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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5. luij PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL DREW PEARSON ON he WASHINGTON MERRYG0-R01INJ) This 'n Thar Politics By Bill Buchan Take Them Off, We Know You fh official newspaper of the Publication Board or the University of North t.aroJlnu, Chapel Hill, where it Is issued daily during the regular session of the University by the Colonial Tress. Inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation periods, and the umner terrnn. Entered as second-class matter at thf post office of Chapel Hill. TV. C, under the act of March 3. 1879. Sub scription price: $8 .mi per year. $3.00 per quarter. Member of The Associated I'refiR. the Associated Press and AH features are exclusively entitled; to the ii. for republication of all news and feature) published herein. tdaofZ - DICK JENRETTE if li ri Mntner C. B. MENDENHALL. hhinaumq Editor CHUCK KAUSER S porf tdltur BILLY CARMICHAEL. Ill K-litoficil Staff: Charlie Gibson. Tom Wharton. Wink; Lockiair. Bill Kella.-n. Don Shropshire. Jimmy Rutherford. John Stump. Vestal TayloT. ivjuii itu: Roy Parker. Jr., Zane Hobbins. Bill Johnson. Sam McKeel. WuU Newill. Don Maynard. Uolfe Neill, Caroline Eruner, Bob Hennessee, Graham J'Mies, Ctfen n Harden. . Undergraduate Curriculum The recommendations voiced in the recently released re port on the University's undergraduate curriculum by the preliminary Committee on Education represent one of the most worthwhile, formative contributions ever made to this school by its student government. This progressive, imaginative, constructively-critical 15 page paper will initiate, we sincerely hope, a number of far reaching academic reforms which should do much to restore this University to leading position among American institu tions of higher education. ; The report consists of the committee's conception of the purposes and philosophy of a college education; an evalua tion of the present local situation; definite detailed criticisms of the current curriculum; and specifically - recommended corrections of the objectionable features. The report correctly states that the purpose of a college education is to produce a "whole man." To produce this man the ideal education should achieve two goals: it should make the graduate a master of his chosen field; and it should acquaint him well enough with the great principles and thought of our culture to enable him to understand the complexities of our present society. Then he will be prepared to approach and attacK these problems to his best advantage. For this end to be attained, a proper Need for Intimacy In Class man." The General College is guilty of the greatest deviation from these basic principles. It was established as the primary agency to introduce the student to the necessary diverse, broadening fields of learning. The Committee's main criticisms are directed at this vital segment of the. curriculum whose realization has fallen short of its original conception. The General College is now quite weak in that its require ments too often burden the student who is undecided as to his major with useless required courses which will give him no credit toward a degree; courses in basic subjects like social studies, the natural sciences, and English are allotted too little time to benefit the student, too often they have be come little more than survey courses which emphasize factual knowledge rather than an interpretive and selective approach to the subject; exams call for mastery of facts rather than an interpretation of the material studied; required foreign lang uages are of little practical value to the majority of the students and crowd out subjects of more importance; and a second year of physical education is a complete waste of time because it forces the student to participate in sports in which he has little interest and it takes up time which could be used to better advantage in some intellectual activity. The increased size of the student body without an appreci able increase in the quantity of the faculty, has also created serious deficiencies. Classes are much too large for active par ticipation and discussion by all the students. Instructors are not chosen or promoted on the basis of their teaching ability. Student evaluation should play a greater role in the selection and maintenance of the faculty. There should be greater intimacy in fac Too Much Detail Can Hurt non-academic matters. Student-faculty dis cussions should be furthered by the introduction of tutoring courses. Freshmen dorms should be established and paid dorm counsellors (upperclassmen) should be appointed to advise the freshmen in whatever problems in which they need guidance. The report proposes a new required freshman-sophomore curriculum which emphasizes the humanities and the practi cal values of education. Freshmen would take a total of three courses in math or science, three in social studies, one in composition, two in the humanities, and three in phys ed. Sophomores would take two courses in the sciences, two in social studies' electives, one in the humanities, two humani ties' electives, and two free electives. Students would be exempt from taking general courses in their major. The report advises that courses be re Courses May Need Revision with conditions of man's existence as a whole, drawing from the materials of all social studies." The courses should not degenerate into a factual study of a spe- cific field. Class discussions would be the backbone of the courses. Thought, rather than excessive research, should be the keynote. This editorial has summarized only briefly most of the high spots' of this important report. Much work remains to be done by the new committee. However, the present report represents a fine step toward providing this University with ah inspiring, progressive, useful undergraduate curriculum. Committee Chairman Charles Seller, Jr., and his 11 members deserve the highest praise and deepest ihanks of the student body for their excellent document.BK balance must be maintained between gen eral and specialized education. There must not be a lapse into an accentuation of de tail at the cost of the aforementioned pur pose of education to produce the "whole ulty-student relations. There should be more general college advisors so that the counseling can be done on a personal basis, including consultation on academic and vised to emphasize new objectives. Social studies "should explore the problems raised by the social nature of man's existance. They should induce the student to grapple As was expected, the Univer sity Party marched in and walk ed off with most of the honors in the election Tuesday. No one should be surprised because when legislators insist on mov ing the election date around and give the candidates only two days to campaign, they are not going to get many voters. The UP is in the unique posi tion of being able to get their voters to the polls and it is in evitable that they will march off with the rewards when the other parties don't have time to get into their dormitories and get the vote interested and out. For two years now, the've talked and ranted and raved about the constitution ruling that the fall election has to be the first week in December and all we do is talk because nothing has been done yet. The solution and that is us ing the word loosely (this fall got by the rules, but it cer tainly doesn't help anything or improve the prospects of not going through the same rigamarow next November. Two of the young men who went back into the legislature are good candidates for the of fice of president next spring. One represents the Student Party and the other is the fair haired boy of the UP. As if you didn't know, they are John Sanders and Herb Mitchell. Mitchell is speaker pro-tem of the legislature and an excellent debator but his work with the debate team (whare he wins and wins and wins) has kept him out of the public view this fall. On the other hand, Sanders is the attorney general, chairman of the Carolina Forum, a mem ber of the YDC- executive coun cil and goshknows how many other offices. He is very much around and takes an active part in everything he belongs to. He is making - a lot of friends around Graham Memorial and elsewhere who will back him if he "decides to run." A great many folks are talking about him . . . especially those few who are left in the CP. Maybe they'll finally get wise and merge into the' SP. Worth Fulk, of Victory Vil lage, reports that his parra keet, named Nibby, is much worse than my Shorty. Among other things, he seems to delight in' smearing Fulk's themes when he completes them with no smudges, no mistakes, no smears. Nibby nose-dives and leaves i a few spots all the time chanting, "Nibby is a b-a-a-a-d boy." Nibby went home Thanksgiv ing t with the Fulks and got Worth in' a bit of troubles with his mother-in-law. He flew to her shoe laces, looked up and wolf-whistled. Then, Worth re ports, he added "You old buz zard." "One thing I can say about my wife's relatives," Fulk says, "I like her mother-in-law better than I do mine." c s o u er4 U n o "a c JO d IS O 9 a 22 q U o q i5 HAS SEARCH OUE EECOEPS FCK. CAEEFULLY THE PEASANTS WHO HEAD THE NEW EE6IME HAVE AN 06LY HABIT OF NOT APPEECIATIN6 THE ART OF If A MASTEE SUCH AS THE fAST-r-"DE Lthe more ) I RUB IT THE WORSE ) SLGETS j & --An P )-a rSL- J 1 ! 13 , that aimtX p S) C- y2f Distributed by King Features Syndicate by irranjrement with The Washington Star The United States And Peace By Jo Taylor There isn't much gainsaying the fact that the world today wants peace above all else. Any retrospective contemplation of the past war and any rational prediction of the effects of an other war give one the right to quiver in one's boots at the very mention of the word. And quiver we do as we feel the death angel of communist in filtration and aggression and Soviet non-cooperation passing daily over our house. We quiver some more as we see our country girding its loins for a fight with an opponent who plays by the rules of no holds barred. Yet it is also an unassaila ble fact that the United States is today the only potent pro tagonist that the world has for peace. Her methods may be bungling at times and wide of the mark at others, but it remains that her purpose is for the defense of life, liberty and happiness, those prinicples which sponsored her debut in to the society of nations. She is carrying the flag of leadership, and most of Europe's nations are gratefully willing to surrender to her the charge and guidance of their welfare. Ih every country civil strife or eco nomic problems keep statesmen's eyes turned inward and their thoughts too occupied to allow the whole-hearted considera tion of the troubles of the world as a whole. These troubles are now resting on the shoulders of the United .States, and we are glad to state, they are shoulders strong enough to carry them. f f ! ; ' ! j ; i i ( 1 1 1 j i 1 1 i 1 whatS that 5, (its just spot on the ) j mv 1 --m Everybody Reads the Comics fM MADAME RT2-BLU YJ X INPEEC AND A BEEN A EECLU6-E SUETLE OPENING SOL0N6 WE HAVE - NOT LIKELY To UTTLE ON HER BUT BE EEC06NI2ED HERE IS AN ITEM EV TUC CIIK IC-X ' RE6AR.DINCJ ME. StCEIM, WEE. OVEESEEE . "yfi"1' ' Si's Taking The Lead With this in mind it is clear that the United States is the logical one to make a forceful move in establishing the best system of maintaining the peace that it is possible to devise. A system is already in effect which, has ' the fondest . hopes of its constituents for success. At . the . time of its inception it was the best conceivable answer to the setting up of a workable world legislative machine to keep the peace. Outside of the disconcert ing, obstructive effect of the use cf , the veto by the Soviet Union rand its satellites, it must be ad . mitted that members of the 4 United Nations have been acting ' in the best of faith with the greatest possible effort to solve the regional and universal prob- lems.. But in spite of the sin- cerity of their offort it is still x true that they have been ineffec- tiye. The Palestine Commission .came to no real solution of the v Palestine problem and saw its leader killed while executing his job as mediator. His murder went unpunished. The UN'sim- ply did not have the power to , take any punitive measures. UNSCOB. the UN Special Committee on the Balkans, posted in Greece for the ob servance of the guerrilla wax fare and the border situation between Greece, Bulgaria, Al bania and Yugoslavia, has found no solution to Balkan difficulties. They may have ob served border transgressions, but what can the UN do about them besides offer reprimands ' and admonitions? Unless some il1 D TIT :;7 - Buy This Space Call Meanwhile... PEOCEEP WITH THE TEST AS LOCK YOUE EOOM 5ECUEELV FEOM THE lNSIDE DOE... IN THE INDICATED' MOENtN WE'LL SIZE UP THE PLACE WHEEE OUR PLANES AND PAKTSj A EE ST0EEPJ A q enforcement can be made of United '. Nation rulings they can have no significance. It is evident that the United Nations is another step forward in the direction of keeping peace by concerted action of all the powers concernd. It is also evi dent that the UN falls short of maintaining a just and lasting peace, and will continue to fall short . until it is given some power of enforcement and some rights to punish effectively transgressions against the UN it self. Until this is done the UN will remain simply an organ of information, investigation and discussion, powerless to disci pline or curtail the belligerent or unfair practices of its mem ber nations. We feel that the United States as the strongest force and leader is the one to introduce into the UN those measures which will bring about the required streng thening of the organization. There is in Congress now a resolution which was introduced into Jthe House with the backing of the 91 Congressmen calling for an amendment to the Con stitution oL the United States empowering the United States to take the lead in bringing about the revision of the charter of the United Nations to insure more effective peace-keeping methods. It is up to the rest of the nation to give these con gressmen the backing they need to see it passed and put into effect before it becomes too late and we are in the very middle of the much-talked-of third world war. piiiiiihii""" VOUf? SHADOW wri oi i STAVED OUT I FRIGHTENED THERE NNHEM V IT , ' YOU CAME F-3371 LOOK, FLY 1FTOU NfcV,lP BABY, IF I HAVE NOTHING To KNEW WHAT TEASE YOU WITH, T.L.C. ME. GULCH ! GO STANDS AND DEEAM OF WHAT THE PKA60NFUES FOE-Ifr- COULt? DO WITH A FEW JET JOBS I GOOD MIGHT i N M - n T- I J I WASHINGTON. Very quiet ly this week, a Negro was made vice-chairman of the party which once wnt to war over the issue of slavery. The Negro is Congressman William Dawson of Chicago, and the man whose place he is taking as Vice-Chairman of the Democratic National Committee is Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City. The change was engineered by Democratic National Chair mart William Boyle and has an interesting background. The vice-chairmanship of the Democratic National Com mittee long was held by May or Ed Kelly of Chicago. Kelly, an active Roosevelt' man, made the position important. After his retirement as may or, the Vice-Chairmanship went to Boss Hague of New Jersey, who last month suf fered a crushing defeat. At that time Hague an nounced that he was ready to resign as Vice-Chairman of the Committee, and Bill Boyle expressed the .hope privately that he would. "I'd grab his resignation in a minute," Boyle told friends. This week Boyle acted. Wil liam Dawson, long a Democratic member of Congress from Chi cago, last January was the first Negro Congressman to become Chairman of a Congressional Committee. As head of the House Expenditures Committee he has got along well with broad - minded Representatives Hardy of Virginia, Lanham of Georgia and Bonner of North Carolina. So Chairman Boyle . elevated him to the vice-chairmanship of the Democratic Na tional Committee. Even more interesting is the , political background behind Dawson's appiontment. The Chicago District which sends him to Congress used to be Republican. And during the Herbert Hoover landslide in 1928, it sent Oscar De Priest, Negro Republi can, to Congress the first Ne gro elected to that body in many years. Result was a hue and cry from Washington so ciety, including many Republi cans, that Congressman De Priest, should not be invited to the regular White House Re ception which the President gives to all members of Con gress. President Hoover did not take a forthright stand on the matter, and although De Priest was finally invited, the debate hurt the GOP's stand ing with the big-city Negro populations. Various other factors were involved, of course, such as FDR's relief program, and Truman's Civil Rights program, but ever since then, the Republicans have lost the Negro vote. Today, two Negroes are mem bers of Congress Dawson from Chicago and Adam Clayton ACROSS I Public vehicle 4. Merchandise ' 9- Remunerate 12 Likelv 13 Over 14. KiriK ol Ihe West ra xons 15. Utter 31 Article 32. (Jreales-i 31. iJuve 3'i. ocean 37. Kruit 35. 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President Truman was so taken by the collection during a private viewing that he remain ed for an hour and a half, ad miring the quaint old antiques, carved ivories, suits of armor, and the Cellini salt cellar. How ever, the President was most impressed by the paintaings, particularly one of Rembrandt'.s self-portfaits. ' There has been a lot of back stage Cabinet debate over the U.N. food and agriculture or ganization's plan to feed the world's needy areas from U. S. farm surpluses. Though Presi dent Truman has given his of ficial blessing, his Secretary of State and Secretary of Agricul ture are definitely against it. They are not opposed to the principle of feeding the hun gry, but to the cost and ma chinery involved. What the FAO advocates is an interna tional clearinghouse where surplus commodities could be gathered, then distributed to impoverished nations. Secre tary Acheson's opposition to this idea has been well known, but it was thought Secretary Brannan was op . posed io him. However, he is not. Their joint opposition is based on the act thai a world food clearinghouse would cost an estimated five billion dol lars, to be divided among na tions according to their na tional income, . which would mean Uncle Sam would foot about half the bill. In other words, it would cost Uncle Sam about 500 million dollars the first year to give away only 360 million dollars worth of surpluses. Therefore Acheson and Bran nan argue that it would be cheaper just to give away the surpluses. They are sure Con gress will think so too. a Brannan and Acheson had a joint session at the White House the other day at which they gave the President the follow ing facts: The Department of Agricul ture now has in its bins 236 mil lion pounds of dried skimmed milk, 80 million pounds of but ter and 64 million pounds of dried eggs, worth a total of about 360 million dollars. But Europeans will not eat the dried milk and eggs. The wheat on hand, which they will eat. fsUiMipi-Jc E5p AiF.i 1 jSlHl J TJTWm . ', I r JS . 1 w.-t 1 M R AIT M AiN I 0 M I IN s Hi LiClEjNiEjCi RiE!N I ' C EIW! 1 IS fc. Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle DOWN CiKtern ''over a chair t'npleaatulv -"llS,..(.,lJ 4 Kisie1 5. Jewish month K'-VolVe 7. i-Vrninine name 5 I'er.sonal con- wlr a t ion 9 I') 11 Fea! herlike Insect A lfirm:it iv a 16- Siberian river 18. Attention 20 Under surface 22. French opera 23 Was defeated 24. Fence in 2C. Science of speech sounds 27. Complement of a mortise 29. In the di.'ec- tion of 30. 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