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FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1955 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PACE TWO Dark Day s For The University The ill wind. from Raleigh blew over two bits of bad news for the University yesterday. The joint Appropriations subcommittee's pro posal to hike tuition to out-of-6tate stu dents is unfortunate, especially since the leg islators appear to be working with a dearth of information; a couple of them mentioned the abundance of out-of-state license tags on student cars as proving students can stand the tuition increase . questionable reasoning j to say the least. But just which way this wind is blowing was demonstrated by the decision to cut $25,000 a year from the Library's budget. The Library, . ' zjs the representatives must know, is the very heart of the University; its annual appropria tion is already barely enough, and- far less than most libraries receive. If this cut is not restored, and there seems to be little hope that it will be, i becomes a sign for anybody who is interested: The General Assembly has little respect for higher education this season. The Uni versity can expect little better treatment for the, rest of its requests. We may as well be gin hitching up our belts; we're in lor dark days. - Plea For Conscience . The college undergraduate of today, says President John Sloan Dickey of Dartmouth College, "indifferent, faced with graver is sues than we were a' generation ago, move responsible in his decisions, and much more lonely." Needed from the colleges, as mentors, writes Mr. Dickey, is a heavier stress upon the development of conscience. The tend ency lately has inclined too much the other way toward the development of competence by specialized studies. These disciplines whose age-long purpose lias remained the cultivation of conscience hae, in light of the need, failed to receive due emphasis. But "it is the job of the college (and the liberal arts) to keep competence civilized," Presi dent Dickey says and adds: I am increasingly persuaded that the cause of liberal education will not be overrun by vo cationalism if the college holds to its birthright and remains committed as a matter of purpose to serious concern with the issues of con science. A concern for the choice of good and the rejection of evil in an institution of liberal learning quickens all humanistic studies and prevents our increasing reliance on the physi cal and social sciences from smothering those ' -intuitive insights, w'hich" both produce and spring from goodness in man. Recently we heard of a religion teacher's complaint that certain books of The Bible notably the Book of Job can t be adequate ly taught, the reason being the difficulty to create in students the tragic sense of life. The tragic sense of life,, too broad a concept to treat here, is one broad area- of conscience; the great religions, the great systems of ra tional ethics, are parts of conscience; taste and the feeling for beauty are parts of con science "borrowed from the total store of human woe and joy," in Mr. Dickey s words. The "tradition of civility," for which Walter Lippman sees a crying need in the western democracies, is a part of conscience. As the undergraduate moves from his pe culiar role on the campus to a peculiar role in the world, the development of conscience by contact with humanities and other liberal studies may be the last, best hope. Dart mouth, putting action behind their piesil dent's idea, has set up a Tucker Foundation; us purpose is best expressed in the words of the. man for whom it is named, spoken some years ago: I make no . . . plea for any formal religion, but I do plead now as always for the religious spirit . . Seek ,;. . moral distinction. Be not content with the commonplace in character any more than with the commonolace in ambi tion or intellectual attainment, bo not expect you will make any lasting or very strong im . pression on the world through intellectual 5 power without the use of an equal amount of ? conscience and heart. Carolina Front Fattening Up The Calf For Spring Eating Battle Of The Classical Scholars 'Learning Doth Make I hee Mad' Louis Kraar Ever CALVES I Doubt Were Fattened Department: The Carolina Quarterly, cam pus, literary magazine, has had its troubles '.his year, al though having greatly im- f proved. The rigors of 'St putting out a literary magazine in the spring, when the campus is concerned with other rigors, were evident in this sign on the Quarterly's door: "Notice. Business being done. Proceed with caution at your own risk. Alterations going on as usual. "Those in search of Miss Quar terly had best cross the paved lot to the chapel and seek solace in pious meditation; Miss Quar- terly has temporarily departed the fold in search of greener fields, but wil return within a moon or so, at which time-; the -'admirers are invited to join the staff in barbecuing , the fatted calf, imbibing the cool and am ber, and lightening this wail of editorial tears in general." This is the lit magazine's lite rary way of saying: "Open for Business. Editor: In The Daily Tar Heel, March 11, 1955, in the first of a series of articles under the general heading "I Remember Chapel Hill, I quoted a remark of the late Thomas Dunston, colored barber, to the late Edwin Ander son Alderman, famous educator: "Marse Ed., what's got into you? I believe you is going crazy. As Epaminondas said to Themis toeTes, 'Much learning doth make thee mad'." Upon this, I made the follow ing comment: "Where Tom could have pick ed up the famous saying of Pe tronius, no one knows; but at least the use of the names Epan inondas and Themistocles was purely original." On March 14 I received a plea sant letter from my good friend,' Preston H. Epps of the Depart ment of Classics, in which he says, among other things, refer ring to the passage quoted by Tom Dunstan: The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where , it is published . daily except Sunday, w Monday and examina- rt. 1! I I uon ana vacation per iods and summer terms. Entered s second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C., un ier the Act of Jfarch 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $3 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor CHARLES KURALT Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Business Manager Sports Editor TOM SHORES ONE OF the most unusual tales of the current political season concerns the female candidate who was curious about her op ponent. Finally, at the political punch party the other night the curious coed sought out her opponent, and the conversation went some thing like this: "Oh, don't you remember that fabulous cocktail party we went to together?" "Sure. It was nice,' curious coed. agreed the "Boy, what a party." "Sure was," said the formerly surious coed, confident now that the campaign would be clean and the cocktail party would go un-mentioned. "WHAT HAS segregation got to do with the presidential can didates? You're just trying to create an issue." That's what a Student Party member declared upon hearing that Managing Edjitor Fred Powledge had sent a reporter to find out how the three president ial candidates felt about the is sue. My only answer is that since the Supreme Court has declared segregation unconstitutional and. since the University has to meet the issue right away, what could be more vital? As for creating issues, it's about time there were some in this rather vacuous campaign. One begins to suspect that Muntzing; McCurry, and Fowler would make as unimaginative presidents as they do campaigners. B ERNIE WEISS Night editor lor thi3 issue .Eddie Crutchfield THE BILL for revamping the Student Councif into a supreme court of the campus offers sev eral new rights to accused stu dents. The right of appeal, under the bill that will be voted on in Tuesday's election, can be based on grounds that the conviction was based on insufficient evi dence, that the penalty was un just or unusual. Also students will gain the right of retrial by the Student Council on the "submission of -new and pertinent evidence by the accused." What the plan will do is to make the Student Council a real appeal court. Right now, if a stu dent appeals to the council, all it can do is decide whether or not the court that originaly tried the case, will have to hear it again. "If you can find it in Petron ius, please let me have it so I can confront my Latin colleagues With it. They don't recognize it as from Petronius." This shook me for a moment, as I was relying entirely upon a memory of something that hap pened 56 years ago. In January, 1899, during my first year of teaching here, I read in The Bookman, New York, a review by Frederic Taber Cooper e n t i 1 1 e d "A Precursor of Realism." It was - a review of "Trimalchis's Dinner By Petronius. Arbiter. Translated from the original Latin, with an Introduction . a n d Bib liographical Appendix by Harry Thurston Peck" (New York, 1898). I reid it-with' keen inter est; and shortly afterwards read the book by Peck, who was then editor of The Bookman, a bril liant writer, and professor of the Classics at Columbia. I had not read Petronius since . that date. It was unthinkable that Epps's 'You Win It, Pal' 'Latin colleagues" -Oilman (who was actually teaching Petronius), Allen, Suskin could all be wrong. Was all my work here in the Classics under such able and in spiring teachers as Frances King sley Ball of Harvard, Eben Alex ander of Yale, who had been Am bassador Extraordinary and Min ister Plenipotentiary to Greece, Rumania and Serbia, and was equally fluent in ancient and modern Greek, James T. Pugh, who afterwards became a famous lawyer in Boston, Karl P. Har rington, University of Maine, and Henry Farrar Linscott, Univers ity of Chicago, one of the most sensitive and engaging teachers ever born during the years 1894 1898 to go for nothing? Was it possible that my memory at the comparatively early age of seventy-seven years and eight months was failing? As Peck's translation was not in my house, I turned at once to Burton Stevenson's magnifi- i i f .1. it f- hv " "-''.': '.'U! 1 I i'-.' . 1 fn,'-' ' Si-?' If) DR. HENDERSON . . Petronius said it, sure endugh cent, indispensable "The Home Book of Proverbs, Maxims and Familiar Phrases" (New York, 1948). Herein on page 1377 ap pears the following: "We know that you are mad with too much learning."' (Sci mus te prae litteras fatitm esse.) Petronius, Satyricon, sc. 46." I wrote at once to Professor Epps, giving him this citation. Immediately afterwards, I bor rowed from Miss Lucile Kelling, Dean of the School of Library Science and a gifted classical scholar, a copy of the standard Teference work, doubtless con sulted at least once every week 'by faculty and students in the Classics Department, "A Literary History of Rome in the Silver Age" by T. Wight Duff, (New York, 1933.) In the scholarly chapter (2) oir Petronius, I hoped that this particular passage may be referred to. My hope was ful filled; for there, on page 181, I found the passage given, in both plebeian Latin and correspond ingly plebien Englfsh translation. Echion, the rag-dcalcr, says to Professor Agamemnon: "We know as how much learn ing doth make you mad." As I have had no reply from my letter to Professor Epps of March 15, I am sending you for publication in The Daily Tar Heel this letter, in vindication of the principles of Classical scholar ship. I give below several other translations of the passage: "I know you're cracked on ac count of your learning." H. T. Peck (1898). "We know you are mad with much learning." M. Heseltine (Loeb), 1913, 1916,1919. "We know that much book learning has made you mad." J. M. Mitchell, 2nd edition, 1922. I am inclined to agree with Echion. Perhaps too much learn ing tends to cloud the memory and disturb the higher centers of intellectual activity. Archibald Henderson The Formosa Invasion Timetable Joseph Alsop HONG KONG The moment when the Chinese Communists began intensive preparations for military action in the Formosa Straits can be rather exactly dat ed. There were, of course, many preliminaries. The construction of the great Chekiang-Kiangsi airbase complex started in earn est as soon as the Korean War ended. Redeployment of units out of Korea was noted more than a year ago. The public outcry for "the liberation of Tai wan" was turned on in Peking as soon as Communist victory in lndo-China was signed and scal ed at Geneva. The Sino-Soviet agreement on the best approach to the For mosa problem was almost cer tainly hammered out during the long visit to China of Khrus chev, Bulganin and Mikoyan. This visit, which may also have been . linked" with the great change in Moscow, ended in mid October. ' FIRST SIGN But the first sign to the West that the "liberate Taiwan" shout ing was in deadly earnest, was given here in Hong Kong. It took the form of a precipitous rise x of the open market prices of kerosene, which is jet air plane fuel, and light diesel oil, which is the necessary fuel of an invasion fleet of motorized junks. The two prices shot up simultaneously just about the middle of last December. Since then the struggle has been continuous between the' oil companies and the British con trol officers on the one hand, and the eager .fuel buyers from the Communist mainland on the other. As always when such con tests involve the ever ingenious Chinese, the struggle has had its interesting quirks. FUEL A-PLENTY Hong Kong's motorized junks, for instance, have long been sub ject t0 fuel rationing to keep them from supplying the Com munists. But wtih mainland buy ers offering larger profits than ' all the fish in the East China Sea, the junk owners have been using their sails and selling most of their diesel rations at a spe cial depot - in the Pearl River estuary. Because of the controls, the quantities of diesel and kero sene leaking out of Hong Kong have not been militarily impor tant. Most probably the buyers have been private or state trad ers supplying the civilian mar ket in South-East China. But for almost two years previous to last December, there had been n0 sign of, fuel shortage on the Communist mainland. Thus it seems clear that in December, the order came down from Peking to begin building maximum stocks of the two in vasion fuels. And this order im mediately created the demand felt in Hong Kong and more re cently reflected in the voyage of the "Aruba." READY TO MOVE With intensive military stock piling starting in December, the enemy should be ready to. move in April or early May, if indeed he is not ready now. Here in South China, to be sure, Com munist stocks of fuel and other military necessities are unlikely to be big enougn to sustain op erations on a big scale lasting a long time. But South China is only a sec ondary center. There are hardly one sixth of the aircraft in the Canton airbase complex, for in stance, that are stationed in the Chekiang-Kiangsi complex. And there are no indications of the kind of fuel shortage in Shang hai that would quickly appear if stocks in this more important area were unsatisfactory. The different fuel situations, like the military dispositions themselves, are simply explained. The Can ton region has to b emainly sup plied by one overworked rail road, while tankers and freight ers can.ply freely between Muk den, Tientsin and Shanghai. PSYCHOLOGICAL INVASION Another kind of preparation has also been going on in an in teresting way. The Communists cannot attempt the physical in vasion of Formosa until they have stocked and occupied the Fukien- airfields that command the Formosa Strait; and they cannot stock the Fukien air fields until they have taken Que moy and the Matsus. But there are no such barriers to psychol ogical invasion. And this is be ing attempted in a very sly way. Thus when the new constitu tion was promulgated and the Teking . government was recog nized, a significant role was al lotted to former members of the Kuomintang government. The evil old ex-governor of Yunnan, Lung Yun, the Generalissimo's ex-favorite, Gen. Fu Tso-yi, who sold Peking to the Communists, and several more turned up as vice chairmen of the National Military Council. And a really considerable number of turn coats were given simple coun cil memberships. CHOSE COMMUNISM Only last week, moreover, an other old favorite of the Gen eralissimo's, Gen. Wei Li-huang, who headed Chiang's expedition ary force in Manchuria, slipped across the border from Hong Kong and turned up Canton in a blare of welcoming publicity. There is no doubt that Wei Li huang "chose communism" at a carefully prearranged time. If Wei Li-huang's old friends in Taipei are having any doubts about the future, the effect among them should be consider able. Overall one can discern a pat tern of methodical, all embrac ing preparation that became in tensive soon after the Khrush-chev-Bulganin-Mikoyan visit to .China. It is an ominous pattern. A carefully elaborated national plan is unlikely to be abandon ed by the grim, dedicated men who rule in Peking, at least un less they are decisively convinc ed there is no smallest element of bluff in the big talk in Wash ington. - Last lap Eye Of The Horse Roger Will Coo 1 (The Horse sees imperfectly, magnifying sowe B' THE HORSE w,as having trouble keeping his troops in line, at aham Memorial ump , low-visioning Frog, kept bumping off into some near bushes; and Neckley, with Spring in his clon gated neck, kept trying different windows of the student center for high vision effects. "We got to have a farewell -parade r stated "Two whole years now,, we been putting Jt on the line, or between lines, with the good ol DTH. This necessitates memorializing, Roger me lad. But as to Wump and Neckley - well, they ve been waiting for four issoos now for us to parade. But they are both stoutly behind me. I took this to be a figure of speech since ump was directly below The Horse, and Neckley higa above him, The Horse really was on his last lap, then, with the DTH? . "This race, yes," The Horse nodded. I have found the occupation interesting; but higher educa tion hers at Chapel Hill has rooned me, in a man ner of speaking. It has taught me to put principal, as well as principle, above interest, especially since interest-rates now are not what they used to be." Oh, yes! Only last issoo. The Horse had again mentioned 'a few cobs.' What meant this? "Cobs, fish, bucks, simoleons, pieces of eight," The Horse strove for intelligibility, with not a single typo (we hope) to frustrate him. "Folding money, coin of the realm, ducats, obols, piasters, peses " What! The Horse was being crassly commercial when others were doing and dying for sheer pa triotism, for dear old UNC! "Roger, I have bled and died for lo!, two years now," The Horse sighed. "At first, full columns each day, and that's six a week, countem. Then, half-columns six times weekly. Later, this simmered to columns thrice weekly until a style and an al leged following had been established. Following - that, we kept fairly well to thrice weekly. And through all this time errata multiplied as the copy lessened. At times, even I could not understand what I had been trying to say. Ah, the pity, of it all!" So what, of all this computation of copy? "Several things," The Horse supplied immediate ly, almost as if he knew I was going to ask this. "If I donate copy free from charge. I have a right to roar and rant over its butchery- If I cleave to former commercial habits for even an infini tessimal sum per column I shrug it off and say, 'Okay, it's his property, let him cut The Horse's throat if he doesn't give a dang.' But even then, an author doesn't like to see his child's sternum this means, Roger, chest bone kicked. Then there is the matter of the 'cut' of The Horse. It marked my column and sort of carried the idea." Yes; and besides, people could see instantly it was The Horse, and turn elsewhere. I sidestepped nimbly and The Horse's hooves missed by inches. "And Mrs. O'Horse has a quaint idea l am at an . age and a simultaneous state of fiscal disease where my tappings on the typer should be production of a few cobs," The Horse mourned. "I find it hard to argue I am needed by the DTH when such prosy truths are fed me." Well, how much had The Horse's writing for the DTH amounted to? "Depending on spacing," The Horse judged, "a column can hold up to twelve hundred words. Lct'2 say it averages nine hundred. Let's say the old width and depth measured six hundred words, at a minimum. That adds to three thousand words of copy a week, yes? I flatter myself I could earn a penny a word if I spent like time commercially. But what really sticks me is, I have two books un der way, one of which could and should have been finished several years ago. Frankly, I don't think anybody writes a book until he is ready to write it, for whatever reason there is, financial or creat ively compulsive. But it goes without saying the hundred thousand words or so I have battered out for DTH might have gone into the book. I find my self without further excuse to delay further. A few cobs a week for my stuff could give me a semi-plausible excuse, catch?" Well, yes, but "But me no but, lad," The Horse said. "Not alone is the die cast, but the cast of Horse, Frog and Giraffe is dyed a deep, commercial hue. Other col umns eke pay, why should I refuse to let my col umns merit the same small, if grudging, cracklin" appreciation? Besides, I am a copyrighted IIorse and chances look that a Horse column of a differ end subject mater, but like handling, will be ap pearing on commercial newsstands ere another era has screamed into oblivion. My prospective em ployers might not look with favor on my givin their (then) property away. This proposed way whatever stipulations are entered into would be subject to my DTH work being not their affair " Zounds, but this was businesslike for a Horse notorious for his cool (and to Mrs. O'Horse un realistic) disregard for and of the greenish' quid pro quo popular along East and West Franklin' The Horse was indeed turning! "Yeah " The Horse yupped me, proudly. "Now it doesnt make much .difference when a worm turns, because it is the same on all sides. But when a Horse turns - well, people take notice " I feared The Horse was only too right- that hi s and on this question .would cause to v Z alone remark on his turning, but call him New Directional in uncomplimentary terms roni? r that The Horse 'is ask - I d'uctd the J-fJtUn" hooves again and continued more rapic The Horse is asking understanding? ' "Well, that would be nice too hut t insist on the impossible Te I "0t will settle for the return ot the Cut tmf iV'1 proofreading, and a Iew cobs, m evC t r " half-column lengths." n throw Ul What! He'd jjust been horsin arminfl cuse it: beefing - about full lJ ex . Halves make better read-" j . ' work," The Horse said. He riered I half the campus area, mui Sneousl? he barked, proving he has more than JwTTf in him. "Attack, men! To the rJl U f dg And away thev went in , 'J mean! ' Neckley sky ward!' e Horse "P "' Mr' Wumpwumpingllongint Vw0, ?C And . . . thank vou-all , 10n plaCe- been a pleasant race". ' yU"a11 Tar 1Iee1- i t ! I! f
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