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r 1 " - I THr DAILY TAR HEEL PAGE TWO - - - 'Quiet End At UNC To An Unjust Custom Surveying campus reaction to the enrollment of three Negro undergraduates at the University, The Associated Press has noted a "quiet end" to segregation at UNC. We arc proud, though not 'sur prised, that Catolina could revise an unreasonable custom Avith calmness and ease. The reason for this lapid adjustment seems to lie in another custom equally as tra ditional in North Carolina as racial segregation. The AP's reporter put it this way: "In the in years since it en rolled the iirsV student to enter a state university- ' in tnc nation, North Carolina has acquired an international reputation as a cen ter of liberal thought and action."' The major blot on this record of "liberal thought and action" now seems to be Attorney Gen in the name of the University that eral W. Ii. Rodman's futile request the U. S. Supreme Court revise its segregation ruling. Whether state officials agree or not, the chances of Hie high court reversing itself are nil. R.' Jier than become entangled in valid and futile legal actions, North Carolina's leaders should look to Chapel Hill and see Southern adjustment at its best. Superman & The Rewrite The German philosopher, Fred eiick Nietche, the Knglish -playwright George Uernard ("Better Than Shakespeare?") Shrw, spent their days at the public mega phone shouting for a superman. If they lived today, they would have no further than a top-floor suite at the Waldorf-Astoria and the glint of five stars: no further than a dust-covered scrsinbld-egg' hat and a corn cob pipe. No fur ther than General of the Army Douglas M?cArthur. The dissenters notwithstanding, Gcneial MacArthur is our true superman. He finished at the top of his West Point class. He rose to rank in the army. He stood at the crumbling shores of the Phil ippines and shouted: "I shall re turn." And he did. As .VTstair Cooke said in the Manchester Guardian after his l.os Angeles speech last spring. Mac- Arthiit .h . c ii K4l I H t H f M"Hh ties of a prophet. Returning to burn the institution . of. war.. with his fiery tongue, he sounded, Mr. Cooke said, like "Capa.iieturntt in the improbable 'cloth' of "Tolin the liaptist." But the supc.tr n's soldiery and piophccy don't cover up his poor show in a, a dabbler in American .'Mice raft. In his answer - to Presi dent Truman's memoir chapter on the famous Korea War firing, Mac Arthur induces, a spy charge to TAR HEEL AT LARGE hide what was a clear case, as Tru- mrn charges, of insubordination. .MacArthur, claiming "no substi tute for victory," wanted to use Chinese Nationalist troops in the Korean-War; he said so in "a letter to Rep. Joseph Martin of Massa chusetts. As superman, MacArthur thought he could go over the head of the Commander-in-Chief, in deed over the heads of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ho endorsed Tru man's contrary view that Nation alist troops should not be used. ITuman straightway took the tra ditional course against insubordi nation and asked MacArthur to return. No matter who was right strategically, insubordination got What it asked for. The dismissal was neither "savage and brutal" nor "spite and indictiveness," as the superman-- charges. Truman vows the greatest respect for Mac. Arthur, the : soldier." . , This . is, not ..the only episode Vvh'rc.li MacArthur as superman' lias tried to rewrite for the history lYoUkV.' 'I Ie'cleiiies,' agYunst the docu .Vinents, th;ti he 1 acU ised. .bringing 5-i tussiU-iiitoj tlietlvvtfr- against Japan; 1 lie United States owes C.eneral iMacArthui a debt for his services as a soldier. But this country owes ..him liothiiig for his egocentric at tempts to play superman and prac tice doublethink for the history, texts. Nietche and Slir.w could do a good job for MacArthur. But so could George Orwell. own Pn nice By Chuck Hauser Well, Hauser's timing was qff, and about . the time one. w?s apperaing in print with a column saying what a nice guy Bob Ratcliff . was and why folks should vote against Bob for the editor ship of The Daily -.Tar 'Heel,. Bob slipped out the back door and left Hauser high and dry with an outdated argument. Well, here I am again, and if I'm lucky, Lewis Brumfield will still be in the running by the time this sees print. I hope so, because I will enjoy The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publication's Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published dai'j- except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Entered as second class matter in the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C, under the Act of March 8, 187r. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a se mester; delivered, $6a year, $3.50 a se mester. Editors LOUIS KRAAR, ED YODER Managing Editor FRED POWLEDGE News Editor ... CHARLIE JOHNSON Business Manager .- BILL BOB PEEL Sports Editor WAYNE BISHOP Advertising Manager Dick Sirkin Asst. Bus. Manager Carolyn Nelson Coed Editor ' Peg Humphrey Circulation Manager Jim Kiley Subscription Manager Jim Chamblee Staff Artist Charlie Daniel BUSfXESSSTAFF Fred Katzin, Stan Bershaw, Rosa Moore, Charlotte Lilly, Ted Wainer, Daryl Chasen, Johnny Witaker. OFFICE TELEPHONES News, editor- ial, subscription: 9-3361. News, busi ness: 9-3371. Night phone: 8-444 or 8-445. , EDITORIAL STAFF Bill O Sullivan, Bill - Ragsdale. Ktsh: Editor Charlie Sloan turning both barrels on Brumfield to show just why he, of all people, should never be allowed to get his hands on something which he knows nothing about namely, a newspaper. . Everyone should know by now that Brumfield is purely a political candi date. He has no newspaper experience, and he is not running as a newspaper man. He is running because Dave Reid and Don Fowler desperately needed someone to run against the present editors of The Daily Tar Heel, and Brumfield was convenient, being Iteid's roommate. -. Not only do Reid and Fowler hope to gain control of The Daily Tar Heel to use as their personal political voice during the coming spring elections, but they will have the satisfaction of get - ting revenge against Ed Yoder and Louis Kraar. Why do they want revenge? Well, for one thing, Louis, and Ed had guts enough to write editorials showing that' Fowler hasv been a do-nothing president of the student body and his attorney general (that's Reid; Fowler appointed him) is an overstuffed political hack who sits back and pulls the executive strings. Ed and Louis also have had report ers who wrote the facts as they hap pened, and many of these facts were extremely embarrassing to Reid and Fowler. For instance, the fact that Reid spent his spare time at a political party meeting giving a hotfoot to an unsuspecting ced. Cute, huh? In fact. I guess we've got about the cutest attorney-general ever hired around here. Personally, cute attorney-generals make me want to throw' up. The same goes for do-nothing presidents of the student body. But nothing makes we mant to retch more than the. sight of the Clown Prince of Cobb Dormitory trying to pass himself off as a serious candi for the editorship of a newspaper which has enjoyed a long tradition of maturity, responsibility, and freedom of expression. READER'S RETORT 3si For y i lines I he Eye q Tfr Editors: Gentlemen, I trust it is still safe to refer to you as gentlemen, happly and the anti-sports people will be happy. The faculty can't complain and the students wont. ' .,' ir:-nir Tr, . Unal oomc will he and that majority opinion has . , praisea ana losing uuo win told they were damn good sports. Alumnae will be remembered and praised,' and each visiting trus tee will be "one of the boys," and when Harry Truman meets Richard Nixon on a campus de bate the Tar Heel will report it as a "very interesting evening." Scholars and lunkheads will lie down together and a little child shall lead them. ; . (That's, no reflection on any candidates, because I dont 'know them. But it is a reflection on the frame of mind which dis likes all disagreement by defini tion. This seems to be the frame of mind in which most of the student letters to the . editors have been written lately.) not swept that privilege away. I wanted to present one point of view in faVor of the present editors and their present edi torial policy of writing their opinions according to how things seem to them. It's so simple an argument that it doesn't appear anyone has, thought of it. The argument seems to be shaping up around whether or not the editors have the right to inflict their opinions on the student body, which often 'dis agrees. Let's discount the pro and anti- sports arguments, the pro- and anti-segregationists, and the freedom of the pressers. Let's take it from convenience. With out the present type of Daily Tar Heel, granting its occasional exaggerations and over - enthus iasms, isn't the campus going to be bored silly? I submit the saf est argument of all: that of self interest. With a different kind of Tar Heel, you're going to be driven to complaining about each other. You'll have no one to be mad with but your roommate, and you're, stuck with that one the whole semester. You get his goat and he'll hang his wet socks over your bed all through the rainy month of April. I foresee, for instance, future coffee sessions in future Chapel Hill restaurants. The Daily Dar Heel will, of course, be spread under the coffee cups where it belongs, soaking up moisture in its dry and unread pages. Maybe I only say maybe one stu dent will ask another if he saw this morning's Daily Tar Heel. "Su:e. It's always there. De livered right on time." "I agreed with everything ' in it, myself.'' A look of surprse, niaybe shock for all I know suspicion. V.'Why certa'inly! What did you expect- That's what a newspaper i is for, you know." During this era, I predict a great, future for civic waste-paper drives. People cleaning out their dorm rooms at the end of semes ters will have a simpler time of it and you can always wet the things to make imitation Blue Devils for parades. Student wives will learn quickly that newsprint makes: excellent shelf liners (unless you're long on color schemes); holds medium wet garbage satisfactorily; will transpoit a damp diaper a rea sonable distance without tearing; and will, if properly held, serve adequately for sweeping up dust in every room of the house. The advertising manager may even use these suggestions in his three-column spreads. He will probably have to use something in them. The possibilities of making manual and hygenic use ' of future issues of the paper ap pear to be unlimited and the THE LIVESPIKE public will soon get new ideas of .mmmmmmm'mmmm its own since there will be lit tle need to read the thing. In short, I can't believe how students at UNC realize how bored they're going to be with the paper they think they want If they will cast back a few years to assorted papers in assorted high schools, a glimmer of the future posibilities may appear to them. Remember, for instance, all those editorials in those pap ers about studying, keeping the halls clean, using time well, growing up into fine men and women? There were plenty of arguments in those high schools yea, even fist fights but they were never over the editorials. I suspect that several dozen re tired school janitors in North Carolina probably still have enough extra copies to be lining their garbage pails and holding coffee grounds to this day. It's surprising to note that even among students the pleas ure of righteous indignation ap pears to be dying out. Didn't the pro-Tatums enjoy themselves at all yelling at all the season's ar ticles? We had some pretty good arguments at my house about them. For all I know, certain is sues of The Daily Tar Heel pre vented every family in Victory Village from descending into bud get haggles at breakfast tables. Next year, perhaps, it will be completely "different. The Daily Tar Heel, true to its aims of re flecting, not arousing opinions, will have many safe tame edi torials on studying regularly and not walking on the grass. The big-time sports people " will be Maybe we are going headfore most into an age of conformism; maybe' all of us even yon bat tling bright-eyed editprs will wind up a nation of headnodders and" parlor smilers and phrase watchers. The good old American gripe (exedse me the ol UN American gripe) may be passing off the scene as a national t past time which has rivaled even the World Series for interest and en thusiasm. In time, perhaps, every thing in every way will be bet ter and better, day after dull day after dull day. But in these early stages of that trend, the yelps of protests are musical even when they are too loud; and I, for one, am going to miss having the op portunity to decide whether I agree with the guy who wrote this column or whether Jie's a meptal lout. Either alternative has its own peculiar pleasure and its appeal to individual vanity. 'Who Is My Daddy?' Maybe vanity is becoming unpop ular, too. I'll be curious to see if they stamp it out. But when The Daily Tar Heel becomes a perfect mirror of maj ority opinion, I don't know what they'll find to disagree about-in the coffe shops or where they'll get as good a whipping boy. I suppose coeds will be limited to quarrels about clothes and dates, and husbands and wives will be reduced to arguing over prosaic matters, such as who-left-the-window-up-for-the-latest-rainstorm and whose family that screaming kid takes after. ' Execp maybe if the trend keeps on, we'll go real Aldous Huxley and have artificial insem ination simpler, more conven ient, less problems. And who wants it? Doris Betts v i it ' sss iff ; - ? f40m Silly & Sickening' Basis By fraa rowieqqe The whole dispute over The Daily Tar Heel editorship, which will be settled next Tuesday, probably has caused , the stu dents of this campus to -think more than any other issue in recent years. ' While the Honor -System?-and student automobiles, and 'inte gration are important to alf think ing students, they don't: approach the importance of the student newspaper. ' This is not patting oneself on the back. It is a fact, observed in "outside" life, that Ve'ople grumble " about transit Opera tions, but grant that the busline has to be operated economical ly; "curse Congress, but admit that it dispenses the law of the land; and, raise the very devil about newspapers. ' As every editor knows, most citizens believe they could put out a newspaper better than he could. Thus the interest. GOOD THING SO IT IS a good thing," in a way, that the present editor is sue has raised so much student thought, even though the idea of a recall election is one of the most sickening to come from student minds since I've been here. One thought, relayed to me by a friend, deserves mention. I doubt if many students have thought about it. ' ISSUES EDITORS ED YODER and Louis Kraar have raised certain issues during their terms of of fice so far. Major among those issues are the Business Admin istration School and its sched ule of studies, the problem of big-time athletics - and integra tion. The editors have said, in their editorial column that the Business Administration School's tchedule of courses does not allow the business administration major to take sufficient hours' study in the philosophical, his torical, political and linguistic arts. Kraar and Yoder have writ ten that big-time athletics; as seen from the Tar Heel campus, poses the danger of encroach ing on the educational objects of a university. They have main tained that segregation of the races is bad, and that integra tion is good. SAME STANDS THE FUNNY THING, it seems to some people, is that the last two editors of the student newspaper have maintained ex actly the same things. On busi ness administration, athletics, and integration, former Edit ors Rolfe Neill and Charles Ku- rait agreed with Kraar and Yo der. My friend believes, and so do I, that the difference came when Yoder and Kraar attacked the student government administra tiori namely Donald Fowler and David Reid, or Reid and Fowl er, whichever way you look at it. Neill and Kuralt didn't do this, mainly because the stu dent government administra tions in power at the times weren't in need of attack. But, believe Kraar and Yo der (and I), the present admin istration is not a good one. It has not yet benefited the stu dent body, nor has it led the student body. So they attacked it- ' The result: Recall election. NECKS i I AM NOT SAYING that. Reid .and Fowler started the recall petition. It would be political ly foolish for them to do so. I do state my opinion, which is the same as Chuck Hauser's: They are in this up to their necks. Now. Is that good? Should stu dent editors be fired, removed, recalled or whatever you want to call it, from their jobs be cause they disagreed with the student government administra tion? Of course not. In fact, the student government administra tion should have welcomed cri ticism from the student's news paper, be it good' or bad. Cut it didn't. " " - "- By Roger Will CCe The old adage about a true word k in jest is evidenced in the somewhat r call election of our DTH duelling h grant that Mr. Nance, who is credited ' ing the idea, is motivated by i0fty p5 righteous indignation; but it is GJf many signers of hu petition were "f 5. ' they affixed their John Hancocks to th " : ment. ere Horsie was invited to do likewise he questioned the advisability 0f piuni: Big ! "Tater Tatum aptly termed Tht' the Inkpot, his petitioners laughed "w" we're just doing it for the heck of ;tV: fun!" 11 u BESIDE POINT It is beside the point that Horsie, at tj, good friends Yoder and Kraar not aloni ! themselves to double-harness but also -race unopposed if that can be raised many and loud neighings anenttk? down of editorial responsibility by dividir i Horsie screamed over the fact that any D in the gift of the campus electorate coif ' contested. (Pogo and Dick Tracy cair.e t or' do I mean third and fourth?) I am not saying that different editori have resulted had one head been spea't-'' nor even that different editorials $v forth, be the editorship one of multi. V' saying is that Monsieur Nance, bless hii a warning spotlight on a dangerous fia student government Constitution and he I us a distinct service in so doing. i The weakness is, baldv, this t WEAKNESS Ten percent of the student body mat J clobber up our student government in as to make it not only costly, but even k to operate. ' And these ten per centers r even have voted for the elected on whom the Thus it is conceivable that a frivolous or led or dog-in-the-manger group of less 1 hundred students can issue one or mere! petition. any day and every day, to the e " forcing recall elections for the Presides! i each and every one of the legislators. A motives need not be more than just "funr It is idle to say, "Oh, but that isn't likely! happen. Political economists of the "West" S France's tops3'-turvy government which is . tim of spliter-party instability. I wonder I France" would have elections if a glas r, ten "per cent of the eligible voteis ck elected' officials before them again . . . 2: '. . 1 and again . . . ? I wonder how few-: many of "our United States's elected 1 , would, remain, in office through one term;: for one election? It can happen here! Any day they wish, Fraternity Rawer new elections;' ' any day they wish, a minority of dors -Dorm, for. example, can force new-election . . any day they wis, a minority of dorr campus can force elections; E . any day they, wish, the Sororities and ; of loyal boyfriends can force election and i and election. 1 COULD HAPPEN ' i And don't say this couldn't happen here iously believe that I could drum up ten ; of the student body to sign anything frorr , tion to outlaw Christianity on our earn?, law forcing students to drink Y-Court cofi facsimile thereof . . . and maybe I a C same thing twice? A campus election is analogous to a c:- the part of the candidate; and marria:tj electorate. Without going into the ment f was the bride in the bigamous DTH y recent election histor3r, we do not regard divorce like the ten per cent suit as the t the time to question such a marriage 15 , takes place; not after. f Messrs. Yoder-Kraar (and some would , spell this 'Messers) are due out of our house, hot or cold, come spring clecti' those who would have them out instan c. 1 grounds that they are midgets in a we would recommend the plight of . Irish widder-woman of Midget Mike, The Man In All Of Oireland: j , Dennis and Pat, two of Midget Me ; ', sized friends, called to pay their respe wake, and inquired the whereabouts 01 man's coffin? "Sicond floor front," the narrated plied. "And mind ye close th' door ac 1 cat had him out av his box thrc tonnes' BE DIGNIFIED (J Let us be dignified and not pull M of their "box". There's not nuich fjnjj j men who are all but dead of Const.-. Anyway, there's nothing wrong J ; Tar Heel that a good breakaway half cure. BUT think over that ten pcrcw j 1 Hodges Vs. Hodg: n th : " "If incidents arise which challcnary says Governor Hodges of his "vo!u.'1,,,' school plan, "we propose to nae 'c j will provide tuition grants or tran c lines of the Virginia proposal." 7 This is, as is well known, a plan 10 " j funds available for children no " schools, which would mean taking fun education to support private schools- : comment yet made upon any such p t , made by Governor Hodges last declared: - "Abolition of the public schools and ment to a most uncertain extern -. is a last-ditch and double-edged 'f weapon is ever used in North C01' "V. will be appalling in ignorance, pocr. ness." ? The Made-in-Virinia vtamp on llt' -improve it so far as North Cdivld concerned. Raleigh News & j
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