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1. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1554 PAG 8 TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Milford Carolina Front. 'How Are We Fixed For Jet-Propel led Ideas?' Makes The Map Some of the people in Miltord, Deleware, tried to do the right thirig. They decided to implement the Supreme Court anti-segregation ruling. They admitted n Negro I children to a formerly all-white school. To- - day, those n children are back irr classes at their own school in the Negro district of -town, for the white supremacists have won the first round of the battle in Milford. Those persons who are determined to keep Mil ford's schools segregated, who have created unrest and threatened violence, who -have desperately held on to a social system which is rapidly collapsing under them, will have to wake up some day. In a few years the Supreme Court decision will truly be the law of the land, and Milford, along with all the other towns in the South, will have to obey the law. ,Milford won't like it, but Milford will obey it. The unfortunate thing, of course, -is this: That the name of Milford has become, in two weeks, a symbol of racial strife. That the prejudice of a town against i i children could put Milford, Delaware in the head lines of Durham and Milwaukee and Los Angeles. The unfortunate thing is that Milford, which might have made a quiet .step forward, made the map instead. A CroHn-ic Condition Max Crohn seems to be becoming a Chron-ic bill introducer in the student Leg islature. We suspected, since Max is floor leader of the University Party, that the two - bills he pulled out of his hat on Thursday evening were strictly political affairs to get the UP some votes in the winter elections. Two things, however, contradict that the ory: (l) The elections are too far away for : these bills to be effective vote-getters, and . (2) The members of-the University Party ' legislative corps, it seems, weren't happy about. Max's introducing the measures in the first place. The bills are rather interesting. One calls for, an investigation of gasoline prices in Chapel Hill. Max could save a lot of investigating time by attending a course in economics and learning something about the law of supply and demand, and how the price of a commodity in a given market is determined. The second bill is not so easily disposed of. This measure calls far maid service in all dormitories (men's dormitories, we pre - sume this5, means). Now this is a peachy keen idea, and we're sure the lower quad " 1 will heartily approve. But, since the Uni "Jversity is.uow desperately looking for mon l. ey with which to build a pharmacy building, new dormitories, etc., we are prompted to ask: Where is the money for this maid service coming from? The answer would seem to be obvious. If Max is successful in his fight to lower Chapel Hill gasoline prices, the money saved by car-owners will be pooled to pro vide salaries to the maids. So get your schedules ready, boys, and be prepared to tell the ladies whether you want your or ange juice in bed in time for an 8 or 9 o'clock class. -v Gracious Living X The bee is a busy soul, Never heard of birth control. That is why in times like these The Y Court's lull of busy bees. We bought our usual cup of morning cof fee at the bar in the Y the other day, and walked outside to one of the benches be side Cerrard Hall to drink it in comfort. As we started to take our first sip, a bee gently settled on the rim of our cup. We shooed him away, and took a quick swal low. It was too quick. We got the beeswax burned out of our tongue. The bee buzzed back and settled on the rim of the cup. lie played it smart; he just licked around the edges. We finally gave up and left the cup sitting on the bench. The bee called his little brother, his old man, and a host of cousins, and the last we saw of them they were having a delightful coffee klatsch at our expense. We propose that the University take; steps to do away with the bees in the Y Court and around the South Building steps. They might drench the area in DDT some afternoon, or perhaps build a new Y court just for the bees so the pesky little chaps would leave ours alone. Gracious Living in Chapel Hill is bee-ing bee-deviled by our unwanted little honey-dripping friends, and we hereby issue a call to arms! tEfjc Bailp Car Heel The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, ... , ' where it is published daily except Monday, examination and vaca Uon periods and dur ing the official sum mer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C.,.un jer the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; I delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. A Request For Leniency And Sharp Pencils Louis Kraar LEGISLATOR David Reid got up the other night and call ed upon his contemporaries to set up a probation system for first offense Honor System vio lators. - And as he did, I thought of Dean of Student Affairs Fred Weaver and In- ft : 0 North' Carotin. . wHith f!rt tfftC'! ttow in f,tn.uuy f stitute of Gov ernment Direc tor Albert Coates and the other chronic ' lers of student g o v e r nment - ' here. The time has come to i add another chapter to the tedious, but in spiring, history of student gov ernment. I suggest that Weaver Coates and the rest sharpen their pencils. UNDER THE present setup, violators of the Honor System (which puts one on his honor not to cheat, lie, or steal) are usually booted from school if found guilty. They are usually "suspended." That is, they can come back after a given time has passed. Reids wants to elevate the student courts "from their posi tions as mere juries to a position of a true judicial body." That is, he wants to give a first of fender a second chance. I've always looked on Caro lina as a place that allows some mistakes. Reid's plan carries this over to the student courts. "At the same time, he has pro vided for stiffer sentences for "flagrant and premeditated violators." THIS CHANGE in the admin istration of the Honor System would, as Reid says, fill the need "for rehabilitation and correc tions instead of mere punish ment in first offense cases." Faculty advisors to whom pro bationers would report are pro vided for in the Reid plan. It ,is a well though out one, leav ing the individual student courts flexibility. ALREADY CLOUDS of op position are gathering. Reid wants to change what seems to be an unflexible system. What's more, Reid simply wants change. And there are still some who feel that changing a seasoned insti tution like the Honor System will upset it. Many of these ni opposition are those who are up set over any change of anything. "Cynics among students and faculty alike freely prophesied the failure of the student govern ment at its birth: At every turn ing point in its history they have lived to witness a student body rising .to the challenge of a crisis," writes chronicler Coates. And so it is with current critics. CAROLINA'S HONOR system has, of late, become too much like a sacred cow, something; that is respected because it is the tradition but not really un derstood. , Most students, if they were accused of violating the system, wouldn't know their rights. If the legislative committee into whose hands and heads the fate of Reid's plan rests will open up his hearings, it can do much to enlighten the campus. Arguments on all sides of this plan should be considered, letting the student body in on -what the alternatives are. Then the body should deliberate. 1 Editor CHARLES KURALT IF THE Legislative commit tee acts openly and fairly (and I'm sure it will), it will proba bly be time again for student government chroniclers to write another chapter. I hope so. '1t UN Session Will Be Rocky Drew Pearson WASHINGTON A network radio commentator recently chid ed Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson for buying an airplane that Secretary of the Interior Mc Kay decided he didn't want. It looked as if Benson; according to this account, was using the plane for pleasure purposes. Though Benson has made mis takes as Secretary of Agriculture, he can't justly be accused of wast ing money on himself. Real fact is that he saved money for the Agriculture Department by buy ing this plane. What happened was that the interior Department's Reclama tion Bureau decided it no longer needed a Lockheed Lodestar, and put it up for sale through the General Services Administration which handles government sur plus. Benson's Agriculture Depart ment promptly bought it, not for hauling VIP's around, but to car ry Forest Service paratroopers who haveto jump from planes to put out forest fires. To have pur chased the plane outright would have cost the government around $100,000. But thanks to Benson's transaction, 2it cost only $17,000 to convert the plane into a "smoke-jumper." Strong U.N. Look for a rocky session of the U.N. General Assembly. There are 66 items on the agenda, several of them potentially more explo sive than the admission of Red China to membership. Among the explosive are: 1. An Indian motion to pro test the use of the Pacific Islands as H-bomb testing ground. The Indians say that since these is lands, including Eniwetok and Bikini, are trust territories of the United Nations ,they therefore cannot be used for the H-tests which threaten the lives of. islanders. 2. A Greek motion to protest the buildup of Cyprus, a British island adjacent to Greece, as a British naval base. All week the British have been working backstage, trying to line up delegates tot quash the Greek motion. The United States will abstain from voting because it in volves the rights of small nations against the strategic needs of major powers. On the other hand, many Latin-American friends as well as the semi-hostile Arab bloc and the Soviet bloc will side with the Greeks and the British may fail in a vote which all of Europe will be watching. Senator Wiley Complains Senator Alexander Wiley, loquacious senior senator from Wisconsin, is so burned up at the newspapers he's almost lost his loquaciousness. However, he man aged to lecture one reporter for fifteen minutes on the subectj last week. Alex claimed he was badly mis represented in the papers when they said he said Congress should not be caled back to Washington because of the McCarthy issue. What Alex said he siad was that it would be a very serious thing if a session of Congress were to be called now because the question of EDC was bound to come up and might have esrious international consequences. The Foreign Relations Committee came within one vote of stopping aid to France, Wiley pointed out, and a Senate Debate now might be disastrous. "I told those men," Wiley hol lowed, as he got up from his chair and started pacing the floor. "They were sitting right there," he pointed, "And I told them that it had nothing to do with McCar thy. iThe leaders can't bring Con gress back for a specific action, so there is bound to be some action on EDC. "Why can't you guys get things straight? Why do you have to put words into our mouths just to get a story? "I'll be watching you, now," he ! cautioned. "I want you to get this right." McCarthy & Massachusetts Able Senator Jack Kennedy of Massachusetts will probably go to the hospital during the debate ot censure McCarthy. Kennedy, has a legitimate excuse an old war wound. But he will choose the particular moment of the McCarthy debate to be hospital ized because of his huge McCar thy following in Massachusetts . . . Senator Saltonstall, also from Massachusetts and now up for re-election, would like to go to the hospital if the censure vote comes before November. Salton stall has stood well with the Boston Irish ever since, as gover nor, he vetoed the birth control bill. So he's been worried sick about the prospect of voting on' McCarthy . . . Young Kennedy might have a second political purpose for going to the hospital skipping any campaigning for Foster Furcolo, the capable state treasurer who's opposing Salton stall. John is said to figure a second Democratic senator would diminish his own political stature and perhaps pit popular Salth against him in- 1958. " It can now be revealed that Senator Flanders' mystery visit to the Watkins Committee was to offer secret data on behalf of Secretary of the Army Stevens . . . Stevens has been red-faced over the drubbing Republican members at the Army-McCarthy hearings gave him and has had aides burning the midnight oil to puncture some of McCarthy's and Roy Cohn's testimony. They directed particular fire to the statement by McCarthy's private secretary that she had transcrib ed various memos which describ ed with uncanny foresight . Mc Carthy's trouble with Secretary Stevens and Army Counsel John Adams. McCarthy was able to pull these memos out of his files in an amazing manner -at a crucial time, and the Senate Committee was never able to make a test of the typed pages to see whether they were actually transcribed when McCarthy said, they were or thought . . . But though Secre tary Stevens prepared volumes of evidence and submitted it to the Watkins Committee through Senator Flanders, Watkins ruled it out. So the Army research still remains a top secret Un the Pentagon, , The Ram Sees The Ram Sees where a letter-to-the-editor writer says the Ram does not "have the courage to put his name on his col umns." Then this hot-collared young poison pen artist finishes his unimaginative, name-calling piece of running-off-at-the-foun-tain-pen by signing his letter, "Name withheld by request." The Ram feels no further com ment isy necessary. And while we're answering one writer, we might as well tackle another the young gen tleman who comments on this country's "basic political philo sophy which generally holds that a legitimate government is the government of the majori ty.' Since he is talking about Red China, we defy him to of fer any sort of evidence that the majority of the Chinese people have in any way expressed ap proval of their current govern ment. Mao Tzetung won the last Chinese election unanimous ly,, to 'be. sure, but the people people didn't exactly express a free choice in their voting., Rus sia runs China these days, not the "majority" of the Chinese people. Some of our political dopesters are keeping their fin gers crossed for a Titoist move ment in the land across the bay from Mandalay, but it hasn't reared its beautiful head yet. v - The Ram's heart, alas, is not on the campus today. It is with the Ram - horn - helmeted Tar Heels down in the bayous of Looziana, may they be victor ious. To be brief (which the Ram has a hard time being) and to express our feelings in a nutshell, BEAT TULANE! . . . Rameses. Ego, Morals, The Eye of The Horse & Hypocrisy On Campus Dick Creed A friend of mine says he hates Carolina. He was here two years, and most of the time when we talk ed it was about the hypocrisy and ego-centricity which we thought .was the basis of just about every political, journalis tic, or academic endeavor on campus. My friend said he attended one political meeting at the be ginning of his freshman year and was so sickened by the pantywaist - charm boys who , kept talking about naivete and the single purpose of the party that he didn't go back anymore, even though he believed they were gettin more out of college than he was. He used to complain a lot about the inepitude and pedan try of the graduate instructors in the English and French de partments. (He was strictly a humanities man.) From what I could learn dVam bjim about Mmseltf, he came from a family of moderate means in eastern Virginia. He was president of his student body during his senior year in high school, and he used to re call when he once made a speech to an assembly of stu dent bodies of all the schools in his district. He could have gotten along all right on the money his par ents were willing to send him But during the last quarter of his freshman year he told them he had a job making as much money as he needed, although . he was constantly distrubed be cause of his limited finances. A good friend of his joined a fraternity, and my friend used to kid him a lot about being a big fraternity man and buying frat ties. We were all good friends and used to play ping ' pong "in the dormitory basement. We all agreed that there was a lot of artificiality in fraternity allegiances. ) My friend finally, got so fed up with "this damned place" he said he was going to go into the Army the summer after his freshman year. He didn't though, and he came back for his sophomore year. About the only thing differ ent about his attitude during the second year was that he be came more sickened with the whole situation, -and f his sour ness on the campus became more generalised. He used to say, "Creed, these dogs in Chapel Hill are the most concited bunch I know I've ever sene, especially that crowd that hangs around the library." As a general rule he liked dogs. He finally swore he hated Carolina, and decided he would withdraw and go to a school nearer his home so he could commute. I said I didn't think he would, but he has. He hitch-hiked to California this summer, working his way. WJien he left home he said his parents thought he had a job near Chapel Hill. But he took a bus to Asheville, and went from there to California by thumb. I got one letter from him while he was out West. He said he'd seen a lot of country and that his trip beat my trip 'to Detroit the summer before by a mile. After he got back home, he wrote me and said that he was all set to start school in Virginia. He said he still hated this place but that he would probably miss it. I haven't heard from him since. s When he first came here, my friend was going to major in political science. I don't know whether the political meeting changed his mind or not. Once he became determined that he was going to write. He started reading a lot, but he didn't have any system about it. We used to talk about books and authors which neither of lis, knew much about. The last I heard, he has de cided to major in languages. . We used to talk a lot about morals, God, philosophy, sex, Charlie Jones, and the charac ters we see every day on cam pus. I don't think we knew much about these things either. I'm looking forward to seeing him or hearing from him again. Roger Will Coe- The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying sr. p tthings, minimizing others . . . Hipporotis, drra 500 B. C. THE HORSE was spraddle-legged in the lee Murphey Hall, and muzzle-on-hoof perusing f poems of Catullus. "I love pomes," The Horse breathed mistily. Lat in pomes in particular, I love." Oh? Was The Horse, then, such a good Latin scholar? "Fur from it," The Horse said frankly. "But La! in sorta equalizes 'things twixt me and other pome lo v ers I know. Taek, exempli gratia, as we Latin .-indents say,-T. S. Eliot. Some of his stuff I under stand fine, but a whole lot of it I do not undersUm ; at all. Yet it is written in English." Well, at any rate The' Horse was frank in admit ting it. ."That's the rub," The Horse growled, hoofing Ca tullus aside and sucking idly on a hoof. "How can you admit it when you sit in class with stoodents on any and all sides who claim to see great significance, as they call it, in everything of Eliot's? But in Latin, now, all students are on the same low level, so to speak. They all gotta translate the Latin be fore they can claim to like what it says, and by !!:..; time they are all too exhausted to make any ebi:: whatsoever." Oh? So? Then who explained the poesy? "Doc Suskin, of Classics, is doing it right now." The Horse said, "and durned interesting it is, too. You see, when you do not have to pretend th. t nature endowed or equipped you with some secret mechanism which enables you to know good poesy when you read it, you sit with your face shut and learn what good poesy is by having it pointed out to you. Then maybe you can go into an EngH-!i poetry class and do more than make out you like a pome simply because it is fashionable to like pomes, or because it is stylish at the moment to like some particular pote. This is one of the great iioIiiao in T ofir inrl flronlr nil ctnrt nff n t m i t t r rl ' " very frankly you do not know anything about it, and thus you are in a good position to learn." Did The Horse really believe that there was time, in these days of the hurry-up in everything, to poke into things like Latin and Greek? "It is all the more reason," The Horse stated pon tifically, "you should study Classics. We stan1 w round admiring ourselevs for being as smart as all-get-out in the Twentieth century, when as a matter of cold Latin and Greek fact we are as bi. a passel of boobs as ever got their names indited in the sorry pages of History." I thought The Horse was wrong there. The prob lems in those days were not as acute as were ours of to-day. There were less mouths to be fed, and consequently there was less labor to be accomp lished in turning out the fodder and other supplies necessary to life. "What you mean," The Horse contradicted me, "is that our whole concern nowadays is 'turning out and consuming food and other effects which you regard as necessities of life. We squawk a bout juvenile delinquency and increase in adult crime and preach about how we are meaning the other guy, not us blacksliding from Religion. Heck, Roger, we are not blacksliding from Relig ion! We are daily and nightly practicing our true Religion of Body-Worship." Aw, come off it! Why, this past year was a rec ord one for church-attendance in the United States. "Yup, it was," The Horse agreed cheerfully. "Part of one day in a seven-day week, we take an hour or so to go -to church; but even there an I then we continue our ritual of Body-Worship. How many of the church-goers, Roger, do you suppose are wondering 'How does my hat look?' or 'I'm ren' sharp in my n ew suit'.' and how many of them d you suppose are wondering, 'Hovj does my sn ' look in the eyes of God?' Hour many people in church do you suppose walked there, reflecting so- berly on where they are headed; and how many uu juu suppuse screamea up in ineir sniny iiev ciiiu iuuk nine oui (uvch iiiuuga inc. were late) to observe with snide satisfaction tha Dan Pettifog's Silly-Six was looking pretty boa up?" I thought this w'as an odd mood for The Hor-e. ''AXTn W4.-..K ...... 4- 4U4- ....... 1 ,1: 41. .. ' 1 'Vl-, lllUJ JKJKA J' llTUUliJ Hit V. l.i sics," The Horse shrugged. "Maybe yo usort of vx'. the idea that what a man did and thought an.! said was a lot more important than what he ate. wore or drove." I thought The Horse had a nerve, claiming tlio" pagans, those idolaters, were better than wc were "We have simplified things," The Horse conced ed. "Instead of getting all fouled up over ulmii gods to worship in a polytheistic rhubarb, we p ourselves fouled up over one deity to worship." Exactly! Christianity, for example; or Judia n Or Confucianism, Shintoism, Bhuddism "Wrong again, Roger," The Horse grinned too' a- HivirifKil SfIvP4 lin tn urirthin Mil mw.r.r,. ..K I - " "Jf - " .- j. i v; l v v. 1 jr u ' it i be sure. But more and more, we are getting tii ' IT! J 1 . '' , 'WHY' VV V flllfi H 1 ll'finiba in incinont j - m , juvenile delinquent? Because he, or she, v.v suiiieumig ana inai is ine Law, so lar as in. are concerned. The adult criminal gets his and Ivr WAV bpPailSf hp nr qVia wantc cnmMdinrt -m,! t; ;' is their law. Now, if more people would worr more about what other people want, or need, we automatically be practising Christianity of a so--The way it is, we attend Christian churhes, nu - nf 11Q in tHi natinn Hut Kr or-l 1 . -rr ,s.v ,.,'. our bodies. I " I followed his crossed eight-balls of eyes and w - iiui. oniaitu sec d 11 iu ui pre-uior coo-eus i -- thering past. Ah hah! Was this not pagani.-n; .' Were those three not Maenads? - - " vtiivb.iwut a C i . t . . L 1. v . . - be accused of worshiping my oivn body." "Wump!" Mr. Wump whumped. . .perhaps wit: . an eye on .The Horse's more than ample girth.
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