The Chapel Hill weekly., 1963-05-26

l WdS (IfciffElciIl vi eIlC AA'5iNuS
Commission for eight years, and
| never built three-lane high
way. A three-lane highway is
just an encouragement for people
to 60 ont and get themselves
killed.
New York and the other big
money centers just aren't interest
ed in toll roads any more. Look
at the experience of West Vir-
ginia. They issued a hundred
and thirty three million dollars
worth of bonds and built eighty
eight miles of road over the
mountains. Those bonds went
down to sixty. They were charg-
ing five dollars for a truck to go
over the road. and the trucks
Just wouldn't pay. They took an
other road, kept right on climbing
the mountains. Now the only
hope West Virginia has is to get
that eighty-six miles made part
of the Interstate system and let
the government take up the
bonds"
With the imperceptible ease of
a practiced speaker, Mr.. Graham
settled back into his chair and
shifted down from finely controll-
ed protest to gently distant OBJ
ServatiOn.
81 don't go to court at all any
more. I'm fortunate enough to
have a partner, Colonel LevingS,
who is very distinguished law
yer, and he handles all the cases
in court-probably better than |
could. don't miss it. Like most
lawyers. | like to farm, | don't
mean grow big crops and so on.
but just have little garden and
grow things in it. | say like most
lawyers because most lawyers
seem to feel they've arrived
when they have little farm. I
don't really know why that's pc
culiar to lawyers. 1t may be be-
cause most jurieS were composed
of farmers. in the old days ten
or eleven of the jury would be
farmers, and | guess a lawyer
just felt he was one of them and
could talk their language if he
had a little farm of his own. |
get lot of pleasure from being
at home, have an old house.
My grandfather bought it in 1842.
My father lived in it. | was born
there and I've lived in it all my
life. That's what the old lawyers
all wanted"
And what do young lawyers
want?
Money" said Mr., Graham
without a moments hesitation.
They buy these big homes, their
wives seem to expect it of them,
and they go pretty deeply into
hook. It's a long struggle for
them. 1t takes d mighty long
time to satisfy the bank. There
are a lot of young lawyers in
Chapel Hill now, nice boys. like
them. | don't know how they all
get on. It's, a real struggle for
some of them, unless they're for
tunate enough to have wife who
works as secretary or some
thing. 1t takes a period of years
to build up a clientele. All the
young lawyers have just come in
in the last few years. There
used to be very few lawyers in
Chapel Hill. There was old Hin
shaw, and then he went into the
sawmill business until his death,
and one other, and there was Jim
Phipps, and that was about all.
For a young lawyer, the struggle
depends on how many older law
yers there are in a town who
have already built up a clientele.
Then Jim Farlow came in and
started, and then more, and now
there are twelve or fifteen down
there"
He reached in a desk drawer,
rummaged in a mass of papers
Ad manila envelopes, and pulled
out a little blue box
Here's quill pen, one of the
originals, he said, opening the
box and tossing neatly trimmed
quill onto the desk. Made by
E. D. Young of New York. I
don't use them any more. just
use these little ball points. That's
for you"
1t was not unlike going to
Grandfather's Office and being
given a huge, soft eraser as big
oe ,,our f;ct