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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Presidential Support
For Symposium Needed
When Carolina students show by their own
1 initiative that they are interested in the ideas
that shape world 'happenings, that is news
and sood news.
Such a demonstration lias taken place re
cently over plans of the Symposium, a group
organized to' present outstanding thinkers
speaking on the world's critical problems.
Operating on donations and subscriptions,
Symposium leaders have received--solid stu
dent support. When Symposium leader Man
ning Munting appealed to the Di Senate, for
instance, the group granted S25, then individ
ual senators gave $38. Another instance of
strong student support is the cooperation of
every fraternity and sorority solicited.
In March, 10 main speakers from the na
tional, international, and regional scene,
aJong with 25 subsidaty speakers from the
state, will unfold to students their ideas. Af
ter formal speeches, the guests will mingle
with students, hold discussions, and submit
to questions: this will extend over a week.
Symposium's week should be a stimulating
intellectual experience for students.
Unfortunately, though, the spector of camp
us politics hovered threateningly over the
project last week. The student Legislature,
realizing the worth of Symposium, granted it
Si. 000.
Hut President Don Fowler, even before
the bill's p assage, warned the Legislature
tit: he would veto the bill and thus deny
Symposium its funds.
We assume President Fowler is concerned
about the financial stability of student gov
ernment not the worth of this project
since students have shown keen interest in
Symposium and since its intellec tual value is
obvious.
According to our estimates and that of
the student funds auditor a $i,ooo-grant to
Symposium would hot seriously dent student
government funds.
Therefore, The Daily Tar Heel strongly
suggests that the student President check his
books again, remember Symposium's value,
and firmly back the project.
Redneck At Yale:
Georgia's
(.. .The dominant trait of his mind iras
intense individualism ... The plantation
tended to find its center in itself; to be an
independent social unit, a self-contained
and largely self-u f'icicut little -world of its
oxen... The upshot of this is obvious. It
'made powerfully against the development '
of law and government beyond the limits
imlo"'d by 1h" tadi':vof (lie old back
count ,T 'Villiam J. Cash in The Mind of
the Sc. ::fh.)
When journalist William Cash examined
the Old South's culture, he found a penchant
lor taking law into one's own hands. The old
plantation owners, observed Cash, were still
basically barkcountry individualists. Many
of them came up the hard way, and they
made their own laws.
Although years, a Civil War, and South
ern progress have all but erased this char
acteristic from the South, a modern counter
part of the old Southern redneck appeared
this week at the unlikely place of Yale Uni
versity. The redneck was Georgia's Attorney Gen
eral Eugene Cook, and he brandished all the
Liu lesness that the Old South ever possessed,
only in modern terms.
According to Cook, who spoke to the Con
servative Society of the Vale Iiw School,
Georgia intends to. get around the U.S. Su
preme Court's segregation decision. (Even
the greenest Vale freshman could have point
ed out to the Georgi.i politician that the court
is the land's highest and the final interpretor
of the Constitution.)
Cook had dther opinions, ranging from the
frantic white supremacist cry that the court
lad trampled individual liberty to bigoted
mouthing about how integration would lead
to intermarriage between races.
"God still lives," reminded a voice from the
Yale auditorium balcony.
, Recalling that the Old South's planters
.were a God-fearing lot, we wonder how the
Georgia attorney general lives with Jiimself.
The plantation redneck was a restless soul
who moved westward after his single crop
h n exhausted the soil.
- As long as that one crop flourished, all was'
line: but when the land gave out, he had to
move on.
Soon the South will realize that it has al
ready moved on. and the morally-exhausted
values of Kugehe Cooks .will be left behind.
A NinerYe
The Curren
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Junkets Of .:
Congress
Doris Ffesson
WASHINGTON As all report
ers know, there is nothing so
broadening as travel on an ex
pense account. The difference be
tween the press and junketing
Congressmen is that reporters' John Eaton Grade School oh Thirty-fourth Street
employers get a look at their ex- jn -Washington, the, third row in the fourth grade
pense accounts, a privilege de- brings in "hews" for discussion, and this week one
. nied the U. S. voter. 0f the topics was "the school problem." ." . " ,
Accordingly Thomas Busey Reston, aged 9, came
home frith some questions:
q. What caus.es the school problem, anyway?
A. -The kids too many kids.
q. Well,' Robin -Goosins- says that the problem
is that there, aren't enough teachers and schools.
A. That's right. We need a lot more schoo's
and we need over 140,000 more teachers this year
just to take care of the shortage.
Q. Maybe it'll get better next year.
A. It's going to get a lot worse. Ten years from
now, we'll have to have a half a million new. teach
ers if we are to have one teacher for every thirty
kids in a room.
Q. We have thirty-eight in my room.
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A. I know, but there are going to be a lot more
kids ten years from now. By then, when you are
in college, the Government figures there will be
twelve million more Americans in school and col
ege than there are now. They also figure that it
will take half of all the graduates getting out
A
t-Old Looks
School Problem
This is the primary reason that
Congressional junketers arc re
garded satirically and evezi with
suspicion.
GOVERNMENT MONEY
Junketers u s e government
transport. They spend Congress
ional and counterpart funds, the
latter being foreign currencies set
aside for U. S. spending by na
tions receiving U. S. aid. Junke
ters free load on U. S. diplomats
while their passion for bazaars
and bargains is an international
legend from the. Aleutians to
Mozambique. Often members of
their families accompany them.
Then when they come home
they get the courtesy of the port.
That is, unlike you and me, they
don't take their bargains through of college, in the next ten years just to meet the
school teacher shortage. The population of tne
United States has increased by" over eight million.
Q. Are the Republicans to blame for all this?
A- No, D-emocrats have children too. It's an old
custom. The Republicans" call it private enterprise.
Q. ,Were schools better when you were a boy?
A. Well, of course, everything was better when
I was a boy. The girls were prettier, teachers
made more, than ditchdiggers, boys .were politer to
their elders, and people paid more for schools
than 'for automobiles.
Also, there weren't so many children to teach.
When I was 9 the population of the United States
was 103,000,000. Now it's oyer 165,000,000. That's
an increase of over 60,000,000, or. more than all
the people in Great Eritain.
Q. How does the Government know how many
kids there are going to be ten years from now?
A. The Government knows everything.
Q. If there aren't enough teachers and schools,
why don't we fix it? Are we too poor?
A. No, the country is richer now than it ever
in its history, richer than any country ever
customs.
The law says they must report
their use of counterpart funds
to the House Administration and
Senate Appropriations. Commit
tees. Presumably their Congress
ional committees exact some form
of expense account for committee
funds spent.
BIG WHEELS
In the days when only a few
of the acknowledged big wheels of
Congress took such journeys, the
issue was less important In fact,
prior to World War II it was con
sidered a political hazard at the
grass roots to spend one's leisure
among foreigners; the late Sena
tor Borah, admired as a foreign
affairs expert, took pride in the
fact he never went to Europe was
where he might be roped in- by
dinner-napkin diplomacy.
But an Associated Press poll
recently discloses that 206 mem
bers of the present Congress or
nearly 40 percent made happy
landings all over the globe this
year, in whole or in part on the
taxpayers' cuit. In this area there
is true bi-partisanship; the 206
were about equally divided be
tween Democrats and Republi
cans. '
Their constituents can judge in
-some measure the value of their
travels when Congress begins to
debate important questions of de
fense and foreign aid. It is al
ready clear that a major battle of
the budget will rage over these
issues especially with the election
year desire for a tax cut coming
up as a complicating factor.
VICTIMS
Meanwhile the victims of the
junketers - stereotype include
those members of Congress who
do extraordinarily fine work
abroad in order to improve their
ability to legislate. There are
more of them than many people
know about. . '
One of these, Rep, Frances
Bolton (R., Ohio), has been a
current eyewitness in unsettled
Africa.
Recent literature and above all,
the success of the Soviet Union
in establishing an African beach
head in Egypt with the sale of
large quantities of Soviet military
equipment have forced attention
to that Continent.'
Rep. Frances Bolton is ser
ving her ninth term from the
22nd Ohio district The third
ranking Republican on the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, Mrs.
Bolton will soon 'complete a
three-month, 20,000 mile journey
through Africa.
was in t? history of the world.
Q.But the people haven't any money? -.
A. No, the people will make over $307 billion
this- year, and that's $20 billion x more than they
made last year. They are spending $18 billion on
automobile this year, 50 per cent more than they
spent last; year. . ', : ' ' .
Q.Well. why ' don't we build more schools and
not as many automobiles?
A. Because the American people want automo
biles more than they want schools, I guess.
q. Does my teacher make a lot of money?
A. She got a raise this year, but she still makes
less than our mailman, or the milkman, or the truck
driver' who delivers our groceries.
Q.Why- doesn't the Government help the teach
ers and build more schools?
A. The Government believes the people should
build the schools, that this should be taken care
of in every little tow n and village' under the rules
of the states.
Q.Sort of a do-it-yourself program?
s A. Ys, you see, the Federal Government be
lieves in the responsibility of the people. It is
against building "schools for communities that have
enough money to build them themselves. It thinks
the people should build their own schools and pay
their own teachers enough to make them want to
teach.
q. My teacher wants to teach. She Wants to teach
all the time. She is the most ;
A. I know. I've heard all that before, but other
teachers don't. They like to eat and live like other
people. The best teacher your brother Jim ever
had left St. Aiban's school to work in a steel mill
in Pennsylvania.
Q. Well, if the teachers are leaving wlien more
bos and girls are coming to school, and the Gov
ernment won't build schools and the people won't
spend their money to build them, what will happen?
A. Well, if it goes on long enough, We'll de
velop into a nation of nitwits. A witwit is a man
who builds better roads and faster cars for juve
nile delinquents and then drafts them into the
army to fight for things they don't understand.
Q. What are you doing about all this?
A. Who, me?
Q. Yes, you.
A. Why, uh, let's see, why, uh
Q. That's wh'at I thought, could I ask one more
question?
A. Sure.
Q. What's planned parenthood?
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READER'S RETORT
SPIRIT OF CHARITY
Among the little irritating
things of life is to be standing in
line for service at-a bank or a
store and to have someone cut
in ahead ofyou.
There come to mind the story
of the woman, who rushed in and
interrupted the butcher as he
was explaining the good points of
a roast to a gentleman customer. .
"Give me a half pound of cat
meat quick:" the woman order
ed. Then she turned to the first
customer and said, "I hope you
wont mind my being served
ahead of you."
"Oh, no," shrugged the, gentle
man, "not if you're as hungry as
all that." Smithfield Herald
On .;:Laulan,:- Dunn
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Frenchman Invited
To Southern Duel
Editors:
Since your wild French friend,
Monsieur Laulan, has resorted' to
- the asburd, what weapons would
he propose for the duel? Guillo
tines at two neck-lengths or
sharpened Confederate 'flag
staffs? With either, I shall "seg
regate'' his soft, Tittle, head from
his shoulders,
Robert Turner Pjttman
Sniffing Business:.
Alfred North Whitehead
Editors:
In the Dialogues o, Alfred
North Whitehead, Whitehead says,
"There is. a good deal of sniffing
on the Harvard College and:grad
uade schools side of . the Charles
River, sniffing at the Harvard
School of Business Administration
on the opposite bank. That strikes
me as snobbish and unimagina
tive. If the American universities
were up to their job, they would
be taking business in hand and
teaching -it 'ethics and profession
al standards .... If America is
to be civilized it must be done
by the business class, who are in
possession of the; powepa.and the
economic processes."
I would like to add to this the
hope that some wealthy donors
would, in the interest of "civiliza-
irrenea
tion," provide sufficient funds to
acquire a 'good liberal arts educa
tion befoe entering upon graduate
work in their fields.
Mary B. Gilson
Dunn Is Again 'Too
Much' For Miss Fuller
regarding
Editors:
My second memo
J. A. C. Dunn:
Once before I complained about
J. A.C. Dunn, Boy- Dullard, and
then resigned myself to "and.
this too shall pass," but again
he's becoming too much. ' .
Robin Fuller
(Too much what? Editors)
Fine-Tooih
Treatment
Charlie Sloan
The Daily Tar Heel's editori
als, features and sports articles
were given a fine-tooth comb
treatment in Morton Jacobs' En
glish I classes recently.
Once the discussion got under
way it appeared that a fine-tooth
comb wasn't really needed to
find spots where journalistic
fervor failed to cover the fact
that staffers" are still students.
Discussed in the classes were
the editorial "Men Will Be Boys,
At Least In Fall," from the Oct.
23 paper; Bishop's Bunk fprm the
same issue and "Plainclothes
Thespians Very Much Like Pret
zels," which appeared in the Oct:
21 paper. After finding the flaws
and various strong points of the
items in question the class dis
cussed The Daily Tar Heel as a
whole.
PRAISE
Although he praised the ed
itorial writing of the paper in
general, Jacobs said that in the
paragraph in Men Will Be Boys
beginning "Now, we like the
game well played " he de
tected a whining tone. Jacobs also
dragged Shakespeare in by say
ing that "the Tar Heel did pro
test too much." Later he said'
that this year's Daily Tar Heel
showed another step in the im
- provement which he had noted
over the last several years. Sev
eral punctuation errors were
spotted, but most of these were
benignly labeled typographical
and passed over lightly.
Bishop's Bunk was used , as a
subject for the study of the
principle of a sports column
rather than a straight news arti
cle. The column was compliment
ed on its style of presentation,
but the class noted that the use
of statistics were too frequent
.fori an inforhial column. Jacobs
agreed that statistics should be
,..used in a straight article more
than in feature material. One
) member ofl- the class said that he
thought Bishop used "stanza" as
f a synonym . for "quarter" too
v often. Jacobs defended the use
. :of "stanza" but added that Bishop
leaned too heavily on the word.
; Another student commented that
by his count the use of "stafEza"
in the article under discussion
was. used more than "quarter."
It was also pointed out that the
column had no transition from
the football story to the cross
country Story other than a mis
leading subhead.
VIOLENT
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The story which drew the most
violent reaction Was the one
metaphorically reporting a play
tryout. Jacobs showed how the
lead (first paragraph) contained
a false equation and completely
subjective set of images.
Once the groundwork was laid
.the class had a field day. Lines
seven and eight of the story had
been switched by the printer,
forming a confusing conglome
ration of words, instead of mere
ly a confusing sentence'. The
printer had set "peruse" later in
the article as "pursue," and the
class caught a misused preposi
tion which changed the meaning
of a sentence.
GENERAL VIEW V
The newspaper as a whole was
complemented on its appearance
and the overall quality of its
writing by one of the students.
Class and instructor agreed that
the writing ranged from poor, to
excellent. One of the complaints
of the class was that the colum7
nists spent too much time talking
about each other. The group
awarded laurels to Charlie Dunn,
complimented Reuben Leonard,
and mentioned J. A. C. Dunn.
It was also said that the letters
to the editors were occasionally
not worth printing. A suggestion
was made to put The Daily Tar
Heel on a subscription basis.
Jacobs commented that when he
visited the Daily Tar Heel he siw
no trace of a grammar book. This
followed by a suggestion that the
presence of one might somehow
help the. staff m their" work.
New YorU
John Und
FORSAKING a turkey d;nR
uneventful time in Charleston
stead the throng 0f studer.'-'
bags and headed to New w I
giving holidays. '
I was with one other student '
to check on some car parts
been there once before and h?
through, our combined knoj ?
metropolis was very scant jj,'. ";
hamper ,us very long, and &? "
traipsing about and, 1 mjght ;J
more, Park Avenue, Latin QUi!T:
the YMCA, automat, subway 7'
some, memorable impressions 5
I probably could write pa;cs .. '
ferent impressions I received
Times' Square to the quaint se
from .the colorful pageantry
of Greenwich Village, where, if "
might have been able to have c,
the tourists and slumming Fifth T
casional pair of lesbians or horn ?
were no lack at the Y), or evea r
tive village artist. However, as j
is already too familiar with fc"
York, I won't go into it further.
Rather, here I vvould like to c
with two particular incidents, or -say
environments, which involve"
groups of people and presented is
tudes. The first is a bar on Broadway j
We spent quite a few hours here
various persons and their action; :
great deal of hustling around and:,
"eral commotion, yet from it all, a ;
well as participant, I got a tremer:
uselessness and futility, of indivfe
ing to lose their individuality. (;;..
brutal purposelessness of a reality :
wished to ignore to this world of ;:t
indifference. I felt as if I were a p
gedy and futility of an F. Scott Fr.
this was especialhr true when join
most of the people in the bar hi
the younger generation, particular!;
early twenties.
Now we go to another part of tot; j
Union Square on 14th St. on thee:;
wich Village, which is. we discover::;
night in the city, a gathering place:
of the local members of the corr.:.
munity which could best be descry
it stood one step above skid row. Re- j
there would form a group in the opt:
begin talks and discussions which &
into heated arguments. They were :
part What we would call bums, a:.:
worse off on the average than those 2
bar.
Yet, here I did not find complete
defeat against life. I was astounded
for a short while at the knowledge -ticipants
of the argument possess
the bums and vagrants of the city
ried on an argument with an infe
in many discussions I've heard he.:
Of course it's granted that they ha"
of experience and witnessed history
resource, which we as a younger
4 yet to obtain.
Most of the talk concerned hbW
ment, and the second night we cans
there was in progress a controvert
of capitalism versus socialism. I'is'
.at the vigor and spirit with which;
of American capitalism attacked"'5'
man who advocated socialism- T.!
of this country; they loved America
pies rather than her materialist;
This was not the case in that
riders of the subway, nor the thea
the Wall Street tycoons.
i
Perhaps, because they had noln.:
pride because they were member
tern that granted them a liberty a-p
was unheard of by their ancesters
,was the very factor' which j
allowing them to be in their vosl'f :
of the social -and economic laa
who would benefit most f i"0171 5C!C-V
posed it most vehemently lor '
into This thp nldCT S't
perhaps, mostly of immigrants e
against odds almost insurmoun -years
of hardness and poverty, o
youth in that bar couldn't dream-
-Somehow, this seemed to conu.;
that youth is naively hopeful '
advancing towards the thresho Id 0
and that age is the shattered broK
ness and disillusionment with a' . .,
youth gullbly had believed torn a--
Pei haps I am the naive alui
this is the New York I shall not -