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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1&51 I ill ! (i ,1 ' i. Mil ! i Hi ii! id I I ' , 1 I i 4 i -... j , , , 1 , . T . ' , ' ' . ' ' .f BBHBiMBMBIMMMMi tjDIiatp : peel Editor tcmaging Editor Glenn Harden . Bruce Melton Business Manager . Oliver Watkins business Office Manager ..Jim Schenck Society Editor . Mary NeH Boddie Shorts Editor Bill Peacock Subscription Manager.. Chase Ambler Associate Editors . Al Perry. Beverly Baylor 1- Walt Dear Feature Editor ' Advertising Manager News Kflitnr , , ...Marie Costello -David Buckner Tii ?f ll"nhomaK McDonald. Barbara Sue Tuttle. Clinton Andrews. rtpV1011 Long. Virginia Hatcher, Betty Kirby. Jody Levey, VS-wSi: RdL stermever, David Ro we .Marion Benfield. Jim Oglesby. ;r712?et,esb2t Betty Ahern, Wood Smethurst, Trueman Hon, Sue Burress. Bill Scarborough. Barty JDunlop, Jerry Reece. David Buckner, Varty Buckalew, Punchy Grimes. Bob Wilson, Jim Nichols. Paul Barwick. Bob Pace. Northart StaffZane ?Dins. Ken Barton, Alva Stewart. Eddie Starnes, Buddy Busi7iess Staff: .Flossie Kerves. Wallace Pridgeh, Gerry Miller, Richard Adel shem, Frank White and Robert Drew. Not every thing which the law allows is honorable . . .Legal Maxim : . Big Bell . . What we need on this campus is a good five-cent bell. And some pasteboard bell-towers for our enemy schools to practice their finger-painting on. x , Something nice and cheap and unimportant, see, so we won't have to have pitched battles between the two menager ies at Chapel College and Durham Institute, over something vital like our cast-iron bell. Comprehend? If we had some cheap replicas of the bell made up, we could pass them back and forth at every basket ball game and tennis match. Then we could have a couple of extras so the juveniles on the two campuses could lie, cheat, and steal bells to their heart's content. Not a bad idea, you know. We could have some more ex pensive ones (say about two bits worth) made to give to various' championship champions, for instance the current winner of the Graham Memorial Championship Ping-Pong Tournament, or the intercollegiate marbles champion. On the other hand, the poor individuals (mostly from UNC's big fraternity court) who have no other extra-curricular sports to participate in, might feel cheated if they couldn't defend the possession of Duke's victory bell and Carolina's sheep. Besides it's so much fun to bust teeth and draw blood. When it's over something important, that is. Will there be a retaliation to the retaliation to the retalia tion to the painting of the Bell Tower? Or will Duke students try once again to get our goat? Read tomorrow's paper for the next installment. Letters To The Editor Madam Editor: In regard to "Reviews and Previews" tritten by your movie- critic, David Alexander, in Tuesday's newspaper, we would like to suggest that you advise him not to antagonize the Daily Tar Heel's advertisers. It seems a bad policy to compare two motion pictures in the same community suggesting the pat ronage of one and not the other as he did in his review of "Gold en Girl" and "Two Tickets To Broadway." The impression that the reader gets when reading this article is that he should most certainly not waste his money on the movie, "Golden Girl", but instead should ex change his 42 cents for a ticket 'at the Varsity. If ever there was a slap in the face of one of your regular advertisers this seems to be it. ' And by the way, after seeing both movies, we can't see that one was so much better than the other. Carroll Berry and Woody Williams Madam Editor: t It has been brought to ray at tention recently that the behav-' iour and actions of our students is far from being as exemplary as it-should be. I am specifically referring to the behavior of the movie-goers at the Varsity The atre during the showing of "Lilli Marlene." We are now six years from' 'the end of the war with 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, 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. Germany, and yet we seem to be trying to relive the war. Some of the German exchange students who are our guests at the University were quite dis gusted after the movie; When the American soldiers appeared, the crowd clapped. There is nothing wrong with that. People are usually proud of the soldiers who represent their country, but when the German soldiers ap peared, the crowd thought it quite smart to hiss and boo. We should remember that the-Ger-mans fought first for their coun try, then for their families, and friends, but rarely for the ideas of Hitler; Certainly Hitler was the "leader" of their country, but after 'seeing the plunder, rape, and slaughter of the Rus sians, and other" invaders,' the German soldier was inspired to protect his country from such other occurrences. Contrary to popular opinion Hitlerism was not popular with the citizenship of Germany. The point I am trying to make is that the students of a country should be the elite of the coun try. Are I hissing and booing the actions we want our , guests to remember as being typical 1 of the best in America? You may be assured that these things will stand high in their memory. Can we American students learn to control our actions, learn to think before acting, learn to stop offending? I think we should. Don' Angell ' by Tommy Sumner iol There Is a group of men in this country who have a certain amount power. As are most such groups, they are striving to increase and extend v this power. They, of course, deny this. It is their claim that they ' want only such powers as are thrust on them by the presr sure of the times. However, they seem always careful to say or imply that the times are press ing now. . ' ' These men. to whom I refer are the Military. 'Now, at the mere mention of this term, the cry goes up that this nation has no military caste, that our army is an army of civilians, that it's - only purpose is to provide a defense against armed assault from without and armed rebel- lion from within. 'When I say "the Military" I have in mind a group of men, and the limits of this group are not sharply and plainly obser - vable, who think according to a certain pattern. . These men are molded in this way by many and varying cir cumstances, but the main in stitution dedicated to the pro duction of such men is the armed forces. The discipline laid on the men placed voluntarily or other wise in the service is designed to make men conform to these patterns. Anyone" who doubts the effectiveness of these meth ods on a man subject to thenT for an extended period needs only to look at the difficulties of readjustment -. of men who spent relatively short .terms under these influences, when they returned to civilian status after World War II. A wel, known illustration of the methods used in applying pressure to anyone under the control of the armed forces is the case of Captain Evans of the U. S. Navy who expressed a criticism of navy policies. He "lost his commission and was dis missed from the navy, not for criticising the government but for, "failing to clear his state ment through proper channels," before its publication channels which obviously would not have allowed the statement to cleared for publication. Anyone who is a member of the armed forces is just sort of ; a second class citizen anyway, especially if he is an enlisted man. Notice that term "enlisted man." It implies a man who has voluntarily assumed the status doesn't it? Quite the contrary in reality, vit designates a man . who has lost most of the rights and privileges which the gov ernment is designed to protect. When a person enters the ser vice he is immediately made subject to a code of law called the Uniform Code of Military Justice. This document bears some similarity to civil laws but is curiously arranged only for the enhancement of discip line. A man in the service may well be faced with the task, of carry ing out an order given by an . incompetent who holds his job" through politics. This order, may be stupid, unproductive," and dangerous to himself and others but he must carry it out or face a court martial. Of course, this court will ren- , der a fair verdict. It is composed largely of and always control led by officers who know that the maintenance of th?ir fav ored; position rests on the con- tinuance of the traditional caste system under which officers are right, and only ' officers disagree with' officers Riff . . by Joe. Did you hear the one about the guy who asked his girl for ' just one more kiss before going home, to which she asked, "What, on an empty stomach?" He then retorted, "Of course not, right where the last one was.' Or did you hear about the kid who went crying to her mommy that her pop had poisoned the cat, and when asked why she carried on so, she replied, "Daddy promised I could poison it?" Then there's the one about Lulu wondering whether or not a girl in a strapless evening gown was called a "bust-truster." x There was the personal ad in the DTH to the effect: "Lassie, come home; all is forgiven. It was the wet umbrella." I heard of a Chaplain who allowed a prisoner five minutes of grace, before walking the last mile. The. prisoner replied, "That's not very long, but send her in anyway." In looking through a humor magazine from another college I found that these were listed under the heading "Jokes," although at times there may arise some doubt. They may not convulse any of you far-too-few readers of mine into paroxysms of laughter, but they might start enough of a gentle titter to produce a few questions as to why Carolina is devoid of a The Maroon Madam Editor: Ever since the . news-break ' here announced the end of the term of office of Al Kimmel as Neditor of the University of Chi- -cago Maroon I've been meaning to write you some of the facts of the matter as seen by a new student here and an old student there. In the latest Tar Heels received here the. Campus Scene even summarized the nation- wide sympathy for Kimmel and the Maroon. So, I now take key ; in hand to give another view of the affair in hopes that some impressions may be changed a bit. For several years the editorial policy of the Maroon has been very near the (Communist) v party line, even on such issues of international affairs as the responsibility for the Korean War. It has followed the line that the United States was re sponsible for the failure to end the cold war and make a peace ful and happy world. In short, it has expressed and given vent to the views of only a small minor ity of the student body. This policy has been possible because of the way the Maroon is set up. It is in , the form of just another campus organiza tion, recognized by the univer sity, publishing largely on rev enues from advertising, and choosing its own officers. It is not a part of student govern ment, nor is it in any way re : sponsible to the student body. The Maroon is governed only by the wishes of the staff members and the constitution of the Ma room which the staff established. Last spring the dean of stu dents requested that the student organizaion take definite steps to make the election of the edi Raff humor magazine. A good chuckl is a necessary part of college days, and UNC inmates are be coming chuckle-less and chuckle less as days go on. "What tlys country needs is ft good Tarnation," was said by a local blue boy. I agree with nim, Of course, I realize I shall b knotting my own noose by th fulfillment of such a wish, and even though I've heard the phrase "no noose is good noose I belie'Ve, at the sacrifice of losing any reader I may have (notice I use the singular), we should gain a giggle from a school pub lication. Some people have said that The Daily Tar Heel is a laugh, Well, maybe it isn't, but we still need a Tarnation. Some folks get laughs from "Non-Plus" while others find themselves elated over discovering typo graphical "errors on our pages. Some have stated that "Non Plus" is a typographical error, but this is talk of social climbers trying to gain popularity through probing pointless tongs of criti cism at others. In our vain attempts to be funny maybe vc need an escape for our jabs "and jibes. There are a lot of good humo rists around this- campus; it's a shame their puns are restricted to lecture halls and student gov ernment rooms. Letters To The Edi Case tor a campus-wide matter and to establish in other ways the responsibility of the Maroon to the students. The student gov ernment, dominated by the vae tive left, did nothing at all. In the fall, Dean Strozier finally took action: In letters to Kim mel and to Student Government, Strozier fired Kimmel and sus pended publication of the paper until new elections had been conducted. There is no doubt Dean Stro zier acted in suspending and re moving without the authoriza tion of the student authorities. However, it is equally true that, Kimmel, the Maroon, and the inadequacy-inaction of the stu dent government gave him am ple provocation. One more aspect of the situa tion demands comment. Peti tions were circulated. In t h i s field, both sides got to work, and all students were faced with the results of the work. One petition attacked Strozier for his attack on student rights. The other en listed support for the dean, de claring it was about time some thing was done to remedy the Maroon's malady. The restiltss pro-Strozier, 1611; pro-Maroon, 239; this out of a student body of some 7,000. The overall consequences of the affray show remarkably lit tle change in the situation. Kim mel still writes and is given much play in the Maroon. Ma roon editorial policy is still left, of S center. Students still lack control over their vocal chords but such power, may be in the offing. The University of Chi cago still believes in and prac tices freedom for freedom's sake All is hctf lost; and much may yet be gained. Bill and Sally Maclde I i 5
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