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PAGE TWO Judicial Bill Amendment Could Improve Proposal THE OA IL V TAR,i HBf W t tl THURSDAY,' FEBRUARY 13, 1951 WISE AND OTHfcKWiac: . GREENSBORO PAIL NEVS Y .iltv.iily have endorsed the oiK'H'oiiU sysiiin proposal ly. a hill now pending he fort the ltisla luic lor equal administration of justice under tlit Honor Code. To day we want to show how such a system could ' wot k even though, as sorue);an;uc a oc-d;?ni,ht tend t retitji testimony bi'lorc a mix id cohjt,; i l ake,: loi f itistaiKe, a ease cited hv a member i of the women's Honor Council ,who favors a two-'" t out t tNVMan. ltvimolvcs plasarism 1 a coed vho, it, Was made known in the (purse other trial, was pie jjtunt anil, without a husband. The Women's Honor Council, lindini; the toed suilty of plajja rism. took, into consideration the girl's pregnancy anil put her on probation instead of suspending her from school. The rea.son: she was in her linal semester as a stu dent and probably never aain would hate the opportunity to com plete her education. It was. uv believe, a fair judg ment, ttut it is one which the two (ouit svsiem proponents arue miht never have been rendeied under the oneouit svsiem since, in the presence of, rite mixed counc il, the coed wodld have been tr im taut to admit o the pienaiuy. And under piesent proposals- that niiht be tine but let's amend current pro posals to show how, in the inter est ol justice under the one-court svstein. the pertinent testimony could have been made known des pite the piesence of male juror, and male council members. liist. the put pose ol the jury uinlii the pioposed one-court svstem is solely to detennine whethei the dclcudant is guilty as chatted. In the above instance, its oiiU dutv would have been to de tennine the coed's 4 c i i 1 1 or in noience ol the plaatisin charge. I'he m i (u'ul l.utor. the pregnancy, wmilil not have c one emecl the jury, it tluMi-lme could have been ,ie-l.ittic-il limn the 'liny and made known to the i ounc il alone. Obviously, the presence of two males on the council would again, if we accept the two-court system proponents' arguments, influence testimony of the defendant. Here is where the amendment lies, with an eye to protecting the individual but yet allowing full benefit of pertinent data: The defendant could make known to a female member of the council that personal circumstances exist which she would prefer not discussing before the male mem bers of the council. Upon such notice, the male members could dismiss themselves to permit open discussion between the existing members and. incidentally, the majority of the council. When testimony before the women members was completed, the defendant could be dismissed and the male council members re called for a full council discussion of the personal data. The 'decision of judgment then could be made and rejiortcd by the council to the defendant. And a fair trial would have been insured, by virtue of the majority of female members ou the council- 'I his. at least, is a suggestion lor those who believe in the one-court system. We believe it pacifies the arguments of two-court proponents and oilers a workable plan for those advocates of the one-court proposal who are willing to compromise. After all. compromise is the key to our jnesent system ol ment. gov t i n- Gimmick Seen In Postal Hikes Well, the gimmick has finally been exposed in the administra tive proposal tor increased postal rates. It appears, alter all. to be a plot it-making deal. You'll remember that alter Sumuifi licM closed post olfice d(Hirt oiue last summer tie l)e;j,aii an urncnt campaign lor iiui eased Ty,UJuv,Jur UU'lJj- adiijjssion rates in order to make ends meet within the postal department. such f.ufois to the council is wfieit in lies the need for amendment to i lie one-coin t proposal as it now ex ists This should be etlected if our legislators and our judiciaiv ate situ ere in their c lloits to protect the individual Irotn embarassiueiii while at the same time employing all peitinent data to lender a fair judgment. Heie is the amendment: Set up the onc-outt council so as to al low tor thicc. women membets in cases whcie a coed is on trial. This would tctain two male tuein lu is lot the tiial. When a male is on tiial. icvei t the practice and have- thtee male and two lemale (Kinuil members. 1 hen piocccd with the healings. When the jut y 'has tendered its dec ision on tht barge as stated, dismiss the jury,. and then let the council c onsider.all data which for some reasoir .might hav e an hi ll uciuc on itv decision. Take, for instance, the fact of ptegnancy in the aloi eiucntioned case. five us moie we'll stop monev. delivering he- cm The Daily Tar Heel The official student publlcar.on A th Publication Board of the University ol North Carolina, where if is published daily except Sunday, Monday and exam- nition and vacation period' and ium tnrr terms. Entered as aecond class nat ter in the post office in Chapel Jill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1870. Vubscription rates: mailed. $4 per year. $2 50 a semester; delivered, Sfl a year, f 3 50 a semester. Editor DOUG EISELE Associate Editor . FRANK CROWTHER Managing Editor ALYS VOORIIEES Librarian G LEND A FOWLER Subscription Mgr. AVERY THOMAS Coed Editor JOAN BROCK Feature Editor MARY M. MASON Business Manager JOHN WHITAKER Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN Sports Editor BILL KING AssL Sports Editor DAVE WIBLE News Editor PAUL RULE ?".; Proof Reader GRAIIAM SNYDER GRAHAM SNYDER Kit her said, or Saturdavs. The campaign hit high gear when President I isenhowei. in his State ol the l.'nion addiess. pro posed that thiee cent stamps he hiked to live cents thus pioviding the additional revenue needed to run the postal department in the black, that is. So now. the: nation experiences an economic slump, millions aie unemployed, and the Piesident pi ex poses a S' niillion program ' to modernize ost olikes and postal services." It would. Press Secre tary Hagertv said, "at lord greater job opxrtunities in every section ol the country." The only thing wrong with the program is that it Ike can be be lievedthe current employment slump will be over long before the President's proposal could be aj pioved by the Congress. Then we'd have another $2 billion program to finance at a time when the government is already spending in the red. atid there would be no rea son lor government action to raise employment after all, it will pick up in March. The real gimmick, however, lies in the way which the administra tion would finance the program. You guessed it through the incre ase in postal rates a tax on every widow, orphan and little business man in the nation. If the administration wants to modernize post offices and the stal department, we suggest that it so state in its request for ad ditional funds instead of citing the lack of resources for paying the mailman as reason lor closing down post olfices on Saturday. It they want money to carry out a i (novation program that's one thing; if they need it to get the mail to the poorest citizens, then that's another. It would appear to us that im provement of federal edifices could wait until improvements in the nation's economy, which might then supply the revenue for the job. Meanwhile, let's keep on send ing three-cent letters. v-onTormiiy p Defended Here By Conformist By Whit Whitfield During the past few years the favorite topic of the writers on college papers has been conform ity. You've read it until you're, sick of it, but this is a new twist We'd like to defend . conformity. We might as well; were victims of it. We conform. Why?" WJe tiaVtO.; if we don't, we're dead. How many. non-conformits are successful . How many non-conformists are', well liked? Right! None. How much chance does a beard. S: ducktail. pegged pants, or dun garees have in a society of con formists? Right again. None. How far can a person go if he expenses opinions that are con trary to those of his peers? As far as the next country if he's lucky. So, we conformists are faced with self presevation, the oldest of man's common laws. It's either conform or be annihilated, so if you can't beat 'em. join 'em. Mr. Conformer or Mr. Average man ts typically like this: He goes to whatever church is. the largest in his neighborhood. He reads Life. Look. Time, you know, the type mags in the den tist's office. He reads the sports section and the funnies, sometimes the rapes and murders if ho has time. (He is always busy.) He wears whatever is fashion able, regardless of how many otd clothes he has in his wardrobe. His hobbies are hunting and fish inc. "He cau't go wrong here. His favorite interests are chan nel 5, channel 2. channel 11. and Poker. Un that order. This is the man whom the writers propounding non-conformity constantly harass. 'Why? He hasn't done anything nothing at all. He never does; he never will. Why bother him? U you ever j:et the chance, look at the writer on non-conformity. He dresses like the rest of us. Yon cant blame him. lie wants to live. too. You'll find him watch ing TV, at a flick, or criticizing Luce's handiwork. He has to enjoy the worldly ' pleasures too. He's human The f.ict that he is following 'the 'trend in college writing by writing on the same topic 'and conforming mean while doesn't bother him-he's a nonconformist. Cod Bless Conformity., HOLM) FIGURES The exceedingly fat woman was trying to wedue her way through the door of a bus. After delaying the bus with several unsuccessful attempts the driver suggested. "Lady, why don't you turn side ways?" "Huh!" puffed the .woman, "can't you see I ain't got no side ways'" N. C. Educatiua 1 Hear Ve"i!e In A Puff Puff Breathing Sp 'it ; COMES FROM VENEZUELAN Jimenez Appraisal Draws Fire Dear Miss Greenfield: I hate to argue with yoa be cause I heard you are one- of the prettiest girls on-the campus, and I would like very much 'to escort you to the "jungle" when you go back to Venezuela." Being - a stu dent here, as. you arc. I suppose that you know that a jungle is. by definition,; an impenetrable thicket or tangled mass of vegeta tion and that with the knowledge you boasted', to .have about my country,ou , Ought, to know" that, low the ideas expressed by you in your letter and which you seem to be so fond of. From the scarce knowledge that I have of United States history, and from what I have read in American newspapers about the recent political events in Venez uela. infer that fortunately most of your fellow citizens do not share either your ideas or your sympathies toward the ex-dictator's regime. It is true that we have not had a "history of demo cracy" as you mentioned in your all the, 'population' Vol.. Venezuela . letter; it is also true that we have dwells . Jn 4he:moiurtains '.. and had many dictators in my country, plains rpgiorns.'.As fpu "majrVscSiie-' ... but if you have ever read our his day discover, ..' the, jungle ii an tory. you would know that our people have carried on a continu ous and never-ending struggle for freedom since the time it ob tained its independence, when it .gave freely in its blood to help four other brother countries ob tain theirs. These are our demo cratic traditions. and following them, my people, unarmed, lav ished again their blood in the streets of Caracas and other cities to, regain the freedom that was taken away from them nine years ago by your beloved Perez Jimenez. uninhabited region, unless we take into consideration the very few. tribes -ot savages -that live there.' According td.yeirr letter, to' the editor whieii "appeared last. Tues day in this newspaper, ' it seems that the fathers of the constitu tion were mistaken when, In 1789. they tried to secure the blessing of liberty by establishing a demo cratic government to govern the rules of rural society '.which the United States ..was at' the time; and that only adult societies, not those which, as you say, are i the state of adolescence, have the right to be ruled by democratic governments..- I wonder what the prestige of - the United States would be in the world, should the rulers of the. U. S. always fol- According to your letter, a good government would be that which maintains good relations with the United States, and which is able to carry on a wide range of public projects. Without any doubt, the relations among our peoples were not better during Perez Jimenez's dictatorial regime than they were before it or than they are today. Besides. I can assert that neither the students nor the professors.: doctors, lawyers, engineers, busi nessmen, laborers, farmers, clergy- men and. in general, all the people who took in the riots against Perez Jimenez, would use the same yardstick you use to ap praise the fitness of a ruler. Even Jimenez's companions were against him. You say that my father's criti cism of ex-president Marcas Perez Jimenez has been one-sided. You are right, my dear girl, because in Venezuela there are two sides. On one side is Perez Jimenez, and on the other, the people. The lat ter side is the one and the only one to which my father belongs, which is the reason why his opinon might be said to be one-sided. I regret that our people have so unnimously shown their feel ings against the ideal tj-pe of president which you have chosen for us. that is to say; Perez Jimenez. Hoping that your ideas concern ing the type of government we should have will someday change, and sincerely looking forward to meeting you. 1 am. respectfully. Martin Perez. Jr. French Aristocrdf:, Looked Into Future "There are, at the present time, two great taa tions in the world which seem to tend toward the! same end, although they started from differAitj points," WTote Alexis de Tocqueville 125 years ajo "I allude to the Russians and the Americans . .f. The young French aristocrat, examining streng ths and weaknesses of democratic institutions, was startlingly prophetic' He: recognized,' even in 1832, that a democracy is most vulnerable in the field of foreign policy; it must hammer put its decisions for its own "citizens and allf the1 world to see. In the process it can tolerate little-secrecy;. its' pe.op!e are inclined to blow hot and cold demanding too much armament one minute atid 'not enough ths next. "If the Supreme Court is ever composed o imprudent men or bad citizens the Union may be plunged into anarchy or civil war," wrote de Tee queville of another important facet of American government. But de Tocqueville's comments about the rela tions of the 20th century's two goliaths the United States and Russia are Appropriate for the New Year, a time of summing up and prediction: All other nations seem to have nearly reached their natural limits, and only to be charged with the maintenance of their power; but these are still in the set of growth. All the others are stopped, or continue to advance with extreme difficulty; these are proceeding with ease and celerity along a path to which the human eye can assign no term The Anglo-American relics upon personal interest to ac complish his ends and gives free scope to the un guided exertions and common sense of the citizens. The Russian centers all the Authority of society m a single arm. The principal instrument of the form er is freedom, of the latter, servitude. Their start ing points are not the same. Yet each of them seems to be marked out by the will of heaven to sway the destinies of half the globe ... How prophetic, indeed, for a philosopher writing 125 years ago long before the final triumph of the industri revolution, long before two world wars or the Red Revolution, long before sputnik and the confrontation of the two giants, glaring at each other across the rim of the seas. What would de Tocqueville write today i he could see the fulfillment cf his 19th century pro phecies? Would he note that the United States, under the impetus of the New-Fair Deal and Modern Republi canism, has moved at, good distance from its re liance on "personal interest to accomplish (its) ends" and toward Soviet statism? Would he note, as well, certain capitalistic ten dencies in the Soviet Union where all comrades are equal but some are more equal thafi others, a cer tain leavening process at work as the Russian peo ple demand more butter with their guns? Would de Tocqueville forsee continuing "com petitive coexistence" in a world where push button soon will control the "balance of terror"? Or wo'if ' he predict that conflict between these two feai! f giants is inevitable, that one must, after the vivai V cf things, ultimately attempt to destroy the other". I Nobody can be sure. j Yet there is considerable room for hope. De Too j queville's observant eye would not overlook other emerging potential giants on the world scene the massive Chinese Red Republic teeming with unde veloped power, India fast flowering after years of colonialism. Even in Europe itself de Tocqueville, as a Frenchman, would be forced to admit that' a recovered Germany is a power to be reckoned with and has not been smothered even while losing Uo mighty wars. So while the United States and Russia eye each other uneasily across their empire boundaries, other factors are to be reckoned ' with. Perhaps the de cisive act of leadership will turn on which power bloc most effectively wins the uncommitted nations. In this struggle the tyrants of the Kremlin have made astounding progress despite all kinds of ob stacles (i.e., Hungary, Zhukov et al.) Whether an afoused free world can provide that spark of imagination, that concentrated will to win will determine the outcome. Z UJ a. ft PLACETS 'A2E TV! OPIATE OF THEM0PLf5LY iAVrUTURc TV INSULTSiALWAYS INSULTS! N 3 u to n U Ui Z ol r- Arc im . . ri-tinic ;;- bTAV WAY Ft )M MISS PANTINGHAMS SCHOOL tvjunCj LADIES.' L-LOOK WHUT THFV DONE TO ME - AN'feP&i) o o o wffl ill i -l-'-i 1 h 1 I J I Sm i JV I T 1 F f I . I'll I I I i 1 TSfc. 1 iv(7 r- .:i urf 4.1 1 1 i f ir ci t loll jt i fit fi. ,i I I I I , t. 1 J- 1 V 11 III I U I "V 1 t I 1 m N. 1 V-v' I i,- i rrr; VU ' t, r' c-feca- M05CHATU5. ' Tg Pll$TOC0H$ ) ra met vj r Q. U 9) 0 3 JQ Office Cat An elderly colored man, called before the jus tice of the peace, was charged with keeping a vicious dog. Mother Why, that dug bit my little girl Mary three times. Judge Did your dog bite little Mary Jones? Colored Man No suh, no suh. My dog, he never bit any little girl. Judge (to mother) Well, this man says the d.'J didn't bite your little girl. Mother I'll g0 right home and bring little Mary here and show you. But the man interrupted: Colored Man In the first place the dog is ?o old he ain got no teeth and he can't bite. In the second place the dog is blind and couldn't see M:ry, anyhow. In the third place the dog is deaf and can't hear a thing and in the fourth place he ain't my dog in the first place. There seemed to be plenty of seats on the train so why the long-faced man had to sit next to him the man with the bottle couldn't understand. H? pretended to ignore his newly-acquired companion and took a nip out of the bottle. The long-faced man, who wanted the other to know how well he had lived as a teetotaler, de clared: Long-faced Man Mister, I am fifty-three year? old and have never tasted a drop of liquor. Other (tucking the bottle into his suitcase) Mis ter, you ain't going to start now. The vacationing businessman was on a plane bound for Europe when engine trouble forced the pilot to make an emergency landing in Newfound land. As they landed, the businessman nervously asked tne little old lady silting next to him if she'd been frightened. Little Old Lady-Heavens, no. It want even on our side of the plane. Niibt Editor
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