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i V Ml PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL f . f Buffalo Students . . . Unilalo stiicUuts. won't you tome out Io nian? .'i. wo hope, to claiuc by the !ij'ht of the moon, hut to hear l.oiil Mayor ncr ol Now York i'ny. c address this in nation to the stay-at-home q.X per tent who leavY Carolina loium attendance to a thimhklu! ol faithful who "hmldle in one coiner of an emptv. eehoino auditorium. Will ou he thought indifferent or linger behind die dusty doors and remoe all doubt? Planning For Breathless Days This time of year when the das bojin Aiih breathless mornings and books pile up in -dorm 100ms as symbols of duty news ol a eoordinat in' jrour for casing conflicts in the scheduling of campus events soothes the term paper-bent mind. Spring brings too manv attivities t the same time: the pace from panics at 1 login's to cramming for finals needs some planning. This problem is not a new one. though. Chan cellor R. H. House, as an undergraduate, wrote an css.n in the I'tiix't-iwily M anzitir on the need lor intellectual endeavor ami! the avKa ol .u fixities competing' for a student's lime .md enorgv. I he new Campus Recreation Coordinat ing Council, as this conflict-easing group is tagicd. deserves the praise and coojxM'atioti of the campus for tackling a problem that has harassed both students and professors for aca demic eons. Lef's Look To Doomsday W hile A. K. C. scientists waited on the New Mexico desert to fire Uomb i of the run ning test series." the question of Sunday ex plosions arose. Some of the scientists observed. ::.s reported bv a New York Timesman, that "as far as observation of the Sabbath was concerned. Sundav detonations in one respect were pro lerable to fondav ones, since the dav before .inv rest is taken up with arduous prepara tory work." . Somehow, we can't find it in us to register concern .dout the exact day. hlv tr not. on which the lomhs are to be triggered. The scope of the weapon is vast. T he cost of delav is huge. The blast-is convulsive and can break miles-distant windows. Win Sabbath ritual will go on. bomb or no lwuib. In short, the scientists on the Yuca Hats are worrving about a fringe area of the ethi cal Sahara that faces them. Here, in the con cise wording of f-r-Wonald Adams, is what we mean: Mankind is still as answerable to divine jus tice as it was when Dante wrote; the relations between man and his Creator are still as im portant as Milton made them in "Paradise Lost." Science has pulled colossal rabbits out of its h.it. and will no doubt pull others, but can it help us find our way to their best use" Atomic science finds itself in a vapidly changing wit ion. Its work is no longer am oral. The establishment of lav conirol on the ends and procedures of science would, we I ear. lax the wav open to dangerous results: the problem is the scientists alone. The "Washington I'niversitv Conference- made it clear j hat more and more scientists are awak ening to the need for moral and ethical con sciousness of what iho are doing. Hut our point, again, is that the scientists are emphasizing the trixial when thev stand on the New Mexico desert and nx to 'rat ion. alie their wax to a Sundav "explosion. Thev hold in their hriliam hands the power ro do. nude the planet, but rhev express (or feign) concern about marring the Sabbath with a brie! roar. II their concerns awakens too s!oU K to the ethical Sahara which lies bevond and thev al low thou brainchild to pulverize oixiHation none of us x'j h -v, t ,i .. . . v lico.ue lite nro- Carolina Front NO PRUDISH LITERARY PABLUM pnetx of Sun, lav i , touuiicsN uni!axs. x-jios!ons. ,cre will be hut only otie Doomsday. Witt J3atli &sr ttd The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the 'University of North Carolina, xv hero it is published T V daily except Monday ,.v. A. A nr.d examination and St vacation periods and T v summer terms. Fnter- , Tts n ?1 c Es second class : (V 1 01 $ ,attor at tM. o. Site -l' bca,V'"-''-'!v ' :-' fic in Chapel Hill, N. v N..rtHV.-,rM " S C- "n(ir ,hc Act Of vOmh t,r . March R. 1S7P. Sub- cc, .v-t .k vios-s script ion rates: mail- 7 ' Cl PT Vpar. 2-0 - x a semester; delix'ered, a x-ear, 3 50 s sc- mpstor. Udi'ors I!anas" Kditor FD YOfKTl. I OllS KRAAR FRED POWLEDGE Business Manager Sports Kditor Associate K.ditor News VVHtor TOM SHORES BUZZ MKRHITT J. A. C. DUNN Jackie Goodman Advertising; Manager Circulation Man-igcr v Subscription Manager Assistant Business Manager NiiQj editor iur llus issue Dick Sirkin Jitc Kiley . Jack God ley Bill Bob Peel ' 1 - The NY Times The Quarterly Dons Long Pants Thrills The Ol' U S an' A J. A. C. Dunn 1 If to V THE NEW YORK TIMES is evidently of the opinion that along xvith their recent frenzied advertising campaign, centered around a scries of pictures showing hawk-like reporters and green eye- 4,t, 1 shaded - editors posed imagina tively in attitu des Indicative I 4 of journalistic zeal, there $ should be a fexv . morsels of meat to prove the worth of the sauce. What xve are actually get ting at in this breathless sen tence is that xve haxre 'seen a couple of arresting items in the New York Times which vvc think worthwhile passing on to those gutsy individuals who hax-e in them the sheer stamina to com bine "Carolina Front" with their morning coffee. THE FIRST OF these txvo gems is datelined London and concerns "A prominent Russian scientist (who) solemnly xvent before a microphone today to allay Russian jitters that a space ship invasion from Mars had taken place . . . The Moscow radio talk . . . disclosed that space ships and Martians ai-e favourite topics xvith Soviet youth." This is curious. One would have thought that the Russians, having already discoxered every thing first, would have tired long ago of the capitalistic outer space ami turned to something else: xve can imagine Russian youth idolizing Big Brother's Little Brother, xvho carries a rubber truncheon to school to impress the teacher and xvho ap pears at youth rallies armed xvith a bull whip wrapped in sandpaper and a water pistol loaded xviih sulphuric acid. But no. Death rays and glass globes over the head for the Soviet little ones, it seems. .Bob Dillard AND SPEAKING OF Mars and all that, x'e wonder if any one has ver considered the tact that xvhile the whole of the east coast may go into a panic when Orson Welles fiivi'.es the air waves xvith blood-chilling re ports of Martians dropping in on Hoboken. or whatever it avss he did back in IflS. think what mass hysteria would com mandeer the hearts and minds of the Martians if they were suddenly invaded by a yodelling horde of Gene Autrys all rearing picturesquely on spirited stal lions they rented for the day and firing elcx-on shots from a six shooter killing fourteen Indians therein? OUR SECOND TIMES item is a little story from Syracuse about a group of English teach ers xvho were asked to fill out a thirteen-point questionairre and whose unsupertstitious but cautious minds were relieved of the horror of ansxxering thir teen questions by the simple device of having question num ber thirteen repeated twice, giving them fourteen questions. This is dangerous business. Suppose it spread? What xx'ould happen if this practice got into the laxv courts? We can see the "defendant now. the prosecuting attorney having a-ked him the thirteenth, question, answering "I refuse to answer on grounds that it might bring me seven years bad luck." And xve can see the college student, writing down his answer to examination question number thirteen: "I feel this question is unfair since it puts me in danger of being run over by a speeding truck when I lea-e the exam." And there are peace confer ences, too. We picture foreign and domestic dignitaries squan dering thousands of dollars of the taxpayers money hiring language exports and political and military auihroities in a desperate effort to condense a treaty down to only twelve "xvheresses", or whatever it is they put in treaties. Earl E. Stevens (The writer of this review s an instructor in the University Eng I ish Dejmrtm en t. Editors, ) The Spring issue of The Caro lina Quarterly, published today, is, to my mind, the best single issue of UNC's literary magazine that I can recall having read dur ing these past four years. More over, xvhen one considers its two predecessors, I believe it can be said that the three issues since September have raised the Quar terly to a new standard of excel lence. Much of the credit for this improvement should undoubtedly go to the Quarterly's editor, J. A. C. Dunn. In his first editoiial he set forth a policy which for its good sense and sincere inter est in the students has been too long absent from past editorial policies. Mr. Dunn wrote: "The Quarterly is primarily a student magazine published for the benefit of the student body; but up until now its pol icy has eliminated the majority of the student body from its reading public by apparently refusing to recognize the exist ing diversity of tastes among the students ... a college mag azine should, xve beliexe, be in tended not for one intellectual level within the student body, but for as much of the student body as is possible without jeo pardizing the interests of the magazine itself." The present issue ably justifies the editor's attempt to publish a magazine lor the benefit of the student body; I interpret the phrase "benefit of the student body" to include the idea Iftat the creative work published therein will be representative -of the students on this campus. All too frequently in the past the Quarterly has seemed more in terested in imported Vintages than in the writings of UNC stu dents. If we must ha'e avant garde xvriting or eren nonsense of an esoteric sort, let it at least be of a '-domestic vintage. Without a doubt the finest of fering in the Quarterly is Ed Yo der's article, "The Tale of Junius Scales.' Mr. Yodcr has done a refreshingly objective job of re porting on a difficult subject a . subject .which has caused far too many writers to lose their regard for truth. His treatment of the Scales case reminds me of the excellent reportage usually asso ciated xvith writers like John Bart low Martin and John Hersey. Of the three stones the finest was Claire Russell's "Josie." This well-conceived story of a young girl who has to sit by helplessly and watch her parents split-up. wrecking their home and her world in the process, is tellingly executed. The more effective con trol of her material aeads me to consider this story -a finer piece of writing than Mr. Dennis' "Re gion of Innocence." The latter story is one worth the telling, but it lapses several times into a n incongruous laboriousness which mars the overall effective ness of the story. It goes without saying that the intelligence shown in printing in the 0?irteri a writer who uses artistically effective sailors' jar-' gon indicates' that like the pro- ' tagonist, Fred, the Quarterly has come of age. At last its readers are treated as adults and not as children who have to be spoon fed on literary pablum of a pru dish and effeminate sort. With the limits of its class as the best freshman writing for the spring semester Mr. Shaw's story, -"The Disillusioned" is a good per formance that shows promise; , there is. however, a stilted qual ity about its writing and a "pat r.ess" about the whole situation that leave the story where it be gan as a promise of better things to come. Concerning the poems . two thfngs can be said: 1. they are very like the past poetical per formances found in the Quarter ly r 2. fortunately they are all short. Of the five book reviews it is amusing to note that the one written by a man -whose vocation is other than literary was the most effective. Commander Ed wards in his own way has done as good a job as Commander Krause of the Keeling. Mr. Den nis' review strikes me as being the poorest of the lot because of its caxalier. attitude and its pain ful pretense at profundity a pretense so often found in very earnest young writers. In sum, this issue is one well worth reading by any one inter ested in the University and its students. Passing Remark From Bombs To Bermudas Levin St. George And Old Knowland de Formosa (The Greensboro Daily Xcw$) Now from all sides was the White Prince beset by the im portunings of his great officers of state and the chief nobles of his faction, urging him to lead his divided hosts now one way, now another, so that the mer chants and the peasantry knew not whereof the morrow might fetch forth, whether grim war or uneasy peace. And there xvas in the land rumor and report qf ct other rumor and report, how that this knight had said a certain thing, xvhile another knight had de clared just the opposite to be true. It xvas a parlous time. On the one hand there stood the puissant baron from the western marches. Knoxvland de Formosa, he of the massy chins and sonorous tongue, imperious ly bidding ihe White Prince fliake inimoclisto and most terri ble xvar upon the Great Khan of Cathay. On the other hand stood, full much bemused, the Ixu'd Chan cellor, the devious Earl Dulles, bidding the White Prince be cautious in the morning and as the raging lion in the evening, or sometimes t-ice ryersa. Yet did the White Prince seek to maintain his realm at peace, but -more and more it became plain to see that he was illserv ed by his advisors; that his liegemen grumbled among them selves and might, in very truth, force their leader to their wish es. The kingdom trembled as be fore a dragon breathing flame . and bringing disaster. Then, in this mest grievous hour, there appeared from the vast provinces to the south an ancient knight, full of y'earsahd honors, who had oft-times ? sat in the high council of state when good King Harry had held the throne in an earlier time. Sir Walter of Georgia. "Thou art old. Knight," they told him xvhen he entered the gates of Camelot-by-the-Poto-mac, "and thy faction is long since in deep disgrace, and Harry is in exile in the mid lands. Wherefore come you?" For answer the aged knight smiled a sweet and Christian smile. "I hax-e come," quoth he, 'to slay the dragon of dissension and apathy, and thus to save your precious White Prince from his own supporters." Thus it came to pass that when the Great Khan spoke with deceit and cunning vile, there was at the side of the White Prince the ancient knight to five" sage counsel and guidance instead of warlike cries and shouts or soft, meaningless words that meant one thing in the morning and another in the afternoon. And, for a time at least, the peace of the kingdom was preserved. The moral of this tale is sim ple -and oft repeated in the humble cottages up and down the land: "Save your Confederate money, boys. The South will rise again." ' Weep For You The Walrus Said: I Deeply Sympathize.' With Sobs And Tears He Sorted Out Those Of The largest Size, Holding His Pocket-Handkerchief Before His Streaming Eyes. - - . C '''i. " c-zi' sSP With regard to the letter writ ten : by William C. Grimes, I should like to commend "him on the style of humor that he uses in his letter. My friends and I read it in a class and laughed, antil -we -al most cried . . . cried because ve were angry hat Tarnation lad not found Irimes and re :ruited him as i contributor to their magazine. I only -wish Mr. Grimes would write more of these letters, so we students here, caught in the web of daily routine, could enjoy an occasion al early morning laugh. Tell me, Mr. Grimes. 'Who is your script writer? Milton Berle might be able to use him on weekends when the going gets tough. I don't suppose Marlon Brando might drive up this weekend on his motorcycle and deliver the fitneral speech in the Play maker's production of Julius Caesar, but it should be well worth our while anyway to trot ' on down to The Forest Theatre and dig few iambics. For those of you who care to take dates, I might add the back rows are dark and secluded for your com fort and protection. Just a thought. I was musing over a few things the other day that might make college life a bit easier for those unfortunate few who find it dif ficult to keep up the pace dur ing spring afternoons. How about inventing a combination ball point pen, can opener and cig arette lighter ... or starting a Tegular course in Theory and Practice in Higher Cross Word Puzzles? Then there is a lumi nous sorority pin that glows in the dark, and a pocket size book of Kinsey, The Bartender's Guide and Best Known Trails in the Arboretum. Which all goes to remind me of the world litera ture class in which the prof ask the members of the class what one book out of all the world's literature would they choose to take with them if they were go ing to e stranded on a desert island. One bright eyed student replied, "a copy of The Collect ed Works of William Shakes peare." Another looked out the window and in a huinble voice filled with emotion named The Holy Bible as his choice. Finally a sweet young thing in the back row held up her hand. The prof asked, "and what is your choice Miss Fumley?" The pert coed in stantly replied. "A Beginner's Guide To Practical Boatbutldina." Speaking of Shakespeare, I am reminded of a line in King Leer that brings to mind our old friend, none other than William -C. -Grimes. The line is one spok en by Edmund, the illegitimate on of Gloucester. Jt symbolizes the hope that Grimes and those of his ilk have when they say their prayers at night. It goes something like this. "Now, Gods, stand up for bastards . . ." Smith Dorm seems to be hav ing no end of "trouble these days. First one thing and then anoth er. From miniature bombs to Bermuda shorts. Could it be they are plotting the violent over throw of . . . well, your guess is as good as mine. Mark my word, girls, one of these days you'll go too far: Burning Trees And Putts Before Snafus The Daily Tar Heel's nomina tion for the least-unusual head line of the week goes to this one, from yesterday's Greensboro Dai ly "News: "Formosa Report De layed. President Goes Golfing." The Administration rsolicy is, of course, "first things f jrst" Burn Tree before burning issue; Aug usta National before august na tional problems; and putts before snaf us. Clio. WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, V -Court Comer Rueben Leonard AT APPROXIMATELY 12:30 p.m. on Monday tv 2 1955 the administrative ofXic.es "in South BuUdin- were terrorized. Forty Thousand swivel hipped secretaries swiveled their way out of their swivel desk chairs and peered out the windows at the spectacle below. South Building was on fire. Gloom Settled over the trapped inhabitants of ihe building Many of the secretaries weren t afnad- - ey were maJ-they couldn't take three more cof. fee breaks' before lunch. Smoke billowed out of the basement. Fire ex- . tinmishers were hurried to the scene. The local fire department was 'summoned. The fire raged n Students gathered quickly. Soon the building was surrounded by Interested onlookers. One boy, notic ing the secretaries hanging out the windows, urged them to jump. 'A ripple of laughter went through the'erowd. But alas South Building did not burn. A cup brigade of loyal students lined up from the coffee counter -In"' YJourt to the origin of the blaze and extinguished it immediately. Y.Court coffee uiu extinguish anything. -EVER GO to the polls, look over the lor.: )Ui of candidates, and wonder what and whom you were voting for sure you have it happens all th? time. When you vote next Tuesday you won't have to decide on any candidate, in fact, there won't be a candidate's name on the ballot. When you rote for the five dollar raise in stu dent block fees, you will be voting for yourself. Your five dollars won't give you nearly the enjoy ment by itself as it will if 3'ou combine it with five dollars from the rest of the students. If you want better and more complete publications, more stu dent entertainment, apd a better Student t Ur.Ion,. don't be a horse's posterior gallop down to the polls next Tuesday and vote for the raise. Just two-fifty a semester. Every penny of the rr.iney will be spent on the students. LAST SUNDAY was truly "Parent's Day' here at school. Parents drove into Chapel Hill from everywhere. Big parents, little parents, and middle sized parents looked high and low for their sons and daughters who were probably at the beach high. It's a funny thing about the beach, you say you are going dentm to the beach, but ycu're usually high before you get there. ". BILL "PUNCHY" Grimes has again graced the editorial page of the DTH with one of his comics! letters, but the editorial page is not the correct place for the letter. Bill, with his letter in h hand, should be run up the flagpole and left ti i!y over the campus as a symbol of American Freeio:n and enuality of man. Yes, Bill, you and Nell Battle Lewie x .-unmake a good team. She could pour it on trd you could rub it in. "THE VILLAGE of Chapel Hill is strictly cf yore . . . That is to say. Fowler's Food Sture Belk's have recently retained the services ol a town policeman on Friday and Saturday aftemo..:. to direct traffic in their parking lots." .says the May 2 Chapel HiU Sens Leader. Weil, how ah-.-jt that, all the students have now started do'r.i tr.e'r shopping at Fowler's and Belk's on Fridav and Sat urday afternoons. Oh for the good old daxs vr.f.i students walked and the cars were horres. ' A YOUNG southern miss appeared or. Kt Shriner's TV show last Saturdav. Talk abou' em accents, she had one. She sounded a, n still had a southern fried drumstick ir. her mou::. Since the show was one of those give-awax- dea -Shriner explained the rules to her. She wa posed to name comic strips and her partner vi supposed to give the leading female cha-ac the.stnp. She really blotched. "Maggie and J. " she said. -No. No." said Shriner. "Brir.--' r Father." Tm sorry, but that's u-v,, - dan salh." she retorted. She tried aga:n -Blond r '' "Blondie," replied her partner, -p.. cgn: she t,!u- t o he Jimmy Stewart was also on TV Sa'i'-rt -v r Jimmy was making a guest appearance"',' George Gobel show. Near the end of the program. Gobe! ;,l,v different members of the cat whore tev we-, mg after the show. They au said tha, thv'v going to a Stewart movie. Gobe! then .ke s' art if he Was going to see one of hi, mov 1 In T A van ia1 T , . . .ccu j,mir.y. -I'm too hw-v ihem. In :act. I Gm leaving n-t ,r.. ' for Africa." "';P' to be?" asked Gobel. ' Stfwln LaSt 0i !o? v--"' Vr-- - nun twTlpletely Ut s mind. FvVV, :, thought he needed exercise so be r uv V: into the street and started flaacin, -C' f'l . r that came by pulled to a se-eh V- V man n the car. and hauled bin, tZ'i" day you just m-t win. " ra,se3 -d vot f,r ts- ,? i
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