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PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL VrDNCCDAY, APRIL 13, To A Pillar Of Salt? At an undetermined hour tonight, as you settle down to English History or Shakes eare or Ii.A. 71 or to more playful efforts) the die will be east lor the ruling body of the University. Members of the State Home and Senate Committees on Trustees, in joint session, will file past the ballot boxes; they Avill cast votes for 30 new Trustees to serve on next year's lioard. lint ugly rumors of jxxssible sleight-of-hand have readied 'our ears from their origin -under the Raleigh Dome. Those rumors, specifically, are not totally unexpected: That certain backward-looking ' and, unfortunately, influential persons have: spotted danger in the Board's progressive vote against segregation at a- State College summer course: that they have seen the red flag and will now try to juggle the selection of new Trustees to lit the pattern of their own re stricted vision. In short, that they will at tempt to elect new Trustees whose minds arc closed to the possibility of co-racial education on the college level. Here (and quite unusually for these times") the issues strike more deeply that to the ques tion of ethical and practical right and wrong on the Supreme Court's Decision. Will the people of North Carolina, when their state university's livelihood is at stake, allow Trus tees to be chosen on the basis of a patented, ready-framed attitude? Will they '-have com petence and the open mind displaced by med iocrity, so long as that mediocrity is set to vote one way oit a' lone decision? .Will 'they, in fact, let one issue call the tune for a hun dred different situations? We doubt it. The time to look backwards on 193.5 decisions will be 1984 or 2,000, not 1955. Those who woidd plot and rig behind the ballot boxes have trained their eyes un swervingly -to the rear. Perhaps they have not learned the story of Lot's wife, who looked backward at the wrong time and became a pillar of salt. Their ignorance of that allergy may have tragic effect on the University's future. Fowler, Meet Ike, Then Go Your Way After a vigorous campaign, void of issues, popular Don Fowler is President of the stu dent bodv, standing as somewhat of an under graduate Eisenhower. Like the golf-putting ex-General, Fowler's experience in partisan politics doesn't in clude the seedier' side of backroom sessions. Although the -'Winston-Salem self-help stu dent has been active as treasurer, he is better known for his other activities; this too re minds us of Eisenhower. And, like the White House's present occupant, Fowler drew sup porters from both political parties. The stu dent President's noncommital attitude, a common trait of all this spring's candidates, also smacks of agreeable Ike. But. let this analogy go no further. Fowler is elected; he's capable and willing to work. We trust he'll not follow along in the shaky footsteps of Eisenhower, whose efforts to please everybody have made for everything but dynamic government. Unlike Ike, Don Fowler doesn't have to worry about a second term; he has no Know lands or McCarthys to massage; and his prob lemsthough great are by no means of the Ouemoy and Matsu seriousness. With these advantages over the U. S. Pres ident, we hope Fowler can give student gov ernment the needed jab on the posterior to make it jump and leap with action. To stim ulate activity in this vapid field of student life, the newstudent President will have to cast popularity aside, leaving it to athletes and beauty queens. This is difficult to do. But perhaps with a reminder of student government's active past ringing in his presi dential ears, Fowler can tackle the difficult task of doing what is necessary, rather than what is popular. Dean Fred -Weaver summed up the history of student government when he said that it was "technically a delegated authority, but as . the record slums, it was an authority which Vnd asserted itself, then proved itself, and tln won recognition for itself; and with their close organization and line esprit de corps the students were quick to defend it in time of attack." The Daily Tar Heel hopes Don Fowler w ill' drink deeply of these words and restore student government to its past glory. We wish you luck, Mr. President; Carolina Front Of Education Grime And The Ludicrous J. A. C. Dunn 'But My Friend Mr. Dulles Was Right Behind Me' Passing Remark, WE WERE BORN at a tender age in a quite sadistic frame of mind, most of' which outlook on life we have managed to re tain through the past couple of decades. For this reason we choose this, of all the days open to choice, to talk about educa tion. : :; ;i Before leaving these halls of grimness and travail six days ago, we saw one of the most insane movies to which we have ever been privileged to pay ad mission called "The Bells of St. Trinians." St. Trinians is a girls' school known chiefly for its staff and pupils, which were created by British cartoonist Ronald Searle. We cannot de cide whether these lethal fe males are sub-normal, superhu man, or merely from a different planet, and judging by the re actions of the people who come into contact with St. Trinians personnel, this indecision is rather widespread. Merchants board up their shops, passersby frantically mount bicycles or drive cars at breakneck speed, the army flees in panic and the police call in reinforcements at the mere mention of the advent of St. Trinians. The motto of St. Trinians (literally "in flagranti delicto") freely translated means, in the words' of Miss Frittendon, St. T's craftily vague headmistress, that most girls' schools prepare their students for the great mer ciless world outside, it is the merciless world itself which must be prepared when St. Trin ians girls leave their alma mater to enter Life. SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF the slightly depraved character of most St. T alumni are the fol lowing: In the chem lab the girls make St. Trinians Dry Gin, . which they sell on the "out side" through the various ques tionable contacts of a nefarious "bootboy" named Flash, who wears his hat pulled down to his chin and his coast let down to his ankles. Miss Frittendon uses the gin for punch on Old Girls' Day. St. Trinians girls are also adept at the ins and outs of bookmaking, booby traps, tor ture, financial knavery and the more violent forms of modern warfare. We hope the movie will come back so that more people will see What British Education is Really Like. Report From Myrtle Beach Opium Dens Ron Levin F.D.R. IN RETROSPECT Ten Aprils Are Still Too Few tS3je Bmlp; Wat Peel The official -student publication of the Publi cations 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 is second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, un der the Act of ifarch B, 1879. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per fear, S2.5C a semester; delivered, $8 a year, $3.50 a semester. Jwle of the Vnivrrvtr J- of. " ' Narth CitfuUit " Editors ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAll THAT SHOULD TAKE care of the other side of the Atlantic. On the other hand we have a couple of anecdotes to relate that give equally as good a pic ture of the steadily increasing debilitation of American school ing. We were honored by a short chat with the Dean of-Columbia University Graduate School a few weeks ago, and during the conversation he told (laughingly) of the student from a small col lege in northern Georgia who applied for admittance to Co lumbia grad school, claiming as accreditable academic work courses taken in hog calling, cattle judging and the saving of souls. This information is veri fiable. Write Columbia for par ticulars. Our other story, which oc curred in the south, is the tale year-old son came home sadly defincient in knowledge of the multiplication table. The public school the boy was attending said, on being questioned, that the boy would learn "the"" mul tiplication table the next year. So the next year, when the boy still didn't know what eight times eight was, the school, on further investigation acted ra ther surprised and said the boy should have learnt that the pre vious year. We know of one poor school teacher who looks yearningly every day at the luscious dande lions in his yard, ' wondering if they wouldn't just add a little something to his lunch. And we know of another teacher, an instructor in this University and a person of more serious bent, who is steadily becoming misanthropic over the education situation in this country. Jonathan Daniels (Jonathan Daniels, Raleigh Neios & Observer editor, ap praises the status of Franklin D. Roosevelt ten years after his death in this article excerpted from The New York Times Magazine. We find Editor Dan iels' essay . interesting and timely on this week's anniver sary of F.D.R.'spassing. Ed itors.) Ten years after his death on that warm April afternoon in -1945, all that is left of Franklin Roosevelt is off the main travel ed roads. Much traffic which used to go by and often stop at the library, the home and the grave on the old Albany Post Road has been diverted to the Taconic Parkway to the east and the New York Thruway across the Hudson on the west. Not so many people come now as at the beginning of the dec ade when new grief .was com bined, with the first relaxation of gas-rationing. Some like to see in that a sign that the man is almost as forgotten now as the gas-rationing or the grief. And others are sure that so little real change has been made in the New Deal and the New In ternationalism that they now seem less the policies of a man than the normal, fixed directions of America. Certainly the altera tions in America which Roose velt attended seem today too deep-rooted to be related to a grave only ten years old. It does not seem to me ten years since that dark Thursday afternoon in April. Such periods always pass swiftly. It may help to compare it with another such decade afier the death of an other President who died in April at the end of another war in which the central question was wheather "democracy could endure. Such a comparision, of course, cannot presume the ap proximation of Roosevelt's greatness to Lincoln's. It does point the similarities and the difference in two meaningful American centuries. Certainly it must have seemed to those who spent it a very short, crowded time from the assassination of Lincoln (almost four score years t0 the day be fore Roosevelt died) to the tenth year thereafter when with Lincoln's greatnest general in the White House, the divisive forces were already gathered to produce the fears of a new civil war over the bitterly contested Hayes-Tilden election the fol lowing year. TROOPS Federal troops then where still "quartered in the Southern states to uphold Republican gov ernments and some hoped to teach Yankee know-how to the recent rebels. Lincoln's last hope that all vindictiveness might be laid aside and the Southern people leniently treated was as long dead as Lincoln himself. It was not until the tenth year after he died that the image of his life began tobe creatively put together by John George Nicolay and John Hay, who not only knew him well but brought remarkable talents to his remembrance..- --.1. .-, .... Roosevelt's remembrance has been less well served. He was not made a martyr by an assas sin. There was in Washington when he died in 1945, when li lacs were blooming again, no such minor bureaucrat as Walt Whitman to put his grief and his commander into such poetry as "When Ltlacs Last - in the Dooryard Bloam'd," In the case of both there were the swift biographies and books pf recol lection. But the ten years after Lincoln's death: were not over before Robert Lincoln had broken with his father's law partner, William Henry Hern don, because of Herndon's ef forts to keep Lincoln a human individual and save him from uncritical legendsnaking. CHANGE Yet, strangely, even with the change of political parties, Roosevelt's programs have been kept more intact -and in practice than the purposes, for a reunited America which Lincoln outlin ed to his Cabinet jon the last day he lived. Roosevelt's New Deal has the often-spoken scorn of many of those who hold the power n the government today. But it has certainly not been abandoned by a Inew President who urges the extension of re ciprical trade, the) broadening of the base of social' security, the increase of miriimum wages. That new President, indeed, has been charged wiihin his own party; and by tre wing of it which hated Roosevelt most, of going farther to Jhe Left in a similar period tlian Roosevelt did. : Dateline . . . April, 9. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It is eight thirty on a Saturday night. I walked down about five blocks from the Pavilion and paused in front of the Ocean Plaza Hotel. Opening directly on to the side walk is a dance hall called the Marine Room. Pushing my way in through the jammed aisle, I found myself in' a place th-t would have made the opium dens of Hong Kong look like a "nursery. The smoke hung Heavily in rifts over the dance floor, and empty beer cans lit tered the floor in profusion. There were people of all de scription. Some were dancing; some were watching; some were drinking. The majority of the customers were seventeen or un der. There were a few service men and a slightly larger number of college students. I went up to one teen ager who was standing against a booth downing the last few swallows of a Blue Bibbon. He was dressed in -the usual at tire of wide kneed, ankle draped slacks and a flowing long sleeve sport shirt. His hair cut would have cause, any self respectable barber to throw up. He couldn't have been over sixteen at the most, and I watched his eyes as they ran up and down my cord suit in suspicion. I started the conversation. "Some crowd, huh?" "Yeah, Saturday night is al ways a big night here." "Say, I thought you had to be I suspect that identification eighteen to buy beer." , of the leader with the people "You do. I just get my buddy in the case of Roosevelt, as of to buy it for me." i.inrnin ic as firm a basis as 'DONT BE DUMB' exists for the immortality of the hero. Aloofness does not generally seem to 4be the firm est basis of legend. Also it is He pointed to a similarly dressed teen ager lounging in the adjoining booth. "Well, what about the police? a strange thing how the last- Don't they check up on your heroes are not generally creat- ages?" ed by those who most dutifully "Aw DBD, man. (Don't be guard their ashes, but by those dumb,) Them lousy bulls come in who examine them with some- here every half hour, and when thing, less than piety. Herndon's we see 'em coming we put down reports added much more to the cans till they leave. They the humanity of Lincoln than his can't touch ya, see?" son Robert did by hiding many I agreed and left him to get of his papers from 1865 to 1947. Those who defend Roosevelt's fame from the possibility of fault are equally foolish. He a better look ..at some of the oc cupants. As I walked around the back through the aisle that cur ved around the dance floor, I prided himself on his sense of saw a vounS "n talking to a historv. He wished it to re- ieen aer in tne last Doom, iney member him well As a collector were seated next to one another, or hoarder for history, he saved and the fawning smile on the not only papers and a forty-foot face ot the man could have irphnat h.,t items which he meant oniy one tning. 1 could not have felt would pre serve any impeccable portrait of an impeccable man. HUMAN FRAILTIES He industriously collected and preserved the evidences of his own human frailties much better than the energetic Hern don did after Lincoln's death. mrmmiv.-:'1 jm.-.ywraWHi w.jewpww "?1K. I! : q 1 1 i i - - , i ,N j f A - '4) I .----ill. 1 rooseveLt . . I.J had seen it before and had learned to recognize it. They had their arms around each other. I felt like retching Qn the floor right there in front of me. As I stood there, a small cir cle of people gathered in front of me in the back entrance, while two youths paired off in the middle of the circle. Sud- And, as in the case of Lincoln, denly the fight erupted like a they will help make his iden- human volcano, and immediate- tification with the far from per- ly the crowds surged forward, feet people more complete BETTER THAN TV and more apappealing. The crowd broke up quickly It is, of course, much too and went back t0 the booths and soon to measure Roosevelt's the dance floor. I found out greatness in terms of his poli- from one spectator that the cies. He himself liked to quote fights averaged one about every Woodrow Wilson as saying to fifteen minutes or so. His eyes him, "Ninety-nine out of one lit up eargerly, as he told me hundred matters which appear there were more on Saturday t0 you and me today as of vital night than during the week. He administration policy will be always came down on Saturday completely . overlooked by his- night to watch the fights. Better tory, and many other little than TV, I thought to myself, things which you and I pay but Many of the girls standing on scant heed to will begin to be the edge of the dance floor were talked about one hundred years smoking with a false manner from now." that gave away their age. After One thing about Roosevelt will a while, I found it becoming be remembered: He was the increasingly difficult to breathe, man whose boldness, extrava- so after five minutes of fighting gant readiness with the coun- the packed aisles, I found my- try's -cash and easy fascination self on the street breathing in with fantastic ideas brought the clean night air. about the practical development No, this is no sermon. I'm of the power in nuclear physics, painting a picture, and you be Then Aprils are still too few the critic. Though there seems to fix, the image of Roosevelt to be no small amount of con- which will attend the already cern over the great increase in obvious ( long remembrance of juvenile delinquency, teen" age Franklin Roosevelt. In many narcotics trade and sexual per- ways the future and not the version, places like this are al- man will determine that. And lowed to exist in flagrant viola- certainly in the complexity of tion of the law. his character, in both the play- it will take me a long time fulness and the implacability-of his personality, in the petty things to which he gave cora cern and in the great causes to which he devoted his life, there to forget what I saw that night. It will probably take "public spirited citizens" a still longer time to wake up to reality. In the meantime, dont be disturb- too soon Uo know are materials for the making ed the headlines in your morn 6f many legends or almost in g paper. Just remember . . .it's any legend about .him. all in good fun . sure. Y -Court Corner Rueben Leonard IN MONDAY'S Chapel If ill Neus Leader, a col umnist spared no adjectives when he wrote of th, wonderful feeling he experienced in seeing avail able parking space over the Spring holidays. The columnist went on to ask himself as espe cially assinine question, namely, where all the stu dent cars come from when the state has such a low per capita income. Personally, I think there is about as much corre lation between student cars and state per capita income as there is between income taxes and the sex habits of a -whale. 0 Mammon! Chief God of the village, look down .upon' your worshippers and cease their continual gnawing on the hand that nourishes them. Beseech them to always remember that Chapel Hill without the University, its students and their money would be as a candle without a wick, a clock without a spring, and a cart without a horse. 1 was sitting at the dinner table one evening li-tenin- to my mother tell of the latest happenings in the neighborhood: "Did you know that Carol Su-and-so is pregnant?" she asked. "Can't they find out what's causing it? piped 111 my little sister. DAVE REID, Don Fowler's most ardent support er, wandered into Y-Court last Wednesday morning with that old I-told-you-so beam on his face. "You know what," he said, "Don asked me last night if I would be his Attorney-General." This was news to us we didn't think that Reid had to, I Fowler that he could be president yet. JIM MONTEITH is also slated to land a big fat appointment. Can it possibly be a reward for his support in the campaign? Too bad Gordon Forester and Charlie Ackerman. won't be around next year to partake of the spoils. SHADES OF Florence Nightingale! You may think it is tough to sit in the corridor of the infirmary and bleed to death before you can see a doctor, but what if you were a nurse and had to work the night shift. Those poor old keepers-gf-the-cure work 66V2 hours during the week that they are on night duty. The afternoon shift is comparatively light re quiring only 52V2 hours per week while the morning shift is a vacation entailing only 49 hours. . April twelfth through June fifth will be the "Night Before Christmas" for the senior class. On June sixth, all those that have been good little girls and boys will walk up to Dean Santa Claus and et their reward. You'd better watch out, You'd better not pout, You'd better go to class Or they'll kick you out. The three cut rule has come into town. EVER HAD a quiz returned that looked as if the instructor had bled all over it? Of course you have most students have a tendency to shoot the breeza on essay exams. Many instructors scribble the correct answers in the margins of the quiz paper, but Mr. Geer of the Social Science Department has a remedy of rem edies. He stamps a big red bull in the middle of an answer that clearly shows no knowledge of the question asked. It makes you think twice before you loosen the hot air valve. SINCE WE are on the subject of bulls and Social Science, I think I read somewhere that "A Papal Bull is a ferocious bull kept by the Pope to trample on the Protestants" and that the "Diet of Worm.-." was a punishment under feudalism. COMING BACK from the beach Monday night, two coeds were wondering where they should tell their sorority sisters they stayed. Each "girl w as try ing to remember the names of the ritzier hoteN. "Let's tell them we stayed at the Ocean Forest." said one. "No, said the other, "I think one of the girls' sister owns that, and even if she doesn't she knows the person who does." "Oh Hell." sa. 1 the first girl, "Let's just tell them we went to New York and stayed at the Waldorf. I know none of the girls own that." -Reader's Retort - More Plaudits For Our Predecessor Editor: Your recent editorial, "Proceeding calmlv " ui different quotation marks is one of the best m: -manes on the integration issue I have yet read ii any newspaper. I wish that the annonymitv of editorial fraternity could be torn aside Ions en,:: lor me to see a personal sketch of the writer V t are news, whether you realize it or not, for in n.t little piece of writing is history. As a Southerner and the grandson of two C n- Intn? tHetertnS-ne 0f whom- saw the unpleas antness through from beginning to end and thi oth er only the beginningI am aware that there are Srrh!mS . ntegratin- But ther a no bac JersiUeT The N1 Hi" n0r at th oth" uni' ouimt m greS Wh Can make entrance re sident? TS T1aVeraSe 35 CU,turtd as the Wi,-, students. Institutes of higher learning can be p:1 t f the racShr the -here, f the racial populations are nearly equal inte- : tZ VAnTV0 H1 fee,ing" 1 have" alw e-t oTTJuZr 7 by fiVe r ten yes a great deal But the u ?l.10n CUld have been gathered cally nhe h 15 31Md 3nd' as '0U sav so grap:n me t'itwR ncaf 1S n l0nR(?r P-g." Yc,; havn sincerely glC 1 ratulate you mt the'TarHeef11811 has sending " efl ?JeanVn:wSprPer?Veral mnths' 11 is striking ' iieador WrU-t
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