THE DAILY TAR HEEL
TUESDAY,NOVEMBER 6, 1951
rAQE TWU
"The . off icial newspaper of the Publi
cations Board of the University of
rJOrth Carolina at Chapel Hill where
f is published daily at the Colonial
ress, Inc.-, except Monday's examina
tion and vacation periods and during
the official summer terms. Entered as
Editor , ,
Managing Editor
Glenn Harden
Bruce Melton
Business Manager Oliver Vatkins
Business Office Manager -Jim Schenck
Society Editor Mary Dell Boddie
- News Staff- Thomas McDonald, Barbara Sue Tuttle-, Clinton Andrews,
June Pearson, Thomas Long, Virginia Hatcher, Betty Kirby, Jody Levey,
Gayle Euffin, Sandy .Klostermever, David Rowe.Marion Benfield, Jim Oglesby,
Joe Raif, Emmett Nesbit, Betty Ahern, Wood Smethurst, Trueman Hon, Sue
Biirress, Bill Scarborough, Barty Dunlop, Jerry Reece. Bevid Buekner, Varty
Buekalew, Punchy.. Grime, Bob Wilson, Jim Nichols, Paul Barwick, Bob Pace.
- Sports ' Staff Zaine Robbins, Ken Barton, AJva Stewart. Eddie Starnes, Buddy
Northart. "
- EzMnesa Statf: Richard Adelsheim. Judy Taylor, Flossie Kerves, Geraldine
MiHer, 'Flees? Rigg, T. P. Rumsey, Xee Fuhai, Sandra Jamieson, Joan Jacobi,
Peggy Jean Goods? Isabel Barksdale, Midge Ward, and Margaret Padgette.
Riff . . . by j oe
Every once in a decade The
Daily Tar Heel takes issue on
the abolition of grandmother
beating, falsification of FBI
data, and tickling ribs of student
government officials. These
things as we know are definite
ly scorned upon .by soeie'ty;
however some staffers around
the office of the DTH have been
wondering about another aspect
of un-American life prevalent
here on campus.
Overheard while rummaging
through an old pile of -Daily
Workers was the understate-
ment of 1951 "They ain'J vot
m!" ; V ,
-I though about this very pro
found expostulation and began
to look into the problem at
hand. I found to my great dis
may that "They ain't voting
I could go on for close to six
teen paragraphs into the adver
tising copy, telling you what a
good communist you are by
evading the polls come election
day. I could tell you that you all
ought to be poll-cats and come
a -running with an extra pencil
to cast a ducket for your favor
ite candidate. I could even giye
you a comprehensive history of
Reviews and
In looking over the New York
Times drama section, I saw, a
quote which stood out brazenly
above all other newsprint "We
. here at M. G. M. have never
made a bad picture." These
words of wisdom came from Mr.
Howard Dietz, one of the many
vice-presidents at that studio.
In answer, and I think I must
answer to this absurdity, I
would like to ask Mr. Dietz
whatever happened to the type
B film at his studio. I seem
vaguely to remember a time
$hen not "every Metro film was
billed as colossal, or star-studded,
or took two years to film.
I need not go on. Opening to
day at the Carolina Theater 4s
perhaps the only answer to Mr.
Dietz's remark. The film is
"Texas Carnival" in color by
' technicolor, and it is spectacular
, entertainment starring '). not, one,
ot two, but seven great1 stars.
The preceeding remarks are not
necessarily word for word from
the preview, but you will get
the general idea.
Don't get me wrong I. dont
have a thing against the state
c Texas, but feel this is one
CIm which might never have
fceca made. Esther Williams and
Psil 3Ee2eton, fed up with their
I ;.:.!s5 leaves- a ecrrnival, move into
t ti?CXffax&gy- desert resort under
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 .....
Subscription Manager
Associate Editors
Billy . Peacock
Chase Ambler
Al Perry,
Beverly Baylor
Walt J5ear
Feature Editor
Raff
how the forefathers of this, great
and glorious land of ours fought,
for their right to stuff a ballot
box and I could relate an eight
page narrative of -how some five
per-scenters get hold of the
other ninety-five per cent of the
government when there is' no
polar attraction.
All this has been done, how
ever, and I th'ink you are all ac
quainted with the different
methods of getting out of pitch
ing a vote through a narrow slit.
In the last general election 44
per cent of the student body
placed their X's on the' dotted
line. In the run-off s the number
dropped by 4 per cent. What can
we do about this? We've tried
to get the administration to give
away two black pawns and one
checker 9 (red) to every voter,
but even though they are com
pletely behind us the expense is
too much.
The "elections are a long way
off yet, but keep in mind that
we aren't Americans unless we
aregood Americans Sounds a
bit melodramatic and a desper
ate display of flag-waving, but
nevertheless to make democracy
work, you must work for de
mocracy. See you at the polls.
by David Alexander
Previews
assumed names, and proceed to
live in a big way. Howard Keel
knows the two are phony, but
falls for Es in a big way. By
now you -might have realized
that Metro does everything in a
big way. .As for Red, he just
falls. I would go on with a skele
ton outline' of the plot, but ;
there juM isn't any more, i :.-:.
Metro has done' some fine
things with musicals, if you re
member "Anchors Aweigh,"
"Annie Get Your Gun," "Meet
Me in St. Louis,", "The Great.
Caruso,!' "Summer Stock," "Till
the i Clouds Roir By," ..'Words
and Music" arid "Show Boat, ,
but this happens to be one show .
which misses the boat. Esther is
beautiful, Red tries, but in vain,
to get your laughs ; since the
script is lacking,; ?i
Howard Keel has a fair voice
when he has some rail music to
work with, but this isn't his day.
Paula Raymond, a very beauti
ful young lady, and not a bad
actress, is billed as one of the
seven great stars, and appears
in the flicker for approximately
two minutes. Keenan Wynn is
wearing just a trifle thin. After
all, he has been spread suffici
ently aound practically every
Metro film during the last ten
years.; . ' . ' ...
Nonplus
Student Government at Caro
lina is a laugh. Almost.
Most students know nothing
about it and don't participate
in' it. Student Government
exists as a dangerous play-toy
for a handful of youthful 'poli
ticians' and as a cats-paw for
the Administration. Odds are 20 N
to 1 that you are not directly ;
connected with Student Govern
ment. The odds jump to 400 to 1
that you exert no real influence
in Student Government.
You are probably among those
who consider Student Govern
ment as nothing more than a
projection of high school poli
tics. You probably feel that you
are "beyond such things" now.
If so, you are very foolish. You
must not realize that these teen
agers who are playing campus
politics have the authority to
kick you right slam out of - this
University. You must not rea
lize that Student Government
spends' the money collected in
Rameses
It's not often that individuals
place themselves open to attack
as do some of the French in
structors in Murphy Hall. The
arguments for and against the
language requirements are set
tled. You gotta take it but for
God's sake, let's learn something
in doing so.
"Personnally, I'm no brain at
any foreign language. Conse
quently, I may not be a quali
fied observer, since I'm still tak
ing a course I should have fin
ished in the by-gone days of
Frank Graham.
But I'm still there and still
not learning anything. And all is
not due. to my indifference to
the course.
Every nighfstudents of my
class go through the monoton-.
ous translation which are so ex
hausting and slow that they
can't interpret what they read.
Then, during class time, they
listen to an instructor try to im
press them with his knowledge
of the French language rather
than using valuable time on the
foundations and contemporary
ideals of the French nation.
After the good instructor has
given u$ a thorough dose of his
French he calls on students to
go through the laborious mo
tions of reading.
From this I learn? Certainly!
I know that the gentleman in
the middle has a lisp -and that
the sweater sitting beside me
has nice teeth.
But do I learn why the-French
nation is torn apart in the man
ner it is today. Not on your life.
Maybe that question can't be
answered, but I'd like for some
one to take a crack at it anyway.
On the other extreme, there
are a few in Murphy who are
concerned with the education of
the student. For some odd rea
son they deduce that American
Students understand their own
language better than French.
One of the most enjoyable
courses I've had here was
French 21; We did a little trans
lating, read mostly in English
and talked about things in-general.
Yet I received a more con
crete idea of French culture
from that one course than i a
four other valiant attempts.
Unfortunately, there are a
pitiful few who ean manage a
course so well. There are two I
know of but m ost instructors
by Horry Snook
student fees to the tune of
$100,000 a year!
This column has no doubt as
to; the good intentions of the few
students who keep Student Gov
ernment percolating. But such a
few students, even if they were
much older and wiser, cannot
off-set a system whose constitu
ent parts are unequal in power
and scope, a system that operates
outside the, knowledge of the
students it claims to represent,
and a system which is notclear
ly defined under an adequate
constitution.
The judicial structure - is the
most dangerous segment of Stu
dent Government. Based on a
laughable "Honor" System, the
student courts represents a mis
carriage of justice by their very
existence Certainly there is
nothing American about a ju
dicial set-up where the court it
self acts as prosecutor; defense
attorney, judge and jury- in
secrecy. Certainly there is noth-
can't seernto get beyond simple
mechanics.
So far this quarter I have
.learned that the French people
are a group that say things like
parlay-voo. I have learned also,'
through my own diggings and
an English, translation, that a--fella
named Voltaire was a
damned good writer with a ter
rific sense of humor.
A course in French today
should be a means of better un
derstanding of Western Europe
and not an end in itself. But
what do ;we get? "You will
translate the next eight pages
for tomorrow," he says.
What;. Of hers Say
The president of the Amer
ican Sunbathing - society last
week charged Bethel College,
Tennessee, with aiding the com
munists by firing, a professor
discovered to be a nudist.
Said the sunshine official,
... . . An out-and-out case of
intolerance. If the school officials
hadn't made an issue of it, no
body 'would have known that
the professor was a nudist."
Malcolm E. Wallace, ex-prei-dent
of i, the University of Texas
student t body, is out on bond
pending trial -for the slaying of
a University student, Douglas
Kinser. Police state they have
not found the murder weapon
and have no clues to the motive
behind the golf clubhouse slay
ing. Coeds at the University of
Colorado face a unique situa
tion, it has become the style
for groups of fraternity men to
grab the hapless gals as they
pass on the streets, and paint
their blue jeans in the place
where there's the most room to
paint. Each fraternity has elect
ed an official spy to delve around
and find the various times when
a group of girls will pass. If all
goes well and connections are
made, an expert job of painting
is done on screaming, lacking
girls. Dcnt be half safe, frosh
girls era now told, switch t
pedal-pusJier-C
in Amerean in a eourt where
an accused student may b
charged, tried, found guilty and
sentenced when he is not pre
sent and S3 has happened
when he doesn't even know h
has been charged with an off ens
in the first place!
; la the very first place, Stu
dent Government is a hoax. For
the students know little car
nothing , of what is happening hi
their name. And the action
taken by Student Government
are valid only by the immediate
support of the Administration.
m a nutshell, Student Gov
ernment is nothing more or less
than a handy tool for. the
Administration. Although occasi
onal injustices are the result of
having zealous students perform
tasks of the Administration, the
Administration saves itself a
good deal of time, effort and
face.
As one example, over 9 out
of 10 cases "tried" by the Men's
Honor Council are .based on
accusations coming from faculty
members. .
This is student Government?
Either it should be sacked, or
you and the rest of the students
at large had better make it
an effective government "of, by
and for" the students. The latter
implies establishing a truly con
stitutional system and allowing
every student to know every
detail of every action taken in
the name of the student body.
Wake up, Bub.
Letters
Madam Editor: -
I would like to use the medium
of your paper to thank Josh
Hawkins from Hog Hollow for
his article in support of my
views regarding the Catholic
Church and the bohemian in
tellects who refuse to accept its
doctrine. But I'm afraid poor
Josh fails to understand.
My article was written in
haste immediately upon reading
an article in The Daily Tar Heel
by Harry Snook which seemed
to be an attack on my Church
and its teachings. Josh, when
you are attacked you naturally
and instinctively defend your
self. I was new here on the cam
pus and did not realize that
Harry Snook is to be suffered
gladly. I had some funny idea
that his ideas must be represen
tative of a great force that ?s
trying to undermine Christia
nity on the campus.
But, to get at the misunder
standing, Josh-Tom Aquinas is
not the fellow you used to go to
meeting with and we are not
intent on burning "sinners" who
do not conform to our ways of
thinking I think the whole point
is this: We have something
which we feel is good and which
we wish to preserve. When those
who have nothing and for some
funny reason spout their nega
tivism is such a way that it is
offensive, it is only natural that
one beeomes indignant and de
fensive. Hope I have not further con
fused you.
Ted Heers
Madam Editor:
Congratulations on your "Coed
.Senate" editorial. It is progres
sive, sound, and sensible. As for
Neill and White I suggest they
apply to Fulton Lewis "lor jobs.
They seem to be. adept at using
his below-the-belt methods (e.g.
Lewis attack on Frank Gra
ham.) Keep up your good work.
.v.-.r.... ... :----.--I3ary Gilsoza