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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
The Teaching Of
Teachers
Carolina Front.
Come On Let's Take The Shortcut'
The National Educational Association
reports that upwards of 700,000 children are
being educationally short-changed this year
because of a lack of qualified school teach
ers and buildings.
A national citizens commission expects a
public school increase of 12-million in the
next 10 years.
And what are our colleges and universi
ties doing to meet the crisis in public edu
cation? What methods have ve adopted to
encourage men and women of intelligence
and aptitude to become teachers?
You'd expect to find state universities,
the capstones of public education, develop
ing lawyers, doctors, businessmen, pharma
cists to the practical- exclusion of teachers.
Educated professionals in these fields are
necessary to a healthy state, of course. And
besides, lawyers become members at the
state legislatures which control the appro
priations of universities. Doctors become
respected, wealthy citizens of their com
munities and can contribute money and
pre'iige to schools. The same for business
men. t whom alma mater must look for
r-Jitributions in years to come. And why
-; train pharmacists? Everybordy knowrs
where people hang out in towns all over the
country, where they form their opinions of
everything, including education in the
drugstores!
Meanwhile, the schools continue to fill
up at art alarming rate and we resort to
the old emergency methods of getting the
kids taught. We lower qualification stand
ards for teachers: we send children to school
in half-day "shifts."
It was a teacher, as you might expect, who
brought to our attention with a wry smile,
the great oversight the universities are mak
ing in their attempt to educate everybody
but teachers. One influential trade has been
completely overlooked. There is one place
where more people hang out and form
opinions than in the drugstores and that is
in the barbershop!
Mighty Like A
Snow-Storm
We own one of those know-it-all calen
dars that predict the weather for a whole
year. We're down to the last page now and
right there under Dec. 6 it says, ' Last warm
day before winter."
The lesson, of course, is that you can't
trust calendars any more than the weather
man. Winter was out there on the ground
yesterday. It was hanging in six-inch icicles
underneath the cars on Franklin Street,
whistling through the bare trees, covering
the campus with a motley white.
Out on the Raleigh Road hill, it stacked
the cars coming in from Glen Lennox in a
bumper-to-bumper, wheel-spinning line. It
transformed the holly tree in front of Gra
ham Memorial into a Christmas card photo
graph. The calendar and the solstice are against
11s, but the truth is in the view from our
window: Winter, with wind- and slush and
a turbulent sky out of which the sun sets
early, is here.
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A Search For
Fitzgerald On
Wide Screen
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St,
saw Paris-"
Louis Kraar
BY the almost
a movie poster
that said,
"From a story
by F. Scott
Fitzgerald," 1
paid my 5G
cents, for a tic
ket, purchased
a six-cant candy
bar, and sal
down to watch
"The Last Time
NEWS STAFF Dick Creed, Charles Childs, Rich
ard Thiele, Neil Bass, Archer Neal, Peggy Ballard.
Night Editor for this Issue
Eddie Crutchfield
The movie is allegedly based
on Fitzgerald's short story "Ba
bylon Revisited." But after an
investment of two hours (and 56
cents) of gazing at the Carolina
Theater's wide screen, I still think
I must have wandered into the
wrong place.
In short, the, Elizabeth Tailor
ed, technicolored film just isn't
ilike the story. And since this is
standard practice in Hollywood,
I guess I shouldn't have expected
.more. However, this will at least
serve warning 'to any sophomores
enrolled in English 32 who en
tertained the idea of seeing the
film instead of reading the Ba
bylon story.
"The Last Time I Saw Paris"
(which is filmed in Paris) is set
in the period after the Second
World War not after the first
one. The bubbling spirit of the
twenties and thirties, so skillful
ly drawn by Fitzgerald, fizzles in
to a tale of an would-be Ameri
can author (Van Johnson) and
his party-girl wife (Elizabeth
Taylor).
After several attempts at writ
ing novels, actor Johnson finds
himself rich from a oil strike.
He quits his job on a Paris news
service to write, but ends up
partying his way out of the heart
of his wife.
Meantime the wife (rather
beautiful, but not too smart) be
gins cavorting with Parisian gi
golos. Finally, actress Taylor is
locked out of the house by her
drunken husband, and it kills
her.
The would-be author, used-to
-be husband, returns to America
and his child is turned over to
his sister-in-law. In America,
would-be author beomes a suc
cessful one and returns to Paris
to reclaim his little girl.
And of this is complicated
(but not too much) by the sister
-in-law (Donna Reed), who was
in love with the would-be author
and who wants to keep the child.
' As expected, it ends rather
happily for the author and un
happily for .those who go into
the theater expecting to see
something like Fitzgerald wrote.
If you're not a keen Fitzgerald
fan and want a couple hours of
rather clever dialogue, glamour
views of Elizabeth Taylor, and
Paris scenery, by all means do
see "The Last Time I Saw Paris-"
. Actually, for a movie, it's not
bad. I do suggest that you buy
your candy bars at the drug store
down the street though, because
they're only a nickel there in
stead of six cents.
A CLOSE -friend swears this
really happened to him last
weekend:
v.
' 4 The friend, upon receiving an
' invitation to an informal dance
at Woman's College, wrote 'that
he'd be most happy to attend the
dance. In a rash of what he
thought was cleverness, he wrote
the WC girl that he'd be there
"in my informal."
i Came the day of the big dance
and my friend found a note from
the WC girl 'in his mailbox.
"From your letter I take it you
don't like to wear coats and ties.
However, they are required at
our dance," wrote the WTC girl.
The friend,- realizing that the
WC girl had taken his letter lit
erally, wired her at once: "How
about Bermuda shorts then
with coat and tie, of course?"
That night when he arrived at
our sister .institution for the
dance( with suit and nectie and
without Bermude shorts), half
the girls in his date's dorm were
surprised.
The other half evidently real
ized all along that it was a joke.
And fortunately for my friend,
o did his date.
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Flashbacks On Joe
WASHINGTON The public's
memory is short. But a states
man's memory must be long. And
during the McCarthy debate the
President, Mr. Nixon, and others
must have experienced some in
teresting flashbacks as to what
happened with some of the same
principals in the McCarthy de
bate only a short' time ago.
Last October, Senator William
Knowland of California, Eisen
hower's so-called Republican lead
er, attending the funeral of Sena
tor Pat McCarran in Nevada, con
ferred with Jenner of Indiana,
Welker of Idaho, others of Mc
Crathy's stanchest friends. Toge
ther they planned the fight to
block his censure. After the fun
eral they came away dead certain
Bill Knowland would vote with
them. They were not dissappoint
ed. Flashback No. 1 Meanwhile
Senator Knowland said nothing.
He said nothing until last week
when he rose to announce he
would vote for McCarthy. Know
land is heavy-built, slow-moving.
His speech can be ponderous, deli
berate. "After great searching of
my conscience, and mindful of
the responsibilities I feel heavily
from sitting in this chair, "I shall
not vote for the censure resolu
tion. . . . The decision was not an
easy one. ... I arrived at it only
last night."
McCarthy supporters smiled.
The speech was no news to them.
Flashback No. 2 It was Sep
tember 1952. Tom Dewey, the
man who got Eisenhower nomina
ted and was then his closest ad
viser, came to see him. He knew
Ike was leaving for Milwaukee,
where he must either be nice to
Joe McCarthy or be tough with
him. Dewey spent two hours with
Eisenhower urging him to be
tough.
"You will have to face this is
sue sooner or later," he said in
brief, "and you might just as
well face it now. I ducked on the
issue of Curley Brooks (Chicago
Tribune candidate for senator)
when I campaigned in Illinois
and it cost me votes. You can't
compromise with the McCarthy
wing of the party."
Eisenhower followed his ad
vice, inserted two paragraphs in
his Milwaukee speech defending
his old friend, General George
Marshall, indirectly criticizing
McCarthy. One day later, G0"
stalwarts Arthur Sumrr.erfield,
Ferguson of Michigan, Hicken
looper of Iowa, with Tom Cole
man of Wisconsin, flew to Ike's
train, urged him to revise his
speech. McCarthy himself did the
final persuadnig when smuggled
up the service elevator of the
Pere Marquette Hotel in Peoria.
Ike yielded. He smiled on McCar
thy in Wisconsin. McCarthy was
re-elected.
Flashback No. 3 Eisenhower
was on the stage at a political ral
ly in Indianapolis. Senator Jen
ner of Indiana sat beside him.
Ike was obviously unhappy. Jen
ner had called George Marshall,
the man who promoted Ike from
Lieutenant Colonel to Lieutenant
General in one year, a "front man
for traitors" and "a living lie."
But the candidate for President
had been told he had to endorse
all GOP candidates. He couldn't
discriminate. It was part of poli
tics. So he posed before the cameras
while Jenner, gloating in the
limelight, t held up his' hand like
a cheap boxer bowing to the
crowd.
Last week, the same Senator
Jenner strode up and down the
aisle of the Senate chamber. This
time he held both hands clenched
over his head. This time he laugh
ed hysterically. "Poor old Zwick
er," he chortled, "He does not
count. He is out the window.
Zwicker is out and now you want
to fight communism."
He threw his arm as if pitching
a ball, then strode up and down
the aisle, both fists clenched over
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NIXON
he fed Stassen crow.
his head, as scornful of anti-McCarthy
Republicans as he had
been of General Marshall four
years before.
Flashback No. 4 It was
March 1953. The new President
had been in office just two
months. Suddenly, Joe McCarthy
announced that he had made an
agreement with certain Greek
shipowners regarding trade be
hind the iron curtain. Making a
greements with foreigners is sot
the prerogative of Congress. That
was threshed out in the days of
George Washington, and there's
a law on the statute books mak-
Drew Pearson
ing it a prison offense for a con
gressman to meddle with foreign
policy.
Knowing this, Harold Stassen,
whose job it was to administer
foreign shipping, issued a state
ment putting McCarthy in his
place. McCarthy, he said, had
"undermined" U. S. policy.
Next day, Vice President Nix
on, then chief defender of Joe
McCarthy, ran down to the State
Department, then to the White
House. Later Eisenhower an
nounced that McCarthy had not
"undermined" Administration po
licy. Later Stassen issued a hum
ble statement, eating crow.
Last week, the same Vice Pre
sident Nixon presided over the
Senate.
From the rostrum he looked
down at his Republican colleagu
es, torn apart by a debate which
should have been settled two
years before settled by a firm
.leadership from him and the Pre
sident. Other Flashbacks There were
many other memories that flash
ed through the minds of senators
watching that debate memories
which also may have flashed
through the mind of the Presi
dent himself. . . . Alben Barkley
of Kentucky in 1944 resigning as
majority leader before, not after,
he made a speech differing with
FDR. Knowland differing with Iks
time after time, has not resigned
.... The Army-McCarthy hear
ings, which split a Republican ad
ministration and. a republican
senate and which were hastened
to a close because of bad reaction
to washing dirty linen in public
.... The Democratic prediction
that they would help Ike on ma
jor policy more than the Republi
cans. . . . Democratic leader Lyn
don Johnson keeping every one
of his votes in line, solidly with
out defection, in contrast to Re
publican disruption across the
Senate aisle.
And more than anything else,
there were flashbacks to the sam?
foreign policy trouble that haunt
ed Herbert Hoover, the split be
tween the isolationists and inter
ventionists the memories of Se
cretary of State Henry L. Stimson
in London announcing that we
would consult with Europe ia
case war threatened, while Hoo
ver in Washington was tejling a
press conference we would not
consult.
That's the crisis regarding
which the Republican Party sore
ly needs time to lick its wounds.
That's the split which has arous
ed more interparty bitterness
than since the days of Hoover.
Can those wounds be healed? Ei
senhower needs them healed to
carry out a consistent foreign po
licy. But usually a political split
of this kind widens rather than
narrows.
YOU Said It:
And One More
On Honor
Editor:
The Honor System at the Uni
'versity of North Carolina is in
a state of decadence. The very
system of which the students of
this great University regulate the
conduct of the student body is
rotting away at our feet. To some,
this may seem a highly exaggerat
ed concept, void of any substan
tial proof.
To those who thing so, let
them stop for a moment and ask
anyone who has been in the Uni
versity long enough to know what
the situation really is. They
would, if they were not ashamed
to, tell you that cheating is exer
cised, in one form or another, in '
just about every examination that
is given in the classroom. Cheat
ing is a debasement of our insti
tution, and if allowed to continue
will wreck that which in the ear
ly years of our University's for
mation was fought so hard for.
That is, the students obtained
from the trustees the right to
conduct themselves honorably in
exams without faculty supervi
sion. The Honor System is a pri
vilege that every student should
enjoy and be proud to live under.
One of the main difficulties in
having the Honor System work
effectively is that of having' to
report someone caught in the act
of cheating. It is very difficult
for one student to report another,
especially if they are the best of
friends.
I personally believe that this is
the pivot point of the whole sys
tem. However, when one fails to
report another for cheating,' he
is actually undermining the foun
datin upon which the Honor Sys
tern rests. The effectiveness of a
system such as this, depends up
on the cooperation of the entire
student body, and unless every
single one cooperates, it is hard
to believe that it works at all!
Why is it that students shy a
way from reporting a guilty par
ty? There are several reasons
that I can think of. first, students
are afraid of being looked down
upon, and being branded "stool
pigeon" by their fellow students.
I feel that this reason is the
strongest one among the few
that I shall mention.
Secondly, a lot of 'students do
not want to accept the responsi
bility of reporting the ones they
suspect because they might feel
that when their judgment was in
error while trying t decide if
the student was actually cheating
or not.
Thirdly, some students on this
campus are impersonal as to whether-a
student is cheating or not.
They feel as if it is none of their
concern, and don't bother to turn
in the offender. An Honor Sys
tem will never work with this at
titude. Furthermore, if everyone
had this attitude, there would be
no need for an Honor System at
all!
A fourth reason might be that
the accuser does not want to go
before the Honor Council to tes
tify, and in so doing, point his
finger at a fellow student.
Here, then, are some reasons
why our Honor System has de
cayed to such a degree.
How can we students rectify
ihis deplorable state of affairs?
How can we make the Honor Sys
tem work effectively? It is a very
difficult question to give an an
swer to. I would suggest doing it
the painful way that is, report
every last one caught in the act
of cheating and do it without fail
ure or hesitation. ,
Lewis F. Robertson Jr.
47,000 EMPLOYEES
For the 1953-55' biennium a tot
al of $246,314,369 was appropri
ated from the General Fund for
the State's public schools. This
represents by far the major fund
expenditure 61.3 of the total.
The Slate meets the cost of the
nine-months public school term,
paying the salaries of approxim
ately 47,000 full-time and part
time employees in the public
school system, including all pub
lic school teachers, superintend
ents and administrative person
nel, and the parttime school bus
drivers. Popular Government.
COULD BE WRONG
A woman called up for jury
duty refused to serve because ,
she didn't believe in capital pun
ishment, t
Trying to persuade her, the
judge explained: "This is merely
a case where a wife is suing her
husband because she gave him
. a thousand dollars to pay down
on a fur coat and he lost the
money in a poker game."
"I'll serve," she said. "I could
be wrong about capital punish
met." Farm & Rancher.
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lalda Nosneveis
& The Eggheads
Ed Yoder
(Synopsis: The egghead Revolution, it wi'l I r
membered, broke out at university en! vA im
I the leader of the revoiutiw.i. .
" - I ;ued the manifesto, the l;,
I words of-which read, "llhe:
-"V jf the world unite! Yo i h;i ,
, V " nothing to lose but your yoii
In the last installment of ';
-.. story, Nosneveis had arrived :.
-: Cambridge, .Mass., oniy !o
.; ' that the revnl uti'inaries !-..
i "V -' - marched off down the ;.
Post Road toward Wall Street, where the hrM 1. :
tie was to take place aganst the forces of the N.
York Stock Exchange and the American Leu.,n
Banners waving, bands playing, the rev..!
tionaries marcnea cown me o;u nwu umwuu .
York City and Wall Street. Many of the rovol ut j. , .
aries carried insignia large replicas of inkwell .
pens, hooks, horn rimmed glasses at the top i
long poles- Most of them were dressed in oxio- 1
gray suits.
1 a t i 1 r 4 1
They were all singing, anovc ine maic 01 u
bands and bugles, a song called the Interac;uleine
Ti -ac wcncrallv assumed that this was the son
At. 1 n o v- - - j
of the revolution.
Even from the Cambridge SUition, Iakla No--nevets
could hear the noise of th? rnnreh; h
thought they must not bo t"o far gone. Bat ho !,; i
just returned from exile in Illinois, where ho h.id
been since the peaceful coup of 1D52 failed.
He was tired and hungry and the old poller
who didn't know where he'd been said:
"Come on down town, lalda, and get a, b:i!ogti;i
sandwich."
I "But I've got Jo get to Wall Street!''
"Oh, there'll be plenty of time for that. l!d
and then I'll put you on a fast train for Grand
Central Station."
Meanwhile, at Wall Street, the forces ol the
American Legion had barricaded (lie doe; canyon-,.
A spy at Cambridge had telegraphed news of the
approaching battle. Many of the- Stock Evohan; ,
soldiers were frightened. They remembered that
back in 1929 someone had set off a bomb at ih -corner
opposite the Stock Exchange and the Hank.
Luckily, most of the Generals had been having a
meeting upstairs and had escaped injury. But t hex
found it hard to forget the last instance of disorder
in Fort Wall Street and wanted to take every pie
caution. The revolutionaries had moved fast. The distant
sound of the "Interacademe" could bo heard from
upstairs over the Stock Exchange. Flicker Clandu 1
who had been made General for the battle, luoke-J
out the window through his telescope.
'"rVhat an idiot I was to ever be an ogghad," hf
moaned. "Look what they're about to do."
'Do you think we can stave them off?
lie
First and
and ri'Hi
' the 1 i ' ' 1 -
Clambers
tenant asked from behind him.
"I hope so," General Clambers said. "I can't :-(-,
though,' why the people just stand along the roa i
and let them haul those tremendous First and FiHh
Cannons along."
"It is bad."
"Yes it is. We just don't want any
Fith Cannon Americans."
"I guess the people tolerate First
Cannons because it's a sort of tradition,
tenant ventured.
"The hell with tradition," General
growled, "tradition doesn't bring security."
The loud-speaker just behind General Clamlx rs
began to buzz. The lieutenant picked up the ear
phone.
"Staff headquarters for the Ten Million mobiliz
ing against the eggheads," he said. "Yes. Yes, cap
tain Foster. They're in the Bronx? They are?"
"What it it," asked General Clambers. "Who i;
that?"
"It's Captain Foster. He said he was so bu-v
giving instructions that he didn't realize how do-.-the
Eggheads are. He says they're down in the
Bronx and they're coming this way on the subway--."
"Almost here?" General CTarr.Vrs' javv-musc!o
twitched. "Foster talks too much, anyway. Lieo.
tenant Reklew, you'd better take this rnickc"y-iiv'.;s"
watch with wrist alarm, down to General l-'o-te.-.
Otherwise, he'll talk all day and never do arn-thini
about the revolutionaries."
"Yes sir."
Once again, General Clamers leaned -.: t
high window and searched the streets below. 1 e
could see that the Legion and Stock Ex force.; we
thoroughly entrenched below. V.i"w-u; the ve
nues of the Great City had clo-aied.
From some unimaginable place beneath ;he i
asphalt of the streets he could hear a dim nimb1
made by moving subways. Above it all drifted )
dim strains of the Interacademe. General C! nub, r;
picked up the Intercommunications inierophor.'
"Captain Foster!" He barked. "Don't hre till
you see the pink of their eyes."
Freedom Never Was
Safe & Still Isn't
Gerald Johnson
On VVAAAA, Baltimore
'"va""11 posi-'U lor col eg. deb itors
Ceh1na-S'lr"Sh0Uld, thC UniUd -cog u e
China? It ls a iegltlmato question invuhm
important public policy; but the service"
Annapolis and West Point, promptly vv"l
? fhU ?" fhe,ground V it is imprope r or
of the United Sta.es to question any ,0 en ,
policy; at least one civilian college will drew 1
y because it thought it dangers" ',
to take the affirmative; and a Cnurc-m-m ..f
y that if he argued the affirmative the iac,
likely to be used against him i after life
In other words, free Americans ue'r- w
hat it is dangerous for thorn to qu .s , n
S iu lTV' Piston n,ay do. The " .
wJ it r dangerous- Oppcnhcimer. Davie.
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