E TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 19.
Nice
p .a y
really has a Nose for getting response
out of a
Jones
crowd.
The Daily Tar Heel wishes to present him an honorary
trophy for services rendered beyond the yell of duty.
Thank you, Nose Jones.
fandsng Room Only
The Student Entertainment Committee is doing a good
job. . -
They have brought first-fate programs to the students on
this campus, at a tremendous bargain. A student pays about
$:20 to see concert which would probably cost him $2.50 at a
commercial theatre.
Last year, the SEC presented such artists as, Rise Stevens,
the Robert Shaw Chorale, and Oscar Levant. Eugene Conley,
Metropolitan Opera tenor, will begin the series this year.
However, only 1800 out of 5800 students are able to see
these programs. Memorial Hall is too small. THE UNIVER
SITY NEEDS A NEW AUDITORIUM.
Nonplus
by Horry Snook
by Barry Farber
Not Guilty
-Belgrade, Yugoslavia The
miniature republic of Litchten
steiri waved .us a fond farewell
as the train lurched to a sudden
halt at the Austrian border for
where the fun started. I've never
.'yet crossed an international
border according to Hoyle and
this time was no exception. It
seems' my visa was stamped
through the wrong zone, it was
outdated, nine tenths of my cur
rency was illegal, and my pass
port was slightly wrinkled. For
tunately there 'was nothing
wrong that couldn't be squared
away with a few Chesterfields
so I relaxed.
Things went remarkably well
for about ten minutes. Then the
train stopped at some backwoods
place I can't even pronounce and
two redcaps started lugging my
baggage onto a platform while a
smiling gendarme placidly ex
plained that "This is yesterday's
train and your tickets are for to
day's train which isn't due until -r
tomorrow. More Chesterfields
plus a small bottle of shaving
-lotion and peace reigned once
again throughout the Balkans.
As we n eared the Yugoslav
frontier the anxious Austrians
' began piling off the train as if
it were their laet ehanee to es
cape from a runaway streetcar.
Travel between Austria " and
Yugoslavia i virtually non-existent
and by the time we
reached border country the con
" duetor and I had the whole
train to otrrselves. We sat in a
' first class lounge and told shaggy
dog stories as the train creeped
: Jfrcan capitalistic Austria to com
munist Yugoslavia.
Alter breaefeing tke sacred
portals o the People's Republic!
of Yugoslavia ' we stopped and
there entered an officer of Tito's
border patrol dressed, in a
snappy blue uniform with a
huge red star on.-his' military
- cap. He noticed my green Amer
ican passport and smiled.
"You are Mr. Farber, per
haps?" he said with a Slavic
sneer.
"Yes.
"Are you sure you are Mr.
Farber?" he questioned sternly.'
I looked into a nearby mirror. ,
"Yes, I'm sure.
"Very well, L he continued
- noticeably relieved. "Permit me
' to welcome you to the Federal
Peoples' Republic of Yugoslavia.
"We've been expecting you and ;
hope you will enjoy your-stay
in our country. '
He gave me coupons good for
fhvee hot meals a day during
3By stay in Yugoslavia plus three
flasks of wine He also
sm tfc&ete to the opewa in j
L.Cf passport fftamp, and .
Letters "
Madam Editor:
I have very recently and very
forcibly been made to realize the
attitude of a certain segment of
the townspeople toward me as
a student. I wanted to rent a
house here in town. After I had
paid a deposit as an assurance of
good faith, the other party did
not feel bound to the agreement.
It seems that these people feel
that students are quite good
enough to come in to their stores
and spend money, but are not
qualified to live in the same
neighborhood with them.
I would like to say that I
wanted to rent the house on at
least a semi-permanent basis
and even went so far as to offer
The weary engine sneezed,
wheezed, and inched forward to
begin the night ride to Zagreb.
Your columnist recently had
an interview with himself.
As any good interviewer must
do, he tried to get answers for
those questions most likely to be
asked by the student body. Some
of the q'uestions and answers
follow:
Question: What does 'Nonplus'
mean?
"According to the dictionary,
nonplus' means a 'state in which
no more can be said or done;
quandry.' The word was chosen
as a title because it is short,
unusual, and has several impli
cations." . .
Question: What is the purpose
of Nonplus?
"A primary purpose of the
column is to provoke thought by
establishing points of argument.
Then, too, the column attempts
to highlight those areas in which
further thought and action is
usually desirable."
Question: Who writes Non
plus; is Snook a real person?
"Yes, I am a student. I write
all the nonplus columns no one
else is to blame for anything that
appears in the columns!"
Question: Why do you think
your opinions are worthy of stu
dent attention?
"Any opinion is worthy of
attention. Some of my opinions
might be good. All of them are
offered free. And in making
knowny my opinions, someone
else might be prompted to make
his known which results In all
to buy the house, but I was told
that they were not interested in
having students in the place.
Name withheld by request.
of us sharing our ideas."
Question: Do you consider
yourself an expert in some
fields? - . "
"Of course not. I'm just
another student expressing his
ideas in the, hope of provoking
some in. return. I do base my
columns on information pro
vided by those who are in:a posi
tion to know about various
fields. It often happens that
errors in my cloumns bring out
the experts, who seemingly are
unwilling to volunteer their
opinions publicly and: on levels
that all of us can understand."
Question:
bias?
Do you write on a
"Sure. Any writer does. Mine
.is deliberately exaggerated, al
though not at the expense of in
tegrity. In the first place, I want
a general readership, which is
not interested in neutral mater
ial or platitudes. In addition, I
try to put my ideas across in a
way so they are not subject to
ready acceptance, but to discus
sion." -
Question: Why are you so crit
ical; don't you think Nonplus is
somewhat negative in its
proach?
"Criticism is a keystone to
real, lasting progress. Civiliza
tion might be compared to a
building. If 'you are putting up
a building and don't see andre
place the rotten brick in the
foundation before you finish it,
your whole structure is weak
and likely to fall down at the
most inopportune time. By spot
ting and replacing the weakness
es early, you have a much firm
er base for your future, progress."-
,
. Question: But when you criti
cize, why don't you offer sug
gestions for improvement?
"I do. There has never been a
Nonplus without a direct or an
implied suggestion for improve
ment. Many times the sugges
tions are implied because it is
really up to : the student public
to decide the nature of the im
provements it wants to make."
Question: What's your person
al background? What do you
think of student readers? Why
have you chosen - such subjects
as religion and sex? Do adverse
Letters to the Editor disturb
you? What is your political posi
tion? "Those questions cover a lot
of ground. What do you say that
the answers to them' wait for
another column sometime?"
Check.
""iV , .n, .Jt
DAILY GROSS WORD
ACROSS
1. Incite
5. Asterisk
9. Entangle
W. Fray
12. Greatest
14. Crazy
slang)
15. Therefore
18. Telegraph
18. Network
19. Sick '
21. Nobleman
. 23. Negative
word
24. Prepare for
' publication
26. Aims .
28.Cleaning:
implement
30. Diocesan
center
31. Seesaw
34. Without tL.,
37. Hewing tool
38. Extent of
canvas
40. Abysa-
41. Shoshonean
Indian
43. Depart
45. Cobalt
(sym.)
46. Fruit
48. Higher
50. Follow
52. Clamorous
53. Believe
54. Let it stand
(print.)
DOWN
1. Not
numbered
2. Male sheep
3. Flourish
4. Girl's name
5. Senior
(abbr.)
6. Dancer's
cymbals
7. Acknow
ledge frankly
8. New
9. Girl's
. nickname
11. Wolvea
13. Snere
IT. God of love
20. A fruit
22. Falsehoods
25. Little
children 27. Kind of tide
29. Wampum
31. Color
of a
mole's coat
32. Stretch
33. Tumult
35. Best
36. Tale
39. Inclines
42. Comfort
44. Vent
47. Regret
REBEL! fiuSf O M A
8 R At-. IT 1 1 U f A
5 Off: "zHElEl
Tn NSTOppL1-
ZTT AftpOjA V T
A W A yriPIAIRIE.
f FT MpTr ATGpEJQiN
5T6 R IMA hp?
ijSsNlLilEfiSL,
. elr6y' Anwer.
49. Prevarica
tion 51. Type
measure
tst " 7
ST"" 7"""" 25" - """""" mm a7 """""" """""
4i 40. 77? A3 44- W 45
4T ' 47 "Z 46 T 49 :
yA I l-l-l 1 1 b
When Somebody Extra Special Has
"BIRTHDAY
OR YOU CAM AFFORD TO
SHOOT THE WORKS
Consider Life's Picture History of
Western Man Rockefeller could
not buy anything better, nobody
could find anything prettier, and
what's more, if the chick-a-biddy
has brains, this is authentic stuff
foi her to mull over! $10.00
The New Yorker Album is Swell
.Here is the cream of the cartoon
crop through thirty years of New
Yorker history. Adams, Arno, Bar
row and all that batch are here
for weeks and weeks of delightful
looking. And pal, you might look
with her. It should be a pleasure
in more ways-than one. $5.00.
The Rogers and Hart Song Book
Should Knock Her for a Loop-r-
Here, with music, words and com
ment, are the choice songs of
America's favorite sophisticates.
"My Heart Stood -Still," "Falling
in Love With Love," "It Never
Entered My Mind" You'll enjoy
singing them and, take it from an
ancient mariner, they don't hinder
romance! A top cut gift $7.50
Whatever your budget, books are
the beet gifts of aHi
AND YOUR RESOURCES
ARE LOW, BUT LOW
Try Collector's Editions They
look like something you'd find on
a millionaire's bookshelf, arid it's?
hard to believe they cost only a
buck. .
Matter of fact, not since oldPicard
dropped his purse in the strato
sphere' has a dollar bill gone so
far. as it goes in our bargain cor
ner. There are dozens of choices,
arid we'll never let the little lady
know the price, except in modest
advertisements like this one. -
Try Our il.49 ShYou'li I find
such titles as 'The Great Gatsby"
. or VBrideshead Revisited"; in real
ly impressiveeditioris' ;i
Try. the Peter ; Pauper Shelf
Books- of exquisite craftsmanship,
this series includes such appropri
ate titles as 'Tristran and Yseult
and "The .Love Poems .of Thomas
Carew." Cost only two little iron
men, but look" like more.
Try the Humor Table Gay books
priced from a dollar to $2.50, and
what else could you give the biddy
one half so precious as ah hour
of laughter? "
WHATEVER YOUR CHOICE, WE'LL THROW IN THE HAND
SOMEST GIFT-WRAPPING THIS SIDE OF THE NORTH POLE!
THE INTIMATE BOOKSHOP
Open Till 9:30
3
205 E. Franklin St.
j