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The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30
Now and Then

Though pOllteness is perhaps the
one virtue which brings upon its user
the most Immediate satisfaction and
the quickest diScernable returns. it is
nevertheless, an all too rare practice
among US humans.
And while poiteness is quite pos
sibly not as essential TO a good life
as are Pato's cardinal virtues of pru-
dence, fortitude, temperance and just
ice, any or all Of which could conceiv-
ably be practiced without the neces-
sity of poiteness, it is, none the less, of
great Importance.
Rather, politeness seems more akin
to the Christian virtues of faith, hope
and charity, or love, which the Christian
moralists call supernatural virtues, or
those infused by God, as opposed to
Plato's four natural virtues"
But any way you slice it, politeness
makes thick cut for, though a per
son may be strong and essentially good
without beng overly polite, the habi-
tual and natural user Of this happy ap-
proach to life is JOY to behold and to
hear, and person who is seldom if
ever forgotten. By poitenesS, of course,
is meant being considerable and solic-
tous of friends and acquaintance,
either through a natural bent or an
acquired inclination, rather than
through calculated expediency. Courtly
manners by themselves are only super
ficially connected with politeness.
You never know where you'll find
it.
For instance, the other day while
opening my laundry | found a notice
wrapped up with one of my shirts
which | have splattered with hypo-a
Photographic developing brew which
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30
Ii Shouldn't Happen

The fight North Carolina educators
are forced to make every two years
TO get funds for state supported insti-
tutions Of higher learning is described
by A Resch Of Siler City as "A sad com
mentary or a great states approach to
an opportunity to create a better
future" Mr. Resch considers the sub
lect in an editorial in the Chatham
News, Of which he is editor His re-
marks follow:
As needs for higher education have
grown during the past decade there has
been an intensfication of the biennial
battle" for needed funds between edu-
Gators and Legislators.
1t is regrettable that such is the
case.
The play is the same every two
years Only the players are sometimes
different
The Advisory Budget Commission
usually cuts appropriations asked for
by the state-supported colleges and the
Greater University Of North Carolina.
The legislators are then "briefed"
on the reason for such cuts.
Friends of the schools then unpack
their big guns to set up d barrage
that will lead to restoration Of the
funds that have been Clipped away.
This goes on for weeks Much time
is used up by the educators and ad-
mnistrators-time that could well be
otherwise used
The legislators are slow to make a
decision.
There is much jockeying back and
forth before a final decision is made.
Usually a portion Of the cuts is
restored. The educators go back home
licking their wounds. The legislators
breathe a sign of relief.
Why should this be necessary every
two years?
1t all gets back to grass roots senti-
ment. Or so it seems to us. Not enough
people care what happens to their in
stitutons Of higher learning. People
who have no children of college age
don't bother to look ahead. Those par
ents whose children nave completed
college shrug off their continuing re-
sponsibiity for maintaining at high
level those schools which their children
attended.
North Carolina has a tremendous
stake at issue if its institutions Of
higher education are forced into re-
treat from greatness because of in
adequate funds. The effect of such a
retreat won't be long in coming.
But not enough people seem to be
paying attention. insufficient numbers
of them express their willingness to
foot the bill.
And the play will be the same two
years hence and that is a sad commen-
tary on great states approach to an
opportunity to create better future.
II shouldn't happen
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30

put to use. Everybody recognizes the
need for more parking spaces. suggest
that one side Of the Rosemary street
block be so used. If this were done it
would provide for probably forty to
fifty parked cars and still leave plenty
of width for moving traffic-L.G.
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30
The "Rubaiyat"
Richmond Times-Dispatch

This year brings the centennial Of a happy
event-the appearance Of Edward Fitzgerald's
translation into English Of the llth Century
Persian poem, The Rubaiyat of Omar Khay
yam Solely as a result Of this rendering, Fitz-
gerads name Is immortal in English literature.
Scholars are agreed that the English version
Of The Rubaiyat" is much superior to Omar's
Persian pOem-perhaps the only instance in
history where translation has so far surpassed
an original.
The haunting music Of the quatrains has cast
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30
BY Bill Prouty

is irresistible when superimposed on
brOadclOth.
The notice read: There are some
stains and discolorati0nS on this article
which defy the most skilled method Of
removal. We take this means Of notify
ing you that this condition has not been
overlooked. The very best has been
DONE 1t was signed, The Manage
ment"
Now here is the work of a genius,
at the same time superbly polite and
disarmingly ingratating. He could have
sad nothing and been perfectly justi-
fled. After ALL it was ], not his firm,
who was responsible for the stains
being in the shirt Or he could have
said more and still remained in bounds.
lie might have politely Qm sure it
would have BEEN reminded me that my
carelessness had caused his people more
concern and work than would have
otherwise been necessary. ~.~~
But he didn't. What he did saw was
Just rlght-polite enough for all but
the TOUGHEST customer yet solid enough
to give his side Of the story in business
like tones.
And I'm not surprised, since the
notice was from the University Laun-
dry, which for over 80 years has been
dispensing to students and toWnsfolk
here service and pOliteness in amounts
above and beyond the call of duty.
AS long as ! remember anything
about the University Laundry it has
gwen service with a smile and has gone
out Of its way to please its customers.
And especially do | remember its route
men as being courteous and helpful
folks like Kemp Cole, Gene Sturdiyant
and Bob Wright, all of whom served
our home in this capacity, demonstrat-
ing so well the polite efficiency with
which the entire personnel of this bus
mess has served its public throughout
the years.
And now this quaint and skillfully
worded little notice. THE very best has
been done," it says, and you know it
has.
Courtesies like that are delightful
to encounter nowadays. They make you
forget that over your laundry years a
few articles may have been lost, or that
a few buttons may have been snatched,
or that an occasional rip has been left
asunder, and that they won't bill you
by the month, but insist on a deposit.
But then, pohteness doesn't neces-
sarily include holding the bag, does
it-especially when it's laundry bag?
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30

Robert B Kremer in the Osakis, MINI, Re-
view; Speaking Of walking, what ever became
of the pastime of taking an evening consttu-
tiona? person has hard time taking a walk
now, In all friendineSs, many folks will stop
their car and ask If you could use ride Others
wonder II the finance company took away your
car or if you are too poor to buy gas for the old
buggy"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30

spell over the English speaking world, and
the many quOtable lines have entered the Ian
guage. Omar, whose fame in Persia rests main
ly on his brilliance as mathematician and
astronomer, has become noted in the English.
speaking world mainly because quiet English
lover Of flowers and books turned the Persians
hedOnistic musings into unf0rgetable verse
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30

rivers crooked is following the line of least
resistance"
The Chapel Hill weekly., 1959-04-30

The argument you win with your wife isn't
over yet.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-04-23
East Side

cold facts and Statistics book that without rhetoric or
the the white is one OF
the finger of shame the right direction
the governing politicians who encouraged defiance and violence
upper they condone Violence blink
at it.
impossible said until the who has not
been injured by indignant the who has, Bill
his idignaton restraint
ac dcon economical and his organization
q
prejudice follows closely the death OF dis
elimination adduced all the evidence needed to sustain THIS
proposition This idle 1t good sentence to have
in
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The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-04-23
A Theme +.

the infinitely small. But in the
ultimate extensions of their
thought, both discover that there
is no real difference between the
infinite, large or small. Neither
can be rationalized or reconciled
in material terms.
The astronomer has unfolded a
cosmos so vast and involving
speeds so great that he begins
to confront utter contradictions
of material terms: distances so
great as to be unencompassable
at any speed, speeds so great as
to encompass any distance, in
simultaneously. What can embrace
such space, attain such speed?
what indeed, but Mind.
The atomic physicist has Great
ed a substance so small that it
has ceased to be substantial; has
ceased to exist in material terms.
His magic wand, in one radioac-
tive wave, has swept away the
structures wrought of a trillion
earth years, and left not even
rubble with which to rebuild ac-
cumulated so-called knowledge.
What is there left to build on,
and with? What indeed, but
Mind.
The astrophysicist and the
atomic physicist, and their broth
ers in a thousand fields of science
have learned, when the mists of
materiality cloud their vision to
imlpel their progress into the light
of new understanding by tn G
greatest power, the only power,
that really exists Orderly
Energy.
Some call it Intelligence.
SOME CALL IT GOD.
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-04-23
Wutch On The
POTOMAC
by
Robt. G. Spivack

ROCKEFELLER'S FIRST MIS-
TAKE - Unlike the governors of
Indiana or Wyoming or New
Hampshire, the Governor Of New
York is always in the limelight.
If he does something big, by the
time the newspapers are finished
with it the event may look big
ger. If he does something wrong,
or ineptly, the error seems in
evitably to be compounded.
If he pronounces radio as era
ado, in the manner of Al Smith
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-04-23

it becomes a subject of national
comment. If he maintains home
at Hyde Park, like FDR did, he
becomes known as the Squire of
Duchess County,. If he is cock
sure like Thomas E. Dewey, then
everybody enjoys seeing hi m
humbled.
Nelson A. Rockefeller is now
undergoing the rigors of life IN
Albany and every move he makes
becomes a topic of animated con-
versation at the dinner table or
at the cocktail loungs. Unlike
Averell Hartman, who left many
people cold, Rockefeller's is a
warm personality and many peo-
pie, even some of his political
critics, tend to give him the bene-
fit of their duobts.
X X X
Bv virtue of his position, not
withstanding all his disclaimers,
Rockefeller is viewed as likely
Republican candidate for Presl-
dent. Therefore each move that
he makes is examined not only
for it's effects on New Workers,
but also for its effects on his
possible candidacy.
It is against this background,
therefore, that his new state tax
proposals must be examined.
They come at a strange time for
a Republican. Here is the Repub-
lican President of the us, after
giving the nation its biggest
peacetime budgets, talking about
frugality. On Capitol Hill there
are demagogues in both parties
who are even talking about tax
cuts, despite private bills which
would increase the costs OF gov
eminent COUNTLESS millions.
Many voters in New York I'M
doubtedly voted for Rockefeller
because they believed that cor
rupt Tammany politicians had
too much to say under his pre-
decessor's administration.
X X II
THE TROUBLE IN Me-
YORK - The State of New York
and the City of New York are
both experiencing finacial diff
ficulties. They result from a COM
bination of factors: failure to
plan, resistance to change by
business interests, shifting popu-
lation, and lack of civic leader
ship, to name but a few. But on
top of all these = and I write as
one who has covered New York
politics for many years = is the
tremendous corruption of local
politicians in both major parties.
Under any circumstances these
days the cost of government is
bound to be high. But political
The Petal paper. [volume] (Petal, Miss.) 1953-19??, 1959-04-23

corruption in New York has sent
it skyrocketing. If New Workers
have any doubt about how much
they are paying for graft and in
efficiency, they might take a bus
up and down the Az. Of Ameri-
cas- and see how the streets are
ripped up for repaving. Then
check back and see if practically
identical spots were not torn up
less than 80 days ago, presumab-
ly to make similar repairs. These
paving costs alone run into the
millions. And they are only a
small part of the waste in the big
city.
The result of all this is that
city Jewellers are fleeing to the
suburbs as rapidly as they can.
And, in the state, there is
flight of capital to almost any
place else where the cost of cor
ruption is but a fraction of what
it is in New York.
Had Rockefeller pointed these
things out before launching his
new tax program, it might not
have been any more palatable,
but at least the public would
know that he was fighting its
battle in an area too long neglect
ed.
1t is still not too late to do this,
Those Albany politicians who are
so worried about the effects of
higher taxes on their chances of
reelection would have even more
to worry about if Rockefeller
were to point out the special in
terest projects in which they are
personally engaged - and how
much each project is costing the
taxpayer.
This has not been done since
Fiorello LaGuardia was Mayor of
New York. Rockefeller is trying
in many ways to be like LaGuar-
dia, that is a political independ-
ent, not tied too closely to the
Republican Party IF he is to sue
coed, he must recognize at the
very beginning that the old line
politicians are not his friends.
X X X
A MATTER OF STRATEGY
The simply way to find out what
Rowe is up to - if he is up to
anything - might be to ask him.
But that's too easy. Several
writer's since J. Alsop have taken
up the question of Rowe's con-
nections with Humphrey, but
none apparently has talked to
Rowe. Or, if they have, none has
quoted him or written what Rowe
might have said in any language
that authenticates the idea of
what Rowe's viewpoint is on the
possible Johnson. candidacy
If Rowe, used to playing an a.
nonymous role, did tell exactly
what his plans are there is al
ways the possibility that he would
be disbeIieved; not because he
would not be telling the truth,
but simply because no one here
takes anything at face value.
So the mystery of the shift, If
a7v has to be solved in other
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The shortest distance between two po
anywhere in the world is by Long DIS
telephone, and call is always more
personal. You save time when you
call by number.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14
Appeal to Reason

In his address to the 21-nation
1nter-American Foreign Ministers Con-
ference, Secretary Herter has presented
no magic formula for ending the Carib-
bean crisis. But he has effectively singled
out the root cause of the turmoil, and
he has proposed emergency action that
could do much to pacify the situation.
The root cause, of course, is the
fact that in the Caribbean during recent
months 'at least three countries have
been attacked by armed expeditions
coming from outside their borders"
More than that, Several governments
have been menaced by viciously hostile
propaganda attacks originating in other
countries" and thus it is that "both
internal and international tensions have
grown throughout the region"
In saying these things, Mr.. Herter
has mentioned no names. Everybody
knows, however, that the trouble has
conceded with Fidel Castro'S rise to
power in Havana and his subsequent call
Though he himself has yet to hold free
electionS) for the elimination of all die
tatorShipS in the Americas His special
target, but not the only one, has been
GeneraliSSimo Trujillo'S regime in the
Dominican Republic, and in firing away
at it he has been helped by Venezuela'S
Betancourt government.
Dictator Trujillo, in turn, has been
deeply engaged in intrigues and I'M
restrained propaganda against Castro'S
Cuba and Betancourt's Venezuela. In
evitably, other countries have been af-
fected by this fierce feuding, and the
result is that the entire area is in a
critically jittery State-a situation explo-
sive enough to threaten peace through
out the Caribbean.
To cope with this threat, Mr. Herter
has proposed that special hemisphere
committee be set up forthwith to in
veStigate the crisis in all its aspects,
including especially armed intervention
and propaganda warfare. The commit
tee, which might also play conciliating
or mediating role in disputes between
states of the area, would report its find-
ingS at the next full-dresS Inter-Ameri-
can Conference, which is scheduled to
be held in February.
True, none of this will achieve much
unless the chief feuderS permit it to.
But we must hape for the best.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14
Music Hath Charms

When Nikita Khrushchev arrived at
Katowice on his recent tour of Poland,
a band of proletarian musicians played
1.-THE Stars and Stripes Forever" This
struck us at the time as a singularly
engaging incident in the cold war, but
1t seemed to be just an accident, an in
advertency, a mix-up of notes in no way
intended to Startle the Soviet Premier by
greeting him with SouSa's 100 per cent
American march. Now, however, we're
not so sure about this On the contrary.
in view of the tremendous welcome given
Vice President Nixon in Warsaw, we're
rather inclined to suspect that the whole
thing was done deliberately in wry,
ironical and slightly defiant effort to
make clear to Mr.. K. how the Polish
people really feel as Between his country
and ours. Anyhow, in its own way, the
story is charming enough to be recorded
as kind of footnote to the history of
our perplexed and perplexing times.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14

The leaders of the House
District Committee have
made it plain that this years
hearings on home rule are to
be a repeat of the record of
the years since World War
II. 1t is clear, as Mr.. McMil-
Ian recently said, that there
will be no bill reported from
committee as long as he is
chairman. In fact, the stalled
and intermittent hearings
now being staged can only be
described as a committee fill
buster. congressman testi-
flying before the committee
in favor of home rule are
being subjected to endless
grilling, mostly about a con-
Stitutional question" that
clearly doesn't exist. I can
recall no precedent for the
treatment being accorded
members of Congress by the
committee.
BY contrast, home rule adj
vocateS have continually
over the years made patient
and reasonable efforts to per-
suade the committee to act
all without success. They
have offered a very mod
crate bill, without any soft
ening of extremist opposi-
ton. And now, in difference
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14
Amend the Amendment!

An otherwise qualified resident Of
this city, the Capital of the United
States, is in precisely the same category
as citizen of Alabama, Arkansas, Mis-
SiSSippi, Texas and Virginia who has
failed to pay his poll tax. In other words,
he cannot vote for President, Vice Presi-
dent or Representative in Congress-
The great difference between the
District citizen and the citizen of one
of these States, however, is that the
latter can remove his diSfranchiSement
by paying the tax In Alabama 1t is
$l.5O; Arkansas, $1.00; Mississippi, $500;
Texas, SITS; Virginia, $1.50. But the
resident of the District, no matter what
he might be willing to pay for the great
privilege of exercising his rights as an
American, is a political outcaSt insofar
as representation in his Government is
concerned. He is disqualified because Of
his residence in Washington, heart Of
the Republic.
This really extraordinary contrast
In voting rights leads us to renew our
earlier suggestion that Senator Hol-
lands proposed amendment of the Con-
Stitution, outlawing payment Of the poll
tax as a prerequisite to voting in the
five States which retain that tax, be
amended to extend voting rights to citi-
zenS of Washington as well. We note
with pleasure that Senator Randolph Of
West Virginia, Senator Heating of New
York and Senator Case of South Dakota
have expressed approval of the idea. The
hearings on the Holland amendment
having been set for next week, we hope
that they and other Senators will take
that opportunity to present the case for
the votelesS citizens of Washington.
The vehicle provided by Senator
Holland to remove one injustice can
surely not be complete if it leaves I'M
touched an even more glazing injustice
here at the Capital of our country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14

is the case It is better to have a plan
ready against either the day OF court
ordered desegregation or the date in
March on which, under legislation re-
Gently enacted by the Legislature, the
authority to assign pupils will revert to
those localities which wish to exercise
1t. Nothing would be gained, certainly,
by refusal on the part Of the school
board to act until 1t is forced to act.
There has been some criticism Of
the boards unwillingness to make the
plan public at this time. This, however,
is matter that is properly within the
boards discretion, for 1t is the respon-
sible agency and 1t has the right, If 1t
sees At, not to risk premature publication
Of its plan.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1959-08-14

to the complaints of these
uncompromising opponents,
they have offered a new dis
charge petition of almost I'M
precedented liberality.
I believe the people of
Washington commend and
support the Congressman
who. in seeking to restore our
citizenship. are trying to
bring the issue to a decision
by the House under the fair
est possible circumstances.
But it is certainly ironic that
so fair and reasonable an at
titude should be met by the
obvious tactics of the oppo-
nentS who seek only to pre-
vent a democratic decision.
The latest example of this
was the staged complaint of
opponents against the earlier
discharge petition n, which
they pictured as an unprece-
dented limitation on debate.
But, in fact, it was an exact
duplicate of many discharge
petitions of recent years
and they hadn't a word of
complaint in those cases. Per-
hapS the answer is that they
were unaware of these pre-
vious petition efforts. But, in
fact, at least three of them