North Carolina Newspapers

THURSDAY, MARCH 17, 1955 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO M Ai Bk s3 Nt Ac Cii Su As As Ph 9ot ED sim 1 i- Nij Much Culture, No Dough: WUNC Without stirring from your easy i hair, you could have heard, during the past week, Pre sident (iray's ti it i ant State of the Uni versity speech, the presentation of the O. Max Gardnervavard and Governor Hodges' speech at the award ceremony, the Cincin nati Symphony in a concert, a speech by the Chinese educator, Dr. Y. C. Yen. and a lecture-recital 1 poet Robert Frost. The Tniveusity's I'M station, WIJXC, broadcast all this to its listeners last week, along with a fat schedule of fine music, in terviews ; id educational programs. When it is remembered that half of these special events came from Raleigh and that Yen and Frost spoke at the same time in dif ferent buildings on the campus last night (W(T.C recorded-one "speech and played it back later) some of the advantages of this literate, cultural voice in our midst become apparent. Now consider this: WUXC's FM interest, entertainment and education, is dispensed without a budget. The student-run station has been operating for years without a slice of the tate appropriations pie. I'niversity ' tele ision is asking for S.J34, 000 from the General Assembly; and TV needs it. and should have it. Hut we can't help thinking that some small portion of that giant figure say, a pittance of $10,000 or so might be channelled toward radio, which, unheralded and un budgeted, has become an intelligent speaker and a genuine servant to the L'niversitv. Carolina Front Sophistication & Chapel Hill's Younger Set 1r tit Kraar He's Perfectly Healthy Just -Terribly Sensitive' M ' 1 il iUWJllM 1 1 s irn New Model The Spring 1955 model of American for eign policy went into the Stale Department showroom yesterday. Says Secretary Dulles: l S. forces every where ate now equipped with special pur pose atomic weapons designed to kill tactical targets without killing civilians. So now its minimum, rather than massive, retaliation. . 0 A Shortage Of Barefoot Boys The Charlotte News The word is out that the people who give Ho ratio Alger Awards are finding it more difficult every year to dig up a sizeable list of candidates. There are fewer and fewer success stories in the barfoot-boy-makes-good vein. Actually there never were .very many real-life Horatio Alger heroes in America. A recent analy sis made of 300 notable Americans chosen for the Encydlopedia . Of American History indicated that at least 204 came from privileged backgrounds from families of wealth, social position or strong cultural interests. Few actually rose from poverty. Why then has the rags-to-riches formula been so prominent in American folklore? It goes back to the earliest days of the republic. It can ba traced to the persistent conviction that the roots of American . democracy were nurtured in the backwoods and farmlands of the nation. The self made man has always been the American hero. It's a pretty' picture but most of the nation's multi million dollar happy endings today trace their hap py beginnings to the day a latter-day Huck Finn marries the boss' daughter, picks up a stake in . a floating crap game or awakes in his birth bed to find a silver spoon in his mouth. The officijal student publication of the Publi cation Board of the University of North Carolina, . where it is published daily except Sunday, Monday and examina tion and 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 Varch 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. aiapffltiH'. ' ' & Iuh Ua, T ' 4x n( d h door 1 1 ii 1 mi n ; ...... , Editor L -11 CHARLES KURALT Managing E-ditor FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager . TOM SHORES . . Sports Editcjr 1 B ERNIE WEISS 1 News Editori Advertising jManager . Circulation jManager Subscription! Manager Assistant Business Manager Assistant Sborts Editor Photographer Jackie Goodman Dick Sirkin Jim Kiley Jack Godley Bill Bob Peel Ray Linker Boyden Henley Society Editor Susan Andes NEWS STAF Neil Bass, Ed Myers, Ebba Freund, Peggy Ballard, Lois Owen. iNijjht editoj- for thijissue Eddie Crutchfield THIS UNIVERSITY town has always struck me as having a sophisti- cated air, but not until yes I terday ' did I ealize the ex tent to which -his enchant- e n t affects w- set. ' ThrPA vmin j vv... sters, two girls and a boy, had found comfortable seats among the magazines in Sutton's. Their twelve-year-old reading habits seemed to find an outlet among, the slick-covered publications. The little girl read comic books. But the young boy -obvious under the sophistication of the Hill sat intently studying The New Yorker. THE NEWSBOY in front of the Post Office seems to im prove in his salesmanship each afternoon. I was entering the Post Office with an afternoon paper already under my -arm,' when the boy asked insistently, "Paper?" I pointed to the one under my arm. And he replied, "Are you sure that it's today's though?" SINCE MEN began reading the Bible, I guess, they've used quo tations from the good book to justify a wide range of actions. The current speakers for and against racial segregation who arm themselves with Bible quotes are nothing new. Thus, when South Carolina Methodist Minister John P. Ro quemore accused evangelist Billy Graham of "misinterpreting" the scripture, I had to laugh. It all took place the other day at a place called New-Hi Delpha Grange Hall in Darlington, S. C. "Don't let them misinterpret the scripture. God gave Africa to the black man," roared the Meth odist minister. According to news accounts, the minister went on to accuse other ministers of being "brain washed when it came to relat ing the Bible verses correctly." And I never realized there was one "correct" way to relate Bible verses. SEVEN GIRLS, who harmon ize nicely on "Tea For Two," stopped students in their tracks the other evening as the septet strolled by Graham Memorial singing, "Picture you upon my knee ..." A POETIC friend of mine (a male) left a verse called "A Thought for the Politicos" on my typewriter the other day: "Little men with books and thoughts Supplied by commissary means Stroll up and down the brick laid walks And smirk in their perplex ity." LEWIS BRUMFIELD, who has had an ample share of publicity in this paper lately, will prob ably run for cheerleader. No one will question his ability to ex cite audiences by what he says and how he says it. A YEAR ago today the Uni versity Party had just taken 20 seconds to acclaim Tom Creasy student body presidential candi date, Don Geiger began his cam paign as Student Party presi dential candidate, the Di Senate was debating McCarthyism, and Cobb Dorm had come up with a new art cult to replact BRAT. ' All candidates were promis ing to d0 something about class cuts, free Saturdays, football trips, and "getting closer to the students." JIM MONTEITH, who lost the vice-presidential nomination to Jack Stevens this week, may bolt the University Party and run independently. Friends of veteran who beat SP wheelhorse Jim Turner in the fall Legislature race are urging him to run. And with- one in dependent already in the field, it would certainly split the party candidates' votes. YOU Said It St. Patrick's Day Notes Editor: "Kuralt" danna sound like an Irish name to me; but this is the day the Irish wish good health to the whole world. So be wearing the green, sir, and advise your readers to do like wise. North Carolina Irishmen and our numbers are many reserve . . . unless you're Lady Astor our good cheer this year to all except Lady Astor, who came near spoiling our day with her iVl remarks of last week. So topxo' the morning to you s all! Except for. the old Virgin ian named Astor. Bad cess to her! And may her disposition see better days. R. R. O'Brien A Word To The Irish: 'Vive, Lady Astor!' Editor: Re: Lady Astor and the Irish. Having just returned from viewing this current mediocre flick called "Captain Lightfoot" on the still more mediocre theme, "home rule for Ireland," I'll take the Lady any day in preference to anything the Irish have to offer. But this is prejudice; and since prejudice is in bad fashion in your newspaper, I woupd like to let someone else, speak.. I would like to call your readers' attention to some reflections when Nicholas Monsarrat gives' us in The Cruel Sea. He had been discussing Great Britain's allies and her enemies in World War II and those who were supposed to be neutral. " ... It was difficult to with hold one's contempt for a coun try such as Ireland, whose bat tle this was and whose chances of freedom and independence in the event of a German victory were nil. . . "From a narrow legal angle, Ireland was within her rights: she had opted for neutrality, and the rest of the ' story flowed from this decision. She was in fact at 'liberty to stand aside from the struggle, whatever hrirm ithis did the Allied cause. But sailors, watching the ships go down and counting the number of their friends who' might have been alive instead of dead, saw the thing in simple Is There Political Mileage Left In The Yalta Agreement? Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON -The latest hassle over publication of ' the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin con versations at Yalta ten years ago raises the question: is there any political mileage left in Yal ta. "Certainly not," Democrats answer. "Everybody knows by now that Roosevelt and Church ill accompanied Alger Hiss to Yalta." But some Republicans answer yes, plenty, and they appear to enjoy the cooperation of Secre tary of State John Foster Dulles. As a result at least 40 copies of the official Yalta transcript in galley proof are now extant, all "confidential." Unfortunately for proponents of publication these copies so far have only one political pa rent, the GOP. No official taker of Democratic party persuasion can be found to receive them " and so put himself in a position to bo blamed when the inevit able leaks occur. DULLES BRAIN WAVE Thus Mr, Dulles' State Depart ment stijil owns all the copies, lock, stock and barrel and it i has announced it would not pub lish them because it would in jure national security and our relations with other powers. The Dulles brain wave of pas sing the copies around Congress liberally might have succeeded had it not been for that handy invention, the telephone. When this pf.an was solemnly announc ed at noon, reporters dashed to telephones to break the news to such men as Speaker Rayburn, and Chairman Vinson of House Armed Services that, at long last they were to be privileged to peek at the secrets of Yalta. DEMOCRATS SAY NO These men have an average of 40 years service in Washing ton and in their creative mom ents they cannot imagine a poli tical story that 40 members of Congress could keep secret. They perceived instantly the scape goat role for which they were being cast and the general re fusal to accept the copies by the Democratic committee chairmen followed The State Department is now in retreat: When Dulles played fair with the Speaker and Sen ator George on the Formosa re solution he got perfect results. The results he will get from this maneuver are precisely what he ' asked for. terms: They saw Ireland safe un der the British umbrella, fed by her convoys and protected by her airforce, her very neutrality guaranteed by the British armed forces: they saw no return for this protection save a condoned sabotage of the Allied war ef fort; and they were angry per manently angry. As they sailed past this smug coastline, past people who did not give a damn how the war went as long as they could live on in their fairy tale world, they had time to ponder a new aspect of inde cency. In the list of the people you were prepared to like wrhen the war was over, the man who stood by and watched while ypu were getting your throat cut would not stand very high." I dare say that no one in Great Britain, nor for that mat ter anyone in America whose an cestors came before the potato famine in Ireland, gives a damn about a possible 'Irish anti-Astor uprising. Furthermore, I hardly think an Irishman is one to talk about Lady Astor's role in world affairs in view of the dastardly little trick Ireland pulled in World War II. As for my own opinion, I'll shout it so that every shanty Irishman in Boston can hear me: "Vive, Lary Astor! Rule, Brit-tania- God Save the Queen!" - Wilbur M. Boice, Jr. Whiteville, N. C. New Liberal Arts Course: 'BA Criticism' Editor: Every time I pick up the Daily Tar Heel, I see where some self styled expert is airing- his views on the BA School. In fact, it seems to be the fashion now for the "liberal arts boys" to compete in such criticisms. I haven't noticed it before ' but there ' must be a liberal arts course entitled Business Admin istration Criticism. Otherwise could all these liberal-minded scholars with only a year or year and a half in the school of liberal arts become so qualified to evaluate a portion of the Uni versity that has been in exis tence since 1919 and growing constantly? It really must be a helluva course since so far only students and none of the facul ty have felt thus qualified. The BA School doesn't give a damn about such criticism, but I, for one, have personally got ten sick and tired of reading such bull almost everyday, es pecially from persons who usu ally have no idea of what they are talking about, but just find it a good excuse to show their letter-writing prowess. To use the well worn but still applicable term, "GET OFF OUR BACKS." Ray Harris 'I REMEMBER . . 1912: 7 Knew Every Teacher And Student1 Chancellor R. B. House (Second in the new Daily Tar Heel series, "I Remember Cha pel Hill," reminiscenses of some of the University's most distin guished graduates Today, Chan cellor House recalls his student days: Editor.) In September, 1912, I took the S. A. L. at Thelma, changed to a branch line at Henderson, changed to the Southern at Durham, changed to a branch line at University Station, got off at Carrboro, and rode in to Chapel Hill in a two-horse car riage. Sam Brockwell, Joe Dur ham, Tank Huntert and CoJlonel Shakespeare Pendergraph were running automobiles from Cha pel Hill to Durham: On other travels to and from Chapel Hill I used these automobiles. ROOM: $2 Arriving on the campus I went to my room in Vance $10.00 a months too rich for my blood. I changed at once to Dr. Bat tle's cottage, $2.00 a month. I ate at Commons Hall, $10.00 a month. Sometimes I ate at Mrs. Far rar's, or Mrs. Archer's, $15.00 a month! Whe I was here Swain Hall was opened, with meals at $12.50 a month. I settled down there. Tuition was $60.00 a year, but I got that free by'agreeing to teach school a couple of years. Chapel Hill was as beautiful then as it is now, but there was no paving. We were in dust part of the time and in mud the other part. But, being here, I stayed here. I went home at Christmas, at Easter, and for the summer. Walking was the uni versal hobby. I explored with friends every possible hike with, in ten miles of Chapel Hill. HUNGRY FOR BOOKS Socially I knew every person on the faculty and in the stu dent body not ultimately, but generally. As now, organized or unorganized, we had cliques, groups, and circles of more in timacy. The dlass was far more of a unit then than it is now. My class has always been a close knit body. I came here to study and I never let any other interest in terfere with study. I believe to this day that a student's chief businesses study. I revelled in the library. I was hungry for books. I still believe that the it 1 1 - - - 'i 1 ' CHANCELLOR HOUSE . . . nothing interfered with studying library is the most inviting place on the campus. My studies were mairfly Greek, Latin, and Eng lish, but I took every introduc tory course in science that was offered except Botany, and I wish I could have had that. THE GREAT TEACHERS I let the faculty worry about requirements; 1 followed my bent as far as regulations al lowed and cnose persons rather than courses. The persons vere wonderful John Lasley (still at it) in Mathematics, W2bur Roy ster in Latin, Bully Bernard in Greek, George Sneath in Eng lish. Only one, Bully, was a pro fessor. The others were new In structors. One was just as good as the other it seemed to me. More important, each was good enough to be some miles ahead of me, anyway. Greenlaw, Roy ster, Hanford, Foerster in Eng lish, Horace Williams in Philo sophy, Collier Cobb in Geology, H. V. Wilson in Zoology, H. W. Chase in Psychology, Venable in Chemistry, Patterson in Physics were truly great. I am grateful to them. Administration was simple, both as to money and plant and as to education. I don't think my class made a suggestion in four years to improve any of it. We were too busy enjoying it. Eye Of The Horse Roger Will Cos (The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying some thing, minimizing others. -Hipporot circa 500 B.C.) ' ' THE HORSE was currying himself in the lee of Graham Memorial, when I saw him. Patiently waiSg their turn at the his sometime companions, Mr. Neckiey ana Mr. Wump Was all this for Paddy's Day, ohone? "it's fer iviry dav, me lad," The Horse brogued me in honor of The Seventeenth of Oireland. I have quit the DTH, complete with my high, and iow level vision assistants. I'm off to less oinony and Perhaps more mtfhey-green pastures. Neckiey and Wump and sternly stern about this, too." Double-stern? What meant this? "Solid behind," The Horse said, "me. And spea king of stern-uo caused mine to be Reared o f in last Sat'day's issoo? Nipped in the tad is bad. to be sure; but to be nipped in the buddock 1, the unkindest cut of all. My tale was docked. My col yum ended ere its end." ' But, Chollie Kuralt had explained that. -Explanations be domned!" The Horse reverted to The Ould Sod again. "We put out what must easily win the booby prize of America for foulecl up printing. And-1 do not refer to merely causing the ink to meet , the paper. If there is ooonmie. ee thing in God's clean newspaperdom which can offer no excuse, it is petitious errata." Oh, come now, Horsie! "I'm not ired, merely tired," The Horse shrugged his platinum mane. "I don't care if I get my copy in two or three days in advance, it comes out looking as if the Print Division of Dix Hill had been at work on it. And for a colyum which strives for a whimsical effect, this is devastating. It is the death-knell. No wonder the kids can't under stand it." I'd heard that mentioned, yes. "Yeah, I was investigated," The Horse laughed. "Some wondered why the DTH persisted in print ing what was constantly puzzling to the students. Well, I do not claim to teach, in my colyum; but if instant understanding were the criterion, no school could open in the following semester." What did The Horse regard as being his goal, in his colyum? "Fun with words and ideas," The Horse offer ed. "Mental gymnastics. Whimsy, fantasy." What if it depressed some who didn't follow-the-Ieader . with The Horse leading? "Mental depression is a form of mental 'exer cise," The Horse saw it. "It is akin to touching' the brain's toes, and tightens the brain's wasteline. But who wouldn't be depressed when the teller of a joke, after taking up people's time with 4 the groundwork, suddenly says, 'Aw, to hell witlvthe end?' " Back to that again, eh? "Yup, back to my end," The Horse agreed." "It is the example closest to hoof. Here I am consid ering scheduling a seminar on The Eye of the iittrse; and what happens? The Horse's tale is docked." Kuralt had mismeasured The Horse's colyum of that day, I explained again. So he had provided copy to fill it out to a full-colyum length. "It was already a full-colyum, " and Chollie had been so informed," The Horse neighed me. "But it is understandable he mismeasured. So what?. So when the proofreader paid proofreader saw the addenda was not needed, why not just toss it out?" What! After spending money to set it? ' "Well, money was spent to set my tail," The Horse reminded me. "And it proved a tonsofial service I and the readers could have done with out. We return to the prime consideration, me Tad, and this is why cannot the great and good Uni versity of North Carolina get themselves a me chanically well-turned-out paper? Yoicks, they have " trouble enough, the editors do, with what is read able. But to send out to every major campus ' in America a sheet of loused-up spellings, upside down pictures, punk grammar and clobbered re porting is to advertise that we here at North Car olina's Seat of Cultoor & Erudition are not jour nalistic realists. What is said is important, yes; but' nobody listens to an uncouth illiterate when Words of wisdom are being sought. And we fit the ' in dictment when we turn out, day after day, a paper which could well be hailed as a compendium of errata." Did The Horse really think the readers were interested in this hashing over of mechanical de tails? "When there remains no excuse for such, yes," The Horse yessed me, although I had hoped he would no me. "I don't care how smart and wise a man is, if he steps into the highways and the by ways indecently clad he will be arrested long ere he gets to any lecture hall. My first consideration when scanning the qualifications of editors and-or a printery or a proofreader would be not, 'Can you put out a clever and provocatice paper in a work manlike way?' but, 'Can you put out a paper?' There is no mystery to how a clean-looking paper is made. The copy must be legible and on time; the editor must specify certain details such as type size, width, and so on; the linotyper runs the copv off in lines, on his machine; the proofreader read the proofs and calls for corrections of this and that, or okays the other thing; it is corrected; final proofs are scanned; final corrections are made and wheee-, off we go!" Mechanics were everything, with The Horse? Nay, nay," The Horse neighed (loudlv. "Merelv the first thing. And holding a strict line of dl Tllrr. WOrks wonders with a 'newspaper staff. The editor who won't swallow mechanical faults won t gulp sloppy writing and wrong date, and bad grammar. It is really an editor's dutv in training his staff to see that thev strive for' ac curacy and polish. Newspapermen" are dlctionarv ?1U S S"CnnerS' datekers, a?manae-devo-ees and curriers of words, phrases, clauses, sen Inn Pa"sraphs- Bu why go to all this trouble and then have some one cog in the mechanics louse up the whole thing? Naw. rm getti set to :t. inSn' COWT;Shted Horse I fear I have for got one vital fact: What costs nothing is usual- I-K 1 ht l ThC H0rSe was ming. then? m t0 start' and hard to stop," The " Sue t? furiously. "Ill con- tinue to qvut m my next issue." Wump!" Mr. Wump whumped his views. of 'thia.