Chapel Hill
Campaign Toek: ^He Did If!/
World Can Do It
FIFTH YEAR, NO. 76
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 19i.l
Exit Adams, Dragging Feet
Writers of plays kno^^• that suspense is
among tJicir most valuable elTetts. (.et the
atidienee Inincheti torwarcl on the edges ol'
tJte seats waiting tor "it'’ to happen, and a
hit is in the making. But snspgnse is trieky.
. String- it ont toox letigthilv and t,Iie spell snaps
and there’s .sogginess; the people who sat for-
■ward now!'Joun'ge back ■■■and mutter, "Oh,
let's get on, tvith: it.’ The tragedy—or farce—
or what s'ou choose* to call it—(.)f Sherman
Adams ha,s, sutiered Irom the dull defect of
suspense too h.mg stretched out.
But, comes the ob]ection, tins was real life,
not a play; Oh, ves. it was a plav! "All the
world’s a stage ' holds ine.xorably true of poli
tics. lanes are spoken, poses are struck, ges
tures are made, all m the limelight, and the
;d.m is to sway and impress tlie audience—the
people, the toters. .F,\en if that isn’t the aim,
it’s the rcsiilt. Sometimes the actors have to
make up their parts as they go along, hut of
ten there’s timeout in the wings to plan the
next scene, and ii is always a play.
Sherman Adams was cast in a' certain role,
of his own and his party’s choosing. He was
subjected to certain effects, by no means of
their choosing. But it was an old situation,
that’s been seen on many stages: the idol of
probity is shown to have clay feet, the man
who has put on the rolie of an angel gets a
human spot on it. Maybe: .■kdams's offense was
nothing or little more than the "imprudence”
lie admitted, but on the stage—the stage Of
politics—everything wtis dramatized, both his
air of sanctity and the "wickedness" of taking
a coat and a rug and letting his hotel bills
be paid for him.
Harry Holden Ittis an astute cotmnent on
Adams in the current (iaroiina Israelite, "it
is not, " sav (jolden, "all a matter of gieed.
People love to get 'complimentary' tic;ket/
or gifts. I remembei getting free tickets for
a Broadway show for a fellow^- and he nearly
jumped out of his. skin for slicei' jov. The
tit:kets would have cost him ,Sh.8o. btif he
insisted on t..:'king me to dinner and by wav
of further celebration he bought a bottle of
clKunpagne for'eleven dollars." Holden secs
.\dams as enjoying the tribute to his import
ance, not the actual gifts.
Once the t;iim;vx in the drama of Adams
was readied that it ctnue to months ago,
tfiere could be only one otitcome. Aristo
phanes, Shakes|>ea,re, Henry .Miller and a
host of other jilayfights could have told it
to you iti a moment. They might have held
the suspense a little while before they cast
.-\dams out, but they'd Iiave known better
tha'u to drag it out so tediousv as atlnally
happened.
The President and his adviseis, who in
cluded .Adams himself, botched it. They
might have put on a stirring, tjuick scene
that would have salvaged them some emo
tional benefit out of trouble. Btit they hung
on and strung out and concocted dialogue
that went sort of like, "Hm, er, well, h.mm."
That’s rotten theater. And this, it can easily
be argued, is the worst of tbc whole affair.
They lack skill in playing their parts, they
can’t figure out the telling lines, they won’t
Itring forth the correct gestures, aitd the.se
faults slopover into other scenes of politics
both national and, unfortunately, interna
tional.
The Ackland Effigy
l.et's come out 'into the open about the
marble likeness of W’illiam Haves Ackland
on top of his tttmb in. tiie .-kckland Memorial
Art Center, thresh the affair out, then try to
forget it and let it rest in peace.
The effigy is an eyesore. .It is lugubrious,
macabre, morltid. It would be in place only-
in an old-fashioned cemetery. It is utterly out
of place in a sj.iot .dedicated to beauty and
enjoyment of beauty... It will win the center
some such nickma^:. as "The Morgue" in
campus slang. It isaunfortunate estheticallv
and eiTiotionaliv. ■ -v
Now for tlie rest ol the story.
(Mr. .Ackland left money to put up a mill-
ion-dollar buiding and another million
w-hose 5l.|o,ooo.a vear income will buy art to
be show'll there. His will laid down condi
tions for whoever look the lietpiest. It was
crysta'l clear about the cetiter’s being his bur
ial place, and detailed about the visible tri
bute that must be paid it) him.
'I'lie University to(.)k the gift—chased it in
court, in fact.
'Fhere was talk of dodging by "carrving out
the spirit rather than the letter" of the will.
It was siiggested the burial place might be
in the lawn, with a symbolic statue over it
rather than a stone likeness. It was suggested
it might be in the floor beneath a bronze
platjue, in the lashionOf some f.uropean ba-
thedrals. 'I'he final decision was to obey the
will's directions as closely as possible.
, In the first place, ihis vvaswi.s'c from a legal
view. Failure to folldw ins’Lr'ttctioiis might
•have left the University's right to the Itinds
o[)-en to challenge rn court at any later date.
.Much more than that, it was plain fair play.
The gift was accepted: the condition went.
v\-ith it. W'hat was done was sinijtle honesty:
another course woitld luive come close to
cheating.
It Came Down!
The co.st-of-li\ ing index came down in
.August! That deserves an exclamation point,
because it was the first drop in two years.
The decline was only .2 per cent (the mean
little |teri(td in front of the figure makes its
two-tenths of a per tent, ntit 2 per cent). But
it was a decline.
Moreover, the Labt.tr Department experts
who prepare the index jiredicted anotlier
drop when the September returns are in. Af
ter that, also, they think it’ll level off. That’s
fairly good news. too. Statistics Hommissioner
Ewan Clague insists tliat the index is likely
to stav at abotit the point it reaches in Sep-
tenibci-: woit’t say it will go down again, but
thinks it may not go up much. AVe'll see!
Explanation of the decrease is .simple. It
was on account of lower looci prices. I hey
ustially come almig abotit this time ol year.
'Ehe last previotis dr(.)p was in .August, ipyb’
from the July figure of that year. But even
tliat t:ustomarv seasonal decline faileti- to take
effect in ipyj- Atid while food costs in Aug
ust. i)y8, were dipping, prices of other |)ttr-
ciiasabies counted into the index set some
new high recf>rd.s. ^Ve're by no means enter
ing a cheap era.
One small group that will be disappointetl
bv the drop consists of seekers alter perpeltial
motion. They thought they'd found it at last
in the up, up. up of the index. I hey might
shift their attention to Slate taxes.
O - And Ah! - For October
September, you’ve been a good, month and
it's too bad you have to go, but it will be
pleasant to get into October. October, in
these parts, is definitelv one of the fine
months.
Genera] prediction., tha'iiks to the experts
at the Airport, about like last October, aver
age higlt of 66 degrees, average low of ,4;!,
highest 76, lowest 49, rainfall maybe some
what more than the:previous October’s t.41
inches, which was under nonrial.
Octobei brings the AVorld Series in base-
ba-11, plentv of football, and hotting up of
natittnal politics as. the candidates heacl for
tile November deci.sion.
It will be a. Y.eai oh Oc'tober 4 since liie
Russians .sent up Sputnik I.
Thanks and Congrats..
— lo Dr. Eugene .A. Hargrove of Memorial
.Hospital's p.sychiatric department on appoint
ment as general superintendent of North
Carolina’s meiiral liospitals system. Quiet
Hene gets things done; the knack will help
in the new jol>.
—To Carlyle Shephard otr election as 1959
president of the Chapel Hill Kiwanis Club,
and to Jack l.eCraud for getting the rice-
presidency.
Columlms sighted c tv ^V'orld land
(though he didn't know it tvas that) on Oc
tober 12, 1.192.
Corntvallis surrendered at '^'orktown on
October 19, i7Si. and the Revolutionary-
War tvas won.
.As a resttlt of what started in the stock
market on (.)ctober 29, 1929, T'aricty, weekly
paper of the entertainment world, printed
the headline, "W'all Street Eays an Egg."
.Found guilty as war criminals, 10 leading
Nazis were hanged in Nurembttrg Prison
October ly, 1946.
Hungarians reto!ted
control on October 24
feated.
Poets generally hate spoken tve
tuber,
October has 41 days, but most folks don't
thiiik even that is enough.
# * *
agaiiisl Communist
1956, but wei:e dc-
of Oc-
'S'oit'd be smai t to go to the showrooms and
look at the netv model cars, whether 01 not
you have any idea of buying. 'l(hen. tvhen
one comes at you on flic Iiightsay, ton won’t
be scared tlotw to fits by its astoihsliing netv
lines.
- ■■«- , #
This time, .Slierman’s march is back to Netv
Hampshire.
Lee Madden for TJie Kexes l.eader
Mewsmsa’s Motepad
Chapel Hill Panorama: Credits
By ROLAND GIDUZ
42 Concord Ave.
Cambridge 39, Mass.
Just a.s you can see a large
painting by an .old, master more
clearly as you move away from it,'
the Newsman has felt several
times recently that he’s been see
ing Chapel Hill more clearly from
a distance.
This one man’s opinion, contin
ually forming now through read
ing the favorite hometown news
paper, has crystallized on a num
ber of points in which the Town
and its officials should take pride
—and a number of other things
which merit fur: her .study and ef
fort.
Among the major accomplish
ments of the past year, it seems
to us, has been raising the mu-
niSpal tax rate by five cents to
increase salaries of town em
ployees. Along the hometown beat
last summer the Newsman heard
nothing but favorable reaction to
this move. Our prediction is that
time wall show that the municipal
government will reap a healthy
dividend from its employees in re
turn for fair salaries paid for
work well done.
Another long-sought and much-
needed improvement, the full
value of which is yet to be re
alized. is the beginning of codifi
cation of our town ordinances.
Two staff members cf the Insti
tute of Government have almost
completed assembly of all of our
local laws—some of w'hich date
back over 100 years. After these
have been classified and the al
dermen revise them as may be
necessary, ^hapel Hill will be far
advanced in its legislative pro
cesses.
A Reader's Sentences . . .
Tor Heels Are Like This
NORTH CAROLINA: AN ECO
NOMIC & SOCIAL PROFILE. By
S. Huntington Hobbs Jr. The
UNC Press, Chapel Hill. 380
pages. $6.
A refrain starts running through
the mind of the reader of this
book: “Quantity lacking quality.”
“North' Carolina ranks first
among the States in total farm
population. ... Its rank in per-
farm income is almost invariably
from 38th to 42nd among the
Slates. . . . One of the chief
features of the state’s agriculture,
and lamentable for the total
North Carolina economy, is its in
ability to feed the people and
livestock of the state. ... In
feeding the population . . . the
deficits are astronomical,’’
“North Carolina is not only the
leading industrial state of the
South, but it is also one of the
dozen foremost industrial • states
in the Union. ... At the same
time, during the. calendar year
1954, the average weekly earning.s
for all production workers in all
manufacturing industries of North
Carolina were the lowest of any
state.”
“Notwithstanding the increases
in recent years in enrollments
and expenditures. North Carolina
does not stand high among the
states in the proportion of its
young people w^ho go to college.’’
“Not all of the hydroelectric
energy generated in North Caro
lina is used within the state or is
used to the best advantage of the
state as a whole.”
Other quotations on the same,
line are too ca.sy to find. Yet if
tile pve.sent .situation of the Tar
Heel t.s less than fortunate, the
state has the makings of fortune.?
for its inhabitants. Prof. Hobbs
prints the facts in both respects
and frequently gives specific sug
gestions for desirable develop
ment. 'WTere indictment appears
it is because the facts lead to it.
Happily, where hope is apparent,
it, too, is soundly based on ac
tuality.
Prof. Hobbs has taken on and
commendably carried out the stiff
task of setting forth the basics
about the state and its people,
from the geological nature of the
ground to the operations of the
building and loan associations
that help people put up houses
■on it. A great deal had to be
packed into the space available,
which doesn’t Anake for carefree
reading, but whoever wmrks care
fully through the book will -wdnd
up knowing a great deal about
Tar Heels, their w'ays and their
prospects.
Of 3S0 pages, 94 are given ov
er to statistical tables, suggesting
value as a reference wWk. Some
cloud falls on'' this, first because
too many typographical errors in
the text raise a suspicion there
might be more in the section de
voted to statistics'. Moreover, it
contains at least one spottable
error. It says North Carolina
ranked 48lh in the number of
marriages per 1,000 population in
1955, with a rate of 6.1. Actually,
Delaware was lower with 6 (and
those were provisional figures,
corrected when more complete
data came in to 6 and 5.7) But.
then, those marriages-per-thous-
and-population rates are often as
queer as three-dollar bills; when
the North Carolina rate W'as set
at 6, that of South Carolina was
given as 20.9, and anyone who
lliinks South Carolinmns aclu.any
do more than three tiiner; as .rnu-ch
marrying as Tar Heels is out of
touch with reality.—Dan Andcr-
Approval of an appropriation
for a public library this year is
an act of which the Town should
be rightfully proud. The dedicat
ed citizens who have worked for
the establishment of the library
truly deserve the credit for it.
Now the aldermen have made it
possible for them to do a valua
ble public service.
The extension of the Town's
sewer lines, and improvement of
existing lines, as -w'ell as a num
ber of improvements at the dis
posal plant, have all been very
fine accomplishments, too. While
the aldermen have played a part
. in these projects, we should know
that the Town Manager and the
Sewer Plant Foreman are basical
ly responsible.
As for things which need fur
ther consideration, we’d like to
mention about a dozen ■ items
which occur to us, and which
we’ll go into in the Newsman's
Notepad in several columns in
the next fe% weeks.
End Malaria By 19S
Kv PAUL F. RUSSELL, M.D.
Sir William Osier 35 years ago
wrote: “I think, if a census were
taken among the world’s work
ers on disease, the judgment to
be based on the damage to health
and direct mortality, the votes
would be given to malaria as the
greatest single destroyer of the
human race.”
Twenty years ago, L. L. Will
iams estimated the average inci
dence of malarik in the United
States as four million cases a
year, with as many as six or sev
en Hillion in peak years such as
1935. But in 1957, the total num
her of malaria cases reported in
the United States was only 144.
Six years ago, I estimated that
the number of malaria cases in
the world annually totaled about
350 million, w'ith 3.5 million
deaths. Recently, I have again
reviewed data and have estimated
that approximately 200 million
cases occurred in 1957, with 2
million deaths. Still a hpge total,
but it seems likely that the w'orld
incidence of malaria has been
lowered by more than 40 per cent
since 1952.
“Practically Eradicated”
The disease has been, practical
ly eradicated from a score of
countries reprsented by "Venezu
ela, Italy, Mauritius, Formosa
and the United States. Beyond
doubt, malaria is in full retreat
and today we talk with confidence
of the world-wide eradication of
“The King of Diseases.” . . .
The story of man’s attempts to
master malaria is notable in the
annals of preventive medicine. In
fact, as Osier said, “No disease
illustrates better the progressive
evolution of scientific medicin-e.”
Malaria has been known from
the very beginnings of history.
... In 1897, Ronald Ross in In
dia found the parasite of human
malaria in an Anopheles mosqui
to. ... As the Twentieth Cen
tury began, the way seemed clear
for eradication of malaria. . . .
Finally, in 1939, Paul Muller in
Switzerland discovered the in
secticidal properties of DDT. . . .
By a happy coincidence some of
Courtesy..
By DAN ANDERSON
Special for The News Leader-
Half-courtesy is often woi’se
Than none. A “Thank you” said
In accents fitter for a curse,
Or lifeless tones and dead,
Di’ops all the charm it ought to
hold.
Turning its-elf, inatead.
Into an insincere sneer, cold,
Conteimptuou.s, ill bred.
It’s far more than the worse I
choose,
The syllables I say: ,
Courtesy’s in the .tone I use,
And in the heartfelt way
I utteir my politenesses,
The fervor I display,
Using a hearty voice that says,
“Your kindness tops my day!”
son.
■Utented to tell you more about that there.
Rz^iNCH HOUSE. I got in there and a feller
says had I saw the Mater Dee O’tell and I
says no but I stayed at the Bilgewater Bung
alows oncet. He says no that is a feller .
Mater Dee. Funnies: name I ever heered of
excepting- Jugwater Jonn that I knowed one time, 1 don’t blame him
for lookin’ for somebody . . my it was dark in there: I stepped on this
good-iookin’ woman’s foot and the feller with her says are you lookin’
/.’or somethin’? And I says nothin’ but a crippled steer W'armed over
some charcoal so he says you’ve come to the right place. Come lo
think of it all the women looked good in that there place. Romantic as
a barn-warmin‘ or a moonlight hog-butcherin’. The lightin' in th-at
R.ANCH HOUSE would make Sophie Sizewatei; look like Clara Bow,
And a fi-ller come by and I thought he Avas selling' neov.spapcrs but it
wasn’t (hat ... it took a paper that big to Ii.3t the vitttes they had.
You git a chance go on out there to THE RANCH HOUSE, on the
Airport Road, Chapel Hill. Real enteyaple.
Yours Truly,
. Aclv. The Old Rancher
eradication programs, ,
nonmalarious.
Obviously, w^hen to th
ical immensity of the ■
added the geographica
financial and, especiallj
istrative aspects, the w
project has truly colo
That significant progres"
ready been made may 1
ed from the fact that, b;
of 1957, offidially ado
tionwide;... . 'malara . ei
schemes ."were ^ in pre
operative- or mamienam
in 76 co-iihtries--jha-vtal
exposed’ populdtipn of - i
millions, or abopileE pei
all wire) mukt,/.@vehtual
eluded. -Wte may say, In 'i
of Churchiil, that -vye ar;
end of the beginning bi;]
at the beginning of the:
One of the most heart
pects of the campaign !
uine international chai
seems to me that in all:
history of man kind t
never been a worldwide
live effort equal to it i
sincerity. Great credit s
to the -World Health Or?
for its effective leaders!
amazing acceleration oi
eradication since 1947. ■
Ten years ago the ci
nationwide malaria ei
was little more than a d
the slogan, “worldwide
tion,” seemed fantastic!
observers. Today, the et
convincing that within 1
10 years, malaria can 1
cated from many count
from wide areas of man
Worldwide eradication 1
ibie goal that could be)
it seems to me, by 1985!
trial Medicine and Surg
the newer synthetic antirnalarials
appeared about the same time, so
that we are now powerfully
equipped for what we confident
ly believe will be the final drive.
AND ONE TO G
In his Stanly News a
“Cracker Barrel” coliffl
ny Andrew passes along |
t-ea'ser; “Take the w'on
and see if you can coni
four other w'ords using')
letters.”
Actually, if you'll gV
archaic, there are five.
Agenda
t>iSAfeK4AM0
BUlions Exposed
About 45 per cent of the
world’s total population of 2.68
billions -live in communities in
which they are now or have very
recently been exposed to malaria
infection. World-wide malaria
eradication requires the preven
tion of mosquito-borne malaria in
fections among a total exposed
population of 1.2 billions. Ex
pressed in another way, 138 of
the w^orld’s total of 196 nations,
territories, dependencies or ad
ministered areas require malaria
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