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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1935 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO V Si ; s i ki f-i 11 i j 1! S li ti I : i A Monday Hangover For North Carolina Monday when the spring holiday is little more than pleasant memories, a coat of sun tan, or a lianoer for students returning to the Hill the U. S. Supreme will sit so berly down to hear arguments of the South ern states on how to implement its segrega tion decision. If a resolution introduced this week in the General Assombly passes (and it probably will), North Carolina will be on record as be lieving that ' mixing of the racers in the public schools throughout the state cannot be ac complishcd and if attempted would alienate public support of the schools to such an ex tent that they could not operate successfully." The resolution, backed by Governor Hodg es, provides also for the creation of a seven member commission to make a continuing study of the segregation problem. Since this resolution puts the state on rec ord as saying to the Supreme Court that we can t implement it's decision (which isn't what the court asked for), it would seem that such a commission would be useless. The commis sion's study would be a waste of time, since the state's leaders have already decided that the decision to mix races in the schools "can- be accomplished." Carolina Front The Death Of Our Suspicion; With A Plot? 'Relax They're Bound To Turn Aside' J. A. C. Dunn not The highest court in this land has wiped from the law books the concept of segrega tion in the public schools. It is now asking Southern states how to implement this deci sion. Instead of suggesting something definite perhaps a gradual, integration plan North Carolina throws irp its legislative hands with useless resolutions. Beware The Greeks, Mr. Summerfield The National Book Committee has releas ed its recommendatory Report on Book Burning, roundly condemning private cen sors who set their own questionable taste and wisdom above the taste and wisdom of ages of book readers. A valuable recommendation by the Com mittee suggests a means of retaliation against the censors. When a man rings a fire alarm falsely he may be penalized. The Book Com mittee's reasoning is similar: When arbitrary action dams the flow of books, "legislation penalizing private action which interferes . . . with the distribution o reading material would cure this danger." Congressmen could show: their concern for the unhindered circulation of literature by enacting such legislation. We think avc al ready have a likely candidate for prosecution if he continues to obstruct the right of post for. Greek literature. He is Postmaster-General Arthur Summerfield who threw a block to Aristophanes' Yysislruta a week or so ago. A flight fine would teach him to fear the G i ?eks especially IN THE COURSE of harvesting the week's crop of intellectual stimulation' in the last Saturday Review we stubbed our delicately manicured intellectual toe on an editorial by John Steinbeck con cerning the recent Matusow tes timony furor entitled "The Death of a Racket." It is an excellent editorial; it says some rather optimistic things for a change principally that 'his (Matusow's) testimony and retestimony may well be the lit tle push that causes the pendul um of common, sense to swing back." Or in other words the American public may be getting squared away about just how scared of Big Brother it ought to be, may be snickering a little bit at fright propaganda. bearing literature. Gracious Living I (Second Series) The wheels of modernism go spinning around, always moving in on us. But this time (shock of shocks for self-respecting mem bers of the Society for the Preservation of Primitivisni in Chapel Hill) the wheels of modernism have spun themselves a bit too far right into the display window of the Paul Smiths' Intimate Bookshop. What's -with this newfanglcment, anyhow? A fortnight ago, the Raleigh-ic oracle her self, Nell Battle Lewis, wept her journalistic tears oxer an invasion of exotic foods (fried grasshoppers, toasted lotus antennae, etc.) in Chapel Hill. Now we head for one of the last places in the village where you can walk on a genuine-squeaky board floor, only to see this display contraption a-whirl in the Avin dow. This interloper from the mechanical age, tin's . splinterfire-new, patented parvenu has no place in the quaint and musty environs of a illage bookshop. Gracious Living in Cha pel Hill diminishes with every turn, we fear. Let it be removed. OUR RESPECT FOR Mr. Stein beck narrowly misses constituting blasphemous idolatry. He writes beautifully, he has something to say, we enjoy him, he exhilarates us. But he made one comment in his editorial that made us stop reading and think for a minute. "No Communist tactician," he says,, "would destroy the climate of disunity and suspicion which has haunted us for the last few years by substituting a return to sanity. An effective Communist Party would much rather kep the investigations . going with their harvest of fear and disruption than to produce laughter which, in my estimation, is what Com munists have most to fear and against which they have no ar mor." This is very good resoning and may very well be true. But it raises the question that if no Communist tactician would des troy a climate of disunity, what would he do instead? Assuming, that is, that he does not make an outright error. It appears to us that while the Kremlin Club may possibly have made a genuine mistake in permitting the "cli mate of disunity" to lapse, on the other hand there might just as easily be an element of re verse english in the whole af fair, and the public laughter raised by references to profession al witneses may be carefully planed. ' f V I T-- -JS -- " . f PASSING REMARK No Textbook Is A Bible tEfje Batlp jx ptel The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it la published daily except Sunday, Monday and examina- 5tion and vacation per mrfs UTiA a ft m m a " a u ui ui w terms. Entered s second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un Aer the Act of BTarch 8, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.5t a semester; delivered, $8 a year, $3.50 a semester. LOOK AT IT this way: For the past few years the American public, having previously been complacent about Communism, has suffered from cronic internal insecurity as a result of the end less Communist investigations. Now, perhaps, Big Brother and his slightly les gargantuan sib lings, are reasoning that unless Americans are given a different kind of jolt, they may become complacent about the very thing" that is making them suspicious of one another. Obviously there is no other really effective way to disunite a country than the stim ulation of suspicion by investi gating anyone and everyone (ex cept by outright); there fore su spicion, as a weapon, must be given a rest, must be given time to gather new force; this can per haps best be done by letting the American public think the dan ger has passed, by fighting' fire with fire, by destroying complac ency with, complacency. Hence the laughter gimmick: let 'em laugh, the Communists may be sajing, they'Jl get the back of our hand on the return swing. Ron Levin The other night I was speaking to a friend or mine who entered the University as a freshman last fall. He was sliglitly aggravated over the fact ttit he had to take certain courses that were "going to be of no value to him in his future field. On many previous occasions. I have heard similar comments from students who feel they are deriving no benefit whatsoever from a particular course. It would seem to me that there is a lesson to be learned from every course and in every classroom. For instance: It is not essential that you remember how to solve every type"" of algebraic equation or remember all the formulae from a chemistry course, but. it vital that you develop from these a habit of thinking in an precise and careful manner that will prove to be an invaluable help in dealing with future problems that might be only remotely re lated to mathematics or chem istry, if at all. You should not be upset, if you can not remember al the names and dates' from a history text book. However, the study of this ' material shoud stimulate your mind and enlarge your scope of thought so as to make for a bet ter understanding of great events in theworld. It woul be nice, if you could recall all the interesting tales from your psychology class and familiarize yourself with Freu dian principles to such an extent that you could play armchair analyst the next time you go home. What IS important, though, is the realization of the complexity of the mind of man and an aware ness of the great amount of work done and the vast amount re maining to be accomplished in the yars ahead, so that we may come to a somewhat clearer un derstanding of ourselves and our environment. The development of a tolerant and understanding attitude to ward all branches of knowledge should be the first concern of every college student. How many times have you heard certain de partments or professors referred to as complete wastes of time, or a bunch of crackpot or dream ers? These and similar remarks have been made for tone reason and one reason only, and that is complete and unswerving "igno rance on the part of the student. Nine times out of ten, he has never had a course in the depart ment, but he is going on the ad vice of a none too briliint friend. If he has had the course, he prob ably flunked it or had a strong dislike for the instructor due to reasons of a purely personal na ture. It is imperative that the stu dent should attempt to gain per spective in the acquisition of knowledge. Try to view the sub ject matter from a distance. Af ter you have studied for a quiz, put down the book and reflect for a while on the purpose and signif icance of what ou have learned. How does it relate to your other courses and the vast amount of j'our previous experience whether from books - or actual living? What are some questions that have arisen during the semester that you did not find answered in the book? What are some an swers given that do not seem satisfactory to you? How has it helped you to integrate yourself to those around you and se your self as part of the human idea? Above all, remember that no textbook is a bible, and no in structor an absolute authority on any one subject. The world has been changing ever since time began, and it will continue to do so as long as at exists. It is just this inherent and vital part of the proces of life that causes us to wait hopefully and eagerly for tomorrow. Own Image Dissatisfies Ralph McGill (We go Mr. McGill's Atlanta Constituticni article fine and thought-provoking thought it be a few points better; it ivould be tragic, we tfiink, to vse Arnerir" can bombs and lives to keep Quemoy and Matsu out of the hands of Chinese Communists and our opinion is shared by both statesmen and responsible mili tary experts Editors.) With agonizing slowness, the pace of which has been snail like, stationary, or retarded, the Kremlin's best laid plans of ag gression in Europe have been thwarted. There Communist strength, though yet formidable wanes. This has been done, without war, though not without compro mise and sacrifice. Senator Walter George and oth ers have taken the line that this suggests a similar course of ac tion in Asia. Certain deductions now are possible One is this: The more people learn about the facts of Communist rule as opposed to Marxist and Lenin ideology, the. more they want to be free of it But what affronts many Amer icans is that these same persons want also to be equally free of American influence. It should not affront us. We, ourselves, are not content with our own image. Our jammed mental institutions; our juvenile problems; our preoccupation with "success"; our retreat from any thing intellectual these are but a few of the facets of our image which are ugly even to us. MATERIALISTIC One of the most successful bits of propaganda used against us is that we are -a materialistic peo ple. We cannot escape the evi dence our image reflects this fact. We bang too many cymbals. We set up too many golden calv es. The smoke from their altars conceals the crowded churches; the friendly, genuine people, the concern for all human needs. There is no reason why other nations should not wish to work out their own political and so cial system free of the Soviet Union and the United States. Japan, for example, already is moving more rapidly toward Hie "neutralism" as best expressed by India. And Japan, even more than Formosa, is an integral part of our defense perimeter. Sincere men, who are mem bers of our Chiefs of Staff, be lieve we should not stand aloof if an attack is made on either, or both, the coastal islands just off the Red Chinese coast . . . Matsu and Quemoy. They recommend we strike an immediate heavy blow of retal iation. CONCEPT Put briefly, the idea would be swiftly to reduce her capacity to make war. If we do this will the Russians come in? The President does not think so. He speaks out or the intelli gence reports given him. What else does the President think? He has not said. Those close to him felt, after hearing his analy sis, that he inclined to applying the agonizingly . - slow methods which gradually have stalemated Communist plans in Europe. But we don't know. What we must know is the choice. Y-Court Corner Rueben Leonard Ike's Secret Transportation Report tit j Editors J ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR l- . Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Niijht editor lor this issue -Eddie Crutchfield "IT IS INEVITABLE," Mr. Steinbeck says, "that some offic ials. . .must charge that. . .(Matu sow's) reversal is a part of a plot. : . of the Kremlin. But the time for such reasoning has pass ed." Certainly it is inevitable that such charges will be made. But why has the time for rea soning that such charges are false passed? Unless the Com munists have really made a ser ious blunder, we cannot see that it has. Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON The Wall Street Journal has published the Eisenhower Administration's still secret transportation report. It is heavily weighted in favor of the railroads and railroad stocks have been climbing, presumably in case of cause and effect. The verdict of an experienced politician, who has read the re port is less bullish. Naming var ious aggressive industries it will vitally affect, including truckers and the airlines, he suggested that if the President backed it, every lawyer in America would be put on retainer by some in terested party. Apparently practical politicians who like Ike have achieved con tact with the White House. The report is still seret and Secretary of Commerce Weeks, its guiding genius, has announced a Euro pean journey in the interest of more foreign trade. The other transportation proj ect of the- Administration the President's S101 'billion highway program-has. already bit the dust. Fiscal conservatives in cluding Senator Byrd protested its off-the-budget financing as pects. The loose Federal-state partnership proposed came un der fire from liberals, while var ious state Governors attacked the toll road sections. GORE'S FILE Chairman Gore of the Senate Public. Works Committee had al ready filed it in the wastebasket hefore the President's new Controller-General, Joseph Camp bell, appeared with his own large funeral wreath. The ve hemence of Campbell's attack almost persuaded Gore he had been wrong in fighting that ap pointment. Gore now intends to push his' own bill which began by doub ling the present program and may now be pushed up to four to five billions he hopes. In this particular Congress, that would be a substantial appropriation for new construction outside the Defense. Department. Against this background it is probably academic to point to the glaring onconsistencies be tween the two transportation projects, since so little is apt to. happen. For example, truckers were raised to seventh heaven "by the prospects of billions of dollars worth of new roads, but were sent plummeting in the op posite direction by a recommen dation in the Weeks report that railway companies should be freed to go into the trucking and bus business. What seems to be happening is that people deeply interested in certain fields are being allow ed to shape White House policy dealing with them, without that leavening of the general interest which politicians are supposed to supply. It is one result of a cabinet of business men who are trained to look after a relatively few interests very well. CHARY SOLONS When these recommendations or programs reach Congress, the politicians quickly detect their imbalance. If a large and well belanced schedule of legislation were before them, members of Congress would not perhaps be so chary. Instead they have had only a sprinkling of special mes sages. This is one reason there will be very little new substantive legislation this year. The story may be different in 1956 an , election year. The public result is an ap pearance of political moderation. White House moves such as the Weeks proposals which would really change established policy are quickly rebuffed on the Hill. In turn, Congress is warned not to expand present horizons while the budget remains unbalanced. It is probably that what Sena tor Kef auver said on the floor last week is true. It is that the American people are in the mood to pause and catch their breath, which is a big reason for the President's appeal. THERE ARE so many alcoholics who have no desire to remain anonymous all dressed up aad ready to glow we can readily understand why li quor sales are mounting yearly. Peddling hootch is such good business that if all the liquor salesmen in Durham were laid end to end, they would Dorm a parallel line with their customers who are al.v laid out. The Chapel Hill Parent-Teacher's Association wanted to hold a referendum to install ABC Stores in Chapel Hill so they can drain the taxes from ,the spirits we drain. We suggest that they hold two rcf erendums, one for the establishment of liquor stores and one for the legalizing of gambling ca sinos. They could take the money derived from the sale of whiskey and put it on a roulette wheel. Since the PTA knows what is best for the local cit izenry surely they know how to beat the rou5c!fe wheel. With their winnings in the casinos they can have both an ultra-modern school program 'and a rehabilitation center for alcoholics. Local fraternities can add another kind of en tertainment to their long list orgies; a series of seances "Just rap on the table and spirits will ap pear." Young athretes at Carolina will be able to hang on the bars and chin for hours. Even with all the benefits to be derived from the advent of liquor stores, we predict that the citi zens of Orange County will vote dry just as long as they can stagger to the polls to vote. CHALK UP another victory for the grounds keepers. Where a path once crossed the grass on the west side of Hanes Hall there is now a row of thorn bushes. We suggest that the grounds-keepers buy a batch of snakes (if you buy snakes in batches) and turn them loose in the Arboretum and really keep the students off the grass. EVERY TIME that an instructor announces to the class that he has an outside grader, there are moans and groans from the students. At the University of Michigan a professor also had reason to complain. After correcting a set of English papers, an as sistant was (a) disturbed to discover he had cor rected an extra exam that he couldn't account for even though he had graded it a "D" because it showed "a poor grasp of fundamentals," (b) showed it to the instructor, (c) was even more listurbed when informed it was the key the instructor had left for him to use in marking the other papers. CHARLES DUNN mentioned in his column yes terday that Tarnation was up to par. We would like to know what is par for a humor magazine. Everyone seems to knowgood humor when they see it but no one ever turns any of it in to the Tarnation staff. Maybe Charlie's of the "If I want to write a, good book, I'll write one" school. ELECTION AFTERMATH: When Don Fowler put up his poster in Y-Court that read, "Elect Don Fowler And Put YOUR Feet On The President's "Desk," several students vowed that if Fowler were elected they would journey-up to Graham Memorial and do just that. AND TODAY we leave for the land of sin, sand, and sunshine where the ocean breeze fur nishes the right amount of salt for our beer and the flying 'sand filters the lemon seeds from our "P. J." (This paragraph dedicated to Louis Kraar and his pseudo-spring breezes). Reader's Retort - Another Writer Gods 'Over The Hill' Here Editor: Congrats to C. Dunn on his excellent taste in column titles, viz., "Over The Hill," p. 2. I hesitate to laud Mr. Dunn on his originality, however, as I seem to recall a column of the same name which appeared on the sports page only U-t semester. Fred Babson (For reader Babson's and the campus' further edification, the title "Over The Hill" goes back be fore former Sports Editor Babson's Daily Tar Uccl times and our men. Walt Dear started an editorial page column in this paper some half doien yean back, and it icas called "Over The Hill." So colum nist Cliarles Dunn wasn't stealing from furrier sports scribe Babson; he icas only carrying on !' c t radi t io n. Editors ) Quote, Unquote You must select the Puritans for your ancc.-tor-. You must have a sheltered youth and be a gradual of Harvard ... Eat beans on Saturday night ar.d fish-balls Sunday morning . . . You must be a D.A.IL a Colonial Dame, an S.A.R., or belong to the May flower Society . . . You must read the Atlar.f c monthly . . . You must make sure in advance that your obituary appears in the Boston Transcript. There is nothing else To be Happy in Kca- Kr-.r land, Letter to the Editor of the ChrtitUin Regime: A Both ears to the ground, but Yr. correspondcrt can distinguish no rumbles of complaint that the University's educational television budget was in twain last week. Statesmen earning the TV hat He semcd content that the economy bovs accom plished no more than half their aim, which was t cut of this appropriation entirely. Hon- John W. Umstead of Orange, the spear t the Chapel Hill phalanx within the subcommitu-e on appropriations explains blandly that the Uni versity people will simply have to return to the private sources which provided the some Sl.oOO OO'J with which the WUNC-TV began life. If the Icle vtsionary cost of living has been accurately figured, that will mean some. $217,000 within the next two years. Burke Davis in the Greensboro Daily Se3
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