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PAGE TWO Good Job, Mr. Carroll Commendation is due Walter Carroll, staff writer for the Durham Morning Herald, for his report yesterday on his poll of University Law school students upon, the ques tion of whether they favor admission of qualified Negro, students to the Law school. ' Mr. Carroll did not attempt to draw conclusions from the poll nor did he allow his own opinions to color his phrasing of the story. He simply tabulated the results of the poll and gave examples of the answers on both sides of the questions. It was a complete and unbiased account of the facts. Mr. Carroll did a good job of reporting. A Beginning Here? The issue of segregation of the Negro in the South is attracting more and more pubic attention in the Nation and in North Carolina. This week a poll of the 274, stu dents in the University Law school showed that 71 of the 119 who replied favor admission of qualified Negroes as day students in the Law school. As far as bringing about admis sion of Negroes, the poll meant nothing, since at present on . ly the State legislature has power to authorize their admis sion. The poll was, however, indicative of a progressive trend in the thinking of the younger generation of North Carolina. . , , The issue is no longer one of whether segregation should be continued or should not be continued. Eventual elimi nation of segregation is inevitable. It is inevitable because the issue is essentially one of right and wrong, and history has shown that although issues which are fundamentally, right or wrong according to the general belief of mankind may be ignored and supressed for centuries, the right is always dominant in the end. Almost everyone in this country claims to be an Ameri can A great many claim to be Christians. There is no way in which we can compromise a belief in Christian principles and democratic ideals with a belief in complete and per manent segregation. Everyone who has faced the issue squarely realizes tna whether he likes it or not, segregation will in time be abol ished The problem facing the South is what plan to use in abolishing it. Segregation cannot be eliminated over night. An attempt to legislate it immediately out of exist tence would bring about results comparable to those fol lowing the emancipation proclamation and the Civil War. Its elimination must be an evolutionary process geared to the speed with which both Negroes and whites adjust them selves to the changes. A firm stand upon the "status quo", however, will never set this gradual process into motion. A beginning must be made somewhere. Men on the educational level of uni versity graduate schools would seem best qualified to make this beginning. A majority of the students polled in. the " Law school here are willing to make the beginning We believe a majority of students in the other graduate schools are also willing. North Carolina has long prided herself on being a pro gressive state - a leader in the South. On the -issue of segregation she should once more assert her leadership. Her State legislature can do this by amending state laws to admit qualified Negroes as day students in the graduate schools of this university. Smart Public Relations - The chapel Hill-Carrboro Merchants association has a dopted a smart, public relations idea for promoting tocal interest in the activities of the two communities. It is the making of a documentary film depicting business, civic religious, agricultural industrial and social activities of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the University. Already in process of filming, the movie will be com pleted in about three weeks. It will then be shown in a local theater. A 16 mm copy of the film will also be made for showing at alumni association meetings elsewhere Since most residents of the community, particularly stu dents at the University, have only a limited Perspective of the many aspects of Chapel Hill life, the film should arouse much interest and contribute beneficially to a bet ter understanding of the activities which combine to make Chapel Hill what it is. The official newspaper of the Publication Board of ttoSS' North Carolina. Chapel Hill, where it is published- daaly. pt Monaays. examination and vacation periods by the ColomaT J official summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays ffiU. Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post 00 N. C under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price. $8.00 per coueg year, $3.00 per quarter. LEASED WIRE OF Represented for National Advertising National Advertising bervice inc. . pft11aiJ.9fp prp?s 420 Madison Ave. , New York. N. Y. 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HOLD EN Business Board Circulation Mgr. : . . Owen Lewis Advertising Mgr. C. B. MendenhaU. Subscription Mgrs. . . Jim King Chan Pegram Asst. Business Mgrs. Mary W. Sledge Betty Huston lsst. Circ. Mgrst . . Randall Hudson Don Snow WoodhuU. Jlnv Dickinson. Gordon Merry-Go-Round Arabs Plan May 16 Fight By Drew Pearson Washington Arab leaders have been meeting secretly to plan for the invasion of Pales tine, and some of them are not . too happy. They don't particul- " arly trust King Abdullah of Trans-Jordan, the central figure of the proposed invasion, King Farouk of Egypt, Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia, and the Syrian government fear Abdul lah will promote his own greater-Syrian ambitions by annex ing part of Palestine for him self and then quit. These fears were increased by a recent secret meeting at Amman be tween Abdullah and his nep hew, Prince Abdul-Ilah, the Regent of Iraq. Arab leaders have also got wind of a secret British understanding with Ab dullah, giving Trans-Jordan a permanent corridor to the Mediterranean, in the vicinity of Gaza. Final agreement on Arab in vasion plans was reached at a , secret meeting at Serka, Trans Jordan, on April 23, attended by representatives of all the Arab states and the Arab high er committee, including the Mufti. The main points of the agreement were: The invasion army to be known as the "Arab League Palestine Army of Liberation." It will comprise the Arab Leg ion, supplemented by contin gents from the regular forces of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Saudi Arabia. The contin gent from each country will number between 2,000 , and 3,500 men. In addition, Egypt and Iraq agreed to supply air force units. Azdullah was appointed Su preme commander, with a gen eral from each Arab state and two Palestine Arab command ers under him. General Ismail Safurti British-trained commander-in-chief of the volun teer "liberation army," and Fawzi Al Kawkji, present field commander of Arab forces are to be absorbed in the new headquarters at Jericho. Abdul lah and the Mufti have already moved to Jericho. The Mufti's assignment is to watch Abdul lah. Arab states agreed at the secret meeting to finance the operation in proportion to their national resources, not in pro portion to their contingents. Egypt is to bear the largest share; Iraq, which gets most of its money from England, is next. D-Day was set for May 16, on which day a Palestine Arab Provisional government is to be proclaimed and recognized by the Arab governments. One significant statement at the meeting was made by the grand Mufti, who interpreted the State Department's and United Nations' failure to be come alarmed at previous Arab aggression as a guarantee they would not become excited over the invasion. If the United States or the United Nations stiffened its at titude, however, it was agreed that Arab strategy might have to be changed. Note Since then, Arab lead ers are reported worried over the Jews' ability to defend themselves. This may affect their ardor for invasion. THE HAWAIIAN STATE HOOD BILL, which passed the House by a big majority, was secretly scuttled 7 to 5 by the Senate Interior and Insular Af- " fairs committee. Republican Sen. Guy Cordon of Oregon and Democratic Sen. Joseph . O'Mahoney of Wyoming led the fight for making Hawaii the 49th state, but were overridden ' behind closed doors by Sena tors Hugh Butler of Nebraska, the committee chairman, Eu gene Millikin of Colorado, and other Republicans. However, here is the pay-off. After voting down the state hood bill, the same senators de cided on another congressional junket to Hawaii the 14th in the last five years this time to investigate alleged Communism in the islands! Butler and GOP colleagues apparently were more interest ed in getting a vacation on the sands of Waikiki at the expense of taxpayers than in granting Hawaii's rightful claim to . statehood. THE DAILY Reprinted from the May. 1948 itto of nqun , 7 must insist that your little friends wait outside while I treat your cat" Men's Council Honor Violations Wh.en a student violates the Honor or Campus Codes, both of which he agrees to uphold when he enters the Uni versity, his breach of faith with the Student Body must be reported to the representatives of that Student Body so that proper action may be taken. Since a student's honor is one of the strongest founda tions of his character, and consequentsly is of very great concern to him, he should feel that it is1 his duty to him self and to his classmates to report' himself if he violates this honor. When a man turns himself in to his council, he demonstrates forcibly that he is fully aware of the wrong he has committed and that he is willing to accept the punishment called for by his action. He realizes that he has broken the rules laid down by the society of which he is an integral part. If a student sees a man violating one of these self-imposed codes, he should inform a member of his council so that some action may be taken on behalf of the injured Student Body. When the student cannot on his own con tact a member of the council, he can ask his instructor or the Dean of Men for aid in arranging a meeting with a council member to discuss the matter. The matter of a violation remains entirely in the hands of the students throughout the whole procedure because t2 violation is one against the Student Body and, there fore, is handled by representatives of that Student Body, which expects the co-operation of every man and woman at Carolina. Write Away If War Should Come Editor: Wish to extend my warmest and. most sincerest praises to "C. L." who wrote the editorial in. today's DTH on the anniversary of VE day. Doubtless many of the people here on and off campus weren't even aware that today was the anniversary of the first surrender in this last war to end all wars. "C. L." made many good points in his determination to put forth to the DTH's readers that if another war should come (God forbid) the only persons to blame are ourselves. The veteran today, underneath perhaps, doesn't want to have his name brought up as if he was a tin god that "saved the world from destruction" but rather as a citizen that did his bit to keep Democracy alive in his kids' hearts lor the future. The guys that won this war not yet completely forgotten in many hearts and minds, are over there asking us to see to it that they aren't disturbed by the sounds of shell fire again as they receive the eternal sleep they so rightly de serve. They did "buy a piece of peace" it is true, but the price they had to pay for it should not be advertised on the peace market again; and it will not if we all look at the guy in the mirror and say that he is the only guy that can prevent it, so let's get to it and' see to it that it doesn't happen again. R. F. Clark Where Is My Uniform? Editor: The American people, acting through their Congressional members, are about to institute conscription. This is being adopted because, it is argued, the national security is being endangered. The national security, as I understand it, means the security of all and each of the 140 million citizens. If this is true, then the security of each is being threatened equal ly and its defense should be borne equally insofar as pos sible. Obviously all the 140 million can not go into the army. But two things those not conscripted can share the fin ancial burden and the "coercive" burden. All will be placed on the basis of the conscripted private. "Each of us will receive that which the War Department needs to feed, clothe, shelter the individual conscript plus 50 (or 75) dollars monthly, whatever the case may be. This is sharing the financial burden. The government must likewise be given the power to place each one of us in the job that government officials believe will contribute most to the defense of the national ( security just as government officials place the conscript wherever is thought best. This is the "coercive" part and all salaries will be that referred to above. This is the democratic sharing of. the threat to the na tional security. It should be adopted immediately. Robert Neill TAR HEEL tonHH 14) kv tiqta. r9t -?r This Chonqing World Mundt Ey Bill Robertson After we have gotten it clear in our minds what is attain able, what is within our grasp- and in our life-time the next step is to fight for it conscious ly and resolutely, to stand up and be counted! In this connection the latest attempt by the un-American Activities Committee to put over the un-American program of Forrestal and his big business associates on the home front deserves our attention. A bill known as the Mundt Bill (H. R. 5852) to outlaw the Communist Party has been cooked up. First, we should like to repeat the question which we put before the Phil osophical Assembly the other night. What is. the essential dif ference between the out-law-ing of the Communist Party in the United States and similar moves as they have occurred in Hitler Germany, Fascist Italy, Tojo's Japan, and Franco Spain? Now let -us look at the bill concretely. , The first thing to be noticed about the bill is that it does not identify the Communist Party by name. Instead it do- William Tells Man Here Talks By Bill Payeff After climbing out of th.3 trench in front of the Lower Quad sidewalk, I was sitting upon the curb calmly setting my compound fracture when suddenly I recalled a lively lit tle conversation that ensued between Bill Payeff and my self. Wouldn't mention the guy's name but I promised his mother I'd see that his name got in the Tar Heel if I had to do it myself. As I dropped one and began to purl two, he says! "Why don't you talk to animals and things, Bill?" a perfectly normal question. "How come animals and things, Bill?" I says to myself, becoming entangled in my yarn. "Because, my boy, (he al ways calls me "my 'boy"), you'll never become an estab lished columnist of your sort until you find some animal to interrogate concerning cam pus affairs. Nothing is more inspiring to the student body, nothing quite as unique as a skillful dialogue between man and beast. If, of .course, you Just Here Put Away That By Larry Berry The assignment is to write a paper on "Influences of Ro mantic Poetry", using books in the library for information. This would be a logical assign ment in the English department with the student being left with the problem of sorting through the varous books searching out the details he needs. Upon open ing the books the Carolina gen tleman finds a joker has been thrown into his assignment. ' There are marginal glosses put in by learned fools, some illustrations by learned fools, missing pages which are im portantly referred to in the index, and many asinine sec tions underlined. The necessary rigors of education are numer ous enough ' without the stu dent having to combat obstacles placed by other students. I would, suggest that the per son of intellect who- is tempt ed to insert marginal gloss should compile his work into an anthology for malcontents to glean before reading. This in dividual will then become a member of the Chapel Hill writer's colony and will no longer have to use this quib bling means of disproving state ments by 'preceding writers. For those of you who ex press your psychosis in art forms the remedy will not have the same degree of glamour. You should see a doctor. After being the victim of many stu dent book illustrations, I am convinced we have a number of malicious Walt Mittys among us. Many persons have a high degree of belief in their ability to find hidden meanings within certain lines of a book. In order Bill Not For clares the activities of any Communist political organiza tion a menace to the U. S. (The attorney-general is to decide what constitutes a Com munist political organization!) The bill also specifies that members of such organizations should register with the Justice Department and that members of such organizations will face prison for terms up to 10 years. (Should I register or shouldn't I? what a choice!) In order to make clear that all decent Americans would be affected by this bill, it lists the following as "methods" of "Communist political organiza tions": (A) "the disruption of trade and commerce" (strikes, no doubt) (A) "inciting of economic, social, and racial strife and conflict" (what bigot has not used this argu ment against liberals who fight against racial prejudice?) (C) "the dissemination of propa ganda calculated to undermine established government and in stitutions." (the National As sociation of Manufacturers in particular and monopoly in general are now "institutions" in our country.) can't find an animal to your liking, invent a character, But it's a poor second. Now Dan the Dog and Jud Kinberg. . ." "Stop, Bill!" I whisper harsh ly, biting a hang-nail. "Stop, schmop! Listen, boy! Have you never heard of Foo Foo Jelly Rojl or Athelstan? Have you never heard of. . ." "Cease and fall, fellow!" I scream, and all the time my heart is breaking. "Don't you think I've been plagued enough with my own shortcomings of late without hearing you echo those thoughts?! Don't you think I've had searching parties out for talking animals, char acters, yea, from daylight to dusk, even unto Carrboro. Fourty hour week, of course. I just don't know anybody to talk with except a few stu dents, profs, coeds, and one of my roommates. I simply don't seem to have the inside on how to go about finding a dog (A talking one, I mean. I ain't blind, you know.) or any other beast. Then to make matters worse if possible, I don't seem to have the knack of inventing that anyone who comes after them may" know there is some thing great in the lines, they underline their discovery. To those who come along looking only for the obvious meaning, these lines cause much sub conscious confusion. I would suggest to the underliners that they practice some self-discipline and take notes. A few of our residents seem to enjoy taking certain perti nent pages from the books they come in contact with. I imagine CROSSWORD PUZZLE A( KOSS 1 Milk gier 4 Visiu-a 8- Krs rts 12- lo copy 13 - Wolfhound 14 Game p:aved on horse DHrk 15- Pull ot rrfciet 17 Aleutian island 18 Purpose? 19 Cosv reiTeal 21 Bondage 24 Man nit kname 27-ln direction ot 29 Greedy 30-Lath 32 Indian 34 Balnea 35- ggs 3 wise man 27- Street labbr.) ?8 High note 39 Like a tolcm 42- Serenity 44 Boot 47 Portal 49 That which give relief 52 Coin nf India. 53 So be It! 54 To take part in plav 65- Ship meal 6ft Young hawk 57 Afternoon party I 2 4 W 5 fa 7 8 V lO 1 ztzzAiii". 21 22 23 77 2V 29 lb I 22 , 47 "3 " lq SO St " PMf. k Lll f urnrt Ij.timi, WXDIiESDAY, MAY'12. 1943 Us Now a few words about our sponsor. Representative Karl E. Mundt is from South Dakota. The Secretary of State of South Dakota has the following names listed among the principal fin ancial contributors to Rp. Mundt's campaign fund iu Pont, Mellon, Pew, and Mc Cormick! In addition, the New Repub lic mentions that Mundt "once tacitly encouraged an audience to engage in anti-semitism in regard to the familiar charge that the Jews started the war". It also tells of a meeting in New York at which Mundt spoke with Rep. Hamilton Fish who "roused the crowd to anti Semitic outbursts and the fran tic renditions of the Nazi salute." These facts are sufficient to indicate the seriousness of the situation. Today it only takes "intestinal fortitude" to speak out (or democracy and to fight for it. If this bill passes it will take more than "intestinal fortitude" because fascism (that is, open, terror dictator ship by big business) will have come into existence legally! To Self a character with enough savoir faire (French for savoir-faire) who could amuse the students. Guess I'll never make a column ist." "Not only a columnist will you never make, my boy!" At this point I say something like "Out, out, brief candle" and am alone again. It's a sore point if I must say so myself. It amounts to admitting defeat. I have been unable to conjure up an animal to talk with and unable to create a character with whom I would hold fascin ating dialogues to the hysterical pleasure of the student body. And I'm so young, too! I've though about taking the cow ard's way out but I've got three subjects that are leading me in that direction with far great er skill than I could devise. There's only one road left for me. I'll try writing an oc casional word or two on my own. In the meanwhile I'll make a lot of false promises to the Editor about locating a comrad in repartee, knowing all the time I won't bo able to but hoping he won't find out before I graduate. Pencil these are trying to make a col lection of the world's best and do not wish to be bothered with any excess pages or bindings. The remedy for them is to either buy the book or forget it; they won't remember the in-between pages when they try to use what they have. The whole thing is a great in convenience to all the rest of us when we do try to use the library, so take your feelings out on the crossword puzzle instead of the library books. ANswm ro PEEVioi n ri ym DOWN 1 Loose coat 3 Unclosed 3 Travci 4 Spiteful woman 5 Brew e Supplied wita men IVTo go In 8 Quarrel 9 City Id Germany 10 HiKh imus 1 11 French coin 10 Land In waief 20 War ot doing thins 22 Barred bookl ot Persia 23 To contend 25 Mouotalna 26 Bird hum 27 Part ot church 28 Chlnene elUt 31 Extreme atrirlneaa S3 Arm 34 To observe 3ft Pull of vapor 40 Body ol wuief 41 To swindle. 43 Age 45 Single time 48 Girl nam 47 To obstruct 48 Single thing 50 Body of waief 61 Printer , meuuiu b. AigiOiujS' F iOiPiP'E APE EWpIImM' T IE !N IPjgfe IgPHLlAfe :g L TlTiffiaspaTtgiAiP fpffii pier BeUisE is
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