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PAGE TWO TH1 DAILY TA MEL SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 195$ Recommendations I Ik llo.nd o Higher F.ducation ' rccom imiidfd sexual things to the Advisory Bud get Cnmmiion l i iday, but three things hear h( i.d mt nt ion. The Hist is the oinmitment of the Hoard to a Student I'li'mii for Chapel Hill and othet institutions. Tins is a significant step in the ir ignition of the idea' that there is mote to the educational ptocess than facili ties loi aiadetnic studies. The si c od is the proposal for future doiuiitoiN (otistitution whose maximum pcr student (oustiiKtion rate is $3,000 instead of Vj.-ihi, online to a recent study ly a com mittee headed hy Not man Smith, even the S.t.ooo limine is less than the national ave rage, hut indeed it is an improvement. Thitdly. the idea of uttin the sclMiqui datinn program so that only half of the dorm itoiv M will he self-liquidated isa step in the ii;lit dilution. With the cost of educa tion iiuieasiii'4 steadily, it is about time that someone thought of bringing a halt to the I i 11.1 1 1 ill butilen on the student. It in piobable that the capital improve ments may haw to be financed through a bond issue, but it can only be hoped that the bond issue be mommended. The liist is passed, the second and most impoitant. the advisory budget commission, is to mine. It is hoped tlu't they view educa tion as impoitant. as the Hoard docs. Apathy Another iilutr;ition nf that disease that per .Ws Vu c.rnpus called apathy was never more ni.uuf.-4 than last ni-lit. when approximately 50 ptoph- sIkuvmI up for the spcrch of Henry Hitt Cr; n". Morc-ovrr. the Germans dance was a flop, clos ing t.irlv with U-ss than twenty couples around at midnight Perhaps the era of dances is over, but the era of ideas d.K-s not end. Something must be done to awaken those to thought and action, so that what is left of an intellectual climate on the campus does not disappear altogether. Wake Forest The editor of the Wake Forest student newspa per deserves commendation. To deversc a tradition of ndvncncy of segregation by the school, and its students takes a great deal of courage. This kind of courage sh nild be rewarded. The editorial shows that there is a great deal of enlightened student leadership in the South. It i hoped that when mature they will supply the state and nation a chance to make progress on tho major issue of the time. Integration may not go more peacefully because of the Wake Forest editorial, but it's good to know more th in few rational people do exist on the issue in the student ranks. SSL I! seems that Governor Hodges' pronouncement on the State Student Legislature is having the de sired effect. Over at Iuke. administration officials arc plac ing all proposals that Duke students might present under scrutiny, and this is no doubt true of other institutions. Luckily this is not the case here, but the SSL will cease to have any meaning as the student voice in the state, if censorship by administrative officials is pursued. A proper alternative to this is either to have the meeting in another place or to not have the meeting at all. , It is hoped that if there is a meeting that all, ad ministrative restraint will be lifted. A true voice of student leadership is what is needed, and it may be distasteful. If this cannot be accomplished, then the meet ing has no purpose. Election In order to stimulate some interest in the elec tion, The Daily Tar Heel will sponsor a contest for all students. A five dollar prize will be awarded to the person who guesses the correct party represen tation in the House of Representatives, Senate, and Governorships after this election. Kach person is limited to one entry and these nue-t bo delivered to The Daily Tar Heel by mid right Monday. The newspaper will post an hour by hour tally of flection returns in the state and nation in Graham Memorial for all those who arc interested. tElje Baity ar The official student publication of the Publication Hoard of the University of North Carolina, where jt is published daily except Monday and examination periods and summer terms. Filtered as second class matter in the prst office In Chapel Hill. N. C. under the act of March P 1 .170. Subscription ntes: $4 50 per se mrsfer, $8.50 per tear. : t W .1 I (ill I, if.! Editor 1 CURTIS CANS Managing Flitors CHARLIE SLOAN, CLARKE JONES Business Manager WALKER BLANTON ight Editor O. A. LOPEZ Advertising Manager FRED KATZIN Asst. Adv. Manager JOHN WINTER World News n Re view Ed Rowland From the election of a new Pope to the upcoming election of U. S. Senators and Representa tives goes the news this week, and it Is quieter than usual. The Reds are now shelling Que moy only on every other day and there is no other gunfire anywhere in the world, except for Cuba, but Fidel Castro is causing a3 much trouble as before. John Foster Dulles has not flown to Havana yet to check up. Angelo Giuseppe Cardinal Ron calli was elected Pope Tuesday, and he immediately chose the name John XXXIII. His election came after five days of dead locked balloting between 51 Cardi nals locked in the Vatican's Sis tine Chapel. Eleven ballots were taken be fore Cardinal Roncalli was picked. Pope John is an Italian skilled in Vatican diplomacy. Although his policies may prove to be con servative, he is expected to fol low the general direction laid down by his predecessor. Pope Pius XII. Tuesday has been de signated as the day of John's coronation. In his first message to the world h-; called on the world's leaders to channel man's genius into paths of peace. He said that the people of the world do not ask for "those monstrous means of war discovered in our time, which can cause fraternal massacre and universal slaughter. The people ask instead, he said, "peace in virtue in which the human family can live freely, flourish and pros per .... tranquility and concord from which alone can rise a true prosperity." Amid preparations for the cor onation lively speculation centered about the Pope. The Vatican's newspaper even asked that the world's press be cautious about handling reports of the Pontiff's intentions. Heads of state around the world offered congratulations and best wishes to the Pope. "Is There A Peace Jri-Tlie-Family Prize?", . , x. J? r fT( J.o ' IDaOt-ZvV "rl ' Vif ?'t1&F hlo-, t r r Ui x t?i J:wc ill . v -Tit ' l - I On the other hand, the physicists are among the scientific elite in .Russia. Their research into high speed, subatomic particles re sulted in a new cosmic ray coun ter now circling the earth in Sput nik III. A Letter October 31, 1953 Editor: . . . This week-end is the Germans week-end. Every bar in every house is open, 24-hours a day. The week-end started on Thursday. At this moment it is at its height. Concert this p.m. by Charlie Bar- nott PartioH last nieht P'artv tnnipht Partv tnmn.-. The prize is chemistry went to row night Sleep Monday. Arrive in class, in a dazed Dr. Frederick Sanger, an English- condition, on Tuesday, man, for his work on the struc ture of insulin. And these are the leaders. These are the people we are worrying about saving, along writh ourselves. Three Americans won the prize These are the ones who are expected to beat the in medicine for doing research in Russians to the Moon. I despair that such people genetics and the fundamentals of will be worth saving. I despair that they will dc heredity. They are Doctors- Ed- feat ANYONE, much less, the Russians. You can't ward L- Tatum. George W. Bea- even convince these people that a problem exists. They KNOW, with the. blind faith of an ignorant zealot, that everything will come out all right. That America will triumph. That they can continue their play, because far out on the periphery of Em pire their Emperor, Marcus Aurclius, keeps watch. die and Joshua Lederburg. Sharp criticism of the Soviet ' Union's action in forcing Paster nak to refuse his prize echoed around the world. The Nobel corn- Substitute "Eisenhower." Substitute "know-how." mitten m atinff iha ourarrl ci4 Pasternak will be listed as the Substitute 'science." The "American way." "God. . . . 00a: 1358 winner. NUCLEAR TESTING In Geneva the joint U. S I have never felt so completely ambivalent in all my life. On the one hand there is the greatest vision of the future of mankind yet to be kindled. Britain-Russia talks on banning Since the dawn of History, no vista, not even the nuclear testing opened with the other-world City of God of Augustine, can match, in Russians refusing to accept a ban beauty, grandeur, knowledge and power nay, even for one year. The United States Majesty the vision which now lies before us. countered by saying unless the We nave only to reach out, out, just a little farther, Russians fire a bomb in a test, its encircle it gently clench the hand, ever so slow ly and carefully lest you break the flower, and the vision is ours. THE UNIVERSE AND ALL OF TIME! GOD, WHAT ELSE COULD WE ASK IF WE LIVED TO BE TEN QUARDILLION? own ban will stay in effect for a year The U. S. has just finished a se ries of nuclear tests in Yucca Flat, Nevada. ? ivuasid uiicicu 115 uwu versiuu .... of a ban-one' that would involve Uy 01 aPalyptic obliterat e disaster. Such is our portion. To be poised on the fulcrum On the other hanS, the situation is fraught, preg nant, viscid and stenched with the extreme probabil- immediate and permanent bans on testing. Her representative of a cosmic see-saw whose ends extend to the edges said only then would she join in to any agreement. The U. S. rep resentative answered in saying, Behind the Iron Curtain Polish Catholics were jubilant. Their Cardinal Wyszynski was the only one for a Communist country to participate in the sacred College voting. NOBEL PRIZES Four Russians won Nobel Prizes. 01 me Universe. In one direction a futi ends extend to the edges of the Universe. In on3 direction a future whncp alnric if will j c rw 111 IC4UHC d "The three nations had come to- billion years to count. In the other, one grand in- gether to achieve a safequarded stant of annihilation. Under such a colossal weight, agreement (o refrain from nu- onIy a mighty fulcrum can stand, only the toughest to" ".uiaiii UI1U1 UK. til. this week, one in literature and three' in physics, and the Krem lin decided to let the physicists accept theirs and the accompan ing prize money but refused to let Boris Paternak accept his for the novel, Doctor Zhivage. Pasternak's novel was printed in the western world after the Russians refused to release it. It has been the center of much con troversy since. It is critical of Communism and the Soviet revolu tion. The Soviet press called Pas ternak a tool of those who would fan the cold war. clear weapons tests. Russia meanwhile reiterated its Never have thp rh Aiuaaia tucaunuuc iciiciaicu its "-vu caui int. iever demand that Communist China ,as the future been so great or so small. Never 0 u muiviuudi properly placed meant so much and others so little. have a voice in deciding the in ternational problems of atomic energy. The Reds accused the The Heavens, contra tn ennn v. , U. S. against an unwise policy of ing the elorv of and ThP ct,nj 1 .lk.. . ... . ... . , .. " J -louu uicdimebs, waning discrimination against Red China, upon the outcome of Earth's Moment of Triumph or End. mocrats Predicted o Win Ed Rowland News Editor ANN FRYF. Tuesday will be the day political-wise this year the day that will see voters across the nation go to the polls to elect 436 mem bers of the House of Representa tives, 34 senators, assorted gov ernors and local officials. As far as national politics are concerned, the Democrats seem to be "in" even more strongly under a Republican administration than ever before. Not even deter mined attacks on the Democratic Party by President Eisenhower, Vice-president Nixon, and cong ressmen have swayed many vot ers this year. The Democratic conservatives are accused of running the party because they have the seniority and the party chairman has de clared they will accept the cftril rights plank or get out; the lib erals have been called socialists and dominated by labor interests. This is to no avail. Such issues as right-to-work laws have made the recession, not too long ago a hot item, pale into insignificance. One of the main personalities in the campaigning has been Nixon, who has almost single-handedly goaded his party into action, but not without some pointed criticism from top Repub licans. The big races this year are in ' California and New York. The oth ers wjll contribute their bit to the whole picture, but the battles be tween Averill Harriman and Nel son Rockefeller, and Knight and Knowland vs. Engle and Brown are the big ones. The Harriman-Rockefeller race pits two old established names in moneyed circles against one an other. Rockefeller is a political novice, but he has capltivated pub lic attention so that he is rated even with his opponent, an old hand in politics. Out in California Sen. Knowland is running for governor against Democrat Pat Brown, and Brown has the edge. Knowland is ad vocating the union shop in a state where the Republicans are out numbered nearly 2-1, and the lab or movement is throwing its strong Influence on Brown's side. Engle, on the other hand', is campaigning successfully for the Senate against ex-Governor Good win Knight and he is expected to win handily. .The Democrats are not favored as heavily in this one, but they do have the edge. The polls show anywhere from 248 to 299 Democrats in the House as compared to the 235 they now have, and corresponding decreases for the Republicans: now 200, maximum strength 187, minimum 136. The Senate now has 49 Demo crats and 47 Republicans, and aft er the election should have any where between 57 and 64 Demo crats. , The Gallup Poll shows 58 per cent of the voters favor the De mocrats while 42 go GOP. The Roper Poll shows 47 per cent for the Democrats, 31 for the Republ can sand 14 per cent undecided. The issues in this 1958 cam paign are similar to ones voiced many times before. Basically, they seem to be like this: UNEMPLOYMENT. It still ex ists, and many voters tend to blame the Republicans for it be cause they were in power during the recession. In heavily indus trialized areas the Democrats stand to gain many votes which have gone to. the GOP before. FARM POLICY. Benson's stands have swayed voters in farm states to the " Democratic side, although farm prices are up and crops are good, insuring higher incomes than usual. THE ADMINISTRATION. Eisen hower is accused of being a "do nothing" chief executive, and vot ers may want a return to the days when a strong man like FDR was in office. LABOR. This is one the Repub licans have on their side. Revela tions by the McMlellan Committee have demonstrated that a Demo cratic win may give national labor leaders like Walter Reuther more power and influence than they de serve. Of course business is fight ing against labor, and consequent ly, for the Republican. History On A Desk Top Stan Fisher Few books read more interestingly than the wealth of literature on desktops in the classrooms of Carolina. The messages engraved upon these aca demic essentials give wonderful insight on many topics and rouse conjecture as to the nature of past students of the university. On a desk in Woollen gym is statement describ ing the internal contents of Carolina's head football coach in four letter anglorsaxon words. It is entirely possible, in light of recent happenings, that this was written by some student by the anti-social implica tions of Mr. Tatum showing up for every Carolina football game cold sober. A desktop in Murphy hall proclaims "Down with Truth." Considering the general difficulty many stu dents have with the courses taught in Murphy, this was in all probability written by someone with 1 tremendous temptation to violate the Honor Code, the Campus Code, the Morse Code and any other code that happened to be nearby. The names of the .giris dated, the fraternities joined, and ' characters assasinated by the past Stu dents of the university all are on the tops of Caro lina desks. Sometimes there are written in two lines, but most often they are simple, easily read one line thought groups. Experts on the. character istics of desk engravers say that it was early dis covered by desk engravers that one line was apt to be noticed and understood more easily by the ave rage college student than longer epic poetry.) ' - Always in demonstration of the sheep-like tendencies of today's college students the lines will be carved deep into the wood by those who have idly retraced the work of the first great dtk carvers. Ocassionally a desk .will be found with a per fect top: no carvings, pencil marks, holes nothing just perfectly smooth. Such desks as these are usually, found to have inferiority complexes. They possess nothing in the way of personality: their seats are hard, the back rest is too straight, and al- . i ..... ways there is that blank top staring at you mono tonously. Such desks as these confound the experts. However, they do advance the following possible explanations:1 ' ' 1) The person, or persons, who occupied this desk was a prude. (Some persons because of proud family lineage -consider -it beneath their dignity to destroy mere state property. Such students should probably be sent to' Duke.) (2) This desk was at the front of the room where no one dared Avhip out the newly sharpened ..pen knife, or other sharp-instrument. '(3) Intellectuals who attempted to pay attention sat in the desk during its term in Carolina. (4) Everyone who ever sat in the desk went to sleep, therefore never had Ahe opportunity, to add -his .bit to posterity's scrapbook. . t" . Even our "higly esteemed experts differ, among ' themselves as to which of these is most feasible, but most of them accept the last named as the mast probable after-investigation into the habits of UNC students. '--' By way of an interesting digression, this investi gation by our often quoted team "of experts -(who SHALL remain Nameless) turned up the fact that desktops." arid the crossword pu;zle in' The Daily Tar-Heel, are in a dead heat for students attention during those, first waking minutes after entering class. f f .' ' : ; But to get back to the matter at hand, why don't you, reader, (assuming someone stops io jead this) decide Tight now to contribute your favorite syni cism, fraternity, girl friend's name, or even what you had for breakfast, to the coming .generations of 1 Carolina students? Take out your mechanical pen .cil, pqnknife, or switchblade and start scratching . or cutting on the nearest wooden article. One word of caution: please do not begin in .earnest on desk .tops until you have acquired some degree 4of pro ficiency in expressing yourself in; concise," one line language. Why put down some inferior carving be- side s6me' 6fthe ! best " desk engravers in 'Carolina history? On the campaign trail all the big guns have rolled out. The GOP has had Eisenhower, Nixon, Meade Alcorn, and powerful con gressional leaders making whistle stop speeches telling the voters they never had it so good. The Democrats ave countered with Stevenson, Truman, Sen. John Kennedy and others telling the voters they will have it better if they elect Democrats. A list of important states where the total outcome may be decided follows:1 INDIANA; A Republican appeal for right-to-work f laws does hot seem to he affecting an economic downturn and voters may send one to three more Democrats to the House and one to a GOP-held Senate seat. WEST -VIRGINIA: Basically a Democratic state, this year two Republican Senators are under dogs as the Democrats are united. A sweep is forecast. ARIZONA: A GOP conservative, Barry Goldwater, is, fighting for his life against a Democratic mod erate and the race is very close. PENNSYLVANIA: A tradition ally. -.Republican - stronghold, . the Keystone State may sweep into firm control of the Democrats. They will pick up a second Senate seat, hold the governorship,' and take 2 to 5 more .House seats. . MICHIGAN: Unemployment will send this into the Democratic fold. Issues like Civil rights do not seem to have dislodged voters eith er, way this year. 'Southerners are sticking with the party of " their ancestors, and ' Northerners, es pecially Negroes, are banking on the influence of liberal Democrats to help' them. The ' Republicans are not making many gains. Union money seems to be off setting the heavy contributions for business for the 'Republicans. And business , has less pull than unions. The' Democrats are better organ ized and in a a better frame of mind than the Republicans. So on Tuesday, November 4, there does not seem to be any need to stay up all night to find out who will - win 2-1 - it's the Demo crats across the nation. The presiding question, for the immediate timo for the short-range, physical survival of the Iiace' will we be able to break away fro Earth, to put some eggs in another basket, in time' In the DKE house bar, the gathered clients have no answer. They didn't hear the question. NAME WITHHELD BY REQUEST Moonglow Joe John Fidel Castro and his group of "freedom-loving" bums have been roaming the hillsides of Cuba for several years now. At different times during his oft-puzzling revolution, the Robin Hood activities of the Rebel leader have inspired admiration and in terest on the part of many persons in the United States. In view of the fact that our American heritage had its conception in a similar struggle, Castro could easily have appealed to the patriotic emotions of this country for aid. He could have also gen erated a great deal of sympathy on the basis of z native aversion on the part of the American peopls to the strong-armed dictator type personified in General Batista. i Enigmatically, however, Castro has literally bit ten off his hand to spite his face. In fact, he has seemed intent on defying this country with a hatred equal to or even surpassing that steeped in his vio lent struggle against the General-President. The United States has long-since acquiesced to his de mands in ceasing arms shipments to Batista. Yet, in a fiery radio broadcast last Sunday, Castro ac cused the U. S. ambassador of plotting with Batista to provoke direct U. S. intervention in the revolt. He angrily warned this country to "stay out." Last summer, his guerillas seized forty-seven Americans and three Canadians, gradually releasing them over a three-week period. Recently, Castro forces abducted two American and seven Cuban em ployees of a U. S. oil refinery in eastern Cuba, and took over a U. S. nickel processing plant on the island's southern coast. In regards to these acts, Castro remarked, "It is for the Cuban people and the world t not the U. S. State Department to judge rebel acts. I beg your pardon, Senor Castro. When rebel acts in volve the personages of Unied States citizens .and the property of that country, it is specifically the business of the U. S. State Department to judg these acts even if said department has been dis gustingly lax in this regard on the Eurasian contin ent. Despite the outrageous crimes of the Cuban pres ident, it is difficult to sympathize with his antag onist if he maintains such a childish attitude. It would behoove the Rebel leader to consider the knowledge of some of the ancient proverbs which he must have come across in his reputedly prodigious philosophic readings: "You can catch -more flies with a thimbleful of honejr than with a jarful of vinegar" (with apologies to Confucious). WMIM
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