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FRI DAY, JANlARY; 1 0, 1 953
PACE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Students Failing Probers
It now stilus tli.it students "in
(.rally .itc looking with apathy up
on .isj).iHi Research Commit
tee healings leiu held in (.rali.im
Memoi i.il.
()l si pei sons who .i)pe.ued le
loie the tommittee Tuesday, all
aie now or htxe heen associated
with The Daih Tar Heel. NOT
ONI. 1M RSON nis.vssoc.i.vr-
I I) W i l li I III V AIM R HAS
M l AIM'I AR I I) lil.OKI. THK
C()II M i l .
I hiis we see that apprais.il ol
the I a i Heel and suggestions to
inipioxe it aie coming horn with
in the puhlii at ion. That is not as
it should he. partieul.it l siiue the
healings aie heinu held hv a tom
mittee set up h the student leis
1 it in e.
Indeed, il onl Tar Heel asso
c i ales aie to appear heloie the
committee, it would have heen
eisiei lot the legislature to tome
tliicitlv io our diaham Memoiial
ollices and iutrixirxv u h stall
in e 1 1 1 1 e i as i: saw lit.
We do nut leel that t Ik- Ic.:M.i
line wanted to limit its lindiirs
mtlx to Daih I'.n Heel stall inctii
heis. and lot thai le.ison c: up a
1 1 1 1 1 1 n i 1 1 (.' e to uet a I oss-sei t ion ol
testi:uon and ideas honi iiir.iiit
aie is ol th.- i aiupiis. It is unfoi
tun. lie th it. thus I n . the loinniit
tee has I tiled hi th it lespei I.
Some surest ions, doiihtless. ill
tome otil ol i Ik' Newspipei Rt
v.iuh ( '.ouunitlee hen in and ic
poits horn oihei lollees and uni
uisities in the toiiiux. I hesf will
he presentttl to the lei;islat inc. de
h iied. and its not iiu oiiteiahle
that some ol them ax i 1 1 he adopted
as Inline poiiiv lot the puhlita-
lioll.
In lat t. it is the ewsp iper Re-
seal eh Committee' which is the
heart til the Student Legislature'
investigation ol the Daily Tat
Heel Ami when it icports to the
legislature, it will do so with the
authority ol a hody hain;4 studied
at t lose rane suggestions and ideas
to iniproxe the paper.
Then, outside ol the legislature,
it will he too late lor a crowscc
tiou ol student opinion on the in
vestigation. From, this apathy
could grow .student dislike lor
let oiinncntlatioiis at a time too
late to do anything about it. The
committee leport will hae been
presentttl without benefit of sug
gestions from a cross-section ol stu
dents. The argument has been nude
iliat Far Heel stall membeis, be
cause they are t lose to the paper,
aie in a better osition to make
let onnnendations I'm it. To a de
vice that is true. It follows that
persons who work on the paper
know more about its operations
and .shortcomings than those who
are not familiar with it.
Nevertheless, there could exist
on the campus ideas about the
newspaper which would not ouh
be an asset to the committee hear
ings, but which also niijjit play
some iole in detei mining luture
polic lor the Far Heel. And such
ideas coming fioin non-Tar Heel
stalf members would be made with
out possibility of poison. il inter
est in the publication, save that it
bci ome an imp: oxed one lot the
uni ei sitv c onununit .
Thus far. it appears that the
committee healings have been
little more than the newspaper's
examination of itsell and am
oo knows that that is not the pur
pose ol an inestigatie body.
GUEST EDITORIAL
Look Again, Gov. Hodges
I asi week (o. l iiihel Hodges
said t tint a hall million I si heats
lund dollns weie available hi
ollegc loans but that he had
lound 'students Ust don't want to
Immow miH and base to it
h.k.
foo;s im.ioY if .ipu-.ir lli.it col
lege students weie not much in
leicsted in getting an education,
but he would have done better if
he had taken a close look at met
hods b which this nionc is loan
ed, to see whethei l'nicisit loan
lund olliiials theniseUes aie ciy
iiiiuh iuteiested in education.
W'e speak liom the expel ience
ol hiving out e tiitil to get. a stu
dent loan bom this lahtilotis bind
ol a hall million unused doll. its.
Some led tape is inevitable in
aux loan, but we I uud it was east
n to boiow llom banks ol ilidi
xiduals thin to tlx to srper.ite
N.( . olliiials lioru a clolln ol
this inonex.
he loin lund people di nialid
is linn h statement ol sec in itx
coll.iici.il as the bank people
I hex insist on a note signed
people ol propel t just as a
I
jllsl
and
do.
bx
are easier to justify to a bank than
to the rnixeisity loan olliee.
I he loan olliee is nunc likelx to
suggest what expenses von should
cut than to lend son money. Cen
evallv its attitutle to many loan
aijlii. nits xe have knoxvn has
heen tli. it the world is full of thiev
es and mightn't you just be one?
Perhaps what happened to us is
what happens to maiiv of these
other applicants. 1 the time w.c
were final I .' approved for a loan
wc preferred t go into debt to
someone else rather than the I'ni
eisity loan lund- And we did. and
weie able to icpay it long belore
anv loan lund deadline would
haxe applied.
II other students haxe teat ted
as we did. then their piobleni is
not icpavitig money. It's getting
it in the liist plate.
Anil the ice cut
which stated thai
loan olliiials almost
students to take the
news leleasc
' I " 1 1 i x c r s it x
haxe to beg
money" nr'st
CAROLINA CARROUSEL:
Reds Are Busy
Producing Own
Unreal Culture
Ry GAIL GODWIN
After the "beat-Russia-making-satellites"
race began, several of
the better American Shinkers be-,
gon xvarning of the danger of a
singular, scientifically-focused
aim. They pointed out xxhat had
happened to countries who mo
mentarily sacrificed their culture
in order to make
hank does. AikI their attitude ts
one o xague lep'oach. as il it is
l.uiiilx sinlul to be in college with
out being li.li.
I he lac t that Mm may be a stt ug
glin; studiiit with lamilx. no in
come exi epi what xou tan cam
bctwteu classes, and no collateial
bexoiid what xou aie now tt. lining
xoin mind to do these things
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t h e scientific!
field. j
They gave
examples. Ger
many. Japan.!
And now Russia.!
Their arguments
were plausible.
Obviously Hus-
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Associate Editor
Managing Editor
News Kclitor
Asst. News Kditor
DOUG CIS ELK
FRANK CROWTIIER
ALYS VOORIIEES
PAUL RULE
ANNFRYh
Sports Editor BILL KRxIG
Sports Editor
DAVE W1BLE
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GRAHAM SNYDER
GRAHAM SNYDER
be a xerx recent innovation.
When a student is winking his
wax through college he leels he is
giaduallx learning both individual
i e spoiisibilitx ami dignity. Hodges
and loan lund olliiials should re
member that the same student pred
icts to borrow liom organizations
which treat him actoidingly.
I hr Sanfonl l)uil Ilt'iuld
Local Chapter
Has Project
I he Tinted Nations nexci has
attained the world stature xxhich
xv. is hoped lor it alter the body's
loi niation billowing World War H-
Instead, a united organization
loi world peace seemingly has be
come second place to the impend
ing .si niggle betxveen the Tithed
.States and Russia lor supremacy
on the planet.
II the Tinted Nations is to siu
xixe, it will take a concerted cl
ient on the "grass roots" lex els ol
all nations, and it is to that end
that ehapteis of the Collegiate
Council lor the Tnitecl Nations
are being established across the
country.
We aie glad to see that the
TNC chapter ol CCCN is doing
its pait tow aid world peace in at
tempting to establish other chap
ters ol CCTN at colleges and uni
xeisities in North Carolina. And
we hope that the presence here
this weekend ol Mrs. I.le.rnor Roos
evelt, hersell a strong advocate of
the Cubed Nations, will be an as
set to the local chapter's project.
sia thought so, too.
Recently, she has been wooing
Argentina xvhose provisional gov
ernment v ill have elections next
year with her 'cultural prowess."
She has rented a downtoxvn
movie theater lor a clever, Mos
cow produced movie bill of clas
sics, space stories, cartoons, prop-.
'itRitvcia' and adventure films. ''
She sent the Rolshoi Theater bal
let to the South American country
this fall tor three successful per
formances. Violinist Igor OistraUh gave con
certs and lectured throughout Ar
gentina, j
Chess masters from the Soviet
are touring the country: local book
publishers are being subsidized to
turn out inexpensive editions of
Karl Marx and other books with
pro-communist the-.es; artists,
engineers, and scientists have been
offered all-expense-paid trips to
Russia.
Here in America, the Russian
Embassy is busy putting out neat,
slick masaines xvitli beautiful cov
ers. Such as USSR. The magazines
feature Russia's intellects and
artists, the picture stories of prog
ress in Russian education, etc.
t)ne article recently running was
entitled "Towards Progress,
Friendship, and Truth."
Yes. the Big Red Country can
mass-produce culture along with
her firecrackers and rockets. For
momentary purposes, that is. But
a quick look ' behind the scenes
may reveal that Russia's culture,
like beauty in the proverb, is on
ly skin-deep.
lohn Arends. of Olympia. Wash.,
can tell you xvhat any man knows
that becoming a father is no
picnic. After an all-night vigil at
the hospital. Mr. Arends proudly
rushed up to kiss his xvifc as she
was wheeled from the delivery
room. At the whiff of the ether,
he passed out cold, landed ker
plunk on the eoneiete floor. Moth
er, and child? Doing fine. Father?
Two broken teeth and a banged-up
face!
PROSPECT FOR 1958
"jNcvcr Mind About Trees And Soil
- Make Us Some Fruit"
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Committee To Give iwo Reports
By CHARLIE SLOAN
(Tiiis is the second of three)
columns on the student legis
lature's neirspaper research
co'it'iiitlee. Sloan is (t former
i:atuv:ii)i(J editor of Tlie Daily
Tar Heel.)
When the committee to investi
gate the selection of Daily Tar
Heel editors takes its findings to
the legislature on February there
will be two reports.
The committee has already
agreed that a minority report as
xvell as a majority report xvill be
filed with the student law-makers.
But it appears that members of
the committee haxe already de
cided who is going to write which
report. At least one member of
the committee is already confident
that his side will be presented to
the public only in the form of a
minority statement.
That a distinction apparently al
ready exists between the feelings
of the committee members is un
fortunate. They have not yet gath
ered enough information to arrive
at logical conclusions, so it must
follow that each of them started
the inx cstigalion with a precon
eiexed notion of the outcome.
This split in opinion has already
shown itself in the committee's
policy toward the press. The hear
ings could be conducted in sev
eral ways. There could be fully
open hearings, similar to the in
vestigative circuses in Congress.
Or the " interviews." as one mem
ber of tlie committee would rather
they be" called, could be conduct
ed one at a time in the manner of
Honor Council investigations.
A third alternative would be to
hold individual interviews with a
reporter coxering the session for
The Daily Tar Heel.
Tuesday's hearing was publiciz
ed as "open." On Monday report
ers on the student goxernment
beat found it was to be closed, al a
Honor Council, without newspaper
coverage. Fast talking on the part
of the reporters won news cover
age. On Tuesday a committee mem
ber said the committee would have
to vote to settle the issue of cov
erage. When the group gathered
there were seven members of Tlie
Daily Tar Heel staff present.
Three of them are on the commit
tee. None of them were covering
the meeting. News Editor Paul
Rule dropped in to listen for
awhile, and by a fast exchange of
notes told me that he didn't know
who was covering the meeting but
that committee-member Curtis
Cans might do something on it.
A story written by a committee
member is too much like a hand
out, even xvhen it is accurate and
well written. Handouts have a
quality of being considered prop
agandist. Propaganda is not what
the committee needs at this point.
This is no reflection on Rule's
ability as a news editor. The Daily
Tar Heel staff is xvell organized
on a' beat system, and reporters
assigned to beats sometimes ask
fellow staffers to cover meetings
tor them.
But Tuesdays' session was a
surprise. Although it xvas not sup
posed to be an open meeting as
advertised, anyone xvho appeared
to testify was able to sit in the
room where tlie questioning was
being carried on.
Therefore anyone interested in
knowing what xvas happening at
the meeting could sit in, as at an
open hearing.
Although the people present
xvcre mainly from The Daily Tar
Heel staff: no one was covering it
as a reporter.
Blame for the error in news
coverage must be placed xvith The
Daily Tar Heel, for it is noxv
knoxvn that a reporter would have
been admitted to the hearings. On
the other hand the committee
should make absolutely clear its
stand on publicity, so that this
week's misunderstandings xvill not
be repeated.
In its short, not-too-public life
time, the new spaper research com
mittee has made a couple of mis
takes, but as the members get
more accustomed to xvhat they
are doing the bugs will be elimin
ated. Something worthwhile is bound
to come out of the group.
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Human Intelligence ls
Needed For Salvation
The central problem of our time as I view it
is hc-xv to employ human intelligence for the sal
vation of mankind.
For 12 years now we've sought to stave off (the)
ultimate threat of disaster of devising arms which
would be both ultimate and disastrous. This irony
can probably be compounded a few more years, or
perhaps even a few more decades. Missiles xvill
bring anti-missiles, and anti-missiles will bring ana-anti-missiles.
But inevitably, this whole electronics
house of cards will reach a point where it can he
constructed no higher.
Have xve already gone too far in this search for
peace through the accumulation of peril? Is there
any xvay to halt this trend or must we push on
with nexv devices itntil we inevitably come to judge
ment before the atom? I believe there is a xvay out.
And I beliex'e it because I hax'e acquired in my
lifetime a decent respect for human intelligence.
It may be that the problems of accomodation in
a xvorld split by rival ideologies are more difficult
than those with which we have struggled in the con
struction of ballistic missiles. But I believe, too, that
if we apply to these human problems, the energy,
creativity, and the perseverance we haxe devoted
to science, even problems of accomodations xvii!
wield to reason. Admittedly, the problem of peace
ful accomodation in the world is infinitely more dif
ficult than the conquest of space, infinitely moro
complex than a trip to the moon. But if xve xvill
only come to the realization that it must be worked
out xvhatever it may mean even to such sacred tra
ditions as absolute national soverignty I believe
that xve can somehow, somewhere, and perhaps
through some as yet undiscovered world thinker
and leader find a workable solution.
J. confess that this is as much an article of faith
as it is an expression of reason.
We can compete with a Sputnik and probably
create bigger and better Sputniks of our oxvn. But
xvhat are xve doing to prevent the Sputnik from
evolving into just one more weapons system? An 1
when are xve going to muster an intelligence equal
to that applied against the Sputnik and dedicate it
to the preserx'ation of this Satellite on which xve
live?
How long I would ask you can xve put oli
salvation? When does humanity run Out?
We can't sit about waiting for some felicitious
accident of history that may somehow make the
world all right. Time is running against us, and it
is running against us with the speed of a Sputnik.
If xve're going to save ourselves from the instru
ments of our oxvn intellect, xve had better soon gt
eurselxes under control and begin making the xvorl 1
safe for living, f Omar N. Bradley addressing the
St. Alban's Convocation)
Did Eban Blur Facts?
To The Editor:
Ambassador Abba Eban's assertion that the ref
ugee problem constitutes the major source of reg
ional conflict in the Middle F.ast vs correct.
However, Mr. Eban is a clever propagandist tor
the Israeli cause and as a propagandist lm afraid l.e
is inclined to blur the facts.
The refugee problem was caused directly by the
Israelis and they have consistently refused to re
solve it either by repatriation or payment for terri
tory taken.
Driven from their lands by a combination of
war and terrorism, the Palestinian Arab refugees
now number close to 900.000 and live in unspeak
able conditions in camps located in the Lebanon.
Syria. Jordan and the Gaza Strip. Prior to partition
in November of 1947, the Jews declared in sincere
tones that they would make full restitution to the
Arabs for any losses they might incur. Since the
truce agreements of 1948, the Israelis have consist
ently refused to acknowledge any responsibility lor
the former oxvncrs of the land they occupy.
Mr. Eban cites refusal of the Arab nations to
absorb the refugees. It might be pointed out that
Egypt with its 23,240.000 inhabitants, its rising birth
rate and a relatively small amount of cultivatable
land is hardly in a position to absorb Egyptians, kt
alone Palestinians. Jordan, where the majority nt
the refugees are located, is mostly desert and can
not even exist as a State xvithout sizable forcun
subsidies. Syria is very underpopulated certainly bu'
it is also short of water and again a large part A
its area is desert. The Lebanon, a tiny country xvhn
modest resources is not possible. Iraq, which is be
ginning to boom, has absorbed some of the rtt-j-gecs
and xvill probably absorb more. Because of i
oil and its rivers it is the only really viable sta -of
the area.
Mr. Eban said that he could not conceive of ary
territorial problem from Israel's side when Isr.u'l
possessed only 8.000 square miles of territory
compared to 4.000.000 possessed by the Arab na
tions. Apparently Mr. Eban lumps all the Arab sta -into
one vast area of Arabdom and does not cci
sider these countries as separate entities. What Mr
Eban failed to note is that the land of Palestine oc
cupies approximately 11,000 square miles which 1 -'
1.600 years has been inhabited by Moslem a:; I
Christian Arabs. In 1922 at the beginning of t '
British Mandate, there were 85,000 Jexvs in Palestn.
As of the 1956 Israeli census there were 1.850 U" '
Jews in Palestine and they now occupy 80 of in
land belonging to their former hosts.
Mr. Eban blames General Gamal Abdel Nasser en
tirely for the invasion of Sinai. He fails to menti. n
that during the years 1949-54 the Israelis were con
demned by te Mixed Armistice Commission f Jr ii
severe border violations in the Jordan area alone a
opposed to 60 violations by the Jordanians and that
in late 1955 in retaliation against the Kedayec :i
(Self-Sacrificers, mostly Palestinian guerillas) en
gaged in a series of stepped-up attacks xvhich in
cluded El Auja in the Sinai Desert, three Syrian
villages on the northeast shore of Gallillee and Qa'.
oilya in Jordan. The invasion of Sinai was under
taken just one day after Ambassador Eban. himsc.f
stated to President Eisenhower that "Israel xvill
start no xvar."
I think that contrary to Mr. Eban's assertion, th?
Arab nations do not want to solve the World's most
troublesome problem; it is the Israelis, who con
trary to all reasons of sense and humanitarianism
refuse to come even part of half xvay.
Elizabeth C. Wait