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PAGE TWO THE DAILlYJTAR HEEL TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, j Ill The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, where it fs issued daily during the regular sessions of the University by ttie Colonial Press, Inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the summer terms. Entered as second-class mater at the post office of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub trription price: WOO per year, $2 00 per quarter. Member of The Associated tresd. The Associated Press and AP features are exclusively entitled to the U'ie for republication of all news features published herein. F.d'tor Wi.Kiness hlnnnqpr w.DICK JENRETTE C. B. MENDENHALL, hl'iniiuinq Editor o'porff P.tlitrrr CHUCK HA USER - TAYLOR VADEN Adv. Manager Oliver Watkms Bun. Office Mgr Ed Williams Nat'l Adv. Mgr June Crockett A'i'i'7 r.ilitnr. Roy Parker. Jr. Desk f.ditor Zane Robbing Smirtu Kditrr Caroline Bruner h'hfilfMjrmiher Jim Mill.i Tditorml Stall: Jack Brown, Bill Keilarn, Mike McDaniei, Tom Wharton, Charlie Gibson. Joe Seykora. Vestal Taylor, Al Johnson,. Charlie Joyner, Dave Pharne. John Slump. ftiwx Stuff: Rolfe Neill. Don Maynard, Glenn Harden, Bill Johnson, Wunf Newell, Sam MrKeel, Mark Sumner, Art Xanthos, Graham Jones, Charlie prewcr, Ginny Jones. M. K, Jones. Hux invit Staff: Neal Cadieu, Don Stanford, Bootsy Taylor, Eill Brain, Frank Daniels. Ruth D-nnis. Marie Withers. Howard Tickle, Randv Shives, Charles A s hwortn. Mary Toinlin. Dirk MacGill. Branson Hohbs. Jim Lindley. Sports Staff: Larry Fox. Frank Allston. Jr., Joe Cherry. Lew Chapman, Andy Taylor, Art Creenbaum. Eift Roberts, Ronald Tilley. Billy Peacock, K en n.irt o n . Kocieii Stuff: Peggy W6od, Marie Withers. Betty Ann Yowell. Judy Sanford. M.irgery Storey. Collier's to the Rescue .While the controversial question of Negro entrance into the University of North Carolina is showing new signs of flaring up on this campus, another problem, that of the "Miss Campus Chest" winner, is drawing steady fire from the coed ' populace. A DTH headline this weekend described the con test as "A Big Bust" as coed letters attacked it from all sides. Sorority leaders have withdrawn their organizations from competition, and Marie Nussbaum reflected the typical, coed viewpoint by asking "What girl wants to be known as 'Miss Campus Chest' "? The "beauty" contest was scheduled to begin Feb. 5 for the purpose of raising funds for the Campus Chest drive. However, from the coed opposition that has been voiced, in dications are that the contest will have to be abandoned. An interesting alternative has come to the attention of the Daily Tar Heel an alternative which would prove most satisfactorily to all Carolina coeds and would probably net the Campus Chest Drive more money, although fewer laughs, that the present proposal. Briefly, here is the alternative. Collier's magazine wired the DTH offices yesterday that it is to run a series of photos of college cover girls. The University of North Carolina, along with Texas, Illinois, California, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts, has been selected to supply a cover girl. Collier's photographers from Hollywood will take a full color photo of this girl who will represent Carolina in that issue of the magazine. The only stipulation is that she must be a junior and will be around next year. . Collier's recommends that the DTH editor and his staff choose this cover girl, but in view of the campaign to raise funds for the Campus Chest and the problems it has run in to, the DTH hereby suggests that the Campus Chest Com mittee conduct this contest to determine the most beautiful junior coed, with the reward being a full-cover photo in Collier's. This plan would bring publicity to the girl selected, the University, and the Campus Chest Committee. It appears a good alternative to the "Miss Campus Chest" judging. Opinion on Pinky Wanted Twentieth Century-Fox Film's publicity director has a question which he would like to propose to the student body of the University of North Carolina. It concerns the movie "Pinky" which currently is being shown throughout the South and only recently was in Chapel Hill. Jerry Allen, Twentieth's publicity director, poses this question: "Since your campus is located in an area that has always been sensitive to racial tensions, we would appreciate find ing out what your student body thought of our treatment of the miscegenation problem. It is impossible -for us tcrfollow up a motior) picture in all its manifestations, as routine mat ters occupyj all our time. "Perhap you will be, able to pose the following question to your students and faculty: 'Does a picture like 'Pinky' re sult in some practical social gain, or does it invalidate our prime purpose by antagonizing the audience?' " From our standpoint, "Pinky" did exaggerate the racial prejudices of the South in several instances. Yet it did show the Southern courts as being unbiased and did bring out the attitude of many Southern Negroes who are content being more or less subordinate to the whites. Perhaps the movie was less distasteful to Southerners be cause of the knowledge that Jeanne Crain, portraying the . role of "Pinky," actually was a white girl. It is possible that there would have been more objection to the love scenes had "Pinky" actually been played by a Negro. Miss Crane did an admirable job in the role, but to some extent the use of a white girl in this role weakened the "purpose" of the movie. Student opinion in the form of "Letters to the Editor" is welcome. Legislative Review Something Old, Something New By Clifford Hay Beginning with the Spring elections, candi dates for campus offices will have to brush up on their grades, according to the terms of a bill passed Thursday night by the Student Legisla ture. The idea of requiring a minimum average grade from ihe students who fill elective posts has been kicking around in committee for over a year. It provides that all candidates in elec tions held under the Elections Board must have passed ,35 hours in the last three quar ters (most students take 45 and up), with 20 hours of C's or better. Other requirements on the same basis are set up for students who have teen in school less than a year. Only one major criticism rame up in regard to the bill, aside from comments that it was too lenient. Attorney-General John Sanders, speak ing in the capacity, of legislator, stated that the bill might be ex post facto that is, the bill, extending back three quarters from its effective date of March 21, will apply to quarters of work in which the provisions were unknown. The only way this point will ever be settled is for a student to prove that he has been dis qualified from running on account of grades re ceived at some time since last spring, and for him to bring a case before the Student Coun , cil. Chances seem good that this will not happen; and by the beginning of nominations for spring elections in 1951, the objection will no longer be valid. This is not to say that the Legislature has passed an unconstitutional bill, but there does seem to a point which could be contested. Al Winn summed it up when he asked, "Are we dealing with a charity case or a good bill?" The bill passed with no further discussion, i If the resolution passed on changing Library hours achieves its objective, it will mark the alteration of a schedule which students have regarded for years as being permanent as the Ten Commandments. The proposal is to close the Library on Satur day nights, probably about 6:00, and to tack the Saturday night hours onto the end of the pres ent Sunday 2:00-to-5:00 schedule. This would leave the Reserve Room, the Reference Desk, and the Circulation Department open on Sunday nights. Why do all this? Primarily for the benefit of students who either date on Saturday nights or go home over the weekend. Why not keep open both nights? Because that costs money, and as any Administration official will be glad to tell you, .money is what they haven't got any of. For the time being, a switch is the only way to get the Library open on Sunday nights. For years the Student Party has accused ihe University Party of being a fraternity clique. In a move designed to counteract this charge and to liberalize the party, the UP steering committee last week voted through a series of resolutions which will change' its structure radically. The first step: seven new steering committee members will be chosen soon, one from each men's and women's dormitory district, to have a vote and an alternate member in other words, full membership. Later on, the UP is looking toward a new organizational setup, be ginning with a now-nonexistent general party membership, to be topped off with a repesenta tive steering committee and and executive com mittee, as at present. Come Early for a Seat The speaking appearance of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in Memorial Hall Tuesday night c.an be counted on to draw more than a capacity crowd to the 1,800 seat structure. John Sanders, who is handling the details of Mrs. Roosevelt's visit to the Hill, yesterday urged all students planning to attend the speech to arrive early. Sanders announced that the doors of Memorial Hall will be open at 7:45. Students are requested to arrive early in -order to avoid a repeat performance of the mob that jammed the entrances to Memorial Hall before the Burl Ives pro gram presented earlier by the Student Entertainment Com mittee. On that occasion one crippled student was knocked down and only through great luck did he avoid injury. THE MAD RUSSIAN vt.f-: i-v . - -r.;V.-;.' v Washfngron MERRY-GO-ROUND By Drew Pearson Play maker Review Tough Treading Letters To The Editor The Human Race Editor: For too long the South has held that such a delicate problem as racial equality reqiures a lengthly and gradual educational movement for its solution. There can b& little question that racial equality, entailing non-segregation, co education, and eventual miscegenation cannot come about immediately with the passage of a law requiring it. The liberal, however, cannot smother a question that calls for an answer. It is directed to ihe separatists and the supremacists and , asks: When does ' this education begin? For nearly a century in this nation the Negro peo ple have been free of the formal bonds of slavery. For nearly- a century men have held -v forth the idea as a means of change. But what has this idea produced? Satisfied persons pride to the growing economic well-being of the Negro, his schools, and increasing practice of suffrage where there "Were previously only the white man's primaries. A concession there is room for pride, indeed, but never complacent pride. This progress ap pears to have evolved not primarily through in terest and assistance of the white population, but simply through the irresistible force of a mass of struggling people who saw freedom and fought to enjoy it. Few of our parents taught . us to accept the Negro as an equal. Scarce in deed are those people in the South who see, as natural, Negroes and whites attending the same school. ; Who, then, is to begin this long-awaited edu cation? Surely we 'do not want to see it stretched ' over a period of another hundred years, with our children and theirs growing up in a society where millions of people still remain in bondage. Is it necessary that generations to come must nurture, and suffer under, a system of class dis crimination and envy and poverty? Or will our generation recognize its moral duty . and forever strike down the spectre of segregation? Jack W. Hopkins . Ordinary standards of criti cism can scarcely be applied to Paul Green's - folk fantasy, "Tread The Green Grass," which was courageously pro duced by the Playmakers in Memorial Hall this past week end. And after all was said and done, one was glad the Direc tor Fitz-Simons and his asso ciates had staged this contro versial experimental which, though written a score of years ago, still retains the timeless pertinence and; appeal of a clas sic. -;:;:'- "Tread The'; Green Grass" is a modern i morality play which tells theeffect of the forces of evil, of good, and of practicality upon imaginative .innocence, as personified by teen - aged, , impressionable Tina, a Tobacco Road Ophel ia, one might say in a care less moment. Tina's unusually receptive, but uneducated, mind had been so fused with folk legends, sup erstition, and . f ire-and-brim-stone religion that she did not know which way to turn. Her uneducated, weak parents offer ed her no solace or guidance. Her awakening womanhood, stimulated by the romantic ap peal of Young Davie, the pagan sprite, helped draw her away from the moral and ethical val ues which she knew to be right, but was powerless to follow. Like Ophelia, innocent Tina is caught in the pull of forces much too strong for her feeble spirit to cope with. There is no escape for her, save in death, or madness. Four influences helped rend asunder her feeble reason paganism, pure Chris tianity, practicality, and mili tant Herbrew evangelism. Young Davie is the pagan, Pan-like spirit of the woods who personified complete freedom, unbridled passion, love of beau ty, and a profane contempt for religion of any sort, save that of gratification of ihe senses. The young parson, whose sig nificance was scarcely evident until the last scene, is Christ like humility, self-effacing love, and kindness. Harvey, TinaV unrequited human jlover, is dull, unpoeticaL respectable, safe love. To p o e t i Tina, even though liked and respected him, marriage to prpsaic Harvey would have been living death.. . i! At the opposite extreme from Davie, are the corrupt, gross churchmen Brother Caders and The Three Brethren. They personify the intolerant, mili tant Herbrew Christianity. Brother Caders, - a 19th century Moses, went ' about calling for hell fire, damnation, and death to the unbelievers. His harsh insensitive backwoods evange lism and narrow belief in the word of God helped crush Tina. Although most of the audi ence did not understand what By Bill Kellam was going on, the play's presentation was justified in that it did stimulate more thought than any Play maker Production in recent years. Good art not only enter tains, but arouses interest. The Playmakers should take this as a cue to present more plays as stimulating and entertaining as was the "Grass." The local production did fall short in some of the acting, in its failure to completely become a fantasy, and in the pantomine sequences, many of which were completely meaningless to those; who hadn't taken the precau-, tion of reading the script be forehand. Much of this vagueness can be attributed to the fact that the pantomine passage in the original script called for tech nical offects where were beyond the resources of stage produc tion. Burning churches, packs of blood hounds, horses and IZ 18 10 35 3& 48 SZ 55 SI 4? I V9A IZ 16 'A H22 26 77A v 'A 39 Z7 26 V2. 'A fib 40 37 50 53 56 'A yA lo 28 33 51 14 17 8 34 41 77? Z9 54 57 10 24 43 25 HORIZONTAL 1. the heart 4. often 7. herrihg-like fish 12. regret ' extremely 13. insect 14. sharp mountain ridge 15. arrives at aim 17. diminished in size 18. blood vessels 19. relish 21. epochs 22. 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The technical end of the pro duction deserves the highest praise, Lynn Gault's barrenly simple set was quite quite clev er and completely sufficient, lighting, directed by Hal Shad well, was excellent as a crea tor of mood. The music and sound were the most effective devices of all, though. The sound of the barking dogs and the martial music wThich hailed the appearance of preachers were most effective. Gene Jousse did a fine jobs co-ordinating all these devices as stage manager. Tommy Rezzuto, as Young Davie, and Anna Graham and Melvin Hosansky, as the Old (See EDIT, page 4) WASHINGTON. Before President Truman cut loose against tax evaders in his message to Congress he got some rugged pointers from n-p-resentative John Dingell of Mishigan. "The costliest 'economy move ever made by Congress was when it lopped 7,000 Internal Revenue agents off the payroll two years ago," -Dingell told the President. "This was an open invitation to dishonest taxpayers to cheat the government. "We saved $26,000,000 by that cut, but it cost the government about $600,000,000 in uncol lected taxes. In other words, for every dolLr saved by the penny-pinchers in Congress we lost $30 in tax frauds." Dingell added that most of the discharged agents have been rehired, "but we are still pay ing for the mistakes." As a result of the cut, he said, some 300,000 cases of tax frauds, many of which were close to completion, had to be dropped or pigeonholed by the- internal revenue bureau. Millikin Joke Solemn-looking Senator Eugene Millikin of Colorado is a conservative Republican but he delights in cracking sly jokes about the national G.O.P. leadership. A few days ago, Senator Millikin was discuss ing a big hue and cry in his home state of Colorado over the proposed echo park dam. One citizens' group complained the dam would cover up "dinosaur beds." "Ah well," sighed Millikin, "if the beds aren't covered, the Republicans will come in and dig up the bones of a dinosaur and make him the national , chairman." Peace Offensive The State Department, Pentagon and Atomic Commission have been alerted to a "peace of fensive" from Moscow, in whicl the Russians would pretend to agree to international control. It might come in a dramatic announcement from the, Kremlin that the U.S.S.R. had perfected a hydrogen bomb. The strategy behind the "peace offensive" is to confuse American opinion and delay the H bomb project. The Russians may say, for ex ample, we know how to make the H-bomb, but for humanity's sake we won't make one if you don't. All this came up at a secret session of the National Security Council at which President Truman made it clear that we cannot agree to any international control plan that does not in clude inspection. v Meanwhile, it is definitely established that the theory of the hydrogen bomb is no secret. The first "leak" from the U. S. was an article by John McCloy, then Asst. Secy, of War, in 1946 revealing we had plans for such a bomb. The piece was written for an obscure Army Ord nance publication. Furthermore, Senator Douglas of Illinois, in no way connected with atomic research, ex plained to a bug-eyed atomic official the whole theory of the H-bomb, and he had merely fig ured it from reading Einstein and the Smyth report. ; Douglas, incidentally, said that he had pon dered long over the hydrogen bomb and had come to the. conclusion we must make the bomb. Meanwhile, Chairman Lilienthal will soon be available for a lecture tour in opposition to the H-bomb. Miners Grumble A $33-a-week cut in wages and a sick indus try are back of the swelling chorus of miners' grumbles against . their onetime god, John L. Lewis. The revolt against the aging Lewis is sc strong in Pennsylvania and West Virginia that his old crony, CIO President Phil Murray, could snatch the miners away from him. Murray is a former UMW lieutenant who broke with Lewis. The miners are chiefly up in arms over the three-day week which reduces their take-home pay from $78 a week to $45, but the three-day week is a desperate move by Lewis and the operators whom he curses in public and talks with in private to stave off anarchy and a cut throat price war in an ailing industry. Coal Industry Sickness Studies by the Bureau of Mines locked up in the files so they won't be used in the Lewis name-calling battles reveal how sick the in dustry is. Privately, the bureau expects to see a return of the ghost towns that haunted the coal areas in the 30's. The trouble with coal is: 1. Over capacity. 2. High cost. 3. Competition from natural gas and o'l. In the war years, when Nazi subs wem fink ing oil transports, the railroad used 135,000,000 tons of bituminous coal a year now th- rail- roads have cut to 70,000,000 tons. In the home-heating field, while new resi dences have gone up at an amazing rate coal consumption has gone down slightly. This is be cause oil and natural-gas heating is being in stalled m new buildings. Particularly along the eastern seaboard. A surplus of oil from the Middle Eastern and Southern American fields plus the new attempt by the British to shut out American oil have in creased oil surplus'in this country In addition, 25,000 miles of natural gas pipe Commisrion66" aPPrVed by the Federal Power fieM1! thiSiiS hy a five-day vreek in the coal and P uC 3 SUrplus of eoal abve ground rev fPa what Lewi, and the operators sec- drfve S 7atlUtthrat Price war tht uld busTness most ient-operators out of i i
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