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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1955
alessly
Noisi
& Inconspicuously
"It seems to me," the professor s;iid, ' that
this veneration of students is lethargic."
It was to o'clock class in Caldwell. The
professor was digressing from his lecture.
"The zeal for reform that has been pres
ent in students since Socrates' time seems -somehow
lacking' the professor said. He
walked to the window and looked out.
" In the midst -of great world tides," lie
said, "students today appear unconcerned.
Perhaps they are afraid to think; perhaps
thev do not care to think-"
Fie turned hack to the .class. "Students
have traditionally been critics of their so
ciety and have helped htting progress to
straight-laced cultures, lint students today -are
hardly ever heard from. They seem un
interested in controversy, passive and inert
and sleepv."
And the class, no longer taking notes, lis
tened quietly.
Kxcept for the student in the second row,
Avho.se head was down, his arms folded across
his chest, his eyes closed.
He could hear nothing, because, noiseless
lv and inconspicuously, he had gone to sleep.
Carolina Front
'Hello-Ike?'
No Talking
While Grades
Are Recorded
!-v:t Kraar
HAVE YOU ever wondered who
puts those hand-written pencil
marks on your report card?
I found the
Phase, Mr. Gray,
Study That Psych!
The news that President Gray is taking
a course in psychology assumes added signi
ficance when it is pointed out that his teach
er is a visiting professor from Duke.
How did this happen, anyway? Did Mr.
Gray sign up for the course intentionally,
figuring these home-grown profs are too
'tough and hoping for a crip? Or did he just
get fouled up in registration like the rest of
us?
Another thing 'we'd like to know: .What's
going to 'happen when the grades come out
next spring? Sir. Gray is risking one of Car
olina's finest undergraduate averages 'in tins
bold venture. He's kept pretty busy these
davs playing papa to three big campuses and
might not find time to hit the books suffi
ciently. So if he gets a D or an T", what then?
Well, it will louse iip that average. But
what we're most "afraid of is the inter-institution
crisis that will develop.
All the glib talk about Duke-Carolina
warmth and cordiality will fade into the
background. Air. Gray, hot under the collar,
will have his secretary ling up West DuTham.
"Hollis," he will say, "Gordon. Now about
this J), er . . . "
Perhaps it won't come to that. Maybe the
boss will pass his exam, get his quality points,
and everything will be all right.
But it's a scary situation just the same, and
one we'd just as soon Mr. Gray.hadn't gotten
into.
answer the oth
er day when
T came into
H a n e s Hall
jasement and
saw six tables
jf women work
ng. Grades are
recorded by
hand on a form
that makes four carbon copies
one for , the dean, one for stu
dent aid, one for central records
one for your folks, and one for
yourself.
It takes the recorders about a
week to mark all report cards.
And from the looks of the wo
men working at it, the job is te
dious. A big sign overhead warns:
"No conversation while recording
grades." But coffee breaks are
scheduled, according to another
sign, at 1:30 and 3:30 in the afternoon.
CAROLINE COED, an anony
mous young lady on campus who
scribbles off critical letters to
this reporter from time to time,
came through yesterday with cri
ticisms of "ponography" in this
column.
Miss Coed said, "There are cer
tain depths of ponography, I am
told, below which even the writ
er of a collegiate newspaper col
umn is loath to sink. Thank good
ness you have finally reached
this level, otherwise we would
never have been enlightend on
th subject of stenciled lingerie."
Although it might not occur to
prim Caroline at the moment,
most people living in the 1950's
aren't offended by the mention of
underwear in a peice of writing,
provided the reference is not
otherwise in bad taste.
And after all Caroline, even
you have to mention them right
out in public every time you pur
chase some of the unmentionables.
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'What Hath God Wrought?'
BahaiThe New Faith
Ed Yoder
Walter R. Wooten, senior in pu
blic administration and indus
trial relations, has a unique mis
sion on this campus.
He is the ad
vocate, mission
ary, and teach
er for the Ba
li a i World
world-wide re-
4 ligious move-'
" ment aiming at
-1 a conjunction
the world's higher religions.
1
, J
, "World turmoil," Wooten said
when I talked with him in the
Graham Memorial lounge Tues
day, "is the signal of the death
of an old era that has lost its
spiritual power, and the birth
of a new and golden age ani
mated by " the teachings of a
new prophet of God."
That new prophet of God, be
lieve Wooten and the other mem
bers of his faith, was Baha'u'l
lah, a Persian saint of the 19th
Century who proclaimed him
self the new Messiah.
The first chapter of the Bahai
drama, according to Wooten,
Phi On You For AFTER FALLING blindly for
years in matters of love, the men-
m'mi'mm CmkIimi tal and physical phenomenon has
iVOr JOining tarlier been explained for the Carolina
" . . . . . ., , male and the world.
J he General Assembly of the Philanthro- That oracle of fashions, pin
pic Literary Society (founded 179-,), better upS( and entertainment Esquire
known as the PIri, an ancient and honorable magazine has just served up the
del )atmg organization, can use a few new answer in an article called "Why
members. It has beeir doing po'ly recent lv, Men Fall In Love."
and the Phi figures it's because 'you don't According to Esquire, it's nei
know how painless and pleasurable it is to ther sex or sentimentalism that
belong. Moral: If vou like to entire in lusty makes the ma,e s heart throb
argument, or just niostly sit and 7is?en oG see Instead' s say -the Psychiatrists,
the Phi upstahs in New East, any Tuesday "V" in Ijve . because they
niht at S are sulferinS from internal dis-
., n j content, feelings of guilt and
anxiety."
'7r a T2 vsiX-irA TO? m Here's how it works, accord-
Kiijz jalip ObSt tJJttl ing to the anal-vsts: Three con"
',,... , . flicting forces rule man, "a sub-
The official student publication of the Publi- conscious image of the man you
cations Board of the University of North Carolina, think vou QUght to be , feel.
Thfre lt " Published ing that you,re nQt measuring
I y' P to what you should, and the
' . . s t Monday and examina- the man think
I J tion ?nd vacation per- are)
r 7S, ldS anlfsummer Thus, all a guy needs, say the
; . QhapnM term Entered s psychiatrists, is some gal to
. ' " econd class matter at , , . ' .
! w t.-w u a make him think he s the guy
I tf Ln.vrrsdv g the post office in . .
I . i ' n il xt he d hke to be. Falling in love,
Nch c 01,,, r Chapel Hill, N. C, un- sort truc; wUh tfce
I JZX'Z '1 f ACcl K Ma;Ch three warring forces
, iis ' : rates: mailed, $4 per
' I fear, $2.50 a semester;
5; ! J delivered, $6 a year,
' ' $3.50 a semester.
Editer ., , CHARLES KURALT seTHIf ? f l'
sentimental . than the psychia-
Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE trists' description of love. So try
Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER an0tfher ne ffered by Ps'cho1"
i ogists.
Business Manager . TOM SHORES Summed up, the psychologists
" : T7t ,.,,,, say: "Love is biological, normal,
Sports Editor B ERNIE WEISS . .
healthy, vigorous. This sounds
News Editor Jackie Goodman a little better than the psychia-
Advertising Manager , Dick Sirkin trists' version that says the whole
Circulation Manager Jim Kiley business arises from guilt.
Subscription Manager Jack Godley And neither explanation seems
Assistant Business Manager ... Bill Bob Peel to measure up to the sentiment
Society Editor ....... 1 Eleanor Saunders al standards we're supposed to
Assistant Sports Editor Ray Linker have.
Photographer Boyden Henley I prefer Alistair Cooke's ex-
NEWS STAFF . Neil Bass, Ruth Dalton, flanation of why men fall in
Ed Myers, Woody Sears, Peggy Ballard, Sue Quinn lov When he was asked what
. made a man fall in love, he re
Night editor for this issue Eddie Crutchfield plied: "Of course, a woman."
History's Little Joke
In The Tachen Islands
Joseph Alsop
TACHEN ISLANDS. If you
want the real measure of what
has happened to the Eisenhower
administration and American
foreign policy in the last two
years, consider the story of those
barren, controversial rocks the
Tachen Islands. It it were not
so serious it would be a cosmic
joke. ,
The background of the drama
of the evacuation of the Tachens
has been simple enough. It is
no secret that for ten days or
so, Chiang Kai-shek balked bit
terly at making a present of
the Tachens .to the Communists.
The Eisenhower administration
had to press Chiang very hard
indeed to take his troops off the
Tachens before the Chinese Com
munists attackd them.
The joke lies in the fact that
just tw0 years ago, the shoe was
on exactly the other foot. -
Those were the brave early
days of Eisenhower policy-making.
There was no talk then of
cease fires and peaceful co-ex-istence
and the like. Instead the
watchwords were liberation, dy
namic new foreign policy, re
captured initiative, and the "un
leashing of Chiang Kai-shek."
President Eisenhower's dra
matic announcement, that after
being wickedly held in check by
the Truman administration, the
Generalissimo had now been
boldly unleashed by the Repub
licans, caused a wave of reaction
that reached all the way to the
rocky Tachens.
At that time, the islands were'
hardly more important than those
which fought for Yikiangshan
through close to three bloody
days. The Formosa government
considered the' Tachens too dis
tant from the main island to be
covered by air or supplied by
sea. The Generalissimo and his
military advisers did not wish,
therefore, to commit either their
prestige or large components of
their regular forces to the de
fense of the Tachens. In short,
the islands were then being treat
ed as expendable.
But President Eisenhower had
given the watchword. Chiang Kai
shek was unleashed. The Tach
ens were doubly valuable, as a
base for irregular guerrilla opera
tions on the mainland, and as a
forward radar warning point for
both Formosa and Okinawa. So
the American military advisory
group on Formosa began pressing
Chiang Kai-shek very hard to
put regulars on the Tachens.
This was one of the measures
devised in Washington to give a
little reality to the famous un
leashing. The Americans did not win
their point with ease. The Gen
eralissimo was extremely reluc
tant to put rgulars on the Ta
chens. Certain key Chinese mili
tary leaders, particularly the
Chief of Staff of that period,
Gen. Chou Chi-jo, resisted the
American project to the end.
None the less, as usually hap
pens on Formosa, the American
advisers triumphed in the end.
All of which is important for
two reasons. In the first Dlace,
what are the unfortunate Chi
nese Nationalists to think, when
they are first powerfully pres
sured to defend the "essential"
Tachens at all costs, and then
told that the Tachens are not'
essential after all, and please to
evacuate at once? This reporter
has never shared the Knowland-Robertson-Radford
view of the
unvarying Tightness of Formosa.
But in view of the past record,
the Generalissimo and his ad
visers certainly eem to deserve
some sympathy at this time.
In the second place, might we
not be belter off in Asia today
if there had not been so much
loud, empty talk at the begin
ning, and if there were a bit
more boldness, spirit and deter
mination in our policymaking
today? Maybe - it is impolite to
ask the question, but the facts
demand that it should be asked.
closed on July 9, 1850, when
The Bab, the prophet of the
coming of Baha'u'llah, was pub
licly shot before a firing squad
of 750 men. According to Bahai
teachings, the execution of the
Bab was accompanied by a whirl
wind. An earthquake and a chol
era epidemic, both of which
claimed thousands of Persian
lives, came within short order.
The focus of events in the
1840's and 50's holds great im
portance in the Bahai scheme.
It all hinges on the references
in Revelation and Daniel of Bib
lical prophecy to the "1260 days."
Both by- reference to other pas
sages and to logical mathemati
cal computations, Wootten show
ed me (and will be glad to
show' you) that the years 1843
and 1844 can be arrived at.
.These years have certain sig
nificance in United States reli
gious history. Miller and his Hit
lerites, believing an apocryphal
event was at hand, moved out"
of society; in Germany, the Car
melites followed essentially the
same pattern.
Balai teachings also claims
another strange coincidence. On
.May 23, 1844, supposedly the
day upon which the Heraldic Bab
appeared, Samuel F. B. Morse
sent his famous first telegraph
message, "What Hath God
Wrought?"
Baha'u'llah, the "most High
Manifestation of God," the sec
ond Messiah, was himself born
in Teheran in 1817. His father
was Minister of State under the
Shah. He made his public dec
laration as a Messenger of God
in Baghdad in the year 1863.
George Townshend, one time
Canon of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
Dublin, Ireland, sometime Arch
bishop of Clonfert, now a con
vert to the Bahai faith, writes
of Baha'u'llah's significance:
"He affirmed that His appear
ance fulfilled the promised re
turn of Christ in the glory of the
Father. He brought a Teaching
which though ampler and fitted
to a more advanced Age was in
spirit and purpose the same
as that of Christ. He revealed
those 'other things' which Jesus
told His disciples ?He had to
give them but which they could
'not bear' at that time,. His mis
sion was to bring the work - of
Christ to its completion and re
alization, to reconstruct the so
cial order of the world and
build the long promised King
dom of God in very fact."
Baha'u'llah, having made his
identity known, was banished
from Persia to Baghdad, where
he gathered a large following;
he was soon banished from Bagh
dad to Constantinople, from
there to Akka, Palestine, across
the Bay from Mt. Carmel. Al
years in prison during-, his life,
together Baha'u'llah spent 40
YOU Said It:
Petitioner
Sees 'Apathy7
Editor: '
I cannot resist the urge to re
cord here some of the varied re
actions I observed while obtain
ing signatures for the petition
being circulated favoring appro
priate legislative action to . up
hold the Supreme Court ruling
regarding racial segregation in
the public schools.
Student A walked by the ta
ble at which-1 sat as if the room
were empty. If he is for segre
gation, fine. Student B read it,
shook his head and said, "I can't
sign this." That too is fine. I be
lieve every man should uphold
what he believes in.
Yet others, as student C, said,
"This is fine; I'm glad J.o see
you do this, but ..." Or student
D, who, when asked if he was
for it. said sheepishly, "I'm not
for either petition." They tell
me an apathetic person leads a
happy life.
Of course we sooner or later
had to meet student E. He felt
that his signature might some
day prevent him from getting a
job. "After all, I have to think
of myself," Yes, I guess so. I
hope I never want food or wealth
so badly that I abandon princi
ples which may inconvenience
me.
Student F, a young man wear
ing the uniform of an ROTC ca
det, couldii't sign it either. I
wonder if he thought even a lit
tle about the many United States
citizens of every race and creed
who have died wearing the bar
he will someday wear on his
shoulder.
I have no quarrel with those
who' disagree with me; but apa
thy I cannot forgive. One can
not help but wonder how much
more effective propaganda the
communist world will derive from
not only the prejudiced, but
from the indecisive and the un
caring. Richard E. Albert
All Those Ads
Editor:
After reading this morning's
Daily Tar Heel, I was very dis
turbed about the tremendous a
mount of advertisements and the
consequent lack of news. The
sports page, which is undoubted
ly the most widely read page of
the paper, usually contains half
the ads in the paper and today
was no exception. On crowded
days of advertising, I would sug
gest that the editorial page run
the comic strips and crossword
puzzle; therefore, this would
leave more room for sports news.
I think that there is altogether
too much advertising in the pa
per. It looks more like a bill
board for local merchants than
it does a student newspaper.
Gordon Jones
(About half of The Daily Tar
Heel's financial support comes
from its advertising; , with receipts
from the student Legislature be
low normal we must accept all
the advertising we can get. This
advertising is received late on the
day before publication, ii&uatly
too late for changes in the edi
torial page makeup. Whenever
it is possible to foresee a heavy
advertising day, ue switch the,
comic strips and crossword puz
zle to the editorial page. Such
foresight is, unfortunately', not al
ways possible. Editor.)
Elementary
Editor:
A Primer for ROTC students
(and certain other members of
our society):
(PICTURE OF A GUN)
This is a gun.
(PICTURE OF A BOY WITH
BLOND HAIR AND BLUE EYES)
This is Joe.
(PICTURE OF A BOY WITH
QUASI-ORIENTAL FEATURES
ANDCOLORING)
This is Ivan.
Joe has a gun. Ivan has a gun.
Joe can shoot his gun. Ivan can
shoot his gun. Joe does Wt
shoot Ivan. Ivan does not shoot
Joe.
Joe does not shoot Ivan and
Ivan does not shoot Joe; not so
much because one is afraid that
the other will shoot back but
rather- because they love each
other.
Hopefully,
Thorns. G. Smith
The Over-Trained
CbncertAucJience
Goddard Lieberson
In The Reporter
' Nothing sweetens the air at a concert quite .0
much as applause. Yet, in the last fifteen ,r
twenty vears, applause this preoous oxygen giv
en 0ff by audiences which, more than money, give,
life to an artist-has been steadily discoursed,
dowly stifled, suppressed, and deadened Conse
quently, concert halls have become stuffier, an !
graveness of mien a prerequisite for him wm,
fancies himself the intelligent concertgoor. In,
fun is gone, or going, and music has tome to !,,
worshipped instead of enjoyed.
It all began subtly enough: the unsmiling fa:
of a violinist or pianist after a sonata; a reluc
tance to face around on the part of a conoucto -.
or his refusal to lower his arms at appropriate
(which he considers inappropriate) moments; and
sometimes even a hand lifted in repressive pest up
toward an. audience which dares to express enjoy
ment with a tentative burst of applause.
Thus the great solo artist becomes a kind m
reluctant professor of music, too serious to ack
nowledge his students; the conductor a mom.
chromic, monolithic father figure, grim, repressive,
demanding of obedience and love. Like an unsmil
ing humorless Mr. Darling of "Peter Pan" lie
seems to say, "A little less noise there. Just watc.i
your decorum we are worshipping the cliviniy
Music keep v your feelings to yourself." But on!,
saints are adept at private ecstasies, and to a,k
this from the music public is asking for too much.
Or.b wond' s where the foaJ'sh cone i;s of
"serious" music began. Was it an attem' to
guarantee a posterity that otherwise seemed losf
Yet bon vivants are kindly remembered: We honor
Dante, but we also honor Boccaccio; we are grate
ful to both Marcus Aurelius and Petronius. Ann
are we not correct in our suspicions (hat the ar
tist who "seriously" strives to create "serious
works which will be remembered by succeeding
generations is at once doomed to failure?
I cannot help but believe that what we now call
"serious" music was once listened to in quite a dif
ferent way, that concert rooms were neither study
halls nor places of worship, and that the atmos.
' phere at music-giving gatherings was one of great
social fun. Indeed, one has only to look at an old
print depicting Handel as the conductor of his
own music surrounded by a conglomeration of au
dience, singers, and instrument artists to know
that a concert for those people was a robust frolic,
not unrelated to other robust frolics, and nearly ;.s
much fun. I should imagine "that our jazz concerts
of today would come closer to approximating whaf
concerts then were. At these concerts, faces are
smiling, the air is electric with enjoyment, t!v
applause is lusty and grateful.
One wonders: How many years of repression
have gone into forming our serious music au
diences? It must have meant many years of train
ing, because the natural reactions to the exhilar.i.
tion that music engenders are applause, dancing,
even vocal expressions of joy. Wasn't there once
a time when applause between movements of a sym
phony was not considered a coarse gaucherie'.' To
day, the unhappy creature who involuntarily and
ecstatically claps his hands together after the firs';
movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony is the
center of malevolent looks, whispered "sshs," and
perhaps spoken insults from close relatives who
expected a little more sensitivity from a respec
table fellow. It is all heartbreakingly unfair. Par
ticularly since Beethoven, if he were alive and not
deaf, would be delighted, I am sure, to stand and
bow in acknowledgment of the applause. And what
joy for a contemporary composer if he were to
hear an inadvertent burst of applause from an ex
uberant admirer!
Our generation, in all aspects of life, has com
pletely rejected the fustiness of Victorianism save
in this one area the concert hall. There the cling
ing plush, the dim lighting (as if to suggest gas
light), the grim art that hangs on the walls, and.
above all, the somber atmosphere, suggest that the
antimacassar still lives, and that Alfred Lord Ten
nyson has crossed no bars.
Soon music will have become such a serious mas
ter that it will entirely be left in the hands of
experts. That is, unfortunately, the direction in
which it is now moving. It is the responsibility .f
everyone concerner with music to re-establish
pre-eminenince in the field of entertainment, a-,
an essential social (of course, in the broad sen- )
activity. A good way to begin would bo to' convert
our musical audiences to the concept of the en
joyment of music, and to leave study and wor-h:;j
in the edifices designed for their use.
The Annual Auction
Burke Dafris
In The Greensboro Daily News
Interest is picking up in the biennial auction . f
trusteeships of the Greater University, and biddmu'
promises to be as brisk as it has been in the pa-'
two scrambles. Commttee Chairman John I'm.t. ...!
of Orange, who long ago had a try at civilizing th
method of selection, and has given up. is h..:
numerous requests for information
Thls is one of the legislative scandals crviru : r
reform but no one has come forward with" a leg
ible substitute for the present log-rolling sche:-.
Picking names from a w .....u u ': ......
ment Umstead once attacked with a bill prewn'
mg Assemblymen from becoming trustees wh V
servmg in the Legislature, and that failed-!, r
haps fortunately, for service in the Assembly sh-
not automatically bar a statesman
ralu"tW trustees wbo emerged from the 1:
ITZ n h l0ked sonthing Ue the Stock
change floor on Black Friday) replaced veter;. -M
COntri much to the universUv. V '
al newcomers have made, thus far. startling c
tnbutions of their own-nor even been von r
lar in attendance at meetings
tnJSjLtime GUilfrd CoUn"ty' hich h
eminent fnends of the university Ma, 1 P v-
Lendon and Spencer I nv th " ,
fiPhtc ,r n-tr Love. They will surely in-ii;:
J,?'7tneh 1 he statesmen to see that they kc, ,
fie,dwen.there WlU b? 0lW in