Sunday, September 28, 1953
f ACE TWO
THi DAILY TAR HEEL
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To The Rushee
You. during tlio next xveek will have an
nppni miiitN to i i t ixcry I rat ci nity on the
i.impiiN. Ynm icw ax i II he somewhat l
m iiuil h the sales tei lni(iies used in order
to jji-t people to join a particular house.
You will he shuttled liom one house to
anoihei and hcided in .it eat h house. Duriirj;
the time sou will he suhtly gulled as to
like. dislikes, heliels. prejudices, ap
peal. one. ,iil and the like. You will ask
some questions, hut most will not he the pcr
tinent ones.
InI ol oii will ptohahly pledge a Ira
1 1 1 1 i t . il aktd.
Most . .u shouldn't pledge a fraternity
at this time.
I 01 uiMst ol nii. the two weeks of classes
iu h ie attended aie inadequate to ;ivc you
,111 uUa ol the academic lesponsihilities that
ta t on . t tlu I 'ui ersity.
I mi minx ol noii. the time during the hc
Liimiin; ol xmn litst ear that pledjin takes
up will he too mm h lot ou. Your partici
pation in am othei hum ol extra-curricular
will he lost in duties toward the house.
Yotit at idt iuit standing may not stiller,
hut loi the heinnin' xmii heeilom ol action
x ill he t ut tailed.
MoNi o noii do not know why you are join
In.; a hateinitx outside ol the obvious social
ad. intakes that the Iraternitx a I lords. This
dots noi stju.ne wiili the atr.dtinic and j).u
tiip.uin4 lesponsihilities that are on your
shoiildet s.
Noii ate lue to join, but il you're wise,
u If wail.
This does not mean that xou should not
join at am time. This means that il you have
ihe slightest doubr about your i esjxonsibili
lies. il ou aie unsute as to what pledeship
,i.iiiil what haternity lite means, and if you
alue oui initial ,independefi( e, then to
pledge a liaternitv at this time would be for
ou loolh.udy. Tor any people in this situa
tion, it would he adxisable to ;.o through
nish. meet some people whom -sou can dis-
uss li.ueinitN lile with later when you have ,
some b.itk;iound knowledge.
II ou at the present time have your heart
set on a hatctnitv. and are sure that this will
not inlet lete with sour intellectual develop
ment, join. Iut beware, doubt first. If you
h.txe doubled and all ieset;.tions have been
set aside, join. II am reservations remain,
tlu te aie sex en oilier semesters when you can
pled-e. QP'
bunt jiiinp. wade, lie who hesitates is
nof dwass lost. He sometimes finds wisdom
in his meditation.
Fraternities
I he D.iilx Tar Heel thnin the next xveek
is undi u.'kiir a laiily thorough study of the
li.ueinitN sit.uition'at the I'niversitv of North
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( aiolina. Dining the xveek there will he edi
toii d (ommetit. mtit h of it critical of the
piest nt hateinitx sxstein. some xvill be praise
woiihx. and still others will press lot things
1h.1t ti atei nities want to luxe.
Ihe etliioii.il seiies needs a pi elate. It
lutds to be said that Iratctnitics haxe the
114I11 ol estisKMue. To abolish Maternities
xould be to denv the li.ht ol assembly, and
aiix tiling that willapcar in this column xvill
he to Unci the sxsiem lasher than to deny
iheii t Mt w e.
It is hojml that they, ihe Iratei nities, xvill
take xvh.it is said heie dining the next several
tlaxs under adxisement and x'ihaps do some
thing to help out the campus situation.
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Ed Roland
This week's news has oeen filled
with stories of strife from all cor
ners 'of the globe. From Littl
Rock to Lebanon, from Adams to
Algeria, these stones pushed even
the spreading hula hoop craze off
the front pages.
In contrast the Carclina cam
pus was comparatively quiet as
sorority rush and combatting the
ot weather and lamentations about
football occupied most students'
time.
In tense Little Hock, violence
erupted Wednesday as nrivate cor
porations mad', plans to reopen
Central High as a private school.
Gov. Orval Faubus o! Arkansas
said if the federal government
blocks his plans it would be their
responsibility for keping ' the
schools closed. The xiolence oc
curred when a group of Negro
youths beat three v.'hite ninth
graders.
Gov. Faubus callec. a special
election to let the residents of Lit
Ve Hock decide the school ques
tion, and on its eve conflict be
tween xvhite groups on opposite
.sides of the question made the
city as tense as it xas last Sep
tember. Groups of ministers have come
out on both sides of the question
and angry words have been ex
' changed. Newspaper ads have ap
peared with black borders.
Gov. Faubus said he thinks there
xvill be more violence. "Most peo
ple think so," he said. He de
clined to say xvhethar he would
put the Arkansas National Guard
in the streets again.
Contrasting with Little Rock xvas
Van Buren, Arkansas, where eight
Negroes re-entered Van Buren
High amid only miner demonstra
tioirs by whites. Segregationist
leaders immediately called a con
ference. Students supposed to attend
closed schools in Norfolk and
Charlottesville. Virginia, issued
pleas' asking the ie-opening of
their schools. The petitions cir
culated made no mention of race
or integration but merely said the
students want an education.
In Newport. H. I., President
Eisenhower wound up his seaside
vacation with a round of golf.
Formosa Crisis
The shooting in Formosa Strait
went into its second month this
xveek as the top American com
mander in the Pa;ific conferred
with Chaing-Kai-Shtk. The discus
sion centered around the problem
of supplying the Nationalist gar
risons on Quemoy and Matsu un-
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rebel unit slain for plotting to
betray the cause of the anti
French revolution.
Adams Resignation -
Back in the United States Sher
man Adams resigned as presi
dential assistant in a nationwide
television address, and Democratic
Chairman Paul Butler replied the
following night. Adams asserted
again, "I have done no wrong."
Butler' restated the Democratic
accusations against Adams and
added that he believed high mem
bers of the Republican .party
dumped Adams as a political lia-
''ScUth&rrt 'Declaration
(The folloicing was introduced at the Eleventh
Annual National Student Congress at Delaware,
Ohio this summer. It teas introduced under the
title of "Declaration of Southern Student Lead
ership on Desegregation" to the five sourthen
regions represented at the Congress. It was pass
ed wholeheartedly in t&nee of those five regions
and teas not defeated in any. The editor feels that
this is the type of leadership students and gov
ernmental people should assert in order to bring
about" integration and avert violence.)
We are proud of the Southern corrvmunity. We
are, however, painfully aware of the tremendous
problem that faces our respective states in the realm
of constitutional desegregation of segregated schools.
... f iL national nrftklam
kiljy vve are aiso aware ot me yicai iia,,vl, f-.w...,.
Adams was accused cf accepting of establishing democratic race relations, but wa
favors from Boston industrialist realize that perhaps in our community the problem
Bernard Goldfine and exerting in- js more acute because it involves statutory dis-
fluence on federal agencies in crimination whiIe the basic problem elsewhere is
Goldfine's behlaf. President Eisen- . . . . .
.. , - bas ca y one of sociological and policy implements-
hoxver xvas described as anxious '
to name a successor to Adams tion.
Quickly. We'are in complete agreement with the USNSA
The man most often mentioned Resoution on Desegregation which states that segre-
was Alfred M. Gruenther. ...... -ti
gation in education by race is incompatible with
Labor Talks human equality. We also realize that segregation in
On the labor front the United education is now unconstitutional and is at cross
Auto Workers started negotiations purposes witn the American way of life and body
with the Ford Company after
shelving talks with Chrysler and
General Motors. Local disputes Though we are proud of the Southern communi-
with the union idled more than ty's way Qf jfe we d0 nof fee that a system that
30.000 workers--The UAW has Aniiai nnnnrt,.n;tv to some southern citirr-ni
is either necessary or desirable as a part of that
way of life.
inter- xe are personally opposed and will work to clo
nal problems among skilled work- forced inequality of opportunity is finally dissolved,
trs in Ford plants. the true qualities of dynamic regional progress
Chrysler was hardest hit by which are the true keynotes of the Southern wj
walkouts as 9,400 quit at seven 0f jfe cannot come to fruition.
plants in Indiana - and Michigan.
shown signs in increased irrita
tion at the slowness of the com
panies to come to an agreement,
and they faced continuing
We are personally opposee and will work to de
feat all actions, legislative or otherwise, which in
effect frustrate and prevent the obligation and right
of local communities to progress toward compliance
with tka rlarScinn nf tliA unrAmp ffinrt Wp Hn Aitn
to nail down another fat pay boost , ,
bldliu uiif neiduiy Df)U3cu iu 0117 utniayuyci j ui
attempts to use the highly emotional issue of de
segregation for personal social, financial or political
gain.
CM had 10.000 out in five plants.
Another large union, the United
.Mine Workers led by .Johtn L.
Lewis, was reported about ready
and welfare fund royalty hike for
the nation's soft coal miners.
At the same time the goern-
der the muzzles of Red guns on
the Chinese mainland.
Red China failed once more to
gain a seat in the United Nations
as the United Sfcates successfully
prsuaded the General Assembly to
sidetrack the issue. The U. S. vic
tory was not so decisive as in pre
vious years, hoxvever. ',
The decision came after a two
day debate in which the United
States fought almost single-handedly
against mounting pressure by
tne Soviet Bloc aid Afro-Asian
countries for action 'now. A large
majority of the Latin-American
and Western European nations sat
through the debate in silence.
The army seized power in Bur
ma in a bloodless coup in an ac
tion aimed at preventing Burma's
shaky government from falling
into the hands of the Communists.
The army said it was acting to
preserve democracy and law and
order.
Army leaders had reportedly is
sued an ultimatum to two warring
factions in Premier U Nu's party
before the coup. The party was
split into pro-western and neutral
ist groups. The army has prom
ised to hand power back to any
government which can keep Bur
ma on an even keel and guarantee
the nation's security.
Middle East
Lebanon's nexv militarist Presi
dent Gen. Fuad Chehab, rolled
out heavvy tanks and troops on
the second day of his tenure to
stop speading gunfiglits that had
killed more than 20 persons in
Beirut. U. S. troops were placed
between clashing Christian and
Moslem factions in the hopeful
role of peacemakers. Lebanon is
about half Christian, half Molsem.
Chehab is officially Christian
but there is also some Moslem
background in his family. He took
office succeeding a Christian,
Camille Chamoun.
In Algeria French authorities
said the mutilated bodies of 403
t0 500 Algerian Nationalist rebels
have been found in a mass grave
in a mountainous region some 100
miles east of Algers. The French
said the dead were members of a
ment announced a 50 cents an
hour xvage boost producers must Finally, we are deeply cognizant of the tremend
pay to be eligible to sell coal ous obligation that we as Southern sutdent leaders
has the effect of raising labor personally bear to supply intelligent and forward
under a federal contract. This locking leadership to our home communities in
costs of non-union producers and squarely meeting the problem of constitutional in
of making union producers more obligation that we as Southern student leaders
receptive to ivin" Lexvis extra in the South in developing an intelligent program
union concessions.
The United States blasted a
"weather-eye" satellite into space
from Cape Canaveral, but it is not
certain whether the attempt xvas
succesful; Four U. S. satellites
are in orbit in addition to one
Sputnik.
Three hours after the launching
no tracking' stations had . made
contact with the satellite. Earlier
officials were elated after xvord
that the first three sections had
performed flawlessly. . , .
The
Fred Weaver
Meaning Of Education At
Carolina
Chitf rhotorapher
BUDDY SPOON
Charles Van Doren said that
when he was a student at Colum
bia he read over a thousand books
n year. He would ?o right into the
library stacks aid read, read,
read. I asked myself how anybody
could read a thousand books a
year. I tried to figure out how
many books that would be a
month, how many a week a day.
How did he read? Did he "taste,"
"swallow," or "chew and digest"?
Do you know haw to read? Let
me make a specific suggestion.
Go to the Library and call for a
book by Mortimer J. Adler en
titled' How to Rad a Book. Mr.
Adler is the man who in col
laboration with Robert Hutchins
and Stringfellow Barr worked out
the Great Books curriculum at St.
Johns College in AnnapolL5 the
hundred books th.it constituted the
xvhole curriculum at St. Johns. If
you think you know how to read
you will be surprised at what you
have yet to learn about reading,
he skill of getting into the mind
what is communicated on the
printed page. If you are taking
notes make a note of that title:
How to Read a Eook by Mortimer
J. Adler. (Mind you, I said Morti-.
mer J. Adler, net Teddy Nadler.)
He calls it "a light book about
heavy reading." And it's not ex
actly a light boot.
Recently there came to town a
college friend of mine, Fereboe
Taylor. Ferebee was the first win
ner of one of our coveted -scholar-.
ships, the Herbert Wortlj Jackson
Scholarship. He came to the Uni
versity from Os ford, ' North Car
olina, and in lour years made
Just about all A's. Then he went
to Oxford, England, as a Rhodes
Scholar; then lo Harvard Law
School. And now he is an attorsey
. in New York. I alxx-ays enjoy
hearing about Oxford. The' pre
eminent university in the English-
speaking world, I think of it in
almost magical terms a place
all would-be educators should at
least touch.
I was interested in Ferebee's
account of his first visit to his.
Tutor. (At Oxford a Tutor is
something like a General College
Adviser, in one respect, at least.). -Ferebee
asked the Tutor to advise
him which lectures he should
attend you might say which
courses he should take. The Tutor,
in a manner and accent which ' I
cannot affect spoke rather indif
ferently about the lectures. r"Oh
yes," he said, "I see that Billings
will be giving his lectures on con
temporary English philosophers
and Joshings will lecture on the
Soviet Economy. It might be
' worthwhile to drop in on these
occasionally, but I don't believe
if 1 were you I should xvaste too
much time on lectures. You will
xvant to save your time for read
ing." Of course, this is not Ox
ford and you are not all Rhodes
Scholars; but there is a lesson
here for us. We attach too much
importance to the lecture. We are
too passive in our " approach to
learning. We depend too much on
the professor.
Read, read, read. That is the
thing. Go to the Library. That is
xvhere our treasure is. That is
where the greatest '"professors of
all time and all nations will come
to lecture to you at your own
convenience, any time of day or
night. Th.ey are ready , to come to
you privately, at you call. You are
at the water's edge. The ocean is
before you.
My point number two is that
education should build character.
For this I take rny text from Rob.
ert Frost, the wise and wonderful
poet. Mr. Frost said that if he
were a dictator and could say the
xvord and know that it would be
obeyed in all the schools and
colleges of America he xvould say
to them, "Build character!" And
they of course would ask,' "How?"
How do we build character? "The
secret of building character," said
Frost, i"is knoxving how and when
to put young people on their own."
Knowing how and xvhen to put
young people on their own
is quite a trick. But I xvill say
this. Carolina is a place xvhere
you will be more completely on
your own than ever before in
your lives. You will be the judge
of what time you get up in the -morning
and what time you go to .
bed at night, and whether you eat
breakfast or go to class or go to
the movies or go. home for the
xveek end, or whether you study
or fritter away your time and
your opportunity.
of leadership in this area, and involving all other
students possible in our local academic communities
and schools throughout the South in meeting the
oroblem.
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Anthony Wolff
THE ACKLAND MAUSOLEUM
On the road to sacrilege it should be noted that
the tomb of Mr. Ackland (deceased) in the build
ing which. bears his name is one of the most ludicr
ous and tasteless objects around. As such, it is quite
in keeping xvith the rest of the building.
The plaque above the sarcophagus informs the
inquisitive sightseer that Mr.
Ackland died at the age" of
eighty-five: immediately below
this information, atop the sar
cophagus, is a statue of the re
clining Mr. Ackland in hi
twenties, dressed in a neatly
starched stone suit, vintage
from Milton's.
Death has done wonders lor
him.
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It is not as if you have been CONTRACEPTION AND THE CHURCH
abandoned far from it. The place
abounds xvith teachers, coaches,
advisers, deans, people who can
help you even inspire you. And
there is nothing wrong with being
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Photo ty Jerry Garrison
The Catholic Church has never been noted for
a liberal attitude, or for allowing much deviation
from its arbitrary, but infallible, rulings. It follow.-,
then, that the Church comes into official conflict
with thp rp?t nf thf wnrlH in poroin o r o -j c i i.
helped. The math professor can . . ,
certain movies, books, medical practices,
explain things to you that you
might not be able to understand In such cases of conflict the Church usual!;'
by working entirely on your oxvn. stands alone, particularly in a relatively enlightcn-
The coach can teach you a great ed and more-or-less democratic country where au-
deal about form and technique, thoritarian strictures are not welcome. When, as is
about a backhand stroke or a oflcn thc' case, the Church's dictates to its adherent:
hook shot and much more beside.,, threaten thc freedoms of non-Catholics, the result
But one thing that we all knoxv is 5s often that lhe non-Catholics take justifiable of-
this: there is no substitute for ense-
working something out for your- The C2se in point; The New York City board of
self, whether if be an algebraic hospitals last week lifted its blanket ban on birth
equation, a line of poetry or an control therapy-in city hospitals. This action was
exercise in' English composition, taken after a long debate toughed off when a doctor
As a -matter of fact, we are never jn a city hospital was forbidden to fit a Protestant
quite sure of anything until xve patient with a contraceptive device. In the doctor's
do xvork it out for ourselves; nev- opinion, pregnancy would endanger the woman'
er quite as pleased as when xve life,
do something on our own. Watch
any baby when he first learns to u s SCOn as the casc hit tho Ncw York press.
walk; or ask any aviator who has the locai Archdiocese came out firmly on the siue
a i,- r 4- o i n-v, of tne official who had forbidden the treatment,
made his first solo flight. T , , . , , . ,.
T. i, u r u, i Just about every other church group and public
It will be profitable to ask your- . . .4 . A ,. : .
. voice in the city came out against the discnmina-
selves as you go along how much t poliCy
you are doing on your own and how
much you are doing as a matter When the ban was lifted last xveek, the Catholic
of routine, of habit, of sheer com- officials stated that the nexv policy, which make
pliance with directions and assign- contraceptive devices and advice available to these
ments. Study, like anything else, is who need and want them, "introduces an immoral
neither enjoyable nor profitable practice in our hospitals which perverts the nature
unless you put -your heart into it and dignity ol man."
and find in it a sense of personal perhaps soon some Catholic woman, being told
achievement. It is by going after in a ciay hospital that her Iife will be forfeit i she
problems xvith determination and conceiveSj wiI1 w0nder why in all probability she
perseverance until they are solved must "die, while others in the same situation xvill
that xve develop character. ke saved by medical science.