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H"W rvcjr two THE DAILY TAR HEEL TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1?37 ABC Stores I(m!.i kiuiisjx nj)!c. -.. tu- MihUnts. and iii.iiiv huU- in tin- (ninny w vnte on uImiIui the (,iiiii will h.uc AliC nIdics I i i i t r 4 i Ik- (inning )vm, I lu luw the npj.oitimiiy to hiiii CIi ijxl Mill ,i new sMitiic o revenue, uliidi (iniiut In it luiii;; ,ilit lo tu- oi kc ts ol tillicr ( omit us in tlir si. ill'. 1 1 1 luxe ili.iiiic of .isMimiim more iMiiu.il .iitiiirdc imxx.ihI .iltoliul th.in lluy lihi lu'loir. Ioi alcoliol talin in inodti ,u ion i not n t ovii ily unhealthy, while ' drunk riM-Nx m miii lx he. IltmtNci. to keep tcnij)-i.M-oii iv 1 1 1 1 f s .iw is not to eliminate it. .mil miii In will nui build tion indiv idti.ds i .it.i!U ol on en otnin uinpt.it ion. The issue i u 1 1 I lc l.t I'd hci e. I'm lln i in 1 1'. it is the iudix idu.d'.s lilil lo think - as inmli as it is the individual's ii;lit fo vix no. and neither inx point should he Ion nl on the oilier, hec.nise this would tnil I"- in Ni'olnion of ;'i individual's fue i ho it c in a ihnio;iaix. A person who does iioi w.ini lo think, does not have to. hut to piohihit someone ehe is something ehe aain. I he tiii n nl Online County will have i ihinte lo he honest to themselves and eorr sisient N!th indixiihi.il freedom in the refer endum i d. ix. 'I he i i 1 1 1 (hoiie is to ote xt. I 'miii hu.il lontiol. alt hohol is ; lot hi iici tli in imdei a piohihitixe system xvilh III I I lit l ol. Rcrislraiicn Sonc people luxe ipieslioned the editor and Student Body Piesidriit Don Imtado .ihout tilth motives in tixin-; to et students llu- n;hi to xole in (!!upl Hill on the ,uioi:ntK ih it hoih the ethtoi and I'int;ido NM-ie jiiNt living to jet legalized liquor in ( Iiiik'I Hill. While it max he ttue tlui hoih :e in l.iNot ol h"4.tlied liquor in Chapel Hill, if one thinks link .ihout six months to the (iie.it I'. ii kin-; Ciisis of sinin i u",S. one ran see the need lor a student xoice in town . ill. lit s. Manx h' iis otlc have ohjrt ted on the pounds lli it students know vetv little ;:hout sihoid oreolid.it ion issues and the like, hut the same i-Mie onie up in the towns that Minimis oi i'diuted Imm. ami the student has little o no knowledge of the issue there as tomputtl to their knowledge of the local issue. I he li dit to xole is heini; denied hy the pttuli.H ii.nivi'iu si. tins of ihe student and the (h. . lilude of election hoards here ami in othei pails ol the roiinuv.. It is an issue in ilst 11. wiMiate and .ifr.it t from ronsidcra tion of AI'.C stores. It is the ri-jht to vote is sue i!i it is iuijMM taut, the other is secondary. Levy Bill Phones The End Of Exams P. W. Carlton We'd been rushing around for a week, tramming and frying our brains, trying to learn what wc should have studied weeks before, 'lension bewail to pile up, nerves grew raw. Sanka and L and M did a booming business, while No Doze stock soared. Sighs appeared o'n many doors, some blasphemously denying visitors entrance, others pleading" pathetically for silence. Shadnvs appeared Irciiealh eyes, Nvhich.in turn became bloody, but for oik-c these phenomenon were caused by reading rulher than by a superfluity of liquid , refresh ment coupled with early hours. As the period of "tear and trembling" progressed, men cracked under the strain, giving way to fits of depression, some drowning their sorrows in ak'diol, some retreating into shells of despair. Each da ysavv more ami more tension permeating the atmosphere. Roommates conversed in quiet tones, their nervous laughter and Irightened eyes conveying awareness of the taut situation. Silence became the rule rather than the exception in the dimly lit dormi tories. . By the forth day of exams the signs of mental exhaustion made themselves manifest in conversatini. A certain "lightness" perxaded all. Men spoke of xvild and whirling things, like running through the arboretum stark naked and dancing nude ' beneath the trees therein. There was talk of soaring from the dormitory roof and flying aNvay into the night in search of adventure. Long and serious discussions took place concerning the aerodynamics involved in such a venture. Finally the poor souls succumbed to academic fatigue an 1 began to sit for hours staring at walls or out windows. Obviously, the critical point had been reached. Something had to give.,. And then it rained. From the dark sky fell cooling drops spark ling and dancing on the rooftops, sliding over window panes, plop ping on the sills in an unliable fashion. The timeless music of the rainfall started in the tin r-UitU'rs of the roof, calming strained nerves and salving inflamed emotions. All over the building stu dents left their desks and were drawn to the windows, where they stood watching silently. One could see the hard lines of their faces relax as the raindrops" spattered impishly upon their clothing and upturned faces. The rain is a friendly entity, brings pe;e and quiet joy with it. No one can explain the reason for its effect on man but it is easily seen. It brings life and makes people pause to reflect upon casic things and put off for a moment the mundance cares of day to day exislanee. It regenerates the weary soul, lending an aura af beauty to the dusty counterpane ef physical experience. Khruschevs Speech II.uix Asiuiioie jMiinud out ipiite lightly lint the lexv (me telegram) letter hill would luxe no ie; . impact on the sci ela tion iiisis ;n Aikauov Indeed, if anv ol the smuisois ol the hill thought it would, they xeie sadlv mistaken. At In si the li t l i to (ioxeinor I auhus would add .uio'hcr xoiie of te.ison to tlx to douse the In at ol poliiiially stilted emotion alsim. th. it the (ioxeinor has treated in that st. e. And tl. the passage of the hill is iiu Mii.iui. for it is a southern loup that is pissing the hill. It is a southern student lead ttship 1 1 1 . 1 1 is si)iii'4 1 1 1 t education is the p'liin ny issue, and that massive i esist; ;i r is xrou;. It is a southern i;ioup that is taking the inili.itiNi and telling the people of North (l.iioliui that they stand for law and older ami e opposed lo depiixalion of education oi anxhotlx to attain politiial ends. This i. the si ;nili am e of the I.exx hill. As it stands, it must he modified, in that the situation has so i handed in Virginia as to make it supeilloous to send the letter to (ioxeinor Almond. I'eihaps it would he wise to send a letter lo .' or Ilartsfield of At lull. i in piaise ol his courageous stand. It is niie il sou ui pia;se a Mulliei tier's attitude on the outstion, and peihaps it will cast the I auhus hill in its pioper peispctlivc. Il ii ainiui' Hi.'? people of college af ( in not lind mote enlightening to)S to p5ay with than tloimitoiy telephones, for their cf loits in lippiir.; out phones in many doims. wIimIi mav h.ixe r;tised these, the i nl it in in mind, nnnli jov. hut has caused the students all over the campus endless trouhlc. "Ihe phone system in C.h.ipel IliH titay he and is pooi. and vet this is not Ihe way to t ike out giicv, inccs aloiit the inahility to yj t in opri.Uoi. iuloi in.uion. a dial tone, the l i - 1 1 1 iiumhri, oi the vviie that vu have riossnl with .uiolhei line iiuciosscit. Indeed, this milx i-o udies fiiluie ( ham i s for im pioxement. and Icxes a la rue number of students without phones at times when they m.iv have to he i cached in an emergency. Despite the vandalism, the phones si ion Id he lepl.Ked. hut dorinitorv officers should be i.Ml.iut s(i that those who are doin-jj the il.uu.re will he appiesended. Fun is fun, but lipping telephones out of iheir hinges isn't. "The Soviet people will learn to consume more sweets and lc s hitters. The sb-ans that politic bus throw off eaa b more reveal ing th in grave : taleir.cnl s of i'i:i ey. The first of t'aese slogan-;. Mr. Macmillan's. ues tin.' pa: t ten t': the other, Mr. Khrushchev's, uses the fu'ure ten.se. SeUir.g aside fi.r the inoineiit the e'.iTerenees ' tv ef-n I'.ritain an 1 ll;e Sevi! Union us industrial snciclifs. we may sy that over vast aices H-o wttrld people arc c;'4'r to !o ii Hu ossc i in the future tense. Tint is Mr. Khrushchev's .siren.' fh. an 1 lie makes the most t)f it. Whatever struggles may have gone on ia the inner rooms o the Krem! n, he emerges before the world as Ibf man uilh a song in his heart and the song tells of riches, case . nui peace to be rchieved if peo ple follow his eeiunSent directions. Brandishing in one hand a sputnik, in the other a .sheaf of corn or is it maize? , he e::peets inillioas to j;an the Communist cause when they see its material success. Who shall say that he is mistaken? In the Soviet Union he has defeated Irs opponents the "anti - party group"" now branded once again a.s "despicable" and, worse still, wrong partly by the methods of the ward buss but also by stand ing out as the leader who prom ted the most, glittering prizes and improvised the speediest means of attaining them. Communism in his hinds is almost emptied of a!! ideological content other than this song of plenty to come but it is th sorg the people want to hear, in Asia and Africa as well as at li.mo. The rest of us ought to "Whal Do You Mean, 'WhcrcV The Space Ship?' You Trying To Spoil A Good Slory?" Postscript ui ii i 'v5a III 5 : III f lj 1 Nothing On International Law Sidney Dakar The other day 1 read of a speech by a genlltman from Duke University. He spoke on world rule by international law. This gentle man, like many olhcr.s, feels that our major problems in internation al relations could be solved if we had good, strong international laws. This solution seems doubtful as long as we have sovereign slates. Such a simple and logical solution would certainly be welcom ed in our troubled world today. What could be better than to have an orderly way of disposing oT any and all problems that arise? After all, dot s not this system work here in the U. S.? Mr. Reinliold Nicbuhr, professor of Applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary, has wrote on this subject. He says that "wc try to reason from national to international communities, and trust in the ab stract logic of coiistitiil:onal forms in disregard of the Underlying sfti.il realities. All oT such solutions take legal symbols for social realities." There are some rather basic facts that the preachers of in ternational law seem to gloss over. The most important of these is that Hussia does rat accept the authority of The Hague, the pre sent International Court. Htissia maintains that this court supports the western capitalistic law and she cannot recognize it. The big issues between governments arc not disagreements over what the law is but over what the law should be. One of the main disadvantages of the Court is that it cannot say what, the law should be; it can only say what the law is. The Court cannot, as a rule, take social and political factors into account when it reaches it decisions. These very factors are the ones that cause most of the wars. . Most of the ca es that go to the Court are of very little con sequence to the nation as a whole. They may involve sums, of sev eral thousand dollars, or even several million, but what is this to most nations? No nation ever agrees to submit issues concerning "national honor" and "vital interest." A nation that wants to change the status quo is certainly not going to submit the issue to the. Court and have an almost certain ruling against it. And of course no case tan go before the Court unless both parties agree to it. The Court tries lo maintain the status quo, as defined by past decisions of the Court and by agreements between nations. Almost all wars have been started not because the aggressive nation did not know the status quo but because the nation felt that it was time to change it. One of our most pressing problems today Is that Russia does not recognize the status quo and, furthermore, she has vowed to change it by overthrowing the capitalistic coun tries and ruling the world with Communism. ' 'To assume that the tortuous processes of history can be con trolled by the power of constitutional logic is an infantile illusion," says' Mr: Nietouhr. - - - Radical ly New heed the warning. Not only have wc to convince the poor countries that our way to plenty is at least as good as the Communists' violent methods. We should also compare our' own performance with that which Mr. Krushchev hymns: jn ad vance. How many science "jfrad natcs shall wc have in 1965? And how many tens of thousands of miles of Soviet railways will have been electrified by the time the current flows from Manchester to Crewe or Euston? Of itself, however, Mr. Khrush chev's song ought not to grate in our cars. If the Soviet Union can achieve the economic benefits which he holds out. so much the better for everybody. They will mean a better life for hard-used people. At the same time it will add to the world's wealth i So "Good appetite, comrades" is; as a battle cry, safer for mankind at large than world revolution. How closely Soviet performance will match Mr. Khrushchev's promises is another matter. One of his prom ises seems already to have been modified. To judge frOm first re ports of his long speech, he has stopped saying (as he did when the seven-year plan was launched) that Russia would overtake the capitalist countries in output per head by l'J70. The aim is still there, but the date (it seems) has been put back. For the rest the targets are those given in the plan. Most of them still seem respectable and realistic enough but Mr. Khrushchev is still bent on niaking i genuine and solid increase in production sound more extra-ordinary than, on ins own figures, it will be. Th spile of his disclaimer the planned rate; of increase has gone downto a figure which, if it is achieved, will have the merit of being about as high as the real, and more sensible than the project c1. figure under the last plan. 'We may perhaps detect in Mr. Khrush chev's speech a stronger induce ment than he has held out before to the many people in Russia who hanker after an easier life anJ more consumer goods though wc may wonder whether the high tar get for agriculture will be met and many note that Mr. Khrush chev is cagey about the time when the severe housing shortage will be relieved to the point of allowing every Soviet family its own front door. On this as on other matters Mr. Khrushchev presents us with a kind of double image. There is the jolly cherub'wlio empties from his cornu copia a mixture of boiled sweets (so much healthier than vodka) and space rockets tso much bet ter than nuclear weapons), casting over them a glow of millennial expectation. -An Ihere - is the rough-and-ready politician who has just knocked together the heads of "anti-party" rivals and planned the latest infiltration into the Mid dle East. The affair of the "anti party group" continues to rumble in the background, and a delicate seismograph might perhaps pick up from Tuesday's speech a small ref erence to the yet more arcane dis pute over the priority to be given to industry or agriculture. On in ternational affairs Mr. Khrush chev's comments scarcely depart from what is now rOutine, except in his new proposal of an "atom- Jonathan Yardley 'Tlayhouse 90" and Rcgionald Rose have madi much more valuable contributions to television drama than last Thursday's "A Quiet Game of Cards," an interesting but enly spasmodically mean ingful play about the urge to kill and 'a number of other rather haphazardly arranged ideas. Excell ent performances by Barry Sullivan and William Bendix, two of the industry's most consistent meat and potatoes actors, helped build the play io 3 climax that turned out to be quite anti-climatic. The plot was a rather clever one: five men have been playing poker together every Tuesday night for a couple of decades and during that period have consistently raised both r their incomes and . the stakes. On the particular night on . which the show begins they suddenly realize that the game of peker and the small stakes have become extreme ly monotonous, so they decide to do something more exciting. They choose murder, but a murder which will prove beneficial to society. During the next week each man is to decide uopn some person who is so evil that his death will prove a blessing to soceity. When they convene, however, the final choice is a blank slip of paper in the hat, placed there by Al (Played by Barry Sullivan). It is at this point that the play assumes its most challenging and interesting moments,, for Sul livan's contention is that it would be more bene ficial to mankind to murder a genuinely good man than to kill a bad cne, for there is always another equally bad one to rise in his place and consequent ly the world is not rid of an evil but of a man. Therefore he suggests that to murder a. good man, and to place the blame for his murder on an cle ment in society which needs correction, on the theory that a cruel and senseless murder wculd arouse the intense agitation needed, for such a task. The man agreed upon is a Dr. Carmichael. r great educator who left his post at the State Uni versity ct become the principal of the toughest vo cational high school in the state. This move had been widely hailed as one of the most courageous and honest attempts to fight juvenile delinquency. His murder, they felt, when accomplished in such a way as to make the "Jupiters," the largest gang in the school, seem guilty, would bring a great deal of public attention to the pressing problem of juvenile delinquency. v The plans for the murder are quickly agreed upon. A plan of the school is obtained and the time, a Wednesday night after a symposium which Carmichael holds for educators of the area, is de cided upon. They play five card stud for the various jobs which must be done. One is to do the actual murder, one is to go with him, one obtains a switch free" zone in the Pacific and in his admission of marginal differ ences from China. On all these mat ters the congress, or its sequel, may cast a light less anodyne than bade knife) one gQCS intQ th(J schooi .early ani that beamed lorin irom Mr. opcns the side door, and one does nothing. Sullivan, Khruschev on Tuesday. But - for of coursej draws high snd is cn0sen killer, and Wil the moment the stance we sec him !iam Bendix, as Len, goes with him after the play in is the jaunty cne appropriate to er who had drawn second high realizes that he is a man who, if he had attended an afraid. American university 'one of those It is at this point that one of the essential Texas agricultural colleges, say), points of the play is made, that these men, mainly would certainly have been voted Dy Sullivan and Bendix, are really more interested 1 his classmates '"'most likely to in xne actual physical and emotional fact of th succeed." The Manchester Guard- murder itself than in its supposed puropse. Their f rationalizations for the murder, despite the argu- mcnts of their friends, are frenzied and almost mad. They say that they wish to change "the flow of history," and when told that sooner or later it is going to right itself anyway they reply that they , are getting to old, and want to see it themselves. : They wish to hurry the flow of history. On the night of the murder everything Socs smoothly. The door is opened with no trouble, and ! the two murderers depart on schedule and arrive on schedule. One of the three left behind, however, It seems there arc still people in the world who consider Baro- editor of the city's leading newspaper, suddenly que music performed by Baroque instruments a delicate treat to realizes the complete criminality of what thev be digested with proper esoteric taste and academic frame of mind, are trying to do and rushes to the school. He beats tan Notes In Review Arthur Lessing Sullivan and Bendix and finds Carmichael in his office. He hurrys 'him out, saying he ought to bn in bed and asking for an interview while they leave. In the hall, however, they encounter the murderers. They arc introduced, and when Car- These people gasp at the subtleties of the harpsicord, gape at the recorder, and gurgle with delight at the sight of an honest-to-goodncss viola da gamba. Unfortunately I am not one of these peo ple, as I like to consider my music as music where ever it comes from, whenever it was composed, and however it is reproduced. And with such an attitude, the sounds of the harpsichord, recorder, michael bends down to pick up something Sullivan and viola da gamba quickly lost their charm for me during the raises the knife hig'h above his head and is about Pclites Musicales Concert in Gerrard Hall last Sunday evening. to plunge it into Carmichacl's back. He cannot do r, . TT ,T re . . ,T '.,. it. Suddenly Carmichael hears a noise, and goes int:j Mr. trahcis Hooper, Mr. Efnm Fruchtmann, and Mr. Wilton the storcroom, whcre he finds thrce iuven,cs Mason pooled their efforts to devote an entire evening to such wrccking everything in sight. As soon as they see Baroque composers as Telcmann, Cimarosa, and Handel. The first him one grabs his arms and anothcrt in the hurry five minutes of a concert of this kind are always interesting. The of thc momcnt, knifes the great man to death. As harpsichord sounds quaint, delicate, even delicious. But as soon as they lcave we scc wriUen on the wall, the words thc novelty wears off, and it does rather quickly for me I am The jupiters were here." The three men find the atraid, nothing is left but the ar tist s . persistence that what he is- playing is frightfully interesting and my conviction that it is time wc consider his instrument a thing of the past. As it was, Mr. Hooper's playing struck me as downright boring throughout the first two selections, a Fantasy of Telcmann and a Suite of Purccll, so actually even the composers' compositional gems remained unas suming and unpretentious making it impossible to really say any thing significant about etiher performer or composer. The Handel Sonata that followed, aided with a gamba eontinuo, is one of the bctier-known works the composer wrote for th; flute. As it came across, it has lost all its robust flavor, dramatic musical import, and plodded childishly to its end. I was glad to see Mr. Hooper return to the harpsichord after the intermission: at least he seemi at home there on the recorder he sounded like a Boy Scout playing the National Anthem cn his home-made whistle. The Suite No. XI in I) Minor of Handel received the most au thoritative performance of the evening. Mr. Hopper played it with character and strongly pronounced rhythms t;hat made thc piece a lively anil, all in all, delightful affair. Especially the last two movements of the work are clearly defined in expression; the com poser seems to be able to get out of his peculiar bad habit that I find so irritating, namely, a kind of, indecisive musical progression that wanders contrapuntally-but does not quite achieve anything. Mr. Hopper.'s performance, did full justice to these two movements in solving Handel's' dilemma. body and, as they stand amazed, Bendix looks up and asks questioningly: "The flow of history?" Fad out and into commercial. The end. Obviously, the end is a superficial cliche, a dissappointing finale to what had been a rather provocative ninety minutes (give or take fifteen for too many commercials and station breaks). How ever, things were said which bear thought, ther" was an excellent script, and thc acting was good. Man cannot purposely change the flow of history; it flows of its own accord. Thc Jupiters killed th? man because they were the ones who had to kill him. The outsiders, conscientious or not could not impose their own actions upon the actions and the fate of others. There is also a certain amount of implied irony at the end which is interesting, if they had not opened the door the boys never would have entered in all probability and the men. being the last people in the building and possessing the switch blade knife, may be accused of thc mur der. History may have backfired. I am frankly .at a loss who to blame - for the trivia of the fol lowing wcrk, Kary Friedrich' Abel's Sonata in E minor for viola da gamba and harpsichord. Was it Fruchtmann's uncomfortably petite performance, the irritating nasal sounds of his instrument, or the composer's inconsequental musical material? tSTije JBailp Car Heel The official studea! publication of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination periods snd summer terms. Entered as second Cimarosa's music and a Sonata of Jose Joaquim Dos Sanctos cjass matter in the filled the rest of the program. For those, as I said, who love the -ost office in Chapel quaintness of a concert of, to say the least, music with distinct limits of expression, played on instruments that have gone below effeminacy in pow?er, performed by musicians whose academic train ing has gotten the better of their artistic taste for them the evening was a distinct joy. As for me, I was left as cold as a fis.h in need for some fresh water- and invigorating air.- ' - Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: $4.50 per se mester, $8.50 pe; Tear.
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