FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1946
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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NO DEFENSE NECESSARY
The career of Frank Porter Graham has been figured with
much praise. It is doubtful, however, if it has ever received
such a distinguished encomium as the one bestowed on it on
the Senate floor this last Monday, by virtue of its condemnation
by the senior senator from Mississippi, Theodore Bilbo.
During the senator's monopoly of his country's time, he ap
plied the epithet "communist" to most of the well known or
ganizations with which the president of the Greater Univer
sity of North Carolina is affiliated ; he called Dr. Graham a
"red," (whatever that slippery and convenient term may mean)
and, in short, added to the mockery which he is making of the
supreme legislative body of the "world's greatest country."
For Dr. Frank Graham, no defense is necessary. For Mis
sissippi, for the South, for this nation, no excuse is possible.
It matters very little whether or not we agree with the par
ticular issue which the senator is scrapping for. It is the de
spicable means which he employs to gain his ends, and the dis
gusting manner with which he clothes his means, that we must
abominate. : f
While one man, representing a small minority of men, wil
fully and successfully frustrates the will of an acknowledged
majojrity, then democratic government has ceased to exist.
When an American .citizen abuses fellow citizens and fellow
men under the protection and sanctity of "congressional im
munity," then decent, Christian society crumbles. -When one
man indulges his underfed ego, and thus stops the lives of one
hundred million men, then it is time to take stock of things and
move toward change.
- The actions of Senator Bilbo cannot be condoned; they must
not be tolerated. And since he is a. product of the South, it is
up to us first of all, to apologize for his existence, and then to
clean up the sewer of filth, ignorance and poverty which spawned
him on to a repulsed naticm.
EVERYBODY LOSES
All students who have Playmakers season tickets are finding
themselves victims of quite an odd coalition between the Play
makers and the Student Entertainment Committee.
"The Chimes of Normandy," given in Memorial hall tonight
and tomorrow will be open to those holding Playmakers season
tickets and likewise to all fee-paying students. The students who
have paid federal tax .on their tickets will lose, those holding
two tickets will lose, and it seems that quite a few students have
reason to be rather angry.
The Student Entertainment Committee has been the target of
much criticism and very little praise, if any. The Phi officially
objected to the management of student entertainment, and
countless other organizations and individuals are not satisfied
with the manner in which their money is being spent.
D
Vets To Bombard
N. C. Legislators
Oat Of Lethargy
iscussion Groups
resent One View
By Roy Thompson
A week spent in attending all campus discussion groups might
very easily, convince the folks back home that Carolina students
are all liberals and radicals and maybe Communists.
However, it should be pointed f
out that conservatives on cam
pus aren't joiners, and their
opinions aren't as of ten, heard as
those of their more liberal fellows.
A few days ago little signs ap
peared on campus, leaflets were
scattered around and stories ap
peared in the Daily Tar Heel.
There was to be a meeting of
students for the purpose of dis
cussing strikes. "Get the facts,"
the sign said. So in search of
facts some of us dropped in on
the meeting.
There, ready to give us the
facts, was a group of speakers:
Margaret Knight, who for the
past few months has been work
ing with strikers in the Erwin
Mills; Mary Price, secretary-.
treasurer of the North Carolina
committee of the Southern Con
ference for Human Welfare ; Dr.
R. A. Young of Shaw University
and the American Federation of
Labor; and Mr. Frank Green of
the CIO.
Their remarks were inter
esting and informative. They
were probably facts too, but
they were facts selected care
fully to support a cause.
Phillips Russell brought ap
plause from the audience when
he asked who was going to
present the other side of the
question.
Several resolutions were in-
roduced and passed in the af
ernoon and evening sessions.
Whether the resolutions were or
were not good is open to ques
tion. Without a doubt, however,
Dave Clark and many newspaper
editors throughout the state will
soon condemn all the Carolina
students as radicals for having
passed pro-Labor measures. Be
fore they start writing their ed
itorials they should investigate
and find out just how many stu
dents participated. Unfortunate
ly they will not do this. Roland
Parker Lounge was dividedinto
three rooms for the meeting. In
the first room there were forty-
four people. Eighteen were stu
dents ; twenty-six were not. Less
than one-fortieth of the students
attended. A few voted against
the resolutions.
See DISCUSSION, page U
By Roy Clark
Starting its plan to bombard
the state government out of its
lethargy, and force it into some
sort of action to meet the crisis
in education facilities here and
elsewhere in the state, the UVA
voted unanimously to send a let
ter jstating their case to Gover
nor Cherry, and to the state
legislature. The body of the let
ter listed the numerous griev
ances, with facts to sustain
them, and the letter asked in
conclusion that the Governor
and the state legislature subsi
dize the immediate construction
of five new dormitories, and at
the same time make long range
plans for enlarging all the facili
ties of the University.
Perhaps it might not be a bad
idea for all the students on the
campus to repeat their letter
writing campaign, this time di
recting it toward members of
the state legislature. We can
point out to them that the need
for more space in the schools is
an issue of today, and it will not
suffice to wait until next Janu
ary to pass the necessary legis
lation. Let them know that you
want to see the faculty paid on a
par with the other schools of
the nation, because the student
of today wants the best he can
get from his school. Tell them
that you need more classroom
Political ping-pong and lobbying
Thanks To Dook
To the Editor:
I would like to take this op
portunity tp thank, not for my
self alone, but for hundreds of
other students, the Duke Ath
letic Department for their co
operation in cementing relations
between Carolina and Duke.
The Duke Athletic Depart
ment claims that Duke gym
nasium can accommodate 9,000
people; Carolina was only al-
loted 1,000 seats for the 4,000
students registered. I wonder if
the Duke Athletic Department
did not go too far in their gen
erosity. I am certain that they
must have given us every avail
able seat for the basketball
game which will take place on
the sixteenth.
There is only one way in which
we can repay uuKe ior uieir
generosity," and that is to
BEAT DOOK!! So. let's go
space, more lab space and equip
ment. Keep the tacts right in
their faces. And eventually we
can make them conscious of the
fact that .we mean business,
are the toughest of trades, and
the only way to wear the of
ficials down is to keep pounding
them relentlessly.
It Was Said: There has been
persistent rumor that some
thing was being done to fix the
rut, that we call a road, leading
into the Vets' club. Since the
road is on University property,
and since the University is part
of the State, it seems to me that
one or the other should give us
some help in putting it in de
cent shape. It would take less
han a day's work, but a day's
work usually takes about a
month here, so maybe that's
why our requests have been ig
nored. But it is a shame that
people can't even get to the club.
Carolina, and show them that
the first victory was only a fluke.
Vengefully,
J. M. Taylor
Reply To Hunt
Dear Editor:
Upon reading Thoughts cni The
OngiJis of Beliefs, by Douglass
Hunt, in The Daily Tar Heel of
Feb. 7, 1946, we realized that
we were two of the men under
discussion. We were said to be
in support of certain principles
of Facism, but we might point
out, that in our experience, both
before the war and at present,
conservatives in Chapel Hill
will eventually be labeled Fac
ists anyway. We make no
apologies for our beliefs if they
happen to appear Fascist to
certain elements on this campus.
We took Mr. Hunt's sugges
tion and analyzed our beliefs,
and after doing so we are more
firmly convinced that they are
right. We agree that students,
especially, should analyze their
beliefs and try to elminate the
prejudicial factors. But, we feel
that freedom of thought is the
right of all individuals, and the
beliefs of these individuals
should stem from their thoughts
alone.
We would like to point out
that while Mr. Hunt says that
law "should be enforced until it
is changed," we have heard Mr.
Hunt say that a certain piece of
pending legislation would be un
enforcible if passed. He is, how
ever, urging Senators to allow
this legislation to pass. Let us
analyze our own beliefs, Mr.
Hunt.
Baron Mintz
John V. Booraem
Open House
Pi Phi sorority will have open
house for the DKEs Sunday af
ternoon from 3 until 5 o clock.
Introducing Again . . . The Ram Sees
The flickers
WASHINGTON STYLE DEMOCRACY
There is no democracy in the upper house of Congress these
days. Democratic procedure, tlje rule of the majority, has been
turned into its opposite, autocracy, the rule "of the few. A
minority in the Senate, the Southern Democrats, are filibuster
ing again."
Southern students should write or wire their Senators imme
diately and demand a restoration of the American form of
government in Washington.
The "debate" is on the Permanent Fair Employment Pracr
tices Bill. A majority of the Senators are for it. Forty-eight'
senators signed a petition to invoke cloture, Which would end
the filibuster. The President of the Senate, David McKellar
(D.-Tenn.), arbitrarily refused to recognize it, despite Senator
Barkley's (Democratic Majority Leader, Ky.) objections. He
is violating Senate and parliamentary procedure, and he is get
ting away with it, and the filibuster goes on.
The failure of democracy in Congress, the highest legislative
organ of United States government, means the failure of democ
racy in the United States. The blame must be put squarely
where it belongs : on the people of the South who let their
elected representatives get away with it. Write or wire your
senator today and tell them they are not representing us, and
demand an end of the filibuster.
FRONTIER GAL A two-
bell picture in technicolor star
ring Yvonne ("The Kick") De
Carlo and Rod Cameron, two
native-born Canadians who en
gage in one of the longest and
most violent (???) love duels in
any motion picture. Miss De
Carlo plays the part of a young
western lady who knows what
she wants and knows' even bet
ter how to get it. She spares no
one, not even her victim, M.
Cameron, whom she forces to
marry her at the point of a gun. j
Later in the picture the script
calls for a furious slapping-
scene with Cameron as the re
ceiver. After the director is
satisfied on the fifth take Cam-
eron is ready for a wheel-chair.
After this scene he is said to
have remarked to Miss DeCarlo :
That's all right baby. . You'll
really get it in the next scene!"
Something more than the run-
of-the-mill Western, but still
only fair movie material. At
the Carolina theatre today and
tomorrow.
It was just thirteen months
ago that Mascot Rameses, whose
staff of life is printer's ink, be
came a crumpled wad of yellow
copy paper unceremoniously
tossed in a Tar Heel trash bin.
The "Ram (who) Sees," typi
fying the spirit of Carolina, was
slaughtered at the hands of his
creators before he was born.
Later, much later, the fate of
th'is poor animal was "unsealed."
Rameses was allowed to live, be
ing for this page "as icing is to
cake and the Bums are to Brook
lyn." Today Rameses stages a
third return irom the grave
He's kicking up his heels and
raring to go.
"Marie, The Dawn Is Break
ing." Marie Holman, Hugh Mit
chell, and Vernon Rieser are the
principles who figure in a musi
cal triangle. Check the 200
printed circulars announcing a
down duel in song at Hill Hall
between the male parties con
cerned, vieing for the fair hand
of said Miss Holman.
Denker Speaks. Photographer
Denker's word to the wise:
Scuffed shoes, sloppy sweaters,
shiny noses can scarcely be item
ized as date-nabbing-bait." Take
heed, Carolina coeds.
Cross Country Trek. Lifted
from the pages of "Glamour's"
all-about-men issue: If you're
husband hunting go west, young
woman, go west! Tarry not an
instant in Atlanta, Nashville, or
Richmond. "They feature 12 to
15 extra women to every hun
dred men."
From "Bound" to Rebound.
Spivak's music lent a note of ro
mance to the week-end air. Giv
ing the line-ups in current pin
nings: Golden-haired, blue-eyed
Marty McClenaghan is Jim
Bolch's sweetheart of Sigma CM.
. . . Daisy Barksdale and Wylie
Milligan are now bound each to
each, one to one by the badge of
Delta Kappa Epsilon. . . . "She's
my sunny, Southern sweetheart ;
she's my Kappa Alpha rose,"
sings Jim Bulla. Molly Mitchell
is the lady in question. . . . Quot
ing Bob Foreman and Fred Bau-
der: "The time was high noon,
the place, Meier's wall. As we
surreptitiously watched, at the
safe distance of three blocks, Jim
Burdin bestowed upon Snooky
Chichester the phvof SAE. .
Postscript: The white star of
Sigma Nu has set. Vivacious
Twig Branch is back in circula
tion again.
Marriage A La Mode. A flash
ing diamond, Porthole cham
pagne, and a contagious smile all
marked the day after the night
before when Ann Geoghegan de
cided to become the June bride
of B. White, home from the Sev
en Seas. Congratulations and
Happy Sailing!
. '
naming Tales. Betty "Bird-
dog" Birdseye was literally car
rying the torch in Smith the oth
er night. While lighting a fag
she lit a squirrel tail on the wall.
What followed, looked like a fire
dance. Listen, Bird, leave the
squirrels alone, they don't bother
you. . . . Dan and Polly Ander
son, rulers of the Cottage Lane
drop-around-establishment, have
Had their house partially air-
conditioned. It seems that PMW
w A.
grocery shopping and
went
didn't turn "the fire down. Things
were really cooking when she got
home.
Ph r)elters. Phi Delt new ini
tiates as of Sunday next number
twelve. Wearing badges of their
very own will be Brad Egerton,
Marvin Koonce, Ott Evans, Bill
Butler, Harry Howren, Moss Sal
ley, Bill Hadkett, Eddie Owens,
Gene Johnston, Fred Mallard,
Harold Morrow, and Marvin
Horton.
"State" Ments. According to
the Sound and Fury "press re
leases, the Spring Show will give
us a view at the "State of the
Campus." Perhaps it will lay
bare campus camouflage and
show what really makes Caro
lina tick. Such would be a re
markable and stupendous feat
. . . While on the subject of S and
F, a great deal of credit should
be given to those who are ar
ranging the performance for the
hospitalized service men at Camp
Butner Saturday night. Marion
Gurney has been doing her gur
neyest with able assistance of
Dave Owens and Martha Rice.
There'll be singing, dancing, and
skits. These workers deserve a
lot, "because ' so many forget so
soon.
The Battle Call To Arms.
Rameses says: Attention, Caro
lina coeds. Sweet Briar is call
ing all Roticees. With blind
dates the order of the day twen
ty Carolina uniforms will be
abiding by the above-mentioned
school's 11:00
this weekend. Coeds, about
face; close your ranks; halt this
exodus !