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PAGE TWO THE DaILY TAR HEELm WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 195S The University's Skipper: Man Who Was Chapel Hilt CAROLEIDOSCOPE Chapel Hill, a wise alumnus once observed, is not a town or a uuiverity or any kind of pjace. It is a group of people. It is faculty, administration and '..mnspeople. It is students and'stu dent leaders and janitors and taxi cab trivers and all other sorts of people. One thing distinguishes these peopje from other people who live in communities of 1 1 ,000 popula tion. They have a Chapel Hill slant on life. They attack problems with a Chapel Hill attitude; they ask questions with a decided trace of Chapel Hill in their voice. One of the people who was most Chapel Hill was Skipper Coffin. Some of his more naive students called him "Dr." Coffin; some called him "Mr." Coffin. Most folks called him "O. J." or, better, "Skipper." But all people thought of Chapel Hill when they men tioned Skipper Coffin. He was as much a part of this place as McCorkle Place or Silent Sam or The Shack, whose unlevel floors he used ""to walk with the boys in the afternoon. He was as integral as the students he taught, taught in a different sort of way, because Skipper Coffin was a dif ferent sort of teacher. Coffin believed simply in good writing, and his students reflected that belief. He believed in being homey, and he walked and talked and drank beer with his students because he enjoyed it. When he was named dean of the St hooK of Journalism, he said the title em barrassed him. k Like the chancellor pushing a baby-carriage down Franklin St , like Louis 'Graves parking his old green car in front of the Post Of fice, the sight-of Skipper Coffin in. Chapel Hill meant that, no matter how the rest of, the world was go ing, this town was still the same. . And Chapel Hill belonged to Skipper Coffin just r-s much as he belonged to her. The two not only coexisted; they depended on each other. So it was wtih a great sadness tli at we watched Skipper Coffin leave this town early last summer. For we knew that, in addition to Chapel Hill's losing one of the men ' who made the placje Chapel Hill. Skipper Coffin was losing something very dear. It is nice to know, however, that a lot of Skipper Coffin will stay with 11s. The Shack will remain, and the green oval of grass and trees will stav in front of the School of Journalism. But (best of all, there wjll be a lot of good newspapermen and women who ,3 re good largely because Skipper Coffin told them how. S.C. Solons At It Again The South Carolinians are at it again, only this time their cause is pitifully hopeless. Led by former Gov. James F. Byrnes, a group of independents is trying to overthrow the Democrats. They recently trailed for a "new declaration of independence." This is especially ironic, coming from the state where the U.S. Con stitution isn't even recognized. Meanwhile, South. Carolina Democrats are calling for solidari ty behind Adlai Stevenson. A Dem ocratic 'victory, they my. is the on ly way they lan e'surc uf getting" Southern 'jtei in the selection ,lL. federal t. strict judges. 1 The Daily Tar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examinatiot and vacation periods and summer terms Entered as second class matter in the oust office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei ihe Act 01 March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed. $4 per year, S2.50 a semes ter; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor FRED FOWL EDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor RAY LINKER Business Manager BILL BOB PLEI. Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK Advertising Manager Circulation Manager . Fred Katzin Charlie Hoi! EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Sears, Frank Crowtber, Barry Winston, David Mundy, George Pfingst, Ingrid Clay, Cortland Edwards,- Paul McCanley, Bobbi Smith. Staff Photographer Norman Kantor BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Jonny Whitaker, Dick Leavitt, Peter Alper. NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Nancy Hill, Joan Moore, Pringle Pipkin, Anne Drake, EdithMacKinnon, Wally Kuralt, Marj Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes, Neil Bass, Gary Nichols, Tage Bernstein, Peg Humphrey Phyllis Maultsby. SPORTS STAFF: Bill King, Jim Purks, Jimmy Harper, Dave Wible, Charley Howson. Subscription Manager Staff Artist Dale Staley Charlie Daniel Night Editor .. Woody Sears Proof Reader Cortland Edwards Soutlv Carolina independents are like most other South Caro lina people, except in an election year. They farm, run businesses, gipe about the rain or the lack, thereof, and sleep at nights. But let an election year come along, and they're disgrunted. The Democratic Party hasn't done enough for them, they argue. They threaten, raise cain at the convention,' threaten some more, and maybe get what they want. In this case, they didn't get what -.-they . wanted. So , they're forming ' their own party to represent them.' Thirnr-gbodr and fine; 'rfrtcr' American. But this year it just, won't work. Third parties always have been laughing matters for most Ameri can voters. Professors of political science say their chief effectiveness lies in their putting pressure on the two major parties. Through a pro cess of1 bavk-scratching, a third partv can get what it wants from a major party, or it can cast its votes with the other party. This is the way politicians go to national conventions and get nomi nated for the Presidency. The melt ing of a bunch of small segments into one has become an essential part of the democratic process. But, we repeat, the South Caro lina independent movement -appears to have little real force be hind it. Rather, it seems to be com posed mainly of people who have too many gripes and too much honor to submit to the will of .the Democratic Party. We doubt that the independents will have either major party fight ing to see which can incorporate the independent planks into its own platform. The independents just aren't that strong. South Carolinians were kicked around quite a bit at the Demo cratic National Convention in Chicago last summer. It looks as if they would now be able to com prehend where wise politics leaves off and stubborness starts. ' The State Does Have Something W a i t a minute. "We knew there was something nice about South Carolina. . The Associated Press says on the heads of South Carolina gwis "rest five of the world's top beauty crowns no other state can' make that claim." We ''always knew the Palmetto State was good for something. !!! if!' SPECTATIER PAPERS: Another Frank Crowther - Now that William C. Friday has officially . taken over as the Consolidated University Presi dent, the, South Bldg. focal point Challenging Opp rf unity A dl oi's Camp cign has become the office ' Chancellor. of the Within the month we may also have a new Chancellor, and this new man may be the key to a new era of education at the Uni versity. In fact, this new Chan cellor could mean all the dif ference in . "an era of great ac complishments," as Mr. Friday 'put it. To those of use whi are active ly interested in the outcome of this selection, the weeks are be coming more and more crucial and we have less time in which - we may impress or influence those people who hold the power of selection. I say impress and influence, because we are trying to do pre . cisely that; we aspire to influ ence, impress, sway, enlighten, awaken, and induce them. In do ing so, we feel justified, because we are vitally concerned with the future of the University of North Carolina. . . Mr. Friday will need a man in the Chancellor's chair whom he can trust, whom he can confide in, who is honest, sinoere and as dedicated as he himself unques tionably is. With this new Chan cellor, he will control, for the most part the University. It is with this new man that he will embark on our new era of edu cation in North Carolina. And we have a man on this campus who, unreservedly, can fill the position with the same type of youth that our new Pres ident has, the energy necessitated by the position, the prestige need ed to represent Carolina, a per sonality that literally sparkles and attracts,; and; finally, and of jhost! importance the educational competence and exeprience that tbewChancsl lor must possess.- This man is William Hardman .Poteat,.. A.B., 1 1941 (Oberlin); B.D., 1944 (Yale); Ph.D., 1951 (DukeJ. There was a previous com msnt in the Daily Tar Heel which claimed that there w'as a movement to "railroad" Mr. Po teat into office by some "well meaning faculty members and students." That was an infantile attack on a serious and sincere effort. We have not laid any tracks for a railroad; we have been working hard' for the man whom we think can help the University most in the office of Chancellor. There are 'no selfish motivations attached. The article went on to say that Mr. Poteat's removal from the classroom and installation into an administrative position vould, "sterilize , the effectiveness of, many of (his) talents " I don't believe that this is a question of administrative sterili- BILL POTEAT ...teacher or administrator? zation, i there is such a malady, but one of hesitance for fear that the man would lose his creative spark and be sublimated by men ial tasks. If we look back to the duties of the Chancellor for a moment, we will see that his talents, can be put to good use and there would be, in iact, more need to exercise them. . Poteat's logical and alert mind would be just what is needed to act in screening the faculty in his position as Chancellor where he would "recommend to the President all appointments for terms of nore than one year, promotions within, and removals from the faculty and other, posi tions, administrative or other wise, in the institutions . . ." And it is ridiculous to infer that we need a "progressive edu cator from some other area . . . with . . . fresh ideas" or an "out sider ... to keep abreast of other leading educational institutions of this nation." Do we suppose that Mr. Poteat is void of fresh ideas? Contrarily, here is a man who has his most productive years ahead of him. We have one of the best Uni- versities in the country, and I hope it remains that way. We need not go outside our own community when we have such a wealth within. Let us draw from our- own resources, not someone else's or some other region's. It is only in the interest of keeping the Universtiy on a high plain and to continue with the same or even higher standards which are expected of our great University that we have given so much interest and contributed so much time and effort to this appointment. William H. Poteat is a man whom we could respect, who would work diligently with our President, and who would flow smoothly- into the vein of Car olina tradition of excellence, while adding the type of youth and vigor to the position that no other could. It is without hesitation or res ervation that we recommend Mr. Poteat for the office of Chancellor. 'Boyf Have They Got A Personality Cult Over Here!' V WWW New Facts About Appomattox The following explanation of the North's victory was slipped y under The Daily Tar Heel of- . fice door by an apparently un . reconstructed Southerner. After chasing the Union Army all over the map, even as far North as Gettysburg way up in Pennsylvania, the Confederates and General Lee were very, very tired. The Southern Army, camped out at Appomattox, was preparing to wipe out the Yankees the next morning, march victoriously in to Washington and raise the Stars and Bars over the White House. General Lee was resting at the Court House before mapping out the strategy for this final cam paign. Into the Court House walk ed General Grant ready to sur render. Grant was such an in conspicuous looking man that Lee took him to be his orderly. Naturally, Lee gave Grant his sword to polish. Grant, very sur prised, took Lee's sword and actually thought that Lee had surrendered. He even thanked Lee for surrendering and Gen eral Lee, being a true Southern gentleman, couldn't go back on his word. By Walt Kelly vo'j msan to zay you MC2 '0OIT TWg ELECTION? 'GtimvoiusMJoer CANPIkATb kin 00 I'M OONNA 9Q you 6 AN- 3099 loom ens a 60T A CAK2 YBABS I 3BBN tOOkCIN' POZ THAT CWIU you ktn'ow wwesg H5'& HIPIN' r V V NO, 0UT gVIPgNUV 5g B TASTED 1 nvc ns v-' rAica at .s J VMS 0 ANOTWSS 1 " sT NOW. ALEmT Li'l Abnor By Al Capp tr-" 1111 J" , . .j -" 1. .:' , .."A 1 I YEAH.V- If AM WHAT .V' J I . NUI I IV ARE VA f ;jr-CrJ y ) DiDWjESf ) HALF AS 1 I GONK4A DO ff . ' MAKE A y DlSGUSTlhT l I A&OUT IT, YA' UZ J s'" 5b m t 1 r- ' rr m - v 1 w . t, w jk!,.,,,i .-j s&zxh ts.i 7 as- it .xs-vr?t jIJ t i VO'f " 1 0? 1 1 me Running Roger Vilk O'Horso With Kefauver's nomination, hope faded for a wholesale swing to Stevenson among ordinarily Democratic groups in the powerful Northeastern" ' " states and Democratic strategy turned to the farm states. If economic problems are pressing enough, they can overcome personality factors for many voters. Among farmers in some states the economic recession holds promise of obscuring strong qualms about Stevenson's personality, even though no one disagrees that the Democrats woul4 run more strongly in the Middle West if their tickets were reversed. On the other hand, it seems clear that more ' 1 pro-Kennedy voters would swing to Stevenson if -' Kennedy were his running-mate than Kefauver is able to swing as the second man. In part this is ' 1 simply because many pro-Kefauver voters are go ing Democratic in any case this year, for economic"'" reasons. But there is increasing doubt among Midwest era observers that even Kefauver plus the farm slump will be sufficient to turn more than normal ly Democratic Missouri and Minnesota to Stevenson. And, whatever happens in the Middle West, few de- tached observers presently see Stevenson amassing, an electoral majority in the face of unwavering Eisenhower sentiment elsewhere. ' General urban prosperity and the preference ' for Ike as a person seem destined to keep Steven son from accumulating as much of the big city vote ";' as he needs to win in the populous Northeastern states. Consequently, the best hope for salvaging" ' some "of these states lies among white collar and professional voters, many of whom live in suburbs., ' and many of whom have warmed to Stevenson as they have to no other Democrat in recent times. These people tend to think of themselves, as "in dependents", but undeterred by their staunch de 1 votion to Stevenson, they continue to vote Repub-"7 lican whenever they can. This, however, they can do only when the Republican candidate is a like- able "liberal", 'internationalist", or "moderate' i.e, Wilkie, Eisenhower, Warren. Therefore, as one expert with a reputation for accuracy has explained, against such Republicans, Stevenson is under a double handicap: He loses' Democratic-oriented voters who dislike him and can accept a moderate Republican, but is not able to pick up the votes of substantial numbers of Steven son admirers who dislike his party. Run him against a right-wing or personally un popular Republican, this argument goes, and Stev enson's strength would be epic, for he would then hold most of the pro-Democrats who don't like him, and would in addition pick up an unprecedented precentage of voters in the group which constitutes a major bastion of GOP strength. New Canaan, Scarsdale, Evanston ,and their counterparts around the country might then be found arm in arm with Brooklyn, Harlem, andr Johnston County in the "Democratic column. Hence the critical importance to Stevenson of the Nixon candidacy and the President's health and , age: If enough of the pro-Republican but pro-Adlai voters can be persuaded that a vote for Ike is a vote for Nixon, the Democratic big city defections might be offset enough in the suburbs to redeem at least some of the large Eastern states now clearly Ike's; one or two of these, plus California, which is al ways peculiar and where Nixon's unpopularitjUias had extra years to 'grow, plus the hoped-for farm breakthrough, plus the reunited South and that's how the hopeful gleam gets in the eye of the ar dent Stevensonite. The trouble with the gleam is that so far there has been little progress in persuading the pro-Republican independent "moderate": who likes Adlai that Adlai's opponent , in the race is Nixon. The suburbs are still 75 Ike's, and it is new Oct. 31. THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE-PART 2 Independent Goes Re Dave Mundy Why should an independent or a "Jeffersonian Democrat" vote Republican this year? I am not a Democrat, and I am not a Republican. This, as far as my local registration books are concerned, make me an "independent." This puts me in that large group of people who votes ac-' cording to issues and the capabilities of the candi- 4 dates. It is from this context that I can, -without hesitation, advise any and all to vote Republican nationally, vote Republican in North Carolina. The northern wing of the Democratic Parly, the "big labor" leaders, the party ADA "intellect-, uals," the big city machines, to all effects control the national party.' They are pushing, harder than ever, the "shift to socialism." More government'; economic controls, larger expenditures, the 'control of the; masses' through larger subsidiesguaran teed cradle-to-grave security against everything ex--cept trench mouth: A -Democrat president simply means the loss of more individual freedoms. Many "states' rights" Democrats Jsnow this, yet continue to -vote Demo crat because their grandfathers did so back in the, days when their party still retained its Jeffersonian attitude toward personal freedom. You try to figure out why. Kie ifayes, the Republican candidate for gov ernor, Joel Johnson, candidate for the Senate, and Mr. Storey, candidate for education commissioner, are three of the best candidates ever offered by any party in North Carolina. I invite anyone to com pare their statements over important issues schools, segregation, taxes with the now-traditional drivel of their Democrat opponents. So, Democrat, Republican, or Independent in terested in preserving your freedoms Vote Republican.
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