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9 I ?! yolume 72, Number 147 Saturday, April 25, 1964 "Stall In" Stye Satlg (Mr 5I ) 71 Years of Editorial Freedom 4' ' KM Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir. dilation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C Entered as 2nd class matter at the Post Office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant to Act of March 8, 1871. Subscription rates: $4.50 per semester; $3 per year. Published dally except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, lac, 501 West Franklin Street. Chapel ffiB. N. C. THE DAILY TAR HEEL Is a subscriber to United Press International and utilizes the services of the University News Bureau. The Civil Rights Movement Starts Over Whither the local civil rights move ment? With most of its leaders in jail and al most all "regulars" pledged not to par ticipate in demonstrations, the move ment is in trouble. Judge Raymond Mal lard has carefully selected the leaders for jail terms, releasing those who he considered the followers on suspended sentences. So what will happen? As we see it, any of three things: no movement at all, demonstrations led by the Commit tee of Concerned Citizens or violence. Of the three, the second seems the most likely. The CCC, which has lob bied for the Civil Rights Bill in Wash ington, picketed, raised money for bail and circulated petitions, is a responsible group, and the need for responsibility at this time leads us to believe they will step into the vacant shoes. Demonstrations will be confined to marches, and sit-ins and hit-and-runs will be forgotten, if the CCC takes over. Violence could come about if extrem ists managed to muscle into the new leadership before it can get organized This would include adherants to the doctrine of ACT, which includes such reasonable people as Adam Clayton Powell, Gloria Richardson and Malcolm X. We hope that those who believe that action is the only way to push integra tion will be watchful for those who are in the movement for their own glory. The fact that all the sit-ins have done almost nothing to further the cause (no restaurant has integrated, the Pub lic Accommodations Law is still distant) should cause the new leadership to sit back and consider future actions. If demonstrations are considered a must, so be it. But don't go any further. I i : . I ; I iflA:C; L .JIT- - r .v:?? ' uw,V7 - - A fK- ' iVi j it X 1 M icksup i : BjjMickcy ":r'BMckwell It's Almost Your Turn Be Patient The long-awaited referendum on the boycott has started its journey to the polls, and students will finally be given an opportunity to express their views on the subject which has been roaring about us for the past two months. The bill was introduced by Bob Wilson Thursday night in the first session of legislature under the new regime. We have our doubts on the motives behind the introduction of the bill, as we thought it would be done in a bi-partisan manner. We also haven't been able to find too many Student Party legisla tors who knew about the bill before Wil son assumed the rostrum. But more on that another time. If the bill gets to the polls in its pre sent form, it will consist of two ques tions: 1) If the voter would patronize estab lishments that serve all students, and, 2) If the voter follows the boycott, that is, if he refuses to patronize places which do not serve all students. The first part is an effort to get a consensus of opinion on a touchy sub ject would you go to a place that ser ved Negroes? Or, in grosser terms, would you mind eating lunch next to a Negro? The second question simply asks if you are for or against the boycott. The bill needs rewording, as it is somewhat confusing. We are fortunate enough to have a candidate for Phi Beta Kappa in the office, and he managed to interpret it enough so that we could explain it. But the legislature will work on the wording, and the voter will know what he's doing. So, what are the reasons for having the poll? We must emphasize that the refer endum is only a poll. It has no effect other than as a point of information, and will affect no Student Government policy. The legislature has already taken a stand on the issue, so don't expect them to change around if the vote is over whelming against the boycott. The vote will serve as an indication to those merchants who would like to in tegrate, but are afraid they will lose business if they do. After all, they are risking a trade from a possible 10,000 plus students in order to be able to serve an additional 57. One example that comes to mind is the Carolina Grill. It won't make any difference to Clar ence or Carlton, as their only consid eration is the cashbox and as long as it is healthy they will remain as they are. Of course, it is doubtful if either of these establishments would serve Neg roes if they were the only people in town. But most of all, it gives each and every student the opportunity to ex press his views on this matter. This has been long overdue, and we hope that a record vote will be the result of these months of waiting. Radical Education And Georgia Schools From The Knickerbocker News In a Georgia community the other Fred Seely, Hugh Stevens Co-Editors Managing Editor John Montague Associate Editor Mickey Blackwell Editorial Page Editor Pete Wales News Editor Dennis Sanders Copy Editor Nancy McCracken Sports Editor Larry Tarleton Photo Editor Jim Wallace Editorial Assistant Shirley Travis Staff Artist Chip Barnard Reviews Henry Mclnnis BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Art Pearce Adv. Manager Fred McConneH Asst. Adv. Manager Woody Sobol Asst. Bus. Manager SaDy Rawlings Sales . Bob Vanderberry Frank Potter Dick Baddour Special Assistant ; Becky Biggers day the board of education voted to fire a junior high school science teacher who had managed to alienate quite a few parents and (it will be seen why) quite a few students as well. And no wonder. He was charged with: O Speaking a strange language called midwestern believed to be a dialect of American English. O Being too humorous about his work, such as when he encouraged his students not to become "wall-to-wall idiots." O Giving 37 of his 93 pupils failing grades for the first semester. O Being in essence a radical in that he sometimes departed from the text and introduced outside subject matter in his teaching. In one instance he went several miles to get books not available in his own city. Obviously no one wants THAT sort of person teaching our children. Letters To The Editors Defense Of Chairman, Mo Cigar-Smoking Mother Revered Editors, The Daily Tar Heel, I can fully share the revlusion Miss (?) Montgomery experienc ed watching our student leaders. I too was brought up in a sensi tive home atmosphere. In fact, among the fondest memories of youth was my lady-like mother standing on the - veranda of our Southern plantation arrayed in orange hat and red dress. As she squinted through the smoke rising from a cheroot clamped in the corner of her mouth, she ad monished us boys, never, NEVER, to chew gum because it is un couth. She always hit the chil dren on their heads with her dainty parasol when we transgres sed. Ah, she was a true gentle woman of the old school! What we need today at UNC are more of these cultured ladies like Miss Montgomery and others to keep us ever aware, with their exemplary conduct and letters, of the paramount necessity for manners and decorum. Keep up the good fight, Myrtle Montgom ery! David W. Allen 416 Connor Schiff Repl ies On Convention Editors, The Daily Tar Heel: In response to questions raised concerning the handling of the Chair at a recent session of the UNC Mock Political Convention, I feel it incumbent upon myself to clarify a few matters. The Democrats were in the ma jority. No Republican in attend ance would deny this fact, the most representative unit vote be ing a 24 to 18 decision. Hence it is understandable that the Republicans would object to the decision of the Chair to conduct the Convention in the most ex peditious manner possible. Strate gic factors are not the concern of the Chair. "The chairman should not permit the object of a meeting to be defeated by a few factious persons using parlia mentary forms with the evident object of obstructing business." Suggested rules of procedure had been decided upon by the Executive Committe previous to my appointment as Convention chairman. These rules were brought before the Convention. Amendments were proposed by Republicans and Democrats alike. The amended rules made no stiDu- lation for the reading of individual planks. The lengthy discussion surrounding the foreign policy planks prompted the chairman to entertain a motion that in the interest of expediency the reading of the planks be eliminat ed or included in the allowed debate. The platforms of both parties were in the hands of all delegates and the reading seem ed to the Chair to be superflu ous. The Convention agreed. As it wTas, the Convention finish ed the business at hand within a half hour of the limitation extend ed to the women delegates. Dis cussion of the planks carried on for nearly four hours despite the rather dramatic walkout of the Convention's most factious ele ments. The Chair feels that with out its actions the business at hand could not have been con cluded within the time alloted to women delegates who consisted of one third of the Convention. In summary, the charges lodged against the Chair disregard the basic fact that the will of the majority did prevail, the mi nority element was given more opportunity than they frequently availed themselves of to state their case, and the business at hand was accomplished. For this, after all, was the purpose of the Convention, or so the Chair regarded. Albert J. Schiff Convention Chairman 216 E. Rosemary St. Class Officers Are Worthwhile Editors, The Tar Heel: "To hold a class office should be more than an honor," and more than a responsibility. It is a heck of a lot of work, often to no avail. The Daily Tar Heel usually helps class officers ap pear to do little, probably be cause past editors have had the same opinion that you do. Last year 'the "20-minute job" of choosing the junior Teacher of the Month consisted of con tacting every junior we possibly could and taking ballots on their favorite teachers. The first two articles made the front page of the DTH, but I almost missed the others myself and I was look ing for them. The College Bowl series which ran every Sunday for more than a semester got no publicity except that which I wrote myself. And talk about a flop, the Junior Class . Essay Contest got practically no pub licity except in the campus briefs, consequently only two essays were written. Our sopho more year we were in the hole $92 due to a freshman picnic which had no publicity. Working to raise money, our sale at the Town and Campus, originated by Freshman President Watts Carr and continued every year since, was a success though this par ticular year publicity came from posters alone not the DTH. That year we also had a car wash, and I am glad we got no publicity. For the six of us who washed them really would have been busy. There have been many projects that people who did not help with them never knew about, such as sell ing food for the Campus Chest Carnival, and this year it was the Campus Calendar that sev eral of us worked on very hard for three weeks only to have it fall through. The Junior Class every year has had at least one big event; Junior Classics Bas ketball, Faculty Variety Show, and now the Powder Puff game. There are always the combo parties and if you think they are not a lot of work, ask any social chairman. There have been class projects that have come and gone such as open class meetings, Sophomore of the Month, and the Inter-Class Council. In your article of April 23, you complained of cne class which sponsored a dance at the same time as a freshman basketball game. That was my idea and my . flop. I thought that the "Inter class Council" - should do some thing since so many of the can didates (not myself) always harp on it during elections. The basketball game, according to the DTH and the schedule, was originally planned for 7:30 p.m. which meant it would be an other drawing card for the dance at 9 p.m. The dance had every thing other class dances had never had; a well-known com bo, "The Fabulous Five," it was within walking distance in the Woman's Gymnasium, and it supposedly had four class cabinets working for it. I am sorry that the game was switch ed and also that three sopho more officers and myself were the only sponsors to show up. Therefore do not blame any one clas, we all went down together at my request.. I hope I have shown you that class officers do work or at least most of them try. Your complaint of not following plat forms was wrong for we have a two-party system and the slate is often split. The president is the boss and if he wants to follow his platform, others are dropped. The Freshman Class that you praised so highly, has a slate of officers who planned their platform together during elec tions and I dare say has done an excellent job of following and adding to it. I am sorry that all classes can not be as successful but having one that is should show you that class officers can and often do serve a worth while function. I am proud to be a member of the Class of 1964 and I think the main reason is because of the people in my class that I have met and work ed with during the last four years. Woody Harrison, Vice-President of Senior Class Whicker Craves Recognition Editors, The Dairy Tar Heel: Although I was not a partici pant, I am certain that the thirty five boys who did participate in the Delta Upsilon skit in the Valkyrie Sing entitled "Coffee Break" would like a little recog nition of the fact that they won the men's skit division. These boys worked long and hard on the skit and put on a good show. They were the only group that was not announced as being a winner in a recent article on the Valkyrie Sing in The Daily Tar Heel. I feel that The Daily Tar Heel owes them this recognition. Lester Whicker Delta Upsilon There is a serious flaw in Stu dent Government's judicial pro cedure. That is keeping secret the names of parties in trials. Under the present system, a student may be accused, convict ed and suspended from the Uni versity for an offense against a student body that doesn't even know he's being tried. The entire trial is secret. The names of the accuser, the de fendant and the witnesses are not divulged. A small group mets out judgment without public knowledge and without public sen timent. Secrecy is always a desperate threat to democracy. The Ameri can tradition is one of open courts. The public must be aware of and control the solution to its own problems. When the students do not know, they cannot con trol. Those who say "keep the names secret" doubt the integrity of the student body to give justice ta those brought to trial They believe that a student, once sus pended, stands a better chance of returning to school and be coming a good Carolina citizen if he does not face a certain so cial stigma. Much can be said for this argument. The advocates of publishing names point out that the truth about the cases is far less danger ous than the rumors which in variably circulate. Founded up on partial fact and colored in word or mouth transition, these rumors cast the offenders in a completely false light. The "so- m cial stigma" under such circum stances is much worse. Students must be "in the know" if this is to be a real Studi-rt Government. And a student who is accused of an offense against the student body should be known to that student body, as should his accuser. If any offense is serious enouj.i to warrant suspension of a stu dent from school by other stu dents, it is serious enough to be brought to the attention of everyone. As it stands now, a convicted student is marked as such on bis permanent recorti records that follow him forever. A mis take now, in sc'iool, can cost hizu a job and a livelihood fur his family for many years hence. It would be far better to pub lish names at the time and for get the permanent record. Then the offender receives a temporary but deserved punishment in os tracization that is more in keep ing with his years and exper'en ce. Unless, of course, an offend er repeats. Then a student has indicated his incapacity for change and should be marked as of doubtful character. These arguments tend to ba1 ance each other in their conse quences. The fundamental ques tion is whether the students shall know what is happening in this government they supposedly run themselves. Can the students be trusted? Can the student public afford to trust its sovereignty to secrecy from itself? m Rights Bill Faring Better Than Expected For LB J By ROWLAND EVANS And ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON Contrary to all the gloomy speculation about the civil rights filibuster in the Senate, the battle is going far better for President Johnson to day than seemed possible when it started. The reason for this unusually optimistic forecast won't be found in the Senate debate. It lies in the elaborate and un precedented system of check and cross-check between Senate and House Republicans that now controls the principal actors in the congressional drama. For example, consider the well-publicized move of Sen. Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois, the Republican leader, to water down the Fair Employment sec tion of the bill (FEPC). Some amendment is essential to win over enough Republicans so that if cloture (the forcible ending of debate) becomes necessary, a two-thirds majority of the Sen ate will vote for it. Behind the scenes, Dirksen is shrewdly exploiting the system of check and cross-check to hedge in those who want a very tough FEPC and those who don't want any at all. To the businessmen who have swarmed into this office the past few weeks to lobby against the FEPC section, he patiently explains that this particular provision was written not by wild-eyed Democrats in the administration but by moderate Republicans in the House, led by self-effacing Rep. William McCuIloeh of Ohio. THUS EVERY CHANGE that Senator Dirksen would like to make, under pressure from con servative Republicans, he cross checks with McCulloch, the rank ing Republican on the House Judiciary Committee. McCulloch in turn checks with Rep. Char les Goodell, the New York Re publican who helped draft the original language of the FEPC section in the House Labor Com mittee. Changes that would gut the section are rejected by Mc Culloch and Co., and their veto gives Dirksen just the leverage he needs to withstand the con servatives. The important restraints on Dirksen, in other words, do not come only from the White House or the liberal Democrats and Republicans in ine Senate, but from a handful of moderate Re publicans in the House. None of these vital restraints would be operating today if the bill as it passed the House had not been truly bipartisan. The origin if this bipartisanship goes back to last fall when Presdent Kennedy, confronted with a runaway liberal coalition in the House Judiciary Committee, ap pealed to McCulloch and Rep. Charles Halleck, the Republican leader, for help. Halleck and Mc Culloch delivered. As a result, these middle-of-the-road Republicans, who have never been civil rits zealots, have almost as much at stake in the Senate version of the bill as the all-out civil rights partisans. Perhaps never before in Senate history has a handful of minority-party congressmen in the House held such a whiphand over the Senate. A YEAR AGO Dirksen might have been far less willing to cooperate with his House col leagues. It was only last summer that Dirksen extracted the heart from a Republican statement of principles on civil rights that Sen. Jacob Javits, the New York liberal, tried to push through the conference of all-Republican senators. But today, as the Negro revo lution moves on an ever-ascending scale from one crisis to an other, Dirksen knows that u strong bill is essential. And there is only a handful of sena tors in either party, north of the Mascn-DLxcn line, who haven't been driven by the force of events to the same conclusion. As a result, practically every objective in Javits' statement of principles last summer is found in the House-passed civil rights bill. Accordingly, the long and windy talk in the Senate is a charade that should not be con fused with reality. The first ma jor break may come late this week when Dirksen, McCulloch, Halleck, Goodell, Javits, and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey of Minne sota, the Democratic master strategist in the Senate, agree on the FEPC provision. Once this agreement is reach ed, Senate managers of the bill will be able to move with the assurance of help from Dirksen, whose support has always been absolutely indispensable for fin al action. eview By RON SPALMIOUR Tonight's free flick, "The In nocents," is one of the more successful horror films. Hitch cock could take some lessons from its talented British direc torJack Clayton. The film, based on Henry James's "Turn of the Screw," in volves two children whose uncle (Michael Redgrave) employs an English minister's daughter (De borah Kerr) as their governess. William Archibald and Truman Capote's adaption of the James novel has added some Freudian overtones. Is the governess mad or just seeking to get the atten tion of the children's uncle? Or are the children haunted by the evil spirit of their former gov erness who appears as one of the apparitions? Are the ghosts real or part of the children's imagina tions? Director Clayton, who directed the superb "Room at the Top," has almost succeeded in making a high-brow "scare show." He has everthing working for him but the story and the length of his scenes. His climax is shattering and tragic, but he takes too long to get there. As a result, the film becomes monotonous. How ever, Clayton's ability, the quality of the photography, and the acting make the film a "must." Clayton has been most success ful in his use of black and white photography, lighting, and the settings to create an eerie atmos phere. He has allowed the Eng lish countryside, a lake, a gar den, the Georgian mansion, its stairway, corridors, a curtain blowing in the wind and mist on the windows to act for him. "The Innocents" will probably never be as popular as some of Hitchcock's films, even though it's a lot better.
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