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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL. SUNDAY, JANUARY 22, 1950 Jazz and Ear New China Policy Washington v MERRY-G0-R0UMD Piano Lessons By. "Wink" Locklalr Tf) e 3)aifo ar Meet j Tli ofTKUl newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North i Carolina. Chupel Hill, where it is issued daily during the regular sessions of i the University by the Colonial Press, Inc., except Mondays, examination and vncii'n periouit, ana the summer term, tnlerea as eecona-clasa mater at thv post oil ice of Chapel Hill, N. C. under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub-M-rlption price: S8.00 per year, $3.00 per quarter. Member of The Associated Frens. The Associated Press and AP features arc exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news features published herein. .DICK JENRETTE . C. B. MENOENHAIX t t: 1 r Kduor Hviinem Manager ... . Ma intuitu Editor ..... , Spnrt Editor ...CHUCK HAUSERt ..TAYLOR VADEN c F F Hewn Editor Roy Parker, Jr. Desk Editor Zane Robbins Society Editor Caroline Bruner t'lintnyrapher Jim Mills Adv. Manager ;...OHver Watkins Bus. Office Mgr. Ed Williams Nat'l Adv. Mgr ,.. June Crockett. Td aortal Staff: Jack Brown, Bill Kcliam, Mike McDaniel. Tom Wharton, Charlie Gibson, Joe Seykora, Vestal Taylor, Al Johnson. Charlie Joyner. Dave I' h a rp. John Stump. Wewn Stafj: Rolfe Neill. Don Maynard. Glenn Harden. Bill Johnson, Wufl Newell. Sam McKeel, Mark Sumner, Art Xanthos. Graham Jones, Charlie r.rewer, flnny Jones. M. K. Jones. huniness Staff: Neal Cadieu. Dn Stanford, Bootsy Taylor, Bill Brain, Frank Daniel. Ruth Dennis, Evalyn - Harrison, Peggy Sheridan. Marie Withers, Howard Tickle. Randy Shiver. Charles Ashworth. Mary Tomlin. Dick MacGill. tirandon Hohbs. Jim Llndley. fiHtr't Staff: Larry Fox, Frank Allston. Jr., Joe Cherry. Lew Chapman, tndy Taylorv Art Greenbaum, Biff Roberts, Ronald Tilley, Billy Peacock, D Krn Barton. ca Society Staff: Peggy Wood. Marie Withers, Betty Ann Yowell, Judy Sanford. , Margery Storey. So Little Time a: "Every good endowment and every perfect gift is frorru above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom tf there is no variation or shadow due to change." This quota- . tion from the letter of the apostle James inspired a certain student here to" draw a parallel between mankind and the ta "strange fish that move silently at the bottom of the dark tr and dangerous sea, limited and impeded by their own atmos c0 phcre, and doomed to live by the rain of travel-twisted fragments from above." However, he added to the picture w the statement that "even the deep-sea fish carry their own sa lights." w) This is a striking picture to anyone who has felt the need f for more and better education among the exponents of j Christianity, who are confronted with defending Religion eJ against the greatest and most wide-spread enemies it has Ai ever had to face. The apostle Peter wrote in his first letter, "Be ready always to give an answer to every man who calls In you to account for the hope that is in you." It is a sad d truth that too many " of our Church leaders and Church workers would be easily bested in intelligent debate with pj materialists, agnostics, Kremlinites, and non-Church-goers Li in general-who have had a college or university education, cli Christianity in too many cases is not intellectually respect T able. - Tl s The necessity of providing Christian higher education, 0j and of producing higher educated Christians is not only an It important need, but & desperate one. A half-century of un wj precedented slaughter, cruelty, suppression, and oppression, M and actual slavery among peoples who have had both Chris tianity and education in separate slavery among peoples dr who have had both Christianity and education in separate compartments has shown that education without Chirstian M ity is a misguilding- force, and that Christianity without ed Bl ucation robs itself of the opportunity to affect greater num Jf bers of people effectively. We must learn to sharpen our presentation of Christianity: though we must wait for the c Holy Spirit to work upon the minds of our hearers, we dare Tu npt only wait. We not only have to do today's job, but un w fortunately, we are having to do yesterday's job. The time, for action has long since been due, and we can not longer wait to correct the conditions which are snowballing our world into chaos. The tme is now, and each minute precious time is stealing our only opportunity. The "now" of each moment as it passes is mocking our lethargy, for tomorrow j we may not be here, or the next day for upon it may come such a dawn as will chill our self-righteous blood into the 1 icy water that seeks its level under the mountains of utter 1 despair. " : ' J There is so much' to be done! Our public schools have been denied the right to teach religion, buVour colleges and universities may Still ehiov the freedom imnlirit in Amprinan y 1 - ...w .-vii I O DC UOn -democracy: it is on the level of higher edu I cation that the basic answer to our problems jinust bo sought. The "now" of our fleeting moment as stu dents in college is thus not only an invaluable opportunity, lit is a challenge also. As .Christians, as students, and as citi -1 zens of our nation and our world, it is our duty to increase our wisdom and understanding, and to truly base our wisdom , and understanding on the proverb: "Reverence for the Lord is the beginning of knowledge." . As future citizens .and future parents, Christian higher .-education is our job. -Our ; church' schools need our fullest pt financial and spiritual' support for the biggest job of all ciitimc: the actual, last-stand attempt of man to save his world. cf History has shown that all our wealth, economic security, riarts and sciences are not enough to give us real security, to or even the faintest glimmer of individual or collective peace. ir( Psychology doesn't have the panacea, and neither does phi milosophy. All the ethics and moral codes of four thousand shycars of civilizations, are inadequate, for man alone does not have the power to fulfill his ideals. Ethics without religion cais nothing more than hypocrisy and pride. It -is religion j-j which we have lost religion which, alone, can restore man filto sanity, dignity, and secure peace. 'There Is !So Much qa Unly in a rediscovery of our incomprehensibly patient .God can we build individual or world peace, for man alone .can never do the job: he needs. an infusion of power from outside his world. That power is our long-ignored God. As students at the University,: we cannot say that we salack the opportunity for action.- Thanks to the generosity stand far-sightedness of James A. Gray, distinguished alumnus thand citizen of our state, we have a new and growing Depart ment of Religion here which must command our utmost and immediate attention. : Only in the sober education of our pninds and hearts can win the war. ahead. That war 'is -ot he war against ignorance and deceit.. This is no time for an giirittemptcd resurgence of fundamentalism or religious totali tarianism. Our war is. against ignorance in all its forms. ch It is five minutes. until. twelve 'in .history: we have five asrminutes left to transform midnight into noon. 1 v Mike McDaniel Adolescence, the so-called "awkward; age,", is approached with- genuine- aiarm and apprehen sion oy many youngsters because it is usually during this period that, among other things, parents begin negotiations for a "torture process" , commonly Known as "lessons on the piano." ;. It is true, unfortunately, that in a number of ' cases, ' the lessons turn out to be "torure processes" for these same well-meaning' parents! Listening to little John or Jane labor in the fields or Schumann's. "Happy Farmer" or flat three notes of a C-major scale hour upon hour, is indeed often a burden which the home folks look upon wanly as a formidable, but necessary evil. . 4, , .v"-;r. .' In a new book by Dr. William S. Newman. Associate Professor of Music and Chairman of Instruction in Piand in the University of North Carolina, students of the keyboard and their parents, as well as' teachers and interested laymen, will find answers to many perplexing problems about this much used and abused in strument. : ! '. The slender, attractive volume, published by Harper Brothers, New York,' and in Britain by Cassells, is called "The Pianist's Problems," and includes a number - of clever illustrations by John V. Allcott, Chairman of the Art Department in the University here. The introduction was written by the well-known concert pianist, Ar thur Loesser. The book is a modern, realistic approach to efficient practicing and performing and was in spired by a recent lecture-recital tour Dr. New man made of colleges ' and universities in the Midwest. "During the tour I was much impressed by the eager interest in everything that was practical and up-to-date about piano playing," he says. "So I decided to put down in writing a straight-forward account of what I thought every pianist ought to know." Readers of Dr. Newman's book will be sur prised to see that he allows and even encourag es several practices which for a number of years were considered undersirable, if not al together taboo. For example, he thinks the student can profit from playing by ear. "In the first place there are marked correlations be tween this ability and the ability to memorize. Almost invariably, the student who cannot play by ear memorizes slowly and insecurely." Dr. Newman remarked. Anything and everything that appeals to the student and that can be culled from memory should be played by ear. This is most likely to include folk-type music, familiar themes from standard classics, and jazz. "Do not disavow the kind of balanced diet that includes jazz, which stands as- one important part of our American culture," Dr. Newman suggested. "Day in and day out the contention that jazz players cannot adapt themselves to 'serious concert music is disapproved.". , V In the section devoted to technique, Dr. New man points" out ..that- in recent years numerous teachers and performers have gone "overboard" in the Use v exercises. "'They glorify the exer ciser the point where it is done as a matter of ' course and 'and for its own sake, quite apart from the goal it should prepare," the author says. He maintains that the practice of the famous Carl Czerny studies leads mainly to the perfec ion, of, that particular study rather, than to Bee- thoven or Chopin or composers in general. "The way to learn Beethoven is, first of all, to practice Beethoven. I will say, however, that there are times when a certain study will answer a special need very well. Then that study should be prac ticed, but only as ; needed and not on general principle." Regarding practice in general. Dr. Newman warns that the pianist who makes mistakes in his practice learns those mistakes whether he means to or not. "For every mistake that has once been 'an accident' the pupil will learn in spite of himself, and that mistake can be counted on with certainty to appear each time the piece he has learned is played." The cure for this habit takes time and effort, but the im portant thing is to catch yourself before you make the mistake. One of the most entertaining sections of the book is called "The Worst Bogey of Them All Stage Fright." "Nearly everybody gets stage fright," Dr. Newman states, "and you might as well be realistic about it. The pianist who tries to avoid the thought beforehand is in for la rude awakening. I knew a fine young lady pianist who sought to divert her mind from the fear of play ing before an audience by reading Shakespeare just before each concert. The result was that she usually walked on the stage with excellent com posure and almost collapsed ; in the first few minutes as the reality of the situation forced itself upon her!" , Writing about or performing at the piano is nothing new for Dr. Newman,. He is now at work on a history of the sonata idea, and in March he will begin a tour of New -York and New "England, playing recitals: and giving lec tures at the Brooklyn Museum Boston, the Uni versity of Maine, Dartmouth College, and in other cities." A detailed article about the "Ameri can composer, Arthur Shepherd, has just , been completed by Dr. Newman and is scheduled to appear in the next issue of The Musical Quarterly. In his extensive, travels he has conducted research in many of the world's leading libra ries. His private; library contains one of the world's most compresensive and representative collections of sonatas more than 3000 as well as a rounded collection of landmarks in music history. . The actual writing of 'The Pianist's Problems" was one of the most satisfying tasks that I can recall undertaking," Dr. Newman said. "There is a satisfaction in getting down to earth, in probing problems of every4ay concern to student and teacher." (The book was originally called "Are You Wasting Time at the Piano.") 'JS Distributed by King Features Syndicate fej rrn cement with Th Washington Star CPU Roundtable Far Eastern Dilemma By Edlyn W. Freerks For the past several months there has been a growing con troversy in Washington and else where in the country over our Far Eastern policy, or lack of it. Very few Americans are pleased with the tremendous successes of the Chinese Communists dur ing the past two years, but opin ion is sharply divided on wheth er or not a more intelligent pol icy by our State Department could have stopped or-at least slowed down these Communist gains. . President Truman, ''Secre tray Acheson, and their sup porters claim that no amount of additional American aid could have enabled Chiang Kai-chek to defend his re gime, because it has been rapidly losing popular support among the Chinese people. Critics of the Administration, led by Senator Knowland of -California and other Republi can senators, claim that this Qpuntry should ' have been more positive in its support of the Nationalists, for, with all their 'faults, they are' clearly the 'lesser of two evils." Fur thermore, these critics warn that . the Communists, now that they control nearly all of the Chinese mainland, are likely to expand soon onto the offshore islands of Hain an, Formosa, and then to oth er parts of Southeastern Asia. The entire controversy boils down at present to two specific issues with which this country is now faced. The first is, should we give military andor naval aid to the Nationalists on For mosa; if so, how much. The oth- . er issue involves the recognition of Mao Tse-tung's Communist government as the legal brie of China, a step which Britain, In dia and other nations have al ready taken. Britain's action was not surprising to most ob- BLINKS TABULATED NEW YORK (P) Each time you blink, your vision is cut off for three-tenths of a second. All your daily blinks add up to a lot of no-seeing during a day. Since . a . short period of read justment is needed after each blink, psychologists figure that" you go about more or less un seeingly for 11 to 20 per cent of your' waking day, the Better Vision .Institute reports. "Blinking keeps the eyes moist and clean,' and provides:; rest ' and refreshment for the nerves and brains. A man whose eyes were kept ' open forcibly would go to pieces, the psychologists say." - There's quite a difference, be tween a wink and a blink, be sides intent. In a wink, the up per and lower lids share the job about equally, meeting over the, pupil. But in a blink, most of the work is done by the up-, per lid, with the two lids meet ing about at the base of the iris. servers in view of her large in vestments in China. American recognition may be delayed for a few months, largely because of the blundering", unjust actions by the Communists against An gus Ward and other Americans. Assuming, however, that most of the major nations of the world soon recognize the Red regime, the question of replace ment of Nationalists by Com munist as representatives to the United Nations will have to be resolved. In the Security Council the line-up would then be 8 ;to 3 on most important is sues after the Communists rep resent China. The Big Five members who have .the veto power will be split 3 to 2 in stead of 4 to 1. In following Secretary Ach eson's advice and against that of several men in the Defense Department President Tru man has taken' the position that en if the Communists is .16 Jp i7 ia 21 22 23 Wffi, JU Hi I&VZl ?-- .- -22 3? r ... 41 42 HORIZONTAL 1. feign 5. Mohamme. dan prince , 9. likely. 12. gentle breeze 13. recent 14. game of1' chance - 15. persevereX i 17. scrutinizes. 19. serf 20. godly persons 21. attitudes 23. glisten 24. strikes " 25. rigid 26. mother-- . 28. donkey 29. prophets 1 30. torrid; 31. mother of Titans 32. fixed gaze --. 33. caution 34. declare 35. walking" sticks 36. pointed weapons 38. inland body - - of water - 39. vigilant 40. Irishmen " (colloq.) a 43. prefix:" wrong, 44. equal 46. son of Jacob 47. printer's ' measures 48. slight s depression ' 49-epochs VERTICAL' 'i. undermine. ' 2. tint - . ' 3. stems '4. lumps 5. otherwise . 6. small rug ;7. neuter pronoun 8. mends 9. straighten 10. bard 11, throw .16. those in power Answer to yesterday's puzzle. loPl.Er AMI SCAD iImIainI M AiIA L. STARI N6"AUS dTn TTc iTlz" aTr, E AS m I IlOj PIA" R.T P T D O S iii Op S IE HiiiT S 1 STEPHENS Z" sTHfA L E R U D DIM Mlii & lAH'O I AL iiill ill I A C WEAK ENS f EEP Average time of solution: 22 miaates. .Distributed by Kin $ Feature Syndicate J 18. part of bowling green . 20. distribute : 21. one that eats: comb, form . 22. river in. France 23. cubic--metric ' unit 25. places 26. English author 27. sweetsop 29. began .. 30. more . - convenient 32. asterisk 33. taper 34. blinds v 35- Mas'sachu ' - setts cape 36. identical 37. method 38. gasp . : v 40. writing implement tl. feminine ' name - v .42 sister . - , (colloq.) 45. Odin's " brotfcer succeed in occupying Formosa we shall still be able to pro tect our interests in the West ern Pacific. Furthermore, lim ited intervention at the start could . possibly snowball into becoming involved in a major war. This policy may be some what modified after our rov ing ambassador. Dr. Phillip Jessup returns from his cur rent trip in this part of the world. . Meanwhile, Republicans - are constantly criticizing; " this . non intervention; - Some1 : say ' that in view off this "failure" of Ameri can Far Eastern policy, they will attempt to cut drastically our. aid to Western Europe. Thus, they propose -intervention in orie part of the ' world and' isolation in another. The Admin istration, on the other hand, proposes intervention to ''con tain Communism" where there is a reasonably good chance to do so. ; " ' ; ' ' By Drew Pearson WASttittGTUW A siranye poliUcal paradox tooK place lectini wiuioui ny pouncai taniare. At auttosl tne suiae tune irtMuenl iruman was icpeauiig usi uemanu lor congress to pass tne imnan rarm rum, ne quieuy signeu a law repeaung nis demand ior -congress to pass the lo aud to tne irony, tne part oi tne urannan Plan wnicn ne Kiuea was put on the books by tne tiepuDlican win Congress the same Re publicans wno are now storming against the tliannan Plan. Tne issue involved in this amazing mixup is the controversial production-payment plan .supposed to keep farm prices high yet allow consumer prices to drop. The idea is to send farm surpluses to market instead of govern- t ment warehouses, thereby giving housewives the benefit of resulting declines in prices. Then Uncle Sam would pay the farmer the difference between the otticial support price and the market price. This idea has oeen hailed by the Democrats as the magic formula for tarm prosperity and at no extra cost to consumers. The Republicans, on the other hand, have illustrated their opinion of the formula in a cartoon labeled "Brannan Plan," showing a cow giving milk at both ends. But what both sides seem lo have over looked is that this double-ended cow was a creation of the Republicans. The same plan that the Republicans are now ridiculing was made a part of the Hope-Aiken Farm Bill, and passed by the GOP 80th Congress. The Hope -Aiken Act would have become law on January 1, except for the paradoxical fact that the Democrats repealed it. In so doing, they repealed the core of the Brannan Plan that they are now clamoring for. . Four months before the Brannan Plan was ever ' born, Republican Sen. George Aiken of Vermont defended the production-payment idea before a farm meeting at St. Paul, Minn. Des cribing the Hope-Aiken Act, Aiken declared: "Another important provision in the new aet is that which permits the Secretary (of Agriculture) to support prices through payments as well as loans and purchases. "This means that the Secretary could author ize the sale of a commodity in the open market and the support price," Aiken continued. One of the advantages, he suggested, would be "to give the consumers the benefit of large crops and lower prices." This speech was delivered Dec. 14, 1948. At that time, the production-payment plan had al ready been approved by the GOP Congress. And sitting behind Aiken on the Speakers' Platform was none other than Secretary of Agriculture Charlie Brannan. It wasn't until April 7, 1949. however, that Brannan came out with almost the same idea. Immediately the Republicans derided the production-payment idea which they, themselves, had already voted into law. But the most amazing episode in this farce 1 came last year. The Democrats put up a stiff fight to try out the production-payment idea on three commodities, but the Republicans summoned enough voting strength to defeat them. Yet all the time they were battling ove?.-' three commodities, the production-payment plan was already on the law books not just for three commodities, but for whatever commod ities the Secretary of Agriculture chose. Finally, the Democrats, still crying- for pro duction payments, repealed the Hope-Aiken Act containing production payments. The President calmly signed the repealer, then came back to Congress and demanded enactment of the Bran nan Plan, including most important of all the production payments which he had . just re pealed! . White-haired octogenarian Rep. Adolph Sa bath of Illinois, who seems to grow younger with the years, informed his friend, President Truman, that he was giving him a belated Christ mas present two bottles of pre-prohibition Bourbon. "I've been saving it a long time," reported Sa bath. "It's strictly for medicinal purposes, of course, in case you catch a cold or get bitten by Republicans." i "Their bark is stronger than their bite," grin ned Truman, "but the whiskey will be good to keep on hand, just in case. Bring it along the next time you come to" see me." "Mr. President, do you think it would look right for me to be seen smuggling two bottles into the White House?" asked the Illinois 1 Democrat in a scolding voice.' "Maybe I belter send them over to messenger." "Oh, no you won't." retorted the President. i-T T?",0 ri9hl here helP me mple this liquid dynamite before we put it away in the medicine cabinet. How do I know it won't - . poison people?" . "You don't," replied Sabath. "But you're not making a guinea pig out of me. Try it out on a Republican." Ut on IRON CURTAIN CAPSULES " EASTERN GERMANY-150,000 slave laborers tTan 68 00 C SaXh "raniu- , More" . than 68,000 Germans who escaped from the Russian zone last year ended up in tSJ5 Bohlgang Refugee Camp in the West ArlZ them were 372 members the J. AUSTRIA-Under Russian management pro duction at the Zistersdorf Oil Fields hrdr0pPS 20 per cent m recent months: cropped ' VBULGARIA-Nineteen Bulgarians' them members of the CommunTarln! go on trial for daring to appear as def wU nesses the infamous Rostov treason t"L
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