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FAGS TWO i t 1 -f 4 1! t I f : t: if v . f 1 t t i 1 f -. 1 i Editors Managing Editor Business Manager Associate Editor , The Two Sides Of Mr. Knowland's Mouth Senator William Y. Knowland's Carolina Forum speech of Wednesday nii;lit proved 'one "thing, as far as we could see: If you have a rotund, imposing physique, a booming voice, an automatic grin complete with high arm-wave, you can claim the applause of an audience, regardless of your doctrine. The Daily Tar Heel, while holding no per sonal animosity toward the California Sena tor,, has not exactly subscribed to his ideas nor to the easy ambivalence with which he spreads them. , iet's take a mk ar -wbat the Senator .said: IJe- kttackejj fitbe "gojpllcss tyranny 'of Ctwnmunisni. fif he ".thought such ; attack f would get a riseibut of his Chapel Hill an- x dience, he came t the wrong place- Marxian f j Socialism Is godless and tyrannical ., by deli ! mtioij and nothing is! gainsaid, by an old def- inition repeated. Communisnf is its own sec- iiTir rplipioii: and when Senator Knowland said that Communism is a "Godless Tyran ny," he merely gave us a definition at which we applauded. With that old curmudgeon of geopolitics, Poster Dulles, Knowland has shouted for 'li beration" of the Iron Curtain countries with the left side of his mouth and "unleashing Chiang Kai-Shek" with the right. Here is a contradiction! The Formosans whom Chiang rules with the subsidization of the Congressional China Lobby aren't and never were, Chinese; they ere "enslaved .peoples" if enslavement exists. Knowland, we think; knows this, and a. ques ;tioii;ffom the audi eiicfe'a bout free elections n: Fjurniosa ciiuglit liim aback. I c Iiz"( to appeal to Soviet enslavement" to justify, the en'sfa'venieilt wis support. , He knows very; well that' if a, plebiscite w ere held tomorrow on Formosa, Chiang Kai-Shek .would end up by nigfitfail.at the bottom of the South Pacific, with his eyes turning to pearl and his bones to, coral.. Point three: Another question which grab bed the" Senator at a tender place concerned the McCarthy censure. Knowland voted with 24 of his Senate colleagues against the cen sure of J5 Raymond McCarthy after the Wat kins Committee had brought its bill of par ticulars, and he pled Wednesday night that he voted against censure because the issue of freedom to speak was involved. No one would question that defense, but it was.jto . tally "''irrelevant to the McCarthy issue. Mc 'Carthy bad not exercised freedom of speech; lie had'abused the privileges of those who came before: his subcotniiiittce, he lxid sland ered in hi )cent people, and he had vitiated ..senatorial- digi ity. 1 .w . i The final suaw, as far as we are concerned,..-. wras Knov. land's hint that the-Democrats w ere in' the majority at the time-of the McCarthy ceiiMtrc and that they were attempting to squelch a member of the minority. Both in nuendos were false. It is good to hear the other side and -we are glad Senator Knowland spoke here. But there are limits to our patience with his ora torical devices Wake Up tk Live i Each spring whatever life, interest, or en ergy existed on campus dies like clover in the soft Arboretum grass! WTe call it apathy then, pray that it will pass by fall, and usually it ;does. Well, last spring old apathy came. And we looked, longingly toward fall, when life, foot ball Sc energy would reign again. But, alas, here, It, is fall- and apathy, like an annoying anachronism, is still with us. , - The coeds, prettier than ever, can hardly move, off tlieir tweed bottoms long enough to slide through sorority rush. In the dorms and. fraternity houses, Carolina gentlemen like so -many hibernating bears sack out in the afternoons, arise for supper, and turn in early. .-,.. Aside '-from the sie of the heartening crowd at Senator Knowland's speech Wednes day night, we see little hope of riddling the campus of this painful apathy. Coeds;'; -get up off your bottoms. Carolina gentlemen, wake up. It's fall, the coeds look betteiv the professors are talking smoother, and you have 'only one college life to live. So why the hell don't you live it? fje atl Mm Heel -The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, f fX wnere 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, $4 per year, $2.50 r d ft T' i l if Ml im 1 i A 1 m i semester; delivered, f $6 a year, $3.50 a se- . mestjer. EDiYODER, LOUIS KHAAR FRED POWXEDGE BILL BOB PEEL J, A. C. DUNN Night Editor Fer This Issue -Rueben Leonard Carolina Front Sniffle Sniffle 8t The Law In GM Clothes rt I.A.C. Dunn VELL, BED ABED if everywud dudn't hive a code. We went down to the Chapel Hill Weekly office last Wednesday for.a good .morning's work, and met Orville Campbell on the front steps. We -wished him , good morrow. ",; ."B'gl ullub;,'; - said Mr. Camp bell. Thus heartily encouraged by our employer, jwe went xh into the . office and - i nquir e"d of Charlton. "Lemme tell you what Chuc Hauser what was on the journalistic fire for the day? "Well, you might go out , to the Towd Hall in Carrboro and check with theb," said Chuck. "I feel awful. I woke up with a code." We went downstairs to the printshop for our post-breakfast Coke. Charlton Campbell, the printer, greeted us, looking ra ther squint-eyed and sleepless, and said he hated to see us going around with a heavy tweed jack et on. "Whatcha gonna do when it really gets cold?" he asked. We murmured of a topcoat, and add ed that mightn't it be a good idea if Charlton put on some thing besides a short-sleeved summer shirty "I've already got a code," said Charlton. "Lemraie -r , . cmfw the best thing for a code is - you go up to the drugstore and get theb to mix you up a good stiff dose of castor 61 and root beer. That'll fix it." WE RETCHED unobtrusively, snaffled a Coke out , of the ice box, and asked Billy Bowman, the pressboy, if he had a code in the head too? . "How about rudding up to the drugstore and gedding me some sigs sigsty sigs," said Billy, and wiped despondently athis nose. We dashed around town on several, kittle, reporting - errands, and wound up at the Tar Heel Sandwich Shop at about 11:00 of the ac emma for a cup of coffee. We slithered in through the kit chen door because Lee and Percy hada't opened up yet, poured a cup of coffee, sat down in the rear booth with Percy, who had just finished breakfast, and started on a slice of Lee's toast. "How's business?" Percy asked. He was lying on the opposite seat, listless, tired, and sort of watery-looking. He sniff led .wear ily and flapped a feeble hand at us. "I god a liddle sniffle. How aboud you?" We said we had wud too. FOR THE benefit of those in trepid members of this thriving community who take pleasure in seeing just how close they can come to running afoul the law without rousing its ire sufficient ly to make it unload a summons on them, the Chapel Hill police now have two new patrol cars. Aside from the fact that the cars are Chevrolets without a year's hard usage behind them, which means that they will pick up and go faster than the now discarded Fords, they are not to be sniffed at. This is because one does not always know they are there. They are black, have no markings, and are recognizable as police cars only by their silver permanent license plates, and by the whip radio aerial. "As" yet' the little red blinker bubbles have not been installed on the top. We had a chilling experiences with them only a little while ago. We were coming from Church Street up West Hosemary, rush ing for a class, and as we .roared up tQ Town Hall we observed a black Chevrolet sUrt to pull out from the curb. Piffle, we thought airily to ourself, w can out drive this fella and get to the stoplight before him. Fourteen feet later we realized that the occupants of the . car were uniformed in blue and grey and wore visored caps, and that one of them was Captain Blake. . We almost drove into Jerry the Tailor's front office to slow down. We don't mean to preach and sound as if we were saying "now, boys, let's not write on the walls." But just watch your rear view mirror. The boys in blue may be behind you in black. ziZf;.:", V-'-r'-"- .- r v:C'...,-;v-. : - A .is.'. - . ; V ':'-' ' - ' . --.X . , .. ) , V 'V .,,fv.; ' ( " Hri'-v 1 - - . .- ' ' 1 - " ' ; V-'""' M r- r&cM 'T':iy':;: -a 7 : 3""'- - '---- ?. in, Between, Over The Lines: II Ft B f I 1 M i f ff mara nan vvoma t ,.t. , Barry Farmer Greensboro Daily News (Globe trotter Furber,i now with T. V. Guide, was editor of , The Daily Tar Heel in 1952. .Editors). , '.' -V Suppose all ' governments in the world suddenly unlocked their confidential, flies nd " in vited everybody to browse freely through an open supermarket of cold war secrets! Who's boss in Russia., and "dpes he want a war? What's on Red China's mind? Will Tito fight on our side? Is India really turning Red? What's happening in Ar gentina? FARFETCHED BUT EASY " What if we could get the right answers to questions like these simply by opening foreign crack erjack boxes, or mailing stamped, self-addressed envelopes to the world's capital cities. Sounds far fetched, but people who have taken up armchair ' espionage as a hobby claim it's actually just about that easy. .Today you can enjoy a sneak preview of coming world events and collect more international secrets than a Hungarian head waiter without crossing a, border, swallowing a sheaf of microfilm, or bootlegging a single docu ment. All you have to do is to read the newspapers. BEHIND THE LINES By reading, reading between, and reading behind the lines ,of key newspapers on bot,h sides' of the iron curtain you focus an "accurate X-ray deep into the po litical intestines of nearly every nation. Today Mata.Hari would tdss in her sarong and reach for the latest edition of Moscow's ravda, Peiping's Peoples' Daily, of a dozen other journals be tween Stockholm and Singapore to . get the best rundown on a nation's plans, ambitions and in tended behavior. : To understand why analysis of the foreign press is so revealing we should first examine the con trasting missions of newspapers, in different parts of the world. The primary purpose of the. free press in America is to inform. Editorial pages here present the views of individual editors and publishers. No newspaper serves as the official voice of -Washington. In most other countries, how ever, newspapers exist to serve the state as stooge organs, con trol mass thinking, cceate a pre scribed public opinion, and pre pare populations for unpleasant surprises. The more ridgidly a government controls a press, the more we can tell about that gov ernment by reading what it w4nts its people to know. THE DAILY ;TAR KEEL 'Strong Man' it In Russiavihina, and the satelr, lites, where all editorials 5 ,a,nd. news eolum.n xe icaref ully blue pencilled by t,heregime for. pub lication in official government organs, everhane of 4pplicy is tipped of f,4pwdlyjiih?ad tpf time.r Leaders of these . countries aid well aware thlat their slip is' show ing, but tljere's, nothing .they can do about 1. A, transparent press is part of the built-in mechanism ' of a slave state. ' 14 Even in free countries, like France and' others in Western Europe, certain papers cooperate with their governments by "plant ing" editorials' '"'to. test reaction, slanting news items to leave ,a desired impression, . and thiev ing up "trial balibons" to fore shadow governiVietit actions that might be bn tap.- Add enough slivers from "the"' foreign press together and youlV find yourself days, sometimes weeks ahead of your favorite commentator. READING ANOTHER'S MAIL It's almost -i like reading the other fellow's mail. The Russians . not only show us their mail, they wave it around. . : - ' Two Moscow dailies, provide a picture window into the. dressing room '-of -Soviet policy. Much like a careless , half back licking liis, fingers ' before a - pass play, Pravda, official newspaper of Russia's Communist Party, and her sister organ, Izvestia, which speaks for the Russian govern ment, signal virtually every shift in Soviet strategy long before a particular .development is seized upon by Western commentators as "news." . ; ; One expert suggests twovvvays to uncover Russia's next move. Either station a Russian-speaking spy under Khrushchev's bed and hope he talks in nis sleep, . or read Pravda and take the hints. One of the more sensational vex v amples o -how-Pravda-watching , flips the prons curtain into a ve U' netian blind goes back to the per iod just before -the 1953 -down- fall of Lavrehti Beria. , Weeks before Beria was purged Pravda frontpaged !a list of top Soviet chifefs who planned to at . tend the opening . of Moscow's opera, a "must" occasion ior top rating Beds. Beriars name .was left out. Right then and there Pravda's readers smelled a big bug hi the borsht. Kremlin type setters continued, to "forget" , Russia's chief of-police in stories about Mos co y's new ruling clique. It came as.no surprise to Prav da fans when .Russia's govern ment later officially announced Beria's arrest, trial, and execu tion. Just last spring Khrushchev leda Soviet delegation to Tito's Yugoslav5 te away bitter rbygoncs between the two feuding Herblock in the Washington , Post. IT QS5: 3 Of OHO Communist ' states. Western idip- - lomats and 'newsmen were aghast at what they termed; a "startling shift" in Russian policy. iFoIlow .ers, of the Moscow press had the jump on them . by , about two , months. , . BACKFLIP The Russian papers had pre ceded this twist for weeks by : laboriously guiding their , read ' ers around ideological corners to i -prepare the Soviet people for a humiliating backflip. : Throughout the Yugo - Soviet tiff, since 1948, Russian writers had nothing but rusty harpoons dipped in brimstone for Yugo slavia's leaders. The nicest thing Pravda called them was "Tito's fascist oligarchy of plunderers." One day in January Muscovite eyeballs quivered a little to see this familiar salvo diluted to sim ply "Titoists," still rather nasty but definitely settling the .back drop for Pravda's .subsequent salute to "Our Yugoslav Com erades." .. . BEAR HUG ' .'. . Meanwhile Tito's newspaper, Borba, echoed Moscow's, lovecalls point for point. The "startling development" of a beaming Krushchev wrapping Tito in , .2 bear hug tet Belgrade airpiort took place only after the , con trolled presses of both countries had sufficiently buried the hat chet and dusted off each other's haloes. Today Russia and .Yugo slavia are closer politically and economically than at any time since 1948. Power struggles in the Kremlin r? e -clumsily, often, comically, re IHcted in the Russian .press, .You cah determine who Is in control any given day by scanning Prav da and noting whose name is mentioned the most, whose state ' ments and pictures are given top treatment, who the new fac tories are being named after, and whose "genius" is being touted in letters to the editor. It works like a stock market. A recent count put Khruschev put in front with 68 mentions in Pravda from page one through the sports section, Bulganin, a tired second with 42, and even a dozen or so for Malenkov. . - Everything from a new cam--paign to woo Japam-or Iran, to a souring of relations with Red China, to an intended shift- in industrial emphasis inevitably whispers or screams from be tween the Hnes of tattletale type in Pravda and Izvestia. EVen book and play reviews help us read Moscow's mind. When no-r vels" dealing with . American in peasants get praised, we ex pect more "Yankee Go Home" propaganda from Russia. Right now Pravda is handing Y-Court Corner. Jim Mclniyr Dietrich Shared Sa'me -Office? ...r... !" Z t R u 0 b 0 h ' Lg b n a r d LAST , NIGHT'S showing of "The Blue Angel" starring Mar lene Deitrich, sponsored by Gra ham Memorial Activities Board, .probably sent a, wave of nostalgia over Jim Mclntyre, ass-'tant di rector of '( Gra- " ham Memorial. ' . i Pat McBane, j GM AB film ; c o m m i t tee ; chairman, says -that . Jim once I had an office In -Marlenels bou doir. Whe.n asked for, more ,t information on this .bedroom of fice, Pat said she didn't know anything else about it said she couldn't get any information out .of;' Jim either. Tell us, Jim, is it 5true ,what they say in Con fidential' Magazine about 'Mar iene? ANOTHER QF. the Graham Memorjalites has been asked sev eral questions ' lately. It seems that one of our student politici ans was out at the National Stq dent's . Association Congress this summer, and as all good politici ans do at ; one time or another, planned a party."" ' . 'Noticing that a couple at' the convention were ; showing great enthusiasm in their work, our en terprising young politico invited them to his party even though the boy was white and the girl Negro. Luckily for our Carolina dele gation and their future political aspirations they were informed that the mixed couple had com munistic leanings and the boy was l a member of the r Labor Youth League which happens to be on the Attorney-General's list of subversive organizations. ' ' " The couple didn't 'show "up ' at the party anyway. ! r AN INTERESTING note on the heliotrope controversy: A fresh man walked into Milton's Cloth ling Cupboard and asked student clerk Myron Conklin to' show him a '.pair of "Ivory League" pants with a belt in the back. We sen iors have no right to chuckle at something like that when we think. of some of the faux pas we pulled when we first came here. A LOOK , at the international jscene: Science .pulsates on dept. Three British electronics en gineers have invented a pulsating -electric teddy bear which "breathes" at the rate f 10 to 12 breaths a . minute and when cuddled up with in bed will put insomnia sufferers to sleep. A GROUP of , students sat on the steps of South Building dis cussing tomorrow's game with State College. After they had told each other about their after-game plans the conversation shifted to next week's game with Georgia. One of the boys was from Co lumbus and the -others were from no farther south than North Ca rolina." The Columbus boy enlightened s the others on the state ef things in Georgia. lie started out by ex plaining what a "Georgia Crack er'.' is. Said he, "A Georgia Crac ker is a person who wears a long beard, boots, and a shotgun. Most of the Crackers live in the south ern part of the state. They are so tough they tell time by the sun ,and ,use bobcats for house dogs." ..THE MAIL man dropped in yesterday. He had a letter from .an .ardent Y-Courter. Dear .Mr. .Leonard, I read your, column and I like it. I also .like Gordon Gray, Chan cellor House and Dean .Weaver. My roommate is a very fine boy and .1 Jike. him too. But what has President Gray, Chancellor House, and Dean Weaver got to do with my roommate. And what has ... - ' What I want to know is what has this got to do with me. ribbons to authors and play wrights who promote the' "Ge neva Spirit" of vharmony and friendship with the West. If and when the current Russian atti tude of good will changes, Prav da will be the first -to let us know. . FRIDAY, Scp7; '' ft m"m If ON i !' " t ' Roger Will C::. THE HORSE was scribbling C foolscap, v,hen I saw him. I 'paper was in character. Was ho v Book? "Yup," he yupped, without luo:r iThe Book about Flying? r "Oh, :that," he muttered vague!',, with his abrasive tone. "Er, no."',"' . , The Book; then,'On Tidewater VLr : j "Ummmm, , noj, 1 ,Ro;er," The i'; ,4 "and .prajJtnot; bray so. loud, MisM.'r" . hear. you- !y, present labors are n, than materialistic. I arn transht; tongue for the benefit of my follow ed and coo-ed."1 ' ; I h?d heard it said thst the or.; about The Horse were his breathi but what was this translation? "Well," The Horse revealed, M:i;ri Something-in-White wobble past, vnu pendium is aimed to clarify phn. ( 1 "and which mean anything but uh;; say Take this one Irom my ('(."; section: '. ' "v A i'rat lad says to'a chick, 'I So? He meant he wished to ,. frat pin'.' .Be -his girl. Date only i-'.'fr "He means," The' Horse correc;,d -to nail you down safely while I haV, That's what he means." v , Why, Horse! i t "And this, from the same sic:', ignored my protest. "He says to r the moon.' What he' means is, ;l)(" t expect anything reasonable. Baby, i.u ers', steaks at the Ranch .'JIounTV Goody's.'" ' ' ' A But, -the girls stood for ..this? -, V ;Yeah,";. -The. .Horse yeahed . rr.c, day the poor. goof is going to say,. "A!: in life is your slave, dear;' a:i() ail i.t is to see him get his wish. Wani:a , . ers?" Could I help myself? t' "A stoodent says to his buddy, my prof figured out.' What he nii-ah. know it, is, 'My prof has finally got u and is relaxed and waiting for the kill Any more? "Yeah," The Horse affirmed. A to his prof, 'I would like a confejer.;-. sir." He means, 'I am progressing iroa time in my class to wasting your fice.'" The Door orofessors! ' ,! "Them?" The ' Horse "asked in do it, too. Alter a conference with a . say, 'Conferences help us both, my h : ihean is, 'I've finally got' thrs 'bird-bra n: fie is;.'a price-cuf '6f 'F ir'ieat if ever' I Li' I left, because' The Horse ,ot"i c again. Something-in-Bliie was b'aopl. KeGaer s .... .. , , Rebuttal On Rclig!:.'.: ' Old Time 'And Nev - ' . Editors: Is it outside of our understanding to religion may be practiced alone, that have to be a mass experience or a un:: Must we necessarily embrace the c In to practice an option that is also rtlcv, is wholly honest but still outside the classified belief? In what respects is "the student back on the church he knew and its a coward? Should he "dress for luU t the church and attempt to bend the c thai church to his own will so tiiaf he his self respect, or should he r'ema :, entombed within her bosom and hi casional act of disrespect for hr i" that he is not a coward who runs lr uz dispute? WHAT CRIME? ;' And if the student is negligent what ": he commit "against his own intei! " spect"? Is it a crime to hope or to ;L mind is "free and autonomous"? Ma '-' ally lean on the church, if not t -"crutch", without subscribing to h-r and order of life; may one be tr" -prattlings of clergical bounders'' or ' wisdom of clergical geniuses without eternal and absolute omnipotence m spiritual? And what is reality if 3 ir "fast shut" and "musty." Merely hy separating itself partially from the c complex categroy and dogmatic ".'-'" There is always an order of under?' than orthodox one; else there would h reformation and perhaps even no Chr;--'-you advocate is not equal cohm"" points of view, be they bloody or ca a new and mighty attempt to fashion t again into a vehicle for the re-accif;-1-'-1 and firmer ground, of the status f;-1 -to be no new beginnings or departinr TEMPORARILY CYNICAL Since you speak only of the thure sume that you do not advocate the agnostics or atheists. Are they to he r ' encouraged to turn their backs on (church-self) they "knew" and its ' ' ! i I do not mean to be more than tt'-T cal because I know that the pH'-'-'' is a very real one and deserves at tion and respect of all those who fe of such a quest as is the quest for (i 1 in the face of so many new and -'" challenges. If wo are to lose faith it no more easily than we at first ri The problem' .is, I think, an in;h i : cannot be worked out by formula r opinion. Whatever freedom one ir- too easily lost by reference to a" ' divine authority or by reference to a revelation. Now I retire to the Du. :;r r' 1 - r v '"'-"www ; 1 1
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