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cu sh ai iv re tl P n c c 1 t PAGETWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1955 Restraint, Tolerance &H.H. Purcell A Virginia legislator visiting North Car olina says lie is alarmed at our "defeatist attitude" toward the Supreme Court's de cision on segregation. The state of Virginia, says M. H. Pur cell, is determined to keep its public schools segregated, and he is disappointed that North Carolina is not showing a similar defiance. "In Virginia," Purcell said in a speech to the North Carolina House of Representa tives, "we believe that where there's a will there's z way. We have the will in Virginia and we believe we'll find the way to keep Virginia as Southern as it has always been. Meaning, of course, that Mr. Purcell is in tent (in having his state disobey the law of the land when that law is finally formulated and that he wants North Carolina to disobey it too. Tor some reason we leave it to the socio logists to tell you why Noth Carolina has reacted to the Supreme Court decision with ' a good deal less , hysteria than either of its neighbors. South Carolina and Vir ginia. Despite a legislature that is generally pro-segregation, despite our John Clarks and '(in a slightly different category) our W. C. Ceorgcs, we have shown reasonable intelli gence and calm. Contrast, lor example, the official state st; .'dies of segregation made by North Caro lin. and Virginia. The Virginia commission (though it at tempted no research and made no study of the situation) left no doubt as to its inten tion for the state. Its prelimilary report filed last month with Cov. Thomas 1J. .Stanley, promised only to "explore avenues toward formulation of a program designed to pre vent enforced integration of the races in the public- schools of -Virginia." The North Carolina Advisory Committee, -on Education, though it warned -of effects if segregation were, ended immediately, in cluded this kind of language: "Now as never , before in this generation North Carolinians are called upon to act cooly, exercise restraint, exhibit tolerance ommends that members of all races in North Carolina approach this problem of unprec endented dirrifuclty in that frame of mind." Restraint, tolerance and wisdom have been displayed in North Carolina since last May to a1 degree not noticeable in Mr. Pure ell's state. The disgraceful snubbing of Chief. Justice Warren when he came to Virginia (oud not, we suspect, have happened in Ral eigh. Such an organization as Chapel Hill's Inter-Racial' Fellowship for the Schools does not, so far as we know, exist in Virginia. As Governor Hodges has said, "It's a great trioute to the legislature, the committee and the-people as a whole that North Caro lina is facing the issue calmly." And we hope the demagoguery suggested by the speech of H. H. Purcell of Virginia, if it must exist at all, will stay north of the line. Gracious Living XXII Hill Hall's music: listening apparatus is a rtonkey-wrench in. -the Gracious Living ma :hine. A music .student who drops by the Hill Hall Library for an hour-of study must Carolina Front Watered-Down Thinking By N. V. Peale Louis Kraar NORMAN VINCENT Peale, who is busy writing books telling people how to hink, wrote a ' 4f - n piece the other lay about an inpleasant fel ow he met on i train. Peale, prob- j Vn pi 4-K J' "V ng positively, w - v , - iccid entally bumped into the fellow. But, thinking positively a moment, Peale apologized. . ' "It doesn't matter where I go or what I do, it's always the wrong thing. I put my foot into it and make a mess of every thing," the fellow replied to Peale's apology. And Peale relates: "I didn't, quite, know how to react to all the negativism in a stranger, so I commented on how lovely the morning was."; I'm glad Peale figured out such a fine answer to all that "nega tivism." What bothers me is that this man is telling people when they are thinking positively. In other words, if the view coin cides with his, it is positive; if it doesn't, it's negative. Thus, if everyone takes this exponent of how to think serious ly, they'll all be thinking alike. I have no objection to his ad vising people to seek power in prayer. Men have always found help that way, but this technique of merely thinking "positively" is so much bunk. Why do people have to turn to the Norman Vincent Peale or Billy Graham type character to water down the truths found in religion and great literature? Per haps we" haven't learned to take our universal truths without dilution. A COLLEGE student at a prom inent eastern university reported ly ran into a little trouble with his father when the old man dis covered the son's suitcase. The boy's father came into the room as he was packing to re turn to school from a holiday. He noticed that his collegiate son had included a bottle of his li quor in the suitcase. When further investigation re vealed two more full bottles of the old man's Scotch, he took the liberty of questioning the boy. "I thought you might want an 'It gets awfully cold at school, and the radiator in my room is broken." clamp uncomfortable headphones to his ears, explanation," said the college boy. place an emaciated spool of tape an the play back device, elbow the guy next to you in order to find note-taking room, and then lis tenhard. Because what he hears (we've heard it) is not the Brahms concerto he's trying to make out, but the unmistakable resonance of a WUNC announcer (the station, is practi cally next door and the programs leak thru) or the even louder tones of some brassy ensemble playing on a record just across the table. Gracious-Living in Chapel Hill involves the muse of music;; she's stubbing her toe at Hill Hall. ' FELLOW ON Franklin Street went to the wrong sale the other day. He thought he was going to a "Big Ben" sale at one clothing store (Milton's), tut got confused and went to a xBig Tom" sale at a record store (Kemp's). ' The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published ' $ C. I daily excePt Sunday, V S V Mondav and examina- St- f thrj ynivttn'Ay Nirfh i'tirolm .' vpvni'it (loot - tion ?nd vacation per ioqs ana i -V-i, -? 4 summer terms. Entered .s second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of Yarch 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. NOTE TO Y-Courters who have nothing better to do than work crossword puzzles: James Bryant Conanr, former resident of Har vard University once said, "The most important single factor in a modern liberal education is ed ucation which students receive from one another. The college union, being the focus of all stu dent activities, is thus the most important laboratory on the cam-pus." 'Oh Deai They Seem To Ed Going Right Ahead' Reaction Piece - r , tePW) JSSf'c i 'SCHOOL PROCRA m Elmer Davis As Nationalist How Long Till Midnight Editor J CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager '. TOM SHORES Sports Editor BERNIE WEISS News Editor Jackie Goodman Circulation Manager Subscription Manager Assistant Business Manager Society Editor Jim Kiley Jack Godley Bill Bob Peel Eleanor. Saunders Night editor for this issue .Eddie Crutchfield LOVERS OF Shakespeare (and the movies) can have a field day this week. Thursday "Julius Caesar" will play at the Carolina, complete with Marlon Brando as Mark An thony. Sunday "Romeo and Ju liet," a boy-meets-girl story with out a happy ending, opens at, the Varsity. The practice of not selling pop-: corn at the "Romeo and Juliet" movie is to be praised. Nothing is more annoying than great mo vie lines ruined by popcorn chompers in the next row. A fitting tribute to Shakespeare, I'd say. Ed Yoder Those who found in Elmer Davis's Bftt We Were Born Free a timely defense of civil liberties, a fine grasp of world currents, and a sane 1 indictment of the tendency toward legislative rule, will probably be as disappointed as I was at the drift of his new book, Two Minutes Till Midnight. Mr. Davis thinks that if "mid night" can be taken as the hour of hdyrogen warfare and it is a dismally appropriate term we lie but two minutes away from that moment. He takes the tack that nuclear warfare thermo nuclear, at that is riding fast on the minute hand of the clock. Assuming the hour to be so close, Mr. Davis, proposes that we turn our attention to the necessity of winning the hydrogen bomb war. He claims' no absol ute surity, as no one does, that the hydrogen bomb will be un leashed "though I confess that at this moment I cannot see why not." NO 'ONE-WORLDISM' Mr. Davis goes on in this very readable book for he is one of the finest non-fiction stylists we have to attack the idea that there can be no victor "in an atomic war; and to blast the "one world idea" as unworkable. The difference between my viewpoint and the stand Mr. Davis takes in Two Minutes Till Midnight may be a difference be tween realism and belief in the impossible. Maybe so; but I think there's still room for more ideal ism and optimism about the prob lems of impending warfare than Mr. Davis is willing to admit.- Mr. Davis had damned Mc Carthy loudly and made a point of the ignoble senator's diabeli cal word-twisting device. It is ironic and unbecoming to find him using "one-world" as a label for the various movements 'to ward world federalism. "One world" has long been used as a derogatory term by forces to which, I am sure, Mr. Davis is hostile. Mr. Davis's criticism of "one worlders" is quiet and of ten sympathetic; but the choosing of the label was unfortunate. Can anyone win an atomic war? Mr. Davis says 1 yes. But numbers of our most learned scientists say that victory in the horror of an all-out atomic war would be unlikely. Dr. J. Robert Oppeniheimer, until recently" a high official in the atomic ef fort, has said that a thermonu clear match between us and the Russians would be like two scor pions stinging themselves to death in a bottle. THE CHANGE IN WAR Almost coincidentally with the publication of Mr. Davis's book, Arnold J. Toynbee is quoted on the same question in a "Ten Bas ic Questions" vi interview in the New York Times Magazine. Whereas Dr. Oppenheimer speaks as a physicist Mr. Toynbee speaks as an historian. The atomic bomb as a weapon revolutionizing warfare is not unique, he says; but the degree of change amounts to an alteration of kind in the case of the Hell Bomb so -that "the difference, produced by the invention of atomic weapons, in . be degree of the destructiveness of war is a difference that has produced a change in. the nature of the institution of war as known and practiced hitherto." "The invention of atomic wea pons," writes Mr. , Toynbee, who oemmands a view of world his tory probably unparalleled in any time, "looks as if it may have obliterated the formerly valid distinctions betwen sol dier and civilian, fron and rear, victor an vanquishe." With the Atomic Era world shrinking, he thinks, war will have become, a point-blank, con fused punching of radom holes in the enemy's hide with no one knowing whether he had scored or been scored upon. HOW VALID IS PERICLES? It would be wrong to give an all-black impression of Mr. Davis's Two Minutes Till Mid' night; the book, except in the single case where he applies a label to the advocates of "one world," is fair and reasonable. The fault with the book is singu-. lar and basic: Mr. Davis frankl admits that he writes as a na tionalist. It is quite a shock to find one of our noblest formu lators of public opinion taking an ertreme nationalistic swing. Mr. Davis is, by education, a classicist, a very learned classi cist. With all due respect, to the study of classics, unmatched aj a broadening, humane, and tem perate part of human knowledge, it sems that Mr. Davis, in the new book, is thinking too much like an ancient Spartan, for whom war wasthe final virtue. Classi cal learning will apply eternally. ,to the inernal machinery of de mocracy and its problems; but classicism and. 1955 foreign policy- whether the mixing is con scious or unconscious, may re act the wrong way. "Never decline the dangers' of ' war,' said Pericles, the Athenian statesman, in his famous funeral oration. But if we are to give just credit to the warnings of present-day scientists and his torians, the validity of Pericles's sentiments admirable as they were in Fifth Century B. C. Athens has vanished. They belong to the beautiful classical past; but not to a speed ing Atomic Age. . V A i f BETTY SMITH I Fear It May Be Destroyed By Intolerance Betty Smith (The following icas loritten by Chapel Hill's Betty Smith, au thor of A Tree Grows in Brook lyn, for the national observance of Brotherhood Week, Feb. 20 27. Editor.) It has always been my basic premise in writing, that in or der to have a full understand ing of characters or people, one must not forget that no person is born bad. If a person turns out badly it is because evil grows in him or evil is thrust upon him. It is the same with intoler ance. No one is born intolerant. He acquires it personally over the years or falls in too readily with centuries ' -old-propaganda. And the intolerance is in every thing. A large percentage of Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Negroes, are intolerant of each other. No one of us escapes. Each one of us is intolerant against something . . . some body. If we like meat, we have n'o vegetarians; things like that. We ,all know discrimination and intolerance we have all been anguiqd by it. Yet in ' return, forgetting our own an guish, we cause others anguish by discrimination and intoler ance. I do not see how our civ ization our world, even can endure with religions hating each other, nations trying to destroy each other and individuals intol erant of eachother. . I do not fear destruction of our civilization by the atom bomb. I fear it may be destroy ed entirely by intolerance. . The Joys Of Debate In The Lusty Old Di r Eye Of The Horse .David Mundy The size of The Daily Tar Heel staff is so small that when con sidering possibilities for editor one almost naturally assumes that the job will go to one of the members of the "inner office hierarchy." But last week I re ceived something of a surprise, almost a shock. One of the "lead ers" in one of the campus parties, no stranger to the inner workings of Graham Memorial, confided to me that several people had ap proached him with the idea of his running for editor of the Tar Heel. Their concern, and his, was that the paper had been becom ing less and less of a student newspaper. The voters in the spring elec tions may yet have a choice be tween two eggheads, one sunny-sid-up and the other scrambled. The Joys of public debate are many but to a few. The very thought of standing before an audience gives most people a case of jitters. To speak without notes or even a small amount of previous thought, would cause their death of fright. That some people find plea sure in debating1 may come as a surprise. Most of these people are members of two campus organi tions, The Dialectic Senate and the Philanthropic Assmbly. And what do they "debate?" The subjects are generally quite respectable ones, such as the admission of Communist China to the UN,' the censuring of some individual for some action, etc. "Birth Control" and an "Omni bus Vice Bill" make their appear ance in some campus debate group every year. The latter one generally proposes the legaliza tion of liquor sales, gambling, and prostitution . Last week the Dialectic Senate even debated a bill advocating the restoration of the French monarchy, in the person of the Count of Paris. Serious? It was indeed. French politicians were sound ly denounced. French history was reviewed from the time of the Romans. Intellectual heritages were praised and damned. Some departed from the subject to de clare, as is their custom, that Coolidge and Hoover caused the depression. This was in answer to a ques tioner who wanted to know about Roosevelt's 1932 promise to cut government expenditures a flat 25. The questioner had been inspired to ask the question when the speaker, in his review of history, had declared that Poin care balanced the French bud get after World War I, while Ei senhower hasn't balanced the U. S. budget. And so the debate rol led on. But entertaining? It was that too. One questioner desired to know which had prov ,ed more important to the French troops in Korea, wine or ammu nition .And the longest-winded Senator made a plea for brevity, which brought the house down. And so the performance contin ued. The best of such performers is David Reid, member of the Di, campus wheel and SP leader. The Di has even be3n known to ap plaud when he assumes the ros trum, applaud until his time has almost expired. Rotund Senator Reid is un doubtedly the most political-looking politician on campus. The big smile, the hearty greeting, his magnificent facade, all make him look every inch a real senator. Reid, though, is a little differ ent from most of the other cam pus "wheels," big and little. His behavior has considerable depth; when he says, does, or proposes something you may be sure that it is 'really Reid.' It might look as though it were cold and calculated; ulterior mo tives may seem to be hiding be hind it; but a closer knowledge of Reid hardly allows the exis tence of such hypotheses. Whether or not the honor coun cil "Leniency Bill" was prompted by presidential ambition, it was taken as such. The effect was to greatly, decrease the possibility of Reid's candidacy for president this spring. Reid at least has an opportun ity denied other presidential hopefuls: he can settle down and begin a carrer as elder states man now. SP Party Saints Pene gar and Cook left some pretty big halos lying around when they left campus. Roger Will Coe f (The Horse see imperfectly, magnifying some things, minimizing others. Hipporoiis, circa 500 B. C.) Some Gleanings From The Oat-Bucket: Recent recounlais in the press of the farewell accorded basketeers at Wake Forest's Gore Gym reassure us of one thing in a world of battling change: Wake Forest College remains, like the Marsupialia and the Monotremata, unchanging. The brovos of this quasi institution of quasi cul fhe bravos of this quasi institution of quasi cul toor in no-so-quasii instiution of quasi -cl11" with far better aim, if less sportsmanship, than did likeable and excellent Dick Hemric's cohorts of Naismithism hurl the ball in their ritualistic roles. This should challenge Sociologists or do we mean Zoologists? to observe the species closely before, and after, the removal to Winston-Salem. It might be a, rewarding colateral study to observe the Winston-Salemites with like judicinal objec tiveness to see, when the two groups meet, who does what to whom and who gets the worst of it. Kan garoos Wombats, bandicoots, opossums, duckbill and echidnas long have defied Darwin's theory of evolution and survival through improvement of spies. Can Winston-Salem out-Darwin Darwin? Unfettered, unlettered and unbettered, Wake Forest marches on on Winston-Salem, praise be'. We can forgive lack of gentlemanliness since it is not an inborn trait. Lack of sportsmanship, how ever, suggests deeper trauma of the personality. Thk is not to say the situation of educationing Demon Deaks is hopeless: one hundred twenty-one years have gone by since the founding, or concoction, of Wake Forest College; and dedicated educators have given their lives to improvement of the species. Who knows but that another one hundred twenty-one years won't see Demon Deaks "hurl bricks in their anger over losing quasi or queasy sporting contests? At least, the brick is a refine ment of a civilized peoples," while the rock remains the symbol of primitives. But wasn't it an appeal to passions of a sort when the pressed-on Preston management perhaps cudgled its two heads in dim gropings, and came up with gimmick of presenting the Football-Deak-of-the-Year trophy to a very fine and decent play er on the same night when the representatives of the university with whose team the Football Deak.s had locked in ugly fisticuffs only months before, were their basketball adversaries? Frankly, we'd have more respect for the alleged intelligent athletic management, heretofore at least suspect as a yes-yes department, if it had done this stupid bit of staging deliberately, than if it had been indavertent. It could be that some misguided Psychologist (i.e.: a D-minus brain in Elementary Psychology) nightmared this up in the hope it would put the lads on the qui vive; and had that rock been aimed a mite better, it might have been an ugly qui mort. The Baptist Hollow bandicoots should try to get it into their cue-ball skulls that a repetition of their Kenan Stadium buffooneries and their Gore Gym galooticisms might cut deep into their athletic incomes: the Blue Devils and the Tar Heels keep them solvent in Football; Duke and State keep them solvent in Basketball; and their Baseball where rock-throwing and bat-swinging can be translated into good teams rides gravy on the same State-Duke-UNC largess from Basketball and Football. The whole world loves a good sport. By the same token, it hates a bum one. Nor will a change of locale be the whole answer but it may be a be ginning: Even Camels know a limit to patience . . . Blast! Paul T. Chase The "Honor System" at this University is a farce. There is a system, all right, but it is com pletely devoid of honor. This is because those administering the system are completely devoid of a concept of honor. f Honor is an individual matter, and the initia tive and responsibility for it must rest ultimately with the individual. A code of honor is also an individual matter, one that simply involves liv ing with oneself, and acting accordingly. As it is currently administered, the Honor Sys tem is merely a front designed to uphold a stan dard behavior pattern. A student is told that he is to act in comformity to a certain code, and told that he is being "put on his honor" to do so; watch dogs are then provided to make sure that ha does. The code consists of regulations written rtr 11 written, which the Administration wishes enforc ed; or it consists of whatever vasup nnti honor may currently be held by a "council" .of the students peers." There has been, on the other hand, no attempt to disguise the prevalent assumption that he in dividual student is without honor. What differ ence does it make that the professor leaves the classroom during the exam, if each student has been carefully insturcted to rat on his neigh bor? You have as many proctors as you have class mates. The pledge required at the end of each paper is equally olatant. If the student is dishonest it is worthless; if he is honest it is an insult We are told that the pledge is a "reminder" Is honor, then, so fragile and fugitive a concept that it can be lost sight of between pop quizzes? What prepared statement do the administration pro pose as a reminder of our dignity and integrity" The great fear is, of course, that a student left to his own devices may not always behave in ex actly th the way the university wishes him to behave. He may start to engage in that dread suums,ve pa-sume Known of "thinking for o self." He may discover that informing on neignoor. or slgning denials of guilt are a th icsc uiausLeiiu ai rne most shameful As long as the students are treated ' as hypo ,Ttl !nd.. -is-a there are those ... wvwavc dS iucn. iot unt 1 the stndpnt treated with the respect ha is his due as individual rocnnnciKI- ... , ...o..c lo no nigfip- cnnrl. th himself, will there be Honor on this 1 or, indeed, anywhere. campy Dept. of safe, predictions: We will continue have more system than honor a: this University? in- of no bis is an