FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1956
PAGE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
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Woman's College Situation:
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I s Not Love And Kisses
CLASS OE 1932: Dr. Edward K. Graham r who resigned in
Max as chancellor of Woman's College of UXC at Greensboro
after sen'itig there since hj;,o. has been appointed dean of the
Liberal Arts College of Host on University. He and Mrs. Graham
and their three children Susan, Julia and Edward K. enter upon
their new post on Sept. 1. The Alumni Review.
So, in two sentences, The Alum
ni Review of this month closes
the hook-on another North Caro
lina educator who has gone to
search for greener pastures.
It wasn't a case of Chancellor
Gnvham's not getting paid enough,
although that would have been
a good reason.
It was a case of his being remov
ed, ever so politely, from the heat!
office of our sister institution in
Greensboro.
The rumblings at Greensboro
came last ear after a report was
filed with the Board of Trustees
fiom its Visiting Committee. The
report said:
"With respect to the administra
tive problems existing at the Wo
man's College, and particularly to
the difference between some of
the faculty members and the ad
ministration, this committee has
requested the acting president of
the University (William Friday)
to make a detailed investigation
and report concerning the prob
lems which he finds existing at
Woman's College, together with a
recommended plan of action for
the solution of such problems ."
The committee met, investigated
and turned out its report. Once
all the excess language has been
burned off the report, it says:
1. "The committee received
much evidence of the chancellor's
efforts to upgiade the Woman's
College, both academically and
structurally. The vigor with which
he executed thee efforts, it is
thought, has been responsible for
some of the opposition which has
developed."
2. I here are "dii2ercnc.es which
exist between the faculty and the
administration and between facul
ty groups." These cliJici elites were
"impai..; the internal organiza
tion : rr' effective operation of the
college."
Chancellor Graham" resigned as
niceK as a man under fire can re
sign. A "change in administration
is clearly necesary as the first step
tow;vrd achieving the degree of
campus unity and confidence which
is essential fur the college to move
ahead," he told the trustees in his
resignation letter.
The trustees told him they were
sorrv he was leaving, voted to ac
cept his resignation and started
looking for a new chancellor, all
in one day.
As a result of the Greensboro
rumblings and subsequent resigna
tion of Chancellor Graham, the
Consolidated University now has
two big problems:
1. Who will be the new chan
cellor? 2. How will the "differences"
that existed at Greensboro be re
solved? From the looks of the
trustees' rejxnt Chancellor Graham
was not totally responsible for
those differences: The faculty wa.i
at fault, too.
As for the first problem, the
University will probably bide its
time until WC feathers are smooth
ed down. It probably will bring
in a chancellor from the other side
of the country, one whose views
arc not too widely known.
But a larger problem won't be
solved. That is the problem that
comes w-hen the State gets rid of
a fine, intelligent, native North
Carolina educator. Dr. Graham
belongs to Boston University, now.
He won't be educating North Car
ol ininas am more.
As for the second problem that
lias resulted from the Greensboro
purge, the resolution of the "dif
ferences:" From the tone of the report, the
Woman's College faculty needs
straightening out. Accepting Dr.
Graham's resignation helped pla
cate the faculty. It was easier to
get rid of Chancellor Graham than
it would have been to fire half
the faculty. But the faculty dif
ferences still exist under the sur
face at the school where the pretty
young ladies go.
So, while the rest of the state
wonders what really happened at
Greensboro, the Consolidated Un
iversity would do well to straighten
out the faculty factions that helped
bring on Dr. Graham's dismissal.
And the University might also
consider ways of keeping its best
educators in this state.
Button-Down
Collars Are
Also Stylish
Times are getting worse than
we thought.
The Vackety Yack advises stu
dents to wear "conservative rep
ties" when they get pictures taken
for the class sections of next
spring's yearbook.
This is going too far.
There was a time when a stu
dent could have his yearbook pic
ture taken in practically anything
checkerboard tie, Mister B collar
or. vertically-striped jacket.
But the word is "conservative
rep ties."
The trend toward conformity
has reached the Yack, a book which
usually tries each year to be less
like the one the year before.
Our suggestion to students on
getting their annual pictures taken:
Forget the Yack's instructions.
Wear what you like. A checker
board tic would look nice in the
midst of all those pages of conser
vative reps.
Yd
u Got Em: Now Keep Em
If you're a freshman or a trans
fer student Jiving in a men's dorm
itory, you won't notice the differ
ence. But if you've been here be
fore and had to walk downstairs
to make a telephone call, you'll
appreciate die new telephones on
all floors."
It tcKk just a few minutes' con
sultation between student body
The Daily Tar Heel
The official student publication of the
Publications Board of the University of
North Carolina, where . it is published
daily except Sunday, Monday and exam
ination and vacation periods and sum
mer terms. Entered as second class mat
ter in the post office in Chapel Hill,
N. C, under the Act of March 8, 1870.
Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year,
$2.50 a semester; delivered, $6 a year,
$3.50 a semester.
President Bob Young and Director
of Operations J. S. Bennett. Then,
the University started installing
telephones on every floor of most
men's dormitories.
Their ac tion has eliminated one
of the University's most vicious
pests: the third-floor student who
answers your call for someone liv
ing on the second floor, and who
is too lay to walk two flights of
steps.
"Now most men students can
transmit and receive telephone,
calls with a minimum of efforts.
Young and Bennett also were
wise tov advise students that mis
treated telephones will be removed
immediately." In the past several
dormitory telephones have been
beaten, thrown, ripped and torn
with regularity every Saturday
night.
Editor
FRED POWLEDGE
Managing Editor ... CHARLIE JOHNSON
News Editor
Business Manager
The men students have griped
about not having telephones. Now
they have them, thanks to Young
and Bennett. Whether the tele-
EILL BOB PEEL phones say is up to the students. .
'I Need The Money For Text Books!'
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Fraternity Rush,
Looking Ahead
ToHecticTime
Barry Winston
Rome had its gladiators. The
Borgias had their Iron Maidens.
Spain had its Inquisiton. We have
all three. We call it Formal Rush.
It is-Sunday, the thirtieth of
September, shortly after two in
the afternoon, and over a thous
and Freshmen are venturing
forth from the comparitive safety
of their rooms to begin participa
tion in a week-long sacrificial
ceremony to the god of Chaos.
Freddy Schmink, Graduate of
East Fetuch High School, emerges
from Old North dormitory and
starts' hopefully down the street
in the direction indicated by the
arrows on his map of the campus
and environs.
Tightly clutched in his little
hand are a half a dozenbids, the
most important of which is the
one bearing the heading: Eata
Bita Pi. His Dad was an EBP.
That's the one for him.
He has read rushing rules care
fully. Very carefully. In fact, he
has them memorized. He has no
intentions whatsoever of violating
them. .
Freddy starts down the street
now, arms swinging, head high,
stride full of confidence, his rep
tie streaming proudly in the
breeze. At the corner he pivots
sharply, and there, looming large
and magnificent ahead of him in
the distance, is the HOUSE, its
bronze letters gleaming in the
sun.
TIME OF DECISION
In the middle of the street his
step falters. Should he go directly
to the EBP house? Or should he
first dispose of the other five,
saving the dessert for last, as it
were? Frought by indecision. ( he
is nearly impaled by the hood
ornament on a new Olds looking
for a place to park.
In terror, he leaps for the side
walk, looses his footing on a beer
can, and tumbles headlong
through a hedge to find himself
sprawled on the front lawn of
one of the other five. His de
cision is made for him.
Climbing gracefully to his feet,
he saunters causually up the front
steps and through the door and is
greeted by the beaming face and
iron grip of the doorman. In the
space of three minutes his hand
is shaken forty more times, he
loses his name tag, consumes a
gallon and a half of rather in
sipid punch and is given four pep
talks cn the glories of Mu Mu Mu
social fraternity.
The story is much the same at
the remaining four houses. Final
ly, wearily, he turns his steps to
ward THE house.
GETTING ACQUAINTED
For the next four days, all is
confusion. He is introduced to,
and expected to recognize on
sight, sixty-some brothers of EBP.
He manages, always smiling, to
remain his own natural self in
this most natural situation.
Uppermost in his mind at all
times is the advice in the hand
book: Get To Know The t Men;
You'll Be Living With Them For
The Next Four Years. And of
course, he follows the advice. He
y gets to know the men by chatting
with them about Saturday's game,
his last trip to W.C., the great
flick he saw yesterday, and the
rising price of Old Horseshoe. His
conviction is concrete now. This
is the place for him.
THE BIG NIGHT
And then, Thursday night, one
of the older boys takes him aside
and begins, "I want you to know
that we all feel terrible .about
this, but you see, there was this
one guy who didn't think that
you
And it won't be until next year
sometime that he finds out that
the real reason was that his fa
ther didn't go to Carolina. He
went to Dook.
On Learning Part 2
Understanding The Great Writings
Ed Yoder
(This is the second of Vod
er's thres-part essay on the
meaning of learning.)
That meant that if a man was
ti be a lawyer and enter the In
ner Temple his education must
fit him for such a Vpublick"' of
fice. But if he was to be educated
to suit Milton,. he would not stop
with the study of law alone, but
would delve besides into the ed- .
ucational amenities. Those amen
ities, though perhaps not vital for
making his living in society,
would be absolutely vital for mak-'.'
ing his life as a person, in private,
as an individual human being,
meaningful.
The educated irtan might not
need to identify Dante or a piece
of baroque chamber music to be
successful at law expect inci
dentally in so far as knowing
about great poets and great works
of music might temper his style
of speech, his tone, his angle on'
the problems of justice, or might
hone the edges of his logic and
power to argue.
If you want to get down to
money cases, today's vogue, the
education for private life was not
essential to getting food and
raiment. Justice, skill, magna
nimity, private office these pass
ed above and beyond economic,
wants.
It is perhaps here that today's
college freshman, faced with all
the educational salesmen, like me,
faced with their wares from nu
clear physics to Dante's Divine
Comedy departs John Milton's
way. He will, he says, equip him
self to be a successful business
man or lawyer or doctor; but as
for the "private" life, he would
rather study personnel problems
or management than. Paradise
Lost and mutations.
Since this is the age -f Mr.
Spectorsky's Exurbanite who
commutes by train to work, wears
gray flannel, owns an Olds, a
Buick and a Cadillac and a
ranch-style home in Westchester
or Fairfield; since the image of
what is termed "successful edu
cation" gets back to the towns
of the South and of North Caro
lina, the college freshman is
looking first of all at what will
provide a bigger pay check. For
that, as a product of the massed
goals of his parent- and friends,
he won't apologize.
So, like the freshman who says
"so what?" to ignorance about
Dante; like the freshman who
will leave Chapel Hill as a grad
uate more under the poetic in
fluence of a Satevepost Richard
Armour than of Shakespeare;
more under the influence scien
tifically of the science page of
Time Magazine than of hard
hours spent with physics prob
lems; more under the influence,
musically, of Presley than of
Bach he will leave without once
having awakened to the dimens
ions of real education. In effect,
he will shrug his shoulders and
squander his most precious op-
portunity. For Chapel Hill, a
giant among liberal arts institu
tions in America, has spent dec
ade upon decade educating these
who really wanted to be educated.
U.
CHAPEL HILL
... a giant.
I am not talking about getting
the most out of General College
as important as that is. General
College is the place where you
may, if you listen, hear Dante's,
name dropped once to a dozen
times but perhaps not at all. In
the rare instance, you, as fresh
men, may have some instructor
who will tell you more than the
barc-t handful of biographical
facts about the Italian gentleman,
or maybe even induce you to read
a few lines of his work. But it is
only when you move into the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, where
not only Dante but his co-stars in
the firmament of civilization are
dealt with every day, that you
will begin to see what John Mil
ton, in the mid-17th Century, was
talking about. It is only there that
you may not only find out who j
Herodotus' was, where he lived,
but perhaps read his absorbing
histories. Only there will Shake
speare and Mozart and Michelan.
gelo and Tacitus cease to be ab
straction and skeletons; barely
conceived, barely seen. Abstrac
tions can be made whole; bones
can gain flesh.
When a political wit.llke Adlai
Stevenson says: "Eggheads of the
world unite; you have nothing
to lose but your yolks," he
knows, from a familiarity with
the Communist Manifesto, that a
cleveh joke is involved unlike
a certain newspaper reporter
who, hearing Stevenson, missed
the point entirely and quoted him
as having said: Eggheads unite;
you have nothing to,, lose."
Voters' Choice
(Carolina Times)
The Negro voter must choose
between "tweedledum and tweed
ledee" at the polls this Novem
ber, editorializes the current is
sue of The Crisis, journal of the
National Association of the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
Commenting on the civil rights
planks of the two major parties,
the editorial says:
' Both parties ignored the fact
that 1956 is not 1952. We now live
in perilous times in race relations,
especially in the Deep South. We
have the U. S. Supreme Court de
cision on segregation in public
education, and rulings on discrim
. ination in public recreation and
travel.
"We have Montgomery, Ala
bama, and the implications of the
bus boycott. We have had nullifi
cation resolutions and a Congres
sional manifesto insulting the
highest tribunal in the land and
advocating virtual rebellion. We
have had U. S. senators travelling
up and down the land urging the
people not to obey the Supreme
Court. And we have had cam
paigns of villification and terror
and violence visited upon sec
tions of our population which
merely asked that the law of the
land be obeyed." ,
The Crisis, the editorial ex
plains, "had expected more forth
right civil rights planks than the
ones adopted by either party" be
cause both "are anxious to win
the balance-of-power Negro vote
this fall."
"We had not expected much
of the Democrats because of their
pro-segregation southern wing,
but we had expected a little bet
ter of the Republicans."
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AMERICAN AID HELPS
India's Five! Y ear
Plan For Progress
Nea! Stanford
In The Christian Science Monitor
India's first five-year plan that ended this spring
turned out better than New Delhi had hoped.
Its second five-year plan, now under way, should
also outrun its blueprints, if the recent unprecedent
ed United States $360 million food loan just con
summated is any indication. Which suggests that
India is ultraconservative in anticipating the pro
gress it can make over a five-year period.
When India charted its first five-year plan, back
in 1950, it had anticipated large balance of pay
ments deficits in operating the program. It got them
but not to the degree anticpated. It had expected
to drop $609 million from its sterling balances; in
stead it used up only $317 million in foreign assets
In carrying out the plan.
Likewise India had expected a certain amount of
foreign help but not to the extent received. It had
counted on some $328 million in external assistance;
instead it received some $408 million. On both counts
then India did better than it had hoped.
Its program cast less, and its friends helped more
than expected something unusual if not unique
in international affairs.
The United States was the greatest contributos of
foreign aid to India during this period. It contribut
ed a total of $298 million in grants and loans not
to mention a $190 million wheat loan that had been
consummated just prior to the five-year plan.
Next largegst contributor was the Colombo Or
ganization, representing British Commonwealth
countries. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the
United Kingdom together contributed some $100
million.
The United States-India program actually got
under way with the general agreement of January,
1952.
Such projects as community development, tube
wells, river-valley developments, fertilizers and steel
for agricultural purposes were stressed.
And up lo 1953-54 these were the main activities
in which United States aid was channeled. But with
the 1953-54 program there came a widening scope
and the activities selected for United States aid
were more in the field of transport and industrial
development.
Under the 1934 program some 200,000 tons of
United States steel were imported for use by In
dian railways, by steei-processing industries such
as shipbuilding, manufacture of hospital equipment,
oil drums and containers, pipes and' tubes and in
dustral machinery, and for requirements of river
valley development.
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Then under the
1955 program
some 138,000 tons
of billets, sheets,
plates, etc., were
provided for ur
ther aid to rail
ways, to alleviate
critical steel
shortages, for the
-tube - well pro
gram and other
rural development
projects. Some
10 0 locomotives
and approximate
ly 8,000 freight
cars were includ
ed in this aid
total.
FLOODS
... money helps
During the five years, United States aid has in
creased every year but one. For 1951-52 some $50
million was authorized; the next year it was re
duced to $39 million; but in 1953-54 it jumped to
$62 million; and for the last two years it was first
$73 million and then $74 million. Of the total for
the period $298 million some $150 million still
remains to be delivered because of the recognized
delay in delivery or what is called the "pipeline."
In the field of agriculture the most important
contribution by the United States was fertilizer. Im
ports of ammonium sulphate from the United States
were primarily responsible for increasing agricul
tural production in India.
Ground water irrigation was next most important
agricultural activity carried out by the United
States program. Some 5,000 tube wells were con
structed a tube well irrigating on the average 400
acres. The program also undertook to help solve
India's grain storage problem.
As a demonstration project two 10,000-ton-capacity
. silos with elevators, and features for aeration, dry
ing, disinfection, bulk handling, etc., were built.
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STUDENTS IN BOMBAY LIBRARY
. . .training minds to handle money
Next to agriculture India's greatest shortage is
in steel. Under the United States aid program some
700,000 tons of steel have been allocated to India
over this five-year period 150,000 tons for produc
tion of agricultural implements, 100,000 tons for the
railways.
India is running a deficit of 245,000 tons of steel
for its railways annually but aid and expanded
steel production is expected to meet this crisis.
River valley projects rank next to agricultural
and steel in America's aid to India program. The
United States has helped build such projects as
the Rihand Dam, the Hirakud Dam, Kakrapara, Mahi,
Ghataprabho, - Chambal, and several other simile
projects. ...
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