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Chapel Hill News Leader FIFTH YEAR, NO. TWO MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1958 Prospects For 1958 The year i()y,8 may proxe lo l)e one ol the most momentous in I’nited States histoiy. F.cononiiealK' tve ha\e [tassed over the jnosperity peak and are on a dotviiorade. li it continues tve shall ha\e major strikes and other labor disturltances. Tnemployment ’will mount and the American 'wtty of liie, now regarded as di\ine, will be ctilled into (ptestion. Politictilly the admiiristrtition at Washing ton will try to olTsct iorebodings by making loans cheaper ;ind pouring more money in to preparedness, I’njt letidership ’ivill continue to Flounder because it cannot think in world terms. Cailttiralh, changes m;iy become btisic. 'Idiere tvill be consideraltle overhaulings oi our mass etlucationttl system ;md loud de mands lor more .science and technicpies to carry us past the Russitins. In this Field there 'tvill p’robably be Iniste, and even hysteriti. Unless ct.nditions on the home Front bc- coine idx^farbing.. Foreign relations will be more :md more flominant. The nation is be ing gos'erned ;tt pre.sent by military consid erations and by its pathologic fright,' care- Fully Fostered by politicians, at Russian ad- xatices in science ;in,d tveapOns.. Fiiirly tiecurate predictittiis may be iiiade iF it is kept; in .mind that tve tire-a nation of, extremists: we are either yodelling at the top of the world oi; we niirsc despair imd all its ollspring. Aiiiericaris are a mercurial and im- pulsise people ;ind act largely From ujtspurts ol emotion. Our weakness is that we are de pendent on money but don't kmnv how to handle it. ,\t the onset of the last great dejjression President ffottver, a successful engineer ;md something of an et’onomist, predit:ted it tvcnild ptiss in 90 days. W’e still hav'e too many lloos’crs. Pressures Are Mounting At this moment it appears that hard pres sures From I'.uropean sttites and a little Irom liome litrccs :ue compelling the United Slates to cbitsider coming to some sort (,)l agreement with Russia, either through a summit conlerence or other means. If this is not done, we will be I'm ther ;dong the headlong roatl tvhich is leading us to w:ir. Tile United Stales went into the recent X.\"r() meeting with its nose in the air. It ■whruld probably have kepU' that p(.)se had not ^V'^e.st Uenmui't refused to go along with the U, S. intention to consert the body ol f.urojte into a series ol pustides to 1k^ treated tvith acrid atomic sake. Ibider the United States proposal West Germany and other satellite states 1X0111(1 have been tirmed with heavy piles of atomic mis siles ivhich, in case ol dispute, they could huii at each other as well ;is Russia. West Germany balked. With good reason. It knew that acceptance of the U. S. jtroposal 'ivould bring the Russians pouring across the border and that West Germany would be a neiv cockpit. AVest Gerimmy ,is an .\merican bastion. It is also a Russian one. Pull out this stone in the Kuropean arch and the walls come tumbling down. W'liat is there to prevent the Germans From exploiting this key position? IF the United States ever refuse.s to give w-ay to them, what is there to prevent them going over to Soviet Russia in an alliance that would control all Eurojrc? Russian raw materials linked to German industries would make a combination that (ould defy the world. The U. S. State Department seems to be nursing the dream that Rus.sia t an be under mined by U. S. money and that when it has come apart, good old Gzarist Ru.ssia will re turn, with its lestering court, its assassina tions, its ignorance, lice, poverty, sujtersti- tion, and a thirst For warm waters that would bother nobody except Great llritain. ^\'ill no one shake the State Department and wake it to a Russia which has become hard, cynical, di.sciplined, scientific, and armed, but which must have a period ol peace if it is to complete its upbuilding pro cess? A Question Of Trap 'We admire th.it person who in tiny dis cussion can come strtiighr to the point. C.ou- sider then the sujterior cpialilications ol the young lady who wrote this letter to the Dor othy Dix column in the newspapers: "Dear Dorothy Dix: 1 am very popular and attractive but can't trtip the boy I wtint. \\'hat should I do.’' —lleatiice. Beatrice is a girl alter ;i man s heart. She knows what she wants and intends to go tibout her business with the least waste ol lime and energy. ’J’here is no beating about the bush, no disguise, no roundabout ap- jiroaches, and no blushes. There .'•itands her man in the open, un suspecting and a little dund) but desireable. W'hat is^lhe device that will bring home the game? It is to be noted that Beatrice uses the .short and simple four-lett.er word, "trap." It is a very direct word, leaving no doubt as to the authors inleiitions. She is uilling to use Fair means to gain her end, but she will not be deterred by a too line attetition to ethics. It hapjtens that this letter appe:ned it the very time that a di.scti.ssion had been opetied or Hardening Of Lines Is Seen Washington Post There were some disconcerting .statistics in the Gallup Poll report on Southern attitudes regarding race relations in this newspaper last Sunday. "The white South,” says .John M. Fenton, a Gallup Poll staff representative, "has stiffened its resistance to integra tion with the Negro. Southern Ne groes,. on the other hand, liave closed ranks tighter than ever. This hardening of lines was, of course, foreseeable and', no doubt, inevitable. More troublesome, per haps, is the observation tnat, while there lias been little cliangc ill attitude toward tiie Supreme Court’s school decision in the "bor der states,” there has been a de finite stiffening of resistance in what Mr. Fenton calls the "‘Mid dle South” — Arkansas, 'Florida, North Carolina and Virginia, Like the white people of the Deep South, more than nine out of ten of those living in the Middle South now express disapproval of the decision. Nevertheless, as James M. Na- brit, secretary of Howard Univer sity, said recently, the solid South is no longer solid on the is.sue of l^ecping Negro children out of white schools. Indeed, it is a fun damental error, we think, to re gard the South as monolithic. There are important differences among Southern regions in educa tion. culture, economics and racial composition which produce signifi cant differences in the patterns of racial relations and in attitudes to ward school integration, Wiiile it is undoubtedly true that the white population of the South continues ov’erwhelmingly to pre fer segregated . schools and that among many that preference has hardened of late into a passion, iu is also true that it is tempered in many places by respect tor law and for Christian ethics. There has been desegregation in a number of boi'der state school districts; and where it has been tried, it has generally been accomplished with out serious difficulty or disorder. The lesson of experience is like ly to spread. Here and there the sober voices and moderation and tolerance and good will are heard above the raucous nonsense of the demagogues and, in the end, can be counted on to prevail. Here is an example from The Cheravi' Chronicle published weekly in Cheraw’, S, C.: Til! Next Decembo!' Towards Pride In Charlotte News Has North Carolina rejoiced too long in the generalization that it is,a vale of humility betw'een two mountains of conceit'? It has, we insist, and something should be done about it. Some Tar Heels maintain that among our neiglibors tliere are only two classes of people—lliose who never liave worn shoes and those who make us feel as it we never had. And then there are the North Carolinians w’ho are simply proud of not being proud. IVIeanwhi’iO, thousands of Tar Heel children grow' up in this vast vale betw'een Richmond’s aristo cratic unconcern with little or no app: eciation of a special heritage. One rc.nedy was suggested last weekend by Dr. Christoplier C. Crittenden, director of the- State Department of Archives and His tory. Addressing the Eastern Caro lina Press Association in Smith- field, he urged statewide interest and effort in the restoration of Tar Heel historical sites. North Carolina has plenty of his tory to preserve, said Dr. Criten- den, and that is true. It is also true that the development of his torical sites from the mountains to the coast would attract visitors from other stales to our vale— visitors with fat pocketbooks. R. Daniel for The News Leader Pakistani Correspondence . Christmas Celebrated In Lyallpur aboui the oioiving .surplus oF women in the Ihiited .Slates. .V niat>a/hie article says there are Font million more women than men. and presently there will he six millions. InFormation oF this kind is enon.yh to send a tremor thron^hont the Vvorld ol skirts. It means there already are, and will he, not euono'h hnshands to go around. lorward- looking- oirl will not lose time mournm”’ the nnlairness ol this nnh;ilanee in natme, hnt will moisten her hands with lotion and grah her spear, hlndgeon, axe. drn.y or other prov en device and re-arran;.>'e her amhnsli. For the girls Hie is harder. From inlaney their aim has heen ioensed 011 one taiget matrimony. But their ell'orts snFFer a major liandieap—they cannot propose: it Irightens tlie men oFF. Hence the nnmhcr and variety oF indirect a])proachcs. The nnsiispceting sex does not dream ol or aim at matrimot>y, except in a vague, theoretical way. The inale must he led and induced into it, whether for his own good, or his prospective ivife s, or what not. The John Honigmanns are spending the current year in Pa kistan. where Prof. Honigniann, a member of the UNC anthropo logy faculty, is doing community studies in anthropology on a Fid-_ bright Fellowship.) ■ . By MRS. ,)OtIN HONIGMANN The twenty-fourth of December and we ivere all four of us re signed to no real Christmas this year. Making a fuss about it truly was uncalled tor in this Muslim country. Af'ei' all we were here in Pakistan t-o participate in Pakistani culture. No sense inap propriately forcing our ritual. We w'ere spending a few days at a Village Aid Institute at Lyall pur, West Pakistan, in the U. S. Operations Mission HCA.) Rest House. "Not even just a little tree? One of these potted palms, say?” Ka ren pointed to the row of palm plants standing sentinel along the Institute walks. So—we were not all agreed. It just so happened that we had failed to consider the fullness of Pakistani hospitality. ' "Isn’t there something we can provide for your Christmas?” our host asked some time later. "Why no, thank you,” John said com pletely resigned. "A little potted palm?” whispered Karen. “Of course!” our host picked up- the cue eagerly. "Only a palm? Any thing else?” Just a palm. .We hastened to the bazaar tor colored paper and then sat out side in the warm sun to make our star and colored paper chain. "We will send some of our girl .trainees to help,’’ the Institute principal called, “Come pick your petted palm,” the horticulturalist invited. "There’s a Christian boy here who can draw Christmas tree cl’naments. He’s just coming,” another voice joined. Chains and chains of paper and paste were grov.'ing fast on the lawn. The pi'incipal’s wife con tributed eleven dozen balloons- "Let’s start blowing, kids!” But half a dozen young men trainees showed up with bicycle pumps. “Come lo the Rest House at eight,” we invited. “We’ll sing Christmas Carols! ’ ’ A potted palm makes a dandy Christmas tree, hung with colored balloons and a crepe paper star on top. And Pakistanis, though somewhat unsure of Christmas Carols, are the most considerate and thoughtful hosts. Not Only Sci Beatrice i.s right. .\nd her idea is right. Trap." ‘The voice of the moderate in the South must be raised in this troubled hour, lest the region suf fer a painful hangover occasioned by the emotional jag to which so many of us have succumbed in the backwash of the Little Rock integration row . . . Ambitious politicians have stirred the bank ed fires of racial hatred in order ‘0 serve their own selfish aims. New.spapers have fanned tne flames with wild and unsubstanti ate cl charges, while extremists have exhorted the mobs to take matters into their own hands. When the tumult and the shouting have died away, it will be up to the moderates to pick up the pieces and arrive at some reason able solution . . . The extremists are -making mountains out of mole hills, and worse, ai'e threatening to turn their own beloved states into u.gly imitations of foreign dic tatorships, where repressive state legislation interferes with freedom of speech, of thought, of express ion and of conscience. When that happens, the South will have des troyed itself, without any help from the Federal Government.” (Raleigh News & Observer) Hugh Morson High School stu dents feeling, as many North Caro linians have felt before, that this State has not received credit equal to its performance in history, have prepared a hi.ghly creditable book let called, "North Carolina Has History, Too.” The job done by these young people is important in itself but it also points to a mat ter of great significance now. S. S, (since sputnik) the country has been resounding ■'A'ith talk about the beter education of -more scie.ntists. Heavy stress has been placed on mathematics and Science, and this is fine. But a na tion, a state, or a community needs educa-ied men who are not scientists or. even technicians. If North Carolina’s history has been neglecteci, it is because the State has lacked poets, novelists and historians. Not all those whose contributions to the State, to the country and to civilization have been neglected were scientists. The great men in the future of any nation will, include many be sides scientists. !fs Up To All Of Us! Walt Parlyiiiillei—lorlt Gazelle i: Daily But, more move would a and stimulate sons and daugl. It would not for Tar Heels airs and highly memories of s bor states. Aft lina’s motto is ( 'To Be Rathe Nor is it neeea Staters lo rea cious son of th ed by Jonathan ‘ a continuing .man is as gO( that if you do show you he’s: lor.” All that is ra appreciation ol(|ne torical facts Norlli Carolinai North Carol Hugh T, Lel'lei( er "lived to i botliered too mr| isolation,” a: similar romaiij state has prov:| much history of people who independent, ccila ful. democratiijaj The reasons anj.e, be found, pre-j-j appreciated. Heat Into Electn A new technique for converting heat directly into electricity with out the u.se of moving parts was announced last week by the Gen eral Electric Research Laboratory at Schenectady. While the method . is not economically feasible at present, the announcement sug gested that with further refine ments -the method may achieve an efficiency in which as much as 30 per cent of the heat would be con- verted| directlj' into el|ctrii.ity. Such efficiency may open the way to the conversion of the heat in a nuclear reactor directly into electricity, an achievement that would bring about a veritable re- volution in the t energy for p uses on .a lev; conventional f lead to the hai ergy of sunlig'i The method 1 i Dr. Volney C., of the Ceram partment of tl Research Labe ^13 of the origina team of forty'. 1 woman, directn rico Fermi, w controlled a-tol on Dec. 2,' 19) nized as the the Atomic Ag Chips That F ... Tang ... By DAN ANDERSON (Special To The News Leader) I notice the best recipes. True triumphs of the blender’s art, Consistently call for a squeeze Of lemon, or of something tart. What’s really good to drink or eat Gains from a hint of bitterness. And dish or .glass too smooth and sweet Would come too close to flavor less. Nor does the principle apply, I find, to food and drink alone; Much more than these may profit by A mite of acid overtone. So, if you tease me, I’m not shocked Or downcast. Rather, I think this— Later, the lips by which I’m mock ed Will curve more sweetly, for a kiss. Of course, we need more and be ter trained scientists. We need better educated men in all fields. Perhaps most of all in science and in all other fields we need .young people trained to such creative curiosity as produced this booklet. All education should be shaped to arouse and hold the interest, the ability, the curiosity and the cre.ativeness of boys and girls, young men and women. And those who think that such things are important only in the field of science show themselves lack ing in the understanding which the real education of any young peo ple in science and everything else requires. Educated Grocer: Yes, I’ll give you a job. Sweep out the store. ■Job Seeker: But I’m a college graduate. Grocer: Okay, I'll show you how. N. C. Education F.ver'y'ltody like.s to see Ghristnias come and is equal ly glad to see it go. Nearly ei'eryhody is secretly pleased to put on the harness again aiul Fall into the accustomed routine. The human Frame i.s not equipped to deal with long continued pleasure, u’hiclt il stretched hecomes racking and tedious. A com mercial cii'ilization deil'ies the smile, hnt smiles are ivear- ing. Receptions are hated he- caiise one’s Face cracks tvith smiling, and there i.s a long ing to rest it and never smile again. ★ ★ -jUr Gver G'nristmas tve tvere tvitness to a matronly emv’s preparations to greet the new year with a calf. She with drew to the woods and was gone For two days. \Vhen she re-ajipeared she pretended n o t h i n g Iiad happened, though her deflated Form in dicated otherwise. The calf w hen Found lay Folded at the Foot oF a tree, not moving un til given the word. His moth er came to him at lunch time hy a ronndahont way. The calf wohhled to Ids feet hut knetv exactly ivhere to go For nourishment. After hirth his mother had licked him from head to loot, hnt a freezing night gave him no tronhle. Everyth ing was in order, though the cow' had had no medical or other attention. Instinct, w'c say, is w'ondcr- liil, hnt where does it reside? ★ ★ ★ It has Iieen jileasant to see tlie season so far advanced, with hall a dozen .s-hruhs in flower and hiilh spikes well ahove ground. Rut we shall have to pay for the luxury in one Tvay or another. File ne^v year hegan witli a coating of ice on the jionds and it is to he feared a lot of january weather waits ])ehind the hills on the north and ivest. ★ Well, lieaven is to he thanked for the holiday. Nice to liaie the old towm back again, with roaring cars at a minimi (jniettide t that quietiu he June am hunting a ett so varied an Garolina tvi the product; ★ Chapel F a white Gli January i.si crnelest mo fair-size sno five years, b heavy falls tied up tra west it w’onl prising if Old Ghristn in January. 1! Charel Hiu Published ev Thursday by; Company, Inn Mailini B Chapi Street Addret a Telepr Phillips Rusi Roland Giduj Leo J. Muipf .E. J. Hamlin SUBSCRIl (Payable! Five Cei BY CARRIE $2.60, for per annum BY MAIL: (I joining Cot $2.50 six m (elsewhere $0.00 six m( (outside U $4.00 six mi Entered as s( at the postoff ■ N. C., under 3, 1879.