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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1953 The Passing Scene Where are the coeds of yesteryear? Time was and not many quarters ago that the campus' fairer sex was in everything. Now they're in hardly anything, including the Arboretum. No politics, no Carrie Nations, no pranks, no fight for coed rights, no nothing. It's time, gals, to get off your Scottish plaids- YOU Said It Editor: The Carolina intramural system represents an idea to be proud of. Every college and university in the country is able to boast a system of athfi&ic competition which is below the varsity level. I have heard that the major reason for having an intramural system is to give those students who desire to participate in- athletics, but who are in capable of making a varsity team, the chance to particiapte- in a program which incorporates other students' of their own relative degree of athletic ability. This is supposed to be mutually beneficial by providing exercise, . the opportunity to display good sportsmanship, and the gratification of com petitive desire. Thus, the idea of the intramural system is good. In most university intramural programs this system certainly proves to be mutually beneficial. This is not so at Carolina at least not so to the extent which it should be. Why are so many of the scores recorded in intramural contests at Carolina so ridiculously one sided? The answer lies in the organization and not in the quality of the Carolina system. Within the past week, at least three basketball games have been played which serve to illustrate that all is not well. In one of these. games, the one which is most startling, one team defeated another by the ;ore of 141-16. On two other occasions, one team outscored another by over fifty points. The Zeta Psi second team would enjoy playing the Phi Gam second team. Sigma Chi-4 would wel come the opportunity to play Beta-4, but what ch'ance to win or even to enjoy the game would the members of the Sigma Chi fourth team, composed of .pledges have against the 1952 Championship ATO-1 team? As the system stands at the present time, such a match is n5t only possible, but probable. It is not my wish to belabor the point, but mere ly to suggest that some other means of organization be adopted whereby the intramural program is divided into' leagues comprised of teams which ap proximate each other in strength. In addition to providing for a far greater degree of fairness, such a system organized along lines as suggested, would foster considerable more interest Jim Lovelace (Sports Editor Tom Peacock says to Reader Lovelace: You reveal the answer in your leller. With each organization entering more than one team, the murals managers must have a number of leagues. These schedule makers do not know the relative proficiency of the teams, as an organization can call its best team No. 4, or may have two teams of equal strentgh. Each league, therefore, is picked at random. (Should the organizations be forced to rate their teams, and leagues be comprised of teams with the same degree of skill, the divisional playoffs would be uncommonly dull. I suggest to teams who want to play but are not scheduled: Challenge each other and play a practice game for a keg of beer.) The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, , where it is published o - r daily except Monday. 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. fi rs aaptHiii'lb of the Urtivrriaiy ti North Carohvf, ,- ' -whicH first - i-1 S- in .jfaourtrjr ' ' Hi t7M- v I n Another Look Brad Stroup (This is our second review on the Quarterly. The first was by Palinurus, our regular reviewer. The Quarterly engaged Mr. Stroup to do one, too, and it follows. Ed) 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. Asst. Sub. Mgr. Asst. Business Mgr. Society Editor Ed .Yoder . Jennie Lynn 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. The fall issue of the Carolina Quarterly has just come out, a little bulkier than last year, and assuredly more interesting. The usual fare of article, fic tion, poetry, and book review go far toward making a balanced diet for the curious reader. That the majority of any group of people is not curious as readers is an eternally gloomy fact to the eager publisher. Curious as mor alists, politicians, householders, taxpayers, males, or females they may be, but this issue of the Quarterly is not concerned with these people. It is a good issue because of balance rather than brilliance. The prose runs from historically critical (Barclay Jones' "Space, Time and Chapel Hill") to hum orous (Phillip Thayer's "The Man Who Ate Beetles") to the slightly ponderous (Gabriel Boney's "Epi phany in E-Flat"). The majority of this is pleasant writing, some of it masterful. The poetry is admittedly ex perimental, travelling a path from communication (James B. May and Phivos Delphis) to ob , scurity (Bob Nystedt and Louis Funderburk) onward to inscruti bility (Chris Bjerknes). This gamut is normal for experimental poetry. There are lines and fig ures in all of these poems that are forced and outlandish. Therd are others which surprise one into new insights. But none, df the pieces achieve uniform effec tiveness. Nystedt's "Sea Shells"" is as thought-provoking a concentra tion of obscurity as the magazine contains, while Funderburk's "Insanity of Numbers" seems too derivative to be sincere. Bjerknes' "Two Blackbirds" is rendered unforgiveably difficult through its morass of metaphor. It seems extraordinary that the poetry editor of the Quarterly is capable of appreciating only the type of poetry illustrated l)y these poems. They have, the com mon quality of being "long on the enforced bizarre, the consciously novel, and short on naturalness and sincerity. Prose is the standard merchan dise of literary magazines, and it is the standout of this issue. Barclay "Jones and Phillip Thay er are refreshingly readable. Jones' article on Chapel Hill's campus architecture is an inform ative tribute to the men who built the University, although he des pairs of the uninhabitable "South ern Colonial" structures that lie south of Cameron Avenue. Mr. Jones does not, however, explain the bases of his judging some buildings "very handsome," and "there being a grandness of scale about them." In effect, the article is more worthwnlle for its in formation than its . discriminating taste. . Phillip Thayer's '-Man Who Ate Beetles" is Sunday afternoon reading: witty, comfortable", shrewd. In The New Yorker fash ion the Utile is quietly ignored while two devilish children on board ship are out-deviled. Mr. Thayer's writing is as de lightfully entertaining as Gabriel Boney's is somberly "profound." "Ephiphany in E-Flat" is a power- IpESIj3iM ,r4zz- w5 ft I -mr ? ' - fi r Washington Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson WASINGTON White House advisers, previously split as to whether the President should crack back , at Senator McCarthy, are now less divided. The McCar they strategy of swamping the White House with telegrams, plus , his charge that the White House was concealing Western Union figures, plus earlier McCarthy criticism, has made even General "Slick" Persons realize that Ike can't appease McCarthy. General Persons, with Vice -President Nixon, has been the most persuasve of the Ike-advisers who believe the President J must get along with McCarthy, not oppose him. But now it's a me ueiiei 01 ai- 1 most everyone who tries to counsel an ide alistic but polit ically inexperi enced President that the Senator from Wisconsin has used the Eis- "V v i. JLJ PEARSON enhower Administration to build himself a rabid following which can't be dissipated overnight In effect, the Administraton has supplied the steppingstones by which the man who now defies it has risen to power. fully written story, full of sound and color, emotional intensity and skillful subtlety. But in Mf. Boney's longwinded profundity he almost breaks over into the ridic ulous, the way Gounod's Faust does for high-school students; one has the feeling the commo tion is all over nothing. It is extremely difficult to base "2 whole story directly on the dis tinction between talent and gen ius in musicians (or any artists, for that matter). Thp distinction's reality being questionable, the theme is liable to ludicrousness. Here are some of the stepping stones the Administration has in advertently handed its chief Re publican critic: Stepping Stone No. 1 Carbon copes of all Eisenhower Adminis tration investigations are auto matically given McCarthy. That was how he knew the Army was probing the Signal Corps at Fort ' Monmouth, N. J. The Army had been working on this for months, and after McCarthy obtained cop ies of Army reports, it was a simr pie matter for him to call wit nesses, usurp the headlines. Stepping Stone No. 2 Attor ney General Brownell whitewash ed the Senate investigating com mittee's report on McCarthy; also let the statute of limitations ex pire on the Senate probe of the Maryland election and McCar thy's part in it. A Senate commit tee had submitted a unanimous report, including amazing photo stats of McCarthy's concealed fi nancial operations. Yet Brownell annouced that the matter was be ing dropped. Stepping Stone No. 3 The Ad ministration appointed two Mc Carthy men to the Federal Com munications Commission. This is one reason the big radio and TV networks have leaned over back ward to give McCarthy free time. The White House even appointed to the FCC, Robert E. Lee, the McCarthy henchman who, ac cording to a Senate report hand led some of the money in the Maryland election. Lee's extreme ly limited knowledge of radio or TV came as a moderator for the McCarthy-Hunt TV program, 'Tacts Forum." Stepping Stone No. 4 The Ad ministration gave McCarthy's x chief financal angel, H. L. Hunt, and other financial backers, a tax reduction on contributions to his TV program, "Facts Forum." In other words, the administration which has suffered from McCar thy's attacks helped build him up by ruling that those who finance McCarthy's TV program get a tax deduction of 20 percent for indi viduals and five percent for cor poratons on the amounts they contribute. This TV program gives signifi cant insight into the McCarthy propaganda network. If the Re publican Party tried to get away with the same tax deductions it has given McCarthy's followers, it - would be laughed out of court. However, "Facts Forum," though touted as educational, is actually an effective propaganda vehicle for the philosophy of America firsters, isolationists, and the fascist fringe. On its advisory committee are Gen. Robert E. Wood, former head of the America First Com mittee, which vigorously oppos ed war with Hitler; also Gen. Hanf ord McNider, an active lead er in the same group. Yet President Eisenhower's policies are the exact opposite. He commanded the chief offen sive against Hitler, later advocat ed international cooperation as head of NATO in Paris. A typical 'Tacts Forum" lec turer is Allan Zoll, whose Ameri can Patriots organization was put on the Attorney General's list as subversive and fascist. Among the books and literature which "Facts Forum" urges TV viewers to buy are those written by Merwyn K. Hart, who Justice Jackson de scribed as "well known for his pro-fascist leanings." President Eisenhower, of course, has taken exactly the op posite stand from these McCarthy followers, has made public pleas for tolerance and understanding. Yet his Treasury Department giv es tax benefits to an organization fighting his policies under the guise of education. who metntp AANSltAGSS? TH2G5?gAT... HrpjusTeoriHB TRAfiTATLANTG CASl IMP AN' STAlcTUNG 0tCCNtVf. V& PlGCOVBZe THE MOSSS cops; it was eoop foz FOBEfGN LANPS COUUMT MX7wp) MbT'M THB7 VPIPM7 HAVg fOUUeUA&BBl IZ.-IQ I'LL BE I PBTEK IN VENT BO i XXXj7S SRANI6H SPAIN. I NOT A 1 CmINcsjC FG CHINA, PEEP, I PDfZfHB HUH? AtS.fiHVA.&iD ( VALL UK THAT &iss My mu , he m to THN INVENT A COPS FOf THBY COWP ANSWER SACK ON TH5 i x. nun u Foe ANSWERING iTHbY NpBPeP pLBCTRICITy, SO CZAR IVAN TOOK A KITB ANPfWAl, NEWS STAFF Charles Kuralt, Richard Creed, Joyce Adams, Fred Powledge, Ann Pooley, Tem Lambeth, Jerry Reece, Babbie Dilorio, Beverly Blemker, J. D. Wright, Jess Nettles, Peter Coo per, Daniel Vann, Richard Thiele. BUSINESS STAFF Al Shortt, Dick Sirkin, Dave Leonard. SPORTS STAFF Larry Saunders, Jack Murphy, Dick Barkley. PHOTOGRAPHER Cornell Wright. Night Editor for this issue: Richard Creed L THAT'LL TEACH HIM 1 . TH AT AH IS ST) LL BOSS, ) n V TGf Af KING O'TH'SKONKS A A MW. ' Np f4HlSTtE'OA OFF, HONEST ABE.' fiN A z. -Oft YORE PAPPV WON'T NEV4H ; s- WUt THIS SSEMS TO SETTLE fTS.' HOHESTA&E iS KWG OT7HE SKOHKS- AAl 7ElCYAZ JJTTIE CREATURES WU NEVER LET ANV HARM COME70HlH.'f The Eye Of The Horse . Roger Will Coe : : THE HORSE was strutting across the campus when I saw him. I wondered what had him so set up? "I'm happier'n a durn puppy-dog with two tails," The Horse stated, his eyes crossed with emotion. "But I'm scared, too!" So? "All my horsed-up life I've regretted I didn't go to college," The Horse said, squatting on his haunches, "and ever since I got here; I felt like a dope, shagging my gray locks into classes with guys younger than my own child ren." I didn't think that was the 'only reason he should feel liKe a dope. I thought he should just naturally feel that way. "You're about as funny as a pop-quiz on a Mon day morning," The Horse growled. "The thing is, I felt embarrassed when the editor of The Daily Tar Heel suggested J try a column for him." The Horse meant, he couldn't write? "I meant," he said, snatching some Botany One from the- Georgraphy-38 lawn and doing a Lenoir Hall with it in a manner he never learned in Hy-giene-11, "I hardly thought I represented the aver age student in age, viewpoint, or purpose." I was with him on the age; but if the average student had The Horse's purpose and viewpoint, we'd all be fired tomorrow. "Why, Roger!" The Horse murmured reprovingly. "I study furiously each ten-minute period before a class; I never miss a home game; I carefully inquire how many cuts I am allowed the first day of a new" class; I write my pledge on quizzes so legibly that the professors give me twenty-extra for penmanship or whatever is required to get me a passing grade afid I look with affection, if not with nos?5lgic recollection, upon all the coo-eds." Oh? Had he then gone to school with coo-eds, before, if he recollected so nostalgically? "Nope," The Horse munched, "but I used to wish I had. It might be they would have had a refining influence on me. But look what's happened, now! Durned if these great guys and dolls didn't go and elect me to Legislature!" Only one hundred and eight of them had been so myopic that they marked the wrong vote-box. "Well, none the less I am at the command" of the whole campus," The Horse said. "One lad stopped me and took me to task for not campaigning; but I explained I figured my job every Thursday night would be to try to work for them if they elected me to; and not just to go ask them for their votes and forget them forever after." Did he mean he would not be like a certain Cheese-state solon? "T won't be caught putting the McCarty before The Horse," The Horse snorted. "I aspire to lofty statesmanship." "Wump!" Mr. Wump, the Frog, said, from behind a rock. "That low-visioned churl," The Horse shrugged, "is burned up because he has to work Thursday nights getting the low-level view of things. Neckiey is a chap more to my kidney. Look at the lofty view he takes of everything " Neckiey, the Giraffe, was staring noncommittaJly over New East. "Me and Ike," The Horse stated. "Statesmen, that's us." Did The Horse mean he would speak out only once a year? "If I have nothing to offer, I'll hold my tongue," The Horse stated emphatically. "I won't say a word in Legislature." I knew the other forty-nine Legislators would be so happy to know this. But about statesmen I had read somewhere that a statesman was a success ful politician who had died. "Well, that lets me out," The Horse sighed. I wasn't too sure of that Several times, some of his classmates had thought The Horse had died of old age in class. Several other times, they were sorry they had been mistaken in this wise. "I chop my teeth now and then," The Horse admitted. Tt is a good thing to do. You sit silent in class and the professor starts to thinking, 'What's with this character staring at me with fish eyes and closed trap? Is he maybe so dumb he can't think of anything to say? Or is he afraid if he says what he is thinking I will decorate his next quiz with a large and boisterous F?' So, I surreptitiously swal low a coupla pep-pills, drop my jaws slack in what I hope passes for admiration, bat my eyes rapidly a few, passes, and try to put in homely horse-talk something the professor said a few minutes ago so it will sound original with me." Di-2 it work? "The principal reaction I recall," The Horse said, "was one professor who said, ThaHk you, Mr. O'Horse, for your unsolicited contribution, and may I state in closing that I prefer my own words to those in which you Tiave less than fascinatingly restated the proposition.'" Wasn't that rough? "Nope," The Horse grinned, "it was smooth. Some of the others I tried this 'Hey-look-I'm-alive!' technique on, gave back with fisny eyes of their own. But I guess it is like they say in Psee-colo-zhee, as the French Term it: I got conditioned wrong." How was that? "Well, one prof here has a gimmick wherein he asks, in disarming gentleness the very first day of his class, 'Are there any questions concerning this first lesson?' And when the misguided student ta&es him up and asks and like JBarnum says, there is one in every class some inoffensive question, this friendly chappie snarls, 'You got a textbook, haveTi't you? Well, stop wasting my time with foolish ques tions! " Say, that was rough! "I estimate it works for him, though," The Horse said, "the way it is designed to. No more questions get asked in class, ever. I suppose it is only incidental that his classes have the highest per centage ftf flunkees on the campus, according to a reliable report. There's only one thing to do when you catch a deal like that, and that is to recall the clever twist of the .old saying, 'Time heals all wounds.' " And , that went . . .? N "Time wounds all heels," The Horse said placidly. "Wump, wump, wump!" Mr. Wump whumped.
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