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PAGE 2 The official student publication of the Publications Board of the Univer sity of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except Mon day, examination and vacation periods, and during the "official summer" terms. Entered as second class matter at the post, office in Chpel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3. 1379 Subscription rates: mailed $4 per year, 1.50 per quarter; delivered, f 8 and $2.25 per quarter. ; . Managing Editor . Executive Editor .... Business Manager Sports Editor ... News Editor Society Editor Adv. Mgr Assoc. Ed.. .. A . T-,l .Wallace Pridgen ...SUe Burress ....Bev Baylor J ,??s Staff Grady Elmore,Bob Slough, John Jamison, Angelos Russos, Deenie &4ioepsitt'MNl SmWaiW. Janie Bugg, Ruth Hincks, Wanda Philpott. Sandy Smith, Al Perry, Peggy Jean Goode, Jerry Reece. Sports Staff Ed Starnes, Tom Peacock." Martin Jordan, Vardy Buckalew. by Barry PERSONALLY ....Occasionally I like to write a serious column dealing with some tiling a little deeper than. Myrtle Beach, Mardi Gras, and May queens. But every time my Remington fails to radiate razz matazz and starts unwrapping four-syllable words, I catch poison darts from theacadem agogues with fluorescent -Phi Beta Kappa keys - who resent a smiling layman trying to horn in on their saered monopoly of analytical thought. .. Okay. So maybe . my popcorn palavering will never be bound in "gilt-edged zebra-hide for the Library of Congress. .That does not mean I can't scream my opinions just as loudly as the heavily educated thinkers who always complain about the li brary closing early on week ends. Where does it say you have to be a banker to spot a phony check? You don't have to be a zoology major to recognize a rattlesnake and you don't need an MD certificate to slap iodine on a carbuncle. Move over,-Kaltenborne. I'm coming through with my own little set of ideas on how to bring peace to this swirling mudball called Earth. . First of all, let's examine our alternatives. The surest way to keep our boys off the battle fields is-to yield to all commun ist demands and buy peace on the open market. Or maybe we could launch a "preventive war' end make, the Soviet -Union one big radioactive isotope, Some people feel that lasting peace : will come to man if -we turn to religion, cease all war produc tion, and look to God for salva tion. - ' I wish that were the answer. I wish tht beginning noon to morrow everybody would haul off and love his neighbor, so we could beat our swords into plow shares and our bayonets into bobby pins-- and live , happily ; ever after. But unfortunately, God is no cosmic bellboy who s comes .running every time; we press a button. ' Trie communists have a re ligion all their own which seems to fascinate over a third of the world's ' population and they've mnr.fcgftd' t turn the dove' of pac into a mockingbird., Stalin ha? his Vwn 'Golden Rule which i ead "l1o unto other' before tky 4o 1 urito you," and the mcfk ar? nct only inheriting the earth they're getting their fa rushed into it. I lack faith, net i Cod, but in man. You can rend a message around the globe in a fraction i of a seepndt ,butit tikes generations H to; ! force j a simple idea lhrough . ai "quarter inch -of humaT skvll Why dnti jvpe bl the boys THE DAILY TAR HEEL. TUESDAY. APRIL 29. 1952 .BARRY - PARBEH .ROLFE NEHX DAVID BUCKNER. JIM SCHENCK ....-...BIFP ROBERTS ... ...JODY LEVEY MARY NELL BODDIE Lit. Ed Sub. Mgr.... ... Joe Raff .Carolyn Reichard .... Donald Hogg .....F, W. White Circ. Mgr. ... Natl. Adv, Mgr...,. Farber Europe, and withdraw all our forces into the continental Unit ed States? It won't work. The defenses of Los Angeles begin at Pusan ' and when London falls, Philadelphia lies in mortal danger. The UN intervention in Korea was the greatest his torical landmark since the dis covery of fire. For the first time free men rose tb crush "an ag gressor before he had a chance to get in gear. Our Korean cam paign is untarnished by imper ialistic claims. All we ask of Korea is enough ground to bury our dead. Will peaceful negotiations do the trick? What happens when the nice little boys with clean faces, short pants, and lollypops try to-talk things over with the neighborhood bully? The League of Nations toreadors started off with a colorful grand march but were gored by the Italian bull early - in round one. Prime Miinster Chamberlain cashed a million Czechs and tried to buy "peace in our time" at "Munich, but he couldn't keep up the in stallments. The United Nations'; big-league peacemaking show has degenerated into a game of "truce or consequences" in an Asiatic pup tent.. Appeasement won't work. Nuetrality won't work. They've been tried. 'They are footprints on the sands of Dunkirk.. ' , There seems to be only one way left to prevent civilization from being flushed down the drain. Get tough, stay tough, and punctuate our notes to Mos cow with steel instead- of fear. First we should muster, every ally we can beg, buy, or borrow and stockpile A-bombs . all along J the Soviet periphery from Scandinavia to Siberia. Then we -can settle down to the task of helping the backward masses of the world to realize the status of human beings , and warn Joe Stalin that if he sticks his in doctrinated nose, across a free border line at niidnight, Moscow and ; Leningrad Mwill be past1 tense before dawn; Even a man iac, will think twice before he slugs the heavyweight champ. Eisenhower 'saicj it. "We intend - to have peace even; if we have to fight for it." Y- 1 This is by no means a pleasant, solution to the Cold War. If you can think of a bsjtter one you're sorely- needed at Cake Success,. I admit the program outlined above is, at best, a poor substi tute for real peace and harmony. The idealists will cringe and say, 'You're a warmonger. We should ; strive.; to make Russia and the United States good neighbors.' . U I agree.1 But a good neighbor ; : smiles at ' jou over the back j fence. He'd better not try to climb it: Sheldon Jay Plager t ,- - - J. - Post Mortem Having pulled a Gallup on the last election, I have been, searching everywhere for a good excuse, The best one I can offer is that the election was won by two singular events oc curring just a few days before the balloting. The first of these was the spectacular newspaper handling, of the hazing fiasco, with the accompanying blasts at fraternities by Student Party members. The second event was the Student Party's f charges of "Block Vote." While' University Party invariably means Frater nity, Fraternity does not invari ably mean University Party. So the SP fell victim to their own weapon. The block vote charge gave ; the clue to the already aroused Greeks, and they took seriously the logical fallacy pro pounded by the opposition. All of which goes to prove how un predictable these campus elec tions can be. Only a fool would venture to call them in advance at this point I'll take a bow. Of more serious consequences is the program the new order will institute. One of the first acts of the reorganized Legisla ture should be the establishment of a permanent Judiciary Com mittee. Student Party legisla tures consistently blocked prev ious efforts in this direction, and insisted upon viewing the Courts wth a holy reverence befitting a proposition to be ac cepted on faith only, as it might not be able to stand up to fact, If the Honor System is to con tinue to be effective on this campus, the agencies concerned must be revamped with an eye to a more just system of en forcement. It is time the Legis lature accepted the responsibil ity demanded of it in no uncer tain terms by our Student Con stitution. ' Cosmo Gapers "I thought it might be indec ent to dress as the Indians in my country do in just the beads I" said the lovely senorita .from Quito, Ecuador, : Bobbie Zwart. She had just claimed the prize for the best costume at the Second Annual Cosmopoli tan Club Dance last Saturday night in the Pine Room. In the explanation of , her costume Bob- . bie told that the many strings of beads that she wore were made by the Indians near her ' home ; and were made of bird bones, berries, beetle shells of an irridescent green, and jaguar teeth. Her ' headdress was of ; brilliant red and green parrott feathers and she wore a brown saxong her own addition, she explained modestly. There were people from many nations to applaud the award of the miniature cup won by The1 'Cosmopolitan Club of W.C. f for the best-rall-'round costumes and the prize won by Miguel I Muniz from Havanna, Cuba, of ' State College for the funniest costume. These people were members of the Cosmopolitan Clubs of The Greater University and of the International Clubs of Duke University; and Mere dith College. ' The occasion was the last in the, series of the :" kr annual dances ? given; U hy- Vne' clubs of U.N.C., AW.d.!,Statei and Duke, but it was the first Express Yourself ( ' Editorj ; Again the complaint that pro fessors are not interested in the students. I think, the truth lies in another quarter. In my one year here I have had classes with only seven, dif ferent prof essors, ' but without exception I have seen these men not only respond with interest' and sympathy to the questions and even problems of their stu dents, but I've seen them en courage, stimulate and seek out the Opinions and views of their students. Several of them have made definite efforts to get to know their students individual ly, both in and outside of classes. Two of them invited their classes to their homes for a stimulating mixed social and educational evening. We were entertained with graciousness and hospitality. And this is not unknown in the experience of my friends. The lack of re sponse seems to lie largely with the students. I have both heard this opinion from several pro fessors and seen evidence of it myself. ... I think we tend to put the burden too much though per haps understandably- on the professors. Some initial show of interest must come from us. Do we often have or demonstrate real interest and enthusiasm for what our professors are trying to show us? Enough evidence for a positive answer to that question is not yet apparent to me. Some of the fault for this much talked about and preva lent lethargy for so many " of the activities that are outside the social whirl lies with our families, I think, for giving us or letting us acquire the view that college is just another of the things that are due us or ex pected of us. Too often it appears as if we thought of these years in the by David REV I THAT GLORIOUS FEELING: To be "Singing In the Rain" might currently describe our lo cal weather, but for me it's a pleasure, to describe a motion picture of the same title now showing at the Carolina Thea--ter. This musical from the cele brated master of musicals, M.G.M., Is perhaps the freshest, and the most enjoyable one to come along in some time. Gene Kelly, maintaining a good status after such films as "On the Town," "Summer Stock," and. "An American in . Paris," is joined by Debbie Reynolds and Donald O'Connor in kidding the life out of the early motion pic ture studio, stars, dress, et al.' Jean Hagen, vho got her first film break in a Hepburn-Tracy film which also starred Judy Holliday, is made up as a blonde movie queen, who sounds amazingly, enough like the dumb v broad which Miss Holliday por trayed in f Born Yesterday." Donald O'Connor sings a novel ty selection which must have been copied from a Cole Porter at which prizes were offered. The costumes added much to the color and gaiety of the evening. The foreign; students wish to invite and urge more American students to join them in their regular and special activities. university as a pleasant, mildly useful filler between adolesc ence and marriage, or as mark ing time until the Army takes over our thinking for us, and not as a place and time to learn to think creatively, constructive ly and for ourselves. Also, come of the fault does lie with those professors who have given up trying to interest us (perhaps because of slim response), and with those who seem to have a tendency to lower their stand ards to fit our natural disincli nation to really work on a sub ject. There are those professors who teach jut to get a living in order to. carry on. study; sometimes they are valuable enough to keep as teachers. There are. those who don't take an interest in their students, or only in those who make A's (perhaps this is more often found in the large, required, foundation courses). They don't belong in the teaching profes sion. These people are the ex ceptions, I think. Most of the others teach because they want to because they are interested in students. It seems to me more and more obvious that we should want to learn, no matter if the right psychological approaches aren't, used in every class we take. Getting to know anyone is a job, but usually a rewarding one. It should and does prove especially so with these people who spend much time and ef fort trying to help us become thinking and educated men and women. It isn't so much Mr. Chips who's vanishing as it is his de- V Ut&U ailU AlllJL COiU ilUUViiVJ Let's apply more effort to cor rect this instead of trying to take the blame entirely off our own shoulders. Marghareita Eldridge Alexander E W S number, "Be A Clown" which Gene and Judy Garland sang and danced in "The Pirate." One of my favorite sequences -.in this new film is the 'v.oac way Melody ' number, patterned after other Kelly riumbers, but featuring Cyd Charrise, w.io could easily pass for Ava Gard ner in a ballet sequence. There are a couple of new song--, with a nice blend of some older ones such as "You Were Meant for Me," and "You Are My Lucky Star." ; Debbie Reynolds,-a compara tive newcomer in films, is anoth er reason that I have for look ing forward to better motion pictures. As long as Hollywood can produce personalities such as she, television " won't drive the film mecca out of existence. By. now, you must: have seen "Singing in the' Rfeiri," or I . you have "heard about) lit. At any ;; j-rate, you tan't beatljtjfor eiler- tainment, and it probably- (Jpar ; I don the expression i jwill lejave : you with a songlihfVflur heart. -4- 1 ; : , , ' ' . Minor Matter . An atomic scientist was recent ly asked if an atomic bomb, through ':; chain . reaction, could destroyithe earth.; 1 i 1 x "So what;' replied, the, man of learning, fit's not as if the earth were a major planet."
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