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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY .25, 1953 PACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WISE AND OTHERWISE r- T t n L.. some mngs o Kemiuur AboutTVAds, On Our 65fi Anniversary Rating Scales "Lcfs Face This Squarely Some Of You Haven't Been Smiling Enough" ; TchI.iy The D.ulv Tar Hcc-1 nU" li.itc its animmarv. I'nlikc a man. or a country. i a philosophy, it is clillidilt to pre sent in a i i i ; 1 c issue a ivicl pi ture ol what a newspaper has been thiouhoiii its historv. Yet bv rc allin4 those associated with The Daily Tar Heel in the p.ist hy ieiewin hrielly seeral liiyh points in the publication's lilc 'n is possible to show that The Daily Tar Heel has indeed laccl an imM)itant role at the Timers it. Tt illusttate that role is the purpose ol the numerous featiue artides and columns written by lonncr editors and men in the newspaper world which you will lind in our Dailv Tar Heel todav. 1 , in r behind those stories is the si times a-week publication which liequentK the student takes lor planted. II 1 he Daib Tar Heel has at limes failed in looking .it cainjnis .dfaiis btoadlv. it at times it has ened in u i i 1 1 ou a t;ool new-spa per hnih objet ti e and lair in its presrut.it ions, it neeithcless has piodiued top journalist's who rank 1 1 i 1 1 in the I'nitril States toda. We aie. alter all .a sicable pub lication printed eclusielv at 1 1 ie bauds ol the student bod. Some times wc- make mistakes: olun we ire wroirj. lut the paper's contri bution to the University and the comerse contributions to those who work on the Daily Tar Heel will forever justify its existence on the campus. In reading your Tar Heel today, remember t h e countless hours which your classmates spend-most of them without remittance on biinin the paper to you. It olten times is a thankless task which maiiy would refuse to perform e en with a salary. We cannot, however, accurately measure the newspaper's role bv a bird's eye view of the present. We point to men like Thomas Wolfe. Jonathan Daniels, l.ouis Kraar. Charles Km alt. I d Voder, and maiiN others to illustrate the inllu ence of The Daily Tar Heel on those who have been associated with it. In a word. The Daily Tar Heel i not a tiling ol the present. It has outlived our administrative ol licials ol the past: it has existed throughout the vcars to rejMUt on the couise ol I he- rniveisity: and il will live lonr alter today is but a memoiv in the history of the rni veisity. It is not a chronological view of thai history, but realization that it did and will continue to exist, that we want to point out to you todav. Crowd Is Congratulated For Good Sportsmanship C.o.ich liaiik Md.uiif called Mondav alteiuoou to expiess his appi ei iat ion lot the fine spoits maiiship diplavcd bv tlie Carolina ciowd at Satir.d.tv night's I'M". l.uland :;,mu:. "It u.ives ine a meat deal ol pel Mtii.il s.itisf.ic l ion to nuc;iatiil.iU' the students, townspeople, luiv no. I k till) and liielids lot the fine' spot Km. inslip ihev displayec! .Sat in day 1 1 f 1 1 at the Murvland y.uue in siippoitin our team no per cent, and at the same time in (Xtendiii'4 to the opposing te.un fointtsv and hoN)it.ilitv as is in deed a Hue- cxpiesMoii ol the Car oliiu spiiit." he said. I lic-sc people-, indeed, deceive c 01141 .it ulat ions lor the- behavioi which (o.kIi Mc(uiie desciibed. And it was a cnitiu-sv extended to those- oil the I'NC. xpi.id who pl.ived their laM u,aine 011 1 1 if hotne couit to which ihev have bioirht lame in their past thiee v C .11 s. Pete I'.i c 1111.111. when talking with icpoitc-is .iltei S.nuidav's line, sununed up the sentiment ol the I ai Hee l whe n he said. " I his p!.i( e has been veiv'oocl to us." And. Coach Middle said, "most people heie leel the same wav Pete d cs." Pieh.tv ioi heie S.itmd.iv niht. coupled with the- vietoiv which the Tar Heels moiciI, is tiulv a Kind 1 liinav to the season on the home couit. We hope it is indicative ol what the Inline holds lor spoits m uishipat the I'nivcisitv ol oith Caioliua. ' lake Coach lc(iuiie viid. theie is little- jov in winning a basket ball gallic- when oiii on the- pic inisc that boos and jccis ol a parti san cloud aie a handicap lor the The Daily Tar Heel The official stuJent pabrtcarion hi th Publication Board of the University ol North Carolina, where U is published daily except Sunday, Monday and exam ination and vacation period and Rum mer terms. Entered as serond class mat ter in the post office In Chapel Will, N. C, under the Act of March 8. 1870 Subscription rates: mailed. $4 per year $2 50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year. $3 50 1 semester. v isitin team. II you can't w in without behaving poorly, then it's better not to w in at all. "II vou win ball panics with pool sportsmanship, then I'd ralli ei not be- a coach." the- Tai Heel coach said. And. loi our part, il mi have to 'jeer ami haiass lite visiting team, we'd rather not be counted .11110114 those who appear lo lost the- I ar HeeK or any other team on to v ie torv . Editor DOUG OSEfcF. Associate Editor . FRANK CROWTHER Manajing Editor ALYS VOORIIEES News Editor PAUL RULE AsT17"Eeiitor- ANN FRYE Coed Editor J0ANbFoCK Feature Editor MARY M. SLVSON Sports Editor BILL KINQ PHOTOGIlAniERS - Norman Kantor, Buddy Spoon. ' Niiht Editor GHAHAM SNYDLB Student Nursery Has A Problem ictoiv illa4e Day Caie Ccn tei a noii-protit nuisciv operated loi the seivice ot matiied students at the I 'uiv eisity has a pioblem. Pniellv, its boaid ol diicctois loes 1 11 x have the binds to limine e adv citiscmcnts to tell ol vacancies in the- niiiscrv open to the child leil ol maiiied studc'lits heie. So they came to u with thc-ii jio bleni. I he nursery, staTfed by live- lull time teachers, has a capacity For fii children, aes two to six. Theie currently aie some- vacancies lor those childien whose parents meet t ciptit euu tits lor 1 1 s i 1 1 the student-operated, uuiveisitv - backed 11111 set v . lot a monthly late ol S - pel child (or S-;o per child lor two in the- same lamily). the nursery oilers six elav-a-weck service com plete with the lunch time meal and a program ol cntci tainment and instruction lor all aie groups. You'll lind there one teacher who majored in child psychology, and lour others whose college train ing has ecpiipped them to take cue ol your child during your wotkiii'4 hours o the day. They have books, educational toys, plaw '41oliik1 ecpiij)ment. phonograph re cords and other lacilitie.s For car ing For your c It i 1I. OjK-rated throughout the vcar except during a one-week period at Chtistinas. the nutsery provides a needed service For the voting couple fioitijr to school and Financ ing an education while at the rni veisity. It's the student answer to erase a student problem a means to caie lor childien while husband or-wiFe.is eaitiin-; the Family in come. The tun scry isn't soliciting children t meet the capacity oF its facilities. It merely wants to remind students that the Facilities clo exist for those who want to use them. At hast look into it you may lie glad you did. &Give-Aways By WHIT WHITFIELD It'll never happen department: Have you ever watched the fruits of the Madison ' Avenue crowd on T.V.? Take for instance some of the ads on electric shavers. They have specially designed heads, ex clusive parts, microground. razor like components that cut the hair off two millimeters below the sur face of the skin, little men who work with precision accuracy pull ing the hair out by the roots and a hundred other unicjue devices. These miraculous machines shave the fuzz off peaches, cut into broomstraw, steel wool, and as sorted "hard to cut" substances. ' Quite often a practical demonstra tion is given, after which a beauti ful model brushes the cheek of the Memostrator. This is the ulti mate in advertisting. but pity the poor girls who are scarred for life. On the whole, however, they are good for shaving peaches and brooms if that suits your fancy, but we suggest that you don't try it on the face. The ultimate has been reached in another field as well. We con stantly read about how a TV star owes his life to the various rating scales. From a small cross section of jK'ople interviewed is determined , approximately how many people are watching over the whole coun try. This is fine in theory: the question is who is consulted? We have never met anyone who has been consulted about his or her TV preferences. From this we con jecture that the rating services have devised a new and better system for determining this in formation, one that saves them time and money and lets telephone operators off early. They simply present the question to the IBM, Vnivae. and who knows what other kind of machines they ha e now, to act the desired results. This brings to mind another similar eiuestion. Who wins in all of the huge give-away contests ev ery year? We usually refrain from entering the Tilings", but during a weak moment we submitted a solution to several grammar school rid dles along with a statement in 2o words or less concerning the pro duct. There were thousands of prizes to 1h won at intervals of a w eek or so. We labored hard on the short statement, writing, revising, etc.. finally realizing that only so many thines could be said about the p odiu-t in less than 25 words. We didn't anticipate winning the grand prize, but wp did think that a small one would be compensation for our labors. We didnft even win a used sparkplug. Who won tiny of the prizes? No one seems to know. If these items are deductible for the company, the government might do well to keep its eyes open this year. hVc - r&Yt-, -vf t-1 .1 1-. , hi 'tef'jrsi. r WPM ' ' 0'9 9- -mm. ijaiM(wtoi fT" VIEW FROM THE HIlL Bias Clauses Should Be OK'd By ri'KTIS CANS The second problem confronting the emergency fraternity commit tee should be discriminatory clauses in fraternity charters. There are at least two parts to the problem. The first is .whether the University 1 should exercise any control over fraternities, ex cepting those on university grounds. The second question is whether discriminatory clauses can be considered valid grounds for control. The first question is more dif ficult. It is the question of whether a private group should be subject-, od to any control other than the laws that every individual or group obey the civil laws of the states. The University has up to now taken the view that fraternities are made up of students, and the student's welfare is the Univer sity's business. Mence. there are such tilings as social rules, grade requirements, and visiting regula tions. There is indeed some question in this observer's mind that such control is justified. Fraternities are due to the simple fact that they pay their own membership, their own upkeep. avi choose their own members as private or ganizations. As private concerns, they as a group, or the individuals that go to comprise it. have a right to tlieir own privacy. To interfere in that privacy , is a denial of in--dividual rights, provided those in dividuals possessing those rights do not infringe on the rights of other individuals. Hence, it might be shown that not permitting a fraternity to select a student with a grade level below- C. is infringing on the right of the fraternily to free selection. To prohibit drinking is an inva sion of the privacy of the indivi dual to clo whatever he wants to with his time, without the question able benefit of supervision. Indeed, any interference into the life of fraternities and their mem bers, is a denial of the rights of the individual which is fundament al to democracy. There is no question that stu dents coming into the university tacitly agree to abide by university regulations. On this -university, prejudic e due to race, creed, or religion is deem ed an interference to equality of opportunity. Hence, although the fraternity has the right to be prejudiced, it has riot the right to trangess uni versity regulations applying to all students. In spirit bias clauses are in violation of equality of opportunity rules that obtain for all students on this campus. Thus, there is no reason that bias cluases1 should be allowed, since all students and all groups should have-to abide by those laws that apply to all groups and students. This will not deny the right of the individual or groups to be prejudiced, and to ball a person because of race, creed, or religion, but it does prohibit this from being the general policy. It is hoped that through the double attack of legislation and education, prejudice will be eli minated. This however, is only wishful thinking. JUST READING It was hard for 10-year-old Marshall Frcy to figure out just how he happened to ram his bike into a parked car on a street in Miami Beach. Fla. "All I was doing." he told police, "was riding along reading my comic biok." to Z 1x1 Q. 17 nvT - - 5TU,N is Q 1 th;s is the a05T HU.'AILIATiNS TVuNb TMAT'S EVER HAPPENED TO A'E.. what A Disappointment THIS MUST EETOAYrAAitY. vr 'A THE ONLY GI2L LUHO MAS EVER BEEN BlACKBALIED FROA THE BLUEBIRDS I VJILL DEVOTE MV LIFE AND MV MILLIONS TO BRINGING SOME. SHATTERED LIVES.' JI z vV tT"iirr mnf - A i i rxtrk txr Ak rr in n ini 1 I two 1, 1 vvii-i 1 n 1 1 ri it -rime II I umlim i hhinim pvic.rior-iwiti I Il MOVE VOU JJ V IT-BUT THET PLACE VAS v I INTO A C S?'4) T GITT IN' RATHER SLOPPY .1r ) DECENT I kt$m - , I N )y N 3 u to n U Q. u J3 TO 05 A FigN CPVI w o o o 5WEfcT TOOTH t 1 . . J c ?- coo? y - ki A) L. , i UP AH N'5HT Y pOM$ A PAVt?-TglL WW ) A k urn mmmm mm. M mi m m mmmmW mm mm m A mmmW nA tm AXV 0S A CCS TCEVSRYBODY A I AN I 0 JQ "THE COCKTAIL PARTY" Eliot Play A Failure By ANTHONY WOLFF ' A renegade herd from the Petites Dramatiquej tripped roughshod and unshod over the coals cf Mr T S Eliot's "The Cocktail Party" on Sunday evening To continue the metaphor, they failed this cniciaf test and their soles were badly burned. The exact nature-of their guilt is difficult to iden tify, although its degree is all to evident. If Mr. Eliot's poem is a managable play, and is susceptible to a staged production, then the Petites Dramatics merely failed to realize the potential of its mater ial If as it may be well argued, the poem docs not really exist as a playif it is really impossible to stage then the Petites Dramatiques have com pounded their crime: they have attempted the im possible and failed without glory, violating a con siderable poem in the process. As a play, Mr. Eliot's poem is almost insur mountably complex and obscure. Like "The Waste Land," it is not an organic whole, but depends upon a wealth of allusion to a wide variety of sources to carry any but its most superficial mean ing. If art is both surface and symbol, then the theatre arts demand a more substantial- surface than do literature and the plastic arts. In the theatre, the images and meanings are transitory; the action progresses without reegard for the au dience's inability to keep up. A play on the stage i- cannot, be viewed as a whole; an obscure line ii lost to the audience unless it is re-inforced, unless its meaning is almost immediately clear. CVIr. Eliot's difficulty vith "The Cocktail Party lies mainly in this area of surface versus symbol. The antecedents for his characters come from such a variety of more or less obscure, and sometimes unrelated myths, that they become hard to under stand and accept. If "The Cocktail Party" is to be produced at all, it must be done by highly gifted and trained people; even then, most of its meaning remains available onIy,to the close, gifted, and erudite reader. The play can, however, be done effectively, al beit superficially. It has been well done in other placps at other times. Mr. Eliot has deftly drawn a gallery of complex and interesting individuals: he has sent four synthetic and symbolic creatures in search of self-analysis salvation. Technically and intellectually, the Petites Drama tiques were not up to the job. Only one person on the stage seemed to have even the vaguest notion of what he was about, and that was Mr. Frank Clymer, who played the ambiguous Univited Guest. His was the only characterization which could be called mature and acceptable. Clymer's main fault was one of techniyue: his stylized method was perfectly legitimate, but he succumbed too afterA to the lemoLation In nvrr rln il Hp cn;.l-o miwh Crtrl softly, counting on underemphasis to provide effect. His pauses were too long and too frequent and too obviously pregnant; vused more sparingly, they would have enhanced his performance: as it is. they often slowed down the pace and made him seem pompous. All things considered, thoui Clymer's performance was quite impressive pecially by comparison with the rest of the cast. Betty Rhodes, as Lavinia, did a respectable en ough job, but it left much to b? desired. She i a striking and poised personality on the stage, ax one might wish that there were more depth to he characterizations. This is her third appearance here and each time she has done a competent and ap pealing job; given a good director and a goo: deal of training. Miss Rhodes might well fulfill he: obvious premise and become a good actress. Russel Link, as Peter, also gave a fluent per formance, but the character never developed-;: was impossible to tell what he was, or how he could possibly have had any appeal for the to ivcmen with whom he was involved. The acting u good enough, but the characterization was shallow. The only way to describe Dorothy Walter's per formance as Julia is to compare her to Dodv Gcodman, who has herself been aptly described as "indescribable." It was hard to tell whether .M: Walters was conscious of her acting or not. cr indeed whether she was acting at all Oniv a; moments, very few of them consecutive did' she seem to fill the role. As the frustrated husband. Peter Sinclair was ; quite inadequate. His performance was seif-cor.-scicus, stiff and unreal. His anguish was unbelieva ble, and his moodiness an obvious pose rather than a real discomfort. His diction was monotonous ar.d his timing was poor. Sinclair saved himself : casionally, but not often enoug. j Betty Sinclair, as his ex-mistress, also ha J j little to recommend Her voice was highlpitched j and piercing, and entirely devoid of any rca! warmth. She had a penchant for the araei grimace which was very unpleasant to watch a" which could not alone convey the agony which should have been in her voice and body as well Sam Baker's Alex was an amusing performance, although he, too, was somewhat lacking in depth All in all, the performance was more than ap pointing; at moments it was absolutely painful The blame, of course, does not lie solely with the actors. There is little virtue in attempting s me thing which one cannot hope to accomplish, ar.d "The Cocktail Party" is several degrees too diliicult for any but the most expert group to have any hope of doing well. The only outstanding thir.; about this production was the script with which the Petites Darmatiques strated; they did noting to enhance it and much to detract from it. The Petites Dramatiques has been on this can- pus for a year now, and it has never kept the pro mise which it made with its first production. Cali gula." It is longv since time for GMAB to take a look at its little brain child to see ifperhaps the Petites Dramatiques might set its sights on s c goal and set about reaching it, and not have ;di mistakes as. "The, Cocktail Party" aain 1
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