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THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TV0 That Gorgeous George Always Did Look A Little Suspicious Chalk up another one for the Great Am mericah Midwest, home of McCarthy and Tenner and Dirksen, home of the lady who said Robin Hood was a Communist and should he stricken from our books, home ot the harassment of great institutions like the University of Chicago and Ohio Mate Dy tate lovalt commissions and of the attack on Girl Scouts by the big, bad American Legion. ... Add to the list the fact that this week, the Indiana State-Athletic Commission de cided to require a non-Communist oath ot all professional boxers and wrestlers on the grounds that "the state has no business spon soring the public appearance of Reds. A Word To Bearded Boh Ruark - Robert C. Ruark, an old Carolina grad and a -clever "writer who has parlayed his sour pen into a great deal of money, gives us a pain., in the neck. Wc follow his wordy adventures in The Charlotte News, which headlined his latest attack on the young this week, "The Kids Are ISores Today." Blustery- Bob's premise, believe it or not, was that since the present college generation "talks learnedly of things in literature and art and politics and eco nomics and world aHairs'' and doesn't stir its gin in bathtubs, there isn't much hope for the world. "What I mean," he explains, "I can t tell you what I studied in the last quarter of my senior vear at the University of North Carolina, but I remember that somebody dropped a cake of soap in the home-brew, 1 vastly improving the flavor, and that a pret ty girl with brown eyes sent iny fraternity Carolina Front. 'Something's' Wrong. Last Time He Was Running Scared' Reaction Piece, Campus Issues For Elections Seem Scarce r 4 pin back. VV . we ve eot news for Mr. Ruark. Things haven't changed so much in unapei Hill." Brown-ey-d girls still send back fra ternity pins, and if we prefer ABC store bourbon to soapy home-brew, why, who can blame us? . But maybe we've learned a few "things since Robert, Ruark flunked his last quiz at the University; and maybe one of those things is that it's going to take more than a convertible and a liquor bottle to unravel the mess Mr? Ruark and his reckless gener ation made of the world. It's going to take literature and art and politics and economics among other tilings, and if we can't guzzle our alcohol at the Ruark rate, we'll just have to get along the best we can. The Valkyries1 Choice The very nature of the task the Valkyries have undertaken-that of choosing the out-st-mdino women students for membership each vear-bespeaks the difficulties of the task It is hard to single out one hard-work-in- coed as having a more outstanding -record of- "character, scholarship, leadership and service" than another one. That is why we think the Valkyries should be commend ed for their choice night before last ot rive exceptionally noteworthy students: babbie Di Ioro, Susan Fink, Ruth Jones, Kendrick Townsend and Marilyn Zager. . Heel - Louis Kraar WITH CAMPUS elections just three weeks off, tfflngs are omin- iously quiet. Here's why. Issues for the upcoming elec tion seem hard er to find than lonely coeds. The biggest con- ' , troversy so f ai - " this year in cam V , a pus political cir cles is Student Party Vice Presi dent Dave Reid's leniency bill, but it is strictly not of a political nature. Neither party is unified in its stand on the Reid bill. Otherwise, things are progress ing rather quietly. The University Party is making an effort to spon sor bills in the Legislature, de spite its impotency in that body." The Student Party, having set tled the party spat, is planning for the fall election. I asked several University Par ty leaders what the issues would be in the fall election. The only one who would answer said, "We haven't decided yet. We're going to meet soon and plan that." Student Party leader Joel Fleishman had a terse, "No comment." THE STUDENT party seems to have the most at stake in the fall election due to their gigantic majority in the Legislature. The SP controls three-fourths of the votes in the Legislature enough to override any presidential veto. The University Party is banking on regaining the seats in the town districts which it lost in the spring election to the SP. There are four such seats in the town district which the SP holds and the UP wants to win. The UP will probably get these 4 seats but that would still leave their rivals with a powerful majority. Thus, the UP also is going to push hard for some dorm seats. This, however, will be more of a job than winning back the t four town seats. LEADERS IN the SP have de cided to hold back on emphasiz ing the television sets which they were instrumental in obtaining for the dorms. SP opinion seems to be that the electorate will re member, but it would seem to this reporter that SP candidates won't hestitate to remind voters about the TV sets. And they pro bably wont when it comes to door-to-door campaigning. SP campaigning on the wash ing machine grants to coed dorms wouldn't go too -well any way if this were a major theme. The washers haven't been operat ing because coin boxes weren't provided. The coin boxes pay for the ope ration costs. And somewhere along the- line, planners forgot to provide for their installation. Manning Muntzing, who is hand ling the dorm buying program, has said that the coin boxes are on the way. Meantime, the ma chines sit idle. Gallup Poll, Vishinsky, And Sen. Ives Davd Mundy A person reading the head lines on the latest Gallup Poll would imagine the Republican Party to be on its last legs. Those who ventured to read the report would find otherwise. In the East, 2 per cent more peo ple did say that they would vote Ddnocrat. But in the East Central states the reverse was . true. In the West Central states, the Republicans led by 12 per cent. (Clearly net all milliona ires). In the Far Western states. Republicans led by 12 per cent. The Democrats did lead by a wide margin in the South, 78 per cent to 22 per cent. But that 22 per cent of the people who planned to vote for Republican candidates this fall is up 2 per cent from 1952, when Ike was really on the ballot. And Demo crats should remember that such a 2 per cent increase in North Carolina's Ninth Congressional District would insure the elec tion of Bill Stevens,-Republican candidate there. Of course it must be -remembered that these percentages were merely how people would have voted last week if they had bothered to vote at all. Still, the future isn't as black as headline writers would have Republicans believe. w'eDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1954 The Eye Of The Horse . Roger Will Coe " . THE HORSE was in Kenan Stadium when I saw him 'carefully combing through the battle-scuftcd grass in the wake of the Wake wake. -Can it be that Little Jack Horner, the notor ious Dook, ugh, toady, is in error- The Horse mur mured. "From what I heard, this field should be fetlock deep in teeth," .Poor Little Jack Horner! Didn't The Horse knov. that said subject wars in error ot Besides, he was trying to take attention av f m Dook Hoof ball Club's failure to live up to Little Jac Horner's billings. "And right there, Roger me bhoy," Hie Ho st five loose ears, two noses, and oau hla in his search for food chopper- Dewey And Commies WASHINGTON The nation will soon get the answer to a highly interesting question of psychology. The question is: will the old political trick of bring: ing the Communist skeleton out of the Democratic closet work once again? Ever since Vice President Nix on went out to Denver and warned the President and his party that they were way be hind in the polls, the skeleton lias been rattled until some of the bones are in danger of drop ping off. 'So it will be highly interest ing to students of psychology, as well as historians, to say nothing of the American peo ple, to see whether the strate gy works once again. As of to day, here is a play-by-play ac count of how the strategy is progressing: In Montana. Sen. Jim Muar ray, Democrat, a staunch Irish Catholic who is no more pro-' Russian or pro-Communist than the church at wiich. he wor ships, has suddenly found 160, 000 pieces of literature in the -post-office boxes of every Mon tana voter depicting him as .a rabid rustler for the Soviet Union. The allegation is based upon the fact that during the war, when we were allies of Russia, Jims name appeared on a committee for Soviet-American' Friendship, of which a good many other distinguished Am ericans at that time were also members. GOP Asked Commie Aid On top of this, young Mr. Nix on appeared in Butte last week to tell Montanans that the Dem ocratic Party was in danger of being infiltrated with Commu nists. Waxing eloquent, he con tinued with this statement: "As far as the Republican Par ty is concerned, it never has had the support of the Communist party. We welcome the opposi tion of the Communist Party in this campaign." Mr. Nixon went on at some length, pounding this point home to the people of Montana. Unfortunately, he did not know that just three days be fore, Earl Browde'f, onetime head of the Communist Party now banished from its ranks, Drew Pearson had made a statement directly to the contrary. Writing in I. F. Stone's Weekly on Octtober 18, he told how such a stalwart as Gov. Tom Dewey had sought out Communist Party support. "In 1937 an ambitious and able young Republican named Thomas E. Dewey," wrote Mr. Browder "made his first elec tion campaign for the position of district attorney. His organ ization felt the need to gather votes wherever they were to be found and solicited Communist support. "The issue came to me and I said, of course, support Dewey. This was done through a trade union committee headed by a well-known Communist named Louis Weinstock. When Dewey won the election, that commit teegave him a victory banquet at which he was photographed arm-in-arm with the toastmas ter, Weinstock. "Of course," continued Brow der, "Dewey was as innocent in this association as Oppenheimer was in his. It wras a political marriage without love on -either side. 'Caesar' Has No Stars Carl Williams ft The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North. Carolina, where it is pumisneu A daily except Monday, M, examination and vaca I tion periods and dur- mer terms. Entered as U second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March 1879. Subscription , Vie of ih y-'r,Mly - iUk Tit-it , ; in lumuuy '4 8, 'S rates: mailed, $4 "per 'S year, $2:50 a semester; . I delivered, $6 a year, U $3.50. a semester. Editor CHARLES KURALT Managing "jrttor FRED POWLEDGE TotViditors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Sports Editor FRED BABSON News Editor Jerry Reece Editorial Assistant Asristant . Sports Editor Ruth Dalton ; Bernie Weiss Asstant Business Manager Bill liOD reei Circulation & Subscription Mgr Dick O'Neal Arlvprlisins Manager Photographers ,- THIS REPORTER might .sug gest some issues at this point. For once and for all, the par ties should decide whether those whom they represent have a right to know what goes on in govern ment meetings. If they do feel that the electorate has a right to know, then let the Legislature go on record as favoring open meet ings of representative student government groups. Both parties could do much to ward making the student Legisla ture a forum for opinion on all leading campus issues instead of a group that just discusses limit ed bills. -Last Spring's drinking controversy, during which the Legislature never discussed the problem, is a prime example of how this group has neglected cer tain campus problems. That's two issues. Wonder which ones the , campus politicos will come up with? SINCE THE Student Party has talked so much of unity lately, it T. "r, t upnVv would seem appropriate that they ... Cornell Wnght, R. B. Henley igsue NEWS STAFF Dick Creed, Charles Childs, Babbie on campus the leniency bill. Dillorio, Jackie Goodman, Lloyd Shaw, Richard Any free and great political Thiele Neil Bass, Hal Henderson, Ann Herring, group has to have disagreement Bobbie Zwahlen, Mitchell Borden, Eddie Crutch- and dissent. And so it has been field Bob Eberle. on the leniency bill sponsored by ' : the SP's Reid. EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Ron Levin, But to open up the party floor to Tom Spain, David Mundy. debate on this bill would enlighten SPOniTSSTAFF Bob DiUard, Chalks Posto, Ray the Linker : ing would be a good sounding Night Editor for this Issue Xhal Schley board. The story of revolution and overthrow is as old as govern- . ment itself. We need but look to the world around us for pres- v ent day examples: the Bolshe viks in Russia, and the states of South America with the regular and methodical changeover in government of one group of gangsters for another group of gangsters. Always the cry is, ""Peace, Freedom and Liberty." "JULIUS CAESAR" is such a story. It is a modeim story. Even in Elizabethan England, Roman robes and togas were laid aside for contemporary English dress. The story still stands. The cal culated hate and evil of Com munism is still to be defeated by the human family and those who would work and die for freedom. The story is perhaps more important now than ever before. Next to the timeliness of its theme, and, with all due respect to the opinion of playwright, in M-G-M's magnificent production of Shakespeare's "JULIUS CAE SAR," the Actor's the thing." From the first scene, when the brilliant cast is all assembled to the very last, when, of all the leads, only Marlon Brando as '"Mark Anthony" remains alive; -the acting is of such su perior quality that few other -movies that Hollywood has made can boast of a greater con centration of talent in one film. In "JULIUS CAESAR" there are no stars. Each role is inter preted by a "star-name," but each actor seems to have sacrifi ced any attempt for personal recognition in favor of "ensem ble playing," or an attitude of "all for one and one for all." Consequently, rather than hav ing moments when an actor is built up out of proportion to the others for a flash of individ ual glory, "JULIUS CAESAR" has such universal excellence in the quality of its actor's perfor mances that at times it's like rwatching a tennis match to fol low the best one. Fortunately, there are other times when the camera concentrates on one ac tor, as in Antony's funeral ora tion and the death scenes of Brutus and Cassius, (and, there fore, relieves the rich feast of talen from which to choose. To Mark Antony, Marlon Brando brings virility and a lus ty passion for life, and sans the mannerisms that many have grown to identify with him he gives a sincere and honest por trait of an opportunist caught up in the save events of his time. His Mark Anthony is not a particularly noble person and is by no means sympathetic. Quick to recognize the potentials Cae sar's death brings to him, Bran do's Anthony turns the tidal wave of public sentiment to his ad vantage and uses it to the hilt. Conversely, James Mason as Brutus presents a man whose goodness and nobilityi betray him and pitifully twist him into a vengeful, destructf ul force when they are mischanngled by the evil about him. This diffi cult and lengthy role is played with dignity and restraint, and the external features of the ac tor's face and body convey vivi dly the inner turmoil and agony of the character. But it is Sir John Guilgud's Cassius that appears as the most "flesh and blood" character dn the film. To me, he is the world's greatest living actor and in "JULIUS CAESAR" John Gu ilgud brings to life one of the most memorable screen perfor mances you may ever have the opportunity to see. The richness N of his voice, his fantastic body control, the unbelievable shad ings and subtleties of his charc terization, all merge into a per sonality that you will never for get. It took producer John Houseman nearly two years to ; persuade him to overcome his mistrust of the film medium, but this once done, it seems that John Guilgud set out tt prove that he's ,the greatest no matter . what the idiom of expression happens to be. Another fine performance is given- by Edmund O'Brian as Casca. Relevated before' to play ing only heavies in B-movies his characterization is sharp and de finite and convincing. The least effective of the principle roles is Louis Calhern's Caesar. A real ly fine actor, he's just a little too 'artificial and posturing to be - as effective as he might. As a person who generally gives more than a fleeting glance to the newspapers, I of ten wonder if the people who write the headlines read the ar ticles Last week, Senator Ives, cam paigning for governor of New York, made a disclosure about his opponent, Averell Harriman. Harriman, said Ives, was chair man of the board of a company which payed a quarter of a mil lion dollars as a bribe to Tam many Hall. (The public part of the scandal rid New York of an other prominent Democrat, May or Jimmy Walker of Seabury fame.) Harriman, as all good Demo crats do under such circumstan ces, took to TV with the charge that Ives wasn't playing fairly. W. Kerr -Scott, you may remem ber, used the same technique in his senatorial primary. Be fore Lennon had half a chance to put even one foot in his mouth, Scott & Forces, Inc. were yelling about "dirty politics." Back to those headlines. Har riman didn't deny the charges, he just squawked about dirty politics. Yet a prominent East ern North Carolina newspaper headlines, the story: Bribery charges hurled by ives Denied by Harriman "Lmer-ollo Horner stuck into his jnoutj inot but both feet Have I not read, of late, Ins fitzuu Senses o Dock's offenses at West Lafayette In d ana which caused Hoosier writers to label I ook ZZ'ote dirtiest hoofball team ever seen unvote t Oh, well, that was .w and aggressive! "And didn't I read somewhere in Little Roll; Horner's Corner that one reason the Dooks d.dn I eon the duke against Army was, thoy quote didn t Scur eeAoduUgh penalties unquote?" The sued his rhetorical, questioning. "In short, the Dooks dK not cfip enough," slug enough or become unneces sarily rough enough?" Yeah- but that was the Dooks. "I kinda agree there," The Horse admitted ruo fullv' "Chapel Hill is so admittedly superior to otht i - nsuiutions of learning and culture in the .environs, that even retaliatory belligerences are to be deplor ed You observed that Little Rollo fairly and impartj allv mentioned several unfortunate incidents which occured during Tar Heel basketball games? lh, Vada incident; and the Lifson Incident Nowhere did he mention that both Vayda and Lifson had re- acted impetuously AFTER they had been fouled with deliberation and with evil intent by the opponents who were fouled by them after their original ag ression This would have been objective reporting and writing, and this Little Rollo Horner can never be convicted of." "The-truth of the matter, Roger," The Horse stated, going on with his bicuspid inquiry, "is that Dook State and Wake have for long come to regard the Tar Heels as a punching bag to work out their Cretan muscles State, so far as hoofball is con cerned being in this view somewhat myopic and an understandable frenzy perhaps possesses me i'f ents minions when they see what they thought was a sure victory slip from their impotent grasp.. Did The Horse believe that this immature rage should be displayed in the after-the-game utterances of Tom Rodgers and, what is infinitely worse, ol Dr. Tribble himself? "What gave me a huge horse-laugh," The Horse i.n0.ifl,,ohPrt "was Little Rollo Homers' statement that had his son been in the game and injured as was ' Consoles, he qvote would have been hard to hold unquote. If this be true, one can but hope that Little Rollo Horner is easier to hold than to read, and the" evidence would favor this conclusion heavi ly I do go along with Little Rollo Homer 3n tnis wise that no dirty playing should be condoned. "Also no dirty reporting and, or, writing should be permitted by a newspaper which professes friendship for Chapel Hillian dollars spent in Dur ham. If an individual errs, is that reason why pub lishers and college presidents should follow suit? For, as if to make sure that Little Rollo's snide attacks on our coaches were justified, the neigh boring page published an heroic-sized photo of the Nick Consoles' injured face. Why not also show a pic of Dick Lackey's injuries, suffered at the i'i-ts of unawake Wake's beaten hoofballers Lackey, a member of the coaching staff at Chapel Hill, a ime sportsman, and -a gentleman sans peur et sans re proche? It would serve the embattled Baptist edu cator, Dr. Tribble, better were he to apologize i our coaching staff for the attack of his mercenaries; upon them, than to ululate that quote someone tol 1 me the North Carolina coaches attacked (unawake) Wake players and fans, unquote." Horner's Corner was Dook-fed, and, like all toadies, Little Jack Hor ner fawned for his masters and acted the swagger ing bullyboy toward his masters' opponents. "I still can't see the proposition that the pub lishers should permit this sort of biased, deliberate ly slanted writing," The Horse said. "Especially when they claim to want Chapel Hill readership Certainly, the exciting Durham stores listen very closely when newspaper reps state what their Chapel Hill circulation is. But said circulation is not going to be at all friendly to the paper if, as is the case with this twaddle, innuendo and left-handed infer ence are made use of to condemn not only one individual, but to castigate coaching staffs and to Which story, points up the double standard used by con temporary "liberal" Democrats. It is all right for Harriman to pay $250,000 bribe. But, they charge, there is a major Repub-' . ,jrum-head an entire university. lican scandal when new Dealing Democrats are fired by the FHA. This isn't insinuating, however, that these Democrats aren't liv ing up to their highest princi ples; those principles being those of election to office and staying there. The Democrats, who so de lightedly misconstrued a remark by Secretary Wilson, have muf fed another chance. Perhaps they were afraid of offening some of their slightly more left ist comrades. Andrei Vishinsky recently at tended a birthday dinner for Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. One of his tablemates was what TIME calls a "self-confessed" Republi can. Said Soviet hatchet-man An drei as he shook hands with the young man upon departure, "You are a very nice young man. If I were an American, I would be a Republican." Which means, I imagine, that Vishinsky thinks very highly of himself. Was not The Horse guilty of what he accused Little Jack Horner of, viz. and to wit, not being ob jective? "I am strenuously objective," The Horse pointed out with a blunt hooik "Heck, I have been objecting without pause from word one of this item! If you mean isn't this personal in some measure, I plead guilty. But he started it, and you know he approves of striking back." Only for Dookers, Staters, and Wakers, he approved. ' "If someone on our team was guilty of flagrant misconduct, George Barclay will not wait upon word from Dr. Gray, Dr. House and Dr. Erickson to take corrective and punitive steps," The Horse staled confidently. "I can promise you said gentlemen will investgate and act, pro or con; but they will not do so ere they have the facts, which is more than delays Little Brer Horner or suggests itself to Dr. Tribble. How did The Horse think this would have been handled in Horner's Dook-Corner had a Dooker el bowed some Tar Heel molars and bicuspids out of his way? . . "Heh-heh!" The Horse heh-hehhed, "Lil Roll-) Horner would have been demanding the Tar Heeler be censured for biting on Dook elbows! Chee whiZ, R0ger t Looka here! Teeth, by gum! and not any of ours, by gum!" How did The Horse know this? "They are all canine teeth," The Horse said reasonably. "Oh, well, better luck against the Dooks those noble and Galahad-like warriors of clean, spirited, aggressive and penalty-loaded hoofball! Why, shure! We had imported some Purdue of ficials, drat 'em! "Wump!" Mr. Wump, the Frog, whumped from his corner ....
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