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February 26, 1963
Tel. 942-2356
Vol.LXX, No. 101
The Rialto Picketing:
Vendetta Or Crusade?
In a move that perhaps is becom
ing all to characteristic of integra
tionists in this area, the Youth
NA ACP chapter in Durham, sup
ported by the chapter here, are
planning at the time of this writ
ing to undertake a vendetta under
the gruise of a crusade.
Integiaticnists and we're not
sure that's really what they are,
since they seem to be trying to
stifle orderly, peaceful and effec
tive integration will tonight
hoist their pickets outside the Rial
to Theatre in Durham.
The leason, ostensibly, is that
the theatre is segregated and the
NAACP quite rightfully is asking
that it be integrated.
If that were the sole reason, we
would support the pickets whole
heartedly; would, in fact, be willing
to raise one ourselves. But because
we sincerely believe the picketers
are being motivated by a very poor
evaluation of the situation, and be
cause we believe the picketing will
actually retard the integration
process in Durham, we will cross
the picket line in support of the
management.
We stand unalterably in favor of
the Negro in his fight for human
dignity. But we oppose the current
picketing of the Rialto because we
believe it is not the fastest, easiest
"and most importantly, the most
moral means of achieving it.
Secondly we believe the decision
to picket the theater was made as
much in anger and false piety as
in deep moral conviction.
The complicated set of facts, as
We understand them, are these:
The manager of the Rialto, Miss
Maggie Dent opened the theatre
several months ago on a segregat
ed basis. The reason for opening
the theater under such a policy
was that she signed a contract for
equipment rental which contained
a Jim Crow clause. She put her
signature on the contract for two
reasons.
1) It was impossible to open the
theatre without- signing it. She
might have chosen to refuse to
open at all under a segregated pol
icy, if not for the fact that she felt
it better to obtain the theater while
she could, and integrate as soon as
possible.
2) She hopes to be able to in
tegrate as soon as the owrner of the
equipment completes a court : battle
which involves another theatre un
der his ownership. Although the
case to be considered has no direct
legal relationship, to Miss Dent's
own, she has good reason to be
lieve she will be released from the
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clause after the case is settled.
The case comes to its first hear
ing March 8. Mis's Dent has prom
ised verbally to integrate as soon
as she is released from contractual
commitment.
As proof of her good faith, Miss
Dent can offer her own record of
integration activity involving the
local theaters here. In addition, she
now employs a Negro accountant
at the Rialto, one of the first white
owned businesses in the .state to do
so.
The NAACP, nonetheless, has
chosen to picket until the theater
folds.
The net effect of this action, as
we see it, will be to accomplish
nothing more than to drive Miss
Dent out of business, thus closing
the theatre, not integrating it. The
NAACP has chosen to picket Miss
Denfs theater rather than any
other in Durham (all are segregat
ed) because hers is the weakest
financially, and because her clien
tele, due to the nature of the fare
offered tend to be integrationists.
Because of this, the NAACP be
lieves the pickets will be effective
against Miss Dent when they have
failed against other Durham hous
es. To us, this takes the form of a
vendetta rather than an honestly
motivated desire to obtain equality
for Negroes, which, after all, is
what every integrationist suppos
edly seeks.
Do these pickets want equality
or do they want revenge! We have
to admit anybody's guess is as
good as ours. But until we are
convinced that the pickets are as
sincere in their motives as they
must be in order to gain not only
rights but respect, we must sup
port Miss Dent. In the final analy
sis, what we are supposed to be
fighting for is integrated business
es, not closed ones. (W1K.)
Campus God
For seventy years the Tar Heel
has been a part of the Chapel Hill
student environment. Often v It has
been unpopular, nearly always con
troversial, occasionally ' irresponsi
ble, more often constructive and
well-meaning, but never has it been
insignificant.
The Tar Heel at times has been
under the control of the Athletic
Department and the fraternity bloc
but it lived and prospered even
then. In 1029, in typical' rebellious
action, the Tar Heel expanded op
erations to become a darlyy while
the economic and political world of
America crumbled. Editors "have
failed out of school, been drafted
or been recalled,' but tti'e Tar' Heel
keeps going somehow.
Tar Heel editors include one
former Senator (Dr. Frank Gra
ham) and a gas statipn attendant.
Part ' of what the Tar Heel is,
(and what makes it great,Jin the
prejudiced view of its editors) , is
this historical tradition and the co
existent tradition of an Ornery in
dependence. No one is safe from its
barbs, from chancellors to student
legislators, from coaches to maga
zine editors all fair comment is
fair and in fact, necessary.
The editors often assume the
role of campus god for lack of
any other vaguely" responsible ele
ment to fill the vacuum. But always
the editors, more than anyone else,
are aware of their own shortcom
ings and thus willing to temper
their barbs with understanding,
their criticism with praise where
deserved, and to look at the cam
pus and students with" some pleas
ure, though definitely with eynic
ism. ( JC)
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6 Professors
earch For
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(Editor's Note: A dozen re
search professors presented find
ings in campus laboratories at the
N. C. Press Institute at Chapel
Hill in January.
Each delivered his research
project report in two minutes!
(The program was presented by
Pete Ivey, director of the Uni
versity News Bureau. He ex
plained that the 12 faculty mem
bers were a few of the hundreds
of faculty members engaged in
$9,000,009 of research during the
current year at Chapel Hill.
(Complete research reports by
six UNC researchers follow.)
COSMIC RAYS
By Kenan Professor of Physics
Everett D. Palmatier
We are interested in identifying
the chemical composition of these
little fellows in outer space, cosmic
rays. They are one of the few ex
amples that man has of something
that comes far beyond the environ
ment of the earth. Since these cos
mic rays hang around in your ap
paratus for about a billionth of a sec
ond, you have to move rather quickly
to identify their fingerprints.
The National Aeronautics and
Space Administration has support
ed us with a feasibility study of
this type of work for the last three
,pr four years and we have run into
the usual problems that people in
this field have encountered.
You have to use apparatus weigh
ing under 10 pounds. It has to fill
a volume of about this size. It has
to operate on power a'bout one
fiftieth of what one of those light
bulbs takes; you have to be able
to .drop it from six feet, and it still
goes on working. These are usual
problems; we have a rather unus
ual one in the center of our ap
paratus. We have a little device. It
has gas and very high pressure. It
is very explosive. You have to have
a window in the chamber and to be
able to see ia through this window
at this very high pressure, to see
what is going on.
PERSONALITY AND GENIUS
By Prof. Harold G. McCurdy,
Dept. of Psychology
First let me say that my research
is not representative of my depart
ment; my colleagues are more
scientific. I try to deal with what
science is said not to be about: In
dividuals, considered as unique per
sonal worlds.
I approach this topic by means at
everyone's disposal self-observation
of others, biography and litera
ture, with occasional resort to ele
mentary, statistics and simple ex
periments. I made a special issue of
the importance of something quite
intangible, namely the self. This I
regard as the indispensable center
of every personal world.
.
I like to probe the fundamental
properties of these worlds, which
seem to me fully as complex and
extensive and charged with power
as ' anything studied by physics or
chemistry; but mere mysterious,
and not reducible to the terms of
physics and chemistry. I oscillate
between general theory and partic
ular individuals. I have done a ixiok
on Shakespeare, as an astronomer
might do one on a distant galaxy.
I have done a comparative study
cf geniuses; the resulting newspaper
publicity brought me a pile of manu
script material produced by a child
literary genius, which I am work
ing on. I have begun studying cer
tain religious mystics canonized by
the Roman Catholic church. In these
and other studies I have been con
cerned with the nature of human
excellence.
As I said, my colleagues are more
scientific than I, and more practical.
Let me illustrate their work By one
sample. A team of them is now
engaged in studying the develop
ment of the academic skills and mo
tivations of North Carolina school
children, Negro and white, and the
effect of special educational devices,
such as teaching machines, on their
intellectual abilities. This is an am
bitious, long-term, co-operative proj
ect, utilizing the latest phychometric,
clinical and experimental tech
niques. TAR HEEL HEALTH HAZARDS
By Dr. John Cassell,
School of Public Health
One of the major research in
terests has focused on the problem
of culture change and the heaith
consequences, of course, of culture
change. In particular we are inter
ested in that volume of culture
change that occurs consequent on
rapid industrialization and urbaniza
tion, and North Carolina, of course,
is a most useful place for such a
study, being a state undergoing
rapid industrialization.
It is an accumulating body of evi
dence that suggests that the pat
terns of disease change very dra
matically under the impact of urb
anization. The diseases that through
cut all antiquity have been the
major killers and cripples of man
kind seem to disappear and dimin
ish. Tuberculosis would be a good
example. The reasons for this
diminution are somewhat obscure
but are not necessarily related to
the activities of medical science.
These, in turn, are being replaced
by some of the others that you might
call modern epidemics: Heart dis
ease, cancer, certain forms of can
cer, arthritis, diabetes, perhaps the
mental disorders.
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The objective of many of our
studies is to try and document the
r'enomencn in North Carolina, as
well as other states.
The aim is to try and find some
of the reasons for this which are
becoming more apparent, with the
hope that utilitive intervention can
allow industrialization and urbaniza
tion to take place without harmful
consequences fcr health.
MOSQUITOES
By Kenan Professor of
Botany John N. Couch
For many j-ears I have been in
terested in fungal-insect relation
ships. During World War II I re
ceived from Georgia some larvae
cf the malarial mosquito which con
tained hundreds of brown, oval
bodies.
What were these bodies? They had
already been seen by the leading
authorities on worm eggs and fungal
Ob
scure
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spores but an answer as to their
nature was not forthcoming. Mean
while, I received living larvae and
was able to induce these brown
bodies to germinate. Miraculous to
relate, they germinated just like
those of the well-known fungus Al
lomyces and their nature was solv
ed. This was enough to fire the imag
ination! A fungus that killed mos
quitoes and produced thick-walled
resting spores! Could this fungus,
which has been called Coelomcmy
ces, be produced ia quantity and the
resting spores spread in the larval
habi'ats for the biological control
of harmful mosquitoes??
I asked for more parasitized lar
vae from Georgia and received hun
dreds of them. Eleven different
species of the fungus were found, all
new, on 11 of the common mosqui
toes. The disease proved to be fatal
to infected larvae. Furthermore each
fungus kills only certain mosquitoes
and does not harm fishes and other
forms of aquatic life.
Here was a fungus, which, if
grown in larg equantities in artificial
culture or in mosquito larvae, could
be ideal for biological control of
mosquitoes. Our experiment in in
fecting mosquito larvae reared in
the laboratory have, so far, not been
successful but others in Africa and
the Tokelaw Islands have been.
Success depends, I believe, on
the introduction of a highly viru
lent species of Coelomomyces to
which our native mosquitoes have
r.ot developed- an immunity. Such
species are found in Malaya and
India. During the past 15 months
I have been receiving many para
sitized larvae from India by air, but
so far the fungus has not come
through alive. This problem will be
solved. And do not be surprised if,
when you visit our new botany
building, you see part of cne of our
new greenhouses being used for
rearing mosquitoes.
POLYPHONIC HYMNS
By Keran Prof, of Music
Glen Haydon
In the past few decades great
strides have been made in the study
of the music of the Renaissance,
the period in the history of music
when the fundamental principles
that have governed the composition
of music for more than three cen
turies were worked out in theory
and practice.
The important style genres such
as the Mass, motet, chanson and
madrigal have been extensively in
vestigated. But the polyphonic hymn
has hitherto not been subjected to
a comprehensive study. This fact
was first brought forcibly to my at
tention in the spring of 1951 when,
in the course of doins some work
in the archives of St. John, Lateran,
in Rome. I came across a manu
script containing a complete set of
hymns for the church year by
Costanzo Festa, a well-known Rom
an composer who was an immedi
ate predecessor of the illustrious
Giovanni Paiestrina.
The edition of the Festa hymns
has been followed by the prepara
tion of a similar set of hymns by
the Florentine composer, Frances
co Corteccia, which is now ii the
Athletic facilities at the Univers
ity of North Carolina are not only
inadequate, they are disproportion
ately inadequate.
Not to create any misunderstand
ing, this university is better off than
mcst in North Carolina. But that
isn't really saying much since UNC
is also the 'largest.
Woollen Gymnasium, for example,
is slightly larger than the gym at
Davidson College, a small liberal
ai ts school near Charlotte. But with
less than 1,000 students, Davidson's
enrollment is only one-ninth as large
as Carolina's. And they complain
about it being crowded.
This school's space problem i.s
most acute now with intramural
basketball going strong, though it's
no great shakes at any other time.
A quick look around Woollen Gym
on any afternoon, to see students
leaning against the walls or stand
ing outside the court lines waiting
to break into a basketball game,
tells the story. There's just not
enough room.
And what's the administration's
solution? A good guess is intramur
als. But unfortunately that plan has
a few shortcomings which even make
the situation worse.
Since before Christmas the courts
have been dominated every after
noon by the contestants. And al
though we're told that dormitories
are being represented, the array of
Greek letters suggests they aren't.
But no one denies the importance
of intramural athletics. For many
it's a valuable and integral part of
Unknown
process of being published. In the
meantime a collection of some 40
sets of hymns has been assembled
in our microfilm archives. This
massive collection of music is
gradually being transcribed into
modern notation and will provide
the basis for the writing of the
definitive history of the subject.
STATISTICS
By Prof. Walter L. Smith,
Dept. of Statistics
I am a member of the Statistics
uepartment. rne common idea is
that in this department we -re
solely concerned with the acquisi
tion and tabulation of bigger and
bigger tables of figures: Accident
statistics, labor statistics, and so
forth.
This is, actually, quite a false
picture of the activities of my de
partment. In fact, my colleagues
and I are primarily concerned with
developing new inethods for draw
ing valid inferences from numer
ical data and ki developing mathe
matical theories which help us to
understand the causes of the ran
dom variations which occur.
For example: How much of an
apparent increase in the yield of
a crop is due to the new fertilizer
and how much due to climatic con
ditions? How does one extract
from the recordings of tracking
instruments, always subject to min
or erratic influences, sufficiently
precise information to predict the
picture path of a missile?
One of my own fields of interest
is the theory of congestion. Do you
know whenever a string of jobs aris
es and there is a limit to the date
at which they can be dealt with,
bottlenecks occur and the system
becomes congested, an elaborate
mathrnatical theory has been evolv
ed for dealing with such phenomena?
Many mathematicians have con
tributed to it; but many questions
remain unanswered. One surpris
ing discovery is that , when chance
ambitions are present it is no good
to provide just enough effort to
meet the average requirements be
cause, if you do, really enormous
waiting lines will sometimes result.
The theory has been applied, for
instance, to questions ,of AC slack
ing at airports, availability of hos
pital aids and the management, of
outpatient departments the flow of
traffic ki cities and the design of
telephone exchanges.
Reports from six more professors
will be in Wednesday's DTII.)
their activities here. For those fe.v
from each doim or fraternity who
make the team, that Ls. For all too
many, intramurals mean: "Sorry.
This court's reserved. You'll have to
play somewhere else."
We'd like to ask Where else?
The Tin Can is a'so being used.
C'f course, the best answer would
be an addition to Woollen Gym. or
better yet, a coliseum. But since
that seems to be asking too much,
why not keep the present facilities
opei at night for intramurals, c.r.J
leave them free for general student
use during the afternoons. It would
cost the administration the same
amount to hire officials at either
time, and would certainly help t lie
situation.
A View
From The
Hill
Armistead Maupin, Jr.
Last week in Harlem the Rover
end Adam Clayton Powell prenehe i
on "The Joy of Living."
The topic, we must admit, was
well chosen.
The pastor has just returned frq?n
a three-week jaunt to Puerto Rico
where ,he had built a $45,000 home.
During his absence, Powell's fellow
solon Senator John Williams of Dela
ware made several remarks about
the activities of the Negro Congress
man that were enlightening, to say
the least.
Senator Williams made specific
reference to Congressman Powell's
junket to Europe ' last summer
at the taxpayers' expense when
Powell and two women staff mem
bers went abroad "to study the
European Common Market." The
"study", which included a grand
tour of Parisan resorts and night
clubs, came to an abrupt end when
Mrs, Powell (Oh yes, there Ls a
Mrs. Powell) got news of the proj
ect. Incidentally, the Congressman's
wife, who rarely leaves her homo
in Puerto Rico, is on the ov-.-,,-h-vent
payrpll. She draws $12,000 a
year for no apparent' .reason,' .other
than the ,fact that die is married
to the Congressman. '
Th,ere 's another little thing about
Reverend Powell.- It seems he
doesn't like tp pay iticome taxes
$41,015 worth, to be specific a
debt which has accumulated over
the past seven years. And, oddly
enough, the Treasury Department
has shown no indication that it is
even trying to collect the money.
As a matter of fact, the federal
government (through the Housing
and Home Finance Agency) has
gone so far as to award Powell and
four associates an $11 million loan
for apartment projects in Washing
ton, New York, and Newark. The
loan, we are told, will go towards
the purchasing of property valued
at $8.5 million and to make "certain
improvements" not exactly speci
fied. In addition, Powell's firm has been
granted a quarter-of-a-million dollar
loan for some sort of venture de
signed to improve the morals of the
youth of Harlem. When Senator Wil
liams commented that Powell knew
more about "adult delinquency" than
juvenile delinquency, Bobby Kennedy
felt called upon to make a judg
ment, which he does quite often
these days. "Those connected with
the project," said the Attorney
General, "are substantial citizens
and are approaching the problem
in a dedicated manner."
Of course.
And the fact that Powell is chair
man of the House Education and
Labor Committee makes him even
more substantial. This committee,
it should be noted, is the one which
will handle some of the key pieces
of New Frontier legislation in
cluding the so-called federal aid to
education. In the light of this fact,
it is not difficult to understand why
the administration has tried to dili
gently sweep the pastor's little ex
travagances under the rug.
Reflections
News item:
Whiskey sales in Orange County's
four ABC outlets were down $102,
254.10 for the six months preceding
December 31, according to the semi
annual report of the auditor pre
sented this week.
The comparison is with the cor
responding half -year of 1961, which
of course was prior to the opening
cf stores in adjoining Alamance and
Person Counties.
Sales in the July through Decem
ber period totalled $1,049,553.20 and
net profit was $132,640.23, the latter
a drop of $5,924.63.
Statistics by stores indicated a
decrease of $33,176.60 in gross sales
at the Hillsboro store, an increase of
$39,912.45 at the Chapel Hill store, a
decrease of $125,325.25 at the Corr
stGre and an increase of $16.233 .30 a:
the Interstate-85 store near the Dur
ham line.