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iilnuii()irj Editor
fivnrti h'tlitnr
f"i t f.iiitor Rov Parker. Jr.
Ift,k f.tiitnr iane Robbins
Snnrtii Editor Caroline llnirer
fhotntirnnhrr Jim Mills
tdttorial Staff. Jack brown. Bill Keilain, Mike McDaniel, Tom Wharton
Charlie Gibson. Joe Seykora. Vestal Taylor. Al Johnson. Charlie Joyner. Dave
th;irpe. John Slump.
Keu-.i Stuff: Bolfe Neill. Don Maynard. Glenn Harden, Bill Johnson Wuft
r.ewell. Sam McKeel. Mark Sumner. Art Xanthos, Graham Jones. Charlie
ftrewer. C'.innv Jones. M. K. Jones.
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D;imeU. Ruth Dennis. Marie Withers. Howard Tickle, Randy Shives. Charles
Ashwortn. Mary Tomlin. DickAIacGill. Branson Hobbs. Jim Lindley Bruce
I! 1' "rr- ',f'v erl.v Serr. Lila Rnhmsnn. John Pomdexter. Carolyn Harri 1 1'.
Sports Slafi: Larry Fox, Frank Allston. Jr.. Joe Cherry. Lew Chapman.
Andy Taylor, Art Greenbaum. Biff Roberts. Ronald Tilley. Billy Peacock.
Ken Barton.
Kocieh StifJ: Peggy Wood. Marie Withers. Betty Ann Yowell, Judy Sanford.
Mariferv Storev,
A Necessary Decision
The decision of the Panhellenic Council to restrict soror-
ity parties for fraternities to Sunday night coffee hours and
. other Panhellenic functions will be welcomed by the five
! campus sororities. In the past, many fraternities have made
. a practice of entertaining sororities at individual parties, and
the sororities have always returned these affairs at a later
; date. However, there are more than five times as many fra
ternities as sororities, and the girls were having a difficult
time in returning all the parties to wheh they were invited.
Under the new ruling, sororities may accept bids to par
tics given by fraternities but may not return the invitation
with an individual party of its own. The sororities will at
tempt to make amends by giving a dance later in the year,
rponsored by the Panhellenic Council, in addition to the
Sunday night open houses.
! Armecia Eure, speaking for the Panhellenic Council, ex
plained that it was not that the sororities did not want to
return the fraternity parties; rather they just did not have
time or money. She added that many of the girls' organ
izations found themselves seven or eight parties behind on
their social calendar at the end of the year.
Carolina sororities, in addition to being small in number,
are organized on a two-year basis, thereby making return
ing of the fraternity parties even more difficult.
The idea of fraternity-sorority parties was begun in the
first place to make the respective members better acquainted
with one another. However, the sororities soon found them
selves entertaining every night in an effort to keep up with
the more numerous fraternities. The parties came to be
more of a burden than a pleasure. .
The new ruling does not mean that a sorority cannot ac
cept an invitation to a fraternity party. Rather it sets forth
the reasons why returning these engagements are "impos
sible. Students should not get the idea that sororities do not
enjoy the parties. There's just not enough time or money for
them to repay them all.
Letters
To The
TYPICAL
Editor:
Harvey Culpepper's letter
(The Daily Tar Heel Jan. 27) is
a typical example of the South's
present attitude toward the
question of abolishing segrega
tion. There is always the ref
erence to "damyankees' inter
ference and then the conclusion
that the South is the Negro's
best friend and will give him
equal opportunity, but with
segregation. The South has
been singing the same song for
the past eighty or ninety years.
In reply to a few of Mr.
Culpepper's questions: I am
a native North Carolinian; I
am from the town; since I
was not of age at the time. I
did not have ihe opportunity
of serving in Uncle Sam's
segregated armed forces, who
defended this country so that
its citizens might continue to
enjoy "life liberty, and the
pursuit of happiness."
I do not think, however, that,
such shortcomings in my life
have prevented me from becom
ing acquainted with segrega
tion and its consequences. More
over, whether I am from the
country or the town or the
North is irrelevant and will not
alter in the least the evil char
acter of segregation. Segregation
is an insidious poison injected
upon one race because of the
economic and social fears of
the other. It is a blanket that
smothers the mind of a man,
saps his vitality and will to live
a decent life, and fills him with
resentment and hatred. There
are no moral grounds for segre
gation; it is merely another
form of slavery.
The Negro is a human be
ing and should be treated as
such, with respect and digni
iy. and freedom of movement
CHUCK HAUSER
TAYLOR VADEM
Adv. Manager ......Oliver Watkins
Bus. Office Mqr Ed Williams
Nat'l Adv. Mgr June Crockett
Editor
and thought. To think that
equal opportunity can be giv
en him with segregation is
absurd. Sooner or later segre
gation would stifle the Negro.
limit him. "put him in his
place," lead to more reseni
jment. Equal opportunity can
truly and sincerely be . given
only, without segregation.
The problem is the white
man's responsibility. It is a re
sult of our actions and at our
exploitation. We. should move
to correct the injustices of the
past and begin to act as human
beings living with human be
ings, freely associated, and un
derstanding one another; The
sooner we start, the better.
''Do unto others as ye would
have them do unto you."
Robert Lee Marks
CRUDE. RUDE. PUERILE
Editor:
How much longer are the
coeds going to have to endure
the crude, rude and puerile jibes
of the many prurient male
minds on the campus?
While I have no desire to
take up the cudgels on behalf
of those who are obviously
more concerned with their
own dignity than any desire
to lend their beauty to the
highly laudable Campus
Campaign. I do object most
strongly to such statements
as" Many of our coeds would
look like me if their hair
were cut off."
Has it yet occurred to the
writer thereof that that state
ment could equally well be con
strued as a sorry reflection on
the masculinity of the average
male? After all, Providence
either provided us bountifully
or left us flat in more ways
than one, and there is nothing
we can do about it, magazine
advertisement notwithstanding,
while. a man is at least respon-..
DREW PEARSON
' OH
he WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
WASHINGTON! Ever since
the Acheson statement support
ing Alger Hiss, Congressional
corridors have been teeming
with comment regarding the so
called Frankfurter "Red-Hots"
and the Supreme Court Justice
. who has put Hiss and Acheson
plus so many other men in key
spots in Washington.
This columnist has no reason
to love Felix Frankfurter. Not
only have his Supreme Court
opinions been a disappointment,
but twice in private Supreme
Court discussions, Frankfurter
has berated this writer, and on
one occasion demanded that he
be jailed for criticising certain
Supreme Court moves.
When Chief Justice Vinson
and a majority of the court
ruled against any criminal ac
tion, Frankfurter even went
over their heads, through a
friend, tc the Justice Depart
ment and demanded prosecu
tion. However, in the spirit of fair
ness which Justice Frankfurter
has not always shown to others
-r I should like to review the
whole list of so-called "Red
Hots" whom the Supreme Court
Justice has brought to Wash
ington. Most people don't remem
ber that Frankfurter's influ
ence began long before the
Roosevelt and Truman admin
istrations. As a Harvard Law
School Professor, he enjoyed
a unique relationship with
two of the greatest Supreme
Court Justices Oliver Wen
dell Holmes and Lewis D.
Brandeis in that each year
he selected the brightest Har
vard law graduates to be
their law clerks. Thus a steady
stream of Frankfurter pro
teges came to Washington
during the Hoover. Collidge
and Harding administrations,
many of them remaining on.
In addition to this, Frank
furter was consulted by many
Republicans on government per
sonnel. During the Hoover ad
ministration for instance he was
soley responsible for the ap
pointment of Joseph P. Cotton
as Undersecretary of State, who,
though a Wall Street Lawyer,
turned out to be one of the
finest of State Department offi
cials in two decades. Frankfur
ter was also responsible for
picking James Grafton Rogers,
then Dean of Colorado Law
School, as Assistant Secertary
of State in the Hoover admini
stration. Rogers was a Republi
can and an A-l choice.
It was during the Hoover ad
ministration also that the famed
Tom Corcoran, later Brain Trus
ter to FDR, got started in gov
ernment. Corocran had been
sent to Washington by . Frank
furter as Justice Holmes' law
clerk, and then joined the RFC
under Eugene Meyer," a Republi
can. And though some people,
including Frankfurter, soured
on Corcoran, his final impact on
history, in this writer's opinion,
will be on the plus side.
Thomas D. Thacher, able and
conservative, who served as
Hoovers Solicitor General, was
also a good friend of Frank
furter's and owed his appoint
ment partly to the controversial
gentlemen from Harvard.
Frankfurter was also 100
per cent responsible for the
appointment on one of our
finest elder statesmen. Henry
L. Stimson. as FDR's Secreta
ry of War. The two had served
in ihe U. S. Attorney's office
in New York when they were
young. Furthermore. Felix al
so had a finger in the pie re
garding the appointment of
Republican Frank Knox to be
Secretary of the Navy, though
ihe iwo were not close.
Robert Patterson, Stimson's
Undersecretary of -War, and
later Secretary of War, was al
so 100 per cent Frankfurter
appointee.
Here is a partial list of the
other so-called hot-dogs, some
good, some bad, some indiffer
ent, but on the whole an amaz
ing and constructive contribu
tion for one man to have placed
in government office.
Francis Biddle Former. At
torney, General, former Circuit
Court judge, Solicitor General,
and presiding Judge of the Nazi
War Crimes Tribunal. Biddle
was former Secretary of Justice
sible for his own virility.
Suppose' our modern Don
Quixotes find braver windmills
to lift at than the inoffensive
opposite sex?
Ann Scot
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Distributed by King Features Syndicate
by arraneement with The Washington Star
Mrs. FDR; Leavins of Grass
For once, while addressing re
marks to our student body, our
governor put his foot on the
ground instead of into his
mouth and did himself right
proud when he introduced Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt as "the first
lady of the world."
Anyone who'd listen to Mrs.
Roosevelt Tuesday night and to
her statements during her press
int erview earlier that day
couldn't help but agree with
him, no matter what their po
litical leanings.
t ,
Despite her age, she is more
energetic and alert than 99 and
44100 per cent of the people,
her age. She has that unusual
unfortunately for the world it's
unusual combination of wb
dom, humor, and poise found
only among the truly great. She
has none of the exaggerated,
sense of self importance po
ssessed by many public figures-
Her devotion to her work and
belief in its eventual success,,
though not without much hard
work, is most encouraging to
us of the younger generation.
Amazing and inspiring is this
fine lady. It's a great privilege
to have her on this campus.
Holmes and was recommended
to his first government post as
head of the Labor Board by
Frankfurter.
David Lilienthal F o r m e r
head of the Tennessee Valley
Atomic Energy Commission.
Wiley Rutledge Now deceas
ed and a great Justice of the
Supreme Court, was never a
Frankfurter protege, but Frank
furter helped pick him for the
court. After the appointment,
however, they consistently dis
agreed on court opinions.
John J. McCloy A very able
Assistant Secretary of War, head
of the, World Bank and High
Commissioner to Germany.
James M. Landis Former
head of the Securities and Ex
change Commission, Director of
Civilian Defense, arid head of
the Civil Aeronautics Board.
Ben Cohen One of the Roos
evelt Brain Trusters, later coun
selor of the State Deaprtment,
now a delegate to the United
Nations.
Lloyd Garrison Dean of the
University of Wisconsin Law
School and chairman of the War
Labor Board.
David Niles An assistant to
FDR and the only Roosevelt
man remaining in the Truman
entourage. '
Of course, when certain col
umnists ridicule the so-called
Frankfurter "Red-Hot" they
pick only one or two of the
weak spots. It is only fair, how
ever," in gauging the controver
sial Justice of the Supreme
Court, to review his entire list.
James Rowe The No. 2 man
in the Justice Department for
many years and now one of
Herbert Hoover's aides in Gov
ernment Reorganization. -vl
ught in the Backfire
Carolina Seen
By Bill Kellam
A most interesting remark
made by Mrs. Roosevelt at the
press conference has been over
looked by the state press. She
said that the "people of the
United States should not fear
living in an insecure world.
Those who want security would
accept fascism and communism
with great ease. Only those who
are not afraid can live in de
mocracy." Loyalty oaths, witch
hunts, and other such forms of
the American tradition of brav
ery. i- Some of her statements at
luncheon bore out this remark,
' and are especially pertinent to
- the local scene. "You will find,"
she said, "if you are not care-
full, that you are fighting for
-.democracy with the very weap
f -ons which make totalitarianism."
Mrs. Roosevelt cited loyalty
. oaths (ARE YOU LISTENING
m SOUTH BUILDING AND THE
BOARD OF TRUSTEES?) as an
example of this undemocratic
. .tendency and declared that they
"'don't achieve their purpose for
, "communists don't mind sign
ing them" and the oaths "in
vade our privacy."
Such oaths fail because they
don't make the basic distinction
of justice, that of the difference
between thoughts and acts.
Naturally we can't tolerate en
. emy agents and saboteurs
those who act in the govern
ment or where else they can
harm the country, but as long
as the Freistadts, etc., merely
rave let them rave, they're
most amusing. And if they start
to act, cut them off.
A man supposedly may think
what he wishes in America and
will not be penalized for those
thoughts, so long as he does not
try to impose them on someone
else. Speaking of evil or forbid
den thoughts, there Us probably
no man in the country who's
seen Ava Gardner who wouldn't
be doing a life stretch in the
nearest pen if he were prose
cuted for the thoughts said
brunette Venus inspired. What's
. the difference where any other
thoughts are concerned?
Mrs. Roosevelt also said she
belonged to a forbidden to
. government employees "sub
versive" group, the NAACP.
Since her patriotism is well
known, she's been allowed to
remain as a UN delegate, but
she said "IF I was a clerk way
down in the State Department,
I would lose my job, and no
one would tell me why." Loy
alty oaths, schmoyalty oaths.
One is very glad that Mrs.
Roosevelt has brought these
vital issues out into the open.
They are a matter of great con
cern and pertinence. For we
must be careful, that in our
rush to destroy the meance of
the extreme left, that we don't
rush to the totalitarianism of
the extreme right. With people
Jike her to guide us, we should
n't, it heed their, advice. ,
People like her are good for a
liberal's soul.
(Several persons have ex
The script paints the preach
pressed a desire to see the rest
of Tuesday's review of "Tread
The Green Grass," the end of
which got mowed off due to a
miscalculation of length. So just
for kicks by the readers, here
it is.)
ers as elderly, porcine, stupid
fellows. Brother Caders is a
coarse, egotistical, cowardly fool
(according to the script). Make
up problems and the age of the
cast prevented "the Playmakers
preachers from appearing thus
ly. All four reverends, with
their trim black beards, ramrod
carriage, and neat clothing,
looked like be-whiskered boy
scouts. John Shearin tried his
best to be pompous, but an ex
aggerated bass voice was hard
ly enough to convince us it
w-as a three-d imensional
Brother Caders we were seeing
and hearing. None of the other
characters were sufficiently de
veloped by the author or mem
bers of the cast to come to life.
, The ending of the scripts and
that of the play differed mark
edly. Mr. Green had an insane
Tina led away by her broken
hearted parents, a vengeful,
blood thirsty for Davey's cor
puscles Harvey, and the rev
erends, who are still chanting
their blind faith in -de lawd.
By having Harvey to stand
bathed in celestial light, gazing
rapturously heavenward hold
ing Tina's luscious corpse in his
arms, Director Fitz-Simons de
stroys the whole point of Mr.
Green's previous development
of theme, which is there, no
matter how vaguely. That
makes Mr. Green look silly.
Much of Mr. Fitz-Simons
To The Editor
HOUND DOGS
Editor: '
Apropos the many debates,
opinions, and letters to the edi
tor during the past month on
the admittance of Negroes to
the University, I should like t5
direct a question to those peo
ple who are opposed to any
to tilt at than the inoffensive
measure that seeks to accord
to the Negro people a fair share
of human dignity. My question:
"Is it consistent with Christ's
teachings to assume that the Ne
gro is merely a quanity of proto
plasm to be stepped on and
kicked about, in the same fas
hion as some of our Southern
people treat their dogs?"
Now I'm from south of the
Mason-Dixori - line, and I also
was in the service, but I shall
treat these facts, as they relate
to the Negro situation, in an
other letter.
, ..Jack .Bennett...
The Little Giant
By John Wheeler
This is a success story every
youth in the United States who
thinks the Governmen ought to
support him should read. Of
course, that view has been en
couraged recently by some of
our Washington leaders.
Billy Rose was born on ihe
" lower East Side of New York.
- He had io hustle from ihe
"" ihne he could walk. He be
came a stenographer, and not
being satisfied with second
place, he made himself one
of ihe best, winning ihe Na
tional Championship for speed
and accuracy. He learned how
io write lyrics and authored
many hits. Then he produced
great stage successes such as
Carmen Jones and spectacles
such as ihe Aquacade at ihe
World's Fair.
Three years ago this five
feet three stick of dynamite,
mixed with red pepper, started
a newspaper column, called
Pitching Horseshoes. Today, ac
cording to available informa
tion, it is published more wide
ly than any other feature. "Let's
look at the record,"' as Al Smith
used to say. The total number
of subscribers in the United
States and Canada counts up to
2,300 newspapers, and this total
does 'not include those publish
ing the column in England and
in various languages all over
the world, as in South Ameri
can countries in Spanish and
Portuguese, in France, Japan,
etc.
Mr. Rose a year ago took a
trip around the world for pleas
ure, but he always found time .
to draw a deep breath and talk
to the local editor about his
column. He came home with
many orders. But he is not sat
isfied with being the champion.
He wants his column to be the
best, and his appetite for new
subscribers is never jaded.
Strangely enough he doesn'i
need ihe money. Lots of peo
ple hang around Billy Rose,
hoping some of his smartness
will rub off. Recently a new
show opened at ihe Ziegfeld
Theatre in New York "Gen-
uncalled-for emphasis on the
Dawnce looked rather silly.
As stated Tuesday, the gestures
of the Dawnce and spoken
drama look rather silly when
combined. Spoken pantomime
it was, no les.
Despite these defects, the play
moved amazingly rapidly. Much
credit is due Miss Martin and
Rezzuto for their enthusiasm
and honest effort which carried
the play through. The audience
was entertained, though baffled.
Whew!
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ilemen Prefer Blondes" and
was acclaimed by ihe critics
as a hit, second only to "South
Pacific." Ii is in HIS theater,
and all he has io do is gaze
through ihe bay window
which looks out on ihe audi
ence and siage from his office
upstairs and watch the
crowds and ihe money roll ;n.
" " Because the Bell Syndicate
distributes Billy Rose's column
and because I run the Bell Syn
dicate, the question fired at m0
frequently is,
"Does he write his own ?:u:T
or does he have a ghost?"
So one day I went up to the
Ziegfeld Theater where the
Little Giant has his office- ond
an apartment on the top fllir
built in by Flo Ziegfeld him
self, and told the telephone girl
I would like to see Mr. Rose's
ghost. She seemed a little star
' tied by the request, but is used
to handling strange characters,
including actors looking fr,r
jobs. She announced me and
then told me to go on up.
"Is this Mr. Rose's spook-?''
I asked as I walked in and sax
a dapper little man in his shirt
sleeves sitting in a slot at a
round desk.
"It is," he answered. ' What
can I do for you?
"You look enough like Billy,
himself, to be his double," I
observed.
"That's funny," he replied.
"A lot of people have said the
same thing."
"Then, could I see Mr. Rose?"
I asked.
"You're talking to him."
There you are. Billy and his
ghost are one and ihe same.
Why? Because he is prouder
of lhal column ihan anything
he does. He gels great satis
faction oui of ihe creative
work, so thai is why he in
sists on doing ii himself. My
friend, John Golden, who is
in ihe theatrical business, too,
one day was ialking aboui ihe
success and appeal of "Pitch
ing Horseshoes."
"I was picking at the counter
pane in Paris one night about
two o'clock in the morning a
year ago because I . couldn't
sleep, and started reading the
Paris edition of the Herald
Tribune. I found Billy Rose's
column, and the stuff was great.
If he had a ghost writer who
was that good, the guy would
quit in two weeks and start a
column of his own and show
Rose up. I didn't think he had
it in him, but he has all right,
and he's kept it going for near
ly three years nows at the same
speed to hold the interest of
his readers."
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