiance of the Supreme Court and a determination to maintain legally enforced segregation, the incentive to gain admittance to white schools will be strong. Where there is apparent willing ness to comply w'ith the court’s order and a desire to w’ork out harmonious methods of compli ance without upsetting deep- rooted customs, the incentive to force admittance to w'hitc schools will be missing Tobacco-conscious Xortli Carolina can j)ay attention to the rush to ninjrket lueniholated cigarettes as more than a Lad, folks who kiKJW the industry sav. d'he ininiN llavor hides any oddi ty ol taste in reconstituted tobacco -broken leaves and stems homogcni/cd. or what ever. for use. .\lso. this type of smoke could offer a fine of retreat if firm evidence appears 'ol a link between cigarettes and illness. AU tba.t the courts require is that no child shall be excluded because of race from a school which he otherwise is qualified to attend. The southern states, in my opinion, can remove race as a factor in assigning children to schools w'ithout causing much change in the present racial com position of the student bodies in their schools. I believe that, given achoicc, free of discriminiation or intimidation, the vast majority of Negro children w'ould continue to attend schools with exclusively Negro student bodies. I lay no claim to knowing what is in the collective Negro mind. But I doubt that very many, if any, Negroes object to going to schools attended exclusively by other ‘members of their race. I doubt, too, .that very many, if any, Negroes have any burning desire to attend schools with members of the white race mere ly to be in the same school with whites. i do believe that most Negroes probably object strenuously to being REQUIRED to go to schools limited to their own race. They do not like the stigma that attachos^ to the implication that they are inferior. The protest iS not so much against Negro schools as it is against enforced segrega'tion.... If the southern states continue their efforts to provide equal schools for Negroes, their chances of maintaining separate schools will be much better. Given a choice between a good white ■achoof and an inferior Negro school, the Negro child and his parents are much more likely to choose the mixed school. But if the Negro school as good as the w'hite school, they probably will prefer the Negro school. A numbet of other factors will tend to keep the schools segre gated in the absence of legal compulsion.... Another factor is that of resi dence. Most children, whether white or Negro, attend schools w'hich are nearest their homes. This practice probably will con- tiue, at least in the cities. Then, too, the Negroes have a vested interest in The faculties, the officials, the stuc] Negro community great deal througli ment of fine Negri will npt relinquis: lightly, provided them with honor No matter how children attend white children, which have gove between the.races expected to chan any change, it wil best evidence of found in those there , is, and has segregation of tlr public schools, force the remova riers to Negroes, cannot dictate th tices of the peopl ior is a matter choice M! In the segrega perience with bodies in the pu limited to the, 1 By the end of the year, 537, or 11 p 4,700 school di Negro pupils had pleted the procesi tion. These distra border states. Al 256,000 Negro 10 per cent of ti region, were at’ classes. Desegregation problems. But, oi has been accomi incident. You v . “trouble spots” ■ HiOtl m 0 of one hand Greenbrier, Wa; more. If there a have escaped my w'here the experie lie schools has b to that in the co versities. 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