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THE DAILY TAR HEEL"
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 190
"One Side Bub I Just Won A Big Victory"
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Editor .. ROY PARKER, JR.
Executive News Editor CHUCK HAUSER
Managing Editor ROLFE NEILL
Business Manager ED WILLI AMd
Spo-ts Editor ... ! ZANE ROBBINS-
Stafi Photographers .. : Jim Mills. Cornell Wright
For This Issue: Night Editor, Edd Davii
Sports, Bill Hughes
Toward No Headache
For the first time since the traffic problem became such
a headache, the parking regulations have been relaxed 'in
favor of students. The action of the Traffic and Safety Com- .
mittee in opening the "little arboretum" parking lot to stu
dent commuters should be an indication of good faith and
earnest application to the parking dilemma that has charac
terized the work of the committee. Their's has been a job that
has been thankless, very nearly hopeless, and filled with
seemingly unsolvable problems. - ,
The opening of the new lot came after an extensive sur
vey showed that the area formerly restricted to faculty
was not being, used to maximum capacity. The ever-growing
problem of long-distance commuters was recognized as para
mount when the decision was made as to who was to, be
allowed to fill up the lot. Admittedly, the lot will hold barely
a third of these cars. However, the action of the committee
should prove to students that it is working as effectively and
honestly as possible to meet and surmount the perplexing
traffic problem.
. 'And the hard work and devotion to duty of the committee
should be an example to student car-owners. Without whole
hearted support by all those concerned with the traffic situa
tion, the near-crisis that is always present in the problem
could easily become chaos. And out of that chaos would,
almost certainly, come the removal of car-keeping rights for
a large number of student drivers.
. According to most members of the Traffic and Safety
Committee, the present regulations are working better than
any in the past. There are, of course, some incidents of gross
refusal to comply, but the committee is highly optimistic
over the way the present regulations have been accepted.
The traffic problem is one that requires the utmost in student
cooperation. Students should realize that the Traffic and
Safety Committee is working for the most equitable and
suitable solution to parking problems. They should continue
to realize the enormity of the job and back the work of the
committee by wholehearted cooperation in its decisions. The
recent action of the committee should be a signal for even
greater cooperation on the part of student car-owners.
God Our Merciful Father
Man The Seeker of God Through Devotion and Service
How many times do we hear skeptics condemn religion
as an escape, as useful only for people who haven't the
stamina to assume responsibility for their own actions? Such
critics are both right and wrong. It may be used as an escape,
but then it is not true religion. It is the individual, not the
institution, that is at fault.
So let us think for a moment' of our responsibilities as
religious people. We are privileged in our religion, and priv
ilege always carries with it the idea of responsibility. To vote
is a privilege; it is our duty to study the candidates to de
termine, as best we can, which is the most capable man. To
attend the University is a -privilege; it is our duty to work
hard, to make the most of our opportunities so that when the
times comes we may be able to become intelligent members
. of society.
It is the same with our religion. Great new areas of
thought and experience are opened to us when we say, "I
believe in God." But to profess our ( faith is not enough. We
must also practice it.
For the essence of faith is action. No matter how firmly
an anemic person believes in the efficacy of liver pills to
cure anemia, he will not be benefited greatly until he takes
the pills. So it is with faith. Belief is the foundation stone
for communion with God, but action through, service is its
natural expression. . -
The form our service takes is relatively unimportant. We
can't all be preachers or teachers; but we can function in
smallerNways, by dedicating whatever work we do to God
and by making our lives reflect His spirit through the love
and understanding and selflessness we bring to bear on the
associations and problems ,in everyday life. Even here at
school, how much more productive we would be if, instead of
feeling oppressed by our study, we could feel that each new
thing we learned was making us better fitted to carry out
God's work.
It is when we come to the method of service that most
of us run into difficulty. Yet the Bible makes clear the "how"
through sacrifice. We are told that we must give up our
lives if we are to save them. But we rebel at that. We: feel
that in giving up our ambitions and desires we are giving up
the very things which make us individuals capable ofj' ac
complishing something in this world. But in reality we are
only giving up those elements which limit us, thus; makin'g
way for the limitless power of God. "Not my wili but- Thy
will be done." "My will" is limited by all the fears,' complexes,
environmental influences, desires, and such that '"I" have.lBt
His will is clear and free and capable of accomplishing any
thing. Will we not then be capable of much greater service
by giving up what we call "self" and letting God work in
us and through us?. Our achievement will then be the measure
of our faith and our personal sacrifice. The more "self" we
give to Him, the more power we receive to use in His name
and for His purposes.
Thus in service and sacrifice, we have the true expression
of our faith in God and in His way of life, which is the hard
, est and yet the easiest way of all. Louisa Cartledge
WON PLUS
by Harry Snook
Even political science majors
at Caroliha'can see the absurd
ity of some of the actions of the
Trusevelt reign in Washington.'
Franklin j ..Roosevelt developed
the5 art of keeping rr'orn the right
hand what the left was doing.
When the' New Deal began op
' erating as a Fair Deal, Truman
carried on the tradition -in a
moi e obvious" manner.
Take " trustbusting as an ex
ample. The Government has
been doing its best to break up
big business under the false
assumption that when a business
grows beyond a certain point of
bigness, it is no longer operating
in the best interests of . the peo
ple at large.
Truman has pushed trustbust
"ing like a bulldozer through a
china shop. Any big business
has been fair game to the Gov
ernment, regardless of the con
sequences. ' The Government,
itself the biggest big business in
the country, seemingly refuses
to recognize that many things
dear to the American Way of
Life depend upon the organized
control of tremendous capital
and resources.
The Justice Department is pro
ceeding at full throttle to break
up the string of A&P stores
across the nation. Government
lawyers assert that A&P is a
monopoly not serving - the in
terests of the people.
In the first place, A&P is not
a monopoly. There are quite a
few big chain store operations,
such as Colonial Food Stores
and the big Mammoth Food Cen
ters. In the second place, the
size of the operation makes pos
sible mass volume and lower
food prices. A&P can buy at
lower prices because it can buy 1
so much at one time. And A&P
can get by on a smaller profit
margin than a smaller operation.
These factors make lower food
prices a reality.
The steel industry is the butt
of Truconfiision. Although the
Government is trying to break
up big operations, it is threat
ening nationalization of the
steel industry unless the private
operators expand at an even
faster rate than the record one
"they are now establishing.
Perhaps trie most clear-cut
paradox is the one involving the
gigantic DuPont organization
DuPont built the Govern
ment's $350 million Hanf ord
Plutonium plant during World
War II for $1. The Government
coul dnever have built the plant
itself, so DuPont, m the interest
of the nation, did the job cheer
fully. It had the organization
of -special talent end financial
resources to do it. And DuPont
did so well that the Government
has asked that DuPont build .
the hydrogen bomb plant. I
So DuPont, which is the only
firm big enough to undertake
such a special task, took the
new job. But DuPont did not
want to take it President
Crawford Greenewalt has ex
cellent reasons for wishing that
it could have shied clear of the
new contract with the Govern
ment. DuPont did not want to take
any chances with being further
maligned as a "merchant of
death." Principally i' .however,
DuPont did not want to provide
further information for the Tru
man trustbusters.
For while depending upon
DuPont's bigness to do a job
essential to the nation's security,
the Government has filed three
different suits to break up the
DuPont organization!
And there is no indication that
the Government's Trticonfusion
will abandon its attempts to tear
down the facilities upon which
. it depends in tifneY of national
crisis. .;
"
Tar Heel "At Large by Robert Ruark, '35
MEMPHIS A real gone trial just ended here,
with a jail sentence for Dr. 5amuel Shokunbi, a
real gone witch doctor from the Yoruba secion
of Nigeria, Africa, with tribal scars on his cheeks
to prove that he went to Heidelberg, or some
thing. I disremember exactly what.
Dr. 'Sam just pulled nine years in the old
'clinkeroo. which I think is a shame. All he had
been doing was antagonizing the Pure Food and
Drug boys by selling, some tinctures of dried
newts' livers for the purpose of sprouting fresh
hair and curing what ails you, wh'ilepccasionally t i,
performing scientific experiments in the dark of ,
the moon. For that they shove him in the jug,
though many a witness testified they felt better
after a slug of "Tree of Life" or "Asthma Aid." '
Although Dr. Shokunbi has done a small
stretch, before, for playing too fast and loose
with the medical profession and the fraud laws,
it seems a shame that in this epoch a witch doc
tor should be burnt at the governmental stake
when so many of his contemporaries are getting
rich. I think here of "Scalp Food," a hair growing
tonic from whose manufacture the Doc was en
joined sharp.y to cease or desist. It cannot possi
bly be less effective than the other remedies for
glossy skull that are so frantically advertised
with testimonials appended.
Most of the witch doctor's pet recipes, he .
said, were culled less from the Congo than from
a dog-eared volume compiled by a Dr. Culpeper
of England, who kicked off in 1640. That was a
long time ago, when a man took a snort of wolf
bane extract for the miseries in the absence of
expensive physicians who still prescribe a snort
of wolfbane extract for the miseries. I recall that
a presently dignified potion ain't nothing at all
more than that weary old witch's stand-by, Dead
ly Nightshade.
Of course Dr. Shokunbi is a fraud, although
he actually seems to have been born in Africa,
but I doubt he is a greater fraud than a great
many of his licensed conferees. He told people,
by propaganda, that he was helping them. A
great many said he had helped them. That is as
rough a definition of modern psychiatry as I have
whomped up lately.
Dr. Shokunbi agitated weird brews in a sinister-looking
caldron in the back room, and
served up the distillations of same to a select
number of ailing people who had money. I do
not believe that this is a violation of modern
medical science if modern medical science wiil
allow a patient to stretch at full length for years,
on a couch, while" xthei itch '..doctdr-,; with; the
pince-nez enjoins him to reach 'way back" into his
subconscious to recall whether or not he had an'
early, boyish antipathy to garter snakes.
Also, I am not inclined to knock herbal medi
cine, since I once wbr ah asafoetida bag around
my neck as a child and thereby avoided colds,
since asafoetida smells so bad it keeps people
With colds away from you. Much can be said of
the curative powers of garlic, and as I remember
it th.2 antibodies such as penicillin ain't nothin'
but ordinary mold, while something called quin
ine comes from bark. In a section of the nation
which worships cure-all brews I do not see how
they can criticize 'Tree of Life" and "Nervine."
To keep the American Medical Association
off my back I will rip off a ringing endorsement
of surgery and aspirin, but I sure do hate to see
the powers gang up on a contemporary. Anybody
in his right mind knows of the efficacy of the
rabbit's foot and of High John the Conqueror
powders when one wishes to Ward off the
demons of the night. Everyone knows that psy
chiatric suggestion is here to stay, and that half
the cure of anything save cancer and traffic acci
dent consists merely of summoning the sawbones.
I hope they don't treat old Doc Skokunbi too
rough, because I would like to consult him pretty
soon. I been wheezing something terrible in the
morning, and my hair is falling out. .1 can skip
"Tree of Life," but that "Scalp Food" deal sounds
just fine.
The Sounding Board
by Wink Locklair
On Campus
i
I' -?A few weeks ago a geology
. professor vaS-explaining to his
3 class the reactiori 6? , molecules
under increased temperature.
"As the temperature is in
creased the molecules expand
and tend to bunch together," he
said.
'You mean, professor," a coed
spoke up in an effort to clarify
the statement, "hat the hotter
- things get the more they get
together?"
When Henry L. Scott made his second ap
pearance in Chapel Hill during the International
Platform Association's convention (summer,
1949) the opinion of many , who heard and saw
him was that he showed great versatility as a
comedian, as- a ; pantomimist and fas a pianist.
There was some doubt, though, asjto whether a
whole evening of this anything-goes-sort-of-humor
would bV effective. I '
Well, Mr. Scott was back in Memorial Hall
Tuesday evening for the third time;in four yeai-s,
this time under, the sponsorship ol the Student
Entertainment Committee. The audience, more
uninhibited than -Usual, was large.but far from
capacity. They tame to be entertained and they
were entertained for more than an hour by Mr.
Scott's wide-open burlesque tf serious music
and musicians, counterpoint, and by such hon-'.
musical pantomime as sewing on a button, walk
ing like- a penguin and the tactics a five-year-old
boy, a higii school boy, ana a college student
might employ while dancing.
From the moment he walked onto the stage
in Memorial Hall (in itself a great accomplish
ment of nerve and stamina) Mr. Scott estab
lished a feeling of friendly rapport with his - er -listeners.
.
As a clown beating a melody from the piano
with an orange and a grapefruit ("Chopin in the
Citrus Belt"), or showing some of the eccen
tricities of his former pupils such as whistling,
squirming on the bench, and breathing (breath
ing? When has that become eccentric?) Mr. Scott
was often hilarious. But most everyone would
agree who saw the performance that he is no
"Will Rogers 6f the piano" as he was advertised
to be in the advance stories. His approach to hu
mor is anything but the late Rogers variety.
Scott's laughs come from pratfalls, facial grim
aces, exaggerated gestures. Wigs and props.
Then, too, his being billed as a "great concert
virtuoso" is certainly misleading. There are si
least a half-dozen music majors in Hill Hall who
could play such numbers as the Liszt Second
Hungarian Rhapsody and the C Sharp Minor
waltz of Chopin with Triore skill and polish than
Mr. Scott did. -He 'is hot a serious musician and
that part of his publicity should be played down.
He is. .a clown, a good clown, and the music he
arranges for -himself he plays adequately. His
music is not to be taken seriously, but his other
business is meant to panic the audience, which
it often does.
All in all Mr. Scott is somewhere between
Victor Borge and Oscar Levant as a humorist and
as a pianist. Once you've see his act, as we had
last year, there is not too much fun in sitting
through it again because much of his material
is the same. But the first time you go to see him
he will likely win you ver. Which was the case
with most of his audience Tuesday.
The Editor's Mailbox
Heat Is Missing
Editor: , .
Spring is sprung and fall is fell, winter is here and it's f;cttir
mighty cold. We don't mind the University saving money, in i..,
this economy we are all for, but not on coal.
"Being true," blue (actually) Southerners, we like heat, a com
modity'' Hvhich we find extremely scarce on the third floor of Stei it
Dormitory. 'Never thought we wouid look forward to an 8 o'c-K.i-k
so much -but it is the only way we have of getting warm. It seem.-;
' a-shame that a man has to don the overcoat and the combat n,,
to nut in time on the texts.
Frigidly yours, "
i John Head
: ' Alan Ballard
Jack Prince
P.S. Please excuse the typing, I don't do too well with hv
mittens on.
Pup Tent Is Missing
Editor:
Two weeks ago on the weekend of the Homecoming football
game, students expressed a phase of school spirit supposedly with
highly successful results. However, someone violated the Homecom
ing spirit Tdv "borrowing" a piece of property from ths Spencer Hall
display namely, a green pup tent which we borrowed from a buy
scout troop for use in the display.
We know that some of the-rest of the display was innocently
taken by students of the University, but it was of no value. How
ever, since the tent must have been of some value and utility to the
lender, we would like very much to reepver it.
Inside the front flan of the tent is the name Billy Hali'on!.
Wilson, N. C. We would appreciate the return of the tent or any
information regarding its whereabouts.
The Committee on
Homecoming Display,
Spencer Dormitory
The Carolina Front
by Chuck Hauser
I'll leave the commenting on
Henry Scott's piano playing to
Reviewer Wink Locklair, who
gives it a going-over elsewhere
on this page, but I think Mr.
Scott's comedy is within the
realm of my typewriter.
The clown of the keyboard
is a young-looking, clean-cut
gentleman who will .tell you,
"Professionally I'm 35, but I'm
really much older." I didn't take
tthe time to follow up his sug
gestion that I check on his cor
rect age in Who's Who, but at
any rate he doesn't look like he's
over 35.
. Mr., Scott says his Memorial
Hall audience Tuesday evening
was "wonderful very appreci
ative of both the humorous and
the serious. That's the kind of
audience I like to have." He
added later that he couldn't
remember appearing before a
more appreciative crowd, al
though this is his third appear
ance here at 'Chapel Hill... His
two previous engagements were
during the spring of 1946 and a
year ago last summer. The sum
mer show was part of the star
studded convention of the
International Platform Associa
tion, an organization of enter
tainers which took over the
campus for" several days during
the heat of 1949.
The comedian-pianist began
slipping the laughs into his
music professionally about 10
years ago, and he says it's not
only fun but he has an ulterior
motive "Comedy is a potent
way to bring music to people
who might not come otherwise."
Scott had radiator trouble
during his concert. Apparently
the heat went off in Memorial"
Hall about 3:30, and a terrific
clanking started up over to the
right of the stage. The enter
tainer's first reaction was in key
with the program:
"Is that Truman breaking up
his cabinet?"
Another good laugh of the
evening was:
"You will notice that dining
the playing of the next number
my fingers never leave my
hands."
After his performance, Scott
adjourned to the ATO House
for a cup of coffee at the invi
tation of Student Entertainment
Committee Chairman Dick Alls
brook. There the maestro showed he
had other talents, too. Magic,
he said, is one bf his hobbies,
and he was sorry he didn't bring
some of his apparatus with
him.
But two ordinary decks of
poker cards and a few loose
coins were all the tools he need
ed to work with, and he amazed
the ATO's for a solid half-hour
with sleight-of-hand and com
pletely mystifying card tricks.
When I left, he had finally
gotten around to that cup of
coffee, but his comedian's tal
ents were stjll being exercised.
I hope he made his train.
. Postscript to the column on
Marylander Fred Greenberg
Sunday:
Listed on the police depart
ment blotter before the week
end .was over were Maryland
student Clauds R. Marshall,
arrested for shooting fireworks,
and Terp Herbert Smith, Jr., for
public drunkenness.
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