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'PAGS TV0 THE DAILY TAR HEEL SUNDAY JVleri W7 Be Boys, At Least In Fall The Saturday radio sounds of a kinetic Wake Forest team overpowering our own football squad reminded us just what a-sjxrts defeat means today in big-time football. Talk today will center around who will replace the present coach (not whetlicr he should be replaced), and alumni will have their heads together conjuring up new grid: iron talent for next season. No one enjoys ?: football victory for Caro lina more thaii The Daily Tar Heel. But the seriousness of a defeat these days has passed beyond' the carefully controlled; limits of a game, a sport, a pastime. Whenever we point to this gross profess ionalism that pervades 'our campus athletic scene, local Woollen Gy mites respond with generalities about school spirit and sports manship as virtues of the game, i Now, we like the game-well-played con- , cepL and earnestly embrace good sportsman ship; But if this were the main purpose of college athletics (and it is not at UXC), why so much bawling when we lose a jgame, or two,' or three or all games. Since sportsman ship is probably better learned in playing the role of good loser, it would seem that blows of defeat would be somewhat mitigated. But they aren't. The reason is simple. Big-time athletics at the University are not amateur, but profess .ional. i: : The Ivy League has set an ideal pattern in athletics by doing away with athletic grants-in-aid and restoring the game to its j roper 'prospective in an academic world. ' . (te niight 'noint out that Ivy League foot ball crowds are still large, noisy arid enthusi astic.) ; . . u- What, should be the position of football ' and all atliletics on the Carolina campus? "-'Athletics 'at UXC should be games, activi ties, for students and run by students. Now they are a big business, administered by ex perts, professional in standard, if not stature. Frankly, we'd rather see alumni put their heads together over the amount of founda tion money, or the quality of teaching, or the state of dorms at the University. But some men can't grow up and always must play the game of college boys, paining bitterly when they lose a football game. Per haps, some of "tli is talk to college students about growing, up, about maturity, should be administered in stitf doses to footballing elders- , - rnncien LlVGSpilCS"" ener Dave Mundy I had imagined that I would,, ' find in Europe a few minor mis understandings 1 of the United States. Before two weeks had elapsed I caauced across an Englishman, who displayed what I imagined only a singular degree of Ignor ance. 1 explained, for example, how the President is elected. He had never heard of the process. (And he is, God save the queen a.iu , us too, planning to enter . the foreign service.) He was even more interested when, informed that there were 48 states,; each with a governor not under federal control. By the end of this explanation I had so warmed to the subject of politics that I provided; an hour-long commentary on North Carolina politics, 011a Rae Royd and, Kerr Scott, Sam Ervin and La w rencer Brown. (Lawrence, the friend of the common man and Brown has been Sheriff of Bun combe since the, days of my great - grandfather.) For good measure I threw in, the Raleigh News and Observer, the Yadkin ville Ripple, and the JP system. He found it amusing? somewhat. But it develops that he is no singular exception. A professor was shocked to. learn that the police in the United States aren't a "national police." - A Few Nofes Fmrn I he M E's ks & Desk: 6 A t ayni, Fred Powledge r ' (Bray, Par Th e r orum "Do you mean to say, Mister Mundy, that they don't all wear the same type of uniform?" The same individual was mov ed, to remark philosophically, just as I was explaining the elec tion of presidential electors and their- balloting a few weeks later. MONEY DOES LOTS "Ah yes, I imagine that money can do a lot of things in the United States." (Beginning a weekly column by The Daily Tar Heel's Man aging Editor Editors.) THE HVESPIKE, according to newspaper terminology, ' is the , ' thing that sits on tne manag ing editor's desk. It is a plain spike, such as that used by clerks and ac countantsto spindle notes. the managing editor writes to himself, little facts that need filing for brief periods of time and other such trivia!' I've never checked, but I sup pose it is called a "live" spike be cause it holds messages that are' immediate, hot thus live, like a "live" wire. So that's what this weekly column is supposed, to be: Messages, comments, mostly brief ; ones. The title belongs to Rolf e Neill, who lent it to me once before, . when the Liyespike appeared in a weekly paper down in Klan terri tory Horry County, S. C. I; am -sure Rolfe, who wrote the Live spike years ago, will let me use it again. He's a Stars & Stripes man now, writing on G.I. copy paper in Tokyo. WHEN MOST BIG MEN . in North Carolina get "named," or elected, or appointed, they are in line for hundreds of speaking engagements. North Carolina's1 closest claim to a statesman, Capus Waynick, has been deliv ering a constant string of speech es ever since he installed himself in Gardner Hall as head of the Governor's Small Industries group. He has talked to dozens of groups interested-in small indus try, he has driven to Washington, to accept the Nicaraguan 'govern ment's highest decoration, he has talked to tie University's Dialect- tic Senate. Waynick is the man on whom you should keep your eye. He is n't being "mentioned" as possible candidate for anything right now." He doesn't need to. He has served in many a state and 'federal ca pacity. Right now, he's working in Gardner Hall, trying to find a reasonable way for North Caro lina's small industrialists "tp' be come vbig. It's a big job, and Way nick is the sort of big man to car ry it out well. BUT THERE'S ANOTHER big man in North Carolina-who 'has been "named," and who hasn't 'de livered many speeches yet. 'He: is J. Harris Purks, who is currently in the Consolidated University's . hottest seat. He has' the job of acting president of the Universi ty, and he has the responsibility of acting as president while the real president performs-functions for the United States government. It is truly a hot seat. But Dr. Purks has not yet squirmed, at least not notiiceable. He has been carrying out his acting presi dency quietly. He hasn't tried to enact any great changes from the Gray , administrfation. He can't. 1 But Dr. Purks hasn't talked yet. Sure, he's spoken to various fac ulty groups, but those talks have been behind very closed doors. He has addressed alumni groups, but a talk to an al.umni group is. not necessarily a speech. It would be nice, from Dr. Purks' standpoint and from the student's standpoint, if Dr.' Purks were to deliver a speech to the students. He has a lot to say. He has remained in the semi-dark background for several years, and now people want to know what Cie's like. He is certainly not like President Gray. The campus has enough op portunities to invite Dr. Purks to talk. The Carolina Forum, you might remember, is bound by its charters to bring speakers of , na tional, state and local importance to the campus. Every year Forum chairmen are in a tizzy agout 10 minutes before their speakers are scheduled to speak, for fear the hall will be empty. This year's Chairman Tom Lambeth wouldn't have -that fear if Acting Presi dent Purks were speaker. And he. might not be acting president , much longer. The ex ecutive committee of the Board of Trustees will meet Nov. 14, and will almost certainly accept Gordon Gray's resignation. Purks, some South Building people think, may move permanently in to Gray's office. torrent' Of Letters II Editors: "Let he that is without sin cast the first stone." "Bresting a wave" of nausea, the readers of The Daily Tar Heel were enlightened with a three handkerchief expose splat tered with "gin scented tears", and prolific discourse on the "evils of the behavior of the espoused American male." The author seems to have a keen insight op the existence of "double standard ideology". Am biguity reigned and I still don't know whether the author was one of the "ladies-in-waiting" or whether she was jealous because there were so many "young and ( J A. C. Dun BECAUSE THE editors . all over our back to write rnii,,, cause most of our seven readers idiiijuay uuiiunns, ana bccau.se v perverse individual of that norw deliberately does things wror o J - Pie sweat over k gird irritating s OUr ffp.-i!!.. T . - . 1 Plurality sn,-t .. thin? thnt u,. do with tho r-. WE USED to . . , iu . ' AND SPEAKING of the presi dential situation, here's a note from a column, in The Daily Tar Heel in April, 1954. It was written by Chuck Hauser, who's now writing for The Chapel Hill Weekly, and who's keeping him self very informed of the presi dential situation: , "THOUGHT For today; - Gordon Gray Is mostly Away." 'It, Seems Like Only Teh Years Ago' Mr. Presidents, Theiri) Mil t Whoever- we mention "the - President" thesf? days to well-informed acquaintances, we lind, ourselves choking; in ambiguity. They4 wonder just what, or whom, we -are talking about. The President, at least on the Carolina campus, could mean Gordon Gray W Acting President Purks) of the Consoli dated University, or student President Don Fowler, or just plain-President Eisenhower. For fear that editorial readers have also gallon to make clear our stands on all thee been confused, we feel a- moving moral obli gation, to make clear our stands on all these Presidents, in order of importancei President Eisenhower, popular though he rnay be, we feel has been ineffective, ill-in. prmea, and aided more by Democrats than by his own factjon-ridden party. (In short we want another White Ho his nnne starts Avith Adiai. As , for Consolidated Universitv President we want an educator. No more need be said' Viewing the student presidency (a slug gish sight these days), we hope Don FowleV is feeling better after his infirmary visit. An then there arp 'Hnrm Tr-c,viQ.. mty mttl The nff f 1 s i JEdjtors,.....-. tin m - . -r-t i- - 1- wnere it is published daily exCept Monday and examination and vacation periods 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 i ! a semester; delivered ' 1R n j a year, 5j.U l mester. LOUIS KRAAR, ED. YODER i i se- FRED POWLEDGE ? News Editor JACKIE GOOD MAT J Business Manager BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN Sports Editor WAYNE BISHOP Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manger Coed Editor ....... Circulation Manager . - Dick Sirkin Carolyn Nelsonf Peg Humphrey Jim Kiley C.l, i 4.: u,u puoa .Manager . Jim Chamblee Staff Artist charlie Daniel NEWS STAFF Neil Bass, Charles Dunn, James Nichols, Mike, tester, Bennie Baucom, Bunny Klenke, Ruth- Rush, Curtis Gans, Ethan Tolman . Joan McLean, Bill Corpening, Clarke Jones, Wil son Cooper, Charlie Sloan, Jerrv Cuthrell V Humphrey, Barbara Newcomb, Betty Bauman. My biggest shocks came after the President's heart attack. , An Oxford tutor inquired solicitous ly, "Should the President die, how long will it be before new elections are held?" "For twoor three days German newspapers were front-paging the "inside dope" that the mil itary, was taking general control of the government. I don't re call the name of the General who was supposedly in charge; perhaps it was the chairman of the Joint Chiefs; perhaps the United States was Just being con fused with Argentina. About a week later it was de cided by the German newspapers that the German public should instead ' keep its eyes on "Fin anzminister," George- Humphrey,, who appeared to have "wrested" governmental control from the military. Last week the papers belatedly discovered the vice president and his importance. Among other things, the Frank furter Allgemeine in an editorial has referred to U. S. News and WoHd. Report as an official pub lication of Jhe Department of Defense. This from Europe's best newspaper! ' : CROWNING BLOW The crowning blow to my im- ' aginations about well-informed Europeans was delivered by a Belgian student (Louvain Uni versity). "As we all know," sle re marked,".' in America th.e- work ers are the slaves of the capita lists." . ' ' '' ' I, reflected, on; the guaranteed annual wage, the basic daily pay of. $20, 35 for miners, golf-balls ' and, income-tax provoked man agerial ulcers. Thinking of. ul ; cers reminded me of lunch, time,' which, time it was, so I walked out. ...? But under no conditions could, this lack of informatioji about, the. United States be called, mass ignorance, I have yet to discuss politics witk a European who cannot ... comment glibly on, the McCarran Act, ' McCarthyism. witch hunting, isolation, and lynchings. mfi$0mm ; r ib- W i An I 1 E"T f pretty coeds .. . with the lure of fresh exftuberant youth," or that she failed to get her quota of at tention from the multitudinous "philandering" husbands that were on the loose. If the "ladies-in-waiting" of those Black Knights had had any initiative or had cared what hubby was doing they could have done something to remedy the situa tion, to wit: there are about four males to every female on this campus, therefore, wifey, had $ little better opportunity to dis play a little "Auld Lang Syne" than did the "Old Man". It's more fun to stand around with the other' members of the "Temper ance and. Chastity Above All" League waving banners, "casting stones" and shedding "gin scent ed" tears into lacy white (for pur ity) handkerchiefs than it is to "show the old man a thing or two." : , I agree with the author that "divorce is certainly the social . - cancer upon the face of Ameri . ca," but I don't think that the old "Holier than Thou" treatment is the cure to be prescribed for our existing "social cancer". "The . - prognosis . . . must come from within" and how better can we put tthis into action than by a good old self-examination before we try to reform our degenerate . society? Paul McCauley, Jr. Editors: y .There is an old saying that "im itation is the greatest form of 'flattery." However, that editorial in Thursday's paper, which was a mincemeat hashing of the Eng lish .Club article for' this week, was far from flattering to ; this writer. Surely the editors are not so barren of thoughts that they stoop to plagiarism in order to compose a timely editorial. May I say that had this hap-, ened in the classroom I would most certainly lhave turned the , whole mess over to the Honor Council? After all, the editors of our paper should practice what they preach to the layman. You will recall that the column was given personally to the edi tors last Monday. Thus I want to take Chis oppor tunity to inform your readers that it was "ye editors" who "bor- rowed" from the English Club column, and not vice versa. Since both the "original" editorial and the column are on view to the public, I will let the readers themselves judge this particular trial and forego the Honor Coun cil. Roy Moos Editors: j REMARKS WE DOUBT EVER GOT UTTERED BY CAROLINA . STUDENTS: (With apologies to The New Yorker) Yet today it appears that the - education-minded public is in- First the crowds gather at c: tcrested only in-facts, and figures, y line or the starting line. On very ft v suffocating student Possible to see the entirety of a race. : courses are half a mile, or three qua" long. Then the shells arrive. Echini during the race, travels a motorboat c starter and perhaps a coach or two to ' erews when they do something wr -during a race is not considered crick1' coaches just like to ride and see vi are made, so they can be correct ' watching movies of a football sa.r.c. of a " -- ' infnrmnt;. yet uninitiated into the mysteric- sporxs worm, is Drononnori .r... - v,'' were a cox'n. The shells we coxod husky 17 and 18-year-olds, four of ' Most racing shells nowdays are f flhnilt 4(1 fpof Inner mA . -v, -wv, v.i0 aiiu uiiuer two man shells are about hvn tv.,v,? eight, and of the same beam. Tile sheet mahogany only a fraction molded around oak or pine ribs -- Q t &Yv cnf inne f-r.' i r. MiL 1 ! of the snell in which the oarsmen over with oiled silk. The. seats, slide back and forth oarsman pushing and pulling hin: ( his feet are in woodcn-solcd leather The average oar is somewhere or nine feet in nnMh 11 CM 1 ? It- U ,,1' ... 0., "'wu lUMiO near the blade, which is cupped, and r fairlv near iha honr!l : j . . iioi.un.- is d u-aincr r , the oar rests and fi " " - - 111 MtU I i H . collars are greased. The oarlocks arc, of course, on o::' are, nowadays made of tubular alum;:, bolt onto the splashboards of the the gunwale. The coxswain sits in the stern ihs slidel inH cf flOrC 4Vrt t-ViTl ....'4 1. - - - -- "'- "Jill Vi i tached to the rudder. The rudd?r is foot long, which means that a she.'! c: swainship demand that the rudder r while the oars are actually in the wa red is used while the oars, are out of:;. uunug me -snoot,' to use the technic; shell's balance is thrown off. and sir e draws about seven or eight inches of as we said, a beam of less than two f to see why balance is extremery im;v: Shells are extremely expensive ; for an eight-man shell). The shell mark ally cornered by a gentleman named G who hangs out in the state of Washing :: a business of manufacturing beautiful :. Shells are easily damaged if hit broil-, absolutely lethal when tangled with hci of their tin, torpedoe shape and very A RACE goes something like Ibis: M John Kridel, Night Editor For This Issue RULE EN LEONAED The Till murder in Mississippi provoked asv much European editorial comment as the Ameri can Revolution. It was regular ly reported,, incidentally, as a vasse "Lynching." The Com munist press and radio are still , having a field day. A group of students, in. Chapel 'Hill .who have a proper and? natural interest, in the qualifications of a new president for. the. Consolidated, University have drafted a statement of. six requirements which they think anybody selected should meet. TJieir final proposal that he be "an academ ician, not a technician!' as it puts emphasis on an educator, for this educational job, is good. It would also be good, of course, if such a man could be fund among native-born North Carolinian who have had classroom experience within the Con solidated University itself. Certainly such a man should be deeply interested in all education and not merely the work of one institution. But the limits withm whiclv to find the. best possible man -...uyi.ue M resirictea that the search wnnM cu,,.! u i , wu. mc university practically be limited to those natives Carolina alrPaHv- 1 . "h ership, State borders should hP him v .. lue - Miuyuses iuute, - Wake curtain. n 1 he World Forest and Davidson Colleges would all have other presidents today if their, trustees had been so' limit ed intheir.; choices. They chose men who had been born in Williamshury, Missouri; Willow Grove, Ten nessee; and, Charlottesville, Virginia. All of them are undoubtedly serving education in North Caro lina as well as if they had been born in North Caro lina. .. , It would be good to have as new president of the University a native. North Carolinian who had distinguished 'himself in, scholarship and education But scholarship, education.and ability should not in any choice, have less weight than North Carolina nativity. The Consolidated University needs the best 1,VJ UV"t 11 lln in me world. The University .uv.o ouulu ue iurnea into an iron while the cries out with Milton: "See there the olive grove of V Academe, - Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbl'd notes the summer long."5 s; and, Manv are the times that I have heard the students remark with Matthew Arnold, "Peace, Peace is what I seek, and public calm." (From "Amid the cries A Plea", by Roy Moose, DTH, Oct. 21. 1955.) , Mary Frances Morris Editors: I'm just recently back from Berlin; thet problems of resettling myself necessitated a slight delay in sending any further missives. I had. prepared two little arti cles on the "Spirit of Geneva" as far as Europe is concerned. But then during the stay in Berlin I saw and heard so much that I changed my opinions more than somewhat. INDICATION EXAM PLE NO. 1 The, foreign policy under Acheson, barring perhaps China and Korea, was the best in 20 or 25 years. (Editors' Italics.) ... It might- be safest to .talk aoout tne weather. (Few flurries, yesterday!.). . David Mundy snow The shells are lined up with t" actly even on an imaginary line betwe on either shore (of the lake, river, body of water the rac is held or.). T process is extremely difficult to the shells keep drifting and moir.;' e The tension mounts unbearably. V.I are imposition, the starter yells "X-ar-and if X crew is ready, the cox h !-' "Y, are you ready? Ready all.. Hew: mand -Row!" both shells" dig out highly accelerated stroke darin; -strokes. Then they settle clown ant ing the first 30 seconds of a race. A A race can be restarted if an acd i ' ing the first 30 seconds of a r: the crews arc on their own. SO or 40 ; : the end, the stroke is raised to inert sometimes the stroke is raised !-:" ' crews" end a race rowing no m-e strokes a minute, but a 40-slroke of. . Traditionally, the winning cov 1 water after a race.