WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1954
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
PAGE TWO
Our Strength
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Is In All Mankind
A New York Republican named Har
old C. Ostertag, a member of the United
States Congress, has asserted what he calls
"an ancient and honorable truth that our
strength lies in ourselves." No longer, he
crows, are Americans accepting the idea that
this country's safety lies in dependence on
other nations: "There is an increasing tide
running in the direction of the 'Fortress
America' concept."
Rep. Ostertag's statement came just a
few days after Britain's Prime Minister,
Churchill told the Conservative Party con
ference at Blackpool:
"There is one risk that we must never
run. Our policy is peace through strength.
We must never run the risk of subjugation
through weakness. There is already in the
United States no little talk of a return to
isolation, and the policy is described as 'Fort
ress America.' We may, however, be sure
that all the strongest, wisest forces over
there, regardless of party, will not allow the
great republic to be turned from the path
of right and duty ..."
, Despite what Sir Winston said, he is
probably not sure that the strong, wise for
ces in America will prevail against an iso
lationist resurgence. And neither are we.
There are far move Osteitags in the Con
gress today than there were even five years
ago, and as the years pass the cry for an Am
erican withdrawal behind a continental
Maginot Line grows stronger in the land.
The fact is this: Men must cooperate
or die. American strength is not in our
selves alone, but in all mankind, and if we
have not learned that lesson yet, there is not
much hope for our survival.
The task of building one wcorld from
manyvought to be second to no other job
in our lives.
It is United Nations Week. Had you
heard?
A Week For
Academic Freedom?
The Congress of the National Students
Association fraid'a resolution last summer
mandating its' national staff "to sponsor a
Natonal Academic Freedom Week."
This freedom, as Alan Barth reminds
"us in his book, 77e Loyalty of Free Men,
has not always had free course:- A growing
segment, gathering impetus in the face o
attacks on tlvehsee- sowing of ideas, seems to
have gained a ntrvv enthusiasm toward Aca
demic Freedom. It is still to be recalled that
the broad way of liberty in the classroom
remains a daring concept.
The inherent danger, as we see it, in
having a week for Academic Freedom is that
it would tend to give those who neglect to
keep abreast of the issues the notion that
we are according forebearance rather than
celebration to the idea.
Academic Freedom, in its highest con
notation, is not something that will admit
of one week of celebration and 51 others
of neglect. In believing that it will, we may
be making the schools" safe for hypocrisy
not for freedom.
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Carolina Front.
Biggest Party
In Washington
Had No Slate
Louis Kraar
"HELLO, ROOM service, send
up about a hundred set-ups to
F
room 607-1,"
he said over
one of two
telephones i n
the plush Ho
tel Shoreham
$
4 s
l sujite.
This is how
J -
i the biggest par
ty in Washing
ton began' last
I'
weekend , after the Maryland
game. And it ended as dawn
sent the last couple home for
sleep after being broken up
earlier in the evening by two
house detectives. r
At 10:30 the people started
coming. Manning Muntzing, Stu
dent Party mogul, 'met the
guests at the door and SP Floor
leader Jim Turner took ( their
coats. Soon the crowd started
spilling over into the huge "bed
room. By midnight, 'one couple
had no room except in the closet :
and another had found a home
in the bath tub. The party had
hit its peak. ' ' ' ' V
About 2 5 0 people attend
ed the party in. room 607-F,
including beer-seller Spero and
countless other alumni and stu
dents. Students who made the
Washington jaunt tell me ' that
more people were at the party
than the Carolina dance down
in the ballroom.
Sunday morning Washington
visitors were talking about the.
Shoreham party as much as the
hurricane. And a maid sent up
to room 607-F learned, to her
amazement, that nothing was
broken except the students'
who threw the party.
HAS IT struck you that al-"
though IHurridane Hazel was
coming FROM the southeast, all
the trees fell TO the southeast
Here's why: The 'eye of the
storm : passed about 40 miles x
east of Chapel . Hill. "Hurricane
winds move counter clockwise
about the eye. Therefore, the
winds approached Chapel Hill. ..
from the northwest. ..
it
. PRESIDENT CREASY'S com-:
ment on campus political par
ties that they are a "necessary
evil" interests me.
It would seem that the par
ties are no more an "evil" than
those in them. Creasy didn't
call the. parties "a necessary
evil" when he was running as a
candidate, of one of them.
Cfreasy's efforts at coopera
tion with the rival Student Par
ty are admirable, but with the
SP'sr three - fourths legislative
majority, there is little more he
can do.
AFTER THE Student Party's
imitation of the Watkins Com
mittee (the Fleishman-Muntzing-censure
battle ) , I wondered what
the University Party would do to
emulate national politics.
President Creasy said he
would campaign this fall to get
a University Party Legislature
elected, bringing my wonder
ing to an end.
A PRESS service, the United
Press surveyed major colleges in
the country on fraternity hazing
recently.
The survey revealed that
old-fashioned hazing is on the
wane for two reasons:
1. "Student bodies are now
made up of large numbers of
war veterans who are too mature
to go in for the old kind of
pranks."
2. "Upper classmen' have dis
covered that a freshman can be
hazed just as effectively by
making him work. Besides, the
freshman class is a good source
of cheap labor." :
Nearest school to Carolina in
the survey was the University of
Miami, where "hazing is a thing
of the past." ' n
"Apparently, throughout the
country, "Hell Week" is giving
way to "Work Week."
HEADLINE IN the University
of Alabama's student paper:
"So You Think You're Busy
Try Combining Engineering,
Football. And Being A Daddy,"
j Not this week thanks, I'm
going to Germans.
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State-by-State
WASHINGTON Here is a
quick run-down on how the
election .is shaping up in the
most bitterly fought Congres
sional race in 20 years a race
-intp , ,yhiqh Republicans are
thrb'Win'g' almost as much money
as if the Presidency were at
stakje: p 1 i if
'NEW YCK Whoever car
rieSj.this largest electoral state
has a,. leg .up in nominating the
Presidential , Candidates in 1956.
So far, it looks, . as if Sen. Irving
Ives, Republican, is slightly
ahead, in the run for governor.
However, contributions began to
flow in to Averall Harriman,
Democrat, in increased quanti
ties the day Charles Wilson
barked his dog remark. In the
end he could win.
PENNSYLVANIA For the
first time in 20 years it looks as
if the Democrats would elect a
governor. When young George
Leader, relatively unknown
Democratic chicken farmer was
nominated, he was tabbed a
throw-away candidate. Now
thanks to ; GOP bumbling, the
scandals of Governor Fine's or
ganization, and unemployment,
he's likely to win. Democrats
'will also pick up "about five
House s'eats. J
CALIFORNIA Gov. "Goody"
Knight, Republican, holds the
lead for re-election, but Dem
ocrat Richard Graves is pushing
him more than expected. Congressman-Sam
Yorty, Democrat,
an early odds-off candidate, now
looks like an even bet with
GOP Sen. Tom Kuchel. Some
polls place him slightly ahead.
IOWA Sen. Guy Gillette, .
Democrat will be almost unbeat
able despite Iowa's rock-ribbed
Republicanism. This time, young
Clyde Herring, son of the late
Democratic Senator by that
name, is making quite a race for
the governorship.
WYOMING Ex-sen. Joe O'Ma
honey, long a fixture in the Sen
ate, is a sure-shot to come back.
This will reduce the Republican
margin by one seat
COLORADO John Carroll,
live-wire ex-Congressman and
former member of Truman's
White House Staff, is ahead in
race for Senator.-Carroll and re
tiring Sen. Ed Johnson, once po
litical enemies, have patched up
their feud and are pulling to
gether a combination hard to
beat. Johnson is running for
governor.
IDAHO A few years ago,
Glen Taylor, Democratic Sen
ator and Vice Presidential cand
idate on the Henry Wallace Pro
gressive ticket, was considered
all washed up politically. Now
he's giving GOP Senator Dwor
shak such a race that he's like-"
ly to win. Taylor has cut out
the - cowboy crooning and is
'Heart Attack, Poor Chap. Send Flowers And
List .Him As A Security Risk'
Senate Race
campaigning on a straight anti
Republican ticket. ' The electric
power lobby and Hells Canyon
are his" biggest issue.
OREGON Hasn't elected a
Democratic Senator jn 40 years,
but it looks as if young. Dick
Neuberger, author and newspa
perman, might make , it. GOP
Sen. Gujr Gordon has lots of
money behind him, but Neu
berger has two great assets in
addition to his own ability
his .wife, and Oregon Legislator,
and the indefatigable Sen.
Wayne Morse who is talking in
every nook and corner of the
state. ,
SOUTH DAKOTA Normally,
a Democrat hasn't a chance in
this state. However, a secret
Republican poll shows" GOP
Sen. Karl Mundt, who reaped
both fame and criticism in the
Army-McCarthy hearings, to be
only slghlty head of 'Kenneth
Holum, the farmer(-Democrat. In
x
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A LB EN liARKLEY ;
in the Senate?
other words, South Dakota is a
doubtful state.
KANSAS Sen. Andy Schoep
pel, incumbent Republican, told
Vice President Nixon when he
went through Kansas recently
that "if the election was held to
day, I'd lose." He urged Nixon
to stay and make an extra
speech, which Nixon did. Despite
this , George - McGill, ' the ex
Senator who wrote the first
farm price support bill under
FDR, is running like . a house
afire, may upset all the political
timetables. Kansas is also a
doubtful state.
MINNESOTA S e n. Hubert
Humphrey, Democrat, is con
sidered unbeatable.
NEW MEXICO Ex.-Secretary
of Agriculture Clinton Anderson,
Democrat, is also just about un
beatable. . 1 -
WEST VIRGINIA Sen. Matt
Neely, Democrat, "is 'unbeatable.
OHIO Congressman George
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Drew Pearson
Bender, Republican, is running
neck-and-neck with Sen. Tom
Burke, Democrat, the long-time
arid : able former Mayor of
Cleveland. Secretary , of the
Treasury George Humphrey, the
biggest businessman in Ohio, is
putting big money and heavy,
pressure behind Bender, w'hile.
! Burke' is running with a bare
campaign cupboard. It's any
body's race.
NEW JERSEY Republican
squabbling plus the serious GOP
scandals in New Jersey seem
certain to defeat Clifford Case,
Republican, in the Senate race.
Election of Congressman Charles
Howell, Democrat, would take
one seat away from the Repub
lican margin.
KENTUCKY The Veep is
having a tougher time defeat
ing Sen. John Sherman Cooper
than any other previous Repub
lican, but it looks as if he would
win. Barkley is one of the most
revered figures in Kentucky.
His election would take another
cut out of the Republican Sen
ate margin.
ILLINOIS If all the Repub
lican money poured into Illinois
is officially tabulated, it should
prove larger than that of any
other state. The McCarthyites,
the Chicago Tribune crowd,
and various ther Republican
factions wuld like nothing bet
ter than to defeat Sen. Paul
Douglas, ex-Marine hero Demo
crat, who has stood up against
Eisenhower on economic poli
cies: However, they are 'going
to have' a tough time. It looks
as if Douglas would win.
MASSACHUSETTS As a re
sult of Sen. Jack. Kennedy's de
sertion of ex-Congressman Fos
ter Furcolo, Sen. Leverett Sal
tcnstall, Republican, will be re
elected. .
MONTANA Republicans are
throwing a lot' of money into
M on: ana to try to defeat elder
Statesman Jim Murray, who
would head the Senate Labor
Committee if the Democrats con
trol " the Senate. Despite this,
Murray will win.
NEVADA Allan Bible, un
study and friend of the late Pat
McCarran and a Democrat, will
be elected to fill his friend's
seat.
MICHIGAN After Sen. Blair
Moody died, everyone figured
that Sen. Homer Ferguson, Re
publican, was certain of re-election.
However, an unspectacular,
tenacious . Democrat named Pat
McNamara has been creeping
up on him. When Charlie Wil
son let' loose his dog remark in
Detroit the other day, Ferguson
almost wept. In hard-to-get
-work Defroit.it could cost Ho
mer the election.- .
Reaction Piece,
Forum Funds
Bcti
Says Mundy
David Mundy
The $1800 in student fees ex
pended by the Carolina Forum
undoubtedly is the worst spent
of any appropriated by the stu
dent legislature. v
! More than" a third of the au
dience at the Forum's first pres
entation were non-students. Had
tKey been students, only about 5
per cent of the student body
would have been there. It does
n't seem reasonable that so
many should pay so much for
so few and so 1 ttle.
No blame should rest on the
students', except perhaps for al
lowing such shenanigans. Why
should we have to pay to hear
a string of "politicians, mostly
second rate? You can find them
oh radio, television, "and in the
newsreels that's enough.
The money could be much
mere effectively ' spent if, in
deed, it MUST be spent in pre
senting speakers from other
fields than politics.
My strongest objection isn't to
the quality (some being assum
ed) of the speakers, but the use
of the Carolina Forum.
For a state university to col
lect money from a political con
servative to help finance a
speaker's bureau for the left
wing of the Democrat party
somehow bothers my sense of
fairness. Even the "campus lib
erals" should see the inequities,
but self interest is indeed blind
ing. Jonathan Daniels, liberal, for
mer Democrat Natonal Commt
teemarij1 showed too much of the
hand when at the Dialectic Sen
ate's inaugural ceremonies he
remarked: "I've worked with
Joel in securing several speak
ers for the campus, and hope to
continue in the future." And he
probably will, considering the
political influence on North Car
olina's educational system.
I am certainly not the one to
say that no benefits accrue from
the Carolina Forum. The Chair
man traveling about the coun
try oh Forum business, has been
able to make invaluable politi
cal contacts. The leftists of his
party certainly owe him a vote
of thanks for his distinguished
forum services to the "cause."
And I am somewhat amused.
The state's "liberals" have been
busily boosting Judge Parker
for a seat on the Supreme Court
apparently they wish to show
how unreasonable the Republi
cans are if he isn't appointed.
They are the same class of 1 b
erals who accused Judge Parker
of being narrow minded, reac
tionary, and anti labor when his
appointment to the Supreme
Court was before Congress for
confirmation some 25 years ago.
Last week a Chapel Hill news
paper said that his being a Re
publican wasn't held against
him in North Carolina.
Apparently the only way for
a Republican to be liked by
Democrats is for him to be eith
er very old or dead. Were it not
for Lincoln and T. Roosevelt,
both quite dead, Democrats
would classify all Republicans
under an unprintable delinea
tion. They can't be satisfied, not
even with the fulfillment of
their highest aims, election to
office.
The most popular and effici
ent misquote isthat about Gen
eral Motors. Wilson never said,
"What is good for General Mo
tors is good for 'the nation." His
philosophy as a businessman
had long been1 what he hap
pened to remark after taking
political office: 1 "What is good
for the nation is good for Gene?
ral Motors,' and what is good
for General Motors is good for
the nation." Pray ihat a few la
bor "leaders" would substitute
the name" of their union and
adopt the same philosophy.
And despite what Mr.' Reuther
would have us believe, Secre
tary' Wilson never called work
inghieri "dogs".'" Until recent
years . it was a good old Ameri
can principle that people should
get off their rears, and work,
instead of whining. . Wilson was
using' this principle in his anal-'
ology of bird and kennel dogs
seeking food when they were
hungry, it did bear an unfor
tunate proximity to remarks a
bout . unemployment.
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The Mosv
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Harry Golden
In The Carolina Israelite
What is "the most perfect line of poetry" in the
English language? The Greensboro Daily News com
ments on the question raised by the London Times.
The British paper submitted several entries'. For
example:
The uncertain glory of an April day.
(Shakespeare)
Dawn skims the sea with flying feet of gold.
(Swineburne)
The Greensboro editor submitted a few of his
own, all of them magnificent of course:
: Have I not made blind Homer sing t:i me
(Marlowe)
The moon shines bright. On such a night
as this . . . (Shakespeare)
In my own opinion, I believe the "most perfect
line" of poetry in the English language is:
"The ploughman homeward plods his iceary :ay."
- There you have, not only beauty of sound, but
probably the universal theme all in a few words.
Man, his work, his home, and his family. Thtmias
Gray wrote what may very well be "the most per
fect" poem written in the English language. "Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard." There arc no loss
than FIFTY lines in this masterpiece, each of which
coul'd" qualify as "the most period" line of poetry.
' The curfew toTls the knell of parting day
'The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea,
The ploughman homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and. to me.
As it' gets dark, you begin to "hear" instead of
"see"," and Mr. Gray was able to create the mood by
the mere use of words. Note how the words have the
ring of all the sounds you hear as it gets d::rk:
Now fades the glimmering landscape on
the sight,
And all the air a solemn stillness holds.
Save where the bettle wheels his droning
flight
And drowsy tiklings lull the distant
folds;
Thomas Gray was writing about a churchyard in
the English countryside. It took him over twenty
five years to perfect this poem, and "each word is
a pearl." Gray writes of life and death first he
describes the burial ground: "Beneath these rug
ged elms, that yew tree's shade . . . the rude fore
fathers of the hamlet sleep."
For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn
Or busy housewife ply her evening care;
No children run to lisp their sire's return,
Or climb his knee the envied kiss to share.
Just think what a wonderful rationalism we find
in this "Elegy," in the England of 1750, And re
member, too, the constant references to the "church
yard" itself. Mr. Gray speaks of the dead "each in
his'narrow cell for ever laid" and he tells us that
death is as nothing, despite the many systems of
consolation we humans have erected. "For them
no more the blazing hearth shall burn." In other
words, this is it; and the one to feel sorry for, (if
indeed this finality calls for sorrow) is for. the one
in'his narrow cell," "The living" are the only
ones who are still allright. For a while longer they
will know the fireside and love, and kissing and the
other sensations and pleasures of iving. Then Mr.
Gray says to the "we-born" and the "talented"'
and the "rich"; don't you be so proud of yourself
as to look down upon the graves of these "obscure"
and poor farmers. You are only kidding yourself.
' No matter; wealth, power, beauty; it all leads to
this same narrow little cell and it's all over for you.
The boast of heraldy, the pomp of power
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er
gave,
Await alike th' inevitable hour.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Again Mr. Gray returns to the Humanism of 1m
an Anglo-Saxon Spinoza who was concerned more
with whether "the roof leaks" HERE than with pos
sible "rewards" to come "elsewhere." Mr. Gray
turns his attention to the people "sleeping in thre
narrow cells." He wonders with a deep melonc-hnly
NOT whether they were "saved"' for the future,
but maybe, maybe they could have had a little more
out of it while they were alive. "How oft the harvest
to their sickle yield; how jocund did they drive their
team- afield; how bowed the woods beneath their
sturdy stroke." He says maybe one of these farmers
would have been a great man if he had had the op
portunity. "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid
some heart once pregnant with celestial fire: hands
that the rod of empire might have swayed."
Yes, one of these farm boys might have ruled an
empire; another have been a great poet, or waked to
ecstacy the living lyre." But poverty, and lack of
education; those were the circumstances "of obscur
ity." "Chill penury repressed their noble rage,
and froze the genial current of the soul."
Full many a gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear;
Full many a flower is born to unblush unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
We owe the Englishman many a debt. He gave
us habeas-corpus, trial by jury, the ballot, the free
public school, and Shakespeare, Milton and Winston
Churchill and also Thomas Gray, and his "Elegy."
Mr. Gray died in 1771 and of course was buried
in the same "country churchyard" of his poem. Tie
was a great intellect and spent most of his life read
ing the literature mythology and philosophy of th
world. He was very careless about his personal af
fairs. He did not seem to care whether he was ever
"published" or not and that was a pity. Some years
ago they succeeded in collecting many of his let
ters for publication in a single volume. They are
considered among the best in the English language.
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