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Washington Calling
A former chairman of the Psychological Warfare Board,
President Gordon Gray will be well qualified to serve as a
member of a new committee on American psychological war
fare problems. V-
The committee will undertake to make the nation's strategy
on the psychological level more unified and dynamic. With
seven other prominent Americans, Gray will be serving the
country in a most important way.
When the University lends its sons to the government ,it
sends an ambassador of good will. While Gray serves the nation
he also serves the University: It is good news that his job on
the national front will not interfere with his duties on the
home front. . ' .
Students Calling
One of the best, things about this University community ii
its friendly atmosphere, its cordial hospitality, and the gener
ated feeling that everyone, knows everybody else. "
This seems to apply to relationships on the student level,
moreso than on the faculty or administration level. Each year,
some student leaderwpriders how studnts can get- to know the
"University administration better, and vice:versa. Each year,
some student committee works on faculty-student relations.
Ths efforts emphasize the need for members of the University
These efforts emphasize the need for members of th Univrsity
students, faculty, and administration, to acquaint themselves
with one another.
The Daily Tarr Heel feels that, there is this need particul
arly on the Consolidated University level. There is a need for
a more informal acquaintanceship between the president of
the Greater University and students from all three schools,
Chapel Hill, W. C., and State. If students have an opportunity
to talk informally to their consolidate dpresident, if only once
a quarter, then the ties of understanding between the presi
dent and students will be much closer.
We suggest this because we feel that go per cent of the stu
dents here, at State, and at WG, don't know President Gray,
and would like to get to know him. An informal gathering in
the Morehead Faculty Lounge, would do much to solve this
problem.
We feel that the president can better understand the
role of students in the University's program if he has an oppor
tunity to meet with them "after hours" in an unofficial way.
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TAR HEEL
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 1,-1953
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Books
Instead ot reviewing a book to
day -I want to make a f ew com
ments on an article by A. Z. F.
Wood, Jr. which appeared in last
Tupesday's Tar Heel. The article
attacked the teaching of "obso
lete" writers in English 82, using
as a particulr point of departure
Herman Melville and Moby Dick.
A. Z. F. Wood, Jr. attacked the
teaching of a book such as Moby
Dick but admits brags that he
did not have "the courage to read"
it. Also, he doesn't like to study
transcendentalism, but admits, "I
' don't know what a transcendental
ist is either." Personally, I don't,
like transcendentalism so much,
either, as a philosophical position,
but I will assert to the end the
necessity of knowing something
about it. It is absurrd to dismiss it
without knowing anything about
it, just as it is being unscientific
ally careless in not taking into
consideratio nwhat others have to
say atfout a particular problem.
" Of more interest are the impli
cations of the things A. Z. F.
Wood, Jr. said about Moby Dick.
Reflecting not so much on his in
telligence as his taste, a person
cannot be expected to have taste
worth considering unless he has a
certain minimum of intelligence.
A. Z. F. Wood, Jr.'s taste is suspect
when' he groups Melville with
Whittier and Lowell. If he can't
see any difference between these
writers then I doubt if what I have
to say will make an ysense to him.
As a high school, junior I thought
somewhat the same thing about
certain American writers but
thank goodness that in the years
since then I was able to change
my mind. A.. Z. F. Wood, Jr. says
"the American school-boy is cram- ,
med with their works before he
even gets to college," leading me
to think that he still holds views
formed in high school. .When I
read Moby Dick in high school,
as I say, I didn't like it, but not
I think it is the best long piece of
fiction written - by anr American
(and it is hard to find anyone who
knows anything about American
literature who rates It much low
. er). . ". ' '
A. Z. F. Wood, Jr. goes on to
call Melville a ""classicist," which
I take to be a solecism for "'class
ic" rather than the word conven-
. tionally opposed to 'romanticist."
Then ,he disparges "verbal" acro
batics in writing and-speaks of
"outmoded" styles of writing. It
is here that he shows his complete
misunderstanding of literature (as
opposed to journalism, say). He
says further, "writing as a whole
has improved since 1850, Words
and phrases are no longer ends in
themselves. They are the means
to the end of communication to
the reader. VThey are tools and
that's all." As a matter of fact his
article itself shows that he doesn't
practice what he preaches and
that what he preaches is merely
a rationalizatio nabout something
he doesn't ike. His statement im
plies that poetry isn't poetry be
cause of a particula rchoice of
words. Ogden Nash, one of the
f'fine" writers which he mentions,
relies upo nverba lacrobatics to
an extreme; that is, the words are
"ends i nthemselTe." He alsa
mentions Ernest Hemingway. (He
recently wrote a story which has
been superfically compared to
. Moby Dick, The Old Man and the
Sea, which, if read by A. Z. F.
Wood, Jr. was probabl yiiked but
also probably liked for the wrong
reasons.)
There was a ma ncalled Shakes
peare who lived a long time before
1850 and who had a way with
words. If you whittled him down
to the bare bones there wouldn't
be much left. He is simply the
greatest writer who eve rlived. If
A. Z. F. Wood, Jr. had the job
of editing Shakespeare to make
him accord with the rule quoted
above, I am afraid that the parts
he would have to cut out would
' be the parts which make him
great. As a matter of fact, there
are many passages in the malign
ed Moby Dick which are Shake
spearea nenough to bear compari
son with Shakespeare. They both
have a heightened feeling for
words themselves and have wit,
and wit depends on knowledge of,
respect for, and the ability to use
...words themselves.,. . . .. , ' ' ''
Even" "Pogo" is what it is by
virtue of its use of words as some
thing a good deal more than mere
""'tools" but why go on beating a
dead horse. .
''Be With You
Dorman Cordell
Stewpot
Letter to the editor:
This old stuff over in the Re
serve Reading Room has to stop.
Let me tell you what happened.
The other night, I knew this
girl would be in the Reserve Read
ing Room of the Library, so I
strolled over to the Library just to
say hello and make a date. Be
cause you know how the phone
systems are in the dorms.
Anyhow, there she was sitting
at a table, and there were these
two jerks on each side of her, not
with her or anything, you see, but
just studying. So I was forced to
sit down across the table, where it
would have bee na long reach if
we had wanted to hold hands.
Well, down I sit and we start up
the usual conversation about
things and so on, and we are get
ting along pretty good considering
we are clea racross the table from
each other. But then one of the
two dopes sitting by. her looked
up with a glare at me, like she
was his girl o rsomething. But I
just glare right back. (Any dope
that would study in the library
should be glared at anyhow.)
But this glaring business just
keeps up, with one of the other
of the guys looking up every few
minutes.
Well, I don't go for that kind of
stuff, so I decided to get away
from it all, taking her with me of
course, and we adjourned into
the halls.
This is very inconvenient and
alL for there aren't any chairs or
seats or anything out there, and
we have to sit on the steps leading
upstairs, and a bunch of people
who are too lazy to go around to
the side stairs keep insisting on
going up the front way and we
keep having to move for them. So
you see it is very inconvenient.
(Personally, I would like to know
why The Daily Tar Heel doesn't
wage a campaign to stop all these
inconveniences!. After all ,you are
supposed to be the students' news
paper, aren't you?)
Now, as if this isn't enough, we
are just settled good and talking
over a recent hilariously funny
picture which sends everybody sit
ting on the steps into great gales
of glee, when what should happen
but some dopey old attendant
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comes charging out with signs
suggesting that people should be
quiet because somebody else is
studying. Well, me, I always
thought this was a land of the ma
jority rules, and I think maybe
the trustees are responsible for
all this stuff, what with their try
ing to put in Saturday classes and
everything. And anybody knows
that the majority are against
studying in the library.
- You'l be glad to learn, however,
that after all these troubles I fin
ally managed to get a date. But
I just wish The Daily Tar Heel
would take some sort of action
about making the Library more
comfortable for dating, because a
bunch of party poopers are mak
ing our lives hard. Rah, Rah, Car
olina! Yours truly,
Harold D. Whipple
(from the Idaho Argonaut, Uni
versity of Idaho)
In many states when girls are
18 they are considered old enough
to get married. In all states they
are old enough to join one of the
women's services. When a girl
graduates from high school, she
has her choice of "going on to col
lege, getting a job, or getting mar
ried. It is assumed in all these in
stances she has enough sense and
maturity of judgment to take care
of herself.
Yet at the University of Idaho
the "girls" are watched over like
inmates of an institution. Their
supervision is closely related to
baby sitting. Names on the sign
out book are scrupoulously check
ed off as the girls report to their
hosemothers not later than 10:30
p.m. and 1 a.m. on weekends.
If university coeds are treated
like youngsters, chances are great
they will act accordingly. If moral
behavior is the excuse for setting
a deadline to be in, I wonder who
thinks students who plan to com
mit crimes of any sort couldn't
do it just as well before the dead
line. It isn't that coeds want to stay
out until the wee hours of the
morning. They merely want to be
- RolfeNeilL-
Livespilce
"Breaking; the Sound Barrier,"
opening Tuesday at the Varsity,
has its good and bad points, , but
contains the compelling ,: element
which makes it a distinctive film.
The English producer utilizes a
secondary plot to heighten inter
est in the movie's essential theme,
man's attempt to thrust past the
speed of sound. Excellent acting
and fresh touches save the ex
hausted minor plot. The main plot
is dynamic enough to carry itself,
lagging at only one point. The
second test run comes as an anti
climax to the first because of the
repetition involved . . i a fault
which in this case would be almost
impossible to correct.
To one tired of glamorized
clinches and camera closeups of
panting, passionate embraces, the
ove scenes are especially notable.
They are tender, moving and re
sponsive. One of the coziest scenes
comes when aPtrick Nigel (a test
pilot) takes his wife (Ann Todd)
on a hop with him to Cairo to de
iver a new jet. It's a unique twist,
ove at three miles up.
"Breaking the Sound Barrier"
is a nifty way to get your science
and ike it. Lucid expanations of
the technics of jet aircraft make
the movie understandable from a
mechanical point of view, but
"Breaking the Sound Barrier" of
fers a bette reducation than a
knowledge of jet engines. The
camera affords an unequaled look
into the Milky Way and gives a
graphic geography lesson as well
as impressing you with the" man
euverability and speed of super
sonic aircraft.
Filming this movie called for
some tricky techniques. The an
swer? Film jets with jets. Air-to-air
photography was done from
a Vickers Valleta piloted by an
ex-RAF pilot. The plane carried
a movie crew of five with three
cameras.
The human qualities of the film
are better captured by the cam
era thn by the pen.
his movie is a tribute to the men
whose quest was supersonic speed
and Producer David Lean has
done it sensitively an dsimply.
Ralph Richardson, the top per
former as an aircraft manufac
turer who fails to understand his
family and is misunderstood by
them, is the. man .with the vision.
Ann Todd, recently seen here iri
the re-release "The Seventh Veil,"
is Richardson's daughter. Her role
as the wife of the test pilot is
done warmly and understandingly.
The test pilot whooshes along at
a creditable clip, too.
As a suspenseful drama of man
exploring the unknown, "Breaking
the Sound Barrier" breaks some
records o nits own. R. & R.N.
treated like mature college women-
Many girls have said they
wouldn't stay out until the last
minutes if they knew they didn't
have to be in.
. . . There are so many instances
which are completely reasonable
and moral when coeds may not
want to b in at the restricted
time .
It seems a completely ignorant
rule to set a time for college wom
en to be in. Why not give them a
chance to show how mature they
are?
High above Cayuga's waters, a
Cornel universily dormitory's din
ing facilities are subject to clo
sure on short notice unless some
50 additional contract are se
cured for lunch and dinners for
the coming spring term. A new
plan to make eating at the dorm
a "separate item from other accom-
- Dave Herbert -
Inquiring
Reporter
- This week's winning question,
"What do you think of Senator
McCarthy's proposed investigation
of the Higher Institutions of
Learning", was submitted by
. " who receives a mer
chandise certificate from the
Town and Campus Clothing Store.
Here are some of the varied
opinions received:
Senior New York "Wherever
criticism is made against an in.
vestigation, I feel that there is
where investigation should be
held. If the colleges have nothing
to hide why should they resent
an investigation?"
Freshman Greensboro "Mc
Carthy was born a trouble maker
and headline seeked. This investi
gation which he has proposed is
just his way of hiding his crooked
doings by casting doubt upon
others."
Junior-Coed Durham "Now
that the question of alleged Com
munist infiltration into American
educatio nhas come out, and as
long as we follow the democratic
rule of "innocent until proven
guilty", I can see where an inves
tigation made in an intelligent
manner would do quite a bit in
relieving doubt where there is
some."
Senior-Coed Raleigh "I think
that the American colleges and
universities shoul dtake it upon
gation themselves to do any inves
tigatio nthat needs to be done. I
believe that any committee ap
pointed by the government to in
vestigate educational subversive
activities would be against the
high ideals which has put our
syste mamong the greatest in the
world."
Graduate Chapel Hill "If any
investigation is to be done I be
lieve that it should be made in
our primary and secondary sys
tems. There is where minds have
the greatest acceptance and the
least resistance therefore almost
anything that is taught is taken
for granted, whereas in university
a high state of critical analysis or
learning, the mind is developed to
at least should be)."
In viewing these interesting
: opinions we realize that while in
vestigations of any type are apt to
"cramp the style" of a system
does not keep itself clean. How
ever in this case cleanliness
should not imply that our educa
tion should be one tracked. To the
contrary it should be one in which
we are exposed to all ways of life
(this is where the senator seems
to disagree) and through a nhoc
est analysis be shown why our
American ssytem has never ceased
to progress (in face of investiga
tions). Our educational challenge then
is not to fight investigations but
to make them unnecessary.
Send your questions and com
. ments to Inquiring Reporter, Box
1080, Chapel Hill.
modations brought people ra
ciroves but not to eat.
George Washington University
must offer an excellent course ia
creative writing and thinking.
Events which may easily becoat
humdrum from lack of imagina
tive, catchy titles are saved from
this fate by such items as a "Mi
Rag Doll" who plugged a KoreaS
clothing-drive, a sorority variety
show dubbed the "Goat Show,"
and a sailing competition with two
other universities cleverly labeled
the "Frostbite Regatta."