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SUNDAY, NOVE.'.SER 7, 1?s PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL You Can Go Home . Again A man v, a 1 king-past Murphy Hall on his way to the? game yesterday afternoon turned to his companion and ;aid, "You know, it hasn't changed so nich. It's pretty much the way it was 30 years ago." That wasn't quite true, of course. Since 1924, the campus lias more than doubled, spread out in all directions until it hardly resembles the University the man graduated from. . But in a larger sense, w c think, Carolina probrblv .hasn't "changed s j much," xand this "alumnus may have been right. Kven for 4hose whose cailiest memory of Franklin Street is of a rutted dirt road and for those who knew, in their student days, every citi zen in town, Chapel Hill has remained, de spite all its physical growth, somehow dif ferent. Kveryone who has been here for any length of time knows it, but we have never heard tint feeling adequately expressed. It h? , to do with the function of this vil lage: the process of teaching and learning. That sets it apart in the beginning from Karmapolis, which makes cloth, and Ral eigh, which dispenses government, and Souibport, which catches.-fish. Chapel Hill teaches people, and that makes it different. So. do other things, however, and it is those other things that makes the word "Homecoming" peculiarly applicable to our t un. I!ic alumnus of whom we spoke was coming bark to the things that really have n't changed -so much since 1924 the ancient hill' on the edge of the Carolina Piedmont covered with the burnt, brown leaves of fall, the old oaks of the north campus, Old East and Old West, rising out of the same yellow clay from which their yellow bricks were made a century and a half ago. And "Homecoming" to a graduate of thir- tv years ago, means coming back to the same freedom under the sun, the same students on the South Building steps (they are dress ed differently, but they haven't changed), the same unpretentious excitement in the air on a football Saturday, the same feeling of being in a vital place, a place that has come to have a greater part in the history of the state than any other, a village that is yet to gro.w .so far beyond its boundaries that a day will come when even the most roman tic can no longer call it a village; and yet even then, it will not have changed so much. What's more, at Homecoming, 1984, there will be an alumnus on hand to remark that it hasn't. -Tlvev call it "Homecoming" everywhere, of coime. .lt IJCLA.there's a- parade miles , Jong;. at, Michigan, they crown a queen be foie a crowd of thousands. They come "Home''' to Duke, too, from Philadelphia and New York, crowd beneath the Gothic spires, slap each other on the back and make up roarious comparisons to the size of the old bald spot. : But, we venture, the significance of the word is nowhere so great as it is on this campus, where this weekend there is a com ing home to Chapel Hill. Thomas Wolfe, who knew this town, should have known better than to write, "You can't go home again . . ." We have seen the alumni treading the brick walks of the campus this weekend, Tom, and you were .'wrong.-Even after thirty or forty or fifty years you can. Ctje ailp to Heel The- official student publication ef the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published aily except Monday, examination and vaca- tion periods ana sum mer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March 8, 1379. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; J delivered, 56 a year, $3.50 a semester. . f 9" ' -Jain 4mmvmmw kii'smwA'i j ' r Cimjc l(dt y Carol mrf j i Site of the wtinth first i ofrwrt ta doors 17-9 J ' I Editor '. CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Eusiness Manager TOM SHORES Sports Editor FRED BABSON Jerry Reece Eleanor Saunders Ruth Dalton Bernie Weiss News Editor . Society Editor .. Editorial Assistant - Assistant Sports Editor ..: Asisstant Business Manager Bill Bob Peel Circulation & Subscription Mgr. Dick O'Neal Advertising Manager Dick Sirkin Photographers Cornell Wright, R. B. Henley Artist 1 ' Dan Southerland NEWS STAFF Dick Creed, Charles Childs, Babbie Dilorio, Jackie Goodman, Lloyd Shaw, Richard Thiele, Neil Bass, Hal Henderson, Ann Herring, Bobbie Zwahlen, Mitchell Borden, Eddie Crutch field, Bob Eberle. EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Ron Levin, Tom Spain, David Mundy, Carl Williams SPORiTS STAFF Bob Dillard, Chalmers Poston, Ray Linker. BUSINESS STAFF Frank Wilson, Jack Wiesel, Joan Metz. Carolina Front. 'Ti Bloomers To Blue Jeans: j That's Coeds " Louis Kraar COEDS AND the clothes theyv wear have frequently been the m:,mt 1 1, ..in subject of biting y criticism from this reporter. But after, a look at the fas hions of other college geneia- tions I'm rea dy to reform. "WX Thanks 1 0 i 17 yvAv'fri that great tower of news (at least, all "that's fit to print") The New York Times I got a glimpse of some of our. ancestor's college clothes. And, as I said, I'm ready to reform! Back in 1867, which was pro bably the time when the young girl realized that college was as good a husband-hunting, grounds as any, they wore hats and hoop skirts to class. Later, as going to college , be came the thing for girls to do. (if you could afford it and hadn't hooked a husband yet), Vassar girls went athletic. The pink V (for Vassar) became the sign of fashion. World War I brought bloomers. And by the twenties, belted . sweaters, silk stockings and high heels, raccoon coats and the hip flask were standard coed equip ment. . Skirts fell with the stock mar ket in the 1930's, and pavement . pounding oxfords became the vogue (mainly due to necessity.) By the next time the world had gone to war, the coed decided to be practical to the point of con formity, and even Wellesley girls took to blue jeans and sloppy shirts. Today if you haven't noticed the coeds wear trim skirts, neat blouses and sweaters, and those -horrible (I still don't like them) Burmuda shorts. Ivy League fashion-setters pre dict the short skirt with high socks. I'm not sure about this either. But as long as the girls don't go back to bloomers or blue jeans, I'm all for them. Night Editor fox this Issue .Eddie Crutchfield WHILE ON the subject of fas hion, I might add that the Uni versity of Virginia has become worried about its male students and their dress. Apparently, the Virginia gen tlemen have been cavorting about campus without coats and ties (a sin, by UVa. standards). In addition, these rude students nave had the audacity to go "around wearing T-shirts, "spotted and colored shirts" and tennis shoes. But the student paper, The Cavalier, put them in place with this haughty slap: "If the aesthe tic depravity of these 'students', continues to be in evidence, then we suggest that all gentlemen, whose tastes in clothes is on a slightly higher and more appeal ing plane, either forceably change the ways of their younger class mates or give up the traditions of the University to those of . a state 'U.'" By all means, Cavaliers, I sug gest that you don't give up your traditions for those of a state university. After all you're not a state university, you're just a country club aided and abetted by state funds. OVERHEARD IN HARRY's; "What I need to get up in the mornings is a mistress to kick me out of bed." GEORGIA TECH, with one of the college football's biggest teams in the last few years, has an angry student body these days. After students learned they couldn't purchase date tickets to their biggest game with Geor gia the student paper declared: "We may as well face it, the high-powered football played here in the Southeastern Conference has taken the game away from the students. Evidently the Athletic Association is more interested in cutting down a little scalping -which is impossible and cater ing to the alumni than it is in pleasing the student body. CALDWELL MONUMENT is still looking sad and unfixed. May I recommend to the authorities that they proceed to fix it, or 'should the student Legislature appoint another of its committees to "look into the possibilities of" fixing it? A A vvv; 'fcV1- - ' v X si- A ST - So J M- . m m J "v. 1 -if 3 I It-?! J .1 McCarthy Aide Talks Tactics WASHINGTON On the eve of the McCarthy censure debate, a former associate of McCarthy's has given highly revealing in formation regarding his opera ' tions. They include: 1. An attempt by McCarthy to thwart the Senate committee probing his finances in 1951. 2. McCarthy's efforts to defeat Democratic candidates in Utah, Montana and Washington by 6mearing them as pro-Communist. The ex-McCarthy associate, Har vey Matusow, is a former mem ber of the Communist party who became disillusioned, gave in formation to the FBI and later joined McCarthy's long list of friends, informers and paid em ployees. Interviewed by this writ er, Matusow told in detail how McCarthy had sent home to Utah to re-elect of all people Sen. Arthur . Watkins, now chairman of the Senate Committee which recommended the censure of Mc Carthy. ' Matusow did this, he said, first by testifying before a Senate Jommittee in Salt Lake City about Communists in the govern ment and later by smearing Con gressman Granger, Democratic opponent of Senator Watkins, as soft toward Communists. "I used McCarthy logic," Matu sow explained. "I said Granger was pro-Administration policy on China . . . China fell to the Reds and "your boys are fighting, in Korea. "I also campaigned in Montana against Senator Mansfield and in Washington against Senator Jack son," Matusow said, "But the smear, technique was . not suc cessful." Lady Witness Exits ' Describing his work for- Mc Carthy in thwarting the Senate committee probing McCarthy's finances, Matusow said he had received a call from Mrs. J. B. Matthews, whose husband was then McCarthy's committee coun sel, asking him to take Mrs. Ar villa Bentley out of the -United States util the probe of Mc Carthy's finances blew over. Mrs. Bentley, former wife of Congressman Alvin Bentley,. had "loaned" $7,000 to McCarthy, while the congressman "loaned" $3,000. And the Senate wanted to question vher regarding this and other contributions. Mrs. Bentley, Matusow said, had also paid for a Mutual network broadcast which McCarthy made before the 1950 elections. Matusow said McCarthy knew, all about the ideaof taking Mrs. Bentley out of the United States away from Senate probers and that he, Matusow, had talked to McCarthy "himself about it. He also said that McCarthy's attorney knew about the plan. Mrs. Bentley remained in the. British Bahamas outside the arm of a Senate subpoena for. about two weeks, then came back, to, the United States, Matusow ex plained. "Was this $110,000 the money used by McCarthy to speculate, on the soy-bean market?" Matu sow was asked. "That's correct," "Did Mrs. Bentley. have any. idea that McCarthy was going, to use it fpr speculation?" " 4 llll SEN, KNOWLAM) ... a watering down will be tried. "No, she did not." "Did she express any opinion to you about it?" "Very definitely," Matusow, re plied. "She said that if she had known- Senator McCarthy was going t6 speculate with this money, slie never would have loaned it to him." MatusoV also said that McCar thy had asked him to investigate the New York Times, Time Maga zine and other newspapers with a view to pinning the Communist Party label on them. "They had been attackig Sen ator McCarthy," -the ex-McCar- Drevy Pearson thyitg; explained, "and he was sore about it and wanted to take his revenge." Lone Star Revenge There Was an interesting inside reason why the Republicans elect ed, one lone Texas Congressman, Bruce Alger, from Dallas. It was a pure, case, of Democratic re venge. The revenge was not against the Republicans but against Democrat Walter Savage, who had double-crossed the Democrats in the 1952 Presidential election Savage, who ran for Congress last week, was Democratic state chairman two years ago when he turned the Democratic machinery oyer to the Republicans in the presidential election and helped swing the state to Eisenhower? While Savage was Democratic state chairman, his partner, Al vin Lane, was Republican state chairman. They formed an inter esting GOP team. This year SaVage decided to run for Congress as a Democrat, But when Dallas voters went to the polls on Tuesday, thousands of Democrats' boycotted the Dem ocratic candidate. Remembering the man who as ' Democratic chairman had thrown the party machinery to Eisenhower, many Democrats either voted against him or. just- didn't vote at all. Meanwhile, the Republicans, who used Savage in 1952, des troyed him in 1954. They elected their own man, Alger. Note- Savage had been so con fident of victory that he had line4 up his staff and even rented a. house in Washington. Republican Headache Republicans are worried that the McCarthy censure session will turn into a party brawl with the JDemocrtats sitting serenely on the sidelines. Their chief concern is that Mc Carthy, who insists he can't be bought off with" anything less than acquittal, on the censure charge, will aim his smear mac hine at Republicans and drag them down with him.To avoid this, a group of moderates headed by Majority Leader Bill , Know land will try to water down the censure resolution and persaude McCarthy to accept it. McCarthy is almost sure to re fuse and will carry his fight on for weeks, no matter how much the censure resolution is toned down. God & The Juice Bo:: . X. 4 -1 LOVAL AHJKtLOULON VAA b CL'b I UMKR'S COIN . . . for a talk with the Man upstairs? , . (These are excerpts from an article by D. W Brogan in the British newspaper. The. Manchester Gwirdlan. They afford a look at an Englishman's look at this year's spate of religious popular songs. Editor) When you sit down in a dining-car ol the New Haven Railroad you find on the table a little card on which are printed three forms of grace before meat Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish. It is not perhaps worth - insisting on the fact that the New Haven, for reasons best known to itself, does not p rint a form of grace after meat. What is more significant is the at tempt to recall the passengers of the line to their religious duties. And it is only one sign among many of the degree tc 1 which religion is being pushed, "sold" a; the advertisers might put it, to the Amer ican peopled It is easy and tempting to smile or even laugh at some of the manifestations of the revival of religion. To see on the filthy wall of a Harlem slum a poster ad vertising the good results to be expected from regular church-going is to be tempt ed to irony. For this so prosperous mid dleclass pair with their smart little boy and smart little girl belong not to Harlem but to Westchester or Fairfield County. Their churches, their religion, seem to have little relation to the religious or so cial condition of Harlem. It is possible to smile, too, at the unconscious identifica tion of God with the free enterprise sys tem. This is a God who rewards here and now. "Grace and gear,"' as Burns put it. still go together in America. Perhaps the oddest example of Ameri can religiosity" is to be found in the field of popular music. God has invaded the juke-boxes. It is not a -matter of Negro spirituals or hymns like "Silent Night." There is a special juke-box religious music. I first noticed this when I Ihtennl irily to a tune called 'Talk to the Man t stairs." I thought at first that' this wa. a variant on a common amorous th :v But I realised suddenly, that the "Man l'p stairs" was God. I listened, too, to "Are o 1 friends with the King of Friends?" T!u w is another song called simply "My Frier, 1." but the singers are made so inarticulate bv their snobbinz that I have been unable ! determine who the friend is. It may be that this invasion of the jute-boxrs 1. simply a result of the fact that this i, j very poor year for popular muMc. 'I In song that most assaults the- ear is melancholy and quite undistinguished ri.v called "Take me in your arms." It is cb! ficult to get a glass of milk in New York without having to endure this. It is the old theme of Venus and Adonis, and Ado nis, like Orpheus, would be, well .ju.-tif;ci in taking off "down the swift Ilebrus 1o the Lesbian shore." It is perhaps no wonder that' a different theme should have some appeal. And of course the propagators of juke-box reli gion may ask with Rowland Hill "h should the Devil have all the good tune-?' Alas! the religious tunes are not go id not as good, for instance, as a California wine firm's current commercial "jingle.' And I wonder whether the propagandist effect is always what is hoped for. I va- recently in a bar presided over by a lor mer "star of the Howard Athenaeum (of Boston, Mass.). It was full of youn' peo ple "horsing around" as the saying A young man and a young woman were wrapt in the pursuit of love - and were feeding nickels, more or less automatical 1, into the juke-box. They gazed into each other's eyes to the tune of "Steam heat" (the title tells all). Then came "The M:m Upstairs," but as I left the bar Eros r, as winning over Agape hands down. YOU Said It: A Plug For Leniency Editor: A referendum is before the students which, if passed, will raise the honor sys tem out of the judicial doldrums and give it real meaning for each student. Ask yourself, "What is the trouble with our honor system?" Why don't students support the honor system any better? The answer is simple: we have a system of punishment and intimidation, not of honor. A student reporting an offender for cheating will hurt him, not help him. As long as this is thecase, the old stigma on "stooling" will remain the powerful inhibition it is. Until reporting an individ ual can be considered as doing him a favor we cannot expect maximum partici pation on the part of students. And we must MAKE it a favor. No greater lesson can be learned than honor. The honor system is the best system possible. But is is not perfect and it can be improved. It can be improved Jby great er student support and by treating of fenders as individuals. When a student breaks the honor system, we want him to change his ways. This can be done in two ways: rehabilitation and punishment. Punishment has two great drawbacks: it Is brutal and wasteful, and its objective can be achieved easier through rehabilitation. We want offend ers to accept the honor system as THEIR honor system. What is important is not the fact that they broke the honor system but WHY they broke it. Offenders can not be dismissed as malicious incorrigibles fit only for exile. They must be under stood as individuals with individual pro blems. Until you have done this you have done nothing.. Why suspend a student for first of fense cheating? Is it assumed that because he has cheated once he will cheat again? Does . his. presence here contaminate honest students and make them dishonest? I think not. Is it possible that ostracism wjll bring about correction better than sympathetic individual attention? I think not. Is it necessary to disrupt a students' entire life perhaps permanently for a mistake that could be corrected more eas ily and an effective without a personal revolution. Helt, no! If wie. want to make the honor system really work, the students must abide by it because they want to not because they are afraid not to. I suggest the best way to reconstruct an erring individual is to guide him in his efforts, not to push him off the cliff and expect him to crawl back alone: If you agree, vote FOR the referen dum for leniency in first offense cheating and put some honor in the honor system. . Charli Welf, Student Council 'Not Asked,' Says Panhellenic Courici! Editor: I am writing this letter as a point of information to anyone who is intcrestcl in the issue recently broucht up in legis lature' concerning the abolishment of t( during rush periods. Since the question of sorority appro,i! on being included in such a bill was not brought to the attention of .the I'ar.l.- ' lenic Council before its proposal, I won! i like to mention some of the points whuli may have been overlooked concerning the sororities' position. Panhellenic has its rush week at the be ginning of the school year for the eon venience of both students and admimr.-, tion. At that time they arc not confronted with the problem of tests. Since rush!:;:; is an extra-curricular' activity and doe not concern the whole student body, then is an endeavor to keep it in.-jts" proper perspective. In conclusion, the doubt lingering in n: mind is why sororities were included in such a bill without the endorsement c: their official organization. Joan C. Leonard 'Normality' in Venable . &,AAore Bunsen Burners Editor: There is an amusing side to everv sit uation and even Venable with its Komber dark halls has a little cheer; now and then. It seems during a lecture for stu dents having trouble with calculations in lab, the lab instructor discovered hv students wer- receiving 30's a grades. These students were using the bottles of solution on the side shelf with a given normality. The instructor enlightened these unfortunate victims that those bot tles were marked incorrectly and there fore their lab results were incorrect. This was so delightfully hilarious to the in-true-tor that he held his sides and .screamed for joy. Why not, it only meant a few students had to re-do twenty-four titrations, wcuh twenty-four samples again, heat twe-ntv-four solutions and clean their equipment twenty-four times. What could be funmet than going to lab Monday through Satur day? Think what a joy it will beTfor those people to be able to toast thetr. bread ov er a bunsen burner in the morning an 1 sleep on those soft desks over night, perhaps just bring a cot over, and Ma . at Venable for a few months.: ; : 'Joan Hudson
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