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FAOi' TWO THE DAILY TAR' HPIL SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 197 ; Legislative Power Grab; Machiavellian Rep. Long And His McCarthyism . . Siuclviit P.ntv Kcioscnt;itie Tom I.n; h;is taken a subtle stab at liccdom ol the press. MiitUiiis will lemeinber lliat Rtp. l.nj; became known last year lor ihe iii;in.il Loir; Resolution which condemned I'mstead State Park olliu'.iU lor drmin; the use ol park labilities to Tjiivcrsity Negro stu l ut I .t in I -'i.isiei . App.neuth Rep. I..nv; lias let his notoriety o to his liberal head, .mil now let Is he can attack a bas- u MiKtitan nisi 1 1 1 1 1 urn-an iiimi liilion un)situtinall guaranteed in the 1 iist Amendment of the T.ill -.1 Ri-hts. l ull.; now wants to investigate the newspapeis ol other tollccs: "( )ua!ilit at il'iis lov editoiship. editoti il polities, and methods of selet tin; t h; editor . . ." It is obioiis that I .on", is at ieuipiiii'4 to enh.uue his political prestige on the campus. And it is obion that he desires that the Student 1 tislatuie to take control ol I he Daily Tai 1 leel s editorial p li . Now what better group handle t tliioi i d polii v- ust last week the It-is!. nine called oil its meeting bet a use onh a handful show ed up. An I last ni'Jit had not een Rep. I .otig s party l.ilf its members pieseui onl about ten Student P.iitv Legislators bothered to ex t it ise their elected i ights. I liioirjioitt the years, the leg islature has held I he Daily Tar Heel s funds to'an absolute mini mum. Perhaps this year, the paper will be cut off entirely. Then it (tnld Income a publitity sheet for student government and its subordinate the Student l.egisla line. We should like to suggest that the legislature apjoint a commit tee to investigate the State Stu dent Legislature of which Rep. Long is a member. Long has appointed his room mate to the legislative selections, apparently with the ulterior mo tive of being named chairman, of the Carolina delegation through pat king its membership with Long Ion es. We detest Long's pomposity anil his brand of subtle power gra I . Perhaps this campus McCarthy bears a Mt Carthvistu t ton . . . invest iga- Spectatorism And TV s: Must Intramurals Suffer? The I'nitttl States is rapidly becoming a nation of sedentary spec tator. It is ninth easier to be a Monday morning quarterback than a parti cipant in am lieltl ol athletic endeavor. Plivsiial fitness, we contend, is being satiilitttl on the television l 1 I ss. Ann rit aus waiih lights, ami baseball and wrestling ami football and basketball. nd most will tell ou uith avid enthusiasm: No one siippoits athletics moie Yes sii, 1 pull lor mv than I. le.iMis. I.ut wht about participation in. aihleiits? Sim h participation is be ing limited to a spec ialietl lew orball plavers horn Pennsylvan ia. basLttball" plavers Iroin New Yotk and Indiana and other athle tes liom other ateas. All this, while on the tampus heie. the iiitiamuial athletic pro giam is totistantly plagued by lor ieits and wilhdt'.iwaU. A dornii toiv ol too men tatft lield a foot The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publication r.oar.l of the University of North Car-lina. where it is published daily except Sundav. Monday and exam ination and vacation vruU and sum mer terms. KnUred as second class mat- tor in the post ""-'c in chaP('1 IIllI N C under the Act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: mailed. $4 per year, S2 0 a semester; delivered. $6 a year, y. .() a semester. IMitor rood Kditor M.inasins Kditor News Kditor "Asst. News Kditor NKIL BASS AI.YS VOORHEKS " l)OU(TT:iSKLK HILL CHESHIRE PATSY MILLER Sports Editor BILL KING Asst. Sports Editor DAVE WIBLE r,u71.T7s Manaqe7 JOHN WHITTAKER Manager FRED KATZ1N Circulation Manager Wire Editor SYD SHUEORD T PAUL RULE Subscription Msr AVERY THOMAS Feature Kditor BEN TAYLOR Librarian GLYNDA FOWLER FKATIT.E STAFF Jackie Ilaithcock, Monk Wilson. Chuck Howerton. EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield, Nancy Hill, Gail Godwin, Al Walters. NEWS STAFF Davis Young. Ann Frye, Dale Whitfield. Mary Moore Mason, Stanford Fisher, Edith MacKinnon, Prinze Pipkin. SPORTS STAFF Erwin Fuller. Mac Ma haffy. Al Walters. Ed Rowland, Ken Frientlman. Donnie Moore, Neil Leh rman. Elliott Cooper, Carl Keller, Jim Purks, Rusty Hammond. Norman Kantor, PHOTOGRAPHERS P.uddy Spoon. Night Editor ALTON CLAYTOR proofreader ALTON CLAYTOR ball team of eleven players or a sohball team ol ten and so on. One ;robleiii miht be solved if the lTniversity offered some form of remuneration to intra mural managers in the dormi tories and fraternities. It's a full time job. And it's worth some re compensefree room or board or both. Athletics to be trite actually does help instill a sense ol com petition and fair plav if proper ly administered in its partici pants. I hns the intramurals pioi.im should be dvnamic. And students should be yanked from their desks periodically and from television's patalvinj; h pilosis. , Acoidin;4 to the University In tramurals Department Field- Su pervisor Don Atkins, "Rcsonse ' this year has been ;ood . . . bet ter than usual.'' , lint Atkins sounded a warning note concern in;.; a trend which alwavs devclopoN, the trentl to ward miihitii(linMis forfeits later in the year. It is our hope that the Intra murals program will considerably strengthen its program this year. If Ihe Daily Tar Heel has to lieltl a team t help the proran then that may be worked out too. America's physical fitness should not be sacrilied iion the cross of spet tatorisin and sedentarism . . . Modern Living: Number Two... Modern Living in (iraham Me orial Student l.'nion has suffered a severe setback as a result of poor janitorial service and poor main tenance. Offices in CM have been con sistently the victim of fire hazards huge piles of trash which have accumulated over a period of days. And the fog-pulling, fast-talking politicians and journalists which Iretjuent these offices have been denied refreshment lor their parch ed throats as a result of a month broken water fountain on the sec ond floor. The student union should have its own janitorial service, rather than having janitors appointed by the Buildings (rounds Dept. which has failed to provide ade quate supervision. Patched throats and fire hazard . trash heaps do not make for Mod ern Living .... VIEW FROM THE HILL: Democracy And 'Sputnik7 And Satisfied Reds By GANS The tables are turned. Once upon a time, not very Ion? ago. the United States was able to publish the truth to all the world and was quite willing to back these statements up with demonstration. The Russians at the same time had to fortify their propoganda with falsehood, threats and promises. The ease is different now. Rus sia is able to print the truth for propoganda purposes and back it up with fact. Granted that this truth is selected and taken out of context; yet, it is this very kind of propogan da that can most sway the minds of men. It was reported by Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, that the Russians, in describing the debacle at Little Rock, published the true Little Rock story. With no story, to show the contrast between Little Rock of Sept. 1957, and the rest of the United States through its history, the aver age Russian will get a picture of mob violence, of racist antipathy, of a governor who can for a time null ify the law of the land, and of the central governments forcing down the throats of unwilling citizens laws repugnant to them by military coercion. Xo one in his right mind would want to say that this was typical of America, or even that the events pictured are in proper perspective, but this is all that the average Rusian would hear about the United States, with the possible exception of the Voice of America which they are told, as Americans are told of Radio Moscow, is a propoganda organ. Incidents will come up which will be harmful to American prestige in the eyes of all the other natives of the world and especially those be hind the Iron Curtain. However, the responsible citizens of America must see the ramifications of their foolhardiness, before, not after, they act. It was not too long ago when the U. S. could boast of its scientific achievement, and the Russians cou'.d only talk in terms of probabil ity and five year plans. With the recent firing of the inter continental Ballistic Missile and the successful launching of "Sputnik," the earth satellite, the "Russians need only to tell of these events i iitl they show to the world a pic ture of power. Moreover, they do not tell the world about the uncomforts ol Russian life, so unless one listens 'to American propoganda, the listener will get a partial view of Russia ' that of success in the fields of science and engineering. Yet, if the Russians wanted to, they might publish the following ac count, which would be equally ef fective in the cold war: "Althougn the Soviet Union does limit political fieedom somewhat, by being united toward a goal, we can and have produced more than the so-called free states of the world. It was through the sacrifices of the great mass of the Russian people that we are able to claim this accom- 'Those Crazy Egghead Scientists If You Didn't Hold 'Em DownXJiey'd Wan T To Reach For The Moiv I a 11? OFFICERS RCSEAKCH HAPPfttEP ilM plishment." The majority of Amer icans would see through the holes in this, but this is the kind of pro poganda that wins over the sym pathies of the nations that are fence hangers, This too must be contrasted with the American propoganda of recent weeks, which talks of great plans while the two experiments of the Atlas 1CBM fizzled. Moreover, in stead of the unified .statements of the Russian scientists, there are statements by James llaserty, to t he effect that the U. S. was-not in a satellite race with Russia; by . a scientist quoted in the New York Times. "Now the pressure is off," by Charles E. Wilson. Senator Wiley, and Dwight Eisenhower, to the ef fect that there was no danger; by various scientists and men like Stuart Symington, that the danger is at best very great: by certain Washington spokesmen that the U. S. retains the control of the lead in technological and scientific ' pro gress', and by other perhaps anti administration spokesmen that the United States needs to catch up. This is the propoganda dilemma that is confronting the U. S. at pre sent. It is a dilemma of being able to counter the selected truth of the Russians, by prophecy, sophistry, and confusion. The U. S. must again get it self in position whereby their propoganda system is a help rather than a hin drance. The U. S. must prepare it self scientifically through greater outlay of money so that it can meet Russia's challenge with the truth. Democracy has a message for all peoples of the world. Democracy's must be clear, based on fact, and uncontradictory. MORE READERS' REPOSITORY: Inebriation Assailed: Is A Nation Falling? ? Editor: When it becomes necessary for a paper to print such articles as Thursday's "Random Ramblings" by Mr. Al Walker, it is time to pull down the shades, lock the office door, and call it quits. A University newspaper is no place for .a braggart to parade his drunkenness before the eyes of the public. It would seem that Mr. Walker was in this drunken state which he enjoys so much when he wrote, "Positiveness Accentuated: Drinking Is Fun, Fun ..." I prefer to think that nobody who had control of his thinking capacity could or would write such an asinine article. Apparently Mr. Walker is try ing to be funny. His first para graph relating his conversation with another inebriate seems to be pointing toward that goal, it seems more pathetic than funny, however, when a person is proud of a sense of values such as his. I have no doubt, Mr. Walker, that you feel no twinge of con science as you "rush past the people of the Salvation Army and other worthwhile charities." Your sole interest is encased in your "wonderful brown sack." It is a rather sad commentary on our society that charities need to station people outside liquor stores in hopes that people like you will toss them a dime. Congratulations Mr. Walker. You did what you set out to do. You wrote something very posi tive. Everett Whatley Fetier Field House Editor: After witnessing the past three football games at Chapel Hill, one eonnot help but note the lack of real Carolina school spirit as depicted in days of old. I will concede to the fact that Car olina has not produced winning teams in football for several years; however, that should be no excuse for the long faces and a bearly audible cheering sec tion. Even the cheerleaders fail lo show the enthusiasm of a true Tar Heel. Whether we win or lose, the least we can do is not only show the team we are solid ly behind them, but we should restore the campus spirit for which all of us have been so proud. May I suggest that we begin by encouraging students and alumni to follow our team on their games away from home as well as at home. This should by all means include our band and cheerleaders at all games. The team is going to do its part, and with the knowledge of such sup port, I feel sure, that it will re store much of that lost confi dence of the team and coaches. An Alumnus, Class of '49 READERS' REPOSITORY: RetortRehash, And Blasts ' tt- . Editor: Heed you, medical students. One Frank Crcrw ther, undergraduate philosopher and sarforical ar biter has decided that you are improperly and un couthly attired on your sojourns uptown. My, my, boys, you shouldn't wear your whites, because in them you look pompous, and you are just begging for attention. Besides you are obviously very castrat ing to Mr. Crowther. 1 ; ' You say that your hours are long, your schedule is packed, your whites are comfortable and you just don't have the time or energy "to change for a thirty minute lunch. Quite true, but . that is no excuse, as Mr. Crowther has many friends, among them some doctors, a psychiatrist or so, and the infirmary staff. He even knows an interne. None of them wear their whites uptown. What Mr. Crowther failed to mention was that none of his friends, except the interne, (who never gets up town anyway) have to wear whites at all. But all of this doesn't matter, for Mr. Crowther has spoken and you should heed. Betty Bryan Alley Of Dictionaries... Editor: Recently while reading the edit page of th? DAILY TAR HEEL, I came across a word I didn't know. I looked it up in Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary. Three different meanings of the word were listed but none of these would fit sensibly into the context of the sentence. I then went to a more detailed dictionary in the library. Two other meanings besides the Ihree in Webster's wer listed. One of these would fit in a vatte sort of way, but this meaning is no longer used in modern English. This made me curious about the other large words sprinkled generously about the page, so 1 checked these in the same way. Most of these were used correctly. However for each of Ihese words there was at least one more simple and familiar synonym. I don't pretend to knw anything about journal ism, but I always thought the purpose of an edit page is to influence the readers in making opin ions. This may or may not be true in your case, but if it is, it seems to me the editor would use a simple, direct style of writing that is easy to un derstand and leaves no doubt about the editors position. A down-to-earth approach i.f powerful and shows conviction. Pedantry, however, is an affected, easily-forgotten impotence. Or rather, an obnoxious sterility, ensensate flattery of the ego. Joe Hewitt (If the edit probed you to investigate and open your dictionary, a purpose has been ful filled. Edits art made to provoke thought. The Editor). L'lL ABNER by Al Capp ( MEET KING ABDUL V THE EXHAUSTED ( HOW ( WHICH ONE? ) ' I the EXHAUSTED AND I ARE. COOKI NG UP A LITTLE I DEAL. BETWEEN US WE'LL V OWN EV ERV TH I NG if- V. ( BUX DUE TO OUR AMERICAN ) II COMMUNITY PROPERTV S ) LAW.VOUASMV WIFE, ) I I . . l-r i POGO by Walt Kelly TO l$ TrM ycj AiN'T SOT NO NO5" w'2g nttav lAGii r r TTf VP, ( j Si ' &sr soj eyo rv5 6-o tztcKlt WA5 PUMH A5 Tw NO OK AW fACE, AN' I? 1 AIN'T SOT NOS$, M&Hr PLAIN KIN IT BE Y " 7 1 ri HOW sa Auguo. wiaa uaw aoru von MAww'iao H MgLU IP HE- SOT NO NOg"T ll&HT Of TUg 0S'OU$ 9&Hii "tt'eVZRY rUHHY'A QOOV lOfJmZURm'THBWORlP- cJBKS"OA&AP Wf HIM. V- r?'u AC, MlM ASK HIM. 911 01 T ve IIS? 0 l mm 52 Escort Service Dear Miss Godwin: We were greatly disturbed by your account of the great number of "dateable, loveable, present able . . . able" coeds who are forced to listen to Carolina football games over the radio on Satur day afternoons. We do hereby offer our services as guides to lead these languishing lassies through; the intrica cies of Kenan Wood to direct them to the field of play. (This service is free to all coeds too timid to venture into the wilds alone.) Ray B. Hodge James F. Weaver NICHOLS FOR YOUR THOUGHTS: Intangible Spirit 8t Satellite Fright By NICHOLS I'm curious about these reports I've been hear ing of a rebirth of "school spirit" on campus. This phenomenon seems to hit at unusual times. The last time I heard any mention of it was during last year's basketball season. (You remember last year's basketball season, don't you? 32 straight wins ) It seems to me that "team spirit" (and winning team, at that) would be more the word for it. I've seldom met anyone on campus who really cared whether or not ol' UNC came out on top in any cross-country meets, soccer games, and the like. Soccer, for one, can be quite a good spectator sport. It's got speed, teamwork, sharp passing and individual as well as, team excellence. And, inci dentally, cheerleaders, it has wonderful potential for cheering and like activities. It's no secret that soccer is the national sport in a great many foreign countries. Surely, it must have something. to recom mend it to such vast crowds. I do not mean to merely single out soccer, but I think it is a good example of one of the "forgotten sports" here at UNC. ' r I was watching a very studious looking gentle man working in the library the other day, He was writing frantically with a faraway look in his eye; and, occassionally he would tear up a sheet and start againFinally, after a long interval of inactivi ty, he looked up and I heard him say to a,.compan ion: "Hey, what's a good rhyme for satellite?" SATj U'. St I The r tion So: dom an aired h student the US llarr before titnts , foterii countnl Kenr countrlj action came United IS! I and Mi 5-aid K The lis u re pie of in the Kent, the LI pea red j people c riinin Th: and it Ctiei i A ui tint i miid s;iid. Kin hur .i
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