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ore xcii FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 195 PAG1 TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL Democracy, Compromise & What Socialism Could Mean - WT10 Lll.ill to MT tll.lt tllC l'liilantluopit Literal) Society hutud "thumbs down" on a jno jwisal that the lnitcd States as sume a socialistic lonn of joci'ii inent. rioj)oiunt Clarence Simpson, as seitin that soialisni is the "ideal fonn ol j;o eminent." said it should he placed into eflect in the l.'nited Slates since this cotintiy is "tcndin.; touaul it ana." Whcthei socialism is ideal is, ol)iuusl. an academic question. ocr which some of the worlds j;ieatest minds hae disaiccd. In oui wn time we hae seen politi cal leaders sund to oppose the cant ei -like growth of socialism, lest it eat awa at the coie ol our denv k i ai v. I he question conliontiu out n.uii'ii toilac. howeer. is not which of the luo ini ins ol '4o ei iimeut is the- most "ideal." hut to what extent can ihc he c ompi oinisecl. while at the s.nne picsciin. demo (i.iti piiii(ip!cs and olleiiii.; the In st st ixitcs to our juople. I '. has it .Miod points, as did much other legislation jjiowin out ol the I ranUin Roosexclt ad ministiat ion. Indeed, much ol TDK's v k ialisti tinted legislation lias hecn (.utied down to the pres ent d i. nixing to Amei i( .uis old .i;r Ixiulits ; 1 1 1 t piote(tiou tlom (losioii . 1 1 1 1 1 Hood. Yet our demo (iati( wax ol life has icm. lined in pi at t i( e. Not do we arce with piopoiieiil Simpson's asscitioii that mulct so (ialisiu "ou have oiil one pio din t and t!i i: is t!ie lust piodm t." I he ei t 01 c ol otn c ( oiiomii svsiein his 1 kc 11 competition with in oui liimieious iinlustiies. ,uid tin- rutted St.ites i. in show the w M whit this ( oiupet it ion lias w 1 1 1 u h t . U .iie.is .i.iilni. dial deuioci.t I'llioM .iiid espeiiil.thlt' clicix. while .it the vime time piesenin loi the puhlit the ownership and . 1 1 ! 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ,i i ii ii i of ptiNliK tion la i ilitu s. although ledeial i emulations ale often pl.u ed on the immmIs pio- v d. Oui na;ion u.i lounded less than ,oo e.iis a-o. Net sime that time we hae plunged to the hue anion-.; n.itions u the woild. and stand tod.n as the example ol inxcution and . ' 1 1 -ssioii. It was not w ith a The Daily Tar Heel The official stu'lt nt p'iMH'".on of the Publication Rnaid of the University of North Carolina, where i n published J. til;; except Sun'iay. Monday and exam ir.ition and vacation period? and sum-nw-r terms Kntercd as second class mat ter in th- post office in ChapH Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8. 1870 Suh-cnption rales: mailed. $4 per year S'J fQ a semester; delivered, $6 a year rU a iemester. socialistic form of overntnent that this came about. r'.conomkally speaking, socialism is only a step away from commun ism. The 'Russians have developed their Sputniks and ICftMY, iiiKlei the "banner of Com'munisni, but all at the expense of the 'individ ual, his wants and "needs. Ileic in America, we haven't a hammer and sickle to wave over the heads' of industry. But we do hae Ciri. and homes, and radios, and refrigerators.' and telephones, and all those things that arc Amcr lea. 'e would prefer to keep it that wav, even if we're forced to com-promise! Understanding ? Of Democracy Gomes To Girl ThuisiLn's mail brought the follow in letter from Khalil II. Mancv. student at lC from Cairn, r.gspt. We lelt it was woith reprinting heie to remind Aincticans. who .sometimes forget the freedom under which the) lixc. that bless ings we msscs .ire often earned for b other j)e(jles. I 'heir's .m old saying about not being able to see the forest loi the tiers. Apparent lv Miss Mancy has witnessed a broad view of our ast Atneiiea. I he lc ttei: "To the l .S.A. To the I'nixcis itv ol Noith Caiolina. "Now I can see and nuclei stand. I lame here to studv and leant. "When liist 1 came. I used to piss ;dl m lime among books in the libiai. Yet I did not unclei stand. "1 used lo pass all mv time- studs inn .iul M-.iuliiint in l.txt, toiy. Yet I did oof understand. "At last I hate found it. "I (outlet it in a" TJunksgi ing putx while caning a tuikex witii mv piolcssor. '"I lound it in tlie honor sxsteni that gate me mudi confideuec attd se If i e spe c t. "I lound it in the people, anions mv (ollrjgues and classmates. ' Now I i.m touch and leel the tine sense ol democracy. This is what makes from this nation j gteat (oitntiv and this is what makes hum this unixrisitv a '41 rat s liool." KHAMI. II. MANCV Republicans Have Problems: For '64 Kihtor Munair.2 Krl.tor N-ws Kdit or iolt; kisklk alys votmniFs !'ATJL RULE At. n,.ms Kdit or ANN FKYK Sports Ldttor BILI. KLNG Aast. Shorts Editor DAVE WIBLE D'iMncs Mana-rr JOIfN WIIITAKER Alcrti.sins Manager FRED KAT2UN l.ibrarin GLEN DA FOWLER iiusincs Stiff WALKER BLANTON, JOHN M INTER, LEWIS RUSH. itire VAilnr PAUL RULE Subscription Msr. AVERY THOMAS Ff at ure Efl.tor MARY M. MASON FDir STAFF Whit Whitfield. Nancy Hill. Gary Nichols. Curtis Gans, Al Walker, Harry Kir.schner, Gail God win. SEWS STAFF Davis Young, Ann Frye, Dale Whitfield. Mary Moore Mison, .Stanford Fiaher, Edith MacKinnon, I'nnple Pipkin, Mary Lrgsett Brown in2, Ruth Whitley, Sarah Adams, Mar ion Hay?. Parker Maddry. WISE AND OTHERWISE; - Ellis Island, Bob Hope And New Oddities Whit Whitfield According to the Associated Press the government has been unable to sell Ellis Island in New York Harbor, and is now willing to give it away if it can be used for a worthwhile purpose. This should prove ' no problem. There are any number of worthwhile or ganizations that might be inter ested in this strategically located piece of real estate. The Southern Baptist Conven tion could always use a new place to train missionaries, especially one so near their foreign missions. The 27 odd acres it encompasses would be just large enough for a casino and night spot. JF the in terested parties can afford to move it beyond the limit. The University might do well to request it for a field headquar ters for athletics, and coupled with tlie previous idea, it would be a perfect place to throw victory celebrations after NCAA cham pionships. The problem would seem to be not whether the government could get rid of the property, but which organisation would use it for the most worthwhile purposes. Bob Hope is quite concerned with current atlairs just like ev eryone else these days. In a re cent TV show, he came out with several gems on the subject 1 Thanks to his writers . About Dulles: lThe United States has every- right to feci as proud as Russia. After all. Dulles is two laps ahead of Sputnik." About scientific development: "The Unit ed States ii really serious about recent developments abroad, so much so that they are pulling the scientists off the Rolaid com mercials." About Ike: Eisenhower wants to stolid a man up in our first satellite, but I'aulnis woo' The Democratic Digest 'A pre judiced mag has complimented Vice-President Nixon for realizing tl.e present danger of Soviet d- aiie es and asks. "Docs his 20-20 hindsight qualify him as a na tional leader in these fast mov ing times?" This is an excellent question, and we'd like to answer it objectively, showing no partis anship, prejudice, or bias. In a word. NO . Believe it or not: Mrs. Cather ine Withers, a tVO year old clerk in a Philadelphia shop, told a would be holdup man 'complete with mask and gun to get out. lie did. f)RTS STAFF: Rusty Hammond, Elli ott Cooper, Mac Mahaffy. Carl Keller, Jim Purks. KiTOGRAPHERS Norman Kantor, RjJdy Spoon. Time For BcUer Heads N.-ht Kditor GRAJLM SNYDET! !'! 'f Rea'le GRAILYM SNYDKR Ue )ul)li( ails toil. in aic- )iol.illy 11101c worried about what would happen to their own parts rath er than to the nation's economy ii seiioiis illness should lotce Presi dent I isenhowei liom tlie While I h iiiNc-. Some people aic saying the Wall Stiect quotations would pluii'ge downward in event ol a seiioiis illness ol the Piesident. but cveivonc knows Riehaicl Nixon would 0 upwaid in ease ol such an oeeuneiKC. That's wheie- the Republic an piobleins bc'in. lor Nixon is ap parently bein1 fattened out lor the ptesidt titial race not onl ol 1 )", but ol io(l as well. "I he ''jtid amendment, passed during the Truman Admiuisti a tioii. pioliibits a piesident horn se n in.; oci two teinis. And it al so says that a iee piesident seivin out more than one-hall of his pred ecessor's teim shall be considered as li.nin sened a whole term. Thus, if Nixon should be called to tlie White House befoie Kiseu hower completes at last two ears ol his current term, tlie voting California Republican will be eli gible for only one other president ial elation: that of i(jOo. And then in kjGj the Republi cans will have to turn elsewhere for a candidate whom they had fatten ed chit 1114 the Nixon admtnistia-tioii-if. indeed, he fur p,ets to the White House. life -a JT .4?: I I t -TIN.- eA rl rVMk "- 1 ' .... 1 M . SH,; (llcrblovk Is on Vacation) READER'S REPOSITORY Copyrltht 1957. The Pulitzer Publisttint C St. Louis Pot-Dispfctcb v Will The United States Experience Downfall Similar To Roman Empire? Again: When 3-year-old Oorge Wilkius mother found him play ing with matches in the Wilkins home in San Antoni, Tex., she picked him up to warm his seat. She didn't have to. It already was warm. Matches in Georgie's hip pocket had s-t his pants on fire! L'lL ASNER Editor: Is our inevitable destiny to be tlie same as that ol Clrcece and Home? It seems that we have boon in our Arrtc Pride, and now wo jii-o raimlly moving through otr Hubris Down Fall. ts our Nemesis Grief now ; as inevitable as the nicht after twilight? What is this terrible thing that hangs over us like a shroud? Why do we. the people-the benefactors of the greatest democracy the world has over known, stand idly by and let our life, liberty and pursuit of happiness be trampled under the hoof of stupidity, intoler ance and Red aggression ? The answer! it must be found. Are we to continue to travel the downward path to depravity and destruction'.' There isn't one single answer. We can't blame a golf ball completely, but unless we have someone to stop this sense less potty babbling between arm forces and insignificant pid dling of our Government, we cer tainly won't need to worry about it. When the V. S. allowed a balding egghead in Russia to stir up the biggest weakness within our coun try, the segregation problem, and then fell for this, the oldest of tricks, it was set back in the eyes of tlie world at least thirtv years. Each and every day the news papers and the educators scream out to us that Russia is graduating at least two physicists to our one each year. We must stop this. God help us if we don't. Some of the questions can be answered. First we must have a strong man to lead us. a man who oan say something and then back it up. We can not intercept a- Ballistics Missile with a golf ball. I want to cry out in rage and frustration when I look around me at the vacant and unknowing and seemingly uncaring faces of these desecrators of freedom. If we don't put a stop to this wishy-washy leadership and our panty-waist politicians we, in all probability, will newer see another election. Pretty speeches and patriotic words are very inspirational, but they won't stop an atomic war head. Tlie biggest answer isn't located at the top. It is in the grammar schools. Let's give our world a chance. We must have a new edu cational system. Let's start those physics and science courses early. The young minds are alert and can grasp it. We must not wait until they become set in their ways, it only makes it harder to learn. In all fairness to our very existance, tlie keen minds must have a chance. I do not wish to advocate a socialistic school sys tem, but I do advocate control, firmess and seriousness in the schooling of the younger genera tion. If this isn't done they will never live to be an older genera tion. It is a common belief that Rus sia holds back her war forces out of fear of the U. S. I think this is a complete fallacy. It appears to mo that Baldy realizes that if we continue our backward movement, ho will have mHch less trouble in a few years. Stop, think, we must awaken now lest we sleep forever. Please! let's stop our Hubris. If we expect our children to be raised in a democratic nation 'if they are raised at all . we can not, we must not allow a race of peo ple. who in acluallity are better off as they are, along with con flict between the arm forces and dissension in our government, de slory us. We must look to the East and straighten up and face the situa tion. If we don't show the world that we can control our civil strife as well as any other aggression that threatens us. we can only fol low the aee-old pattern and our Nemesis will envelop us. Let us. for our sakes and the sake of all humanity, reorganize our educational system, get our 'elected leaders off the golf links and the plush leather chairs, and prepare to fight fire with fire or we will be the only ones to be burned. If we can discipline ourself we can control any situa tion. ' For God's sake," let's open our eyes and put our foot down. We can stop the pattern; Aret'e, Hubr ! JOHN F. MILLER by Al'Capp ( 'HOPE YOU'VE ENcJOVED V AS A FINALE, VE'LL N -TO SBslATOS JACK S. HOLD IXBUB TMET THE LAST HALF HOUR, v I LINE UP ALLTHE NEWLV ) PHOG BOUND THE J LINE'S STRETCH IN' INTO FOLKS. SADIE HAWKINS Ofiii ) MARRIED MEN.' -x' OLDEST PINEAPPLE JUNCTION'' 1N DOGPATCH, HS ENDED J I FROM TINY VOKUM, fs xl y ( A IMTER-C30UNTV PARADE y JSV AND YOU WERE f(. f AGED 15 THE 007T. VI V LlCENSE'LL COST YO' ONE i POGO ' :1C0AP1K5Sg) WAS SOWA ALLIES WAS iSflNKA I . 7HP nsSf OUT WOW KcAVt A THE WGKLD CC'JIO && SQUARE & 12-6 it-' r HOT PROP TrtlS (PAf Mil bv Walt Kelly . HAV5 CSB J ?PBl'5 TO THe CAPTA'NI. i ii i i Grown-Ups And The Little Prince Frank Crowther While rumaging through Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, looking for a certain passage during the post holiday, I became possessed again by this gentle little' fellow and his adventures, so I sat down and re-read the entire fantasy, (excuse me!) Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a French author and 'aviator who spent a great deal of his life be hind the controls of an airplane above Europe, Africa and South America. Some of his other works are as intriguing and captivating as Le Petit Prime; they include "Night Flight" "Flight To Arras:' "The Wisdom of The Sands:' and "Wind, Sand and Stari: Saint-Exupery was listed as missing in ac tion while ron a flying mission in 1944. He had wrftteh5" '"The Little Prince" just a little more than if !year' previously. Quoting from the jacket cover: ' "The Little Prince lived alone on a tiny planet no larger-than a house. He possessed three volcanoes,-two' active and one extinct, although, one never knows about volcanoes. He also owned a flower, un like'' any flower in all the Galaxy, of great beauty and of inordinate pride. It was this pride that ruined the serenity of the Little Prince's world and started him on the travels that brought him at last to" the Earth where he learned finally, from a fox, the secret' of what is really important in life. "There are a few stories which in some way, in some degree, change the world forever for their readers. This is one." The story was told by an aviator who had made a forced landing on the Sahara desert and was faced with repairing his crippled engine. He was a thousand miles from help and running out of water. He 5 was awakened one morning by an odd little voice which said: "If you please draw me a sheep!"" This was the beginning of his short ac quaintance" with the laughing little man who had golden hair and refused to answer questions. The Little Prince was an inquisitive soul who couldn't quite understand grown-ups he thought them very, very odd. After reading his story, we, too, might well think them extraordinary and odd. The following are just a few of his perplexing encounters with all sorts of creatures during his year away from his own planet. On the second planet, the Little Prince met a conceited man who had a hat for salutes. He asked the Little Prince to clap his hands so that he could raise his hat in salute. Tlie young prince did so. but the" asked. "And what should one do to make the hat come down?" The man didn't hear him, hjwever, for "conceited people never hear any thing but praise." On the next planet he met a tippler who was sitting in deep dejection. "Why are you drinking?" demanded the Little Prince. "So that I may forget." replied the tippler. "Forget what," inquired the Little Prince, who already was sorry for him. Forget that I am ashamed." the tippler con fessed, hanging his head. "Ashamed of what?" insisted the Little Prince, who wanted to help him. "Ashamed of drinking!" The Little Prince again thought that grown-ups certainly were very, very odd. Later, the Little Prince came to the planet Earth, which is inhabited by two billion (now 2J2 billion) people who could easily be put together in one public square twenty miles square. "The grown ups, to be sure, will not believe you when you tell them that. They imagine that they fill a great deal. of space . . . You should advise them to make their own calculations. They adore figures, and that will please them." The first creature the Little Prince encountered was a snake. "Where are the men?" (he asked) ' It is a little lonely in the desert. . . ." "It is also lonely among men." the snake said. After meeting a whole garden of roses, all sim ilar to the rose on his planet, he met a tox who wanted the Little Prince to tame him. "One only understands the things one tames." said the fox. "Men have no more time to under stand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends any more." After taming the fox, the Little Prince had to leave. This saddened the fox, but he said that he would make his friend a present of a sec ret. "And now here is my secret, a very simple sec ret: It is only with the heart that one can see right ly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." This especially impressed the young prince. "Men have forgotten this truth," said the fox. The Little Prince repeated it to himself so that he would Uv sure to remember. After a year, the Little Prince wanted to return to his own planet, so .... but I won't tell you the end of the tale. That always ruins a story. Any how, those of us who have already read the story know how it ends, and if we have forgotten, we can always go back and read it again. And for those who haven't read about our Little Prince, I cer tainly hope that you can find time to put down your facts and figures for a moment to take this trip on the desert. But, if you cannot, that is alright. We will know that you are busy with matters of con sequence and we will not hold it against you. After all, we children "should always show trreat for bearance toward grownup people."
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