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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL, I a I II J 1 J; v-- ft? " .- , ' - - a " '. "- , : - titer ed-i The official newspaper of the Publi cations Board of the .University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is published daily at the Colonial Press, Inc., except Monday's examina tion and vacation periods and during the official summer terms. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Chapel Hill, IsLjC., under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed $4.00 per year, $1.50 per quar ter; 'delivered $6.00 per year and $2.25 per quarter. ' Editor '.. Glenn Harden Managing Editor Bruce Melton Business. Manager Oliver Watkins Busin'ess Office Manager ..Jim Schenck Society Editor . Mary Nell Boddie Sports Editor .. Billy Peacock Sulrcription Manager ..Chase Ambler Associate Editors Feature-rEditor Advertising Manager Staff Photographers, - Circulation Manager . ... Al Perry, Beverly Baylor Walt Dear" Marie Costello . Ruffin Woody, . .Hal Miller . Neil Cadieu nee - More Following the unfortunate incident of Sunday's editorial page in The Daily Tar Heel, we find it neccessary to make clear once again our stand on the issue of segregation. We congratulate, the administration on the far-sighted stand taken by them on Friday, in reversing the earlier posi tion. We congratulate Chancellor House on the wisdom and integrity exhibited in the letter given the Negro students. In it, the administration demonstrated the same high-purpose-fullness of character and fairness shown on so many past occasions."- r3'' " " At the same time, we congratulate the leaders of student government, Henry Bp wers in particular, on rapid and power ful stand taken by them in urging the policy change. The change has been made. .The Daily Tar Heel anticipates no further reversals of the traditional policy of the University, allowing just one class student first class. Once again, and still, a stutfent is a student is a student. Nonplu by Harry Snook- S Religion is a touchy " sub j ect in public print. That: it. -is' a touchy subject indicates great differences among people in their religious ideas. Yet this is a big country of many people. We are one of the most fortunate people in the world because we may have our differences and still live, work and play together. It is vitally important that our differences never destroy - our unity. - :.: , Because religion is such a fundamentally important thing to all of us, there are certain things we must do as individuals and in our churches to insure continued harmony among all of us. ..." The very fact of our touch iness on religious issues shows, vulnerability. Just think what; might happen if the Communists, were to try playing off one re ligious faith against another. : Handled in the right manner, this could split our country into separate camps. This is not what we want. What we do want is the kind of understanding that enables each of us to think what he wishes and do what he wants, as long as his fellowmen have their pri vilege of doing the same. Perhaps it's time for you to reexamine youf!'thinking on the connections between religion, -freedom and democracy. Here are some of my ideas in this respect. Remember that they are just my ideas. How good are they? What ideas do you have? How good are they? I believe that - religion is essentially an individual, per sonal thing. It is up to each per son to decide what he chooses to believe. This is one of the most important freedoms we en- joy in this country. ' - ' ' .' . -: x Each person, of his own ac cord, ought to examine -various faiths and either choose or de velop one that meets his needs. He owes it to himself to learn -something about more than just one f aithi He will not orily have . . a better appreciation of. his own, '5 but he will be in a better posi tion to understand his fellow men who believe differently. , Once having decided which is to be his faith, each person should make it a vital part of his everyday life. Faith should not be allowed to degenerate into a vague, abstract state. If it does, then something's wrong. No person should be censured for what he believes, nor should he censure or refuse to cooperate with those of other faiths. But no one should be allowed to practice his" belief in any manner that works against the best interests of the community at large. The polygamist, for ex." ample, should be free to believe -in- polygamy but not to; practice it.. " - v . " . v., No church should be ; allowed -to -use - its - organized power in forcing, its religious beliefs upon a majority of others. It is not right that powerful groups like the Catholics " have, in some -states, caused anti-birth control measures, to be enacted into law that must be observed by non-. Catholics. v . . No individual or church should be allowed to use the psycho logical persuasion and social pressure of faith to coerce the ignorant" or the weak. As. an ex treme example, there have been churches that allow their, mem bers to prove their convictions by- submitting to - the bite of poisonous snakes. - H p Each person should be con vinced that his faith is good and proper, yet be ready to fight to help a person of a different Madam Editor: At the Elisha Mitchell Scien tific Society meeting Dr. H. D. Crockford explained how he and his ; associates are continuing. , researches to test whether or not certain data will graph into straight lines. He explained "why he hoped it would and then he remarked, "Of course we have to be careful that we don't hope so much that we affect our ex perimental results." Everybody laughed. It is funny to thing that a reputable scientist might lose his devotion to truth and allow his wishes to prejudice evalua tion of data even though there are cases in the history of science where that has happened. - ' However, people usually seem to miss the humorous aspect of analogous situations in non scientific fields. Politicians who arbitrarily reject all evidence of error Jay their party as in consequential or biased are not laughed into oblivion. Nor are proponajats of certain type of architectural decoration, when they dismiss any expert who does not agree with them with the comment:- "He is obviously prejudiced and doesn't under--stand." There are many other similar funny situations but the funniest of all is the pseudQ intellectual who makes great sport of harshly criticizing all such errors of bias and then falls into the same errors him self - Such a man is Harry Snook. He criticizes organized religion - for appealing to the masses with . emotion-packed cliches; . then he uses an emotion-packed cliche for 'his only reason for dismissing the authority of a complex collection of - many books, the Bible. He doesn't re fute evidence uncomplimentary to his ideas; he just does like the politician and rejects it as biased or inconsequential. - In short, Mr. Snook is just, as laughable as the scientist who starts an experiment with a pre conceived notion of the results and who rejects all data that does not substantiate; his notions. Such a scientist might fortui tously be right despite the error in his methodsrMr. Snook might fortuitously be correct in his -conception of God. However, a wise man wouldn't stake a bet on either one without a lotvof further investigation. If we have to continue to have .Nonplus" in our paper, couldn't it at least be labeled HUMOR. 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