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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY Map. Moderation On Quicksand For' evidence that in the Deep South: the moderate on segregation walks on quicksand, look no far ther than The Reporter's recent interview with novelist -William Faulkner." Mr. Faulkner has declared him self against the stone-throwers on hoth sides, from the cave men who believe in killing those who op pose Negro lxmdage to crusaders who believe that an obstinate pre judice can be eradicated from hu man nature overnight. "I grant you," Faulkner told the interviewer, "that it is bad that there should be a minority people, who because of their color don't have a right to social equal ity or to justice. Hut it is bad that Americans should be' fighting Ameiicans. That is what will hap pen because the Southern whites are back in the spirit of 1S60." And while we wished the distin guished Mr. Faulkner would speak lor Jus own state and not for all "Southern whites," we sympa thize. Hut here are the Avoids that brought Us up short; here is the plight of the moderate in Missis sippi: Q How is it, for a man like you to live in Mississippi? A. I get a lot of insulting and threatening letters and telephone calls since I established my position. The tragic thing is that some of them come from Negroes. At least they say they're Negroes. It isn't just a soli darity of race you get doctors and lawyers and preachers and newspaper editors and some Negroes, too, all grouped against a few liberals like me. People phone me to threaten my life at three or four in the morning they're usually drunk by. then. Q. Do you carry a gun? A. No. My friends say I ought to carry a pistol. But I don't think any one will shoof me, it would cause too much of a stink. But the liberals in my part of the country carry guns all the time. : Hollywood's Come-On Although we were happy to see a homely actor win an Academy Award, the whole presentation ceremony as shown over televi sion '-Wednesday night had the air of a cheap carnival. The movie industry needs some prodding, and it's inspiring to see the backstage people win awards for such things as special effects, costume design, and editing. Hut the curious coincidence that most towns have some of the win ners playing the week of the awards suggests another award one for the best job of press age n try. For after all, what are the so- called awards but a big publicity stunt aimed at puiking up the box office? They can be little else when such maudlin sentimentality as "Interrupted Melody" wins the story and screen play award, when such corn as "Love Is A Many Splendored Thing" wins an award for the best motion picture story, and when the whole presentation has the air of a big come-on. However, we're still glad alwmt Ernest Horgnine's award for the low-budget, high-type 'movie "Mar ty." Perhaps there's hope yet for the stereo-phonic soundings and wide screening of Hollywood. Roast Elephant, Anyone? A headline in The New York 'Fimes: EARLY AMERICANS SEEM TO HAVE DINED ON ROAST ELEPHANT. Which may be quickly altered to an ideal, headline for a certain day this coming November: LATE AMERICANS SEEM TO HAVE DINED ON ROAST ELEPHANT. t-or Posterity's Sake Carolina Symposium Chairman Manning Muntzing says he's look ing for a tape recording of Mon day night's speeches. We don't know why, exactly. Hut we hope he needs it because he and his staff are compiling the Symposium proceedings for print ing. The Weil Lectures, we under stand, are automatically printed by The University Press. The same should be true in some form, if not by the Press for the other glittering sessions of the Sympos ium. The Daily Tar 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 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, 187D. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a se mester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a se Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Manning Editor CHARLIE JOHNSON Business Manager BILL BOB PEEL Sports Editor. ...WAYNE BISHOP Advertising Manager Coed Editor Subscription Manager Staff Artist Dick Sirkin Peg Humphrey Jim Chamblee Charlie Daniel EDITORIAL STAFF Bill OSullivan, Bill LONELINESS AS A PENALTY By Edwin C. Palmer in The Torch In establishing citizenship in the life community, man profits in many ways. He grows and integrates his life by the in creasing circumference of his social responsibilities. Instead of measuring the universe by him self and making all things in cluding his gods in his own im age, he begins to measure him self by his universe. He thus achieves a valuable humility . without being humbled, for the universe lives in him. His satis faction in life issues in no small part from the wideness of his comradeship, from the inclusive ness of his interests, love, and understanding. Loneliness is a kind of social illiteracy an ignorance of the community that exists among all living things, a failure to de velop skill in communication with words and without words. Loneliness is a penalty for tolerating inequalities, for har boring inferiority-superiority at- titudes. Snobbishness can be found on both sides of the tracks and prevents fellowship where ever it exists. Loneliness is a" protective pain, .warning of a condition needing correction; it is a benevolent toothache which, if heeded, saves tie tooth. There is a cosmic maturity by which a man finds himself at home in . every land. But the conquest of loneliness is more hopefully foug.it within the limits of our , own horizons. Raiisdale. OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editor ial. subscription: 9-3361. News, busi ness: 9 3371. Night phone: 8-444 dt 8 445. BUSINESS STAFF Fred Katzin, Stan Bershaw, Rosa Moore, Charlotte Lilly, Ted Wainer, Daryl Chasen, Johnny W;taker. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Mike Ves te., Joan McLean, Charlie Sloan, Dan Fowler, Jim Creighton, Don Seaver. REPORTER -A girl met an old flame and decided to high-hat him. "Sorry," she murmured, when the hostess introduced him, "I didn't get your name." "I know you didn't," he rc: plied, "but it wasn't your fault; you tried hard enough." NisUt Editor Dan Fowler "Our best chance for survival lies not in our courage or our resolution as much as . in our modesty and patience. We can not master the forces of history, but we may be able to beguile them." Reinhold Niebuhr 'What Was In this Bag, Pop?' i 3 it ft) i L. JliJ xslite . 'V . i Ci3 rrymander s Ch By Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON Liberals in both parties are re ceiving a study of present proposals for reform of the Electoral College which charges that they are no more and no less than plans to gerrymander the Presidency. The beneficiaries, according to the study, would be the Midwest and right wing Republicans and the Southern Democrats." These forces already are 'in informal coalition in the Congress, where they . have put an effective . brake on social and econo mic legislation since 1938. The basis of the gerrymander charge is that the t new proposals, which would change the method -of counting votes in Presidential elections, transfer . decisive power to state legislatures. That is, the ? votes would be divided according to Congressional districts" which have been fixed by the state legis latures. METHOD The predilection of state legislatures for the gerrymander is well known. The gerrymander is a method of arranging electoral districts so that one party will be enabled to elect more representatives than they do on a fair system. The result over the country has been that every where the influence of the rural voter has been mag nifid at the expense of city dweller. This has re mained true despite the drift to the city from the farms, which has been vastly accelerated since the beginning of the last war. In a new survey, "Rural Versus Urban Political Power," Gordon E. Baker of the University of California states that "in 1955 inequality of legis lative representation is solidly entrenched in all but a handful of the 48 states. Most urban areas are discriminated against in at least one house ' of their state legislature and in many cases in both houses." STUDENT PARTY COLUMN POINT He goes on to make the point that "interests that have greater influence in constituencies with inflated power possess an obvious advantage over those whose support comes from areas that are under represented." Liberals do not need to have that point driven home. They have not failed since 1932 to elect Presidents who were liberals. But, except in the early New Deal days, progress along those lines had been slowed down in the Congress until now it is at a virtual standstill. The study being circulated examines the present plans against this background. It says to Republicans that only their most conservative members can hope to be elected President. It tells Democrats to ex pect that the South will be strengthened within the party but that the party's chances to elect a Presi den will be greatly minimized. RESULT The obvious result would be to weaken the big citystates at the nominating conventions and in -the election. This is, indeed, by part of the appeal of the so-called reforms which have been pressed by conservatives in Congress but which some lberals have adopted. Once JLhe Congress amended the Constitution to pass Presidential electoral power to the state, the matter would be entirely out of its hands. There is no constitutional check on Stage legis latures; they can do as they like. A federal statue dealing with apportionment was once on the books, but it was not enforced. The conclusion offered in the study is that while the new plans purport to dilute the influence of minorities in Presidential elections, they merely will transfer disproportionate influence to conserva tive minorities in the one-party states. In the Mdwest, these are Republican; in the south, Democratic. Whal" Is Student Government? By Norwood Bryan We are launched upon a ven ture yet unproved. The course of student government can take one of two turns in the future. The history of student govern ment can now be seen as a de velopment in stages. The controlling principle of the first stage can be viewed as that of self-policing, ofand by the students. This is the first grant of autonomy, which served as the bas,is for what we now know as student government. This was the era of the honor system. The second stage could be pro perly labeled the amorphous stage. It was in the years prior to and during World War II that local autonomy in specified areas was granted ashe students grew into it.' , ' CONSTITUTION The third stage is - the era of the constitution, which formal ized the pre-existing structures and added a more stable frame work in which, student govern ment could operate. We are now in the latter part of this stage. We can go either forward or backward. The very dynamic na ture of youth, students, and -thereby student government re quires this. ' i One may ask, and rightly so: just what is student government? Our answer is simple: student government is an instrument of education, an instrument wor- . king outside the classroom, but dedicated to the same end. Student government is an in strument of education in that it allows students to help deter mine the conditions under which they live and in the very de termination aids in the creation of mature and responsible citi zenship. , Only viewed this way can student government make . sense. The honor system is an excellent example of this. How better than presuming honesty can one evoke it? The appropri ation of $100,000 per year by student government is dramatic testament to the validity of the same operating principle which,, granted responsibility to the stu dent, offers the student a chal lenge which is usually fulfilled, Dr--Lapp's torsi Scar unn By J. A. C. Dunn Chapel Hill Weekly issue, nor Reader's Retort i I 1 Hits D thereby creating maturity. FOUNDATION This is the very foundation of student government. Participa tion in governing oneself brings ' out the best through the mech anism of challenge and response. Hence we get a head start in so ciety. The next stage is that of a -student government and administration-faculty co-op. This is .the goal of the Student Party. Whether or not students really participate in the University co mmunity depends on the course that student government is about to take. Now is the time of crisis. Either we show ourselves, res . ponsible and tangibly form this co-op wherein the student body, student government, and the' fa culty and administration work together In a spirit of mutual respect and cooperation, or we go backward. Under the leadership of the Student Party and Bob Young, his concept can be fulfilled, and students can prove that the ven ture of student government is worthy. Or:ly in this wi.y can it be" proved. I sat in Memorial Hall on Wednesday night last week and listened, still as a stone, to nu clear physicist Ralph E. Lapp talk about the power of' atomic weapons. It is not often that I ' am able to sit still on those ho rizontal modern versions of the iron maiden that serve in the rather miscast role of seats in Memorial Hall but Mr. Lapp made' me sit still. Nothing is ' much more awe-inspiring than being told how close one is to extermination, and that was what Mr. Lapp was forcibly drumming at the audience the long after effects of radio-active stronium, the wide area contaminated by radioactive fallout, the destruc tion of which atomic bombs are capable. I listened to Mr. Lapp describe the force of atomic ex plosions and measure them by the thousands of tons of TNT (how much more subtly danger ous TNT seems, If one calls it by its full name: trinitrotoluene). I began to grow slightly a fraid, with the sort of fear that one forgets after the fear inspiring speech, or movie, or lecture, or whatever, is over and one is circulating securely and chattily in a roomful of small talking people. Mr. Lapp kept right in hammering out the gris ly facts. " 120 miles away from Biki ni those Japanese fishermen on the 'Lucky Dragon', (which Mr. Lapp, with caustic irony, subse quently referred to as the "For tunate Dragon") were burned by radioactive fallout from our test explosion," he said. At that point it occurred to me, since it is always reassuring to find someone else in the same boat with oneself, that perhaps some other people were just a bit afraid of what Mr. Lapp was talking about. I, looked around. : Now I admit that my search for fear on the part of other people as well as myself was somewhat biased, simply because I specifically was looking for fear; but I thought I could dis cern it on the faces of others. The wrhole room was dead si lent; no rustles, no coughs. An old gentleman in the row ahead of me put his arm around his grey-haired wife's shoulders with a tired, sad look on his face. I could picture him, (with my pre conditioned point of view) think ing to himself, "God help the people who will keep on living for a while." A University stu dent sitting not far from the old. gentleman glanced around the room, apparently like me, looking for someone else who wasn't too happy about having an outline of the end of the spe cies thrown at him in one gulp, as Mr. Lapp was so expertly do ing. Another student two rows ahead had a hard look on his face. A professor and his wife, both nearing middle age but not quite there yet, looked a bit wide-eyed and shifted ever so slightly in their seats, as if each subconsciously wanted to move a little closer to the other but had been- married too long to still feel with any urgency the necessity of moving closer to gether before another minute was over. Mr. Lapp kept right on measuring destruction by the thousands of tons of trini trotoluene. I met Mr. Lapp at the re ception afterwards, andt he smil ed and talked pleasantly as if there was absolutely no question ' of the sun's continuing to rise and set for hundreds of years to come. Heartened by his be havior, I , circulated securely and chattily. Quote, Unquote ."In the nineteeth century the problem was that God is dead: in the twentieth century the prob lem is that man is dead." Erich Frovim " 'The radio has just announc ed that an atom bomb was ex ploded "over Japan. What does that mean?' 'It means,' I said I said, 'that I am scared to death.' "Joseph Wood KnUch Offers An$i On Cons;. . In the rebuttal that f0n0Ws T the position that the whole h gation does not rest Drim.r;,. qucsl:a i i legal qu ' is in the main a (oi . evsnt. moral zta - However, since the segre2at! ing to maintain the "status qu(? to the banners of "interposition"' staunch conservative state of V see what the Constitution does li Also, as. an' unreconstructed p-3y in the inevitable failure of 1 ' ponents of it are doing a -rav! " "rights of the states"' which 1 on many other issues and proJ to the Constitution. P iy 35 ... Historically this doctrine has not 1 purpose, but it has had an effect ; and bids far to do so at th Pw effect of its failure in this is1' . " " ally lUture a-- validly in a future constituti lonal i; 1 . feel very strongly that an inHi. Jj.. , just like an individual ;,.... . i: ered and fully protected by the 5 " any other Court for that matter T CENTRAL ISSUE But the question in this matter devo'- " central issue espoused by the ardent irv ' Namely, that in the Bill of RiVs stitutional Amendments) and more the Ninth and Tenth Amendments th T reserved the right to run their own (including the public schools) and th 'in decisions the Supreme Court has ciple as well as condoned the of segregaton as meeting the requires lity" in the Fourteenth Amendment toncally correct and true, but onlv r" Let us refer to the words of the c" and see what the Tenth Amendment iv "The powers not delegated to the Uate;?" . the Constitution, nor prohibited by n to (italics mine), are reserved to the S':E the people." " j - EXCEPTION inis clearly and unequivocally says th: eral powers are those given it by the 3:r uuusuiuuon ana inai me rest belong to;-. -and the States EXCEPT WHERE THE C' TION ITSELF PROHIBITS TEEM I STATES. I think from, this we can see clearly may be quite valid grounds for a state t: case involving its constitutional rights. : there were no place in the Constitution p:. these grounds. Does the Constitution so prohibit in the . U ..1.1' l.o tu:. ilI1. stgi cgdiiua jii me puuiiL MJiiuuiii. iuisuioi.- the salient question with the principles k: the Tenth Amendment understood. ANSWER For the answer to this let us look a::' Constitution itself and in particular to . ' of the Fourteenth Amendment (Sect. 1 ; "All persons born or naturalized in States, and subject to the jurisdiction ti: citizens of the United States and of -wherein they reside. No State shall mcln any law which shall abridge the pr tix mwrities o citizens of the United S::' italics mine. nor shall anv State deprive. son of life, liberty, or property without ; cess of law, nor deny to any person wii diction the equal protection of the !a'-; It will be apparent from this that if ! er public education as "a privilege", th -constitutionally be abridged (without r:: Fourteenth Amendment). It may be a:, separate but equal schools do not const;, - ment. The facts arc that in them-ch re stitute a discrimination with an attac .... . barrier and stigma of inferiority, a ' plied. The "actual" is in the finance tion among other forms. This dispau per capita expenditures per white ana dent has steadily increased since equally historic decision of 1SS4 (Pc-' son) in which it was found that sepe;. i j..f; oMnrillv much IT. J- a privilege. Since all of the sta;f 1 vide schooling and "allow" the but in reality COMPEL attendance s is self-evident and manifestly cicar. rr,, . su4 -f Ctotp then. b.V U'C h dment, to cu-"" regation is prohibited to the States . In citing the above references. I - that those who hold emotional juu ;, and against rational ones, wi.l .,s and no amount of constitution v- vince them. They're like son puts it, wno p'- elusion to the facts. 0 Pebley v" Mencken Says Of ail the classes of men I who make their living by ta'k'n0 o5. men, politicians, pedagogues, and To me the scientific point of i.. : i,,t heen so 25 . ... v atjusijmy, turn ii J3rs :. j ejiijjmuei . xi icaicj o v,!i"d''' ..: w hut not a u" umvciac, iu uc ov-' many as theology. It also w- , jS that man, in the last analysis, is " solable. . r- an' " As I grow older I am l,nple b b; . . . . u human . the fact that giving eatu h IS a bad scheme. He should na one of observing and studyl""n,, jj other for formulating and sett' . ions about it.. L. Ac'"'1''"
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