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Voices;From The Carolina Front . Citadels Of Learning .The. overriding allegiance of the scholar is , to his classroom and ut learning, not. to the world of affairs, lint there come times when he may welh leave the citadel of academe and speak his mind. - Such a time came last summer in Xorth Carolina, when it developed that the Gover nor and the state's attorney general' chose to draw, no distinction between segregation problems in higher, education and parallel problems iH'fhe public m;ioo1s at large. After the Governor's plea foi "voluntary segrega tion,!' 50 (at.uftv niernbeis in the Consofidat etl Ifnivet sity." collaborated in a series of let ters hippoVtiug iiitegrati()U. They were joined in" their protest against the Governor's plan by Paul- Green, v the Chapel Hill dramatist who has tlevoted his career as a writer to heralding" American freedoms. , . , The dutv of both the scholar and the writer, since they are kinsmen in the effort to in crease and maintain the cultural heritage, becomes crucial .when that cultural heritage is threatened. Make no mistake: it has been under threat in the segregation crisis. The most. vocal racists would not only deny the findings of biology and anthropology, the dictates of ethics and religion; they would stomp leai nfng altogether before they would compromise their own wounded emotions'- In a hj jo essay, "The Irresponsiblcs," the poet Archibald'Mac:I.cish indicted the scho lars and writers of the ' pre-World War II period for. their hulilference to the, cultural crisis; posed, by the rise of Fascism. The prac tical man alone, "the man whose only care is for his belly and his roof," MacLeish .asserted, could "Safely be indifferent to these troub les." , The things he lives for are not menaced. And it is precisely the scholar, the poet the man whose care is for the stiucture of the intellect, the houses of the mind whose heart is caught. For it is the scholar's gods which are in danger. Our own time of troubles, with its very real threat to the "houses of the mind," has caught the hearts of at least 50 faculty mem bers. We wish there were more. 20-Inch Fables: The .Southpaw Violin. Player 'He Is Taking Us To The Cleaners' Y-Court Corner. 1 i kll .f,-i,;;o J.A.C. Dunn ONCE UPON a time, in a great big building in a great big city, i - ' - which was the h :; capitol of a proportionately great big state, rC - V If-ln'Spdrtci, Call 1194 & Ask For Helen - . - .. ' .Rucbcn Leonard 1 z9 ' - f Legend Of Old, When 6ns Were Bold Drag Gather round. Y-Court strollers and car rell warmers, and we shall tell you the fable of St. Carolina acl the dragoi,:an old story from the UXG Middle Ages.' It f nis that St. Carolina was a heady, hot blocked youth. This fair lad loved to gather' .in the stands about tournament fields and f watch his colors Avin. :C)nce every year the tournament was held , at a stadium far, far away in another land. :And a powerful drag(Jii called The Admin istration blocked the road to the far-away 'land, forever keeping St. Carolina from at, tending the tournament- Finally, after a Jong and hard fight the dragon yielded. At last, St. Carolina could pass on the road to the far land. The youth could see the great tourney, cheer for his colors. One year, shortely after the dragon had been, removed, St- Carolina hung' sleepily ab6ut his castle, not venturing forth to the faraway tournament. And that was the year the big old dragon stepped back in the road Hut this was in UNO's Middle Ages. And such things could never happen today, con sidering themodcrn conveniences that con vey one right, to the playing field at little cost conveniences like trains to Athens. auditions were fs. being held for i, . players in , a v . great big orch- ' ' estra. ; The flutists, thet trumpeters, the drummers, t.ie tringlists, all sorts of instrumentalists, came and played their flutes, trum pets, drums, triangles, etc. toot led, blared, boomed, tinged, and generally carried on in a fine old way. v All during the auditions ti Maestrq sat on the edge of the stage and listened; he nodded his head, swung his t feet back and forth in a boyish kind of way, and .hummed to himself; 'occas ionally he tossed his long black hair, picturesquely just -to let people know, who was running the show. He hired some; he told others to come back later; he tord some he would "let them know;" he told some unfortunate f e w to go into the . grocery busi ness, or soem similar trade. -THE LAST man to audition was a violinist, named Abdul McTaggart 0:Connell Klump. Abdul was a young fellow, eager to please, extremely enthusiastic about music, hard-working, relia ble, learned in his trade; he had studied at the Hothouse Conser vatory under Dr. Pizzicato Von Crescendo, had graduated cum. something - or - other-very-special, and generally knew his stuff. Wiien his turn came to play for ' the Maestro, Abdul intimidated Editors: ' his palpitating' duodenum into a ..v ';; sufficient state of quiescence, and V In yesterday Daily Tar Heel, there was a letter walked up on the stage. . which assailed, the; University Marching Band for "Play me the first fifty bars corninS tofk decision not to go to Georgia. 01 me solo, first movement, T'r'Vi oibrvirc In',, - ; "Th' V.'.r""""V "."? we voted on this question as a gnu after tossed his hair grandly. tnl;1: , T Mr- Oldenburg has done in the past as' Business . . uut ui. lls vase, Manager of the band and svmnathi. witK.Mc Reader's Retort In Defense Of The Bond l i Our decision may or may not have been a good and "3?Vif 111! vt nntl tJ? rt in fir, ri 1 . . . L e '' !i A! .-..,.vwi3iuvii. cvciy mcci ui t.ie siiiiaiion. The band appreciates the commendable work which wiped off the strings, blew on economic interest in the total trip because of his atlp Wuv Wtz -The Official - t-umicanon of the Piihli- ations Board of the University of North Carolina , -) 0 t here il is published y y : Udliy except Monday v- IJiutors l ? t ! is V 1 ' " ' ' uu examination and -vacation periods and summer terms. Enter ed as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, M. C, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub scription rates: mail ed, $4 per yer, $2.50 " semester; delivered, 6 a year, $3.50 a se- m ester. ED YODER. LOUIS KR.AR 1 4 i 1 t Managing Editor FRED FOWLED GE News Editor-' -r- 4-:: JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager'.. Associate Editor BILL BOB PEEL J. A. C. DUNN EDITORIAL STAFF ran. Rueben Leonard, Bill O'Sulli- 5taff Cartoonist Charlie Daniel NEWS STAFF 'Neil Bass, ChanesDunn, James Nichols, Mike Vestcr, Bennie Baucom, Banny Klenke, Ruth-Rush, Curtis Gans, Jimmy Parks, Joan McLean, Nancy Link, Bill Corpening, Vir ginia Hughes, Clarke Jones, Wilson Cooper? Char lie Sloan, Jerry Cuthrell, Peg Humphrey, Nancy Rothschild, Barbara Newcomb. Night Editor- Far This Issue Z "1 T , 5W110J'work.Kith the travel bureau,' -however we do not luncS ITZlt ?artliCle f end0CSe his condemnation & ouf assistant direc- lunch, and began to play. tM. Mr Herbqrt Fred and our drUm major for their He played beautifully. The opinions concerning the Georgia trip. No two men notes soared and sa.ik, mellow, could be more aware of what the easiest course for gentle, dnppjng with genuine the band to' follow would be, since they are in a compassion. The Maestro had position to see the band's progress, rarely heard such violin playing. He stopped humming and swing- First' il was charged that if the band did not ing his leet and turned around to go' the caravan would be ruined. I would be the watch Abdul McTaggart O'Con- first to agree normally. I wish it were possible for nelly Klump, and the sight that the band to g0 a"d indeed we would be going if met his eyes, made his- face turn there w.ere nct a number of factors which, discour- bright red; this k saying a good aged this . deal, because the Maestfo's face Primarily, we could have had only two practices was fairly saturnine to begin rather than the usual three, and there is no law Q"Tnp( , . . . ' MJt whlch says that one. of those wouldn't bo rained 1 n L er,Slieked' StP out When we voted the seemed to be some doubt playing-!. How DARE you come in whether the student body would be goin to "he handed ? - very large numbers because nolon handed? game tickets had been sold. ARDTTT smpppn f a V Ti6 band's b"dget had been cut to about one- ABDUL STOPPED. He stared, fourth of what it was in 1951, thus making finance He goggled slightly and his important. By not going to the game could hW mouth opened. "Get out!" shouted much needed funds to take care of some Ion. over- the Maestro, and his face ap- due needs like new, uniforms and instrument re-' proached -a carnation shaa..et pairs. (The State Band took the field with nlw ou of here and go away! I will uniforms at Saturday's game, whiL " we "cpreiled not have a left-handed violinist in the University in our 1940 style uniform wTentr this orchestra! From under which ed with only two majorettes, in c U aif 1 ' be ennseir- 6 " yU .f insufficient funds to equip five wTth prop en u er attire.) 1 Abdul shut his mouth and start- ' : ed to explain that he had studied - ?eaIizing that music is necessary to keep up at the Hothouse Conservatory un- he moraIe of a caravan, there will be a group ot der Dr. Pizzicato Von Crescendo,, en musicians to accompany the caravan to play and that he had graduated cum Jazz'.etc- on the train at the pep rally, and the whatnot, and that he realy knew Same. , x his stuff, anu that after all, he- The second criticism came as Mr. Herbert Fred was a left-handed violinist, which our, assistant director was charged with bein un to be sure, was rather rare ... But jilting to work up the ext3a show Preparing a he saw it was no use. The Maes- show is a great deal of work whieh doesn't reward tro s face progressed rapidly .mch pay, but other- considerations should be point. down the color sral t n rm-al CO Out. Wp npPrf Hma 4 1: 1 i , - mile iu pirtvuee inarcning- since ' ;:,ere Is no Dand clinic here before classes at which unthinkable that such rae we could learn such fundamentals adequately you should hav thi -. e also have nine fnnthn cv.rv.c .i ... . - iu vtuijK. up, J1US shme-coated temerity to attempt 2mg us na other time to catch up on tbis Arches to join the glorious fraternity of other than show tunes need to be learned Music violinists, and play lefthanded! tor, Founders Day, October "12, also must beHearhed Begone, churl! (said . trie Maes- AI1 these things were considered- K tro, with a fine gothic touch) Tf ' . Begone and sully hot my- siht ; J Wa ?.ted that the band could put on 'a show again!" V " ..p; Yes. ' vve couldbut it ' w6uld' be ' onrthird ABDUL McTAGGART O'Con- w Practice time cut out. ?-nt a-y-d had the foUrteVanlg " "cers. Aiier the beer? he what ever it nTt 7 1 smueni. D0ty in and his left-handed violin went we feU thi in Sii? ' tte reasons. "stated and joined the Merchant Marine bt Interest to L TV WUld -not be to w here both of them remained tor tc f put on the l j t0 Georgia we are left-handed accompaniment for " countless hornpipes and beer- ' Scotty Htster , hall ballads, and subsequently Editors- Band Presidnt became much more famous and Tt . - .. alUUUS ana How come vnn nrinf ....u ... KF,iea man iney ever would boy, Ron o'ldfnW. n "Ke stuff as that have been in the Macro's J' "Wenberg, done wrote 'bout .Km- k, xiiai Danri'i: oir.u . - ua.uu. . feelings hurt ain't no cause for him to get so rilled up SO.'- Seems like to me he's the one that ought to be : "assailed".. Them ;boys what play them horns for , you iaifa me Saturday aft'noon work at it-a lot of ' time, practising, up just so's they can play purty like fo us. Thoy. must, I know, 'cause onest I tried at blowin' one of them horns and I tell you, it just don't come natral at 'all!' Yessir, them boys do.al 'i '...you- Thee wprkin' at it hard like lots of time "when they'd more like to be '.bout other things. And all that'Oldenberg feller does is quit and if. that aint enough, go around stirrin' up bad talk.':B'- : , -.:. I tell you straigbtwise, Mr. Editor, they're a lik , able bunch of folk and I just don't take to it kindly like at airwhen these here folks come out and say no-codnt -things about "em. 'Specially when hedon't . know what he's' yappin 'bout. I feel rite shamed to get so wrought up, but it do kinda get next to a man. Why do you know that that boy what "assails" S? .cai?l do nothin' but hit at a drum' and he strikes at it wil two sticks so's he bound not to miss it! And him assailin' so mightly like he know much 'bout runnin' that band as Mr. Fred; . Now if that don't really wrought-up a man, I tell you! I'll tell you something. My sister's girl,' Cora, what cleans down where the schoopkeeps their money and all, said she seen the foreman there write ,a check for money to that Mr. Fred onestf Them folks payinhim money just for what he knows 'bout runnin' that band! They don't pay him for no real fixin' or straightnin' or the like. They pay him for what he ' knows. Now if that aint a smart like feller, I tell you. And somebody, folks must think' right highly of to be paying out good money to hard as it is to come by. leasewise for me. I tell you, I'm broke near 'bout all the time.. ; Mr Editor, I ain't tryin' to tell you how to do your bissness.,. Lord no! But I'm just .writin' to let ypu know this feller's assailin' sure done -ot next to me and I. just don't see no good to come from such evil, mixod-up no-count talk as he done wrote up to you. ....... Nam Withheld crimson "It is scum as , ihe Town It' was just a little item in The Dairy Tar Ilee!' but somehow it Irked me. It startPd .ff- WILLIAAf CULLEN Bryant probably turned over in his grave when a group of. students, cramming for a Greek L.it, quiz, discussed Hom er in bop. talk last Tuesday morning. Steve , Allen and his Bop Fables have notning oil r r -those kids. - FOR FEAR of inciting the "Wrath of the Classics Dept." all names of students involved in this Homeric sacrilege will be omit, ted; The subject under discussion was the Iliad. Anyway, this cat named Paris crashed a party on Mt. Olympus and as a result of his deed was asked to judge a beauty contest. He was handed a golden apple and told to give it to the hottest looking babe -in the house. Three real queens had the hots for that apple, and One named Aphrodite called Paris over to the side and said, "Listen boy, don't pay any attention to those two pigs Ath ene and Hera. You pick me and I'll line you up with a real doll. When you leave tonight call SParta 1194 and ask for Helen." Paris, being no square, tossed the apple to Aphrodite and nixed the other babes. AFTER THE party Paris trip ped down to Helen's house in stead of calling her. "But Daddy O, can't you see I've already got a man?" she purred. "Baby, that makes no diff to me,' said Paris, "lye got a little shack over fri Troy, and we've gotta go." So Helen packed a few of her maids, and off they went. f When Menelaus came home and found Helen and Paris gone he vowed he would skin the cat that had snaked his sweetie. He went over to his brother Agamemnon's house and. told him to round up the regular army and ship out. , Aggie, feeling sorry for Mene laus arfd itching for a little foot, decided to sack Troy. - - '; ' AGAMEMNON STOPPED by the local beer hall and summon ed Achilles who sat crying in his beer. Achilles spent quite a bit of his time crying, but he sure could be a mean cat . when he tried. Aggie and Achilles set up camp outside the walls of Troy and fought over 9 years without getting inside. Then Aggie and Achilles had a fuss. Aggie would n't give a priest's daughter back to him and Achilles raised Hades. When Aggie decided that maybe he pught to return the girl after all he said . Achilles had to do the same thing with, the little filly he had latched onto. Achilles got mad at this and started bawl ing and told, Aggie what he could do with his silly , old war. NO.W. A.CHILLES had a friend named , Pat Patroc lus who didn't want to go home right then so he borrowed Ac hilles' soldier suit' and went af ter the Trojans,, that is ustil Hector went after him. Hector took a can opener to Pat's arm our and then hambtjrgered the contents. Dorh Fbescn - WASHINGTON Republican : . Leonard Hall has dispatched new a -Francisco that the GOP Presider'- convention will be held on sched The chairman's argument is that not seem to be retreating in any V- lack of confidence in itself no m- -future, may bring. He believes, no -that a change of, convention plans reted ia that fashion., Mr. Hall's opinion that it miVu ..... iu xc-xiiintiiLc xicsiueni Eisenhower h -ned. The reaction of the stock market -bit of adverse news about the Pr; l" shovs why. Too much in. the way'V" ucutc iwuy ii aay Dy day reoort Eisenhower's health. l' SAME TEAM The asperity with which the nat f(. vetoed .one suggestion that has been some news value. It is that if the Pr'to. sent to reoomination, it misht hp " backstop hini with former Governor De York as Vice-President. Mr. liall was emphatic. Jf Eisenhovi tlekei, he said, it will be an L! ticket again. The remark cheered Nixon's frie noted his mixed press and the .adverse" reacuon ro me possimiity that he mi l helm. They had discounted th aK,';0 ' of Governor Knight of California of T nave long . oeen aware. Governor -Knight is apparently ! in asserting the importance hp otwm."' - H'ij i in 1956 through his control of the state'V 10 ine uuj' convention. IIis latest slight t President wne 1Jiuinn te u:. i- . " " '-il Uli JiiS nsi ial possibilities. NIXON'S PALS . Also heartening to Nixon's friends i; plimentary view of him just taken b week, a magazine eaited by Elliott Eel! old Dewey team who was to have bee Secretary, of the Treasury. With Cal : - it is vital to Nixon to maintain his hi h with the New York Republicans who p? ticket in 1952. Dewey,, then governor, had complete: the New York delegation. He ran it w iron harM that twn Wariom ln,,., ...l . to bolt to the late Senator Taft reversed th at the mere mention of retaliation at h : The titular leader of the New York F.e now is the former Liberal Congress: Javits now New York Attorney-Genera' only Republican to survive in the state e!e year. It . is not yet clear to Washington ? means in the national situation. The first week of the President's to develop any new possibilities for the E succession. Many were mentioned but a:i including Milton Eisenhower, the Presi er, have had previous trial balloons fioTv behalf. rn.-.rn is I ruman Memoirs it ?v Luther Hodges Jr. has been named president of the Consoli m. dated University Student Coun- .Rueben Leonard chestra. Burma Shave, . cil. , Tbree paragraphs later it wound up with: v . . He is the "son of the present . . v governor of North Carolina. ' Tin!OW;7T 3Sk J0U- Why n earth should Luther rl bG S3ddIed with a last sentee like that every time he does something worthwhile' He has made a fine reputation for himself and by bimselfon .the campus, being active in many ffVfS ?h d6nt aCUvity- Nearly everyone knows that Luther Hodges Jr. is the son Luther Hodges Sr., tfnS th? gOVeqnor- And if someone, doesn t know ltj SQ ? . connection n7rerlLUther Jr' being hoored on the campus and Luther Sr.'s job? -ipui . My sympathies to Luther Jr. for being treated 17? hhl been treat by a newspaper which can t-forget who his father is and nPL c " band's alrihT W . T "uut Dant1-' want to '-give the son rn a,7. 7" Ts. w Achillea: got hot about this so he ordered a Vulcanized suit and went after Hector, He was deter mined to- fix Hector's wagon. Achilles, chased Hector around the walls of the city three times before Hector had a nicotine fit. Then they ' squared off right there in front of the wall where everyone could see them. After a couple of new bop steps, Ac hilles shived, Hector in the neck. Mercury swooped down and grab bed Hec's soul and hustled off to Hades. Achilles took Hee's car cass ou; of the tin suit and the rest of the Greek army ran up and played "stick a sword in Hector." ACHILLES FINALLY got his curtain ca at the hands of Paris and Apollo, but the Greeks still got Helen back for Menelaus. And they all lived happily ever after. For that was the custom in those' days. - The moral of this story is: If you are going to go around with a married woman b(? prepared to go two rounds with her husband. ,No one, least of all Mr. Truman, vs.: this is the last word on the Truman Adxx but it is a fresh and lively picture of th:' istration as seen from its pinnacle and set Mr. Truman suggests, to help present generations know what impelled him to : did. The personal and political memoirs c our Presidents have been published dr. lifetime; and even fewer if any have t ten in so candid a style so soon after thee while so many of the protagonists were much alive. Buchanan wrote in 1865 that he had abstained" from the use of.' private corre ; in his account of his own Administration Gen. Grant's "Personal Memoirs" did r until almost a decade after he left office Theodore Roosevelt did produce his i." , Phy only about five years after the e ' presidential career, and Calvin Coolidse ; his rather unrevealing one even sooner. Herbert Hoover, on the other hand. most ..20 years to publish his memoirs. . , The diaries of John Quincy Adams, o: Hayes, were not published until long death. But Harry Truman, as one would luvf r of him, has lost little time in plungn? own account of his life and his Admini-' His comments and his judgments, eur. cases his presentation of the facts as he will arouse sharp and probably angry cr.. Kitcold ever be said of any man, sure' be said of Harry Truman that he was the t didn't want to be President. Nor, at the t equipped for the job. What thought was given, by him or s:; to the possibility of presidential succession ; was nominated for the vice-presidency b 1 And on that fateful day in April, 1945 moon, the stars and all the planets had -him, it was Mrs,, Roosevelt who ex.: thoughts in a "deeply understanding " r there anything we can do for vou? For y one. in trouble now." More than once, in his revealing letters and Mary," he refers to the unwanted unsupportable burden of the presidency. And yet one feels that as he got into .' on the job wtih even greater relish u his protestations, he was verv much tnj . self. " It is far too early to attempt to cr. v elusions on the; presidency of Harry S Some great and' some petty thinks w' some ways he was "his own worst enemy. Whatever else he was, he was a ' dent and will have an important place in : of our country. His memoirs will comprise valuable terial when the chronicle of our tiji.es is ' New York Times
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