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Chapel Hill News Leader VOL. IV. NO. 85 MONDAY. OCTOBER 28. 1957 Another Hurtful Spell' Soinf 40 vcais ago the riiivevsity of Xortli Caittliiia ceased to lliink of education in caniiJiis lernis alone and began to reach out to die wliole people of the state. I'hai was the beginning of the Unisersity F.xlension Service, liy tliat tnetins the people of Xorrh Carolina, even though living at a distajue. (ould sliare in tlie instruction and other benefits fornierlv possible only to Cha pel IliU residents. liy decree Iroin Raleigh the Cxteirsion Service is liable to be cripided or much re duced in benefits. The State Budget .\ct of ipyy ortlains that beginning in 1959 the I'.x- tension Service niusi be sell-supportitig. This sounds convincing and businesslike, on papei, btit in jiractice it may have a with ering ellcct on a princijral ami of the Ihii- \ersity in its service to the people of the State. Chancellor ,4ycock has stated the issue in these terins; ‘Kducational extension can never be sell- sttpporting for the same reasons that charges to .i sttideiu in residence will never cover the cost of his edtualion. Fducation through the Cniversity, whereiei and however made axailable to students, must never be regard- t‘d as tt privilege axailable only to those who can aflord to pay in full measure." .■Vt ]jrcsenl the Fxlension Servite as di rected from Chapel Hill serxes the jieople in 99 of the too cfiunties of the State. It operates in fixe major divisions that retjuire carcfitl and complex book-keeping. Through its numerous and varied services it has been a constant help to people of limited time and mcatis. Chancellor .Vytitrk has tnade the point that the .State does tiot expect a studetit itt resi- detite to pay .ill the costs of his education. Shall it place non-resident stitdetits ott a dil- feretn footitig? At this distance it wottld apjteat that Ra leigh authorities had better go slow' about shakitig a stritctute that has grown up through more tjian .40 years of life. Sell-sup port is a big temi, but it Is something that the State goverment clocs not require of the University itself. When years ago it did require the Uni versity t) pay its oxrn way through student charges and fees, the University was small, feeble, and struggling, and remained so lot- years. Di'. F. A. .Alderman, who was once Pres ident of the University, then of Tuianc, and finally of the Ihiixcrsity of \hTginia, and who, being a native, understood his state pretty xvell. used to say that Nortli Carolina was a xx'orthy state, "but stdrject to hurtiul spells of economy.” Arc we about to have a hurtftd spell ap plied to the extension service? 'Plowed Under' Youth Of rural high school graduates only one in loin .goes on to college or advanced study while among city high schoolers the |)ro- jrortion is one in txvo. ■J'his fact xx'as brought out at a meeting of the .State Crange at Fontana by F). Hidcn Ramsey, chairman ol the State Board of Higher Fducation. xvho said further that one I bird of the honor gradtiates of the State’s high schools do not attend college. Said he: "Many of the.se young men and xxomen of great promise live in rural communities. They have proxen capacity to profit by high- et^ ctjyKation, but they are being plowed un der to their oxvn cruel'disadvantAge and to the giaxc disservice to the State.” If this is part of the general trend where by the sxvollen toxvns are benefitfing by dniining rural , life of its best elements, the eventual results xxill be patent. .\t |ire,sent xve htixc no elfective .system whereby the ablest'and brightest students of each hi.gh school graduating class may be enabletl and encouraged to go on to com- Is A Caesar Coming? \ French author, who has been studying Ametican xx-ays and history, thinks the U. S. xx'ill soon be ruled by a Caesar. Ife believes not only the drift but the de velopment is in that direction. A Caesar, he explains, is not the .same as a dictator, and he does not necessarily get to the lojt by violence Or seizure of poxver,: power comes to him thron.gh a voluntary surrender of the jteople. In part he sees the people as sxvayed by a "father complex,” and in part by the de mands of big business. This author, .Amanry de Riencourt, ex plains his X lews in a book called “The Com ing Caesars,” Irom xvhich it can be inferred that he thinks the U. .S. xvill have not just one C.ae.sar btit a chain of them. lie argues that among the U. S. president's scxeral roles that xvlnch makes him comman der-in-chief of all the armed forces makes him preponderant. Fhe .American people, he thinks, have be- Review From Raleigh . . . The PajamaGame'Sounds ABang! A ni^jor undertaking for the Raleigh Little Theatre was the production “Pajama Gam e,” known to all as the gay musical which made such a hit on Broad way and through its motion pic ture presentation. “Pajama Game” is about a girl named Babe Williams who works in the Sleep-Tite Pajama Factory and represents the union’s point of view in the fight for a seven and one-half cent raise, and Sid Sorokin, the new superintendent, whO' represents management. Babe and Sid fall in love and all runs smoothly until labor and management begin to fight over the raise and they find them selves on opposing teams. The plot of the play is really of lit tle consequence; it provides just enough thread to hold the show to.gsther. Mavis Allen and Alec Dantre, both of Raleigh, played the lead ing roles of Babe and Sjd. They have outstanding voices and know' how to use them. Chee Davis, a student at St. Mary’s, played Carol Haney’s part of Gladys. Her dancing w'as adequate, being encumbered by complicated choreography and participation in prai^ically every •dance routine, two factors which would wear anyone out. Les Bailes and Jack Porter played Mabel and Hines, the time-study man. Both were very good, par ticularly Mr. Porter w’ho lent comedy and understanding of his '—Return? He never left it!' plete their education. Yet there is general complaint that industry is .short of young men and women xvilh scientific: and technical trainin.g. AV'lieti Mr, Ramsey say.s tinder present con- diticm.s these youths are beitig "ploxvecl un der.” he is not oxeixstating the ease, 'Wdiile this is .going on, the state and federal governments are raising enormous revenues from their .gasoline taxes and imposts. So great are the,se funds that spectacular high way systems are being designed and promoted in order to use llic piled np rex'emies. •Meantime the- schools are being iinpoxer- ished. particularly those of ritral efislricts which do not have laboratories and other eciuipmcnt to compete xvith tlie more ad- vaiit:ed city .schools. Kventiially the state and nation niust answer this ciuestion: Had xve rather btirn gasoline at high speeds than provide ade- t|uatc educational training for our ablest children? Democracy's Poet chips That Fall Yonkers Herald-Statesman coilie disillusioned with Congress and other elected or, aitpoiiitecl bodies and are lookin.g for u-ays to "escape from freedom” by in stalling at) autocratic: master. .Aitierican Riesidents, he points out, are more powerful than kings or emperors, and are in demand as .saviors not truly in military spheres but in political and economic roles. Undoubtedly there are .segments ol the .-American people who would xxcelccnue :i Caesar, provided he xv.as their own, and there have alxvays been—in fact, since Ccorge AVuishingtoii’s time—elements that preferred a monarchy of the British style to any raffisli president like Jackson or Truman, but these preferences probably tome from the big r,itie.s of the North. It is doubtful if the West and South are, in their present frame of mind, ready to hail a Caesar in the White House. But the ]ianic: of a recession or a xx;ar might alter cases materially. Tentatively chosen by the Board of Education to grace the title of our newest school—Northeast Yon kers Junior High^—Walt Whitman has much to teach Yonkers’ boys, and girls now and in the corning generations. ’ , If 'the 'board' officially'-1follows through on its decision in corn- .mittee of the whole, Yonkers will be honoring the chief poetic voice of American democracy . . . Northeast Junior High will be memorializing a daring, fluent and vigcroLis man ~ a country school teacher, a printer, a newspaper re porter, an editor. . . He was a Civil War nur.se, a government worker, a lecturer. Always he was a writer—an influential, inspiring and famous author. He had his detractors, of cour.se, as what eminent person hadn’t? We carry no special torch for "Walt Whitman, wc feel far too puny for that—for he doesn't need it. But we do believe thaf. now' the subject has been opened, it ought to be examined fairly and fully. It is one of the wonders of lit erature that Whitman—gone to his rest sixty-five years ago—should be so “alive’’ and so inspiring in enthusiasm and fun the cast felf as they were performing. They radiated good spirits and even though the show was far from perfect, all whs forgiven in the presence of such beautiful voices and attractive people having such a wonderful time. The Raleigh Little Theatre has started its season off w'ilh a bang.—Claire Russell Cheney our day. A century ago he was singing his songs, weaving his webs of wondrous words and spellbinding a people who heard or read him to examine their precious treasure of democracy—a treasure that millions of us hold in our hands Imt often do not adequately ap- praiseMn value. His words can send our spines tingling wiih patriotism. Thous ands of Yonkers residents have been thrilled in this way, when one of our public school choral groups has sung the warm and soul-lifting vvoi'ds of “I hear Amer ica Singing, the varied carols I hear “ And Walt Whitman stirs up spir itually as he cries, “I say the whole earih and all the stars in the sky arc for religion's sake.” He believes in immortality: “I do not think seventy years is the time of a man, or W'oman. nor that years ' will ever stop the existence of me. or anyone else.” He saw beauty and character and freedom in people: “In the faces of men and women I see God. . . He taught us that some of tlie greatest lessons are to be learn ed, ‘‘from those who reject you and . brace themselves againsi you.” from those “who treat you with ,contempt or dispute the pas sage \yith you.” (Could he have been thinking of integration?) Oh, yes, he taught tolerance—and on the grand scale: “Not till the sun excludes you do T exclude you. . . . When he was president of Har vard University, Charles W, Eliot was explaining hnw' education's purpose is to “lead the forward movement”—that each generation Keep Up The Good Work! characterization to his role. The two who stole the show right out from everyone’s nose xx-ere Mike Silver as Prez and Betty Gregory, as .Mae, his ever- lovin’. “Pajama Game” was directed by nick Snavely with choreogra phy by Jame.s Leocarta. Both Mr. Snavely and Mr. Leocarta had a big .iob to do and they did it as xx'ell as they could. The costumes by .Ann Seltman and Mrs. Duncan Stuart were simple, but lacked the bright colors and extreme styles the stage requires. .All in all, it wa.s an evening of good entertainment. Perhaps the most outstanding part of “Pajama Game’’ was the obvious Yoik Cazi'lU: & Diiily should be brought to the confines of knoxx'ledge, “to the very edge of territory already conquered," and then he told, “Thus far came our fathers. Now press you on!” Now see how Walt Whitman said it—in an undying call to people of every age and ages: “Conquering, holding, venturing as xve go the "■ay. Pioneers! 0 Pioneers! Wliat sweeter or more challeng ing words for free men and xvo- nien, for Iree hoys and girls? Scenes In Mos December 7, 1949 Outside in the Square there’s al- imost a Brueghel scene—scores of children playing, dark spats mov ing against the snow. The children are the best, part of Russian life, and it’s strange to see them so swaddled and w'rapped as infants, so free as children, and so mental ly swaddled and wrapped as- adults. Usually it’s an old baboush- ka who goes out with the baby in her arms . . . Tve rarely heard one cry. Tiny children w'ho can walk are stuffed into fur coats that reach to their heels. They look like little animals, with bright eyes shining out below hooded caps. 1 saw one yesterday in a red- fox outfit that made him re.semblc an angora kitten, and another in a blue fur-bordered mantle that came straight out of Boris God unov. sy.stem of hr laced, and tightly pleat( opera and th ionally .sees Actually, these winter costumes are becoming to the Russian type, grownups as well as children. Some of the men w’ear magnificent fur caps, Army officers especial ly sport high ones of gray astrak han, Many women wear fur coats, but they are badly cut and the fur itself looks of poor quality. The general effect, however, is an im- provemeni'on the usual drab cloth ing one has seen all summer and fall. (■'. li, Daniel for I'Jie Xews Leader No .slack.s are v,'orn. Even the women working in ihe streets wem- skirts, and long hair is al.so the rule. Many of the bobby-sox age VO ill for the most complicated dressed accoi dards, They frock.s. and t than the ave ials are sat plum or wine they trail shoulder. Be walk around by with their ranking Arm -Sunday nif^ the Red Arrj ence wa.s les Bolshoi and their enthus shouting app .songs and da men’s chor wind instrunr accordion pL balalaikas. ive. We sat were nearly I was sorry more soldier did sing we; rest was m stuff, hymn to the In Union, to tl etc. The da grand leaps knee jerks tl I came horn in the thros it,—From by T.ydia K Who Gets Hurt [n Fc J Survey of high school football in juries has just been completed in RE INTEGR.ATION illl -A.s the niiddlc of the foot ball .season is pa.ssed. our heart !>'oes out to Oklahoma. Out llu-rc they have a foot ball team that has not been beaten in years. A'et with each \ ictqry the tension niounis.. fur no one can de lude hiinsell Into thiiiking the strino- trill not eventual ly end. In Uhapel Hill the Octob er air is traiK|uil and relaxed. The UNO team has been Ixx icc beaten, xvhich means that life js liack to normal and comfoi taljly old routine can resume its sxvay. Visions of boxvl games and almost un- feated sea.sons. of statistics of vards gained and fumbles lost, of dominant coaches and cheering interx'ietvs, may be laid aside until next year, II i.s almost as glorious a feeliiig us getting Ixipk to carpet .slippers after a niglit on the dance floor tvith tight shoes. A ★ ★ The October xvoods have reached the stage xxhcrc exery breeze lirtiigs t li e faded leas es down in sliowers. They . rattle dryly on tlie pathxvays unlil crushed into powder liy pa.ssing Icct. Tliese rains of fallen leaves xvill be thick ened l)v the first frost—due any niglit now I)ut sometimes delayed until the first half of Novemlier. ★ ■ -At -k .About a ihird of the I'XC student body lias been laid loxv qi partly affected by the re.spiralory diseases that liavc been sweeping over tlie com- nuuiity. Three kinds of flu have been involved—.Vsian, •American, and homemade. .A Uhapel Hill xvoman says she had made plans to have no moic colds, rile one she has just recovered from, includ ing doctors’ visiis and medi cines, cost her $6o. To The Editor: Recently the Chapel Hill Week ly ran a letter of mine which favored integration and which w'as generally sympathetic with the plight of our Negroes. Soon after that I received a phone call from a newcomer to our area who is equally concerned and who has studied the problem much longer than I. more injini than elcvei la —Six of during the This person is a UNC student and he is not at all impressed with any atmosphere of ‘open- mindedness’ or ‘academic free dom’ on the campus. In fact, the day that he read my letter he had just come from a class w'here the instructor gave the Negroes, a rough time. The thought that immediately came to my mind was—well, this is not the univers ity that I know. foul’ during am —Injuriei! during the son, lowesi About 39 occur durii young of all daring, unknown There are a lot of transplant ed “Yankees” and other outsid ers in the Chapel Hill area. God bless ’em, we need them, and I hope they will not hesitate to criticize and help us through the 3'ears. The University ha.s always had such help and she loves it. We make them eat such things as black-eyed peas, grits, and turnip greens. I think it’s a fair trade if they’ll give us their candid views and attitudes cn everything. But lot’s return to the subject at hand. I’m speaking of that dark shadow that should be haunting us all. today—our Neg ro population. When I first wrote a letter favoring integration strongly I thought I would stir up something — .something con structive. If citizens of Chapel Hill have strong feelings against mixing the races in education, socially, etc., it isn’t good to sup press them. The Supreme Court has made integration the law of the land but that doesn’t mean a segregationist can’t have his say. (No violence, please!) I am very susceptable to reason and logic, and I would appreciate reading a good statement in this newspaper of the case for segre gation. You have to win people with Words these days—maybe someone in Chapel Hill can con vert me. People have made state ments to me such as “they oughta send all the Negroes up north,” or “they ought ship them all out of the country.” Tney, they—my aching back!— what are we going to do about it'^ I am not swayed very much by such reasoning. Come, gentle men, where .is the opposition? A little controversy never hurt anyone. Let everyone get his oar wet. Maybe we can all learn something and improve the ‘ole’ circulation to boot. The time is coming To put up or shut up.' 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