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i I - i i PAGS TV0 THE DAILY TAR HEEL . THURSDAY, Cr. Gray's 'Co n cern' tif ith The Big-Time In his latest . 1 8-page report to the Hoard 4 of Trustees. " President Gray has jxiiited a firm finger of "concern" at big-time athletics in the University.- Even (iray's most vehement . critics have seen the President as a man of great integrity, of conscience. In his perhaps-too-quiet way, President Gray has tried to deal with the big time athletic problem for some time now. Two falls ago, President Gray met with ath letic coaches from both 'Sateand Chapel Hill to lay his policies on ,tlic( line. Strict adher- , ence to conference and N. C. -A. A. rides were to be the University's rules,.- Gray told the athletic leaders. Then; athletes were 'kept from getting their 25 -percent cut of 'Book Exchange profits. Th&se :are .just two recent indications of a great' ''concern for the en croachment of athletics"' here at the Univers-: ity. 1 : 1 y. at 1 E u j stowing aa w & Alw. r Doris Betts v - Goeffingerr . Leffer David Mundy Goettingen Communist propa gandists proceed on a very sim ple basis: that favorable to their cause is correct; all else is ' wrong. This foundation, once ac- (From Doris Betts,-winner of the Putnam Prize pepted without question, (pro- in fiction, comes this timely communication on vides no basis for the slightest columnist Bill Ragsdale's "illogicaUy built and inner conflict. And from this 'none too coherent admonition for more clarity and foundation, elaborate siper- coherence in fiction." rCt are. -t' V:-i ' Mrs. Betts saysrin a uote-t to the editors:, t(f;H if ' Techniques of course xztyrOhfiW101 now a camP .W am la UNC.studmi :sct is used in the Soviet; Union; -"-t I have been bethiana-Jn still a writer f ang X where-r there has beenr a. gener- l into the age : group , of fie maligned college aiori -of ."indoctrination without! iters' smmg.MndorKing on a uierary .competition, techniques'. ry. Vmgazinet at XYCJa'$ rmn9 thre aiif Lea Retort from:. the: well controlled coiin- lat UNC have leeh a' areat help to vie in trying to Now the President has raised his adminis trative voice a decibel higher in what seems to be another plea for sanity in the athletic arena. " . . . The demands, of athletics often be come ervasive throughout the institution and have an adverse effect on other and more central parts of our program," Gray declared. "Athletics, particularly 'big-time athletics, have a way of becoming an issue in other are as of our work. On occasion, the pressures supporting athletic activities in seeking to determine athletic operations create a threat to the morale and ' effectiveness of adminis-!; trafive and faculty action," he added. These "pressures supporting athletic1 ac tivities," we suspect,-are the minions of men who dabble in the boy's. games, wincing every time the University loses, pne of these games, xand forgetting that they, ?r?just games.) Gray concluded his discuision of athletics by f complaining of the recent General As sembly's action of "in effect subsidizing ath letics by not requiring out of state scholar ship students to pay the general increased rates." We salute you, President Gray, for this bold and true stand on big-time athletics. Big-time athletics right now are as profession al in Chapel Hill as, the movies (though not making nearly as good a showing). And strong administrative action might remedy this unhealthy situation. Adlai 8t R triestpf Eastern Europe .through. " . r". thp;;two Germanics, France, and ,y , . - " t j . , T . Tfi u u 1 - td so easily as in Mr. Ragsdal&s article. I, for one, .rJtaly .with their large Commimist , . r . . ' " , 1 i parties, to the United States ';wdozeh'times that' is what makes writing one of the !t most exciting adventures' in the world. As to "living life," people who so blithely advo cate this procedure seem to imply there is a point at which this full and vigorous "living" gets under way, whether by volition, or accident of situation one is not quite sure. Perhaps.it occurs when one , attains a certain age, like acquiring a Roman toga, t the age of 12 or befngbapte'd. Perhaps the child ;iives life," or thV.soptitohdr e, or the grduate, or ',rthe husband, -of thi? -p'dreiitv " the old man.sThe 1 "truth is thtit life Is -always being lived and used up by all of us; the undergraduate is "living", too, . He will come yet to larger and (almost certainly) to more meaningful days and thoughts and ideas, than these; but this does not discount the diseovK eries tie is now able to make at this point in .space. do. and time. One is glad to see a child stumble even . n 1 i am much indebted to mariv'veovle who -tavaht vie though one hopes ne win someaay warn anu run-. mi tns w Ami ihnt ims in rrj. 'A;ascend moufttains.All Sf ;it is walking; even the Factual errors about organiza- lege. -Editors) ; f times when he falls on hi. face are a placebo gnvw tion, aside from policies, increase " ' JJ -fT ZTZtZl ' ' . 1 ..... - , . .-.-1,: foil nr, V. o 1 1 infAMftiial fnpc mnrf nftfTi than trlPV in number as opp ?oes intn mnrP JN0W tnat urn iscarDorougn ana itaipn uennis - - firmly-controlled areas. A Soviet have so ably come to the defense of the young camp- -: publication, in German transla- us writer, the rest of us are stuck with making only ' tion, gives the following schema-"3 repetition, and likely not so well phrased. But tic representation of US gov- after an article such as the rather uninformed one ernment. "1. USA General Staff written b' Bil1 Rasdale on the Literati, (awful : 2. Wall Street Banks 3. Arma-" term)- one hasva stron2 desife to stand UP and be orients Industry 4. OSS 5. Presi- counted !n the matten 11 is.ffr from Plsurahle to see a wiiiie geiierauon 01 iaiuy naruwuisiug scuuus , writers discussed in terms - which apply to very 1 'Hew, particularly when" those terms refer rmich i", - 1 moro tn th ppnratinrt nf -thp 40' than tn thii -onp. .: 11 is - interesting to ofe,.tha The type Qf; -collegiate writer to whom Mr. Rags techniques used in Communist., dae hag directed his ad,n0nitions is long since out -Germany, where propagandist of date. It is almosUasj har.d o locate a young writer ,have. to. "fight for their audi- of that ilk these days as it is to stir up a real red- fn55'-s.TJat the have a difficult hot argument about whether or not man came from jobthere is a credit only to .the monkeys. The avant-guarde I-am-a-genius variety of Germans not to U. S. Informa- writer has been out of style since Vtorld War I. tionV1 Services which are first- . "class flops. The Communist prop- t '1! -JL, dent 6. Jackson Board 7. Con-. gress 8. State Department." Mr. Ragsdale has one sentence which no one can quarrel "A good writer is a devil of a hard thing to be." To which one might add that studying writ ing, and reading good writing, and practicing the Tine art of vvriting itself can surely do no harm; and presumably will-' help' a-little." For today's "young writer Wants to learn the craft itself as well as ''he! - can;' -because contrary to Mr. Ragsdale's belief he is not interested in shouting into a fake microphone merely to hear his own voice; he is terribly concerned that there be ,a ra dio set at the other end in good working order. Thji last is , important. He may ask his reader to be in good working order," to bring a bit more Historical Function Of The Humanities Editors: - Mr. Callcott's criticism of Dr. Douglass' statement on the hu manities ignores the historical function of the humanities. To suggest that answers to the im portant questions of existence are given in this discipline is to misinterpret its purpose. The concern of the hiimanities' is hot ' to hand, out a mimeographed sheet with "the facts," but to train the mind of the Student so that he may find his own ans wers. ; Mr. Callcott seems' to' say that the sciences (social, political, etc.) have arrived at Truth ' at .least he would maintain that to learn the answers one nvight bet ter So to the sciences than to the humanities. This, of course, presupposes a faith in experi ' mentation (which constitutes sci entific fact)- that "objectivity" supplies truth. If, on the other hand, Mr. Call cott believed that man and the world could better be understood through literature, the graphic arts, history each of which bears the imprint of man, the individual than in second or der studies which divide him in parts to be observed in test tubes, perhaps he would find. hu manities less amusing! Living, breathing, thinking man loses his identity in becoming "objec tified." What can be said of him The Roundabout Papers L Alas Poor Dunn i No Curb Is Anh1 j. DE AXE done befell, chile, h. times on my neck. Slice m;b,.' (or should it be 'cleaved'?) 0f t' aiiiij ijiuu.- ti vv WHO -,f! the 1 ri,i size of a .. iways a go0f are as fascinsj : j packages in ihf! r , can't be an-4,v.. 'and idiotic hi;,. a : ,'ior the cold, r.r If ft behind sorr.oi ' ;: summer ; . very smnil c-"k:V- .0. terribly heady ANYWAY, ?COXFIDET . package' would 'be ".'worth its s-i; i fully open with my cleanest Cm;,.,,' catch hold! Within I found a SV" accompanied by the following nfj ", ",' referred to my recent cohirm, t, .', ' ginning of fraternity rushing: "From That fraternity from y'i er Be Blackballed." This consoling little missive v . SOB's." I feel properly consoled, f tlemen. My little heart - .. whang! at the assurance that I , from the SOB's. to this particular story than he might take to Zane Gray on a tired evening,. pr Nero Wolfe, or. Mickey ' at all in point !of 'tinderstaniding Spillane. But he'-.dojes.not ask that the reader' turn ' his problems, in aiding nis search i-ntrfc fin ijnfhrvi himcAlf anH nnf anv mAnnino rn ihp Most of the ambitious young wViters I know do stQry whkh guits him J a stQry Js aU things taU men it may be a miracle in the history of language; -but it is lousy fiction.. j The brot knowingly, t ealppiitik ther hat AtsbjV surest, gently '.but"' ' aganda there is directed almost entirely against the "monopolists, mind-buyers, and militarists" as not grow beards, sleep with each other indiscrimi- typified by the U. S. Here are "nately (either hetero or homo;) memorize swatches some of the samples, in my wn of the Cantos, or write da-da poetry. A lot of them rough translation. Perform your are fairly responsible citizens who would like to own analyses 1 do a good workmanlike job in several fields in- -'.; eluding witing. Some of them - do their writing "John Foster Dulles, foreign of necessity, with. an eye to the grocery bill; some minister oi tne UiA, a represen- do not; some smoke pipes (not for exhibitionism, 'do not gain any further and wider experience by tative of Wall-Street and Amer- but because they like pipes); to my knowledge very ' reading the works of other people, we are in a ican munition magnates." ; 4 .. .few of them drink rubbing alcohol or eat goldfish "'dilemma indeed. We are faced with the necessity of "Wall Street controls ! ' the 'd-' r sit U aI1 ?lht .9.:ai Saturday worrying aboltt-'the '' living hard 'and learning everything ourselves, so rection oV the psvchol ' 1 " Problems of Undeserved Pain in the Universe.- -They v' 4 ve can writeiit 11 dawmrforithe benefit of people "-it p lca war have little patience with obscurity for its own4 'sake, ""whb must also learn everything themselves and can't AP. Il large American news and none at all for sloppy work. r itl.:-- 0 be bothered by readirg us. i-.i - " ; iif. I submit that: this generation of writers is devej- for Truth, must come not from the laboratory, but from con fronting him in his wholeness in a play, a poem, or a history book. Dinnie Gratz SLICE NUMBER live was hewn ing hide by aJady named Dorahy n : in France (Pans, to be exact). -chides me. for scorning to Vtroc w:'" ard on" the Luther; 1 lodges "qiw ,ti eously hedging;, t,hp fair Miss ;.;; " me of trying to take advanta vulnerable" position'. of L: As Mr. Ragsdale suggests, it is a fine thing to get 'our experience from time and assimilation, but if we ign Doris Fleeson VclL-ii Stevenson, if he wish- "agenc'4. like all the other Alosl ot tnem are aamitteaiyaoing trrer same , ' large .rvuivl IsZUll UtrWS agencies f 4 fc.i.s.o. .j..., v j wvwwuimiMv-, lining make tnat basics (which, standard etc.) they are u- uie ureai, favorable in war Wti; '' attempting to impose sarnet torm ana snape ana toa on anyone unless they-jcan first splash r "'"- v meaning. That they dss -?ndt always completely suc- it vith mud. ;.hi.rui ' , r ' P.arthy Commirt'f 'set-ceed is the whSle history-'of man; but the" raeie iTell, ve hone that theTntindits rrvhio-ifor - UP" '-by.'iAjnerican monopolists-of possibility of. suoceeflingonee or twice, or half a Stevenson to "come iouri off his nefWal"- te. .muiiitions ..industries and , , r 1 - Ko.-ttrtl Cl . i t Washington ,one-.0f the things Adlai Stevenson's best friends have not hesitated to tell him is that his campaign for the Presidency in 1952 was a sloppy ivaffair. Authority was. never, cen- oping a technique and a sense of balance and form which will always stand them in good stead, and which will serve as a good vehicle both for the . 1 41. . 1 . l- young ana ior me less young aiscovenes wnicn tney ; tralized so that no one person make and seek to Impart. I submit that if all ..goes r t COuld be blamed for thceeneral wen, mere win oe uooks ana stories iromtnese people which will enrich us all. . I hope Mr. Ragsdle will not be too busy Living Life to The Hilt to read a few of them. '.' . ped( will be bolting a sizeable' crow dinner as of November, 1956. We hope so, first, for Mt Stevenson's sake we admire him extravagant lyand second, for American political intei; rity's sake. As citizens we like to talk about principle; and when it comes to so-called ''sincerity,'.' we make a cult of it. But there is poisonous' -contradiction here if Mr. Ste venson's principles must be dunked in muck to gain our electoral approval. . Just what concessions does Rraljwliiik re quire? An illustration from, the 1952 cam paign at least touches on the dilemma: Presi dent Eisenhower's stock zoomed unbelievably when he announced that, should 'fie be elect ed, be. would tour Korea. Stevenson had qui etty made the 'sftme. decision, but kejtf it ?to himself for fear of stepping into that Slack est mud of. all: demagoguery. AVTho was right? Stevenson, we think. General Ike got "ithe. voies, but Stevenson, whose, no-stars probabr lyjcould.have done -every bit tliat Eisenhor er'js five stars did in Korea, kept his integrity' intact, ' " 0 ' If Mr. Stevenson 'maintains his standards in 9.5r (provided, of course, he runs) he will have to tell the South some impalatable things nbout his feelings on racial discrimin ation. He will have to do the same for the American Legion, 'the' China iLobby, the Tex as oil interests, the business monopolists, ct al. But we hope he will do so unflinchingly. If there is consistency between American everyday ideals and -. American election day ideals, he will not .suffer; thereby. If not, he wjl! still have liis' reward; fo there Vis a Ingher order f jmiitiple : than that summifd- entry. "' -. : . . a. : the U. S. Presid SZ-.WV ' -weak - r. : The efficial student publication of the Publi cations. Board of the University of North Carolina 1. I i .4 Editors - where it is rublishprf k'dsiY? cx"ept Monday j- an;d' examination and ) vacation periods and 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 a semester: delivered. JS6 a year, $3.50 a te- y mester. LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER ;the "Vali Street banks in order to use the methods of terror com mon to the witch-hunters of the Middle Ages. "The McCarthy f Committee 'cleans' libraries, newspapers,' etc., of any real democratic, and peaceful material." (This comes from a 1955'piibli-, , cation. The fact things don't now exist never keeps a European from talking about them.) "ECA and the various ECA agencies stand under the Office of Strategic' Servicesi and ; the; cia." '---ms ' Behind tis'',fiearst' Concern' stand the yall Street . banks as well as especially ,the " automobile from Ford and Co.". "OSS . is a department of' the American Generaf Staff, in which the strategic plans of the 'Cold War' are developed, which plans are carried out By the CIA and sub-organizations." " 'The Bonn Democracy' is on- ly the designation for a. half colonial government of the .west ern area of Germany which through -corruption, terror and mind-buying has been set up by the Western Powers under the leadership of the USA." ''The ; Institute Fur Demosko "pief has the .task of suppressing really' "democratic elements in West Gfermany is the again- revived GESTAPO of Adenauer -4s ' an - organ of the.merican i tyti tr ; ' 'k-.-r Many of the features of, Com hl"nist "Propaganda are commoa tSall 'propaganda. To. refer, $0 an' ariti-communist as aTpropa,- gandist is for a Communist like calling him a SOB Sthwein-' hund). But 'the Communists in their own publications have no qualms about calling themselves propagandists. The propaganda is similarly directed against anti-communist espionage, sabotage, control of news organs, etc. Not that the Communists are opposed to these methods. Anti-communists pro paganda is wrong only because it is anti-communist. 'Who's For AppIe-BbbBing?' 4H i x .r"i 1 O y i-hi -iv. vux , '3 -inefficiency,, but' this only made sit all the more ; frustrating , for the press and politicians gener ally. yi . For several reasons, not much was made of this at the time. Stevenson was the .underdog, -and it was obvious to everyone who had a chance to make compari sons' that he was getting nothing like the money and help accord ed General Eisenhower. Much was forgiven him, too, for his speeches which hit a new high in campaign oratory. Reporters might groan as their deadlines approached and the candidate with his own little pencil was still polishing up a paragraph or chaneins a word "L ''Sh?' ' " ' but at least; theycould get a lead 7iv i-V; ' ' 'for their stories olit of t Ha PnH prod,uct. It almost made, up for the fact that at some point in ' their day they were going to have a struggle with the mere mechanics of covering -Steven-son. ,.', In an effort to erase these me mories and get an efficient oper ation underway, Stevenson has been shopping east and west for a campaign manager of proved executive talent. He would pre fer a Catholic in the recnt party tradition for such posts. The South is already repre sented at headquarters by Harry Ashmore, on leave from his du ties as editor of the Arkansas .Gazette. Mr. Ashmore has been heard to refer to himself as the , 'poor man's Sherman Adams. He has started organizing V press staff and has ; been tryihg also -to keep happy the Visiting fire men who kfeep coming to see Ste venson in increasing numbers. """' One of those sounded out for the campaign post is, James Fin , .negan, the Philadelphian ', who . vvas a candidate' for ' National Chairman last fall. Finnegan has recovered from the illness which hurt that candidacy, but he is not sure that he ought to leave Pennsylvania.' ,The Democrats have been making a comeback in the state and unexpectedly elect ed a Governor last year, George M. Leader. But Leader is having his troubles with a Republican legislature and his tax program; the next year will be a critical one in the attempt to consoli date Democratic gains. I am awfully sorry, Miss Dunr.. sage of time has wrought indifferent the Hodges question has now (I pa chief fault in this whole matter ..-,,: that I didn't make myself clear In t My stand on the question is si'iiii'v candidate may admittedly nerd ; ; do borrow, with subtle darin,', ;,: thunderous word) to anyone inferos;; j of people must probjbly consist s ildv Hodges by now, that it mig-it be a . him to have something to publicize h ahd since he ,cn't help but publicize i regardless' of ' whether or not he.!:.,,, to publicise, it is' my contention that i; ard shouldn't cheapen the whole b,;-, gesting that the name is all Mr. H,;;v. licize.' lf I. make, this sentence a:;y ' contradict myself, which is bad Ix, tradiction is profoundly confusing a-.i ; somnia, neura!gia;"aches, pains. b.ir:, ' and myopia of the medulla oblongata. :: which complaiiUs ' I should m.ist in favor of avoiding. Which seeing l : itive practically to the point of placing.: ken homes' category. AND NOW let us glance briefly i' macabre, but intriguing world of cr :: ing situation comes immediately t r. own brush with the law in th;;t re-: as the best example. It seems that even Carrboro i cr. with its parking tickets. Chapel Ibi! ticket clerk who does nothing but ti Carrboro is not far behind. I recall dimly having been i- i ticket at the News Inc. in Canb i ) : cently for parking on the sidewalk. A ' parking right (in front of the New, doing for some 'time, but evidently' constabulary call a spade a spade, ar.r sidewalk the sidewalk, which is. i: able of them.":Needless to say, I c : : about the1 iidket. It just slipped iny'rr;' Monday, that is, When I was about IU in front of the News late in the a! '' MY PROGRESS was halted by t :c in the Carrboro police car, which tin of me. Chief Williams got out a: J greeted me congenially, and walked v my license number. Then he can; ' ! for my driver's license. I. gave it t ' He copied down my tiamc. ai'"!': the facts that my hair really was bk" on the license, and that my eyes -'BLU. . : , - "You remember receiving a ; -the other night,' James?" I managed - to control the skock : 'James', and. replied yes, I renn Mik' : "Wny haven't 'you paid the tube' Williams sharply. A natural que' ' myself. - "I forgot it," I said glibly. Thi, v. -truth. I had. '. . "Is it worth $0 to you to f r- e- j 1 ct?" inquired the Chief trium; k - I jumped slightly at the sum an ! ly that it wasn't worth it at all - "Well, that's what it's goi:i.4 i ' ' ' don't get around and pay the t-: o'clock," said the Chief. He almost had a speeder on h'.- k haste did I shriek round the c rrer -the Carrboro Town Hall, dollar ance tottering, BUN hair itrea::-- ' ELU eyes agoggle. 1
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