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a THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11,- PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL The Undehated Case Against NcCarthy In opening debate on the McCarthy censure resolution es.terday. Senator -Arthur V. W'atkim accused Joseph McCarthy erf failing to uphold his oarth uf office. Senator Watkins, as chairman of the committee that has recorn trended repri mand for McCarthy ouht to know. He and his cornnhttee members reviewed more titan 40 instances of misconduct by McCar thv. They picked two contempt of a Sen ate subcommittee and abuse of an Army genera to before the Sete. Those rre the charges on which McCarthy will be (ensured or cleared. But the Watkins committee made it clear that one reason for not presenting other names was the time factor, and, while not recommending: censure on - the other charge, the committee did not want to be understood as approving the action involved. And no wo:;dc;. The list of charges not even included in the public hearings is a remarkable record of dem?cruerv. In the next weeks. ou will hear much. of the ch:;r T--s being debated. Iok now at some r-f ?- charges of which this man already S'-m-Is f "'-nvicted in the eves of his fair-mind ed Carolina Front. - 7 he Attack On The Intellectual a nan t'.l $ : 0.00 2. men: V. ' ile a member of a committee prh. diction over a g-overnment-fi- - : -oration, McCarthy received ' gift. V aiiout prooi or otfjer lustmca- tEfje Bail? ar Hl The official student cations Eoard cf the Ui Sttr f.f Cw yri:--r-!-.y ' 1 7 "4 5 ilkiitor - Y Managing Editor Associate Editors 'Last Gh'ance' For Coed Gets Real Sympathy Louis Krasr tack. -. tion. he ha2 made an unwarranted attack tn Gen. George C. Marshall. . He has permitted and ratified ov er a period of several months the abuse of senatorial pmileze of his. chief counsel, Rov Cohn- 4. .McCanhv lias conducted his com mittee in suds a! sloenlv way that cases of mistaken identity .'Annie I.ee Moss, Law rence Parish; have made the Senate look ridiculous. r He ha attempted economic coer cion against the p:es and radio. C. He has used distortion and innu endo to attack the reputations of such citi zens as Former President Truman, Attorney General Brownelh John J. McCIoy and Phillip Tessup. 7. He lias intruded upon the prerog ative of the executive branch. 8. He "has questioned adverse wit nesses in public session in such a manner as to defame loyal and valuable -public ser vants, whom lie has rarely provided an Vp port unitv to answer his charges. q. He has infringed upon the juris diction of other Senate committees. jo. He has held executive sessions in ?n apparent attempt to prevent the press from getting an accurate account of the testimony of witnesses, and then released his own versions of that testimony, often, at variance with subsequently revealed transcripts. j 1. He has denied members of Con gress access to 'the files of tlie committee, an illegal act. 12. He has permitted changing of cornmittee reports and records in such a way as to substantially change or delete vital meanings- That, in case vou've been away these last few years, adds up to McCarthyism. Hearts & Flowers Everv vear. student leaders from Car olina and Duke break bread together as a sign of their high "friendship and warmth, and then go out and holler for their re specme football teams to commit a gory masse; re. Stilt- the supper is a nice idea and is exceptionally well scheduled this year-. Although Roy Holsten swears it's a coincidence, 'there must be some signifi cance in the fact that the peate-pipe smok ing session will 4 cur today November which is Armistice Day, even among sworn enemies. w publication of the Publi iversity of North Car&Usa, where it is published daily except Monday. examination and vaea- tion periods and sum- f 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; j ielivered, $6 a year, $350 a semester. CHARLES KURALT FRED PO 7.X EDGE LOUIS KRAAR, ED YOITER Business Manager TOII SHORES THE GULL walked into Dag ger's with her boy friend and a ' b u g e package s wrapped in tm- foiL I The v. e a a 1 :SuEday night jcrim-d filk-d I most of the ta ! bles, but the '.girl and her es cort found one empty in the . Well fust nave some coffee." the girl told a waitress. Aid then she began to unwrap lt?r tinfoil package. Mr. Danziger -eyed the package and the couple The girl finally called Sir. D. over to the table. "I hope you -won't mind my bringing this in here, but I just had to. ihow him. It might be my last chance," she said smli-ing- .. Tor such a noble thing, I .cannot be mad," said Mr. D. as he sa-w what was in the tinfoil package lemon pie. CLOCK IS the Current Af fairs Room cf the Library (of all places) is an hour fast. A FORMER TEXAS cded who quit school to fight bulls (real ones) has written a book about her work in Mexican bull rings that many an aiieionade will en joy. Patricia McCormiek, the lady bullfighter, tells in her book, called "The Lady Bulifigbter,". about her college days at West ern Texas College in El Paso. She says she picked the school because it was across the river from Juarez, a bullfighting cen ter. Toreadora Pat used to cut classes to fight bulls in the Jua rez plaza. Her dormitory house mother covered up for her, (an interesting innovation.)) At twenty-four, Pat is a gal totally dedicated to her profes sion. She swears she hasn't had a date in four years. Her parents, who axe in th oil business, at first objected to her fighting bulls, but Pat talked them into it. . Miss MeCormick found the bull throwing her a couple months ago, and she was gored. But fortunately for true aficionados, Pat recovered quickly and is already training for her next tangle with a bulk After her fling in the ring is over, Miss MeCormick says she wants to retire, marry, and raise a family which should prove as interesting as bullfighting for such an energetic young lady EVEN CHAPEL HILL has its ad men, as the inside cf a match book eover proved the other day. Describing the Hill as "the heartbeat of the old North state," the ad continued in glowing terms: "More than a place, Chapel Hill is a spirit a spirit of liber ality having its core in the Uni versity; its roots in town. Born of toil and strife, it has a pride and mellowness, as Thomas Wolfe ence said.,beats every other town all hollow.' It is a product of the new South, an eager, vibrant far sighted South." All this and the New Old Well too. Thanks to some public rela tions a&an, it sounds like the town is trying to talk itself into something. ,Sure, the Hill 13 grand. Eut why have advertising men tell us. We know iL WOMAN'S COLLEGE'S student paper asked voters to cast their ballots for Republicans to pro mote the two-party system in the South. "At this stage, a conrinced Democrat need not feel uneasy about casting a Republican bak lot," the paper declared. Have the girls forgotten about the Eisenhower presidential race in 52 when that's exactly what "convinced Democrats did? Many cf those voters are sorry today, I might add. Sports Editor FRED BABSOr? News Editor , Society Editor . Advertising Manager Jerry Reece Eleanor Saunders Dick Sirkin j Henry Steele Commager In The Reporter The historian of the future who chronicles this decade will be puzzled by the d?pth, strength and prevalence of our anti-intel-lectualism This emotion find3 expression in the general distrust of universities, particularly of those centuries-old universities that have been our pride and in the exaction of loyalty oaths from teachers; in the siereotype of the professor as long-haired and absent-minded in the widespread zeal for censorshop and for book banning if not book burning; in the vague aura of guilt that surrounds association with academic, irrtellectuah lits rary and reform societies: and most alarming of 2li in the widespread suspicion that intel lectuals are peculiarly suscepti ble to subversion. This is a puzzling situation in a society which has long made a religion of education, which boasts the highest college and university population is the world, and which h.as depended and continues to depend on intel lectual leadership for its social progress, its political soundness and its very security. There is, to be sure, nothing new about the notion that the intellectual is a disturber of the peace, or about the resentment that sueh disturbance excites. Socrates paid with his life for 'corrupting' the minds of the young by forcing them to chal lenge accepted ideas and to con sider new ones, and from his day to the present philosophers and scientists who have disturbed the peace have been exposed to mis understanding or contumely or worse for their willfulness. When we consider the present wave of anti-inteliectualisrm then it is well to keep a sense of per spective and of proportion. The intellectual today may be the victim of fear or derision, but he is not the victim of the rack and the fagot. He may not en joy the prestige he commanded when he was an orthodox mem ber of a church which had a monopoly on all matters 'of tmijd. and spirit or of an aristocratic class wairh enjoyed special pri . vileges, but such brestige as be does enjoy he has earned on his own merits. An American Phenomenon Yet realization that anti-in-teliectualism is very old., or tha " the position of the intellectual in We Mad A the past was artifically bolstered, is of little relevance. After all. our interest is matter is not inspired by sympathy for the intellectual, but. by concern for society. It i essential to abate Enti-irrteijectualissi because it is hard on all of us .. Irrationalism is one thing, emo tional asti-irtelleetu al ism anoth er. As exemplified in the antics A a McCarthy, 2 Jenner. a Ten ney or a Breyles, it is peculiarly an American phenomenon. No where in the West has it made such progress as in "eur own country -" - The fact is that the intellectual class enjoys no privileged place in American society chiefly be cause it bas no place at all It is proper to speak of an intel lectual class in BoIlEiHi - or France or Sweden, but uot in the United States. Just . as we have, strictly speaking, so eleri eal class, no military class, no official class. So we have no in tellectual class. The intellectuals are not only- part of society at large, they are merged in and lost in the society. They have no special status and can claim special distinction. This is particularly true of pro fessors, perhaps the chief objects of hostility from the anti-intellectuals. Many an American pro- . lessor looks longingly et the exalted position enjoyed by his colleagues is Sweden, for ex ample, where the title "Profes sor" is so honorable that it is conferred on illustrious scholars by Act of Parliament. But the term "Professor" is an honored one in Sweden and something less than that in America be cause the Swedes have not de based the coinage and the Amer icans have. The six professors of history in Sweden that is the total number are in fact men of great distinction; it would be an exaggeration to clam such uniform eyceilence for the five or six thousands American profes sors of history. Second, and more important, American professors partake, for better or for worse, of the character of the institu tions they serve, and these in stitutions have never been things apart (as in many -Old World countries) but a, part of. and a. function of society. We expect our colleges and universities to serve us, to reflect us, to conform f to us; we require them to do a hundred things, only, indireetiv related to the search for know ledge; we cherish them , for achievements other than intel lectual "The University in America," Waiter Metzger has recently writ- iost en: ten, is nod. a cc of tiusi?tic2r. In the early .years of the New Deal, in deed, - Washington looked ' like a perpetual meeting of the A-A.U.-P. "This was the hevdav of the israin trust,' popularly sup- posed to be responsible for every dangerous experiment, in govern- rnent and politics, for crackbrain- f ed projects like the Federal Arts I or the Federal Writers, fcr sky- rocketing taxes, for curious new fiscal notions, for the burgeoning r welfare state, for the socialistic notion that the state was respons - Ible for "jobs, health, and a dozen d ether things that had been as signed to private enterprise or to fortuity, . This is jds of the stereotypes that' emerged,, then, from the New Deal; the intellectual 2 reformer, experimenter, and dreamer. ...To this the war and the postwar years were to add another and more dangerous The Day Of The Egghead Revolt Ed Yoder Folks never bothered to remember v i; pened in The Great Revoiutn. Utopia for the Eggheaus fcac scholars, but as enormous ag glomerate service station,, where one can be bom, go to kinder garten, lower school and high sehooL meet the gfrkfriead, and get married, where one can get religious solace cr psychiatric help; where one learns to turn out a newspaper, to do book keeping, to cook. No wonder the universities have been hiring generals to run this domain. . - The Professor !n Our History Hers, then, is a fundamental factor in anti-intelleetuaiism: the leveling force of legal demo cracy, its hostility to distinction, and its pressure for conformity. A second is less fundamental but - :nr,.,!- Tt ; tVist ir.lpl. lectuals have been given a large stereotype die in.eiiertuaJ as part of the responsibility blame may be an apter word for lead ing the nation along the hard paths of reform and internation alism. In a sense the intellectuals have been the conscience of American society. Again and again in the last sixty or seventy years, they have been in" the forefront of reform movements, pointing out the mel-practices of the trusts or the railroads, pleading the cause of the farmer and of labor, .championing the underdog, calling and this was perbaps their worst fault for governmental . intervention and for the welfare state. They played a prominent part in the Populist revolt, and -a number of them lost their jobs as a result Presi dent E. Benjamin Andrews of Brown, Thorsten Veblen and Ed ward Alsworth Ross at Stanford, and others. They were active again in the period of the New Freedom, whose tone was set by Professor Woodrow Wilson. They were guilty not only of forcing democratic reforms on a reluetant business community but ' of championing intervention .fend internationalism. Professor Wilson was himself a leading in ternationalist. The intellectuals and the professors became iden tified in the public mind with international do-goodism. But it was during the' third great era of reform under Frank lin D. Roosevelt, that the intel lectuals really got themselves in bad odor. Roosevelt himself was no intellectual in the commonly used sense of the term, but it is notorious that when he raised the banner of the New Deal it was the professors who rallied around NO one what one care had. to worry about de was ers said or igogues. .pen ana there Fcr ing to be demagogic a be was in viol2tio3 of the -en and unwritten Utcp.c. to be curious about whs: ;. isns thought and wrote so rr.ary years, then, ysa ask the historians. An would scratch their h sa ssy; - - "Revolution? You knew. ; f ' ' ,. ". -: - ! ' - - . t . t- "- " - ' i.C- - T'C,.:: -7--. . . t- t - -,v i' ?-.-2:r":-- ! - 1 v. v - : zZ1 - j I"-. 'Now, Don't Be Afraid To Speak Frankly' Pavies was FOf? . '"' I . t v-' Vv-: : ----- Night Editor lor this Issue .Eddie Crutchfield AND THEN there was the coed in the Dairy Bar yesterday read ing a handout pamphlet called: "How To Throw and Receive Forward Passes." don't remember." Of course, you can .sti. revolutionary era.- r - -hi!r.sorhers --nan art.: r "eele Commager. Elmer Davis Arthur Schlesicger. From their writings, y. 'Jon, tn?Pt.her how it might have hrpper.ee there' were fragments of tne &reaT. had been made on Revolution .ve. THE PROCESSOR . . 1 he is the chief object of hostility subversive. Much of this suspicion of the intellectual, and of this resentment against the causes he espoused and the standards he maintained, came to a head with the -trials cf Alger Hiss. Since those, memorable trials all in tellectuals have been fair game. They are guilt until proved in nocent, though just what they are guilty of is never quite clear. A Heavy Price Thus the intellectuals, who had ben -so largely responsible for prodding .the American people into adapting their government and their economy to the necess ities cf a new day, and for mak ing clear the inescapable necess ity of assuming international re sponsibilities and obligations, paid a heavy price for their triumph. They made clear the course that the United States had to follow, and they contri buted greatly to the education of public opinion and the provision of administrative leadership. But in the process they earned far themselves a good deal cf re sentment and dislike. The intellectuals and academi cians are themselves responsible for some cf this anti-ir-tellectual-ism, After all, we bave had some thing like universal public edu cation for a long time, and no ether society can boast as many coliege graduates as our own. If the most educated generation of one of the most educated nations plunges into antkmtellectualism, something ' must be seriously wrong with either the principle or the practice of education. Since it is almost inconceivable to confess anything wrong with the principle, the responsibility eomes back to the practice- that is, t the schools and the col leges, to the intellectuals them selves. They have failed to make clear the role of the intellectual in American life, to instill an ap preciation of the necessity for intellectual, independence. They have failed to enlist the great mass of their countrymen in the common cultural and intellectual enterprise necessary for the Re- . public's progress and security. . OnIy last month, speaking in . Los, Angeles the President, as quoted, in the New York Here Id Tribune, defined the intellectual as "a. man who takes more words than he needs to say more than he knows." The attack on the in tellectual proceeds. his r the situation until the Ser.it e v n. uscript "was discovered. The Senate l-laruKn-had been rotting in a pumpxtn m a Wije-ir.j.n corn field- Some important passages hod been ib literated bv mildew; but, working carefully, a grv p of researchers managed to piece together tr.is ac count: The Revolutionary idea for Eggheads dated back thousands of years, actually. But rr.sre real istic historians have decided that ferment became most .intense just after the failure cf The Great Senate Censure. McCarthy, a mir.tr demagogue, but one whose methods and reputation had made him the post-Revolutionary bete tux- had to go before his fellow Senators to tr.?xer .te.tsure eharges. - , By means of a filibuster he and several of hi3 henchmen delayed the proceedings ur:J .Thanks giving season came. On Thank5g:v.r.g Day, the Senators, in despair at not being ti'.t to ras the censure, motion, adjourned and wet: :.;rr.e. Unrest spread fast among the Lrr-eai;-. Be fore many days had passed, the Zzz'iz- hal fused into the critical mass for Revo:,..:-. They were late joined by The College Stuaem; toe Ed itorial Writers, and The Scientists mar.y :: w-ora were already ex-officio Eggheads.) The Senate Manuscript doesn't rr.aF.e ilar where the unrest was most fervid, but sr.-eitlfjc research has pinpointed Cambridge. Mass.. as the ' most likely place. Further research has ceUrmin. ed that Princeton. N. J., in the North, and Chi pel Kill, N. C, in the South were also active breeding grounds for the revolution. The manifesto of the Revolution is not quoted entirely in the Senate Manuscript (part of it burn ed in the Great Chicago Tribune Ftre.j V"e 2a have a fragment cf the manifesto. It was written by the Great Egghead, Nosnevets, who had received his revolutionary indoctrination at Princeton. Mo.-t famous quotation from the manifesto is intact- It said: 'Eggheads of the world, unite! ing to lose but your yolks." (To Be Contin-acd) You hve ro.td- Tell Humanity The Truth From The Christian Science AA Every day that passes now brings incrtafir.j awareness to American officials thai what the aiorx: scientists said nearly 10 years ago that war is ob solete is astonishingly true. We are speaking here of large-scale" warders between nations possessing nuclear weapons. The fact was clear to some of the atomic scientists 2S soon as the first bomb was tested in July, 1?45, in New Mexico. These men knew then what th were playing with, and thai the test was" a mere droplet to what would come. In 1945 .Messrs, uppemoeimer and Teller believed incredibly more destructive bomb, was probab! tain able In the United States it is becoming recognized that in such a war there will be no victor. So the true revolutionary force of r.u:'e:r weapons is again becoming recognized. This aware ness remains -dim up to now, but it is here ar.d it is proclaimed, by President Eisenhower and ty other leaders such as Mr. Attlee in Britain in his tamous atctura it the world is tne co-existence or co-death." Many believe it literal as that. And one reason recognition is the re-diseoverv of the problem radiation ;ie Experts CO nuclear weapons, examining the re- suits of the tmiwetok H-bomb test last March, r.er. the Japanese' fishermen were showered with ri in active dust 72 miles from the source of the h'ist. are attempting to re-awaken people to the jrrr.ity of radiation. This comes specifically in articles in the tin of the Atomic Scientists wr'i-f . American people do not realh of what happened to e the ip..ci: te fishermen cf the Lu -"-' not yet Dragon, or the threat of enormous radiation tnat could result from hydrogen-bomb attack; upon tit? United States. They do not realize because, th? ii- mcje3 impiy. tneir coverr-r.prt v-.: -.-1 sufficiently candid. There are indications, however, that Ah-erin-", officials, military, civil defense, and State, Depart ment, do recognize that the hydrosen bomi ha - geometrically increased the cancer to civi'ir-i- both' in. blast effect and even more in rad)at.:-n that they now see grer wars have become c': - lete. This recognition comes from the ir.forrr.i:- obtained in the various tvpes of weaoor. which the Soviets also conduct periodically. t information Americans obtain trci tests the Soviets likewise obtain. So it seems pru dent to conclude that they, too, may come to re:;-d great wars as obsolete. This is an awakemir.s w-h:ch wnich everv at: r.. 5 entist as well as citizen will hail. PprhL for some of the scientists to speak out they did in 1945-46. Dr. Albert Schwe m xact, urged them in a letter to th ..r;d;2 DaJy Herald to "tell humanity the trv i speecnes and articles. And we should r, that he did not say tell Americans the tnasnmen the truth, or Russians h humanity."' ne tell
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