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FACE TWO TFIE DAILY TAR REEL TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1951 Education I In- Imm I.iII.mv .it tin- Tnivtrsity and in ln;lui (iht.iiinii in i-eiiet.il is the assumjj ii. hi l sdl st iiniil.it in of the student on the I"1 I .tdinmisti.ition aiul .unity. I he .I'Miniptjnn is lusiYally that students u 'tain and fli.it the learning pioce dine in i UMM:ii'4 tu tluin. It just isn't so. I"- M'dcnts luve (nine up hom hit;h "'h.MiU ,!ni ,ot .lu.kciictl them to I ii'iw ! 1 1. . .niii 1 1 ,M, n 1. 1 hum. u si huoU whit h I. lt .IW.lki ( tl I I M III still Irss. !mI((. tlu- hi--(st pan ! the pioMem ! t 111 ' nii.iiv .mil Ncionduy education. llH(t;. wh.itexei the l.mlt may he, stu iliiiu M.uir m v"llt';e wilhuut luviii.; a per- p tiw a id. i th in the I ic town, oi il one I 1 i 1 1 k . ill! I I II I I I 1 1 , I he it i ii. ipit st i. hi tli.it tin- hest I.k e i" .iit.i. k I us pn.l.Ieiij is on the lower level', hut tin-, di nut me. hi that Ic.kIicis in liih i t dm .it it hi should .ihdit;ic cntiicly their ic ;i..iixil.i! tv iii this .nt-.i ol st iiiml.it ion. ,,:'e ,i ii ilui .iliduates. he is no longer a : i. !k i. h nine knowledge ol the material oi ' tiiiivt tines nut make i pel son ;l tea( her. I lie pi -lilt in is what to do about the n siudtiiis. iiultttl the .ist majoiity, who in i I" H .t 1 1 1 i ik. who haw never thoiiLdit, and h!mi li.iukh ,ne not wiv interested. Ili.ie is a si hool n thought that says that Hum- shmi'd he ile.'ed out ol the system, hot h'h.ie ti Inn- the illiteracy rate in i h iii i mid In- staci in.;. hull id tiie mil tiling one can do is deal iili the pit. Nit ins a, it is. I he object of i. in iti'Mi s tu luted a thinking individual n I him the tools in tlx- hum of I M is w ii ;i 1 1 it 1 1 he t an think. I he pin ilt m is simply how u make this p; i . i nn mi p d itahle as to he intei est in;, even t" the pni t ol tlt eh ipiii a ravenous thirst ' kiinwh-ile. ( m tiling i i lt.it. It c atniot he .u ( omplish d h jiM ii itidin; out the facts and expect ni: vt!idt:ils to he intcieslcd in the facts he rn.; h.m 'i I out. I hev ai'e at the piesent tinu inttiiNtttl oiilv in that the retention of ilniM litis ntt a peiiotl of tlnee or lour m tls ii; i -ive t f ii'in a satis.ifctoiy jjraile. litis i t 't . i !s not enough. din stiit'i'tit must he awakened. Negative U the pn tine must he dear by now. hut i -.itivelv in tcspttt to what can he done, ; ' . pn f tii 4 i h no means so dear. 1 in wit't-t latitude ol freedom must be itu. lmi . !mi within the idea of freedom i n :t ai o must he some positive stimulation. I his it litis in tin- (lassioom to the method ol n it hiu;. to the use of examinations, to the u tpim hk His Im aUend.uue, to the use ol ter.u pijit rs and min i e native pieces, to the .irnoiiiu ol st miuai facilities, and tu the far mi ot '.; i . 1 1 1 lire student I culling in the basic inlllM . Outsidf ol the disstooin thete is a crying m.tl lot tl. v t loptiu nt of facilities with the vtuihiit in mind. Academic buildings are wo'idt ilul. but when students are not inter-i-sffd in at .i It-tiiii .I'faiis. then these build ings will im: Ik- used. The activities of the i.impiis m;ivt be channeled into providing .i '.mi iu l awaiciiess of the wen Id of ideas, so tint a" thin v i 1 1 4 populace may bedev eloped. It is itujossible in the- short space of one i duoii.d to point out in detail all the needs to build ar itupiii in.; student community, but the lit t it is thete. and there are many an . is i utn nils not looked at that bear in- i 1 1 1 1 in. I'i i ij .os.ds uioi e i chic i ete will be clis- I Us tl I III i . Io bic cd a thinkiTi Mpul.i(e out of a re .,i i i 1 1 4 in. -v will be epiile a job, but the job must be dure. Tli' off'ui.il stu lnt publicotlon of the Publication r.(,.inl tf Mil- University of North Carolina, where i is iii!.lhifl dail s - J tc-rpt Monday an 1 x arn i r. at inn j i riod unmicr trrms. Ki.ttrcl as M'cnntl !.is matter in the ; s. officr in Chnptl 1 1 t . N. C. iintlor the att of March P i:!7() Subscription r-;rs; Sl.r0 p- r se ni' t r, $3 SO por year. f S!f of ttif IViivrrvUv t . ' ' N.r t.'t laroUna 1 i 1 I wliU b first f.fifor runns cans U.ma-inj; F.!itor's CHARLIE SLOAN. CLAHKF! .TONFS N'iwj IMitor ANN FRYF Assistant News LMitor ED IUNER I'.'isinov Manager . WALKER ELANTON At!vrrtiin2 T;naccr i ni:i) katzin A.st A ' ! v M.inacrr !'.(! IMitor JOHN M INTER . JOANBROCK rtiW-l rhotirauher BUDDY SPOON Sport i IMitor RUSTY HAMMOND Assutar-.t Sports hMitor Associate IMitor . .... ELLIOTT COOPER View $k Preview Anlhony Wolff HOUSEBOAT. Starring Cary Grant and Sophia Loren. Opehing Saturday at the Carolina Theatre, playing through Tuesday. "J ' T "''w ' i I I . ; S! This is one of the most improbable movies ever made. It features three unbelievably precocious children who make the kind of statements which only Hollywood children make, and for which any non-Hollywood child would ue .soundly thrashed and taken to an analyst. ' It takes place largely on a houseboat which ik'spite its ancient vintage, is miraculously trans formed in a few yards of film into a floating split-level all- American dream house, only cuter. And it stars Sophia Loren who, as any stu dent of the subject will testily, is merely a fi nient of the masculine Imagination. Needless io tuy, the hallucination is quite pleasant. This leaves Cary Grant as the only real thins m U;i! movie; a couple of tjonerations of fan.' have made Mr. (leant an Established Fact. Luckily, Mr. Grant's probable reality does noi interfere with the picture's unreality, and "Houseboat" drifts alonj quite amusingly with no mental energy at all. nJtl i .i ft im GERVAISE. Starring Maria Schell, Francois Perr. At .the Varsity Theater through tonight (Tuesday). "Gcrvaise" is a great movie, which to say that it is a very rare and precious thing. This is not to say, however, that "Gervaise" is a pleasant picture: anyone looking for enjoyment in the usual sense might as well wait for "Houseboat." reviewed above. "Ger vaise" is the film version of Emil Zoia's "L'Assommoir," one of the central and most successful novels of the Rougon-Maquart series, in which Zola set about to demonstrate his conviction that heredity and environment are the absolute determinants of human fate. In this movie version, heredity is not emphasized as a cause ot depravity in order to present the movie as a work complete in itself. Zola's twenty book series, in which "L'Assommou " plays a central part, is the story 'of one family, each member of which is tainted by his parentage. In all but this aspect, however, 'Gervaise" remains true to its source, retaining the depressing setting of Paris slums during the Second Empire and the unrelieved pessimism which marks all "naturalism." Obviously, then, "Gervaise" is not a pretty picture. Moreover, it illustrates a doctrine which, popular in the last century, has since been repudiated. Such pessimistic determinism u fuses to consider the human reason and will as having any bearing on human destiny, is derived from a misunderstanding of Mendelian theories and an invalid application of the scientific method. Nevertheless, the tragic implications of the "naturalist" doctrine are not altogether invalid, and our modern refusal to consider them attests not so much to their invalidity as to our own insensitivity. In Zcla's series, Gervaise is the daughter of -a couple of drunk ards and the grand daughter of another. In the movie, we are igno rant of this, seeing her for the first time after she has come to Paris and borne two illegitimate children. (One of these is Etienne, the hero of "Germinal," another book in the series.) When her lover leaves her, Gervaise marries a tinsmith named Coupeau and bears him a child (Nana, whose career as a prostitute is pert rayed in the famous book of the same name). Coupeau falls from a rooftop, and his confinement drains all the savings with which Gervaise had intended to open a laundery of her own. The money is borrowed from a friend, howover, and Gervaise is in business. Things are going well for her until Coupeau, now fully recovered, begins to drink up all the profits. In addition, he invites G.-ivai.-e's former lover, who has returned to the neighbor hood, to live with them. A circumstances become even more unbearable, and Coupeau deteriorates even further, Gervaise is drawn into resuming her long dead alfair with her former lover. The chi'den witness their mother's conduct, anti she loses their love which until now has been her sole solace. Etienne, her firstlxirn, leaves to meet his own cruel fate. Finally, in a fit of delirium tremens, Coupeau wrecks tho laundry which he has already bankrupted, and is taken away to the asylum where he dies. Gervaise at last sticcombs to the alcoholism which is, in Zola's view, her inheritance, and Nana, neglected, still a young child, be gins her life of depravity. The movie has retained all this, and the vital scenes of the book, but has sitcce:'sfully excised all of the excess material which Zt !a included in the book in an attempt to be scientific in his observation. Rene Clement has directed the taut script beautifully, with an unfailing poignancy and immediacy: the result is a film without any noticable weaknesses, excellently performed throughout, anil with staggering impact. Maria Schell, who plays the title role, may well be the most beautiful woman in film history (the older generation may possibly forgive this violation of the Garbo Myth), and one of its finest act resses as well. Iltr portrayal of Gervaise is perfect everything that it could possibly be. (Those objecting to such unqualified praise have only to see the movie to !b forced to agree.) The rest of the cast is almost as excellent: the film is excellent in all its aspects, and the sum of its viriues is greatness. On Humane Societies . ED ROWLAND NANCY COMBES Sidney Dakar Recently I saw where an old man wanted to leave a large sum of money to care for homeless dogs. ..This at first seems to im ply that this man has a noble heart. But, does he really? Is it more noble to help dogs than peo ple? Indeed, it seems ignoble to help clogs before helping people. The thought of a humane society trying to get a court injunction to prevent boys from sending rats up in a small rocket comes to my mind. A howl was heard from hundreds of humane socities ai ound the world when the Rus sians sent a dog up in a rocket. I didn't hear anyone say the dog howled. At first thought all of these ac iions may seem humane, but on second thought they seem to be an insult to the starving people who cejver this globe. Of course I don't go around kicking helpless dogs. I enjoy, pets, but I try to keep a proper perspective. I can think of nothing more ridi culous than trying to protect rats. Rats are a plague to mankind. These disea.se carrying rodents have caused untold death to hu mans in the past and continue to do so. It would be far better if all rats were sent into outer space. The s? humane socities did not, or at least I did not hear hem, laise their voiees when the Rus sians were slaughtering their fel lowmen in Hungary. I didn't hear anything from them when the French murdered and maimed helpless women and children re cently in an air attack in Tunisia. Why don't these humane societies use their time and resources to do something constructive for the hu man race? They don't seem to have any sleepless nights think ing of the starving disease ridden orphans in Korea, Indo-China and other parts of the world. It is time we organized more humane societies for humans. Mis sery is all around us. Our fel low humans in all parts of the world are suffering every day. Millions of people go to bed hun gry every night. Indeed, many do not even have a bed. Not many Americans know the feeling of perpetual hungar. Humane societies are only found in parts of th world where peo ple have time to waste after being well-fed and sheltered. If we have any free time, it should be used to ease some of the many bur dens of our fellow creatures. These poor people are to be reck oned with in the years ahead. Revolutions will drasticly alter societies that spend much of their time in wasteful pursuits. The Middle East is only one of the many examples in the world where this very thing is being saliently shown to us. "Who's Going To Leash Or Unlca-h Yfliom?" . Letter From Olympus TViprp a chief Warrent Officer in Quantico, Virginia, who observed of civilian life, that it is just a throng of people, always milling. Thousands of people milling, just milling around, with no one in charge. The innacle of this observation is n fraternity party. Picture people rocking and rolling in a smaoke filled, beer-smelling room, imagine a horizontal freshman in an obscure corner, svilling his lat draft of Miche'lob, mentally voting twenty votes for Miss Rheingold. Perceive the smoking choking crowded room, and enlist in the navy, where ai least there is room to roller skate. That Warrett Officer definitely has something there. But for those who prefer rock and roll parties to roller skating and chess tournaments, we can only suggest organizing a group of people in a room too small to hold them comfortably, and th? following: Directions for one man rock 'n' roll orchestra with vocalist i. .'-'-t.-'-"'''-'''.-"it ;... --- '.. zmzst: &i9SU -Tt wvsHiMFyKE-TV t- tX 7 '' Toward ABetterUnderstanding Gottfrieind O. Long (Tht? following is from last week's issue of Commonweal.) Along with the other Western countries which have a high stand ard os' living, the United States has contributed -substantially to the economic and technical de velopment of the so-called under develoix:tl countries. Returns, how ever, have not been commensurate with the money and effort which have been expended. Today, in spite of U.N., I.C.A. and similar efforts, sixty per cent of the world's population still get less than tventy-two hundred calorie! s a day. As Josue De Cas tro puis it, "These people are living in a state of almost chronic fast and are being consumed in a kind of autodestruction." And if 'our intention was to win the good will of non-Western peoples, along vilii raising their substand ard level of living, we have failed in both respects. It may even be said that Western, and particular ly American, popularity has reach ed a new low in most of the non Westerr: world. Some cf the reasons for this un popularity are of course beyond cur control. They may be related to adverse propaganda, to envy of our high level of living and to the historical fact of colonialism, with its train of unforgotten in justices nd present-day problems. At best, the trE.nsition from a de pendent pre-industrial status to that of a free industrialized nation. , is fraught with difficulitea. But there are factors over which we do have control,, and which are not directly related to dollar-aid -abroad. These are our own atti tudes and methods of approaching the problem. We can and wet must give our help when so-called underdevel oped countries ask for aid. But our help will be effective only if it is based ort a real understanding of these people. We must be able to communicate with them. This does not merely involve language skills (though these are very, im portant indeed), but, even more importantly, the need to under stand the messages sent to us in their proper cultural context. Underlying much of our dealings with peoples from the underdevel oped countries are some fallacious assumptions about ourselves and . others. We long ago progressed be yond the problem, of how to feed ourselves, and have developed a highly advanced technology, vari ously ascribed to the type of gov ernment vve have, to our values in regard to work, to our morals and our thrift, and so on. We feel that our civilization is superior to those where the material stand ard of living is lower or les3 valued than our own. We proceed on the assumption- that all people want the same things we want and should therefore imitate our way of life. Many, of course, do try to imitate our technological know-how. But we cannot under stand why they do not also want our other values, spiritual, moral, esthetic, political and social. Thus we feel hurt or even out raged when the recipients of our aid refuse our values while taking our technology. For instance, with our characteristic American atti tudes toward work and success, we cannot understand why people in an underdeveloped country, faced by chronic food shortage, do not avail themselves of farm lands newly created by a much needed dam. The fact that these peope have been migratory herd ers for centuries makes necessary a deep understanding of their tra ditions beforewe can communi cate ,to them the potential value of such a move. Too often our ef forts have resulted in misunder standings, frustrations and threats on our part of withdrawal of aid We tend to assume sometimes that the people of so-called "back ward" lands are hardly capable of achieving a modern civilized status. It is a case in point that the American Indian was only rcently given the full franchise theoretically guaranteed through the Indian Reorganization Act of 1 1934, because of belief that the Indian was not capable of re sponsible citizenship. Elsewhere, too, the native has often been kept from assuming political responsi bilities or taking on supervisory posts, because he was believed to be unable to cope with the com plexities of modern life. Another fallacy that plagues our approach to other peoples is the opposite of this. It assumes that "human nature is pretty much the same the world over," and therefore "people ought to change since they can do so easily if they want to." Although all men have the same basic needs, the ways in which these needs are met by different peoples vary enormously. Thus medical help much needed by Moslem people may be "il logically" restricted to only the male population because the medi cal personnel are all Aen, forbid den to see the Moslem women. Still another fallacy, not unre lated to the first, suggests that primitive and less civDized peo ples are incapable of change. This view, though recognizing the di versity of life-ways of different peoples, assumes that primitive cultures are static. To Be Continued Beat with foot on floor in a moderately slow, unwavering rhythm. Using hands, beat on table three beats to every beat on floor. Sing, off key perferably, these words: Honey, ah ain't com in' out! Ah ain't comin' out! Ah'm stayin' behind this chair! s If these directions are followed, not only will one fraternity party have been attended, but all cf them. The only difference between them is thc date on which they are thrown. C.L. On Nixon Russell Eisenman Just what kind of man is Richard M. Nixon? The current vice-president has made an unusual about face in attempting to fool the American citi zens. Now billed as a liberal, this is the same Nixon who supported Senator McCarthy. Richard Nixon is the man who, in campaigning during the 1952 election, told the public that Adlai Stevenson had testified as a character witness for 'Alger Hiss, convicted perjurer. This is mud sling ing. With all his legal experience Nixon knew that Stevenson was doing his duty when he testified that, to his knowledge, Hiss was a man of high character. To show how meaningless this argument was, Re publican Secretary of State John Foster Dulles also was one of Hiss' character witnesses. ' Nixon's career is one of fanaticism. As a Sena tor he introduced a bill to outlaw the Communist Party in the United States. Even if you ignore the question of whether a party per se should be out lawed, it was a bad bill. F. B. I. head J. Edgar Hoover oppose I the bill saying it wouldn't help th F. B. I, indeed it would hurt them since it would drive American Communist underground. The bill did not become a law, but Nixon stands indicted as the man who led the fight for its passage. The more you look into the career of Richard M. Nixon the' more sordid the picture becomes. He has worked against the people to such a great extenl that -the frequently used excuse that it's just poli tics is no good. As I see it Richard M. Nixon is not a liberal. He is a fanatical man of the Senator McCarthy school who puts his personal career ahead of the interest of our country. Letters ip s Quips Pringla Pipkin The coed visiting agreement for the dormitories should go a long way to .help in improving the spirit and morale of the dorm, men ? When this agreement is implemented (things seem to be movin fairly rapidly towards this goal), the dorm residents will have some place to take their date other than a public establishment This consideration is a very important one. If after a movie the night is still young, it is customary to go somewhere before takin your date in. If you must go to a public establishment, then there is less money to spend for entertainment; therefore, fewer dates Secondly people like to be with their friend.?. It is only natural that one would find many of his friends in his dorm. The new agreement breaks much tradition. The" dorm men will no longer live quite so austerely. There is nothing like a few girls (in the social room, of course) to enliven the individual's interest i" his appearance and the place in which he lives. The open social rooms should encourage double-dating. If people are able to get together in a social effort, then it is much more eas ier for them to work jointly on other matters. The dorms will be able to provide one of the advantages of a fraternity a semi-private place to be with your date. The dormitories should become more of a social organization. If dorm parties are held in the social room, ,they should cer tainly be better attended than those given in the past usually were. The parties could be relatively inexpensive and consequently more frequent. Before this lime, the dorm men have not had a sufficient outlet for their social activities. Because this phase of then life was not developed, the fraternity men gained a pyschological edge in the social world. However, this edge apparently extended, to other fields and had a depressing effect in some cases on the activities of the men of the dormitrries. New with the new agreement, things should change for the bet ter. Activitiy in one field should encourage it in another. Participa tion of dorm men should increase. With this new privilege comes an added responsibility. As the dorms ae ftate-owned propertv. the University will be placed in a very bad light with the rest of the state should anything go amiss. It will take enly one careless act to gel the University much ad verse publicity (always bad, especially in a year, when the State Legislature is considering the school's budget). It will take only one selfish person to destroy what promises to be a revolutionary im provement in dorm life. If this new responsibility is accepted maturely, dorm life should be improved greatly. Dear Mr. Malone: Before you establish yourself in the position of official spokesman for, and authority on Anglican Theology and Catholic Teaching, do you not think it would be a good idea to organize the heirarchy and lowerarchy within your Church along some con sistent lines of theology? Are you happy also that what you say is the doctrine of the Episcopal Church is not upheld by large numbers, if not the majori ty of the laity and clergy of the Episocpal Church? Are you happy that some Episcopal Bishops, includ ing the Episcopal Bishop of Virginia, have openly invited members of Christian Churches outside the so called Catholic Faiths to partake of communion in the Episcopal Church? And what about the other six Sacraments of the Church or does the Church have only two Sacraments? Could these be the inroads of some new heresy in the Episcopal Church, or in Tact is it that from its very obscure beginnings this unique "branch of the Catholic Church" has served mostly as a bat tleground for armies of confused, misinformed members, led by Frustrated Catholics and High Class Protestants? , The answers cf Episcopalians to these questions are the subject of many phamplcts and books and they run the full gamut. While some try to answer these questions one way or the other, there are some who say that these are not "proper ques tions." Others say that the Episcopal Church has a place for everybody decide -whit you believe and get with that segment of the Episcopal Church. In your answers to these questions, Mr. Ma lone, will there be found that unmistakabble ring of truth that will rally thinking Christians to the, fore? In the meantime the Roman Catholics are working and growing in the South. The Methodists and Presbyterians are . building new colleges and homes for the aged. The Episcopalians are fighting' with each other. .What, Mr. Malone, is the answer? Fred Huriburt i Editor: I fully agree with the decision of the Di con cerning the abolition of the campus code. It is much too vague to function on a campus this size, al though if it were not, it is an unnecessary infringe ment on the rights of the individual. A brief re minder to the student during orientation to con sider his responsibility to the university would be sufficient. There are usually consequences, either good or bad to a person whose behavior deviates too mark edly frcm the standards of the majority. Moral be-, havior must stem from thought, experience, and per:: sonal attitude on the subject or it is not valid It cannot be handed down as an ultimatum by any group. Mary Christian Bridgers j""p(WWE""BH"""liflj fni
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