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THE DAILY TAR HEEL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1954
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Don't Bother To Call
"Miss Name Withheld By Request," a
former WC student who is now a Carolina
coed, hurt rather than helped the cause of
her sister coeds in the letter she wrote to The
Daily Tar Heel on Friday.
"Whenever a coed is asked for a date,"
she writes, "chances are it won't be the only
invitation. The few of us who do date are
quite popular. With lots of chances, some
girls are bound to change their minds."
In defending a coed's breaking a date
(which is evidently what she means by
"changing their minds"), Miss X illustrates
the very reason why some Carolina men are
unhappy about the attitude of some coeds
here.
We're, thankful that coeds in Miss X's
category who blithely break dates just be
cause something better has come along, and
who think it's perfectly natural to do so
are in the minority in hapei Hill. We
wouldn't give the Miss X's a second chance
to break a date with us.
So Few For So Many
"Teaching is a noble profession," one of
the best in the business said recently in an
offhand remark. "You would do well," Prof
Hugh Lefler told his North Carolina history
class, "to consider it."
Later we read what had been told the
American Association of School Administrat
ors, meeting at Atlantic City, N. J.
The public school teacher shortage is the
main problem facing American education, the
administrators heard. And the coming year
will be the most critical since the close of
World War II. The schools need 150,000 new
teachers and only 75,000 are available. In
addition, this year the schools have empolyed
72,000 emergency or sub-standard teachers.
By i960 we will need 900,000 classroom
teachers. At the present rate of training there
will be a shortage of half a million. As high
school enrollments begin to grow, the short
age of teachers there is beginning .to get
serious in certain fields. Within two years it
will become critical, with mathematics and
the sciences expected to be the most serious.
The shortage was blamed on low salaries,
a lack of professional recognition and exces
sive work-loads.
Another deterrent, perhaps, is the over
lapping curriculum of education schools.
Saddled with about 50 more education
courses than needed, the prospective teacher
may consider it not worthwhile to give up,
electives to go through the education schoof
grind. -
The problem of education is education.
Education, we mean, of the public to the
need for more teachers. Tell the people about
the poor wages, then have the people do
something about it. (The program of com
municating to everyone this deficiency of
teachers and the ways in which to cure it
would be an excellent project for educational
TV when the University starts telecasting
next fall.)
Meanwhile, we encourage students who
want to contribute something to their state
to follow Prof- Lefler's advice: "Teaching is
a noble profession; you would do well to
consider it." 'iv
Tar Heel
At Large
Chuck Hauser-
AN AFTERNOON of entertain
ment in the atmosphere of a
minor league United Nations is
scheduled for 3 o'clock today in
Graham Memorial's Rendezvous
Hoom. The Cosmopolitan Club is
the sponsor of the open house,
and I imagine the proceedings will
be right interesting. Club mem
bership, by the way, is not limit
ed to foreign students, so I'm
told, and you folks from Turkey
and Oriental, N. C, are just as
welcome as you folks from Tur
key and the Orient. Yankees in
vited, too.
-A"
SAM SUMMERLIN, local boy
who made good in a big way
with' the AP in Korea, reminded
me the other day of the what I
consider the best story to come
out of the war: The tale of the
American PW who, when shown
a "germ bug" by the Communists
to prove their charges of U.S.
germ warfare, picked up the in
sect and swallowed it. The Reds
rushed him to the PW camp in
firmary, but nothing happened to
him. "A great propaganda victory
for us," Sam commented.
HEIGHT of Something or Oth
er Dept: At Cornell, a professor
refused to conduct a class in a
building named for a man (long
dead) whose theories he did not
agree with.
AND AT STANFORD, so the
story goes, there was a coed who
consistently got into her dorm
late (this started when she got
pinned). She finally hit upon the
perfect plan for getting into the
building after the door was lock
ed: Her roommate lowered her
pajamas and slippers out their
window on a rope, the girl chang
ed into thtm, and the roommate
hauled her clothes back up on
the same rope. Then the room
mate set up a cry that someone
had fallen out a window. The
housemother herself helped the
"fallen" coed back inside. The
story doesn't tell us whether they
got away with the trick more than .
once.
HEADLINE in The Daily Tar
Heel says, "Middlebush Tells
Confab Of University's Purpose."
I'm glad somebody's figured it
out
, THE PROPOSAL that all fra
ternities on campus have house
mothers is not new. In March,
1946, the Women's Honor Coun
cil sent a letter to University
President Frank Graham recom
mending that all house have
housemothers. The Council felt
the move would improve conduct
generally on campus. It's not a
bad idea, and as I said once be
fore, the first step toward a
change in the coed "Visiting A
greemenV is to install house-
mothers in those house which do
not now have them.
TWO LAMBDA CHI's were
overheard the other morning dis
cussing the giant-sized Turkish
flag which was hanging on the
front of the ATO House in honor
of President Bayar's visit. Said
one to the other: ,"I wonder if
that fellow really did spend the
night there . . ."
THOSE FOLKS who keep Gra
ham Memorial humming are look
ing mighty happy these days.
Reason, of course, is that the pro
posal to raise the student union
portion of the block fee is vir
tually assured, which gives the
)GM people a chance to put on a
real activities program for the
student body. The fee raise
should come up for voting in the
Legislature next Thursday.
THE OLD TIMER says he can
temember the days when he'd
read the word "billion" in print
land think it it was a misspelling
of a thin soup.
Before the Flower pi Friendship
Faded Friendship Faded. Ger
trude Stein.
Poetry is what Milton saw when
he went blind. Don Marquis.
A Lie For A Lie?
CPU Roundtable-
Washington Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Here is a con
densation of the inside story of
what. We are doing or not doing
; regarding Indo-China. It is a
story of Freeh suspicion coupled
with American indecision, and
the net result is likely to be loss
of the richest tin and rubber area
in the world to Communism.
A lot of Am
ericans walked
because rubber
was scarce in
World War H,
and a lot of
others collected
old cans and
tooth-paste tub
es because tin
was scarce. Now
PEARSON the vital area
which supplies these essentials is
in just as much jeopardy as dur
ing the days when Japan occupied
Singapore.
Here are some of the chapters
in the story:
Syngman Rhee offers to renew
War President Syngman Rhee's
offer to send one South Korean
division to fight in Indo-China
was only part of the message
which Gen. John E. Hull brought
to the White House. Most im
portant part of the message was
that Korea wanted to resume the
war in order to divert the Chin
ese military from the Indo-Chinese
border.
Rhee proposed to Ike, through
General Hull, that South Korean
troops do all the ground fight
ing if war was resumed. What he
wanted was help from the U.S.
Air Force and Navy. Rhee argued
(that seven Chinese divisions had
been taken out of Korea, so he
could easily crack the new ce-ment-and-steel
Communist de
fense line.
Originally Rhee proposed going
direct to the French with his
idea, but General Hull persuaded
him to wait until .Eisenhower
himself had a chance to consider
it
President Eisenhower was not
.enthusiastic. The last thing he
Wants is to start the Korean War
over again. It is recognized that
the end of the Korean War made
it possible for the Chinese to di
' vert tremendous amounts of sup
plies to Indo-China, but Ike just
doesn't want to get mixed up in
iKorea again anyway.
Mechanics to Indo-China one
trouble with U.S. policy regard
ing Indo-China is lack of coor
dination. One" branch of the gov
ernment doesn't know what the
others are doing. -
Admiral Radford, for instance,
slipped in to see President Eis
enhower by himself and arrang
ed for the sending of 250 air
plane mechanics to help the
French. This was a vitally im
portant decision. Yet the cabinet
didn't know about it, the Nation
al Security Council didn't know
about it. Finally, secretary of De
fense Wilson, who is supposed to
run the Defense Department, did
n't know about it.
It was even a surprise to Gen.
Nate Twining of the Air Force,
who had to supply the 250 air
plane mechanics for Indo-China.
Hit-and-Miss Policy This
free-and-easy method of making
decisions regarding the most vital
'battle area in the world contin
ued after Congress began to raise
Cain about the 250 mechanics.
Senator Saltonstall, chairman
of the Senate Armed Services
Committee, phoned the White
House and got Gen "Slick" Per-'
sons on the phone. "There ought
to be a cut-off date for these
mechanics in Indo-China," he
said, explaining he .wanted to as
sure Senators that a date was fix
ed for the mechanics' return to
the United States.
"Maybe you're right," replied
Persons, who handles White
House liaison with Capitol Hill.
"What date would you suggest?"
(he asked.
Senator Saltonstall said he
thought June might be a good
cut-off date.
General Persons agreed.
"All right, then we'll say June
15," he concluded.
Thus, in a completely casual
manner, it was decided to bring
the mechanics home on June 15.
The Air Force was not consulted,
the Cabinet was not consulted,
the French were not consulted.
AH General Persons did was
phone the Pentagon and give or
ders for the mechanics to come
home by June 15.
French Recalcitrance Part of
the Administration's troubles in
Indo-China, however, stems from
French suspicion and reluctance.
The French are worried sick that
too much American cooperation
will give the Chinese an excuse
to pour troops across the border
by the hundreds of thousands, as
in Korea. So far, Communist in
tervention has been confined
chiefly to munitions and supplies.
' . The preservation of our values in the present
war for the minds of men is a problem that concerns
us all. Indeed future generations will be concerned
and affected by the degree to which we will sac
rifice present and historic ideals in the conflict with
Communism.
For example, will we for propaganda purposes de
lay the application and execution of military justice.
The hue and cry goes up to fight fire with fire and
tarianism-and lose the fight even in the winning of
so we become totalitarian in order to oppose totali
it. If the tactics of the inquisitor from Wisconsin are
the accepted Democratic procedure in answer to the
challenge of Communistic ideology, we have already
lost an important battle if not the war.
If we adopt the principles implicit in the code of
Hammurabi (an eye for an eye and a tooth for a
tooth) against Communists in this country because
Americans are similarly treated elsewhere, we have
lost both our own principles and our prestige in the
eyes of the world. We appear little better than the
Communists if we use their methods no matter how
noble our avowed ends. Our propaganda should not
he "A lie for a lie and a truth for a truth". We
should not accept the Communistic practice of tak
ing action against relatives and friends of a person
at issue with the state.
Those with faith in our cause firmly believe in
Democracy's ability to hold its own and ultimately
triumph in the open market place of ideas and the
world court of public opinion provided it is open
and freedom of communication prevails so the
whole truth (not the part truths and half truths of
the propagandists) may be disseminated.
One of our greatest dangers lies in the blind
drive to conformity of thought in order to stamp
out honest and sincere opposition to the methods we
are presently employing in combatting the ideologi
cal menace of Communism. How to keep our ideals
and which or what values may for expediency be
sacrificed (and to what degree) these and many
other aspects of the problem will be discussed to
night at 8 o'clock when the CPU meets in the Grail
Room of Graham Memorial. Special guests of the
union this evening will be Miss Carolyn Recht of
the political science department and Prof. J. E. King
and Jim Wallace of the History Department.
Everyone interested in hearing this question ex
plored informally is invited to attend and participate
in the roundtable discussion.
YOU Said If
On The Carolina Front
Louis Kraar
Your Batting Average, Please?
Editor:
A half of a mile is a long way to run with a
64-pound pack on your back, I thought as I gasped
for breath and slumped to the ground.
Old boy, I sez to myselfL what you need is an
education and Carolina is the best place to get it.
Nobody there will make you do two hours of side
straddle hop before chow every morning. That's a
brain factory, not a muscle mill.
That was more than three years ago and now
that I've finally come to college, somebody comes
out with an order (which, strangely enough, has
the tone of an A. R.) saying vets have to take
Phys. Ed.
But, after second thought, it might be a pretty
good thing. I can tell that all the exercise I got
in the Army really improved my mind. I'm so far
ahead of the fellows who came straight to college
without the benefit of the Army's obstacle courses,
that I have such a large amount of time left after
my studies, I can do nothing but learn the back
stroke. After all, a healthymind and a healthy body
do go hand in hand.
And it would be embarrassing, to say the least,
to apply for a job and have the fellow say: "Well,
Carolina is. a pretty good school, but what we want
to know, is how far can you knock a softball?"
Name Withheld By Request
As long as there . are sovereign
nations possessing great power, war
is inevitable. Albert Einstein.
"It's a hard thing to grow up under. I know."
A Negro college student from Elizabeth City
told me this the other day as we talked ovter this
problem of segregation. The student, from State
Teacher's College, had just told campus leaders
from three Southern states that students of both
races can understand each other by working to
gether. .
"As we associate with each other, we can reach
an understanding," he said.
Later, we talked about some ways to bring about
this understanding.
"It's when you're a little child that you begin to
realize it. People make a distinction then. You may
play with the boy next door until you're older.
Then, when your mother tries to explain why you
can't go to the same school, you get confused," he
said.
And it was confusing. But without much appar
ent effort these same children, so to speak, were
working and playing together for a weekend at
Woman's College.
Officially, it was the National Student Associa
tion's regional get-together. Students were meeting
to talk over mutual campus problems, each learn
ing something from the other.
The Elizabeth City college student, like the oth
ers there, sounded optimistic.
"It's amazing to see how much progress we've
made already," he continued. "Our people are a
younger race in this country. All of us students,
Negro and white, have to work up to a certain
stand. I think we'll probably reach it working
together."
And that's just what the students did work
together. It was one of those rare times when the
word convention meant more than a trip or the
privilege of cutting classes.
Carolina's Ken Penegar seemed to be one of the
most respected campus leaders there. On the first
day I arrived a little early. When a group of stu
dent found I was from Carolina, the first thing they
did was ask about Penegar.
This affable campus leader here, who lost the
presidency of the UNC student body to Bob Gor
ham, was a leader to the 120 students from 30
colleges in this state. South Carolina, and Virginia.
The southern schools had many common prob
lems. Penegar led a group in discussing leadership
training, a Negro student asked what to do about
international affairs.
A lot of ideas were kicked around. (This problem
of segregation was the one that impressed me,
particularly the student view on it.
The Negro student from Elizabeth City who
wanted more understanding isn't going to get much
of it under legal segregation a stigma imposed in
a land "which stands for full citizenship.
It's this stigma which seems to say Negroes are
inferior, not separation, which the Negro objects
to most. No one is trying 'to upset the so-called so
cial structure of this South when they ask students
of both races to sit together in classrooms.
'This group stands for equality of all students
who wish to learn," said one WC junior, Lynda
Simmons. And the others agreed.
At least college students are optimistic. They're
working together towards some understanding.
And they're still growing.
Maybe the rest of the South will take the hint
and grow up, too. I hope so.v
Others Say
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfran
chised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from
the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends.
They talk to me without embarrassment or awk
wardness. Helen Keller.
The beauty of the world has two edges, one of
laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.
Virginia Woolf.
Conscience is the deposit of a Mississippi of
prohibitions. Will Durant.
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by,
time will change and even reverse many of your
present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from
setting yourself up as a judge of the highest mat
ters. Plato.
I bid him look into the lives of men as though
into a mirror and from others to take an example
for himself. Terence.
An idea isn't responsible for the people who
believe in it Don Marquis.