SATURDAY, APSJL 23, I9S!
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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A Medal For Some
Top-Drawer Drama
One of the holiest awards in nulio, iven
earl, vear In the American Exhibition of
Frl.K-aiioii:! Radio and Television Prraii.
hascojne to the 1'iiiverwty ConmH.rucat.ons
Center lor its "American Arlventuic .series
Tl.is marks a late hour for us to extend
the veibal flourish 'which writer John hhle.
Director John Ciavton, ami their associates
M.erit. But their work is a continuing work,
dealifi- with the v,ul of America, as Mr.
Fhle wrote in a letter to The-Daily I ar
Heel; Jecause it continues, prase never
comes too laic. f
The decline of creative activity n (Jiaoei
Hill." That worrisome phrase ominous if
it has a kernel of truth-spins always above
our heads. During the years of this student
"tneration's expei ience on this campus, an
experience from which we may sjeak, it
jumps often to ptominence. And you suspect,
after so lony;, thrt it is a chronic phrase, a
adfhish jingle, moving always about its vi
tal stin 'in;' and teasing and never vanishing.
Too tnd if it should vanish.
. lint the work of those in the Communica
tion Center, particularly Khle and Clayton
and their "American Adventure." gives us
;tt !eat one fat bulkhead against any such
define.
Ii would be selfish of us to consider their
benefits to this academic locale alone. In the
first plate, the locales into which "American
Adventuie" reaches lie far beyond the aca
demic. If they deal with the soul of America
thev also get down to the soul of America
to radio listeners in an auto garage,' a hos
pital, a barber shop, a parlor.
"American Adventuie" is an optimistic ad
venture; as Mr. F.hle wrote,
I believe the best understanding of America
begins with the realization that our country
is young yet, and that she is still new and un
finished, and that she remains America's great
est adventure In lime and space.
Here is top-drawer radio drama going out
of Chapel Hill, part of the tradition defined
by the symphonic dramas of Green and Hun
ter, envov of the best thoughts and feelings
of Chapel Hill; and drama to germinate the
right attitudes toward the right American
values.
The awards people did well to recognize
it as they did.
When A Junior's
Fancy Gets Fancy
Fach spring, about the time saps r ise from
Lower ()uad for panty raids and fraternity
row begins its mass migration to the beach, at
Northwestern IJnivcrsity juniors are awaken
ed early one Saturday morning by a loud
speaker barking from a police scjuad car.
The F.vanston junior class, clad in bht,e
jeans and sweat shirts, streams from the
dorms. No, they don't have a riot or (as
some junior classes) a pic nic. Instead, the stu
dents flock to low-budget charity institutions
and municipal institutions to aid in spring
cleaning. This is what juniors do as an an
nual spring project at Northwestern.
Now, in sunny Chapel Hill, the junior
class has another type project. It converges
upon the student Legislature, wearing its dir.
tiest pair of bucks, and begs for .$13- for
a "picnic."
Class President Hill Sanders voices the jun
iors' appeal for money, painting pictures of
a junior pic nic as if he were an Fisenhower
press secretary explaining "mass retaliation."
IJut the tight-fisted (for a change) Legisla
ture, says no because, as Larry McF.hoy says
so candidly, it "ain't got the money."
We hail the student Legislature for it
wisdom. Somehow picnics will go on, though
without Si;r grants, thank goodness Arid'
apparently, the junior class will go on hav
i US them, instead of taking a cue from North,
western and doing something for others.
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Backstage At
Sound & Fury:
Close Shaves
1 A. C. Dunn
lories
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In N;
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Dismissals
V
- 45 MINUTES EEFORE the
curtain went up on Sound and
Fury's "Satan's Saints" we en
tered through a side door to the
backstage, tripped over a wire
and fell flat. From then on until
we left about an
T ' 1 hour later the
jgoing was
' , '' J pretty hectic
"J j J The first
i thing we b
4 served was an
"t atmosphere ' all
i ,
- v ,f arouna oi com-
I ' - I plete confusion
.- diluted by an
underlying element of purpose.
Chorus members and principals
fully made up ambled leisurely
from one point to another; other
people only partly made up mov
ed a little faster; and people not
made up at all rushed frantically
from grease paint pot to grease
paint pot. A girl with only small
percentage of her costume on ran
across the stage followed by a
battery of male eyes; off to one
side one girl said to another "Ite's
go through it once," and they
both immediately staged pi
rouetting; in another place a
boy was watching a girl do the
Charleston and copying her;
someone was carrying a box of
flowers to some star or other,
and someone else, peering around
the curtain, kept saying, "Will
you look at that henme out
there!"
We went around to the other
' side of the stage, dodged a flap
per who flapped by straight out
of the 20's, walked into a bath
tub filled with indescribable
odds and ends of stagecraft, and
staggered into the men's dress
ing room. No one was recogniz
able. We reeled away from the up
roar in the "dressing room and
passed what looked like someone
we had seen before, did a double
take in the gloom and discovered
it was a good friend of ours
dressed in what appeared to be
a finger-painting smock for a
seven-year-old. She bummed a
cigarette and we went up to the
light bridge.
THE LIGHT BRIDGE is a
small booth overlooking the stage
on one side with a large black
panel in it absolutely crawling
with switches, labelled switches
dimmers, ceiling spot, upper
stage pocket, borders, etc. There
were a mike and earphones
there. We put the 'phones on
just out of curiosity and immedi
ately a rather commanding voice
came through to us: "Check that
plug-in!" We looked wildly
around and mouthed something
bewildered and inaudible in
to the microphone. "Diraout!"
came the voice again. We un
tangled -ourself from a clutch
of thick black wires and fled
back to the stage.
Safely back in the wings away
from the hell's kitchen of the
light bridge we; stood still for
a change instead of trying to
buck the madding throng of mill
ing stagehands and actors, hop
ing to find something worth
writing about. Someone leaned
through a window in the set be
hind us and yelled hoarsely,
"Hay Frank, you there? Well,
you couldn't tell me anyway,
forget it." We forgot it and went
to the other side of the stage in
search of peace and security.
Someone was still peering around
the curtain at periodic intervals
and saying, "Look at that house
fill up!" We peered around the
corner of the curtain to see the
house fill up. It was not only
filling up, there were people at
the windows.
Weimar Jones
The Franklin Press
Mueh'has been made of the part played
bv rac ial feeling in the decision of the Gen
eral Assembly to drop such men a Dr. Clar
ence Poe'and I.. P. Mc Ix-ndon from the
lo?rd of Trustees of the University of North
Carolina. ,
Dr. Poe and Mr. McLendon, along ivith
others, became marked men, it is-said, when
thev voted to jermit Negro and white coun
ty agents to sit together in class, at annual
refresher courses at N. C. State College. ( Rep
resentatives of the two races would eat and
room separately.)
This may have been the immediate cause
of the firing of Dr. Poe, Mr. McLendon, and
others. But we suspect the motive lies deeper.
For this is not the first time outstanding,
long-time members of the board have been
dropjed. Two years ago. for example, such
members as Collier Cobb Jr., Mrs. Iaura
Cone, Kenneth Tanner, and John Sprunt
Hill were dismissed. And other Legislatures
have dropped still others who had served' long
and well. '
There is considerable evidence that this
latest action really is a part of a struggle that
has been going on hrt- decades; that it is part
of the effort of the Tory element in North
Carolina" business, and of course all North
Carolina business is 'not Tory) to gain con
trol of the 1'niversity.
So long as Frank Graham was at Chapel
Jfill, this element was balked hence the un
reasoning hatred of Graham. Since Graham's
departure, it has been making progress. Lib
eral after liberal (many of them business
men) has been dropped from the board. And
a tangible evidence of what is happening is
the way-the 'School of Business Administra
tion at Chapel Hill and the kind of think
ing it represents is rapidly overshadowing
the rest of. the institution.
- Basically, what has happened probably is
part of the age-old clash between those, on
the one hand, who believe an educated man
faces facts as they are and tries to think,
things through, no matter how unpleasant
the conclusions; and those, on the other, who
.consider any freedom that would endanger
the status quo gross sacrilege.
Passing Remark
i
Take The Cash
And Let The
Credit Go
' Levirr
Over the i
Hill
Night Editor For This Issue
Louis Kraar
EVENTUALLY, A VOICE call
ed "cast on stage!" and a horde
of grease-painted people we
never even knew existed flocked
onto center stage to receive last
minute instructions. We took our
life in our hands and went back
to the light bridge.
The orchestra started (the
bongo drums were startling at
first), ' lights began to go out
backstage, a desperate voice
stage-whispered, "Hey Fred!
Fred!" and there was a flurry
of yellow-clad chorus girls
down below us. Another voice
called "Places! Places every
one! The orchestra finished the
overture,, the curtain went up,
the show was on .
Idiot, Three. Atheists & A Bully
Dr. E. M. Poteat
(The Greensboro Daily Neics)
If we are to believe the fic
tion of 100 years ago every vil
lage had an idiot, an atheist,
and a bully, each of whom at
tracted disproportionate atten
tion to himself. The bully ter
rorized the timid, the atheist
confounded the pious with ques
tions they could not answer, and
the idiot amused the callous or
came up, on occasion, with a bit
of sententious wisdom that made
wise folk wonder.
Todaj' the free-thinker for
such the atheist preferred to call
himself is so numerous as to
be undistinguished; the bully is
the leading spirit of the local
veterans organization, and the
idiot has sympathetic hospital
hospital care. But the arguments
go on, nevertheless.
One can bring into somewhat
sharper focus the problem of
atheism by thinking of three
difference, of uncertainty, and
of protest. This breaks the fam
iliar stereotype of the atheist as
a man to whom the believer is
a sentimentalist or a supersti
tionist. In turn the believer thinks
the nonbeliever evil and blind.
He cannot prove the nonexistence
of God since no-thing offers no
evidence of any sort. If he de
mands proof of God he will be
unsatisfied since there is no ra
tional net with meshes fine
enough to catch Him.
But consider the atheism of
indifference. Here argument plays
no part; it is wholly a matter of
attitude. Whether there is a God
is of no matter to him in the
light of other very real concerns
that engross him. His philosophy
may be "eat, drink and be merry"
which is hardly edif ying; or it
may be "work, slave, and fall
asleep," for which something may
be said. The shrine where he
worships may be the groaning
board or the night club or the
laboratory, for worship he must.
The atheism of uncertainty is
of another sort. It has not lost
interest in religion, it has lost its
confidence. Some of religion's
formulations have been unten
able and more plausible state
ments have not been satisfac
torily put together. He sees
beauty and power and order, and
pain and deceit and death but
he cannot call the first trio the
garment of God without feeling
the latter three are God's spite.
He calls them what they are,
and if he lumps them together
they may be called Nature.
The third type of atheism is
a matter of spirit. Here the
atheist sees the anguish that
living creatures, including him
self, bear, and which no in
genuity or enterprise of man
seems able to relieve. He also is
pained and outraged by the wick
edness of men and the havoc it
causes, but he is powerless to do
more than protest and his protest
is fruitless. It is easy for him to
rail against believers who 'seem
complacent in the presence of in
equality and injustice and excuse
themselves from doing anything
by taking glibly about the will
of God. His distrust of men trans
fers itself easily to distrust of all
power including God who seems
either indifferent or powerless.
Such angry atheists want some
thing done and neither God nor
His cheerful devotees seem able
or inclined to act.
What is to be done with these
three moods? Perhaps little can
be done with indifference, if
there really is any such thing.
Minimum action would be to de
flect interest from one preoccu
pation to another. But it is al
most humanly impossible to do
anything to give alertness to dead
Christians and dead atheists alike,
and there is scant choice between
them. Life may shake them
awake, but only life can do it.
To the atheism of uncertainty
we can say two things: Uncer
tainty or skepticism if you
please is surely no sin unless
it is set up as an object of wor
ship; and the wise man moves
from uncertainty to confidence
which is faith by thrying
out plausible hypotheses. Why
not try God?
The third type invites our emu
lation. Sometimes it seems as if
the church has lost its once ex
alted place as the forum for de
bating great moral issues. The
reformers have left the church
and joined the party or an
nounced for office. A dozen
angry atheists in half a dozen city
churches might shock them into
a godliness that was invincible.
'Pass, Friend'
I am a bit hesitant to attach
the term, "literary minded," to
the business men of downtown
Chapel HilL but I ran across a
line the other day in The Rub-
aiyat of Omar
ihayam that
et me to think
hey might have
urned to "the
neter'd line"
or relaxation in
he after hours
ti the day. The
jntire quatrain
;eads something
luce this.
Some for the glories of this
world and some
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise
to come
Ah.f tafce the Cash and let the
Credit go,
Ncr heed the rumble of a
distant drum.
The Senior Class Picnic out at
Hogan's Lake was a sprawling
mob of more than 1400 luke
warm, hot dogs and at least fifty
students. Accompanied by a herd
of cows that mooed in key from
their grazing across the lake, the
Dixieland combo gave out with
a brand of music that equalled,
if not surpassed, the spirit pre
vailing at the picnic. The ma
jority of the hot dogs literally
went to the dogs themselves.
The presence of an oversized, un
derfed brown boxer solved the
problem of what to do with left
overs. He strayed in during the
early part of the picnic, and
some several hundred hot dogs
later, burped his way into free
dom. To those few students who
braved the elements, I should
like to express my thanks for
their brilliant display of class
chauvinism, and to the others
who stayed to drink beer at The
Goody Shop, I should like to
criticize their spirit, but hearti
ly commend their choice.
After Arthur Godfrey's recent
purge in the ranks of his enter
tainers and singers, he was seen
leaving the studios with a rather
pert young thing. Having been
peeved all day by the insistent
mob of reporters, he was in no
mood for friendly conversation
and when asked who his com
panion was, he blurted out
". . . it's my mother" and hastily
drove off leaving the bewildered
reporters to speculate among
themselves as to the validity of
the retort.
We are deeply indebted to Gov
ernor Luther Hodges for setting
aside" April as "Go to the Movies
Month". For a while, there, I
wasn't quite sure just what to do
for these four weeks, but the
brilliant and far seeing policies
of those in Raleigh solved the
problem in no time at all. As
long as we are setting aside
months for various pastimes, I
would like to set aside May as
"Go to Bed Month". Think of
the money saved, that you wrould
have spent had you gone to the
movies. Also, the bed provides
time for intellectual reflections,
philosophical meditations and a
look at the latest ' copy of
Playboy. What about it, guvnor?
From A Reader:
A Plaudit For
Our Reviewer
Editors:
Ebba Freund's article on Louis
de Rochemont's picture carried
was a thought-provoking one,
and her comparison to other car
toons noteworthy. Perhaps Mr.
de Rochemont's picture carried
the moral "It's better to make
an ass of yourself than be a
pig?"
Cant Carlton
Charles Dunn
SURPRISE: The action f;rf "
der's Court Tuesday with regards to the nine
dents charged with unlawfully -.H
turbing women students in last week s P- n.,,
wTa surprise to many students on the campus.
seems to be unnecessarily harsh.
Pantv raids are not looked upon as a recorr.
" mended" part 'of a college education, and on t,,
Rafter one may wonder why they took part m ;
at all- And. for the most part, these raids am r,
armful except maybe they result in sore h o.,
for some raiders, headaches for housemother. Uni
versity officials and police officers and bad pubaeiK
for the school. That is they are not harmful as Ion
as the students remain outside of the - osier.
dorms and destroy no property.
But at the raid last week nine boys were pickc-1
up by the local police, and, instead of their craw
lin out the other door of the police car fas in r-t
raids) they were carted off to the station an
bookecL Nine boys were selected; probably one out
of every hundred that participated in the raid.
The first surprise came when it was announced
that the nine "select" boys were to be tried in the
Recorder's Court, something that hadn't been done
in Chapel Hill before. It was expected that those
picked up would be turned over to University of
ficials and the student courts, and that these would
deal with them. The second big surprise came with
the sentences handed down by the court. It had
been expected that if any of the "select" were
found guilty they would be warned and turned
loose with little or no fine.
But no, several of the "select" were made ex
amples of. The local police department said that
the University officials had asked that the raiders
be tried in the local court, and University officials
replied that they had asked the police not to make
arbitrary arrests at such affairs as the panty raid.
It makes no difference who was the cause of the
arrests, the "select" had to pay. If whoever Was
responsible for the arrests wanted to make sure the
raids were stopped once and for all, it could have
been done in a much fairer way: the students could
have first been warned that they would be arrested
and fried in Recorder's Court. But this was nofdone,
instead nine out of hundreds were selected to
stand trial, probably for something they see no
harm in.
It seems it was enough to try the "select" be
fore the student courts, and certainly to stop future
raids it was enough to show that students could be
arrested and tried by public offieiaTs outside the
University. But it is too much that the "select" who
were found guilty should have to pay with their
honor, and with their money for an act committed
by nine hundred or more students.
LIGHTER SIDE: Letter from home regarding
the panty raid: "Don't you boys have anything more
to do? Try studying, you may find it safer."
F. B. I. AND REDS: Since the Scales trial ended,
there has been much discussion on Charles Childs
who joined the Communist Party and worked for the
F. B. I., both on the campus and in the newspapers
throughout the state. Some, a minority probably,
look upon his informing with dim views, while
others regard him as a man who did a job, and a
good one for his country.
It isn't a pleasant thought to think of the United
States government as using informers from the pop
ulation to keep track of what the people are doing.
This isn't the American way. But today the country
is faced with a problem that is new and hard to
cope with, namely the Communist party. There is
an old idea that the best way to fight a forest fire
is with another fire burning toward the original
one. Such is the case regarding Communistsand
F. B. I. informers today.
The Communist party in the United States i
for the most part a secret organization with the
goal of overthrowing our present svstem of govern
ment. The only way to fight the Communists is with
their own methods, and that includes secret infor
mers But this can go too far, and should it go too
far it can possibly destroy the democracy of our
country. The problem is to keep informers ir
gamzations whose object is the overthrow of the
government, and not let them out where thev can
be of harm to the freedom of citizens.
Back to Charles Childs: He has received much
HmuwU 33 ChUCk HaUSer S3id in the Chapel
Hi 1 Week y," . . . instead of criticism for be n
a 'stool pigeon,' Charles Childs deserves to have
some sort of gold medal struck for him. He ri4d
h s name, and his reputation, and conceivably even
a S P ying f00tsie with the local Reds in
order that he could obtain information which wou 2
be of immediate use to the FRT nnH nt
ab,e u.,taa.e va.ue to ITZIZ'.
tions of Communist leaders." prosecu
Quote, Unquote
Pupils, Beer & Skittles
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