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- i' s4 i E TUESDAY; FEBRUARY 6, Wa THE DAILY TAR HEEL. "Mnvbe I Wcs Better Off When 1 Wasn't Invited1 PAfiR vwn on the Carolina FRONT by Chuck Hauser m The Editors Mailbo The oiticiul newspaiu'i- of the Publications Board of the University of NorUi Carolina at Chapel ililJ, where it 's iuilislied d.nly during the : egular tPKMODt of ttie University t Colonial Press. Inc.. except Sun.. Hon.. exAinlnnttorts and vaealion periods aiul during the official summer verms when ll'ihlisned somi-weekly. Entered as setimd ciai s matter at the Post Office of Chap' Hill, N. C, under the act of M.irch .3. 187!). Subscription price: S8 per yeai . Ui per qu.nier. Mrmhcr of the Aociateu Press, which is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expressed by columnists re not nwessarily those of this newspaper. Keillor Managing Editor AsMJCiate Fxlitor' Npor.f! Editor Huxineu Manager ., Andy Tavlor. Afpns Editor Vrnnk Alls-ton, Jr . Spis. Kd. Kaye MasenRill. Society Kdt'r .ancy Bures. A.sov. Sot:. Kd ROY PARKER. JR. . CHUCK HAUSER DON MAYNARD 2ANE BOBBINS' ED WIjLLIAMS Neil Ciidieu. Ad. Mgr. Oliver Watkins. Office Mm. Shasta Bryant, Ctrc. Mar. Tom McCall. Subs. Mfjr. News staff; Mrt Davis, Walt Dear. Barren Boulwarc. Mark Waters. Pal Mors?, i'eggv Keilli. Ann Cuwaii, Joan Palmer, Peggy Anderson, 'lelchcr l-iollmgsvvorth. - Sports staff: Bill Peacock. Biff Roberts, Art Greenbaum, Ken Barton. Leo Northart. Kd Starnes, Bill Hughes. Jack Claiborne, Angelo Verdicanno. .Vocfcty staff: Franny Sweat. Lu Overton, Lou Daniel, link Gobbel. Helen Boone,. Busiuasa staff: Marie Costello, Mara; Withers. Hubert Breeze, Bruce Marger. BUI fciulkiier, Joyce Kvans, Beverly. Serr, Jim Schenqk. Jane Mayre, Jane OOodniari. , ' For This Issue: Night Editor. Andy Taylor Sports, Bill Peacock Tuition Matter Of Principle This matter oi' tuition rais.es has come to a point of prin ciples and purpose. We had always assumed that the purpose of the Uni versity ot .North Carolina was to "extend to the youth of Nortn Carolina the benefits of its services, as far as is prac tical, free of tuiuon." Tnat is what the constitution of the State iias to say on the subject. The University has repeatedly been called the "Univers ity of the people." That is what it was called the day it was opened. That is what it was called by its most recent presi dent, Dr. Frank P. Graham. What they meant, it is generally agreed, is that the University is supposed to be part of a great state-owned educational service plant which is to make sure that another section of the constitution is carried out. That section asserts that "religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall forever be encouraged." Now it is a fact that conditions have been modified quite a bit since the time the constitution was written. And it is so that there is a "as far as practical'' clause in the constitution on the subject of University tuition rates. Undoubtedly, there are just and practical grounds which make some tuition charges necessary and proper. There ia a reconciliation to be made between the services offered and the means of those who use the services. But some of the facts being used to battle the proposed raise in Medical School tuition rates point up a situation that cannot be reconciled with the avowed purpose of the University. These facts show that rates at this state-owned university arc right up there with those of private institutions. In fact, most of our rates are competitive. And that uoes for under graduate rates as well as those of the medical services. If we pre going to compete, it would be well to sell the University to a private organization. Being a "university of the people" it is our purpose to provide education for the people. When the people are paying to provide a service that is not within reach ol the people, it is government subsidation of a 'private, competitive organization. And such is not the purpose of the University. It is unfortunate that the most recent tuition battle must be fought over rates for those in the medical profession a profession whose income scale is perhaps so high that there is every justification in making its cost scale high. Conditions within the medical profession make this scale high, thus justifying the high costs. Other conditions within the pro fession have caused a terrific shortage of doctors in least desirable areas. T'.is v. ouxl jujlify lo wratcs. But the field of improving the meciict! profession's ills is something far too complex to take up here. In the main, however, the point of just and equitable tuiljou costs has been reached, and probably passed, within the last few years. The competitive nature of the University's rates bear out this fact. It should be the duty of every student in make known this argument to those of the General Assem bly and others couccnied with tuition. It is now time to evaluate principles and purposes and realize that this University has passeu the practical tution rate limits called for in the constitution. Hear Mark Clark! A talk that University students can ill afford to miss is Army Ground Forces Chiet Mark Clark's speech tfmight in Memorial Hall. .Clark, tine of the youngest high-ranking generals in the Army, is a speaker whose past experiences would make him a i interesting person to hear. But it is in his present role as coordinator and boss of the ground units of the Army that he will undoubtedly make his greatest contribution to his coun try. Using his knowledge of his field, and his past experience, he will be as interesting a speaker as has appeared here lately. The Carolina Forum has always had a knack of bringing 'up-to-date and highly interesting speakers to the campus. Clark, being as he is boss of one of the biggest military units i- the vor .1, will have a valuable, int resting talh to make. It will contain information that every college student and potential citizen should know. Students should turn out in great numbers to hear to night's address by General Mark Clark. Since I have used this column space more t han once to criticize the actions of Ben Jarnes, chair man of the Student Audit Board, I feci that it is only fair to let Ben u e the same space for a rebuttal. It's aill your, lien. Editor: If Chuck Hauser is using his "Front" column to carry on a little one-sided feud with me, I want no part of it; The Daily Tar Heel is not for that purpose. If, however, he must continue to distort facts and cast conjec ture at everyone as to political motive in everything they do, whether it be drinking beer or making audit reports, there must be some sort of explanation for those few who still have any of that bewildering respect for Hauser and his rather small column. As for the audit report that was given to the Student Legis lature on Jan. 25: If Hauser had been present he would have heard me state that the dated report (it had been given to the Legislature last November) was important now only in form and not necessarily in content that it was purely to familiarize the new representatives with a bud getary outline. If Hauser were as familiar with the Student Constitution as he professes to be, he would know that the Au dit Board is required by law to make at least two published re ports to the Legislature an nually. If Hauser were at all familiar with the less sensational work ings of the Legislature, he would know that it was not the Audit Board but the Legislature (to whom his column in letter form was written) that voted to "waste student money" in printing this constitutionally re quired money. Incidentally, I cannot understand why Hauser waited until almost spring to comment on something done last fall! I challenge, Hauser to point out to me any "mistakes (outside those typographical), distor tions, misrepresentations a,n d hogwash" in the report. Hauser is too often making broad and unqualified statements that sound loud but mean absolute ly nothing. There were, indeed, some distortions in the budge tary report, necessarily so, but they were quite clearly ex plained in the final analysis of the exposition. The $5,000 operating surplus that Hauser harped on that he claimed was so necessary in the budget last spring I still main tain would have done us no good this fall with the sudden de crease in income. Such a sur plus in the original budget would be completely used up one way or another by now, and we still would have had to recut the budget and allocate another surplus item. Such a large sur plus is necessary, however, only when times are uncertain to the extent that we must seesaw our appropriations to cover one con tract, then another. The arrogant Hauser goes on to say that we misrepresented facts concerning the wire ser vices used here. First, let .me say that the four-page Daily Tar Heel probably could coin pete with The Greensboro Daily News with its mass of wire fa cilities. After personally investi gating the matter with people in the School of Journalism and others I found last quarter that (1) The Journalism School wire can be used for publication a day late at extra co;t needless to say much of The Daily Tar Heel wire news is at least a day late in publication, as compared with bigger papers; (2) The Western Union wire in Jake Wade's office -.could receive much of the sports necessary for The Daily Tar Heel from anywhere in the country at any time. (The local office is closed by 10:00 each night). This would be somewhat cheaper than the half-hour long telephone calls that are sometimes necessary in telephoning in sports stories; (3) We of the Student Audit Board are aware that ove of The Daily Tar Heel wire con tracts has been cancelled and thnt the other two-yeir-notice will probably have to be broken. Only in the interest of the news paper did we warn The Daily Tar Heel of this in our report and then offer them a possible alternative. Sorry if we offend (See FRONT, page 4) TAX CONFERENCE i ii ii ' !: W I - Tar Heel,, At Large by Robert-Ruark, ;35 We are celebrating a sad sight in New York this week, as Mr. Lawrence Newman, an ancient, renegade bachelor takes unto his- spavined bosom a bride. He is not only committing matrimony at an ungodly hour of the morning, but is re quiring his best friends to rent stripe pants in order to officiate at the sacrificial rites. This comes high. It is certainly no reflection on the charm or beauty of the bride, a Miss Mary Frances Falvey, that Mr. Newman's late blooming betrayal of his guild is regarded with a note of wistlulness by his friends. It is just that Mr. Newman had come to be regarded as a solid symbol of incorruptible bachelorhood, together with his Iriend, Mr. Frank Conniff who has fled back to the wars in Korea rather than witness his buddy's drop from grace. You must understand what supposedly perm anent bachelors mean to their brethren, bowed beneath the velvet yoke for many's the dreary year. When things got tough in the house, and mamas began to fling weight and weapons about, the likes of Harry were a refuge. We of the harness-galled shoulders could go and press our sad, tear-stained little faces against the stony facade of Frank and Larry. We csmid reflect that here, at least, was a pair that would never know the sweet and bitter pangs of mutual blessedness, enforced with the lash of legality. It was vicarious living of a high order for the love slaves who turned over tne pay check intact. The presence of a bachelor in a community is a wonderous thing, maeed, in that no hostess need fret about tne extra hand at dinner, and all wives feel free to. commiserate about the dread fully unhappy life tne poor bum is living, all by his lonesome in a hotel, being forced to eat awtul - restaurant food night after night- plus, of course, the sadness of living without a woman to guide him. The husbands, too, ringed around with the boon of matrimony, subject to bills, in-laws and the patter of tiny feet, also maintain a spurious superiority to the bachelor, founded strictly on jealousy. Men want company in misery, like drowners, and it is an wful thing to watch the way they will gang up on a bachelor, while sec retly hating themselves for what they are doing to the poor oaf. This long-sought prize is the only male I know who is getting a shower, there being a broad conspiracy in the city to make him rich as a rec 6mpense for lost freedom. The rites come off Saturday, and the man is much too far gone lo bolt the barrier and flee to Singapore. He will doubtless be disgustingly happy, and will become a cringing serf like, the rest of us. But it is possible to mourn the passing of an institution, and if Newman treads the hal lowed aisle, the atom bomb cannot be far be hind. Ave atque vale! On The Soap Bo by Bob Selig An epidemic lias broken out. An epidemic of indignant letters condemning the columnists of The Daily Tar Heel, myself in particular, and American columnists in general. I ant in basic disagreement with these letters and with the at tiude they represent. The letter writers complain of contaminated and offensive ideas. What they meant was that they disagreed. Apparently, these people are adherents to the "Snow White" school of journ alism and to its subdivisions:, i the "Wahoo," "Twaddle," and "Flim Flam" schools of journal istic writirfg. Let us examines Them" one by one. "Snow White" journalism is best illustrated in the fairy tale, "Snow Whrite and Tne Seven Dwarfs." The queen had a naagic mirror. Every morning she would get up, g to the mirror, and have it tell her how wonderful she was. One day, when the mirror said that she was no longer the most beautiful of all, the Qvicen smashed it to the ground. She hadn't heard what she wanted to hear, and she couldn't stand to be insulted, not even by the truth. Too many American column ists submit to this attituude and make a profes sion out of telling their readers what they want to hear. "Wahoo" journalism is the natural outgrowth of the "Snow White" school. It is merely a matter of exaggerating things by saying them at the top of 3our lungs. Say what the public want' to hear, only say it more vehemently than it expect This will make your column seem strange and new to your readers, and yet the ideas will be just what they want to read. The "Twaddle" school of journalism makes fun of itself and takes nothing seriously. It of fends nobody, because it ays nothing. A writer of this type would write a CJiumn called "Ran dom Rambles Through Tne Arboretum." which would contain notning but jukes and anecdotes. Such a columnist is thought a very pleasant fellow and is loved by men, women, children, and dogs alike. "Flirn Flam" journalism is very influential in this country. It involves the constant repeti tion of the expression, "on the other hand." It involves the statement that "such and such may be so. but, on the other hand, maybe it isn't, and then again it could be half so and half not so." No concrete conclusion is ever reached. It is, per haps, the greatest danger, because it has justifi cation when not carried to an extreme. I believe that a column should express an opinion, a personal one. I believe that no one column can express the truth. That the writer should rather strive for an entertaining, lucid, and vigorous expression of his own opinions. It is only in the sum total of all that is written in all newspapers thst the truth can even be approached. I agree that American journalism is becoming debased, but not in the way that the letter writ ers imagine. Writers are becoming afraid. They dare not speak their own opinions. Certain topics are becoming too sscred. The best credo that I know of for a newspaper columnist to follow was stated almost one hundred and fifiv vears ago. It was stated by a man named Thomas Jefferson: "I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of .man," 'You Can't Please All The People' Editor: Tnings have come to a pretty sorry pass on this campus .v.j in tins country wnen lreedom ot the press and spuuen aie uui-.: -ened with Uie gag of pny-acai violence. Tne wnoie nation appuned wnen our Freoident stooped to sucn petty benavior . , name cluing ana tnieatening to puncn a music critic in tiio u-.. : lor aaraig lu write an uiiluaienng criticism. jow we are laced wim the same ort of thing on the L". J campus. First on the firing line was Harry SnooK, then Clu.. Hauser, and now it's Bob Seng. Let me repeat what a u.uv American once said: "I may not always agree with what t..-- gentleman have to say, but I will always respect their right say it." it seems a veritable paradox that the ROTC boys can ci,.; such 100 per cent ioyaity and patriotism on the one iiand and ti..-;; seek to destroy the very right for which their brothers are . . . ; in Korea right now! Is it possible that these boys don't kr. what they're fighting for and they, themseives, may soon ,, dying for? One letter writer even ha .dthe temerity to say he was m: that the good old days, are gone when journalists were proud answer personally for their diatribes. The good old days when fe.ir less editors were beaten to death and their offices sacked . ; burned by mob violence. Westbrook Pegler and Drew Peai.. ;, among others, would have been beaten into insignificant s;i.-:..-long ago were this the rule. What must the columnist do wait until everyone comes v. to his opinion and agrees with him? You can't please all un people all the time there's always somebody on the other of the fence, even though the majority of the time it's a mino::; of the people. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming the ROT J boys or the USC students or anyone else for justifying them: elv ... or defending themseives against an opinion contrary to their own. But what earthly good do they think physical violence will -n Will beating up a columnist right a wrong, or prove their ):: : No! The only thing it really proves is that either they haven't t:.e ability to defend themselves in a civilized manner or they haven ' the sense. Dogs settle their differences by fighting that's on reason why they are dogs. At least we human beings have a choir-, even though some people never realize it. Anytime a column appears and it has a byline under it. means: "This is my opinion, take it for what it's worth." Are v-r now to allow no one to speak his mind because it might dispk-a someone, because it might make someone think for a change? I: the time has come when a man is afraid to stand up and express his opinion because of the dread of mob violence, then we have indeed taken the first step toward Facism. As long as the Bob Seligs and Chuck Hausers and Harry Snooks are around to express their honest criticisms free from fear and as long as some of their readers disagree with them on an intelligent basis, then you can be pretty sure we've a healthy democracy. Freedom of press and freedom of speech are the most dreaded enemies of Facism and Communism those who would deprive us of these freedoms are the more dreaded enemies of the people. Andy Adams A Mother's Fear Editor: Mr. P. L. Burch Victory Village Rental Office: Along with other residents, Phave joked about the inefficiency of the Victory Village maintenance department for three years. But two times in the past week I have had to use my emergent-' telephone to summon the Chapel Hill Fire Department because o;' potentially serious fires in identical units across the street. Both of these fires were caused by undetected leaks in kerosene line leading to the space heaters. Because of these fires I have beer inspecting my space heater frequently. Last evening at 8 o'clock the floor under my space heater wa. dry. At midnight there was a pool of kerosene. So I turned m; the heat and let my 10-week-old baby and small daughter sh.iver through one of the coldest nights of the winter while I lay sleep less haunted by the fear that some night the leak might begin after I had gone to sleep. Improper installation and lack of adequate maintenance have created such fire hazards. While the distraught tenants feel that they must sleep in shifts if at all. the head maintenance man, instead of assuming his re sponsibility, feels that the two Poik Street fires, since they we;-" not disastcrous, should serve as En object lesson to the tenants. My neighbors agree with me that if catastrophe i? to be pre vented, there must be adequate standards for installation and main tenance of space heaters under competent supervision. Events ii the past week prove that immediate and frequent inspection oi space heaters is essential. Mrs. Lowell D. Ashby ACROSS L A formal agreement 6. Japanese sasb 8- The cror of hirds 12. The Tent- in a kf-r 13. Kind of vaa 14. 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