Innocent Flowers Tiring;
Ready For Some Serpents
READER'S RETORT
In Dante's Inferno, the poet and
his guide found heretics in fur
naces, the angry and sullen in dit
ches of muck,' and the eminent Sa
tan himself frozen upside down in
a block of ice. But amidst all the
Availing and agony, the fiery tombs
nid mud. the meek and apathetic
and unpunished trimmers re
main most pathetic.
While others gain their golden
auras or their sIoav burns, the trim
mers sit in sad and pensive regret
for their great sin of indifference.
They never asserted themselves.
They never spoke on what mat
tered. And Dante regards them as
Graham Greene regarded a woman
in one of his novels. It was said by
others that she wasn't even wicked
enough to go to hell.
Lest this be thought -far fetched,
we harge that trimmers aren't con
fined to Dante's divinely comic
world. They live outside books.
Some live on this campus.
Some even run for political of
fice. Some just stay in their rooms,
and with the approach of rn elec
tion tljey shrink deeper into a nar
row sphere of cynical indifference.
They hang signs on their doors:
"No politicians wanted." "No, we ,
aren't interested, Mr. Campaign
er." Sometimes those very doors are
knocked upon by another type of
trimmer who wants political office
without having to tell others why
he wants it. Of course it is easy
enough to be vocal about the bi
cycle rack issue. But as lo other
more penetrating problems candi
dates often remain mute. If enough
trimmers are running for high po
litical office, and no challenger to
all the vapid nonsense comes for
ward, campaigns can 'become las
.coldly dead as Antarctica. It then
becomes doubly difficult to draw
the recalcitrant voters from seclu
sion. Who gets extited about bi
cycle racks? Who sails to lofty
flights of oratory over TV sets?
We suggest that the would-be sa
viors of student government must
convince their forces that it is inad
visable to be a trimmer and a fence
rider on real issues. Those who
take sides may throw themselves
open to furnace blasts, even de
feat. They may be wrong.
But they will avoid being crown
princes of timidity.
A Blow Against Tensions
In an inspiring show of leader
ship, student legislators recently
pasted a bill bluntly and firmly
calling for more benches in front
of dormitories. It was clearly the
most frank and forthright action
taken by the Legislature all year.
Such bold action deserves com
mendation. The legislators made
their purpose abundantly clear
to provide "a haven uom therten
sions and disturbances of modem
life."
Veteran campus bench winners,
uch-as tli iang around Old-West
Doim, . predate full well what
i.voc modern tensions and distur
bances can bring.
Old 'Westers a year or so back
enjoyed sitting on their bench, un
til winter came and the (.Tniversity
grounds custodians led the bench
into hibenation. When winter was
finally over, the Old Westers were -tired
of standing, so they set to
work figuring ways to conquer this
winter tension and disturbance.
A chain, securely locked to an
iron frame stuck in the ground, has
permanently wedded the bench to
Old West. Modern tensions and
disturbances in the bench-sitting
arena are gone, and Old West sits
securely.
Soon, we expect, legislators will
have to structure new legislation to
keep the benches they obtain for
all seasons. After all, the tensions 4
like Old West bench-sitters
know no season.
Campaigners' Blank Chech
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Charlie Daniel
The Lenoir Hall check-cashing
service used to be a sure issue any
time campus politicians talked
about service to the students.
We recall one particular student
President, . Ham Horton, who
boasted that he had set up a ser
vice in the eating hall by means
of which students could cash
checks. The truth of the matter,
revealed a bit later, was that Lenoir
Hall always made it a policy to
cash small checks for student cus
tomers. Nevertheless, we have discovered
a rather' untidy flaw in the present
Lenoir system for cashing checks,
and we are prepared to pass it on
to student politicians of all creeds
for use in spring election cam
paigning provided of course that
they don't claim to have establish
ed a check-cashing service.
Lenoir never, never has a blank
counter check. -
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A
IRaps Arrests
Editors: .
The city of Montgomery, Ala
bama; has arrested 115 Negro cit
izens (among them 26 ministers)
and charged them with organizing
a boycott of that city's buses in
protest to Jim Crow laws. This
unprecedented wholesale arrest
creates an issue that makes seat
ing arrangements on'buses seem
trivial by comparison.
In this country people are free
(theoretically) free to ride
buses, or to walk and free to
urge other people to ride buses
or to walk. Neither the city of
Montgomery, nor the State of
Alamaba, nor any city or any
a bam a
state government has the power
to arrest a citizen of The United
States for openly and honestly
campaigning for or against any
law or ordinance.
The United States - is not a
loose association of 48 independ
ent and sovereign nations (90
years ago it took a war to prove
Megirp.s?2
1 Hope You Brought All Your Tools This Time'
ZiLsutnoA (i X'b "VJ J &2&xi if S!Gs
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The1 ""University Party Speaks
By Mike Weinman
UP Floorlcader
The University Party reports record membership.
We now have a grand total of 170 interested mem
bers, 70 of whom are women.
These 170 members represent every segment of
the Carolina campus. Each dormitory, sorority and
fraternity at Carolina has recognized representation.
An outstanding example of this diversification is our
party officers. Chairman is Bill Sabiston is a non
iraternity man livingin a dormitory; Al Holt, vice
chairman, is a fraternity man living in a fraternity
house; Sue Waldner, secretary, is a non sorority
member living in a dormitory; treasurer John Kerr
is a fraternity member living in a dormitory.
This certainly shows that the University Party
does not represent any one faction of the campus,
but rather all of the campus.
OLDEST PARTY
The University Party, organized in the 1920's, is
the oldest campus political group. Throughout its
life, the party has supplied the campus with the
ablest of student leaders. This year, party members
hold the offices of vice-president and treasurer of
the student (body, president of the senior class, all
junior class officers except one, president and vice
president fo the freshman class. Along with all these
offices, the party has had a majority in the student
Li'I Abnor
Legislature for the past two sessions.
' During the recent recall issue, candidates Louis
Kraar and Ed Yoder, and Lewis Brumfield addres
sed the party. After the talk, there was a question
and answer session, in which any interested person,,
and there were many, could confront the candidates
with any questions they wished to have answered.
Don Fowler, student body president, also recently
addressed the groups This.is typical University Party
activity between elections.
LARGE ROLL
With the membership so large, it became neces
sary to find a means of keeping close contact with
all individual members. This is accomplished by the
University Party Newsletter, a weekly party publi
cation sent to every member. The paper keeps mem
bers informed on committee work and general party
projects.
This year, the party has found it necessary to
hold its nomination, meetings in the Rendezvous
Room of Graham Memorial. The Roland Parker
Lounges are now too small for the conduct of effi
cient nomination meetings. Everyone on campus is
cordially invited to come to these meetings, held
Monday and Tuesday, Feb. 27 and 28, and the fol-'
lowing Monday and Tuesday, March 5 and 6.
We have never been in better position to say
"every student is a plank in our platform."
that). It is a Federal -union. The
Constitution and Bill of Rights "
apply to every citizen whether
he be from Rhode Island or Ala
bamawhether he be black,
brown, tan, yellow, or white.
Has prejudice and bigotry so
decayed the judgment ot white
supremacists that they are will
ing to abrograte the principles
that this nation supposedly cham
pions in order to preserve the
sanctity of segregation?
Now. is the. time for the Fed-'
eral Government to show Ala
bama and anyone else who might
be watching that the Constitu
tion's more than a document to
be studied by political science
classes and that the question of
"second class citizenship"- was
settled in 1865.
Ken Pruitt
Ivy League Garb Called
Sell-Out Tq Yankees
Editors: -
Upon incompleteing two years -at
the "Athens of the South" I
was unceremoniously asked to
waste my time elsewhere: To get
even with the University for not
recognizing my stellar merits I
joined the Army because I felt
that they needed me. They did
n't.. 3,929,101.23 seconds later I re
turned to the University. The
great day had arrived. But could
it be something less than I had
hoped for?
You're right. Nawth Ca'linians,
Tarheels born and bred, the reb
el's rebel, people who used to
save their Confederate money
cause they know'd the South
would rise again, had done put
away the Stars and Bars, drat
their cotton-pickin hide, jined
up with the enemy, and revealed
the scalawags "that they was.
(Before,-maybe! But now, you
cowards, we got Oak Ridge on1
our sidej What had them mis
'able, dirty dcalin', back-stab-bin',
magnolia blossom hat'n
pack of insuf'able ingrates done
to our -sacred heritage? They
had jined forces with the carpet
baggers; only, this time, they
wore them bags on their backs!!
You can imagine my surprise
to see a man wearing' burlap in
a three-button-role. Ivy League!!
Man, tha's Ivy League .... I ask
myself-and you what has happen
ed when a North Carolinian and
a Southern Gentlemen can't
cloth himself without APEING
DAMN YANKEES AND FURI
NERS!!!!!!!! x
Hugh Herbert Ross III
Radar Traps.
Motorists in some numbers
around and about over the Unit
ed States have evidenced indig
nation at being caught in what
they term "radar speed traps."
Some of these same motorists, as
well as others who have not
been trapped but fear they will
be, have gone to vsome pains to
avoid these so-called traps. A re
porter on The Minneapolis Star
recently made -an exhaustive
study of this problem and found
a sure-fire way to avoid such
"traps." We are happy to pass
the secret along. It is: Don't
speed. ; Memphis Commercta1i
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Farm Wess
By Joseph a Steward
, WASIUNGTON - A loud, bitle.
fight is about to start over
the farm k
tarv of Agriculture Ezra Taf n
contend that American agriculture0
cause' of rigid high price suPport5 li5 !
will just as stubbornly contend th-'t
nn 1 1 i yft tc? in n mnoci U V.;
luse nf r,.
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wild i iiic uuuuuu is an aoyut
And most people will have oniv , c
One way to grasp what the hubb b
is to take one farm commodity and"'
happened to it. Rice happens to prov?
and reasonably typical example. V '
The rice story starts in 1941, whent1
government decided to stimulate rice c '
wartime purposes. The farmers were 0i
ernment guarantee that they would v '
the parity price for their rice crops rjl'
artificially established fair return for'
BIG PROFIT ' j
This in effect guaranteed big fni.
some profit, and rice producUon sh
during the war just what the wart J'.
hoped. After the war, the parity gu3r;
of being dropped, was actually increajj .
to 9). And between. 1940 and the re
price of rice almost doubled, while f
period production more than double"
government guaranteed profit was sq
made. i
Parity payments are supposedly cn a ;
sis. But the loan is strictly a "heads the'1
wins, tails the government loses" prop- '
price of his crop goes down and stays V
producer pockets the loan, no question'
it goes above the parity price, he can s;
at the higher price and pocket the differ
For the really big producers, this svr.:
deed a thing of beauty. On the 1954
ample, the last on which a public record
able, the Craighead Rice Milling Cok-
' kansas collected S431.853 courtesy of tic: "
Charles Schwartz Farms of California p ;
the Louisiana Irrigation and Mill Compa:
whopping $486,725, and J. K. and C. E, G
biggest Mississippi producers, collected a i
tively measly $177,624.
AVERAGE
The average payment of course, is muci;
the range of $8,000. But even this is a z
respectable sum to suggest why there is :
political steam Denind parity payments,
as the system is for the recipients ol the'
largesse, it has certain peculiar sideefoci-
In the first place, of course, with suck
tive to produce, enormous surpluses are t:
in. the case of rice, more than a year's s.
overhangs the rice market. This io torn
the price of the commodity, and males r
more expensive for the government to y;
price. The result is a vicious circle if ever .:
one.
In the second place, the huge surpluses;
an immense pressure to get rid of the s':
how, anyhow, and dumping abroad locks vr
ing. But even a little dumping can be a c.
v thing.
RICE SURPLUS
Some time ago, a mere two million bJ
plus American rice was sent to Japan. I:."
Asian market weakened. Since then, ne;:
rapidly gained ground in Siam, while E,
been forced to make a deal with the Co
bloc, to exchange Burmese rice for mac...
South East Asia finally goes Communist i
due in part to American agricultural par
There are variations in the pattern of c:.
the rice story is reasonably typical. A Sera'
ture subcommittee, after examining the
had both depressed home markets and p::
ican cotton farmers out of foreign &
eluded unanimously: "The primary cause of
sent deplorable condition in which the A
cotton farmer finds himself is the farm F"
the United States."
No doubt the American farmer, in h;s j
exposed economic position, needs govern:
port and subsidies. But surely a system
us great harm abroad, weakens prcies
costs the taxpayers large sums of mo.
immense financial benefit of a few big F;
not an ideal solution of the farm pro
as he has been in many ways, in this ro
tary Benson surely has the best of the a
Intellectuals
By H. I. Mencken
The United States has not only t;
duce a genuine aristocracy; it has
produce an indigenous intelligent13.' Jv
intellectuals of the country are
vanes blown constantly by foreign
but not always English.
Philosophy consists very largcb
opher arguing that all others are .
usually proves it, and I should a3
usually proves that he is one himci .
The public schools of the
Unite"3
1S u ...... ere-
damarrpd vprv sprinuslv when "l : ..
by the State. So long as they were P
f them iCl
tain amount of professional aU'
it went a considerable dignity
all petty jobholders, and show tne ,
goes with the trade. Even savage ,t
ufciitj ouiuiiua ui un. ,,,.hs.
Doys are taught, not oy putu - j;.
1 4 1 ,1... '
urn men, anci mc t11n!yJ
them really educates. This is c?lh