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WEDNESDAY, APSIL 24, 175 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Expression's Suppression Another Look "You SeePropaganda Everywhere" And Prime Paper Puppets We are infinitely proud of the constitutional ; guarantee of free dom of expression, whether it be in the form of speech, of religion or of the press. Yet the Student Legislature at Stanford has made a mockery of. this so-called inalienable right. And the Stanford Daily staff has justly retaliated. The legislature blatantly passed a law which enables that body to "disapprove or recall" the paper's editor upon petition by only five per cent of the student body. As retaliation, the Stanford Daily's staff staged' a walk-out. A front page editorial asserted admirably the following: "We are walking out for an ideal an4deal of a free, enlight ened, critical Stanford Daily with no legislative shackles on it."' It is never admirable to throw up your hands in weak submission in the face of a little opposition. Tints the papers staff is to be lightly chastized. But their assertion lor freedom of expression is in this case justi fied. Such an arrangement as the Stanford legislature has entered upon S ill pave the oppressed road toward relegating the paper into a passive mouthpiece and verbal puppet with the apparently be yond criticism legisature pulling the strings. It is a slur upon the name of a great institution suppression of expression. In this time when faculty advis ers faculty censors and adminis trative consultants administrative brain - washers and threatened subjugation to institutional schools of journalism ultimate expressois of the administration's viewpoint only are always threateningly up on 'the horizon,' it is indeed a tra gedy when students themselves put a yoke of oppression upon their organ of expression the stu dent newspaper. William Story's quotation is in deed ironic. Thus we submit a substitute one: "Of every noble work the vocal part is best. , "Of all expression, that which cannot be suppressed." How else may governmental flaws be revealed and corrected? how ehf may threatened conspir aries be prevented and potential dictators stripped of their God complex? than through freedom of expression and revelation. Consolidation Of Forces: Leadership Training Meet If student government is to prosper throughout the coming academic year, then a consolida tion of forces and a harnassing of these forces, through training are both necessarv. The proposed Student Govern ment Leadership Training Retreat at Camp Monroe near Iaurinburg al fords this opportunity. According to President Sonny I vans, refusals for participation in this retreat are omniously heavy. Transportation to and from the retreat to be held this Saturday and Sunday will be provided by buses chartered by student gov ernment. Thus it will be relatively easy for those interested to attend. Outstanding administrative and student leaders are slated to ad dress the conclave, leaders like Chancellor-to-be William Aycock. Thus it would be infinitely ben eficial to student government stal warts in all phases of campus life to participate in the convocation. It is an opportunity for the newly elected and newly appoint ed to hear the outgoing political warhorses relate their experiences and outline their duties. It is an The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University cf 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, under the Act of March 8, 1870. Subscription, rates: mailed, 84 per year, $2.50 a semes ter: delivered $6 a year, $3.50 a semes ter. Editor NEXLBASS Managing Editor CLARKE JONES Associate, Editor .... NANCY HILL Sports Editor BILL KING New. Editor WALT SCIIItUNTEK Business Manager JOHN C. WHITAKER Advertising Manager .... FRED KATZIN NEWS STAFF Graham Snyder, Edith MacKinnon, Pringle Pipkin, Bob High, Ben Taylor, IL Joost Pclak, Patsy Miller, Wally Kuralt, Bill King,, Cur tis Grotty, Sue Atchison. EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield,, Anthony Wolff, Stan Shaw, Woody Sears. BUSINESS STAFF John Minter, Mari an Hobeck, Jane Patten, Johnny Whitaker. SF0RTS STAFF: Dave Wible, Stu Bird, Ed Rowland, Jim Crownover, Ron Milligan. Subscription Manager ... Dale Staley Crculation Manager ChaTTiellolt taxlVnotographers Woody SearsT Norman Kantor, Bill King. Librarians,.Sue Gichner, Marilyn Strum Night News Editor ... Night Editor -. Bob High Guy. Ellis opportunity for the giving and taking of advice. It is a seldom-afforded opjxjitunity for an inter course and exchange of ideas. It is a golden opportunity. There has been a perpetual and perennial tendency among politi cos to cast off the robe of enthu siasm once the campaign for of fice is successfully completed. It will be indicative of a change for the better if this year's politi cal crop begins their tenure of of fice by participating in an event which will enable them t(S admin ister their duties more effectively th.ouohout ihe year. We welcome a pleasant air of demonstrated enthusiasm through participation in this conclave. And we shall watch with inter est, the number of participants. Pork Barrel, Legislators There is an old frowned-upon political practice known as pork barreling in which a representa tive feathers the nests of his own constituents. We openly advocate pork-barreling among student legislators as the new 23rd assembly swings in to session. In the past there has been a ten dency among student representa tives to play hush-mouth through out meetings when theoretically he is entrusted with the responsi bility of playing mouthpiece for a constituency of 2"o or more stu dents. Kvery student is supposedly vei bally represented by a spokesman in the legislature. Thus an elected representative must investigate the problems of his constituents, af ford them opportunity to express their gripes and complaints, and air his findings before the law makers assembled on Thursday night. The past 22nd assembly was commendable in that Go-plus mea sures ran the legislative garnet. Hut still there were representatives up on whom was thrust the responsi bility of speaking for their consti tuency yet did not once speak duf ing the assembly. There .arc too many Thursday night legislators the rest of the week during which investigation should be conducted be hanged. Thus we make open advocation for jK?rk barreling. Feather your constituents' nests, lawmakers. That's why you're there. - At Dr. George: Fire With Fire? Frank Crowther Our right to express opinion, be it radical, conservative or liberal, as an American tradition and right afforded all men and women under the jurisdiction of v the U. S Constitution. In ex pressing my own opinion, I shall have to resort to extremes in refuting another's, because he has dealt solely in extremes himself. This does not mean that I do' not have any tolerance of another's views. The liberality and open mindedness of our university is something of which I am very proud. It has been a great in fluence in the South and in the country, and I hope that we are not losing it through our pres ent crisis. I for one hope that "Mortuary Hill" reverts to Chapel Hill. But, when other opinions become contorted, warped and garbled, we must answer and negate them as vehemently as we know, how. We could refute any of his particular statements, which be gan to come to public attention "in the spring of 1956, the most vitriolic of which was that print ed in this journal on March 3, 1956. There were others reeking of the same staunch, and I shall . extract from several. Dr. George used Saint Paul's words. "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." He in ferred that if this were applied to the Supreme Court's decision, the law should not be enforced. This is paradoxical. Saint Paul. Saul of Tarsus, was the man who recognized it as God's will that the gospel of salvation in Christ should be taken directly and deliberately to the Gentiles. His work broke open the Jewish framework in which primitive Chrisianity before him had been confined, and opened the way to winning the non-Jewish world. Are we to believe that this great man would apply his words to the suppression of a people? Dr. George also said, "I became active in the race problem not because of my animosity toward the Negroes, but because of my desire that five, 10 generations from now we might have in this country a breed of people cap able of maintaining our civiliza . tion." This to me eviscerates his arg ument from the beginning. ' Are we to believe that he is abounding with charity and be nevolence toward the Negro? He goes on to say that he de sires a breed "capable of main aining our civilization." Non senco! In " wsrld history, those who have helped build the same culture are not necessarily of 1 race, and those of the same race not all participated in one cul ture. In science, culture is not a function of race. Our civiliza tion has been built on many things; to mention a few: steel, gunpowder, paper and printing, corn, tobacco, algebra, -etc. But steel came from either India or Turkestan; gunpowder was in vented in China, as was paper and the printing process; the American Indian domesticated corn and tobacco; and algebra A- L'il Abnor came from the Greeks. Babylon ians. Egyptians and Hindus. He again extracted facts which he could twist in his own self satisfying way when speaking of Portugal's decline after , large numbers ot Negroes were intro duced in 1442. But these events are "not necessarily correlated. Was one the direct result of the other? He does not prove this or even attempt to do so. His tory has shown that such mixed races have flourished and prog ressed even in extreme cases of intermixture. Arabs are Caucas ians, and they have always tak en native, wives. In western Su dan, a mixed race culminated in the 16th century in the great empire of:. Bornu. Moslems nev er have attached importance to ancestry. Our Merlin also quoted Arn old Toynbee's "A Study Of His tory" thusly: "The black races alone have not contributed to any civilization." "Alone" is pos sibly the key word here and should be emphasized; at any rate, it could not have possibly implied what George inferred it did. He completely disregard ed Toynbee's summary of this book, a portion of which reads: "The so-called racial explana tion of differences in human performances and achievement is either an ineptitude or a fraud." Nature apparently does not condemn the half-caste or half breed to physiological inferior ity. "Mixed blood shows over and over again evidence of increas ed fertility. Stature in the Indian-White has been greater than either race contributing to the cross. Almost every record ed civilized group has been a form of hybred group. This dis poses of the concept that hybred people are inferior to those sup posedly pure-bred ones, if there is such an animal. E. A. Hooten, renouned American anthropolo gist, said in his book "Twilight Of Man," "All reputable anthro pologists condemn the malignant nonsense about racial psychology which is preached and publish ed by those who try to justify the oppression of ethnic minor ities. Political theories about race are nothing more than in struments of propaganda, devis ed for the child minds of the totalitarian populations." Actually, this is not a ques tion of "mongrelization" or en forced " social mixing as Dr: George infers. No-one is telling us how to breed our families. But. the Supreme Court stands behind integration, -and, in the end, this cannot be circumvent ed. This is the highest law body in our country as stated in our Constitution, and, if we are to condemn and disregard it, by what else are we to live? Dr. George is also a scientist. I have spent many hours in Wil son library reading most of his works produced during some 35 j'ears here at the university. Some of that work does the man credit, and I admire him for it. As a medical professor of his tology and embryology, I can but respect him. But the scientist has a special responsibility of cleaning out any of the falsities which mas querade under the name of sci ence in our colleges. In our high schools, or in our publications which are influential on the peo ple. He cannot be permitted to ; preach false statements such as 1 T.'ESrl- OCK-. ft" "everybody knows . . .," follow' ed by "the Caucasian race is superior," when everybody does not know, and the Caucasion race has by no means been prov ed superior. Our people today are yet full of dangerous hatreds, suspicions, animosities, bigotries and intol erances. We are using racism as a new way of distinguishing be tween horses and mules. A cre ation of our time is the claim that we know our enemies by nothing more than their hered itary anatomy. This misconcep tion leads people to believe that man's destiny, damnation, salva tion or place in the sun is pre determined before he may. utter his first words. This puts the Negro behind before he can ev en begin. As a result of observ ing the society in which he lives, the Negro must associate "white ness" with superior advantage, achievement, progress and pow er, all of which are essential to successful competition in our American society. Our youths who are exposed to these preju dices are being taught a hatred and rejection of others. Dr. George's humpbacked viewpoint has contributed to one of the sickening travesties of America, racial prejudice. How can an honest man pro fess to be a good Christian and appear so mild and benevolent in church on Sunday, and go out Monday morning and spit so banefully right in the face of his fellow-man? To do this, and there are many who do, is to be guilty of the greatest hypocriscy ever attributed to man. By Al Cipp BUT, MAMZELLE. THERE ARE thousands of PEOPLE WATCHING US .7 I 1 AT LAST ' j Y WE ARE ALGNpry AH, BUT ZEV FRENCH "are! I L Si I "AftTrTHAT SWINEJS- rr r- SsSJSfLJS do vou ot - nJ JC Q L 7r? -between p P030 f t ; . QN-EV& AM SWT 1 CNATAU. 1-itiWAOn t WAIT Til. rTl mm 1 Ij'r I Bv Walt Kelly rQtrt& ill PAC? AN' THINK TIL Kg r1 -ry " TW?g T QiZCArf mint I VOUl? THINKIN' A I 1 Am I MftV M kl' -Thai KILT I w&"v 1. 1 nuns s-fn nvri. I li If 7 , 1 I VI -liii v fx. I 1 &J nil NINETY-X NiNiSTV'NIMS a HMM. f" ; was th.nkin'V I CQ evS.Nl 1 39-33 '9 From Notre Damo Scholastic: ase Youvhsr Legacy ulfed? It .is omnisciently superficial to label any generation. But it is worthwhile, to me anyway, fo point out a few of its characteristics. It is bcr.c ficial to understand the past, for it has helped shape the jdeas that have influenced the world cf :the present. Historical knowledge goes back ward and forward. We of he New Deal years seem to have a nat ural curiosity for the romanticized years whose shenanigans were unpretentiously recorded by F. Scott1 Fitzgerald. Many historians and dilletantes have! labeled the 1920's, the "Lost Generation." It seems interesting to pry open the crushed flowers of " ttie jewel-box world that many of our parents faced a ' world that seemed to shrug its shoulders at the thought of bread lines. Unlike our parents, we of the New Deal years grew .with 'the shadow of a world-wide, full-scale war.' Most of us recall the sneak attack. Most of us recall the battle line maps in the newspapers. Most of us recall the united effort , of freeing Europe. Too many of us recall War Department letters. ' War has played such a familiar part in our lives ' that we seem to take universal terror for granted. We have read so many editorials, heard so many , news analysts discuss Russia's possession of the atom bomb threat that it is commonplace knowledge. We have seen so many war movies that we consider ' their plots hackneyed. The Korean "police action" reopened our teenage eyes to our omnipresent companion. As a result, the Hungar ian revolt did not particularly move us . . . not until we saw those too familiar pictures in Life magazine. Our parents learned our lesson with a rude jolt. We learned it with the age of reason. We are not immune yet. We are simply blase. We college students accept ItOTC as an ac credited course. None have disregarded the nat ural right of the services' claim. Yet there are many of us who do not really want to accept this claim of universal experience. The world of the 1920's is recorded as a boom ing bubble a bubble that loosely bound the world in a gala tickertape. The world, of the 1920's saw the opportunity for our parents to sail in the un captained ship of industrial expansion. Unlike to day success was not a pressure but an option. Peo ple were less financially definable. They did not enjoy the type of option that mass goods present to us. A teenager of the 1920's was not a consumer in the sense that we know. The advertisements our parents read were geared to their parents' bill folds not their own. Today's time payments and job opportunities enable the high school sophomore to be an automobile consumer a freshman, a rec ord and movie consumer. The teenagers of todaj are subjecting the nation's motion pictures, radio and television to the fad of an unusual "dance mu sic" called rock and roll. The songwriters of the 1920's did not subject their music to the whims of the exuberant teenagers. The world of the 1920's has been recorded as an age of romantic disillusionment. Many college graduates who could not afford foreign travel join ed the service to "see the world." Many disgusted artists fled the tranquil rebuilding of Europe's "provincialism." The scientific aptitude tests of today tend to label the college freshman to the degree that hf "knows" that he will be a doctor, lawyer, ensin eer or a merchant chief. Our generation directly contradicts, I believe, the romantic notions of the past. The death of the romanticized, speculative. g3t rich, see the world 1920's is contradicted by our generation's drive to seek a label a label of June 3 marriages, placement bureauism and my riads of white pkket fences aside an expressway. No longer is the gathering of wealth a demand it is a natural presupposition. Today our society is a consumption society. The multiplicity of jobs and advertisements testi fy to our economy of plenty. This js the only type of economy that we can remember in our short lifetimes. This label-seeking seems to have grown from the experience of the "Great Depression." The gov ernment is making every effort to preserve their "peace and prosperity' platform. Technology and teamwork have set the pace for our consumption economy. The merchant chiefs of today prefer to join a big experienced team like General Motors rather than follow the growing footsteps of his father or grandfather's smaller concerns. Today's corporations have a dearth of last ty coons, for business is more technically organic and technicians are plentiful. Today, a person is label ed by his neighborhood, automobile and job con temporaries. Our generation enjoys the social mo bility of corporative position. If a sales manager is promoted to the top of sales, he is immediately accepted as a hob-nober with Cash not Mr. Mc Call." Many of our parents "learned the bitter lesson of the Great Depression. They are . more ' inclined to look into the background of a political candi date whereas many of us are inclined to "X" him on his campaign slogans. The last ejection had few 'real issues. Many of our parents are more inclined to express disgust with political corruption where as many of us are inclined to assume its necessity "to make the wheels go round." Th?se few facts point, I think, to our great desire for security the security of freedom to express ourselves. We are deathly sick of war, ter ror and destruction. We have seen the futility of a peace without victory and a peace through occupation.
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