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SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 1949 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR KEEU " P. (t t t( r i b c t i ! r The official newspaper of the Publications 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 . ... . . Associate Editors Jack Brown Frank Allston. Jr. News Office Mgr. Sally Woodhull Asst. Sports Ea. Buddy Vaden Society Editor Caroline Bruner Adv. Mgr. . Oliver Watkins Staff Photographer . Editorial Board Banks Talley. Ed Tenney, Dave Sharp, Severn Wallis. News Staff Charles McCorkle, Margaret Gaston. Fred McGee, Roy Parker, Don Maynard, Leonard Dudley. J. L. Merritt. Stewart McKeel. Jack Eng lish. Graham Jones. Art Xanthos, Mike McDaniels. Emily Baker, Wink Locklair. Virginia Forward. Bill Johnson. Henry Albright, Wiley Hall. Sam Whitehall. Sports Wuff Newell, Joe Cherry, Lew Chapman. Larry Fox, Morton Glas ser, Zane Bobbins. Andy Taylor. Business Staff Jane Griffin, Betty Huston, Jackie Burke. Trish Denning. Ann Green, Neal Cadieu. Bootsie Taylor, Alan Susman, Erwin Goldman. John DeLoach. John Ross, Sonny Smith. Blake Leckie. Don Stanford. Circulation Staff Neill Clegg, Asst.; Symmes. Robert Graham. Society Staff Lynn Hammock. Jane Night Editor: Bill Buchan Something Sacred It appears very difficult for man to avoid being an ex tremist. He goes all-out with a vengeance in one direction until at least his radicalism has brought him to dire straights. Then with swift reactionary and corrective measures he swings too far toward the opposite pole and finds himself completely stymied. We have experienced, in our time, a day of rash and ruth less iconoclasm. Men have stripped off every taboo, debunk ed all our heroes, cast down all our altars, ripped away the finesse and niceties of living, violated and desecrated sanctu aries, and declared in the name of "enlightenment" and "free dom" their emancipation from idolatry, superstition and fear. This movement which began roughly in the fourteenth cen tury has moved with unabated fury and increasing tempo to a catastrophic crescendcTin our own time. The flaunting title of a modern motion picture brazenly declares "NOTHING SACRED.' It has been reported that Napoleon once stabled his cal vary, both men and horses, in the Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. From the walls of the Refectory Leo nardo Da Vinci's masterpiece "The Lord's Supper" looked down upon the strange entourage below. In coarse ribaldry the crude soldiers amused themselves by hurling balls of manure at the incomparable figures of Christ and his dis ciples! Impervious to beauty, with no respect for consum mate artistry, and no reverence for the deep religious signi ficance of the scene, nor for the characters depicted there, these men preempted themselves of the last vestige of respect ability that makes man man. Something like this has been go ing on all over the world in our time. In doing irreparable damage to the sacred achievements and holy heroes of the past, modern man has outraged his own soul and damned his children to coarseness and bestiality. With no gods to fear, with nothing holy, with no beliefs and no hope, under a cold and silent heaven, modern man looks longingly out upon the bleak and barren horizon of human perspective and sees nothing, absolutely nothing, but the sinister shadow of his own lonely figure. Modern man is "lost" in a vaster sense than the word has ever connoted before. We are no ,longer a handful of sheep who have jtaken the wrong turn of the path in aritie'acl$ture llald by home. We are a mournful multitude of ; teeming millions adrift inSan infinite cosmic sea; wistful wanderers through time and space; temeritous tinkerers with the explosive forces of the universe, the reactions from which have left us quiver ing with terror; specious spectators overcome with undulat ing waves of nauseous vertigo from looking too long into the endless abyss. Our rash iconoclasm has left an aching emptiness at the heart of modern society. We have stripped away form, beauty, order, meaning, value, from our lives and nothing is left but stark functionalism. Man becomes what he worships and with nothing greater or nobler than himself to contemplate he becomes a bleak copher. What man holds holy is the in teger before the cipher which brings significance. The higher and holier the idea of God man holds in reverence the great er the value the integer brings to the cipher. Phillips Brooks once declared, "Poor is the age which has not reverence .... Poor is the soul which has not reverence! You may have many powers and gifts, but if you have not reverence there is a blight upon them all." This, our age, has many powers and gifts such as no other age has ever had but, tragedy of tragedies, there is a blight upon them all! A sign in the front of the Riverside Church in New York reads, "Please do not enter the Chancel". That is right. It is a symbol. There ought to be some things in the world across which we shall not drag our muddy feet. Something sacred! The free church tradition does right to insist that it is wrong to rev erence the stone, or the architecture, or the setting, but; be ware, lest, desecrating the symbols, we desecrate the ideas behind them! - The age of the iconoclast has come to an end. In the sham bles of Europe; in the threatened wasteland of Western Society; in the war-swept Orient he who can set up an altar before which men can find faith in God, faith in themselves, and faith in the possibilities of human society, will be to morrow's leader. , Samuel Tilden Habei. Ph.D. DICK JENRETTE T. E. HOLD EN Bill Buchan Billy Carmichael III Circ. Mgr. Shasta Bryant Subscrlp. Mgrs. David Woodruff Wade Holder Bus. Office Mgr. Ed Williams Asst. Bus. Mgr. C. B. Mendenhall James A. Mills M. 3. White, Joe Wratten. Andy Gower. Gloria McLeroy. Night Sports: Roy Parker PASSING SENTENCE By Jonathan Marshall When I was in grade school, I used to wonder how a group of women could call themselves the Daughters of the American Revolution. 150 years after the Revolution. After much thought on the subject, I decided that they must be the Great Great Great Grand daughters of the American Rev olution, or the GGGGAR. The GGGGAR, popularly known as the DAR, has been having some sort of a picnic or party in the Capital recently. The girls seem to have lost a bit of their original revolution ary ferver, however, but maybe that's what comes of getting old. It wouldn't surprise me if the GGGGAR came out for a program advocating a re turn to ruffles and knee britches for men. They have already come out against Federal aid to education; but maybe Jefferson, a man who believed in education, was loo much of a revolutionist. Yes. people around Wash ington are a strange race, and maybe the GGGGAR has be come infected by it. One well known character in D. C who is known as Honest John, is really puzzling though. It seems that this Honest John is a Republican, but he joined the Southern Democrats in op posing Truman's Civil Rights program. Now the guy turns around and tacks an amend ment on the Housing Bill which would forbid segregation in public housing. It's all very confusing, but one must assume that Honest John knows what he's doing. It is rumored, and even stated publicly, that this character is ' tied up with a real estate lobby; of course, no intelligent people would even think of such a thing. Oh, yes, the character known as Honest John has a last name it's Bricker, and he comes from Ohio. YOU'RE ONLY YOUNG ONCE The darkness of the" night was just beginning to fall upon Chapel Hill as the maroon con vertible pulled up in front of Alderman and four boys piled out and went in to pick up their dates. Four boys and four girls. That made eight. Simple arith metic. Eight people in one car on a beautiful summer night made things lovely. And so all piled into the car and were off to a night of fun at Hogan's lake. The boys had made the run to Durham earlier in the after noon and now the only thing left to do was stop by the ice plant and pick up a little ice. Soon they were on the pav ed road heading in the di rection of the lake and a - night qf v"gay.;fun." The ma & rooij c0hveriablev pulled up1 - to a ' stop on the beautiful: banks of lake Hogan and the blankets were spread and the portable radio was turned on and ..sweet ..music ..flowed through the air. Everything was beautiful and romantic. It was spring and they, were young, and you are only young once. The final piece of ice melted and soaked into the brown paper covering and the last empty fifth bottle was thrown into the lake and they prepared to make the journey back to Chapel Hill. Coed hours, you know. One of the girls who had n't been drinking asked the driver to "please be careful," and everybody laughed.. The converiable reached the paved highway and soon they were on the road head ing toward Chapel Hill. The moon was shining brighter and brighter and they were singing louder and louder. The nearer they came to Chapel Hill more gas went into the carburator and the louder they sang; soon the momentum of the car had surpassed the re flexive abilities of the driver; there was more gas; there was a curve; there was an attempt at the. brakes, but it was a'little late for that. Too late. For none of them would ever see another spring; none of them would ever ride in the moonlight again. And the little girl who didn't drink did enqoy living. But they were young and you are only young once.. S I'll :?$?s ! M' x y j " y$ v . tit V; - '"'ifi Mil !- irt I - ' t Nr wdl ' " A " : ( X w '4 a AC- ? NAT WILLIAMS, left, and Al Meet Winn And Williams The man who has been largely responsible for the speedy and efficient manner in which our recent campus elec tions have been carried out is Al Winn, the new president of the Carolina senior class. As chairman of the Elections Board for the past year, Al had as his thankless job the task of lining up the ballots, polling places and other thous and and ( one little things that must be done before an election can te successfully held. This presidential election and two other recent events , have brought a large measure of happiness to Winn. He says he is happiest, however, over his recent admittance into the Law School, but he is also very pleased about win ning the presidency and a seal in the Student Legisla ture this term. Al doesn't limit his activi ties to his new jobs alone. In addition he is a member of the Di Senate and he will continue to act as chairman of the Elections Board until president Bill Mackie appoints a successor. Winn, a rising senior from St. Petersburg, Florida, is another of our politicians who got his start in high school where he was in student govern ment affairs and was presi dent of his junior class. The new senior class leader is a member of the Sigma ;: Phi , Epsfloij . ;soci$VJfr alernity; j wererfe was once yice-presiT V dent, f raternity life1 takes up quite a bit of his spare lime, but Al says he enjoys doing "just about anylhing." Having lettered in varsity boxing here in 1947, Al is natur ally sports-minded. He is a member of the Monogram Club and says he particularly enjoys fishing, boating, riding, hunt ing and dancing. Winn has been described as an eager and conscientious worker and many observers look for great things from the new president. Al said after the election that he wished "to thank the people who voted for me and I hope that I can justify their faith." Most sideline politicians believe that he will. "Tormenting Tri-Delts," ans wered Nat Williams, the new secretary-treasurer of the Caro lina student body when asked his favorite past time in the course of our interview of one of the two "Campus Personali ties of the Week." Likable Nat, who describes himself as a "Senior for the third year and returning next year," is another of those live ly pollt;eiai3 who is njt con tent with just frr e::'rc-c it rlcular activity, but has found his way into many campus ac tivities since arriving at Chapa lina. The new secretary-treasurer a native of Thomasville, Georgia, has been a member Two More Student Leaders Winn were winners in recent campus elections. Campus Personalities By Frank Allston, Jr. of Ihe Student Legislature, a member of Ihe Legislature's budget committee, president of Ihe United World Federal ists and a member of Ihe student budget finance com mittee. Nat has also worked on the Daily Tar Heel and he was an orientation coun cillor last fall. Williams is a chemistry major and has done very well scholaslically as well as po litically. This is borne out by Nat's recent admission into Phi Beta Kappa. Nat is a member of Kappa Alpha social fraternity where he is the number three. In addition to tormenting the Tri-Delts, Nat says his other interests are athletics, beer and raising African violets. Along the line of athletics, he says his chief interests are riding horses and playing golf. CPU Roundtable The Democratic Party By Don Shropshire About this time last year the appeared very dark. In the 80th Congress it was in the minority for the first time since 1930. Moreover, it was being harassed by disunity within itself. Several of the New Dealers were sup porting presidential candidate Henry Wallace in protest against the administration's foreign policy, and numerous Southerners were 'so aroused over the President's Civil Rights proposal that it seemed likely that the Southern wing might! form a new iparty. The three-way split developed, and so there seemed little doubt- but that the. Republicans would easily win the presidential eiecfion; in November. Yet, Harry Truman surprised everyone by receiving over two million more popular, votes than Mr. Dewey and 304 out of 531 electorial votes. The Democrats also won clear majorities in both Houses of Congress. It looked as if President Truman would have little trouble in persuading "the 81st Congress to enact the various measures of his "fair-deal" program. The serious lade of executive-legislative harmony of the two previous years was believed to be over. Nevertheless, since the 81st Congress convened' in January, very little administration-sponsored legislation has been passed. The basic cause is obviously a coalition of Southern i Democrats and Republicans on many issues. This situation is by no means peculiar to the present Congress, for it has been quite noticeable at certain times ever since 1937. The coalition has been particularly 'effective in regard to labor legislation. Organized labor is comparatively weak through out most of the South," and, consequently Southern congressmen as a rule do not reflect pro-labor sympathies. On matters regard ing public housing, health insurance, minimum wages, and broad ened social security provisions many Southerners take a con servative position and line up with the Republicans. The principal difference between Northern and Southern Democratic Congressmen, however, is in the realm of civil rights legislation, but here the Southerners have few allies among the Republicans, so they employ the use of the fillibuster in the Senate to block such bills. Federal aid to education would bene fit the South more than any other section, but due to the race issue, they are inclined to oppose legislation of this type. On the other hand, there is a great deal of harmony within the party on farm legislation, tariff policy, and foreign aid pro grams, while the Republicans are often divided among them selves on these issues. In addition to the Southerners many other specific groups constitute the Democratic Party of today. Among them are most labor organizations, Catholics, Jews, and various other minority groups. Of course, large numbers of people vote independently of the policy of their respective groups, but most of these voters have consistently supported the Demacratic party. With such diversity of interests, it is easy to understand why party unity is ofton quite difficult, if not impossible. Nevertheless, with all its internal problems, the Democratic Party enjoys the support-of many independent voters since on the whole it stands, for economic and social progress in a capital istic democracy. The CPU will discuss the strength and weak nesses of this party at its 8:00 p.m. meeting tonight in the Grail Room. Visitors are cordially invited.- -Staff photo by Mills Nat got his start in student government in high school back in Thomasville and carried his interests right on through two other institutions pf higher education into Carolina. The other schools which the newly elected "wheel" attended were Marion Institute in Marion, Alabama and the United States Naval Academy. Campus leaders are sure that Navy's loss was Caro lina's gain and lhat Nat will make one of the belter stu dent body officers lhal the University has seen in several years. As one observer mused, ". . . he was' a good legislator kept it interesting." Nat's former col leagues are confident that he will also keep student govern ment interesting with his keen mind and refreshing personality- future of the Democratic Party Book The Democratic By Edlyn W. Freerks Turoctr nt all trades and jack of Historian and Journalist George Fort Milton in reference to the man that the editor has termed "the new Chrichton" Dr. Archibald Henderson. -And thus -is recorded the expression of men of note from the beauty of the Carolina campus to the shores of another continent men who through experience have found indisputable evidence to support the contention that Dr Henderson is really the twentieth century version of the "sixteenth century virtuoso in scholarship and literature," James "The Admirable" Chrichton, a name which is synonymous with versatility. . There have been few times in the history of journalism that any editor has so successfully compiled such a complete variety of opinions of local and international personalities as has been done by Samuel Stevens Hood in this work. But when one realizes the scope of Ihe influence of Archibald Henderson in the world today, it is not then hard to understand why almost two dozen prominent individuals gladly look lime out of Iheir crowded schedules to vpY tribule lo such a leading figure in the fields of mathematics, dramatics, history philosophy, and literature. But the book does not stop there In order to give the reader a chance adequately to appreciate the work of this "example of abundant living," the editor has also included biographical sketches of Aiis varied life. Students, especially, will enjoy the interesting way in which this information is presented. The "hard facts" are tied together with human-interest anecdotes, many of which are quite colorful and which easily point out one of Dr. Henderson's most priceless assets a unique scene of humqr. Charles A. Beard, the Hislorian. referred to this recently retired head of the Department of Mathematics as a man who had an "interest in all Ihings human and an awareness of the interrelations of science, arts, , and u letters." Support for this is carried out as experts in the many fields, of life reviewed only a fraction of the hundreds of books and articles lhat have been contributed lo the world by this gentleman who turned down Ihe presidencies of universities lo remain, in Chapel , Hill to further Ihe interests of this institution and the . stale in which he was born. "Archibald Henderson: The New Chrichton" is a challenge as expressed by Alexander Guerry, Vice-Chancellor of the Uni versity of the South: "It is a challenge to every man to break the bonds of specialization, to throw open the windows of his mind, to enrich his life and the lives of others by genuine in terest and activity in fields of human enterprise. What he has been and what he has attained are an example to the timid and weary souls who are unwilling or unable to leave the beaten path, and .are proofs that the mind and heart have a greater reach than we believe possible." This is the "brilliantly versatile, indefatigably productive, charmingly colorful, and many-sided Archibald Henderson" (Sena tor Frank Porter Graham). LETTERS TO HIRE A JANITOR Editor: Have you seen those assinine creatures, butts of campus jokes and tools of the administration, that act as scavengers about the base of South Building? Those mistaken characters are evident ly unaware that it makes no difference to us just how the Y court may look. Furthermore, if the administration wants the campus clean, it can very well hire a janitor to do the work. Looked at from a practical point of view this selfappoint ed rubbage detail is actually contributing to unemployment. If the amount of trash on the HORIZONTAL 1. jewel weight 6. model 13. white poplar 14. medial 15. steps 16. holdable 17. Hebrew high priest 18. spot or stain 20. persuaded 21. list 23. gear tooth 24. extremely 25. empower 27. before 29. fresh set 30. place of worship 34. scant 36. scarce 37. discharged a gun 40. garden implement 42. mellow 43. clasp 44. a type of cat 46. wuictura 47. move 49. vigilant 51. corrector 52. wash lightly 53. here 54. aquatic animal 1 z i 4 & b 7 8 T" to u TaT" 1 -zyiwitzyjiw' 25 24 TT 1za " 29 Z io:: 55 LLliLU" " tZI ' MINI pi" I I M Answer to Saturday's puzzle. APSEsr FAT JrIiIaI S'REhf A T E S L HA najt" ?T ne" mT tTTTn T-1 ! M , (. E P O 5 e i.NNE s""?OE -iili E w""nl" L . . JL "e "LmJT c" "a m 5 Z! e I N I A T E I ylEiTt iiilJg A L E N Aert tim. ( Review" Party of none" thus came the words THE EDITOR grounds require a janitor one should be hired. There are a number of people that would be willing to be paid for such work. Besides" the foregoing points, it hurts my conscience to be disturbed as I leisurely sit sip ping my morning coke. All I want is to be left in peace with out having some guy ask me to move over so he can pick up a Dixie cup and put it in the can which is only a few feet away. If the cup is that close to the can it does not need to be moved. Rip Collins 4-25 7. requite 8. break 9. Brazilian bird 10. end wall of building 11. eyer 12. in want 19. jot 22. behind 24. of the soft palate 26. caustic 28. blow 31. having three teeth 32. slander 33. go in again 35. blanch 36. discern 37. keen 38. vaster 39. pointed arch 41. public 44. situation 45. edible rootstock 48. it is, poetic 50. kindled VERTICAL 1. skipper 2. ear shell 3. narration 4. beer 5. trial 6. inner court - ..ltIo: mlnnf.
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