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PAftl TWO tKh ftnt opwnrtt Hi 0oor A ' THI DAILY TAt KSSL s The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday, 3 examination and vaca tion periods and dur ing the official Sum mer terms. Entered as second class matter at ofiyWtyl the post office to l s, North LrtH: Chapel Hill, N. C, un- der the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2 50 a semester; delivered, $8 a year, $3.50 a semester. IP Editor . , ROLFS NEELL Managing Editor KEN SANFORD Business Manager . AL SHORTT Sports Editor TOM PEACOCK Associate Editors Chuck Hauser, Ed Yoder Feature Editor , Jennie Lynn Asst. Spts. Eds. Vardy Buckalew, John Hussey Night Editor for this issue: Rolfe Nefll Perking With Purks Dr. Purks is right. We ought to debate more. The new University provost, in his recent inaugural address before the I)i Senate, ex pressed regtet that "American education has lost something of great value," in the grad ual de-emphasis of debate. ... ... When our fathers were college-age, the-real RMCXTs were not the studentibody presi dents: they were not the nevrspapen editors. They were the moguls of the debate Socie ties. Most, times, it was compulsory thatlhc student join one of the debate cUbs.-. Com pulsion really wasn't nec essary tbecause, any lody who was anybody belonged anyway. Tixiay, as I)r Purks says, "there is. much speaking and very little debating." Somehow we have drifted behind the scenes and are washing our linen there in "bull sessions." Hull sessions are good; they are often educa tional in wavs no other communicaions can be. Their drawback is that, with the banish ment of formalized debate, few conclusions cither right or wrong are ever reached. And when parliamentary restrictions are forgotten nolxnly really listens to th: other side. It looks now like we are not to have any mote silver tongues like William Jennings litv.m had. no more Cross ol iUAd orations at least until something is done. We nut H id and be lull men: we an wiiti' .I'll lc ivut men Whv not debate mote and beiome leady men and better id in att d to boot? The Negro & Us We still Mtig that line. "l ike a mighty .iiiiiv mows the chinch ol Clod," but for an at mv the moMmeiu is feeble and i net fee t Partii ul ii Iv m in the realm of segrega tion. In ('.h..il Hill we anipt the Negro in most of our sotial, twliti al, and chinch oi g.miations As students we auept in our l iiiveiMtv the tluee or four who aie in giad ua:e si hools lu te. IVut in our state and in out nation iitothethood of man-' and "hildien of t.od" aie phrases of the mouth and not of the hi nt. As a pastor reiently told his oiigit g itioti. ' I heie is mote Jim Ctowism in Ann tii a u n o'i loi k on Sunday moining than at anv oilier time." On tint same dav a federal judge was supplying a f i 1 1 i t . " I he wall ol segregation n limbics." he said, 'only when somcliody sw ings a hammer." A thiid speaker on this one Sabbath told his liiimh that noihing shoit ol a "spititual aiomii Im)iiiI will shatter the complacency" ol the Christian churches in this country. All Cb-"el Mill rhuifhes aie non-segTe- ,-ated; some hive legulaily-. mending Negro members; student group frequently have bi raiial meetings; the town has but one rninis tetial association and it embraces all minis ters. Hie Hoard of Aldermen has a Negro. ( he Hoard of I ducation should include Negroes, too.) The Community Council has members of loth races. The League of Wom en Voters discriminates against no one. Hut we should be spreaders of the word ami not doers only. We need to encourage the ministers back home to lead their con gregations on this race question. There are the longregations whose one-day-a week Christian attitude even for one day does not mi hide the Negro. We ourselves need to 1" apmtles. No fancy race relationship stories need lc told- fust tell what we see. That Negro and white do work together bene ficially That wc accept an individual as an individual, no matter what the pigment of And in our task we should remember the words of the Rev. Robert J. McCracken: I he greatest contribution we can make to the improvement of racial relations is that wc out selves should have the mind and spirit of Christ. Moral reforms, however wide their sweep, have their origin in the faith and fidelity of individuals." ... All one body we. one in hope and doctrine, one in chariy. t FRIDAY, MARCH S, W Tar Heel At Large -Chuck Hauser- Z'M GLAD Mr. Carmichael picked up the check at the break, fast reconciliation at the Caro Una Inn between Frank McGuire and Everett Case. I could just see McQuire saying, "Case should have made the overture of pay ing the tab," and Case counter ing, "I teas the visitor in toicn, go McGuire should have paid." STATE COLLEGE has really come up with a winner in its new student union building. I spent part of Tuesday afternoon in Raleigh looking over the place with Director Jerry Erdahl. The building is not due to open un til next fall, but I got a real thrill out of touring the plant, even though it was unfinished and unfurnished. It's got more glass in it than any four build ings on the Carolina campus, and behind the glass wills are loung es, ballrooms, a theater, a seven enlarger darkroom,, rooms to sleep guests, a snack bar, dining room, a multi-tabled billiard room, and I could go on for inch es, listing the facilities. . . I hope aome" members of the 1955 General Assembly get, a chance to compare that building with Graham n. Memorial here when they start,, to consider the Caro lina permanent improvement re quest budget next winter. wLKNNOJf. Headquarters at the Sir-Walter-was another step on ray vis to the state capital. I asked.. 'John Rodman. Senator lhnon'f . manager, when the Candidate would get to Chapel Hil' to let folks here get a look at him. Rodman said that Chapel Hill would definitely be includ ed in one of the Senator's tours, but he couldn't say when. SCOTT Headquarters at the Carolina Hole reminded me of an alumni reunion. Working in the offices wore Bill Whitley, Carolina graduate who is on leave of absence from The Dur ham Morning Herald to be Scott's publicity manager, and Peggy Warren, who'll be remembered as one of the big SPolitical wheels who rolled on campus not so long ago. CAMrt'S CUT Notes: At LSU. students are complaining because Vnlversity rules prevent students from utilizing cuts for organized trips to the Mardi Gras in New Orleans, a short distance away. . . And folks over at Dook are still complaining about the no beach cut rule imposed on organiza tions and especially enforced on coeds. The Dook Chronicle says the rule is forcing male students to spend their beach weekends with Durham town girls, UNC coeds, and WC students, rather than the residents of East Camus. COMISG EVENTS: The Spring Germans, scheduled for . the weekend of May 7, threatens to be otershadoired by the big op en dance planned for the folloto ing weekend, on May 15. The later dance is the annual Bare, foot Hall, sponsored by the Chap el Hill Summer Cotillion Club. Ifs held a 'tiogan'1 Lake, dress i formal (Bermuda walking fcm-t). there are two bands and lots of setups. The only folks not eligible to purchase tickest are round-eyes. LEFTOVER NOTES: At Appo mattox, Va., someone threw a skunk through a textile factory window and it ruined $300,000 worth of fabrics. . . .At the UnL versity of Alabama, a retired ma )or general was almost forced to sign up for a military science course before he was allowed to register And at the Univer sity of California, a survey show ed that during a recent big rain local stores reported a sharp rise in sales of raincoats, boots, umbrellas, plastic book bags, and tennis balls. Yeah, that's right, tennis balls. . . STANDING JOKE on campus used to be the annual editorials run by The Daily Tar Heel against students walking on the grass. As spring approaches, I wish to go on record as saying that I like to walk on the grass, love that crazy cushiony feel ing .. . We Puerto Rico Is WASHINGTON Driving through the streets of San Juan with Governor Luis Munoz-Marin of Puerto Rico several years ago, I wondered why he purposely cut off all ventilation in his limou sine. The weather was swelter ing. But the glass windows of the car were closed. looking more 4 rloselv I nnt. !j iced that the car windows were of glass half an inrh thick bulletproof. I aked no questions and waited until the c;ir passed out side the nar streets of San PEARSON row, congested Juan to the open countryside, when the car windows Were rolled down. It was only a short time after ward, however, when two Puerto Rican fanatics tried to shoot their way into the White House, and I realized how necewary were the safety precautions tak en by the governor of Puerto Rico For on the same day the two Puerto Rican assassins made an attempt n the life of Presi dent Truman, a little band of Nationalists also stormed the front entrance to Forteleza, resi dence of Governor Munoz, and tried to kill him. Tragic fact about the attempts on Governor Munoz and the gruesome shooting of five Cong resmen this week is that prob The Tale Of THE DAWG was sprawled on the front porch of the Carolina Inn as I arrived to attend the dance going on inside. "I note you have a tuxedo on," he grumbled. I allowed as how I usually wore a tuxedo to for mal dances. "I know you do," he grouched at me, "but there isn't a tailor in Chapel Hill who will take on the job of fitting me for one, and the gentleman standing be hind that rosette in the lobby says I cannot enter, due to my lack of formal attire." . The gentleman with the rosette was a doorman for the Dance Committee, and was merely doing his job of en forcing the rules. The Dawg snorted. "Rules my hat! We've come to a pretty pass when we have to hire people to police our morals for us!" It was obvious The Dawg wasn't familiar with the history of dances at the University. Back in 1025, dances in Chapel Hill had become such drunken orgies that the administration was forced to step In and take over. Part. of the power was returned to students with the formation of the Dance Committee and the promise of students to improve conduct at dances on their own. "But the real control Is in the bands of a facuL Caught A Whale But It Shrank' Stirred Up ably no one has done more for Puerto Rico than Governor Mu noz or more than the last session of Congress which passed the "Commonwealth of Puerto Rico" bill. Munoz Marin is the first gov ernor ever elected by the Puerto Rican people. Educated at George town University, he spent 'most of his youth in the nation's capi tal where his father was Puerto Rican delegate to Congress. A big, square-jawed man, Mu noz Marin looks like he might have stepped out of a Hollywood western, but he har done more for the Puerto Rican people In regard to housing, schools, agrU cultural progress and govern mental reform than any man in history. Despite attacks on his life, he is loved by the great mass of the people. Prior to Munoz-Marin's elec tion, Puerto Rican governors had always been appointed by the President of the United States, and the governorship was con sidered a glorified political plum for the politically faithful. For years Puerto Ricans had every reason to complain. They were the political stepchild of the U.S., with no vote, no represen tation in Congress, and no gov ernmental administration except that handed them by the Re publican or Democratic National Committee. But Munoz-Marin, who had the ear of Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, gradually changed all this. Had he not changed it, the Puerto The Dawg Drew Pearson Rican Nationalists might have some excuse for complaint. As it is, their only gripe can be on the ground that the island has been given as much independence as the people wanted. The balloting for the Puerto Rican commonwealth took place on March 3, 1953, in one of the most unique elections ever seen in the Western Hemisphere. Promplty at 1 o'clock on that day a great calm settled over the island. Business stopped. Auto mobiles vanished from the streets. Cane cutters left the sugar fields. All of Puerto Rico settled down to vote on the question of wheth er it should be a commonwealth under the United States or not. The vote for the new constitu tion was overwhelming. The Na tionalists, who wanted complete independence from the United States, scarcely made a ripple. Apparently they now seek to achieve by terrorism what they could not achieve by the ballot. Under this new commonwealth constitution, Puerto Rico be comes somewhat the same re lationship to the United States as the Commonwealth of Au stralia to England. Defense and foreign policy are administered from Washington. Puerto Rico does not have to pay taxes to sup port an Army and Navy, and Puerto Ricans arevdrafted into the U. S. armed services. But the is land collects its own taxes, and fixes its own taxes, though sub ject to the same tariff provisions as the United States. Charles McCorkle ty committee not the student committee! How about that?" The Dawg challenged me. He was right. In a student self-government, the student body should be given the responsibility to govern themselves without such a tight grip on their affairs as the one held by the Faculty Committee on Dances. "I'm glad you agree with me, for a change," he said. I didn't agree completely. I had attended danc es at other schools where It was hard to move a round on the dance floor without getting knocked down by a drunk. I didn't want to see that hap pen at Carolina. "Okay," he grudgingly admitted. "No argument there. Which reminds me, to change the subject: I have a pome." All right. I was listening. "A Hoss and a flea and a liddle ole mice Was a-settin' and a-drinkin' and a-shootin' dice. The Hoss he slup and he sot on the flea. The flea he 3ay, That's a Hoss on me.' " Was there a moral? "Yes," The Dawg barked after me as I walked through the' door Into the Inn. These'a always some Hoss's behind around to break up every party!" On The Caroling Lour, Y The Stephens-M'i ,, as the headlines lil.ircl ' Wisconsin Senator's ,,, member hearing of i , Durham. Bill Costello. a CPA . . , given a uui on me r ;ir i students. Afterwards, he A Duke stu-' dent asked "' Was about the Fort Monmouth in vestigations. McCarthy had just finished public hearings in his hunt. The Senator said he was looking for subversives in the New Jersey Signal Corps research center. He hadn't found any; he did suc ceed in thor oughly demoral izing some of the greatest ' ... ' . s if 3J-- el vr f -- k - ' f V I ; i SENATOR McCARTH technical minds in the i Min -v technicians. The Duke student won -u r, .,j Ju m . .... ine raaio reporter toici ti m "Mccartny went to f.jrt M'.nmouth. SjfJ investigation, ana iouna nothirg." Costello "Now this- was embarrassing for lariy since ne lues publicity." he Carthy went to Secretary of the Amy RrJ Sievens. McCarthy totrt Sterne k j .... 71 .. .. . '"-u-IMjH gaung u me Army secretary would ip quite in the press." Why did McCarthy opn hp Fort MctJ hearings tne second time' Another studer asking this. uvti a t . . ... i u leu you aoout mat. thp veteran nerf said. "A couple of reporters went to StewJ asked If McCarthy found any Reds Thy nJ ?. , V . . ' ," . "', X t it - N LssllMiMaMlilSUS ... . J SECRETARY STEVENS "I have a friend w 1m - in activities for several ye;u "When he first started r told me he was a mrn.ic-' I that McCarthy was a m;m ! "He's just flitting here publicity he can get." That was one veteran t" Carthy. And. although I (! ' ' it was only the first round -f tween McCarthy anil the I YOU Sni-i It Editor: Enclosed is a piece from i r New Yorker" that miuht n problem that some studen pear to be facing. Is it necessary to accept r--o write? In this school i it ' hind the anonym of "name In recent editions graduate fear of reprisals from fn n whatever co-eds are afraid "r real something should bp ''"' inary let's not strengthen ' Student comments are rc-p-who read them. Perhaps tha' be evidenced by the persons 'M ymous attacks and common's society that prides itself on d. (The clipping enclosed bu part: "Democracy, we susper'. as individuals feel free to ir ' they believe. As soon as the f ' ' at soon as ideas become orph : life begins, new destinies iW Editor The Daily Tar Heel s attd ' ' toward all other intense hum ly to .be commnded. Your view of BRAfT, which was n lifted many to e new. a more r -BRAT extends its kiudos f" teraporaneity of your article BRAT that h knnw Fi Steven? js ted th trl hat Mjt Mr': fo any C'lTiKj ''3rhv r53 V,;; '......-; V TV nfTt : iv.t 3' "1 Co; ::1 r ..O.' '! V' ......c r
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