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J'atce comes first, then opin-
ion wings to follow it. That will
be the Southern pattern in the
abolition of segregation, pre
dicts the editor. See p. 2.
VOLUME LX1I NUMBER 199
Complete if' Photo and Vire Service
CHAPEL HILL, N. C, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 1954
Offices in Graham Memorial
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Student Vote Picks
Ten Popular Profs
The student body chose the 10 professors it considered the best
teachers in the University in the recent faculty evaluation poll.
fhe professors are Bernard H. Boyd, religion; Alfred Theodor Brau
er, mathematics; James Roy Caldwell, social science; Lyman A. Cotten,
English; James Logan Godfrey, history; Claiborne Striblina Jones,
zoology; Samuel Bradley Knight, chemistry; David Geeting Monroe,
political science; Harry K. Russell, English, and, Joseph Carlyle Sitter
son, history.
They were chosen by a statistical method. To be eligible, a professor
had to have more than 30 forms returned on him. Each professor was
evaluated by the student on five criteria and assigned a letter grade
The Tetter grades were converted by the Evaluation Committee to
numerical grades and averaged with the 10 averages corresponding to
lSe 10 top teachers.
Dr. Boyd is head of the Religion Department. He has been here
since 1950 as James A. Gray professor of Biblical literature. During
the war he was a chaplain serving with the Marine Corps, although h-.
was a Naval Reservist.
Coming to the University in 1942, Dr. Brauer has won several
honors. He received one of the
first three annual awards pre- I "I..L.
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Initiates Nine
New Members
y'''ii '"','("' f ''"' S"7r'(v"W'
seniea ny uait muge mwiuic
Nuclear Studies for "significant
hontributions to science in the
South." He look his Ph.D. at the
University of Berlin.
A numerical rating of depart
ments, compiled from student
comments, is carried on page 4
today.
Dr. Caldwell started his edu
cation at Davidson and did his
graduate work here. He went from
private to captain during World
War II, serving with the Air Force
in the China-Burma-India theater.
He has taught here since 1947.
Dr. Cotten received his A.B. at
mC in 1936 and got his Ph.D at
Yale in 1941. He has taught here
since 1940. He is a member of the
Society of Cincinnati, Order of
Ghimghoul, Phi Beta Kappa, and
Modern Language Association.
His speciality is English his
tory, and Dr. Godfrey has been
teaching here since 1936 when he
started as an instructor. Recently
he received the Di Senate award
as the faculty member who con
tributed most to the campus dur
ing the past year. He got his mas
ter's degree at Carolina and took
his doctorate at Chicago.
Dr. Jones graduated from Hamp
den-Sydney College and did all of
his graduate work at the Univer
sity of Virginia. Among his other
duties here is that of adviser in
the General College. He has been
here since 1944.
Dr. Knight came to the Univer
sity as a teacher 13 years 8o.
He taught at Davidson for three
years, getting his M.S. and Ph.D.
degrees here. He is a member
of the American Chemical Society
and was chairman of the N. '.
Section in 1950.
Dr. Monroe has taught here for
the last seven years. He has a
Ph.D. in law from Chicago, LL.B.
from Dfaldwin Wallace College,
and a Ph.D. in political science
from Northwestern. He is a mem
ber of the American and South
ern Political Science Associations
and American Bar Association.
Dr. Russell got his A.B. at Dav
idson. His M.A. and Ph.D. degrees
came from the University, where
he has taught since 1929. He is
a member of the Order of the
Gimghoul, Golden Fleece, Delta
Phi fraternity, and Modern Lan
guage Association.
The mos recent book for Dr.
Yesterday afternoon at 4:44
its official meeting time Ampho
lerothen Society, honorary leader
ship and public speaking society,
initiated nine new members from
the sophomore and junior classes.
The new members are Larrj
Addington, Asheville; T o m m j
Bennett, Morehead City; Louis
Brumfield, Yadkinville; Tom Crea
sy, Gretna, Va.; Harry McElroy,
Marshall; David Reid, Asheville;
James Tolbert, Morganton; Bev
Webb, Greensboro, and Charles
Wolf, Chapel Hill.
Amphoterothen Society is the
second oldest campus honorary
It was founded in 1913 by Dr.
J. G. de Roulac Hamilton., Walter
Stokes, and A. L. M. Wiggins.
From its inception over 40 years
ago, Amphoterothen has chosen
from among the rising juniors and
seniors those students who have
distinguished themselves in the
field of public speaking and whe
have demonstrated an interest 'r
campus affairs by providing lead
ership in student activities.
Since the membership of the
organization is limited at any on
time to 13, the number of initiates
varies with each year and is de
pendent upon the number of sen
iors, who graduate. Graduating
this year will be Gene Cook, Ed
ward Gross, Phin Horton, Henry
Lowet, Wade Matthews, Km Mv-
ers, ueraia rarKer, ana acu
Penegar. Charles Rural t has gone
inactive.
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Fob-sHv NAACP's White Says
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ty honors at Monday's Sigma Chi
Derby and emerged Miss Modern
Venus. She was runnerup i'or
Miss Chapel Hill. K'snley Photo.
at the high school and college
levels, Negro leader Walter White
says.
This is because grammar school
students in cities with residential
segregation will continue to go to
schools nearest their homes, ac
cording to WTiite. In other words,
he added, there will likely con
tinue to be largely separate Ne
gro and white schools in the lower
grades "until we end residential
segregation."
White, executive secretary of
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peopfe,
said he didn't think there would
be serious resistance to the
change-over in the South and that
the opposition was "mostly pub
licity emanating from Southern
politicians" such as Govs. Herman
Talmadge of Georgia and Hugh
White of Mississippi.
The Negro leader' said that if
any Southern states carry out
threats to replace public schools
with segregated private ones,
"racketeers would take over the
system."
"Education racketeers would
move in with debased standards,"
he said. "You would see corrup
tion such as you've never seen in
the United Scates." He said
threats such as that by Gov. James
F. Byrnes of South Carolina to
abolish public schools and set up
private ones to continue segrega
tion were "wholly impractical."
"Governor Byrnes has asked the
people to abolish their schools ra
ther than submit to ending segre
gation," White said. "In the first
place, neither the white people
nor Negrdes would ever let that
happen."
Private Schools Studied
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ATLANTA, (JV-Elimination of
public schools and substitution
of a private school system is be
ing studied by some Southern
states as a possible means of
side stepping the United States
Supreme Court ban on segregation.
William T. Polk
Delivers Talk
At Prof's Club
"What I Don't Know About the
South" was the topic of an informal
talk before the Faculty Club Tues
day by William T. Polk, Greens
boro editor and author of the book,
"Southern Accent."
Polk said that there were still 11
questions that puzzled him about
the South. "First of all," he said,
"why is the South the most violent
part of the country? North Caro
lina leads the union in aggravated
assaults every year. Wa hardly
ever shoot anybody unless they are
close friends or members of the
family.
"Whv didn't Lincoln end .
Civil War in a couple of weeks?
If he was so smart, why did he
throw North Carolina and Virginia
into the Southern camp by calling
for volunteers?
"Why didn't someone tell me I
was speaking classic English when
I said 'hit' for 'it' and 'iine' for
'join'?" He quoted Queen Elizabeth
nnd Alexander Pope in showing
He said the states had "nun-, that North Carolina dialect is El iz-
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dreds of millions invested" in.aDe-nan
their schools, and that the states
had an even bigger stake in pro
tecting educational standards.
wis nevt Questions were
"Why isn't William Faulkner rec
ognized as OU finpet rnnn' wr-" T-
Popularly known as the "South
Carolina Plan." this proposal
generally would permit subsidy
of the individual child rather
than the school itself.
The suggested step takes its
name from the fact that South
Carolina is the most advanced
along the legislative path to
ward actual accomplishment
There a 1952 constitutional
amendment authorized elimina
tion of a mandatory public
Fchool system by an act of the
legislature. In addition, t he
state's appropriation bill gives
authority to local school boards
j to transfer pupils from one
school to another "so as to pro
mote the best interest of educa
tion." The bill requires that persons
dissatisfied with school assign
ments to appeal first to the
county school board and then
to the state school board, bolh
of which can hold hearings.
From there appeals can go to
the Court of Common Pleas and
then to the State Supreme
Court.
In Georgia, Gov. Herman Tal
madge was one of the ori?ininl
advocates of substitution of pri
vate schools for the public
school system if necessary to
maintain segregation.
As he has outlined several
times, his idea is that school
boards as now set up would re
main intact, but would lease the
schools to private operators. The
state then would make grants
to the individual student win
could attend the school of his
coice which would admit him.
There is now pending an a
mendment to the Georgia con
stitution which would authorize
gar.ts of state, county, or city
funds to citizens in discharge of
all educational obligations. It
will be voted on in November
Meanwhile, a Georgia Educa
tion Commission has been ap
pointed to study possible legal
steps by which to circumvent a
a ban on public school segrega-
j tion.
And in addition, the State Gen
eral Appropriations Bill denies
funds to any public school or
college which permits mixed
classes and has a provision mak
ing the school appropriation in
valid if a court of last resort
stirkes down segregation in
Georgia.
Alabama has taken no Iegis
tion but the state's legislative
lative stejis to preserve segrega
reference service is making a
study of possible steps similar to
that being undertaken by the
Georgia Education Commission.
While other Southern states
have not taken such definite act
ion, individuals in many of thorn
have indicated a favorable opin
ion of the general principles of
the so called "South Carolina
plan."
CARL VF.NTKRS
. . . ro lad WUSC
Venters Is
New Chief
Of WUNC
Carl Venters Jr., junior from
Jacksonville, has been n-imed head
of the operating staff of WUNC,
the University's FM radio station,
for next year. II'1 sticceec's John
P.. P.. Hawes Jr. who will g-aduate
at the end of this semester.
As assistant manager. Venters
will direct the staff of 30 writers,
announcers, engineers, and traf
fic personnel who operate the
station.
Announced also were the names
of five department heads whom
Venters has appointed to the
WUNC staff next year. They are
Claire Russell, Chapel Hill, pro
I gram manager; Joe Young, Char
j lotte, operations manager; Jo
j Ellen Gerschefski, Spartanburg,
1 S. C, continuity manager; Arnold
j Culbreth, Greensboro, traffic man
age!, and Jo,m Rayburn, Char-
I 'otte, promotion manager. Henry
Irwin, of Enka, will continue &s
chief engineer.
Segment Of N. C Dental Society Still Against
Letting Faculty Members Practice Privately
Even though the North Carolina j meeting of the Dental Society's of the group voted to all
ow pn-
New Yackety Yacks Off Press;
Students May Pick Up Today
as well as our finest tragic writer?" "eniai society nas voted to allow .House of Delegates in Pinehur.st vafe nract.Yp mn,W f-,,.n
and "Why are Southern women so
confusing in their logic?"
F ... . l . 1 . .
idciuty memoers oi tne univer- they were asainst the movr, h. h0rc r-hi... r,.u. n
sity Dental School to carry on j cause of its being wrong in prin-i and Major L. P. McLendon of
Why do demagogues now come j private practice, a large segment j ciple and because it has been I Greensboro, chairman of the Uni
Chemical Frat
Gives Awards
Tonight At 8
The annual awards program o'
Itho Chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma
national professioral chemical fra
ternity, will be held tonight at V
o'clock in the new lecture audi
torium, 207 Venable Hall.
The awards to be presented arr
the Francis P. Venable Medal t
the outstanding undergraduate stu
dent in chemistry, a year's mem
bership in the American Chemica'
Society to the winner in the junio'
class in chemistry, and two sopho
more winners will receive a book
Sitterson is his "Sugar Country." , and ftav.e nis nap,-e .engravta on ?
piaque m me cnemisiry noiaiy.
He has been teaching students at
Carolina for 19 years and received
his three degrees from the Uni
versity. His war service was on
the staff of the chairman of the
The principal address on the
' program will be a discussion of the
activities of the Southern Associa
tion of Science and Industry by Dr
'S. Thomas Amore. Dr. Amore is
. thp North Carolina viee president
War Production Board. He has of the SASI, and is the general
taught at GMA, W&M, and N. C. (manager of Cardinal Products Inc
State. He also is author of "Seces
sion Movement in N. C."
Last Issue Tomorrow
Tomorrow's edition will be the
' issue of The Daily Tar Heel
fo- this school year. We will re
sume publication the first day of
school next fall.
Copy deadline is 3 p.m. today.
A,t Apartments will be closed
today. There will be no
in Durham. Cardinal Products is
one of the leading suppliers of
chemicals, apparatus, and other
scientific materials in this state.
The Southern Association of
Science and Industry is a nonprofit,
non-political organization of uni
versity scientists and. industrfal
business, and financial firms. The
proup's stated aims are the promo
tion of scientific research and of
industrial and other economic
progress in the South. Anyone in
terested in the development of re
search and industry in the South
is invited to attdad tonight's pro
gram. ' ' ' ;
The 1954 Yackety Yack 448
pages dedicated to collecting in
orint and picture this year at the
University is off the press and
will be distributed today from 3:30
o.m. until 7 o'clock.
Distribution point will be Williams-Wolfe
Lounge at Graham
Memorial. Students must present
fheir ID cards. Other distribution
days will be announced tomorrow.
Editor Lib Moore said half the
iTacks would arrive on the campus
tomorrow, and half would get here
some time next week. A sign will
be placed in Y Court when the
last shipment arrives, she said.
Miss Moore tossed a punch and
cookie party yesterday afternoon
for her staff and the six professors
to whom this year's book is dedi
?ated: Preston H. Epps, Claiborne
liam H. Poteat, Harry K. Russell,
and Walter S. Spearman. Drs.
Jones, Knight, and Russell also
were among the 10 professors
voted by students as the Univer
sity's best teachers in a recent poll.
The new Yack has a tan cover
with a modernistic design and a
cut of the Old Well embossed on
it. The theme of the 1954 annual
is carried out with quotations from
novels of the Itae Thomas Wolfe, a
Carolina gradutae of 1920. There
is a color picture looking down on
the steps of South Building with
the state flag in the foreground.
Yack Queen Ann May has a court
of 12, each representing a month
of the year. The beauty court sec
tion is in the back of the book.
from the midwest instead of the of the society still opposes the
South?"" idea, and said so Tuesriav
'What has happened to Southern Two society members. Dr. Sam
Shaffer of Greensboro and Dr.
Burke Fox of Cltarlotte, said at a
T , . , . .., cooking? It established a wonderful
S. Jones, Samuel B. Knight, Wil-j . f. .
Now we just get grits and a half
a dozen of them will go a long
way with me.
"Why do we pollute our streams
to the point of no return?
"Why does North Carolina not
consider public libraries a neces
sary governmental expense but re
quires the people to vote a bond
issue to support libraries?
"Why do North Carolinians hate
money so? You can tell them how
to make a million dollars but they
won't do it."
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auaiiuuiicu uy must, ueniai scnoois
as being impractical.
The plan was opposed last year
by a majority vote.
Monday, the House of Delegates
Degree Candidates
All persons getting degrees in
June seniors, graduate stu
dents, or whomever must at
tend a meeting this afternoon at
4:15 in Memorial Hall.
Best Known As Author Of "Nana"
Library Displays Life And Works Of Emile Zola;
French Author Brought 'Epic Power1 To Novel
An Emile Zola Exhibition, sent scandal that shook the French ,ia- other artists (with illustrations
to the Department of Romance j tion at the end of the last century, from Manet, Monet, Fantin-Latour,
Languages from the Franco-Amer-1 In France Zola is recognized . Renoir, Courbet, Van Gough); his
ican Distribution Center in New as one of the largest and most j naturalistic "school" (illustrations
York, "Dpened this week at the j influential figures in the history ; showing La Maison de Medan,
Library and will run through ( of modern fiction, and as an imag- Maupassant, Huysmans); scenes
Friday. inative writer, who brought at mo- j drawn from "Les Rougon-Mac-
Two of the panels are displayed ments to the novel an epic power quart, with numerous reproduc-
;n a case on the first floor of the j unprecedented in
Library, and the main part of the ! language.
Putnam Davis7 Death Is Ruled
Suicide By Orange Authorities
A formal verdict of suicide in the fraternity house death of Putnam
Davis Jr. was rendered here yesterday by an Orange County coroner's
jury.
The six-man group met in closed session at the town hall and spent
nearly two hours questioning a
f mm -v f ! half-dozen persons concerned in
KZffVl O UlSplay the cas before returning a ver-
j diet. The jury also went to Me-
jynJ I C ' morial HosPital t0 hear the two'
IVeVV LOOK 200U Phi Delts injured by Davis, .Allen
Long and William Jovner. tell
Tmnrnvpmpnts in flraliam Tn. ; : . , , ...
, , lueilutai siones or now tner !ra-
morial Student Union, long talked : ternity brother shot .hem in their
about but as yet unseen, will soon j room at the house ast Safur(jav
be on-display, announced Director j morning, and then took his own
', Jim Wallace yesterday. j )jfe
j Chief among the improvements
are refurnishiTrg of lh3 Grail Room I
Davis' reason for shooting the
the French
i two is still a mystery.
The two hospitalized students
emphasized strongly that they
were ont engaged in a poker game
with Davis or anybody else
at any time before the shooting.
They also told the jury there 3iad
been no beer party in their room,
as such, on the night before, al-
tVii.rrU u , . a ; ,j : 1
view." They are soon to be opened ulu UII"A sume u,;tr
wiiii uavis.
j and the Women's Council Confer-
ence Room, and the installment
of pool tables in the game rooi.
While the pool tables will not
be here until May 31 due to pro
duction commitments by manu
facturers, both the Grail Room
and the Conference Room were
shown yesterday in a "sneak pre-
versity Trustees' Committee on
Health Affairs, explained their
stand in favor of the motion.
Spokesmen in favor of private
practice contended Tuesday tat
the Dental Advisory Committee,
which recommended to the meet
ing that University dentists not
be allowed private practice, was
not a duly constituted group in
th?t its members were not con
firmed by the House of Delegates
after being appointed by the ires
ident and that the committee
erred in not clearing its report
with the society's executive com
mittee. Those in opposition to facjlty
practice were still in oposition
yesterday when the annual meet
ing ended. '
for public inspection and use.
Completely redecorated, the
tions of related paintings by fam
ous artists of the age: scenes re-
exhibit is hung on. the walls of j The Zola exhibition offers 24 , lating to the Dreyfus Case and to j prominent among the furnishings interval from 3 to 7 a.m. ThJ
the Assembly Room on the ground large panels showing in 127 black Zola's last years; and two panels & the sjiver Grail Cup which rests j said they had bought two cases-
floor, and white reproductions Zolas showing French and foreign writ-;on the Dae mahoanv conference 4a cans rriday lor the Barefoot
Ball on Saturday.
Warren Heemann, president of
Emile Zola (1840-1902), leader life and times and something of ers influenced by Zola (Jules Ro- table.
of the Naturalist School of French the nature of his influence in mains, Dreiser, Steinbeck, Dos
writers and author of the famous France and abroad.
20-volume series of novels called
"Les Rougon-Maquart," is prob-
I Passos, Richard Wright, and
The student can trace here others).
Zola's childhood, the landscape of! Everyone interested is invited
ably best known in America as . his early life in Provence (repro- to visit the exhibition during the
the author of "Nana," one of the ' duced from paintings by Cezanne); regular library hours from 7:45
his first literary masters; the Paris ' a.m. to 10:45 p.m. Monday through
Rougon-Macquart novels, and as
the outspoken champion of Capt.
of Zola's day; his associations and
Alfred Dreyfus in a political I links with the Impressionists and
Saturday, and from 1:30 p.m. to
10 p.m. on Sunday.
2 Days Left
There are two days left for
picking up graduation invita
tions. They may be got from 10
a.m. until 2 p.m. today and to
morrow upstairs in the Y. A
limited number are on sale.
Saturday Off
For Terp Tilt
President Tom Creasy an
nounced yesterday that the Uni
versity Administration has grant
ed an official holiday for Saturday,
Oct. that the student body
might attend the UNC-Maryland
football game at College Park.
"Chancellor House has given
me his utmost cooperation,"
Creasy said, "and he recommended
highly to the Schedule Committee
that students be granted excused
absences from classes on Oct. IS,
the day of the Maryland game.
"I'm very happy I was able to
work this out for next year. Ill
begin work immeidately with head
cheerleader Jim Fountain on mak
ing the weekend a success."
A letter ox notification came
yesterday from the Schedule Com
mittee. It pointed out that the
"regulation concerning absences
before a holiday will be in effect."
This means fines for unexcused
absences the day before a holiday.
Creasy said arrangements will
five with a bullet apiece and then . be made for transportation and
killed himself with the last one. j hotel accommodations. . -
The two said they drank three
Grail Room is a combination of i or four cans of beer- that Da
dep red furni .ure and rug and j vis drank his very fast, consum
light gray walls and woodwork, i inS perhaps eight or 10 during the
Phi Delta Theta, said he had
heard shortly before the shooting
that Davis had read a book which
ended with six men in a room and
one man had a gun with six bul
lets in it. The man killed the other
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