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PACt TWO TUB DAILY TAR HBBL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1953 Election Hie .uij.iij;ti is ocr, ami the various . I.iims .mil counter e I.iims have heen spoken, the pti!li(, ilinse ol whom deem their fran chise impuH.nut, will vote, and the result will he known shoiilv. Siunilicmt Inline may not he el feet cd Wy the h. Hot tod. i, hut the possibility is there. Indeed, the onlv possihility lor the people, nor the arious interest groups, to elfcet cli.in-c- is to eei(ise their vote in all forms ol national and hxal olities on every level. The oits that will not he east today will he impoit.uit too. lor they will reflect that elcmoeny in iiu- United States is not actual ly the iioNctnmcnt of the people, hy the peo ple, and lot the people, hut rather govern ment ol pet haps of hall influenced by the few. It is hoped th.it all thinking individuals will eeu ise their fianchise wisely, and that campus paiiit ipatiou will be at maximum. Alter the balloting is over, enjoy watch ing die lestihs in the Rendevous Room of (iiaham Menmiul, The Daily Tar Heel, the Di.'leetie Senate, the Philanthropic Assembly and (iiaham Memoiial arc cooperating in bunging the students an up-to-the minute ac count ol the election returns until l a.m. Computer 'I he I'nixtisitN of North Carolina has a lu w ompuiei . and it is an eent to be hailed, I he glow ill ol the teseart h triangle is a signal ai Ivies ement to be hailed, and the signifi cance of the computer being placed at UNC is Hot t be oei looked, for it places UNC as he le.nler in pure lesearch in the Rc seafch Iiiangle. I he le elopmeut ol Noith Carolina' is pUKc-eding ai a tapid late, and this new piece ol csideiue is a sign to pae the way. Education lluie is a lack throughout the United Slates in a basic commitment to education. In a time- when education was never more impoitant. the present emphasis sense in all othei fields. Confess in iis liist ;:tion towaid aid to e due at ion c on Id do no beter than set up loans and piovide loi seieniilic education, and the stale ol Noith Carolina at the present time aities it piim ny commitment to road build in.; and industtial expansion. Thioughout the United States education is treated with disiespect, and the tangible mauilesat ions of this are all too obvious. Low leather's sal. tnes. the inn casingly high cost ol chi aiion. and the lac k of legislative pio giammiug for this it;l area. Deiuoetaev is dejHiident for its existence on a thinking populace, who by their vote can delineate moie important issues. It is a necessity that democracy have for its leader ship intelligent people who are able to grasp the problems of the day not only in terms ol the d.iy. but in terms of the long range futuie. It is important that the many realize that the value of democracy lies in the in dividual onti ibutions that are made in all lields horn the artistic: to the scientific. It is iinpon.int that the idea that a- real contri buion cannot be made until each indivdual thinks .uid each indivdual has the tools of thought is given c icclenc c. On the national level, this has not even been stilted, and on the state level there h is ben only slight progress. Noih Catolina is growing thanks to the economic leadetship of Governor Hodges, but its giowth has not been compensated by .i tone ci ii for education and for the expan sion, giowth, and cpialitative improvement iieecsiiv to bting the level of thought up in the state, and to piovide for the growing population. linhistiv will bring levenue to the state, but whcie that levenue is applied will be the most iuiMrtant epiestion to be decided. The necessity lor making the primary commit ment to education rather than road building' or any other facet of life is extremely im jhi tant. ' A commitment on the national level to the same c licet might bring the United States on ol the dolchums which it now inhabits. A combined elfott to bring back respect for the intc lect, to breed a. thinking people, and to make democracy work is necessary. I ehication. which has never been made an issue in an election, had better be the main issue bc loie long. If not, it may soon be too laic-. ijc Unity ar Heel "... The official student publication of the Publication rnard of the University of North Carolina, where It is published daily n except Monday and examination periods nd summer terms. Filtered a 5econd class nutter In the rest office In Chapel Kill. N. C under the act of March 8, 1370. Subscription rttes: $4.50 per se mester, $3.50 per tear. H w Cast Your Ba! of 1 day View & Preview Anthony Wolff James Reston (The follorving is from Sun day's New York Times) Voting next Tuesday should real ly be very simple. All you have to do is nnalyze the major speeches of both parties and fol low their advice. Both parties are for peace and prosperity, and of course both are "forward-looking," except that the Southern Democrats and Republi can conservatives are less forward-looking than the "Northern radicals" and Eisenhower Repub licans. The danger in voting for the Democrats is that "the dominant wing of the party" will lead the country down the road to social ism and meanwhile get into such a fights with the Southern Dem ocrats that it won't be able to lead the country anywhere. The danger in voting for the Re publicans is that they won't spend enough money to defend the coun try from its Communist enemies and besides have piled up in the last year a $12 billion deficit. This is a policy of "less bang for two bucks" and is enough to bring on a depression that will curl or at least wave your hair. Next to Khrushchev and his one-drink-to-a-customer policy, the greatest menace to civilization is the selfish, power-hungry defiant labor-union boss like Walter Reu trer, who voted for Stevenson, and Jimmy Hoffa and Dave Beck, who voted for Eisenhower. The Democrats are indifferent to the corrupt labor union bosses, which is why Senator John Mc Clcllan, Republican of Arkansas, and Senator John Kennedy, Re publican of Massachusetts, had to summon Hoffa and Beck before the McClellan Committee. The Republicans, on the other hand, are the friend of the work ing man and the foe of the labor goons, which is why 77 per cent of them in the House voted against the Kenncdy-Ives Bill requiring union leaders to make public un- Author! Author! ROSS I AM Voters" UMIOM ' ..V-:3.'iv'-.--- i7 ft m j . Some Republicans in some THE DHARMA BUMS. By Jack Kerouac- 244 states, California and Ohio, for pp. New York: The Viking Press. $3.95 example, are for making volun- jn the English Department of an old New Eng tary unionism compulsory, but of land school there is a great teacher, and among h's course, some others, like the Re- virtues is his unwillingness to accept from his early publican Governor of California, adolescent pupils anything which smacks of sham or Goodwin J. Knight, are against it. pretense. The administration in Washington, led by President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon, is neutral on right-to-work legislation, and this policy is followed by the Eisenhower cabinet, except, of course, Secretary of Labor James Mitchell, who is against state right-to-work laws. Understand? On the national econom;, the Democrats, who let prices rise 50 per cent under Truman, are furi ous because prices rose 8 per cent under Eisenhower, and there are uage; "c.c." is mark of a more serious offense, and only 65,000,000 people working in its rare appearance indicates that the offending the country today, compared with work bodes the complete "collapse of civilization." 61,000,000 in 1952. It is the prectice of this personnage to assign a paper of five hundred or one thousand words each week or two, and should any one of these papers offend his delicate sense of sham, the guil ty student is warned with an in conspicuous "e.i." or "c.c." on the top of his paper: "e.i." stands for Ellis Island, the gate way to the U.S. for immigrants to these shores, and as a grade it indicates that the v writer is ignorant of the English lang- In contrast, the Republicans think '"the last six years have been the best six years of our lives" and that "things are good and getting better all the time," except of course, in Michigan, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and the other places where there are 4,000,000, people unemployed Mr. Kerouac merits Dharma Bums." 'e.i." and "c.c." for 'The The "e.i." is applicable because Mr. Kerouac af fects a complete innocertce of the conventions of English prose, and he does so to no apparent end. It is quite permissible today to stretch the language quite out of form, as in "Finnegan's Wake" or the poetry of E. E. Cummings, just so long as the dis tortion is in the service of communication. It is not This tidies up everything exceDt legitirnate, however, to be sloppy to neglect punctu- foreign policy, and here the voter ation and sentence structure without purpose; as in must take a stand either for or the following: Japhy and I were kind of out- lanctisn-iookmg on the campus in our old clothes in fact Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus against Secretary of State Dulles, except that he's not on the ballot, and the Democrats voted to let him do what he liked about Que moy and Matsur anyway. ion financial reports, insisting on regular union elections by secret ballot, and denying union offices to convicts. Senator Irving M. Ives, Democrat of New York was co-author of the bill. The Democrats were so angry about this, so eager to reform lab or, that they voted against- an even tougher anti-racketeering bill, and this, of course, clarified everything. Both sides are for the laborer's right to work in one form or an other. The Democrats are for his right to work in compulsory un ion shops, and they are also for his right to sell his house and move to some other state if he doesn't like to work in states that rule out compulsory union shops. Mistakes of this sort are minor, however, in com parison with the other indictments which might le In these circumstances, a few gitimately be drawn against Mr. Kerouac. To lump simple tips on voting may be in all of these into one charge, thus doing each an order: injustice but saving space, Mr. Kerouac is unbeliev- 1. There is some truth in all ably nave in every way. He is naive about Zen campaign statements but not Buddhism (as all but the extraordinary Westerner much. , - must be), he is naive about English prose, he is 2. Experience shows that most naive about poetry, etc. Should his naivete become politicians are never quite as good general, and everyone act as Mr. Kerouac does, the s or as bad as they sound,sand the resuIt wouId be "c c-" country's capacity to endure them The immediate problem is that Mr. Kerouac is pretty stout. makes himself unavailable to criticism from any 3. Finally, when confronted by a angle. If one strips away his artifacts in search of choice between an old numskull his idea, one must find that he has no idea; and the and a new numskill running for mere stripping away of the artifacts of his prose. Congress, always choose the new idiocy after idiocy, would result in a criticism both ones because the old ones have longer than "The Dharma Bums" and superior to it. seniority. Letters From Readers On Many Topics Editor: Tonight I witnessed one of the finest exhibitions of asininity ever perpetrated on an audience in Chapel Hill. I refer to the Young Democrat Club meeting held in the Law School courtroom. Sched uled to begin at 7:30, the speakei toddled in at 7:45. Then the wait ing group "was regaled with a show of proper parliamentary pro cedure while an executive com mittee of seven was elected and a vice-president was railroadVd into office. Finally thirty-five tedious, boring, ennui-infected minutes late the orator was al lowed to take the rostrum. I'm sure Congressman Durham was a fine man in his day, and he was candid enough to admit that he had prepared nothing to say; how ever, his rambling concoctino of platitudes, geneology and person- al agrandizement had the most ardent Democrat I know (he even likes Harry) weighted down in spirit by the dreariness and list lessness of the address. There was a bright spot when he told of sail ing a ship to Atlanta (Georgia?) during the War of 1812. But that is excusable; after all, he's getting old. Suffice it to say, I strongly feel that it is impudently rude, ill bred, ill-mannered, and ungraci ous to keep an audience (matter less how small) waiting for over half an hour unnecessarily. It would have been, so very easy to hold the business session after the allocution. Admittedly it was a private club meeting, to be con ducted as the presiding officer saw fit; nevertheless, if the Young Democrat Club expects to prog ress at all, it would do well to improve the way meetings are engineered. Editor: In this day of great "ecumeni cal" activity, I am happy that my own church the St. Peanuts Fanaticopalian Church is careful to distinguish between Charity and compromise of the One True Faith. ' We didn't choose to become the repositories of the One True Faith. It just happened that way, although we must confess that it couldn't happen to a nicer cal" activity, I am happp that my fraternity brothers. Anyway, you" can easily see that as a conse quence we couldn't possibly be caught before God eating with publicans and sinners at the Lord's Table. Therefore we have CLOSED COMMUNION. You know closed cimmunion, closed minds. This is not being narrow-minded. It is simply being loyal to our Lord, out of gratitude for the fact that he has confided in us the One Great, August, Real, In finite and Eternal Truth. Why be bigoted, Mr. Malone, when with a little effort you too, can become a Fanaticopalion? L. MENTON Editor: If the mouse is smaller he can maneuver better, but the larger mole will have tile advantage. If the mouse is larger he won't be able to maneuver as well, so the mole again has th advantage. The mole, being blind, 'appears to be at a disadvantage, but due to the hole being underground the mouse can't see either so this elimanates the mouse advantage. Mice should keep out of mole holes. . JACKSON BOSWELL Editor: Pertaining to a "A Letter" name withheld by request. 'Drunks we may be, But cowards vce are Not. Even in our drunken Stupors, we lift our Heads, and say Yes, tis I who is Very drunk! JOHN F. MILLER There is a lot of difference m pioneering for gold and pioneer ing for spinach. Will Rogers Tfeere are pioneer souls that blaze' their paths' where highways never ran. Sam Walter Foss On Temple Bombings Ronnie Shumate To borrow a phrase from Norman Smith's column in Wednesday's Daily Tar Heel, the "temples" of too many people are being bombed. I do not speak of Webster's definition of the word. Webster define? Toward More Understanding Gottfried O. Lang to any "foreign" incidents which should happen to pass our way. So, we find ourselves confronted by still another question. This one is almost unanswerable. The (This is the last of an article from last week's issue of Com monweal.) For instance, in the short pe riod of about twenty-five years an agrarian Moslem population of the Aures Mountains in Algeria has slipped from a standard of living described as "poor" at best to a level of living which can now on ly be called "pauperism." How did this come about? The provi sion of some few medical serv ices and the control of certain epidemic-producing diseases like ty phus and malaria have brought' about a tremendous increase in the population. As the population increased, the production of food had to be increased also, but as more food was grown, the land rapidly became depleted and food production inevitably declined. Now the people live a hand to mouth existence. Survive they will, because modern medicine makes this possible, but survive at what level! Positive health measures, in spite of their im mediate good, have brought ter rible long-range results.' A hu manitarian deed has - ia effect contributed to greater suffering "temple" as "an edifice dedicated to the worship of question, why do we believe the things we believe, a diety." ., . can only in Rare (capital "R") occasions be put in True the papers have been full of Webster's kind black and white in so many words. In fact, I will of temple bombings of late. But Mr. Smith is the readily admit that I do not know exactly; why . I be first to bring to light the bombings of personal lieve some of the things I believe. This is the one temples, meaning the fear, revulsion, and aggression question mentioned thus far in this article-for which we harbor for those who are " 'different.' " we cannot' b too sharply criticized for leaving un- Toa manv nennl tn hp' .ilmn?t tntallv un- answered. I don't think we are wrong to doubt Why because it was not considered in relation to the total situation. . These examples, which attempt to illustrate some of the difficulties of cross-cultural eommnnieation and cross-cultural action, have aware of their feelings toward those who are "dif been chosen from the experience ffei"; Mr; Smiths acknowledgement of his fears, eu.-., miuw me aeep inougnt nc nas put .into, ms writ ings. - ... . But these feelings we' harbor in this respect go much, much deeper than most o us realize. Such feelings toward our. fellow-man. reach into our be liefs. Our beliefs, whether we speak of moral, spiritual or physical, are not to be sneezed at. We should no turn away from our beliefs just because we fear we will be ridiculed. As Ovid once said, "We are slow to believe what hurts when believed." This, unfort unately, is all too true. . of cultural anthropologists. Their approach to human behavior can, if listened to, help to open up a new appreciation of people and their problems. Even in our own culture we take things for granted and are not aware of their rami fications until they are challenged. And when we go abroad, we have the tendency to view the life-ways of other peoples through our own cultural lenses. ' Until we acknowledge that peo ples the same over-simplification would have us believe, and that cultures are not static, as the Victorian view of the "benighted heathen" would suggest, we shall ' meet hostility and suspicion in our dealings with other peoples. Only when we curb we believe. The wrong in doubting comes when wa merely let our doubts drift along and nothing is done about them. '' It is hot enough just to believe. We must know, or at least have a reasonable - facsimile of, the answers to our' question's and doubts .If we merely set our ideals and beliefs on a pedestal before us, and leave them there to decay, we don't really be live. We only think we believe. Most of the things we "believe" we really don't believe at all. We have Inside the cover of the review copy of "The Dharmi Bums" are sixty notations of only he most obvious idiocies. A random sampling may suffice in lieu of more formal criticism. p. 14. "'F you! sang Cayote, and ran awayf read Japhy to the distinguished audience, making them all howl with joy, it was so pure, f being a dirty word that comes out clean." The word "f " may have meaning and impact, and thus be legitimate in poetry But it will never never never come out clean,' thank God. Mr. Kerouac considers this fine poetry. If it is, then even dorm: tory bull session is a veritable orgy of poetic crea tion. p. 32. Speaking of Japhy again, "Besides all the background he has, in Oriental scholarship, Pound, taking pepote and seeing visions .... wow, Japhy Ryder is a great new hero of American culture." Here the "c.c" looms imminent. p. 34. "Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy. Oh, m'God . . . afraid of a simple healthy orgy. Obviously not fraternity material. p. 46. "These people must be assholes,' he added in a sudden straight revalation. This is fundamentalism at its worst. p. 86. After supposedly running down a high and treacherous mountain: "I just skipped and jumped and danced along and I had really learned that you can't fall off a mountain." Got that, Mr. Hillary? p. 100. Mr. Kerouac is invited to recit his latest poem, and it is judged "fine." The poem: "Mother of children, sister, daughter of sick old man, vir gin your blouse is torn, hungry and barelegged, I'm hungry too, take these poems." The difficulties of criticism become more obvious here. More of Mr. Kerouac's poetry: "Light a fire, - fight a liar, what's the difference, in existence?"; also, "A watermelon seed, produces a need, large and juicy, such autocracy"; and, "... I want my Dharma Bums to have springtime in their hearts when the blooms are girling and the birds are dropping little fresh turds surprising cats who wanted to eat them a moment ago";"and so on. Somewhere toward the end of all this, Mr. Ker ouac comes to the conclusion that he is a Buddha. the Budd- merely memorized things we have been taught from childhood. We learned, or most of us did, that there Earlier in the, book occurs the definition is a God-, just as we learned that 1 plus 1 equals 2. ha is a. dried piece of turd." That seems to be the only basis for our beliefs. which, as I have said before, are in reality, not be- . Mr- eruac is sale in this apparent contradic liefs at all unless twe attempt to answer some of !ion or the simple reason that Buddhism is by def inition unavailable to the intellect, and so if a man any of us should lake 'U upon himself to answ er, er.even Attempt to answer, these questions he will certainly gain, more than knowledge that can be rnf Hnwn rn a choot nf mnnf cnmiMiilinra Tn tVio answers to these questions lies the basis for our avwedly deplores, but in which he seems quite will whole concent of life and living Bui. nn Hip rfhpr ingto PartlPte. The Viking people are accepting says ne is a Buddha, he cannot be proven wrong. Mr. Kerouac's Buddhahood remains extremely doubtful. Unfortunately, it appears that The Viking Press i.s guilty of the commercialism Ahich Mr. Kerouac Then there is the questirMV of "What" we believe of different cultures are not "ow many of us know just what we do believe? Few, these ' questidhsi ame, 'as the "human nature" say- Thls Vblem is prevalent -in the. minds of all ; u any of 'us" Jj0'uld kfc'e,U ui us, uiuugn many ot us are not aware oi ii. Ana the few of us who are aware of it cannot, or will not, admit it. No one can answer this question of what one, believes except the individual himself. But this question will never be answered for many of us simply because we are afraid to. answer it. Thus another question rears its, ugly head. Why aQead of us, out of our reach, we are bombins our our tonrtPnrv mnraii anrf 3re we afraid to answer such questions? We are, in 0Wn temples. We complain if someone else bombs learn to Inquire into and respect Part-.w;ary 9 answering them because we are so our temples, but we don't seem to so much as realize the cultures which are different set in our ways and tnouhts that .we refuse to per that more damage is done by our own bombs, from our own. can wa beine real- mit anyone or anything to interrupt our lackadaisi- Why don't we close our bomb-bay doors? Then --.. ..-. -w , , " j. iicr J1 iy 10 communicate witn, Our world- cai nv.es. we cnoose a pattern for our nves.na aa- we win oe.aoie to pui an ena to the destruction of choose Buddha in the person of Mr. Kerouac to fill neighbors. here so closely to it that we seldom give a thought the temples of others, as well as our own. the void. hand, if we continue to let the answers drift along manuscripts which were written and generally reject ed years ago, taking advantage of the public's inter rest in and partial sympathy with Kerouac's partic ular way pg being "Beat." ' There is hope, however, that no-one else will take Mr. Kerouac as seriously as he seems to take himself. The old Gods may be dead, but we will not
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