SATURDAY, FEBRUARY D, 1952
by Barry Fcrber
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
1
i The official newspaper of the Publi
cations -Board - of the. University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill where
it is published daily - at the Colonial
Press, Inc., except Monday's, examina
tion and vacation periods and tiurins
the official summer termsl Entered as
-second class matter at the Post Office
of -Chapel Hill, N. C, under-the act of
March 3,- 1373. ; Subscription rates:
mailed $4.00 per year, $1.50 per quarter;
delivered $6.00 per yea): and $2.25 per
quarter. - ..
Glenn Harden
Bruce Melton
David Buckner
Bill . Peacock .
Mary Nell Boddie
Jody Levey
Joe Raff ....,
Editor-in-chiet .
Managing Editor
News Editor
Sports Editor
Society Editor
Feature Editor
Hot Guilty
Beverly Baylor
Sue Burress ;
Ed Starnes
Nancy Burgess
i Ruff in Woody .
Literary Editor -
- Associate Editor
Associate. Editor
. Assoc. Sports Editor
Assoc. Society Editor
Photographer
On
Mecapifuiafion ' ;
Every sttident should add a weekly, afternoon of private
thotrght-to his extra-eurriculiim. .
. The main purpose of education is to teach people how to
thinks , '
From Monday until Friday, students ae plied witli a con
glomerate of facts on various subjects This fact-gathering
process- is valuable, but it does not stand alone. If we are
not able to weave this objective matter into everyday situa
tions for the purpose of formulating opinion and creating for
ourselves some general philosophy, education's mission is lost.
Professors do not allow time for such assimilation. A lot
of instructors are leaders of the -Marathon Union and put
their workers on a 12-hour day with overtime at night re
quired. Perhaps this general student-thinking strike could be
remedied if union leaders would set aside one day a week for
free assignment. ' , .y; ,-.,
Everybody needs a catch-all-day. We need time to do a
little reading. We ought to be able to borrow a few hours
from graduation requirements in order to plan and direct our
lives. . .. . . ; .
The problem is this:-Too many students are drowning in
facts with no channel for an S. O. S. (Significance of Subjects).
Currently it's not the quality that counts. It's the points.
B.B.
The campus Rover Boy is off
again, this time to a pan-American
student conference in Rio
J)e Jdniero. We will bring yoit
his impressions of the trip and
the talk as long as he favors us
-with them. Editors.
BETWEEN LIMAi PERU AND
RIG, JAN. 24. Last Wednesday,
I -received a -cable from Bill
Dentzer, President of the Na
tional Student Association, ask
ing me to grab a- Portuguese
gramma and fly to Rio De Jan
. eiro to represent NSA at the
First: Inter-American Congress
of Students.
.You may remember a similar
message from Dentzer last
quarter that jerked me out xf
Byrd Stadium at half time of the
Maryland game aril left me
stranded for eight weeks in the
Balkans. This was pretty much
the sarne story" witli a dash to
the dean, a search for the pass
port, " phone call ' to ' Mother
strangle some clothes, bury
them in a suitcase, midnight
train to' Miami, down on hands
and' knees at the' Brazilian Con
sulate begging for a visa, and
finally snug on board a sleek
silver bird winging its way
southward toward the Amazon.
This plane stops at Havana,
a charming young lady with
sparkling eyes and a beautiful
profile all the way down board
ed the plane and took a seat
just across the aisle. I tightened
my safety belt and swallowed a
dramimine tablet ; however, the
seat .beside her was ridiculously,
empty and' inside of ten min
utes, I had gravitated across the
aisle and- occupied : the vacancy,
complaining that my original
seat was too close to the radar
flaps.;
I "proceeded' to lean my eyes
against her but she returned my
glances unopened. I asked her
where she was from and she
said California. I asked her
her where she was going, and
she said Peru. I asked her what
she thought of Chiang-Kai-Shek
and she said she never thought
-about-him. I figured the poor
girl was too scared to talk so I
lit a cigarette and began to read
the little book the airline gives
you which proves that air travel
is 850 safer than mixing scotch
and bourbon.
When we reached the airport
at .Lima, Peru, the exotic land
of the Incas, there were at least
fifteen policemen trying to keep
th surging crowd from dashing
out to meet the plane. A batal
lion of newspapermen and photographers-
were adjusting cam
eras and licking the ends f
their pencils. The mayor f
Lima was there with a bouquet
of flowers, and a brass band
clad in crimson blared a bom
bastic welcome.
"Well, whattayaknow," I
chuckled to my disinterested
companion. "How did they find
out I was on this plane?" .
The big door of the plane
swung open and I strutted down
the ramp with austere diploma
tie dignity prepared to give the
newsboys a crisp statement of
global preponderance.
It so happened, however, that
the tuxedo ed gentlemen brush
ed me aside as though I were a
garlic salad they hadn't order
ed. It also so happeded that the
charming young lady was Kath
ryn Grayson of Metro-Gold wy
Mayer who climbed into a Cad
illac and spedpff to a reception
at the American Embassy.
I suddenly felt low enough to
read by the light of a hotfoot.
Forty-five minutes later we
left Peru and leaped skyward
across the Andes.
A
nd Yef Again
by Dr. Edmund Perry
A story out of California in the current issue of Editor
and Publisher relates:
"Forty years of editorial independence ended last week
for the Daily Calif ornian. University of California student
newspaper.
"The University's regents directed thai an advisory board
be created to oversee the Calif ornian's polities and conduct.
Additionally, the associated students executive committee fa
vored appointment of a full-time 'advisor' to work with the
self-titled 'Monarch of the College Dailies' in the conduct of
its day-to-day editorial routine.
"Observers disagreed as to whether this meant actual
censorships and both regents and the University's president.
Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, denied such intentions. But at
least the Calif ornian, which has one of the top circulations
among college dailies 16.600 had lost its autonomy.
"The action was a consequence of two articles favorably
presenting life behind the Iron Curtain as seen by two stu
dents who traveled in Russia last Summer. At a meeting of
the regents, clippings of the two stories were displayed and
President Sproul was instructed to report on the Calif ornian
at the next meeting. Decision to create an advisory board
resulted. . '
"Despite some restlessness over the Calif ornian's inde
pendence, and Its occasional editorial faux pas, the univer
sity's brass have steadfastly upheld the student paper's right
to freedom. Even attacks on the board of regents and editorial
stands embarrassing io the administration brought no retali
ation. "But in California where legislative committees stalk
the countryside seeking evidences of communism and col
lege professors sign oaths that they don't believe in it, pro
Russian articles were something else again."
Although no one has accused the Daily Calif ornian of
harboring any communistic or pro-communistic staff mem
bers or tendencies and in fact,-Dr. Sproul advised the regents
that such was not the case, the California administration is
Russia is not altogether a living hell frightened it to death.
An outside source cannot blame the administration of the
University of California for this move entirely. Rather the
blame must lie on the government of that .state and of the
nation, which harbors men who use the age-old technique of
terrorizing the populace for political gain. i
The university is rightly afraid in a state which exempli
fies the reign of fear now being introduced in this nation
and in the world. ;
'The Daily Tar Heel yet believes with Franklin Roosevelt
that we have nothing to fear but fear itself; We believe that
this nation is a great nation, and . tnat its ; government can
withstand all attacks from without sand errors! within.
This is not a little country, composed entirely of little
minds. This is a great big country, of some 140 million peoples,
with the greatest industrial potential and present action ever
seen by mankind; We cannot be destroyed by an aggressor,
although we contain the. ability to destroy ourselves.
1 ; The disiples of McCarthy, the men of greed, and those who!
love to hate, may yet accomplish self-distruction, through the
Wind terror that they are forcing on our people. , . ; , . , ,
Man and the Machine
The second of two articles by
Dr. Edmund Perry of the De
partment of Religion at Duke
University, originally delivered
to the annual North Carolina
Press Association dinner in Dur
ham. Editors.
You newspaper people are no
exception to this enslavement
to machines. You don't go out
where the news is hapening. You
listen to it over the radio, print
it and then sell it to people who
also have already heard it over
the radio. Or you take ticker
tape off a machine, transfer what
the machine has reported to your
own -presses and, then sit down
to write a commentary on the
-machine's reports for the day.
All day long you sit at the type-
' writer. Now there is the news
paperman's silent partner. You
are married to your typewriter
more surely than to your wife.
You used to love it more than
you did your wife but now you
think it is as stubborn as she.
You beat the keys, but no com
mentary. You go sap more tick
er tape from the machine; come
back and plead with the type
writer again. Still no commen
tary. Along about noon your edi
tion of the tickertape news is
ready for press, but no editorial
page. In desperation you go to
the files, pull out a column pro
duced by a machine in New
York and circulated to hundreds
of newspapers under the title,
"The New York Ferris Wheel".,
Of course .your readers don't
give a tinker's damn about the
New York Ferris wheel or any
other ferris wheel, but your
newspaper ;has got to have an
editorial page so there it is.
' Newspapermen j ; like; j every -'
body else have become enslaved
to machines. Not only have our
daily associations become pre
dominantly associations with
- machines; our cliche ideals cor-
respond precisely with the eth
!ics of machines. We want men
, ;to. perform! with, precision and ;
invariability. In organizations
and in industry men are not
really supposed to think; they
are expected to conform and
consequently to perform effic
iently. Efficiency that is our
magnificient obsession for that
describes perfectly the conduct
and ideal of the machine.
In the educational world we
begin to fashion little children
into efficient little cogs at least
by the time they reach the first
grade. I've had no experience
with kindergartens but I have
recently been brought up-to-date
on first grade education.
Now I went to grammar school
in Georgia. In Georgia every
body is a Democrat so we are
very slow down there to give
way to any innovator or .inno
vation. When I was in the first
grade for example, twenty years
ago, we were still learning as
our first assignment the ABC's.
This was prerequisite to learn
ing to read and if we didn't
learn the ABC's in our heads we
took them home on some other
part of our anatomy. But first
grade education in Georgia is
not nearly so inefficient any
more. j
DAILY CROSSWORD
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