PAGE TWO THE DAILY uHp WfoZM The official student publication of the Publications Board of tke 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 Thirty For Awhile We affix 30 to this edition while we take off for exams and vacation. We will be back to greet you on Wednesday, March 25 with more of the same, plus some new items of editorial interest. Ups And Downs We enjoy this community of hills and valleys. But when the hills are in parking lots, like the one behind Lenoir Hall or the tiny valley dip on Raleigh and West Franklin streets next to Spencer Dorm, they become a nuisance. We haven't seen any axles break as a result of cars trying to get over these humps, but we don't doubt that they will eventually. The Lenoir Hall parking lot not only has hills, but it has holes as well. We suggest that the Buildings and Grounds Department get some dirt and patch up the lot, while the town government finds some gravel to level the street on Ra leigh street. Let Us Have Peace There's a song in the air . . . Rather, it's called a song, but we doubt that it is wor thy of being called a song. Oddly enough, the "thing" is known by the name of "Oh, Happy Day." There are probably other words to it, but all we have been able to get out of it was Oh ee ah ee Hap hap yee Dayee. The man who sings it either has an ulcer, or is getting over a bad cold. He sings it as if it were a dirge. The happy Happiness represented in this song must be the kind that a poor man must have, content with one crust of bread per week instead of no crusts. The song and the style of singing is representative of a new kind of, we hate to say it, music. Instead of singing, peo ple gargle. Out of the multi-colored noiseboxes in the coffee shops come the weird, eerie discords. The happy day is a cheer less, joyless, depressing, gloomy, funeral day. We yearn for the old time music, with the recognizable melody. We yearn for the voice, not the gargling, cacophonous noises. Greensboro Daily News Thirty Years Of Good Writing Editor Louis Graves's Chapel Hill Weekly was 30 years old yesterday. He says that if he had known how much trouble it wras to get out a weekly newspaper, he might never have started it and that he should have known better than to "cherish the familiar notion that a village editor spends most of his time in leisurely contemplation, interrupting his repose now and then to dash off a few profound or whimsical comments on passing events." Fourteen years ago he wrote: "I have been getting out the Weekly 16 years and I am very tired of it." Well, you don't do the really good sort of writing that Louis Graves has done so consistently in his Chapel Hill col umn and editorials without getting sick and tired of it;, lots of times, the easier it reads, the harder it writes. On the other hand, you don't quit it. Surely to write as Louis Graves does is one of the durable satisfactions of life, not only for the readers, but also for the writer. Some of the best and most delightful writing in the country is being done in weekly newspapers, notably the Chapel Hill Weekly, the Vineyard Gazette of Martha's Vineyard, Mass., the Rocky Mountain Herald under Thomas Hornsby Ferrill, the Southern Pines Pilot with Katherine Boyd doing the piloting, and the Danbury Reporter when the spirit moves Mr. Pepper. We wish that the University Press would publish a col lection of Louis Graves' writings, even if it had to assign somebody to make JLouis sit down, go over tnem ana ao tne selecting:. Those words ought to be in book form. u ain9 Connie- I tt van JOHNSON JANET LEIGH O? louis CALHERN C VV w,,h SLE2AK LOCKHART JFr - 7 i Latest J News LATE SHOW SATURDAY 1 t . i ' KELSOH LDVEJOY " STEVE COCHRAN PATRICE v Mtcits m GORDON Plus Cartoon TAR HEEL THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1953 Wat Heel WALT DEAR ROLFE NEHJL, . JIM SCHENCK BIFF ROBERTS SUNDAY MONDAY So WYM0RE-win iios HENRY BIANKE DOUGLAS News 0 Of! English Club Freedom Vs. Utility, No. 2 In the paper of March 6th, we spoke of those qualities in the humanities which are necessary for becoming a complete citizen. And on this practical level one may say that languages, litera tures, history, and philosophy have a right and a requirement to be understood by those who would be responsible men. The proof of practicality in this country, in fact, has always been especially appeal ing. Show us its direct utility in terms of a gain which can be mea sured, and' that -thing will be de fended to the death. However, towards those activi ties which do not exhibit useful ness, Americans have traditionally been suspicious. The neighborhood grocer is useful because he is concerned with the distribution of food, an activity by which he gains himself. But what of the man who is concerned with the development of Deism in 18th century poetry? There is some truth to the saying that Americans have not got over being a frontier country in spirit. The . purely American concept of the dignity of man seems in part still based on his ability to fell a tree, skin a deer, fight Indians, discover trails, be silently strong, courageous, unexpressive, tobacco chewing, and sneering toward the frilled man from the East. The living imitation of Robert Mitchum, Clark Gable, and John Wayne is recognizable throughout the coun try. He is dubious of desks, books, or long conversations, because they have no function in killing a bear. We. have succeeded in quieting a few of this hero's doubts about foreign objects, but not his mo tives in doing so. T. C. Mits still wonders why man who studies Beo wulf has a right to exist. And if he cannot be answered in terms of his definition of utility, he turns his face away. The humanities can pass the stan dard of utility by contributing necessary qualities toward the forming of the enlightened citizen. But the humanities do not propose this passage when they propose their studies, nor can they be truly measured by that criterion. The functional standard is passed on the road to other ends. It is not possible to make usable to the pub lic a life's work on the analogues of "Gawayne and the Green Knight" (c. 1360). But such a life spent is not without meaning. And to ques tion this, even in these painful times, is to destroy man's freedom of inquiry. Freedom of thought is a necessity, but necessity is not the dictator of freedom. Man hai a right not only to the transmission of knowledge to his children, but a right to the advancement of knowledge. Yr Mst Obt, Hmbl & Dvtd Srvt, PANDARUS Dan Duke Overview Which Path To Truth One of the constants of history has been man's inhumanity to man. The whole history of mankind reflects , an unending struggle by man against the irrational aspects tof civilization. Often it has been a fight against greater oppression, greater injustice, etc. of man's relations to man. The rise of Science in the 18th century gave man (Western man, i. e.) new hope. Here at last, man thought, was a means to solve man's problems. But two devastating world wars crushed somewhat man's hysterical optimism and faith in Science. Man learned that tanks as well as cars were built, that mass destruction as well as mass production was a dividend of science. It was a depressing let down, indeed. Man, after all, did appear to be nothing but a razor shaven ape with clothes on. Two attitudes arose: One was a general outlook of pessimism and disillusionment, of indifference and don't-give-a-dam-nism. To holders of this attitude, the world was meaningless and injust. But they just didn't care anymore. The fight had been burn-, ed out of them. And so this group of would-be liberals defaulted and surrendered themselves completely to the whims of a "meaningless and injust" world. Their oppressors met no resistance from them. The second attitude one some times held by the best intentioned of people was that these people should take matters into their "Baby, It's Cold Outside' Ron The Menace Once again we approach that time of year when the wicks on the lamps must be carefully trim med and a sufficient supply of nodoze pills acquired for the coming ordeal. I refer to the combination medieval-murder-mayhem method for making col lege students mental misfits, com monly referred to by the cliche of "exams." I think it only fair that since I have good friends in the Tin Can and access to re stricted info, I should give you lucky readers a scoop on what's coming this Friday. Following is a partial list of study questions you might expect when you enter these six grueling days ahead. English 3 ... In "your own words write a short 3,000 word discourse (be brief) on the re lationship of Shakespeare's trag edy "Romeo and Juliet" to Spil lane's "One Lonely Night." (Be specific and give concrete ex amples) . . . time, 10 minutes. Philosophy 41 . . . Choice of two: (1) explain in 25 words or , less the meaning, origin, and sig nificance of existensialism as re lated to man's positive position in his modern environment. (2) Give three reasons why you like the professor in this course. (Be original in your argument.) Archaeology 95 . . . Comment briefly on one of the following: (1) Rome wasn't built in a day. (2) Rome was built in a day. (3) Rome wasn't built, (4) Who is Rome? (5) Emor is what spelled backward? Economics 31 . . . Five minutes. Compare the financial conditions of the U. S. today with those of Afghanistan from the period 1770 to 1800, and tell why you think I should be head of the depart ment. Philosophy 21 (Logic) . . . own hands. Thus, they thought that revolution and means to ac hieve what they regarded the "true ends of mankind" were justified. Thus, this group oppressed un der the illusion that this was the way to end oppression. Neither view is healthy, espe cially when dealing with the mam moth problems which a mechaniz ed 20th century posed. One group defaults and the other assaults. This isn't the way we want to deal with problems in America, is it? f OW-AH Joe btfsplk's hard-luck radiations have forced their wav up through solid ROCK. tNVISIBLEBUT POWERFUL THEY HAVE. TAKE-OVER THE. FORMERIV HAPPY LITTLE HOME. Urn. UlSi OH AM mwd SKONK NEVER f I think I ear it contJ I THE eONS TO OPM CLftCB A 1erb io K. -m wtimt pan- Levin Choose three of the following: (1) Prove you turned off the wa ter in the bathroom this morning. (2) How many sheep in a flock? 13 ... 72 ... or 124. Give rea sons for your choice and be spe cific. (3) If John married Mary and Mary's father was John's fa ther's uncle (twice removed by marriage,) then what relation is John to the guy down the block? Chemistry '61 (Organic). (1) Given butane, dilute Budweiser, and Fleischman's Yeast, show how you would proceed to synthesize Royal Crown Cola. NOTE . . . Marilyn Monroe may be used as a catalyst in this reaction. Political Science 41 ... (1) Give three good reasons why you think you should pass this course. (2) Give three good reasons why you think the instructor in this course would make a good presi dent. (3) What is the name of the textbook? Who wrote it? When and where was it publish ed? Astronomy 31 . . . Comment briefly on one of the following: (1) There are people living on Mars. (2) There are no people living on Mars. (3) I like Mars better than Milky Ways because. . . . (finish this statement in 25 words or less). (4) Where is the sun? (Note to student ... Be specific in your answer.) Physics 25 . . . (ten minutes) If you have a board ten feet long suspended on a fulcrum three feet from one end, and on one end you have a thirty - pound weight and on the other a fifty pound weight (the weight of the board is twenty-five pounds) how long will it be before the board rots and breaXs in two? Well, perhaps this short pre view of things to come will aid you in surviving the onslaught which you're about to face. Good luck to all and remember ... a little BULL goes a long way. bye now ... Express Yourself Editor: The gang and I want to say thanks to the kind and thoughtful man who was responsible for put ting up the new lamp posts around .campus. George ROOMED) TH SHORTCAKE.7THAT HAPPENED BEFO'.. AH MASHED 1 MAH FAVORITE r. Oh,to map in ihe weep i or -trie goiaen ripe- Keap (All the sheep in the ft)d All AoAe&n lit Ua -i l L npe wespjwei reap. W4 Louis Party Writing is not unlike serving in the army. You hate it while you're doing it, but you're glad you did it after it's done. No one has been able to un derstand exactly why writing is such an exhausting job. Other arts, such as music and painting, tend to be relaxing, but writing is always a difficult task. One analyst in "The English Journal" explained the grind of composition by saying that any body would get nervous if when writing a sentence he had to pick out the best nineteen words out of the other 600,000 crowd ing him for selection. Each writer has his own pet method for priming his talents. The late Sinclair Lewis always wrote with wooden pencils in an unheated room. William Faulkner likes to write in the early morning hours. Ernest Hemingway prefers to work standing up at the type writer, stripped to the waist. In spite of the drudgery in volved in putting thoughts and ideas on paper, about 70,000 peaple in this country are pro fessional writers. And there are about a million more Americans who want to write. Everyone is a writer in one sense: Every person has a story to tell, his own life story. Pro fessional writers are simply the Drew The Washington Merry - Go There is little likelihood of revolution inside Russia as a re sult of the crisis over Josef Sta lin, Central Intelligence reported to the White House and the Pen tagon shortly after the aged dic tator was taken sick. Allen Dulles, brother of the Secretary of State and head of the Central Intelligence Agency, delivered the report to President Eisenhower personally. His as sociates made a similar report to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Natu rally they made reservations on what would happen inside Rus sia, but here are the possibilities that might occur following Sta lin's death: 1. Continuation of the present situation. 2. An outbreak of war with the West. 3. Internal tensions; possibly revolution. Of these three, CIA concluded that the most likely result would be a continuation of the status quo. While reporting that there would be flare-ups inside Russia from certain dissident groups, CIA expressed the view that they wouldn't get anywhere. The iron curtain was too tight, the intel ligence chiefs said, for revolting groups to get any aid. Little could be done from the outside to help sow. the seeds of revolt. Therefore, Moscow could be able to keep its far-flung area in line. Futhermore, part of the dissident elements already have been re moved and whole populations transplanted. All this, however, including the possibility of war with the out side world, will depend on who steps into Stalin's shoes. And on this CIA made the following eval uation: 1. Georgi Malenkov, secretary Rips reap, ripe weep: I pPthe weep Wipe weep V? AMV MENTioM Of v?s4?r BUTANVHOW, Y LrUOOK.f-A 1 I AH CAIN T WHOOSH ) TH' BABV'S Vli'L DARK CLOUD IT AVAV FUMW X o prX u . 1 R I i -cv Y A Kraar Line persons who put their stories on paper in an effective manner. And the best of these tell the stories because they feel they ' have to be told. Somerset Maugham, one of the most skilled modern story-tellers, explained his reasons for writ ing in "The Summing Up": . . . there seems no reason for my having become one except an ir resistible inclination and I do not see why such an inclination should have risen in me." Maugham's statement epito mizes the feelings of most good writers. They write because they have to write. On the other hand, many me diocre writers of today don't write because they feel they have to write. Mickey Spillane, who grinds out novels about "sex and violence," as he himself says, admitted recently that he wrote for another reason to make mon ey. Spillane always quotes a pop ular writer of another century, Samuel Johnson. Dr. Johnson, whose wit graced literary circles in the coffee houses of eighteenth century England, once wrote: "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Fortunately, there are still some writers who don't agree with old Dr. Johnson. Pearson - Round of the Communist Party, is Sta lin's successor. He is unfriendly to the west but not belligerent. He would be willing to follow Stalin's technique of letting sa tellite nations do the clashing with the west. 2. Deputy Prime Minister Vya cheslav Molotov is now rated as second man. Previously he was Stalin's favorite. Molotov hates the West, despises minority races. He suffered a recent heart at tack, has been seriously ill. 3. Marshal Lavrenti Beria, head of the secret police, was given an outside chance of being sta lin's successor. He is now in dis favor because his secret police failed to uncover the poisoning of Zhdanov in 1948. Three of the nine doctors recently purged were supposed to hhave poisoned Zhdanov. CIA describes Beria as ruthless, reports that major pur ges would occur if he took power in Russia. Under him revolution would be likely. Vassily Stalin, according to the CIA evaluation, is unpopular be cause he pushed himself forward with the help of his father's name. Also he was injured in a jet accident. Central Intelligence figures that under Malenkov the present policies will continue.. Under Molotov the chances of war wrould increase. Under Beria there would be possible revolution. On the whole a smooth trans fer of power in Russia would be safest for world peace. If there is internal trouble, the new lead er of Russia might try to consoli date his power by starting war. If internal trouble reaches pro portions of a major civil war, the effect would be helpful to the west, but a minor outbreak would not be. THEM WEEP KtTK- AM', ATTHfc . who THEY 1$ PISZJ mp Kim , frJ PUNT IT A 70VAZP t f . W CHSAP if Gzr rp A-:s 4

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