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TUESDAY, APRIL 2. 1557 FA9t TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL NOT THE BEST, BUT: SAYS DE. W. C. GEORGE: Get Off Your Rear And Vote i A senior of our acquaintance was viewing with alarm today's election. "If anyone asked me for any advice on how to vote," he said "I would tell them not to vote at all..That's just how bad this campaign has turned out to be." " ' . It would be very easy to ...sy don't vote.. For the students Really haven't been given anything to vote for. They know the presi dential Candidatesare in favor of parking, a student union building, and a few other good things. They do not know what the candidat es stand for, or how they intend to conduct themselves in the future academic year. They can only guess, for the candidates have given them nothing but, unanswered questions. . As for the editorial candidates, little-more, has been presented. Both candidates are for big-time athletics." both of them have said little about how they are going to make next year's newspapetv.the best Daily Tar Heel in history. Again the students .have little constructive icasoii for voting the way they will vote. What this means, of course, is that the election, will turn into a sort of popularity contest. Th: t will be evidenced by the fact that the coeds, whin are not known for their sensible approach to such matters, probably will vote in a block for various candidates. Nothing has been cussed so much or fought so hard as a popularity race in place of r.n election, liut when the candidates re fuse to accept the issues, when they refuse to submit anything better than the most "eneral of platforms what else can one ex- O a pectr So. there is little reason for getting out the vote this year. But, at the same time, it is essential that students vote. anyway. For some time there has been a cloud coming over the cr.mpus. It comes from the 'direction of South Building. South Building's, administrators have been hinting about crises and the inadequacy of the honor svstem and the irresponsibility of the students. This can mean only one thing: Decreased student freedom in the future. Yerv few things could hurt the lTniversity of North Carolina any more than a more limit ed student freedom. Right now. South Building . is, worrying about other things. But the lime will come again, as it has come several times this year, when South Building will turn to the stu dents and stmt viewing with. alarm. "The "best way students can combat this is bv-being responsible. being able to back tip, with facts, the things thev do and the things", they say. I.ht second best way is to elect a solid student government and believe 111 it. Th Of Sid Camp aign You have undoubtedly heard this during the election or previous ones from a would le campus olitico. It is a conglomerate language of doubletalk and journalistic ex pression calculated to apjease the masses and offend no one. I like to tall it journalease. This case in point deals with a legislative candidate and a native freshman, somewhat far removed from campus jxlitics. The spiel goes, some thing like this: Candidate: "F.xcuse, gentlemen. I'd like to introduce myself. I'm Yogurt Borsch t. z candidate for Student Legislature from this district." Translation: "I feel sorta queasy inside and I hope 1 don't lose your vote by inter rupting your studying. I sure would like to get oiit of here. But you're nasty-looking." - Student: "What party do you represent?" Candidate: Tniversity Party, but I'm a dormitory man. vucuuiie answei: oiu dent Party, but I'm a fraternity man.") Translation: "I hope vou're not prejudic ed." Student: "How alxmt telling me what your party proposes as platform planks?" Candidate: "My party, of course, supports the movement for a new student union building, elimination of parking restrictions, freshman tars, no Saturday classes, unlimit ed cuts, etc." " Translation: "1 11 promise anything to get a vote, but I doubt whether anything will become of my promise. All my classes are os and ios and 1 don't have a car." Student: "That's terrific." Candidate: "Only a small part of what student government under capable leader ship can do." Translation: We'd sure like to be in of fice. Student: (Lost) "Hmimn." Candidate: "The important thing is to get out and vote on election day, regardless of whom you vote lor." Ti anslation: "Because I'm nice enough to say that, I expect your vote. Personally, 4 don't care whom else you vote for," Student: "I will. Thanks for coming by." Candidate: (Back out in the hall) "Damn! .What a creep. Three more dorms to go." N egro ace Biologically Inferior Dr. W. C. George -'-ftelow.-is. part f . speech given last -fall at Dartmouth Colla in Haiwwer, N. H., by -Dr. W. Crirx peers, professor , .; of history and embryology of the UNC. Medicat, School. Here r George speaks en "Human Pro gress apd the Race Problem. When our early American fore fbears brought Jtfegro slaves to .this country, they laid the .foun dation for a, problem for which jhere'seems to be no wholly ac ceptable solution. In the North .slavery proved unprofitable . and so the number of Negroes did not increase greatly and i no very t grave interracial problem de veloped. ' The South has had large num bers of Negroes for a fong time nd for an equally long time has been struggling with the problem of interracial relations and ad justments. Few. in the South would claim , perfect success or perfect justice in handling the problem nor would they claim the absence of much" human meanness in our behavior. But. with considerable travail, we have worked out a system of social customs and Jaws,, and per sonal and group understandings-, that have enabled two greatly dif ferent peoples to live together in peace, mutual tolerance and help fulness. Under this system we have developed increasingly g'ood, friendly and cordial race relations. Most of us who have grown up and lived in the South alongside Negroes have necessarily come to es with the race problem in a most serious, and thoughtful way. It requires our best thought and a careful consideration of all per tinent facts. It will not be solved by good intentioned but ill in formed people giving what they '-, consider to be idealistic, inspired advice and exerting pressures to bring about ill advised revolution. In spite of the efforts of press andxadio to play down interracial friction in the North while they give it prominent coverage if it occurs in the South, part of the public, has become aware that there is a race problem in various northern cities. Many people were surprised to .hear of the incident in Buffalo, New York, where a riot occurred 'some months ago on the lake steamer carrying a picnic crowd of Negro and young . white people. - Informed . people have long known that there is a race pro blem in New York City where the teen-age gangs of Harlem defy the police and where the . Negro vote is a potent, but ques tionable factor in politics. They ware becoming aware thai there is a race problem in Wash ington City where white . parents .with school-age children are flee ing the city to escape the, demor alizing effects of the constantly increasing Negro population; and in Philadelphia. where the white population dropped 30.000 be tween 1930 and 1950 while the Negro population increased 100," 000 during" those 20 years; and in . Detroit, where the worst race . riot in the nation',- history occur red in 1843 and where race ten- We are told that we must elim inate all racial bars for the sake of our foreign policy because that is what the people of the backward nations want. Does that really make sense? Should we make the decisions regarding our national problems or should we submit those problems for de cision to people who have made a failure of running their own countries? ' We are told that compulsory mixing of the races is the demo cratic, the American way. That, of course, is false. The United States wasfounded and for 180 years has prospered on the prin ciple of union and strength in di versity. .Compulsory conformity and uniformity is not the Ameri can way; it L? a perversion of the American way. We are told that there is no suppose that any one really be lieves that we can reach wise de cisions through the process of disregarding . major facts and reaching decisions on the basis of cliches such as "second class citizens?" It is -asserted that integration ' isvthe Christian way and that sep . aration of the races is un-Christ-ian. It is not clear why anything - should be accepted as Christian when its virtue has not been demonstrated. Strange connota tions have been given to words now adays. I believe you will join me in saying that it is a religious fraud to claim that Christianity would require us to adopt a public policy that would lead to destruction of our race. It seems to me, therefore, that the arguments used by integra tiMiisls are almost wholly sped- Voter's Apathv Or-Don't Dream Vote! .-'.I .;-fftn.x--S: 71 n cy is far more prevalent among Negroes. Some months ago one of our national journals of news and opinion reported that the Ger man people, were becoming re sentful of the presence of Ameri can, troops because of their. bad behavior; and referred especially to the crimes of Negro troops. Subsequently, on August 24th, the 'Associated Press sent out a story from Wuerzburg, Germany, saying that an Army court-martial had convicted seven U. S. soldiers charged with raping a 15-year old German girl.. It re ported that the defendants were all Negroes. (Many papers omit ted this latter fact.) Low standards of social be havior are common 'not only among" troops. It has been reliab ly reported that five Negro girls became, , pregnant in a single "Washington City high school dur ing the first year of integration. That jemed a pretty bad situa tion at the time it was first re ported, ut during the recent Congressional f investigation of Playmakers' Show Enjoyable Cortland Edwards The Playmakeiv have done it again. llieir latest production of Christian Mo's '."Stranger In The Land", although it isn't the best they have done, is a fine example of one of then top theatrical productions. r. The story is an old one and follows American servicemen wherever they go. It tells the story ol two lonely sailors who fell in love with Japanese "josans" and wanted to .get married. The corn manning officer forbade the marriages, but thi was not enough especially for an American. The sailors were convinced that this was the real thinu and they wanted desperately to get married any way. As an underlying theme, one of the josan. Ayame-san by name, had lost part of her family in the bombing of Nagasaki. With this deep lo, came a bitterness toward Americans, especially those in uniform. The scene portrayed in the play is a transitory one. It portrays the changing of the old way of life into a new on. This transition breaks through to the audience only by the excellent portrayal of Ayame Yamada, done by Nancetta Hudson. Nancetta did much. more than act out a role on the stage. She put something that not all people can understand. For to appreciate Japan and th.' know their good qualities, as well 'sums are on the rise again; and as their bad one.s and we are not unaware of the evil in. white peo ple. We have many Negro friends with whom we have cordial rela tions. They have our good wish es and we have theirs, so we be lieve. But whatever the cordiality -or the enmity in the relations between individuals of the two races, there is recognition of the fact that we are of separate races, and that this properly makes difference in the na ture f eur relations. .It would be a more agreeable task at ttus time for me to say in Chicago, where Negroes are said to be. arriving at' the rate of 3.000 a month and where they swallow up former white areas at the rate of 2V2 blocks a week and constitute an increasing eco nomic, social and police problem, and where they are said to com mit 2 out of three murders al though they constitute only one fifth of the population; and in Los Angeles, where new Negroes are arriving at the rate of 1,000 a month, have reached a total at present of about 255,000 and now occupy 30 square miles of the ,:. city, .; .... . , r"b wore HFm:7 J ... 1 A :j y ys i - - k; th Wn:hin?Ttin srhrwil! nnp hisrh school principal reported that Japanese way of life, one must be able to hear th, during the ' second year of inte sUrs tinkle. Through Nancettas supero acting, we, too, could hear the stars. And like Adele Liipert in Bri-a doon, Nancetta literally made the play The major male leads were the three American sailors aptly portrayed by John Whitty (as Dan Gillford), Ken Lowry (as Gil Larkin), and llarvt-y G. Knox &j the unforgettable Ignatius Patrick Sweeney. All three of them got off rather slowly in the play, but after the first act they became quitt realistic. Many men like them have been seen in bar after bar from Frisco to Hong Kong. A third highlight in the show was th portray! ASvlDJOATfiS' HljHS .. V'f' 1 " ; i gration there - were twenty-seven pregnancies in his school two white girls and twenty-five Ne gro girls. Perhaps -you say that we should not iudgo a race by two incidents. I agree. But the sta tistical record presents a pic ture hard to ignore. The record released for last year by the North Carolina Board of Wel fare shows that the ration of illegitimate births Is about 20 times higher for-Negroes than for white people. The statistics" for other states, both southern and northern, re veal similar conditions elsewhere In Maine, for example, it is said that illegitimate white births are of a 'B-girl", Akadama Potonko, played by Mar pleant things aboui1-MN.ejir?&wi ..U sehe race problem With truthI could say many. But : the situation forced on us by Negro organizations, by the courts and others is such that we cannot ; ignore unpleasant facts of signifi ' cance. For more than three decades there has been an organized cam paign to defame and destroy the South's mode of handling the race problem and. to force inte gration of the races in every phase 'of life. This campaign is not entirely endorsed by north .em people lut it has been fin anced largely by' northern people and foundations. We have our tntegrationists in the South, however. In fact, I should b surprised to meet with any greater intolerance to wards my point of view on the campus of Dartmouth College than I encounter on the camp- e us of the University of North ' Carolina. The people of the entire coun try might .well concern themseiv- is no longer just a Southern pro blem but is becoming increasing ly widespread and increasingly urgent. If the wrong decisions are made and the wrong programs followed, it is not just the South that wilJ suffer. If the integra tionists prevail and if they are wrong, and I am sure they are, the tragedy of their success would affect the whole nation. This problem is so fateful for future generations that a decision as to whether the in tagrationisrc are right mr wrong is the question of first national importance. If I were to close my mind to the facts and think only in terms of political and religious slogans, I should probably oppo-e segre gation; but when one considers all the facts, such a decision seems impossible.' Perhaps we should consider first of all the arguments and assertions used by the proponents of racial integration. The Daily Tar Heel The official studem publication cf tbe Publications goard of the University of ..North Carolina, where it is published .daily , except Monday and examinatlot rd vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second class matter in th oost office in Chapel Hill. N. C., undei the Act ol Marcfe 8, 1970. Subscription rates, mailed, $4 per var, $2.50 a femes ter; delivered. $G a year. J&3.5Q a aemea ter Editor . FRED POWLEIX3I Managing Editor CLARKE JONES L'il Abner fundamental difference be tween men. How often have you heard "All men are created equal," quoted with the impli ' cation that it applies to men's abilities? Most of us will admit that all men should be equal in their right te justice and fair play; but in the biological sense there is no truth in the quotation and it has no valid force or use in solving the race problem. ' We are reminded of "the Fatherhood of God and the Broth erhood of man.' Fatherhood and brotherhood are fine ideas and factual states but they do not solve social problems without re gard to other facts any more than they solve family problems. In reaching decisions on vital social problems we are admonish ed to disregard "race, creed, color and national origin." These are ail major facts of life. Do you ous. And yet the persistent use of virtuous words and slogans has had a hypnotic effect upon mil lions of people and hac- softened them up to the point of being ready to accept integration of Negroes into the intimate lives of white people. It is my task to show you why that must not be. Race mixing and race amalga mation may not seem a serious matter in Hanover where you doubtless have a small and possi bly select Negro population, but in the South and in many other areas it would be tragic for us to submit to mixing white and Ne gro children in the schools for two major reasons. One of these reasons is that wise and cautious parents, dare not subject their children to the Negroes' standards of so cial behavfor. The moral stand ards of the white race are none too high but social delinquen- Johnston. The setting of the play centered around Akadama's room a room where she was living with one of the sailors. Akadama was a representation of the aftermath of war. She had no family to support her and ru special talents to earn a living. So she chc th- 2.7 per cent of the total white of making lonely GIs happy. births; Negro illegitimate , births Mary Johnston couldn't have done a better jm. are 23.5 percent of total Negro IIer accent was excellent and by her acting she .set births. In Michigan illegitimate the mJod for tne Play- nr photographic portrayal white births are .1.5 per cent of 01 a Prson the old school highlighted the total white births; Negro illegiti- chanSe in status of the Japanese woman, mate births are 13 per cent of There was, however, one bad part in the play, total Negro births. Ayame's papasan (father) was, unfortunately, mi- ' A similar disparity between cast" Gener Yamada was supposed to represent the the races prevails in other fields old Japan refusing to accept the new. The General, of antKiocial behavior. The 1950 Played by Richard Nevvdick, did ...... but 1 cmihi census shows that Negroes con- not cpnceive of him "as an Oriental Or even stitute 10 per cent of the popula- American. He reminded me of an oid aristocratic tion of the United States. Yet the gentlema of Freud's society in Austria back in the pept. of Justice statistics show early 1S00's- He played hi.,- part quite well, but he that this 10 per cent of the popu- just wasn't in the right play. inere were two more weak parts in the play, but with the excellent artistry of the fiva major roles these parts can easily be skipped oyer. 0n was the English sailor, done by Taylor Williams, whose acting wasn't bad but his voice and ac cent were. The other weak part was Jiro Yamada, Avanu s Uttle brother who acted as he is in real life, as Alvm Whittinghill. He was a typical American kid. but a far ery from the warmth of Japanese children. Another good actor in this Dlav Let me remind you also that liamson who played the part of Takashi Mishima the Philadelphia Presbytery a A"as chosen husband. His makeup and diction fewyears ago found that in the were excellent, but hi, acting, which started out city of Philadelphia four cut of beinS natural and realistic, ended up being too every five Negro boys come into eced. some scrape with the law by the The s-mallest part and also one of the hardest to time they reached 18. Would you, do was "e of the best done. The part was that knowing these facts, want to send of a Prostitute grade Z a role whih i. Mrv lation committed more than half of 'the murders and manslaught ers in our country in 1950. Lest you think that this is due to the horrible conditions that you have, heard prevail in the South, - let me inform you that the ft egro crime rate in the integrated states is twice the rate in the Southern United States. , -le a. ""-va ao tli t CiiA your children to school with peo- t0 portray. However, Playmaker Betty Jinnem ' pie having such standards of con- dld nt treat it as a small role instead she plavc duct? 1J? f? Was the important. And she did (To Be Continued) By A! Ccpp BECAUSE YOU, PRUDENCE v PIMPUETON, ARE THE WOMAN WHO LjOVES ME, I HAVE COME TO VOU WITH TRAGIC PROBLEM ff I THAT'S SWEXTf WE'LL. DIGCLTSS IT OVER A TH!CK B 1 1 I II I J r EXACTLV WHAT I HAP IN MIND, MY DEAR rvm r "v 1 THAT IS, IF YOU HAVE A THICK STEAK Wsl YOUR U ICEBOK. BECAUSE THAT IS MY TRAGIC PROBLEM. I'M STARViNG7- j ' r : i 1 PS I'VE BEEN FIRED FROM THE FORCE. THEV SAY 'M CRAZV. YOU CERTAINLY ARE, IF YOU THINK I'M GOiNJG TO FEED YOU FOR ANOTHER 17 VS.ARS.r e'-JT1 1 j 1 Newa Editor NANCY HILL Sport Editor LARRY CHEEK Pogo Business Manager BILL EOB PLEL Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN CDrTOJtlAL STAFF Woody Joey Payne, Stan. Shaw. Sears, Wi&t are : . JIT.. bflttrtd. that T2g? I T!?ee7 NETWS STAFF Graham Snyder, Edith MacKinnon, Walter Schruntek, Pringle Pipkin, Bob High, Jim Purks, Ben Tay lor, IL Joost Polak, Patsy Miller, Wal fy Kuralt, pill King, Curtis Crotty. BUSINESS STAFF John Minter, Marian Hobeck, Jane Patten, Johnny Whitaker. J wz. f -.-V tote- one I'm v vu w v A rx&9 I TWOU3uT you. 1 TAT WAw I -N. sou. y --t f ' i nr-iBfc, r i jv i By Walt Kelly tslo won I PONT TH)N YCUCkH ess 6o weuu . NiSht Editor lianley Springi perfectly. Technically, there are two major criticisms. ln TkeP Th makeyP was -try poor ?n thi r , ' thre $ai'0rS' Ayam' -nd Akadama. but !, " Kene eVen Ayame'$ kuP Poor, but later ,t was very good. The best makeup was makeJL ' Akada -meiin, that Z SUh " 'd W0m" th. Ra9- The other technical criticism is on the sc-u-rv and somber. The average Japanese home is ven he rpi; COl0rUl- Eve" the try wher'c Marnr, homey and sparkling with life. Land"" Trt remHember the In T1- Perhaps evPn J Ch Production iernaps even go see it again. Asian Industry On Channel Anthony Wolff The surging industrialization of Asia is consider ed tonight on Channel 4 at 6:30. Thio- show, titled The Industrial Revolution Moves East Into Asia" is another installment of the World Geography part of the new weekday live educational programs car ried by the University station At 7:30 p.m. on Channel 5 is the Jonathan Winters Show. Phil Silvers carries the comedy at 8 ori Chan nel 2, spoofing the Academy Award-winning "Around The World In Eighty Days " Channel 9 (if you can get it) debuts the Spike Jones show, if you can take it. Starting time is 10:20 p.m.
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