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i. PACE 'TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL f i': 4 ' ? 7 f - - - Editors Managing Editor News Editor 'Time' Marches On: Plea For Policy Shifting far back in its journalistic swivel :hair atop towering quarters in Rockefeller Center, Time, the Weekly Newsmagazine, mustered up its characteristic omniscience and delivered a verdict this week on lT. S. foreign policy. Said rime: "Now, in spite of all American gains in cri sis after crisis, the idea of a U. S. goal for the world 1: nguishes. Neither foreign govern ments nor the nation's own representatives at home hear a clear statement of the U. S. re sponsibility and purpose ... We have felt just that. way, during the span of President Eisenhower Vadmiriistration and frequently said so. Similar sentiments have even come, from t he-lips of Adlai Stevenson. Put, remember where these words eman ate Time, that brightly-styled and thorough journal of the week's news that consistently 'sides witlVEisenhower. Has (he Weekly Xcus magazine changed its politics? , No, we nather from the praise jriven Eisen- hower and Dulles in the same article from which we quote. Yes, if we take Time's text from George Washington and carry it to. a logical conclusion. Quoting from President Washington's first address to Congress in i78), Time raises the question of whether this nation has met its responsibility for "freedom attained through regard (or 'the eternal rules of order,' " as . Washington prescribed. Decides Time: "Not unless there is a change of tone in the great conversation be tween the American people and their lead ers, a conversation overheard (as George Wa shington knew it would be) by all the world ..." Atfer duly praising Dulles and Jke for ap plying "American principles to scores of cri ses around the globe," Time offered' a criti :ism. The criticism: "The leaders have not ade quately connected the crises one to another with the sweep of America's suspeuseful des tiny." We think Time is saying, gently of course, that the Eisenhower foreign policy has not provided a clear, consistent course of Ameri can action. (The article's tiptoeing style ; makes interpretation - difficult, but this is what it seems to say.) Recent events particularly in Asia where . Russian Rover Boy U'mishchev and Bulgan in, made great strides,, seem to indicate as Time conclude-that we have not offered "a clear statement ol the U. S. responsibility and " purpose." . - We ug -est. that the Administration get to ; 'vork and develop this "clear statement' for up to now we Have seen little that resembles clarity and heard few frank statements of ; purpose. Ivy Leagueizing' For The Masses Freshmen, the less affluent, and even up peiclassmcn diehards can now take the big sartorial step forward and convert their old suits to "Ivy I.eagueized" models. News of this clothing progress comes to us by way of a tailor's modest advertisement ou the back page of our own -newspaper. Accord ing to this- man of cloth (gray flannel, ot course), "We take out pleats, recent shonlders, convert to three-button, put a -belt in the back." Now. all, regardless of financial status, can - snjoy the confidence of conformity and dress like a million other students. Democracy, dressed in P rooks .Brothers cut and inspired by repp tics, marches onward. Now and then, a clammy 1984-ish thought runs through us as we view contemporaries, all dressed alike down to the less stripe in their narrow ties. Could this conformity of dress, this conservative styling, hint at equal ly conformity, of thoughts, actions, ideas? We'll leave that weighty question for Da vid Riscman and otjier sociologists to decide. Meantime. weVe got to rush down and have our old suits Ivy Leagueied. mli ear Heel The official student publication of the Puuli ttions Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and 1 vacation periods and .$ summer terms. Enter ed as second clasa matter In the post of fice in Chapel Hill. N. V, under the Act of March 8, 1879. Sub scription ratej: mail ed, $4 per year, $2.50 r ,i;..:,,,,, .w. .J g - Tear. 3 Efl a mester. LOUIS KIIAAR, ED YODER FRED POWLEDGE JACKIE GOODMAN Nifiht Editor For This Issue . Curtis Gans Socles In Window Charlie Sloan Self-suXficiency and resource- fulness accurately describe the state in which a dormitory man comes to live after several months of school. On his shelf, between the in stant coffee and the popcorn pop per, a man might have a box of laundry soap or an iron. On the sill outside his window, if the weather is cold enough, may be milk and eggs, and under his bed is probably an ironing board. Here are the basic necessities of life. " 1 In his own room the . college man is part of an almighty trium virate. In jts confines he can sup pres undue noise and forcibly eject offenders When the prob lem of hunger-arises, which it in cessantly does, he can fix some thing to eat. And when a more pressing problem, such as a lack of - clean clothes, comes up, the dormitory man is capable ot handling it He gets out of bed early in the morning, maybe as much as a half-hour before his first class, takes the box of laundry soap, gathers his dirty clothes, and marches down the hall to the communal bath. Then he draws a basin of hot water for his laundry, dumps, in the soap and the clothes, thrashes them about a bit, and, leaving tie laundry to steep in its own suds, goes back to his room, where his roommate has prepar ed a hot cup of coffee. After his class the dorm man returns, possibly after a cup of cpffee and a bit of soul search ing conversation in Y-C6urt, to his soggy underwear. He sloshes the sodden, laundry around some more, rinses it as well as cold running water can rinse, and takes it all back to the room to dry. ..' Drying is done ' in many ways. It is almost a matter, of . personal taste. Some advocate an artistic draping over the radiator, but this occasionally results in a scorched smell. Other men spec- ial'ze in socks, and hang their work over coat hangers.' But then the problem of where to hang the coat hanger arises. A clothes- line is ideal, but care should be exercised in where it is strung, It is most disconcerting to come iace-to-f lap with a pair of damp underwear in a dark room. v Most fortunate is the man who lives on the afternoon side of the dormitory, for he can besk in the warm sun while studying, and, with the help of a short clothes- Premedical and pre law students often taken Latin, line," dry his laundry at the same The deans of the Medical and Law School recom time. Surely the socks in the win- mend a knowledge of Latin for pre-medical and prc- dow are the sign of a resourceful and free society. VOCATIONAL HANDICAP The minL-ter returned the used which every year are made to the University. Last car to the dealer and was promp- year there were five times as many college '.teach tly asked, "What's the. matter, ing jobs available as there were graduates !to fill Parson. Can't you run it?" thenit and the whf) want fo teach L . The sharp reply: Not if I wan.' . . , , . A . ... , . , t. to stay in the 'ministry.'. lSl scno1 aImost has his own choice of positions. CAME PREPARED Housewife: "Get off that po lished floor immedately!" Plumber: "Oh, don't worry, lady. With these spiked shoes I won't slip." Doris Fleeson WASHINGTON No written record exists of what Attorney General Brownell told ' the Na tional Republican Finance Com mittee about the prospects of an Eisenhower candidacy, but all versions agree that he was opti mistic. The first people to emerge from the closed session were the most sure that Brownell had promised them Ike in '56 and a ticket they would like, which speaks volumes about his tone and the mood he created. That mood was sustained by the Pres ident himself .when he talked with reporters at Key WeSt. In assaying all this, it should be kept in mind that January 20 next is happy Republican fund raising day. Here again Republi can have kidnaped a successful Democratic idea the $100 - a -plate dinner for party faithful and indebted interests. Four years ago Republicans were holding up Demorcrats to' public contumely for their Jeffer- . . ... v , ' ' '- ' -,ww'.'.-.-.w.-j.".w.'avj-."-:'..'.vv " .j rr 1 StJ hvc& L mm atin I s Agreement About Informers . Latin, yes Latin, is booming at the University, Hundreds of UNC students each year resume their acquaintance with this supposedly and find it not only very much alive, but interest- staff of the Department of Classics. Dr 'J. P. Har- ing and profitableMost popular is a new course ia Vhich students briefly review their two years of ; high school Latin, and in the next semester, go on to read Virgil, the greatest Roman poet. In this way they may satisfy the University requirement- that every student have two semesters of Greek. Latin, or mathematics. Latin may also, satisfy the Cicero, whose courses" in Classics in Translation University's language requirement. Many go still ' have a wine following; Dr. Albert Suskin, whose further in Latin courses, realizing the richness of understanding of both Latin poetry and college stu- Latin literature, and how much it helps them with dents has made him a long-time campus favorite; English, French, and the other modern languages and, Dr. Charles law students. The number of undergraduate stu- dents majoring in Latin is now at - o -. .0 v n- v nine this year, and since World War' regularly been eight to ten graduate students work-1 ing for advanced degrees. But even these numbers do not satisfy the requests for teachers of'T.atin The University is very proud of its Classics' Department, for it is considered one of the Strong est in the nation, and its graduates have excellent; positions in schools, colleges, and universities from Main to - Washington. Head of the of the "elder statesmen" of humanistic studies, is, Projcssor B. L. Ullman, an internationally known : ' ' ' , . . . .... Brownell Optimistic About Ike's Running son - Jackson Day dinners and were ostentatiously gnawing chic ken bones out of cardboard boxes in drafty arenas from coast to coast. The widely advertised cost was one dollar, and any woman foolish enough to wear her mink coat would have been cold-shouldered as a Truman agent provoca- i "SS54., !'J?.jB.:! 5 1 EISENHOWER lobster 'Good Grief i-What's The Use?' opining "dead" language, land, professor-, five years at New The Junior a modern high 'ivuv.i 11 infill ; . At . . II there have I year ,n Cjapcl HlIL Last year there w?rc more than 600 high Departmcnjtr one! $10 in . cash and held in reserve ty or North Carolina. tcur. This year the GOP menu feat ures lobster no less, at least in Madison' Square Garden in New York, and the admitted financial goal is eight to ten. million doll ars. Another Eisenhower candidacy is the pocketbook lure. Whether Brownell spoke fact or fiction is irrelevant, to the immediate task of getting the money for the par ty which holds the allegiance of only a minority of U. S. voters. Their campaign must necessarily be expensive. Eevn -if the President should run, his energies would have to be conserved in every possible way. He would depend on costly television time and lots of it. Around him would swirl other costly activities of all1, kinds de signed to persuade the voter that the new style Presidency really makes one's teeth whiter than the old kind. ' V This is of course probably what the Democrats would do if they were stuck with the same prob authority in many areas of Latin studies. He is also one of the authors of Lar?n or American, the ele mentary textb6ok most used in North Carolina high schools. " ' ' ; There are five other members on the permanent of. Archaeology,, whose, courses are among the most popular in the University; Dr. Preston Epps, who last year was awarded the high honor of a Kenan Professorship in Greek, in recng intion of the excellence of his teaching; Dr. Walter Allen Jr., an outstanding scholar and expert on Henderson Jr., one of the most promising younger teachers and scholars in the country who has recently returned to UNC after York .University. '" Classical League will meet again school Latin students from . all over the, state in attendance. They visited the classical museum, located on the first floor of Murphey' Hall. This museum is modest at the momentbut it prom ises to be of great value and, satisfaction to later students generations. ' The Annual Latin Contest is one of the most popular of the state contests, participated in by hundreds -of North Carolina high school Latin stu dents. The contest is on three levels: for first year students, second-year students, and , third-fourth-year students. On each level the prize for tHe winner is the possibility of ,a scholarship for him if he comes to the Universi lem and could raise the money. They would certainly have their defeatists who would feel there, was' no alternative. 'The present Ike-must-run camp includes such defeatists, the White House re gency which represents people who; are able to believe that a President who has had a heart . r ! 0 ' "A ; :: : N L TRUMAN . . .diickeri. si B c 3TS Senator Russell can cite a good deal of evidence t& prove his con tention that the State Department is shy on ideas, to combat the new Soviet drive for influence in rtsia anq tne Middle East. It is ..broadly true, as he says, that '''".so far the. principal idea put for ward is that of spending money. " ,v And it is undoubtedly true also that just spending money alone uu nof provide an adequate re sponse. Many Americans, however, will be. unable to follow the Georgia . Senator when he goes on to ar gue that economic aid to foreign nations" should be brought to an end. The one thing' that seems . most clear about the present sit uation in Asia and the Middle Etist is that military measures will not suffice to meet it. No matter how large a mili . "ta.y budget we adopt, no matter ' " how much milUary aid we give to nations in that part of the world, no matter how many mili tary pacts we induce some na tions there ' to join, still other ,. things will have to be done if the peoples now emerging from colonialism are to turn to us . rather than to the Soviet bloc. Basically what has to be done is to convince these peoples that the West is the. genuine friend of their independence, and that they can gain the rapid economic development they must have with . out abandoning their political freedom. It is difficult to see how this idea can be promoted with out the expenditure of money to support this economic develop ment. And surely it is our own interest to grant such aid, espec ially in projects that advance productivity and efficiency, if we can thereby bolster the area of political freedom. Dollars without ideas, as Sena tor Russell suggests, will prove Y equally so. What we need is an effective foreign ,aid program .within a frame-work of effective foreign policy ideas. St. Louis Post-Dispatch Let Soviets Show Way Soviet Premier Bulganin, with a great show of concern for the rights of other people, says that there "is no justification by which any foreign country still has territory in India.- Portugal, saj's Bulganin with righteous indignation, should get out of its colonies at Goa, Daman and Diu. Portuguese presence there 'is a shame for civilized people." ' Bulganin probably will " get more agreement on this than he's used to from many nations of the world including our own. But, if Comrade Bulganin wants to stand before the world; asv an acceptable expert on self-determination and national rights, he might tell us when Soviet Russia plans to get out of Latvia, Lith uania, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Alban ia, Bulgaria and East Germany. The Mihcaukee Journal attack can function perfectly in the job for another four years and would in any case bo better than a Democrat. The subjective reactions which contribute so heavily to present discussions are illustrated by a story being circulated that Mrs. Eisenhower has withdrawn her objections to the President run ning again. The source of the story is the wife of a general who is one of the President's closest associates. - It seems that Mrs. Eisenhower said the President got so peck ish and irritable while convalesc ing and loafing at Gettysburg, she thought he might just as well run again and keep busy, he would be happier. No one could criticize this as coming from a devoted wife, but its real essence is something else again. Perhaps the President would be happier if he ran again, but the argu ment does considerably less than justice to the question of what the. country may face in the next four years. g -1 T The Dui- Many of us do not mL tution is segregated. Tim .v ". ' here advance spurious 5 ' ' ing, answers. We char&'ti?1"' democratic, anti-Christian T ' the lest of the world and jnJ ' of a university. Anyone who refuses to implies inferiority i3 blind r preme Court decision is tht plying inferiority. dcnics Xe J': tics and is, therefore, unco"- talk about "separate but eqf f gibberish; compare the nur! with the number at North c-. ' trary discrimination is always University has, in effect, deef ' of the "white race." , If a person believes that the c , mandment is to love his neighbor -that he willfully would Aiscfat. The Catholic Church, which forb T long since recognized this Princ:p;s cently acknowledged by the E:- siaie convennon. Christianity is ; posed to intolerance, hate, prejn 1 is to call itself a Christian nize all men as brothers, it mtV cy of segregation. Let's not be b this. If we cannot accept intra state that we are anti-Christian, t'- really nothing more than the I bigoted religiosity. But democracy and brother! j, ly words tossed around merely to k zation of a particular viewpoint. 1 in "practical" terms scg. egati&n i name across the face of the earth. K fess to be freedom-loving while b:,; being enforced, while racial hatred, of murder, kidnapping suppression r many sections of the South, while . clare the Negroes are inferior b; consider the immense propar.i. against this very struggle,- we canr.r edge the absurdity of our posits white" asks if you want a Xejroi;. ter, the entire Far East is leing k If tradition is so vital to Di ' adopt tradition in a scale suitable tc ' Duke University, if it ever is to be: a national point of view, must lie vincialism of Durham. 'Well, we are. segregated. Vc an-'i human beings and qtar, present policy. Wc request an expli: Norman Atwatcr Cocke, chairmaa cf Trustees. We feel it is incumbent u; the reasons, if there are any, be':,:, tradition. Are Mr. Cocke and the trustees alumni support? We hold that minimized, and wc would not be .c tional financial support was volar..: sources. Would the "true-blue' S their daughters elsewhete? Lie c there were anv-, would go unno!;::: tide of applicants for admission. create social problems? Nonsen;eJ dren but men and women seek.:; ' ture individuals. Segregation adu: the consequences of integration. In' Duke were integrated there woulJ 1 of Negro applicants; in fact, mo.n O. reluctant to attend a school wb.c long in recognizing them as few wiil be able to meet the adm;--. because of inadequate school prc;j the nature of these practical op tion will be gradual. We should open our doors to au v because we believe in democracy,'! Christianity and the manifestation a university. Segregation is wro"4 Wre are willing to print in tu torial by anyone able to refute oa: i Reader's- Retired Teacher Ex?- I was happy to learn rcccy are again showing their abino selves and to preserve high ,a'"". in human relations by refusing a worthy fellow-student. The gro and the profession of 'i'1'or"icr."o' of the most dangerous s-vmpi basic concepts of human PCl'. meaning ol freedom. Congratu.-- with faith enough in the f"turc " ; ward trend. J (A reti History cCigof 1 a During Colbh'flif'Wmes it ies of the Cubah,!aitociacy to- iu. -,j,.w fh.it rnuoi'- fear?" cigarette. But 'bucalise ' they C't' might be stained'bV thc Ion 'ho'd around them. The strips S1' ;d,: to match the ;-m6ker's govn- ; n.-,i hand . or me mincaieiy enjj1 " cigars today. Mtu:j Allu "' L"
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