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f f 4 pAcr. o THE DAILY TAftHTEXL m ?, f JTuiif-g-.i ; it-t-i'tt-r. ..lata 5T()c Daily l3Tareel n otflclnl nwpnper of th Publication Board of the University of North aarolln.n. Chapel H.ll. where it I issued daily durlnf the regular session of th University by U,e Colonial I'rrs. Inc.. exrept Monday, examination and vacation periods, and tin summer tcrros. Entered as second-class matter el lti ORt off lie of thapH Hill. Ti. C. under the act of March 3.-1879. Sab er riptioo price: VM i.r year. M.fiO per quarUr. Member of The Afisociated ITes. the Asvx-lated Press and AP features are exclusively entitled to-the usr for republication of all new r.nd features published herein lli(fT7tet Manimrr C i1tnuiqttne) Editor Sport Editor . , DICK JENRETTE B. MENDENHALL CHUCK HAUSER BILLY CARMICHAEL. lit Editorial Staff: Charlie Gibson. Torn Wharton. Wink Locklair. Bill Kellam. Von yhropihire, Jimmy Kit t r ford. John Stump, Vestal Taylor. ieu Staff: hoy barker. Jr., Zane Kobblns. Bill Johnson. Sam McKeel. VVuff Newell, Don Maynard, Itolfe NeiH, Caroline Bruner, Bob Hennessee. Graham Jones, Clepn Harden. l KufTTie:,-! Hafl: Oliver V..lkin.i, Ed William. Neat Cadieu, June Crockett. lon Stanford. Hootsy Taylor. Bill Brain. Frank Daniels. Ruth Dennis, Kvalyn Harri mn. linn Houson. huih Sunders. I'eKRy Sheridan. Rodney Taylor. Mane Withers. M.irpruct Garrett. Howard Tkkl'v Staff I'iTotouTHnheT .. - James A. Mills Congratulations, Phi Betes While there are many who maintain that the principal benefits derived from college fife result from merely living in a college environment, the primary reason for our atten dance at this University is to further our material knowledge from class room studies. All too many students content themselves with poor scholastic marks by thoughts that they are being automatically broadened by merely staying in this University. There are entirely too many Carolina students who spend all their time playing bridge or going to a movie. Sure, they pass their work. Cramming. late at night before a quiz will do the trick. But there is a considerable question in our minds as to whether the good these students get from college life justifies the time they spend here. Therefore, it is with great pleasure that we take off our hats to the 58 University students who were initiated into Phi Beta Kappa on Monday night. These are the students who came to college with just a little higher ideal than being a collegiate play. boy. They have maintained an average of at least 92.5 throughout their years at Carolina. Their accomplishment is praise-worthy indeed, but Phi Beta Kappa is actually within the reach of many more than the 58 students who succeeded in attaining this high honor. A few less beers and movies and more hours of study would have enabled many more students to attain Phi Bete status. You don't have to be a genius to be a Phi Bete. Of more im portance is determination and resolution to receive the most out of college life. The politician who spends all his time in the Y-Court instead of the library, the socially-suave individual who ex cells as a card player all are missing an integral part of a well-rounded college life by not placing more emphasis on scholarship. Examinations are approaching now. To the freshman we'll say you can pass them without too much difficulty by studying six hours before each quiz. But you will not retain this information two weeks later, and your justification for being at Carolina is to get an education. There will be no quizes given this week. Use the time wisely in preparation for examinations. Getting the Christmas Spirit With the ever-increasing commercialization of Christmas by ambitious businessmen it is a refreshing change to step into the Morehead Planetarium and hear the story of Christ mas narrated in the soft, dramatic words of Dr. Roy Mar shall. Even more appealing is the special display of the skies as they appeared at the time of the birth of Jesus Christ. Christmas comes but once a year, so the merchants try to make the most of it. For. that matter so does winter come once a year and it appears that the two will soon be of equal length. Most people, we believe, try to observe the spirit of Christmas but are restricted by many modern innovations which have dist6rted the original meaning of this holy day. Any day now we expect to hear our best-loved Christmas carols turned into singing commercials. We believe it would be a fine thing if everyone within travelling distance of Chapel Hill would take time off some time during the Christmas season to visit the planetarium and see the special Christmas program prepared by Dr. Mar shall and his assistants. This, we think, would do a great deal toward making people conscious of the greatness of the universe and inspire in them a deeply religious feeling and a greater understanding of Christmas- . Sitting in the planetarium and looking at the magnificent reproduction of the skies as they appeared nearly 2000 years ago and listening to the "heavenly choir" apparently singing from the skies it is difficult to feel anything but humility and the insignificance of the mere individual. One leaves the auditorium with a' greater respect for one's fellowmen and a new conception of Christmas. A visit to the planet arium is tjme well spent and a good start toward getting in to the spirit of Christmas. Credit to the South State College can be justly. proud of its latest addition, the new Reynolds Coliseum. It is a credit not only to State College, but to the whole state of North Carolina and in directly to the entire South. The basketball team of State College, of course, stands to benefit most from the new 12,000 seat structure. And justly so we would say. The athletic facilities at Carolina are considerably better than those of its brother institution in Raleigh. But thanks largely to Coach Everett Case, State has turned out top-flight basketball teams each year. There has been a terrific demand for tickets to the Wolfpack games. And while State has had a new need for a new basketball arena for a number of years, it is doubtful that the college would have ever had its request granted were it not for the force of public demand to see State play. The new Coliseum, then, is also a tribute to Coach Case. Case, more than any other predecessor including Carolina's Ben Carnavale, has been instrumental in bringing a high calibre of basketball to North Carolina and furthering interest in the sport. The Daily Tar Heel considers the new coliseum a definite asset to this state- It won't be long before Carolina will be needing one too. Letters To the Editor 'Of Vital Concern' Editor: Congratulations to the Daily Tar Heel, whose editorial of December 3 touches a matter of vital concern to the intelligent people of our time and to those who are trying to find purpose and goal in the swirling smog of education. There is much talk these days of the counter revolutionary trend of the American College toward providing students with a genuine liberal arts foundation before allowing them to special ize in self-chosen fields. The University of North . Carolina seems to adhere to this idea in voice, but not in action. . It's a splendid idea, this movement toward developing well-rounded, thinking persons by - exposing them to the various aspects of man's cultural development. Such a person is truly able to make a more valid decision when he chooses his major, and has in his background the means of relating his particular fields to the best interests of all men. But something is missing at Carolina. The essence of it is contained in typical remarks ' such as I'll be glad to get out of General College so I can begin learning something." Seniors, and even graduates students, are heard to make interestingly similar statements such as I've quit trying to get an education I must have that degree." Why are so many General College courses in compatible with the idea of developing broad undestanding and appreciation of the ways and problems of man? Why are foreign languages courses, which facilitate memory rather than thinking; required in the General College? - The one General College course that has the potential of helping students synthesize the various fields of science, art, business and religion is relegated to instructors rather than the finest professional teaching skills available; . this Social Science course covers too much ground in loo little time for the mastication and digestion of the general ideas alone, much less the odd-and-assorted dales , and names lo be assimilated. Small wonder that the student finds it diffi cult to keep faith in his studies when he must reply on the urging of others rather than on his own conviction that his g'oal is worthwhile and that his course of action is the best one. Perhaps the University feels that the worth while student will see the light, so to speak, and determine his way without help; if so, there are many potentially worthwhile students who will never have the opportunity lo devel op into thinking, believing, working citizens; these, constituting the voting majority in our democracy, will go through life under the -burden of trying lo find richer values with only cold facts and unorganized spirit. As a student who must extract the good from the morass offered me as the best education available and as a person who was so fortunate as to begin thinking before coming to the Uni . versity, I wonder whether Education will cor rect its course or if it Will try civilization's life before a jury of educational automatons. Henry Edmond Jones THE TOO-OLD OAKEN BUCKET V. -In Print Christmas Spirits! Choo Choo's Shoes Editor: On a visit to the Naval Academy at Annapolis last summer we particularly. enjoyed, seeing the bronze-coated shoes of former athletes. These were displayed in glass cases lining the walls of the entrance hall to the Gymnasium. There were cards beside each pair of shoes saying to whom they belonged, his class, and his particular call to athletic fame. Although we afterwards visited the Museum, the Tomb of John Paul Jones, and other building, we were struck by the fact that attracted to the display of athletes' bronzed shoes far outnumbered any other group. There is something about an absent person's shoes that brings him vividly before you. In fact a number of smart firms have commercial ized on this, so that it is not at all unusual to see a pair of children's bronzed shoes being used as book-ends or desk ornaments in homes, and. in business or professional offices. While we may be aware that the long-ago wearer is now an adult, we recognize the fact that the father or mother will still look at those shoes and visual ize the chubby child who once wore them. The picture of Charlie Justice in today's DAILY TAR HEEL leads me to suggest that we ask the Athletic Association to bronze the shoes he wore on his last run in Kenan Sta dium. These might then be placed in a glass display case in the Gymnasium or the Mono gram Club. We'd not only be proud of lhem now, but in years lo come when Charlie would prabably be baby-silting for Ronnie's grandchildren. Even then we'd look at those shoes, and the ' great Choo-Choo would flash gayly across our memory as he flew down the long stretches of Kenan in those memorable days of 46-'49. Yes, let's keep these shoes of Charlie's as a perpetual memory of a boy whom we wish to always remember. Jim Guthrie Carolina Spirit Edilor: A week ago the Human Relations committee of the YWCA sent letters to all the dorms asking for contributions to help 'them in giving a Christ mas party to some underpriveleged children of Damascus school. I was very pleased to hear this and called on the men in Nash Hall lo donate to this cause. I want everyone on the campus lo know that the men of Nash Hall donated more than three times the amount asked for. They all gave willingly and graciously with a true spirit of Christmas. Let me add; no matter how poor living condi tions or how badly Nash Hall is located I am proud of the men wha live here and proud to say that I am one of them. Anthony J. Gascardi At this time of the year it, is not unusual to see advertised in magazines and newspapers all kinds of eccentric and revolu tionary gift suggestions for Christmas shoppers. However, we ran across an advertisement in The New York . Times the . other day which not only struck us as a singularly novel crea-l tion, but we were1 even more surprised to find such a six column display in that good, grey journal. According to the "times' ad, Cassells Liquors and Wines, In corporated, at 213 .West 125th .Stret, are accepting i member ships in the Liquor of the Month Club. "A great new idea in gift-giving- Liquor" ; delivered monthly throughout the year!', shouts the ad. t And it continues in equally eloquent vein: "If you seek something new and different , in a Christmas gift, this is it! .There has never before been a Liquor of the Month Club. Now you can give your friends, business associates, and cus tomers the gift they'll appre ciate more than anything else a membership in this unique club! ., "Make them remember you several times a year instead of just at Christmas. Month after month your name will be the subject of conversation as your gift "of a famous brand of liquor or wine arrives with your card always appropriate, always welcome! :; .. "Choose from the seven dif ferent plans. For as litle as $16150 you can enroll your friends in the three-month plan. Remem ber all liquors are price fixed. You pay no more by buying from the "Liquor, of the Month Club" except for nominal pack aging charges. Simply send ua your gift list and tell us where and when to ship. We'll do the rest-" The $18.50 play isn't a very exciting deaL They'll send yo a boolle of Ballenline Scotch in December, L W. Harper Bourbon in February. and Pi per Heidsick Champagne in By "Wink" Locklair April. For : $25.35. every four months you will receive that Ballenline Scotch (if s offered in' December on all seven plans -a monopoly) a full, quart of Lord Calvert, a Haig and Haig Pinch Scotch and, in November "E. Remy Martin Cognac. " And on it goes, up to the 12 month plan, called Plan No. , 77, which entitles you lo a bottle of j White Horse Scotch, Cherry , Herring Danish Liqueur, Black and White Scotch, Coates Ply mouth English Gin, Haig and Haig, Seagram's V.O. Canadian, Booth's House of - Lords English Gin, Harvey's Bristol Milk Spanish Sherry, Piper Heidsick Champagne, E. Remy Martin Cognac, Ballantine Scotch, and. I.W. Harper Bourbon. All of which adds up to the most carefully-planned, year-long binge ever conceived in the mind of Man. . . : Now, we have no serious ob jection to anyone imbibing a few before dinner, or throwing down a. Scotch and Soda in the company of convivial compan ions. But the Cassells people are playing with fire and not just fire water alone with their Liq uor of the Month project: Es pecially offering seven different plans. If a man lets Caseells handle all his Christmas shop ping and there's every reason -to believe they'd love the task he could quite . easily, in a year's time, become a hated and shunned,, individual.' . i Just ;Uke you have friends you honor 'with lies and socks. there are other closer acquain tances who may rale a hand some sports shirt or a sweater as a Christmas gift. As related lo the Liquor of the Month Club, the lie and socks friends would be getting thai nasty ole Piper Heidsick Champagne and a bottle or two of inferior , Scotch while the sports shirt and sweater friends would be limbering up with their Haig and Haig or Black and White Scotch, not just three times a year, but once every month! .No doubt the expressman would be called in by some ot the neighbors to see who is getting what hootch from whom and how often. And the sheer agony of waiting around 'til the first, of each month and the suspense of not knowing wheth er a quart of English Gin or a fifth of Spanish Sherry will turn up is' far too risky for the-average man of position to gamble on. "Month after month your name will be subject of conver sation as your famous brand of liquor or wine arrives with your card," says the ad. How true! Think . of the sermons that will be preached, think of the friends you slighted by sending the 3 month plan, think of the chronic alcholics you may have created, and think of the side glances to be thrown and behind-the-hand remarks to be made when "the little wiman" reaches in the mail box around the first of each month and extracts that bulky, easily recognized package. i M 1 AjSiSjAjGjEgl A i H I AT ACROSS " I. Fruit C. Kesinuus - sabstanc $. Part of a wheel 12 Fresh supply 13. Arabian earment 14. American Indian 15. WiniHul 16. One addicted to making plays on words IS. Cause of ruin 19. Likely 20 Mountain lak 21 Burhisqu Z-i. Vegetable 26. Came to rest 27. Calm ' Si. Thousht 33. Adhere - 34. ICater 35. Also - 36. Steen 37. Sieve 40. Low eaiter 43. Sick 44. Luxuriant 47. Covering of a, watch dial 49. Twofold . 50. Swiss river 51. Devoured 52. Greek theater 53. Stain 54. Obstruct 55. Interprets: archaic A'piAjOHjA lIieQp O N nT'i ffijpjd I m Ippei mnme teSi"' OM 1 K'AMW',E cj A) w tM& A s !j Qwj o ! v b aft i IsImqa e r 1 e A 6 UEItHakIc E NTS ulElElplS'LlsiEiTlTlElEls Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle OOWN 1. Breed of hors 2. Chinese wax Random Shots Seen On Campus: Student un concernedly and - innocently walks under big oak tree in the middle of the campus in front of the confederate statue. He ducks as an unidentified, good sized object whizzes past his ear and smashes on the "brick walk at his feet. The student looks down and sees the ..shat tered remains of a small section of a rotten limb Vlying at his feet He looks up" and sees - a husky squirrel, -an evil grin on its fuzzy face, gazing at liinv maliciously from a knot hole with a "Shucks, I missed" ex pression. ,;' T y Ts iff5" . . p5S" ,-. y,W;v.'-'- ''''(' 40 Wi r (42 W3 W T r jT 3. Common weed 4. More recent 6. Point at which a bean sprouts 6. Keyhole guard 7. Touches at the boundary 8. Is able 9. List 10. Koman road 11. Daybreak 17 Fashion 19 Easer 22 Watchful 23 Claw 24. LeRume 25. Spire ornament 2S. Flogged soundly 29 Salutation 30 Still 32. Fits one Intlde another :?3 Wind spirally 35 Of greater heicht 3S l.asyii 3!t Htt1e 40 "i2ar fish 41 Ueseecn 42 Northernmost point of the ' !?! ot Man 45 Fruit .ot the hln-kthorn . 4fi Pme.t ii fowl 4 Shoe Hw-het 49 June bug AP Newsfeotvres osKlngton ; Merry-Gd-Round By Drew Pearson WASHINGTON. Two men with bristling eye brows glowered, snorted and shouted at tkch other last week when the miners' Welfare Fund trustees met behind closed doors. They were John L. Lewis and Charles Dawson, ex-federal Judge of Louisville, Kyi, representing the operators. In the middle sat Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, neutral trustee. Calling the meeting to order, Lewis announce!: "the people present today are Trustees Bridget:. Trustees Lewis and Interloper Dawson." Then Dawson tried p present his credentials, and Bridges moved lo accept them. But Lewis rapped the table and called the rolL He spat out a surly "no" Bridges voted "yes." Dawson also clamored to vole, but Lewis cut him off., - This same routine was repeated over every question that came up. Each lime Dawson de manded to vote, and each lime Lewis refused to recognize him. Lewis called him a "rank outsider," present only by "sufferance." Dawson shouted back his right to be heard. Finally the meeting adjourned. Nothing was accomplished, except that the two bushy-browed trustees were still sputtering at each other. , Illegal Air Treaties It was buried in the financial sections of the big city newspapers, but one of the mostt import ant court decision affecting the treaty-making power of the State Department was handed down last week. As a result our relations with Canada are in a dither. U. S. Judge Jim Procter and Alan Goldsborough were the two judges who had the courage to challenge the right of the State Department to negotiate executive agreements with another ' country without ratification by the Senate. To date the Slate Department has negotiated 38 air treaties without paying any attention to the Constitution of the United States which re quires treaties with foreign countries to be rati fied by a two-thirds Senate vote. Now, for the first' time, the courts have called a stop. While the court decree did not actually pass on the merits of the issue, and actually passed the question on to the supreme court, nevertheless Canada is already up in arms. What brought the isuue to a climax was when Colonial Air Lines, , a small 'company with a phe nomenal 19-year record without a fatality, got tired of being kicked around. . , . The State Department had given Canada a route parallel to Colonial's, from Montreal to New York, while simultaneously denying Coloni al the right to fly to Washington. So Colonial challenged the State Department's power to negotiate a treaty without Senate ratifi cation. In retaliation, Canada is now so irate that it has served Colonial with notice to show cause why it should not be closed down on the Montreal route after December 12. What the issue partly boils down to is that the big air lines are able lo hire lop cabinel . level lobbyists lo protect their interests when , Stale Department executive agreements are being written. American airlines, for. instance, retains as its. attorney, the Son-in-law of Secretary of Stale ' Acheson; while Pan American, long retained Louis Johnson, now Secretary of National De fense. The little companies, able lo afford no such lobbying luxury, have lo fall back on the constitution of the United Stales. 'Sockless' Jim Folsom Jt has never been told before how "Kissin' Jim" Alabama's fabulous Governor James E. Fol som almost became known as "Sockless Jim." Except for the delicate intercession of a thoughtful Mobile publisher, the Alabama Chief Executive might still be living down a front-page reputation as the "barefoot governor with shoes on." The trouble was that Jim's feet were so big he couldn't find a pair of socks to fit. He solved tht problem simply by going without socks and wear his Charlie Chaplin brogans over well-scrubbed but naked feet. This went against the grain with R. B. Chand ler, publisher of the Mobile Press-Register, who suspected, that the eyes of the nation would be cast on the governor's big, undraped feet. So with the dignity of Alabama at stake. Chandler dictated a formal letter to Ihe Gov ernor just before his inauguration. Chandler observed, in effect, that he didn't mind Big Jim slicking his foot in his mouth occasionally if he didn't stick both feet in the public eye. He pointed out f that the Governor's feel sans socks, would be exposed lo news cameras at the inauguration and might make bigger news than the ceremony ilself. Finally, lo save the stale from embarrassment. Chandler offered to scare up some socks for the Governor. Big Jim cheerfully accepted the offer, and Chandler sent out 'a frantic plea to the Cotton Mills. He warned, that a "Sockless Governor" in the heart of the cotton belt would be bad pub licity for the industry, might even start a fad among the younger generation who would imitate 'the Governor and also go without socks. A cotton mill in Northern Alabama immediate ly responded. It made up a batch of oversized socks that would fit the Governor of Alabama, and Big Jim wears them to this day. Neglected Children WTiile the American public has responded to many worthly drives to make our people healthier and happier citizens, the Government and par ticularly Congress has been blind to a dis graceful social problemthe lack of public school faciltities for feeble-minded children. While we have been making great strides in the scientific development of the atom chiefly for war purposes we are slUl in the dark ages relative to caring for close to a mil lion mentally retarded children. Note Every state-operated training school for the ; feeble-minded has a long waiting list. Two states, Nevada and Mississippi, do not even have a training school for this purpose. Arizona is building one. - - DECEMBER ?
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