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PACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1953 'Okay, Now Give Us That Old Smile' Joe College Is Studied Nothing Gusto From British 'U. S. Camous Kids of ior,t: Unkiddable 1 KJ and Unbeatable," says Newsweek's headline Thus, armed with catchy phrases and gen eralizations, the weekly news magazine enters an analysis field heretofore monopolized by TIME. Questions Newsweek' What are the 2, 500,000 undergraduates like as people? What do they worry about and what do they want? W!l1t influence has, the second world war and its veterans had on the campus? vV!l.at are the morals and mores of today's colle "l?ns? To find the answers it made an ttluive Study. Newsweek iatu of. seven insti tutions of higher learniing, all "essentially different (UCLA, Georgia Tech, North Western, Georgetown, Howard, Princeton, and Vassar). What the magazine does is to take the answers and make them typify the attitudes of college students in the United States. We don't think this can accurately be done. And if you'll pardon our generalization, may we say that Newsweek's generalizations don't apply here. We're almost without fads, the magazine says, drink less, have less sexual promiscuity, accept McCarthyism, take a renewed interest in religion, and so on. The answers, as re corded by Newsweek, are more incisive than any thinking for which they give us credit. The sentences have a polished, copywriter ring and the sentiments imply an under standing which we -think is more sparse than universal. Perhaps Newsweek needs to be reminded of the thought that the average man is far from average. New Worlds Old Style Here on a campus where even Duke University, located but eight miles away, is thought of as "foreign," we hunch closer everyday into our turtle shell. , Our look at the rest of the world is as dead as last year's Duke game. Yet .while we prime for a better Duke game we keep the same outmoded world view. Now we say we're interested in the world and people all people. But we keep on looking at ourselves instead of those around us. Looking around us: There's hungry East Germany. It's a lot further off than Orange County, but there men's stomachs may SAvay political philos ophy. There's India with 85 of its people illiterate and the average citizen earning only $20 per capita. There's Pakistan, that portion of India that was partioned into a new country, a country about which most of us know or care little. Korea, Tehran, Iran the list is long. Almost every name is strange to us. The Indian rice farmer, the Korean peas ant and the Tehran oil laborer are looking around. The great war of ideas that we wage makes them ask if communism is the best way to live. Always they are looking around, asking and thinking. But we here have trouble looking past Orange County. The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published Wrong Joyce Adams There's nothing wrong with progress. Indeed, if we take Web ster's word for it, it is only the evolution of mankind as a pro cess or fact. It has also come to mean a gradual bettering of con ditions for the human race. An automobile is not progress; neither is a TV set, penicillin or the atom bomb. But they are indicative of the achievements of the human mind of this gen eration. They are the product.? Of a process of thought which started with time, and has no end. They are fruits of the know ledge that has gone before, with each generation adding its min utiae to it. What we call progress is ac tually an exposing or unleashing ot certain powerful forces, which we harness to work for us. Isn't Uiis true of every criteria of progress whether it be mechani cal, medical, or psychological. The trouble with the human race is thai it refuses to accept the responsibility for controlling these forces. Every great discov ery of mankind has produced detrimental consequences when put to a negative use by foolish, careless or ignorant people. If progress is to mean what we want it to mean, a world where everyone has a chance to get enough to eat, a chance to live, a chance to do the little things that make life worthwhile, we must accept the responsibili ties for helping those who art the bottom of the heap. John Taylor 1 1 i 1 iE: The human race may be lik ened to a team of horses. The ones who are strongest may pull hard, and do most of the work, but they can go no faster than the slowest mule. We may not like it ,but we are all in the same game, and the better we teach everyone to play, the more we're going to get out of it. Nothing stays the same. Change is necessary and progress is part of the change. The human race likes to think it is getting better all the time. The cynic says, "Better for what?" - The optimist cites longer life expectancy, higher literacy rates and better stanards of living. These have come about for many nations. m But in a world that is getting smaller all the time, there can be no rich and poor, hungry, and well-fed, literate and ignorant, without strife and agitation. This is what causes wars. We are all our brother's keep ers, whether we want to be or not If we don't look out for the other fellow he is apt to cut our throat and take what we have. And can you really blame him? When the human race accepSs its responsibility of helping the other fellow, of teaching him how to help himself to use the vast wealth of human knowledge for his own betterment, then we will really be progressing. Washington Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson WASHINGTON Arguing in side the National Security Coun cil recently Adm. Arthur Rad ford proposed that we outlaw the hydrogen and atom bambs just as we outlaw poison gas. However, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said he was willing to see armies use baby A-bombs and atomic artillery, since they can be used on strictly military targets. He would outlaw only "block busters" which could blow up an entire city Vil nrr 1 , This may be the fly in an oth erwise sensible proposal. For no international commission exists to measure the size of atomic bombs; and once any Kind of a tomic weapon is used, it would be pretty hard to regulate them. NOTE The ban on poison gas by international treaty has been pretty well kept. i i ,44 i 1 t:, if.? Siie of the Unir$tty:a optpHl it fcw 4 The world's greatest thinkers have often been amateurs; for high thinking is the outcome of fine independent living, and for Ellis. daily except Monday, examination and va- nntinn rusrinHc and Hiirint tViA nffirial Summer terms. En.at a professional chair offers no tered as second class cial opportunities. - Havelock matter at the post, office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, 250 a semester; de livered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Last February President Eisen hower told Howard Mitchell, con ductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, that he likes to get to bed early, didn't ft expect to at tend any of the winter's concerts. The other day, however, he bow ed to custom and attended the season's opening. . . . Despite re ports that the President plays golf with "anyone handy around the club," each foursome is care fully eslected in advance. He tries to compose a group consisting of one Senator, one Representative and one out-of-town visitor. A re cent foursome included Congress man Les Arends, a Republican of Illinois; Missouri's Democratic Sen. Stu Symington and Colora do's Gov. Dan Thornton. An oc casional club member hovers a round, hoping to play with Ike, but the President usually has his team well organized When Ike finishes a round of golf, he goes to the locker room, is just one of the boys. He takes a shower, frequently relaxes at a brief bridge game. . . Right after Ike was elected, the Secret Service ran a check on every em ployee of the Burning Tree Club. The club members, however, were not investigated on the theory that no dangerous charac ters would ever attain member ship When the President plays golf there are more Secret Service men around than there are caddies. Explained one S. S. agent: "We keep mighty busy on that golf course. Y'know those golf bags we tote around contain carbines not shotguns, as is frequently rumored. Shotguns are for close work, and anyone w-e don't like isn't going to get close enough to the President for a close shot" Gov. Theodore Roosevelt Mc Keldin of Maryland was the hon ored luncheon guest aboard the Australian cruiser Sydney when that vessel called at Baltimore. Arriving aboard late, the gover nor made his apologies to Capt. H. J. Buchanan, who told him to think nothing of it and offered him a drink. "Just a glass of ginger ale," said the governor of Maryland. Whereupon Cap:a:n Buchanan ordered all liquor removed froth the ship's mess-room. "Don't do that for me," said Governor MCKelden. "I dont want to deprive others of a drink. I just don't drink myself.' "Aboard this ship," replied the Aussie Commander, "we do 'as our honor guest does." A minute later, an American came up. to McKelden, put his arm around his shoulder and said: "Governor, I can't tell you how glad we are that you were 45 minutes late." There's been some criticism of Secretary of State Dulles for sending his law partner, Arthur Dean, to Panmunjom, instead of an experienced diplomat, for the preliminary peace talks. How ever, Dean is an able, clear-headed lawyer who was smart enough to advise Wall Street to co-operate with the Securities and Ex change Commission back in 1933, instead of bucking it He should be a good negotiator. The preliminary Korean 'peace talks he is conducting are a lot more important than the public realizes. Dean has been told to find out whether the Chinese Communists will do business without clearing every move with Moscow. It so and if the Chi nese are willing to deal directly with us it may be the first step toward peaceful relations between the U. S. and Red China. If not and if we get nowhere with the Korean peace talks, the State Department appears about ready to go for the drastic plan long advocated by General Mac Arthur of blocking the China coast and taking every step short of yar to break the back of the Red China regime. This is the big decision facing Dulles' law partner. Editor ROLFE NEILL Managing Editor LOUIS KRAAR Business Manager JIM SCHENCK Sports Editor TOM PEACOCK News Ed. Associate Ed. Feature Editor Asst. Spts. Eds. Sub. Mgr. Circ Mgr. Asst Sub. Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. Society Editor Ken Sanford Ed Yoder Jennie Lynn Vardy Buckalew, John Hussey . Tom Witty ) Don Hogg P o G O fii,Cl lOpi P&' lAVHTttS. MfZMYZTlSlS I IVNOKTHEA6T-' PANI6EC0U5THJN6 OWL GOOD NEVYS? aS WXtHQoV&f ) Tb6n-Yo'i63aB7fl eouTH-wfT I MQmKA JOIN Y&Tf&CWjy ' 5 s " "'" Advertising Manager Bill Venable Syd Shuford Eleanor Saunders Jack Stilwell EDITORIAL STAFF Bill 'Sullivan, Ron Levin, Harry Snook, John Beshara, James DuvalL NEWS STAFF Jennie Lynn, Joyce Adams, Dan iel Vann, Anne Huffman, Fred Powledge, J. D. Wright Jerry Reece, Janie Carey, Richard Creed, Beverly Blemker, Ted Rosenthal, Jerry Epps, Jess Nettles .Ronnie Daniels, Tom Lambeth, Charles Kuralt Ann Pooley, Babfcie Dilorio. Night Editor for this issue: Tom Peacock L I A B N E R NO, CXF MAN MOStZ ) AH .JEST THIS PRE-DtCK-SHON r MAKES PRE: MUSTN'T COME dick-shun. TRUE..T BUT AH IS M RIGHT HERE. U'U ASMER HERE. AM WAIT! M' TO SEE TH PRE-WCK-SHUNf I ITHEVPO.7 f I h r CnMAH-A - . T" n f CONTROL I MAt.. AH Ul I WAIHN IU I K . . ..4 . - . . m r ivi rl mm a lls I 1. . . W T f THEY ALL.US I I .z 1 2S V TRUE.'?' J "VW'fe p I to. to aJf YO'HAINT GONNA SEE THIS. AS VON3 ASWUVES.7- THI4ISTH' FIRST SECRET TJ tVt-K. A KEPT FIJM l ME.'5-T-THii IS OUR FIRST TRAOEDYTI "m' I 1-, , IS OUR A LA i ,,1.1,., k f SOMEOME LEFT SOMETHIN' FO'ME- I "f SOMETHIN' Tf I The infamous, nefarious, and intriguing world of Hogarth, sketcher of eighteenth century Eng land, bursts forth onto the screen with the vigor and excitement of a Bacchanalian revel in the stunning film adaptation of "The Beggar's Opera." which today begins a two-day run at the Carolina. The thieves and prostitutes, the murderers and madams, the lechers N and blue bloods are all present in director Peter Brook's panoply of 3 sin and "degradation in bygone Brit- U ain. Oh, not that the British don't Jsli-m tnQw hut if thf nirtnrp pivtS any true indication, they am it with so much more gusto in the past. And Brook has captured .it all with the expert skill of a combina tion tinter-animator as he send? Hogarth's teeming, brawling world careening across the screen. The laurence Olivier film may be most asspciated with the name of Laurence Oiivier, who produced and stays in it, but it is Brook, with his master stroke's, of grouping and feeling, who makes it come to life Into the midst of this pictorial tumult rides the dashing Captain Macheath, known in a thousand different legends for his daring robberies, his hay loft activities, and his brilliant red coat. During the greater portion of the film he is in and out of jail, in and out of the adoring arms of the pretty Polly Peachum and the lusty Lucy Lockit, and in and out of trouble with practically all the remaining char acters. Eventually, fate catches up with Macheath) and he is carted off to the gallows amid much, sympathetic jubilation and riotous drunkeness. How ever, such a carefree story as this could not be al lowed to end unhappily, and in the nick of time he is returned to freedom "by an opera made by a beggar." "The Beggar's Opera" is one of the classics of English literature and it has been given a produc tion befitting its esteemed position. No expense has been spared in giving it the polish and overall professional look at which the British are so adept, when they put their minds to it. A look at the credit-cards in which one finds the names of Oliv ier, Brook, Christopher Fry, Sir Arthur Bliss, George Wakhevitch, Muir Mathieson, Stanley Holloway, and Dorothy Tutin, all top names in their respect ive fields, will show that the producers meant business and incidentally, meant to get business when they made this one. However, a-film based on a relatively antiquated satirical opera is, by necessity, bound to be ap preciated only by those who have an acquired taste for products of the genre. It is very much of a delicacy, somewhat like snails and caviar, not avail able in large quantities and succulent only to those whose taste runs in that direction. But for the con noisseurs, this is a gem. The scenes that will appeal to the most people, mainly because they are the best ones, are the ones laid in the prison, the pubs, the gaming house, and the final procession to the gallows. It is here that the movie is at its brawling, lusty best and here that it becomes truly memorable. The wild fandango between Macheath and the ladies of easy virtue (to whom he refers much more bluntly), the fierce gaiety of the gambling tables, and the ex uberant abandon of the mutinous prisoners are moments not easy to forget. It would hardly be fair to criticize what is essentially a musical film without once mention ing the music, but here your reviewer must admit to a scanty knowledge of the subject. The tunes are quite pretty, but the voices seemed somewhat unsatisfactory, which was accounted for here by the assumption fhat this music requires somewhat specialized singing, suitable only for productions of this kind. YOU Said It Editor: I found Wednesday's article on Mr. Charles M. Jones to be quite interesting. I feel that Mr. Jones expresses very well the present day trend in reli gious thought among many persons. It seems that to persons of this school of thought religion is not a matter of revealed Truth but rather is a subject ive creation of the mind. Whatever may be the merits of this method of thinking (I personally can find none in it), it is not the Christian approach to religion. Today there seems to be a fear of religious dogma; either it is classed as being unscientific or opposed to the exercise of the freedom of the mind. Christian Doctrine is neither unscientific nor a limit upon the intellectual freedom of man. In fact it is only -in Christianity that man is truly free. The Christian approach is subjective in that it faces the fact that there is something wrong with man (The Church calls it Original Sin) and that ATS wrong must be made right Here the approach be comes objective. Where- is the remedy for our ailment? It cannot be in ourselves for with all the advancements of civilization man has not learned to truly love one another. Is therein answer? With complete assurance the Christian answers that there is-Jesus Christ. Two thousand years ago this man appeared on the scene in a unique manner being born of a virgin. This man claimed to be not merely a man, neither a prophet but God incarnate. Living a life of pure love this God-Man was put to death by the society of the times which could not accept One who dared to be what man ought to be. Dying with forgiveness on His lips, three days later He gave proof of His claim to be God His own bodily resurrection. While on earth this God Man established the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apos tolic Church; which was to be T!is mvsiical body; and to which He gave his own authority. In His Name the Church has always proclaimed what He himself saW, namely that He is "the vrav, the trutB. and the life." Mr. Jones expresses very well the crux of reli gion so far as he goes: To love God with all my Wing. heart, soul, mind and strentgh; and to love my neighbor as myself." But he forgot to add that such is possible to its fullest extent only in and through-Jesus Christ, our Saviour. Rebtrt Pk
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