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PACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, OCTc- he United Nations' W&ek And 1 he Pivotal Question Carolina Front Grandma Without Nightie: , r . t "It- They shall heat their swords into plow shares, and their spears into pruning- hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither tsliall they learn -war any more Isaiah, 1 1 The startling success of the United Nar tions, after ten years of fighting man's urge to burn, chof, and blow up his fellow, is so f Fowler's Chance For Leader ship A utos . Student President Don Fowler cotdd go down in student government history as an outstanding leader if he took a bold stand to cure the student car problem. The problem is simply one of too mdny cats for this village. And the Adiminstiation has tossed it right into student government's lap, where it lounges silently like a1 sleeping kitten for want of action. When the Trustees last met, they spoke in ominious tones of student cars and their posible regulation. In response to this Trus tee prodding, Dean of Student Affairs Fred H. Weaver clamped down on registration of student autos- He and his numerous com nfittbes also considered the possibility of limiting student autos but decided against it.' 1 ; V;: The Administration decided that restrict ing student autos was "not seen as fitting in to the pattern ... of traditional relationship" between the student and the University. And in deciding not to act, : Dealt Weaver clearly shifted the onous on students and their government. President Fowler, in typical student gov ernment fashion, appointed a 'committee. This group has frowned on any limitation of student cars and talked in terms of raising revenue to build parking lots an ingenious but impractical way to solve the problem. Fowler himself, a sensitive executive who sits on the fence bending his ear to all sides to obtain so-caUed student opinion, seems against any regulation of cars that-would pro hibit students from bringing their autos here. - v -' j And this is w-iere he has erred from the path that would mrke him the first formi dable student- pi esident after a dynasty of mediocrity. - , iTheinailyjXiU' HeeVUrfylgJy urges Foivler and coin mi flee. f""draw' uja specific and con crete plan for limiting student wrs on cam- Jr eeins almost certain that, if students do not act to limit cars on campus themselves, the: Board of Trustees will, take action to do the same thing very soon. All evidence points to this particularly the last Visiting Com mittee report and current reports "from those near the trustees. We are not suggesting that limiting stu dent cars will be a. popular measure. Don Fowler" will not be a clean, well-like Presi dent for pushing it through at first. But when students realize that such an action staved off trustee action action out of stu dent control Fowler may be the man who took the student body presidency and lifted it out of the sleep of mediocrity. It's all up to President Fowler. And we hope he'll do the right thing, even though it's not the popular course. The official student publication of the Publi cations Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published l daily except Monday f and examination and 1 vacation periods and I ! 1 : Ill . ',','! h H 1 -v -I if ft "':' Editors 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 jear, $2.50 aemester; delivered, 6 a year. $3.53 a ra- mester. - LOUIS KRAAR, ED VODER Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE Npwr. Editor JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager BILL B03 PEEL Associate Editor lZ. ; J. A. C. DUNN .' 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It is this: In tlie Kremlin, KrusJichev aim.jm comrades may almost daily fbngue-lash the UN; domestically, the presiding lunatic fringe of the American Legion may snipe, at American participation in UNESCO; but the man on the street lias endorsed the UN be cause it has stirred new confidence. that man can arbitrate before bombing and stabbing. For those who would tear the UN down, this is the final defeat, and we suspect they know it. While it is safe to say that the UN has ridden through a treacherous infancy" and now is. fairly 'well' out of danger of abolish ment, it is not safe to say that its troubles are over; lio, they have merely shifted. From the danger of abolishment, which of course had to be toped with first, UN "troubles have shifted to the danger that it will Wither to no more than a sounding Ixiard lor world opinion, a, forum for debate, a voice without a' physical body. Not that it lacks value as all of tliose; but they 'cannot and should not. become the justifications for its existence. The UN, as we see it, ha$ a higher destiny its dominant insignia must' be that of action, not talk; participation and. support, not mere lip service. x As he analyzed . the successes and short comings of the UN at its tenth anniversary, last summer Walter Lippniann found that its most daring success lay in the fact that it had become a sort of "world society," in which the world interests meet and talk together- He recognized the endorsement which world opinion has given, the UN; he recognized its value as a place of world scale debate; but he doubted that the UN could, ever establish itself as an agency of enforceable world law. If the UN is tof uliill its highest possibi lities, he must be proved Avrong. We can acclaim the UN, ten years after, a "world society," and that is fortunate. But our historic experience with the League of Nations should sound a warning note against the society-and-foruni idea. It is often for gotten that the -League of Nations existed stubbornly until World War II ended that its death knell, in fact, came in lojf), only after the charter of the UN. It went out with a whimper, lecause that was all it had been doing for a decade and a half: whimpering. When the U. S. turned its back the League was undone. World opinion viewed the con tradiction between American idealism- as voiced by Wilson) and American action (as determined by Congress) and Was shot through with disillusionment and skepticism from the outset. The League, while it stop ped minor wars, lxosted world "health, help ed with the financial restoration of Austria and her neighbors, and plugged drug traf ficking, succumbed to the emasculation which is now an alternative for the UN- It remained a debateforum, but it lost the half bushel of prestige and force it had had; when the dark Thirties came with their, power struggles, aggression, and attacks on human -.freedoms and dignity, the. League w7as utterly ineffective, t was never listened to, for ag gressors and villians will pay no heed to ethical pronunciamentos unless they under- stand that" force will follow them. When the League needed a big stick, it never had one. In light of the League's failures, the UN's decisive moment tame at the five year mark when it resisted aggresion in South, Korea. If it had shied away from the use of arms then, its tenth anniversary blight not be so bright. , There has been much talk of charter re vision. Without .question, revision must be attended to. But before the charter can be revised, the nations must turn their thoughts to the now-pivotal 'question: .Whether the UN is to drift into a sedate role as a forum and 'society, or to fulfill its higher destiny as an agency of world law, .tending toward world government, with the power of armed action.- The past months have witnessed two inci dents in world politics which turn on the central question. The first, perhaps more significant, was the Geneva Conference. Per haps the crisis demanded an expedient ap proach, at the summit arid outside the iJN; but this obvious by-pass 6 fthe UN was a smack at its prestige. It may have cleared the international air, , but it diet little good for the UN- Second incident was the recent General Assembly vote to consider there the Algerian question. The Vote saw the United States lined up, almost without Choice, Sgainst consideration of the question in the UN, and it saw the heated withdrawal of the French delegation. But in many respects, the vote, even if it uieve with the help of the Communist bloc.' Was a victory for UN prestige. We lost face, but the UN gained it. AVrill the tendency bear out until we con sider ouly minor questions in the UN and take our major quarrels to Other .conference tables, thus, chipping always r.t the, UN's jK)wer? -We can make the UN a bodiless in ternational talk-fest if we persist along the line of least resistence, but we are bowing to a dangerous and Utopian myth if we bel lieve the ills of the world will be settled e may run to Geneva a thousand times with out troubles, but we must be re conciled that we are breeding another worth less whimperer. Sunday Outlet: Letting Her Out On Navy Field J.A.C. Dunn Point Student Goverment- Of View: Story Behind Elections LAST SUNDAY we roared, mufflerless, down to Navy Field for the GM ponsored sports , car gymkhana. We arrived in , the rain and dis- '-' ""x Burleson and Leslie Scott fev erishly attempt- , ins to intimi- , -v- date a 'portable -public address system to porta- , bly address the public so that , more than three people could hear it. There was an MG TF, a Volks wagon, a Morris, 3 or 4 Jags, a TR2. about which we know noth ing except that it is bright red . a'nd sounds like a' dog threaten ed by another dog with forcible removal of a particularly juicy bone, 2 MG TD's, a Porsch, 2 Austin Healy"s, Larry MiscalPs Siata, and, late to arrive, a large black and wine-colored Rolls Royce, which remained, stately and aloft at the far end of the: field for the whole afternoon- and declined (probably wisely; ; for its own sake) to compete. v:-i AFTER THE PA system had been sufficiently disciplined and everyone could hear what Leslie Scott was announcing, and after Clyde Burleson and Bill Wheel er had set up a course with paper" bags and paper cups, things be gan to happen. For the first hour' eyeryone had been standing idlyt around, peering into motors,' talking about sports cars, avoid- ; ing hte tribe of little' boys who5 darted around -spouting unau thenticated morsels of automotive wisdom to-one another, and be coming "slowly immune to the 'rain, which couldn't seem to make; up -its mind whether to come down or stay up. Then the show began to roll, literally. The course for the first event was set up such that a car started, ran its right wheels be tween two rows of standing pap- -er cups, went as fast as possibilei about ' a " thirF-df tl ' the field, made a right angle1 turn in between two paper bags, backed up in between two more! paper bags, went as fast as poss ible back to the starting linjp and ran its left wheels in be tween the paper cups. For every, cup knocked down five seconds was added to the driver's time. J. Paul Scott whizzed through the course first in an MG TD, knocked down 23 out of 28 cups, and wound up with a total time of 155 seconds. The Volks cut this time down to 77 seconds and ; 6 knocked down; Herm Schultz, in a Morris, lowered this still fur ther to 52 seconds, with 2 iups knocked down. EVENTUALLY, THE paper cup . routfne got blown out: the wind . came up and whisked all the ' paper cups away. Messrs. Burle son' and Wheeler decided to run the fast event next, to keep the bystanders entertained. A course was set up over most. of the field, which involved a straight-away, a wide curve, a left right-angle turn followed immeditely by a right right-angle turn, and another wide curve back to the starting, line. The Jags, with their low center of gravity and rapid pick up, did well in 'this event, run ning the course in an average of about 24 seconds. Naturally,: this being a gyulchana, the ."rac es" were actually races against time under an obstacle situation, not races against other cars on a ' clear track. Thus, only one car was Jn motion at a time. After all -the cars had been " through and averaged about 25v. seconds, Clyde Burleson took his Crosley Hotshot over the course" in 25.1 seconds, and came very close to spinning out into Wake County in thev process. The Cros ley died momentarily from ex haustion as it crossed the fin-, ish line. We ran our own Ford over the course next, just to see what would happen. With the added ; weight and the high center of gravity, we almost spun out into Virginia. But we just left her in second tgear and made her dig, ; and came through in 27 seconds, -somewhat jolted arid minus about " a pint of oil. We hope GM will sponsor more sports car" gymkhanas. They af- ford an entertainment probably similar to the enjoyment pro-i vided in BC days by Roman chariot races. A good outlet for Sunday afternoons after one's"' soul .has been thoroughly ! clansed in the morning. Bill Wolf (Bill Wolf, former chairman of the Student Party, who has just returned to the campus as a graduate history student af- ter a three-year Navy stint, begins a series of articles on the problems, inadequacies and'. Opportunities for service of student government. tra itors.) ' Manifestations- of that campus institution known as Student Government appear coincident ally with the falling maple leaves in the fall, and the flowers that bloom in the spring, tra-la. These 'are about the only , things most sidents ever see or hear of it, and they are known "as Fall and . Spring Elections. Since the maples already herald the approach .of Fall 'Elections, now might be a good time to inquire what all this is about. These; manifestations of Stu dent Government are quite curi ous; the processes of nominations and campaigning are notably mysterious, gut I shall like to ex plore them inso far as one can. WHISPERS j,. For twc weeks there have been whispers overheard that So-And-So intends to run You-Know-TVVho for Such-And-Such this fall, thTIt A Clique is maneu vering for a favorable . position, or that it is plain that Hewill run for President in the Spring. These whisperings constitute the preliminaries to the actual party nomination of candidates. Nominations jl the parties are arrived at by the following pro cedure, more or less. This is what it would sound like if you kept your ear to the crack of the door to the smoke-filled room in which the party in nominating. Speakers, where their identifi cation is significant, are indi cated after their utterance m parentheses, as are necessary stage directions. BABEL "The' canteenth meeting of the KP will now come to (foot note: K is a constant :only at ex tremely low temperatures and preasures.) ' " L The last ' two' ' meetings. Mr. Chairman, when can -1 vote and Read the minutes' of the last Say, A, looks like B's packed the meeting1 fdr' Say, B, looks like A's packed the meeting for ,: Being no corrections' or ad ditions to the minutes, we will proceed to -, i Shut the door. Is that Tar Heel reporter in or Open nominations for Legis lature in Dorm Men's Four, Mr. Chairman; B says 'there are 4 seats up, t one six months , In Math 7, and I don't think he Should, like to nominate a man in whom Further nominations? So far we have nominated First, Second, Third, Fourth, . " ' Anybody have a fifth? Ha,' Ha, aa. Er, Mr. Chairman, Ah, I have been in the Party, er, and. That is. This is. Now a (tea minute . speech by the Party Elder States- 2m an, a second semester sopho more on an unrelated topic, only slightly impressing those who don't know him and still think that) He won't run, Mr. Chairman, Second won't run; (Party Wet Rag) I talked to him last Weak candidate; hope they do run him; so much the better for Order, Please (The Chairman; nobody is listening, so) Did the gentleman nominating Fourth know he joined the OP (Other Party, ed.) last Nightingales are singing (Party Poet), and the air is full of song Birds of a feather flock to The telephone and see if he did join the OP, and. I want to say right now , ..He .can't., win (Party Augur); electability is . . ' Failing Archeology 51, and he got y a D, F, . and an Incomplete last semester, so ; Much noise in the back of the roomthat . . In my defence, Mr." Chairman I want To have another party at Aardvark Abbey, which is listed first in the telephone Call for the Order of the Day Time is running out and the girls have got to be in and The ayes, have it, so There was Grandma Walking back to Spencer last night, and started Swinging on the Legislature, because I feel that it is crucial that, eh, because I, to, err Is Human, and for this job we need people who can-do : Without her nightie i Night before election, and we have to get those posters around Those big brown spaniel eyes; a natural candidate with i A cigarette, whosegot a cig arette Paper back, and he is a little behind in quality points To the Click, Mr. Chairman, May I have order; and, Mr. Chairman, the Click is Open for nominations for Leg islature in Dorm Men's Ties and those blazers the IDC is going to sell Democracy, Service, Progres sivism! " (thunderous applause)" Bryant Bowles: Migratory Peddler Bryant Bowles, a . man who helped Ao , foment . school strikes against' desegregation in Milford, Delaware, Baltimore, Maryland, and Washington, D. C, recently tried hisJ luck in Charlotte, N. C, but found that the people there, would not buy his brand of hate. The youthful, Florida-born found er of the National Association for Advancement of White People had' been invited to Charlotte by a group of citizens who wanted to lelrrt more about the organi zations A mass rally was sched uled at the Municipal Stadium. Almdst from . the beginning things went wrong. Two days be fore " his scheduled arrival, the Chqrlotte News earned a profile of Bowles which iacluded an ac count of his frequent bouts with the law." The Charlotte Observer , followed suit, pointing out that ' whatever Charlotte needed, it wasn't the NAAWP. Bowles1 arrived a day late, carrying with him two suitcases; one containing membership forms selling for $5 to $50. The News greeted him editorially with the question, "What Is Bowies' Real Aim? Segregation Or Anti-Semi-tisr." In a five-column spread, it examined Bowles' publication, The National Forum, and quoted: "The people behind the National Association for The Advance ment of Colored People are not Negroes, but Jews His (Eisen hower's) groveling before Jews and Negroes really paid off. . . . Did you know that Marlene Die trich is a German Jewess?" The newspaper asked whether Bowles was fit to advise the people of North Carolina. - , . . Bowles denied being .anti-Semitic, and said he would hold the mass rally at the Stadium. Piloting his own private plane which is equipped wtih a loud speaker, he flew over the sur rounding towns for several days , publicizing the Tuesday night spectacle. But only 175 people showed up. Looking out on the rows of empty seats, Bowles did n't try to hide his disappoint ment. "You can expect Negroes in your schools in September," he predicted," . . . empty seats here tonight prove it." He prom ised to come back to Charlotte in two weeks if enough people were interested. But more than two weeks have elapsed since he promised to return, and his plane hasn't been sighted. The N?w Republic No, This Is Not The Old Soldier's Convention! r. i t t - ' i, ' ,!,:: 1. vS L 1 !l wwUi,., ...... i s --jif 'w j- vs,": J i s a ' (M :ty--- j 3 ' v 7 J - '7. i AO. t m li m 1 Vi. ' f 11 -'.-mi e Reader's I . Editors: This is a bf-Ltr-j . lessor E. p. n r;:; ' ' defense of the J-' ticality of the h speclfully I woul. gree with my 1' maintain that the h entirely impractitaj . tellectual rum ,,1' ' mem, out that this -credit them, f0r ' valuable. The first Pfi;rt Douglass is that t: are valuable in justment to life." i; they would, in But one learns rrar--tility at home, not i or the classroom t-. ious gentleman ir.av ' and his gentility c". personality and r from knowledge or v logist would hardly ; Latin course as the . to win friends or r ward personality. - (bothered by his i .society) is less hk,: justed to life th;' rnrnnrat inn pv-nr.,.-. salesman; the prof.. losophy is less 3 ;ke!v adjusted than the r artist less adjusted th bitt. Professor n ' point is that hu.T.ar. ' message," that Ihcy philosophical truths ! erature and phiioi-r-;" tory, like theo!ov, i, far more questions t- ore Onp finrlc snort,-! knowledge, not thrv.: knowledge could give some Greek with a V, have found them !,:: fill fun tn nn nn ! 1 J l. .U L WC UdU Ut-'lltl Lit.' the fun, and not d 1 . . i r : , ii. our.stMvt' lu unci i; e If the purpose of k A ' i. A ,1- 1 LIIN IS LI J 1 L ti I. 1 1 rv. dent would better with didactic essay, literature. If Mil, "message", which I could have been far rsl in a dozen ruiis: pere could have rr,:.Je Jittje spiel on the : mnro pyti c i in a ' . ' t ... 4 I- - t i JJOUgiass is i;i;u moi:.. ably about the fut:;r: nt nncT nirrnu' in 1 ; the future. But the certain from whom lyob, no more u:.u.;. the same number cf tioned haberdashers presidents or iso'.at: .?. in Rome's decline. 11 LUC pill uc j 10 n ent and future, the sr. better spend his t;"-.e of the present we h-- uy iiiv jjui-"' will learn about it h' ? y-i - ,' 1 f s gy, not from the hun--I believe it is ;" jr j i, n hum ui ueiciiu me ent grounds from t;. or Douglass su we argue only that t.v. tical we who non professional lives to ties must iaee ject is, at any rate. - than, say, mc;I:c::. science. And we '' humanities as p.--lectual adventure. The human ; ing for intelkc; ment, just as he -r to be emotionally n theatre, concert, or accept tne 'i"-1 v and we accept r. Graucha -Marx ar.a 1 lane as amuse:re::-.. rirofessionas are for their impractical we afraid to iu'cr'" ties as another, i. kind of cnterta:: enjoy the ina"-v- playing with ing ourselves tna. out something aV-;,' Tarticularly n;l" recognize rroif' nnint fhnt. the otai' ' make a cult and lize the hum-' - ves are the e:u -manities, and the) -pityable snobs ai'u It is the duty of1 which is, after - ' concerned wt:h - enjoy the Ira little pleasure i l . ance may be bli- '- some peculiar ; we find it fun 1 ' w we can.