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SutBfi Keep' UNC Sports our gsoor i fie ig.i . Quief We're, Exorcizimj-Ghosts' oome readers have the impression that we ave taken a stand against college sports. 1 hat is not our position. What The Daily Tar Heel opposes is not college sports, or even intercollegiate sports, but big-time intercol legiate sports. : 1 Neither is our editorial point of view born of sour grnpes. At the-tirae Ave called for Caro lina to get out of the "big-dollar arena of sports," our football. team had something it hasn t enjoyed in several years a .?joo aver ageand apparently was' on the way back to winning jn the. big time. . YOU Said It Open Letter to Kirk Kirkley: Dear Kirk: Now there is no reason for you to be so riled up over the Daily Tar Heel editor ial. Nothing was said that is either new or original. All he said was that it is wrong to use hen the grants-in-aid of $ 10,000 to ath- scholarship funds contributed by all the, students to support atn letes because they are athletes. It might be added,' no one even suggested that scholarships should not go to athletes. No doubt there would always be many well qualified students among the varsity athletes. The important difference is that they would win their scholarships on an equal basis with other stu dents, when all were graded on such points as leadership, hon esty, scholarship, need (the stu dent's, not the UNC Athletic De partment), . citizenship, etc. "Why don't you support George Barclay?" you ask. Again I say simmer down.- Nothing has been said to indicate that we do not want a good athletic program or that we are not always pulling for our team and coaches. The student support for George Bar- : clay and his team has been ex cellent. "Hey, Barclay, here's a hand!" has echoed in Kenan Stadium not a few times this year. Furthermore, if we want to do our cheering in lace trimmed "Vi unnvearhsuriaffairJ'not 1. i that-some;itspr s "jeditor-of- a jf swamp scratch sheet. T. O. Norris P.S.: Just what in .the name of the UNC Athletic Department does an editorial on scholarships have to do with communist in filtration of The Daily Tar Heel? letes were announced we felt compelled to speak against the stipend, and as we see it the grants-in-aid are only a side issue in. the ques tion of big-time sports. Naming The Enemy We arc against the student and alumni philosophv which says, "Let's have a winning team at all costs. If these boys can't do it, let's buy better ones." We are fighting the idea that big-time. sports belong in our University. We seek to debunk the arouments which sav big-time sports bring more good than bad. We are striving to convincethe University it should not add athletes to its payroll. We are trying to return our Universitv to the main function lor which it was created learning. The Daily Tar Heel stands for the prim ary role of the University as an educational institution. The necessary, and as we said be fore, .we think it is necessary, athletic program 1 should be included, but it would be in a niche and not on a pedestal. , ;WHab4rVhVjaVg tne Caro-. 1 i naXviypfigi? imeortsl i f e? Vi . .n "theWeanclNayOf It jj ' pi Washington Merry-Gc-Round Drew Pearson 1. Those who favor big-time sports say we need them because they're the only effective rallying point for students and alumni. We're convinced they are not a good rallying point, because big-time sports have qualities incom patible with worthwhile education. If such sports are the only rallying point, doesn't this suggest the University should find a more legitimate means of rapport among students and alumni? We would like to see the big time sports enthusiasm among students and alumni directed more purposefully in terms of the important goals of education. 2- Then there Is the argument that big - time sports attract students through the pop ularization of the University. We doubt that this is true for any appreciative number, but granting that it might be. we reaffirm our position: We would rather have fewer stu dents who have come here because of our reputation for learning than the many who have come to cavort in a big-time sports atmosphere. 3. But think oE the money gate receipts provide to run our . fntra-murals and finan cially carry minor sports. We are all for intra murals and minor sports and intercollegiate football and basketball when the latter are not big-time. We do not suggest the abolition of intercollegiate sports. But we do suggest that they ke kept free of athletes who are sub sidized because they are athletes. The money to support our athletic programs can be ap propriated; it need not come from the people who pay to see our semi-professional football team in Kenan Stadium." ,j. There is entertainment in big-tiine sports, it is pointed out.-We agree. However, the University should not be in the business of entertainment at the expense of its edu cational function. Neither should it permit entertainment which is contrary to its ideals. Intercollegiates, Yes The University .should get, out of the big time. And it needn't mean the end of inter collegiate competition. Note, for instance. JoluiS Hopkins, which stopped charging ad riission, told students who wanted to play varsity sports to try out but take their schol arship chances with the rest of their fellow students. Today, Johns Hopkins still enjoys intercollegiate athletics, and enjoys them minus the evils of the big time. The University should recognize that it is fighting to justify its existence on the basis that it is primarily an institution of learning. It should realize that our maintenance of a big-time athletic program is a wild gesture of self-preservation, void of the University's purpose and which puts the University on its knees groveling for acceptance. We resent our University pimping for big-ti me athletics. The Trustees, at President Gray's urging, should take us out of the big dollar arena of sports.. , WASHINGTON House Speaker Joe Martin not only preaches economy, .but practices it. i:He recently, sailed on the SS America for a private "look see'" throughout Germany, Italy, and France; and as top man in the House of Repre sentatives, he could have found a dozen easy excuses to make the trip "official," and thus have the taxpayers foot the bill. But he didn't. Editor: Since the publication of my column on Poetic Drama, the harpies have had a field day pointing out. that T. S. Eliot did not write Samson Agonistes. It should have read, of course, Sweeny Agonistes. Whether this was my mistake or the erudite printer's, I don't know; but I assume full responsibility. In view of Mr. Eliot's off again, on again regard for Mr. Milton, one must be careful to distinguish between the magnifi cent Samson of Mr,- M and the brave, courageous Sweeney of Mr. E. Otherwise the house of pedantry might collapse. Your servant sir, Palinurus Editor: I am no scholar; I have the spirit not the education. I real ize I am here for the purpose of an education. But when it comes to asking me to give up a trip to a big football game just fo go to Saturday classes, that's go ing too damn far. They asked us to have a lot of school spirit and support our team, yet punish us for trying to do so. What in hell is the use in having a special train to Virginia if those who wish to go cannot be excused? Would Chan cellor House please explain his ruling on this matter? Mike Parker 4 "A funny thing happened the other day," Martin told friends. "I got a call from the State De partment. They'd heard about my trip to Europe and phoned to ask me to do a couple of special fa vors for them over there. . 'They told me what they want ed and I agreed to help them out. Then this fellow at. the- State Department thanked me and said that he hoped I'd understand how much they appreciated .my ail foreign registry. Also on the list of possible prosecutions is the author of a letter written during the last election campaign ' in' which Vice President Nixon is re ferred to as the recipient of $50,000 from an oil company in 1950 when first elected to the Senate. The Justice Department has reason to believe that the letter is a forgery and subordinate offi cials have recommended that the writer of the letter be prosecuted. Higher officials so far have shied away 'from prosecution. It might open old wounds and public memories of the Nixon $18,000 private expense fund. , Among the Democratic lawyers being scrutin ized for violation, of Section 284 of the criminal code is a former assistant Attorney General who, according to an investigation by the Chelf Com mittee, later represented some of the companies which he prosecuted while in the government. On the other hand. Democratic Senators are cooperation but that because of the ecpnoniyt wave set to , ask, ifwne ; embarrassing questions of the uiey wouiun ue auie 10 pay any 01 my expenses for helping them out. "I don"t mind that," Speaker Martin said with a wry smile. "However, I certainly hope this Re publican economy wave isn't just going to start and stop with Joe Martin!" ' The Justice Department is working on an im posing list of indictments including several Demo crats which, according to present schedule, will be popped on the public about the first of the year. The list will include a number of Democratic lawyers who once worked for the government and who have now taken cases against the government on behalf of the same clients they once prose cuted. Also on the schedule is the trial of former Democratic Congressman Vincent Quinn of Staten Island, N. Y., who was an assistant Attorney Gen eral under Truman and is charged with taking a case against the government while he was in Congress. The plan is to bring out these indictments at about the time Congress will be back in session and when the Democrats are expected to take a more aggressive stand against the .Eisenhower Administration. The Republican answer will be a parade of prosecutions featuring former mem bers of the Truman Administration. Among the cases the Justice Department is working on are the tanker deals in which some government-owned tankers were transferred to Justice r)ep"arljzierit'" regarding failure to act on the Maryland 1950 elections. Senators Monroney of Oklahoma and Hennings of Missouri, who spent months as members of the Senate Elections Com mittee probing the McCarthy attacks on Senator Tydings in Maryland, are interested in knowing why there has been no action on the lengthy re port they sent to the Justice Department. Also some Democratic Senators are : disagree able enough to ask questions about Senator Bricker's law firm, which gets lush fees from the Pennsylvania Railroad if the. Justice Department lines up too many Democrats for a judicial firing squad. . . Ohio's powerful GOP Congressman Clarence Brown is furious about the Agriculture Depart ment's delay in assisting drought-stricken farm ers in southern Ohio. Phoning Agriculture, Under secretary True Morse the other day, Brown gave him a verbal blast. "Those farmers' haven't had any rain since mid July," he stormed. "They have to truck water to their dairy herds. Their costs are mounting, they're getting less for their milk and the price has just been increased to the consumer. I want some prompt action by your department to help these farmers." ! Morse promised to handle the matter person ally. However, he happens to be the man who told Iowa farmers last summer that the government was not going to help them with the problem of corn storage. P o G O TT ZTm y iter's Vm GLkDLY HCO DON'T POP ' VvTA'.V LPT TAtc, zperitotti -XWy, VF.9 HZ ALL POM' I THE MAILMEN ROLLING THBM Jf&fVK OW CHOO CHCO DON'T POP ' Before 1 fxws you 1 wip wrm WITH MYOAk. 1 up LWITHMYOAI?. j w '; jrr a M -f 1 u. ir ai w ma HSfcASOOD CK$ A SMALL 5AMP14NG? Y PERCENT '$FA)?A5 TIONOFQ MAILM5N .ASTHgy J'PLIKE TOCSgTA THlS SWAMP b COeNCEKNEP , A J FOK PfcWHIMSy- 17 Tuesday we will present specific recom mendations for enabling Carolina to enjoy intercollegiate athletic competition without leaving the gate, open for semi-prof essiona ism. L I 1 L A B N E R AS USUAL, THE. WEATHER ON SADIE HAWKINS PAV IS threatening The &ACHEUORS SHIVER -BUT NOT BECAUSE OF THE coupr YO'AU. KNOWS TH'RUUES.V ANV FRIGHTENED SKONK OF" A BACHELOR V WHICH GITS CAUGHT BV ANV-gh.''- DOG PATCH GAL-'GOTTA MARRY HER V -AN NO BE.GGIN OUT OF IT.r.r AN'NOW,TH'-5HutieR.'-LOVELV VOUNG " cHOKLEf-DON'T WORRY LADIES TEARS OFF -WITH MARRIAGE ) I DEARIE.'.r-AH'LLGIT AS THAR. OBJECT AN ' NOT A PROP J V YO'THE Ll'L YOKUM f O' MERCY INTHAPiHUSBANR-; -BACHELOR:'" A Pleasant Success Snow and freezing temperatur es kept all but about 400 students and townspeople away from Me morial Hall and the SUAB Var iety Show the other Friday ven inb but the few who attended were offered a pleasant evening's entertainment Affable Bill Fetzer and hi& wise-cracking dummy, Jerry Mc Gee, ably handled-the proceed ings with an easy-going stream of patter that tied together the various acts and brought the en thusiastic audience more than a few laughts. Fetzer also showed' a. talent for pantomine in his impressions of three women, the social butter fly, the lady with the inferiority, complex and the woman of "easy virtue", in a restaurant, The inspired piano accompani ment of Ed Potter, blind' student, brought the most applause and rightfully so. Aside from capably, playing for all the acts, Potter offered his impressions of top piano stylists Frankie Carcle, George Shearing and Fats Wal- ' ler, plus his own rendition of. "Little Red Riding. Hood" in a combination of German and "bop talk". ' ' On two occassions, while Potter was playing "Honeysuckle Rose" the audience broke into appre ciative applause at his truly re markable, piano stylings. Joe O'Brien, the possessor of a pleasant baritone voice and a charmingly casual attitude, re ceived acclaim when he sang "Angel", a song composed by O'Brien and '53 grad Vince Gri maldi. O'Brien also sang "Walk in' My Baby Back Home" with lyrics, by Grimaldi, apropos to Chapel Hill. A ballad singer with talent, Ralph Wiggins, was equally pop ular with the audience. Accom paning himself on a ukulele, Wig gins sang several mountain songs climaxed with the lovely "I Won der as I wander." Jackie Brooks did a nice job on a current nove lty tune. Charlie Ashby and Gene Par sons, a comedy team a la Dean Marten and Jerry Lewis, were a musing with their act patterned after the famous pair. More en tertaining was their Carolina ver sion of "Dragnet" starring "Sgt. . Friday the man who was pop ular before Saturday classes." Parsons also did several im personations of well known com ics which would have been better had they not been of the eternal Durante Charles Boyer E. G. Robinson school. Dewey Chappie, a skillful trum pet player, was well received, as was pianist Dave Tannanbaum, who offered a spirited, if pound ing, version of several Latin American tunes. Clyde Alexander sang "Ich Lie be Dich" in a pleasant tenor voice, though his obvious ner vousness detracted from the per formance. Mitch Novit, singing popular songs, was equally ner vous. The show, though lacking in professional polish was done with high good humor and an enthus iam which spread to the usually .. apathetic Carolina audience, for each performer was applauded again and again sometimes when it didn't seem necessary. Nancy Murray, chairman of the show, and the SUAB Dance Committe, should be congratuat ed for their successful effort and may we urge they present more shows of the same calibre in the future. BKJ YOU Said ft YOU Said It Editor: To you, trusting that you or some of your colleagues will know where best to relay it, I direct in all humility a petition concerning your faithful monitor in the Morehead-Patterson Bel) Tower. As you know, or some weeks past he has followed the chim ing of each quarter-hour with the first tone of the next to come, afflicting the sensitive list ener with something like the unhappy sensation of reaching the top of a flight of darkened stairs one step ahead of his apprehension. Apart from any irritation at being continually reminded of this maladjustment in so fine a mechanism (not unlike the de rangement of a noble mind), we feel concern lest the prolonged neglect of this relative, tritW should call in question our vigi lance touching matters of weigh tier import. In other words, let's see- if we can't get th, damnefl thing fixed! Htrbert Ellis Editor: , - : - Dear Mr. Kirk Kirkley: Now, Mr. Kirkfey.'you knows we'uns isn't so bad as that whut you in that thar letter of yourn to Thp Daily Tar Heel done made us out to be. Ilow-cum you knows whut color lace we'uns uses on our draw ers anyways? Yes, yo' is right, though. We is mamma's boys but ain't everybody whut got a mamma his mamma's boy? But wud thar be when kindness in that hart of yourn if, we did go an' say you is rite when you says that we'uns cud improve our university by gittin that spirit an' forkin' over that money for that ole team of ourn? Course t'would mek de school better to,do this.-We ain't so, dad-blamed much foggies yit that we'uns cain't see t'wud; be fur the most 'port amt thing-hiare. Sho' nuff, we'uns jest cum hiare to, this hiare place to see football. We ain't got np; interest in l'arnin' whut them all who, we calls professors hev. to say. We is only for. football, and we is willin! to keep eatin' hpgswill so the cafteria. kin. mek more money thet might go to the game. We is. wurkkin on them push-ups too, for they is mo' partant than 'losophy or. calaculus. You is rite when you says we is all commies. Our cell hiare in Chapel Hill, hed its meetin tonite, anil all the faculty an students is card-carryin memers. But now we sees the lite an we asks yo to forgii) us.. We has cut the lace offr We is eben goin kill our mammas so we won. be mammas boys no mo. Den you and us'uns all. be happy, and we- win all dem games we even mek pritty. good piple to run .the country when we gits out this football hebbin. Dan- Silvia Editor: There were some very significant numbers pub lished in Friday's Tar Heel. The figures released by Chancellor House reveal the fact that there is a definite wage scale for different athletic skills. The elite among the athletes,, the footballers, make an average of $1,071. Following close behind are the basketballers who earn $1057 each. These STUDENTS get nearly 7 times as much as a poor baseballer, whose average income is only $170. Ob viously the Baseballers Union had better get on thf ball if they want to get their cut. There are 72 football players getting over $1,000 each. That is over 6 full squads all deserving of aid. WTiere are the football players who play be cause they like the game? Is it necessary to get a pay check to develope sportsmanship and leader ship qualities? . The University has decreased the number of athletes getting aid by 29. However the total sav ing was only $1,505. This is an average of only S52 a year, and couldn't even tiuy a good Jacks team. By dropping 2 football players from a group of 72 they could have saved more money. One last question. How is the average of $583 for the non-athlete supposed to get him or her through the year, if it costs a football or basketball player over $1,000? Is the money going to worthv students or to PROFESSIONAL ball players? A. H. Zlon Editor Sir Charles, to those who know him, is A "verrae parfit" knight. As lover boy and scholar keen None ere will share his light. O could he but have reached first base . There would have been ho doubt; But there is no joy in Joyner, Sir Chollyihas struck out. Tom Parramor 1 Qr North CVrolnu , V-Iuc first " I " The official student publication of the Publi iations Board of the University of North Carolina, examination and va cation periods and during the official Summer terms. En tered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act 250 a semester; de where it is published daily except Monday, of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, livered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor ROLFE NEILL Managing Editor ! LOUIS KRAAR Business Manager JIM SCHENCK Sports Editor TOM PEACOCK News Ed. Ken Sanford Associate Ed. Ed Yoder Feature Editor Jennie Lynn Asst. Spts. Eds. Vardy Buckalew, John Hussey Sub. Mgr Tom Witty Circ. Mgr , . Don Hogg Asst. Sub. Mgr. Bill Venable Asst. Business Mgr. Syd Shuford Society Editor Eleanor Saunders Advertising Manager Jack Stilwell EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Ron Levin, Harry Snook, John Beshara, James Duvall. BUSINESS STAFF Al Shortt, Dick Sirkin, Dave Leonard. NEWS STAFF Peter Cooper, Joyce Adams, Dan iel Vann, Anne Huffman, Fred Powledge, J. I. Wright, Jerry Reece, Janie Carey, Richard Creed, Beverly Blemker, Ted Rosenthal, Jerry Epps, Jess Nettles .Ronnie Daniels, Tom- Lambeth, Charles Kuralt, Ann Pool ey, Babbie Dilorio. SPORTS STAFF John Hussey, Sherwood Smith, Jack Murphy, Rooney Boone, Larry Saunders. PHOTOGRAPHER Cornell Wright. Night Editor for this issue: Rolfe Neill m- I s-. '
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