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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1953
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'Stick Around
Night Editor for this issue: Rolfe Neill
An Unwanted 'Fairness'
It is good to know that President Gray
is unconvinced that hv the future the Uni
versity should financially back its athletes.
However, he may have strayed from his own '
philosophy when he justified giving 10,000
worth of grants-in-aid this year to Carolina
athletes.
The ITXC money "should have gone to
athletes under the circumstances," Mr. Gray
says. The "circumstances" are in the situa
tion at State College where because of pre
vious commitments: the college cannot lop
off the use of book store profits to subsidize
athletes. This mess at State existed in 1950
at the time Mr. Gray became president. Since
then he has been steadily reducing the stipend
of campus store profits there. The word is
that by 1955 the Wolfpack won't get any such
grants.
Mr. Gray says his decision was motivated
by ' fairness" for the -two schools. It's not
"fairness" but a condition of "equality"
which the president has created. And the
equality is one of bad with bad. We are
deliberately instituting a system here we are
eradicating in Raleigh.
Evidently our president personally feels
it is wrong to allocate profits specifically to
athletes. His actions at State certainly indi
cate this. Yet he uses State College as justification-
In other words, even though it's wrong
it does exist at one Consolidated institution
and because of the Chapel Hill cry for a sim
ilar allotment it's o.k. to smudge Carolina's
hands.
President Gray shows courage in his in
dication that in the future there will be no
University subsidy of athletes. We commend
him for his view. We think his long-run plan
splendid but we think the time for it at
Carolina is not in the future but now.
Fees Become Friends
Outcome of a Aveekend conference be
tween the opposed factions in the fight
between: humanities and technical training
brought interesting results. The Chapel Hill
meeting, co-sponsored by the Southern Hu
manities Conference and the National Asso
ciation of Manufacturers, concurred that
business needs humanities.
Dr. Lawrence Thompson, University of.
Kentucky secretary for the group, gave the
findings of the conference:
"We found that there is complete mis
understanding of the word 'humanities,'
which includes religion, history, music and
the arts, philosophy, and languages and lit
erature. Industry feels that there is a de
ficiency of young men who are educated to
be leaders in the business world, and it is
agreed that a professional and technical
education alone is not making well-rounded
leaders.
"It is only through the exchange of.
ideas between teachers of the humanities and
industry that we can find what is wanted
and expected in the education of leaders
in the business world."
This development indicates to The Daily
Tar Heel that the battle has taken a tri
angular shape with the humanities and
industry deployed against the curriculum
planners. The pressure seems to be directed
toward innovation in course-planning. No
further hesitation, therefore, should be made
in making those innovations. Why should
it? Humanities and industry are agreed that
businessmen should be better braced esthet
ically. The curriculum men, who play a
mechanical role, ought to feel called to make
fast changes. Theirs is not the job to hinder.
It is the job to implement.
What seemed to humanities to be an
enemy has been perhaps a friend in dis
guise. Now, one question is obvious: Are
the course-planners friend or foe?
Do girls ever, talk about any
thing except boys? Many people
think not - especially boys. Yet
although the male portion of the
population quite often provides
an interesting and controversial
subject for conversation, girls do
discuss other things.
The other night we wandered
around our dorm (just felt like
taking a walk after a long, hard
bout with stuff called homework)
and listened in on quite a varied
number of topics in discussion. '
Down on first the merits(?) of
"Tom Jones" were being aired,
together with a few comments
thrown in concerning "From Here,
to Eternity" and "The NaFed and
the Dead." Note: Elsie Dinsmore
was mentioned, too 'just men
tioned. Meandering across the hall we
peeped in and heard the final
comments in a debate on whether
it would be wise to teach a course
in communism at the University. '
Nobody yelled "Commie" at the
proponents of the measure, ei
ther. Climbing up to second, we man
aged to get in a few words for tfle
South in another Civil War bat
tle. Among other things, we were
told that 'Civil War" is an incor
rect title it. was 'The War Be
ween the States' or 'The War Be
tween the North and South' be
cause the Southern states had se
ceded and were no longer a part
of the Union. . . .oh, well. We
managed to slip out quietly just
before a House Council member
down the hall shouted "Quiet
hour!"
Muted sounds of music floated
through the transom of the room
across the way and we ventured
in. Half an hour later we left
with strains of "The 18th Varia
tion" mingled with Johnny Ray's
moans floating around in our
heads. "If your sweetheart. . ."
"Joan! Joan!" a pajama-clad fig,
ure galloping down the hall al
most knocked us over. "Joan,
guess what?!" We never did find
out 'what' as we were cruising in
the opposite direction from Joan's
residence. We just calmly march
ed on up to third.
At the top of the landing "we
almost ran into a coed in an even
ing gown preening herself before
the full-length mirror there. Pre
German rehearsal. "I think It
looks much better like that," a
friend standing nearby opined.
The girl in the net and ruffles
smiled, then gathered her skirts
to one side to let me pass.
"Java love birds. . ."I heard
voiced from 3 so I dropped in
and eavesdropped for a while.
Very interesting. . .Java love
birds. Pets aren't allowed in
dorms. By the way, have you met
Passion, the terrapin found by a
coed the other night in the Ar
boretum? .
Down the hall a Missouri 'show
me' girl was telling tales about
that state's educational system.
(She's an education major). "Nei
groes complain about their inade
quate educational facilities; why,
in Missouri my 14 year-old broth
er didn't learn to read until he
was in the sixth grade, and I'll
bet he can't even say the ABC's
for you now."
Mr. Truman, Kerr fixed our
roads.
In the study room an exciting
game of bridge was in progress.
I looked and listened and learn
ed. Ever heard of a club conven
tion? Know how to Blackwood?
The University offers courses inl
the game extra-curricular, of
course.
"Hey, what's a four-letter word
meaning 'Nuclei of a starch
grain'?" came hopefully from a
cross the room. We 'snuck' out
on that.
Our abode is just across from
the study room, so we proceeded
thither and flopped down on our
bed to dream to the music from
"Our Best to You." Pretty soon
our roommate came in lugging a
load of books.. "I'm really glad I
went to the library tonight," she
said. "I studied real hard and got
so much done. By the way, what
did you do tonight?"
"Oh, just wandered around and
eavesdropped on everybody."
"Good, then you can tell me all
the latest gossip, huh?"
"Well, we don't know. . Say,
boys, where y'all?
Don't Go Yet'
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Washington Merry-Go-Round
Drew Pearson
. WASHINGTON Four of the
biggest chemical concerns in the
nation have just shown a unique
and laudable desire to cooperate
with the Food and Drug Adminis
tration in protecting public
health. They have voluntarily
withdrawn coumarin from the
market as a substitute in making
vanilla extract.
A few years ago such coopera
tion was unheard o. Most compa
nies bucked the Food and Drug
Administration. In 1938 Rex Tug
well resigned as undersecretary
o f agriculture
as a Result of
the battle over
the Pure Food
and .Drug Bill.
The bill was
called . unwork
able, socialist
ic. Mrs. Roose
velt was accus-
tention of the Food and Drug Ad
ministration, said they were with
drawing coumarin. They will use
the more expensive but safer van
illa bean instead.
NOTE Medical technicians
say it may be some time before
the nation knows how many dis
eases are oaused by new synthetic
foods or from the by-products of
modern, mechanical civilization.
At a recent meeting of the Can
cer Society it was shown that can
cer of the lung probably resulted,
largely from gas, coal and oil
fumes released in industrial cit
ies. ;
Am:
ed of being the secert sponsor.
Tugwell fought for its passage,
but got so bloodied in the politi
cal melee that he considered him
self a liability to Roosevelt and
resigned.
Today, however, this same
much-maligned Food & Drug Act
not only is working but many big
companies cooperate wholeheart
edly in its enforcement. In the
case of coumarin, Dow Chemical
of Midland, Mich., Monsanto of
St. Louis, Du Pont of Wilming
ton, and the Trubek Laboratories
of East Rutherford, N. J. ail
all withdrew the drug voluntarily
for use as a food.
Coumarin is a coal tar product
used as a cheap synthetic substi
tute for vanilla extract. Experi
ments found, however, that it has
been responsible for many cases
of sclerosis of the liver, in fact
may be the chief cause of this
disease. The four companies vol
untarily brought this to the atr
When Dulles walked intd his1'
staff v, meeting the day after" 'the
sweeping GOP defeat in "New
York; New Jersey, and Virginia,
one, member piped up: "Thank
God. After yesterday's returns we
thought maybe Dean Acheson
would walk in." "
The first time President Eisen
hower tangled with Defense Sec
retary Charles E. Wilson' over a
faux pas, it gave Ike an upset
stomach. He got so wrought' up
over Wilson's statement that
there was no danger Russia could
deliver the hydrogen bomb, he
spent the weekend in bed' from
hypertension. ,.-
The second Wilson faux", pas
didn't upset Ike so much. This
was when Wilson announced that
the United States was pulling one .
division out of Europe at the very
same time Secretary of State" Dul
les was assuring Europeans just
the opposite. As a result of this
faux pas, the U. S. will have to
slow up the planned withdrawal
of land troops.
The third Defense Department
faux pas was the Talbott state
ment over storing atom bombs in
Spain. This time the President
called in both Wilson and Secre
tary Dulles and really raised the
roof. Dulles had told the Presi
dent that Talbott's statement
played right into the hands of the
Russian propagandists. It almost
convinced our European allies
that the United States in
tended to base its defenses
on Spain, Dulles' said, and
abandon Europe to Russia in case
of war. The last thing France
wants is to be invaded again
while we defend Europe from
the safety of Spain behind the
Pyrenees.
President Eisenhower, who
spent a year pacifying French
fears re this and other matters,
was furious. Although he plays
bridge with Talbott almost every
Sunday, he told Secretary Wil
son that Talbott's statement was
in direct violation of his order
that all subordinates must clear
any statement about atomic wea
pons with the Atomic Energy
Commission.
Furthermore, reprimanded the
President, he wanted no more
conflicting statements, from his
subordinates on any subject. Tal
bott, Ike said, had no business
talking about these secret plans
at any time or at any place. It
was up to Wilson to make sure
the Pentagon keeps order.
Secretary Wilson was quite
meek. He agreed with the Presi
dent, immediately cabled a sharp
rebuke to Talbott, demanding a
word-by-word report on exactly
what he had said.
Simultaneously, Wilson check
ed with The Associated Press to
ask how reliable its Madrid man
was who had reported Talbott's
statement. The AP replied that
he was completely reliable. Later
it developed that twenty news
papermen, including five Ameri
cans, attended.
CREDO
Todd
The first, few articles in this
series have been essentially crit
ical in their nature. They have
pointed out what I consider to
be situations needing re'medy. I
have tried to keep from being
'rabble-rousing' columns, because
I object to that style of writing
and feel that in the main it serv
es no end and except .to let off
steam.
The last two columns have
been on the subject of progress.
I would like to devote a little
space to a clarification of my
feeling on the topic.
I do not feel that everything
accomplished by man in. the last
hundred years to be ipso facto,
bad. I do not feel that way about
the results of any period of
time. I can't for the life of me
think anything but good of ad
vances made in the processing
of frozen foods, or new techni
ques in surgery, or improved
methods in agriculture.
But a great deal that has" been
created in the last hundred years
or any period of time, has not
only a beneficial use, but a harm
ful application as well. There is
no doubt that the automobile has
advantages for the human race. I
use one whenever it is made
available to me. Even advertising,
the bane of my existence, has its
uses the value of which are un
deniable. Certainly World War
II would never have been won
without advertising in the form
of propaganda.
TTicse are T)ur two of a group
of products which have a dual
use. It is this group which should
be given considerable scrutiny tie
fore it is proclaimed a boon to
mankind. That is to say, when
something has the possible bene
fit and destruction potential of
the atom bomb, or airplanes
which go a thousand miles an
hour, their worth should be cal
culated in terms of their total
probable use, not merely in terms
of how much good alone they
may do if properly used.
Most of the things with which
we come into contact have the
possibility of dual use. Very, few
are even seriously questioned.
The great majority need no ques
tioning. The good that is inherent
in them so outweighs the bad
that there is no - argument as to
their worth. Some of them, how
ever, do need questioning and ex
amination, especially those which
have a high negative potential.
No doubt but that the energy
of the atom, used constructively,
will provide man with a source
of power greater than anything
known before. But used destruc
tively, it may well create a be
hemeoth which man cannot con
trol. It can set off a self-sustained
chain reaction the end of
which no man will see.
It is those things which come
under the dual category and are
called progress more appropri
ately left unnamed that we, as
the people who will ultimately
suffer if those things are misus
ed, will do well to examine.
We should ask of these things
two questions. First: Have they
any serious4defect in their the
oretical makeup? That is, if
used by man presumably for the
benefit of man, can they be con
trolled by man?
Second: How much do they be
nefit man? Does this good com
' pare favorably or unfavorably
with their corresponding disad
vantages? We are but slightly
aided by a drug which cures half
of those afflicted by a disease
and kills the other half.
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Roger
Will Coe
("The horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some
things, minimizing others. . ." Hipporotis; circa
500 B. C.) . i. SJ
THE HORSE was rolling in the grass in the Air
ROTC area and laughing uproariously. The Giraffe
was staring noncommittally over the Law Building.
Mr Wump was adroitly keeping himself extant by
nmbly leap-forgging The Horse's alternate change of
laugh-direction.
I wondered what was so funny?
"I have just been reading an article about discip
line in the training of Air Cadets, Flying Variety,"
The Horse stilled himself to explain. "It is in the
best-known of the condensed re
print mags, and it is a nng-tan-ed
dilly."
Accurate and thrilling, was it?
"Wump!" Mr. Wump said.
"Now, I wouldn't altogether
say that, Wump," The Horse re
buked his low-visioned compan
ion., "Would you. Mr. Neckley.''
Mr. Neckley, the Giraffe, main
tained his noncommittal seren-ity,
"You'cT think one of our earliest aerial-observers,
as Mr. Neckley so obviously is, would express an
"pinion," The Horse commented. "But perhaps Neck
ley's invariable lofty view of things makes him loath
to criticize. What panicked me about the article was
its author observed the details of the disciplining of
flying cadets and set about rationalizing them to
training for jet-plane combat."
And this was not so?
"Considering that perhaps half of the disciplining
gimmicks were common to West Point when Marse
Robert was an officer-instructor and Unconditional
Surrender Grant was one of his pupils, this is some
what hilarious. The first thing this author of the
article does is explain how the famous 'brace a
tortuous and torturous posture of motionless rigidi
ty in a caricature of 'Attention' is especially de
signed to prepare the human body for the rigors of
an eleven-G maneuver."
So?
"Well, fact has it that the pilots of the balloons
that assisted General McClellan at Cold Harbor had
gone through the same inhuman attitudinous brac
ing; and it was not at the time accepted thought
that they had been put through this in the 18G0's or
even prior, because of the jet-speed with which their
gas bags arose to the phenomenal altitude of several
hundreds of feet, nor of the speed with which they
descended when the lads in Butternut Gray got a
range on the intrepid airman with their squirrel
rifles. Ditto another bit this author has about how
. sitting forward at mess a military term for Lenoir
Hall, and this is accurate! helped strengthen black
muscles for jet-flying, and how not looking up from
one's plate served to equip one, or even two lor
that matter, with jet-fighter vision. For, this wide
eyed zealot reports, the cadets can see without mov
ing their eyes what is on the plate of the head-man
at the table." .
Couldn't this be true?
"Now waaaaaa daminute, waaaaadaminute!"
The Horse commanded in his best Business Admiifi
strational voice. "For real rationalization of this
gimmick, the author goes on to say that in jet
fighting, you got to see the other plane, you can't
just sit and listen for it. The idea is, in propellor
planes, you could hear the other planes a-trying to
sneak up on ya. Can you imagine sitting in a Baker
25 or an old Able-26 and hearing anything else oit
side that cockpit but those ole Wright-1750's or R
2800's? Heck, Roger, you couldn't hear anything for
hours after you got out of those crates, those planes
set up such a racket."
What did The Horse think the author's idea was
in writing such an article?
"Perhaps two things," The Horse speculated,
snatching a mouthful of grass and pausing to pluck
Mr. Wump out before chewing. "One, there is alarm
over the increasing lack of interest of Air ROTC
cadets to participate on a voluntary basis in the Fly
ing Program. Two, there has been much comment
over the large percentage of pilots aborting their
orders in jet-training, and the more significant
though not yet discerned as such by the Winged
Brass Hats that the top-ranking aces in Korean
jet-fighting have been veterans of War Two flying.
Old men, by the jet-fighting standards. Maybe the
author wanted to grind out a strip of propaganda
and get a medal from the Pentagon Pilots."
Did this mean The Hores had some definite con
tusions on this subject?
"They're crowding the flying cadets too hard," The
Horse said. "It may shock them in the Pentagon to
learn that Raoul Guinemeyer, Richtofen, Immel
mann, Rickenbacker, Eddie Stinson, Bill Brock and
some other good pilots didn't learn to fly by stand
ing in braces and sitting on the edges of their seats
and examining the C. O.'s victuals out o' the corners
o' their eyes. And they were either top Military
Pilots or merely the best of the civilian pilots of their
time. Let's face it, this so-called discipline stuff is
merely to break human flesh and spirit to ordained
molds, and whether for purposes of maintaining the
Prussian Officer Caste in our system, or to get re
venge on your inferiors in the system for indignities
visited on you when you were in the same spot, or
to take the rough edges off some big-mouthed fly
ing cadet, or to get the kids ready for the tough
grind they are in for, it ain't and never was de
signed, as the author says, 'For the reason that it
makes good jet-pilots.' Let's be brutal and caste
bound if we must, but let's admit why we are."
I didn't think The Horse would get many promi
nent people in this area we were now in, to agree.
"Oh, yeah?" The Horse snorted. "Watch'" lie
raised his whinnying to a high nicker to ask, "Mr.
Neckley, old chap, old fellow do you disagree?"
Mr. Neckley stared over the trees noncommitally.
Mr. Wump was under The Horse's foot. Silence
reigned unbroken.
"See?" The Horse asked me, triumphantly, start
ing to move off.
"Wump!" Mr. Wump. said, as he slowly regained
his normal spong-rubber hape.
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