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i i Volume 72, Number 88 3 Satlij 2 If M 70 Years of Editorial Freedom Published daHj except Mondays, examinations periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Cfcspet CUt Publ&Mng Company, lac., 581 West Franklin Street, Chapel BiO, N. C. Laivler Student Body President Mike Lawler has acted in the highest traditions of his office in calling for a student boy cott of all segregated businesses. The fact that he has waited until now to do so does not detract from the mean ingfulness of his words. The fact that he has gone further than University officials felt they could More On r Thursday evening's session of Stu dent Legislature "demonstrates perfect ly the sort of ridiculous debacle that can come about when partisanship, sel fishness, and a lack' of true convictions take the place of a solid commitment to 'the ideals of representative govern-- ment. The session itself was a ludicrous dis play of . the ril-vote-the-party-line-be-cause - the other - party - is - auto-matically-an-ass type of maneuvering. The parliamentary procedure became so involved that a recess had to be taken to untangle it That the Speaker man aged to keep things running smoothly despite all this was no consolation, for there was no need for the spectacle in the first place It was obvious from the start that most of the members of the body were in reasonably elose agreement concern ing what a civil rights bill should say. ' Jealousy and the inability to compro mise, however, forced the legislators to consider two widely separate bills, one of which never reached the floor, and Anonymous There are two letters posted promi-. hetitly on the main- bulletin board in the Chapel Hill Police Department. The first reads as follows t Dear Sir: f . I would like to give this small amount I toward buying gasoline for Rev. ? B I Elton Cox of CORE for burning him 'self. If he can get others to join him, I think I can get money enough to run a gasoline pipeline into your town. Here's hoping the. people of your town furnish the matches." This letter is accompanied by a dol lar bill and is unsigned. Below it hangs another. It reads: "Dear Sir: I just want you to know how much my family and I appreciate the way you and the whole police force are handling this whole racial . situation. Taking The Charlotte Observer . An anti-digit licensing somewhere within the walls Gary Btdnchard, Dave Ethridg& . Co-Editors Business Manager Managing Editor Advertising Manager Associate Editor Copy Editor Photo Editor Sports Editor .....J Asst. Sports Editor tfews Editor Reporters: Mickey Blackwell, Administration Peter Wales, Campus Affairs Jeff Dick, Municipal John Greenbacker, Student Government Editorial Assistants : Shirley Travis Contributing Writers: Jim Neal Staff Artists: Ray Kass Science Editor Circulation Manager . Asst. Advertising Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. Sales Nancy Leads As Laivler Should Our Lud icrous Letters Not Worth Reading Thank, Heaven for such a strong, dedi cated force, which has kept its sense of humor and its dignity and full human kindness in response to terrific pres sures. Because of your control Chapel Hill has been spared the horror of Bir mingham and Cleveland. The average citizen, although not many of us think to tell you, are very much aware of all you are doing for us." The last letter is signed We find the same sort of pattern ap plies to almost all the letters we get. The irresponsible and destructive ones are almost never signed, while the con structive and well reasoned letters, whether in agreement or disagreement with a DTH stand, are almost always signed. It provides an interesting comment on the type people who write the various types of letters. It is a shame that all are not willing to accept credit for their product. License With The License Central Prison. Some of the inmates turning out near ly three million state license plates an nually have demonstrated that iron bars are not a cage for the soul of wit. These prisoners have attempted to in - ject some originality into an assembly line chore. Samples: the letters "U BUM" on a tag which turned up in Franklin and "I-LOVEU" on a plate which landed in Mocksville. The strange thing is that no prisoner has yet been able to smuggle out a tag reading "HELP." Prison officials are not inclined to see much humor in the situation. After vall, license tags are not like candy hearts which are supposed to fascinate the children with such legends as 'WISE GUY" and "YEAH ftlAN." . But it would be momentarily refresh ing to h&ve police radioing their col leagues to. be on the lookout for a blue 1963 Oldsmobile bearing license num ber "GET LOST." It alP goes to show that even prison ers are liable to take license with their liberties when they've got a captive audience. spirit lives of Raleigh's Art Pearce Fred Seety Fred McConnel Hugh Stevens Linda Riggs Jim Wallace Curry Kirkpatrick 1 John Montague ; Bob Samsot McCracken Nancy Witkins Chip Barnard Mat Friedman John Evans Woody Sobol ... Sally Rawlings Frank Potter Dick Baddour Bob Y&nderberry Saturday, February 8, 1964 Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant to Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: M-50 per semester; $8 per year. - properly go only underlines the differ ence between voluntary action and of ficial institutional pressure, with its precedent-setting effect. -Lawler's statement was strong and compelling. It deserves the conscious and continuing, support of every student on this campus, even though it may sometimes cause momentary inconvenience. Legislators the other of which was amended black and blue. After one of the bills was subjected to all those amendments the two pieces of legislation were virtually identical. The minor differences that remained could have been resolved by party lead ers without much difficulty 'As yet, though, wre have no civil rights bill of any kind from the legislature. We won't have one before the end of next week, and even then there exists the strong possibility that it will be a weak, half-hearted effort which doesn't say anything. Some people have expressed the opin ion that the SL has no business attempt ing a civil rights resolution in the first place. We have always thought other wise, for we feel that this is an area of vital student concern If , the legislature persists in its re fusal to reach a compromise, however, and continues instead to play politics over in New East, we might be forced to concur in the opinion that they had better call the whole thing off. Book Review MM: Top Biography By HENRY McINNIS Marilyn Monroe, by Maurice Zolotow, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1960, illustrated, 340 pages. "No matter what unpredict-t able events may lie in her fui ture, they cannot change who she is and what she has become. In her heart is a questing fever that will ; give her no peace; that drives her on to strive, to seek, to find. Her soul will al ways be restless, unquiet." With these perceptive words author Maurice .Zolotow closed , his 1960 biography of the late Marilyn Monroe. On the Satur day night of August 5, 1962, she was lying nude in her recently acquired, bare ly furnished Brentwood home, her blond hair dark at the roots and a tele phone clutched in her hand. Nor ma Jean Baker, alias Marilyn Monroe, was dead of barbiturate poisoning. Zolotow has penned a most re markable biography; thorough ly factual, tasteful, authorit a tive and brilliantly literate. Much of the narrative is written from Marilyn's statements - to friends and the press and recon structed from conversations Zolotow had with the actress. Going to a studio to be made up for a Hollywood premiere, she said, "I want to be all plati num and white tonight. How will I feel when I get out there and look at all the people star ing at me?" On the Monroe's entrance to the theatre, "She felt the strange ecstasy that comes from the sweat and mass love of the mob. It is a sensation of dizziness that is pleasurably painful, that takes you utterly out of your self. This, in the end, was what you worked for, lied for, prosti tuted yourself for, got sick at the stomach for, drilled yourself relentlessly for." Whether or not you liked Marilyn, this meaningful bio graphy is an exceptionally sen sitive account of the star's life. Anyone who is a student of the Monroe doctrine will find this f book overwhelmingly poignant. " It would have been common place to find her life story written in fan magazine hack . : style, full of gush and cliches. It is a happy thing to report :that such is emphatically not the case here. Zolotow has trans- cended the myth of MM by -revealing her as a pathetic ' hu man being, tortured by her sor did background, trapped in a maze of conflicting identities. Her story is significant be cause it is not the typical Amer ican tragedy, nor merely an ac count of a celluloid sorceress. It is a truthful representation and a profound example of the tragedy of life itself. Jealously By DOLORES MARCOTTE I saw you with him Friday night And wished that it were me I saw him brighten at your sight With a look of ecstasy I saw his sad look when someone Stole you away with his charms But he'd follow right after you on the run 'Til you were back in his arms I saw the way he looked at you When he had you, I saw his look of pride When there were obstacles, I saw him break through And I saw you right close to his side Day. after day, the look in his eyes I admit I really envy you The way you hold the attention of the guys I wish I were a basketball too. Heelprints WRAL Radio and TV will probably stay in pretty poor shape so long as Jesse remains at their Helms. Definition: Trousers an un common noun which is singular on top and plural at the bottom. Bud Wilkinson's political move indicates he'd sooner be a Sooner senator than a Sooner mentor. Have you heard the cadence Barry Goldwater uses to drill his Air Force reserves? It goes- Right! Right! Right! 3 . . . 2 . . . 1! About face! About face! About face! To the rear, march! "Honest J- Edi varcl P. Morgan Civil Rights In The North By EDWARD P. MORGAN ABC News (Mr. Morgan can be heard on WRAL radio at 7 p.m. week nights.) The North is getting a taste of its own medicine in the civil rights struggle. Or perhaps it would be fairer and more accu rate to say that those citizens who live above and beyond the Mason-Dixon line and have been inclined to dismiss the racial is sue as "strictly a Southern-matter" must now confront the in escapable fact that it is, and in some respects always has been, a national problem. The recent boycott of New York City's public schools, spon sored by civil rights "groups as a protest against de facto segrega tion of classrooms, is a dramatic but dangerous development. Dramatic because again it shows the determination and the disci- . pline of Negroes in demanding first-class citizenship. Dangerous because the turmoil of resent ment and misunderstandings it is bound to engender may cancel out whatever advantages might come from increasing the pres sure on the New York Board of Education to hurry a solution to racial imbalance in the schools. Right here it is easy to see the vicious circle in which so many of the civil rights crises in com munities across the country are spinning. The Negro leaders, are criticized for moving "too fast" because it will arouse the neigh borhood and produce new ob stacles to progress. But if they don't move with at least the "deliberate speed" which the Su preme Court prescribed, in the school decisions the neighborhood won't be aroused sufficiently to break its pattern of prejudice and discrimination. In the current New York City controversy, the civil rights lead ers may well have over-reached themselves. Not because there is not an urgent need to crack se gregated classes. On Manhattan Island, for example, three out of OImrv four nublic elementary crhnol students are either Negro i i m Then there's the Wade Well man doll you wind it up and it hates. A lot of folks are complaining about all those street that are under repair in Chapel Hill. Re member, though, that in order to make an omelet, you've got to break an egg. - People who think all highway robbers are in jail must not trade at Chapel Hill gas stations. i - Let's hope the Tar Heels beat the socks off Wake Forest today those silly red. socks, that is. I Think I Can See or Puerto Rican. But there is ut terly no point in striking a racial balance in the classrooms if it is done in such a way that it increases rather than decreases tension and leads to more rather than less chaos. The objective of the public school system is sup posed to be to furnish the best possible education to all comers. Arbtrarily carting children across town to a school out of their neighborhood simply in order to meet an arithmetical formula serves no purpose in itself. But if the leaders of today's boycott in New York City have been unreasonably committed to such a pattern, I suggest they are not so irresponsible as the other leaders of our greatest metropolitan community who have moved far too slowly for far too long in breaking down residential segregation in the city. Without ghettos, without in visible boundaries which never theless are a wall against minor ity groups seeking a place to live in "restricted" areas, the rigid classroom segregation would never have reached its present explosive state. Vast and tortured as it is, the problem is not hopeless. Only last week there was a highly en couraging development in Chi cago. As the result of a suit begun three years ago by eight Negro physicians, a federal judge on January 31 appointed a seven man commission to handle com plaints of racial discrimination in Chicago hospitals. The doctors had charged that 56 hospitals were by conspiracy systematical ly excluding Negro doctors from staff appointments. Also named in their suit were the Chicago Medical Society, the Blue Cross Blue Shield plans and the Chicago Hospital Council. At the heart of the complaint was another vicious circle, for, if a Negro doctor A Challenge Editors, The Tar Heel: This, week Avery Hall infor- mally accepted your challenge to a DasKeioau auei oiieiea suiiie time prior. This letter is to be the formal acceptance. Let it be known, then, that this battle is to be a grudge match of the severest nature. This ardor stems from the past action, or lack of action, by the editors. Avery invited the editors to at tend the recepton for several of the various deans and the Chan cellor. The editors,, in consis tency with the policy of covering campus news, did not show, nor did they send a representative. Avery demands satisfaction in ac ceptance of the DTH basketball challenge. I doubt that the game will receive any coverage, eifcer, since the DTH team will be wiped off the court. C. K. "Rooter" Lynn Pres., Avery Hall (Ed. Note: Sorry about that reception. . We were so busy covering news we couldn't break away for a go at the ladyfinger circuit. However, we can make time for a basketball game. See Fred Seely, our basketball edi tor, for further arrangements.) Daylight can't practice in a hospital, he must refer his patients to a white doctor who can, or more likely, to a hospital that is, de facto, for Negroes only. The pattern pro duced a withering side effect: Since 1940, the number of Negro doctors in Chicago has actually declined while the black popula ton has. soared. Presumably graduating Negro medical stu dents have shunned Chicago, gone to other "cities where the situa tion is less harsh. Actually the doctors' suit never came to trial because 52 of the 56 defendants agreed to the com mission plan with broad investi gative powers. The commission's main enforcement powers, for now, consist of the glare of pub licity for uncooperative hospitals but presumably the endorsing in stitutions harbored genuine good will toward the procedure or they wouldn't have signed. Organized labor and other groups materially aided the Ne gro doctors in their long legal battle. Their success would seem to be a signal to hospitals in every American community to become more a living part of it instead of arrogantly pursuing the uncivilized practice, as far, far too many still do, of turning away a patient at the door not because of his wound but be cause of the color of the skin in which the wound was opened. Otelia Editors, The Tar Heel: I have to make my bow to Duke University for the delight ful banquet, served to the dele gates of the N. C. Press Associa tion Convention Friday night. I almost missed it. When I arrived at the Inn to join the other dele gates on a bus ride to Duke, I found I had left my bus ticket and dinner ticket at home, in an other bag. However, I was prompt ly supplied with two other tickets, and all was welL I enjoyed this convention. The luncheon at the Inn was unusual ly good! The panel of UNC profes sors on the subject of Communism was excellent, much better than I thought the usual professors could do as public speakers. .- The meeting at Duke upheld the standard set at noon at Caro lina. My friend, Taylor Cole, con ducted himself as became the Provost of a great University, and he better had. The speaker, Mr. Harold Styers, was entertain ing and rather unusual, plenty of vim and zip! . But the high-light of the con versation was the banquet at Duke. I sent for the head-waiter and told him, "I had criticized Duke once, but "I give you an A tonight," I said. I also spoke to the Director of Foods. Both of these men had read the former criticism, and I am sure they thought amends were in order. The service was courteous and efficient, the food was delicious, and I wouldn't have missed it. Come over to Carolina, Mr. Min ah, next June, and we will pit you against Mr. Prillaman. UNC Director of Foods. That should prove quite a contest. . . Otelia Connor Hugh Stevens It's All The Same War..." Washington, D. C. and Chape! Hill, N. C. seemed very close together last weekend. As I 1 climbed the interminable steps up- to the U. S. Capitol, a damp ' chill seemed to penetrate to the marrow of my bones, not unlike a walk to class here on a typi cal winter's morning. It wasn't just the weather though, that f . i made me fori at home. For inside the Capi- tol, on the floor I of the House ' of Representa- - " ' - J tives, our legis lators were locked in conflict over the same issue that was being contested in streets of Chapel Hill. The House convened at noon in an extraordinary session to -continue debate on the contro versial Civil Rights Bill. At about that same time, dozens of demonstrators were conven- . ing in our town for another push against discrimination and i injustice. The means were dif ferent, but the ends were the same for both sides in both con flicts, and I felt that the House debate and the Chapel Hill demonstrations were simply separate battles in the same war. Earlier in the day, I had ob tained a gallery pass from Horace Komegay, N. C. Con . gressman, but I was hardly prepared for the scene outside the gallery entrances. The halls were jammed, unusual consider ing the time of day. The first three sections were filled, but I managed to squeeze into a line and grab one of the two remain ing seats. As I settled into one of the uncomfortable chairs provided for visitors, I was conscious of an atmosphere of expectancy and busy preparation not com mon to the Congressional ses sions which I had seen before. There was the usual shuffling around of Congressmen, but somehow the attitude was one of thoughtful restraint. The faces of the legislators, pro and con, were serious. I could not re frain from comparing their countenances with those of the CORE members and policemen that I had seen at Brady's and the Rockpile. As the debate commenced and wound on through the long after noon, my thoughts were drawn again and again away from the Capitol and back to Franklin Street. The words of our coun try's leaders mirrored a thou sand towns like Chapel Hill or Williamston or Asheboro, and fcr the first time the true sig nificance of the struggle going on around me struck home. . I had known that I was goin to witness a battle of minds over the familiar topic of civil rights, but I was surprised at just how familiar it all seemed. In the words of our representa tives I saw the same conflict, the same emotions, the same opposing forces that I had seen dozens of times in Chapel Hill. Before, the words "civil rights" and "discrimination" conjured up pictures of our local Board of Aldermen debating a public accommodations- law, or teenagers camped in front of Colonial Drug. But this was dif ferent. Now the lines were drawn, not between local citi zens, but between the members of the U. S. House of Represen tatives. The debate was not loud, or vicious, or angry. The Wash ington' papers would later com ment at length on the dignity with which it was conducted. Perhaps that was why, to one who was .unfamiliar with the skuation, it might have seemed that the controversy was not really very important, just as local citizens tend to dismiss a few scattered arrests or demon strations. The faces, though, told a dif ; ferent story. They told of the desires of some men to be free and equal, and of other men to be free from what they considered un due interference of government ' in their private lives. Most of all, though, they reflected the huge revolution that is even new occurring in our land. I rose from my seat to let in ore more person from the long lines that had formed outside the door. As I descended the steps, the day was still a bleak ; steel-gray. It seemed the per fect setting for the conflict I had been witnessing. My car radio soon informed me that Chapel Hill had been the scene of conflict that after i noon, too, and that several '.dozen persons had gone to jail. . I did. not have to see them. I ( had seen their faces all after noon on Capitol Hill.
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