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THURSDAY, MAY 6, PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAB HEEL Puzzle in Red Bitter debate, and the term is appropriate, raged in the Phi hall Tuesday night over the question of whether the Communist party should be outlawed in the' United States. At the same time Former Governor J. Melville Broughtori, speaking in Gerrard hall, devoted a good portion of his speech to the same question. ; , , Present at the Phi meeting was Junius Scales, Chapel Hill's own Red Bogey man. With him was a fellow Com munist who happened to be passing through, a man who is even now free under bail pending outcome" of appeal of an Alabama jail sentence for spreading Communist propa ganda in that state. There were others present who are1 not so above-board about their allegiances. From what these men said, it appears that the Com munists are not exactly in favor of being outlawed. They called upon the American ideals, the guarantees of polit ical freedom, freedom of thought and speech, for. protec tion. In the mouths of men whose party is pledged to' the overthrow of the very ideals upon which they, called, the words were a mockery. Yet the Communists were not alone in opposing anti-Communist legislation. Former Governor Broughton spoke for the others- when he said that his natural instincts would be to legislate against the Communists, but that he questioned the wisdom of doing so. He feared that it would merely drive them , underground where they would be harder to combat. Also he doubted the constitutionality of such legislation. On the other side of the picture are those who side with Political Science Professor E. J. Woodhouse. A strong be liever in the rights of individuals,-Dr. Woodhouse's views are to this effect: "I have a strong feeling that legislating against the rights of any American citizen would not be quite according to the rules of the game. But the Com munists refuse to play the game according to our rules, so why should we let them play in our game at all." Communists and what to do about them form one of the most discussed issues in the nation and in the world today. Most of us agree that their objectives should be opposed. . The question is the method to be used. Do You Feel A Many non-veteran students who fall in the ISff-year-old age bracket have been getting slightly worried over the prospect of having to swap school books for army uniforms as Congress moves nearer to final action on se lective service legislation. Here at the University, however, Director of Admissions : Roy Armstrong feels that institution of the draft will have little effect upon the over-all enrollment of tfie school . unless students begin a mad rush for the nearest recruiting office before actually receiving their greetings. A program of Universal Military Training might have considerable 'impact upon the University for about six months, Arm strong thinks, but after that the enrollment would level off again. From all indications in the news coming out , of Congress, a UMT bill has little chance of passing if se lective service can be made to do the job. ! r : As passed by the House Armed Services Committee this week the House version of the draft bill would require that men 18 through 30 register, with those from 19 through 1 25 liable for two years' service. Ministers, divinity stu . . dents and some conscientious objectors Would be' exemp ; ,. ted, with the President having the job of determining . deferments for schooling, dependency and occupation. Since only 611,382 men would have to be added to: thS present strength of the army to bring it to the desired . strength of 2,005,882, it will be necessary to draft only a v few men from each section of the country. Voluntary en listments by men trying to beat the draft will cut down this J; figure, so any erne student's chance of being pulled out Of school into the army is slight. Z The best course of action for students who want to finish I ' their education is just to sit tight until the draft actually reaches them. Chances are it won't; 3T()e30ailyiarar3eet The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except Mondays, ' examination and vacation periods by the Colonial Press, Inc. During the official summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C. under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price: $8.00 per college year, $3.00 per quarter. i LEASED WIRE OF UNITED PRESS Represented for National Advertising by Member National Advertising Service, Inc. 420 Madison Ave. New York, n. y. Associated Collegiate Press Editor Business Manager Editorial Board Managing Editor . : . Chuck Hauser Sports Editors Billy Carmichael, III Bob Goldwater Associate Editors . . 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Asst. Circ. Mgrs. : . Randall Hudson , Don Show NIGHT SPORTS: Dick Jenrexl Guest. Column A Plea For Open Minds By R. Foo Giduz Reaction and lack of it to the Carousel campaign in fa vor of the Spaulding proposal on Negro admissions to the University has been good and bad . . . Perhaps it shows a quite acquiescence to the pro posal, and again it may be an example of how deeply in grown racial prejudices are in that hardly anyone steps out to personally endorse the idea, who has not already done so . . A few friends have jestingly pointed Out to our recurrent "radicalism" and others have privately expressed greater-than-usual contempt for these writings . . . But in a final con sideration of what may soon be a turning point in University history, we ask only for serious thought on the matter NOW by the entire student body. Some have been thinking seriously about it: A majority of the graduate students in the history department have sign ed a petition endorsing the ad mission of qualified Negro grad uate day students to their de- partment . . . (Other grad depfs. how following suit) . . . And a detailed poll of several facets of this question is now being taken in another large schobl of the University ... . Results of this should be re leased herin and in state papers early next week . . . Suffice it now to say that this poll will be interpreted as one of the first and best concrete barom eters of representative student opinion yet taken on the cam pus concerning this tremen dously important issue. . So quix yourself on the jus tice of this idea ... Is it really so radical??? ... So radical to believe in the U. S. Constitu tion? ... Is the "Emory Wheel," student publication of Emory U. in the deeeeeep south of Georgia, so radical in its ad vocacy of this same plan ... ,How does the "only college daily in the southeast" stand on this question? . . . The Daily Tar Heel can do a lot of good in clarifying this situation edi torially, if it will. As an old Tar Heel bred of of many years standing now we look to the Spaulding pro posal as a practical issue which can he effected now . . . (Nev er anywhere has such a similar plan failed when practiced.) . . The main ground of opposition to this measure has been that the people of the state will not accept it . . . Those students who are skeptical of the plan from only -this standpoint have won the first battle with their consciences and are moving for ward ... . . . Imagine for a moment that the - "Spaulding Proposal"' Was to go into effect next week at UNC ... What reaction would come about? ... A very few qualified Negroes would register and be accepted for admission as day students, may be in Law, Medicine, etc. . . A lot of studes would receive hysterical letters from parents threatening their withdrawal from school . . . The newspa pers might try to play it up sensati6nally, but there would not be much to "Hearst" around . . . Classes would begin; noth ing further would develop; the situation would quietly re solve, and a few would be disappointed that the whole thing had gone off so smoothly. . ; . That's not daymaring . . . But it is probably as it will happen . . . In closing . . . We advocate no radical measures concern- ing progressive equality . . . That is not the way to make positive constructive progress without harming a cause more than helping it ultimately . . . But the racial equality already attained in any degree has nev er come about completely through evolution . . . There were a few "radicals" in the '60's who didn't believe in slav-. ery either . . . And if further racial progress is to be made in the South, North Carolina is the logical place we should look for it ... . God granting us open minds with which to reason. Poop For The Group It's Murder, He Says By Raney Stanford Ever so often the management of the local cinemas collects all the ten-gallon hats out of the aisles and shoos the pintos out from under the marquees and brings in a motion picture that will provide the harried student with two hours of entertainment. In this category is the British whodunit, now playing at the Village, "Green For Danger". : , The film involves the familiar doctor-nurse struggles to find the murderer run amok in the hospital corridors, but is distinguish ed by virtue of having Alistair Sim for its crime detector. As a Scotland Yard man, Mr. Sim is a rare bird. For those of us wno are getting a little tired of Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe solving murders rakishly wjth a cigarette affixed to one corner of the mouth and a blonde to the other, Mr. Sim is a more than wel come change. Playing with the characteristic British understate ment, he presents one 6f the most amusing defective detectives that has come this way in some time, even though, the officials at the Yard .may frown on his ability a little bit. The rest of the cast, Sally Gray, Gladys John, Trevor Howard, et al, perform capably as the staff of the hospital. The situations are set up skillfully, and the final denouement, which Mr. Sim arranges with the air of Philo Vance, is as much of a surprise to the audience as it is to the Scotland Yard inspector himself. Bound To Be Read Tire' Follows 'Storm' By United Press George R. Stewart has taken a special form of literature and made it his own. He writes about the great forces that nature , occasionally looses against man. , His Storm was a fascinating account of what happens when one of more than ordinary force sweeps across the land. His latest book is Fire (Random House, $3). . The villain of this book is a spark that starts a forest fire in the west. Bit by bit Stewart builds the drama by telling how human beings muster all their resources. They win in the end, of course, but what happens to them in the meantime is in this book. A Book-of-the-Month Club selection. A Surrealist painter, Kurt Seligmann, writing from vast knowledge and research, has presented in The, Mirror of Magic (Pantheon, $6) a history of the occult and the practice of magic in the western world. This volume of over 800 pages contains 250 illustrations, many of them reproductions of art now .in the Metropolitan, and other museums. Mr. Seligmann's' principal chapters deal with alchemy, witch craft and demonology but he also has sections dealing with magic in the ancient countries, gnosticism cabala and the magical arts. As the story of magic unfolds itself in these pages one sees it as the effort of man to solve the riddle of the universe, to under stand the whys and wherefores of life and lift himself to a higher plane. Quench the Moon by Walter Mackeri (Viking, $3) is a classic account of a modern Irishman gifted with vision and strength but cursed by a violence as old as his native Connemara. Stephen O'Riordan was born to the harshly beautiful moun tains, lakes and seas of Connemara and was heir to the fierce passions of its people. His life was molded by Martha O'Riordan, his Dublin-born mother who instilled in him her own love of beauty; by Martin O'Riordan, the brooding father he hated and pitied; by Michlin Fagan, his poaching companion; most of all by Kathleen Finherty, whom he loved. . ,; Touched with the beauty and grace of Irish speech, the story of Stephen O'Riordan moves with a terrible certainty to a climax that should grip your attention right down to the last, word. The world is taking sides again on the issue Of totalitarianism against freedom, and Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen points the way for the western world to oppose the Communist evil with morality instead of munitions. A Session With Sessions 'Cyrano' Is Promising By BUI Sessions The Carolina Playmaker production for the Forest Theater this year, "Cyrano de Bergerac", appears to be the best of a distin guished year. Foster Fitz-Simmons, the energetic director, has set a heavy, speedy schedule for his cast. Fitz-Simmons, incident ally, has sold his first hovel, scheduled for publication in June, to Warner Brothers, and plans have, already begun on its movie production. Two veteran actors, both here on the campus and in the pro fessional theater have the leads.; Fred Johnson, playing the title rele, has appeared in New England summer stock and recently in Paul Green's "Lost Colony." Gloria Gurih, portraying Roxane, has acted in numerous campus productions and has worked with theater grpups on the West Coast. Both are' graduate students in the Dramatic Art department. t Marty Jacobs and Edsel Hughes are two more of the veteran cast. Jacobs, director of the current campus musical, "Sweep It Clean," was last seen oh Broadway in "Louisiana Purchase." Hughes played in the Pulitizer Prize comedy, "Life With Father" for more than a year. Probably the most striking feature of the production will be Lynn Gault's sets. Gault has designed six original settings for the Rostand drama. These will be set for the first time in the history of the Forest Theater, on three revolving stages. The total cast includes forty campus actors, and the dates for production are May 21, 22, and 23. ' Carolina Quarterly Another call for applications for the editorship and business manager of the Quarterly has been issued. Despite the fact that considerable interest was shown in the magazine's formation, comparatively few applications have been handed in. The need of a business manager. is particularly urgent. The final deadline is Thursday afternoon, and all applications should be turned in at the main desk of Graham Memorial. The Carolina Quarterly has a definite service oh this campus where the literary talents of men like Thomas Wolfe, Paul Green, and Josephus Daniels were fostered. In view of the fact that there will be no literary publication next year, the quarterly can serve not only as an outlet fOr student writers, but also as a magazine that a majority of the Campus will take interest andpride in. "The Little Things" "The Little Things," a comedy by Kermit Hunter, will be pres ented in the Playmaker experimentals this week. Students of Dr. George Coffin Taylor's Shakespear classes will find art interesting resemblance between the main character, of the play and Caro lina's renowned Shakespearian scholar. While the resemblance is by no means direct, the presentation on stage of one of the school's best loved professors should prove interesting. The Alischuls In yesterday's DTH, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Altschul expressed their gratitude to the students they knew here on campus. The reverse would be better. Those who came in contact with the couple in "Danzigers" or otherwise never failed to be impressed by their cprdial and kindly attitude. Their personal struggle in leaving Europe before the war and then establishing themselves here in the U. S. testifies to their abundance of courage and warm spirit. This 'n That A Look At The By Bill Buchan The recent discussion in North Carolina, and- especially on this campus of Negro educa- tion has caused a group of in terested individuals to publish a mimeographed comparison - between the North Carolina College Law School in Durham and the law school here at the University. The figures aren't to our credit. According to the published sheet, the library of the law school in Durham has 30,000 volumes, of which only 12,000 are usuable due to lack of space. The others are stored in a classroom, a garage and in the basement of the library. Here at Carolina, we have 52, 000 volumes, all of which are generally usable. Nice, huh? Law students in Durham have the use of one room for a library which can accomodate seven students, but which has no private study desks. Here, our future shysters have four well-lighted reading rooms, two of which accomodate 40 stu dents each. Our library has a librarian and five part-time assistants. The Negro students have one librarian. Is it an3' wonder that they are envious of the set-up in Chapel Hill? Law students have only gen eral school facilities in Durham with no separate building for the lawschool. Only the Dean has a separate office. Here, we Views On the News- 150 Students - One By Sam Whitehall One interesting point about the dying redistricting bill is the statement in the Daily Tar Heel yesterday morning that "it was argued by the opposi tion that Carrboro, having only approximately 250 students re- siding there, should not be a separate voting district." Isn't there a sentence in the student Constitution somewhere that says every" 150 students rate . one representative in the Legis lature? Tonight, the newly elected legislator's get their first real chance to go into action in the Di Senate hall. It will be in teresting to watch them, and their results. With the over whelming UP majority, some of the monotonous arguing back and forth between the two sides might be eliminated. Not that there is anything parti cularly wrong with it, but sometimes it is a waste of time. The next time North Caro lina has a gubernatorial race, why not conduct a primary at Carolina on the candidates.- All students, regardless of age, should be allowed to vote be cause from observation all seem to be interested or at least have made up their minds how they would vote, if they could. Thus far, Johnson WHAT'S UP in Graham Memorial It's amazing what you can find in GM's information office. In addition to knowledge on all sorts of subjects (of campus in terest, that is nothing aca- demic), there's a lost and found service which may be able to help you find what you've lost. Right now they've got a vari ed assortment of articles that someone's lost: glasses (eye not highball), scarves, gloves (only One of a kind), earrings (ditto), keys, lipsticks, and notebooks. The men of the staff are most interested in a loaded cartridge they're wondering who was planning to bump who off while the women are quite en vious of the unknown owner of a beautiful antique pin of gold and jewels. Tonight at 7 o'clock in the Main lounge there will ' be a Team of Four, bridge tourna ment. They tell us it's not ne cessary to have a full team; just come with your partner and a team will -be made up. Schubert's Symphony - No. 2 and Kostelanetz's album of music of Sigmund Romberg will be heard on tonight's re corded dinner music hour. tg have permanent and tempor- l a ry buildings for classes and study and offices Jor faculty members. In the United States, mere is one Negro lawyer to every 24.997 of Negro population. The whites have one lawyer to 702 of white population. The same thing applies in the medical profession, where there is one Negro doctor to every 44,409 of Negro population and one white doctor to every 843 of white population. The figures used were gather ed by a special committee on education affiliated with the Inter-Collegiate Council for Religion in Life, Chapel Hill. They used the following as source materials: VA Brief Study of The , Tar Supported Law School Facilities .of the State of North Carolina," issued by Phi Delta Phi Law Society, April, 1947 ,and Journal of Ne gro Education, and Census Re ports. The movement in progress at the present time is to allow QUALIFIED Negro graduate students to our schools as DAY students. There are a great many people who re in favor of this idea, both as an experi ment for future planning and because the figures, as shown above, present a conclusive case in favor of our Negro population. As one confirmed Southerner told me Tuesday afternoon af and Albright are the only two openly supported on campus, with Foo Giduz boosting Al bright and Miles Smith and Bill - Buchan working for Johnson. Scott is unsupported, though Barker has appointed several "veteran advisors" here. Stan ley, the dreamer, seems to be alone, also. Though Spring elections (1949, that is,) are far, far away, rumors are already creeping up about potential presidential candidates. Among those men tioned thus far are Joe Leary and Ed Davenport from the UP and Dortch Warriner, Lindsay' Tate and Bob Hennessee from the SP. Then, there was the character in the University several nights ago who - was promising to support any presi dential candidate who would make him the vice-presidential running mate. (And I thought political races were forgotten from May to October.) The editorial staff of the DTH has lost two editorial writers and columnists in the past week with the exodus from the Villiage of Bob Sain and Sandy Grady. Anyone who is interest ed in editorial work, who can put in two days a week in the office and who will write a col umn is invited to come up for an interview. The line forms to the right. The "new" Tarnation staff seems busier than ever these days, taking pictures and hov ering over layouts. Looks as CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS I ''YiU.V; hed 4 l.a. bum 9 C.w.f 12 P,ai 13 Li.i.cs 14 Pair 15 Ru.n official 17 Ltg.it.er brown . 19 Biolj.'tcal factor 21 Part -if "to be" 22 Min rva 24 To s-yp. legally 27 Tord 28 Petr 31 7 . .-:at 32 Worthies scrap 34 French river 36 Inlet 37 German money 39 Haitu 41 Forward! 42 Turned aside 44 To place op posit 46 Got wage 48 To hold 49 Male chicken 62 Fumen 65 Conjunction 66 Indian of Bahama! 68 To tear 69 Affirmative 60 Ear ahell El Soma T"S jb 7 13 I f? IO I " "I ' y i5 '6 rj ,Q IliIIlli ll 33 777?) HO 77?-, 59 To , . tun riwwaprtUM u Record ter "reading these fiuif will be hard for many 'j- people to admit, but I I . that this segregation pi. :, can be worked out, graci . ; starting with the gr; school and slowly jr. .,r.; down." There are tho r . ; want an immediate lu -:; of the race boundaries -South. I am opposed t- - , a move, both because I white public opinion is it at the present time : r. ! .. cause I do not believe t: groes as a whole want . , a revolutionary move ajl tin- ; ent time. However, I do foci tb,: a are ready to take the fii;t , p towards bi-racial gr.ni schools. The regional schoi . ' suggested by the various S ern governors, would be n f.:io thing, except that they will ( , t plenty of money and the NV. groes will not be satisfied w.ih them, even if they are nveiv:: education on an equal p;ir .. d any other school in the South. The comparison between the two law schools is cvHi r, e enough that the Negro stuh r:t ; who have a desire to do so ;,n complain and make npplir.-.t.nn to enter our schools. It is to . hoped that the Trustees win n they consider any applir.-it :,n in the future will have fiu.M ; similar to those in front -f them. If they do, they r.irm t deny the pressing need for im provement. Legislator though the next issue will he something to remember. (And maybe, just a little improve ment over the last one? I .still maintain that the best joke in - that issue was the one reprint ed from the Carolina Mag about the three little pigs. I'm Bubbles remember?) And incidentally, those bums who break into the linos at Lenoir should be taken out and starved. If takes long enough to wait your turn lcgal-liko, without half the campus break ing in between you and the serving section. There is one guy, in my twelve o'clock class, wKo has his tray and is served before I even move ten feet in the line EVERY day. How does he work it? Simple, his buddies merely "hold" a p';i " for him until he gets there, tr gardless how near they are to the serving section. The Chapel Hill police would do a good deed if they patrol led Franklin Street around midnight in search of partying dudes "racing" from one end to another. It just ain't safe for a guy to stagger across from the Marathon to the other side. Fires Frequent In U. S. Every 38 seconds fire breaks out in the United States. Every two minutes an Ameriean dwelling catches fire. Every 50 minutes a person dies in a fire or from burns. ANSWER ro PREVIOUS T 77LX DOWN 1 Trouble 2 Unusual 3 Horse cry Reddlxh-browa eartha Within Clear profit 7 To aelee 8 Kit ivar.) 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