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The Day- of The .
Thoroughly-Oiled
Machine
Loudest hand-clapping of the week goes
from us to Dr. Hugh Lcfler of tlie history
department, for telling a Charlotte Observer
reporter what we .suspect most faculty mem
bers feel on big-time athletics but won't say;
The purpose of educational institutions is to,
develop brains, net b awn.
These crazv presures that say you have got
to win . . . "We're letting the side-show run away
with the main show. Intercollegiate football does
not develop athletes they're players when they
get here, or they wouldn't have scholarships...
There's a certain amount of hypocrisy in in
tercollegiate athletics. The pressure to win often
makes honest men dishonest ...
Rut, Dr. Letter, that's heresy. This is the
day. of "the thoroughly smug, the thoroughly
oiled system. This is the day of the big time
system with a motor of frenetic outside fans,
with directors who are embattled commercial
enterpreneurs, with manv executors who play
for pay and cars and things.'
"Most of the faculty deplores what is hap-,
-pening' adds Dr. Leflcr, "but it is not in our
hands."
Str-nic, isn't it, that some faculty mem
bers have the naive, cobwebby idea that an
educational institution depends on its teth
ers and that they ought to have some small
say-so? Crochety of them, isn't it, to dare say
that some of the thousands lavished on foot
ball and basketball teams would look better
in books, buildings, and teachers? Old-fashioned
of them, isn't it, to advocate develop
ment of the brain in universities?
Perhaps' the "naive one, the idealists, the
dwellers in the ivory tower, are walking rel
ics of an antique age when football players
studied math on the bench. Perhaps educa
tion has gone out of education.
Perhaps, if we. may be indulged a spurt of
psychology, sanity is out of date.
Time For Reviewing
'The Alumni Review
The current issue of The Alumni Review
like other issues of this monthly magazine,
seems to serve as a sad reminder that this
organ is doing little to stimulate intellectual
interest in the University.
As the. single contact point between the
University and hit st alumni. The Alumni Re
view falls decided!- chort of its mark of re
flecting the University. Instead, it tends to
resemble a promotion pamphlet.
The contents -rf the magazine are frankly
just .'these items: (') Xev. rewritten from the
past -mcntb's newspapers (2) Promotion items
..-king i money (3) Columinous pages of
t !a "" notes.
Carolina is a place where minds work,
where teachers carry on research and teach-r-not
just a physical plant, a place for football
games. But the alumni magazine concentrates
more on the latter than the former, more on
the superficial aspects of the University than
on its real work."
Since the magazine goes to every Alumni
Association member, it. has great possibilities
of aiding the University; its potential for good
is unlimited. Thus, we strongly suggest some
concrete and quick changes:
1. The Alumni Review should draw upon
the faculty of the University for interesting
and informative articles of intellectual inter
est. Many faculty members, though scholars,
write sharp, interesting prose, and most have
something to say. Why not let them say it to
the alumni?
2. Class notes should be limited, instead of
allowed to crowd the bulk of the magazine. ,
3. News items should be interpretative.
Since the initial happenings are usually sev
eral weeks to a month old, the Revieio could
explain their significance and give their back
ground. '
Pcihaps with these and other changes
The Alumni Review would pack more in
tellectual ranch, and would depict the Uni
versity as it real 1 v is. not mercjy its physical
facilities r.nd athletic events. 1 ' -
fje . mfe Max Heel
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Editors LOUIS KKAAR, ED YODETt
FRED POWLEDGE
. JACKIE GOODMAN
BILL BOB PEEL
J. A. C. DUNN
WAYNE BISHOP
Dick Sirkin
Carolyn Nelson
Night Editor For This Issue Reuben Leonard
GOP Af tempt
In Campaign
Just Flops
Doris Fleeson
WASHINGTON The' top Re
publicans who are trying to put
foreign policy out of bounds in
the 1958 campaign are giving
the Democratis credit either for
complete loss of memory or a
truly unlimited capacity for
Christian charity.
As a political maneuver their
eforts are a flop. Democrats are
inflamed by their pious attitudes,
and observers are recalling with
relish the proficiency shown by
these same Republicans with fo
reign policy brickbats in 1952,
1953 and 1954.
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President Eisenhower first pic
ked up approvingly a statement
by Democrat Senator George o
Georgia that foreign policy ought
to be nonpartisan in an election
year. Vice-President Nexon chim
ed in, supporting Eisenhower.
Then Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles got into the act, just,
as George was beating a retreat
with the stand that "constructive
criticism" was okay.
Dulles loftily called on Doth
Republicans and Democrats to
abstain from "partisan debate"
in the coming campaign. He in
cautiously added that Republi
cans had an excellent record in
this regard.
That did it. Democrats regard
Eisenhower as an echo and Nixon
as an imitator of whatever tactic
seemsimost likely to succeed at
the time. But Dulles in their view
is the architect of what they
call the slander that their fail
ures in foreign policy were taint
ed with treason.
It was 'Dulles who wrote "the
foreign policy plank of the Re
publican platform in 1952 which
charged that Democrats were
carrying on the Korean War
"without will to victory." The
day Democrats in power in 1952
forget that phrase will be when
they are carried out feet first
to their eternal rest.
The Dulles plank spelled out
the charge in many ingenious
ways.
It said that Democrats had
"shielded traitors to the nation
in high places. . they abondoned
friendly nations. . they substi
tuted on our Pacific flank a mur
derous enemy for an ally and
friend.", The Truman Administra
tion was attacked for "disloyalty
in public office" and the Repub
lican promise made that "we
shall substitute. . men of proven
loyalty." -
A special section was devoted
to "communism." It featured "no
torious infiltration of Communists
and fellow travelers in key agen
cies." Again deploring the Tru
man Administration's "tolerance
of people of doubtful loyalty" it
promised that "a Republican Pre
sident will appoint only persons
of unquestioned loyalty."
President Eisenhower backed
this plank with his famous prom
ise in Detroit: "I shall go to
Korea." He said his purpose
would be to "bring the Korean
War to an early and honorable
end." "The old Administration,"
he charged, "cannot be expected
to repair what it failed to pre
vent." .. '
Vice-President Nixon made - it
personal. He attacked Democra
tic nominee Stevenson as "Ad
lai the appeaser. . .A PH.D gra
duate of Dean Acheson's cow
ardly college of Communist con
tainment." He also called Steven
son a , "dupe" who never , re
gretted his action in defending
Alger Hiss. -
Nixon followed I up the GOP
victory with a memorable tele
cast in which' he said: "And isn't
it wonderful, folks, to have a Sec
retary of State who will stand
up to the Russians?' This, too,
is engraved upon the hearts of
many Democrats besides the im
mediate target, Acheson.
Still undaunted in 1954, Nixon
spearheaded the Republican cam
paign for the Congress with im
putations of softness toward com
munism on the part of Democra
tic candidates for the Senate
and the party generally.
All this provoked former Pre
sident "Truman to some meaty
epithets shedding heat not light
but avoiding the brand of trea
son. The most Stevenson could
bring himself to, do in 1952 was
to remind Nixon in an indignant
broadcast that one of the Ten
Commandments forbade false witness.
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Grave-Diggers
J. A. C. Dunn
NOW THEN, about this Smith dorm grave busi
ness. The plot gets thicker and thicker. Every time 1
turn around someone else has gotten himself in
cluded in the list of those involved, or some new
development has reared its ugly head.
, , j f As a result of several telephone
N, conversations with gentlemen Who
f , - speak in muffled voices, and clan-
distine meetings with people in lit--I
tie-frequented nooks here and.
1 " $ ) there, I am now at liberty to tell
t ;? at least part of the background to
"Z'' this whole affair.
, " In the news story explaining the
" more visible facts of the Smith
- dorm grave last Thursday, there was
mentioned a student who admitted to having en-"
gineered the delivery of the flowers to the Smith
Dorm coed, and who admitted to , having trotted out
late at night on a local highway, and dug up some
dirt so he could create the grave. This student says,
however, that the whole plot is not his idea. Whose
idea is it? Well gather round, dearly beloved 'car
ers. . . -
The student was put up to it by a mysterious
gentleman who claims to be from tlfe University of
Virginia and who knows more about the student
than the student knows about him. This gentleman ,
also claims to belong to a club called the "7-13
Club" (thus the numbers "7-13" on the grave mark
er perhaps), whose members call themselves (ap
propriately, too, one would think) the "Birds of
the Wilderness." "(hence the Greek letter "psi"
on the gravemarker, which is possibly not "psi,"
bnt a bird track). The Birds are behind it all, using
the nameless Carolina student as an operator.
FURTHERMORE, Tip: Birds aren't through. The
operator, the nameless student, received a telephone
call the day before yesterday from one 'of te :
Birds, who said that the next caper (just to use
a real thuggish, Spillarie-like term was called off,
that publicity was getting a bit out of hand (news , ;
stories .about the grave appeared-in the Durham ,
Herald and the Winston-Salem Journal on Thurs
day), and to wait for orders. ' '
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The "next caper" was almost unbelievable. The
next tinhe the coed who received'the flowers had a
date, her date was to call her for her neatly laid out
in a hired hearse. Flowers, a grave, a hearse; the,
sequence is a little bit out of order, but the effect
is the same about as macabre as one can get. The
classified ad about the;, grave which, appeared in
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Reader's Retort: On The Presidency
Editors: ' : : k
I see that theAAUP suggests
that the next University Presi
- rent have, among, other quali
ties, "a formal education, broad
and intensive, of a quality that
commands the respect of educa
tors." My question is can such
an education be obtained at this
University? Are not those prof
essors wanting something that
they cannot find in their own bail
fiek? .N. C. State college does not
produce such men, nor 'does any'
THE DAILY TAR HSEL
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yesterday's DTH was put under my door with in
structions to wave it round.
jr What comes next I cannot say. Perhaps I shall
have to undergo a few more muffled telephone calls
and furtive meetings. It should be interesting
. though, considering the amount of money which has
already been expended in convincing the 'poor
Smith coed (who has my complete sympathy, for
' what' little good it does her) that someone was a
bit put out when he discovered that she didn't love
' him with scorching passion.
Of course it would be; fun "if there were some
more developments. I rather like playing detective,
gp-between, sleuthing journalist, private eye (I've
always wondered what a 'public eye' was), and,
, generally, a cum laude graduate of a Night School
: For Young Halfwits. Perhaps the OSS or the FBI
needs me. Or, better yet, perhaps they need the
Birds of the Wilderness.
Lots of clever little fibs, you say? Maybe so. 1
have yeto meet or even see a Bird of the Wilder
ness. All I know is what I write for the papers,
and. I oirly learn that by muffled phone calls. Tune
(in next issue for, the next blood-freezing installment.
NOW THAT I have may head under the journa
listic guillotine, I would gabble a word or two
about Odell Stutts. '
Mr. Stutls ferreted me out of my recluse the
other night and said perhaps I might be interested
in the fact that he had taken over the Wishing Well
from Bob Fine and was revamping same.
I expressed interest by borrowing one of Mr.
Stutts' cigarettes. '
The Wishing Well; said Mr. . Stutts, ' would be
open for the Duke game under a new system, which
involves, basically, the fact that the establishment
is now being run primarily for students. No more
cover charge on weekends, inside and outside
serticea good place to take your Uate outside town,
away from academic hurly-burly. After December
9, Mr. Stutts said he was going into business -on a
slam-bang scale; this includes changing the name
of the Wishing Well, and various other improve
ments. But he will be open and operating today and
tonightready to receive sundry students, Carolina
students,Duke students, any kind of students.
.Of Mr. Stutts himself, it is interesting to note
that he graduated from the Business School here
last June, after having earned his way through
school working at the Port Hole, the Carolina Inn,
. and the Village Grill, He is now finishing off a tour
of duty with the state revenue department, and liv
ing in the Villagp Apartments with hisr wife.
science department here at Chap
el Hill, . I feel. Maybe the En
glish Department requires of its
Ph.D's a "broad; and , intensive
formal education," but I think
not. Everyone - knows .that pro
ducts of English departments are
not broad but very . specialized.
And yet there is an urge in many
students to go the "broad" way
but they are, continually advised
to go the narrow. If you major
in physics, you minor in math, .
etc. etc.
So let the AAUP committee
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suggest (yawn) a man with broad
and intensive formal education,
the lawyers suggest an - honest
lawyer, the businessman a liberal
millionaire who is against social
ism,, the students a reformer, the
farmer a native son, and the city
', dweller Arthur Godfrey.
And who. would. -I suggest? I
would suggest an honest man or
that next best thing, an active
man. For if a man does not act,
how shall we know him? Mor
timer Adler is rny choice.
Charles Lucas
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James Reston
N. Y. Times
WASHINGTON The Society
for the Exposure of Political Non
sense Was organized in Washing
, ton this week and drafted a list
of suggestions on how to survive
the Presidential election of 1956.
The S.E.P.N. is an anti-hokum
or counter-buncombe organization
whose purpose is to oppose mas
sive silliness, to. limit the dura
tion of Presidential campaigns to
a month or two if possible, and to
revive and sustain the art of
audible laughter, whistling and
other forms of heckling at poli
tical rallies.
' It is not opposed to milder
forms oi nonsense. It recognizes
and welcomes the need for fri
volity in a long campaign and
has no use for solemn bores, but
it is againat the deadpan circu
lation of political trash, quack
ery, lies, . phony slogans and all
other' form of political hooey,
regardless of their source.
The idea for the organization
came originally from Gov. Averell
Harriman's statement that he was
"for" Adlai E. Stevenson of Ill
inois, but not necessarily for him
for the Democratic Presidential
nomination.
It got another boost when Sena
tor. Estes Kefauver said he had
'trouble being "coy" and indi
cated that he might not run in
1956 because he wanted to be
home with the kids.
Gov. Goodwin Knight of Cali
fornia helped along the idea, too,
by announcing, honest injun, that
' he, really wasn't trying to gang
-up on Vice President Nixon, and
the Vice President himself made
a contribution by indicating that
the one (1) and only thing he
was thinking about these days
was the efficient operation of the
Government while the President
was away.
There have been some other
provocations, such as Senator Ric
hard B. Russell's tactical and tem
porary flirtation with Gov. Frank
Lausche of Ohio, and Stevenson's
crack that Eisenhower was run
ning a Government "of the rich,
by the rich, and for the rich," but
the thing that really .put the
S.E.P.N. in business was the
mounting pressure to make the
Presidential . campaign and even
the Presidency itself .look like a
rest cure, . .; , t
Representative Joseph W. Mar
tin the Republican leader in the
House, remarked the other day
another term by a landslide and
with "no strain at all."
"He would need to do very
little campaigning," added the Ti
, ttle champion from Massachuset
ts. "Make three or four radio and
television speeches, and that's it."
Mr. Martin's theories about the
comparative strain of life in the
White House and life on a farm
were even more original..
"I can see how it would be
less strain in the White House
than it would be on the farm
in Gettysburg," said Mr. Martin,
explaining that a man might be
tempted to do many things on a
farm while he might "hold back"
in the White House.
JVIr. Martin was kind enough to
leave the decision up to the Presi
dent, but Senator George H. Ben
der of Ohio, the loudest bell-ringer
in the Republican party, called
a press conference yesterday and
said straight out that President
Eisenhower "should and will run
for re-election."
The statement from Chagrin
Falls differed from Mr. Martin
about the speeches the Presi
dent would have to make. He said
Mr. Eisenhower could win with
out making any speeches at all,
and he added, in one of the phi-,
losophical gems of the century
(borrowed from Teddy Roosevelt),
"We must all either wear out
or rust out, every one of us. My
choice is to wear out."
Mr. Bender did not say what
Mr. Eisenhower's choice was, and
of course he knows no more about
it than the Nizam of Hyderbad,
but he told the reporters that he
Was sure the President agreed
with him "He would not want to
spend the rest of his days on a
rocking chair rest the man the
rocking chair on his farm in Get
tysburg." That did it. Mr. Bender's wis
dom was on the ticker at 12:12
Friday afternon.' By 1 o'clock the
Society for the Exposure of Poli
tical Nonsense was in business,
and by 2:30 a draft of the sug
gestions" for , enabling the poor
voter to survive until the first
week in November of 1956 was
in circulation.
' The suggestions follow:
Ignore all political statements
until Christmas. This is the po
litical silly season.
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Roger Will cc,
THE HORSE was busy havin, ...
Carolina Blue and Innocent y
rickety frame, when I
saw hirr,
he think he was a zebra
"Nope; and I'm not even
a hor;
Roger," The Horse stated, "a!tv
campus stalwarts, both of the u ;
none-of-their-bus'iness type, thr;-.i, ,
ioned anent Football's piac'e f 1
affairs," 3
What! Only a very few said so'
"Well, after all, I listen to onh a
bodies ever," The Horse shrusgeV'
on the subject do not mean I aT ,
and a dyed-in-the-hide one."
Didn't The Horse mean, dyedin
"Who ever heard of a horse
Horse horsed. "But perhaps the ir, .
gument I heard in favor of prof'
ball at this here now seat of North' r
is at the same time as handsome a'
histry as you'd care to hear."
"That was," The Horse affir
impossibly to disguise his genoria'j,
a triple coating of Carolina Elue,
of the Alumni Giving lists and the F
lists would reveal a preponderance 0'
friends who gave to Football ah
versity's general good, the inferer.'
they became ennuied with our undo
es, year after year, to profession:;!-:-for
example, Dooks, Sooncrs, South;
Twerpish Terps, and their likes-;-contributing
to Alumni Giving."
And The Horse perceived errata ir -"Yup,"
The Horse yupped. "Thej.:
and them as has money are called;
various gimme gimmicks that are. ri
at them. Indeed, it is likely that if
rifice academic validity to pi;.;
anxious solicitations would receive ;:
tort, ''You're making enough dough c :
to run the whole she-bang so...gor
The HorSv then, aw no economic:'
having us a bigtime Football club? .
"Shure I do, shure I do," The E
ed me by being reasonable. "It g:;
supporting a good and comprehend
Department and general athletic pr .-
So?
"So we have Big Business, in e::
cheek-by-jowl with Dedicated Educatir:
averred. "And this is all well and 1:
a proper sense of proportion is rr.ar.
So! The Horse was agreed wi'.h
Footballing!
"As usual, Roger," The Horse mur.
""you are a blubber-brained boob. Isi
sense of proportion,' didn't I? Well. L
heard . of an American businessman.
Wall Street, Churchman or Saloon-fe
mitted he was getting enough of F
and or Litle Silver, even whent hen::;!
a take of perhaps double what hevrr
regard as proper proportion? If a b:: .
Program succeeded in culling Tw
dollarsj next year's aim of the B.gB
bailers, would be to get Four MX
inhuman nature, that's all, to keeps
trough for all you can get. and not:.
need."
But if Big Business Football would
in wasn't it okay to go after it?
"By the same token, Roger," The E
absently drinking a noggin of the p
ly as ABC, "would you recommend 0;:
the basement of a church on the scan.
it wrould dcd ud vespers and add to '
you unveil a Jackie Gleason Chorus t
of a churchchoir smply because it
backsliders off their backs of a Sh
into church?"
I thought that was well, geceM
"Would you suggest we move The -of
Lenoir's bargain-basement and cr
Level of our wonderful Library to &
and to provide, out of the profits-
pay and a little more staffing for -
That would be silly!
"Shure it would," The Horse shure:
you aren't interested n bettering
Library. The Library is only the
campus body it is not a pretty 1,3
show the sensation-loving public- .
Well, gee; after all, it wasn't tltf .
ness to mantain itself as a money-
"So why is it Football's place te as
a money-making venture to sup'
athletir; activity on campus?" The '
"Because somebody discovered t;
made, under certain conditions 0
sure and propaganda, to do just thai-
i inougni i ne nurse wso- . ,
argument to make a questionable p -
a logical way to support an Ath '
"Ah, yes, logical, "The Horse y
him n-hnn Vi it or-e 't hrOU Zk CJ '"
iitiil n 14.11 Vllitt.ic. ....
"But .is it logical to demana
that
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ask a professor to present nothm
Silly, silly, silly. The Horse was
"Well, the Big Business Foothal';.
The Horse snapped, "by asking0"'',
to get an A on every Football U"
game, every Saturday, every year.
jack on our team to be an All-A1111'1
to be Coach-of-the-Year every
veai. -
The Horse, then, didn't think
nnrtant?
"Only," The Horse grinne
"amp! Rrnthpr if wa u'in this OfiC-
-e-
and Bud Wilkinson .to assist Cc
year. Beat Dook! Heat Dol P.EJ;
give George another three years
X.