! PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1953 'Hello, Ike? I Think We're Under Attack" Dan Duke The Baffle Rages No Way Out Pa 1 of 1 exa Ent '.. the ; qua r IvW ' t.Jai " Bui Soc tie" Sut Ne ' Jer ; rie - Ch ' j S"" X5 1 Na Ni I It a a v t v c I 1 j t ! I j And they want more .. . More than the $100,00 donated by alumni and friends to further the athletic cause and athletic policy here. More money for more athletes and money out of the Book X profits. The Daily Tar Heel does not understand the rieed for more money for ahletes, especially money from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, when friends and alumni have been kind enough to launch and maintain a huge athletic program. Why break a Carolina tradition? Let's keep the pol icy of having the University take care of the academic end of scholarship programs Chancellor House's statement. "No a cent of these funds comes from University appropriations, stu dent fees or athletic gate receipts." is somehing we would like to ihear three months from now. The book exchange profits are not earmarked for athletic scholarships. There is $100,000 for athletes coming, from the "Educational" foundation. Let .those who need it most get the profits under the grants-in-aid program. Incidentally, ath letes aren't disqualified from grants-in-aid and scholarships, programs. (They merely have to compete ith others.) . Anybody who knows much about football has known that UNC enthusiasts have paid their athletes well. The Chancel lor's report, however, is startling because of the upper finan cial hand athletes have over non-athletes: That is a two-to-one ratio in finances and a four-to one ratio in numbers. ' Chancellor House has recognized the need for more en dowed scholarships. He points out that UNC is indeed grate ful to John Motley Morehead for providing a tremendous scholarship program for graduates and undergraduates (high school seniors will be interviewed in March for the scholar ships). Morehead has been a consistent and beloved benefactor of the Univrsity. His contributions in the scholarship field have made and will make the University a greater school. This new program, amounting to about $300,000 a year will make the athletic program look like chicken feed. What The Daily Tar Heel wants to know is why isn't their more emphasis on the real and basic program of the Univer sity, the thing that is supposed to make us distinct from the technical school at Raleigh, and Greensboro. What kind of financial program has been launched for the liberal arts and humanities phase of the University? Funds come in for athletics; monies pour in for; new business build ings, new medical schools, salaries for dental professors, and other professional programs. The annual alumni giving pro gram which goes into affect this year is a step in the right direction to aid liberal arts, but is it enough? The people of the State need to know that the University is more than just a football university or a vocational labora tory. It is more than just a basketball, tennis, swimming, track, or even lacrosse University. It is a way of life, an educational center in the real sense of the word, a training ground for future leaders. . It is much easier to sell football or basketball than social research or a chair in oriental history. Yet, surely, that is what the University must do if it is to have an educational policy. The figures show a need for more academic scholarships. The University has sold its athletic program. It is time to secure "millions for academics but not one cent for athletics." Wecome, Mrs. Roosevelt A former first lady visits the campus today to talk about the USA's part in the United Nations. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt has appeared here as a Weil lec turer, as the 1935 graduation speaker and as a guest on other occasions. The Daily Tar Heel welcomes her once again. Interest in the UN has been more than mild here. There is a move afoot to create a campus-ized mock UN Assembly. The Phi Assembly plans to bring an arch foe of the United Nations as a speaker here soon. Whether you think that the UN is the best agericy to secure world peace, whether you think that the UN is stealing American sovereignty, or wheth er you are perplexed, Mrs. Roosevelt's talk should be enlight ening and is worthy of your attendance. 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 News Ed. Sub. Mgr. Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Bob Slough Carolyn Reichard Bill Venable, Tom Witty Office Mgr. Buzzy Shull ( Haskett Assoc. Ed .Nina Gray, Jane Carter Exch. Ed. Alice Chapman EDITORIAL STAFF A. Z. F. Wood Jr., John Gibson, Dorman Cordell, Dan Duke, Curt Ratledge, Tom Parramore, Louis Kraar, Dave Herbert, Jim Wilkinson, Harrison Dunlop, Don Thornton. NEWS STAFF John Jamison, Louis Kraar, Tom Parramore, Ellen Downs, Jennie Lynn, Jerry Reece, Sara Leek, Ben West, Jim Wilkin-' son, Jes Nettles, Sally Schindel, Manning Muntzing, Dave Herbert, Hu bert Breeze, Harry Dunlop, Tom Neal Jr. SPORTS STAFF Vardy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Melvin Lang, Everett Parker, John Hussey, Sherwood Smith, Al Long, Dick Crouch, Benny Stewart, Wilbur Jones. ADVERTISING STAFF Pete Adams, Bob Mason, Bob Wolfe, Eleanor Saunders, Buddy Harper, Dorman Cordell. CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT George Harris, Veneta Zeller. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Cornell Wright, Ruffin Woody, Bill Stonestreet. Night Editor for this issue! Rolfe Neill WALT DEAR ' . ROLFE NEILL . JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS Soc. Ed. Circ. Mgr. Deenie Schoeppe Dnald Hogg Asst. Spts. Ed. Tm Peaeoek Adv. Mgrs. Charlie Collins. Charles Roger Williams, Richard O'Neal, The fundamental and most per sonal freedom of Americans is the right to political and spiritual heresy. We may agree or disagree with majority views and govern ment. If we disagree, we may viol ently criticise the popular views and the existing government, and we may advocate and endorse the most eccentric political and re ligious heresies. Yet there are no Constitutional grounds for Communism and Com munists in America, and should not be. This seeming contradiction that we Americans have the right to be political heretics but not Communists ".is easily resolved. Communism is not a heresy. It is an out and out conspiracy. If Com munism only advocated its system of government economics, it too would be a mere heresy. But this is not the case. Communism, in contrast to other heresies, does not compete fairly in the free market of ideas. Instead it openly conspires to use any means, any lies, any deception to hurry the rise and spread of Communism and to bring about what they call "the inevitable downfall of Cap italism" (Western democracy). Quite boldly they plot to over throw all non-communist govern ments. There is no compromise. They deny the very right we have already deemed fundamental the right to political heresy. There is no way out for the Communist, except by revolt. He cannot change his mind or criticise or advocate change. Communism al lows no minority rights, no Con stitutional means to change the type, or personnel, of government. He is hopelessly enslaved to what ever program, whichever direction the Communist regime moves. Briefly that is why we are against Communism. It violates our basic concepts of freedom and contradicts our value and respect for the individual. kDorman Cordell- The Square Wheel Lo, brethren, woe is upon me. There are awful rumors going around that a movement is afoot to replace the square wheel with a round one in Chapel Hill. And you know what that would do to the deah old traditions of Chapel Hill. Ah, woe is us! Just look about you. Think of the atmosphere we have by pre serving the good , old days intact. You can remember it when you walk down our dirt sidewalks. And when you sink in mud up to your elbows, or fall into one of those gullies which are too deep to climb out of, sing the praises of the status quo. Any how, don't you think it will de velop your feet to get all those pebbles in your shoes when you walk down the sidewalk? Those terrible advocates of modernism just haven't looked at our beautiful traditions or they couldn't possibly want to institute that nasty old round wheel and upset everything. ; After all, we've done our darn dest to keep the colonial atmos phere. The town fathers have de creed that all commercial con cerns shall be built on a colonial style of architecture. Now this appeals to everybody, even if it does cost a few thousand extra dollars to build a building this way. After all, it's only money. Then we have done our best to preserve our deah old well. The only thing is, it isn't quite in its old form. Some radical did away with the hog wallow that was there after that scabby little re bellion about 90 years ago, and they have taken down the old oaken bucket. You see, that's the kind of thing these irresponsible Innovations are likely to bring about. And there are other deah old traditions of Chapel Hill which one only has to see to appreciate. But just think: the introduction of this round wheel will upset everything.. If we let this, happen, the next thing you know, they'll want us to educate women and let them vote, or they'll try to make us put bathtubs in our houses, and all those other new-fangled things. We must forget that change in itself is not necessarily good. Arise, Chapel Hillians, speak out at once against this dangerous in novation. Keep the square wheel for Chapel Hill. Ron Conglomeration Plagued with gnawing pangs in dicating that E Hour was close at hand, our friend, Joe, quickly (fell in line at one of the many jup town fashionable, attractive, and altogether obnoxious eateries in our fair city. This was a cafe teria and the very word struck an ominous note, for Joe had fceen through three major skirm ishes here and once was even (recommended for the Purple 'Heart. (This had come about when an elderly lady in front of him dropped her little plate of cookies and Joe, leaning over to .pick them up for her, was jabbed in the logical spot with a fork fby an over irate coed for causing her to be late in getting to the main trough with her girl friends.) The trays loomed up ahead and our hero anxiously waited with clammy hands. Pouncing upon what he thought to be a clean one, Joe was dismayed to find a tfew remnants of Monday's spin ach lying quietly in a far corner of the tray. But! the offensive had begun and there was no turning back now. Several of the older veterans passed the word along to "close it up" and faces became grim. The salads were first and Joe reached out for a full bowl. He was, however, faked out by a music major with long arms and dexterous fingers, and after a few feeble attempts the assault was given up. (Salads Princess (Continued from Page 1) the Playmakers, with Elise Cor tese, professional singer, in the title role created this season by Nancy Murray, This season, "Princess Ida" is again something new, keyed to the times by director William Hardy, and played against color ful stylized Sets by William I. Long. Several .members of the cast toured last spring with the Playmakers original hit musical, "Spring For Sure." This season, as 20 years ago, tickets are selling for the Play makers' "Princess Ida," which opens Friday for a three-night run in Memorial Hall. . YSSTiPPV THAT I AtfMfi? HgLPS A I 7OU WITH YCr HOU&SVYUKK. 7VS w n - l ntt wWHiilwn Pan-Cm Levin aren't good for you anyway . . . Itoo much roughage.) But big Ithings lay at hand. T-Bone Hill (was not far off, and already k isilence fell upon the line. Joe saw there were two small steaks (left and there were two people ahead of him. Anxiously he await ed their decision. "T-bone . . . make it two." Muttering small jcurses Joe resignedly accepted his Slobbovian meat loaf and 'marched on. After procuring two small bowls with a few peas an one and a rather large lima bean in the other, he moved on. IThe bread line was not too crowd led and a few stale crusts were soon added to the growing (pile?) ... on the tray. However, the worst was yet to come. Joe steeled hmiself for the moment when confronted by ice water, butter, chocolate, and plain milk, tea, coffee, dessert, and a par ticularly obese cash registrar he would have to be quick yet sure in his choice. .This was it. His. hand darted out and the vision in front of him was obscured by a flurry of darting fingers. Joe looked down to see what he had gotten, and found three lemon slices, two small cream jiggers, and a broken glass staring at him from the tray. Ah well, he had been entirely too optimistic al though rumors had been circu lated around that one day at a fairly slack lunch hour, one stu dent had actually gotten a half pint of milk, but one could hard ly take these rumors at full value. He reached in his pocket Ifor a wrinkled bill, and as he did the line behind . . . ever push ing onward, pushed ever so slightly and the crash resounded throughout the mess hall as the tray hit the f an . . . uh . . . floor. Older veterans turned with a barrage of contemptuous haughty glares, and several gleeful titters Icame from the nearest trou . . . table of coeds. Joe meekly looked up at the cashier who with a horrible leer said in a voice loud enough to be heard in Woollen, "that'll be a dollar eighteen with the tax." ... I ask ya now, what's a guy gonna do? NO QWg&Q2L!t.. WOW YOU HOW TO SUCK UP a houss eo IT STAYS SLICK. Sacred Past The professor had asked one of his students to see him after IclclSS "Mr. Jones," he said, "I see where you have selected a novel Iby Hemingway for your parallel reading." "Yessir." "After I said that you'd do bet ter to choose a nineteenth cen tury novel?" "Yessir," said Jones, "But you gave us our choice, and I'm more interested in the twentieth cen tury. I live in it and I'm more interested in its problems." V "The function of the study of the humanities," said the profes sor, "Is not to teach a man. to Solve contemporary problems, but to equip him to lead a rich con temporary life." "Oh," said Jones. "And I feel quite sure," said the professor, "That you will be able to write a better report on a novel like Moby Dick, and you will surely get a better grade." "Oh," said Jones. "You see," said the professor, "By reading the works of dead writers, your life will be made fmore significant, your mind will be broadened, and you will know imore about yourself as a man." The professor paused so that Jones could fully grasp what he 'was saying. "And by improving ourselves generally as men," the professor continued, "We become by acci ident more able to deal with the practical problems of life." The professor paused and looked into Jones' eyes, which were now very dull and listless. "My course," said the professor, "is a survey of American liter ature from 1850 to the present. The term is short, and I must "select the better literature. Ob viously then, we must concentrate our efforts on the literature of (the nineteenth century. And iwhat time is left we devote to (the twentieth century early twentieth century." "Then, you don't think we'll get to Hemingway or Stein beck?" said Jones sadly. "No," said the professor, "You see, those men are still alive. The Humanities should deal with dead people. They are the ones who Jhave wisdom and sensitivity. They are the ones who stimulate one's intellect, subtilize one's feelings, and give one a calm inner understanding. They are the ones who ' will take you to the great storehouse of learning. They are the ones who will make you a complete man." "Oh," said Jones. News Briefs (Continued from page 1) TAIPEH, Formosa Generalissi mo Chiang Kai-shek yesterday hail ed President Eisenhower's declara tion that the U. S. 7th Feet no longer would block any Nationalist China attempt to attack the Chinese mainland as "militarily and morally sound." And he added, "I would like to assure our friends abroad that the Republic of China will not ask aid from ground forces of any nation to achieve our goal." But he did not mention air or naval sup port ,and observers here thought it was implicit in his statement that he woud welcome sea and air sup port. NO TWO WAVS A ROUT IT I CLEANS A MOUSE. IT Retort This little literary controversy is getting pretty good. It's nice to get away from politics and war every now and then and to inter est ourselves in gentler topics. The main point of the present dis cussion is well stated in the ar ticle written by an English Club member for Tuesday's Tar Heel. Its thesis is presented in such a way that almost no one will want to disagree with it. If it, or the less calm articles by Wood and me, move you to want to say some thing, for heaven's sake write it out and drop it at the Tar Heel office. Seriously, the tone of the paper would be helped consider ably by the inclusion of a few more pieces by non-staff members on art, philosophy, and literature. Again I have to say that Wood doesn't practice what he preaches. His comments on The Old Man and The Sea show use of words as something other than mere tools. Notice his use of repetition and parallelism. Those are rhetorical devices which Hemmingway uses a great deal too. He goes on to say that Hemmingway used "no superfluous words or phrases," he has fooled you Mr. Wood. The story only gives the appearance of having no superfluous words, be cause Hemmingway is adept at what Horace would call "the art of concealing art." As matter of fact, Hemmingway originally wrote down the story in one para graph. No. I don't think fiction ever was the presentation of a story in the least number of oper- able words. Wood says that he does not think The Old Man is "allegorical or symbolic", and I suspect those words to him stand for something bad (since one finds them where words are not used to say directly what one means). I will end with a well-worded quotation from Ber nard Berenson on this point: "No real artist symbolizes or allegor izes and Hemmingway is a real artist but every real work of art exhales symbols and allegories. So does this short but real master piece." Throw 'Em Out Scientists of Baylor University's Biology department dispose of com pleted experiments by throwing out the window everything from ele phant's trunks to snail's shells can be found lying outside the building. Inevitably several complaints were registered by passerbys. The debris has caught some of them off guard. The head of the biology department answered the complainers by say ing, "This just isn't the way to dis pose of used biology experiments." Marine ( Continued from page 1 ) air assignment. According to the announcement, a majority of new officers are now afforded the opportunity to attend specialist schools for additional training in such subjects as com munications, supply, artillery, na val gunfire, naval flight training, ordnance, tank, motor transport and others. The remainder are assigned to various billets in the fleet Ma rine force. All serve on active duty for two years. The officer training program is open to both married and single men. Interested men should contact Maj. F. C. Caldwell at the Naval Armory here. NTTVTyoNT u& my 7a 1 SJlffi mm i

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