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SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1943 THE DAILY TAR HEEL f AGE TWO Ingredients of And Determined Audience Best for the Job Before Us Nine days and nights of the Institute of Human Relations and the many more days that went into preparation for it have ended. But the good accrued has not. The political and societal wisdom of what was spoken by men like Herring, Martin and Judd doesn't stop with enunciation of the words. It stimulates the listeners to do thinking of their own and to respond to the ''time for greatness" of which the last Institute's Herbert Agar spoke. This Institute was not so startling as that of two years ago, and should not have been. Two years ago, the nation, and Chapel Hill included, was soaking in a tepid bath of inertia and indif ference that produced the war-delaying decay. It took the bald assertions of Herbert Agar that the United States was obli gated to enter the war immediately to leave Carolina's intellec ual isolationists high and dry and unprotected. This year was different. It is almost 18 months since the whole of the country was galvanized hysterically into self-defense. During those 18 months has developed a more logical calm, a resignation to necessray casualties but never defeat. That Institute speakers of the past several days, then, did not blast their audiences out of their chairs is understandable. Chapel Hill and America are faced with the task of lucid deci sion and considered action on the post-war peace. Fireworks and reflection don't mix. What does mix is the factual stimulation from the Institute and the determined calm of the audience. The basic ingredients are good, but there is still much work to do. Of the Free CWC No Furniture Factory Negro Finally Gets Justice; Machine Support May Go to Candidate McDonald By Richard Railey (Guest Columnist) ' Contrary indeed to popular belief the Carolina Workshop does not busy itself with the making of tables, book-ends, desks, and other such items usually produced in institutions of . similar names, but serves the campus by effectively coordinating the work of the seven creative art departments. Organized just a little over a year ago, the Workshop next week will present its second annual festival. And from all ad vance notices, this year's five- day presentation bids well to top the excellent work done last year. For this year, the workshop, in addition to pre senting to the campus such greats in the arts fields as Struthers Burt, James Boyd, Josef Albers, and Howard Thomas, will also place on ex hibit the best oif student en deavor. The student work will represent the best at present of a campus that has given the country Thomas Wolfe, Paul Green, and Hatcher Hughes. All in all, the week's activities promise much in real enter tainment and information to a student body that has grown weary under the pressing strains of war. Significant among state news of the' day is the full par don granted Thursday by Gov ernor Broughton to William Mason Wellman, convicted last August in Iredell county on the charge of rape of a 67-year-old white woman of States ville. This is the first pardon granted a man on death row by North Carolina's present chief executive, and is perhaps the first in over 10 years for the state. Wellman had pre viously been given three re prieves as the state's highest OLDEST COLLEGE The official newspaper of the Carolina Publications Union of the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is printed daily except Mondays, and the Thanksgiving, Christmas and Spring Holidays. Entered as second class matter at the post office at Chapel Hill, N. C, under act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $3.00 for the college year. Member Pbsockaled Cb2e6oie Press bucky habwabo esnie franks!. Bob Covington Associate Editors : Henry Moll. Walter Dam toft Night Editors : Jud Kinberg. Fred Kanter. Kdttmuai. Board: Pete GuUedg-e. Cocum Nianra : Jimmy Wallace. Dave Haaig. Harvey Seft-aL Chuck Howe, Charlie Johnson. Kat Hill. Sara Yokley, Dick Adler. Bbfortebs: Jud Kinber, Madison Wriffbt. Kat HOI. Larry Dale, Sara Yoldey, Sarak Niven. Jane Cavenaah. John Kerr, O. P. Charters, Gloria Caplan, Bob Lindsay, Roland Gidoz. Faison Thompson. Srotrrs Columnists: Westy Fenhasren. Ben MeKinnon. Srocrs Staff: Lloyd Koppei. Art Shaia, George Mitchell. Bob Goldwater. Pbotockaphbks : Karl Bishopric, Tyler Norse. i Lscai. Aornmsoie Managers : Henry Fetus ke. Cal Warren. Durham Rxfusskktatto : Gleason Allen. ; Aswtwnsofa Staff: Jane McLore, Tommy Thompson. KiXdred WScertom, Elbe Htttchisea, Fran Def andorf, Bebe Caetleman. Sanford Doxey. CwWiiiWH Staff: Wayne KernocOe, Bill Oonnactn. FOR THIS ISSUE: Night Editor: ROLAND GIDUZ Institute official carefully reviewed the case. Responsible for the full pardon, was new evidence dis covered after the trial proving conclusively that on the date of the crime, February 11, 1941, Wellman was working 350 miles away in Ft. Belvoir, Va. North Carolina's political pot for 1944 has begun to boil officially over a full year before the Democratic primary to be held early next summer. Dr. Ralph McDonald of the Uni versity's Extension Division, has at last let his political de sires be known throughout the state. The announcement by the educator that he will enter the race for Governor is noth ing new to the "boys-in-the-know" for they had guessed it since McDonald had tasted de ifeat back in 1936 at his first bid for the high position. In that election, the defeat came at the hands of the machine-picked candidate, Clyde Hoey. Now, Dr. McDonald, after eight years, gives warning that much of the machine support, usually so formidable, will be on his side. Shades of Herbert Agar were present in Hill Hall Thursday night as a handfull DAILY IN THE SOUTH WraiMNTtB FOR NATIONAL ODVWTUMH WY National Advertising Service, Inc. College mbliiixn RepresenUiive 20 Madison Avt. New York. N. Y. Ckkwo Boston Los Aastua Saa Fmmcmco Editor Managing Editor Business Manager hi is fCssson By Dave Hanig The other afternoon we saw "Out of the Fog" at the Pick Theatre. It was a simple film made from a simple play called "The Gentle People" Dy Irwin Shaw. And as the story un folded we saw into it more than just the Brooklyn tale of two old men terrorized by a petty gangster. Shaw, at the time he wrote it, had called it a fable. With the onrush of events it was more than a fa ble, more than a picture of gen tle people driven into violence in defense of cherished values, ehiseler and not fight back?" "Shall we be pushed off God's earth and water? cries one of the characters. We weren't moved because here was a folk drama of the city with a timely theme. We were moved because we were part of the conflict. If there was laughter there were pa thos in the rough humor of these fishermen off Sheeps head Bay. We could believe even in ordinary people de scribed by the character played by Thomas Mitchell when he said they could love like millionaires and poets. Here in a generation of shifting values, we-have need of motion-pictures and plays to re-affirm them. We have need of the special knowledge that when men are angry at world dictators our gentleness must take on strength. - That afternoon when we left the Pick we had a postal from a friend now at Camp Upton. We learned that Art Golby, Paul Komisaruk, Hay den Carruth ("The Weary Wisher") were there. Each in his own way here at Chapel Hill had contributed towards the warmth and laughter of university life. One had given pleasure from a Playmakers stage) another had given us current knowledge of our way of living in a Tar Heel column -and still another gave of his time and worth to the continu ance of a literary magazine. They wrote of their adjust ment to soldier life. To us they were millionaires and poets. We were overjoyed when "Out of the Fog" came to town the other day but doubly thank ful when, at the same time, we heard from our friends. It was fitting. It was right. of interested students and fac ulty members heard young Dr. Walter Judd, Republican from Minnesota, give probably the most logical . presentation on this campus since Pearl Har bor of why we should be readyy after this war to cooperate in the establishment of some kind of post-war world that will in sure peace. Judd, along with Herbert Herring, expert on Latin American Affairs, con tributed largely to make an . otherwise fair Institute a little better. The Institute this year has been quite disappointing, even for the few faithful who have managed each evening to leave their other duties and to attend the nightly sessions. , Probably biggest disap pointment, however, has been the apparent laxity of the University in general to move themselves to attend. But then, maybe they had sensed early that the sessions wouldn't be too valuable. There were ex ceptions in the nine-day pro gram, but all-in-all this year's efforts were a good deal below those oif two years ago, last In stitute in peacetime. Buy Bonds and Stamps CPU Round Table Bi:i!i!ll!ini!i!!!ni!n!!l!!!illllillii!i!ni!!!!II!iniin!Iill!!!!!in!I' FSA Death Would .Meait Hungrier USA Next Year By Bob Epple One thing to remember about the farm bloc's recent attempt to kill the Farm Security Administration is that it does not only affect the poor tenant farmer in the South. It affects each and every American, because without the FSA we are likely to have less to eat next winter than with it. The program of the FSA touches less than 10 per cent of all the nation's farms. But this small portion under the program's guidance accounted for more than half of the country's in crease in milk products last year 32 per cent of the increas ed production of eggs, and a full third of the increased pro duction of certain vegetables. But the under-employed and poverty-stricken farmers af fected by the FSA need its help in financing and guidance. Abolishing the Farm Security Administration would deprive them of this help and every consumer would feel the de creased production of foods. The attempt to kill FSA reached a climax when an Agricultural Appropriations Bill was railroaded through the House Appropriations Committee in less than an hour. This bill not only abol ished the Farm Security Ad ministration, but killed the Federal Crop Insurance pro gram, cut $3,000,000 from the Soil Conservation Service's budget and refused to author ize full parity prices. In taking these steps the Committee fol lowed precisely the recom mendations of President Ed ward O'Neal of the big farm er's lobby, the American Farm Bureau. But the lobby's victory over the FSA was the most sweep ing. The Appropriations Com mittee turned the entire Farm Security Administration pro gram over to the Farm Credit Administration and the Ex tension Service. Both of these ' organizations sympathize with and represent the big farmers and the farm owners while working closely with the farm lobby. They have never been greatly interested in the wel fare of the tenant farmer and the sharecroper, whom the FSA aided towards independ ent farm operation. The Appropriations Com mittee made no provision to extend or even continue the FSA's system of guidance which was largely responsible for the success of the small farm operator in increasing Among The Damned Hayseed Letter dere paw, sorry your youngest son has took so long to rite you a let ter but i've been rite busy a trying to figger out just whut kind uv a life i'm a going to liv when the Navy puts me in one of them cute little sailor soots. reckon i'll be gettin out uv the ole rut i've been in hyar since i don't ritely reckon that uncle Sam would like it so much ifn i decided i wanted to sleep late an just ignored rev elry an turned over an went back to sleep, cause he ain't provided for no cuts if or classes or drill, and i reckon mr. harry ain't goin to see much of me durin the week cause the Navy is expectin us to do about 60 hours of school work a week an that don't leave much time f er little brew parties, or as the real modern fellers say down hyar, "to scuttle a little suds." an i also don't reckon that i can go a sashayin off on week ends whenever i want to since the Navy calls that AWOL an they don't jes put you on cut probation for bein AWOL, seems they kin hang you to the food production. The committee sought to justify abolishing the Farm Security Administration by charging that the agency had lent excessive amounts to in dividual borrowers, hired care less and inefficient employes and experimented in "collec tive farming which seemed to resemble the collectivism prac tices followed in Russia." It also accused the FSA of fail ing to liquidate its loans. It is reasonable to be a lit tle skeptical of the accuracy of these charges in light of the fact that besides a few spokesmen of the American Farm Bureau, the only wit ness testifying in favor of abolishing the FSA was one Oscar Johnston. Now Mr. Johnston is manager of one of the largest cotton planta tions in the world. It is a 50, 000 acre "farm" located in Mississippi, owned by British and Dutch interests and oper ated by American share-croppers. But there is hope in the fact that the House Rules Committee has taken action which will place the entire Appropriations Bill, subject to amendments to restore FSA appropriation, before the House of Representatives. The fact is that the farm lobby went a little too far for the House and the attempt to kill the FSA has been blocked temporarily. What the Rules Committee did was to refuse a special rule limiting House consideration of the Appro priations, Bill. What remains is a fight to provide the FSA with the funds necessary for its opera tion. The fight is still far from won and very close to lost. But now it will be fought in the House and Senate where we may hope for a more ade quate representation of the small farmer and less domin ance by the Farm Owner's lobby. with Damtoft yard-arms fer such things. well so much fer the Navy paw, an now i want to tell you a rite funny story about a lit tle fire they hed hyar yestiddy when some wood-shed caught fire over near the ole hi skool buildin. you see paw we've got whut they calls a volunteer fire de partment hyar and one little red fire-waggin whut some body says tryed to help put out the fire Sherman started in Atlanty. well thet little red fire waggin came a rolling up to these two woodsheds and they hauled a little hose off it an begin trying to put out the fire, but that little hose squirted about as much water as little bruthers water pistol, an finally some feller decided to take the big hose ofFn the truck an they hooked thet to a hydrent an started really a pourin water on the fire but them wood-sheds wuz gone then an it didn't do much good. well paw, the reason i wuz a telling you this story wara't to belittle the volunteer fire men 'cause they worked real C.CJ pus By The Staff A Reporter's Notes: The staff was amazed and touched by the controversy caused by the special IHR platform on the Indian ques tion. Accusations, pipe dreams, small fanaticisms made the rounds. Bull-session factions were set up. Over at the Graham Memorial there were the fence-perchers who could see both sides of the sub ject and one girl went so far as to murmur that thought with out action is treachery (what ever that means) . The staff reporters continued their chore of turning out copy and worrying about the day-shaking horror of meeting a dead line. Between the hours of 2 to 6 there was a quiet tense riot of mixed emotions. Others went out for a mid-afternoon coke. Everybody agreed it was a great day to be alive. We still hear of people leav ing town to take overnight fly ers for home. We hear of them returning to face long cuts and into-the-night studies to make up for the borrowed time. Seems senseless to us. Must be because of no vaca tions this coming Easter. And we're reminded of last Easter and a couple of E asters back. Leisurely times those days were. Those windows in town are already Easter-trimmed. Better than nothing at any rate. Still, copy must be turned out for we must hearken to Tar Heel voices every a.m. Easter or no Easter we still get mail from the outside world and that is something. Come to think of it, wouldn't be a bad idea to have a section entitled "V-Mail Digest" for desk bound civilians. Could be in teresting. The Chapel Hill Weekly on our desk and interesting to the scribes. Editorial page is well balanced. An edit, on the need of a dayt nursery ... a place where mothers who have to go to work may have their children cared for. Defense takes so many wom en out of the home. Chapel Hill can certainly use one. Certainly our social majors might take a look-in on the problem. hard but none uv them really looked like he knew how to fite a fire an they wuz all a runnin aroun thet little woodshed, one of 'em hollerin to git out the big hose an the other one sayin it warn't no use, an the little red fire waggin was a pumpin away making that little hose what was fastened to it spit a little water, an all the time them shed wux a burning rite on down. thing i was wonderin about paw wuz jest how our state leg latters is agoin to feel ifn a big fire gits started in a dor mitory or kl ass-room an thet little red fire-waggin coughs its last cough an won't pump no more water, or if nt the fire men stand an argue whether or not to use one hose or the other one, and somebody git burned up, or ifn one of our beeutiful buildings gits burnt. course they's nobodu likes to watch a fire more than me when its somebody elses fire and nobody ain't a gittin hurt, but i'm rite afraid that unless we gits a new fire truck and a trained fire man to direct them hard-working volunteer men, some ov my friends may Sit there pants skortched ifn't they wuz ever to be a dorrny tory fire. give my love to maw, yore son, hiram, jr.
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