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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 20, 1954 Tve Been Waiting At That Other Door For 30 Years' Lay On, ChanceHor The Washington h Go-Round Drew Pearson WASHINGTON It is now ex actly one year since Dwight Eis enhower entered the White House, a year that has been one of great education, and has seen great changes. Here is a thumb nail sketch of the Ike of today: A year ago Eisenhower's eco nomic theories sounded like ' a National Association of Manu facturers pamphlet. Now he has s wun g bacK halfway to the ideas expressed at the F Street Club right after the war which so shocked Re publican back ers. "If men's lives were con scripted in war- PEARSON time," Ike said at the F Street Club dinner, "why shouldn't profits be conscripted too?" . . . Ike is more conserva tive than in those immediate pre war years, but less so than a year ago. Today he doesn't be lieve in a complete hands-off pol icy toward business. Nor does he believe that the doctrine of states' rights, so loundly pro claimed a year ago, constitutes a cure-all for everything. 1 No longer does the President believe he can balance the budg et. Nor does he view government spending with anathema, as he did a year ago. He is willing to put his foot in government-spending water as an offset to reces sion worries. But he is a long way from taking the big spend ing plunge. . . . And some of the economists around him re call that it takes a lot of spend ing to halt a business slide once it starts. . . . Ike has changed his mind about creeping Social ism and the Tennessee Valley, has already set aside $105,000, 000 to start another "Creeping Socialism" project on .the St Lawrence, once the seaway proj ect passes Congress. mSMM ' " confess .: Igjllf Worn llpi; fci rrrrrrr-I n'lli ii'ii" " YOU Said It wo B Demonstrating that he is one of those who still retains the art of conversation (it has passed away, he lamented, for most of our people) Chancellor House spoke the other day" eagerly and clearly for liberal arts. . The place was his office and. the occasion was his press conference. The Chancellor obviously was enjoying hirhaelf, and for that matter so were the reporters. His prose was closer to poetry as he expounded educational philosophy with the grace of a genteel teach er. It would have seemed appropriate for the Chancellor to end it all with a vigorous har monica rendition of Brahms "Academic Festival Overture." He paused . (only for effect), aimed, and demolished the business-humanities quarrel of how much emphasis on which. (This question had prompted the Chancellor's discussion.) Such a quarrel netted nothing, he said. "Without art the sciences are dumb. The scientist has to be an artist to teach ef fectively." Then the counterbalances "The humanist must be a scientist to learn effec tively." Golden, melodious, inspiring. But we take issue with the good Chancel lor. We point out that this fullness of educa tion is difficult to effect in our four years here. For the business major it is impossible. Of the foreign language about which the Chancellor spoke so appreciatively the busi ness student need take but half as much as his arts & sciences contemporary. He must take at least 20 of his 40 collegiate courses in business. Half of the business student's time here, then, is spent away from that academic side which teaches man to understand himself and others, to live peacefully, beautifully, productively with himself and with others. How long, Mr. Chancellor, will we let part of our student body miss these advant ages of liberal arts?. For those who do miss them you said you had "pity." We hope you also have help. Dreamed I Won A Contest ... The Miss College Queen of 1954 contest was a total bust. One of the losing contestants claimed the winner was beating her chest over nothing. Another of the coed entries charged the judges conspired and that the neck-and-neck finish was only part of a pre-pageant plot. We see national implications in the al legations. With false values besetting us and corrupting our youth it is no wonder that (This article by Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor at and in Asia, a cancerous aggravation of the natural human desire conforms, and the life of the individual mind and soul is of no the maidenhood of our country should be Harvard, is based tipon an address given by him at the opening for community and association has sent millions of human beings more -significance than the life of a single drop ,of frozen water tempted to do with cotton what Nature has' of the William Pyle Philips Collection of Renaissance Literature to march in Red Flag parades and Brown Shirt parades and in an ice floe. No one who believes in the vitality of the Ameri- x aotioi n lumpiij" imiiiviia vi nuuiau uiugo w uavt xuunu in fvvj-i.v w v. "v -vunj wiw jaooiunaic liiuigUdllUll Willi YOU Said It Humbug, Mr. Meaders Editor: I truly felt that I had cheated myself out of a minute's time when I finished reading W. E. Meaders, Jr's. letter to The Daily Tar Heel, Sunday, January 17, 1954. - I cannot class as communist or "fuzzy-minded liberal" the writer or anyone else who feels as he apparently does about the draft Indeed, neither communists nor liberals stand for that which Mr. Meaders upholds . they most probably think, such an attitude toward the draft to be utterly stupid. The French Revolution estab lished the principle of a people's army; and since the time of this revolt against tyranny, the de mocracies have continually used a "civilian" army in their many struggles against oppresive in fluences such as those now creat ed by communist Russia. It would be utterly stupid for me to try to refute Mr. Meaders' argument that religion opposes one's efforts to overcome sup pressive influences. To prove what religions say and stand for is similar to proving what infinity multiplied by zero equals many things can be said for any side of the question without those who are arguing being able to come upon a satisfactory conclusion. Therefore, since I feel that neither Mr. Meaders nor I would be able to resolve the question of Religion vs. War, I shall now pass my own candid, dogmatic opinion about Mr. Meaders' opinion: hum bug. Dan Silvia Editor: I read Mr. Meaders' article in Sunday's paper and then was quite sure I had misunderstood its in tended message so I repeated my perusal. . .It was still there! I hadn't mistaken his thesis. , Then I couldn't help wondering about his pur pose. If he is sincere, then I must respect him, for his is a rare faith. If he is attempting to make a loud noise in an empty room then I'm sure we can classi fy him with the fatuous individual who screams in the crowded market place: "I am an atheist." Both of them will get a hind of attention. Along with many other young men in this coun try, I spent five years of my life in Army service. Most of this time I was with conbat divisions as a line officer. I met many fine young men and since war (particularly in combat if you are a member of a combat arm) is mostly a thing of a mad dash and then a long wait, we had ample opportunity for long, soul-searching talks. We all griped about the heat and the insects and the stench and we longingly looked to the time when we could go home. I guess I was lucky. I wasn't killed even once, but for some of those fine youngsters whose lives were arrested there I'll take exception with any in dividual who attempts to suggest that they so pain fully gave their, life's blood in vain! They didn't want to die! None of us do, but they and yes, we, believed in the reasons behind why we were there. That is one thing we didn't gripe about. Mr. Meaders, would you let the late John Dillin ger and others of his ilk run rampant over our socie ty just because he believed he was doing right? Would you excuse the mad dog as he chewed up your neighbor, shake you and and say, "He's just a playful puppy and he believes in what he is doing."? I'd like to talk with you Mr. Meaders. Our com pletely opposite views should stimulate some inter esting discourse. I believe that most of our young men here at the University are interested in delaying their Army service .until they can finish their educations. Then, I'm sure they'll accept any of their obligations as Americans; also, in event of war, Mr. Meaders, I'm sure I can agree with you that our young men should "refuse to be drafted.". They shouldn't wait to be drafted and I'm sure they won't. Might I also point out, it will be these men who make the world safe for people like you and I think that's a shame! Rick Faw No man is the worse for knowing the worse f himself. H. G. Bohn Thales was asked what was most difficult to man; he answered: "To know one's self." Laertius. twi 8 f f forgotten. Senator McCarthy might well' hold a see ingoops, we mean hearing. From The Corn Cobb (UNO boy. at Haverford College. It has a grave meaning for all of us. Ed) Two things become increasingly evident as the sickness of our American democracy approaches its inevitable crisis: one is the surpasisng genius of the founders of this Republic; the other is the transience of even the greatest of political resolutions. It was the supreme achievement oi the generation of the American Revolution that it solved the most difficult of all constitutional problems, the problem of the reconciliation within one society of the conflicting human desires for freedom and for community. It may well be the ultimate shame of our generation that with us that resolution fails. A free society is, of course, a contradicition in terms. Free dom means individual freedom; above all, freedom of conscience and freedom of mind. Society means community of some sort; And this here boy-this here plum munity. Only where all men think and believe alike does the Plum Enchanted . a plum enchanted Boy There was a boy He wandered over hill and dale, down to UNC enchanted boy visited the fraternities and contradiction disappear; and such societies, as history has dem found he wasn't financially able to join. But onstrated over and over again, are not alive but dead. Elsewhere, little did he suspect he was to become a social J resolution must be found not in conformity but in the very na- , t i j j i u ture of hlman difference. It was there that the authors of the do-nothing. Little did this here boy, American Constitution found it. Thev reiected a .mwnrfcahiA the community of shouting voices, the community of hatred for which they have defended their personal liberties in the oast the outsiders, the community of. persecution and murder, some- can suppose that this will happen. But as time goes by and the thing their sick hearts required. We have not come to that in expected revulsion of opinion against the censors and inquisitors this Republic, but it is only too clear that the emotions which fails to materialize, there is an anixous questioning in many move us are emotions capable, if similarly perverted, of similar hearts. What has befallen us as a people? Have we truly changed, consequences. The same perplexity and hatred and tear which or nave we oniy iorgotten tor a time the history out of which have formed the Communist herds and the Fascist gangs in other countries have already produced their herds and gangs in the United States; and conformity of opinion and belief, the first, demands of the mob everywhere, has been secured by methods which differ only in degree from the methods of the Moscow and Berlin streets. When loyalty is put before freedom, and when loyalty is made to mean loyalty not to the right to be free, but to the demands of the majority, with economic and we come? Is it our fear of communism, sedulously played upon by the perpetrators of these evils, which destroys our faith in freedom, or has our faith in freedom itself decayed? History, if honest history is written in the world ahead, per haps will find an answer. We ourselves can only guess at one. We would guess, I think, that fear of communism is not the en tire explanation. There is a limit to the extent to which a virile and sanguine people, united in a contempt for Communist theory social destruction as the penalty for dissent, the drums of Mos- and Communist practice, can be terrified by cries that they are cow and Berlin are near enough to hear. Of FloatingLumps Of Mentality about to be converted to communism by secret operatives and darkling conspiracies. We would guess also, I suppose, that the explanation is not to be found in any conscious decline in our devotion to the ideals of freedom. Those who now attack personal freedom at its roots in the universities, and who threaten to at tack it in the churches and the press, are themselves obliged to that if he wasn t loaded that the University uu-"Iue Ui,a io ve neia m common Dy ail Amen- ot a group oi politicians acting in the name of government H;Hn't snnnlv miirh nf anvthino- for him to cans- Confrmity of Delie has from time to time in the history into an area from which the American tradition, if not the " - it7 o nr me worm, nvprrun wnnip nnnmarinnc iiiro niimm fi;ncrnrr A moricn rnncKd.t; nvnT,,)nc. ; j k c a : v. What has been happening in American schools and univer sities in the Dast few months is Dlain enough fnr anv pvp tn rpnH This here plum enchanted boy realized and offensive the notion of an established creed or an official The explanation of the successful intrusion of government or use the vocabulary of freedom to justify their activities. What wuuiu seem ua iw nave tiictiigcu, x uium, is HOL OUT Deiiei in freedom but our faith, in freedom our faith that freedom will really work that it can, itself, and by its own means, survive the attacks of enemies as "gigantic, as closely integrated, as disciplin ed, as controlled as the enemy it faces now. But to say this is to say, at the same time, something more. Faith in freedom rests necessarily upon faith in man. The Ameri can belief in man was the condition precedent to the existence of the American Republic. It was because men like Jehn Adams and Franklin and Jefferson believed in man that they believed in the possibility that men might govern themselves: the possi bilityj that is to say, of freedom. A loss of faith in freedom results, by the same logic, from a loss of faith in man. And it is that, al most certainly, which has occurred in the United States. We no longer wholly trust the power of the institutions of freedom to defend themselves by the methods of freedom because we no nlar tvherp all roiild pniov aoino- to school- to worship in the same church, but because they were to share underlies all others the freedom of the mind is attacked at nger wnoiiy oeueve in ine capacity oi men to live as men in a nnint whprA itc nrntppfirm ic rrtncf AccAnfial in f Vi a PannMin World SUCh aS OUT technicians and Scientists have rAVAfllol ir n 1 ii . ........ -. X-V 1 1 XI 1 1 1 t .1 J 1 . -1 - J - - f"it 1 1 , j J ' jrV.-"v"-' iUUftlllS A HAlI. 1.UU VUHOUIULIUU, CAWUUC3 It, AO LVJ UC 1UUHU 111 L11C IZIltlllgcU do free. Un, he knew we had no auditorium them into fanatical religious wars upon unbelievers everywhere; attitude of the American people. We Americans -have become n 1 1, 1, nAT.r vita V. t UATirlmnp ollmrc hut it ie Titf' Vktr ftVitlle. qnil faiTA.p eitstlt nr. (It... . I ? 2 ' 1 1 1.1 l . . .. . ... diiu. iic JS.HCW wc uauL uu uuhuhj, i. w "vi. uj i"u icyuo ouvu aa uieae uiau nauuiis are increasingly convinced mai unless we can Deiieve in something not even a decent student center that was established or that nations endure. Nations are created, nations trnnH for anvthina- evrent marines and card endure- b? the men who compose them-4he actual men, the indi good tor anything except magazines and card yidual men And -t wag individuality of individual playing. But, you see, this here was really a men in their differences from each other, that the founders of plum enchanted boy. this Republic put their trust. He thought the dorms supplied a pro gram of at least minimum activities for those Our Loyalty Is Defined who were only among the proletariat He Men were t0 create a community in America not because thought the university was interested un they were to belong to the same race, not because they were to in common, the Communists will take us over. To the Russians, we tell ourselves, communism is a faith. How, then, can we hope to confront it with nothing but the freedom of each one of us to believe what he pleases? And how, unless our educational institutions produce like-minded men and women, can we hope to become a like-minded people? And unless we become a like minded people, how, in this iceberg age of gigantic floating lumps of national mentality, can our nation survive? We can think of no answer either in our own history or elsewhere; and the longing for conformity so, overwhelms us that we look on in supplying something. He thought UNC was subscribe to the same political doctrines, not because they were silence, if not in active approval, while the one freedom which a -m rr- t H II lilt 1 1 If 1 II PAUrl IcIlLr. Lilt! CAUCI iclll K III 111- I 1 1 V I I HP IIIVHI 1 1 1- I even n iney couiun i anoru .10 go 10 me They were tQ be free tQ be men and SQ share freedom and so and by methods of hypocrisy and intimidation which shame us all. Germans. - to become a community and a nation. Their loyalty was to be a It is our silence as a people, far more than the mischievous- But, you see he was really a plum en' loyalty to the right of each of them, and so or all of them, to be ness of the politicians engaged in this foray, which should give free. It was the conviction oi our ancestors a conviction whicn they wrote into their Constitution in the form of an explicit chanted boy. The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday, ex&mination 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- II der the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription r rates: mailed, $4 per - year,. $2.50 a semester; 11- t "2TT aenvereo, $o a year, ' ' 4- concern to those who truly love the country. There have always been cynical and ambitious politicians, ignorant of the American tradition or contemptuous of its meaning, who would gladly lead the mob against the individual for political advantage. What is new is the encouragement given men of this character by the indifference of the citizens. The eight or ten great news- Our symbol the symbol which made us the nation we were has shriveled. . Tools & Techniques Equal Same If this, or something like It, is the explanation of our tragic loss of heart, then at least part of the responsibility can be allo cated readily enough. The underlying failure is a failure of edu cation. We have Increasingly ignored thi Tinman fhincrc tha limitation on the law-making power of the central government that loyalty to the liberty of every man to believe what he chooses would outlast loyalty to any formulation of belief what ever. That that conviction was well grounded, the history of the American people down to our own time has conclusively demon strated. ' - But though the American resolution has proved itself under varying conditions over a considerable period of time, it was never more than a balancing of conflicting human needsA shift in either direction toward a more passionate assertion of the demands of individual freedom, or a more ; jealous insistence upon the precedence of the community was always possible and did, of course, from time to time occur. There was always, in in the past loyalty to the right of each individual to think and our kind has produced over countless generations j Ait j.; i j -l . l 1 l 1 1 a' i it !J.. r J , w .. . .- .. ' ' speao. as lie cnuuaes, ivyauy w me lueai oi ireeaom. it maKes no difference that the "loyalty" is loyalty to the economic and social and political ana military and diplomatic views of the inquisitors. "Loyalty" is in question, and "loyalty" comes before freedom in a time like this. If '"loyalty" continues to come before freedom in the Amer ican scale of values, there can be little doubt asto the ultimate us. A free man is a man who knows and love thp thin f ,i,!,h outcome. The delicate balance upon which the Republic has a-man in freedom is capable. Onlv those who Vnnur ,w The change is not a purely American phenomenon. It has maintained itself for almost two hundred years will be destroyed, can be at his best, in his arts, in his concentinns in hie i;,,. been observed elsewhere during recent years and, in some parts and the United States will follow Nazi Germany and Communist tion and his realization, are capable of valuing freedom and only of the world, in the most extreme forms. In" eastern Europe Russia into that frozen world in which everything coheres and those who are capable of valuing freedom are likely to defend it consequence, the danger that one emotional need might so over balance the other that the underlying structure would collapse. What has been happening in the United States over a period of the past five years or more makes it tragically evident that that danger is now both real and present. .There has been a massive, almost glacial, shift away from the passion for individual free dom and toward a desire for security of association, of belong ing, of conformity. papers which still maintain their integrity have protested. The things of the mind and spirit the proofs nf man's leaders of the learned professions and of the American churches worth, in the teaching of our schools and even in our universi- and of liberal and labor organizations have condemned the whole ties; and we are paying the inevitable price. Generations of campaign of censorship and suppression. But the country is sil- schoolboys taught only techniques and tools produce generations ent when it does not openly applaud. If attacks on individual of men to whom only techniques and tools are important, men liberty are conducted in the name of "loyalty," they are justi- who have no comprehension of their own resources or those of fied without more argument It makes no difference that the their neighbors, men who know nothing nf th "loyalty" asserted is not the loyalty Americans have understood tions of human destiny, those patterns of life and death which iuna nas proaucea over counuess generations. In the struggle for the defense of human freedom- evervthine depends on the vitality of the belief in man, on the health and vigor of the human things; and there is no way to maintain the human things but to know them. A man of morality in Rome was a man who knew and respected the mores, the aplcnnwlprfoprt human ways, the forms and orders; and is is not otherwise with
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