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Don Shropshire. Jimmy Kutherford. John Stump, Vestal Taylor.
News Staff: Kolfe Neill. Don Maynard. Glenn Harden, Bill Johnson, Wuff
Newell. Sam McKeel. Marie Sumner, Art Xanthos, Graham Jones. Charlie
Gibson. C'harlle Hrewer, Ginnv Jones. M. K. Jones.
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Stanford. Bootsv Taylor, Bill Brain, Frank Daniels, Ruth Dennis, Evalyn
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Withers. Margaret Garrett. Hovard Tickle.
Sports Staff: Luiry Fox. Frank AIIston Jr., Joe Cherry, Lew Chapman,
Andy Taylor, Art Greenbaum, Bid Roberts, Ronald Tilley, Eilly Peacock,
Ken Barton.
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Society Staff: Peggy Wood, Marie Withers, Betty Ann Yowell, Judy Sanford,
M.ir perr S tore v.
KICK Won't Succeed Here
According to stories appearing in the Daily Tar Heel and
other state newspapers, Chapel Hillians and University stu
dents were informed last week that the Ku Klux Klan is pre
pared to extend its "invisible empire" to this fair village.
The Klan, it seems, is making a concerted effort to organize
in North Carolina. A mass meeting of Klansmen and inter
ested observers in Gastonia this weekend produced a turn
out of 200.
. Nevertheless, the Daily Tar Heel is confident that the
Klan will in no way find North Carolina a fertile ground for
organization, and as far as Chapel Hill goes, the idea of a
Klan here is perfectly ridiculous. The KKK thrives on ig
norance, secrecy, and prejudice forces which are definitely
not abundant here. And while the intellectual level in a uni
versity village is naturally a little higher than in most
places, it is our firm belief that North Carolinians have
enough faith in democracy to let the natural processes of
law handle erring individuals.
The Klan has long, long ago lived out any usefulness it
may have had after the Civil War during the hectic days of
radical reconstruction. Perhaps fire for fire was once the
only solution to restoring home rule in the South. Never
theless those days are bygone forever, and North Carolina's
race relations have been a mbdel for the entire nation not
jus the South in the last decade. Yes, there have been
rapes, burglaries, and fights involving members of the white
and Negro races but the processes of law and order have
always proved adequate to handle any situation, with all
parties concerned being given a fair trial.
Notwithstanding these arguments, there will always be
a few who insisUon taking the law into their own hands, sl
tcmpting to be the conscience and guardians of the country
side. But jntelligent and far-sighted individuals have noth
ing but contempt for the Klan, in theory or practice.
The Klan may burn crosses and preach racism, but North
Carolina and Chapel Hill can be counted on to turn a cold,'
contemptous shoulder to the dragons and wizards who seek
to convert this state into a hotbed of troublemakers and
race-haters.
Fall Quarter Scholarship
Word coming unofficially from South Building concern
ing scholarship for the past quarter indicates that the all
men's average was slightly better this year , than last year.
The student body as a whole is to be commended for this
improvement, for the fall quarter always seems to hold an
abnormal number of pitfalls as far as scholarship is con
cerned. However, once again the all-men's average was superior
to the all-fraternity average during the past quarter. This
fact does not speak well for Carolina fraternities, and cer
tainly better scholarship should be the goal of every house.
From all observations, very few fraternities place any
particular emphasis-in scholarship. Most fraternity ' men
probably take greater pride in their fraternity's intramural
athletic rating than the scholarship rating. This is a sad at
titude indeed for a University organization to have.
Perhaps the IFC will be able to foster greater interest in
scholarship in its. meeting this quarter. There's no justifica
tion for fraternities if fraternities jeopardize scholarship.
Fraternities can accomplish a great deal in molding a
young man's character. They should make sure that scholar
ship is given the proper attention,'
Sorority averages, along with the all-men's grades, were
gratifyingly high for the quarter. The Pan Hellenic girls
are to be congratulated for consistently maintaining good
grades.
Hard Work Pays
Thanks to the hard work put in by President Roy Hols
ten, the German Club will probably stage its most success
ful dance in years this weekend at Woollen Gymnasium, rfe
cent dances have been rather poorly attended, the prices
have been high, and club members have had difficulty in
selling tickets.
However, Holsten has lined up Tex Beneke's orchestra
for the weekend, and the ticket prices are more reasonable
than at any time in the past five years. A set of tickets to
both Friday and Saturday night dances, plus the Saturday
afternoon concert, is priced at $5.50.
Holsten, by making a special trip to New York, was able
to obtain Beneke's orchestra this weekend at a saving of
nearly $1,000. In addition the German Club has cut down on
expenses in such matters as decoration and the printing of
tickets. The resulting decrease in the price of "tickets will be
a welcome change for club members who have sustained
losses on the past dances.
.CHUCK HAtSER
TAYLOR VADEN
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ROY PARKER. Jr.
ZANE ROEB1NS
CAROLINE BRUNER
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by
Bilfy Rose
Among the pretty packages
under the Broadway Christmas
tree this year there were three
I particularly fancied. . .
One: "Lyrics," by Oscar Ham
merstein II, the book which re
cently came bubbling out of
the presses of Messrs. Simon
and Schuster.
Oscar, as everyone who voc
alizes in a tub knows, is the
best song writer this country
has hatched since Stephen Fos
ter, and this is a collection of
his best lyrics.
For good measure, the
Squire of Bucks County has
thrown in a 10,000-word essay
on the principles and prat
falls of the rhyming racket
and, for my six Hals, his are
the only words which make
sense on the much-misunder-slood
subject of fitting words
to music.
This Christmas goodie was
especially welcome because in
the course of each month dozens
of baby lyricists write in and
ask how to get their June-
" mooneries on the hit parade.
Well, from now on, answering
them is going to be a cinch:
"Buy or steal a copy of the
'book by Mr. H."
Two: "The Bicycle Thief," an
Italian movie now playing at
the World Theatre on West 49th
Street.
As everyone who has ever
stuck a wad of gun under his
seat knows, the one thing that
makes the movie industry pos
sible is the formula of the chase
cop chasing robber, pirate
chasing treasure, or any jerky
Joe chasing any standard will-o'-the-wisp.
No Hollywood studio, how
ever, has ever dared film as
chaste and chancy a chase as
you'll see in this unadorned
darling of a movie. No fire
works, no fake suspense, no
hyped-up glamour just a
quietly desperate story of a
quietly desperate man who
sets out to find the stolen bi
cycle on which his job de
pends. Three: Carol Channing in
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes."
Ever since this' musical
opened, the critics have been
thumbing through their thesauri
to describe the performance of
the lady zany who is currently
portraying Lorelei Lee, the
crazy-like-a-fox gold digger who
mince-stepped out of Anita
Loo's typewriter back in the
days of Volstead and vo-dee-o-do.-
Gents with talcum around
their temples are comparing this
six-foot Betty Boop with Fanny
Brice and Bea Lillie, and it's
pretty generally agreed around
hubert Alley that she's the most
valuable hunk of stage merhan
dise since Mary Martin appeared
in a Siberian snow scene and
melted down both snow and au
dience with "My Heart Belongs
to Daddy."
A few months ago, Miss
Channing was working for in
timate money in an intimate
revue called "Lend An Ear."
Today you could incorporate her
for a milpon bucks, and day
and date with the publication
of thisv piece, her face is slated
to appear on the cover of the
Times Magazine the big bow
usually reserved for ambassa
dors and thieves.
Random Shots
Way down east in Jacksonville,-
N. C, they've " got a new
managing editor for the Jack
sonville News and Views," "the
only paper in the world that
gives a whoop about Onslow
County." He's Bill Buchan, DTH
columnist last quarter and au
thor of This 'n That. Bill
dropped by the Hill last week
on his way to the new job. . .
Money well-spent that would
be the March of Dimes benefit
today. .. .Duke and Carolina's
football players will turn cagers
for the game to supply the entertainment.-
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Anyone on campus who sights
a pint-sized little man blushing
whenever he is spoken "to, smil
ing shyly, and bobbing his head
like a stag' at a high school
prom will find it hard to be
lieve that this is Serge Jaroff.
Yet it is the music world's
highly respected Serge Jaroff
who will come here, to direct
the Original Don Cossacks and
Dancers in a Memorial Hall con
cert tonight at 8 o'clock under
the auspices of the Student En
tertainment Committee.
"Variety" would, probably
title a character sketch of
Serge Jaroff something like
"Shy Shortie Sends Six-foolers."
Press releases to publi
cize their concerts all give
six feet as the average height
of the 28 booied-and-bloused
Cossacks whom Jaroff will put
through their celebrated song
and dance routines here to
night. The minikin martinet
himself, though, happens to be
only four feet, ten and a half
inches tall, without platform
shoes.
These press releases have a
lot more to say about Jaroff.
If asked about his height, for
Panthers Belong In Zoos
Local proponents of commu
nism had another prop-oganda
kicked out from under them
last week when Mayor Lanier
declared that Ku Klux Klanners
are definitely persona non grata
in this urb and that he will do
everything in his power to make
certain that these overgrown
juveniles are legally banned
from Chapel Hill.
So, thanks to our jolly bur
gomaster, . Klan mastermind
Tommy Panther "ain't" gonna '
git his chance to unsheath his
his putrid claws here. The
state-wide reaction to at
tempts by this totalitarian
group to infiltrate North Caro-
lina has been most heartening.
Almost every city which has
been threatened with the
established of Klaverns has
enacted legislation outlawing,
in one way or another, these
proponents of racial discrimi
nation, presecution, . and in
tolerance, v According to Panther, the
Klan now stands for the fur
therance and protection of law
and order. He has insisted to
the press that his boys oppose
violence and the taking of the
law into their own hands may
be these use tongs. He says
they are interested in obtaining
only "nice" people as members.
His statements should with such
flowery, full blown generalities.
So just what purpose, or ex
cuse, the avowed white suprenv
A PAL JOB FOR THE MAN
CholhVs Follies
Popoff On Jaroff
By Charlie Gibson
instance, he might make an an
swer that is somewhat incoher
ent, not because of tongue-tied-ness.but
because his English is
not exactly Shakespeare. Al
though he memorized the United
States Constitution and its
amendments preparing for his
citizenship in 1943, his shy dis
arming smile still fills in many
gaps in his conversation.
That grin helped Jaroff over
rough spots in his career, too.
In the Dan River Valley where
he ; was born ; in the town of
Kostroma, Cossacks consider
anything smaller than six feet
"not much use." When , his"
stunted growth puzzled, then
embarassed his "family so that -no
one could decide whether
he could bust bronchos or do
any other real work, Jaroff just
grinned and apprenticed him
self to Kostroma's choirmaster.
That was ' a lorig way" and 40
years from New Jersey, a wife
and a seven-year-old son named
Alyosha, a small country house
and a rowboat "In case of
flood," Jaroff says solemnly.
First came the Syndal Musical
Academy in Moscow and the
patronage of Grand Duchess
Carolina Seen
By Bill Kellam
ists have for existence is quite
vague, and questionable;
All is not serene within the
ranks of these champions of
freedom." The group has appar
ently split into two factions,
one (Panther's) representing the
old-line Klan with headquar
- ters in Atlanta; the other headed
by T. L. Hamilton of Leesville, .
S. C. A wheel in the Panther
faction recently called Hamilton
a "traitor." Shades of .the Mos
cow trials and Chicago gangster
warfare! Will we be having
Klanal, rhymes of banal, bloody
purges and gang warefare? Will
there be more St. Valentine's
Day massacres?.
Panther didn't roar much,
so he didn't appear so ridic
ulous as did Hamilton, the
Grand Dragori who spouted
flames at Kerr Scott in an in
terview last month with a
Durham reporter. He accused
our favorite governor of "lean
ing fo the Communists and
Negroes." Our leader may
have committed many sins,
but if he's ever leaned in any
direction but his favorite one
forward. . .?.
It's also interesting to note
that Hamilton remarked, as did
Huhman Talmadge in hiar speech
here last month, that the nation
al government is forcing policies
on the people which will lead
to a police state. This column
ist feels that a so-called "police
state" is a pretty good thing
Marie; then came World War I
and a lieutenant's bars (here
Jaroffs smile has been known
to become a chuckle) in the
Imperial machine-gun corps.
Then there was the interment
camp where around the evening
campfires he met the hetmen
he later drilled vocally into the
inimitable Don Cossacks Chorus.
On-siage all Jaroff 's shyness
disappears, and he becomes
the mighty atom of the con
cert hall with precision con
trol on the Cossack throats.
His style of directing is
unique. With his back to the
audience he does not seem to
be conducting at all. No Sfo
kowkian displays of flailing
arms and flying hair but just
his hands held close to his
chest, fingers pointing, palms
turning up and down, the lift
of an eyebrow, a frown or a
smile these get trigger re
ponse from the disciplined
choristers, anything from a
whisper to a crashing cres
cendo. ..
He holds this rigid rein and
pulls his rank only at rehear
sals and concerts.
to have around when dragons
and their dragnettes start run
around loose and telling people
what constitutes Americansim
and what doesn't.
One of the greatest appeals
of communism to people whe've.
never had any actual contact
with Russian democracy is the
Kremlin's mouth pieces' claim
that communism offers racial
equality. Uneduacted citizens of
Far Eastern nations (where
idelogies now of the East and
West are fighting it out) fall for
this malarkey, especially when
they hear of racial discrimina
t tion in the United States. Since
this nation now personifies to
them the ideal Western life, this
isn't so good.
Truman has tried counte
ract this propaganda attack
with his Fair Deal Program.
Yet white supremists, such as
the Klan, go their bigoted way
to undo whatever good that
honest Harry has accom
plished, or striven to accom
plish. Every ban on the Klan is a
boost for Mr. Truman's demo
cratic program and a slap in
the face of communist wind
bags. Mayor Lanier deserves a
heartly cheer for his gratifying
ly out-spoken stand for free
dom! Panther, go back to your
jungle. This is civilization, or
about as near an approximation
of it as the 20th century can
attain.
DREW PEARSON
ON
The WASHINGTON
MERRY-GO-ROUND
WASHINGTON. Herbert
Hoover's statement that the
American Navy should be used
to protect far-distanct Formosa
must have brought a wry smile
from his old Secretary of State
Henry L. Stimson. For when
Stimson served in the Hoover
Cabinet, he waged a valiant but
losing fight,' inside that cabinet
to take firm measures against
Japanese aggression when the
Jap lords first landed in Man
churia. Stimson wanted to cooper
ate with the League of Na
tions and with other countries
in nipping what he quite
clearly saw was the beginning
of future war.
But Hoover fussed, fumed,
vacillated and finally said no.
At one time Stimson wanted
to send the American Fleet
not even as far as Formosa,
or to Chinese waters, but sim
ply on a cruise in the mid
Pacific as a gesture of Ameri
can strength. Again Hoover
said no.
Hoover would not even per
mit his Secretary -of ' State to
keep American Council-General
Prentiss Gilbert as an observer
to the League of Nations in
Geneva. Stimson had instructed
Gilbert to sit in on the League
conferences dealing with Man- .
churian aggression, but Hoover,
worried over isolationists in the
Republican National Commit
tee, finally yanked Gilbert. out.
Today, however, the Ex-President,
who contributed more
than any one man to undoing
Stimson's farsighted war-prevention
policy, now says the
American fleet should be used
in Chinese waters when it is
too late.
Secretary of Air Stuart Sym
ington, who spent Christmas
1943 in Berlin with the pilots
and mechanics of the Air Lift,
decided to- spend the"' recent
Christmas with the Air Force
ba.y-s in the ' most dismal part
at the world Alaska. Before
leaving, he asked Lt. Gen. Na
than F. Twining, the command
ing officer, what he could bring
that would please the Air Force
most, and the answer came
back:
"Bring an entertainer."
So Symington called Bob
Hope. This was three days be
fore Christmas, and Bob Hope
hestilated.
I don't like to leave my
kids," he said.
. "Bring 'em along," countered
Symington.
"Well, let me ask the wife,"
said Hope.
In the end, the Hope family
went. Hastily, he got together
a piano player, a cowboy singer,
a dancer, and with his wife
to help him, the impromptu
Hope entourage flew to Alaska,
staged seven performers in two
days, visited every post where
. American troops were stationed
and brought them more joy
than any other event of the
winter.
Hope rehearsed his act on the
airplane en route, but it didn't
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Washington about a year ago,
spent all his time cheering up
Veterans Hospitals.
It hasn't garnered many head
lines, but one of the most im
portant probes on Capitol Hin
has been the monoply investi-
gation conducted . by Congress- !
man "Manny" Celler, Chairman f
of the House Judiciary Com- '
mittee. . i
Handicapped for lack of 5
funds, and despite terrific pies- '
sure from certain lobbyists, Cel- '
ler has shown, among other
things, how the big insurance
companies now dominate the
money market, have largely ta
ken the place of Wall street in
loaning money to business.
FDR set up the securities and
Exchange Commission to pro
ject the public regarding stock
and bond issues. But today,
many big business firms don't
have to worry about SEC regis
tration. They get their money
from the insurance companies.
As a result of his probe, Con
gressman Celler will propose
legislation at this session put
ting teeth in the anti-trust act.
"Today," says Celler, "Gen
enral Electric is involved in
16 different anti-trust suits.
Why? Because the penalties
sentences are never imposed.
That's why the anti-trust act
is a joke. But at this Congress
we plan to put jail sentences
into the act."
Three recent white house vis
itors found Harry Truman, the
President, concerned about the
nation's housing shortage; and
Harry Truman, the father, wor
ried over Daughter Margaret's
singing.
Both subjects brought consid
erable feeling into Truman's
voice as he chatted with Sena
tor Burnet Maybank of South
Carolina, Senator John Spark
man of Alabama and Congress
man Brent Spence of Kentucky,
the big three on housing legis
lation. Sparkman put in a plug for
his bill to authorize long-term
loans and low interest rates
for middle-income housing.
"This is the last bill we need
to make a well-rounded housing
program," Sparkman observed.
The President heartily
agreed, added that rent con
trol should also be renewed.
He suggested holding off until
April, then making a last
minute study before extend
ing rent control.
"I am convinced in my own
mind," he stressed, "that rent
control is absolutely necessary."
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