WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 1935
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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To Tfie University
The recent news story about the retire
ment of Professor Phillips Russell from the
University will have untold significance ior
those students, past and present, for whom
Phillips Russell is the University, for whom'
he epitomizes all the virtues of liberal learn- -ing,
thoughtfulness and frankness.
His journalism will still be here next year
in The Chapel Hill News Leader; but his
great .teaching, his Socratic classroom man
ner will be lost to the University. Hundreds
of newspapermen who know him and learn
ed from him and love him will be sorry for
that loss.
One such newspaperman, a friend of his,
wrote to us this week:
To me, he is one of the last of the eccentric
professors eccentric because he- questionsal
most everything, and thus conforms to almost .
nothing. He is one rebel whom the weight of
years has failed to tame. Something on an
icon breaker, he is perhaps basically conserva
tive; because his radicalism stems from insis
tence that the basic principles of freedom, dem
ocracy and justice be applied. And withal, he
is (I suspect) a great teacher and (I know) a
gr?;it gentleman.
Pnillips Russell's production, in books
and newspapers ' foreign and domestic,, can
not be measured by the standards of journal
ism a'oi'c, or even by the standards of teach
ing. 8
lor Phillips Russell, the non-conformist,
does not lend himself to any such yardsticks.
He is in a class alone in independent posi
tion a 'writer and- teacher of signal wisdom
and honest purpose and high accomplish-"
ment.
A Sterner Stuff
Than Cinerama
Thoughtful Americans in all walks of lile
"nave greeted with gratitude and respect the
General Electric Company's plan to stimu
late donations to privately operated Ameri
can colleges and universities.
What General Electric already has set out
to do in the realm of higher education, says
an editorial in the current Theatre Arts
magazine, can and should be applied to the
arts in America.
Says Theatre Arts-"
If it is axiomatic that it is vital to aid pri
vately operated American colleges, then it is
equally important; aid the arts. Even more
so, in a sense, simply because we are living
in an atomic age in which practical or physical
values tend to overshadow aesthetic ones un
less we look beyond surface considerations.
So let us go beyond surface considerations.
The magazine argues tliat it -is just com
mon sense to encourage the culture which is
just as much our ljeritage as our stockpile of
technical resources.
We agree. Our survival, and that of our
allies, depends not alone on our ability to
blow up people but on our ability to sliow
people that we have a better way of life
and that means cultural accomplishment a
long with our streptomycin, washing ma
chines and bank accounts.
These latter things everybody knows we
have. But culture? A recent American per
formance of Porgy and Bess in Belgrade
reaped more expressions of gratitude and
amazement from the Yugoslavs than all our
military and economic aid, according to a
New York Times reporter on the scene.
Why doesn't private enterprise come to
the aid of the arts? They believe it is good
business to foster education, and it is. It
makes equally good sense, for our own and
our friends' sake, to help painting, sculpture,
music and the theater along.
We need to let the world know we're made
of sterner siiil'f .than Cinerama and Dyna-
Carolina Front
Why Do They
Have To Just
Teach Texts?
Kraar
'Remember Now Dpn't Make Any Sudden Moves'
Reaction Piece
tEfje Batlp Wax jeel
The official student publication of the Publi
cations Board' of the University of North Carolina,
where it is published
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, ? Ue tot fru VnrvrnAy 1
Hurih Crotirt
"I'M TIRED of having profes
sors just teach us the, text," she
said quite un
happily. This was a
friend talking
about Carolina.
She had just
tran sf erred
Ifrom the Wom-
an's College in
xNw - ,
sounded a little
daily except Sunday,
Monday and examina
tion gnd vacation per
iods and summer
terms. Entered ts
second class matter at
the post office in
Chapel Hill, N. C., un
der the Act of If arch
8, 1879. Subscription
rates: mailed, $4 per
fear, $2.50 a semester;
delivered, $6 a year,
$3.50 a semester.
L'ditor
CHARLES KURALT
Managing Editor
FRED POWLEDGE
Associate Editors
LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
Business Manager
Sports Editor
TOM SHORES
BERNIE WEISS
News Editor
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
Subscription Manager
Assistant Business Manager
Assistant Sports Editor
Photographer .
Jackie Goodman
Dick Sirkin
Jim Kiley
Jack Godley
Bill Bob Peel
Ray Linker
Boyden Henley
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I
disappointed.
"You read the text. Then, when
you come to class the next day,
they tell you what you've read.
By the time they're through go
ing over the assignment telling
you what you've already read
the bell rings," she said.
This idea of professors just
teaching quizzes is an old one,
but there is valid basis for com
plaint many times. Particularly
in the General! College courses
does one find that the professor
wants a student merely to mem
orize. The old joke that professors
want students to take down what
they say and give it back with as
little, thought as possible is hard
ly a joke when it turns out to be
true. And, even here, it is bru
tally and prosaically true at
times.
I like to think of the classroom
as a place for the exchange of
opinions and ideas. Of course,
this assumes" that the students
have read and mastered assign
ments before coming to this for
um. And if the University is to
do more than teach by rote, stu
dents must do this and faculty
members must stop parroting
back text assignments.
STUDENT PARTY people, still
embarrassed over the overstated
.complaints against the campus
paper, made it cLear that their
legislative caucus didn't even
know about the "investigation."
Nevertheless it is equally clear
that all the speakers for the
probe were Student Party people.
I might offer one suggestion to
the would-be investigators: Why
not have WUNC-TV broadcast
the investigation a la McCarthy
vs. the Army so that all the dorm
dwellers for whom you bought
sets might see you in action.
JACK HUDSON, SP politician,
bet me an ice cream cone that
Don Fowler would win the nomination.
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More Money
Needed For
The Band
.David Mindy
YOU Said It
Criticism Of A Criticism Of A...
DAVID REH) supporters are
disappointed in the Student
Council's ruling that he can't
run.
And they have a right to be
disappointed. The law that the.
Legislature recently passed re
quires an overall average, of C.
Rcid has that average.
The Student Council, however,
declared that courses taken to
remove entrance deficiencies
don't count towarAT the C aver
age. This means that Reid can't
run.
While I'm making no accusa
tions, it is clear that most of the
Student Council is strongly Uni
versity Party in sentiment. Reid
supporters point to this.
Editor:
As a professional writer for and associate editor
of national magazines, I have, watched with inter
est for the past thirty years the publications of
various colleges and universities, among them the
University of North Carolina. It is in these pub
lications that editors find talent and the writers
and editors of the immediate future.
Frequently one also finds, and forgives, various
other manifestations, such as preciousness. But
there is one manifestation that one does not often
find, nor so easily forgive, and that is pure de
structiveness. It is of this that I should like, if I
may, to speak.
In a recent issue of The Daily Tar Heel, there
appeared a full-length, two-column article which
was, in effect, a review of a review. The original
review was a fair -criticism of the University's
literary magazine, the Carolina Quarterly; the two
column article was a criticism of this criticism.
The young man who wrote this two-column
article and obviously he is a very young man
is caught in nearly all the pitfalls which youth
digs for itseH: prolixity, bombast and the use of
a glittering if somewhat unsteady vocabulary.
("Artistic nihilism" was, I think, my own favorite;
but there were other expressions among them
vestigial advertising' of an equally exotic inac
curacy.) '
The young writer (whose name is Scarborough)
in attempting to expose the shortcomings of the
Quarterly has succeeded " merely in exposing two
weaknesses in himself: One, a fundamental flaw
in judgment; and two, a flagrant breach of good
taste.
Having read his "review," I secured and ex
amined carefully the latest issue of the Quarterly;
I had previously read the fall issue with a good
deal of interest. As a reader, and as an editor, I
liked and enjoyed them both. I consider them at
least average in literate, mature content and above
average in editing. I liked some of the fiction
pieces better than others; I thought less of the
verse than of the prose. But knowing, as of course
one does, the financial. and cooperative difficulties
with which a college magazine is invariably forced
The Hydrogen Bomb:
to cope, I consider both issues to be not only ex-
cellent as college publications, but a vast improve -j
ment on those of the past few years. I
; Young' Mr. Scarborough, however, disagrees;
and he is unw'.se enough to pin his criticism down
to specifics: He does not think the editing is
worthy because "the pages are of uneven length."
(I do not know precisely what this statement
means, but clearly nothing good.) He objects to
poetry being "crowded under the endings of
stories in inconspicuous places." (He is, apparent
ly, unfamiliar with the pages all of even length,
of course of such amateur publications as The
Atlantic Monthly, Harper's Magazine and The New
Yorker.) And he complains of various other
things. This young man, who is not, in fact,
equipped to make a professional criticism of any
publication, has done so at vast length and all
quite destructively.
But there is still the matter of taste. The young
writer refers several times to "Editor Dunn"; he
cavils with "Editor Dunn's" policy. I cannot find
Mr. Scarborough's name on the masthead of the
Quarterly in this issue; I can, however, find it
in the issue of last fall. In a skeptical, and quite
possibly cynical fashion, this writer asks himself
whether Mr. Scarborough has, Jby any chance, a
personal ax to grind?
For there can be, I think, only three valid rea
sons for the writing of nay such piece of preten
tious nonsense as this review. One: the writer
wishes,, deliberately, and from simon-pure (al
though mysterious) motives, to kill all interest and
belief in the Carolina Quarterly. Two: for some
purely personal reason not visible to the casual
reader, he is determined not only to disparage the
abilities of "Editor Dunn," but (a far more serious
goal) to accuse him of a lack of integrity. Three:
the writer likes very much to see himself in print.
May I be allowed therefore to point out that,
regardless of the personalities, involved, this sort
of criticism must inevitably work a hardship upon
a small, struggling magazine which deserves the
support of a large and famous university?
E. E. Clark
Charleston, S. C.
'Outside The Scope Of Control'
Night editor for this issue
.Eddie Crutchfield
WHEN BOB Young got up be
fore the Student Party meeting
Monday night and suggested that
Muntzing run for vice-president,
he was like most of the speak
ers completely ignored.
Fowler's supporters thought
this would be a shrewd move.
Only trouble was that by the
time they got around to suggest
ing the deaL it was too late. It's
hardly likely that it would have
been accepted anyway.
Stewart Alsop
WASHINGTON "There is
an immense gulf between the
atomic and the hydrogen bomb.
The atomic bomb, with all its
terror, did not carry us outside
the scope of human control . - ."
The words are Sir Winston
Churchill's, from his brilliant
and moving speech to the House
of Commons on" Tuesday. In these
words, Churchill has said in ef
fect what almost eyery inform
ed American official tacitly rec
ognizes, but hesitates to asknow
ledge that the world has passed
the point of no return. Even if
the will to do so existed on both
itides, it is no longer possible
to regulate or control the new
weapons.
THE VITAL DIFFERENCE
The hydrogen bomb is amaz-
ingly easy to make, and very large
numbers have already been
made. But the vital difference
is in the bomb's power. Nowa
days, because of the special
characteristic of f all-outr only-
a ffandful of bombs delivered on
target would be sufficient to de
stroy the war potential of even
- such continental powers as the
United States and the Soviet Un
ion. The number required to para
lyze this country, for example,'
has been authoritatively estimat
ed as low as twenty-eight. But
call it fifty, or even a hundred,
the hydrogen bomb, like the at
omic bomb, sends out no detec
table radiation there is no way
of detecting its presence except
by uncovering the actual object
itself. So the problem of hiding
fifty or a hundred hydrogen
bombs is no more difficult than
that of hiding, say, fifty or a
hundred ten-ton trucks.
STURDY CHILD OF TERROR
This would be no problem at
all in the vast reaches of the
Soviet Union, or indeed in the
United States. Thus there is no
agreement imaginable that could
assure one side of the divided
world that the other side,, had
- not-secretly, retained the, means
of total annihilation.
When Churchill talks of a
"stage in this story when safety
v11 be the sturdy child of ter
ror," he makes it very clear that
this stage will be reached, if at
all, only on three conditions.
The first condition is that an
aggressor must be faced with the
certainty of "crushing retalia
tion." The second- condition is
"substantial strength in conven
tional forces," in order to fight
non-nuclear wars "limited wars
with limited objectives." The
third condition is the closest
Possible "unity . . . between the
United Kingdom and the United
States."
As Churchill likes to say, "I
have not always been wrong"
And surely his views deserve a
most respectful hearing, even in
the august National Security
Council, now that the" new wea
pons are so clearly "outside the
scope of human control," and
Churchill's peace of mutual ter
ror is the very best the world
. can hope for. . .
The University band has been
out on the wrong end of all too '
many-limbs.
It, more than 'any other stu-
ydent organization on campus,
represents the University to the
people of the state.' Numerical
ly, it is even one of the largest
organizations. From the first
performance, of the marching
band at the first football game '
of the season until the final' per
formance of the concert band'
at Commencement," directly" or"
indirectly, it represents the Uni
versity. If the members march
out of step or play out of turte
the visitors add that impression
to their general impression of
the University. The students
looking on just groan.
Why doesn't the University '
have a better band? Band Di-
' rector E. A. Slocum and Assist
ant Director Herbert Fred are '
susceptible to no criticism on
either musical or organizing
abilities.
- It is even more difficult to
criticize the present members of
the band. Some of them, as mu
sic majors, do achieve some re
ward in the form of 'experience'
for their hours of practice. But
that reward is infinitesimal, con
sidering their contributions to
the University.
And more surprising than that
is the exhibition of "service to
the student body" which is pre
septed by the non-music majors
who are members of the band.
Why do they employ their tal
ents in hours and hours of prac
tice, just to march around in old
uniforms with old instruments?
They receive no reward but some
sense of satisfaction for serving
the University. Theirs is a "loy
alty and devotion" beyond the
"normal - call of duty" which no
other campus group exhibits.
Yet they have troubles, both
in relation to the size of their
membership and to the quality
of their performances.
In a list of solutions to almost
any problem, you are able to
find the mention of money. And
it is present here. ,
The budget for 1954-1955
amounts to exactly $2670. It Is
a ridiculously low figure for the
operation of a college band.
Most of the band's financial
support comes from the Athletic
Association. In more stringent
words, the Athletic Association
barely keeps the band in exist
ence. Its support cannot be entirely
from altruistic motives: it needs
something to watch while the
football team is off the field
during the half. And from the
music department the band chief
ly obtains the musical talent,
rehearsal space, and occasional
instruments.
The student Legislature made
an attempt to assist. in obtaining
new uniforms by appropriating
some money from its unapprop
riated surplus. But that move
ran afoul of what could loosely
be called "responsibilities of the
student government."
The attempt to obtain these
new uniforms has practically
been abandoned. The" band's
best hopes at present arc for
new caps and coats, which would
cost, according to a manufactur
er, about $3850.
This amount, more than the
total present budget, appears to
be unavailable from any source.
Band Director Slocum estimates
that a sufficient budget for next
year would amount to approxi
mately $8000. '
The increases are necessary
not only for new coats and hats,
but for ,the one thing which
would increase the attractiveness
of participation In the band:
trips to play at "away" football
games. And as the attractive
ness of participation increases,
the quality of the band should
increase with the "accompanying
increase in the size.
But where does the money
come from?
The Thumper
Goes Fishing
The Charlotte News
Fishing has always been considered a pleasant,
plebeian pastime for which a fellow could lay oa
50 cents for a cane pole or $50 for a surf casting
rig and be happy as a zillionaire. As long as worms
were under the backyard soil, .fishing never seemed
to be in danger of joining polo or fox hunting, as
a sport of the Coupe De Ville set.
But a photo on the nation's sports pages raises
doubts. It is a simple picture of a handsome man
holding a freshlycaught fish. The blue skies of
the Florida Keys are behind him; the man is wear
ing a tee shirt and a look of contentment; the photo
is one of outdoor innocence and delight. But this is
not a comnon snapshot to tuck into a fisherman's
wallet with a faded notation ("1 2-lb. snapper
caught 2-28-55"). The handsome man's name is The
odore Samuel Wrilliams, alias The' Thumper, alias
the ' highest? paid baseball player in the world.
Not' since the Sheppard trial finale has the citi--zenry
especially those of the Boston Red Sox per
suasion, so eagerly awaited a verdict. Has Ted
"Williams ' quit baseball, as Ted Williams said so
firmly last summer? Or will Ted Williams join the
Red Sox again this year, as the baseball writers
insist? ,
Meanwhile, the man in the tee shirt cranks w
an outboard motor each morning and putt-putt';
across the blue Florida waters in pursuit of bone
fish. Doubtless there has never been an angler so
stubbornly dedicated as Ted Williams, who is giv
ing up $100,000 a year in baseball salary to enjoy
his casting. For purity of purpose, does not such
fanaticism rival that of Edward VIH, who also ab
dicated a throne for love?
Why, even 'if Williams hauls in 1,000 fish per
annum, our accounting expert figures they are cost
ing him $100 a catch. This gives our dangling of
creek minnows in the faces of Catawba River bas'j
the associative tang of strolling down Wall Street.
Thus, Williams can become a folk hero in a new
way. Let the hated Yankees win the pennant, let
Fenway Park crumple to dust, let Tom Yawkey's,
millions lie unspent. The Thumper is going fish-
Eye Of The Horse
Roger Will Coo
(The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying swe
things, minimizing others. Hipporotis, circa 500
B. C.)
. THE HORSE was lying on the deck of his
stable, when I found him. and not alone inert, but
downright truculently so. His eight-balls of eyes
rolled and flashed like summer lightning in" the
night. ,,r
I wondered was he not well . . .?
"I am )wrse-de-ccnnbat," The Horse stated in ,i
low murmur, and with his usual confused French.
"It is desired to maintain a stable state of affairs,
so why stall around? As Caesar said when Cleopatra
came panthering across the Rubicon, 'J'y suis j',,
reste.' "
Ai, yi, yi! Two months of Educational Televi
sion had achieved this result?
"I did a little extra scholaring on tle side,"
The Horse shrugged his lips modestly. "Burned the
midnight oil a nonce or three. 'T helps, 't does."
Was The Horse certain it was not midnight fusel
oil . . .? T was MacMahon, the Frenchman, who had
said that in 1855 when advised to give up the Mala
koff, that J'y suis, J's reste.
"Well, anytime anyone named MacMahon is d
frenchman," The Horse growled, "I give up
I still think what Caesar said to Cleopatra woulJ
make better reading, if banned in Boston or not."
I wondered if I could report that The Hor
was in the throes of spring fever, apparently' i
wondered could I say he had been downed by a
annual lassitude common to vernal joys?
"Alas Roger me bhoy," The Horse sighed but
achLainer f intCrSt " his CJe' "I a- piu y
afmTiL yCarS Whcn ssitudes smile
verbal i""" they leoPard and when
blowL from r relCgatCd t0 Sniffi"2 i" the breezes
ing milaZ fr the first narcs-provok-
sav J L Tu Tlnt bcer' didn't hr
Twtd TJ had,beC" aIs listeniS the TaUr
(6 YoVnt f Z f WUC"Tv's Almanack Hour
the dictfor" MKn' thrUSh FrL) 1 had cultivated
hat bock 3blt 1 somgrce, and I knew
WOrt nr nl V frm Str0n Spring
hogwort? doubtless The Horse wen? for
cher te?a?r,,T"(r HrSC COrrccted .
Sm p!h VS n0t Unknown that vernal en
own "rin,?fdr fUr 1CS5' evcn urdy as minn
enes LtZ "T n"mbcr for ambulation when
thel L?n?tl0n hCads' arc rinZ- Centipedes
many Pxha Ue effCCts on "tain heads, and
and BaUn11 1Vf rescares by Darwin. Huxley
Tnfam Jer cU:ntelsytuPdrVe "
converting me3nt "Caches were induced by
then tt-K.& g",ns lnt liquids and consuming' them.
All r g,VG Up such Pursuits?
Piously or CSCa.rch 3nd Pess," Tlie Hon wii
"Did Pie-eyedly?
fore IJU nl note 1 said the researches hereto-new-
I !t! ,n,conclusive? Besides, my approach is
head raT relatlnS Potvaliancy to the angles of the
I thm fcf ilan t0 what is the head."
u-a g ls inescapable so long as The Horc
alsCrT,ed s Personally with it.
with h Tne Hrse ordered, "and anyway,
vanceme PCl IfiU P"T'A- discussing the au
via A g and sPPort of their children's a-bcs
someth- t' S only Patriotic of me. But it is
me cold"" "S to lhink about' and U)us k lcavcs
1W 1d b0t 0r cId 1 was leaving The Horse, also.
How were things otherwise?
Clarif l'mp! ' Mr.. Wump, the low-visioned Fr.
a ior m from a rafter. "Double-wump!" '