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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 8, V,
The Hiqh Road
"Two roads f!i verged in a yellow wood
j. . . Sorry I (oukl not have traveled both,"
begins a well-known poem by Robert Frost.
i.ast week, the Eisenhower- Administra
tion came to such a fork, realizing both
paths could not be traveled, and pjeked
the right one.
Secretary of State Dulles, in one of his
more courageous moods, asserted himself, ,
with President Eisenhower's backing, as
the chief of U. S. foreign policy and ruled
out a blockade of Red China. And the Pres
ident re-stressed his posi'ibn against rash
war, announced a policy ol "competitive
coexistence", a soothing lotion lor the fray
ed nerves of the Allies.
The empluis in Washington seems to be
shifting to'the viewpoint that total war, even
total victory, will not establish the kind of
living conditions the free nations want. Lead
ers in the government have apparently turn
ed from trying to straddle two or three roads
in foreign policy at the same time.
The new policy will call for ne w vigor and
new patience. It will call for great new eco
nomic programs for the world. It will call
for concentration on the one path we are
new committed to tread.
Many Democratic leaders and some Avithin
Mr. Eisenhower's own party have long urged
I he adoption of a one-road foreign policy;
' President deserves credit for seeing the
light.
, litre is reason to hope, in the Robert
iost phrase at the end of the same poem,
that historians will be able to say, "That has
made, all the difference."
White Man's Justice
In The Blue Ridges
Behind occasional U.S. grumblings about
caste systems and moral darkness among
many of the ancient and more aboriginal
countries of the world may throb a guilty
conscience arising from its treatment o the
American Indian
From Asheville comes the ironic tidings
that Unto These Hills, a North Carolina
outdoor drama describing the brutal treat
.ment of the Cherokee nation at the sword
of the white man, may play an indirect role
in abridging the rights of the Indians again.
The "tourist attraction of the outdoor
drama hrjs skyrocketed the value of many
Indian lands held in reserve by the Depart
ment of the Interior. Now idtra laisses-faire
ist McKay, Secretary of die Interior, has
given notice that the' Federal government
may get out of Indian affairs, leaving land
that should be protected and reserved for
Indian use for acquisition by the biggest
cut-throat, Indian or white man. We sus
pect the white men will eventually get it.
The time is foreseeable when the Indians
will be completely deprived of the land
that rightfully belongs to them. Our shell of
self-righteousness sustains big cracks when
Ave try to mix proper international relations
with unfair treatment of minority groups
at home.
Intelligence By
Frequency Modulation
Several thousand people listened to Estes
Kefauver speak on the Atlantic Community
nieht before liust who were not in Memorial
Hall. They heard the speech and the ques
tion and answer period at home over
WUNC, the campus FM station.
The Kefauver speech was just one in a
continuing series of WlJXC's services to
the community. It" broadcasts all notable
speeches and concerts on the campus and
offers a steady ?'nd consistently rich diet of
scholarly discussions, interviews, musical
programs. and special events. It has kept
high standards, to the delight of a faithful
band of listeners.
.' WUNC is an FM station, which means
it's not available on the radios of most, stu
dents. But if your taste runs higher than
the Arthur Cod!rcy-"Sh' Boom"-Saturday
Night Hayride brand of radio listening,
you're missing out on a source of constant
enjoyment if you don't own an FM radio.
With Christmns at hand, a word to the
wise should suffice.
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What To Buy
Your Friends
And Enemies
Louis Kraar
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Chapel Hill, N. C, un
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Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
Night Editor for this Issue
Richard Thielt
PINK-NOSED coeds slipping
along campus in the ice the other
day reminded
me that the
gift-buying days
are scarcer
man good pro
fessors. So with the
Christmas car
ols of Kemp's
Record Shop in
ktvtem,! Qne ear and the
bank teller's announcement of
my balance in the other, I set
out to consider what to buy.
Sinking into one of the Gra
ham Memorial lounge's deep
chairs, I studied some of the
slick magazines that are brim
ming with ads this time of year.
And as a special service, this re
porter is going to pass along to
you some of the top suggestions
for gifts.
For the outdoor type, you
might give a pair of wool socks
that are wired to give a mild
electrical hot-foot. The socks sell
for about $20. and the heater is
run from batteries. The fortu
nate wearer merely strings the
wires up his legs to the batteries
carried in one's pockets,
The socks with the built-in
heater sound like a fine gift for
a friend. And if you have an
enemy who tramps about in the
rain, giving him a pair of these
socks may remove him from your
life forever.
Now if you're feeling rich, try
a new gift from France called
The Drinking Bear. The 15-inch
tall animal is coated in pony
skin and carries a cocktail glass
in one hand and bottle in the
other.
All you do is plug the little
fellow into an AC outlet, pour
him a drink, and he's off. He
then gulps it down, pours him
self another from his own bot
tle drinks it, and then has an
other, and so on until you cut
his current off.
The only thing about the in
bibing bear (beside the $150
price) is that he keeps drinking
the same drink, a habit I wish
some of my friends would culti
vate. Apparently, the only pur
pose of the critter is to amuse
and look good. And for $150, I
can think of other bar occupants
who would meet the same re
quirements plus some addition
al ones.
Perhans those two gift sugges
tions will help you that is, if
you have $20 and enemies or
$150 and no barmaid. If not. r?o
what I did and send your friends
greeting cards.
ONCE IN a physics class, the
professor talked about something
I believe he called 'sympathetic
vibration."
This phenomenon was sup
posed to occur when two objects
were at the same frequency.
Thus, when you play a piano and
the vase on M nearby table rat
tles, you have sympathetic vibra
tion. Entering Memorial Hall to
bear the Woody Herman Herd
the other day, I chanced to re
member the sympathetic vibra
tion principle and. sure enough,
it works even at jazz concerts.
Up on the stage maestro Her
man and company were vibrat
ing with "Apple Honey." And
down in the audience, particular
ly on the front row, the heads
and feet of student listeners
were moving right along with the
band.
Remembering another part of
that physics course (and I wasn't
a very ardent student of the
science), I headed for the bal
cony to get a better view to
"check my results, as they say in
Phillips Hall.
From the balcony the pattern
of shaking heads and feet was
even clearer, proving that even
in Phillips Hall labs you can
learn something.
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MY THANKS TO the editor of
Cobb Dorm's paper for the arti
cle parodying this reporter's col
umn on popular songs and TV.
Imitation is still the highest form
of flattery, you know.
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The 3 Big Cabinet Battles
WASHINGTON Ever since the
election, when it became appar
ent that Oregon's bushy-browed
Sen. Wayne Morse would cast the
deciding vote in the Senate, both
Republican and Democratic lead
ers have been super-sweet to the
independent Senator they used
to cold-shoulder.
For example, Vice President
Richard Nixon sidled up to Morse
the other day . and grabbed his
hand.
"Wayne, I want to congratulate
you on the high calibre cam
paign you conducted," boomed
the Vice President, referring to
the past election campaign.
"Dick," retorted Morse evenly,
"I wish I could say the same for
you."
Dulles' Footwork
It was while Humphrey was in
Rio De Janeiro fighting Battle
No. 3 that he just about lost Bat
tle No.l. This is with John Foster
Dulles, Secretary of Defense Wil
son and Foreign Operations Ad
ministrator Harold Stassen over a
Marshall Plan to Asia.
"Dulles," who was supposed to
go to the Rio Conference, decided
not to go, appointed Humphrey
as chief U. S. delegate though
not for the purpose of working
behind Humphrey's back. While
Humphrey was gone, however, he
did get busy with some fast foot-,
work which lined up part of the
cabinet for the Asiatic Marshall
Plan.
Meeting three times with Eisen
hower, Dulles got his okay. Char
ley Wilson also concurred pro
vided the Marshall Plan went
hand in hand with a bigger Army-Navy-Air
Force. Eisenhower ag
reed. Dulles then called a secret
meeting of newsmen at a down
town hotel and leaked the idea
that current American economic
policies with Asia were not good;
that to remedy this Eisenhower
had agreed to back his aid plan
even if it meant unbalancing the
budget.
Stassen, who was already sold
on the idea, quickly called news
men to a similar confidential
luncheon. Charley Wilson did
likewise.
So when Humphrey got back
from Rio it was too late. He could
have had a personal showdown
with Ike and threatened his re
signation, but Humphrey doesn't
believe in operating that way.
. This means that the defense
Department, instead of cutting
back on spending, will ask Con
gres for $2,000,000,000 more. It
also means that Dulles and Stas
sen will launch a giant develop
ment program in Asia which may
last tip to 20 years.
As a result, business in the
USA should be good, though it
will be inflationary, with an un
balanced budget just as under
the Democrats -'1 which was why
Humphrey was against it.
NOTE In his difference with
Secretary Benson, Humphrey ar
gues that Benson should limit
the amount of surplus food the
USA dumps abroad to $400,000,
000. Benson wants to send all he
"can. Humphery claims that surplus-food
disposal might turn in
to price supports under another
name, and that this stimulation
of the market would encourage
overproduction.
Handmaid of the Lord
If Senator Welker of Idaho is
going to use the Bible in battling
for Senator McCarthy, he will
have to get up early in the morn.
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JOHN FOSTER DULLES
. . . Xezv Marshall Plan
ing to better devout Mormon Sen.
Wallace Bennett of Utah.
Interrogating Senator Bennett
regarding his amendment to cen
sure Joe for calling the Watkins
Committee unwitting handmaid
ens of Communism, Welker chal
lenged: "The other day the Senator re
. f erred to "handmaiden" as a vul
gar expression."
"No," countered Bennett.
"Yes, the Senator did." insist
ed Welker, "though he may have
stricken it out ef the record. I
shall check the record."
"I am sorry," corrected Ben
nett. "I said the definition was
that "handmaid or "handmaiden"
was a servant of low degree. It
does not seem to me that imputes
"vulgarity."
The Senator from Idaho went
off on another track. "Now I qu
ote to the Senator the words of
Holy Scripture, and I am sure
that he knows more about that
than I do because he is a devout
Drew Pearson
Christian man, not only in his
own faith but in all faiths: "Be
hold the handmaid of the Lord."
"That was the answer of the
mother of Christ to the Angel'
Gabriel, who brought her the
message that she was to become
the mother of Christ," concluded
Welker triumphantly.
"I am sure," snapped back the
Senator from Utah, "that the per
son who said that felt that she
was a person of low degree com
pared to him from whom the
message came."
YOU Said It
The Carriers
Speak Out. . .
Editor:
The theft of newspapers from
certain honor system news stands
is increasing. The newspaper dis
tributors have issued warnings
over and over by various methods
in hopes of cutting out or at
least reducing the surprising
large number of these trangres
ions. These warnings have been
to no avail.
Several students are suspected
of stealing newspapers but con
clusive evidence is missing be
cause there has been only one
witness in some of the cases.
From now on there will be two
witnesses and the person will be
turned over to the Honor Coun
cil. If the Honor Council finds
the person guilty he will stand
the chance of having to leave
school. '
The situation has also been
talked over with the local police
and they have agreed to give us
support, though the case may
sound trivial to some people.
Some people apparently do not
realize how serious this could be.
Some of the students who have
been caught have had scholar
ships that meant a lot to them.
If they were dismissed from
school they would not only lose
this but it would be rather em
brassing to explain the details
to the parents or to future em
ployers. The next person caught will
go to the Honor Council or to
court and will stand the chance
of being thrown out of school,
marring his record. He will lose
the respect of his friends and
family. All this for a nickel. Is
it worth it?
Carriers of:
Greensboro Daily News
Durham Morning Herald
Charlotte Observer
Charlotte News
' Winston Salem Journal
and Sentinal
Carolina Forum
And Assorted
Dichotomies
na": Mundy
Which, being translated into
understandable English, means
that you just can't win.
First, the Forum. For anyone,
especially its chairman, to any
longer maintain that it is a non
partisan organization is ludi
crous. Existence of bias in its
presentations, presentations fi
nanced by all the students, .must
be determined by the nature of
the speakers presentd.
Thus far we have had one
Democratic state governor, one
actual socialist, and one left
wing Democratic senator who
owes his success to espousing
one political philosophy at home
and another in the North. And
tomorrow night the Forum pre
sents a Democrat who is so far
out in the left political field that
even the Democrats hesitate to
give him a nomination.
No Forum prejudice toward
the "liberal" cause, or, more ex
actly, the statist cause? Consider
ing the presentations thus, far
this year, it is difficult to see
anything in them but a calcu
lated program of presenting only
left-wing, speakers. True, the
Forum may be making a biparti
san selection, but the two par
tisan groups thus far are the
actual Socialists and the statist
Democrats.
Judgment of Forum bias has to
be made on the basis of the
speakers presented, not upon the
basis of the people who received
form letters inviting them to
speak. Elimination, of Jonathan
Daniels from the selection set-up
would be one step toward a "just
and fair" Carolina Forum.
And now, those dichotomies.
(I had to use the dictionary too.)
When the Secretary of State
fired an employee (Davies) for
disagreeing with policies outside
official channels and being so
generally wrong in the past,
Democrats screamed such catch
phrases as, "thought control,"
"suppression of differing opin
ions," conformity of thought,"
and the ever popular "fascism! '
When a senator who represents
the people of California dared
venture that we should engage in
a critical re-appraisal of our for
eign policy, the Democrats came
up with more neat little phrases.
This time it was about a "hope
lessly divided foreign policy."
Whenever our foreign policy
scores an undeniable success,
Democrats point out that it isn't
due to any changes wrought, or
wreaked, by the Republicans. On
such occasions .they say that the
Republicans have really changed
nothing; the Republicans are
merely continuing the foreign
policies "of the Truman-Acheson
era. Yet, in countless speeches
this fall, many, many Democrat
tears were shed over the fright
ful things that were happening to
the nation because of a "head
less, aimless, total! unsuccessful
foreign policy."
Under Truman, several elec
tric power contracts were nego
tiated with private companies,
contracts which make Dixon
Yates look like a gift to the gov
ernment. The Truman contracts
were even on a cost-plus basis,
guaranteeing the companies a
profit above whatever they might
spend. The Dixon-Yates group is
guaranteed nothing, except that
they can make, at the most, but
half the return on investment
that a company would expect in
private business.
A ""super give-away," to use
their own current terms, drev
absolutely no criticism fro
Democrats when they were in
office themselves. Now a power
contract more advantageous to
the government is a "mackeral in
the moonlight; it both shines and
stinks."
Excerpts from Hist. 71 notes:
"Many of the young men had
served in the West during the
war (1812), and saw what a good
land it was. . . . The fertility of
the old South was on the decline."
The Eye Of The Horse
(The Horse sees imperfectly, viagnifyivj .0
thin j$, minimizing others .... Htpporot,
500 B. r.)
THE HORSE n-as siat'-or.ed ot-.i -Jc Graha.
orial, vshen I sair him.
"Outside The Daily Tar Heel offices." The II
corrected me, "which, as you know, is in.-iu. ;
ham Memorial. One must be precise, Roger nu !
Well, what was he waiting for??
"Oh, about ten minutes," he chiitored. (I
him when he chitters!) "Do you mean, f r ;;
am I waiting, or whom, and for why.-"
That would do. So?
"I gotta let Choliie Kuralt, Editor of thc'ic;
know what mixed response my remarks
Churlism met with," The Horse explained. ..
and I are simply ga-ga over good newspap'-r..-
There were those who maintained M;:. ';
Horse never mind Kuralt! was ga-ga at a:v
and no holds barred.
"You 'been talking with that Orangeman. ' -nell,"
The Horse shrugged. "A spalpeen u!: .
brutes the Obelisk of Drogheda. It's July Fir
Fourth, for the loikes of him."
Oh. That dirge about Boyn? Waters ai.;..i a.
it, now, I made bold to ask Himself Ilawr . i
gues are catching things, like Shaw's
Bernard that is. . . not O'Pshaw.)
"Leave us leave Irish fighting to the Iri-h." '!
Horse snapped. "O'Connell and I arc cp.L'.a : (i K.
new hospitalities next Fall when the Fightnv; h
visit us in Kenan Stewdium. It is none i y .
ness, at all, at all. Roger. Overcome by hi gi if!
our loss to the, ugh, Dooks, O'Ccnivll he!,! n
than a hankerchief to his mouth. . . and lhi, a:.r
ed me, it is understood."
How was that? He was merely toasting our v,
r.iors!
it 'i
'iWell. I had had the poteen held to inv in
when Bobby-boy got the idea," The Horse exo'ai i
with a whisk of his hoof close, too close, to me. "
have our order placed for a twospout jug o' potee,:.
come Irish Day next year. But about the rcpoiiM.
to my call for Journalism instead of Churli-.ni -some
said I was against Freedom of the Press.''
Well, I could see that- He was proposing cen
sorship, wasn't he?
"I proposed the only type censorship that has a
place in a free land," The Horse said, "and one
th)nt we must have if we are to stay free: self cen
sorship. The newspapers should police themselves
Me, I'd make up my necessary if such there h
reportings of sordidiania and nauseana on a .se
parate sheet or four-page section from the balanc
of the paper, so that those who didn't care for i . i -kle-a-bale
filth could simply discard same (after a
quick look) and take home a clean, uncontaminai: !
newspaper, or receive same breakfast-time uih'ui.
cringing from the children."
That was another thing. Didn't The Horse -t
any beefs about that?
"Oh, aye," The Horse acknowledged. "T am a
Romantic, it is said. I do not wish the childher to
face loife, 'tis charged, no less."
Cut the brogue. So?
"My idea is, every newspaper should have a mai,
or a colleen, with taste, discrimination, and this ' '
should con the paper, masthead to Z-obit, v,hh a
mind to blue-pencil anything distasteful," The I lor - 1
argued. "I think Kuralt will agree, being smart.''
Being anxious to get rid of Tne Horse, he mean"
But, weren't editors for just that purpose to ex
ercise judgment, restraint, good taste?
"If they are, the publishers are missing 1h'
boat." The Horse saw it. "Mhurlism. it is, we are i c - J
half the time."
So, once more?
"I offer myself as Taste Editor," The Hore r-a; -1
with his usual unbecoming immodesty. "The 11 r 4
in history! Well? What do you say, will I do?"
I didn't say a word. I didn't have to. Mr. Wuinp.
the low-level-vision. Frog, said it for me.
"Wump!"
Southerner's Shoes
The Greensboro Daily News
You can kid Southernors about almost anything,
but not about shoes. We are sensitive about oar h .
The citizenry of Hickory is described ns "mif
fed'', at some remarks make by Mrs. Hilda Widn'-c
Yoder to a Broadway columnist. Mrs. Yoder is .i
native of Catawba County but is r -?w . resident id"
New York City and the originator of the Yoder
Reading Improvement Center in that city's fashion
able East Side.
She is quoted as telling Columnist Earl Wi's .n
that she is "a barefoot hillbilly from Hickory, .
C," and remarking to him on the occasion of a visit
home, "When I went to the Catawba celebration I
didn't know whether to show up with my shoes on
or off."
The people of Hickory and Catawba want t'r'
world to know that they are not hillbillies and that
they "do wear shoes when they leave their home
grounds."
Madame Frances Perkins irked us some c r
ago by casting doubt on our shoe-fulness and Mis.
Yoder did it. . . But why should it rile us?
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime.
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time.
Our idea and we think we can prove it is lh,,
the men who made the best footprints on thou
sands didn't wear shoes- A shoe is hardly the cri e
rion of a civilized man. Take David, Solomon. Peri
cles, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle. Caesar, Asoka Gra
tama, Buddha, Mohammed, St. Francis of A -: ,
Gandhi and so on; they didn't wear shoes --jv:c;
maybe that they could scuff off at a moment's r,o-,
tice, but not shoes. On the other hand Hitler, Mi -solini
and Stalin were confirmed shoev. carers, b
you would hardly call them civilized. We wear shoe;
down South because pavements are hot in Summer
and cold in Winter. But there's no sense in oi r -quating
shoes with culture or bare feet with barbarians.