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THURSDAY, DECEMBER If, 157 Ttfr DAILY TAR HEEL MCI TWO Deed Of Good Wishes DAILY TAR 111 I I. I'MV. Ol NOKTII CAROLINA I 1 1 IS WISH, in.ulc this a.-.tli d.n ol DonuluT. im",7. I Ih' I).iil I .11 I led .iixl .ill its st.ill. ol ilu- I'nixrisitv of North ('.uolin.i. putiis dI the litst p;itt, to their hiciuls and associates ol the vinic I'nivcrsitv. jmiiu'i ol the second put. VI TNI SSI I II III I s.iid Daily I ar lift I ami iall nit miIxms in onsirk ration of li i( ndsl-ip .mil oilu-r tokens of es 1 1 tin to thfui :4ien by friends and aNsoti.ites. the l f( elpt ,of which is lu'tvht at know ledm d". do wish and extend, to the patties of the second juil. one Near of jood wishes, tnote p.iitu iil.nlv desnihed as follow Ileginning on Det ember ,. ()',". on a dux nun Ltd by joyful festivities inn! I hr i elelnation of the biilhof Clnist; them e tlnough the ) mauling !is ol t T u dns In laiimn v i.. lu.'i. the dawn of a new ein and the day of meaningful resolutions; thence, tin on nil the Winter and early days of sfning, r)f days to Easter, the day celebrating the Resurrection and the day of the Pauide of the Frocks; thence with Spring and Summer, St) days to July Jndf endence Day; thence continuing with Summer and eaily Fall, i 'y days to ovember 27, the day for giving thanks to God; thence with the waning days of i)",n, 33 days to' the day, 1 year from date of beginning, containing fn days of hofe and good cheer. TO HAN K AND TO HOLD one lull year, days, of health and happiness and blessings there unto bclon'ins. to the said friends and associates, parties of the sec ond part. And the said Daily Tar Heel and its stall members, have the liulu to wish to their friends and associates all the happiness and ood eheer during this period of time: and that this period of time Kill begin with a VF.RY MERRY CHRISTMAS and a most JOY ors NKW YEAR. Douglas Eisele, Editor (SEAL) Ear Heel Staff Members (SEAL) Is There A Santa Claus? ('he folio, ring edi toiial ap pealed in jluew )oik Snnonm Sept em In if l. . llT. , : , We l ike pliasuu in answering at onie and pi oininently the com-,, urn 1 1 it .1 1 i i 1 below. epiessing at the same time out gnat gratifica tion that its faithful author is nnm beied among ihe hiends ol Vhe Sun: "12 Dear I ditor: I am N Mats old. Nome ol m little fliends sav time is no Santa Clans. Papa s is "II oii s( r il in I he-Sun it s so.".IMcae tell me the iniih. is theie a Santa Clans? " i 1 i i 1 1 i . i O'llanloii iiginia. oiii little hiends ate wtong. I he have been .diet led b the skept i ism ol a skeptial ig-. I ! u do nol belii'xe e ept tin v mt. I I u think thai nothing tan be whith is not t oiupi ehensi- ble b tlit-ii lillle iiiiikU. All miiitls. '"mi l. whether tins be men's or The Daily Tar Heel The official student put!icar;yn of th Publication Boar J of the University of North Carolina, where it i published tfaily except Sunday, Monday nd exam infion and vacation period and um nifr fermv Entered a second class mat ter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N ('. under the Act of March 8. 1870 Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year $2 .0 a .ernester: delivered. ?6 a year .r)0 a kern ester. K.di tor I)Ol; EISELE Assooiyt' Editor THANK CIIOWTMER Wjr.'.rz Kd.tor AI.YS VOORHEES C News E.htur . TAUL RULE Asst ws Editor ANN FRYE Sports Editor BILL KING Ksst. Sports Editor DAVE WIBLE T.usinesi Manager JOHN WH1TAKER Advertising Manager FRED KATZ1N Librarian GLEN I) A FOWLER Feature Editor MARY M. MASON Subscription M;r. AVEKY THOMAS I'HOTOC.RArilERS Norman Kantor, Buddy Spoon. EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield. Nancy Hill, Gary Nichols. Curtis' Cans, Al Walker, Harry Kirschner. Gail God win. NEWS STAFF Davis Young, Ann Frye, Dale Whitfield. Mary Moore Mason. Stanford Fisher. Edith MacKinnon, Prinze Pipkin. Mary Leggett Brown ing. Ruth Whitley, Sarah Adams, Mar ion Hays. Parker Maddry. Dusinesi Staff WALKER BLANTON, JOHN M INTER, LEWIS RUSH. JVirt Editor PAUL RULE SPORTS STAFF: Rusty Hammond, Elli ott Cooprr, Mac Mahaffy, Carl Keller, Jim Purki. ' .V ',';.,... Nt-hV Editor GRAHAM SNVDF.R children's, are little. In this great universe of onrs man is a mere Insett. an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him. as measured by the in telligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes. Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as loe and generosity and devotion exist, ami you know that they a lwnind and give to your life its highest beauty and jov. Alas! how diearv would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as tlrearv as if there were no Vir ginias. I here would be no child like faith then, no xetrv. no rom ance to make tolerable this exist eme. We should have no enjoy ment, extept in sense and sight. The eternal light with whit h child hood lills the world would be ex tinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not bclicxe in fairies' You might get sour papa to hire men to wauh in all the (himnes 011 Chiistm.is Fe to cath Santa Clans, hut even if tlicy did not hcc .Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? XoImkIv sees Santa Claus. but that is no sign theie is no Santa Claus. The most ica! things in the world are (hose that neither diildien nor men can see. Did von eer see fairies danc ing on the lawn Ol course not, but that's no prool that thev ate not there. Nobodv can conceive 01 imagine all the wondets there aie unseen and unseeable in the wot Id. You tear apait the babx's rattle anil see what makes the noise in side, but there is no veil covering the unseen world whith not the strongest man. nor even the united stiength of all the strongest men that eer lived, could tear apart, only la'uh. f.incv. oetiv. loe. toinante. can push aside that cur tain and xiew and picture the sup ernal beautv and glory bcond. Is it all real? Ah. Virginia, in all this "woild theie is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank Cod! he lics, and he lives forever. A thou sand years from now, Virginia, nay. ten times ten thousand yearn from now. he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood. Drive Carefully In its last publication before the resumption of classes Friday. Jan uary The. Daily Tar He el would remind students to drive cautious ly ami with consideration for others ocr the holidays. Thete will be a heavy flow of trallic on the state's and nation's highways as you drive home to day; probably the tralfic will be een greater when you begin the trip back to Chapel Hill after New Year's. In upholding student argument lor a oue-da extension of the Christmas holidays Ave owe it to ourselves and to the administration to drive carefully on the highways. The danger of travel, after, all. played a key role in the administ ration's decision. Our next newspaper will be pub lished Saturday. January , and we'd rather not have anv stories about student tragedy occurring during the Yuletide season. Do your part to make the holidays safe ones. CAROLINA CARROUSEL 'Ivy League 'Collegiate7 Are Different By WHIT WHITFIELD Many people are under the false Impression that the words Ivy and Collegiate are synonomous. Not hing could be further from the truth, and we would like to show why. Pleatless slacks with a narrow cut and a buckle in back, parti cularly khakis, are Ivy for a while. . After they have been a worn a dozen or so without being washed or pressed, and . after the buckle is broken or allowed to remains unbuckled, they becomt- collegiate. Three-button-coltared shirts, in stripes or prints, with a pleat in the back are Ivy. These usually sell for $7 and up .Three-button collared skirts with no pleats are pseudo-Ivy or collegiate. These start at $2.98 in most department stores. Dirty bucks are collegiate; sneakers are Ivy. Tasseled loafers in black or cordovan, plain-tipped, wing-lipped and cordovan loafers are Ivy. Black and brown loafers with stitches almost missing and almost sole-less are Collegiate. Worn GI shoes are collegiate for veterans and ROTC students, back country for all others and in bad taste. Woollen Gym socks and similar athletic socks are collegiate. Dark browns, blacks, and blues in cot ton or wool are Ivy. Bright argyles and stripes (vertical or horizontal are the birds. Sweaters, both crew nock and the new three end four button car digans, are Ivy. Crewnocks. size M on a forty inch chest, with sleeves rolled down, are collegiate. Sports coats with throe buttons 19."7 vintage are Ivy; with throe buttons 1 19.12 vintage 1 are colle giate. Hals are Ivy for those who can wear them, c-ollejjiate or those lio cannot. London Fog and Alligatoi rain coats are Ivy. Plastic raincoats and Daily Tar Heels are collegiate. No raincoat is idiotic. Black umbrellas are Ivy. They have finally shedded the social stigma which has boon attached these many years, thank goodness. An umbrella belonging to your wife or mother may as well be considered collegiate, for this is the first step one takes before buying for himself. Topcoats and car coats are Ivy. Airforce, Army, and Navy jackets are collegiate. Although we may be stretching the point, we consider eating throe meal per as Ivy. and coffee for breakfast and a sandwich at Y court as collegiate. If we haven't proven our point, then it's just as well, becuase we didu't think it a very convincing argument to begin with. From Earl Wilson's Column: "It was Eli Whitney (says Dave Gar rowayi who told his noisy neigh bors, 'Keep your cotton pic-kin hands off my gin.' " "A World Lefl Behind ul -.- . .-. 4 - : (lift Idock Is on Vacation J ERIC THE RED Copyright 1957. The Pulitzer Publlsblng Co. St. Louis Post-Dispatcn Good Will Toward Men - Or Is It Just Toward Friends? By HARRY KIRSCHNF.U We have all boon taught tohave a warm place in our hearts for Christmas. Most of us struggle through each yuletide season year after year trying to Jiiaintain that glow. As children we not only main tainod a warm spot, we kept a raging inferno in our hearts for Christmas, our love of the holiday having been what it was. When else but on Christmas did Santa drop down to earth and givq ujs all presents and goodies? We did not argue the point; we ' knew which side our bread was butter ed on. But as we grew older we learn ed some of the hard facts of life. One of the most important being that however much we should en joy toys, it was socially unaccep table to play with them after one passed his twenty-first birthday. When this fact finally overcame all the intellectual resistance that we could muster and was accept ed as unchangeable law some of the joy of Christmas left us, and the image dimmed. We tried to assuage this loss with the belief that Christmas is the time of good will toward men. If we had felt particularly optimis tic we could also have believed it was the time of peace on earth. Our effort was successful for a time. We chanted annually, good will toward men, good will to ward men. and harked back to the days when we sat on whomeso cver's knee and listened to the telling of the poem, THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS. It is a charming poem about Santa Claus and all the toys that we used to love overtly. This Christmas the chants seem to ring somewhat hollow. The TV announcer, looks out at us serious ly and says, "It is now the yule tide season, the time of good will toward men. Remember, there are only five shopping days left until Christmas." He then turns to the next page of his script and announces, "And now for the news. President Eisenhower met at Pa ris again today with other NATO members to discuss the problem of Russian arms superiority. It was stated at the meeting that if the west does not start a stepped-, up rocket program Russia will be able to conquer us instead of us conquering them." And so on. Our old concept of good will to ward men has died. We have an other one now which runs: good will toward men who live in coun tries we like, and a curse on those in countries we fear. And so, this Christmas Eve we will gather to gether, chant the new thought over a few times, and go home to bed with , a new NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS poem turning over in our minds. It goes something like this: Twas the night before Christmas And heck and damnation. Not a consumer was buying In the whole goldurned nation. Dulles was hung by the chimney with care. In hopes that by morning he wouldn't be there. The people were nestled all snug in their beds While delusions of grandeur danc-, ed in their heads. And Ike in his palace, and I in my shack. Had just settled down for a long winter's nap. When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter, 1 sprang from my bed to see what the matter. Away to the window I flew like a flash, Tripped over the night pot and fell with a crash. The soot on the crest of the new fallen snow Gave the dullness of coal fields to objects below. When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a minature missile drawn by men in great fear With a little old driver so neat and so quick, I knew in a moment it must be a trick. More rapid than light'ning to shel ter I flew, Yanked open the door and from sight I withdrew. Now I say to you from inside my room bomb tight, Merry Christmas to all, and to all "i good night SLIGHTLY OFF The team had just lost an im portant game and the coach was explaining it to the sports report ers : "I used an unbalanced line and the backfield wasn't very smart, either." N. C. Education L'lL ABNER by Al Capp AS FAR AS OU'Re" AND IF NOU EVER SAV I H I , " 1 POGO : wn't an -ro CARP, BurJ IrSlCOY. by Walt Kelly HO l MgAN V T CRH5INAL. A ion 5 'VAKKUSPLL hhw. ic a-tr i s f t v X W WITH dQSJOti N -rr-7s7 PQHIUMMgAiQHfWTH A TITI.B UKc THAT ( BOW-WOWS . I V ChristmdsDay Time re ' 4 ForWbna lounii By DAVIS YOUNG December 25, 1957. What will this day mean to you and yours? Will it be just another Xmas gather ing at the house with the opening. of presents and, an exchange of gifts? Will it be a commercial and: mercenary and selfish day? These may seem to you unimportant questions that don't concern you directly. After all, you say, "isn't Christmas a day that we get away from it all and f or'get the problems of daily life in a complex civilization full of Sputniks and Eisenhowers and Arkansas?" , . If you are unrealistic, then the answer is "yes" Maybe you want to get away from the immediate past. However, if you are realistic, then you realized you can't escape what hos happened to the world recently and you are willing to face the difficult challenges and barriers of the near future. For if you are really realistic and hopeful,, you will see in Christmas Day something more than a cash register victory for the local merchants. Possibly you will see in part an answer to some of the questions facing us today. Although we as a nation are involved in what is being termed a fatal arms race, and we as a nation are years behind our counterparts in missile production, and we as nation condone actions such as have taken place recently in Arkansas, the answer in the immediate sense does not lie with us as a nation. Instead, it lies with you the individual. Eefore we can get the country squared away, we have to get curselves as individuals squared away. This is where Christmas Day, 1957, really ties in. On, the 25th of this month, it is important to tske stock of. Your "state oi union." It is important no matter who you are, be you pessimist, optimist, introvert, extrovert, boy, girl, man, woman black, white, American or Russian. Figure out where you are going and what you want to do. Then, when you have done this, do not deviate from the path you have selected. Figure out what kind of world you wont to live in, and then do your best to make it this kind of place. On the 25th of this month think of the true mean- ' in? of Christmas Day. Pray for your family and friends and your world. And pray for your Christian brothers, be they Negroes or whites; be they in Moscow or New York. On this day. Christians the world over are united in some way. Too bad Christmas doesn't come every day for just this reason. LETTERS TO EDITOR Excuses On Hbnor I would like to comment on a recent letter in The t)aily Tar Heel which pointed out that the loss of personal belongings shelved while eating in, a local cafeteria may indicate a weakness in our Honor System which would contraindicate an ex tension of the Honor System to absence excuses. Any loss of property is regrettable and the situa tion should be remedied by the proper authority and the persons involved. First, the doors of the local cafeteria are open to the general public; even though it may be pri marily intended for students, it is used by faculty, students, University and cafeteria employees, visit ing relatives of students, friends of the University, and, no doubt, to some extent by townspeople. Granted that the majority of the clientele is stu dents, it does not follow that all thefts (or .even any, some or most) are student thefts and there fore violations of the Honor System. Second, trust of one's fellow men may be es. sential in a productive satisfying life, and necessary to orderly life in a complex society. In a more prac tical sense, we buy. automobile' insurance but we take the wheel trusting that the other drivers will stop at the signal lights and stop signs. This is not to disparage banks, laws, insurance, which are all necessary, but to question the choice, from all possiblevattitudes, of the callous attitude of dis trust and suspicion! I am reminded of the bartender who solved the proverbial problem of that kind Of enterprise by painting on the wall in large gilt letters the motto which appears on all U. S. coin. At the side of the motto, in smaller, more business-like letters, he painted " all others pay cash". I would suggest that all students who trust themselves and their fellow students, and who be lieve in the University of North Carolina both as a University and as a training ground for our cit izenry, endorse the extension of the Honor System to absence excuses. DAVID S. BALL On Fanaticisim' No one will deny that our generation is experi encing one of the most turbulent and crucial eras of all mankind. We may even ask each other at times if "fellow man" and "human value" are not things of the past, ideas which were pertinent to some long forgotten group in the far off days of old. We look around and so often see men demon strating their inhumanity to other men; we see per sonal ambitions warping men's minds; we see so many human beings devoid of kindness, considera tion and compassion for their fellow men we see this and may ask "just what does the 20th century man live by?" George Santayana, writing "On Fanaticism" in The New Republic in 1915, had some advice which we all may well heed: "Nothing will repay a man for becoming inhu man. The aim of life is some way of living, as flex ible and gentle as human nature; so that ambition may stoop to kindness, and philosophy to candor and humor. Neither prosperity nor empire no heaven can be worth winning at the price of a virulent temper, bloody hands, an anguished spirit. nd a vain hatred of the rest of the world."