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THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1736 PAGE TWO For The Patriots Of N.C.: Suggestions, On Education "I think our group has accomplished a great deal. It is in large . measure due to our efforts; I feel, that the sentiment in this state on the integration question has changed so materially. Two years ago there was nothing that could he done about the integration order. That feeling is not so prevalent today" UXC Medical School In structor Dr. W. C. George, retiring' president of the Patriots of North Carolina Inc. We. seriously doubt that Dr. George's organization has done anvthing to constructively change North Carolina's feeling about in tegration. Rather, the Patriots of North Carolina Inc. have merely lived up to the name that was given them more than a year ago: "The uptown K.u Klux Klan." The group has relied heavily on peo ple's emotions and the joining n;i- tu re of people faced with a prob lem. It has not educated the people at all. Meanwhile President George has been spreading lus -views on the muter of desegregation his belief that the Negro race is bio-Ic-'ir -Mv inferior to the wh e race. Dr. George and his Patriots are all members of the white race. Most pressure groups, political and otherwise, rely on their educa tional powers to influence people toward their views. !- Pounds and pounds of propa ganda are mailed out from the Americans for Democratic Action, the Civil Liberties Union and other such organizations . The groups state their cases subjective ly. r:id give the reader credit for li'iving enough sense to make up . his own mind. Iut the Patriots work in other wavs. Thev hold meetings, as they did last, year at Hillsboro. anl bend their audience's ears with in flammatory speeches calculated to bring out people's emotions, much like and old-time revival meeting. If remember correctly. -there , were (iife a' 'few people, affected , ... by thq;reSiVl:;mert.i.ngs,. But ,affw, m the hollow. The pr- -),c of this stale will soon Ia ii that the Patriots of North Carolina and their presi dent offer very little in the ivay of THE NEW YORK TIMES: valid arguments against scfiool de segregation. What the Patriots have done is only temporary. Anglo-French Stupidity Is At Fault si If a third " World War results from the past week's horrible rev olution, the people who will mourn their dead cam turn some of their anger on Britain and France. It was Britain and France who, seeing the Middle Eastern situation not to their liking, sent troops and airplanes to Fgypt to turn a local ized war into an earth-shaking ca tastrophe. This alone was bad enough. But the two countries pulled their stu pid maneuver at a time when the people of Hungary had within their grasp something that was dear enough to die for: Freedom from Russia. Russia, seeing that the Ango French forces had entered a local ized war in the Middle East, did not hesitate to turn on Hungary and tear her people to shreds. Now, freedom is lost to Hungary for a long time. At fault are the British and the French. A great number of Hungarian lives must hang on the Anglo French conscience now. The Brit ish and French must live forever u nit , the, teletype message sent to the rest of the world by i! name- ljf&idJ?jfHfeti Hungary: e treacn-. ggle. for people only a pity that we can't stand for long . . . Don't worr about us. We are strong, even if we are a small nation. Whfcn the fighting is over we will rebuild our unhappy country . . . .' Russia's Foulest Treachery We accuse the Soviet govern ment of murder. We accuse it of the foulest treacherv and the basest deceit known to man. We accuse it of having committed so mon strous a crime against the Hungar ian people . . . that its infamy can never be forgiven or forgotten. 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 tht Dost office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, S2.50 a semes ter; delivered, $6 a year, $3.o0 a' semester.- Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor RAY LINKER Business Manager BELL BOB PLE1. Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK Subscription Manager Advertising Manager .. Circulation Manager . - Dale Staley Fred Katzin .... Charlie Holt Staff Photographer Staff Artist Norman Kantor Charlie Daniel EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Sears, Frank Crowther, Barry Winston, David Mundy, George Pfingst, Ingrid Clay, Cortland Edwards, Paul McCauley, Bobbi Smith. BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Johnny Whitaker, Dick Leavitt, Peter Alper. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Nancy Hill, Joan Moore, Pringle Pipkin, Anne Drake, Edith MacKinnon, Wally Kuralt, Mary Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes, Neil Bass, Gary Nichols, Page Bernstein, Peg Humphrey, Phyllis Maultsby. SPORTS STAFF: BilW King, Jim Purks, Jimmy Harper, Dave Wible, Charley Howson. Night Editor Proof Reader Woody Sears . Ben Taylor Lenin wrote in 1900: "The Czarist government not only keeps our people in slavery but sends it to suppress other peoples rising rvgainst their slavery (as was done in i8.jp when Russian troops put down tlie revolution in Hungary)." How apt these words sound today when we substitute "Soviet" for "Czarist," and 1956 for 1849. Hatred and pity, mourning and admiration, these are our emotions today: Hatred for the men and the system which did not hesitate to shed new rivers of innocent Hun garian blood to reinipo.se slavery: pity for the Soviet soldiers, duped into thinking they were fighting "Fascists" when they killed de fenseless or nearly defensrless men, women . and children; mourning and admiration for the heroic Hungarian people who fe'ared not even death to strike for free dom. Gone now are the last illusion's.. Moscow now stands self-exposed. The torrent of Soviet bullets did not kill only Hungary's free don and Hungary's martyrs. Those bullets killed first of all the picture of a refomied, penitent Russia seeking to repudiate Stalinism and practice coexistence. Could Stalin have acted more barbarously than did his success ors recently? Can we have any doubt now of what awaits us if we ever lelax our vigilance and per mit ourselves to become prey to Soviet might, as was Hungary re cently? ' The day of infamy is ended. The foul deed is done. The most heroic arc dead. But the cause of freedom lives and is stronger than ever, nur tured by the blood of those who fell martvred in freedom's catise. The Hungarian people will neer forget. We shall not forget. And out of hatred and tears is born , the resolve to c arry forward the struggle till freedom is triumphant. HERE AND THERE YOU Said It: eacTion jj o ers Response Poteat Shoulc Woody Sears Now that we (my column and I) have been thorougly castiga ted by one of the local merchants, it's time to record some reaction. It was quite a surprise to receive a letter from a disgruntled read er, or any reader for tna matter. I must confers that being human, I found it funny as you-know-how-something-like-that-can be. A any rate, he and I talked things over, and we both got a laugh out of it. And he really doesn't need to worry about me leading a one-man campaign for sloppy dressing, for I keep hear ing little bits about another cam paign that a whole lot of people are talking about. And that one won't be especially against him as an individual. But enough on that subject. The rest of you who have comments to make, send a note up this way. If it's in good taste and you sign your name The Daily Tar Heel will print it. That way lots more people can get their two-cents worth in. It looks as though a lot of 'folks around here will be sweat ing the draft again in the near future. So far most of the com ments come jokingly, but that may change shortly. And it is very evident that the draft is here to stay. Remember when we were kids, along about the middle and end of WWII we figured 'we'd never be old enough to go get in a war. And with some degree of pessim ism, we allowed that when we did get old enough there would n't be any war to go to. That indicates clearly the dif ference in the way we look at things at the various stages of our lives. Now we see that our pessimism was in error, we wish that we had been optimistic and been right. And in the same trend" of thought, it is gratifying to hear that; the galleries in the U.N. building in New York have' been' ' full these ' past 1 few hectic days. . This is a time when every; Ameri can . should be vitaily interested; in what folks are doing in the U.N. meetings. ' ! ! PROSPECT &, RETROSPECT ' I . ' f 1 "; ; ' ; 1 ' 1 f : f npes Neil Bass Did you fail to cash in on the half-price date tickets at the Wake Forest game because they ran short? Were you one of those who got pains in the neck from wrench ing and straining to get a view of Fats behind the piano at the Ger mans Concert because the piano .was positioned wrongly? If you were, you're in the same boat with this old reporter. DATE TICKET It is certainly a feather in the cap of President Bob Young that he got date tickets for the Maryland and Wake Forest games reduced to half-price. This reduction was in order many moons ago. But it is hoped by all those who missed the boat on the re duced tickets that President It is a most gruesome realiza tion to face when we. consider that what is being said there by a group of very serious men, in very sane and undisturbed voices, could very eaily change the lives of countless millions of people. This is a time to be concerned. Going across the campus late at night you can hear a few radios carrying the U.N. meetings, but there are too many silent radios. vf hen the U.N. is on the air, it'stnot a time to be listening io your favorite disc jockey play rock 'n roil music or your favo rite love songs. 4 Without being dramatic, it's a timp to listen to the voice of the wojld and comprehend the chaos. Then even the most casual, blase 'See YoO Later, Arbitrator!' person among us will have oc casion to whisper a few words of prayer before turning in. Frarrcis Bacon wrote in an es say that he could not believe that this universe did not have a .Mind. Possibly this Mind "is not' made up' as to how things are go ing to work out. Possibly a few words from us could help It decide. emain p ' ,: i .'I;. 1 i II On A Multifu de rises Editor: In last Wednesday's "Tar Heel", Frank Crowther resumed his and-Stan Shaw's fight in the "Poteat for Chancellor" movement. Although some very good points were brought into view, I feel that sev eral important points were missing, which may prove influential in helping the students decide whether or not Dr. Poteat should leave the class room in favor of the position of chancellor. For instance, last week an article appeared in the Tar Heel about why Carolina was not drawing the students from out of state, and the reason given was that the tuition costs too much. - This is no doubt true, but .it alone is not the reason. The administrative positions of the universi ty are almost all' held by. native North Carolinians, which I think influsnces the decisions of many pros pective Carolina students. I appreciate the fact that Dr. Poteat has many fresh ideas, but I feel that' a man from a part of the country with a different culture than ours could also have the fresh ideas, and still bring with him the necessary prestige to draw the out of state stu dents. All of us have been concerned with the fact that our faculty has dwindled due to the prospect of more money at another school or in industry. In one of the bulletins that is sent to the parents of students, I read that several of our professors went to schools that had been given the Ford Foundation grant. It is not in our place to make the financial policy, so at this we are powerless. But it is senseless to take from the classroom the rest of our professors, especially such an outstanding one as Dr. Poteat, to fill positions that though important indeed, could be handled efficiently by someone not so necessary to the classroom. As for the classroom being a waste of his talents ....... I think that is absurd. Certainly he can ac complish more lasting good through his teaching than through, the office of chancellor. Men as gifted for teaching as Dr. Poteat do not frequent this campus with any regularity, and many share with me the hope that he will continue in his present capacity. He is one of the few professors here who has students discussing today, a lecture that he gave last year. We, the advocators of the "Keep Poteat jn the Classroom" movement, have been called selfish for this desire. If it is selfish to want to have the best ' j 'education possible, accomplished . in part through keeping the best possible teachers available, then T'say that' our 'selfishness' is not' a' sin 'but' a virtue, j f ,The decision will not ultimatelyjie with us, but :I ani sure, that our, interests, wijj ,ie an influence to those fwhose responsibility it; is to make! this decis is ioni if; you want your best educators ringing the i -Iplit South 'Building, push" Poteat for ; Chancellor, ! Ityit'fjVdu want the best education possible, let all know ,that you want him to stay iri the classroom. j;j i( j ' . i "r i ."Elwood H. Spedder Jr. Youhg will ask for more half price tickets than 1,000 when the buke game rolls" around. Last week's thousand were gobbled-up' by 12:30, according to Woollen Gym's -ticket seller. It might also be a moot point as to whether or not the Athletic Department sold a full thousand tickets so quickly a full thous and. At any rate, all those who had to shellout $3.50 for date tickets at the window hope more will be available when Dook invades the Kenan gridiron. RATS And about the gripe, on the pi ano arrangement for the Ger mans concert. Watching the little, rockin' man behind the piano was half the show, but those sitting in seats on the front half of "the right-hand section of seats in Memorial Hall could barely see the top of a slick head bobbing up and down. It seems that a different and more far-sighted arrangement could have been made. WILLINGNESS Now that the gripes are aired, it's time to praise student gov ernment and the Student Party in particular for displaying a def inite willingness to work with downtown merchants even when the merchants are apparently taking little cognizance, as far as lowering of prices is concern ed, to student protest. This willingness to cooperate is exemplified by a plank in the recently announced SP platform: "The SP pledges to work for better student-merchant re lations." Merchants just won't read the handwriting on the wall even in S j view of a petition calling for boy- ! 1 j j. r l i . : ' coil oi lucai i inns whikii' was. cii- culated on campus. The petition got 55 signatures on just one end of one dormitory Cobb. COLUMBIA ST. The Columbia St. parking re striction fiasco now lies in the fraternities' hands. The presidentially appointed Traffic Commission has done outstandng work. But it can't act for fraternities. Fraternities, even though there is little they can do, should dis play some positive action toward solving their own problem. Or at least they should display a constructive, cooperative atti tude... Closing driveways to town gar bage trucks is a retributive act which doesn't help the situatiort one way or another. Reviewing Ad lot's And Ikes Records Pogo By Walt Kelly OJ CHU3CKU3.T MAILMAN VZ $2iNlN'A PXPBZ TcUUN WHO wo. Li'l Abnor By Al Capp WAL-HERE TlS.1r AN' A-cHoCKtE.?-FAT LOT O' GOOD ITU- DO VO' ' f SAM E THING VO'RE. Y I J ( COME PO'VORE Mfl . v I OOIM' AH'LL BFT ) I r.. X s ANNOOAL SADIE )jM I ( XWHUT'REVO' I: VV-, I $XSy HAWKINS DAV - T3 -n : vf I Jl.S. VI y pests AluX 1 S - If, Editor: Having read much of the leftist garbage that you have so brazenly printed in The Daily Tar Heel, I feel that it's about lime that I put forth my opin ion, since I, tod, am an American citizen. You must feel pretty darned proud of yourself, sitting back in your comfortable easy chair in the DTII office, confident that you have a free hand to air your pink-tinged ideas through the medium of the "bipartisan" Daily Tar Heel. Your philosophy of life is apparently that the Democrat party is all good and that the Republican party is all bad. You have effectively illustrated your warped philosophy by denying editorial space to the Republicans. Well, I'm afraid that I cannot go along with your ideas, Freddy boy. Since I cannot write an editorial, ,1 am writing you this letter. In 1952, Dwight Eisenhower and Richard Nixon were elected to office by an overwhelming majority of the American people. These people, 33,000.000 of them, wanted a change from the fumbling, bumb ling Democrat ruling class which had idly stood by while several small countries in eastern Europe and one huge country in Asia fell under the domination of Russian communism, which allowed organized labor to get a stranglehold on the working man, and which permitted post-war inflation to run ram pant throughout the nation. I need not mention that the American people got the change they desired nor do I need to men tion the great accomplishments that brought about this change, since they would only fall on the deaf ears that accompany a narrow mind. t You have criticized Dick Nixon time after time for some pretty flimsy reasons, but you seem to forget that, by performing a great deal more duties than any other vice-president, he has given a sense of responsibility to an office in which Democrats formerly delighted in placing men who took their time in doing the least possible amount of work. You have attacked Ike for his stand on the Democrat-inspired H-bomb issue. Adlai Stevenson has said in his proposal to end H-bomb tests that if the Russians do not go along with his proposal, we'll know soon enough. AND HOW!! But what good will it do after we zrs vaporized????? When I stand the impressive 4-year record of Dwight Eisenhower next to the scandal-riddled Illi nois governorship of Adlai Stevenson, I have no doubt concerning who wili make the better presi dent I think that we should all support Ike and Dick David Suckow
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