PACE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1933
'People, Situations
& Consequences'
Professor Alexander Heard, in a letter
printed on this page, calls, attention to the
significance of the Supreme Court's decision
on segregation in the day of the cold war-
The letter arrived, by coincidence, on .
the same day The Daily Tar Heel received
the announcement by another faculty mem
ber, Dr. W. C. George of the medical school,
that his petition for continued segregation
had readied Governor Hodges. Of some in
terest is the comment by Dr. George that vir
tually none of the signatures on the petition
-were obtained in Chapel Hill.
.ppneiuiy, saiu ui. jv.vjp
in Chapel Hill have come to think of the
race problem in concepts of slogans rather
than in concepts of people, situations and
consequences."
Dr. Heard, we think, aptly demonstrates
in his letter where prudent consideration of
people, situations and consequences amid the
present-day rivalry of systems must lead: to
"prompt -raid well-mannered execution of
the Supreme Court's directions."
"Then," as he says, "the United States
c;ui face the world clean of hands, clear in
jxiqxr.c and united in spirit."
An isolated Dissent
It is often forgotten that a little objec
tion can go a long way.
By that token, any protest no matter
how isolated against the oaths of loyalty
that are administered to teachers in this (or
any other) school is better than no protest
at all. We are certain that the majority of
professors find the oaths odious; but it has
become obvious that the same majority are
content to sign the oaths as a matter of ex
pediency. We have learned of a reversay; one in
structor in the University, called upon this
year to sign the oath, appended a note ex
pressing his rejection of the idea. He signed;
but he did not fail to make clear his objec
tion to signing. We hope that isolated action
may set a new precedent.
"A university," said Robert Maynard
Hutchins of, Chicago, "is a kind of continu
ing Socratic conversation."
The word Socratic, when campuses be
gin to think and act on loyalty oaths, can's
be under-emphasized- For Socrates himself
was a firm believer in the isolated voices, a
believer that one voice among a thousand
that are silent or neutral can often stay a
tottering ideal.
Gracious Living - XX
The terrifying, damnable march of me
chanization is once more in danger of en
snaring the free -human will. Gracious Liv
ing in Chapel Hill is stubbing its toe daily
on a machine. It happens in the basement
of Graham .Memorial, where a cookie-dispensing
device sits innocently, full of cheese
crackers and chocolate crackers and fig new
tons and something called Taylor-tarts, all
waiting in horizontal chutes for the passer
by's nickel. But consider this: In one of the
chutes, the tasteless Taylor-tarts block the
passage of the fig newtons, so that one must
wait until they are gone before the fig new
tons are accessible. Often, we have noticed,
the cheese crackers and chocolate crackeis
disappear, leaving a full row of Taylor-tarts
and fig newtons; the fig newtons are in full
view through the plastic window, but they
are inaccessible to the fig newton-fanciers
who are justifiably too proud to fill the ma
chine with nickels and their pockets with
Taylor-tarts just to get to what they want.
Somebody, Ave know, is going to bash the
window open one of these days, leaving the
Taylor-tarts right in their cursed compart
ments and gorging himself with fig newtons.
But for now, the cookies go unbought, Gra
cious Living continues frustrated.
The official student publication of the Publi
cations Board of the University of North Carolina,
srr where it is published
Carolina Front
Double-Talk
On Cut Rule
Is Confusing
.Louis Kraar
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THEY PUT a little something
extra in our envelopes this time.
I'm talking about t3ie 'letter
enclosed in the class ticket en
veloped which
5aid thiat if you
iut over three
Limes, j you fail
a course.
Although I
realize as the
letter says, that
rttendance "is
jjssentLal to a
jood class," it's
equally true that a good class
will be well attended without
rules.
Why the University has to
make so much of a matter that
has been strictly between stu
dents and faculty amazfes me.
Assuming most students- are
reasonably mature, they will
want to attend class. If they
don't want to attend, they're
cheating themselves. ;
Occasionally a class simply
isn't worth attending, but this
is not often.
Dr. C. P. Spruill, -author of
the letter, writes that a student
"should realize that minor em
ergencies are to be expected
from time to time and that he
has the full responsibility of
counting an occasional absence
within the limit of three unex
cused absences in each class . . ."
Just what "minor emergen
cies" are, only my imagination
and the unpredictable interpre tation
of deans can decide.
According to this same information-packed
letter, excuses
may be issued by deans "when
extraordinary circumstances have
compelled his (the student's)
absence from class."
Now we're stuck with two
fancy terms. And. naturally,
neither are explained.
If you miss class because of
"extraordinary circumstances',"
you may receive an excuse from
your dean. But watch out for
those "minor emergencies" be
cause they count as one of your
three cuts.
The academic double-talk of
the Spruill letter is almost as
ridiculous as the cut rule.
YOU Said It
he .Gage
Dark Man
(The writer of the following
letter is a professor of political
science in the University. Edi
tor.) Editor: ,
North Carolina is presently
searching for ways to accommo
date to the segregation ruling
issued by the Supreme . Court
last 31ay. ' This ruling may well
prove to be the Court's most
important action of this century.
Regardless of what measures
are ultimately worked out to as1
$ures equal educational oppor
tunities to white and Negro
Americans, two" Results of the
Court's action seem inescapable.
Another step a supremely im
portant and unique step has
been taken in fulfillment of the
American dream. The American
dream has alwars envisioned
equal opportunity for all men.
And, since it is hard to make
this kind of dream come true an
enormous responsibility has fal
len upon all Americans to re
spect the Court's purposes, and
to act with speed and good will.
By the nature of our times
and the nature of our country,
whether improved and equal
education is achieved for Negro
Americans, and how it is achieved,
will affect the life of every cit
zen of the United States. In this,
no man has a private destiny.
The future of Negro Americans
is a large part of the future of
the United States. This is not
alone because of their large num
ber. This country was once the
H. A. SIEBER, a young Chap
el Hillian who recently publish
ed a book if poetry called "In
This Marian Year," has this
story to tell about one of his
poems.
Sieber sent a copy of "A Cruel
Imagery," a poem dedicated to
Albert Einstein, to the noted
physicist.
Einstein replied thanking Sie
ber but went on to say that he
didn't really understand the
poem.
"I started to write him and
tell him him-1 didn't understand
his Theory of Relativity either,"
declared Sieber.
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Editor CHARLES KURALT
Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE
Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
Business Manager TOM SHORES
Sports Editor BERNIE WEISS
Reaction Piece
Campaigns
Already In
Low Gear
David Mundy
Night Editor for this Jssue
Eddie Crutchfield
THERE'S AN almost criminal
practice going on in a certain
Western Durham institution, ac
cording to the last issue of the
Duke Chronicle.
The Duke student paper,
which modestly calls itself the
"tower of campus thought," has
decided that "we've had enough
of blue jeans."
Apparently some of the com
moners took to wearing the rural
rompers on campus. And the
Chronicle, from its Ivy League
tower, noticed "a tendency this
year toward increasing sloppi
ness in men's dress, regardless
of class."
I sympathize with this great
problem of Duke student lead
ers, but the last paragraph of
the Chronicle editorial probably
explains the breach of taste:
"Blue jeans are for farms.
They should stay there."
Perhaps that's what the blue
jean wearers are thinking when
they don denims around th3
Duke campus.
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PROF. HEARD
unrivaled emblem of the hopes
of the world. We are now en
gaged in a great struggle for the
faith of men all around the
world, against another and newer
great hope. Most of the men for
whose faith we struggle are like
Negro Americans: they have
dark skin.
The struggle in which these
persons play such a part is real
ly two struggles, different yet
presently inseparable. The United
States and the Soviet Union are
engaged in a rivalry of nations.
A rivalry of nations is familiar
to our time, and in the fleeting
second which is American his
tory, that nation has never lost.
There is also a contest in the
Lest someone hasn't noticed,
the spring campaigns are under
way. While walking across cam
pus, I noticed someone ap
proaching from some distance.
He was nodding, smiling, and
speaking to everyone he pass
ed. He did the same to me. I
presented my customary scowl
and walked on; Then I recalled
who he was; one of the UP'er3
who has said that he isn't run
ning. V. L. Yoder's (V. L. for Very
literary) candidacy for editor
has been effectively announced
by his trips through the slums
i.e., he has been eating at Len
oir for a week or so. If you
think it crowded there between
now and spring elections, you
can attribute it to the "champ
ions of the common man" who
are trying to get closer to con
stituents and votes.
I can't quite decide if Louis
("The Funniest Thing Happen
ed to Me") Kraar is a candi
date. He probably is, since I've
seen him strolling across cam
pus several times every day,
whereas before I almost never
saw him there.
And then managing editor
Fred Powledge might run. His
best strategy would be a prom
ise to never again carry a news
story about "George the campus
Collie, and -the Great, Great
Chapel Hill and Carolina Cam
pus Institution That He is."
Anyway, the voter won't have
much tit a choice. Literary es
says on Nosnevets, the Creep
ing Anti-Intellectual Trend, and
Negative Looks at Positivism vs.
Stories of What Happened, to
Me in the Dairy Bar and the
Goody Shop, vs. George the
Campus Collie.
Frankly, I had rather know
what Louis did over the mid
semester holiday, (singular.)
I do hops that the DTH's
weekly letterwriter Sisk doesn't
take offense at jibes about
his criticisms. Mayhaps.he will
notice that his letters have, al
most alone, constituted the Let-ter-to-the-EdHor
column for
some weeks. The mere fact that
the DTH gets such a letter, crit
ical or not, tickles it "pink."
(I shouldn't say "ping," else
, Messrs. Kuralt and Yoder might
accuse me of 'white-collar Mc
Carthyism' again.)
Acceptable as ray own is a
quote from writer Sisk's latent
letter: "I am neither a journal
ism nor an English major, and
I see no reason for my criticism
to lose any strength because I
have no talent in that field."
world that crosses the boundaries
of nations and reaches individ
uals everywhere. This is a rivalry
of systems: one, imperfectly
called communism, with its init
iative centered in the Soviet
Union, and the other, political
democracy, with its exemplars
around the globe and its strength
centered in the United States-
The battle of the nations and
the battle of the systems is be
ing waged and in the end must
be decided among the peoples
of dark skin. Whether in Nyas
aland or Laos, in India or In
donesia, in China or Ecuador,
whether on the islands of ' the
Pacific or on the Gold Coast,
the soldiers of victory will have
dark skin. President Abraham
Lincoln would have said that
God must have loved these peo
ples, for he made so many of
them. The gage of battle is
down: How does the dark man
fare in your land? How does
he di under your system?
These are challenges to Am
ericans of the next half cen
tury. Religion and education are
the ultimate sources of power.
With freedom and equal oppor
tunity for them 'both, the an
swers can be our strength in
stead of our weakness.
This is to say that the ulti
mate test of the United States
before the world is not its arm
ed might, but its purpose and
its record. Yet, if we fulfill the
purposes of the American dream
and enoble the record, we shall
also increase our might. All
these things are required if we
are to survive the rivalry of
nations and the rivalry of sys
tems. The prompt and well man
nered execution of the Supreme
Court's directions will bring to
gether better schooling in the
years ahead to millions of Am
ericans. Better schooling means
greater mental and manual con
tribution to the common wealth
that makes a nation strong. It is
not alone, however, in the mak
ing of more guns and of more
men able to fire them that the.
greatest new power is to be
found. It is what can happen
in the hearts of men that can
most strengthen America.
,An English jurist once said
that it is not enough for a judge
to be just. He must also give
the appearance of geing just; he
must convince the parties to the
contest, and all who look on,
that justice is geing done. Vhen
Americans feel that they receive
an equal chance to learn in skill,
to grow in mind, and to deepen
in appreciation of the beauty
o th world, then they can feel
that justice is being done, and
then their strength and their re
solve will be multiplied.
Then, too, the United States
can face the wrorld clean of
hands, clear in purpose, and un
ited in spirit. Strength from
within engenders strength from
without, and there need be no
fear. Alexander Heard
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Ridgway & Congressional Anxiety
Doris Fleeson
WASHINGTON Rep. Over
ton Brooks is inclined to be
wordy but the question he put
to General Matthew B. Ridgway,
Army Chief of Staff, was plain
enough. Did the general feel
in view of Red China's threats
that it would jeopardize the
safety of the country to go
through with the planned reduc
tion of the Army by 140,000 .
men?
General Ridgway's hands had
hung quietly at his side as his
immediate superior, Army Sec
retary Robert Stevens, sitting
next to him at the witness ta
ble, defended the cut. He clench
ed them as Brooks drove the
point home, softly uncurled
them as he answered quietly:
,"I think we should not reduce
the size of the Army."
The Congress at last had an
answer on the record to prove
the widely-rumored story that
General Ridgway felt that the
Army's commitments were out
growing the Army's capacity.
The general has been discreet,
but what he refused to say be
fore Senate committees had in
creased Congressional anxiety.
Ridgway retreated to the saf
er shelter of an executive ses
sion when Chairman Carl Vin
son pursued the matter. The -chairman
said he thought the
country ought to know what the
Army's commitments are, as of
now, and whether those commic
ments can be met with the new
program. He promptly acceded,
however, to Ridgway's plea to
be heard privately on that mat
ter. The Army chief of staff is in
a most difficult position. He has
positive views born of long ex
perience, including service in
Korea and as Supreme Com
mander of NATO. He is imperv
ious to the quick brilliance and
glamour of Admiral Arthur Rad
ford, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs, who has pushed steadily
for a harder policy in the Pa
cific. But Ridgway's commander-in-chief
is the country's most fam
ous soldier, elected President
in part because Americans trust
his judgment in war situations.
Ridgway happens also to be one
of the career officers who feels
that too many career officers
have been essaying the role of
Monday - morning quarterbacks
to the President.
Army discipline seems more
durable than that of the other
services. When former Presi
dent Truman cut the Navy, the
admirals, led by Radford him
self, mutinied. Air Force Chief
of Staff Hoyt Vandenberg fought
cuts in his service against his
former supreme commander in
Europe when in the painful grip
of cancer.
The veteran Armed Services
chairman, Rep. Vinson, has
watched the United States get
into three wars for which it was
not adequately prepared. Ha
proposes to support the Presi
dent but he is taking nothing
for granted from a Defense De
partment whose head, Secretary
Charles Wilson, only last week
described the Formosa situation
as "just a ripple" in defense
preparations.
Eye Of i he Horse
Roger Will Coo
THE HORSE was horsing abour near Spencn.
when I saw him; and lo! Mr. Neckley, the Girall,.
was with him!
-And Mr. Wump," The Horse said reproving
hoofing The Frog into view from behind a forwjml
Iris spear. "Do not leave out Mr. Neckley s alter
To who is my consultant on low-level views ul
thfngs. Not that there is need for Wumps pe
culiarly depressed views, if one is to credit our
Peerless Leader's pronunciamentocs on how we
uns never had it so good."
"Wump'" Mr. Wump editorialized on this.
Neckley moved majectically closer to Spencer
and chewed his cud ruminatively, not to say specu
latively, as he stared into an upper window of tnat
distaff dorm. Suddenly, the giraffe's stubby ta.l
started to pendulate.
"He's sort of rushing the season," The Hoi,e
acknowledged, shrugging his withers. -Spring is
still far distant. But to judge from his waggi.-li
reaction of his posterior appendage, o apparently
is a coo-ed or three. Neckley privately informed
me that red flannel underthings leave him, if not
the wearer thereof, cold."
So, obviously, Mr. Necklcry was not gazing on
red flannels, active or passive; yet, The Hoim;
evinced no interest. They didn't see eye to eye
"In a wallleyed sort of way, we do," The Horse
set me straight. "We are both Thomists, if I may
philosophize in a Philosophic way of speaking.
But while we both agree that everything good be
gins with sensory perception which Mr. Neckley
is now demonstrating via his caudal appendage
I hold that a perceived subject worthy of study
depends as much on reason as on revelation."
O? So?
"Ergo, not to mention ipso facto or de nature
rerum. reason informs me it is too danged cold tc
be exercised over revelations," The Horse tossed
off some Ullmanian linguistics. "Pure reason, yes
sir." I was inclined. to credit, rather, old age.
"In the immortal words of Poor Dobbin," The
Horse declaimed, rocking to and fro on his creaky
legs, " 'All would live, but none would grow old.'
Me, I accept that some day old age will lay its
frosty snow on my shingles."
Some day, Some day. What was that postcard
Poor Dobbin had got in his mail . . .? 'Dear Horsie:
When did you die? I saw your corpse rocking on a
rocker, on TV, several nights ago.' How 'bout that?
"Well, at least he admitted I was on my rock
er," The Horse offered, "the guy who wrote that
slur. From what one hears along the highways
and the byways, such a condition is remarkable,
not to say unknown, on TV. Leave us say that like
TV's biased detractors, my correspondent's vision
goes not beyond the silver-tubed screen. Also,
that card was from a young pal in the newspaper
business.".
What was the significance of this?
, "Television's most ardent detractors and hope-you-die
critics are found in newspaperdom, which
you will notice rhymes with 'bum'," The Ilore
stated. "Fear compounds with myopia to give birlh
to asininities. Do I not recall my Uncle Chesnut
and Cousin Piebald, not to overlook Grandpap
Bay, neighing and inveighing against the horseless-carriage,
when that was new?"
Well, the horseless-carriage had retired The
Horse's equine counterparts to the pasture, had it
not?
"Yup," The Horse affirmed, with one eye on
Mr. Neckley's now violently wagging tail, "and
that is just what is going to happen to newspaper
men who, like a certain capitally located, if not
capitally run, daily, he-he childlishly while they
type their childlishly non-sequituring mouthings
against TV. They'll be put out to pasture while
other and more opportunistic journalists go along
ivith TV instead of going under against it."
He could suggest . . ., Just one small item,
"Let the newspaper print a complete program
ming of channel-offerings in all North Slate cities
instead of ostriching along with just programs
their cities; instead of snidely, not to say stupid
reiernng to Educational TV aDoroDriations ul
calling attention to cuts in departments of sta
administration that have no more relation tl
tne Ul-conceived newspaper propaganda has
logic. I" elaborate, if you "
Something In Black panthered past, and i
all his talk of Spring being far distant, The lior
. iosi interest, m me, I mean. I thought The Ho-w
was. short-sighted to be so easily distracted-
"Wump!" Mr. Wump retorted, bouncing a!or
in he wake of The Hors'e. "Wump!"
Not only Mr. Neckley is rushing the season:
And What To Drink?
. . . from the Christian Science Monitor
innZSil yUr fd rder in an-v restaurant
I tit StP talking fr a fl"'ng -second,
the waitress begins to tap her foot and with pencil
sPaT"rn1S; "And ,What t0 drik?" " And ?f vl:
on vou Jul yU. knW la,er'" the waress looks
most'v f., P1. ntempt and frustration but
mostly frustration. Nothing makes the little people
a guy ho refuses to send Telegram No 2 to hi.
mother on Mother's Day, so to speak
I SiS smi "And wha drink?"
of what m l beCause 1 11111 "2
of what would have happened to a waiter in old
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