THE DAILY TAR.HEEL
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SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 3952
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Glenn Harden
David Buckner
Rolfe NeilJ . -
Bill Peacock-
Mary Nell Boddie
Jody Levey
Beverly Baylor
Editor-in-chief
....Managing Editor
. News Editor
Sports Editor
. Society Editor
Feature Editor
Associate Editor
Associate Editor
Sue Burress
Ed Starnes Assoc. Sports Editor
Nancy Burgess - Assoc. Society Editor
Ruffin Woody Photographer
O. T. Watkins Business Manager
Thumb
Last quarter, the administration announced various chang
es in the University curriculum. Well, that's fine. It's a good
thing to.be flexible and keep up with a changing society.
But one thing ought to be added to this Varsity Vogue.
We need a course in plain old Rule of Thumb Tact.
People don't seem to know how to keep their tongues in
tact anymore. Proper expresion is a virtue not to be over
looked in this world, but discretion is surely losing ground
on this campus.-
There's no getting around it. Being frank and earnest is
a good thing sometimes, but Frank often starts a fire in the
most dormant furnace. Something has got to be done to smoke
out these pyromaniacs who insist upon burning up kind, well
meaning individuals. Maybe we ought to treat a few fiery
tongues with asbestos.
It's true that society puts great limitations on us. In order
to live with others we've got to conform whether it's con
venient -or not. Individualism to a certain degree is definitely
to be desired. If we were all alike, life would be painfully
prosaic, but this heterogeneity is the main reason for discre
tion. There are those who can take it and those who cannot.
Here's a suggestion for the vocally unsound. Public gram
mar schools offer pretty good courses in simple arithmetic.
These people who lack basic diplomacy need to go back to
the primary grades and take a refresher in counting to ten.
Why alienate perfectly good citizens? Let's learn to put
tongue in cheek instead of foot in mouth. - Beverly Baylor
by David Alexander
Reviews and Previews
Certain Hollywood studios
should yearly pay homage to
literary greats. Mary Shelley
wrote a novel ''Frankenstein-"
and Universal made a motion
picture using the same title.
From this came a series which
led in that studio's list of money
makers up until the advent of
the Kettle episodes, as a result
of "Egg-and I..
Robert Louis Stevenson chill
ed some of - us with his creation
"Dr. JekylL and; Mr. Hyde".
Metro Goldwyn - Mayer, hit the
top with several'yersions of that
classic and ;lately Columbia has
reinstated some of that tale "with
a horrible little offering, The
Son of Dr. JekylTV "The Count
of Monte Cristo" made the way
for 'The Cbuntess of Monte
Cristo", The Treasure of Monte
Cristo", and more recently, 'The
Sword of Monte Cristo". "
Evidently, Pumas pays off at
the box office 'snce IL K. CX
has just released fan interesting
treatment of 'The ' Three Mus
keteers" entitled "At Sword's
Poiiit," Interesting, in that it
deals with the sons of D'Artag
nan, . Aramis, and Porthos, and
the daughter of Athos, since I
Off Campus
The Royal Purple yearbook
at Kansas State College is like- .
ly to be royally suedby a highly
dissatisfied customer.
He's a senior who jposed for
yearbook picture in a wig, a
high stiff collar and pince-nez, "
and who has hinted he'll sue
the yearbook if it doesn't use
the photograph.
I don't need , to give any ex
ptoition," he said. "I gave them
The official student newspaper of the
Publications of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill where it is'
published daily at the Colonial Press,
Inc., except Monday, examination and
vacation periods and during the offi
cial summer terms. Entered as second
class matter at tha Post Office of
Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of
March 3, 1879. Subscription rates:
mailed $4.00 per year, $1.50 per Quarter;
delivered 6.00 per year and $2.25 per
quarter.
lad
. wasn't aware that they had
any children.
Nevertheless, here they are in
a highly technicolored adven
ture which will undduptedly
prove to be 'gold' at the box
office. Maureen CHara, undis
puted queen of the swashbuckl
ing films, and ; Cornel Wilde,
fresh from his romantic role in,
"The Greatest Show On Earth",
are the stars of the film which
plays ;the late show, Saturday
night, and opens .Sunday for a
two-day run at the Varsity
, Theater. , ' ' - YV;''".'
It seems that the Queen of
France has internal . family
.troubles, and that her daughter
is being forced, into marriage
with a villainous duke who has
an eye for the throne. As the
queen; Gladys Cooper sends for
help from the old musketeers
who have helped her before.
The children arrive to compen
sate for the absence of their
illustrious fathers The film does
have its moments, Robert Doug-
- las as duke, the swordplay of
the versatile Mr. Wilde, and the
presence of a newcomer, one
Alan Hale-, Jr., not at all unlike
his famous father.; '"
my dollar and a quarter. That's
enough.'
The Royal Purple has refused
to print on the grounds that
students must pose in their nor
mal wearing apparel. The sen
ior calls this policy, "discrimina
tory and character: stie of un
democratic institutions."
How much do. students know?
Students at the University of
Riff...
by Joe Raff
Signs of Spring We see
them everywhere about this time,
of the year. It's only logical be
cause this is legally and actu
ally Spring 1952. Spring is really
nothing so unusual. It happens
every year, but since "everyone
is making such a literary fuss
about it and hard-boiled col
umnists and ' Washington poli
ticians are taking off a: few
minutes to look at a jasmine
bud or feeling the pulse of their
front yard oak, I figured I might
just as well lift up my head
too yhen I walk and notice the
birds, flowers and girls around
campus.
This time of the year we see
the cardinals and sparrows re
turning from Capistrano and
Miami Beach (luckier than we.)
' Speaking of cardinals, we are
already asking about how our
favorite ball club is shaping up.
Interested on-lookers stop by
Emerson field to watch the base
ball practices. Others just sit
in the stands taking in the sun,
while still others haul a plenti
ful supply of liquid refreshments
to the last row of Emerson sta
dium and take in considerably
more than the sun.
Books take second place on
these balmy afternoons and
freshet-kissed evenings. How
well this is proven, especially
by the two lovers who were
being observed by the unknown
audience of about a hundred
Carolina student outside Cald
well X a few nights ago. They
were necking away quite undis
turbed by the mob of jealous
watchers. Finally the girl took
notice and away they fled into
the night; however the way she
was blushing, we could still see
her. Those were two thoughts
not concerned with books.
Some of us are stashing away
a few bucks for the new Easter
outfit-a definite sign of spring.
Tourist companies and steam
ship lines advertise and remind
us of Paris in spring,-clothiers
make certain that we know
spring is upon - us but ' our, new
clothes are . not, this spring poli
ticians tell us to vote, astrolo
gists have new solutions to Old
problems ; (the " new spring
heavens do this, of course) and
everyone feels, sure from more
high pressure advertising that
they should trade'; in the old
jalopy for one without. a top
cause it ain't gonna rain no
more.- Let's face it, spring is here
and there's nothing we can dp
about it except get spring fever.
Campbell and Kuyck
At Ashcviiie Meeting
Kathleen Campbell, Hamlet,
and William ; James Kuyck, Wy art
dotte, Mich., represented the
student teachers of the University
at a state educational meeting
which ended in Asheville yester
day. Expenses for the trip were
paid by Phi Delta Kappa, Jionox-.
ary education fraternity.
Oregon were given a general
information test and made soma
amusing errors. Here are a few?
Fjord a Swedish automobile?
IranBible of the Mohamma
dans; Nicotine The man who,
invented cigarettes; Scotland
yardTwo feet, 10 inches; Con
cubine When several businesses
combine -
;,.. - by. -Tommy -Samnog
C. P. U. Roundtable
Tonight's Carolina Political
Union Roundtable (Grail Room
8 p.m.) discussion will be on the
program of the United World
Federalists and World Student
Federalists a n organization
which extends through thirty
three nations.
The United Nations, NATO,
and the League of Nations have
all been desirable steps toward
elimination of war. It is plain
to all that although progressing
.the present organization is woe
fully inadequate.
Internationally we are now at
about the. same stage of deve
lopment that local communities
were when law enforcement de
pended on raising the hue and
cry and turning your neighbors
out of bed to chase a thief. The
notion of international law is
still no 'more than that.
So as long as any nation has
the right, or power to refuse to
cooperate with international ef
forts to prevent war there is no
prevention. How long would the
United States have lasted if
each state had had the right to
refuse to supply soldiers or to
collect taxes for the common de
fense? If war prevention is a desir
able aim, as I and a great
many others believe, then our
Letters To The
Bowers
An open letter to Henry
Bowers:
I read your inflamed oratory,
so filled with indignation t and
I must say that you display an
appalling lack of faith in your
mature thinking and I'm asham
ed to say . . fellow fraternity
men.
I think it's 'high time that
you called "off your bearded
blood hounds and boy FBI
agents, crawled back into your
little hovel and let the sane
fraternity men right their own
affairs. -
c Your,, personal . chagrin must
have beeir. indeed ; great, for
, you have appointed yourself a
; one man committee with the
prime purpose of tearing down
the decision of our IFC court
and attempting to remove such
cases from our jurisdiction into
the hands of the Honor Council.
We feel that the only men cap
able of making decisions on such f
cases are the IFC who are ac
quainted with the problem and
full informed of the purpose
of the initiation period.
Bowers what; possessed ..you
, to raise .your self-laudatory
soul up to such .-a questionably
, lofty pedestal to be the lord
.high executioner handing down
: noble decisions and maligning
the names of your fellow ; Ira-
ternity men? Bowers, w are
incensed and can no longer
tolerate your petty, small, nar
rowminded actions.
JL Fraicrniiy Man.
Herbert IL Thorp ';
ICafsoff Will Book . V
Orange County; Pdsf
Louis O. Kattsoff, chairman
cf the University's FhHokjphy
department, has filed as a can
didate for election to tho ;.
Ordngs cctinty board cf cCucatlca. -Hons.
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efforts should be directed toward
, this goal by the most direct
route. There is no time, for ca
perimehting with halfway mea
sures which in the long run are
, not effective. , , 7.
It is the belief that many
citizens of the United States
and other countries have come
to favor a Federal Government
, of the World which would have
the power to prevent war.
The key to this lies in the
power to enforce the law on
individuals. If the governor of
North Carolina tried to start a
war with Virginia the federal
government of the USA would
have the power to stop this, by
force of arms if necessary. And
the persons responsible would
have to answer for their ac
tions in a court of law.
This is the essence of the pro
gram of World Federalism.
There are many organizations
which favor such a government,
outstanding among them being
the United World Federalists
and the World Student Federa
lists. At present the local chapter
of the latter organization is be
reactivated. The second meeting
of the year will be held .in Len
oir hall Thursday; for all who
are interested.
Editor
IFC
Madam Editor:
Though I respect the opinion
of President Bowers in reference
to the acquittal of the Phi Gams
by the Interfraternity Court,
another solution for the situa
tion seems far more suitable.
Bather r than remove the . hazing
jurisdiction from the IFC to the
Men's Honor Council, the IFC
as a legislative body in its own
right ought to revise and stren
gthen its definition of hazing to
include moral indignity to
abide by the N. C. statute con
cerning the subject.
The power of the court should
not be removed but the laws
under which it operates must
be made strong and workable.
Wins Wheels
if
Peri Pol
Madam Editor:.
, I am an Italian ' student of
chemistry and I am 23. I would
write with .an American stu
dent for learning better the lan
guage and for knowing some
body of U. S. A. I thank you 12
you want to publish my letter
in the newspaper of your Uni
versity. Berioa Lwdaoa
Fermo Posia,
Padova J
Italia
,cd to the board I will visit ev- ;
cry school in the county and
talk with all local school of
ficials and teachers. I will study
Cie county school situation to -see
what can be done in the
present framework to improve
education in Orange county. I
believe that much can bo done
Tsrith what we have, while work
S53 for additional : money. We
itrjld first make ths most of
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