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PAGE TWO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER THE DAILY TAR HEEL lumping Off Bridges With Richard Nixon Carolina Front The Newsworld - arry a run r 1QH S Mem r nXV,!e1n aske.d Republicans would do TnSeS: licG VS. it 1 resident Li&enhower decided against run- A Blood Clot nirm airnm. GOP Chairman Leonard Hall used to say: "When I get to that brdge, I'll jump off it." The grim news of Ike's "moderate" heart attack (at first reported as "mild") brought the sympathy of the nation and kept GOP planners awake this weekend. While The Daily Tar Heel has looked upon Ike as .much less than a satisfactory President, avc, too, are sorry of his illness. Since Vice President Dick Nixon stands a better-than-e cr chance of getting to be Pres ident now, our sympathy extends beyond that of man to his fellow in physical distress. As a matter of fact, the thought of Nixon in the White House is downright harrowing. (Since Ike would be the oldest President ever at the end of his second term if he seeks one Nixon will still be a heartbeat away from the presidency, even though Ike's health improves.) Long before the President's illness, Wasli , ington reporter Richard Rovere did a candid portrait of Nixon in Harper's magazine- Re porter Roverc's findings are pretty convinc ingconvincing that Dick Nixon is not the kind of man we want in the White House. Described as "robust, intelligent, cons cientious, ruthless, affable, articulate, com petitive, telegenic, and breath-taking! y adap lable, "Nixon at once comes into focus as a man more concerned with politicking than policy. As the author of poltical style for the Eisenhower administration as well as chief hatchet man. the Vice President has changed sides on issues quite as often as he changed suits. His misleading statements about com munists in government have confused and panic the public, squelched free expression, and won his party votes. Not since his role in the Alger Hiss case has Nixon taken a clear, consistant stand on anything. Nevertheless, he has been a vital partner to Ike, presiding over Cabinet meet ings in the President's absence, organizing the Senate, and making partisan speeches. If this inconsistant, white collar McCar thy (as Adlai Stevenson has termed him) is President, we ' 11 retch and so will national and international policymakers. Hut he's not in the White House yet. And we have sone ideas on how to keep him out. So does an energetic Democrat from Illinois. A Preview Of H i story t Biography Of Dante, Not 3d French General The General Catalogue says that fresh man and Sophomore studies in the General College are: "Intended (i) to constitute the founda tions of that general education which is re garded as essential to balanced development and intelligent citizenship, (and, 2) to supply opportunities for the discovery of intellectual interests..." A group of students, either in or passing through the General College, was challenged by an instructor to identify the Italian poet Dante. Sample answers: "A Greek philoso pher," "Roman writer," "French general." We don't contend that every product of the General College should have in mind a neat dossier on major Italian poets: but this incident is symptomatic of a deeper fault than the absence of that information. Just look, if you will, what a General College student may get away with. He can get away without exposure ' to anv major works of literature, outside those of Chaucer, Milton and Shakespeare. He can get away without exposure to philosophy, and Parmc nides, Plato. Berkeley, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Dewey, Royce may mean nothing. He can get away with Spanish. He can get away without knowing Mozart from Kafka, lira hams from El. Greco. He can get away with only two courses from all of hislorv, good courses admittedly, but restricted. Thus he may know nothing of the history of science, nothing of the history of art, nothing of the history of the law. He may not know lames Jeans horn Justinian, Picasso from Cicero, Need we go on? Name any luminary since the creation and it he has done much for civilization, chances arc good that you can a void him in the General College. Worst of all, we neglect centuries of Eastern culture. Who among us can pigeon-hole Mura-saki- The official student nnhH.o; cations Board of ,e Unii .h Ca T l r- : . ' '"V"M 11 ' Iff I' j " ' r'"' Vs ""'vt" 1 ' U i jj K i '.'. it 'f ' ' Editors where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub scription rates: mail ed, S4 per year, $2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. ED YODER,-LOUIS KRAAK I.AC Dunn WE WERE at a party when the word came throuch Saturday night As matter of fact, the .A Secretary of state according to Harry S. party personnel was thoroughly Truman, "should never have the illusion that he seeded with the newspaper set. is president of the United States." Both editors of this newspaper xhis is one of many frank pronouncements about were there, both feeling consid- government and those who govern that the form- ? , erably the bet- er president makes in his forth-coming memoirs. ; ter r wear; Officially, the Truman memoirs some 103S ram- both daily col- bling pages will be releaser! later this vr hv Doubleday. Life magazine is running about a fifth of the work in installments. But, during the heat of a New York iummer, I had occasion to read the complete manuscript of the Truman opus while in the employ of Time Inc., owners of the historic work. Here's a preview cf one of the few personal accounts ever written by a former U. S. Presi Life umnists (our- self and the Y ' .Court contin gent) were there, in simi lar frame of mind. The god- head of Tarna present in ail his nation was Bermuda-shorted and profession- ally side-splitting glory: a pho- It all startcd in Missourif where a siightlv-built tographess, who was at the time boy with n insatiable hunger torhisto -s providing a good deal more hum- spire(1 by svmpathetic school teachcrs. ?lr"' " "My -debt to history is one which cannot be mg than the Tarnation chief, a calculated. I know of no other motivation which sorority girl a graduated coed so accounts for my awakening interest as a young weekending here, and the wife ad in the principles of leadership and government." of the married editor. Truman writes. The scene was the essence of Not able to obtain a college education, the man innocent, though somewhat sod- from IndeDendenep relinrl on hktm-v in tr-v. hm den gaiety. Then the word on Ike political facts of life. Concludes Truman: "I learned that a leader is a man who has the ability to came through. THE LNFORMATION came from the shop (News, Inc.), where the managing editor and the night editor, having been busy cheering for the old alma crater all afternoon, had just caught on to the fact that Ike was not in the best of condition. The news paper situation tensed: the front page would have to be re-made up; copy on the Ike' story would have to be gotten from a reli able source; the only convenient reliable source was the national wire at the Durham Herald; someone had to go and get the story, since it would likely be too long for the telephone; the Y-Court contingent scooped up the ex-coed by the scruff of her graduate pedal-pushers and took off for Durham in a thin blue cloud; the Tarnation chief col lected the sorority girl and went r.lcng. The party was somewhat decimated. ONE EDITOR, straightened his face, scratched his head and gloomily contemplated the floor. "I suppose this means he won't run again." "I don't see how he could; it'd kill him to campaign." "Now if only he'd leave those golf clubs alone . ..." "Will Nixon take over now?" "Not unless Ike is completely out of commission. I guess he'll do his work in bed." "It doesn't look too good for the Republicans, does it?" "I bet the Democrats are jump ing up and down, bright-eyed and red-faced." "How much longer till the newscast?" WE SNAFFLED the photo graphess and followed the others to the Durham Herald office. They were all sitting around at desks with portions of the wire get other people to do what they don't want to do copy, beating the fear of God and like it." into typewriters, copying the story That afternoon in 1945 when he was summoned as fast as they could. We snagged to the White House, Vice President Truman didn't four paragraphs and typed them realize that he would have to put his theory of off, collected the other scraps of leadership into immediate practice in the presi- papef, and waited for some more dency. Up until then; he had distinguished himself to come from the wire. as a conscientious Senator. And, on that basis, Pres- The Durham Herald office was ident Roosevelt had picked Truman as a running mate in 1944. oirs: ages arry ta and original interpretations of the actual agree ments. But Truman got through the conference with out compromising principle, suggesting at the con clusion that the next Big Three meeting be in Wash ington. Stalin, head of the land that embraced atheistic communism, replied, "God willing." Later the President would make his statement on functions of the Secretary of State, when Jimmy Byrnes decided to make policy, rathers than carry out the President's policy. Truman emphasizes the function of the Chief Executive as chief formulator ! of foreign policy. . o The first two volumes (all that Truman has writ- ten so far) conclude with the dismissal of Byrnes, after the war's end. One comes to several conclusions after a care ful reading of the lengthy work particularly that Truman's presidential prowess exceeded his writing ability. Some spots, such as his description of Roosevelt's death, pack the grim punch of life. But other por tions ramble, bog down in ponderous texts of un important documents. A good example of this pad ding with trivial documents is a tedious exchange of notes between the While House and General MacArthur about broadcast arrangements for the Japanese surrender ceremony. f. - Taken as an interesting insight into a man whom o When the newly-elected Vice President reached the White House that April 12 afternoon, h? wss greeted by Mrs. Roosevelt, who said. "Harry, the crammed with weary, coffee drugged night newspapermen, all pecking typewriters, red-penciling, slouching in corners with faces hat-covered, waiting for as signments. None of them except Pres;dcnt is dead. ine man at ne wire seemed to stunned, Truman asked the first lady if he care, much of a hoot about Ike. could Ho anything for her. They looked rather gray and she answered at once, "Harry, is there anything saturated with routine - even we can do for you. For you are the one in trouble under flourescent lights. now." ' - Nothing else came off the wire, (It's not unlikely that this incident crossed Tru and we took off for Chapel Hill man's mind this past weekendwhen he heard news again with the photographess of Eisenhower's heart attack and declared that be organizing the scraps of codv was "Dravinp fnr hie r0.n- . paper into coherent succession as we squealed the corners. Back at the shop, the man aging editor snatched the papers Three months later, President Truman had "guid ed the nation througn the San Francisco Conference m-i Miiica me united Nations,-the surrpnrW f and sat down to edit them A Wit : uimeu canons,-me surrender of while the ni2nt editor ?nythc Poi.sda- Conference, the birth of the while the night editor - and his cohort conferred with the printer over possible changes in the front page makeup. WHEN WE got back to the party , one editor had gone home sober and brooding, and the other was pacing behind an edi torial scowl. "You know," he muttered wearily, "maybe this means Nix on will run." atomic age, and the Japanese surrender He uas in trouble, because the -world was in trouble, but simple faith in his ideas of government was getting him through. He stated it plainly and congently in a V-J Day speech: "... We know that the spirit of liberty," the freedom of the individual, and the personal dig nity of man are the strongest and toughest and mot enduring forces in the world." But other forces in the world were blocking the path to lasting peace forces from Russia. At Potsdam, Truman found himself faced with a recalcitrant Stalin, who seemed determined ta claim countless imaginary agreements made at Yal- f ate thrust into the world's biggest office, the Tru man memoirs are fascinating. Inclusion of letters to his mother give the work a breath of life that too many historical works lack. Don't look for any sensational news in the Tru man memoirs. Truman isn't news; he's warm, true, living history history that will inspire others to leadership just as earlier American history thrilled that schoolboy in Independence, Missouri Lmiis tKraar. Exercise For The Left Hand "Either ice foster flourishing trade between the free nations or ice weaken the free world and our own economy." President Eisenhower. Come, let us foster a flourishing trade, A trade universal and free. If the nations all sell exceedingly well We'll have peace and prosperity. There's only one thing worth remembering As we; foster a flourishing trade: We must keep a sharp eye on whatever we buv, Depending on where it is made. . If the British sell bikes that everyone likes, We must slap on a tariff or two, , If the Swiss make a watch that is real'lv top-notch, If the Swiss make a watch that ir: Wemust sec that it's tough on them too. If the "'English make bids for a dam or a bridge - That -are lower than ours, pay no heed; i We've gat to consider the poor native bidder (And Pittsburgh's in desperate need). Come, let us foster a flourishing trade, A trade universal and free, So Ipngas we're sure we need endure X'ctnipctitive ignominy! Sec The Reporter Y-Court Corner That Urge From Six To Senility . . . - Rueben Leonard PARENTS CAN no longer hide behind the family bookcases and sing "The " 4 . - Inability to f T 3 r 11 Rlnx; " The ancient adage "you can n o t teach an old dog new tricks" has been thrown out the j window by Ed- ward Thorndike, . . u, famous educational psychologist. Thorndike found in experiments with people of all ages that al though the learning curve rises spectacularly up to twenty it re mains steady for at least another five years. After that,, ability to learn dr ops very, very "slowly up the age of 35, a little more rapid ly but still slowly beyond that age. NORMAN LEWIS, in his book Word Power Made Easy, relies heavily on the finding of men such as Thorndike. Lewis says, "The person who can recapture, 'the powerful urge to learn' with Which he was born can go on in creasing his vocabulary at a prodigious rate No matter what his present IN HIS collection of data from various Universities, colleges, and professors, Mr. Lewis found that: 1. The (average four-year-old child has a vocabulary of 5,600 basic words. At the age of five, he knows 9,600 words. At the age of six, 14,700 words; at seven, 21,200 words; at eight 26,300 words; at nine, 29,300; and at the ripe old age of ten the average child is able to recognize and understand 34,300 words. 2. The average college sopho more has a vocabulary of approx imately 200,000. 3. The average adult vocabu lare is 50,000 words one-fourth the size of the vocabulary of a college sophomore, only one and one-half times as large as the vocabulary of a ten year-old child. 4. The constant rate of increase among adults is in the neighbor hood of fifty words a year one one hundredth the rats of chil dren between six and ten. Mr. Lewis then sums up the reasons for the big drop in the number of words learned yearly by adults (from 5,000 a year for a child between six and ten to 50 a year for the average male adult). He says, "Day in and day out you kept learning; you keep squeezing every possible ounce of learning out of every waking moment; you were an eternal question box, for you had a constant and insatiable desire to know and understand. Then eventually, you lost j-our great drive for knowing and un derstanding. , When that happened, your vo cabulary stopped increasing be cause your intellect had slowed down its tremendous rate of growth." MR. LEWIS then goes on to encourage older people to read his book and give themselves a chance to improve their vocabu laries. He says that no matter what their age may be, whether it is 30, or 40, or 50, or 60, or 70 -or older, they can once again increase their vocabulary at a prodigious rate provided they recapture the "powerful urge to learn" that is the the key to vocabulary improvement. He then maps out a three-week plan of vocabulary building which odd as it seems works. IN CONCLUSION Mr. Lewis has this to say, "Is it any wonder then that the most successful and intelligent people in this country have the biggest vocabularies? It was not their large vocabu laries that made these people succesful and intelligent, but their knowledge. Knowledge, however, is gained largely through words. In the process of increasing their know ledge, these successful people in creased their vocabularies." Get out the books, ma, we are going to get some knowledge. he I I If Cain Mutiny l. Edgar Prina In Collier's When former Senator Harry Pulliarr r. the oath as a member of the Subversivp k Control Board two years ago, no one 7- mmseii coma nave predicted the 5' change in his thinking on security rr.a would follow. Here was a right-wing, pro-McCarthv p.. before he left the Senate, a defpaip in January, 1953. Here was a die-hard sup ine late Robert A. Taft's nreHpntui ' -"'""i a, oeing "laKen care ot ' by the victories p . Administration. The bookmaker, as evervone Vnn..-, l would have lost a bnnHlp T.sct Tor,,,,-. . .1 A J 1 1 . . spuKe 10 ine arenconservative Fifth Ccr uistnct Republican Club m Spokane in hi: State nf Wnchinrrfon Thic tnmnj .... . opening salvo in what has become known narry tain Mutiny. Harry Cain, the man who had used Con-, as a personal political weapon in t.h vaulted him into the Senate in lqr ,1 "liLj Li f 11 again to block: confirmation nf Mn n - - v. AfAWii . : a nominee of President Truman, had now del? scorching attack on the Administrations v security program. If there were some who didn't hrlipm read, Cain banished all doubts on March if speech in Washington, D. C, before the N Civil Liberties Clearing House. This time he l the Attorney General's list of subversive' zations and called for its prompt liquidation Three members of the United States s Court have voiced approval of Cain's crusade; Justice Warren and Justices Frankfurter ton. There were other persons, however, un less than enchanted by Cain's outspokenncil . . , When the SACB member returned to the t after his Spokane speech, he received phone calls from the White House. One V Maxwell Rabb, the President's adviser on b:; group problems. "Hairy, why didn't yoa ; screen that speech?"' Rabb asked. "Max, because I wanted to give it," car. unabashed reply. The other call was from Sherman Adar Assistant to the President. "He gave me unshirted hell," the 49y: Washingtonian asserted. "I tried to exp!; merits of my criticism of the security pro;::' he snorted: "To hell with the merits. You unc; this problem better than I do, but this b ; ; and you're expected to play on it.' " I If Cain has been an irritant to some of the House entourage, he has been unadulterated: to the Justice Department. One high ofiicial when asked to comment on the former S:: Spokane speech, said that Cain is speaking : his. field of responsibility. The official went explain what many persons do not understand our complicated internal security system-', that members of the Subversive Activities C Board do not hear employe security risk Cain's job on the board is to help cVt; whether the Attorney General is correct in ing that an organization is a Communist :: Brownell reportedly informed a group of I can leaders in Seattle that Cain did not h foggiest notion of what the security pro;:; all about and that he was one of the most dii-" influences in the Administration. The former Senator, who himself is not ; live to criticism, thought the matter over fur days and then wrote a 10-page letter to Bro; is doubtful whether the Cabinet officer h: been spoken to more bluntly. M 1 am not convinced you appreciate t. difference between your public pronounccn-.e: the lack of achievement (in combating Com.?.. that follows . . .," he declared. Cain said he : been on the board long when "it became d; ly apparent that something was organically in your department." He continued: "The threat of Communist subversion :' filtration is either real, as you constantly publicly, or is it more fanciful than real board's workload might indicate." A new tack was taken by Brownell in of the Cain letter. He directed Assistant A General William F. Tompkins to meet hi- ; critic for a series of basic discusions on th? ; program. When the talks were concluded 3 Cain felt confident that he had convinced T: that at least two important improvement; be adopted at the earliest time. The first proposal was one that To?..: ready had been considering: to allow dc? heads to keep an employe on the job at his case has been heard. At present. t'".e must be suspended without pay before he granted a hearing. The second was that i:x ment should provide counsel for its civilian ers in security cases, just as it docs lw r uniform in courts-martial. 1 Lam was hoping to get a reply fri'V' 1 on what the Justice Department planned t. still is waiting. . Because of a certain amount of min ing, Cain likes to make two things clear: He has not become, in his own words 2 His switch is confined to the one issue security and individual liberties. Tf 1 ne aoes not favor a weaker security wants the present one to be "fair as e'i - "If a security officer has charges t--'! c' up, then I'm on his side," he says. 1 anti-Communist as I have always been er. . a little bit more about it now.'1 "nne neitner Jenner nor McCarts that Cain might be motivated by Li -turn to the Senate, some Administratis say privately they believe that's it. They believe, however, that his Pr winding the Senate nomination in a ' popular Gov. Arthur B. Langlic, an "Cjr hower man," would be slim. On his own part. Cain continues u to run for any office.
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