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PAG1 TWO THt DAILT TAR HfIL SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 1753 Election Board I.vcrv year the Flection Hoiici comes in for (liticism, and this Spring is no exception. In several dot mitorics thcic was an inade quate supply ul ballots. This should ncer h.ipj)en. The hoard could just as easily hae ptepated an adequate supply of ballots for every person in the dormitory. I'nuscd ballots are easily dis)osed. but an inadequate supply of ballots prevents stu dents horn voting. 'I he l lection lioaid is at least in part re sponsible lor the small turnout in the elec tions. Furthetmoie. there were mote than forty potential voters in the infirmary with meas les. The 1 -"lection Hoard neglected to have ballots sent to the infirmary. There were sev eial electrons, including one of the lour ma jor student government officers elections which hinged on less than forty otcs. J he f lection lioaid mav have cost some people the dec t ion. The I-lection Hoard in fact did cost one person the elec tion in a student council race, when it did not print the candidate's bi-partisan section boatd endorsement next to his name on the ballot. This candidate was hicRy in that he had previously been elected an fllker of this ioup and hence is a hold oxer member. Theie is considerable doubt as l uhcthet iheie should be holdover mem bet j. However, although he xvas lucky, some one! in the lutuie tni'Jit not be so lortunate. Hlu- niht ol the election, the Flection Iioaixl uas aK( lacking in xision. I'mmIIv by 7 p.m. ballots haxe been sorted and are at tliaj,'tiine icadx jor' vountinjji'This spring it toot, a pel son not on the board to see. to it th.it the ballots weie sorted, alter nothing li.uC been clone bx . The pHxcdiire cost the ballot c oiiniei s '.cu hour, and stretched the counting pioicdurc to sometime alter a.m. Tlide was another aiea where theie xvas soiqe tiouble. Ilowcxer. this was only partly the I lee lion Hoard lault. In some areas there xeie no x 1 1 tender. Thus, there xv.is no ciiie to sec- that the Flee tion xvas concluded (oricdlx. I his was only partly the l ledion Uo.ud's lault in not providing enough ahead ol time loi jnII tenders, but it is akn the lault of a student bodx, xxhich takes no in tercSt in caiiiHis allaiis. when there not ciHnih available volunteer to tend polls for oiicvhoiu on one or two days of the year. (fn the ciedit side the l ledion Hoard did a c.lp.wMv job ol handling the melee ot e oiint i 1 1 '4 1 1 Tuesday ni'4ht and in ettiuu; a speeciy ' lecimt ol tin- elections in doubt. 1t -; .nothc-r lac tor on the c redit side of the I lection Hoard picture-, but definitely on the'llc-bit side of the student bodv pic ture is that thev handled "the election I airly -adc-quately . w ith a minimum t amount of mem bers. I he job ol the 'Flee tion Hoard is it lhaiikle.ss one. but suiely moe students could help out to see that the' job is' 'done li'Iit father than iust -lipin about it atter xvaid. The entile- pioblem of student tinu illiiv mss to do anything lor any body else is pic tured in the entile- election picture. Next Tuesday the student bodv has a chain e to help out the Flection Hoard bx se i v inu, in those c apac ities whic h are unlilled. Time will be- a need for poll tenders, for counicis. lor soi lets, and for people to keep the election Hoard 1 1 their toes to see that they lemember the things they lor-ot this election. A 'small uiotip of people can't think ol :i i t do eveiv tiling. Flu- student body has another small oblij Ration to take two minutes of their time an4 vote. The official student publication of the Publica tion Board of the I'm crlity o North t'aro- .' I in.1. where it is pub- i, ' liled daily except k ' : ,.. .,,, , , I Mojiday and examina , tr tion and yacation pe- CjaK'I I (ill w rml-i and .summer ' . . , . ,, lerais. Knteied as sec- . ?' - on. class matter in the ?.: ' , . n I .... .,, , r lh f.rvt ''f,u'' ,n P'1 t mv; Hilt. N. V.. under the j. J.,mi-rr ' Act of March 8. 1870. ij ;y - rr ' -Sulcription rates; rv - mailed, $4 per year, ) - $2.5) a semester; do- lii-3 ed, $( a j ear, S3 50 a semester. Kditor L . tXTvTLS B. G.VNS ManaKiiiK Kditor CHARLIE SLOAN Business Manager . JOHN WIIlTAkER Ne-is Fxiitor .... PAUL RULE A. News Editor HILL KINCAII) Kejturc Ivlitor DAVIS YOUNG Sports Editor I)AVE TbLE Asst. Sports Editor . RUSTY HAMMOND Advertising Manager FREdIsATZIN Subscription Manager AVERY THOMAS Circulation Manager SYD SHLTOIU) Aris Echtor 7 ... ANT1IONYw6lFF Cojd Editor " . JO AS BROCK Liliarian GLENDA FOVVLER NlJhY Editor" GRAILVM SNYDER Ad Libs Whit Whitfield There's more than one way to make the headlines, and a former UNC law student has found the way. A Sane Nuclear Policy The fact that he is a former Tar Heel may help explain the fact that he has embarked upon an enterprise such as he has, and that enterprise is walking for Sheriff of Durham County. The candidate is Alonzo G. Squires who is presently employed as zone manager for Investors Diversified Service, Inc. The unusual nature of his candi dacy has come as a pleasant sur prise to many Durham residents, for Mr. Squires has been blind since birth. This has not been a particular handicap to him how ever, for previous to his position with the investment firm he was a successful radio advertising executive for twelve years. Proof of the fact Uiat the actually intends to run is the $80.08 filing fee which he has already paid, becoming the sixth man to enter the sheriff's racv. Squires admits that his platform is somewhat shaky, but he intends to run because he needs the $8,000 per year salary' the job offers. I low honest can a candidate be? How sincere? It's a shame that more of the campus politicos donf follow this example, then the students would know for sure what they are getting when they vote. Commenting on his motive for running. Squires said. "I feel that it would be in the best interest that I walk for the ofliee ... 1 want everyone to be fully aware even 1 am doubtful as to whether I would make much of a sheriff, but my motive is purely and simp ly that I need the $3,000 that the office pays each year." Concerning his campaign staff: "I didn't have the filing fee. How ever, my brothers in an organiza tion to which I belong. Dead Broke Anonymous, Mine , not willing to see one of their brothers flonder ; arouud in such a dilemma, so they raised it for me." (Sounds a bit like student politic-son the march.) Concerning his competition: "Al though some deputies are running against me, I take no offense at it. because alt th-py want is the job. So. when I gel to be sheriff they can have the job; , all I want is the $3,00." Concerning bottlegging 'a major problem in Durham County: "I have the distinct impression that sheriffs are some-times laced with capturing a great deal of illegal liquor, and that in most cases it is pooled out. Well. I believe that liquor, illegal as it may bo, was made for someone to enjoy, and although I do not drink a drop of it, I feel that my friends who come down to the office to see me would enjoy it. so I don't plan to pour out any of it." Concerning sheriffs censorship rights: "I'm afraid that if 1 de clares war on pretty pictures of pretty women, some people will say I'm just jealous because I can't see them myself. I believe that aLiKvst every human being has to have some weaknees, and for that reason every night when 1 say my prayers I say 'If every man does have to have some weakness, then please let mine be women.' " Concerning personal dangers: "Some folks feel tkat since I am blind, it's too big a risk for me to take, that I might get shot at and the like. Well. I don't want anyone laboring under any misap prehensions, for I don't plan to do enough to get shot at. I'll let those" who wauted the job in the first place take that risk." Concerning what the public can expect from him; "When I'm your sheriff you won't have to hide anything, for whatever goes on in the county, you can depend on me not to see it. I promise never to miss a payday and. fur ther, that if you elect me as your sheriff you'll have at least one sheriff in these United States that you know is blind." Squires' candidacy did not go un noticed outside of Durham County either. In a nationwide CBS new cast. Eric Sevareid devoted his entire program to Squires and his campaign, commending a man who can laugh at his affliction and at the same time do a public service. There will be a minimum of five , red faces in Durham if he wins, and why not? Norman Cousins ial by Mr. Cousins in this week's ial by Mr. Cousins inthisiceek's Saturday Review) . The same set of facts abott the ideological struggle and nulear terror has prodyeed two opposing and fast-growing viewpoints. The facts are profoundly dis turbing, but at least they are visible. The Soviet Union is in a considerably stronger position than jt was only a short time ago and is getting even stronger with each passing year. This strength is measured not solely by scientific advances or the ability to make, nuclear weapons in quantity but by the increasing acceptance of Soviet leadership by the peoples of Asia and Africa who consititute the majority of the world's people. The imaginative thrust of the Sov iet in ending it bomb tests ha.s given dramatic momentum to this claim for leadership. Within a few years the West may be confronted with the bristling and bulging reality of a Soviet sphere of influ ence embracing perhaps two-thirds the globe. Meanwhile there has been a steady and costly shrinkage of American influence in the world, especially among peoples of dark er skins, which is to say, the pre ponderance. While we have man aged from time to time to come before the world with bold visions, such as the Marshall Plan and economic assistance for underde veloped areas, by and large our standing and influence have been steadily receding. What we have said and done in our relations with other nations have not always reflected careful knowledge about the actual conditions in those na tions. Indeed, it has sometimes seemed that we were actually playing to a domestic gallery widi our foreign policies rather than to living history. We constructed a fantasy in which security was com pounded at least partially of seliV. serving legends and myths of in- . vulnerability and superiority. Two extreme and conflicting Viewpoints, as we say. have grown out of these facts. One viewpoint, now only ex expressed, is that nuclear war is in evitable and that the United States is not under the obligation to wait untd it is hit first. According to this argument, our only chance of victory is to be the first to drop the hydrogen bomb. Besides, it is contended that the advantage of . surprise attack is so great that we can almost count upon it as certain that the Soviet Union will., strike the moment it, is ready." Therefore, we have to hit whether we like it or not.. .. . - The contrasting viewpoint, gen-; erally identified w ith Bertrand : Russell, is that the West should . submit to the Soviet Union as the best way gf preventing a nuclear" war . that would expunge life on. earth. The price of submission may be high, Lord Rusell admits, but it will not continue indefinite ly, for Communism may eventual ly succumb to its own weaknesses. But if war should come, then all life will be expunged. The first viewpoint leads to mu tual suicide, for it precipitaites the very nuclear war it ostensible seeks to limit. The second view- Columnist The editor is looking for any one who wishes to write a column on national and international poli tics, music, art, or on local stu dent government. There is also a need for one or two persons to help out with re search for the editorial page. Anyone interested in any of these jobs is asked to please come by the editor's office any afternoon during this week or next week. .point leads to the annihilation of the free man, for it equates survi val with surrender. But it is false? tragically and hideously false to say that these are the only alternatives. We, don't have to be run by our jitters and drop the big bombs thatV could put an end to the age of; man. Nor do vve have to fall -ori our, knees before, a colossus in order to keep him from waging nuclear war. ' What we can do, first, ot all, is to stop deceiving ourselves' as to the nature of peace and the re quirements of peace. We can re cognize that peace and unfettered national sovereignty cannot go to gether in a world which can be circled in ninety minutes by a de vice than can . vaporize whole cities in one blow. WTe can make a total commitment to the; cause of a United Nations with the eff fective powers of government ade quate to deal with the; basic causes of tension and conflict. We can emancipate .ourselves from the seductive . nonsense to which we have given our energies and allegiances in such large mea sure since the-' end. of the war. We can decide that the most im portant thing in our lives is not the height . and sweep of auto mobile tail-fins but the height and sweep of our ideas on creating a world nnder law. "This is what we own, this is what we believe, this is what we can do," we can say to the world. "We make a total and unequivocal commitment to a safe world and a better one. Our preoccupation is to sustain "and serve the gift of life. We state, readiness to accept and support the concept of a fed erated world to replace the pres ent anarchy. We will work for such a concept to any extent that may be required." The alternative to either suicide or surrender is still sanity. "Hy The Way, Don'l Expect 100 'Cooperation" .service VARIATIONS Springtime And Sunbathing .Gail Godwin Now that springs is here and the fur-lined jackets are hung in the closet to rest and all self-respecting sports care have their tops down, Carolina gentlemen and coeds are faced with new pro blems. They amble through the arboretum, sprawl in deck chairs on fraternity, house porches, sneak that extra sunbath between clas ses, and don wearing apparel suit able for the bright new season bermudas and sun glasses. But there are still the problems. Different people have different problems. The alkies are trying to decide whether it is quicker to the ABC store in Durham or to the one between Raleigh and Chapel Hill. It would seem that Durham would win out. but there is always less traffic on the Raleigh road. For the -girls in general one black trouble looms in the fore ground. How to possibly keep all -those summer clothes stiff and starchy and stand-out-ish. How to keep looking coolf when one is roasting inside and out. And for both coed and gentle man, there is the problem of what to do with all the free time one has during one's class cuts. Whether to sit in Y Court or on live steps of South Building. Whether to walk ac ross campus crosswise or length wise. Whether to buy a coke or a "big orange." And now that studying is well nigh impossible, the nights must be planned and arranged and scheduled so that there is not a minute in which one is not "having fun. Will it be a show? What if one has seen all the shows? How about the local night spots? But shall we drink coffee or beer or shall we get up and dance? But which reeprd shall it be? "Billy," or "Tequila," or "Mosquito" same as "Tequila" only the word "mosquito" is subsituted.) Yes siree! Even such a season as spring brings its problems for us college folks. Mother and dad never had it so good. Ike thinks he has problems with the reces sion! Ha. Let them come down here and. try to cope with our problems. And the funny thing about all this is that when we get their age we will probably Jook back and say: "Ah, good ,old college days They were the best we ever had. 'No problems." . Postscript Jonathan Yardley I think I am going to sit down this afternoon and read Winnie the Pooh. What a revolutionary thought that is; a college stu dent, supposedly mature, is go ing to spend an afternoon perusing a book which twelve year olds scorn as being, chil dfsh. .. It might be suggested that it is not this student who is being immature, but the twelve year olds and his peers who scorn, him for occasionally reading Winnie the Pooh or Alice In Wonderland. The wisdom con tained in these books is consider ably greater than that of . such as, well, the . highly heralded. On the Road. It may be, of. course, that my, outlook is a little too idealistic, a little too starry eyed. Yet, in the final estimate, which" outlook is the best? Is it better to be cynical "worldly" I cannot resist the quotes, because I don't think that many people who read and revel in On the Road and the like are really terribly worldly and disillu sioned, or to be optimistic, es - scntially peace! oving, and regu larly defeated in one's conten tion that the world could be a nice place to live in? I don't profess to have the answer, but I have my ideas. All this is getting me a long way from Winnie, but -what I -really want to 'talk about, is the. "Beat Generation" its critics and its members. And most of all whether or not it really ex ists. The idea of the "Beat Gen eration" was made popular in Jack Kerouac's On the Road. The name ; and. the idea caught on fast, and now a lot of boys and girls who once looked perfectly respectable in their quasi-Ivy League clothes are wandering around pretending to be "beat." Apparently the word "beat" does not signify rock and roll or a good solid crack on the jaw, but the word as used in that languid good old South phrase "Ah'm ; beat." So v.Jack Kerouac has , placed the stigma of "Ah'm beaf upon us all. Ah aint beat," and ahm gonna fight these beat boys to the last day of my life. Personally, I dont think the "Beat Generation" exists anj more than' the Lost Generation did. The so-called Lost Souls of the twenties were nothing more than a bunch of confused kids who got the brilliant idea that they were lost; Well, they were not at all lost. They were just confused confused because they were in the aftermath of the most terrible war the world had ever known and no one knew just what to do, and confused because so many new ideas were popping around their heads. They were lost in the sense that they didn't know what was going to happen, but they did have at least one and a half feet on the ground. - ' The "Beat Generation" is in the same fix, but this time it is even worse because we have to contend with great big, pow erful bombs, rockets, sputniks, Dulles. Eisenhower, the Republi cans, the fundamentalists bless , their God-fearing souls the Reader's Digest, and Elvis Pres ley. But we'll come out of it . unless we get so involved in our beaten-ncss that we beat our selves out of existence. In reality all these trick names for generations are nothing but meagre attempts at self glorifica tion. We. as did our predeces sors, feel insecure, unsure of ourselves, and incapable of meet ing the demands this twentieth century is going to toss on our un-padded thank God shoul ders, so we invent an excuse in the form of an apologetic phrase, in this case the Beat Genera tion. - I got pretty annoyed in one of my classes a few days ago when the instructor suggested that we the college students of AmerJ ica are complacent and in gen-" eral not w?orth a tin penny. He's wrong dead wrong. If not want ing to go out and tear the world down in search of some rmis guided principle is wrong, he's right. But, again, he's wrong. Adults keep telling us what a lousy world we're going to in herit, and that we've got to do something about it now. Well, we aren't going to be in much of a position to do something about it for quite a while. Until then, why don't the elders shape up a little. For instance, why not think before you vote. We wouldn't have MacCarthy or Eisenhower problems then. We want to give a decent world to our kids, but in the meantime they might' start the job for us. taucaTion; io iiuiN Citizens, Statesmen Henry Steele Commager (This the second of two parts of Dr. Com mager's atticle which appeared in the March edition of Hadassah Newsletter. The first part appeared Thursday.) The ultimate decisions that confront our society are, in a broad -sense, political decisions. To be healthy and prosperous, to be secure, a society must train statesmen rather than scientistsstatesmen who can be trusted to find the scientists and the technicians who are needed and to apply their find ings to ends that are not only useful but moral. The training of statesmen is not a formal affair. It is nothing that can take place, in some formal fashion, through a series of courses in some school of politics or through a series of conferences among civil servants! In the training for statesmanship, as in the training of moral values, a straight line is not the shortest distance between twro points. Broad civic and moral values aire not so much taught. as they are learned; they are the product not of formal courses but of the intellectual and moral atmosphere of a society. There is no assurance that any one kind of education-will produce the statesmen who are needed, but our own experience, and that of Britain, gives us ground to believe that an education grounded on the study of earlier civilizations, of literature, philosophy, mathematics, the arts and music, will be more likely to provide us with the kind of lead ership we need than will any other. Only less dangerous than our emphasis on sci ence and technology: ; is over-emphasis on the na tional character and national enc's of education. At the lower and intermediary leveX education is, of necessity, local, but on; the; higher level it should emancipate ; itself from localism : provincialism, and even nationalism and atterhpt tt become . cosmopol itan. For learning is, ,by, its, very nature, cosmopoli tan and universal; Philosophy,; jliUffature, art, music, science, these are not the property of any one na tion or people, nor can they be; they are the pro perty of mankind, and of the future as well as the present age. If learning is required to serve only the obvious interests of the nation that is of the dominant forces in the politics and economy of the nation it will betray its own nature. For the university is the guardian of the great cultural inheritance of the past, and the vehicle whereby it is transmitted in enlarged form to the future. In order to serve these functions it must be free from overt pres sures, pressures of the state, the church, the economy, and even society. It must be free to pur sue the disinterested search for truth. If it con sents to be an instrument of government, it cannot remain disinterested. -' Once again the experience of Nazi Germany is relevant to this problem of what happens to learn ing when it is required to be the hand-maiden of the state!. But we need hot go abroad for . our ex ample; our own history furnishes an example. The ante-bellum South persuaded itself that slavery was not an evil but a positive good. It would not tolerate any criticism of that institution, or any questioning of its ultimate good. To obtain general approval of this position, the South silenced criti cism of all kinds, and drove out critics. It required schools to teach that slavery was; a blessing. It imposed this principle on colleges and universities, driving out scholars who questioned the virtues of slavery? It closed the doors to disinterested re search in the history, the economy, the sociology, or the science of slavery and of race. And because institutions of learning were not allowed to ques tion and to challenge the course of the South, it was not possible for education to raise up a gen eration able to deal with slavery by any . means except that of violence and counter violence. All efforts to use the schools and scholarship to advance nationalistic ends are fraught with peril. It is not irrelevant to remember that the great men who won dur independence and set up our nation vvere net trained on American history, but on the history of Greece and Rome and Britain. If we are to solve the problems that will confront us, we must keep education, science, scholarship, free from all improper pressures that would deflect them from their true function the disinterested inculcation of wisdom, the disinterested search for truth. View & Preview Anthony Wolff FREE FLICK Tonight's free flick, scheduled for 7:3D and 10:03 in -Carrol Hall, is the film version of Arthur Miller "AH My Sons." Mr. Miller has had varying degrees of success .in his examinations of the modern situa tion, but his efforts are almost always provocative and skillful. PETIT ES DRAMATIQUES The1 main attraction on campus tonight is the opening of the Petites Dramatiques' production of Anomlh s -Antigone." The play is a resetting of the Antigone of Sophocles, the last play of the Oedi pus Trilogy. tt u hB Jer!0rmanCe besins at 8 P-m- Gerrard Hall, and admission is free. The show will be re peated on Sunday evening. ROBERT FROST Those interested in poetry, and particularly thre who have been entertained and enlightened by Rob ert Frost during his annual visits to Carolina, will enjoy the treatment of Frost's "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening" i the current issue of the Saturday Review. Jf iarf ,thG maSazil'S Poetry editor and faS r K ? 501X36 rePutatin. Sives this most famous of-Frost's poems a thorough analysis; in the process, he makes some interesting and well con sidered comments on the. art. of poetry in general
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