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PAGE TWO' THE DAILY TAR HEEE -; ' SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, The Df ivef's Seat I 'M (Car iBM NONPLUS by Harry Snook The Editors Mai I bo ' ' . ' s - - The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is published daily during the regular sessions ' of the University at the Colonial Press, Inc.. except Mondays, examinations 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 ot March 3, 187SJ Subscription price: $8 per year, $3 per quarter. Member of the Associated Press, which is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of this newspaper. Editof , l.'A ROY PARKER JRl Executive News Editor ....:...:..!- CHUCK MAUSER Managing Editor ROLFE NB1LL Business Manager . ED WILLIAMS Sports Editor .'. . .. ZANE ROBEINS Don Maynafd. Associate Ed. Andy tavlor. News Ed. Frank AUston. Jr., .Associate Spts. Ed. Taye Massengill. Society Ed. Neal Cadieu, Adv. Mgr. Oliver Watkins, Office Mgr. Shasta Bryant, Cite. Mgr. Bill Saddler. Subs. Mgr. Staff Photographers .....Jim Mills. Cornell Wright For This Issue: Night Editor, Rolfe Neill ; .... ., , S J ,, , , Sports, Buddy Northart Constitutional Bugaboo Here we go again. The bugaboo of fall elections dates is once more upon us. It is getting to be a rather laughable sit uation. The new Constitution was expected to clear up the tangle, but another kink has been found. . , Referred to, of course, is the "unconstitutional" date chosen by the . Student Legislature Thursday night. It set the election for November 30 a Thursday., And still the bugaboo followed them when j.t was brought out that that is Jess than five days away from Thanksgiving holidays and that it is'against the Constitution to set elections for such a time. And, as was pointed out, if the election was moved to a ""constitutional" date say a week later the runoff would be during exam week, and that is also unconstitutional. What are we going to do? About the only thing to do is to once again, as has been done twice in the past, violate the constitutional provision. Unfortunately, that is the only way to handle the situation. It is terrible for student govern ment to have to break the top campus law, but that is the only way, what with the impossibility that is presented by the wording of the Constitution. Everyone concerned with the problem should realize the dilemma, and be tolerant. Such actions as contesting the election because of its unfortunate unconstitutionality do no one any' good, and would be an indication of hypocrisy. Students should realize that this is not a "flagrant" violation of the Constitution. But those concerned with the problem should also take immediate steps to for 'once and all rectify the tangle. An amendment to the Constitution giving the Legislature the power to simply "set the date of fall elections" should be on. the ballot during the "unconstitutional" fall elections. The . amendment. should give the power to the solons without any qualifying clauses. Only by doing that can the situation be remedied. F dult Of Students The troubles caused when the Publications Board cut the commission of the Tarnation business manager is another incident that points up the unfortunate lack of student inter est in campus organizations. " The Board, operating fully within its powers, sliced the commission ; percentage from 30 to 20 per cent. Deeply chagrined, several members of the humor mag business staff quit thir posts, and the Tarnation faced a crisis. The Board has since reconsidered its move. Temporarily, the commission percehtage'has been restored to 30 per cent, while the Board carries on a survey of salaries' and commissions "throughout the publications field. Cutting of salaries and commissions should ordinarily be the first rriove when faced with a shortage of funds. There ordinarily should be plenty of people available to step into positions made available when people whose salaries have been cut quit their jobs. Unfortunately, that is not the case. As a consequence, quality of the magazine will have to suffer, in order to keep enough people at work to produce Tarna'tion. We have' no harsh words for those who quit their jobs when their salaries were cut. That is certainly tha perogative of any employee, and they would be foolish not to exercise that right.' The fact that their resignations caused such a furore, 'however, is an indication of the unfortunate state cf personnel affairs in student organizations. Their jobs are f'.oVhigh-y technical. There are plenty. of students who could handle the jobs. But the fact that such students do rot take an interest in campus organizations has forced the Publications V A A ' A . ' 1 X A 1 - 1 . ' . 1 1 uoara to taKe a step mat is not in Keeping wun gooa poncy. Only wh&n students realize the crying need for personnel in campus organizations and seek to alleviate it can such an unfortunate situation be bettered. Deepening Faith's Roots (This article is the first in a scries of daily meditations . written by the Worship Committee for Religious Emphasis Week. They ate expressions of faith, and have been written by students for their fellows in the hope that a sharing, of be liefs will lead to deep et religious thouglit on the Carolina campus. -Ed.) , It has become practically a truism for us to say that a man's actions are guided by his beliefs. However, while there is continual discussion of morals and mores, there is little real, welMounded searching into our basic faith, no matter what it may be. Vague ethical codes based on nothing more than child hood habits are like unto a "house built upon the sands." Once they are' confronted with real temptation, they crumble, offering' only passive resistance!. The piitfht of our present day civilization in the West can be attributed to the lack of strong religious zeal among the leaders of this culture. We must reorient our frames of i oferenceV We must plant our lives firmly on the rock of a strong unshakcable beilef in the f atherhood of God. Once "we have found this, the broiherhood of ' man will follow as ' a riecfess&ry by-product. Payne Jackson If you're alive but lazy, like most of us, you should not go any further with this column. The sum and substance of it to-, day ' are to pose several ques tions that will require a great deal of honest effort even to try to answer. The cards, are stacked against you from the start. i But if you can answer xthem, completely and honestly and ac curately, you are either fooling yourself or you are very rich. Watch that "accurately" because that's where most , of us trip. Here they are: Why must we live dully? What is it 'within a person that allows acquiescence to conven tion for convention's sake? Why is the price of freedom almost more than freedom it self? Or does a man actually seek freedom?;. Does it' make sense that man would deliber ately enslave himself? N Can a man know himself, ever? Is the greatness of know ing yourself always at the' ex pense of others? How can an other be of meaning unless you are known to yourself honestly and conclusively? Must a man believe? And, should his belief be the essence of futility, can he believe? Supposing you know what you want to do, is that what must be . done? Is it that men are doomed to be each less than a man? How can one man love two women? Is there really some thing greater than love? Is there really something more human in us, or even in some of us?. For the love of-body and of the mind and even of the heart is not enough, is it? Even with all of these, there are more, aren't there? Or, at least one more? ; Is contentment romantic or realistic? Can you chose one or both of these? Or is it that no choice exists? N Is compromise the only an swer always? Isn't it true that the many look for what the few have and don't see that the few . are looking for something more than they have? If all practical men are fools in ' dishonesty and -all. roman ticists are fools in futility, which are the more satisfied? Are ei ther satisfied? On Campus Dean Carroll of the School of Business Administration pulled a verbal boner in Memorial Hall at freshman assembly the other day, but we don't think he realizes yet just what it was he said. "When I first came to Chapel Hill," said Carroll, relating Hhe story of his taking the dean's job here this year, 'I had to go see Chancellor House the local head." The roof of Memorial Hall is .till intact, but just barely. : : We : have a good working Honor System here tf Carolina, but you'll always have' 'rome bad apples in the barrel This notice came in to the office from the follts who run the Campus. Cafe downtown: "The young man in the red shirt who walked out of the Campus Caf Friday night was recognized. If he will return either the ham or pay us for the loss of it he may avoid prosecution." If the red-shirt doesn't take back his loot, we personally hope Judge Manning throws the book at him in Recorder's Court. Amen. The story didn't get around very fast, even in the ATO houSe, that Brother Gordon Berkstre&ser had up "and joined the , Army,: leaving his car, clothes, and other belongings where they. lay. But join he did, with no ad vance warning, and before he could ooen his mouth to say "ah" duirng the physical exam he was already half way to Fort Jarkoh at Columbia, S. C. The brothers all pot the hill story within the next day or sV and' one of" them was rela ting1 it to ADPi Beverly Sour. "Are you sure?" asked Bev erly, , i '' ; "Positive," came the answer. "It t couldn't be,''" declared Beveriy. "I had V date with him for Saturday night." yy y- Tar Heel . At Large by Robert fwk, -35 COLUMBUS, Ohio I have" read a mess of stuff about prisons shockers, explainers, ex cusers but one of the things that was never so clear to me before is the effect of economics on the circumstances that put men in a big jail like the Ohio State pen. - It is just a touch horrifying to watch the serried faces of the men who inhabit a Big House, and to realize that about 90 per cent of the faces are a dismal mirror of their lowly status in the land of their birth. I do not mean, at all, to give belief to that old and disproven theory of Lombroco concerning the criminal stamp on a culprit's kisser. There ain't no such animal. A great many callous mur derers own fine features, and the highest cult ural level of this academy seems to be the property of the perverts. What I do mean is that when you look at a few thousand faces, all shut away from society, is that you are largely seeing not comeliness of countenance. What you are seeing is the brutish ' trace of early poverty, early desperation, early deprivation of the few necessities of living that can turn a man into a criminal. . "Our murderers," the warden says, "are our best citizens in this jail. They seem to have a higher moral sense than the others, more in telligence. It's a funnv commentary , on crime that the murderers and the perverts are the class of the 'institution." When you look at the faces of the rank and file of convicted criminals you see pimples and lop ears and sallow skins, malformed features tnd bad. rWiquss. You ree bad teeth and, receding chins and unhealthy hair. You see a lot of tuoidity :nd a lot of bltnkness but very little, nieanners or evil. You see the insoluble stamps of malnutrition, the' 'praven marks of debased living dating back to childhood. Slum is written large on the faces of nearly all slum, a factory town, a drunken father, a sloven mother, a lack of education, a lack of sanitation. There are, of course, the unusual exceptions. There is the county treasurer who took the county funds, the passion killer who slugged his lady love. One o the dental techimcians here is a lad who made the Brink protectors for several thousand in an inspired stickup, and there are naturally the aberrational criminals. But they come precious few to the cell. I have spent some time in leper colonies and the symptoms are the same. Nobody ever caught leprosy on purpose." The stigmas of that disease are no less pronounced . than the stigma of the bulk of people who reside in prisons today. They are almost all involuntary victims of unhappy accident. I know of a recent case of a man who stuck up a few filling- stations and netted a fast $300 for his work. Somebody got scragged in a stick up vnd he drew 80 years. His pleas was a hungry wife and 'bi.by. I believe it to bh true, but a hungry wife and baby are not jdef ense for the dumb desperation that leads a man to violence. Eighty year; of jail is a rich premium to pay on $300. . I know of another lrd whose skill with an .irbru.-h rv.ti h'rri amor"?: the first rank of com mercial art: t but I note that this baby is back in vile detennent again. He just likes to burgle houses. Explain him you cannot. He may draw like an angel but the. mark of early hunger is on his face. ' G-Aodro-s knows I mske no moral here. Un less it' that few nice folks .go to jail. And the rfnn t'ie n'vnrle whn .go to jail arfn't nice, s-enerally. as we count-.niceness- is that they npvor had much '.. ooport'unily ' to explore the term. Nicer e:s means'a full 'stomach .-arid, a .firm family, and these poor guys have had ;i--maH experience with either.- ' , '. ' The Carolina Front by Chuck Hauser - Twenty-year-old Fred Greenberg," a visitor from the University of Maryland, found himself in the long arms of the Chapel Hill law late Friday evening. Fred wai with a group of Terps uptown, and the major pastime of the boys seemed to be to:sing Virginia-bought firecrackers" out into Franklin Street. Several members of the Chapel Hill police force cruised by in a patrol car and warned Fred and his friends tliat there was not only a state law but tflso a local ordinance against fireworks. Fred should liave known that cops in a college town aTe usually pretty lenient guys. And our Chapel Hill gendarmes are typical examples of good-natured college-town law enforcement officers. But you can't pvrh anyone too f-u. After Fred and the other Marylanders b?d heerf WTrnM several times about cuttine; out the fireworks the men in blue stepped out of their car and told Fred he'd better come along with them. . ; ;'' . Treilinof the patrol car went a group of rey eral dozen Terps, marchins; afoiind ' the' corner toward the Tbvn Hall.' Fred was walking up the steps into the building when the crowd came into view, grown to about 50. - The officers were serious about the whole thing. Their orders had been' consistently ig nored, and there was nothing they could do but make an 'arrest. Fred could pay a bond and ap pear in Recorder's Court on Tuesday, or he could spend' the night in the calaboose, Fred hrd'no desire to catch his 40 winks in a cooler, and he certainly couldn't cut classes at Maryland to appear in court without suffering pretty rouf.h consequences. Fred was sweating,-- the officers- were adam ant, and oh the outside the growing crowd began yelling for the release of their compatriot. They may not have realized it, but their yelling wasn't helping Fred one damned bit. It was doing just the opposite.. Finallv Big Bvid Simp'on told Fred he could f;o in and talk to Chief Sloan, who was sitting in a ?id office at . the., police, station. The Chief vn'i'np-d twiner? tD FrecJ. a ked his cooperation i'-! getting hi i Maryland buddies to cut out the firecracker chiMhhnes:, arid sent him on his way with a pat on the backV Chapel Hill's not such a bad rtsce, after all, in our opinion.; We' hope ' visitors here thi? weekend; f roVn MaTylahd agree, espetfally Fred, who "should J realize that he got a square deal if there"' ever wasTme.'",',w"'"'' : On The Social Science .Forum Editor: Dear Students: Like Thanksgiving, the Social Science Forum at Woman's College is an annual event. As" the former motivates us to -;Ve thanks,, the latter inspires :us -to .think. Unfortunately, our annual celebrations and events are of a relatively short duration as i 0Ur response to ;themk We reserve "our "Thank You, God" for the lac Thursday in November and. we remain blissfully unaware of r Ul. individual and group responsibilities of thinking in a democracy until we are taken by surprise with a question like, "Are you aware of the interests represented by the news commentators you rc-gu. .larly listen to?" 'or "What are the policies of the newspapers you read daily?" interests? Policies? . . . .Well, liberal, conservative, radical, reactionary . . "leftist" or "rightest" or "middle of the roadist" . . .or any of a hundred descriptive adjectives we read or hear quite often in relation to some publication. It's a pro-labor or pro-manage, men, ifs a pro-Democrat or pro-Republican. If it's "pro" whatever you happen to be "pro" at any given time, you can bet it's a Kood "unbiased""publication . . .whatever "unbiased" signifies. "Public Opinion in a Democracy" ... .hmm. Public opinion. What is "public opinion" . . . how it is made . . .and measured. Leonard Doob, outstanding Sociologist and noted authority, defines the term . . ."Public opinion refers to people's attitudes on an issue when they are members of the same social group." He continues . .that in order to have a reaction from the public there must be a controversial issue against which to react. Well, up comes such an issue which is transmitted 'to us via radio, newspaper, pamphlet, magazine and more recently, television. The issue may be editorialized in our daily .paper and in a rival daily . . .each written with an entirely different slant. Because we accept without a doubt the information relayed to us by our paper we reject conflicting reports or are simply not cognizant that another point of view exists. In questioning 100 local college girls recently as to the maga zines' they regularly read,' a majority reported "Life," "Reader's Digest," and "Time" as the only sources of news. This report seems to indicate a lack of incentive on the part of the students questioned to reach a sound basis for opinion and thus lessens the possibility of arriving at a satisfactory understanding of any conflict. Simply stated, these people are probably not well-informed on many vital issues. Why? . . .because the three magazines, while possibly giving an adequate coverage of news, are too similar in policy . . ."Life" and "Time" are edited by the same party. A student's objective should be to read as many and as conflicting sources .of material as possible and as citizens oiir objective should be the same. The Fourth Annual Social Science Forum topic is especially significant at this time. When fear prevails among a group of peo ple, as the present fear of Communism, we are limiting ourselves in personal freedom of expression. We are, today, in danger of allow ing ourselves to relinquish our rights to free thought, or what is worse, allowing the pressure of individuals and groups to limit this freedom. Are we aware of the limitations of free thought to which we willingly submit ourselves through our many channels of com munications? If not, perhaps the Social Science Forum at WC the 16, 17, and 18 of November will bring abotu this awareness and motivate us to THINK, not once a year, but at all times . . .and critically. Let's not just . "Make Democracy Live" but function effectively . . . . - Bunny Greenberg WCUNC You Name It by Elaine Gibson Since today is Sunday, I thought I'd try to write some thing besides everyday ya-ta-te-ya-ta, but I thought again. And I'm not. Because it's really this, the everyday things, that we take Sunday off to enjoy and be thankful for. " ' Do you follow me? If not, I don't mind too much. I hate crowds. What I'm talking about is ail those million and one tiny little things that make life worth the tim-e. Things like the way your eggs taste so much better alter a dash of salt. Like occasionally finding soma hot water left for your shower. Or getting back jour own socks from the laun dry. Things like someone speak ing to you in the morning even though you haven't shaved for a week or haven't a stitch o( iin- i.tick oh, as the case may be. Like watching the acorns on the oak trees blow down in sheets around the Old Well. Like finding hclf an inch of Listerine in the bottom of the bottle after eating a hamburger with onions light be-fore your date. Or discovering at the last fecend thut you have read the material for today's pop. Things like the vay the moonlight shines in your window and keeps you awake. Ad even though you're dying for sleep, you ra ther than mis4-: a tingle minute of the peace and "beauty of it pil. 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