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THE CAMPUS ECHO
TUESDAY, JANtTARY 31, 1956
THE CAMPUS ECHO
NORTH CAROLINA COLLEGE AT DURHAM
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The Campus ECHO, official student publication at North Caro
lina College at Durham, is published monthly during the regular
school year. Subscription rates: $1.50 per school year.
Second class mail privileges authorized at Durham,«N. C.
Editor-In-Chief Shirley T. James
Business Manager Retha Hughes
Assistant to the Business Manager Jaimita Gregory
Managing Editor Robert Perry
Advertising Manager Frank Alston
Exchange Editor Selina Mclnytre
Feature Editors Iona Crawford, Yvonne Griswell, Mary Cobb
Literary Editors Lawrence Hampton, Walter Davis
Contributing Editor W. Sherman Perry
Sports Editor John Holley
News Editor , Gossie Hudson
Is Deterrence The World Policy?
For several weeks now, President Eisenhower’s Secre
tary of State, John Foster Dulles, has been the object of
much criticism from senators and representatives — as well
as from the world press — because of an article about Dulles
vs^hich appeared in LIFE magazine under the by-line of James
Shepley.
The article, entitled “How Dulles Averted War,” quotes
the Secretary as saying that on at least three occasion in
recent years, the United States was taken to “the brink of
war,” a technique deliberately designed, says Dulles, as “a
necessary art” to keep the peace.
Mr. Dulles has been accused of everything from care
less phraseology to a planned diplomatic blunder. Adlai
Stevenson said, “I am shocked that the Secretary of State is
willing to play Russian roulette with the life of our
nation. . Walter Lippmann, syndicated columnist of the
New York Herald-Tribune, said, “The falsity lies in this:
That Mr. Dulles describes what has happened in Korea,
Indochina and the Formosa Strait in terms of unilateral de
terrents by the United States. What has really happened is
that both sides and all concerned have been held vsdthin a
condition of mutual deterrence.”
Cried the London Daily Mirror, “Heaven protect us
from this edgy gambler and his careless way of making his
risky throws known to all the world.” And syndicated col
umnist Jay G. Hayden, more concerned with the cause of the
blunder, attributed Dulles’ problems to the competition be-
tw^een magazines for “scoops” on the foreign policy, on the
state department, and on military affairs. In short, Dulles
gained disfavor by hoping to gain favor.
« While accusations from these several sources rampaged,
Are countries that belong to the North'Atlantic Treaty Or
ganization have remained silent in their official position.
Could it be that their economic dependency on the United
States binds them to silence until -they are strong enough to
speak, or could it be that Dulles told a “half truth” and really
took NATO to the “brink of war” three times?
The position taken by the editor of LIFE, Henry R. Luce,
as explained in the New York Times has also been undoubt
edly noticed. Mr. Luce has attributed the full responsibility
of the mistake to Life magazine, thus relieving Dulles and
the Eisenhower administration of Dulles’ political blunder.
In assuming the responsibility, Mr. Luce is no less a politician
than Mr. Dulles himself. Mr. Luce wants Life to be con
tinually furnished with the inside “dope” of the State De
partment.
Of course, the partisan howls could and should have
been anticipated. Even the equivocal statement of Henry
Luce, which seemed to release Dulles from the critical hook,
was no more than natural. But of greater significance, it
seems to us, has been the unanimous silence of our allies. For
surely if this calculated inversion of Teddy Roosevelt’s “Big
Stick” policy is the true course of the U. S., it must likewise
be that of the nations sworn to act in concert with us.
It further seems to us that “deterrence” has come home
to roost in the capitols of the world and has been accepted as
a “necessary art” in the complicated game of diplomacy. In
short, Mr. Dulles was simply being indescreet in admitting
what our allies have all along tacitly accepted as the true
course of events today.
High Dividends
(Reprinted from the Durham cedures in dealing with juvenile
Morning Herald of January delinquency. In so doing, it is
11, 1956.) equipping these people who deal
In comparison to some of the with delinquency at first hand
grants made to educational in- to improve the rehabilitation as-
stitutions, the $1,500 grant of pects of their work and to deal
Ahe Mary Reynolds Babcock with more understanding with
foundation to North Carolina the youth who get into trouble.
College is small. But it serves a By making it possible for more
highly useful purpose and is de- probation officers to attend the
stined to yield dividends far out institute, the Mary Reynolds
of proportion to the original in- Babcock Foundation is extend-
veStment. ing the institute’s usefulness to
The grant was made to sup- a wider area. Through helping
port the Third Annual Juvenile these officers of juvenile courts
Probation Officers Institute at do a better job, the foundation
the college in July; it will be is extending a helping hand to
lased to provide about 25 scholar- hundreds of boys and girls who
ships to enable probation officers have gotten on the wrong track,
to attend the institute. The institute well merits this
The institute is rendering an support, both for what it has ac-
increasingly useful service in complished and for its prospects
acquainting probation officers of future accomplishment,
with new techniques and pro-
From Where I Sit by Sherman Perry
Prior to the Christmas holi
days, a committee was formed
whose sole purpose is to evalu
ate the meals prepared and
served in the dining room. This
committee, which is directly
responsible to the executive, re
ports its findings back to a lar
ger committee which is com
posed of the president and dean
of the School, the Student Wel
fare Committee, the dining staff
and the Student Government.
The evaluation team has quite
a job .on its;
hands for its in
terest is not
confined to the
preparation of
food. Their per
iodically writ
ten reports in
clude other mat-;
ters such as the^
cleanliness of^^^fig
food, how long W» S. Perry
students stand in line, clean
liness of personnel and the
atmosphere in the dining room.
The evaluation team, which
usually holds its meetings in the
dining room, is composed of Mrs,
Angie Corley of the Home Eco
nomics department; Joan Ben
ton and Wyvonia Barnes,, home
economics majors; Dr. Thomas
Malone, William T. Penn, Dean
Louise Latham, Iona Crawford,
Henry Fair, William Jones, busi
ness manager of the school, and
Ann Wilson.
Comparatively speaking, the
meals in the dining hall are bet
ter prepared than they were two
months ago. This is not an im
plication that the food is better
solely because of the establish
ment of the evaluation team. It
is believed that this has tome a-
bout becauii^ of a sincere desire
on the part of the dining room
personnel to improve both con
ditions in the dining room and
relationships with those that eat
in the dining room.
Among us there are those who
will say that they have ob
served no changes for the good
in the dining room. Within a
society there are always those
insensible or unappreciative of
change. I know not what to say
to this minority.
■%.
There are ways that we can
help the evaluation team, the
dining room staff and ourselves.
This can be done by directing
constructive suggestions to the
members of the evaluation team.
In my December column I said
that the idea of an evaluation
team was the best idea I have
heard proposed to insure con-
tinously good meals. I see no rea
son, at this time, to rescind that
statement. In fact, I see no rea
son not to say again that the
future looks bright.
BELATED CHRISTMAS CARD
Perhaps it is rather late for
bouquets to be handed out to
Sam Hill and the members of
the choir for the glorious
Christmas concert that they per
formed, but so far as I am con
cerned the music heard on
December 18, in B. N. Duke
Auditorium transcends sundry
things like time. Never have I
heard a Christmas concert such
as this one, and I am not optim-
tisic enough to hope to hear one
like this ever again. Mr. Hill
. . . and every member of this
fabulous singing group. . .thanks
for the miracle of the 1955
Christmas season.
SUNDAY FORUMS
Obviously, Sunday evenings
need not be as dull or unevent
ful as they have been known to
be at NCC. Sabbaths ago
the campus practically overran
with little things to do. By 6:30
p. m. there were four forums un
derway at convenient stations.
The subjects of these forvmis
ranged from the seemingly in
exhaustible one of segregation to
the durable theme of date etti-
quette. At the forum sponsored
by the Alpha Phi Alpha Fra
ternity, Mrs. Ella Earls Cotton,
a favorite personality of mine,
reviewed her book, “SPARK
FOR MY PEOPLE.”
It is hoped that various or
ganizations and dormitories will
continue to sponsor these inter
esting and diverting affairs.
They add much to the Sunday
night atmosphere of our cam
pus.
WHY CAN’T JOHNNY STUDY
One of the major problems of
the school is the one that re
volves itself around the quarter
ly probation' list. So once again
the administration has grabbed
the bull by the horns and is,
seeking ways in which to reduce
those columns ... or still bet
ter, those pages of the list.
It is known that students
names appear on this list for
many reasons. Those reasons
range all of the way from non
chalant indifference on the
part of some to the frustrating
inability to study on the part of
others.
/
It may sound strange but many
of us have never learned how to
study. We may spend hours at
our desk conscientously study
ing but the results are negligible.
In a case of this sort, the simple
hurting fact is that somewhere
along the educational line, we
missed the important lessons on
how to r£ally study and get the
maximum value from this study.
These are the students that the
school believes can be helped.
Although the means by which
students can be aided is still in
the stage of experimental devel
opment, it is hoped that the bull
doesn’t slip away this time.
Novel Tells Amazing True Story
By LAWRENCE HAMPTON
WE DIE ALONE
By DAVID HOWARTH
WE DIE ALONE by David
Howarth is an amazing true
story which is outstanding in
the annals of World War II. It
is a record of unbelievable
hardship, blood-chilling excite
ment and superhuman courage.
It is a story of desperate vio
lence, but it is also an account
of warm friendship, charity, and
sacrifice, and of one man’s
undying faith and triumphant
spirit.
In the winter of 1943, twelve
Norwegian saboteurs sailed for
their native land in a fishing boat
fitted with hidden armament.
Their orders were to destroy the
great German airfield near the
Arctic Ocean. They had hardly
touched shore when the Nazis,
alerted by a Quisling, attacked
and killed or captured all but
one of the party. Jan Baalsrud
alone escaped — swimming to a
tiny, frozen island, hunted like
a beast by fifty of the enemy.
His only hope was to reach
Sweden — eighty miles away.
What happened to Jan in the
next few months — from March
24, when the Brattholm sailed
from Shetland, to June 1, when
he crossed the Swedish border
— is the story of a man who
would not die — although his
body was cracked by cold, al
though he was crippled, starved,
delirious, blinded by snow, and
lost in uncharted mountains. In
deed, but for the fact that the
author validated his story by re
retracing ten years later, with
Jan the tortuous route of Jan’s
escape and personally talking
with some of the people in
volved in his astonishing rescue,
one would be inclined to
believe that Mr. Howarth’s
imagination strayed from the
realm of logic when he wrote
WE DIE ALONE. It is almost
unbelievable that one man, suf
fering from gangrene of his toes
(which he himself amputated),
that a man, whose weight was
reduced from one hundred-
sixty pounds to seventy-eight
pounds survived being almost
buried alive in the snows of a
vast plateau, could have such
narrow escapes from death, and
yet not even contract a com
mon cold!
Though the theme of Mr.
Howarth’s novel is violence, the
author paused long enough in
his fast-moving narration to give
a vivid description of the breath
taking beauty of the Swiss Alps
aifd the scenery of a “winter
wonderland.” Mr. Howarth’s
Reviewer
^ Says
style of describing this headlong
drama carries Jan Baalsrud
rapidly in his hazardous journey
through enemy countrysi(^e,
aided by the strong faith and
patience of a harassed people
who knew nothing of this fugi
tive except that he had to get to
the Allied Headquarters station
in Sweden in order to report the
condition of the Norwegians
who were suffering in the hands
of merciless Germans.
David Howarth, who was sec
ond-in-command of the secret
navy base in Shetland, from
which Jan and his eleven com
panions sailed for Occupied
Norway, has writted a good,
though at times almost unbe
lievable, account of Jan Baals-
rud’s journey. WE DIE ALONE
is, to say the least, highly enter
taining as well as informative.
Incidentally, Howarth reports
that Jan, now married to an
American, is engaged in a pros
perous business near Oslo, Nor
way.
Sfudenf Protests Proxy's Views
Dear Editor: )
I was somewhat disturbed by
the opinions, stated in last
month’s issue of the ECHO, of
Mr. W. Sherman Perry and Mr.
Gossie Hudson on the student
demonstration of last December
8. Perry’s opinion was particu
larly disturbing, for as Presi
dent of the Student Govern
ment, he is its official spok9s-
man. In support of the policy of
student demonstrations, he
stated that they were effective
and that they could be orderly,
excusing, as it were, the un
pleasantness which accompa
nied the one in question.
But the fact remains, how
ever, that this particular de
monstration was not orderly.
As for its effectiveness, it suc
ceeded in getting its organizers
a conference witli the president.
Now, did that really require a
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