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PAGE TWO c 1 hi Editors Managing Editor f . I f y 1 . t t e . , ; - s - ; : - ; -v Consolidation: No Sacred Covs . For 22 years a shroud of silence has hung over the consolidation plan, and at time those who refuse to pay it lull allegiance have been branded as heretics. Take the case of Dr. Hutli T. Lelier of the' -University History Department. Two summers "ago. speaking before a civic club in Greensboro, Dr. heller made the mild statement that from the historian's point of view the value of consolidation niuld be questioned. That "was all he said; yet almost before he got the words out of his mouth lie was under fire from a doen quarters. Dr. Lefler, who has taught most jf his profes sional career in the University, who is indis putably the foremost authority on North Carolina historv. was branded a hot-eyed en emy of both school and state. ' " ' Now, at long last, some sense seems to be entering the picture. Arthur . Johnsey's Greensboro Daily News story that the trus tees may consider doing away with consoli dation in favor of the, new Hoard of Higher Education has at least removed the aura of ' silence. As one University administrator told us, "now, at last, we can discuss it." . ' No person or group, and certainly not Tbe Daily. Tar Heel; is prepared right now to sav whether consolidation of the Woman's College, State, and the University at Chapel Hill has been a good thing overall. It has been part good, in that it has brought higher, more uniform salarv scales for teachers at the three branches"; but it has been part bad, in that many feel the Chapel Hill branch lias lost facilities and prestige which State College has gained, and that the Woman's College has lost most of all. No mere administrative machinery is sac rosanct, consolidation, like all man-made structures, ought to be subject to constant critical examination. Certainly right now, with the Hoard of Higher Education about to get down to work and the presidency un certain, consolidation must face the glare of re-evaluation. True, the final action must be taken by the Geneial Assembly. But the trustees are the delegated guardians of the Consolidated University; it is their job to look toward ad vancement; and, if parts of the machinery become, rust-ridden and outmoded, to scrap them. That is why it was a strange spectacle to see the Executive Committee running like deer before buckshot away from the anti consolidntion sentiment reported to exist among the trustees. The old black silence still has them under its spell. Rebel' h Rebellion The T iversity of Mississippi Mississip pian, which calls itself "the rebels' weekly newspaper," has lived up to its name of later In that land of the Till Case, where Hod ding Carter, editor of the Delta Democrat Times of Greenville, was censured by the state legislature because he condemned" the racist "white citizens councils," this spunky contemporary of ours has thrown down the gauntlet to Ole Miss's Hoard of Trustees, the citiens'councils, and the college administra tion, all of whom have tried since the Su preme Court Decision of May, 1954, to pick over University of .Mississippi's public speak ers. ' "If-Reverend Kershaw is hushed," asks a Mississippian lead editorial, "where is free .dom of speech?" The reference is to the Rev erend Alvin Kershaw, a supporter of the NAACP, who has beei asked to speak at the University's annurl Religious Emphasis week. Some students and the citizens councils have have begun to put pressure on the chancellor to turn the Rev. Mr. Kershaw away. Hut. says The Mississippian, "the citizens councils have neglected to grasp the meaning of a University." Students attend, a University to increase their knowledge,' gather information through freedom of speech,, and inquiry, and formulate their own opinions-. How is this possible when they' are N coddled like children? The Mississippian makes, the right point.' The elder censors are not only trying to re move, a" Constitution-given right. lake the Pentagon br: s who lifted "nnapolis and West Point out of last year's debate on the admiiVn of Communist China to the .Unit eel Nations, they would make "education" littky more than the confirmation 'of -prejudice.' ije Batlj Car f$ttl ' The official student publication of the Publi ahons -Board of the University of North Carolina, y v. f daily except Monday V 1 and examination and ' vacation, periods and "I cum m or ttr-mn s j """"-' iti ma. turner U ed as second class if 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, $6 a year, $3.50 a ga mester. " '. LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER FRED POWLEDGE -'..,. ( IS - Mi Night Editor For This Issue Reuben Leonard Tuesday7? Trend Will Make Ike Clamor Strong y Doris Flceson WASHINGTON A DEMOCRA-ft TIC TREND which asserted it- self shortly after the Eisenhower triumph was significantly streng thened from coast to coast Tues.- day. It is now three years since Republicans have had a compara ble shot in the arm. The immediate effect will be to increase the pressure on Presi dent Eisenhower to run again. Republicans will more than ever fear that they cannot win with out him. Some have already shown that they are prepared to bend the medical and practi cal realities to fit their political necessities. The White House staff has done a magnificent job of keep ing an Administration tinge out of such speculation. Whatever the form of intimidation or per suasion that has been praciiseob on the President's callers it has been remarkably successful. Per haps the Pentagon experts char ged with finding a countertechni que to brainwashing ought, to look into it. 1 THE PRESIDENT'S AIDES, however, cannot control the con versation beyond the immediate radius of his hospital bed and there has been a lot of it. Part has ben published such as House . Leader Joseph Martin's bland' insistance that the President will find it easier to be President than a farmer in Gettysburg and Senator Bender's sublime assur ance that the President would rather rust out than wear out. Democratic National Chairman Butler suddenly flung the door open on some of the more private speculations which are being tried out in the better bars or private suits in the big hotels. ' The Chairman was discussing the election returns with report ers arid they had asked him about an idea put forward by some Democrats that the Vice-President ought to be nominated ahead of the President. He said he -didn't think it would happen next year and added: "I do believe that if some people are going to carry out this idea of running a sick man and letting nim resign after he had won, we ought to -consider changing the Constitution so that .the Vice-President could succeed only until such time as a special election could be' held.", Butler attributed this idea to "personal or group self-interest" among some Republicans but said he was sure President Eisenhower would not be a party to it if he were aware of it. THIS IS' NOT the first time that the pride of South Bend, Ind., has put Washington's "in side dope" in the public domain. Last spring he suggested that the President's health and . Mrs. . Eisenhower's inclinations might deter him from running. This was common talk in Washington but Republicans raided a 'great hue and cry that Butler was trans gressing unforgivably against the first family. Butler's opposite jnumbcr, Chairman ( Hall, will doubtless be heard from again; for some rea son Hall seems to find Butler peculiarly irritating. Generally politicians so placed are very chummy when not engaged in their employment as partisans but not Butler and Hall. Possibly the cause is Butler's . insistance upon spilline bea'ns Including those only half-baked. Democrats argue that the Na- . tional Chairman's function is to throw the opposition off balance and Butler is doing exactly that. They suggest rather callously -that any chairman is expendable, and a candidate can always get out from under him if he be comes too controversial, v IDENTIFIED A Smithfield .matron dissatis fied witlf the number of times one man came t osee her cook, spoke to her abTut it. "When I engaged you, Martha," she said, "you told me you had no man friends. Now whenever I come into the kitchen I find the same man here." "Bless you', ma'am," smiled Martha, "dat man aint no friend of mine, he's my husband," Smithfield Herald r In Former Secretary Indicts Republican Foreign Policy: 'Stream Of Ideas' Has Now Dried Up Dean Acheson In Harper's It is always dangerous to attri bute principles, behu!x' or at titudes to men or institutions on the basis of supposed fundamen tal characteristics. In considering the attitude of our two major po litical groups toward foreign af fairs, however, one fact seems to me pre-eminent. In both the per iods just before during, and after the two world wars, the Demo crats were in a position of re sponsibility for the conduct of foreign affairs, while the Repub licans were in opposition. The Democratic attitude was formed by.a government in pow er, responsible for its acts, and with that intimate knowledge of the new pressures and necessities I hich come only from the con duct of affairs. The Republicans turned , inward to the domestic political scene, where the forces which could be exploited were the reaction from the burdens and discipline of war and the reluctance to assume heavy and novel commitments far beyond our- shores. MR. TRUMAN LEADS THE WAY ,The destruction" of the military power of Germany and Japan re moved the counterweights which had for many years balanced and restrained the expansiveness of Russia. We and our Western Al lies uemobilized. As a result, the task of creating a balancing pow er system had to begin at the very bottom. . For eight of the ten years this work was carried on under De mocratic leadership and respon sibility. The financial effort was immense. TSo were the production and military efforts. But these do not go to the heart of the real achievement. It lies", I think, in the boldness, the imaginativeness, the creativeness of the thinking, and perhaps most of all in the sustained will which those in charge maintained and commun icated to the country. This stemv med straight from President Tru man himself. Leadership is accorded where .trust has been first given. And trust is dependent on conduct. It is cautiously given and quickly taken back. As we inspire trust, consent will be given to policies which we advocate or support. Take as an illustration of suc cessful leadership in this sense the conduct of the British, WolT. It XSTrX W A -.1 .,W..-.. Hill mm -id- " m- -C. '...-;r THE DAILY TAR HEIL Harper's Magazine- o f T fate French, and United States gov ernments i n response to the blockade ' of Berlin. Rash action might have landed us.'., and our friends in war. So all of us had the strongest interest in cool jud gement, consultation, and action whicfi was adequate and restrain ed. - CONTRAST IN LEADERSHIP On the other hand, consider as an act 0 f leadership the an nouncement by the. Secretary of State in January 1954 of the pol- 1 it ? II. Dean Acheson: Republicans 'coast on the momentum, of past initiative' . p,. - :': . icy of instant retaliation. Without consultation or warning, our al lies were informed publicly, that a new military policy was in, ef fect. ' V Mr. Dulles said: "If an enemy could pick his time and place and method of warfare and if. our policy wrs to remain the tradi tional, one of meeting aggressioon by direct and local opposition then we need to be ready to fight in the Arctics and in the Tropics; in Asia, the Near East, and in Europe; with old weapons and with new weapons." But it was not pointed out that Was Nice And Warm i f M . fcft V "... ...'! W j ! ' . I - ; J j & ' ' i ' " ' I I I I 1 I i - v: 7t ' ? I I I i I t ; ; . ii . ! ' " ;f ; - i ' I M i I i Acheson dent arid Officers be taken over this "traditional" policy of meet- Dy a state Board of Higher Edu ing aggression where it occurred cation, in effect consolidating all had something to be said for it. To expect defense where the at- tack occurred gave hope, confi dence, and enhanced .sense of protection to nations in' danger. ( The contrary impression would make them believe that, what ever Washington might think of its own interests, it was not giv ing much consideration to theirs. The announcement produced in our friends and allies agitation, fears and loss of confidence in our leadership. - -. This is almost a classic illu stration of the way a leader i among free nations should not proceed. First it threatened, or appeared to threaten, nuclear warfare. If one of the basic goals of our policy is to avoid and pre vent nuclear warfare, no subsid iary policy can be based 0 n threats to engage in it. Another precept disregarded is t h i s: not to proclaim policies which do not comprehend the in terests of our friends. A third is that policies formu lated must be calculated to bring success. The 'failure of this one was soon to be demonstrated. Mr. Dulles said: "I have said in relation to Indochina that, if there were open Red Chinese ar my aggression, there, that would have 'grave consequences which might not be confined to Indo china.' " It was affair inference from, this statement that the new pol icy was applicable to Indochina. Unhappily Dien Bien Phu fell and nothing was heard of the new policy. It was a failure. One of the chief purposes of American policy is to develop the unity and strength of coalitions of free nations to balance the Sino-Soviet system. In doing this the Democratic party has a great asset In its hospitality to intelligence. In the conduct of our foreign relations in the -years following the war, ideas were welcomed and re-' spected. Men capable of ,having them were welcomed and sup ported. The years since 1952 in Am erican foreign policy are not no table for the quality of the ideas generated. Policy has coasted on the momentum of past initiative. But it is one thing to speak of having "seized the initiative" and quite another to know what to do with it. The stream -of ideas had dried up. In July". l2 .- n - f i of ?;-' .s ... .! ..." ' z Writers Endors Possible Action Of Trustees Editors: It was reported in Sunday's state papers that the Trustees of the University may consider recommending to the next Legis lature that the functions of the Consolidated University Presi the twelve state-supported insti tutions of higher education. We would like to go on record as supporting the trustees in this position and commending them for, a forthright and foreward looicing suggestion on a key ques tion in . North Carolina's higher educational system. 'We hope that they will look with favor on the idea. LOOKING AHEAD In ten years we will be gra duating twice the number of men and women from high schools in this state. North Carolina owes it to her " citizens to provide facilities for them to obtain fur ther education in a state-supported schoolr both established and proposed. Since we are some what behind in facilities for the current student generation, we are obviously going to do some thing more than double our fa cilities and staffs in the coming years. The most effective way of domj it seems to us to be to coordinate budget control and broaden policy planning by plac ing all the state schools individu ally under a single Board. . At -the same time, wc.are of the opinion that it would be well to specify a particular set of curricula to be offered, and ad missions .policy to accept at each branch those students for which' its curricula are designed, and to stimulate in each a distinc tive atmosphere. Dr. Purks ' has recently pointed out the impos sibility of providing something for everybody at each school. We would like to suggest three ideas which seem to us to have merit if the plan is accepted. First, we recommend that all the state's graduate schools in the humanities and theoretical sciences be grouped at a single 1 institution; and those in engineer ing and applied science at ano ther. " Secondly, as part of .an overall admissions procedure, the Board of Higher Education might give a battery of tests in the spring "to all high school seniors who express a desire to attend a state- supported institution" of higher education the following year. On the basis' of this, it would be recommended to each that he apply for entrance to one of the several schools (in most cases) which would offer the type of curricula in which he is interested and for which he is most suited. Satisfactory completion of two years study at any one of the branches ought then to make one eligible to transfer to any of the other schools for his last two years if he desires. A requirement of this and something which does not work well now, is to make all courses taken in any one of the state schools transferable with full creit towards gradua xion, and full credit towards mem bership in honorary scholastic societies, to any other branch. , ADVISORY BOARD Thirdly, we would like to re commend that a general Advisory Board be set up to assist the State Board arid its administrators in policy planning. This would not replace the Boards of Trus tees which presently serve, in this capacity at each of the schools. But the Advisory Board we hope will have a somewhat different composition; we hope that it will have; in suitable proportion, some of the state's outstanding citizens, and members represent ing administration, faculty, and students of each of the twelve schools. All of us, citizens, 'aministra tors, faculty members, and stu dents ' are vitally interested in the state's higher educational policy. We all have points of view which ought to be consider ccd in making this nolicv: we cin all contribute significantly to its formation: tre can all widon our understanding of th prob lems involved in it and increase ?'" abilities to solve thm. We all h''e the samp aim: th Vst possible sx-t;t.pm of higher pfluoa tion for North Carolina. T.et ms all work toethr to achieve it. Mannina Muntzing Norwood Bryan BUI Wolf Charles Kafzenstein Jim Turner WCDNCSOay, f; r mm - n 1 ir nir 1: Is uderer & English Club $;.- . On Early Vcrna-' Poots! Dan Wclnfyre "En Van cle mon Ireuii Que toutes mes )lonU: unci, arid .uiter ,- f and legends of Francois Vill. n iV ow the greatness of his xcro, v,: i the title, not only of "F;i!h(T ,1 , Poetry", but also his rank a o'-.( !. of all time. Born in 1431 n ;ir i-". of his adult life in trouble with 1436 he was banished from p.. -, heard "of again. His poetry consists ,f t.V!, . Legacy and the Testament, with a s usually collected as a Codicil, the '-: taph Ballade" rounding off the ( . work amounts to less Hum S.Qmj i smallest corpus sustaining th( rr, first-rank poet except Sappho. L lines are unforgettable: In fourteen hundred and f.:ty -I, Francois Villon, sometime ' Considering, with mind well-fix, ' The bit in my teeth, my he?-! ::, That a man's work should :v,; i.f. ; In this year, as I said before. In the dead season of Noel, When wolves chew wind otit-i-h- r Arid a man keeps smi'4 insjiie hi: With a fire against the fro;t. a. , There came to me a desire h p;,:; From that amorous jail, that c t. ' i Where for a long time broke my h But since I've got to leave this pi And my return can't bo fere! dd . (For I'm no man of spotless v;i -Nor, more than another, of shelf And human life em't be Ion told. ' And there's no escape from (h., ;.. And my travels will be manifuhh. I leave behind me this legacy. WHEREAS, to begin this in the Of the Father, Son and Holy Ch And the Blessed .Mother of Juriir -: By Whose good grace no man i- !, : ITEM, to her named heretofore Who has so harshly chased me 0; i . I leave my heart in a chalice stmi!. Piteous, pale, transfixed and (!(;id: She put my pleasures all to rout: God give her mercy in its stc;;:!' ITEM, to Ythicr Marc-hand. Master of Arts, I'm indebted -n:' I leave him my sword, my trim.1.: Or John the Cuckold wait! In re :.." It's held in hock for a bill t r Sum of eight sous, drinks t th;.t This will authorize, if the !ili Delivery to you on my account. ITEM, I leave. to my poor Mitler (For her to address our Virgin Q Who has had for me such bitter b ' God knows, and sadness in betvuvr, I have no other house or screen To shelter my body and keep it uh When over me pour the ills IV - " 'Nor has my mother, God rest her 1 "O ruler of Earth, my Queen, my I.. Who i.-vcn over hell-swamps lidJ ) Receive me, humble Christian! bu ' To me to join Your Chosen, if I - Though I was never worth much. My lady, those great Gifts v.h:th V Are so much larger than my No soul without their help can r " And I don't juggle words in my For in this Faith I want to he 'Anl 4.11 xr c 1:1 . t . T! By Him may all my sin- I; - ua ' ' : And like the Egyptian girl may 1 i 1 ' Or clerk Theophilus who. as I've i -(Although the Devil had him m ' Was pardoned and absolved of -' :; Preserve me if that way I !xi:U ' ' Virgin Who bore, with maidc -m:i .... loe Sacrament wnich in tr.e (. 1; e For in this Faith I want to bu a".:' "I'm d pfior ohl woman and m s My letters I have never learn '1 And I know nought :Tt .' : " -I go to my pari.sh Church us'.h : ' See Paradise painted, harp- a: d i And a Hell where the dam::' ! grcat.dismay: One gives me fear, the other b Give me the iov. mv noble lb d To whom all sinners oimht Fill me with F ult.il, 11 0 (.'' For in this Faith I want to v e 'V irgin, the breast. One You bore I e us. Whose reign has no v M L ore! of All Things, put on ! L eft His high home and came. cry, O ffering His dear Youth to N ow, that He is Our Lrd I F or in this Faith I want to b '. 'Whether Helen or Pans d;'-. Whoever dies, he dies in pain So that he loses breath in His splfen bursts into the -'' And he -sweats; God know tb i! His ills give him no privily" No child or kin can be coii-tra-At such a time t( be his p!d. (Contimu'ii To-"'