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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Frustrated Failure
Tout Sawyer, candidate tor the
m ernoiship of North Carolina,
leccntly offered to the people f
tlu st;.te what, he termed "the only
leal and workable solution lor
maintaining a . segregated public.
M'hdol system."
Sawers plan is based on a sec
tion of the I'nited States (lonsti
I (it ion- wJuch says "the Supreme
Court shall have appellate juris
diction, both as to law and fact, with
stub exceptions and under such
i emulations as the Congress shall
mike' He would have the North
Carolina congressional delegation
prepare a bill which would remove
state educational affairs from the
.;ppellaie jurisdic tion of the Su;
pieme Court.
Sawyer's plan would continue to
base the state's public school sys
tem on a "separate but equal" basis
lor the Negro and white rates.
As fare as we can tell. Sawyer's
plan may be legally possible. Fut
certainly no one can believe that
M.di ;t bill, if presented in the
I'niied States Congress, would ever
I s passed- Outside of the Southern
sia;es which are staunchly against
integration, how many votes does
candidate Sawyer think the bill
wuld main?
This plan is an attempt to gain
oil ice on a segregation platform
and (hen, if such a bill were intro
duced in Congress, to neatly pass
the buck when it was defeated by
saying "I did all I could."
If the people of North Carolina
want a governor. who will lead con
strue live ac tion in solving the inte
gration problem, they should not
elect any candidate who runs on
any such program for continued
segregation. The decision of the
Supreme Court has been made and
stands.
No plan which seeks to evade
the decision, whether it involves
inteiMsitiou or an attempt to lim
it the Supreme Onivt's jurisdic- ;
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tion, will residt in anything but
frustrated failure.
Since segregation has entered the
political field and promises to gain
even more prominence as election
dav draws nearer, the voters would
do well to find a candidate whom
thev know will take the only reas
onable course for whic h the (May 17
decision calls one which would
seek no violent or forced action
either for 01 against "integration.
This does not mean that the
voters should ele,ct "do-nothings."
They must seek and find men who
will lead the way in moderate and
reasonable, ac tion aimed at 'grad
ual integration of the public
schools it is a pity that such men
are rare in North Carolina.
Station's
Ruling Was
A Bad One
Charlotte's former popular disc
jockey Hob Railorcl. who appear
ed mighty happy here at the Festi
val of Ja yesterday, has raised
quite a ruckus after he commented
on Singer'Nat 'King Cole's recent
attack in Alabama.
The raclion station, we feel, was
certainly within its rights in firing"
Raiford for violating a station or
der. But the station should not
have a rule against editorializing
on the air.
As the Federal Communications
System has said, radios have the
right to editorialize on various is
sues, just as do newspapers. Rai
ford's comments on sineer Cole
whic h; we understand, were not as
hot as those of many of WIJT's net
work commentators should not
have been suppressed, even though
the station might not have agreed
with him.
Guinness Is Back
J. A. C. Dunn
Every time one sees Alec Guinness
in a movie, Guinness looks entirely dif
ferent from the way he looked in the
la.st one. The difference between "Oliver
Twist' and "The Prisoner" is a good
example, and the difference between
'The Prisoner" and "The Ladykillers,"
playing this weekend at the Varsity, is
a better example.
Guinness may fyave looked pretty grim
at Fagin in "Oliver Twist," but in "The
Ljidykillers," as the professor, he is one
of the eriest, sneering, sinister, straggle
h.'ired, slack-lipped, hollow-eyed and
evil-minded items of raffish humanity
I have ever seen.
Of course, he is a protoptye of the
mad professor (he doesn't like it at all
waen someone suggests that his plan
for I don't think I'll say what daring
crime it is he is going to commit any
way, that his plan was hatched by some
one in a looney bin). His buddies are
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N.iit Editor
Dan Fowler
also protopyes, though beautifully por
trayed. (In the order of their disappearance)
they; are the Major, who gets nervous
and waggles his moustache up and down
and who has little or any worth except a
very courtly set of manners and. an ex
pensive military overcoat; and Harry,
who is a fairly common, everyday thug
with a "nice plain, homely face and a
little too much hair on his head; and
One-Round, a great bumbling lunk of a
muscle bound ex-prizefighter who has -a
protective feeling for little old ladies
and who has disastrous trouble with his
'cello case at the 11th hour; and, Louie,
who dresses all in black except for his
necktie, which is a brilliant yellow, and
who carries a switchblade and is aw
fully handsome and thoroughly untrust
worthy. , This is the gang. These five are the
unbelievable five who engineer an ex
tremely complicated plot involving split
second timing, a planted "out-of-order"
sign on a telephone booth, a large'black
sedan, a grey Studebaker, a large blue
truck, a small taxi, a luggage handcart
and a trunk. Also wound up in the plot
(though inadvertantly) are a horse with 4
a taste for apples, an applecart to go
with the horse, a s'crap iron cart for
the horse to pull and Mrs. Wilbur
force. Mrs. Wilburforce lives alone with
four parrots and a picture of her mercantile-mariner
husband (who went down
at the salute on the bridge of his ship
29 years before) in a rickety old house
which is Steadily sliding onto the rail
road tracks behind it. Mrs. Wilburforcs
rents .rooms and loves Boccherini. ' ' ,
Her staircase has a noticeable cant
to starboard, the pictures won't hang
straight because the walls have long
since warped out o the perpendicular,
and she has to bang the pipes with a
wooden mallet to make the water work.
Naturally, Professor Guinness, all
wound up in an eight-foot scarf and
looking for a nice quiet little place
where he and his friends can "practice
their string quintet playing," rents "Mrs.
Lopsided's" lopsided suite of rooms.
Naturally Mrs. Lopsided Wilburforce of
fers them trayload after trayload of nice
hot tea.
Naturally Mrs. W. is kept from su
specting by One-Round's beautiful pizz
icato 'cello playing (He guesses he "just
picked it up"). And naturally, one of
Mrs. Lopsided W.'s friends comes around
with a newspaper. Then the disappear
ing starts. .
It's better than "The Lavender Hill,';
Mob."
CAROLINA CAROLEIDOSCOPE:
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Frank Crowther
The inevitable finally happen
ed when those six boys drowned
at Parris Island last Sunday night.
The fact that Sgt. McKeon was a",
personal friend of mine while I
served in, the Marine Corps
makes it doubly pathetic, for he
will probably be "made an ex
ample of. After all, public opin
ion has to be catered to.
I don't condemn McKeon as an
individual; I liked the man, but ,
he was a victim of his "indoc
trinated" enviroment.
The Marine Corps does strange
things to the individual. It is al
most as if they wanted one to
forget that he is an , individual
and think of himself as belong
ing to a machine.
This is what the Marines think
of as "brain washing" to estab
lish esprit de corps. A Marine
must thrive on discipline, he is
told, or the organization will
crumble. Discipline and stomach
sustain military force.'
" Yrorking on this premise the
drill instructors at Parris Island
push their recruits almost to the
breaking point to instill this dis
cipline.
Your heads are shaved; almost
all associations with civilian life
are taken away;' you eat and go
vto the toilet only on 'strict sche
dules; you stand at attention
whenever the D. L (as the in
structor is referred to) enters the
"squad bay;" you shave with
your head under a bucket and
with sand as lather ( the blood
was hard to get out of the uni
form), if the instructor doesn't
like the way .you shaved that
morning; you "give your hearts
and souls to God, because the
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Marine Corps has' your body."
They push and push until you
think something will burst. But,
for most of us, the breaking
point never came. Some, however,
; cracked right in front of your
: eyes. ;
One boy ripped a leg of a ta
ble off and tried to kill his best
friend; another woke one night
screaming about his mother and
had to be carried off to the
"psyco" ward. .
The section leader reached his
' "point of no return" one day and
dove through the window. They
drop all . around you, and you
swear that it won't get you.
But the doubt is always-there.
What will they do next? The ten
sion never subsides.
Some nights they let you "hit
the rack" without doling out any
"disciplinary measures" for be
ing boneheads that day. On
others, we would do knee bends
with our rifles balanced on the
backs of our hands; or we had
to move from a position of atten
tion at the foot of the beds into
the beds, top and bottom, and
have all springs quieted in eight
seconds ' "get in, get out" un
til you think it will go on all
night. Put on your full marching
pack and crawl over one bed and
under the other, cracking your
' skull as you go; sleep on six
rifles if you called it a "gun"
if you did this too often, they
made you sleep with it in your
.underwear. Exaggeration? Go
through it and see.
I made it, and I was proud of
it. But, you wonder what hap
pened to the others. Did they dis
charge them, or were they still
in the psyco ward?
You think it was a wonder that
we made it through alive. Wal
ter Winchell's son didn't. He was
shot on the rifle range. Winchell's
comment: "If your boy is in the
service, write to him; if he is in
the Marine Corps, pray for him."
That is all we can do now for
these six drowned boys. . .:
If Mac doesn't beat the charg
es, if there are any, he nas really '
"had it." I feel sorry for the:
parents of those boys, but -think; ;
of McKeon's two children. It's . a V
shame, a damn shame.
ON CONSTITUTION QUESTION:
Editor Goofed, Soys Reid
Dave Reid
(David Reid, author of the
folloicing column, is attorney'
general of the student body. He
headed the Constitution Revis
iimal Committee, which did the
work in the recent amending
of the student , Constitution.
This column was written by
Reid upon the request of The
Daily Tar Heel.)
It has always puzzled me how
The Daily Tar Heel manages so
consistently to confuse fact with
fiction in its editorials. Is this
possibley due to a failure to de
termine the facts before the edi
tor places paper in his machine
and begins to hunt and peck?
This is the only conclusion I
can reach after reading such an
editorial as appear in the April
11 Daily Tar Heel entitled "For
Solons: Magnifier, Copypencil."
The following are a few de
tails that the editor should have
attempted to discover before he
went out on the proverbial limb:
First,- the Constitution Revis- .
ional Comniission never attempt- '
ed to rewrite the student Con
stitution that was approved by
the student body of the spring
of 1950. We merely attempted
to propose a number of amend
ments which would improve our
Constitution's clarity and effec
tiveness. Second, when the amendments
were completed we realized that
they were so extensive that it
would be unfeasible to place
'them all on one ballot. No one
would have had even a vague
idea of what he was called upon
to approve. The only practical
method left to us was to have
the Constitution printed in its
entirety with the proposed
amendment included. In this way
the student body could see the
entire Constitution as it would
appear if amended.
Third, if the student body had
rejected the proposed amend
ments, the constitution would
have stood just as it was before
the commission began its work.
The constitution itself, was not
iip for consideration. Only the
proposed amendments were sub
ject to approval or rejection.
Fourth, all of this seems to re
solve itself to one conclusion.
This misunderstanding was
caused by the failure of some to
realize that in our election of
March 27 we simply amended the
existing constitution. We 'did not
ratify a new one. Obviously
then, , any alterations of the en
abling process in the existing
constitution would have been illegal,-
as well as ridiculous.
Fortunately, we have a 'consti
tution which we can submit to
the Board of Trustees with pride.
It is a document which has grown
with student government. It will
be the basis for future expansion
of student self determination.
If the trustees approve our con
stitution this spring as all indi
cations suggest, student Govern
ment will have realized its great
est step toward maturity since
the institution of the Honor System.
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The Fine Af
Of Getting!
Barry Vinsfon J
The mairi object in the great Ar 5
By is to avoid, at all costs, beinjjeaiy '
classroom. j
There are several methods 0; -c 1
this, but there is one which I hae '
superior to all the rest. The secret ii -'
self, but requires some small air,or ;
to perfect.
If you sit in the front of the c!- f
fix the instructor with an intent ana .
gaze, intelligence and knowledge rac, !
your eyes. At the same time, you i;
ate I
of
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portant, following exactly and under-:::
-pletely everything he says. This look c: f
devout attention is essential, and should ;-?
ed frequently in front of a mirror until : f
second nature. f
'' If you are one of the f ortunates arc : ;
in the rear of the classroom, the p:::-:
-siderably Simpler. If, from his vantare:
front of the room, the instructor se?; y ,
intently over your desk, pencil in ha::'
furrowed with concentration, he C :
you are1 in the throes of giving
new and startling theory in the cou:;e ::
is so proud. t
There is no reason at all for him to
you are trying desperately to tml
seven, down, in today's crossword F-:
ercise a little caution when turning ": ;
this point I might interject the ,
there are now available special g.& ;
ing, alert eye-balls painted onto the-::: i
fit of the student who would ra:r.er --.
work the crossword. , I
.They will not stand scrutiny.
.should be used only in the extreme rrf j
For those of you who feel guiit -j
in class, or who snore, your best bet ;
pills designed to keep you awake. 1 -.
is that you will eventually deveh ? ,
to the stuff, and find it necessary to ,
ly larger , doses in order to obt-.n - j
feet. ,H: '
When it takes a bor at a t:n;;
getting dangerous, and some or".,,
gotten your daily dose, you ma
on the floor of your 8 o'clock
"I gotta have a fix!" . .
If, after all this advice, a f;;.
you are called upon to say n'";;.f. '
but by all means, say somothm-,
tle instructor will know youn '
at any rate. v pr
. The following su.Sgestion3 ir-. j
in such cases: r:,? a h;
In science courses: M';-
formulae, and reciu j
hove. or.D - .
standard
cession.
ATnthr Same as a
as the Pythagorean Theorum -
quadrilateral. , . c, i:;
Music: Learn Ravel's Bo.ei
ment from the Nutcracker a j
your breath constantly. p..r:.:; :
Languages: Memorize a :-
language, other than the one , r..
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cool
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a : .vi a
fusion. This gets 'cm every i
lsui auove u.
louu, citrdi vuin. . p.a;
in. The Art of Getting l' '
velop, requiring but a te g
day, and once you have btco..
worries will be over.
Develop
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development" at North Tea - r.
ton the other day. Fe
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signed a petition u . , Bi?rrr..:-..
to let girls wear shorts, .
side of. dormitories. ;(.;T'a
that is afraui of a g;rl s
much development. Tie