WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1955
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Vim , Vigor
& (Yawn) Vitality
The sign in Sutton's says, "Special: $1.25
Hadacol, now 89c. For Pep, Vim Vigor anch
Vitality! (Save 36c)" But pre-exam lethargy
has set in and nothing Sutton's can do will
save us.
The spurious spring, the late, phony
June in January has had a lot to do with it.
We saw the first cotton dress of the year
worn by a coed on January 4 and yesterday,
a week later, a crocus bud which "ventured
bravely above ground in the Arboretum got
what it asked for a rude dousing in a 33
degree rain.
An ancient law of physics, meanwhile,
has come to apply: "If a thing's a-goin', it
keeps on a-goin', but if it's a-settin', it keeps
on a-settin'." To those few who last night
turned out to hear Rise Stevens or to see the
basketball game, our compliments. They were
in a minority. The somnolenJt multitude
merely stretched, their heavy eyes half-focused
on a textbook, and contemplated an early
slumber.
The surging currents of world power
politics do not touch this shore. Tottering
empires, clashing ideologies must get along
without our attention. Pep, vim, vigor and
vitality are for February or March or some
time rot lor two weeks before exams, even
at a ",(" saving.
1
The True Nature
Of The Struggle
President Eisenhower, in his State of the
Union speech, explained the meaning of co
'existence in words that deserve more than
passing attention. They are worthy of remem
bering, because they lift the frustrating bat
tle between communism and democracy a
bove the peninsula of Indo-China and the
plains of Germany. and, place it in a higher
context-
It is of the utmost importance that each of
us understand the true nature of the struggle
now taking place in the world.
It is not a struggle of economic theories, or
of forms of government, or of military power:
At issue is the true nature of man. Either man
is the creatureX w&pm the Psalmist described
as "'a little lower 'than the angels," crowned
with glory and honor, holding "dominion over
. the world" of his Creator, or man is a soulless,
animated machine to be enslaved, used and con
sumed by the state for its own glorification.
It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the
roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls
across the long sweep of man's destiny. This
prize, so precious, so fraught with ultimate
meaning, is the true object of the contending
forces in the world.
'Educational' Tempest
The News And Observer
Our sports editor reports that the educa
tional TV program of the Carol ina'Wake
Forest basketball game Saturday night pro
bably cost 2,000 ticket sales for the Duke
State game. It will be interesting to note
which feature of education wins out: Basket
ball on TV, or ticket sales for basketball.
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Carolina Front,
'You Mean Li'i Ole Me?7
Reaction Piece.
Contessa Film
Is Gnderella
With A Punch
' Louis Kraar
"LIFE IS sometimes like too
many bad 1 movies," Humphrey
Bogart philos
ophizes in one
3f the opening
scenes of "The
Barefoot Con
;essa." But thf show
"'4 on the shoeless
contessa is one
3f life's unus-
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"THE REST is an old story,"
Bogart says himself in the spark
ling narrative, but it only ap
plies to Miss Gardner's rise to
movie fame. After that, it's any
thing but an old story.
As the personification of ev
ery male's dream girl, Miss Gar
dner is still an unhappy girl.
She needs a prince charming,
but even the rich (she soon
learns) are dirty. So, aside from
mysterious meetings with ser
vant boys, the matinee idol is
without a man.
Bogart, as a director and writ
er, becomes the sexy Cinder
ella's chief confessor, but he's
more of a priest than a lover,
having otherwise committed him
self to a pert script girl.
Finally, prince charming ar
rives in the form of a count
(Ross&no Brazzi), and Miss Gar
dner, who heretofore had cold
shouldered even the well-heeled
Romeos of the international set
unfreezes.
On Miss Gar
dner's wedding -
night (she's
now the con
tessa), her cou
nt tells her he
was emascul
ated in the
war. And Uu SjU' 1
barefoot con- A , w 1 i
tessa knows
she can never
really have her
prince Charm-
in f jjfcafl&?rfyrffia wTntn A
The contes- BOGART
sa, deciding ... confessor
that a child would make the
count happy, takes steps to
ward having one. When the cou
nt learns of the affair, he shoots
his wife and the would-be father,
ending Miss Gardner - and the
story.
I HESITATE to talk about
symbolism for fear of sounding
arty, but the contessa tale is
full of it. As a matter of fact,
at times it perhaps hits one too
obviously.
Miss Gardners penchant for
leaving her shoes lying about
drives home the Cinderella angle
down to the her last scene, in
which Bogart removes the shoes
from her lifeless body.
The rich and the poor are
skillfully contrasted throughout
in a manner that rivals author
F. Scott Fitzgerald for depicting
classes. The contessa becomes of
a symbol of the poor girl who
' never finds her place among the
rich.
And the dialogue is full of
life, comments on life, and at
times wit. Sample: A Hollywood
blonde asks what Miss Gardner
has that she (the blonde)' hasn't
got. And Bogart's girlfriend
answers: "What she's got, you
caht even spell."'
' aHtKX- ually good mo- j
vies, a Cinderella story with a
sex angle. As one viewer re
marked on leaving the Varsity,
where the fiSm played, "It's
more like a novel than a movie."
Cinderella (Ava Gardner), a
dancer in Madrid of little more
than local fame, gets her big
chance when millionaire prod
ucer Kirk Edwards (Warren Ste
vens descends upon a Spanish
cafe to "discover" Miss Gardner.
Edwards, of course, brings his
writer-director (Humphrey Bog
art), a blonde "made in Holly
wood," and his public relations
man (Edmond O'Brien). Miss
Gardner turns out to be as temp
eramental as she is lovely, and
it is left to Bogart to persuade
her to leave the Spanish cafe
for Hollywood.
In the course of arguing, the
viewer learns that Miss Gardner
has lived in "dirt," but that she
has never sold her charms. And
finally, leaving her shoes behind
as an excellent, though obvious,
symbol, Miss Gardner agrees to
a screen test.
' '
liberals & 'Conservatives
Rep. John Umstead
In The Chapel Hill Weekly
We hear more and more about
whether this member or that
member (of the state General
Assembly) is a liberal or a con
servative. Having been accused from
time to time of being an ultra
liberal I have, during the past
several years, given some thou
ght to what is meant by the two
terms. Over the years I have
watched those who were called
liberals and those who were call
ed conservatives in their react
ion to proposed legislation.
In the main those called liber
als have been those most apt to
recognize necessary services that
the state should render its cit
izens and who were willing to
raise the money to pay for these
services although it might mean
more taxes for themselves as
well as for others.
Those called conservatives
have been those who seemed to
minimize necessary services and
who wished to raise only those
taxes that were' absolutely nec
essary even though such action
meant sacrf icing many services
that make life worth living in
our state.
The real attitude of these gro
ups appeared when a bond issue
for secondary roads and school
buildings was passed on by the
voters. The liberals supported
the bond issue because they saw
in it a better way of life for
those who lived in the rural sec
tions. The conservatives said
that neither the proposed roads
nor the- school buildings were
necessary and cautioned the vot
ers about going into debt.
That bond issue took place in
1949, the people approved the
bonds, and the program was al
most completed within, a three
year period. Today there are
very few of our citizens, even
of the ultra-conservative class,
who will not admit that this
, bond issue, instead of damaging
the state's economy, has greatly
improved it. . .
The basic attitudes of conser
vatives and liberals is also dem
onstrated by what has taken
place in the field of agriculture
in the last 15 years. When im
proved farm machinery came on
the market the conservative at
titude was that the mule and
plow were good enough and that
no farmer should go into debt
for a tractor.
What has happened to the
picture? Now the mule has al
most been forgotten while the
most prosperous farmer is look
ing for the most improved mach
inery although he may have to
go in debt to get it. He has
found that sound spending for
necessities, and even for some
things that are not necessary,
is wisdom. . .
After giving the matter due
thought and consideration I have
come to the conclusion that a
liberal is a person who thinks
we should spend money for nec
essary services even though it
hits his pocketbook. He definite
ly puts human values above
monetary values. . .
As I stated in the beginning,
I have been accused of being too
liberal. Whether or not I am too
liberal is a matter of opinion.
I simply state that 1 am a firm
believer , in the Golden Rule.
During the cjurrent session of
the Legislature, I expect to be
in the camp of the liberals.
Ike Can't Turn Down Draft
If GOP Timetable Succeeds
Doris Fleeson
WASHINGTON The major
parties have begun to compete
with one another in the effort
to wring maximum advantage
from their "new look" Presi
dential nominating conventions
and campaigns.
Democrats tentatively announ
ced last Friday that they would
open their 1956 convention Mon
day, August 27. This is,, about
five weeks later than usual, but
carries on the custom of a Mon
day opening by which delegate
travel need no break into the
previous work week.
A Republican subcommittee
met next day and tentatively ap
proved a September, 1956, con
vention to meet the week follow
ing Labor Day. If their timetable
stands, it will be the first time
since 1888 that they will hold
their convention after the Dem
ocrats. Democrats who had carefully
canvassed the 1956 calendar be
fore they set their own date are
raising the question of whether
Republicans can make their date
stand because it runs into a per
iod of historic Jewish religious
observances.
Jewish religous authorities
confirm the following schedule:
In 1956, their "Ten Days of
Repentance" will begin at sun
down Wednesday, September 5,
with Rosh Ha' Shona, the Jewish
New Year, and conclude Sunday,
September 16, with Yom Kippur,
the Day of Atonement. It was
said that the overwhelming maj
ority of American Jews are of
the orthodox or conservative
faith and observe this rite.
, It would appear therefore that
the Republicans are squeezed
during the first week of Septem
ber between the national holi
day, Labor Day, which is Mon
day, September 3, in 1956, and
sundown Wednesday. September
6. All of the second week in
September is embraced within
the Ten Days of Reperitence.
Unless Republicans can be reas
sured on this point, it would ap
pear to fix their first possible
September, 1956, date as Mon
day, September 17, or r making
an allowance for travel-time
Tuesday, September 18.
Democrats decided - - that it
would at the very least not be
tactful to meet during the first
part of September, and the Jew
ish authorities consulted agree
with them.
The fact that Republicans pro
pose to re-nominate President
Eisenhower does make it possible-
for them to run a very
short campaign. Their candidate
will necessarily be in the pubic
eye up to that point.
They are indeed by design
creating conditions which will
make it impossible for the pre
sident to refuse a draft. The
1956 election will be held Tues
day, the campaign period would
be very short. .
A new candidate simply could
not be built up in so short a
time.
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CAMPAIGN SMILE
. . , coming up again in '56?
It is permissible to wonder
whether the President, a polit
ical novice, really understood
this when he expressed approval
in White House conferences of
a September nominating conven
tion. "Of course, if he did under
stand it, that is tantamount to
an admission that he is running.
Democrats certainly expect
that they will have to defeat
Eisenhower. Yet in the accident
al game of politics there is al
ways room for prudence and a
second line of defense. When
the Republican National Commit
tee with its large number of ex
perienced members meets, the
present tentative proposal will
get a searching scrutiny.
No 'Plotting7
In Presidency
Prediction
.David Mundy
Eye Of The Mors a
Roger Will Coe
Any relation between this col
umn and one that has been proof
read is purely coincidental. I
am not complaining about any
special persecution, but I do still
smart from the blow delivered a
few columns back when my "re
pressed desires" came out as "de
pressed desires." I would like to
assure everyone that I have none
of the latter.
I hope that the rumored proof
reader doesn't take this as a per
sonal attack or an attempt at .
character assassination. Still, he
has made me look more foolish
than has anyone else
And those headlines that "fly"
over this column aren't my own
compositions. After last week I'm
even tempted to disclaim them
entirely. I was really arguing a
case against the hypothesis that
intra-party divisions are bad for
the country'- The headline made
it sound like an apology for di
visions within the Republican
party.
Lest the suspicion continue
that I hold a political brief for
potential president Manning
Muntzing, I would like to staunch
the vein of rumor.
I would go President Creasy
one better, and say that campus
government is a necessary evil.
It has a multitude of aspects
that I abhor, but still it should
have some competency at the topi
My thesis, that Muntzing will be
the next president, is based on
logic of the situation:
Muntzing has a passable record
of achievement.
He is almost the only campus
politico who has done more than
make glowing promises.
He is largely responsible for
the successful activities of the
IDC.
Considering that he is the
"one" who has actually done any
thing, I can only foresee his be
ing the next president.
And that was the sole basis
for the prediction. Actually, I
think that SPer Jim Turner would
turn in a more efficient perform
ance as president. And the po
tential of potentials, David Reid,
is one of my best friends.
The only other alternatives
which the SP can offer are its
unknowns the do-nothings and
know-nothings with the bright
and shining smiles, not to omit
a glad-hand and a multitude of
friends. But then the UP would
carry the field, their party being
to a greater extent organized on
the "multitude of friends" prin
ciple. I am no propagandist for Munt
zing. Indeed, I probably owe him
na apology. A propagandisf would
have been more subtle in even
mentioning his name. There is
no plot afoot. I've neither seen
nor talked to Muntzing in at
least a month. Plotting?
Who's a paranoiac? This is ra
pidly becoming one of the favor
ite questions in the strange little
corner where politics and ama
teur psychology join. The thesis,
which I have heard advanced by
at least two professors, goes
something like this:
'Paranoids (just use a big word
few will know what it means
anyway) are people who have
delusions of grandeur and the
feeling that someone is persecut
ing them or leadng some kind 0f
conspiracy against them. These
people tend to project their atti
tude to a naional level. Someone
is conspiring against the state,
they say.'
Then comes the implication
that, since a lot of people think
the Communists are conspiring
against the state, these people
are paranoiac.
At this point the terms "Mc
Carthyism" and "prevailing cli
mate of fear," are interjected
into the lecture. The professor
has to do this, though; otherwise
someone might not know that
paranoiacs are something "bad."
Should the thesis hold that
people who fear some conspiracy
are paranoiacs, the label , would
have to be pinned on the very
liberals who davance it. They am
the ones who forever lambast the
Wall Street gang, big business
interests, Texas oil-millionaire
fascists, Nixon, Dixon, and Yates,
not to omit state patrolmen who
follow one all the way from Ze
bulon to Raleigh so that they can
catch you speeding.
(T-e nor sees iCUj,
things, minimizing others . . '
500 B. C.)
THE HORSE was scratching his platinum rnanc
(he insists it is not gray, nor wh.te) with a -ntv
hoof and perusing some . . . notes.
'It's supposed to be a femme reporter's story
of the Dixfe Classic Finals." The Horse sa.d. Lut
it beats the oats outa me."
Oh,
The Hoof
"it is somewhat nrt to the point,
elaborated. "Can you figure that?"
Well, hadn't The Horse said a femme wroti- i?
"You've got something. Roger me bhoy." The
Horse snapped gingerly. (His favorite food is lin
ger Snaps.) "Here, read it."
A Woman Looks At Bnskelhall , I started.
"To yourself," The Horse added quickly. This
distaff-reporter went as follows:
A SOMEWHAT cynical visiting coach said when
asked how he was treated at a baskclball game m
the Coliseum:
"Oh, everything was on the up and up, to bo sure'
The floor was flat, the ball was round, and the lights
were on."
But the Classic 'held in post Christmas week,
any y-clept Dixie, was much, much more than that.
First of all, our own Tar Heel team was in the finals
and came out with third place;
Then there was "Showboat" Hundley, oT West
Virginia, a sight to behold when dazzling his oppo
nents with nimble dexterity in ball-handling . .
and handsome as a matinee idol when he was si ill.
but this was unfortunately seldom;
Then . . . All-America Hemric, of Wake Forest:
Semonovich of Minnesota, and what a hunk of man!
You had to see him to believe him, and even then
you diqjn't And still more. . .
Well, you all know by now that we beat highly
touted Southern Cal on the first day played Slat.?
to a state of jitters (and a 3-point loss for us) n
the second day; and BEAT DOOK on the third day,
as a happy omen of things to come.
The championship game, State vs Minnesota,
was the finest exhibition of nip-and-tuck fast bas
ketball ever seen in the Coliseum. It was a great
Dixie Classic, with even 8th placing Cornell unvei'
ing a great (and handsome!) player in Sheehy.
And let me say that the State tans tan rudely boo
Al Lifson all they please, for my money he was one
of the two best floormen in the Classic. And Minne
sota's Mencel could outrun anything this baskolhall
rabid reporter of yours has ever seen.
From a speculative woman's point of view, the
Classic queen a West Virginia lass was worthy
of the wolf-calls she invoked from the crowd when
she presented the trophies. The boys are sometimes
discerning of something other than 38-2fi-3fj's. . .
And it wa.s a sort of Male Beauty Contest, as vi 11,
this Classic, with lots and lots of stunning men
for the girls to gaze upon, when the teams took trie
floor.
Marty Daugherty of Duke is simply a dream . . .
if you like tall dreams. Roy Irving, of Souther..
California, is another glamor boy, and should M p
from his campus right into a movie studio. A: I
Hundley, of West Virginia, for all 'his fancy drib
bling and ball-spinning shennanigans, has loo!;-;
into the bargain. But by far the handsomest Apollo
in sight was our own Bob Young. And Jerry Vayd.i
would be the ideal man to be shipwrecked wi h
because he imparts a feeling of security ... as wtl'.
And Coach McGuire is shrewd in playing a .slow
down game, because the fair sex will simply .storm
the gym for the games just to see how daring and
dauntless Handsome Bob looks when he stands
utterly still and disdains the State and Duke play
ers' taunts for him to put the ball into play. .
Really, girls, you are missing something if you d
not insist on your dates taking you to all the game '
Hollywood Scouts, please stay away until U)53. .
Why, even one of the referees was hancl-'-M . '
Tommy Bell. And just oodles of good-look' ng
coaches, not to mention how cute the Deaks' Bone-.
McKinney was when he would moan and writhe and
groan as the play unfolded. His actions are fahuh.u
. . . and he is so good-looking!
Among the audience, Consolidated Pre.s'i d e ri
Gordon Gray was easily the most distinguished an 1
romantic looking, as our eyes j ov d the boxes and
galleries.
It wa.s all wonderful. Even the basketball ,v. !
was wonderful, and after all, that was what v."
went to see . . . after we had seen everything el-
more important, first. And what a thrill it was"wl;e:i
our men walked out to get their trophies, with Toiv.
Radovich and Lenny Rosenbluth getting the biggt '
hand of the crowd among our boys. Co-Captains A!
Lifson and Paul Likens, our Rhodes Scholar receiv, !
the large team-cup presented to our great tea-n
and wonderful coaches.
To the losers . . . tears; to the winners . .
cheers! They were all just out-of-this-world .V
whoever designed Carolina's new uniforms hhu,,; -get
some praise the blue warm-up jackets ,;,.;
with white were easily the best-looking lh
State's red is . . . well, too red. I think Cn;,. '1 ;
assistant Butterball I am told that is his narru-v
Anderson should consider Lelong Red when he v
styles the uniforms. However, from the looks
things, State may not look roo hot the next tinv
our Tar Heels meet them. . . P. S., I do hope von
strictly basketball buffs have already read your
local sport-sheets for the unimportant details 'such
as ratings, percentages and the like. We had meant
to include this sort of thing, but there was just too
much of other and first-importance interest to re
port. And who wants to make a bet that Maryland
will not be the Conference Championship Playoffs
They should be! Are they good-looking. . . ! '
"So?" The Horse asked, when I had finished
I thought it all the more reason the m-inve-jnent
of Case's Castle should set aside seats for i.s
iau.-. 1 mean, now ran vi
i'OU CniOV a "nmn , ..
amo icj V. e ....... ... "
lur .some lower of Pisa becat
.- o sooa-iooKing? And if you holler 'Ya or,,,,
- suuu-iuomI1S oiina man in a striped shirt
e nihts running!
that"h7nTTaCtinS USh' aml Wake Forest on
In 7i "n ?romiS(Hi- "We'll get somewhere.'
In Case's Castle Ho-ho. Ho-ho-ho-
l.-e
you'll