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. Sunday, March 28, 1965 THE DAILY TAR HEEL A Review Second Class Postage Paid at Chapel DSL N. C. Fine Arts: A Welcome Return Tuesday's opening of "Encounter: Arts and the Uni versity" has been awaited on campus for several months vith great enthusiasm and expectation and rightly so. The Fine Arts Festival, as promises to bring another Hill in the tradition of the Carolina Symposium. A similar event, originated by Richard Adler, flour ished here during and immediately after World War II be fore falling victim to a shortage of money and dedicated personnel It was revived last spring, primarily as a re sult of interest and guidance Spearman. Spearman enticed erary Symposium to a Southern campus for the first time. : and assembled a igroupxf ' to get the festival formally reinstated. From the beginning, backers of the festival have ex pressed the hope that the event would achieve sufficient stature, to alternate with the uled bi - annually. Their hopes may be realized, if the (excellence of this year's program may serve as an indi cation. . . ! By obtaining the services of such outstanding artists and critics as Bosley Crowther, William Schuman, Karl Shapiro, Robert Chapman, Arnold Gingrich, Jacques Bar zun and Seymour Lipton, exceeded the expectations of regeneration process in store. A fine arts forum is not easily arranged or executed, by the "Encounter" committee indicates that good weath er and cooperation by the University communty will in Sure the success of the festival. As the cultural center of llill has long been the focal Carolina. JThe authors and artists who live here, the Com munications Center, the Ackland Galleries, and the Uni versity's music center have attracted interest and recog iiition to the community for many years. It was here, for example, the outdoor drama, one of America's unique theatrical at tractions, was cultivated. Here, too, the budding geniuses of the Thomas Wolfes and ered and stimulated. It is fitting, then, that the Fine Arts Festival should he returned to Chapel Hill. The University community is larger are more diverse now than twenty years ago, and Such an event is far less likely to flounder. Even so, the cooperation and interest of students, fac Ulty and townspeople will be to be a complete triumph. of any forum of this type must be determined by its im pact on the audience, and for that there must be an audi ence. Tl XX 1 J 1 xi mauers nine wnexner devoted student of the arts. inform the novice no less than selves. " ' You, and the University, will benefit greatly from this forum which many people have worked hard to provide. Don't miss it. The Seaker Ban Fizzles Again We had a silpnt laugh at and a prayer for the woman "who wrote the Charlotte Observer the other day telling the world how much she liked the Speaker Ban. She proceeded to take to task the "weeping liberals," who, she says, spend all their time these days gnashing their teeth that no Communist (read, destructor of the nation) is allowed to speak at state - owned institutions. ' "What about Aldolf Hitler?" she asks. "He was terri ble, and certainly no one would have wanted him to speak?" Well, madam, Herr Hitler er Ban, and if He Lives we are sure the Carolina Forum, Carolina Political Union, etc., would do everything pos sible to get him here. For that matter, the following aren't covered either: Goebbels, George Lincoln Rockwell, Gerald L. K. Smith, Ho Chi Minn, Patrice Lumumba, and John Kasper. But they aren't nearly as dangerous as Gus Hall, are they? n i j J. v. iiiui it is more generally known, outstanding forum to Chapel rendered by. President . Bob the celebrated Esquire Lit student and faculty members Symposium, which is sched the festival's directors have those who foresaw a slow yet the advance work done an "emerging" state, Chapel point for the arts in North that the spirit and form of Richard Adlers were discov required if the festival is After all, the ultimate worth m m you . are, or nave oeen, a The festival is designed to to enthrall the artists them is not covered by the Speak hi idle? i)i? f 3 ti State Racial Rel By JOEL S. SIMPSON - DTH Reviewer "North Carolina and the Ne gro" is a factual account of the progress which has been made, in this state toward the ad vancement of its Negro citizens. It was compiled by the North Carolina Mayors' Cooperating Committee and published in 1964. In it we see how hamlets, villages, towns and cities have handled their common problem of breaking down public racial discrimination. We see the resolute mayors and aldermen who convince themselves and their . townspeo ple that the status quo is not satisfactory We see the local biracial committees, committees on human rights, committees of clergymen, businessmen, motel owners, theater owners, - house wives, professional men, all Hamburger Idol Of Millions By PETE WALES Associate Editor ' ' - The hamburger' has ; become the sacred cow of the Great Society. " - Next to French fries, the 15 cent hamburger is the most uni versal sign of affluence in America today. From - the Pe dernales to the New York Is land - nothing but hamburger. And for different people the hamburger has different mean ings. For the teenager too young to buy beer, the 15 - cent ham burger drive - in is the hottest night spot on the neon strip. For the cheap collegian it is the staff of life. If he doesn't buy them at the drive - in, he cooks them in his apartment. jbut now, an even more dar ing break -through is in the making. B e 1 1 's of Charlotte, led by Hamburger Hanna, is plot ting to take over the Baptist Church : in downtown Chapel Hill. The implications of this ideo logical assault are far-reaching. Consider the many men whose wives get up too late to cook breakfast on Sunday morning, but just early enough to drag :them to church. He doesn't really feel it un til he has to battle the ham burger traffic at the church for half an hour. As he enters the place of worship, his stomach begins to rumble. , The sermon is the worst part. The preacher drones on to the musical accompaniment of deep fat sizzling softly. The usual scent of ladies' perfume is sup pressed beneath the weight of the hot smell of . . . greasy cow's meat. By the time the final hymn rolls around, no one in the church can think of anything besides hamburger. Even the altar seems to sizzle a bit, and the communion wafers turn in to tiny patties of ground beef. The minister drinks off the last of the communion wine, but all the congregation sees is a lovely young blond tossing off a bright, new bottle of Pepsi. They're all thinking young. It's the Pepsi Generation. No one bothers to stop to shake hands with the minister at the door any, more, they're trampling one another to get to Bell's. Hang the women and children, they're all thinking young. - : t j 1 1 r i i: i i v j. i" Xi j ninim i imhiih iW nor iTvifi"i1 ations. grappling with the same prob lem. - And through all of this organ ized turmoil we either see or feel indirectly the bold courage ous and self - sacrificing acts of those people who feel and believe deeply enough about the stifling .injustices to sit in, lie in, pray in, walk in, wade in, sleep in, and stop traffic to make the surrounding commun ity open its eyes to the discon tent. : As the' authors of the book state at the beginning of the second chapter: "Negro demonstrations did not' create the race . problem, but they revealed its present inten sity and ; brought ; it to crisis. The white North "Carolinian has lived, in the .comfortable con viction that the Negro was con tent with his lot and was mak- No, we're not worried about crime in the streets or money becoming god. - The Cold War hardly matters any more. We have found a new faith. We've come a long way from "those primitive African tribes who used to regard cattle as signs of wealth. We've become more refined. We've found the greatest good for the greatest number. We've discovered that if you cut up the cow in little pieces, it goes further. We've discovered a hamburg er heaven on earth. Lettuce all unite into one great consensus and march forth with relish, today and tomato. Peace on earth, good will to ward hamburgers. Gadfly Postpones Hamburger Rally Editors, The Tar Heel: Due to lack of cooperation from weather and editors, the Order of the Gadfly has post poned formal protest of the im pending hamburger disaster. Our sign is ready. Prepare for further action. You shall be notified. THE ORDER OF THE GADFLY Ribak Confesses: Idea Was In Jest Editors, the Tar Heel: Many thanks to Lanier, Cat lette and Kropelnicki, Jr., for their eloquent defenses of Sam. And thanks to Stewart, Buch an, and Saleeby for the exten sion of my project" (There are some offensive professors with obvious southern accents, too). My letter of the 17th was de signed to offer a cause to civil rights workers after that nation al scapegoat between Missis sippi and Georgia is complete ly humiliated. When I first sug gested Sam's removal to a friend, I did so in jest. Then I began to wonder how UNC would react. Lanier and others attacked all my imperious generaliza tions i with,: the; exception of the Now 1964 ing satisfactory progress." The book is impressive in its - honesty and thoroughness. The reports are factual with no res ervations about reporting inac tion or unfavorable response.. Each municiple report, although presented through documenta tion, mayors' statements, and indeed, even through legal lan guage, becomes an intense dra ma of people, white and black, striving to assert the humanity of certain individuals so long denied it. When viewed as a whole, these reports, along with several supolementary chapters, appear strikingly coherent. The grand trend is perceived. The account begins with the background of the Negro move ment. Following this are the stories . of the "Municiple Re sponse - to the . Challenge" (in cluding 20 pages on Chapel Hill, with many pictures, thor oughly documenting the civil rights movement up to and in cluding last year). The book then concludes with several ac tual municiple declarations, a section about the Negro and North Carolina's laws, and for mer Governor Sanford's pro gram for Negro rights. Chapel Hill Covered The introductory chapter sets the tone of the book, ; explain ing the roots of the problem, the demands that are made, and a "constructive creed" for future developments. The book has def inite sociological interest, but aside from this, it has an ex tremely personal interest for anyone who has lived in Chap el Hill or any other of the com munities covered. One sees familiar faces and events throughout its pages. This is the path to the human meaning of the book: as soon as one of the accounts presents itself in personal terms, all of the ethers come alive, piecing together the large picture cut lined at the beginning of the book. one about the "situation so late t ly prevalent in other areas of the country," but I didn't ex pect anyone other than another Alabaman to notice that. Catlette's letter was admira bly moderate, but he as well as Kropelnicki, Jr., should un derstand "how all this ties in with the shameful events in Al abama." Jefferson Davis once prophesied that the issues (state's rights) of his own day would reassert themselves in a new struggle in the future. Before Kropelnicki, Jr., ac cuses Alabamans of perverting the ideals of the Confederacy, he might review those ideals. Would he not concede that Al abamans are fighting for "their conception of the rights we de mand today?" That word "con ception" is the key. If Dr. King, for instance, can declare the "right" to sit down in the streets and march from Selma to Montgomery, why can not George Wallace (who, al though he isn't "our nation's moral leader," is a lawyer) go into the business of rights def inition (Or perhaps God is be ing dragged along behind Dr. King to dispense to him inalien able rights whenever he needs them)? I was interested in your March 20 heading for the let ters column, "Sam Will Not Be Moved." Are vou sure? Al Ribak 1 1 1 v ! ? 407-D E. Franklin St.
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