PAGE 2
A Message To
Th
A degree from -Carolina is something to be cherished
just ask the man who owns one. But a diploma is not a
free pass to successful living. '
Though education is a sure thing, it is not 99 and 44 one
hundredths per cent pure. Learning can be valuable only
through direction and interpretation. It must be carefully
channeled to meet current needs and at the same time, it;
must be. ready for change. It should be able to branch out,
but at the right time and in the right way.
. Education is a state of mind. The college graduate is the
mind of the state, of the nation. j
The sentence, "This world is always in a state of turmoil,"
is practically an axiom today. Are you going to sit around
, and accept this, or are you going to help do something to
disprove the statement as an established principle?
True, the world is having a bad spell. We are being
stampeded by trouble and it's time to head it off at the pass.
This job is everyone's responsibility. No one of you can
afford to just make expenses or take the square route.
When you get your diploma, the University is giving you
an insurance policy in the belief that you are a good" risk and
that you will be able to keep up the premiums.
All of you should be well-bred individuals after a four
year loaf off Papa's dough. It's time to rise and show what
you can do. To the 1952 graduates, we say good luck and
God's blessings upon you. B.B.,
Quarterly
The Spring issue of the Caro
lina Quarterly is refreshing for
its emphasis on creative work.
Its strongest points lies in
several good short stories.
Among these, we should first
mention Joseph Terrell's A Race
of Men. the annual fiction award
story. Here, we are convincingly
told of a superior man's rational
return to a crude and,. limited
environment. The naturalistic
temper of the story suffers from
- a too sensitively drawn hero
whose emotions and thought are
so incompatible with his sur
roundings that his assuming
his sordid "position, in the first
place, does not quite ring true.
Varley Lang's A Few Hours a
similar type of story, has the
same trouble. While we can
believe the actions and react
ions of Terrell's hero, Lang's
sentimental . Irish dockworker
seems somewhat contrived, as
he picks out Corelli on a yellow
upright, or loses his hearing for
the sake of a particularly unat
tractive, adolescent. A Few
Hours has its great merits, how
ever, in. a concise and lucid
style. ;iWY A-
Wyat Helsabeck's Jonathan
Heard the Cries : of Cain is , a
well-drawn clinical picture of
pre-puberty f neurosis in a Puri
tanical environment. It is to be
praised ' ' for" a sustained and
understanding portrayal of its
boy hWo; The- author's English
could be improved. Wesley Ford,.
Davis brings us good, raw war
fiction irr his Look for a Burxaxd
Those wjio cafe fpr a fusion of ?
sentimentaBty and steel will
find it entertaining reading ( .
Cary Westervelt has, no doubt,
contributed ..the. best - verse, to
this issue. Her Introduction,
shows a good' balance 'of form,
J
On Campus
What used to be a double
room hv 216 Spencer dormitory
turned out to be a triple room
last Thursday night at the
goulish hour of midnight.
A coed walked into her room,
and after performing the usual
nightly task of rolling ' up the
hair, she walked lazily over td
her bed and lifted - her pillow
in order to" secure ja pair , oi
pajamas.'-', ? ' w
The calm, quiet dojm .3
tjuddenly shaken' with5 the co
ed's three piercing screamsi jlvr
Z?A lhold! What had enca
THE DAILY TAR HEEL. FRIDAY. MAY 23, 1952
e Seniors
x.
supported by a consistent idea.
Unfortunately, she chose meta
phors which are patently start
ling and resorted to changing
ordinary nouns into "symbols"
by the mere juggling of definite
and indefinite articles. Yet she
excells all the other verse
contributors who carry Miss
Westervelt's faults in high emi
nence but seem to have little
to balance these. James Gardner,
for instance, gives us the memo
rable "saw eyes moistly glisten,
flare, as mice from upturned
boxes stare" in ' his See. John
Foster West tells us, on the other
hand, that "pain is pain, and
every shadow is not grim," en
closed in parenthesis from the
remainder of his tautological
Time out of Mind. Arthur
Schaffer and Rose Roseberg, in
strangely similar verse pieces,
continue the tradition of Edna
St. Vincent Mill ay. The Quar
terly's poetry board should con
ceivably restrict its lyrical offer
ing to fewer pieces of higher
merit.
I was very impressed with the
good quality of what criticism
this Spring issue contains. Mark
Linenthal, Jr. gives an eclec
tic, but well-phrased, appraisal
of Robert Penn Warren as a
novelist. "His Cass Masiern" and
. Jeremiah Beaumont: Ifo-rel into
Myth will make readers want to
. see the central ideas presented
4 Here5 enacted in Warren's fiction.
Colette ; ,and Alexanders' Heard
are well reviewed by Robert L,
'Selig and Fleicher Mi Green,
v, respectively. ; Credit should be
given to Cary Westervelt, again,
former ensiveiustrations and,
to the editorial staff for turn
;ing j out1, a periodical 1 in good
balance. . ,
' W. B. Fleischmann
was now a huge monster bear
ing black fur, a' f our'-irich beak;
and claws. The.coed istood there
just long enough for a brief
view of the : monster whose
massive wings were , spread put
across the bed. She then raced
out the door and down the hall,
clothed in the opposite of
Alaskan apparel.
' . l. . - " 0t -T
J m9fftis m?fTi:
,ware Ui aon. until 10 p. m.; .Saturdays,
friends! v -.j;f r r 7.45 a. m. until 5 p.m and Suii,
AYhat hardened, thf ;W?tj??3ys, 1:30 p.m. until 10 jijaai .
. . We haven't seen her since! The regular echadula will be
A' Perry
Monologue
It's been quite a while since
Monologue appeared, mainly be
cause I ran out of . nothing to ,
say. However, I'm back in my ;
usual form at last, the dry
spell is over (att. Miss Pogo),
and boring attitudes and plati
tudes are back in style.
Got a first-hand account of
that raid on the coeds, and it
seems that the whole deal was
rather carefully planned, in con
trast to the spontaniety of raids
at other schools.
Things started rolling at mid
night that evening, as an es
. timated group of 20-40 men
were observed wandering very
quietly in" and out of the arbore
tum. Two cars with, short-wave
equipment were observed parked
across the street from Mclver.
Another car pulled up and one1
of the men standing nearby said,
"Hurry up and get out let's
get this thing started every
body is waiting for everybody
else." - .
Shortly after, an unusual
whistle was heard, and several
men detached themselves from
the group and walked across
, the street to Mclver. One at
tempted to open the side door,
and N the others worked on
screens and the front doors.
There were four men in this
group, and their faces were
blacked with charcoal or some
thing similar. Having failed to
secure entry into the dorm, the
four men returned across the
street, following a repeat of the
strange whistle, and reported to
their compatriots. .
One said, "We can't get in
all the doors and windows are
locked." And another, "If we
could only get inside -and pull
the switches."
At this, my informant (a coed)
woke the house president, who
called the cops. Then the actual
riot itself started, as lower and
upper quad residents poured out
of their dorms.
Nothing, more was seen of.
any men in blackface, and they
apparently quietly left the scene..
The point is the men who are
up before the Honor Council for
entry into coed dorms are not,
it seems, the men whd planned
the whole deal.
Rumors have been flying conv
cerning a repeat .performance
but it seems unlikely-! police
patrols have been doubled, andtv
a njgia w wai& uirvugu a coruon
of cops to get my date'; inn' -
ttime last-nighty ; . , 'ri v v
Just a stray monologuial coin-
ment-its been great being Pogo
nr i . - t
T. Mac, and I wisrt -to thank all
concerned let's keep it rolling.,
Library Hours
Library hours for the period
alter final 'exams and the first,
session of summer school were
released .yesterday.
The Library . will ' be open
next Thursday, from 7:45 aan.
until 5 p. m.; Friday. May, 30.
through June 9, . 9 a.m. until 5
pjn. excepting Sundays; Sun
day, June 1, 2 p. m. until 5
p.m.; Sunday June 8, 2 p.m.
W U., fU,. S.li0V,
Monday through : Friday, 7:45
until 5 p.m.; summer session.
P? WBrw
Barry
PERSONALLY
Here's where I sit down on
the chewing gum.
For weeks I've been itching
to sweep out the back room of
my brain and throw all the
leftover ' words., on paper with j
no regard for coherence, organ
ization, syntax, or grammar.
This time I'm playing the Rem-:
ington strictly by ear so I 'can
close up the shop without leav
ing a single unexpressed
thought.
First of all I want to spray
my effervescent gratitude over
everybody whose vote helped
station me behind the Bubble
Desk here in the Editor's Cham
ber. And while my heart is
holding open house, I'd like to
publicly cuddle up and kiss
everybody whose smiles, kind
words, letters ,and post cards
let us know that our journalis
tic efforts were not going un
appreciated. Ydu've been a
magnificent audience, even on
days when the paper looked
like an Oriental atrocity.
I remember one Saturday
, morning you picked up a Daily
Tar Heel that looked like a
calculated study in cosmic blun
dering. Even the banner head
line was misspelled. If Moses
had seen that paper there would
. have been another Command
ment. Still, scores of Carolina
Ladies and Gentlemen stock
piled their praise at our door
step and implored us to "keep
, up the good work." That sort
. of encouragement gave us a '
metaphysical spark that made
us happy to bang the midnight
keyboards while all the normal
" students were down at Myrtle
Beach. I always said Chapel
Hill was a great place. Now I
believe it.
Within the fortnight our Sen-,
iors will be formally divorced
from the Carolina scene. Con
gratulations. You've hit a base
knock, but you're not home yet.
- Between now and Commence
ment, speakers will tell you your
future is-lined with honey.. Td
like to underscore the heart
ache. It seems that somewhere
north of ParalJeV 38 a group
of powerful . fanatics,, cleverly
disguised as human beings j is
.workingir.qyertrae'.,rTjo knock
your dreams of, rings, rornance,
and rice into a cocked helmet.
Light a cigarette. Now inhale
deeply. ' Before you stamp . the.
ashes . into he ppsy V asphalt, of
Ine x T5um one American t boy
.will have been .killed in Korea
Jd tvf others injuredr-one ser
. " : - A .
M Yesterday-. Piresideni- Truman
yarned you that, Asia 'is about
t hit the fin.; ,Maybe you re-
gently gave , Archie .Myatt-.a
, . dollar c for mpmWsK n, 4 u
; Alumni, Associationl and o a sub-
r cripxion, tq theAlumni Review.'
i,I get -a lump in my : throat the
tsize of ., the Planetarium when I i
wonder how many.; copies . of
that magazine will be forward-
:ed to th. Korean peninsula only
'ZZI?::ai
has to take on a fresh coat of
-T". . ' "timi "Aeu 10 snow
off his rtmWo,
because "1"
found a Shnrt
to Dunkirk, or because a few
greedy men can't behave them
selves.. . n? . ; .
r- Before ihd .-.
Aboard JS ?'JS' - iJ,ffe:
2,2,'
. SlT!!!? '
" - it aaaress a
Farter
alities who have claimed more
than their share of my thinking
moments.
To Rolfe NeilL my Managing
Editor, I extend best wishes fox
success in his July marriage to
"one of the hiost fabulous females
I've , ever had the exhilarating
pleasure to meet. There's a slo
gan around the office that sayi
"If you can't find it . in the dis
tionary, encyclopedia, or World
Almanac just ask Rolfe." NeiH
is the citadel of journalistic ex
cellence who provides the mys
tic mainspring that keeps this
paper solidly within the realm
of readibility. Thanks for teach
ing me all the tricks, Rolfe, and
good luck to you and Rosemary.
To the Daily Tar Heel staff,
those ever-loving drone bees
who so. gleefully cast their
springtime freedom upon my
chopping - block for naught but
an occasional' by-line, I offer my
undying appreciation plus an
other year of slavery, beginning
next September.
To all our foreign students,
whose impressions of this coun
try will always revolve around
their year in Chapel Hill, I say
"adios," "bon voyage," and "auf
wiedersehen.' I hope you now
realize that America has more
to offer civilization than just
tuberculosis and the T-forma-tion.
Please tell your country
men that we are actually an
easy-going people eager to iive
and help live, but that we have
learned (at the highest tuition
rates in history) that we can't
afford to sit idly in the bleach
ers and watch a lunatic heavy
weight sling ugly uppercuts at
the welters and bantams. Our
association with you has helped
culture the penicillin of under
standing that will inevitably
obliterate the malignant infec
tion, of totalitarianism. ( ,
. To John Clark, well,. known
University .Trustee, I; want to
, say that I respect your opinions
but find your views on human-
jty in diametrical, opposition to.
ray own. - Sure, I'm young and
idealistic but I still, think Dr.
Frank Graham split r the goal
posts when he said '.'It takes
both the black and the white
StarrSpahgJed Banner!. Frank-:
, Iy, I'rat interested in the . color
j of a man's character and money
rnot, his ..skin. That's -why so
many, , of us love. Carolina, i It's
-.great to ; , live in: .a community
where vnohodv
Jyour .grandfatHer i stepped off 4
, viyuui xt-ociQ or crawled Out
ixomiUhder it.r. I5 Ji if - C
-i; -;l - -.'
JLTji t" A-0jthoui4
, EaSeWetS
, . . l unce. Dee" . ?n"niea-
Pess. health. sunsWne.-' and biisi'
H.?m ow;! -until- Gbriiblvw that"
high ute.
Traffic Management
ment o, J D?
BUtaeJrecehtJy.vfilted the Rail.
t
" lour ot ttle Agency and its
.m - the receipt oi
on a tour of , am,
-"pxnem to the loading, of cars.
Pencil Lost
uuaciii nneiine pencil, Diacic
- .wllh cap, was lost in the
Grail nom of Graham Memorial
Wednesday. Anyone finding- it
may return U n Tn r0
. . jaxt-jr w
.p. Am JT( f-1 . T -2