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Vi SATURDAY. FEBRUARY 19, 1955 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO ai is eu. pc ce of in til ly W' p th to oi to cs al vi ci VI ai U h S n P b A Trojan Horse For Education Even ihougli the public schools find their cupboard as bare as Mother Hubbard's they should, and will, resist the federal aid pro gram recently "introduced by President Eis enhower. The financial structure upon which the -aid is to be erected is a peculiar one. The funds for new buildings would not come di rectly from federal treasury funds; nor would they come from state coffers. Instead, a ser ies of private "school authorities" would be set up and they would sell bonds to the peo ple of the state. Thus, outsiders would build the badly needed plants and "rent" them to the local communities. The faults of the system are immediately obvious: It would seem that the desire for belter schools is only a secondary consider ation, the primary aims being the inaugura tion of a new federal program without di-. rect federal expenditure. Teachers, whose pocketbooks have always taken the slam when education funds were both short and long, fear that in a recession their salaries would be slashed beyond 'en durance to muster up payments for the pros- ' j eritv -rbuilt plants. The final and most important danger is thi -,: The system of public education cannot be In h.ilden to any private bond-holding P'onp, no matter how . honorable its inten tions the door for thought control is too much ajar as things are now. To go into debt to private organizations would be to throw it wide open. The public schools, fed on an austerity diet since their time began, must fasten their belts one notch tighter and wait. There is crying need, but in no bind should schools open the gates to a Trojan Horse even one with money running out his ears. The Gag On Gags Hear any good Eisenhower jokes lately? Not, we bet, on radio or television. Radio and TV comedians, who never shied away from gags about Harry Truman's piano play ing, are strangely silent on the subject of politics these days. Variety, the show biz bible, asks, "Why aren't the - comedians" puncturing the false fronts of the preposterous politicos like they used to?" The Reporter suggests an answer: "Spon sors have brought on the new silence by tel ling their comedians what they can say and what they can't . . . Comedians have brought on the silence by lacking the guts to tell the sponsors and "the little bands of vigilantes where fhey can get off." Well, -you know who's not afraid to laugh? The British. They poked fun at the Fuehrer in icjjo and nobody's going to tell them they can't laugh at Churchill, Khrushchev, Eisenhower, H-lVomb and all in 19 -,5. So if you d like a refreshing change from the trembling timidity of the great Ameri can air, we suggest a BBC show called "Take It From Here" which WUNC runs tonight at 8:;o. It might offend your prejudices, but it will make you laugh which is what we always thought comedy was for. Freedom's Defenders Students at Carolina, State and WC have a national reputation for unusual freedom. They have that freedom chiefly because of the University administration. A member of the General Assembly has said he may introduce a bill requiring faculty advisors for all student publications at the University, an idea which undoubted ly grew out of the sketch of a nude male pub lished by the WC literary magazine, Coraddi. Said Chancellor E. K. Graham of Wom an s College: "The imposition of required achisors would pose a serious threat to re sponsibility and freedom." Said UXC Dean of Students Fred Weav er: "A censored student newspaper would be worse than no newspaper at all." The Daily Tar Heel, itself completely free, believes the faculty advisor idea will not come, before the General Assembly. But if it she- ild. it is good to know who is in our corner: The University's administrators, themselves. Carolina Front, George Happy At His New Country Home At Last, The Grim Facts Sounds-Of I Louis Kraar HOW'S GEORGE, the campus collie, making out at his new country home? I was wondering about George the other day, so I phoned Mrs. A. M. Jordan treasurer of the Humane Socie ty. - "George is lerfectly hap oy," she said, vlrs. Jordan vent on to ex ilain that the oig collie has tEfje Bail? &ar ?tt The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published ii 'I Site ,f the yrAvrrsAy ', N,.r$h Carolina hth fnt ,'l ovvtnvA ill ttojjr to Jtimuuy daily except Sunday, Monday and examina tion 2nd ' vacation per iods and sumper terms. Entered .s second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un Jer the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $8 a year, $3.50 a semester. Can We Rely On The H-Bomb? made himself right at home with his new owners, the Crane chil dren, who live on Dr. W. C. George's farm near University Lake. (Yes, this is the same Dr. George who has been circulating the pro-segregation petitions.) At any rate, George (the dog, not the segregation man) was turned over to the Cranes after local police refused to let him run loose in town as a stray. After her report on George, Mrs. Jordan recalled how she had been pulling the collie out of scrapes with towns people, the police, and other dogs for over half-a-dozen years. , "I'VE HAD to rescue George several times. Once the dogcatch er came, and George had no tags. We had to hurry around to get some money for his vaccination," Mrs. Jordan recalled. As we talked on, she remem bered her first days in Chapel Hill in 1923 when "the place was full of dogs." She said that then the . Rev. Alfred Lawrence was Episcopal minister and his dog would come to church to sit with the choir every Sunday. "No one thought anything of it then," she said. "Memorial Hall used 0 have eight sides, and dogs would come in and out all the time whenever something was going on there. But they didn't bother anybody," Mrs. Jordan recalled. THE UNIVERSITY requires a C average of students to partic ipate in a "leading activity" of Carolina. Campus politicians, in draw ing up their Election Law, de clared years ago (and have re vised it since the semester sys tem) that one must have the av erage over two terms with a min imum of 27 hours. Last fall David Reid, an orat ing Student Party member with drive and ambition, returned to the campus with the C average and not the hours. But the Stu dent Party-powered Legislature pushed through a -Special bill lowering J:he hours from 27 to 24 if a student attends summer school. And amazingly enough, David Reid had exactly the right num ber of hours under the new law, exactly 24 hours. WHEN THE student Legislature this week started revising the Election Law with a complicated bill that would lower the hour requirements, first thing many of Reid's opponents (both in and out of the Student Party) thought was that he was trying to be eligible for spring elections. However, the bill was spon sored by both parties. And Reid vows that the bill now in Legis lature wouldn't affect him. Editor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor Stewart Alsop WASHINGTON Admiral Lew is L. Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, has at long last told the American people the grim facts about the hydrogen bomb facts which the Russians certainly knew already, and which were first reported in this space many months ago. On orders from the President, Chairman Strauss has revealed that fall-out from the hydrogen bomb blankets an area of about 7,000 square miles with lethal--ly radio-active material. (These reporters, for once in a way, were over-ojptmlstic, when they re,-; ported the area affected 4 as be-' twen 4,000 and 6,000 square miles). By instructing Strauss to reveal the truth about fall-out, President Eisenhower has at least made it possible for the American people to consider their national situation in the light of reality. , This 'must be considered a major gain. CONTINUED TESTS In his Presidentially-approved statement, Chairman Strauss has also answered a question which has been most anxiously debated FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager TOM SHORES Night editor for this issue .Eddie Crutchfield "I HEAR the Student Party is going to have a .special meeting this week to try to help Charlie Wolf get his foot out of his mouth," quipped one University Party member in Y Court. Actually, Wolf's speech declar ing that the SP has ''been .torn by an internal struggle for pow er" rings with a candor and truth not often heard in campus poli tical meetings. Like any active party, the SP has had its conflicts this year. That was evident earlier in the school year when SP chief Joel Felishman tried to "censure" Manning Muntzing. However, with the election just a half-dozen campaign speeches away, the SP is working - togeth er like one big happy party they say. in the highest government circles in recent weeks. The question is: Should we continue to test hydrogen weapons? The Eisenhower-Strauss answer is, in ef fect, "yes." There is undoubtedly an ele ment ofTisk in this answer, not only to living human beings but to their descendants, as the Strauss statement itself half-acknowledges. But it is no doubt the right "answer all the same. It is the right answer for the same simple reason that the 1949 decision to make the hydrogen bomb in the first place was right because we could not take the chance that the Russians would gain a decisive advantage over us. When the first atomic bomb was exploded in 1945, the world set out on a new road, and no 'Anybody Care To At Civilian one can say where the road will lead. But the physicists includ ing Dr. Edward Teller, the pecu liar genius of the hydrogen bomb are sure that the hydro gen bomb is not the end of the road. Even the monstrous Super Super, the bomb with a power more than 20,000 times the power of the first atomic bomb, will not be the end of the road. And this country cannot afford to let the Soviet Union travel further or faster on this terrible road than the United States. We must be sure, to put it bluntly, that our weapons are at all times even more horrible than their weapons. And we cannot possi bly be sure of this unless we constantly . test our weapons. Yet the Straus statement leaves unanswered the most important Have A New Look Defense?' li V - . "--vi question of all. This is, quite simply!, whether we are right to rely on the hydrogen bomb as . our principal offensive weapon. HOW MUCH RELIANCE? There are "experts who believe that there are universal and suicidal dangers in the hydrogen : bomb, which are only hinted at in the Strauss report. For ex ample, the report notes that ra dio strontium from hydrogen explosions could fall out at great distances "later . to be eaten by humans or by grazing animals which, in turn, provide food for humans." Radio strontium has a special affinity for bone. Th;; human foetus is peculiarly sensitive to Vacation. The danger here is That radio strontium fall-out oa grazing areas might reach and destroy the foetus through a complicated grass - cattle - milk -bone-foetus chain-of-death. The Strauss report notes that studies of this radio strontium danger are so far "reassuring." But would this be true of a full scale hydrogen war in which hy drogen bombs were used in great numbers? Might not this kind of war make still-births a univer sal phenomenon? This suggests only one of the reasons why some very distin guished scientists are convinced that the hydrogen bomb is a weapon with a suicidal backlash. Some scientists, for example, be lieve that large numbers of hy drogen explosions will greatly increase the incidents of cancer; or will cause mutations in later generations; or will even, in the word of Nobel Prize, winner, Dr. Edgar Adrian, "lead to , a de gree of radio activity which no one can tolerate or escape," and thus "end the human race." WILL WE USE IT? But suppose all these experts fears are wholly , unfounded. Suppose the only danger is the local fall-out described in the Strauss report. Will we really ever use a weapon which rains death on an area the size of New Jersey? Will we use such a wea " pon when we know that the en emy has it too? Indeed,, might we not hesitate to deal such in discriminate death, even if we knew that the enemy could not reply in kind? No one in his senses will argue that we should stop making these weapons, as long as the Russians are making them. But relying on isuch stficidal weapons as the central element in our power is something else again. And 'it does seem lime to ask whether we are right to do so. It is not at all an easy question to answer, but it is time to ask it all the same. UP By CHARLIE YARBOROUGH University Party Chairman This article begins a series of columns about the University Party. It is hoped the student will get a clearer idea of both par ties and what they stand for. The following is concerned with the general character of the UP. The University Party has no room for "professional" politi cians. Party members- are seen in all phases of campus life not just in politics. From its ranks come leaders in athletics as well as scholarship. Members feel that politics has a place at Carolina, but that place must not be over emphasized. Carolina comes first, then politics. The University Party also ad heres to the standard of "con servative progressivism." Its members do not 'jump1 on band Avagons. It is the aim of the par ty to preserve the best in our student government tradition to the demands of changing stu dent needs. Finally, the University Party is the most representative political group on the campus. Not only are dormitories, fraternities and sororities well represented, but other groups also have a stake in good student government by their representation in the UP meetings. The party does not stand for any selfish clique or faction. It stands for all the students. I would like to say that stu dent government is noNbetter or., worse than the students them selves make it. As long as the students continue to take an ac tive interest in the welfare of the whole group, the great tra dition of student government at Party Line UNC will flourish. It is the combination of hon or, sincerity and responsibility that is the foundation of the "Carolina Way of Life." It is the goal of the University Party to maintain and build upon this foundation and thus help pave the way to an even greater Uni versity of North Carolina. SP By STUDENT PARTY ADVISORY BOARD This week we want to explain to you how the student Legisla ture will go about spending the $18.00 which you pay as student fees each year. The student Legislature: Will spend $98,948.00 of the students' money this year. Eighty per cent of this money will go to Graham Memorial, The Yack ety Yack, and The Daily Tar Heel. The other 20 per cent goes to the executive branch of stu dent government, the Debate Council, the IDC, the Carolina Forum, the Publications Board and other student organizations provided for in the Student Consitution. Has no control over the uni versity Administration. When a grievance comes before the Leg islature involving the administra tion or faculty, it is passed in the form of a resolution and is presented to the administration, with arguments, by the newly created Welfare Board or Com plaint Board. The administration may or may not pay any attention to these requests. Is composed of fifty people elected for a term of one year; twenty-five are elected in the fall, .twenty-five in the spring. They are elected from ten districts. Was set up on its present basis in 1946. The idea of the student legislature evolved from the Phi and Di, which at one time con trolled student government. Besides determining the bud get, passes bills pertaining to the Student Constitution, the elec tion laws, the judiciary set-up; elects representatives to several boards and committees; passes on most presidential appointments. Has a regular process for a bill to become a law. The bill is introduced on the floor of the Legislature and is referred to the proper committee for discus sion, study, or change by that committee. The committee re ports it out favorably or unfav orably, according to their opin ion on it. At the next session, the bill is brought up, discussed, and voted on. It may be defeated here. If it does pass, it is sent to the president. If he does not sign it in ten days it has been ve toed. The Legislature may over ride a president's veto by a two thirds vote. Has had very few expressly partisan bills this semester. Leg islators sometimes cross party line in voting. Why, then, have political parties? We will under take to justify the parties in the next column. YOU Said It, Now Sign It The Daily Tar Heel prints all letters to the editor that are sign ed. , We have received, this week, a number of letters disagreeing with Tree Daily Tar Heel's posi tion on segregation that are ei ther unsigned or signed with the names of "students" which are unlisted as students at Central Records Office. If the writers of these letters will identify them selves, the letters will be printed on this page. I 1 f '' We Die At 30 Only To Be Buried At 70 (Dr. MUlott is president of Cornell University. His re marks below are extracted from a recent speech at the University of California. His ivords have a bearing on the problem of over-specialization in curriculum recently under discussion on this page. Edi tor.) In these vexed days of the mid century, our civilization shows no signs of cracking apart from any lack of engineering ingenuity; our population portends no like lihood of disappearing through epidemics resulting from lack of medical skill; our political struc ture will not fall because of lack of advisement in the structure and codification of laws. Our danger, rather, is that hu man .beings have not learned the art of living together, harnessing primeval instincts into lives of harmonious emotional stability. Not enough of us understand the process of thinking. Too many of us do not retain vital curiosity in the great issues of the day, but, as Nicholas Mur ray Butler once pointed out, die at the age of 30, only to be bur ied at 70! Such curiosity requires great teachipg, as you are all aware. And the highest performance of the teaching art is "teaching by infection." Such teachers are those who teach of themselves, rather than merely of a disci pline as a thing apart. How needed they are, how needed is a new emphasis on pursuit of the broad, the great, the whole in our education, in a day when the whole body of learning, once so well ordered and compact, has, as someone has said, "swollen until it has burst into ten thousand fragments." Days Gone By Tom Spain The magic name of Benny Goodman Zl ing on all kinds of record 3ackctnp" io the coming of the motion picture story of his life, to tne comm0 recording dates Though Goodman has had iew eeD com Vithin the past couple of years, hu, k1ebeuPmCsmor ing up, sometimes dressed up an new albums or transferred to long playing or to rP The old masters have been reverentb lifted vaults and releases like the '38 Carnegie Concci t. the '37--3S radio concerts, sextet albums and a lorted dance albums have been big Us ad rightfully so, for there are few who can offe ad xcrse criticism of the Goodman way of munc It s that the bringing back of the Swing King : ha, done much for the advancement of today s jazz enthusiasm. RCA Victor has gone back to the very beginning of the Goodman recording days (anybody's record ing days) and proudly released what they call Vault Originals, under the X label. , In addition to many of the early jazz classics, there is a delightful ten-inch LP collection of Ben Pollack originals made in the late twenties. Along with the exceptional performances of the 17-year old Goodman, a rather weak trombonist named Glenn Miller and a better one called Jack Teagar den are featured. A couple of hustling tenor sax men, Larry Binyon and Bud Freeman, add to the already lively color of the group. A FRONT PARLOR BAND The music Js not honest jazz. It is flavored quite well with the ragtime customs and popular appeal of the day. Vocals are plentiful and humorous "jazzy" is the term of the twenties. One might imagine the Andrews Sisters running to keep ahead of the Beiderbecke band while ren dering HE'S THE LAST WORD, a sepped-up front parlor ballad of 1926, and he'd have a fair under standing of the Pollack treatments. But the element of popular commercialism doesn't destroy the jazz feelings maintained by the musicians. Goodman, then not long out of the proverbial short pants, shows his technical talent and superb tone, and does more than hold his own while playing with the big boys. On the 1927 recording of WAI TENP FOR KATY, along with Jimmy McPartland ,and brother Harry Goodman who was then on tuba, Goodman opens wilh a long clear solo, not unlike those Which got the big band of '23 swinging into some of the better numbers. Glenn Miller's trom bone sounds disappointingly weak and loose-jointed on his first solo, but the second strain reveals a ta lent quite promising, though embryonic. CLIP CLOP AND BARITONE SAX Epitomizing the ragtime school of music, SING APORE SORROWS opens with a clip-clop rhythm' and a baritone sax solo by an unknown. The paper mache stereotype of the Oriental fashions in music might have accompanied Laurel and Hardy through some Eastern intrigue. There are three rather si milar variations on SINGAPORE SORROWS, all ending with the crash of a gong. But despite the limitations of the tune itself, there are light and airy solos by Bud Freeman and Jack Teagarden, which very closely echo the fine work they're doing today. The "X" label is a boon to old-time jazz fans, and certainly is a technical advantage for those who are interested in the background of the music of Miller, Goodman, McPartland and the like. And there's no question about recordings made in 1923 being just plain fun. The big band era of the early Forties is again being relived in a re-issue of Artie Shaw recordings. One and all, the numbers collected on the new Victor Album, MY CONCERTO, are representative of the style which made the Shaw group the in stitution that it was. From the dignified and soph isticated CONCERTO FOR CLARINET, to the Hut LipsPage vocal rendition of ST. JAMES INFIR MARY, the Artie Shaw band recalls the time when good swing music was plentiful and new. Parts I and II of CONCERTO FOR CLAKIN FT indicate the constant effort on Shaw's part to make popular, swing a respectable and worthy character istic of American music. Supported by jazz artists and a fine string section, Shaw demonstrates his talents thoroughly, confirming his place as a ton clarinetist of the swing era. His rides over the riff -and subtle breaks.are worthy of his reputation SAUTER IN THE FORTIES SUMMERTIME and DANCING OX THE CFlLlNr are done in typical Shaw fashion, the slightly off key, blue-note element present throughout Interesting as well as entertainino are Fff1io c ter's MAID WITH THE FLACCID il ,t NO. EIGHT. Sauter, who was arrant 1 1 5 in the Forties, shows his Progres fe Yemeni oi sound experimentation in the pretty ballaT The music of Artie Shaw has .been a in and this recording is not h; ,Deen a lonS facorite, The album contafn a "va rPPOinin in and arrangements"," the golden era of American Zt "
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