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FRIDAY, JANUARY 14, 1955 PACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Bond Issue For UNC Buildings? The University's hopes for sorely needed new buildings dropped to the bottom of the well last week when the advisory Budget Commission recommended no permanent improvements. But all, apparently, is not lost A member of the Budget Commission, Rep. William B. Rodman, Jr., has told the House that many of the requests which were rejected for economy reasons had much mer it. And he suggested a bond issue might be the answer. The idea has run into .no thick opposi tion so far. If the proposal could now find an energetic pusher in the General Assembly, the people of the state may have a chance to vote on Carolina's Pharmacy School build ing and men's dormitory. In a tight year, these buildings won't likely be forthcoming from the Assembly. But they might be forthcoming from the people, if the Assembly will call a bond elec tion. The Daily Tar Heel urges them to do just that- H!-Diddle-Diddle, & The Fiddle Carolina Front, After the President's State of the Union message, putting flesh on the structural bones ( f "progressive moderation," far-seeking op inion in Washington has begun to circulate a question: Must the Democrats go left for issues to stoke their 1936 campaign? The Eisenhower wing of the Republican Party has a paradoxical program. Its plan ners have accepted the program of the New and Fair Deals while rejecting their basic philosophy. How so? The philosophy of the New and Fair Deals was distinctly levita tional, while the philosophy of Eisenhower Republicanism is distinctly gravitational. (It does not say of the smaller interests, "Let them eat cake." It says, "Let them not eat cake; but let them watch the skies, for thence cometh their help.") What's in the sky? The shadow of the big gest bull in Wall Street history, loose and cavorting in the canyons. If the bull can gra vitate enough manna from the skies, farmers and laborers will eat their cake and remain happy. If the big bull should slip and fall, we guess that it would not do the Democrats any harm at all to turn to the "left accept ing "left" as a generalized source for benefit to the cake-eaers. Will the Democrats go left? It depends on how much manna comes down from that bull in the sky; all eyes are on him. Jose Vs. Anastasio In Cinemascope With Indo-Chirnl outwardly calm, M'. Mendes-France off the front page and Con gress settling down to business, it appeared that headline writers were in for a spell of relaxation. They forgot about the Latins; first thing anybody knew, there it was a B movie, right on page one. Costa Rican President Jose Figueres says Nicaragua has invaded his country. Nicara guan President Anastasio Somoza' takes of fense and challenges Figueres to a pistol duel at the border. An old fighter plane strafes Zacero and San Jose. But a lumbering DC3 with machine guns sticking out of its doors virtually the entire Costa Rican Air Force chases the fighter off. The invading army of Co men is held in ( heck at Villa Quesada. The General Staff out of shape from long hours of gin rummy playing and the smoking of Cuban cigars, rallies to proclaim the situation well in hand. If this sort of thing goes on much longer, Hollywood won't be able to stay away. An other invasion will take place a colorful army of directors and technicians with loaded sound cameras will descend on Zacero and Cartago and Canas, dolly in on Alapuela from the air, dissolve to a panorama shot of a border outpost, pan left to a1 two-shot of Figueres and Somoza back to back at twenty paces, cut to a closeup of the scene while kettle drums begin a rapid roll, add cymbals, which clash louder and louder up to a peak Well, our money's on Somoza, an expert marksman. But you can see it in Cinemascope next month at the Carolina. Cf)E Bail? Car iet The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, r where it is published ' " vt aa"y except Monaay. . 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 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; f delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Chaphi Silo of thr VmvrrnUy ' - North Carolina wb b i rst -opwmk! ii doors in Jumuvy I7i? - . - - t( Want Security? Sign On The Dotted Line Louis Kraar IN THESE days of much in security about security, Carolina I students appar- ently think nothing of sign ing loyalty oaths. No Carolina student refused I :o sign the new toyaity oatns required by the ROTC. Under the terms of a House rider on the Department of De fense appropriations bill last June, all first and second-year ROTC students are required to sign loyalty oaths. If students refused, they would not be en rolled in ROTC courses. Previously, only students en rolled in the advanced ROTC program were required to sign an oath. Naturally, no one argues with the right of our government to check the security of men in its employ. But why must a man sign a paper that swears he is not disloyal? I have always thought that this country assumes loyalty (like innocence) until a person acts in a disloyal manner. This country is built of bigger things than papers signed by citizens avowing their loyalty. I don't recall any patriots dashing around with loyalty oaths during the turmoil of the American Revolution, although they were certainly many citizens not "loyal" to the cause of breaking away from England. Recently other colleges, like Maryland, have had students who refused to sign the ROTC loyalty oath because they considered It an infringement of personal rights. Somehow I am a little disap pointed that some ROTC students didn't read down the list of or ganizations listed as subversive, study the loyalty oath, and laugh in the insecure faces of those who required the oath. Perhaps then at least one security-conscious official might realize that a nation's security is not built on having citizens swear that they have not been disloyal. it WHILE POKING fun at the Carolina Quarterly's awkward sentence about Oxford and Cam bridge representatives in Parll ment yesterday, I made an error myself. Thanks to English history Prof. James Godfrey, this report er can now unravel the question of English university students sitting in Parliament. According to the Quarterly, Oxford and Cambridge reached such importance that two rep resentatives from each' were granted a place in Pariament, "a privilege these four men still en joy today." And this reporter pointed out that since the seats were pro vided for over a century ago (the beginning of the 17th cen tury, to be exact,) the four men would have to be mightly old still to enjoy the privilege. What I should have said is that the English universities lost their representatives in Parliament almost seven years ago when the Labor Government took away the seats. Night Editor for this Issue ..Bob Dillard WORD COMES from George town University that conformity already a disease even on this campus has even touched the wearing of khaki pants. The Georgetown student coun cil has set up a code for the wearing of khakis. If worn, they must be clean, pressed, and belted. They cannot, according to the rule, be worn to evening functions on campus. Neither can they be worn on Sundays, except when the wearer is going to or from campus or is engaged in sport or study. Aside from the general ridicul ousness of this rule, I can see now that it won't have any ef fect on Sunday attire. For what else does a college student do on his only day off other than go to or from campus, study, and engage in sport? YOU Said It: Reaction Piece. i What About Rise's Singing? Editor: It was quite disconcerting to find that The Daily Tar Heel lacked discrimination by printing Jim Wallace's "so-called" review of Rise Stevens. If I am not mistaken, a concert review is primar ily concerned with criticisms pertaining to se lections, talent, etc. Evidently Mr. Wallace never acquainted himself with such, and therefore took it upon himself to start a new fad in the field of reviews. ' v It is interesting to note that Mr. Wallace was so concerned with Rise Stevens appearance com pared, that of a burlesque queen that he com pletely neglected to make constructive criticisms regarding Miss Stevens as a talented singer. Per haps I am wrong in assuming that Miss Stevens performed in Memorial Hall as an artist not as a Hollywood glamour girl! It is deplorable that Mr. Wallace has never acquired enough judgment to cover up his ex treme poor taste and obvious lack of interest in the finer arts. Susan Fuchs (Mr. Wallace did not intend the piece which we requested him to write on Rise Stevens' ap pearance as a review and the editor takes re sponsibility for labeling it. However, since a re vieto, is demanded, Mr. Wallace presents it, in the following ivords. Editor Rise Steavens, beautiful Metropilitan Opera mezzo-soprano, played to a full house on Tuesday evening, bringing back memories, to the concert goers, of her former visit to Chapel Hill and her successes on the opera stages of Europe and America. It was the same Miss Stevens who recently played La Scala, who has appeared in Prague and in Vienna at the Mozarteum, and who has had many successful seasons at the Met. At 41, she is still beautiful, she dresses well, her figure is graceful, and her voice production is still com petent. But, with two or three exceptions, Miss Stevens did not demonstrate her admitted mastery of the singing art in her appearance here. First of all, one could have expected more in the way of program. For an accomplished ar tist of the caliber of Miss Stevens, the program was a walk-through. Hardly a note in it required her full attention. Miss Stevens' attitude seemed clear from the beginning: she was singing a ra ther simple program in a rather condescending manner to an audience rather far removed from New York. But Miss Stevens, who commands a fee of S2500, would not sing such a program in New York, say, in Carnegie HalL On the program, on finds Where'er You Walk from "Semele," (Handel); Voi Che Sapete from "Le Nozze di Figaro," (Mozart); four selections from Grieg, four German selections, from Erich Wolff, Hugo, Wolf, Brahms and Richard Strauss; Mon Coeur S-ouvre A Ta Voix, from "Samson and Delilah," (Saint-Saens); five extremely short songs from Cecil Cowles, Charles Nagnski, John Duke and Reginald Boardman; and three selec tions from "Carmen" (Bizet). For an artist who has taken leading roles in a host of operas during the past fifteen years, the program is a barren one. With the exception of one number from Mozart, one from Saint-Saens, and three from Bizet, where are the great roles to be found? The Voi Che Sapete was rendered in as dull a fashion as could be imagined, and sug gested that the artist was saving herself for the rest of the program, or for her next "prestige" appearance. The Mon Coeur . S'ouvre A Ta Voix represented the first time in the program that Miss Stevens actually tried to sing, rather than gesticulate. In one of the songlets, Arcady, she showed herself to advantage again, and, at last, in the hackneyed and trite "Carmen" numbers, she was competent, effective and charming. But one looks at the program in vain for tra ces of Mignon. Der Rosenkavalier, La Gioconda, Orfeo ed Euridice, Cose Fan Tutte, Hansel Und Gretel and Die Valkure, in all of which Miss Ste vens has played leading roles. One finds warm-up exercises in the pleasant but monotonously repe titive Handel number. One finds a certain plea sant but innocuous type of quaintness in the Grieg exercises. One finds a few sparks of effort and a few Avell-delivered notes in the German selections, and one is left a bit suspended in mid-air by the shortness of the Cowles-Naginski-Duke selections. By the end of the "program", Miss Stevens had finished her "Do-Re-Mi." The singing should have then begun. But, rather, the show was over. It is a pity that one should sing with one's hands and ear-rings and costuming, when one still has a voice. Surely the fee was adequate to bring out the best in the artist and the best in program. More Stevens; 'Solution' To DTH Worries David Mundy "The radiator went bang, The garbage can went clang, That's my love song to you." Archaic old Memorial Hall is one of the few buildings in the world which not only shelters famous artists, but provides accompani ment also. The first part of the Rise Stevens concert passed without mishap: but after the intermis sion a radiator began to accom pany Miss Stevens with metronome-like regularity. (Every 5hi pluse counts, by me.) I dare say she will remember this as part of her welcome. Certainly no criticism can be leveled against Miss Stevens' abilities as an operatic perform er, but whoever arranged, the program is quite susceptible to question. Selections were so short as to be minute. Taken from so many varied settings and presented to one audience in the space of less than two hours, they could only produce a feeling of unreality. Only her artistry saved the performance from collapse and turned it in stead into a success. Sixteen dif ferent composers in less than two hours? Carolina may have the reputation for harboring a herd of uncultured asses, yes, but some arranger still managed to underestimate their tastes. 'Who's Your Friend?' There is a solution to the five day DTH week. The solution: Omit partisan national politics from the editorial page. I figure that by doing so, there could be an extra paper on alternate weeks. The figuring goes like this: The last fve issues of the DTH contain matter with a partisan national political slant to the following extent: Alsop Brothers Doris Fleeson Editorials David Mundy The Reporter Sat. Review C. H. Weekly Ed Yoder on Junius Scales 81 inches 76 inches 51 inches 20 inches 32 inches 30 inches 16 inches 32 inches mm wlnJCro,j Pan- Scott & Other Senate Freshmen Benefit By New Committee Rules' Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON, The new Democratic committee assign ments 'show Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson of Texas at his brillaint best in the field of pol itical tactics. Johnson has again quietly worked a revolution in the anc ient system by which seniority absolutely determines who shall serve on the committees where legislation is shaped. As in 1953, every Democratic Senator got one good committee before any body got two good ones. This was made possible by the unselfishness or enlightened self-interest . of such senior Democrats as George, Hayden, Russell, Byrd and Murray. It is politics practised as an art and is a major ingredient of those unanimous Democratic votes On important issues. The freshmen are grateful; the elders like the freshmen better because they have done them a kindness. The Johnson system has other s merits besides the general im provement in personal relations. For example, Democrats are organizing the Senate by grace of Independent Wayne Morse. Morse, given the two least val ued committees in 1953 by the then Republican majority, got the Foreign Relations place he has long and vainly coveted, plus the important Banking and Cur rency Committee. Democrats hope Morse will run as a Democrat in 1956 and his campaign, in which Sen. Neu berger will assist, is now off to a flying start. A second prized Foreign Rel ations1 post for which" dozen applied, was adroitly awarded on sentimental grounds to the former Veep, Senator Barkley, who also went back on Banking and Currency. Under the old rules, the now junior Senator from Kentucky, could have dem anded nothng. His lore and loy alty are now at Johnson's dis posal. , The difficult Judiciary Com mittee was shored up with the respected veteran, Senator O' Mahoney of Wyoming. A belli gerent Southern liberal who is an expert on matters agricultur al, Kerr Scott of North Carolina, went on Agriculture. And so on down the line. Not everybody, of course, is satisfied and could not be but the slate affords little room for valid complaint. It is a distinct challenge to the Republicans who are about to uncover their own committee -selections. The total comes to some 338 inches of political matter. I ven ture that it is all quite uneces sary, inasmuch as relatively the same material can be found in commercial newspapers for those so interested. Why should it be included in a campus pap er? It is even more objectionable when, at least quantitatively, it is slanted to favor one side. You will notice that all but about 100 inches of the material originated off campus: either with professional columnists or publications. In the portion that did originate on campus, the rat io was 4:1 for one side. All the 200-odd off campus inches either reflect a liberal bias or come right out and plug for the left wing of the Democrat party. Ad mittedly, I had to make some fine distinctions between politi cal and non-political matter in making the measurements. For example, the Reporter article was not exclusvely political, al though it did a thorough job of slanting its story. Some of the DTH editorials not counted con tained not-so-sly digs. The Yoder column, "Needed: A New Dar row to Stand for Judicial Integ rity," is also debatable. Since it so closely paralleled an "article in the January 2 issue of the weekly edition of the "Daily Worker," I felt that it should be included in my count. (Yoder's version is longer and somewhat better written; but they both present the same case. Yoder manages to get the Scopes "Monkey Trial" into his present ation.) My proposed solution, which is even generous enough to not include the. actual cost of the Fleeson-Alsop columns, is this in short: Omit all material of a national or state political nat ure. In two weeks like last week, this would amount" to some 650 675 column inches. Each page of the DTH has eight column wid ths with lengths of some 20 in ches! 8x20x4 is 640. Thus: room for "an extra paper every " two weeks Eye Of i he Horse Roger Will Coe (The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some things, minimizing others . . . - Hipporotis. cm a 500 B. C.) THE HORSE was hoofing along near the library, when I saw him. I was curious about his reaction to Educational Television? "It is singularly appropriate you should ask me lius, Roger, you old codger," he rebutted with an alacrity which smacked of many rehearsals of savin- it "Some cynic said ::The primary function of a literary critic is to destroy any enjoyment of read-in-' I detect a somewhat parallel technique in a few critics of our WUNC-TV programs. Howsoever, a literary critic at least waits until the volumes he brain-picks are in the bookstalls. Some of the ex pressions anent Educational TV were expressed ere so much as one live word and one dead pan were audible or visible on a screen." I'd seen that, also. Howsoever, didn't The Horse posture as an advocate of tolerance? Wasn't it Poor Richard who said, To err is human? "If he hasn't already said it," The Horse shrug ged, -"he perhaps will any , day now. Me, I would not' be surprised what Poor Richard said, up to and including 'You may fire when ready, Gridley,' and, 'Don't give up the hour-glass.' Forsooth, I would not be surprised if sometime he said no thing." Oh? Well, that was something to look forward to. But, what did The Horse think of Educational TV's direction, its orientation from a standpoint of the desideratum? Could one ask WTJNC-TV: Quo vadis? "Leave us off the academic double-talk," The Horse chittered. (I hate him when he chitters.) "Leave us rather level with one another without any of the pedantic mouth-dressing you may have picked up in your alleged studies at this, our scat of Cultoor and Erudition, off the Southland." As Poor Richard would say, A word to the wi.e is enough? Good! Slucidate, sir. I meant, open the throttle, fella! "We are not in quite the same position that FDR was when he started up the NRA National Recovery Administration," The Horse stated. "That is, we do not have quite the same number of adverse-minded critics hereabouts. Al Smith, he ol the Brown Derby Hat, once said that, '. . . like Columbus, Roosevelt doesn't know where he is has been going: he won't know when he gets there; and when he gets back, he won't be able to tell any body where he has been.' Educational TV know; where it is: at the beginning. It knows where it is going: ahead; and alertly . . . prepared to alter, add, change, revise and keep going. And we the people know where it has been and what it has done, in hard facts and cold results." The Horse hoped this? "Take the sheerly Sophist view," The Horse in vited me, "alone a guaranteed result for a stated outlay of obols and drachmas. Tarheelia is still tho leading state in number of farms proportionate to population. Picture to yourself the return to farm ers of all crops, in pest-control, yield, high-quality .... with every farmer within audio-visual range practically sitting in the lap of our experts in Ag riculture! Picture like improvement in home man agement, for the same reason! Picture the returns in terms of money saved in timely repairs of home, farm buildings, auto of care of livestock of High way Safety and lessened accidents in the homes of increased income and drought-protection gained from the Forestry Service's possibilities." Okay, okay. "TT OT 77 r "Picture the desire of education, for knowledge, awakened in the children of the area, by a compc; tent Educational-TV Program . . . and of the desire for higher education, for attending colleges and universities, that will make off fifty-percent-dropouts in Freshman and Sophomore classes a zooming angle of incidence that will be no coincidence for it is desire to know that is the basis of continued and continuing education!" Well yes. "Picture also," The Horse raced on with it, "the strength of a state in which everybody . . . for that must be the eventual foal, the entire state . . . has access to the teachings of Arts and Sciences of The Humanities, the Applied Skills. Just as a chain is no stronger than its weaker link " Had Poor Richard said that, too? "Shaddup!" The Horse snapped, "so is a state or a people no more educated than its most ignorant citizen. Knowledge makes for Industry, Industry makes for Income. Income makes for Higher Stan dards of Living, Higher Standards of Living makes for Happier, Healthier People . . . and they mako for a Strong Democracy. Or, for a Stronger Repre sentative Republic, to be specific." Could The Horse sum it up in a few words? His own words, please, and not Poor Richards? "You're going to get it one of these days. Ro ger!" The Horse breathed, this time using Jackie Gleason's words. "But, for the nonce, yes." I waited a reasonable moment and I waited an unreasonable moment. Horse. Hey, Horsie! "Oh, pardon me, I thought I was on camera, and I was freezing up," The Horse apologized. "I think it can be summed' up, of course, of course." Well? "An enlightened TV-screen is America's best in surance against an Iron Curtain," The Horse' fought for quotability and lost. "As Poor Richard said" "Wurnp!" said Mr. Wump, the low-1,ionJd Fro" instead. f!
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