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SUNDAY, JANUARY P.O. Va PAGE TV0 THE DAILY TAR HEEL JUL The ofTIclal rewpapr of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina. ChnpH JIjII. where? it l issued daily during the regular sessions of the University by tn- Colonial Press, Inc., except Mondays, examination and vacation period, nnd the summer terms. Entered as second-class mater at the post office of Chapel Hill. N. C. under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub icnption price: $8 fM) per year, $3.00 per quarter. Member of The Associated Pres. The ARiociated Press and AP features are exclusively entitled to the ii';" for republication of all rifwi f.-)tur published herein. ydit7,r . DICK JENRETTE iri-ft Manager - C. B. MENDENHALL itlnmniinij Editor 6'porfK Editor .. jWti's Editor Roy Parker. Jr. Druk Editor Zane Bobbins .Vxlef Editor Caroline Bruner ytmlrxirnnher . Jim Mills T.'iiUniii' Stuff: Jack Brown. Bill Keliarn. Mike McDaniel. Tom Wharton, Charlie Cibson. Joe Seykora, Vestal Taylor, Al Johnson, Charlie Joyner, Pave thiirpe. John Slump. S id i Sin ft: H olfe'Ncill, Don Maynard. Glenn Harden, Bill Johnson, Wuft Kewell, Sam Mi-Keel, Mark Sumner, Art Xanthos, Graham Jones, Charlie p.iTwrr. (jinny Jones. M. K. Jones. SIGNS OF THE TIMES "O ye hypocrites," said Jesus, "Ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?" We can make the Pharisees and Sadducees look silly when it comes to "discerning the face of the sky." We have named and numbered all the stars and planets, written down their sizes, weights, and even temperatures, and computed their orbits. In fact we have got every right to be pretty cocky when it comes to scientific knowledge. We have even made it a glory of our age how science "goes self-superseding on" in theology a new truth may be greeted with alarm and a new outlook with apprehension, but in science new discov eries blasting the pride and great achievements of other ages are hailed as new peaks of progress and .accepted as chal lenges as a matter of routine. Science it's wonderful! , But when we come to the "signs of the times," we aren't much better off than the Pharisees. That really, is what makes the mid-twentieth century such an interesting period for young people to live in. We are living through one of the most profound revolutions of history, and the "signs" are indistinct and uncertain, pointing two ways at once, and pointing with a greater urgency than ever before. Our grandfathers, for instance, had no misgivings at all about what the future would hold in store. The democratic tradition, they thought, would naturally prevail in backward countries. The free enterprise system would bring a steadily rising standard of living for all classes. .Christianity and humanitarjianism would temper the over-acquisitive in stincts, and would give meaning and graciousness to our lives. Warfare was on the decline, and soon civilized nations would be able to look forward to endless vistas of calm, peace, end prosperity. "The rockets' red glare" and "bombs bursting in air" were outmoded, not startlingly contemporary. Look at us now. All the things that our grandfathers be lieved to be eternally self-evident truths are sharply chal lenged and repudiated both at home and abroad. New faiths possessed of immense vitality scorn our democracy, and ancient heresies, once crushed, rise again to confront us. Our economic system has already undergone radical transforma tion, and undoubtedly will change even more. Christianity has sharpely declined in strength before the new creed of liberal humanism, and, newly but not yet entirely conscious of past errors, has not risen with its reputed power against the gods of totalitarianism. The individualism of the last century has given place to the creed of social conformity, with its high premium on the individual whose ideas conform to social norms. Wars, far from vanishing, have increased in ferocity until they dwarf and previously recorded inhuman ity of history. And finally the hydrogen bomb, and, consider ing robot weapons, can man last as long as war? Yet, for all this, there is no other period of history in which we could rather live than in the present. No other age has been as suggestible to profound, radical, conseravtive changes as ours is. Ours is no age for the cowardly and un imaginative ours is a time for greatness. The power we have, with God, to shape the course of history is tremendous ly greater than that of the youths of any previous age. We are seeing history being written in our daily newspapers; we are living in the very presence of history, we are history. The questions that our generation must answer are many nnd complex. Which of the present tendencies in our re ligous, political,, and social beliefs are desirable, and which must be reversed? From where comes the vitality of the' ideaologies which confront and threaten our own beliefs? . What values and beliefs are more than fables for our Atomic t Age? Which are relevant to our problems, and which should be discarded? Shall we cling toour own nationalism while decrying the nationalism of all other countries? Is interna . tionalism of all other countries? Is internationalism really possible or desirable? What about the social indoctrination ' ; we are all subjected to? How can we stand fast against tides ; of propaganda? How can we know right from wrong? If any of us want to settle down and grapple with these ; questions, the Montreat Retreat is the best place available for us. There'll be a discussion group on courtship, but there's more than that. Houseparties are fun, but house- parties are silly compared to this. Here, in the only activity . in which all levels of the campus can get together, we will ; have the opportunity for discussing Christian ethics and their importantly eternal applications to our modern prob lems. We will have an opportunity for close and personal contact with fellow student, campus, and faculty leaders . most of our student government leaders will be there, as well as heads of other organizations. The particular importance of this Retreat is that we will ' have the opportunity to see the forest without too many of the trees getting in our way. We can plan future activities for the campus and evaluate what has been done in a more-or-lcss detached light. This is a vital necessity; how else can we remain truly normal in an incessantly busy and buzz ing abnormal world? We need this. It may well be that the world needs to stand off from itself before plunging back . busily into its eternal and temporal tasks, too. The Registra- tion Desk is in the "Y" lobby ... so don't just stand there sign up! . CHUCK J1AUSER TAYLOR VADEN Adv. Manager Oliver Watkins Bun. Office Mqr Ed Williams Nat'l Adv. Mgr June Crockett -Donnelly, et. al. Pitching Horseshoes by ! Billy Rosa Next time you meet a fellow who doesn't believe in anything he can't measure with a slide rule", ask him "to gfveyou a logical explanation of the doc umented case history of Pa tience Worth. ... On a July in 1913, iwo Si. Louis housewives, a Mrs. John Curran and a Mrs. Emily Hulchings, were amus ing ihemsleves with an ouija board a . parlor pastime as popular then as Canasta is now. Suddenly Mrs. Curren felt a strong pressure on her hands and the pointer began lo spell out a message: "Many moons ago I lived. Again I come. Patience Worth my name." ,' When the skeplcal house wife asked to know more about the lady at the other end of the line, the board immediately answered that Patience Worth had been born in Dorsetshire, England, in 1694, and had al ways wanted to be a writer. So began the strangest litera ry collaboration in the history of psychic phenomena, and during the next 15 years, with Mrs. Curran acting as medium, Patience Worth turned out four fulllength novels and almost '2,500 poems 3,000.000 words in all. The first novel, "A Sorry Tale," was published by the reputable and unsensationally minded firm of Henry Holt and . Co., and when The New York Times reviewed it on July 8, 1917, it said, "This long and in tricate tale of Jewish and Ro man life during - the time of Christ is constructed with the precision and accuracy of a master hand. It is a wonderful, a beautiful and a noble book." The second novel, "Hope Trueblood," was the story of a peasant girl in 17th Cen tury England, and it was ex tolled by a London reviewer as "a landmark, of fiction." And in "Braiihwaiie's Anthol-, ogy of Poetry for 1917, "there were three poems by Vachel Lindsay, three by Amy Lowell, one by Edgar Lee Masters, and five by Patience Worth. The easy explanation for this phenomenon, of course, is that the St. Louis housewife was a talented writer who had in vented the story of Patience Worth to get herself a little publicity. But before you make up your mind, consider the fol lowing: At the beginning, Mrs. Cur ran got her message via the ouija board a letter at a time, but halfway through the first book, she, began to "see" whole words, and sentences; and from then on she dictated to her husband at the - rate of . 110 words per minute. And hardly a dozen of the 3,000,000 words were of a vintage later than the 17th Cenutry. A great deal of her writing was done in the presence of reliable witnesses and inves tigators, and etymologists Vho examined her prose and poe try testified - that it was im possible, without years of study and training, for a per son to compose as much as a short story in 17th Century English. Moreover, they unan imously agreed that the middle-class housewife who had never gone to high school and and never been out of Mis souri was the last person in St. Louis to write a 70,000 word narrative in iambic blank verse in 70 hours. Many other oddish facts about this medium confused tne psy sologists and non-belivers who came to investigate. Mrs, Cur- ran often worked on three of four stories simultaneously, and would skip from one to the otier in the course of a sitting without losing, track of 'the narratives. And once, when her husband mislaid an early chap ter of "A Sorry Tale," Patience Worth obligingly dictated it all over again. In St. Louis in 1920, before an audience of writers, scientists and civic leaders at the Artists' Guild, Patience Worth was ask ed through Mrs. Curran to make up a 25-line .poem, each line beginning with a different let ter of the alphabet which she did without faltering, going if;--' fed-up 34-- frpiltSllit P6 President Truman's recent tax message to Congress recalls to mind the old song about the "Old Gray Mare not being what she ised to be." In 1930 for in stance, Federal Revenue (chief ly from taxes) amounted to roughly three and one-half bil-. lion dollars, but this year Fed eral Revenue will probably total 38 billion. The unprecedented heights to which tax rates have risen in recent years make tax es a force which vitally affects America's economic, social, and ' political life. : . . . ' The causes necessitating this tremendous growth in "the cost of government" are in general well known. The ex pense of modern war, com bined with overseas aid, and the cost of running a govern- . ment which has assumed re sponsibilities which were practically unimaginable ' twenty years ago have run up the bill. Since the beginning of World War II federal taxes have dom inated the national tax system. And it is the personal income tax which, in turn, has ddmin ated the federal tax structure. At the present time it accounts for roughly a half pf all federal taxes. Since this is a direct tax, however, there is often a ten dency among people to let the tremendous web of hidden, or relatively hidden, excise taxes to "z" and leaving out the letter "x" as per instruction. Who was Patience Worth? Well, variou researchers went into this carefully and report ed that a girl by that name was born in 1694 in Dorset shire County, England; that some 30 years later she mi grated to America, and was. killed during an Indian attack in King Philip's War. And that many of the architectural landmarks referred to in her novels are still, standing in Dorsetshire, and local records indicate that others had ex isted around 1694. Patience Worth stopped com municating with Mrs. Curran in 1923, and Mrs. Curran died nine years later, but to this day no body has been able to success fully ridicule .this greatest-of-all literary riddles. Many psy chologists agree with Dr. Walter Franklin Prince of the Boston Society for Psychic Research who, after spending consider able time on the case, said, "Either our concept of what we call the subconscious must be radically altered 'so as to in clude potencies of which we hitherto have had no knowledge"; or else some cause operating through, but not originating in, the subconscious of Mrs. Curran must be acknowledged." HAD NUFF ? i. - CPU Roundtable On Taxation In By Henry" Goldstein pass almost unnoticed. It is these commodity taxes that bear most heavily upon the poorer elements in our population. The question of justice in taxation is important. In gen ; eral, and especially in recent j, years, the "ability to pay" doc . trine rather than the "bene i fit principle" has character ised, taxation philosophy in : this country. But although this idea is recognized in the progressive income tax, yet ' our tax system as a whole does not in any iron clad '-fashion observe the maxim of "take from the Tich and give to the poor." ; Any consideration of taxes to day must give weight to their -general economic effects. Wise "use of taxes can materially con tribute to achieving prosperity. But the question of what is wise is a controversial one. And the political nature of our system HORIZONTAL 51. pedal digit 52. being 53. Italian princely family 54. divisions of time (abbr.) 55. exploit , VERTICAL, 1. father 1. at a distance 5. clash 8. moist 12. moderate 13. native rock 14. Great Lake . 15. scraps' 16. cutting 18. sharp mountain spurs 20. suppresses 21. born 22. upholsterer's tack 23. impertinent interferers 26. feminine name 30. salutation . 31. pigpens 33. ogle 34. load - 36. perfumes 38. indication 40. sailor 41. cave ' 44. former - Turkish coins ' 47. avoiding 49. bucket ,50. resounded . 18 19 20 23 Z4 25 IP I WWt 45 46 'r - - 47 48 5p47 41 1 KM 1 iN i 1 Answer to yesterday's puzzle. C O RTO A T T AlT N yaw PTATN O S ITl r 'IfclfclAIDIELlTlEINiSI amo N3 posse. IAISIEIPl A S E PLISIALLi Average time of dilution: 25 minutes. Distributed by King Features Syndicate U. S. with its myriad of pressure groups, each advocating taxing "the other fellow," clouds prac tical considerations. Random Shots THE SUNNY SOUTH: all winter long Chapel Hill has had mild weather and for the past week or so it has been downright summery. Three Un- . ion ..College (Schenectady,. N. Y.) golfers decided they would head South this week, after finishing their semester exams, arid get in a few practice licks on the links before going back "to cold Schenectady. Al Doyle, Charlie Leader, and Joe Men delson, the three golfers, ar rived in Chapel Hill Thursday night. What hoppens?. The cold front moved over the Hill yesterday morning, and its been dreary since then. 2. honest 3. waited upon 4. desisted 5. Chinese incense stick 6. land-measure 7. revokes , 8. ridicule 9. dry 10. burrow made by insect 11. wooden - pins 17. note in Guido's 1 scale 19. elongated - fish 22. spirited 23. prefix: wrongly 24. feminine name 25. limitless time 27. diminish 28. brood of pheasants 29. bronze money 32. collections 35. come into view 37. drowzed 39. dexterity 41. be concerned 42. topaz hum- ming-birds 43. opening 44. centuries 45. ascend 46. snow -' vehicle - J S mm NlflDI WITTS Am El SL j "N ! A MLS aiiHa J5IAi Li-JTIYl 2-5 48. correlative of neither DREW PEARSON ON "The WASHINGTON f - 5?vJr fir . MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON In order to keep the United States on the road to prosperity, leon jvey- serling, the President's chief economist, has warned that the public must increase its con- sumDtion bv 3 ner cent each year. This can be done, he sug gested, by improving living! standards. But if farm and fae-f tory surpluses are not absorbed, the country will find itself onl the road to depression. Keyserling presented hif formula for prosperity behind closed doors of the joint Con gressional Committee ' on the tJ Economic Report. "You have to have a grow ing economy to remain stable, because your labor force grows, your population grows, your technology 'is increas ing." he told the congressmen. "We roughly compute an an nual increase of about 3 per hm ?yi T Aiitnut in ho absorbed by the domestic economy. So. j broadlv sDeakinq." he con tinued, "if we are at a $260,000,000,000 economy it was $258,000,000,000 in 1949 a 3 per cent increase would be $7,800,000,000 as the in crease in all kinds of effective demand necessary to maintain full employment." Keyserling's theory raised the bushy eyebrows of Chairman Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming who pointed out: "During the war we were shooting away oui production. In the effort to re habilitate Europe and to carry on the war, we have now been giving it away. Now, what I am concerned about is how are we to provide the market the free enterprise market that will ab sorb our productivity without shooting it away or giving it 31 away?" Settling back in the witnessi chair, Keyserling measured his words carefully. . j "With development of atomic energy," he said, "it is con ceivable at some future time we might have in this country what J I call genuine surpluses in oth er words, a general situation where we are really producing so, much that we have to trans late more and more of our pro ductive capacity into leisure rather than consumption of goods. "Mankind," he added, grave ly, "will have a real problem then." However, Keyserling pointed out that the President's Council of Economic Advisers did not' foresee this for .some time. Rath er, he explained: "We felt there is much room in the United States putting aside foreign countries entirely for the lift-, ing of standards of living among the people generally." He gave as an example the problem of farm production. "We comonly hear about farm surpluses," the econo- . mist observed. "Yet we reach ed the conclusion that to fur nish the people in our country with a nutritious and varied diet and to furnish our indus trial plants with the fibers and other materials needed for production at full em ployment, we need an in Lette rs To The LINE FORMS TO RIGHT Editor: Perhaps you have heard of me and my work. Every sum mer I tour part of the Country lecturing to groups on the evils of drinking. For the past few years I have been assisted bjr my young friend. Joseph MichaeL His was a pathetic case. A boy with a fine family, pos' sessing a fine background;, smart, many friends; a good college education; dynamic personality; et cetera; who had everything to live for. As hap pens with so many of us, Joseph look to drinking of the evil beverages and keep ing company with "other sorts of women." Joseph would accompany me on trips and sit on the platform crease in over-all agricultural output over the next four years running at least 1 per cent a year." Throughout Keyserlincs closed-door discussion, he was heckled and harassed by Penn sylvania's Congressman Boh Rich, who is best known as the broken phonograph record, al ways shouting: "Where are we going to get the money?" At one point, Rich decided that Keyserling's explanations were too windy. So the Con gressman from ' Pennsylvania puffed up and exploded: "We don't want to listen to you talk all day ... I don't want to spend" all day listening to you ramify without the privilege of asking questions." The president's chief econo mist gulped, and Chairman O'Mahoney tried to soothe the storm. But Rich raved on: "I told Senator O'Mahoney I was not going to sit here all day and listen to you talk. I have no ani mosity, but I am spending my time here, and I think my time is just as valuable as yours is to the Committee or to some body else." "Of course," agreed O'Mahon ey sweetly, "but suppose we let him develop the 50 per cent of his views which you say has been good." Rich was irritated chiefly over the Marshall Plan. "Are we giving away $6,000,000,000 worth of stuff in order to keep up our econ omy?" he demanded. "The Council has never taken that position. Congress man Rich," retorted Keyser ling, bristling slightly. "We have always taken the posi tion that we had to find ways within our domestic economy to keep production and de mand in balance." Rich also snapped at O'Ma honey for using the broad term "we," and demanded to know whether he meant the Federal Government or private indus try. "Mr. Rich, I will say to you again, I am for the private sys tem," the Senator from Wyom ing shot back impatiently. "I want to know that," Rich yipped. "When I say 'we' I mean we as a whole the people as a whole," O'Mahoney stressed againy "I want to get that straight," pressed the persistent gentle man from Pennsylvania. "Is it straight?" snapped O'Mahoney. "Well, you say it is, and I take your word for it," Rich agreed, lamely. And the committee got back to business. A soft-spoken Union Presi dent who shuns headlines and flash bulbs is proving that de mocracy is something more than a word in a political speech. He is Park Kennedy, new' chief of the Brotherhood of Rail road Trainmen, run for years as a one-man shop by colorful, lov able A. F. "Skipper" Whitney. Editor beside me. I used him C3 an example of what drinking would do. He would set there on the stage and stare at the aulience with bloodshot eyes, a droop ing mouth, and bleary express ion. He was truly a perfect example of a fine fellow who had dissapated and degenerat ed himself beyond all belief. Again. V say Joseph's downfall was most unfortun ate. He started off taking a cocktail before dinner; then two; then three. Suddenly, he started drinking his meals. Oh. ihe pity of it all! .Unfortunately, last month Joseph died. A friend has re ferred me to you, and I wonder if there is a student enrolled at UNC who would care to join me on my next tour and take poor Joseph's place? Rev. Gene Blake m -: I V i
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