PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Price Of Cakes & Ale
At the height of the pep rally orgy of a
week-end ago, a 'bunny-hopping, boistrous
queue of students blinny-hopped several steps
too tar and threw Javan Mitchell, janitor at
the Monogram Club's Circus Room, through
a plate-glass window. The incident, we think,
marks the limit at which "cakes and ale"
must stop; for here celebration became instru
sioiu. Mr. Mitchell suffered cuts and bruises
enough to send him to the hospital. Since
then, he says, he ha been' "losing work." It
is bad enough any time when student excess
jinakes a man lose work, but it is doubly bad.
fii ' (Mitchell since he supports a family of
.four. :. , ' -
Jf Worst of all, Cheerleader Collie Collison
and the students who threw Mr. Mitchell
through the glass window have apparently
reneged oil their promise to pay his hospital
bilis.rAt the weekend, he hadn't gotten "a- cent.
' Ex officio, Head cheerleader Collison, who
led the pep' rally, ought to take command of
the matter and see that justice and reparation
arc done.
Love At 90 MPH
No one, so far as we can see, has told
the'-mi J story -of the most exciting English
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romance since uncle r.uwara ana van
Simpson stood the Empire on its heels. We
got it from a certain muse.
. The scene: Princess Margaret and Group
Paptain Peter Townsend are speeding across
fhe countryside in the latter's Jaguar, both
ivi tli the moonstruck look in their eyes. The
Princess sighs: ':
; Ay me! ' '
; And Captain Townsend says:
; 0,. "speak again, bright angel! for thou art
I? As glorious to' this night, being in my car,
!' ' As is a winged messenger of heaven . . . ' '. '
1 - The Princess can no longer contain herself:
0 Peter.. Peter! wherefore art thou a com
' ;fmonerr f '
Deny thy father and refuse that label;
Ir. if thou wilt not. be but sworn my love
- And I'll no longer be a Princess.
Peter (aside): ' '
Shall I hear more or shall I speak at this?
He guns the Jaguar up to 85 and the Prin
cess speaks: .
'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;
Thou art thyself, though not a commoner.
What's commoner? It is not hand, nor foot, .
Nor arm. nor face nor any other part
.;. . Belonging to,a mn. O, be some other name!
- jii it nan:j: uiai wiuni we tui a ruse
; I (By any other nam? would smell as sweet . .'.'
V?11,. therq you have it: The bigsst love
problem since thct night in old man Capu
iet's orchard. Lord BeTverbrookY minions .riff
tlie citiservath c press jthink its their pnib--
icm: t.'ir. rov-il .11111 v i in n srew: fntlanrf
V-rd teems with excitement like a soccer
bowl; the tabloids are screaming; Parliament
sounds threatening; the people are at wits
end, and everyone has a big fat digit in the
royal pudding.
But we predict that like all such wondrous
affairs since life began the tale of this love
will be told by the lovers themselves. Indeed,
Now Fellovs,
None Of That
Swearing Now
Yale Daily News
Swearing, it is happy to note,
has now gone the way of the hip
flask and the November raccoon
coat at the University of Connec
ticut. A UConn student who re
sorts ta profanity three times in
quest of self-expression is liable
to swift ejection from the Uni
versity. . Now it is altogether logical
that working vocabularies " in
some4cases will be gravely , cur
tailed, but the thirst for respec
table substitute words will begin
almost immediately. Seriousness
of purpose will find its way, di
rectly into the hackneyed dormi
tory bull sessions. The new edict
obviously eliminates whole areas
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DORIS FLEESON
WASHINGTON Senator Estes Kefauver's Pres
idential strategy is that if Carmine DeSapio wants
to operate on Adlai Stevenson, Mr. Kefauver is go
ing to relax and enjoy it. The. Senator has no in-
tention of hampering the Harriman boomlet, which
he does not-really fear. ! ''" 1 ' 1
All this was made plain at one of the biggest
Washington press conferences of the 'year. It was
called iy the Senator's aides im theory to discuss his -trip
to Europe, the Far East and Russia. The con
ference started out on a political note and foreign
affairs never got mentioned, r ' ;v - j:
While Kefauver refused to announce his Presi
dential intentions he declined, repeated invitations
to take himself out of the raca. The" truth is he seesl.
nothing but personal advantage in- the present 'sit
uation whioh finds Stevenson planning an early an
nouncement and an answering challenge from Gov
ernor Harriman in New York and his manager, Mr.
DeSapio. ,
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It seems to Kefauver- that the stop-Stevenson
of discussion on the undergra- movement is proceeding efficiently without h'.s
help. He is by way of being expert on the strategy
of stopping candidates, since he has so often been ,
on the receiving end of it. He is also aware of the
political danger in frontally attacking a candidate
with the" deep emotional support that Stevenson
has engendered.
If any Democrats are going to get mad in the
next few months, he would just as soon they were
not mad at him. He cart be, expected to continue,
to speak well of all Democrats and bide his tijne.
That he feels his time will come, no one doubts
The Kefauver people believe, -h rightly or'wrpng
ly . that the professional pojiticians, are pooling
off on Stevenson. They suspect , this; j.s, ; what prod
ded DeSapio into action. In any case they , ,believe
duate level, but bull sessions are
time wasters anyway. Aren't
they?
It is taxing to give the Purity
Edict of Connecticut any logical
consideration. Swearing is an anti-social
result of deeply personal
limitations common to great num
bers of people. The, commonness
does not make i right or good
But essentially, the UConn deans
in trying to outlaw bad English,
are trying to defeat error by ed
ict. If civility or even gentility in
its student are what the universi
tyis looking for, these qualities,
for what they are worth, are not
the absence of anything. They,
are by-products of exposure to
a positive culture tbet begins in
the, baby carriage and, idealy,
ends only in the grave. The uni
versity is the seat of this cul
ture as we see it formalized in
art, music, literature, and the
branches of philosophy. If - the
wisdom of the 'liberal arts" could
be : capsulized and disseminated
like vitamin pills, perhaps swear
ing and other almost equally vile
human pastimes could., be, dpne
away with. But then so could the
University of Connecticut,' shorn
01 any remaining purpose.
they wllf profit with "the pros"1 by "a waiting period.
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The comparative tenderness of the Kefauver
-and Harriman camps toward each other has caused
Stevenson managers to suspect that a coalition is
being formed. There has even been a rumor that
Harriman backers were putting up money for Ke:
fauver. Asked about it by reporters.. Kefauver said
he would like to have the' names of the bankrollers.
He added candidly, that money would be. one of his
big problems and disclosed that in 1952 he got only
ab,out $200,000.' ' . 1 i .
. Tlie Senator handled this and a series of tough
questions',' many of them about! controversial local
situations, very ably. He has' himself well in hand
and even' needling questions do not cause him to
lose' his natural poise and dignity. It was another
demonstration of his remarkable capacity to remain
calm under stress, for he knewi as well as his many
. questioners, that the Presidential infighting has be
gun and his idlest comment might prove important.
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The Kefauver admirers need not worry, about not
seeing and hearing their hero." Scarcely pausing for
breath, he will ftart this week a series of speeches
James Resfon
N. Y. Times
WASHINGTON, The Capit
al is now engaged in the usual
quadrennial diversion of hanging
political labels on the Presiden
tial candidates and dividing
them into heroes and villains.
This labeling operation is part
of the story-telling and myth
making industry in Washington
a vast enterprise and is a
great convenience because it en
ables the voter to avoid thinking
or dealing with the facts. Thus,
the, partisan Democrats tag Vice
President Nixon as "Tricky
Dick;" Adlai E. Stevenson of 111
nois is ticketed as a wise-cracking
Hamlet; Governor Averell
Harriman of Nev York as a Mr.
Moneybags for the big city boss
es; and William F. Knowland of
California as "the Senator from
Formosa."
that will take him to most parts of the United StatesJ - jy seiect his own heroes and vil-
No one will be surprised if he should happen tonurn
'up in such spots as, the Texas ranch of Senator Lyn
don Johnson, the Democratic leader, or Kansas City,
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T ; Kefauver tbld reporters his relations with form
er President Truman are cordial and "have been for
a long. time.. This :was certainly not the case in 1952.
But-since then friends ; of both KefauVer and Tru-
rhan have sought: to heal the breach. There is evi
. dence that they have had some effect; that at the
very least: Truman will not again oppose, him cate
' gorically. ; .i r:i- - -
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who knows what happened when Captain
Pete's Jag hit 90?
Where's The Grass
Of Yesteryear?
William R. Davie and company picked
Chapel Hill as tlie site of the University after
a pleasant stroll and picnic on a lovely spring
day or at least goes the legend.
Whether it was natural beauty, or just
plain chance, that-made the founding Univer
sity fathers pick Chapel. Hill,, this village has
always been known for the-beauty of its ver
dure. ... v
Hut a recent report from the Buildings and
Grounds Committee seems to portend doom
for this reputation. First there was a hurri
cane or two; then students seem to Have tram
pled under foot what was once growing and
green and; wlat is now a gripe in the Build
ing and Grounds Committee report:
. . . The committee regrets to observe an in
creasing lack of cooperation by the students in
our beautification efforts. New seeding is tramp-.
" ed on, wires erected as reminders are pushed
down, protective borders are sliced through,
and despite an ample network of brick walks,
lawns are becoming crisscrossed with foot paths.
The Drily Tar Heel is unalterably opposed
to hurricanes. And it 'tends, to 'View WTitht,
Alarm those, who ignore the "ample-network-of;
brick walks." Furthermore, the idea of
"lawns crisscrossed Avith foot paths" shocks us
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where it is published
daily except Monday
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The atomic revolution "binds
us all together either for poten
tial doom or creative hope." .
This was the theme of a chal
lenging talk by Dr. Frank Porter
Graham, widely known university
president, United States senator,
public official and today a repre
sentative of the United Nations.
-Dr. Graham spoke, to a joint lun
cheon meeting Thursday of Salt
Lake City Kiwanis and Lions
Clubs. He also addressed the
Higher Education Section of the
Utah Education Association Fri
day. Dr. Graham emphasized the
tremendous impact the develop
ment of new ideas has upon socie
ty, citing the examples of the
trade revolution initiated by the
discovery of the compass and
the industrial revolution begun
by the discovery, of the steam
engine. 'Similarly, he; said, the
idea-created revolution of atomic
power, is having profound impact.
The nations and peoples of the
world are inevitably now bound
together for potential doom- or
creative hope. '
It is a point worth considering. The public would so far have reason to believe
Whether we like it or not, the that the Air Academy's sole. purpose is to produce a
atomic: age has shattered, old football1 team that can some day beat --Army.' or Navy;
isolationist concepts. This: is in- a friend even suggests the name should be cfiange;d
deed today one world. And we to the Air Football Academy, - i - j , V ' ::
are bound together not really; my. ' Out of less than 300 students, "' 138: q 'them, ac
the words of a United Nations- cidentally of' course, turned out1 to be ''football fplay
charter but by the fact of atomic ers; and virtually every one of the final squad of
power, and its potential of limit- vu ,s a high school all-state, or all-city star:
. less harm or limitless good.
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Collective action we cannot es
cape. The only question is whe-
Editors
May. I comment, quietly, on a
phrase jn your fine editorial on
the death oi our friend Bill Polk?
, You kindly included me with
y ' s Mk 'K li.7 .. :' rs t.:.A ch
him
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ther it will be collective- action
for human progress or for human
destruction.
as super-head coach the team, already had a' head
coach.'But the details, including salary, are thought
fully veiled from the. public, tip; has tight assistants,
giving -the squad" approximately one. '"teacher" for
each nine, "students."- it would, be interesting to com
pare" the football' salary roll .with that of the men
who merely teach mathematics, physicis, chemistry,
history' and such-like' dowdy subjects; and the stu
dents nr tpurh'nr 'with tho InrMonno krim..
A former, coach of a professional team; .is .'signed- coach."-! itoscoe Fleming in The Denver Post
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I?6 a year, $3.50
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EdtGrs - - LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER
If this is a correct view and
it does make sense then a Unit
ed Nations is not a pious hope
but a realistic need. As sensible
men we must maintain and stren
gthen some international organi
zation dedicated to directing the
inevitable collective action of the
atomic age into peaceful and con
structive channels, and to divert
ing those disrupting influences
which threaten to make this col-
Bill and Tom Wolf e among the.
editors of The Tar Heel "in an
earlylbut unquestionably! golden
age," I can assure you. that it
did not always seem golden then.
I wish it did not seem so "early"
now.
. . Jonathan.. Daniels
Editor
Raleigh News & Observer
. ;vAnd The Prssiclanflal S
... Few members of the House or the SinatP
be taken seriously as Presidential timber,, because
nowadays most of them spend all their time in Rus
sia. Aside, from Governor Gary, though, there is
hardly a statehouse incumbent who isn't a possibili
ty, not to mention all the former governors on hand
like Harold Stassen. . .Former C,o ernor Dewey was
a id 00a Dei lor
Night Editor For This Issue
Rueben Leonard
lectivc action costive doom.- ha. 7o-S l"7,V .T. V"? "
?' ad i,s name io inc.rpo.TO.Vuuia.
door painters are for Dewey. What ever became of
Henry Wallace.
A beguiling ad unprecedented political situa
tion could arise if the delegates at both conventions
were to smile upon Humphreys currently be
ingalked about as contenders Secretary of the
Treasury George M..(R.) and Senator Ilubert H. (D.)
Wouldn't that be-something! We're for Humphrey.
Humphrey Bogart- is for Lauren Bacall. Notes &r
Comment in. The New-Yorker
'lainsarly in the campaign, pick
his favorite writers who share
his prejudices, and live happily
with; Ms comfortable illusions
until November of 1956.
A FEW DRAWBACKS
Unfortunately, the business of
choosing up sides early in a cam
paign has its drawbacks. The tags
provided by the National Com
mittee almost always prove to be
tidier than the truth. Except in
very rare, instances, Presidential
candidates are seldom all hero or
all villain but a little bit of both,
and oddly enough politicians are
people who 'change like other
people- in accordance with their
characters, their responsibilities
and their experience.
This is one of the most inter
esting aspects of the 1956 cam
paign; that while the cast of
characters is familiar, it cannot
be assumed that the men them
: selves are precisely the same or
, that they conf orm to their politi
( (pal reputations.
; Xn, .Washington, as Woodrow
Wjlsoa . , ,pnce remarked; - some
, men. grow j and some merely swell,
. and the deyepping campaign will
.probably disclose who did which.
'T What we are probably seeip'g
in the illness of President Eis
enhower is the passing from su
preme, political power of the
erxeration , that fougSit in the
two world wars, and the rising
challenge of the new generation
Nixon, Stassen, Stevenson, ,
Kefauver and Knowland, all of
them born in this century.
Stevenson, at 55, is the oldest
of this group; Nixon, at 42, the
youngest. But all are young
enough so that they are develop
ing and changing, probably fast
er, than their predecessors, for
they have lived in an era of
unprecedented change, and have
put on a lot of mileage in a very
short time.
Nixon, for example, is certain
ly not the same young man who
was. described by a Washington
"newspaper in 1947 as "the green
est Congressman in town." He is
obviously more experienced than
he was in 1952 in Chicago, when
Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote his
name and four others on a piece
of paper. and said he would take
any one of them as his running
mate. And one has the impres
sion that he is more mature than
he was in 1954, when he played
Katchet-man for the Republican
National Committee in the last
Congressional election.
THE TRANSFORMATION
No reporter who covered Mr.
Nixon's campaign for the Senate
against Helen Gahagan Douglas,
or listened to his sly nuances in
the 1954 campaign,- would pre
sent him as a symbol of political
morality, but - nobody who has
watched him closely in the last
two- years would conclude that
this is the same politician
- All these things are relative.
After all, Eisenhower' put more
spin on the ball in the '52 cam
paign than Johnny Podres did in
the world series, yet he" has won
the respect of both parties and
has proved in the last two years
that fairness and goodness can be
an immense power in both na
tional and international politics.
Stevenson is another case in
point. Any man who has had the
bad judgment to leave the news
paper business to go into politics
is always bound to be suspect,
but he, is-a wiser and more pru
dent man today than he was the
night he returned to Springfield
in November of 1952. '
Though he is now just the age
of the century, he was" a late
bloomer,- and was very new at
the game in the last campaign.
CAROLINA FRONT
Change Tro
At This Sfciic
J. A,
EVERY SO often I put my to
gether and mutter amongst myself ' ,
then break up the huddle and pace
t -minutes with rnvV
t collective backaj-
f again and lean ca .
I shoulders and in
voice a bit more. 2 -
much inner bickers
I ions made to v ".
come to a decision""
phenomenon occur--with
the folowii V
"IT SEEMS to me, gentlemen,"
inner council of directors, "that I a Ti
train. Now just a minute, hear ir.e
holding up my hand as the council c;'
ed puzzled and began to fidget v.;-;-.
in anticipation of another paragon cf
I mean is this," I went on. "Ever s;
ning of the. semester I have been r ; -lina
Front' thing under the suppesi:; -sort
of operating an advance obscrvati;.
Carolina Front.
"This, unfortunately, is not then
representing things as they appear cr.
Front at all. Rather, I am representing ;;
appear on a whole series of heter: :.
altogether mutually complementary ;
is not good. Evidence, you ask for1 v
suggestion, Mr. Directory of Expedio:
of the truth of this takes the verv ; -
the fact that while not everybody sa;;
about the present 'Carolina Front', not
things. This is true, is it not?"
nodded and admitted that this was true.
"Furthermore, gentlemen," I cor.::
my considered opinion that 'Carolina F
it is being subjected to this heteroscr,:
ually-uncomplementary treatment, is be:
would be much better, it seems to me
who is on campus often enough to ope;
aphorical advance observation pot cr
lina Front took over 'and wrote the t
rfiri if iiistirn T mpn. Dei von not ! -
good idea?"
THE COUNCIL of directors sat back
its chair and remarked near near .
tonesr -: ,
.
"Ah, you wish to know what I p";
Mr. Director of Emergency Measures'
tion. What I propose instead is in at 1
'Carolina Front', give the space and
head to some competent writer whc;f
ties do not take him off the campus a:
University mtters, and write an cn!;re
column altogether; one which does n;'.
represent, the Carolina Front, since it
do so anyway.. Does this sound sens;b.e
1 lie tuuiitu ui mitiiuio
at. the ceiling, and4hen at the knees of
and rubbed its chin once more, ana
as one man, its opinion that it though
the whole a very sensible suggestion in;
"VERY WELL, then," I said. "T-
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which of course, will be essentially tr.e
the guise of a reporter assigned to a
as it were."
1.;
The Director of Finance poured -of
water (he is a rather nervous pcrs
of it, and started soaking up the rest
of his blotter.
"Now as to the matter of ircque"
ued; with some hesitancy. This would
part, I knew. The council of directors
against radical change. I have otiu -
voice of experience not my own. you
that it is a bad idea to write a a:.-
my age, said this voice, whose an:-,
preserve, one does not have enough
a daily column feasible. I am unforf
to admit this is true. Therefore. I
quency .of only. four times a week1
column."
. To my surprise, the council of
this was a good idea. There was a "
"You ,will, of course, leave tho t':-
for this new column to me?" I cone--
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ti- iaia 11 wouia. ana aajouun-u. -with
itself.
SO THERE you have it. I am
trains, and the next time 'Carolina F:
I shall be on a fast express going t'-'
of a small (though charming) local
within the same area stnnnjnn
r 1 '
meeting the same commuters m-r ai
1 snail send you postcards when '
unation. Wish nie-6ou voyage.