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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
TUESDAY," -JANUARY; 6, 195?
Challenge To Sanity
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A new cii is Imiiii, and in its Hist gurgles
ii piomiscs to Ik a crucial idrt days, a period
(h it may well decide the fate the world
lot ciis il not centimes to come.
(loinin almost unheralded was a man
made pi. nut currently racing to orbit around
the sun, and heralded but not predicated
was the oveituin of a government in Cuba,
.signalling the successful completion of a two
year gucj war.
In the laigest .sense, these developments
iodic .He (line more that the world in which
this generation lives is the most fluid and
hast st .it if ol any in the history of man. It
is a woild whose peiimeter is enlarged beyond
the c ii mule .'lent e of the planet earth to the
sol.u system and the nnicise. It is a world
wheie time is no longer measuied in days,
hut in seconds and subdivisions of seconds.
It is a woild in which mans control over
nit in -. nun's knowledge of natme, and
in. in s ahilit) to piep.ue himself for nature
has ic.ulud untold heights, and it is a world
in which man's applet iation of nature has
not iiu leased matcii.dly ocr the years.
Il is an cm ol lads and fancies. New
methods ale being tiiecl, abandoned and
nicil .igain. New appjo.-Jies to the arts have
been put to use, but then use has been one
ol gicat cpiuitity and cty little quality.
Il is a woild in which the few are painful
ly au.t.e ol the critical time that is the pre
sent, and wheie the many arc blissfully un
awaie that their eiy existence is lcing
tin ea I eiiec I . It is a woild in which the xor,
the line clue atc d. and the unthinking out
iiumbc i te n to one the leaders and potential
shapeis ol a glorious woild. It is a world
complicated by the power seekers, who seek
powci lot power's sake, and whose hunger
goes inis.it iated.
The wot Id of H)rMi is a wen Id going in two
diiections at once. It is ijoing. through the
help of the scientist, the philosopher, some
jmliiic i.uis. and alxne all the educator, to
w.ud a maximum awaieness of the universe
and unlimited freedom for man to develop.
At the same time it is plunging with ever
inc leasing velocity towards its own destruc
tion and annihilation.
Man is now and has been his own best
allv and his own worst enemy. He has, if he
wants to use it, the talent, ability, and brains
to m ike a heaven on earth, and if he fails
to lcalic-. his potential, fails to awaken to
the tcaliiics ol this caith, he will end his
cjvisf cimv.' " i -
At no time in histoiy has there been as '
gieat .1 necessity for thought followed by
action. At no time in history lias there been
so little Icadciship.
Iheie is no assurance now that light will
win out. or that good will triumph over
which thete may be treasure or nothingness.
I hcte is not even a realization on the part
ol most people in the world as to what they
considet good, woith woikiug for, and it is
a time in which what is worth woikiug for
need the woik to push it through. Right
will riot tiiumph without the effott of each
individual. I his a woild of cold hard reali
ties in which the romantic, concept of the
kni-ht saving the day or God delivering a
uui.kIc has ho place. If the people of the
woild want to be saved, if they want to en
jy .i hoi Id ol untold beauty, they must do
it themselves.
Individual initiative never meant mote
thin it docs in )',') iiil individual initia
tive w.i, nrver in less supply. '
'Mir well spting of the human mind may
go clouirthr iliain or it may produce a beau
1 1 1 1 1 1 louut.iiii. Which will it be?
I he answei or the foundation for the au
swci may well come in IM.VJ.
The End Of An Era?
Hans J. Morgcnthau
(Tht following is from a recent issue of The New Republic)
, Wc are in Mr. Khrushchev's debt for having warned us, and in
Walter Lippmann's for having conveyed the warning, that the United
States may be enjoying "the last years of its greatness." The scene
is extraordinary and full of meaning, and the meaning is in the
best Marxist tradition. Other whould-bc conquerors have fore-told the
impending doom of their prospective victims, arguing from their
weakness and from the decline of their greatness, reminding them
perhaps of a greatness of which nothing remains but the trappings.
Such is not Mr. Khrushchev's argument. He recognizes America's
present greatness and he denies its future, not because it will itself
decline but because the Soviet Union will surpass it. One is re
minded of the tribute unmatched both in praise and insight by any
defender of tapitalims which Marx and Engcls paid the bourgeoisie
in "The Communist Manifesto":
It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring
alwut. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian
pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals . . . The
bourgeoisie . . . has created more massive and more colossal
productive forces than have all preceding generations together.
And it is both in spite and by virtue of these achievements (be
cause it could achieve nothing else, exhausting its historic mission
with these achievements) that the founders of Communism were as
confident as is their present heir of the impending doom of capital
ism.
New Year
In case some teadei missed the last issue
of I he Daily Tar Heel piior to vacation,
the editoi and .staff extend to the campus at
wish for a eiy happy, piospctous, and pro
line live New Year. '
I r n Ii n innately that new year has to be
mined by letutii to classes, and the prim
piospect of examinations some twelve clays
away. I luouh all the havoc, it might be a
Md idea lo keep in mind that despite the
li;ois ol the next two Weks a fantastic pcr
i i ntake of people survive without 'committ
ing suicide or dying fiom the strain. Yet,
the ligois of the next two Weeks aire for the
most p.nt well worth the effoit, for those
who want an education. It is, however, "some
what uufoilunale that most people spend the
next two weeks doing what they should have
done all semester. Yet, procrastination-exists
and until thcic is built up through the grade
schools and high schools a real 7eal for learn
ing, it will continue lo exist in the field of
education.
One can only hope that before too long
government will awaken to education, and
students will cease to cheat themselves.
"Do You Think I've Quite Got Him?"
The message which Mr. Khrushchev, echoing Marx and Engels,
scuds us through Mr. Lippmann, then, is this: you are doomed not
because you arc small and weak, but -because your greatness and
strength are inextricably tied to a particular period of history which
Communism is in the process of leaving behind.
As a general proposition, the point it makes is well taken. For
history bears indeed witness to the truth that a society which is
unable to adapt itself lo new conditions and restore its vital ener
gies In the successful contest with new problems is docmed and
that all historic societies have sooner or later been so doomed.
What makes the truth of that gencraj proposition acutely poign
ant for us is a general climate of opinion and a general trend of
policy which, if they do net appear to bear out that truth, do not
deny it persuasively.
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Our government appears to act upon the assumption, which the
people axe pleased to accept as sclf-cxidcnt, that our greatness is
a kind of inherited, if not natural, quality owing to certain tradition
al ways of thought and action and to be perpetuated through the
perpetuation these ways. This state of mind derives from what is in
in essence an isolationist conception of our greatness. Time was
indeed when wc could afford to compare our political institutions
and social arrangements with those of other nations and rest assured.
Time was when we couid be satisfied to compare our present with
our past strength and with the prospects for the, future. Yet the su
periority of our way of life, in terms not of abstract philosophic
principles but of political and economic results, is no longer as
obvious cither to us or to the rest of the world as it used to be.
To hundreds of millions of people the Communist way of life appears
more attractive than ours. Our strength vis-a'-vis other nations can
no longer be measured by the degree of our unchallengeable superi
ority within the Western Hemisphere. It must be measured against
a competition which is resolved to leave us behind and is dogmatical
ly certain that it will.
It would, of course, be preposterous to suggest fiat wc don't
know all this. Yet our actions belie our knowledge. We know that
we are fighting for our lives, but we act as though it could not
be quite as serious as that. This contrast between knowledge and
action distinguishes the new isolationism from the old. The isola
tionism did not know what the score was and acted as though the
score did not exist. The new isolationism knows the score, but hank
ers back to when wc could afford to ignore it.
This nco-isolationist stale of mind causes almost of necessity a
perversion of the priorities of national policy. National policy is at
all times confronted with demands which exceed, or seem to exceed,
the available resources. It is the task of statesmanship to judge cor
rectly both the actual and potential amount of the resources available
and the relative importance of, the demands upon them in order lo
support what is important with what is necessary. The Administra
tion has failed in both tasks. Starting with a static, pre-Kcynesian
conception of economic life and of the creative role of government
within it, the Administration has erected the balanced budget to
the measure of all policy. The question, caif wc afford it? has pride
of place before all questions of substantive policy. And since the
answere is in the negative, the argument in reverse comes easy.
This state of mind not only perverts the priorities upon which
the Administration acts, it also exerts subtly corrupting influence
upon the public debate on public issues. With the Administration
having set the tone, public and, more particularly Congressional
opinion tends to divide not according to tlic substantive merits of
the issues but according ot how expensive one kind of policy is
compared with another kind. The President having stigmatized th?
opposition as "spender," the opposition is tempted to join the issue
by either proving that it is at least as budget-conscious as the Ad
ministration or else by defying the Administration and providing
more than it has asked for.
Yet in truth the controversy over spending is utterly absurd.
Since this strictly economic abusrdity has been argued with special
competence by others, such as the businessmen of the Committee
for Economic Development, it only needs to be pointed out here
that if the Soviet Union with less than half our national product
can afford to challenge the United States on land, on the seas,
and in the air, In economic productivity, in technical innovation,' in
foreign aid and trade, in the struggle for the, minds of men, it is
s
tantamount to a declaration of national bankruptcy for us to act on
the assumption that we cannot afford an adequate response to the
Communist' challenge. The issue which must for us overshadow all
others is not how to save money but, first, how to survive and, then,
how to emerge victorious from this contest. The nation which would
assure i its survival would nave forfeited its claim to greatness and
Jeopardized its very existence as well.
It is against this slate of mind, permeating the Administration,
that the 86th Congress must defend 'the interests of the nation. It
is against its corrosive influence, against its infectious lure to escape
from the 'hard and risky issues of history into the simple and cer
tain world of accounting that it must be on guard. For this state of
mind, by taking our greatness and our survival for granted and by
reducing the great issues facing the nation and mankind to a matter
of dollars and cents, is in truth as was its isolationist predecessor in
the fnterwar period, a prescription for disaster. Militarily, 'it spells
mortal danger. Politically, it spells defense of an indefensible status
quo. Economically, it spells wasteful stagnation. Administratively,
it spells chaos. And as the policy of the opposition, it spells "moder
ation." " 4
(To Bi Continued)
Vlh j11
Point Of No
Harrison Brown
We Americans are confronted to
day by the very basic elementary,
problem of survival survival pf
our nation, our freedom, our cul
ture, our people, our civilization
and of the human species itself.
But our problem today differs eon-,
siderably from that of Neanderthal
Man when suddenly confronted by
a wild beast. Then the decision
was a very simle one kill or be
killed. But now, so complex has
our modern industrial world be
come, and so dependent have we
become upon the smooth function
ing of the intricate network of
mines and factories, that the prob
lem of survival has been trans
formed into a fantastic assortment
of problems all of which are in
terrelated and all of which must
be recognized and solved if hu
man beings are to continue to in
habit the earth.
It seems to imc that the most im
portant requisite for survival, both
of our nation and our freedom, is
the formulation of long-range
goals. The first of these goals in
volves the recognition that survival
and world anarchy are incompati-'
ble, thai whether we like it or not
we must move toward a rule of
world law or perish. We should
heed the words of Alexander Ham
ilton when he asked, "Why was
government instituted at all?" He
answered, "Because the passion-?
of imen will not conform to the dic
tates of reason and justice with
out constraint." I believe that we
should declare world law to be
a goal, realizing fully the difficul
ties which lie in our path.
Our second objective should be
to do everything possible to make
the Industrial transition in the
presently underdeveloped areas of
the world as smooth and as free
from turmoil as possible. We
should recognize that it is very
'much in the interest of our long
range security that starvation bp .
eliminated in India, that her popu
lation be brought under control,
and that these things happen with
in the framework of a democratic
government. In the long run this
is even more important to." our
security and freedom than the de
velopment of the ultimate in Inter
continental ballistics jnissiles.
Once we recognize ; that long
range goals are truly . requisites
- for survival, it becomes possible
to formulate short-range goals apd
policies reasonably intelligently." I
believe that high on the list pf Im
mediate objectives shoiild be dis:
armament and control agreements
under United Nations supervision
and control. Equally high on the
list should be the establishment,
again under United Nations super
vision and control, of a program
of world development which is
truly adeqaute.
Of the narrower problems which
now confront our - nation, I believe
that of education Is the (most im
ortant. We have got to face the
facet that we are simply not suf
ficiently well-educaoed to survive
in our modern world that the sav
age in the jungle was far better
equipped to survive in his world
than we are in ours. The savage
who is not familiar with his tools
and weapons and who does noi un
derstand the habits of the plants
and animals about him cannot sur
vive for long. Similarly, we who
live in the complex environment
of Industrial civilization must un
derstand that civilization.
I believe that we should strip our
school curricula of frivolity and
non-sense and eliminate from it
those activities which could just
as well be extra-curricular or
which should be learned in the
home. We should load our students
with just as much solid material
as they can handle. We should
look upon the bright child as be
ing our most treasured resource.
Intimately connected with the
problem of education particularly
at the .higher levels, is the prob
blem of accumulating new knowl-edge-of
research. The tasks ot
keeping the complex machinery of
industrial society functioning, olr
producing raw materials from the
leanest of earth-substances, of pro
viding enough energy and power,
of producing enough food for th
rapidly-increasing numbers of
mouths, of decreasing the' rate of
population growth these tasks
will necessitate our accumulating
knowledge in the decades ahead t
a rate which is far greater thai
our rate of accumulation todaj'.
Whether We like it or not. we have
passed a major point-of-no-returu
On Iceland
Sidney Dakar
I hope that all of you had a cool Yule,-and a
frantic First, Yours truly was fortunate . in being
able to spend a cool Yule in Iceland and a frantic,
very frantic, First in Paris. !o much has already
been written abuot Paris that I could add little.
It is better that today's column be devoted; to Ice
land, a man's paradise. '.
Iceland lies in the middle of the North Atlrntic
and just touches the Arctic Circle with lis northern
shore. It is warmed by the Gulf Stream., When Ice
land is mentioned to most Americans, they con
jure up visions of igloos and Eskimos; -nothing
could be more erroneous. ; " ;
.The Icelanders are some oi the best educated
people in the world and they have a proud history
and culture that is traced "back for one, thousand
years. These people are of Scandinavian descent and
they have many of the characteristics of people
from Norway. Sweden and Denmark. The. Iceland
ers are a proud people and they take steps to keep
their race as pure as possible. For example, no
Ncgros are flowed to even visit the island: No Ne
gros are allowed on the huge SAC base at Keflavik.
'But, let me get down to the thing that is dear
to the heart of the Carolina male women.. In
all of my travels I have never seen such beautiful
women as those in Iceland. The following words
will not be believed unless you see one day for
yourself. Let me urge every Carolina male who
plans to take a trip to Europe this summer to go
by way of Iceland. After seeing those beautiful
dolls, many of you. will probably forget all about
Europe. " . ' . ; . -
Almost every Icelandic girl has long, ; golden
blond hair, sparkling, sky blue eyes, and a most deli
cate, white complexion. My words can not adequate
ly describe their beautiful complexion; their skin,
when pinched lightly, is the type that turns to a
color not unlike the warm glow of a bed of coals
after the flames have died out. Almost' every Ice
landic girl looks as good or better than the average
movie queen. All of this is good, yet the.most amaz:
ing thing about these beautiful.'d6lis 4-: thejr num
ber. Honestly, there seems S V be Uhreef f these
girls to very male and all of Ihenrsteinte, be
tween the age of 18 and 25:: -.- v". v:.'.s . -
The Hotel Borg in Reykjavik is -the best; on-the
island and it only costs about, $3.00 per dayr if
you exchange your money at the right, place;. This
hotel has a dance band (mostly American - music)
and have become completely de- and it holds dances every nighty I .believe; except
Wednesdays. Every night of Iny stay the:. ballroom
was so full of these lovely, luscious-creatures, all
dressed to the teeth, that many;' were standing' in
the lobby because there were! no. more' scats' avail
able. The strange thing is that aflcast- 75 of
these girls come unescorted! At most; oL'theJ tables
there were three or four single girls just waiting
for someone to ask them to dance, Y
It was frustrating for me; when I saw what I
thought was the most beautiful girl in the world
and started dancing with her, I would spot one
even more beautiful. All of the girls are anxious
to dance and never refuse when asked. It is a
ffrcat insult for an Icelandic crirl to come to a
cent of its population. We own 29 dance and thcn refuse tQ dance when an Icelandic
per cent of the world's railroad male her We necd more o this spirit around
mileage, 71 per cent of its auto- nere t
mobiles, and -52 per cent of its These irls informed me that Icelandic men rare
radios. We produce more food than ly compliment them on their beauty and that such
we can eat. Yet in the midst of comments would embarrass them. This was a little
this material wealth, life some- hard for me to believe. Knowing women; I say a
how has lost purpose and mean- few well chosen remarks at the proper moment will
ing; We have became selfish, fat, help a man's cause regardless of the nationality
conceited, soft, and lazy. Where of the woman. This proved no less true in the case
e'ee we were doers, we are now in point. And last, but by no means least, it seems
viewers. Where once we fought for that just about all of these girls are firm believers
fit edoun and democracy, we now in the much debated doctrine of "free love!'
take it for granted or, even If the University of Iceland had taught in Eng
worse, ignore it. lish, I would not be writing these lines; I would
Where lies America's destiny? be in Iceland.
What kind of a world do we want PAA Sives the best service to Iceland. You will
to leave behind for our children stoP for as at Gander. The total flight time is
and for the generations which will about 12 hours on a DC-7.-The planes stop at Kc-
follow them? What kind of a world lavik the U- Dase- Reykjavik is 30 miles; a bus
do we ourselves want to inhabit? costs a $L00' a taxi about WOO., The official ex-
What 'outlooks and actions are ne- chan2e rate is about 12K to $1.00; the tourist rate
cessary if we are to set our sights is 25K ot $L00' However, even this rate is unreal-
daiiv i5UC ana cnere are Pnty ol places on tne blacx
iiidiis.ee uiai gives UA. lo $1.UU.
Here is looking at you in Iceland. Happy hunting.
Survival
pendent upon our science and our
technology for our personal and cul
tural survival..
It seems to me that on matters
like this we have a-great deal of
soul-searching to do and quite a
few questions to ask ourselves.
And the answers to these ques
tions may well determine whether
man continues to inhabit our
planet. We Americans own 50 per
cent of the world's wealth, yet we
account for little more than 6 per
beyond those which our
press, the world of advertising,
and our politicians set for us?
What outlooks and actions are ne
cessary if purpose and meaning
are to be brought back into our
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