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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily except Saturday, Monday, examination and vacation periods, and dur ing the official summer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Sub scription rates mailed $4 per year, $1.50 per quarter; delivered, ?6 and $2.25 per quEter. Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Sports Editor News Ed. Siih. Mst. . Bob Slough Carolyn Reichard Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Delaine Bradsher Office Mgr. Buzzy Shull ADVERTISING STAFF Buzzy Shull, Buddy Harper, Eleanor Saunders, Judy Taylor, Bozy Sugg, Nancy Perryman. NEWS STAFF Bob Slough, John Jamison, Punchy (Billy) Grimes,' Louis Kraar, Jerry Reece, Tom Parramore, Alice Chapman, Dixon Wal lace, Tony Burke, Jennie Lynn, Tish Rodman, Tom Neal Jr., Jane Car ter, Sally Schindel. -- : ' SPORTS STAFF Vandy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Melvin Lang, Everett Parker, Charlie Dunn. Night Editor for this issue: Louis Kraar The Governor Education is a most important topic for our new Governor. In his inaugural address, Governor William Umstead placed education first on the list of major policy plans in his ini tial talk to the 1953 State Legislature. But the kind of education. he stressed was secondary edu cation. The emphasis has shifted in the last two years. The governor's keynote will probably coincide with the feelings of many legislators that there should be a switch of "available" funds from higher education to elementary education. Such emphasis is important. Our university cannot be great if the high schools and grammar schools don't adequate fy train the University's future students. But the University must have on hand the kind of facilities to give the student a well-rounded collegiate life. In the last few sessions of the Legislature, multi-million dollar projects were authorized for the Consolidated Univer sity, worthwhile developments. Most of them are now in use and of service to the State and its citizens. Continued improve ments to all segments of the Consolidated University are neces sary, however. The two major proposals fof improvement of student ac tivities submitted by the University to the Advisory Budget Committee a giant, "new student union, and an armory au ditorium to replace Memorial Hall are on the danger list of the financial surgeons. We get a preview of what, will happen tomorrow night as the Advisory Committee submits its report to legislators. Gov Umstead says, "During the past few years there has been a tremendous building program for our institutions of higher learning, and other improvements axe. np.w and will continue to be needed. However, the lack of available funds makes any large sscale buildig program for our institutions impossim hie at this time. The buildings must be maintained and re paired. This alone is a large program and must be done for the preservation of the investment already made." Gov. Umstead ndtes the need for the University to see the State's viewpoint in budget considerations. "Every effort should be made to see that these institutions understand the needs of the State and that hey seek always to meet these needs." President Gray summed up the need for the physical im provements when he told the committee in September, "For some strange reason the State has done little for student ac tivities at Chapel Hill." There's a more hopeful item in the Governor's speech where he discusses educational television. He asks the Legis lature to authorize a commission to Investigate the whole problem. If such a Commission is established, it will have the work, facts, and suggestions on hand as a result of confer ence held here last June and sponsored by the Consolidated University, plus the able reports and recommendations made by Mr. Gray and Vice-President Logan Wilson. THE AMERICAN FEDERALIST I The UN, UNC, And 1953 DAN DUKE Nineteen hundred fifty-three is here. But what of it? What is dif ferent. Yes, we may have had a rip-roaring celebration of New Years' Eve. Maybe we even made a few resolutions. Or perhaps we even acquired a fresh outlook on life, a second wind of hope about the world situation. But how else is 1953 different from 1952? . Korea is still Korea. There's no doubt about that. The Russian im perialism and communism did not suddenly vanish with shouts of "Happy New Year." Nor did fear. Both Russia and the United States are still engaged inan all out tussle for power and the se curity they hope to acquire there by. No longer is It a question so much of why they are fighting as DURHAM PEPSI - COLA BOTTLING CO. 305 South St. . , . Durham 1 1 1 wi twm wi wmwmt-WOSBBOBSmSSS H" B'g'BIHl" m iWlf ' m m w m mm SUNDAY, JANUARY, WALT DEAR . ROLFE NEILL . JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS Soc.ivEd Circ." Mgr. Asst. Spts. Ed. Adv. Mgr. Deenie Schoeppe Donald Hogg Tom Peacock Ned Beeker & UNC it is of what defense programs, what security measures. From fear and desire for self-preservation (plus a little touch of im perialism, too, maybe), both Rus sia and America take more and . more radical security measures even at the expense of ideological sacrifices. True, the situation is not par ticularly heartening. But this is not the whole story. The seeming ly "ineffective" United Nations is slowly gaining in power and in fluence. While the UN by no means guarantees salvation to the dilemna, it does offer a plausible way to alj alleviate world tensions and gossibly to lead to a more 1 stable peace. Even on the Carolina campus, the spread of this influence is giE,M 7o 11, 1953 JOHNGIBSON Pulque This Saturday class business is so involved that I hardly know where to begin. And wherever I do begin, I cannot possibly finish it in one day, so I hope you will stick with me and see it through. . One notes behind the action of the Board of Trustees a sort of quick attempt to remedy a situa tion that is not fully understood. The question is certainly broader than merely a few hours of class es on Saturday morning. The Board seems to feel (and I am guessing here) that Carolina is slipping and. something needs to be done about it. It has hit upon Saturday classes as a result. Cer tainly the Board's action is not merely aimed at getting Carolina on the semester system, since they could have ordered that di rectly; with the almost inevitable consequence of Saturday classes. Moreover, a switch to the semes ter system does not mean more class periods, but only spreading them out over a six-day week. The relative merits of quarter and semester systems will be dis cussed at a later time, but let us for the moment assume that the Board's prime objective is the utilization of Saturdays in order to improve the quality of the ed ucation. In which case, someone would remind the Board that one does not 'improve the breed of fish by adding more water to the pond; VCollege education has become an increasingly competitive big business in recent years. Colleges go out of their way to attract stu dents, and once doing this, they liate to part with them. This has" necessarily resulted in a lowering of the academic standards, since courses had to be so arranged that the apahtetic, disinterested, lazy student could still pass and remain in school. To say nothing of the privileges given ahtletes on some campuses. Not long ago I read the story of how England prevented the ex tinction of a "certain game bird,' (the name slips my mind). First, the birds were coddled, given special shelters, and their en emies were destroyed. The birds only got fewer in number. Finally, when things were really tough they reversed the procedure, and killed off some of the lame old birds, and destroyed some of the shelters of the rest. Amazingly enough the ones that remained proceeded to breed rapidly, and now they are quite numerous. Raise the course work require ments of the University so that the "hangers on" either have to work or get out, and you will have gone a long way toward your goal. The enrollment will drop temporarily, or perhaps even permanently, since there are many students who are not the least bit interested in learning anything as long as they can pro gress by Degrees. You will, I be lieve, have a better University. You will also take care of the Sat urday situation, if that still grates on your mind, graduate students, fo rexample, do not have Saturday classes (as was mistakenly re ported in the Chapel Hill Week ly) yet very few of them do not work a good six or eight hours over the weekend. This argument, of course, as sumes that the chief function of a University is the dissemination of knowledge. This point can be argued, and will be done so at a later time, (granting this is so, however, the University could' im-, prove many situations by the sim ple expediency of requiring a reasonable amount of work from the students! being felt. UNC already had num erous programs dedicated to world brotherhod and under standing, but beginning this quar ter Carolina students and Chapel Hill townspeople will have the chance to participate in a mock United Nations Organization form ing right her on campus. Already the Dialectic Senate and a num ber of our foreign exchange stu dents have agreed to participate. There will be a mock General Assembly and Security Council, and each of the sixty member na tions will be represented by Car olin astudents or Chapel Hill townspeople. Perhaps YOU will be America, Russia, England, China, France, or Germany. Even if the individual student -finds himself in the alarming position of carrying five full courses (25 hours), he could always be a "Fin land" that is, a representative actively looking on but unable to participate openly due to unavoid able circumstances. At any rate, follow The Daily Tar Heel for explicit directions of how, when,: and" wnere to join. " Heil, i jr ---J 'WKr- $ - r - H e 1 -1 1 1 " nP,iy J jyX f j I -r J.T?Jr f-J - -r - - '" EARL John Brown's Body' "John Brown's Body" by Steph en Vincent Benet has been feel ing adapted by Charles Laughton into a brilliant "dramatic ora torio." The performance has the qualities of an oratorio in being Without costume and scenery and in only using simple, stylized mo ments of acting to heighten the dramatic impact; moreover, out of Benet's great narrative and epic poem of the Civil War Mr. Laughton has moulded a dramatic piece of great, almost overwhelm ing, power and beauty. The story of the Civil War as seen and written by Benet and dramatized by Mr. Laughton is presented by- three narrators : they are supported in turn by a chorus which sings, chants, yells, or "what have you" when the oc casion arises. The chorus '' was well-trained and did a fine job evoking all the various moods of a nation divided against itself the moods of lighthearted gaiety of Wingate Hall, of the austere Connecticut countryside, of the somber and bitter and tattered determinations of the men in the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia. The three stars of the perform ance Tyrone Power, Judith An derson, and Raymond Massey have created one of the eternally great moments of the American drama. The only word for their performances is INCOMPARA BLE. The magnificence of their per formances is due in part to the fact that each in his or her own Tight is a great actor; yet notwith standing this, each subordinated his or her own personality ot the dramatic unity of the whole and this is the secret and essence of great artists. There is an intimacy between actor without make-up, costume, or scenery and the audience which has compelling fascination. I hope it is superfluous to point out that the presentation of "John Brown's Body" is in the same tradition as the presentation, two years ago, of George Bernard Shaw's "Don Juan in Hell" with Charles Laughton, Charles Boyer, Sir Cedric "Hardwicke and Agnes ; Moorehead. The growth of this m. -: . 1 - in Trieriii f - wnnMC3T r am rw it nr. .. nm-r AW. 1H& WAY HVf-h- MAN , 4i1 HIST'RV. HE Jt ?""S j- r RIGHT"'- HS Sf fyi rSTQ (tonight) Comrade" r I90 Trte wMMnal poSrcn. STEVENS new medium of drama is a healthy and propitious sign of the vitality of the American stage. It will be interesting to consider what new "dramatic oratorio" will come forth. Perhaps just a word should be given to the music written by one of America's leading composer's, Walter Schumann. Here again one finds the artist subordinating his own genius to the whole, and Mr. Schumann has done a most commendable job in scoring the background music for the play. The music is not great or eternal and will probably not exist out side the limits of the perform ances, but that should in no way detract from the "competence of the score, for Mr. Schumann has elsewhere shown that he can write great music. y One minor criticism should, I feel, be made of the handling of Melora's song; the song is one of Benet's greatest lyrics; in fact, it is one of the world's greatest lyrics, and I felt a little chagrin when the singer did not project the words with sufficient loud ness and clarity. The most significant imperfec tion of the evening came from the adience in so far as I felt nothing would have been more appropriate than a few hearty Rebel yells signifying a heartfelt approval so frequently heard at the conclusion for a great perfor mance. THOSE MODEST COLLEGE EDITORS ... A modest group of college jiewsmen last month fought against a resolution in support of freedom of the college press, but the resolution passed any way. The debate took place at the annual convention of Sigma Del ta Chi, professional journalism (fraternity, in Denver. When the resolution was introduced, col lege members of the fraternity objected chiefly on hte grounds of "the irresponsibility" of most college editors. "A college newspaper," said one undergraduate delegate, "isn't like any ohter. We go there to learn. We want a free LGOTTAPPP 1 MM DORMAN CORDELL STEWPOT The following is purely a fable of course, and any right-thinking individual would know such , a crazy thing'could never happen in this enlightened age of ours. ' Once upon a time in the far away land of Northus Carolinibus, hte people decided they would elect a new ruler, it being the custom in that strange land to elect a new ruler every quad rennium, because it had been thus even unto olden times. And two groups of persons, the outs and the ins, vied for the rulership. There was another min ority group which ran a token candidate, for although this group had some support in other lands, it was practically an underground organization in Northus Carolini bus. This group was called the Whigs. After much fuss and ado, which gave everyone excuses to ' make an ass of himself, the outs won over the ins. But in revenge, the ruler, who was an in, ordered the beheading of all those who had heretically supported the outs. And there went out a decree through all the land to that effect, and there was weeping and wail ing and gnashing of teeth. But the elders consoled the people, say ing: "But yet a little while, and the great King Will of the House of Bedstead will replace the wick ed ruler of the ins, and we will be happy again." And lo, it came to pass that hie and all the citizens of Northus day of the coronation approached, Carolinibus rejoiced at its ap proach, because they knew there would be a great celebration and they could raise hell freely dur ing the celebration. For this was a pagan land, and all the citizens were heathens. On the day of the coronation, from all parts of the land, the peoples gathered at the capital city of Really to see the ruler JOHN Previews And Reviews Well, here we go again. There is quite an impressive list of films coming up this term at one of the Chapel Hill movie palaces, and while your reporter has been unable to obtain a list of coming attractions from the other one, he is reasonably sure that it will follow suit, so it looks like an other quarter of potential a schol astic disaster. To begin with the two theatres have again done students politely dirty by scheduling two better than average movies to begin their runs today. They are "Mil lion Dollar Mermaid," at the Car olina, and "The Happy Time," at the Varsity. Frankly this corner has never cared for Esther "Williams extra vaganzas. God forbid that anyone .press but we can't have it. It don't think, w've got any right to go around rabble-rousing." Other comments: 'The univer sity is the publisher, and there is no paper in the world that con go against the publisher." "Good public relations is all you need." The resolution calling for free dom of the college press was at first defeated by a vote of 27 to 14. But a second vote reversed the decision. AT THAT MOMENTTUB NBW WAR- vtjy swRves at rue: state pem ' r IVMhHIl to OIYC KWLAK i YiOO I I TELL OS WHOO&H THE IK LAST M 77, wut - wHooie-WHSs KS RUN FfcOM 1 m-m-humph ?-WHAT'STHIS?-A THERE's l FOOD BJUL, FOR CELL J SOME.- '1 -A'.V WHV THAT THINQ SECTION! HAS BEEN Dl. THERE, ABANDONED SINCE I SIR" J THE CIVIL m ra -Tl V- i 1 crowned and to celebrate mostly celebrate. And the rule-, who was an in,. and the new ler, who was an out, gathered, and they all shoole hands, and said, "I always told everybody that you were a good guy, and I'm glad to shake your hand." For this was also a land of hypocrites. When they gathered, the two rulers put on silk top hats and long coats and striped trousers, which made them feel ridiculous, but which the heathen customs of that heathen country decreed must be worn. And the new ruler and the old ruler rode through the streets to gether in a great carriage, and everybody said, "Hooray," be cause they were full of the fruits of the vine. And after the coronation, all and sundry gathered to dance the night away. And there was music and wine and women. And all the citizenry had their chance to raise hell. But, even as with Cinderella, the clock struck 12, and the cit ieznry knew the celebration was over and that they must go back to their various parts of the land once again. And they all dispersed, each .with a happy feeling, for the new ruler had proclaimed that he was against sin, and favored vir tue, manhood, womanhood, motherhood, and stood for the "'flag above all. And they said one to another, "He will make a good ruler, for his heart is pure." And they all lived happily ever after, as all good characters should in all good make-believe stories. For, as said in the be ginning, this is only a fable, and the enlightened world of today would never condone such actions For the land of Northus Caro linibus has been known from the earliest part of history to have been a land of heathens. TAYLOR should say something derrogatory about the lovely Esther's appear ance. However the shows them selves have always had a certain sameness, and that sameness hasn't been good. Having gotten out of the Caro lina Theatre pool, the student will find the Varsity a pleasant place to dry off, and if Linda Christian, who is appearing there in "The Happy Time," doesn't warm him up, he'd better see a psychiatrist. Anybody who is not devoted to the stage play of the same name from which the movie is adapted will find "The Happy Time" a very entertaining film, because of its amusing situations, fascinating characters, and sparkling, risque dialogue. But if people who fell in love with the legitimate ver sion of the tale of the adolescent offspring ot a delightfully amoral French - Canadian experiencing the sweet pangs of first love will find much of the tender sincerity of the original comedy replaced by the mechanical quality of the movie farce, a situation not com mon in Stanley Kramer produc tions. The performances of Charles Boyer, Bobby Driscoll, Kurt Kasz nar, Louis Jourdan, and Marlene Cameron are all of a high quality, but Marsha Hunt completely misses the warmth and genuine ness of the mother. T GOT NSVV5 Foz Youjco; YOU COMEO 1 A FOOTNOTE TO THe MAIM Mr MAN. .X l-l DON'T KNOW X.j Ji WHAT IT IS BUTT l 'f IT'S ALIVE. S. AND IT CATSJr)
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