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The .rations f 1 4 ' l .: Managing Editor News Editor Business Manager Associate Editor sports Editor Editors Advertising Manager 1 Assistant Business Manager Coed Editor J Circulation Manager Subscription Manager . Staff Artist KiSat Editor For This Issue V A Heed Can Break Miss Mary Gilson, a great Daily Tar Heel friend who lives at One, Cobb Terrace here in Chapel Hill, her latest ariopted-honie, has a fascinating dual history behind her. She made the highly-specialized field of econom ics hers both as professor (at Chicago) and as one who has been to the mat of medita tion and arbitration with the fiercest of labor and management leaders and as one who has managed to become one of the most thor oughly educated people we know. "Civiliz ed" is a good word for Miss Gilson, except that Ave all think we are civilized and that has robbed the term of its true meaning. Never, in her role as a "specialist," and that in industry, where it seems harder every day to be specialized and educated at the same time, tlid Miss Gilson lose touch with her fondest concern: the educated person. ; The mail from One, Cobb Terrace recent ly brought us as it does" often, since Miss Gilson is -not one of those timid creatures who hides the light of her opinions under a bushel a letter from her. Attached to the note were clippings on literacy from letters in the .Manchester Guardian, which she thought we might be able to use. lint after reading her owii testimony to the value of literacy and of liberal arts education, we dis pensed with the letters. Here is what Miss Gilson wrote: - I majcred in Greek and English literature at Wcllesly and by happenstance plunged into the industrial world and stayed there the most of my life. From the time I "plunged," I read constant ly in the social sciences and got a Master's in economics at Columbia. But thank God for seven years of Greek (three in prep school and four, with double and triple courses, at Wellesly). Otherwise I would never have known the joys -of Greek literature. And my courses in English and English literature enriched my life. I am even condescendingly sorry .or 'people who don't have a good liberal arts education before begin ning to, whirl and bustle in this speeded up world! The Daily Tar Heel joins Miss Gilson in feeling- "condescendingly sorry for people who don't have a sood liberal arts education before beginning to whirl and bustle in this speeded up world."' There are plenty of that species around, even on the campus of a university noted for its devotion to the study of liberal arts. But we have always questioned whether the sort of vocational study they undertake really belongs within the structure of "education." As a matter of fact, it never did a few dec ades ago, and we suspect that an educated gentleman of the last century would throw , , up his hands in despair to find people; in terested more in how-to; make a living than in getting an education. ;;Tie student? who sit ;far three or four ye'drs 'pursuing th intricacies of Personnel Problem 7,njj Industrial Management are perfectly wi tii in their rights under thepres1 . u c'UTicular planning. But we think, with Miss Gilson, that they delude themselves sad ly if they consider learning the interior ticks ajrd tocks of the industrial machine 'equiva lent to education. It would be logical enough to go flying over the brink of specialization into educational lop-sidedness (as the cult of vocational, "practical," or end-seeking edu cation seems to be doing) if we hadn't the human being-ahd his nature to contend with. But we do have the human being and his nature which,, as Paschal described it, , is as "a reed, the weakest reed in nature, but . . . a thinking reed"-even if the would-be- money-makers fail to realize it. Education can continue either to foster that, essential and exclusive element which the human being possesses- Iioiigit-or to foster the appetite and acquisitive instinct which we share with the lower .animals. But one of these davs, Jf Ave follow the latter course, the most uni que of man's gifts will be goue-and the weakest reed will be broken. atlj Wat Jleei official student publication of the Publi Board of the University of North Carolina, where it ispublished . """) CX da7 except Monday 2 1 vacation periods and i SUmmpr tnrmr -i . unci ed &3 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. l a year, $3.50 se- J mester. . .. LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER FRED rOWLEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN BILL BOB PEEL J. A. C. DUNN WAYNE BISHOP Dick Sirkin . Carolyn Nelson -v Peg Humphrey Jim Kiley Jim Chamblee Charlie Daniel EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sulliyan,. Charles Dunn, Bill Ragsdale. BUSINESS STAFF Fred Katzn, tan Bershaw, Mary Grady Burnette, Charlotte Lilly, Ted Wain ; er, Darrji Chason. Reuben Leonard Carolina Front Angel Hairs? I Saw The Mars Monkey .Louis Kracr SEEN A flying saucer yet? I'm almost sure it won't be too long before someone on campus does. Just a mere fifty miles away in Greensboro folks are spying silvery steel balls and wispy strands ! of fiber ' they're calling" "angel hair." ,: .'' A school principal started the saucer watching last week, when he and his charges sighted a sau cer and caught strands " of, the. strange, and yet unanalyzed, , f i: ber. ' - :' f ' ly'': Since the, initial sighting, ro ports have roared in by the doz ens. Apparently everyone, in Guilford County is out to see a saucer. Now the Woman's Col lege girls who write those love letters by street light, after the dorms darken, have an ideal ; ex cuse if they're caught. ALTHOUGH I'M not blind to the miracles of science, having seen the University Infirmary in full operation and being a firm addict to the science section of Time magazine, I'm skeptical. And I'll tell you why. . In Atlanta, Georgia a couple summers back theV whole town was if an uproar over these sail ing saucers. I was chained to a copy desk at the Atlanta Consti-j tution editing sports rcpy, but once in a while I sneaked a glance ; at the front page. Just when the j phone calls reached ; a stage at' which more readers called to report saucers than to ask base ball scores, the monkey man from Stars entered the muddled scene. Honest, it did. . LATE ONE night three young men tramped into the newspaper office with a small body wrapped in a sheet. The trio, two barbers and a butcher, roomed together. They were buzzing along a lonely back road on the city's outskirts that night and so they said sighted a glaring, , red flying saucer. The disc swirled, came down low, and landed right in the road. The poor guys, .had to stop their car pretty quickly to keep from hitting Vzc saucer. They slowed . dovn. And, Id and behold, three or four; tiny,. 'hairless creatures ' emerged from the saucer. ' Although they tried to avoid it, the trio's auto hit one of the creatures. And, it ,sq happened, there it was wrapped up in the sheet. , : THE COPY editors squinted down at the strange creature a tiny, hairless, monkey-like be ing with no tail. The newspaper stories were openly skeptical, but the town ate it up. Meantime, the butcher barber trio had takn their sou venir from outer space back to their apartment and put him on ice. The curious packed in to see the monkey from Mars, as it came to be called in the papers. Soon though the police stepped in and confiscated the body. An Emory University scientist gave' it the microscopic once over and announced that it was a monkey just a plain monkey with its tail chopped off and its hair' shaven. . SO YOU see why I'm skeptical about angel hairs and flying discs. The two barbers and a butcher had been out drinking beer, thought of the stunt, purchased a monkey from a pet shop, and shaved it. Last I heard of the affair the Society For Prevention of Cruel ty to Dumb Animals was investi gating the trio. But no one was very interested, just disappoint ed. . , Last Word James A. Michener's latest nov el, "Sayonara" was virtuolly o e long pacan of praise for the Japanese girl, accompanied by a long paean of pfft for the Amer ican girl. "Men with wives in the States," said Airman Joe Kelly, in love with a Japanese girl him self, "talk . about Junior's braces and country club dances nd what kind of car their wife bought. But the men with Japnese wives tell you one thing only. What wonderful wives they have. They're in love." It is very good every once in a while to see someone who prac tices what he preaches. And the last word of Mr. Michener's preachment evidently isn't "Sa yonara," the Japnese for "Good bye." . It's whatever the Japanese is for "Hello." St. Louis Post-Dispatch. . . iff Between Harry A Heaven-Sent Opportunity For Democratic Party lagos Gerald W. Johnson The; superf icialaspect I of the j .Truman-Stevenson relation -is Per ; plexing. Oil the face; of it, the : Hon. Harry S. Truman has dished up the Hoh: Adlai E. Stevenson ; as. completely as within him lies; : and as the Hon. Adlai is the lead-: ing contender for the Democratic ' nomination, it -would seem that the Hon, Harry has . dished- up party harmony itoo. . ? But this is incredible. The con sensus is that Ike is out, and that Nixon, even with ' his chipmunk cheeks and ingratiating smile, can't make the grade. Hence the Republican Party has to build up a candidate which inevitably en tails some squabling. The Demo crats, starting with , a candidate who could get 27 million votes against Eisenhower, and who, los ing New. York, could yet poll 125,000 more votes than Harri man could poll in winning it, have only to maintain, reasonably, clo-se order to- win in a; yalk4trj s , it would sem to an outside The question is;;hy doe Tru-; man seize 'this moment -to! rock -the boat? .j. ' : -:: ( (:. The ready Republican, answer' ;i$,:of course,5 ambition; They say' ! that ; Truman is trying i to - throw ; the. convention into confusion so that he may seize the nomination himself. It could be, but it isn't likely.. Never before did Truman throw lown the party to! serve his own ends, and few will believe that he is starting to do so now. It all goes back to the event of Sept 24. Up to that time prac tically all politicians had assumed probably wrongly but implicitly that the Democratic nomination woudn't be worth a plugged nick . el anyhow, so why not let Steven son have it? Thus, everybody ex cept Kefauver was for Stevenson. Then fate' stepped, in, and over night the nomination . became a great politjcaf prize., The . indust rious . Mr,. p, Sa'pio, who put, his maiijoverlinj lsfeiv Vork by ll.doO.t claimed' precedence ! overl"Mr.' Stevenson,, who put his man over tin Illinois by 27,000., And Tru man craw-fished. ,:; Superficially, vthis looks like weird polities', but there are at least three explanations that will account for it without assuming either .(a) .that Truman has lost his grip, o'rt(b) that his whole character has changed. THE IdtflLY TAR Itett"! ! t 1 One is that Truman dislikes ; the: role i f VWarwick, 'the- Kin;-; ; i Maker, because when 1 you ; pUy H the' king-maker you! becom H more or; less! responsible' for the king you make. A second is that ; while he : migM like .to dictate ; the nomination, he knows that i : i the ; typical response of' a great ; - many American . voters to the '!:ukaser.oi"a king-maker is to say, l;!The' hell with you! and vote --i;for th'e-'.other v man j so Truman's active support might be the kiss of death for Stevenson." . The third, 'and by far the most easily credible,- explanation is that Truman " is not and never Was wholeheartedly- for Steven son, not out of jealousy and not on . principle, but simply because of the two men's difference in , style. This may seem to be triv . ial, but it isnt. A difference not in the content but in the manner of two men's thinking, acting and speaking,' that is to say, in their styles, may .create a deeper and;, wider rift between them than a , difference on fun- damental principles. , ; ' John Adams and Alexander !; Hamilton, held the same political ' philosophy, but theyr' hated each, . other. i.m'ore-.-bitterly than , either ; hated ' Jefferson, whose basic principles were antagonistic to theirs. Adams and Jefferson, in deed, loved each other in spite of their quarrels, far as they di verged on principle, the style of each was that of a cultivated English gentleman, while Ham ilton's was that of a parvenu. The true- greatness of William J. Bryan was his ability to over look a style that he disliked and distrusted and see in Woodrow Wilson ' an effective protagonist of principles that both men held. Bryan's,, capacity to i subordinate, his Iprepildices to hy principles! spelled success for the ' Demo cratic Party in 1912; while the Jnbiiity of. either McAcoo jor ' Smith' !to do-' sd brougnt-lit'sj .rum 'Hi 1924: n ut . There .is no 'appreciable; differ ence ,,in ithe vpoliticalvphilosophyr of HarryfjS. -Truman and Adlai E. Stevenson, but oe fights fist: and-skull, the other with a ra pier or, . to put it. in modern, terms, one is a capjain of artil lery,, the other of. commandos. Although ,they fight in the, same army, it' is too much to expect' 'Say, What Ever Happened To That & Adlai: that either will altogether ap- 'prove the other's 'tactics,', , It is impossible, and if it were .' possible, it. would be lamentable, ' for. either (man to change 'his. na--: ,'' ture; but it is 'possible for Ste vens on, to be ' a little ; .more direct 'and' Trumana rlittle more suave., Above . all, it ; is ; possible for, each to remember; that a rift ' ''between them ' would be a ihea-f . Ven' sent oppbrt"nity; or every "lago in' the Democratic and ' there are many. 4 Without doubt there is a very: subtle game of drop.-thc-handkerchjef going on at this moment, and Desdemona . Democracy stands a fine chance of being strangled before it ends. ' PRESENT FOR THE WIFE (Frances Ffazier ' in Waynes-) ' " ville Mountaineer) ' ' " The Judge looked down on the meek, be-pectaced little man sit ting quietly' in the witness chair. "Mr. ' Henpeck, your ; : wile's, suit ; for divorce charges : you ; : vith ' mental cruelty. What have you to" say?" The little" man ."looked up. i and 'said slowly: "It is' all the fault ' of . 'a clerk giving me the wrong package, your honor. Arrs ' my wife won't believe me - when I explain." J ' ' 1 "Yes," : prompted the; judge, "on on." Mr. Henpeck cleared his throat and continued: "I came back from a business trip to Shicago and I brought my wife a gift. When she opened the' package ..." Mr. Henpeck sighed - as he remembered, and then continued, "she just went wild and wouldn't listen." The judge leaned over and asked: "What was in the package?" "A pair of , boxing gloves," the meek 1 r littler i man replied. The judge coughed 'o smother a smile and glanced over ( at the ; stern, big b,oned wpjnan j glaring at the de 'f eAdaijt AfieVj a moment's ? si lence, tlie judge spoke5:" And 5 what was the. present you had really ' bought' for your wife, Mr. Henpeck?" The' meek little man shifted around in his seat, drop i ped his eyes to his folded hands .and softly, replied: '"It was an electric foot warmer, your hon- or!" ' ' - Crusade, Anyhow?' .Readers Retort: Writer Bocks Bob Harrington Editors: To: Charlie Covel I was deeply hurt and surpris ed to read your letter to the edi tors last Saturday morning as I prepared to make my way to a little stadium nested under lofty pines under which we sat that af t rnoon to cheer on a team that we should be proud of; even though the odds have been against us this year. : Charie, I couldn't help but .think of what our President Don : Fowler said at . a Student Party meeting a few weeks ago: "I hope that you will work with me in ; trying to make our relationship with the administration and the ; town community ; a better one, I and by, doing so, you will help yourself in that our school spirit will be raised." I definitely agree with you on the point that what we as a student body need is cooperation and especially should . this be true in the policy making and the decisions that must be made in our student legislature. I feer you realize that as well as anyone, for I note the fine record that you have made as a representative to that body; How ever, I feel at the same time that you have missed the entire point that Bob Harrington was trying ;jto :make at the party meeting and jUhatiis:. it is the duty df the ma- jority: ; jparty: ;in: : legislature, to ' I sh6w; ;the' initiative and interest to introduce bills that willbe beneficial to the campus in gen eral, and it seems to me as it does to Bob that your party has been extremely lax in fulfilling its obligation to those people (the students on campus) that elected you. We in the minority party have had to introduce and speak on the majority of the bills that have been presented. Therefore, I feel that Chairman Harrington was justified in making his statement in the light that, something will " be done to correct this situation. Charlie, there is no one on camp us who would rather see us work together than . Bob -Harrington and I feel that the students on campus should sense Mr. Harring ton's desire to see that our stu dent government if unctions as we the students have faith that jit wUV v, i J; ; . I i i'.l ! i Jim Armstrong -Too Good Not- To The Air Force has shot down the flying saucer." After long and thorough study (and ho one can discount the extensiveness and carefulness of the investiga tion) it has concluded there are no flying ships in the earth's at mosphere carrying little men from other planets. The findings of the eight-year survey, checking on nearly 5,000 reported sightings of "flying sau cers," is contained in a 316-page book, Air Secretary Donald A. Quarles announced. But in doing so he disclosed that a new type of aircraft is being developed un der an Air Force contract with Avro, Ltd., of Canada which may result in even more reports on top of those which have followed from weather balloons, reflected lights, and assorted optical il lusions. A 19th-century statesman said of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that if it had not existed it would have been necessary to invent it. Evidently aeronauts have come to this conclusion about the fly ing saucer; it is too good an idea not to develop. But while they are at it, how about some ex tensive research by the physicists in the field of optics to discover what can spark so many flights of fancy? Tie Christian Science Monitor GEESE BY THE ACRE Sunday afternoon, I saw some five or six acres of wild geese standing like soldiers at atten tion, with their white breasts turned toward the highway over which I traveled my Director and I, as guests of Agriculture man Lance Peacock and his Mrs. We were in the vicinity of Lake Mattamuskeet, traveling on a scottroad that was leading us the JonS way around to Belhaven, 'when the honking and tittering arrested our attention. Braking the car to a halt, there we sat on the side of the road, with an acre and a half of geese standing at attention on an open pasture immediately to the left, and across the field to our right some 100 yards away another four to five acres of geese, all of them in close formation. Thousands them- of Roy Parker, Sr., in Ahoslie lie old. Develop ; WEDNESDAY,, The Roundabout Paprs The Undergroijf And An 4gony I AM, at this very red hot writing, having one of the'mt'"' periences of my life. Immedlav,''" apartment is a cellar. In the'c-S which heats the house .The ce" place" in the house. At the mo,: ;. - more senses th . ; this minute, t'---. - girls about '13 orV :. the furnace re - THE LITTLE: there, actually. V" .-,- normal circun;;':.- : homes around t'--in perfect bli-? " On weekdays thev :' giggling and swinging their lunca -pink-cheeked from early mornin" t however, was Sunday, and, in w'- an effort to find someplace to plav : accomodate the whole boiling cf be warm, and (c) would have an jr.; proximity to the adult world to irA being the victims of parental the cellar under my kitchen. Ever since two o'clock this fin- Sunday afternoon, "Leafed," as D, aptly puts it, "in October blood." naught but a trifling brace of inch-; ing between me and them. They b going most of the time, and I have r: everything from news and spot rep developments of the Hillsboro s: ;i; church programs and the Sunday a: At present a rather nervous jazz p piped unerringly into every rad a: r Every so often there is a short while this subterranean junior r eral within the sanctity of its gather-mar-grade secret or other. There h: , spirited, refrains of "Rock 'Rcur.j : wavering rendition of "Seventeen.' Campfire Girl treatment cf "Let y: If someone would at this moment a telephone and give me something :& ' sides . Giddy Sweathouse, or whatever ful. If, after a while, I can beat er. to go down and join 'em, and sir:; Lover" as if I really meant it. SOME PEOPLE will recall that r I received a letter from God In th.; 1 . 1 T T H k .1 din iiu luiiei diuiit;. ul. r. .u. .-c sophy department, at the beginning of a one, a merry glance quite unlike h:.; contemplative stare, and announced he had, received a letter from God ; here: "Dear Dr. Adams: 11 nas oen caiiea 10 my auen.. .. persecuting one of my little one's. There in your class to whom you always ter how excellent the work is. Every r. row prays to me that you will ?cre light and realize that it is an A stue :.. it is my wish that you mend your voursplf nS thpsp nrpiudicps because l?afolr Vioc 1o-I tti litfla rnp nil thp ". cursing and you know what happens : lausc ill tic- untrs iu i.-5iia.. want tn kppr this ii mind next tirree batch of papers. "IT'S A student in this clas. I Adams triumphantly when he had h- tne letter aloud. "I only gave mm- - V4U1.C. miu vjiiiy uiic ui muse (Ji"t'1 a grade from me before, so it s r.Oi down." I WAS sitting in the Tar Heel S. the other night inhaling soup and t: mi uiJitdiijf, wnen a youn; man . : 1, , . . . . ucijitA 01111 1 biiiins r.K.xi iu iiic iiv yi ciiiuinanes ai ail, nitit; column: complain about how they re hash browns anymore. xf -w-p- i:a"T- xou ivnow, complain aooui u. T . . i :tf-i" a iu ibuing a iormai compu.- Sandwich shop for discontinuing -'v -: of hash browns, and hereby request . and desist this scurrilous decimatien nunerto listed in such deligntiui t - menu. AT TTIE request of various, P"c! : that some important classified a--' -lost and go unnoticed among the "Wanteds' and "For Sales," I am r.' own classified ad section. One ot : iii tiauiea section is mat n " classified, it will sarve as a carr.pi? -the London papers used to call the "A: The first installment should cx?'. of this term: v-v.uc. 1ALK, JULY, all IS I r didn't burn out after all, I got a rt",v all, the hamsters are still alive one, which grounded itself and v.; Your loving Ma." Now figure that one out ,if yi J f LATEST BULLETIN on the l-----cellar: The landlord has just a:r: ' : rage and thrown them out on ' ; accusing them, as he did so, cf kr. -tos insulation off the furnace. props which hold up my lourh--crime. Pence reigns once more. i
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