Volume 72, Number 80
Sunday, February 9, 1964
Letters To The Editor
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services of the University News Bureau.
The initial reaction to Student Body
President Mike Lawler's suggestion
' that students boycott all businesses
which discriminate on the basis of race
has been heartening. Nevertheless, for
the policy to be. really effective it must
be subscribed to publicly by other stu
dent leaders, plus individual students
and faculty members.
This will not be easy for some to do.
It will mean alienating some friends
and risking censure. But, clearly, it
-must be done. We must use our econom
ic and moral weight to support those
businesses which have made a break
with the past, and weaken those which
have not.
Most of us are tired of carrying the
albatross of racial discrimination
around our collective necks. If we are
ever to throw it off, we must act bold
ly, positively and in unison. There must
be no question of where we stand.
If the long-mistreated. Negro can
sit-in for his freedom, then we can
write-in for ours.
We call on every student and faculty
member, on this campus to put off this
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Knavery 's Root:
By RALPH McGlLL
. A printing shop owner was one
I of 50 persons interviewed in an
( informal sidewalk survey on the
' subject of Col. John Glenn, the
! U.S. astronaut, becoming a can
, didate for the Democratic party
' nomination to the U.S. Senate.
Hie businessman said he was
1 disappointed that Col Glenn was
going into politics because he felt
"Glenn is a high-type, an all
' American boy, and it (getting
i into politics) doesn't make
sense."
' A housewife voiced a similar
; comment. Politics, she said, was
a bad choice because "he's such
a good person that he should not
get involved."
'Here revealed are common
place reactions by Americans
who would, if polled, declare
; themselves strongly in support of
"the American Way of Life."
Politics is the American way of
."life, the American system. We
' elect all those who govern us,
from the most humble local of
fice to the highest, that of the
' presidency. We are a nation
. that lives, for, of, and by poli
tics ...
Our Constitution, which rath
er elaborately spells out our
representative form of govern
ment, is the oldest written con
stitution in the modern world.
When it formally was adopted
there was a monarch on the
. throne of France, reigning by
divinee right of kings. There was
d Czar in the palace at St. Pet
ersburg, a Sultan in Constantin
ople, a Holy Roman emperor, a
Venetian Republic, a Dutch Re
public, .an emperor in China,
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The Obligation To Declare
obligation no longer. The future of race
relations in Chapel Hill is largely in our
hands. Let this be the year we remem
ber as the one in which we stood up
for what is right, the year in which we
used the tools of our academic train
ing to implement the morals of our
background.
Student leaders of every variety have
a special obligation to do this, in their
roles as fashioners of opinion and
leaders of their fellows.
, . Faculty members,, too, especially
those in positions of departmental lead
ership, have an obligation to declare
themselves.
For those individuals who waver in
making a decision to vote against dis
crimination with their dollars, it should
be recalled that had we acted earlier
the tragedy of yesterday might well
. have been averted and. our own sense
of honor grown to fuller stature.
The Daily Tar Heel will be glad to
publish declarations against discrimina-
' tion on its editorial page. We hope your
name is on one such declaration.
Inventory Time
' The Biblical Recorder
:"I must say that the churches have
been lagging badly in this great human
struggle ... We preachers are afraid
of our skins. The church is the most
' segregated major agency in America
' north and south."
' The speaker was Dr. H. Shelton
Smith, a Durham minister and profes
sor emeritus at Duke University, and
the occasion was the meeting of the
N. C. Good Neighbor Council at Wilson.
We think his words are especially time
ly as Baptist in this state approach Hu-
' man Relations Sunday, Feb. 9.
' Business, industry and government
continue to lead the way in breaking
down racial barriers and prejudices.
This development is puzzling to some
' people, especially to those who never at
tend church. Some progress has been
made in our Baptist churches in this
state, but much more remains to be
done. It's inventory time.
and a God-descended Mikado in
Japan.
! The able British historian,
D. W. Brogan, and others, have
commented that since " 1789,
when the Constitution was adopt
ed, forms and realities have
; changed less in the United States
than in any other political or
ganization. We have lived with
1 in the framework of that Con
; stitution, and our way of life,
our "system," is political.
Yet, we find that many Ameri
' cans tend to create a gulf be
tween themselves and politics,
preferring the worst connotation
of the world to the best. This
has been true with us from the .
beginning. It is one of the weak
nesses of our "system." lA high
.percentage of those qualified do
not vote. Some, indeed, fail to
; register. Others distrust "poli
tics." Politics is not, in their
minds, something that an ail
American boy ought to get into.
Politics is not something for a
. nice young man.
That politicians have merited
distrust and condemnation is
, true. But public apathy, toler
ance, or a feeling of being alien-
ated from "politics" is at the
root of all, or almost all, politi-
cal knavery and inefficiency.
! ' South Dakota's legislature re
cently made official abolishment
; of the poll tax in federal elec
tions. We saw then the sorry
spectacle of some Southern
; states, including Virginia, mov
ing to restrict the suffrage by
making poll tax payments nee
essaery in all state and local elec
tions. The Southern states have
a lower percentage of voter
participation, than stales, in, other
Apathy
regions. The Negro has, until re
cently, been disfranchised in the
South. The one-party situation
and the literacy percentage also
contributed to the low total of
Southern voters.
But the accusing fact is that
the Southern white voter goes to
i the polls less than white voters
' in other regions. He has been
.conditioned, in too many rural
' localities, to accept the fact that
"the court house crowd" ran
things and his vote didn't really
matter.
) This now is changing. The
qualified Negro is coming to
the ballot. Reapportionment has
loosened rural control, though it
is not broken. Georgia, kept in
literal political bondage, has
been freed of the iniquitous coun
ty unit system which, along with
I ajher '.things, perpetuated de
magoguery and inefficiency, and
made corruption more possible
and likely. Politics will im-
! prove and attract better young
i men in the South.
) Happily, the American sys
tem, or way of life, continues to
attract some- good young men,
nice enough and courageous
enough to take the criticism,
smearing and emotional jostling
that is- part of campaigning.
President Kennedy's inspiration
J and contribution in this area was
' and isenormous.
f - It makes very good sense, the
' printing shop owner . and the
"housewife to the contrary not
withstanding, . for a high type,
ail-American boy to get into (he
1 American business of politics.
We, the American people, live
and- have our being of and by
.politics, .
(Ed. Note: The following let
ter was submitted to Student
Legislature Speaker Bob Spear
man at last Thursday's session.
We reprint it here for the en
joyment of all our readers.)
Mr. Robert Spearman
Speaker of the Legislature
. University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dear Mr. Speaker:
Now that the great Wayne
King has departed, I guess that
Henry Lawler and myself have
the somewhat dubious distinction
of being the old men of the un
dergraduates here at the Uni
versity. Sometimes as I look
back over my years at Carolina
I question whether or not it's
been worth it.
For instance, for coming to
Carolina I was accused of being
a communist, a nigger lover,
and an alcoholic.
At Carolina I've been bawled
out by the girls, held up by mer
chants, held down by professors,
hung over from booze, chewed
out by my parents, bulldozed in
to blind dates, mouched from
by friends, and all walked on
by the administration.
I've had to pay library fees,
lab fees, infirmary fees, a few
parking and speeding fines, and
now, God help me, before I can
graduate, I must also pay a
graduation fee.
At Carolina I've been asked to
either join, support, attend,
read, listen to, work for, or
watch the SP, UP, the YAF, the
YDC, the YRC, the YMCA, : the
CAA GM, the DTH, the NAACP,
CORE, the PLC, the IDC, ' the
IFC, the AFROTC, the NROTC,
the CUSC, the NSA, WUNC
FM andor WUNC-TV.
When I was active in student
Government, I was accused of
doing it for personal recognition,
now that I'm no longer active,
I'm said to be apathetic.
When I made good grades,
they say I'm lucky, when I make
poor grades, they say I'm a bad
Heelprints
The Cuban situation is ap
parently not a case of just so
much water over the dam':"
Rather, it's how much water
through the pipes.
Hear about, the student ; who
sold his old books at the Book
Ex? He got enough money to
buy a stamp and write home
for more money!
Then there's the John Dunne
doll you wind it up and it suf
fers. Definition: Undertaker the
friend who lets you down. ;
t
Headline of the week (from
the Cheraw, S. C. Chronicle):
"Well Tan My Hide! It Is So
Easy To Work With Leather."
"On The Other
...
student.
' When I attend church, I'm said
to be a hypocrite; when I don't
go, I'm said to be a hardened
heathen.
If I date a girl only once, it
was said that she dropped me;
: If I dafed a girl more than once,
it was rumored all over the
campus that there is some hanky-panky
going on.
If I had joined a fraternity, I
would have been a Frat Rat;
since I didn't I'm now called a
dorm f at-
When I have plenty of money
to spend I'm accused of being a
playboy, and my father is said
to be dishonest; when I'm broke,
I'm said to be a bad manager,
, and my father is accused of be
ing a' bad provider.
After all this, one might ques
tion, why I chose to come back
to school for one more semester.
I guess I just wanted to see
, what else could possibly happen
next
i Tonight it happened. I've been
f threatened with dismissal from
i a position from which I have
resigned three times. It all
started in September when I
told Henry Lawler that I did-
not have time, due to mv rather
i delicate academic condition, to
do justice to my appointment.
Old Hank just kinda laughed and
' talked me into trying for a cou
ple of months. Again about a
month and a half later, I sub
mitted another resignation . . .
! this one written, but undated . . .
' which was simply ignored.
) Finally, I submitted a final
i resignation around the first of
December in which I stated that
t I would no longer be able to
continue to perform the duties
i of the Campus Affairs Board
Chairman or as Head of the De
partment of Campus Affairs
under any circumstances. This
finally got some action as the
President wrote a letter to legis
lature stating that he would ap
point a successor as soon as I
submitted a report to him con
cerning Carrier Current. This
i
? Some of those songs by the
i (Beatles need to have the bugs
worked out of them.
A lot of North Carolinians re
fer to UNC as if it stands for
the University of Negroes and
Communists.
. Hear about the fellow who
went into a local delicatessen
and starved to death before his
order arrived?
"
After that combination of
Louis , Armstrong and the Shir
elles, we suggest that the next.
. Germans Concert be Bo- Diddley
and the New York Philharmonic.
. , . . . .
We hear the Angus Barn is
haying a special this week
charcoaled everything. .
Hand, Think Of The Alternatives"
was done approximately three
weeks ago.
As I told Henry, I do not feel
that this report on Campus Rad:
io is at all sufficient. To be com
plete, such a report would en-
- compass some lQO-2O0pages, and
since this was the case I felt that
several conferences with him
would better serve the purpose
of presenting the facts as I
have found them concerning
Carrier Current. THEN, after
some preliminary decisions were
made, I wrould then be more
than happy to write a complete
report of. our progress. Even
Arthur Hayes said that he felt
that was reasonable . . . and
everybody knows that Arthur
Hayes knows, more about reports
1 than Henry Lawler knows about
J philosphysing ... and whatever
Arthur say is good enough for
me.
t With Fond memories of
l the Henry Lawler Ad-
) ministration, I remain,
I Donald William Curtis
Smith Oil Smith
Editors, The Tar Heel
I would like to take issue with
Washington Lee Smith's letter to
the editors which appeared in the
February 6th issue of the DTH.
Mr. Smith, seemingly contends
that not only school and public
accommodation facilities should
be integrated by federal order
but that social integration is a
valid cause to merit such a force
ful method of accomplishment.
I would like to impress upon
Mr. Smith the fact that his
love for freedom, if this method
of integration were carried out,
would surely be endangered, along
with his freedom of social choice
and right to pursue a government-free
endeaver of private en
terprise. Using - Mr. Smith's formula,
America might set up a "Com
mission on Morality" which would
seek out and prosecute all peo
ple who do not accept their fel
low man or conduct themselves
in an arbitrarily defined manner
of morality the French Jacobins
tried this during the French Revo
lution and decaptitated 20,000 peo
ple before they finished purging
the enemies of the Republic aild
the "undesirable" members of
smbi s,Anunoo jno "aioos jbuj
now. guarantee every man his
rights to his liberties, with re
sponsibility accompanying these
freedoms; however, there is no
constitutional method of secur
ing moral justice in such cases
as. segregated businesses and so
cial fraternities painful re
flections upon society's equality
but not unlawful institutions.
Also, Mr. Smith's reference to
the Confederate soldiers who
died during the Civil War, as
traitors to their country and ene
mies of freedom, is the most ob
scene thing I've heard since the
Watts waitress incident. The men
of grey, of which the majority
were not slave owners, but pro
ponents of states' rights (a still
unsettled question in
America) were defenders of their
beliefs, which was a faith in self
government not a strong central
government. The institution of
slavery was a horrible, and damn
ing mark to our country but this
was not the main motive for the
War between the states. General
Robert E. Lee's freeing of his
slaves before Lincoln's emanci
pation order is an indication that
there were deeper reasons for
secession from the Union a love
of individual liberty, again with
responsibility, which motivated
a belief in states rights. Our
country has . many reasons for
shame the mistreatment of the
American Indians; the persecu
tion of the Mormans; Klu Klux
Klan rallies earlier in the cen
tury and many more, but we must
learn to forget these atrocities
and strive for a better society.
This will not happen by trying
to force, with legislation, humani
tarianism upon the remaining
diehard hold-outs of biasness who
stem from narrow minded ori
gins. If Mr. Smith advocates a power
ful central government with the
rights of moral judgment, then he
would probably be happy living in
some form of dictatorship. There
are such governments in the world
today Red China, Cuba, Russia,
etc. from which people are
literally dying to escape. I am
sure that these governments would
welcome the assention to their so
ciety of people like Mr. Smith, to
fill in the gap caused by those
whose love for liberty has made
them run the chance of death
to escape slavery.
It is ironical that the crux of
Mr. Smith's argument stems from
' Currently by Fred Seely
The good Reverend B. Eltcn
Cox has sounded the clarion
of sacrifice for the Negro cause,
but it looks as though he will
have few takers.
Cox, who preaches regularly
to the people of High Point and
irregularly to the rest of the
state, has taken it upon him
self to suggest that those, who
believe in the Negro revolt
should make a sacrifice for it,
namely, themselves.
In a speech here Sunday, he
advocated immolation sitting
on a street corner, dousing one
self with gasoline and lighting a
match. In fact, he implied that
he might do it himself on Easter
Sunday if the situation did not
improve.
Then, on Wednesday, Cox
said that he had been misquot
ed. The Daily Tar Heel had a
photographer and two reporters
at the first meeting, and all
' heard him make the threat.
1 In fact, he was later asked to
clarify his statement and re
peated it.
As one local wag commented,
"It's a pity he won't go through
with it we could get Mrs.
Watts to come put out the fire."
Add to Reverend Cox the three
gentlemen in Asheboro who
plan to lock themselves in cof
fins on Memorial Day if racial
progress is not made in that
city. To make it all the more
dramatic, they have already
ordered them.
The news of the great occasion-to-come
was received with
laughs, and the . three martyrs-to-be
haven't said much about it
lately.
' People like this bunch just
don't make the situation any
better, and there really isn't
much chance that John Cars
well, Carlton Mize or Austin
Watts will decide to serve Neg
roes because one or two of them
commit suicide.
And I don't think that public
Legendary Smokey:
Maybe
Smokey the Bear is a creep in
insists THE GUARDSMAN, City
College of San Francisco. (Calif
ornia) Ever since the Animal Decency
League gave him an old Mountie
hat, he's been romping around
the hills shaking his shovel at
anyone trying to keep warm.
Are we to stay cooped up in
our overcrowded cities just be
cause one lousy bear wants to
romp around in the woods? Are
we going to hold up progress on
account of one rather silly-looking
bear?
This was not the idea of our
founding fathers. They envisioned
a great nation, stretching from
shore to shore, not a sanctuary
for a neurotic, honey-crazed bruin.
In our country's great western ex
pansion, our ancestors met with
many hardships such. as. staxva-
He's
a disapproval of slavery.
F. Neil Smith
306 Everett
Republicans
Editors, The Tar Heel:
In your editorial "The GOP In
Wonderland" of Feb. 7, your ef
forts to be cute were achieved
only at the expense of a mis
statement of facts in both of your
indictments . of prominent Republi
cans. You stated that Mr. Cobb,
former State Republican Chair
man, was caught with two wives.
He was not! Your statement Is
synonomous with accusing him of
committing bigamy a serious
charge. However, when the story
first broke, a prominent jurist
said that no such infraction had
occurred. Then, your statement
is libelous.
In the same editorial you stated
that Guilford County Senator
Charles Strong used "official
State Stationery" to solicit in
surance customers. He did not!
' Apparently, both of these
charges were made off the top
of your head for only a brief re
view of the facts first reported
would reveal that neither of
these indictments is well found
ed. Sir, it wouldn't require too
much effort to first check the
facts in a controversy before
blasting away and it would make
a lot better reading.
Charles Ileatherly
opinion will turn in favor of the
Negro cause, as the immolators
will be viewed as crackpots.
I am a bit disgusted when
! Floyd McKissick tells the Neg
ro community of this area that
they should encourage their
children to participate in demon
strations. These kids are the ones who
will bring the Negro to full equa
lity, and they will do it by edu
cation and awareness of the
times, added to the many dol
lars that are being spent by
the integrationist group to make
America cognizant of their sit
uation. And these kids cannot gain
an education in jail or in the
streets clapping their hands and
singing. This can only breed
hate for the white people, and
their young minds can only con
strue the demonstrations as be
ing action against evil people.
. North Carolina's gubernatorial
aspirants seem to be content
with sniping at each other,
promising sidewalks and hold
ing rallies. Issues are few and
far between.
Preyer has been accused of
being soft on Communism (by
Lake) and, even worse, of be
ing soft on Terry Sanford (by
Moore). Moore has been called
a liberal (by Lake) and, even
worse, an arch-conservative (by
Preyer). And Lake has been
called all sorts of bad things by
everybody.
If Floyd McKissick, the God
head of the North Carolina inte
grationists, decides to enter the
campaign, we might hear some
debate. If not, it will have tc
be Ray Stansbury, the grocer
from Hillsboro.
Because it looks as though
Preyer, Lake and Moore are
content with the present situa
tion. A. Pyro
tion, bitterly cold winters and
Smokey's ancestors.
But let's examine motives.
Could Smokey be covering up
something besides burnt-cur camp
fires? In his fantatical efforts to
stop happy campers from blazing
up the forests, could Smokey be
hiding his own hidden desires and
transgressions?
Might it be possible that this
docile bruin in long pants actual
ly is a pyromaniac? Perhaps those
pockets in his jeans are hiding the
big fellow's Ronson.
After all, someone has to keep
Smokey in a job. And who sparks
all those fires that are attribut
ed to lightning?
In closing, let us say that there
is still hope we may be delivered
from this forestry dictator. Re
member, forest fires do wipe out
bears!