sfitspiipia,
Chapel Hil-i News Leader
Tm Sending You To Do A Man's Job, Boy!'
FIFTH YEAR, NO. EIGHT
MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1958
In deciding- to begin tliis spring a program
()1 discussions to be held at informal neigh-
boihood meetings in the homes of members,
the Chapel Hill Citizens’ School Council is
niaking a wise move.
It IS evident by now that, spurred by Rus
sia s advance in scientific and technical
achievement, the nation is in the mood to
have an overhauling of the American school
system to determine wherein it is efficient
oi non-efficient, and some of this impulse is
of course being felt locally.
But if this movement is led by panicky
politicians, bent on impressing voters, or by
orautrs more charged vvnth emotion than ex
perience in educational affairs, the result
will be distortion and a loss of those values
that the schools fiave built up through the
years.
Just now a naticm given to violent reactions
is disposed to blame the schools for part of
the lags and deficiencies that have enabled
the Russian schools to appear good by com
parison.
But our schools have, by and large, mere
ly rellected, or conformed to, current .\mer-
ican ideals. If their teaching has been grub
by and materialist, it has been in response
to demand. If they have lacked discipline
and control, the same things have been evi
dent in national life. If there hae been too
much emphasis on athletics, entertainment,
and ex-ciirricular attractions, they have re
flected the tastes of a country gone half-mad
on amusement.
If the school system is in need of cor
rection, whether for aims or methods, hasty
remedies should be avoided in favor of the
cjuiet accumulation of evidence as to what
the schools are doing and why. This evidence
can best be discussed in neighborhood meet-
ings.
Such meetings are peculiarly suited to
Chapel Hill after a period of gTowth that
has made some ]tarts of the community wide
ly sundered from others. If the results be
come beneficial locally, other communities
will doubtless follow the Chapel Hill exam
ple.
Stuck With A Government
riie country hits virtually turned in a No
Confidence vote against the present United
States government. But there it remains in
^V’ashington, somewhat like a turtle on a log,
sunning itself but not doing anybody else
any good.
1 he nation is stuck with it for three more
vears, come wliat may.
In almost any country in Europe (except
the dictatorships, some of which are support
ed by the US Government), there would
have been a lall of the rninistry and new
liands would have taken the helm.
But the I^S.\ goes floundering along a
narrow jrath between the abyss of war on one
hand and the gidf of recession and unem
ployment on the other.
\\ e shall be lucky if we escape soiny form
ol dictatorship or (oligarchy, depending upon
whether the invisible gov^ernment which
lies beneath the A'isible one is sufficently
scared. ’ : '
E\ e can see now that these defects in the
American hwin of government, these ob
stacles to sell-rule, can be traced back to
those of the founding Fathers vvTo sneered
at the democratic idea ,or distrusted repre
sentative government. They wanted rule bv
the rich and well-born. They wanted to see
the reins safely kept in the hands of a tew
men ruling from the top.
They have all but won out. The Fisen-
hovver administration is packed with men
like them. The first cabinet contained noth
ing but inillionaires except for one labor
man. who soon got out.
Mr. Eisenhower labors on radio and 1 V
to sound like Franklin Rdosevelt or W'ood-
row' Wilson. Vet all we get are sandpajiered
pronouncements and smooth generalities
from the .New- York publicity experts who
originally put Eisenbow^er over and are now
trying to do the same for Nixon.
Although the earth and the beavens re
sound against Dulles, the President calls him
the “vv'isest” and “most dedicated man" he
knows.
Is Mr. Eisenhower so walled off from, so
indifferent to. the opinion of his fellovv’ pien
that lie doesn't know the w'orld regards Sec-
retary Dufies as ah obtuse and bull-headed
opponent of the peace which the world
craves? Is there noway to acquaint the Lbiit-
ed States government with the needs of the
finited States people?
C. II. Daniel jar The A’cic.v J.eadei
The Battle Of Maxton
The battle of Maxton may w'ell become,
one of the historic turning {xiints in North
(au'olina life, worthy to stand in the text
books alongside the battles of Moore’s Creek
Bridge and King’s Mountain.
Stirred by reports of the worsening of re
lations between the chief American races,
the Ku Klux Klan poured across the South
C.arolina border under the leadership of a
leverend who has a long police record of
petty ol lenses. Ehcir apparent intention was
to overawe the Indian as well as the .Negro
people.
but at Maxton they ran into a volunteer
force of men descended from the original
.Americans. The Klansmen had no stomach
for the bombardment that followed. They
ran.
It would not be surprising to find that
this marks the end of Klan marches in this
Carolina Israelite
The Jews came out of the East
and chased the gods from Mount
Olympus, and then came other
Jews who called themselves Naz-
arenes, who completed the job,
and thereafter Jupiter, Juno,
■Mercury, Venus, and Mars be
gan their long vigil in almost
total darkness.
The early church thought that
astronomy was just so much non
sense, and the astronomers, not
to offend the church unnecessar
ily, named each of the newly dis
covered heavenly bodies after the
Olympian gods; Jupiter, Mercury,
Mars, Venus, Neptune, right down
to the most recently-discovered
planet, Pluto.
But about one hundred years
ago it became evident that the
mind of man will concern itself
more and more with outer-space
and those heavenly bodies, and
thinking of the planets, Jupiter,
Mars, Mercury, Venus, Neptune
and the others, the thundering
agnostics of the 19th century,
Mr. Lecky, and Mr. Gibbon,
slapped their thighs in glee as
they shouted:, “There are, no
saints in heaven.”
part of .North Garoliiia, certainly where the
Eiimbee Indian.s live. No organization of
thi.s kind can stand being lauglied at.
The invaded Indians did w-eil to fire on
ly into the air. That ensured there would be
no martyrs, no resentfid dead. The disper
sion tliat followed w-as as complete as if bul
lets had been irsed. The retreat at 6o miles
an hour was led by the “reverend" who
would be. Napoleon.
From now on, it will be hard for Kluxxers
to make propaganda in the face of accusa
tions that they are better at foot races than
they are at restoring the mastership of the
white race.
Rising organizations may thrive on jjerse-
cufion, opposition, and even bullets. But a
few laughs directed at them can be as de
structive as machine guns, and ensure a more
nearly permanent burial.
In Name, Anyhow
Now the que.stion must be
asked; was it all a coincidence?;
it is possible that those Olympians
were real gods aftef all? And
adding validity to this puzzle, the
United States, the very bastion
: of Christianity, is following the
pattern w-ithout hesitation, with
their own space satellites named
Zeus, Thor, .\tlas, to say nothing
of another Jupiter himself. This
is of vital importance. Our space
ships and satellites will circle
the globe for centuries to come,
and America owes it to Christian
ity to strike a blow for the Ju-
daic-Christian civilization.
Let us start clean. Our first
satellite should be Saul, or even
better, EHijah, he who sat on the
mountain top and was fed by the
ravens. Our second successful one
.should be, of course, King David,
and 1 would certainly like to see
one named Deborah, the Mother
of Israel, Who Would give a good
account of herself against Venus,
and eventually with our space-'
platforms we can go down the
line with Paul, Peter, Augustine,
Thomas. Aquinas, and one which
would do special honor to my
own city of Charlotte, — John
Calvin.
Let’s forget that Zeus, and Jup
iter business and also leave be
hind forever the completely ma
terialistic Sputniks.
AIR TRIPS ON
Pan American World Airways,
which pioneered the “pay later”
plan, said that 12 per cent more
customers used their credit sys
tem last year than in 1956.
The American Express Com
pany reports that its credit travel
plan volume in 1957 was 60 per
cent greater than the year before.
Under most plans operated by
CREDIT
the airline.s an initial payment of
10 per cent is required by the
customer when tickets are bought
and the rest can be paid in in
stallments extending over’ twenty
months or less. Some of the plans
include not only plane fare but
expenses for hotels and meals, the
cost of sight-seeing, luggage and
other incidentals. —New York
Times
Universities, says Dr. Robert
Maynard Hutchins with charac
teristic sc;rn for academic icons, ,
have ceased to be “centers of
independent thought and criti-.
cism.*’ ■ ■ . ■
The aging enfant terrible of
higher education goes even fur
ther. Their decadence is so pro
nounced, he declares, -that “it
would be simpler and more hope
ful to establish new institutions
. . . than to try to reform the
universities to the extent that
would be required.”
It may be unsettling to some
Tar Heels that Dr. Hutchins’ re
marks were made not in one of
the walnut-lined cubicles of the
Fund for the Republic, which he
now heads, but on the campus
of the University of North Car
olina, that most hallowed of all
southern centers of independent
thought and criticism.
Whatever disclaimers he might
have inserted concerning the
exclusion of “present company,’’
Dr. Hutchins has made a point
that should trouble Chapel Hill
as deeply as, say, Ann Arbor,
Berkeley or Cambridge.
The University of North Caro
lina still enjoys worldwide re
spect as a center of southern
enlightenment. Its reputation as
a rallying point for reason in
■social, economic and racial in
quiry is without equal below the
Mason-Dixon line. The plain
fact is, hov^’ever, that the Uni
versity made its reputation dur
ing the turbulent Thirties at a
time when much of America was
stricken with a social conscience.
It has not bolstered that reputa
tion in recent years with any
thing resembling the noteworthy
accomplishments of those earlier
days of courage and candor.
That is not to say that the
University of North Carolina is
no longer a great university or
even that it is not longer demon
strating the. same dauntless atti
tudes and intellectual curiosity
about the new New South of the
1950s as it did about the old
New South of the mid-1930s.
For one thing, the University
lacks a strong figure around
whom to rally. In the 1930s there
were Howard W. Odum and
Frank Porter Graham,
It was Odum who, with talent
ed and dedicated associates and
the aid of Rockefeller money,
carried on a monumental series
of studies of the South which
was to culminate in the publica
tion of “Southern Regions Of
The United States” in 1936 by
the University of North C^irolina
Press. It was at Chapel Hill that
sociologi.sts dared to undertake
studies of the Negro, his psycho-
(Editorial In The Charlotte News)
logy as. well as his sociology; of
the sharecropper and his plight;
of the cotton farmer in general;
of cotton altogether; of the wast
ed resources of the South; of
the historical myths that blocked
the region’s progress and pros
perity.
It was after such trailblazing
research and bold leadership that
the late W. J. Cash was able to
write in ‘The 'Mind of The South’
‘that a decisive breach had been
made in the savage ideal, in the
historical solidity and rigidly en
acted uniformity of the Souths
that the modern mind had been
established within the gates, and
that here at long last there was
springing up in the South a
growing body of men — small
enough when set against the
mass of the South but vastly
large when set against anything
of the kind v/hich had even ex
isted in Dixie before—who had
broken fully or largely out of
that pattern described by Hen
ry Adams in the case of Rooney
Lee and fixed by Reconstruction;
men who deliberately chose to
kno'W and think rather than mere
ly to feel in terms fixed finally
by southern patriotism and the
prejudices associated with it;
men capable of detachment and
actively engaged in analysis and
criticism of the. South itself.”
It is' easy to argue that the
principal battles were won dur
ing the Thirties, that the Uni
versity’s-. inspirational leadership
provided the breakthrough and
that forces of sense and sanity
rose up all over the South to es
tablish a, new order based upon
a realistic appraisal of real and
imagined problems.
But this is to say that Dixie>
house is in order, that no new
hobgoblins of the spirit have re
placed those of the Thirties, that
a massive social and economic
crisis hardly exists at all.
That is. not the y ay the world
works and it is not the way the
,S.puKi works?.either.
No Safety
Device
I’esterih.'? in. Dixie. today are
problems and issues of terrifying
complexity; They involve the
status of the Negro, the future
of agriculture, the effect on the
economy of a sudden postwar
wave of industrialization, the
terrible necessity of regional
planning,'the continuing waste of
gr^at natural resources, the ling
ering poverty of manv of the
S-Oidh’s peoiole, the strengths and
v'eaknesses in southern institu
tions.and folklore, the s'cial and
economic frontiers sHll to he
W"n“f:riite,d.' the s'rift changes in
the regional cuRurp that war. de-
nres.sinn and fin.aliv prosneritv
have brought about and, most
Carlton Fleming, Charlotte law
yer, told the Classroom Teachers
Association there that the so-call-
cd safety valves of the Pearsall
plan may cause North Carolina’s
pupil assignment law to be held
unconstitutional.
Of course, they may. All tha.t
the special session of, 1956 and the
election which followed it accomp
lished was the addition of new
constitutional hazards to the pupil
assignment system. The only re
sult of the adoption of the Pearsall
plan was to make more precarious
North Carolina's efforts to modify
the impact of the Supreme Court
school decision. That was pointed
out when the Pearsall plan was
adopted. It is still true.
North Carolina was sold an in
creased danger as^if it were an
added protection.—Raleigh New.s
& ■ Observer
Chips That Fall
{'hanged
UNC Must Reassert Leadership
In A Region Torn By New Turmoil
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important, a new and realistic
inventory of the actualities of
what' is to be done.
The battles have not been
won. Yet all around us guardians
of the status quo are practicing,
with windy evocations of the
past, the same old immutability,
the same old obstinance. There
is a terrified truculence toward
even the evolutionary changes
common to a dynamic society be
cause these changes are either
misunderstood or distrusted.
This condition confronts the
University of North Carolina
with a clear and present Chal
lenge to reassert its leadership
in southern thought and inquiry.
The status quo has no status.
The University can no longer af
ford to live in the glow of past
triumphs. It has an obligation to
mobilize its forces and act, to
rise above complacency and il
lusion.
Exploration of Ihe socio - eco
nomic condition of the South to
day will require fully as much
courage, candor, independent
thought and constructive criticism
as was the case in the Thirties.
If anything, it will require more,
for certain aged-in-anguish ortho
doxies have not been recently
challenged in North Carolina.
They have grown wild and weedy
for a decade.
The leadership in this great ad
venture must come from a
young, eminently promising but
still untested inheritor of the
mantle of Frank Porter Graham.
His nam-e is 'William Clyde Fri
day.
" The enemy of woman,"
.says an authority, “is fat.”
Of man, too.
Half the world is now diet
ing against fat. The other
lialf is about to.
Goincident is the fact that
nearly everybody now sits
down when at work. Big
sliots, small shots, executives,
and their numerous secre
taries and assistants, they all
sit. Only preachers, Ku Klux
orators, bank tellers, and
girls in the dime store stand
t\ lien at work. What tvonder
there is such a spread even
belore middle-aite widens the
beam?
American meals used to be
prepared for people who
worked in an upright posit
ion. .Meals had to be full and
heavy for men who lifted
and ploughed, and for wo
men who rarely got a chance
to sit down during a ts'orking
da\.
Heavy meals became a
habit. The habit persists,
thou.uh working habits, es-
jiccially in to-wns, have
changed. Hence fat.
★ -A- -A-
The magazine. “Plaisir de
France," gives a list of nine
women who have
(he lace of the tvorld
1. Hatchepsout of Egypt.
2. Cleopatra
2,. Ste. Genevie\'e
loan of .Arc
Isabelle the Catholic
Anne Boleyn
Mine. Tallien
.Mary Baker Fddy
Mme. Curie,
is to be noted that the
list is not of those who lun e
infhmced people, even by the
million. Otherwise Afotiier
Coose would surely have
been No. lo.
■A^ ★ -A
President Fisenhoiver’s lang-
nage shoivs in his Economic
Report how muffled has
been the fall from military
man to political leader. One
paragraph follon's:
“During much of the year,
the task of restraining in
flationary pressures was para
mount, and policies were
directed to this end. In the
closing months of the year,
and currently, the task has
been to facilitate readjust
ments in the economy es
sential to the resumption of
sustainable economic gro'ivth,
hut to do so without reviv
ing inflationary pressures
As a general he was under
stood when he .said “Go.”
But in AVIiite Houseeze he
ivould bar e to say “The or
der before you is a direction
that you are to proceed to
ward a given area until
either circumstances have
clianged or you are authoriz
ed to proceed in (juite an
other direction.”
The paragTaph in question
was merely trying to say that
The Federal Reserve Board
put an end to the prosperi
ty rvave by making money
tight, and now has gone into
reverse and is hoping for the
best.
★ -A- -A-
Among the signs of ap
proaching spring tve note the
first kite sent up by a small
hoy, the browning of the
buds among the elnrs, and
the reddening of the willow
buds.
I ...Stream... j
By DAN ANDERSON
(Special For The News lajader)
'The little stream seems not to
know,
When it first leaves the spring,
Precisely where or how to go.
And takes a wavering
Uncertain way that turns aside
At any check or block,
Its timid trickle swinging wide
Around ridge, rise and rock.
Later, by other freshets fed,
Gaining in flow and force,
It carves a bolder, straighter bed,
Until it joins the course
Of a great river, rushing, deep,
Cutting its channel’s track
With unity’s relentless sweep
That mountains can’t hold back.
CHILDREI!
This is a ;
parental pr;?
does wonder?
—? Preservii
men Is of h
left to our c
great, all-reii
vision.
In a receii
by Katherine«
iChildren’s Shi
tain Kangart;
and the scan
imaginative ;
as a dying r!
forever to
offspring. Thil
course, but i
coming to n
of juvenile c
tration of mei
the fact thats
white is whin
of character r
young peoplel
The magic
‘sponsor.’ Wi)
fabulous poll)
the networksl
not buy, adul
rather presen
show with lol
pleases every
as kids. Whj!
‘here’s a shrf
if you’re ove
WTiy not drag)
to the adult I
“B” 'W'estern'
sure, sure th^
ca-ry Captain,
lion dollar loi
“two for thei
Now is ,'ie;
seems, for sor
ing particular;
ty of the netv
it-making corj
through their
to operate in i
This carries a
public, and s
are children.”!
enough prote.'l
ents whom tl
ently never ;
porations willi
their losses; ;
will .surely b)
and children a
Just a, pos
works from ea
up to sizable
Kanagroo has;
year s^elely be
test. Miss Ped
work executiv!
sponsor or n
what you’re t
If they were i
wouldn’t hire
ians to tap oi
our phone. Mt
they want to
think. Be neg
be anything—
Just a card
one or all of-:
OB.S . . . Do ii
Mrs. Ja
Mrs. Sa
Mrs. Jo
■ Mrs. E
Mrs. W
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Father: ‘Tr
your being at )
class.”
Son; “Don't;
teach the samt
ends.”
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