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THE DAILY TAB HEEL SUNDAY, NOVEMSSR 4, 1951 aith Ed. note-. Any individual or groups nmy submit? reJiigioMS editorial copy for puhXimti cm. Suma, Qojpy sboukdj bj& in terdenominational in i tfaem&i ?5& UiVstdsrQr less in lertg&i an4 suhmittedf by noon, Ttkursd&y ap th&. ta be p&bliihe& All such' copy is subject tot the disereiiom of the Editor . The revered homespun fillosofer Will Rogers had a little saying: which often makes me feel good when overwhelmed r by certain campusites' panurgy in matters intelleckshual (and spiritual): "everyone is ignorant only on different sub t jectSi . .. ." Since they seem sincere, in their desire to be in formed (literally or actually) I assay the monumental task with Quixotic abandon and fervor. - It ieeniK evident that this paramount infusiod of spiritual fog. has obliterated our vision most around those two moral reefs-Faxth- and Reason and the following chart for navi i Rational ' purpose through the tricky channel or passage be iteen'tm" 'spiritual1 iScy 11a and rational Chary bdis is provided i herewith-(without charges they don't even have to .attend church on Easter Sunday). - Thee divorce of faith and reason has been expressed by 'Pascal as "reasons of the heart" over against "reasons of the ' head.?' "The heart has its reasons which reason does not know." In terms of judgment Ritschl declares that in the religious area " Judgments of value" obtain in contrast to "judgments of ex istence" in other realms of experience. Of course, when we define faith as believing things which . we-know aren't so and regard reason as a transcendental, a priori capacity of the self, irreverently termed by Carlyle . "transcendental moonshine," trie two are incompatible. The relationship, however, is notof such sorry status. Faith is a practical working assumption. Biologically speaking, it is a sort of unconscious "will to believe" in the service of the "will to live." As such it suffers no disesteem in comparison with procedures in the-sciences. Science makes its unproved assumptions which must undergo the empirical test. That nature is uniform to one of these. It is both unproved and un provable. To attempt a logical verification of the concept of uniformity is to assume it. However, in the macroscopic world, at least, it meets the pragmatic test.jOur conviction is that a wholly faithless reason or an utterly irrational faith is non existent. We must neither derationalize faith nor dehumanize reason. Faith is not a slushy emotionalism, nor is reason a distant iceberg jewelled in the sun. All reason is shot through and through with faith just as "all faith that is not spurious has rational grounds or justifying elements. "The only, escape from faith," says James, "is mental null ity." Pure untainted reason is a fiction.. We are all inerasably marked by the accidents and pressures of tradition and en vironment. Scientific hypotheses are meaningless without ; faith in their possible validity. The linkage of steps in any . mathematical demonstration is possible only through faith in the validity of its assumptions and procedures. Faith is an essential ingredient, a postulate of reason. Pebley Ernest Barrow Not Guilty Zagreb, Yugoslavia. . . Greet ings from the. Federal Peoples! Republic of Yugoslavia. In a lew minutes the fourth session of the Conference for Peace and International Coop eration will get under way here in the Parliament Building at Zagreb, the capital of the prov inve of Croatia. Over two hun dred people, Communist, Capi talist, white, black, yellow, and brown, arc busy searching for the magic olive branch to bring peace to the planet. We're try ing to achieve a meeting of the minds without a knocking of the heads. I'm going to describe my trip and experiences along with a lit tle local color before I go into Yugoslavian communism. I want to let every little impression sink in before I make any profound political observations. Last Monday night at 6 o'clock the sleek, silver airplane kissed America goodbye and headed eastward across the Atlantic. I hate planes. Okay, so I'm a sissy. I still hate planes. I chewed my fingernails so much my stomach needed a manicure. Once the pretty hostess smiled and said, "Would you like a up of tea?" TYif nffirial npvusnaner of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill wrre it is pufcriished daily at the Cofonial Press, Inc., except Monday's examina tion and vacation periods and "Curing the oXiicial summer terms. Entered as Editor : Glenn Harden Managing Editor Bruce Melton Business Manager Oliver Watkins Business Office Manager ..Jim Schenck gociety Editor i Mary Nell BofWie 'reason - by Barry Farber I screamed! I thought she said, "We're falling into the sea." Talk about air sickness! For twenty hours the hope of dying was the only thing that kept me alive. I prayed to every Christian, Jewish, and Moham medan God Pd ever heard of and I-was just getting down to Buddah and Zoroaster when we landed safely at Zurich, Switzer land. "Whaddayaknow,"! smug ly snickered as I bravely tramp ed down the gangway. ''Chapel Hill yesterday, Switzerland to day." I felt as cosmopolitan as a comet. In Zurich I hopped a train for the Yugoslavian border. Just after midnight we parsed through an interesting country I'll bet you never heard of. The name of the place is Litchten stein. It's about half the size of the Y Court and hangs onto Switzerland like a tick on the neck of a hound dog. Rumor has it that a guy named Prince Litchtenstein owned a few acres of land near the Austrian bor der. One day this chap got tired of obeying Swiss traffic laws so he set up his own government. The chief export of Litchten stein is false teeth. second class matter at the Post Office of Chapel Hill. N. C, 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. Sports Editor . Billy , Peacock Subscription Manager.. Chase Ambler Associate Editors Al Perry, . Beverly Baylor rt--f,, nj!nr Walt Oa" by Tommy Sumner Roundtabfe President Truman's recent ap pointment of Gen. Mark Clark as U. S. Ambassador to the Vati can has called forth extrava gance of both praise and con demnation. Because of the very present interest in this matter the Carolina Political .Union has chosen as its subject for tonight's . discussion, "Communism, Dem ocracy, and Catholic Power.' The discussion will be held in the Grail Room of Graham Me morial at 8 p.m. Paul Blanshard, author of the controversial "American Free dom and v Catholic Power," has recently written a similar work which gave- its- title to tonight's discussion. These two books are undoubtedly the best written and documented volumes of the type- ever printed," in this country, although; the second is much; poorer than the first. It is in the light of the state ments made by Blanshard that the recent appointment takes on added significance. If as he claims the. Catholic hierarchy is aimed at making the U. S.: a state subject to the Vatican then the nation is in clear and; im-: minent danger i If, however there there is no such plot afoot then the Vatican would be an invalur able ally against the encreach ments of the communist states.. In either case it is a wise move to have an official voice at the Vatican. This neither compro mises nor denies the principle of the separation of chureb and state; it does not establish a church, it merely recognizes its existence. - ! by Wcrifr Dear i . - The Hill A point of law: "Financial supervision of all student publications- financed by authority of the Student Legislature shall be vested' in- the Publications Board." . . . "The Publications Board shall exercise no control over the- Editors-in-Chief of the various publications in the per formance of their- duties, include ing- the- appointment of their staffs, except where matters of finance: shall be involved." Surely the letter and spirit of the Constitution, of-which parts of Article V appear above, indi cate that, the Publications Board will work for the benefit of the newspaper and, yearbook .that membsrs of the Publications Board will not use their powers in such, a way. as to snap off the editor's prerogative to print what he wants to print. The board, not all-powerful, is strictly a body, set up by the students who wrote the Constitution to watch the finances to give a fair amount of funds to each publication. The phrase, "He who holds the purse strings makes the policy" certainly cannot be applied to the boartl. The board has no in tention ol being an autonomous group, heavy with "supreme powers," rady to lower, the ax on those that disagree with it. The board is composed of a business executive, a lawyer, a lawyer-accountant, two mem bers of the Student Legislature, a former sportsvriter, a Yack editor, and a reporter. These people are acting under the Constitution. They are ob- Hrr-tr-d to wp4" tbe b'J'',Tat. to Ixk futiwe "HISTQIO? OF CHKISTIANJTYv IN NORTH CAROLINA," there might be re corded in one small foot-note something like this: In the year 1951, a strange sect known as Snookites began to breed in Chapel Hill. In the usual historical tradition of her esy, this sect presented God a manifesto which He had to agree to, or they. would denounce Him as anti-liberal and intolerant. God, in His infinite Wisdom arid with glowing pageantry, dis patched these schismatics to Hell by a gigantic "auto-da-fe" stag ed at Kenan Stadium. Yours in Christian Obedience, John Richard Rison Jone", Jr. Madam Editor: Harry Snook is certainly an interesting writer, and in many ways a constructive liberal. I like his articles on religion very much, because I have a feeling that - what the Western W orld needs most of all, is not a re affirmation of narrow-minded Christian faith. Doctrinal faith leads to persecution of such as think otherwise, and finally to now most wars have been de clared and waged in the name of God: "Onward, ye Christian Soldiers!"). A strong faith, de fined as a blind belief in Chris tian doctrine, on the part of the Western World today, is just as dangerous to decent, tolerant humanism and the future of our world, as is the blind belief in Joseph Stalin and the Commun ist Doctrine on the part of the people behind the Iron Curtain. Therefore I find it most enr couraging to see Harry Snook write the following sentences in an American students' paper: "What we do want is the kind of understanding that enables each of us to think what he wish es and do what he wants', as long ; as his fellowmen have-their priv ilege of doing the same" Harry Snook seems to have felt the need for such a reserva tion, too, saying: "But no one should be allowed to practice his belief in, any manner that works against the best interests of the community at large." Good. But then he continues: "The polygamist, for example, should be free to believe in polygamy, but not to practice it." Now, what kind of liberalism is this? Does Harry Snook mean that if an Arabian came to this coun try with his six wives, the Arab ian should be allowed to believe in polygamy, but not to practice it? Would he have to divorce five of his wives, or would he have to leave five of them be hind, before coming to this coun try? Life is certainly so burden some to a man with six wives work with the editors and busi ness managers, and to make con tracts. If the Constitution be wrong, then we should change it. Per haps, a Publications Board con sisting of the editors and busi ness managers of the different publications with the secretary treasurer of student government acting as chairman, would settle disputes better, and would be a more satisfactory composition of membership. Perhaps, there should be no publications board. Perhaps, just a faculty advisor who could be a highly paid business manager for all publications. The need for a Publications Boprd wa! peen probablv. ho- that we should not place him in the dilemma of choosing between belief and practice, to say noth ing of the poor five women left entirely to themselves! Or does Harry Snook simply mean the tendency we find m the Western World today (and in America) to handle the dutiet of monogamistic marriage some what leniently? If that is the case, it seems as if Harry Snook is unwilling to acknowledge the "unquestionable need in some men and women to have more than one sexual relationship dur ing their life. And if Harry Snook means that the hetaerae system in ancient Greece (the highest civilized community in the world has ever seen), the mistress system in France (whereby they keep the family intact and the children under one roof), or the divorce sys tem in the Ur S. A. (whereby the children are scattered and left uncertain) are foul things, how would he propose tc rees tablish faith in monogamy? And if he would prevent peo ple who believe in the advantage and happiness of several sex re lationships from finding out in practice whether it is true or not, how can he then possibly claim to be a liberal? And finally: how can he be certain that polygamy (he prob ably means promiscuity) neces sarily would work "against the best interests of the community at large?" Is he certain that this country would have more ha tred, frustration, sex crimes, and cases of ulcers under a system of polygamy than under the present system of rigid mono gamy. Agnar Mykle Madam Editor: Johnny Long, the left-handed violinist, is truly a magnificent person. In the article in this morning's DTH, it was stated that Mr. Long "was born near Charlotte in 1934 and entered Duke in 1931." It's unbeliev able! How can a man enter college three years befoie his birth? I had to finish high school before the University would per mit me to enter. Maybe I should have gone to Duke and skipped high school entirely. As it is, I have to begin my college career at the ripe old age of 17. I wish you would find out how Mr. Long did such a splen did thing, because I would like for my probable children to have the wonderful chance to begin their college career at rrj erly age. If such a thing can be done, they will be able to finish col lege before they reach their 'teens. Any information about how this can be accomplished -will be greately appreciated. Bill Gainer cause the editors .and business managers would haggle over "Whd's gonna get the money?" problem. That seems to be the reason for setting up the mem bership composition the way it is now four students elected by the student body, cne member of the legislature, and two fac ulty members. The editor of The Daily Tar Heel seems to lack confidence in the - faith and credit of the board. There is a, feeling thai the board is not a cooperating agency. It is, however, an agency set up to concern itself with the business of a publication. The board cannot determine what will go in the newspaper, cither in its editorial or ar'Hising f'il'',mT?.
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