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1 j VAZli TWO SATURDAY, SSPTS.M3S3 THE DAILY TAR HSEL x Consiif ui ion: iLffi Proboscis Ideas about the T. S. Constitution, like the blind men's ideas about the elephant, vary, depending on whether you grasp the trunk or the tail. That document, whose binhdav we telebtatcd this week, again like the genera Eleplms rend l.oxodonta, has Id.su cd in sound bodv. For th.-tf endurance, we may thank an op en . society in which it is not yet for the auth orities tr dictate whether you will grasp the truitk or the tail. T hiv juncture :A tntr history finds pockets jingling and the tail graspers the conserva tivesin the ascendant. The barometer of national politics shows us a- President who is an avowed new-stple conservative. Since the flux of political doctrine in this Flepub lie plays about the Constitution, a discussion, of doctrine is always appropriate to a dis cusm'ou of it. An encouraging trend in contemporary thought is the growth of responsible corner vat Urn. While we do not stvle ourselves con scrvatives, thus do not worship at the new r 'tar, we readily grant the value of the tail grisping faction. Put one phenomenon of American pm'tits has been its dearth of re sponsible conservatism. For everv Vanden bitrg we hae a Knowland, a DiirksoH. a Xix on. a Ilrickcr. The conservatives of that stripe fall outside responsible consei vatism, in the doctrine of the New Conservatives. The Knowlands and Iirickers, far from allegiance to those twin pillars of real conservatism Kdmund Imrke and Constitutional govern mentare what Richard Hofstadter calls INcudo-Gonservr lives. Their ideology rings familiar: Hatred of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the I'nited Nations: fear of subversion: cas tigation of "this naj.ty, stinking 16th (income tax) Amendment." Typical as well of Pseudo-Conservatives, Hofstadter finds, is their constant advocacy of quack amendments to the Constitution. The Bricker Amendment is i "prime .symptom-' Other pet objectives: Limitation of non-military spending to a fixed portion of the national income; making people liable to prosecution for trying to "'weaken" the gov ernment, even by peaceful means (they should look in the mirror); keeping our sol diers off foreign soil, except that of "poten tial enemies." The Pseudo-Conservative, which Hof stadter exposes Hi well, will never contribute to the dialectic of American history because he worships tl e torn, twisted, false gods of the past, not those which are worthy of wor ship. A ' cw Comcxrative a Kirk, a I.ippman, il -V'f ret k reverences the law and the Con itfition will find the soundest leadership in their ranks. Carolina Front - TheWdrld Of Loners; St The Wrong State I.A.C. Dunn LAST WEDNESDAY we slit hered, unnoticed, into the Car olina Quarterly office, took a duick glance around the dimly lit purlieus of the literary world, and greeted the occupants of the csrvern with a Hail,. Wassail, Kalamazoo and points west, and inquired as to the status of thir magazine. Editor Bill Scarbordugh, who - ; :v.r ,.: .,5; was pacing edi- 'Gc Get 'Em Boys, We're Behind You' Thank Goodness' Y-Court Corner- J For Autumn: Coeds Sz'The Professionals Autumn, like a shy coed at a sorority rush party, crept into town yesterday, bringing little of fall but footbaW. As thousands take their seats, open their programs, and uncork their refreshments this afternoon At Kenan in the usual mass motion manner that watching football involves, we sit with puzzlement. Is everything becoming professional? In classes we listen to professors, their speaking styles tempered bv the masters of .video. Along sorority row, like so manv pro fessional hostesses in night clubs, the Creek gafs croon commercial rush songs. And even the traditional institution of marriage is be ing "taught" in classrooms here. Hut we digress from autumn, which is the point of this piece. We like it as do the squir rels. It brings tire crunch of nuts and leaves under foot, the billowing of coed twerd skirts, and a dying of the growing things so they can be reborn. Where do the professionals fit in here? eK about auNimn now; il we were to real ly do it justice, we'd have to be poets, sing ers of the world's songs- In short, profession al purveyors of the iambic pentameter and other matters metrical. And since we're none ofthese, well say-just this of fall: We like it mil The official student publication of the PnhU canons Board of the University 0f NortCa P I , where it is published S ' "" dly except Monday :,i na examination and v ;: ? 'nU -.f. fan ' " I t f if V il acation periods and 1 : summer terms. Enter- :r cd as second class v; it matter in the post of !t 5 ? tl fice in Chapel Hill, N. 0 1 C, under the Act of March 3, 1879. fub- scriotion rates: mail. f ed, $4 per year, S2.50 a smesier; aeiivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editors ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR 1 Managing Editor FRED POWXETXJE Euaineas Manager BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor j. A cTBuNN News Editor v . JACKIE GOODMAN torialJy back and forth with a sort of schem ing look which he had built into his face around his breech end of a brontosauric pipe, replied darlcls to our inquiry that he had just had a staff meeting. We asked if this meant that eight out of ten had just quit. "No, no" he said, "not at all. As a matter of fact, tfie other day we had about a dozen people in here all pecking at typwriters." We observed that this must in deed have been cozy, considering the fact that the Quarterly only has three typwriters. We asked how the Fiction Board was shaping -up, dowa or in discriminately? "We have a very distinguished Fiction Board," said Scarborough proudly, removing the pipe from under his nose and looking rather like the statue of liberty. "Blerin Hathcock, Joan and Jack Weston, Sylvia Yelton, and one person yet to be determined." We glanced around us into the gloomier corners of the office and discerned several people lurking studiously with rttanu scripts. Minions? we asked. "Yes," said Scarborough with a secret sort of grin. "Minions." And when was the magazine slated to hit the stands? "In November," said Scarbo rough from the other side of the pipe. "Mill starts next week as soon as we get these stories in." We assumed that when he said 'the Mill' he meant the mill that separated the men from the re jected slips? Scarborough unburdened himself of the secret grin again, and admitted that this was so. "Everything we have now is very promising. We just haven't got anything definite." And how big was the magazine going to be? "The first issue will have 72 pages." We recoiled. Did he mean to say that in November he was going to slam the stands with 72 action-paeked pages with techni by color-color? "72 action-packed pages. No full color, though." And who was going to have his name in lights? That is, what stars oh the escutcheon of fiction were going to grace the first is sue of the Quarterly? "Well, we have a story by Doris Betts, which we're consi dering. And a contribution from Bill O'Sullivan, and some other people." We wished him happy grinding and departed into the daylight again, marvelling over 72 pages, dozens of minions, and payment for manuscripts, the latter of which facts is now a part of the Quarterly's policy. ON THE front page of Thurs day's Daily Tar Heel we noticed in the "Campus Seen" column a little note about a woman in a Pennsylvania ear who asked someone behind Graham Me morial if "this was the Univer- Now here's a thing. In this modern world, with untold mil lions of cars on the road, all carefully licensed in contrasting colors (and contrasting color schemes) the highway authorities desperately trying to solve traf fic problem after traffic problem, putting up signs, re-surfacing roads, even resorting to witti cisms (as the N. C. Highway Dept. does on Route 1 just out side Raleigh); when the refining companies are putting out maps which will get you from here to the West Coast with never a qualm; when all this is true there is still someone who misses her destination not by a few miles but by a whole state! To quote a columnist colleague of ours, "ain't .that comforting?" . -: . '" J j. X : 1 - ! ; J .''i ! . . . .. . ' . . r"'. . ........ - ' if - tf - iv .. ..- j - Ji 4'- 1 Matter Of Fact Killian And Porkkala Joseph Alsop WASHEVGTON The President's highest scien tific advisers have warned him,, in the Killian Com mittee report just exclusively described in this space, that the Soviet Union is now overtaking the United States in the crucial air-atomic weapons race. Meanwhile, America's leading diplomatic policy makers interpret several of the most important recent Soviet moves, including the abandonment of the Soviet military base at Porkkala in Finland, as maneuvers in a well-planned campaign to ad vance the moment when the famous "American lead" will become a Soviet lead. In this manner, two patterns that appear to be flagrantly contradictory the pattern of the sum mit meeting at Geneva, and the pattern of the energetic and successful Soviet air-atomic build-up actually fit together with remarkable neatness. In order to see where and how the fit comes, it is only necessary to analyze a few of the facts that led the Killian Committee to its bleak conclusions. In the present period, according to the Killian Committee, we are in a transitional phase. The United States, while still having the edge in strength, is losing that edge to the Soviets. This is happening, in this period, because of the re-equipment of the Soviet Strategic Air Force and Air Defense -Command with the new, high quality Rus sian long-range jet bombers, the "Bisons" and "Bad gers," and extremely superior day and night fight ers, the "Farmers" and "Flashlights." BISONS The Soviets already have about seventy "Bisons" which are intercontinental jet bombers compara ble to our B-52, but believed by such experts as Seversky to be superior to the B-52. "Bison" pro duction is further estimated, probably rather con servatively, to be running at the rate of seventeen aircraft a month. The Soviets also have about one hundred "Bad gers," their B-47-like jet bomber, and "Badger" production is estimated to be running at the rate of about thirty per month. Finally, the "Farmers' and "Flashlights" have also been produced in sub- stantial numbers, and it is believed that more than fifty of each of these types are being produced -each month. Project these production rates, and you get the following three results; First, the Soviets will have a force of approxi mately 500 "Bisons" by the winter of 1953. This will be a sufficient force to constitute an exceed ingly grave threat to the continental United States perhaps ten times as grave a threat as the pres ent Soviet force of short-range, obsolescent. Be like TU 4 bombers. Second, the Soviets will have a force of approxi mately 900 "Badgers" by the winter of 1953. This will be a medium range bomber force sufficient either to cow our allies into forbidding us to use our overseas air bases, or sufficient, if the need arises, to destroy those bases at the very outset of any war. Third, the reconversion of the Soviet Air Defense Command will also be largely completed by the winter of 1953. At that time, the American Stra tegic Air Command's B-36s will still be SAC's most important aircraft of true inter-continental range. But the B-3Ss will then be thoroughly obsolete! SAC's medium range B-47s, therefore, will then be almost our whole strength LITTLE DONE Production-wise, this country is as yet doing very little to reverse this trend. Output of the American B-o2s is now far below Soviet output-of "Bisons." A substantial increase has been ordered, but even after the new level of B-52 production has been finally reached, Soviet output of true inter-continental jet bombers will still be ahead of American output. The American production picture in high quality day and night fighters is even more melan choly. This is why the one hope of maintaining a sort of precarious balance is the U. S. Strategic Air Command's Targe component of about 1500 B-47s. Unfortunately, however, overseas air bases are vital to the effectiveness of B-47s. By twice refuel ing in the air, a B-47 can reach some (but not all) Soviet targets from the United States. But the force of tankers for this air-refueling process is des perately inadequate to sustain operations that are not based overseas. In fact, according to official American estimates, the loss of the present overseas bases uould cut the U. S. Strategic Air Command's sortie rate by something like 70 per cent which means that SAC's striking power would thereby be cut by 70 per cent BUILD-UP Precisely here, of course, is where the air build up pattern and the Geneva pattern fit so neatly together. The overseas bases are threatened by the "Badger" build-up, on the one hand. On the other hand, if anything posithe has come out of Geneva, it is the new impetus given to disarmament, recent ly boasted about by Harold Stassen. Point number one in the Soviet disarmament program, in turn, is the abandonment of all overseas bases, and es pecially all American overseas bases. If the Soviets can only get their way gh this one point, they will cripple SAC, which is the only threat to the Soviet Union. The Porkkala base in Finland is not very useful any longer, in the era of the new weapons. Its abandonment by the Soviets, however, gives the Kremlin an invaluable talking point with our allies. It immeasurably helps the campaign against over seas bases. Our allies,, of course, will be more anxious than ever to believe that "the Soviets are going home, so perhaps it will contribute to peace if the Americans go home, too," when they are menaced by a large "Badger" force against which they have no defense whatever. In short, the military preparations and peaceful maneuvers lead toward exactly the same highly practical result. The Constitution This week the nation celebrates the 163th anni versary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States. That the Constitution and the nation exist after 163 years is evidence of the wisdom with which the Constitution's makers hammered it out on the anvil of controversy. They wrought well. - . , 0 The fundamental problem before them was how to create a central government strong enough ta exist, survive and develop, yet not strong enough to act as a tyrant over the states and citizens. They had a tough time doing it. But they finally solved it through separation of powers of government and a system of checks and balances. When they got through they 'had a compromise with which nobody was satisfied and which they had a difficult time inducing various states, anion' them New York and North Carolina, to adopt. In later times men less wise have in the heat of reform changed it "or "taken iiberties with its inter pretation to the detriment of all concerned, as in the case of the prohibition amendment and various encroachments on the rights of states. But the Con stitution still stands as a beacon of freedom in a tempestuous woFld. Greetmboro Daily News It's Oklahoma d A CoHege That's Trying o 'Ruehen Leonard THE UNIVERSITY of Okaia homa Sooners move iriid Kenan Stadium this afternoon with their battalion of racehorse backs and tank-like linemen. Since this afternoon's game isn't exactly what one can call a "breather," school spirit will be put to the test. During the past few seasons students have supported their optimistic cheerleaders in spas modic spurts we score, we yell we don't score, we curse. SCHOOL SPIRIT is not a thing that is injected into a person during orientation week, nor is it sprinkled on the food served in Lenoir Hall. It is that some thing which made you select Carolina as your school. It em bodies the love you have for the campus, its traditions and stand ards. Athletic contests are the prin cipal means of outlet for the dis play of school spirit. Whether, in this afternoon's game, the first quarter roar will subside into a third quarter mumble remains to be. seen. THE OUTCOME of today's game I do hot know. If I did chances are that I would have bet everything from my mother's new outfit to my little brother's jack-knife with the local bookies. The point I am trying to make is this, our football team is going to take the field with a determin ation to beat Oklahoma. Are we going to sit quietly in the stands and witness this spectacle? No, by damn, we're not. We are go ing tQ rock this burg from the top of the Bell Tower to the bot tom of the Old Well. Anyone not wishing to participate in this show of school spirit had better confine himself to a musty dorm itory basement and stuff his ears with cotton. BACK TO the problem at hand. Beating Oklahoma. As most of you realize Oklahoma is rated either first, second, or third on national football polls. The Soon ers aren't the only national power we play this year either. Notre Dame and Maryland are in the top six. A win over the Sooners could be just what the doctor ordered for the Tar Heels. It could mean the installment of self confidence that would en able them to meet Notre Dame and Maryland on equal terms. It is hard to convince a winning team that they can be beaten. THIS AFTERNOON let us show Oklahoma what we' think of Carolina. Let us continue this show of pride no matter what the outcome may be. In Conrad's The Secret Sharer he mentions the sort of thing that can be ap plied to school spirit "... I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank but that's not the same thing." This after noon let us not drown ourselves let's swim till we sink. IN CONSIDERING the teams we play this season, students have often said, "How can we be expected to cheer our heads off when we know we are going to be beaten?" Who KNOWS we are going to get beat, and even if we do don't you think it is better to play teams with prestige than little schools like Podunk U. from Haw River. One does not improve his tennis by playing novices, neither does a team improve its football by playing sandlotters. If we are going to go, let's go first class. BUT WHEN everything is said and done; Football fans are a funny lot; They like a team with an open throttle. But when the backs neglect to trot; They much perfer To disinter A bottle. ver i ft 2 aijj Charles Dunn A group of freshmen gathered around , classman in one of the dorms last a side room lecture on how to et dates 7 1 He made it sound real simple when he 53. 1 out a girl is like drinking a Coke, exce pt . Expensive." One of the freshmen questioned the Casanova about how to approach a girt : r Without even taking time to catch h:s ' expert. replied, "You just ask the girt, Vv";:.! man do you prefer?' And then you state y fications. Say something like this. I can ' ? . domineering, strong, weak, charming. ,::. .; . intelligent or dumb. Which way do you ;v.- "But most of these coeds will label th .t - . as a line," Cassy continued. "So it is v. --r right to the point, just go ahead and say out and neck.' Be smooth." Such a lecture brought back memencs speaking course this summer. Near the session one of the students spoke on "Hi A Date," advocating the ice-breaking a: "Let's go out and neck." The speech got quite a few laughs, b given in answer to it the next day drew but did get the applause of the class that no other speaker received during The latter speaker took issue with th speech "as a conspicuous representative roneous idea, as the champion of a :r. conception, and as the harbinger cf ' things to come." Parts of this speech f .. speaker's name should be printed, but r that it isn't. .1 . .T f "One of the speakers yesterday advoca -s neck.' I say 'Let's don't.' Let's don't sen ; you are gentlemen. Let's keep cur filthy h..: minds to ourselves. James Jones put it in From Here to Eternity when he ur your mind off of what you're thinking.' "Today, almost every man is out for ali get in everything he does; business, politic?, even fishing and hunting. They even h,;,i bag limit on ducks. The hunters were h ' erything that flew, whether they needed ;t : They're out for all they can get, and tec:;;, succeed, they think they're he-men. "In relation to necking did vou ever :h:r.c it takes a much bigger man. a much tror.; r to say 'no' than it does to say 'yes.' Yvi r Let's neck.' Men say that not because thoy ; men, but because they are essentially ,v They aren't strong enough to say 'no'. "A basic reason for man's lack ct this matter is his lack of respect for w ::r -. lack of respect is the fault of both (men a: men), I'm afraid. How can a man admire a ' who poses half-nude for a photograph, and it to be printed in a nation-wide magazine :;-.r caption 'cheesecake?' This quasi-photogrupr.y insult to both 'cheese' and 'cake.' "And so men are brought up in a realm ; dressed women. Someday I would like t) of these 'cheese-cake' artists. I would I ke :. to her: 'M'am, what was your mother l.k ' did she teach you, that you have cir.e u What were you like when you were a h;:;.1 What happened to the dolls you used t i c meticulously and modestly? Where in the of time did you suddenly snap?' 1 'Gentlemen, perhaps I am preach; n,' : to you, and if I am, I should not be. becju completely unqualified to do so. But if I a- : ing to you, then you must know and realize : is intentional. We don't respect girls any We don't realize that they must be resrectci ly because they are girls, if for no uthe: reason. We place them far below our crvn selves. To many men, women are only a a toy, to be cast aside into the filth ani man created from his own passion. We th:' 1 of ourselves and not of the women and .y. lives we are helping to shape and f form!' "If you love a girl simply because ycu r.: '. her then you don't love her at ail. If th it : love is then there is no love. There is tr.'.y and lust and greed! "We are advised 'be smooth. But :.t,' an inferior product, a constitutional inaicr capable of being smooth? Did it ever occur that just by being natural 1 would, pcrhap finitely more pleasing to a given girl to nothing but smooth college men? So I . be smooth.' Just be yourself, and yea " smoother than you think. Respect a g:rl. " in turn will respect you. She will say H " man. that admires me and respects nie : : he thinks I am. I like him.' She may feci ' are the only person who really docs re fer there are very few men that reject particular or in general. 1 "Finally, there is this, 'gentlemen. Try fi ber that you are neither the first nor t h e a girl's life. You are probably not the v, will marry. Perhaps she wilt one day f.l with and marry a man she has not yet met can, save something for him. Save son'-tr. : and new for the man that she will sc.re'iv for her husband. Respect her enough f '; her a now prohibited joy, with a man -'-: to meet. Leave her no memory to rcrtt "You want you woman untouched ani clt want to be the first in her life. You have " to spoil that dream for other men. "Perhaps someday you will have a !:'' your own. and I believe you will want y ' ter to be treated with respect, and a r love. Why not do the same with some c' " . daughter?" There you have it gentlemen. Take it : ' is worth. My only comment i; that i said it. -inw n m-r rmtmmm mwwwvimi
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