SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1955
PAGE, TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
-i 1 1 1
A Large
& Important Principle
Elsewhere on this page today, we have
printed a letter from Clark Olsen of Oberlin
College, one of the American students who
last year toured the Soviet Union. Now, a
group of Russian students has applied to the
U. S. State Department for permission to re
turn the visit. The Russians have been de
nied visas. .'.
"One of the reasons," Olsen says in his let
ter, "is thaj; few arrangements have been
made to guarantee hospitality to the Rus
sians during their stay here." His appeal is
to the State Department, to grant entry to
the Soviet students, and to colleges and uni
versities, to agree to act as hosts.
The Russian application was made before
the recent State Department ruling which
sharply curtailed free travel by Russians in
the United States. That ruling, which Sec
retary of State Dulles has called "retaliation"
against similar restrictions in Russia', has
seemed to us particularly silly. We seem to
be falling head over heels to imitate Soviet
strong-avm tactics wherever we can. And the
Si tic Department position against granting
visas to Russian students on a guided tour
m cs us villains in the eyes of the world.
Jii any case, North Carolina is one of the
few states the Russians (if they were granted,
visas) could travel freely.
Mere, too, they could, find a student self
government completely unknown in their
coiner of the world. If any American school
could impress Russians, we'd say it would be
"this one. 4
Seven American colleges Bryn Mawr,
Haverford, Lincoln, Oberlin, Reed, Swarth
morc and Wayne and four student news
papers. The Haverford News, The Chicago
Maroon, the Oberlin Review and the Swarth
niore Phoenix, have already extended the
Soviet students an invitation to visit their
campuses. The Daily Tar Heel joins them
and urges the student Legislature to adopt
a1 resolution of invitation to the Russians (in
cluding provisions for a hospitable reception
if they should come) and a request to the
State Department to grant them permission
to visit the University.
A very large and important principle is
involved here whether the United States has
anything to teach students, even the most ret
icent students, from a totalitarian country;
and whether we have the good sense to take
advantage of a chance to exhibit America's
freedom to the world 'when the chance falls
in our lap.
News The Times Did
Not Find Fit To Print
If all the bills that were introduced into
the House of Representatives this week be
come law, doctors will be able to ship live
scorpions through the mail, tax refunds will
be granted on cigarettes lost in the floods of
1951, the first Sunday in June of each year
will become Shut-in's Day, May 26 each year
will become National Hillbilly Music Day.
the United States will go back to the gold
standard and the rose will become the na
tional flower.
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Campus Parties
Switch Roles
One More Time
Louis Kraar
GIVE A campus political par
ty a semester and a student body
with a short memory, and it will
reverse its field every time.
The University Party, the
same one that last spring made
much fuss
SO
over the Stu
dent Party's
"give away pro
(gram,," pushed
iirough this
week a student
Legislature bill
to give the
band $1,100.
And the Stu
dent Party, the same one that
gave Victory Village money last
spring and put television in the
dorms, called the UP band bill
an "open door measure."
In this reversal of roles, the
Student Party argued that giving
the band money would encourage
other groups to seek money from
the Legislature. The Legislature
has no overabundance of money
either.
Without fear of siding with
either' party (since they swap
sides with ease and speed), this
reporter forsees the day when
the student Legislature will look
like the television program
"Strike It Rich."
I can see the financially weak
organizations climbing up Ithe
three flights of New East steps
to sob out their sad stories to
student' legislators in return for
money, of course.
Perhaps, the Speaker of this
future day could develop a TV
emcee smile, and the whole
farce could be broadcast over
WrUNC-TV.
Incidental intelligence: The
workmen on' the lawn between
Battle-Vance-Pettigrew and Gra
ham Memorial, who drill holes
in the ground and then fill them
in, are putting fertilizer in the
ground for the benefit of the
trees.
IN THE Rathskeller the other
night I caught my first enlight
ening glimpse of education on a
video screen from the Universi
ty's station.
Bill O'Sullivan, leaning back
in his rocking chair, came on the
screen and uttered some wise
words by Benjamin Franklin.
Then, in rapid succession view
ers got a sports discussion, a mu
sical weather report, and more
O'Sullivan rocking and talking
about Franklin.
Later, Chancellor House ap
peared before an Old (or New)
Well backdrop and talked about
"those Latin writers" with Dr.
B. L. Ullman of the Classics De
partment. The House show
struck me as being a kind of
academic "What's My Line?"
As the, last lines of educational
video faded from the screen, I
isipped my cider and thought
about some far off (I hope) day
when, instead of going to classes,
we'll all sit before the big
screens.
That guy in Cobb or Stacy who
hates to get out of bed on win
ter mornings could just have Tiis
roommate flip oh the set. In
stead of cutting classes, he could
just turn to another channel and
watch Arthur Godfrey.
But, as I said, those days are
far away.
HEADLINE IN The Oklahoma
Daily: "1955 'Scandals Invite
Tryouts."
What, so early in the year?
Night Editor for this Issue
Chal Schley
POME IN which the frustra
tions of smoking and its results
are referred to:
From fear of cancer
Smoking he quit,
But he died just the same
With a nicotine fit. 'J
YOU Said It: Sounds
Oberlin Man Proposes:
Russian Students As Visitors
Editor: - v
This past year a ' number of
American students visited the
Soviet Union. I was fortunate en
ough to be one of those. This last
summer I spent three weeks in
the Soviet Unionr Poland, Checho.
Slovakia, and Hungary. The Ober
lin College student body had
sent me as their "representa
tive" to make the trip.
A three-week trip hardly
makes one an expert on Russian
affairs, but the small acquain
tance that I did have with So
viet life makes me strongly con
vinced of the wisdom in having
Russian students come to this
country. For one of my strongest,
impressions from the three
weeks trip was that Communist
students have a greatly distorted,
picture of American life.
In the conversations wre had
with Russians especially young
people we occasionally men
tioned something about Russia's
"Iron Curtain." Each time we
did, our Russian friends., would
smile knowingly, and say simply,
"You are here and Russian stu
dents cannot get into the United
States."
The reason: just at the time
the U. S. ; State Department had
turned down a request of Rus
isian stdents to visit Amejrica.
There was little we could say
Nehru's Role Looms Large
In Future Of South Asia
Joseph Alsop
BANGKOK, Thailand. The
biggest single 'if in the future of
South Asia is the future develop
ment of Indian policy, which of
course largely "means the future
development of the personal
views of Pandit Jawaharlal Neh
ru. India's moral authority in Asia
may seem to many westerners
it has often seemed to this par
ticular westerner to be largely
based on pretentious talk and a
capacity for rousing false hopes.
But here in South Asia, this In
dian moral authority is none the
less a very real thing. Whether
you like it or not, it is a hard,
practical political fact that can
not be ignored.
It could have been ignored, to
be sure, if the American, British
and French governments had not
chosen'to make a Munich in Indo
china. But the Munich was made,
and the results are now so ser
ious that the decay quite proba
bly cannot be halted without In
dian moral authority to reinforce
western militray power and Am
erican economic power.
If Nehru can be induced to
join the party by a side door,
American and free world inter
ests will still demand the very
greatest efforts to block world
communism's relentless march in
to South Asia. But those efforts
will have a far greater chance
of eventual success if Nehru
helps instead of hinders.
In this connection, moreover,
there have been some pretty im
portant straws in the wind in
the last couple of months. First
Nehru visited the two crucial
border states, Cambodia and La
os, on whose fate the fate of Thai
land also depends. Then, at his
meeting with Ho Chi Minh, the
Indian leader gave his celebrated
warning, that it was all very well
for the Viet Minh to take the
Chinese-oriented Vietnamese re
gions of Indo-China, but that In
dia would take it .very ill indeed
if a grab were also made for Laos
and Cambodia, with their basi
cally Indian culture.
Thereafter, as though to under
line his warning to Ho Chi Minh
that the cultural divide of South
Asia must also be the political
divide, Nehru consented to ap
point an Indian Minister to Cam
bodia, the firmest and easiest way
to salvage the two states imme
diately threatened by the Viet
Minh. And finally, on his way to
the Bogor conference in Indone
sia, he paused here in Bangkok
for a social visit which had spe
cial significance because of his
past, tendency to draw aside the
hem of his robe from Thailand's
somewhat gamey government.
What Nehru has done so far,
to be sure, rather recalls the sto
ry of the English nineteenth cen
tury Lady Jersey, who drove
twelve miles to church one Sun
day and found there was no ser
vice. She ordered the footman to
shove her calling card under the
church door; told the coachman
to take the road home, and turn
ed away with the remark to her
young, "Well children at least
we've done the civil thing."
In view of his past pronounce
ments about SEATO for instance,
it will be hard for Nehru to do
more than he has done to save
South Asia. But it will also be
hard for him not to do more, in
view of the pressure of events.
His representatives in Cambodia
are warning him that the peril
there is very great. His ambassa
dor in Thailand has frankly told
him that the fall of Cambodia
will bring on the fall of Thailand.
And perhaps most important of
all, his old friend and neighbor, '
Burmese Premier U Nu has blunl
lv warned Nehru that the fall of
Thailand will directly imperil
Burma's independence.
Nehru may of course choose
not to believe all these warnings.
But the danger to India of a vast
Communist upheavel in South
Asia is certainly more immediate
than the danger to the United
States. Thus there is also a chance
that Nehru may-be persuaded to
do something more realistic to
forestall this danger before it is
too late.
in answer to the charge. It did
little good to reply that their
own government had long refus
ed visas to Americans.
Why did our State Department
turn down the visa request? I
do not know the wrhole story,
but one of the reasons given
was that few arrangements had
been made to guarantee hospit
)abijiy to the Russians dring
their stay here. Such guarantees
a number of schools across The
country are trying to provide.
I think the importance of Rus
sian students coming here - as
great. Some or all of the "Stu
dent Editors" who have applied
to tome may not be, young col
lege students. (Though I have
strong doubts that the Soviet
government would send all old
er people on a "student tour"
which would inevitably receive
great publicity from the Ameri
can press.)
No matter who the "students"
are, I think they cannot help
but have their eyes "opened" on
a tour of this country. Perhaps
it is inevitable that they will
return to Russia and tell only
of the . things they were "sup
posed" to see. If this happens,
then the Russian peoj'e will
only be told the same thing they
have heard all along.
We can hope, however that
those few Russians who did come
will have had at least a few ques
tions raised in their own minds
concerning the validity of Com
munist propaganda claims.
There is, also, a slight chance
that more can be gained from
having the students come here.
A real attempt at reducing the
possibility of world war seems
to be the 1 dominant theme in
present international relations.
Since the death of Stalin, the
Soviet leaders have been mak
ing numerous changes small
though they may be which have
resulted in greater harmony in
the world. One of these changes
is, of course, the permission
granted to Americans students
for travel in the Soviet Union.
And the Soviet government has
also attempted to send people
here.
If there is the slightest chance
that the Soviet government, as
part of their "New Look," will
allow returning Russian stu
dents to give a somewhat : accu-
rate report of what they saw in
America, then I think that it
behooves American students to
do what they can to make these
"reports" possible.
I do hope that colleges and
universities will go on record
as willing to be hosts to Russian
students. There seems little to
be lost, and much that is possible
to be gained from such a move.
Even if the Russian students
gained nothing from their trip,
American students can do little
but gain from contact with Rus
sians. This much, at least I
learned from my stay in the" So
viet Union.
A Bomb For
The Columnists
Editor;
Can't we please have a change?
The quality of the columns in
The Daily Tar Heel has gotten
progressively worse.
It's a sad plight when the sole
column worth reading appears
once a week. I refer to the one
by Max Shulman for Philip
Morris.
I am really impressed - thnt
Fred Babson is such a wheel
that he goes in and talks- to
Frank McQuire about nothing
worthy of print. I am also im
pressed by David Mundy's know
ledge of what's going on in po
litical circles. But I have had
enough of it and I don't think
I'm the only one.
, I get a big kick at seeing Louis
Kraar's smiling face five or so
mornings a week and I just can't
wait to find out what he did yes
terday or over the holidays.
Maybe the five thousand stu
dents who don't know him don't
feel that way though.
Then we have the Horse and
his friends. Until I gave up wad
ing through that one I figured it
. was all hidden meanings. Since
then I've decided it is actually
meaningless.
What happened to the inter
esting columnists like Harry
Snook and Chuck Hauser? Is
there no one to take their place?
I'd even like to see Ron Levin
back ... at least he was different.
Is campus life so dull that we
must hear about nothing but
what goes on at Graham Memo'r-
ial? Let's have a few arguments
and controversies about life in
general. If this is too difficult
try to put in two crosss-word.
puzzles. I'm being forced into
subscribing to the Raleigh News
and Observer.
Bill Sisk
Thanks
Editor:
We would like to thank The
Daily Tar Heel, all the organiza
tions, and the individuals on the
campus who had a part in mak
ing the Empty Stocking Fund a
real instrument of service for
the people of this community
and of Orange County at Christ
mastime. As reports are being prepared
for next year's Empty Stocking
Committee, it is noted that 1,340
persons were remembered this
Christmas through your helpful
ness and generosity.
Expressions of appreciation
from those whose stockings were
filled are most heartwarming
and we want to pass on to you
their sincere "thank you".
Mrs. Bernard Boyd, Pres.
Executive Board of the
Junior Service League
A New Era Of
Good Feeling?
The Charlotte News
We're a mite surprised at the
politicians. Remember Demo
cratic Sen. William Fulbright's
suggestion, back in '46, after the
election? He ' wanted Democratic
President Harry to appoint a
Republican Secretary of ' Sta'.e
and then resign, so control of
the executive would go to ihe
Republican Party which had
won Congress. Marshall Field en
dorsed the idea in-the Chicago
Sun-Times. Many Republicans,
for some reason, thought the
idea excellent. (Truman's com
ment, directed at Fulbright:
"that over-educated Oxford
blank-blank.")
But no one to our knowledge
has put on his poker face and
suggested that in the interests
of unity, harmony, efficiency
and economy the President and
vice president should step down
to permit Speaker of the House
Rayburn (He's next in line now
as the law has been changed)
to enter the White House.
Must be the country has en
tered another of those eras of
good feeling.
It may- last another month.
Meet Don Elliott
Tom Spain
RCA Victor has brought out some of the bcttcr
talent in the modern jazz field, and though the
records of these musicians are beautifully . encased
in the finest of albums, complete with hibh priced
artwork and full color printing, they remain on
the music shop shelves.
Hardly is talent achieving its goal when it goes
no farther than the display window, and seems
an injustice to record good music only to have it
remain unheard.
Some sources report that the problem belli nd
the' Victor jazz artists is with the promotion and
distribution systems which are still as they were
when John McCormack was a big seller. The most
effective salesman for any record company is nat
urally a radio station, and whereas Columbia, Mer
cury, Capitol, MGM, and most any other record
manufacturer will load down a disc jockey with
recordings of all kinds, Victor will hold out. The
popularity of modern jazz is lower nowhere than
here in the South, but with the cooperation of radio
and record manufacturers, the better jazz might be
heard and known here.'
Don Elliott is one of Victor's better jazzmen,
and the multitalented leader of a progressive quin
tette is something of a sensation. Though the one:
man band routine left us many years ago, a stylist
.such as Mr. Elliot makes it, possibilities seem feasi
ble.
The difference between Elliott and the one-man
band is that though Elliott can play them all, he
takes on one at a time. His background is as im
pressive as his music is imaginative. Breaking into
the entertainment business as a part of the vocal
group, Hi Lo Jack and a Dame, he has played vib
raphone with Shearing, Goodman, and Buddy Rich,
taking a fairly high place on the Metronome poll.
As a trumpet player he also did well with Good
man, Terry Gibbs and Rich, attempting a style some
where between Harry James and Bobby Hackett.
It was no surprise to see him take first in the mis
cellaneous instruments part of both Down Beat and
Metronome polls.
Most outstanding in Elliott's work however, is
the performance of his own compositions-i-on mel
lophone. The mellophone being a variation of the
French Horn built on a similar playing style with
the trumpet, its place in modern jazz seemsTiatural.
The mellophone as played by Elliott combines the
maneuverability of a cornet, the mournfully rich
tone of a trombone, and the round softness of a
French horn. All this worked in with an Elliott
ballad like ANGELA, creates a distinctive blues
mood to be likened to the work of Sarah Vaughan.
In the vocal line, Don Elliott has a style which
should lead him to great popularity, whether it be
in the jazz field or with popular ballards. His voice
is youthful, clear and appealing, resembling Chet
Baker in range, Frank Sinatra in style and tone.
I DON'T CARE ANYMORE is the only real bal
lad on the 12-inch LP, but it is indicative of El
liott's capabilities. EVERYTHING I LOVE, . a show
tune of Cole Porter's, is something of a novelty
when treated by the Elliott group.
Pushing his versatility a notch further, he at
tempts, fairly successfully, to imitate a therami i.
employing an echo chamber and a continuous yodel,
Elliott works his way through the love song without
the utterance of one word, and with hardly a break
in his voice, let-alone a noticeable breath. -
The Elliott group can move through a Jump
number in fine fashion, with no limitations on Ihe
leader's choice of instrument. His progressive trum
pet work is light, on the beat, and .slightly catchy
in a hopped up version of LONG AGO AND FAR
AWAY. It is also easy perhaps a little too much
so at times, as he slurs too much to suit some listeners.
But all in all, his swinging trumpet style coin
ares rather fairly with Baker's or Pete Candoli s
When applied to mood tunes such as IMAGINA
TION, his trumpet is suprisingly not too progress
ive, but rather more of the old school in the stvlc
of Spivak or James.
Though Don Elliott is a one man .show, Ins
cohorts are not to be overlooked. Ralph Martin an
ideal supporting pianist of. great talent, joins El
liott sharing most of the solo work, and the two
create some very pleasant duets.
Jo Puma, and Mort Herbert, guitar and bass re
spectfully, display their talents with an exceptional
accompaniment of Elliott's vocal noveltv of EVERY
THING I LOVE. It's not easy to accompany one
whos imitating a theramin. Jimmy Campbell per
forms quietly, in fact subtly, on drums throughout,
no matter what the leat.
Don Elliott, blessed with several talents
twice blesserl i
" K"iiiJ are outstanding.
There are few like him. Nat Cole and Chet Baker
are known for having more than one great talent
and though they have risen to the top on one or
the other, one can believe that their talents, al
though one might overshadow another in popularity
are all in the same realm of greatness.
is
Don Elliott has similar possibilities, and time
will prove -his greatness and select his most pop
ular talent. But be it the trumpet, mellophone. vib
raphone or his voice, it will be a source of good