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FRIDAY, DECEMBER V, 1954 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL -Stic of the University ?' - North H'tttaUn whkh first in fmutry 7 i 5 Now Is The Time For All Good Men... The Daily Tar Heel joins President Creasy in suggesting that you use your Christmas holiday to drop in on your home town state legislature member and lobby against a cut in the University budget. The equation of the day is plain to see: Budget cut equals tuition raise. And a tuition raise equals no college education for some de serving high school graduates of the state. The old philosophy was that the school should lie "as nearly as possible tuition free." Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their alma mater and keep that worthy principle from dying on the floor of the General Assembly. 'A Looseness About This Here Freedom' Arthur Garfield Hays made millions as a corporation lawyer on Wall Street. But Avhenever any man's civil liberties were be ing threatened, Hays always dropped his big business brief case, grabbed his satchel and cmght the next train out of Manhat tan. In the steamy summer of 1Q25, he showed up with Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone in the restless little town of Dayton, Tennessee, where a high school biology teacher named John Scopes had committed the high crime of teaching' the theory of evolution in class. Hays helped out-argue, out-general and out-yell William Jennings Bryan, the prosecutibn attorney. Scopes was convicted, but the rise of academic freedom in the Tennessee back-country dates from that trial. Two years later, Hays headed North, tt Boston, to defend Nicolo Sacco and Barto lomeo Vanzetti against doubtful charges of murder and robbery. In the trial of the Scottsboro Negroes in 'Alabama, in almost every important civil rights case in the past 30 years, Arthur Garfield Hays played a vigorous role. His favorite story wras of a liberated slave "who met his former master on the street. The master asked, "Are you as well off as before you were free?" The Negro admitted that his clothes were frayed, his house leaked, and his meals were nothing like the food had been back on the old plantation. "Well., wouldn't you rather be a slave again?" "No, massa. There's a sort of looseness about this here freedom that I like." Hays' death this week in New York takes from our midst a lawyer whose high income clients always had to wTait if somebody, somewhere else, was being denied the loose ness of his freedom an- American radical, old-fashioned in his notion of the import ance of individual integrity, committed to tolerance, free and fruitful speech and to the radical tradition of protest and reform. We wrill have need of such a man as this in years to come. One hopes that Arthur Garfield Hays was not the last of the great, liberal giants of the law court. The official student publication of the . Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published ? .daily except Monday. examination and vaca- tion periods and sum mer terms. . Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un- ' der the Act of March .J 8, 1879. Subscription " rates: mailed, $4 per m fear, $2.50 a semester; -j delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor . CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager TOM SHORES Sports Editor FRED BABSON News Editor Jackie Goodman Advertising Manager Dick Sirkin Circulation Manager : Jim Kiley Subscription Manager j0e Crews Photographers Cornell Wright, R. B. Henley Assistant Sports Editor eBrnie Weiss Assistant Business Manager Bill Bob Peel Editorial Assistant Ruth Dalton City Editor jerry Reece Society Editor- Eleanor Saunders Feature Editor Babbie 'Dilorio Victory Village Editor , Dan Wallace NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Archer. Neal, Richard Thiele, Peggy Pallard, Barbara Willard, Mary Grady Burnette, Charles Childs, Eddie Crutchfield. EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Tom Spain, David Mundy. SPORTS STAFF Bob Dillard, Ray Linker. BUSINESS STAFF Jack Wiesel, Joan Metz. Night Editor for this Issue Eddie Crutchfield Carolina Front. What's Wrong With Dean Fred Weaver Louis Kraar DEAN WEAVER, at the re quest ; of some students, spoke on what was wrong with stu d e n t govern ment the other night. When he finished, the dean suggested th a t students might give a talk on what J was. wrong with tne administration. Taking the good dean's sugges tion, I've decided to tell what's Wrong with Dean Weaver today. As Weaver himself said before he told students what was wrong with their government, I'd better mention some of the "specific rights" about Dean Weaver. The dean is an educator who encourages and defends student freedom. He is, in fact, one of , .the outstanding proponents of student freedom I've ever heard.' Weaver sees extracurricular activities as an important part of a student's education. He sees student government as "a labora tory dedicated to the idea that students can learn by doing." The dean seems to be a sin cere man, and his actions have always been highly motivated, al though sometimes controversial. As Dean Weaver himself told the students, if I may paraphrasa a bit, the student's word. "is not to be taken as gospel." To further paraphrase Weaver: "The student cannot be a dean ... He ,may be a good fellow, come up to the office to visit you, drink coffee with you in Y Court, but he can't be the dean." NOW THAT I've qualified my self, as the good dean did the other night, I can tell some of the things wrong with Dean Weaver. I Dean Weaver And the rest of his office is not in close enough contact with the student body to know how it feels on student matters. Although student government people see Dean Weaver and his assistants, the other students on campus frequently hold alto gether different opinions than their so-called leaders. If the dean and his office are going to deal with student af fairs, both should first make an 'effort, a much greater effort than is now being made, to find out what the students think. My second big "wrong" is that the dean doesn't make clear to students what the various pro blems are; he doesn't share his problems with the students that they concern. Take, fpr instance, the drink ing problem. For weeks, a group of students met with Weaver last spring, thinking they were nego tiating, Later they learned they were just "discussing' the pro blem" and not negotiating. Now Dean Weaver didn't mis lead or trick the students. He just failed to make it clear to them what was going on. I WOULD like to invite Dean Weaver to spend an evening in one of the dorms in campus, say in the lower quad, no(t that it's much different than any other part of campus. I'm not suggesting that the dean talk to a dorm meeting, but just sit in one of the rooms and try to read or do some other work that requires concentra tion. The truth of the dorm matter is it's almost impossible to study in many dorms on many nights. This, I know, the dean will say is something for student govern ment to handle. But apparently the dean doesn't know about it, or he wuold urge the student leaders he knows to do some thing. I could go on, as Dean Weaver said the other night, but he knows what thef problems are. As Weaver said about student government, "The dean must take an outside seat;" it is also apparently true that in adminF stration matters the student "must take an outside seat." 'Odd How Ike's New Bomb Shelter Drew Pearson WASHINGTON Civil Defense has now decided the President's airraid shelter, built for FDR during World War n, is not com pletely safe. It is no secret to anyone that this is buried on the White House grounds; so it's feared that a direct H-bomb hit would scoop the vaultlike shelter right out fo the earth. As a result President Eisen hower has been assigned a secrea, out-of-itown cave, where he will be whisked, along with his top aides and Cabinet officers, in case of an air raid. This gigan tic, bombproof cave is equipped with tons of supplies and rations, special electronics and radio gear, air filters and water pur ifiers everything necessary to run the nation from an emergen cy headquarters. i The President's exodus from Washington, of course, depends on adequate warning. The Air Force hope our radar screen in Northern Canada will give Wash ington four hours' notice of an enemy attack, if the warning is too short, Ike will have to take his chances in the White House shelter. This is a small, compact, sub terranean shelter, encased in four feet of solid concrete, rein forced with steel. It is equipped with its own heating system, power plant, communications net work and water supply all in dependent of t.t? city overhead. Chief . problem is that the White House shelter will accom modate only 20 to 25 persons. No list has yet been drawn up as to who in the White House would go with the President and who would have to take their chances with the outside pop ulace. Civil Defense has held several practice "dry runs" to determine how long it would take to evacu ate the President and his Cabinet to their secret hideaway, togeth er with 3,000 other top officials to scattered relocation ceners. During one rehearsal, it was discovered that a master file containing essential jdata was still back in Washington. As a result, photostatic copies were made of all important working files and stored in the emergen cy headquarters. Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby, secret ary of Health, Education and Welfare, also discovered that high-heel shoes weren't the best fashion for air raids. The rough cement floors of the Pre sidential hideout scraped up her heels, gave her trouble with her feet. Friendly Rivals ' Genia I George Bender, newly elected senator from Ohio, tells friends: "I was the only senator who had to win three times. I had to win the unofficial count, Many Of Them Drop Out, V 7 then the official count, then the recount." George says this a little rue fully, because he went through months of campaigning, and then several weeks of watching the recounting. However, sitting in the Waldorf's Norse Grill in New York the other day with Dave Jones of (the Cleveland Browns, he was approached by Charley Taft. Charley, brother of the late Senator Taft has not alwaysvbeen strong for Bender. He belongs to the Reform Republicans 6f Hamilton County, which is Cin cinnati. But coming , up to Bend er's table he said: "Bob, the election in Hamil on County was as clean as any in the country." Vigorous as the Bender-Burke Campaign was, it ended on a happy note when defeated Sen. Tom Burke, Democrat, called Bender on the phone to congrat ulate him and say he wanted to ffc. if t::V::fV: 1 '-N GEN. VAN FLEET . . . ingratitude? turn over his files on West Point appointments. The two rivals talked briefly and pleasantly. "It's just too bad," said Bend er, "that both of us couldn't have won." Washington Pipeline Correction: The Public Ac counts Subcommittee of the Hou committee which planned a stu se Government " Operations Sub dy of European merchant marine costs did not take its planned trip to Europe as previously reported in . this column. Staff members state that the- commit tee has received a -report from -X- - A ' If I f u - Isn't It?' the general accounting office that European shipbuilding costs are estimated at too low a figure, because of which the U. S. gover nment is paying U. S. shipping concerns too high a subsidy, and the House Subcommittee had planned to send seven members abroad to study the matter: Bender of Ohio, Osmers of N. J., McDonough, Calif., Hillelson, Mo., Republicans; with Karsten, Mo., Mollohan, W. Va., and Fountain, N. C. Though the committee still plans to make the subsidy study, the trip has been called off Senator Watkins of Utah got the second biggest hand at the Gridiron Club dinner. The man who probably has the longest recollection of Gridiron, dinners is Eugene Meyer, publish er of the Washington Post and Times Herald. He recalls a Gridiron speech by Secretary of State Elihu Root in 1908 which made a big hit. William Jennings Bryan was invited to answer Root for the Democrats. He arrived one hour late with, rumped shirt, not in formal even ing dress. Despite this, he out rooted Root. His speech brought down the House. ' Who Promoted Van Fleet? Gen. George Marshall, who was given a long overdue testi monial dinner the other- day, tells friends privately how Queen Frederika of Greece came to see him secretly in London some years ago and asked him to do something to save Greece. Marshall told her she was very naughty to approach him direct, since it is improper for the head of a government to make a for mal request of a U. S. miltary man. However, he acted anyway, and later sent Gen. James Van Fleet to reorganize the then dem oralized Greek army. Van Flet had been the victim of an Army red-tape snafu. Just as someone went wrong and pro moted Peress, someone also went wrong and got Van Fleet con fused with another Van Fleet, considered too unstable for high rank. General Marshall finally got the two Van Fleets straight ened out and sent the right Van Fleet to Greece, where he did a fine job, later went to Korea. More recently, Van Fleet, re tired from Koreavby Eisnhower, joined the ten million Americans for McCarthy. But when McCar thy blasted Ike, Van Fleet public ly withdrew. However, what old military comrades noted was that Van Fleet said nothing about McCar thy's charge against General Marshall, the man who promoted him, gave him his big opportun ity in Greece and whom McCar thy charged with "A conspracy so immense and an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man." Reaction Piece, Mundy Joins CandyCrusade With Kraar .David Mundy One or two friends have re quested that I join Columnist Kraar's "Candy Bar Crusade." Kraar, as you may have noted, has twice tilted his well-sharpened lance against the six cent candy bars ai sold in the uptown movie (cinema to you) empor- iums. I have two more cases of flagrant, well, flagrant flagrancy. One friend has complained that Lenoir has the habit of not hav ing his favorite, a little dab of chocoldta called a "Heath Bar." Another, with a more serious case, tells me that he found a spider web inside the wrapping of a bar. The spider, apparently, had escaped. Therefore, Louis, let us leap into our shining white armor, straighten our long-white plumes, and be off! My new political party, the Mundane Socialists, is off to a pretty good beginning. Already two people have requested mem bership and another has exf pressed interest. Since I desire a united front I haven't yet ad mitted anyone. There are too many inconsistencies with just me as a member. I have written the party's song, though. It is to be called "The Fifth Internationale." The first, and only verse as yet, goes as follows: "God bless state plannng sys tem divine. Stand beside her, and guide her, Just as long as the ballots are mine." Notes from History 71: (1.) Among other things, the bar sinister crossed Alexander Ham ilton's name . . . His mother had powerful friends. (2.) During those days an able bodied man got five dollars a week. What would an able-bodied young girl get? (Lughs, blushes, from class.) I just can't extend the season of jollity and merriment to the Carolina Forum. After each oc casion upon which I have com plained about its biased presenta tions I have suffered a strong, if not violent, reaction from three columns to the left. Crusader Kraar begins each re ply by calling me a "reaction ary." Reactionaries, accordng to one definition, are people who feel that in the several thousand years preceeding the New Deal something happened which bene. fied mankind. The implicaion of the crusadng Mr. Kraar is that I am something nasty, at least a slightly mentally decomposed dinosaur. The next "defense" is the statement that my charges are "wrong and much too hasty." (Quote from last Wednesday's Kraar Column.) The contrary is true. (Which isn't exactly calling Kraar a liar, mind you.) I have checked the Forum finances. I have looked over the list of people to whom the Forum sent letters inviting them to speak on campus. I have even read some of the letters. How thorough must I be? The Forum has thus far pre sented three left-wing Democrats and an actual socialist. Since the Forum is supported entirely by student Funds, it has an obliga tion to give the students a less biased ticket. Columnist Kraar reports: "According to Forum head Joel Fleishman, this spring Republicans Homer Capehart, Indiana Senator, Leverett Salton stall, Massachusetts Senator, and perhaps Everett Dirksen, Illinois senator, will tome to campus." A representative to the Forum has- since informed me that it just . isnt so. He says that the Forum is fairly sure of only one speaker next spring, and that is Sen. Humphrey of Minnesota. (Norman Thomas refers to that Senator as a "Socialist who wears the label of a Democrat.) I remain for a new year, convin ced of Forum bias. Happy New Year to everyone else! The Eye Of The Horse 1 Roger Will Coe (The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some things, minimizing others Hipporotis, cirri 500 B. C.) THE HORSE was puffing along in the environ of Woollen Gym when I saw him. Was he gofn to exercise. . .? "Am I going to exercise?" The Horse echoed. "I am exercising! Once a week, I walk in the direction of Woollen, period." , Speaking of Woollen Gym, and all that it stood for and that, me bhoy, is covering lotsa territory, The Horse put in caustically. "Not that they have a monopoly on being told by non-experts how ex perts should expert, if I make myself clear, and I trust I am expert at that." The Horse referred to tne hue (yellow) and cry (babyish) over Coach G. O'Barclay, from friend and foe alike? "Well, I'm sorta verbally sneaking up on the to pic," The Horse confirmed. "I fair shook my ribs down around my withers, I laughed so hard over th; idea of Coach B. being replaced as Coach!" . Why the laughter? It had been mentioned, no? "By dopes," The Horse shrugged. "In the first place, casting aside all thought of fair play and permitting Coach B. to work out his hired term whaddya think this is, a Rockefeller Foundation? Our appropriations here at this seat of Southern Cultoor are carefully arrived at and even more carefully, ugh, enforced! Brer Wilco, there ' would be a' howl to the heavens indeed, were we to(coolIy jettison whatever it is Coach B. is paid say, lor example, Ten Thousand Fish and go pay it to another coach, and perhaps more, into the bargain!" Well, not if some big-hearted alumnus were to donate the money to buy Coach B's contract up without damage to our appropriation schedules! "Yeah?" The Horse snorted. "Well, next time wc sat up and begged for Athletic moneys, the money-handlers would say, 'Go get it where you got the last donation.' I'm not even considering the eth ics of the situation, see? But, gratia Dei, someone is! Suh, other collitches may regard their lawfully contracted employees as flotsam to be jettisoned at the snap of an alumnus' false teeth, but we do not operate that way here. Not in Football, any way. Besides, we should have had a winning sea son vide: the Tulane fiasco and besides again. Coach B. has a durned good Frosh team coming up this next outing." t es, but well. . . "All of this has a familiar ring," The Horse said. "I seem to have heard the tune before. Am I in error when I believe Coach Snavely got a barrage of the same disloyalty?" And from the same source: loyal, interested al umni. Didn't The Horse think they were interested? Wasn't this good, that they were? Wasn't it? , "I would be more impressed," The Horse depon ed, if some of these great and good friends, would toss in a few fish-heads for things like improving dorms and student-facilities. And I would be stun ned if the dc-gooders should concern themselves about up-grading our courses, where needed, or something in line with improvement of a univer sity, and not with infallibility of a football dub; These guys have us confoosed with the Warshngton Redskins-" Oh, well. The Horse always gets moral arid ethi cal at Christmas. He thinks Santa is listenin'. . . 'Arsenic And Old Lace' : In 'Enjoyable' Opening Ted Rosenthal ' ' ' The Carolina Playmakers did an effective, work manlike job in their opening-night presentation of Joseph Kessehing's "Arsenic and Old Lace." They had a sound vehicle to work with.: This story of two saintly old Brooklyn ladies, and ' their favorite charity freeing lonely bachelors from our vale of tears, with poison-spiked elderberry Wine has become a comedy classic of the modern Amer ican theatre, a consistently "box-office play:' ' As such it was a good choice for the annual tour show. Unfortunately the Playmaker's staff saw fit to Bowlderize the script, and some of the funniest, of more resque lines were cut. At the same tim? several contemporary touches were added, including a reference to the junior Senator from Wisconsin. We were sorry to see this done. It is unfair to a playwright to emasculate' parts of his happier dialogue, and then pass off tne di luted product as his work, to say nothing of arbi trarily adding-material. The staff was aware of the contents of the' play when it was chosen, and if they felt i' might be of fensive to some of the audiences on the tour-itinerary, they were free to select some .other piece, in stead of blunting Mr. Kessehing's pen. (Besides since the performance in High roint, scheduled for February 19th, is to be sponsored by the American legion post there, the Playmakers Girl-Scout gen tility may not be appreciated.) The production as directed by Harry E. Davis, was just a little ragged in spots. In particular, the pacing of the comedy wasn't as smooth as it might have been; but during the course of the run here, which extends through Saturday night, the' timing of the humor should sharpen and the cast will very likely acquire ad-ditiona! polish where needed. Eva McKensie was sparkling ' as Aunt Abbly Brewster. She cavorted through her aberrated menage and the representation of the aunts' mac abre hobby with adept grace. Marion Fitz-Simons too, as Martha, the other murderess, was quite good. William Trotman gave a riotous protrayal of Teddy Brewster, the nephew who believes himself to be Theodore Roosevelt. In the play he makes sev eral "charges" up a staircase which he thinks i? San Juan hill; aside from this being funny, the ' stair-prop has to bear considerable stress, and yet be portable for the tour. James Riley, whose sets always are good, deserves special credit for his property-design here. Mary McGuire and Len Bullock performed cap ably in the romantic leads, and David Pattern was entertaining as the alcoholic plastic-surgeon. Bax ter Sasses, however, playing the criminal nephew made a rather leaden "heavy;" we felt his charac terization too stiff and somber, lacking in fontanel ty. Both Donald Treat's lighting, and Irene Smart's ' costuming were excellent. Despite a few divots in the greens, "Arsenic and Old Lace' was relaxing, enjoyable, and scored, bet ter than par.
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