Volume 72, Number 12j(
Friday, March 20, 1964
"Pardon Me, Did You Knock?"
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71 Years of Editorial Freedom
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What Ihe Civil Rights Bill Means
Charlotte Observer
(Editor's note: This is the second of
two parts on the actual meaning and ef
fect the pending civil right3 bill would
have if passed by the Senate.)
Mortgages
Question: Will the bill forbid you to
discriminate just because you have a
FHA or VA-insured mortage on your
home, or carry GI life insurance, or have
a bank account insured by the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp. ?
Reply: No. The bill specifically elimi
nates this possibility.
JExplanation: Millions of ordinary
citizens receive federal "aid" in the form
of government insurance for their life,
house or savings.
Fear arose that the bill would cover
them because of its ban on discrimina
tion in federally assisted programs.
So the bill was amended by the House
of Representatives to make it clear that
"contracts of insurance or guaranty,"
such as FHA and VA home loans, Were
not covered.
Note : Those few veterans who bor
rowed money directly from the VA to
finance their homes are covered, but not
the vast majority whose mortgages are
simply insured by the VA.
Trial By Jury
.Question: Will the bill permit you to
be sent to jail without a trial by jury?
Reply: Yes, if you disobey a federal
court order directing you to comply with
the law.
Explanation: With minor exceptions,
the civil, rights bill creates no new
crimes for which you can be fined or
jailed. '
But it does set forth certain discrim
inatory acts which a federal judge -
after a trial can order you to cease.
Then, if you don't cease, the , judge
can slap you in jail without a trial by
jury. . . "
Your "crime" would .not be violating
the civil rights act. It would be contempt
of court. . "
But the result is the same you're in
the jail. : - -
The - Justice Department points out
that there never has been a . right of
trial by jury for , criminal contempt of
court. So the bill is not taking away
any right you already have.
In fact, certain new safe-guards are
added. If you defy a court order enforc
ing the voting rights or public accom
modations sections of the bill, you can't
be jailed for more than 45 days or fined
more than $300 without a jury trial-
For disobeying a court order involv
ing the other parts of the bill, such .as
the fair employment section, you can be
jailed indefinitely for contempt.
Star Chamber ?
Question: Will the bill let you be
questioned, in a secret "star chamber"
proceeding, with a jail sentence hang
ing over you if you reveal what hap
pened? Reply: Yes, but it's not as bad as it
sounds.
Explanation: The bill authorizes the
Civil Rights Commission to hold hear
ings to investigate complaints on dis
crimination. If the commission thinks the testi
Blanchard Contempt Case
"Backtrack From Dilemma"
(Raleigh News & Observer)
Fortunately at the last Judge
Raymond Mallard took himself
off a self-imposed hook in
Orange Superior Court when
he backtracked from a threat
to find in contempt young Gary
Blanchard, editor of the Chapel
Hill student newspaper, the
Daily Tar Heel. Until then the
Judge had seemed about to
prove himself guilty f such
"nonsense" as, Blanchard wrote,
described some of his rulings in
the court.
That term was applied by
Blanchard to some rules laid
down by the judge, allegedly
for the purpose of keeping or
der in his courtroom. Not even
Judge Mallard would -suggest
that the editor -did Tsot'bave a'
Reply: Yes.
Explanation: An amendment added by
the House of Representatives permits
an employer to refuse to hire an atheist
even if he is otherwise qualified.
Thi3 amendment was added over the
objections of the bill's sponsors. A Jus
tice Department spokesman called it
"foolish."
Question: Will the bill control the
selection of members and guests of pri
vate clubs?
Reply: In most cases, no.
Explanation: Bona fide private clubs
do not come under the provisions of this
bill. There are two exceptions:
If the club' is not really "private" but
allows anybody to join for payment of
a small fee, such as the "Playboy Clubs,"
it cannot discriminate against Negroes.
If a private club is located on the
premises of a covered business, such as
a country club connected to a public
hotel, and offers its facilities to white
guests of the hotel, it also must serve
Negro guests.
right to express his editorial
opinion the paper. But when
Blanchard was called as a de
fense witness, the Solicitor ask
ed Blanchard what he had said
editorially. He repeated what
he had said. Whereupon Judge
Mallard said from the bench
that Blanchard was guilty of
"direct contempt expressed in
testimony under oath" and
"tending to discredit this court."
If the Judge had stuck to this
view, it would have been an ab
surd abuse of judicial authority.
The Judge had permitted the
question which required the
editor to say in court what he
could say with impunity in his
paper. And if the repetition there
had constituted contempt, the
circumstances around it would
have, come close to entrapment,
indeed, if -the Judge had 'deliber
mony might embarrass or incriminate
someone, it can hold the hearings behind
closed doors. Unauthorized disclosure of
the proceedings can be punished by a
$1,000 fine or a year in jail.
The Justice Department says this
provision is not meant to hurt anybody
just to protect people from premature
or unfair disclosure of unsubstantiated
charges.
The secret hearings are only to gath
er information; the commission has no
power to make anybody do anthing.
Congressional investigating commit
tees hold such closed-door hearings fre
quently. Professions
Question: Will the bill force doctors,
lawyers, barbers and -small businessmen
to serve Negroes even if they aren't en
gaged in "interstate commerce?"
Reply: It depends where your busi
ness is located. Sometimes the answer
is yes; sometimes no.
Explanation: If you live in a com
munity where there is a local law act
ually on the book requiring racial segre
gation, the new federal law will apply
to every business and professional man.
If you serve white people in such a town,
you will have to serve Negroes too.
In other communities, the rules are
different.
You will have to serve all races if
your place of business is located "on the
premises" of an establishment, such as
a hotel or theater, covered by the bill.
You also will be covered if your place
of business, such as a department store,
contains a restaurant or lunch counter
covered by the bill.
But you are not required to serve
Negroes just because your store or of
fice is located in the same building, or
the same shopping center, with a cover
ed establishment. ; - -
A doctor or a lawyer could have an
office in a hotel, or upstairs over a
restaurant, without coming under the
law.
Religion
Question: Will the bill permit dis
crimination against you if you don't be
lieve in God.
ately let the witness be asked
and required to answer a ques
tion which he knew in the court
room would constitute contempt
and then had held him guilty,
that would have been a con
temptile proceeding.
Fortunately for his own rep
utation on the bench, the Judge
realized the corner into which he
had painted himself. He agreed
that the young editor was in a
dilemma in that he would have
been in contempt if he had re
fused to answer the question and
also in contempt if he spoke of
the court's "nonsense" in the
courtroom. But it was the
'Judge who was in the fix of a
"nonsense" charge outside the
court or judicial "nonsense" in
it. And despite his final wiggle
out the Judge chiefly dramatized
both.
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'
H
umphrey Is
By ROWLAND EVANS
And ROBERT NOVAK
nr.oTTmn-rAM xt i i '
WASHINGTON - Nearly ob-
scured by all toe smoke and fury finished the President telephon
over Robert F. Kennedy is the - j
fact that Sen. Hubert Humphrey
of Minnesota is front-runnc-r
right now, at least for the Vice-
Presidential nomination.
President Johnson has not and
will not soon make up his mind.
In fact, Presidential intimates
now regard the contest for Vice-
President as a tnree-way race
between Humphrey, Attornev-
General Kennedy, and Sargent
Shriver, Cabinet-level command
er of the Johnson poverty war.
But Humphrey, is ahead.
Thea reasons are two-fold:
Whatever their personal incli
nations, most Democratic poli
ticians across the country be
lieve Mr. Johnson should have
wide freedom of choice. Thev
don't feel that the President's
refusal to pick the Attorney-General
would be an affront to the'
memory of John F. Kennedy.
If the President really has that
freedom of choice, Humphrey is
in an exceedingly strong posi
tion. The reason: the President
makes no bones that he regards
him as best qualified to fill the
office of the Presidency itself.
The Johnson-Humphrey friend-,
ship, formed in the Senate, be
came intimate during those tur
bulent days after the assassina
tion when the new President re
lied heavily on his aid and ad
vice. They communicate, usual
ly daily, in blunt, earthy lan
guage. Humphrey is the No. 1
White House trouble-shooter in
the Senate.
'Pretty
Abuses Of The
Rights Of Others
Editors, The Tar Heel:
Until recently I have opposed
strongly the "Speaker Ban" bill.
I still believe that it is an affront
to rational students with even a
rudimentary knowledge of the
meaning of Democracy to deny
them full opportunity to hear
anyone they choose on any topic.
However, n incident last Friday
suggests to me that the bill
mw wmmnt u mw ii
Heelprints
Looks as though a certain con
tempt charge was just so much
water off a Mallard's back.
..-
Definition: Author a man you
can shut up by closing a book.
That UNCR-N. C. State dispute
has been little so far but a
bunch of name-calling.
Concerning discussion over
the Public Accommodations sec
tion of the Civil Rights bill, we'd
say the issue isn't "free enter
prise" but "fair enterprise."
VP
One sign of the President's in
terest came March 8 when the
' Senate appeared on "Meet the
Procc c cnnn ae tho nrnar,m
to
Humphrey on his performance.
Moments later, Mrs. Johnson
came on the phone too. (It
should be noted, however, that
on Dec. 15 Mr. Johnson telephon
ed the same compliment to
Shriver after his appearance on
"Meet the Press.")
The President likes to point out
that the effervescent Humphrey
wouldn't mind the ceremonial
folderol that is the Vice-Presidency.
Mr. Johnson detested it,
and he has remarked that Rob
ert Kennedy would feel the same
way. This is scarcely a valid ar
gument against Kennedy but the
President is using it.
The . President believes that
Shriver, like Humphrey, would
fit into the routine of corner
stone - laying and delegation
greeting. And unlike Humphrey,
Shriver youthful, handsome,
and Catholic provides contrast
to Mr. Johnson.
But the Shriver trial balloon
for the Vice-Presidency has fail
ed to soar. Furthermore, friends
of the tightly-knit Kennedy fam
ily believe Shriver almost cer
tainly would defer to Robert
Kennedy.
i That brings on the central
question: can Kennedy's loyal
I partisans pressure the President
i into putting him on the ticket?
The truth is that neither the
Attorney-General nor his staun
chest backers believe that any
thing approaching political black-
Poor
would have merit if it was ap
plied to those few UNC students
who lack even this intuitive ac
ceptance of democratic prac
tices. I was driving down Rosemary
Street when a car backed into
my path and stopped in the
middle of the street to shift
gears. When I swung right to
pass around him, he darted diag
onally forward and stopped in
my path again. He then signal
led for me to swung wide to the
left around him, so he could
back into the parking space I
was temporarily occupying. An-
lj ilij jit iwi mill 111111
Chancellor Aycock says he op
poses profs taking part in civil
disobedience because they may
confuse students into not know
ing what laws to keep and which
to break. Sounds like he's pre
judiced against students ability
to discriminate.
That junior high student who
stole a horse to ride to school
cot trotted right into court.
Then there's the Harrison Mer
rill doll you wind it up and it
breaks a record. -
Americ
Leade
r
mail can or should be
against the President.
used
Accordingly, because there is
no love lost between the two, a
Johnson-Kennedy ticket is pos
sible only if the President feels
that the Kennedy name along
side his is vital to win. And be
ing the proud man he is, even
this possibility will . diminish in
proportion as Mr. Johnson feels
he is being crowded by the Ken
, nedys.
The Johnson-Kennedy relation
ship, though cool and strained,
remains entirely civil. The talk
about excessive pressures comes
not from the two principals but
1 from Kennedy - haters in the
Johnson camp and Johnson-hat-
' ers in the Kennedy camp. There
are enough of both to go around.
The other Vice - Presidential
possibilities, including Adlai E.
Stevenson, can be written off
with the possible exception of
Sen. Eugene McCarthy of Minne
sota, who in some ways is closer
to the President than Humphrey
or Shriver. Some of Mr. John
son's intimates count McCarthy
an outside compromise choice if
a Humphrey-vs. Kennedy struggle
gets overheated.
But Kennedy men would be
unhappy with McCarthy, mainly
because of his chilly relationship
with President Kennedy. They
regard Humphrey,, who buried"
the hatchet with John Kennedy
in 1930, as more acceptable.
Indeed, Humphrey alone among
the Vice-Presidential possibilities
has no real enemies within the
party or in Washington. This may
prove his strongest asset.
gered by his repeated rudeness,
I refused; indicating that he
could get out of my way, then
do as he pleased.
He got out of his car, came
back, and made abusive sugges
tions. Then a companion repeat
edly threatened me, if I did not
"Get the out of the way."
Being in a hurry, I finally acced
ed to their demands. I gave up
explaining that repeated disre
gard for the rights of others was
no grounds for extra courtesy
on my part, especially since the
request was made as a demand.
It was found in the studies of
those men who were "brain
washed" during the Korean War
that most of them did not under
stand Democracy. They were,
therefore, easy prey to the Com
munist Chinese propaganda. As
I said, I think that most UNC
students do not need the "pro
tection" of the "Speaker Ban"
law. However, these two frat
men .(Fiji's by their pins) are
exceptions. There are probably
others on campus, both fraternity
and independents, who need a
stronger basic grounding in the
principles of Democracy. Any
one who believes that . abuses of
the rights of others can be justi
fied by threats and foul language
is a pretty poor American.
. Quentln Ludgin
103 Caldwell Hail
Talk with an average Ameri
can woman for five minutes,
that is, if you can stay .awake
that long. Nobody has asked me,
but if they had, I would have
something to say about the de
generacy of the American fe
male mind.
I remember when they used
to give us these verbal profici
ency tests in the fifth or sixth
grade.. It was always the girls
who could form the most words
using the letters in the word
"Christmas." It was always the
girls who . could tell the longest
sfnry abwt the stimulus p?
tt'r of the w;tch riding the
white horse. Tt wa elwav? the
g;rls who could write the long
est therr"e and get all the punc
tuation rteht.
But. when it rame to mathe
matical imagination and philo
sophical desim the sirls struck
out every f'me. The female mind
mind doesn't seem to have the
rbtract aid analvtic Qualities of
miM necessary to inventive or
iginality. Psychologists call it the
ability to "break the set." Try
this. Name the next logical num
ber of this series 2. 4. 6. 8 . . .
.Got it? Trv this one1?. 4, 8. 16,
?" ... Hp-v about this? 41, 42,
55. 95, 9G, 100 .. .
With apolosies to you all, the
last series would continue. 11?,
113. 114. 120 rnd so on. It's the
numbers of the courses offered
by the UNC Anthropology De
partment. You weren't thinkinsr of the
Anthropology Department, were
you? It's a little trick psycho
logists like to try on their sub
jects. They say that if you are
a man, you probably came clos
er to getting the right answer
than if you are a woman.
Just as a woman is more
likely to continue thinking math
ematically when set on a mathe
matical track, so she is more
likely not to deviate from pre
scribed social and mental
thought patterns.
The female of the species
seems ever anxious to conform
herself to the rigid standards
that modern society demands.
No one is more greatly influenc
ed by the opinions of others than
she.
It is prcbably the tendency,
towards conformity that helps a
woman excel at the mechanical
acts of spelling and punctuation.
These are the kind of perfor
mances for which there is a
strict set of rules, a single
socially prescribed way of do
ing things.
The Quarterly's
Place On Campus
Etfitors, The Tar Heel:
Confusion seems to be the
y-
word in the controversy regard
ing the continued publication of
the Carolina Quarterly. Although
most recent meetings between
Quarterly staff and those in
charge of student government
funds are producing much more
accord as to the actual goals of
the Quarterly than was evident
in the beginning, I feel that per
haps two entirely different points
of view are at work in this situa
tion and need clarification.
First of all, the choice of ma
terial for publication, as the
edilors have repeatedly explain
ed, rests solely on the merits of
the work submitted, not on its
origin. Despite all encourage--ment,
it seems that relatively
little "material has been submit
ted by Carolina students; the
work actually submitted was of
ten not able to compete with
other writing sent in by writers
from other parts. So, the mat
ter of publishing Carolina's cre
ative writers rests with the
writers themselves, not with this
magazine's editors. And what
could be more advantageous for
our local writers than to com
pete with other amateurs around
the nation and receive all the
more recognition for it when
they do get into print, especially
since the magazine has a select
national readership. A strictly
"campus magazine" would hard
ly receive the attention of the
Yale University library or the
People's Republic of Bulgaria.
Regarding campus readership,
I fear this is a ticklish matter.
Aside from the bane of never
having a rip-roarin business and
sales staff on the Quarterly and
the fundamentally non-e- intellec
tual, non-literary bents of the
majority of -our ten thousand
fellow-students, there arises the
question of wljether a wide cam
pus circulation is important or
not. The Carolina Quarterly is a
literary magazine attempting to
make known to the interested
public, that is, other writers and
students of English and Americ
an letters, just what is happen
And on top cf it nil is the
wildering social concept t: -it
is feminine to be ir.orr.n?. i-;
the movies, it's always h.
dumb blond that gets ch;:-,-i
around the bass's desk, not in
efficient typist or the com;
stenographer.
It's feminity that a wnrr.nn
wants most. They live wi'h
idea that lacy, perfumed ferr.cio
ness and unlimited hopping
hand in hand.
Be gay, be thin, be witty )
soft spoken, be sexy. V,t , ,
woman behind the man. t ,
new lace curtains for the
en. Learn to bake j-c-r.r
bread. Name your first-born n
after his father. Collect v ,
for the heart fund. Have par;';
of bright, talented chiUrcn. H,.f-.
the community. Drive n t'.:;;..,n
wagon. Smile.
The American girt is f ,
into an unyielding mold !.y ;: ,;
time she has her first ;'?! :- h. .
friend at thirteen.
Never is there any social ; v-,
larity attached with the i.Jeas . f
ine'eoendence of mind. ?duc:i:; v:.
intelligence, ambition, End re
sponsibility. If the mind cwXA
fill a wet bathing suit po: h .; s
things would be tli'foren'. v,;
even man is willing t -the
concept that war-cn reed -:
be passive and htTpls ir. !
sexually attractive.
Switching our focus tioru
social to a biological poirt y"
view, we find that the irtoi'pc
tual female is likely ti hve z
more than average share t in
drogen, the male sex hom s
in her system.
Interestingly, androgen is s?.-i
the libido-controlling hormone t; a
both sexes. According to science,
intellectual women are bit,
more sexually charming and pro
ficient than their pale, help c -sisters,
despite the social clncm,:
to the contrary. What was it t c
Roman said about a sourJ p;
in a sound body?
It is partly the gulliMeness O
the American male fciat h.:c
caused this trend. After all, v. i
man is out to give roaa vh
he wants.
But even more at fault is th?
gullibleness of the American ft
male for falling for the stnrutf
Madison Avenue klea that von
en are much too naturally lc::j
tiful to confuse their pure aiif
simple minds with the core's
of a good book. "Sex is fun er.'i
having babies is a channf
way of life."
And so their own CaivJ-AcrL
fall into the same perverted in
tern and become una! tern !.
molded by the time tliey
their first steady boyirkrj z'
thirteen.
ing among young writers i ilrv.
It is not Tarnalion or Ram anc
Yew. By nature it is directed 'v.
a rather limited group f t p- ; r
in our society, just as s;:.!:.!:'
journals are. The Rename 'S.-.u-z
and Studies in Cerrnanic X.atj
Languages 2nd Literatures ; t
distinguished scholarly periodic
als pubikhed by our liorc.'Vt:
and Germanic Languages clop ir,
merits here; they are expensiv,"
and require a great deal cf vfri
yet probably less than ere h;
the work they publish U by
scholars and their local tircii'.;
tion goes hardly beyond t p re
spective departments thew'vr
Yet would we consider . -magazines
failures? IJru v
As much as I wish etry Can'
hna student read each is .: o
the Quarterly, tnen, I w 'ev
whether this demand for
circulation cn campus is a realis
tic basis upon which to j.: :
the usefulness and success -;
the magazine. The exporien
gained by staff members ir.
reading manuscripts and Hitx
a literary journal is invalua'
to those aiming for a career
the publishing business; thN -"
certainly one of the magazine's
purposes and must not le over
jooked, since the DTI I seru-
this same very worthwhile Lr:-:-nop
for would-be journalists.
I felt that the contrast bef-sc:';
these two views of the maa .
zines Purpose and su?ces! ;i
ness needed some elarihcat; n
11 tnose concerned are to r.-.
a-ment about its fu!.;.
I he Carolina Quarterly, ck; -red
mk and sales problems. h:,i
i: u, n mcl o be one
of ( .;:
Muueni body's mc
success:.:'
7h7 I7fclea undertaking i
"o'L. magazine to survn
w long, as far as I know. Let'
ry knows. all this furor rr
nave stimulated Ch-ocl II '
on111"3" t0 Snn:.
creative writing field:
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