SUNDAY, APRIL 3, 1955
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
The Ascendant,
Essential V or k
From a second - ilrxjr window in Graham
Memorial, it is possible to understand the
tourist's view o Chapel HilU the quaint town
in the pine forest, the ever-changing, ever
charming village.
Last fall's sojourners along the brick walk
that leads toward the Post Office wore cord
trousers and cotton skirts, changed to over
coats in the winter, and now are back to cord
and cotton. The cherry trees, so full of blos
soms two weeks age, arc bare today, with just
the suggestion of new leaves. But the grass
is greener and Franklin Street's convertibles
have their tops down. The benches before
Battle Dorm arc filled.
But this is the tourist's town. Beyond the
seasonal metamorphosis, .there runs a deeper
current, more imjxntant than color and
charm and not dependent ujxm solstice or
equinox: the University's state of mind.
Into this mainstream come the high school
graduates of Selma, Charlotte and Pine Bluff
and scholars and teachers, bringing their
minds. It is a brook that springs out of the
home soil. "There is no ivory tower for a state
-university." Piofesor .Walter Spearman has
wiiiun. 'Its faculty, its students and its .ad
ministration belong, rather, to a powerhouse
which continually generates ideas for the
homes, the schools and the market places of
the slate."'
'I'h is is the real University. And how pow
erful is the powerhouse? I low swift is the in
tellectual current which feeds it?
FnJm one building set in the Piedmont
wilderness, the University has become North
Carolina's most precious belonging philoso
pher, teacher, doctor, sociologist, historian to
the state. It has grown great in the sight of
the world and not alone by serving North
Carolina, but by leading, with a stubborn
liberal vision.
It is that liberalism which many thoughtful
people feci to be dimming in the University
today; and if it is so, it is a tragic truth, be
cause the freedom from orthodox tenets and
narrow, established forms is the spring, the
very source of the University's stream of
greatness.
Such freedom will not be preserved unless
there are those willing to see beyond the tour
ist town, to understand and believe in an un
restrained and unrestricted University where
opinion may be freely told and freely judged,
where men cU-ery sort may learn from each
other, where no one presumes to dam the
intellectual river with logs of dogmatism or
bigotry.
Mankind's twin hopes of light and liberty
expresed in the University's seal have their
home here. That has been assured by genera
tions of great men who, as Dr. Frank Graham
expressed it, have "mustered here the re
sources of the race for the development of the
whole personality of the poorest boy." If, as
some say, these hopes are now flickering in
the great gusts that sweep around the world,
they must be shielded.
An endless string of morning classes and
afternoon labs does not make a University.
Nor does golf in the afternoon, nor the late
show at the Carolina, nor architecture, how
ever quaint, nor administration, however ef
ficient, x
It takes teachers, and students both will
ing to involve themselves in learning. This is
the historic work of the world, the grasping
for a grecv:er truth.
A rebirth of this spit it is clearly needed by
the University, where the high ideal of edu
cation is so often reduced to the dimensions
of ennui and rneaninglessness.' And it is not
the University alone which requires new de
- die at ion.
For today, amid daiker shadows that have
ever before been perceived by' men, the spirit
ol liberal learning becomes the ascendant, es
sential work, the world's hope, the world's
.requisite if life is to continue apace.
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Thoughts On
Faculty, Coeds
& Carolina
Kraar
WITHOUT BREAKING t h e
rules of this day when Dragnet
characters talk
in hushed mon
otones and the
highest forms
if emotion are
hidden like sobs
in a m o v i e
louse, this re-
I torter writes
lis last column
today.
At best, writing a colmn each
day has been enjoyable. It hasn't
(been a popular job, for one
quickly learns that speaking his
mind doesn't win friends, or in
fluence coeds.
Campus politics the subject
of perhaps too many columns
comprise an important part of
Carolina life. And despite the
fact that the candidates this
spring offered little other than
smiles and generalities, student .
government is worthy and at
times exciting.
COEDS HERE are, for the
most part, drawlly, agreeable
creatures who knock themselves
out to learn then strive to hide
it from their men.
The Southern girl seems to
think if she "y'alls" enough, sits
on her grey-flanneled bottom
long enough, and smiles sweetly
enough, all will be wonderful.
Young ladies like Sue Fink,
new Woman's Residence Coun
cil chairman, Ruth Jones, out
going WRC head, and Patsy Dan
iels, Elections Board chairman,
are good examples of what South
ern girls can do.
But if the University is going
to continue as any kind of coed
school, the idle, sweet things are
going to learn to quit sweet
talking and start doing.
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Opening Up On Ike
How's The Pitcher Doing?
WHILE IMPARTING the little
knowledge I've managed to pick
up, I should mention the Uni
versity Administration.
It's not really as bad as you
hear about in fraternity row, nor
as good as you hear in student
government circles. Like the rest
of the campus, the Administra
tion finds itself with an almost
impossible job of dealing with
thousands.
Deans Fred Weaver and Roy
Holsten not only talk a good case
of student freedom, but they
firmly believe in it. And although
I've criticized actions of the Ad
ministration here, I admire their
belief in students and freedom.
THE FACULTY is the Univers-
Unfortunately, in our efforts
to consolidate, televise, build new
Old Wells they've been forgotten.
And when the faculty is forgot
ten, the University is heading
down hill.
A recent rule handed down
from Chancellor House's office
requires professors to teach every
day. That means a faculty mem
ber doing a piece of research can
not teach all his classes on Tues
day, Thursday, and Saturday, for
instance.
While teaching students is
probably the main job of a facul
ty, the continuance of scholarship
a'nd research is valuable. It
builds up the University's reputa
tion, and, more important, it adds
to the world's supply of know
ledge. The Chancellor (or his higher
ups who passed the rule)t should
realize the importance of re
search and professors.
SEN. W. KERR SCOTT
TO THE SENATE:
There is nothing pleasant about
reviewing the damage to effec
tive government produced by an
administration without firm and
effective leadership. . .
It is time we stopped criticising
the batboys and begin to see just
what kind of a job the pitcher is
doing.
We have a most unique situa
tion around us. As a rule, the
subordinates always pass the
buck to the higher ups." The un
derlings always want the boss to
make the tough decisions. In the
case of the present administra
tion, the exact opposite is true.
The boss the President himself
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CHARLES KURALT
Managing Editor
FRED POWLEDGE
Associate Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
Business Manager
Sports Editor
TOM SHORES
B ERNIE WEISS
News Editor
Jackie Goodman
NEWS STAFF
Neil Bass, Ruth Dalton,
Ed Myers, Woody Sears, Peggy Ballard, Sue Quinn
JIM DUNN, editor of the Caro
lina Quarterly, will be writing
this column starting this Tues
day. A talented writer with a light
touch, Dunn's work (which 've
already seen) should be enjoy
able. Although it's corny - sounding,
this reporter has to thank his
readers and his editor, Charles
Kuralt, for bearing with him
through seven months of Carolina
Fronts.
I may have offended some peo
ple during these months, but I've
tried to be honest with readers
and myself. And that's not always
a popular job. '
EISENHOWER
Howzat? Me?- Inept?
is passing the buck down the
lines Of command. He, and he
alone, can correct this unfortun
ate situation.
The fears that the President's
ineptitude have aroused have
grown all over the United States
... .It is inconceivable to me how
any chief executive can tolerate
taking such an important action
as release of the Yalta papers
without his knowledge or con
sent. Lack of control over his admin
istration is made evident by the
mere fact that Mr. Dulles would
dare take such an action without
first consulting the President.
It is with sadness coupled with
alarm for the safetly of the coun
try that I view and review the
chaos that has been wrought at
home and abroad by a govern
ment that leaves any and every
top level subordinate free to
dash off at any tangent he fan
cies, contradicting the President
and canceling out acts and state
ments of fellow Cabinet officers
and highly placed military fig
ures. Such a pattern cannot help but
result in piling up confusion up
on confusion and make for a
government completely lacking
in " a sense of responsibility. . .
President Eisenhower is the mas
ter architect of this confusion. "
SEN. PAUL H. DOUGLAS (ILL.)
TO THE SENATE:
The Eisenhower administration
has stuttered, contradicted itself
and has often been silentjn mak
ing America's case before the
world
Our nation, which is known for
its super-salesmanship, has mis
erably failed in presenting itself
to other nations.
SEN. STUART SYMINGTON (MO.)
TO THE SENATE:
The administration's policy in
cutting back Army strength is
bringing the nation close to nu
clear war.
In reducing steadily our ability
to fight on. the ground, while
steadily increasing reliance on
nuclear weapons delivered by
air, we may well be committing
ourselves to a ' path from which
there can be no turning back
world devastation resulting from
the use of the hydrogen bomb.
If war should be forced upon
us, this country, despite all its
continuous boasting about its
superior air power, cannot as of
today lift and support a single
Army division.
GERALD W. JOHNSON
IN THE NEW REPUBLIC:
About the year 1911 a young
man of Abilene left Kansas and
entered the United States Mili
tary Academy at West Point;
whereupon the Olive Drab Cur
tain closed behind him and cut
him off from civilian life for 40
years.
In the special, insulated world
of the services he did well so
well indeed that the brilliance
of his record is unsurpassed by
that of any American soldier. In
the end he commanded in suc
cessful battle fore troops than
any other captain of any nation
at any time, unless perhaps Geng
hiz or Xerxes may have led as
great a host. So he became the
choice of a large majority of the
American voters for President
of the United States, but in ac
cordance with our traditional sys
tem it was necessary for one of
the major political jjarties to
nominate him. This led to per
plexity, for traditioriaITyaH Amer
ican officer has no politics, so
the parties had to inquire. Where
upon he replied, "Of course I am
a Republican."
The answer evoked some aston
ishment in 1952, but certainly it
would have caused no comment
coming from a young man of
Abilene in 1911. In Kansas, in
1911, everyone with punch
enough to break a paper bag was
a Republican.
To become a supreme master
of the art of war is an absorbing
occupation, affording small leis
ure for the pursuit of outside
Interests, such as close scrutiny
of the development of political
philosophies. This makes.it easy
to believe that it was the infor
mation possessed by the young
man of Abilene that was voiced
by the old soldier of Ofrica and
Normandy and the Rhine.
It explains a great deal if one
assumes that the warrior return
ing to civilian life after 40 years
of monastic seclusion of the mili
tary world, took it for granted
that the parties were as he left
them. When asked his affiliation,
he may have meant to designate
the party of White and Capper
and the Rough Rider, the party
of vim and drive that had just
dethroned Czar Cannon and that
was chasing the Money-Changers
up telephone poles with all the
single-minded devotion of a bea
gle after a tomcat. Of course he
was a Republican. He had cour
age, hadn't he? And vigor and
resolution and dedication to the
general welfare?
How then shall one measure
his perplexity, or point out to
him a dignified and adequate way
of escape? If the Republican
Party had been what it was in
Abilene in 1911 ah, but this is
Washington in 1955.
Artists and scholars from
Thomas Mann to Oppenheimer
have demonstrated woefully that
one cannot immure himself in- an
ivory tower for 40 years without
a risk that some thansvaluation
may pass unperceived with a re
sultant malaise of no small im
portance. It appears now that one
cannot retire to a casemate with
out incurring the same risk; for
political parties are scandalous
ly Protean, and the selfsame label
that adhered to the cohorts of
LaFollette in 1911 sticks to those
of Joe McCarthy today.
It's a sad story, mates, but he
who can find moral turpitude in
it must himself be unbalanced.
As the saying goes, it's just one
of those things; and it probably
serves no better purpose than to
set wiseacres to wagging their
heads, repeating that all,, is not
gold that glisters, and pointing
out that while Lodge and Know
land both remain Republicans,
nobody can be one ''of course.".
Quemoy -Matsu
& The National
State Of Mind
Edward R. Murrow
On CBS
If the United States goes to
war with Communist China, and
attacks the mainland, as we have
virtually promised to do, the So
viet Union may become involved,
since the Communist countries
are bound by an alliance that
calls for mutual assistance. One
of the striking features of the sit
uation in Washington, is the com
plete confidence with which men
like; Senators Knowland and
Bridges assure the public that the
Soviet Union will not, or almost
surely not, fight on the side of
. Communist China.
THEY ARE GUESSING
That is no assurance, to be giv
en lightly, for if , World War re
sults from an American defense
of Quemoy and Matsu, the death
of vast populations is at stake, in
our own country included. These
Senators cannot guarantee how
the Kremlin will act. They have
no intelligence agents inside the
Kremlin, and are not recipients
of the most confidential informa
tion that Soviet leaders possess.
And since that is so, they are not
speaking from knowledge, they
are guessing.
Some such guessing has to be
done in the Pentagon and State
, Departments, since careful esti
mates are essential even if they
remain guesses. But if we could
know for 'certain that the Soviet
Union would not fulfill its treaty
obligations, it might influence
our course toward China. But if
we don't know for certain, our
tack of information also should
influence our course. Yet the
Senators, and those of like mind,
advise us to act as though we
know something we do not know,
and urge us to accept the risks,
the gravity of which has never
been surpassed in history.
A CRUEL DILEMMA
Let me repeat, the crisis is
grave enough however it is look
ed at. If the decision is that the
United States will defend Que
moy and Matsu,' (and of course,
use tactical nuclear weapons) we
shall receive no help Vwhatever
from any Western Ally, not a
gun, plane or warship. Even
Canada has served notice on us
that it would not help. And we
forfeit the goodwill of most of
our Allies and most Asians as
fwell. The Western Alliance might
even be shattered.
But if, on the other hand, we
do not lift a finger to defend
the islands, we stand to lose what
faith remains in us, first in For
mosa, then among all overseas
Chinesie, perhaps ultimately in
Japan and Southeast Asia, with
fateful consequences. This is a
ghastly choice, and one that fore
sight could have saved us from.
We did not have the foresight.
And now we confront a cruel dilemma.
Adlai & Ave
Stewart Alsop j
WASIUNGTON-U Ad.ai ttl X
Democratic nomination, he can a s jn the
ing. On this point the shrewdest . obse
Democratic party are now agret have
agree that, if he wants to run Steptcmber or ,
to pass the word soon probably ny
October. 1c goins to get "!
No one supposes'tnat Stevensn is go n;
p on a rof and shout at I Uie top o J
he wants another try af the White House
more delicate ways of making his wishes knon.
CITIZENS REBIRTH
For example, a move is aire-u, .Mat
the Citizens for Stevenson u-"" -
But in weighing the conse
quences, in lhe train of either al
ternative, something has to be
considered that is on a par with
the military.and political factors.
It is the state of mind of most
Americans. If we are going into a
major war, perhaps a world war,
the American people, if they are
going to endure a hard fight,
must know what issue carried
them into the war, and approved
of the decision to fight.
NO NATIONAL CONVICTION
A Gallup poll published yester
day shows that the ignorance of
Americans over Quemoy and
Matsu is no less than appalling.
Of the 77 percent who had even
heard of the islands, only 10 per
cent knew who held them, and
only 14 percent knew that they
vicre 30 miles or less from the
China mainland. Of the 10 per
cent who knew who held them, 5
percent favored giving Chiang
Kai-shek a guarantee to help de
fend them, 4 percent were
against it, and one percent had no
opinion. And of this 10 percent,
7 approved our having advised
the evacuation of the Tachens,
2 Mere against' it, and one had
no opinion. This is not the way a
national conviction would look.
A war for Quemoy and Matsu
would express the conviction of
a tiny fragment of the American
public. And President Eisenhow
er's great hold on the American
people rests to a considerable ex
tent on the belief that he is a
man of peace. These factors sure
ly cannot be the least cogent of
those that are to be weighed in
Washington this week.
tne cnizens ior oievuiw T not 'bp re-
basis. But obviously the organization will i not be ie
vived without Stevenson's tacit consent ke the
case of Pat Brown, Attorney General rc-lrnia.
Brown is believed to be the only Democrat
chance of beating Republican Sen. Thomas Kuchcl..
""Brown has let it be known that he
on condition that Stevenson is e standard-bcaier
If he is going to run, Brown mus t begin gamzm
fairly soon for the primary contest. Thus, 1
decides to run, or if the Citizens Stevenson
movement is revived, this will be taken by the init
iated as a sure sign that Stevenson is going to try
again.
SIGNAL FLAGS SPELL 'YES' . . - ' ,
There are plenty of other signal flags whitjj
Stevenson can hang out, and which the initiated
can read without a code book. If the signal flags
spell "yes" and if they are hung out fairly soon
that wil be that, in the now almost universal opin
ion among informed Democrats.
This is not because Stevenson is universally
loved in his Party. He is not. But he is at least
reasonably acceptable to most sections of the Party
more so than any other candidate presently visi
ble. Thus a fight, inevitable in the case of any
other candidate, can be avoided if Stevenson"goes".
Another reason why Stevenson can have the nom
ination for the asking if he asks soon enough is
that the prize is not thought to be worth a great
deal. The great majority of Democrats privately be
lieve that, in a repeat of the 1952 race, Stevenson
would be beaten again, perhaps worse than last
time. But they think anyone else would be beaten
worse than Stevenson.
Suppose the Stevenson signal flags read "no
but I'm for Averell Harriman." They are much more
likely to read this way than a simple "no." Accord
ing to reliable report, on their recent get-together
in Albany, Stevenson and New York's Gov. Harri
man reached an unspoken agreement, by a sort of
mental telepathy. This telepathic understanding, put
into words, might read about as follows:
ADLAI COULD HELP AVE
Harriman: I'm for you if you run, Adlai, but
I'm for myself if you don't.
Stevenson: I'm for you if I dont.
Stevenson might well be able to put Harriman
across, if he had a mind to. As Governor ;.of the
biggest state, after all, Harriman has a perfectly
legitimate claim. He has a useful habit of success.
And with Stevenson out, the Northern professionals,
like New York's Carmine DeSapio, Pittsburgh May
or David Lawrence, Connecticut's John aBiley, and
Richard Daley of Chicago (who looks like becoming
Stevenson's long-sought James aFrlcy), would be
most likely to agree on Harriman. And they might
well have the votes to nominate him, over the op
position of the South.
But suppose that the Stevenson signal flags read,
"I haven't made up my mind yet," and continue to
read that way month after month. Then the situa
tion is likely to start coming apart at the seams.
For Democratic observers agree that there is a
point beyond which Stevenson cannot hold back
and that point is not many months away.
THE MAN TO BEAT IKE?
If Stevenson delays too long, a process of cry
stallization around other possible candidates is sure
to take place. Harriman, for example, cannot afford
to wait indefinitely for Stevenson to make up his
mind. Michigan's Gov. G. Mennen Williams is mak
ing candidate-like noises already. And if Stevenson
delays, a whole series of favorite sons will begin
taking themselves seriously as candidates.
But the best bet is that Stevenson will discreetly
raise the "yes" signal flag fairly soon. Stevenson is
far from unambitious, and he is by now painfully
aware that he cannot possibly duck the nomination
and hope to survive politically. What is more, Stev
enson is now telling all comers that the notion
that President Eisenhower is unbeatable is a myth.
The clear implication is that he is the man to prove
it.
Quote, Unquote
This morning I am borrowing a bit of home work
turned in to me on a writing class by Bess Daven
port Thompson's daughter Anne reckon that will
hold you, Bob; I know wnere the gal's brains come
from entitled "A Little Learning."
A college education is a marvelous thing.
Witness these gems turned in by students takin?
a general information test at the University of Ore
gon last year:
Fjord A Swedish automobile.
Iran Bible of the Mohammedans.
Nicotine The man who invented cigarettes.
Scotland Yard Two feet, 10 inches. -
There's no use getting smug about it, either. Uni
versity of North Carolina students are not exactly
filled with wisdom. For instance, there was the puz
zled young thing who raised bleary eyes from her
favorite fashion magazine during Phillips Russell's
creative writing class last week. The question was
not directed at her, but still, it bothered her. "Dog
matist??'.' she muttered confusedly. "It means .. .uh
. . . has something (o do with a man who runs a ken
nel, or something."
Still, she looked brilliant beside the blonde with
the blank smile who was overheard in Smith parlor.
She was an art major; seems she hadn't ever heard
the word "syntax."
"Tax!" she inquired in a shocked tone. "I knew
it was wrong but I never knew there was a TAX on
it!"
We have heard that there was once a student at'
UNC who thought Hamlet was a way to cook
too. 3"'
But we're discouraged enough with the process
of education without believing that one -Q j
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