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i: : Cc . oi hi : tt ie ai j t ' k j o: c w :i ai t ler th tlu pu: an tid tlu we eai i ti w Aj ci Si A S ,PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 19S5 4 To! For Reason Carolina Front Add signs of Tar Heel sanity: The Trus tees' 57-15 vote to allow Negroes to attend a three-week summer farm and home course at State College, despite the opposition of John W. Clark. The Board of Trustees is not, by any means, an "integrate now"' body; but neith er are they a bigoted or unreasonable body. We find it regrettable that Mr. Clark pick ed up' l.J agreements; but a-.j to 1 margin of calmness and reason is more than can be ex pected in most deliberative groups. It is an encouraging margin for the University. Mr. Bur click's Logic "I would be unalterably opposed to the appontment of John Marshall Harlan as a member of the Supreme Court because he is a Rhodes Scholar.' Speaking those words as part of the long parade ol dilly-dallying over the appointment of a promising new Supreme Court justice was the Hon. Usher L. Burdick, U. S. Con gressman from North Dakota1. Mr. Burdick quotes a Chicago Tribune booklet which says, , Rhodes scholarships were established for fie primary purpose of instilling political bias in the minds of young Americans in favor of world federation, involving the surrender of American sovereignty. And. runs Mr. Burdick's logic, " how can we support the Constitution and defend it against all enemies, foreign and domestic, if we are to contemplate relinquishing our sov- -ereigntv?' The fact that John Marshall Harlan was a Rhodes scholar, and that the Chicago Tri bune says Rhodes scholarships were estab lished to push world 'federation, is apparent ly Mr. Burdick's sole reason for opposing the appointment ot Mr. Harlan. We were particularly crestfallen to read Mr. Burdick's speech in the Congressional Record, for Usher Burdick and one colleague were the only Congressmen brave enough to vote against the bill to outlaw the Commu nist Party when it passed into law last summer. Baddley, Let's Have A Duel In Y Court YOU Said It, Pro & Con Louis Kraar TO WILLIAM Henry Baddley, the Macy man who wrote that "we need more men like Wil liam Grimes," I suggest a duel n Y Court. How about petitions at 50 paces? THE JET - zoomed across the sky over the campus, and all in the class ldoked up from note books. It was a harrowing sound. The professor had been talk ing about population and the growth 'of communities. And the jet, like a rude intruder, broke into his talk. I couldn't help but think of the jet as an appropriate reminder of the grim side of things these days. While we talked of growth and building cities, the plane zoomed across the sky with a ringing buzz. And, like others, I wondered what the bombs and planes that man has made will make man. "Hope he wins a citation," quipped the professor, and for a moment we all laughed at ourselves. THE CAROLINA theater's can dy seller, about whom this col umn has directed some critical remarks regarding the price of six-cent candy bars, has changed Spin ions opposition to the appointment of her mind and her prices. a man to the Supreme Court because of a scholarship he once held we had thought to be far below Mr.,.Burdick's standards. All this constitutes a warning to such out standing students as Carolina's most recent Rhodes sc holarslip winner, Paul Likins, that even so innocent and honorable a thing as winning- academic acclaim may be suspect in a suspicious world. And we, shocked back' into our shell of skepticism, are tempted to paraphrase the words spoken in Stuart England by the Earl of Strafford as he waited to lose his head to Parliament: cans. Tut not your trust in Western Republi- Ol' Joe? Haw, Haw! A despot, it is said, doesn't fear eloquent critics preaching freedom; he fears a drunk en poet who may crack a joke that will take fact tnat Muntzing's Inter-Dorm- The candy bar? are now a nick el, according to a friend with a sweet-tooth. THE COED seemed interested in a boy that cropped up in the conversation, so she asked: "Does he date anybody?" "That's right, anybody," an swered the roommate of the boy in question. IF THE Student Party" sticks to its present course, Manning Muntzing is almost certain to get the nomination for student body president. Don Fowler is the other lead ing candidate and is not weak at all in his support. However, the itory Council activities (he's pres ident) have made him better known will probably turn the tide. Nevertheless, the SP nominat ing session for student body chief will be by far the most ex citing political meeting on cam pus this spring. This will be one of those times when the SP will hold. At last America's most recent cloud of des potism seems to be lifting. The suspicion and acrimony and the general closing in against Iree inquiry and the attempt to equate any thing that some people didn't like with com munism seems to be slowly dissolving. McCarthyism, people are saying, is not an "ism." It's "was'm." Colin and Schine? "Katzen jammer kids," he almost evenly divided, a recent writer called , them. They are for- Perhaps it will be speeches that gotten. turn the tide for Muntzing, the The Bar Association of New York is in- usual idealistic-type oratory that vestigating the government's loyalty-security ornaments sp functions. The program. Much of the damage to our nation- SP'S 0rat0r Davld Reid' however al thinking appears to be oil the repair. 15 an ardent Fowler suPPrter-. All is not yet well with us, of. course. We , still have a throbbing hangover. But have you noticed? nobody sets excited about Ir- seph Raymond McCarthy any more. They're cracking jokes about him, instead. And the jokes, at last, have taken hold. Efjc Batlp tar Seel The official student publication of the Publi cation Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Sunday, Monday and examina tion ?nd vacation per iods ana summer Cmpffy-filjill terms- Entered f Sit -4 Jim I'ntvrttv N-rth ',iroiiiia 'vtbtth firit V. 5? u cS second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C. un der the Act of Varch 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE c Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Night editor for thi3 issue Eddie Crutchfield BIG QUESTION in the Univer sity Party, it seems, is who will run for vice-president. With Ed McCurry as good as already nominated for President "by the UP, the center of interest is the second-spot post. Bev Webb or Jack Stevens will be the UP's choices for vice president. And here, again, there may be some political excite ment. Stevens, like so many would be candidates, insists that he's going to Law School next year, and Webb is silent. BRIGADOONS MAY become a new Carolina tradition, but at four bucks, a throw, it seems to me that's mighty expensive "tra dition" for the dorm man. There's no doubt that the pro moters of Brigadoons, a dorm man's answer to the Germans Club, "are well-meaning. They may have a great plan, but this reporter can't help but see dol lar signs. t Editor: , You flaming Yankee liberals come to a South ern, state-supported university and by dent of your brash egotism gain control of the student Legislature and newspaper, then you proceed to publicize unpopular beliefs and doctrines in such a way as to delude the people of tfye state into thinking that your wild ideas on racial questions are held" by the general student body. You endeavor to make psuedo-mortyrs of Charles Jones and his radical group of followers; you editorialize on the virtues of racial amalga mation, you choose your front page articles in an obvious attempt to misinform the student body and the people of the state on "the true state of racial relations, you unceasingly call for the dis ruption of the established social order, and then retreat north after four years to the comfort of your all-white residential districts, your all-white restaurants and bars and your all-white theatres. While the Southern students reap the whirlwind that you have so well sown. The Administration asks the state Legislature for funds to operate and expand the University, and the Assembly points to the strange ideas that its sons pick up here; it says that after two or three years they no longer seem "able to converse on social subjects in the same terms as their families use, their sons are seemingly absorbing a foul miasmic doctrine that could destroy the peaceful relations between the races that has last ed one hundred years in the South. Now the Administration knows that this is not true, that only a few Yankee fire-bugs are play ing around the ammunition dump of race rela tions; but if it points out the root of the problem the Legislature might make it difficult for for eigners and Yankees to enroll here, and it knows hat no University can be truly great unless there is the most liberal interchange of ideology avail able to the students. This spark that generates . greatness in a University must not be put out, but you trouble mongers are evidently trying your best to do so. I have tried to explain some of the facts of Southern life to you, so now I say to you, tone down your efforts to destroy the University or begone; you have outlived your usefulness, you have been here too long for the good that you do, you are helping no one, not even yourselves, so go. Milton H. MtGowan - (Mr. McGowan's letter is directed toward the controllers of the student Legislature and the Daily Tar Heel, whom he refers to as "flaming Yankee liberals." With a little investigation, Mr. McGowan could have found that the editor of The Daily Tar Heel is from Charlotte, the man aging editor from Raleigh, the associate editors from Charlotte and Mebane, the business manager from Hickory, the sports editor from Norfolk, Vir ginia. The speaker of the student Legislature is from Concord. The circulator of tlve anti-segregation petition is from Williamston. The remain ing student characterized as .a "nigger-loving lib eral" by William G. Grimes in his recent letter is from Fayetteville. Editor.) He's Ashamed Of Us? Well, We're Ashamed Of Him! Editor: Let me begin by saying that I have tried to take a calm but positive pro-integration stand ever since the disputed decision of the Supreme Court of the United States was handed down last year. I know that this evolution, and that is what it should be termed as, is not going to be easy on any of us, white or Negro, but it is upon us and is not going to be stopped by a few loud-mouthed radicals. I have stood aside and kept my beliefs to my self long enough though. 'When persons present statements to the public 'as Mr. Grimes has done, they deserve an indignant answer from every North Carolinian who proclaims to believe in what can be termed as just plain and simple jus tice. I don't Think Mr. Grimes need fear that he will be termed as a "letter writer" at all. In fact, I don't believe that ,his name will even be re membered by those who read his letter for more than just a short while. People don't usually waste much time characterizing individuals who preach in such prejudiced tones. The one reaction that Mr. Grimes' letter will receive is that of a stirred up indignation from those on this campus and from those in this state who really possess that all-important value of fair play. As for tagging The Daily Tar Heel staff as well as our campus politicians with such slurring names uttered in low,, tones of hate, Mr. Grimes only fortifies the picture of ignorant arrogance that he has presented of himself to the University and to the state. Mr. Grimes must have struck off his remark concerning his shame of his University without a thought of wearing the shoe on the other foot Perhaps he is ashamed of his University, and should he feel that way it is his right to do so, but only he Lord in Heaven knows how his University must feel about him. If ever an institution had a right to be asham ed of a student, the University of North Carolina has a right to be ashamed of Mr. Grimes. I've never met him myself, but I find myself unable to , foster any feelings toward Mr. Grimes but those of shame. He and his kind are of no great con cern to this state or to the Nation as a whole be cause America has already proven her ability to withstand prejudiced persons 'and groups. Indeed, I put Mr. Gfimes ill the same category with the Klu Klux Klan and those in the' old hierarchy of Georgia politics, but these persons and groups are no serious threat, only a painful thorn that must be removed. In conclusion, I must admit that we kids at Carolina have made some flagrant blunders at times, but after all, we haven't had all im portant year of experience in the hard outside world that you have had. Yes Mr. Grimes, we will cease, but only after simple justice has been done. On the other hand, you and your kind will only cease when you have to eat your words. , James M. Morgan, Jr. V y Shame, Mr. Editor, For 'Advocating Love Editor: I, being half white (the other half a disgusting yellow), feel that I have some basis for assuming the glorious and pure white banner proudly car ried by the Supreme Race and think it is my duty to thank Mr. William Grimes for expressing the opinion of the majority of the students at this University. This is obviously the opinion of the majority because the mass of the students here are of the unsoiled White Race. After all, Mr. Editor, just because most of the students here do not express this opinion or when they do it is with a blush or an apologetic voice, does not mean that the multitude does not feel this way. Mr. Grimes indubitably has written his letter in a true Christian service to our God. Naturally this is so because, as every honest Christian knows, our God is also Pure White and naturally loves his Pure White children the most and naturally does not want them to soil their Germanic White ness by mingling with those" damn Negroes (ex cuse me, Mr. Grimes, I mean niggers). r Shame, Mr. Editor, that you should permit any ill logic, such as advocating a love between individuals regardless of racial characteristics or any other differentiating factors, that you should let your paper stand for open-mindedness and brother love and racial equality. Don't you know that the fair-haired majority of this state will not permit it? Go west, young man. Love in KKK, Mary Lynn The Letter, Says Barbre, Was His ,..1 - Editor: With regard to the article written by Charles Dunn concerning the pro-segregation petition in which I took a big part. I would like to clarify a couple of points. First of all, the letter I wrote last semester about our petition which I was accused of not writing, is my own, and the views expressed in it are basically the beliefs of all the co-sponsors. : Thefact that Ben (Bobrow) and several others sharing our beliefs are out of state students is no reason why we should reject their help, just as the supporters of integration are also eager to get help from all sections. I hope that in the future The Daily Tar Heel will concentrate more on the issues rather than indulge in name-calling and innuendo. Ray Barbre, Jr. 'Boss, Do You Want To See Government Get Ahead of Private Enterprise?' gjj; '1- I is ill: ! , 157 . TiC ' C ; The Quarterly: 'A Mediocrity m 1 Of Apathy And Compromise Bill Scarborough Rivera's own, baa mey . - -Ses with certain of. the pnnc.plea of (Mr. Scarborough, a senior in the Uni versity, disagrees as follows tcith The Daily Tar Heel's review of the current Carolina Quarterly. Editor.) I take gentle, but diametric exception to a review of the Carolina Quarterly by Ed Yoder, which appeared in these col umns last week: the Quarterly is not worth its price, and stands in likelihood never of being so again unless its edi tors institute a drastic re-direction of policy. Any magazine has a two-fold obliga-' tion: to its readers in the selection of literature worthy of public attention; to its contributors in the provision of dili gent editing, and presentation in a for mat advantageous to the writing. In these terms the Carolina Quarterly fails. Avowedly a magazine directed to student audiences, it should present a fair proportion of writing from student authors; it does not. Since students of the University pay for the Quarterly, writers from among their number should receive equitable representation; they d not. . ' WHITHER THE LOCAL FLAVOR? A quick perusal of the contents shows that indigeneous pieces compose almost exactly half the bulk of the magazine, half of which in turn is devoted to a play by an alumnus who has had no for mal connection with the University for almost a year; of the poems, not one was written by a University student. This does not constitute a primary concern with local writers and local materials; that writers of merit are here is amply demonstrated by the Quarterlies of last year;; such writers as Doris Betts and Louise Hardemann achieved national ac claim for their work, and one topical ar ticle enjoyed the prominence of being reprinted twice elsewhere, once in the Southern Architect. We find in the pres ent issues no writing worthy of equal attention, yet there is no evidence that there are no writers here capable of its production; that they are not sub mtting to the Carolina Quarterly is pat ently obvious; I qualify that remark with these criticisms of work in the current issue: The editorial has no relevance to the substance of the magazine, or for that matter, to editorial policy or the produc tion of literature either. Editorials are ideally commentaries germairae to the activities and aims of the publication in which they appear; finished style in their execution is no objection,, but they are not in themselves belle-lettristic writ ing. Editor Dunn might have followed the example of certain predecessors and omit ted comment when there was nothing to say. A FEW PAGES OF OPINION The lone article is a sad descent from former times, when it was the custom to print several of substantial, length. Worse, Mr. Archie Hess, the author, disqualifies himself by his own admission as a com petent student and evaluator of his topic and fails to supply the essential modicum of factual substantiation any scholarly 'topic such as this demands, producing a few pages of daubtfully qualified opin ion. Of the two stories in this issue, "Sut tee," by Robin WTiite, is the better; Mr. White is a writer of some polish, whose chief ability is characterization; intimate ly sacrificing his very plausible main character to a proportionately implaus ible fate. The second story, .JJourney Before Dawn," by David Elliott, is best charac terized as .'sophmoric;" Mr. Elliott has a facility with narration which he should cultivate, but his style is on the whole derivative, his tone evanescent, his plot structurally weak, sufHering from un certainty of purpose, and containing many standard devices and cliches which .he must eliminate. His theme, along with that of "Suttee," is becoming somewhat shopworn on this campus; about a little Mexican boy guilty of a miracle, "Journey Before Dawn" is the third story in two issues concerned with juveniles and juvenilia; at the risk of appearing ogrish, I must confess that I'm damn tired of children. TYROS DISADVANTAGE A new feature, "Best Freshman Writ ing," is composed of two short pieces, both .by veterans. There are other ways of encouraging neophytes than publishing them. Material in a magazine must be judged by common standards, and the work of the two freshmen selected is at a distinct disadvantage, becaua3 it is classified as tyro, and must be judged by separate criteria. An editor may criticize and instruct promising young writers, but he should not commit himself to including their work until it can hold its own, qualitat ively, with the rest of the magazine. Exer cises in writing, such as these, may well be indicative of potential talent, but an audience is by nature interested in read ing Only the polished result of such proclivities. As regards poetry in this issue, we had reason to expect a better and more ex tensive selection from poetry . editor Bill Rivera, who in past (imes has made some sound, if hyper-subjective and polemical choices. With one exception the poems, only four in number, are inclined to a too-close conformity with a single artis ftic attitude, one set of poetic criteria, which one would suspect of being Mr. Ezra Pound. The one anomaly, "A Little Consenra- tive whose author is totally justified n remaining anonymous, is aberration from the manner of the other three poems, and is incongruous m their context; if Mr. Rivera's appreciate and . comprehension of poetry are so. ; nebu lously and uncritically catholic as to in clude the disciplined measures of Law rence Lipton's "Libation to the Lesser Gods," the somewhat phthisic but ade quate imagery of Seymour Grosser "Gender for Kinsmen," and the glib fa tuities of "A Little Conservative," I urge that he undertake a searching re-perusal of his aesthetic theories. As before mentioned, none of the poe try came from Chapel Hill; this .would indicate that there are no poet,s: here capable of meeting the standards, yet we . find Mr. Rivera in his book review of In This The Marian Year by II. A. Sieber, lavishing extravagant praise on this Cha pel Hill resident's first published vol ume of verse, but making no effort to explain why he has neglected to solicit ,and publish contributions from Mr. Sic-" ber. RUPTURED SALESMAN An added feature of this issue deserves mention only because it represnts rec ognition of an area of writing long ig nored. With the puSlication of 'Tiie Salesman Ruptured by a Streetcar," by David W. Ash-burn, attention is directed to the fact that drama forms an1 integral ' part of the Chapel Hill literary r scene. Many good regional dramas have v been " produced here; tragically, "Salesman" is not one of them; a one-act farce, it was conceived as satire, poorly executed as -low parody, and is an unfortunate -selection to initiate a custom which is worthy of continuance. The book review selection, represent ing the work of University students ex clusively, has v its salient defect in its severely limited scope. Of the fiveooks reviewed, one is a critical biography, one a volume of poetry, and the other three current best-selling novels. While stu dents at this University undeniably read best-sellers, they may read much ear lier reviews of them in weekly maga zines; properly the book review section of a quarterly publication should be 'com posed of articles on books of a more sub stantial and enduring interest, books that do not receive prominent examination in the popular press; this would be a tru? service to the books themselves, as well as to potential readers. , t By far the best of the rev?ews is. that of Hamilton Basso's The View from Pom -pey's Head, by Robert F. Looney, who despite having made three glaring er rors of fact, bring to his job a thorough knowledge of Southern Literature and makes a well-considered evaluation of. the book and its importance. PREY TO ALL THE ILLS The Carolina Quarterly has, from its inception, led an invalid's existence; prey to all the usual ills of an outlet for be ginners and amateurs, it has nevertheless persisted in a tenuous existence for six years. Its circulation has never exceeded 1,600; today it is less than half that fig ure. Some of this decline may be attrib uted to 'student apathy toward student writing, but writing worthy of considera tion has always found an attentive au dience, however small; there is little in dication of such a group's supporting the Quarterly today. In the current issue symptoms of a more pernicious and le that malaise are apparent; it is "char acterized in inconsistent editorial poli cies, irregular, fluctuating printing sche dules and sale prices, and more damag ' ing, inferior makeup: the cover is poorly designed; typography and design cramp ed; pages are of uneven length;' poems are crowded under the endings of stories in inconspicuous positions; vestigial ad vertising is clotted in the baek. ,t' At the first of this academic year edi tor Jim Dunn announced a raise in sub scription rates, promising four issues per year in place of the customary three individual copies of the fall issue; mark-" ed for sale at thirty-five cents, cosfUrafe" non-student readers fifty cents; the. win ter issue is marked for sale at forty-live cents and plans to publish a fourth issue have been abandoned. THE EFFECT IS A MEDIOCRITY On the basis of this evidence, it ap pears that the Quarterly has suffered 'a" fundamental disorientation from its pro per aims; it ,as isolated itself from the" local writers who provide its primary source of material; its format and design appear born more of expediency and ex igency than of planning and discrimin- inWn.I.mied,aCy f 3PPeal "'her than intrinsic literary value appears to govern selection., of stories; pervading the en- lesthTnf 211,6 iS an aUra 0f deep-seateJ aesthetic comp:omise. The effect is a eTt iSt mrefSeriOUS than th -her- nihUsm trCnZ ,f aP3thy and " WhiU t Wh,Ch there n excuse. While I respect Mr. Yoder's critical acumen, I feel that u iriucai OuartPr v it! haS not Sivcn the tended t iPr5fP Criticism. that he has gist A 1 Ialher' a Quarterly apolo gist. A publication which receives' ho cri- oX I"8 miSt3keS tends fan vict m tors w-hoTeSS thUS induced in "s edi ? c.ons"ier the silence of cHtics pa "errsJUThlfiOti0n iSSlS past errors. The Quarterly has fallen into
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