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PACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, . 1953 Thou Shalt Not Take Thyself ... YOU Said it 'I Hear He's Going To Demand Equal Time In The White House' ,. . . . . rt- " It seems that my letter re If student politicians took their offices Mf Joneg the prevaiing half as seriously , as they do themselves we trend 0f religious thought in would have better campus. some circles evoked quite a bit of interest or rather the expris- Bombs, Dollars & Ideas Editor Norman Cousins in this week's Saturday Review shares with us some of his impressions from a just-completed trip to Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, and Japan. "We must remain militarily strong," iMf. Cousins advises, "but we must not fool our selves into believing that military strength by itself is enough. Soviet Russia is preparing for different kinds of showdowns. We should be fully prepared for a military showdown but this is not enough if an ideological or political showdown is coming up for which we are unprepared. The consequences of our failure on the ideological or political level can be just as serious as failure on the mili tary level." The editor goes on to point out: "Mili tary aggression is not the route of communist conquest. Economic collapses or general in ternal instability can prepare the way for communism. Communism can come in by way of the ballot-box in countries where the governments are unable to meet the basic needs of their peoples." . But even if communism doesn't come by any of these routes and every last communist were exterminated, "communism would sur vive as a major threat if the causes that pro duce communism continue. Therefore, we should put as much imagination, ingenuity, effort, and determination into the, non-military war against communism as we are put ting into the military effort to contain com munism. "The big bombs and big dollars are not enough. We need the big ideas." In one of his closing points the editor reminds us that "The situation of the United States in the world today is serious but is by no means hopeless. "We can still recapture the favor and trust of the world's peoples on whom our ba sic security rests. People throughout the world today are hungry for moral leadership. They do not expect us to -provide miracle solutions to the problems that have beset man through the ages. We are expected to define the basis for hope in our time and to " become a champion of great ideas and great deeds directed to the making of a free, peace ful, and decent world. "We can give a forward thrust to history by putting the vast energies and resources of America to work in the cause of a-human community under world law. "We can use our moral imagination . . . "We should put at least as much effort into mobilizing for mercy as we do into mob ilizing for war." , f)e JBattp. Ear Wttl The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published p ' v ' JL daily except Monday, '- y ' examination and vaca tion periods- and dur ing the official Sum mer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, ?6 a year, $3.50 a semester. I I i I ' sion of that already existing , interest. First, let me correct the im pression that some seemed to get from the article. I am not a Protestant fundamentalist. I am an " Anglican Catholic (Episco palian). While I am in agree ment with my fundamentalist brethren in their insistence upon the doctrines of the Trinity, the Deity of Christ, the Virgin Birth, the Atonement, etc., I cannot subscribe to their view of aut hority residing in the Bible rath er than in the Church which is the living witness to the Risen Christ. Neither can I accept the idea of verbal inspiration of the Scrip tures. Yet I do believe them to be the Inspired Word of God. Neither do I subscribe to the puritanical view of morality that is often held. An example is the idea of no smoking, dancing, or card playing. Such a view stems from the heresy that the body is evil and the soul good when act ually the reverse is true. When the soul is in a right relation ship with God one does not have to constantly guard the body for it is directed by the soul. I have been described as narrow-minded and bigoted. Is the mathematician narrow-minded because he insists that two plus two equal four? Or is he actual ly being broadminded in insist ing upon nothing less than the truth? Likewise are we who ac cept Jesus Christ as God and Saviour narrowminded to insist upon the truth that he has re vealed to us? If it be such pray that I may always be narrow minded. I do not object to anyone holding any views that he wishes to hold. What I do object to is the intellectual and theological embezzlement that exists with many of our so-called liberal thinkers. If one does not believe in Christianity then by all means let him say so. But for the sake of honesty and truth, let him not "put forth his own views as those very views which he denies. Fin ally, it seems that some regard the church as the society of the sinless. Actually the church is the hospital for sinners. She has. noth ing to offer the sinless, but to the sinner she offers Jesus Christ as Savior. And personally, I do not know anyone who is in eligible for admittance. It has been said that the only thing worse "than sin is the denial of its existence. Briefly as to "my" statement of Who Christ is. It is not my state ment. It is the statement of the church for 2000 years, of Holy Scripture, and of our Lord Him self. I am unable to find any oth er competent source as to His identity. With St. Thomas, there-: fore, I shall continue to humbly acknowledge Him as "My Lord and my God." Robert Pace Chapel 1(M . O .. . North CiXtoWa hh first : oprruni lis doors in fomutry 79J It is preoccupation with pos session, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely nobly. Bertrand Russell. As sheer casual reading- mat ter, I still find the English dic tionary the most interesting book in our language. Albert J. Nock , Washington Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson r If tr , V PEARSON WASHINGTON - Those who have watched President Eisen hower during almost a year in of fice conclude that the No. 1 les son he still has to learn is that political tactics are exactly the same as military tactics. If he had realized this, his friends say, he would not have been so sur prised and hurt when Senator McCarthy train ed his guns on Ike as well as on Truman dur ing his nation-wide broadcast last week. For in politics as in war, you have to pick the mo ment for an offensive when your potential enemy is weak to take the offensive.Once you let him gather strength, you must ex pend more ammunition,' risk more loss of men to win the same objective. This is what no less a person than Tom Dewey told Ike about a year ago. For Eisenhower's real decision regarding McCarthy came not after he got into the White House, but while he was campaigning in Indiana. Dewey hurried to Washington a year ago last October to warn the Republican candidate that he had to take a stand on McCarthy, and he had better do it the com ing week in Milwaukee right in McCarthy's own bailiwick. A week or two before, Eisen- hower had been euchred into making a speech in Indianapolis where he shook hands and posed for the newsreels with Senator Jenner of Indiana, the same right -wing Republican who had called Ike's chief benefactor in the Army, George Marshall "A front for traitors" and "a living lie". Everyone knew that in his heart Eisenhower didn't relish speaking on the same platform with the rabble-rousing Senator from Indiana. Republicans like Senator Duff of Pennsylvania and Ives of New York also knew that Jenner would cut Ike's throat politically once re-elected. However, the new and green Republican candidate even al lowed the man who denounced his best friend to hold up his hand, like the winner at a prize fight, while the newsreels clicked away all for the benefit of . Bill Jenner. , . It was after this that Dewey hurried to Washington, persuad ed Ike ' that he had to take " a stand regarding the rabble-rousing wing of the GOP, and the best time to do it was in Milwau kee. If Ike either denounced Mc Carthyism in his own state or did not permit McCarthy to ap pear on the same platform, De wey argued, the rest of the party would take the cue that the new Republican leader would not tole rate McCarthyism. Eisenhower agreed. But when Ike's advisers learn ed of this, Chairman Arthur Summerfield, now Postmaster General, hit the ceiling. Calling Senators Ferguson of Michigan and Hickenlooper of Iowa with Tom Coleman of Wisconsin, they hired a special plane, caught up with the candidate's train in Ohio, argued, pleaded, and cajol ed until they convinced him he shouldn't snub McCarthy in Mil waukee. But to salve his conscience, Eisenhower wrote into the Mil waukee speech two paragraphs praising his old friend General Marshall, the man against whom McCarthy had delivered 60,000 words of invective from . the safety of the Senate floor. However, Arthur Summerfield, hearmg of the paragraph of praise for Marshall, notified Mc Carthy and later smuggled Mc Carthy up the service elevator of the Pere Marquette Hotel in Peoria, HI., for a secret confe rence with Eisenhower. There McCarthy begged that Ike delete the paragraphs prais ing Marshall. To have Eisenhower slap him in the face with this tri bute to a man he had denounced, McCarthy argued, would deal him a body blow right in his own state. In the end, the new can didate yielded. The paragraphs praising the man who promoted Dwight Eisen hower from the rank of lieute nant colonel to lieutenant gene ral in one year, after Douglas McCarthur had sent him home from the Philippines, were omit ted. After that, the so-called "neanderthal" wing of the Re publican party knew they could handle the candidate. After that, men like liberal Republican Se nator Duff of Pennsylvania, the Republican who first urged Die to run, began to take a much farther back seat. Some Dewey Republicans, how ever, figured that after election Eisenhower would see the issues clearly and take a firmer stand. That was why Harold Stassen, a member of the Eisenhower cab inet, took a vigorous stand against McCarthy when the lat ter announced a deal with Greek Shippers. At this point, however, . Mc Carthy's old friend Vice Presi dent Nixon stepped forward. He persuaded Eisenhower that ha had to get along with McCarthy, that McCarthy was a power in the party and by this time he was. So Stassen was told to eat his own words. He did so, humbly after a conference with McCarthy. V Editor ROLFE NEILL Managing Editor LOUIS KRAAR Business Manager AL SHORTT Sports Editor TOM PEACOCK News Ed. Associate Ed. -Feature Editor Asst. Spts. Eds. Sub. Mgr. Cir. Mgr. Ken Sanford Ed Yoder . Jennie Lynn Asst. Sub. Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. Society Editor Vardy Buckalew, John Hussey Tom Witty Don Hogg Bill Venable Syd Shuford Advertising Manager Eleanor Saunders Jack Stilwell EDITORIAL STAFF -Bill O'Sullivan, Ron Levin, Harry Snook, James Duvall. NEWS STAFF Charles Kuralt, Richard Creed, Joyce Adams, Fred Powledge, Ann Pooley, Tom Lambeth, Jerry Reece, Babbie Dilorio, Beverly Blemker, J. D. Wright, Jess Nettles, Peter Coo per, Daniel Vann, Richard Thiele. BUSINESS STAFF Al Shortt, fcick Sirkin, Dave Leonard. SPORTS STAFF Larry Saunders, Jack Murphy, Dick Barkley. PHOTOGRAPHER Cornell Wright. Night Editor for this issue: Richard Creed WHILST TUB BEAN BAG SCKlMMAGg IS SOIN'ON,! COMB TO ASK KIN 1 CAeey yo'pooics to school, Mil HePZIpAH BVriAMNOT TMUNKYOUP TEACH FZtHCH Ve eapy&SE is gone TACM"'Ct?"X ME. J0PUNG VOU A COUPLE APPLES IN CASE YOU BUT. NOW J ARE NOf SOVP FRUIT? NO? Y K H07J . 5v AfAW HQ. M AKP I1L HELP YOU EATYO APPLES WHILST J FPfcNCH TO l( TBACH. Li Bur: you po NO MAK6 U? the r?&nch. IT SAL READY TO GO ALL 15 TO PO M HEAT HIM AN'gE(?VB. tWfAr.F' I Ai.UI$ THOUGHT you WAS JgS'AlgSSlN'AJZOflN' i INV6NTIN' THAT fUBNCH OUTSH yO'OWN U'L'HEAP"" SO YOU jPAUy PNT MAX TAIL OWN 1HB COPVZMHT OP FZZKCH 1 WOULD'. L I A B N E R li-ST !fTVt yJSHr1 . FlHE-lVII HB I -They o&ey-I BMtrr- J. 1111? --Vv 3 - reaches A wmrf I I m UW HE'S ) lT AV . THE. SKONKS- JgL Wf Q S Z-rl CE W . ' ' ' THIS BABy -fa-. . JU j Eye Of The Horse -Roger Will Coe- ("The Horse sees imperfectly, minimizing some things, magnifying others . . . ." Hipporotis, circa 500 B.C.) THE HORSE was in the Law Library hoofing through ponderous tomes. "I just heard the most fascinating thing imagin able," he said excitedly, his eight - balls of eyes crossed in concentration. "This Supreme Court de cision on Educational "Segregation is going to be taken into consideration next week." So? "The poop is that the august justices shall hand down a decision based on their recent findings in the Baseball Reserve Player Case. Feature me that one, Roger me lad!" This was nothing to joke about! "The decision in the Baseball Reserve Player Case Was," The Horse pointed with a blunt hoof, "to the effect that a) Baseball is not a business, but a b) Sport, 'and additionalally it is c) Not Interstate Commerce, so d) Scram!" But, how was this applicable to Education? "Well, Education is not a business in the sense that it is not designed to make money for now." I thought most teachers would agree. "Exactly," The Horse said. "Besides, since the U. S. Constitution not only does not mention the , word 'Education' in it, and since it does say that all rights not 'specifically granted to Congress nor de nied to the States shall be the business of the States, Education is not Interstate in any way." Yes; but the Fourteenth Amendment says that no laws shall be passed denying or abridging the privileges or rights or immunities of any citizen of the United States. "I congratulate you on being awake at least some Df the time in your Poly-Sci course, not to mention one called History of Education. But," the Horse pointed out, "this has been found in past decisions as setting up a sort of 'United States Citizen and as the famous Slaughterhouse Cases in New Orleans established, this does not necessarily apply to citi zens of specified states; and State Education does apply specifically to citizens of the specific states concerned." I thought this was double-talk. The Constitution, should be rigid, specific, exact. "The Constitution" of the United States," The ' Horse said pontifically, absently munching some pages of his reference volume, "is a collection of principles rather than a code of laws. That is why ' it has lived so long and is still as vigorous as it is. Last words are fitting for departed things, such as dead loves, empty bottles and red-flannel under wear. Even the Dook football game was capable of being laid away, though not without many words. But we got to live with the Constitution; so it should breathe, pulse, feel, act, be capable of change when desired by the people; or to resist shackles being put on it no matter what people desire this." What did The Horse think about Segregated Ed ucation? "What state of the United States are you asking me this in?" The Horse replied. "Tell me that and I'll tell you my answer." Oh! The Horse was evasive, was he? "Nope, just selectiver like citizenship arid the rights of the citizens of the several states are," The Horse said calmly (especially for him, it was calm. Not more than six thousanl people heard him.) "What is the highway speedlimit in North Caro lina?" Oh, fifty miles. Maybe fifty-five. "Okay. Now, you are driving down Grandfather Mountain, which is in North Carolina," The Horse posed a hypothetical question. "Down you come at fifty-five " Wait a minute, waaaaadaminute! This was draw ing a long bow! Local conditions varied. "You bet," The Horse horse-laughed. "We are accused of Jimcrowism in Education, in the South," The Horse said. "You don't find that in the Wet, do you?" Certainly not! . "Uh huh, I got a fat picture of, say, a California governor thinking it is okay for all Indians, Chinese and Japanese students in that state to get Unsegre gated Education," The Horse sneered. "Out that away, it isn't fashionable to segregate Negroes be cause compared to Indian and other minority popu lations, they are not important in numbers. Or take Texas or Arizona, now, letting Texican-ancestry children in unless they have money or are descen dants of Spanish Don families." Well, we'd see what Brownell would have to say about this! "I'll let you in . on another secret, Roger," The Horse grinned: "''This act of Brownell's in shooting his face off to the Supreme Court is another phony, stunt or his. e knows darn well what decision is coming down, so he will try and make political cap ital of it by yelling as if he wants the Supreme Court to outlaw Segregation. The friend of the pe5 pul, that's him! But I'd rather not to associate with the pee-pul-with whom Brownell is friendly. Berla in a Brooks Brothers Tweed, that's also him. He hatcheted Taft at the Convention in Chicago, he took a free hack at ex-President Truman, and he will hatchet the Supreme Court in this way, if he can get away with it." Did The Horse claim to have advance knowledge of what the decision would be? "How else can they rule?" The Horse shrugged, "but that Education is the business of the several states? But oP Brownell better watch his step Hofy Joe McCarthy is the self-appointed hatchet-man o! Washington, and he has not asked for any help, nor will he tolerate any. First thing you know, Holy Joe will hatchet oP Brownell!" Wouldn't that be terrible! "Wump!" Mr. Wump said from atop a section of bookshelves .... I do not believe that civilization will be wiped outun a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two thirds of the people on earth might be killed, but enough men capable of thinking, and enough books, would be left to start again, and civilization could be restored. Albert Einstein.