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e ... .. PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL 'J 4 'Saturday, November j2. 1949 Polgar arfi e 3)aita 1 3Tar3-teel THE BALANCE OF POWER xi. Th official newspaper of the Publication Board of the UWversity. of North . .Carolina, Chap! Hill, where It is l3ud daily during the regular sessions of I he Univwsity by the Colonial fiess. Inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the summer terms. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, zi. C, under the ant of March 3, 1879. Sub scription price: $8 00 per year, $3 00 per quarter. Member of The Associated I'ress. The Associated Press untl AP features are exclusively entitled to the us for republication of all wvi and features published herein. Editor - DICK JENRETTE Business Manager C. B. MENDENHALL, Hantifjlno Editor Spr).i Edffor ... Editorial staff: Charhe Gibson. Tom Wharton, Wink. Locklalr. Bill Kellazn. Don Shropihlre, Jimmy Rutherford. John Slump. Vestal TuyUTr. 'iTews Stat: Hoy barker. Jr., Zane Robbina. Bill Johnson, Sam McKeel, Wuif Newell, Don Afiynaru. Role Neill, Caroline Eruner, Bob Hennessee, Graham Jone, Glenn Harden. 6'ports Staff : Frank Alston. Jr.. Ken Barton. Lew Chipinah. Joe B. Cherry, Larry Fox. Vi? Coldbrr. Art Gieenbaum, Billy Peacoctc, John Potndexter, Biff Roberts. John Slieriil. Bebe Smith, Andy Taylor. Ronald Tilley. Buddy Vnoen. iu.sine.is Stall : Oliver Walkins. Ed Williams. Neal Cadieu. June Crockett. Don Stanford. Bootsy "Taylor, Bill Brain. Frank Daniels. Ruth Dennis. Evalyn Harri m, Dnn Ho'.soti, Ruth Sunders. Pepgy Sheridan. Rodney Taylor. Marie Wither. , Staff f'hot;ron-r '. .". Jflmes A. Mills Look Out Irish! It's been a long time since the University of North Carolina has sent its football team to New York City to battle a top flight Northern grid outfit. Last time the Tar Heels headed northward was back in 1940, when a good Carolina club drop ped a 14-0 decision to Fordham, back in the days when the Rams were ranked with the nation's top football elevens. Two years earlier Carolina had tied Fordham, 0-0 so the Tar Heels will be after their first victory in the big city. From reports we have heard from New York sports writers, many of the scribes are bemoaning the fact that it is not Army that is playing Notre Dame instead of Carolina. Ap parently the Tar Heels' losses to Louisiana State and Ten exsce have led these sports writers into believing Carolina will be a pushover. The record seems to back them up in their boasts, but we doubt if they would have expressed a similar opinion a month ago when Carolina ranked well up among the top ten teams in the nation. Frankly, we think the Caro-lina-Notre Dame series to be a natural for rivalry. Each is annually one of the top powers in its section. And the com ments about how much better an opponent Army would be for. Notre Damo than Carolina seem untimely and in com plete bad taste. ' There have also been reports that 73,000 fans were going to the game to see Notre Dame play (more by the New York sports writers). It so happens that there were 34,000 tickets alone sold to Carolina students, alumni, and friends of the University. The critics have been overly outspoken this week, in our estimation. They alone have given the Carolina team all the incentive necessary to go out and lick the pants oft this Notre Dame team about which we have heard o much. Caro lina can be depended upon to go all out in its attempt to show up the all-wise sports writers who have "doomed" them to defeat. At any rate it is to be hoped that today's contest will mark the beginning of a long and colorful rivalry with Notre Dame. The two schools are scheduled to meet each other on the football field for the next four years. Perhaps this rivalry' may soon be expanded to other sports. But as for today's game, Carolina couldn't possibly have a better opportunity to ptone for those losses to LSU and Tennessee. The score of the Tennessee game certainly was not a tine indication of the difference between the two teams. All will be forgotten if the Tar Heels can beat Notre Dame, however. The sports writers are entitled to their own opinions on today's game, but we can't help believing that the old Carolina spirit will rise up to new heights this after noon. We saw a truly underdog Carolina team trample what was considcrd a mighty Texas team, 34-7, last year in a stunning upset. A repeat performance is in order today. Difficult To Explain Many of the "enlightened" tion laws will tell you without so much as batting an eyelash that ending segregation of Negroes from whites would be the biggest single step wc could take in solving the perren perennial racial problem in Dixie.' But one question which usually stumps these persons is why there are so many more race riots and episodes in the North than in the South. Ap parently sending the Negroes and whites to school together docs not necessarily mnke for mutual understanding and good will. Jim Crow or not, the Negroes tend to group to gether as in Harlem and racial tension and jealousy obvious ly run higher in New York or Detroit than in Raleigh, for example. Latest evnt to set our "progressives" scurrying in search of explanations was the Harlem mob which felled six police men in New York Friday. The occasion was "a wild welcome home for one of the Red leaders," according to Associated Press reports of the events immediately following the re lease of 11 American Communist leaders on $260,000 bond. Three of the Communist bigwigs, Benjamin J. Davis, Jr., Henry Winston, and Paul Robeson, all of whom are Negroes, made street corner addresses to the screaming mob which turned out. When police attempted to control the ensuing parade the Harlem mob retaliated by throwing bricks, bottles, china, and brooms. They attempted to overturn a police car, succeeding in shattering its wind shield. All the while they shouted in unis'on with a sound truck, "We wiil not be moved." Police charged the mob endangered bystan- ders by waving torches. J b None of the idealistic racial harmony was present in this tt i , . .a . Harlem djsplay. The Communists have succeeded in taking a strong hold in that area. "We can see nothing wonderful about such a situation. Ihe Negroes of Harlem have all the "rights" which are denied Southern Negroes and supposedly are the cause of the infrequent racial feuds in the South. You may draw your own conclusions. The Northern Negroes certainly are j . . 0 , , ' doing their Southern brcthem no good. CHUCK HAUSER BILLY CARMICKAFiL, lil critics of the South's segrega As Good As The Cot Girl By Wink Locklair With the possible exception of "The Cat Girl," it appears rath- -er doubtful that the Student Entertainment Committee could ever book an attraction year after year which would, have the appeal of Franz .J. Polgar, who, last night, completed, his fifth engagement , in Memorial Hall , before another capacity audi- ence. - , , , There was . nothing essen tially, new in this year's lwo hour program. Dr. Polgar be gan with a couple of mind reading demonstrations, one involving his check , for ..the evening's work. He found it, of course, hidden somewhere in Jim Mill's camera. The rest of the performance was given over to Dr. Polgar's amazing stunts with group hyp nosis. This is the time when al most everything can and event ually does happen. One student thought he was Laurence Tib bet and he sang a few bars of "Ole Man "River" to carry on the illusion. Lacy Bell was the principal gcat in a number of experiments and . there were antics by more than a dozen other volunteers. Two hours with Dr. Polgar is quite a strain on the audience, also, for the hypnotist frequently works his spectators up .to a state of frenzy by the demon strations he produces. While SEC Chairman Gibson reported that the opening night audience was "extremely cooperative" while entering the auditorium, the crowd con duct before the performance was extremely" juvenile. Students continued to smoke regardless of "No Smoking" signs and warning issued at the Burl. Ives' recital. And there was a childish reaction to the order to keep all lower windows closed in the hall, although the upper windows were eventually raised. Had the no smoking order been observed, it would not have been necessary to raise the windows at all. All in all, the foot-stomping, cat-calls and general bedlam which has pre ceeded the first two SEC pro grams is more in keeping with a bunch of teen-agers than students at a Stale University. Dr. Polgar was the final SEC attraction this quarter. On Jan uary 10 the famous Don Cos sacks will be here to sing and dance on the stage of Memorial Hall. WASHINGTON By George Dixon (Copyright King Features, 1949) The Bureau of Internal Rev enue is striving to circumvent a form of crookedness which ap pears to be on the increase. The government, as you know, receives upwards of 36, 000,000 income tax returns and can't possibly check them all. The thievery stems from aware ness of this situation. Here's the general pattern, although it has many variations: A man makes up the name of a firm in Wilkes Barre and states in his income tax return that he earned $3,000 from it last year, and had $400 withheld from his pay by the company. Then he writes to the Bureau citing a raft of imaginary de pendents, and claims that, be cause of allowance exemptions for the latter he has had too much tax withheld. He makes a .demand for a refund of, let's say, $100, and gets it. Mr. Jack-Smith, the eminent bossman of International News Pictures in Washington, is an engaging gentleman, in a. rather nauseating way. He is constantly combing all publications that come to his hand for repulsive reeS Sed friends' The other day he came upon a positive triumph, from his T?Vf viewpoint, a recipe for baked squid which he promtly delivered to me. It-ugh!Reads as follows: "To bake a squid, prepare it by splitting the belly, and re- moving the 'quill' or backbone. Wash the scluid well and diP jt in a cup of milk to which LTTu ? sahas,been ded- Roll it m bread crumbs untii nicely coated, and put it . , y;t;;;:r-.vv;p 0f SOVIET L E TT E RS 'RESTORE FREEDOM' Editor: I have returned to Chapel Hill this quarter after an ab sence of some years to find that the liberal traditions, the tradi tions of freedom of thought and expression which have beerr the honor and fame of the Univers ity of North Carolina, have, to all intents and purposes, been relegated to the junk heap. Why? The only answer I can find is that hysteria is ruling -i instead of reason and common sense anti-Communist hysteria. ' It is axiomatic that meeting a threat with hysteria, with the lack of coordination that is cha racteristic of hysteria, is out and out stupidity. If -Marxist ideaot-. ogy is a threat to something (our "Democratic way of life!"), . then the suppression of personal freedom or the intimidation of the teaching profession is the worst possible way to meet that threat. And I maintain, in Mr. Al derman's despite (Letters lo the Editor. October 18). that the ' personnel sheet and its questionaire constitutes in timidation. The employer's right to "interrogate his em ployee" does not extend to questions of personal affilia tions with clubs, groups, or organizations. It is not a ques tion of being "ashamed" of ' beloning lo some organization. It is a question of having one's means of earning a living tak en away if someone, in an omiscient fashion, has pro nounced said organization "Communist-controlled." In a general sense we may regard the personnel sheet as a suppression of individual free dom but specifically' it is -a sup pression of academic ',: freedom which is more, important to all of us because academic freedom is one of the bases of individual freedom. A teacher must be able to investigate freely, to inquire freely about all things and he must be able freely to express his ideas without fear of losing his job. This right to free inquiry is just as vital to someone who leaches French grammar as it is lo a professor of economics or physics. If a teacher is - forced into the position of jeo pardizing his , right lo make a living for himself and his family by free investigation of ideas (popular and unpop ular), then he is intimidated. . Anyone who can remember the past two years, can remember in a baking dish. Dot with but- ter and bake in a hot oven for 10 minutes. Serve it with curry sauce. "You may also rool sauid in flur and fry it in deep fat, and serve il with tomato sauce" , To which Mr, Smith appended horribly: "Want to come for dinner?" ' TO THE a growing number of teachers and professors throughout the country who have lost means of livelihood for being so pre sumptuous as to exercise their rights as American citizens to their own opinions. I agree with Mr. Myers: "With draw the questionaire and re store' academic freedom!" Thelma Thompson SEGREGATION? NO! Editor: In your October 27 editorial, would the facilities of Woollen about: "The real motive, of course, is the termination of the Sputh's segregation laws" ?Can't end tradition over night" r-and the four problems: "(1) where would they be quartered t.and where would they eat, (2) Ito the rear of the bus only to .Gymnasium, its locker rooms; and Bowman Gray Pool be open to Negro student? (3) would the Negro students be seated in the student section at football ! games, meetings, classrooms? (4) and finally would not the ' presence of Negroes in a south ern university prevent many North Carolina and other South ern boys and girls from enrol ling at Carolina. There are Negroes who strive ,. for nothing but the end of seg regation. If I were a Negro, it would be my uppermost . thought. How would you feel if every time you boarded a bus with an aisleful of standees, you had to shoulder your way through said standees, bearing their annoyed even angry . glances and grumblings, to get you seemed most concerned have to repeat the long trek a few miles, up the road? I know that drivers and white passen , gers are beginning to show enough consideration to let them stay up front sometimes, but they do so in violation of the law and of some wise guy wants to be nasty, to the rear the Negro must go. You might not mind so much if you were a dull, slow-thinking animal as ,so many whites seen to think the Negro is. i But in this age of enlightment we should know that the Negro . has mental, physical, and moral abilities equal to those of the White. As ra' matter, . of fact, if you could not see the extremely jdark shade of his skin, you could not. detect a difference. Such characteristics as shape of lips land I body, the hair, and , even jvery nearly the skin shade are ' frequently found among - people ; generally classed I as 5. "white". Only the ethnologist is concern ed with the minute details of racjal differences, Second, tradition ' cannot be ended overnight. That is all it is: tradition. We have almost forgotten its beginning, some say that the younger generation . wdhng to forget That when the old conservatives die off the Negro will have-a better EDITOR chance. What a pity! What a crime! to make so many able young Negroes wait another generation for their chance arid then die without it. We can no longer argue tnat the Negro cannot stand the shock of new free'uom; that he should be "ac climated" for another genera tion. If anybody is unable to stand the shock is is the white man. Perhaps we need courses to show whites the surprising abilities of Negroes. I am certainly aware that to do the things I advocate would "fan old flames of hatred and prejudice"; but let that come. Uncover the smouldering em cbers and scatter them and let . Jthern burn put.-'As for- the Ku . Klux Klan; it served a purpose - once- when the Negro was not yet able to stand the shock of freedom that I cannot deny. But now that that danger is no longer present, it has no right to invent false enemies to fight. If they insist upon doing so, they are a greater threat to this country than anything they ever fought. If the officials of this University sincerely want to ad mit Negroes, they can hold out over the demonstrations that will take place for a while. That problem is not insurmountable. Neither are the four problems you listed by number insur mountable. As long as the segre gation laws of North Carolina exist, I suppose they vould have to be housed and fed separately. I see no great problem. I would like, however, to say how I think your four questions should be answered. There should be no segregation laws to hamper honest pursuit of any goal. (1) They should be quartered as any other student. I wouldn't object to living with them. As a matter of fact, I roomed with a Negro for more than a month in a Naval hospital. I never felt contaminated. The food in Lenoir Hall is prepared and handled by Negroes. If you eat their food, why should you ob ject to eating it with them? (2) Bathing in the same water with another person does seem more intimate. And records do show a high rate of veneral diseases and such among Negroes, but isn't everybody who enters here subject to a physical exam? And wouldn't a Negro who has raised himself to a university student be as careful about cleanliness as; we? (3) Oh, for God's sake. (4) Probably. I dare say UNC will be crowded for some years to come. I'll bet more boys and girls have stayed away because Hans Freistadt is here. A few fathers have pro bably sent their sons elsewhere because Frank Graham .was president. I coud make no sense of the last two paragraphs of your edi torial so can register no com ment on themr Ray Harwell DREW PEARSON the WASHINGTON MERRY-GO-ROUND MS "WASHINGTON. Resigna tion of isolationist insurance man James Kemper as Treasur er of the GOP National Commit tee was dressed up in a high sounding smoke-screen about foreign policy in order to cover up a bitter personal GOP feud. Actually, his resignation was handed in one hour after Guy : Gabrielson of New Jersey be i came the new National Chair ; man - last August, but it was -'s1, agreed to delay the announce ment until the political horizon was calmer. Kemper's exit puts the spot light on some red faces lnd raw nerves inside the GOP, Committee, which probably will be smoothed over now that he is out. Although Kemper talked big about lack of funds in the GOP Treasury, real fact is that he was never much of a money raiser. The best GOP money raiser was the man Kemper and Dewey ousted as GOP National Finance Chairman after the 19 48 Convention Walter Hope. Hope, an able New York law yer, learned of his resignation by reading it in the morning papers, and his friends claim that the shock was responsible for his death a month or so later. Hope left in the treasury a surplus of $800,000 after the Philadelphia Convention. He was replaced by Bourbon Prince Harold Talbot, eager as pirant to the Court of St. James, whose family had almost ord ered their clothes for their pres entation to the king when they heard the news of Dewey's de feat. Between January 1949 and August 4, when GOP Chairman Hugh Scott resigned, Talbot had raised the magnificent sum of $71,000 while Scott and Kem per were spending money at the rate of $80,000 a month. Talbot's main excuse was that he couldn't collect funds because of the Omaha GOP fight. And when it became apparent that Guy Gabrielson was to be the new chairman, Talbot began a quiet campaign against him, which cluminated in a lunch at which he and Gabrielson patched up their differences. That same night, however, Talbot dined with an oil executive who re ported back to the new GOP Chairman that Talbot had begun his attack all over again. As a result of all this, GOP finances today are in terrible shape. However, with Sinclair Weeks of Massachusetts now in charge of the National Finance Committee, they are improving. Johnny Haines, onetime Demo ocrat and member of the Roose velt Administration, has been appointed vice-chairman, and some of the big contributors al- ready have promised to kick in. ' Some folks were surprised when Senator "Wild Bill" Lang-' er, Republican, praised President Truman, Democrat. But it was, this same President who appoint ed Langer's nephew, Morgan Ford, as Judge of the United States Customs Court in New ACROSS L Forced air upon 5. Juice oi a tree 8. Renown 12. Place cargo on a vessel 13. Mohammwlan saint'!- tniiil 14. Vress 15. Iae out 16. Poem 17. Fragrant ointment ol Z7. Aetlai 31 Salutation 22. Join 34. Trouble 35. VV is.u s 37. tleoiiK-ti teal surface 39 Takes oiiVnse at 41 ; by afrain 44. Hf hint! a vessel 48. Dry 43. Lever In a loom the ancients 51 r'r r.f ih. 18. 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