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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 1954 Cheaters Must Go One of the 1 1 points in the Student Party's "Good Deal" for the guy in the lower quad provides that if he is caught cheating he will not be suspended. Instead, he will be put on probation, the idea being that it's the first offense and here's the chance to rehabilitate the offender. Our present system provides that in near ly every cheating case the guilty person is suspended. We believe the non-dismissal idea sound in that it attempts to help the person who has cheated. We disagree, however, with the argument that we should not dismiss first offense cheaters from the University. Objection No. 1 is that we don't think the Legislature should be doing the court's busi ness. Penalties should be, within full discre tion of the courts. Obpection No. Two: In proposing this bill, SP proponents assume that suspension is one extreme, and the other extreme is to ignore the violation. Not believing in ex tremes, the St suggests we find the middle ground. To the SP we suggest that suspension is not one of the two extremes at all- Indeed, it is the middle ground. For instance, at Wil liam & iMary, Washington & Lee, VMI, Princeton and Virginia the cheater is not suspended, he is expelled. His record is de stroyed and he may never again enter that school. That the proposal is at odds with the Honor System is our third objection. To, understand the salient purpose of the system we must understand the purpose of the Uni versity: To teach. The most important les son we have to learn here is the lesson of honesty. Honesty is basic to all learning. Through the Honor System we teach people to be trustworthy, teach them the honesty of doing the right thing because it's right and not because they will be penalized if they fail. The idea of a second-class student in honesty, one who must report to a probation officer, wears on the Honor System itself. The Daily Tar Heel hopes the Legisla ture will defeat this bill. On The Job We doff the editorial Dobbs today to two gentlemen, to wit: To Chancellor House for holding yester day the second in a series of give-and-take press conferences. Faced with a dozen or so reporters the Chancellor made to-the-point comments about campus affairs. Chancellor student relations have been neglected, and we are pleased to see Mr. House taking the time and apparently the pleasure to express himself. To student president Bob Gorham a com mendation. It took humility to say publicly lie had been derelict in an area of leadership, namely, giving his opinion on student issues. He followed that admission with the promise to see it won't happen again. Both of these improvements mean more information for students and faculty. It is in the best tradition and we use the word proudly of the University. tEfje Baity Car JfyitX The official student publication of the Publi cations Boarcfcof the University of North Carolina, where it is published 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. i Sle i the ttoiveriHy 5 North Garohn " sf -htn art , $ ' j )Wutry Editor ROLFE NEILL Managing Editor : LOUIS KRAAR Business Manager . AL SHORTT Sports Editor TOM PEACOCK News Editor Associate Editor Feature Editor Asst. Spts. Eds. Sub. Manager Cir. Manager Asst. Sub. Manager Asst. Business Manager 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, James Duvall, John Beshara, John Taylor. NEWS STAFF Charles Kuralt, Dick Creed, Joyce Adams, Fred Powledge, Tom Lambeth, Jerry Reece, Ann Pooley, Babbie Dilorio, J. D. Wright, Jess Nettles, Leslie Scott, Jid Thompson, Richard Thiele, Chal Schley, Dave Elliott. BUSINESS STAFF Dick Sirkin, Dave Leonard, Don Thornton. Night Editor for this issue: Vardy Buckalew A Buck, A Right John Beshara Unfortunately there is a need for men to know what their rights are concerning the draft laws and what they must do to secure a deferment or rejection. In deference to governmental ag encies and without dim reflec tions to our own military adviser, who's existence is to supply stu dents with this information, the need is still present. It is not my purpose, either, to censure the writers of recent letters to the editor of The Daily Tar Heel expressing "shock" and "indignation" at a paid advertise ment which offered to sell stu dents a booklet on the ins and outs of beating the draft. The agency selling the needed book let is out to make a fast buck, that's understood. It's also in consequental. This observer was perhaps the most shocked person living when he was drafted. Medically speak ing, I stunk. After two years in the Army, which included duty in Japan, no time lost for bad conduct or in- the hospital and with service records bursting with letters of commendation, I processed for the usual medical examination preliminary to hon orable separation. At that time I was told by the examining doc tor that it was a puzzlement h..w I was ever drafted. Wouldn't it have f been rather anti-climatic to tell the doctor that had I known the" ins"and outs of the draft laws, I would not have been drafted?. There are those among us whe matter-of-factly assume they will not be drafted if they have a right to deferment or rejection. Such humbug! Personally I think the present draft laws are loaded with inequalities, but so long as the laws exist no citizen is shirk ing his duty by purchasing a booklet that may help him insure his rights. For a change the poorer fellow has the opportunity to get justice under the draft laws like other students whose fathers can buy influential poli ticians. Sure, there will be some who will use the booklet to sneak past the draft. They're worse than' vile and frustrated and will learn in the end the Army would have been a haven compared to the weight they've put on their con science. Pity them. It isn't the booklet that's bad, it's how it's used. 'We Should Have Taken A Vote First, Ourselves' YOU Said it Editor: Good ideas in your editorials but today's on the "visiting lect urer" problem seems to this old timer to miss a question you should have posed. Who attends lectures even by eminent per sons; what about convocations and attendance by students? Students are conspicuously elsewhere as compared with townspeople and faculty, so don't blame it more on expense than you do on the apathy of those for whom these lectures should mean the most the students. Of course, we have some notable exceptions like beloved Robert Frost. I haven't made a count but in scanning a 30-year period, it seems that student interest in convocations and lectures has "been on the wane. Very sincerely, An Old-Timer Others Say Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. Edgar Allan Poe. The illusion that times that were are better than those that 'are, has probably pervaded all ages. Horace Greeley. 1 ij f i - Washington Merry-Go-Round Drew Pearson WASHINGTON The Eisen hower Administration almost scared the shirt off big busi ness the other day. It did so when the Justice De partment showed its teeth on anti-trust prosecutions in a more , glowering manner than Thurman Arnold and Franklin D. Roosevelt. What it did was bring suit against Pan American Airways, long con sidered the sacred cow of both Republicans and Democrats. A few weeks ago Sam Pryor, vice president of Pan Ameri can in charge of Washington lob bying, spoke with confidence about the Eisen hower Administration. PEARSON "Things have changed in Washington," he said happily. "We don't have to take all that guff we used to take. And we're not going to tolerate it." Sam had reason to be happy and confident. In the first place, he was long a member of the Republican National Committee from Connecticut, a top manager of Wendell Willkie, and a gener ous money-raiser for the Repub licans. So even though his friend and wire-puller for Pan Ameri can, Sen. Owen Brewster of Maine, had ' been defeated, Sam had every reason to expect well of the Eisenhowerites. He knew that; back in he. Hoover Administration. Pan American had been able to get Postmaster General Brown to send an amazing and unprecedented instruction to the State Depart ment asking that "all practical assistance be given to the Pan American-Grace Airways in pref erence to any other American company." This was in violation of the age-old ruling that the U. S. government does not favor any one company abroad at the expense of another. Even under Democratic admin istrations, Pan American contin ued to get just as many favors. Ed Stettinius, brother-in-law of Juan Trippe, Pan American pres ident, was long in the Roosevelt Administration and for a time a member of the cabinet. FDR liked both Ed and Juan (Trippe and he also liked Pan Am. The latter got the heaviest mail sub sidiesand still does. And, when trust - busting Thurman Arnold, assistant attorney general, pro posed prosecuting Pan American for violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, he was stopped dead in his tracks. "If you insist on this," warned Attorney General Robert Jack son, "you'll have to resign." Arnold backed away for a time, but still made noises about going after Pan American. Shortly thereafter and much to his own surprise, he was abruptly pro moted to the U. S. Court of Appeals. Imagine the surprise of the aviation world, therefore, and particularlyJSam Pryor, when the Eisenhower Administration this week slapped exactly the same antitrust suit on Pan American that Roosevelt had vetoed. Pan Am with the Grace Steamship Lines and their subsidiary, Pan agra, were charged with monop olizing air transportation between the United States and Latin America. Ironically, the suit came short ly after Robert C. Hill, vice pres ident of Grace, was rewarded by Others Say Not because Socrates said so ... I look upon all men as my my compatriots. My appetite comes to me while eating. I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. He that I am reading seems al ways to have the most force. There is another sort of glory, which is the having to good an opinion pf our own worth. One may be humble out of pride. , Que scais-je? (What do I know?) Let us permit Nature to take her own way; she better under stands her own affairs than we. Montaigne the Eisenhower Administration by being made U. S. Ambassador to Costa Rica. Senate investigators are call ing upon the automobile industry to supply the answer to the na tion's most common juvenile crime auto thefts. The Hendrickson Committee investigating juvenile delinquen cy, has found that nearly 150,000 autos are stolen each year, mostly by teen-age kids. If cars cculd be made tamper-proof, it would help curb this flagrant contribution to delinquency. As a result, the committee will invite industry spokesmen to ex plain what is being done to pro tect automobiles from juvenile "hot wire" specialists. This is the name given to auto thieves who pick the ignition lock, cross cer tain wires and start the car with out a key. Committee investigators have found that thieves usually break into a car by forcing the side window-vent or picking the out side lock. What is needed, they say, "is a side window that can't be smashed or forced, an outside lock that can't be picked and an inside lock on the ignition. Prime Minister Churchill has sent a diplomatic though pointed warning to President Eisenhow er that Britain wants to be kept fully informed during the secret Russian-American talks on atomic energy. Churchill has sent a special message to the White House pointing out that Britain, as an atomic power and ally of the United States, must be consulted every step of the way. He ddi not say so, but Church ill is reported to be burned up because Britain has been frozen out of the first stage of the talks. The old British war horse believes Eisenhower and Dulles are doing exactly what they urged him not to do namely, to talk to the Russians in' secret. Eisenhower has now promised the British Embassy that they will get a day-by-day fill-in on the talks but, even so, Churchill is still fuming. P o G O K YOU GONNA PLiSAUUSP. VOU I i s- without yo' fViV YES? . a'SMINOLESAM jeOTANEWUNe OF GOtPgN OPP ORTUNITIES fCZ 1 AN'yotiNG. BflSBLieNT STATS TO GlVB my pgopucre AAftszf feiAL A BLINPFOLP T6ST OP PgRlOPlCALS. W&'U. Ty HIM OUT ON COM 16 BOOKS PStfft-MFfit TH&J J CZVCAC, PeL.ANPFIAMMG lO SAVO ITS CfMNCHY 6OOPN0S5,FeiBNC? weGUrs Viy MATMSS Lack Of Discipline Ed Yoder (A historic discussion centering about Thomas Wolfe is concerned with his alleged lack of literary discipline. It was an expc.nsiveness with words, as pointed out below, that caused his-failure in drama, it was this expansiveness that led to a magnificeiH collaboration between Wolfe and Maxwell Perkins; ancTa difference in point of view of the effect lack of discipline had on Wolfe's style led ultimately' to a tragic break between author and editor. This is the first of several columns that xoill deal with the Perkins-Wolfe relationship, the effect it had on Wolfe's writing, and the break between them. Ed.) When Thomas Wolfe got his Master's. Degree "from Harvard, he was", more than ever, the dis connected giant. Hes stood with his heavy talent, on the outside of the publication world, unable to gain entrance. After years of aspiration to be a successful play, wright, he found failure staring him in the face. It was not because of a lack of talent that the drama' couldn't admit him to its ranks. Rather,- it was be cause he suffered from a chronic lack of literary discipline extended back to his boyhood days in Asheville when his high school English teacher was first to discover it. She had scribbled on one of his themes that if he continued not to paragraph she would never grade another of his themes. "Pe gasus has to be controlled," she wrote, "even if it must be by one who has no wings." That Wolfe was unable to discipline himself as a writer was an upshot of his desire to put down everything, omitting nothing that was pertinent in the vaguest sense. When the torrents began to pour from him he did not pause for mechanics some times even the basic mechanics of syntax. His West ern Journal the diary of a two week, fly-by-night tour of the Western national parks is a gem of spontaneity and quick impression. It epitomizes the haste with which he always composed, scribbling on yellow scrap paper with a stub pencil, sometimes using a refrigerator as a desk that could accommo date his towering frame. Lack of discipline, then, was his most awesome obstacle. When he wrote plays it was like trying to put a sea in a thimble. The Wolfe plays which were actually dramatized by the Playmakers and by the "47 Workshop" at Harvard were models of uncontained literature. Perhaps the most notable play he produced in the workshop was "Welcome to Our City." It dealt with the race ques tion in a south ern town. What, he said about it was typical: "I have writ ten this play with 30 odd characters b e cause it requir ed it, not be cause I didn't know how to save p a in t. Someday I'm jfrtj going to write 80, 100 people a whole town, a whole epoch a whole race. for my soul's ease and comfort." He never scaled what he considered the highest pinnacle of literary success. He was told again and again that his inclinations were overgrown for play vvrighting. After years of preparation, with this one field in mind, he resigned himself to his fate. He placed himself, now approaching his 30th year, on to a' wider avenue. The novel. He started the novel in "old, cobwebby London," and was able to submit the manuscript, "O Lost", which ran fo something over a million words, to the round of New York publishers. After having been rejected repeatedly, some times bluntly, sometimes with a note of encourage ment, it landed on the desk at Scribners of a Max well Perkins assistant. , A long, fascinating friendship and author-editor relationship that was to end in tragedy. Thomas Wolfe The Cooler Don Kurtz Yesterday on my way down to the gym I hap pened to see Pete the Bopster sitting on the steps behind Lenoir Hall. "Where ya headed, Gate?" He spoke as he got up and brushed himself off. "Oh, I thought I'd breeze down to the gym and take in some Hygiene. I gotta-go to class. today, we're having a quiz." "Wait up a sec and I'll leg it with ya." He re trieved his note book and carefully tucked a news paper inside. "I'm fighting that stuff myself. Are you one of the cats that don't dig that rag at all?" Before I could agree he went on. "That's some ner vous course. If my ole' man could see his long green flowing for that jazz, he'd hemorrage! And the least is that it's required. It'd be cool if it Was a senior elective for those strange cats that need quality points to graduate!" We crossed the road in silence and then I no ticed a theme protruding from his notebook. "What's the theme for, you're not faking Eng lish, are ya?" "Naw, that's a book report I have to spout for Hygiene. Big deal everybody reported on the same bookp' "Whatta ;pu mean, everybody reported on the same book? What was the book?" "Masterpieces of World Literature in Digest Form!" "Now wait a minute," I interrupted, "You can't tell me those guys all made their reports from digests without reading the books." "I guess you're right, I did flip it a little. All of em didn't make their reports from the Digests one guy made it from a six page pamphlet and three guys made it on movies of the book " We were now at the gym and he turned to go inside. Why don't you come by the room tonight, man weve got a wild poker game going!" With this he turned and disappeared inside.
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