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THE DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1953
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The official student publication of the Publications Board of the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published. daily
except Saturday, Monday, examination and vacation periods, and dur
ing the official summer terms. Entered as second class matter at the
post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub
scription rates mailed $4 per year, $1.50 per quarter; delivered, $6 and
$2.25 per quarter.
Editor :
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Sports Editor
News Ed. Bob Slough
Sub. Mgr Carolyn Reichard
Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Delaine Bradsher
Office Mgr. Buzzy Shull
Assoc. Ed .Nina Gray, Jane Carter
EDITORIAL STAFF A. Z. F. Wood, Jr., John Gibson, Dorman Cordell,
Dan Duke. .
NEWS STAFF John Jamison, Louis Kraar, Tom Parramore, Ellen
Downs, Jennie Lynn, Jerry Reece, Sara Leek, Ben West, Jim Wilkin
son, Jess Nettles, Sally Schindel, Manning Muntzing, Jay Zimmerman,
Dave Herbert.
SPORTS STAFF Vardy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Melvin Lang, Everett
Parker, John Hussey, Sherwood Smith, Al Long, Dick Crouch, Benny
Stewart, Wilbur Jones. .
Night Editor for this issue: Dorman Cordell
Weighed, Found Wanting
A plague upon your house, Carolina.
So could a Wake Forest man justly say after our disgusting
student body conduct at the Tuesday night basketball game.
We won the game, it is true, and thereby taught the Deacons
a lesson on the court, but we gave plenty of evidence to indi
cate that we have a long road to travel before we can teach
them or anyone anything whatsoever regarding sportsman
ship, friendliness, or even civility.
The time has come indeed it is long overdue for us
to stop living on the laurels of our past greatness on the field,
on the court, and in the spectator stands; we must re-orient
ourselves to reality and accept the only conclusion possible
on the mob hysteria and asininity of Tuesday night as being
totally foreign to what we like to think of as the Chapel Hill
way of doing things.
The bitterness, the booing, and the vociferous condemna
tion of the opposition players when attempting foul shots, and
of the referees for decisions against us, was below and beyond
the meaning of the word "disgraceful;" it was not only ex
tremely unsportsmanlike but almost uncivilized.
The sense of hatred was such that one felt he could but
take a knife and carve out a sample for documentary evidence.
It is now obvious that the sweet and sugary talks and speech
es and articles about sportsmanship have accomplished a little
less than nothing around here. What this student body clear
ly needs as more acid and less sugar; more talking to and less
talking back; more responsibility and less stupidity.
We could perhaps salvage some consolation from the event
if we could say that most of the booing and downright un
pleasantness was the product of an un-indoctrinated freshman
class, which will soon fall in line with the upperclassmen.
But such was not true for the bearded and beardless alike
were too much alike in their animal-like hysteria.
Fortunately, however, the season is not yet over- We can
show a better facet of our university, and thereby of our
selves, if we but THINK, when we entertain other teams and
student representatives down Woollen way in the weeks ahead.
This is not something to which we can pay half-hearted sup
port in our daily avtivity, yet completely ignore as if we were
several thousand Mongol idiots at a ball game, when the op
position gets a break.
Now, this university has received a great deal of criticism
at various times in the past, and there are those in the
state who want to "Straighten out things in Chapel Hill."
It is not idle speculation to say that performances such as
the one Tuesday night will give them ample reason to look
closely, and suspiciously, at Chapel Hill.
No one expects much less desires 'that the students be
come Silent Cal Coolidges at the gym. The spirit and support
given the squad was quite pleasing to the ear, and the cheer
leaders should take a bow for their splendid acceptace of
rulings against Carolina infractions and Wake Forest foul
attempts would have been equally splendid.
Wnd so, students, we have been weighed in our hospitality
and sportsmanship and found wanting. What do YOU plan
to do to even up the scales?
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Party Line
The intricate mechanism of stu
dent government was given a
thorough oiling last Thursday
night.
Wheels began rolling with the
swearing in of 39 new legislators,
a speech by Ham Horton and the
introduction of eight bills. It was
a smooth running session and, for
a change, something was accom
plished. Wade Matthews (UP-SP) intro
duced a bill to "look into the posr
sibilities" of unlimited excused
cuts, and unlimited unexcused
cuts when a C average is main
tained. Although it may cover
some politico's platform with rose
petal covered planks, it's not the
kind of bill that will really ac
complish anything.
, If the bill, which so generally
states it will "look into the pos
sibilities", was passed, it would
do "nothing. The administration
would hardly consider the sug
gestion, and if they did, class
rooms would be as empty as Y
court on Sunday.
Students would not get those
extra cuts. But it might glorify
the party sponsoring the bill.
Other bills, more practical and
a lot less ridiculous, were intro
duced by the same party, the Stu
dent Party. Among them were
moves to consult the administra
tion on the telephone situation in
dorms, to see about soundproof
ing dorms and to amend the gen
eral elections law so sample packs
of cigarettes would be included
in candidates expense accounts.
Perhaps a little more lubrica
tion thru compromises will give
Legislature the momentum that
it deserves to have. The students
are waiting.
POUNDING THE BEAT: Secretary-Treasurer
Ed Gross (UP) tak
ing time out from budget duties
to speak to Gastonia high school
ers on the Honor System . . . Stu
dent Party partying at Watts in
their annual wingding . . . Uni
versity Party revamping steps un
derway with new chairman Walt
. McFal at the helm . . . SP's favor
ite son, Ken Penegar, fluently or
ating to Di fans . . . and the fight
against Saturday classes is still
on.
Chinese students in America
are ' caught between two govern
ments. Recently the United States
government banned Chinese stu
dants majoring in science and
technology from leaving the coun
try. The law, passed to prevent
American - trained Chinese stu
dents from being of service to
Communist China, makes it im
possible for many of the students
to return to their famiies in their
homeland. Some of the students
don't want to return anyway, for
they have heard that American
trained Chinese find life difficult
in Red China. At the same time,
these students know they will
have trouble getting good jobs in
America. Those with M.D.'s are
refused permission to practice in
most states. Result: many highly
trained Chinese students are do
ing menial labor.
History instructors shouldn't
wave their, hats -when the Presi
dent of the United States drives
by. That's what a University of
Minnesota history instructor
learned recently from an FBI
man at his elbow.
The instructor was standing by
his car waiting for President Tru
man's car caravan to pass. When
it did, the instructor smiled
broadly and started to wave his
hat.
Suddenly a "big, burly" FBI
man stepped up and poked his
elbow into his ribs preventing
him from raising his arm. The in
structor backed away and started
to wave again. Again the elbow.
By this time the President had
passed. Said the instructor: "I'm
hurt."
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Many of the department's branch
offices, which are staffed with per
sonnel of the Carolina Motor Club,
will be closed too, the commissioner
stated.
Auto and truck registration nor
mally tops the one million mark be
fore the end of January according
to registration officials. If sales
continue as slowly as they have
clerks will be unable to cope with
the rush ' on the last day or two
before 1952 plates become invalid.
Motorists driving with last year's
tag on Feb. 1 will be violating the
law, Commissioner Fisher declared.
"The President Of
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John Gibson
PULQUE
Last fall the Republicans prom
ised to reduce the vast and "un
necessary" expenditures made by
the Democrats. They began this
process of fiscal belt-tightening
last Tuesday by holding the first
million dollar inauguration in
history. Doubtless they will coii
tinue in the same spirit. They
have, after all, a 20 year record
to beat, and there is no assur
ance hey will have that much
time to spend. (That's a pun,
son.)
The Democratic plumber who
is now secretary of labor is not
the only stray in the Republican
administration, though there are
not many. A big shake-up has
taken place in the government
sign painting office A pre-elec- -tion
pro-Republican who turned
out all those "It's Time for A
change" jobs has been summarily
canned, and the new chief is a
Democrat who thought up all
those "Don't Change Horses" and
"Stick With What You've Got"
slogans.
Last week'l decided to take the
bull by the horns, and went down
town to get my copies of the 1952
tax forms, both state and fed
eral. The national government
has simplified things a great
deal with the form 1040A, or is
it 4010B? At any rate, the gen
eral principle of the thing is that
you send the government all the
money you made last year, and
they send you back whatever they
feel is yours.
Two new changes have been
made in the 1951 return. First,
the rate has been bumped up
some 2, and to off set that the
name of the central office has
been changed from Collector of
Internal Revenue, to Dirtctor.
Big deal.
But those state taxes, they re
ally take the prize. North Caro
lina is a very progressive state.
It has copied many good fea
tures of many other states. It has
also adopted every single kind of
tax ever made by any other state.
There is the county tax on tangi
bles, and the state tax on in
tangibles. Whatever is left goes
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to the state gasoline taxes, un
less it goes to the city taxes. And
so on.
All this makes life very hard.
For example, a student here at
Carolina, Ray Newnam by name,
was faced with a very important
decision the other day. In flip-,
ping the quarter, he succeeded
in plopping it in the only open
drain pipe within 100 yards of
where he was standing. Now,
this is his problem. Does he de
duct this two bits from his tax,
and if so where? From schedule
H, Business Expenses? (He lost it
in the persuance of his duties as
a student.) From schedule J,
Contributions? (The twenty-five
cents is now somewhat unwill
ingly the property of the Uni
versity of Nortk Carolina.) From
schedule M, Other Deductions?
(This is a catch-all category, and
the drain pipe certainly rates as
a catch-all.) Any one with the
solution to this problem is en
couraged to write in the answer.
Address all letters to TAX, of
the Daily Tar Heel. Your in
formation will be forwarded to
the proper party. Ray can al
ways be found at proper parties.
As for myself, I now find that
had I not been in the blissful
state of happy singleness last
year, I would have saved about
$99.00 on my federal income tax.
Therefore, any young lady who
can live on $95.00 per year (I
would like to show a little profit)
and would like to help remedy
this situation is cordially invited
to write to the author of this
column. Address all replies to,
SUCKER, Daily Tar Heel.
A professor of sociology on
campus was lecturing on the so
cial customs arid sex habits of a
certain African tribe. Two young
and flustered freshmen, unable to
bear the embarrassment any long
er, attempted to make an unno
ticed exit. Just as they were
about to leave, the professor, try
ing to hide a devilish grin, called
after them, "Don't go now girls,
the boat doesn't leave until Monday!"
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Express-
Editor:
Last Friday there appeared an
article in The Daily Tar Heel, en
titled "Making History." It stated
that "even at UNC, the majority
of historians or would-be-historians
(instructors) fit, into the
stereotyped pattern," which had
previously been defined as "a
dried-up, absent-minded, bespec
tacled old gent who spends his
life in musty old manuscripts
and doesn't know what it is to
watch the sun come up over the
ocean." Why do historians fit this
pattern? "I believe part of the
answer is that historians as a
group are the lousiest writers on
the face- of the earth." In sup
port of this the author referred
to an account of the Third Cru
sade, condemning its literary
quality vigorously, without nam
ing its author or the title of his
work. Further, the author of
"Making History" cited an in
stance in which a professor had
changed slang into literary ex
pression on one of the author's
term papers.
"Making History" is highly
critical in its approach; ft would
seem only fair, then, for this let
ter to attempt to show another
side to the matter.
First, he reasoning in "Mak
ing History" could be improved
It does not necessarily follow
that part of the reason that a
man is ludicrous lies in the fact
that he is a poor writer. If this
were true, most of the human
race would be laughed to scorn.
Secondly, the author's observa
tions are incomplete and some
what inaccurate, as well as
biased. This is the heart of the
matter, for it appears that the
conclusions reached by the ar
ticle are only rationales for in
troducing their supporting evi
dence. Very possibly, for reasons that
will appear presently, the author
of "Making History" chose his
passage about the Third Crusade
from a textbook. Contrary to
thought in some quarters, his
torians write other types of read
ing matter than texts, and when
they, sit to compose a text they
are faced with many difficulties,
not the least of which is abridg
ment. Most texts cover large
spans of time; descriptive . pass
ages must therefore be cut to the
barest essentials. But "Making
History" deplores "dull naked
facts." Such dissatisfaction would
.give heart to most any professor,
for if the student can be moved
to go outside the text for addi
tional information, the professor
has succeeded in one of his aims.
And with practically no excep
tions, any man, war, battle, reli
gion, or philosophy mentioned in
a text will be adequately treated
in other works. Back to the mat
ter of dull texts: some are not
dull; Professor Beard has pro
duced very readable texts, and
Growth of the American Repub
lic by Morison and Commager is
interesting, to cite only three au
thors who have produced other
than "dull naked facts" in text
form.
The author complained that his
choice of words was questioned
by a professor in examining a
term theme. Now slang and col
loqualisms have their place in
the language. They are the life
blood of any live 'and growing
language. But their value in a
term paper is small. One of the
purposes of such writing is to
develop in the student the ability
Yourself
to communicate his thoughts to
an audience of wide and varied
background; he must learn to
confine his choice of words to
those whose meaning is clear to
anyone who might read them, re
gardless of his age or locale, as
suming only an above-average
amount of formal. education.
It would not be out of place
at this point to mention the
names of a few historians who
have managed to combine read
ability with erudition and a use
of the English language that even
a grammarian could not criticise:
Prescott: his story of the con
quests of Peru and Mexico by
the Spanish is a classic; Parkman:
his account of the French in
Canada is full of details of the
personal lives of his characters;
Macaulay: his history of England
has a graphic description of the
beheading of Charles I. These
three are the greatest of a whole
body of men, "the literary his
torians," who believe that his
tory should be .readable, and
have made it such.
As to the stereotype of history
professors: there is one thing
that sets a professor off from
his fellow mortals, and only one;
otherwise professors have no
other oddity or genius that can
be detected by one who knows
not that he gazes on a "prof": In
almost all other fields men think
in order to act; in teaching men
think for the sake of thought
alone. But this does not make
them "rare birds." The present
author knows professors who
have such "regular" hobbies as
photography, tennis, golf, farm
ing. Most professors seem to en
joy life and living.
There are men and there are
men. Some can write; some
can't. Some can speak well; some
can't ' Some are gregarious; some
aren't. Professional historians
are no exception, but most of
them know a litte more about
what has happened to the race
in years gone by than other men,
and most can pass this knowl
edge along. As long as people
ask questions about the past,
there will be historians to an
swer them, and survival of tha
fittest will eliminate thoie who
are uninformed. Those who are
informed but uninteresting will
find popularizers. Take heart, ye
citizens! Rigor mortis and his
torians have not joined forces,
foul villains to the contrary!
D. Allen Stokes, Jr.
Other Campuses
Students go to college 14 days
out of every year, according to
the Southeastern at Southeastern
State College, Oklahoma. Here's
how the paper figures it:
Out of 365 days a student sleeps
away a third of this 8 hours a
day. This leaves 243 days. Then
there are 52 Sundays. Take at
least half an hour per day for
lunch and three months for sum
mer vacation.
This leaves 91 days.
Now subtract 52 Saturdays, a
couple of weeks for Christmas va
cation; throw in spring vacation
and the Thanksgiving weekend.
We're left with two weeks of
school each year.
Scholastic CosI
From the Varsity News, Univer
sity of Detroit:
I serve a purpose in this school
On which no man can frown
I quietly sit in every class
And keep the average down.
K