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r PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATUDAY , Something Different In Chapel Hill "Students have been taking stands on con troversial issues for 800 years, and" when con troversial issues are ruled off the academic scene it w ill mean not only that our campuses have become very dull places, but also that we shall no longer have colleges and univers ities. We shall have something different." With these measured words, Woman's Col lege Chancellor E. K. Graham came to the defense of his students this week for being controversial - The WC -student Legislature, had passed a- resolution favoring desegregation, which as Chancellor Graham said merely meant that the students were not disagreeing with the U. S. Supreme Court. This is not the" point in question, although we agree with' the WC legislators. What is important-is that students main tain "the fundamental right ... to consider 'a question which affects them, and their right to take a stand on it." The issue of racial segregation, like other social conflicts, will subside; but students with inquiring minds will always want to search for an answer to any problem and express it. When students think about controversial issues, tliev are searching for that element of truth that scholars have always sought. The older generations, frequently mistaking longevity f'V wisdom, view the younger gen eration cynically, perhaps because their own hopes in youth were unfulfilled. Thev are the old men who envy, instead of admire, youth, and from them comes the stolid stabili ty that we term conservatism. For them the search has ended, because their world is one of material things. Chapel Hill & A Tradition Mere at Chapel Hill, site.of an almost leg endary tradition of liberalism, the student rommunitv has all but turner! that tradition into nothing but a myth. , In student circles, encouraging' signs of de bate, controversy and free exchange of even not-so-popular ideas exist but mainly in de bating societies, not in the more pragmatic management of student affairs. The inquiring student who challenges a policy a principle finds his dissent mistaken for disloyality to 1 is school, state, and friends. Criticism is accej table, but it must not be negative, student s- , , thinking in cliches of a Xorman Vincent Peal-stuck society. . - The Younn Old Men WT-t studer don't rea-i?" is tint thev are alre-V--' old men who mistake stability for unqualified endorsement of the status c;:u, already the disenchanted waiting for age and money to certify them bona1 fide con servatives. ' . Students themselves, we maintain, have al ready ruled the controversial off- campus: The student Legislature here refused to even goon record one-way or another on the seg regation question; the upholders of a system of dionor speak more often of tlfe safe issues of court mechanics and system than the basic problem of student dishonesty; and dissent is often labeled "disloyal t v. j J Unfortunately, Chapel Hill is already be coming dull; students have already adopted the gray flannel suit-cocktail circuit-financial success symbols of these times. We already have, as Chancellor Graham put it, something different than a real university. ailj ar ieel n. ir V The official student publication nf thm P,,t,n. -rations Board of the University of North Carolina. where it is published $ daily except Monday vt.and examination and J vacation Deriod n? summer terms. 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 a semester; delivered. 55 a year, $3.50 a se mester. LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER ij 1 r 1 1 S i Editors Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE News Editor JACKIE. GOODMAN Business Manager .. BILL BOB PEEL Associate Editor Sports Editor J. A. C. DUNN WAYNE BISHOP Advertising Manager Assistant Business Manager Coed Editor Circulation Manager . Subscription Manager Staff Artist Dick Sirkin 1 Carolyn Nelsoa Peg Humphrey Jim Kiley Jim Chamblee Charlie Daniel EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Charles Dunn, Bill Ragsdale. NEWS STAFF Mike Vester, Charles Johnson, James Nichols, Peg Humphrey, Charlie Sloan, Charles Dunn, Ethan Tolmari, Joan McLean, Curtis Cans, Bill Corpening. OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editorial, subscrip tion: 9-3361. News, business: 9-3371. Night phone-8-444 or 8-445. Night Editor For' This Issue Curtis ' Gans Touching)' & lis Plight Ralph McGilf Atlanta Constitution More than one half of our able st young people do not enter col lege. Of the top one fourth in ability in the 18-year-old group, only 40 per cent graduate from high school and DO NOT go to college. Twenty per cent of the ablest students in each high school class DO NOT graduate. They drop out for various reasons, usually econ omic, before the senior year. Forty per cent of the ablest graduate and go to college. The percentage of the whole class which enters college is about 20 per cent. Now, we come to the "Why?" First of course, is the economic explanation. Many do not have the money. Still others who might manage it on their own 0 to work to help their parents. GRADUATES Industry's advantage over teaching in the competition for college graduates was illustrated recently by Dr. John A., Perkins, president of the University of Del aware, in describing the case of a Deleware senior who had planned to become a high school science teacher but was hired away by a large Delaware corporation at a staring salary of almost $6,000 a year. 1 "While we are pleased with his student's good fortune," said Dr. Perkins, "there is no mystery about the shortage of teachers when incidents such as this point to what is generally prevalent. "Here is a student with no un usual scholastic achievement, no previous experience or exception la talent, being offered a starting, talent, being offered a starting position in industry at a salary higher than he could ever earn in the public schools of Deleware. Not only does this wage represent more than any'of our high school teachers are earning, but it is $1,000 greater than that paid to assistant professors at the Uni versity of Deleware. . . "The long run effect of this in equity in. the salary situation Ttifsns that these very, industries which arc now hiring inexperi enced people and must pay such good wages to secure them - will soon have no one to hire because there will be no adequately trained teachers in "the schools and colleges to instruct them." These paragraphs put the prob lem, in a stark perspective. As long as the state and local units regard teachers and their profes sion as merely a political pres sure group, teaching loses its prestige. . The astonishing thing is that there are job3 for every graduate of ability. SCIENCE This is espically true in sci ence. No less an authority than Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atom ic Energy Commission, has said the United States faces possible disaster because "Russia is win ning the cold war in the class rooms." "If there is another war," Stra uss said, "it will almost certainly l?e lost by the country with the fewest resourses in trained man power." He said the United States requires from 45,000 to 50,000 new trained engineers every year and is getting half that number. Even banks are short of, of all things, agricultural graduates. Al most no man or woman who leaves school with a "farm" di ploma can expect to do a "dirt" job. The banks want some 9,000 such graduates in the years ahead as vice president of their agri cultural departments. The need for teaehers, "Extension service workers, county agents, and so on, cannot be supplied by present enrollments. -This is true in many , other fields. Questons arise. - How many young people . are willing to enter jobs which are, in a sense, "missionary?" How many states are willing to face the facts of life namely, that teaching must be more re warding in pay and community status? . How soon will the teaching pro fession revise its rigid formula so as to make ability a promo tional step? In other words, when will the profession cease evaluat ing all pupils as the same, and all teachers as of equal ability? Teaching has many rewards that medicine, law, business, jour nalism do not have and can not have. But teaching must be able to sell itself to the able high school students; 'Boy Look At 'Em Go!' . rH l V' v v it K " ' rY-7iii tiilftilillillNllilir.iMBMIMMIli' ' "rjiHmmMmmllitnm i, m 1, i.r-'----Wi-1tifiiiii 11, .,iBBMMttBMiim IV 1 ' Lii i v. .1" i ... s THE ROUNDABOUT PAPERS: Throbs From 1892, And ! I if i rat-: ; . A ; ' ' J t : : ' ; : ' . ; .' ' ' 1 ; . i ; j ; j ! i ' i ; , : ' ; ; ; 1 ; blare is jlear ) ! By Jl A: C. DUtiti ' !iHnniia:-qiijjjjjjji?t;t s ,. i SOMEHOW ! IT-nevers! seems Jlposslbfe that anyone ' could have fallen in love in IhalSpo'I iiave always pictured that period of history as being a rather dry stretch, in-the tale -of humanityduring which: women wore muslin-covered sheet armor and bust- les, and men wore ill-cut suits with shirt (jollars up to their ears. In those days, according jo my mental picture, men and women did not fjall in love: they merely got married and (with their nosd's delicately turned the other way) had children simply so that (a) somebody would Carry On The Family, and (b) they could have their pictures taken, the women looking as if they had just got out of bed and hadn't had time to tend to either their, faces or their coffee, and the men looking like haughty old fuddy-duddfes sitting still out of sheer conde scension to the coming generations and shielding themselves from chanccunpleasantness with an im piessive barrier of six weeks' growth on the upper lip. These pictures are, of course, rescued from old trunks . years later and proudly pointed out to children . ("That's your grandfather Mulch, photo graphed while on a bird-watching trip in the Hebrides." "That's your great-aunt Chlorine. She founded the Society for the Preservation of Indi- " gent Milkmen.") " Anyway, people knew not the meaning of love before about 1920 except in Shakespeare and the Arabian Nights according to my envisionmcnt of my forbears. : , , ' ; ' M i : m . t , : .': ' ' ' puhile rnilsivo sighs himself mo'dcstlv, "Your Best Tellow';vf " '! . 'ijj: ..J,. - ' I THIS MENTAL PICTURE was altered somewhat, however, as a result of a small blue volume that turned up the other day on the 48 cent shelf in the Intimate Bookshop (one finds the most intriguing things on that shelf; I once, in a moment of un bridled abandon, came within an ace of buying a prehistoric book on knitting for 48 cents just to see what it would be like; at the eleventh second I regained my sanity, though, and went and sank my money in a beer.) The book was entitled Keightly's Mythology ("for The Use Of Schools") by one Thomas Keightly. The mythology wasn't very interesting all about Ulysses clattering around with those sheep, and that fool what'sshisname who let his wings melt or some thing. What was interesting was the inscription on the flyleaf of the book. "Daisie Gidney," it said in old, old pencil, "G. F. College, Greensboro, N. C. Dec. 7, 1892." That was fifty seven years ago Wednesday, or you might as well call it fifty eight, since New Year's is tipon us with a roar and a toot. On the other side of the leaf came the meaty part. "Dear Sweet Daisie always remember Mag and 'Vernia.' What fun we had at .'G.F.C in room no 52." And then the writer finally girded his trembling nerves about him and said it: "Some love one. Some love two. I love one and that is you." And did he have the nerve to sign it with his' name? Silly! What makes, you think anyone. in the 1830's would even 'dream of letting his real name be connected with such a blushable confession? No! The writer of this , YOU THINK that's all? Certainly not. We've only come to the second reel, so to speak. On the back page of this memorable ' tome, our "Best Fellow" evidently had a. change of ' heart. "Dear Old Daisie Gidney," he sighs (still in pencil) in a reminiscent sort of way, as if Daisie's flame had flickered low and she was no longer "Dear Sweet," but callously relegated to tie category "Dear Old." And then comes thevfinal blow; a bitter, tight-lipped, disillusioned, Tckjfell With Women, you Can't Trust'em Any Father Than You Can Throw A Carriage Block con demnation of the heartless Daisie: "a flirt!" barks the JBest Fellow," and rubs it in with a sarcastic "only three more lessons!" Perhaps you would like to know the first sentence of the text of Keightly's Mythology? I'm sure you wouldn't, but I'm going to tell you anyway: "There are things," announces Mr. Keightly primly, "which though they may not come under the head of useful knowledge, require to be known." This, of course, is enough to make any strait-laced, still-born scholar rush, pale and wobbling, to the rail, and be ill over the side. Perhapsr however, perhaps, in the 1890's, love was considered one of those things which did not "come under the head of useful knowledge," but which, all the same, "required to be known." It may well be that for the "Best Fellow" Daisie Gidney, with all her sweetness ,and her flirting, was one of those things. " OH GOD LIDERACE (at the Carolina Theatre) THE ST. A's wish to clear themselves of having been connected with the float-burning escapade which I mentioned in last' Thursday's column. St. A., it seems, didn't even have a float in the Duke Parade, and consequently couldn't have gotten out in the early hours of the morning and burnt one. Representatives of St: A have come round to the office and firmly denied having any part in the matter. My information came from a policeman. Un fortunately, since there seemed to be countless thousands of policemen bounding around at that moment, J cannot remember which one told me St. A. was involved. But since the police blotter has a record only of the fact that a float was sen on fire on-Friday, and no record of individuals involved, it seems probable that the police simply assumed St. A. was involved due to the incident's having taken place on the St. A.corneV of Cam eron Avenue. ' So St. A. didn't have a float-burning war .with another fraternity, while the police thought it was St. A. but never found out definitely be cause they didn't book anyone they just stood quietly on the sidelines and let their presence suggest to whoever was involved that it might be a good idea to go home and stop setting fire - to things. o Stevonson at :A Decision Tho Alsops WASHINGTON In a matter of days, if present plan's hold, Adah Stevenson means to make a bold and aggressive move. The move will he a public announcement of definite plans for entering "four or fve" primary contests, thus challenging all comers notably Senator Estes Kefauver to mortal combat. There has been much pulling and hauling in tie -Stevenson camp about this decision. Some Stevensons advisers, notably cam paign manager James Finnegan, hav( been extremely reluctant to accept the risks involved. Fvight now, so the more cau tious Stevenson advisers have ar gued, Stevenson can count on more than 80 per cent of the delegate votes needed .for a first ballot win. Why should Stevenson risk this almost unchallengeable lead if he does not have to? The answer is that he does have to, according to a second group of Stevenson advisers, who h?.ve consistently counselled bold ness. This group includes Mayor Richard Daley, of Chicago, Barry Bingham, chief of the Citizens-for-Stevenson organization, and, on most issues, assistant cam paign manager Hyman Raskin. PRESSURE Public pressure-and the force of circumstance, this second group has argued, will force Stevenson to enter a number of primaries otherwise he will be accused of ducking a fight. More over, if public polls and private soundings mean anything at all, Steverison has nothing to fear from any other Democrat, includ ing, Kefauver. So Stevenson should seize the initiative and announce his prim aries against his will. Bar a reversal, the counsellors of boldness have apparently won the day with Stevenson. He has ; not, apparently, finally decided which primaries he will choose in his expected announcement. But it is not difficult to pick out four or five probable choices. ; Stevenson is already publicly committed to enter Minnesota, of course. And he is already private ly committed to enter California or, so the California Democratic leaders certainly believe. Oregon is not much of a problem either. Oregon National Committeeman Monroe Sweetland and other Ore gon leaders want Stevenson to enter their primary and Steven sons could be entered anyway, without hjs consent. Pennsylvania is another prob able choice. Mayor David Law rence, of Pittsburgh and Mayor Richardson Dillvvorth, of Phila delphia (who was for Kefauver in 1952) are both accounted Stev enson men, and both reportedly favor Stevenson entering their primary. New Jersey, where the leadership also favors Stevenson, is a further possibility. Florida is a tougher problem. Holding the South, both in the convention and the election, is an essential element in the whole Stevenson strategy. Stevenson spent a couple of days recently doing some - effective politicking in Florida, and although he made no commitments, this led, Florida "Democratic- leaders to assume that he. meant to enter the prim ary. . KEFAUVER " On the other hand, Kefauver ran very strongly in Florida in 1952 against the South's favorite son, Senator Richard Russell, of Georgia. And there is a danger w hich, although it is a remote, causes visible jitters in the Stev enson camp. This is that another Southern favorite son, Senator Lyndon Johnson, of Texas, might be entered in Florida (where con sent of the candidate is not re quired.) Equally tough is the problem of Wisconsin. The primary there comes less than two weeks after the Minnesota primary, which would crowd the Stevenson sche dule. And there is the nightmar ish memory of the fate of Wen dell Willkie, who also made a second try, and who was stopped cold in the 1944 Wisconsin prim ary. The chances . are that Steven son will skip Wisconsin, and, for a variety or reasons, such other primaries as Nebraska, Montana, Ohio. South Dakota and West Vir ginia. There are still those in the Stevenson entourage who would like to see Stevenson challenge Kefauver in his own particular stamping ground, New Ifcynp shire, which has the frist primary. I he y( The l'k Rnnn. Uimi THE HORSE was in xiohln. , muttering unintelligible hae been unintelligible w "I have Heroic Couplet's 0 using for a mind," The h' ' paper affair. I recall reading poets do not know what t;.' " are doing It, and it occure'd condition," affected by me.'n v. . terrific." ' I was sure The Horse rather than terrific. Could 1 1 mianigntiy peregrination? "Always room for cne n6 Horse shrugged. "But, pray' sume The Muse whilst he is r " travel one step behind me. ':' If it was all the same to v it was not, let's make that a it The Horse ambled into the $ a noggin of their Coffee Subi " ' .peats none of the language 'ae fee Substitute in his Heroic Co From there, he aimed himself' ward the innocent and fr;erV ! Chapel Hill, but encountered 3 i who made the mistake of spear" i Horse. A reverse maneuver wj. too much difficulty, and, net", we made it back past The Scut-v-Mount Vernonish porch of Tier The Horse discoursed illife 1 which came to his mind ihat not busy with Heroic Couplets) E understandably silent since The . interruptions of nothing save of? ' was making, and he was handb; expertly himself. ' A distinguished Classical teacher ! of appearing on the scene at thin lovely lady, and they were include. ! Discourse'without The Horse drr stitch of his loosely knit disc;.:' the First Lady's Mercurian -footed j minded spouse appeared on these; his wake appeared the affable Er nogram Club and we now nurid It was beginning to look asii Kenan Stadium when The Horse p: ' wicked-looking pipe; and swift 'said by the gathered multitude; a:: ; again The Horse and I - s . wondered how the Heroic Couplet; ; "Tut-tut," The Horse tut-tutted: tut-tut! The oven of Creation is : 1 by looking in to see how the trie . I thought this simile Theft; a 'turkey' was splendid! I t: , miss whistling hooves. And The F. in a resuming of our peregrin. : back to The Sculltcbutt we went. M Borrowing the telephone, TheL ( tcrious call to someone he addrv.e ley, and from what I could gather tj get landng instructions for a nef: "Tower, Tower, Tower!" The E j out, "I'll go around asain and call ; wind leg. Horsie, over and out!'' j And out it was; out of The Scutti the innocently sleeping town iVf The Horse made the night quictlv.; muted chant which had in it ' k Sweetheart Of Sigma Chi. And sin; ged into the Sigma Chi House, k ; plunge until we were in the ce.ar ; - Several studious lads were study:: do with Chemistry. . .1 fancy. . . . quid Chemicals were the subject at , at elbow. , f American Airlines, Al Boner'-, I am sure, confused with one B . dan, C. R. Smith, L. I. Jones. ASj other un-Classical names appe-j versation; but not once did I Dryden, Horace or even Longm"- j one did mention a Dead Soldier, j of Dead Soldiers. . .and, prcsu , for this unknown warrior, everye-, stairs and in a trice or so more peregrinating back toward - j r The Deke House was used j Cameron, with The Horse cheer-- , Dekes, all ex-Dekes and long since- and we emerged on West Camera I wondered about the Heroic . "Tut-tut-tut-tut-tut! Let sleeps Well. Turkey or Dog, me that Heroic Couplet deal comp; we had made a slight turn and on a - new heading of some The Magnet proved to be a hg Phi Epsilon. Tun vminf Sterna "Ph l-crs- .. j o -- - - . iipsnonersr were . . ham in a skillet. The Hani remn--those Heroic Couplets doing, I0'" "Tut-tut!" M, Out the door, through a bib,, driveway, up a sidewalkless si were going Chi Psi-ing. An was struggling wim .-u...---- -I hoped it was Heroic Couple " A ' The Horse consented to el,lz tion, although nobody had askr "You state a Generality: the y, tions; then you end up "ith y" s or D." Mart- Thic viT-ac r"nrmn;ltl0n. nOi - the matter of Ham. Turkey, hoic about those' Heroic C'oup e- "Tut-tut!" Out rtrrr arTOSS th? walk; and suddenly The HorV in the intermittent glare of"' . - u;. picht"0-"' iramc ngnt, I saw . j r. bent challengingly on nu-: they were just mildly crossed-1
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