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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1952 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., excepifMonday'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, 1379.- Subscription rates: mailed $4.00 per year, $1.50 per quarter; delivered $6.00 per year and $2.25 per i" quarter. o n Being Right : The Daily Tar Heel can be wrong, but it feels much better to be right. So when a stand taken by this newspaper is proven to be a pood oiie in retrnsneet. a little rrn win a mav Vie in v ' J- ' -J w w v w . . W W - : order. - . " . v ; - . . ; ; A while back, a lot of people were out after Coach Carl Snavely's job. We, who had been storming against too much football in the wrong places since early summer, came out big and bold on page one tostick by the Carolina coach. The Chicago Tribune the other day printed a. conversation between Snavely and Coach Ed Price of Texas, in which the two men agreed .that football is overemphasized. Snavely had said so once before, for the benefit of Life magazine. i According to the Tribune Price said, "The scoreboard is the reason for overemphasis on football when thousands of people come out for games every Saturday all over the coun try." iWhich was a close as he got to what we believe is the real fly in the ointment the alumni. r Even so, he also agreed with Price that "Overemphasis is not on football but on the, victory. "If victory is all that counts, it boils down to who's got the best boys or who's. doing the best job of recruiting." , Snavely also thought that some emphasis could be taken off football by abolishing the two platoon system, as it puts more pressure on the coach to develop winners because the system requires bigger squads and bigger squads require more money for football scholarships. Snavely disagreed with Price, who said that footballers should receive help only from parents and the school. The ' UNC coach liked, the way it works at Carolina, with help com ing from alumni or other interested people, by methods under control of the university. - V The only trouble with alumni-supported football is? as we have found out, that it rapidly becomes alumni-controlled football. We admit that football at this university depends on dough from the alumni but we have confidence in Carl Snavely. . We feel certain that he will not allow the football program here at UNC to be controlled by the alumni regardless of the support that they 'might wish to give. We are still for Snavely and will remain with him as long as he adheres to "the fine policies he has set forth and carried out. . Var On My Heels People from Western North Carolina "are ignorant. People from Eastern North Carolina are ignorant. People ' from the South are ignorant. People from the North are ignorant. It all depends on who you are, with whom you are arguing, and where each of you are from. Come of the most tragic cases, all true, can be cited to prove that people from every section are the most ignorant, back ward people in the . world. Being from Eastern No'rth .Carolina, I can look down my long, biased nose at the ignorant mountain people. My room mate can, and does, point tothe backward tenants and ' .Negroes of Eastern Carolina. Collectively when talking to a South Carolinian we say, "Th?nk God for South Caro lina." The South Carolinians :fmd some retort but remember our words to throw rt the Miss issippians. The Mi&sissippians can. prbbablyhfind some dirt ; to throw; at .people : from btner "state.; ' : ' ' : - Once, again, collectively, the people from South Carolina, North Carolina, and Mississippi forget their accusations at each other and curse the Norlhcrnes. We say they aw2 trying toyoph racsc the South.' The Notbern'orV have al;.ypy3 tried to opperj 1 1 Glenn Harden - Bruce Melton -David Buckner .. Rill Teacer-e ... Editor-in-chief Managing Editor News Editor Sports Editor Marv Nell Boddie : Soritv THriitnr Al Perry . Feature Editor Joe Raff . Literary Editor Beverly Baylor Associate Editor Sue Burress . Associate Editor Ed Starnes ... Assoc. Sports Editor Nancy Burgess Assoc. Society Editor Ruffin Woody Photographer O. T. Watkins ..- Business Manager Jim Schenk .. . Business Office Manager Marie Costello .... Advertising Manager Frank White ;. National Adv. Manager Chase Ambler Subscription Manager Neal Cadieu Circulation.. Manager. by Oiii C. Brown the South. The Northerners will continue to oppress the South. We seem to forget we try our damndest to oppress the North. The Northerners' most fre quently slung- mud is at ' the Southerners' treatment of the Negroes. Those poor people on whom we enflict every possible hardship. The Northerners for get that they enflict great hard ships on ; the Jews- They also overlook their Harlcms. It is so easy to forget the Har lems. It is so convenient to forget the Harlems. . Some people have said, the, Daily Tar Heel is a poor sub stitute ; for a .newspaper.; They would be the first to- howl if -they didn't get their DTII each morning. If I write on a non-controversial issue, then I have said no thing. If I write on a controver sial issue, I am a sensationalist. If I speak to people on the streets, I am a politician. If I don't speak to people 6n the streets, I am "stuck-up." : " Reaidless of what you do, there is someone to find 'fault with it. People have got f to be able,- to find fault with others. You, as a reader, have to find . "fault rwith my column because s!wIi2n lJ write a column that hits, j hor-?: rou must have some re ! iorl. I, as an Eastern ": North Not Guilty NOVI SAD, Nov. 6 You've heard a lot about the communis tic collective farms where sing ing comrades merrily till the soil, work to build the State, and live and love in a radiant at mosphere of Joy, Happess, s Friendship, Sunshine, and '. Health. Today it twas my good fortune ' to visit one of. these "Bliss Plantations located up on the Serbian flatlands so close to the Iron Curtain you can count the rivets. A fifteen minute hike from tne train station brought us to a sign which read, "You Are Now Entering The yanko Shmelik -PeoplesV Cooperative Farm. Workers of the World, Unite!" John Clews and I united to help a young peasant push his tractor out of the mud-and we proceeded across the meadow toward the frame white buildings. "The wheat fields may seem rather poor to you," warned Mit ka, "as this section of Yugo slavia is suffering from a slight drought." Slight drought! There're frogs in Serbia that haven't learned how to swim yet. And the wheat was so low you'd have to lather it before you could mow it. Later on I think we ate fourteen acres of corn at one sitting. We were met by the "freely elected farm advisor," a wispy Letters To Again, I call attention to a matter of public manners, which has been discussed in your paper before. I refer to the conduct of. certain people in local movie houses. I refer more specifically to these certain people iri the audience at the Carolina theater the past Sunday night. . Among the breaches of public manners to which I allude are, first of all, the incessant talking during the show, as well as the whist ling, booing, not to mention the On Campus The Ka Lea O Hawaii, Uni versity of Hawaii, tells of a bright frehsman coed, who, when asked what devices were used to liven up a certain article, promptly answered, . "De Vice president. . Carolinian, have to be ready with the most recent citeable data of, the ignorant Western Carolinians so I can protect my self from the most recent cite able data about the ignorant Eastern Carolinian. We of North Carolina have to be ready , with "Thank God for South j Carolina'' wHen an accusing ; finger is pointed our way. We of the South have to be able to point to the persecution of the I Jews and the Harlems of the i Torth when the Northerners fetart shooting off their mouth pbout the way we persecute the Negro.. The only way I can prove I am not an ignorant Eastern North Carolinian is by proving the Western Carolinians are most ignorant. Great proof that. But surprisingly it works. : ' - v " : - : " by Ba rry Fa thcT ' r little Serb named Mashie Shipit sa who punctuated his warm greeting with a fresh jug of warm brandy. Mashie proudly told us that his 5,000 acre Utopia employed 380 families and led north Serbia in wheat produc tion. Other crops were corn, sunflower seed, potatoes, and. . wine; . ' ' - Mashie was quick to point out the "vast differences" between life on his farm and that of a Russian collective. (Yugoslavia violently divorced the Soviet Union in 1948, at which; time . Uncle Sam suddenly became a "good kid" and everything Rus- sian became slightly less popu lar than cancer of the kidney.) It seems that collective farms in Russia are controlled by the State and workers are forced to eat in the community mess hall and live in standardized dwell- , ings. Mashie-explained that the Yanko Shmelik Co-op is run by the "People" and each peasant is free to set up housekeeping to suit his own tastes. Then Mashie asked us if we'd care to hear the workers sing and we said we'd love to. He barked afew commands and a dozen peasants filed out of the wine pressery, joined hands to express solidarity, and then went into their routine which Mashie The Editor gaucheries of pop-corn and gum chewing. I once thought that these' lapses of good taste were limited to the bobby soxers, freshmen, and', sophomores. But after several years in Chapel Hill (the cultural center iof the New South and don't forget the "new"), I find that at leasone of these violations of good .manners is indulged in by some people who, would not hesitate to call themselves Chapel Hill ians. These enlightened people feel obliged to furnish along with the movie a running, vocal commentary. As you would ex pect, such commentary is on a very high critical plane, ob viously intended to show the sophistication of these cosmopo litan people. The opposite results when their ignorance is too ob vious to ignore. The Sunday night movie is a case in point. One might expect that such edu cated people would know enough about the history of their own country to recognize it when dramatized, but perhaps-that is expecting too much. It is not too much to expect, however, that these same cultured people should have good breeding enough to remain quiet and let others be "misled," Such, how ever, is not the case in Chapel Although whistling, booing and its related gaucheries may be more juvenile than this sophisticated "criticism," those evidences of progressive educa tion are more easily forgiven. ' If these self-appointed critics are so aesthetically pained by the! plebeian movies, they can easily 5 whip up a concert, symphony, or even a play to amuse them selves, and leave the movies to those people who chose to pay good money to see them and to decide about their artistic merit in SILENCE. , . Name withheld by request. "N&t Guilty" continues with Father's delayed reactions to his v'isit with Tito in Yugoslavia last Fall. By March' or April we expect to be bringing you his thoughts on the Christmas season. Editors, described as "a harmonious se lection of Serbian folk ballads.' It sounded like a band of gyp sies, trying to hang a billy goat but just the same we applauded and begged for more. When the concert was over Mashie's wife rolled Out a barrel of spicy vino and invited us to play a tradi tional Serbian folk game. The rules are simple. Everybody says something nice about Tito, then drinks and drinks and , drinks and the last man standing has to-take the others home and . put them to bed. Fifteen minutes- and eight mugs later Mashie noticed that poor Clews was purple so he tactfully remarked, "Perhaps you'd like to go over to the Com munity Reception Hall and hear some of-the history behind the ' Yanko Shmelik Peoples' Co- op z Clews woke me up and off we trotted. s , (To Be Continued) by Rolf o Tcylorl Ram eses The Queen City Coach Com pany is a failure as a public carrier. Fie upon it. Dogs, vile infidel dogs. Until you have ridden the old .11: 15 express from Raleigh yon can't appreciate the gripe against the aforementioned, alleged bus company. Until you have walked from the deserted bus station on the western frontier of Chapel Hill, (at 1 a.m. in the rain) can you appreciate the sadistic personalities of the bus drivers. One night last week I was bouncing along in a creaky, pre war (Battle of Hastings) model of the Carolina Coach Co. It was the express bus and those boys just naturally . won't stop except at the bus stations. But a fella dressed like a marine pulled the cord and the bus wheezed to a stop, A Negro woman with two small children jumped up from the rear and asked politely if she could off there also. The bus driver uncoiled his whip, gave a high-pitched laugh and said, "Hee hee, only com pany employees can stop an ex Press bus, Hee hee." i,wnd f triflinS bus tL th? won,t let people off the bus? When the Negro wo man wanted off when the bus door 3 COmpIete stop and the door was open. .Could she get off? Nope. Express bus. Stops only at stations. When we got to Chapel Hill at 1 a.m the bus station was at its usual dark location-a full mile from any of the University dwelling facilities. Tve seen the time I could spit on my dorm room window. One night I called up from the bus and told my roommate to come and get me at the bus sta tion. Could I get, off? Nope. Ex press bus. Stops only at stations. .Now the gist of this is why in the h can't this alleged bus company make two stops in Chapel Hill. I reckon the other passengers wouldn't mind; in fact, the regular patrons would like it. They wouldn't have to hear heart f tearing , pie? and wild threats to kick r , ' - : . emergency door.
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