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fiUKD A Y,MAJ1 CII :t 'A PAGE TWO THE DAILY IaR HEEL 3 e Daily raar Heel 'J Th ofT.rlol rewpnpr of th Publication Hoard of the University of North ."nrolln.i, Chuprj Kill, wlirre it U iwud dsilv during t.c regular ins ff -the I'mvi.' ify by liio Colonel I'lC., Inc., -:r-pt Monday, examination, and ticVitio'i ptukJh. nnd the fiinrwr teirri';. I.ntered as Mrond -class matter ii tlie pt ott.ee of t nafif-l Kill, .N. C, under the act ot March 3, 18. Sub cr.'ptj.)n piU c: 3 fi per er, sri.Wi per quarter. Mender of The Associated I'r'-t. The Aocf?itd Pre"! and AP feature are exclusively entitled to the . W rrpuMntiori of all rewn ieatures i.ublivhed herein. ril.iur .. Manntnuii h.diUrr hrin f.ditor Ie,k Etl'tor S'v-ietif Editor ... f'ttti'imnhrr ........ f(ov Parker. Jr. . ... . Znrte Hob bin Caroline limner Jir- MilJ lAtttrruil Htnfl: JitK. IIiokii, faiil kciian, Mike iwlcUarnel, Tom WParton, fh.irlie Oifsvm. Joe seykar a. Vestal Taylor, Al Johnson. Charlie Joyner. Dave S Tii r pe . 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The Beast and the Gadfly (Reprinted from the Cavalier Daily, University of Virginia) The Associated Press's current subsidization poll is re vealing more than the fact that all but five colleges in the country are willing to say they "comply" with the NCAA purity code. Between the lines, the poll reveals an alarming epidemic of deafness and failing eyesight among presidents of colleges with successful football teams. Question two of the AP poll asked: "Do your alumni subsidize athletes privately, with or without the knowledge of the university?" Twirling the tuning knob on his sono tone, Michigan's president Alexander G. Ruthven answered, "If our alumni subsidies athletes . . . , it is without our knowledge." Peering through his thick dark glasses, Chan cellor It. B. House of the University of North Carolina an swered, "I cannot say authoritatively what our alumni do privately." Like the monkeys in the fable, these gentlemen prefer to see no evil and hear no evil. Speaking to the Associated Press, they quite naturally proceed one step further and speak no evil. Turning their backs briefly while the school's star halfback' flashes by in a convertible, presidents from coast to coast are telling the press that "to the best of my knowledge our school complies." ' On first glance, this mass educational hypocricy might seem to cminate from the university administrations. Ac tually the fault is in the code, with which any administration can rnmnlv mrrrlv hv tinvinrr it is rnmnlvincr Tnstparl nf r j . . - - - . j 1- r-j o- halting the spread of commercialism, the so-called Sanity Code has thrown over it a blanket of hypocricy, leaving the commercialism officially undetectable and the hypocricy fo widespread and "practical" that it is accepted common practice. Virginia's refusal to be "practical" has left her in a praiseworthy but perilous position. She was alone in stating tt f i i u . -i. , i that the University cant supply real jobs to its scholarship athletes and won't ask them. to engage in the dishonesty of, mythical ones. That is praiseworthy. Yet too many fine institutions have taken advantages of the loopholes in the Code for Virginia to stand apart and thumb her nose at the , , , ,, . . ., rest of the world. That is perilous. Therefore, the University's determination not to follow the Citadel out of the NCAA, but to remain within the N framework of the organization is valuable both for the Uni- versity and for the NCAA. By staying around and asking cmbarassing questions, Virginia can keep the Association uncomfortably aware of the long-run unworkability of its existing attitude. Like Socrates' gadfly, Virginia can do the slumbering NCAA a signal service by consistently nip ping at its complacent flanks. Someday the beast may move. In the meantime, we expect to keep hearing the Univer sity maligned as the black sheep of the told in the fold but none the less black. .NCAA president Hugh Willett, for example, asked yesterday, "What wrong with Virginia? . . . Other schools have made great sacrifices to comply." We think we can give Mr. Willett an answer. There is nothing wrong with Virginia, so long as the sacrifices she makes to comply don't include saying that she's doing something which she isn't. Her refusal to make that par ticular sacrifice shows that there is something decidedly right about Virginia. r ' - 8,Vt.:- A Editor: May I &ik your indulgence in printing the enclosed letter, complete with heading, in your College paper. Since Lee's death, wr have been co-operating, with several organizations, trying to spread the information of the work they are doing to insure afety on our roads due to carek?s driving. Mr. Hughes, of the National Safety Council has given m? pennission to have this letter printed wherever it will do good. So I feel that every student and evt-ry faculty member should have the opportunity of absorbing this vital information, inuarnuch a the accident to Lee (tcurred At Chapel Hill where Lee was a member of the grad uate school of the University. I ninrerely hope that some thing aLrc-vdy has been done by the University to right this wronfi. Nothing , will bring nur son back . to us, but, at lca.s-t we should help to mako drivers of cars more responsible. Will you please send me . a cfy "Tar Hctl" when- this letter is printed. MAjiK B. Knrwls DICK JENHEITE C. P.. MV.NDENHALL, ..... ClIL'tK KAIISF.R ... . TAYI.GR vaden Ada. 1iumuer Oliver Watklns. Bun. Office Mgr. . F.d Williams hat'l Adv. Jkdr. June Crockett Lefer From Lee Knowles Mother Dear Mrs. Knowles: It is impossible for me to ex press an adequate reply to your letter of January 28, telling us about the loss of your son. The accident which took his life was another of the thousands of needless traffic accidents which occur annually. In accident prevention, the general public does not seem to have the degree of interest that it has in preventive medicine. The following remarks of Dr. Ned H. Dearborn, President of the National Safety Council, ex presses the point of view of the Council: "You (people generally) sup , port preventive medicine and public health measures in other fields. You quarantine,' vacci nate, and inoculate against small pox and a host of other dread communicable diseases. "You protect your children against polio. Why, in the name of all you hold dear, don't you rise up in righteous wrath about your appalling traffic re cord and demand protection against the careless, the show off, the . discourteous, and the drunk drivers even if it is pro tection against yourself some times. You can . demand and have protection for yourselves How To Make An H-Bomb Today we are going to put aside all high-pressure theology and do something constructive instead we are going to build a Hell Bomb. Then we shall be able to play 'Extermination." Making the bomb itself is child's play. Just take a wee pinch of 'Hydrogen Three, a pinch of Hydrogen One, and heat in a double boiler to 800,000 degrees centigrade. That's all. No fuss, no secrets. The helium atoms you get,, and the billions of electron volts of energy are just what you need for "extermination." To fully appreciate the possi bilities of "extermination," we shall have to look at the history of this half century. Our wars have dwarfed everything of re corded history for sheer brutal ity and deadliness. We have killed off as much humanity as the preceding thousand years of history did. Numerically, we have collectively murdered the entire population of the United States, one-seventh of mankind, in wars that have been waged inside fifty years. " All of this was by non alomic means. We had noth ing belter than "block bust ers," destroying a few hun dred square yards at a lime. The first plulonium bomb was roughly a thousand limes as powerful as a block busier. And it contained only a few pounds of explosives the fool thing goes off automatically if you make them loo big. Whai's more. Ihe first plulon ium bomb released only one Ihousandlh of its theoretical energy there is definite room for improvement here. Now you can see the possi- bilities of "Extermination." If methocf A kills off one-seventh of humanity in fifty years, how long will it take method B, one thousand times as powerful, to complete the '"Extermination?" And now we come to the Hydrogen Bomb, variously rat- ed at eight to one thousand ;imes as powerful as the Plu- tonium Bomb. It has an enor- mous advantage in it can be made just as big as we want, and it won't go off until we are ready. Our magnificent mass Production techniques will bring their cost down to a reasonable leveL Last weekj four atomic scientists stated that 500 tons would be sufficient for com- plete "Extermination." Finally, not a single cause of modern wars has vanished from the scene. Nationalism, militar ism, the struggle for markets, all these forces are increasing in every country, America in cluded. Nationalism begets na tionalismj and rearmament be gets rearmament. No country will give the moral leadership in breaking out of the vicious circle. And all our cultures have reached that point of decay which Toynbee notes, where in challenges to their very exist ence fail to evoke any creative response within them. Thai will be enough history for a background now we will play "Extermination." and your loved ones if you really want it. "Your leaders in traffic safety know whart is needed but with out vigoorus support from you, the citizens, they are beating out their brains against a brick wall. "What can you do? Well you can demand passage of the Uni- form Motor Vehicle Code; an increase in the personnel of your state patrol; higher stand ards in the licensing of drivers, requirements for car inspection; better highway engineering; and organized support through state and local safety councils." Dr. Dearborn has said here that the National Safety Coun cil, with the limited funds made available to us; other, lo cal, state and national organi ations active in accident pre vention; and local, state and na tional officials can do every thing within their power to conserve human lives but. we shall continue to kilL , unneces sarily, more than -30,000 persons annually on our streets and highways unless, and until all of us decide that it rnust stop. , There are signs of growing interest Two President's Con ferences. on Highway , Safety have been held and followed by a number of Governor's Cftn- 'Half . :'i'A . Jj jiaw ...jni Dip""1 " v i business t yffrxmQv Distributed by Kin. Feature Syndics' fcr amenient with Tha Waahington Star The Washington Merry WASHINGTON President Truman hasn't found the right mafi for Atomic Energy Com- mission chairman yet, but he did tell a White-. House visitor recently just what he's looking for. "I want a chairman who can sweep the commission out," Truman said, "and if need be knock some heads together. He'll have to have a tough hide, too." ' "Perhaps, what I need is to borrow Louis Johnson from the . Pentagon," he added. The president revealed he had considered naming Commission er Lewis Strauss as ' chairman, but finally decided to bring in a new figure not involved in i the bitter, backstage quarrels inside the commission. While House Personnel As sistant Don Dawson and John -Sleelman have urged the ap pointment of Gordon Dean, a comparatively new commis-. sioner. as acting chairman during the tidying -up period. ' Dean was one of those who lined up with Strauss against outgoing Chairman David Lilienthal; While John L. Lewis and the coal operators were making faces at each other regarding the coal strike, they have stuck together in a friendly partner ship backstage over one phase of the coal industry. They have ferences. Magazine and news paper articles on the subject -have been very numerous of late, the radio has been very generous in its appeal, and school . administrators have indi cated a greater desire to fit a program of safety into the work pf the schools. The Council encourages and 'provides information for these appeals, we work with civic and official agencies, we exert ev ery possible influence to correct the situation. We know that first we need to have everyone be a good citizen as well as a good driver while he is behind the steering wheel of an automobile. We al so know that such will not be possible for all. In those cases, probably, the only answer is a set of. restrictibns which will not permit them to jeopardize their own lives and the lives of others.. For the first, we are doing everything possible to make the general public aware of their responsibilities as drivers. The second action, which all of us hope should not be neces sary, is something that all citi zens must determine. - Sincerely yours, Wayxw P. Hughes, Director School and Colle- Dl virion- A Loaf Is Belter Thaii -By Drew Pearson . worked hand-in-glove to block the extension , of natural gas pipelines into New England. The battle they have been fighting comes to a head with a hearing before the Federal Power Commission this week, and with it will be decided two other important factors. They are: '. 1) Will New England, which has been losing industry to the South because, of high costs, now get the : benefit of cheap gas rates? 2) How will Nelson Lee Smith, , chairman of Ihe Fed eral Power Commission, vole? A resident of New Hampshire, Smith will be caught between his desire to help New England industry and conservative Republicans whom he does not want to antagonize al a time when he 'is about to come up for re ; appointment. . Ever since the Senate refused to confirm his old enemy, Ice land Olds, last year, Chairman Smith has been leading a pleas ant life. . But beginning next Tuesday, with the hearing on the New England gas pipeline, Smith's happiness vanishes. So far, most northern areas in the United States have suc ceeded in breaking down John L. Lewis-coal operator opposi tion to natural gas pipelines. But not New England. When Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., now serving upper New York State, applied to extend its pipeline into New England, it was opposed every step of the way by Boston Consoli dated, the huge utility which supplies manufactured gas to Greater Boston. And for a very good reason. Boston Consolidated is owned by Eastern Gas and Fuel As sociates, which in turn is owned by Koppers of Pitts burgh, which in turn is a pari of the great Andrew W. Mel lon industrial empire. Kop pers is in the coal and coke business, and if cheap natural gas came to Boston it would have to junk its manufactur ing plant there and lose its chemical sales. So Eastern Gas and Fuel, ap pearing before the Federal' Power Commission as early as two years ago, bluntly opposed natural gas pipelines for New England on the ground that these would hurt the coal busi ness,. More recently, however, Mel Ions eastern gas and fuel has adopted the strategy of "if you can't lick 'em, join 'em." So it has formed its - own pipeline company, "Algonquin," and has quickly applied to the ' Federal Power Crrunission for a license tb run a pipelint 1 into New England; ' . ' ' This is the- isswe which un happy" Chairman Smith and the Federal Power Commission None' - Go - Round must decide beginning Tuesday whether to give a license to the Mellon interests, or to the-Tennessee- firm which has been joined by many small New England independent gas com panies, or whether to give no license at all. One reason you don't hear much from Prof. Albert Ein stein about ihe hydrogen bomb is that some of his col leagues at ihe Institute for Advanced Study in Princeion, N. J., think he has had loo much publicity in ihe past. Some of the jealous profes sors of the Institute fear that it' will be identified with Einstein and nobody else. So they are trying to button him up. This suits Einstein perfectly, for he doesn't relish talking to inquiring- newsmen about bombs. He would rather talk to a little girl about her arithme tic problems. One day, eight-year-old Ade laide Delong, who lived near the Einsteins on Princeton's Mercer Street, came home late from school. Her mother, Mrs. Edward S. Delong, asked where - she had been. "I stopped to see Einstein," said Adelaide. "Do you mean Dr. Einstein?" said Mrs. Delong. "Yes, but I called him - Ein stein: that's what you call him, and I gave him a piece of . my chocolate fudge." "But why --did -you stop there?" ' r . "J. '. "I had to have some help with my arithmetic. He knows a lot more than you -do, mommy." thai was just ihe begin ning. Adelaide's calls al the Einstein home became quite regular, and over a period of time she brought home quiie a collection of Russian dolls, china toys and other gifts of ihe great seer. Fact of the matter is that Einstein is so alone that he grows lonely, and he welcomed a visit by a little girl offering a piece of fudge in her warm hand. It was the backstage, inter vention of a White House ad viser supposed to protect little business that kept alive the bill to legalize the basing-point system so ardently favored by Big Business. Dr. John D. Clark, of the President' Council of Economic Advisers, was the man who stepped in. The system he hopes to legalr ize would permit . a steel com pany to charge the same price 1,000 miles away .as it charges 10 miles away. This was out lawed by the Supreme Court as s a violation of the anti-trust laws. CPU Roundtable Segregation By Georgia Fox In recent years attention has been focused on the practice in certain states of segregation in their educational institutions: This has been brought out.' par ticularly kn the state universi ties, by a number 6f court cases, in which the defendant usually had been denied admission to the state university for some specialized courses not offered at Negro institutions within the state. For xample, Missouri main tained separate institutions for Negroes; and for those desiring and qualified to take courses not offered at Lincoln Univer sity, the Negro school, the state provided tuition in out-of-state universities. Law was not one of the specialized courses offer ed at Lincoln, and a properly qualified Negro sought admis sion to the University of Mis souri Law School. He was refused, and his at tention was -called to the ar rangement under which his tui- tion would be paid in a nearby state. The Negro claimed that the University of Missouri, in not admitting him, was denying him equal protection of the laws, provided for in the four teenth amendment to the Unit . ed States Constitution. This case of Missouri ex rel. Gaines vs. Canada reached the United States Supreme Court, where the decision supported the defendant on the grounds that, by the operation of the , laws of Missouri, a privilege had been created for white stu dents which had been denied Negroes because of their race. The limited demand for a law school for Negroes was judged to be no excuse "for the situa-." tion; and as a result the state of Missouri proceeded, at a con siderable expense, to establish professional courses at Lincoln University, which are probably not on the same level of excel lence as those at the University of Missouri. Two of ihe problems raised by solutions of this type, pro viding separate but equal fa cilities for Negroes, are thai ihis cannot be done without 1) either going io a great ex pense which few, states can . afford, or 2) not actually pro viding ihe equal facilities called for. This latter problem is especially evident in ihe case of graduate and profes sional schools. In connection with ihis ii might be interesting io note thai ihere are no Negro col leges in the Souih which -of-'fer a Ph.D. degree although many offer a Master's. The HORIZONTAL 1. extinct pigeon 5. short visit 9. vim ' ( colloq.) 12. avow 13. space 14. native metal ; 15. slam 16. diffuse' IS. a continent 20. bury 21. dwarf 24. Prussian ruler 25. sesame 26. dn-ision of time 29. timers ."2. poker stake .'A. female ruff ::5. weary Ofi. American O.iplomat "7. annoys 119. decimal unit 40. prefix: between 42. allayed ' 44. the poplar 46. above. 4S animal vegetable tnzyme 50. portent 54. Australian ostrich 55. otherwise 56. female horse 57. constellation 58. European river basin 59. altar end of church I 12 13 4- 5 6 7 $ Vflft jo lit !iiiili:ziii IS 16 17 PppTTi9 pzo" Jr-ii! iii : z2: Zv 1o ggS7 58 S9 .. . J, . . -v-v . , , Mil40 M 44 45 " " 47 rrrwiA 1 1- fil 1 Answer to yesterday's puzzle. PALsfjLAlcl iMlAlrSl X. a r a L 0 kT fT uli A JLp"tf if AIAIiJTic? 1. H I G Y H T Ttf iMj.jfcurn? I ft Attributed try King tin,, of In Education majority of cases in ihe last few years have been ihe re sult of ihe inadequacy on ihe pari of the Negro institutions in ihe South., Io another case, that of Sip uel vs. University of Oklahoma, a Negro having been refused admission to the University of 4 Oklahoma Law School took his plea to court and obtained a decision similar to that in the previous case in Missouri. How ever in this case the state of Oklahoma chose to admit the Negro on a segregated basis, sitting in another room in class: and this was subsequently ruled against in the Federal Court. A recent development has been that the State Bird of Regents requested the Oklahoma State Legislature to modify its segregations laws to permit en rollment of Negro students in the graduate and professional schools of the State University. Interest has been facused re cently on the petition of Esther McCready, a Negro citizen of the state of Maryland, seeking admission to the University of Maryland School of Nursing in the absence of other available facilities within the state, Mary land previous to this had enter ed into agreement with other Southern states to provide for a regional plan for higher edu cation. Under this plan it was pro posed that the states involved should improve and expand available educational opportuni ties for the training of all the youth of the South and under which plan facilities not avail able within a certain state might be found in a neighboring state. In Esther McCready's case, however, the facilities desired by her were to be found in 'the state of Maryland for Whita students ; but the state had made arrangements, under the regional plan, for her to obtain training in nursing at Maryland Medical College, an accredited school of nursing in Nashville, Tennessee. It might be observed in this case, still being appealed, that the idea of the regional plan is to supplement facilities within the state, not to serve as a legal defense for avoiding responsibi lities established under the ex isting State and Federal laws 'and court decisions. A' lot will depend on Negro White in all states concerned. 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