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Education Heralds
Klan^s Downfall
States that are experiencing a phenomenal
growth in Klan activity could learn a lesson irom
North Carolina. Though 'possessing a large member
ship in this state, it has very little power and is pres
ently a member of the state’s buffoon organizations.
This effective degradation of the Klansman is a direct
tribute to North Carolina’s most promising field—
education.
Up until the Sanford Administration, the Klan
had a better chance of growth in N. C. than they did
in most Southern states. The environment of educa
tion was one of viscidity. The lack of strong state sup
port resulted in the common student’s disadvantage.
The good instructor was forced into moonlighting,
therefore, sacrificing his lesson preparation for a liv
able salary, even if just a barely one.
With the instructor’s boon, the student has ben-
efitted; and with the student’s blessing, the Klan has
suffered. The Klan is like most mental vermin; it
can only flourish in a vacuum of knowledge. North
Carolina has punctured this vacuum and allowed the
fresh air of education to do the rest.
In the state’s continued growth of educational
progress, N. C. will stand as the foremost non-violent
aggressor to America’s most vicious internal enemy—
ignorance in the form of the Klan and its fellow
“patriotic zealots,”
Mr. Miles Sends
Reply To Bligh
Edinburg 15 Sept. 1965 Cold and rain
Mrs. Harris sent me the Clarion and your welcome
to your troops cannot be passed by. In Winchester
Cathedral grave yard there is a stone erected to a 26
year old grenadier who died from a fever contracted
when he drank cold beer while he was hot. The stone
explained this and then has the rhyme:
Here lies in peace a Hampshire grenadier
Who caught his death by drinking cold small
beer.
Soldiers be wise from his untimely fall
And when you’re hot, drink strong or none at
all.
The stone decayed and was restored in 1784 • and
again in 1804, these lines were added: ’
An honest soldier never is forgot
Whether he die by musket or by pot.
In view of past history in your job, Capt. Bligh, per
haps these lines will act as a deterr^ent to some sol
dier far removed from these fog-bound shores. It is
soS* thought with hope, nonetheless, for-
L. Miles
The Clarion
EDITOR
Benji Sullivan
ASST. EDITOR
BUS. MANAGER
™WS EDITOR
FEATURE EDITOR
SPORTS EDITOR Case
ADVISOR
PU6UC
S.G.A. Constitution Needs
Free Press Amendment
Good journalistic practices require a newspaper
editor to be involved in politics only as a force of the
pen. This is the reason that The Clarion supported
the correction to the new constitution that would
have removed the editor from both the legislative
and judicial boards. Through a mistake of some sort,
the editor was removed from the judiciary but left
in the legislative position.
The paper is asking that an amendment be made
which will correct this. At the same time, we are ask
ing for a journalistic position to be established in both
departments. This will be a non-voting position in
order to report all the news, iboth that of legal action
in the court and in the legislative.
The Clarion asks for the students support in this
amendment.
Dean’s Column
SMOKING
Men:
It is polite to offer a girl a cigarette even though
you know she does not smoke. However, if she re
sponds with “No, thank you,” do not insist that she
take one.
It is a courtesy to light a woman’s cigarette at
any time, if she is within reaching distance. If you
are lighting both yours and hers, light her cigarette
first. She should not interrupt you in the middle of
a good conversation for this service, however.
A man should ask a woman if she minds if he
smokes while he is walking down the street with her.
Women;
You should not expect your date to buy your
cigarettes; however, if he smokes and offers to buy
you some, feel free to accept or to smoke his while
on the date with him.
Learn to smoke gracefully if you must smoke,
fellows do object to your walking down the street
smoking, waving a cigarette in the air, or smoking
while eating.
Both:
When visiting in a home, refrain from smoking
if no ash trays have been provided. You may smoke
linner party if cigarettes and ashtrava aro
11 no asn trays have been provided. You may smoke
at a dinner party if cigarettes and ashtrays are part
ot the table service.
nr permission to smoke in a professor’s office
or while having an interview.
It is proper to smoke at informal meetings if
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erate^’aW^c^nV-^'^®-^® advised, but be consid-
paSfn^r if you
October 19
History Movie
Art of the Middle Ages
“Greatest movie on Mid.
die Age art in our cen
tury.” Mr. Wilson
John Churchill
To Lecture
At Lyceum
John Spencer Churchill, auth
or, painter, and nephew the
great British war-time Prime
Minister, will speak here on Oo
tober 15 at Dunham Music Get.
ter under the auspices of Lyct
um Series.
A distinguished writer ani
painter in his own right, JOHH
SPENCER CHURCHILL was in
unique and intimate touch vrith
Sir Winston throughout the
great leader’s most active years,
It was Sir Winston who first ei-
couraged his nephew to paint
and inspired him to write. In
his younger years, the tm
Churchill famili^ were frequent
visitors together at Blenheim
(the famed Marlborough Pal'
ace); more recently he has
spent much time at Charlwell,
Sir Winston’s own home, for
which Lady Churchill commiS’
sioned John Spencer to paint a
mural for his uncle’s 75th biA
day. The uncle and nephew ot
ten painted together.
JOHN SPENCER CHURCHILL
is a great raconteur with a livC'
ly sense of humor and a flair for
colorful anecedote. Many have
described his eloquence anil
resonant voice as typicallj
Churchillian. He deals with the
living staff of historical event
and shares his uncle’s dual abii
ity to describe events in the son
orous phrase — and to expose
pretense and humbug with a
mordant quip.
Born in 1909, the son of Sit
Winston’s younger brother, te
is a grandson of Lord Randolpli
Churchill and his American
wife, Jennie Jerome. His moth'
er was Lady Gwendoline Church'
ill, the daughter of the 7th Earl
of Abingdon. His sister is the
wife of Lord Avon (Anthony
Eden). He was educated at Hff
row and Oxford and studied
painting, sculpture, andl archi'
tecture in art centers through
out Europe. During World WM
n he served as a major in Brit
ish Counter-Intelliigence a™
took part in the evacuation o'
Dunkirk. He now makes 1®
home in the South of France
JOHN SPENCER
H.L’S two books are
Churchill Canvas” which
CHUKCH'
“The
published by Little Brown
li
Co., and “Behind the Churcli
Canvas,” soon to be issued W
the same house.
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