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V , ' 9 f ff SATURDAY. "DECEMBER 7, 1957 THE DAILY TAR HEEL PAGI TWO Classes Should Be Cancelled iIim usi(ui ,nil "snn;i! inj; to Chapel Hill on New Year's h.uc Ihiii lie.inl tliirin day would he exposed to holiday soti.il il.iys aUmt the n.illi and the dangers it presents ci'ii to rcsiionsihle drivers, ('old Miuh pi (MM Ivl In the p.ot sfci.il days alniiii the I'M. stmleitt hnd irtiiiu t t l.iws .inu.tr alter the Christ nias hlidas. In this iiihnnn today we shall attempt to explain the pios and u:i id ircjuiiiil lass attendant the da alter New Year's, with hopes that the administration will see lit to dec late )annaiy 1! a dav lor "emergent " las uts. II siuh a dedaration is made. i I. ism s would not he held January hut would lesume on s hedule at S a.m. l iiday. Januai . two das altet the New Yin's lioliil.iy. l-'irst. the administration points out the I at t that. h Januaiy 17. -the end ol the uuteni semester I uesdiN. Thursday and Saturday (lasses will hae heen held only I ; limes il students aie mjuhed to retiiin l ('hapel Hill anuai Our semestei sstem is huilt au'iiiid I", tlass periods in eat h suhjetl. and that iiumher alreadv has heen slashed to hr Tnestlay. I IhiivI.in and S.ittinl.n (lasses by the dismissal ol S.il 111 d.i ( lasse- the dav ol the ( .haiu ellor's lu ll. ur.;iii;itin and the la ol the l.uliinl C11.it. 111 Weekend. On the other hand. Moiitlav. Weilnestl.iv and l"i iil.ix (lasses hae I ti 1 1 esscd as st hi t luled. and f, hiss pei i"ds ill hae hen held loi ( a h suhjed Uujit on those das l the end l the tuiient stMusiti. .niii.ii 17. ( '.1 uiseipu lit I . il t lasses ale not held Ihuisd.iN. anuat 'J. the iiumher ol las pei iods lor I ues da. Ihuisdav and Saturday will he slashed l p.' thnes-tluce he low the 1 t u 1 1 l.i 1 1 on w hit h the semotei ssietu is hased. To losi siJ)t ol u tpiii emeiits of t!ie Nintesiei sstein-lhat is. tt I I i.ii nit In oxeilook ami sa liom t!u lasi on with the semester sNirin is touiideil- is not a u,IM,l jii.uiitt at the l'nieisit ol Noith (..iiolma o auwhee else. lul ( il ( umstant es vim times pievail uimi jnnfv , noil oiilotmi't .10 plat tit e. and we feel the New Yeai s holitl.iN this e.11 is one ol them. Keatliii'4 da helote examina tions is one ol the lattois to ton sit lei in the t 111 1 tilt situation. I ha! tla has heen sri aside as ihe Sal uiila lnhue lini! txamiii.it ituis he '4111. and does not toiint as a da o t I is pel iods. ( ohm tjuelitU. as j)l.uis mm stand, thtle will he no t lasses 1 'ii S it 111 d.i . jinii.ti 1 H. ( )m 1 1 Wouhl l)o lit lo lasses .i 1 111.11 is 1 he sw iu I11114 ol leading da- loi this one time liom the YiIiihI.in hiltne Ii11.1l examinations to the liitl.o Inline those ex. mis. It woiiitl not set a pit tt di nl, hetaiise slit h .1 situation as now eits seldom minis at ihe I'lmcisiu. Aiuineiits do exist against u tiiiniii'4 to t lasses I 1 n 1 1 s l.i . .iiui ai '-. .iiwl we leel they aie sound ones, l iist. niaiiN stutlenis 11I11111- fatts tell us that hundred will lose their lives in the rush ol New Year's travelling. A Jecoud factor is that ol the ei leturn to Chapel Hill of stu dents liin;4 hundreds ol miles from North Carolina. Airplane re servations particularly will he dif ficult to purchase, which prohahly will lesult in the late leturn of main students. nnywa. l'nielly. New Year's Dav is neither a sale time nor a ;ood time for persons Iti expose themselves to distant travel. If the administration finds suf ficient cause to call oil (lasses for Thursday. January . it could then do one ol two tilings: eithy de tlue January 2 a day of "emer gency"' 1 lass tuts, with no classes heinj; held, or change reading day to 1 liday. January 17. and pick tip an extra dav of Tuesday: Thursday and Sat 111 dav ( lasses on the follow ing day. January R. II the latter decision were made p tlass iK-iitxls still would have heen held for Tuesday. Thursday and Saturday (lasses, while Mon dav. Wednesday and Friday (lass pel iods would hae heen slashed liom -, lo j j. Il seems to us that dropping one day of Monday. Wednesday and I 1 idav ( lasses could well he justi fied h the erasing of trallic threats and travel inconveniences which would result from the return to t lasses Januai y 2. We hope the administration leels the same wav. NC Hist. Should Be Required Subject Now that the North Carolina Sot ietv lor the Pieservatitni of An titpiiiies has ured ihe teaching ol Ntith Caiolina histtiy in hili st hools of the 'state, the projosal shuld he examined ( losely hy Tar Heel educators. And if thev approach the pro posal with an open mind, a lie (puntlv tillered elective course will he addetl to ihe mandatory tin l it ilium ol our hi''h st hool pro- WISE AND OTHERWISE: Yuletide Ideas And Advice On Carolina Music By GARY NICHOLS . Warning to people in training for New Year"s Eve! Watch which lamppost you lean against. Some of them are being painted. This warning is being passed on by courtesy of an occupant of Battle dorm who was camplaining to me about how hard it is to remove the green paint from your hands. Speaking of New Year's Eve, there is much disconttnt around campus due to the resumption of classes on Jan. 2. This will neces sitate many a student's travelling with a hangover to get back to Chapel Hill in time. Not to men tion missing the bowl games on New Year's Day. Beware. South Building, revolt is in the air. I'm crossing my fingers that no one spreads the word that they think Christmas is "Mickey Mouse." I'm scared stiff they might call it off. It's not very sophisticated, you know. I guess I'm just a big kid but I always kind of liked Christmas. You know. I've been reading these helpful advisory articles on what to buy for Christmas gifts. The only thing they lack is advice on where to get the money. Talking about sales advice. I crossed an enterprising salesman outside of Kenan earlier this sea son. He was selling the Glee Club's album of Carolina songs. Upon leaving the game I was brought short by the following pitch: "Here you go! Music to sober up by!" Also seen at Kenan: During the Virginia game I spotted one young lady with two pennants 'One Caro lina and one Virginia) and two football pins (One Carolina and One Ugh! Dook). I've heard of fence sitting but carrying it out over a two-week period ought to be some sort of a record. She did confide, however, that she slightly favored Carolina. solution wheiehv students not he Ktiiii(tl to letuin flatus. II isioi v The Daily Tar Heel The official student p'ltlica.'.on of the Publication Coatd of the University of North Carolina, where It is published 1y except Sunday, Monday and exam ination and vacation period? and sum mer terms. Entered as second class mat ter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8. 1870. Siih.cr;piion rates: mailed, $4 per year, $2.r0 a semester; delivered, $6 a year $3 50 a semester. The Down-To-Earth Missile Race Editor Managing Editor News Editor Asf. News Editor DOUG EISELE ALYS VOORIIEES PAUL RULE ANNFRYE sports Editor BILL KING Aunt. Sports Editor DAVE WIBLE lysines Manager JOHN WHITAKER Advertising Manager . FRED KATZIN Librarian . ... G LEND A FOWLER Business Staff WALKER BLANTON. JOHN MINTER, LEWIS RUSH. Wire Editor PAUL RULE Subscription Mgr. AVERY THOMAS SPORTS STAFF: Rusty Hammond, Elli ott Cooper. Mac Mahaffy, Carl Keller, Jim Purks. PHOTOGRAPHERS Norman Ktntor, Buddy Spoon. Proof Reader PEBLEY BARROW NitfM Editor PELLEYb"aRROW is something the win Id will .iIh.ins have. It h.is existed since e.ntli w.is lltur into its pres ent oilit. iintl it sh.ill 11 1 1 1:1 1 1 1 un til our disintegration into space. 01th Carolina will remain a part til it. In this dav ol tontroveisv over st. nes' lights antl (cntial govern Hunt, when powers ol individual stales aie he in 14; eaten awav hv let't eral laws, it would he well to re memhei that our country is hut a unitv ol individual states coojkt .111114, in a national ellort. To heller understand the evolu tion ol state governments, theii ptiv ilexes and jxiwers, w ith an eye to preservation ol ihe state and its role in the national scheme, de velopin'4 minds .should he retjuired to taste ol the history ol their state -he it North Carolina or Ca I i loi nia. History, when ohscrved through a hroad perspective. iivcs meaning to the dilutions ol people and the (tiniinuing evolution ol the woild. It makes hooks live and it explains the decisions, the ad v antes, ol mankind. In hiiel. it is the stihject on whidi all 'other areas of study are hased. hecuise it follows the prog ressing (cntiuics and attempts to reveal underlying causes of past, tin rent and future decisions, de velopmeiits and inventions. .Noith Carolina history is a part of the t(ital development of man kind. And North Carolinians should have enough interest in and love lor their state to spend several hoiiis a week studying ahout it. Virtually any American knows when his country was discovered, hut how many ol us in Tar Heelia know when North Carolina le camc a niemher state of ihe evolv ing nation?' li s a .simple question, hut it points out the fact that (there's much to he known ahout North Carolina. We feel students should at least he exposed 1 to the high points in the state's history. (Uerbloch Is on Vacation) 7 l b PuUWer PubllsUto C. Trouble With Students, Parents Is In Not Knowing Their Own Minds Lingerie Theft Is For Children Now comes the story that all IDC members will be present at future panty raids. With, of course, the explana tion that "it was not a suggestion of participation." Further, the story reads: "They (panty raids) are destructive to personal and public property." Which brings up another ques tion: Are panty raids destructive to personal property, or do they .iut result in the "loss" of "per sonal" property? All told, however. IDC action condemning panty raids is to be commended. Because regardless of infractions of the honor code, loss of property, etc., they just don't speak well of mature citizens. BARRY WINSTON Gentle reader ..... fair citizen noble student, draw closer that I may speak to you in dulcet tones of a parable tha"t "once "I heard. There was. so the story goes, a donkey, mild of manner and sweet of disposition. His owner, being of an Inquisitive nature, chanced upon the idea to perform an experiment of sorts. Brisht and early one morning, the owner led his donkey to a small bridge which spanned a creek, murmuring cheerfully n e a r J y. Leaving the gentle beast at the very center of the bridge, our experimentor proceeded to stack two piles of hay. one at either end of tliis selfsame bridge. Whereupon, he withdrew a.-sbort v distance to 'At and wait and watch and see to which of the two piles of hay his noble animal would trudge. Rut the poor, dumb brute was torn by indecision, each of the two piles being of equal dis tance from him. Alas, he could not make up his mind. And do" you know, gentle reader .... fair citizen noble student, do you know what happened? The jackass starved to death. And do you know what the moral of this story might be? "Tis simpl icity, itself. You are a jackass., I repeat, for the benefit of those rapid readers who may, in their haste. hav skipped the last para graph: You are a jackass. Shall I elaborate? Very well. You scream, in volume sufficient to deafen a sensitive man, "De fenses! We must have more de fenses! We must catch Russia! Give us more scientists! Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!' Etc. etc. etc., ad nauseum. And then, scarcely stopping to draw a breath, you shout with equal vigor, "Tail fins! We must have more tail fins! We must catch the Joneses! Give us less taxes! Damn the consequences, full steam a head!" Does the description fit? "Not me!", you say? Try this one on for size, then: You will, if you are an average man. spend a siz able portion of your life imparting wisdtwn to one or more impres sionable little jackasses. Your pro geny. And in the course of this training, one of the more import ant virtues that you will attempt to imbed in their little minds is honesty. True? True. What, then, will be your reply when Junior comes up with a gem such as, ". . . . but. daddy, you just said the other day that it wasn't really stealing to cheat on an income tax form. They'll never miss it. you said. So why all the fuss when I cop a measley baseball bat from Schmaltz's department store? They've got hundreds of them . . they'll never miss just one." Or, " but why can't I tell the teacher that I was kidnapped by Martians if I'm late for school? You had Mommy say that you weren't home when that insurance salesman came around the other night." ' ' Enough? Oh. You're just a stu dent now, and when you get to be a parent, you'd never commit such an inconsistency? If you say so. Then how come all this yam mer about athletes and academic standards? Why aren't you study ing right now, instead of reading something that tells you that you're a jackass? Most of the contributions you make to the standards of this university are in the field of beer consumption, per capita. If you're so worried about academic standings why aren't you making five A's? If you're so concerned with education, why don't you try staying awake in class? If you're so hopped up about Sputniks, and defenses, and scien tists, why haven't you written a letter to your Congressman? If you're so smart, why aren't you rich? I ll tell you why. Because you don't even know your own mind, that's why. Because you're a jack ass. And so am I, for that mat ter, for taking the time to try to tell you about it. So let's just work our crossword puzzles, and forget the whole thing. 1'IL ABNER by Al Capp WE'VE COT A PARADE V LICENSE . V WE DON'T HAVE ID PAY VX) A A DOLLAR.' (-HMr- lAH'OUKE ) . 70GT " CUHPTHIN' ) OUTA i7HSCTY FOLKSff-JJ ORE TRUCKS IS CROSSIN TH'COUNTV LINEL" IF VO'HAIN'-T GOT ATRUCKIN' LICENSE, VOLL HAFTA PAV ME ADOLLAHfV GOT iT.f- WE'VE GOT ALL. THE NECESSARY LICENSES YP.'-VO'GOT ALLTH' LtCENSES VO' NEEDS XCEPT ONEL yF.WE5l: J A MARRVIM A LICENSE! SMALL-TOWN ) SHARPERS" vW ,CTT- IN DJILAS' BOOK Communism Seen As Dying System Frank Crowther Milovan Djilas in his book, "The New Class," certainly reflects the decaying process in the core of modern Communism. Here we have a man who has run the gamut of every phase of Communism and, through a dispassionate and intellectually hon est decision, has methodically demonstrated that eventually the young, thinking men of intellectual and personal . integrity who are now part of the Communist system will themselves be compelled to condemn and destroy their own system. It is undoubtedly one of the brightest lights to shine from East to West in well over a decade. Djilas has notwritten a Communist expose or a disgruntled political manifesto this is purely a moral appeal to his fellow men to realize that freedom itself is the only intrinsic quality necessary at the basis of any political system. This is why. he says, Communism cannot escape its own con tradictions and will eventually devour its own entrails. There can be no substitution for reading the book itself, but I will include here some of the more cogent passages. In the chapter on the "Character of the Revolu tion," he writes, ". . . no other revolutions have required so many exceptional conditions; no other revolutions promised so much and accomplished so little. Demagoguery and misrepresentation are in evitable among the Communist leaders since they are forced to promise the most ideal society and abolition of every exploitation.'" . . . "The fact is simply this: they were unable to accomplish that in which they so fanatically believed." . . . "In reality, the Communists were unable to act differ ently from any ruling class that preceded them." . . . "In contrast to earlier revolutions, the Com- munist revolution, conducted in the name of doing away with classes, has resulted in the most com plete authority of any single new class. Everything else is sham and an illusion." Continuing, in the chapter on "The Party State," he says, "Party control over society, identification of the government and the governmental machinery with the party, and the right to express ideas de pendent on the amount of power and the position one holds in the hierarchy; these are the essential and inevitable characteristics of every Communis! bureaucracy as soon as it attains power." "Careerism, ejetravagance, and love of power are inevitable, and so is corruption ... it is a special type of corruption caused by the fact that the gov ernment is in the hands of a single political group and is the source of all privileges." "Founded by force and violence, in constant conflict with its people, the Communist state, even if there are no external reasons, must be militar- istic. The cult of force, especially military force, is nowhere so prevalent as in Communist countries." "(the people) still live (and) function against despotism, and they preserve their distinctive fea tures undestroyed. If their consciences and souls are smothered, they. are not broken. Though they are under subjugation, they have not yielded. The force activating them today is more than the old or bourgeois nationalism; it is an imperishable de sire to be their own masters, and, by their own free development, to attain an increasingly fuller fellowship with the rest of the human race in its eternal existence." In his charter on "Tyranny over the mind" he writes: "The proposition that Marxism is a univer sal method, a proposition upon which Communists are obliged to stand, must in practice lead to tyran ny in all areas of intellectual activity." ". . . the ,r unscrupulous procurers of the cheap and actuary j ihe only available consumer goods these holdeis "-of obsolete, unchangeable, and immutable ideas have retarded and frozen the intellectual impulses of their people. They have thought up the mot antihuman words 'pluck from the human con sciousness' and act according to these word-, just as if they were dealing with roots and weeu instead of man's thoughts." "History will pardon Communists for much . . . but the stifling of every divergent thought, the ex elusive monopoly over thinking for the purpose of defending . their personal interests, will nail the Communists to a cross of shame in history." Further on, in, the chapter on "The aims and the means" he explains: "Honor, sincerity, sacrifice, and love of the truth were once things that could be understood for their own sakes; now. deliberate lies, sycophancy, slander, deception, and provocation gradually become the inevitable attendants of the dark, intolerant, and all-inclusive might of the new class, and even effect relations between the mem hers of the class." Turning to "The present day world," he sas that "the effect of -atomic energy . . . will tend to ward the further unification of the world. On the ill -t 1) S3r TU2TLB AN'AAg W OOH TJAfZA Pl&HT to 10 GZZ WHICH OF 1$ CAPTAIN j WfcU VOT6 -CFMOCRATICLIXe-' WVW HIM" TWBN YOV IN ANC? 1KB eU0IN VOTP' X', by Walt Kelly imm. U In ft Wt .m 1 1 PGQV0 10 I f y ygflfo L mucw CITIZEN Oii 4 Kmc- k, ? &ANBX'LL0B AYWI way, it will shatter inexorably all inherited ob stacles ownership relations and social relations but above all exclusive and isolated systems anJ ideologies, such Communism both before and after Stalin's death." In the concluding chapter, he sums up by say ing, "In any case, the world will change and will go in the direction in which it has been moving and must go on toward greater unity, progress, and freedom. The power of reality and the power of life have always been stronger than any kind of brutal force and more real than any theory." Any man who cherishes his own freedom will cherish it even more after reading this book. The one wish that Albert Camus had for his fellow men when he received the Nobel Prize was "freedom." How little most of us know about that word.
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