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FACE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SUNDAY, DECEMBER 16, 9Z& n Revolt In H unman Heels REVIEW: Kep.QFi CAMPUS STATE On Campus; Frats Take Action On Parking The majority of ITXC department heads approved the recently revised class cut system, but also included a few modifications. According to a Dailv Tar Heel survey, 10 of n) department representatives questioned on the subject were found to favor the revision. Hut Juniors and Seniors are warned to keep that aver age up if they want to make full use of the revised cut sys tem. All students taking upper college courses must main tain a "C" average this semester if they are to be allowed more than three un-excused cuts per class during the -spring semester. Freshmen and Sophomores are still subject to the old three-cut rule. The subject of parking problems still remains a domi nant one in campus conversation. But a few groups arc providing a little action to mix with the talk. At least three fraternities affected by the Columbia St. parking restriction have taken some action to alleviate their parking problems. A jo-car parking lot has been constructed by Delta Kappa Kpsilon fraternity directly behind iis house. A vacant lot beside the lieta Theta Pi house has been modified for additional parking for the fraternity's members. And Sigma Nu h taken "planning action" concerning the parking situation. . v . ten walked oil with first prize for, her voca-1 rendition of a popular mcdlev. Hoke Simp son folk singer, and Bruno's combo copped seconci and third prizes. If the rtonse and turn-out for 'e show arc any indicati v. nlc-nt show of ficials feel confident that the osravi will become an an l. -nl affair. C a i o It n ? campus talent tame to the fore last, week when joint sponsors YM YWCA and Graham Memor n! Activities Board presented the Carolina Cavalcade of Talent Thursdav night. Miss Maw 'Tee Wee"' Bat- Kxpericuced local actors opened with another Caro lina Playmaker's production for a five-day run starting Fri day niht. Fugene O'Xeill's drama of a New England family, ' Desire Under the Elms," will play through Tuesday night. Foster Fitz-Simons, Jo jurgensen, and Al Gordon are featured in the starring roles. This last full week before the holidays held a lot for the UXC campus. In addition to pre-vacation quizzes, stu dents managed to get in some Christmas shopping, ride ne gotiation, and even some holiday parties. A good week to close out the iQ5f season. i .. it The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Mon day and examination and vacation periods and summer terms. Entered i as second class matter in the post office at Chapel Hill. N. C, under the. act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: Mailed, $4 a year. S2.50, per semester; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semester. Editor . Managing Editor News Editor Business Manager Night Editor THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEEK IN REVIEW Staff Writers Gary Nichols, Frank Crowther, Charlie Sloan Proofreader WORLD 1 V -f - - - ft ENTERTAINMENT . the Y liad a talent show FRED I "OWL-EDGE CHARLIE SLOAN NANCY- HILL BILL BOB PEEL Clarke Jones --, Ray Linker GOETTINGEN LETTER: Russians Deported Hungarians, Say Rebel Refugee In Germany D.an r Southerland I saw the four as I was walk ing along Weender Strasse after Professor Kayser's lecture on November 23rd. At first I nought they might be Italians vith their black hair and dark faces. They were all wearing be rets and shabby overcoats, laugh ing and chattering with one an other. As I walked by, one tapped me on the shoulder and said "Bank, bank," They followed me to the Nord deutsche Bank of Goettingen. I asked them if they were "Un garn." With what little German they know they told me they were from Budapest. They spoke of "Russki, grenades and Pan zer." Then they showed me the Hun garian "Forint" which they were going to change into German Marks and went smiling into the hank. I learned later that they would have, received nothing for their money. These were the first refugees I saw in Goettingen. Since that time many more have come through Goettingen from the ref ugee reception camp located on ly ten miles away on the East Zone border. One of the ten refugees who have enrolled as students at Goettingen University. Richard Bartha. is now living in our in ternational student home, the Nansen Haus. One evening when we wtre visiting a student fraternity. Richard talked of some tf his experiences during the fighting in Budapest. He told of using a sub-machine gun in the street fighting jn which 25,000 people lost their lives. Bottles filled with gaso line were an effective wreapon against huge Russian tanks. But he had to, be careful, not to gt his hand blown off as he ignited the rag in the neck of the bottle and hurled it. hoping that the fire would get to the tank's mot or. He and other students held out for two weeks in some universi ty buildings. At night, because they knew the back streets of Budapest better than the Russ ians,' they could sneak out and get food and supplies. I7e laughed as he told the hu morous side , of his story. They got some plates from a tavern and lined them up in the street; then they threw sand over the plates. Soviet tank drivers caut iously withdrew in order not to run over what they thought were mines in the street. An other time, they threw up a reck barricade with an old stove pipe sticking out like the barrel of a gun. The Russians pumped shells at it for half an hour, al though not one rebel was in the vicinity. The fraternity boys listened intently. After the fighting had died out, and Russian police began deporting young revolutionists in railroad ears, Richard said good bye to his mother and left Buda pest: Since then he has heard State Economic V Outlook Good North Carolina is another week older and deeper in debt. W. E. Easterling, executive secretary of the Local Government Commiss ion released figures which show that as of last June 30, North Carolina's counties, cities, towns and special districts had a record total indebtedness of $423,280,926". This is more than, 43 million above the debt figure on June 30, 1954. Easterling pointed out that "you must consider that the State's resources are at an all time high." He described the over-all debt picture for the fis cal year as being "good.", The Dukes gathered in Durham last week to attend the centen nial observance of the univers ity's founder, James B. Duke. As a climax to the program, Duke Endowment surprised the university with gifts totaling $2.4 millions. Quite a Christmas pres ent for the Pookies, nothing of her. Mail and tele graph contact with Hungary was cut off. You could sense the sincere sympathy the Germans had as they listened to Richard. I be lieve, they felt it much more than an American student could, perhaps because Hungary is a matter of hours away and the VSA sis on the other side of the Atlantic, and perharfc because the Germans had also exper ienced the horror of war in their homeland. This is not to say that most German students would have founght alongside the Hungar ians if given the chance. Some would have, perhaps, but mst of them would see no reason for it. Would it really do any good? The. idealism of the German stu dent of 20 years ago is gone. He is now sick of war, pessimistic, and looking at things coldly, realistically. But most German students would like to have been able to help more than they could. As one friend at the University in Muenstcr said in a recent letter. "During the tragical oc currences in Hungary, we have had th? terrible feeling of want ing to do. Something, wanting to help,, but can do nothing." What were the Goettingen stu dents able to do besides sit and tensely listen to radio accounts of the slaughter? On the evening of November 5, there was a mass student pro test against tha Russian aggress ion in Hungary. A group of pro fessors grimly lead a "Schweige Marsch." silent precession, of students up the main street. The street was lined .with people. For more than an hour thous ands of students marched silent ly by in a cold drizzly rain. Along the streets of 16th century timbered houses, candles blink ed and flags hung from the win dows. The crowd gathered at Al bani Place where the Rector of th? University and the president of the student body urged stu dents to give their support to Hungarian students and spoke against the brutality of the So viet government. Students gave their support by raising money and giving clothing. After" classes they dropped money in collection boxes marked, "We won't forget you." They gave shoes, over coats and all types of clothing to refugees coming in through the camp on the border. On December 1, the Univers ity held a dance in the three rooms of a student mess hall similar to Lenoir, with a band in each room, in order to raise more money to help. The Union of Christian Democratic Stu dents at Goettingen (the active followers of Adenauer's Party at the University) came out strongly against the dance saying it was not the right, way to se cure money. Despite much pro test, eight-hundred people at tended and made it a successful money-raising project. For weeks, ministers preached on Hungary at the pulpit, and professors preached in the let ture halls. But still students had the . feeling of being so close to the v "Eisene Vorhang," the iron cur tain, that they could hear the cries of dying Hungarians, but could do nothing. There is, among a very few students, a slight resentment against America, because "The Voice of America" helped stir up the Hungarians, although America knew .she couldn't risk starting World War III by sup porting tha revolution. Some say the Hungarians had definitely expected armed help from the West. But in the United States lies Germany's only hope. The stu dents I have talked with are dis appointed with the English gov ernment and have an increased lack of respect for the French government after the aggression in Egypt. A v.ory few students see a dim future. One girl history student told me she knew that Russia would conquer Europe in a mat ter of weeks. It would come evetually whether in t'ro or ten year?. She wondered, will we get the full support of the U. S. But most Gennnn students are counting on the United States, their only hope and protection. l - ; r CHAIRMAN ... experience in student politics Norman 'Kantor Photo PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK: SP Leader Jim Holmes Interested In Politics Gary Nichols James Houghton Holmes is Chairman of the Student Party here at Carolina. He is a Junior from Mount Airy and has been involve 1' in politics's since he was a freshman. He attended his first meeting of the Student Party in his fresh man year and has been active ever since. lie has also been- in the Student Legislature for three years. Last fall he acted as Parliamen tarian in this group. Holmes is a soft-spoken, ambitious politician. When questioned as to his interests, he replied that his main interest is politics, but he also is pretty much of a music lover, preferring Beethoven and Tchaikowsky to most composers. He likes to read mainly Hi tory, political non-fiction, and philosophy. "Above all," said Holmes, "I like to talk." He is chairman of the Carolina Forum. Holmes is a History major. He intends to go to grad school when he graduates and hopes to become an instructor, and later, a pro fessor. His biggest goal, however is to get into politics. In campus politics he has been the SP floorleader, a member of the Advisory Board, and, right now, Chairman of the SP. His plans for the SP are "to continue backing Bob Young. The things he has done will help put us across this spring." "Above all,' Holmes said, "we're not just interested in winning an election. We're interested in getting something done in studen government." -NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL: She Frank Crowther The week has been one of continued conflagration in Hun gary, conciliation in NATO, con demnation in the United Nations, and lastly, but possibly of most significace, creation in Hoboken, New Jersey. With the threat of a wide strike faring them, the Kadar regime started the week in Hungary by cutting off all communications again, forbiding the worker's councils, and setting into effect martial law. It also called for the surrender of all arms and threatened k offenders with court action. By Wednesday, the country was in the grip of the predicted strike and there were clashes between the idle workers and the local police in Budapest. The effectiveness of the strike was acknowledged by the Kadar con trolled newspaper which ex- Pogo ( YfrP, iT YD'J CAMS C0WN 10 n& common, w r- r , vs A fli I'll Abner M"IU Sib K -KA f THEM NO-GOOD BUMS Y BUX UKEWISE, H AH'M ( y -s STiLL NOiS y rs-CLP U C TERMITES NOT ONUY J ALL TH' SOFT HONGRY, M 3U7 MAYDAYS 'Gj&Z ? ET OUR TOP-SOIL rA FARTS O OUR ) MAMMY W WfyU-. 5 HOLMES World Had A Busy claimed that it had "never seen" anything like it before. By the end of the week, the Budapest workers had staged a new sit down strike and had were re portedly seeking out new lead ers for th?ir cause. The burst ing bubbles had lost none of their spontaneity. In Paris, Secretary of State Dulles buried the hatchet among our NATO allies by calling for U. S. aid to the sagging European unity and pledging continued economy. One of Dulles' strong est appeals came when he pro posed that moral force should be relied on to avert war and over come Soviet despotism as-practiced in Hungary. He also assert ed that the U. S. did not necessar ily have to consult NATO in an immediate crisis. Overall, the 15 nation pact looked as if it had moved to higher and dryer ground after the sudden squall. XI urexvns I I eo i sar A ccz & A KiZHTj lilrrtciYMPlC VATCHMANATA ?A2y V liFtesr J to m A MOSCOW IN TROUBLE: USSR's Treatment Of Hungary Is Shattering Communist Myths Barry Farber ; The Greensboro Daily News Communism is on the ropes. Its myth has been shattered, its -power is w-aning, its future looks bleak. Basic truths have caught up with it. It no longer takes a wild-eyed optimist to spot forces in motion on both sides of the Iron Curtain that starkley confirm what only a f e w anti - Communist fanatics would have dared claim a month ago. Whether Communism dies violently or by slow leprosy de pends on the Russian leaders themselves and on whatever global policy the West adopts from now on. The free world is in position to win with or with out war. The Cold War cards have all been reshuffled by herioc Hungarian hands. We hold most of the aces. If the Eisenhower administration plays our new hand skillfully, Soviet Russia may well go broke on its own bluff. Hungary has spoken. We now know for sure that which form erly we only tried to believe that Communism as a way of life is, a bankrupt fraud; it does n't work, nobody likes it; it must command by brute force; and, its captives are ready to be crushed barehanded under Rus sian tanl 5 to prove it. ' Russia's bosses are desperate. They have reason to be. For every Hungarian who expectorated upon the trampled corpse of a Communist policeman, how many Poles, Czechs, Romanians, and even Russians themselves would relish the same opportunity? A militant, unbending Amer ican policy at this time capitaliz ing on communism's agony could earn this nation history's ever lasting thanks for engineering the most humane clean-up job cf the epoch. America's attitude In the United Nations, a U. S. sponsored move to censure the Soviet Union was passed by the General Assembly. The proclama tion condemned Russia for its intervention in Hungary and call ed on it to make "immediate ar rangements" for withdrawal of its forces. The vote was 55 to 8 with 13 abstentions. In other highlights of the week, Britian was granted 1.3 billion dollars credit by the Internation al Monetary Fund to bolster world confidence in the sterling; schools in Clinton, Tenn. and on the Gaza strip reopened their doors after both had weathered weeks of violence; the Budapest puppet representatives to the U. N. walked out charging that they had been "rudely and disgrace fully" offended; Nehru enplaned for his visit to the U. S. and three days of consultations with the President; and, the Israelis, AK9 I up to now has been, "Look, Rus sia. You've taken a third of the world and mistreated it. Please don't try to take any more." There are compelling reasons for us to change this immediately to read, "America is morally at war with Soviet oppression in Russia and every other Red-ruled country" and back this up forcefully without fliching or fluctuating The great lesson America has left unlearned is that Russia has so much more to fear from war than we do. We gingerly dodge actions like helping Hungary or daring Russia to send one volun teer troop to Egypt for fear of "provoking" the Russians. We'd much rather be provoked our selves. We behave like a tiger afraid of a hyena. That's exactly the proportion of our military advantage 6ver Russia. How would Russia meet an American exhibition of moral de termination? General Gruenther, retiring commander of NATO, has described how the West can deliver running rctaliatioi. if at tacked. We have all the means to annihilate Russia right on its borders. Soviet planes would have to fly across the top of the world and Canada to strike America. The air edge is ours. Dissension is festering among top gremlin leaders. Their satel lites are waiting for a chance to run amuck. Hungary already has. The Moscow rulers would have a difficult, time selling the Russian people on another" war with screaming slogans, unless the war is purely in defense of the homeland. Russians are sick of war. They are also sick of slo gans. In spite of their obedient silence they fear the power and envy the promise of the United States. Russians know other peo ple have cars, turnpikes, sports wear, and deep freezers. They are beginning to wonder out loud why they don't have more of a chance to enjoy life, too. after killing 43 Israeli Arabs who had unknowing broken a curfew, could say no more than, "Whoops!" Physicists in the Stevens In stitute of Technology of New Jersey, however, may very well have deserved the spotlight last week, for their creation of a uni verse in a test tube. In one half-millionth of a sec ond, they simulated what took place in an estimated billion years by electrifying atomic particles with both negative and postive electrical charges, shoot ing them out of a thimble sized atomic gun, and subjugating them to a tremendous magnetic field. For the first time, we may have an insight to the mechanism (?) which causes our expanding un iverse to expand. They may well have found an inroad needed tc tame the now savagely recklet H-bomb. r f f By Walt Kelly OlpH'r MKV VVWSN 1 ANOTXgZ CCWg AT MS N WITH A AvlX PAlU I VSfetiCZ AKDK2AV By Al Capp Week
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