TUESDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1S43
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THE DAILY TAB HEEL
Suggested Improvement
OPEN LETTER TO CHANCELLOR HOUSE
Sir: ' - '
,Do you think that the students of this University are
utilizing their' educational opportunities to the utmost?
They do not think that they are, and they place the blame
for the situation upon the inflexible requirements of the
General College. Influenced by veteran opinion, students
today regard many subjects as foundations upon which
they will never build, and they resent the loss of time and
labor involved in meeting requirements of this nature.
We cannot offer any concrete solution to this problem,
but we know that the majority of the student body
believes in more flexible requirements arid a higher
standard of scholarship. We would like to suggest some
thing that would involve a great deal of labor, but which
we consider imperative if this University is to maintain
its lead among Southern colleges, and offer its students
the finest education available.
We suggest a committee, composed of representatives
of every school and department, both from the faculty
and the student body, to consider the matter. They could
attempt to ascertain student reactions; the opinions of
graduates in the various fields could be obtained; em
ployers of graduates could be interviewed; other pertinent
information could be gathered. This mass of information
could then be formed into a report to be given the admin
istration, which could take appropriate action on the situa
tion. We fully realize the enormous amount of labor in
volved, but we believe in the equally enormous value of
such a report, and think that the students would welcome
and support such an investigation.
Could we have your reaction to this suggestion for
publication in this column? We shall be looking forward
to it with hope and anticipation. '
Sincerely,
RAMESES
Defining a Term
In popular usage, "broad-minded" has come to be ap
plied generally to those whose moral standards prove little
restraint on their conduct. Since their actions are unre
strained, it is said that minds are likewise free of any
bonds, hence "broad-minded." At the other end of the
scale, a narrow-minded person is a strait-laced puritan
who spouts "Thou shalt not" and spoils the fun of the
self-styled "broad-minded."
But many people are grouped in the broad-minded
category who do not belong there. Anyone whose mind
does not wander from consideration of his most elemental
needs, who is intensely selfish, or who seeks pleasure as
an end in itself cannot be logically classified as broad
minded; no matter how freely he may act or what he
calls himself. Also, much that passes for broad-mindedness
is pure and simple evil-mindedness and rightly belongs in
the narrow-minded category. The lecher and libertine are
no less narrow-minded than the prude or puritan; they
both are poles apart from the truly liberal, those who can
entertain new ideas, can adjust their behavior to new
situations, and who are genuinely interested in the welfare"
of their fellows. B.F.
ar(ie Daily
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...... .Sally Woodhull
Herb Nachman
.Jim Dickinson
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lair, Hoy Parker. Emily Baker. Charles Pritchard, Emily SeweM, Mark
Sumner, Charles Carter, Jimmy' Leesen. Jimmie Foust, George Carter,
Art Xanthos. Don Maynard.
Editorial Staff: Rita Adams, Bev Lawler, Bob Fowler. Ina Klein.
Sports Staff: Frank Allston. Lew Chapman. Zane Robbins. Bihy Burgess,
Joe Cherry. Taylor Vaden, Larry Fox. Morton Glasses. WufT Newell,
Carter Taylor. ;
Business Staff: Jim Martin, J. C. Rush. Preston Wescott, Libby Ann
Koontz, Joy Crapps. Ed Wharton, Jackie White. Johnny Robison. Bootsie
Taylor, Neal Cadieu, Pat Denning, Jackie Burke. Allen Tate, Marie1
Nussbaum. Jackie Sharpe, Ann Green, Dale Morrison, Babs Kerr, Becky
Huggins. Buddy Pierce, Jean Williams, Doug Thompson.
Circulation Staff: Don. Snow, Randy Hudson. Shasta Bryant. Joe Wralten,
M. J. White, Frank Olds, Don Calloway.
Society Editor Rjta Adams
Society Staff: Faith Adams, Helen Hord, Lucielle Conley, Harriet Sipple.
Caroline Brunner, Ann Gamble, Jane Gower.
Opinions expressed by columnists are their own. All editorials not initialed
- are written by the editor. '
iaTar Keel
..ED JOYNER, JR.
T. E. HOLDEN
"Chuck Hauser
-..Billy Carmichael III
Adv. Mgr C. B. MendenhaU
Circ. Mgr Owen Lewis,
Subscrip. Mgr Jim King
Asst. Pus. Mgr Betty Huston
Carolina Carousel
Hard Fight
But We Won
By R. Foo Giduz
(R. Foo usta doa regular
column for the DTH. We. found
him wandering around the
halls of the Hamilton in his
usual dazed condition.)
Good Buddies, we seem
many bawl games come and
go from the Great Sugar
Bowl Robbery of '47 to the
tough tilts in Philly and Balti
more but let it be known to
wit: The 4,000 assorted Caro
lina Campus Characters in
Wash, last week-end showed
spirit the capital citizens and
cops won't forget for many
a moon.
Without a doubt there was
a quorum of the student body
not only for this year, but
for a half-dozen years back. . .
The lads simply arrived. But
take it from a twenty-year
Tar Heel just recently turned
Yankee: That Carolina spirit
(and Sper-it) just "aint" to
be found elsewher e. The
bellhops and barkeeps, gate
men and cabbies. Ask 'em all.
They'll remember.
Charlie (J. Strom Dixie
crat) Hodson put it plainly:.
"Maryland?," questioned Chas.
" They deserved to lose.
They voted for Dewey!"
. . .Everything wasn't all so
pretty light and carefree: The
rootin tootin' rooters' reputa
tion had preceded them to
Washington. . .And Univ. au
thorities were warned Sat.
morning by G-Men and Secret
Service that they had heard
of dirty-work-afoot plans by
the collegiates to plant the
Stars and Bars on the White
House lawn. A quick guiatus
on the plan they asked. (Note:
Operation never came off.)
My frans, the ex- Carouse
ler wonders is he getting to
be an old fogey in his post
Carolina dotage. As the boys
back at Harry's used to say:
"What is the scoop on this
Confederate flags deal?" Four
thousand rip-roaring Carolina
studes in high football day
spirits are nice ideas and nize
pipple.
But, good buddies, it does
not particularly reek of tact
and good taste for the mass
representatives of the Uni
versity of North Carolina to
dash around the nation's capi
tal city waving Confederate
flags. . .No. . .It just isn't a
brilliant way to represent, the
center of southern liberalism.
A simple (and plaintive)
plea: Go plant Messers. Ab's
and Varsity's Confederate ban
ner business ventures on
grandpappy's grave. And stop
Confederating Carolina.
Y'don't get away from UP-SP-CPolitical
talk even on
the ball-game weekends. . .It
seems it was about 5:45 a.m.
Sunday morning, and the poli
tical caucus had finally started
. . .Quoth a top-kick in the
University party who refused
to allow himself to be quo
thed: "I shouldn't admitting
it, but things look good for
the Campus party." ( His
concensus: UP and SP on the .
way down, viz political bick
ering; CP may loom to throne.)
. . .SPatriarchs nominally
nayed. . .
Yeh. CC is out of touch with
campus politics now. But the
word he got this week-end was
that Dortch Worryner, last
year's most eligible for next
year's student body presidency,
is but totally out of the run
ning. . .(Come, Come, Dortch,
in the name of the Hon'able
Harry Byrd, don't let's believe
in rumors! But a vice-prexy
mebby?) . . . And the SP will
sew up the presidency next
spring with an ex-party
chairman and popular CH poli
tico for their nominee. ( A
good man. too!)
But you get back to Wash
ington Sunday was the day
. . . .Although it was more
tougher than uual to tell
where Saturday leaves off and
Sunday begins, what with new
ones starting every five min
utes. What a bunch of bleary
looking characters: . . .But
eventually most ' of the lads
woke up and started collecting
on the Mad Maryland even
money bets. . .Last characters
seen leaving the city were a
rather conglomerate concoc
tion of old grads headed for
NYCity about 8 Sunday even
ing. . .That was us.
ANYBODY WANTS TO
KNOW HOW TO HANDLE A
SPUT PARTY ILL
, TO ADVISE.
Distributed by King Features Syndicate
tor arrangement with Th Washington Star
This Changing World
A Quote From Joe Stalin
By Bill Roberison
(The circumstances of the
world are continually chang
ing, and the opinions of men
change also. Thomas Paine)
"But having developed pro
ductive forces to a tremendous
extent, capitalism has become
enmeshed in contradictions
which it is unable to solve. By
producing larger and larger
quantities of commodities, and
reducing their prices, capita
lism intensifies competition,
ruins the mass of small and
medium private owners, con
verts them into proletarians
and reduces their purchasing
power, with the result that it
becomes impossible to dispose
of the commodities produced.
On the other hand, by expand
ing production and concen
trating millions of workers in
huge mills and factories, cap
italism lends the process of
production a social character
and, thus undermines its own
foundation, inasmuch as the
social character of the process
of production demands the so
cial ownership of the means of
production . . ."
This quotation is taken from
an essay by Josef Stalin, in
which he presents the world
outlook of the Marxists, all
over the world. The meaning
of this quotation is crystal-
Chol lie's Follies
For
By Charlie Gibson
ANTICipating: when it
comes to float awards, the Al
pha Gams beat even Ivory
soap. Didyasee that Sadie
Hawkins Day wagon with
"Mammy" Yokum (Kitty Al
tizer) scrubbing "Pappy" Yok
um ("Mitch" Mitchell) in a
tub beside a backyard "tele
phone booth"? . . . DDD . . .
with his slap-happy "Pappy"
costume Johnny O'Neal took
first prize among chaste and
chased males. Phyllis Fergu
son, the snuff prize-winning
sight as "Miss Slobbovia", was
an UGHly sight even among
CaroLENAS . . . DDD ... in
considerate but healthy fresh
man assembly audiences are
booing Jess Dedmond when
ever he appears onstage during
their class elections, fearing
that the neoFIGHTs' political
independence might somehow
be intercepted a la Maceyko
. . . DDD . . . tis said part of
the Tar Heel team invaded the
Gayetty theater for a post
game burLEGSque, and there
j were shouts insisting "All the
way, chorines!" . . . DDD . . ,
optimism chalked on a game-
Trouble Shooter
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clear. It is in striking contrast
to the statements made by
capitalist economists about the
"complexity of economic phe
nomena". Lenin once cited the
fact that "if geometric axioms
affected human interests, at
tempts would certainly be
made to refute them." Is there
any wonder, then, that this
clear, scientific analysis is ig
nored in an institution which
teaches capitalist economics?
After all, our students who
are majors in "commerce" and
"economics" are not being
trained to become scientific
socialists-even if socialism is
just around the corner!. The
material interests of a handful
of multi-millionaires are in
volved. But, be that as it may, we
predict with confidence that
the teachings of scientific so
cialism will win an increasing
number of students to "the
finest cause in the world" fn
the days to come. We predict
that there will be a genuine
mass movement on this cam
pus. We predict that the stu
dents will piece things to
gether. They will ask them
selves such questions as: "why
have we not read, or even
heard of. books by Marx?"
They will develop renewed
faith and hope. They will lose
their cynicism and despair.
Capitalists
bound jalopy' tied together
with buttons and bows: "If
Harry cguld make it to Wash
ington, so can we!" . . . Drop
Dead, Duke!
HISterics and MYsterics:
Pete Gerns argued like pan
deMOANium to get the DTH
to print the almost worn-out
picture of the man whom the
in'terDUMBitory council elec
ted to be president for the one
auarter before he graduates.
The short-lived prexy? Mr.
"Modesty" Gerns, of course
. . . SUSP . . . understand
Betty Jane Blaylock suffers a
telePHONEY complex among
certain fraternities . . . SUSP
. . . wonder what FIZZisicians
who told hard-working Bob
Kirby to relax, sleep lots, and
do little would think if they
knew he is obeying them and
even reading "Lost Weekend"?
. . . SUSP . . . ask anyone on
the third floor of Everett about
their "!. 2, and 3" sinsavshuns
. . . SUSP . . . constantly con
fusing, usually unamusing
English prof, announcing that
he likes to pull classroom sur
prises: I never want the class
fo know what's going on in
my lectures." Ahead of time
OLD c,ldt flia
1&SU
Most of us were reared in
Christian families. We remem
ber the Golden Rule of Jesus
Christ: Do unto others as you
would have them do unto you.
Yet we have grown up in a
society the very basis of which
is corrupted with the principle
of "buying cheap and selling
dear" a principle which
makes it impossible to "get
ahead" without violating the
golden rule of living. We men
tion this only to emphasise the
moral significance of this quo
tation from Stalin.
We are all of us morally ill.
We have become corrupted by
a false way of living. Our at
titude toward life, and especi
ally toward our fellowman, has
sunk below that of our ancient
ancestors. Over two thousand
years ago Sophocles, the great
Greek poet, was able to say
with supreme optimism, "Won
ders are many, and none is
more wonderful than man ....
Only against Death shall he,
call for aid in vain, but against
baffling maladies he hath de
vised escapes."
This was true a long time
ago, and it will be true once
again in the minds and hearts
of the students at Carolina, as
we join in the struggle for a
better and more happy way of
living.
Only
or afterwards? . . . Shut Up,
Smarty Party!
UNCelebrities: both Jan
Pierce, opera star, and Oscar
Hammerstein, Oklahomagician,
have sons in the 'class of '52
. . . SOS . . . cute Getty Horton
was cussing some one-legged
thief and teaching Ed Coppla
to hop from class to class be
fore a "Y" janitor returned
the first argj'le sock that she
knitted to a green and yellow
pair . . . SOS . . . reprint from
student directory, page 72:
"Epps, Jesse M.,3 312 Aider
man: Eppes, Helen P., 3 319
'A' Dorm." if only the housing
office WRECKorders made the
mistakes the directory does!.
. . . SOS . . . there is a UVALu
able new president among
campus veterans named Gene
Newton, and he might be able
to think up more stunts like
the quiz shows to make the
vet's" hut of service to the
campus at large . . . SOS . . .
amon? the writing on the little
boys' Walls of Fame in Bing
ham: "Dean X is in the hos
pital to be treated for rabies.
His mother ran out from under
the steps and bit him" . . ,
Sound Off, Spivak! .
Write Away
Libelous Biography
TH itnr
It's common knowledge among students of Paine that George
Chalmers (alias Francis Oldys) and James Cheetham were his
most maLious and libelous biographers. Until I 1892 .the Wchmg,
of these men were looked upon as authoritative. In that year,
however, M. D. Conway (regarded as Paine's official biographer)
published an extensive two volume edition of his life which
utterly refutes with facts and figures the calumny which had
been in circulation previously. A number of biographies have
appeared since, but all have been substantially based on Con
way's edition.' s r
In a previous article I requested that Mr. West cite me
FACTS; instead, he reciprocates with quoted falsehoods and a
little bit of fact. I shan't waste time refuting Mr. West's addi
tional dirt, but will seek briefly to discredit the authors which
in this case is tantamount to discrediting what they say.
Brother West probably isn't aware of it, tut the obscure pulpiteer
whom he quotes (T. O. Summers, D.D.) has merely borrowed
from Cheetham and Chalmer's storehouse of lies. So let us first
consider Chalmers a Tory refugee from Maryland who was
hired by friends of Edmund Burke to write a derogatory
biography of Paine. The first part of Paine's "Rights of Man"
had just been published in England in reply to Burke's "Re
flections on the French Revolution," in which he (Burke) con
demns the movement. Paine's book was outselling Burke's two
to one and the latter was in serious danger of losing his great
prestige in England. So by depicting Paine as a scoundrel
(through the pimp Chalmers), Burke's clique succeeded in pro
tecting his reputation. Regarding Cheetham, space will permit
me to say only this: Paine instituted a suit for libel against that
mud-slinger; he was convicted and fined. Such were the char
acters of the men whom Mr. West regards as authoritative!
J. R. Cherry Jr.
And Jefferson Too
Editor:
Would like to ask Camest West on what grounds is James
Cheetham qualified to pass such harsh judgment on Thomas
Paine's "Common Sense"? He (Cheetham) makes the ridiculous
statement that "it has no merit, no comprehension of insight . . .
fugitive in nature. Please cite me anything that Cheetham has
written that can remotely approach the high, standards of Com
mon Sense" to say nothing of Paine's other works.
Another man has said: "No writer has exceeded Paine in
ease and familiarity of style, in perspicuity of expression, happi
ness of elucidation, and in simple unassuming language." But of
course, I suppose this fellow was just an obscure, jack-leg poli
tician from the backwoods of Virginia who evidently hadn't seen
Cheetham's authoritative appraisal. His name, by the way, was
Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, I believe.
Lloyd Overcash
- (If anyone else cares to write a letter about Thomas Paine,
please address it to Camest West, not to Write Away.)
Correction Please '
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Editor:
Last Sunday an article was printed presenting the platform
of the Student party endorsed candidates for freshman class
officers.
I would like to correct several errors in this article. First of
these was the statement that these candidates are Student
party candidates. I would like to make it clear that they are
only Student party endorsed; and that the actions of the candi
dates are their own and not those set forth by the Student party.
The last of these errors was, I feel sure, the result of a mis
placed comma. The article stated that the freshman executive
committee shall voice its disapproval of the re-opening of an
Armory store for the lower quad. I would like to correct this and
state that the aim of the committee will be (and I quote from
Section VI of the platform). to "urge that an Armory Store be
re-established for the Lower Quadrangle."
Sol Kimerling
Campaign Chairman of ihe Freshman Committee
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