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THURSDAY, MARCH 10, H55 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Bucks For The Band The writer of a letter printed elsewhere on this paje decries the piddling support the UXC hand has received from the Athletic Association.' What he says is true. During Carolina's golden football days, "the gate re ceipt money as flowing free and the band enjoyed prosperity. And since Charlie Jus tice left the University, the band has been existing on its old glory, old uniforms and what puny funds it could squeeze out of the Athletic: Association turnip. , Something is wrong here, and what it is is football. There's no good reason for the band, a musical organization, to be tied to Carolina's football fortunes. laud members get academic: credit for their work, as they should. That puts the band on an equal level with other academic endeavor," as we see it, and entitles the band to a fair slice of the financial pie. , As it is. the band will have to limp along with whatever money the Athletic Associa tion is willing to deal out. And that won't ever be much. Heelana? Erodia? Filtertip? From The Anderson (S.C.) Independent As if today's living were not complicated by enough problems such as flying diplo mats and striped-pants saucers The Charlotte News suggest' that South Carolina change its name. , That suggestion is kicked off by a1 ruckus 'raised by some West .Virginians who say the name of their state is not sufficiently distinct from that of Virginia. They've even appoint ed a commission. One of the best ways not to get anything done is to name a commission so West Yii-X ginia probably will retain its name. As for the Carolinas, the Charlotte paper says: "For the life of us, we can't understand why South Carolina doesn't adopt some nice old Indian name like Karankwa or Waiilat puan or something and leave Carolina to us real Carolinians. "Or how about Palmettoria? Or Gulch land? Or Sassafras? Or it might even use the name of a- U. S. President Trumania has a good clean sound. 15 y gum. we'll even serve as godfather at the christening." Suggesting new names for South Carolina amounts to a . waste of time. If any name changing is afferted it should and must be by Xorth Carolina, which has lagged behind on numerous occasions, including the rati' fication of the V. S. constitution. Xorth Carolina also was a bit tardy about leaving the United States, being next to the tailend ( Tennessee was last) to adopt seces sion legislation. South Carolina already was fighting Old -Abe's minions when North Ca rolina acted in May, iS(ii. The weight of priority and precedence in validating and protec ting the name lies with South Carolina and we respectfully submit that Xorth Carolina should do the name changing. '- , We can Understand the concern felt by Tar Heel brethren. Because of South Caro lina's notable progress in recent years, it's in the limelight. It must be rather hard on our neighbors to receive mail addressed to Char lotte, S. C: Winston-Salem, S. C, etc. The confusion can be 'ended bv W.vMi r- rolna- adopting 'a new name. Choice should' be easy. Heelana, for example. Could retain part of nickname that way, viz., "Old Heel State." Tobaccoroad would be a nifty, if they can secure permission of the copyright owners. Barring that, why not something with an Indian flavor like Mattamuskeet? They could even call it Erodia or go idtra 'modern and call it Filtertip. Carolina Front W$t ailp Cot ?eel The official student publication of the Publi cation Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published t daily except Sunday, "fox- s Tk. w Trr -1 v o ti a r cw i t YCtiailtXlt I tion end vacation per iods and summer terms. Entered s second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of March 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. i.'ditor CHARLES KURALT Sit of tlw JLlniyttf,y - Nor'lh Carolina '(!f)l i door ' 3 it Managing Editor Associate Editors FRED POWLEDGE LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager TOM SHORES Who Are The Candidates For Veep? Louis Kraar Sports Editor ... B ERNIE 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 NOW THAT its officially Manning Muntzing against Ed McCurry for student body president, cam p u s politicos are buzzing a bout possible vice presiden tial nominees. The spfnnd- ; w-iSJ sp0t executive student government, because the veep reigns over the student Le gislature. That's why there's still much talk about the subject The Student Party w?ll have several possible candidates, but right now it looks like Susan Fink will get it. I don't remem ber ever hearing of a girl hold . ing this post, but on the other hand I don't know of any coed more qualified for the job than Miss Fink. She's been active in the Legislature and in other cam pus work. Norwood Bryan, who sat on both sides of the SP battle be- The Council ruled just the op at various times, may try for the vice-presidential . endorse ment. And Fowler-backers' man Bob Young -is still a possible.' Don Fowler himself, who bare ly lost the presidential . nod to Muntzing, might be talked into running for vice-president. How ever, yesterday most of his sup porters were denying that Fow ler would take the second-spot executive seat. If the SP trends continue in the direction they are going now, Susan Fink will be running for vice-president. JACK STEVENS is the Uni versity Party favorite for vice president. There has been talk of Bill Sanders and Bev Webb, but it looks like Stevens will get it in the end the nomination, that is. Like Miss Fink, Stevens has had a long record of legislative service. This year he has served as floor leader for the UP and worked on the Student Audit Board, among other things. In making his legislative re port to the UP the other night, Stevens assailed the opposition SP for introducing so many bills that he considered worthless. Stevens seems to be particularly concerned about the financial as pects of student government and will make an ideal candidate for the UP. With Miss Fink running against Stevens, the students really can't lose. Both would make capable vice-presidents. Night editor for this issue .Eddie Crutchfield WHEN I reported that the Student Council ruled that David Rej'd could not count c,oursjes taken to remove entrance def iciencies toward 'the C average required to run, I was wrong. The Counril ruled just the op posite, that courses taken to re move defficiencies do ..count in one's average for office run ning. It just happened in Reid's case that the vice-presidential hope ful fell down on some courses iaken to remove deficiencies. To Reid -backers' charges that the Student Council is Univer sity Party in sentiment, Council Chairman Walton Joyner told me yesterday: ' "There's, no element" of that within the Council whatsoever. I personally am sorry that Dave was disqualified. I think he'd make an excellent candidate." Two Years A way: The Stewart Afsop B 8 m World's First Sarel lite ( WASHINGTON About two years from now provided all goes according to plan -the United States should be ready to launch into space the world's first artificial earth satel lite . The satellite which is now being planned will be very different from the elaborate" space ships usually envisioned. It is likely to be hardly larger than a soft ball, and it will probably weigh well under a hundred pounds. This small object . will be hurled into space by means of a two or three-staged rocket, reaching an "escape velocity" of just under eight miles a second in its final stage. .t Thereafter, the tiny satellite will circle the earth, at an altitude of 250 miles or more, like a ball a the end of a string, completing each circle in less than two hours. After some weeks, it w'ill probably drift earthward as a result of slight atmospheric .drag, and eventually it will disintegrate when it hits the denser atmosphere below. TECHNICALLY FEASIBLE Telemetering and other devices which can be built into such a tiny man-made moon can tell technicians on the earth below much about the great unknowns of space. Thus it will have , very great scientific value. But, it should be understood, it will have no mili tary application at all it could not be used to kill anybody, or even to spy on anybody. It is for precisely this reason that no ser ious effort to get a satellite into space has heretofore been made, even though seven or eight years ago, the technicians of the Air. Force's Rand Project ruled that a satellite was technically feasible. Opponents of the. satellite project have hitherto argued suc- cessfully that first priority must be given to weapons wih real military value above all to the decisive weapon, the inter-cdntinental ballistic missile, or I. B. M. A WAY-STATION There are two main reasons why it has now nevertheless been decided to make, a serious effort to achieve a satellite. In the first place, as the missile art has matured, it Jias become clear that a satellite is a way-station on the road to the I. B. M., and can be achieved without any great diversion of funds or man power from the decisive weapon. . One might suppose that the problem of creating a 5,000-mile-range ballistic missile would be far easier than the problem of cre ating an artificial heavenly body. - Actually, the satellite or such a crude, preliminary satellite as that described above is much easier. The two worst headaches for the inter-continental missile designer how to guide the missile accurately to its target half a world avay, and how to prevent its disintegrating like a comet, when it re-enters the atmos phere do not exist for the designer of a satellite. The problem of design is also very much simplified because a small satellite like 'that described above weighs far less than the bulky hydrogen warhead of an inter-continental missile. IT IS FEASIBLE , The total cost of getting such a small ob ject into space has recently been estimated as low as $20 million peanuts in the Pen tagon as against previous estimates of '$1 billion or more. And intelligence 'analysis of Soviet progress in missiles have made -a $20 million investment in a satellite project seem urgently desirable. In recent months the Soviet press has been filled with boasts about future Soviet friumphs in space. Prof. Nesmeyanov, Pf esiOent of the the august Soviet Academy of Sciences, pas sed the word: "Science has reached a point where it is realistic for us to speak of . . . creating an artificial satellite of the earth." NesmeyanovV words have been echoed , by numerous confident predictions by other So viet scientists. The intelligence experts have learned from sad experience, notably with both the atomic and the hydrogen hombs, that this ,sort of Soviet chest-thumping must be taken very se riously indeed. The prospect of : permit. the Soviets to get the first artmaai satpiiite into space seemed more intole-rable the more the problem was considered. MANKIND'S LEADER The Russians would gain enormous piv,. tige in the scientific world, as well as reU. fering a huge propaganda victory, ifthy were'the first to break the bonds of gravity. But that is by no means all. Even afsunir." that the first Soviet satellite missile lacked a practical military application, it would rep resent a great first step into an unknowable future., Dr. Walter Dornberger, creator of the Or man V-2, which is the ancestor of all ir.i--siles, has said that the first nation to take this step will "lead mankind into the future." This may be an exaggeration. But the time may and almost certainly will come vh( n future versions of a satellite will have, great military value for reconnaisance, for mi-si,.' guidance, and for other purposes yet tm guessed at. , Thus the decision to make a serious effort to get the first crude satellite into space is not the hair-brained fantasy it may seem at first to blush. It is plain common sense, in these days when our technological lead over the Soviets represents all the security we have left. Blast! 'Isn't That One Of Your Kids In The Dead-End Gang?' Paul T. Chase It is apparent that a column such as this, dealing with ideas rather than facts, is foredoomed to be misunderstood. The recent letters in defense of the honor system (both, incidentally, writ ten by members of the Honor Council) manifest a singular abi lity to transcend a limited frame of values. Such phrases as "manner un becoming a Carolina Gentleman" and "to break faith with the gang? indicate a thought pro cess dominated by group cliches. They have nothing whatever to do with the concept of individual honor discussed in this column. That concept is one that can not, be grasped by reading a freshman handbook. It can be seen, however, in the works of Plato, Emerson, Thoreau, Una muno, Santayana, and others of the "uninitiated" who had to aftruggje h rough life somehow without benefit of the Carolina orientation program. The one pertinent point raised about the column was that it "attacks a fundamenal part of Carolina." Blast holds that these beliefs are eminently question able; that it is these funda- mentals, precisely, that must be attacked, examined, evaluated, and, if need be, discarded. There is nothing that should not be examined. YOU Said It: j Z-r Cag 3) MJ u 4 ' Segregation, The Irish & The Band Editor: Although differing with David Mundy in most of his "Reaction Pieces," I must extend to him a sincere vote of appreciation for striking home on a subject very close to me, the University Band. ( Just exactly what is the stu dent's interest in the band? I know there are many hundreds of talented high school musicians on this campus with time enough to play in this organization. When approached, the general come-back, " Play with that out fit, hell no!" Why does this opinion exist? Mainly' because of the lack of backing; we just ain't got none. We have two of the most capa ble musicians in this country, Messrs. Earl Slocum and Her bert Fred directing the band, but It takes more than that. It takes money. Where do we ge our money? From our "esteemed" Athletic Association, who in my own per sonal opinion regard the band as a "necessary evil" to be paci fied with as little compensation as possible. To get five cents from them is like pulling a tooth from a Brahma bull. I know of one band, from the University of Miami, in which this situation has been reme died. Their solution was simple; they gave a one-year scholar ship to everyone capable of play ing in the marching band. They now possess one of the finest outfits in the country. The students complain about the band, well why don't they do something? Many interested people have been prevented from participating in the marching band because of lack of instru ments. This is a ridiculous situa tion which should be remedied immediately. The uniforms which we now have are a disgrace to the first state university in this country. Let's do something. Let's put the band on top, where it should be. Jim Butler Segregation Vote? Editor: Although the signers of this letter have opposite views on the segregation question, the first be ing for segregaion and the sec ond flavoring integration, they agree on one major point which is the subject of this letter. Both of us srongly endorse Bill Graham's proposal to have a question pertaining to segrega tion placed on the ballot in the coming campus elecions. We feel that Bill's suggested wording of the question reaches precisely to the crux of the matter and should therefore be used, to wit: "Would you be in favor of Negroes ming ling with you in matters other than strictly business, e. g. your educaional, social, or religious functions?" The question as worded would thus not concern itself with abstract concepts, but would rather concentrate, as it should, on the concrete realities of every day living as they af fect us personally. For the past year there has been no issue more widely dis cu?sed or causing more intense activity on the campus than the segregation problem, with both pro and con confidently assert ing that the majority of the stu dents support their views. There is one thing, however, we can all be certain of: the great ma jority, of the students, regard less of their views on segrega tion, would heartily welcome be ing given a chance to express their real convictions through the best and most democratic way the secret ballot. If the people who run the elec tions are not afraid to let the voice of the students once and for all be heard, we are confi dent that they will enthusiasti cally accept his golden opportu nity and place the question, as worded above or similarly word ed, on the ballot. In the event that the student body is denied this chance to make known their views, there is an alternative: that we find out just where the candidates for editor of The Daily Tar Heel stand on the all important issue of segregation and vote, accord ingly for or against them as we see fit. We would, in conclusion, be very interested to how The Dai ly Tar Heel views our proposal. Bennett Michael Bobrow Carl Oridger . Another Anti-Astor Voice Editor: This is simply an isolated pro test against her dowager loud mouth. Lady Astor, who yester day maligned the Irish her fa vorite pastime before the North Carolina General Assembly. The Irish have had enough of this old woman; our only regret is that North Carolinians who do not know of her warped mind may take her seriously. She is more than a little deranged. She is also more than a little dan .gerous to free world unity, be cause England may soon find it self in an Irish anti-Astor up rising if somefbody doesi't do something about the widder. Tom Shaw 'Bad Cess' To The Lady! Editor: Friends, Irishmen, Country men, put down your clubs and weapons. The poor, benighted old Eng lish wid6w lady, "Lady" Astor, was merely unhappy at the thought of our near approaching Saint's Day and her lack of in vitations for celebration of thi3 festive occasion. Let us try to ignore her with the one thought, "Bad Cess to you!" W. L. Whltr The Home Folks Say Urn Burial' Ed Yoder This was no Arthur Godfrey-Howdy Doody fare flashing from the TV screen. Instead, an intensely- staring man, his eyes framed with horn rims, his high-topped dome shining indeed an egg head had captured his watchers with a lecture on Shakespeare, of all people. "Now in the Second Part of Henry IV," Dr. Baxter, the egg head, was saying, "Falstaff has j just .heard the bell from the town tower ..." YES, WE HAVE NO COMMERCIALS That was where it hit me. WThat? Just ''thi' I knew something was missing. We'd said nasty things about the dronings of TV commercials. But now that the coaxial cable had replaced the Blue-backed Speller as the number-one dispense? of the Three R's,- now that the television images would flash to our screens on the wings of state money, we had no commercials. When they shifted from program to program a little bell rang telling in that something was amiss. Yes, we had no com mercials. But if educational television, I thought, why not educational commercials? If William Shakes peare per Dr. Baxter, why no ads to lure folks into direct contact with the gems of literature? MURDER IN THE FORUM So (that was "five days ago) the idea began t i take shape; now I've prepared my scripts for edu cational TV commercials. How about this? "Back to Dr. Baxter for the second half of his program in just a minute. Now, a word about a new game for the kiddies. Folks, we know cowboys is an interesting game. But if your children seem restless when they play Lone Ranger, why hot try our new game, 'Murder In The Forum?" A complete set for 'Murder In The Forum' costs next to nothing and your children can pretend they're acting with Marlon Brando in the -famous movie, Julius Caesar. Write today to 'Murder In The For um,' Box 86, Rome, Italy. Here's what you get: a complete set of togas for your kiddies. FIVE DAGGERS AND DIRECTIONS "We have a Cassius toga, a Brutus toga, a Case J toga, and a ready-slashed Caesar toga( complete with purple medallion). And! There's no worry about harmful bloodstains on your living room rug; the togas will be ready-stained. You also get a paper mache, full-length statue of Pompey. This statue looks like the one in the old Roman Forum be neath which the conspirators assassinated Caesar. And that's not all. We send you 80 blood-stained, imitation tiles to lay out an 'Old Roman Forum 'floor where Julius was knifed. Free of extra charge we will send five daggers and directions for stab bing. Don't wait! It's all sent COD. Let your kids be the first in your town to play 'Murder In Th Forum.' " Or, in conclusion to the program, this- "Ladies and Gentlemen, it's out of fashion now adays to grieve upon everyday things. Why' Be cause now you can grieve upon a Universal Bone Yes, that what we said: A Universal Bone, just like the bone grieved upon by Prince Hamlet in the noted Olivier movie. Now all you have to do is write 'Universal Bone,' Elsinore Castle, Denmark, enclosing a vial of tears to prove you're an exper ienced grieveh The makers of Universal Bones will send you one free of charge. If your griefs endure and you are pleased with your Universal Bone vou send us ten dollars. Otherwise, return the bone and your vial will be returned. Good night for Dr. Baxter, Tempest Products, Murder In The-, Forum toys, and Universal Bones." FOOD FOR THE GODS There are potentialities, too for other educa tional programs. What about this for a lecture on Greek tragedy? "Stop serving food and drink your guests sneer at. Treat them to he Food of the Gods Yes everyone's trying Ambrosia and Nectar for their luncheons ..." Or this, for a lecture on Sir Thomas Bjowr.e? Why not be put away in grand "style'' As Thomas himself wrote, 'Man is a Noble AnimaV splendid m ashes, and pompous in the grave' TrV Urn Burial that's Urn Burial. Remember, the e- heads call it Hydriolaphia, but the home folks call it Urn Burial." -
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