-JM ' ' Ijptr t'"0 HT i--'yJy. y paiifyM page mo THE DAILY TAR HEEL WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1557 Tar Heel Students Are Dropping Behind Others Something is wrong with the student body. Out of state students, viewed through the eyes of a native, are only-good to the lTniversity be cause they bring opinions and ideas from other regions. If this were their capacity it would be well worth the tax payers' money. 1 But the trouble with the student body, or the North Carolinians in the student body, is that they "Seem altogether ttx willing to sit back and let the out-of-staters get all the benefits of the school's program. Monday night a discussion on the race problem arose during the meeting of a well known campus organization. One memler of the group suddenly tame tip with 'I'm from Newark, New Jersey," and then he continued with one of the opin- . , , .. .. a turn . touu - south. Returning to the University level, it is true that the very top offices are held bv natives. The offices didn't, come to them just because they were Tar Heels thev earned their positions by .showing their ability.. But below the top leaders,' the ranks hold a remarkable number of out-of-state students, who are there for the same reasons as their leader. They were either more qualified than their opponents or else were unopposed. Now the non-Carolinians have as ninth right to the benefits and ANNUAL MANHUNT IS ON ions the administration would like to have stimulating North Caro linians. There was otilv one troub le: alxMit a fourth of the group was not from the Tar Heel state.- One-fourth doesn't sound like too big a figure, but only 18 per cent of the student bod v. docs ixt come from North Carolina. Some where, down -in the dorms, at the Hick, or thumbing to Creensboro were native Tar Heels who could have benefited from the discuss ion. Thev all .could have had the opjioitunity to coinpete with the out-of-staters for a place at the meeting table, but they were somewhere else. This really " doesn't speak well lor the natives. The, old concep tion that the South is a place of indolent indi iduals sitting on shadv x era ndahs sipping mint juleps, is not quite true in this dav of blossoming, industry and discovery, But it is beginning to look like the South is staving where il eges o f the University as pri anyone. But it seems strange that thev are able to get so much more out of .school than their fellow stirdent from within the "borders of the state. It's time the inhabitants .of the "ale of humility" realized why it is tluvt thev are here. An Unsentimental Sport "Jackie Robinson's announcement of his retirement from organized ba.se ha 11. coming as it did alter he had been traded to the New York Giants, touched off hot words between the controversial athlete and Brooklyn Dodger vice president. Buzzy Bavasi. Baasi criticized Robinson for giving a national magazine exclusive rights to his retirement announcement before telling newspapermen. The vice president claimed Robinson betrayed newsmen by not telling them first. ' . . . . .a i me same i m ic nif ikrooiviMi front office should be criticized for dealing with him in the man ner they did. The ex-star did a lot for Brook lyn., and for baseball. His greatest accomplishment was breaking down the racial barrier in the ma-or-1e:irYF.s;"He also heljed the Oodgers win six. pennants and one world's championship, the club's first, during the course of his ca reer. And Brooklyn evidently doesn't appreciate his efforts very much. Robinson ..defended his poition saving he had agreed to give ex clusive rights "a 'huig' time ago" to the'; magazine when the time came. But whether or not Robinson betrayed newspapermen by his agreement of ' a long time ago" is something we're not. attempting to find out. .What concerns us is Robinson's statement ". . . there's .no senti ment in this game." He's right. Consider the examples of Phil Rizzuto and Babe Ruth. Rizzuto, outstanding Yankee stortstop for many years, was given the gate last year shortly before World Series time, thus being deprived of an other chance to participate in the was traded away' after the Yankees front office saw he could n't hit epiite as many home runs as he once did. And he was per haps the most outstanding jxr soii ever to play for the Yankees. Both were disposed of with ap parently no feeling; not sentiment. And Robinson said he was determ ined "this was not going to hap pen to me." ... Robinson should be praised for not -letting it happen to him. The Daily TdrHeel The official itudent publication of tle Publications Board ol the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Monday and examination and vacation periods and summer term Entered as second class matter in the tiost office in Chapel Hill', N. C, undei the Act oi 'March 8, 1870. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.50 a semes ter; delivered. $6 a year, $3.50 a semel ter. The Sun Dial Isn't So Bad After AH Editor FRED POWLEDGE Managing Editor CHARLIE SLOAN News Editor NANCY HILL Business Manager BILL BOB PLEL Sports Editor j LARRY CHEEK Subscription Manager . Dale Staley Advertising Manager Fred Katzin Circulation Manager Charlie Holt NEWS STAFF Clarke Jones, Ray Link er, Jean Moore. Pringle Pipkin, Anne Drake. Edith MacKinnon, VVally Kuralt, Mary A!ys Voorhees, Graham Snyder, Billy Barnes. Neil Bass, Gary Nichols, Page Bernstein. Peg Humphrey, Phylli Maultsb) Ben Taylor BUSINESS STAFF Rosa Moore, Johnny Whitaker, Dick Leavitt, Dick Sirkin. SPOUTS STAFF: Bill King. Jim Purk, Jimmy Harper, Dave Wible, Charley Howson. Night Editor Proof Reader Graham Snyder " Guy Ellis Mr. Morehead's solar timepiece next to his planetarium seems to have stood the test of time, and is really not a totally unpleasant addition to the ampus. As a matter of fact the sun dial has become another of those plates in Chapel Hill where one's imagi nation can be stimulated and one's ruffled nerves calmed. The struc ture has proven it can be a thing of beauty in almost any kind of weather. In the rain its shiny face refletis the surrounding area, and adds a surrealistic interpretation of its own. On a foggy night the stylus looks like the prow of a giant sword fish just breaking wat er. When the sun shines, the whole ornament shimmers pleasantly, and the tound circle with the hour glass is a beady eye sizing up every passerby. The slick marble face also makes a nice skating rink for school chil dren visiting the planetarium, and, when it's wet. a deadly trap for rubber-soled students hurrying to class. This matter of whether or not the tiling was designed for walk ing caused some sjecu!ation at first. Now the general opinion seems to Ik in favor of cutting straight across the thing if time requires it, but to stroll more leisurely around it when there is no rush. With all the children playing i ing-around-the-rosy on the hu e, and people striding boldy across it, there is some scuffing" and a cer tain amount of mud tracked across the shiny dial. This isn't a "don't walk on the sun dial" editorial, but people might at least wipe their feet off, and it would be' nice if somebody from either the planetarium or Graham Memor ial could mop it off when it gets muddy. I r ' Ek I m . ' mm fa mj n - k wm km bb onset jraQLJ3is un mibtobu. But They Can Expect Some Holes Malvina Lindsay In The Wusliitigton Post The vigor with which industry's annual manhunt on campuses is now getting under way, six months ahead of graduation, promises that the current suc cess ideal if the young will con ; tinue to get deeper rooting. Greater numbers of talented and capable youth can look forward- to being well paid "organi zation men" with growing fam ilies and two-car homes in Su burbia, and with expectations of secure futures through company retirement plans. Industry's talent scouts, now out on one-night stands bidding for services" of promising sen iors, are reported offering sal aries 5 to 10 per cent higher than last year. The companies prefer '-talented" students, but will settle in some lines for "capable" ones. The student rushees, in their bargainings, tend to beat but the picture sociologists have been drawing of postwar youth What they consider most im portant to. the job are oppor tunity to do interesting work, good training programs, chances of advancement, salaries equal to others in the field, retire ment security, , location for good living conditions. This ties in with an analysis of the aspirations of the college class of 1955 made at the Cen ter for Study of Leisure at the University of Chicago. Time mag azine turned over to the cen ter its interviews with seniors representing 20 colleges. These were based on what the seniors expected to be doing 15 years hence. David Reisman, author of The Lonely Crowd, and Faces in the Crowd, who participated in the study, contrasts in the fall issue of The American Scholar the ideals of this class with those of lpre-1946" 'classes, especially the one in 1931 to which he be longed. , In his article. "The Found Generation," he says that clas reports of graduates of major . Ivy League colleges between 1920 and 1946 show a certain coherence. These - graduates re membered the depression, and part of them attended college in a wartime era of transition. Such graduates, he thinks, tended to have more drive for individual success or adventure than those of the postwar era. They did less planning of their lives, married later, changed jobs more frequently. They had less "floor" under them, also less "ceiling" above. ' While the earlier graduates often looked to big cities, es pecially to New York, as their goal, today's graduate looks rather to living "outside the ul cer belt" in a small community, or in a suburban area that will be suitable for child rearing and for civic activities. Today's graduate is gregarious and he thinks of both his occupa tional and social future as2 re lated to groups. The earlier graduate was more of a lone wolf, possibly because the corporation had not thert beJ come " so 'muth the modernized successor of the feudal protect- Realistic though these later, graduates are in refusing to try to hitch their wagons to-'stars , out of reach,- they yet naively ignore the threat world condi tions offer to their plans. For them, says. Mr. Reisman, 'the national and international scene holds neither fear nor fascina tion." Their vision is that of "life on a plateau." But even if serious internation al explosions and domestic de pressions' are prevented in the years ahead, the future pattern of the good safe life to which many graduates aspire may meet some alteration. The last decade has been one in which new job seekers have "never had it so good." Needs of the' defense program, plus the shortage of yiuthful manpow er, caused . by . low depression birth rates, have provided a sellers' market for graduates. But between now and 1960, according to Census Bureau es timates, the "number of those seeking their first jobs will rise 225,000 a year. Ten years- hence it will become a flood with about 900,000 newcomers annually wanting jobs. Expansion of industry may keep up wifh this. But coming graduates face the possibility -the plateaus on which they ex pect to live may have a few ditches. 'We Must Protect Minority Rights For Senators, That Is' I b x - : ""s. I V? 'M 1: T? xV - - ' v. V ii'-S,- V'1-'- ' if 'AS OTHER NEWSPAPERS SAY: is Aid To Hungary Or To Kadar? The New York Times 0 For the past two months the United Nations has been trying, to get observers into Hungary. The Kadar Government, which on Nov. 4 began to act as Moscow's agent in Hungary, has arrogant' Iy and ' insultingly . refused. It would not even- permit a visit from Secretary General Dag Uammrskjold himself. But last Friday a different sort of news became available. Mot of the Russian tanks seemed .to have Leen withdrawn from the streets-of Budapest. The bodies of Hungarian patriots killed in the defense of their country have been buried. The survivors are in prirson or exile. The blooJ 1 stains have been washed away. The Kadar regime will there fore graciously permit a U. N. mission of four perfons, headed . by Under Secretary Philippe de , Seynes, to spend a week-end in Budapest. As this newspaper's corre . spondeut, Kathleen Teltsch, re ported from the United Nations Headquarters in this city: ' The Hungarians apparently were will ing to waive their former objec tions to an eralier visit, particu- iaily if it would call the attention of member states to their griev ous need for outride assistance." There is not one of us who would not wish to help the peo ple Hungary in their despera'e hour, it there were any way in which it could be done. But cer tainly the large majority of U. N members who voted to condemn Soviet t Russia for its actions in Hungary will want guarantees that any aid sent into the stricken country will be used for the benefit of the people thereof and not to support the Kadar Kremlin Government. -A- L'il Abner k By Al Capp VOO MEAN THERES SOMETHING IN OOGPATCH CXJ'D RATH&R HAVE. THAN A HUNDRED ) GRAND? (THAT'S ) J THREE WEEKS' J V PAV-y Or-ir" . 1 I TLEGGOS M DONT BE HE. KIN SAVE ( F HE ANNOUNCES HE A JJ?lS S MP H AWG BEASTLV TO M DOGPATCH J I WAS &ORN HERS.-VVE. ) 5ct fcMr 4 HAWGZ-BE ) FUM V KIN ALLMAKEA J Mf r l McCALL , - Z sweets ( starvation!" ) fortune sellin' p AyOSmHErf iZAy r hawg souvnirshO Pogo By Walt Kelly n AiiTv nn At i. - A i : m :-usfoy ccjivetTi $AiBEApy nr$ $2Yj avswt 35 cooper i OHg02I5HT THOUGHT ) P0MHgPATA Ji wguSHT1D 0UT JAWTA5 A """ vI ike Deserves Military P OWQ C. S. Young President Eisenhower has asked Congress to grant him the power to use force, at his own dis- cretion, to prevent the spread of Communism in the Middle East, and I guess to a lot of people this appears to be another example of the President s course of action . in his attempt to take over and control everything in the government. It might appear lo some that the President wants to be in a position from which he can operate on his own in tremendous proportions, with little ser- ' ions regard for the judgment of the members of Congress, or others in important" positions. And I am here to say that this is exactly and perfectly cor- rect. A couple of days ago, North Carolina's own W. Kerr Scott put his two cents worth in by stat ing that he is of-the conviction that President Eis enhower is trying to walk on both sides of thejoad at the same time.. Now this, ladies and gentlemen, is a very pro found outlook. I wonder how any many can be come so brilliant in only one lifetime. Could it be that Sen. Scott implies that the President is attempting to observe and seek solutions to he problems of people other than those in his own political party? If this is what Sen. Scott means, then I can readily understand why it is so exasperating for him. "Politicians" just don't do things like that. Their primary concern is o show themselves as good party members, and they are so busy at it that they seldom, have the time or opportunity to do any effective legislating. The people of this country, have been subjected - to, for want of a more accurately descriptive term, "" the inadequate judgment of so many "politicians" for so long, that it is difficult for them to see and ' realize what a God-send they have in a man like Dwight Eisenhower. " So many of the people in- ' volved in politics are so narrow that they do not have the dimensional fortitude to cope with issues or problems on a world-wide basis. It should be clcear to those who have looked closely that Dwight Eisenhower is a politician, not a "politician". They saw a man put before them who had the ability to control a nation, its people and its prob- -lems. They put that man in office, and the people of the world who are open-minded enough will be thankful that they did. , One of the most difficult things for most people to understand is that Dwight Eisenhower is not operating for Dwigh1. Eisenhower. He is not operat ing for the good of the Republican Parly, or an other special and limited group. He is operating for the common good, and the common good in cludes all the people of the world. If this is a .Utopian concept, then why not strive for a utopia for a change, instead of dismiss ing the entire idea as impractical and impossible, and even foolish to think about? Is it so wrong to be idealistic? When I hung up my uniform a couple of years ago, I was of the firm conviction that I wanted no more of war unless the country was faced with a national emergency, and I am still of the came conviction, but there is another thing of which I am equally as strongly convinced, and that is i President Eisenhower says., that we are facing a national emergency, then it will be time for all of the able-bodied people of this country to get into uniform, whether for the first time, or sec- . ond or third. And all you skeptics and slackers who are more interested in progress on your own personal behalf than on behalf of the people of the world had better change your way of thinking, drastical ly, and fast. President Eisenhowrer may have to issue the call. If and when he does, I wonder how many people would willingly answer. I wonder how many real Americans we would see. A Rousing Silence For Brother Hoover The Reporter . Soon the corridors of the State Department will see the last of Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr., the man who cacme in more 4han two years ago as the son of the Great Engineer to sit at Mr. Dulles' right hand, a?;d who now goes out of office amid a chorus of resounding silence. He had been appointed not because of his wide knowledge of world affairs or his experience at large-scale management he had neither but be cause an administration anxious to appease its own right wing had thought that to honor a Hoover scion with high office might do the trick. Dulles, after all, would remain his boss. But Mr. Hoover the younger, outwardly a colorless, silent man, soon displayed such an out standing backstage ability at crossing up,' slowing, and frustrating his boss and, on occasion, the Pres ident himself that the trick worked only too well. He opposed the scope of Dulles' foreign-aid program, particularly with respect to India. He opposed Dulles' plan for cultural exchanges vith the Communist world. v, As chairman of the Operations Coordinating Board, Mr. Hoover opposed the closer dealings with Tito that Dulles had been advocating. During the Suez crisis, while both the President and Secre tary Dulles were absent from the capital, he found so many obstacles to throw in the path of prompt U. S. oil-tanker relief of Britain and France that the several weeks'delay further embittered mter Allied relations . .. . He disappears " from the scene w ith a ' Dear Herbert" Presidential letter of thanks. We are thankful too.

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