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Editor
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Sports Editor
News Ed.
Suh Mpt
Bob Slough
Carolyn Reichard
Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Delaine Bradsher
Office Mgr. Buzzy Shull
Assoc. Ed Nina Gray, Jane Carter
EDITORIAL STAFF
Dan Duke.
-A. Z. F. Wood,
NEWS STAFF John Jamison, Louis Kraar, Tom Parramore, Ellen
Downs, Jennie Lynn, Jerry Reece, Sara Leek, Ben West, Jim Wilkin
son, Jess Nettles, Sally Schindel, Manning Muntzing, Jay Zimmerman,
Dave Herbert. ' ' ,
SPORTS STAFF Vardy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Melvin Lang, Everett
Parker, John Hussey, Sherwood Smith, Al Long, Dick Crouch, Benny
Stewart, Wilbur Jones. -
ADVERTISING STAFF Charles A. Collins, Charles Haskett, Pete
Adams, Bob Mason, Bob Wolfe, Eleanor Saunders, Buddy Harper, Dor
man Cordell.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Roger Williams, Richard O'Neal,
George Harris, Veneta Zeller.
Night Editor for this issue: Everett Parker
PURDUE EXPONENT
Smash The Machine'
The National Collegiate Athletic Association gave the
American Public a new topic of conversation Wednesday, but
it will probably be several years before the question of the
iron man as opposed to the specialization of the two platoon
system will be settled or at least quieted down.
The new regulation, which kills the free substitution rule,
can be argued pro and con and each side can be backed up
by the able arguments of coaches, players, and spectators. We
can lay no claim at being an authority on athletics, but as a
spectator and follower of football, the new rule struck us as
being very sound.
Coming at a time when football was under fire for being
overcommercialized, it looks like this rule should alleviate part
of this crriticism. Competition for talent will be keener be
tween schools, but the mass drafting of high school ball play
ers should take a drop.
It seems to us that this will naturally raise the athletic
standards, as it will take trained athletes to play the game,
not just players to fill up a slot in the lineup. Coaches will
have to start teaching the fundamentals of the game, instead
of training specialists. Players should have a greater opportun
ity to prove their ability on both offense and defense, for the
possibility of 'being sidetracked into one particular spot will
be eliminated. The football spectators should see a return of
the boys who play for sport of it and not for other considera
tions. ' v-:v v- y,
Obviously, with fewer numbers lotbau ' -will be less ex-'
pensive for the schools involved,' and more universities will
be able to field competitive teams. Schools, such as Chicago
who dropped from the Big Ten because they would and
could not compete with big business will be able to return
to the game. -
There is always criticism of those who suggest we return
to the good old days, but perhaps the "golden era" of football
Aas better than the two-platoon system. It seems that the idea
of scientific specialization reaches a point of diminishing re
turns, and when this happens, it is, time to go back. On the
other hand, this seemingly backword movement is in reality
progress, for when the machine turns on the man, it is time
to smash the machine- Many people have said, "give it back
to the boys," and this looks like the first step in that direction.
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The Failure
By A. Z. F. Wood Jr.
The date is September 10, 1974.
The place is Charlotte, N. C. In
a modest but comfortable living
room a father is talking with his
eighteen-year-old son. -
"Why do you want to go -to
UNC, son?"
"Well, pop, it's hard to say.
It's about the best school in the
south and one of the best in the
country. I just like the places I
just got a feeling. Lot of my
friends are going there. It's just
the best college for me- to go to.
That's all."
"Sure you want to go to col
lege at all?"
"""""Why, sure I am. Don't you
want me to?"
"Oh, yeah. But why do you
want to, go?"
"To get an education, I reckon.
Or get a start, at least."
"What makes you think you'll
get an education at college?"
"Gee whiz, Pop, what is this?
I sure can't get it throwing beer
cases on a truck like I've been
doing all summer. What is this
anyway?"
"What are you going to major
in?"
"English or History. I don't
know. I haven't decided yet. May
be journalism. What the hell?"
"Now, don't get mad. I'm just
interested. I went to UNC too,
you know. And I didn't know
what I wanted to do either. I
didn't decide my major till the
last minute. I wanted to write;
so I picked Journalism. Now,
I'm an insurance agent. Doesn't
that strike you as sorta funny?"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I'm not writing. I'm
selling insurance."
"You've got a good job."
"I wanted to write."
"You are writing! You write
stories and stuff all the time.
Good too."
"Thank you, son, but I haven't
sold a one."
"Hell, all the magazines want
. is junky love-stories."
"No, that's not it. If my stuff
was good enough, it'd sell some
place. It's just not good enough,
that's all."
"I don't believe it."
"Thanks for the loyalty. But
it's so. 'And it's not that I haven't
tried. Your mother and I starved
for five years while I tried to
write. Of course, it may be that
I didn't have it to start with.
But it also may be that I had it
and lost it. And I may have lost
it right where you're planning to
go." -
"Huh, what do you mean?"
"I may have written so many
quizzes, memorized so much stuff
out of textbooks, and listened to
so many lectures where I took
down word for word what the
lecturer was saying, that I lost
.what life and freshness I had.
UNC is a fine school, son, but it
doesn't encourage creativeness
and originality. Some of the pro
fessors do, but most of thme just
want you to absorb a lot of facts
and then .write them, down on
quizzes. It's sort of like an assembly-line
machine in a way.
; And if . you're not caref ul,c it'll
,r . r crush, you so far as originality
'""is concerned. I wasn't careful,'
' " and. I want you to be, that's all.
If you'll . stay awake, you can
guard against it and get an aw
ful lot out of it too. Good courses
up there. Good teachers, and
you'll get an excellent education
or a good start. But be careful.
I don't think you want to be an
insurance agent."
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WASHINGTON It was just
seven years and nine months ago
on a balmy April afternoon that
a frightened little man sitting in
Speaker Rayburn's office got a
phone call that something had
happened to the President; come
to the White House at once!
It was a humble, nervous vice
president who rode down Penn
sylvania Avenue that day on his
way to become president. And
it will be a somewhat different
Harry Truman who rides up
Pennsylvania Avenue tomorrow
on his way to see another man
become president.
A lot has happened in the
seven years and nine months be
tween those two rides. Harry Tru
man, is not so humble now. He's
a little more peppery, just as
vigorous, and has a sublime self
assurance that history in the end
will place" him in his proper
niche. i
Reporting on that memorable
night of Roosevelt's death I pre
dicted seven years and nine
months ago that President Tru
man would go out of office as
severely criticized as Andrew
Johnson in the post civil war
days when a move was made for
his impeachment.
The new President heard my
broadcast , that night and sent
word to me next day that he
didn't like it.
While I am not a historian,
only a newspaper reporter, I see
no reason materially to modify
that 1945 prediction. In fact, the
more I think of Harry Truman's
tempestuous years the more I
believe they resemble Andrew
Johnson's
Like Johnson's, the Truman
Administration will go down in
history for courageous policies
which shaped American destiny.
Also like Johnson's, it will go
down in history for ? fumbling
many of the policies Truman
wanted most to carry out.
Harry Truman had the courage
and foresight to rush aid to
Greece and Turkey in 1947 when
Congress was skeptical and the .
public '' unprepared, but when
without aid. this vital area would
have fallen to fiussia. He also
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had the courage to put across the
Marshall Plan, without which
Western Europe would have gone
totally communist. And he had
the vision to establish the North
Atlantic Pact as a continuing
means of keeping Western Eu
rope beyond the reach of Soviet
Russia. Not only did he not hesi
tate regarding the atom bomb;
but he set up a civilian commis
sion which has pushed atomic
energy toward an early peacetime
use.
And while the attempt to stop
the march of communism in
Korea is now the most unpopular
of all Truman's policies, history
may paint it in a different color.
In any event, Korea illustrates
Truman's greatest failing his in
ability to execute, his aptitude for
setting farsighted . policy, then
spoiling it by faulty execution.
Korea, of course, never should
have been started unless victory
was certain. The potential losses
were too great; not merely in
lives, but in loss of faith in the
great ideal of ensuring peace by
international police.
Yet Truman relied upon the
assurances of military men. He
took for gospel MacArthur's glib
assurance of victory by Christ
mas. There were other ways in
"which Truman pulled down the
great ideals and the great goals
that he himself set for the na
tion. He took a courageous stand
against the Kerr Natural Gas
Bill which would have upped the
price of gas to northern consum
ers; then turned round and let
his own crony, Chairman Mon
Wallgren of the Power Commis
sion, nullify and undercut his
courage.
He took a courageous stand
against monopoly, including the
monopoly of overseas air lines.
Then he turned round and let
a White House secretary j infatu-;
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maneuver him into OK'ing the
most monopolistic of all airline
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but Mr. Truman even moved, in.
on communists inside the gov
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The English, oft accused of
having an odd sense of humor,
seem able to get more laughs out
of American movie audiences
than our own film producers.
The best example I know of
this is "The Promoter," which
ends its three days at the Varsity
today. It stars Alec Guinness
with a sexy assist from Glynis
Johns, a pert Briton miss whose
sultry voice almost undoes The
Guiness.
The plot ... an ordinary suc
cess story of local boy makes
good. But with Guinness playing
the part of the washwoman's son
who ends up as mayor of the
- small English town with a coiin
tess in his cheering section, it's
a scintillating poke in the ribs
of society.
Without resorting to slapstick
or impossible situations, "The
Promoter" makes you laugh and
laugh often.
Part of its comedy comes from
a gold mine which Hollywood so
far has not dared prospect. In
"The Man in the White Suit,"
Guinness took frequent digs at
business and the people it ex
ploits, and now in "The Pro
moter" he digs at everything in
camera range. Reporters, public
officials, snobs and others in the
menagerie are dead ducks before
the star's comedy gun.
A self-invitation to the coun
tess' ball starts Guinness on his
prosperous way but his career
as the promoter dates back to
his schoolboy days when he doc
tors up his grades and wins a
scholarship. From that time he
continues to assist fate and the
riot's on.
Look out Hollywood, the Eng
lish have done it again. R & RN.
Carthy, and well before anyone
else. His loyalty board was set
up, with a Republican as chair
man, to eliminate communists
two years before McCarthy's first
speech.
But some of Mr. Truman's
press-conference remarks about
"red herring" so confused the is
sue and gave the opposition such
excellent ammunition that the
public now believes Truman was
really protecting communists.
These are some of the things
Mr. Truman may be thinking
about as he rides up Pennsyl
vania Avenue tomorrow.
He may be thinking about the
time he bawled out Foreign Min
ister Molotov a few days after
Roosevelt died when Molotov
came over to pay his respects.
Molotov has deserved plenty oi
bawlings-out in his day, but at
no time less than on this par
ticular occasion. Or Mr. Truman
may think about the time he
bawled out Stalin for being late
at the Potsdam conference.
Or he might even wonder to
himself in retrospect why he held
so tenaciously on to Maj. Gen.
Harry Vaughan who caused him
such grief and pain; or why he
stuck to John Snyder whose
T tragic failure as Secretary of the
i Treasury got Truman into so
much taxeprruption trouble.
' Again, Mr. Truman may let his
pkd'roainD-back to . the sizzling
letters he wrote Bernie Baruch
and the Washington Post music
critic; or the, statement he made
aboMty the 'deJmag'oguery" pf; the
man . seated beside him asi they
ride together toward the capitol.
Harry Truman, however, is a
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Party Line
Gripes against President Ham
Horton's suggestions to Legisla
ture are easier to get this week
than coffee in the Y.
Some of the complaints are
legitimate. Others are not. At any
rate, the whole atmosphere after
Horton's talk was one of lack of
information on the part of legis
lators in general. Horton also was
in need of more background on
some of the issues, particularly
that of Yack rebates.
Floor leaders and party wheels
argued about SEC and NSA and
Yack rebates. Half the legislators
didn't know what the triple letter
designations meant and the rest
didn't seem to care.
Meantime, students on campus
the guys in lower quad and the
girls who sit on South Building
steps with them in the mornings
became lost in the jumble of
alphabet organizations.
The point is: If a student is
elected to represent others, to
spend their money, he should take
the effort to be informed. Then
he can report to those he repre
sents and do what they want rath
er than follow the wishes of a
few party leaders.
HYPERBOLE KIDS: During
floor elections at Legislature,
some politicoes would have made
writers of cigaret and beauty
cream ads hock their typewriters.
The superlatives used were not
unlike those of a circus barker.
Here's some samples: "If we took
him out, it would be just like
picking up South Building and
hurling it in the river" . . . "He
just oozes and uses ability" . . .
"She has interest that will super
cede all other interests" . . .
"Why, he has a money mind."
GRID CLASSIC: The National
Student Association kicked around
like a pigskin this quarter.
POUNDING THE BEAT: Joel
Fleishman's (SP) energetic exe
cution of floor leader duties on
his opening night . . . Prexy Ham
Horton's (UP) fluent oratory
charm . . . Bill Brown (SP) edit
ing a party blurb sheet ... and
revamping plans under way for
the University Party.
On Foreign Campuses. This story
appeared in the Oregon Daily
Emerald: "Alpha Tau Omega was
fined $10 fall term for being one
half man over their quota, Dick
Morse, Inter-fraternity Council
president, announced Thursday
evening.
In The South. Eight faculty mem
bers of the University of the
South, Tenn., have resigned in
protest over a decision by the
trustees not to admit Negroes to
the Theological school.
The resignations leave only one
seminary faculty member, the
Rev. Bayard H. Jones, who did
not resign and took no part in
the protest.
Classes Cut? A poll at Smith Col
lege, Mass., shows that sopho
mores do more class cutting than
other students. Fifty-eight per
cent of the class cut at least
once a week. Three main reasons
for cutting were given: Studying
for exams; dull classes; and out
of town weekends.
man of great self-confidence and
few regrets. And he may not
think of these things at all to
morrow as he goes from the
capitol , to the Union Station to
catch, his train Independence
and the relatively humdrum life
of the second living ex-President
of the United States.
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