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MSB TV70 fUS GAIU TAR BUI SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11 193? i Don't Be Confused All t h shouting and breast heating which has arisen in the wake of the Duke student paper's sipt nii.ii following publication of a vulgar parody on the tii 1 1 of Chii't stfiir to h.iw- brought out vrne mi i - i Hint t it us oi whit iieedom oi the press lliVOlV Ii.ivis Yo.im eddor of The Daily Tar Heel. a rr iiia student newspaper, decided against pub lishing the olfciiiliiii; aiticle in 1 1 1 Tar Heel. For th.it, h' is under attack ly Frank Crow titer, his a Oi late editor. ( I ri!iin of the p. ess civs Frank Crowther a f illei t ra'hl to attack I'dito. uiily an per., on in p d 'ic l.fe for an dcrr. ion fie ina make. He U rciMii;' that lu'il. and Irs editor is permitting h m to i xt-rcivc it t!ioo"'i to- hunself is the target. However, everybody concerned veins to have overlooked the fact that freedom of the press does iiot force an editor to print even thing tltat is sub initted to him. evp; cialy when an article submit ted !o s not have to d with pot news There is iioth'iii' t f ,ot news al-out this ( 'hrKt mas parody. It'. publication should he justified only on pounds th.d it anoi-ed someone, or that it was powerful wntiii.. or that it was goo I writing This article in ly could ainie.e no one, and everybody con eriied seems to have a;'ied that it was mighty poor writing. If this art.cle had In en vj t news, the editor of 'I he Daily Tar lb. 1 would have been re(iuirel, by freedom of the pics, to pr.nt it for the in formation ef hi readers. However, since this article was not news, hp .suuly was within his rights in declining to pnhli h it. It is good to have student furment. such as that raised at Chapel IMI over this issue. Hot. pit ae don't attempt to stietch freedom f the press to the point wV n every editor would be required to publish every worthless or vulvar or obscene articie someone decides to write. Raleigh Times Tar Heel Talk Froom Greensboro Daily News Where does freedom end and license Iwgin? The quest iii has no pat answer, but Duke and University of North Carolina students grappled with it ag;im the other day. Some were hurt, phy sically or spjitually. Some resorted to violence. Some were foolhardy and callow. Others were cou raggeous and responsible. A good many learned. The cxcieisr in self-d: .eipline began with pub lication of th- first udallnu-nt of a parody on the Viri'.n l.ii tn "A Christinas Story." in l he Duke Chronicle. .U. U id nev sp.; r It inii.rded, in ti" words of Duke ilesulent llollis l ns, ' the aciTt--y obscene wdh the offensively sacrilegious." Duke's Administrative Committee, comprising faculty and students, suspended publication of The Chronicle. It did so on grounds thai press freedom on Duke campus does int teud to the licentious iirid obscene, lie' coiunuttee was riL'.ht. But the episode did not end there. A "roup of Duke studenls went to the dormitory room of the student who wrote the parody. They broke down his door. They thrashed him soundly. The student, a Jewish hoy, suffered another attack on Duke campus the hct nay. Tnose attacks were shameful. But they were part of the education process. Then th- fm or spiead fioin Duke to neighbor ing Chapel Hill the editor of the Daily far Meel planned to npnot the ollcnsive article. Word spread abroad on the campus. 'I he student body president addressed a statement to the Tar Heel and demanded that it, too. be printed along with the article. Then the editor of the Tar Heel went to see a hiih university officL.il. He wanted advice. The university official did not insist that the article be abandoned; but he made it clear that ultimate res ponsibility for what went into the newspaper lay directly on the shoulders of the editor. The editor decided not to reprint the article, lint he published a statement saying that student not faculty pressure itajed his hand. So theie it ended. Hut where does freedom end and license begin? The philosophers are still debating that question. What happened :n Durham and Chapel Hill proves that student self-government can work on campuses where traditions of student responsibility are deply ingrained Hut such traditions do not spr.ng up overnight, They must be carefully in stilled ami nurture 1 to bear fruit. ljc 5BatIj Ear S)eci The orr.ilal student publication of the Publication Sogrd of the University of North Carolina where it Is published daily except MonJa. an" examination periods and summer terms. Entered as second class maMer in thp post office in Chapel Hill, N C, midor the ar of March 3. i870 Subscription rates: $4 00 per se mester, $7 00 per fear. Th Daily Tar J Heel is printed by Ihr News Inc . Carrboro, if t -W t the Vlfj'ivrrvfc f 9 ' ?f. -.V ', , , ' Wt f;ft '' if l Fabian Forever Miles Gillespie The lights go down. The restless crowd eases into a hush of tense jtiiticipation The orchestra mem bers play their last practice notes. Suddenly the spot llashut across the cuitain to the wins. A joung man dashes to the lip of the stag, spreads his legs in a pose of nanly defiance anil calls out "come on and get me!" The shrieks are deafening. "FABIAN!!!!" The chant seems to have risen from a million tin cats. The young man eases slowly into a more relaxed stance, and as the aufienee quiets down easts a sorrowful look to the skies and humbly pray.s "turn me loo.se." j, 4 f- Vv 4p Letters Mouthful --4. "r- Editor Associate Kditor Editorial Asst. Night Editor DAVIS B. YOUNG FKANK CROVVTHEU MT.0U REDDEN IiKEMAIt REYNOLDS Managing Editors .... CHUCK ROSS LARRY SMITH Wd k . V.-." nil . 'es, this is Fabian. All-powerful, iil conquering, all embracing Fabian. Fabian, who is coining to (ireensboro. Yc'S, the South could not survive without one visit from this modern Ajax. Fabian is on hi.s way! Monday night, (Ireens Ihuo Coliseum - Fabian! Fabian is a handsome lad. Six feet tall land still growing!), K;,r pounds stutic, light brown hair wavy), and blue-green eyes (and interchaneable - he is the Amer ican dream hoy. Jack Armstrong personified. And h? is coming to Creeashoro. The teen scene his long heen searching for a replacement for Elvis, the truck driver who burst out of nowhere to dazzle all Amer ica wilh his rompin', stoinpin'. rollin' rock 'n' roll style. And now 'mm Jim Vijlr 1 jRji ' V' :- - - - - -45 gfc&Sffik r is&k' ptosis- i-v,-. ' v . -. To Th Editor: If printing "A Christmas Story" by Cohen would have banned The Daily Tar Heel from this campus, I am very sorry you didn't print it. . Sincerely, Thsmas H. Pcoit On Unions John Snyder ' Responsible management is al most always in favor of unions. Why is it that management and labor are always pictured at each others throats? Isn't management Dear Mn young. always opposed to unons where- R .g difficuJt for me to into words my ver and whenever a plant tries to feelingg of the Mockery of my Lord and Savior become unionized? by that young infidel at Duke University, and your In 1957 Sharnie Hosier Mills of support of him in such mockery. Madison County sent around pos- Thi i ft good iIlustration of the educated ig- ters. printed by management, say- which is abroad in our so-called institu- ing that unions favored desegrega- tions Qf hjgher learning and how our tax II. ' ,,n,(nlliT l,inAnin money is being squandered to support and encour age such as this. tion. Unions were usually desegre gated before the 1954 Supreme Court decision and this is now supposed to be "the law of the land." But you can see that un ions would not be favored in a One day both of you are going to stand before the God and Judge of all the universe, and thi you will spend an eternity in Hell wishing that southern state when they took such you had never mocked the sacred things of God. a stand. We hear of numerous cases where workers are not hired be cause they belong to a union. We hear of many instances where un ion members are not given ad vancements or raises because of I sincerely hope that God will give you no peace of heart nor mind until you repent of your blasphemy against Him so that He might have mercy upon your poor, blind, spiritual dead soul. Sincerely yours, Paul D. Hastings Reidsville, N. C. their affiliations. We hear of man agement trying to threaten work- To The Editor: ers with reprisals ii they vote in I jest wanta praise them fellers over at Duke a union. We hear of many cases who took care of thet smart feller who wuz sayin' where management uses tactics bad dirty things 'bout our religion. Thet smart like the "desegregation" .bit to aleck ain't got no right to be agin Christianity. If place unions in an unfavorable he din't like our religion why don't he go over to Russia where they don't b'leeve m God nohow. I 'think we oughta have a law sayin' that they cain't talk 'bout cur religion like thet or get put in jail or simethin worse! Ees get rid of all this goddam saerelige! It ain't Christian!! John D. Whuppit V-riV".1' .' light. But this is the work of man agement which is afraid of unions. This Is the employer who is afraid that unions will gain a just stand ard for their workers. Why else would management be against per mitting workers to be unionized. In yesterday's article I showed Herblock it away due to Hints? oon Soaety Bill Manville (Note: The following are excerpts from an article which appeared in "The Village Voice." The Editor) "Wild Strawberries" is a drag . . . Ethel Mer- ho has arrived And now he is man never C0llld sin8 Chester doesn't really coming to Greenslniro. Fabian! Fabian Ls a modest lad. He has not forgotten his simple Philadel phia childhood, the nights by the jukebox, th days in class, the limp . . . Van Doren was right to take the money, wrong to make that speech . . . "Sweet Bird oi Youth" is a sour play, and Paul Newman can't act . . . Eisenhower has undiagnosed sleeping sickness . . . painters are illiterate . . . engineers are dull evenings huddles by a single light normal actors are barely human . . . poetry is with hi.s algebra book. But those (,ead tha,lk acting in almost any movie days 'are over now. Now he has is he,,ei' n Broadway . . . Kingsley Amis was hit the top NOW he is Fabulous not to,) anSrJ' to put a Hollywood happy ending Fabian! un "l ucky Jim." The atom bomb is square, the infantry hip . . . parents are on their way out, the family has failed, . Eddie Canter cannot sing, dance, or tell jokes . . . you don't have to be very old to be a Dirty Old Man . . . Fidel Castro is a nidnick revolutionist . . . America will pro bably end not with a bang or a wimper but drown ed in marshmallcw . . . will Bing Crosby never stop? . . . was it Salvador Dali who said the smile of Mona Lisa is the smile of a mother inviting her adolescent son into bed? . . . only squares dislike A hand.'.oine, jH-rsonable lad without a musical bone in his cnikihood is overrated weii-muscieu oooy, i-anian was astounded when talent Scouts a-ked him: "How wuold you like to go into show business?" "You crazy?" was his modest reply. "Me?" But he did go into show busi ness. Ye.s, he became Mister Show to communicate his glowing physi cal ami personal attributes to the thousands of adoring girls who followed his burning trail. He flashed across America, leaving havoc and worship in hi.s wake. When he appeared in Jersey I- Business Manager WALKER BLANTON Business. He learned to sing, and tne chemise, but they killed it. Tomorrow is a fiction of the sleepy bartender; there is no tomorrow . . . many a boy who wanted to grow up to be a man dwindled, instead, into a husband . . . the only subjects worth serious study are Wall Street and the piano . . . women who don't wear make-up are fake . . . now that Ab stract Expressionism is dead, Jackson Pollock has been canonized bv Henrv I'.onlh I ufo C.ly, they had to use fire hoses to roots for Mike WaUace molhpr :& ' & .stop a bobby-sox stampede; at Los known overrated cook who worked apparentl for Angcvs International Airport your family and mine' Turk Carcinoma' win adoring mobs battered their way bo a popil,ar (lisn tomorrow. throu d, a safety plate glass win- Mathematicians drink tho most and firemen wet dow in a futile effort to reach their beds . . some believers in reicafnation bun; all across the nation the cry have pointed cut that being human might be the has been the same. Out of the Hell of th Animals . . . you can get even the most hearts of America has come the beautiful girl's a.tention at a party if you heein chants - WE WANT FABIAN!!!" to f.ketcn her naked and pregnant' . . . teene nci ue is coming 10 ureensnoro! J. Y. Ave Atqus Vale By CATUI.I.US Through many lands and over many waters To then' sad rites, niy brother, I Jim come To pay you this last tribute of devotion, Vainly to greet your ashes cold arid dumb, Vainly since fortune snatched your self from me, Alas, my brother, reft so cruelly! Yet take the.se offerings which f from ancient years Z Are tribute due the dead, our cus toms tell; Take them, my brother, yet with many tears: ; Forever hail! Forever fare you well. marriage is a good idea because when they get divorced, they're not too old . . . it's better to be lost than saved . . . the quality of the poem that copnik read in the coffee shops while working un-der-cover on the Tea Beat shows the level of the intellectual life among teetotalers . . . wouldn't you be happy if the next electric guitar player you are subjected to crosses his wires and is elec trocuted amid the cheers of the multitudes? No one likes the life of the party . . . Liberace is the Elvis Presley of the D.A.R. . . . your life will be brighter if you don't buy the New York Times on Sunday and have it lay around the house all day, an unread burden of guilt . . . how often lias getting there been all the fun? . , . democracy means it is equally legal for 4 slum kid and for Rockefeller to steal a loaf of bread . . . Lincoln goofed: he should have let the South go . . . Queen Elizabeth can be elected King of America any time she condescends to let us know she's available . . . Mary Martin's flight was rigged . . . only squares call cops fuzz . . . women are only justified in saying "on" the second time. "Beowulf" is a bore . . , "J.B." is another . . . Humphrey Bogart understated it when he said the world is three drinks behind ... a fool and his money are soon in a ranch house . . . Eleanor Roosevelt is too good . . . hip may be in the frying pan, but the squares remain stuck in the cold grease . . . truck drivers eat at the rottenest places . . . your parents meant well . . . ruin is the best place . . . freeze a Stinger on a stick and you have a beat lollipop for your kid . . . happiness is fat tening . . . fire, language, and booze are the three universals of all cultures . . . the bookies report that the smart money is now betting Russia takes it . . . this has been a demonstration of the Power of Negative Thinking. Merry Christmas 1. The nation it at war. 2. The nation is losing the war, badly. 3. The nation must exert a vatlv preater effort. Editor of the DTH: Never before have I been able to bring myself that unions benefit the worker in to express in writing my feelings about the rnedi many ways. I tried to show that ocrity of the Tar Heel. I must speak now, though, unions were largely responsible concerning your decision not to print Cohen's for the respect shown to and the "Christmas Story" in the 'DTH. For once in your high living standards of our work- otherwise remarkably unremarkable career as edi tor you have distinguished yourself as being fit for the job that you hold. If you had printed the article I could not have condemned you for it, for you wmld have been well within your rights. But your record of being run-of-the-mill would have remained unblemished. By not succumbing to the temptation to print Mr. Cohen's story only as a newsworthy piece you have shown that you can think beyond the immediate to the future repre ssions which might affect many more people and things than just the present student body. Holding an open reading of the article as was done was a much better means of presenting the piece to the ing man. If workers are paid comparable wages or better, they usually will not want to pay dues for what they already have. If workers have some degree of respect and have a sense of security in their work, then they usually won't want a union affiliation. Only if they feel cheated in some way will they assume the burden of union dues and affiliation. But if an employer feels that he interested studnts than printing it in the DTH. is giving his workers sufficient Editorial comment in the paper was enough, benefits, then he does not fear a j consulate you, Mr. Young, on a job well union ana is willing 10 lei nu dAn T -inPirpiv v,nnp that von do not return to your old ways of mediocrity. Respectfully yours, Flem Mauney workers have a union as proof of his sincerity and fairness in deal ing with them. A union usually brings in many benefits to management when it comes. An employer now has a place to go to find skilled work Dear Sir: "Stop the presses! Destroy the second page! . . . ers. A union will not take any man so I imagined Editor Davis Young on the eve of into its membership. A union the publication of the article causnig the furor member usually has to have cer- over amoung our country cousins, Duke University, tain skills or qualifications. (You have a flair for the melodramatic at times. . .) However, tonight I managed to find a copy of the A union provides discipline for Wednesday edition of the Chronicle, (I have a its members m cases where an friend who knows someone who for $3.50 . . .) and e m p lo y e r finds it difficult to read Mr. Cohen's "travesty of the Virgin Birth." punish. A union member has It is Duke U. that should be damned for censoring a greater loyalty to his com- the press. It is a gross injustice fore the powers - t, i,,c -uL-m that be to assume that the student body is not pany since he knows that he will ,e u a J mature enough to decide for itself what is, ana not be replaced for no reason. wht . nQt -n goQd laste R WQuld appear Also there is a greater harmony Duke is showing its Methodist slip, and friendship between workers. Tom Cauger (WUNC-TV) And finally unions make bar gaining much easier. Management has one set of grievances to deal with at one certain time and con cerning all the unionized workers. An employer is then able to work out a satisfactory agreement speedily and easily with a man whom he trusts. I see no reason why anybody should be against a union if he is playing fairly. Of course a union must be able to provide benefits for its members, be free from corruption, and must be needed. o o o a. gv, PC&Of t'S'N US IN ' POWN IM i5 vwnr. y i i IS II ' J VVS'UU CHfcY0U UP WITH A PANCIN' ant SIN61N'. i"-i4 004 r A 1 lift P'AV US A U'L' RAtXA' MATAZZA CM Th2 PUUHK BOX TWgSg'" W& 0OffA P&ACftCB ON e&'H'&MHS. MUM? MUM? ThAT PC&O CAK'f 13 v 1 . r : x. ' EP m r- Z a. I 1 nlv(is J THE SlXTKNTrt OF DECEMBER IS , HEAR YE! HEAR YEJ Z-fZ IS) n x c 4 Side Swipes Rusty Hammond Our basketball team may be .ranked in the top ten in the na tion, but we seriously douht if our gym could make the top 200 .. . Quotable Quotes: "The turning point of the Duke-Carolina football game was the playing of the na- tionalanthem." Chapel Hill Weekly. Lots of folks thought for sure that Chrisimas had come early then they found out that Young wasn't really dead ... A certain network brags about "Total Television". From what we've seen, they must mean "To tally Out-OMt." Yes, Virginia, there was a Dock Chronicle . . . We're expectng it any day now: "Dorm Student Scalded To Death In Shower; Roommate Held On Flushing Charge." History .tells us that Stanley found Livingston, but last Satur day in Woollen Gym it looked like Stanley had found Stanley . . . Free Flick this week: "A Christ mas Carol", starring the Dock Chronicle staff ...
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