FACE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL. TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1954
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The Decision
Lines On Literature
'Nope We're Puffing On McCarthy And Cohn Instead'
The Supreme Court vesteiday struck a
mijhty blow in the American struggle for
individual freedom and equality before the
law.
Southern schools, this University among
them, must now face the truth-that "sepa
rate but equal" is a meaningless phrase, that
places of learning, if separated, are inherent
ly unequal.
We hold this one-like those other great
truths declared in our Constitution-to be
self-evident: It is lime to stop postponing
brotherhood. This is a time for the turning
of thought and opinion into wide, new chaii-'
nels, a time for the yielding of old prejudices
and ignorant discrimination before the pa
tient and powerful light of Christianity.
Even if ethics did not compel it, the in
ternational position of the United States re
quires us to enter this new day in Southern
education .with resolution. We stand as. the
champion of the free world, as the protec
tor of the dignity of the minority, as men
with inalienable and unassailable rights.
This is lent special significance in a world
in which the majority of people, by our
standards, are colored.
However, it would be erroneous and im
moral to predicate doing the right thing up
on the wrong reason; for the practical con
siderations, important as they are, are none
the less secondary. We hail the Supreme
Court decision, not because it enhances our
prestige in a troubled world, and not be
cause it pleases a segment of professional
Amid The Rumblings:
A Quarterly Of Merit
Palinuru:
'NO PLACE IN EDUCATION'
. . .a gavel for discrimination
equalizers, but because it is the right thing
to do.
South Carolina's Governor Byrnes and
many like him in the South, many of them
our friends and people we-love,. now stand
eclipsed. Their South is gone, or it is going,
and the bitterness and antagonism no long
er seem very significant, though we do not
deny that there is bitterness yet to be over
come before perfect equality is achieved, ev
en in North Carolina, even in Chapel Hill.
It is simply that the path is now very clear
indeed, and for the Southern states and the
University, there is no other path, though
we be emotionally reluctant at first to follow
it.
From whatever point you view it, the es
sential equity of the Court's verdict is plain
to see. That, we think, is a good test: the hu
man test, how you feel about it. And we feel
good.
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The Spring Issue of the Caro
lina Quarterly is the appropriate
answer to the cry that the Quart
erly should be abolished. It is
both ironic and gratifying that
Charlotte Davis & Co., have
produced the best Quarterly in
years just when' the first rum
blings of abolition were heard.
Absolutely no apologies are need
ed for this issue.
Before reviewing the present
number, I want to survey briefly
what Miss Davis and her staff
have done for the Quarterly. It
was just a little over a year
ago that the magazine was in
the depths of despair. Its end
seemed certain. At lhat time
DTII Editor Rolfe Neill and I,
believing that the Quarterly could
survive if it were free of the
ivory-tower set, published the
harsh 'Quo Varis' editorial stat
ing that the staff should examine
anew its original purpose. Then
the ditorial board of the Quart
erly appointed Charlotte Davis
to take over the editorship. A
marked changed was noticeable
in th eSpring issue. Then in
the fall the upward pull con
tinued. With the present num
ber, the staff has attained the
excellence that is expected of a
Carolina literary magazine.
The contents of the magazine .
are neither overly-esteric nor
vulgarly low-brow. They are, in
the main, solid achievements.
The big news in the Quarterly
is the article on "The 1954 Fa
culty Evaluation" by Thad Sey
mour. Here is the article for
which the whole campus has
been waiting, faculty and stu
dents alike. Yet it will be a
pity if this article completely
overshadows the three fine short
stories in the magazine.
The award story, "The Lost
Beach," by Louise Hardeman
is noteworthy for its polished
style. It is a sensitive story
that is long on character and
full of realistic touches that
come from a woman's
about a young girl.
alj contact with the truth he
seeks . . . far from weakening us,
our tolerance and respect for the
multitude of human ideas and in
stitutions is the very skeleton
and fiber of any rights for the
individual." It certainly is an ap-
propria te article at this time. "
Finally, there is also an ample
serving of poetry, illustrations,
and book reviews in the present
Quarterly which helps to provide
a galaneed and varied magazine.
I think that now, one year lat
er, one might ask again of the
Quarterly, "Quo Vadis?" A mag
azine such as this thrives only
in an atmosphere of creativity
and encouragement. WCUNC's
Coraddi is consistently excellent
because of the constant influence
of people such as Randall Jarrell
and Peter Taylor. Here at Caro
lina there is now an indication
that we can hope for a literary
revival under the influence of
Phillips Russell, Hugh Holman,
and Jessie Rehder. Young talent
seems to be appearing again
J. A. C. Dunn; Joanna Scroggs
(whose work is very good); Louis
Kraar; Ed Yoder; and many oth
ers on the freshman and sopho
more levels. A hard-working staff
will corral this talent just as
Charlotte Davis has done this
year. An ivory tower never pro
duces an issue as good as this
one it takes work.
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Secretary Hobby Backs Down
Carolina Front
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Editor CHARLES KURALT
Managing Editor ROLFE NEILL
Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
Sports Editor - JO HUs"sEY
Business Manager . AL SHORTT
News Editor
Society Editor
Librarian
Asst. Sports Editor
Subscription Manager
Advertising' Manager
Asst. Subscription Manager
Jerry Recce
Eleanor Saunders
; Connie Marple
Dick Barkley
Tom Witty
Jack Stilwell
Eugene Polk
NEWS STAFF Fred Powledge, Ken Sanford, Rich
ard Thiele, Jennie Lynn, John Jackson, Babbie
Dilorio, Charles Childs. . .
In "Operation Ah-Choo," Vin
Cassidy has produced a delight
fully satiric story about a sneeze.
Not since Richard Stern filled
the pages-of the old Carolina Ma
gazine with his satiric pieces
have I heard anything quite as
funny as this in a campus pub
lication. Mr. Cassidy's humor
calls attention to the great
drought of genuinely good satire
on the campus.
Excellent as the above stories
are, to me the real . "find" of
the Quarterly is a young sopho
more called J. A. C. Dunn. His
"A Quanily Unknown"' reveals
the most talent I have seen in
an undergraduate since Charles
Brockman was startling the cam
pus. Dunn's story is a three stage
glimpse into the life of a ma'-h
teacher. In each stage there is a
marvellous achievement of tone.
In the first stage Mr. Babcock is
young and cocky, and his stu
dents, especially Mawson, are im
pudent. In the second stage Bab
cock is middle-aged and cynical
while Mawson is quietly subdued.
Finally, in the third stage Bab
cock is old and nostalgic, and
Mawson is confident and grate
ful. This is a story with much
laughter and more truth; it is
a story that disturbed me greatly,
one that I shall read again and
again. The insight and maturity
of Dunn are great for one so
young. I shall watch with inter
est the future of this young new
writer on our campus.
In addition, Hamilton Horton,
Jr., has written a surprising ar
ticle defending the liberal and
the individual. Although his
piece, "American Freedom and
Faith," begins a bit like a pon
derous oration, it gets down to
cases at the end with such per
tinent observations as "it is no
less obvious that the American
search for a faith is falling into
a dangerous pit of dogmatism,
and that if the average citizen
does not learn to respect a ques
tioning and criticizing of his inr
WASHINGTON There has
been a backstage hassle inside
the Administration over the bad
ly needed Federal program to
promote construction of new
schools.
Sam Brownell, Commissioner of
Education and brother of Attorney-General
Brownell, is for the
school-construction bill, but he's
been stopped dead in his tracks
largely by the baby member of
the Eisenhower subcabinet, 27-year-old
Assistant Secretary of
Health, Eaucatiori and Welfare,
Roswell Perkins. .Mrs. Oveta
Culp Hobby, Secretary for HEW,
is also against the school bill.
However, it looks as if the
Senate would pass the bill any
way. Here is what has happened:
About three weeks ago, Secre
tary Hobby testified before the
Senate Labor and" Education Com
mittee that she favored the prin
ciple of school-building construc
tion, but wanted further confer-
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ences before it was undertaken.
Specifically she wanted one con
ference in each of the 48 states,
plus one big final conference at
the White House.
To this, Sen. Lister Hill of Ala
bama, long-time champion of fed-.
cral aid to schools, objected;
"There have already been sev
en national conferences on this
question," he said in brief. "The
conferences even began with the
Hoover Administration. Seven
million dollars have already, been
spent on a school survey. Mean
while our schools are more and
more overcrowded. So it seems
to me this is a time for action,
not talk. The Eisenhower Ad
ministration,'' said Hill, "made a
specific pledge to help the
schools, and this is the time to
do it."
Sen. John Cooper of Kentucky,
Republican, agreed, and as a re
sult the Seriate Committee went,
ahead with hearings on a bill au
thorizing federal aid to school
construction.
Sam Brownell Muzzled
Lead-off ' witness at the hear
ings was tr have been Education
previously announced that there
was a national shortage of 340,
000 classrooms. And his staff
worked late at night preparing
his testimony for the Senate Com
mittee. But just before he was sched
uled to testify, Brownell phoned
Chairman Cooper to say he could
not appear. He had received
blunt orders from Mrs. Hobby
that he could make no statement.
Actually it was bright, eung
Assistant Secretary Ros"e!l Per
kins who was behind Mrs. Hob
by's action. He had written a re
port, which went to the Senate
over Mrs. Hobby's signature, op
posing federal aid for school con
struction even though she had
previously stated that there is a
$5,000,000,000 backlog of school
construction.
The Senate Committee, how
ever, is proceeding with the bill.
Note President Eisenhower
during the 1952 elections sa l' of
school construction: "The Ameri
can answer is to do in this field
what we have been doing for a
long time (with highway and hos
pital construction)."
A-Bombs In Asia?
The Air Force is now prepared
for a momentous step. Faced
with growing Communist aggres
sion in the Far East, the Air
Force has notified the Wbite
House that it is prepared to bomb
any place in the world, including
Indochina.
Furthermore, there is growing
sentiment inside the Air Force
for the use of atomic bombs in
Indochina.
These two capabilities arc ex
tremely i m p o r t a,n t because
among other things, they repre
sent a change in Air Force point
of view. Hitherto, Gen. Nate
Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff,
had opposed Admiral Radford's
recommendation that the Air
Force be used in Indochina. And
though still opposed, he has re
ported that the Air Force is ready
' to act as outlined above.
fThere have also been other
changes in the viewpoints of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. And the
Army, which is dead set against
having an expeditionary force get
bogged down in the Far Esst, new
backs the idea of bombing opera
tions and is willing to use land
troops to protect air and naval
bases.
Reason for this change is sig
nificant. It is induced by appar
ent Communist determination to
push ahead in Southeast Asia plus
the realization that in two years
Russia could meet the challenge
of American air power. Today
she can't.
Kussia Advancing -
Today the United States has a
powerful-striking force of long
range, B-47 jet bombers un
matched by Russia. This is in ad
dition to our high-flying B-3o
turbo-jet bombers. As a result,
atomic blows with the United
States now. But two years from
now she will be. She will ha-, e
enough jet bombers and possibly
an atomic stockpile as big as ours.
The all-important question of
whether atomic bombs should be
used in the Far East now rests
largely in the hands of the State
Department. The armed services
have given their okay.
During the siege of Dienbien
phu, the White House asked the
Pentagon what could be done to
break up the attack, to which th
Navy and Air Force recommend
ed dropping tactical A-bombs on
the ring of Red guerrillas massed
around the fortress.
. This not only would have sved
the fortress, but would have
forced the .Chinese Communists
to do one of two things: 1, Leave
Indochina altogether; or 2, call
on Russia for help..
The Air Force was willing to
take the calculated risk that the
Kremlin would avoid an atomic
showdown with the United States
at this time.
State Deoartment Veto
However, the State Department
said No. It argued that 1. our
Western Allies would desert us;
2, the huge populations of Asia
would turn irrevocably against us.
American hatred would sweep all
Asia, the State Department
argued.
The Air Force replied thst the
A-bomb is much more humn
than the napalm fire jelly with
which we have been splashing
enemy troops in Korea and Inrio-
Segregation
Decision Is
A Challenge
Louis Kraar
china. The State
however, prevailed.
Department,
YOU Said It
Poetic Letter
Editor:
T am T in this vast universe!
Unique am I, for better or for
worse!
Forever and ever, my mind, in
limitless measure
Creates, and creates anew; such
is its pleasure!
My self, not full awake, is still
in waking.
My world, not given or made, is
my own, in maKing;
My lofty soul, my whole and sole
control
Has endless quest-conquest, its
only goal!
What if this life with sin and
evil is fraught,
What if is God in Heaven a
know-not-what.
What if the world of things is
void and nought?
NO ONE, including Universi
ty officials, knew just what the
Supreme Court's segregation de
cision meant when it was first
announced yesterday.
The Court, it seems, has al
lowed for a gradual switch.
There are, unfortunately, still
some of us who offer the same,
hackneyed arguments against
granting Negroes equal rights as
guaranteed by the Constitution.
Some say, "What about the
argument that mixed schools will
lead to violence?" And Caro
lina's Dr. Guy B. Johnson, of the
Department of Sociology, once
answered this saying:
"Anyone who thinks that the
transition from segregation to
racial co-education can be made
without problems, tensions, and
even personal tragedies is a fool.
Anyone who thinks that the
transition means the end of civ
ilization is also a fool. The op
eration may be serious, but the
patient will recover. And when
he recovers and looks back over
his experience, he may say,
'Well, it wasn't half as bad as I
thought it would be.' "
Whatever the arguments a
gainst granting Negroes equal
educational rights (and the
Court said yesterday that "sepa
rate educational facilities are in
herently unequal."), I hope that
Carolina students and the rest
of the South will accept the de
cision with an effort to push a
side outmoded prejudices.
The Supreme Court's decision,
it would seem, means that we
have finally come of age and
can now live and learn with
each other here in the South
without regard to the rather ar
tificial barriers of race.
At a time when we're striving
so much for unity abroad, it
seems a good thing that we've
finally decided that America
doesn't have any room for sec
ond - class citizens particular
ly in the classroom.
CAMPUS CAFE looked like
New York's 44th Street as the
cast of "Dark of the Moon" pack
ed into the long, narrow eating
place Sunday night after the per
formance. . Janet Carter, who played the
female lead, and Leonard Btil-
Sorry death may strike, but ends A lock sat at a back table looking
me not,
My self jet stands erect, and
high,
My boundless Spirit and I shall
never die!
both - tired and pleased.
The play is really grand. Aft
er two rain-buts in a row, "Dark
of the Moon" opened under a
full moon and with a full house
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Dark Of The Moon' '
iNeeas a vveiaing uuw;i
Ted Rosenthal
Alter a tuo-dy boycott, the stars came to the,
Forest Theatre Sunday night for "Dark of the! .
Moon' ; but when the last witch bad flittered out t
of sisht. beyond the crags of the Baldy Mountain j(
set. perhaps they were sorry they'd changed their,' -minds.
The Howard Richardson-William Bernry fant-i 1
as . if played sensitively, might have appeared a , (
good deal better than it did, but in the hands of
Director William Long, it emerged as an unhappy
union of over-extremes the too-phantasmal super ! j
natural srqucn'.-o clashed discordantly with those j
of the mountain folks, which in turn appeare.i
improt.ablv sordid The overall effect was that of
a duct hctwtcn a theremin and a rag-time trumpet
and the result was cacaphony.
"Dark of the Moon" is the story of a boy-witch
who falls in love with a human girl; he persuade. ,
a mountain sorceress to change him into a man,
and she does, but stipulates he mu.-t marry the
girl, and she must remain faithful to him for a ,
year, or he will ;:gain become a witch.
The bey descends into the valley, finds his love i
Barbara, and liccause she had become pregnant
after their first meeting, has no trouble in gaining .
her parents' consent, although he is a stranger.-
Because of his origin, the hoy is unable to enter
a church this i rouses the suspicion of the com
munity, and when Barbara gives birth to an in- -human
creature, there is general agreement that''
he is a witch. Barbara speaks to her husband,
learns his story, uid remains in love with him. j
But on the evening of the allotted year, her -parents
take the girl to a revival meeting. She is
goaded into revealing the truth, and the hill peo- j
pie, to end John's transformation, force her into ;
intercourse with an ex-boyfriend, upon the floor 4
of the church. John returns to his former state, '
and Barbara, because of the jealousy of the witch- j
girls who entice the boy throughout the play, j,
loses her life.
Daniel Reid. starred as John, gave too-frenzied '
a performance to be convincing: had he moderate.! (1
his efforts, the fantasy would have been more!
compelling. V
Janet Carter did much better as Barbara. Shf f
displayed warmth and sincerity, and a contagious j , '
sympathy for 'he role. '
Marian Fitz-Sirr.ons delivered a good perform- v
rnce as Mrs. Allen. Barbara's mother, and Leonarrtt
f.ujloek was eapame as the lather, l.es i.asey actod
well playing the Conjur Woman, as did Christian
Moe as Preacher Haggler.
Both Susanno Elliot and Mary Helen Crain, play
ing witches, tended to exaggerate their voice
treatments, but since over-stressing was so gen
eral a flaw with the company, probably again the ,
director was at fault. I
Donald Treat's settings were excellent. Jeanettc
Pratt's makeup, Art Winsor's musical effects,
Foster Filz-Simon's choreography, and John Tay
lor's costumes were all well-handled, as were the 1
technical phases of the production. j1
In the last analysis, no matter what attributes
ot plot, acting ability, and stage-craft are present,
unless they are vclded into a firm structure, little
worthy of praise can result. It is the director's '
responsibility to interpret the play and integrate t
the performance into a consistent fluid entity.
This was evidently not done with "Dark of the I
Moon." and from that lack stem many of the short- j
comings of the production. Treated with more per -
ception, it might have been engaging and satisfy- '
ing, instead of indifferent and disappointing.
Meet Kerr Scott
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The continual harping by the Lennon forces on i'
the refusal of Kerr Scott to release, his income tax
returns is just one more indication of the despera-' j
tion to which the impending defeat of their candi- :
j. , u;.,, wi,v 1'ivihln to find much tn I '
on hehalf of their own candidate, they have
banked on a strategy of running down their chief
opponent a strategy which is producing limited
results, since Scott refuses to make a campaign for
high public office into a bitter squabble over
pseudo-issues of scant relevance to the fitness of
the respective candidates to serve in the United
States Senate.
The reason why Scott decided not to make his'
income tax returns public is simple. It is not that,
he has anything to hide: his salary for the 16 years Jj
he served as Commissioner oi Agriculture snf f
Governor is a matter of public record. So are t'rf
amounts he has teen paid for rights-of-way taken i
ny tne Mate :or nignways duiu across ins janu. j
But in addition to these sources of income, he also .
carries on extensive farming and dairying opera
tion.s, the tax returns for which are likely to be
quite complex. i1
But Lennon could count on the average voter ,
of the State not knowing much tax law and could j
expect them to fall for the allegation that the'J
whole proceeds of the sale of land to the St at . I'
should be repoiied as income, and that Scott was
trying to beat the tax collector in not so reporting j
it. But whv didn't Scott release his returns, andi
then explain to the people the various details aboat' jt
which Lennon might raise a curious eyebrow? n
Because when the issue came up, there were
only three weeks left in the campaign. Scott war.t-y
ed to continue to talk, as he has talked to date,
about the issues facing the Senate and the nation. J
lie cousan t do that and also engage in long-winded
quibbles about incomprehensible details of
matters. So he chose to refuse to release his
returns, even though he knew it would hurt hiai
politically, in order to continue to discuss with th?, j
voters of the State the issues which are really rele-j
vant to the campaign. d
ing Herald, a generally pro-Iennon paper, who re-,
cently said of Ihe income tax "issue," "The candi-(
dates . . . would render a greater service to the
people if they would emphasize their stand on
public issues rather than what they earned
year. . . . The people need to know w hat the eandi-1
dale thinks about the critical problems now
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