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f" TUESDAY FEBRUARY 13, 1951
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Editor
Business Manager
Managing Editor ..
Associate Editor ...
Sports Editor
... ROY PARKER. JR.
ED WII..LIA1MS
CHUCK HAUSER
DON MAYNARD
- ZAKE ROBBINS
Andy Taylor. A'eu-s Editor
Frank Allston. Jr.. Assoc. Svts. Ed.
Fay. Massengill, Society Editor
ane-y Burgess. Assoc. Soc. Ed.
Neil Cactieu. Ad. Mqr.
Oliver Watkins, Ofhce Mgr.
Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mqr.
Tom McCall, Subs. Mrjr
News staff: Edd Davis. Walt Dear. Barrett Boulware. Mark Waters. Pat
Morse. Peggy Keith, Ann Gowan. Joan Palmer. Peggv Anderson Fletcher
Hollmgs worth. ,
Sports staff : Bill Peacock, Biff Roberts, Art Greenbaum, Ken Barton. Leo
Northart. Ed Starnes. Bill Hughes. Jack Claiborne. Angelo Verdicanno.
Society staff: Franny Sweat. Lu Overton. Lou Daniel. Tmk Gobbel. Helen
JBcooe. .
t, 1. slTiC5S staff - Marie Costello, Marie Withers, Hubert Breeze. Bruce Marger.
Bill Faulkner. Joyce Evans. Beverly Serr, Jim Schenck. Jane Mayrt Jane
Goodman. Betty Lou Jones. Stanley Sturm. Wally Horion.
For This Issue: Night Editor Edd Davis Sports, Ed Starnes
Good Selection Idea
The measure setting up a nonpartisan selection board for
all campus court candidates is the best answer to the selec
tion board problem. It should be considered seriously' and
adopted by the Student Legislature.
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The measure calls for a board composed of the chairman
and two members from the Mervs and Women's Honor Coun
cils and the Student Council. Three members .would be
appointed at-large by the President of the. student body.
The board would consider applications from prospective
candidates. Candidates which the selection board approved
would be eligible to seek nomination from campus political
parties. Disapproved applicants could run independently, but
could not be nominated by political parties.
The measure is expected to get heavy opposition in the
Student Legislature. Mainly this is expected to come from
University Party legislators who are in the majority. The
UP opposes the measure mainly because it puts the Student
Council under the selection board system.
The Council has always been an important proving
ground for possible candidates for the presidency. Further
more, it could be argued, with some validity, that the Council,
whose main function is to decide the constitutionality of
legislation, should reflect the government philosophy of the
prevailing administration, and should therefore be elected
on a purely party basis. The UP has said it was willing to
put the Women's Council under the selection system,, although.
it has not advocated the formal arrangement called for in the
proposed legislation. ? .
The measure, however, would still leave selection of can
didates up to political parties. It simply sets up a system that
is'compatible with the arrangement in the American judicial
system. Lawyers must pass bar exams before practicing and
only lawyers can become judges. The' proposed bill sets up
such an examining board, made up of those who are most
familiar with what a campus judiciary member should know,
but also including three other persons who can consider the
applicants on qualities other than and beyond those on which
council members could be expected to best judge.
The presence of the three non-judicial members of the
proposed selection board would keep the campus judiciary
from becoming a self-continuing group. But the fact that the
three members, and the others on the board, would not be
picked by campus political parties would remove any purely
selfish political decisions by the board. It would be fairer
to both parties if the proposed board were adopted.
Furthermore, the proposed setup would make.it impossible
for political parties to use mud-slinging tactics against judi
ciary candidates of the other parties by making their re
quire nents equal.
There are a few things that must be closely watched under
such a selection board setup, however. Firstly, the board
must set up its qualifications on tests of ability, knowledge,
and pertinent qualities. No political or personal considera
tions should enter into the board's decisions. With no one able
to review its decisions, the board must make sure that it
leans over backwards to keep such considerations out o its
decisions.
All in 1 1 U 1 i i a; . .1
me piupuacu leg ibid Lion 5 a measure xnax will
clear up the inadequacies of the present selection system,
make more fair the consideration of applicants, improve the
quality of court personnel, and keep the election of court
members in the hands of the student body while removing
tmy selfish political shenanigans that could hamstrig popular
selection to the detriment of the court system. "
on the Carolina
FRONT
by Chuck Hauser
Somebody in th German Club
should ;be: fto&ticd and shot at
high noon 'in" the 'Y Court.
The man I mj gunning for is.
the one who was " responsible
for bringing Woody Herman and
his band (?) to the campus for
Fall Germans.
I felt iJuiing: the Herman
weskend that - Woody and his
musical (?) congregation were
about the worst substitute -for a
name band that had ever been
dragged onto the Carolina scene,
but it took the past weekend
and the marvelous music of
rambunctious Ray Anthony to
make me realize how terrible
the Fall Germans really were.
In four years of being a mem
ber of the German Cub, I must
point, out that the Woody Her
man concert was the first one I
ever felt compelled to walk out
on before it was over. I darn
near left ', before the first half
of the outrage had finished be
ing perpetrated, but, I waited
until intermission to run from
Memorial Hall, feeling slightly
sick at my stomach.
I would like like to take this
opportunity, however, to com
pliment each and every mem
ber of the German Club Ex
ecutive Committee for provid
ing us with a terrific weekend
for Mid-Winters.
Anthony's Dixieland is the
finest I have ever heard done
by a modern orchestra, and
stacks up brilliantly with the
Dixieland combo specialists I've
hit in the French Quarter in
New Orleans " . and "' that, in
case you're not familiar with
the New Orleans brand of Dixie
land, is quite a compliment.
When Ray and the boys
marched through the crowds at
Woollen Gym and the aisle of
Memorial Hall trumpeting "The
Saints," . I felt like hopping out
of my seat and marching right
along with them.
And if you think Ray An
thony was great, just wait until
Spring Germans. It hasn't been
. officially announced yet, but the
German Club has signed up
Ralph Flanagan. It ought to be
a dilly.
Chapel Hillian Max Steele,
who got his A.ES. here in 1946
and won the Harper Prize Nov
el Contest with ' his "Debby"
which was published last March,
turned out a masterpiece in
miniature for the December is
sue of Harper's Magazine.
If you locate a copy, pick one
up and read "Promiscuous Un
bound." The story concerns a six-year-old
kid named Mutt, a lost base
ball, a murdered dahlia-raiser,
and a married woman with a
rather questionable reputation.
And it's funny as hell.
Author Steele? a member of
our Chapel Hill writing colony,
has recently taken off for Rome
to study comparative literature,'
work on a second novel, and do
a dramatization of "Debby."
Steele has done most of his
writing here since his gradua
tion in '46, after a three-year
interruption of his studies as an
enlisted man in the Army. Air
Corps.
"In the Army," Harper's tells
us, "he had becoine a weather
observer, by some quirk of fate
and the military order, but ap
parently the meteorological
drama failed to deflect him from
his pre-war bent for the literary
life, which had caused him to
start in on a course of playwrit
ing when he entered the University."
"Yoo Hoo - Hallooooo Hey!"
On Campus
Long Live Weather
Truly, Chapel Hill has the world's greatest climate.
Where else in the here or hereafter could folks be one
day gamboling in that epitome of winter in other words;
snow and the next day sit back and watch spring sun bring
out pleasingly-cjad coeds. One day the sport is snowball
ing and sledding, the next it is sitting and sunning.
1
In other words, this here is a fine place, climate-wise, no
rr. Ht r how much we moan about the weather. If it isn't con
sistent, it is at least pleasantly surprising. It would certainly
be a dull place if the weather acted like it does in some
places. - ;
Long live Chapel Hill weather.
Students of geography were a
little puzzled the other day when
they saw a story in the News
and Observer about those ava
lanches killing so many people
in Europe.
A secondary headline above
the story read:
"Uncounted Numbers Report
ed Missing In Switzerland, Aus
tralia and Italy.','
And another sign, this one in
the men's room. ,,of Ragsdale
Dormitory at I Woman's College
in Greensboro:
"Please flush the toilet after
each using. It cannot be heard
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Tar Heel At Large
by Robert Ruark, '35
If you can dig for the kernel of pressure in
this draft wrangle, which now might lead to
the drafting of childless marrieds in order to give
the 18-year-olds another year of tether to apron
strings, it is spelled Mother. M-O-T-H-E-R.
There is, possibly, no more selfish creature, no
more shortsighted creature living than a mother,
when her male spawn is affected. The fierceness
of her protective instinct brooks little interfer
ence by man or beast. -
This is the seat of the conflict between mother-in-law
and daughter-in-law. Ma has ever re
sented the delivery of her eye's apple to another
woman. Along the same lines she is as jealous
of the armed force that takes her boy from her.
She almost singlehandedly, assisted by a craven
Congress, wrecked our standing forces at the end
of the war, with a shrill insistence that junior .
be returned to her lap.
You will hear no heavy opposition from the
mamas about the drafting of married sons, with
or without children, because Junior is lost to Ma
when he gets married. He is the property of some
other dame, of whom Mama is already jealous,
whether or no she admits the jealousy. She will
hold still for the implied wreckage of a son's
matrimonial estate, and might even be a touch
subconsciously glad to see it wrecked.
The smallest price we can pay in a draft is
a call-up of youths, who have not as yet formed
a firm position in society. An 18-year-old is rare
ly married, rarely established in a home, rarely,
employed seriously. He is as largely free of ob
ligation as he will ever be.
Yet, he is a. man in body, swift of reflex, and
still more amenable to training and less sensi
tive to danger than an adult with responsibilities,
set behavior patterns, and an inculcated caution.
Nor do I believe that 18 is roughly any younger,
physically or mentally, than 19. It is a hobblede
hoy stage that doesn't swerve sharply toward
manhood outside the early 20's.
Audie Murphy, a Country kid of frail physique,
joined the Army at 18. He was under 21 V-E
day. He earned more decorations than any other
soldier, including the highest, the Congressional
Medal. He was promoted to officer in the field.
He is officially credited with killing or capturing
or wounding 240 Germans.
If Murphy was atypical as a candidate for dis
tinction, it was because he was much frailer
than the average G.I., and his life prior to enlist
ment at 18 had been almost entirely devoid of
sufficient cultural influences to place him on a
par with his fellow soldiers. Murph's mama died
when he was 16.
In any case, the squabbling over the difference
in eligibility between the 18's and 19's is sheer
hair-splitting. No Jiving mama is any less eager
to keep a 19-year-old than an 18-year-old. She
simply doesn't want to lose her lad at all, to an
other woman or to a war.
The immunity of the 18's, at the expense of
the young marrieds, veterans, or non-vets with
dependents, would seem to me to be a horrid in
justice to American family life in the mass, and
this is one instance when the mama lobby ought
to haul in its horns.
More
From The Mailbox
'A Traditional Attitude Of Prejudice7
Editor:
Prejudice! Segregation! Two powerful and
strong meaning words, and both jvery definitely
exist as far as the Negro problen is concerned.
But, why should there be a problem? Are Ne
groes not human beings who should under the
Constitution of our United States'be entitled to
equal opportunities in life? Did 'riot the Bible
say, "Love thy neighbor?"
The members of the Negro race 'are our neigh
bors but do we acknowledge their rights and
show our love for them? No many don't, for
they have been brought up in .a traditional at
titude of prejudice but, tradition has been brok
en in other matters, so why not do away with
this, the strongest of all prejudice, right now, in
this our generation. I admit it takes time to
overcome anything that is so deeply rooted
but if we all see the way clear and pitch in to
gether, racial prejudice can be non-existant in
our time.
It is deplorable to think of the conditions
tinder which the Negroes right around us here
at Chapel Hill are compelled to live. If you'd
like a small insight on it, drop around at the Y
some Wednesday at 2 o'clock and join the Hu
man Relations Committee on its weekly jour
ney to Damascus. Out on a lonely dirt road
in. the heart of the country you'll be introduced
to conditions you might have thought existed only
in story books but believe me, they're real!
Out there on that lonely road is a little red
E?11? joomjschoolhouse .occupied by 27
darling little, children from seven to fourteen
years old, and their charming teacher, Mrs. Hol
laway. There is no electricity and the room is
heated by a pot-belly stove in the center. A
small house is conveniently situated at the rear
of the building. The children come from the ad
joining countryside, some having to hike a good
two miles every day to school.
It is evident that these children will not have
an opportunity to continue their education for
as I said before, the eldest is 14, a girl, and the
eldest boy is a bit younger. Just where are the
older children? In this case the majority are
destined to spend their lives on a small plot
of land in the country, while in other sections
of the country they will be servants or -work
at slave labor wages. They just don't have a fair
chance to progress. Why shouldn't they have
equal higher educational opportunities? Thev
certainly deserve it! I think that anyone willing
to walk four miles every day to go to schoolde
serves only the best m education - and life
don't you?
Actually, the Negroes want little more than
equal educational and vocational opportunities
and a feeling of belonging to our present-day
society as a personality not a color oddity. If we
in our generation, gel to know the Negro 'race
through personal associations, I'm sure we will
all after our present mental attitude and accept
them as equal human beings. Remember, the
Bible says, "Love thy neighbor.'! Do you?
. ,r.i:.ui:c. , 'Jane CMeaJcins
The Editor's Maiibo
'Hats Off To Robbins'
Editor: ; . '
Did my eyes deceive me or was that a column by a Uruv
of North Carolina writer praising a Duke basketball player in T
Daily Tar Heeh of Wednesday, Feb. 7.
My hat is off to Sports Editor Zane Robbins on hi.s toi. .
about Dick Groat. If the University is making an effort to be
lts athletic relations with Duke well, I'd say Sports Editor R
bins has, made the biggest step in the right direction that I've
in quite a long while at either institution.
Whattaman Mann of Duke asked me a week ago to writ,.
25rWord quote for him on Groat's greatness. I knew lie was g .
but I didn't' realize he was really great until I heard a Cau l::
man say it.
. More power to Mr. Robbins and The Daily Tar Heel.
Carlton Byrd
Sentinel Sports tdilor
Winston-Salem
Qn The Soap
by Bob Selig
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"The South," said a Northern
friend, "is like a dog. It keeps
dirtying the rug of race rela
tions. Every time that it does,
you must give it a good kick in
the behind. It will finally real
ize that whenever it's naughty,
it will receive a swift kick, and
it will stop dirtying the rug."
"Some day," I said, "this so
called dog will turn around and
" bite you in the leg."
My friend has a common idea
about the South. Harry Tru
man's civil rights program em
bodies this same idea. It will
not work. A social movement
must come from within, not
without. The South must help
itself, and a kick in the pants
will not help it. There are, how
ever, good reasons for this at
titude. There are some South
erners who supply hot-headed
Northerners with plenty of am
munition. I saw a good example
one Friday nigjit.
I went to the Carolina Theater
to see a picture called "No Way
Out." It was one of the finest
pictures that I have seen this
year. By the time that I got up
and left the theater, my knees
and legs were, so tight from the
tension that they ached when I
walked. The picture had pro
pelled me completely into its
problem; I forgot my own iden
tity and felt as though I, per
sonally, had taken part in the
action. That is something that
has not happened often in my
years of movie going.
The picture was about the Ne
gro question. A Negro doctor in
a Northern city is put on the
staff of a white hospital. He finds
thatcertain white people make
things pretty unpleasant and is
persecuted by one Negro hater
who threatens to kill him. The
film depicts intense racial ha
tred in one of the most powerful
studies of a social problem ever
put on the screen.
There was one thing wrong.
Some people in the audience
hissed the picture. Some .! ..;
in the audience mad- nb:-vMi..
comments about the Negro char
acters in the movie. TI:-
comments were not the usual
kind of college audience humok.
They were vicious and directed
at the very purposes and mo
tives of the picture. They can.e
at the most moving moments
when most of the audience did
n't want any interruptions.
I would say that those who
hissed and made dirty remarks
were probably just stupid and
insensitive. The picture was
powerful projDaganda, but it did
not lie. It presented a valid, ac
tual problem which does exist.
Perhaps, it exaggerated and
stacked the cards by making the
villain unusually despicable and
malicious, but that is dramatic
license.
The problem stands. There
are many intelligent and highly
cultured Negroes, who are treat
ed by most people the same as
they would an ignorant and un
educated one. And yet, no one
would think of treating a white
physician in the same way that
they would treat a white bath
room attendent.
The picture contained self
criticism. It was made by North
erners, and the setting was in
a Northern city. The colored
ghettos were Northern ghettos,
and the race fanatics wen
Northern race fanatics. This
seemed to me to be a fair enough
presentation. But to persons so
rabid and full of hate that they
will not try to understand nn
opposing view, it would not
seem so. Nothing is reasonable
or fair to the unreasonable .'md
the unfair.
It's this kind of ncirrowne.-..
which makes Northerners tln-v;
that the South is incapable ;
helping itself or of solving iu
own problems. It's, this kind of
an individual who deserves t be
kicked in the pants by his kl
low Southerners.
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