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J WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO Heeded: More Flutes , Newspaper headlines don't always make us wince and gnash our teeth. Announce ment ol the Ford Foundation Grant of Sa.jnV . ooo .lor research in the behavioral sciences is a cheery note. lint good news for the University right now is but a flute trill above the discord, at least to a superficial observer. Just listen: . i. The Presidential Situation: The Uni versity is still playing the role of a. headless horseman with its president in Washington. This is not to detrac t from Dr. Ptirks own capacity, since-1 it 'is above the power of any man to function to full effect as an "acting", president. 2 Finances:, The i)jf X. C. General As-, semblv granted neither staff additions nor permanent improvements to the ' University, in an hour when the need for both is crucial. - Undergraduate Education: Xot alto gether dark, since the administrative changes recommended by Cresap, McCormick and Paget brought Deans Spruill, Johnson, and Sittersou into greater prominence in the total University picture, but encroachment of the P. A. School and other agitators for vocational study on the soundness of imder gradu; :.:e curriculum, understressed - academics,-concentration on graduate schools to the detriment of the undergraduate plague this .'quarter of the University. 4. Ultimate FoUcyMak'iitg: The recent action on admission of Xegro undergrad uatesin which the decision was appealed shows, we think, that the power of the Trus tees to override Icxtal administrative attitude and general faculty will is growing. Xot only do the Trustees now make policy; they move closer by the day to being its executors. The newly-erected board of Higher Edu cation will pose catchy questions. What rela tion will it have to policy in Chapel Mill? r,. Enrollment: Xo downward trend to be seen. A thumb can't be pushed into a thimble and the problem of selectivity must be faced. 6. Student Union: We -have come to the fork of the road in the student union issue. We will either stagnate in old, inadequate. Graham Memorial, or begin to think about a building with equipment equal to our needs. Now, where -was that flute? Carolina Front English Club- Bits Of Glup 8t A Tip For A Bbulevctrdier acemenr Still Not Bureau I he i 1 ratssncs n -J7 rue measure Y-Court Corner, Garbage Cans; The Place For Sex And Men? Rueben Leonard J.A.C. Dunn - it k Free Enterprise & Local Dry Cleaners If '--Til experts questioned by The Daily T. licel are correct in their interpretation (and we think then are), local dry cleaning establishments are sticking students and breaking a state law. It is illegal in North Carolina to form any "contract combination in the form of trust or otherwise or. conspiracy In restraint of trade or commerce ... " Apparently, local cleaners have broken this law in agreeing -to up their prices. Free enterprise demands a system of com petition under which businesses compete, setting their prices individually And there is doubt whether cleaning establishments in Chapel Mill are very free or very enterpris ing, for that matter. AVE CAME blasting into the editorial office of this newspaper last Monday afternoon, feeling bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, ready for anyhting the clattering halls of journalism might bring us; we flung off our coat V (we only have I one to share s among us), , whipped 0 u t fV4 ' glasses, polish- C ed them ; with " r' a piece of , the v editor's .copy '-''W-- . paper,,, leapt to the desk and ripped o"-he top three .inches of paper from, the typewriter (this is always a good beginning), and then tried to think what to write about. ' AT THIS juncture we noticed a small stack of smaller scraps of paper lying On the desk. They had been typed upon. The top one read as follows: " 'I never met a man I didn't like' Will Rogers. You never met Christine Jorgenson." This is true. We never did. We" never laughed at that little joke, either. Not even' the first three times we heard it. We went on to the next one: -"disestablishmentarianism I had one, but the wheels came off." .. We- have heard this ; before. This, if we recall correctly, is a comment retailed to us some time ago from only as far away as the next county, and has been bandied around the editorial of fice on various occasions since then whenever the spirit of levi ty goes out of control. The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, i 0 (7 where it is published h j Nv ti daily except Monday - . ' and examination and " rvnuuo aiiu ") Slimmer terms Pnfor. 1; ' ' ' r4 7: I I e J.tmujtrr I 7 'if "W ed as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. C7, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub scription rates: mail ed, S4 per year, $2.50 I a semester; delivered, Editors .-. . ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAU Managing Editor 1 FRED POWLEDGE Business "Manager : BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Charles Dunn, James Nichols; Mike Vester, Bennie Baucom, Bunny Klenke, Rath? Rush, Curtis Gans, Jimmy Purks, Joan McLean, Nancy Link, Bill Corpening, Vir ginia Hughes, Clarke Jones, Wilson Cooper, Char lie Sloan, Jerry Cuthrell, Peg Humphrey, Nancy Rothschild. EDITORIAL STAFF Rueben Leonard, Bill O'Sulli-van. Staff Cartoonist Charlie Daniel Wight Editor For This Issue -Rueben Leonard THIS SORT of glurk continued throughout the collection! In all there were about 15 scraps of painfully humorous paper. We callously threw them all away except one, which we liked very much not because we hadn't heard it over and over and over before, because we had, but simply because it has a zany quality about . it that worms its way under our cynical defenses and daubs our duodenum with a particularly stimulating brand of intellectual pickle juice: "Gotta go back to Tara Tararaboomdeay There'll be just two in our bed tonight But ashley the wars over lawsy me miss Scarlett." LAWSY US. Recently it seems we have been battling, or per haps we should say 'earnestly discussing.' the question of. the editorial We with a gentleman named A. Starr. Mr. Starr sent us another letter the other day, which we are not going to quote because we have .finished with Mr. Starr as column subject mat ter. However, we were, informed recently, by a gentleman who shall remain nameless (practical ly , everyone does in this column), that , Mark Twain -once remarked on the .editorial We. to .the foll owing effect:. That the. only d peo ple who should be allowed to Use the editorial We were editors (we are , one, as a quick look at the' masthead will show), . pastors, and' people with tape .worms. Daddy can we have a dime for a tapeworm? EDWARD AND James Gaylord have written to Ed Yoder, from the Hotel Ritz (15 Place Ven dome, Paris) asking him to help them pick a name for what they term "A brandnew American automobile" which is "making its debut on October-6th at the Paris Automobile Salon." .They say the car has a 300 IIP engine, a custom-built body, and that all their mechanical problems are solved. Now they want a mime for the car, one that begins with G, as does their, own name. The. car is plugged as perfect for the "scart boulevatdier," We sug gest the "Gomango." John Mahoney (The Daily Tar Heel welcomes the English Club and its disting xmhed penmen back to the edi torial page. Old readers will no doubt remember the .notorious "X Clawhammer s On The Bathroom Floor" controversy, the English Club's last of many before its departure from tltese columns. Back, nou, for good; the club members ' rvill occupy this space weekly. Today's essay is a sec ond look at an academic shotgun wedding. -The Editors:) . ...One of the most noticeable phenomena that has appeared on the academic sky in the period following World War II has been the strong and eager defense of the study of the humanities. This effort has had its effect in an apparent increase in interest in these studies, and in a closer working relationship between the representatives of business and industry and academicians. An : orientation seldom ap proaches, a commencement sel dom passes which is not the scene of commendation for hu manistic studies on the part of business and of friendly smiles of welcome on the part of pro fessors. It may be said, however, that this new rapport of nelp f ulness between the two groups has produced an unfortunate un ity,, a unity based . for the hu manities on the principles of de fense. -I There is seance a scholar or teacher who does not appear on each new academic scene armed with statistics from placement bureaus and girt with the delights in industry for prospective em ployees who have studied the Classics. By a quantitative eval uation of such facts, there seem to be no subjects more profitable to study than language or his tory, literature or even philo sophy. The only inevitability for this alliance of usefulnes, and it seems an unhappy one, is that since the humanities have chosen to take their stand for contin uance in the role of an outstand ing and efficient means, they will eventually, if the program persists, x forget their own pur poses. STRONGEST IMPETUS The only reason for such 'stu dies which is compelling enough to convince any but the economic-minded student lies not in the prospect of a slide into the glor ies of industry, but in apprecia tion of the tradition which has generated these pursuits into curricula even today. In other words, one may even suggest that the strongest impetus to . the study of Latin (is that it always has been studied, and that in love of the Classics one may find an alliance more historic, more traditional, and perhaps even moie warm than in acceptance into the program of benevolent business. , ,. ...-It is comforting -for some to believe that the proudest prog ress the humanities have seen has been only an ornamental one; moreover, this unity of tradition still attracts many, students to pursue knowledge and truth as ends unjoined to. slater promo tions in advertising, , has led them to seek admittance into the reassuring sameness over centuries that characterizes in tellectual endeavor. Medicine has moved remarkably in a short space of time from concern with the magical powers of rare stones and the medicinal values of herbs to problems about the radioactive discovery of tumors and problems, about frontal lobo tomies; business has gone from guilds, to lave labor and back again; advertising executives, more recently, sweat to discover new techniques to,, make their clients' products necessities; but truth remains the pursuit of learning, and the technique is es sentially that of , the ancient Greeks. .. NO GUARANTEE It is possibly not certain then that the immense apologia which has been developed for the hu manities is either sound theo retically or reliable practically. There is no guarantee to accom pany the role of a vested inter est of aufomobile-makers;. there is no. assurance that the alliance will be maintained when some one discovers that philosophy does not improve automobiles and that English literature will not render insurance sales high er. It disturbs me to think that so few of 1 the - students who pour into required courses in the im practical arts and sciences are not told that they are indeed im practical, are rtot offered op portunity to study because they came' to college to learn what sometime everyone learned, and do not hear that they are doing so predominantly because no one has discovered a better way to become educated. If educators lend to be unrealistic, as has been frequently charged, they are so partly because rthey imag , ine a student will study English grammar on the grounds "that it will contribute to his future ca reer. One would think this sub ject might seem more justifiable labor to him if he knew" that Us purpose is a mental one, meas urable only by the code of per sonal evaluation and improve ment. - In any case more might be contributed to the cause of . the humanities if at least a few pf its exponents could be mentally in capable of, defense and even a bit aristocratic in their conviction of purpose. The name of student and teacher is a proud one, but one so defined in its meaning and sound that it blends not well with the euphonic symbols of or ganized practical purposef ulness on an office door. "Shall We All Rcco2nize The Situation?" - i ) ..." . Mj if !:' i; :" - v'-vi ' ---t -'f - -. 1! , fl p J I ':'t I ' . . i 4 1 r 'Uncultured' The Geneva spirit descended just in time to waft flocks of Congressmen to Moscow, an un expected boom to the Russian people. Now fo ra few weeks they have visitors around who can explain to them what they, the people, want. Congressmen are good at that; it takes scholars and diplomats and the responsi ble press months and years, and then they aren't positive,, but Congressmen can tell what peo ple want in a day or two. This uncanny insight works" fine at home, and apparently it works in Russia too. Senator Ellender dis covered that the Russian people don't want, war. Senator Malone discerned that the Russian peo ple don't want to rise against their rulers. Representative Joe Holt found that the Russian peo ple want American jazz. Malone was in Russia nine days, and discovered that the Voice of America is pointless and wasteful, because the people over there aren't going to revolt against the Soviets. Holt found that the Russians wouldn't let him look to much.. "About all you can see," said Holt and his. com panion Representative John J. Rhodes, "are museums and Len in's tomb." -Also, their guides kept leaving them to take care of pro-Comnlunist delegations. But worst of all, Holt was de tained at pistol point for an hour by a Red Army lieutenant. One bit of the conversation on that occasion, as reported by the Con gressman, is especially interest ing. "He poked the gun about a foot from my face and it was cocked an dhe shouted 'Your're uncultured! You're uncultured!' I said, 'I sure am'." CHARLES DUNN did a mag nificent job in presenting to the readers of The -Daily Tar Heel j his opinion of -just what the relationship be- ; tween young men and women . should be prior :' to marriage. Al- though the ma- -jor part of his column, Over The . Hill, was , a speeech presented to his summer school class, he nevertheless con curred with its content. To quote Mr. Dunn, "... Take it for what it is worth-. My only; comment is that I wish I had said it." THE TEXT of the speech pre sented by someone in Mr. Dunn's class stated that "Almost every man is out for all. he can get in everything he does; business, politics, women, even fishing and hunting." , Of these many things that man is out to get, woman, is the- only one-elaborated on by Mr. Speechmaker. Speech maker implies that "almost every man" is lascivious, libidinous, lustful, lewd, wanton, immoral but more important, that he hab itually indulges his-, sexual lust and no woman is safe within his arm's reach, I ask you, do you really belieTe that implication? I say NO, you don't believe it and you never will. MR. SPEECHMAKER does not stop with labeling "almost every man" an iconoclast, but contin ues his moaning by saying that men do not respect women, men's hands and minds are filthy, and weak men say "Yes' to the curvaceous Jezebels of today strong men say no. After read ing that I was afraid to put Sat urday morning's paper near the desk lamp for. fear it would break out in , a rash of illegitimate babies. - j . - WHERE DO you draw the line between ..morality and Immorali ty? Is everything . on one side moral and everything on the other side immoral? What if Some couple, do have intimate re lations before mariage is this filthy, does it degrade the per sons involved, are they to be cast on the garbage heaps of society? Of course sex to some people is filthy to y filthy, people every thing is filthy, but "almost every man" does not fall into this cate gory. ' . Let's suppose a couple has sexual relations and doesn't get married. Although this poses an entirely different problem, it is basically the same. Is this couple to be tossed into rapids of pub lic oinion and finger pointing? Are they to be socially damned? Who is the judge Mr. Speech maker. -me, , You? No, we are not. the ones to pass judgement on these ; people, but . due to the existing social conditions we are compelled r , to peer down our sanctimonious beaks at this hypothetical couple, and and pity them in Iheir quagmire of filth and squalor. Is it really filth and : squalor?. Could they possibly-be in love at the time and consider their actions something beautiful-,-, .-and wonderful? So what-if they don't get marj-ied, is n't '-it; better to find out before mariage, that, they are not right for eacli other than 'to wait un til there, are children to share their unhappines with them? I : BACK TO Mr. Speechmaker. He ; says ,men are out to ruin every : young, girl, old girl, and females ,inn general that enters their .sreach This may be true in a erv instances, but most, men don't.,. really, enjoy something that isn't mutually shared. I ad mit ) this., may be true in some instances-, but most men exercise somfr; degree of discretion. What are men supposed . to be anyhow -r a group-, if -.bovine, phlegmatic, and vegetablelike ninnies? s I, DO. not advocate free love (it is a nice thought though.) 1 mere ly, wish that people would take the "filthy" label off sex and as they start to criticize others-remember- that old adage, "When you point your finger at some one else remember that there are three pointing back at you." fl i w zt l ' V . , - - 1 t i J . . - Brooks Atkinson In Tho New York Tm- (Brooks Atkinson of the New Yorfc of American drama critics, is also a y--, political conscience. Hear below his inc Rep. Walter's inquiry into ,tlte actings and the reflections it threio over Broad, What good purpose was served by the -tion of 23 actors by the House Un-Ameri? ties Committee? . - ,4. One confessed his sins, which he hjrj reported voluntarily to the FBI and rec;. r,".r-T::,- -r: 1 - lutjon from h ;.''"" ; ' I tee. During the- of hearing;, t witnesses and t!-- Kee members growled at eacn uniform tones f indignation. proved at leas: level of conve: low. . Three of the witnesses did not invoke t against testifying before a congressional c about their private beliefs and association. Since they stood on principle, their ecu: contempt of Congress; they are likely t serious trouble and they may have to g: Those who claimed the protection of ce:. amendments are in a relatively secure p COMMITTEE'S FINDINGS ALREADY K,'.. ; But what good purpose was served by!: of public hearings? No one knows anything not known before. The one man who cot.; sins had already confessed them to',. Government agency, and might decently L spared the humiliation of having to them in public. But even before the hearings began 'it' v ous that they could not sustain Rep;-. Francis E. Walter's assertion that he wV; try to find out who was contributing to tht of Communist unions. The witnesses he"c,l so minor and obscure, at least in the tfe; their earning power is modest. "'t ' Even if they were Communist sympainiz : the hearing did not prove, any conthbu: could make would not pay the deficit of : Worker for one day. 1 At the conclusion of the first day's hear Walter made one statement that Actor would be justified in asking him to wit Hi ring to the balky witness he said: "I sm s these people hve demonstrated that : something to be concealed in the frarrs the (theatrical) unions, something that was to make them as captive as the United I Workers and the Mine, Mill and Smelters? 'AS POPULAR AS SMALLPOX' Later Mr. Walter qualified this state", having been prompted by one of his col! But it was a gratuitous defamation of ; organization. In Actors Equity and in 6 in general, Communism is about as smallpox. There was a time in the 30s V wingers gave Actors Equity a lot of 1:0. trouble was caused by the fact that rr. had no use for left-wingers and fought th ously. n-iiiiuugii me ominunisi parry is a k- party, Congress has passed legislation that restricts its activities on the assumption is an international conspiracy, as it is. I the left-wingers in the theater has violate these laws he can be indicted by a grand . tried in the courts. That is the tradition: can way. It is also the best way that people have been able to devise. No congressional committee, maneuver:: sensitive areas of personal thought, belief ciation, can preserve the moral health of: try as the courts do. DOUBTS RAISED IN PUBLIC MIND Over the last five years, in factr. err; committees have weakened the moral : the country. They have provoked Amer: distrusting Americans. They have spread: cord and suspicion; and one of them has doubts in the .public mind as' to the theater. Congressional committers have the r:' to inquire into conspiratorial acts tnat r out to be the basis for new legislation. But into belief and association do not have ; sanction. They may invade the area of ' Amendment, which law that, among othat abridges the freedom of speech or of ' or of the right of the people peaceably to- Whatever the legal sanction may or rr.-: it is certain that no Congressman or cor: committee is endowed by God with eno standing to preside over another citizen ': or associations. No man, Congressmen or r. enough to operate simultaneously as rr. , juugc auu parisn priesi. If by some unforseeable stroke of dence ,a. Congressman turned up vho of passing judgment on questions of w would be wise enough to refuse to do would know where demagoguery begins JEFFERSON ON 'CENSORIAL POWER' "If we advert to the nature of republic ment," Jefferson said, "we shall find that :' rial power is in the people over the and not in the Government over the p?'! is why people go to the polls. In and out of the theater there ar? minded people who hope that some day -States Government will support the !--: that the British government supports t"L theater through the autonomous Arts (V idea is reasonable on many grounds arud '' Arts Council is an admirable organize' ." The Russian government does n j loyalty of the Russian theater. It e' long time ago by putting the theater & roll.
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