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PAGE TWO THf DAILY TAR HIIL WEDNESDAY, MARCH S3, 1955 PAG The Th P slack nrn blu, low I W lew slack cludi Al now Al cm The To I Consic No ch a rect morse his ci tKapps IBut ( tion. guest. . Vited nelius and a How 'such it's si Iloste: It's a' derin and Jt withoi Some! jplentj in tou Jar tal bad c result As E . may v be a C Stop : Tl l 9 10 12 13 14 15 16 IT 18 20 21 23 29 32 S3 34 39 S( Z1 si Si It Goettingen: Operation New Horizons Ik-hind- all the election season hoo-row, some students have been quietly working for something that may he of fur greater con. sequence than who did or did not get elected to the Legislature yesterday. Student government, the YMCA, fraterni ties, dormitories, and the University admin istration have combined to establish a stu dent exchange scholarship program with Goettingen University in Germany. For two years, students here and at Goet tingen have been working on the idea." Now, it appears ripe; the first exchange student from Goettingen will be here next fall. He will get free meals from fraternities. The Interclormitory Council will provide a- room, to be paid for out of dormitory treasuries. The University will provide a full tuition scholarship. Other campus groups have agreed to help; all expenses will be paid. - - Then, it is hoped, the program will ex pand. Students will be exchanged every year ! and receive full credit for their year's work. The Planners envision she h further affilia tion as exchange of news articles and edi torials, short wave roundtables, miftual as sistance in research, exchange of professors, contact between campus religious, sports, art, literary organizations, exchange of books and written material. What we have a-borning here is an idea o deep signilicance. In lull bloom, the working plan will bring rare opportunities to Carolina's students for inexpensive travel and study in Europe. It might even serve as a dose of Xo-Doz for students whose horizons extend no further than Kenan Stadium. Those in the ,Y, student government, in dormitories and fraternities who have worked so well and so long on the Goettingen pro gram deserve congratulations; more, they de serve support for a plan that is imaginative and thoughtful and full of implications that bode two great universities good. Swain Hall's 'Popular Fillup' There are signs that Carolina's education al televisional station, WUXC-TV. may yet turn out to be educational. It is even possi ble, these evenings, to see and hear a Uni versity professor on the station if you tune in at just the right time. liut our television child still has a lot of growing to do before it can be rightfully looked upon as a mature channel from the University to the state. - The argument, in case you haven't been listening, is this: Should WUNC-TV try to compete with commercial 'video and offer entertainment spited with education or should education be the main dish? Much of the station's brainwork has been done by Kay Kyser. His belief which The Daily Tar Heel does not accept is that the public just won't take un-sugarcoateel edu cation. A big segment of ex - professional WUNC-TV staff members agree with him. What does Kyser projxse instead?. Here's what Variety, the show biz bible, told the world last month: Kyser seems to be aiming for a "popular" fillup in educational TV, the idea being that the best way to pull an audience for education al programming is to give them teaser shows geared to compete with regular commerical channels. His plan to pick up network casings (regular commercial network shows without commercials) is part of this "educational TV for the masses" theory. ' We have nothing but admiration and re spect lor Mr. K. .as a quizmaster and band leader, liut a "popular fillup" is no substi tute for an educational TV station. The University has grown gueat without teaser shows for the masses. Why can't the s-me techniques of rational inquiry, inform. , ed and gocxUhuinored teaching that have brought Chapel Hill to a place of educational eminence be successfully transferred to tele vision? And if they can't, Avhy should the Univers ity become a vehicle for amusement? CBS can do it better. Carolina Front Election Day At Dawn-A Bevy Of Signs f"; Kraar 'I Remember Chapel Hill' Second Baffle Of Cemefery Ridge DAWN BEAT me to the . Y Court by only a few minutes yes terday morn ing, so I was in time to watch the last minute poster plaster ing. Rubbing the sleep out of my $ eyes, I shivered intn thp Y to see 1 Fowler-followers Kason Keiger and Joe Barber pasting "push for Fowler" signs shaped like hands. "Good morning. Mighty early to be up," Keiger said, looking a little sheepish with a huge pot of paste in his hand. I agreed that it was early, he pasted another paper hand, and then the Fowler followers left to join others in a waiting station wagon. Kemp D. Battle (Kemp D. Battle, a long-time friend and servant of the Uni versity, is a member of the class of 1909. He is a direct descend ant of University President Kemp Plipmner Battle, has been a member of the Board of Trustees for many years and is presently chairman of the Trustees Committee on Honor ary Degrees. He ' is a Rocky Mount attorney, and swears that the Second Battle of Cemetery Ridge took place just as related heie. Editor.) In the Spring of 1909, toe University community was clan destinely invaded by a small task force from the Durham chapter of that profession, which, by the time of Mary Mag dalen, was already ancient, if not venerable. These business trips were planned with hopes of a brisk patronage from the student body. The project was on a small scale, but their reli ance on the carnal weakness of mankind wasnot ill-placed. THE Y COMMANDOS v They had, however, badly un derestimated the vigor of the response of the campus leaders, who were not only strict prac titioners of virtue for them selves, but equally resolute ad vocates of austerity for their weaker brothers. The President of the YMCA was a lad, small in stature but destined for greatness. When reports of the shocking traffic reached his ears, he assumed the leadership for which he was fitted by courage and character, and organized a squad of commandos determin ed to end the business. CEMETERY COUP Came a Saturday night, with a tip-off to the Vigilantes that the fallen angels were on their way, and would be stationed in the village cemetery, of all places, ready to make the ac quaintance of such as might call. Under the nominal, but wholry inactive, leadership of "Jug" Whitaker, the village's sole po lice, officer, the guardians of law and order advanced toward the enemy, deployed, and indeed surrounded them. A pistol fired into the air threw the custom ers into headlong flight, and the attackers rushed forward and actually captured two bedcag led and frightened daughters of Eve and of sin. A strange procession wended its way through the woods and brush, over ditches, on to the campus, and so to the office of Squire Barbee, the local magis trate, whose Temple of Justice stood" alongside the yard of the Methodist Church. , Before mid night the Squire was there, as was Judge MacRae, Dean of the Law School, especially request ed by President Venable to prosecute on behalf of the University. had stu- VERDICT: GUILTY Meanwhile the news spread and hundreds of dents, attracted by the excite ment and vibrant with an un derstandable curiosity, were there too. Perhaps a score could crowd into the small building. The rest filled Franklin Street from side to side and listened with unrestrained enthusiasm to the testimony of the witnesses, relayed to them by the shouts of those occupying points of van tage in door and window. The evidence was both specific and convincing. A judgment of guil ty of agrancy was soon pro nounced by the Squire and a waiting conveyance! with its woe-begone passengers, was n its way to the county jail in .Hillsboro. And so the second Battle of Cemetery Ridge took its honor ed place in history. tfrrT '..:v:.n Efje 23atl Car ee The official student publication of the Publt ea'.ion 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 .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. p. - tfditor CHARLES KURALT BESIDES WANTING to see the last day posters, my original plan in getting up so early was to at tend an election morning break fast with Reuben Leonard and Liz Lynn, a couple who are inter ested in politics and each other, and another friend. Finally, after a chilly wait for the couple, my friend and I de cided that we were stood up. Just about then a hammering noise near the Old Well (new style) attracted my attention, and I turned to see the Muntzing men driving long-staked yellow and or ange signs into the ground. Repairs!" shouted Jim Turner, as one of the signs fell off the big stick. And a co-worker came running with a pack of thumb tacks. "Oh, I've been up all night," Turner declared. "I had to stay up so the others would get up," hfl explained, looking less sleepy than the others. By then, we had made our way down to Hill Hall "Just a min ute," Turner said, smiling at Muntzing and his other support ers. Then Turner bent down and straightened, out a McCurry sign that was in the ground. MUNTZING SAID something about treating his campaigners to breakfast, and they tramped down cold Franklin Street to the Col lege Cafe. Inside the restaurant, they spied Fowler and his boys in a back booth. "Say, isn't it a little crowded in here?" said one of Muntzing's men, and the crew headed for another place. I went to the back booth to see Fowler, who was "confident," smiling, and eating breakfast. I said something about his signs shaped like hands. "Oh, did you boys put up some signs for me.?" Fowler asked, turning to Keiger and several others. "Yeah, we forgot to tell you, Don. We got up this morning and put a few up," Keiger said, grin ning knowingly at the others. I grinned, went back to eat breakfast, found all three candi dates grinning up at me from my morning paper, and wondered when the campus would have some issues in a political cam paign. Later, walking to class, I no ticed how colorful the campus was with its red McCurry signs, yellow Muntzing placards, and fingered Fowler signs. Perhaps the slogan for the spring should have been: "May 'the best sign maker win." Senator George and Yalta The Biggest Bit Of Boobery Stewart Aisop wftith fjrtt " ' . f v t ttt itow-. .Night editor lor this issue Eddie Crutchfield FROM THE Orange Printshop comes the tale of a coed who came to hwe some nolitical no ters printed and ha to hnrmw a Yack to see whf office sh1 was "rnnnin? for . . . Bh Harrington's dorm newstiappr (Starv's "tjipI Yell'") renorfpd that, "one of Har r'neton's ladv sunnorfprs . . . ")Vi-rvptrtpf fn nrint th trim story of T?oh's rrtt'n? Toiit 10Q vts )n fav rturin? th iot pit;rr whn fhnt- manv of Stacy's 10t r'Hfpts Hidn't vMa" . . . TVost of tV)o JTnijrnrcitv Parfv'c hal1rons r"t nn vostprdav rnornin" ww rinor htown pwnv or nnnottirprt. lectin? out the lat trusts of hot air from the campaign. WASHINGTON It is clear by now that the way the Yalta pa pers were released amounts to the biggest bit of plain boobery very long time. Consider the results. This country's best friend abroad, Sir Winston Churchill, has. been an gered. Opinion throughout the committed in Washington for a world, especially in Britain, France, and . Germany, has been alienated at a most critical mo ment. The Soviets have been presented with fine grist for their propaganda mill. 'Couldn't You Sometime Lock The Door First?' ' TJT"""A V ji" j" vNntt "'o "i " i v '33' -J Purpose Of Order Of The Grail (Each year at this time, The Daily Tar Heel prints the "pur pose of the Order of the Grail" in order to acquaint the student body icith the natu-re of this beneficent order in our midst prior to its tapping ceremony. Editor.) The purpose of the Order of the Grail is to preserve unity in our student life. Recognizing that the aims of the University can best be served by a student body sensitive to the values -which transcend differences of race, creed, background, and so cial station, the Order seeks to cultivate harmonious student re lationships and democratic stu dent life. The Order was founded at a time when the "student body was divided by antagonism between fraternity and non-fraternity men. The ideals of the Univers ity had been subydinated to conflict between the factions withirt the University. The foun ders of the Grail recognized the higher values of tolerance, un selfishness, modesty," and serv ice. They undertook to afford a substitute motivation for strife by inspiration of example and the active expression of the les son of the Holy Grail. The watchwords of the Grail are Friendship, Truth, Courage, and Service. Of these, Service is the foremost in the minds of the Knights of the Grail. r1 "V . The Oraer performs many services for the campus. It spon sors a series of dances on home football weekends, manages the sale of class rings, and compos es, sells, and distributes gradu ation invitations. It regards it self as a trustee of the funds it realizes through these activi ties, and returns them to the campus through Grail Scholar snips and through contributions to worthy causes. It also seeks out and recog nizes contributions to campus unity and welfare that might otherwise go unnoticed. It stands ready to offer its help to any individual or group that needs its assistance in the form of ideas, of financial ,aid, or phy sical labor working always to "help the campus in every pos sible way in making it a better place in which to live and work." In the selection of its mem bers the Grail looks for students who already bear evidence of Public recognition, skill, and so cial prominence are not consid ered qualifications for member ship in the Grail. Modesty, self effacement, and unostentatious service to the enJ of unity, the positive inspiration to char acter, priincipJa, and integrity, through exemplary campus citi zenship are the values which are necessary to the realization of the aims of the Order. Membership in the Grail is in dicative not only of high rec ognition for achievement and unselfish devotion to altruistic endeavors, but also of the will ingness to serve and to exhibit these qualities in the interest of the student body. It might still be argued that this trouble abroad is not too high a price to pay for a useful object lesson from the past. But the reaction at home is really $ more significant than the reac tion abroad. Almost to a man the Democrats in the Senate deeply resent, not so much the fact that the papers were releas ed, as the way they were re leased. And if we are to have any foreign policy at all, after all, the State Department has got to work with the Democratic majority. SENATE RESENTMENT Among those who feel most strongly in the matter is Sen. Walter George, of Georgia, the chairman of the Foreign Rela tions Committee. George is the dominant figure in the present Congress, and the kingpin of the bi-partisan foreign policy. There is no doubt about the way Geor ge feels. JOHNSON AND GEORGE His own public comments have been relatively mild. But he was consulted in detail by Senate 'Majority Leader Lyndon John son before Johnson made his brief but angry speech last Tuesday, attacking the wray the documents were released. It is also significant that George made his proposal for a meeting of the heads of - state without consulting Secretary of . State John Foster Dulles in ad vance. George's proposal springs from genuine conviction. This is not to say that George or the other responsible Demo cratic leaders are going to act like spoiled children where for eign policy is concerned. But the close, intimate, and mutual ly confident relationship which a bi-partisan foreign policy de mands has been badly eroded. And it is not hard to see why. GEORGE TO RESCUE Within the last few weeks, George has saved the Adminis tration's bacon, on the only two really important issues to come before this session of Congress. One was the $20 tax cut George's opposition to "the com promise Senate bill killed the issue. The other was the For mosa resolution, which George saved by a single, moving talk, when the Administration was heading into really bad trouble on the issue. Consider the way George was rewarded for all this bacon-saving. He was not consulted be fore the Yalta documents, os tensibly classified, were sent to his committee. The State De partment passed the documents under the counter to one news paper, and this was then used as an excuse for a general release. NO POLITICAL VALUE Finally, it is generally agreed that the Yalta papers will not be of any real political benefit to the Republicans, "even though they do occasionally show the lale President Roosevelt in an unlovely light. This is the irony of the whole sorry business. But the mystery remains how Sec retary Dulles, who has wisely gone to great lengths to estab lish good relations with Sen. George, and who courageously withstood fierce political pres sure to release the Yalta papers for the 1954 campaign, allowed this messy business to occur. Postmaster-General Versus Aristophanes Gerald W. Johnson On WAAAiA, Baltimore It appears that Postmaster-General ummeriield has la?eTy assumed responsibility, not merely for delivering the mail, but also for its mora quality He issued orders to "Clean up the mails and of course the first thing his boys land e d J Greek classic that has been in circulation for 2 40 .0 years. They impounded a copy of Aria.pphanes "Lysistrata" and after a round in the court the Government backed down; but the story will arousing laughter throughout the civilized world for weeks to come. Well it's just what you may always expect when people,' not content with attending to their own business, undertake to do the work of the police, too. Of course it's true that dirty books are always being peddled. Of course it's true that it is against the law. Of course it's true that every law-abiding citizen ought to help prevent law-breaking. If the postmaster finds that what he thinks is porno graphy is being sent through the mails, it is his duty to inform the police, but it is not his duty to take the law into his own hands. For determining what is obscene is not a simple matter. There are passages in the Bible that, if torn from their context and printed in a newspa per, would be regarded as obscene by some peo ple. Old Aristophanes was undoubtedly a rowdy character, but his object in writing "Lysistrata" was not to make vice, attractive, but to make war ridiculous which some of our super-patriots re gard as worse than obscenity. But Mr. Summer field should be content tb deliver the mail on time and leave morals to the people and the courts. Basingstoke Ensemble & Gilbert & Sullivan Lilian Pibernik An expectant and eager audience gathered last Sunday night in Graham Memorial to hear a Gil bert and Sullivan program offered in the Petite Musicale series. The expectations were fully realized. The Basing stoke Ensemble, consisting of the Misses Jan Saxon, Lorraine Yancey, Susie Roberts, and the Messrs. James Pruett, John Ludwig and James Chamblce accompanied on the piano by Mrs. David Basile, gave a fine performance of excerpts from four operettas. Using a bare minimum of stage prop erties the performers were entirely successful in conveying the gay and light spirit of these operet tas by their enthusiasm and vivaciousness, both as individuals and in ensemble. Continuity was amus .ingly presented by narrator Carl Williams. The opening number "Three little maids from school are we" from the Mikado was one of the best on the program. It proved a great pleasure to listen to the well-blended voices of the three ladies of the Ensemble. Other highlights of the evening were Mr. Chamblee's "A more humane Mikado nev er did in Japan exist;" Mr. Ludwig and the En semble in "I am the very model of a modern major-general" from the Pirates of Penzance and in "When I was a lad" from H.M.S. Pinafore. Miss Saxon displayed fine control in the coloratura pas sages in "Poor wand'ring one" from the Pirates. Excellent diction an important factor in the tongue-twisting texts of Gilbert contributed to the general success of the program. The vocal ensembles were thoroughly enjoyed by this listener, but at times one might have wish ed for more dynamic, sparkling instrumental sup port. The singers assumed the characters of their roles and enacted them convincingly, maintaining a continuity of atmosphere throughout the perfor mance. The Ensemble should be highly commended for undertaking such a program and are to be con- gratulated on the successful performance. YOU Said It: Look At Finances Realistically Editor: The staff of The Daily Tar Heel with all of its "liberal education" seems to have failed to recog nize a basic economic truth of which we "in B.A. school are made aware. In a case where one has a given income, and expenses greater than that income, he must either cut down expenses or raise me income or both, or he must go out of business. No one wants the University to go out of business. You seem to be violently opposed to the State Legislature's increasing income by reasonable means and to its decreasing expenses bv reasonable means. The students should pay their share of the expenses whether they are overjoyed by the idea or not. I recommend that your staff look at the problem of finances realistically or not at all 1 also feel certain that the State Legislature will be glad to have any suggestions which you nv have about other means of solving this great prob lem. Frank Brooks Quote, Unquote: Voting Day Pcalms & Couplets In every free and deliberating societv, there must, from the nature of man, be opposite part,-, and violent discords and dissensions; and one ,f inese for the most part, must prevail over h other for a longer or shorter time.-Tmi, ferson to J. Taylor, 1798. t When someone terrible gets elected, thev -There, tnat's just what I expected." Ogde'n .Y,M. He is one of those wise philanthropists wh. a time of famine would vote for nothing In a supply of toothpicks. Dougfas Jerrold Sink or swim live or die, survive or peri.h. i my hand and my heart to this vote.-P,-! The freeman, casting with unpurchased Oliv Jw thf Shak6S the tl the U- ' " Oliver Wendell Holmes.
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