Chapel Hill News Leader
Here We Go Again!
FIFTH YfAR, NO. 93
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, IVSS
What Sort Of Monsters?
What sf)rt of iiionsters do otlier folks rake
ns Ibi ?
In Newsman’s Notepad on tliis page to
day, a letter from Margaret Padgette is
quoted telling how a man from India' was
surprised to learn that though she’s a South
erner she has never attended a lynching.
This is ludicrous at first, then frightening.
We’d like tr) think it extreme. But liere’s
jg.^tui Indian, obviously of high calibre and in-
. relligence, or he wouldn’t he traveling from
Ins na'tive land to the far-away United States
to add to his education at Columbia Univers
ity in New York. And that’s his notion of tite
American South.
T‘ Ponder a moment. He must believe — or
liave believed, for we hope M'i.ss Padgette stic-
ceeded in setting him right — that lynchings
rrre regitlar, common events all through the
Sottth, w'hich people in general, including
‘ demure yottng ladies, go to about the way
they actually, go to football games.
It’s :i ghoulish picture, yet it’s the one that
man h;td. Worse, he mitst be mtiltiplied by
• millions of others all around the globe who
; undoubtedly think the same thing'. And if
that’s jjart of their fanta.sy, they surely must
have an af)y.sma,lly low idea of the whoile
i , state of race relations ;ind common decency
in these parts.
Sotne folks will bhune sut;h twisted ideas
on Red propaganda, which of course will do
all it can to [tromtjte thetn. We, feel there’s
good deal more to it than that, going back
further, included'the old fact that news,is.
what’s exciting and thy unfortunate fay;.t'
that lynchitigs have occitred,. aided by tli.e
la/y tendency of all.htiman npnds tociettte
;ind 'keep .stereotype picttirds ’of others:
(What’s yours,, ol’ folk.s in Itidia?)
Even if this w'ere strictly :v.. jtropagtitida
sticce.s.s,,there’d be a vast cotinter^-propaganda
failtire on our part. Yet how many Chapel
Hillians would consider it necessary, talking
with someone from abroad, to .state that
they’d never seen a lynching? Abopt as many
as would take pains to make it clear that
thev have feet instead of cloven hqofs.
We need to know what others think if we
are to talk iti a way that will make sense to
them. .Vliss Padgette has provided a startling
reminder that tve often don’t. Our self-pic
tures don't count for too much when tve seek
good international — or interpersonal — re
lations. It takes some humbleness to realize
this, and more to try lo find out what a'U-
other’s pidure of us is. But items like, the
one at hand miglit shock us into the elfort.
k .
Bending Isn't Breaking
? f' On tlie same day last Week,, the Com-
fnunists and the Western Allies made notable
"edneessions as to space exploration (the Reds)
and nucleaT arms (tlie United States and
Great Britain). Perhaps we’ll all get some
where!
At the United Nations, Russia’s repre.senta-
fice changed position on a proposa'l for joint
^^jaeaceful exploration of space. He dropped
previous demands that an approach to thi.s
subject be linked with a ban on military
mi.ssiles and withdrawal of Americans from
bases overseas.
In Geiteva, almost at the same moment.
Mechanized Mothers
A study in 194,6 showed that 69 per cent
;^^jMst shoi=fe.af tAvb-thirds—oUtihe babies lp.v..,
ing North Carolina hospitals where they’d
' lieen born tvere breast-fed. A 1996 lollowup,
—•its results just published, shows only 25 per
cent—one quarter—getting the most ntituraf
nourishment.
Doctors praise mothers’ milk as a food.
They also ,say that breast feeding does great
good to the emotions of mother and/child,
iaringing them close, certifying their mutual
Take Away That Ice Pack!
Now comes a forward-looking scientist to
.suggest freezing folks for space travel.
His idea is that low temperatures could
put them in a state of suspended animation,
d hey’d keep, as it were, for years while their
uaft hurtled among the stars. Then, just be-
Fatso At The Opera
In New York City a new opera house is
/oing up, and the builders say they’ve found
hat seats tvill have to be broader than the
rid ones if folks are to be comfortable,
dnickly, in obedience to fart or tact, they
idd that they’re speaking about men, not
vomen. All sorts of fa.scinating questions
rop up.
Will the opera builders, who naturallv wi.sh
o save space, install sea'ts in pairs, one broad
ind one narrow, and label them “His” and
‘Hers”? How do people who go to opera
tow stand it—rather, sit it? What has become
)f the ample dowager everybody visions at
he opera? Must we say farewell to the stand-
ird “lean-hipped” hero of romance? (Though
le usually roamed the Western open spaces
Thanks and Congrats!
—To the Board of Aldermen for adopting
m ordinance which will let the town control
treetwirle banners and keep them from ol)-
ciiring traffic lights.
—With fingers crossed for the State cham-
jionship game they’ll now play, to Lincoln
Tigh’s football Tigers on their 20 to 6 de-
eat of Clinton for the Eastern AA title, and
o Coach Willie Bradshaw for the air of
aim he wore all through the game, thougii
le said afterward he didn’t feel that easy by
iny means.
—To Miss Annie Durham on nomination
IS Club ’Woman of the Year by the White
Toss Elome Demonstration Club.
—To Paul Trembley of Troop 835 on be-
ng named top Scoutmaster of the year by
he Orange Scout District, and to Sandy Mc-
damroch on t.i'king., over tire district presl-
lency.
Some forms of pupil placement recall
football placement — getting ready for a
kick...
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Miiddni for Tlu' A’cw.v 1
American and British negotiators agreed that
they would uot insist on making a single
package of talk about ending nuclear tests
and talk about a control .system.
Neither side, obviously, is going to have
everything all its own way concerning these
two vital international issues or their likes.
Something, somebody lias to give. If the Reds
yield a bit here, and the West yields a bit
there, hope remains.
Bending isn’t breaking; it’s less likely, in
fact, to lead to breaking than is rigidity.
Diirlomats are beharing diplomatically, and
folks in genera'! can be glad.
MewsMan^s Motepai
She Never Attended A Lynching!
love. This makes the shift to bottles, health-
tho.ug'h modern .feeding formula's may be,
sound unfortunate.
Sometimes women haven’t thought about
the choice or talked it over with anyone and.
rather dazed soon after the delivery, hear the
(piestion, “Breast or bottle?” and jtitT the
easy-seeming bottle. It’s one ol the points on
wdiich mothers iniglit helplully be prepared,
keeping in mind tha't there’s nothing lovelier
than a Madonna.
By ROLAND GIDUZ
Random reactions to jottings on
the Newsman’s Notepad:.
Our erstwhile Women’s Editor,
Margaret Padgette, now a stu
dent at Columbia University’s
Graduate School of Journalism in
New York, writes of an interest
ing incident recently at the In
ternational House, where she’s
living this year: “Living at In
ternational House is certainly an
experience . . . One thing is for
sure—when I leave here in June.
I'il be a d-iolomat as well as a
reporter! The foreigners want to
talk of nothing but segregation
when they find I’m from the
South . . . They have funny idea.s
about Southerners.
“One student from India was
actually surprised I’d never been
to a lynching, I couldn’t help
but laugh, e''en though I knew
he had just gotten off the boat!”
fore landing on a planet of .some distant sun,
they’d be thawed—by machine or by com-
ra.'des who’d stayed unfrozen — little if any
older than when thev were iced, ready to
explore or colonize with youthful vigor.
This suggestion leaves us absolutely cold!
rather than cramping into an opera seat.)
How come these differences between people
of now and times gone by and between the
sexes?
Answers to some of these queries have been
provided. It’s an anthropological fact that
people are getting bigger. Modern average
ma'ii couldn’t fit into the armor of an Age
of Ghivahy knight, or even into the usual
uniform of a soldier of the Revolution. “So
cial pressure” is said to have compressed wo
men’s hips while men’s broadened: the ladies
diet and exercise and try to look like willow
wands, but men more and more sit around,
less and less tva'Ik, and the inevitable result
is that they need larger opera seats.
Planners for the opera seats did a lot of
meastiring. Tliev found that La Scala, famous
and ancient Italian opera house, has seats 18
or 19 inches wide, whereas the mid-century
New Yorker requires sitting room of 22 or,
better, 24 inches. The present. Metropolitain
Operr" Llouse, which the new one will.sifp-
plant, has some seats as wide as 22 inches, but
many only 19V2. Eew' Broadway theaters have
24-inch seats. Soundls like a comfort-angle
corrieon—for the opera, and’ the husband in
the old joke, who’s draqged there by his wdfe
and goe.s to sleep, could do so luxuriously.
We haven’t had the heart to go around and
measure the spandy-newf seats in Memorial
Elall. It would be too blighting a blow il they
turned out nterrotver that) the ojiera specili-
cations demand.
With the fall colors still show
ing on the trees, gift-seller Vio
Huggins reminded us in a recent
advertisement that there were
fewer and fewer shopping days
before Christmas. That brought
UP thoughts of the difficult de
cisions to be made, and, partic
ularly, what to give those pro
verbial people “who have every
thing.” In the Yankee newspap
ers recently we’ve seen a good
.sprinkling of such suggestions,
however. —^Such as a “Drawkcab
Kcolc” — or “backward clock”
spelled backwards. Billed as the
“craziest clock in the world,” it
will give you the correct time
the wrong way on a clock face
that reads backwards and with
hands that turn counter - clock
wise. La.st Christmas season jew
eler Richmond .Sloan reported a
rush to buy belly-button brushes
he was offering as the perfect gift
for the guy who has everything
ei=e , . . The backward clock,
it sp'-'ms to US- is the perfect
follow-up for 1958.
Rttshina the Season
And while there’s always a beef
in the University community
again.st' rushing the Christmas
commercial season. Chapel Hili-
iaas might be the more conten
ted that they’re not infected with
the Bostonians’ Yuletide fever
this- year. Christmas dispiay went
up eariy in the month in most
store windows, and the Hub City’s
official opening celebration was
held yesterday.
IVith more than passing inter
est we read that Gov. Hodges’
curent briefing ses.sioiis around
the state for members of next
winter’s General Assembly would
be open to the p-'-ess. This rp-aR-
ed the similar, but very secretive
sessions he held just prior to the
Pearsall Plan legislative session
two summers Ego. ■—While the
Assemblymen may not fall in line
with his current program as read
ily as they did with the Pearsall
proposals, the Governor will cer
tainly get a better public recep
tion to his plans by presenting
them in open meetings.
Winning Women
Mention of matters political
brings up a further parallel be
tween the University communi
ties of-Ghapel Hill and Cambridge
.... In the recent elections
Harvard-town’.'^ only Republican
to win re-electmn was a woman.
Rep. Mary B. Newman, who top
ped the local ticket. It reminded
us of the,,extraordinary strength
shown at the noils last year by
Chapel Hill’s first woman aider-
man, Mrs. Adelaide Walters.
No Parking
T told you so” to the
... Edifice...
Another
(in.
1959 auto purchasers has cropped
UP recently on the heels of the
decisio’ns in some states that lia
bility Yiolicy premiums will he
premmms
higher* because of the high cost
of chrome and tail fins: Now. it
seems, parking garages in N"w
York City are going to charoo 15
to 30 per cent more for parking
tbe longe'*. wifipr. “rnn»'p stvl'sh
and comfortable” 1959 autns.
While a St. Louis parkine lot re-
centlv imposed a flat ban on
parkin.g the Ug ca’’s, the Mew
York parking industry reasoned
BEER AND SNIPPERS
Exit Mound; Enter Meter
... i.s. tlu' tiiiif for ;.ill qo.nd :p:irties not'
to boil to the point of first, aid...
By TAYA ZINKIN
BOMBAY—Some two millen-
iums ago India gave the digit zero
to the world. This year, follow
ing the zero to its logical con
clusion. India adopted the metric
system for weights and measures.
If not urgent,this. reform is
timely in view of India’s evnw’ng
industriaiization. The genius fee
splitting the unit mie, f»-aetir)ns
and subtractions responsirie fo-
the. mVriad of Indian castes, and
.subcastes had a’so bloosemed in
the field of statistics until India
had different Fvstems to measure
weights, volumes, and areas.
For the befuddled tracer thn-^-,
were ino measures of weight
called “maund” with ranges of
980 to 9 390 tolas of weight ho.
tweep them, according to wheth.
er thev were Mad’-asi psmiahi
Bengali, or other maunds,
pgw OP the m'umds a’-e pov.'to-’+aU
into prosaic rIn'vn-to-eerl-Vi VU->-
gramrpps nf 1 non grimipos oh^h
just as the rupee no longer egn-
.sists of 192 pies but of 100 honest
naya paysas.
The railways are given ten
years lo get used to the metric
svsten, whereas airlines are ex
pected to make the adjustment
with jet-speed, overnight.
The present reform, which fol
lows (he simplification of cur-
rgnev and temperatures, will he
most," welcome to school children
grappling with the cost of the
. most imnrobable purchases, and
will be most resented by those
businesses which must change
their containers and their meth
ods of work.
I was once told that introduc
ing the metric system would cost
one oil company in Tudia L50n-
000 pounds in container and
ppmn adipstments.
TVYilo'i Ghpqnrtv jion7 in
^7r\qr'c’ Trir^io El rnz''’’
tho Tn.nrft PYrvorqoiivH n
fvnm rniiTinp>E*pome5].-—The Mari'
Chester Guardian
Prelude To The Turk©
“with some reluctance” that
they’d have to charge more to
make up for the lo.ss of space re
sulting from models nine inches
wider and 10 inches longer.
Adding to the garagemens’
woes, it seems, are higher costs
of minor accident repairs caused
by protruding fins, outwardly cur
ving side panels, and added vul
nerability of headlights. ,
A matter of interest in com
parison is the difference between
a $50 monthly storage charge in
mid-town Manhattan to the five-
dollar-a-month narking slots which
are going begging on the lot in
downtown Chapel Hill.
Incidentally, too, the situation
isn’t iiecessarly rosier for owners
of the small foreign cars.' Two
Greenwich Village garages have
i arre-.l the narking of these autos
because of their low and fragile
bumpers—which get entangled in
the mesh of big car bumpers.
By DAN ANDERSON
One tough task that keeps crop
ping up for an editorial writer is
getting out set-pieces—articles for
days that come round again and
again, like Thanksgiving.
What’s there to say that hasn’t
been said long before and far bet
ter?
Yet everyone else, and the writ
er, to a, is full of thoughts of the
day, and to pass it by with not
a word would be strange and
stupid.
A writer knows he must take
note, and wants to. He may force
himself, and grind out a wad of
stuffed guff. He may fall into
the trap of thinking, “Big day
equals big thoughts,” and try to
set them down in big words and
find they’re not really big, just
puffed up.
Now, I still could plod over to
the Ollier side of this page and
wrap the editorial “we” around
me and tell Chapel Hill, the
State of North Carolina, or even
the whole nation what to be
thankful for. But I don’t feel that
mighty. I’m going to call this a
do-it-yourself Thanksgiving Day,
and here lust count a few of my
own blessings.
I Am Alive
I’m thankful I’m alive. Saying
that IS more than routine for
someone who had a coronary at
tack last spring. I’m thankful,
too, liiat I got back health so
good It lets me do about all J
want to at work or in any other
line.
As to work, I got the job of
editing this page last September,
and I give real thanks for that.
I find fun and fulfillment as I
write, plan, hunt out work by oth
ers tiiat may make the page
bright, and as 1 pick the place for
each picture and piece to go,
which is a game that beats jig
saw puzzles by miles.
For the rest of the folks at
The News Leader I am thankful
—those on the business and news
sides and the printers. "We all get
along well. A happy office is real
cause for thanks!
I’m thankful I’m in Chapel Hill,
a town I like a lot.
More Personal
She’s so modest she’s shv. not
the .sort to bask in a spotlight, so
I won’t run on about this the way
I easily could, but—I give deep
thanks for my wife!
Each bit of good news from'
two daughters and about my
—to date—grandchildreti—ti
cause to be thankful.
Here’s another. I had it in j,
to give thanks for my frij
and though I might name som
them, but the.i I couldn’t tell
where to start, or where I’d
for the sake of space. When
is a puzzle, it’s high time to
thankful. I mean friends hen
town, and nearby, and those m
long ago and kept, even it
don’t see each other often
write as much as I could wb
especially when I’m not the
who owes the letter.
So far as I know, nobody h
any strong grudge against
and I can’t use the word “h
or anything like it for the w
feel about anyone.
Just One Debt
I have not yet paid the
water and electricity bill;
waiting for th2 telephone bil
I can settle ’em all with
check. Except for that, I’m th
fully out of debt.
Just this month, I though
would be fun to make a me
—one of those sets of shapei
strings that shift into ne*.
terns with each breath of hn
It won’t put Alex Caldet,
first mobile-maker, to shami
a long shot, but I liked doij
and I’m thankful that I tool
something new
My job makes rne read, b
like it, and do it for pleas
too. I enjoy mu.sic of more]
one kind. Ju.st a month or so
I found out about the chegj'
in Graham Memorial, and.J
there and lose some and'
some and have a good time,
all these enjoyments and nioi
give thanks. . . :
In Addition
My appetite is excellent, i
a sound sleep each night
wake up ready to go. 1
glasses, I see well. I don’t®
miss my gone hair. More tba
and for more in the same 1
still more thanks.
That's far from all, but it's
start of the story of one m
reasons for thanks now, on
red-letter day that is tomor
and ail along the way.
I’m thankful, too, for
thought that many readers
stretch out their own lists of
thev can give thanks as loni
mine.
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They'e After Your Scalp
By DAN ANDERSON
Special for The News Leader
I watched a giant building rise—
A structure of such mighty size
That it bewildered my small
brain
To guess what work it might
contain.
Out of its doors at least should
slip
A fully fitted battleship,
I figured. Then they let me
know
By putting up a sign to show
Its purpose. Here’s what met my
eyes:
“New Llome of Momma’s Home-
Baked Pies.”
By BURT DEUTSCH
Before the recent 54th annual
convention in Chicago of the
Barber and Beauty Supply In
stitute, it wa.s stated in prelimi
nary talks that men now spend
more than $2,000,000 each year
for hair coloring. Other thoughts
expressed were as follows.
Hair coloring service is essent
ial in the modern’s man’s groom
ing. Hair coloring may be learned
by the average barber; it is an
economically sound service; it is
a psj'chological need. And the
average barber should be interest
ed in this important contribution
to the trade’s welfare.
is properly equipped with auti
tic techniques in proper si
and application.
Every barber can profit by ful
filling this vital need.
Slant Advertising For M«
The hair dye industry,»
sending millions of dollars ia
vertising and promotion, sir
feature modern hair coloriai
male patrons of barber sb
They should not direct their
vertising to women exclusivf
Men all search for
grooming features daily,
want better dress and appear)
To satisfy this current desir
a future “must” to the male
ulation.
The willingness of the M
industry is all that is requite
bring this additional prof#
service to the barbers of Aa
ca. — The Journeyman
Hairdresser and Cosmetoloja
Special Courses Needed
In Sydney, Australia, union bar
bers and bartenders found them-
.selves working side by side on
the country’s first “sip ‘n’ clip
joint.” I.ocated in a downtown
hotel, the unique establishment
offers four barber chairs and,
for those who must wait for their
haircuts or shaves, a comely
union barmaid ready to dispense
Scotch, bourbon or beer. — The
Journeyman Barber, Hairdresser
and Cosmetologist.
Barber schools will play a ma
jor role in preparing special in
struction in teaching hair color
ing. Such studies should be add
ed to the basic curriculum and,
where the demand requires it,
special post - graduate courses
should' be established. The deal
er’s role is to make available the
proper supplies. Manufacturers
and dealers alike could play an
important part in supplementing
the schools in this educational ef
fort. All schools, dealers an*
manufacturers .should offer sub
stantial help to the barbers along
these lines.
It follows that product accepta
bility is not too great an obstacle,
provided the school’s curriculum
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