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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
PAGE TWO
America Finally Admitting
To Education Shortcomings
Aw Ink- kick. ;in American se icn
tist told a ionp ol celitors: "l'n
til tin- time- comes wlien the 11 1 i
I.ct.i K.i)a lias the same social
standing n the loot hall player, we
aie i;oin to fall behind lS.S.R."
While the scientist's point may
lie- .i bit overstated, it does focus
on a basic pioblem in our whole
cdiuatioml svsiem. Running with
.i football or tossing a basketball
thioii;;j a hoop always has been a
surer loute to campus status than
tin nine; out a superlative lepoit
aid.
l oo often. ;ood grades have
called as much lor ajolcsy as for
pi ide.
It's still that way to an extent,
but theie aie sins that a gradual
change is taking place. A national
inaaine icporred recently that
the athlete whose brains can't keep
pace with his brawn has lost con
siderable pastime on college cam
puses. There aie moie academic schol
arships available than ever before.
I'aiciits. eveiii tisiii' college ex
penses, are increasingly eager to
see their youngsters pass up an
extra c tin ic ttlar activity or two lor
a bout with the books.
Some newspapers are making a
special efforts to recognie leader
ship and scholastic merit. The Ob
server's ' Top Teens" leatures aie
a case in point.
The widely publicized need for
brainpower to insure our national
smvival is gradually altering attit
udes toward eggheads in general.
This is all to the good, lor too
long adults and adolescents alike
have contributed to an unrealistic
standard of values on high school
and college camupscs.
We're not knocking halfbacks
and forwards. We cheer for them
with the rest of the crowd and will
continue to. It's just that we be
lieve that fellow who racks up an
A in phvsics has done something
even more important than scoring
a touchdown or a field goal.
He deserves some cheers, too.
The Charlotte Observer
Investigators Should Probe
Prior To Wrecks, Not After
almost tontine to
plane collisions
a
It s becoming
lead ol midair
which claim not otilv the lives ol
peisnns travelling thioitgh the skies,
but ol iiuioteiu people on ground
is well.
And a c laii example of what oc
cuis alter each such accident ap
peals in a wiie storv liom Noiwalk.
( alii., over ihe weekend.
" Investigating teams liom the
Ar. loue and the Navv poked
thiou-h si ou bed wicikae .it two
iiash sites tod. iv to leaili what
i.iiimiI the aweomc. midaii c ol
Vimou til two big milit.uv plains
ove-i tins 1 os Angeles siibmb last
ui'bt." u u.uls.
I lu loHision aiuu'il Jfs lives.
One ol the lofal was a ir;ivc.ii -ojd
liousewile who was decapitated .is
.she tan I torn her home to see what
had happened. .She was cut down
bv living w i ei kage.
I i.i t e ei t h e "investigatin;
ic.uiis" inn over at the clash site,
will ptobablv be used to explain
awav the hoiiibh- tiagedv seen in
the i 11 isioii. lint it's just ild lai t
thai, is in pt c v ions c ases. the whole
cause lies in the two planes' pass
iu tlitoimh the same point at the
same time with lesulling colli
sii n.
I he ii Inn e and the Navv
would do beitel to in ike I he ii in
vestigations Ixloie clashes, and not
a 1 1 1 i t !u in. in ( u del that I ut in e
ti.iiiliis ioiiM be aveiled. Indeed,
it would be btltci to examine
llijil oidt is and ail wavs than
wieikac ol tisicd steel and lnn
tlliKil bodies.
It w is not long ago that the
( iil Aeionaiitii s r.o.ud conducted
extensive sinveys and healings to
deleimiiie just how crowded the
skies aie. and how air tiallic could
be (ontiolled to pievent awesome
collisions. I'eihaps moie money
should be spent to anive at a uni-
The Daily Tar Heel
The official student pjhliearion ,f the
Publication Boa id of the UniverfKy of
North Carolina, whore if is published
daily -xcrj Sunday, Monday and exam
nation and station period and sum
mer term. Knit-red as second class mat
ter in the po-t office in Chapel Jill,
N C, under the Act of March 8, 1870
KuKrnpiion rntr: mailed, $4 per year,
$2 .r0 a semester; de livered, $6 a year
'l 30 a semester.
form, workable plan
what the board lound.
GUEST EDITORIAL
to collect
Scholars Deserve
Some Cheers, Too
If proposals of Seiietarv ol W'el
tate FolsiMii aie am yardstick. A
meiica is linallv getting around to
admitting the teal cause ol apathy
within her vast educational svstem.
I'iging a speed up in scientilic
training, the See le t. uv has pio
posed that science and math on the
biglv si bool level be bolsteied by
a m tv.im esiimale-il to i ost -,
million cloll.ns. .And how will it
be spent?
"Ol the total. ",o million would
be lor giants on a ."-., matching
basis to cue outage the states and
Iim.iI 'school svstems to expand and
impiove such teaching.'" the an
nouncement read. "Ihe other "",
million would go on a matching
basis to state education dep.utm
inents to he lp strengthen their own
stall" loi supervising math and
si ietie e."
I'nderlving thosr pioposals is the
nine h too late- admission bv the top
man in out edmational svstem that
Amciiia's tcaiheis. and piogiauis
set down loi them, aie the leal
ionise loi the nation's ii lapse in si -ic
ntilic pic p. nation. l e.uheis. them
selves, aie not sulliiieiitlv trained
to insti ue t others.
What our school teacheis need
to do is cpiit baby handling teen
age votiths. come to tealie that
thete is moie in life than conloim
ity to soc iety. and demand sweat
and blood ol students who now
look upon high school diplomas
as tecords of attendance.
Too, the educational svstem
should be geaied to offer new
knowledge and ideas to the better-than-aveiage
student, rather than
pioviding minimum rcejuii cmcnts
so that the least intellectual of all
the class will lind piomotioii an
casv toute.
I'eihaps bo;, million clollais will
bring about thc-se revisions. If it
doesn't, then it's time lor more
niouev to be allotted so that Ameri
can education will one day rccovc!
the respect which it long since has
lost.
J. Y.'S JAZZ
Church, Jazz
Said To Have
Lot In Common
The subject of jazz and Chris
tianity has been attacked by many
different people and in many dif
ferent ways. Because I would like
to develop the matter to a mod
erately full extent, I intend to take
a couple of columns to explore
things, and in the process of doing
.so will be making a great many
observations which are of a purely
personal nature. 1 would ap
preciate comment on this problem
very much, as one person can
hardly begin to develop its dimen
sions. The Kai Winding Septet recently
made a recording for Columbia
called Trombone Panorama 'CL
99!$' on which the Horace Silver
composition -The Preacher" is
featured. I had never been given
the opportunity of hearing this
tune in a really definitive setting,
so hearing this was a major re
velation. There is more pure religion in
this recording than many church
services 1 have attended. 1 can't
really explain why; the effect is
one of many aspects. The most
immediately striking of these is
the simplicity of the tune itself.
There is a marked resemblance to
the old gospel hymns - the essence
being of course simplicity anct
rhythm. There is more than the
tune, though; there is the perform
ance itself. It is the fervor of the
performance with which 1 am
primarily concerned.
The Septet starts "The Preach
er" quietly, rather reverently.
The melody is exploited purely
for its simplicity, without unnec
essary embellishment. The coda,
however .is entirely different.
suddenly all four trombones, with
drummer Jac k Franklin applv ing
a roe-king two beat, burst into an
exhilarating finish, which matches
any hymn 1 liae c er heard. It
is this which brings jaz into the
realm of Christianity.
tlistor'n-ally, ja.. arose from
many roots. IViluips most imp
ortant were African rhythms,
plantation field blues and chants,
and gospel singing. Gospel sing
ing is the most spirited, emot
ional form of worship. Despite its
emotionality, it is as legimately
Christian as the High Episcopal
Church or the Holy Hollers. Poor
lo-iic would lead one to say that
since gospel singing is a form of
Christian worship, and jazz arose
from uospel singing. Jazz is Chris
tian in essence. Although '.his as
sumption has a certain amount of
vadidity. there is one primary
fa1..!;; jazz has come a long way
in the past siiy years, and with
the rise lr.es come a change in
alues and approach.
The e ssetu e of jazz, therefore,
is what we must examine in order
to make any e-onelesions about its
relationship to Christianity. I shall
do this on Saturday, bearing in
mind the comments which I have
made upon the Kai Winding
Septet's recording of '"The Preacher."
"Don't Ask Jle Why
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It's An Old Ritual
F.ditor
DOUG EISELK
Associate Editor FRANK CROWTIIER
Managing Ed. tor .. ALYS VOOIUIEES
News Editor . .... PAUL RULE
Asst. News Editor ANN FRYE
sports Editor BILL KLNG
Asst. Sports Editor DAVE WIBLE
Coed Editor JOAN BROCK
Feature Editor MARY M. MASON
Business Manager JOIIN WMTAKER
Advertising Manager FRED KATZ1N
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VIEW FROM THE HIU
Arab Merger Presents Problem
What's in a name?
The name of the new state that
is the combination of the two
former states of Syria and Egypt
is the United Arab State. The
head of this state in all probabil
ity is General Gamal Abdel Nas
ser, current head of Egypt.
The name of the state simply
suggests to the people of the
Arab world a rallying point, a
possible medium for the uniting
of the entire Middle East area,
with the exception of Israel. It
represents to Israel the first step
by the Arab world to form a unit
ed opposition to the Israeli slate.
The union itself is the first
fruit of the seeds of militant na
tionalism in the area, and accord
ing to Nasser, one of the basic'
things that this union will brinq
about is the purgation of outside
influences from the countries in
volved. When one realizes that
these words come from Nasser,
one realizes that he means the
purgation of Western influences.
Already the seed of national
ism is bearing fruit, when min
isters of Jordan, Iraq, and Saudi
Arabia, announced Saturday tint
they too would try to seek union.
Geographically the Egyptian
Syrian combine wedges Israel in.
and controls much of the West
ern oil pipelines as well as the
Suez Canal. It must be remember
ed also that this union is now pro
foundly anti-Western.
Politically this union has a
strong selling point, since it can
offer allegiance of the Arab sta'es
against Israel, known to be th'
Arab common enemy. The next
step could be the uniting of the
new alliance with the proposed
alliance of Jordan, Iraq, and Sau
di Arabia. The result of this
would be disastrous to the Bagh
dad Pact, and since the make-up
of the current United Arab State
is firmly anti-Western, the Soviets
would stand a good chance of hav
ing the bridge to Africa that they
want, as well as the wedge against
Israel in the promoting of a limit
ed war. What is more the Russians
may get control of Middle East
oil, which is so vital to the West.
The picture in the Middle East
is anything but bright, and al
though the U. S. has scientific
problems to worry about at home,
the problem of American foreign
policy still remains acute.
What is necessary here is the
realization that something muft
be done to combat the United
Arab State idea from spreading
so far that the U. S. loses any
semblance of a alliance system
in the Middle East. If the U. S.
can get the other countries of the
Middle East to unite as they hope
u do. but to keep themselve.
separate from the new Arab state,
there remains a chance that the
Middle East tinder box will not
be touched off into a blazing lim
ited war, which most experts feel
the U. S. would .lose at the pres
ent time.
What is also necessary is that
U. S. Aid to the countries of f"
Middle East, exclusive of the new
Arab state, be continued and in
creased so that the U. S. might
start meeting the economic of
fensive of the Russians. One way
to do this would be to cut the in
terest rate on loans to foreign
countries to 212, or on a par
with the Russians, rather than
trying to compete with the Russ
ians while charging a full per
cent more interest.
Moreover, the nations of the
Arab world that are part of the
U. S. alliance system must be
aided to defend themselves
against the possible onslaught by
the new Arab state. This requires
"not only artn, but also education,
for in the majority of cases com
munist penetration in countries
has been achieved by one meth
od. This method has been the in
vasion of a department of govern
ment which had the closest con
trol over the police and economic
forces of the country. If the com
munists attain that critical step,
their victory in the battle for su
premacy of that state is almost
assured, since they have control
of both the police power as well
as the purse strings.
Another thing that the U. S.
must do is try to solve the Arab
Israeli refuaee problem as sneed
ilv as possible through the U.N.,
for as long as that problem exist,
the better chance the Soviet
Union has of driving a wedge into
the Middle East and consummat
ing all the nossihle gairis it is
after including the partitioning
of sia and Europe.
The time for alert foreign pol
iev and clear-headed statesman
ship is now.
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TOLOR OF DARKNESS
J. Purdy Is Promising
Author, Book Reveals ;
by Frank Crowther
Iil the past several years, the American literary
scene has welcomed very few young writers of
obvious exceptional talent. In fact, there has been
a paucity of writers who have even mastered the
stylistic and structural forms of the short story
after all, there are so many markets today, that
one. only has to have enough money for postage and
a reasonably competent talent for reeling off a
yarn and, voila, he's in print.
In this context, we have more short story writers
than ever before; on the other hand, however, we
have only occasionally encountered a new artist,
a man well versed; in his profession and who pos
sesses the rare talent of communicating his depth
of feeling and insight through the short story.
We may , have just heard from one of those rare
birds in the volume of short stories recently pub
lished by New Directions Books entitled "Color Of
Darkness," by James Purdy.
This collection will undoubtedly become the
subject of considerable; discussion, even controversy.
Already, many of the writers in this country as
well as in England have commented favorably on
Purdy's style of writing and the subject matter with
which he has concerned himself.
The volume contains 11 short stories and a
novella; the latter, 63: Dream Palace, is a near
miss at a minor masterpiece.
In the novella the author treats the strange rela
tionship between two brothers who, though ap:
parently situated in New York City, inhabit some
subterranean house on "Sixty-three Street." The
allegory is further emphasized when one of the
brothers describes their house as "a not-right-kind
of place at all" which is "alive with something. 1
don't know what.
Our main criticism is that the novella lacks the
demonstrated continuity of thought and concentra
tion shown in the previous short stories in the
book. There are actually two stories in the one .
and, although this may have been the author"s .
intent, we feel that the main theme is delayed too
long and thereby lacks some of the intensity it very
well could have.
The subtle softness of James Purdy's style, how
ever, is really something to experience. His com
bination of a storm of horror with the calm of a
child-like tenderness will arouse even the most
insensible reader's emotions, as when he relates
the feelings of brother for brother as "too terrible
and closed in for the rest of the world to know or
care about." His descriptive artistry is quite im
pressive: "He stood in the immense vacant attic
with its suffocating smell of rotting wood, its soft
but ticklingly clammy caresses of cobwebs, the i
feeling of; small animal eyes upon him and the im
perceptible sounds of disintegration and rot."
Mr. Purdy has presented a most moving as
sociation in these two brothers whom we find in an
alien, dark-sided existence. We are almost forced
to" try to escape with them from some monstrous
dungeon, a dungeon strangely familiar to us all,
a dungeon which lurks in the allegorical world of
darkness and gloom, sickness and despair. As vvi
recover from this delirious journey, we wonder how
much of an allegory it really was. We seem to
have been there before.
In the short stories, the themes are varied but
the anxiety and the "color of darkness" prevail.
Almost all of the stories are acutely concerned
with the "other side" of the relationships between
love and hate. We find a paraplegic and his. wife
striving for a glimpse of love In an intolerable
situation which breeds only anguish; we particip
ate in one of the most unusual reunions of college
child who is brooding over some pictures of his
roommates; and, most pathetically and almost un
bearably, we read of the passions between a sick
dead father and his mother who forces the boy to
burn the photos.
With this book, James Purdy has made an im
pressive, if somber and awesome, arrival.
Of course one volume does not rank him with
the best nor does it assure us that Mr. Purdy will
continue as honestly in his pursuits as he seems
to in "Color Of Darkness." We hope, however, that
hs survives his first publication and the sudden
concern shown him.
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Sketches In The Sqnd
That is what kills political writing, this absurd
pretence you are delivering a great utterance. You
never do. Your are just a puzzled man making
note's about what you think. You arc not building
the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image?
You are drawing sketches in the sand which the
sea will wash away. What more is your book but
your timidity by frowning learnedly on anyone
ara you to be grandiloquent and impersonal? The
truth is you're afraid to be wrong. And so you
put on these airs and use the established phrases,
knowing that they will sound familiar and be re
spected. But this fear of being wrong is a disease. You
cover and qualify and elucidate, you speak vaguely,
you mumble because you are afraid of the sound
of your own voice. And then you apologize for
your timidity by forwning learnedly on anyone
who honestly regards thought as an adventure, who
strikes ahead and takes his chances. You are like
a man trying to be happy, like a man trying too
hard to make a good mashie shot in golf. It can't
bo done by trying so hard to do it. Whatever truth
you contribute to the world will be one lucky shot
in a thousand misses. You cannot be right by hold
ing your breath and taking precautions. Walter
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