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FRIDAY THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO a4ieSB I f I i s ! t 1 1 t -til u Editors Managing Editor News Editor Sports Editor Night Editor For This Issue Savers Of Energy With the te hhic 1 a i d of International ' IVnsiness Machine repairmen, student energy in the classroom' today maybe conserved. Since 'the bells tolling ' the beginning and end of class 'periods have been silent, student metabolism has worked. over rime. Human energv being what it is these (lays, dwarfed by atomic piles and high horsepower Cadillacs we salute IIVM's technicians for helping? conserve our-kinetic capat by. No longer will that great exertion of force be wasted daily near the end of each class hour, as the professor turns his back and a classroom of students nnsheath wristwatchs in jerky unison. A Parting Insight From Mr. Gray Men are sometimes victims of doomed ex pertinents. Gordon Gray, we think, was such a victim. He was not made President of the Consoli dated University for his learning, for Ids per tential stature as an educator, or for his con cern for the vitality of education, though he had all three. He was brought to Chapel Hill at the wishes of those who thought the spraw ling complexity of the University had gradu allv put it into the same class with United States' Steel and General Motors. That is. the class of big business. F.en the people of South lUiilding. some of them, seem to have the same idea. "I su spect," Dean vKatherine Carmichael told the assembled freshmen during Orientation Week, "that education has become the big gest business in the world." Meaning no of fense to Miss Carmichael,- for her intentions, we're sure, were impeccably good, we take diametrical issue. Education, by any interpretation, is not business. It never has been and shouldn't be come business. Perhaps Miss Carmichael meant to say that educational administration has become "the biggest business, in the world." That would be getting closer to the truth; and if it is true the answer 'is not more btisiness-Iike administration, but de-centralization. A Consolidated University mav dc consolidate any time it pleases. If we can't be laudatory about Mr. Gray's 4 presidency, it is no fault of Mr. Gray's. We simply disagree with the "business" concept in college administration. But we can be lau datory about Mr. Gray, as a president , given the atmosphere a rub the quest .for Zcffij jcucv?;' under which he was put into office. The Ex ecutive Committr ol the trustees, in a reso lution adopted unanimously when it took Mr. Gray's lcl -.nation earlier this ,w c.c k, praised his "pavion for clarity and order in . all thii'us' That passion Mtv Gray had. That passior )nt to o(od: use. He 'straightened. r w - about straightening, disorder and made the administration over into a precision instrument. For that accomplishment, which he was called to do and did, he merits North-! Carolina's heartfelt thanks. The-central -quest ion. now becomes one in which Mr. Gray's personality and the job lie did are not at issue: Is the University presi dency to require science, which Mr. Gray was called to practice, or art?. Is it to put clarity and order alove the people within it? Is the President to be an administrator, attending to the twists and turns of complex policy, or a leader, suffusing the educational commun ity with his ideals, his philosophy, and his own moving spirit? If final proof were needed for Mr. Gray's own abiding loyalty to the University not tharwe think jt is we would offer this: Mr. Gray himself saw, early in his tenure, that the "business" idea is out of tune wth the idea of higher lerrning. At a Consolidat ed University Day two years ago, he told a Kenan Stadium audience that the word "Consolidated" itself smacks too much of "Consolidated Edison." His last report to the trustees struck the same note. It occured to Mr. Gray "that a respite from the administra tive supervision of a non-educator might be a healthy -'thing for the 'University." Mr. Gray. -served well. And in parting he gave us an insight 'whose meaning shouldn't be mistaken. ' mtj Uar 5eel The official student publication oi the Publi ations Boarrt of the. University of North Carolina, f V '. ' where it is published N daily excePl Monday Sj and examination and vacation periods and I summer terns. 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 I! 1 1 . a semester; delivered. k $6 a year, $3.50 a ie " mester. , LOUIS KItAAR, ED YODEIt FRED POWLEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN Business Manager ;..,TJ BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor ; J. A. C. DUNN WAYNE BISHOP -Reuben Leonard ; GOP Faces , m - Both -Ways On Labor Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON Republicans are facing both ways on labor as they head into the Presi dential year. One wing of the paYty- has been noticeably pursuing within recent days the divide and con quer strategy with which the late Senator Robert Taft won his final striking in Ohio. .The '.GOP policy committee, Chairman Barry Goldwater of the Senate Campaign Committee and Senate leader William Know land have . in turn appealed to union members over the heads of union officers. They have complained of huge sums spent from Union treasuries, to aid the Democrats, and have warn ed against an all-powerful union merger. Secretary of Labor Mitchell meantime continues to maintain a conciliatory attitude, lie has stoutly insisted that the Presi dent's social and economic poli cies have benefited' labor. At the same time he has held the line in the Cabinet against pro posals which labor fears. Among Republican elected of ficials Mitchell's most open sup port has come from Senator Knowland's f e 11 o w-Californian, Governor Goodwin Knight. Knig ht was brought into the New Jersey campaign to show that state's voters a GOP friend Of labor; Labor spokesmen are pointing out that Republicans held their lines better in New Jersey than anywhere else last Tuesday. CIO President Reuther has at tacked Knowland for "inventing hobgoblins." In general, labor leaders 1 are inclined to hold their fire 'until the campaign prospects and the candidates 4nibye clearly Joto thier line of iVis:ion.ibiiiiiii,:ii They are carefully noting what is being said and even more important what is being done in a' situation , extremely . : important to them. It involves , a' . vacancy oa Ithc -Nali6ial La- -bor Relations Board and a stru ggle over its chairmanship. The ILRB chairman has certain special powers which make him a key figure in its deliberations. Secretary Mitchell's candidate for the vacancy and chairman is his departmental solicitor, Stuart Rothman. Rothman is an Eisenhower Republican from Minnesota who worked here for the U. S. Housing Authority when he first graduated from law school. He has the backing of the GOP Senator from his state, Ed Thye. Thye is pro-Eisenhower but at the mooment very unhappy "about farm prices. Making a spirited campaign for the chairmanship is a pre sent member of the board, Phi lip Ray Rodgers, who was asso ciated with Senator Taft in the drafting of the Taft-Hartley Act. Rodgers has two friends on the President's staff who were as sociated with him in that enter prise, Gerald Morgan, the Presi dent's counsel, and Jack Martin, a legislative aide who was Taft's administrative assistant. Labor leaders asseJl that Rod gers hates unions and has voted against them in a long line of decisions. They were amazed when he recently told a San Francisco audience that labor leaders were men with the best interests. of the country at heart and praised the AFL-CIO mer ger. . While they were still goggling over these remarks, their teams ter colleague, Dave Beck, sud dently extended the hand of friendship tp Rodgers. At the same time Beck said he- had voted for Eisenhower and for Dewey in 1948. One Beck associate remarked that Dave, a businessman to the core his fine new teamsters headquarters is a showplace of Washington had been hold ing out his hand to Republicans for a long time but that Rod gers was the first to take it. At this point, supporters of Rothman and Rodgers don't know exactly where to turn since patronage problems are being kept from the President. And the NLRB chairman will be regard ed by labor leaders as a clue to what they can expect from the GOP in 1056. ' ''Scholarship & Humanity' Should 3 e First And Greatest Of ' ' ' ,r . - Consolidated University President Greensboro Daily News The hearts and minds of North Carolina turn now from finished business of Gordon Gray's re signation to the task of find ing a new president for the Uni versity of North Carolina. The job will be more difficult because of the current crisis in education. Twenty-two years after Governor O. Max Gardner's great vision for university con soliation, there is wide talk and genuine concern over a plan to supplant three-branched conso lidation by a 12-institutioned consolidation system managed by the State Board of Higher Edu cation. North Carolina will need to examine that plan in all its ramifications. This 'newspaper has been a firm advocate of , consolidation for 22 years. Under consolida tion all three units of the uni versity moved forward splendid ly in many fields; but there were deficiencies which ought to be examined. ..'. NO DOUBT There i is doubt whether the university trustees can find and secure the kind of president the university needs while these ques tions" hang in the balance. What will be the relationship of the higher board to the consolidated" staff? Will there be needless du plication in the selection 6f a high-powered executive 'director of the higher board and the presi dent of the Consolidated Uni versity? Can there be effective merger of control of the 12 in stitutions of higher learning un-. der a sort of government-by-committee? Is more bigness , an- an swer to bigness? Will' all power eventually move to the higher board leaving a bare shell of au thority at the consolidated level? All these questions are woven into the problem of finding a ' new university president. The present trustees may. need to ig .The CopsM Seasonal r - If I The leafy curtain, turning iron colored in browns and deep, dark reds, did the fashionable thing in a hundred communities last night. It completely dis appear, as many folk wish the Iron Curtain itself would do do. Suddenly innumerable oases of light and neigh borliness which had been completely surrounded by shadow, as islands are by the too often darkening seas, merged in a constellation of shining windows, gate lamps, t porch lights. -This is one of the season's compensations. As nature grows less friendly, .more coolly distant, hu man friendship glows more naturally and seems more warmly near. This is a gentle, feeling, without any of the vague anguish" of Mathhew Arnold's cry, - i-l nore these issues until a later date, but they are bound to arise. They 'ought to be part "of a- new Great Debate on higher educa tion in North Carolina- WHAT QUALIFICATIONS j In the meantime, what are the qualifications for a great uni versity president? Gordon Gray himself, in his last annual report, set forth requirements which illu minated his own decision. "While I do not believe," he wrote, "that the chief administrator of an in stitution as large . and as com plex and as inextricably woven into the life of the state as ours v ; j . v Dr. Frank Graham: 'An Interest In People . . .' need have spent his life in edu cation to do an effective job, nevertheless, it does occur to "me that at this time af respite from the administrative -supervision of a non-educator mighi; be a heaHhly "thing for the university." The first qualification, then i is an eaucaiionai DacKgrounu. un der Frank Graham the University of North Carolina mellowed in ah atmosphere of academic con geniality, inspiration and enthusi asm unparalleled iri university -Example Is i he Only B5 Busy Giving Parking Tickets' Note FroiVr I thing; history. The secret of Frank Graham's success at Chapel Hill lay in his great qualities of hu 'manity and scholarship; he. in spired students and faculty; -he helped create an atmosphere of liberality and learning out of which great minds flowered. Such qualities do not often go hand in hand with excellence In administration. Frank Graham's regime was not marked by an em phasis on structures and super structures; his regime was mark ed by an interest in people. The university, then, realized . its loss when he left. His quali ties of greatness, in the end, were rarer and thereby more precious than those of the good business mind. The university must re- discover and rekindle that spirit. Though, the good administrator has become one of the valuable, men of our society, he may, when confronted with the challenge of a great educational system dis cover that his training, however rich and caried, seems impov erished. . , The first and greatest quality of a new president should be scholarship and humanity. Through the example of his life he should infuse into the univer sity that priceless , spirit, that quest for learning without which any university is barren. Albert Schweitzer put if well when he thing in influencing others it is the only thing." Is there such a man available for the Consolidated University of North Carolina? Is there one who has a deep-seated love and ,. understanding of North Carolina, . with all her virtues and faults? Is there one who can persuade the university to find and remain h true lf amid alI the big. ness and coldness of . coscli dation and super-consolidation? .If there is, the.'university, trus tees should seek him put and call him to a great mission. . . J: v . - IS lit mt- he Monitor Kimi I i i i' iim mi i II i in .amnwim 1 ;r,AH "Let us be true to one anothrer!" wrung from him by a sense of desolation at night on Dover Beach. Here the night brings new assurances: The Smith's living room windows are blinking with fire light. The garage lights at the Maybanks' have just cut a swarth of bright green across half an acre of flat blackness; Bill is home in time for the ham burger fry. - In the crisp night air there will be a few college songs, around a fire, and : afterward a score or so of "We'll be seeing yous.' Of course they will, and hot jmt att some future time but practically all the time no wthatthe once massive curtain of maple, beech, and oak leaves has vanished in a sudden nighttime blow, The Christian' Science Monitor Reader's Reidri: Race Relations s - "Grammar iiule s (The Daily Tar Heel lias been asked by Mr. Stephens to reprint xthe following letter, which he sent Ao the editor of r The Dnirliam Morning Herald. Editors) Editor: Recently your newspaper car ried an article on the "Y Race Relation Forum." While I have had a deep appreciation for the great American principle Free dom of the Press, , Ithink that the method in which many of cur Southern newspapers handle our present race issue is deplorable. At the recent forum on Race Relations, seemingly your news paper played up every "little ne gatives" that has existed here on the U. N. C. campus between the Negro students and those of the Cacausoid race. There are "litOe negatives' to be sure, and a big thought is of course, more powerful than a little one, - but it must never be forgotten that "mighty oaks from, little acorns grow" and if a mass of "little negatives" clutter up your con versation, they are bound jto seep into your mind. W'hen are the newspapers going to talk about some of the- whole some relationships that have been enjoyed by members of both races? Positive attitudes are always more effective than ne gative ones. 'I have nothing to sav by way of .'denial about cer tain bf your accertions (even though some of them were quite distorted) as stated in your ar ticle, but I do contest any me thod which tends to d'rt the picture or a series of pictures as a whole. - Nothing was said aDOut such statements as these: "Problems here have been similiar to those that we would irave found any - where"; "We regard certain ev ents as incidents not problems such could have been found even at some exclusive Negro Col leges"; "Relationships in my de partment have been wonderful"; ; '.The. more we learn of each other, the i better ?;will our rela-.-tionships become";-"So. far no dis criminations with regard to j fair ness of -grades,. J? am jStill here ' . will. indicate that." "No academjc y nor recrealipnal ; -facilities here, at the Universts4have been den ied anyone encouraged to use such";. "Everyone seems willing to help solve What few problems . we, have encountered -manifest-ed here today"; etc. " ? I have cited these quoted ex amples as illustrations of many of the statements that were ex changed at this forum to establish a positive picture of the pro gram. The members of the op posite race also indicated pro blems that they too have encount ered. To me your article full of negations deplored the positive at ude taken at this forum. Ex cept we take more and more POSmVE ATTITUDES, race re lations will never-become that which it ought, long have been. Why play up an article with the little unessentials and leave out other ESSENTIALS? Why not. in showing the movie, show the entire film? Why. "Negate" when it is possible to "Positate"? Even newspaper writers , have preju dices too, Uh? Don't feel bad, we all do. . "The moving finger writ and having writ mores on nor all your piety and your wit can can cel back a half a line of it." Let not Negation Deplore Positive ness. D. L. Stephens U. N. C. GRAMMAR. HOUND Editors: .. , . . In Mondays WUXTRY edition of The Daily Tar Heel, Manag ing Editor ("Livespike") Tow ledge twits careless student wri ters: ' 'Students don't know how to write. Mostly they don't know how to use an apostrophe." "Election posters are the most graphic example of students who forget their 10th grade English." v Well, -"Livespike," you old grammar )und, how about the rule in 10th rrade English that v says that predicate nominatives like 'example should agree in number with antecedents like . 'posters', as in the above quoted paragraph? "Livespike" winds up his co lumn by saying that: "A course in basic rules of writing, required of all fresh-, men unless they pass rvtain tests, is very much needed here." Agreed. And, obviously, junior' who are Managing Editor's don't need these tests. i Zoni G Buzz Msrr;!t 'IP I . (Buzz Merritt, editor cf the n paper, has a sense of humor, hi k reprinted from Tte Corn Co r former Daily Tar Heel stafferJ;. paper. Although ire don't corZ' editorial policy, the article rev. Ha. Editors) " 2 Not being abe to find a parkin- -Olds (courtesy of Time Mag's ed guilt-edged sack in my poor, 1; house and slept, dreaming, as anv . will, about an interview with the DTH. Fortunately it was all a dre-'-ly expecting it to happen any t-0 t it went: Q Mr. Editor, how is vour lem of giving, the students wha , daily newspaper coming alcm? A Well, I'm really concerned think we are doing fairly well my giving ourselves what we want. Q Yes, but I understand that , dents are not satisfied and that th paper. ' A That's true, but I reallv r we slam somebody everyday and ri University, vve put lorth our be-t ; and are very p.seudo-pseudo, but t.c, ate it. r Q Are you really Lrin t.j t;y t., they want? A That's really not necessary. v, air our personal grievances and sat; : enos through the miner. I iiKt r they want. When such professional ; nermost . petty, twisted dislikes, thn every word with baited breath ar.d scribble as if it were issued from G ; Q But you're still evading th? v will you do about the problem? A Reahy we don't need to do s:.y' ler of eaniDus thousht and activity only a few more months to act i- ' can't) thpv ' lpt us nlnnp' Thpv nrr ! ''.-a something, or something. They act L':; us to- oiiice. Alter an naoer :s 4 t . ; to, represent the school, Is it? It is r i of the pseudo-pseudos and not then: naive , enough to agree with soir.r; doesl After all, we can't, get a!ori(; b; thing think or act freely without k:r- words or acts editorially pushed d )'.:: ' Q Do you feel that anything CAN 'A- Oh yes, indeed! We can or: hell out of everybody and everything and create disharmony on the cair.p isn't a free-wheeling wheel on c-i Q Do you feally feel the pa;vr -influence? A Oh yes! Tliey all love our P- . . 1 1 , g Do you tnmk tne paper vn-i r over to the Journalism School? A Heavens no! That would be c think, under those circumstances t.. cease to be independent. We could unproiessionai writing to py r no longer twist facts, have 100 tip per issue, we would have to spell rarrr have to print campus news instead feelings, and would lose our 'liecn a lousy paper. Just think, if prouv students ran the paper, it wouhi unbiased paper. How terrible. T. ? would be turned upside down. The-: er be our de-harmonizing influence Desicles, we would not oe ao;- such company. What a catatroph;c . . . . . . . 1. 1 . -i i - Q Thany you, Mr. Editor, frr J' co-operation. And may your paper c- on in its great tradition for anot.it? A Traci' I'cr ihe nnio Dan Mclntyr Yale and Harvard, ciBt'odfans. . have shown that it can be as W'K,. bough. The Bulldogs beat West F xand thunder 14-12, and the Cr Princeton 7-6. . - What is more, both loser :J moments of play to make 1 e ' , "respectable" than they did -'r ternoon. Here is something for the "t; leges to think about: the anu only, be cheaper and more h :'r,i"'" . riety, hut also more eriSati"r-i'" Dispatch
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