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THE DAILY TAR HEED THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1951 by Barry Parber by Harry Snook PS 5 ff :'lSlII I la lb PAGETWO Glenn Harden Bruce Melton Oliver Watkins News Editor......... .David Buckner Business Office Manager .Jim Sehenck Society Editor Mary Nell Boddie Sports Editor ... Bill- Peacock Subscription Manager Chase Ambler Associate Editors .. Al Perry. Beverly Baylor Feature Editor . Walt Dear Advertising Manager Marie Costello Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Consider your honor as a gentleman of more weight than an oath . , ' r" ' - - ....Solon The Sorry Coffee The coffee at Lenoir is little short of an atrocity. Also-nt the Pine Room, the Monogram Club, the Carolina Inn, and the.Y Court. - - Why it this? For a while we thought that sweepings, old dishwater, or discarded soap flakes were getting into the Joe at the Univer-. sity-owned coffee stops. - Not so. It seems they are simply using a new concoction frozen coffee. This is in order to save money and time and effort. The authorities claim that this is even easier that the powdered, brands, and furthermore, that it cuts down on lines waiting while urns are refilled. It is our opinion that the lines are being cut down mostly because the caffeinds are going where they can get coffee that tastes like coffee, even if it costs a dime per cup. I he Silent Assembly The 15th -session of the North Carolina State' Student Legislative Assembly closed up shop Saturday afternoon like the proverbial arab and stole silently away. Nobody noticed. Which, to some lines of. thought, may be just as well. The old timers remember the good gate and the excellent press of past years, and wondered why. On reason will partially suffice. It had something to, do with the kind of people college students are getting to be. Time has labelled us The Silent Generation, and the name looks as though it . will stick. Certainly, the representatives oa "M a tt : c .i-u: 4. . - n.i jj. .i tuiicci) emu. uiuvcibiucs m uus SLcue meeting m xvaieigii this weekend, had little to say. There was no hot debate. There were no extreme left- wing mtrasuitis pcicu.. riuuauiy me iuusi nutrxai oi uie uius receiving the legislative nod was the UNC condemnation of Senator Joseph McCarthy. Past years have seen such widely known measures as the 5uddy clenn itesolution (which made the assembly inter racial), UNC's 1949 omnibus education bill, and the 1950 Atomic Energy bill. .If we are thinking these days, we are thinking right with our parents and our grandparents. The younger generation doesn't stir up comment, unless it has some younger ideas. Or maybe Time is right. Maybe we are just keeping quiet. The honorable Man In two preceding articles the subject of the Honor Code and Campus Code have been dis cussed. The first was designed to show that our Honor System is not a substitute for a proctor system to stop cheating, but rather, a fundamental principle on which our way of living at Carolina is based. In the second article specific information was given as to what constitutes an offense against this unwritten law. Assuming that now the average student knows what is expected of him in a negative sense, exactly what must he do if he sees an infraction of the Honor System. If you were to interrogate the majority of stu dents as to what they would do, the answer would be an almost unanimous, "I'd report him." If you'd further press your subject and ask him where would he report the violator, the percentage of correct ans wers would, in all probability, be far less than the percentage of blank expressions which would, testify to the fact that, "I never thought about that!" . The procedure for reporting was adopted in a joint meeting ; of the Men's and Women's : Councils with the Faculty Exe cutive Committee in 1948 and ! ; is as follows. "A student ob serving a violation of honon or ( having' - reasoii - to? suspect sucH 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. by BUI Pregnall a violation is obligated under the Honor System to see to it that the name of the student under suspicion and the circum stances involved are reported to the appropriate council. He may do. this either himself or by re porting the information directly to the council. If at any time a member of the council cannot be reached, students may ask the instructor, the Dean of Men, or the Dean of Women to ar range a meeting with a member of the council." There is no question that the honor system has been pervert ed in the minds of many stu dents. They think back to child hood when to tattle was to break faith with the gang. These im mature citizens of our commun ity have not yet realized the differences between childhood tattling and adult responsibili ties both to themselves and to their fellow man in a self -determining . democratic society. In childhood tattling an extern al authority was involved (teacher or parents). At. Caro lina the authority is seli-impos-ed. This internal authority is composed of students whom we elect to do our bidding. Thus, the situation is changed so that not reporting a violator is to break faith with the gang, and aowx iuic6uy. . Belgrade, Nov. 1 (Delayed) As you stroll down Belgrade's wide Red Army Boulevard you begin to realize that this game of international power politics is more complicated than canasta, . more puzzling than chess, and yet as simple as docrninoes. , In 1947 American planes were shot down over Yugoslavia. The Iron Curtain dropped over the Balkans and the United States was bitterly denounced as a "savage warmonger seeking to enslave the free peoples of the communist world." American . films, music, and cigarettes were purged as symbols of capitalis tic aggression. In other words, we were a pack of sub-zero slave drivers living in a coca cola culture which had con tributed nothing to civilization except the T-f ormation and the bubonic plague. - For a while things were just peachy. Marshal Tito drank toasts to the glory of the Soviet Union as coal poured into Yugo slavia from Poland, wheat from the Ukraine, perfume from Bul garia, and strict orders from Moscow. Then one day in 1948 Tito grew tired of shouting "gesund heit" every time Stalin sneezed. He split with- the Soviet and went into business for himself. The people of Yugoslavia were proud of this bold defiance of the Kremlin, . but pride isn't enough to fill stomachs and heat houses. Somebody had to play Santa Claus in a hurry and, as usual, this honor went to the XL S. A. Today Yankee tourists flood the sunshine resorts of .Dal- tevievs and Previevs Early in 1949, when most of the literary and cinematic world was dramatically impressed with a new version of "Hamlet" by Laurence Oliver a young actress, who seemed hopelessly doomed to 'flighty feminine roles for the remainder of her career, carried away the highest honor in her profession for portraying a deaf mute. Today, since this seems , to be the right time of year for making predictions, I am convinced that she will repeat her success and - become "the first lady of motion pictures". J ane Wyman has in her. eyes, he? voice, and her every expres sion the tenderness which was called for in the role of Louise in "The Blue Veil". This film, whidh I feel is the finest of the season, is . aimed at your heart strings, and if you are inclined to wee'p, I advise you to bring a handkerchief along. This film was made for one group of peo ple onty---human beings, and if you aren't human, don't see it! , Louise . Mason, a young war widdw, loses her new-borBehild, seeks employment, and startsv a , long life of being mother' to other women's children. First employedsby lovable Charles Laughton, Louise cares for his , 4 young son until Laughton remar ries From this situation she is r taken into Agnes Morehead's home as governess to an elder boy. Each time she leaves a new child, the .separation is harder ior her, the big test conies when ' Audrey Totter leaves her vounc son in Louise's care, and doesn't vuy r, grows up caJiihg'IJdaie 'matia while American aid piles high on the docks of Rijeka. Slavic feet again beat out the rhythm of Duke Ellington, Laurel and Hardy again pitch pies at the local-cinema, and Chesterfield, Philip Morris, and Lucky Strike, those round, firm, and fully packed ambassadors of the American way of life, once again blow mellow nico tine into Serbian lungs. . The Yugoslavs make no ra tionizations or excuses for their sudden change of heart toward Uncle "Sam. If you ask why Americans were expelled in '47 and embraced in '48 you'll get a simple answer. "Before our split with Russia the people of America were bloodthirsty de mons with horns and tails who exploited workers, ate their children, and worshipped sea weed. After the split we realiz ed that maybe you had your good points after all." The attitude toward America today runs something like this. "You prefer capitalism, we pre fer communism. So what? There's no reason ' why we can't inhabit the same planet without knocking heads." Still reality must be faced. Soviet aggressors are massing along the borders. Many people in tle West are reluctant to aid a communist nation. The de fense program needs more time, the soldiers need better arms, the wheat fields need more rain. The Red Bear licks his chops in the east. The friendly eagle has his hands full in the west. Yugoslavia is like an elephant dangling over a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy. by David Alexander 'mother', until the real mother returns with a new husband. Louise, when she learns that the mother plans to return, takes the boy away to another part of the. country. -The ending I will not disclose, since . therein lies the charm of the story. I will tell youthat see ing "The Blue Veil" left me with a good feeling arid with a some what more profound sense of ap preciation for a 'true mother'. BUY Christmas Seals . Help Fight TB Ooy . ; i n ' i x .Cfcrfctem 5c!s i through the courtesy of The Daily Tdr Hcol How now, Justice? r An old story illustrates how difficult justice can be. Back in the time when the gods and god desses ruled the earth, it was de creed that any man guilty of ly ing would hang that day. One bright morning an indi vidual appeared, who claimed loudly that he would hang that dayiIf he did not, then he lied nd must hang. But if he did Aang, lit; was iiu xicu, n"u biajka not! There is another popular story of how justice can find itself ia a dilemna. It seems as though a student signed up for a course in court room technique. He agreed to pay for the course if he won his first case in court. But when he finished hig course,, he went into an6ther field and didn't practice law. He refused to pay on the basis that he had not won his first case yet. So the wily instructor sued the student, thus forcing that young fellow into his first case. " Sad judge, the one that heard the case. If he ruled for the in structor, the student lost' the case and, by agreement, didn't owe the instructor. If he judged for the student, then the stu dent won the case but had to pay by the agreement! - Needless to say, the judge was nonplussed. The Mount Palomar telescope can see a distance of one billion light years. That's about a bil lion times six trillion miles, or 6, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000 milest Our solar system is part of a galaxy that's only about 120 thousand light years in diameter. There are an estimated 100-mil-lion galaxies within range of the Palomar Scope, most of which are brighter and larger than ours. v Now put a man in the eye of that concept! Letten Madame Editor: The concensus these days is that things cost too much. Every one yearns for the five-cent cigar, the nickle beer, the free lunch, and now you have asked for a five-cent Victory Bell in your editorial last Friday. Here at the University we have a perverse situation. In one instance I think perhaps we could afford a greater expendi ture. In place of the present five cent, certainly no more than two-bit, editor of the DTH we should have a least a dollarone. By undergoing this extrava gance, I; think perhaps people would be more satisfied and forget-about the expense. ' Faunileroy Leroy The cast is one of the most dis tinguished ever assembled, and though Miss Morehead appears for only two scenes, she does her usual fine work, Joan Blondell sings a "bouncy" version of the old timer, "Daddy", which is cur rently making a come-back as a result of this film. Everett Sloan, Cyril Cusick, Bon Taylor, Na talie Wood, are the othres in the cast. The film is a .Wald-Krasna pro duction for O., and plays tfye; Saturday late1 show, with d regular run starting Sunday, fit the - Varsity Theater. . . . .
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