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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 195? I THE DAILY TAR HEEL f aoi mo Faubus's Intelligence Thoroughly Exploited; All Gray Matter Listed Greater Than Fanatics Ol' Huck & Jim, Yes'um; You juM (.m't ! noiliin tliat'll ci.if tin- liu-taiy siynil it .uu r ol limine like )l Iliu k and Jim. And tin- lutinoi ol scenes like lliwks ilo I ipliou ol a river boat explosion w ti it h didn't lim t no hod : 'Wo'uiii. jut killt-d a ni.uer." Will Ik- Ion.; i ctiuinlei eil. loii'4 .ilwt tlu- Ian. itii Nm ol r.u ially liy jht M-nsit i i' tensois is put down - . low as a i.itlish sninnnin' in w iuw i -time u.ilcr. It sliou- sit-ins scnsihli- that any In .iiul ol lolks would he proud ol llieii liet it.ur-llirir m and-daddit's and '411. it mand (laddies, and what t lit iloiu--.ini! not try to put all that down to shame. Times aie tiht iiuuh belter now. And it looks like tliev'te ;on na" keep .utilin' hitler it lolks will just keep their heads stieweil on. and not -40 i.intin' and v.ivin' 'hout the least little sin ol one brand ol lolk net l in' Heated hetter than aiiothei brand. You've just ot to keep your head. Nuthin's mmum be oled bv ti i'4, to kill eeithin'4 vour oV m. in and his man and so on done. It's vealU kinda' sumthin' t look up to. I erbod s ;4tta h.ivc suinlhiu' to look up to. In moie (in it lit dialogue, we te iii 1111 .111 editoii.il bom The Wall Miter Journals . I lie New Y01 k City Hoard ol IdiM.itioii has uinovcil " I he Ail xtntuies ol I lu klcbei 1 v linn" lioin appioed textbook lists lot element. uy and junior h i h s hools. and the New Yoik l imes lepoits that one publisher s.tvs he w.in told bv school ollieials that hisionti.ut ould not be renewed lot the book bet a use it (ontaiued passages sie. that wete tai iallv ollen- The Daily Tar Hel Tin' nffici.il student publication of the Publication Hoard of the University of North Carolina, whore it is published daily oxct'pt Sunday, Monday and cxa.11 injtiun anl vacation periods and sum mer terms. Entered as second class mat ter' in the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C. under the Act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: mailed. $4 per year, !s2.f)0 a semester: delivered, $6 a year, $3 .")() a semester. bditor Coed F.ditor Managing Kditor N'ews Editor Asst. News Kditor NEIL BASS AI.YS VOORIIEKS DOUG EISICI.E hill CHESHIRE Well, we once knew a man nam ed l inn who didn't think very highly ol the way Mark Twain port raved old man Finn as a drun ken, worthless tramp. Wasn't' lair to the l inns, he said. Hut then the wav Mark Twain made Hutk sutli a line youngster pleased hint migh tily and he figured things tame out pretty evenly lor the Finns. As most everyone now knows (though we can't predict the fu ture il others follow the New York educators leadh Huckleberry Finn tells the story ol a young ster's life alonj; the Mississippi in the 1 S jo's, when things were quite dillerent Iroin nowadays. For one . tiling, there was slavery in those davs and for another people were not as careful ahiuit their speech as thev are nowadays. The book is written in dialect, and it ranks pretty hih anion;.; Anici it an ( lassies because it is an act urate poitrayal ol . the history of the times. You can't do away with history, unless von want to make things seem dilleient than thev were, ev en if all Maik Twain's books were banned and burned. Uut you milit do away with some pietlv line liteiatuie, to say nothing ol a pretty important liee dom. if that idea that books ought to he written in a way to please everyone who reads them ever takes hold. And in the book at issue. ou can do away with a very wotiderlul t har.it ter. We mean Jim. Jim was a Ne Uio slave and despite his status and hantlitaps Jim was a man whose innei strengths made him lot us the linest t h.uat ter in the book. Mabe those who want to bl.uk list the book ought to remember that Maik Twain treated Jim and that Maik Twain treated old man linn. To want to destroy Jim because Twain poit raved faithfully the customs and dialect ol the age and plate Jim lived in strikes us as prettv senseless. Further, it's pret ty senseless for any minority to want to destiny a book that's ac tually a powerful tract lor human dignity. It's about as senseless as sug gesting that libraries and schools ought to blacklist C.uuga Din on the ground that Kipling didn't dress him in the same Ihitish uni fonn as the men Cunga Din was better than. WISE AND OTHERWISE Mobile Capital, Or Ike's A... Prexy on Wheel Whit Whitfield The Press has once more struck out at President Eisenhower be cause of his numerous and lengthy vacations. This last terse verbal attack on the editorial pages of The Daily Tar Heel was most un called for. Why, he had only twen ty seven days this last time, and the Arkansas fiasco wasted quite a bit of this for him. Not only that. but . the Southern Governors' Conference committee cut it short. The headline of a UP story in The Durham Morning Herald read ' Ike Ends Disrupted Vacation For Southern Governors Talk." Now isn't it a sad state of affairs yvhen he has to interrupt his vacation to attend to the affairs of the na tion? Who wouldn't call out the Airborne if he couldn't have his vacation in peace and quiet? v Sports Kditor Asst. Sports Editor PATSY MIIXEU BILL KINC DAVE vii;lk liusiness Manager JOHN WHITTAKKR Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Wire Kditor FKKI) KATZ1N SYD SHUFOKD PAUL RULE "It's Gettiug 0 You Can Hardly Stone People In Peace Any More" Subscription Mgr. AVKKY THOMAS HEN TAYLOR Feature Editor FKATLP.K STAFF Jackie Haithcock, Monk Uijson. Chuck Howcrton. EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield, Nancy Hill. Ath. Dept. Blindfolds Student representation on the Athletie Council is purely figure headed for appearance sake. It is ini 1 easinlv appalling to lind that the small thrce-inember student it-presentation on this all inipoitaut t ominittce is sworn to silence and utter secrecy through )lood oath or some other rit- NEYVS STAFF Davis Young. Ann Fryo, Dale Whitfield. Mary Moore Mason, Stanford Fisher. Edith MacKinnon. Prinjjle Pipkin. SPORTS STAFF Erw in Fuller, Mac Ma haffy. Al Walters. Ed Rowland. Ken Friendman. Donnie Moore. Neil Leii rman. Elliott Cooper. Carl Keller. Jim Purk. Rusty Hammond. PHOTOGRAPHERS Norman Kantor, Buddy Spoon. a 11. 1 And the student body is ellnv ed into a dark corner Iroin which no illumination is cast 011 the ac tions of the athletic department. The small student delegation on the council, to make matters worse, is denied icprcsentation on Coaches Commit tec which lets lilies' contracts. Yet students pay liue athletic into athletic department col- lh( CO Siht"Editor - ALTONCIAYTf)U Prool Reader ALTON CLAYTOR fet fers. It's the cqiiiyalent to emptying your wallet while blind-folded. As we have said on another oc casion, a good president needs plenty . of . rest to give, him the much needed strength he needs to administer to the affairs of the nation. On purely ' this ' basis, Eisenhower must be a great presi dent, for he certainly takes enough vacations. It can't be too difficult to deal with the nation's problems from Augusta. Denver, Newport, or wherever else he may be on vaca tion, for if it were, conditione in the nation would not be so serene. Since the nation can operate smoothly with its chief executive on the move so often, it may be a good idea to move the capital with him. allowing other cities with good accommodations for congressmen, newspapermen, and staff counsels' to have the distinc tion of servii as capital of the United States. Let us not be selec tive and just use Newport. Au gusta, or Denver. Move it around. Give the other cities a chance. Alter all. that's the democratic way to do things. If all men are created equal, then why not all cities? Why discriminate? If this idea were carried to its logical conclusion, then we could have a summer government in the Catskills and a winter govern ment in tropical Key West. Quite possibly the Riviera might even be a better idea. The climate in southern France is reputed to be conducive to good health (among other things 1. (Special footnote to The South ern Governors' Conference Committee: The action you have taken by pressuring the chief executor for a meeting concerning such trivia as the withdrawal of troops from Little Rock is most inconsiderate. Ike's vacation was to last on into October had it not been for you. Eisenhower was most thoughtful in coming home to mind the shop for a while. For this he should be commended. It is always nice to have the president in Washington, whenever posihle. ) READERS' REPOSITORY: Stevenson-s Wrinkled Forehead & Adlai's Brilliant Interlecf (sic) EDITOR: Now. please, don't get me wrong I AM a Steyensou fan. tfnd like the other college students, "1 consi der him the darling of the poli tical world the only (if you'll pardon the expression) politican yvho understands those of book learning. Consequently, when I heard I yvould actually get to see in per son, in color, in flesh, blood and sweat, the man who's greater in defeat than most men are in vic tory," I dashed over to Memorial Hall and camped there, missing three clays of class. But it was yvorth it to obtain a choice spot in which to view every brilliant yvrinkle on that magnificent fore head. I cannot express my admiration for the immobility of his disin terested expression during the speeches, especially as I realize he was absorbing every yvord like a sponge iDupont, of course 1. When he yvas finally gfven the opportunity to arise, I yvas sur prised to see he was a little man no matter, he grew bigger as he spoke with charm, he com plimented Gov. Hodges, yvhose face turned a shade pinker as, in happy modesty, he nestled deeper into his chin. Stevenson's sense of humor yvas as yvitty as ever; no one was more aware of the fact than he. Along with the grateful audience, his fate broke its usual composure and aeknoyvledged this gift. The subject being education, the audi ence was warned against produc ing non-thinking students who might misunderstand future Stev ensons. When Mr. Stevenson mentioned audio-visual aids, the loudspeaker system las if responding to roll call) came to a brief moment of life. It yvas stated that the tyvo major problems in education to day are federal aid and segre gation; the former was said to have been a lost battle, the latter question yvas carefully avoided. A brillant dissertation yvas heard on the inability of the student to gain adequate knoyvledge of to days complex system of govern ment. This yvas folloyved up by the suggestion that the schools stress independent thinking. In a strong finally, Stevenson proclaimed that he "didn't mean to criticize." To tie things together nicely, the master of ceremonies again arose, issued a joke, and further reinforced the impact of the dis cussion by stating that, "yve don't propose to tell you hoyv to run your schools." Joyfully, I left the auditorium. confident that my mind had be gun to be filled with worthwhile information at last. SINCERELY DOROTHY BLITZER EDITOR: When such a distuinguished distinguished gentleman, in his own rights, as Adlia Adlai Steven son will make a visit to any place and particularly to Chapel Hill and to the campus of North Carolina, anyone with any sense w ill take the very pleasant opertunity op portunity to listen to such a man. I believe that it is almost sinful for the administration of this University not to suspend class to give those people yvho value Adlia Adlai Stevenson's interlect, inter lect or what ever the Daily Tar Heel may call it, a chance to hear him. Adlia Adlai Stevenson's exper ience and knowledge far surpasses that o anyone who is noyv con nected yvith the present adminis trion; and although the editor of the DTH may consider Adlia Adlai Stevenson as a gentleman or as anything, the un-cultural editoral printed in DTH Sept. 26. 1957 edition can go to hell. JAKE B. SENTAL RANDOM RAMBL1NGS: Cliches FaithfuJ As Mother Earth Al Walker Today I shall write an example ol what a good theme should look like for you Freshman who are about to be depressed by the grades on your first theme. "' A COUP DE GRACE TO CLICHES Sooner or later a step in the right direction would have to be taken, to stem the tide of a large school of thought, who with all their might and main are trying to make cliches a thing of the past. A cliche, rich beyond the dreams of avarice, should net be buffeted by fate, as has been the case in the past. Most dictionary definitions of cliche leave much to be desired. Contrary to my belief, dictionarys always say that cliche'! are trite and hackneyed expressions. It seems to rnV a cliche is a .word or group of words which are constantly in ...the, public's eyes. Some are old, aS-4he hills, whereas some aire relatively new. How do cliches become cliches? Constant re petition, hy a certain group who think they've hit on something cute is their usual conception. , , A , striking example of this is the men of th? working press's overuse of certain idiQms. As a matter, of fact, the situation got so out of. hand in one. big tabloid's office, that the editor Svas forced lo give, an ultimatum' to his newshounds straight from the shoulder. He said, "Within limits, cliches aren't so bad, but mark my words, woe betide any man or beast who usps the phrases 'foremost au thority,' , . spectators lined the curbs,' 'uncon firmed rumor,', or the hackneyed headline "Thous ands Flock to the 'Beaches for Relief.' And I don't mean maybe." r . ,- , Many politicians would be like a ship in a storm if theywere. not armed to the teeth with thousands of these helpful phrases. Although you couldn't get a true politician to own up to it, it is an established fact that, any public speaker who knows the ropes will lower his intelligence level to prevent his words from falling on deaf ears. Two sterling examples would be Sir Winston Churchill and Adlai Stevenson, passed masters at the art of words, both of whom rely heavily on cliches to win .their points. Subtlety and cleverness would go in one ear and out the other of the average audience, and so a good speaker often employs cliches to give the listener the impression that he is a goodown to earth fellow who knows how to express himself. I hate to mention it. but English teachers and English books are the eliche's foremost aggressors. Everyone knoyvs that the last words on any Eng lish teacher's lips are, 'Get some originality into your writing." May it rest in peace. Nevertheless, cliches are here to stay. They fulfill a definite need in the English language. A day's vocabulary not blessed with a single cliche would be rather scanty indeed. . And so I say to you lend me a helping hand. Step by step we shall restore cliches to their right ful position. Leaving no stone unturned, we shall put euh shouldess to the .wheel and as I live and breathe, in less than no time we shall make our enemy, the English teacher, see the writing on the wall. I thank you. THE HILLTOP: L'lL ABNER by Al Capp AH'LLTAKE VO'TO "N EKJILMOOSE" MEB6E J HE'S GOT USED TO X t BBN' MARRIED J Xi ( -TO SOMEONE VJlFA- -HAWV- FACE UKE VO'GOT yaarj Aim 1 f wv. ff- r-THE MOST POPULAR FACE TK.'.r-STrAS3 TOPOFA FAA7XST7CFGCJtfr- AOA'E LUMP StteS GOT VXY77JWG TYE PUBLIC .... y I 1 ' . -3C1 I 1 titt. -t'r" IT l' .. U S 0 Alt POGO by Walt Kelly ' N VOO 9.'AvrU,, WHSffg'P, f A PCOS vvOvA QT V HOW OUR Y -STOP PfflVJN' p C: Squirrel In The Gray Flannel Suit Nancy Hill All the creatures in Chapel Hill don't reside in The Ivory Tower. There are some who live as mun dane a life as the man on Madison Ave. or Main St., U. S. A. The Squirrel in the Gray Flannel Suit is one particular Madison Ave. type. Squirrel lives in the tree at the corner of Saunders and works in the Law School. He commotes every day to and from work. Unlike most commuters, however, he goes home for lunch. He probably thinks Chapel Hill is New York, and may well consider in his furry way that his well-travelled path is the Long Island Railroad. If he spoke with the tongues of men and had time to speak he might be quoting shelley: "Look on ye mighty and despair." The Carolina Quarterly, according to Editor Christian Lefebure, is on the lookout fer poetry and fiction copy readers and writers. Quarterly offices are located on the landing on the lefthand side of Graham Memorial. As we stated in this column Sunday, the Quart erly is interested in seeing any fiction, poetry, or articles on the humanities from Carolina students. Lefebure stated that any art work in form suitable for publication, including photographs'4 'of sculp ture, will be considered. The Fall, 1957 issue will go to press in late Oc tober or early November.
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