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1 f I It cat.? PAGE TWO TIIE 'DAILY TAR HEEL ?t-lZ-ZTT.mAY, JANUARY 13, 1'v 3T() c DailyJSTar Heel The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it Is issued daily during the regular sessions of the University by the Coloni.il Press. Inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation period, and the summer terms. Entered as second-class mater at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C. under the act of March 3. 1879. Sub--rtption price: $8.(M p-r year, $.'i.00 per rquarter. Member of The Associated tre?x. The Associated VreMi und AH features are exclusively entitled to the xtrf for republication of all news features published herein. . Classic Wax By A. Johnson f.dilor Huini Mannqvr ManuQinti Editor i'ocief I, Staff .. DIC K JF.NRETTE B. MENDENHALL .. CHUCK HAUSER TAYLOR VADEN tor or u Eitnor yhutoQTOpher Roy Parker. Jr. Zane Robbing ... Caroline Bruner James A. Mills dii or Mil Htujl- Jjt brown, hill Kell.irn, Mike McDaniel. Tom Wharton. Charlie Gibson. Joe Seykora, Vestal Taylor. Al Johnson. Charlie Joyner, Dave Sharpe. John S'ump. . fve"u Stall: Kofi Nell I. Don Maynard. Glenn Harden. EiU Johnson, WufT Newel). Sam McKcd. Mark "urrmer. Art Xanthos. Graham Jones. Charlie Hrewr r. Ginnv Jonis, M. K. Jones. tinln 'Staff: Oliver Walk ins." Ed" Williams. Neal Cadieu. June Crockett. Don M.-irfford. Bootsv T.ivlor. Bill Brain, frank Daniels, Ruth Dennis. Xvalyn Harrison, Dan Hobsoii. KuUi Sanders, Veggy Sheridan, Rodney Taylor, Marie Withers. Margaret Garrett. Howard Tlckle. Sport. Staff: Lai ry fox.-1 rank Aflston. Jr., Joe Cherry, Lew Chapman, Andy Taylor. Art Creenbaurri. Eifl Roberts. Ronald Tilley, Billy Peacock, Ken Barton. i'ocietv St'iiff: Vtf,?,y vVood, Marie Withers, Margery Storev. Betty Ann Vowell, Judy Sanford, Time Running Out Time is slowly running out on the committee now at work on proposals for revision of the Student Constitution. The committee, charged with a general re-working of the Consti tution to bring it up to date, has been working on the pro ject since last fall. The proposals must be in the hands of the election board one month before the spring election. However, before this, the suggested changes must go through the Student Legisla ture, and this process probably will be long and complicated. And for that matter it should be. There must be ample de bate and consideration -given to any matter as important as' changing the Student Constitution. At any rate, it is about time that the committee makes its recommendations to the Legislature. There are sub-committees working on the executive, judicial, legislative, and sum mer school problems in student government. As yet only one of these sub-committees, however, has completed its sec tion. John Sanders' committee on summr school government has finished its task. It is to be hoped that the remaining committee will soon complete their jobs, as it is essential that an attendance of time be left for considerng the measures. Greek Societies and Democracy Printed below for the consideration of the student body is a publicity release for an article on the evils of college sororities and fraternities. This release was sent to the Edi torial Staff of the Daily Tar Heel, and because we consider this problem a matter of interest to everyone on campus, whether connected with a Greek society or not, we are print ing it in full. Following are some of the views we take after having carefully read the release. DIG' The dangerous influence wielded by sororities and fra ternities on college campuses, is greater today than ever be fore, according to Mrs. Glenn Frank, widow of the former president of the University of Wisconsin and a former sor ority member, who has just published the results of a spec ial investigation in th February issue of Pageant Magazine, now on sale. In CITADELS OF SNOBBERY, Mrs. Frank, warns that sororities and fraternities promote a "completely un-American, undemocratic caste system." She charges that the fraternity and sorority practice of screening applicants for membership on the basis of income, religion and social position is responsible for innumerable personal tragedies. She disagrees with those who brush away failure to make a fraternity with the excuse "That's life," and points out that the ingredients for success in life ability, courage and industry, are not considered in selecting new fraternity members. Mrs. Frank reports that fraternities and sororities practice religious discrimination by setting quotas for Catholic stu dents and banning Jews. As a result, she says, Jewish stu dents have been forced to form their own groups, thus cre ating segregation on the campus. While we are spending billions abroad to save democracy, Mrs. Frank urges us to spend something at home to insure de mocracy. She calls on the parents of America to get their legislatures to wipe out fraternities and sororities by legi slative act. If we fail to do this, she asks, how can we expect democratic leaders to emerge from colleges and universities which have desecrated that ideal? We cannot correlate the two ideas by Mrs. Frank that such organizations are more dangerous today than ever be fore, and that they are highly undemocratic and un-American. It seems to us that the only way that they could be more dangerous today than ever before is that the number of such organizations and the number of their total member ships has greatly increased. If this is the case, however, it would seem that the before mentioned organizations are be coming more liberal, more democratic. The two objections do not jibe. Indeed, it is the opinion of this publication that such or ganizations are becoming more tolerant and more demo cratic; and, what is of as great an importance, they are do ing this of their own free will! Not too long ago, we admit, it was necessary for an applicant to present his whole fam ily tree in order to be accepted by a Greek society. Now, however, we believe that the trend has definitely swung to ward accepting members for their own merit. We do not say, however, that the only factor determining acceptance is one's own merit. It is difficult even today in this new high of democracy to name any field where an individual is ac cepted entirely on his own merit. Perhaps Mrs. Frank would say that this statement comes under the excuse "That's life." It is life, but we do not use it as an excuse, but as a solid fact. Most important, however, we are growing somewhat wary of individuals and doctrines that would preach de mocracy by curtailing the personal privilege and liberty of joining organizations. It seems that some persons would be so democratic as to destroy democracy itself. As a summation: in general, to fall victim of the same fault, we feel that many of the statements and implications made by Mrs. Frank are, for the most part gross generalization. The writing of criticism of any kind and cohcerning any art-form is inherently difficult, thankless, and, to many minds, expression of perhaps a nega tive approach. But education in any form of art is intended only to present a taste of its essence and values, plus enough tech nical points to incubate a sense of discrimination and taste for sensible criticism. The phemomonal growth of the mass forms of entertainment such as the radio and the phono graph have made available to a hitherto uninitated public a great deal of music. But un fortunately, human nature be ing what at is, these commer ciallized mediums seek the lar gest and most profitable audi ence, and in doing so naturally tend to project on the level of the lowest common denomina tor; giving a very necessary function for the so-called "pro fessional" critic. So, for what liiile ihey are worth, we will bring you our views on the current scene, hoping for a negative stimula tion, if nothing else. One of the first releases, and and an excellent one, of the newly formed Hayden Society of Boston is the Mass in D Minor, recorded by the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Aka demie Chorus, Lisa della Casa, Elizabeth Hoengen, Horst Taub man, and George London; with the American William Stern berg conducting. Hayden intended to enrich and deepen the expression of the Ordinary of the Mass, and this is one of the best works in this form, a singularly in spired work from beginning to end. With a string orchestra, plus tympani and the brilliant D trumpet, the work shows ex cellent text-setting and superb vocal writing. The v coloratura etchings throughout are lovely; and the Qui Tollis is a magnifi cent bass solo and dialog with orchestra. - - IS DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON : MERRYGO-ROUND -Entertainment Front- Praise for Margaret Webster Mr. Sternberg does an in cisive, technically excellent performance, though some what lacking in the serious penetration the work needs. The effect is markedly similar to some of Robert Shaw's seri ous undertakings. The orches tra, primarily Vienna Phil harmonic players, is fine; and the soloists are competent. Miss della Casa and Mrs London giving inspired performances. The small but balanced cho rus is possible the best fea ture clear, accurate, and in spired singing. The English Columbia people relased an invaluable recording several months ago the Motet: "Exsultate, Jubilate" of Mozart; sung by Emily Schwarzkopf with Walter Susskind conduct ing the Philharmonia Orches tra. Its available on special or der only, but believe us, its worth walking to New York for. Written in 1773 by the seven- . teen year-old Mozart for a cas trato friend, it uses strings, horns, and oboes; and, with the exception of a short recitative introducing the second move ment, is a miniature concerto; having an Allegro, Andante, and Vivace. The last movement is the familiar and lovely Alleluia; but the gem of the work is the second movement, the heav enly Tu Virgine Corona, sound ing with all the twistful beauty that only Mozart could write. Miss Scharkopf is indubita bly the finest . artist post-war Europe has produced; a dramat ic soprano, but handling the coloratura passage in the Alle lulia with more finesse than our current popular coloraturas could dream of Mr. Susskind suffers from a little uncertainty occasionally, but Miss Schwarz kopf keeps him pretty well in step. The two records are unques tionably the finest addition to the recorded Mozart library in . some time. Margaret Webster has every right to be proud of her accom plishment in putting Shak speare on the road for nation wide' tours. Miss Webster has poured untold hours of plan ning, rehearsals, and organiza tion into the project in order to make, the productions w)prthy of the great work of . Shakespeare. We feel that Miss Webster is certainly Ihe first lady : of vagabond showmen, for Lt was her drive and ambition to bring the work of the great bard to a large audience which otherwise might never have the opportunity to see any live production at all, that made the tour an actuality. She began work on her idea during the war but shortage forced her to wait for materi als to become more plentiful and for transportation to be come available before', she could realize her dream. At the end of the war Miss Web ster, with the backing of Zo kov, wrote to more than 500 colleges and schools through out the country and asked for their response to the idea. The reaction was unanimously fav orable. Armed with this en thusiasm repeated , from all over the nation, she set about By Vestal Taylor to round up suitable talent and was indeed successful in doing so. To read cast for the current tour is almost to read a Who's Who of show busi ness. -Theatre goers who were around in .1947 will be interest ed, in learning, that "Pinky" the movie with the big New York buildup, is another , adaptation oJLCid' Rickett Sumner's . novel "Quality" from which was tak e tje -' play;' "Hear The Ham iher Ringing," produced by the Playmakers in the spring of '47. We aren't clear about the script for the play or movie just as to which came first, or even whether or not the novel came first. -'But of course the basic plot remains the same. It is a story of a Negro girl going north to study, passing as white, falling in love with a white doctor, but returning to the South to remain at work with her people. It- is a powerful story but one that is inoffen sive to either white or negro audiences for as a matter of fact, it has been shown as a play to both race groups with good results. . - Here's a doff .of. the topper to ? Charlie Gibson for a great piece of work in putting the Don Cossacks' across. Charlie had a great subject to work with, and two previous performances to back him up, nevertheless his work showed thorough planning and gqod taste in Teminding the campus of the entertain ment treat in store, for them. Just a word for an old trouper who is still very much in the limelight with us-Norman Cor don. Though retired from active theatre work, . Mr. Cordon is still one of the most enthusiast ic workers we have on campus. We are indeed 'fortunate in having one among us with his talent and interest in bringing the best in music to the most people. We are reminded that a new group of singers has been organized from members of the Lambi Chi fraternity and they are fast becoming favo rites in several spots on cam pus. Unofficially we are told thai the boys have a trio of vocalists and are accompanied by three or more instrumen talists. So far, ihey have made a hit at each of their appear ance since their debut and have been asked to return by popular demand. ....(Ed. Note This is the first of a series of columns by Drew Pearson giving uiie inside on the nation's far-flung gambling rack els and how they influence gov ernrnnt). WASHINGTON. Four years ago I may have contributed to a murder in Chicago. This series of columns, therefore, is writ ten as my contribution toward cleaning up an ever-widening area of big-city government in which such murders flourish. Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten nessee has wisely put his finger on this menace in his proposed probe of interstate gambling rackets. And last summer, Sen. Clyde Hoey's investigating com mittee unearthed an important clue linking the gambling rac kets to Washington; then backed away from it as if they had stepped on a rattlesnake. This clue was statement by John Maragon, now under in dictment, that he had worked for a man named Kastell. "Dan dy Phil" Kastell, an - alum of Atlanta penitentiary and associate of murd ered Gangleader Arnold Roth stein, is the long-time partner of the current king of the gam blers, Frankie Costello, and of Bill Helis, the "Golden Greek" of the race track world. It had long been suspected by those who have carefully watched the pecular operations of John Maragon and his amaz ing entry at the White House, that Maragon was linked to Frankie Costello. It was also suspected that Maragon might have been the funnel by which Costello poured campaign con tributions into Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughn. Republicans Persist Perhaps it was not unnatu ral, therefore, that Democrats on Senator Hoey's committee backed away from this, and had it not been for the persistence of GOP Sen. Karl Mundt of South Dakota, the links between Costello, Helis and Maragon might never have been exposed. Republican Senators also devel oped the significant acknow ledgement from General Vaughn that Helis had contributed mon ey to democratic political cam paigns. Now, government is not sup posed to have even the remot- Release JANUARY 13 Carolina Seen Aptheker, Isn't Apathetic ' By Bill Kellam . J Prince Serge Jaroff and his White Rooshians vocalized here before a large crowd Tuesday night. Not ones to be outdone, the Red Rooshians sent their own troubadors down from de-' city the next evening and heti entertained a much smaller au dience in Gerrard Hall with jokes, poetry, and the same old potty songs. .-Those students who didn't hear Prof Herbert Apetheker missed a show as entertaining as that staged by ;. his exiled countrymen the night before. He was scheduled to dig" up "The Roots of Negro sion" for the benefit of the audi ence. And he did it, between i long-winded tangents on the virtues and appeals of commun-' ism, and witty cracks at fellow scholars, public figures, litera ture, and anything else that he disliked and wanted to express his opinions about. Aptheker did an. excellent job -in analyzing his an- nounced topic Negro oppres sion. He stated, and this columnist-agrees with him, that Negro oppression does not have mystical and spiritual roots. It exists because the presence of this large mass of unskilled labor is economical- By Bill Kellam ?jly advantageous to the indus trialists and propertied inter ests of the South, or North, which owns plenty of South- i? em property. , The leaders of finance and " industry struggle to keep the -t Negroes in their present explo ited condition because of the direct economic 'benefits flowing from the low wages paid them, the over-all 'degenerative effect this has on the general labor , standards, . in the South, and "their use as "a bargaining factor j against , demands , by white la borers for improved wages and other deserved benefits. (There Oppres- fare other ' factors but I haven't time to look them up). tOApetheker- also gave six" in-. ,texesting bases for the Negroe's present plight. They are the history of America; the direct 4eoonomip,ibenefits flowing from ' Negro"' 'exploitation; the direct political benefits of exploitation; the indirect benefits to reac tion creating false issues to cloud - real election issues; and the support which national re actionaries draw from the rela tively unfettered South. There's much truth in the preceeding, even if it is couched in typical communist phaseology. , Aptheker even offered his solution for the problem. He est links with gambling. P.a when a gambling syndicate con tributes $20,000 to the campan of a Flordja .; sheriff who a salary of only $7,500, oi wh. n big Bill Lias, the wheeling i track operator, contributes 000 to an earlier campaign m Lee pillers, now" U. S. Attorney, to be prosecuting attorney. ;t stands to reason that the gam bling syndicates can exert pow erful influence with our oily governments. It is said by some that th Pendergast Machine and bk; city politics have now moved in to the White House! While th:s columnist does not altogether agree with this for reasons t- be shown later yet it is tru that, when Frankie Costello con trols a $2,000,000,000 gambling business, he can afford to .spcrvl a fortune electing men whr.m he can influence. Murder In Chicag3 And though Costello now claims to be a man of peacr other gangsters, reaching fn. the golden profits of the slot machine and the race track, have not hesitated to steal, kid nap, hijack and murder. This was how the murdt ; took place in Chciago for wl;- 1 may have been partly ic sponsible. . ' - The man murdered was Jacii Regan, former associate of the late Moe Annenburg, who took over Annenberg's racing wire when Moe was sent to the Lew isburg (Pa.) Penitentiary for income-tax evasion by Frank Murphy. This is the telegraph wire which carries the race track results to all bookmakers, and without it no bookie can suc sessfully operate. Having inherited the Annen berg bookie wire, Regan sudden ly found himself with a new partner. The Jake Guzik Syn dicate of Chicago, inheritors' of the old Capone . gang, had moved in. Not only did Regan find himself with a partner, but ( shortly thereafter he found that he wasn't even a partner him self. The syndicate had taken over. . This was the story which Re gan unfolded to this writer in great detail in a Chicago Hotel in the spring of 1946. He told . how Pete Locivella was gam (See Pearson, page '4) CROSSWORD - - - By Eugene Shcffer said that the movement eman cipate the Negro economical ly will have to come from the white working class itself, be cause the white "proletariat" has the most to gain if they elevate the Negro, and thus improve general living condi tions, and nothing to lose if t hey are unsuccessful. However, only when Apthe ker spoke about the problems of the Negro did Aptheker con tribute anything constructive to the night's proceedings. The re mainder of the time he expand ed his energy by voicing the hackneyed, illogical arguments for communism which have been so thoroughty milked dry by our own outspoken little comrade. Communists sound intelligent so long as they don't talk about Leninism and Marxism. The prof spoke without inter ference, though with much dis agreement as to the validity of his ideological concepts. One is especially proud of the audi ence's conduct after reading on page one of yesterday's DTH about the disgraceful incident at the University of Oklahoma during a communist's speech. Let 'em rave. They don't do any harm. And once in a while they're amusing. izzrzzmTzrzzz Z9 20 21 32 34 25 rrr? -2:, 3? p?40 41 42 43 44 45 4 47 p4 -rr- teH 1 1 1 iH 11 ib HORIZONTAL 1. artificial 6. piles 11. come back 12. relating to the Alps 14. scents 15. body ot ceremonies 16. weapon 17. whistles 19. prefix: thrice 20. pieces out 22. aeriform matter 23. necessity 24. patterns 26. out-of-date 27. 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