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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1935
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
SSL, Carolina Delegation
Dp Themselves Very Proud
TAR HEEL HISTORY
The State Student Legislature,
and particularly the UNC delega
tion, should be commended for
asking that the Pearsall act be re
pealed. The Pearsall at!, For which Gov.
Hodges politicked so hard and for
which he called a special session of
the X. C. Legislature last summer,
is North Carolina's official weap
on against the Supreme Court. The
act. voted into the Constitution by
a large inc jority in a special elec
ton, p'roviks for "private" schools
if public schools are desegregated.
The at would.. be considered un
constitutional by the IT. S. Su
preme Court, and will be if a test
case gets to Washington. Besides
being unconstitutional as a side
stepping levice for the desegre
gational decision, it also provides
for the tfest ruction of the state's
public school system.
If the public schools, are destroy
cd. NortlvtCarolina will sink even
deeper merits educational mires.
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The State Student Legislature
realized iXtU when it called for
repeal of Vne act.
We doillt that the State Student
Legislature, passed Jts anti-Pear-sall
measure just to be liberal, as
many of the previous student legis
latures have done. Rather, the SSL
measure reflected, a great deal of
considered student opinion.
Students, especially college stu
dents, are pretty up-to-date o?i
what is lacking in North Carolina
education right now. They rer.l
we what will happen iT the people
of the state, inflamed emotionally
by the Ku Klux Klan. the Patriots
of North Carolina Inc. or rabble
rousing' politicians, have. power to
wipe out their public school sys
tem practically overnight. '
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The vote of the SSL last' week
technically meant nothing, jit car
ried no official weight, passed no
actual legislation. 'lot of the
people who read about the action
turned the page of their newspaper
and .wondered what the damnfool
younger generation was coming to.
Hut the' SSL's action, introduced
by the Ci-.olina delegation and
passed by a majority of the dele
gates, piit a portion of "the sta e's
student body on record 4 as oppos
ed to the plan which provides for
the end to public schooling.
Perhaps the students will lead
the state where the state itself has
fallen down.
And Chape Hill Could, Too
Chapel" Hill, we' remember, w-'ts
one of the few communities in the
state to vote aga-inst the Pearsall
Plan early?, this fall. -The measure
failed to ok ry the town by a small
margin. But a majority no mat
ter how bare of the town didn't
like the plan. .
This wquM indicate a great deal
of people here are in favor of de
segregating the public sclfools. It
bears out our conviction that
Chapel Hill, with' the University
community and all the people who
go with it, is the most important
cent of liberal thought in the state.
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Why. then, is there no action to
'desegregate the town's schools?
The people of the town Who
want a de.sesrer 'ted school system
should- oj r??euiiieiiseIvrs,andt- 1
-tempt to desegregate. They should
not wait for "more appropriate
times" to come along.
The present time is appropriate.
There is little action on the seg
gregation --integration front, even
from the extremists like Dr. W. C.
George and the rest of the Patriots.
People appear to have grown
tired of talking about segregation,
even in South Carolina., that mud
pile of prejudice.
Careful- well - planned action
right now on the part of pro-in-tegrationaljsts
in town would rer
suit in a desegregated Chapel Hill
school system by the beginning of
the school year next fall. If they
wait much longer, the'School Board
will start talking aboiit the next
year, and the year after that, and
so on into infinity, and very much'
of nothing will be done.
The Supreme Court ruled more
than two years ago that segrega
tion in the public school is uncon
stitutional. This state, like most
of it he others in the South, refus-
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The Daily Tar Heel
The official student publication of tbe
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
oost office in Chapel Hill, N. C., unde
the Act oi March 8, 1870. Subscription
rates: mailed. $4,per year, $2.50 a semes
ter; delivered, $6 a year, $3 50 a semei
ter.
ed' to comply with the decision.
But this town, like several others
in the South, appears to feel inte
gration would work to the mutual
benefit of all the rates which
would be involved.
' It is time for Cliapel Hill to de
segregate its schools. The ' Chapel
Hill Ministerial Assn. worked hard
and Long hours to defeat the Pear
sall Plan when it was before the
legislature. The Chapel Hill In
terracial Fellowship has doiie r:i
excellent jpb, too. Various individ
ualspeople like Paul Green have
shown true leadership in this time
of crisis. '
Now, they should blend their
energies and efofrts into one or
ganization to desegregate the pub-
lie eh'ueJs.Chapel Hill could set
a fine precedent.
Longhorn
Justice:
Tyranny
Down in Austin, Texas, college
type freedom is being meted out
again.
Editor
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Managing Editor ...
CHARLIE SLOAN '
News Editor
RAY LINKER
Business Manager BILL BOB PEEL
Sports Editor
LARRY CHEEK
EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Sears,
Frank Crowther, Barry Winston, David
Mundy, George Pfingst. Ingrid Clay,
Cortland ""Edwards, Paul McCauley,
Bobbi Smith.
NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, : Nancy
Hill, Joan Moore, Pringle Pipkin. Anne
Drake, Edith MacKinnon, Wally Kuralt,
Mary AJy Voorhees, Graham Snyder,
Billy Barnes, Neil Bass, Gary Nichols,
,Page Bernstein, Peg Humphrey, Phyllis
Maultsby.
Four University of Texas stu
dents who were passing around a
petition were called into the of
fice of the dean of students.
The reason? The dean of stu
dents didn't object to the petition
itself. (It advocated withdrawal of
the United States from the Olymp
ics because of Russian "interven
tion in Hungary which is bar
baric and unjustifiable . . . .")
Rather, the dean said, the peti
tioners didn't ask the University
of Texas for permission to peti
tion. The Texas institution has a rule
that its facilities (obviously, in this
case, its classrooms, soil and air)
are not available for such "purposes
unless they are sponsored by "ap
proved" organizations. Even then
they may be questioned, the dean
said.
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The; the University of Texas is
run similar to a dictatorship is
not new. Last year, thefine stu
dent newspaper there got put un
der the school .of journalism, its
freedom squashed forever, simply
because it differed with the state's
politicians ribout the natural gas
bill.
Since then, student freedom has
been laughed at in Austin.
The right of students or any
body else to petition is a right that"
cannot be denied, even by a sensi
tive dean of students.
The students oft he Universi
ty, of; Texas should petition all
they want even petition to kick
the dean of students out of office,
if they feel like it. A few head
may roll, but' we believe the' na
tion will support the students'
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Clarke Jones
One of the favorite topics of
conversation of Frank P. Grah
am, University president in .the
1930's, was the story of Mrs.
Cornelia Phillips Spencer, other
wise known as the "lady who
rang the bell."
It was shortly after the close
of the Civil War. Because of a
revenue loss, it was apparent
that the University could not
last much longer and shortly. af
terwards, the resignations of
Beer Bottles
A Problem
In Library
Library Notes, Wilson Libra
ry's staff bulletin, recently re
painted the following from the
University of Kansas Library's
bulletin, GAMUT.
''One of our more fortunate
recent acquisitions in this field
was the Schlitz-Hammweiser col
lection of beer-bottle labals.
'The peculiarity of this col
lection lies in the fact that all
the labels have been left intact
on the bcttles, creating we feel,
a unique storage problem in li
brary history. Some of the bot
tles, in fact, are still full.
"We expect a larg? number of
research projects based on this
collection."
A. NORTHERN VIEW
A New Set
Of Beliefs
In The Lord
Corf Edwards
To me God is not love. God
is work.
To me there is no such thing
as religion. Religion is a social
concept, a classificatory term. It
is an ethical system. "
To me-the soul is .nothing
more" th'ana..dispds.ition." As. a dis- ,
position It S.xil$ 9l asts .in- ,
dividual creator exists; "r
To me there isn't now and
never were such things as Jesus
Christ as the son of God, the
Holy Trinity, angels, etc , .
To m? the Bible is worthless
as a book of prophecy, of" as !a'
strengthener of the weak. It is
not the book of God.
To me the virgin Mary of
Christianity was not a virgin in .
our definition of the word, , and T
should not be worshipped as
such. "
To me Heaven and Hell don't
exist. They are mythological goal
concepts.
To me the Church is a pros
titution of Cnrist's teachings.
To me a particular Religion
is good and necessary,, but then
too, war is good, and necessary.
To me science is doing away
with religion.
To me there is a God, but ...
The God in which I believe is
dynamically effective in this
world for ALL mortal people..
One God over the whole Uni
verse
- (To be continued)
Ladv!
Who
Rang
President Swain', and the faculty
memSersi were obtained. Thus
the University was closed.
In the -early part of 1875, there
was talk that the University
trustees lias acquired, means of
raising flinds for .re-opening the
University and when official
word came that it would re-open,
Mrs., Cornelia Phillips, Spencer,
one of .the University's t'staunchest
supporters, simply, couldn't hold
back her joy. - . ;
Climbpig up to ' trie' belfry in
South Building, she, took hold of
the rope and personally rang the
bell there, and, as Phillips Rus
sell says in his book "The Lady
Who Rang the Bell," she did .
more than ring a bell; "she rang
out an old world of defeat and '
inertia and rang in a new' world :
of hope and belief." j ' ''.. r
SAME BELL 8 BFC FLUSH .1 r
The same bell that Mrs. Spen
cer rang over 75 years-ago ,is
the same one which rings inter
mittently through out the day to
signify the beginning and end '.'".
ing of classes as well as remind
ing coeds of their curfew.
Occasionally when the auto
matic switch is not working, the
bell will not ring and in this
' case the bell is rung by hand by
the long rope which Mrs. Spen
cer used so many years before.
" ; The b?ll seems to have a cer
tain significance and meaning for
students here, and as Bill Fri
day, Consolidated University
president, once remarked, Uni-
. versity graduates should ha,ve a
recording . of this bell to wake
them up in the morning.
'Pull Over To The Curb'
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YOU Said It:
Michigan, Reader Defends Editor
Editor:- .-
I have- just finished reading a
letter to the editor in the
November jl Tar. Heef and fell
compelled to air my views on
the subject. This .letter was
written by one David Suckow in
which he states that the Tar
Heei has been printing "leftist
garbage" and that, you, .as the
editor, have been allowed to air
"pink-tinged ideas." Never be
fore have I read such rubbish.
In the past I have followed the
Tar Heel k quite closely, and,
while it is evident that the views
of the- editor are predominately
those of the Democratic party,
I have found no evidence of
either "garbage," leftist or other
wise, or "pink-tinged ideas."
Mr. Suckow should be very
careful when making such
sweeping statements. It would
seem to me that you have a very
good case against him for slan
der, defamation of. character,
etc.
As to- the rest of the letter,
words fail me. How can anyone,
who has given any thought to
politics at all, make statements
such as Mr. Suckow's statement
on the H-bomb issue. "Vaporiz
ed,", indeed! This would imply
that the U.S. has no stockpile of
atomic weapons ready for use
at a moment's notice, and also
that Mr. Stevenson . had given
. no thought to the possible re
percussions of such a plan.
Perhaps now is not the time
' to stop H-bomb testing, but to
use the emotional appeal that
we will all be "vaporized" if
such testing ceases is ridiculous.
I should like to applaud The
Daily Tar Heel for printing such
an inane letter. At the same time
I firmly believe that the space
used to print Mr. Suckow's letter
. might have been used to much
better advantage by Pogo.
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... University of Michigan
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Li' I Abnor
By Al Capp
Night Editor
Woody Sears right to petition.
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IS THIS THE END OF
MOONBEAM
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FADING TRADITIONS
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Saves Holidays
Woody Sears
Here we are ir the midst of the Christmas sea
son again ... so soon ... . literally and figuratively;
the commercial Christmas season, that is.
With Thanksgiving not yet here, we find ourselv
es surrounded with gay reminders that it's present
buying time again.
Before we have a chance to enjoy the traditional
black and orange colors of the harvest season and
our harvest holiday, we are blinded by the tinselly
red, white and silver of the hucksters' holiday.
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I find it rather dis
gusting. But at any rate it clearly indicates the present
trend toward commercialization and a shifting .sense
of values. ,
The worst thing about it is that we all but ignore
Thanksgiving, the one truly American holiday. It is
the one holiday that is completely of American
origin, representing the culture of our forebears.
It is tragic that we give so little attention to t'His
holiday because it is lost ir the rush to prepare
lor Chnsmas.
but it is no longer felt as it should be. We should
all stop to think of our good fortune in living jn
this land of freedom and plenty, especially in'thtw'
itmK.i Ail tnrirtt?
What has happened to feeling that one inspir
ed us to sing "Come yc thankful people, "tome,
Raise the song of harvest home, All is safely gath
ered in, Ere the winter storms begin . . .?" -
or vo me leeiiiig uiai n is a nine ior iamuies
to be together, as reflected in the song that es:
"Over the river and through the woods, To Grand
mother's house we ",o. . .?" Or yet another. "We
.gather together to aK the Lord's Blessing. . .?"
Possibly we no longer feci the necessity of being
thankiul, because things come too. easily for us,
and the modern grocery store eliminates the ne
cessity for laying in stores for the winter.
Possibly the mobile society in which we live
has us spread so far apart from our relatives that
it is no longer practical for families to get together
around the Thanksgiving table. And possibly, we
haven't got time to worry about Thanksgiving htncp
it's almost Christmas. ,
It's a real shame that progress so often neces
sitates losing some of the "old" traditions. It's truly
unfortunate that we are losing Thanksgiving,, our
one "100" American holiday.
But in this changing culture of ours, wher
family ties become less meaniful and less it.
entrenched in our daily lives, it is more or 1
inevitable -that we mast .sooner or; later, forget.'
family holidays. It fits into the pattern;-'
Not too many years ago Armistice Bay was a
big holiday, with parades and fireworks and bands
in the city park, but that too has fallen victirA to
our changing ways. The big Independence Day,
Fourth of July holiday is fading too. v
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It seems as though the oniy holidays which .'!ave
managed to survive are the two religious hplit'ays,
Christmas and Easter.
And even though they have lasted many hun
dreds of years, they too would probably die if it
weren't for the great merchandising industry.
If we keep the money pouring in, 'maybe.lt he
business world will keep Christmas and Easter for
us, even though it will become less meaningful
every year.
We need to slow down and do some reorienting.
Duke Bell iheff
Not Destructive
Editor:
I suppose it would be better to leave well enough
alone, but I do not believe that I should.
It is my belief that Bob Young's statement, "It
is embarrassing to the football players . . ." is so
much bunk. The football players at Carolina are reg
ular guys and are certainly not ' a bunch of nam by
pambies as Young's statement implied. There is
nothing immature about school spirit; if there were,
then we'd better stop having pep rallies, a cardboard
section, and cheerlead?rs.
The wave of vandalism which has plagued bah
campuses broke out weeks before the bell was stolen.
I do not believe that stealipg the bell was an ;ct
ot vandalism. Webster doesn't either.
Ironically enough an article appeared in the
Durham paper the same day Young's statement
came out: "Members cf the A.T.O. chapter it
Syracuse made sure no one from Colgate wjuU
swipe the cannon the fraternity uses to signal Syra
cuse touchdowns." A photo with the article showed
two boys wheeling the cannon into a bank vault.
, The Navy goat has been stolen before; the Army
mule has disappeared several times; and on th-j
West coast, Stanford students once even - robbed
the Bank of Berkley to get back' the Axe, symbol
of victory. Is this custom below the level of Caro
lina gentlemen?
I believed that this deed would increase spirit
at bath colleges; and it did. If the Dook students
had any real spiriHney would have tried to get it
back in the same manner iq which it was stolen.
The bell was to have been presented at the game.
L we had wen we would have kept it; if we lu i
lost, return it on the field after the game
There is only one thing I would like to get
straight . . . We did not break into the old gym,
we touched nothing, and we broke nothing to get
out. There was no vandalism involved. We wished
cIy to return the bell to its PROPER place.
JOHN C. HARRIS
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