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? t tl.n.r. Library Serials Dept. Box 870 See Edits, Page Two Weather Partly cloudy and warm High in the low 80's Seventy Years Of Editorial Freedom - . "i. Officers in Graham Memorial Scales, Abernathy Communism In Chapel Hill: Did It Pose A Real Threat? (This is the first of a series of articles on the history of com munism in Chapel Hill.) By VIRGINIA CARNES "Everybody in North Carolina knows that Communists at Chapel Hill present no more threat to Democracy than the American In dians." There were the words of the Raleigh News and Observer on April 20, 1940. In the same year the president of the university Frank P. Gra-Uhe ham was charged by critics of permitting the University of North Carolina to become a "citadel of radicalism." The accusations built up until he was in league with communists, permitted his profess- ors to lead students into radical i convictions, and encouraged stu- dents to go to Moscow to study communism in operation. The talk became so "noisy" that the Dies Committee in Congress had taken notice and announced plans for an investigation, Graham declared before the state that "Communism is not taught at UNC except in the sense that it is part of the appropriate subject matter of same courses at all universities in the world. I know of no communists on the fac ulty." The word "communism" was by no means new to Chapel Hill. Since the 1930s it was known that Com munist organizors were busy in the state. At that time there was no law against Communist Party membership, no Smith Act. On the other hand, the FBI, in all likeli hood, knew quite a bit about North Carolina communist leaders and their activities. Possibly they knew about the operation of a Communist under ground printing press in the dingy back-room of a bookstore opposite UNC during the 1930s. It was de scribed in 1953 in the testimony of North Carolina-born ex-communist, Faculty Art Show till At Ackland By DONA FAGG I "Faculty Artists U.S.A.," an American Federation of Artists collection now on exhibit in Ack land Art Center is the first of twelve exhibits planned for this year. This exhibit will remain three more days. Joseph Curtis Sloane, professor of art and director of the art cen ter, commented that the present selections "indicate that the per sonal styles of these faculty artists are the same as those of the pres ent art world as a whole." He pointed out that the wide range of styles were representative of the trends and were widely divergent from the sweeping strokes of the action painting to the finer lines of abstract realism. The temporary collections are booked as packages from the Am erican Federation . of Artists, the Smithsonian Institute and the Mu seum of Modern Art. From time to time the art center borrows col- Playmakers, UNC Students Opening In Tajama Game9 Three students and one alumnus of UNC and two members of the Carolina Playmakers are in the company of the musical comedy "The Pajama Game," which op ens at Woman's College in Greens boro at 8 p.m. tonight and con tinues through Saturday night. The production, which is under the sponsorship of the United States Overseas and the American Edu cational Theatre Association, is be ing especially prepared for touring of the Northeast Command of the Department of Defense. Representatives of Carolina in the production, who have jobs be hind the scenes as well as parts in the play, include Lorenzo Durham, a junior from Charlotte: Ernest Perry, a senior from Raleigh; Jeff Ward, a sophomore from Edenton; RADIO CLUB Amateur Radio Club will hold meeting today at 7:30 p.m. at the Radio Shack in Caldweii Y. Paul Crouch to the Senate Intern al Security Subcommittee. The printing press was set up in the rear of the Intimate Book. Store, owned and operated at the time by Milton A. and. Minna. A; Aber nathy. Crouch told the Senate sub-corn mittee that the Abernathys "Work ed for the Communist party" and "accepted party discipline." He said, "They, first of all, met with 'me and other representatives of Communist Party to discuss i left-wing books that the party was anxious to circulate on campus and prominently displayed these books in the store. They also gave the party names of people whom they talked, whom they considered to be good prospects, and lastly they furnished the rear of the Inti 'mate Book Store for storing and operating a communist printing press. The purpose of the press was to give the communists facili- ties during underground conditions such as a war between America and the Soviet Union or other cir cumstances that would cause the party to be declared illegal The witness asserted that the printing of the Southern Worker and the Carolina Youth were print ed at night by Alton Lawrence, who Crouch said was "one of the most important undercover lead ers of the Communist party in the South. When called to testify before the committee, both Mr. and Mrs Abernathy refused to answer ques tions concerning their alleged Com munist affiliation. Abernathy stated in a letter which appeared in the Chapel Hill Weekly on Sept. 25, 1953: "Neither my wife nor I have ever done any thing against the interests of our country." Yet it had been common . talk in Chapel Hill that from 1932-1950, j Abernathy had been left-wing, if not an out and out communist. The lections from private sources. Two such exhibits are planned for the year. Ackland Art Center, dedicated September 1958, houses a grow ing permanent collection. Dr. Sloane hesitantly estimated the worth of the present permanent collection to be $350,000. The most famous of the paintings the art center owns is Delacroix's "Cleo patra." The painting has been on oan to the Masterpiece Exhibition at the Seattle World's Fair. Dr. Sloane is quick to emphasize that the permanent collection is not just a campus showplace but that its main function is to provide examples for teaching purposes. He feels that there is a certain value gained by actually touch ing a piece of sculpture or seeing the actual painting that would be lost with the showing of slides. Though the galleries are pri marily used for instruction pur poses, there were over 14,000 visi tors last year, not including the art students or the classes of visit ing school children. There are definite plans for ex pansion of the collection, Dr. Sloane reports. Nevv acquisitions will be shown for the first time in December. At that time a bro chure describing the permmanent collection will also be made avail able. Demonstrating that the art cen ter is not a stuffy museum is the on-the-move spirit of the art stu dents themselves. Duane Lowder, UNC graduate student, has a one man show that opened recently in New York. Another of the prize products of the department is Bob Shannon, recent graduate and now an instructor at Duke University Shannon is the artist that left hi mark on campus as painter of the Ehringhaus murals. Besides maintaining the galler ies and offering instruction the de partment plans another service to the university. Student art work is going to be made available on loan to decorate other department of fices in the university. Another of the department-spen sored activities is the Wednesday evening sketch class. Dr. Sloane stressed that the non-credit clas; is open to all interested persons and that no previous training in art is necessary. printing press was no secret. Most people, however, felt Abernathy to be quite harmless. After all that was the '30s. In 1956 The Chapel Hill Weekly told of Ab's selling his bookstore and heading for New York where he acquired a deep affection for capitolism as seen by a stock brokerage firm on Wall Street called, "Morton, Morton and Abernathy. Paul Crouch, however told about communism at UNC during the '30s. "We had a very large organi zation on the campus at that time," he said. 'We had a small group at Duke. The leaders of the party at UNC from 1934-1937 were the Eng lish professor, Dr. Irving E. Erick son, head of the Carolina Com munists and later Dr. Arnold Wil liams, member of the Communist District Bureau." Crouch stated to the committee, 1 was a representative of the Communist Party in the US to the Communist International in Mos cow, an honorary colonel of the Red Army, lecturer at the mili tary academy in the Soviet Union, was a member of the editorial staff of the Daily Worker, editor of the communist youth paper. The Young Worker and later editor of the New South, the official com munist publication for the South ern states. Some people laughed at com munism in 1940, others shouted for its total abolition and cried for witch hunts". But Communism wasn't new to Chapel Hill, nor was it to be forgotten when in the '50's new events, new controversies, and new names would make neoole know that the "red on the hill was by no means fading". Red leaflets would litter the brick walks of UNC "The Low- down on High Prices", "Race Hatred Rides Again",- ' 'Be a Fight-j er for Peace. . . . Peace will Con-1 Quer the World", and at the bot tom of each page read: Communist Party of Chapel Hill Junius Scales, Chairman P. O. Box 62, Chapel Hill, N. C. Vote Registration Booth Set Up Here A Voter Registration Booth willi be open on campus Friday for the purpose of encouraging UNC stu dents to take an active part in state politics. The booths will be open on many other North Carolina college and university campuses in a concert ed drive to encourage active partic ipation by the students in the po- itical life of the communities and the state. Sponsored by the National Fed eration of College Young Demo crats, the booths will distribute voter and registration information from all the states and take ap plications for absentee ballots. In addition, mailing lists will be compiled of the students by con gressional districts. US Dogs, 'Cop ters Join Vietnamese SAIGON (UPI) American- trained hunter dogs and heavily- armed U. S. helicopters joined the South Vietnamese government's massive "Morning Star" operation against Communist guerillas on a broad arc around Saigon Wednes day. , I But there were few reports of enemy casualties and military ob servers said the elusive Viet Cong guerrillas were hiding out by day and moving only at night to evade 6,000 government troops. Since the huge anti-Communist operation began last Thursday on ly 37 Communist guerrillas have been killed and 9 captured. The government has reported 13 of its soldiers wounded. There was no word on how many Viet Cong were killed by fire from the American helicopters. The air strikes have taken sev eral American lives. The latest came when a U. S. Air Force ob servation plane was shot down Tuesday with the loss cf three lives. A fighter bomber flying cov er over the charred wreckage also was shot down but the pilot escap ed with injuries. The three fatalities brought to (45 the number of deaths of Amer CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, Students To Eye Reform Measures For Court System UNC students will take part in a state-wide campaign to help pass the court improvements amend ments in North Carolina, it was announced yesterday by JJwight Wheless and Lee Rainey, co-chair men of the newly-formed Student Committee for Court Improve ments. The committee will have an or ganizational meeting Tuesday night, October 23, at 7:30 in Ger rard Hall, Wheless said. The purpose of the committee, said Wheless, is to promote the passage of the upcoming amend ments to the state constitution dealing with the revision of the in ferior court system in the state. Wheless said that he feels there are many students on this campus and on campuses around the state who are concerned with this issue but have not had the means to express themselves. "The Student Committee .for Court Improvement will provide those means," he said. According to Rainey, the shell of the committee has already been set up with four district chairmen representing about twenty-five counties each. Rainey also said that the UNC committee is trying to get other campuses in the state to start their own court improve ment committees and that thirteen colleges have already begun to do so. The amendments which will go before the electorate of North Car olina on November 6, provide for a complete revision of the state courts ' below the jurisdiction of the Superior Courts. The present recorder-type and justice of the peace courts would be abolished and a state district court system instituted to replace them. The districts courts, which would be established by 1971,' would be uniform in costs, fees, and- pro cedure with magistrates " appoint ed by the Superior Court. Under the new system, salaries of judges would not be affected by their de cision on a case of the collection of fees. - Fred Ricci of Raleigh, North Carolina Campaign Chairman for the FCYD, announced that the fol lowing colleges and universities will take part in the registration drive on Friday: Other colleges having booths in clude Duke, North Carolina State College, Wake Forest, Ixiuisburg College, East Carolina, - Western Carolina, AsheviUe-BUtmore, Mars Hill, Queens, Pheiffer, Davidson, Appalachian, Catawba, Gaston Tech, Mitchell, and Woman's Col lege. Ricci emphasized that other col leges and universities interested in sponsoring similar registration booths could do so by contacting him through State Democratic Headquarters in Raleigh- ican servicemen in South Viet Nam this . month.. The figure includes those killed in combat and in ac cidents, and those who died of natural causes. LONG ISSUES WARNING " The sale of chain letters on campus is prohibited by Univer sity regulations according' to Dean of Men William Long. " According to Long, the letters are being circulated through both dormitories and fraternities. He also said that it is a com mon occurrance which comes up almost every year. "I want to see this stopped be fore it gets going,' said. Long. "A lot of people will Jose jnon?y on this if it's not stopped right away, and I want . students , to know that it is definitely against university regulations... After speaVig to au attonsey in Chapel Hill, lens said yestef - day that it is- probably jyot against the law to sell the letters unless they are sent through tie mails. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, ennedy Discla: Crowds Dig PP&M Students crowded into Kemp's yesterday to get a closer look at Peter, Paul and Mary who ap peared there at 4:30 p.m. "This is our first time touring in the South," said Peter. "My feelings previous to this visit were gleemed only from my literary knowledge and the people I met from the South in the North, who are comparable to American tour ists in Europe. I think Chapel Hill is beautiful, such a very dynamic group of people here very 'hep.' " The three are Peter Tarrow, Paul Stukee and Mary Travers, but they prefer just Peter, Paul and Mary. I like Chapel Hill very much, said Mary. I'd like to come bacK some time when I really have time. I hear there are really beautiful things to see. I've had a great day went horse back riding took a jump." When asked about their back ground, Peter said, "Paul went to 'Michigan State, Mary to Art School in New York and I went to Cornell, but we were all profes sional performers before we went to school." . "I was born in Louisville, said Mary, "iMy mother in Mississippi, and my father in Boston, he was a Yankee and that was like terrible. was raised in New York." "We've been together in perfor mance for one year," said Mary 'We started in the "Bitter End' in the "Village" ... Peter described their album to come out : in January as "far su perior" to the first. "The title is Peter Paul and Mary (Moving)', he said, "and it is new in terms of development . and increasing of scope moving in tne sense 01 the basic folk music we sing. We have incorporated magical feeling into folk music we never initially conceived of." When asked if she were married or engaged Mary smiled over her peach ice cream cone and said, 'No, most people think Paul and are married, but we aren t. Paul s engaged to a very beautiful girl. Paul was asked where he con cocted his impressions of auto mobiles, etc. and he replied, "I was working for a high school ra dio station, and they couicin t ai- ord sound effect records. Peter remarked to a Tar Heel re porter, "I've never seen such a controversial sheet as the news paper here. It's incredible so out spoken. At Cornell everyinmg was watered down. There's directness here." On an exclusively college tour now, their next performance is at Carlton College in Minneapolis. Rhodes Grant Applications Now Available Annliration for the 1962 Rhodes Scholarship competition are now i,g;i9M nn the Carolina campus. Th0 crhnlarshios are for the term at Oxford beginning ucioDer, i.Jn- , 1 fl-bCO A Rhodes Scholarship consists oi a prant. of $2100 (750 pounds) for two years. It may oe exxenaea ior three years at the discretion of ih Trustees. This will,. with care, cover a student's expenses for both school and vacation time, accora ing to the committee. Any unmarried male student be tween 18 and 24 who is at least a rollese. is eligible to ap- dIy. There are 32 scholarships available. , "v are interested m good, au- round young men-those .mowing real distinction through integrity -r .er connd intellect and scholastic ability, leadership and visor."-said the commit- te - The Oxford school year compris es three terms of two monmsc Vq vacation at Christ mas and Easter, and three months during tie summer, during which the student may. travel.. Applications may be picked op from Dr. Frank Duffy at 203 South Building, or Mr. C. P. Spruill, 206 Hanes. The deadlire for all en tries is November 1. 1962 umer IJUmuiM. , ;. I.I I. II --Mi.uiiJiyuuujiggiiiiiiuM if l :, ; i - r i is v " - - iff -Z." -rvu i tJ r- ' ',Vw' i t J ' " r ' f - ' ' ' 4 " ''t,i X4&ito,... . ' 'j ' -. - ' i MARY Surrounded by fans. pauses while signing autographs . ...... fl Campus Briefs UP INTERVIEWS The University Party will hold interviews for the Legislature va cancies Thursday and Friday in the Grail, Room in Graham Mem orial from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. There are vacancies in Town Women's I, Dorm Women's I, II and IV, Dorm Men's II and IV, and Craige. INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS The International Affairs Com mittee of the YM-YWCA will meet at 7 p.m. in Y-Court. Edwin Okoro-, ma will speak on Nigeria. ASTRONOMY LECTURES From Oct. 15-20 Dr. L. L. Rice will give illustrated lectures on popular astronomy at the More- head Planetarium at 7 p.m. Ad mission is 50 cents. , YACK PICTURES Yack pictures will be made of sophomores and pharamacy stu dents this week. Late pictures will also be made of juniors, nurses, general nursing students, and phy sical therapy students. A fee of $1 will be charged for late pictures FLU SHOTS Flu shots are being given in the Infirmary from 9-11:30 a.m. and from 2-5 p.m. Monday through Fri day. YACK BEAUTY CONTEST The deadline for entries in the Yack Beauty Contest has been ex tended until Friday. All organiza tions must submit their entries by then or make arrangements with either of the Yack editors to sub mit names later. YAF MEETING The Young Americans for Free dom, a campus group of political conservatives, will hold a mem bership meeting at 7:30 in the Law School courtroom in Manning Hall. All freshmen are urged to attend. There will be recordings of the YAF rally held last March in New York City, featuring Barry Gold water and other conservative lead ers. CATHOLIC ORPHANAGE COMMITTEE A meeting for all girls interested in participating on the Catholic Or phanage Committee of the YWCA will be held at 5 p.m. in the Y office. YACK CONTRACTS tvia following organizations have nnt ci?ned contracts: the Cosmo- politan Club, International 2tu - dent's Board, Lutheran Student As - .Droppi A tlidavit At Kemps Mary of Peter, Paul and: Mary at Kemps yesterday afternoon. Photo by , Jim Wallace sociation, Canterbury Club, and Christian Science. If they wish to appear in the ' Yack the contracts must be signed by Friday. ELECTIONS BOARD Elections Board will meet Thurs day at 4 p.m. in Woodhouse. If cannot attend, call 968-9096. RELIGIOUS EMPHASIS COMMITTEE The Religious Emphasis Commit tee of the YM-YWCA will meet Friday, October 19 at 4:00 in the Woodhouse Room. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE Meeting tonight at 7:00 second floor Graham Memorial m the Woodhouse Room. All cordially in vited. SOCIALIST LABOR PARTY All interestedin a Socialist La bor Party contact Dave Burge in 305 Mangum. ENGLISH CLUB Granville Hicks will speak Fri day at 8:00 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. He is a distinguished critic of American Literature and is the contributing editor of the "Satur day Review." UP LEGISLATORS Causus of all UP legislators to night at 6:30 in Grail RRoom. This includes all those who have moved out of district. MONOGRAM CLUB Monogram Club meets Thursday night at 7:30 in the gym. New members to be initiated. Members bring their football pass cards, dates and date tickets. MODELS NEEDED Ackland Art Center needs male and female models for life drawin classes on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 8-10 a.m. The salary is one dollar an hour. Either call 9657-084 or report to room 106 Ack land. DANCE COMMITTEE Howard Homesley. Secretary of the Dance Committee, announced yesterday the selection of eleven new members to fill vacancies on the committee. The new members, who were chosen on the basic of interviews, are Bob Faucett, Frank Freeman, Fred Hicks, Roger Howard, Har old Levins on, Larry Paul. Kent Pepper, David Robins, WTin Sar jgent, Jim Stonestreet, and Hayes iwillinghain. II Complete UPI Wire Servic UNC Is One Protesting Oath, Henderson Says President Kennedy yesterday signed a bill which drops the NDEA scholarship requirement that a can didate for student aid must sign an oath disclaiming membership in subversive oganizations. Kennedy said he was "glad to approve the legislation, since it is highly unlikely that the affidavit kept any Communist out of the pro grams. "It did, however, keep out those who considered the disclaimer af fidavit a bridle upon freedom of thought," the President said. The amendment applies to forms used in NDEA and National Science Foundation grants which have re quired notarized statements of al legiance and deny support of or ganizations such as the Commu nist party." The Subversive Activities Control Act of 1950 defines "membership" in subversive groups as being "the giving, loaning, or nromisins of support or money or any other thing of value" to organizations "substantially directed, dominated, or controlled" by subversive agents. The amendment now makes it a criminal offense for any member of a subversive group to apply for federal funds. It requires appli cants to list all cmirnial convic tions since age sixteen, and em powers the NDEA Commissioner to suspend funds if he feels the award is "not in the best interest of the United States." Around 30 universities in the na tion, including Harvard and Yale, have refused funds under the Na tional Defense Education Act be cause of the former requirement of disclaimer oaths. UNC has not refused the funds but did make official protest of the oaths, according to Charles Henderson, Dean of Student Af fairs here. Dr. Julian Mason of the UNC Student Aid Office said yesterday that he will continue to require the affidavits as before, until he is officially notified otherwise. "I have not heard what dates, if any, were specified on which the amendment is to take effect," Ma son said. "Sometimes governmental machinery is very slow." Infirmary The following people were in the infirmary today: Martha McRae, Susan Matusvak, Elizabeth Whit field, Mary Pitt, Roy Lowry, An drew Augustine, Joseph Hahn, Fred Summers, Brian McSweeney, John Welch, Donald Drapalik, Larry Dudley, Evander Simson, Ray George, Walter Brown, Christopher Jonas, Donaldson King, John Clif ton, Dave Baugess, John Shaw, Allen Jones, George Taylor, Mary Calloway, Clarence Page, David Wilder, Jeff Ruday, Bobby Chriss man, Jeffrey Feder, Michael Haus er, and James Ray. APO Rush Set Tonight Alpha Phi Omega, National Serv ice Fraternity, will begin its Fall rush tonight at 7 p.m. in Di-Phi Hall, third floor New West, Coats and ties are required. Other meetings will be Monday and Tuesday nights at 7:30 in the T.V. room of Graham Memorial. APO carries on many campus wide projects each year. The Cam pus Tour service, ushering at Con certs and Playmaker productions, and operating a Book Exchange between semesters are a few cf these. Raising money for charity is an other prime interest. The upcoming Ugliest Man On Campus contest will provide fundi for the medical ship Hope. All men who feel that they would like an opportunity to serve UNC and have had previous ex perience in scouting are urged to come to this first meeting. i xr