SATURDAY, FEBRUARY- 25, 1955
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
PAGE TWO
Please, Nr .Trustee-
Spare That Car
Arorriini- to latest reports, the Visiting
Committee of the Board of Trustees plans
to make another complaint, about the -abundance,
or student cars on campus.
It any restriction is to be made, it avouIcI,
to deal ecpiitably, have to include members
of. the student body Avhose need for cars is
vital to their college welfare. Married stu
dents, the campus's 1,000 veterans, and
town-dwellers who may not live within con
venient walking distance of their c lassrooms, .
may .suffer.
Anvwav, the statistics released bv the
Committee don't seem to provide real
grounds for complaint. The figures show
that only 17 percent of freshmen and soph
omores and 23 percent of juniors andsen
iors keej) cars with them in Chapel Hill.
In a university community the size of
Chapel Hill those figures seem reasonable
enough to us.
All Puffed Out
The doors of the Morehead Building flew
open and one of those bands of bobbing1
heads, nervous feet, and tireless voices
the North Carolina school children to whom
the University plays host on weekdays
j issed through. y
The she'pherding teacher passed along the
ranks, pushing stragglers into line.
"""is that Roman architecture?" asked one
widc-cved youngster, basking in the pleas
ure of learning acquired in sixth-grade .an
cient history.
We didn't catch the teacher's answer to
that scholarly question. Just then South
Building's bell clanged over the sound of
her voice, and our attention moved to the
wearied students who trudged out of Al
umni Building. A spokesman for the group
rubbed his eyes and asked:
'"When the crossword puzzles aie finish
ed, what do you do in these classes?"
Apparently, academic steam, like youth, is
a stuff that will not endure.
Carolina Front
Emilygration
The Haver ford College sociologist, Dr.
Ira Reid, speaking on th? problems of im
plementing the Supreme Court Decision on
segregation, struck a vibrant and trouble
some string'when he. spoke of "patterned
evasions."
"Patterned evasions" are not limited to
proposals to alxilish the public school sys
tems, to attempts to fight integration by
elaborate paper work all the typical by
ways being invented in quarters openly
hostile to the Decision.
There is another, deejer and deadlier
"patterned evasion." And Dr. Reid touched
briefly on that evasion when he mentioned
those who make their tolerance of minori
ty rights a matter of etiquette or "demo
cracy." Tor them, as the sociologist said, rac
ial, justice becomes a matter of shaking
hands -gracefully; or of sitting beside a
member of a minority race in a classroom
because jF.mil y Post would perhaps approve.
From Dr. Reid's remarks, we can gain
this: Compliance with ' moral -obligations
may become as false, as perfunctory, as doc
trinaire, as defiance.
The picture of racial justice we lay before
the peoples outside our own boundaries
if our actions are
but doughfaces for attitudes which remain
unchanged.
Prejudice, diluted and concealed by a
thousand pages of Emily Post, covered' by
procedures followed only because they are
" noble" or "democratic," is still prejudice.
The official student publication of the Publi
cations Board fit the University of North Carolina,
where it id published
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Student Cars
ALost Ad
&Lazy Friday
'How can you learn lessons in here? Why there's hardly room for you, and no
room -at all for any lesson books!' Alice in Wonderland.
Louis Kraar
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LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Ruth Dalton,
Ed Myers, Woody Sears, Peggy Ballard, Sue Quinn
Night editor for this issue
.Eddie Crutchfield
WHEN THE University's boss
esr the BoarcKof Trustees meet
this Monday,
they'll hear? a
firm statement
on the "diffi
cult problems"
caused by stu
lent cars.
The Visiting
Committee will
-ell the board
chat the influ
ence of autos . "may be especial
ly critical with respect to under
classmen." At the same time, the
Trustees will be told that "a
hard and fast prohibition of au
tomobiles is unlikely to be ef
fective." Thus, it's unlikely that the
Trustees will take any action
against student cars other than
telling the local Adminisration to
look into the matter.
However, this reporter sees the
mention of student cars in the
Visiting Committee's report
much in the light of a hint. Sat
urday classes were mentioned
for several years in the reports
of this same committee then,
all at once, they were passed.
WHEN THE Trustee visitors
came to campus, they met with
President Tom Creasy and other
student officers.
Monday the Visiting Commit
tee will report that Creasy and
the other officers "indicated that
in general the spirit on the cam
pus was good and their own rep
resentations illustrated whole
some relations among the stu
dents and between students and
teachers."
THE LOST AD in the paper
this week that read: "Lost, black
scarf with, white trim, 'near the
library. Not worth much to you
but of great sentimental value
to me," I was intrigued.
The ad was placed by our own
Advertising Manager Dick Sir
kin (who apparently believes in
his own product). "My" girl at
home knitted the scarf for my
birthday. I figured if she saw me
on a cold day without it, she'd
wonder. But I've found it now,' .
explained Dick.
IT WAS JUST an ordinary lazy
Friday afternoon when I heard
the hacking sound of the local
fire alarm.
Charles' Dunn, of the Chapel
Hill Weekly, and I headed to
ward the sound of the fire en- ,
gines, and soon we were stand
ing in front of a wooden shack
in Carrboro that was already
burned almost to the ground;
Faint outlines of a bed and
tables stood out behind the
flames as the tiny shack burned
closer to the ground. I asked
someone near me whose house it
was, and he said it belonged to
the Arthur Smiths, a Negro fam
ily. I had walked up a hill away
from the heart of the fire. A po
lice car slid up silently, and a
trembling Negro woman stepped
out. She took one long look at
the burning house and broke in
to loud sobs. Everything she
owned, I though, was burning
before her eyes. She cried and
cried. '
An "elderly Negress with white
hair put a comforting arm about
the sobbing woman. "It could
have been worse Lucile. I told
you about going away and leav
ing the children here. At least,
they got out okay," the elderly
woman said.
Lucille stopped crying and
walked slowly down the" big hill
toward what was left of her
home. Soon her husband arrived.
He's a cook at the Monogram
Club, and they called, him from
work.
The husband took a long look
.at the house, too, then walked
with his head down to join his
wife.
I've had a hard time thisweek
getting the look on their faces
out of my mind, and maybe that's
a good thing.
02, t--,
SOUNDS
Clayton Jams On BG Tunes
Tom Spain
John Hammond and George Av
akian, Columbia's entrepreneurs
of better jazz, have seen to it
that, another of the memorable.
Buck Clayton jam sessions have
been released. The first two,
HOW HIGH THE FI, and THE
HUCKLE-BUCK AND, BOBBINS'
NEST, met with great success
during the past year, not without
reason. 'An honest jam session,
caught on record, is bound to be
of interest to any jazz enthusiast,
especially when the jamming is
done by Clayton and his worthy
all-star line-up.
The footloose recording ses
sions, in which the promoters
gave the groups plenty of time
and miles of tape, have an easy
air about them, most conducive
to what might be termed, expres
sive relaxation. The veteran mu
sicians were told to do as they
pleased, and apparently, they did.
The resiilts of the first two re
leases were sheer delight, and
now the new album, BUCK
CLAYTON JAMS BENNY GOOD
MAN FAVORITES, shows a sim
ilar quality, lacking only in the
unique wonder which was drawn
by the first two.
DUE CREDIT
Hammond and Avakian deserve
due credit for proving that the
best jazz is the natural kind, that
is wihout any regulations what
soever. The. Clayton groups had
no time limits, no arrangements,
and, in effect, no leader. Be
cause of this, the recordings run
as long as 25 minutes, giving the
musicians time to warm up as
well as to have their complete
say. The lovers and promoters
of jazz have for many years
dreames of catching jam sessions
on recording machines, but the
thought never occurred to them
that they can set one up quite
easily. This done, Hammond and
Avakian have given, us not only
some of Buck Clayton's best, but
a three-hour collection of some
of the most rousing and expres
sive solo interpretations, riffs,
and rhythms.
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
features the same group as did
the former albums, and in fact
was recorded at about the same
time. That all-Basie rhythm sec
tion of Jo Jones, Walter Page,
Freddie Green and Sir Charles
Thompson, has a name almost
reverent on the jazz world. The
others are equally notable:
Trumpets Clayton, and Basie's
Joe Newman, a versatile-plus
figure who found a more than
warm reception here in Chapel
Hill; Trombones Henderson
Chambers and the highly-thought-of
Urbie Green; Reeds
Lem Davis, Julian Dash, and
on baritone, Charlie Fowlkes,
who also wowed 'em in Chapel
Hill. All these musicians are
"qualified" veterans, and many' are
graduates of the Count Basie
band.
It is with the Basie influence
that Sir Charles Thompson opens
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, and
his short and subtle piano intro
duction sets a swing mood that
is quickly picked up by the en
tire ensemble. Rhythm, key and
mood established, the group tos
ses the melody back and forth
with its leader, who then turns
it over to Newman, who takes
two swinging solos in front of a
mild riff. Newman's trumpet work
is clear and sure, working in and
out of the riff, with a coy touch,
generally characteristic of Clay
ton. ;-,,.v
SO IT GOES
And so it goes for twenty five
minutes. CHRISTOPHER CO
LUMBUS, of course, is an early
Goodman classic, noted for its
easy swing. Written by Chu Ber
ry and first featured by the
Fletcher Henderson band, the
tune is a natural for the Clayton
group because of its varying
melody, which leaves ample
room for open interpretations.
On side two, recorded some
months after side one, there are
some changes in the line-up. Bil
ly Kyle, Trummy Young, Cole
man Hawkins and Milt Hinton sit
in for the second and third num
bers, DONT BE THAT WAY,
and UNDECIDED.
Kyle's light and airy piano
work presents a notable contrast
to Thompson's Basie style of the
first side, adding a stepped . up
quality to the easy swing of the
two Goodman standards. "Haw
kins' tenor, sax solos bring back
the days of the dogging sax and
the big swing bands. Though
DONT BE THAT WAY opens
just as Goodman would have
wished, the group loses no time
in turning the old favorite into
a first class after-hours session.
HOT GOODMAN
The new album is not an at
tempt to bring back the Good
man days of the thirties, but
simply a new and different treat
ment of three of Goodman's fav
orite and most popular -numbers.
There is not one touch of the
former renditions, save the quick
introduction to DON'T BE THAT
WAY, and the group does not
even possess a clarinetist. . The
Clayton group differs from Good
man's bands in every conceivable
way. It is not a highly organized
swing band, but rather a group
of superb soloists which main
tains the talent of ensemble mu
sicianship. They do not present
"the interpretations of one arrang
er. Each man, however, is allow
ed to offer his own interpretation
several times if possible. In
effect, each is an artist, and these
jam sessions present the talent
of each, all being outstanding.
The Buck Clayton jam ses
sions have come about as close
to real jazz, in the exact sense,
as anything since the days of
Jimmy Noone. Individuals and
even small groups have approach
ed pure and creative improvisa
tion, rightfully deserving the
credits for honestly making jazz,
but the Clayton group of au
thentic all stars is the only large
group to reach that goal in this
decade. BUCK CLAYTON JAMS
BENNY GOODMAN FAVORITES
deserves the attention of all who
appreciate any kind of jazz. It's
perfectly enjoyable no matter
how it's classified.
ALRIGHT OR ALL RIGHT?
Merriam-Webster lists 'in so
far' as three words and then ex
plains that it can "properly" be
written either way. (Some au
thorities also object to the use
of 'in in the phrase 'in so far
as,' stating that the phrase should
be 'so far ;.S.)'
The analogy between 'already
and 'all right' is a more common
illustration of the same problem,
confusion caused by similiarity
Here again Fowler says there is
ro such form as 'alright,' and
Merriam-Webster lists 'alright
as a "form commonly found bu;
not recognized by authorities as
in good use."
There is, however, reason to
believe that 'alright' will some
day be considered acceptable.- If
'already' and 'altogether,' why
not 'alright.?
The similarity that causes
what we today label an error may
someday be described by ling
uists as a change (from 'all righ''
to 'alright)' by analogy with 'pi
ready.' A similar confusion re
sults in the use of 'meantime'
and 'meanwhile.' Because the
phrase 'in the meantime' is stan
dard and probably more idio
matic than the single wor-1
'meantime,' some people are led
to use the unidiomatic 'in the
meanwhile, 'Meanwhile' is, of
course, the preferred form.
Word Study
YOU
Said It
More Power To v
Liberal Views'
Editor:
This is in reference to the let
ter written by Mr. William C.
Grimes which appeared in The
Daily Tar Heel on February 24.
Dear Mr. Grimes:
After reading your letter of
February 24th to The Daily Tar
Heel, we felt compelled to answ
er it. At first we became angry.
Later, our anger turned to pity,
disgust and embarrassment.
We were angry because we
' could not see how an educated
human being could believe and
write such tripe. Did you hon
estly believe what you wrote,
Mr. Grimes, or did you just want .
to see your name in print.
We pity you, Mr. Grimes, if
you are unable to express your
self, without using the word
"nigger." In your mind, does a
person automatically become a
Red if he expresses liberal views.
We were disgusted with you,
Mr. Grimes, for such narrow
minded thinking on your part.
What courses did you take while
you were attending the Univer
sity? Narrow Mindedness 22 and
White Supremacy 53? Did you
take a course in Religion' in
which you are supposed to learn
to v live. with' your fellow man-,
kind? How about Political Sci
ence? Were you not taugh that
all men are created equal under
the Constitution of the United
States?
Finally, Mr. Grimes, we were
ashamed and embarrassed to
learn that you hold a degree
from the same university that
we . are attending. As for your
suggestion "to go North young
man" we3 might decide to follow
your advice. We would go any
where to escape such narrow
minded thinking as you exhibit.
Mr. Grimes, if you happen to
take your own advice and go
North, please don't associate
your views with those of the
University. If people ask you
-.where you received your educa
tion, just tell them that you nev
er attended college. It would be
much easier for them to believe
this and it might save us some
embarrassment in the future. It
is you, with your narrow mind
edness that is becoming a ball
and chain around the neck of
the University.
More power to ' Kuralt, Kraar,
Levin, Fleishman for their "lib
eral views." What this Universi
ty needs is more people like
them and fewer people like you.
Paul D. Mason
Fred W. Dieffenbach
Student's Wife Sends
Suggestion On Vacation
Editor:
As a wife . of a student I am
writing about vacations and their
rather poor timing. When I was
in college in another state, va
cations started on a Wednesday
or Thursday and ended on a day
in the middle of the week to
prevent students from traveling
over a weekend when traffic is
heaviest. This University's va
cations almost always necessi
tate weekend travel.
Easter vacation ends on Mon
day, but students who live any
distance must travel Easter
Sunday in order to be here in
time for classes on Monday. This
is not quite fair when it is re
alized that-.the reason students
go home is to celebrate Easter,
a religious holiday, and then U.
N. C. asks students to spend
most of the day on a train, or
in a bus or car in order to re
port to classes 8 .a.m. on Monday.
I should think moving the
vacations forward a day so that
the same number of days are
allowed, but the last day falls
on a Monday instead of Sunday,
would allow students to have all
of Easter at home. This arrange
ment would also prevent students
from traveling on a weekend,
when accidents, are most frequent
and traffic is heaviest.
Ariana Holliday MangOm
Quote,' Unquote
"Everyone knows how to run
a school, a newspaper, or a chic
ken farm better than the oper
ators do.!' Phillips Russell in
class.
"There's a story gqing around
about the collegiate Texas oil
heir whose dad bought him a
university for him to drive his
convertible to." Dallas News.
"Posterity may be puzzled at
us keeping America strong and
free and broke all at the same
time." Memphis Press-Scimitar.
lye Of The: Worse
Roger Will Coe '
(The Hone see imperfectly, magnifying som,
things, minimizing others :-Hipporotis, circa 50
,B. C.) V
I HAD THE HORSE backed into a confer of hi
stall and I was working him over with a whip Ih
sort of lazies up when I let him get away with
Oat-Bag Gleanings piece, as I had last time out.
"Blame it on the linotyper," The Horse argued
as he nimbly evaded my worst blows. "Why shoulc
I or another guy work hard when youse bandicoot
at the printery louse it up?" t"r
Ohhhhhhhh, what Horsie had said. Wham!
"Well that's what Kuralt blames if on.Th
Horse dodged successfully. "Zounds, isn't he pay
ing several demon proofreaders to cull errata?"
So, The "Horse laid it to mechanical difficulty
"Naw I mean bi-ped linotypers, not the mach
ines which they mismanage," The Horse shrugge
when I belayed laying the lash in lusty licks. "Bu
it is always nice to provide folk with something t
beef about."
Was that good, To provide a beef? . ...
"Better'n horse-meat about it," The Horse pu
in a plug for more live plugs and less Brisket "o
Seabiscuit. "Remember what Teddy Roosevelt sai
when Mrs. R., in the White House, mourned thy
things had not gone smoothly for some hous
guests."
What did Teddy say ... - Delighted . . .?
'Nope,"The Horse stated. "01' Teddy Said, "M;
dear Mrs. R., you have been the perfect hostess
you have sent our guests away happy in their abilit;
' to criticize something. Nothing gives greater al
front than perfection.'"
I thought there was little likelihood of ye print
ers of the DTH ever affronting with perfection, 0
even with understandable flaws due to 'haste 0
badly concocted copy. -
"Take this here now gradooate who wrote wha
he perhaps hoped would be an earth-shaking docu
ment." The Horse pointed with a reasonable hoo:
"The one who eheu-ed and alack-a-dayed ove
how we are all Communists here at The Hill, Go
bless it."
Ugh! That Grimey-letter writer?
"Well, now, the lad has a right to his ignoranc
bad manners and lies," The Horse saw it. "A11 I as!
you to consider is, how horrendous would he no
be had he not learned something here at this Se;i
of Southern Cultoor & Erudition?" ,
Then The Horse thought this friend of the Clar
claque of clucking clackers correct?
"I didn't say that," The Horse reminded me, thu
infuriating me by being right. I despise him whe
he is right! "I said he had a right to his ideas; bi;
why bring the Clarks into this?"
Well, the author of the Grimey letter had!
"Okay, okay, so leave him be responsible for hi
own guests," The Horse cluttered. I hate him whe
he chitters, too. "I don't drag them in." ''
No; they were put in by Legislature.
"That shows you," The Horse smiled pleasantl:
"The only way they could get connected with thi
here now
Seat of Southern Cultoor & Euridition?
" would be to have a law passed'-.The Hors
stated. "Just toss it off as a tribute .to thei
great and good father, Judge Clark. And leave 1
not get too grim about Grimes."
The Horse amazed me with his tolerance an
gentlemanliness! How cool, how calm, how objec
tive!
' "But of course he is a bow-legged, cock-eye
double-dealing duck-billed wombat when he sa
we are Reds, or anything approaching thereunto
The Horse double-crossed me. "And he is a liar,
regret the days of duello are .past, or I should ca
the echidna out to give me satisfaction."
What would the weapons be? "
"Spittoons, at ten paces," The Horse "specif iei
"Grimey-Boy can't do ntiffin' but sputter, and I'
win in a single-foot." He looked me over very care
fully and added: "Roger, can't you sorta guess wh;
the deal is with Grimey?" &
Venom, hate, fury, rage - n
"I mean, why?" The Horse said. "Me 1 'see it z
either: 1) Grimey is trying to borry moola froi
his friends; 2) Grimey works for them- and ;
bucking for a raise; 3) Grimey is an intereste
kinsman; 4) Grimey wants in on The Board and
currying favor with his buddies;, 5) Grimey an
eddycation didn't see eye-to-eye; 6) Grimey raav
be is a frustrated Journalist. j
But, he claimed to be an alumnus! Maibe he ha
gone through with Straight-D's?
"I would not," The Horse mused, "tag him wit
any classification, no matter how lowly, which cor.
tained in its adjectives the word 'straight ' no
would not. His thinking is not straight, and his ai'rr
are questionable, to say the least. Perhaps he hi
a number of frustrations which make him less tha
a reasonable man. If so, our learning teaches us t
look the other way and hope he recovers his ment;
balance. His language bespeaks an acute trauma c
the ego, aggravated by hypertension, and. not le.
sened m any way by reflection. His words mirrc
his solitude. He ,s a person who has resigned frQ!
the human race, and all I can say is, I am sorry h
view of us is so warped. It is a myopia for whic
there is no external relief "
f5?6 ?k,fd t0 See hi name in Print?
I think Cholhe-Boy Kuralt should not print sue
rZrS f-13'" The HrSe said' "Jt ames th
tnculated and graduated any such ensample
disloyal Tar Heel without doing him some sma
schororP7hhad WaS ashamcd t0 "e ha
schooled here, did The Horse note'
"His secret," The Horse said mildlv '"is sa!
nnotr Trr not to iet
GrimpV f, t 1 have us runnin
-corded n
... and Cod-ed" W'y rd?r Wum