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T T J- FRIDAY, MAY t, THE DAILY TAR Hf EL PAGE TV0 v 'Don't Peek It's Sort Of A Surprise' Carolina Front $ S 1 As J. A. C. Bows Out Quarterly Dresses Out Our newest Associate Editor, J. A. C. Dunn, has lately been like a new popa with two baby car riages to roll. Between his "Carolina, Front" which you read to the immediate right every day and his Carolina Quarterly he has paced many a worried footstep up and down the second floor corridor of G. M. Now one of his jobs the Quarterly editorship has come to its climax and he can roll that carriage into other hands. We think he's 'done an extraordinary job of rol ling the Quarterly carriage this year. Raggedy-Ann (financial-wise) of campus publications, the Quar terly has nonetheless come of readable and ser viceable age under his tenure as chief. The soring Quarterly dresses out on campus """'sstands today, priced at 45 cents and embracing between its cover some fine reading matter. It would be a proper tribute to ex-Editor Dunn, as he parks the 54-55 carriage and quits the anx ious strolls to the other end of the hall, for students to swell the magazine's treasury with sale money. Buy one; the benefit will be yours. 'My Old Kentucky Home' In Georgia Southern nationalism died quietly one afternoon TO years ago in Appomattox, Virginia, according to r'storians and bitter experience. But the ghost of this region's lost cause flared forth in Georgia this week at a . Doard of Education meeting. Georgia educators banned three textbooks 'for not being in accord with the "Southern way of life." In this da of an urban and industrial South, it's not altogether just what the "Southern way of life" is. But a look at the reasons given for banning the three books clearly shows what it is not. A sociology book, "Our Changing Social Order," was charged with teaching that white people are unfair to Negroes in elections, in school facilities, and in recreation facilities. The book tries to "con dition" white children into the idea that color does n't "iitter. charged the educators. "America, Land of Freedom," a history book, was shoved off the school lists because one Board of Education member said it didn't give the South suf ficient credit in the Revolutionary War. And a song book, "Together We' Sing," was brand ed objectionable because the wording of Stephen Fosters songs, "My Old Kentucky Home" and "Old Folks at Home" said "brothers," instead of "dar kies." . The banning of these three books is absurd and contrary to the concepts of democratic govern ment, which allow for dissent and disagreement even in education. Perhaps even more regrettable is the fact that the Georgia educators dont realize just what-constitutes the "Southern way of life" today. This is the region of atomic plants, booming cities, and economic opportunity not plantations, the Ku Klux Klan, and white supremacy. The sociology book that teaches youths that color doesn't matter is to be commended. Color doesn't matter, and it's time Southern minds were conditioned to it. Rewriting history to glorify the South's part in the Revolutionary War won't alter facts. And censoring folk songs Southern songs, at that is downright funny. Next thing we expect to hear from' Georgia is that Carl Sandburg's "Abraham Lincoln," was ban ned because it portrays the South as losing the Civil War. Reid, Red, Red Rope & Acres Of Buffaloes The Buffalo students didn't come out for the Lord Mayor's speech and he had to talk to a bare 100 or so. Drastic measures are in-order, and we picked up a suggestion from our Greek history pro fessor recently. Athenians, it seems,, were as dilatorv about assembly meetings as Carolina students about Caro lina Forum speeches. So, on assembly davs, herders stretched a red-dyed rope across the Forum and drove the citizens before it into the meeting place Everyone went, for red dye on your clothing meant you could be fined. There we have it. then: A prospective fine red dye, and a stout rope with Tom Lambeth at' one end and Attorney General Reid at the other would do the trick. The solution is simple; we lay it be fore the Legislature for their approval. W&t JBatlp Kax ftttl The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published 'I Do Solemnly Swear Not To Serve To . . J. A. C. Dunn NEWS ITEM: MADISON, Wis., April 28 Assemblyman Eu gene Toepel introduced a.bill in the Wisconsin Legislature to re quire tavern keepers to sign a loyalty oath. Toepel said that in mnst 'o 1 o a k 1 1 I . 9 , stories, sub " " , j versive e 1 e- 1 1 ments gather ed in taverns." We can see it now, truly we can. It is a dark rainy night, the wind r if t .... Mi i. mum tmmumm i n 1 f - Nile r-f llw l.Vitvrrtv . & 8 : !il( 111 troU4- ; ttn IirSil i vacation periods and summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter at the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub scription rates: mail ed. $4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a se blowing, the wet streets begin ning to freeze. On a narrow winding back street (one way) the door of Erdmans' Liquor Niche opens to admit four men, a wet cat and a quart and a half of rain. Tke . f our men go to a corner booth, remove their gloshes (but not their turned-up collars), sit downand order a bottle of Old Outcast. The. waiter brings it to them, they pour out a shot apiece, glance quickly and furtively over their collective shoulders, raise their shot glasses a sly two inches off the table, clink them gently and mumble "To the proletariat; may they eventually be down trodden!" They chug the shots, check their turned up collars, refill the shots, lean closer to gether and begin discussing the arsenal in the basement of the Town Hall. Their voices are low, subversive. "A little bit louder," says one of them. "Don't be so subver sive." They increase the vol ume of the voices a bit, and talk on. If we listen we will hear of hand grenades, dyna mite, stillettos . . . But we are red-blooded. We don't listen to such things. Soon, however, Mr. Erdmann, the proprietor of the Liquor Niche, comes over to their table. "I'm sorry boys," he whines, cringing and rubbing his hands together, "but you'll either have to talk about something patri otic like Democracy or common like baseball or go somewhere else. You look too much like a subversive element. I have my loyalty oath, you know." He points to a printed loyalty oath posted behind the bar next to his license and his "C" rating , card. "Aaaaah, c'mon Erdy, have a drink; cool off," says one of the coat collars, and all the men look very hard at Erdy with dark, inscrutable eyes full of fanaticism and suffering. Ercly wilts a bit. "Now, boys, I have my loyal ty oath. I can't serve to sub ver " "Erdy. Sit Down. Have a drink," says one of the men evenly. "But, boys, my loy " "I said, Sit down Erdy." "Well, just one, boys, Erdy has seven drinks, and if we listen to the conversation after his fourth, we will hear talk of rifles, jellied gasoline, white phosphorus . . . When the Liquor Niche closes three quar ters of an hour after the legal closing time, there are five little groups sitting around the room with collars turned up, subver sively toasting the proletariat and plotting world overthrow. Our group is the last to leave, but it is five strong now. Erdy has his coat collar well turned up. He is mulling over plans for the sabotage of the muni cipal fire engines- . . . Editors ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR- Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Business Manager TOM SHORES Sports Editor BUZZ MERRITT Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN News Editor s. JACKIE GOODMAN Advertising Manager Circulation Manager Subscription Manager Assistant Business Manager Assistant Sports Editor Photographer Society Editor :. Dick Sirkin Jim Kiley Jack Godley Bill Bob Peel Ray Linker Boyden Henley Susan Andes fright editor lur this issue - JJob Dillard WE OVERHEARD AN inter esting conversation in Lenoir on Saturday. "I went to tfiat Sound and Fury thing last night," said one student to another over the orange juice, "and there was a fella named Lewis Brumfield in it. He was the ticket agent or something. He sure can imitate a southerner pretty good." Steady there, friend, steady. The Eyes of Dixie are upon you. Mr. Brumfield comes from Yad kinville; the accent is genuine. Yes, genuine. MATTER OF FACT: Follies In Joseph Aisop According to report, Presi dent Eisenfiower and the Na tional Security Council have re cently been re-examining the . fundamentals of the Japanese American relationship. The re examination was overdue, in view of the President's official classification of Japan as "the bastion of American defense in the Pacific." Under the new policy line laid down by the N.S.C., the more glaring follies of our deal ings with the Japanese since the signature of the peace treaty are apparently to be corrected. Yet our highest policy makers still began their work by writ ing down, as assumption number one, that the Japanese-American alliance could in effect be taken for granted for an indefinite term of years. The American representatives here, who are in daily contact with the hard, on-the-spot facts, protested sharp ly that taking Japan for granted was profoundly unwise. Even so, the complacency and lack of political realism in present day Washington is such that the National Security Coun cil's first assumption has only been diluted rather than cor rected. It cannot have been cor rected for a very simple reason. America's "island chain" stra tegy in the Pacific is still square 'ly based on the Japanese alli ance. And this implied taking Japan for granted, even although the National Security Council may state the position somewhat more cautiously. On any realistic assessment, therefore, the whole ' American defense system in the Pacific must now be regarded as in peril. Our strategy is threatened, not directly in Japan proper, or even in the Formosa Strait, but indirectly in Southeast Asia. Unless the Communist advance in Southeast Asia can somehow be halted, we are probably due to wake up . one day to the un pleasant discovery that Tokyo depends on Saigon. This danger was clearly rec ognized by the National Securi ty Council itself in the early stages of the Dienbienphu crisis last year. For a while, it was the official doctrine that a Viet Minh victory in Indo-China could not be permitted because such a victory would open the ' gates of South Asia to the Com munists, and because the loss of South Asia would, in turn in volve Japan and India. This "domino chain" theory was later abandoned, and even scornfully condemned, when the Eisenhower administration found -it more comfortable and politi cally expedient to duck the grim challenge of Dienbienphu. Unfortunately, however, there js every reason, to believe that the Japan On The Mend domino chain theory is still cor rect, even although it is now officially frowned upon in Wash ington. The main reason is only too obvious. Japan must trade to live. Every Japanese business man, without exception, regards Southeast Asia as Japan's most promising future trading area. Japan must almost import huge annual tonnages of rice to live. And two Southeast Asian coun tries. Thailand and Burma, are currently supplying Japan with just under 600,000 tons of rice a year, or rather more than half of Japan's whole annual rice import. In these circumstances, what happens in Southeast Asia has life and death significance for the Japanese people. As yet, to be sure, the ugly process of de cay that presently centers in Saigon has hardly been noticed by the great majority of Jap anese. People here have been lulled, like people in America, by the bold promises of SEATO. Then too, the Japanese are intensely preoccupied with their own in ternal problems, and since the war they have had poor means of learning about the outside world. And above all, the Jap anese conviction that America is a sure winner in any world struggle has not yet been really shaken. But this conviction, born of Japan's own defeat by America, will surely not survive a shat tering series of free world de feats in the area of Asia that is most important . to Japan. In Japanese eyes, America and the other Western nations will look like hopeless losers, not 'sure winners, if the Communist ad vance in Southeast Asia con tinues unchecked. And to the tremendous economic impact of the extension of Communist con trol into Japan's most -vital trad ing area and." rice source. If Japan is exposed to this double seismic shock, the al ready strong ferment of anti Americanism here can be ex pected to become uncontroll able. Being passionately inde pendent (which is the reason they are now anti-American) the Japanese are not likely to make a complete reversal Gf alliances. There is no visible likelihood that they will actually join the Communist bloc. But if Southeast Asia is lost to communism, there is the greatest possible likelihood that the Japanese will abandon the American alliance arid move in to a strictly neutral position. And that in itself will mean the utter collapse of the current of ficial American defense plan in the Pacific, plus some other un pleasant things too. If Japan chooses neutralism, American forces will . obviously have to be withdrawn from these islands unless President Eisen hower wishes to try to hold our bases here by naked force. Thus the island chain will be deci sively brokn. In short the central fact that the Washington policy makers now ought to be facing, is the fact that Asia is a seamless web. If the web is too badly torn anywhere, it will unravel every where. And it is tearing now. Quote Unquote: More Opinion On Matusow Editors: Louis Budenz, on page 19 of The American Mercury for May, states that the Matusow turn about was the second stage in a Communist Party program to destroy American internal se curity. The program, says Bu denz, includes "an assault on the 'Gestapo-like activities' of the Federal Bureau of Investiga tion" and an "attack on the credibility of the Government witnesses on a big scale." Compare your editorial of April 26 in which you attack the "eavesdropping" methods of the FBI and say of the Matusow incident, "A failure of that pro portion should suffice to put us on the alert about the reliability of paid witnesses." Perhaps, still following the Communist line ,you will scoff at the testimony of Budenz. Your editorial indicates that you are suspicious of former Com munists and of the American people but not, apparently of the Communist Party. John W. McDonald (The American Mercury, in our estimation, has fallen lower into the depths than old Satan ever dared fall since the days when ' even so respectable a journalist as Gerald W. John son wrote for it and H. L. Men cken edited it with acid-dipped pen. We set about as much store by an American Mercury opin ion especially one set forth by notorious wandering minstrel Louis Budenz as- we do by walking snakes. Our trust in . Harvey Matusow remains nil; and for all we know he may indeed remain a puppet of the Com munist Party. But our view of paid witnesses is still tinged with distrust and suspicion and we suggest, for what we consider more reliable reading on the subject, Richard H. Rovere's "The Kept . Witnesses" in the May Harper's. Mr. Rovere shows, with specific , references and quotations, that the memories of many government informers function in direct proportion to their pay and the needs of gov ernmental prosecuting attorneys. Editors.) Over The Hill Charles Dunn MOTHER'S DAY: Sunday is Mom's Day, and in many parts mothers will receive, (on Saturday or Monday) little bundles of sur prises and happiness from their offspring at the University. And, they will tear into these letters and read something like: "pear Mom . . . This is just a little note tonight to wish a very 'happy Mother's Day to the world's best mother. I would like to be with you on YOUR day but, as you know, there is a lot of studying to do on the weekends at Carolina (and then this is a German weekend). "But, dear Mother, I will be thinking about you, as I have been, doing so much lately. In fact, I was thinking about you as' I walked down town the other day (wishing that you would send me some money to get my car fixed) when I passed this window that had the most beautiful handkerchief in it. I wanted to buy it and send it to you, but you know that all of my spare money is going into more books for study (and then this is a German weekend). "Even though I have nothing expensive to give to you on your day, still I send all my love to the best mother ever. And Mother dear, i you have a few extra, bucks, I sure could use them (German weekend, you know)." THEY SAY ITS TRUE: Two boys and a 'girl were eating supper in Lenoir Hall. It had been a quite supper until one of the boys turned to the girl and questioned: "Do you love Sam's shirt?" Needless to say, Sam strangled on a sip of cof fee, and the girl's mouth drop ped open so wide, that her chin almost hit the potatoes. -After the girl had finally re covered from the shock of the question, she asked one of her own, namely: "What . on earth are you talking about?" "Well when Sam came in after dating you . the other night he had lipstick all over the front of his shirt, and I just wanted to know if you loved his shirt," the puzzled member of the crowd answered. The girl shot a quick glance at Sam, who was busy looking at the nice ceiling. She hum med and hawed a few seconds, and then, as if she had just thought of the answer, she re plied: "Oh the lipstick on his shirt. Ha. Well you see we went dancing the other night, and I always put my head on my date's shoulder when I dance, thus lipstick on his shirt." She smiled and started to eat again, the third person seemed a little doubtful over the an swer he had received, but Sam just smiled and said "that's right." FOLLOW UP: Several nights plater the puzzled one was even more puzzled when Sam walk ed in with lipstick on the back of his shirt. FUZZY PUP: Once upon a one time ... There were two couples . . . and like most couples, these two were each composed of a boy and a girl. But there was a dif ference: both of the male mem bers of the two couples were Carolina gentlemen, and the fairer halves were (if .you will pardon the expression) Duke coeds. Now this arrangement wasn't at all as bad as it seems, because at times the Dukesters were real nice (like Carolina coeds) and most of the time the relations were good, except, of course, during the Carolina Duke football game and the like. Well, as the story goes, these tw0 couples enjoyed themselves for a while, but then something happened, and . . There was one couple . . . and like most couples who go to gether for a long time, they were very, very happy and looked forward to many, many years together, even if they did occasionally disagree on issues like which is the best school in the state. Well, as is expected, time did pass. Relations be tween the two a Carolina Gentleman and a Duke coed . improved, but then the unex pected happened, and . . . There were no couples . . . but really there were four very happy couples (two at Carolina and two at Duke) . . . and every body lived happy - ever after. V '-Court Comer Rueben Leonard 1 AFTER READING Heart of Darkness for the second time I still wondered exactly what this Conrad fellow was getting at. One thing I did fi5. ure out though was how Kurtz got the ivory he was shipping out of his station on the river. Ju5t in case you might be considering an elephant hunt in 'Africa to pass your summer away, you might jot this down. s A new method of catching elephants. Requirements- a piece of paper, a milk bottle, a pair of tweezers, and binoculars. Go to the elephant coun try, find a pool of water and write on the paper: "For Elfaris." When the first elephants come up to drink, they will see their name spelled wrung and start laughing. When the other elephants hear them laughing they will come up to see what they are laughing about. At that point you look at the elephants throtiuh the wrong end of the binoculars. The elephants look so small that you pick them up with tweezers and put them in the milk. bottle. IT'S afunny thing how people are always la beling others as snobs. Fraternity snobs, dorm snobs, instructor snobs, etc. Well, I have a friend (I did, at least) who is the snob of all snobs. What ' a character. He is a politically-conscious snob. He worries. He worries about famines in China. He worrits about hydrogen bombs. He thinks the world is pa ing to hell. He is right. Pass the gin bottle, please. IT SEEMS that the University is becoming a hot bed of commerce. Re: The ice-cream vendor on the corner in front of Woollen gym. Now, this may just be a sign of Spring but it may be that ice cream companies have found a new market for their goo. The next thing we know some son of Pecunius will plant a ferris wheel in Y-Court and start selling cotton candy and balloons on the steps of South Building. The ironical twist to the whole situation is that last Spring the Trustees, Administration, or what have ou, took the bottle out of the students' hands and this year someone replaces that bottle with a fudgecicle. Revolt, the reputation of the University is at stake. Don't be an accessory to the transforming of Carolina into a bubble-gum chewing, lollypop sucking kindergarten. Start a crusade for the or gies of yore. Oh well, the object is to drain, drain, drain, the students of their very last thin little dime. CONFUSION WILL always reign at Carolina. Who is who around here. Nobody knows. Everyone dres ses exactly alike. In the fall it's cords, in the win ter it's charcoals, in the spring it's cords again. Jim Kirtland, writing in the Eastern Illinois State News, says, "What you need is some invent iveness in your apparel. "Don't be imprisoned by the traditional con servatism of clothing. Brighten up your appearance with one single earring, or a cavalry saber, or even still, a gold derby. However, guard against gaudi ness. If for instance, you are wearing a gold der by, don't wear a cavalry saber, too. Wear a dagger instead or, for informal occasions, a bowie knife." Speaking of bowie knives, how many of you know what a great debt this country, indeed the whole world owes to the West Point Class of 1836? You all know of course ihat Colonel James Bowie of the class of '36 invented the bowie knife but do you know of the many other important con tributions to cutlery, for example, that of Colonel Henry Clasp who invented the clasp knife' Or that Colonel Harry Jack invented the jack knife' Or that Colonel Harry Putty invented the puttv knife? Or that Colonel Harry Cannon invented the towel? Amazing, isn't it? SUNDAY, BEING Mother's Day and all that reminds me of J. A. C. Dunn's cofumn of I I 3 Dunn told about the abundance of unwed miners P,"Ined hW they lYTT phi,-0Pic soul Just think o? Li thot 1R 3bOUt this situation have husbands to Sje thT" Wh wi not to show tsrii ss sunda 9 r-otp'acs T Tk3geS t0 Eur- y them "TRYSt " Sweden mothers and label on Ssdent bWkT" Wi hear ' me gruXf dXsraof take a date to the Saddl, CUrse vou cou!d ney, but you m?ht ,n -i "b that much djte findout XfUTX T- Whe" of thing every weekZ ffrd to do that sort single saddle. eeKend vou might end up riding 4'Yw toem?ee?i T winner-yoursef. Vote raise is voted in there win KPrCdiCt that the ee dent entertainment MMmi k? "' kinds of stu" about going LS--- ed for a month's allows v
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