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J" i t I JL , h i r 1 f ma Snt Lhe ;ua !nt iaj 3ul Sp , Ne Jul A Jei nie Sp Ch S Ad 1 Na Ph j Ni 1 II i a a v t v r c I i i !! ' ! I "! i 3 If! PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, 1953 Wot JBailp Utor 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 quarter. Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Sports Editor WALT DEAR . ROLFE NEILL : JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS News Ed. Bob Slough Sub. Mgr! Carolyn Reichard Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Delaine Bradsher Office Mgr. Buzzy Shull Assoc. Ed Nina Gray, Jane Carter- Soc. Ed. Circ. Mgr. Asst. Spts. Ed. Adv. Mgr. Exch. Ed Deenie Schoeppe Donald Hogg Tom Peacock Ned Beeker Alice Chapman EDITORIAL STAFF A. Z. F. Wood, Jr., John Gibson, Dorman Cordell, Dan Duke, Joe Raff. ' .. ADVERTISING STAFF Buzzy Shull, Buddy Harper, Eleanor Saunders, Judy Taylor, Bozy Sugg, Nancy Perryman. NEWS STAFF John Jamison, Louis Kraar, Tom Parramore, Alice Chapman, Jane. Carter, Nina Gray, Jennie Lynn, Jerry Reece, Sara Leek, Ben West, Jim Wilkinson, Jess Nettles, Sally Schindel, Manning Muntzing, Jay Zimmerman, Dave Herbert. i . SPORTS STAFF Vandy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Melvin Lang, Everett Parker, Charlie Dunn. . Night Editor for this issue: Everett Parker Proposals You're minus 5 bucks each quarter That five accumulates. In less than two months the green stuff is to be divided into a dozen different sections. Whether you like it or not, whether you know it or not, a bunch of people, 50 students, decide the fate of that money. Multiply five by 5,000 and you have 25,000. Three a year gives you $75,000 a year. That's a lot of money. This bunch of people, the Student Legislature, meets o night. Fifty elected students may be there. Next week, we know maybe only 35 will be there. By the time March rolls around, there might be an average attendance of 30 to 35 with at least 10 to 20 seats vacated, members reappointed. That's the group that handles your money. They'll show more, interest, go to more meetings, accomplish more if you let them know occasionally how you feel about them, their party or their efforts, or lack of efforts. Both parties, the University party last spring, and the Stu dent Party, this all have promised so many point programs. The SP is in power by a slim margin. That party has pro mised a positive program for two years in the legislative branch. Whatever their plans or the plans of Prexy Hbrton, we have some suggestions, because we feel that any group of elec ted people having $75,000 to handle, has a lot of power. The Legislature starts from there, and can go on almost indefinitely. It has, therefore,, more than just the budget to worry about- 1. A Voluntary Student Entertainment Program, letting ALL students participate. It's physically impossible now to get 5000 into Memorial Hall for a good program. 2. Make the Debate Council a Universuyptojefct. Since one of the primary objects of the council is to spread good will around this region, investigate the posssibility of letting the Universiy provide funds for intercollegiate debates. 3. Strengthen the National Students Association program at Chapel Hill by making the local commttee report to the leg islature periodically. 4. Reinstitute a committee to look into the mechanics of the Honor Courts. 5. Resolve to work with the Interdormitory Council to provide phones for all floors, water fountains for all floors of dormitories. These proposals? are a start. No redistricting bills are mentioned- We suggest that if either party wants to redistrict, let the subject be brought up around election time, when it is most pertinent. DAILY CROSSWORD ACROSS 1. Large farm (West U.S.) 6. Taxicabs 10. City (Neb ) 11. Take as one's own 13. Artificial inland waterway 14. Citadel 15. Cry. as a cat 17. Guido's highest note 18. Artittciai light 21. Too much 24. Verbal 25. Audience 26. Trite 28. Manage carefully 32. Electrified particle 34. A part of the telephone 35. Ramshackle house 38. Mischievous persons 39. Humble 40. Newt 42. Accumulate 45. Assistants 49. President of Argentina 50. Watered silk 51. Trust 52. Come in DOWN 1. Fabulous ' bird' 2. Wine cup 3. Girl's nickname 4. Lake be tween N. Y and Vt. 5. Robust 6. Feline 7. Fuss 8. An arbor 9. Incantation 12. Shelf in a trunk 16. Sorrow 18. A tennis stroke 19. Constella , tion 20. Male adult 22. Carting vehicle 23. Scholarship 27. Fate 29. Border , 30. Juice of " a' plant 31. Elevated trains 33. American humorist : 35. Strike with the hand ' 36. Greek poet- 37. Conscious 41. Renown 43. The sun 44 Upward curving of a ship's planking SEnJor Vj E. Kjs V r.qjA TC H gpf FT? vfg 1 "J7 Ta. Saturday' Aatwcr ! 46. Close up (Dial.) 47. Before 48. Varying weight (Ind.) 10. 15 18 IT" 2fc 35 39 49 ML 36 20 37 32 45 4 I 1 27 44 21 33 4 1 1 22 2S A '4X 45 23 3T 38 29 Wo 30 47 31 4 1-12 DAILY CRYPTOQUOTE Here's how to work it: IsLONGFELLOVV AXYDLBAAXR One letter simply stands for another. In this example A is used for the three L's. X for the two O's. etc. Single letters, apos trophies. the length and formation of the words are all hints. Each day the code letters are different. A Cryptogram Quotation JV NOPVR TJK XOVR SK TOC F NFRSOCH CFLV XGBLLKCX. JohrTGibson Pulque "Anything Yet About Mel"Somewliei??!f:. Writing on Sunday, I assumed for the sake of argument that there was something more behind the Esard of Trustee's order for Saturday classes than avmere at tempt to utilize a few hours of that day. Today let's assume that there wasn't. Such a "let's-keep-the - kids-off-the - street" attitude betrays on the part of hte Board a rather striking belief in the fundamental immaturity of Caro lina students. This is regretable, but on the other hand Carolina students often give veidnece of an immaturity which is indeed striking. Let's also assume that the util ization of Saturday classes will put us on the semester system. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of this system as compared to the quarter sched ule? Under both systems the student carries an average of 15 hours per week. By semesters, five three-hour courses over a six day week; by quarters, three five-hour courses over a five day week. With the quarter system, the stu dent studies a smaller number of courses rather intensively. Un der the semester system, it means studying a larger number of courses less intensively. The comparative advantages fo the two methods depend largely upon your point of view. This writer prefers the quarter set up, since it is hard enough to assim ilate and associate three different subjects at once; vfive is impos sible. With the semester system a greater number of courses are taught per teaching unit, so the . choice is somewhat greater. Cou ple with this, however, the fact that more courses must be taken and it about evens out. The se mester system is used by many more colleges and universities, and this is a consideration to stu dents transfering in or out of Carolina. A switch to the semester sys tem would result in an increase in the total number of jobs avail able to graduate instructors. By quarters, 6 courses are taught by two instructors who teach one class each quarter. By semesters, 6 courses would be taught by three instructors; one class each itme. (Unless they doubled up, which is not likely.) Thoughj in creasing the number of positions, the pay per month would be low ered if it were spread out pro rata over the additional time. This would reduce the already low monthly wage of an instruc tor to such a point that the Uni versity would find itself in an un favorable competitive position with other good institutions, es pecially in the light of the new tuition policy. It would seem that under the quarter system it would be easier for professors to take time of f for research, since they could miss a third of a year, instead of half of it. It would also be easier to get replacements for them, since they would ' be teaching a. smaller number of courses. Also there are many research profes sors who seem to feel that the , quarter system lends itself par ticularly well to their purposes. And like it or not, the position of a University depends, more than any other single thing, upon the quality of the research done at that institution. The Board is asked only to con sider carefully the effects of a change to the semester, system before authorizing it. If a num ber of Carolina's excellent fac ulty members would resent such . a shift, and therefore look for greener pastures, the move should be carefully weighed. Though the University is run by M " mou wuos) DREW PEARSON. The Washington Merry-Go-Rouhd WASHINGTON When Gen. Eisenhower appointed Charles E. Wilson of General Motors to his cabinet he automatically killed two birds with one political stone. 1. He paid off an important debt by rewarding the motor moguls who pressured Arthur Summerfield into switching from Taft to Eisenhower at the Chi cago convention. 2. More important, he secured the best production man in in dustry to head up the Defense Department u department which now puts tanks and guns , on a par with men. He also brought into his offi cial family an earthy, warm hearted individual who works long hours, sometimes spends the night in his office, drives his own car, and had the foresight to ne gotiate a labor contract which electrified the world. Along with Wilson's produc tion genius and his refreshing outlook on labor problems, Eisenhower has bought himself some headaches. It is said that the sun never sets on the General Motors indus trial empire.- It operates four plants in England, two in Aus tralia, one in Argentina, Belgium, Denmark, Brazil, India, Java, Peru, Mexico, New Zealand, Venezuela,. Sweden and South the folks who sit behind the desks in Raleighits quality of instruc tion is determined by those who sit behind the desks in Chapel Hill!. Africa. But it is likewise true that the American soldier does not fight without using some piece of General Motors equipment from trucks to tanks, jeeps to air planes, guns to refrigerators, AC spark plugs to locomotives, plus gas engines, diesel engines, air plane engines, and so on. Thus, the new boss of the De fense Department will be in the embarrassing, sometimes almost untenable position of differentiat ing between Wilson's new inter est 'as head of the armed forces and Wilson's old interest as head of General Motors. Wilson will have to lay down general policy not only on con tracts but on allocations of. criti cal materials. And if he asks that he be relieved of these decisions, then it will fall to the lot of his deputy, Rober M. Kyes, who also is a General Motors man. Furthermore, some of these general policies cannot be side-, stepped or delegated. For in stance, Wilson, when head of General Motors in 1942, argued in favor of continuing the produc tion of automobiles despite Pearl Harbor and despite the ur gency of war production. Finally the War Department stepped in, ignored Wilson's arguments, closed down all auto production, turned the auto ( plants over to munitions. In just one week, Wilson will be in a position where he will have to make similar policy de 'cisions, whether his own com panies are involved or not. Not only Will he have to de cide such difficult problems as whether critical materials shall be allocated to industry or gov ernment; but he will also have to pass on the general policy of whether critical materials shall go to little business or big busi ness. Thus the new Secretary of De fense will meet himself coming round the corner as ex-head of General Motors at almost every turn of the road. One of the first hot potatoes Secretary of Defense Wilson will have tossed into his lap is the question of profits on govern ment contracts. For some years, military contracts have been renegotiated after completion and the profit scaled up or down so the contractor gets a profit of 6 per cent. Recently some big government suppliers, including General Mo tors, have wanted the profit upped to 12 per cent. "That," remarked Secretary of Defense Lovett when the prob lem was handed him, "is some thing I will let my successor de cide." So the ex-head of General Mo tors, one of six companies sup plying the armed forces with 60 per cent of all munitions, will find this baby on his doorstep when he moves in Jan. 20. Wilson got his humanitarian qualities from his parents who were small-town school teachers. ... He began life as an electrical engineer at 18 cents an hour, designed the first automobile -Norman Jarrard- Reviews The two books which came to my hand to review this week are both reprints of novels which first appeared in the thirties. The later one is Aldous Huxley's "After Many A Summer Dies The Swan" (Avon, 35c), and the earlier, Christopher Isherwood's "The Last of Mister Norris" (Avon, 25c). As it happens, both of these writers have an interest in the religion of India and the East and mysticism in general. Huxley can point to his pre served eyesight as a fruit of his study in that field. The continu ing interest of both is shown by a recent edition of the Bhagavad Gita of which Isherwood is a co translator and which has an in troduction by Huxyle. But all of this bears only indirectly on the two novels, although the theme of "After Many A Summer" man's relation to time does show the direct influence of Eastern thought. On the plot level, "After Many A Summer" is the story of a sixty year-old California million aire, Jo Stoyte, who is trying to find a way to live longer. In the meantime, he gets temporary boosts from testosterone. His in centive is his twenty-two year old mistress, Virginia Maunciple ("Baby"), who adds necessary spice to the story. The climax comes when the living results of an eighteenth-century experiment in longevity are found. Isherwood's "The Last of Mr. Norris" is written in a less heavy handed manner and is appropri ate to his use of irony as con trasted to Huxley's satire. In general, Isherwood's novel studies morals and feelings rather than a metaphysical problem. It pic tures the political and moral con fusion of Berlin in the days just before the Nazis took over. It is told choppily by YTilliam Brad shaw and is the story of his friendship with Arthur Norris, a man of peculiar sexual interests and a mysterious source of money. Both men are on the side of the communist party in Germany. Most interest for me was centered on the description of that period of unrest and on the characterization of Mr. Nor ris. If anyone wants more, there is Isherwood's "Goodbye ot Ber lin" (Signet, 25c) the story from which the Broadway play "I Am A Camera" was taken. self-starter for Westinghouse. . . . After he joined General Motors in 1919, he took over its sales division, became executive vice president, and pushed G.M. to its biggest expansion. Bendix and North American Aviation were acquired; also Winton, Sunlight, Allison. . . . After going through one ofthe worst strikes in labor ' history, Wilson hit on the cost-of-living formula for wages and signed a long-term contract with the United Auto Workers. Mrs. Wilson doesn't go in for much social life, probably won't care for Washington's gala din ners. . . . Wilson operates a farm, specializes in Ayrshire dairy cows and prize horses, once rode with the" hounds but gave it" up after a bad spill from a balky horse, . . . Wilson pays an in come, tax of around $430,000. His salary and bonuses in 1949 were $586,00. He also owns 18,742 shares of G.M. stock which he probably will not want to sell during his term in the Defense Department. PHE COy BIRP tekT J3. A2CU AU-MS zesil SmA Kg AN'OWL GC&EP I Va4.,llttV-lr II'M GIA0 IT WAS A MOP W5 PUUP 1 ATOUNP TO &T Vo' TO LrtS-y fCh JOf-FA UNCUS PMUlVVjns. ""mwvi&i v ZlJ CWT HiMmi-K SBA inrMUlT" .wWV JS?,,r T""4 W S SINCE JANUARY YEARS - tflF '-OOSE OF AH'LL WRITE 1 I I Lai , (I lift v 1
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