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THURSDAY, OCTOEER 5, 1950
A Policeman's Lot
The Editor's Mailbo
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The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is published daily during the regular
sessions of the University- at the Colonial Press. Inc. except Mondays,
examination and vacation periods and dui'ng the official summer terms when
published semi-weekly. Entered as second class matter at the Pbst Office of
Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3, 1873. Subscript?-m price: $8 per
year. $3 per quarter. Member of the Associated Press, which is exclusively
entitled to the use for repubheatoh of all news and features herein. Opinions
expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of this newspaper.
.. CHUCK HAUSER. DICK JF.NRETTE
ED WILLIAMS
.'.....;... ROLFE NEILL
-"' ZANE ROBBINS
Co-litors
Business Mnaager
Managing Editor
Sports Editor ...........
Neal Cadieu. Adv. Mgr. Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mgr.
Oliver Watkins. Office Mgr. Bill Saddler. Subs. Mgr.
Staff Photographer . - Jim Mills. Cornell Wright
Hews staff: Don Maynard, Andy Taylor. Faye Massengill. Walt Dear. Nancy
Burgess. Edd Davis. John Noble. Barrett Boulware. Stanley Smith, Billy
Grimes. '
Sports staff: Frank Allston. Jr., Joe Cherry, Lew Chapman. Art Greenbaum.
Biff Roberts. Harvey Ritch. Bill Peacock, Ken Barton.
Business staff-r Tate Erwin. Bootsy Taylor. Marie Withers. Charles Ashworth.
SOCIETY STAFF .
EDITORS Fave Masenffill
ASSOCIATE''EmTdR"3.T'"Z" - ,-Nancy Burgess
REPORTERS Evelyn Wright, Margie Story. Marvel Stokes. Sar
ah Gobbel. Lula Oveiton, Nancy Bates. Helen Boone and Jimmy Foust.
Sorority Rush Problems
A story Appearing on the back page of yesterday's Daily
Tar Heel -set us,' and apparently many Carolina women stu
dents, to thinking. It dealt with the problem of girls who
wished to pledge a sorority but were not extended a bid. This
year, as has been the case in most years, there are a great
many very fine girls on this campus who were unable to join
a sorority, either because of the quota system on sorority
membership or because there are only five sororities for
nearly 700 girls. - ' '
With a quota of 55 girls per sorority, only about 40 per
cent of the women students at Carolina can be sorority mem
bers. It certainly would be inadvisable to junk this quota
system on membership, as conceivably some sorority might
dominate rushing completely, year after year, leaving" the
sorority system as a whole in a weakened state, with only
one really strong house. However, it does seem that some
thing should be done to make the advantages of sorority life,
if such they, be, available to more girls.
The obvious answer would be to permit another sorority
to come on the Carolina campus. The girls are all for this.
An analysis of the results of this past rushing season indicates
that the present five sororities now are on a reasonably
equal footing, and competition between the five is strong.
Thus now would seem an opportune time to consider grant
ing a charter to a new sorority.
This fall only one sorority met its quota of girls, and thus
a few more coeds undoubtedly, will be asked- to pledge be
fore the year is out. Informal rushing will be held by all
sororities two weeks from Monday.
Coeds who were not asked to join should not take a dim
view of their life at Carolina. Some of the most popular
and hard-working girls are non-sorority. They have just
as good a time during their college stay and accrue just as
many benefits from being in Chapel Hill's distinctly college
atmosphere. ,-. . '
Assuming there are no major complaints against sororities
at Carolina, some serious thinking should be done along
lines of permitting a new group to come on campus. If we are
to have sororities then there should be enough of them to
permit a, larger number of coeds to be pledged each year.
Unremovable Smudge
-A Carolina student who is a sophomore this year brought
us -a letter yesterday that he said he'd like us to reprint. The
letter had been mailed to him by his father one year before,
when the student was a freshman just starting on his four
year cycle at Carolina.
Here's what the father wrote:
"As a freshman at Chapel Hill you will soon begin to
realize that Tar Heel is something more than just a nick
name for students at the University of North Carolina and
the citizens of that state. As Old .Glory stands for more than
a colored rag, but is the flag of our nation's hope and ideals,
so the label of Tar Heel means that a man is imbued with
the finest principles of honor and loyalty, courage and liberty,
which are the essence of the great South.
''When you hear the Rebel yell, you hear the true voice of
America today, and every understanding Yankee knows that
the devotion and the spirit of the South contribute nobly to
the character of the United States." ,
The man who wrote those words is what we call a Yankee.
But we couldn't quite bring ourselves to brand him a Dam
yankee. It makes us proud to read a tribute like that from a man
who does not live in the South. We have long thought this
state was the progressive leader of the New South and this
University the cultural and educational center of all of Dixie.
But whenever we get too swell-headed about North Caro
lina, the University, and the students we associate with, we
just wander down by the Bell Tower, or Kenan Stadium, or
the State College campus in Raleigh, and glance at the marks
which, represent a black eye for this school and two others
close by. ' .
A sand-blaster can't remove a smudge from peoples'
minds. . '
Newspaper Thefts
A situation which unfortunately has been almost chronic
in Lenoir Hair for the past few years has crept up again. It
seems that students are literally "stealing" newspapers by
the wholesale from the GI student who has a stand in the
campus dining hall. -
"There have been instances in. the past in which students
have been brought before the Honor Council for taking
papers without leaving money, and it looks like there are
still quite a few students who are guilty of stealing a news
paper. The situation has become so bad this year that the stand
owner is wondering if perhaps the current freshman class
thinks the papers are free. At any rate they are. dissappear
ing in wholesale quantities. Under our honor system each
student is obligated to turn in any person he sees stealing.
Apparently there are quite a few "blind" students milling
around the Lenoir Hall lobby, then.
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There are many reasons for
UNC's inferior . academic status.
As a state university, Carolina
cannot select its students as
carefully as private institutions.
Purportedly, Carolina's object
ive is to provide higher edu
cation for every Tar Heel who
thinks he wants it. This ob- .
jective is right in line with the
modern idea of education, for
the masses.
Unfortunately, the doar is
wide cpeft for the kind of stu
dents who can or will learn
nothing. And the loose adminis
tration of ourv academic affairs
permits such students to stay.
Some students deserve to be
here. They are the ones who
come to learn and are willing
to work to. fit themselves better
to the job of contributing some
thing to the society in which
they live.
But to many students Car
olina means Confederate flags,
beer at the Rathskeller, a
thousand and one campus ac
tivities, partying and football.
There is so much to do and so
fsw restrictions on doing it that
education gets' lost in the rush.
This bunch of irresponsible
idiots looks upon Carolina as a
kind of super-deluxe four-year
summer camp. And they make it
tough for the few who are here
with a purpose other than fun.
The way is paved for any
North Carolinian haying an ac
credited high school diploma and
moderate tuition.
Scholastic standards are les
than they should be. They are
less because the average stu
dent admitted to UNC couldn't
pass four years of college study
if they were any higher.
In other words, if the schol
astic standards were raised any
appreciable extent, half the
students would flunk out.
Those flunking out would in
clude the mentally incapable,
the ones unwilling to do the
necessary work, and the ones
who endure the present grind
only in order to -enjoy the so
cial pleasures of the campUs.
Those left would be much
better off.
The popular concept of col
lege is convenient to most of us.
Higher education is a mixture
of school spirit, student citizen
ship and social growth. Add just
enough education to use ss an
excuse for being here.
We learn early to bitch about
hard courses and worry about
class schedules. The bright boys
waste no time finding the easy
courses and how to get classes
at the right hours.
Most students and some fac
ulty members display a mild
contempt for the studious ones
who keep up with their assign
msnts, know the answers in class
and turn in "A" papers. Why,
, anyone should know that "A"
students are in a rut and that
"C" students get that "all
round" education!
: Nuts. i
That's why most of us won't
know any more with an A.B.
than we do now.
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Snook Against Religion?
Editor:
I should like to quote in -regard to the -articles of Mr. Snook
concerning religion this phrase from "A Vindication of Natural
Society" by Edmund Burke.:. ; ; ; . f , u ; , : -. '
"The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every sys
tem, are wisely carefuheyer. to.setjup any of , their own."
; -m . . . ' ' John M. Schnorrenberg.
Comments From A Reader
Editor: - '
In answer to your plea the other day for comments about The
Daily Tar Heel: '
I like the paper in general' very much; I usually disagree with
Harry Snook; and if you add any other comic strip besides Steve
Canyon I think I shall transfer to Duke.
Keep up the good work.
Name withheld by request
Rolling Stones
by Don Maynard
4 fini
Tar Heel At Large
by Robert Ruark7 '35
On Campus
If you don't think Carolinians
are superstitious, you should
have watcheti the crowds go by
a downtown store the other day.
Two ladders were leaning up
against the building top and
their bases jutted far out onto
the sidewalk. During a 15-min-ute
period we counted three
people who knowingly walked
under them. And about three
thousand created a minor traffic
jam to get around them.
'f here's a ladder leaning up
against the east side of the Al
pha Gam Sorority house which
seems ideal for an elopement.
We wonder if. . .
When the Phi Delts enter
tained the Chi O's with a buffet
supper the other night, a strap
ping young man from .N. J. got
a huge package delivered about
meal time. .
Ornately wrapped, it was from
a gal in a rival sorority and
contained a large bunch of
chrysanthemums.
The flowers, dead and wither
ed, looked like- holdovers from
the 1948 rushing season.
We have been making a big political thing
in New York of a cleanup in an evidently graft
ridden police department, with bookmakers sing
ing merrily, cops being called on the carpet, a
new police commissioner being appointed, and
even Gov. Dewey sliding into the act' for what
ever political benefits may be gleaned thereby.
It is the kind of circus that the city loves
dramatic headlines daily, new developments
every hour on the hour, and finally, the kind of
robust hassel which builds potential governors,
mayors, and even Presidents. Dewey got his shot
at immortality from a sensational prcsecution,
as did Senor William O'Dwyer, now South of
the border.
But the current big breast-beating has no
Lucky Luciano or Jimmy Hines or Lepke Buch
alter to hanj a conclusive rap on. Not yet, any--how.
No big pigeon has fluttered out of the Grand '
Jury chambers. Our new cop chieftain, Thomas
Murphy, is an able, honest man, but he is up
against a practically insoluble set of circum
stances. You can't definitely stop corruption of police
and politicos by gambling combines for many
basic reasons. One is that people will always
gamble, u; to 30 billions a year worth, and so
long as there are gamblers there will be gamb
ling combines to accommodate them
Being illegal operators, bookies have to have
protection. "Protection comes on two levels, very
low and very high. The cop on the beat gets
his five-spot. Who knows what the lieutenant
and the captain and the inspector gets? Who
knows the size of the Christmas present to the
really bis official? Who knows the amount of
kick-in to the campaign fund? '
Until something is done about chain-of-com-,
mand nobody will ever be able, to swab up a
rotten relationship between crook and official.
The private can't take without the sergeant's
knowledge and permission. The sergeant must
operate under the lieutenant, and the lieutenant
under the captain, and so on up the line until
you reach into the vitals of your local and even
national government. Everyone on a crooked
take operation must be strictly in cahoots, be
cause one honest link in the chain is a danger
to the takers.
Another fiat guarantee that nothing very
murh can be done about cop-bookie collusion is
vested in the old and creaky system of punish
ment that has always kept a police force cynical.
You rarely fire a cop when you catch him steal
ing or rather, when expediency demands that
somebody take a fall to satisfy the righteous.
What you do is transfer him. and ""demon
him, and then, when the heat dies, quietly re
store his rank and movp him back to a fruitful
beat. In the last year O'Dwyer transferred whole
precincts of officials as a reprimand, with all
the force-and practicality of removing a dollar -from
one pocket and putting it in the other.
The boys went riiht on doing business. They
merely swapped locales.
It is physically impossible to enforce honesty
of individuals in any large town, so long as there
is the possibility of topside corruption. The boys
cover up for each other, and the honest lads find
themselves walking a bleak beat -in Canarsie.
I admire the nobility, of aim in our current
crusade against wickedness, but am cynical about
the chances for practical success. So long as
horses run there will be bookmakers, and so
long as there are bookmakers there will be
corruption among the cops and politicians. People
are built that way.
It seems we'll never get this
Thanksgiving question settled,
but University officials are wait-
ing for Truman to set the date
change the date published in the
catalog from Nov. 30. to Nov. 23.
That's a relief. Who ever heard
of having two holidays in De
cember? Old news is still good
news, isn't it?
But as one wag in South
Building put it: "We almost up
set all the planning last Satur
day. If the Tar Heels had beaten
T--.4r ro-io iron can bt vour
life Thanksgiving would -have
cuiiie tony. '
Th's column a left-over of
"Odds 'n Ends" of some many
moons ago, and the net result
of someone having the convic
tion that we can write a column,
carries the title of "Rolling
Stones." Perhaps some will
think it .more aptly entitled
"Brickbats," appropos of nothing
more than the famous Carolina
walks, and some others won't
even think of thinking about the
title.
However, "Rolling Stones" it
shall be. It's been done before,
and no doubt O. Henry . would
roll under his tombstone if he
caught sight of his inspiration
being mauled so.
The first topic on the agenda
for this edition, children, shall
be a -discussion of , fraternity
rushing, that active members'
"Hell Week", starting Sunday.
One thing that's, been on our
mind for some time "s the pre
mature rushing that gos on
every year. We're all for the so-
called "deferred rushing" sys
tem, whereby the fraternities
have a chance to look over tht-ir
prospective brothers more thor
oughly. Even more important,
those grades which have been
pulling down some of the chap
ters could be eliminated to .some
extent if the new men were
given a quarter to prove them
selves. And yet, there seems to be a
feeling around campus that the
pledges are absolutely necessary
if a fraternity is to prolong its
existence, so close to the win
do they operate and so badly
do-they need the funds ushered
into the " chapter treasury by
pledge fees.
But, the die is cast for an
; other year, and maybe some of
us will live to see the day of
winter quarter rushing. It wculJ
be nice to take a breath Le
' tween moving into school, buy
ing books, and that hectic one
week of "Hey, how're you?" an. I
". . . did you say you knew. . ."
Just as a reminder this week,
until Sunday, Oct. 8, at 7:30, is
a modified silence period. Which
means that no fraternity man
may speak to a new man; that
is, freshman, transfer student
or anyone who has not been
through a formal rush period.
t The penalty is severe: pled
ing and initiation privileges
lost to a fraternity for 12 months,
and loss of the $50 bond posted
with the IFC. Rushee violators
stand to lose their right to
pledge for no more than six
months.
World Or US. Citizen?
by Garv Davis
written for United Press
(On May 25, 194S, Garry Davis formally re
nounced his U. S. citizenship in Paris to dram
atize the principle of one world. On Sept. 22, ,
1950, the 28-year-old Air Force veteran reapplied
for his United States citizenship. In the follow
ing exclusive article, he tells why. Ed.)
On Sept. 22, I wrote to the . honorable J.
Howard McGrath, Attorney-General of the
United States for reinstatement of my, United
States citizenship which I renounced in May
of 1948. i
I gave as my reasons for the renunciation my
wish to dramatize jthe principle of ."world citizen
ship and one wor'd. I gave as my reasons for
wishing reinstatement of United States citizen
ship my wish to share as an American citizen in
the defense of human rights which I consider
the responsibility of evei'y American.
At no time during my work in Europe was my
loyalty to my homeland questioned. My home
land is pnrt of the world territory." It is included
in my belief.- '
Last April I returned home as 'an ammigrant
under thi French-quota. When the Korean inci
dent started, not knowing exactly what course I
should follow as a world citizen, I left for Haiti
for a period of reflection and to complete my
book "Credo." ''
There I realized that it was not America alone
which was involved in the Korean matter but
the United Nations itself with whose principles
I am in complete accord. And so I saw that my
"protest" as such was a mistake. It was with
joy that on Sept. 15 I returned home.
It was thus that I felt -1 could rightfully ask
for reinstatement of my former citizenship. For
one thing I did not feel I had the right to enjoy
the privileges of being a resident of the Unfted
States without assuming the burdens of citizen
ship. -
I anticipated that many would regard my -request
as a denial of my belief in one world
and world citizenship. Many would envision me
craw'ing back to the fold, defeated and bitter.
Neither are true. My beliefs have never been
stronger. I feel neither defeated nor bitter. Quite
the contrary.
Every American has the duty to defend with
all the power at his command the basic human
rights without which United States citizenship
or any citizenship whether local or worldly vould
'be a mere shell covering the rottenness of dic
tatorship. T know now that if I am reinstated as an
.American citizen I shall feel it my -bounden duty
tc defend and maintain the" basic human rights
which alone can mean a better world for all.
If the Attorney-General does , not grant my
request I shall fully understand and intend to
go through the, usual-channels to regain my
citizenship. - .
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