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FRIDAY, CCTC .PAG6 "TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL t Back In The Saddle Agan Wffi Pan-Hel Our Avliite charger, readers keep telling us, is waiting just outside Graham Memorial. They say .this because ol the alleged ''cru sade" The Daily Tar Heel has embarked upon, the move-to get into representative stu dent meetings. , If there is a nag waiting for us, it's prob ably older than South Building, student funds being what they are these days. So we'll be, brief. ' This newspaper's job is covering the cam. pijs, telling students what's happening. In or der to tell them what takes place at represen tative -Student 'meetings, we have to send re pqrters to these meetings. It's all that simple- if When certain Organizations deny report ers the right to cover their meetings, they are denying the campus the right to be informed. And we do feel it's a right not a privilege. 'Since it's our right to inform students, this paper naturally works wp lather anytime a group denies this right. We even made a threat: The threat to boycott a group from the jxiper's pages was made again to the Pan-Hellenic-Council tins week. And we are pre pared to carry it out, if Pan-Hel continues denying what Ave know is bright. That's how strongly we feel about the right to cover any representative, non-judicial student group on this campus. But every one knows that, and our white horse is clop ping around impatiently in the Morehead Parking lot. A Bomb For A Piaster Legend What a pity, concludes Ed Rumill of the Christian Science Monitor, that Abe Lincoln, Great Emancipator, couldn't have watched the recent Sid J way" Series. Rumill says he "would have especially thrilled, in his hum ble way, that tlie part the Negro ball player has had in this 1955 baseball championship-" Decidedly at the risk of our necks, we cast a bomb of iconoclasm at the Great Eman cipator Legend- Unquestionably, Lincoln be lieved in justice, the rights of the downtrod den, and freedom from human bondage. ;But those little truths left, out of the sixth grade history books sfiov that Abe was far from a plaster god. IJewas the .Great Emancipator:,, true, but only m a distilled, pallid way. We anticipate the shouts for documeiita tion and herewith give it: In 1858, Abe show od th.u his ideas about the rights of man tended to fluctuate as he passed around the map. In abolitionist Chicago, July of that year, he declaimed: Let us discard all this quibbling about this , man and the other man, this face and that race and the other race being inferior. . . Let us dis card all these things . . . until, we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal. The true voice of Great Emancipation. But wait; two months later, September 18, lie spoke in Charleston, S. C, and his seces sionist audience heard him say: I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of ' bringing about in any way the social and poli tical equality of the white and black races (ap plause): that I am not, nor ever have been, in ... favor of making voters or jurors out of negroes, - nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to in termarry with white people . . . Lincoln's role, effective, as it finally was, is that of a practical politician working indiis own time. It is not that of a messiilh who saw screaming visions and attempted to buck great waves of public sentiment. Carolina Front Reader's Retort Y-Court. Corner. Something To Put Your Feet y On Sometime Writer ' I.A.C. Dunn AFTER SPENDING all this time jumping up and down and shrieking, it seems that the peo ple who fought, bled, died, and won a class-free Saturday made a miscalculation. Nobody wants t0 go to a football game in Georgia not even a Carolina football game. We don't know - really who to stick out our ton- - gue at first the people who will , not N buy the I tickets to go to v the game," or $ the people who got the Satux I ) day cleared of classes sd that Says DfN Cannot Deny icity 1 0 Any C amp us G roup Mothballs For The Band & Cheerleaders Rucben Leonard Wft IHmip Wax Heel The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University, of North Carolina, rS r"X . wnere it is published f - .2 -it l Cur:; J A 7 . "Ill ) ,t.u h f.rsl . I j !!iiiiurs a. 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 scriptierf" rates: mail ed, $4 per year, $2.50 semester; delivered. a year, $3.50 a se mester. ED YODER, LOUIS KRAAR Managing Editor News Editor FRED FOVEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN EDITORLL STAFF Ruebcn Leonard, Bill O'Sulli-van. Staff Cartoonist ...Charlie Daniel NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Charles Dunn, James Nichols, Mike Vester, Bennie Baucom, Bunny Klenke, Ruth 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, Barbara Newcomb. Night Editor For- This ..Issue Curtis Gans V, f the other peo- . pie could go to the game. On second thought, perhaps we won't stick out our tongues at the people who freed us from Saturday classes tomor row. We think they're fine in that respect- anyway. We like class-free Saturdays. AND ACTUALLY, now that' we think about it some more, we t doa't think we'll stick out our tongue at the people who don't v want to go to the game either; not because we think it's a good idea not t0 go to the football games, but because it seems re asonable enough that someone be allowed to do what he wants on a weekend. Personally, we are taking off shortly in' exactly the opposite direction for Tennessee. Now this brings us to what we hope will eventually turn out, to ; be the point we are making, though this likelihood seems rather remote at the moment, considering - the dawdling pace at which we have been approaching the matter. It seems that the University big wheels don't want the stu dents to go home. We got this im pression -when, , , Saturday class es were in the throes of being installed and the trustees' expla nations for their action were pub-, lieized. " In capsule form', the, trustees didn't "like"' the 'mass ex-" odus' on weekends; they didn't like the students neglecting - their studies and their extra-curricular activities to go elsewhere. ! WELL, WHAT is the objection to going home? Just why is it that a desire to get out of town and see some other parts of the state (or country) is so reprehen sible? We don't understand it; and we do understand why peo ple want to get out of this town. It's a lovely town; we like it here; we ,make our living here and count it as our actual resi dence, though our legal residence is elsewhere. But we like to get out, not just because, like most people under 60 years of age, we enjoy buzzing around and seeing different places, but because we need change of scene. Young people are not. con structed to stay in one place week after week, month after month, and not get out and see something different, without be coming restless and discontent ed. Furthermore, we can see how easy it is for our elders and bet ters in South Building and in Ral eigh to forget (a) what a pleasure it is to sit in a home that hasn't the grimy thumbprint of the in stitution all over it, and (b) how in frequently one gets a chance to sit down in a real living room and put one's feet on something when one lives in a, dormitory. . CONSEQUENTLY, WHEN this slass-free Saturday issue comes up again next year (and we feel sure it will), ,we hope The Powers will not waggle their knotty fingers and lower their craggy eyebrows and say, "You dfdn't want to go to the game last year.. So now you can't go this yearr"- Going to the 'game is not the only reason for a class-free Sat urday. One needs an outlet badly, particularly in these times when security other than the financial kind (and even that is not easily come by) is a rarity Psychological ly, the world is racking its own nerves, and the nerves of college students are not excluded. We know all too well; having observed the phenomenon in action for a little oyer three years, that being circumstantially bound to one smaM area for any lengthy period I of time does not make for peace and contentment of the soul, to coin a phrase. Editors: After noting with interest the editors of The Daily Tar Heel delightedly slapping themselves on the back after their latest ed itorial triumph, we couldn't help wondering whether our budding Pulitzers would grow up before another great Carolina tradition goes down the drain. Apparently the powers that be at The Daily Tar Heel now as sume that in the infinite wisdom of their twenty-odd years they are capable of deciding what is t to be considered public and what. 'is to be considered private , in the affairs of groups on campus with whom they are not related. Let , us assume for the sake of argument that they are fitted for such decisions and are with in their rights and not within the rights of others when they do so. To assure compliance with their decisions the editors see fit to hold the bludgeon of pub licity (or' more accurately the threat of censorship the non publication of, in this ca?e, IFC releases) over the heads of those who happen to feel otherwise. The editors overlook certain basic facts. The Daily Tar Heel as a University-supported stu dent institution has certain func tions on this campus among them publication of news relat ing to all aspects of student life not just those approved by the editorial board. The complete freedom wh4dh the paper has is dependent on its performing its functions. Freedom of the press, which you defended so vociferously, Mr. Kraar, does not mean that The Daily Tar Heel has the light to refuse publicity to anyone. Freedom of the press does not mean the freedom of the editors to print or not print legitimate news items as they so choose. They have a right to say what they please " on the edi torial page. If they choose to damn fraternities, the football team, or Robert E.1 Lee, more power to them.. If Jhey detect f acism in Frat court and consider it their duty to say so, fine, write editorials every day until fra ternities are abolished. However, the fact remains- that the newspaper has a function above and beyond that of cater ing to the editors ideas of poli tical and journalistic virtue. The Daily Tar Heel is a sounding board not for six people but for 6,000 . Why nQtj-efuse to mention football in the paper because the team is subsidized? The editors do not have the right to refuse publicity to any organization. The logical conclusion of such think ing is obvious. Such an eventual ity would fully justify the - Uni versity's taking away the Tar Heel's traditional liberties. The old saw "with freedom goes re sponsibility" could not find a more pertinent subject. . Charles Blankstein "THIS IS going to be a very enjoyable weekend," said Heatl Cheerleader Collie Collison. If this statement had appear ed in The Daily Tar Heel on Tuesday instead of Wednesday it might have been construed as the understatement of the week, but coming at the end of a news jStory erasing the speeial ca ravan train to Athens makes it the overstate ment of the. year'. This weekend most certainly will be enjoy able for Geor- l 'It Was The Only Spot I Could Find' sis1 - f J- n V 1: 1 hi X, ' 1 -' - , I hTVXT vrrv . ' v -f r I l 1 ummi --- - .. ""Sm,, .. T B . JT ' -S? . J fill' i JP' "i.- : 9 m"l ' . -. - n N 'A fsx-; . ' r . . M S I t. f 1 i .,t.nt .o.nwtua ......,.... ., , . . : r. ; v v. ," '"rr-Mrfr "-- : .' r,,.,,, , 3G kl"3Q' w ifh U h Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON -The Repu blican National Committee is scheduled to meet next January to issue the call for the 1956 GOP Presidential - nominating conven tion. Party strategists still think, that date is just about right; as suming of course that the Presi dent continues his satisfactory progress toward recovery from his heart, attack. , They suggest that by Janu ary everyone- the public, the politicians and the Eisenhowers will have had time to assess the condition' of the President's health "and to sort out their own feelings about it. It is expected that the President will give his party a very prompt clue to his own thoughts about his future. ' NO HURRY Men of long experience in planning national conventions see no reason why changes in GOP plans must be hurried if they are to be made. According to one of them, Republicans ould probably switch to Chi cago with its many hotel rooms as late as six months before meeting. This is the more true since the necessary arrangements for telephone, TV, etc., are al ready planned there for the De mocrats. ... Most professionals believe, however, that when January comes Republicans are going to have to take a long hard look at their plans for a late August convention to be held in San Fran cisco. That convention was plan ned as a -mere jubilee to cele brate the unamimous re-nomination of the Eisenhower-Nixon ticket with only one session a day in a hall far from the center of the " city. The" election was viewed as a shoo-in. WIDE OPEN ' What the' party now faces is a wide-open convention, con tests between individuals and be tween factions for place and po wer, and the neces'sity of then closing ranks . and building up sentiment " for a new tickets and possibly a somewhat altered po licy;. To make at harder, Califor nia is already sending East stori es about the three-cornered riv alry between its Governor, Good win Knight, its senior Senator, Williams F. Knowland, and a third native son, Vice-President Nixon. , Party sources there are de scribed; as admitting the ; going will be. rough if they can no longer - count on Eisenhower's name on the ticket to keep, peace among the warring factions. A very much longer and more dif ficult convention than the one originally planned, that would leave scars to be patched up in a short time would almost seem a certainty. It is no wonder that as they look ahead, many Republicans are showing themselves loathe to believe that the President can not head the ticket. The descent into Avernus from a heaven of political " certainties is hard to face. - NOT HIDING National Chairman Leonard Hall is not in hiding; he is keep ing his engagements and .talking to reporters as they, find him. All full dress press conferences and official gatherings of promi nent Republicans - are being avoided, however. The lid has been-' put on conversation and speculation as much as possible. But many private conversations are taking place and the news will soon reflect the direction they are taking. Sometimes special elections to fill a House vacancy or other important . office afford some clue to what the voters are pre sently thinking. In a remarkable change from the immediate past when the Congressional death gia -'with' no Carolina Rand; no caravan' of Carolina students, and consequently no hell being rais ed by the' Carolina delegation! FIRST, LET'S take " the band apart at its musical seams. Last year there wis a big controver sy in the paper and on campus about the sorry looking uniforms the band had. The band wanted new. uniforms and most of the students wanted them to have new ones, especially since one of the band's major functions is to accompany the football team on its trips to other schools. A neat ly dressed band makes an aw fully good showing for its. school. A bill was "Introduced in the student Legislature to buy these sorely needed uniforms. But at its time of introduction the stu dent . Legislature's financial con dition made the passage of the bill impossible. Maybe we're luc ky the bill didn't pass. . " i" ' . TOMORROW THE Tar Heels . play Georgia in their first big game away from home and when the roll is ; called j down yonder i the band won't be there. Mr. Earl Slocum, former direc tor of the, band, said the main reason for the band not going to ; Athens - was a that there . was no , time to prepare a show adequate for the occasion." , r Ronald Oldenburg, member of the band, said the band, ". . . fol lowing like blind sheep the per suasive words of Director Her bert Fred and Drum Major Guyte Cotton, voted not to go to the Georgia game." This is great. Just-think, if the band had got their new uniforms last year they could have stored them in moth balls this fail and they would have lasted for many years to come. As for there not being enough time to prepare a suitable pro gram for the game, the usual t campus answer to that is, BULL. The football schedule was drawn up long before the band went home last spring. Is that 4ime enough to prepare a pro gram? . NOWx FOR the cacavian and Collison. Collie knew that we played Georgia on October 8 our only class-free Saturday. Al though he has done a very good job with leading the cheers at the first two games, he missed the boat completely on this one. Work should have been started much much earlier on the cara van trip and student . minds should . have been filled with train fares, time of departure, post-game plans, and deadlines for buying tickets. Very little has been done to inform the stu dents on these items. Indeed, are we supposed to conjure up a genie who informs us on all mat ters of this sort or are we to depend on the ones who ae elected and chosen to make ar rangements. Oh well, maybe we won't have all .this fuss about next year's caravan trip because we . may not 'have a class-free Saturday. Tlie "day off was given so stu dents could go to Athens, not Greensboro, Raleigh, or Char lotte. . A word to the football team, "figlit furiously fellows," and to you Mr. Collison, "impress them with your yelling do." HQ mi n n U- I Iw u I! W?i f. Roger Will Cca THE HORSE was in a sweatshirt ar.j. slides on the Y-Court pavement, whenV Didn't he know the World Series Baseball put to bed for 1955? "Shure, "Roger," The Horse shure. -have comment to make on same and I condition. ' Whaddya think I am, a ir.ana: Oh? Had The Horse ever written SpV- "I usit to be a big Sportswriter," The'p his eight-balls of eyes reproachful and ing his breath. "A. real big Sportswrit.;-- Should this be told to the Horse Ma: "Well, I usit to write Sports, and I weighed two-hundred "and ten poond," r outqualified Durham's Jack Horner. "Sd- The Horse was guilty of a balk whf; eds panthered past. This forced in a r:. the coo-eds' bases were full, ' "So," The Horse continued, "I fed c vto speak of The Battle of the Two Bo.; Stengel and Falter Alston." ' The names of the managers were Ca and Walter Alston, Horse ol' Horse! "I'm not 'giving no Irish nickname to -headed Dutchman," The Horse said stutb" the" same time shaming the Footnote F; Bingham Hall. "Beides, the Irish only ti when he is winning. As for Dodger-Mana; he never looked sillier than when he v. and confabbed with Karl Spooner, his p; the first inning of the" sixth game with t two runs in and two on base. The Great Baseball left Spooner in, and. ivham! A h : hit. Then what happened?" Then Alston took Spooner out. "Real Brainy!" The Horse jeered. "A. Stengel -'-why'd he pull Byrne and the . through no errors on his part? He'd pulk; head play by leaving Skowron in at F;.-;: "he" was "his poorest fielding first-sacker; ar: to take the pressure off himself via Err:.-; managed one good game; Stengel manage: : games." The Horse thought managers cverrs "In this day of the bounding baseball.; Horse acknowledged. "Me, I'd insist rr.y : be a playing-manager. That's where the what's going on: on the firing-line. They have a manager to keep the lads in cor.d business arrangements and the like, hut games are played, the team should be r: boys who are on the field. A manager is than his material barring a few cases v manager will act dumber than another and him, and make the other manager look ; .'x I 1 . 1- a ! . m 3:: i l i i boob into a show-piece and let the real w;:' his job for him." McGraw, Connie Mack, Huggins. JIcC. "Scrapper, Tactician, Psychologist, S:.: xu: xiui-Mi juujjCQ mi . great iiidudcis u der. "But all capable judges of good Ivory, s writer Hype Igoe called players. Okay, h;r: of players; but let the players p'cy an: team afield. It's their game, let them i'... way. Hire them, yes; train them, yes; r: yes; handle the detail work, yes. Run t: games, no!" Did this go in Football, also? "There are more players on a football ine worse neagea, ana me piays are i;..-. ttlLt. UtSiUCS, QltlUU Ull tilt JlUt li"" envpr triinPc that can't Hf scpn nn thp f:0. still go tor the players running incir ? they ha.ve the ball. They know what they But in baseball your manager makes S paper copy, but lousy decisions. Walter Boobs, in my book!" Wrrt t V mi crVif lira K o A Vot n n a w"Ar fr before The Horse's column became a bo-;';' Quo v., toll was high, only one member7 of Congress has died since ad journment. He is Rep. John Din gell of Michigan and he is from a safely Democrat district. The special election to fill his place could only be important if Republicans win a surprise vic tory. They are ihe first to say it would be a surprise indeed. Reverenco for Life In this very great phrase, "Reverence ' (Albert Schweitzer), I, too, found what V c i . Ti . l.. tVr; iui ou lung, it cAjJiaiiieo. nut unij the emotions and instincts which I perienced as a man. It is one of thoe which, stimulating thought to an alnwt ur degree, illuminates the darkness like the; on of a powerful light bulb a phrase wh cund and keeps breeding thought upon tn: ception upon conception. It was like the u . l i i- ,ii j i r Vio r.'Z. oi. a iucti.t;L uigu in ic uarKness ui ii The phrase "Reverence for Life' &r 1 1. UL 11 .11 '-.1 Urt i- T" " V. I uier wiin me einicai ana even t- . . ' inmg mat ine cnurcn, m ail its lorms. i. been unable to do and the attempt at vh: apparently abandoned. (Harper & Brothers). The Good tAzn Man, at his best, remains a soft of animal, never completely rounded and F a tuLMuacn, say, is perieci. li ne .. U 1 l.-j... ?i . , . . i c r- I auic qutiniy, ii is aimosi unnearu ui i " any otner. oive nim a head, and ne Give him a heart of a gallon capacity, ar.-t holds scarcely a pint. The artist, nine t:'' ten, is a dead-beat and given to the c virgins, so-called. The patriot is a t:; : often than not, a bounder and a poltroon ui pnjsicai oravery is otten on a iefi. ii mj a oapni.i clergyman, ine w""- . has bad kidneysnd cannot thread a rt" injr jcau ui cditrii in mis woria, n" Gate to the Vistula in the East, and fri ncy iswiiuh in me norin to me span1 -south, I have never met a thorous-'lv 111 who was honorable. TI T t 1" r ' - mencnen in t'rejuuices: f l-' (Knopf).
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