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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SUNDAY The Carolina Symposium: 'Patriotism Preferable The Carolina' Symposium on Public Affairs ended with the elo quent oratory of General Carlos Romulo Friday niht. While we have n access to the powers and principalities ' of the air, we think we sense a sharp awakening of new social conscious ness on the, campus. In our book, the Symposium caused it; and in our book, too, the Symposium's work .is second in importance to but one event the lowering of un dergraduate racial barriers on this campus this year. It should be a source of pride. Maybe a short moral may be drawn from the events of the week; As General Romulo spoke Fri dav night, some 300 present and prospective Patriots of North Car olina convened 'ten miles away in llillsboio to be inspired with their brand of patriotism. One prom-' incut "patriot" told an applauding audience that having "a generation of North Carolina with some cur tailment of 'schooling" is "far pre ferable' to obeying the law of the land in the segregation matter. In Chapel Hill, General Romu- lo's audience, pushing Memorial Hall capacity, dwarfed the 300 "pa triots" and gave the General -a standing ovation for Ills insistence that democracy .must transcend rac ial and national lines. Similar re action, "from the same number, had come to Major L. P." McLendon's words: "That some people are, -serious about abolishing' North Caro lina's public school system seems incredible The majority of the Southern people will obey the law even though they disagree with it." 1 And to the words of Dr. Frank P. Graham: "Steps to abolish the public school are steps backward in the life of democracy 'in Ameri ca and of freedom in the world." Governor' Hodges, in Memorial Hall to introduce his old friend General Romulo, Jiad said in a' statement earlier in the day: "We ...must continue our education al progress on all fronts." Perhaps Dr. lake's patriotism has high stock elsewhere. We hap pen to think it hasn't. In Orange County, anyway, Dr. Lake with his "curtailment of schooling" seems a little outnumbered and a good bit behind the times. Olden Zest Is Gone The Greensboro Dailv News has alertly beat us to the twirl. "What," it asks, "ever happened to the old fashioned stag line that made . . . college dances so , much fun a generation ago? Has it gone completely out oh date, along with the front porch rocker, the covered bridge and the wood stove?" Those were the days when pretty teenagers and college prom-trotters came to the dance bedecked in taf feta and satin ard. tulle. They were pretty girls. They looked it and they knew it." And the laughed and fliited and twirled their way through the evenin?, dancing with dozens of dif ferent boys. A girl's popularity and the success of her-evening were gaug ed by the length of the stag line of eager males waitng to break. But today? A gin dances all even ing with s?iny""who brougnt her, , the boy she "goes Steady" with from Iho rge of fifteen on. Or else the girls eschew the evening dresses and the dance, don qld skirts and sweaters or Bermuda shorts and hie themselves off to what might be termed an "in formal" cabin party. The gentlemen at, Greensboro are quite right. A disastrous change has come to daitre 'customs, such, in fact, that dances as institutions are tottering more than waltzing .along. Nowadays, many big dances are bores. . the boredom starts with the couple who "find it had hard to make original conversation through 'the long hours of a big dance, prob ably fdance together often enough to consider their mutual fortes on the floor unpeppery, and are frus trated by the fact that one can Manbo and one can Charleston but neither can do both. After 38 straight dances with the same person, who isn't ready to flee Uf the more abandoned and rclaxetl party and swear off dances? Nor is there much common sense in modern day stags. Every dance has them, but disorder and infor mality force them to bunch herd like into loose groups at the side, where 'they-talk and pay the dahicc no mindr.or in the smack middle of the dance floor where they promptly trip someone-and, while bowing backwards in apology, step on the lace train of Sally Sub tletoe's tafeta and rip it to the point of shocking revelation. Stags, there's no doubt about it, are the bugaboos of dancing. The result is either ennui or chaos, and dances in general have lost their olden zest. Segregation & Industry A specialized wood working 'con cern looked over several locations near North Carolina's coast recent- The DailyTar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and va:ation periods and summer terms. Entered as secpnd class matter in the put oifice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under tlie Act of March 8, 187?. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 'per year, $2.50 a se mester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a se mester. f 1 Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Managing Editor... CHARLIE JOHNSON Business Manager . BILL BOB PEEL Sports Editor . WAYNE BISHOP Advertising Manager ,., Dick Sirkin Coed Editor . Peg Humphrey Subscription Manager Jim Chamblee Stall Artist .-.Charlie Daniel B USINESS STAFF Fred Katzin, Star Hers haw, Rosa Moore, Charlotte Lilly, Ted Waincr, Daryl Chasen, Johnnj itnker. y OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editor ial, subscription: 9-3361. News, busi ness':, 9 3371. Night phone: 8-444 or 8 443. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Mike Ves ter, Joan Mclean, Charlie Sloan, Dan Fowler, Jim Creighton, Don Seaver. EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Bill Ragidale, 53ht Editor Clarke Jones ly but it decided to build else where. Why did the firm reject a loca tion, in what- has been termed the fastest growing area in the South east? It decided agninst the North Carolina coastal locations because, as the New York Times repot ed, "it found that tax rates were ab normally high as result of the com munities'.efforts to build and mod ernize separate school facilities for Negroes." That concern was just one of many that are no longer favoring Southern sites for business expan-. sion because of racial tensions., This economic fact of life' may not seem sufficient grounds for many revising their personal views on integration. But, from a prac tical standjKnnt, if the Southern industrial boom is going to con tinue, rac ial tensions must be set tled soon. Those who contend the South can build its own plants with Southern capital forget , that the need for skilled labor and satisfied wokcrs also will apply to regional ly sponsored plants. Take, for ex ample, the major electrical equip ment company that decided to open more Southern plants: The com pany feels it will not be able to obtain .enough technical and engi neering personnel (most of whom must be recruited from the North) to staff a new Southern plant. For Southerners .who cast aside the moral, ethical, and legal argu ments on desegregation, we sug gest pondering the future plight of Southern industry in a screen t cd 'South. 0 ON THE TOWN 'm'' ft. ' ": ' A 'if Mooijies Ely Chuck Hauser Chapel Hill Weekly In a column last week I chal lenged a statement in the report of the Visiting Committee of the University Board of Trustees that the office of the Dean of Student Affairs was making a "genuine and sincere effort" to solve the campus - community automobile and-traffic problem. My thesis was "based on the sup position that Dean Fred Weaver had, in effect, closed his mind to the question of restricting student ownership of automo biles. I said that any efforts to ward solving the problem could not be "genuine and sincere" if they did not include continuing consideration of such restric tions as one possible step toward easing the situation. I was unfair to Dean Weaver. I have learned in the last week, through conversations with seve ral people (including Mr. Weav er himself), that the question of whether students or certain groups' of students should,, be prohibited from keeping cars at school has been a subject of con cern and study of a number of student - administrative commit tees for a long time, and is still a subject of study both by the committees and by Dean Wcav cr. It is not a closed subject, and if there are closed minds con cerning -it. Dean Weaver's is not among them, although he clearly .w.ould prefer not to Impose such restrictions. 'DISCUSSION In. my discussion of this mat ter with the Dean, I told hinr I thought his office was at fault in two areas for lack of general understanding on what it is do ing about the automobile prob lem: (1) The absence of good public relations on the work be ing done, and (2) an unfortu nate habit of ambiguity and ' lack of frank, clearcut policy state ments (on other problems 'as well as this one). .1 Dean Weaver invited me to challenge him anytime I thought he was not being frank and clear on any subject. This I will do in the future. OBLIGATION V " In reference to point 1 above, he said v he -did not feel it was an obligation of his office to call in the press every time a meet ing or discussion was held on the subject, and', with this I agreed, although I insisted that the obligation should not lie alone with the press to dig out what is being accomplished in as crucial a field of study as the automobile problem. However, I pleaded guilty to not maintain ing a close liaison with the of fice of the Dean of Student Af- n Aeaver o (i V f aire fairs, largely because of point 2 above, that I 'had grown tired of what, in my opinion, were ambiguous and confusing state ments ofpolicy. PROBLEM The "automobile and traffic problem (and it is a problem for the town as much, er more, than it is a problem for the campus) is "an extremely serious one. It not only should be of honest con - cern to us all, but we will all benefit 'from an easing of the "situation and' we should all be willing to work together to reach any feasible solution. There may not be much time left. The University Board of Trustees, impatient with the ' problem as a source of never ending complaints, may well step in and take the ball away from local officials if someone doesn't score a few points fair ly soon. CANDIDATES The presidential candidates and the candidates for editor of The Daily Tar Heel will meet today at 2 p.m. in the Woodhouse Confer ence Room for questioning by the Veterans Committee. Veterans are especially invited to attend, according to Darwin Bell, . legislature candidate from Victory Village and co-chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee. 'That'll Just Show You How Flexible I Am' pi?" -v vi.. f i 'Jt S ' READERS RETORT Assajls Editorial On Meyers Editors I have just finished reading your editorial" in the March 8, 1956, Daily Tar Heel conerning Campbell College and John -V. Meyers. Again, as many times this year, your editorial seems to indicate that you are either fuzzy-minded liberals or inconaclastic dupes of the extreme left wing groups which are such threats to" the world today. " Doens't it seem a little strange to you that" a man would hide behind the Fifth Amendment if he had nothing s to hide? Hqre again, you prove to me that you are either "urfwittyig hand-maidens" or complete fools. Don't you know, that as a gen eral rule, this subterfuge is an old Communist trick to make person's just like yourselves fall for their plight? You" editors are like a great majority of persons in and around college towns, especially Chapel Hill, who 'areAvhat I call Strict Theorists. By this I mean that you think and deal completely in theories and do not look at the practical side of a question at all. There are many things .which, according to theory, are plausible, but just try to put them into practical application and you find that they just don't; work. Communism is a good example of this. - Mr. Meyers has, as most persons invoking the Fifth Amendment, attempted to label his accusers as self confessed "spies. This is the same old Party Line used by all members of the Communist Patty, i.e., to beMttle your accuser so that the public, and the editors of The Daily Tar Heel, will side with the "poor oppressed individual." 1 Don't you think Mr. Meyers would testify if- he had nothing to hide? " Aman with clean bands doesn't, mfhd showing . them." I "feel quite sure that Mr. Meyers is not such a Strict Theorist that he is simply not going to testify because, of prin ciple. You say in your editorial and I quote "The Campbell. Trustees . . . have made th"emselves the tools of public, hysteria." Well, my thought provoking editors, you have made yourselves the tools of the Communist 'TJarty. Fred S. Hutchins Jr. " ' . Birmingham, Ala. Tic-Jack-Toe Electronic scientists produce a device which de feats grown men at tic-tack-toe with ridiculous ease. N , Whici snakes it as smart as the - average 7-year-old girl. Bill Vaughan in The Kansas City Star nmary Analysis By Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON New Hamp shire shows that the American voter has very little use for half in, half-out strategy. ' Supporters of Adlai Stevenson tried to make some easy capital for hinf in a state he refused to enter. They were humiliating ly rebuked and have succeeded only in increasing the value and dimensions of Sena tor. Estes Ke fauver's victory in the nation's first ' Presidential primary. President Eisenhower and his managers have been working the same type of squeeze on Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Nixon is not out, they say, and he's a fine fellow, but he's not in either and won't be until after the Republican convention re nominates the President August 20 next. ' RESULTS The immediate result in New Ilampshire was a surprisingly large write-in vote for the Vice President. It appears to be about a third of the total received by the president, whose name was in the ballot while Nixon's was not. The Kefauver-Stevenson story is fairly obvious. What happened in the Nixon write-in will be the object of much careful exam ination. The Vice-President's support ers can be expected to contend that it is a spontaneous outpour ing of sympathy and offers proof the party approves of him. Cer tainly the size of the write-in was wholly unexpected. EVIDENCE Yet, there is evidence that Senator S.tyles Bridges and the GOP right wing, of which he is the senior statesman,, went to some trouble to promote non Nixon sentiment. This is the group that would nave rallied behind Senator William F. Know land, of California, had the Pres ident refused to run again. With Eisenhower up again, Knowland's bid has collapsed. All of the seven candidates in New Ilampshire who filed for him were defeated. It would be that those who share the views of the Republican right wing figure their best chance of ex pressing themselves now lies with the Vice-President. Such seasoning would not be difficult to understand. It is the Eastern internationalist wing of the GOP which has expressed doubts about Nixon. He cannot be expected lo Ijike them too much. This opens up the sym pathy avenue for the right wing. WARNING v It- was Senator Bridges who took soundings in his state months ago and warned Know land it would be utterly useless to buck the Eisenhower tide. The v President's 1952 cam paign manager in New Hamp shire was Governor Sherman Adams, now his principal White House assistant. Adams steered clear of the present primary, reasoningy that he would only muddy the waters. He and Brid ges are political foes. On the Democratic side, the New Hampshire primary was of vital importance xonly to Ke fauvef'. Had ' he slipped there, the refrain that "a vote for Ke fauver is wasted because he can't be nominated" would have risen to a shout. This was the principal ammunition of the 1 Stevenson slate. Also, the Ke fauver campaign contributions not heavy now, would have dried up. Stevenson chose Minnesota as his big test. He is now orp notice that Kefauver does have vote ap peal and that he had better take, the Senator in their head-on col lision in that state primary next ' Tuesday. STUDENT WIVES There will be a meeting of the Student Wives Club at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, .at the Victory Village Nursery. Everyone is asked to come at 7:30, a half-hour earlier than usual, so that Easter Baskets can be packed; then everyone will proceed to the Carolina Beauty Shop for a program on hair styling and cosmetics. Transportation will be provided from the Nursery to the Beauty Shop. All student wives are invited to attend, according to Secretary Frances McMillan. i he for By Joseph & Ste WASHINGTON - Adlai 9. ' knock in New Hampshire wi-'h '"' , Maybe Estes Kefauver will taV ev'? turn, in Minnesota, where st campaign seems to have nnn evenJ In any case, what has just " underscores the seriousness p";; Party's present dilemma. in t- . the has a candidate with proven ni' joys the hearty detestation of" th ' 1 tions, both in the North and in th P"'v he' triumphs in other primaries 1 phed in New Hampshire, it u u 7 i,e fauver can win the Democratic Pr o nation on the teeth of so much sitiom r2:-. In Stevenson, on the other hni r have a universajly respected also ingratiated himself with the pam ' since the 1952 election. But Steven " ' a one-time loser; in addition, he ee?.'.: some of his original appeal to the gl- : voters during the last three and 0tS years. "' - PROBLEM uicvtuowus piuuifiii, essentially A A. A A ' a.. ' iract me auenuon 01 tne rr.nntrv . voters and impress them with his pe: problem has been, and is complicated V viction of Stevenson and his political iri he is a mile ahead in the race for t!.e7 which indeed he still is despite New R: Fear of jeopardizing this lead in the its v-iai'v. vausuu oicvt'uson to plav " in ail sorts 01 ways. Til . !i riaying u couney is perhaps the rig;: -vention strategy for Stevenson, alth;u' likely that the Democrats rould prefen-who- has stirred and excited the country to ' date who has been merely moderate, tt inoffensive. But this year, the real election caips; endure for only about seven weeks. It j x impossible to" see how President Eisenhov: mous present lead can be overcome ia i period by a Democratic opponent who h it cooney right up until convention -time, f reason the Stevenson camp is now ra!,er divided "on the problem of strategy. CONFLICT One group of Stevenson's advisors, who: constitute the majority, want him to car before. They $ay that with the exce?.::: farm issue, every domestic issue has bee: - ered by the country's booming prospeat? fore the real issues, according to this sera ought to be foreign and defense policy. T: Stevenson to stop nibbling at these has been doing to date, and 10 make pal themes of his campaign. In time of apparent peace, with no ir visible foreign threat, no American P:a candidate has ever tried to do quite r. Stevenson advisors are now urging. Yet !:;. ment for this bold new departure is at to- The world situation, they say, is nor viously deteriorating at a frightening ras: area of serious importance to tne ' The country has thus far accepted the ?ciirnnfps of the Eisenhower Adm;msK -the voters are terefore unaware of danger abroad. But this very fact. U only makes the Administration doubly v. first for failing to ward off the danger::; second for not telling the country the fr it. ' DEFENSE Annrnvimafplv the same line of plied to- the defense problem. The aH--sity of a determined, unremitting atus the foreign and defense issues is on the ground that the Presidency vuw Be having if no such attack is made. Trf dent, after all, will have to deal n.-; situation that is now taking shape. A-y. date Stevenson does not make a c.er - iui record 01 warning aoa," growing dangers, then President Steven somewhat' unlikely event of his eiec, -held personally responsible when our -gin to come to a head. , n'jfc roCuit nf the debate .n- akj unit, mi. awia.. son camp has been a rather unea) 7 When he appears before the An . ; Newspaper Editors in April Steven to make a full-dress, scarchmgly cr- . r r - 1 jr m nnv,rv. One OiUU - loreisin ana ucicnat again before a national audience, fnr o f,irl onrlv date. But thlS, Oi irrrniUnr rh'ffnront from the HIUU strategy of making the foreign an a the really dominant themes of the campaign. . , , v All inn 3TTlla- irtii" , . 4 i. r:.. t,a ripfrnse policy111-1:,. IU IlliUlC luiciiiii awu v.. - . ror u pre:--- befoe all is said and done. hard to see any other themes motest chance of making a dent m hower's personal popularity. 0. r;;; interest of this prosperous and l Trespassing M Justice Glenn Terrill 01 o?.i j i A in a nw. u uoun nas concuueu - - , c- tribunal which says Negro slfl "i3C' mmca 10 me umvi'3"-' mte" anti - segregation ruling of tn preme Court. Said this opinion: "When God created ma ftf ;:; Europe for the White man, - & man, Africa fir -the black ma - the red man." . fl re.'":" Therefore, the learned fA ijrerae Court reversed . n ;S - L . - - - . -t tr cr . .. . by directing the ena lu ' , g5 tn- schools. This is good logic just is made of green cheese. ., far '-l1f Moreover, if God made Am ; D y ' why is Judge Terrill tn-T1 " domain? Sacramento
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