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1 X PAGt TWO THE DAILY TAR HlfiL FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1957 ew Year's Wish. For 'UNC: In A Crisis, Think Freely For Carolina students, the new year meant many things special. It meant a new chancellor will be chosen soon. It meant a new absence reg ulation. . . It meant, perhaps, a settlement of the X. C. State College basket ball scandal. It sar a love-feast, one that was pretty 'expedient,' betw een football coach Jim ;ratum and basketball coach Frank McGuire. It meant McGuire and the Carolina basketball team get deserved fame 'in the Dixie Classics tourna- from their hands. In the midst of their grqat frustration, .they grab for. security the wV.y a drowning man grabs for the air. mem.. i . . The new year brought fears, too; fears of war. . t The land- of the Middle East, lich even one was1 happy to stop worrying about a few months ago. means something else, now in 1937. 1'resident Eisenhower is asking Congress for authority to use lT. S. Armed forces there if necessary to combat Communist agression. What does this mean to the Car olina student? Ask the fellow who walks to V -Court beside you after pear to have that authority his o o'clock class today. Ask him It is such times that produce a mass neurosis. It can happen on the campus as-well as throughout union. Students start dressing alike. They start believing anyone who appears to have authority. In bad times, such .things as narrow-minded professors,, pseudo-public opin ion and Time Magazine may ap- what it means to be a draft-age male, physically fit, approaching graduation, knowing very little about the immediate future, hav ing practically no say about it. To him. the danger of war in the Middle East or anywhere else is a verv real thing. It is more, than something to kid about; it is something to fear, to consider ..with the same gravity he considers his work alter graduation. President Eisenhower, who has been removed from the national picture since his reelection last Xovember. has not done very much to clarify the IVS. position as of this minute, lie has done a ureat f r-Mv-.cutting to allow Hun garian refugees to enter this coun trv. IWit he ;id his policy leaders have been taking an., extended Christmas holiday. They were taking a holiday, that is. until the announcement came this week that Eisenhower would ask Congress for permission to use armed forces if necessary in the Middle East. Xow the Carolina- male, draft age and physically fit, finds him self in the middle of a great frus tration. He knows very little about his future life. ' Xow is the time when men, fac ing a future that holds little se curity. -start giving up. They allow their right to think freely slip The Daily Tar Heel The official jtudent publication uf tbe Publications Board ol 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 O'ist office in Chapel Hill, N. C, undei the Act oi March 8., 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, S4 per year, $2 50 a semes, ter; delivered, $6 a year, $3.50 a semes, ter. Editor Fit ED FOWLED GE - , Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor NANCY HILL Business Manager BILL BOB PEEL Sports Editor LARRY CHEEK Subscription Manager Dale Stalej Advertising Manager Fred Katzin Circulation Manager Charlie Holt NEWS -STAFF Clarke Jones, Ray Link er, Joan Moore. Pringle Pipkin, Ann Drake, EdUb MacKinnon, Wally Kuralt, Mary, Alys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes, Neil Bass, Gary Nichols, Tage Bernstein, Peg Humphrey, Thyllii Maultsby. BUSINESS ST AIT-' Rosa Moore, Johnny Whitakcr, Dick Leavitt, Dick Sir kin. SrORTS STAFF: Bill King, Jim Pur ks, Jimmy Harper, Dave Wible, Charley Howson. EDITORIAL STAFF Woody Sean, Frank Crowther, Barry Winston, David Mundy, George Pfingst, logrid Clay, Cortland Edwards, Paul MeCauley,' Bobbi Smith. People, in their great frustra tion, get panicky and start calling everyone else Communists. They shoot at Negroes who board city buses, and they condemn as a damn fool -anyone who does not follow- the Jaycce Credo. It's perfectly natural for this to happen, we suppose, . in a time of near-crisis. It's American. Hut al- baef sign. so. it s a erv Staff Photographer Librarian .. Night Editor- . ... Norman Kantor Sue Gishner The most wonderful new year's resolution for this campus, we be lieve, is also the most impossible one. It would be a rededication of all Chapel Hill minds to the idea of freedom of thought. It's impossible because we are hunutns and Americans. It's im possible because Ave are wonder ing when the war will start and when the bomb will drop and when we go marching off again. It's impossible because there is so much badness in this world, this nation, this state and this town that it is unavoidable. It has been, sopped up by even this state's grgatesJUCdr i'i'H-n,-il institution; it permeates athletics and it ooozes through the various departments of government that direct our lives. Hut it would be just as bad if we were to forget that beneath alfe of 19575 badness there is a deep, clean layer of goodness; that men do have the ability to think for themselves and that they exercise that abilitv every once in a while. We should not forget this. In Mne o extreme crisis, it is about all we have. i So, for the Carolina male stu dent, draft-age and physically fit, there is more than the armed forces after graduatioif. There is more than even a career. There is the freedom, that elusive freedom to think as one pleases, that wars and governments and red tape and the Ku Klux. Klau cannot take away. It would be nice to remember tin's, as. 1937 starts. Gracious Living Number 10 Gracious Living in Chapel Hill (and other places) was somewhat graciouser because of certain gov ernment officials. Thty were the men who drove mail trucks and toted huge leath er pouches full of Christmas cards. The mailmen of Chapel Hill (and other places) deserve a huge card themselves,. And, under the tree, there should be a pile of corn plasters. Day after day, night after night, even on Christmas day, those gen tlemen (most of them college stu dents who needed a little extra Christmas money) delivered cards. : They didn't complain; they even smiled as they lifted piles of Christ mas messages. . GOETTINGEN LETTER: UNC A lies Awav change S A rom . tudent evolution: as A Plea John Raper Dan Southerland and . I. finally arrived in Goettingen recently to begin our school year. In the two weeks between the tini3 we finished our language course in Kochel and arrived here,' we roamed over Austria and Ger many. We traveled first to Bereh tes Gaden, Hitler's mountain ro t sort, then through Salzburg and Hinz, Austria, to the city of waltz es, wonderful pastry shops and wiener schnitzel, to the Paris to Eastern Europe Vienna. Vienna is the capital seat of Austria and formerly the royal seat of the powerful Hapsburg . rulers. It has approximately 2 million people, a third of Aus tria's total population. I expected to find many old buildings in Vienna, but mostly the government, cultural and other structures have been bui't since 1870. . Vienna reminded me much of Washington, D.C., with many large buildings about 100 years old, something of a city plan and many parks in between the build ings. Most of the olr buildings were renovated in the 1870 80s, and their architectural design changed to that of the day? thui disguising their former appear ances. SITES The interesting sites to see are in walking distance of one an other in the city center. These buildings are laid out in a circle along what was the old city wall; th.2 center of the city is known all over the world simply as "the Ring." On "the Ring" lie the Palace of the Hapsburgs; Historical Mus eum of Art (equivalent to the Metropolitan Museum or Louvr etc.); the National City Theater (nightly presenting the finest drama to be had); the City Opera House (center of Vienna's culture and unowned the world over;; University of Vienna (Europe's second oldest); Parliament; and On the north side ' the Ring" is formed by the Donau River (Dir. ube), which unfortunately is not blue. The Historical Museum of Art had such well known paintings a Raphaels "The Madonna ir Green; Titan's "Nymph ar.ri Shepherd" and other Titians, Ru bens' The Venus Feast" and "Self Portrait,'" Holbein's "Por trait of Jane Seymour," Vela. quez's portraits of the Hapsburg children, and works by Monteegr.a Bellini, Giorgione, Palma Vecehio. Veronese, Jan van Eyck and Roger van der Weyden. At the time we were in Vienna the museum had a special Pieter Breughel exhibition. His works have large crowds of pepole, motit of whom represent a different moral or saying. While I am putting forth this big culture act, I might as well say that I saw my first opera in Vienna, Richard Strauss' "Sa lome." The opera "Salome" was a bit different from Rita Hay worth's film version. We saw Jchann Strauss' "Die Fleder maus" ("The Bat"), an operetta, which had no bats but some nice waltzes. L'il Abncr Vienna is a theter-going, ma sic-loving city, and one has to get tickets several days in advance or feel himself lucky to have stand ing room. Two other very interesting at tractions were the armor and weapons collection and the exhi bition of the Hapsburg Treasury The former had knights armor from many of the great warriors out of the days of chivahy Among the items in the Royal Treasury was the crown of the Holy Roman Empire dating back to Charlemagne's time. A word over churches -we at tended a service at St. Stephea's Cathedral, in which a Mozart Mass was given by a professional choir and members from the Vi enna Philharmonic Orchestra. St. Stephen's was . said to be built by Charlemagne. Another old church was St. Ruprecht's, dating V The director came in, took us. inta the rare book room, brought us nol only the Gutenberg but also the first German , printed book, and allowed us, Dan South erland and me, to thumb through both. The Gutenberg alone (one of the two or three with an intro duction) is worth $1,500,000. J n the room were other scholars and learned men translating dif ferent works from their original Latin or Greek manuscripts. Earlier in the week we had stopped by the Melk Cloister where they had one of Austria's three Gutenbergs, but sold out to Yale at over a $1 million tune to repa'r the cloister. The loss did not completely disrobe their library, while they still own many old books, some hand-copied ones dating back to the 10th century A.D. Then there was our little nigt miles to Budapest, until . . ... The Hungarians arose while wc w;ere in Vienna. The center of the rebel's camp was not more than 50 miles or so from us. The Austnans were rejoicing that Hungary seemed to be free again. There were two reasons evident for this hope among the Vien nese Austrians: 1. Much of Austria was under Russia's co'ntrol after World War II, and there is no love for Con. munism in Austria (they say of a person who says he is a Com munist, "He hasn't been to Rus sia yet". 2. Vienna was at its height before World War I when Hungary and Austria were one kingdom, and many of the old Viennese dream of a reunifica tion. There were trucks being load ed in Vienna with donations from the city's people to aid the 'I Thought I'd Surprise You' A it My k l. . s9 - c. - ; ' back to the seventh century. The Vienna Choir Boys sing in an other of the cathedrals. . These aesthetic arts were qiiile tingling to my mental and spirit ual senses of beauty, " but ven more exquisite w-cre the pastries and confections that I tasted there. Wd, being typical tourists, went to Demel's, the former pi! ace bik-ery, and to other less publicized goody ; shops for 'tlv connoiseur of goo. v ' Probably" the ' most unnsul things we -saw were one of the original Gutenberg Bibles and Hit first book printed in German, a Bible, too, in the National Li brary of Austria. We had thougut that the Gutenberg Bible wouiu be in' an airtight glass, case sur rounded by an armed guard. We asked in the library if we couH see the Bible, and they replied that they vere not: sure and would have to get special permis sion from the library director, as it was not on public display. excursion out to the suburbs to one of the "Heurigens." A "Hcu rigen" is an institution unique to Vienna where new wine can be had. Pine branches over the door mark where you can buy Lie "Ileuriger," and a bundle of straw means a locale w-hich sells last year's wine. INVITATION We met a young doctor at the opera '"Salome" and began ialk ing. During the conversation's course it came out that we could be lured into one 6f these "Heuiigens," if we had an invita tion, lie asked us to come vilr him, a friend, and his friend; date to one of his favorite "Heuri gens." We went. His friend's girl was irom Budapest, Hungary, on a visit to Vienna to see relatives Having seen only the Gabor girls andthis young lady I would hazard an opinion that the Hungarian ladies are quite attractive; in fact, so attractive that I ws ready to travel another hundred it Hungarians. A large neon sign downtown flashed the latest news. The Hungarian girl we met said that two weeks before when she left Budapest, there was hardly an indication of what tok place October 27 and 28. I read the newspapers every da'y now. One becomes more con scious of the world's troubles when one is only 50 miles away from a revolution that could dis turb the delicately balanced world into war. One begins thirk ing over the Big Bad Bear's de signs when he begins to move tanks into East Germany, and the one thinking is only six or seven miles from the Iron Curtain. How about wTitfng your Con gressman and Senator? Tell them to get on the ball, to start think ing about how the United Statas, as the champion of he democratic world, is going to set a trap fo the Big Bad Bear's ever reaching paw. I'm no coward, but just don't want to get stepped on. By Al Capp HOLD YORE " AH RAN HAWG McCALL. OUTA DOGPATCH ONCEFO' ) FIRE, HIS -6MoDDEFcr-SlNGlNJ'-ANi' UJMAvJj AH KIM DO IT AGIN ' 1 THETWARKfT HAWG ff HERE. THET WERE A ta-FOOT J COMETH' STATCHOO O TH' PEST? REAL i . - v K VO' IS NASTY cfe T HE'S LCXDKIN'AT ryo-1 Rotten d M&f he means EAS'LY FO'60TTEN-( A T"HRll.L.V Pogo By Walt Kelly ; i "ITWAS" " ' A gracious thanks to the gentle1- Cortland Edjvards men who made Christmas day so l'roof Reader Wally Kuralt bright. tn! i S '-g I CAROLEIDOSCOPE: Thoughts While You Were Away m Frank Crowther In a w-ay, I didn't want to write this piece, but I suppose that it had to come out sooner or later. I told myself that my holiday experience was unique and significant to me alone; after all, everybody has had at least one little experience they will savor from these past holidays and mine, I mused, veould be a personal souvenir only. But, then, spending the t;tu!ar Christmas vaca tion here at the university was an experience I shall hold singularly significant for a long time. And what is writing anyhow, except a form ol ex pressing ourselves and interpreting the myriad of . emotional experiences we have had r someone has had, will have, or would like to have? Alors ... The gauntlet ran something like this: "Relief m seeing the students stampeding "that-a way;" verg ing on lonesomeness, but sneering at it for a while, perceiving the "new" Chapel Hill; mass explora tion; extended prostrate procrastination; diligent employment for the local merchants; one last shot at the 4,137 things I had sworn, to do; being appre hensive of the inevitable "return of the masses." reconciliation, and, finally, I'm glad you're back. So now the students again replace the squirrels as the intelligentsia or do they? and I can no longer sit in my spooky room in Old West while the rain outside, drips and drums on the window sill, a slight breeze creaks one of the downstairs doors, and I imagine a hodge-podge of mysterious things. The proverbial honeymoon is over. With the new year just having shown itself over the horizon, it is only appropriate that we (actually me and my typewriter) say a few word.s about it. Life magazine starts the new year off by pictur ing the California fires, "Australian animal life, and Hungarian refugees' progress in the U.S. Also, it started a feature concerning psychology which should cause Epicurean mumbljngs to come forth from -New West for some time to come. Actuall known that I'm a confusionist, verging on neuroses, they didn't tell me anything new; I've always striking for psychosis. That's fundamental .... isn't it? QUOTES Before the New Year grows too old or, better yet, before the turn of the year gets too far be hind us, there are several quotable quotes which characterize this time in the year, and which I haven't seen used at all in the limited publications which I devoured. Under the sentamentalistic" banner we could put the following: " "Of all the sounds of all 7e bells (bells the music nighest bordering upon heaven) mart solemn and touching is lhe pea! which rings ovt the old year.' Charles Lamb And then there is the factualistic or universalis de edict of Thomas Mann: "Time has no. divisions to mark its passao, there is never a, thunder-storm or blare of trump ets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins, it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ' But no matter how e tend our fires, swim o n forges, or climb our trees, are we net, as Tennyson lamented, wailing children? "But what am I? An infant crying in the night: An infant crying for the light: And with no language but a cry." In a search for, as Confucius characterized, "the way," I also like to remember the Spanish proverb which I someday hope to complete: "You have not lived a full life until you hve fought a bull, written a book, had a son, and planted a tree." YOU Said It: On GocFs Definifion: Love . . . Perfection In response to preceeding articles appearing in The Daily Tar Heel: "Have I been with thee all these many years, O world dost thou not know me even yet?" THERE IS NO UNBELIEF There is no unbelief; Whoever plants a seed beneath the sod And waits to see it push away the clod He trusts in God. There is no unbelief; Whoever says when clouds are in the sky, "Be patient, heart; light breaketh by and by," ' Trusts the Most High. There is no unbelief; Whoever sees 'neath winter's field of snow, The silent harvest of the future grow God's power must know. There is no unbelief; Whoever lies down on hrs couch to sleep, Content to lock each sense in slumber deep, Knows God will keep. There is no unbelief; Whoever says "tomorrow," "the unknown, , "The future," trusts the power alone He dares disown. There is no unbelief; The heart that looks on when the eyelids close, And dares to live when life has only woes, Gods comfort knows. There is no unbelief; For thus by day and night unconsciously The heart lives by that faith the lips deny. God knoweth why! Elizabeth York Case God is love, beauty, understanding, rest, peac, timeless, spaceless, law, perfection. Nam Withheld By Request
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