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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1756 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL President Young: The Best In A School Generation THE LIVESPIKE: Bob Young has proven himself the best student body president in his college generation. As he said modestly at a politi cal meeting this week, his admin istration already has started work on some of the .students' hardest problems, and has. turned out some fine results. Young listed these three 'accom plishments above the others: ; 1. Strict registration of student automobiles and enforcement of restrictions. 2. Telephones on all floors of most men's dormitories which for merly had only two telephones to serve three floors. 3. Return of more than 200 lost books to the Wilson Library. . It was personal action good hard, sweating work on the part of President Young that turned up these results so soon after his election last spring. And there are indications he has just got started. Young stepped in the day alter his election to start solving the au tomobile problem. Facing an ul timatum from the Board of Trus tees, he saw the only satisfactory answer to the problem of too many cars no automobiles for fresh men. It was a nasty job to do. but Young did it. swiftly arid fairly, and lost little respect from his classmates in doing it. Young has shown that he can deal effectively with all sides of the campus students, faculty, ad ministration, the town. He is re spected from all those quarters. We cannot afford to let him rest at this point, because student body presidents like Young are. rare. If student politicians would concen trate their efforts on helping Young build a better campus this year instead of raising some of the petty arguments that have come up in past years this Uni versity would be improved tenfold bv commencement dav. , , Hope, Left: People Are Still People When vou q,et to worrying too much about the State of North Carolina going to hell in a ballot boN, and when campus life appears a bit too dull, remember this: The Phi debated a bill to get rid of coeds here. The Di was working over the Sue Canal dispute. You can get polio vaccine, through the courtesy and interest of the University Infirmary, for Si a shot. You can rent a work, of art for i' month from Person Hall for two bits plus "a dollar deposit. Four top musical artists will ap pear here on the Chapel Hill Con cert Series schedule. The head of the Men's Honor Council has been charged" with speeding. That, plus the smile of a cute Caroline Coed at your 8 o'clock class, plus a good dose of Franklin St. friendliness, is enough to con vince anyone that the University's a fine place. Car Problem Is Continuing Students with automobiles have shelled out their S2.50 toward im proving the traffic facilities. Fresh men have been sworn not to main tain automobiles. But a look at the r.treets of Cha pel Hill, the t logged thorough fares, th? :.. :icd lots behind dor mitories -his suggests a continu ing LiJ. at the parking problem. anient government, under the astute leadership of student Presi dent Young, has done a great deal to temporarily alleviate the prob lem. But 'the, mounting stream of automobiles into this tiny town shows that parking lots huge parking lots, capable of holding thousands of automobiles must be built soon. In another 10 years the enroll ment will have almost doubled., The number of student-owned cars will rise proportionately. Re strictions on freshmen will not be enough. The only lasting, true answer to the parking and traffic problems is a: system of parking lots, located on the fringes of the campus. Stu dent and trustee " planners should keejj the plan in mind as they bank the automobile registration lees. THE GREENSBORO DAILY NEWS: Aim For Prime Essentials The Consolidated University of North Carolina concentrated on prime essentials for the life of learning in requests made this year to the Advisory Budget Commis sion. What seemed once to be a pre occupation with building build ings has given way to a concern for faculty salaries, research in huma nities and the; need for more li brary books. But this fervor for putting new life into the heart of the Univers ity must be communicated not on ly to the budget commission but to the new Legislature. Of the 5 i v-,oo,ooo increase per year asked for operational funds, more thr-.i $2.;, 17.723 would be for the purpose of increasing faculty salaries an' overpowering neces sity over which Acting President Friday sounded the alarm some months back. Loyalty won't hold hungry pro fessors. Chancellor House of Cha pel Hill inferred at the budget' hearing. The University, he. said, must compete in a seller's market, and this budget increase is asked, mainly to keep the" present faculty 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, undei the Act ot March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semes ter; delivered, S6 a year, S3.50 a semester. Editor FRED PQWLEDGE intact. Book appropriations must be tipped; libraries at the state col leges and universities have slipped shamefully in the last few years. Here a lot of missionary zeal must be used on legislators, who last ses sion indicated their attitude on books by sharply slashing book buying requests. It is almost odd to hear Univers ity oflicials stressing humanities. Originally the heart and core of a liberal education, the humanities have gotten short shrift in North Carolina and elsewhere in recent years. Foundations for subsidizing football players have been formed. Professional and business groups have banded together to foster and promote training of young fledg lings, but there have been practi cally no alumni associations of La tin or history majors. Increased funds for humanities research, said Or. J. Harris Purks, state director of higher education, would, encourage scholarly research in a field where little money is now available. Added Chancellor House: ' "We are not thinking of great projects, but -we are thinking of encouraging the faculty members along the lines of their -ability, of their genius, which is the lifeblood of the University." These are laudable objectives more money for professors, for li brary books and for research in humanities. Coupled with higher entrance requirements, the Uni versity's conc ern , for prime essen tials of education is a "good sign for North "Carolina. 1 i v raoages: convention Go-Getter Fred Powledge (Editor Powledge covered the Democratic National Conven tion last summer for The Ra leigh Times. Later he chaired a college editors' conference in Chicago at the ninth Nation al Student Assn. congress.) North Carolina's Gov. Luther Hodges displayed a convincing style of leadership at the Demo cratic National Convention. Not that I agreed with , every thing he did I didn't but the governor fooled some oldtime ob servers who thought he'd sit back and let the convention run on its own steam. When Hodges arrived in Illi nois Central Station, he was a Southern governor who had been mentioned partially in jest-as- a protest candidate for Presi dent. He wasn't known too well. One Chicago reporter, ; quizzing Hodges on the Tar Heel delega tion's feelings, said "Thank you, Gov. Hodge." "That's Hodges," the gover nor corrected. Don't forget the final 's'." The governor remembered too' well the case of i Orville Hodge, Illinois politician who stole money from the state treasury. He didn't want his name 'even loosely connected with Hodge"s. . When the governor left Chica go at the end of the convention, he was quite well known. He was known by Stevenson people as the man who more or less swung the North Carolina delegation in to line behind Adlai. He was volunteered as a brief candidate for vice president by the Tar Heel delegation, and even got four votes from South Carolina, whatever good that did him. And Hodges had the distinc tion of sitting on the convention platform while Adlai Stevenson thanked his fellow Democrats for his nomination. The North Caro lina governor was reimbursed kindly for his efforts to get Stev enson nominated. In short, Hodges eame home from Chicago considerably more valuable politically than when he arrived. He increased his value . in several ways. First, he smashed any of the Tar Heels' hopes of entering hw name as a favorite son Presi dential candidate. From North Carolina's first caucus on, Hod ges was talking Stevenson right and left to fellow Tar Heels and fellow Southerners. ' Said There'd Bo Trouble, And I Won't Have You Making A Liar Out Of Me' v- Br aer w . - - -a s jr Speaking Of Many Things Ken Sanford Writer Sanford is aformer managing editor of The Daily Tar Heel. He has just returned from a tour of duty with the Army. Speaking the sentiments of a host of other veterans, I s-ay, "We are happy to be back." Act ually "veteran" for most of us just returned is a misnomer. The only thing I can boast is that I was a member of the Oc cupation Army in South Caro lina. Some suggejed reading for UNC students is an article in two parts published in the cur rent and past week's issues of "Life'y. It n a brief but compre hensive evaluation of Tom Wolfe who came down from the hills beyond Chapel Hill to this Uni versity and went on to reach a literary height that far surpassed his physical height (six feet, six inche.'. Wolfe was a campus leader here, being, among other things, editor of The Tar Heel. Discerning movie goers are going to be treated to one of the Italian film industries finest productions when a Chapel Hill theater presents "Umberto D". This movie presents an Italian social problem through the eyes of a man living it. It rivals "The Bicycle Thief" for taking the viewer inside a man's heart and mind. Welcome back Pogo! The Daily Tar Heel's two comic strips, Li'l Abner and Pogo, contain some of the best satire on the American scene. These two strips are a sugar-coating for those who don't like their politics straight. Both Pogo and General Bullmoose (of Li'l Abner) have been supported for the pres-i- It was Hodges who appeared considerably hurt the week be fore the convention when Steven- son made his famous statement favoring desegregation. Hodges, had reason to be hurt; he had just finished working more than energetically for passage of this state's Pearsall Plan, an action designed to sidestep the Supreme Court's desegregation order. But when Hodges got to the convention and saw Harry Tru man back Averell Harriman for the Presidency, he lost all his distnu-t of Stevenson. He started politicking immediately for the Illinoisian's nomination. Newsmen h'ad trouble keeping up with the governor. He was rarely at either of his two hotel suites, and he bounced in and out of his seat in International Ampitheatre with the regularity of a five-year-old in a candy fac tory. Where was he? Out getting votes for Stevenson. Even the North Carolina dele gates who swore and bedamned before the convention that they wouldn't crusade for Stevenson were sheepishly wearing Adlai buttons by the second day. Hodges- led the delegation's caucuses, and he led them well. He gave no room for doubt about his choice for the nomination. And he got his way. Hodges didn't work only for Adlai. He was missing from his seat when Tar Heel Democratic chairman John Larkins dropped his name into the vice president ial hopper. Where was he?. "I was out trying to round up some votes for Kefauver," he said. And there was sweat on his forehead. There was some speculation among North Carolina newsmen about the reason for all the gov ernor's running around.' Some guessed he's trying to be more and more valuable to the Nat ional Democratic Party, with maybe an eye cocked toward a Presidential or vice, presidential nomination in the future. Others opined he will run for a seat in Congre'3 four years from now, after he has served his term as governor. Still oth ers, more friendly toward the governor, said he was simply do ing his job and trying to lead a confu-d delegation down the right path. Whatever the governor was doing, he did it well. He gained respect from the people who watched him do it. dency. I am partial to Pogo. Senator W. Kerr Scott recent ly made what was perhaps the opening attack on the man who most likely will oppose him in a campaign for his re-election to the Senate in 1960, Governor Luther Hodges. Scott said that the governor should intervene in a squabble over rural electrifica tion. The governor replied to this that he does not intend to step in. The governor will be looking for a new job when his up-coming term expires in 1960, and this could result in one of North Carolina's biggest political battles. Pogo By Walt Kelly "Hey caw op Tout m THffJ If 3L TtsSS 7 - rv mi i wouiPNT of roit 6009$ A WDStr A HOOT -OW6HT TO 31. 1 1 m r J PZZTY PC3GE UIOSCAL TO g? lv Li'l Abner By Al Capp . Y. C7Y- THE STANLEY S77jOM5HOSE Co. ONE MORE, PICTURE, FOR 1 H-MEN'S MAGAZVTZ MR. STRONG NOSE, AND J Wfc. LL UU . JZ AH IS SENDIN' MAH PITCHER W4 rj T' STANLEY STRONGNOSE. rfN - I MEBBE H KIN BUILD ME S V UP SO AH'LL LOOK LIKE ry . 5 )( ANOTHER OKIE OF THOSE THAT CORSET WAS STRANGLING N. SUCKER LETTERS- J I FROM DOG PATCH . ) 1 . South Searching For Legal Ways Josephine Ripley In The Christian Science Monitor Shoutina and riots along the school integration front mean little in comparison with the "massive resistance" on the legal front. For it is not in emo tional explosions, ' regardless of their stnsation.il. ism, but in the courts that the decisive battle will take place. And it is by legal action that the South is brac ing for its most determined stnnd and the one on which it hopes to hold its ground. In such measures the opponents of desegregation see their strongest hope of maintaining the traditional color line. Eight southern states have already passed laws designed to circumvent integration in one way or another. Mississippi has a law that openly defies the Supreme Court order by forbidding mixed schools within its borders. Other southern states have gone about it more indirectly. Two methods, in particular, are favored. These include the abolition of public schools through a cut-off of state funds to any school permitting in tegration; andor adoption of a pupil assignment plan under which pupils could be assigned to differ ent schools on a wide range of qualifications, none openly mentioning race. 'Net result of the pupil assignment plan and . its obvious intention would be to assign whity ' pupils to one school and Negro pupils to another. -As for the cutting off of state funds to local school,', this would be tantamount to closing the1 public schools since the local communities could hardly'J support them alone, and the white population would" probably refuse to do so if they were desegregated." Without state or local support, schools would iri- evitably have to close their doors. A number of states, such as Virginia, have a'-' ready paved the way for such a move by amending their constitutions to permit the use of state funds ' for private tuition of those refusing to attend in tegrated schools. Virginia, ready to lead this new rebellion is rush- ing the erection of legal bulwarks. The legislature, is now in special session with more than seventh bills before it, all keyed to the integration issue and most of them designed to circumvent it. The largest program of full integration has been undertaken is in the District of Columbia. Here, some 70,000 Negro students two-thirds of the entire school population, have been integrated into., the public schools. Some integration has also taken place in cities, in West Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. But obviously, the -movement is limited to the so-called border states, or to areas where the percentage of Negro popu lation is small and opposition to integration com paratively mild. Unyielding is a solid bloc of southern states which arc- braced for defiance with every legal tool to be mustered. These states include: Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida. Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Such legal maneuvers as are now in the makin? may be of no avail in the end but they will un doubtedly delay the coming of school integration in the South. Possibly thai is all that is hoped for, providing that delay is prolonged. In all fairness to the South, it should be remem bered that any large measure of integration presents many problems not only those involving the gen-' eral objections to racial mixing, but practical problems of educational disparity and of adequate" school facilities. Integration has been accomplished with a mini-' mum of difficulty in the District of Columbia, but ' even here thy problem of the lower scholastic stand ing of the Negro has been diffcult, particularly in view of the lack of teachers for special catch up classes. There is also the fact that many Negroes in the South have little or no desire to move into a white school. It is mainly through activity of the National Association for the Advancement of CV ored People that the issue is being forced. It is not being forced indiscriminately, but rather on the basis of cases which appear to the NAACP to have the strongest moral and legal basis. Thus is the battle shaping in the courts, while the South itself prepares legislation that may well dis rupt its public schools for a generation or more. SIDEBAR The Invasion Of Fall Charlie Sloan Fall is slowly but surely invading the campuv Already falling acorns compete with an occasional rainstorm; classroom radiators are again developm. a friendly warmth and coeds are wandering around with their heads enveloped in bright kerchiefs. Chapel Hill has experienced cold nights and warm days in rapid succession. In not-too-many weeks, students will greet each other with sharp sneezes and bleary eyes. Soon Y-Court coffee will be a welcome treat, and even the stuff dished out by the GM coffee machine will at least impart an inward warmth. Fall will bring with it the collection of snu-lN usually drooled over by poets. Burning leaves, pip -loads of super-masculine tobacco and the sharp smell of mothballs are as much a part of fall as football games and fraternity parties. Unfortunately fall is not' all coffee and colored leaves. Desk lamps will have to be turned on earlier, and, as the semester progresses, will stay on later. Colder weather will follow shortly, bringing with it dark mornings and night air that snaps at the cloud , of breath trailing students around the campus. Once, again pained bellows will reverberate through the halls of men's dorms as bare feet hit late flicks will be mor like incidents by Jack Lon late flicks will be more lke neidents by Jack Lon don than routine strolls. Pleasant or not, fall is something th,t ha lu be faced, so why not enjoy it? r,
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