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fAGW TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1957 ' loderh College Athletics": 2 Educational Cowards' Fault '' The pcoiile wlio are to blaiui for the present condition of college athletics are either ignorant ol their blame, proud of it, h$pDya,,w flip-, pant :at)6ut Tcor tot weak to change it. ' . f.; They are the general public, 'the .sportsw titers of the nation's press, the coaches and the players and the educational institutions that tolerate, $ven add'to. &r false, golden hae built around big-time athletics that allow the others elements of blame to push athletics oiifof their proper a 'quick ni.in with finances, a poli tician a last-talker, a recruiter, a .'EVERYBODY'S TEST TUBE' A tudy I ft Desegregation-. Clinton, Tenn., And John Kasper perspective. ' When that happens duration inevitably suffers. - It is suffering now., . .''-'''': : T lie general publu . sK)rtswriters and players tau t be blamed for everything-. TjVeyare the result,; not the cause, of the false, golden hae. They- art" enterhig .a situa tion that has been built already for them. In the same ; manner, we cannot condemn the coaches Tor taking vhat is ottered' tjiem. A co.un voidd lose his self-respect, and his job if he were offered a jolr run ning a "modern university athletics machine and turned it down, on the grounds that it was over-pro-fessioiialied. He wo-Uld .be booed from the sidelines.: J le would be laughed, at bv other coaches. And he would be without a -contract. - ... . A1J these , ejeiu,eus. :i however the public, press, t oadies and play ers are at fault to some extent. tVe suppose it js foolishly idealistic to .belidve somewhere there are peo ple who don't take what is offer ed to them. But every once in a while some of these people pop up. They, not the Atlantic Coast Conference or institutional rides, .are the answer to the modern ath letics problem: " ' 'Perhaps these people can culti vate in the public an interest in ?the educationa:liapccis of ail edit-, rational in4itijrtjn, Peiluips they are the ones ho cauj excite people, over a woiid-Vfdewcoiiferenc;e jtt gravitation, as well as a game be-" veiy big man on the ca-iiipus. f!c usually niakes more money ' --officially .tbaif.- the c ollege "or university president. He always makes" more unofficially than the president.'' -.. The several atjiletes vyho are to blame are the hardest to bl-me. For they start out us imprcssion ' able liigli school ouths. filled with a desire to continue' their brief periods of fame. U lien fame, in the form of a eol , lege or university ' athletic recruit er, tomes knocking, those youths are bound to answer. The institutions themselves have the key. They can cuf out the cor ruption in moderii iathleiics swift ly, justly, and certainly. But they do not. The obvious question is, . . yiiv not? , ;i , ;' ' " : . . i'' The answer, we believ e , is in the fact that institutions of edu cation are made up of some cou , lageoiis people, some cowards. Rigid now the cowards outnumber the others. The cowaids in top educational offices are weaklings who will do what any alumnus with a' fistful of money asks them to do. They are only too happy to bow to what ever the public, press, coaches and athletes, demand. 1 The 'cowards are respected by other cou aids' and by.. -people ,who jJo; UioV undestitqd j;the situation.' Buc'thev uve sieerctj 'at: bv the few , courageous lnetntiexii ot , college ( Clinton - Tennessee, a" small rtmd community built aro seems in inany respc:s- more like a Northern town than a S streets: 'one sees Whites at janitorial duties; and last Xovem publicans. Clinton" has". frequently elected Republicans to.lo Clinton's Negroes comprise less than lu 'cent ot the like the Deep South Negroes, A Ve haven't had integra:ion, b 'ping their hats and stepping aside on. the street, corner., Thes Jiave sell -respect. ;X Ihdeed, Clinton became 'the site lor. Tennessee's first stat Negroes il'ecided they were tired of sending their childen go started a long course of litigation for admission to Clinton . J I its school decison. ''...' . v , Federal Judge Robert L. Taylor tlien ordered integra und a courthouse in the eastern coal-mining hills of the. state, outhern one. There rve. for iirstauce. few Ne-jroes on the ber the most ronspit ;uoiis jiolitic al 'headquarters housed Re cal offices and the state, legislature. . ' ' . population, and accortling to the mayor's son, "These aren't ut they've never been like the bowingrdown ones, always tip-, t are people who vote, who call us" by our names, and who e-supported su.;,.:' 'egratton because five yea'is" ago its miles away to a segregated liigh school in Know ille. So they igh, in the middle ol'whicli the' Supreme Court handed down tion of the high sc hool to get in'uter way in the fall of ii)-,(). r V I - IS- "1 I- 1 4 f CLINTON MOB ATTACKS NEGROES IN CAR .'.after a segregatiotuilist delivered speecti condemning NA'ACP ' 111 t tveen Tai olina and Notre;Dauie. uiul amiversitv ardmitii$ikuioli. Perhaps tljese people , an help Vbv, then, do not the courage the sportswriters of jlk: iiatmi to -Vms ones achieve a majority, stand look a(.r?frllege athletics a Jitlltojindiartf'ie ofehderi iair iw les r-iai are as sciw- Stones. Afavtx- cute t)iev can learn to ut out the ph r;vsest: " rt 1 ie 4 : l en Wtrlsh1 ppiug . headlines that feed a hungry pub" lie what it does not deserve Ur t'at If ' there were more integrity anioug coaches and')1ayers, too. it ivould help the situation quite a .bit. But rovia'lay. -i roih Is jiot respected as a buflder of men and character. He is a shrewtl operator, OUT m4 'Most of the courageous ones'are really vscuii-ttwartls. They are af fected by pressures from state legis- 1 atu res (this ts the case liere at Carolina), from boards of trustees or ireefiUi'-iwih cowartlly super iors, from public opinion and from the opinion of their co-work - The Dal ly Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board o! the University of North Carolina, where if is published daily except Monday atul exarainatioi ind vacatiofi periods incf' summer terms Entered as' second class matttr is thi bost. office in Chapel Hill N. C.'. undei the Act ot March 8,'T870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per jear, 42 50 a semei tr; delivered. $6 a year, $3.50 a iemci . ter. :-- . : Editor; FRED POWLEDGI Uanaging Editor CHARLIE SLOAN ,Kths "Editor NANCY HILL ' Buiiness Manager BILL BOB PLTSL Sporti Editor LARRY CHEEK Subscription Manager Advertising Manager Dale Stale - Fred Katzin Circulation Manager Charlie Holt VEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Ray Link er, Joan Moore..? Cringle- Pipkin Annti Drakr'Edifti MacKinnon, .Willy Kuralt, ifaiy AJys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes, Neil Bass Gary Nichols, Page. Bernstein, Pj?g Humphrey; Phyllii Maultsby Ben Taylor" - '.''"'' BUSINESS STAFF-rRbsa Moore;- Johnny Whitaker, Dick Leai itt, Dick Sirkin. , SPpkTS STAFF: Bill King, Jim Purki, Jimmy HarpeV.'Dave Wibie, Charley Howson. i; V ErrTORIAL STAFF Woody Searf. Frank, Crowther, Barry Winston, Datid ' ifundy, George"rPfingst, ,Ingrid Clay. Cortland Edwards,- ' Paul McCauley, Bobbi Smith. - : Staff Photographer r- , Norman Kantof Sue Gishner Nijht News Editor.....,.:. .- Wally Kuralt Nighty Editor Cortland. Edwards Proof Reader Manley Springs Jt is much ca.siei t go along with the rest, they have found, even if the rest be wrong, than to be come an obstac le in the way of the rest. " A few of the courageous ones are really courageous. They say what they think, they tell pressure Organisations they are sorry, but they must do what they feel is right. They stand up to adverse ojTinion, and they ; are eji eniely fair to the competition. "1 hes- people; arpftiv'.ticaUy non evistent: ()nce, thy. are- found out by the't u aids' theyv are eitlier branded as radicals or. Communists or mental pererts, or they, are re moved from the campus. This removal can be handled ex tremely nicely. It can come in the form of a social snobbery, delay in promotions, refusal on the part of the administration to appoint the courageous ones to important college or university committees. Salaries can be kept down; jobs can be made downright intolerable. , So the really.-courageous ones aren't around very much.. Most of them lraVe found there is no place for them in academic circles any more. They have found employ ment at tlie United Nations, as writers, of books, or as j. poets or artists. In those 'positions they are considered odd by everybody. So the academic community tumbles along, fighting over petty things," 'ignoring "one of the sit uations that tli real ens its whole definition modern athletics. Professors and chancellors and presidents find it is 'much easier to turn their heads and notice the rotten situation. And the situation grows bigger and bigger. ' t . ' AFTER HXAMS: The situation at Carolina Given the court order, Clinton prepared peacefully if not vol . untarily to carry it out. The im ' pact of the decision was discuss , J jthoroughly, not only by the jJPT.A!, the civic dubs, and the ;,; local" weekly, but-' In forums ; .;;among the students themselves. r "There's been no trouble-here -at all,'.' high-school principal D. J. Brittain Jr. told me oh' the tfve'.of registration.; "The people may not t3it thiibyjchoiee.biit they real-. L. W&S. UiP jcourt, order arid it's' - what we have to do. I'm not ex pecting any trouble." Looking back after four mon ths, the principal's optimistic pre diction has proved drastically wrong. Twice in that period Clin ton has verged on the bring "of a complete breakdown of law and order. REASONS There are several reasons for , the breakdown: an outsider who came in to probe beneath the surface of calm until he touched the raw nerves of suppressed re sentment; a subsequent split in the white community over an is sue so fraught with emotion that almost everybody directly involv ed haj guarded an uneasy silence about it; and finally the experi mental nature of Clinton's deseg : regation-i a case of gre"at impor tance as a precedent to a num-. ber of interested parties. ' Two forces with a good deal more at stake than the education ' 1 of 680 white and Negro students "; have fought back and forth across "the "field of battle. L'il Abner "People ask me why Clinton hasn't been able to solve its own problems," one city . of ficial said. "I'll tell you why '- because no one. wants us to, and no on'e will let us. We're i ' everybody's test tube' ,, , When hc$ operated a Green wich Village bookstore a. few , years ago, la young man named . 'Frederick John Kasper, liked to talk with his Negrjo friends about man's role tin ' history In .each great; man's Jife, he t sa i d A fpm e'sa moment when he seizes great- ) ........... ness. , "The. strong Negroes must lead " the weaker ones. If I were a Negro. I'd lead a march on Wash ington to get something done for my people. T He told one' Negro friend, an artist named Ted Joans: "Why don't you hang one of ypur paintings in the Museum of Modern Art? Everyone steals . paintings, but no one harfgsthem. Think of the publicity yjou'll get Joans never hung that painting, but on Aug. 25, 1956 tfie week end before school started in Clinton, John Kasper, now execu tive secretary of the . Seaboard White Citizens Council of Wash ington. D. C, seized the moment" he thought would bring .hisown moment of greatness.'"'''1"'"' Kasper came to Clinton un announced, sleeping in his car , the night before like, a seedy traveling salesman. Then'" Sat urday and Sunday he canvassed the town, looking for dissent. ,No less an authority on Kasper than Kasper himself gav this ac count of his' purpose: "I'm a rab ble rouser. The people of Clinton needed a leader, so I went there to lead them. . Leo Burnett, an accountant at the local Magnet Mills, wa.i wash ing his car that Saturday after-' noon when a" tall young stranger cut through his back yard. With out' ' introducing himself," the Writer Hatbetstam, a Nash "Ville Tennessean staffer, wrote this" article for The Reporter "Magaiine. THe tJatfy Tar Heel feels his article is an -excellent interpretation of one of the major integration events " in America. The articles-will he ' - . concluded tomorrow,. - . -stranger asked Burnett,- ha4he thought about Negroes going "io the high school "Well, I'm like"-mcst o'l 'tnc people here," Burnett answered.' "I'm not for it, but my personal feelings don't enter into it. It's inevitable. The court ordered", it." WILL SUPREME Then Kasper introduced him self and discussed his purpo.ve.' "You don't have to obey the law, ' he said. 'The will of the people is supreme. ; "Will your wife picket the high school Mondav?" he went "on: "I've talked to a lot of other peo ple who said they would."' Bur nett said she wouldn't, and they ' argued about if for a" while'. '"If our forefathers took your atti tude," Kasper said, "we'd still be ruled by England." ' ' - . Associated Press Photo 'I'm not interested in starting a revolution," was Burnett's an swer. Kasper continued his house-to-house campaign, .telling the peo ple they didn't have to obey; the .law if they.didn't want to.' By the end of the week Clinton' was a battleground. There were riots, cars were . rocked, citizens and travelers mo lested. The-folqwing Saturday,. a week after .Kasper's arrival, the mob seemed to take over, and only a hastily, organized home guard -ol the. town's leaders throw ing tear gas could keep it down until 100 state troopers arrived, followed soon 'by 600 National "Guardsmen, wno had been order ed in by Governor Frank Clem ent.' t As AP photographer, looking back on the riotJ, laid. "That was worse than Korea. In Korea we understood that there was a calculated risk, but we never knew What to expect here, and where to expect it from." The sheriff of Anderson Coun ty said recently that if the troop ers hadn't arrived just in time,' at least three or four people, would probably have been killed. On. Aug. 31,: Kasper was convict-' ed of violating a Federal injunc tion again interfering with racial,, integration in the Clinton high schooL " . - .;. It is almost four months since the riots now, and -the people of Clinton still cannot quite under stand what happened to their peaceful little town. By Al Capp -- :". 1 BuxAH'sTHiN.r thin H T"", ""t ' I NUFFT'CRAWL OUT.r-.- DARK!' J "i FO'SIXDAVS MOW, . Jim . ' . ' ife AH' XT'vXTl . HAiM'T ETA SINGLE k If .S. Tr DOOMED.? J l. A MUD MUSHROOM, n V J s f . f.Y ' "J N h , . V MSM m&h wMwh Pr!' Pogo By Walt Kelly 1T'0 A PUWPtti. 5 V MS A UO"' A r " li , J x. S I '-. - -; :;' WUV NOT an'uli MB ABOUT ..IT? 1 I &MPLY WHAT TO iff- CfWKi ! A OA.O f?0AM. .1 utfv-T 1'B OH OH$ V? TO Tl-.'S CCSXiWJ 1 cyciE AHAiy0 ) i I'm to eoYfebisx A A' if. A "V- CQUCHS&- IT AAkT FtOlV. F Depressing Facts About Tar Meelia Dr. Gordon V. Blackwoll Ml This is the third installment of Dr. Gordon V. Blackwell's spech before the Adult Education Councif'of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The last installment appeared in Saturday morning's Daily Tar Heel. Here one can only repeat. some of the depressing facts which have been talked so much in recent years. Our net cash income per farm family in 1950 was SI, 304, placing us in 40th position among the state's. Somewhat offsetting this low figure, however, is the' fact that North 'Carolina farmers have a larger valuo of home consumption than do all of the 11 far west-' ern states combined. . Our farms are generally too small in size and,, our agricultural people are too often underem ployed on these farms. This is one reason why three-fifths of our farmers engage in some oft- employment. Oui arrage weekly .earnings for non-agricultural workers in 1954 was $54.54, much below the national average. In our urbanized crescent in the state, thesu figures were , above the average for the rest of the state. Looking specifically at manufacturing, we fim'. that only Mississippi has a lower wage level. The fact is that the industries which we haw generally pay low wages wherever they are locatej' Also, there arc indications that our industries have not had the advantage of sufficient research faeiL:. ties and technical personnel. To sum up the income situation, we may rely upou per capita income. Here I may say that we have de voted ' considerable effort to checking the validity" and accuracy of the figures. In general, these fact' -appear to be reliable. Any improvement in their accuracy could only ilightly change North Carolina's relative rank among the states. Our per capita income of $1,23G in 1955 was be low the nation's average of $1,847. Only four states rank below u.s: Mississippi, Arkansas, South Carolina, Alabama. IS IT OUR GOAL? But is a high per capita income our goal? Thi.-. should be recognized as only one index of much more important conditions in the way of life of four million people. We are concerned with the extent to which our wealth and income enables us to support the basic institutional services demanded by North Carolinians at this mid-century point in the stale'-, development. . ? ,.(., , ,. Here I must be selective and shall concentrate on only three of our more crucial institutional services: Education, healfh and welfare. . , t As a state, we may have shown more concern, for the .health of our? peopJe.- At any rate,' on variouv statistical indices our ranking 'among the-states is somewhat better.. Generally we are not too far off the average for the country, either in public health, in. hospital. facilities-, -or in the increasingly crucicul problem of mental health. -1 We still do not rank too well ininfant mortality rate,, perhaps the single most sensitive index of the level of development of a society. In 1953 North Carolina's rate of 32.7 deaths per 1,000 live birth was noticeably above the nation's rate of 27.8. Only 10 states had a higher infant mortality rate. This problem, however, is largely confined to our Negr poJ.it.jn. '; - In maternal mortalh, ,aiv, only four states had a higher rate; than North Carolina in 1953. North Carolina has a long tradition in accepting its responsibility for welfare services. However, we are not doing as well as most other states either in proportion of our state budget which goes for public welfare or in the size of payments to needy individuals and families. Other nerby Southern states are doing consider ably better. For example, for a number of years we have ranked at the bottom in proportion ' of fiscal responsibility for the aid to dependent children p-u- -gfam -which our state supports. In spite of capable administrative leadership in public welfare over two generations, the state still Jags in the provision of adequate public welfare serv ices. Again, our relatively low income level highlights this problem and at the same time partially explains . our lag. This is not to minimize the importance of sup port for other functions of government, for reli gion, the arts, ind other facets of a well-rounded society. Our situation in education is already well known to all of us. North Carolina ranks 48th in the pro portion of our people- who have completed high school, 29 per cent. In 1950 only 65 per cent of our youth between the ages of 16 and 17 were enrolled in school. Our expenditures per public school pupil was $141 as compared with the nation's $209. Teachers' sal aries continue to be shockingly low. Yet we are spending more of our total income in North Carolina for public education than is true of most of the so called progressive states. Here our low income level offers the explanation. HIGHER EDUCATION PROBLEM The 900,000 children and youth in schools and "colleges in the state in 1950 are expected to increase to 1,270,000 by 1970. This is part of the problem fac ing the State 'Board of Higher Education. New pat terns of college education and advanced technical training will be needed by then if the needs are to be met with potentially available resources. For example, a special committee recently re ported that North Carolina industry will need 5,4(X) additional technicians each year for the next fic years. Personnel and facilities for training people in these numbers are not presently available. In spite of excellent professional leadership at the top, our educational programs have lagged far behind our needs and achievement levels of other t-tatcs. (To Be Continued)
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