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Quick Observations
THE collegiate
Irene Serves
October 21
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Up Some Food
The fact events on campus come to a stop is not why
we call that week in November dead week. Rather, it is named
such to apply to the condition of the students by then. (If not
beforel) . . . The highway patrol which seldom gets praise
deserves some words of commendation for the excellent way it ^ ^ S-
handled the traffic at the Truman rally. If Truman had handled ^ fhi* # ttOUfii**'^
himself equally well, everything would have been peachy! As CJ
it was, it got to be a little preachy ... It seems to us we should
be very grateful for the fine art exhibits in the classroom build
ing which many take for granted. We mean the ones on the
wall, of course; but there are others moving about which should
be considered.—AL
Triuiiaii Day Effect
Unrefined, unrestrained, and down-right rude have been
the adjectival descriptions that have always followed Mr. Harry
Truman.
True to his reputation, the Ex-president displayed his
sordid colors while campaigning through North Carolina for the
Democratic Party. Many young winsome Democrats were ex
tremely disgusted at the speech and tactics that the former Presi
dent used while trying to influence Carolinians.
After celebrating “Truman Day” in North Carolina com
munities, the Democratic Party in this state, along with thous
ands of Republicans and “on-the-border voters” will quickly ad
mit Mr. Truman’s influence was keenly felt by those who saw
or heard him. It will be interesting and not surprising, how
ever, to find the kind of influence Mr. Truman made upon the
younger and the undecided voters has done far more harm than
good in rallying Democratic support.
This is not shocking or puzzling to those who have heard
or seen the Democratic celebrity in action before. We remember
him; when featured in political spotlights before, even on the
presidential stage, his actions and speech have been outwardly
crude, if not utterly uncouth.
The Democrats in our eastern commuiiities should have
known to expect anything, possibly degrading for the campaign
cause. It was just recently during the third great Nixon-Kennedy
debate that a newspaperman asked Senator Kennedy before the
national television audience if he would apologize to the Nixon-
Lodge candidacy for slanderous and profane remarks made of
them by Mr. Truman. It was one of the few times that Mr.
Kennedy was unable to flee debate by flying off on his typical
oratorical flight. The Democratic presidential nominee said very
little; he was embarrassed. Senator Kennedy’s embarrassment
and few words were in response to Harry Truman’s answer
when a reporter asked the former president what he thought of
the Nixon-Lodge ticket. Mr. Truman told the reporter the whole
bunch could go to hell.
While in North Carolina the 76 year old Democrat blundered
when making a speech in Wilson. Meaning to refer to the Re
publican party, he made a mistake and said the “communist
party” instead. Covering up the blunder, he startled many sup
porters and would-be Democrats when saying, “well, what’s the
difference, The Republican party, the communist party . . .
they’re about the same thing!”
We cringe at such a statement! We shutter at the dam
age it could do, not to the Democratic party, but to our entire
system of government under democracy. It is disrespectful of
the purpose of the two party system in the United States. The
same disgrace holds true for those who would destroy campaign
materials of the opposite party (tearing them from autos, etc.)
To compliment and sustain our form of democratic pro
cedure is not to rally to the support of a candidate by tearing
down and slandering disrespectfully the opposition, but by build
ing up and accentuating the positive in the favored candidate.—
TR
A Matter To Consider
The majority feel a newspaper or periodical should take
a definite position on most matters and stick with them. How
ever, it isn’t always easy to be for or against every situation
or on one side or the other. There is no crime in being neutral.
The problem grows when a newspaper has co-editors. It
is a rare situation indeed when the co-editors can completely
agree on everj’ single issue. Editors come from different back
grounds with different tastes, different interests, different ideas,
and certainly different viewpoints.
When co-editors have equal freedom, they have no right
to stop each other from writing what he wishes, even though they
may disagree with one another violently. True, they should dis
cuss matters and seek to come to as similar a position as possi
ble; but there is often a stone will somewhere along that 50-50
line and they cannot become harmonious in their beliefs or ideas.
At this point, it seems to us, the reader must do some
serious evaluation of a situation on his own. Obviously, there are
always two sides to every issue. Certainly, this truth is even
more apparent when even the editors do not fully concur with
each other’s viewpoint.
The responsible reader must then make his own decision
about a given situation even as he would if the editors did share
an identical viewpoint—and one wonders if this is ever possible.
The editors will continue to function as a team discuss
ing every issue they feel needs space in the paper. However,
when they disagree on a matter, they must exercise their right
to stand up for their individual positions. The reader is most
definitely able to stand up for his point of view also. As we have
declared in earlier issues, every reader is urged to state his posi
tion on any matter he pleases by writing the newspaper. The
newspaper is pledged to print all letters from those who have
serious or constructive thoughts to set forth. We will make every
effort to present all sides and all viewpoints on every issue.—AL
Federal Aid To Education?
Government figures showing a 132,000 shortage of public
school classrooms may have slight relation to reality, a survey
by the Chamber of Commerce of the United States reveals.
Yet it is on these figures that most arguments for federal
subsidies for local school programs are based.
^ The survey covered 37 states. It revealed that these
states determine their classroom shortages by a great variety
of methods. For example, one state aims at a goal of 15 pupils
per secondary school classroom, so it claims room shortages at
schools where this figure is exceeded. Many other states use
much higher figures. The national average is 28 pupils per
classroom.
Though each state might find its own method appropriate,
adding state totals to get a national classroom shortage figure,
as the U. S. Office of Education does, make as much sense as
adding applies and oranges. The national total has slight mean
ing, the survey showed.
Much more meaningful, the National Chamber said, are
government figures that reveal that most local school districts
uon t need federal aid. In the last decade, for every enrollment
increase of 100 pupils, school districts provided enough new class-
rooni^s to house 120 pupils and replaced obsolete classrooms for
another 40.—TR
Entertainment
Unlimited
By IRENE B. HARREIX
Assistant Librarian
Now about that Joe across the
hall—
The one whose 'book - and - buck-
es fall
A little short of perfection —
He goes wrong in another direc
tion
Too
And his reflection
Falls on you.
Soon you both will be
AC alumni
And wherever you go
Folks’ll want to know:
“What’s your school?”
And your sheepskin’ll look like
fool
scap if he opens his mouth first
With an ungrammatical burst:
“We was both at AC
We was pals, him and me.”
Your school’s rep just goes to pot
When how he talks is not so hot.
Quite a problem, don’t you think?
What can you do? Push him
over the brink?
Naw, he’s bigger’n you, in addi
tion to which.
You kind of like the little guy.
You’ll ditch
The problem some other way.
Say!
How about seeing’ that he’s judg
ed by the company he keeps
And 'bein’ always with him?
Creeps!
Or helpin’ keep him so well dress
ed
Enough not to notice his words?
For the birds!
And I suppose no chance
To get him to disguise his ignor
ance
In polysyllabic utterance
Like PhD’s do?
Phoo -
Oh me!
Wen you could always take the
bull by the horns and teach
him some good grammar
To stammer.
For a while this columrv
Will devote the last part of its
volume
To recalling to your head
What’s wrongest about the re-
centest thing that he’s said.
Without a doubt
You can straighten him out
To where he sounds like he
should
Just as if he grew up in your
neighborhood.
By ALTON LEIE, JR-
Eve Arden made one of her
rare but always highly - antici-
nated TV appearances last week
m the “Tennessee Eurnie Ford
Show.” Of course, Eve is a
favorite from Miaine to Memphis,
Tennesee, (and elsewhere, too!)
She and Ernie hasihed up lots of
laughs and a carload of goodies
that afforded a pleasant time for
aU.
Asked which of the many fields
of entertainment she enjoyed
most. Eve said she had loved
doing “Our Miss Brooks, -but
she preferred to travel with road
companies.
“In aU your travels like that,
did you ever get down to my
part of the Country”? Ernie in
quired.
“What part of the country are
you from?” the lovely lady of
comedy asked dryly. .
“I didn’t get this accent pick
ing peas in Boston with Kennedy,
you know!” Ernie was equally
quick. .
“Oh, I’m only kidding, Emie,
Eve soothed. “I know you’re
from Alabama! . . . No, really,
I did get down into your neck of
the woods.”
“Well, down in Tennessee,
that’s what we use the 'Woods
for.”
Eve and Ernie finally per
formed a skit which showed Eve
when she visited Ernie’s home
town. He played a hotel proprie
tor.
As he showed her to the room,
he declared, “If you want any
thing, just holler.” Eve took one
look at the sqaulid room and
muttered, “I may anyway.”
An excellent show with good
comedy and music and imagina-
From Where I Sit
tive choreography!
The Kingston Trio appears ij'
Raleigh tonight, and from all ij,
dications they’ll put on a smash
performance. Incidentally,
group has just released a very
fine album for Christmas, “itij
Last Mbnth of the Year.”
In a nearby restaurant the
other day, a radio blared out the
world series fw'hUe the patrons
lunched. The announcer took
time out to do a commercial
which just happened to be for a
deodorant. Naturally, he went in
to 'aU the grueling details con
cerning perspiration. So appro,
priate for dininjg!
An “E. U.” album pick a few
weeks ago, “More Encore of
Golden His” 'by the Platters, is
already making the teen num.
bers on every national chart.
In the way of new tunes to
watch, may we mention a beauti
ful tune by the Browns called
“Send Me the Pillow You
Dream On” which m'ay well bed
itself down on the charts. The
tune could prove to be a real
sleeper.
Pat Boone can’t miss with a
two^sider “Dear John’ and
“Alabam.”
Raymond Burr got the “Person
to Person” treatment last night
and proved to be 'his usual mag
netic self. Hiis new flick, “De
sire in the Dust,” is stirring up
a sandstorm of s'uccess every
where.
The final Nixon-Kennedy de
bate will 'blaze on the TV screens
at 10:00 tonight on all networks.
Also, tomorrow evening, another
Bob Hope special with Ginger
Rogers and Perry Como in an
original musical never before
presented on TV!
Student Participation
Urged By C & A Group
On Spot Thought
Saves The Edition
Dear Editors:
I have a complaint which must
be registered with someone. Yes
terday afternoon when it came
time to check the page proofs of
today’s Collegiate at the Wilson
Daily Time I found the sjpace
which contains this letter was
vacant.
Someone, and you know who,
failed to calculate that the poem
above would not fill this entire
column. Thus, the undersigned
racked his brain to think of what
could be written hurriedly to
fiU up the hole.
Since this week’s paper con
tains only a few complaints, I
thought a “gripe letter” would
fiU the bill.
So that this problem wili never
arise again, please you readers,
please send in some letters to
the editors.
Edward E. Beeler
Collegiate Consultant
THE COLLEGIATE
Published Weekly
At
Atlantic Christian College
Wilson, N. C.
To provide the student body
and faculty of this institution
with a means of communication
and a free discussion of the in
terests of the day.
F. Terrill Riley Jr.
and
H. Alton Lee Jr.
Co-Editors
Dan Shingleton
Business Manager
G. Harry Swain
Business Advisor
MEMBER
North State Conference Press
Association
National Advertising Service,
Incorporated
By GENE FEATHERSTONE
Increasing opportunities are
available to A. C. students to
expand the educational experi
ence through the bringing to cam
pus more and better speakers
and musical performers. The in
crease has come because of the
larger enrollment over several
years ago.
From the activity fees that are
paid, an amount of the total is
allotted by the
Co - operative
Board to the
Concert and as
sembly Com
mittee for the
purpose of ar
ranging visits
to the campus
speakers and
artists. A larg
er student body
therefore con
tributes a larger total activity fee
resulting in a larger allocation to
the Concert and Assembly Com
mittee for more and better pro
grams.
The C & A Committee is cho
sen jointly by students and ad
ministration. The Executive Com
mittee of the Cooperative Associ
ation chooses the students— one
from each class — and the ad
ministration appoints faculty
members to serve. By this ar
rangement, it is hoped that stu-
dent interests and faculty ex
perience wiU combine to arrange
the most appropriate events for
A. C. College.
C & A thinks that it is im
portant that A. C. students take
advantage of the events brought
to campus. The committee joins
others in the belief that the
college experience . should be
than attending calsses, making
grades, and eventually complet
ing the requirements for a de
gree. The college experience
should be that of increasing one’s
awareness of the world’s ideas,
the world’s art and literature, the
world’s opportunities, chal
lenges, needs. C & A hopes to
presient these in its .series of
events.
While the colege degree of it
self does not guarantee an ed
ucation, neither does C & A
claim that regular attendance at
sponsored events will complete
the educated person. But it is a
step in the right direction. A
constant effort toward under
standing more, experiencing,
seeing, hearing, being aware of
more that is excellent — these
aims and other similar ones can
be the tools by which one comes
closer to a claim of an educa
tion.
C & A invites you to make
that effort.
Top Plays Can Be Seen In Area
By GUY MILLER
Excellent drama productions can
be seen in this area of the state
this year.
The Carolina PlajTnakers, of the
University of North Carolina, will
present SOUTH PACIFIC on Octo-
Hail nn “ Memorial
the university campus.
r member
English faculty, has stated
from 20 students
rrom ACC have made nlanc +r»
St^ s Pulitzer prize musical.
ihe second item on the Plav
makers program this year wm
ing toing^S^{Jtte?"pS?^of'Sfi
schcxDl year include THE VISIT,
by Friedrich Duerrenmatt; Nieli
Locher’s DAY OF GLORY; and
THE: GREAT DIAMOND ROB
BERY, by Colonel Edward M. Al-
friend and A. C. Wheeler.
The reader’s attention is
called to AC’s own forthcominS
theatrical production sponsored by
Stage and Script. SHAKUNTAl^
will be presented in Howard ChaP"
el on November 3 and 4.
As time progresses, work on wis
production also progresses, we
seriousness of the practice session
has become intensified. ^ Variou
committees have shifted into
and are bringing to reality
requisites for the staging of
drama. .,
l^e officers of Stage and Scrip
invite everyone to come and eW .
an evening in the theatre.