- 1 THURSDAY, APRIL 2C, 1?,:,! PAGE TWO the:bail:tar heee Jh)m -W -jsj The official student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at. Chapel Hill, where It is published byHhe Publications Board daily during the regular sessions of the University iJif "Colonial Press. Inc., except Sat.. Sun Monday, examinations and vacatio&periods and during the official summer terms when published semi-weekly.' Entered as second cljss matter- at the Post Office of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price: $8 per year. $3 per quarter. Member of the Associated Press, which is exclusivelyientitled to the use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of this newspaper. Editor Business Manager Managing Editor Associate Editor Executive- News Editor Sports Editor Bill Peacock. .Associate Sots. Ed. Nancy Burgess, Society Editor Chase Ambler.. Ass. Sub. Manager Andy Taylor, News Editor News Staff; Walt Dear, Mae White. Billy Grimes, Pat Morse, Joan Charles. Anne Gowen, Joan Palmer. Harvey Ritch. Sports staff: Bill Peacock. Biff Roberts. Art Greenbaum, Ken Barton. Leo Northart. Ed Starnes. Bill Hughes. Jack Claiborne, Angelo Ver-dicanno. Society staff: Franny Sweat. Lu Overton, Lou Daniel. Tink Gobbet." Helen Boone. Business Staff: Marie Costello, Marie Withers, Hubert Breeze, Bruce Marger. Bill Faulkner. Joyce Evans, Beverly Serr, Jim Schenck. Jane Mayrt, Jane Goodman, Betty Lou Jones. Stanley Sturm, Waliy Horton. The Golden Fleece As a gong tolls and a deep, resonant voice entones the myth of. Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece, the audience in Memorial Hall Monday night will sit a little bit forward in their seats and silence will fall over the Hall. Black-robed figures will stalk the aisles, searching for men fit to join them in the ranks of the Order of The Golden Fleece. It will be an impressive moment, and it should be, for in duction in the most noble honor society on campus is a dis tinction to be accompanied by pomp and ceremony. Monday night will see the 48th ritual, and an undisclosed number of outstanding men of this campus will join the ranks of those tapped since 1903. x Those tapped will become part of an organization that can claim for its alumni membership such statesmen as Presi dent Gordon Gray, former President Frank P. Graham, and Governors J. C. B. Ehringhaus and O. Max Gardner. The tapping: is a tribute to the work and distinguished service for the campus the chosen men have accomplished. At the same time, it is a similar tribute to the organization itself, for the high plane of ideals it has set and for the unheralded good it has accomplished annually. No. set number of men have bj?en earmarked for induc tion, as the Fleece taps in proportion to the number of eligible men each year. Their names will remain undisclosed until the actual ceremony Monday. Choice of the candidates is SfcfectecV through secret meetings of the members, an essen tial Vt4ponsible for the impressiveness of the entire evening. A spoksman for the Fleece has warned that those students who desire seats at this annual event should be in their seats before 7:30, the time set for the beginning of the ritual. The doors pf the Hall will be closed after that and no -one will be allowed iin afterwards. This way, thefampressiveriess of. the ceremony will be maintained. 1 Following the Fleece tapping, an also traditional, although sometimes less ceremonial, program will take place. The an nual Valkyrie Sing, in which the fraternities, sororities, men's and women's dormitories match vocal cords for a gold loving cup will fill the hall with well-practiced and re-worded ver sions of familiar songs. Though not as solemn as the Fleece proceedings, we recom mend the Sing as a fine student-participation attraction. A little younger than the 20th Century itself, the Fleece was founded by Dr. Henry Horace Williams, the University's famous philosopher-scholar, and several other of his friends. In 1903 a total of eight were initiated, among them Dr. Phil lips Russell of the Journalism School. The Order was first conceived in its entirity by Dr. Eben Alexander, Dean of the University and past envoy to Greece. According to history, Dr. Alexander was a member of the Skull and Bones at Yale, the first honorary society on an American college campus. It was his wish, the story goes, tha tthe Univeristy here become the second in the nation to honor its outstanding students, and thus, the Order of The Golden Fleece was born. Dr. ' Edward Kidder Graham added his influence and helped Dr. Williams launch the organization in search of worthy. Carolina men over the years. In 1948, the practice of "re-tapping" an outstanding Fleece alumnus who had per formed yorthy service to his fellowmen was instituted with the re-tapping of Kay Kyser, for his unselfish service to the world of .entertainment and for his work in the promotion of the State Good Health program. The Fleece was founded to fill a definite campus need, according to Dr. Williams. In an editorial in The Daily Tar Heel on May 8, 1938, concerning the Fleece, he wrote: "On the campus at the time of its foundation there were eight different cliques of students and there was no Univer sity spirit. There were two or three fraternity cliques and some doitmitories which had rallied into separate groups. There was a group of scholars, and a group of gay and giddy men and .a group of athletes. We figured out the plan . . . and decided to select one outstanding man from each group for scholarship. These men were brought around the table so that the little groups on campus would perish, so that the greatest scholar and the greatest athlete could sit down side by 'side .at one table." Dr. Williams' idea clicked In successive years, The Daily Tar Heel as well as the campus at large made a sport of pre dicting the Fleece initiates. In recent years it has been cus tomary also to honor sincere, hardworking faculty men with membership in the Order, and one professor is usually tapped along with the crop of students. So this year again, the black-robed figures will stalk Memorial Hall's aisles in search of those men who have made themselves great by working for the greatness of the Uni versity. It is anybody's guess who will feel the heavy hand on his shoulder and hear the sincere applause of the audience, but any pne of those the Fleece will place their hands upon, we may ' asiureS r;Js fitting selection, a prophetic se ROY PARKER. JR. ... ED WILLIAMS CHUCK HAUSER DON MAYNARD ROLFE NEILL ZANE ROBBINS Nell Cadieu, Ad. Mgr. Oliver Watkins, Office Mgr. Wade Brvant, Circ. Mgr. Tom McCalL Subs. Mgr. on the Carolina FRDWT ' by Chuck Hauser 1 had a black eye last week end. - j'--; , -, --. It wasn't much of a black eye, and it wasn't the ilsual -kind of a black eye it was.j'ust-'a small discoloration beneath my right peeper. But within two days, the following stories had circu lated on eampiis and drifted , back to me: - 1. A mob' of Douglas Mac Arthur supporters "had attacked me in a dark', alley over the weekend. -. " ;' 2. Frank Allston had exacted revenge for something uncom plimentary I said about him in this column. 3. A certain young lady, who shall remain unnamed for the purposes of this discussion, clobbered me with her fist or pocketbook, depending on which version you heard. " . 4. The Dance Committee had brought out the rubber hoses on me. 5. -1 had walked into a door (printshop variety) . ; 6. A group of South Carolin ians had staged a sortie after a Saturday night binge. For the record, may I state here and now that none of the - above are true. The true story is very simple. I took a date over to Duke for the latest Hoof 'n' Horn musical comedy- last Thursday night, went to a Hoof 'n' Horn party (on campus non-alcoholic) af ter the show, and; as we 'were leaving to make it back' to Chapel Hill by midnight some Duke student at th door ges tured with his cigar at precisely the wrong moment. ' ' ' The gesture and I became in timately acquainted, and the re sult was my eye not so much a bruise as a burn, but it looked about the same. When we got back to Chapel Hill, I headed for the Infirmary where Dr. Alexander -snapped a patch on my eye and told me to come back in the morning. When he took ; it off the next day, I could see, but what con cerned me was what everybody else could see. The rumor mills'started" grind ing them out almost . immed-' iately. Moral: When you get a black eye, no matter what size or what type or from what cause, go into seclusion. A hermit's life couldn't be as bad as the rumors. And as long as I mentioned the Hoof 'n' Horn show, I might go further into last week's pro duction of "Belles and Ballots." Hoof 'n' Horn is the Methodist Flats counterpart of our Sound & Fury musicomedy group, but the resemblance ends there. While at Carolina. Sound & Fury, like student government, publications and everything else, is limping along with a skeleton staff and little interest and-or cooperation ... from any large number of students, Hoof 'n' Horn has a membership of more than 300 people, most of whom work on every production in some' capacity or other. The organization, which pro duces original musicals written, staged and acted entirlely by students, is almost as much of a social group as it'.is a dramatic production agency. From the day freshmen first enter the hallowed halls of Washington Duke's modest in stitution in West Durham, they begin to hear about Hoof 4n' Horn. Scores of them beat a path to the organization's doors when joining time comes around. There's really no secret about the popularity of the Duke club. The key is promotion a wide open campaign to stimulate in terest, followed by good shows to consolidate that interest. Then there was the one about the two fighter pilots stationed in North Africa during the war. With nothing else to do between reconnaissance flights, they each put up a pint of whisky, with the liquor to go to the. first man who bagged a lion. One of them finally got a three-day pass, put a lot of money into a' full-scale safari, and set off in the woods for the hunt. At the end of the third day he found his lion, bagged him, and returned to the base. When he got there he found that his friend also had a lion, and had had it stuffed and mounted already. He had simp ly taken his plane up over the jungle, spotted a lion, and raked the animal with both wing guns. Moral: A strafed lion is the shortest distance between two pints. . On Liberal (This column is in answer to. Pvt. Robert Stewart' and a let ter he wrote criticizing a mem ber of the UNC group that spoke over a national hookup abaut the new draft policy on stu dents. Murphy, campus attpr- " ney -general, was the person-who advocated federal scholarslups for tliose who passed suchAests as the selective service mighty give. Ed.) V :- . " ' i; , v -- This is the requested reply to; the letter from Pf c. Walter H. Stewart who wrote to The Daily Tar Heel attacking the state ment I made over Edward R. Murrow's program "Hear It Now." I said, in essence, that I thought the fundamental prin ciple! underlying the President's Proclamation was sound, be cause it embodied the concept . of national service,, and took' cognizance of the long-range na ture of the problem we face. It recognizes that a pqrson may be serving in the national interests in other ways than in the purely military.. I said that the government should defer those that are gift ed intellectually, only because, it wishes to develop their native talents to -their fullest produc tivity, in order that they might make more effective contribu-. tions to the current scheme; that I thought that the requirements should be made more rigid; and that upon the completion of their academic work, every stu dent ought to serve in whatever" capacity the Defense Depart ment so directs. However, Private Stewart seems most concerned over the .second portion of my remarks f which concern financial aid to those deferred. I stated that I w'ould be opposed to the present program unless it contained Federal scholarships locally ad ministered, for those who merit ed them, because I felt that the On The Soap Box For thirty minutes the "old soldier" spoke about the U. N. intervention in Korea withovit once mentioning the U. N.-; ' It appears to me that either-this . was a deliberate and contemp tuous omission or that the Gen eral does not fully comprehend why we are in Korea. In any case, I would recommend for his reading the following: Peace like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is i available power to enforce it. The Council of the United Nations- must have the power tq act quickly and decisively to keep the peace by force, if ne cessary. A policeman woidd not be a very effective policeman if, when he saw a felon break ... into a house, he had to go to the town hall and call a town meeting to issue a icarrant be- fore the felon could be arrested.' If we do not catch the inter national felon when ice have our hands on him, if we let him. For Market' "For the market, not for art." Tempest in a Teacup, a new play by James inther, describes itself in this phrase. Within its recognized limitations the play is entertaining and sometimes exciting. The cast is good, the sett ing imaginative, and the direction capable. The murder mystery or detectve play as a genre makes specific requirements. Two of these are that there be a murder or a mys tery and that suspense be maintained in revealing "who done it." The crime should occur as soon as possible, even before the curtain rises, so that the real story, the detecting, can begin. The poisoning of Dr. King is put off until the end of a tea party during which everyone is motivated to murder him. This is a cleverly conceived scene, but some of the "plants" are too ob vuios. Since Mrs. King is almost hysterical at the beginning she cnanot react to her husband's death except by becoming calm. The victim has to be hateful if the audience is to sympathize with the murderer, but; Dr. King is, so pathological .that the party becomes ah impossibility; the petty normality of teacups and sandwiehps should contrast with the fatal angry quarrel instead of being overwhelmed by it.' Leonora Townsend made Marie Hanson a handsome, intelligent, and sympathetic murderess. Ann Leslie and Melvin Hosansky acted Dr. and Mrs. Potter with excellent comic technique. Jane Milligan was appropriately distraught as Mrs. King; .Lawrence Peerce despotically menacing as ner husband. Heribert Wenig acted with refinement, Hal Hackett. with assurance, and Charles Kellogg with restraint. .- , , There was much aimless coming and going in Acts II and III, but it was demanded by the script. The direction properly em phasized comic relief, a device to heighten tension by conrtast and to relieve it temporarily. ' ... " Tradition present program would not de fer on the basis of intellectual merit, but on the basis of eco nomic status. ; It would defer, in other words, not those who are qualified, but those,, who. are ' qualified and wealthy. -.; Private Stewart then uses this proposal to attack me as "socia jiistic," "not in the American tradition," "a New Deal fanat ic," "a confessed young man of 21," and a person with the "gim mie, gimmies." He further claimed that my "proposal em bodied the idea (which he attri buted to the New Deal), that the Federal Government should ""give gifts to "those that are lazy and don't want to work for what they get." - In reply, I should offer the following: (1) By labeling an idea with a name, such as "socialistic," you Have done nothing to discredit its validity, and you ought to address yourself to analyzing issues, rather than labeling. Ev ery, reform of the last 60 years has been labeled "socialistic," but many of these reforms are now, acceptec' as part of the ; orthodoxy of. "free enterprise." I am not a Socialist, and I don't know what "sociatlistic" de notes. (2) I am a New Dealer and I ; may be "fanatic." As to the ' validity, character, and accom plishments of the New Deal, I shall not address myself in this letter, but merely refer you to any good American history book for their evaluations, which I ,think you will be surprised to find laudatory. (See three out standing American historians Morrison, Commager, Sehlesin ger Senior.) (3) Your remark about "so cialistic, and not in the Ameri- -can way" intrigues me most. Briefly, I hope that you will take the time to acquaint your self with what are the American get away witfi Ids loot because the town council lias not passed an ordinance authorizing his ar rest, then we are not doing our share to prevent another world war. The people of the nation want their government to act, and not merely to talk, when ever and wherever there is a tlireat to world peace. October, 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt. This is, I think, the classic de scription of why we are in Ko rea. It should be emphasized that this is not war in its ordin ary sense; it is police action. The General was right when he said that "in war there is no substitute for victory." The purpose of war is to make your enemy subject to Nyour will. However, the purpose of police action is entirely different: it is to restore order, to return the loot, and, when possible, to cap ture and punish the criminal. It is clear that a policeman must always consider, whether or not his. actions in attempting to cap-r by Wm. Peterson by Dick Murphy traditions, for we have many. It is true that we have a tradi tion of "free enterprise," but we also have a not inconsiderable tradition of socialism, starting almost from the founding of our country, and producing such dis tinguished Americans as the late Eugene Debs, and Norman Thomas. . But an even more character istic and productive tradition has been the "liberal reform" tradition, to which I like to think I belong. This tradition has produced some of our great est American leaders, and the most noteworthy accomplish ments of American democracy. Arbitrarily, it begins with Thomas . Jefferson, (Who, also, incidentally, supported a sys tem of state-supported scholar ships), followed by Andrew Jackson, Carl Schurz and the liberal Republicans, the Popu lists, the Progressives, the Bull Moosers of Teddy Roosevelt, the New Freedom of Woodrow Wil son, the LaFolletts, and finally, the New and Fair Deals. (4) Although it is true that many students do work their way through four years of col lege, it would be impossible for all those who are academically eligible for college to pay their way on self-help jobs. This par ticular University is having great difficulty even now' in handling the relatively small group of self-help students and those in financial difficulty. Think of the number who can not even get into college because of financial reasons.. They aren't lazy the jobs and opportunities are just limited. (5) Finally, I admit that I don't have all the answers and I think that all thinking people have been "confused" since the beginning of time. It is only when I think that I have found "final truth" that I shall begin to get worried. by Bob Selig ture the criminal are enlarging the disorder. For instance, a policeman cannot fire on a killer who has wedged himself into a crowd of innocent bystanders. Some may say that this is visionary, that it can never work, that it has never been tried before. They may demand that we talk about things as they are, not as they ought to be. I would call their attention to the alternative suggestion, to the suggestion made by the "old soldier" as to how war may be prevented. The problem basically is theo logical and involves a .spiritual recrudescence, an improvement of human character that will synchronize with our almost matchless advances in science, art, literature and all material and cultural developments of the past 2,CQ0 years. It must be of the spirit if we are to save the flash. April, 1951, General Douglas MacArthur. It is for the people of this nation and of the world to de cide which of these ideas is prac tical and which is visionary. Then they must' choose the one that has some chance of work ing. On Campus Add to lon list of absent minded professors department: Bob Madry, of the University News Bureau, was In a dither the other day. lie was trying to answer the two telephones located near his desk, write a news release and light . his cigar, all at the same time. After the smoke had cleared, flustered Mr. Madry remember ed a call to home he should have placed. Picking up one, of the two nearby phones, he dial ed, not his home number, but the News Bureau office number. Still holding the first receiver, Mr. M. answered the ringing of the second phone. We wonder how long he car ried on the conversation with himself ... Rolling by Don I'd like to modify a statement I made in yesterday s Roll,,,,. Stones. I said this campus was composed of the laz.ost md.vuh,,! ever to set foot upon earth. I take that back. All mt two a,, ;y And those two came up to the offices of The Daily Tar He 1 , terday and volunteered their services as sran im-u.uc.a. i.. of those foolhardy individuals wholared to enter the inner san, -t of a "closed shop": Robert Shrader and Leon uuimu. God bless you both. Here's an entertainment tip to those of you planning to atton I the University Club Carnival tomorrow night. I'd strongly sug gest that you hover near the Theta Chi "Ugliest Man On Campu " booth. I have three good reasons for this suggestion: (1) One the loveliest creatures in these. parts will be on hand to present t Ugly Man contest winner with, a loving cup.. She is Miss Aide.., Boisseau, May Queen of 1951; (2) The Ugliest Man On Campus wi:i be presented; (3) Theta Chi is presenting an old-time min-tr.M show at the Carnival. I saw the dress rehearsal and it's ftn ;,'. There'll be a small admission fee, all proceeds of v-hich arc un marked for the Damon Runyon . Cancer Fund. Spend an evening at the Carnival, attend tha Theta Chi ). ,. . and give your pennies for some unfortunate victim of that die, i disease Cancer. Remember, Cancer strikes at anyone. By givir.j, you rnay be helping yourself. Editor's Dr. Reer, Take Back Seat Editor: An article in Tuesday's edition bearing Rolfe'Neill's byline pre sented the following information concerning Phi Delta T1h-1;,'s houseboy: "Dr. Reet, whose 17 years as houseboy gives him cl;.i:n to the oldest position of this sort on campus." Our own. houseboy asked me to dispute this claim on his behalf. For the sake of the record books, Albert "Phi" Reeves is sei vin his twenty-first consecutive year as houseboy of Phi Gamma D.-lin having begun his tenure of service January 3, 1930. Joe Nelson Phi Gamma Delta Quit Beating War Drums Editor: As I hear of the great reception of General MacArthur in New York, I reflect upon the stupidity of a people who imprison men ot peace who would save their sons and all humanity from brutal death and destruction, but who cheer atavistic brutes who have historically conducted the murder of American citizens in the bloody process of 'murdering the citizens of other lands. All the magnificent towers of New York, all the graceful bridges spanning its rivers, all the colorful dramatic productions, all the delicate tracery of gothie churches, all the mighty instutitions of education, art and culture, the modern mass of the United Nation -building intended to house the capitol of a peaceful world no longer symbolize civilization, but emerge as taller totem pole.-; of an unprecedented barbarism wherein millions of blood-thirsty citi zens turn out to cheer one of the world's most destructive blood letters, an unequaled butcher and searer of human flesh both foreign and domestic. New Yorkers, and all Americans, should stop ' danc ing around like tribal primitives on the warpath in the wake of military ball rooms inflated by the propaganda blasted forth in roaring volume by America's imperial collectors of planetary blood money. On the contrary, they should lend their irresistible moral support to friendly forces seeking to create the universal peaceful world. Peace can never be built by mass slaughter and forced submis sion. Peace can be created only in freedom and in the voluntary association of people, who, loving one another, build for one an ther for the welfare of one another in order that all men may share work, abundance, ease and life together. Five million savages cheering in New York can never glorify barbarians and their dropping of atomic bombs on hundred- of thousands of plain, hard-working, life-loving human beings. The future and all glory belong to those who risk their live-, not to perpetrate war on an increasingly terrible scale, but to epitomize and create the loving peace in which all men can live helping life in brotherhood . . . Let no man devote one minute to any destructive thought '' thing. Let all men devote all their efforts to the good, const ruet!v asks which hurt no man and help all humanity. 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