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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1955
Wecome Back
Carolina Front
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. . . And we hope you enjoyed your
vacation Monday
The Demands Of
Business & Democracy
m
We watched a Business Administration
major thumbing through his class cards yes
terday (economics, business organization,
accounting, corporation finance) and reflect
ed on a speech made this year at State Col
lege by William Ruffin of Durham, presi
dent of Knvin Mills and former president
of ihe X.'-Jonxl Association of .Manufactu
rers. - '
The over specialized college graduate, said
Mr. RuiTin, who ought to know, "can feel
the, lack of enough training in the humani
ties, in language and literature, in the arts."
And he added:
Describing a man as "well-rounded"
has, I suppose, long since become trite,
but give me a better expression. At least
give me a man for leadership in indus
try or commerce who is on good speaking
terms not only with the technical phases
of Irs own business but with many other
important facts of life to which he will
find himself exposed the languages, lit
erature, the arts and, neither last nor
lcasf. religion.
He will find himself sorely in need of
them and in my opinion cannot develop
his full potential without them. He will
even find it difficult to hold his own in
the lower echelons of industrial and bus
iness leadership unless he is a well
rounded man.
I predict . . . there will be more de
mands from industry and business to give
broader education in the liberal arts
courses to the college man working for
the specialized degrees.
These are not, we repeat, the sentiments
of an English professor, but of a business
man. They have been echoed, in the last 12
months, by such distinguished Southern bus
inessmen as the personnel director of the
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, the presi
dent of Carolina1 Power and Light Company
and the vice president of the Norfolk and
Western Railway. The General Electric
Company is spearheading a convincing na
tional crusade for the humanities. The Ford
Motor Company is emphasizing liberal arts
education as training for its new employees.
There is, in all this, the suggestion that a
graduate of the University may be a whu
in accounting and business organization and
still not be prepared to succeed in business
without a little Plato under his belt; that,
in fact, the progressive corporations of the bers
day might prefer an employee made intelli- Before
gent through humanistic studies and sciences
humanely approached to the most aggres
sive business-trained graduate. 1 . "
There is one consideration more: that the
strength of a' democratic society is directly
proportionate to the number of its citizen
whose thinking is not limited by their oc
cupation and their class. If, in the end, de
mocracy has any implications, one of them is
that its citizens must become involved in it,
and not just through their jobs, but through
their lives.
This seems to us to place the one-track
mind behind the times and to form a sermon
to the student with the one-track batch of
class cards: Greek civilization may be as im
portant as corporation finance, to your em
ployer as well as to yourself.
Spring Signs:
A Campaigner
And A Coed
Louis Kraar
Guided Missiles The Ultimate Weapon
7 He Grim Race We've
Stewairt Alsop
Got o Win
"YOU'RE THE most powerful
coed on campus. I could win
with your sup
port," the pros
jective student
iody presiden
' i a I candidate
told the girl
at his side.
She smiled,
ooking about
1 e r at the
(smoke, noise,
the crowded
and people in
Greensboro Plantation Club. And
the campaigner Vent into the
second verse of his line. .
"You know, r really think the
coeds on campus are intelli
gent," the candidate dealared,
pausing to sip, his drink in an
almost dramatic manner. ,
The coed, "the most powerful
coed on campus," kept smiling
and made a conscientious effort
to look intelligent. She was in
telligent, but she tried particu
larly hard to appear that way
after the campaigner's comment.
Soon the conversation between
the hopeful candidate and the
intelligent coed was drowned out
by Student Party politician
Louis Brumfield telling a story
about "my judge friend in Yad
kinville." The Student Party boys (and
girls), at the suggestion of Jim
Turner, had gathered for an in
formal party with some Daily
Tar Heel staffers. But several
of the SP pols decided that the
occasion would be a good one
for campaigning. So they did.
A toast to the Democratic
Party brought only minor ob
jections, fewer than those raised
about an insistent waitress set
on making the group pay their
check early in the evening.
Turner, host to the affair, had
t managed to gather together
Manning Muntzing, Larry McEl
roy, Norwood Bryan, Ruth Jones,
and other prominent party mem-
long all the toasts
were over, a poor floorshow end
ed, the music stopped, and I got
up to leave.
The ardent campaigner gave
my hand a good -squeeze, mut
tered something abdut mutual
respect for the press, and the
party was over.
On the way back to the Hill,
I suddenly realized it was al
most spring and election time.
WASHINGTON By those
who should know, this country
is now given! about an even
chance of beating the Soviet
Union in the j race to be first
to get an intetr-continental bal
listic missile irito the air. ,
Although thiis whole subject
may seem impossibly, remote to
most people, ( this should rate
as about the best news the coun
try has had jfor a long time.
For until rathier recently, intel
ligence studies of the Soviet ef
fort in the fiield of long range
guided missilefe strongly suggestr
ed that we would almost cer
tainly Iosie thie race for the inter-continental
ballistics missle
the I.BlM. And this is a race
which thle United States simply
cannot affortl to lose.
The I.B.M4 married to a hy
drogen w-arhead, is the true ul
timate weapon. It can be fired
from one continent to another
to destroy a great city, in much
the way that a murderer fires
a bullet through his victim's
head. The difference is that a
man can hide, and a city cannot.
As of today, at least, there is
hardly even a theoretical de
fense against the true inter-continental
guided missile, except
to get the weapon first, to make
it better, and to make it in
greater numbers. Until recently,
the effort to win the I.B.M. race
was strangled in red tape and
hobbled for funds. Today, a
greater effort could,; and un
doubtedly should,, be made. But
at least the effort is now a ser
ious one. And it is already be
ginning to pay off.
If we beat the Russians to
the I.B.M. and thereby avert
what would surely be world ca
tastrophe a good share of the
credit, according to those who
know, should go to a youngish
California engineer - business
man, called Trevor Gardner.
Gardner was brought into the
Air Force by Secretary Harold
E. Talbott to get the long range
missiles into the air.
In the process, Gardner has
stepped on a great many toes
so many that his appointment as
Assistant Secretary of the Air
Force has been held up in the
Senate. But Talbott and Air
Force Chief of Staff Nathan F,
Twining have backed thim up,
for which they also deserve cred
it. By dint of toe-stepping, much
has been accomplished. Penta
gon red tape has been slashed.
An able Air Force man, Brig.
Gen. Bernard Schriever, has gone
to the West Coast to ride herd
on the big companies., like
Northrop, North American, Con
vair, and Lockheed, which are
doing the actual work on the
missiles.
Totally unrealistic require
ments like the requirement
limiting the margin of permis
sible error in the inter-continental
missile to 1,500 yards
have been rescinded. And funds
for the 'missile efforts have been
fairly , sharply increased. The
amount of increase is hidden in
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Sditor CHARLES KURALT
Managing Editor , FRED POWLEDGE
Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
Business Manager TOM SHORES
COEDS WHO stayed on cam
pus during the between-terms
break really had it tough. Hours
were 11 o'clock all weekend.
Dean Carmichael explained the
early hours this way:
"Technically the dorms are
closed during holidays. This was
a student holiday. However, we
kept most dorms open.
"Closing early was a way of
lightening the burden of the
dorm hostesses."
Perhaps it is tough on a dorm
hostess who is supposed to be
on vacation to stay up until 1
o'clock. But it would seem that
something could be worked out
for the Carolina coed who stays
in Chapel Hill then can't en
joy the place past 11 o'clock.
. BERNIE WEISS
Jackie Goodman
Jerry Reece
Dick Sirkin
Jim Kiley
Jack Godley
Sports Editor
Mews Editor
City Editor i
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
Subscription Manager
Photographers Cornell Wright, R." B. Henley
Assistant Sports Editor Bob Dillard
Assistant Business Manager Bill Bob Peel
Editorial Assistant Ruth Dalton
Society Editor - Eleanor Saunders
NEWS STAFF Ruth Dalton, Neil Bass, Peggy Bal
lard, Barbara Williard, Sue Quinn.
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
MY NOMINATION for the
most agitated coed after exams
is a young lady who came over
to me in the Dairy Bar, put
down a penny, and thanked me
for lending it to her.
When I told her I wasn't the
lender, she decided the girl next
to me was the one she owed.
The penny-giver handed it to
the girl beside me, thanked her
warmly, and left.
"Who was that?" I asked the
girl who had just acquired the
penny.
- "I don't know. Never saw her
before. But she was so embar
rassed that I had to do something."
'We Want To Try . Liberating The Girl'
the over-all Ari Force budget,
but it is said to be substantial.
As a result of this effort, the
timetable for our entry into the
age of the long range guided
missile has been revised down
ward all along the line. Most
significantly, the State Depart
ment and the British Foreign
Office are now negotiating for
a 5,000-mile missile firing range,
extending into the Atlantic from
Florida to the Ascension Islands.
The immediate reason for this
negotiation isMhe SNARK, the
jet-propelled, pilotless aircraft
guided by the stars, and which
flies just under the speed of
sound. But the SNARK is only
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the fore-runner.
After the SNARK comes the .
NAVAHO, the ram-jet which is
a true guided missile, flying
more than twice the speed of
sound. Then comes the mighty
ATLAS, the true inter-continental
ballistic missile which climbs
an incredible 600 miles' into
space before it plunges to the
kill. And at some point de
pending on a decision which has
not yet been made there
comes the first man-made, ar
tificial earth-satellite. But, for
the immediate future, ATLAS is
the decisive weapon.
There will be a further report
in this space on these strange
and terrible gadgets. Here it is
enough to say that in each case
the prospects for early success
are immeasurably brighter than
they were a year ago. But there
is still no cause for complacen
cy. Our chances of winning the
I.B.M. race have improved but
they are still no better than
even. Those in a position to judge
believe that we could be almost
certain of winning this race we
must win, on one condition. This
condition is a national sense of
urgency, leading to a major ef
fort on a war time scale to win
the race. This would involve
greater expenditures. But the
concentration of energy and ta
, lent which a national sense of
urgency brnigs forth is a more
important element in the equa
tion. And this sense of urgency is
now lacking for a very simple
reason. The secrecy syndrome
from which this Administration
suffers has made the I.B.M. an
unmentionable, subject.
Formosa Policy: 'Something For Everybody'
Doris Fleeson
WASHINGTON The Eisen
hower resolution on Formosa is
a medal showing a different face
to each of the opposing forces
in the struggle over U. S. Policy
in the Far East.
' It draws a defense line at For
mosa and the Pescadores and it
seeks a cease fire under United
Nations auspices between the
Chinese Nationalists and the
Communist government of Pei
ping. This side of the medal
is for our anxious allies and for
those wTio fear that the objec
tive of Chiang Kai-Shek is all
out war with U. S. participation
to regain the China mainland.
The other side of the medal
invokes for Chinese Nationalists
and their powerful political
friends here a picture not just
of a safe-guarded Formosa and
Pescadores but such "protection
of related positions and terri
tories" as may seem vital to the
President who ; will, of course,
YOU Said It: Writer Replies
To Columnists' Jabs & Jibes
Editor:
I would like to reply to the
storm my previous letter has
raised.
To Mr. Gray:
Not trying to be condescending
let me say, I would probably be
impressed by the paper too if I
were a freshman. However, since
I've read it the last three and a
half years, I know it can and has
been better.
To. Mr. Mundy:
Let me congratulate you on
your liming . . . the last publi
cation for almost two weeks. It's
really a rather low form of ar'u
ment, don't you think to say "If
you can do better, do it"? I am
neither a journalism nor an Eng
lish major and I see no reason
for my criticism to lose any
strength because I have no talent
in that field. If a surgeon dof-s
a poor job do you expect a reply
such as that? You do write a
fairly interesting column. I sup
pose it's because you do seem to
have trouble with a lot of peoole,
don't you? ;
To Mr. O'Sullivan:
It appears to me that you are
begging the question. You can't
please everyone so why.trv?
That's sound reasoning. As to my
little qualification to criticise . .
I don't claim to have any other
than that of being a reader. Who
are you writing for?
If I am alone in my viewpoint
then I am sure I'd rather forget
the whole thing! If not," try to
take the criticism with a liHle
more grace. After all, we rre
fighting on your home field.
Bill Si&k
be advised by the military. "
When it is realized that the
present chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff is Admiral Ar
thur Radford, an avowed apostle
of a naval blockade of Red China
and the bombing of mainland
installations, the pull of the pro
Nationalist side of the medal is
readily apparent.
Senate debate has already
proved that the pro-Nationalists
like what they think they
see in the resolution more than
the Senators who are determined
to protect but to neutralize For
mosa care for the picture shown
to them.
When Senator Wayne Morse
had conclused an impressive re
view of his apprehensions re
garding the resolution, Republi
c a n Senate Leader William
Knowland jumped to his feet
and attacked him for "mislead
ing Peiping" and "endangering
the security of the country."
This line is nicely calculated to
discourage Morse's probing into
the meaning of the resolution.
It was Knowland's first pub
lic utterance, when ordinarily
he does not mind denouncing a
Presidential position on foreign
policy almost before it is spoken.
His smiling silence,' indeed, has
been perhaps the most signifi
cant aspect of the situation. It
gave consent and Knowland
has never hitherto given con
sent to anything that did not
represent unflinching support
for Chiang and all . Chiang's'
works.
In an old Sherlock Holmes
story, Holmes called attention to
the significance of the barking
dog. "That is what is signifi
cant," Holmes replied.
It is said privately by respon
sible sources that the President
himself is committed to the cease
fire, that he will never consent
to be drawn into war on the
mainland of China. The obvious
question is: "Does Senator
Knowland know this and is it
really all right with him?"
Senate debate will be directed
toward clearing up what Morse
has called "the alarming impli
cations and broad scope" of the
Eisenhower resolution. It will be
enlightening to watch both the
Knowland faction and the extent
to which Eisenhower spokesmen
explain the President's own at
titude. The technique of the medal
with two attractive but. differ
ent faces is distinctively John
Foster Dulles'. The Secretary of
State in his career here has been
adept, at putting something for
everybody in his foreign policy
moves to hide or smooth over
the deep divisions in his party
on that issue, and to cloak his
own changes of direction.
This time,' however, the sharp
legal brain of Morse and the
intuitive political; insight of Hu
bert Humphrey of Minnesota
sniff war in the Dulles tech
nique. They will try to get plain
answers which may not please
everybody but will explain the
true goals of the Administration.
A Negative Look
At Positivism
Ed Yoder
There's been talk around this campus of getting
that aoostle of the practical hosannas, Dr. Norman
that apostie o peaIe? to make a spcak-
ng appearance.
Dr. Peale's fame as a
"pulpit
toastmaster" has been leaping
To judge by the taste of the
V"4 reading public, his windy ireat-
ises on religion, ethics, morals.
and how to win friends and 1o
gray hairs by religious positive-
1 ness, stand superior on tne non-
- v 1 fiction front to the work oi styl-
rctinrt" thinkers like Elmer Davis and E. B. White.
Davis and White have both had books on the
best-seller lists within the last year or so But
neither of those books could bounce up and dis
place for long Dr. Peale's Poiver of Positive Think
ing. In this age of nerves atrophied by war-scare
and nuclear fever, the nation's readers have m
General laid by the sounder and more realist tc
thought of White and Davis for the polyanna-voice
of Dr. Peale.
Everyone by "now knows Dr. Peale's formula for
peace and comfort: If you are worried because
large numbers of people are hungry: if you are
disturbed because Indians live in mud-huts m the
midwest; if you are afraid the top of your head
might be blown off tomorrow by a hydrogen bomb
lake heart. All you have to do is go to the mir
ror, look yourself straight in the eye, and inhale.
Then you say,
"Now look here, Fred. What's all the strain
about?"
This done, you simply think that the situation
isn't as bad as others make out. You go about your
business mumbling, instead of "it's later than you
k think," "it's better than you think, it really is bet
ter than you think ..."
We'd be suprised, maintains Dr. Peale, how much
better things would be if we just thought they
were better.
I've tried on the Formosa crisis It doesn't work.
What about his qualifications to speak on ..the
campus of a state university?
It is true that the ssociated Exhibiors of the
National Education-Association has chosen Dr.
Peale to receive the 1955 American Education
Award. But this should be considered more feath
ers tarred to the hide of the "Associated Exhibi
tors" than a feather attached to the hat of Dr.
Peale. ,
"Dr. Peale, wih his specious education for the
readers of this country in the pages of roiocr of
Positive Thinking has thrown a finely ground dust
in the eyes. The aim of education, contrarily, is
to clear the eyes.
That's not the half of it. If Dr. Peale's attitudes
toward the broad range of education may be judged
by the organizations with which he has linked his
name, his score dips to the minus category.
Dr. Peale was at one time chairman of the Com
mittee to Uphold Constitutional Government. Ano
ther member of that same committee, R. C. Hoiles,
a California-Colorado-Texas newspaper owner,
argues that public education violates the Consti
tution and the Ten Commandments. Dr. Peale has
taken membership in the Select Advisory Commit
tee of Spiritual Mobilization and in the advisory
committee of Freedom Clubs, Inc.
According to an editorial in the current issue
of The Nation's Schools, both Spiritual Mobiliza
tion and the Freedom Clubs participated "in the
campaign to bar UNESCO materials from the Lo
Angeles Public .Schools."
These are the qualifications as speaker at a pub
lic school that Dr. Peale would lay at the feet of
those who want him here.
Then . . . the lights would dim in Memorial Hail,
the band would strike up the themesong of the " I
don't care girl," a shiny new Trojan Horse would
appear, rolling to a halt at center stage with ap
propriate advertisements for The Poiver of Positive
Thinking and out would jump Dr. Peale, apostle
of the practical hosanna.
'Horse Sense7 & The
Role Of The Intellectual
The Charlotte News
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The principal speaker at a gathering of Chariot
businessmen a few days ago was introduced as
"Ph. D. with 'horse sense.' " The implication w;
of course, that a combination of higher educate
and "horse sense" nowadays is remarkable indct
We found the incident strangely symptomatic
a growing disillusionment about the role of t;
intellectual in modern society.
ine professorand to a large extent the tra
uonai intellectual values he rpnrpCntshn
come the subject of suspicion and the target
He is accepted in certain company onlv if he
posesses "horse sense." Now "horse sense"" in thi,
instance does not necessarily mean the hard-headed,
practical realism associated with veterdaV
rugged individualists. Mnro nft if
Ply an acceptance of the popular, sloganzed c
Clam of postwar AmpriM Tl, ;i....,i ,,
horse sense" is thus the intellectual who den
or at least conceals his intellectuality.
It is a surprising transition ih;l v.n; r,-
grace of the professor. In many minds he hasdiar
u, d respected iigure to a foolish or even d
gerous one. He is associated u-iih r,-.hn.
economics, moral softness, naivete about Com
munists and something we have heard describe,
as visionary nonsense."
hJS6!3-! d!ngfF iS that SOCial Pssure from to
days militant demi-intellectuals will compel the
' . Iy 10 aDandon their visionary h
:"r " S; l..at' ln their of being thou
U1 replace intellectual values
tion) mSt Umited modern deiin'-
That would, we believe, be a tragedy.
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