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i y T he sv G. J se T in pe an err 'I tht jur jur an of the j To tc a of inc at he Th ' u an im Ju A hir pu: "Y yoi tre na tio mi th Br no he 2a 1 1m i f c La c 1 I f Mi 72 Years of Editorial Freedom GARY BLANCH ARD, DAVID ETHRIDGE Co-Editors Thursday, May 9, 1963 Vol. LXX, No. 155 The DTI1 efficM are ea the second floor of Graham MemoriaL Telephone enm ber: Editorial, sports, news 942-3112. Business 943 2138. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C. The Rising Rent Many questions remain unan swered in the hassle over dorm rent hikes and future self-liquidating dormitories, and we think some clear exposition of the prob lem is needed before we students are able to take any type of effec tive action. Dorm rents have been climbing at quite a fast rate in recent years, almost tripling since 1947. This is completely out of line with rises in other costs of education in the same period. Currently, dormitory costs are figured on a per occupant basis that is applicable to almost all schools. The national average ex-" penditure per occupant in dorm construction is $4400, while here in.' North Carolina, state law nro- hibits any outlay of more than Quiremen- this seems to be that many small .schools are able to support self liquidating dorms, and we should be able also. The fallacy here is that the smaller schools don't have to build the $2,500,000 goliaths we do, and total costs when interests are in cluded are much smaller. The interest and reserve require ments for the projected $2,544,000 HHFA loan would run to almost $4,000,000 over the planned 40 years of self-liquidation, thus rais ing the total cost of the proposed dormitory from $2,544,000 to $G, 544,000. Dorm residents must pay this $4,000,000 interest and reserve re- $370 per occupant. .Therefore North Carolina falls i way below the national median in square feet alloted per occupant, as; well as services furnished, such as social rooms, laundry facilities, typing rooms, storage space and so forth. ;A11 of this while comparative studies show us to be well up on the rent scale. ;These rent increases all stem from the problem of self-liquidating dormitories. -At present the University is pay ing for Avery, Parker, Teague, Craige, Ehringhaus, and the addi tions to Spencer and Nurses. North Carolina state law pro vides that any increase in the rent must go to retire these debts be fore any new dorms can be paid for. The Chancellor has asked the Attorney General to draw up an act repealing the law so that any debt on a new dorm will not be en cumbered with the present debt. ; The reahon the Chancellor has asked for the repeal of the law is that the Advisory Budget Com mission has recommended that the The new dorm will house 925 men bringing the total spaces to 6,222. With the projected enrollment of 13,500 students in 1970, the Uni versity would need 7,425 spaces, to house the same percentage cur rently enrolled. This means that in addition to the proposed 925-man dorm, the University would need two addi tional 600 man dorms or a mam moth 1200 man dorm by 1970. If these additions were also self liquidating, the University would effectively price itself out of the market for many North Carolina students, and fail in its primary function to provide low cost, sub sidized education for its citizens. Several proposals have been put forward for easing the burden placed on students by this policy of 100 self -liquidating dormitories. First: The General Assembly could assume all or part of the maintenance and repair costs to dormitories. This would free all but that part state provide no money for the pro- of the men's rental fee used in pay- posed dorm construction. The Commission's reason for : THE DAILY TAR HEEL is published by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, and is issued daily except Mondays, examinations periods and vaca tions. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant with the act of March 8, 1870. h Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $3 per year. i THE DAILY TAR ttftttt. is a subscriber to United Press International, and utilizes the services of the University News Bureau. EDITORIAL STAFF Wayne King ; Managing Editor ftarry Lloyd Executive Neivs Editor Curry Kirkpatrick , Sports Editor Jim Wallace Chief Photographer Diane Hile Women's Editor t !. STAFF Alike Putzel, Sam Himes Assistant Managing Editors Harry DeLwng Night Editor Mickey Blackwell, Joel Bulkley, Vance Barron Jr., Bill Wuamett Staff Reporters Mat Friedman Science Editor John Montague Asst. Sports Editor Becky Stikeleather, Sue Simon, Margaret Rhymes Editorial Assistants BUSINESS STAFF Dave Morgan . Gary Dalton .. John Evans David Wysong Business Manager . Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Subscription Manager ing off the construction bonds. This system is in use in other state-supported schools. The second proposal, and the one recommended by the Student Legis lature Emergency Dormitory Rent Committee in 1958, is for reten tion of the self -liquidating plan under a percentile basis, allowing state appropriations to pay part of the construction cost, and using bond issues to pay another part. Several institutions have found this to be an easily administered and workable plan. We feel that the Advisory Budg et Commission has lost sight of the responsibility of the University, and that their short-sighted dorm finance policy could seriously en danger the future of UNC. There is some constructive ac tion that all students who have a stake in this can take. Call your parents and explain the current situation concerning possible dormitory rent hikes, and urge them to send a Public Opin ion telegram to their State Senator or Representative requesting that the state appropriate the money for this dorm, rather than making dorm residents pay for it. And do this now."' Letters Iiight Cause Wrong Tack To the Editors: For the past several years we have defended the position of the Negro leaders in the United States who have been struggling to estab lish a small beach head cf dignity for their followers. We did this because we believed that, while men are not created equal, each man should have the opportunity to secure for himself, by applica tion of his individual abilities, fr place of honor. We still believe this, but we can no longer intelli gently defend the position of these leaders. They have over-stepped the line which separates a righteous struggle from a dangerous battle. The cause remains just, but the tactics are wrong. Reverend King is an intelligent and well educated man leading millions of inadequate ly educated Negro men and women into a contest with the white people and both sides are destined to lose if the present trend con tinues. The Negro has never been hated in the South. It is true that he was looked upon as an inferior be ing by many southerners, but he was, in fact, inferior to his white counter part in many ways. He was poorly educated, his economic status was inferior, and in many more ways the Negro was, as a race, inferior. He was, however, a human being, and his innate sense of personal dignity rebelled against this deplorable state. He began to pull himself from the dust by his bootstraps. The Negro has never been hated in the South, but gray clouds of hate are beginning to gather over many southern cities. Reverend King is leading his Negroes into a battle of hate. He has begun to practice that which he preaches against. He has begun to tell his followers to disregard the personal rights of businessmen throughout the South. He understandably wants what is best for the Negro, but he is attempting to win by tactics which push the two races further and further apart. The Black Muslims are seeding the clouds of unrest. They openly teach a doctrine of hate and in compatibility with the white race. Other minor voices fly into the winds which gather below the clouds, adding to the turmult, Eisenhower once found a young officer shouting harsh orders to a group of enlisted men. He took the trembling captain into his tent. Pulling a small piece of string from his pocket, Ike stretched it across the desk before them. "Now, push that string across the desk," said the older veteran. Of course the string only bent. The young officer looked quizically up at the general. "Now son, try pulling it across." The soldier pulled the string across the table and handed it to Ike, who was smiling broadly. He winked and said, "Dismissed." Reverend King and all of the other Negro leaders should try to lead their people into dignity and peaceful compatibility with their white neighbors, and not push them over the brink of righteousness into the void of hate. Bill and Barbara Perkins 133 Hamilton Road Peter Pan On Negroes To the Editors: Although it depresses me to see racial discrimination and I am well aware that it is wrong, spiritually, morally, or any other way in which it may be consider ed; I, most likely because I am a Southerner, a stereotype not much less ridiculed and not much easier to shake off than that of the Negro, feel funny inside when I see two figures, one black and one white or both or either color, with witty placards stoically pace before the College Cafe or the Varsity Theatre, or any other bus iness establishment. I have never carried a placard to aid the Negro in his quest for freedom, and al though I believe in his quest, I probably never will overtly stand up for his rights. As I view the placard-bearers, often friends of mine, and feel un easy, wishing there were some other way, a quotation from a book written by Patrick Bray brooke about James M. Barrie, the beloved author of Peter Paul comes to mind: "For were men really equal, there would be no reason to de vise artificial means to make them so." Wayne R. Hardy ikj fi p 111: Hwi:m MKwkW fe.' - 2 - - VI '-wwl:' , A Talk With Mr Motley s. 1 Bv FRED SEELY i !3 a- '$96.50?' Standards Khrushchev On Of Ideology And The Arts By JIM CLOTFELTER Nikita Khrushchev's Jl a r c h speech on "High Ideological Stan dards and Artistic Mastery" is a Spirited and comprehensive de bunking of de-Stalinization as it relates to literature. The speech, made to a meeting of party officials with leading So viet artists and writers (includ ing Yevtushenko, Soviet poet slat ed to appear at UNC . this spring until the party forced him to can cel his American visit) is printed in the April Current Soviet Docu ments. . In last Thursday's DTH A. J. Von Lazar discussed the implica tions of this speech and the over all Russian effort to control the arts, within the context of con temporary Soviet creativity. Here we will go with more depth into the speech itself and its relation ship to the Stalin "personality cult." The Russian premier manages a defense of the Stalin era against "misrepresentations" and "one sided arguments" by current So viet realism" and Party control over literature and art. "Art be longs to the sphere of ideology," Khrushchev said. And: "Our par ty has always stood for partisan ship in literature and art." On Stalinism, the premier told the assembled artists: The Stalin years were "no per iod of stagnation in the develop ment of Soviet society, as our foes imagine they were . . . "Writers who assess from a completely lopsided angle that particular stage in the life of our country, trying to make out that nearly everything was bad, to paint everything black, are doing the wrong thing . . "Mighty productive forces were created and a cultural revolution was carried out in the country" in those years . . Khrushchev then went on to' claim that St-Ii-i faithfully car ried out the; ideals ci Lsnln. Khrushchev even iv:erroi io tns Stalin innovation of "Socialism in one country" a major deviation from Lenin's r"csn -- - a "Leninist policy." The premier concluded, on Stal inism, with: The Party pays due tribute to Stalin's services to the Party and the Communist movement. We still maintain today that Stal in was devoted to communism, that he ' was " a Marxist, ' and this cannot and should not be. denied. His fault was that he committed gross mistakes of a theoretical and political nature,- violated- the Leninist principles of L the state and Party Jeadership, and abused the power entrusted Tiim by the Party and the people . " :'" "At Stalin's funeral many, in cluding myself, were in - tears. These were sincere tears, for al though we knew about . some of Stalin's personal shortcomings, we believed in him." The main body of the 44-page speech is devoted to the glorifica tion of "protection literature", as directed and controlled by . the Communist Party. "We are against peaceful coexistence in the ideo logical field," the premier said, in a reiteration of traditional Soviet policy. The main targets for Khrush chev's abuse were abstraction ists, all schools of "formalism" within literature, architecture, art and music. Realism of a non-socialist tinge was hit: "Some representatives of the world of art judge reality only by the smell coming from the latrines; they portray people in a deliberately ugly way . . ." Sholokov ("And Quiet Flows the Don") was praised as an artist whose "artistic individuality" was "promoted by his communist com rnittedness." Yevtushenko was criticized for his defense of abstractionism. "This poet," Khrushchev said, "ap parently fails to understand much in our Party's policy, he wavers, displays instability in his views on artistic questions." Only the abstractionists them selves: "They are . . . perverted people whose brains are, so to spesk, upside down, with their d.sraceful potboilers that are an insult to people's feelings." On modern architecture: "The Soviet Army Theatre is probably craziest building erected." On modern music: "Maybe I am old-fashioned, am getting on in years," Khrushchev admits, with something of the sad bewild erment of an Eisenhower he objects to the "kind of music that gives you a feeling of nausea and 'a pain in the stomach. . . ." And: "The-so-called modern fashion able dances are simply something 'indecent, frenzied, and heaven knows "what!" But Khrushchev is very serious about non-deviation in literature however much he may remi nisce and joke. 'The enemies of communism pin their hopes on ideologically sub versive activities in the socialist countries," he told the Soviet art ists (sounding very much like an inverse reflection of Congressman Francis Walter . .. .) "He who is not with the workers is inevitably against them." Khrushchev said many of the "bad" Soviet writings in recent years sprang from the de-Stalinization effort. He again emphasiz ed his abhorrence of the "person ality cult." . . . But this in no way means that we let things take their own course after the denun ciation of the personality cult, that the reins of government have al legedly been loosened, that the ship of society is drifting in the sea and that everyone can be self-willed and do as he likes. No. ". . . In questions of creative art the Central Committee of the Party will demand from everybody from the most honored and re nowned worker of literature and art as well as from the young bud ding artists unswerving abid ance by the Party line." And there lies the de-Stalinization of literature for the time being, at least. GREATEST NEED The world's greatest need . . . is mutual confidence. No human being ever knows all the secrets of another's heart. Yet there is enough confidence between moth er and child, husband and wife, buyer and seller, to make social 'life a practical possibility. Confi dence may be risky, but it is nothing like so risky as mistrust. ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Pogo By Walt Kelly s xr ... THAT A KSAU CAM 02 WNfir rOZ 1 vu &Q.'i-.yczr 0-6000 b&m: 'SCABS Af yOU. AN? f CZ AH J PA-Nf A $.19 SWASIIKA CM y mv y iv v CJ P3i.sC 12 Mrs. Constance Eaker -Motley, lawyer for the NAACT, sat quit-r-lv in the lounge of Graham .Me morial Saturday niglit. She sat in the mid.-.t of a ray mophere. The students from the Human Relations Conference wriv singing and laughing in the !..lk grcund, sinking the integral i-n songs that have become popular i:i the last few months. They were songs of freed ra. and the students, white and. hla.i;, joined hands and formed a hiev circle as they sang. "Keep your eyes on the prize. Hold n, uA on." Mrs. Motley .smiled as. sne looked on. "This kind of conference is very good. It lets people from difi'erfiit states get together and discn-s their problems", she observe,!. "Sometimes I get very depres-t .l about the way things are goin. but this makes me happy." She became solemn when she spoke of the future. "I'm due in Ilirmingham w Tuesday, and then in Savannah on Thursday. We hope to settle lhi Birmingham thing quickly, biU y.v.! never can tell . . ." She smiled when .she spoke f James Meredith. "He's a nice boy, a sincere boy. He's the kind who searches for a cause, and he found it when he decided to become the first Negro to enter the University of Miss issippi. "James works out problems for himself, and then he tells others. He wanted to prove himself, and no one can deny that he did." Mrs. Motley, a graduate of Co lumbia University Law School, has been a member of the NAACT leg al staff since 1946. "We employ nine lawyers in the New York office, and we hope to add two more within a month. Sev eral hundred more across .the coun try wotk for us on a part-time basis. "We wait for a court order be fore we move into an area. Then we play it by ear, as there's no telling what's going to happen. "Things may go well, as they did at Clemson. But, sometimes . . . And one could see the memories of Oxford and Jackson and Ilir mingham on her face. She is not a bitter woman. She faces each problem with realism and hope, and she knows that it will be many years before all he has been fighting for will be real ized. And as she talked, Mrs. J'.A er reflected in her words wh;d the young people were .singing: "Keep your eyes on the ;.r.';:t Hold on, hold on." Stars And Bars Desecrated By RALPH Mtf.ILL One of the more melancholy ser ies of our times is what has beer; done to the Confederate flag. T-'.e honored banner has become tne symbol of various organizations de voted to violence and defiiir.ee ot law. It is carried by the sordid i em nan ts of the long d i s c r e d i t e d K.K.K.; White Citizens Council- of Mississippi and Alabama, aptly de scribed as white-collar Klans, have used it in meetings and demonstra tions. It flutters from hot-rod cars driven by leather-jacketed t'".;gh-. The brave men who fought un der it and gave it honor would n' -t be seen in the company of most f those who today betray ami de grade the flag by making it a part of their particular brand of hate and lawlessness. Certainly there was nothing in the noble character of Ro'oert E. Lee that would c done such shabby uses of the ila he so often saw his troops take in to battle. Whatever the hates : politicians and civilians, the federal and Southern troops in general di ' net hate one another. The best of ficial act a present-arms by the Union troops to "the last of Let's command at Appomattox, was el -ouent testimony to the conduct of honorable men.
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