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SATURDAY, DECEMBER A, 1?5 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEIL" What Shakespeare Thought Of Dulles A lot of good typewriter ribbon has been expended since January, 1953, trying to characterize John Foster Dulles, President Eisenhower's Secretary of State. Dulles is the man whose thetorical powers conceived phrases like "seizing the initiative' "mas sive retaliation," "agonizing re-appraisal;" he is the man whose diplomatic tact let him say,-fit the swearing in. of the new Mexican ambassador, that- lie was glad to swear in at last an ambassador to a ' good country." On what meat doth this our Dulles feed? What is he really like? The best characteri 7 - lion by far that we've seen to date is one by Harry Golden, brilliant and witty editor of the Carolina Israelite. In a recent article, "Shakespeare, Marlow, and John Foster Dulles," Mr. Golden writes: "What John Foster Dulles- thinks of Shrespeave we do not know7. But what William Shakespeare thougltt of John Fos Dulles is as plain as anything can be. He has drawn him full length in the character of Polonius. The prime minister flapping around in every room of the castle, listening to this, - '-dropping on that;: running with every bit of good news to the king in the hope that in the telling thereof he will also get inc credit for its creation. A man full of I iops phrases and wonderful cliches, "to thine own self be true," and everything is always "all right;" a man who would stop at" nothing to keep his job. A man always smiling and looking wise but completely lacking in sentiment and humor or a new idea. A man who bounced the young Hamlet on his knee, but to whom it meant nothing to join in a conspiracy to get rid of the Prince when it suited his pur pose; no more than it bothered him at all to fire John Paton Davies after twenty-three years of service for his government, and only three years short of his pension." Whether or not Cleanth Brooks and his best of new critics wouid approve of this employment ol Shakespeare we don't know. We do think that Mr. Golden has scooped up the essence of our Secretary of State, one who in a time when most things are either fla'shing or readv to flash can best be epito mized in the first four letters of his last name. DULL. Carolina Front. 'It Needs Something At The Bottom' Credo. Vanity Fair In this day of hell-for-leather modernism on college campuses, we are pleased to re port that the good, gray University of Vir ginia has changed not one whit from the genteel time of its founder, Thomas Jeffer son. We follow the refined fortunes of this thoroughbred school in the pages of its newspaper, The Cavalier Daily. (How per fect the name: how7 cavalier!) This is a newspaper that, for example, does not re port a student's criticism of the university president as a "blast" but as "an expression' of animadversion" or of "displacency." The editor's remarks are likely to take the form of a scolding of new7 men on the commons for not wearing their ties to class or an ex pression of opinion on the military maneu vers of Jackson and the Old Stonewall Bri gade. If further evidence is needed to convince you that we have here in the Atomic Age an institution right out of the colonial period, we offer up this headline, which stared up at us from last Tuesday's Cavalier Daily: "VISCOUNTFSS TO GIVE BROWSING ROOM TALK." Howr decorous! How7 debonair! Sen. Morse's Daughter Is Independent The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday. ' -v ft examination ana vaca tion periods and sum mer terms. Entered as H I , Cs , I I vprnnd class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 -per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, .$6 a year, S3.50 a semester. Surf" ill )f Chapel tittt I Sue- -of (he t'ljiwrsity s t ' i I North C arobrw 'A V Uditor 1 CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED P0WLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business-Manager TOM SHORES Sports Editor !. FRED BABSON News Editor Society Editor Jerry Reece Advertising Manager Circulation & Subscription Mgr. Editorial Assistant News Assistant Assistant Sports Editor Asisstant Business Manager Photographers Cornell Wright, R Eleanor Saunders Dick Sirkin Dick O'Neal Ruth Dalton J. Goodman Bernie Weiss Bill Bob Peel B. Henley NEWS STAFF Dick Creed, Charles Childs, Babbie Dilorio, Lloyd Shaw, Richard Thi'ele, Neil Bass, Hal Henderson, Bobbie Zwahlen, Mitchell Borden, Eddie Crutchfield, Bob Eberle, Peggy Ballard, Lois Owen, Louis Kraar Night Editor for this Issue Richard Thiele SENATOR WAYNE Morse, the man .between the parties, advised , his daughter, a freshman nurse here, to stay out of politics when she start ed at Carolina this fall. Attractive A- m v M n r c o ' i''XJ though, found Lfc 'Xath-A herself running for social chairman of her class. And what's more she won. When. I asked Miss Morse the other day if she had a political future in mind, she exclaimed, "No, no, horrors!" .Between laughs, she explained her proceedure for keeping out of "political arguments" on cam pus. "When someone starts talk ing politics, I just get busy doing something else," she said and laughed again. (Apparently, in-' dependents are a happy lot.) I asked what her dad 'said about her running for an office against his advice. "Oh, he said, 'Congratula tions,' " Miss Morse reported with the terseness of a telegram, and another pleasant laugh. Apparently, the Senator's" daughter is just as independent as her dad. But I guess we all expect that from a good social chairman these days. Sitting around thinking about my brief chat with Miss Morse, I tried to picture a partisan so cial chairman of the freshman class. Perhaps planning fresh man socials doesn't raise any grave political controversies. But I remembered the carnival one group had a while back at which one pinned paper tails on a don key. I'm sure with Miss Morse's pleasant nature, future socials if thjey involved the old tail-pinning game would provide ele phants as well as donkeys. - "COY, COY coy, coy," he shouted between cupped hands. And the cows in the field near us came running for their hand out of hay. The cow-caller was E. G. Mer ritt, who runs a service station on the Pittsboro Road. I had asked for him at his station, and they told me to go around the corner to his barn! Mr. Merritt was pulling down bails of hay to fed his cattle when I arived. The cows, who just a moment before the call had roamed and mooed about the field, answered the "coy, coy" like Duke football linesmen. My visit was for asking about gas prices, but after the business was over we talked about cows, who for all I know were talking about us while they ate. "I've learned one thing," he said. "Never buy a yearling dur- ing a Democratic Administration if you're going to sell it during a Republican Administration." A FLORIDA State University student turned up at school the other day after authorities found his car bullet-marked car and couldn't find its owner. His ;Stpry: He faked his dis appearance because he feared he would fail studies at school, It seems that a guy with that much ingenuity could bluff His way through a couple of classes. Matter -of fact, he sounds wise enough to even want to study. IF YOU like muffins and gum drops,here's a diet for you. Six coeds at UCLA are on a daily diet of one muffin, cap sules of minerals, vitamins and amino acids, butterscotch pud ding and a handful of gumdrops, with an occasional bottle of soda water. The diet is part of a project to determine the requirements ot the body ' for the approximately 20 amino acids which make up protein necessary for health. I'm not up on my amino acid?, but the professor conducting the experiment said the six gjrls who liked on a similar diet last semester neither gained -nor lost weight and had no difficulty keeping up with their college schedule. 1 1" 'Tonight I Wed Your Brother, Dear John,. Sounds Tom Spain Dick Creed So you don't like hillbilly mu sic?' I don't either. But I try not to look down my nose at the people who do. There are all kinds of people who listen to the stuff and say they like it. There's the boy I know here who has a record collection with Hank Snow, Ernest Tubb, Hank Williams, and Tex Ritter on the same shelf with his Como, Sina tra, Dorsey, Miller, Liberace, Bach, Brahms, and Beetoven. j .t' VI .V... 5 it lh-S ST -.'Jtijr.-'B2E! ' ' -a w J You Said It: 1 The Effect Of THe Super-Bombs Editor: I should like to point out several inaccuracies which ap peared in the articles by Charles Childs on the possible dangers to human beings from thermo nuclear reactions. In doing so, I might add, that it is not my pur pose to minimize the devastating potentialities of such reactions. I am rather objecting to the exaggerations of numerous writ ers who, for the sake of glamour, tend to distort the facts. The possible effects of atomic irradiation on human popula tions have, been1 and are being studied by an American organi zation the Atomic Bomb Casual, ty Commission in Japan. This organization was established in 1947 with headquarters and lab oratories in Hiroshima so that it might have immediate access to the largest possible numbers of survivors of atomic irradiation. Results of the research carried out during the past seven years have been presented at meetings of various medical groups, and appear in a good many scientific and medical journals both American and Japanese. They are, by no means, secret. The research in genetics in volved an exhaustive study of over 60,000 infants born in Hiro shima and Nagasaki since the atomic bombs were dropped on those cities. Contrary to what Mr. Childs asserts, there is no evidence to dale which indicates an increase in the incidence of stillbirths or congenital malfof mations among children born of parents exposed to the bomo. Much has been" conjectured :about severe changes in the genes of irradiated human be ings. However, it is not correct to say as Mr. Childs did, that these changes are "likely" to have occurred. Positive evidence of deleter ious' effects of atomic irradiation has been, in general, very diffi cult to find. There are, however, two diseases which have occur red among the survivors of Hiro smia and Nagasaki, and which have been attributed to atomic irradiation. These "are (1) cat aracts, and (2) leukemia. Recent studies have shown that the in cidences of both these diseases were increased relative only to proximity to the center of the explosion, the greater his chance ol contracting cataracts or leu kemia. In none of the studies, however, could leukemia or cat aracts occurring in individuals who were more than 2500 yards from the center of the explosion be attributed to atomic irradia tion. It is therefore very difficult for me to believe that, ."These (cataracts) also appeared among persons who were facing the, ex plosion 30 miles; away." That the destructive potential of the newer j thermo-nuclear weapons by far exceed that, of the smaller borfrbs which first appeared in 194.1 is a well-know and frightening fact. The awe some force of j these weapbns and the physical dangers invol ved in their us should be im pressed upor all) of us in many' more articles sucjh as those writ ten by Mr. Cfiilds. However, there is really n need to exag gerate about thm. These wea pons are alreapy beyond our comprehension, j Mar1n A. Kastenbaum (Writer Childs sticks by his guns, defends his facts as follows. Editcvt.) Mr. Kastenbaum challenges three statements in my article. To the challenge of the proba bility of likelihood of change, I would refer him to the first two vo lumns of "Radiation Biology" which contain many predictions of chang es resulting from irradiation. Num erous articles have also been pub lished giving the theoretical chang es. The second challenge is that "there is no evidence to date which indicates an increase in the incidence of stillbirths or congeni tal malformations among children born of parents exposed to the bomb." - A report of the malformations can be found on page 18 of the October 1952 issue of Nucleonics. On miscarriages and stillbirths, the United Strategic Bombing Sur vey (1946) reported: "Of women in various stages of pregnancy who were within 3,000 feet of. ground zero, all known cases have had miscarriages. Even up to 6.500 feet they have had mis carriages or premature infants who died shortly after birth. ... Two months after the explosion, the city's total incidence of miscarri ages, abortions, and premature births was 27 per cent as com pared with a normal rate of six per cent." The November 1953 preliminary report on the Atomic Bomb Casual ty Commission, "The Effects of Ex posure to the Atomic Bombs on Pregnancy Termination in Hiro shima and Nagasaki", has this conclusion about stillbirths: "A supplementary analysis of the father and mother indicates that the effect is a function of mother's exposure." This was for births between 1948 and 1952, three to seven years af ter the blast. Of "gross malformations," it showed that the results for Naga saki, which had the last and strong er bomb, were in agreement with genetic hypothesis. The signifi cance of difference between un exposed and exposed parents was 0.340. ' Mr. Kastenbaum's last remark concerned the appearance of ca teracts on persons 30 miles from the blast. To this it must be said that some comments on a report delivered to the Seventh Congress of OpTithalmology indicated that these had ben observed. The com- i plete report was not available. jfj It appears that Mr. Kastenbaum j is interested in effects of nuclear weapons, but I cannot understand j how the warnings of such men asj Nobel Prize Winner H. J. Mullerjll and the results of scientific inves- tigations constitutes "exaggera-M tion." 'J I do not see any "glamour" in the death of 106,000 people, re gardless of the cause of their death. As a final remark on this sub ject, I hope that he, along withs other people, will consider the Commission's statement conclud- ing its report: "It is important to emphasize 5 that the conditions of these ob- servations, as well as the fact thatj they are confined to the first post- bomb generation, permit the de-( tecticn of only a small fraction of( the total genetic effect of exposure to an atomic bomb." Charles Childs Quote. Unaunte Field Marshal Viscount Mont- gomery, visiting here, put in a plug for the "elite" system of education. He said our schools should try to pick a few comers among the students and give them the works, leaving the dul lards to plod along. It is a nice theory and an old one. The catch seems to be how to determine which are the comers. So often it happens that sleepy boy in the back of the room, fum bling with his jackknife and gaz 'ing out of the window, turns out twenty years later to be Robert Frost. ' On the whole, an intellectual elite has little more to be said for it than a social elite or a rac ial elite. An elite system today would be a proper 'mess "anyway; everybody of any Consequence would ' be under investigation, and all the brightest boys and girls would be getting cautionary letters from their congressmen, advising them not to open their traps, lest their remarks be used " against them in later life. The New Yorker Then there are those people up in the foothills of the Blue Ridge, where I c6me from', who like hillbilly music and nothing else, mainly because they have n't heard much else. My hometown's two radio sta tions devote most of their broad cast day to hillbilly disc jockey shows. , Most of the music comes off King records, but some of it is produced on live shows by local talent. The most popular of the live programs are Uncle Joe Johnson and His Blue Mountain Boys with Pretty Blue-Eyed Odessa, and a thing called Uncle Henry's Barn Dance. Uncle Henry's program is a hillbilly disc jockey show, but he is famous for his unique, coun try Rube treatment of commer cials between records. Uncle Joe first started there as the ramrod of the Blue Moun tain Boys. Now he has taken over an afternoon pop record show. He shows a preference for pop tunes which have come up from hillbilly ranks. r. Once in a while somebody comes out with a hillbilly song which is followed up with se quels. The latest one we know about is the "Dear John" series. I heard the first pf the three "Dear John" songs in Detroit two summers ago. I A large percentage of the em ployees in Detroit's automobile industry come from the hills of North Carolina, Tennessee, Vir ginia, and Kentucky. And most of the eating establishments ca ter to them by keeping their juke boxes supplied with hillbilly hits. It was in such . a place, the Ad dison Waffle Shop, that I first heard these woe-begetting words, accompanied by the plaintive wail and strum of fiddle and gui tar: "Dear John, oh how .1 hate to write!. Dear John, I must let you know tonight That my love for you has died. . . And tonight I wed your brother, Dear John." In the song, the epistle quoted above was received on the bat tlefields of Korea by a soldier "named John. Last summer I learned that John answered the letter. It was embodied in a song called "Dear Joan." I don't recall what t the song said exactly, but the es sence of it, I believe, was "good riddance." Now usually the hillbilly ar tist will stop with one sequel. But over the Thanksgiving holi 'days I 'learned that Joan has written yet another letter: "For give me, John, but I don't" love your brother; I realize now that you're the only, "one.' WTrite and tell me, der, if you'll still have me After all these awful things I've done." Now I'm wondering what old John will do. Or better still, what his brother will do. The war's over, and I guess John will be coming home again. There are many musicians who can turn the Bm ny Soodman version of the KING PORTER STOMP into a saintly amble, but Pete Rugolos inventive ' magic takes the task rather easily and very nice.y. ADVENTURES IN RHYTHM, a twelve-inch Co lumbia LP, brings the new Rugolo band to our ' eager ears, proving that Rugolo's wish for his own orchestra wasn't idle fancy. An impressive career accompanies Pete Rugolo in his new moments of glory. Perhaps most widely known as Stan Kenton s 'arranger for the past five years; he has prepared selections for Mel Torme, Nat Cole, Peggy Lee, and Billy Eckstein, to mention a few. He has been a part of every movement in the modern-progressive field ever since there was a progressive field. As with Eddie Sauter and Bill Finnegan, arranger Rugolo's own orchestra represents the ideal for which he has been striving. And like the former aggregation, the new band is a medium of expres sion for an imagination let loose. ADVENTURES EST RHYTHM is comparable to a home music-appreciation record. The Rugolo bond demonstrates twelve popular rhythm uses, and ex presses them in a most understanding fashion. In the case of a bolero beat, the tympani is em ployed, and the stop-start Shearing beat brings tho vibraharp into the picture. Another comparison tn the Sauter-Finnegan group might be drawn in that Rugolo shows little restraint of instrument choice. The tuba, alto flute, oll.e, piccolo, french horn, and tambourine are all drawn upon as occasions ris. The lineup of stars in the organization accounts for the defiite West Coast jazz sound. Shortie Rogers,' Pete Candido, Bud Shank (a UNC graduate), Maynard Ferguson, Shelly Manne, and the talented trombonist, Milt Bernhardt all listed together might lead one to think that this is Kenton without Kenton. Bring Kenton down a bit to the more popular level, add comprehension, control and current tunes, and we find Rugolo blending imagina tive J harmonies, forms and instrumentation with popular tunes rhythms and gimmicks. HERE'S PETE, the opener on the album, is of the jump beat so popular with the modern bands of today. The entire band is heard as an ensemble, showing its wares, so to speak. Most impressive, per haps, is the full brass sound, the section playing quietly in unison. Some might think the band bottom-heavy because of the strength of brass and rhythm sections, but the effect is different, possibly outstanding, if one's tastes lean towards the deep and the quiet. Next we find MY FUNNY VALEN TINE, which is wrapped up in a mysterious beguine tempo, a standby for romantically sophisticated bal lads. A minor-keyed chorus by the trombone section and Milt Bernhardt on a plaintive lonesome solo add to the beguine and the effect is truly beautiful. POINCIANA, and alluring mood song and a long favorite is here fitted into a bolero beat. In fact, were the melody removed and the accompaniment presented, Maurice Ravel would possibly wonder about Rugolo's source of inspiration. Muffled tympani joined by horn and alto flute solos give a highly exotic flavor to the Latin love song, and the crescendo leading to the final strains of the selection is an honest bolero characteristic, all which creates a very exciting rendition of POIN CIANA. RUGOLO MEETS SHEARING is exactly what the title implies. Many have often wondered just what the George Shearing style would sound like coming from a larger group. If anything, Rugolo captures the real thing when it comes to Shearing's music. The combination of vibes, piano, strong bass and drums, and the stop beat steadiness makes the num ber authentic. Another tune that could raise an ey brow is the JINGLE BELLS MAMBO, which, al though it inspires no visions of snow and holly, is an excellent treatment of the mambo, a form which has almost been worn thin in the past year. It seems as though only the sacred confines of religious music have escaped the mambo craze. However, the Ru golo understanding of the form proves of' a better quality than the majority oomph numbers circulat ing today. The same may well be said for the Pete Rugolo band. With the declining importance of "front men"' with popular orchestras, the arrangers are beginning to come out from behind the music stands and ex press the music they create in their own way. Eddie Sauter and Bill Finnegan helped make Goodman Dorsey and Miller great names in the popular field. Rugolo helped do the same for Kenton. It seems only proper that Rugolo should do it for himself And ADVENTURES IN RHYTHM indicates that, he has. "Shaping Up" It was testified in behalf of an officer on trial at Camp Gordon, Augusta, Ga., that he had to do something to "shape up" the recruits, even if it came to suspending a private from a tree by his feet. His superiors declared that one company of which this officer, a second lieutenant from Korea, took charge was notoriously a poor one, but after being given the proper treatment, it "shaped up" excel" lently and even won honors. It is no new thing that men can be "shaped up" into any desired pattern by threats, torture, and systematic brutality, but what place has an armv of his sort, beaten into submission, in the United States of America? 1 It cannot be supposed that this case at Camp Gordon from which tough reports have been coming for some time, is an isolated one in view of the fact that repeated announcements in recent months have made it plain that recruits were no longer being "coddled", but were going to be given th works. But what place have such methods in America? Chapel Hill News Leader f 4
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