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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1048 War Is Not Inevitable This is United: Nations Week commemorating the third year of its existence. We feel the following editorial quite appropriate. " " The world today faces the greatest crisis in its history. War, we are told, is inevitable. Some, including many of our prominent and experienced major-domos of military and state service, claim it is imminent. The distressing point, about which there is scant debate, is that sooner or later it will be here. This attitude is all the more distressing and alarming in that it suggests a feeling of futility and lost hope among not only our leaders but the populus itself. It suggests further that we as a people have lost sight of and confi dence in the ways to peace. It suggests that the people of the world are a part of history and not of its determinants. If this is true, if we are a part of history, then it's time to throw in the towel and put on a uniform. It can be true, tho, only if we believe it is true. If, on the other hand, we choose to believe that we determine history, then it is true that we do. For God has given us the power to believe as we wish, to think without regard for physical pattern. This is man kind's greatest asset. Unfortunately, it also gives us the power to believe in God, or not to believe in God. If we believe in God, as most of us claim, then war is not inevitable. For, in giving us this power, He necessarily gave us the corresponding power of acting as we believe. Acting, that is, on our environment. War can not be in evitable. If we do not believe in God, and some of us do not, then war most. certainly may be in the offing. For in such a case, history, nature, the universe, or any other similar force is the determinant. '! Let us act then with a belief in God. Let us think of ourselves second only to Him. Let us think of nature as running a poor third. Then we can have peace. We can also have war. We can do as we wish. But we must lean upon Him for support. It was Benjamin Franklin, speaking at the Constitu tional Convention in 1787, who said: "And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?" Reprinted jrom the Syracuse Daily Orange) Dangerous For ' The "powder bowl" ain't gwine be, according to latest information because tag football is "too dangerous for girls." There, we can stop and contemplate for several hours at least on this subject. "' The boys are sorry that the game was called off and doubtlessly the coeds who were going to participate are also! We boys had fifty yard line seats reserved and were all. ready to have a roaring time watching the Hopeless Hussies battle the Last Chance Frightfuls. We suppose the powers that called off the scheduled game in' Emerson Stadium had a right to do so but those girlsj would have been mighty attractive tearing each other apart on the gridiron. I it could be done, why not have the coeds sign an agreement to play at their own risk, then sponsor the game under the WSSF banner, the men we know would gladly pay for reserved seats to see their favorite pinups attired in such famous numbers as 22 and 50. B.B. The Inquiring Eye Each day we marvel more at the blessings that Man has been given. In the past great historical events have failed to be recorded unless caught by a painter, but today we have the movies and the still photographer. A few days ago, Carolina students were able to benefit from the photographer's all seeing eye. The Carolina theater had a feature on the United Nations. Our great president Dr. Frank Porter Graham was seen by his students signing the agreement between the Dutch and the Indonesians when he was serving in the Good Offices Committee last year. E. Carrington Smith, manager of the theater is to be commended for his cooperation with the Collegiate Coun cil for the United Nations which has a state headquarters and. a local chapter at the University. Good work CCUN. We need faith now and you can help us find it. L.K. 3Ff) e 30ailyJ3Tar Heel The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is issued daily during the regular sessions of the University by the Colonial Press. Inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and during the official summer terms when published semi weekly. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price: $8.00 per year, $3.00 per quarter. Editor Business Manager.. Managing Editor.. Sports Editor ... Campus Ed Sally Woodhull Town Ed Herb Nachman Feature Ed Jim Dickinson Asst. Spt. Ed Dick Jenrette Hews Staff: LincolnKan, Margaret Gaston, Bill Buchan, Stewart McKeel, Gordon Huffines, Dan Wallace, Leonard Dudley, Jerry Weiss, Jack Brown, Wink Locklair, Roy Parker, Emily Baker, Charles Pritchard, Emily Sewell, Mark Sumner,- Charles Carter, Jimmy Leesen, Mary ' Frances Johnston, Jimmie Foust, Norma Neville, John Van Hecke, George Carter, Art Xanthos, Don Maynard. Editorial Staff: Rita Adams, Bev Lawler. Bob Fowler. Sport Staff: Taylor Vaden, Larry Fox. Morton Glasser, Wuff Newell, Chan Barksdale, Zane Robbins,. Frank Allston. Business Staff: Jim Martin, J. C. Rush, Preston Wescott, Bill Peebles, Doug Thompson, Allen Tate, Neal Cadieu, Jackie White, J. C. Brown, Ed Wharton. Circulation Staff: Don Snow, Randy Hudson, Shasta Bryant, Lowell Brittaia, M. J. White, Frank oids.Doh Calloway. Opinions expressed by columnists are their own. All editorials not initialed an written by the editor. Girls ..ED JOYNER, JR. T. E. HOLDEN Chuck Hauscr ..Billy Carmichacl III Adv. Mgr C. B. MendenluOJ Circ. Mgr Owen Lcwu Subscrip. Mgr Jim King Asst. Bus. Mgr Betty Huston Odds And Ends By Rila Adams ON CAMPUS. EAGER SPOOKS. Folks are still wondering what the score on the Rendezvous Room is. True, they've been - knocking themselves out on good pro grams this fall; but this time they got so far ahead that they had Halloween coming all of a week too early. It was a mistake, but there is going to be a program down there Fri day night. CARRYING THE TORCH for Tommy Thomas, Becky Holton didn't quite set the world on fire with her latest idea. She took off down town and got a beauty of a cigarette lighter, then went over and bought cleaning fluid to pour in it. But it seems that the doggone stuff was non-inflam-able. MEN OF DISTINCTION. At least, that's the self-applied term of the 17 students who are now living in Sutton Heights, "Chapel .Hill's classi est neighborhood.". BUSINESS ITEM. Stock quotations on fraternity pins have jumped considerably due to PiKA Ted Wall's latest ven ture will these quotes con tinue to fluctuate in the future? AND THEY'RE OFF! Be lieve us, the Dixieland spirit is getting into folks around this town. Ab is flying the dear ol' Stars and Bars in his win dow; rebel yells resound throughout the halls of Gra ham Memorial; everybody's wearing gray skirts, pants, and sweaters; and they're calling Carolina the first team in the Confederacy. HAIR TODAY and gone to morrow are the way most birthdays go. But how 'bout asking Hot Rod Rodman about the one he had this week. He should be blowing his top about it for the next six weeks. WE QUOTE. "I say there, has anyone got an extra dol lar?" That's the way it was at the KA house this past week-end. About 2 o'clock in the morning, when the hat was passed around to keep the Bull City Night Hawks playing, but who wanted to keep them playing? The KA's wanted to go to bed especially one hard working soul, namely "Goot". So it goes Carolina life all fun but no sleep. YOU NAME HER. Have you noticed the ad that runs as follows? "Do you have nice teeth, a good figure, slender legs, natural colored hair, clear skin, good posture; and do you speak Spanish fluently? Would you like to be an air line hostess? If so, see the rep resentative in 30i A dorm" ALL WET. The Carolina swimming team should hit the top this year what with extra encouragement from the Mer men who presented Ralph Casey with a vhip. They figure that if they give him a whip, he'll take a mile. SIGN HERE for newest club on campus the Monotone Club. The line forms to the right two hours and 15 min utes after every football game. Incidentally, the charter mem bers are Ann Carlton (who took the cake as president because she couldn't even speak), Pris Moore Pat McNutt, Emily Bak er, Frank Cox, and Bobby Williams. All you gotta' do is get yourself unable to hit more than one note". MISSED HIS TRAIN. Have you noticed the catastrophe in the Carolina Pharmacy win dow display that's left over from homecoming? Seems Choo Choo's effigy toppled off the train while the rest of the team is still charging on down the field. Guess he stopped off to block a State man. RIDING HIGH and mighty ." happy about the whole situ ation is Helen Stephenson, proud possessor of a new Dodge. According to Carolina standards, she really should go places now. UP AND AT 'EM! Those co eds are really knocking them selves out this week to devel op muscles for. what purpose es, we won't reveal. Anyhoo, their intramurals started Tues day; and the crowning blow will come with today's Powder Bowl. Distributed by King Features Syndicate y arrangement with The Washington Star Lines on Literature Melville is Rediscovered By Roy C. Moose Like many other great writ ers Herman Melville has been denied the appreciation and acclaim he deserves from the reading public. Yet he has written what is perhaps the greatest novel ever written by an American. His Moby Dick seems to be the only Ameri can novel capable of holding its own when compared with the great novels of the world. The American public, how ever, completely forgot Mel ville and ignored his master piece. This might have been due to Melville's own way of living for he shunned the world. At 26 he was unknown. At 32 he had written all the books for which he is known. Then he spent the next 40 years in seclusion. He never stopped writing but just dis continued publishing. During these last years he developed a complete contempt for life. At his death in 1891 he was unknown to the newspapers. Moreover, he was unknown to the reading public and to the colleges. Even his Moby Dick had been denounced by the critics when it was published. " However, in the early twen ties he was "rediscovered" and a great revival of Melville's works began. The colleges be gan to investigate his work. After the flurry of the revival was over, his popularity waned again. But this time a small but determined group kept Melville's works alive, and there has gradually grown a solid appreciation of him. She Smiles, Too This Hippo Cari Snuggle By Claire Cox " (United Press Correspondent) Rosie, a hippy hippopotamus at the Central Park zoo, is un happy. Her middle-aged mil lionaire boy friend who tickles her tonsils at least once a week has been standing her up. Ever since Rosie came to tho zoo 18 years ago, her boy friend has been a regular call er. She likes him because he scratches her throat from the inside. She always greets him with her hippopotamus grin, a small replica of the Mam moth caves. But for a long time now he hasn't been com ing and Rosie feels jilted. The millionaire is the zoo's "angel," but he does not want his identity revealed. He do nated Rosie and bought it many other animals. But Rosie is his favorite. He named her after one of his best friends. When he misses the weekly dates and when he is in Florida for the winter, he telephones often to ask about his two-ton girl. Riding the CoaHail This realization of Melville's greatness has now culminated in a booming "rediscovery" destined to equal last year's great revival of Henry James. For no less than six books by or about Melville are being published within the next few months and others are in preparation. Oxford University Press is publishing his Moby Dick (at $3.50) with an introduction' and notes by Willard Thorp. Melville's novel is the product of one of the most imaginative minds in literature, for it takes in the whole universe for its province. From a period of great story tellers such as Poe and Hawthorne, Melville has emerged the giant of the group. He wrote his book so that it can be read on three levels: as a sea story" (which is the least important); as a compre hensive picture of the whaling industry; and as a tremendous allegory like Gulliver's Travels (the most important level). The theme of the book is. that man takes the whole universe for a vast prac tical joke, although the joke is at the expense of man. The central figure is Moby Dick the whale, symbolizing the universe, the most prodigious of all whales in magnitude and malignity. Reading and re reading Moby Dick is a fas cinating experience, one that seldom comes from present day literature. Somerset Maug ham has selected it as one of his "10 best" novels, and his cut version of it is due soon. But Rosie doesn't know that, of course. She snuggles her head coyly against the bars of her cage, waiting for him to come. She opens her big mouth for all spectators, but all she gets is an occasional handful of beets tossed in from a safe distance. She munches the snack slowly, with mouth clos ed in the best Emily Post man ner. Then,- with a delicate air she waddles into her bath, her double chins a-tremble. Head keeper Fred Sandman said there is nothing she likes quite so much as to have her throat rubbed from the inside Her flabby pink tongue hangs limply out of her mouth, and her bulging brown eyes roll with joy when her millionaire friend's hand, diamond ring and all, plunges between her two big, brown tusks and gets briskly to work. Rosie, ,a 22-year-old, pink cheeked hippo, is one of the tamest animals at the zoo. She has lived alone and liked it ince Schlemiel, the mate she took under protest, caught For the first time his Journal of a Visit to London and the Continent, 1849-1850, edited by Eleanor Melville Metcalf is be ing published. Due November 10 is Melville's Billy Budd, edited by F. Barron Freeman. The latter is the first publi cation of his Baby Budd, Sailor together with his last novel Billy Budd. Farrar, Straus, Co. now has ready volume two of the Complete Works of Herman Melville entitled Piazza Tales. In preparation is a biography of Melville by Newton Arvin for the American Men of Let ters series being published by William Sloane. Other critical analyses are being planned which should come out within the coming year. Moreover, there is hope that the many reprint houses will follow the trend and schedule publication of his sea stories such as Typee, Omoo, and Mardi. In addition to the interest accorded Melville by publish ers there is more and more emphasis being placed on him by the colleges. The result is that Melville is now resting solidly on top of the Ameri can novel writers, although it took' the public nearly one hundred years to place him there. OF LOCAL ORIGIN: Paul Green's play The Common Glory, which is produced at Williamsburg, Va. each sum mer, was published last week by the University of North Carolina press. cold and died last year. The two babies she bore were unwanted and she stomp ed them to death. Sandman has given up trying to make a match for Rosie now that she is developing the middle-aged spread. "She had lived so long with out a male that she was like an old maid," Sandman said. "It was a shock to her to have a mate. There'll be no more romance for our Rosie, I'm afraid." Rosie thrives on a daily diet of 55 pounds of cabbage, car rots, potatoes, beets, applet and hay. She is a strict vegetarian and lolls around in her huge bathtub six times a day, often staying in for three hours at a time. When she's happy she blows bubbles. Sandman said she usually does what she is told and has a remarkable memory, for a hippo. "She won't forget about her friend, either," he said. "She'll be tickled to death to see him the next time he comes." Write Away Rebuttal Continued (This is a continuation oj an overlong letter begun in yester day's Write Away.) Editor: Mr. Debardelaben, with the evident relish of a Junior Com mando busting up a shmootonic spy ring, has accurately branded me for what I am an active member of the Progressive Party. (Bob, you don't know the half of it. I wore out two good pairs of Tom McAn shoes this summer circulating the Wallace petition, not to mention nearly getting my thick skull bashed in when I asked a 220 pound Dixiecrat to sign.) I imagine that most of those who read my letter surmised I was a member of the Progressive Party before Mr. D's typewriter started clacking. Wouldn't it be a bit naive to suppose that a person who writes letters to editors praising Henry Wallace is not a member of the Progressive Party? As to the reference to my friendship with Junius Scales, let me say that I class him as one of the truly superior individuals of this village. After several years acquaintance, before and after he went to war, I can honestly say that Junius is intelligent (check his scholastic. record), cultured, clean, an interesting and pleasant conversationalist, soft-spoken, unobtrusive, considerate of others, impeccably well-mannered, tolerant, intensely humane and human, honest and sincere. It just so happens that those are the traits that command my respect and admiration. Junius' politics are his own business. As anyone who knows him will tell you, you don't have to be a pink or red to like and be a friend to Junius Scales. (I am surprised that Bob, who is himself an intelligent and pleasant fellow, should allow himself to be vic timized by the old routine of "Yah! Yah! He must be bad on accounta he knows so and so. . ." It sounds more like something that might be written by an eighth grader in a DAR essay contest, not by a University student.) Thus, I believe Junius, or any other American citizen, should have the right Jo think and speak as his conscience dictates. (Have you forgotten Plymouth Rock? It isn't only a chicken, you know.) One more thing, Comrade, before I gulp down my vodka and limp to the salt mines: Wendell Phillips, the statesman and orator, worded, for my money, what might well be the golden rule of all hep-cats of Free Speech (or are there any such critters left)? "No matter whose the lips that would speak, they must be free and ungagged. The community which dares not protect its humblest and most hated member in the free utterance of his opinions, no matter how false or hateful, is only a gang of slaves. If there is anything in the Universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack." Claude V. Dunnagan Strange Invitation Editor: The other afternoon I happened to be over in Graham Memorial and I was invited by leaders of the University Party to attend a U. P. meeting. Being a student who is sort of interested in student government and related functions, I accepted the invitation. Imagine my suprise when a. short time later after the usual preliminaries of a meeting and a few small matters had been disposed of, I was asked to leave the meeting! Now, the University Party is entitled to have closed meet ings if it wants to, but is it really necessary for them to invite innocent bystanders to their closed meeting that are announced as "opened?" Fred Thompson 15 15 16 Id 19 21 11 25 26 27 19 55 56 58 59 40 4 VA 221 45 44 2L 47 48 52 55 55 56 HORIZONTAL 1. century plant 6. decay 9. lofty mountain 12. more recent 13. wander 14. city in Brazil 15. division of National Park 16. showy flowers 18. field of combat 20. adolescent years 21. Brazilian coins 23. 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