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?AG TWO The -Chapel Maidrnum Capacity At UNC HiAyt .38 Iv Editors Managing Editor News Editor Business Manager Associate Editor Sports' Editor r Advertising Manager .Subscription Manager Staff Artist Hill News Leader: One part of Major, McLcndon's address be fore the AAUP Thursday which vill have a special meaning for Chapel Hill homes and habits dealt with the necessities imposed on the Consolidated University by annually en larged enrollments. He mScle it pretty plain that since new-buildings cannot be immed iately expected, greater use must be made of existing structures. Said he: 'We are going to.be compelled somehow . to teach larger classes and to find some way. to make a greater time-use of buildings;';laboja": tories and other facilities. The taxpayers are entitled to know whether the existing-facilities arc being used to their maximum capacity.- be fore they are asked to pay more ; taxesToreiH-: largements and extensions." .'.""" :T"-":- ' In short, IIXG .faculty members may soon: find themselves teaching more students for lnii'rpr iwnir riiirl r'nnii 1 lrf inrr rlnc .nftr- noons ajid ev-cnings as 'well as mornings for:; six davs a wck. This trend would be onnosite. to th ' being observed in the working world, but it is not to be doubted that UXC teach-" ers will cheerfully cooperate to nieet " tlic emergency. -'. . : v ' Hr At the ; same time, the General Assembly and its appropriations committees ought-hot to stoj) there and shut of! future supplies.;-..-"" If, as forecast, college and University enroll ments may be doubled by 1970, buildings and facilities must keep pace or the young citizenship will suffer. There are schools and departments in the University here which do not have the equip ment and facilities to be expected in a good high school. Hence they cannot be expected to attract teachers of the first rank. There is no real economy in such savings. "'." It was brought out at the Thursday meet ing that the operation of the State's 12 in stitutions of higher learning costs S19I, mil lion annually. That's cheap. One must expect to pay a good price for a good pair of shoes. Do we think the same principle docs not apply to a University? Lowdown On The Next President While the poli-wans themselves ooze confidence anl sing premature victory chants in public while umng uieir iingeraa .s in private, me iyob presi dential election , is 'fast being settled by toe pro fessional Zrsters..'...:- ;-. -: Lunr -ng them all together, a quick summary Joks like this: U .. . Stassen and Hariman would run neck and neck. Warren would be a shoc-in over Harriman. Nixon can beat Kefauver and run a tight race with Harri man. Tne Democrats can win against anyone ex cept Eisenhower. Warren won't run. Stevenson could beat Nixon hands down. The Republicans can beat, any Democrat, Nixpn will be the Republican candidate and Stevenson the Democratic. Honest, that's what the pollsters are saying. Nov that they've straightened things out, perhaps 'we hadn't bene, leave it up to them. We'd all better stick to the old practice of going to the polls next fall. The Mihcinkee Journal ml Ear ieel The official student publication of the Publi ations Board of the University of North Carolina, C"V where il vis published O 'J V f? daily except Monday v cAniiiijaijon ana ) vacation.. periods and 1 : - summer terms. Enter ed -as second class matter in the post of fice in Chapel Hill, C, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub-, scription rates: mail ed, $4 per year. $2.50 1 semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 se mester. LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER FRED POWLEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN BILL BOB PEEL J. A. C. DUNN . WAYNE BISHOP Dick Sirkin Assihiam business Manager Carolyn Nelson Coed Editor ... Peg Humphrey Circulation Manager Ji irne Jim Chamblee Charlie Daniel EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O'Sullivan, Charles Dunn. ; Bill Ragsdale. , - NEWS STAFF Mike Vester, ; Chiles Johnson, James Nichols, Peg Humphrey, Charlie Sloan, Charles Dunn, Ethan Tolman, Joan McLean Curtis Gans, Bill Corpening. ' OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editorial, subscrip tion: 9-3361. News, business: 9-3371. Night phone-8-444 cr 445. Night Editor For This Issue CHARLES DUNN Carolina Front- An Adventure: Ehle's Script On T. Wolfe .Louis Kraar EVER SINCE a young man named Hinton James strolled in to Chapel Hill in 1795, North Carolina boys have been coming to the University and learning. Usually, they've learned more about themselves than anything else. Imagine seeing one of these , toys in 1920, a tall guy with tall ildeas called Thomas Wolfe. Imag ine him, in fact just - at the end rf tose college years when his -hopes and ideas are anywhere but jin Asheville, where he is exped ited to teach. " Perhaps you can't imagine this . boy, but writer John Ehle did when he wrote his American Ad .venture radio play "An Unfound Door." And last week' literally millions of National Broadcasting Company listeners were able to imagine this stage of Wolfe's de velopment. A FRANTIC 2 a.m. visit by the student Wolfe to Professor Koch sent Ehle's play off to a stirring start. The perplexed boy had come to his professor's home at that unlikely hour for one rea son to ask whether he should go into teaching or writing. "It isn't simple. It's a matter of my life, and my life isn't simple . : . ," Tom Wolfe told Professor Koch. Deciding that young Wolfe "would overwhelm an oak tree," the professor urges more, study at Harvard. "Big men have dreams," he observes. , With Koch's wording ringing in his mind, Wolfe heads for home and a possessive mother, a sick father, -and a desire to get enough cash to head for Harvard. BEFORE WOLFE convinces his father, who believes that Tom has "as fine an education as any one in Western North Carolina," and his mother, who doesn't know where Harvard is located, he has a lot of grueling explain- ing to do. "There's a world in front of me writ'n-: f:r mo to talk to it," Tom tells his mother with all the earnestness an 18-year-old could muster. "I don't know what to; say But somewhere there must be an answer." Finally, his mother agrees to let Tom study at Harvard: "Money for learning is a good swap .... Just remember when you get to writing, write things like they are." V THE STORY, as I have put it briefly, is perhaps too simple. It is not a simple story, nor an easy one to tell. Somehow, Ehle's script did it though. Concentrating his 25 min utes on the brief days between the end of Wolfe's study at Chap el Hill and his mother's permiss ion to go to Harvard, Ehle show ed as much of Wolfe as any read er could see in hours. The boy's thoughts were given, mainly through long direct quotes from Wolfe's novels. If it had been anyone else's story, some of the monologues would have been corny. But .the fact that all these things did go on inside Wolfe made them sound convincing. THE COMMUNICATIONS Cen ter here at the Hill, is doing this American Adventufe Series, and the Ford Foundation is footing the bill. i At a time when the $64000 question and disc jockeys are pulling radio down to the level of the younger set that can't reach the TV dial, American Ad venture provides' adventure-some listening. .Like other mass media, money seems to play the biggest part in determing what goes on the air. Fortunately, we get our' Eric Sevareids, Ed Murrows, and Al istair Cookes; but they are a mi nority. The Ford Foundation did listen ers a 'service in underwriting American Adventure. Wolfe in the radio play might have been talking about this project when he commented on one of the af fluent, but otherwise dull, Ashe ville citizen: "Not for money not to be one of the lost men who followed so little for nothing." Such is the adventure of one American and North Carolinian -and it restores my faith in ra dio. Perhaps commercial sponsors will see the listener appeal of this series and pay radio writers, some of those $64,000 prizes for intelligent material. THE M oil Ex empl 7ip Martvtdom- OlChnsf&Socrafes ' ti MM I V 11 p m m - - I Ml Rcinhold Niebuhr The Saturday Review (The Christmas Season, for. ob vious reasons, makes the follow ing article keenly appropriate. We present it, not in a spirit of advocation for either side, out because Dr. Niebuhr has drawn both sides of a debate with such clarity and feeling. Dr. Niebuhr is Vice-president of Union Theo logical Seminary. Editors) The discussion in, a group of enlightened moderns centered on comparison of the outstanding moral exemplars in world his tory. Inevitably, as . in college days of bygone years, Socrates and Christ were presented as outstanding exemplars of virture. That was not surprising. In pure ly moral terms there was little to choose between the "martyr--dom" of the two: Sftcrates drink- " ing the cup of hemlock and Jesus on the Cross. (It is significant that a martyr's" death is regard-" ed as the supreme act of good ness in an age which implicitly defines the end of life as "the pursuit of happiness." But per haps this observation is beside the point.) The point of the dis cussion was that the champions of Socrates were quite convinced that Christ would have a far better chance with our genera tion if Christians did not insist on confusing the issue by making absurd claims for His divinity. These claims, it was felt, were unfair and prejudiced His ex ample. This debate illustrates the pro found misunderstanding between a so-called "secular" and idealis tic culture and the character of the Christian faith. The idea that Christians are unenlightened people who insist on incredible divinities in human life is wide spread. It obscures the real debate be tween a "Socratic" and a Christ ian view of man and the mystery of existence. And this second de bate is centered on different is sues from the relative merits of Jesus and Socrates asxmoral ex emplars. 'SOCRATIC We may define as "Socratic" any view which shares Socrates's conviction that men "would do the good if they only know it." This conviction makes virture the consequence of reason and na turally assumes that the only prerequisite of good conduct is the right formula and exemplar of good conduct. In contrast to this Socratic view, which has been accepted by most moderns S jfZ m t -, m i ,' ft ftr r 4 w .. 1 . ;-"v C.-. -:-:'" . ' j . ; - "J ffU ,"J:vX. 9 " r-- , ,.; MM . - I it i t . f ' . I ' M A t i,,iiii.lli,,,-,ir,i, .jMj, - j ' ' - ' , " -"' ;."-'.:-''' i(Mt'' .- ... M Immt .....,.fl hiiii),.,.,'.-,V( t "' I,, '-,nit irlltl ' DAILY TAR HEElf A.. Christmas Debate " since the Renaissance, and which seemed ' to have triumphed com pletely over Christianity in the eighteenth and ' nineteenth cen turies, ve can' put the simple Pauline confession: "The good that I would do I do not do and the evi that; I-would not do. that I .do." According to the Christ ian interpretation every roan . is at variance with himself and ul timately -with ,God because there is a! "law. in t his members which wars against; the law that is: in his : mind." .The acceptance - of the highest ideals' of conduct is no "guarantee against either the force of self-regard, expressed either individually or collectively. Much evil is "undoubtedly done in sheer stupidity, but the basic human problem lis. the constant - (expression:; of the : self s ' pride; ""wOr-lo-power, and jtvarice. Ber Jrand Russell defines ihe' basic human inclination as the desire r:for- upower and glory." That js probably as good acdefinition sin as any. But what has, this analysis of the human situation which any (thoughtful. observer ' must re cognize as being more illuminat ing about man particularly man in the contemporary' setting, than all the Socratic interpretations which try to derive virture from intelligence what has" this to do with the worship- of Christ as a revelation of God?' In answering that question ve must recognize that interpreta tions of the self and 5f the ulti mate mystery of existence are closely related. The conception of the self's freedom to defy the laws' of its own existence is part and parcel of the 'Christian con ception of the self's radical free--dom over its own mind. In short, r the self has a mystery, which can not be eqoated with its reason. The self uses its reason but it is not reason. The self has te free dom to transcerid" nature and reason to survey all the world's coherences and rational intelli gibilities and.to inquire after the source and end of the meaning of its existence. This freedom cither proves the existentialists right in their insistence that. the self has no law but its freedom; or it points to the validity of the Biblical faith that there is a deeper and higher source of meaning than the coherences discovered by science and phi-losophj-. The Biblical, faith, in' short, does not' equate God with cosmic reason any more than it equates the self with its own reason. It declares, that the my " . I. -X .-.j' . Jr .-- ; . V irr :, ; ,ffw . cy. x . , v ,- " -iZ , - - " ; stery of the divine is related to the mystery of creation and that creation is not identical with the casual lequences which. scie nce can chart. The worship of God is, thus in the first instance the worship of "God, the Almigh ty maker of heaven and earth," ...the mysterious power transcend ing, the casual sequences and "coherences of the world. It must be noted that only on the pre supposition of such a God does the self have "headroom" for the .unique freedom which gives it . a vantage point above natural and rational coherences. This di vine source and end of .all things is" a' mystery beyond every ra tional' intelligibility, though it is the capstone of every system - of meaning :' FAITH Perhaps the reader will Lm .patiently insist that faith in a "mysterious creator-God and the knowledge of the radical charac- : -ter of human freedom still leave us far frorr any know ledge of faith in Christ as the revelation of God. In an ef- , fort to draw nearer it may be relevant to observe that the mo- dern "Socratic" culture has not stated the questions for which such a faith is the answer, even if it acknowledged the reality and the "dignity" of human self hood. It did not do so because it prided itself on the "dignity" of man but never came to terms with the "misery" of man's incli nation to use his freedom not as the instrument of virture, but as a tool of self-glorification, and consequently as an instrument of social strife and injustice. There has been a strain of uneasy con science in human life, to which the Babylonian penitential Psa lms and the Pyramid texts of Egypt first gave eloquent expres sion. It expressed itself before and outside of the Biblical faith. It has only been in this post Christian era of Western civili zation that men have tried to obscure the guilt, in which all men are involved, and to pre tend that the problem of being "good'' could be solved if only men, had the proper moral ex emplars. Ironically enough, it is this age which has involved us in the collective guilt of possible atomic warfare and has initiated even the "pure" scientists into the problem of guilt, as they . found themselves unwittingly be coming the weapon-manufacturers of an atomic age. Through all ages men have wondered about the devine mys- s - n t i t . r r . rrxJ:i . I r : v v a i ; ' 4 4 -? 'it . r it no. ' 17 e ft tery which hovered over the strange drama of human history and was obviously more than the mystery of creation. They felt that the meaning in the mystery obviously spelled judgment upon evil,' but they wondered how mer cy and forgiveness were related tov the judgment;; ' It was to these questions that the revelation ' in Christ offered the definitive answer.;The Church was founded on the faith that this revelation was final and defini tive. The drama of Christ's life was seen by faith to be more than a drama in history, and therefore Jesus was more than a revered historical martyr. This drama furnished the clue to the ultimate mystery. Through it faith was able to discern that the power of God and the love of God -are one; and that the love of God contains both the severity of his justice and the kindness of his mercy to those who contritely acknowledge their sins and cease , to pretend -that men are virtuous" and pos sess a "dignity" which is- not con- taminated by the false'. and idola trous use they make of their freedom. The Christian doctrine of the "Atonement' Esserts that judgment and forgiveness "a r e contradictory, yet two facets -of the same divine love. Those who recognize this clue to the mys tery will stop pretending they are more rightous than they are; and will, with broken spirit and con trite heart, be enabled to live charitably with their neighbors. Humility is the basis of charity. This age, which has extolled ''hu manism" so much, is singularly lacking in the spirit of charity. It is filled with the fury of self righteousness expressed by the warring, political, national, and rationalistic and pious groups. A few intellectuals, having discern ed the mystery of selfhood above the level of nature, have found . Christian faith incredible and have preferred the mystical way defined by among others Al dous Huxley in "The Perennial Philosophy." These intellectuals seem not to have noticed that this alternative does indeed as sert a divine, but also a total my stery. It suggests an "eternity" which may purify, but which also annuls, history with all its strange dramas, its joys and its sorrows, its responsibilities, vic tories, and defeats. It also annuls the meaning of the existence of this strange creature the human individual. . . AMBIGUOUS TO END To assert that the Jesus of his tory is the Christ, and that "God was in Christ reconciling the world unto Himself," is an affir- nation of faith which insists that the variance between man and God cannot be finally overcome by the virtue of man. All human virtue remains ambiguous to the end. It can be overcome only by a "suffering" God who takes the sins of the world upon' Himself. Of course, this faith will seem quite incredible to modern men partly because they have suppres sed the internal problems tf the human soul for which, it is the answer, and partly because they find it difficult to believe that a character-and drama in history are lifted into the ultimate di mension as a clue to the very meaning and mystery of exis tence. 79 CENTS AN HOUR Dairy Farmer C. B. Brown of Iredell County said farmers are the only producers in the world who "sell at whoesae and buy at retail." . ... When farmers buy production items, he continued, the federal government should pay the dif ference between retail and whole sale prices on those items. From an example he quoted, Brown said this help from the government would, in effect, raise the farmer's wages to about 79 cents an hour considerably less than the $1 minimum for indust- , rial workers approved at the last session of Congress. "I've figured every way I "can and I still don't know where to get the other 21 cents," the Ire dell man confessed. He called his plan "parity buy ing." Chairman Ellender suggest ed that the same result could be achieved through a co-op. Ra leigh News & Observer M Roundabout P2prs lean-Up D:, id Chisholm'i - THIS IS clean up, ish.down day: or. ac t v..". i .: ' J 1 utiles n ly phrases it, a day t0 buckets." This is the day'ta :.. ., .... ,. . nes . - and sinking I of the sc i ' " - j Just that " ! .. ' FIRST cl the Caro'V . . should be f; -- ' , il seems, no",'. take the trouble to mention. EJ is to be highly commended cover is excellent, the edits,1 done,- the material is good, s-V bit foggy at times, but then " appreciate fog and those who ca category. However, I was disappointed -pite its excellence as a literal respects. The first is the ab ment. I always like it Uien s ! says what he thinks, and in ti quarterly I think something ed ' It's all verywell that the contrib to say in fiction, in non-fiction, doesn't the Quarterly have anf a magazine as up-and-comin - . opinion or two it would likeV ,--ily second disappointment nation of the freshman writing ..'and appreciate, Mr. Scarborcu the" stature of the Quarte:ly to ': . one is going to reckon with the: going to really have to do sore ''qdestion whether this should k elusion of the potential writer; there is nothing quite so stimuli':: ' name in" print (except a little c: and' the younger writers now e going to find little stimulation ir,:,' with such established writers as r. ' Aiken, and, in the winter w! I personally would like to see; by those select freshmen now ; courses ,of instruction, to say sj:: ; freshmen with worthwhile mate:;: My third complaint is ac!";V is simply that, while the editir;. done without color (and I don't there is no attempt to appeal to;:' interesting to look at the pages for. ; than the interest found in the : granted, there is a formidable .t which maintains that if one isgi; intellect one need not use sugar ! hand, there is also a' school o: ; counters this argument with the;; that do not sell do not' keep a Citnri crhi is nn rlmibt selling ' would sell mo;e if the reader" look at besides grey type; and pe-; humor ar advised that I do it: thankyouverymuch. The campus should thank Mr representing its literary interest,? THE CAMPUS might also do it is that the Legislature did Tar Heel the money to continue? a week. For all I know there ' reason, such as perhaps the fac: enough money to give for th:s p-' story I read said that the Le;! not given the money. Either ta include thn reason in his report, didn't give a reason. I want to' get five Tar Heels a week after t THE VARSITY Theatre went; of it, except in the mention o! j' fairly well-known anyway, 1 thank Andy Gutierrez, fie "The Big Knife" last weekend. J movie to make the box office b:: was excellent entertainment. 1 J Pi on if ho r?nrc nrrasionall.V I V f Kf t script and bear the world on b out three reels. I also like well. At times he even sounds U and anyone who can shout 5 really shout. t The amazing thing abuut ua all took place in one room, of film in the very beginning- izes that one has never left i room until one starts listing t- ii. firfnlaCC 2" wun a mammuin sium. . fifve: t THE LATEST on the ""l3 Hiil policeman says they've made the grave in front of iiv vviiiv, j a&vi en rt tell me, and I wouldn't sta " j. freezing cold trying to Prc.V a bush and a pair of Ic3t'',"5 protection against North Carci",J SINCE MISS Robin Fu!!r exhibiting what seems to be publicity by (a) saying ie'l and (b) reading it anyway and that she doesn't like it, I may as her have her name in print Dear Miss Fuller: Discourv t -.!! hv sa.'"-' indeed, pass. If you'll be pai'cn ' longer, I will be through can, 'on occasion, have all t!l'n'J own. Chin up now; stiff upPl'r 'r
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