Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / Nov. 3, 1955, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
PAG 2 TVO THS DAiLY TAR HEL THURSDAY, Our Elders Show Lack Of Faith What i we may turn the popular phrase .about is the older generation coming to in Chapel Hill? ' .Chapel Hill Contributing Editor- Louis Graves, fresh from a trip abroad, has decided that the campus auto problem is "something for grown people to decide." And he suggests in a recent editorial that the faculty, admin istration,, and trustees .treat student ..opinion in this manner: ; , iii:. r. W.'V , "Listen to what thcv say, treat them cour teously and sympathetically,; but don't; let them usurp functions tha'tlbelpng" tiligtyjvn people." (The complete text of the Graves edict ap pears Sil the adjoining (luiinijlorjth6se terested enough to follow this line further.) We admit, as always, that students are not always right. As a matter . of fact, The Daily Tar Heel has ben contending for some time now that student leaders are mishandling the auto problem. However, such a venerable ChapelTiillian as contributing Editor Graves knows full well the equally venerable University tradition for student self-government. The University Administration because it is both educa tional and convenient delegates enforce ment of many student rides to the students themselves. And, despite what Mr. Graves terms "lack of . knowledge and experience," (a slurtcoming of 'many older people, toe.;, students have handled their affairs; cjf.ficien.t ly and justly, for the most part. Just as. we'd recovered front Mr. Graves' lack of faith in student opinion Jwe turned to the Greensboro Daily News and O. J. Coffin's column, "Shucks and Nubbins." And there, too, Ave found the former Journalism School dean grinding young'uns into editorial dust. Said Mr. Coffin of the fact that more than 350 Duke students are reported to have sign ed petitions protesting the school's policy of nrniiiliifimr X' p(rrr c 1 1 1 rl f 11 1 ; fmiTl iVnrlll C JJlUlIlUltlil V l - untv.v.. . . - . . - rolina College. from attending Page Auditor ium plays: "That's higher education for you: Campus exhibitionists fall all over themselves to put on the same act." It probably never occurred to the venera ble Messrs. Graves and Coffin that wheth er right or wrong students try to assert opinions in good faith, after due thought. But we waste our time rimning on, for these fine gentlemen both equate, wisdom with age. And we of the young aiid" idealis tic turn, are to them far from wise. Fiulm tr rffiicia,c krmc W i V.W , 1 1 ft:) J 1 I O W J ni I Our "semi-weeUy contemporary "across' the woocls, rT!t? Duke Chronicle,, is puzzled and jv)werli;l het upbecause the-Carolina For i.;n, without honorariums, gets better speak ers than their student union, with honorari ums. . "What," the Duke newspaper, cries. out in anguish, "is the secret drawing card our friends have over the 1iill?" "Well, sons, the answer seems as. clear to us as the beard on Rip Van Winkle's chin. It's a matter of age. You're looking, 'cross the hills and woods, at a place with some age on it; it's been a long time, a time of grow ing veneration and prestige, since 1793 and a right much longer time at that, sons, since your fathers hauled that Eno River rock up to Durham and built your gothic spires. . If melancholy Jaques .(of As You Like It) had the seven ages of man right, we reckon we're at least as far up the ladder as the justice, "in fair round .belly with good capon lined, with eyes severe and beard of formal cut, full of; wise saWs and modern instances." We hear tell, sons, , that the janitors, are busy night and day, sanding the' 'medieval look into your stone stairs. When they fin ish that chore, maybe you can: take a shaky step up to the second rung. But for now, look at Jacques' first line about the infant, "mewling and puking 'in the nurse's arms." That's your answer. mlp Wuv Jieel The official student nnMi.af?n . , nations Board of Jhe University of North ' Carolina wnere it is published daily except Monday ft and examination and I vacation periods anrf f 1 1 summer terms. Enter- j ed as . second class Hi matter in the .post of- t cv t -Editors Managing Editor f ice 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. n i 6 a year, $3 50 a ge :,y mester. LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER FREDPOWLEDGE Something For Grown People To Decide Louis Graves Chape! Hill Weekly One of the first published f ? statements , that met my eyes ' when I got home last week was one by John W. Umstead, citi zen of Chapel Hill and member of the University's Board of Trus tees, Jo the effect that, if -the University administration did not doj something about restricting the possession of automobiles by students, the Trustees would. I hope the Trustees will not find it necessary to act on this, but if the administration doesn't I hope the Trustees will, I have said in these columns several times' that I thought the possession of automobiles by stu dents should be restricted, and I am still strongly of that opin ion. The University administra tion seems to think that this is a matter in which considerable weight should be given' to what v the students think. There is cer tainly no objection to giving them an opportunity to express their - views, but these views should not be taken as highly important. Many of the students are- still . adolescents, which means that they are incompetent, from lack of knowledge and ex perience, to form sound judg ments; and most of the others are such a short way beyond ad olescence that they are still im mature. The great majority of students are minors in the sight of the law, and, when any ques "tion of University policy is up for discussion, they should also be regarded as minors by the faculty. Listen to what they say, treat them courteously and sym pathetically, but don't let them usurp functions that belong to grown people. The University ad ministration is in loco parentis with respect to students and its decisions on student privileges and student behavior ought to be based on that fact. L. G. The Eye Of The Tho Hour-' Morse Wh Hbger Will Coe er's Read leforf Editors: Attention Mr. Louis Kraar: How can anyone admit admira , tion of a historian Of Dr. (Hugh) Letter's reputation one day, and later express appreciation of Mr. Truman's " . . . American histor ical archives his memoirs"? Either you like and admire good history written in an aca demic and accepted manner, or you prefer a low level of histor ical interpretation presented in a biased, "give 'em hell'l. way, which constitutes the overall idi osyncrasies of our former chief executive. O? are you youngster just plain naive? Ten years from now ask yourself: "Was I ever that stupid?" v Think it over, kid, 'when you write your future editorials. C. W. McGee Age: 44 (Reader McGee would do welt to read these youngsters' editor ials a bit more closely. We' do admire Professor Lef r ler and all the ' historical integ rity for which he stands. We nev er praised Truman, as a profes sional historian; we only tagged his memoirs as "a fine addition to American historical archives' ivhich no historian would ever debate.) ' ' THE HORSE was currying himself against the ivied walls of Gerrard Hall when I saw him. What did we have, an itch? "It's what we ain't got, Roger," The Horse saw it, "that has me Ivying my epidermis. I want I am able to be recognized by Harvards, Elis and Penns and. others of my ilk in more than mere football de-emphasis." Way, What made The Horse think we were de emphasized pigskinnishly! Had our policy chansed? "Didjou," The Horse didjoued me, "see the so called Tennessee game? The score could have been 96-7, had Bowden Wyatt of Tennessee so desired." Yes; Tennessee had played its second and third string shortly after the second period opened, save for occasional injections of Drum Majors and his driving dervishes. An impressive gesture-.'.'.' "Well, we started our second string," The Horse shrugged, "so whatever comfort "there is in it, we outgesttired .them. But in one waj we are ideally situated." Yes; Chapel Hill was a lovely setting. 1 "I mean, ideally situated in a footballedy man ner of speaking" The Horse corrected rae, chewing on a cud of Ivy. "Here is a perfect moment in which to give the game back to the boys: they certainly, couldn't do any worse with it than Saturday's fiasco. And we could all of us ,Tar Heels say, 'Shurc, they beat the whey outa us; but the boys here run their own team on the field, and it's their game, and not a contest between two coaches and two sets of pro fessional assistants to the two coaches.'" . Oh oh! Going to get onto Barclay, were we? "Nothing of the kind," The Horse 'contradicted my suspicions. "Let the powerful alumni block do that, if they wish; it was their idea to bring George down from Washington & Lee, just as it is now their idea to bring Jim Tatum in from Maryland. And just as it was their idea to bring Carl Sriavely. here, and their idea to boot him out again. My beef is, such a set-up as We now operate under results in blinging praise or censure on a professional coach, and not on amateur athletes." The Horse did not believe in Coaching Systems? "I believe," The Horse stated firmly, "that the -functions of a coach are: (1) To be a leader in w;hom every man-jack on the squad has confidence, and whom every lad on the squad respects, if not reveres; (2) To instill in the lads a philosophy of the game; (3) To teach them the simple but so important fundamentals of proper blocking, 'proper tackling, proper ball-handling; (5) To keep them in good physical condition and proper mental; bal ance; (5) To teach them only further-than-basic at tack 'plays as they demonstrate their ability to mas ter basic, plays on attack; (6) And on game-days to retire to the grandstand and let the lads, via their Quarterback and" their Captain, be he one or several, run the game." ' Jeepers Creepers Jeeeee-pers Creee-pers. "At the moment," The Horse ignored my display of amazement, "we are engaged in grinding out squads of followers and not of leaders, which the game states to be good for turning out leaders. Why, the coaches not only say who shall play and who not, but they even now disdain the rule against coaching from the bench if and when their 'sub stitutes' they send in do not carry the message to the Garcias. or the Olinskys, or the OTooles, in satisfying manner." What! The Horse had seen coaching from the bench? Truthfully, had he!' "Not from the bench, but from the sidelines, which are nearer yet,"" The Horse averred.. "And on both sides of the field, too. Further, it is but right that the 11 lads on a team at one time, or the whole t kit and kaboodle of the club, get the fame or the blame, win or lose. I must admit that now, by de vious arid sly methods, coaches have a cute way of blaming the boys if they lose, and of calling for con structive praise for themselves when their team wins?' AVhat were some of those ways? News Editor JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager'. BILL EOB PEEL GM CONCERT " ' Sandy Moffett, GM Music Com mittee chairman, has announced that a concert of popular music and jazz will be presented Friday night at 8 in the Rendezvous Room of Graham Memorial f"he program will include such songs as Lazy River, One Mint;Ju lep and 'It's a. Sin. to Tell a Lie. Among the performers will be George Ballard, 'rpave Davis, Mick ey Young,, Jan Strtbling, Bob 01 sen and Sandy Mofljett. Moffett said that the ? perform ance will be informal. He said that it is the first oi a scries sponsored -by "the populas music half of the committtee." According to Moffett the group is trying to work this into a "periodical thing" sim ilar to Petites Musicales. Associate Editor J. A. C. DUNN Sports Editor WAYNE BISHOP Advertising Manager . Assistant Business Manager Coed Editor . Circulation Manager Subscription Manager Staff Artist,... Dick Sirkin Carolyn Nelson Peg Humphrey Jim Kiley s Jim Chamblee Charlie Daniel Night Editor For This Issue. Reuben Leonard MONOGRAMMERS MEET The Monogram Club wlil meet tonight at 6:30 with an important meeting scheduled. President Jer ry Vayda urged all team captains to attend this meeting. Vayda also requested the letter-winners who sold tickets to the dance to please attend the meeting and bring the returns.' . "Benching first-stringers from the line because a backfield quartet hasnt mastered the basic propo sition of holding onto the ball on attack. This cute strategenv silently accuses ; the hard working tine of flubbing things," The Horse siw it. "Or saying, 'I can't understand what got into the boys to-day, they were ghastly;' when the truth of the matter is, the better-coached opposition is what got into and among and around and on top of the boys." - .Well, who and what built up the Coaching Myth? "A few good coachesj and some enterprising newspapermen who wanted to dramatize their copyi" The Horse said. "And that, is the whole of it." Did last Saturday's game mean Bowden .Wyatt, in his first season, was the kind of leader that foot ball players followed to his school: (Like Fritz Chris Ier of Michigan, knute Rockne of Notre Dame," Amos Alonzo Stagg of Chicago fame? ' "How could it," The Horse stabbed that ques tion, "when not one man of the Tennessee squad is a tWyatt recruit? No; I think it is our fault the fault of the schools' administrations that permit coaches to be built up as supermen, or despised as saps, when the results invite such pro or con action. 'I could have cried for Barclay last Saturday when I watched him stand there on the line and see the ugly slaughter of his and our hopes. But more than a modicum of my sympathy went to our lads who etiher would not or could not hold onto the ball, or tackle, or block, or run." Well, what could we at North Carolina do about it, it was a system! ' . "Are we not supposed to think constructively, and to take action commensurate with thought?" The Horse quizzed me. "Are we an educational in stitution, dedicated to progress and sanity and , truth; or are we a collection of bindlestiffs and' buildings created for the alumni to shove around . . . and a largely unthinking segment of Jthe alum ni, at that? Tor my part, I am not in the slightest -interested whether Coach Wyatt is a better coach than Coach Edwards, of State, say. What I am in terested in is in seeing our Tar Heel warriors ac quit themselves, win or lose, in a game that makes for teaching team-play, leadership, quick-thinking, fighting gamely against, odds, and fair-play." The Horse thought his proposal really good? "Hie coaches ought to love it," The Horse said. "All they would have to do would be to field teams that knew the fundamentals and ' with as much hipper-dipper on attack as reasonably they could be asked to show ... after they had mastered the fundamentals! The boys, I know, would go for it, for 'this way they'd get credit for winning, and not just for losing. And the fans should eat it up be cause it would be pride in a team, and not in a coach or in a coaching staff." But, who in our Conference would go along with us, 'who . . . ? "Virginia," The Horse chittered gaily. "The oth er hallf of the Class of the Conference!" Durned if I don't think 01' Hoss has something, for "a 'change! , 'Maybe If We Lighten, The Locd Little . . ... .. . 'T !-.. I: .. . I v-.v. cj m s y . MATTER OF FACT ore G Spfm Stewart & Joseph Alsop WASHINGTON The remarkable result of the first manifestation of the "Spirit of Geneva" is still being generally underrated. Most people in this country cannot quite believe, as yet, that there real ly is a serious danger of war in the Middle East. - 'At' the State Department, however, the Soviet sale ofc arms to Egypt, Syria, and Saudi Arabia is frankly stated to have produced a warlike situation of extreme danger. The chances of full-scale war breaking out between Egypt and Israel 'are various ly estimated, of course. But at least one highly responsible authority has stated that the odds are even on an outbreak of war within thirty days. This, them; is the alarming problem with which the harassed Western Foreign Ministers are trying to cope at the current Geneva conference, in the in tervals of arid debate with Vyacheslav Molotov. And this Middle Eastern hornets' nest was stirred up by the Kremlin when the ink was hardly dry on the final communique of the summit meeting at Geneva whose famous "spirit" the Foreign Min isters are now supposed to translate into justice. ' it can now be disclosed, furthermore, that the first sales pitch to the Egyptians, to purchase sur plus Soviet arms at a low price, was actually made before the summit meeting. The Soviet feeler was put' out early last spring, in talks between the Czech and Egyptian 'Ambassadors in one of the .Western capitals. Thus Khrushchev and Bulganin went to their summit meeting With President Eisen hower full of smiles and soap, but with full know ledge, tod, that they were about to create a Middle Eastern crisis bristling with menace to the .West ern Powers. 7 " ; : o To drive the point home, as it were, an exactly parallel operation - is plainly taking shape at the other end of the Middle Eastern fertile crescent, in Afghanistan. The country is small and infinitely "remote, but it is strategically "situated. It lies on the flank of Iran. It is the route from Russia to India. In the wicked old imperialist days, the British fought. their Afghan wars' with the main object of preventing Russia from gaining the upper hand in Afghanistan. ;, There' have been warning signals in Afghanis stan for a considerable period. The present King, 'Mohammed Zahir Shah, is strongly influenced by his cousin and Prime Minister, Prince Daoud. The policy and the administration of Afghanistan are 'largely" in the hands, today, of Prince Daoud and "the' Minister of" Finance,' Abdul TVIalik. And Abdul Malik and Prince Daoud have been playfng at put ting their hands in the bearV mouth, J . - Thus far, the game has chiefly i taken the form of accepting Soviet credits and admitting large numbers "of Soviet technicians to build the roads, "graineries, oil ; storage facilities and other works on which the Soviet credits are being spent. The total of the Soviet credits has "been substantially v less than the total of American technical "aid and of U. S. Export-Import Bank loans to Afghanistan, but the. political pay-off seems to have been sub stantially greater. ' - "' -v''- . - Now, moreover, a new phase almost certainly lies ahead. The Afghan "radio has just annoiinced the departure of a special mission to' Czechoslovakia, to discuss arms purchases : there wrhich is another version of the Egyptian pattern.In"addition, Messrs. Khrushchev and Bulganin are to visit the -Afghan capital, Kabul, on their way to or from their visit to India's Prime Minister Nehru. -, The Khrushchev-Bulganin visit to Kabul is ex pected to produce a new Soviet-Afghan treaty, an arms agreement and an economic .agreement. The first effect will be to bring Afghanistan rather de cisively within the Soviet sphere of influence. But this' will not be the only effect. v ': .With Afghanistan . under Soviet influence, and with .Tibet being dotted ' with SinoSoviet ' airbases and laced with Chinese military roads," the two great Communist powers will command the histor ic conquerors': approaches to the Indian sub-continent. All of Indians' long series pt invaders, from' the dawn-time when the' Aryan war bands . poured out of the Himalayas to destroy Mohenjodaro and Harappa, have come by these routes until the Bri tish, who arrived' by sea.' Tibet and 'Afghanistan may seem remote to Indians with historical memo ries. Communist control of these positions must inevftably affect the-course of events-in India. One kind' oi effect can already be foreseen. Af ghanistan and Western-allied Pakistan have, been en gaged in a fruitless but bitter and interminable dis pute about their borders, and about the status of people of Afghan stock living within Pakistan. Feeling ran so high last spring that the Pakistanis closed the border during most of the summer, thus .cutting off almost all Afghan. trade with the outer world except through the Soviet Union. Soviet arms in Afghan hands will certainly make new trouble between the Egyptians and the Israelis'. So the result of the next mahisfestation of the "Spirit of Geneva" likely to be the same as th result that now confronts us another menacing crisis in 'a region of great strategic -importance. Wes, cj. Tim'rous'; : "i rnor-05," . said to rr.y 1-r - - ' be not quite so e if he is deprhej How say yon, s.rr TU Ta ' . . . uuixiur of led the water in h mmn you're y-: column about for vously. "You ir.:;'. your time e :.- earning sorr.e -change." nance with an turned an mquirir; Director of E;r.er;- T'Vl s f"i vrsfy W.J ' A V S-'A tut iidU j., templatively laced irig at the ceiling. K do what you like,": don't bother me.'' "How about Eur: tain ' Grose's F:: suggested the Lr diency. "I hsv?( j which, if cut ir.'i lish, might veil point." I invited : connnue. "it goes . recited smoothly; 7fe has a fo::' nm-kcts: Pjcfj; arm rrr- - o jackets, Wad havd the I in tackcU, A to-nr-x''. ? And parritch-y:-. saut -backet?, Before i' c f "If translated, :! nacks: rusty iron t three Lothians is good twelvemonth; : pots and salt t' -' Flood.1 See how ana innueuuu u.i sounds? I tn;r.K right." Director of Fin.:r;.f ; The Director c! Measures continu?: plate the ceilir.J Burns' 'The Tow' or The vi Yarn. Here, w" verse 3: "There sat a " Bcuond the ?''J ; 'And ay she ' ' so-iil: , To drwik ft f' . th-A II jou Ful -reads, 'There sit' hole in the wail t flame; and sl'; other suck, to c"' yarn.' Complete.; Burns hadn't s? -might never - ; The whole book examples: gentlemen." "Hear, hear" of" Expediency. ' "Profitless. Pj:.; ed the Director of: - "I have a V' Scottish poetry, - tor of Kcr;-dreamily, ceiling for ih i like this: "You putt the p' And I'll 'And I'll 1 before you; , For me and never meei a,- On the ho rtry. of " "All risht. V do,- sir, that ; tor of Expcd;CI" outraged. "I will not be I shouted the V' gencv Measure?- "Aa a matter c. request that -ergency Meast" 6rder!" counter' 3 Expediency. "If you cor.!.'-'; the situation ' sU, in which , tion will I " my -poem interi m
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Nov. 3, 1955, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75