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Wdkulous Anti-Climax
The University Trustees will go ahead
with their appeal. from' the federal court de
cision which admitted Leioy and Ralph Fra
sier and John Lewis Brandon as the first
Negro undergraduates in the school's history.
Iii 'the .feeling with which we read of the
Trustees' persistence, there was a mixture of
the comic and the tragic. Tragedy, because
accomplished fact, a notable "step in the Uni
versity's history, is still under needless, tui
fjustSfi'ccf and prejudiced Vitt.i'ck. The three
Negro students, so far as The Daily Tar Heel
can deterhiiiie, li.Vve been 'greeted cordially
by the student majority. There had been
ithose:who. -said-that. desegv.Qgatibn in Chapel
HiU ; would-; be i-iinpraciicar; becaiise it
woiild )iing discord. Student action since
the court s final decree has proved the oppo
site; the "practicality" argument has died
with little mourning.
Across the thin line that separates the tra
gic from the comic, there is nearly-ridicu-oik
anti-climax. It is as if we had earned a
crown and straightway tried to destroy it
W'ith a rubber "reflex ha'iiimer.
Attorney General W. B. Rodman, acting
under the Trustee resolution to appeal, says
his brief before the V S. Supreme Court
will make three contentions.
1. That a si ii&lc ' judge instead of a three
jitdgc court should have heard the cases.
; There is neither appropriateness nor logic in
tliis 'contention: Unless one is seeking an ar-,
:i bitrary 'edict' from a like mind (which; we
isaispect the Sttejwaiited iii the original case),
the work opseyeral .'minds, i in which there
coidd .be preliminary conflict and the clash
; of viewpoints! would , seem far better than
5 the; work of orae. n .
2. That the .court erred in declaring the
Trustees' resolution invalid. We doubt that.
We have a good idea from somewhere that v
the Supreme Court will doubt it too.
3. .That the decision ought not to dj)j)ly
to anyone excejH those Xegroes icho applied
for admission to the University 'and. were
denied this year. Under the leual doctrine
of stare decisis (we quote Smith and inch- 0 . 1 , k k
er's Handbook of American Politics), "a prin
ciple of Anglo.merican jurisprudence . . .
a. precedent ..oncie established in the decision MY CAR was parked beside
I of a case should be.ffoUtowed in other like the police station, and I went in
1 cases unless it is found to be in" conflict rivith;.. to find out why it -was. there.
i established principles of justice." "-'
I We suspect tTusjtra'giconiiq .appearance .of
I rue-hard prejudice hetore the 5uj)reme Court
J&rll the t 'last. The die-liird weapons, 'we
I tniuK, are aesrro' ca: ntnics . are no longer
Jwi been nailed to
periehce'of a month and a
And. the Supreme Court has a way of mat
woik 01 hollow
legalistic shibbol.
TraHic Officials
$ofve Cat Problem
A .think; the answer to the student auto
problem-has-' been-, found. At least, it looks
that way to us after reading a news item in
the Chapel Hill Weekly.
According to this local semi-weekly paper,
the new policy of serving warrants on per
sons who refuse to pay for three of more
parking ticket hasn't increased fines appre
ciably. This seems to be the seed of the solution
that President Fowler and his Traffic Com
mittee seek, that the University desires, and
that local merchants; wish someone but the.;,
merchants would solve. .jf :
How will this solve the problem of student
cars? It's all very simple. Obviously, town
officials wilh press harder and issue firmer
warrants now. Jthatlattenfjkii has been, called
to this failure.
With court costs at $7.80 and parking tick
ets at a dollar each, few students will be able
to afford keeping cars in Chapel Hill.
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You'd Better
Come On Down
& Cla'im If
.Louis Kraar
A JANGLING telephone pull
ed, me away from the history
books the other night, to listen
to a columnist's announcement.
J.A.C. Dunn .was on the wire,
and he said that he was ready to
view other fronts than the Caro
lina Front, Hastily, I granted
Dunn leave to write on what he
pleases, (although he always did
"anyway). Then, I realized that
there was no Carolina Front writ
er. ,
So now, it seems . that I have
been elected (by a very undemo
cratic process w:thin the editor
ial duo) to do the job, at least for
awhile.
BY NOW it's no news, that tKe
University Lodge was held up
by, a young gunman, but Sunday
morning when I discovered my,
car missing it wasn't.
The girl at my. house decided to
spin , over to Greensboro to visit
the Woman's . College, and , she
skipped but to the car. Only it
wasn't there. . ,
I , remembered seeing it in
front of the house at about 2 Sat
urday, morning, on returning
from the late, show. But it was
gone, soI called the local police.
"Yeah, we have it. You'd bet
ter come on down and claim it,"
the policeman said over the
phone.
.''We found it on : Franklin Jiangs-1 r ott, tne political parties.
Street at 2:32 this morning, 'said ' Knowing1 all about our set-up in,
the officer behind the desk, point- Student Government, and being,
ing to1 his log bool. t;.r . -t?v-,i: able to make ajspeech ,on your,
. He rattled off my : address , as feet: are; not required; an op-
the location .of the car. The po-f , portunity. is provided here for
liceman added, "The motor 'was t you. to learn to. do. so. ; . , '
running, so we. brought it on in.", " . Members of the parties are
I recalled then that. I had. -left-. ; beating the bushes for, candidates '
the keys m the car a habithat u f0r.ittheu Elections., Make!
1 ve never nad oetore. Ana 1
confessed it to the police," who 1
knew it already.;
"How much do"- you weigh?'
queried the officer behind the,
desk, eyeing my unshaven coun
tenance and baggy khaki pants.
I confessed to about 10
pounds, but npt much more, and
another officer observed that he
thought I was heavier than that. ;
1 vowed that I wasn't while
the girl at my house silently
gloated over the imaginary gut
she keeps telling meabout.
OUTSIDE I t checked the car
and found it in fine shape. -
"I guess you're wondering
what the score is here," said a
policeman who had gone out to
the auto' with me.
I admitted that I was confused,
so he explained:
The police were out looking
for the bandit who held up the
University Lodge; they found my
car running and hauled it in,
thinking it was tied in with the
robbery.
The thief, who is now caught,
was described as weighing 195
pounds, wearing' a gray tweed
suit, and about 20-years-old. The
police were a little suspicious
that I might possibly be the han-
dit. ... ... . (V ;
I must .confess that t'rii breath
ing a littef easier today, know
ing he robber (who only gii $20)
is behind bars. , . , , '
mayfee this weeienil Til
even work up enough t un4Uon
to wear my gray tweed suit. But
I doiibt it.
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L A Y T O N MCCUItD Y, who
heads President Don Fowler's
Traffic Committee, invited the
editors to take a ride to look for
possible parking areas for stu
dent cars. ,
McCurdy and his committee
are earnestly trying to help main
tain student auto privileges, but
they are still overlooking the ob
vious. The Board of Trustees, very
soon now, is going to put some
restrictions on the possession of
autos by students, unless students
do it themselves. It's tough medr
cine to take," but President Fow
ler is:a't tasting it because he
refuses to accept reality on this
problem.
Student Government
Energetic Tackling Of Problems
rQ .
Bill Wolf
As students at the University
of North Carolina, we are seek
ing an acquaintance and appre
ciation of what is going on
around us, what is going ; on in
the world at large, and are at
tempting to . discover where and
in what ways we may fit into
the society of which we are a
part.
I know of no later opportunity
most of us will ever have to
wield the instrument of govern
ment to accomplish those ends
which we may desire and which
it is capable of achieving, to
carry out the functions of gov
ernment, legislative," executive,
and judicial, and to make the
vital decisions of government,
.than 'the one which we all now
have, that of participating , ' in
Student Government. Doing 'this
is surely a vital part of educa
tion in the twentieth century, for
government" is an ever-present,
all pervading, and in the last
analysis, all controling institu
tion of society in this day and
age: ':
The need, therefore, to under
stand the working of,- to s be
able to influence the direction of
government and its component
political parties, is obvious. j I
know of no more effective means
to this end than is found in the
opportunity for leadership in
Student Government which - is
available to all students at the
University.
'PARTICIPATING'
The question of how to go
about participating is very much
in order. Only two things . are
required. I think, in order to be
' come a participant: interest in
doing so, and demonstration of.
,' - this interest by coming, to meet-
known to " them your interest in
submitting 'yourself to one of the
' parties as a candidate for some
: office Your name may then be
considered by the party In mak
ing its nominations. And if not
nominated by either of the par
ties, you can always run inde
pendently for office. President
Don Fowler did just that last
spring.
PRACTICAL TRAINING -
Student government is practi-
: iss&y SOT q VlbJ)
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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
-A Point Of View
cal training in citizenship; It de
votes a great deal of its time to
trying out the machinery of gov
ernment, ! rearranging ad! re
building it to' see in what possi
ble ways it will run-and in what
ways U seems to run ucsi.;xi-
viding ail the services to the
campus it does, running , it . re
. quires many hours a week of the
Student -Legislature, .president
and his taff, and the;! political
parties. As presently 'set-lip un
der the Student : Constitution,
Student Government makes vir
tually all rules regarding student
life, -spends i over a .hundred
thousand dollars of student
money eachyear for a dozen
services, and enforces the 'Honor
and Campus Codes. No state or
national , government does more,
qualitatively speaking.
What might be done with the
machinery of Student Govern-
ment? I see. few evidences of in
terest in doing anything except
that which is needed to keep the
services running and impress,
presumably, the student body
that people in office ought to be
reelected. Student Government,
then, seems to me to be'keeping
itself ,biled atvd running, ;btit notj"f
going anywhere. If this is all
that can be done with the mach-
jnery why go .to all,the trouble,
. , ' f. ,f- w- . t
,and time of having 'it; why not
turn it back to the faculty and
administration, and let those
few who are really interested in
government per se merely help
the faculty and administration
put? :
VAST RANGE
What might be done with Stu
dent Government? I would say
that it ought to be vocal in ex
pressing student interest and
opinion on a vast range of Issues
and problems. It 'ptight 'to" ex
press trie 'opinion' 1 f of "'the total
studeAj; body whicti' it 1 pretends 1
to represent, on state, national,
.arid international questions, 'and
to' mike these opmioiiS known
by, giving them as Wide publicity
as may beavai!ab?eT'Orf'questions
involving the University and
the State, I ! would 1 say' that it
were 'the duty of the Student
Government to make recommen
dations' to those who must "make
the, decisions concerning these
; 'matters.! Oife sure way-tOi.be
ignored is never to shbwTinter-
est or concern in, anything be-
yond yourself; I submit we suffer
from a good case of egocentri
city. One sure way of remaining
totally without weight or influ
ence in the councils of University
and State is to act like adolescents
instead of mature men and
'Movies Are Louder Than Ever'
Offers Chance
virnrnpn -and be Datted on tne
head and smiled at condescend
ingly, instead of being respected
or our interest and concern on
.questions of some importance; I
submit that the panty-raids last
year lost for the student body
i most of the respect it had as a
group.in the State of North Caro
lina, and we are working already
this 'year on losing the rest. .
' -. And; finally, one sure way of
discouraging those students who
would. like to make a contribu
tion to the University is to elect
for the offices in Student Gov
ernment noisy, glib self-seekers;
I submit there ought to be more
0 Student Government than,
ho nor -seeking and a forum to
bear oneself pratle about trivi
alities and declame on the niceties
'of procedure. , .
CENTRAL PROBLEM
Student Government is going to
,have to face squarely and do
something , about several prob
lems Which will set the tenor of
Jife at the University, for a long
time to come. The strong possi
bility of having to find a new
- President of the , Consolidated
University of North Carolina in
the ne!ar future raises the central
question of admissions policy.
T 1 rzr in , ryot o ki air " Q 1 1 1 rl or t
. . 'f ,.
Union is still a puzzling question.
Shall we build some new dormi-
tories and eating facilities now,
or shall we go to four men in a
.room in the dorms, and lines for
unch at Lenoir extending fifty
yards outside the building? If it
s decided to build new facilities,
.where shall they be put? Shall
,we cut down, the few remaining
groves of trees near' the campus?
, Shall we build more dbrms
like Cobb, in which, I am told,
,the major improvements over the
old, dorms" are marble, stalls in,
the heads and halls Jong enough
to 'make it worth while carryirfg
',your Dicycle up to ride down
them? Is it desirable to integrate
the various organizations sponsor
ing5 extracurriaular activities into
some overall framework? To look
.off the- campus again, if Eastern
.Carolina ; Teachers College ac
quires a large and expensive
graduate school and expands its
Jiberal arts program for under-,
graduates, does this mean that
jve in Chapel! Hill will get a smal
ler, percentage of the total state
tbudge4 for higher education?
The governor's committee on
higher education is trying to make
some sense out of the state's pol
icy towards its numerous institu
tions of higher education; from
pur point of view, what would be
,the best solution to this matter?
The Roundabout Papers
J?and Vs. Sea:
Tanker Meets
Drawbridge
" : u -' A. C. Dunri
IN- CHARLESTON, S. C, there
has -recently been something of
. an upset in the
" ' - normal routine
: of Charleston-
i ians' lives. This
J:
was occasioned
one sunny after
noon when a
large oU tanker
ran i n t o the
drawbridge over
the Asheley
River, which lorms the western
boundary of the' city.
The accident occurred this way:
the tanker, running upstream
with a .load of oil destined for
some enterprising company up
the river that wanted enough oil
to warrant having delivery made
by tanker, blew its whistle at
the necessary distance from the
bridge as a signal that it wanted
the bridge opened, please, so that
the funnels , and super structure
wouldn't be scraped off.
There was no response. The
bridge remained ominously down,
and traffic continued to cross it
back and forth, with the tanker
grinding steadily up the river.
The pilot of the tanker blew the
whistle again. No 'response.
AT THIS point the idea of
slowing down and not charging
madly at a lowered drawbridge
seemed a particularly attractive
one. He slowed down and blew
the whistle again. This time the
bridge began to open; however,
the tanker was so close to the
bridge arid had lost so much
speed that the pilot wasn't sure
he could get through without
putting his engines full astern
and .making another approach. I
should have liked' to have been
on the bridge of that' tanker
while the pilot (a Mr. Petterson)
was making that decision. It must
have been a thrilling moment
particularly .as Mr. Petterson
subsequently decided to'-try-- and
make it through" the bridge with
what little steerage way he had
by putting on full steam ahead.
UNFORTUNATELY, HE didn't
- have enough steerage way, fell
off course in the 'river current,
and hit the bridge, thereby dam
aging it so it couldn't be used
for automobile traffic. This
threw Charleston into complete
confusion. The Asheley Iiiverv
bridge carries to and from work
all the people who work in Char
leston and' live over on James
Island or Riverland Heights or
Folly Beach a fairly large
number of people '
The bridge also is ah important
Jink in route 17, the '.'Ocean
Highway" to Florida. Ajll the
people who wanted to cross the :
Asheley by car had.. to drive 50 .
miles around by way of Summer
ville. People who wanted to cross
on foot were offered the services
of a ferry operated sporadically
by the local scenic water tour
company with, a couple of sight-
seeing launches.
MEANWHILE, MR. Petterson,
the pilot of the ill-fated tanker,
was trying to convince his em-
ployers and the bridge people V prevails: ancient critics in those acco
that he was in the right that sculpture, of which fragments have c
the bridge had not opened when
it should have, and that the rea-
son he hit the bridge was that
one of the two spans didn't open
all the way.
.The bridge people thought dif
ferently. The man operating the
drawbridge said that he opened
the bridge as soon as he was
given a signal, and that .all the
indicators said the bridge was
opening. There is a suiUinvolved
of some $250,000, though just
who is sueing whom, I am not
certain - quite possibly the
bridge and the ship are sueing
each other.
AND THERE is yet another
side to this tale , of mangled ma
ritime, equipment. That very
afternoon a young newspaper
photographer for the Charleston
News and Courier had walked
into his office and' asked for
something to do. By sheerest
luck, his boss toloMiim to "go and
take pictures of the tanker going
through the bridge. The young
photographer, Richard Burbage
by name, was on the scene when
the ship hit the bridge, and took
.dozens of exposures, which have
consequently , made him famous
overnight.
WEDNESDAY, C:,..
onvei'SQli
Piece
Backlash At The ;,.,
. Bill Ragsdab
Bill Scarborough and Ralph d
of the Carolina Quarterly, were j-T
by the column on campus writif , ,
last Thursday. Both boys were i
fensive, so a great deal of what y
concurrence was lost in a jumble of
considered counter-accusations.
survived:
College writers differ from es:,
in quantity of experience and pjal
they do, but there's' a lot more tc I'it
differ in. quality of writing and in p!
This columnist considers perceptive"!-""
important element in a writer's rnak
of a writer to have at once an "err
tached view of the people and
story or novel is at the very w
need for adequate presentation.
Bill Scarborough used Ernest I.
case to demonstrate the point of Sm
of form and practice in expression
that the help Gertrude Stein gave th!
contributed" so much to his greatness j
just Stein that made Hemingway uti,:
the old boy himself, who got the h
Oak Park to see a war, who traveled"
and talked to a lot of people wh"
people were saying was the truth a,;
( It. was those, people who made Hemi:
ri ue winner, imss aiein neipeci, and
kins helped, but they to help had tt
thing to work with, and to be that I!
to have something to work with.
Of course-, preparation for writing
to be hard. In fact, a number of
prepare themselves at all. They jus! r
you read something they have done v
nothing and have wasted your time. E
enjoy a speech, however well del:
' speaker is up there just to hear the
own voice, and, since- you've paid, to k
too. That is what a devil of a lot of j
do, and this columnist finds them very ;
very dull and .basically quite stupid
Another fact that managed to g?t
this; "There are only so many th:.:
Aristotle admitted that, but why (hi
again and again in the same way1 I
a misunderstanding arose. What th;; ;
.. to is putting down a new quarterly w :f
that it has been read before, lie wo.':
something fresh and original from ci'.
the expected source, but which, f .r s
has proved a disappointment,
Perhaps the reason is that too ir.
is placed on everything in a story t;
tent and the thought. It just may be
stress is put on the point of writing
the style we could cease being "The Sii
tion."
lllldN
Rhythm, balance, symmetry are t
into sculpture of the spirit of disc:?:.
control, which the Greeks learned by t
The civilization of the Ionians in Asia
sunrise, an overflowing of the deli--the
exercise of all the faculties, whui)
dominated Greece itself. And their art
and free. The artists of Ionia invadt'
the sixth century, visiting the luxun
Peistratus, and inspiring Peloponms
ta, as the excavations of the Eri -
Athens have abundantly shown,
Even in the ease of substantive .;
ures or groups made to stand by V-market-place
or nortico. the Greek ksve;
or as they would have put it, rhythm 2
us in the writings of Pliny and Q-;-""-
stress on these features. They show
as in early art a merely external a im
balance had prevailed, in the course
century this love of order and mea :
into the very being of art.
, Measure and balance in art f!ll;er '
mere convention. "Order is Heaven's
fine character is formed, not by i
impulses as they arise, but by makinj
to reason and duty, disciplining them
are disciplined and taught to serve !
Measure and discipline do not 0i
it easier to-produce works of art: iof
of the nsi riirml!n ic it first cruvi';
as a Darner. But for the pn.u.n;. -lasting
works of art, discipline and !
sary. Take as an example the art h;i"
poetry. It is easier to write blznk
write sonnets. But it is far easier "
sonnets than good blank verse. iP-
constant restraint of the form f-'l!;'u
and invention, prevents too great
the ingenuity. In the same way 1 !
rigid laws of composition of periime
frieze compelled the Greek art:-'
schemes suitable to those forms.
The Greek artist could not work
his reason and his sense of onr
skilled hand. From 'The LamP (' '.!
by Percy Gardner, in "The Lea y ' !
R. W. Livingstone. Oxford Ucive-' '