NOVEMBER 13, 1535
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
VI
On Getting Out The Vote:
A New Student Legislature
Get-out-.uul-vote editorials are
always hard to write. They are al
ways the same tiling,' and they al
ways do practically nothing to ;ct
out the vote, -
Win there's something else, an
other reroon there should be an
editorial ttfclay urging students to
vote: -
The Student Legislature, part ol
which will be elected in campus
wide elections today, needs re
building. The people in the Student Leg
islature, besides neglecting their
duties wtih consistency, have turn
ed out remarkable little, useful
legislation so far this year.
They have concerned them
selves with pitiful resolutions
urging this and that: they have
not attacked manv of the Univers
ity's basic problems, -such as' hous
ing, freedom of thought, freedom
from oppression from overpower
i nl administrators, the absence reg
ulations, the problem of prices
'downtown, the problem of scholar
ships and student aid and the
down-to-earth problems of the man
in the Lower Quad who is lonely
and who looks to his fellows for
help. ii,
- No, tliev have taken too much
of its members. While we have no
grudge whatsoever against fresh
men or sophomores, we seriously
doubt that they understand the
problems of this university as do
juniors and seiiiors.
A great many of --the members
of the Student -.Legislature are in
their first two years here. They
receive advice from older students,
who, while -not members of the
legislatuie. sit back as sort of elder
statesmen and direct the affairs,
of student government.
If this is so, the elected repre
sentatives ol" the students of this
university are not representative.
Another answer lies' in the 'stu
dent body. We suspect that it does
n't care very much 'what its stu
dent legislature does each Thurs
day night.
In years past the Student Legis
lature has somewhat remedied this
situation by buying television sets
and washing machines for men's
and women's dormitories, lint they
did so with money the students
paid in block fees, and the money
soon ran out, so the students for
iot again alout their legislature.
It is apathy, an often overworked
but choice word, that is partly to
"blame for the present sad condi-
of their lime up wtih petty pbliti-: tion of the Student Legislature
cal arguments and attempts to look
smart to each other: they have had;
difficultv seeing beyond their eye
lids. ' ' ' .' '
They, have shown their apathy
toward their offices of trust by not
howing up for committee meet
ings with consistency.
They have shown their appar
ent inability to deal -intelligtnt-'lv
with a student budget that
equals tlr: of many small corpo
rations. In thi. too. they hac
shown extreme pettiness.
They hae a good student body
Just what can be done about it
we do not know, but we are pret
ty certain a closer relation between
representative and constituents
would work small wonders.
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So, vote today. x
You'll have trouble deciding
whom to vote for, because very
few candidates have platforms: they
do have pretty posters, though. But
we suggest you vote for those peo
ple who appear to be mature
enough to handle the student ac
tivities budget, who look as it.
president, the ;bcst one in ! at least ;j;tijey'll attend the meetings they
four years, but j jlie; ' aluritimli lpromi.se to attend, who think and
make student govermnent'jgood, if;peeN jsjjgIy ' bevond their evelids.
Ht HlflfHHjIl5!!1'1 sprt of people could be
Why, then, is the 'StuiJeht jt j 1 fleeted today, it would be a won
lature in sucKdiadif'onditioiirU 4 'iUlerful if unprecedented Student
One answer5!'. tfr4; otUifninc?js legislature.
Chrislitiasierhant Style
Christmas is coming?
to Chapel Hill merchants.;-'
accordinjl
With Halloween barely out of
the way and Thanksgiving even
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CHAPEL HILL'S EARLY CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
. . . who will throw the money changers out?
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..Woodx Sears
yet in the future, there are red and
green Chrismas bells and Santa
Clauses hanging over Franklin St.
This is the basest form of com
.mercialism. And Chapel Hill mer
chantsthe people who decide
when to siring up Christinas dec
orations arc to blame.
It is exactly 43 days until Christ
mas, a day that used to mark the
celebration of the birth of Christ.
But now, in the materialistic
minds of most people, Christmas
Day is a day for swapping gifts.
The day after Christmas is a day
for going downtown and exchang
ing Christmas gifts for something
else.
Merchants not just in Chapel
Hill but in most other cities are
largely responsible for the jres-ent-day,
materialistic approach to
Christina's. They are aided and
abetted by ' the Madison Ave.
crowd, and the gullible, securi
ty - searching public helps a great
deal, too.
But in Chapel Hill, where things
are supposed to be different,
where an academic air maintains
itself while the rest 'of the stale
and world drowns in materialism,
the Franklin St. boys get their tin
sel up a week and a half before
Thanksgiving.
And no one bats an eye.
j Christ, you will -remember, en
tered the temple and drove the
money-changers out.
But who will cut down the pap
er mache Santa Clauses and other
reminders that Christinas is com
ing to Chapel Hill's stores? -
No one will, and before long
Christmas will have n!out as much
significance as a fire.' sale.
OXFORD LETTER:
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Ed Yoder
Yoder, who last year was
co-editor of The Daily Tar
Heel, is now a Rhodes Scho
lar at Oxford, England. He
wrote this last week, when
Sir Anthony Eden's position
in the British government
appeared unstable.
OXFORD, England My ten
ure here as an alien is yet short,
but long enough already, to con
vince me that Matthew Arnold
had in mind the dreams of age
when he wrote of Oxford's
"dreaming spires."
When we arrived, they were
dreaming; ,but, this week's gusts
of world politics have disturbed
those dreams, and whether anoth
er week ,or another world war
will come before they dream in
peace again, no one knows.
The Eastern Europe and Mid
dle East 'crises have broken the
sanctity of every Oxford function
this week even the venerable
tutorial between don and student.
The words of my economics tutor
were blunt today, as I strolled in
to his rooms for a pitched battle
over the weekly essay:
"Never again," he muttered.
"Never again?" I asked.
"Never again Tory," he said,
shaking his Manchester Guardian
in emphasis. "Next time I'll even
vote 'Labor before Tory."
Except for a staunch and con
siderable school of old Tories,
who don't mind affirming their
tried belief in the principles of
Realpolitick, the sentiments of
the economics tutor seem to be
tj-pical of two-thirds of the dons
and students here towards Eden's
action in the Middle East.
The division of opinion here
matches in bitterness, surpasses
in conciseness, th,e division Presi
. dent Trumr,n rajsed in the United
States five, years ago when he
handed papers to Gen. McArthur.
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It is embarrassing to confront
the English . here. Each one of
them has . a pitiful aspect of
apology and embarrasment about
Eden that seems to defy comfort
ing. I have tried to explain my
feeling that perhaps the hands
of the United States, even now,
are hardly stainless in what has
happened.
But those protestations have a
hollow sound. Most people think
' you're just being nice.
All this carries with it a cer
tain justice. In the morals of
politics, the English josh Ameri
cans good-naturedly but with a
marked smugness ab.ut Diplo
macy a la Dulles. Just 10 days
ago, the English could fuss in
good countenance about the way
U. S. Secretary of State Dulles
had compromised the West's
moral position and strained the
Anglo-American alliance.
Now, in the turbulent passage
of less than a week, the ground
has quaked and rolled away be
neath their .feet. Eden's ultima
tum to Israel and Egypt and its
sudden coincidence with the sup
pression of Hungarian rebels un
dcr Rusian tank-treads has
dropped the sense jof political
sin over the British.
NOT SITTING
But the students and dons
aren't by a long shot sitting by.
The complexion of Oxford has
changed over one week from its
unbelievable detachment to a
sizzling anger. It has. not been un
usual in the past three days to
set eyes upon a long-haired don,
carrying books and papers oddly
askew under one arm and a flut
tering petition against the gov
ernment under the other, hasten
ing from study to study for signa
tures. '' '
As for the students:
The quads are barren of robed
The demonstrators carried pla
cards: "Law, not War." "Obey
the Charter." "United Nations
First." "Oxford Students for
Peace." Over a grotesque cari
cature of Eden's familiar acqu
ilina face, mustache drooping, un
even black letters questioned: "Is
This Face Worth It?"
THE ROMANS
The demonstration carried up
ancient Broad St. It coursed past
the rain and wind-eroded bursts
of the Roman emperors who keep
vigil over the street. Augustus",
Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, Domi-
Parting The Sea
Conservatives in the entourage
had drowned them out.
The noise dropped as the pro
cession stopped and the joiners
suddenly realized they were being
watched by bystanders. A feeble
attempt was made at an anti
Eden speech, and two students
fought over the British flag, one
"lowering it to half point on the
stick mast to thunderous cheers
the other trying vainly to seize
the stick and push the flag up
again.
A half-hearted chant "Sack
Eden!" was tried, but it failed.
The milling stopped; the students
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figures today. At 11 a.m. a street
ful of students assembled at the
Martyr's Memorial on St. Giles
St. and took a fast train to Lon
don to demonstrate before No. 10
Downing St.
Ten days ago, just before
"Eden's Folly Day," as an Eng
lishman described it to me, two
Balliol students flew across the
Iron Curtain into Hungary to be
stretcher bearers; at last report,
they had been:
1. Imprisoned by the counter
revolutionaries. 2. Officially "sent down"
(That's English for ((explusion)
, from Oxford.
As I stepped from the gate' of
New College just last week, shouts
and the strains of '"Brittania Rule
the Waves" heralded a marching
throng of 1,000 up Holywell St. .
tian they all sullenly watched,
if not through reflecting eyes,
through dark, hollow sockets.
The eroding elements of years,
and the imagination of an under
graduate, lend them a peculiarly
tired visage; it is as if they say,
with a half-sneer: "We saw this
all in our time."
The demonstrators rounded the
corner from Broad St. to St. Giles.
As thejr marched toward the
Martyr's Memorial, across the
very point where Archbishop
Cranmer was burnt for his heresy
against the Pope, a band of
staunch pro-Government students
had gained the memorial steps.
"We want war! We want war!"
they chanted.
But a chorus of hoots and an
other bar or two of "Brittania
Rule the Waves" from the pranc
ing rebels and the disillusioned
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dispersed. And the melancholy
statue of St. John the Baptist
on the portal of the college across
the street took up the sad igil
the emperors' sneers had lost.
Tonight, by strange conjunc
tion of destinies, is Guy Fawkes
night. Guy Fawkes was the most
unfortunate royalist in English
history it was he who was found
guarding the kegs of powder
which, by the Gunpowder Plot,
were hauled beneath the House
of Commons to blow British par
liamentary government beyond
Mars. ,
It is a strange conjunction of
destinies as if we haven't had
enough of those this week. It is
likcjhe Fourth of July back home
in Mebane, except that street
crowds are restless and edgy, and
the fireworks popping minute by
minute have, tonight, a strangely
portentous sound.
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On Convormivy
Jerry Brady
Jn The Xotre Dame Scholastic
On Friday I picked up the Scholastic and wan
dered aimlessly through its variety until I reined up
at the picture of a rain-coated character studying in
front of-that paragon of styling: Gilbert's on the
Campus Shoppe for Distinguished Men.
Over his head was the title of the article: "The
Ivy Look For This Fall" which was written -.with the
help of Esquire Magazine and Gilbert's without
whose help the article would not have been possi
ble, I was told. I mentally thanked the two con
tributors and went on.
On the next page two others were frolicking
in the back of Gilbert's On the Campus Shoppe'
for Distinguished Men. Now even the well-rounded
cop with the. clock, a real Magoo of a man, could
not have suspected those two of playing football,
particularly in velveteen loafers, button-down an
gola tennis shoes and tear-away sweat socks.
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Meanwhile another fellow was looking classic
whlie smoking a pipe full of ivy. I believe he had
a patch over his right eye, but I couldn't see for
sure. Another boy, who was going upstairs, looked
like he was going to a Schmirnoff ad.
This may "sound like I disapprove of these
Sorin subterraneans, but please believe that I have
a purpose. I feel that it is my duty as a devoted (
reader of Christian virtues 10 enngmen xnese men I
with a little grandfatherly advice.
SYMBOL I
Men, look around you. Try to pick out the sym
bol of jour age, a universal subject of admiration,
the citadel of Americanism. Of course its none other
than Elvis Presley, idol of hound dogs.
Now I ask you, can you see the Presley knees
palpitating through neutral, pleatless. whipcord,
"Natural look" touch-of -leather trousers? Or the El
vis pelvis rotating around an expandable repp belt
and back-of-the-pants strap? Or those Hornung
shoulders being thrown around inside a reefer neck
sweater, soft Shetland tweed sport coat and Chester
field topcoat with velvet collar
Gentlemen, in all seriousness, you must adrrn
that you cannot.
Or can you picture Gene Vincent be-hopping with"
LuLu while dressed in glen plaid cheviots, a challis
tie and a poplin all weather trench coat with sriped.
lining? Such things would only get in the way of;
one's guitar. i- ' :
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closer examination you will see
our; leading t citizen are dressed in pegged ''pants
Italian, shirts tnd ; motorcycle jackets.'. Whit '.'about,,
you?--"'"" '''-''jil:'
Anf another thing, have you, looked at your hair,,'
lately, f J-.ul . Shee'dyt-'You "might notice: tiaV 'tYies
men ?have 'long, !sweptbaek' manes which gl'len in,
the television spotlight. Does yours? Most assuredlj',
not. ''
lii'I am not imposing a new, standard, upon i'ou.'ftr'
from it. If you want something more functional, a;
switch to paratropper style, : sometime called the
plowboy attiM, is in order as an alternative. !
This style offers two-tone field boots, khaki com-
bat pants and not much else; all very functional.;
Can you Ivy Leaguers hook a slide rule on the strap:
in the back of pleatless pants? Sheer nonsense,!
since your straps are as functional as an appendix.'
But the plowboy is sure to have a genuine slide
rule strap as well as a pocket for hammers, collaps
ible measuring stick and nails. !
Look this man over closely next time he's seen'
heading for the John F. Cushing building and tryj
to adapt to his style. Trench coats may come and,
go, but corduroy and blue suede overalls are always;
in style.
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DON'T ACT CHIPPER
Whichever style 'you choose be sure to add an-
other touch that shows you're modern: don't act!
chipper and don't dress meticulously. You will
create a much better impression if you stammer a
little, throw your head back and say, "Ah, I don't
know" real moody like.
Keep your eyes cast down and only come to life
when someone mentions sports cars because this
is being Jimmy Deanish.
Hand in hand wtih your new dress, you must
ungroom your speech. I'm not going to redefine
such words as "cool'; or a "square with ruffles" since
this is old stuff in your dictionary by this time.
However next time you're standing around the Coke
machine you might practice a routine like this.
First voice: "Hey, let's darink to ha fool, 'cause
ahm that fool thuhat tole mah baybuh goodby."
Second voice: "Yewhew mean yewhew babyuh
dungone an lef yewhew?" .
First voice: "Yes. thuh wuhun that Ihe luhuhuhu
huuv soho."
Second voice: T ihit yewhur prayah that thehe
ahhansir she gives ahat there end of the day may
stihil be thuh sayhamc for as 4unhong as. yewhew
lihiv "
Third voice: "And haahuv yewhew ahulmost
lahohst yewhur mind?"
Fourth voice: "Yup."
The trick of this technique is, as you can sec.
to hitch up a little right in the middle of a word.
You might also try a few tremors and a fit or two
since word reaches here that they've gone over big
on the cahhohst, I mean coast.
Have you got everything straight now? Remem
ber, no more Adlai Stevenson-Princeton talk be
cause your dungaree doli is sure to disapprove as
will all her rubber-soled friends at the sweet shop
on Lonley Street. While you're down there impress
her by ordering a tutli-rduit-jiu-rooti (which is
French for "at the rally.")
Do you want to be stereotyped? No? Then join
in the style revolution that is upon us! Students of
the world unite! Yewhew have nothing to lose but
your toggle toppers and pork pie hats!