WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 1955
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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How Do You Recognize
A Good Intention?
A hih-levcl onlerene anions the h
powers. 'says Chairman Walter George (D.
(;a.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, is the one "real hope of avoiding
war."
Senator George says he would like to see
President Kisenhower take the lead in call
ing a conference and call it riiht after full
ratification of the Paris agreements, without
waitingv around for what the President lias
repeatedly called "proof of Russia's good in
tentions." Mr. George, a good student of foreign af
fairs, seems to see the storm clouds as big
get than anybody is letting on: his proposal
may almost be viewed in the nature of clutch
ing at straws with the blind hope of grabbing
a life rait.
Well, the time has come for clutching at
some straws: we string along with the Sena
tor's view that talking with the Russians is
better than shooting at them. We fail to see
any disadvantage to a conference such as
George (and Churchill and Mendes-France
before him) has urged.
Disagreement has tome as it would be
expec ted to come from Senator William F.
Knowland. Speaking in Charlotte Monday
night. Knowland said "there is no purpose"
in such a conference unless we are prepared
to oiv a price.
Mis reasoning goes this way: If we had
talks with Russia, she would probably ask
that all the territory present,! y behind the
Iron (an t: In be recognized as Russian. And
that would make slaves of the people in that
territory. So no conference, until Russia
shows some (and here the phrase popped up
again) good intentions.
We are tempted to revise a maxim: The
road to hell is being paved while we wait
around for good intentions. The official IT.
S. attitude that-all Soviet peaie overtures are
phony may be exactly true. Iut one thing
bothers us: Suppose the Russians do, some
day have that long-awaited change of heart,
suppose those good intentions finally arrive
on the Soviet scene.
Who is going to know it if we persist in
keeping channels of communications effec
tively blocked, Who among Washington of
ficialdom is going to know a good intention
when he sees it?
You Have Piped But
We Have Not Danced
The trumpets, of campus presidential cam
paigns have gone to tooting. We have had a
statement (yesterday morning) on the "im
proper use" of Monogram Scholarship funds;
we have learned that one candidate is "aware"
of the Hand Situation. Cut systems, student
traffic courts, vending machine profits, high
school student government workshops all
relevant but minor key issues have a point
counterpointed between the candidates'
horns. -
As lor us. .we are saying among the trum
pets (like the" Biblical warhorse) aha, aha!
That is. we're interested but neither deafen
ed nor moved to pat our feet in time to the
music. :
Maybe we've been getting our ears boxed
by too much Diie Gallespie lately, but anv
Aay we say to the candidates: Let us hear
something syncopated for a change. There
are plenty of good fi!st st ores lying around
to wait. Avhat ,about. admission of Negro .stu
dents to the Cni'vei-sity? What aboiTt invit
ing the Russian college editors to tour the
region from Silent Sam to Medical Hill?
in short, let s move horn serenades to svi
phonies.
Carolina Front,
Gather Round
Manning, Don
& Ed For Tips
YOU Said It
Ufilitafe Prodest: The Cut Rule
Louis Kraar
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WHY DON'T the three presi
dential candidates offer decent
platforms?
Thus far,
Don Fowler, Ed
McCurry, and
Manning Munt
zing have prom
ised the same
things "that
presidential can.
didates have
been promising
for years. Not one of the cand
didates has offered anything new
or anything particularly original.
For Manning , Muntzing to be
"aware" of the band's difficul
ties proves one thing he's been
reading the campus newspaper.
The University Band has had its
money problems this year, btit so
has student government. That's
why the band hasn't been given
its handout.
Ed McCurry's great desire "to
bring student government to the
individual needs of the dormi
tories" rings with the triteness
of many years of campus politics.
Always the fraternity party can
didate (University Party) prom
ises things for the do'rms and
the non-fraternity party (Stu
dent Party) promises things for
fraternities.
Take Don Fowler for the lat
ter type promise. He expresed
the hope for not putting frater
nities on such a "childish level"
as having housemothers. For
fraternities to have housemoth
ers despite Fowler's declaration
does not mean that the admin-;
istration has "no faith in the
morals of the fraternity members."
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Editor
CHARLES KURALT
Managing Editor
Associate Editors
Business Manager
Sports Editor
BERNIE WEISS
News Editor
Advertising Manager
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Subscription Manager
Jackie Goodman
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NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Ed Myers, Ebba Freund,
Peggy Ballard, Lois Owen.
WHAT THE candidates should
do during this next week of vote
gathering activities is try to
find out not only w-hat students
want, but what the University
needs.
Class cuts, free tickets for
dates, telephones on every floor
of each dorm, and so on down
the long, hackneyed list don't
amount te anything but empty
promises.
It's true that some of these
things are needed. Take the UP's
pledge to continue the high
school honor system program
and the promise to have the hy
giene exemption test revived.
These are valid promises.
Editor:
We have been part of the Uni
versity for four years and have
been subjected to some pretty
stupid regulations in our time.
However, the idiocx in the cur
rent absentee rule has reached
an all-time height. Each of us
has been absent from class for a
different reason this semester
and, of course, have had to des
cend into the maelstrom of in
efficiency; bureaucracy, and red
tape that is designated as the
proper procedure for the obtain
ment of an excuse.
Several steps are required: (1)
Going to the dean or doctor; (2)
Waiting for the dean or doctor:
(3) Seeing the dean or doctor
and being called a liar; (4) Tak
ing an oath on the bible; (5)
Going to Haynes Hall; (6) Being
told that the excuse is not in
correct form; (7) Undergoing
the inquisition from your class
instructor for not having an ex
cuse; (8) Back to the dean or
doctor for proper form; (9j
Listening to the doctor or dean
cuss the system; (10) Back to
Haynes Hall; (11) Being told
that the ' excuse has not come
through South Building; (12)
Finally obtaining an excuse: (13)
Being told you've flunked the
course due to too many cuts
while seeking an excuse.
The ingenuity of this scheme
escapes us but unfortunately we
have not escaped the system. "
We agree that "omnis 'innovatio
plus novitate perturbat quam
utilitate prodest."
C. A. Norris
L. H. Addington
How Ragged
Is The Orphan?
As an interested student, I have
noted carefully the references
to the "Ragged Orphan," and
here are a few observations and
questions which I feel we should
take into consideration.
What kind of logic is this:
"Mommie, I want a red sucker
because you gave Bill a red suc
ker." If WC's and State's having
fine new buildings be the only
reason we feel we need a new
building, we had better try again
to find a reason. I do not doubt,
however, that it would be nice
for us to have a new building,
but
How often is CM crowded? Can
North Carolina afford the capital
investment of a new plant to
be used at capacity only an hour
or two a week? The Daily Tar
Heel in the first "Ragged Or
phan" editorial said that "...it
is , never visited by most stu
dents." I say that when the pro
gram is so dynamic and when
every possible resource is used
FRED POWLEDGE
LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
TOM SHORES
FIRST ON my list would be an
all-out effort to establish a tra
dition for scholarship in the
University.
To do this, candidates could
pledge to see that the dorms ob
serve quiet hours. Currently,
study conditions in most dorms
are nonexistent. The places are
simply top noisy to study. And
the library is too small for all.
Secondly, the candidate could
promise that through reports in
the paper can through personal
contact with students that the
Honor System would be more
than something one hears about
during Orientation.
At the present time mainly
because of the stubborness of
the Men's Council in not giving
REGULAR Teports to the cam
pus parer students are com
pletely out of contact with the
Honor System.
Aside from the pledge on a
quiz paper, one hears little about
the student courts. A pledge to
keep the students in contact with
the workings of the courts could
be accomplished.
And lastly, I would vow not to
say that I was "misquoted" in
the campus paper whenever
something unfavorable appeared
about me.
But, after all, I'm not a candi
date for president. And if I wera
(with this platform), I would
lose.
Night editor for this issue
-Eddie Crutchfield
m SIGN IN SP mogul Jim Turn
er's office after the Fowler folks
broke from the party:
"Behold, how good and how
pleasant it is for brethren to
dwell together in unity Psalm
133." '
at capacity, then we have a right
to ask, not demand, for a new
building. A building does not
make a program, and the pro
gram is the thing that counts.
Now for the money matters
The Student Legislature, The
Daily Tar Heel, and any other
interested groups or persons can
not , even think of raising the
student fees one penny after file
"sob story" we just gave the
State Legislature. We may . need
the money, and a little raise
might be easy to get, but if we
raise the fees one or two dol
lars, the State Legislature should
feel free to raise the fees as high .
as they feel it necessary to meet
the expenses of the University.
If this publicity be to encourage
alumni to build, the building,
why not ask them outright? May
be a donation cup in the lobby
of GM would get things started.
Although I am only a voter,
let me congratulate Ed McCurry
for his sensible outlook and pro
posal concerning Graham Me
morial. Frank Brooks
Not Just Cadillacs
In B. A. School
Editor:
Open
Kraar:
letter to Mr. Louis
Ordinarily you write articles of
considerable interest and some
worth. However, in your article
of March 18 you slipped to a low
lever of absurdity.
My major in the Business Ad
ministration school, accounting,
is the most restrictive of any
B.A. field. When I graduate I
will have taken eight courses in
accounting, twelve in other B.A.
and economics courses, eight in
sciences, psychology and socio
logy, and twelve in "liberal arts;"
to sum up, 50 in B.A. and 50
outside of B.A. Your contention
that liberal arts and humanities
should not be neglected is a good
one. 'My belief that you should
take B. A. courses to "round
out" your education I also con
sider worthy. Your fallacy, Mr.
Kraar, is that you see things
from your own viewpoint on
presupposing that you are right
and that B. A. majors are wrong.
WTiy do you not try to visualize
the situation , from our realm,
that that of trying to train our
selves to be useful members of
society, both from the economic
and the social aspects? We are
not interested merely in buying
Cadillacs and watching televis
ion. We want to be able to earn
a decent living for our families
and ourselves.
Mr. Kraar, I accuse you, when
you are faced with the undesir
able (from your, point of view)
of taking. B. A. courses, of re
sorting to . ridicule when- unable
to make any sound, logical ob
jections to your taking such
courses. Furthermore, I dare
you, with the education you will
have received upon your grad
uation, to get a job with and
succeed in an accounting firm
without the aid of family or
friends.
Let me emphasize again that
liberal arts must not be neglect
ed in their entirety. I point to
Bell Telephone as an outstanding
example of the progress whichr
I believe is to be made along
these lines. However, I believe
Bell Telephone and many other
firms will be more willing to
risk their money on hiring B. A.
majors and training them in
humanities than the opposite
course of taking humanities
majors and starting at ground
level teaching them the funda
mentals of our economic and
busines world. In our studies of
B. A. courses we get history and
the social aspects of the field.
In fact, to understand fully the
subject matter (which no course
by and of itself can do for us)
we have to know the social im
pacts of wars, depressions, cus
toms, and so forth. Why don't
you take your subjects out from
under the gilded covers you have
placed over them and apply them
to the practical as well as the
philosophic side of life?
D. G. Angell
Bookcase Blues
In Alexander
Editor:
Now that the Student Legis
lature has completed its inves
tigation of The Daily Tar Heel,
we would like the honorable
Solons to investigate the lack of
bookcases in certain dormitory
rooms.
The UNC Country Club (next
door to the Monogram Club) is
presently being equipped as an
Arthur Murray dancing studio,
rumored to be mamboing to the
tune of $10,000. A practical
course in ballroom dancing is a
wonderful cultural attainment,
but three veterans in Alexander
wonder why they have to live in
a three-man room and study out
of one bookcase.
We feel that another bookcase
would cost considerably less than
$10,000, and we really don't care
to do the Charleston in our
basement.
Tim Wood
Marvin Isreai
Jackie Kriegsman
'I Guess I Shouldn't Have Pulled The Trigger
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Needed: The
Scoop On The
Armed Forces
The Charlotte News
The presence today of a mul-s
titude of armed forces organ
ization through which draft
eligible youths may complete
their selective service require
ments spotlights a need for which
Uncle Sam should have provided
long ago.
The need is for the accumula
tion -of data on all reserve and
active armed forces groups into
a handbook to be distributed
among high school and college
graduates.
When our country's young males
finish their educations they are
faced with the problem of wheth
ed they should allow the Army
to draft them into service or
enlist in some other branch. If
they choose the latter, they must
pick from a lengthy list of ser
vice organizations and programs.
The recruitee frequently has"
no organizatized conception of
the requirements and stipula
tions of all these numerors
voluntary branches of service.
He picks his branch haphazardly
from a radio recruiting an
nouncement, a street poster, or a
tip from a friend that a certain
branch is a "good deal."
There is no central agency or
office to which he may go and
become fully informed on the
programs into which he is eligi
ble to become enrolled.
So instead of choosing wisely
after a thorough examination of
all the possibilities, he plunges
blindly into a branch of service
which may or may not particu
larly suit his individual circum
stances, but which will take from
two to four years out of his life.
The Defense Department,
therefore, owes it to U. S. youth
to compile a handbook including
accumulated information on
every branch of service, reserve
and active, through which a
person may complete his selec
tive service requireritents. Such
a book would give detailed in
formation on each program and
make the prospective recruitee
fully aware of the circumstances
surrounding his enlistment.
Quote, Unquote
The life of every man is a
diary in which he means to write
one story, and writes another;
and his humblest hour is when
he compares the volume as it
is with what he vowed to make
it. James M. BaXrie in The Lit
tle Minister.
Marriage is a damnably ser
ious business, particularly around
Boston. John P. Marquand in
The Late George Apley.
Life does not give itself to
one who tries to keep all its ad
vantages at once. I have often
thought morality may perhaps
consist solely in the courage of
making a choice. Leon Blum.
Speech is civilization itself,
The word, even the most con
tradictory word, preserves con
tacts it is silence which isolates.
Thomas Mann in The Magic
Mountain.
LOGGERHEAD SHRIKE
A tree hung with the dead
bodies of liz&rds, worms, and
small snakes that was the sight
that sometime ago mystified the
people of Troy, N. C.
The tree was found to be a
storage place for shrikes, which
kill then impale on thorns or
fences not only shall animals but
other birds.
This shrike measures just over
9 inches. It has a 4 inch tail and
a 13 inch wingspread. The fe
male is smaller than the male.
The related northern shrike' has
a breast that is slightly barred.
Both are essentially gray birds
with light throats, dark areas on
the wings, some white on the
tail and a black broad streak
from the bill through the eyes
and to the bacfc of the face. To
some, it seems appropriate that
this bird should wear what ap
pears to be a black mask.
Shrikes are inclined to perch
high and alone. When attacking
or when taking flight they us
ually drop from their perch and
fly directly toward their goal
with a steady wing beat. At the
end they may make a sharp up
turn, before coming to a stop.
The Chapel Hill News Leader
Eye Of The Horse
Roger Will Coe
THE
HORSE had his curried '0d
.... i-,f Morklev and the com-
companions, me
Pressed Frog, in attendance when I saw him, at
Graham Memorial.
"Stand aside, Roger," he crisped mUitanly: Make
room for the troops! The attack unfolds.
Oh' Then it was not a retirement?
-A retirement, or withdrawal of support, is an
attack with a negative accent." The Horse stated
dogmatically through his canine teeth Every
thing today is negative. Especially the DTTi, which
translates into English as Daily Tar Heel.
Whv I thought the DTH was positive, indeed! It
had an enterprising editorial-page policy of run
ning ever new material; it sat interested y at the
death-bed of The Humanities, a living wake which
has been going on for lo!, 2400 years now; it play
ed down Athletics even unto burying it under bad
spelling and worse grammar; it conducted post
mortem clinics on the too-bashful scion of Peda
gogy, Educational-TV, despite the child was breath
ing and fighting for life. What more did The
Horse want? ,
"I want a little realism," The Horse shrugged
his platinum mane. "I want us all to recognize that
the manner in which we say things is important, as
well as what we say. I am casting to one side the
fact that we publish a freak-size paper: , this un
doubtedly has very plausible raisons d'etre and is
inextricably, for the nonce, linked with cheaper
production. But this very variance from the norm
is all the more reason for us to be meticlulous in
our presentation of our paper. Let's muzzzle it, we
can't do it under the present apprpriation."
Let's muzzle it?
"A Horsely way of saying 'face,'" The Horse
translated. "A Horse's face is mostly muzzle, no?
It would seem we are suffering painfully in the
areas of proofreading and corrections of, original
linotype setting and doubtless there are cogent
reasons why this is so. Time, would be one factor;
plethora of authors' and linotypers' Errors would
would be another. In combination they are in
capable of correction under our present set-up."
Wasn't proofreading easy?
"The way of the proofgessor is hard," The Horse
horsed himself up a new word. "He does not
merely look for misspellings and sinning gram
mar, but as well he traditionally is responsible for
factualities such as dates, names, places, records,
claims. Supposedly, he checks original copy for
such cullings ere he sends the copy to the type
setter. Then, he checks the typesetter's copy to be
sure that the changes he has indicated have been
made . . . and after that, all he has to do is check
for correct font of type, size of type, margins,
spacings. And, when he finds same, he has to note
it in standard proofgressor hieroglphs and ideo
grams and return same to the typesetter for exe
cution; and then re-check and maybe again re-check
for eratta that crop up during the re-setting, or re
linotyping. Then, when the final form is ready, the
proofgressor checks it all heads; cuts; sMb-heads;
cut-titles; everything."
Well, gee, That took time!
"So we all know," The Horse said equusably. "We
all know, also, that Time can be duplicated synthe
tically by money Time cannot be stretched, but
other factors involved may be manipulated; less
newspapers in the same Time; or more workers in
the same Time. Since every demand for money is
akin to a Pier Six brawl again, understandably -it
but remains to determine what we want: a clean,
literate, pleasing and errorless DTH; or one that
annoys even its best friends, unnecessarily,"
The Horse meant, there was a choice? How?
"Cut the DTH to an every-other-day-publication
and."
The Horse could get no further because of my
screams. Why, even now, we were having enough
of trouble maintaining we were . a Daily ,Tar Heel
when we missed a Monday publication! What here-
sy! What utter treason! What what
"Wrhat law is there says that an idea must live
when its existence makes it like unto a burden?"
The Horse shrugged. "The idea of a daily -Tar Heel
was fine . . . when it was practical. But ever-mount
ing print costs and ever-mounting living-costs of
the students made the heavy load of a daily news
paper a trial. Further, it was clear that we were
sacrificing prestige and integrity when we turned
out a newspaper that was not clean, crisp and
flawless."
Was a Semi-Daily Tar Heel the only alternative?
"I've already said we could do the job with more
money," The Horse reminded me. "But let's not
discuss that, because that is the hardest proposition
to tackle. We could cut the size of the DTH to less
than it now is; which is another way of saying
'more money for the same thing and idea We
might publish, every-other-day-including Sunday,
a full-size DTH; and alternate it other-day-ly with
a single sheet confined to What's Doing To-Day,
and such other material as the editor(s) hit upon
for this."
How would that be any great help?
"The staff would have more time," The Horse
said, "to comb their copy for errata of spelling and
grammar; and buddy, they need it! The proofread
ers would have more time for corrections and to
see that corrections are carried out. The linotvpers
would have more time, and no excuses, glory be'
to carry out directions. Deadlines could, be set
with knowledge that they didn't automatically make
for a loused-up publication. But let's not hang our
selves on the gibbet of a masthead that is im
practical, indmdious and introverted. The problem
-is simplex, or at the most, duplex. It is not com
plex. The answer is not to be found by starin- into
our innards and mumbling over that the DTl! tra
ditionally is, but rather one of facin- facts and
making noises like the acolytes of z "fac finch"
forward-moving educational institution should'
make the noises of rationality and common sense
What we want is a good newspaper on the campus
as often as r-number of dollar an pu'
student sacrifice and labor'can'pr SucetTt
d, ion that can be supported only at cost o ideafs
integrity and prestige." ideals,
fnJ H,rSe' personay. wanted-
ably proUThe sch reason
ably proofread, The Horse 'cut' back;a few cobs a
the next issoo? 4 contlnu to. quit in
"OOOhhhhhhhh. WumD'" Mr
ump. Mr. Wump groaned.