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. f PAS" TWQ THE if A ILY TAR HEEL ' ? THURSDAY, e-. usness Mars. Aplenty m The coming. yeeks nicy bring another pre sident to the Consolidated University. Since lve do not feel that speculation is out of or, der, both as to person and fiiralifirations, we have made so bol l asT to offer it. The Char lotte, Qberyer.in.4a splendid lead editorial, lias made salient points in the matter which we enthu.siasticp.-IIy endorse. But let The Ob server speak for itself: ... The University, its best days still before it, needs solidity and the type of planning that can come only with certainty and permanence at its helm. The label of "acting" cannot long suffice in such an important area. The question of, Gordon Gray's successor is one to challenge the wisdom of the Trustees -who overlook the University's affairs. We .will offer no suggestion" as to the man," but experience has taught clear lessons on the type of man most desirable. The University is an academic undertaking, :, the greatestsiichhat the South has seen. It is in this realm tliat it must makes its strides, and it is in this realm we think that it must seek its leadership. The University'"$cored its greatest advances under the direction of Dr. Frank, Graham, a man who had taught history in its classrooms. He channeled its interests into unhampered scholarship, and he made it one of the foremost citadels of the free mind in this country. Business managers are in ample -supply at Raleigh, Greensboro and Chapel Hill. What the University most needs is a president who can soundly chart its future in those things for which universities are established. i f, - t j-court & if o t- n n r- if ii fl f L I ffj iP' Mr- 'fer1 i m s Wi pi i! in No !'PlMcS"-: T ROBERT RUARK'S Something Of Valve climbed up the best seller ladder 23 LEONARD With Blind I o A House Of Horror The University . has its S2 million govern ment loan for new dormitories now, but you don't have to be a wizard to see the folly and short-sightedness of present building plans. If we plan now to build a 700-man monstros lty atop the hill overlook ino- Kp'-'ii" Pool, our vision is masked with horse-blinds. We propose to chase the lovers and nature communicants out of the stately pines of Kenan Woods, to subject the swimmers in the outdoor pool to the atmosphere of a crowded suburbia, and to surround the resi dents who must live in the house of horror to a constant stream of football, basketball, and.automotive traffic. Is this within the tra dition of Chapel Hill as we have known it? Consider the dorm itself. The University plans to install another giant single-building dorm, again foi rating the traditional quad! rangle system. It- has tried this before in Cobb, with the m:ilt hxrrU most every waking hour of the day and nigl.it, the halls of Cobb resound with echoes corn- weeks ago and since then has fallen no furth er than fourth from .the top. 'Ruark's book at out .a white :JinnterJ? jon' a rmljnhut'for his I y ; .4 laandhood friend has been praised by many and damned by others. Some people compare it to Norman' Mailer's "The Naked 'And, The Dead" in that it is not even a' "good dirty book." Regardless of the opin. ions Something Of Value has been selling ; at a fantastic rate and former UNC student Ruark sits over in Spain reaping royalties from these sales. Since the publication of Ru ark's book, many other books about Africa have been run off the publisher's presses.Pondogp, last of the ivory hunters, is one of the latest. Pondoro, by John Taylor, is a chronicle of thirty years of adventure in Africa. Taylor explains how to" hunt, out wit, out-maneuver and outlive all the royalty of the animal world from elephant to leopard. A sam ple of Taylor's information: Where ( To Aim. "I've seen a charging animal come on with a large hole through his heart. He was 'mortally wounded, but it's small satisfaction to kill your beast if he runs you down before " he dies. That is why it is best to ain for the shoulder." I'll go along with that. ' JOHN GUNTHER, author of Inside USA, Inside Europe, In side Asia and Inside Latin Amercia, has come up with an other book. The title of course,. Inside Africa. Mr. Gunther traveled " 40,000 miles in preparing this book from Morocco to Kenya, from Johannesburg to Dakar: In .'pre paring his book, Mr. Gtfnther' not only interviewed 1,100 peo- pie in the 103 countries he visit ed but also! discovered l.A.C. Dunn NOW ABOUT all these cars. There are too many cars in - : .Chapel Hill, ' x.,, , say various ' people who pur- port to be in (i. 3 the know. A ' 1 i Jot. of them should be elim inated, the peo- tl ; t ' pie continue; i; . further- : : ----r more,' the best ;j place to start eliminating is witht the freshmen and sophomores! Don't let them have cars. They don't need . cars. They're only freshmen and sophomores. -. i : THIS DOESN'T, quite make sense "not because the fresh men and sophomores should necessarily be treated with de ference, but simply because, in our opinion, the automobile sit uation in Chapel Hill has just about reached the point where the problem facing Chapel Hill ians and students is one involvr ing different categories than the ones now under consideration. Instead of saying arbitrarily that juniors and seniors will be permitted to keep cars and freshmen and sophomores will not, we think perhaps' it would be a better idea if a committee were set up, equipped with a set of standards, which .would de cide which category of car-need-iness a person fell into.;'-, t The standards might well be set up something like this: Married students and veterans would be permitted to have cars. Handicapped students would .be permitted to have cars. Students living outside a 250 miles radius would be permitted to have cars. This qualification is made on the assumption that, by the slowest method of travel, which is generally bus travel, having to go more than 250 miles by bus would slice so much time out of a weekend .that it would be impracticable t0 plan a week end at i home. . Students going through ; ; col- " lege UAder extraordinary circumi- dates on this campus areard to get without a car. They are also difficult to arrange in Greens boro without a car. Since fresh men and sophomores have a. hard enough time with their social lives .there does not seem to be any point in making it harder for them if there, is a more ac ceptable solution. In addjtion to this, there "is a strong possibility that the Jresh men and sophomores between them may not -own enough cars ally it is not. We are all Carolina students. We are not Carolina students who happen to be going to college with some students from other states. Another objection which may be brought up is the query "Who sj going to constitute the com mittee which decides whether a student will be vermitted to have a car or not? The" obvious: answer seems to be the students themselves. , Perhaps the committee: should be to alleviate the traffic situation- s elective, perhaps it should be ap- if they" were pro- !.--,. .. sufficiently . hibited. ' ir it UNFORTUNATELY, T H E R E are- those North Carolinians who will become galvanized with righteous horror at this ? sug gestion, and say "Are we to ge forbidden cars in our own state university?" . The answer to this is, quite simply,, yes, you, are. The, traf fic problem here has become such that regional allegiance cannot be considered without bolluxing up the whole works. This sounds like favoritism for out-of-state students, but actu- j; ' : pointive by some high ranking r student or . equally;,- powerful ..denizen of; South . building. . .... . FINALLY, THERE is that old ogre,; the question as to whether students should, be allowed to go home at all, , or perhaps we should say whether student trips to home should be facilitated in any. way. We say they should. In the days when the trustees were around here, it may have been considered accepted practice to stay in Chapel Hill month after month and enjoy life within the town limits, or reasonably close thereto. Proponents of this theo ry maintain that college is the place to which one goes when one first starts' getting out in the world on one's own. . Now that's all very well, but may we observe with undeniable, though trite, accuracy, that times have changed? Two or three decades ago, and even farther back than that, there was a great deal more se curity kicking around than there , is now.'. Youth takes its security quotient from its elders, and youth's elders way back then were sitting fairly' comfortably. Nowadays, hdVever, we have an atom bomb to, deal with, and communism, and all the other troublesome little blemishes with which civilization is currently dotted. .. Youth, we believe, feeling a bit unsettled in the face of all this, clings to whatever security it can get. In many cases this security is none other than Mom and Dad and a girlfriend back home, and we cannot . see any reason why, if they can find security somewhere, they should be denied it. 1 1 S f m m 1 1 1 ful 1 11 -5 - I' i-1 I rrarnman s " Doris Fieeson 1 raregy WASHINGTON One of, the casualties of President Eisen (h6wer's illness is the prudent strategy of Governor HarrimanV Presidential boom. The: original plan was that the Governor of New York should remain available and let the front runner, Adlai Stevenson, absorb the inevitable liabilities of that position. It was believed that Stevenson would be re luctant to enter the state Presi dential nominating primaries and that even if he did, Senator Kefauver, widely accepted as a popular favorite, -- would defeat him often enough to t tarnish the Stevenson legend. - THERE HAS never been any doub that the former Governor of Illinois, whether his ideas : were' right or wrong; thought in the general ' interest. But there has been a good deal of question whether he was persuading peo ple that he felt their problems.. It is admittedly a hard task for an intellectual to achieve such communication. Tr.uman achieved it effortlessly because he was the people. What made them mad, made him mad; what pleased them, pleased him. To a degree, President Eisenhower, whose simplicities Western stories and popular tunes , are smiled at by sophisticates, has the same advantage. 1 Stevenson .is aware that this is one of his problems. He has a horror' of hypocrisy; he, is also sure that if he tried to behave in any manner not natural to him, he would do it badly. . WHEN Stevenson advisors dis cuss the situation, the question of the Stevenson jokes comes up. It is the firm opinion of some, including the former National .Chairman, Stephen Mitchell, that the Stevenson humor is his best claim to earthiness. Mitchell be lieves Stevenson should be en couraged to "be funny," which he does so well, and that the Republicans scoff at it because they are afraid it goes over. evrnin.T.- rK ' '? 7 . "7 tacts about Africa, her people tenmrs. CobhJias i)rc11 tb? scmnial point . . . p . water iihLs,I.cIeinonstrations. firrr-i-pr iot k,. . - .. r-'.. '-1 "ui very amuKin?. unr t 1 . i.iu.i.(.nients, pots; panty raids, in short, abject .chaos. Tife Ijousing authorities look 011. all this with fearful dread. What do they expect when over 700 men (as compared with Cobb's yo are crammed into one vast, etlioms ItaU? ,. Beyond that, as we said above, what of the new buildings appearance? Take a look at Cobb, then compare its environs to the state ly beauty of th Upper Quad. The lattei's lour buildings and grounds eclipse Cobb in all respects. ha We don't think new building should climb llowed Kenan Hill; it-oucrht to -o the oth. cr way, that is, in the direction of the pres ent tennis courts and cemetery. The tennis S!.-0"1. mod to thc l"Se area ' """a --iici.i 1 f)cation e e e cemeterv miitf K ed and should have been moved years when prices were lower. Today it will tor a new quadrangle to go up under th '?nl?U I" mst. as well, face th jv'iiiuiutmc; iact tnat tb moed o lien prices were lower. Todav cost ciearlv to mmp t,, i . . , . . ' P , "'ticiy, out SUCH IS the price of short-sightedness and.delav To delay more-is to invite incalculable addidon vai cost. y - surrounding upc:omin- budding is more than superficial. Most ini- A 1 -'Vi VI KJk. he where the iiedims are to be put; but w ther the cam pits-is: to remain a pleasant tit n or tree-sn acted 11 1 f"l Clla I ' - -a or tQjjecomeecless. desert crowded with desolate piles ol-; brick without form or plan. .. ... . ..Theoffit'ia'':s'udent publication of Up p,.m catu,ns Bo,rd of ,,he Univ.rsity ofVort" cui," ' : where it is ntiKn.i daily except Monday Y and examination and j vacauon periods and 1 summer terms. Enter- i example Mr-jGunther- says that a Hon licks the skin from a hu man body before devouring it. That the capital of Bechv'analand is in another country. That the King of. the Bakuba in the Bel gian Co'ngo' weighs 350 pounds and has 350 wives, Gunther compares British, Portuguese and Belgian colonial rule. "Taken all in all, British rule is the -best the average African in British territory . has more copious access to the two things Africans need most edu cation and justice." x AUSTRALIANS HAVE evident ly developed their own version of "the taste test" and have de cided that beer is best and prove it by drinking more beer per capita than any other peo ple in the world. Statistics released by the Aus tralian Government show that Australians drink an average of 24 gallons of beer a year. Fed eral Treasurer Sir Arthur Fad den estimated that 219,000,000 gallons of local beer would be drunk this year from which the Government would derive $213, 964,800 in taxes. The increase in Australia's beer drinking t is a post-war phenomenon. Fifty years ago the Australians averaged only 12 gal stances; rsuch as having to com mute, or working part time at a job which requires a- car, would be permitted to have cars. : . tic '- . ,OF CQJJRSE. the faculty, and bona fide residents'! of Chapel Hill, student or otherwise, would also be permitted to; have cars. Now before the maddened : populace comes raging up to, our ; office with machetes unsheathed' and pitchforks tipped with poi son, may; we explain our think ing behind all this. At first thought, it appeared t0 us a good idea to arbitrarily prohibit freshmen and sophomore-owned cars. However,, sev eral reasons have subsequently been pointed out to us which indicate the fallacy in this think ing. First of all, trivial, though it may seem, there is a terrific morale boost in having a date or two every so often; furthermore, 'I Don'f Like The Army Because Everyone Looks Alike4 der 18 virtually none. This means that the average male over 18 consumes approximately 70 gal lons a year. J V Now we know why . they are known as the people from "down under." They have drunk them selves, not down under the table, but instead, down' under the world. SOMEWHAT NEARER home than Africa, Australia, and Spain is the giant roadside sign on'.the iaieigh-Durham Airport road. The SlPn i nno Vir, Ions. The figure stayed the same guTnm . sdemiPT IIT until inon u.. t. .. . . ,I.,H!4 OBOSpUBT BUTSI1J9ADB oy iyy it nad thmes that lisnaii derful qualities of a certain pro i duct. But not so this sign. In huge letters is written a simple sen tence, "You'U Be Glad You Did." You. probably will. unui iyy, but by 1949 it risen to 18 gallons, and last year 11 was 24.09. The amazing thing about these statistics, is that the women drink verj little beer and children un- ' - ! ISliS I'd 1 ' ! i ' I i Vc ; el tf 'J&Jrr j 1 . . nO I "rf ' ! Horn ' x0 o, ! m j A '"' a . . s A Editors: Bresting a wave of nostal- recent and decaripnf :taM;.-.i.-., WilSjieQ 2 I. the campus of Carolina to disport t ---l the Homecoming yeekend. Much sC- anH rumr?nc -if Vinnrlt. tear travelled the cheek of tho "Auld Lang Syne." In the fraterr. horrendous din of assorted coicWV attempts at social intercourse bel 4 level. Preliminary remarks aside, 1 get at the situation which evoked behavior of the espoused Americans Contrary to popular belief, the ard" ideology is not on the wane, w ingly in evidence. To wit: the s--: young wives conveniently parked cii' -while the old' frat boys made th" V young and pretty coeds. The not-so-A. many of whom were ladies-in-wa:t:n; er cheerless evening in competition V of fresh exhuberant youth. Their mirrored in the set facial expresici hand was exhibited the "boys -;Vfh we're alf so civilized about this, dah: the other mortification was painful'--comparing notes with other coeds, i; V was not the sole observer of such a acquaintance remarked that she h-r,f husband lived far away from his s they would not be able to return for"" other functions of that ilk since she to be subjected to the spectacle and e of a' philandering husband. Divorce is certainly the social ef face of America and such actions as c::-.. links in the chain of events that destrrr as a unit. -Esquire cites the findings;; body than the UN which, in its rW promiscuity among married couples, rt one out of every two married men a:j every four married women commit a; it is those who live within the cor.:: United States upon which one phase cf ; is based. Such information can not he valid until the sampling is known ard a tive study is rerun, but it is indict, indications warrant serious re-eva!u:: atitudes of our" society. I am by nor.?: ing that Chapel Hili became the hr grounds" for the statistician over the: weekend, but rather that the afore:-.; havicr is symptomatic of the' malisnar,! : the body of the family. The prognosis, h: come from within. M X o Compliment For Cheer!::. Editors: The Carolina student body should hi have cheerleaders of such superior c. pep rally which the cheerleaders lei a: day night was an unforgetable occss: : cements together our two universities :: and camaraderie for a, long, long';" until the Carolina-Duke game. Thank : :. ing over. It was an unforgetable cvc:.- Gera'c m UOTG n nqu Proverty is a soft pedal upon all -human -activity, no expecting the s?:: Time is a great legaiizer, even in ' morals. All successful newspapers are cca-el ous and bellicose. They never defer: anything if they can help it; if the j -upon them, they tackle it by denrr.:.' or someone else. ao De in love is merely to perpetual anesthesia to young man for a Greek god or an c: woman for a goddess. Poetry is a comforting piece of i more or less lascivious music. 11. I- 'Beat ItVe'vo Got An Elect,:' mists I I . n ; if " ill m if Editors 1 imie ea as seconi class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, N. unaer - the Act aiarcn 8, 1879, scription rates: 4 'I . .1 ... ' ea, 54 per vear 59 .n a semester: delivpr . J a year, $3.50 a'se l mester. LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODEIt .A Advice For Bill Rgsdalb It's sort of har,d to make a def of Sub-mail- or looking or listening has a chance to share in the Ufa imuon concermftg what is good ' J- r?- oryations of the artist II y Li reravi Managing Editor News Editor L Business STanager FRED POWLEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor Sports Editor J. A. C. DUNN - WAYNE BISHOP Niht Editor For Thi Issue RulbeTIeaTd and what isn't iis wn,ii. ...:: - , ('""usi ;i willing;! no matter what , you say there is going to' be 'someone to dis agree with you and to have a pretty good argument to back up his case. Consider, for example, modern campus fiction. There are plenty of people who IuVit. There are those, this columnist included, who don't think it's worth a dern. Aldous Huxley puts artists in to two categories those whose work is an attempt to communi cate wlih other people, to spread ideas and perception and signif icant experiences to an audience in order that the person reading a: 'i - - . , iu iiiereDy more fully realize him self. The4 other" type artist' cre ates only what he feels with lit tle or no regard for form or reader. In dther words, while the first artist writes for other people, the second types out what is best suited for a psychiatrist's couch in a sort of general expose of what's going on down in the subconscious. ' You keep running across the ;mc things in college writing lM,r ihl' first time the youn writer h getting some idea about M-x and perhaps about death and tfits to tell everybody by way of his. typewriter just what Kas hap pened, to him; not what he thinks of it, because he doesn't' think much. But when he comes out with something it could "best be started, "Golly, gee whiz,, guess ; what 'happened to me!" No one bothers to put anythingjrito any kind of perspective or bfder or coherence. They just - throw v it down almost as if glad to be rid oi it. , to try and get to know going ; on by any other is .toget .a poor second- A jood writer is a dpvil nt hard thing to be. He is under a Sreat obligation if he wants to write anything that says some thing significant. He has to learn as much as he can about his .sub ject, which, for a creative writer, is life. You don't learn jmuch about life by any other way than living; what's tL means nand version. ,( . , And that's the gripe. In many cases, the campus writers are ra"ch more concerned with how they're writing rather than what they're trying to put across. They have not become aware of the fact that if a person has some thing to say worth saying he can . probably do it without much trouble. A wide range of assimi lated experience is of much more r value than a mastery of the style of any other writer, be the copied Hemingway,' Dos Passos, or even, God forbid, Marcel Proust. Mavbe somebody will. come-., up. with something new this year, not just the old themes on "The Night . Aunt Sue Died", or "Youn Sweet Prisilla, and Her Untime ly Pregnancy", or worse still, "My AffairJVVith Sam, By Ed". B.ill Scarborough comes out with a slick - Quarterly long about the first of December. Let us all wish him -Vi brings U -C vl J lP Or 1 . 1 1 m fiucK, Decause if no one nm good material, he sure neck can't come out -with any. And a brief note to those of you with Writing ability, so called: if you have anything to write, please uo so. And don't get all up in r the air witVi it . . ...i. xuuie not gooa enough. If you try to get too bloody profound you'll be talkin to, yoursejf. ' !! as v "n: IV
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