THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1955
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
PAGE TWO
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There Is More To
Life Than A Cadillac
F.diuatioii, we have been saying of late,
is more important in a university than em
pirical train.ing for a business career.
Our quarrel (vith the School' of Business
Administration is that it does not allow stu
dents sufficient breadth in their studies a
maximum of six courses outside business and
economics in, their last two years.
And we have pointed out that America's
most progressive businesses are seeing the
light themselves. There has been full scale
admission by business lately that there is
more to life even to an executive's life
than Cadillac.
Now, comes the Bell Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania with the boldest scheme of
all, a full-time, ten-month liberal arts course
for business-drenched, humanities-starved
young executives.
Let "Time Magazine take it from here:
The plan for the course began when Pennsyl
vania Bell's President Wilfred Donnell Gillen de
cided that something was lacking in the average
rising-young businessman. For all his competence
and specialized knowledge, Gillen felt, the young
executive seemed to have neither the background
nor the ability to make the sort of broad decisions
that modern business demands ...
In planning the curriculum, (it was) decided to
make it not only as broad as possible, but as
tough. Each morning, instead of reporting to the
office, the students were plunged into a world of
philosophy, literature, history and art. They took
courses in logic, ethics, gulped down big doses
of music, economics, architecture, studied some of
the major concepts in the social and natural sci
ences. Though their classwork was done mostly in sem
inars, they heard lectures by such scholars as
Anthropologist Carleton Coon, City Planner Lewis
Mumford, Yale's Henri Peyre (who spoke on Rous
seau's Confessions) , Brandeis University's Ludwig
Lewisohn (Faust) . . . They visited the UN, the'
museums of Washington, Philadelphia and New
York; they attended a Quaker meeting, heard
concerts by the Philadelphia Orchestra.
They read everything irom Beardsley's Practical
Logic to Crane Brinton's Idaas and Men. They stu
died the Bible and the Bhagavad-Gita, proceeded
to the Iliad, the plays of Sophocles and Shakes
peare. Dante's lnjev.no, The Brothers Karamxzov,
Remembrance of Things Past ...
Each man got copies of all the books assigned,
kept them as a nucleus for his private library.
Among the changes, big and small, that the ten
months brought: .
A student from Minnesota who admits that he
had a "kindof void" in the arts, has now become
interested enough to subscribe to a print-of-the-month
club and to buy some originals on his own.
What did he hang on his walls before? Mirrors.'
A student (who says) "I used to go home from
the office, listen to my wife tell about her day,
turn on the television and go to bed. If my new
attitude sticks, it would be criminal to go back
to the old way. I've found there is so damn much
I want to know."
Says another student: "I used to think there was
nothing in life but earning money and looking
Carolina Front
'That's Not The Way WelMan To Celebrate It, William'
What Are The
Objections To
Brigadoons?
Louis Kraar
OPPONENTS TO the proposed
Brigadoons say their main ob
jection lies in
the" financial
obligation that
the project,
would bring for
2ach dorm.
Brigadoons
as you recall,
is the Inter
dormitorj Cduncil's plan
for name band dances for dorm
populace. The individual stu
dent would pay for the dances.
In other words, the IDC would
be selling student dances.
Under the present proposal,
each dorm is responsible for
selling 3 number of tickets equal
to one-fourth its population.
Thus, if Old West, for instance,
didn't sell 25 per cent of its
dwellers (or an equivalent num
ber of outsiders) tickets to the
dances, the dorm would have to
fork over the difference.
Where would the money from
the dorms come? From each
dorm's individual social fund.
If the campus wants Briga
doons, this reporter has no ob
jections. But, at the same time,
students should know what their
financial obligations will be.
IT'S HEARTENING to see the
Men's Council do its job and
make a report of cases tried to
the paper.
I'm not down on the keepers
of the Honor System; but if they
are elected to an office, they
should do their job. Reporting
cases to the paper on a regular
basis is part of their job.
Now that the Men's Council
has made its report for last se
mester, one would expect to see
periodic reports on a regular
basis as this semester progres
ses. TWO RUFFIN dwellers have
sent me "an epistle of apprecia
tion," and I'm flattered beyond
blushing.
"B.K. (before Kraar) the ec
onomic philosophy of the candy
capitalists, at the Carolina The
ater showed a definite propen-
forward to a Cadillac. Now I ask myself what is ' sity to grind the faces of the
right, rather than what should I do or what am poor," write Dick Jones and Joe
I expected to do. There have been innumerable Sturdivant.
times since leaving the institute when I've said Only thing is, Dick and Joe,
to myself, 'You wouldn't have thought of that a I had nothing to do with the
year ago'." candy prices. I like popcorn my-
Bell Telephone, it should be emphasized, self.
paid these men to study logic, literature and
art because the company thought it was a INCIDENTAL INTELUGEN
good investment. CE: "Pajamas are in order" at
Consider, then, the situation: Students at Smith Dorm house meetings, ac
the University are studying business to the cording to a poster in the par
virtual exclusion of courses, which, at the lor- Nothing like casual gather-
msistence and expense of business, are being
taught to graduates like themselves.
Perhaps if we were a corporation, instead
of a University, the liberal arts might have
a higher place in the esteem of the business
school curriculum makers..
ings.
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Continued:
The Quarterly Controversy
Business Manager
TOM SHORES
Sports Editor
T B ERNIE WEISS
Night editor for this issue
-Eddie Crutchfield
MONDAY NIGHT on campus
is another of the many times
when there is almost too much
going on
If one's inclinations are liter
ary, Dr. Floyd Stovall's Humani
ties Lecture would seem in or
der. On the other hand, the
Press Club will have Kenan Pro
fessor Hugh Lefler talking on
"Early North Carolina Newspa
pers." And the Student Party will
have the most knocked-out poli
tical meeting of the year. They're
picking a student body presiden
tial candidate.
AN INFORMANT swears he
saw a coed on Franklin Street
whose nose due to a cold, no
doubt) was as red as her lip
stick. All of which goes to prove,
no doubt, that they're making
lipstick lighter this year (or
noses darker) or that my in
formant is a good coed observer.
BILL SANDERS is another
good possibility for the Univers
ity Party choice as a vice-presidential
candidate.
NEWS THAT a new club is
being formed to discuss and cri
ticize movies comes rather late.
Organizers of the new club
might do well to drop into any
eating place on campus after the
show lets out. They'll find plen
ty of discussion and criticism.
It's been going on for years, I'm
told.
Ed Yoder
Mr. Bill Scarborough's article
taking issue with my appraisal of
the Carolina
Quarterly has
gently and dia
m e t r i c a 1
ly thrown me
off balance a
top the Quar-
s J terly s soapbox.
measure, I
grant without
hesitation .that what Mr. Scar
borough says can well be taken
to heart by those (seemingly
few) students and faculty mem
bers on the campus who are still
vitally concerned with the wel
fare of the literary magazine.
His letter, good-humored, yet
serious and sound, raises in my
mind a fundamental question:
What is the proper relationship
of a student critic to a student
publication? Apparently, Mr.
Scarborough and I differ rather
Whitesides:
'Excellent7
The "Petites Muslcalea" se
ries sponsored by the Graham
Memorial Student Union which
were so successfully launched in
the previous semester were re
sumed on Sunday. evening with
a song recital by William White
sides, tenor.
Mr. Whitesides presented a
varied and well chosen program
of songs in four languages by
John Dowland, J. S. Bach, Han
del, Schubert, Hugo Wolf,
Brahms, Ravel and Copland. He
displayed a voice of beautiful
quality which is evenly develop
ed throughout most of its range,
and his performance was char
acterized by individuality of
style and interpretation togeth
er with excellent diction.
This writer did not always
agree, with. Mr. Whitesides' read
ing of the German songs, par
ticularly the two Schubert num
bers taken from the cycle: "Die
Schoene Muellerin" in which
certain . indications in the dra
matic content of both music and
text were overlooked and which
were taken too slowly to be fully
effective. However, these minor
deficiencies did not hinder the
singer from completely delight
ing his warm and responsive
audience.
At the piano Mr. Whitesides
had the faithful and sympath
etic cooperation of Mrs. Nor
ma Weaver, who coped with the
unsympathetic and well known
obstinacies of the present Gra
ham Memorial piano with un
usual success.
Lilian B. Cold
diametrically (as he sfays) on
that point. When does a student
critic reach the maturity, the
grasp and- insight,' the perch,
from which he may largely con
demn a publication edited by a
, contemporary and classmate?
AN 'APOLOGY'
Mr. Scarborough is right. I am
an apologist for the Carolina
Quarterly. But I do not apolo
gize in the common sense of
the term. Mr. Scarborough will
remember, as a sound scholar,
that Plato's Apology for Socra
tes was really a defense. Plato
called that dialogue a defense,
not because he felt that he was
attempting to cover up an in
adequacy or flaw in the char
acter or behavior of Socrates:
his motive, in fact, stemmed
precisely from the other direc
tion: He believed fundamental
ly in the Tightness of Socrates'
behavior and character; thus, in
recording the actions and speech
of- Socrates before the 300, he
hesitated not one instant to call
himself an apologist.
By that token, if Plato was
an "apologist" for Socjrates, I
am an "apologist" for the Car
olina Quarterly. I believe strong
ly in the reorientation under
taken in this year's Quarterly
by Jim Dunn.
In neither review, however,
did I attempt to whitewash the
Quarterly. My criticieri as to
content have been very much
the same as Mr. Scarborough's.
I lave repeatedly objected to
the paucity of articles (and
good ones); I have expressed
hesitations about Mr. Rivera's
poetry selection; and I have
time and again asked why the
Quarterly contains insubstan
tial representation of literary
effort right here in Chapel Hill.
COVER ORTHODOXY
Even with those qualifications,
I think the Quarterly has ac
quitted itself well so far this
year. The new cover designs, I
think, add much to the attrac
tiveness of the magazine, even
though the art work on the re
cent cover was decidedly third
rate. Some, critics have a very
intolerant attitude toward pic
ture covers for literary maga
zines. I don't;, and I feel that
the heavy hand of orthodoxy
and that alone stands between
most literary quarterlies and
more attractive covers. .
I disagree just as heartily
with Mr. Scarborough's sugges
tion that (1) the editor must
write within a restricted range
or remain silent; (2) that the
Quarterly is overridden with ju
venilia; (3) .that contributions
for "The Best Freshman Writ
ing" should be judged on the
same footing with other material.
HELPING HAND
- Here, I think, lies our basic
point of divergence. "The Best
Freshman Writing" section
seems to me typical of the at
titude Jim Dunn has taken with
regard to the Quarterly.
Last summer, I participated
in a panel discussion with the
North Carolina English Teach
ers Association about the place
of creative writing in colleges
and universities. The conclusions
on the part of all who spoke up
coincided: It was broadly felt
that college literary magazines
neglect to encourage the young
er writers, the "neophytes," one
major reason being that stand
ards are too high, awesome, and
overbearing for even a very tal
ented beginner to crack. Mr.
Dunn, by introducing a valu
able feature inviting their con
tribution, has without doubt giv
en heart to "some of the serious
younger Ipotential.
Finally, I don't believe the
Quarterly falls anywhere near
mediocrity. If the contents do
not match up to ideal standards,
it, I believe, is due to a short
age of ideal contributions not
as Mr. Scarborough suggests, to
faulty administration, planning,
and edition.
A SERIOUS THREAT
Is the campus producing first
rate Quarterly material? This is
the basic question and I'm not
so sure I like the answer. In the
three years since I have been
a student here, I have gotten
the impression that interest in
serious writing in all publica
tions has declined.
In the area of article writ
ing, where the most crucia'
need exists, even the talented
writers appear to be more in
terested in writing on trivial,
"light" topics; to be serious is
to invite violent criticism and
laughter.
-
It is tragic that the people
like Mr. Scarborough and Mr.
Dunn who possess a live inter
est in the welfare of the Quar
terly seem to be divided on its
function. A serious threat im
pends from outside the offices
of the campus publications.
Quarterlies languish unsold on
the newsstands; groups who
would wither were it not for
the publicity and notice they
get in publications yet attack
poblications spitefully; charla
tans and self-styled critics of
the function of publications on
campus make proposals for
change which could come only
from mountebanks.
We had better hang together,
as I think Benjamin Franklin
once said, or we'll all hang separately.
YOU Said It:
Letter From
Crossbones
Crossroads
(The following letter, headed
"Crossbones Crossroads", teas
written by Karl F. Knight, 29
Old East. Editor )
Dear Mr. Grimes.
My fellow-American, I hope
you- will pardon the tardiness
of this epistle in response to
your illustrious letter which was
printed in The Daily Tar Heel.
As seems to be the case with
you, I am so far out in the pro
vincial areas of Our Great State
that it takes a right good while
for news to filter in and out.
Me and some of the boys, all
good Hundred Percent Ameri
cans, were talking about your
fine letter and we thought it
would be a good idea to let you
know that we appreciate the
good that you are trying to ac
complish. The president of the Thurs
day Night Billiards Club is our
biggest manufacturer. Since he
works most of the niggers in his
mill, it seemed to us that he
ought to have the most to say
about how things should be run
around here. We don't wear
Black Shirts or Brown Shirts or
anything like that. We believe
that our white skin is enough
of a symbol of our greatness
and dignity.
It has been a hard job keep
ing our Gracious Southern Cul
ture the way we want it. The
only way to keep everything like
the Good Lord intended is for
us to stick together. We're in
contact with some of the boys
in South Africa. If you are in
terested, we can give you some
good addresses. They have a good
system and they are always glad
to pass along helpful informa
tion. None of us fellows ever went
to school at Chapel Hill. Don't
you worry, though; we don't hold
it against you. We can see what
you are. We have heard lots of
stories about how it is down
there at that hotbed of Leftism.
It's good to see that a strong
minded and well - principled
Southerner like you could stand
up against it.
Well, I guess you know where
we stand. To paraphrase a Yan
kee statement, "What's good for
Crossbones Crossroads is good
for the South."
If you see Mr. Clark, give him
our best wishes.
John Q. Ostrichhead, Esq.
Integration Would Be
'Disastrous'
Editor:
I have a few comments I'd
like t0 make in reference to the
article by Charles Dunn on the
pro-segregation petition.
Contrary to what be seems to
imply, I have not been conceal
ing my name frorn anyone and
I make no apologies for my opin
ions. Although we received some as
sistance and advice on the peti
tion from some other students
whose names may not have been
mentioned, we think a petition
should be judged by its own
merits rather than in terms of
personalities. I myself took a
very active part in circulating
the petition and trying to con
tact students to help us, just as
I was approached. I am happy
that I did it and would do it
again.
I don't see why my being from
the North should make any dif
ference. Just as there are Sou
therners who are for and against
segregation there are likewise
folks up North who favor it and
other Yankees who are opposed.
Having witnessed the results
of integration in New York, some
of which are social interming
ling and intermarriage of whiles
and Negroes which occurs fre
quently there, I think it would
be disastrous for both races if
the same were to happen here
in the South, which is the place
I am now living and hope to re
main. . '
Bnnt Michael Bobrow
Eye Of The Horse
Roger Will Coe
(The Horse see imperfectly, magnifying some
things minimizing others. HipporoUs, circa oOJ
B.C.)' M
(The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some
things, minimizing others. HipporoUs, circa 500
B. C.) '.
THE HORSE was very ill . . . or very well or
ganized, in an ABeCedarian way of speaking;
either condition is homologous to the other in ap
pearance, as well as in cost.
' All I am doing," The Horse replied indignantly
to my concerned query, "is leaning against this
tree and singing Old Man River, the all-time hit
song from the Kern-Hammerstein opus, Show lioai."
Well, why the beating of the sternum (breast
bone, that is) with the hoofs ... the pain-wracked
expression of what The Horse used for a face . . .
the twisting of the equine hammerhead thissaway
and thattaway . . . the intermittent flexing of the
hind legs . . . the strangled moans issuing from The
Horsely rubberlips?
"First Steps in Acting, by Prof Sam Selden of
Dramatic Art, tells how It is meet anJ fitting oris
should accompany one's lines with appropriate ges
tures to carry the import of one's feelings," The
"Horse said in a stable manner. "I was singing, not
groaning; and my gestures of accompaniment should
be easy to interpolate."
I had interpolatecf them as being inspired by
a combination of delirium tremens, acute indiges
tion, cardialgia, kidney s-pasms, buijrfly belly,
housemaid's knee and general malaise.
"Well, I haven't be rehearsed," The Horse shrug
ged. "There is family tradiiion against it."
A family tradition against being rehearsed?
"One of my forebears was treacherously pressed
into service to pull a hearse, once," The Horse re
lated darkly, "and the family has always had a
Tear one of us might again be similarly ill-used,
might be rehearsed."
Thus pun had me feeling ill . . . and no ABCe
darian supply dump closer than Durham, a lamen
table situation which the Chapel Hill P.-T.A. was
trying to rectify. Or was it the WCTU?
"You mean the Epworth League," The Horse
corrected me. "But that's neither here nor the
other place, wherever that is. I'm agog ovor seinjj
Show Boat again."
Oh? The Horse had seen it before?
"Plural times," The Horse led me on a Torn
Waldman 'Down Memory's Lane' tangent. "I was ar
guing with myself only lawt night, was it Jules
Bledsoe or Paul Robeson I saw playin the role of
Joe and singing Old Man River the first time?
I think it was Bledsoe, who left the cast to take
the lead role in Porgy & Bess. David Small will
play that part in the Carolina Playmakers produc
tion, "And I hear Suzn Elliott's handling of the Julia
part, played by Helen Morgan in the original, will
have Carolina lasses sitting on their Pianos for a
decade to come!" The Horse nostalgiahed. "Ahhh,
Helen Morgan!"
Didn't The Horse mean, Ahhhhh, Suzn Elliott)
And I had heard no unchivalrous comment aneiu
what Carolina lasses sat on, pianos or less imposing
(in size) structures.
"You will understand that two decades and
more can effect the nuances with which one Ahhhhs
an entertainer," The Horse suggested. "Armed ush
ers prowled the aisles when us young Horses ex
pressed our approvals, in those days, and more
than once La Morgan slithered down from the pi
ano to use it for an outpost defense."
One trusted this would not be necessary again,
since The Horse had a nefoo, one P. (for Prince
ton) B. (for Burly) O'Horse hoofing about in the
cast?
"A smart gal like Suzn-Julie Elliott-Morgan
will have my Nefoo carrying the piano," The Horse
speculated, "instead of storming it. I recall Charles
Winninger played Cap'n Andy, in the original, and
if I get a name or four wrong, think nothing'of it
and make your own corrections . . . silently. Also
we gotta stop talking because you gotta get your
ticket, Roger. Don't come complaining to me later
iffn you can't get in. You -do beat your gums a
lot, you know."
I was speechless ... for once. So was Mr Wump
But The Horse had something: Get yoir tickets
noio for Show Boat, March 4, 5, or 6, at Abemathy
Hall or at Ledbetter-Pickard's, in tmm. - '
Ike: Dilemma
For Democrats
Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON The hassle over taxes neatly
lUustrates the hideous dilemma confronting th".
fhaT urhaS,' thndi,emma is so "cmingjy insoluble
tL 1 1 Den?OCIatiC leaders of the o"e and
th u -7 fe abUt the-rewdest politicians in
Thi HG1 StatGS' baff,ed' stated, and" diVWed
The dilemma can be defined in a couple of
quesUons: How are the Democrats to win b"ck the
White House when it is seemingly political noiJon
even to criticize the well-liked Pres doi
what issues are Democratic Congres'Una candi-
THE TWO SOLUTIONS
conLmrOne S"
the Eisenhower admaVon ZrillfoTT
rich, casting the Democratic nartv in 7k the
the defender of the "little Z '0,e of
Democrats should be readv tn Ieah, th,
it out with the President "P SlU5i
Solution number two s To ."om'h- ariSCS'
with the President concenUr direct .conflict
ing up the Democt build
ible and the Republican nartv " d a"d r-sPe-divided.
As for ? defeat KseVrreSPnSi' ,e a"
assumes he will run "Jalnf th (ev' r'bod-'
problem for the DeS L'
he may be. unojaate, whoever