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The official student nevtTpaTer of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published by the Publications Board daily during the regular sessions of the University except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, examination and vacation periods, and during: the official summer terms when it is printed weekly. Printing is done by Colonial Press, Inc.. Chapel Hill. N. C. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Chapel Hill, N. C, Under the act of March 3. 1879. Subscription price: $8 per year, $3 per quarter. Reproduction of the masthead, flag, or the name "The Daily Tar Heel' is prohibited without the express permission of the Publications Board. Editor-in Chief Business ManaBer Managing fetU tor Associate feditor , Sports Editor - Jim SchencJt. Office Manager Marie Costeilo, Adv. tffanager News Stftft: fuce Melton. Robert Wilson, Billy Grimes, Pat Ambrose. Tommy Sumner, Jaul Harwich. Bob Pace, Fletcher Hollingsworth. Sports Staff: Ken Barton, Jack Claiborne. Art Greenbaum, Bill Hughes, Leo Northart, Harvey lUteh, Biff Roberts. Ed Starnes. Society Staff : Mary Nell Boddie, Franny Sweat. Diane McComb. Bu.4iiiess Ojfice Staff: Hubert Breeze. Bruce Marger. Bill Faulkner, Tom Bulla. . - For This Issue: Night" Editor, Rolfe Neill Most Evil ... In a five-three decision last Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States lashed out at the United States Govern ment for branding ' organizations as Communist without a hearing. When the top judicial agency in the country brands the government's overall policy toward suspected subversives as "tyrannical practices" .smacking of "a most evil type of cen sorship," then, at least, is it time for the governmental agen cies directing the current witch hunt to re-examine their principles. The court also stated that the issue is "one of the gravest of our generation," and that the government's action illus trated a trend in times of tension to "set in motion .a subver sive influence of our own design that destroys us from within." The United States today, as the court has indicated, real ly faces two major dangers. It fears the great danger present ed by a world tprn apart; by the picture of two great military forces set in opposition to each other and now tensing them selves for world conflict. But this country must not be so blinded, by stupefying terror that it leaps headlong into a totalitarianism of its own making. We must clearly see and conscientiously follow the fine :. thread between national defense and preservation of basic liberties, because if our liberties are lost to self-protection, then the nation will no longer be worth defending. Spring And Trash The approaching Senior Barefoot Day is only one of the many signs of the spring heat wave which is now upon us. The annual army of town gardeners is out in full force, many of the elder women in straw hats and sunbonnets, the men ddwn to their undershirts. I The arboretum has on its very best dress, carpeting the new grass now with petals from the fruit trees. From the violets to the japonica, brilliant colors are everywhere. I The girls are beginning to look like flowers too, with all the colors of full-skirted cotton frocks, and bare arms and backs and legs bearing the colors of new tans in various stages The 'bank in front of Alexander is as crowded as the beaches at Hogan's and Clearwater. The ATO's are out every afternoon, taking turns with field glasses aimed at Spencer's sun porch. Beach parties are being planned everywhere, as are fishing trips. And in lower quad, the air is thick with baseballs. The back steps of South building show that it is spring, too. Office workers there have a hard time threading their way through the crowds of students and dogs, soaking up the sun. Spilt coffee and cups of every size appear as the steps begin to clear about noon,and for the rest of the day, or until a janitor can get all the trash picked up, the litter left by students dominates that beautiful "old building. Even taking spring fever into consideration, it is hard to understand that sort of laziness, as there are no less than four trash cans in the immediate vicinity. The placement bureau even tells us that prospective em ployers have more than once commented upon our "litter-ature society." That's a nice reputation for the University of North Carolina. A Tribute A United Press dispatch from New York reported last week that North Carolinian H. Gait Braxton, publisher of the Kinston Free Press led more than 1,000 U. S. publishers in a moving tribute to the dead La Prensa of Argentina. The American Newspapers Publishers Association passed by standing vote a resolution expressing "horror at this blow to a free press which has silenced this great voice in behalf of freedom, truth and fair reporting ..." The tribute was actually directed to Dr. Albert Gainza Paz, editor of La Prensa, which. until its expropriation by the Peron dictatorship, was considered one to the truly great newspapers of the world. The publishers' sympathy for Dr. Paz, an ex-editor in "darkest Argentina" at the bottom of the worldris admirable. It is appropriate that the publisher of North Carolina's ad mirable Free Press instigate such a move. We would1 only wish that certain others of those 1,000 publishers display the same sympathy with the ideals of freedom to their own hamstrung editors. , .. GLENN HARDEN" OLIVER WATKINS ANDY (TAYLOR WALT DEAR .. ZANE BOBBINS Bill Peacock, Assoc. Sports Editor Nancy Burgess, Society Editor Roy ' ; Parker Column There is a bug in the More head Scholarship Pie. The scholarships -. to be awarded for the first time this year were established by Mr. Morehead to help students who , are supposed, to be the future leaders of the state. - And yet, they do not solve the problem of the rising cost of education that seems to be say ing "who is there going to be around to be led?" It is a fact, according to Uni versity officials, that the tre mendous increase in all kinds of costs is making a college edu cation something for the well-to-do. Yet, 'the. University was set up to take traFe , .of those North Carolina citizens who de sired college training,,. and it was supposed to provide that train ing as free of costs as possible'. ; That freedom from costs has long since gone by the boards. The North Carolina General As sembly hasn't minded forgetting the state's obligation to its Uni versity when faced with other considerations. And outside costs have risen so much as to almost overshadow the comparatively insignificant rise in tuition costs. So it Would seem that any monies put up by the state, or by citizens who wished to do the most good for the Univer sity and the state, would be used to help better the spectre of costs To do that, they would, it seems, have to be based at least partly on financial need. We are not showing ungrati tude for the two-million-dollar grant that will undoubtedly be of great benefit to the Univer sity and the welfare of North Carolina. Nor are we trying to bite a hand that lias been most .generous to us. But the gift is such a tool for great, good works that we think it should' be used to its utmost. We are sure that such is the feeling of its donor. And with the. prohibitive cost of education the principal "dilemma of Uni , versity official. and students alike, we don't think that such is the case. It is a known fact that the fi nancial aid both in scholarships and self-help available at the University is something woe fully inadequate in the face of the costs of today. Even with a $500-a-year scholarships and a self-help job paying as much as seven or eight hundred, a student without any parental help can't get through the Uni versity without living in a pinched condition. And there are few such good deals as this. The fact is, many UNC scholar ships are going begging because they would be little more than a pittance. And yet, the Morehead schol arships are based on: something that is nebulous to. say the least. . Who can guage the leadership potential of a person 20 years before that " leadership would appear. And isn't it much easier for those without financial wor ries to make themselves good prospects for such a scholarship by being able to devote their time to studies and extracurric ular activity? In other words, the Morehead scholarships co.uld .' easily become "the playthings of those with the money and time to meet their qualifications. That doesn't seem, to us to be maximum use of such a force for good. The Morehead gift is a tool for good of such magni tude that it deserves a great amount of study by all those connected with it. In its present form, the gift is a two-edged sword. It is a mighty sword. Swung in -the right direction, ; It could add honor and glory to its donor, the University, and "the state. Let's, make that direction the right ' one. On Campus According to the Clarkston In tegrator, the mathematics depart ment of the University of Akron is going to make it easy for stu dents to get hold of old tests. Th edepartment is, setting up a file system in the university lib rary which will , include the ex aminations of the previous four semesters. ppliecl Architecture The slavish and unimaginative cleaving by certain University authorities to a rather wierd version of Georgian architecture is always a sub ject for debate hereabouts. But the issue goes considerably deeper than whether this or that mode or style happens to "fit" in Chapel Hill. Being an educational institution, it should not be heretical to maintain that the buildings in which a university's functions are housed should be designed with the object of contributing to the educational process. Walter Gropius, archetict of the new Graduate Center at Harvard, has some illuminating com ments on the subject of college architecture in a recent Harvard Alumni Bulletin. Most of the. article, "Tradition and the Center," . is an ex planation of the reasons for the radical, depart ure, from the red-brick and' hipped-roof motif in designing the - Graduate Center there. The following passages, however, are as pertinent to Chapel Hill as to Cambridge: "Prevailing methods of education are reflected in the general indolence of people toward art and architecture. If we consider the vague feelings of the average contemporary toward jthe arts, we find that he has developed a humble belief that art is something which has been decided long ago and that all we can do about it is to study what has come down to us and apply it. "The student emerges from school filled with historical knowledge, but he has rarely been engaged in trying his own ingenuity in art and in attempting to give form to his own concep tions. By the time he has grown up, he has developed fixed ideas of what art and 'archi tecture are, and he has ceased to think of them as something to be freely approached and shaped by himself. "Here, then, we find the very reason for the timid attitude so often shown when the archi tectural character of new college buildings has tc be decided upon. Quartet No author's stories are as photogenic as those of . William Somerset Maugham. QUARTET, a four-leaf clover of Maugham creations, shows this splendidly. The theme which runs through the four separate parts of the film is that some hidden force, greater .than man and stronger than human planning, creates the joys, sorrows, and odd quirks of life. We see this idea re flected in the characters of the young innocent at Monte Carlo and his uncanny luck; and in the young man of wealthy family who is dirven to neglect everything to become a mediocre pianist. t vP'-. , aU Not Guilty It was the night Korea explod ed. I gingerly sat down beside the gaunt Russian officer in that Oslo barroom and showed him the big black headlines which flatly stated that Russian-equip-ed Communists were slugging it out with American soldiers north of Seoul. , "I see where you guys have given the world 24 hours to get out," I said by way of opening the conversation. , "Someday you Americans will learn not to meddle with world communism," snapped the Rus sian. We sparred around for a while and then he lashed out with a barrage of questions. Why does Truman want war? What were the Yanks doing in Korea in, the first place? How many ne groes have I lynched? What's all this "democracy" hogwash? What can I say for my degener-S ate culture of cowboys, comic books, and strip-teasers? Ac cording to him, America had contributed nothing to civiliza tion except the T-formation and the bubonic plaque. I explained that, to me, de mocracy means I can look any man in the eye and tell him to go to hell. It means nobody's go ing to knock on my door at mid night and throw me in the cool er because I called Truman a nasty word and it means nobody gives a howling-hog-hoot where I go on Sunday. I pointed out that we have Carnegie Hall and ; Caruso along with our cowboys and comics. I told him that a good degenerate strip-teaser ap peals to me-just like a nimble ballet dancer appeals to him and, besides, it's right much fun to get a little degenerate once in a while. Then I had a few questions of my own. Why does Stalin want war? If the communists have a legiti mate claim to South Korea why don't they take it before the UN? How many Poles have you liquidated? Why do you need . an Iron Curtain across Europe? At this he erupted. T ' "There's no such thing as the Iron Curtain! If "there ' is it's, three' miles east of New York City." We sat and glared four letter Reviews And Previews words at each other. Then a fun ny thing ghappened. He told me a corny anti-Truman joke and I laughed. I told him an even cornier anti-Stalin joke and he laughed. I reached into my coat pocket and gave him my last spearmint lifesaver. He looked at it a minute; then put it in his mouth, lit a cigarette, and tried to blow smoke rings thi-ough the hole. He offered me one of his black Russian cigar ettes. It completely demolished my T-zone and after four puffs I was spitting solid chunks of carbon, but it was a good smoke. We ordered a couple of beers and sent our ideologies to bed for the night. I put the news paper in my pocket and we be came old friends immediately. For two hours we pleasantly ACROSS Finely divided rock Kind of meat Scarce: Scot. On the side away from the wind Self South American country Clothed Native of an Asiatic country Surgical thread Traversa again American Indian Failure t keep Make better. 31. 32. 24. Prohibit ; Rouse from sleep New Testament epelling of Noah Dramatic musical composition Equalizers for vehicles Partner: slang Congealed water Defamation Part of a tire that touches the ground Flesh of swine 6. 8. 12. 35. 13. 14. 37. 39. 41. 42. 45. 15. 17. IS, 19. 21. 23. 24. 28. 49. 60. 52. 63. One who goes past casually Brother, of Cain Metalliferous rock , U b R VM'JP l I7 VWA I ' I" Yw'-' s sZ ir Wig W mm- 3S & ;3T 33 TTiTTfl'l 1 I by John Sanders "We need a new code of visual values. So long as we flounder about in a limitless welter of borrowed artistic expression, we shall not suc ceed in giving form and substance to our own culture, for this implies selective choice of those artistic means which best express the ideas and spiritual directions of our time. . "The impact of environment on a young man during his college years is certainly decisive. If the college is to be the cultural breeding ground for the coming generation, its attitude should be creative, not imitative. Stimulative environ ment is just as important to free the" student's creative talent as vigorous teaching. "Accordingly, the student needs the real thing, not buildings in disguise. So long as we do not ask him to go about in period clothes, it seems absurd to build college buildings in pseutjo period design. How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and ac tion if we encase them in sentimental shrines feighting a culture which has long since dis appeared? ' V. "Genuine architecture of organic growth' im plies continuous renewal. The physical and spir itual functions determining the design of a build ing are interdependent. They are both part of our present life. It is an anachronism to express the physical functions of buildings with the newest technical means but to express the spir itual functions by borrowing a historical shell from the past. Such an attempt- confuses the art of architecture with applied archaeology. "As history shows, the conception of "beauty" has changed along with progress in thought and technique. Whenever man imagined he had found "eternal beauty," he fell back into imi tation and stagnation. True tradition is the re sult of constant growth. Its quality must be dynamic, not static, to. serve as an inexhaustible stimulus to man." by B. Fleischmann The stories of the conventional office clerk who is passionately in love with flying kites and of the prim colonel's lady with a violent soul complicate the central theme to show that the most drab lives are often most strongly af fected by the hidden force. The stories are excellently acted throughout and the camera-work reveals a subtle director. Mr. Maugham's own narration binds the stories together very well. QUARTET is English studio work at its best. No one can ' afford to miss seeing it. by Barry Farber chatted about the weather, the Olympic games, caviar, Yankee Stadium, television, and the striking architecture of the Kremlin. He showed me a pic ture of .his little brother in Kiev. He looked just about like my little brother in Greensboro. He gave, me a pack of his com munistic cigarettes and I thank ed him. I'm sure he appreciated my pack of free-enterprise Chesterfields. At three o'clock I was get ting sleepy and I figured it was time to feed the bed bugs. I ask ed him if he'd care to have Sun day dinner with the American students out at the summer school. "Oh, no." said he. "That will be quite impossible. Tomorrow I fly to Korea. I'm to be a "tech- Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle B4. One for whose benefit a thingr is don S L jO I P I P Y Fl U I N j S j A I E E MoiRjAl E R Q omF R A R,HOjL jjlT PQT O ' jT j P LlElA SfjP 1 0 toe sVjT n nHd o s e S T AJT tlN GQMTO T H S L A NTWas "SORE NT IPlI" c T7 rHrTr P L..E. A-J-E T E EH E E s .L x T E 1. Js T TfR" E 5 DOWN 1. Pouches 2. Drug-yielding plant I. Cozy home 4. Roundabout route 6. Sewed edge 6. Device for aging cloth 1. Pattern 8. Thinly settled 9. Fuel oil 10. Brazilian parrots 11. Scours 16. Vexatious 20. Joins 22. Wagnerian character 24. One of a negro tribe 25. Chart 26. Ready 27. Piece out 29. June bug 30. Affirmative 33. A king of Midian 36. Fester 3S. Greek sea god 40. Station 42. Box scien tifically 43. Lower part of the ear 44. Scarce 46. Gaelic 47. Instigate 48. Coloring agents 6X. Bug ware bo. counsel: archaic 68. Beverage 67. Sinks below the horizon EditorVl:!box Pax Americans Editor: It is time for all Americans to wake up. Let us deceive our selves no longer. The U. N. does not work, the Atlantic Pact ex ists only on paper. In any war tanks are likely to defeat useless plans. - Today we are hated and en vied by the entire world! Wc must arm, we must prepare our selves for the. inevitable arma geddon! Let us pile up over whelming power and fear no one. We should go forth in our righteous strength and tell the world to either stand for or against us.. The timid ones cry that we would be buried in a sea of men then let us go down in a blaze of glory. If we can not live in peace, let us do our damnest to wipe out the' spe cies! Perhaps then future races will look upon our smouldering ruins and marvel that a race' could achieve so much. Editor: I wish to register a strong pro test against and to request a clarrfication of the present edi torial policy of The Daily Tar Heel. In recent months I have written several letters to the editor. All of these letters were in reply to articles or ' letters which had already appeared. About a week ago I submitted a letter concerning an attempt by Mr. Farber tp make a joke of the horrors of modern war fare. This letter was published and was followed immediately by a long open letter addressed to me by Mr. Farber. In this open letter Mr. Farber intimated that the readers of The Daily Tar Heel were tired of the same old debate on the same old sub ject. My rejoinler, including the text of a petition for a FIVE POWER PACT OF PEACE, was never published and I considered the possibility that Mr. Farber's suggestion that the "argument" be dropped had been carried out. However, on Wednesday a new debater appeared on the scene. With a modest confession of ig- More Editor: Mr. Wright is quite wrought up over the breaking of what he terms a "tradition of the Caro lina Campus." Perhaps he is a disciple of Alexander Pope who advised caution before innovat ing. Since, however, the status quo has been altered by a "fait accompli," it should be evaluated in a rational manner and not in the "appeal-to-passion" way employed by Mr. Wright. If he were a potential candi date for admission to the Medi cal School Mr. Wright's per sonal attitude would be under standable; perhaps he has some friend who has been rejected. In connection with his purely personal evaluations of this new situation, Mr. Wright has allow ed himself to indulge in some ' rather illogical reasoning. His premise is that Edward Diggs has received his pre-medi-cal training elsewhere, that some UNC pre-medical student has been rejected to make place for Diggs' admission. Yet is there a guarantee or inherent privi lege accorded a UNC pre-medi- nical advisor" to the People's Republic." "Well," I chuckled. "Perhaps I'll see you over there." "Perhaps," he muttered giv ing me a warm handclasp. We then walked out the door and went our separate ways. I really don't know why I even bothered to write this col umn: I Uncovered no military secrets and we said nothing of any great international signifi cance. I've heard much more in teresting conversations on 'the steps of the South Building. It just struck me as rather ironi cal that two young men, perfect ly capable of getting along with each other, are prepared to go fight and die in a war they don't want, against people they don't know, in places they can't pro nounce, for concepts they don't understand, all because a few greedy men can't behave themselves. SENIORS Get Your Tickets To Senior Class Picnic TODAY! LENOIR HALL & "Y" COURT Tf rhinese inter fere , in Kr.r.-:. wariv them once more to get i then raze their cities and their fields with bacteriolo i. ., death. Perhaps then the wuil. would see that we mean bu , ness, but we fear that the H i sians would object: then u-i 'them to disarm or expect th. same! The British and Fic-r;. ; would object and be shocked -tell them to join us or Ru, then annihilate them all! Atu these warmongers are out of t(-., way, there would be a 1';.: -Americana. After much honest consider;, tion, we believe that this po. gram would give us prolong, peace. God bless America: to he. with the rest of the, world. Jack McGowan Billy Boles Herman Pickett J. B. Bateman Policy ; nnrance of international politics. Mr. Roth proceeded to give a slanderous interpretation, con tradicted by innumerable facts, of the peace-loving policy of the Soviet Union. Am I permitted to reply? If I am not, only one conclusion can be reached. It is that The Daily Tar Heel will tdlow dis cussion in its columns of the most important issues of our times provided that such dis cussion is not objective and that propaganda for lasting peace is excluded. Bill Robertson . (Editor's note: We would like to point out. to Mr. Robertson that since the aove letter was written, a new stajf has taken over the policy of The Daily Tar Heel, who cannot be re sponsible ior policies of the old staff. The Daily Tar Heel is happy to devote a large portion of its editorial page to letters to the editor, but cannot be bound to a policy of printing them all, due to space and other limitations.) on Diggs cal student for admission to the School of Medicine after he com pletes his preliminary course of training. It? It seems highly un likely. Mr. Wright states categorical that "some hard working Caro lina student who has undoubt edly better qualifications than some dark-congo boy" will find his rejection to have been pro moted by Diggs' admission. On what authority does Wright base such words as "undoubtedly bet ter qualifications?" Moreover the. use of such a deprecative term as "dark-congo h.oy" is a reprehensible device. It hus a definite appeal to prejudice, but contributes little to rational thinking processes. Disregarding the moral aspect of the admission questions con cerning Negro students, there still remains the legal aspect to be considered. The simple fact is that the state of North Caro lina doe:i not provide any grad uate medical school facilities lor its colored citizens. Edward Diggs is a citizen of the state. Evidently the Admissions Com mittee considered his qualifica tions to be outstanding since he had already qualified for entry to two other prominent medical schools when he was selected by it. On the basis of these facts the "utter contemptible injus tice" would have occurred if Diggs had been rejected al though he possessed such .supe rior qualifications. It is difficult to adapt oneself to radical innovations, but when such a course becomes neces sary, isn't it better to approach the situation with reason and not let false logic and rancor guide one's attitude? James R. Grant Robert E. Calvin (Editor's Notes The above let ter is only one of the many which have come to this office concerning Mr. Wright's letter. We are printing another letter on the subject, covered so thor oughly in yesterday's paper, only because of the unusual response.)