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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Kef duvet Chatming Indian reapers retort
' The .results- of -the:" "Minnesota
Democratic primary raised mystery
for Stevenson supporters and storm
c louds for the Republicans.
Senator Kefauver no ''longer has
the lustre ol the big-time crime in
vestigator. He has even doffed his
Tennessee coonskin. What is the
attraction about him as a political
(Tiuliclate that would give him a
victory margin of some 50,000 votes
in his contest with Acllai Steven- -son?
Is he; like William Jennings
Iivan. the new man of the people,,
with some lightning message in or-
ator ' that strikes to the hearts of
the voters? Hardlv. His oratory is
flat, often stale, and while the Sen
ator is plainly a man of principle
and some icie s his speech-making
will not lmld a-. ..candle to Steven
son's. Is it a resplendent personality?
Hardlv, again. Kefauver is affable
enough in person, but standing in
supposed conversation with him
din ing his last visit to Raleigh, we.
might as well" have stood to con
verge with a cigar-store Indir n. We
had the strange feeling that lie was
thinking, either about nothing at
all or about far-distant phenomena
like flying saucers or the Dead Sea
Scrolls.
'He stared over us. into the dis
tance. Did that stance win him
votes" in Minnesota? It hardly seems
possible; but on the other hand, he
assumes the glassy-eyed cigar-store
Indian attitude often while talking
to others lace to face.
Did Minnesota Republicans cast
their votes in the Democratic Pri
mal y so as to upset their nemesis,
Adlai Stevenson? Likely so. But un
less the .swing was more massive
than suspec ted, the Democrats act
ually gave Kefauver part of his
margin of victory. .
Yes, we are mystified,, raid .with
out a solution to this enigmatic:
charmer's prowess.
IWit the huge Democratic vote
doe. not mystify us. Storm clouds
gather even for the gods and
we suspect there are Republican
frowns along Pennsvlvania Avcn-ue.
Ervin Vs. Marshall
IN THIS DAY of mass communication
and mzzs debating about racial seg
regatioriwastounding things can happen
to you -if-both sides of--the question en
ter your living room.
Almost every -evening debaters on this
subject take aver my attention, men like
Senator rSam Imn -Jr., -Thurgood Mar
shall, Thomas R. Waring, and "others. It
seems odd sometimes to find myslf tak
ing discussants f a subject so long out
lawed from polite Southern converation
into my bedroom.
But hardly a 'i night ."goes" by that I
don't share my armchair or bed with
one of these debaters. It's all very pro
per, you see, because even the most
fiery of the arguers is properly pressed
in the pages of a perfectly legitimate
magazine or newspaper.
My latest visitors ;were Senator Ervin,
a polite moderate on this question, and
Thurgood .Marshall, chief counsel ' for
the Nafiorial -Association for the ;Acf-s
vancement of the Colored People, and
some of the latter"? associates
4J
THE NORTH Carolina senator is a
calm, leasonable; nd -moderate ..propQ"
nent of racial -s gregation, and of
course Mr. Mar frail fie feading
fcrce in Nro legal battles, against se
gregation "Senator Ervin speaks from
t:i - toit,someT family-aimed pages of !
Look magazine and gives "The Case for
Segregation;?, Attorney Marshall is vrv
idly reflected by Bernard Taper's lucid
report brt "A 'Meeting In Atlanta" in
New Yorker magazine. -
Perhaps I-dozed off the other night
after listening to the arguments' of Mar
shall and Ervin, thought neither was
dull. At any rate, I seem to have a run
ning debate between the two gentlemen
resounding through my mind. It goes
something likethisT
..
Senator Ervin: Social segregation
based on race . is an actual condition
and not a mere theory in the South. It
is, indeed, recognized by the vast ma
jority of Southerners, both white and
Negro, as an acceptable way of life for
both races. V" "
Couhsel Marshall: You knew, you hear
all this talk about the movement for
the Ncgto's rights and desegregation be
ing pushed by the North faster than
the colored people down in the South
want Thurgood Marshall's supposed to
be maftei-minding this whole campaign,
somehow, against the wishes of South
ern Negroes, those millions of childlike,
happy, easygoing colored folk - that's
the way segregationists talk about Ne
groes when they're not describing them
as vicious, immoral and diseased who
would be as contented as pie if agitators
didn't come along and stir them up.
That's funny, because our people in the
S:uth'aie actually way ahead of us on
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this thing. . .
Senator Ervin: (The Supreme Court)
clearly implied that. "their -novel decision
was based on this 'astounding constitu-
tional philosophy: The Constitution au
tomatically amends itself from time to
time without any change in its wording
and without any action by the Congress
'and the states as required by Article
V; and the scope and times of the auto
matic amendments are determinable by
the Supreme Court alone. If this philo
sophy prevails, the Constitution will be
reduced to a worthless scrap of paper,,
and the American system of government
will perish, and the states 'and their ci
tizens will become helpless subjects of.
a judicial oligarchy.
. Counsel Marshall: (After being asked
what' the, NAACP. would; do if it found
in the future that it won court decisions
but couldn't get the'decisions put into
effect) I . don't . know what we'd do.
Thats something' ! I can't even contem
plate. It would be anarchy. It would be
the end of the country; I. can t imagine'.
it coming to that.
i , Senator Ervini . (Southern states) know
that the f commingling of the races
,is alien to the way of life of Southern
ers of both races. .They are satisfied that
the children of both races will make
the most satisfactory progress Tn the re
laxed atmosphere of segregated schools.
Counsel Marshall: It 99 colored chil
dren out of 100 are diseased which ob
vious they're not I believe that under
this country's notion of justice you still
have no light to penalize the 100th one
for that. If 99 Negro children out of
100 should.be found to be stupid, that
hundredth one still has a right to equal
educational opportunities.'
Senator Ervin: The interfering outsid
ers) are leery about putting everything
Negro leaders do not stop with denying
Southerners freedom of thought and
speech . .-..'it
Counsel Marshall: Some (NAACP lead
ers) and leeryabout putting everything
they know on paper. And when they
phone ' and hear clicking 'on the line all
the time, they get leery about that, too.
I can't blame them. It's not safe to be
an NAACP leader in some parts of the
South today.
Senator Ervin: The most crucial prob
lem confronting the South today is this:
How can we obtain an opportunity to
seek a sound solution for the South's
racial problem in an atmosphere free
from emotional tensions and mental
misunderstandings? As one -who loves
and understands Southerners of both ra
ces, I believe that this atmosphere can
best be obtained at this hour in a sys
tem of voluntary school segregation.
Such a system is sanctioned by Cae de-,
cision of May 17, 1954. It would afford
moderate Southerners of both races an
opportunity to' solve, the South's racial
problem in an atmosphere of good will,
patience, and tolerance. This is the on
ly way the problem can be solved.
Counsel Marshall: (His reporter ex
plains that a citizen of one of the Sou
thern states might, in debate, with a
Northerner, plead the caus of gradual
ism and going slow 'in changing deep
seated social customs, but he would run
the risk of ostracism if he suggested in
his home town that change should ever
come. Then Marshall adds:) They don't
mean go slow. They mean don't go.
- .
So the argument goes with no ap
parent conclusion or victor yet.
As long as the fight is verbal and le
gal and doesn't involve the untruths
of those who maintain that one race is
inherently superior it seems a good
thing.
Both Senator Ervin and Counsel Mar
shall deserve some attention; they both
speak wisely and with apparent sincer
ity. Low's Kraar.
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Student politics on the campus
has fallen and is continuing to
fall to an all time low. Or at least
this is the impression that a
serious minded student should
get from even a hasty reading
of Tuesday's Daily Tar Heel.
When the leaders of one party
accuse the leaders. of the oppos
ing, party of dirty politics and
in the act of doing so use meth-
v ods which in political circles are
considered to be dirty politics,
this can only mean that there",
has been a gross. misunderstand
ing of what is dirty and what is
above-board by one . or both of
the parties' leaders.
As I continued to read the
other political articles on" the
front page I became convinced
that the error is not in the or-.
, ganizaticn or in any one of the
parties of student government
but rather lies in the philosophy
which lies behind student govern
ment here at Carolina.
PRESENT TREND
. I think ithat I can best illus
trate what seems to be the pres
ent trend by using another arti
cle on the same page teeing of
V the; University Party presidential
candidate Jim Exum's plan to
solve , what is tenderly referred
to by politicians as the "Parking
Problem." From reading the
article I gather that Mr. Exum
would, favor completely eliminat
ing what little beauty and aes
thetic appeal the campus has left
in order to provide parking spac
es for another hundred freshman
cars.
Surely nothing has less aesthe
tic value than a lot filled with
even the latest models of cars.
I simply cannot even picture the
grass " of the Forest Theater or.
Kcnari Woods or Emerson Field'
replaced with asphalt and the
majestic pines, elms, and oaks of
which Chapel: Hill boasts so
proudly replaced with Buicks,
' "Cad'Hlacsand Thunderbirds.' Con-'
struction. Companies could come
in tomorrow and spread asphalt
over the entire area; surrounded
by Dr. Mitchell's walls .and this
would do little more than solve
the problem for perhaps one or
two years. Then at the present
rate the enrollment of the Uni
versity is increasing the same
problem would be with us in an
even greater way in a short time.
When I confronted one of the
UP's top student, body office can
didates with this problem he
said that this did not worry him
in the least that all he is in
terested in is that the adminis
tration does not limit student
cars while he is still here and
has a car. Such apathy! Is" this
typical of the qualifications tha,t
we as voting students are de
manding of our so-called student
leaders? As a member of the
University party myself, it griev
es me to think that this is' the
kind of men we nominate to rep
resent us ' in the highe'st offices
of the student body.
As their chief weapon against
the restriction of student cars
the leaders of our student body
and the administration alike cite,
the fact that we do not have class
discrimination at Carolina and
that this would segregate' fresh
man 'and sophomores from jun
iors and seniors. However, we do
have discrimination on our
campus. In order to hold a Uni
versity scholarship a student can
ynot own a car or belong to a
social fraternity. Surely this is
discrimination. However I am not
saying that discrimination is nec
essarily bad, even though this' is
the present connotation that is
giver to the word. Perhaps it
would be better if freshman andv
sophomores were denied.the use
of cars in Chapel Hill. , If this
.'were done I am surey that the
"number of students who flunk
out during their first tvyo years
would be reduced considerably.
Would this be bad?
Then comes the argument that ,
there is, nothing to -do,-.; on the
weekends. Must the students be
rerr.'nded that this is a University
and not a high school that
the University is a community
of persons who should bo devot
ed to getting the knowledge .that
is power in order that they may
heal the wounds of their not-so-fortunate
neighbor in an ..age that
is staggering under the-pains of
its own rapid growth. A, univer
sity is not a country club.
Surely our, student government
leaders are suffering from a
Avarped sense of values and an
extreme case of near-sightedness. --It
seems that student leaders are
only interesied in trying" to see
how many inches of space they,
can fill with their varied extra
curricular activities . under their
names in the yearbook. . Never
before have, we needed leaders
who will unselfishly use their
talents for the benefit of their
neighbor because of love for him .
and not for personal, glory, ,
On his campaign' poster a can
didate may list "Student' Lcgisla
turc"- among his qualifications.
How many students ever question
this and ask : how many bills the
candidate introduced while a"
member of the Legislature? Once
the campus politician ' gets this
extra pearl 01 his string, the ex
. tra line in the yearbook, he is
for the most part content to sit
by and watch someone else in
troduce the bills and because of
party pressure and obligations
vote "yea" if the bill is spon- .
sored by his party and"nay""if
sponsored by the opposing party.
We as the student body need to
see the distinct difference in po
litical success and " qualities of
leadership. ... " ' ' '
Surely if we could eoncievc of
a new philosophy and' theory on
which to build, our candidates
would stop walking on egg: shells
and would no longer; be .afraid to
take a positive stand ..on. what
they believe to be r the. answers
to existing problems "for fear of
losing the vote of some area of
the 'campus. ;
' Student government is still
wearing the same garment , mis
takenly placed on it years ago.
The size is too small, and the
cloth has become threadbare.
However our "student leaders",
are continuing to sew patches of
new cloth on the old and soon
the new cloth and the old will
be lost because the new cloth
will cause the old to tear because,
the new does not agree with the .
old. ' ' ;
Jackie Cooper .
THE CAMEL'S BACK I V
; , WeV note with rising " spirits .
'that a New Hanover jury found
th courage t; deny an estansed
wife alimony, in face . of . her,
somewhat irregular behavior.!
The plaint of Joseph Meshaw,"
in case you missed it, was some-,
tj'iing like "this: - ' : ..
She stabbed 'him as he slept,'
for his refusal to go out and buy .
.her a hot dog; ;-
She knocked him unconscious ':
with a hot poker; - , -
Smoked his cigars at a, party; .
Went home with a clutch " of -Marines;
, .
Tried to run him down with
an automobile "
Staged a party while he was
out of town, with lights out;
Someone yanked a rug from
under him as :he entered, and
slashed him with a knife;
She publicly clamored for a
yonngsr husband;
Their marital relations had
been no more than formal and
cursory for 25 years.
We have one question for the
jury, for guidance to , future
Tar Heel couples-at-war:
It was the cigars wasn't it,
fellows? Greensboro Daily
News
TEACHING VS. PRACTICE
But how can a job be dorfe,
as all citizens expect it to be
done, when a basic science pro
fessor may retire after 31 years
at a top salary of $6,900 and
retirement income of $250 a
month for the duration of his
life only? This man twenty years
ago was receiving $4,800. If that
were extended to the present
value of the dollar he should be
receiving now about $12,000 at
: the ' same salary rate, so this
man has been receiving a reduc
tion Jn income during the past
twenty years. A professor of
pathology receives an income
after 28 years which is actually
two fifths of the salary offered
to two of his residents on the
the completion of three years
j)f training under him. Every
year over the country several
hundred able young men and
Vomen, disposed and qualified
for teaching and research choose
to go ' into practice rather thart
to accept -$2,400 or' $3,000 a
year from college, augmented
by $5,000 from grants, possibly,
which are annually submitted by
themselves. When a clinical pro-,
fessor, for example, has to spend
75 per cent of his time in pri
vate practice to make the dif
ference between his basic salary
and an income ceiling which is
scarcely one third of that of
at least ten of his part-time col
leagues in the department.
John Tnislow, M.D.
9ma ALi
Raymond Mc!ev, Co .
professor of political scipn "l ht v
(across the street from (-",Ce at
arsuzrt in favr r ,l . "'ir.'
. 1 1 1 1
revision of thp ,
... -turai Col
gara lor this proposed
to have merit there
amendr
arp if,4 .
fessor Moley's discussion Z -'
NEGATIVE ARGUMcWnich d.
The first part of his argumeBl .
being essentially argument a'ip(!ia:
posals. Stated positively thev t;
1. The Mundt-CoudertP 0DaIe,aSk
the Electoral College m -
2. It would not weaken pea.
with too much democracy. 1
3. It would not encourage
scntation and the breakdown Ytl '
tern. l"e h
Professor Moley's ar2umnnf
ervation of the Electoral Collet k?!;
on on the one h
direct popular electi
LONELINESS AS A PENALTY
By Edwin C' Palmer in The Torch
, ln establishing citizenship in .
the life community, man profits
in many ways. He grows and .-.
integrates his life by the in- -creasing,
circumference, of his
'. social responsibilities. Instead of .
measuringthe uriiyorse;;lby. him-. -self
n and making all . things in
cluding his gods in his ovyn im
age, he begins to measure him- , ,
self v by his universe. He vthus
achieves a valuable - humility
without being humbled, for .the
universe lives in him. His satis
faction in life issues in no small
part from the wideness of his
comradeship, from the inclusive
ness of his inteiests, love, and
understanding.
Loneliness is a kind of social
- illiteracy, an ignorance of the
community that exists among all
living things, a failure to . de-.
PROOF
First Hunter: "Say, John,
where are you?"
Second Hunter: "Right here."
First Hunter: "Are you all
right?" : :
Seconds-Hunter: ,"Yes'."1! :
First Hunter: .TTheir I've shot
a deen" ' . :' 1 ' '' ".
' " ' ' -m ;;'' : :
velop skill in communication
.-with 'words' and iwithotiit words.;
Loneliness 7i:ta. ; penalty" ' for
tolerating inequalities,1 for har
boring inferiority-superiority at
titudes. r. Snobbishness can be
found on both sides orth'e tracks
and prevents fellcnvship'whcrp
every , it ..exists. Loneliness is a
protective pain, warning of a
condition needing "correction; ! It
is a benevolent toothache which,
if heeded, saves the tooth. There
is a cosmic maturity by which
a man finds himself at home in
every land. But the conquest
of loneliness is more hopefully
fou:t within the limits of our
own horizons.
Ref
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To many laymen, the practice of hiring", football players for
college or high school "amateur" teams just doesn't make1 sense: '
T.ie terms "paid players" and "amateur sports" contradict each
other. If you have one, you can't have the other! . "' '
It was refreshing, therefore, to hear a sports lenthusiast a
one-time college letter man and a former college fbofbalf coach
tell members of the Franklin High School football squad just that.
Dr. Quinn Constantz, of Western Carolina College, speaking
last week at the annual Rotary banquet for the Franklin football
ers, called the so-called "athletic scholarship" just what it is "a
f ee ride". The Franklin (N.C.) Press " V
Li'l Abner . ; ,-.-.- ..' ' : . ! ' Al Capp
JifSjWjW. : H I v' J--.-r..:.',-.-.r.--:.' f7 vo mustn't V i i . :
1U .4 1... . ,
l"c "y Pan resemblin . ,
proposal providing for an appor",--'
electoral vote in direct proportion T
cast for each candidate.
To conclude that granting the 1
porfonal representation misht be
. election of the President commits:
of proportional representation in Lj
. ly sound. Were this principle to be
representation in legislative assemble"
jections might be validly raised. Fu"
"peril" is' less even in this even v
v.Jhiye a presidential rather than a p'-! 1
forni 'of government. Indeed it jk$a
that combining the two methods oeler
the , Lodge-Gossett proposal might gi s'
benefit of both schemes of represent;:-.;.''
the defeats of t ie exclusive use of eA
POPULAR ELECTION i
Professor Moley, needlessly' it setr
highly unlikely that popular election of i
dent will find favor any time soon, dra;;
son's argument against popular ekc:icL
is quited as holding that our govern:;
be deemed a national one; since its jurU; . !
tends to certain enumerated objects only
to the several states a residuary and ;
- . sovereignty over all other objects." The
might be raised should the occasion a:-;
. : President the head of the feceral system1
! ment or of the central (or to use the t;n ,
the ' vationxil) component of the fedc al
Even -if a proposal for the direct popular
' of the President be adopted so long as s r
for : proportional representation in conrc:;
s ; ' Congressional elections is not included k "
' necessarily follow t iat splinter parties?!,
in the absence of the Electoral College
Professor Moey's fears or those ofPre:
; hower who he cites. j
POSITIVE ARGUMENTS
On the positive side Professor Molcysr:
under the Mundt-Coudert proposal: I
-1.' The Electoral College would he :
measurably "to its proper place in a:::
form of government."
2. "It would keep in De moment
of a President the Federal principle of a
each of the basic unites of the nation-'!'"-.
and the states."
3. It would "strengthen our systcst;
sentative government because it wo'-u
the importance of the Congressional
preserving the interest that small
their relative strength in the Senate . iu ,
. very popular in the South for it would .
integrity of their states."
4. It would substantially alter the eq
uation in whic.i New York places a tif
' ate role in' the election of President.--,
MISUNDERSTOOD TERMS t J
There has been much misundcrsar
terms as "republic form of governmen
resentati've government" for the mF-;-these
have been looked upon much an
appellation. Also there has been much C'
serious students as to the exact ide -"federalism"
to a Federal sU'nl-
' tion or otherwise to indicate, as
seems to do, that either the Electoral
federal system is necessary to a
republican form of government. h;;;
cither or both may be, is a distoi ' l.
An attempt to extend the i? '
to "the districts and the states'
tion but complicates constitution
vond the realm of practicalhty as w ,
nf tne l-''-
relation to the Consiuuuu -
tinnal rpnrpsintative Ol inc. r
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Tlie President has long been con( ,
tional representative of the peooUrt
representation is an inu0"" ? rf eVJ:r;:
tern of representation. If an.vtnn:-;d
existence of the "fderal PnnC'5'
ished if the arrangement would , .
In so far as the reduction 01
handful of voters in the state yn,:t:
cerned, Professor Moley is correChj,
leading, however, is in Sivin ' by a
this power is necessarily w 'ieldth n,a;
voters from a splinter party w
votes one way or the other. s.x;-
This powerful handful of '
ing to what it thinks it " ' l f S?V
recipient of their votes, and intF S;
but it does not matter
members of a splinter party. 01
of t-
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ies, or an organizea i"'- mliC5
a large percentage, perhaps a
percent goes unrepresented "
lge. t'U.
It is, just this problem tha Mundt
proposal sought to tackle. '.
posal accomplishes the same F .?!;t:f.--a
higher degree of safety ,nsul u,d r,0t;
are concerned. The division v
same in New York State undc r v
but the weight of the state nal 'vfni:,-r. '
tion time and in the national
considerably reduced.