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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1951 THE DAILY TAR HEEL' PAGE TWO The Concert Series We are astonished, as the radio com mercials say, at the big, big value, for the low, low price. In case you've been missing the stories on our news pages, you haye an opportunity to sign up to enjoy the Amer ican Chamber Orchestra, the Salzburg .Ma rionette Theatre, the greatest American pi anist, Walter Gieseking, and tenor Jan Pecrce and for Si. 25 each. There are only 500 student tickets lelt, at $5 a throw. We can't remember as ap nealin an arrangement for culture hungry at Carolina Front. Caroline Coed, ... r Z Just Who Are You, Anyhow? Louis Kraar AN INTERESTING letter ar rived recently a younjf nd penny-pinching students in a long time rocrrams such 'as the. one the Chapel Hill Concert Series is bringing here make ur. Skipper Coffin's description of our town-, "the Athens of Orange County -more than an empty phrase., . ; What's Good For Charlie: The Boot If , Defense Secretary, maladroit Charles E. Wilson departs Washington hunting grounds with no other feathers in his hat than his unreckoned number of witless re marks, he will have something to remember. The latest feather he installed Monday at a press, conference as he commented 011 the ascending unem ployment in labor. He had "a lot of sympa thy," he said, for the jobless, but he always "liked bird dogs better than kennel -fed dogs." He explained that "the bird dos:s like to get out and hunt around for ! their food, but the ken-1 nel dogs just sit on their ' haunches and yelp.'' f This confirms, to f our minds, that Mr. ; .Wilson lacks not only taste but social consci-1 ence. We can recall two other remarks by Mr. Wilson that rival the : bird clog comment for sheer srall. One was the now famous opinion . WILSON ' that "what is good for General Motors is good for the country; another was m answer to a request for an .opinion on Ernest Hemingway's poignant novel, 77"' Old Man And the Sea. He said he couldn't see why anyone would get ex cited about an old man .who was a failure. ' We wtsTrthat Mr.-; Wilson could descend from his gilded Washington world and ob serve the employment situation. He might start on this campus, which we are sure dif fers little in present economic situation- from scores of other campuses in the country. Money has tightened and there actually are not enough part time jobs to tide many bud gets over! We wonder whether, in Mr. Wil son's unbelievably callous opinion, those who can't get part-time jobs fall under the bird dog or the kennel dog category? CIO and United Auto Workers Presi dent Walter Readier was quick to make what we think is a well chosen Statement. 'Thad believed," he said, "we were decades past the day when allegedly civilized men thought such things, let alone expressed them aloud in public." We 'think Wilson has quite over-stepped himself this time. .'We call upon the President to remove him from the ranks of his cabinet (the dignity of which he doesn't seem to merit) and restore him to the brain trust of General Motors where he belongs, after all. from Ilady who signs , her name "Car- oLlne Coed." Miss "Coed" h!as comments and criticisms on the Dior look and drink ingor,, to be more accurate, - this reporter s them. If "Caroline," , ;M VI; ! I ' V : 1 Sfte Bail? ar Utel The official student publication of the Publi ations Board of the University of North Carolina where it is published 'Care To Step In Here To Study The Problem' YV. r W 9 COMCRESSIOMAL SUBCOMMITTEE . HEAlMGS ON U.S. SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION MEP: til V . ... daily except Monday, examination and vaca tion periods and dur ing the official sum mer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March J, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. ICditor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors Business Manager LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER : TOM SHORES views on who says she lives on Raleigh Street, will let me know who she , is, I'll be glad, to print her views. Who knows, girls, she might even be your roommate." r . AT LAST a solution has turn ed up for those Graham Memor- ial television fans who watch one game, discuss another, and. : listen to a third on the radio at the same time. One of the bigger radio firms must have had this age of di- , vided attention in mind. It has produced a three-speaker tele vision set. Now all the world needs is three-eared listeners. MONDAY NIGHT the Stu dent Party will begin nomina- m tions" for junior and freshman class officers. While usually being nice honors without political future, this year's class officer choices may reveal something of a poli tical trend. Talk among the SP these days has been centered strongly, around the class of ficers. Perhaps the. nominations for . class officers will be a preview of spring election. SP attention on the selections has given them this preview importance. "OUR BEST" To You," the melodious sound that sweeps your dorm as every room radio is in unison and tuned to the same station, will be broadcast - from Campus November 5. Jimmy Capps, who handles the platters with a minimum of chatter, will set up shop in Low er Quad that night It will be the first direct broadcast of the show from this campus. Capps' other two appearances here in the past have been simulated broadcasts. Capps will also bring a live show with him to entertain the Lower Quad blanket sitters. The Inter-Dormijory Council has arranged the affair and will also provide the refreshments. JULIAN SCHEER reported in his Charlotte News column that this really happened on a col lege campus near the Queen City. A dormitory housemother heard some noise one night on an upper floor. She dispatched someone to break up the gather ing. The student did, then found that he had broken up a prayer meeting. THE CONSOLIDATED Uni versity is no more in name, that is. President Gray, worried about whether "Consolidated Universi ty" was inappropriately sugges tive of factories, mills, etc., looked up the law which creat ed the three-branch University. It referred simply to the fact that the Woman's College, State and Carolina would henceforth be consolidated as one univer sity to be known as the Univer sity of North Carolina. South Building letterheads have been appropriately chang ed. - . .p-.i ... ' , Drama Group Holds Director Meet Saturday The Carolina Dramatic Associa tion will hold its fall directors con ference in the Playmakers Theater this Saturday with Josephina Nig gli, professor of-dramatic art the Woman's C o 1 e g e as luncheon speaker. Her topic will be "A Theatre for Women." The public is invited to attend the sessions. The conference will begin at 10 a. m., with coffee and doughnuts v served in the Green Room of the Playmakers Theatre. Following refreshments there will be a busi ness meeting at which plans will be made for a state-wide drama pro gram for the year. Under special consideration will be the organiza tion of a number of district festiv als to be held in the state. Pro ductions from the festivals will be screened and the best ones invited . to the Annual Dramatic Festival in Chapel Hill in April. Speaker for the conference, in addition to Miss Niggli, will be Dr. P. N. DeVere, president and direct or, the Morganton Recreation Play ers, Morganton; Louise Lamont, The Pulpit Players, director, Chap el Hill; Julian C. Burroughs, Jr., di- rector of speech and drama, Wal- ter Williams High School, Burling ton; Robert F. Schenkkan, director of television, Consolidated Univer sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 'and Samuel Selden, Department of Dramatic Art, Chapel Hill. ehpd The A Closer Smile: f r Capitol Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson- WASHINGTON One of the mysteries of Washington is why the Eisenhower administra tion has tried to win November votes with one hand and non chalantly lost November votes with the other. The following illustrate the paradox: "A. In Denver last week, Vice President Nixon was admitting to newsmen that the ejection was going to be touch and go; while majority .leader Halleck mournfully felt it was as good as lost. ' B. ' Simultaneously, in Wash ington the Atomic Energy Com mission, dominated by Admiral Strauss, former partner of the Wall Street . banking firm of Kuhn, Loeb, was demanding' that the dynamiteladen Dixon Yates contract be signed right away without the 30 day scru tiny of Congress required by law. This headlong rush to sign a contract which Congress debat ed for weeks had the effect of losing votes for the very same senators whom Ike and Nixon and Charley Halleck want to elect. Naturally it hurt Senator Guy Cordon, who faces a tough re election in Oregon. It was bound to help Democratic Senator Jim Murray in water power consci ous Montana, whom the White House does not want to elect. It was bound to hurt GOP Sen ator Mundt in South Dakota, a state where rural electrification is strong. And it was certain to handicap Senator Dwprshak and help his Democratic opponent, ex Senator Glen Taylor in Ida ho, where public power has lots of friends. The Mystery Deepens Perhaps Admiral Strauss and the military men who now run the AEC didn't' know this. Any . way they insisted on pusning the Dixon-Yates contract for an immediate signature until wis er Senator Bourke Hickenlooper of Iowa came back from South. America and postponed congres sional hearings. Hickenlooper realized what the impetuous gentlemen of the AEC and White House appar ently didn't, that the public has become extremely suspicious of. a power contract that was OK'd by the; President despite the dis approval of, the Tennessee Val ly Authority, despite a majority vote against i tinside the AEC, and despite the fact that Dixon Yates got the contract without any real competitive bidding. What a lot of people want to know is why? Why was the Dixon-Yates contract let "in the first. place? Why was it made a life or death matter during the closing days of Congress when Ike was itching to leave for Denver? And why the hurry about signing the contract de spite a law which Langer of North Dakota and Senator Ke fauver of Tennessee may have the answers. They have ben do ing some interesting digging of late, and here are some of the things they have come up with: 1. Eugene Yates, chairman of the Southern Company and a partner in the Dixon-Yates combine, was a late comer in the deal. He did not get into the negotiations until two months after Mr. Dixon of Middle South Utilities began talking, to the AEC. After he got in, however, Yates made amazing progress. He seemed to have powerful pull in high places. 2. The Budget Bureau, when ordered to make public the Dixcn-Yates correspondence, waited two day.s trying to figure out some reason to explain why Yates was belatedly brought in to the negotiations. 3. One friend of Mr. Yates with high up connections is John C. Persons of Birmingham, Ala., a top director of Yates'' South ern Company. Persons is a cou sin of General Wilton Persons of the White House .staff who has been close to Ike for years. 4. Another -director of Mr. The Carolina Dramatic Associa tion was founded in 1922 for the purpose of encouraging dramatic art in the schools and communities of North Carolina. Its aims include - meeting the need for constructive Yates' power combine is Bobby recreation, promoting the produc Jones, the President's golfing tion cf plays, pageants and festiv- friend. als, and stimulating interest in the The as- - . making of a native drama O. a xnira potent xneiu zUr irwitoc nil Hra Mr. Yates was Ed Falck, shrewd Washington power lobbyist. The minutes of the Budget Bureau, as finally made public, show that Falck took Yates dowm to the Atomic Energy Commission and first introduced him to of ficials for a discussion of the AEC private power contract. matic groups and individuals who are interested in any phase of dra matic art to become members. The Annual Dramatic Festival for the Association will be held April 13, 14, 15 and 16 in Chapel Hill. Officers of the association are Lazell W. Northrop, Winston-Sa-- Swink, , , lem, president; Doug. W. r aicK once worxea ax me . nnH ViUCIIldllc, v.c io.-...., and the War Mobilization Board, is a close friend of certain Fed eral power commissioners, has entertained FPC Chairman Je rome Kuykendall, Commission er Seaborn Digby and Commis sioner Nelson Lee Smith. He's considered one of the ablest pow er lobbyists in Washington. These were som eof the back stage influences behind the Dixon-Yates contract that would have come out during any pre election hearings on the subject. They were one reason why wise Senator Hickenlooper stepped in and postponed the hearings un til right after election. Note Another answer as to why the speed in signing the Dixon-Yates contract is fear that if the Democrats take over Con- John W. Parker, Chapel Hill, exec utive secretary-treasurer. The ex ecutive committee consists of Sam uel Belden, Chapel Hill; P. N. De Vere, Morganton; Russell M. Grum man, Chapel Hill; Iona S. Henry, Misenheimer, and Winkie Harris, Rocky Mount. Girl Scout Council To Be Formed The formation of an area Coun cil of Girl Scouts in this section gress in November it will never nas been announced by Mrs. E B. be signed at all. Hamshar, of Durham, chairman of ' a group which has been studying Winchell this Prject for some time- This council will comprise the counties The Securities and Exchange of Orange, Durham, Granville War Commission, charged wdth the ren and Vance. 1 job of policing Wall Street, has a problem when it comes to policing commentators : espec ially Walter Winchell. It's a problem they don't quite know what to do about. . Winchell has made it a prac tice to give tips on the stock market, which on at least one occasion got him into a head-on This decision was reached after more than' a year's intensive study of the advantages of a larger 01 ganization over the small units now set up in each community. The primary factor in the decision is, of course, that it will benefit girls of scout age throughout this area greatly. The organization of such clash with the Sec." Winchell a council will be large enough to YOU Said It blithely recommended Wyoming Gulf Sulphur as a good buy, ap parenlty not knowing that the SEC had -just initiated injunc tion proceedings against Wyom ing. Gulf Sulphur to prevent the sale of the very . same stock that Walter recommended. When called 'on this by the SEC, he broadcast a correction. employ additional professional aid, making it possible to offer scout ing to more girls. Of special interest is the possi bility of acquiring a camp site on Kerr Reservoir. An investigation of property on the lake has already been made and negotiations have Sports Editor FRED BABSON News Editor Society Editor Jerry Reece Eleanor Saunders Ruth Dalton Bernie Weiss. Dick O'Neal Dick Sirkin Editorial Assistant Assistant Sports Editor Circulation & Subscription Mgr. . VHvertisina Manager Photographers Cornell Wright, R. B. Henly MEWS STAFF Dick Creed, Richard Thiele, Charles Childs, Babbie Dilorio, Eddie Crutchfield, Lloyd Shaw, Hal Henderson, Pat Lovatt, Ann Her ring, Bobbie Zwahlen, Mitchell Borden, Jackie Goodman. ,. Ni"ht Editor for this Issue Fred Babson . VIRGINIA'S Cavalier , Daily declared this week, "A pledge should be pbscene, but not ab surd." it A COED at Oklahoma City University placed a want ad. in the school paper to recover some lost, items. Among them were two pencils, a purple formal, one shoe, a pajama bottom, and a suit of long underwear. "It's normal for a girl to lose these things," she said. Editor: Lord knows I couldn't coach a girls' grammar school foot ball team: but I have one ques tion for our many honest to goodness football coaches. How can you let a fine competitive player like A 1 Long sit on the bench. Bullock is a good quar terback. Coach Barclay thinks Marshall Newman is "okeh." Is there any reason in this world why Al' L o n g can't play half back and spell Gravitte and or Keller.? Remember I am ask ing a question and I DO want an answer. A phone call from someone who knows or a letter or even a back of the hand whisper. Al Long, coaches, be longs in that game, not on the bench. cheer"; editorial. May I say that Fountain is a nice guy and a good cheer leader when he stays w;ith it but he loses his crowd whenhe. departs from the scene (To watch the game or for other reasons). His place is on the ramp. Bringing us out of huddles, cheering wounded play ers (on both sides), and keeping up a general hub bub, and shut ting tip when wet are giving signals and the play is on," mid dle of a cheer, or not. - Name wfrhheld by" request However, the SEC is still in been started to secure this proper ty. A camp on Kerr Reservoir. will be able to accommodate about 400 girls each summer. An interim committee to organ- made to take out aMicense as a jze ms council, wrte a constitu- a quandary. They can't make Winchell take out a license as a broker, sincev he does not ac tually sell stock, though he does recommend it. And he can't be stock adviser since he gives in formation in the form of a news- item. The most obvious conclusion is that Winchell is a stock ma nipulator, since every . time he puts out a tip, the stock in ques tion jumps up. But, this can be - -ri-aY-M-rviilatinT otvIv if it benefit; and he has Demerath, Mrs. Sam B. Joyner,. consistently said that he doesn't and Miss Lucille Caldwell, of Chap ' 6wrf 'a "share" of "stock. " el Hill . - - " ' . H'.' tion and apply for a charter will be set up immediately. It is hoped that the organization of the Area Council will be completed early in 1955. - Those taking part in the study included Mrs. A. G. Sadler, Mrs. N. From The Michigan Daily With more university men than ever expect 1 to experience the two, week succession of bn... ! smiles and handshakes that is popularly (.,'; : social fraternity rushing it is certainly appropn . at this time to take an editorial look at the van-n, aspects of the fraternity system. ' '"The primary "concern of a prospective ru-: . is to find the house whose men best personify !, own principles and interests. If he fails m f endeavor it would probably be better if he tn elsewhere for the satisfaction of his grecannw, lure during his remaining college days. The finun i of a satisfactory fraternity is sometimes duiic but if it is once found, the close associations ,i affiliated life can make a person's undergradua! ' years more pleasant ones. The word pleasant is vague but many of th, benefits of fraternity life are intangible. The friend ships gained, the mutual sharing of individual ac complishment and the satisfaction of sacrificing sometimes for group gain are a trio of intangible advantages that are part of fraternity life. Although cynics, pseudo intellectuals and ex treme individualists may deny that these poinN are advantageous to rushees, social fraternities a' give men more party opportunities ( usually a Ira 'ternity will hold registered parties at least once every three weeks) and the chance to meet more 0! the women who managed to survive a sorority rush ing season. A semi loss of individualism, occasional nigh'.s when house conditions are more conducive to library study and pressure to take part in house activities whether they are interesting or not can be listed in this category. , It is because there are disadvantages that a man's choice in the matter is so important. For many who have made the wrong choice the fratern ity experience has been a sour one with disadvan tages waxing very prominent in his memory. Often this person never had an opportunity to savor the good points of fraternity life because he was asso ciating with men far removed from his individual principles and interests. Because the choice is so important first semes ter freshmen are not urged to pledge. Unlike the sororities which hold rushing only once a year, the fraternity system opens its doors to rushees at the beginning of each semester. Consequently if a man pledges during his second semester on campu- lie can still be eligible to move into the fraternity house when his dormitory contract expires. A first semester freshman is not actually ready to rmK-e y eieenon trom the 42 houses existing on campus. Generally he knows very little about other phases of the University let alone the fraternities. A f'rst semester freshman should orientate himself before he gets himself tied permanently.. to an or ganization. 1 To help the orientation process it is suggested that an interested freshman rush casually his first semester. He should go to the open houses today and tomorrow and acquaint himself slightly with the different houses. These first impressions slum! 1 not be conclusive but instead should be introduc tory in nature so that when he takes part in serious rushing next February he will have some back ground on which to base one of the most important decisions of his collegiate life. Quote, Unquote The American Negro, says Zoologist Curt Stern of the University of California in Scientific Amer ican, is doomed to disappear through racial diffu sion. As a group of mankind, American Negroes are relatively new. They have existed for only 300 years, and are already notably mixed. Dr. Stern figures from their blood-group makeup that about two-thirds of their genetic material (heredity) comes from Africa, about one third from Europe. More than 75 per cent of American Negroes have some non-African genes: by 1980 there will be hardly a single U. S. Negro of pure African descent. There will be plenty of dark skinned Ncgroe-, but skin color, Dr. Stern points out, is a supcrfk'al characteristic rather than a dependable indiccator of racial origin. The workings of heredity produce many dark skinned Negroes with thin lips and mai.'-' light skinned ones with thick lips. One type is as mixed as the other, though the vshite populate .n, which judges chiefly by skin color, usually consider -the dark type more authentically Negro. A lii.l.t skinned Negro can pass as white, although in other respects than skin color he may be strongly Negro. Over the generations. Dr. Stern predicts, more light skinned Negroes will be born, and they will tend, even at the present rate of interracial matin;., to diffuse into the white population. The lo- by "passing" of light-skinned individuals may leave the rest of the Negroes darker, on the average, than they are at present. On the other hand, an ir.i'. i of European genes may balance the loss and further dilute the Negro population. After -centuries, says Dr. Stern, most of. the original African genes will be widely dispersed in the numerically dominant white population. Their incorporation will make no change except a sli-ht darkening of the national skin. Eventually there will be a few thousand black people in each gener ation, and thev will probably have straight hair, thick lips and thin noses. "If some person now living," says Dr. Stern, "could return at that distant time, he would ak in wonder: 'What became of the Negro?' " Here are a couple of good courses to keep in mi id when you get ready to pre-register. Religion 23 under Dr.-Boyd; Music 41 under Dr. Newman: lit any 41 under Dr. Radford; English 93 under Ir. Cotten; It'll be time well spent, and you can say when you got through, "That's one I didn't mind."
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