PAG3 TWO
THS DAULY TAR HSSL
SUNDAY, APRIL 12, 1953
Herb Cohn
The Jarrards
Clara
'Yes, I'm Getting Quite A Charge Out Of It'
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MID Mm mM
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University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily
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Editor
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Sports Editor
News Ed.
Bob Slough
Sub. Mgr.
Carolyn Reiehard
Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Bill Venable,
Tom Witty
Office Mgr. Buazy Sbifll
Assoc. Ed Nina Gray, Jane Carter
NEWS STAFF -John Jamison, Louis Kraar, Richard Creed, Ken San
ford, Ellen Woods, J. D. Wright, Sally Schindel, Jess Nettles, Tom Neal
Jr. ,
SPORTS STAFF Vardy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Melvin Lang, Everett
Parker, John Hussey, Shenroed Smith, Al Long, Dick Crouch, Benny
Stewart, Wilbur Jones. . -
EDITORIAL STAFF A. Z. F. Wood Jr., John Gibson, Dorman Cor
dell, Dan Duke, Ron Levin, Norman Jarrard.
Night editor for this issue: Dorman Cordell
Trustees Go To School
Elecion of John W. Clark for another eight year term to
the Board of Trustees is an indication of Clark's popularity in
the State Legislature. Tha populari y doesn' extend to this
campus. He received one of the highest votes of any of the new
nominees in Thursday's balloting by the Joint House and Sen
ate Committee.
Also returned to office was Victor Bryant of Durham, author
of the Saturday class plan in the Executive Comittee.
Trustee Clark has been noticeably quiet this past year.
Last year, he was the University's chief critic and almost a
constant plague to students.
The 28 trustees whose election is almost insured, will be
here in May to participate in a three day school session. Object
of the course is to acquaint Trustees with the function and
operation of the University. This educational program will
go a long way in clearing up misinformed notions about UNC.
It is another step in the direction of informing those who
should know, but generally don't, what goes on here in
Chapel Hill.
Recently, President Gordon Gray remarked that the first
thing to do in handling the problem of interpreting the Uni
versity to the State is to star a home. This is done on he
student level through such agencies as the Consolidated Uni
versity Student Council; on the faculty level, through this
year's Faculty Conference, and now on the Trustee level,
through the three day school period.
We are happy to hear that the Trustees are "going to
school." We welcome them as fellow students. We are especi
ally happy that Trustee Clark will have an opportunity to
really find out about the University, close range.
How To Stay In College
Editor's Note; This came to us in the morning mail from
the National Education Association Journal, October, 1948.
1. Bring the professor newspaper clippings dealing with his
subject. Demonstrate fiery interest and give him timely items
to mention to the class. If you can't find clippings dealing
with his subject, bring in any clippings a random. He thinks
everything deals with his subject.
2. Look alert. Take notes eagerly. If you look at your
watch, don't stare at it unbelievingly and shake it.
3. Nod frequently and murmur, "How true." To you, this
seems exaggerated. To him, it's quite objective.
4. Sit in front, near him. (Applies only if you intend to stay
awake.) If you are going to all the trouble of making a good
impression, you might as well let him know who you are,
especially in a large class.
5. Laugh at his jokes. You can tell. If he looks up from his
notes and smiles expectantly, he has told a joke, believe it or
not.
6. Ask for outside reading. You don't have to read it. Just
ask.
7. If you must sleep, arrange to be called at the end of the
hour. It creates an unfavorable impression if the rest of the
class has left and you sit there alone, dozing.
8. Be sure the book you read during the lecture looks like
a book from the course. If you do Math, in Psychology and
Psychology in Math., match the books for size and collor.
9. Ask any questions you think he can answer. Conversely,
avoid announcing that you have found the answer to a ques
tion he couldn't answer, and in your younger brother's second
grade reader at that.
10. Call attention to his writing. Produces an exquisitely
pleasant experience connected with you. - If you know he's
written a book or an article, ask in class if he wrote it.
As to whether or not you want to do some work, in addition
to all this, well, it's controversial and up to the individual.
What's Happened to Jazz
..What's Happened to Jazz is the provacative title of a De
cember Mademoiselle article in which Russell Roth traces the
strange turns Jazz has taken since it came in with the bloomer
girl and her lineal descendant, the flapper. Not the least of
these is the current interest of American Universities, their
growing need for teachers of jazz or at least the history of
jazz. Roth cites the experimental courses of Professor Marshall
Stearns of N. Y. U., the work of Herskovits and Waterman at
Northwestern, and he says that the University of Minnesota is
considering its inclusion in the American Studies curriculum.
He points out an irony in this situation namely that
the universities are showing their first serious interest in jazz
when the living tradition of the music is at its lowest ebb.
"It doesn't seem to be at first glance: there is more talk
today, and intelligent talk," Roth says, "about New Orleans
jazz than ever before; there are more young musicians appar
ently interested in tradi ional jazz Iran at any time since the
twenties. But this only veils a very serious reality, one that in
the past has usually meant the death of a music; the audience
nas been lost.
. WALT DEAR
ROUTE NEELL
JIM SCHENCK
BIFF ROBERTS
Soc. Ed.
Deenie Schoeppe
Donald Hogg
Circ. Mgr.
Asst. Spts. Ed. Tom Peacock
AdT. Mgr. Bob Wolfe
Exch, Ed.
Alice Chapman
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The quotes from reviews used
as blurbs for Lonnie Coleman's
Clara (Bantam) say, "Clara is a
superior performance," "Lonnie
Coleman makes a powerful bid
for literary importance," "A story
with real flavor an excellent nov
el," "Race qualities rather than
race prejudices," and "an honest
book on a ticklish subject." Since
one doesn't pay any attention to
blurbs, I didn't think Clara was
any different from other race
novels. However, curiosity got the
better of me and I read the book.
Clara is the story of a struggle
between Carl Sayre's wife, Lil
lian, and Clara, his Negro servant
and mistress. Clara is not inten
tionally a rival for Carl's love as
Lillian thinks. Clara serves Carl
in all his wishes. To him she is
more than a physical companion.
She is the one who holds his
household together, tames his
wife, and takes care of him dur
ing his drunken periods. Clara is
the only person who understands
him.
In Lillian Carl had hoped to
find love and understanding. In
stead, he finds a cold, frightened
woman who is his wife in name
only. The reader will feel some
compassion for Lillian. She needs
Clara as badly as Carl does. Grad
ually, Lillian realizes Clara's im
portance to the family.
The story is told by Lillian. It
begins in a small town in Ala
bama in the year 1920. Lillian
tells her story in sequences of
important years. The last chapter
takes place in 1950. The book is
centered around Carl and Clara
but the rest of Lillian's family is
brought in. Aunt Aster provides
comic relief. She is a butterfly
collector. In her old age, when
she's not getting enough atten
tion, she puts on all of her clothes
wrong side out and backwards.
Some of her antics are side-splitting.
Mr. Coleman has recaptured the
Southern dialect. Lillian's "say
ings" are so real and typical that
they are immediately accepted as
authentic. Through Lillian, Mr.
Coleman skillfully gives an in
sight into women's ways of think
ing. I found myself becoming im
patient with Lillian's ideas, but
upon analyzing them I realized
that many women think in the
same fashion. She faced her prob
lems honestly and worked to
ward a sensible solution. Clara
was portrayed realistically. She
is not the uneducated, licentious
Negress so often described in race
novels.
I recommend Clara for almost
all readers. It may start a chain
of thought that won't end with
Southern problems.
There are several other novels
I want to mention. Low Company
(Angels in Undress) (Avon), a
novel of the London underworld
by Mark Benney, was highly
praised by some critics. Richard
Brooks has The Producer (Pocket
book), about Hollywood. In Wil
liam Barrett's The Left Hand of
God (Pocket Book), Jim Carmody
disguises himself as a Catholic
priest and finds it hard to undis
guise himself, David Dressier, in
Parole Chief (Bantam), tells
about his work with convicts.
Francis Carco's Perversity
(Avon), translated by Ford Ma
dox Ford, pctures life "in the
lower depths of Paris."
A. Z. F.Wood, Jr.
if the Shoe Fits
Ron, old bean (Ron Levin to
you readers), you have done me
a great injustice. You have in
ferred many many grave things
about my tastes, endocrine bal
ance, and ability to enjoy life. 1
never thought that I would be
accused of stodginess. I expected
the letter I received from the
Southern Regional Committee of
the Communist Party and, as a
matter of fact, I'm quite proud of
it. I expected to have half the
English Department all over my
back. But to be accused of stod
giness! That is sheer cruelty, and
so unjustified. You just missed
the whole idea.
In the first place, I didn't con
demn anybody for wearing white
bucks, going barefoot on senior
day, going to movies, or playing
poker. I condemn those who don't
do much of anything else and who
regard anyone who does as queer.
I condemn the conformist and the
provincial and the sheep-like spec
tres that haunt this campus.
Just for the record:
You're right on Marilyn Mon
roe; she's got a big bust-line, a
symmetrical figure, pretty hair,
and about as much sex appeal, in
English
Foreign
When the University sat down
together to attempt a self-examination
a month ago, many prob
lems and purposes of higher edu
cation were stated for all to see.
But one educational problem was
my opinion, as a billboard poster.
And if she's an actress, I'm Sat
chel Paige. (Roger Willcoe will
assure you that I'm not Satchel
Paige.)
Jerry Lewis, to me, is funny
the first time, and maybe the sec
ond time if you've had a lot of
beer, and after that, nuts!
Dixieland is my favorite type
of music, that is, Dixieland in the
loose sense. I like Benny Good
man and Louis Armstrong par
ticularly, and when I hear Barney
Bigard play Body and Soul it's
all I can do to keep from crying.
I once drank twenty-seven cans
of beer one afternoon and night
and the only reason I don't do
that anymore is because it came to
a choice between eating and
drinking, and after due consider
ation, I chose the former.
I am still interested in the op
posite sex, though I will admit my
interests are rather narrow. Last
year I was completely snowed by
a certain young damsel, and I
went off and married her. To
use one of your expressions, mar
ried life is "the greatest".
Though I had the misfortune of
seeing The Snows of Kilimanjaro
(which wasn't even close to the
original), I don't go to movies
much anymore. I'd rather save
up the money and buy a bottle of
gin.
With the exception of Joseph
Conrad, my favorite writers are
contemporary ones: Hemingway,
Steinbeck, Monsarrat, and James
Jones. As you probably know, I
don't care much for Herman Mel
ville or John Greenleaf Whittier.
Though my feet are size thir
teen and a half, I plan to go bare
foot on senior day.
Ron, old sport, now that the
pique at identifying yourself a bit
too closely with my first type has
worn off, I would suggest that
you go back and reread my col
umn. Try reading it objectively
one time. It is necessary that a
psychoanalyst be objective, if
nothing else.
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Languages
apparently overlooked: how may
this country become conscious of
and proficient in foreign lang
uages. Why should educated
Americans know foreign lang
uages? Here is part of an answer,
quoted from the Washington Post,
December 29, 1952:
"Until the first American train
ed especially for Indonesian duty
was assigned to the Embassy in
1949, all translating was done by
natives. To please their employ
ers, they interpreted everything
to sound rosy, pro-American. But
when American area and language
experts began to read Indonesian
newspapers and attend sessions
of the National Legislature, the
Embassy learned that strong Com
munist - inspired anti - American
feeling was sweeping the country.
Now the Ambassador wants as
many area and language men in
Indonesia as he can get . . . but
it will be years before this coun
try is well supplied with them.
"State Department officials, at
their most optimistic, estimate the
department has only half the
area and language experts which
it considers a minimum need . . .
Congress established the For
eign Service Institute in the de
partment in 1940 to give general
training to diplomats and then to
educate some as area and lang
uage specialists . : . Only volun
teers are given the area training
. . . Not many volunteer for train
ing on the area where they are
most needed Asia . . . The In
stitute has only one man in train
ing as a Southeast Asia specialist
for Indonesia. The foreign serv
ice has only thirteen area special
ists for India, Pakistan, Nepal
and Ceylon. They speak no Hin
dustani, although there are at
least thirteen other major lang
uages in the area. . . .
"In the Moslem world the for
eign service has only fifteen
Arabic specialists, compared with
an estimated need for forty-three.
Only six are in training. Yet that
is far better than it used to be.
One career diplomat recalls that
in 1946 the State Department did
not have one officer who could
read an Arabic newspaper . . .
To find out what Islam was say
ing in its newspapers, the diplo
mats had to mail them home to
Tomorrow night at 7:15 P.M.
in Gerrard Hall the YMCA and
the Hillel Foundation will spon
sor "The Snake Pit", the fourth
in a series of socially significant
movies. The theme "Man Against
Himself" will be the subject of
the discussion following the movie
with Dr. Harry S. Crane of the
Clinical Psychology Department
as leader.
Mary Jane Ward's powerful
novel "The Snake Pit", is hardly
one which Hollywood might have
been expected to choose for trans
cription to the screen. For it puts
forth fully and frankly the case
of a young woman in a mental in
stitution, wherein she proceeds
through experiences not of a most
pleasant nature. Yet Twentieth
Century Fox and Darryl S. Zanuck
saw the special merit in this book
and brought it to the screen.
They approached this extraor
dinary job with a sense of respon
sibility to treat fairly a most deli
cate theme. They stuck rigidly to
documented facts and showed the
temptation to melodramatize in
sanity. The consequence is tha
tthe picture is a true, illumin
ating presentation of the experi
ence of a psychotic in an institu
tion. The most striking aspect of this
picture is the forcefulness with
which it makes us feel the dark
confusion, distress and yearnings
of a person mentally ill. It shows
the idiosyncracies of "the sick"
and draws them Into a pattern
The Enchanted One
Oh, Infelix where are you? I
have been seeking to find you,
where you are sitting "in amaze
ment at the complexities of the
world with their bluntedness,
plodding after the blonted goal".
If I could find you, I would open
my mind and soul to tell you of
the great love and joyous heart
which God has let me, and others,
see "as the end result of all this
labor" and how it "sparks" my
life to go on and on mid toil and
strife to receive even greater love
and joy, and indeed peace of mind
and heart.
"The joy of the Lord is your
strength". To follow with words
from Oswald Chambers, "My Ut
most for His Highest"; "the only
way to know the strength of God
is to take the yoke of Christ upon
us and to learn of Him. (Matt.
XI:29) Christ asks us to take one
end of the yoke " my yoke is
easy, get alongside Me and we will
put together". When the darkness
of dismay comes, endure until it
is over, because out of it will
come that following of Christ, the
Son of God, which is an unspeak
able joy.
The first thing to do in exam
ining the power that dominates
you is to take hold of the unwel
come fact that you are responsible
the Library of Congress for trans
lation. "For Iran the foreign service
has four language and area spe
cialists and needs eight. None is
in training. Luther Evans, Li
brarian of Congress, says that if
this country had had more Irian
specialists, or had listened to
those that it had, the current
crisis there might conceivably
have been avoided. ..."
Have the Administration and
faculty heard this before?
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Pandarus
which should expand and enlight
en us.
Telling the poignant story of
a young married woman who is
slowly returned to sanity from a
mental depth, it goes with her
through the experiences of electro-shock
treatment, narco syn.
thesis, hydro therapy and the ef
fect of living in a ward with the
violently insane. And by the use
of flashbacks of her earlier life,
it gives a good Freudian explana
tion for her illness on which to
base a cure.
The subject is dynamite and I
advise that faint and susceptible
people pass this one up. But it
must be said that everyone of
the roles, even down to the small
est bitparts of the ward patients,
are excellently played.
In the chief role, Olivia de Hav
Hand does a brilliant, heart-rending
job as the central, guilt
ridden patient, and Leo Genn is
remarkably fine as her shrewd,
sympathic psychiatrist. Mark
Stevens is gentle as her husband
a hard role to play and Helen
Craig gives a good, tough per
formance as a nurse who admires
the doc.
"The Snake Pit" while frankly
quite disturbing, and not recom
mended for the weak, is a ma
ture drama on a pregnant theme.
If you haven't seen it, be at Ger
rard Hall tomorrow night. In ad
dition to the movie. Dr. Dawson
is a number ne authority on the
problem and his comments should
be well worth hearing.
for being thus dominated. If you
are a slave to self and the world
you live in, it is because at a point
away back you yielded yourself.
Likewise, if you are dominated by
God it will be because you have
yielded yourself to Him. I prefer
to have God dominate my life
because I know He is infinite in
wisdom, power, and love, and that
in my finite human weakness I
need Him. Through dependence
on Him and the surrendering of
my will to Him, I obtain abundant
joy and happiness in the world
and eternal life in the life after
death.
If you want to reach higher, out
of the bounds of self and mater
ials with their grotesque pres
sures, such as "when you go back
to beating your head against the
wall and all you are doing is bash
ing your brains and your heart
out, thinking there is nothing else
you can do', tell God you are
ready to be dominated. Then let
the consequences be what the
may, you will find there are no
real complaints, regardless of
what God chooses. God puts you
through the crisis in private, no
one person can really help an
other. It is entirely between you
and God. Externally the life may,
for the time, be the same; the
real difference is in will. You
surrender your will to God and
then He takes over, working His
will through you.
After this complete surrender,
there is nothing that oppresses cr
depresses, you realize that things
cannot touch you as they used to
do. This surrendering of will is
an humbling experience, and so it
must be i nthis process of putting
away the "old man" (self way of
life) and putting on the "new
man" (God's way of life). God
has taught us the way of humility
and service to Him in the life of
(See ENCHANTED, Page 3)