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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 155?
tHE DAILY TAR HEEL
School On 1 2-Month Basis?
It Is A Practical Answer
The proposal i his week to put state-supported colleges on a ,12
inonth basis came as no shock to quite a Tew members of the University
tommunftv. '
They remembered what Gordon Gray, foimer president of the Con
solidated University, s;-id in his report to the Board of Trustees in the
academic year 1 931-55 :
"We are confronted with the prospect of greatly increased enroll
ments. We must move, therefore,
to a maximum effectiveness in the
use of our present plant. Among
other measures, we will have to
consider seriously two departures
from present. practice.
"One is the question of schedul
ing more classes in the afternoon,
so as to use classroom space to bet
ter advantage: the other is the ques
tion of giving regular instruction
on a 12-month basis."
So when Chairman 1). Iliden
Ramsey of the State Board of
Ui'rhrr I'fhwn'ion said a study of
the 12-month plan is underway
in the board, lie was reflecting ,
thought that has been floating
around for several ears.
While, there will be moans from
some of the students at the thought'
of such a system. We believe it
would work, and work well.
As Ramsey said this wek, 'The
state has a large investment which
is partially .idle, or three months,"
and the educational institutions of
the state are operating at only one
third caoaritv during summer now. ,
Since it is apparent that any ad
ditional buildings and classroom
facilities the University gets will
come sometime in the future, and
that the future will Jbc quite a
ways off, it is time that thinkers in
the state began thinking ribout
enlarging the system within the
same physical boundaries. Both af
ternoon classes and a' 12-month
study sysrem are excellent ways to
do this. -
They
Too,
Age
Riot;
At
Of U
Maybe it-would be better li the
proposal to drop the state's vot
ing age to i S were defeated.
When we think that the Caro
lina Gentlemen who participated
in those recent panty reads would
be Noting on county commission
ers, town aldermen, state- legisla
tors, United States senators and
representatives, governors and the
President of the United States, we
shudder.
America Slipped A Little
America slipped a little in the
past few davs.
Two incidents proved, to our
wav of thinking at least, that the
country has fallen a little bit from
those nice fundamentals that were
employed in the Declaration tf
Independence, the Constitution
anil the -Revolutionary War.
In New Rochelle, X. Y., the
American Legion post elected
sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.)
as recipient iftiis "Americanism"'
award. To McCarthy, who fought
I or - e eral years - tji ; rn'nkc' people
think in a very un-American man
ner and called them .Communists
(while he hid on the Senate floorV
when thev didn't, went an award
for being an American and believ
ing basically American ideals.
We pity the wives of the New
Rochelle I.egionaii es. They must
be awfully tormented people.
An incident of considerably
more' .sign ificr-nee happened ' at
Oueens College. ' Flushing, X. Y..
lat Sunday. Provost Thomas V.
Garvey of the institution ruled
Fditor John Gates 'of The Daily
Woiker "may not speak on the
Oueens College 'campus."
Dr. Garvev's reason:
"It would be unrealistic and in-
The Daily Tar Heel
Tht- official Ui'irni puMudtmn ot l'
Publication.- bo.ird tt the Unjversit l
North' Carulm. WUdl it; is puhlisherf
daily rxit-pt MitfttJuy afnt xaminatio;
pI vacation periods ami summer terms
Knienrt a .senmd it.iss matter in tht
o.-t mficr in rhap-l. Hill. N. C. unde.
h -ci '.M Marc h r 1870 Subscription
rates mailed, $4 per year, $2 50 a semes
.tcr; dolivre1. $6 a year. $3 50 a lemet
fer :
EM -tor FRED POWLEDGE
Managing Editor CLARKE JONES
News Editor NANCY HILL
sports Editor LARRY CHEEK
Business Manager U BILL BOB PLEL
Advertising. Manager FRED KATZIN
tDUUKlAL SlAhr - Woody fcean.
Joey Payne, Stan Shaw.' .
consistent with the intent of the
bylaws and pertinent resolutions
of the Hoard of Higher Education
for us to btinu to this camous a
person who was convicted of con
spiring to reach the overthrow by
force and violence of the very gov
ernment which we are obligated
to uphold . . ."
Gates, it stems, has served time
in federal prison for attempting to
overthrow the government by vio
lence. Wiat betttttJ'e.ivson could exist
fcbriivgirjgtjiJi a man to a
C'.npas?
There would be no c hance that
a student would stupidly accept
Gates' pronouncement as fact,
(.rates is an acknowledged Com
munist. .nd tile student body of Oueens
College would have av chance to
see and hear a real, live Com
munist in action. The students
could ask him questions, even
argue w'll; him. lut no, say l)r.
Garvey and the Hoard of Higher
Education.
1)' . Garvey also said, at the time
of the Gates decision, that:
""Queens College has long held
and will continue to hold the po
siti(K? that subject to the resuic
trons of the law and of decency,
its students in the pursuit of a
greater understanding of the
world's problems may hear and
le.'.ai about all recognized opin
ions and positions no matter how
much in the minority and how un
popular they may be."
Such hipocrisy .in modern edu
cation is sickening and disgusting.
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wunotv
Thursday series entitled ""Ameri
can Government" tonight at 6:30
on Ch inel 4. The question for
this evening is ""What is Govern
ment?" A good question.
Jac k IJenny takes over on Chan
nel 2 lor an hour at 8:30 p.m. His
guests include Gale Storm, Law
rence Welk and Heddy Lamarr. It
looks from here to be Jack's show
all the wav.
"Drrvgnet" is opposite on Chan
nel 5, as usual.
The 'Playhouse no production,
on Channel 2 at; 9:30 p.m. stars
UNO graduate 'Jack Palance in
an adaptation of i E. Scott Fitzger
ald's If. st novel, "The Last Ty
coon." The setting is the frustrat
ing world of" Hollywood: featured
in the cast are Keenan Wynn, Vi
veca Lindofrs. Peter Lorre and
Lee Demick.
INTEGRATION SCOREBOARD:
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Southern School News
Southern School News, pub
licaticn of the Southern. Educa
tion Reporting, Service, is an ,'
objective report of the segregation-integration,
situation in .
the United States. This article
is from the News' March edi-
tion.
Legislative action in five states
to maintain school segregation
and court desegregati?n orders
in two states (affecting six
school districts) claimed atten-.
tion as southern and border states
schools moved well into the "last
half of the 193G-57 academic
year.
Court- crde-ed decercgation
was directed for Norfolk and
Newport Nsws in Virginia and
for Hopkins, Scott. Webster and
Union counties in Kentucky.
Court action was anticipated to
force integration in tow areas of
Oklahoma schoolings
Arkansas', legislature enacted
four bills, one setting up a state
sovereignty commission. The
Georgia General Assembly adapt
ed six measures, including a res
olution of impeachment against
six U. S. Supreme Court Justices.
Texas and Tennessee legislators
passed resolutions reasserting
states' rights, and in South Car
olina an anti-barratry law was
added to legislation aimed at the
National Assn. for "the Advance
ment of Colored People.
Thirteen southern and border
state legislatures are meeting
this year. Legislation adopted
thus far brought to 120 the num
ber of measures dealing with
segregation-desegregation enact
ed since the 1954 Supreme Court
decision against school segrega
tion. In furthsr court actions, John
Kasp:r, figure , in .the Clinton.
Tenn. "school disturbances last
fall, was ordered re-arrested by
a federal judge.
In Georgia the seven-year-old
Horace Ward case reached an
other milestone when a federal
court h:ld that the Negro, who
has sought to enter the Univers
ity of Georgia law school, was
not the object of racial discrimi
nnt:on. And a North Carolina
school entry suit was on its way
to the Supreme Court.
Pro -fesreeation group activity
was reported to be increasing in
i .ui'.uu and Maryland. In St.
Louis a 50-50 racially mixed high
school reported increasingly suc
cessful operation in its second
year of integration. '
A sta to-by-state summary of
major developmentsf follows:
ALABAMA -
A University of Alabama
spokesman told Southern School
News after reports of an exodus
of "shocked and shamed" pro
fessors as an aftermath of the
1956 Autherine Lucy incident
that there had been a "normal"
turnover although six departing
faculty members had given this
explanaticn
for leaving.
as a major reason
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ARKANSAS
Four pro-segregation bills, have
been enacted by the general as
sembly and approved by- G6vt- Or
val Faubus. One sets up a. state
sovereignty commission with in
vestigating powers: 4 4jvV ' 1 .
DELAWARE ; v
As public school desegregation
slowed down in Delaware, negot
iations were pursued for a mer
ger of white and Negro parent
teachers associations:
DISTRICT CF COLUMBIA ,
T vo studies, one by a school
system official, called integra
tion in the District a "miracle of
social adjustment.' Two southern
congressmen charged that a jun
ior h'gh school was forcing mix
ed' dancing.
"fiat
tiers. .A bill to ban. interracial
athletics meanwhile was- shelved.
KENTUCKY e
Three western counties, and av
fourth one in central Kentucky
were ordered by a court , to, de-"
segegate their schools this all! ;
Louisville Supt. Omar" Carmic-ha-el
blamed the National Assn.
f r the Advancement of Colored
People for much of "the chaos
in the South" and the organiza
tion replied this was due rather
to "open defiance of some south
ern spokesmen" to court decis
i ns.
LOUISIANA
One hundred Negroes out M
same 200 previously enrolled re
entered integrated state., colleges,
und-or injunctions restraining ap-
'Okay Now Scram'
which he hopes to achieve before
leaving the governor's chair.
MISSOURI
. A St. Louis high school report
ed after its second full year of
desegregation that it was operat
ing jnore smoothly with a 50 per
cent Negro enrollment than it did
with a 33 percent Negro minority
the first year.
NORTH CAROLINA
. As the teacher pay issue domi
nated the 1957 legislative session,
the U. S. Supreme Court was ask
ed to review a lower court decis
ion denying Negroes entry to an
all-white school.
OKLAHOMA
New. federal court action was
expegted in an effort to force in
tegration of a state training in-.
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FLORIDA '
Pro-segregation group activity
stepped up with the entry of per
sons from other states who are
critical cf Gov. LeRoy Collins'
stated position that mixed schools
are inevitable.
CEORGIA
A case in which a Negro had
made a seven-year effort to get
into the University of Georgia
law school was dismissed in part
011 grounds that' no; racial dis
crimination was involved. The
legislature passed five pro-segregation
bills together with a res
olution asking impeachment' of
six U. S. Supreme Court jus-
plication of new state laws which
would have-excluded them.
MARYLAND
Pro-segregation groups were
more active at the current legis
lative session than at any time
since the 1954 Supreme Court
decision though no legislation
they advocated was intrpduced."
MISSISSIPPI '
Saying the state must preserve
the "domestic peace and tran
quility which is surprising our
friends as well as our worst
enemies." Gov. J. P. Coleman,
who is expected to run against
Sen. 'James O. Eastland in 1960,
outlined a four-point program
stitution and a public school dis
trict. SOUTH CAROLINA
The general assembly added an
anti-barratry (soliciting law suits)
statute to a body of legislation
aimed at the NAACP and consid
ered other pro-segregation laws.
TENNESSEE
An arrest order was issued by
federal court for John Kasper,
segregationist leader and figure
in the Clinton incidents. Mean
while, the Tennessee Senate pass
ed by voice vote the House-passed
"Tennessee Manifesto" while
rejecting a resolution of interposition.
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In yastsrday's papr, we left Goettinsen ex
change ftudtnt John Rper as he decided to walk
back itven kilometers across the Pyrennas Moun
tains in search of a fellow hitch-hiker and &
suitcase.
On the '' second crossing through the customs
station in. one night, the' suspicious Spanish held me
for a time for questioning (thought 1 was smug
gling): As I could not speak Spanish and they
could not speak English, we quickly reached an
impasse, and they let me go.
t finally $ot back to Cerbere to find its only
hotel had barred its doors for the night. was
forced to spend the night on a bench beside the
Mediterranean Snad. Unfortunately those warm
sunny stories about the Riviera in sumn.er do not
holti true for winter nights.
Bright and early the next morning, I arose from
my bench-bed with optimistic hopes and went to
see the station master. He did not find the bag,
but said it should arrive cn the noon train. I re
turned once more to Port Bon and got Karl. We
waited, but no bag came at noon.
Th2 baggage people told us that they had called
and located , our bag. They promised it would ar
rive on the 8 o'clock evening train. Wc decided to
spend Christmas Eve oir the Riviera and wait for
the bag (did not have too much choice, because in
the clothes which we were wearing we had already
been mistaken for. wandering Hungarian refugees).
We got a room and sat around waiting. Eijjht
came, but "Twas the night before Christmas, and
all through France, not a bag was stirring, net
even ours."
However, the station master did promise that it
would undoubtedly arrive on the early morning
train Christmas. We could then catch a train on
to Barcelona and Madrid.
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We caught the train without' the hag the next
morning in a flurry of invectives against trains and
people connected with them. This little bag story
is to emphasize the degeneracy of modern, day
France and its lack of ability to do anting but
botch up both external and internal affairs.
We took a seven-hour pause in Barcelona to eat
Christmas dinner. It was there that, we first realized
that the people were not kidding when they said
Spain was a dictatorship. Everyone from bathroom
attendants to army generals had a special uniform.
Memories of 12 years ago returned with the Span
ish soldiers marching around in their Nazi styled
helmets.
Upon finally arriving in Madrid we calculated
and found, along with worry, lack of clothes, and
eight days consumed, it had cost us $5 apiece more
to hitchhike than to catch the train.
People say Franco is the dictator in Spain, but
perhaps that is not quite accurate. Perhaps, the
Spanish Catholic Church is the real tyrant there.
The Catholic Church has done to the Protestants
what France did to the Communists placed them
in the Fifth Column. No where in the Western
World has a church so much power and influence
in the government and over the people.
There was a Protestant Seminary, sponsored
by the World Council of Churches, in Madrid until
last year, when the Catholic Church through Fran
CD's government (Franco to get power liad to prom
ise three groups certain things: The church; the
roj'alists, and the Fascist governments of Germany
and Italy) had it closed.
Students are outlawed frc'm openly studying for
the Protestant ministery.
Today the Seminary eerves as t Protestant
school for children.
met a young Protestant minister there who
was marrying the 'Catholic; daughter of an official
in a large Madrid bank.. When the announcement
was made, the bank reduced his job and salary to
that that he had received upon beginning work 35
years earlier. He w'as told both would be restored
if he prevented his daughter'? marriage.
Spain has two classes of people, the rich and
the poor. The government officials -have much of
the wealth, but the Catholic Church has even more.
Economically the Catholic Church's control of
wealth in Spain would be equal to a combination
of General Motors, U. S. Steal and General Elec
trics in America. The poor just remain poor and
ignorant.
The Catholic Church sees that movies, especially
American movies, are censored. The half-naked
shot of Marilyn Monroe is not cut. It is the part
of the movie taken in a New England Protestant
Church that catches the shears.
While in Madrid, I lived i.T the above-mentioned
Protestant Seminary and talked -with its iniquit-c-us
inhabitants. If you can take their side of the
picture, the Spanish Inquisition is not over.
Before leaving: Madrid I nmst mention its fam
ous, subway, the Metro. Riding on the Metro is like
living in a Mickey Spillane novel. Twice I felt the
sneaky hand of a Metro pick-pocket. In the corners
are enacted cover illustrations to sordid pocket
books. Karl and I went to Lisbon, Portugal, and cele
brated there New Year's Eve with a group of Pres
byterian missionaries departing for Africa. We went
south to Seville next, where we rode through the
city in horse drawn carriages and watched younel
Jose Grecos and astonet-snapping senoritas danc
ing in their fiery Andalusion style. After a look
ground Cordova, wp celebrated the Old New Year's
Eve (Jan. 5th) in the seaport town of Malaga. We
daneed until 4 a.m. with the rest of the crowds of
people.
It took uf from noon Sunday until last Tues-day-55
hours to reach Cerbere from Malaga. This
vas iust tvpical of Spain. It is almost as isolated by
Franco, the Catholic Church, and the Pyrennes from
h of th -orld as te countries behind the
Iron" Curtain. There are few countries so rich in
art. folk music and lore, and landscape; yet so
poor in fertile. earth, progress, democracy and in
dividual identity of its masses.