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Chapel Hill News Leader let's See . . . That's Strike 45 . . .' FiFTH YEAR, NO. 12 MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1958 General And Uniform It is jjlain by now that one oj' tJie great debates ol center around relorni of the I'nited States educational system. Clertain changes tvil] be demanded in or der to meet the Rnssitin advance in techni cal achievement. If emotion rather than objective intjuiry is loremost, and il tve try to cover up a hole by filling it with money, oidy small, il any, improvement will result. \V'e Inive to st;trt Irom this situation: All Of a sudden tve have been compelled to rec ognize the importance of schools. Hitherto the American people, despite oratory, have not been really interested in education- They have kejtt the schools in the position of jtoor relatives, hating to supjrort them properly, groaning over school taxes, and scantly pay ing teachers. On the parent side school matters have been left almost entirely to wives and moth ers. .Male jtarents have acted as if they didn’t One Of Today's Top Questions care what happened to their children once they were behind school doors. In short, the schools have been largely neg lected—-too often with these results: superfic iality, routine, boredom, and ten times .is mudi attention to athletics and extra-currii- Lilar activities as to stuclies. Now we suddenly have ail sorts of doctors coming forward t\ith cures. In North Caro lina we have turned our eyes on our own schools. One suggestion worth study comes from "retry Sanford, former State Senator, catnpaign manager for Senator Kerr Scott, and now a possible candidate for the gover nor’s seat. He wants the rural schols brought up to the level of town schools, saying: "The schools which do not measure up because of inadeejuate state and local funds are blights on a state whose proud educational boast is 'a general and uniform system of public schools.’ ... I believe we can have another crusade for public educ:ation ecpial to the crusade of Covernor Aycoek.” One of the advantages which town .schools have enjoyed lies in better facilities and e(]uij)ment for certain studies. Particularly is this true as regards science and technical courses. These are the very studies which now are about to receive redoubled emphasis. How are small, weak, and semi-isolated schoftls to meet this demand? The instinct and feeling of parents is to keep these small schools intact becairse they are local. We can’t ignore this local feeling, but we can take advantage of local pride by arranging a system of promotion whereby the gifted pupils in local schools can be pro moted to higher schools, and the higher schools can promote their best students up to the colleges and universities. ^V'e have tried to keej) our educational system fiorizontal, that is, we have construed “general and uniform’’ to mean all on the same level- Its weaknesses have begun to be apparent. W'e might do better by making the system vertical like a ladder, with steps and rungs to be surmounted only by those litted by nature and training to attain the elevation. ! letters to the Editor C. JL Daniel jor The Xews Leader Pakistani Correspondence . What Life's Like In Lyallpur ... Pastry.., To Move ’(iov. i,erbv'’’CldlIins of T'lorida, who is ca]>' able of .saying good things, spoke at the Jef- ferson-jackson Day dinner at Raleigh and made .several center shots, .-\mong them were these: 1. That .\merica is being governed by its fears. If there vs'as one trait among .\mericans that was outstanding in older days it was their faith in the future. Rut now we’re afraid of Russia, of Clommunism, of organ ized labor, of colored races, of juvenile of fenders, and of spooks in outer space. To de ter their itnaginary attacks, we are building a series of costly Maginot Lines in all direc tions and departments. W’e believe we are .safe and cozy behind the word "deterrence.’’ II- 1 hat we have lost moral leadership. Whtodrow ^\'ilson, pecking away on his little ty|)ewriter in the White House, beat the (iermans and took F.urope apart with a series of moral ideas to.vvhich the world re sponded. Our present leadership just be lieves in mi.ssiles. III. That the South, hieing new conditions. must rid itself of resjrected but outmoded ideas. * Parts of the South hav'e taken refuge be hind the word "nev'er," which is one of the longest and most treacherous words in the language. ".Nev'er” will merely delay, not de feat, the new social order being formed in the South by the advance of industry and the retreat of agriculture. (tov. Oollins lavored a program of adjust ment to be administered by “local citizens of high callings’’ with sympathy for local needs, federal bayonets hav'e lailed to over-ride the principle of government by con,sent. State governments have turned silly. \Ve are driv en back to local sell-government. Phis is all the more reason for setting up local bi-racial commissions, made up of etiual representation, to deal with local conditions, to incjuire into local possibilities, and to set u{3 standards of local justices. Southern communities, facing a new or der, must either move or be moved. Thi one way to take the initiative. us IS An Asset In Danger Is the community spirit in Chapel Hill about to register a failure? The hick of hearty response to the Com- mtinity Chest aj^peal is about to have sev'eral unplea.sant consequences. One migl'it be the closing of the .Negro Community.’Center. Its possible end will occur June., t. Not eyerybody in Chapel Hill knows how far-reaching is tlie vvork of the .Negro Com- niinity Center on North Roberson Street in the northwestern part of town. (Co down U’est-Rosemary St. toward the Carrboro line tnd turn to ,the right as the street sign indi- :ates.) (hildien. Without the warmth and coziness ol the C.enter many working mothers would have no place in which to keep their young children during working hours, and could not give them their proper food and care. John J. Honigmann Professor of .intliropology, U. N. C. On Leav'e of Absence 1957-58 (The John Honigmanns are spending the current^ in- Pakistan, where Prof. Honig mann is doing community stu dies in anthropology on a'Fid- bright Fellowship.) Lyallpur District Jan. 24, 1958 This country once was desert, occupied by pastoralists and only along river banks given over to scanty cultivation. Before the turn of the century the British Indian Government ied the river water through canals and brought thou- sand.s of settlers from overcrowd ed districts into the transformed countryside. Today the prosperous villages, known as ehaks, continue to be identified by numbers, let ters representing the canal branch through which they are irrigated. Chak 32 J. B. in which we live is located 15 miles from the bustl ing mill, market, and administra tive center of Lyallpur. This city is also new, having been planned with the same deliberation as the rural chaks. In 1901 it contained some 9.000 freshly-relocated peo ple. B-y 1941 it had grown to 69,- 000. Partition of the Subcontinent and the infiux of refugees swelled the municipality to 179.144. But the streets are wide and the bazaars not as congested as those in older cities like Lahore or Karachi which were not planned for growth. The road to Lyallpur from our chak is regularly traversed by horse-drawn carts, called tongas. green, green fields of knee-high wheat interspersed with yellow carpets of sarson (akin to mus tard) in bloom, and shrinking stands of sugarcane. Rising pillars of smoke indicate where farmers are crushing cane and boiling the Chips That Fall syrup to become brown sugar, called “gur.” At a distance are the trees of an orange orchard. Close up the bright fruit stands out colorfully against the deep green of the leaves. Every host serves a pile of fresh oranges to guests. Often they are taken with salt Mayor Wagner of Nevv- York is one of those who think cars should be of a siz-e to fit into standard park ing space and not long enough to extend into, the next county. He says not even Netv York can take care of automobiles that tneasure a car and a (juart- er long. The answer to that is mak ers and dealers say the long er cars sell better. What has happened is that a car is no longer just a l>ut the C-enter is not only a place for chil- each accomodating four Rut it is one of the first things that visi- ;ors tvant to See. In fact, it is regaicled by many s'isitors as me of Chapel Hill’s chief a,ssets and sights. is its tvovk for Particularly outstanding dren, but for adults and yonng people. Here some ol them get their lirst lessons in civic pride and community cooperation. It is a jtlace to escape loneliness, cold, and strange ness. For Chapel Hill the closing of the Negro Community Center would be a black eye. It tvould be bewildering netvs to visitors who hate admired the Center’s achievements. The Community Chest’s supporters should take a fresh hold and give Chapel Flill an other opportunity to raise Chest funds to a decent level- Residents here have always ris en to meet a deej) need. passeng- Welcome Interest In Literature So far as the area served is con cerned, New York University has demonstrated that many Ameri cans are seriously interested in literature. The university has. just complet ed a television course in Compara tive Literature, which was carried on a large television network sta tion five days a. week for 13 weeks. Although the lectures were at 6:30 a.m., the university estimates that they were viewed by 120.000 people with more or less regularity. Of the viewers, 177 enrolled for university credits for the course, which included an examination based on the lectures and 16 books of required reading. Of these 154 took the examination. The ages of the students ranged from 17 to 73 and the range of occupations was equally gi-eat. Similar courses in many areas of the country would be within reach of a smaller number of peo ple, but Americans, in the main, have the same interests. The New York experience indicates that throughout the country there is an interest in literature attractive ly presented and maybe less in terest in the trash which too much preempts TV channels. ers at one rupee (0.21) each. The ride is jolting to one’s insides but never dull as the panorama of rural life flows past. Ox carts laden with heaps of cotton or su garcane creak along followed by trains of camels sagging under loads of precious firewood. There are truck gardens serving the city with potatoes and cauliflower. Near ponds washermen dry long yards of brilliantly dyed cloths. Milk carriers pump along on bicy cles. Men trudge by carrying hookahs, long staffs, or loads on their heads. Beggars pick up scraps of wood and sugarcane that have fallen by the wayside. The streets in the chak are wide, the walls of houses lower and less insistent on concealing domestic life than the walls of Sind. The Punjabi peasant women go 'and come from the fields, oblivious of formal purdah. In the afternoon popcorn makers, women, set them selves up in the bazaar. They claim a handful of , gram, millet, or maize for every dish of grain roasted in the pans of hot sand. Surrounding the village are the means of transportation from one point to another. It has become a measure of social status. If a car owner with 10,000 a year is not entitled u) have a car twice as long' as a person with only $5,000 a veu r 1 u _,uod is arithme tic.-' ★ ★ The nature of matter is a question that has long both ered inen tvho have to deal rvith it- Not long ago the one answer ivas that it con sisted of atoms anI mole cules. Rut Dr. Everett Pal- matier of the :L^NC Physics Dept, told the F’aculty (Hub last Tuesday that at a tem perature of five million de grees these disappear and you have only plasma. This is a gas consisting of gyraiing protons and neutrons. It is a new form of matter. Fie showed a photograph of cosmic rays taken in tlie rear of Phillips Hall. Fhev rvere doing a sort of war dance. Nothing can be more commonplace than the rear of Phillips Hall, but the pic ture shou'ed it is actitallv a cosmic battleground. F'ive million degrees is something to ponder, espec ially ivhen a man considers that at qo degrees he begins to feel uncomfortable and at 100 he ivishes he li\’ed elsewhere- Weather is delightful, a cool 45 to 50 degrees in the morning ris ing to 75 at midday. The doors and shutters of windows are opened then to draw' heat into the house. But the shed sweaters are restor ed when the sun dips below the distant trees. The cold air presses dow'n on the smoke of evening dung-cake fires, so that the houses are veiled by a blue mist. It is beautiful country, boun teous. but, of course, not without its problems. Toward the solution of some of these the Village-AID Programme of community devel opment has made a beginning. Whether the Programme will transform rural life as its plan ners expect remains to be seen. The Punjabi peasant is not unal terably wedded to his old ways. But no more than an American is he w'illing to put out time and ef fort for tasks whose ends he does not clearly see. Although change is inevitable in all cidtures, man is still a long way from hasten ing it along deliberately planned directions. People could be settled in the transformed deserts of the Canal Colonies of Lyallpur and adjacent districts but many ele ments of their behavior remain less readily amenable to control. By DAN ANDERSON (Special For The News Leader) I end my meal a pleasant way By asking for the pastry tray — A bit of sweet w'ill be a treat And give me just enough to eat. I’ll take that creampuff over there — No, maybe I’d like the eclair — Wait! how about the mocha one — Perhaps, though, the napoleon. And so the waiter has to wait While I debate and hesitate And can’t make up my mind on which. And choose and choose again, and switch. It’s often so with luxuries. When each one promises to please. And there’s a choice we have to make: As hard work, choosing takes the cake. HUNTERS AND CRIPPLES An intensive study by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service during the 1955-56 season showed that the unretrieved kill of ducks and geese that season totalled 3,070,964 birds, or 21 per cent of the total national bag; and this included only birds knocked down within sight of the hunters. X-ray examinations of w’ild-trapped birds indicate that a staggering number of birds fly away from the blinds and decoys carrying wounds that later prove fatal. In an Illinois study, 35 per cent of nearly two thousand mal lards examined were carrying one or more shot pellets. —Wildlife in N. C. Recomiriendeci Reading OPPORTUNITY FOR CARRBORO To The Editor: JVall Panymiller-York Gazette k: Daily DON’T MALIGN a To The Editor; There comes a time in every one’s life when the advice of a specialist is needed. We get sick and we go to a doc tor; the doctor sees that an opera tion is necdssary so he calls in the surgeon. The farmer has trouble with his crops and asks the agri culturalist to give him expert ad vice. A student can’t find the an swer to a question and consults the teacher, who, in turn, if she needs help, consults an expert. And even the experts must be con stantly on the alert to keep abreast with modern practices and ideas. The truly wise person must admit his shortcomings. Perhaps the Carrboro School Ad visory Committee has never before been confronted with a problem so vitally concerned with good edu cation practices. To take the ad vice of experts in this matter is the responsibility of a wise and conscientious school committee. The State Department of Edu cation at Raleigh, the Orange County Supt. of Schools, the Carr boro School Principal and a stu dy group composed of laymen and educators appointed by the Coun ty Board of Education and the Commissioners have all indicated the advisability of the Carrboro School being in the same adminis trative unit as the Chapel Hill Schools. If the School Committee hesi tates to make the decision (to ask for a vote on joining the Chapel Hill school administrative unit) let them request the Orange Coun ty Supt. of Schools and the County Board of Education to make the decision for them. Yours truly, Mrs. C. T. Kaylor In these days of Becks and Hoffas, n, ized workingman is s "poor press.’’ It is a the entire labor mov( ed because of the relatively few. Although, I am m with organized labor it did warm my tired read the following ^ Sanford Herald. Sit torlal mentions a ij you might see fit to your fine paper sen conscious communitv Sii (Name Witheld IJ (Editor’s Note- Leader is pleased ters To The Edik the opinions avd our readers. Tl signed to preven abusing this featu we will withhold 1 the writer upon n RE GOOlTi To The Editor; This office has past week sever Chapel Hill, vie« the supposed imp tion of the CAPT) program. Since tl localized rumor, I might be of inter* ers. Some six months Television Network 7:00 to 9:00 A.M, and decided that ii feasible to contint DEAN program, b reaction was such KANGAROO woulc even though the pi tinned at a financ that time there ha’ dications which ha\ attention from oB official sources n TAIN KANGAROO our Chapel Hill frie: all pur other yiewei to continue enjoyih! children’s progran^ to come. Since there is s( interest in your ar gest that anyone to do so could w CAPTAIN KANGf! Television Netwoi Avenue, New Yo how much they en; Very often it is r Sion has been mad gram off the ai start making them this particular ins no such decisiot Complimentary let work, however, w way toward helpi the acceptance of it is presented da; Thanks and regards. Cordial Gomer Prograi Chapel JHiU. Published every Mo Thursday by the Nei Company, Inc. Mailing Addrf Box 749 Chapel Hill,-N Street Address: 3111 Carrboro Telephone: 8- Xpdess \ssociifrK Phillips Russell Roland Giduz Mo* Leo J. Murphy E. J. 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