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Chapel Hill News Leader "Mirror, Mirror, Nam^ Of Hall, Who Is Fairest Of Us All?" Leading With The Nsws inChope! HUhCartboro, Chn Lenncn ami Turroanding Areas VOL. Ml, NO. 47 MONDAY, AUGUST 20, 1956 Campaign Catechism Adlni E. Steveiijofi ivin ihe picbi- Can deiiryr Yes! Can he whi easily? Hv nn means. How ran he u-iii? \Yith the lirele.ss. slion'j; sn|ij)iitl oi all Deniorrai .s and (lie aid of voters who get off the fence otito his side bccan.se they're sick and tired of the niiiddle—ihc prcscnl admin- isiaiion liasn'l enough vigor to create a mes.s! —in \\'a.shingroii. Will the party .support him? Il vyill. hi .spite of tugging and haiding over (lie civil rigfiis plank, and for all e.^-Presi- dent Truman's sprint into left field, Demo crats re,ached a higfi degree of unity a.s the Chicago convention closed. Does Stevenson offer values to independent voters? Bill ones, to iheni and all voters, ffc lets chaiacter. intelfiaetice and devotion, proved aditiinisirativc* skill, ktiowledge of affairs foreign and donie.stit, readiness and ability to cany the hill btirden of office. .4dlai E. Stevenson ha.s the makings of a great Presi dent. What obstat les fate his c,ampaign? .\ny chance of ap.athy on the pajrt of his sitppoiters, the bulging money hag.s of the o|)posiii,)n. its false claims to taedit for vvhat- cvei ha.s .aone right in recent years. W'hat of his i iirining mate, F.stes Kefauver? Ife’.s a hards canipaignef, ts'ell qualified lor the office, tt help to the ticket. What note? flard. tsilling work by all hand.s—for the sake of the candidares, for the sake of the party, tnost of all for the sake of the nation thtit needs aleit, enlightened, healthy leader ship instead of siiiitg, grinning drifting. One Boy With A Brain In Ills home w’orkshop in Chtrilotte, (int- iiiy Blackiiion made a rocket that ten .Yrtnv ihotigfii woiili taking to Redstone .Yrsenal in .\labania to study. Tile authorities may be more interested in the vonth who eonld bitiltl il at the age of i7 th,an in the mi.ssile itself, Jimmy',s story still shows that the em phasis in achievement is on persons rather than on paiaphernalia. One boy with :i brain that was alert and hands that were deft did a job to rival the kiitd to which huge re,search and technical crews are assigned. R.ed.stonc .Arsenal un doubtedly ran produce a heftier, more com plex missile than Jinimy’s, but when facilities anti staff—hundreds against one—are com pared, the boy puts the big rocker center to shame. Jiinniy hit keti the utadiines. the'eoraputers. the dat.'a, the whopping snins of money and all the rest rhat'.s often .suppo.sed nece,s.saiy to getting things done in the.se day.s of "Op eration Open - the - Window" and a “task forte " to look, outdoors and see if the sun is sliiniiig- and report in qiiadriiplirate. He w anretl to huiltl a rocket, and he went ahead aiitf did. It's likely he often hatl an easier time than a ctimhersoine crew whose mem bers spent! tnuch time tripping over one an- oihers' toes. Heie’s hoping jimmy Blaekinon estapes being .shoveti intt) .tn unwieldy, regimented pattern of reseanli that might m.^ke him a cog in a cast mathine. He and his like tio best in freetlotn, not tvlien tliey’re beltl tlowii to the status of just another .skilled bee lielp- ing bniltl a Itoneytaimb. Hugh G. Haynie in The Smilhjield Herald Harold Slassen Makes Sense (Smithfield Herald) It Was A Grand Old Car Out ul the confused story of efforts to save the .Studebaltcr-Pat kard Corporation from bankruptcy corn? hints that Packard auto- mofiiles may be drttppetl or become rarities. That would sadricc 'Tiany people, especially those whose aiiloTnoiive memories reaili back bevond il- 'oguk, P-ickaol. Ill iqoG, w'as the first automobile tv’ith a -teeiing wheel. Others, before then, had had tillers, like- those of boats. Packard took and held a le.iding place among cars most ol uliidi now are only inemorie.s—the Moon, the Kelsey, the .Stiitz and many more. “.\.sk the man w'ho tiwns one" was the Pack ard slogan, and any questions were likely to he |mt in respertftil rones. Those who owned P.i tkards were people of prominente anil substance. 'Eben came the dcprc.sslon blamed on Herbert Hoover, and plummeting sales of a luxury atitoniobile. Perliaps it was the only way to survive, but Packard t heapened its prtwiitct, came out in the early itygo's with a .ki,ooo c.ar a' low middle - price product then. Packard avoided goin.g nnd’er, but iies'er could win back its old eminence. Lament for the .grand, old, s|itare-uosed car may be premature. Sentiment will hope so. Meanwhile, predictions about new models generally tell of cars for 195^ with as much its ‘!5o horsepower. The ordin.^ry drit'cr needs 37,0 horsepower in a car no more than lie needs a hinocular microscope to read bill boards lie drives pastl Small wonder there are young hot-rtxlders on the roads, when every- borly seems to bow in ivovsbip to the chromed liood packed tvith unnecessary horses. Republiran leadership wmild- n’t dare admit it, but there is more Republican sentiment for leaving Nixon off the party tick et than appears on the surface. Harold Stassen, an important man in the Eisenhower admin istration, wasn’t acting as a lone wolf wiheii he suggested that Governor Herter of Ma.s.saehusetts be given the vice presidential nomination instead of Nixon. Mr. Stassen talked with Presi dent Eisenhower' before he made hig suggestion in public, and the President of course told him tiiat he couldn't put in a plug for Herter “as an official member of the Pre.sident’s official fami ly.” But it is significant that President Eisenhower didn’t put the clamps on the man who serves as the President's special assistant on disarmament. It seems reasonable to con clude that Mr. Stassen wouldn't have tossed out the suggestion to replace Nixon unless he was Ki-Yi Over Sfrowd Hill .Siiovvii Hill is the haunt of a l>u.sy beagle. The firrlc dog gets going on a' trail and lets nut yel]>s that are like corkscrew.s to_ the ear drums. Folks rush, alarmed, to windows and doors. It .sounds as though seven brutal giants had taken to beating the ]X)or poodi with whips of red-hot .scorpions. All that's really tip is that the beagle is giving out the news that ii'.s on the track of a rabbit. It never seeni.s to catch up! with Inmny, though. Round ctiives, batk and forth, through gra.ss and brush runs the beagle, crying ever more'shriliv. more eagerly. Its s'oice rises al- tiiost out of sonic range, hut never ((uite. It drops a,gain to Itcagie bass—which is .soprano for most dogs—and once more takes its caden za lip—tip—lip—up to a knifing “Kl-yi!” Repeating, the dog doesn’t quite catch the rabit. .Any but au imbecile cottontail would get away from that noise. Ixrts of outcry, less re.stilt. That's how the beagle's efforts .sum up. It seems to enjoy its yipping, all the same. .All ibis recalls .sotiie folks, whom charity and caution blend to forbid, naming. Poli ticians and others who think tin; cap fits, are ivelcome, though to put II on. The Governmeni IS The People By SIDNEY SWAIM ROBINS F’il'ty-three years ago (1903) one . of the lively questions in Ameri can politics was whether we should subsidize private ship building. Except for coastwise traffic, our ’ merchant marine was then dis- appeariag from the oceans. The day of the Baltimore clippers was a dream of the.past. “Foreign bottoms.” Briti.sh and N^mwegian, were carrying our expoi-ls and imports. We yearned to become a commercial nation, exploring foreign markets: but that requir ed drummers and ships of our own. And what would happen if we got into a war? Wc were likely to have our raw^ materials cut off and to lose Hawaii and the Philippines. Our navy was com paratively tiny, and there w'as fear we might lose even the art |builcling big and up-to-date * Private yards were the il of that art. Hence the BOB .uesti'on. The main objection was to Un cle Sam's taking tax money to di rectly aid a private and rather local industry. The term “wel fare state'’ W’as not then brought in to damn subsidies, but the ag ricultural South was strongly op posed and all good Democrats W’ere against widening Ihe func tions of the national government. The University had a debate that year with Johns Hopkins on subsidies, and we had the .side favoring government aid. Horace Williams was then the mentor of all our debating teams. H^ we had the right side, but that the first Affirmative .speech had to get the principle plumb right and make it mighty clear. The principle, as he beat i( into my head and afterwards pretend ed I had thought of it myself, W'as that the government is just the people. It was nothing you need ed any Latin words to explain. The definition of if was that it wa.s the people themselves, in ac tion and promoting what the Con stitution calls “the general w’el- fare.*’ Back in the Middle Ages, some had got far enough to say that government is the consent, and interest, and opinion, of the gov erned in action. Of course to say that ijj not to deny great public value to order, custopi, constitu tion. law. Only fools tear up this morning what they or their fath ers planted ye.sterday, in order to start all over. But'the reason w'e have private indiLstries and private property protected by law \va$ simply that it i.s good for everybody for us all to have .such things, or the chance at them. need them to grow by. The reason for recogni tion of rights of life, liberty, free dom of speech and press, religion —and for the sacrednc.ss of these —W'as just the same; it was G-od's plan and in everybody’s intere.st for us to have them. That made these rights sacred. And the limi tations upon these rights, thf. de cencies and so forth, traced right back to the same foundation. Horace Williams wanted no North Carolina lawyer, business man, editor, or politician to serve a.s judge of this Subsidy debate unless he was pretty nearly a Re publican, like Joe Caldw'ell of the ■'Charlotte Observer.” He said Jo sephus Daniels could never see the Affirmative principle. So wo had to have some judges who could see that the government at Washington was all the people of the country and therefore had to do w’hatever was necessary to save us all together. Early in the game we had real ized that an army and navy were necessary to save us, although there were protesting voices. Then Jefferson found the Louisi ana Purchase necessary even if unconstitutional. Wc began to dis cover that public schools were prime needs, even though for a time we didn’t bring Uncle Sam into that. It was a hand-out from Andy Jackson though that started our N. C. public schools. Then a protective tariff w'as judged nec- e.ssary to help us start a few' in dustries. Tn 1898 it w'as found necessary to take hold of some Pacific island.s. One thing has fol lowed another; but always the real question has been w'hether we had to have something, and, if so, how to get it. Politicians may have tried to obscure it in big words, but that has been the issue. assured -at least of considerable behind - the - scenes support. Al though some Republican leaders angrily called for Stassen's dis missal from administration ranks, other Republicans privately ex pressed pleasure over the idea of putting Herter on the ticket. Mr. Stassen revealed that he hgd re ceived many more telegrams in support of his suggestion than in opposition. Democratic party strategists, realizing that Nixon has consid erable opposition in Republican as w'ell as Democratic ranks, are doubtless praying for the Stassen suggestion to be ignored. They figure an Eisenhower-Nixon tick et will be easier to defeat than an Eiy nhowervHer*ter tickc/t. But it w'ould be good for the nation if Nixon is replaced by Herter or some other Republican leader like Herter. The .unex pected may happen and the Democrats may win the election this fall, but the odds at the mo ment favor re-election of Pre.si- dent Eisenhower. A Republican victory, undesirable as il ig from the Democratic viewpoint, would not be so calamitous if a man with the qualities of a statesman were Eisenhower’s running mate. Nixon, an opportunist who finds it easy to shift from one political position to another, is anything but a statesman. If he continues as vice president and something happens to remove Eisenhower suddenly from the presidency, what a sad day it W'ill be for Amcrica^ If vve have to endure four more years of Republican rule, let’s have Herter or somebody of his caliber as the No. 2 man in the administration. Chips That Fall Gloom About The Boom Forbes Magazine LETTER TO THE EDITOR Well, we got Joe Caldwell for judge; and very likely it was through him wo got the decision. What, a change today! Now it is business chiefly that wants to keep the government out of busi- ne.ss and from doing things, es- petially if it is for farmers, labor, old age, children, the underprivi leged. 'I’he business man thinks he can run a business better than the government, which he can. Then he thinks government is a business, which it is not any mort' than a school, or a farm, or Dear Sir: . I should like to express through your newspaper my deepest ap preciation for the many kind nesses afforded to us by the townspeople of Chapel Hill. Al though our fire was certainly no tragedy and of little moment to the community, it was of consid erable import to niy family. Neighbors put out the fire and .saw that we never lacked for food, clothing, shelter, nr any of the comforts that kind and true hearts may offer. To onr neighbors, the trades people with whom we deal in Cha pel Hill, ray associates at work, and indeed, to many strangers, our Ijeartfelt thanks for enriching our lives by your kindnesses that will leave with us a wealth of memory of far more value to us than anything we lost. Gratefully, John Clayton Tests by the tf. S. Department of Agriculture indicate that new plastic films, used as liners, may a church. The government is the be the answer to water losses Ity people. Its function rs to promote seepage from farm reserviors. Such the general welfare, vi>herever and films may also provide farmers w'henever private industry,is not with a more economical means of doing it, or can't do it as wll. seepage control in iri'igation That is, if Horace was right. ditches. A soothing, if untested, atti tude of confidence has replaced in recent years the oldtime fatal ism about the chances of break ing the vicious cycle.s of boom and bust that long ravaged the ’Riestern World. Money manage ment, government intervention and “new era" technology—have made major depressions as ex tinct'as the dinosaur. Through it all, however, a few hardbitten doubters remain un convinced. One such skeptic start led many optimists recently with a solemn warning that the nations of the free wmrld are living in an economic fools’ paradise. He was the late Felix Somary, a highly- respected, Vienna-born, private banker of Zurich, Switzerland, in timate of many great economists and businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic. In June, speaking privately at Harvard, Somary had issued a sepulchral warning: ■■America,’' said he sadly, “is living beyond its means ... a crisis is unavoidable.” In Somary's view, the trouble lay in a practice that has become the order of the day in democratic countries: the sacrificing of the sound dollar to the interests of maintaining “full employment.'■ In the long said Somary, this can only to disaster. A few weeks later .Somary re turned to his home, in Zurich, and last month, past 80, he died. But soon all Wall Street was talking about his warning. ‘Somary's views,” wrote c big brokerage house, “are commanding a wide nidi Mice because he is regarded here as one of the distinguished individuals of modern times . . . (he prediccted) the New Deal boom, the 1037 market decline, the timing of World War H and the postwar boom.” Somary's friends also claim him as among the first to predict the run, lead NEWSMAN'S NOTl BY ROLAND GIDUZ Incidental Bits From The Beat . Phone Caller On 'The Honey H It W'as just after Thursday's “Dollar Days” issue of the News Leader had gone to press and the man on the beat was darn glad to get home tor a bit of compara tive relaxation. ■fhe phone rahg as he walked in the house, , . wearily he pick ed it up, “News Leader,” he an swered, calculating it would be a business call anyhow. “Does ‘Roland GIT live there?” asked a woman in a voice that al most sounded arrogant.” “No,” she was told, “But Rol and Giduz does. This is he.” “Wait a minute,” came the command—^definitely arrogant — as the phone was clunked doiyn while the caller went to notify someone else. A moment later another womm picked up the phone. She was loaded with the last speaker’s a-- rogance and then some: “Is you the one what wrote in the newspaper bout the two sis ters runnin’ the "Honey Hole.’?” “Yes, that's e “Who tole yo "Who told yo The impasse passe and the positive tack in ‘'Well I Ls go: tomorrow an’ me." “Well that’s plied the man i just send the yer right arou Leader office the name. That not Roland ‘Gi And that, of test and the from the “Hon Indeed, we wo with keen anlii from an attorm interest of this Meantime, thi ning wide oper stand. And, as report on this s it should be el Free Wheelinc By Bill Crowell—Reporting From Rale O.K., fi.O.P., now lel'.s (1 how H look on T\’. ★ ★ If oppres,sive tf?;:tics arc the smart kind to apply to an oi-oanization dedicated to prote.stiiig- against oppression, .Alabama i.s dealing jtist right with the .N.A.ACP. •k -k -k Til i.s started out to be :i jtacan of piaise for w.Tter- nielon. but first - hand re search on the subject took .so much time so pleasantly that only enough remained to write a short p:tr:ioraph. . k k k .Almost 22 nations, in chor. ns. to the dictator of Egypt: “Oh, yon Xa.ssei man!" ★ ★ ★ ■Anybofly who c;ci, think offhand of a bigger bargain than a iliree-cent stamp, speak right tip—but don't expect easy agreement. THANKS UP THERE ... Say a prayer if you got through last month without suffering auto ac cident hurts. Motor Vehicles De partment records show 83 per sons killed in July traffic and the worst is yet to come. Same records for last year show as cending statistics from August through December, Like this: Augu.st 82 fatalities, September 98, October 137, November 112, and December 134. vent accident! through the repealed the qi because the Tat the nation’s gt mule populatioi STOPPING TIP ... A good rule of the thumb for quickly estimating safe stopping distance is to paste the figure “5” over your speedometer. Then multi ply any driving speed by five and the result will be the approxi mate number of feet it will take to stop safely. BRIEFS . delivered price si.ste of taxes. auto industry 000,000 motor mph 3000 gallt circulate thror t- ear’.s radiator e j average car to * old... the mos! ’ , for new trucks NERVOUS N.AGS ... Fifty years ago the approach of “one of them infernal horseless carri ages” sent Grandpa into a tizzy. And with good cause for his team was sure to take fright and bolt, a contingency the State of North Carolina recognizes to this very day. Even though Old Dob bin figuratively succumbed to the auto 'age years ago he still can stop traffic dead. The law i.s heavily onesided in his favor as evidenced by an obscure passage in the Motor Vehicle Manual, LOOK QUIC this figure, quickly and ref mentally: 5 3 you do? Slllf ijlii I id ii'i Putting it roughly, the book s'ays any person mounted or lead ing a horse has only to raise his hand and cars must stop, period. And if the animal is bad ly frightened the motorist is further directed to shut off the engine and if bidden to assist the horseman to quiet the animal The law originally was passed in 1917 to “insure the safety of all persons concerned and to pre- Here in Ch; State Highway School recruit: steady diet of develop “flash Sg't. E. W. Jo; commander of t In practice a pr the wall a serie: digits for inter dredth of a sc then question who remember report that mo ■troopers have i, such details. It’l ! later on when Wt only seconds tt ■ing car’s licens|ljl(H| 'ua ILik iw-:: iOf 1929 bust. Somary's last words were as ominous as they were startling. A crash, he said, is almost in evitable, “not, as-the Marxists claim, because it lies in the na ture of the capitalist system . . . (but becau.se) the arrogance of the employers and the greed of the trade union leaders increases with each inflationary wave; both •permit themselves to be carried along comfortably by ever more rapid currents, without giving a thought to the end,” Somary made no mention of when he thought it would come, but he left no doubt ' that he thought economic collapse would be the inevitable result of infla tionary policies deliberately pur sued. It could be avoided only if the U. S. would swallow the bit ter pill of deflation, thus restor ing the purchasing power of the dollar and putting expansion on a more leisurely basis. This, he said, would entail some painful readjustments. Among them: “The system of cheap money must be totally renounced” and interest rates allowed to ruse. Use of inflationary techniques should be limited strictly to war production. • Non-defense government spend ing should be pared to the bone. There must be no more sacri ficing of the sound dollar just in chasing the “mirage’’ of full em ployment. “To start an inflation,” Sonsary warned, “is easy. To stop it is im mensely hard, particularly for a democracy.” ChApel Hiu Published ever Thursday by tl Company, luc. Mailing Box Chapel H| Street Addres! Carr' Telephoni Phillips Kjsseli Roland Giduz L. M. PoUandei J. J. Hendricks E. J. Hamlin NEIGHB to CORRESP 0! ; I Chapel Hill f s.; ffil'lUt I Carrboro Mt, Carmel ■ New Hope _ White Cross Negro CommunfSlN Mae SUBSCRIPxWik'^ (Payable Five Center enHij, Yij- '■5 jf. BY CARRIER: $. for six mofl annum. MAIL: $4:^ BY t2.50 for sileiil V for three n™*' ” Entered as seed at the postoffice^Ch . N. C., under thiet S 3. IS79
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