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MOB TWO THB tJAtlY TAR Hf EL SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1958 The Issue 'I he- twin- in the world ;t the present time is not jm'.kc, lor mm mulcr would accomplish tint pin post- admirably. Indeed the issue is not world power, for a. test ol th.u is readily available, and perhaps the iiliim.iic test ol power is the test of man kind's ponei to annihilate himself. I he issue in the world today is one of whether m.iu is able to pieserve his integrity, and whetlui the world can exist under a ssstetn wheieby man's integrity can be prc scred. I his is the only meaning of the fight for fircdom. and the only issue that, if Russia would w in. the wot Id would lose. At stake in the world today 'is the right of man to speak, think, and act according to his belitls j rt her than the beliefs of the com iiumitv suiiounding him. The issue is lieedom. the light is real, and the war is being waged badly. ( ommunisui as a lon e today oilers the pro mise ol eionomic improvement to the peo ples it intends to atttad. but veiled beneath this the concept which permeates totali t.iti.ni svstcim wheiever they are the com plete sactiluc ol the individual to the will and puijM)se ol the state. 'I'hrough this sys tem gie it te huological progress may be made, but individual creativity, individual ini.u i t-. and the light of an individual to he honest with himself is lost in the shuffle. I he ( loiumunist challenge is real in terms ol ainiaments as can be demonstrated in Ihm.uv or Oucmoy and Matsu, and in trims ol ol ideological ruri economic attrac tion .is t idt n ed in the Middle and Tar Fast, .md the I'nitcri States, as the supposed Icari ( i ol "licedoin", has failed miserably to lead in that diicd'ou 1." gely by not acquainting itsell with an hit its own freedom means. Within the I'nited States, the true selling point ol democracy freedom to think has been disicg.udcd for the sake of national secutitv. So that one sees passport denials, second class citizenships, loyalty oaths, and the governmental idea of the common wel fare taking precedence over equality under the law and the light to think. These values express themselves in foreign allaiis and have wrought much havoc with the v. lidiiy ol the United States' claim to the lurtheiiug ol lieedom. Temporary expedients have replaced long i.uxic solutions and principles have been com piomiscd in the lace of short range aims. It conns picsciitly to the impasse where no na tion in the wot Id c an be sure of the stand of the I'nited States on any significant issue. 1 he so called "uncommitted peoples" of the wot Id would have a leaning towards democracy and lieedom if the tangible evi dence" was not so unappealing. The I'nited States has self which it can choose to ignore or to be consistent with. This se ll is manifested in the Constitution and in the way that this nation was farmed. "To thine own self be true" is the possi bility under a democ racy. It is a moral ought in Demot lac v's dealings with the rest of the wol Id. Without this democracy is dead, ?nd free dom a thing ol the past. I he integiity of the individual if protect ed and il lought lor is the most wotthwhile piodui t ol a democ racy. A so ictv in which each person can bear "T thine- own sell be tine" can be the per sonal motto ol cvciy individual and wlieic cvciv individual h.s some consciousness of that sell is the thing to be sought. It cannot be ac c oulishcd unless the form of govern tmut which can possibly make this a reality uses this as its motto. I he time lor icappraisal is now. 1jc JDfltlp nr Jpeel The official student publication of the Publication Board of the University of. North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination periods and summer terms. Filtered as second cl.lss matter in the pest office in Chapel Ifiil. N. C. under the act of March 8 lf!70. Subscription mtes: $4.50 per se mcstcr, $8.50 per year. i ui eiicpl! l(iU ! I 5 I .S.'.c iff'!, rr ' f.r FdiUr CURTIS CANS Managing Editors CHARLIE SLOAN. CTiARKE JONES News Fditor v ANN FRYF Assistant News Editor ED RINER Business Manager WALKER BLANTON Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN Asst. Adv. Manager . JOirN MrNTER Coed Editor JOAN BROCK Chief Hiotographer BUDDY SPOON Sports Editor : RUSTY HAMMOND Assistant Sports Editor ELLIOTT COOPER Associate Editor ED ROWLAND w rid N&ws Ed Rowland With the world seething over manifestations of the foreign po licy of the United States this week, politicians stumping the country offered as many views as there are persons for solutions. Campaigning party leaders de bated the foreign policy amid charges of "surrender" and "smear." Former President Tru man accused President Eisenhow er and Secretary of States Dulles of bringing about the present crisis in the Formosa Strait through a policy of "blunder, bluster and brink of war. He was answered by Eisenhow er's -press secretary, James Hagerty, who 'said Truman was doing some political rewriting of history. He said Truman would have a hard time selling it to the people. Eisenhower himself stuck to domestic issues like the recession ("I feel confident it is over,") and labor unions ("Corrupt labor bosses who have betrayed their trust pose a great danger to all Americans.") Dulles said in a television Interview that the U. S. is not going to tolerate an attack on the Chinese Communists in the Formosa Strait area. He. lam basted the Democrats for trying to undermine our foreign policy by false charges and accusation?. BUTLER JOINS IN Democratic Party Chairman Paul Butler got in his licks too. He ac cused Eisenhower of campaign name all and said the Democrats are indignant. He added that Vice President Nixon has been using ugly names and that Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn has been trying to scare the voters by saying a Democratic victory in the forthcoming elec tions would lead to socialism. Butler said Nixon had used "such ugly and divisive language as 'rotgut thinking." 'political radi cals and 'appeascrs' " in discuss .ing foreign policy. He asked if it is unpatriotic to discuss foreign policy while the guns arc roaring and the Republicans claim peace during a cease-fire? A d 1 a i Stevenson, Democratic standard-bearer in 1952 and 1956, joined in the crusade for clean campaigning In saying that charges against the Democrats were "the ultimate in demogo gery." He said. "The old Nixon has been joined by the new Ike or a new speeflT writer in a de sperate, intolerable, demagogcry type of campaign." The Democrats have internal troubles this year as bad or worse than the GOP. In Atlanta a de finite possibility of a split in the party was forecast by Gov. -nominee Ernest Vandiver in the wake n R "Who's Going To Leash Or Unleash Whom?" eview dirt Vending Machines Ron 'Shumate t - l A next week a special political com mittee will begin debate on a spe- Tacked neatly on a door in the main lounge of cial standby emergency force by Avery dorm yesterday was a little notice to th Monday. The U. "S. has indicated residents of said dorm. This notice, written on it will settle for a planning com- blue paper for some abstract reason or another, mittee for the force contained statements concerning the-dorms vend- ' ing machines. It said, in effect, that the milk Secretary General Dag Ham- tfae dorm had been subjected to vandal- marskjold has endorsed a general ism flnd other machin2S had been subjected to un- pnnciple framework which might dug 3 It has been decided that any fux- De usea to set up a force, but not ther acts q this nature resuU in the rem0val the establishment of the force it self. The Russian v delegates are opposed to any consideration of the question. , of said machines," it stated. ' All residents are required to "refrain from tamp ering with all machines and to report anyone who . t of a sharp attack on Southern De 'mocrats by Butler. Butler had told the southerners to accept the par ty civil-rights platform or leave and form a third group. Vandiver said it ill-behooved Butler and others to read anyone out of the party when it was founded on principles of states' rights, local self-government and constitutional integrity. He said Butler himself should leave and align himself with a group more near his leftist tendencies. FORMOSA STRAIT In actual foreign events this week the crisis in the Formosa Strait was the most important. Dulles flew to Taipei early In the week to confer with Chiang-Kai Shek, and the two agreed that the U. S. and Nationalist China must stand together against the Reds. The talks took place while Red guns shelled battered Quemoy and Matsu af:er violating their an nounced extension of a cease-fire. Dulles warned the Reds that U. S. supply ships may return to lerry duty if the increased shell ing makes it necessary. And to make it less tempting for the Reds to shell. Nationalist officials have decided to reduce the gar risons on the islands by one-fifth i'rom the 100,000 stationed there now. The move would dramatize the U. S. announcement that the Nationalists would not attack ia the area. The millions of Roman Catholics throughout the world kept their attention focussed on Rome this week as "the entire College of Cardinals convened in preparation for balloting on the successor to Pope PTus XII. The balloting be gan Saturday and will not cease until the new Pope is chosen. The historic Sistine Chapel, decorated by Michelangelo in the 15th Cen tury, is the scene of 'trie election. Speculation grew as the Car dinals convened around the iden tity of the new Pope, and most observers agreed that he would come from the ranks of the elder ly, conservative Italian cardinals. The words "transition Pope" are being heard frequently, and he would be expected to continue the police policies of Pius but not be gin any of his own. In Cuba next week nearly three million voters will go to the polls to elect a successor to President Batista, who is retiring, and a new congress. But in contradiction to their efforts to unseat Batista, the rebels operating from the mountains of Oriente Province un der Fidel Castro have threatened bombings, sabotage -and killings to break up the voting. He has also called for a general revolutionary strike. The voters have four choices for President. And Batista has said he will turn over power next February to the winner, and that "only God can stop the voting." Batista has dominated Cuban po litics for 25 years. UN EMERGENCY FORCE The United Nations declared on the day set aside in its honor that In the school integration disputes does not d s0 " in the South some new develop- This matter was bound to come out in the open ments took plice during the week SOoner or later. These vending machines give the the Virginia Congress of Parents first floor of Avery, and other dorms as Well, a and Teachers balked on a tie vote LaS Vegas-like atmosphere. If one attempts to buy at endorsing the massive resist- something from any and all of these machines he ance policies of the state. The vote is literally gambing. My roommate and I have was 557557. Then in a 515 to 513 lost between $5 and $6 in these machines thus far vote it urged that localities be in the year. Granted, this is nc momentous sum, allowed to determine whether to but the principle of the matter is what counts, operate racially integrated schools. Doubtless the firms which have machines in the The vote was a narrow margin dorms and all around the campus are not operat of victory for the moderates who ing at a loss. They couldn't be, ith all the money do not necessarily favor Integra- the students have lost in them. Only this after tioh but who wish to have public noon- 1 lost a sma11 sum ,m a machine in th base schools open. ment of Grham Memorial. In Little Rock the first days of If the firms which own all these machines don't the Little Rock Private School wish to have them tampered with, why don't they Corporation's attempt at educat- fix them. If dorm residents, especially those in ing ,230 white seniors in a plan dorms far away from eating establishments, dc to offset the closing of the city's sire a midnight snack they must resort to the use four high schools by Gov. Faubus. of these machines. Of course, they could always No efforts have been made , yet hike all the way across campus, but that is hardiy for classes for other high school likely. Therefore, the students are handicapped, to students. an extent. The only alternatives they have are: A mixup in registration sent the (D drink waterI 2 d'1 drink anything; (3) don't seniors home after two hours on eat anythnig; or (4) as was mentioned above. Walk the first day. Gov. Faubus said across campus in the dead of the night. Anot'h-r he felt the private corporation Possible "out" would be for students to bring their could not operate schools indefin- bread and Pami. itely on private contributions, then wnat are the students to do? Obviously, non? added he did not think it would 0f tne above "suggestions" are quite feasible. Some have to. He said the state legis- thing definitely should be done about the situation, lature might come up with some- The owners of the machines should not be allowed thing when it meets in January, to continue to make profit on items they keep in their machines. I'm sure the students don't mind CIVIL RIGHTS paying for their snacks, if they get them. And in attempts from federal agents of the Civil Rights Com mission to investigate voter rec ords in two Alabama counties de fiance and refusals to cooperate were the rule. Atty. Gen. John Patterson, already assured of the governorship in the next election due to hrs Democratic nomination, said the voting records Were pri vate rather than public and urged their withholding from the agents. Macon County, site "of famed Tuskegee Institute, and Montgo mery and Mobile Counties were being investigated. The Civil Rights Commission announced it had settled on representatives in some southern states, including North Carolina, but said they would not be made public until the men accepted. South Carolina's apppointees re fused almost to a man, the only exception being a Charleston Ne gro attorney. . ' An energetic student scrawled a suggestion across the bottom of the notice. This student sug gested that more machines be placed in the dorms. This would not solve the problem, for if the machin es were like the other "one-armed bandits" nothics would be gained. I do agree, however, that the students do not need to resort to vandalism to make their gripes known. The IDC has a standing Vending Machines Committee to which the students may take their gripes. The dorm officers also may receive such gripes. A plan has been suggested which will provide for the reimbursement. This plan has been in e! mect in some dorms, for more than a year,- and has apparently worked well. Measures are also being taken to provide for more machines in some dorms. But until these measures, suggestions and so forth, are put into effect, ' the students will con tinue to write home, spend a portion of each even ing in the gambling rooms of the dorms. And I thought gambling was prohibited by the IDC. Two Views On Playmakers mm m m m Arts Editor ANTHONY WOLFF Anthony Wolff "Oklahoma?" opened on Broad way in 1913: five and one-half years and 2.248 performances later it's first New York run ended it was later revived), but it probably safe to say that since its original opening there has nev er been an evening without a pro duction of "Oklahoma!" by some one, somewhere. The original suc cess of the show was due in part to the public need to escape at least for an evening from the heavy pressure of war, but its con tinuing success Ks due to its own virtues light good humor, sim ple romance, and beautiful music. Whatever its lasting virtues, though, "Oklahoma!" has been pretty well defined after fifteen years. Two Broadway productions and a tremendous Hollywood pro duction, ' popular records of the music, and countless road produc tions have exhausted the show's novelty, and it would take an al most impossibly superb perfor mance nowadays to make the mu sical anything but a worn copy of its original. The current Playmakcr produc tion Is no such thing. It has its moments, to be sure, but the total result is poor. The most discourag ing aspect of this production is an excruciatingly slow-moving first act, during which there is hardly a single spontaneous moment; even the song cues are painfully obvious as they are almost invari ably followed by a pause during which the singer moves to the front of the stage and checks with the conductor. Even the enitial efect as the cur tains open is weak. Tommy Rez zuto, who designed as well as di rected the current production,, seems eminently capable cf mak- '"Oklahoma!" Joel Chadabe When Roger and Hammerstein wrote Oklahoma! in the early forties, and era of musical comedy was ending. Gershwin had, for the last time, dedicated an unpublished song to a fema'c aquaintance. For the last time, Barry Hart had been whisked away lo an upstate New York hotel to be told by Rogers, "write!" Cole Porter was the last oi! the witty so ciety writers still riding the crest of fame. But the time had come, foreshadowed by Showboat and Helen Morgan's "Bill", when the show stopped no longer for the music. The music h;id become an incorporated and essential part of the action, char acterization and plot. Oklahoma! was a revolution. An "angel" is a backer for a Broadway show. He invests a certain amount of money and receives a certain amount of the profits if the show is a success. Oklahoma! did not attract "angels". Feo ple were so skeptical about a show violating the traditional forms of musical comedy that no one wanted to invest. Imagine a show wilhout a chorus line! And all about cowboys, at that! It was many long months before the production reached the Broadway stage, and many long years before it left. , This Playmakers' production of Oklahoma! cap tured the same spirit and energy that made the original production a success. And this, above all, is what Oklahoma! needs. Hunter Tillman sang with vitality and spontenaiety, as did Carolyn Myers, fill ing their songs with youth and tenderness. Margaret Starnes did an outstanding job as Ado Annie, fully capturing the comedy of "I Cain't Say No". More important than singing Jhe songs in a show such as this is acting them. The songs are caricatures of whatever they represent. They are meant to be exaggerated and obvious, and only then do they make a point. Not one of the songs heard Friday night was indispensable. Darwin Solomon brought Kansas City to Memorial Hall in a fine rendition of "Kansas City". "Pore Jud", sung by Mr. Tillman and Dan Linney, was appropriately wishful and humorous. "Lonely ' Room" was ' the song that represented the revolution in musical comedy; it was the first time that a soliloquy, consisting only of characteri zation;' had found a place in a show! Dan Linney sang and acted the song well, and, through the song, portrayed the lonely character of Jud All of the music was extremely well performed. The chorus sang well, and,- as ' is too unusual in amateur productions, the words could be clearly un derstood. The orchestra, under the direction if Gene.Strassler, played well, and the ! balance be tween the singers and the orchestra, though some times", strained,, was ; all in all uniformly good. Mr. Straisler, the musical director for the show, has done a fine job. ing the Tlaymaker Theatre stage expand beyond its actual small dimensions but unable to take ad vantage of the relatively huge stage in Memorial Hall. Instead of the wide open spaces of the state of Oklahoma, the setting is a shal low and bordered frame decorated with flat scenery which was very nicely proportioned but entirely lacking in depth. The lighting, which too often throws severe shadows on the two dimensional scene, is a contribut ing factor to the unimpressive set ting. Most of the individual perfor mances are good, but few are - first rate. Darwin Solomon, as Will Parker; has perhaps the most successful evening, - closely sec onded by Carolyn Myers' Laurie. Mr. Solomon's lack of anything re sembling a singing voice doesn't hurt a bit: his timing is fine, his dancing impressive, and his char acterization excellent. Miss My ers is a delightfully sweet Laurie, and her singing is the only ex ample of real vocal quality in the cast. - ' In the minor role of Ike Skid more, William Dixon develops an excellent and amusing 'characteri zation. Don Linney's Jud is - ex cellently menacing, and his sing ing, although ; inconsistent, is gen erally good. For 'a few moments at the end of one scene, Mr. Lin ney succeeds in making Jud more' human than he Is often taken' to be, and this is one of the few in tense periods of the evening. Lillian Prince's characterization of Aunt Eler is "also excellent, al though it is diffficult to understand ,h"er at times. Certainly she seems ' more at ease on stage than any one else. - Margaret Starnes misses a fine comic portrayal of -Ado Annie by the easy fault of overacting. She mugs and grimaces, and seems -more like a talented D. A. student trying Ado Annie than Ado Annie -herstlf. But Miss Starnes is still very funny, and her mugging is darn good mugging, even if it is overdone. "Hunter Tillman's Curley, the leading male role is the biggest disappointment. His voice is ade quate, but 'certainly not extra ordinary, and his acting is respon sible for. much of the slow pace of the first act. As for John Sneden's character ization of Ali Hakim, the criticism is much the same as that of Miss Starnes. Mr. Sneden Is something of a master at these characteriza tions, but he : overdoes it consider able at the expense of the Tiuman ity of the character. It Is a minor criticism that Mr. Sneden's Yid dish accent is not very kosher. Donna Hastings, Jim Potter and Fred Sitton turn in competent if undistinguished performances in other supporting ' roles. The finest single "event" of the production is Dorothy Berea's dancing as Laurey in the Dream Ballet -sequence: Miss Berea is -a pro, and in this production she stands out strongly.- Generally, the dancing seems to lack skill and spirit, except for Miss Berea and the square dance which opens the second act. Per haps strickly layman's criticism) the 1 formality and discipline of Foster Fitz-Simons' choreography demands more talent and experi ence than he had to Work with:. Irene Rain's costumes are the least successful "of "any she has done in the last two years. 'Car ley's trousers, ic pick at a minor but typical example, are ludicrcis. Most of the men look as if they are out for "trick-or-treat," cos tumes by Rose's 5 &10. Cowboys wear tight pants, for one thing'! Tt seems legitimate to question the wisdom of "an other "Okla homa!" at this time, and parti cularly in such an undistinguished production as ' this "one The only thing that saves it at all is a .sec ond act which almost erases the memory of ' the first, and ' a rous ing finale of the title song. On Smiles Frank Elkins "When I look at him ... I see only his smi! humorous, whimsical," tender; the window through which the divine light of the man breaks and glows on all who come within range of his radiant per sonality. That smile is the -transparent covering of his soul." - - i People in Chapel Hill don't smile enough! Where is this widely-advertised affable atmosphere of "friendly" Chapel Hill? I'm beginning to wonder if it really exists anyway except during week-ends. A visitor finds a warm and friendly atmosphere on week-ends When all is gaiety and frivolity, bn for a place reputed to be so friendly Chapel Hill during the week can be the coldest, loneliest, mos,t imposing place I know. In talking with a group of boys in the dormitory recently, I heard several of them mostly new-corn ers speak of how, without thinking, they speak to the "people they -meet wajking across campus and nine times out 'of ten the people don't speak back. - Ever since this discussion, I have been paying attention to this as I walk across campus it's true! People on this campus simply refuse to speak to one another. I guess you people must have parents like mine who, as I left home for sehool, cautioned me with words like "Be ever on guard Son; Carolina is crammed full of Communists and atheists! Look neither to the right nor to the left, etc." But gee. in my home town, the "normal" people are thoo who smile and speak when they meet, you on the street. . For those of us who involve ourselves in stu dent activities through -which we meet people, the magnitude of the school is somewhat reduced. But what -about the fellow who came specifically to read, to study, and has to "dig" for what he learni aid consequently hasn't time for extra-curriculars? And what about the freshman who came from small town where people exchange smiles and speak when they meet? And what about the fellow who is used to a small crowd and is unable to join a fraternity and thus gain the closeness ' and brotherhood he had to leave behind him? You snobs! Is it going to crack your darned icy faces to smile?! 1
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