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"I Take It Thev Don't Like The 'Press' Either!"
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Columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of
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Reform's Here: Pass It
The N. C. Court Commission, which
was set op to work out legislation for
a reform of the state's courts, has come
up with a bill which would make Arthur
Hays have a paroxysm of delight.
Of course, a piece of legislation that
is 115 pages long and still can be de
ciphered must have meritr and the com
mission's findings have laid a blueprint
for untieing the tangle which now fea
tures our court system.
The constitutional amendment passed
by the voters sets 1970 as the deadline
for reform. The amendment was put on
the ballot because the legislators could
n't do the job themselves, and we hope
they will give strong consideration to the
present recommendation. .
If passed, the bill would,
Replace the nearly 200 County, Re
corder's and other courts with District
Courts, which would be instituted on a
gradual basis until complete reform was
achieved in December, 1970.
Provide for a uniform court costs
and fee system, thus specifying exactly
what a defendant can expect were he
found guilty.
Get rid of the part-time judges, who
take the appointment to the bench only
as a sideline. The bill would insure quali
fied, dedicated magistrates.
Outline exactly what kinds of cases
may be tried before District and Superior
Courts.
The commission's recommendations
have been well thought out, and there
should be no reason for the General As
sembly to do much more with the bill
other than change a word or two around,
and perhaps add a comma if needed.
Unlike our present court system, the
bill needs no major changes, and the
General Assembly would do well to get
it passed as soon as possible.
The deadline is 1970, and if legislation
is not passed this session it will be ex
tremely difficult to put the plan into
effect, even though the 1967 Assembly
gets, the job done.
The Girls Sho w Up The Ban
' The action of 100 UNC-G students who
walked a mile to hear a Polish diplomat
banned from their campus by the Speaker
Ban law was an apt demonstration of
just how silly the law is.
The students, all female, did not "dem
onstrate." They did not sing, or carry
placards or banners. They simply exer
cised their rights as American citizens
Sorry, Friends
It seems we owe an apology to the men
of Alexander Hall, who, 6y -implication,
were given the short shift in these col
umns yesterday, when we mentioned that
no one had showed up at the candidates'
meeting Monday night.
Well, it seems that no one ever con
tacted the Hall President, and consequent
ly, iio" one knew of the meeting. It did
seem strange at the time, as during our
campaign last year we noted a large and
vocal crowd there-
So, our apologies to Alexander, and
the back of our hand to whoever was
supposed to contact their president. If
they are given -the opportunity to hear
the candidates, we hope they will have
their usual large attendance. ,
to walk to a public place and hear a
public address.
Had the location of the speech been
anywhere but North Carolina, or the
speaker anyone but a Communist, the
event would have been as routine as
parking your car.
It is unfortunate that some prankster
decided to turn in a false fire alarm
while the address was in progress, for
such action made a circus of an orderly
meeting, and overshadowed the content
of the speech.
But we doubt that the content mattered
very much. We have enough faith in our
fellow students to think that they are
capable of hearing a Communist talk on
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almost anything . without having their
youthful minds warped, and we doubt that
a single one of the young ladies who at
tended the address took a turn to the
Left as a result of what she heard.
Unfortunately, public opinion in North
Carolina has begun to approach the point
at which the possession of such faith in
one's . peers is almost heretical. But we
have always had that faith, and the calm,
thoughtful approach taken by the girls
at Greensboro reinforces it even more.
They proved a point, and they proved
it well. Perhaps if that point can be made
clear often enough, our elders will even
tually demonstrate the same sort of pub
lic responsibility.
A Kickapoo An d A Moon Pie?
From The Charlotte Observer
Remember Davy Crockett? He landed
on the nation's T-shirts, which is at least
the equivalent of appearing on the cover
of Time.
Remember Beethoven? He made the
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.aiuiji mu'j'Rii lii'v' ..'.'."ry'i"??'"
nation's collegiate sweatshirts.
Mickey Mouse has a lock on watch
faces, and Kilroy has the washroom wall
and inaccessible-height market cornered.
Now Al Capp's Kickapoo Joy Juice has
joined the throng of publicity gimmick
creations (Beethoven was not originally
conceived of as a gimmick, but into every
life a little fame must fall), along with
Capp's other contributions to American
lore, Sadie Hawkins Day and schmoos.
Here we go again, friends. The Nation
al NuGrape Co. of Atlanta has bought the
right to name a new soft drink Kickapoo
Joy Juice.
Capp has described the original Juice
as containing "anything handy, any flora
or fauna . . . anything crawling by, maybe
a dead horse ..."
NuGrape's version contains who-knows-what.
But it appears, according to re
ports, "bubbly and bright yellow in color,
tangy with a touch of orange, and primly
sweet to the taste."
Will we now have Kickapoo cocktails,
made with gin or vodka (or anything
handy)? -
Doubtless.
Will people give parties serving Kick
apoo punch from cast iron pots?
Probably.
Will the Juice give as joy?
Maybe.
Isn't this nation almost beyond belief?
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Letters To The Editors
Discriminatory Glauses Bad
Faculty Decision
Brings Approval
Editors, The Tar Heel,
Congratulations to te Faculty
Council for its decision on fra
ternity discriminatory clauses!
The argument will perhaps be
raised that this decision re
stricts fraternities' freedom. In-
membership up to the indivi
dual chapter rather than allow
ing national limitations to be
set. It does not force a frater-
"rSty to" accept a certain type of
member, but rather clears: away
.the rigamarole preventing a
fraternity from accepting such
a member if desired.
Congratulations,- too, to the
Tar Heel: Pete Wales approvmg
17, which predicted "that the Hill. We witness a great con
fraternity system at UNC will cern that the proposed hambur
set up a yell that can be heard ger, stand at Columbia and
in Miami, Ohio, if anyone in the Franklin may disrupt the com
administration sets an artibr- munity aesthetically. Yet why
ary limit on the time a f rater- is there no concern about exist
nity has to rid itself of a clause ing buildings which should cause
of any nature." viewers to wince both aestheti-
The same editorial stated, cally and morally? We refer to
"Assuming that no legal re- the Negro slums,
strictions interfere, there seems How can priwies still exist in
to be no overwhelming argu- progressive Chapel Hill? How
stead, it frees them, leaving en f9r ordering aU fraterm- can .absentee landlords getaway
Ilea w Uiup UlSl llillXidlUl Jf tldU- niui yliai CAI1U1 UILctlll, lilies
ses. (Even though) Granted, and not even bringing their hold
such clauses are, in essence, in- ings up to existing minimum
judicious and silly." -city requirements in sanitation?
We are optimistic that broth- How can Negroes pay these ex
erhood, not diserimin!ation,;is';lorib?.tant rates anyway, the
the true meaning of fraterni- lucky ones who have a job gen
ties, 'erally getting the minimum
' And now the burr shifts to wage of 85 cents or I70 hi the
another part of the saddle of usual J'ob vear?
M-ejudice. Spring is coming and How can city officials close
editorial of March 6 is quite a with it long, romantic walks their eyes to violations of hous-
switch from the rantings of Feb. through the beauty of Chapel mg laws? How can Chapel Hill
wnites wash their hands like
Pilate of any responsibility for
having caused these horrid con
ditions and then denounce the
expected results of these condi
tions, such as petty theft by
maids?
UNC has a good social sci
ence research department. But
its findings are unapplied.
Caroi Schmidt,
Spring In Business Again;
But ItV A Seasonal Thing
By JEFF GREENFIELD
Collegiate Press Serivce
Spring forged ahead this week
in a 'dramatic, sudden shift in
this hard-fought battle for na
tional supremacy.
Virtually unseen until a week
ago, Spring's strength was re
vealed in widely scattered de
monstrations of grass-roots po
wer. In Scarsdale, three 12-year old
boys were seen tossing a hard
ball back and forth with field
ers mitts. One wore a Mets
lieve me." Winter appeared to
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uwi uui uujp. uy uxi- Secretary Chapel Hill
leaching a barrage of storms - CORE
and avalanches in the North
west last week. The Winter . t it t
camp refused, however, to pre- JrUD Board Jtxuling
diet a landslide.
Incumbent Winter expressed Makes Good SdlSe
resignation at the attitude of the
American public in an interview Edito The TarHeeI.
recently at his headquarters.-He .
appeared tired, a bit bitter, and Mr. Clotfelter's letter concer
somewhat disgusted with his ning Norwood Pratt's failure to
constituency. obtain Publications Board en-
"They're never satisfied," he dorsement appears to beg the
said shaking his head. "You question of whether Pratt could
can. TWo housewives in Minpnla eive 'em whatisname. Summer, get the paper out. In that let-
were seen lounging in their and they start clamoring for me. ter was the opinion that anyone
backyards thumbing through flo- Dreaming of skiing and skating who can write and is intelligent
wer catalogues. Six Madison Av- and all the things I give 'em. should be endorsed by the
enue executives were seen walk- Now they got me and they whine Board. Many people, myself in-
ing down the street with their about the cold and my farm pro-eluded, consider themselves in-
topcoats open, and smiles were gram (he is unalterably oppos- telligent and able to write, and
spotted on the faces of students ed to farm support) and my eb- some of these probably are. But
at four Midwestern universities, structionist waterway program, not all of us could manage the
all of which ban haioiness h. Thev know what I eive 'em: D.T.H.
if they don't want me let 'em remaps me paper couia witn
vote against me allatime." stand whatever incompetence,
Winter was bitter toward his novel or not, that Mr. Pratt
opponent, charging him with in- might bring to the editorship,
ducing a "Pie-in-the-Sky Never- However, if there is the strong
Never - Never - Land" attitude possibility that the paper might
in the public. no Set out, there is a likelihood
"Cripes," said Winter. "You that what did issue from the
take one look at him with his managerial confusion would be
fancy duds and that nice soft untidy and incomprehensible, no
voice and those singers he has matter how literary the editor
always got with him and right might be. .
away they don't care." Editorial "incest" is not en-
"What's gonna happen to our tirely unreasonable, since veter
responsible citizens?" he de- ans are less likely to be both
manded. "Whose gonna think ered by such mundane matters
about Vietnam when they can as providing daily news and cur
to a lake and row a boat rent information in digestible
America by providing free Flora or stroll in a park or sit out- form and can find time to add
Improvements with no tax in- side and lie in the grass, Eter- interest to the paper. New blood
creases wnatsoever. His pro- nal vigilance is the price of ub- snouia ce ianc, i suspect, isj
gram appeared to be winning erty you can't help but be welcome at the D.T.H. , but why
a consensus majority. vigilant when I'm around," Win- the editorship for a novice? Is
The sudden emergence of ter said. "It's all you can do." Mr. Pratt that outstanding? Or
Spring as the apparent cam- Whiter also charged Spring is his candidacy merely another
paign favorite produced a chill with destroying "the hard-back- "change-for-change's-sake" cru-
atmosphere at the campaign ed fibre that made this nation sade? Mr. Clotfelter's letter
headquarters of Winter. Whit- great Where would we have very much suggests the latter,
sun Solstice, the candidate's been if I wasn't here when the I for one do not like a daily
campaign manager, doggedly in- Pilgrims came over here. Who paper to be sensational (read
sisted the incumbent was not would have built homes if I "lively" and "exciting") or a
giving up without a fight. wasn't here to prod 'em into it. propaganda sheet for protest,
'Til admit we're not as strong Boy that's gratitude." which I am certain would be
as we were last week at this Conceding that his chances lively enough and informative in
time," said Solstice, but Spring's were "pretty' lousy" for the the right (read "progressive")
going: to know he has been in coming weeks, Winter insisted way for Messrs. Pratt and Ck)t-
a fight. I think you'll see a real that he'd be seen again. felter.
au-om last surge by Winter "These thincs run in cycles," uaywooa amitn, jr.
tween November and April.
"We've got them on the run,"
jubilantly exclaimed Vernon
Equinox, executive director of
the Spring headquarters. '"It's
only a matter of time now. I
want to express our gratitude
for the fine support we've got
ten from our millions of sup
porters throughout this great
country." .
Spring could not be. reached
for immediate comment. He is
now on a nation-wide camnign
tour, melting snow throughout
the- Eastern seaboard. In Boston
late last week, Spring promised
a major campaign to beautify
The' Candled Vfe
Of James Gardne
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By TIMOTHY RAY
First ef a Series
In an earlier article, this col
umn criticized student behavior
First, I want to talk chiefly
about James Gardner, the indi
vidual, and then the incident in
volving Mr. Hage. Thirty-four
at the first UNC Free Speech years ago, James Watts Gar-
Rally on the grounds that such ner, Jr., was born in Havaos.,
behavior conflicted with a stud- Cuba, where his parents were
ent's obligation, if not to main- serving as teachers; his father
tain an open mind toward all is, in addition, a .Tethodist mm-
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points of ivew, a least to polite
ly give a speaker a chance to
state his views audibly. A re
spected friend of mind admon
ished that I had "run rough
shod over the concept of fun."
Having given that charge con
siderable thoughts, I have con
cluded that real fun is a way of
doing something, a feeling of
zest as a sportsman engages in
activity like fishing or a game
or athletic contest that he en
joys, or as a craftsman (whe
ther a builder of houses or sci
entific theories) works at some-
ister. He is a lover of campim
and astronomy, and he has tra
veled extensively and lived for
three years in Germany and
Switzerland.
While in Europe, aside fieri
perfecting his French, Gerrr.r.i
and Spanish, he worked with the
State Department and Wo Id
Council of Churches Service to
Refugees, established and di
rected language training cen
ters in Germany, for escapes
from East European countries
did editorial work at Geneva's
U. N. offices, and managed to
thing that :,challanges and ex- have time for part-time grad
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cites him
Perhaps more can be said
about that on a later occasion,
but now I want to observe that
it is neither fun nor funny when
men and . women are afraid to
uate studies at Goethe Univer
sity, Frankfurt am Main, aifd
the University of Geneva.
Graduating at the top of his
class from Fishburn School in
Virginia, James Gardner went
hear a man talk about freedom, on to take honors in philosoom-
about right and wrong, and es- at Emory and receive an Ma.
pecially about the nature and in linguistics from UNC, whv're
meaning of a university in a he is presently working on his
free society. I plan, in a series Ph.D., and teaching, fn the f !?;
of articles, to relate some of of English, and writing a dis-
these concepts to James Gard- sertation relating the poetry of
ner and his recent activities on William Butler Yates and the
this campus, to include a re
view of the reactions of the
North Carolina press to these
matters, and to present facts
about the University's reactions.
I became curious about what
James Gardner was talking
about when I got the vague and
somewhat confused impression
psychology of Carl Jung.
He has had teaching experi
ence for a total of over nine
years, at University of the Pa
cific, N. C. State College, nnd
UNC, and in such areas as cre
ative writing, Chaucer, twen
tieth century literature, literary
criticism, the novel and langu-
that he was concerned about our age training for Peace Corps
treatment of foreign students Volunteers,
and Negroes, and about the na- The record of this unusual
ture of the contemporary univer- man goes on and on. but I think
sity. It was my reaction f under it is sufficiently clear that he is
the influence, as I was, of the an able and mature individual,
editorials and articles in t h e
DTH, that Gardner's ideas
were so radical as to be inap
propriate to our University
community.
I wrote him a letter to that
effect, and that began a series
who would not likely be engaged
in the wild-eyed revolutionary
stunts which many have inter
preted his Free Speech activi
ties to be. In fact, his record
would lead a neutral observer
to expect that his efforts to es-
of letters which led to my find- tablish a pubh forum for the
ing out a great deal about who discussion of ideas on the Uni
this man is, what his ideas and versity of North Carolina can -goals
are, and what motivates pus are probably worthy of ser
him to speak the way he does. ious consideration by the Uni-
I visited James Gardner, in his versity community,
home in order to find out the By careful, thorough, and un-
actual facts of the Free Speech prejudiced investigations, I dis-
Movement, of Free Speech For- covered this to be in fact quite
um. Several miles in the coun- true. In subsequent articles I
try, his home is appropriate for will discuss the purpose Mr.
a country gentleman and schol- Gardner had in mind in begin-
ar. Before a roaring cedar fire, ning his Free Speech activities,
I plied my host with many ques- how his plans differed froir
tions, which he answered at those of the Berkeley Free
great length, both generally and Speech Movement; and what he
specifically. seeks to accomplish.
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Winter Quarterly
Has Good Prose
By DR. ROBERT VOITLE teacher who on coming here in
Editors' "Note; the autor of 1940 finds that as tne martinet
the following review on the his Profession has made him he
winter edition of the Carolina is isolated from the American
Quarterly is a member of the schoolDys and who comes to
English Department. be regarded finally as a stere-
Tf L otype of his own persecutors.
fc ta aimusi as ii me Caro
lina Quarterly had set out to
disprove what is dairy more
evident, that American verse by
and large has become during
the past six or seven years a
vastly more sophisticated med
ium than our fiction. This is
not to say that the poetry in
the Winter issue is dull; rath
er, that only a romantic could
thoroughly enjoy it.
The flashbacks to his own ex
periences before fleeing Ger
many are all the more power
ful for their spare restraint in
an age when Rolf Hochhuth's
brilliant and ghastly "The Ber
lin Antigone" is palatable sim
ply because the pain of re
membering is preferable to the
horror of forgetting. The bar
riers between the teacher and
Unsubtle ideas are expressed tne boys between one of the
with humorless high serious- Dys ana ms own mother are
ness and the emotional light- simPle and massive, and they
ing is uniformly monochromat- structure the story in such a
ic but diffuse, not bright and way that 11 moves to its inevi
hard. table conclusion all the more
Thus John Haines sings of our impressively because it does so
human picklement in early Ponderously and mechanically,
nineteenth century tones and There is little that can be
compelling rhythms, and Rob- said in this small space con
ert Morgan suffers from late- cerning Nelson James Dun
Victorian weltschmerz. John ford's compelling "True Be
Tagliabue's rich and complex liever" beyond that it is the
poems are more accomplished best of a generally good lot
but unless your attitude to- and that read it as allegory,
wards Shakespeare is mid- parable, or story it relates
Joyce, or early Henry Miller, bizarre events and emotions
not altogether satisfying. More with startling verisimilitude.
rnfn0'ffnrnI!alSaAUSSell Should the preoccupation
SSLL ffgf fLa Hebe" with pain, physical and emo-
phrenic Hobo" has the great tional aDnarent in t h p p
virtue f Koinrf t , t? "onai, apparent in t u e s e
A" " , ,uZu "c Z"? " stories suggest that the Quart-
puexiis wiucn ior oetter or
worse speaks vigorously to to
day. The fiction is another matter.
Though Joy Williams's some
what old - fashioned story of
the outre relationship of a
small boy and a young wom
an roomer provokes ail sorts
of twitchings in one's sense of
deja vu, and despite para
graph after paragraph cram
med with the metaphor of pain,
eriy nas laiien into tne per
verse ways of so many liter
ary magazines, John Illo's
"Idyll of Unreproved Pleasures
Free" will reassure anyone.
What could be more healthy
as the Japonica comes into
bloom than a review of "Fan
ny Hill" which defines as the
purpose of Cleland's narrative
"to provide a varied set of oc
casions for displaying and cele-
who's a great campaigner, bel he said.
608 Ehringhans
the whole business somehow brating the supreme human
comes off. happiness of sexuality . . .
Carolyn Wynne contributes a and especially, wholesome
brutal and witty fantasy on an heterosexuality."
encounter between the military If it be objected that Mr.
mind and that very rare sort Hlo, searching far and wide
of individual who cannot ever for precedents, sees the book
succumb to the primal appeals as unique, while it is in reality
inherent in its habit of thought, one of many similar flowers of
or functioning. the golden age of English por-
The longest is R. T. Sale's nography, the paperback pub
story of a refugee German Ushers will soon set him right.