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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1954 'Fair Is Fair' YOU Said It The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published On The Carolina Front XT peiapTffit , , 4 $tef the Shivry, .North Cdrol5i , hih first s opened a doors PS 1 Mm. 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. Louis Kraar Why Not? Students have corne up with a suggestion for students. At the recent All-Campus Con ference it was recommended that student art works be hung in University buildings to af ford a wide showing of the artists' work, and to encourage the appreciation of painting. We like the idea;. we'd like to add to it. Why not an arts forum for Carolina? Some thing like the delightful one held at Woman's College each year where student creations in art, music, and dance are exhibited in a week end program. National authorities in these fields participate in the forum, lecturing, an swering questions, and acting as critics. If the reception at WC is indicative, an arts forum at Carolina would attract much cam pus response. Aside from offering an outlet for the creator and an opportunity for the spectator, something like an arts forum would help restore to the University some of the prestige we once held. We are living on our heritage in these arts.. Out-of:state visitors are surprised to see lis so decayed, surprised that Chapel Hill is not what they had always heard: the cultural center of the state. Either February or March would be good months in which to hold it. If students would initiate it, say perhaps student government, we believe the respective departments would jump to cooperate. It's worth the effort to find ouu Why The Dailv Tar Heel is disappointed that the InterFraternity Council is going to con tinue to keep secret the fraternities which break the laws under which they operate. We find the argument poor that if the hon or councils do it the IFC should, too. The honor councils deal with one or two people in each case"; their aim is to help rehabilita tion by keeping the guilty person's name, sqeret. This is not applicable in the case of fratern ities whose organizations are composed of 30 to 60 members and whose actions are of wider concern to the campus. If some of the foolish acts they commit were- publicized, those fra ternities which are chronic offenders would police themselves. The Daily Tar Heel shall continue to pub lish every offender's name it can get- Into The Viscera American newspapers aren't as healthy now as they once were. Alistar, Cooke, widely-read American cor respondent for the British Manchester Guardian expresses this viewpoint in "The Press and the Common Man," an article in the new Saturday Review. He suggests a pre scription we might follow to get off the sick bed. First, the root of our journalistic incapaci ty: Cooke says it's a collaboration of owner ship's over-control of editorial opinion and failure in some quarters of healthy rivalry of news presentation and viewpoint. The steelworker in Gary, Indiana, and the date farmer in Indio, California, he holds, "read the same columns written by the same men in New York or Washington. If you go down to Times Square, or that block-long newsstand off Hollywood Boulevard, you can, on an investment of about $3 in fifty-odd American newspapers," find that American journalism is getting wrapped up in "artifi cial debate" and is losing Its "index to region al character." To maintain quality, most papers lacking the wealth of the New York Times and its brother giants find they must subscribe to syndicated columns. Their foreign news, al most in toto has to come from press services. But this does not mean that they have to print only those columnists or reporters who feel the same as they about domestic and world problems. There is. certainly room for both black and white in newspaper columns. As Mr. Cooke says, soundness of journalistic body will hinge on our refusing "a blind sur render of human individuality to the lowest common denominator." Humanity is color ful, and we are trying to make it colorless- A reversal is implicit, a turn from this sur render to "the unhampered dissemination of any news a reporter can smell out, and the printing of the widest variety of views about it." That, says Mr. Cooke, , is the only safe guard against the creation, by stereotyped news and opinion, of the "mass bigot." A wise philosopher once maintained: "Op position brings men together, and out of dis cord comes the fairest harmony, and all things have their birth in strife." We think those, words still hold wisdom. Three coeds promenaded across campus by the Old Well Sunday .night about 7 o'clock caroling the juke-box refrains of "Secret Lover." Ten minutes later, a trio of boys sauntered past Y Court harmonizing on "I Want a Girl." A car edged down Cameron Avenue about 7:30 and came to a stop in front of the Old Well. A girl with a guitar and a boy without much of a voice got out of the car and crooned "I Love the Pin You Made Me wear.." Aft er a chorus, the two left And just ten minutes later, an other coed marched in front of South Building singing an oper atic aria. Her escort dashed into the Y for a moment, then hur ried back out to meet her. All in all it was a musical Sun day night. To top it off, Memor ial Hall was playing "Kiss Me Kate." Ik- Sen. McCarthy's demands for radio time equal to, that Adlai Stevenson was given are proof that Adlai was right when he said the GOP was "half McCar thy and half Eisenhower." The Republicans picked Nixon to an swer for them, and McCarthy in sists that the networks let him answer for himself. Ik At the All-Campus Conference last week, a meeting to decide what to do to make the Univer sity better, most agreed that we were improving. Academic Prey cession,, a new book by a gentle man with the intriguing name of Ernest Ernest, agrees with that campus optimism. Students here in 1848, arthur Ernest reports, rode horses through dorms and shot up the campus. This was something of a warm-up to what happened on Southern campuses during the Civil Wan We are improving. Ik Dr. A. T. Brauer, mathematics professor, this week, sounded a note of hope for students who find math dull. Dr. Brauer urged a group of teachers to "successfully' show students the beauty and romance of mathematics and its import ance for the training of logical thinking." He said that math fac es a "great danger" unless teach ers do this. "It must be our aim to inter est the majority of our students, and this is not possible if our own interest in mathematics has died some years ago," he said. And we agree. - Ik Ernest Hemingway, who writes books as well as well as emerges from plane crashes with gin bot tles and bananas, is the subject of a series of articles in a Ra leigh paper. Besides telling of the great, gut-loosening fear" that is an "obsession" with Hem ingway, the series has the latest count of the author's scars. The official count, as of the last article, is six bullets in the head; battle scars on both knees, both feet, both arms, both hands and the groin; six broken ribs, and "no less, than ten brain concussions." - A Jl C y V 'mm mm 1 ' srt. j ' i&f "ntE JSrt'NlST-el POST Co. 1 'afcSvSsg O'Dywer Suffers For Sins Not His Drew Pearson if WASHINGTON The other day I flew down to Mexico City to interview Bill O'Dwyer, some times called the most mysterious man of American politics. The former mayor of New York City had not granted an inter view since he S retired as U.S." Mexico and chose, at least temporarily, to live there, rath er than return to the United 1-N3 States. 1 naa Known. PEARSON of Bin O'Dwyer when the State Department de scribed him as the most popular and effective ambassador since Josephus Daniels. I had known him personally when he was m charge of Roosevelt's committee to help Jewish refugees escape the prison camps and soap fac tories of Adolf, Hitler. I had also know him when, as a brigadier general in the Army, he had helped rebuild Italy. And one very cold December day I had driven up Broadway with him when the historic can yons of lower Manhattan wel comed the Friendship Train with the traditional shower of ticker tape. And, like a lot of other people, I wondered why he did not come back to New York. The answer can't be given in a single sentence or a single paragraph except to say that he is coming back, and did come back to meet me in Miami when some technicalities in our TV interview developed and it had to be refilmed. I suppose that part of the an swer to the mystery of Bill O' Dwyer is found in the old French adage, Cherchez La Femme. In brief, he got married to Sloan Simpson, a girl half his age, and there seldom has been a marriage that more cruelly and sensation ally went on the rocks. At first it was just the opposite.. Sloan was the toast of Mexico; later her flirtations were the talk of Mexico. At the very height of this gos sip when he needed a wife most, Ambassador O'Dwyer flew back to New York of his own volition to testify before the Kefauver Committee. O'Dwyer was suffer ing from pneumonia at the time and his temperature was 101, though his doctor didn't know this until later. Specifically, O'Dwyer was grilled about James J. Moran, his deputy fire commissioner who later went to jail for perjury and extortion. Moran had been close to O'Dwyer, though not a bit closer than J. Russell Sprague and N.Y. Secretary of State Cur ran and some of the other men who boosted Tom Dewey up the political ladder and who have now been exposed has having their hands in the race-track till. When I asked O'Dwyer about some of these things, he said he still could not understand Mo ran, that he had always trusted him. "As far as Dewey is con cerned," he added, "you have to judge him on his accomplish ments, not the men around him. The head of any state or city can't always know everything that going on around him, and you can't hold Dewey responsi ble for what some of his friends did." Discussing graft in New York City politics, O'Dwyer said: "The biggest graft is in con tracts building contracts. That's the case not only in New York City but any any city. IThe con tractors will swarm around your office, if you give them a chance, ready to do anything for you. "But I continued Bob Moses in the job of handling building con tracts, and not a five-cent piece went wrong out of more than a billion dollars." In that connection, it's import ant to note that O'Dwyer built more schools, more hospitals and more public housing than any other -mayor in New York's his tory even more than Fiorello La Guardia. He made a crusade of his building program. He also pointed out that . he had appointed the present mayor of New York, Bob Wagner, to his first New York City job, and that Dr. Luther Gulick, now . ad ministrator of New York City and acclaimed by Republicans and Democrats alike, Jiad first been appointed by O'Dwyer. I asked O'Dwyer about the problem of race-track gambling and a proposal of his which had caused headaches and criti cism. "People will gamble," he said. "They will gamble in New York or any other place. And I thought that since they're bound to gam , ble, why not make it legal and take it away from the under world. By that I meant, put it under state control. When I pro posed this, I got a storm of crit icism. But since then I notice that today some of the news papers have come round to that point of view." "I'm coming back to New; . snow gets off the car barns and when business brings me back. Or even if business doesn't bring me back, I'll be there when the Dodgers win the World Series." My own guess is that he'll come back later this year. L I A B N E R AH GOTTA RUSH HOME-AM -.0.r-SHOOT TH q MYSTERY HANJJ 1? S MO-THE BULLET I j OH, AH JS SO ) f" A -w r I I HAD T'GIT WwE HA1KPT k iSISw2 ?ittyc$jtS& p o G o M2ZZ. PUP T CW,OAikJT A BAG MEANWWLE5.) (MEANAN'ALDAN'TO SHOW SUITCASE-THEN, Editor: Recently there , has appeared in your publication a number of comments and editorials concerning the Economics Department and the School of Busi ness Administration which reflect, being as chari table as possible, misconceptions concerning both. Inasmuch as editorial comment should. be based on at least rudimentary knowledge of easily available facts, positions taken with respect to subjects con cerning which legitimate differences of opinion ob ' viously exist may quite reasonably be expected to have been taken only after considerable investiga tion of the facts involved. Surely it is reasonable to request that editorial judgments display some evidence of having at least perfunctorily weighed the evidence for and against one position taken be fore categorically expounding that position To be more specific, one of the misconceptions reeently displayed concerned the relationship of the Economics Department to the School of Business Administration and the College of Arts and Scienc es. The Economics Department is a department of the College of Arts and Sciences as well as a part of the School of Business AdministrationEconom ics is one of the social sciences just as history, po litical science, or sociology. Majors in economics have no more required courses in their major sub ject than do the majors in any of the other social sciences. It is by no means readily apparent that their edu cation is any less broad or any less effective in per mitting them to "see what's going on" than a major in any other of the liberal arts; nor is it readily apparent that any of the other social sciences pro vide vastly superior tools for analyzing "what's go ing on" in the wo.rld today. Obviously the world's problems are not exclusively non-economic nor such that an understanding of our economy and that of other nations (even though imperfect) is not bene ficial. . Furthermore, it is at least debatable that an un derstanding of history, for example, can be most ef fective in training the student to "see any sense to what's going on" without some training in econom ics. In the present world struggle for men's minds the advantages we claim for "our system," "our way of life," and the like, refer in part to our eco nomic system and our economic way of life. If this be true, time spent in attempting to understand our economic syetem can hardly be wasted. The prob lems with which sociology, political science and many other fields of learning are concerned are at least partially rooted in economics and adequate so lutions to those problems will be at least more difficult of attainment without some understanding of those economic roots. - With respect to business administration majors, -a recent column in your newspaper stated, as sup posedly a fact, that the business school graduate was well versed in (among other things) economic theory. However, the vast majority of business school graduates takes no courses in pure economic theory. The average business school graduate's training in general economic theory consists pri marily of that portion of the principles of economics courses devoted specifically to economic theory (approximately 20 class periods) and that coinci dent to the treatment of other topics in the princi ples courses, Money and Banking course, and the courses of his major. The editorial attitude of your paper toward the business major does not appear to be one that is completely buttressed by logic or framed with ob jectivity. True enough, the business major's edu cation is specialized -in the sense in which you use the term. But are there no reasons for this? Are there no advantages to be gained thereby? Are there no important areas in which the Business Ad ministration major can understand "what goes on" better than a major in the liberal arts, for example? Is this specialization as great as you imply? The " Business School graduate has had more courses in liberal arts than in business administration .... Business administration majors spend as much of their time in college enrolled in liberal arts courses as in business administration courses. In contrast, non-busiess majors take no business administration courses (nor have their teachers ever done so) ... . No field or area of academic training can validly claim dominion over all useful knowledge or over a majority of the knowledge most beneficial in un derstanding "what goes on" in the world. The pre supposition that your area of training is best for the understanding of life's problems implies an abiU ity to compare your area of training to all others. Such a comparison to be valid would require a mas tery of all areas, Needless to say, such a mastery is impossible of attainment. In view of the above, is it unreasonable to re quest that your expressions of opinion concerning the Economic Department, the School of Business Administration and the problem of specialization be somewhat less oracular? W. D. Maxwell (At least half the first half of Reader Max. well's letter is concerned specifically with econom ics. We, too, are concerned with economics. There has not been a single editorial against economics. Rather, we have suggested that every student in the University be required to take basic economics. It should be part of the core curriculum, that curricu. lum by the way, which has been whittled by the Business Administration School until their majors now spend half their time in business administra tion. (We think the letter writer has confused us with several columns in which economics have been dis cussed. Columninsts' opinions do not necessarily re flect those of the editor, and in this case are con trary to his. (We are against the present BA School curricu lum. Certainly, we do not oppose specialization, but we oppose over-specialization and we interpret the - BA School's requirements as over-specialization. Yes, we gladly would be less oracular if we could get those who make the curriculum decisions to discuss publicly their reasoning and philosophy. But it is characteristic of our University it has not al ways been this way, however that we do not dis cuss such questions as these. Editor)
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