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THE UNC NEWS Wednesday, August 8, 1962 UNC Student Reports Activities And Riots At Helsinki Festival Doctors Given Medical Grant i Page 6 (Editor's note: Mrs. McCorkel and her husband are two of four UNC students attending the World Festival of Youth in Helsinki, Finland.) By CHRISTINE McCORKEL The past few days have trans formed the city of Helsinki. Un til last Saturday, the eve of the formal opening of the Eighth World Festival of Youth for Peace and Friendship, hardly a poster heralded the coming of 13,000 students. Overnight the very size and emotion-charged loudness of the Festival has for cibly obtained the attention of the citizens. The Festival was planned by the International Preparatory Committee (I.P.C.), a group rep resenting Communist - backed youth organizations and acting as a front organization for their combined activities. The pur pose of the astronomically expen sive gathering is ostensibly the promulgation of "peace and friendship" through formal dis cussion, meetings for cultural ex exchange, and private conver sation. Though the I.P.C. claims that this year's festival is the most representative yet held, the participating youth organiza tions only rarely represent the full range of student opinion in their respective countries. Many African and Asian nations, for instance, are represented chiefly by unions of students studying in Eastern Europe. Communist' groups, often representing a minority, form the sole represen tation of many countries, and other participating groups align themselves on a continuum rang U. S. Policy On Berlin Wall May Aid Freedom In Europe By TOM McIIANEY It might be best for the cause of European freedom if United States policy supported the wall erected by the East Germans in Berlin, says an article in a re cent issue of "Social Forces," a sociological journal published at the University. Such a reversal of American policy might even facilitate per manent accord in the divided city, according to Hugo O. En gelmann of the University of Wisconsin, writing on "The Eur opean Empire: From Charle magne to the Common Market." The wall, says Mr. Engel mann, defeats the East German cause, since West Germans had actually feared that Slavic speaking peoples would "replace the Germans who fled East Ger many." Such a migration of Slavic peoples into the territorial core of Europe could have only a bad effect for Europe and cause increased internal turbu- ' lence. This territorial core, Mr. En gelmann says, which today com poses the area of Common Mar ket countries, has striking simi larity to the empire of Charle Let Pete Do It Pete Iho TAILOR 12:' i E. Franklin St. ing from the Soviet-Communist leaning to the 'uncommitted. Sev eral important youth organiza tions of non-Communist and anti Communist opinions, including the U. S.'s N.S.A., are boycot ting the Festival in sympathy with the Finnish student union (S.Y.L.) which is non-Communist and not participating. The U. S. contingent has come under the label "participant" rather than "delegation," in this way expressing a less than wholehearted approval of the Festival. U. S. representatives were chosen individually from applications to the U. S. Festi val Committe. The amount and strength of Communist leanings in the group in not known. The U. S. is also represented unofficially by a number of small interest groups and independent individuals. Some have come to "preach" democracy; a number of pacifists are here to distrib ute literature, and many more, including a good number on the delegation of official U. S. par ticipants, are here to learn something of the operation of such a gigantic propaganda or gan. The Finnish reception to all Festival activities has been cool. There were no welcoming signs in the store windows. Official Festival posters and markings on buildings where activities are to be held are about the only visual evidence of the event. Helsinki newspapers are for the most part ignoring the proceed ings, with only "Kansan Uutiset," the Communist paper, giving coverage. The most graphic evidence of negative Finnish sentiment is magne around 814 A.D. Small migrations have always been im portant in the area and the great happenings of history are "merely fortuitous eddies in this sea of human motion." The wall in East Berlin, which may be merely temporary, is backed up by two more import ant present-day situations which could stem the tide of migration into the empire-Common Market area. The formation of the Common Market itself, of course, is one force. The existence of Israel in the Middle East is another, he states. In spite of its non Christian base, Israel appears to be heir to the CrusaiYrs, es tablishing through its dominant westernized Jews a beachhead of European traditions in the Middle East. Eut, as Islam op posed the Crusaders in Charle magne's time, so today Arab Na tionalism opposes the European- Contemporary STUDIO OMDS Remember your friends with hilarious Hurry to the rioting that has been taking place nightly since the Festival, began in the center of the city. At about 9 o'clock, the streets begin to fill, and by 10:30, the sidewalks are lined six and eight deep the length of the six-block area that forms the center of town. Attempts at control by mounted police have proven un satisfactory, and for the past two nights tear gas barrages have dispersed the crowds. These are reportedly the most numerous masses gathered for demonstra tions in Finnish history. Tear gas has not been, used since 1948. Finnish youth led the crowd in jeering, brick-throwing, attacks on Festival busses the first two nights. Now curiosity and gen eral restless resentment bring throngs numbering 5-6 thousand (estimates run as high as 15,000) nightly. A Finnish spectator, when asked if he thought it would continue said: "Yes, it will get much worse. It is the Finnish way to keep coming back; the police can do nothing." He also affirmed that crowds came both to see what was going on and to support the youth. With the promises of the added excitement of tear gas and club swinging, it is likely that he will be proven right. Very few of the attending for eign students are involved in the anti - Festival demonstrations. Their activities consist of pro grams, exhibits, and private con versations. Folk dancing on park pavilions and other cultural dis plays draw fair crowds as in terested in talks as in spectator ship. Inter-delegation talks on izing influence of Israel. And migrations into the empire-Common Market area from the Middle East are again on the rise. Recent events in Tunisia, Morocco, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and Algeria, the .Middle Eastern origin of Franco's troops in Spain, and Algerian migration into France and their sporadic terrorism are elements of the "in-migration." It is still questionable, he says, whether this "in-migration" has been halted. The Common Mar ket may be "merely a gallant gesture in defense cf a lost, cause." - Only careful analysis of German migration can pro vide an answer to questions rais ed about the East German wall. "But unless we want to flounder hopelessly in our policies," he concludes, "we would do well to concern ourselves more with these small scale events and their implications than with the great historic occurences." STUDIO CARDS Choose from hundreds Birthdays Friendship Illness education, colonialism, and the - like are carefully controlled in attendance and content. Contin uous exhibits attract a varying stream of visitors. The Rus sian tent in a park near the center of town dispeases propa ganda leaflets and booklets, but attracted the biggest crowds with a cartoon show outdoors on a portable screen. Even more conspicuously lo cated is an unofficial, privately financed U. S. exhibit .in the old town hall on the main square. Featuring a photogra phic exhibit, reading and rec ord room, and modern architec ture display, the exhibit attracts a continuing crowd. The Festival is not wanted in Finland. The Finns, especially the police, are in an impossible position. They don't want to notice the Festival, yet it. is all around them. Only Soviet pres sure, considerable in this little country whose capital is not a hundred miles from Leningrad, forced the government to accept the Festival; Finland was reluct antly courteous until the Festi val actually began. Now that the Festival has begun, it is clear that only the Communists who comprise about 25 per cent, want anything to do with the Festival. The rest of Finland is torn between desire for order and politeness to the well-intentioned, and desire to express their feelings that have arisen against this loud, unruly child of the Soviet Communist propaganda machine. Film Society Billy Wilder's satire on Holly wood, "Sunset Boulevard," star ring Gloria Swanson as the for gotten star of the twenties who still has plans of a comeback as the glamorous star of moviedom, will be shown by the UNC-Chapel Hill Film Society Sunday night, 8:15 o'clock, in Carroll Hall. An "unusual'' version of boy meets girl, scripted by Wilder and Charles Brackctt, "Sunset Boulevard"' is a story about a corrupt scriptwriter, William Holden, who is down on his luck when he chances into the de caying, palatial home of a big star of the twenties. THURSDAY SALUTING THE CIVIL WAR CENTENNIAL! D"ViD 0 'VC- 3 w-.stn vwut GONE WITH THE WIXD ) , PJCK Glf -VTilDI LSGH , I -TII.-SAT.-S UN.-MON.-i U E. HEMINGWAY'S "Adventures of a Young F.Ian" Starring PAUL NEWMAN SUSAN STRASI5ERG WEDNESDAY "Tarzan Goes lo India" Starring JOCK MAHONEY A check for $4,563 from the National Easter Seal Research Fuondation has been presented to a team of medical scientists in the School of Medicine who are working to relieve the prob lems of people crippled by dis eases of the bone. Algin Pikutis, executive direc tor of the North Carolina Society for Crippled Children and Adults, announced Sunday that the So ciety was presenting Dr. T. Franklin Williams and Dr. Mary B. Arnold with the grant in sup port of continusd research in bone disease problems. . W. E. Thompson, treasurer of the society, presented the two doctors the check here Saturday. The National Society has com mitted $13,154 in support for the next two years of a research pro ject here which may contribute to the prevention and treatment of rickets and other diseases of the bone. Previous society contri butions for the study have also been mads.. The current amount represents a preliminary pay ment of a combined $9,127 which the Society is awarding the two medical scientists this year. The project under research by Dr. William and Dr. Arnold is called "Studies of Calcium and Phosphorus Metabolism." The two investigators are studying the kidney mechanism for reabsorb ing and excreting phosphate. They have attempted to determine if improper function in reabsorbing the salt "may be responsible for certain types of rickets, other bone diseses and disorders of the parathyroid glands. 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