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Page 2 Sunday, October 31, 1965 Definitely An Inkling In ChappelPs Novel QIlp Satlg (Mr Opinions of the Daily Tar Heel are expressed in its editorials. Letters and columns, covering a wide range of views, reflect the personal opinions of their authors. ERNIE McCRARY, EDITOR Let Down By A Dragon Grand Dragon James Robert Jones has really let us down. He didn't even wait for Attorney General Wade Bruton to tell him if he could speak at N. C. State. He just pulled out before we even had a chance to find out if he's covered by the speaker ban law. Ku Klux Klan leader Jones has taken the Fifth Amendment so liberally lately that UNC President William C. Friday asked the Attorney General to rule whether or not Jones had non-talked himself into be ing covered by the law. Anybody who has refused "to answer any ques tion, with respect to communist or subversive con nections, or activities, before any duly constituted legislative committee, any judicial tribunal, or any executive or administrative board of the United States or any state" is subject to the ban. Some folks con sider the Klan "subversive," so Friday asked for the ruling just to be on the safe side. Jones was supposed to speak to a YMCA group at N. C. State Nov. 22. He backed out because he said his subpoena from the House Un-American Ac tivities Committee requires him to stay in Washing ton until Nov. 14. We aren't too sure just what that has to do with a speech scheduled for Nov. 22, but we know Jones wants to give the HUAC every consideration. He's being awfully inconsiderate of those fellows at State, though, and of Wade Bruton who had even obtained a copy of the speaker ban law to study before making his decision. We would hate to see any of Bruton's efforts wasted so we hope he still gives his interpretation of the ban in this case You never can tell. Jones might be asked to speak again. He might accept and he might not go back on his word, so the ruling wouldn't really be wasted Unless the General Assembly gets on the stick in a special session and amends the trifling thing Mississippi Justice? It isn't often that we hear of an attempt at a really first-class panty raid, but 17 fellows at the University of Mississippi pulled one off a couple weeks ago that Was good enough 4(et trierjjjilL Jacked out: of school. Details are scanty, but it seems that the boys scooted over to Blue Mountain College, an all-girls' school, one dark night. They were, said one of the captured culprits, "in search of fun." They tore down a screen and about half the group entered the girls dormitory. "We didn't go with the intention of tearing up anything," said a spokesman, "but we did have a good time though." Even though some of them got inside the dormi tory, they didn't get anything else, so they returned to Oxford where the police neatly scoffed them up and carted them off to jail for the night. If the cops were sore, at least the Blue Mountain girls weren't. They sent a box to the boys while they were still cooling their heels in the hoosegow. The box contained cookies - and a pair of yellow panties. i a- , Were tried hy the 01e Miss Student Judicial Council which recommended some kind of punishment, the exact nature of which was not dis closed. The school administration didn't care to see things handled that way, though, so the Dean of the SZ ii TStrdGnt Personne1' with the approval of Chancellor J. D. Williams, overturned the decision of the student judiciary and gave the students the boot tour of them for two semesters and the other 13 for one semester. The students have appealed, but their fate is still unlearned. Mississippi justice? Don't belittle it. This case clearly demonstrates that civil disorder will not be tolerated and criminals will not go unpunished there uW,e StiU Cant figure out how those guys got into that dormitory and back out again without stum bling across at least one pair of bloomers. They deserve to be suspended. QJlje Satlg Sar $fl 72 Years of Editorial Freedom The DaUy Tar Heel is the official news publication of the University of North Carolina and is published by students daily except Mondays, examination periods and vacations. 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A T Hf kllVL U9C JA A L LIUUlll AA IHI II In JB aama Am a wy mj a iiiiL ii aaa a. a i r ucnuflLm as hcii am Mil .III UNC Presidents Graham Faced Enrollment Problems During Depression (This is the concluding article in a series on Presidents of the University.) By OTELIA CONNOR - V " Under President" Chase's 1 administration, 1919-1930, the University completed the transfer, begun under President Venable, from a good college to a great University. On the material side, the South Campus was planned and developed as far as the Library building; Spencer dormitory for women, and the eight men's dormitories south of Cameron Avenue and east of the old Raleigh Road were built. Over a ten year period the Legislature appropriated upwards of $6,000,000, a whopping sum for the State of North Carolina at that time. Despite all the expenditures of the twen ties, President Frank Porter Graham, on taking office in June, 1930, was confronted with securing provisions for the ever-increasing enrollment at the University. The Great Depression period of the '30's seemed a worse time to think of expanding the University and of asking the Legislature for more money than the 1917 period. What magician's lamp did Frank Graham go about rubbing to get the needed money? Roughly speaking, here is what happen ed: Under the Act passed by the Legisla ture of North Carolina, Public Laws of 1935 state institutions were enabled to partici pate m the program of the Federal Emerg ency Administration of Public Works Through the sale of revenue bonds the State supplied 55 per cent of the total cost of new buildings, supplemented by 45 per cent PWA grants. The buildings erected with the aid of . i??1 Were WoUen Gymnasium; three handsome dormitories for women -Alderman, Mclver, and Kenan,, facing an open court on the old Raleigh Road; two men s dormitories - Whitehead and Lewis Lenoir Dining Hall; additions to the Carol inn- S6 PittSboro Road south of the Inn, the Public Health and Medical Build ing the Clinical Annex and Infirmary com pleted in 1939. The zoology building, Wilson Hall completed in 1940. Of the money tha" the State spent in this six-year period, 35 4 per cent was self-liquidating bonds making nCA lluhe State a very ll sum Dr. Archibald Henderson closes his cha on the New Deal and the University Jan IJVT mary: "The material expai S3. 351 ProPrtinate cost to toe S ate m any similar period of the Unive?- SiSi Pl3Ce dUring " 1935-11. Thirteen great new buildings had risen as if at the rubbing of Aladdin f lamp ogether with handsome additions andS tensive remodeling. The number of buud- from 53 to 66; and their valuation had m. creased by $3,500,000 during that priS Yrt of this total expenditure, the Stated 'Nortt Carolina contributed the comparatively small percentage of about 19.6 per celt a total of only $697,000 . . . SanT Deal, PWA, FDR and FPG " In the spring of 1942 the "Navy Depart men established four Pre-Flighi 'S he University of North CaroluL b2fg s7 lected as the location for one of ?he schools because it could supply facmUes for housing and feeding and J .program for 1,875 Navy Pre-Flight cadets. This called for the renovation of ten dormitories in the (V Ml upper and lower quadrangles, additions to Lenoir Dining Hall, and a new athletic field. Because the University was able to sup ply adequate facilities and personnel for assisting in the task of implementing the Navy Pre-Flight program, it made a great constructive contribution to the conduct of World War II. The principal structures erected upon the campus for aiding in the effective con duct of the war were: Barracks 1 and 2, 1942; Navy Hall now the Monogram Club; Naval ROTC Armory; Canteen ("Scuttlebutt"); Infirmary, since taken over by the University as a college infirm ary; NROTC and V-12 units, both perman ent and temporary. Swimming as a survival activity was strongly emphasized in the Pre-Flight pro gram. Commander Oliver Owen Kessing, first commanding officer of the Pre-Flight School here, recognized the necessity for an out door sw imming pool. Four months after the arrival of the first cadets in May, 1942, con struction of the pool was begun. It was finished in August, 1943, and named Kes sing Pool in honor of Commander Kessing. Dr. Graham served as President of the University from 1930 until 1949 when he was appointed to fill an unexpired term in the United States Senate by the late Governor W. Kerr Scott. He was defeated for re election in 1950 by Willis Smith. He is now a mediator with the United Nations and for the past several years has been concerned with the India-Pakistan dispute. who To r are ycuri enjo By MARY RICHARD VESTER DTH Staff Writer T6 read The Inklin? bv Fred Chanriell is to be inside the mind of a retarded girl gradually loses all touch with reality. pad "The Inkling" is often to feel you out of touch with reality. is a short book, easily read in one sitting, which is good because that is all time it is worth. A psychiatrist might y exploring it further, but the story is too far removed from normal experience to please most readers. Faulkner - type char acters are carried to the extreme. illost of the crazy antics of five chief characters take place in a six-room house about half a mile outside a North Carolina towi. The husband burned to death in the warj about two years ago. His wife invited her I brother Hake to move in, hoping he would somehow fill the void. He does take up sjpace, but that is the extent of his use fulness, aside from helping some with bills!. "I ain't no daddy, I ain't no family marj," he tells her. "You better stick to youtf guns and find some guy that will take car of you, some guy that wants a ready made family." It is hard to imagine the "glum, uninterested, rather stupid" sloven andj his slender, pretty sister are of the saine family. This lazy bum swats a greasy bedroom slipper at his nephew Jan and Jan's retarded sister Timmy, one year older, whenever they come within range. The mother is wearing herself down to a frazzle after work at the town's single industry, a paper plant. Uncle Hake re fuses to contribute, but Jenny has to have a Housekeeper. After running through three or four who cannot endure the crazy house with its foreboding sense of fatality, one finally comes who fits. She fits in so well with disgusting Uncle Hake (their minds run the same no-good track) that she elopes to South Carolina one weekend with the 52-year-old slob. The newlyweds move in with Jenny at her request. She now seems too weary to protesf the lousy mar riage. Finally the long-suffering woman silent ly withers away and dies. Jan, a weird boy with piercing eyes that make every one uneasy, stays home from his mother's funeral. Most of his time is spent in the barn caging rats or meditating. He likes keeping to himself and being his sister's "protector." But Lora, who isn't discrimi nating, has had an eye on him all along: She hurries home without going to the graveside in order to entice puberty-strick-: en Jan by feigning a broken zipper. For the next two weeks she leads him around as if bv a ring through his young nose.: The situation builds to their predictable dis covery, an intensely violent climax. Fred Chappell's basic parts are simple enough, but they combine to form a struc ture so complex that at most points an "inkling" of his intended meaning is all that shine through. This second book resembles his first in 1963. It is Time, Lord.in only one way: It blends imaginativeness and realism for a peculiar flavor that will appeal to only a few palates because Chappell's imagina tion obliterates the story's credibility. He goes so far with it that we are unwilling -to suspend our disbelief, which is a decid- ; ing factor of a book's excellence. Outside the dialogue, Chappell sprinkles ; rare words that are dead giveaways of his desire to impress. The dialogue is natural ; and convincing, but that alone is not ; enough. Neither is it enough that the book ; is unified; beginning and ending are dense ly but cleverly tied together. Nor enough ; that it progresses at sufficient speed to . hold the reader's attention. More is expect-: ed of a book. It does seem one North Carolinian would be able to communicate with another. The author, son of a furniture dealer and a '. former school teacher, majored in English : at Duke University after graduation from Canton High School. Somehow he man aged to have various articles, stories and some poetry published while he was at Duke, in "The Paris Review," "Transat lantic Review," "Sewanee Review" and "Renaissance Papers." He left college for a period during which he was associated with his father in the furniture business, drove trucks and farmed. Perhaps he should return to such endeavors. He grad uated from Duke in 1961 after entering in 1954. Presently he is writer-in-residence at the University of North Carolina at Greens boro. In all fairness, Chappell did one thing excellently: choosing his title. The retard ed girl has an inkling of what will happen throughout the boolc,' and so does the read er. But more appropriately, an inkling is a vague idea, and that must be what Chap pell had while he wrote. Letters To Tlie- Editor- Editor, The Daily Tar Heel I have been sending copies of The Daily Tar Heel home since the beginning of school, so my parents have been kept abreast of the Dickson case. My father wrote a letter a few days ago, and I thought that an outsider's opinion, one that is not influenced by students, campus poli tics, etc., might be of interest: "I find your student government dis concerting, if that is the right word. Paul Dickson certainly deserves sympathy, and he is undoubtedly going through a private "hell." However, his office commands a dignity that is above reproach. Whether right or wrong, he has no alternative. It reminds me of the school teacher who was caught drinking a glass of beer. All hell broke loose, and the town drunk was the one who made the loudest noise. Ridiculous yes! But the school teacher has a code to live by, and has no choice. At least Dick son and the school teacher know it in one way, they are lucky. It has been spelled out, perhaps not in words, but by custom, and is inherent in their accept ance of position. There are others who have equal obligations - the leaders the gifted, crowned or uncrowned, who through their talents and abilities, have an obligation to do the best they can do for all. This is altruistic thinking for sure I do feel that lucky is the person who can recognize his obligation and shape his life to fulfil it." Karen Gibbon 221 Spencer Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: I would like to reply to Dixon Jordan's letter of Oct. 27. Your appeal to emotion is a moving one, Mr. Jordan, and I join you in a sincere de sire for peace. No one here wants to kill. No one here wants to die. No one here wants the agony of war. As we know, however, appeals to emo tion all too often lack rationality. I am afraid this is the case with your letter. I would call to your attention that Alden Lind and his colleagues have made a rath erto use one of his words "stupid" semantic error. The fact is that it is impossible to be or or against "war." The word "war" is a description of an occurrence. One can not to be for or against a description. What one can and should be against, however, are those who create war: the aggressors. (In this case as always the collectiv ists.) Perhaps you will tell me now that it is the South Vietnamese who are attacking North Viet Nam. That it was South Korea who attacked North Korea, that it was Hun gary who attacked Russia, and that it was the United States who built the Berlin WalL Perhaps, judging from your letter, you might even be prepared to say that it was the rest of the world who initiated ag gression against collectivist Nazi Germany, or, if not, that the proper thing for the rest of the world to do was to surrender to Nazi storm troopers. Lind and followers may feel that the world should finally be run by the Collec tivist Mob, by a band of helpless para sites and mindless looters and killers. He may be prepared to beg their mercy. I am not. Peace will always be my policy. But the policy of peace, unfortunately, can only be successful when it is bilateral. The word "peace" like the word "war" is only a description of a state of affairs. It takes two to keep the peace. And now, as always throughout man's history we find that it is not the individual (who asks only to be left alone), but the Collectivist Mob (determined to enslave those who refuse to join it) which defends the ideas of coercion. One cannot help but wonder sometimes. Just what is the position of the UNC politi- CnLt-ienr tepartment Is Li"d really speaking for the entire department? Or are its other members too busy with more pressing affairs to care that they have pro ponents (however sincere their misguided humanitananism") of collectivist aggres sion in their midst. Paul A. Smith 654 Ehringhaus Editor, The Daily Tar Heel: Fred Thomas' article, "Wake County Citizens Counsel Own Members," is not Z ,yJ Kthhigh jurnam standards St tL? fy Tar I,eeL " seems Chapel Hill, but a Klan member at Salis- Stewart Rosen 503 Morrison Editor, The Daily Tar Heel; vanned ?orta0fh "rt00nillg" ed" n? erLCUltUraI IeveI by Bar- examnlp nf fh 1 15 cartoon a vivid fa 1?651 Stafldard of art and andDc plating I suseeKt thJT tr f reaI numan life. 2ShSt -d ' w of ..a norld l7t th. eve! aJr museum in the greifa'icth1eaSd " B Ry H. Miller 803 Morrison LETTERS on iVtZr T' Particularly Paced and tan.t LlnL l? dabIe Wres, of the ,2 ? "me rs rhouw bTk Potion. Let.
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