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PAGE TWO Gl Education Loses To 'Economy7 The President has withdrawn veterans benefits that were made available to service men after the outburst of the Korean War. The regrettable thing about the end of G. I. benefits f6r education the part of the Presidential order most affecting college cam pusesis that they have become a natural and decorous pan-of the educational system. Veterans returning to college under the G. I. Bill have made notable places for themselves particularly in the area of scholarship. Thousands of good students who might otherwise have ben denied college educations have ben granted them. Right now Carolina's veterans number well over 1,000 a bare illus tration of the wide-spread use of G. I. benefits. . The G. I. Bill hastened a practical and relatively inexpensive adjunct to the U. S. educational system. The millions per month that the new Presidential order may save is a sieable sum to be sure. But weighed against what it would extend to the country in the way of informed citizens, weighed against the present mammoth expenditure for jet pi. ics and aircraft carriers, it is paltry. It is mysterious that the educational ben guaanty, unemployment compensation and guaranty, unemployment compensation and others) have ben slashed at a time when the Administration finds it hard to digest the crow it has been eating over the still unbal anced budget. It is, too, insufficiently ex plained why veteran's benefits have been removed while the state of national emergen cy, declared by Mr. Truman in 1950, remains. -The point of all this, it seems to us, is that there is ample reason for making the G. I. Bill a permanent part of service benefits and not for th super-patriotic reasons ad vanced by the American Legion, either. An education for veterans is simply worth what it costs Uncle "Sam many times over. The government needs budget money rirrht now. But we think it has taken the money from the hands of the wrong group. Gracious Living XV Our Cobb .Dormitory operative, looking haggard and worn, stumbled into the office complaining of lack of sleep. "Pyrotechnics," he mumbled, "flash, bam, .ka-povv!" 1V leaned against the door and related a horri Ahle tale of abuse at the hands of name less firec racker bugs in the dorm. Nightly, as soon a s he is asleep, somebody tapes a bomb to the wall outside his room, and leaves it to awaken him (and ' else on his hall) with a loud roar. slumber finally returns, a string e firecrackers socs off in the yard, and so out. through the night. Fireworks can (1) get citizens Dooieci our. of dormuories and (2)) land them in the po key. If these warnings don t deter the tire- cvackev- rienus in lodo, let uiem icmcmuci that ahiy thing that keeps Carolina Gentlemen fromi their full 1 1 hours of sack time is ini mical to Gracious Living in Chapel Hill. The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday. M ' ' - examination and vaca tion periods and sum- mer terms. Entered as ; second class matter at the post office in i Chapel Hill, N. C, un ;; der the Act of . March !! 8, 1879. Subscription 11 rates: mailed, $4 per ' fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $j.ou a semester. Carolina Front, 'Dear Friends - - Reaction Piece. Take Gare Of Candidates For President Louis Kraar small-size lights it, every bod When of Chine Si of rtw- ynwrrt ; Or Ntfih 'aroUrtu 11 "?srtuuy 79$ THE GROUP of student govern ment workers sat around the quiet President's office in Gra ham Memorial and talked of spring and elections. The student union building is quiet these pre-exam days, but -ghosts of aspir ing candidates vill be busy eem to roam lain next term 'erhaps some of he ghosts hov ered around the he halls that tent's office the ,tudeit Presi- other days. "Well, Don, you think you'll run for President this spring?" asked Ed McCurry, who had just received a kidding from Treasur er Don Fowler about the same thing. "How can a guy get any work done with all this?" Fowler pro tested good-naturedly. And so the kidding continued until Norwood Bryan came in. "Are you going to run for Pre sident this spring, Norwood?" asked McCurry. "Why, no, are you?" he answer ed. "Course not. Hadn't even con sidered it," McCurry replied. It must have all started over columnist David Mundy's piece on Manning Muntzing's presiden tial aspirations. It was still on when I left. 5 Party Splits Are No GOP Monopoly David AAundy The Eye Of The Horse I- Lightning Over The Dark Abysses Excerpted From The Charlotte Nevvs is no Editor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager TOM SHORES Sports Editor - FRED BABSON Jackie Goodman Jerry Reece Dick Sirkin Jim Kiley Jack Godley News Editor City Editor . Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Subscription Manager Photographers Cornell Wright, R. B. Henley Assistant Sports Editor Bernie Weiss Assistant Business Manager Bill Bob Peel Editorial Assistant Ruth Dalton 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. EDrrORIAL 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 Bob Dillard ACTUALLY, TODAY'S candi date in student government be gins to feel the pressure of the spring campaign early in the fall. Between the political colum nists in the student newspaper and the always-planning party leaders, candidates have to be made early. Thus, what usually hapens in a vigorous year like this one is that many plans, conflicting ones, are made. And within each party several students try for the top nominations. The students most talked about for President on the Student Par ty side of the political fence are Fowler, Dave Reid, and Norwood Bryan. Muntzing, of course, is mentioned often, but he feels that just that may have hurt him. In reporting the names of the aspirants mentioned around Gra ham Memorial, I want to make it clear that I'm not predicting or speculating. I am simply report ing the names that one hears mentioned around the student un .ion. University Party presidential hopefuls seem to include Jack Stevens, who says he's going to Law School next year, and Mc Curry, who (like all the others) says he's not running. PERHAPS IT'S unfair to tag a student as a candidate because of the pressure it puts on him. But, as a rule, it's the student's own actions that earn him the candi date tag. In national politics, lists of possible candidates are as com mon in papers as the crosword puzzle in this paper. And in the national political arena, the dub bed candidates always vow they' re not running this is, before nominations are made. Manning Muntzing has suffer ed more so far this school year , from pre-election pressure than other possible candidates. This is regrettable because the aspira tions of the other SP people men tioned are just as strong as his, though not as obvious. & So pity the plight of the pros-, pective presidential candidate. If he admits he wants the big job, the pressure is really on him all year. And when he denies it, his friends (and enemies) Call him a hypocrite. The only solution seems to be for a candidate to be an "Eisen hower." That is, win fame in a non-partisan job (like Orienta tion Chairman), stay out of the political spotlight during th? year, then come roaring on the scene in the spring. TEARS about the terrible state of American letters are being shed again and if dumped into one container they would be suf ficient to float the Forrestal. Loudest laments come from U. S. creative artists themselves. With a discipline as austere as that of the Trappist monk, they like to chant that there "great American novel." One writer who registered a catalog of complaints is Freder ick Prokosch, the Wisconsin-born poet and novelist. He says that the nation simply has no great fiction that exposes the heart of America to the world. . . Only during the past 75 years or so has this nation seen any substantial turn toward the use of native materials in art. But in Old Guard's Dilemma; Ike's 'Moderate Progressiveness' Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON Congression al Republicans are in a rather sober frame of mind as they ap proach the next two years. The mere statement of their situa tion shows why. During the 84th Congress they will be functioning under Old Guard leadership as a minority . more than ever dependent upon their President who has announc ed his intention of turning them all into progressive moderates. In such a situation, somebody has to give ground. So far, the most articulate voices in the par ty and in the press are indicating it ought to be the members of Congress. There is not too much time for maneuver. For Republicans as for Democrats, the Vice-President's gavel signals the opening of the 1956 Presidential campaign in which there are very few pre sent certainties on either side. The election of the leaderships was dictated almost wholly by seniority and has little real mean ing as a sign or portent for the future, with one exception. The exception is the decision of Speaker Joe Martin to accept the 'House minority leadership again. Rep. Charles Halleck of Indiana, who had functioned with remarkable efficiency as majori ty leader during the past two years, wanted the minority lead ership and Martin was willing. But Halleck in his labors for Eisenhower " had made' enemies on the right who resented what they think of as his apostasy from the one true GOP faith. Martin would not risk an open quarrel. In a sense Martin's decision is notice t0 the White House that House Republicans as a group are not quite yet ready for a mass baptism into the Eisen hower . political faith. In choosing Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire as chairman of the Senate Republic can Policy Committee, Senate Re publicans completed a ruling tri umvirate all of whom voted for Senator McCarthy. The re-election of Senator Knowland as leader and Senator Millikin as chairman of the conference of all GOP Senators were foregone conclu sions. This result could hardly have been avoided. The Eisenhower Republicans are fewer and junior and they lack a natural rallying point among themselves. The Old Guard also has more vigour and knowhow. What they have not got how ever and the President has is the country's confidence. They cannot escape the pressure of that fact as the hour nears for decisions which will mean unity or scarifying factionalism. The Republican right has not ben able to dictate the nomina tion for President of one of their ? y MARTIN . . . no 'mass baptism. own since 1920 when Warren G. Harding emerged from the smoke- fliled room. They could claim , bis successor, Calvin Coolidge, but Coolidge was already Presi-' dent when nominated in his own right. Since Coolidge, six Republican national conventions have nomi nated candidates who could be presented to the country as hav ing some claim to the progressive moderate label. Even when the Democrats were in the depths in 1952, the convention delegates dared not risk nominating their real hero, the late Senator Taft. The new session should show fairly soon who is making the concessions so vital to the Re publican future, and why. that period, sensibility has play ed like lightning over America's dark abysses. In 1955, the Ameri can scene can hardly be marked terra incognita. It has been ex amined with clarity and beauty and artistry of presentation in music, in painting an in eltcra ture. There has not been one "great American novel" but many. Each has, in its own way, shed light on the American national character. It is ridiculous to think that this land can be wrapped up in one piece of fiction. John Steinbeck spoke truly when he said that anyone who "presumes to speak for or about all America is a fool, a demagogue or a liar. "Our writers do not say, "This is Amer ica." They say "This is a part I know and love and criticize and understand, and also it is only my attitude toward that part.' " There are simply as many Am ericas as there are Americans. Some aspects of this are revealed and made real and thereby, for the eyes of the world, newly cre ated, newly communicated in a whole succession of novels. . . After the Civil War when the old literary dominance of the East declined a broader national literature emerged. Out of this movement came the great Mark Twain, who added- humor to the literary stew. America was explained further in the naturalistic fiction Df Ste phen Crane, Frank Norris and Theodore Dreiser and even in the works of Henry James, al though he spent much of his life abroad. Later came the "muck raking" novels, like Upton Sin clair's THE JUNGLE, and a whole series of tracts on political, so cial and economic problems. Er nest Hemingway examined the disillusionment of America's run away "lost generation"- in THE SUN ALSO RISES. JOHN DOS PASSOS' trilogy, U. S. A., gave a panoramic view of American life from 1900 to 1930. William Faulkner has exposed the decadence of old Mississippi families and the depravity of "poor whites" risen to power. Other broad canvasses by Carson McCuIlers, Thomas Wolfe, Er skine Caldwell, Robert Penn War ren, and Ellen Glasgow have ex plored sections of the southern landscape. James T. Farrell, John Steinbeck, Richard Wright, John P. Marquand, John O'Hara, Wil liam Saroyan, James M. Cain, Ir vin Shaw and Saul Bellow have turned out significant some times disturbing novels about other regions, other traditions, other tensions. In all their varied ways real ism, romanticism, primitivism, na turalism and the classic traditions of -sparseness and objectivity scores of "great American nov els" have given the world a ma ture look at every side of Ameri cas' national character. The Am erican soul has been well ex plored. . - Currently a hypothesis is be ing advanced to the effect that unity within a political party is a thing to be very greatly de sired. This is essentially a re flection of . the "brain trust" days, the "bossism" prevalent in many segments of American pol itics, and a trickle of which has come down from the philosphy of collectivism so prevalent on the political left. I find the hypothesis anath ema, inasmuch as it assumes that a party council, brain trust, or speech-writing board can make decisions superior to those of individuals, and that this 'superior group" should have power to enforce its ideas. Worst of all, however, the hypothesis is being advanced as though it were one of the "eter nal verities," without a shred of an attempt at proof. Close ob servation easily proves it pat ently invalid. Basing their current propa ganda effort on the hypothesis that party dis-unity is bad, the Democrats are labeling the Rep ublican party as one in which there is no unity. Republicans, who are at all very smart when it comes to par ty politics; are again proving their ineptness in that field. Not only are they accepting the hypothesis as a valid one; they admit that their lack of party unanimity is something to be deplored. They just sit and take the mud as it comes, in large handfulls molded by the ADA's most skillful mud-ball makers. Were party disunity some thing really bad, however, it would be the Democratic party that would be disqualified in a fair test. Examples: The day after the fall election the new chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committe announc ed that he favors one system of price supports. The same day the chairman of the House Com mittee announces that the party is for the old high-parity system. Who lacks unity? Party propaganda would give one the impression that the Dem ocrat party is squarely for ex pansion of the government into production and distribution of electric power. Yet one of the leaders of the Southern wing of the party, Sen. George, obtains most of the support in his state from private power companies. For a time, indeed, he was ac cused of being their lobbyist in Congress. In the same party is Sen. Neuberger of Oregon, who wants the government to build dams all over the place. And Sen. Kefauver of Tenn essee assails the Dixon-Yates contract as a give-away, as be ing corrupt, part of a calculated attempt to destroy TVA, reac tionary, facist, and Wall-Street-ish in general. Across the Miss issippi in Arkansas, where the plant is to be built, the Dem ocrats laud it as a real boon to mankind. This "looking out for the in terests back home" arises in an other of the great questions, that of reciprocal trade agreements. Democrats who come from areas manufacturing products which would be affected are as loud in denunciations of lower tar iffs on those products as are Republicans from the same are as. The Democratic party earns the reputation for supporting re ciprocal agreements and lower tariffs by virtue of the fact that most of its congressional leaders come from the South, which has relatively few industrial inter ests. But will the Southern Dem ocrats allow the textile industry to be, placed at any tariff dis advantage? Not on your last ab sentee ballot! On the matter of civil rights the Democrat Party is immeasur abely greater split. Sen. Lehman and Sen. Strom Thummun' in the same side? There isn't even a comparative situation in the Republican Party. But, say the Democrats, the Republican party is split over Sen. McCarthy. No one can say that it isn't. But that is almost superficial. By screaming longly and loudly the liberals, who have been badly mauled by "Brother Joseph," have been able to convince the p,ublic that there is something evil about what they term "McCarthyism." Roger Will Coe (TW Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some , things, minwtizing others Hipporotis, cma 500 b. c.) : i THE HORSE was highballing down N Cam pus Cameron when I saw him, a basketful of New Year's resolutions perched on his back. , "I come bv the perching-on honestly," The Horse rebutted, braking to a hoof-scorching stop. My grandpaw was a Percheron. And while this is the season for highballing, mine is confined to the bas ket type." Oh! Basketballing? "Yup " The Horse confirmed. "I was a sort of guest at Case's Castle, in Raleigh, for the Dixie Classic. A sort of unwelcome guest, if you catch- Oh aye; I'd heard of past "welcomes" extended to legal and bona fide, ticket-holders by State of ficials when and if those tickets granted Tar Heel holders thereof squatting privileges in anything even remotely resembling decent seats ...i.e., anything within a day's walk or three Case .hollers fr.om the scene of action! - "A monthly bulletin should be sent to all em ployees in all state governmental functions, be they Administrative, Legislative, Juridicial or Edooca-tion-al," The Horse stated, "informing these more or less worthies that they are the servants of the people, paid by the people, to work for the people; and not a passel of fast, or half-fast, dealers of despotic dicta to vassals of the state." Did The Horse really think this was the case, lower-case 'c and not capital-C as in Hard Case? "I know it is," The Horse snapped. "This here proud Tarheelia of ourn may not be 'The Sahara of the Beaux Arts,' as Henry L. Mencken tagged it; but it sure is evident that a few Russian-state em ployees regard it as their, own private Siberian Steppes, and we the people of Tarheelia as their own private Steppe-ing stones." Well ... Case's Castle of Basketball Hassle is, after all, the private dominion of North Carolina State College functionaries, is it not? "No, it is not," The Horse insisted. ' "It is not their private anything, but is the property of the state, and the state is the people thereof, as de fined in and by our state constitution. Closer still. Case's Castle is the property of The Consolidated University to manage and administer for the Con-, soliation and through them for the people of the state." Well, -yes; but wasn't what The Horse slated" a principle, and not necessarily a practise? "There should be no practises in our state which are not based on and maintained at a level of higli... principle," The Horse saw it. "This goes for seats at a Classic held on stale-owned and state-maintained property, or whatever else. The cute lil' gimmick of State College czars ear-marking the choice seats all over the Coliseum for their chosen, and for the people of the City of Raleigh, is just,.so much huckstering of the property of the people for the benefit of the favored few." , Well . . . yes; but "Why isn't it worked as a football game is?" The Horse interrupted me. "Why aren't blocks of tickets including good, ground-floor seats, mind you, not just scattered and the worst-available as signed to the participating schools? You don't en tertain any fallacious notion that us Chapel Hitl ers, or the Dookians, or the Deacs, could get to sit in any sort of friendly, cohesive, home-school bunch, do you?" Well, no. Not exactly. "Not especially, is what you mean," The Horse horse-laughed. "Heck, it might sound to our em battled teams as if they had some sort of fair-play backing, some sort of encouragement. This is not to be countenance at Case's Castle. The deck of spec tators has to be stacked for the Wolfpack, and it is stacked for them. Just you get a good seat and I do not mean at the press-tables and let out two consecutive cheers for your team, other than State and instanted, the Cowstapo, if I may coin a word, will check your tickets to make sure you are legal ly entitled; and next, if you are so legally entitled, a Big Spoke will wheel up and give you a third degree on who sold you that ticket. And in the event you do not believe this, just you try and gel a good seat, not to the Classic, but to he Confer ence Championship playoffs." What? Not the Playoffs of the ACC! "Why, to be sure, Roger, me simple gull," The Horse assured me. "Of course, the excuse is that student bodies or home-town supporters would not buy blocks of tickets for all the games, and this is a requisite, catch? It assures the Case Castle management of the fastest sales at the least ex pense. Or, to put it another way, it is another ex ample of high principle being subordinated to low expediency. On the same basis get the dough, and to heck with principle the management could and some day may sell the Coliseum out to a group of scalpers and let the devil take the hindmost. That would be but logical, for doesn't that even further simplify the fastest sales at the mostest money and the leastest bookkeeping? It does." Oh, I hardly thought so! "In a way, it is being handled in that fashion right now," The Horse said somberly. "If you 'know" somebody connected with the dictatorship of Case' Castle, you can get good tickets. This is a sort of 'scalping' in club fashion: only instead of paying money for the good seat, extra money, you 'buy' on the basis of friendship and you ain't got a chance if you ain't got a Cowstapo friend, and I don't care what school you go to, teach at, or where -vou pav taxes." But was there a cure for this favoritism? "You're doggoned right there is." The Hoc snapped. "Step one is to have ihe Consolidation officials inform the Case Castle management that is a servant of the people of the state, and not 'In Southern Division of Madison Square Garden: step two, appoint a committee to inquire into and upon the question, including assigning blocks of seats for the ACC Playoffs to the participating schools; and step three, to remind said Cowstap' regularly that they are servants, and not we-un their serfs and vassals." Well ... me, I'm willing to be shown. . .
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