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SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1955 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL 1 ! 'A 1. a " S ' v ' t : o ' t s. . p : ii I n t: ' D : ii; th ; V: 1 fl;- : : a ' " a- ! ; ; $ ; li ! i IB : ; tii i Q cl I si w la th j o . Fj R -d cii .j ; re Ei ;ta: ' po Pi ioj Hi th W. Hi Co an ' ho ' th th xni all ; is , ha A Hard Core Those legislators in the General Assembly who were responsible for the weird (and, in many resists dispel ul) outcome or the re cent Trustee elections have helped strengthen a precedent which bodes no good for the Um- ersity. ,. We lament, rather than crow, that our edi torial fears expressed in "To A Pillar of Salt-" proved in the outcome of things true. Now several legislators in a calculated and unseemlv display of backscratt hing, logroll-in"-, and self-promotion, have unseated from the Hoard of Trustees several loyal and dis tinguished servants (not, mind you, masters) of the I'niversity. Major L. P. McLendon of Greensboro and Dr. Clarence Poe are not alone, but outstanding, in the list of those who received summary dismissal. Major McLendon, we understand, has been a marked man since he led the Board of -Trustees to its commendable vote on seg regation in the State College Summer School course. The segregation issue, we also under stand, was the pivot upon which the Board elections turned Wednesday night. How the Board of Trustees may vote on a future ivsue regarding segregation within the Consolidated University is a question of ut most seriousness. The vote (or votes) must not.be made by inflamed minds and certain ly not with prejudiced attitudes, totally de t ulud from the specific problems which the Board will confront. Yet fore-decisions is the weapon upon which the Board-jugglers count: and by Wednesday night's election they inserted ammunition. All told, however, we hope that one Trustee-election has not destroyed the balance which has up to now hung on the side of reason. We are disturbed that a hard core has now bored into the Board of Trustees; Ave are disturbed that their avowed motive to choke proper deliberative procedures with in the Board has gone unchallenged; we are disturbed that the arrogation of more and more power to the hands of the Trustees con tinues unchecked. The function of the Board lias gradually moved from the areas of policy-making to the area of policy-execution. If, coupled with that trend, the legislature now allows members to be packed on the Board for one avowed and hitherto unchal lenged purpose, what will happen next? Sup pose the Board-jugglers next decide they would like to have power on the Board to check decisions on what professors can teach in class. Will they get it? The handwriting is on the Avail. Too Much Muscle As the studeiTf Legislature flexes its most powerful muscle this week the one that con trols the purse strings it is increasingly evi dent that the campus doesn't know how its money is spent. And legislators don't seem too bent on informing students either. Among other things, the Legislature hack ed The Daily Tar Heel doAvn to a five-day week alter next fall's football season, shelled out over a Si.ooo. for an executive secretary to keep student government's records, and gave the Carolina Forum a $400 dole to take jaunts about the country in quest of speakers. We think the students should study Avhat the Legislature is going to do with their Sio3.38(i.2o in student, fees. As anything but unbiased olervers of our own budget, Ave naturally feel that students should have a complete newspaper. But, 'more important than just deciding Avhether or not to give the campus newspaper full supjxM t. Ave feel that student government tosses around over Si 00,000 of student money Avith anything but a judicious hand. A visit to Thursday night's Legislature session Avould have shown this to any observer. Student legislators orated Avithout saying anything, refused to listen even to each other, and ex hibited in general a lack of understanding of the budget for next year. Xow that the political campaigns are over, The Daily Tar Heel hopes that the campus politicians will quit playing politics, stop imi tating Congressional committees and the General Assembly and listen to the students they represent. Does the campus Avant a five1 day neAvspa. Do 1 to Keep Should the Forum be siven evtenciV a el hinds.-' Only the students have the answer. We hope, the -Legislature will listen to them. tEfje Baity ar ?eel The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter at the post of fice in Chapel Hill, C, under the Act March 8, 1879 scription rates: ed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a mester. s Carolina Front Parking With Calculus: The Eighth Wonder 'Now If You Could Just Control Your Inventions. Huh?' J. A. C. Dunn students Avant a permanent employee ?p student government's records? l l 1 e Stft of br i)tVfK rWih .Carotin. 'U9 N. of Sub-mail- se- Editors ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE AT THE RISK of boring every one to tears with this constant mention of the nation's parking problems, we find we cannot resist inserting the following suggested solution which was sent to the Cornell Daily Sun. We quote from the issue of Mon day, April 11: ". . . Every car on campus is parked, on the average, 30 inches apart. This dead space between cars assures the occupants enough room to open, on either side, his door and exit. However, the oc cupants need only room on one side of a car in order to exit. Therefore we may park two cars flush (as a pair), leave a space of 30 inches and park another pair. Thus for every two cars we save 30 inches. The width of two cars is 2x6 or 144 inches. This would increase the capaci ty of every parking field almost 21 (30144 x 100) -without any increase in facilities " 1 We can see it now, truly truly we can. A great sleek Buick slides into a parking place very close to another car; a little old lady crawls laboriously across the seat and gets out of the car carrying a measuring tape; she goes around to the rear of the car and measures between the bumpers of her car and the next one; finding she is six inches short she gets back into her car, crawls across the seat to the driver's side, backs the car out and reparks it; then she crawls across the seat with her tape measure and measures the dis tance between bumpers again; still two and a half inches short. The little old lady is now ten minutes late for her appoint ment, but she is a solid citizen, and she knows that every inch counts. She gets back into her car, crawls across the seat once more, backs the Buick out again and tries to get it closer to the car next to her. Unfortunately she overshoots herself and rams the other car's fender; when she tries to back away from another shot her Buick suffers a long scratch on its beautiful paint and leaves a deep gash in the other car in return.' Somewhat shaken, the litttle old lady tries again. She edges her Buick gently, gently, ever so cautiously closer and closer to the other car and farther and farther into the parking place. She makes it; she stops, crawls across the seat goes and meau ures and just as she gets the tape measure spread and sees that this time she has actually saved 31 whole inches of park ing space, someone gets into the car she is paired with and drives away. Twenty minutes later a traffic cop strolls by with his measur ing tape, and finds the little old lady leaning against the fender of her Buick and sobbing uncon trollably with rage and frustra tion. The motor of the car is still running. She just couldn't face crawling across "that seat again. Oh, dear, Cornell, You are so far above Cayuga's waters. Oh, deary, deary us. FOR THE BENEFIT of those who are really interested in world-wide events, there is a lion in Winston. It resides peacefully in a roof on the third floor just by the window with a blanket thrown over it. Sometimes there are other things thrown over it as well, such as laundry and sophomores and empty coke bot tles. "Coke bottles" is a euphem ism. The lion's name is Mordecai McGargleharshly. He was brought over from North Africa as a cub by the Army at the end of the war. He's a pretty good lion, as lions go. In fact, as lions go he's real gone. He likes Dixieland jazz and Coke. "Coke" is a euphemism. Mordecai never leaves his room in Winston. He just lies there by the window and dreams of days in North Africa when the gazelle were plentiful and, later, when all the charming boys from America gave him Hershey bars and cokes. "Cokes" is a euphem ism. At the end of the semester, so his owners tell me, Mordecai will leave that happy roof in Winston, where, just .outside the door broken glass and shaving cream flies up and down the hall night ly. "Brokne glass" and "shaving cream" are euphemisms. ! V ": -r - V asb K---i-Z-Jr- &s- Tfe "ssM,-r0J JS Cold shoulder Y-Court Corner In Washington THE ADMINISTRATION'S PAPER: Tifty-Four Forty No Fight' Joseph Alsop Partly because of the extra ordinary vacillations of the Eisenhower administration, trouble on Formosa must cer tainly be expected if Quemoy and the Matsus are finally sur rendered to the Communists. Try to do what our present policymakrs seem never to do. Look at the record of American action on the issue of the off shore island through" the eyes of those most directy affected and you realize at once that the danger of demoralization here on Formosa is bound to be con siderable. Item one on the record is President Eisenhower's famous "unleashing of Chiang Kai shek," and his sharp attack Gn the Truman administration for pursuing precisely the policy that the Eisenhower administra tion has now embodied in the Formosa treaty. To give reality to the "unleashing," the Ameri can policy makers strongly occupy the offshore islands in force. Until this pressure was ap plied in 1953, even Quemoy was rather lightly held. Everyone on Formosa assumed that the is land positions were expendable before they were occupied in force. It was by American re quest, then, that the Generalissi mo in effect committed himself, before his army and his people, to defend the offshore islands with all his power. Item two on the record is the quick switch that the Eisen hower administration made last fall, as soon as the Chinese Com munist threat to the islands be came serious. Overruling three of the four Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Eisenhower decided that the islands which the Gen eralissimo had committed him self to defend by American re quest, were now to be abandon ed without a fight. THE POLICY PAPER The result was the Adminstra tion policy paper widely known in the inner circles as "Fifty Four FortyNo Fight." As de cided by the President, this pa per took the firm position that the United States would not as sist in the defense of the . off shore islands. But in January, came item three, when "Fity-FourForty No Fight" was suddenly junked in favor of a new decision to abandon the Tachens but t0 de fend Quemoy and the Matsus. This new policy was so firmly agreed on that on January 19 Secretary of State John Foster Dulles formally promised Chi nese Foreign Minister George Yeh that Quemoy and the Mat sus would be publicly guaran teed by the President' himself. According to Dulles, the Pres ident was going to give this pub lic guarantee as soon as the Con gress had passed the Formosa resolution. On the strength of the minutes of the Dulles-Yeh conversation, American Ambas sador Karl Rankin also public ly forecast a guarantee ,of Que moy and the Matsus here in Taipeh. Meanwhile other Ameri can military 'and political leaders were making fighting noises of the kind that were also - heard in Washington in the , early stages of the Dienbienphu crisis. Finally, the fourth item in the record was the President's re pudiation of his Secretary of State's promise; his refusal to give any public guarantee of Quemoy and the Matsus; and the resulting adoption of the policy or is it the non-policy? of "keeping them guessing." This phase has lasted to the present day, with such incidents as Admiral Carney's background talk about atomic war by April 15 to give it spice. THE CONTINUOUS TERGIVERSATION From this truly fantastic re tion, one point stands out very cord of continuous tergiversa clearly. The importance that Quemoy and the Matsus have now acquired in the eyes of Formosa and of Asia is marked "made in America." We might have got away with abandoning the islands after pressing the Generalissimo to occupy them. But we could not and cannot get away with abandoning the is January decision to defend lands after the much publicized them. The first half of the Dienbienphu pattern, of big, bold, brave talk with a quick slink when the chips are down, the ef feet - will be shattering in Asia. And it will be most shat tering of all here on Formosa. With some reason in view of the record, an American refusal to aid in the defense of the is lands will now be regarded here as a shocking betrayal. It can at least be expected to produce the kind of anti-American manifestations that occurred at the time of . the Tachen ' evacua tion. And they are likely to be much more serious than the "pro-austerity" riot at a Sino American charity fashion show which was then organized by the more anti-foreign group in the government. How much further the thing will go, is far more difficult to tell. On the one hand, there is the record of 1950, the last time when the Communists were seri ously threatening to attack this island. In the period before the outbreak of the Korean War ended the threat to Formosa, there were the most widespread and alarming signs of disaffect ion here. Among a considerable number of traitors in key places, the most significant was the deputy chief of general staff, Gen. Wu Shieh. Gen Wu Shieh led a, con siderable group recruited within the general staff and in other key positions, and he was in di rect radio communication with Peiping. COOLIE WITH MOP AND PAIL According to well authenti cated report, Wu Shieh and his group might never ' have been caught, if they had not actually dared to hold an after hours meeting in the government place itself. A clean up coolie blundered into the meeting with his mop and pail. One of the conspirators over excitably shot him on the spot. The noise brought the guards and, so the plot was revealed and, Wu Shieh was executed early in June 1950. There is no doubt at all that the Peiping government is now trying t0 encourage new treach eries here on Formosa. The re turn to Communist China of the Generalissimo's old favo rite, Gen Wei Lihuang, was part of a well planned and well or ganized effort. Other such re turns are to be expected. Part of the same effort, too, is the prominence accorded the turn coats already in Peiping- In the reorganization of the Peiping, government, ex-associates of Chiang Kai-shek have been given a score of places on the Communist National : Military Council. On the other side of the led ger, meanwhile, there is the stern and efficient police job that has been done on Formosa by the Generalissimo's son, Gen. Chinag Ching-kuo. However much key persons may be tempted to throw in the sponge if America abandons the islands, the fact remains that treachery on Formosa is . no longer the easy business it once was. Balance the strictness of Chiang Ching-kuo's police against the evidence on the other side, and you get a very real doubt. It is certain that if the United State does not as sist in the defense of the off shore islands, the military and political demoralization here will be severe. But it is uncer tain, because' of the prevailing police measures, whether this demoralization will lead to more openly . serious consequences. Most probably it will -not, but the risk cannot be altogether ignored. Jay G. Sykes Although in past -years Harold Laski, -Harry Elmer Barnes and Malcolm Cowley were scorned by University of Washington offi cials as "Marxist, anti-revisionist, and leftist," they nevertheless spoke on campus platforms. Last winter the University physics department asked (Dr. J, Robert) Oppenheimer to give a series of lectures this spring in "three areas of physics." Oppen heimer tentatively accepted. Henry" P. Schmitz, University president, then announced that "after long and careful study of Oppenheimer's governmental re lationships" he was cancelling the invitation., "Bringing Dr. Op penheimer here at this time," he . said., ."would, not be in the best interests of the University." The students were the first to react. 'The decision," one wrote in. the university daily, "smacks of bigotry, weaknes, and compro mise." Another thanked Schmitz for ."protecting its interests" and said, "this will result in our be coming not only the Silent but also the Deaf Mute Generation." The faculty followed. "A very deep resentment and feeling of shame among many faculty mem bers" was reported by a botany professor. "The bell is tolling not only for the Phpsics Department but for all of us," said a history professor. Four hundred students attend ed a meting at which four facul ty members condemned Schmitz's action. Forty of the students were delegated to "march on" the State Capitol at Olympla, where Governor Arthur B, Lang lie granted three of them an in terview. "I don't know," Langlie told the students, "how many mothers of boys whose sons had fought the Communists in Korea have told me that their boys had lost their God-fearing values at the University of Washington." "Op penheimer," he said, "has been loose with the nation's security. And with the background of the University, you want to -bring Oppenheimer here!" On campus, the Organizations Assembly, representing half the student body, unanimously asked Schmitz to reconsider. So did the Board of Control, the student faculty . "governing body." Then the University Board of Regents, after scanning a Petition of Grievances signed by 1,100 stu dents, voted without debate to support the ban. The Regents' decision did not end the affair. Dr. Victor A. Weiskopf, professor of physics at M. I. T. has refused an invita tion to lecture. Dr. Perry Miller, literary historian at Harvard, Dr. Alex Inkeles, Harvard sociolog ist, also declined lecture invita tions. This academic cold-shoulder turned into a total freeze when seven Eastern scientists decided not to attend a scientific confer ence. Schmitz has been supported by the presidents of Seattle Univer sity, Pacific Lutheran College (Tacoma), and Seattle Pacific College, by the University of Washington Alumni Association, and by the Seattle Junior Cham ber of Commerce. The. only persons who appear to want Oppenheimer as a lec turer here are the students, scholars, teachers and scientists. As for Oppenheimer, his com ment was brief: "It seems to me that the University has embar rassed itself." Condensed from The New Republic. Quote, Unquote Art And The Artist The only real voyage of discov ery, the only Fountain of Youth, consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes, in seeing the universe with the eyes of another, of a hundred others, in seeing the hundred un iverses that each of them sees. And this we can do with a Ren oir or a Debussy; with such as they indeed do we ily from star to star. Marcel Proust The artist has a twofold rela tion to nature; he is at once her master and her slave, inasmuch as he must work with earthly things, in order to be under stood; but he is her master in asmuch as he subjects these earthly means to his higher in tentions, and renders them sub servant. John Wolfgang von Goethe Art is a human activity con sisting in this, that one man con sciously, by means of certain ex ternal signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infect ed by these feelings and also experience them. Leo Tolstoy in Rueben Leonard .' " SINCE EVERYONE seems to be jumping on the Anti-Business School bandwagon, I guess that I will have to follow suit but only on one condition; that you also close the schools of Chemistry, Nurs ing, and Mathematics. In fact, do away .with ail schools that give a B.S. degree. Ah then this old world would be an enjoyable place to live. No spe cialization whatsoever. : o T.t look at the benefits to be derived by eras Just Iook ai pamnn First, you would these scnoois vix u-n nf an M D He will diagnose your case and say. Son? yThave a very bad case would suggest that you take a T. S. Eliot (l. t. L iot I vpiK f with a glass of water before "and "after each meal" "Thanks Doc (his is a doc he has a doSoSte in English, you know) you answer. "how much do I owe you?" He tells you that two pages from a rare Shakespeare folio that you own will be ample payment. . But alas T S. Eliot, does you no good so you try a couple of Wordsworth tablets before retiring at night. No relief. You are really frantic by this time so you throw in a dose of the Decline And Fall of The Roman Empire for good measure. Still no re lief You are beginning to realize that you are doomed. You call in the local Philosophy Forum to witness your last will' and testament. Since you have no money to leave to your heirs, making a will is an easy task. . Wrhen the times comes for you to cross the bar, you slip silently away and got to Heaven where big business is booming and the streets are paved with gold. . One bright day while listening to the Angels re cite Shelley, you glance down at the earth and see your parents sitting at the dining room table. Be fore them is a bowl of delicious alphabet soup con- , cocted from a Webster's Dictionary and you,r fav orite copy of Thomas Wolfe. AN ALDERMAN coed and her boyfriend were, walking through the Arboretum in last Wednes day's heavy rain. The girl was evidently peeved be-, cause her companion had brought her out in the,, downpour. She tried to kick him, but she- didn't connect. "Oh, I missed you," she said, "Honey, do, you ever miss me?" . THE MOVIE age is on its way out. In the near future, Hollywood will release a completely new and exciting form of entertainment known as the "Feelie." Theatre patrons 'will not only be able to see and hear what is happening on the screen, but also to feel it. Imagine going into a theater, sitting down, and immediately being trampled to death by a herd of stampeding cattle or having the popcorn shot from . your hand by a desperado. There will be one drawback. Woe unto the first theater that shows a "feelie" starring Marilyn Mon roe, Ava Gardner, or Terry Moore. , W. LUANNE THORNTON, chairman of the Valkyrie Sing says that approximately twenty-five organiza tions have entered the sing. If Luanne's reign as Chairman of Women's Orientation is any indication of her ability to supervise, we are in for one of the most enjoyable evenings of the year. Luanne didn't tell us this, but we happen to know that one organization is going to sing a Russian song in Russian, of course. OSCAR WILDE, the dandy from Dublin, was un doubtedly one of the strongest advocates of aesthe ticism. In fact, Wilde's philosophy can be summed up in four words, "Art for art's sake." 5 In one of his lectures he reached his climax: '.'And so you Philistines have invaded the sacred sanctums of art!" One listener leaned over to an other and said, "I suppose that's why we are bein assaulted with the jawbone of an ass." ' IN ORDER to get a Master's degree in Education it has become necessary to write a paper "How to inflict pain on the Out of State Student at Caro lina." Some of them submitted 'such reactionary things as boiling oil and drawing and quartering. These ideas will get you nowhere in the fast moving world of today. WHY IS it that you often run across a person whose name is connected with the business he is in? For example, the name of the chairman of the New York Film Censors is Hugh Flick. DEPARTMENT OF paradox. The Alcoholics An onymous of Baltimore hold their meeting in the Bromo-Seltzer Building. -Reader's Retort Beware Of Plagiarism Plant More Tulips Editors: . Recently, the Men's Council has been beset bv many cases in which the students have been accus ed of plagarism. The preponderence of plagiarism cases has appalled the council not only by their frequency but more so for the general lack of fortniSi6 T06 just what plagiarism is. Un fortunately the majority of the accused do not ev en know what the word means or the consequences of its perpetration. t,laTi!LiMen'S C0UnCil Wishes il t0 be known that bv an l, Hn0r Cde offense Punishable thou "hi P18rism is the taking of ideas, and ?ubmm- S u statement from someone else. i?Wnt 7 them 35 ne's own work- '"Knout mo f often riginaI authors- Plagiarism i, otten llZ Cfmmitted n theme-writing. Here, so anoth' StaUndHCntS Wl11 COp' or "Peat the words o. words Anhdn m"fuently SUbmit ther" their own bad nttn StUdent will deny an, as seriou, an laglanzinS e has still committed deliber tely cheaTed'on M who So as a nealed on an exam. Council askrerach0VeHminder r Caution' the Honor aPParentlykcommonap1tfeaVir t0 beW"e f - Men's Honor Council
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