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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1953 Home Again Eye Of THe Horse Roger Will Coe- Blue Moon '..:;.i.igMMM. Sunday Letter Open letter to library noise-makers: Webster's Unabridged informs us that the word LIBRARY comes from the latin, liber, which means book. This implies, at least, that one reads there. We think it significant that the -place-isn't ? called -a , GARRARY, from Latin, garrire, which means to shatter or talk. . r. --' .' ' -,. . Take Care, Little Coed The big rush is almost on. Tuesday, six sororities start picking over this Fall's crop of coeds in their annual job of comparing personalities and talents, bankrolls and blood lines. At the risk of being accused of playing first violin, we'd like to observe that rushing is a market-place affair, with possessions, both physical and mental, on the block. Some rushees will find it nasty business, with their only bid one of "good night." Of these, a few will understand; for most, however, there will be only the bitter pain of rejection. Naturally, those accepted will be pleased, having satisfied whatever motives they had for wanting to join. The Daily Tar Heel believes in sorority membership for those who desire it. But we are happy that in our University, member ship among the Greeks is not necessary for a pleasant or productive stay here. It is a mat ter of individual taste, to be tempered with an ability to adjust. Is it not: Good to live in small groups? Seek a so rority since it offers a better activity organ ization than my dormitory? Have a superior social schedule? Develop close friends? Is it not: Bad to choose friends during the sham of rushing? Have stimulated friendships? Withdraw into a selected group of girls? Have my allegiance required rather than freely giv en? The coed who is not sure of these ques tions will find help in a forum to be held Monday night. The forum will feature four University professors, including women, and will handle both sides of the should-I-join question. And on Tuesday night? Jakcare, little coed. Unheralded, Unhonored With not much more bleariness than us ual, we went to school yesterday for our first Saturday class. Considering the fanfare which brought us into the atomic era, the big splash in which TIME labeled our generation, we were some what disappointed yesterday that nary horn blew nor roman candle lit. John Taylor The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published a. W :- v Vi-'F in ' " 1 ! ite of ibe UnirsrylfA I- m Jtmutry ' daily except Monday, examination and va cation periods aad during the official Summer terms. En tered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 3, 187S. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; de f'ayC"':,,J- - livered, $6 a year, X-v W" V Men . rnmoc7 Editor ROLFE NEILL Managing Editor . LOUIS KRAAR Business Manager JIM SCHENCK Sports Editor t TOM PEACOCK News Ed. Feature Editor Asst. Spts. Ed. . Sub. Mgr. Circ. Mgr. Ken Sanford Jennie Lynn Vardy Buckalew " - Tom Witty Don Hogg Asst. Sub. Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. Society Editor Advertising Manager Bill Venable Syd Shuford Eleanor Saunders Jack Stilwell EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Ron Levin, Harry Snook, John Beshara, James Duvall. NEWS STAFF Jennie Lynn, Joyce Adams, Dan iel Vaan, Anne Huffman, Fred Powledge, J. D. Wright, Jess Nettles, Janie Carey, Richard Creed, John Bijur, Ted Rosenthal, Tommy Johnson. BUSINESS STAFF Al Shortt, Dick' Sirkin, Dave Leonard, Jerry Epps. SPORTS STAFF John Hussey, Sherwood Smith, Jack Murphy. PHOTOGRAPHER Cornell Wright. Night Editor for this issue: Louis Kraar Once a film has been refused acceptance by the Hollywood cen sors, coupled with the fact that it has put Cardinal Spellman in quite a huff, it is assured of smash business at the box office. .. Such was the case with "The Outlaw," and such is the case with its unwitting" successor "The Moon Is Blue," which begins a regular run at the Varsity today. The fact that the former should have the latter as its "compan ion in sin" is startling to say the least. For "The Outlaw" was, un abashedly, un-adulterated sex, whie "The Moon Is Blue" is a harmless bit of nothing in which virtue, without too many obsta cles in its way, emerges trium phant. What raised the eyebrows , of a great many sanctimonious" punjabs is the dialog which, incidentally, is constantly enter taining in which words never before even whispered in front of a Hollywood camera appear with amazing alacrity. Most of these "naughty words" are spoken by William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie Mac Namara, who appear respective ly as an architect, a rake, and a virgin. "Essentially the film, al most literally adapted from the stage hit of the same name, is a boy-gets-girl romantic comedy, with the only really original twist being that they meet and are later reconciled on top of the Empire' State Building, which ap parently is as good a place as any. . The boy takes the girl to his apartment, but only after she has made him solemnly promise that the evening will consist of "affection, but no passion." Their platonic idyll is interrupted by the ralte from upstairs who has come downstairs for complicat ed and confused reasons. One thing leads fo another, but after the usual series of complications, Including a genuine proposal of marriage by the rake and a black eye, mistakenly given the archi tect by the virgin's Irish cop fa ther, the boy and girl are re united and are looking forward to a marriage which will include blissful happiness, six children, and an annual trip to the Empire State Building. Although it might not be such a good idea to take the kinder garten contingent ,o "The Moon Is Blue," it should by now be obvious that while each of the characters constantly has the bed room on his mind, the bed sheets are never even rumpled, and the rest "of the family 'will find it great good fun and in amazingly good taste. Holden injects a lot of humor into what has always been con sidered a "straight" part, and Miss MacNamara, wide-eyed and innocent while discussing her virginity in the same tope that one would use while ordering fish, is a beguiling partner for hem. David Niven is disappoint ing in that he never really seems like a rake, but, nevertheless, has his moments of fun. As his daughter, a part that was not in the play, Dawn Addams appears to advantage in a bathtub, Those who expected "The Moon Is Blue" to be a sequel to "The Outlaw" will be disappoint ed, but those who simply want, to see an amusing, slightly off beat comedy will find it their dish. The Horse Gets Kicked Editor: Roger Will Coa, and his equine mouthpiece, The Horse man aged to slip one over on the stu dent body in Tuesday's edition. Clever, witty, and amusing, The Eye of the Horse usually en lightens" the editorial page. How ever, his efforts on behalf of the Abernethey's evoked no sympa thetic response from this reader. My conclusion is that either Rog er can be guilty of appaling ig norance or inability to read, or, worse yet, he is deliberately try ing to smoke-screen the issue. The facts are simple. Paul Crouch, a district organizer for the Communist party in North and South Carolina from 1934 37, charged that the Aberneth ey's although not card-carrying members were subject to and ac cepted C. P. discipline during this period. Furthermore, stated Crouch, they: (1) Assisted in the circulation of left-wing books as recommend ed by the party. (2) Supplied names of good prospects for, the party. (3) Furnished their bookstore for the installation and opera tion of a press owned by the party for underground purposes. These allegations by Crouch re sulted in the Senate committee's subpoena. ' I do not intend to rehash the testimony given by the Aber nethey's as it was reprinted in the Durham Morning Herald on the 21st of September. However, the "persecuted" Abernethey's were reluctant witnesses, to say th least. Mrs. Abernethy invoked the self-incrimination clause some 47 times. Some of the an swers she refused to answer were ". . .did you have any printing presses in the establishment?"; .. ."do you know him?" (Crouch) . . ."; . "to what organizations have you and your husband made contributions' "to in the last fewf years . . ."? Are these questions sinister, Roger? Do they smack of perse cution? Certainly they are in nocuous enough if directed to a person who wishes to cooperate, and one with nothing to hide. The same applies to the ques tioning of Mr. Abernethy. He outdid his wife in that he refus ed to answer approximately 70 questions on the basis of self-in-criminaton. Then fantastically enough, Mr. Abernethy states "We invoked the fifth amend ment generously, while innocent of any wrong-doing." If innocent, why the reluctance Roger? Now back to the closded Eye of the Horse and the equally clouded mind of its creator. The column implies undue harass- ment on the Abernetheys' by its mention of using "an elephant i gun on mice." It also takes the eyer popular swipe at "Holy Joe McCarthy" ana Senator Jenner, apparently Ignoring the fact this entire interrogation was conduct ed by Senators Eastland, Welker, and Willis Smith of North Caro lina. - Tell me, Roger, does the con duct of the Abernethys' while under questioning seem to you to be above suspicion? Are we to feel sorry for them? Have they made a clean breast in or der to assist the investigation? Must we reserve judgment after reading such evasive, elusive, and insincere testimony? This may not seem pertinent to the average student. But it might pay to remember that the Communists and their playmates cost us over 130,000 casualties in Korea, and it would be judicious to regard them with more than a healthy suspicion. I submit that the average read er will find after a reading of the testimony in the Abernethy questioning, that the actions of these so-called "perecuted1 peo ple" were and still are more than highly suspicious. If Roger Will Coe is going to utilize The Daily Tar Heel as a vehicle for obscuring issues and slipping across such deft little inaccuracies at Tuesday's effort, I feel that the student body is entitled to some sort of rebut tal. Bob O'Connell Editor: , On the front page of the Sept. 22, issue of The Daily Tar Heel there was an article concerning the administrative suggestion of this past summer that under graduates . not bring automobiles to the Carolina campus. It was the hope of the Dean of Students that the students thus immobilized would make further use of the unusual resources for entertainment in Chapel Hill. Though the letter stated that the University "does not prescribe how students should employ their leisure time," I feel that it would be wise for the administra tion to suggest as well as make the student body aware of the advantages existing on and about the campus. The figures are not out yet, but a guess is that there are more cars on campus this year than in previous years. This I believe suggests that others are unaware of the opportunities awaiting them here at Carolina and they are seeking entertain ment elsewhere. Joe Raff CI P O G O !All tVtme PAfTYr GSNNU&MaN ! SM90r OPP MOlfS mAAH' I IT A3 MUCH 14 LOMfi DSAW OUT THS BOM. A MVSWACeV ' 4 kTz zL tercweH. BUT M'2Ug LB POGO & HEZE AWAT MTH BANJO, WITH MUSIC. with society veese to rerFOKM 'SOMfeTHlM' haout ma L SIT WIMM6M 10 HSHTIN ArrgNP m km! VMauy VUCUA'CASE I A LA BAmMf SUCHAS'lBBBM moor euru AC IB apAMMISAMf ?MWW'J 17jVAT & WHAT & "AGAAff I UNP fj KUNNIN'HONgy. MV IOUP JLltUNNIN f J I -? !f ' -JW VDIC6 1 L I L A B N E R THET BABV IS SOOPER- TH' SCRAGGS TR'ED ' HOOMIN.v - TH BULLET 7X5 SHOOT L Ft BOUNCED OFF. AS THOU6H MYSTERIOUS. j ITS TUMMV WAS MADE f THEV SAY THE "1 1 NATIVES OF THESE I HILLS ARE. 1 THANK HEWINS, OUR BABV WAS DRESSED IN THIS DRAIN PIPE'.' C-A HELPLESS iNFANt; iJAMMtO INTO A DRAIN PIPE'.' MUST REPORT THSt V J V OAMMED INTO A 1 S. . 1 t I WE IS MISTER AN' i -MOW MISSUS A.VOKUM, NL HEARTULSS SUH, BUT OUR BA&tS -THEY NAME IS'MVSTERIOUS.; OONTEVEM ONACCOUMTWE mmj'CAREWHAT DOKTTKNOW JT KINO OF A WHAT TVPE y BABY THEY IT IS HAVE.? THE HORSE drummed his hooves like Krupa taking a workout on the Hawaiian War Chant. I held my breath, because this always portended something fraught with significance. . "Ho hum," The Horse yawned. Was this all? "The average Upper Middle Sciass Family," The Horse pro nounced, "is a temple of bore dom, ffhe average Middle Class Family is the nonsense they burn at that temple's altar." ; Just what was this about? And did he not mean incense, not non sense? "Could be," The Horse shrugg ed. "I never discomobulate my self over prepositions; only propositions. Are you jympatico?" I didn't understand him? "Most times I don't . understand myself," The Horse nickered. "But here is what incinerates me: a guy marries a nice little cuddle-bunny of a coo ed, and what does he do?" Goes on a honeymoon? "Sometimes," The Horse agreed. "But I once knew a Scotsman who went solo to Niagara Falls because his bride had seen some pictures of the place. Here is what panics me, though: a guy weds With a filly because she is fragile, tender, and in need of what he calls protection. So what dos he do?" . ' Well, he looked after her. "Heh, heh," The Horse heh-hehed. "The soft lit tle hands that should be coated with gold are now coated with grease from dishes. The feet that should be shod with mother-of-pearl are flattened carting glamor-boy's chillun around. The eyes that reflect ed the stars now reflect over the bills. But Glamor Boy is downtown every day, eating lunches that would break a camel's back, ogling the stenos, and double ltalking his bosses until they wished they had as many ears as a Steele Book Shop re-sale." What was The Horse getting at? "Well, why doesn't the lug perpetuate the babe in the same circumstances in which he met her and in which they wooed and rued?" Rued? "Pardon, two-ed. And all this is a hangover of Victorianism, which is Upper-Middle Classism, or Middle-Classism. Listen, to put it in words of one syllable, neo-matrimony is the goal, and not that dumb fuddy-duddy system yez was raised on." Yez? "Purdon, my Yankee slip is showing," The Horse pardoned himself. "What I mean is this: if you run into a cuddly-bunny you like, keep her that way, don't try to turn her into a dishwasher in a Greek kaphestiatorion." Didn't The Horse recognize economics? "You bet," The Horse sneered. "A mile off. But just think about this a bit: what you marry a gal for, keep her for. What they ought to do, they ought to pay dividends on marriage. This is a country of co-called free-enterprise, isn't it? You invest in a company, the stock goes up, who should benefit?" Why, the original investor. "Okus dokus, and roger dodger," The Horse agreed. "Now, lets take Rita Hayworth as a case in point, as my pal Cactus Bill Adams, of Botany, would say." I thought Cactus Bill was sort of coppering his case with gold. ""So, Rita has been married four times, more or less," The Horse said. "In other words, Marguerita Cansion Redhead, to you in fact a stock company with three previous shareholders. So why shouldn't they get cut out of Aly's alimony?" Who did he mean? "Horse & Wagon." As ol D. D. would say, Whay-y-y-y-y da minnit! Did he mean, Orson Welles? "I don't see so good," The Horse muttered. "I keep putting the Oroson before the Welles. You will excuse me?" He should see the City Optical Company. . . Washington Go-Round Drew Pearson Last week's New York victory of Bob Wagner Jr., son of Ge man who wrote the Wagner Labor Act, the Old Age Pension Act and the Railway Pension Act, has brought some hurried, worried consultations among top advisers in the Republication high com mand. For what the Wagner victory amounts to is the biggest resur gence of the New Deal since last November's elections. it aiso-is taxen as confirmation of what th orig inal Eisenhower Republicans have been telling the White House until they are tired of it. Republicans -like Senator Ives of New York, Senator Duff of Pennsylvania and Undersecretary of Commerce Wil liams of Washington State have been warning that Ike was not elected by the reactionary wing of the Republican Party, but by a great many Democrats and liberal Republicans. Therefore, they warned, he must not follow the executive, advice of right wing advisers. 1. Franklin Roosevelt or Averell Harriman, both liberal Democrats, will run against Thomas E Dew ey for governor of New York text year. This will be the biggest local fight Tom Dewey has ever faced, and will mean if he wins that he moves on to the presidential nomination in '56; or if he loses that Tom bows out of politics for keeps. 2. Jim Farley will say bye bye to politics per manently. For 22 years Jim has posed as the great picker of winners. But the real fact is that Jim hasn't picked a winner since he rode Franklin Roo sevelt's coattails to fame and a Coca-Cola fortun Jim deserted Roosevelt in 1940 and has been on the losing side ever since. 3. New York will send a liberal Democratic del egation to the next presidential ' convention, which means a Stevenson, a Kefauver, or a "Soapy" Wil liams will be. nominated.
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