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4. TUESDAY THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO All-Campus Conference ay Die From Neglect M The rnivtMsity'.s only f'oriun ol students faculty, and administra tion hovers near death, mainly be iathe of the student Legislature's neglect. rite All-Campus C-onference in the past two springs brought toge ther all three segments of Carolina to discuss common problems. It ollered the only formal meeting "round for students, fatuity, and administration. And at these.meet ins, each ;roup came to under stand the others. - lint the death pains closed in eaily this past fall, when the stu dent 'Legislature refused to rant funds for printing the All-Campus Conference's rejxnt from last spring. ( I he money was appropri ated last spring, but reverted bat k to the legislative till at school-year's end; legislators refused to ive it back in the fall.) Nou with spring semester well in progress, student legislators have yet to be"'ui pl;vns for this All-Campus Conference. Chancellor I louse, evaluating last spring's njeeiint, declared: "L.dut ation has already improvetl when faculty and students sit down tojciher and examine process, ways and means. I hope very much that this be-inninj- will be tarried for waid in the years to tome and that this means of eliciting con structive iacuhv and 'student, thought may become the resource for the University .wiiich it certain ly can be." The Daily Tar Heel firmly agrees with, the chancellor. We iire student legislators, before currents of spring elections surround them, to be; in work on this year's All Campus Conference. Reputation In, Soul Out In Alabama we hae seen what fierv publicity can do to a univer sitv's reputation." With those words, the Cniversi ty of Mississippi student newspa per has withdrawn from a dispute with the University chancellor. Or. J. 0. Williams. A month or so ajjo, the Mississippian, edited by student Wallace Sherwood, raised eloquent protest when the chancellor. an- nounced intent to cancel an invi tation to the Rev. Alvin Kershaw. The Rev. Mr. Kershaw, a sworn enemy of segregation, was to speak -anti advance itleas acutely un popular in Mississippi on the race question. The Chancellor said ensuing publicitv might damage the University. The Mississippian s.vid it stood 'rig idly for segregation, but that it stood at the same time lor open debate. It stood for the principle that students should for sake sj.on-fed prejudice, hear both sides, and think the issue through. Haul on the heels of the Miss Lucy incident' at Alabama, the Chancellor has tie through with his plan; he has-r evoked 7 the Rev. Mr. Kershaus sp -aking invitation. And wi.h him, iIk student news paper has turned from the garri sons of debate and run. A month ago, the newspaper was getting no tice lor its slant! against suppres sion. Today its line is this: "We certainly agree with (Chancellor) Williams that it would be unwise for Kershaw to speak at Ole Miss. How could students enhance their spiritual life when the garish flash of cameras replaces the fulfilling glow of Christ?" . That essential right of debate, of hearing both sides, so important to The Mississippian a month ago, has gradually become non-essen-'tial in the face of possible bad pub licity. "Reputation" - is at stake, claims the editor in a signed edi torial. Now that the newspaper has piintetl a long letter from the Rev erent! Mr. Kershaw, the obligation ol the University of Mississippi to heal him is filled, in The Mississi ppian s shifting eye. Happily. 'The Mississippian's sudden rcxtrsal is not sitting well with several University iof Missis sippi students. Especially the student-. who commented, with telling sarcasm: . , . We must have nothing to do with these people. Some of their subversive ideas might rub off on our sacred instjtutions. They might contaminate the minds of our inno cent young people, mdwe'ean! ict that happen. Such "beliefs are like a contagious disease' which one catches upon exposure the only protection is complete quarantine. Free inquiry is the soul of a University. We wonder what it profits the LTniversity of Mississip pi tt) save its "reputation" if it los es that soul. Vote In Recall Today As our enterprising advertising manager said, perhaps a bit hyper bolicallv, "Not since the issue of Saturday classes has there been so much written, spoken, and shout ed about one issue iii Chapel Hill." Although this may overstate the rase, campus interest in today's "re call election is great. And, despite the images it may evoke, we find it heartening that Carolina can get worked upover a campus issue, and debate it with skill and vigor. Now both sitles have been heard. The tlelrates have been rehashed, The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board 01 the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C., under the Act of March 8, 137r. Subscription rates: nailed, S-t per year, $2.50 a se mester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a se mester. Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Managing Editor ... FRED POWLEDGE News' Editor CIi!RLIE JOHNSON Business Ma:iger . BILL BOB PEEL Sports Editor WAYNE BISIIOP Advertising Manager Dick Sirkin Asst. Bjs. Manager Carolyn Nelson Coed Editor Peg Humphrey Circulation Manager Jim Kiley Subscription Manager . Jim Chamblee Staff Artist Charlie Daniel BUSINESS STAFF Fred Katzin, Stan Bershaw, Rosa Moore, Charlotte Lilly, Ted Wainer, Daryl Chascn, Johnny Witafcer. . . . OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editoT ial, sjbscription: 9-3361. News, busi ness: 93371. Night phone: 8-444 or 8445. EDITORIAL STAFF BilTo'Sullivan, Bill Ragsdale. Niuht -Editor Hike Vester - tntl the rehashes have been chal lenged and counter - challenged. The arguments are all in, and to day the campus electorate will ren tier its ertlict at the prills. We urge each student to go to the polls and vote in accordance with his own convictions. Wanted: Equal Time A television program presented by KdwartI R. Murrow reflected the growingj discontent of Ameri ca's farm population and, incident ally, brought the demand from' Seiretary of Agriculture Benson for -equal 'network time. ' The (Columbia TJroadcasting System, in its usual fair manner, has just rraiued the Secretary equal time. It seems to us thr.t how Repub licans should take the . lesson in fair play to heart and grant Adlai Stevenson equal time in the White I louse. So Long, Tarzan The public schools, we note, are rais ing up a generation of "trash"-free minds. No Bobbsey Twins, Hardy Boys or Horatio Alger have they. Not only do the school libraries not have the books. They militantly do not have- them and do not want them because they are "trashy fiction, poorly written.'" Although the indictment comes to us with something of a shock we always thought Horatio was a manly, deserving lad we're in no mood to argue. School books are. the school's business, and we can't see the relegation to oblivion of Tarzan, the Lone Ranger and Jack Arm strong as an indication they are not tending to it. Suits us if the schools toss out the Wizard of Oz if there is better written stuff to replace him. As to their duty to school patrons, however, we think the librarians should have a care. "Trash," indeed! That epithet tarnishes a lot of raisin', includ ing ours and probably that of some of the librarians, too. STEVENSON CAMPAIGN 9 oonnnoniS By Doris Fleeson SAN DIEGO, Calif. In his first moments of seclusion since he entered California, Adlai Steven soji turned his -full attention to the civil-rights is sue. , Stevenson is told that he has failed to satisfy the legitimate hunger of the Negro people for Federal guarantees against such violence as is being prac ticed against a Negro woman student at the University of Alabama. He is unhappy about it his managers are unhappy. 'GUT REACTION' The former Illinois governor ,is willing to match his "gut reaction" against violence with any man's. That he has failed adequately to express it he is being fo.ced to ponder. The national press for one thing is asking for transcripts of his remarks. They are stronger and more detailed than those of President Eisenhower. Indeed the President's re marks are barely noted outjiere norms' it mentioned that he will shortly vacation at the Georgia estate of his Treasury Secretary, George Humphrey, next door to Alabama. Yet the President has the nation- i al' office and the power to act. The Stevenson staff points this out. The fact remains that civil-rights is an emotion al, racial issue of burning importance to the party whose nomination for President Stevenson seeks. To any Republican.it is hardly a political problem at all and only a segment of the party feels deep emotion about , it. MISFORTUNE Stevenson had the-further misfortune that the Alabama story broke coincidental!' with his foray into the vital primary in this state where civil rights is an important issue. Also his, hand was forced by his underdog rival Senator Kefauver. The feeling in the Stevenson camp is that he was inadequately briefed by his local handle: both on this and many other aspects of his campaign. He clearly needs, am advance,, man with better political antena than amjable Hy Haskins, assistant to his campaign manager, James Finn'egan. Because Stevenson has all the party big wheels on his side, details and rank and file problems were neglected. The candidate also needs a bigger staff.: to help handle the press and write drafts suitable for the 'If I 1 I f 1 i :i I i MM fit J ' . ill ; ill 1 f 1 ID O v O VC a? s rj ? 1 i.Vy-'wvif, 1 1 t. -J -: m- 1 1 Mil t ! IB ; TUT X :wi Wn" Sii mm(. jtClCy :!; s. I r f 1 - 1 1 1 t V : ; ... Si - w H;? f ((? US . - m i :,.: , ..'V- More Comments; From Readers Concert Segregation Called Inconsistent Editors: On last evening my wife, a friend of ours, and I attempted to attend Mr. Williams Warfield's recital at Memorial Hall. After purchasing our tickets we were informed by an usher of the Stu dent Entertainment Committee that a section had been reserved in the balcony for Negro patrons. Certairily we could not accept this type of arrangement, Hence, we secured a refund and left. It seems so inconsL'lent that Mr. Warfield, a Negro artist, was being forced to sing to an au dience where members of his own race had to be segregated. We have written Mr. Warfield's Man ager calling this incident to his attention because I am certain that Mr. Warfield wa not con scious of such arrangements. The usher stated that the rea son for the segregation was State owned property. I did not want to force the issue with him or create a scene but we attend the concert series at North Carolina College and I have see'p mem bers of your faculty attending these concerts, however, they are not subjected to discriminatory practices in spile of the fact Slate property is involved. - I think it' advisable that we bring this incident to your atten tion because I have followed, with a great deal of interest, the editorial column of the Daily Tar Heel and it seems to ap proach the segregation problem' from a liberal point of view. W. A. Clement Durham Student Queries Nance About Recall, Freedom Editors: I am writing to say that I hope you are reelected. I feel that any other outcome would be defeat of the press and "a warning to any future editors not to say anything too commital on any issue more controversial than a Christmas card list. To Junior Nance: 1. If your primary concern in submitting a recall petition was not to remove Kraar and Yoder, then why wasn't s-uch a peti tion circulated before Tatum's hiring if you were dissatisfied before then? ' 2. Is limited freedom any freedom at all. If you want to present a view opposing that of the editors, just write a letter. I have seen in the last two weeks many more letters opposing' the editors than those for them. As for The Daily Tar Heel repres enting the views of its "stock holders" students aren't these letters proof that the only limit , to the presentation of s-tudent opinion in The Daily Tar Heef is the student's own interest or laziness? And doesn't the writing of ed , itorials with unpopular views stimulate thought. Most of us .would not have thought nearly as much about controversial is- ' sues without the Simulation of opposition. 3. What opinion would you print in;an editorial on an issue over which the campus was equal ly or in many parts divided? As for athletics, I am in favor of reform, but I would suggest that it be conference-wide. The Ivy League did it; we can too. But even if I were for Big-Time professional football, complete with all its fault.?, I am still for freedom of the press, and I would still support Kraar and Yoder. Grace Alley Spoon-Feeding It is not only that we feed them (students), in the form of lectures and textbooks and outlines, ail the information they will need to pass a series of examinations-. The spoon-feeding carries .over into other areas as well. Thus we pro vide our students with their sports and games, wasting hund rerj of thousands of dollars and enormous energy and time on puerile athletic spectacles which do no conceivable good and ac tually cause immense harm education . Tr m.pr. f dozen occasions of a normal day. NO DECISION " There is no sign of any important California de-fection.-The remarks of Negro dissidents who spoke up at Los Angeles have been reviewed and are not thought to be dangerous. Still, any feeling that Stevenson took a merely correct position, a purely intellectual approach to what can easily be, as the Alabama incident proves, a matter of life and death, is a warning ripple in the Democratic political pond. If it spread, it could be dangerous to him. Adlai Stevenson will never breathe fire and brimstone. His comments to date reflect his gen uinely moderate temper. He is too steeped in Lin coln lore to wave a bloody shirt and he is one who believes that had Lincoln's moderation and con ciliatory spirit been truly understood by the South there would have been no Civil War. Hence his inner debate is over the question of what in truth and honor he can do to meet a con dition, not a theory. to Why not sweep away the whole absurd paraphernalia of organiz ed intercollegiate sports, . with their insatiable demands for money, 'their fantastic distraction ' of energy, their immoral imphasis on winning teams and on spec tator interest, and let the stu dents manage their own games. llnfy Steede Comniager in The New York Times Magazine. Reader's Retort Alumni Wire DTH Support From Mannheim, Germany Editors: TO THE STUDENT BODY: URGE CONFIDENCE IN DAILY TAR HEEL LEADERSHIP OF KRAAR AND YODER IN TUES DAY'S ELECTION. OUSTER WOULD BE GRAVE DEPARTURE FROM TRADITION. Mannheim, Germany Ken Penegar Gene Cook Robert Pace Al Lowenstein Paper Supported by Taxes Should Be Uncontroversiat Editors: If I mighty I should like to finish my work here without becoming involved in this sort of activity, but that is difficult for any man who dis likes being forced to pay his money for your sup port. - - -v - In spite of the incessant talk about it, there is no real freedom of expression for the student here, freedom has always been reserved for the favored minority, which has been kept in power by the ever present interference of the university admin istration, and by the use of student funds to pub lish the editors' personal campaign literature. Whenever any true expression of student opin ion appears, the administration immediately acts to bring it under control. Always, we see the inter ference of some dean, eager to encourage whatever sort of atmosphere in the school that he thinks will win him a pat on the head when he goes off visiting in the Ivy League. That situation .is clearly il lustrated by thfr withdrawal of one candidate from the approaching recall election, with the remark that he felt handicapped by his having to run against "the assorted deans of the- university." If the . University acknowledged the truth by stopping the affectation of student "freedom", that honest action might be respected. If it kept its snuffling noses out of student elections, that re straint, too, might be respected. The existing farce cannot be respected. The most laughable part of the whole slapstick comedy is the monumental clamor about "freedom of the press." It must be admitted that no partici pant has stated the issue clearly. The Daily Tar Heel cannot be compared to a corporation, with the students as stockholders, because the student does not have a stockholder's freedom to get rid of his stock. The Daily Tar Heel is a monopoly supported by a form of taxation. It is not only a part of what is, with undue flattery, called "student govern ment"; it is also, by some legally questionable dele gation of state power, a part of the government of North Carolina, for this university is a state uni versity, and attendance here is conditional upon the payment of the tax to The Daily Tar Heel. The American political philosophy has always maintained that a government publication ought not to be used for personal or partisan purposes. The government does not publish a paper analogous to Pravda or The Daily Tar Heel. It does publish information, but domestic political controversy would riot be tolerated in, for instance, the Journal of Research of the National Bureau of Standards. No government publication is a part of the "free . press." ... It is unfortunate that the student, during a very impressionable period in his life, should be taught that a tax-fed monopoly is representative of the American free press. The free press is that press whose publisher and customer are both free. If we want a free press, we must free the customer and permit him to de cide whether he wants to subscribe to your paper. Of course, it will be said that without taxation we can have no paper, The university will probably renounce the principle and continue , to present a crude little burlesque of freedom. If we want a paper supported by taxation, then we ought to follow the American way, by forbidding ' it to publish controversial editorials. . -- John M- Ruth Congr By The Ais-J WASHTYn in the current ses.- v gress, one thin parent. . The Eisenhower 1 tion's legislative masterpiece 0f pf in an election y,ar. " The program is w,- 1 lculated to exploit sion in the Demop. As a result, the Dc eontrol of both HoJ"' ralyzed on a whole J? S litically potent do As one of the shrewd ' vers in Capitol Hill ed, 'The Republican ' is going to haveada- nouncing 'that n ': ing, Democratic 84th Cur Take the school kL mocrats were Prepared P-loit this Pmnti...,',' issue, by pas-sing the D-school-aid bill as almosf. order of business in But the Administratis V with a bill of its own, venting the Democrats ing the sole glory for school children. At the a Democrat, Adam C!a ell of New York, threaj introduce an amendment" ding Federal aid to r gated schools. The Republican Joe Martin and Chariest: passed the word to sup: Powell amendment, thus . assuring its pase-a-of course, 'assuring the j being filibustered to death : Senate. But this will k ' Republicans in a happy si:.' They will be able tod: dit for supporting the ' amendment with Negro k the same time, they ' to pin the blame for rr the school aid bill squar the Democrats. In this si:.; the Democratic leaders h t the school bill off theEoort they wrestle with iheir .1 ing dilemma. I The President has zv. that he means to ask C, for legislation to establish., rights commission, to ::; into racial discrimination Southerners immediate! : clear that they would L this mode.-;t proposal to d; .; Senator Strom Tunr South Carolina, for t:: wrote his constituents th would speak on the. issue there was "breath in his b Some Democrats dark!. t pect that the Admin means to spring still r." rights proposals, in order j ploit further the Xor;h-Sc; in the party. But it is no! i are paralyzed. j President Eisenhower j broadened coverage for imum wage. But many Sc. ers bitterly oppose this, tr it ii expected to come tOj ing. The President has 2 commended that the pr?; of the McCarran Immigrs"-'. an emotional issue a ity groups, be "re-examine, it is most unlikely that j', mocratic leadership attempt to revise the act. j Then there is reviser. scheme, both of whiehj Taft-Hartley Act, and dent's modest health re . most certainly be bloCa- -gether it is easy to see v-. Democrats press the so lovingly to their bor just about aM they have g But even here they iW! appointed. The present f. tion is that 90 per cent at -will be tacked onto the A tration farm program, help of Republican votes f belief is growing thatM1".; dent may sign the bu- grounds that it is 03 ; good legislation, despite - ty provisions. Thus even this faVCj cratic issue may be abo- -, if Secretary of Agnc j Benson then resigns in r,i as he has indicated-it 'j remarkably little P; breasts of farm state cans. ,5 Finally, the Pf.. ministration will of the session. i r, shrewdly-led Democrat-, have a trick or two up ves. But they are o j . danger of being bac. corner on many ready i is clear tha. j stration has been Pu" sure-footed and political perfurnian.'.,. contrast to the lllin; ' ; first couple cf Je,u rds
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