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Iruman
1 1. in) S. I mm. m ju ili.ips ua a coin.ic
nm and outspoken ptcsieknt, lut liis trip to
Xoilli ('..iioliiu this week .'ivc no indication
ol this.
lie (lcs(iil)nl i !k tiip as one to brinu; vot
es foi the Dc iuoe i.nic I'.nty, but il the party
takes as in; :iy eiiii oc ,il stands as Mr. Tru
ni.m. the pniy will surely lose votes.
His iiou-e oiiiinittal policy shown out
stion when talking ahotit ciil rights and
Paul 1'iiiilei, and the laiily obvious political
pamleiin'4 lor otes in saying flirt the Dem
on. itic I'.nty welcomes all people, which is
iitdicatiw that Mr. Truman welcomes peo
ple such as OiN.d Faubus which Chairman
liutlei was not so willing to ;lmit. 11 the
cm lent Tritium philosophy were to hold
line, the Dc iuoe t.itic Patty would turn into
a thiii'; that would mean all things to all
people.
The tuo-paity system depends eventually
lion divergence of point of view, and if this
cliwie nc c is not achieved, the I'nited States
m v as uill have a one-party system devoted
to the platitude ol belter government. They
have something like that in the Soviet Union
and the thought of this should not appeal
to too m.mv Amc'i'icans.
I he Deiiicc latic Party will have to dec ide
beloie loiii; on how it stands on civil rights.
Il had better adopt a strong civil rights plat
h i m . stronger that that of uyS. It should
be a platlorm that should challenge the re
action.ny Southeineis to stick to its provi
sions oi ;;et out. II they ;et out. then and
only then docs the Democratic Party have a
chance to consider itself the party of the peo
ple all people whether black, white, gen
tile, i r Jew.
Finland
I he bill ol the icth post Woild War II
ov eminent in 1 inland is aiain indicative
ol the role ili.it economics has to play in
win Id politic s.
I inland s ei iimental fall was a direc t
lesiih of the Russian witholcliir.; of needed
hade bom this country due to the viewpoint
of its pi hue minister.
lie- economic bsiics in the woilcl today
aie taking a nunc iinpoitaut lole than ever
beloie.
I he I'nitrd St.ites. loi instance, is finding
ill. it the ide. of licccloin is not as appealing
io the people ol Southeast Asia as the idea ol
lu in; avsiincl of a meal the next day. And
it is on ibis that the Communists .ire cap
italizing. I he lime- loi the I'nited Slates to tealix
lli.it iiiilii.iiv defense and pious statements
.ne not enough to iiisuie freedom for Ameri
ca and other peoples of the world is now.
J Im ie miisi lie a concrete aid program to
meet the economic- offensive t!u"t Russia is
wa;:iii;. Without this, the United States
v in onlv to lose.
Christmas Decorations
(tialiam Meiuoiial has onc whole lien; on
C In i am is dc coiations and the end product
looks vciv nice.
"I he pioiluc ion ol the iantic wreath on
the- ho ii of the building tok cptite a bit of
clloit, and those putting in the el fort are
to be c.cin;ialulated.
Best Dressed
hv is it ih it the winneis of "best cbess
cd' contests usiidlv icecive as their rewaid,
a w.uchobe ol clothes?
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News
Ed Rowland
The top news this week, and also
the grimmest, was the Monday
fire in Chicago which killed 90
students and 3 nuns teaching them
in a parochial school. It started
in the basement of the school (ex
actly how is not known.) and raced
up a stairwell to the second floor
where most of the pupils were
waiting for the dismissal bell to
ring.
The fire's suddenness caused fire
officials to look for possible arson
clues, but none have been turned
up. The fire chief theorized that
a sneak smoker carelessly tossed
a cigarette butt into a pile of
waste paper which caught fire.
The fire was the third worst
school blaze in the United States
in the last 100 years. It brought
on a flood of school inspections
across the country as officials
sought to prevent a recurrence of
the fire. Three schools in New
York City were closed as having
fire hazards.
Another fire, this one a forest
fire racing across the mountains
of Southern California near Malibu
Beach, was almost completely un
der control late this week after
burning more than 20,000 acres of
the most picturesque scenery in
the state.
Officials here also suspect arson,
although concrete evidence to that
effect has not been found. Thirty '
or more homes, a few of them
mansions owned by movie and
television personalities, were de
stroyed. No lives were lost, how
ever. At Cape Canaveral, the Army
was making plans late in the week
to try a shot at the moon with its
rocket Juno II carrying a 30-pound
satellite in its nose. The Air Force
probes earlier in the fall, which
failed, were aimed at putting a
man-made object in orbit around
the moon, while this one may send
the baby moon into an orbit
around the sun millions of miles
from earth.
The launching missile itself is
a Jupiter-C missile topped by three
stages of small sergeant rockets.
Dr. Werhncr Von Braun said the
rocket will be aimed at the moon
but that chances of hitting it are
extremely slim. He said it was
hoped it would soar farther into
space.
In the civil rights field, Arthur
Klcmming, Secretary of Health
Education and Welfare, made a
call for reopening the 13 southern
school shut down to avoid integra
tion. He figured that more than
16,000 pupils were missing their
regular classes due to the locked
schools.
He said reports submitted to
him show that pupils in the sub
stitute private schools are not get
tin? anywhere near the same qual
ity education they should have.
He added that local groups are
coming to realize that integrated
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schools are better than no schools,
and that they would exert pres
sure for their reopening.
FIcmming was immediately
called a tool of the NAACP and
the Communist Party by Virginia's
Gov. Lindsey Almond.
And in Alabama, the Civil Rights
Commission began its long-awaited
investigation of voting discrimina
tions in six counties during the
week, and voter registration files
have been subpoenaed.
State Atty. General (and Governor-elect)
John Patterson has
said the files are confldcfitial in
formation and not subject even to
court-ordered inspection. An ap
peal to the federal courts would
probably take years to resolve.
At leasl one county official de
clared the commission would get
none of his county's records un
less Patterson said okay. And one
more county had its records im
pounded by a state judge to pre
vent the commission from getting
them.
In the somewhat chaotic world
of foreign affairs, Iraq is on the
borderline of renouncing its alli
ances with the West and joining
with the Nasser Arab bloc or
the Soviet sphere. Since the July
revolution that overthrew the pro
western go'ernment, the nation
lias almost officially abandoned
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thd' Baghdad pact.
State department officials have
said they do not know yet whether
the shift in sides had occurred or
not. They have been unable to get
cle&r-cut answers about the for-
eiga policy of Iraq.
The Iraqi foreign minister de
clared in Cairo this week that the
new trade agreement between Iran
and the U. S. constitutes a direct
threat to Iraq. . ,
Also in the middle east Israel
and Syria have had border trou
ble again and the UN will be
as&ed taf settle the matter. Both
the United Arab Republic and
Israel have accused the other of
precipitating the artillery exchange
e-ly in the week.
'In Finland the government fell
late in the week as a result of
Russian economic pressure on the
nation. The government had been
frjned of a coalition of five par
ties excluding the Communist par
ty, which controls 20 per cent of
me legislative seats.
Russia refused to buy 'Finnish
products and the pressure exerted
on the merchants and manufac
terers of the nation caused the
government to fall. No word is yet
available as to what will be done.
And as to , the Berlin crisis,
whtich has cooled somewhat from
the threatened war two weeks ago,
the Allies were seen to be pursu
ing a "go-slow", course of action.
The Russians have announced that
they have turned over all control
of the city and its corridors, to
the west to the East Germans.
The Allies came back' with orders
to its troops still in the city to
protect the vital arteries to the
outside. : :
The Allies are expected to con
fer more about a policy, and no
decisions have been made yet ex
cept that they will remain at all
costs.
Pip's Quips
Fringle Pipkin
When the State Student. Legislature meets next
week and begins its business, undoubtedly the
question of whether the N. C. Delegation of the
SSL represents what the students think will come
up.
Controversial issues will be discussed and the
stands taken probably won't please everyone. How
ever, it must be allowed that the delegation be ac
cepted as representative of the group who had the
most interest in applying for positions.
All students had a chance to apply for the com
mittee. If you assume that the delegates were
chosen fairly (I think they were), then it follows
that delegates represent the different viewpoints
roughly (radical, liberal, moderate, conservative and
reactionary) proportionally td the number of stu
dents who applied.
To be truly representative the UNC delegates
could be elected, but since there are 39 members
of the delegation, this system does not seem too
practical.
' Consequently, if you feel that your ideas and
opinions were not voiced by the delegates, then,
when the SSL delegates are chosen next year, you
should apply and make an effort to have those who
feel the same way you do to apply also.
There is some question as to what the proper at
titude of UNC delegation be. Should the delegates
attempt to represent what they feel is the general
opinion of the students or should the delegates,
attempt to lead and i.hape student opinion?
I think that the majority of the delegates feel
the latter attitude and that their action will gen
erally be "liberal." The "moderates" and "conser
vatives," who tend to think of themselves as com
posing the majority of the student body will be
unhappy, will complain. (I feel this contention is
correct though the majority is not by a large mar
gin). Their unhappiness really won't be justified. This
group of students too often takes a negative atti
tude and too often is content to let the "liberals"
control policy making committees without making
a determined effort to see that their own viewpoint
is represented.
Mere complaints are r.ot enough; some action
is needed.
This article is not intended to be a defense of any
action which the SS5L delegates may take, but
rather it is meant to show that those persons may
not be pleased with the results of this year's dele
gation might take efforts next year to see that their
ideas are represented.
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Ron Shumate
: The author of a letter in yester
day's paper stated that he was
disgusted with the intellectualism
of this editorial page.
Granted many articles appear on
this page which .are filled with
large words, flowerly phrases and
the like. Granted also that many of
these are "too deep" for the aver
age, person.
BUT, if people were the least
interested in improving their vo
cabularies, these articles could be
very useful,! as well as interesting
to them. ' ' -
I will readily admit that many
of these .'"intellectual" articles
are above me. And I will also ad
mit that I d3 not attempt to learn
the meanings of many of these
words. But the fact remains that I
do make SOME attempt to learn
SOME of tlwm. My roommate and
I spend frorii 15 to 30 minutes al
most every night going over the foes with their wonderful vocabul-
of us. We simply write down words
we do not know as we see them
during each day, and, when we
have a few spare minutes, look
them up in a dictionary. But I do
not wish to set my roommate and
myself up as examples. I am
digressing. . ' . t
It would seem, to some, that
those "high-brow" editorials are
written with .the intention, of the
writers, of . impressing friends and
words each of us has learned dur
ing the day. This is helpful to both
Moonglow
Joe John
Niht Editor
NANCY COMBES
Forty-eight years ago. William
Sidney Porter, who had become
famous as O. Henry writer, suf
fered the inevitable fate of all hu
man beings. He died. Now some
group in Texas, pleasantly named
the Texas Heritage Foundation,
has petitioned President Eisen
hower to posthumously pardon the
world-famous author of bank em
bezzlement charges. He had been
convicted in 1898 by a Texas court.
The Foundation, headed by a re
tired general, claims that "there
exists today abundant evidence of
his innocence, and his conviction
was surely on circumstantial evi
dence." Carl Van Doren, in the
1943 edition of the Dictionary of
American Biography, stated that
the bank of which O. Henry was
the teller "had been managed very
lexjsely, and the loss of not much
,ovcr a thousand dollars seems to
have been due to him only in a
technical sense." Thus it is quite
possible that O. Henry was prob
ably not in actuality an embezzler,
but more an impractical man who
lacked considerable knowledge of
financial affairs. So what?
The fact that he was convicted
did not hinder in any way the ful
fillment of his lasting achieve
ments; in fact, the incident was
quite likely the most significant
factor in their inception. His ques
tionable flight to Hot.duras and his
subsequent experiences there be
came the foundation of many of
his most celebrated literary of
ferings, including the excellent
Cabbages and Kings. Confinement
for O. Henry was no intolerable
hardship, for he was accorded all
sorts of privileges. Then too, it
was in prison that the famous
knack for expression was nutured,
developed and employed. And the
man was an obvious failure as a
bank clerk.
It is doubtful, moreover, that
one of a thousand people who have
at one time or another become
acquainted with the short stories '
of O. Henry was aware that the
man was a "jailbird." Even less
of these would have been serious
ly disturbed. Is not art, art and
talent talent no matter its origin?'
The list of great men of letters
who have had their difficulties
with established law is not short.
It reaches back to Francois Vil
lon, the extraordinary medieval '
French lyrist, and advances stead
ily to Ezra Pound in our own time.
Even the more questionable abilty
of Caryl Chessman has staved off
his imminent death sentence for
several years. O. Henry, there
fore, although perhaps not a pow
erful a genius as some, is in no
mean company. If he was inno
cent, it matters not now; the man
has been dead far a half-century;
il is his work that lives; it speaks
for him; his life is inconsequential
in comparison.
Why, then, dig into a man's
grave and, by exposing to ridicule
once again his human failings, do
him more dishonor than any hon
or that might be achieved with
clearing him of an i antiquated
charge? I am certain Wat the
magnamity of the Texas Heritage
Foundation may 1 be turned with
much greater usefulness to other
pursuits. Let the sleeping dog rest
in peace. It is the prowling wolves
that must be dealt with.
Alone
. . . a stone, a leaf; an unfound door; of a stone, a leaf, a door.
And of all the forgotten faces.
. Naked and alone we came into exile. In her dark womb we did
not know our mother's face; from the prison of her flesh have
w come into the.- unspeakable and incomcriunicable prison of
this earth.
Which of us has known his brother? Which of us has looked
into his father's heart? Which of us has not remained forever
prisonpent? Which of us is not forever a stranger and alone?
O waste of loss, in the hot mazes, lost, among bright stars on
this most weary unbright cinder, lost! Remembering speechlessly
we. seek the , great forgotten language, the lost lane-end into;
heaven, a stone, a leaf, an unfound door. Whre? When?
O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again.
Thomas Wolfe, LOOK HOMEWARD ANGEL
Letters
To Mr. Patrick Marnane;
. From your letter I wasn't sure
exactly what you were criticizing
( besides ' the YMCA, the Quarter
ly, "beat" magazines, and every
thing except letter writing but in
, case you are criticizing the Spec
trum, as a member of its editorial
board, I am inclined to write you
? few opinions of my own.
Your criticism of the YMcA im
plies' that the people there can't
manage the Student Directory eith
er, and this may provoke them
from their silence on the subject
of Spectrum and CURRENT BUD
GET PROBLEMS. This is good
I'd like to hear them talk.
The Quarterly, to be sure, is a
nice conservative safe journal,
( copies by subscription), and we
need this along ' with the Davy
Popla'r tree. Naturally, they must
restrict themselves to poems and
essays written by; miss PHOENIX,
who has , been published in eleven
ty seventy DIFFERENT literary
magazines throughout the ENG
LISH speaking world and who has
recently published in ENGLAND
- where she now lives.-This is why
we need a student magazine called
Spectrum. You must know that
people who write things-who will
be published according to the
standards of the Quarterly live in
ENGLAND. Or was it Australia?
Spectrum should be an exciting
magazine, and it will be "beat"
if you think so, "good" if you like
it, reasonably priced if you buy
it, (no duty' on : naturalized stu
dent manuscripts), and. published
whether you Like it or hot, thanks
very much to Jim Hausmann.
No opportunity! to establish an
outlet for creative ability should
be ignored. Especially when there
is a place for. a Spectrum or any
other magazine of this type. It is
my hope that Spectrum will re
main independent:, and thereby re
tain the freedom Uo express itself.
Only in this way can an art form expressing my opinions
mean anything at all. Creative
art," these days, has ,to be . slight
ly "radical,," and it progresses
because of the freedom that al
lows it to be ",;o. :
I hope, Patrick, that, you like
the magazine I may even send
vou a copy. ; According to Tom
Sawyer, (good old everything-by-the-book-Sawyur)
We ought to have
a duel let's maie it ink bottles
at five pacej; under the YMCA
budget. ;
T. CRANE JR.
Graduate Student
aries. But this is not necessarily
true.
Those who have such vocabul
aries use big words , almost auto
matically. They use such words as
easily as us "ordinary folks" use
smaller, more-easily-understood-to-the-non-intcllectual
words.
But there is still the fact that
many articles are written by
"ordinary folks'' . for 'ordinary
folks." They, may be easily read,
more interesting (sometimes) and
all that. But They .Don't Make
People Think. And if people don't
think when they read the articles,
what good are they?
The letter writer, who happens
to be a good friend of mine, also
stated that he is, "nervous" when
he writes something for this page
because he is "afraid some of the
Words" he v uses "aren't big
enough." This is a negative atti
tude. Why should someone be
afraid to write something for this
reason, when ; . he :-communicates
verbally ith others everyday? He
doesn't seem to be afraid to talk
to people, so why should he be
afraid to write to them?
If he desires less intellectual
editorials, why doesn't he. write
some himself? If he thinks edi
torials should be more simply
written, why doesn't he write some
simple ones?
, I do not mean this to be deroga
tory in any way to my friendship
with the letter writer, lie stated
his views, and I am stating mine.
His letter was simply written: My
article is also simply written. Just
note the absence of . intellectual
words. This is because I do not
have an intellectual vocabulary.
But that does not defer me from
in print.
I am not afraid to express my
cpinion verbally, so why should I
be afraid to express it through my
Writing? But again I am' digres-
Letters
a black day in the history of our
a black d3y in the history of the
Editorial writers should not have
to conform to any set method or
style in which to write their arti
cles. They should state their opin
ions as best they know "how." If
they wish to express them in sim
ple fashion, fine. If not, fine.
Things seem to have gotten along
so far, so why not leave Ihem to
make it the rest bf the way?
Editor:
Today was
University.
Today was
world.
Today was a black day. .-
Today Dr. Erkenbra aker hurled an eraser at one
of two dogs who were barking during his lecture on
Egyptian hieroglyphics.
This was an act of gross inhumanity.
Dr. Erkenbraaker threw the eraser at the straw
berry colored dog. He did not throw the eraser at
the more common variety of Black and white dog.
This was an act of gross color discrimination.
All liberal minded students of the University
must rise up in one shout of protest against such
heinous inhumanity and discrimination.
Or liberalism will surely die forever on our
campus.
Something must be done about this.
We must send a telegram.
Chuck Nisbct
Editor:
Just what is the lowdown on the proposed con
stitutional amendment which would give the student
government the power to select our head cheer
leader? The student legislature has approved this
amendment, but in no way has it supported its ac
tion with basis or reason. Does the proposal possess
any merit whatever? Evidently it does not since
we lack information about it. This may be an at
tempt to hoodwink the student body. Our right to
vote and elect our own head cheerleader is at stake.
The legislature is hastily willing to take this right
away from us and is just as hasty in leaving us
uninformed on the reason why. The legislaturs
is there to do some things for us students, but not
everything. We can choose our own head cheer
leader. We have done it before and we can again.
Are we capable to elect our student government
leaders, but incapable to elect our own cheering
leader? Our abilities are not that inconsistent!
This scheme decs an injustice to our intelligence.
I hope the students will think about, then vote ac
cording on this proposal.
John R. Vhitty
Editor:
I would like to compliment Mr. Roy B. Goodman
on his letter to the Ed.tor, of November 26, 1953.
I am sure that everyone was very pleased by
Mr. Gans' editorial on the subject of independents
in the last election, and it is my opinion that un
less the two parties on this campus put forth some
hard-working candidates in the Spring election, that
this campus will have a large number of independ
ent candidates elected.
I was very impressed by the election of Dewey
Sheffield. I think that he will be heard from more
on this campus and that the parties on this campus
would be wise to try to get him join, as he will
prove a great asset to the party to which he be
longs. I had never met Dewey until the campaign, but
he made a lasting impression on me, as I am sure
that he did on many, many students on this campus,
as was clearly shown by the large vote which he
received, in the past election.
I feel sure that I ca:i say that the two political
parties on this campus clearly have their job cut
out for them in the Spring election, if they expect
to capture many positions.
Rortnit Bull