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v ? GTS sea V . PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1953 'v Visiting ("on-r.itulr.iinMs ,iu- in cmlcr nr Don I'ur t.n! . Rmlv I (lw.mis. Dean Katherinc C.ir muh.icl ami .ivist.uu Dr.in Smu Maill lor tniisum.nin- a temporary . 41 cement to allow o k into tlu- nial ro(ins of sonic men's (lormitojirs dm in- thi liist footh.il I week end. It is hoped that this pi at ticc will continue dm in; Ittttire football weekends, and that ci haps a pctmatunt aiecinent tan he ar t.wUed Int the entile ear. 1 his ni.it It a totutete step towanU some tt ntulied t ampiix 'planning lot healthy t -rdm.uinii.il ret ualion. I hoc ate eiy lew outlets in Chapel Hill lot such ret nation. Time arc fewer com mon meeting pounds for a hoy and ijitl out side ol a p.uked tar or a loud pnty. With tliis kick til Utilities and outlets, it behooves student ov eminent ;nd the university ad iniintr.ition to wotk hand in hand in pio- id;ii; these outlets. 1 he aiecnunt lor today was a step. If lollowcd b many more towauls a concrete program of healthy social activity, a more wht)lesonie stnial atmospheie on this campus may develop. It is hoped that all patties who humiliated this temporal y a cement will look to the future for permanent, far-ieach-in; t ocducational programming." Sportsmanship I ey vejir ptior to football seaon the tpicstion ol student conduct ha-s come into lot us. Dining the past several years the prob lem has been moie unite. If seems that schools in the Atlantic Coast Coiifeicnt e seem to be rac ing each other to see which one tan petpitrate the most in genious act ol vandalism. This kind of a contest it never won. lor actually thete is no piie nor anv object to the contest. Indeed, dermic tio;i is the only end. and that is not a wotthv one. Ibis spirit ol competition breeds more auitnositv to catty to t lie playing field, but it mii cly tloes not hired the type of healthy athletic livahv that is so much more iniXr t.uit pait ol the auie. It tan be hoped this year that students horn all AC.C tollers will acknowledge the lights of otheis. It can be wished lor that damage to public pioperty can be avoided. It can be liked that a liot will not occur nor that polirc coeuion be necessaty. If students can leave their fivlittii spirits in their hip flask, if students tan vent their enthusiasm through their vocal cords, and if the students ran be satisfied with showing theii disappointment of Rlec to their dates and fiiends. m.i.bc.' just maybe, a spirit of healthy c omjxM ition can be -developed, and tiie Atlantic Coast Sortswritei s can consci cntiouslv give their spottsmauship prie more than once in five years. This is a .situa tion to be hoped for. Dntlp (Jar T)td Tbc official student publication of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, where it U published daily except Sunday, Mon day and examination periods and summer terms. Entered as second class mat ter in the post office in Chapel Hill. N.C., tinder the Act of March 3. 1870. Sub scription rates: $4.50 per semester, $330 per j t ar. 1 i t t six- v,,vrr' ,y t 11 ........ ' , . . i . li I - t fr-'itor - CURTIS CAN'S Managing Editors ClTLliHiLOA? CLARKE JONES News Editors ANN FRYeTIbiLL KINCAID Business Manager WALKER BfJvNTCDN Advertising Manager FRED kTlTZLN Asst. Adv. Mana-cr JOHN MINTER Sports Editor RUSTY HAMMOND Associate Editor ED RmXAND Subscription Manager ... ... . AVERY TIIOIAS Circulation Manager BObTvaLKER Arts Editor ANTHONY WOLFF Coed Editor . JOAN BROCK CIjaI I'huta-raphcr BUDDY SrOON Raclicl Cort Edwards II According to the latest statistics published by the Census Bu reau, the number of marriageable women in the United States is far greater than the number of eligible males. This astounding fact has lead hundreds of these charming ladies to a very bitter life of loneliness, frustration, and eventually to an early death. Therefore, I recommend that American society should change from a monotonous society in a polygamous society. Lei every man marry as many women as he can afford to support. This would save our American girls from wasting away as old maids and permit men to have at least two wives. To accomplish this wc do not have to change the laws of the land. All that is necessary is to merely overlook the existing ones Polygamy should be governed by the traditional customs of the peo pie and not by legislation. And since SO per cent of our married males partake in extra-curricula motel sports any.vay, why not make it legal and allow them to marry as many girls ai they want? If this plan is incorporated, it would keep most of the homes ?n America from breaking up, it would eliminate prostitution, and it would do away with illegitimate births. Are not these three of the biggest sociar cancers of our society? We must think of the children if nothing else. In order to put this system into operation and to preserve def inite laws of authority, primogeniture, and wifely duties, we recom mend that the "Three-way System" of polygamy be adopted. This is the three wives per husband plan. Number one girl should be the first and principal wife. Number two would be the secondary wife, and number three would be the concubine. The third wife is not necessary to the system, but she would make life much easier for numbers one and two. '-.'--v 5 t' : r. THE ATLAS: WILL MAN CONTROL HIMSELF IN NEW AGE? Scientific Progress: Reasons Challenge Glenn Oldj but who shall attend to its moral complement? The Cooernican NnmhM k ,. ;u:,c ,u cu Rcvolutions in man's conquest Revolution which broke with the v lUnHuauui1-u1'luiu vi w lamuj. cue of space CQme Swiftlv. but thev - alone is responsible for the complete household. She will also be the mother of the family. Regardless of which woman bears the child, the children always refer to number one as mother. Number two would be aunt and number three would be sister. are long in preparation. Behind dramatic discovery lies patient and painful preparation which is the process of education. The ego-centric Ptolemaic view that sun and stars revolved around the earth was long in preparation, but it came. Our conquest of out er space reaps the harvest of this When the family takes in social functions the wife number one Seniws in man lies in his ability shift in perspective. But where is always should stand side by side with her husband. Number two lias t0 SrasP swiftly the import of the Copernican Revolution in to stand behind them with the children and be sub-servant to both every new venture into space and morality? Where is - the break their husband and wife numbc r.e. Wife number three stays home to change accordingly. In a few with the ego-centric Ptolemaic The one thing that will allow wife number's one and two p short months since Sputnik man's mentality in human affairs? Must be compatible while sharing the same husband and household is mind has leaped from missiles to this inner space continue to be that wife one must be givn the authority to choose wife two. By me;:1' and already the imaginative peopled with imaginative dragons doing this, the distiny of wife two lies not in the hands of the hus- dravv blueprints from missile of strangec olor and dropping off drive-ins to the moon. Man's problem lies in the deep er preparation, in the slower domestication of the complex di mensions of the space of his life. Even before Euclid men knew there were at least two sides to space. Indeed, they linked in hand, but in the hands of wife one Wife one may, at any time, chase wife two or three- from the house, may beat them for misbehavior, and she has complete control over all of the children. In case wife one dies, wife two is never pro moted to be wife one. This would lead to too many murders. Instead wife two must always remain where she is, as wife two, or she may leave the husband and marry someone else to become his wife one. Wife three, the concubine, will have the lowest position in Vw fnmilf Ckn 11.. r iL. 1 ...v ....,. o.n- usuauj wum w.e luwtr economic ciass anyway, so mvth and ritual outer and inner she will be accustomed to her station in life. The concubine has to space, stellar space that bound be subservient to everyone in the family, including the children. She earth and star into a universe must do all of the menial tasks of the household, in addition to and inner human space that bearing the brunt of her husband's beastly passion and brutality. bound man and man into corn Under this system the children will have ample love, the wife munity. The laws of the former one will not have any household chores to do and she can devote all thev knew to be mathematical, of her time to being a companion and a better wife to her husband, the latter. moral Both were awe More important, however, is the fact that if this idea is adopted ful, and the fate of man turned there will no longer be any lonely women in this country, men wii' on mastering them simultaneous no longer have reason to get drunk and cheat on their wives, the ly. Education was designed to crime rate will be lowered, and a wholesome atmosphere will prevail keep these two domains of space as the proper environment for the development of the children. together and complementary. Columnists The editor of The Daily Tar Heel invites as many students as want to, to write columns for the paper. Subject matter ifi not limited, and every columnist is allowed al most complete freedom within the law of libel. The sole criterion for a col umn's worth is' its quality and this will be established on a com petitive basis throughout the year. Columns may be submitted at any time to the editor's office in Graham Memorial. The temptation of our Sputnik minded space age. and indeed our education, to support it, is to dismiss this ancient wisdom as primitive superstition, to drive an even deeper wedge between the places that confine the moral venture to the shall m water of one5s own mainland or adjacent islands of narrow .self-interest? Must thehauntin emptiness of inner space isolating man from man and nation from nation con tinue to be the dominant theme of poet, prophet, and philosopher in our time? Preparation for the healing of this breach in man's mastery of outer and inner space is a pri mary task of our time and cen tral mission of education. It may lack the drama of the launching of a new satellite, but it is justas risky and even more essential to human survival. Present plans for undergirding the sciences, mathe matics, and languages, important as they are, do not insure even a minimal morality essential to hu man community. For this, aradi cal orientation to other dimen sions of education is required. Orientation of . education to- a mathematical and the moral, the scientific mastery of outer space ward the conquest of inner space and the moral failure to span the essential to complement our pres- inner distance between man and ent mastery of outer space would man and nation and nation in a mean emphasis on the meaning of responsible human community, persons in their unique inner the editor unless initialed other- 006 n Ms ri?ht mind WOuld ad" Pa comparable to that now giv- objects in outer space. It would EDITORIALS All editorials in the left hand editorial column are written by wise. vocate surrender of scientific suc cesses in conquering outer space, "Gee, If Only Wc Could Have Closed The Courts"' ScTPTtrMBEF i m 0 ri1 mean as much radical research in the motivation and meaning of morality as we now give to the mastery and possession of ma terials. It would mean the wean ing of the mind from its hypnotic fascination with bigness and masses born of preoccupation with outer space, and the culti vation of a new regard for the spacious interior integrity of the smallest domain of personal res ponsibility. It would mean creat ing a new climate of moral ad venture and daring in human af fairs to match the excitement of missions to the moon. It would mean the same discipline of dis covery, the same openness to pub lic review, the same confidence in the vitality of truht in the mor al sp'nere as we now give the mathematical. It would mean the same patience with the slow and secret unfolding' of moral self hood, the same delicate care in the launching of life, as we now give the launching of a missile. It would mean cultivating the sense of mingled desperation and hope in every effort to link man with man and nation with nation that now qualifies every effort to link earth with outer space. It Would mean finally, courage to put our money where our mouth is, to begin to pay for what we preach. Wc speak glibly of the values we prize, but what preparation do we provide? By now,' we should know there can be no sig nificant human life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness without the conquest of inner space. Yet, shifts, here too, come swiftly even if they arc long in prepara tion. The Copernican Revolution in the disposition of the mind and heart and the conduct of hu man affairs is long overdue. It re mains to be seen "whether there School Starts At Goettingen Unlike At UNC Dave Davis ' The beginning of a new semes ter, always exciting, especially for new students who are entering Carolina for the first time this year. But their experience will be quite different from mine about one year ago when I entered the University of Goettingen in Ger many. There was no Orientation, and no actual date for the first day of classes. Each professor simply posted a list of the lec tures and seminars which he planned to give, and a date on which the lectures would prob ably begin.. The class buildings were spread about the city (pop. 80,000), and an afternoon bicycle tour helped me familiarize my self vith the campus, a word which can hardly be used here. The first three weeks were spent shopping around for classes. One attends all lectures which sound as if they might be in teresting", and from visiting around, selects those which he thinks he would like to continue with for the rest of the term. Some students attend as many as 40 hours per week. As there are no specific home work assign ments, this is not as overpower ing as it sounds. The students complete a large amount of their reading and studying during the two vacations between semesters, one lasting two months, the other three months. This freedom of choice of the students extends even further. There are no spec ial patterns of courses to be fol lowed in order to obtain a de gree. When a student is examined for his degree, he is responsible for everything in his field. There fore he need not be told which courses he must take. The opening of the school year was also a festive occasion. Old friends met at the old tavern to drinks beer with former friends, and the new students spent sev eral weeks visiting these taverns, in order to find the ones best suited to their tastes. The old Rathskellar with the German band and singing fraternity boys was' my favorite. About this time too, the fraternity members were shining up their dueling swords and getting ready for rush. The competition for places is not near ly so coveted as here, and by far the majority of the students prefer to remain independent. Gradually things begin to set tle down at the German univers ities, and the students settle down to a long cold winter of hard work and warm beer. LETTERS The Daily Tar Heel invites let ters from readers both in the realm of praise and in the realm of criticism. The only stipulation placed on letters is that they must be signed by the author. The editor will print all letters unless there are so many on one issue so that only a proportionate number pro and con may be printed. That's What The Book Said Professor of Latin, UNC Walter Allen, Jr. Tarquinius, the early king of Rome, was annoyed by the augur Attus Navius, who said that noth ing new should be undertaken without first observing the flights1 of birds. Tarquinius said, "Then, as a test, tell me if the birds will permit what I now have in mind." Attus Navius went through his ritual and replied, "Yes." Tar quinius continued, "What I had in anind was that you should cleave a whetstone in half with a razor." Attus Navius took the razor and cut the whetstone in half. are enough moral certainties, or better, certainties about morality, left in education to bring it about. But, of this we may be sure, edu cation has no higher calling in our time than this, whether or not Congress appropriates accord ingly. It may not be long before we have a missile circling the moon. How much longer can we afford to wait for human com munity to circle the earth? From The Saturday Revitw Inquiry Sam Frazier The outburst of military action between For mosa and China has released a flood of comment, However, in all the things that have been said, very little constructive matter seems to have been pro duced. Most of the comments csn be allocated to one of two prevailing ideas. First, it is assumed by some that the malady is a political one, i.e., it is the conflict of communism and democracy, and it is a territorial question (the pro and con of the idea that the proximity of the offshore islands and even Formosa to the mainland of China is natural proof that they should belong to Communist China). Sec ond, it is assumed by some that the malady is a "bad thing indeed" and that Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations in order that the presure of world opinion might be directed to either one of the parties in question. Ambling through the small amount of construc tive actions which fortunately have been made, everv individual is immediately (or should be immediate ly) made aware of their half -heartedness. -The pa troling of the area by the United States, the cur rent Warsaw conferences, and the requests that Communist China be admitted to the United Nations are probably the most favorable actions which have been committed in attempts to heal the "malady." For the moment, possibly .these are the only steps which may be wisely made, half-hearted as they are: These steps are half-hearted in the sense that they represent the steps of a near-sighted person who in the near future will have to walk along a perilous path, and who neglects to supplement his vision with permanent corrective measures so that the path ahead may be safetly trod. Already in the corrective measures which have been taken, there should be an undercurrent of movement toward a permanent corrected situation. And there is such an undercurrent under way. However, it is not as prevailing as it should be, or for that matter, could be. First, Nationalist China and Communist China should be viewed as two separate countries. Any visions of an eventual invasion of the Chinese main land by the Nationalists on Formosa, or conversely an invasion of Formosa by the Chinese Communists, must be blotted out. In a sanse. warped as some peo ple may feel it is, the Chinese Communists chose their form of government as did the Chinese Na tionalists. This is an age in which political self-determination by an area is the accepted fact, so for this reason the two different choices made by the Chinese must be respected. However, in today's world, peace has to be re spected and maintained by all nations, even when areas such as the two in question feel that they have some private business to "discuss" which is no one else's business. Second, Communist China should be admitted to the United Nations on the grounds that it is a large area of the world and represents a large per cent of the world's population. With membership in the United Nations, more firm contacts may be made with the people of Communist China, and the influence of the United Nations in that area may be developed. Thus, in light of current facts, these two steps are fundamental to any permanent solution. It is necessary that any nation or nations interested in establishing a permanent solution constantly cul tivate these two ideas. View & Preview Anthony Wolff A PLUG FOR THE PLAYMAKERS The Carolina playmakers are rarely the subject of much student discussion. In a way, this silence is rather strange, as the Playmakers is one of the Uni versity's oldest and most notable continuing insti tutions; but, on the other hand, the lack of stu dent interest is not so surprising in the context of the fashionable and more or less general reverse snobbism which infects a large portion of the cam f""T "--"y x , pus population. This attitude ap- t s ""N. Plies aot only to the Playmak- r , ... - - ers, Din also to any campus ac tivity which has a tinge of in tellectual stimulation connect ed with it. In the case of most intellec tual pastimes, however, mas3 participation is not strictly necessary. In all but the excep tional case, a good book is as good as a good lecture, and a recorded concert will suffice for all but the most exacting afficionados, who demand the "living" ex perience of the concert hall. But there is no sub situte for playgoing for the unique experience of being a part of an audience imaginatively, partici pating in the play being presented for its enter tainment. ' : Also, as is true of any art, good theatre is very rare particularly outside the large cities and so the nearly consistent competence of the Playmakcrj should be all the more appreciated. , ; Despite the easy availability to University stu dents of such a rare and exciting experience, the Playmaker front office reports that only six season tickets out of a total of one thousand have been sold to UNC students. This is a statistic of. which most of us have a right to be pretty ashamed. Perhaps it can le safely assumed that this col umn .will have no influence: certainly no student should be expected to spend his money without in vestigation. So all that is asked here and it isn't much, considering the possible gain is that every student attend one of the fall Playmaker produc tions, just as an experiment. Fortunately, this sea son offers a choice of "Oklahoma," the greatest mus ical of all time, and "Look Homeward Angel," the dramatization of Tom Wolfe's novel and a current .Broadway hit. Take your pick light musical come dy, ro heavy drama. Just go. ' 1 til a I i1 til i.- tlf ti P v v t CI 5 3-j i a J Ft 1 1 i