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, WEDNESDAY PECEMBJR,18, 1957 THfe DAILY tAk HtlL On The Red Summit Talks Two aU iul.ii yens aj;o in it;,;, President l.iscnliowti met with top l'liropiMii It .kIi ts .iikI j Riinn i.m ilt-li '.itioii t( smooth ort pothlttn ol thf world. The- tveiu his 'iiic down in thf antuls ol liistoty .is the (itiifxa (loitlcrtiut'. It will siilliir to say that little was at ( oinplishi d in this hold tl oit to In in haunoiiN between the Fast and West. Oiuc a;ain. ie(terin Irotn an illness whiih was his third in five M-.iis. IMesiiltiu I istnhowtr has ti.ixtltil to rairoc. lit- has none there this time to holster the West against a Russian threat ol war whiih w.s not tiafd in dtiifxa two w'.ns .140. And it is sinilii ant to note that at the intent 1 ctift it tit e. . meet in.; ol dtleuales I10111 the NA TO countries, the t ill for anotht i sum mit meeting vith Russia has heen taised l our top allies in Western luiopc-oi at least to "'exploit" Xoict intentions in htv latest pea e hids. . Oiik .i.i I r 1 we would wain the Wist th.it Russia's intentions aie not .ilw.ivs ihxI: thai the Kittnliu has t onsistentlv halked at pe.tte negotiations s. mwm id h the liec woihl: that Red leadtis hae ton sisttiuK used all the piop.rauda .11 ilu ii t oimiiaiiil to htiii' ahout a ilea.i'4e between the Western al lies. We also would lemind the West ol a fat t tli.it is 1 too t leal in the minds ol hei leaden and hei people: Russia is now supreme in stieiitili dcwlopmcnt ol war wtapoiis and stands as a llueattii iti4 nun. tie oti the tuliir woild. It Ik- a h 014, time IkIoic she loses i!iis adxautae. What all this points to is the possihility that the Kremlin, in ccnt tl another "sunnnit" conler fiuc, woultl he holding the strings to a peat el u I settlement ol the world's prohlems. There is no rea son to believe that she woultl not point to her military miht in a persuasive argument to make the West meet her demands. In fact; thai mi-Jit already has been displayed in the unjence of some Western countries lor the free woild to at least "explore" Russia's intentions in surest injr a new summit conference. It therefore becomes necessary for the West to first reaffirm its ti 11 i t x against the Russian threat, with continued plans for peacelul coexistence but also with a delense program sulficient to turn back Russian military agression should it be realized. Once the West has assured it s( ol a strong alliante. it then will be on equal terms with the Russians when lenders seat them selves around the conlerence table. Pel haps the West at that conlcr t IK e would not be etpial to the Reds in militaiy st length. but Russia would be warned that equal shcii'th soon would be attained. It becomes haul to believe the Russians u-allv want peace in the world when Piavda de(lare. as it did Tuesday, that American inili t.uv plans for NATO "would turn Western Kurope into an atomic Hraeartl." l'or that reason the West must approach with (.union the Kremlin's bid lor a summit coulei ence. 11 sut h a coufcience is held, we hope Ike tomes bat k w ith more for the Ameriiatis than he did at Itr the (eneva toufereiite. It all tit pi nils on how iniii li the Rus sians .ire w illin4 to '4'iv e. Prohibition In Tar Heelia loitv eats ao todav an amend ment to ihe I'nited Slates Consti tution 1 illnrj, oi the piohibition ot liquoi was introdiuttl to the Six t lillli I oiiuss. It heiame etlet live 1 1 ) 1 1 1 1 v if', t )'.'(. , Some- 1 1 eais later, when the 7-mmI (ioimitss tonveued. that ameiiduien; was leptalctl bv the iist amendment, and liquor te luined to its lealietl status on Dettinhci ,. We point this out pot as his loiii I.Kt. but to remind that tlx it was a time in this tommy when no liquoi legalized or othei-wist-tould he puithased in the I'nited States without violation ol the li d 1 a I la w . but thai is not to sav that liquoi. 01 an hum ol ahohol. was not toiisiimid (lining thai niiod. The impovt 1 i s h i ' d moonshiner hceainc 1 i It: bi time it imin ils llour ih d o tin ill: 4.1! liipioi ttade: diunks lemaini'd diuuks and ah sl.iinits lemaiued abstaineis. In shoit. piohibition wiouht sut 1 1 unwanted it tuiiis that those u ho had voted it in in iiii did a tompltie luinahoiil and lepealed the iSih amendment in n.V? 'I Ik v le.ilied it was not a immI law lor the land. Iltte in Noith C.aiolina pitiise Iv tlx same 1 in iniist.uu s exist on a tounlv level as exisied on a na tion il on loi 1 1 I0114 years in the, I'nited Slates. Wheie liquor is not legalized it is easily obtainable il you have to '40 in a bat k alley to Mi I it. I helt are (hunks, thttr aie abstaineis. but no one tan legally pun hase liquor. It stems iionii that (tossing a roiuitv line tould save a man liom violation ol a state law. but that's what North ('.aioliiia 1 eulat ions boil down to when the sjle tl litpior is outlawed in one county and legalized in the next. The Daily Tar Heel The official student p-jfclicir.oo of tht Publication Board of the Univmity of North Caroling where it li published eicept Sunday, Monday and exam tntion and vacation period and sum mer terms. Entered as second class mat ter in Ihe post office In Chapel Hill, N. C, under the Act of March 8. 1&70. Subscription rates: mailed, $4 per year. 12 50 a semester; delivered, $8 a year, $3 50 a semester. Editor DOUG EISELE Associate Kditor FRANK CROWTHEK Manages Kditor .. ALYS VOORHEES tiiitiX Editor PEIiLEY BARfiOW It's not "a violation to DRINK tht stull in Wilkes or Iietlell or lluike County, hut 'u'swton;4 to buy or sell it theie. It's permiss able to have your mixed diiuk at your home or at the Country Club, but don't let anyone know where you not the spirits for it. com sc. all's well il von buy the liquor in a wet tounty and tl 1 ink it in a div one. It's just the fact that when a countv prohibits legalized liquor you'd better not be taught buying it theie. Keep on thinking but yive the next county over the bcnelit ol your taxes. We don't know all the laws, but to ion knowledge there is none miking it a violation to consume ahoholic beverages. It seems that what legally can be consumed also should be legally puithased. else we will have the cart behre the h u sc. Mi anwhile. out antiipiated Noith C.aiolina laws remain on the books and (hunks keep on di inking and abstaineis keep on abstaining, but we tan 1 laiiu one piidilul siipiem.K v over our neigh bor slates: we're the lop state in the union when il tomes to moon shine whiskey pioduttioii. and they even come heie to make mov ies about us. The Aintiiean people seeming ly hive sanctioned the sale ol al coholic bcvei ajcs in repeal ol the irtlh amendment. They don't say you have to think it. hut that vou ouht to have the piivilee ol huy iu' it legally when vou want it. And that makes sense. It is not just coiiK idcntal that North Carolina's moonshine busi ness continues to lloiuish under present law. It is a result ol it. The lait is that many Tar Heei law olliteis aie tpiitk to sav that piohibition is not ood. 1I111 it makes loi pioblems that legalized 1 it I (K T would erase. On a nationwide basis it's a lact that tollee enrollment and sui cides have hit teased proportion ately since the war. Hut is that to say that it has become increasingly tlueatcniii;' to et a college et In ca tion? I hose who draw parallels be tween legalized litjuor and triine aie making ( ompai isons similar to that just mentioned. II the absence ol legalized litpior is the absence of crime, then why has the era ol prohibition j;one down as one of the most violent periods ol Aineii can history? J.YS JAZZ Jazzmen Are 4 Ignored In Own Country Ray Anthony is playing at Win ter Germans. That is very nice, because he has a good band, That is. everybody in the band can play his notes. 1 am sure we are going to have a very pleasant time dancing to the music of Ray Anthony. The concert won't be good, but who cares about that? Well, for one, I do. The Ger mans Committee had a very good chance to get the Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra, and at a lower price than usual in all probability, be; cause Diz is having trouble keep ing his band together due to lack of engagements and would love to play a big college prestige dance. They say the reason they aren't getting Diz is that no one has heard of him. I would like to ask the Germans Committee who is the symbol ot modern jazz. Who is the person whose sense of humor, musician ship, and pure good will caused liitn to be sent on the first State Department-sponsored tour? It's not Ray Anthony. It's not Louis Armstrong. It's Gillespie, and he is pta rhap.s the most beloved per son in the world of jazz. He is far and away the best concert attrac tion in jazz, and his dances are perfect. The Gillespie band plays ballads as well as any jazz band and better than any dance band. It is not the Germans Committee that this harangue is directed at, nor is it the students, who sup posedly have never heard of Dizzy Gillespie or for that matter Gerry Mulligan or Shelly Manne or any topflight jazz musician. It is the American public and the men n Madison Avenue who are making an extremely successful effort to keep jazz as far away from the people who made it as they can. Perhaps its very Americanism makes it subversive Yet it shouldn't. Jazz is the one contri bution America has made to the arts. As has been said before, it is the only true American art form. And it is a legitimate art lorm. The fact that it has been associated with bars and speak easys and narcotics and liquor is one (f the great crimes of the century. Jazz is not theso things; it is the most delightful music in ti e wo;id to a lot of people, and it isn't dirty music. That America can smilingly tolerate rock and roll, the most tasteless and filthy form of music ? 1 have ever heard, is beyond my comprehension. That some Senator from Lousiana can try to push bills keeping jazzmen from making State Department tours is even farther beyond me. Jazz has been proven, by Gillespie and Armstrong and Hampton and Tony Scott and countless others, to be Ihe most influential good will weapon we have. While the Europeans and Asian and Africans call for more jazz, Dizzy Gillespie has to scrimp to 4 keep his band together and jazz clubs go out of business all over the country. I hope Anthony. everyone likes Ray Oh Boy, This Is Going To Be Tres Cay" ? raijSEsaai READER'S REPOSITORY, .. i : mm Goetiingen Year Memorable One In the spring, the student government Foreign Exchange Committee will select a UNC student to study at the German university where Bismarck had once been a student, the University of Goettingen. Those of you who know John Raper and I, know that we feel we greatly benefitted from our 'experi ence at Goettingen, as two exchange students for 1956-57. We urge those students who are interest ed in studying a year abroad to 'consider the Goet tingen Exchange Scholarship. Let me give you a rundown on what we did last year. At UNC, John had had two semesters and I had had four semesters of basic .Qerman. In order to better prepare lor lectures at Goeltingen, we attended a Goethe-Institute language course near Munich for two months of intensive language study. .With this background, we could, understand the lectures at Goettingen fairly well after a few months. POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE: Rep. Lawing Acted Courageously lMHNGLE IMPKIN Jack Lawing UP acted in a courageous if not fool-hardy man ner when lie asked for a roll call vote on Tally Eliding" SP bill concerning a street light to bo placed between Lenoir Hall and Raleigh Road. The roll call vote meant that the 13 representatives who had left before the meeting hail been adjourned and did not answer the roll call would be counted as ab sent for the whole meeting. The meeting adjourned at 9:15 p.m. A legislator is only allowed one unexcused absence from the legis lature meetings during an as sembly, which lasts from one gen eral election to the other. If he takes two unexcused cuts, then a legislator can be unseated. One UR representative, who al ready had one unexcused absence, left the meeting early. Because he had one hour quiz on Friday and report to the Student Body President's cabinet due the same day, it is probable that he will be excused. 1 A legislator must have two hour quizzes on the next day before he can be excused from attending a meeting However, whether he will be ex cused is in the hands of the rules committee. Now 1 say Lawing was courage ous because he did something that should have been done but which no one else was willing to do. His action was not popular and was hardly one which would assure his political future. It was foolhardy because 12 of the 13 representatives who quit the hall prematurely were mem bers jOf the University Party, the party of which he is vice-chairman. Not all of those who left early will bet unexcused cuts, but those who do will ivnt be endeared to R epr esc n t a t i ve Law i n g . 1 feel his action was necessary in order to remind the legislators of their responsibilities. He stopped what might have been setting a bad precedent. Actually most of what seemed to be the important business had passed when most oft he legisla tors had left. They left after the vote on Gray's UP resolution '"concerned with the conduct of the State Student Legislature." However, there remained three bills for the legislature to act on. It is true none of the bills were particularly controversial, but it would have taken the legislators only about 15 more minutes to conclude the business. Only 25 legislators. just two more than the required quorum for that meeting, were left to finish the business. Some of the legislators will be granted excuses; others can claim that they did not understand the procedure concerning a roll call vote. However. Speaker Don Furtado announced the consequences of leaving the meeting before ad journment (however, some legis lators had already gotten out of ear-shot before he made the an nouncement . The by-laws to which the legis lators have had easy access dur ing tiie past several sessions state " if the legislator did not an swer to every roll call." he would he counted absent. The by-laws say of a roll call vote, ' Upon the request of one legislator, the Speaker shall re quire the Clerk to call the roll and to record the votes cast . . ." These legislators should have known what was going to happen. At any rate they do now, for Law ing is an efficient if not kind teacher. I noted, not altogether happily, that an SP legislator had brought and played a radio during the meeting. The radio could only be heard by the legislator, and it was patriotically tuned to the Caro-lina-Furman basketball game. The representative was even so kind as to write the " up-to-the-minute" score oh a piece of paper and display it to the edification of the other legislators. I personally feel that a legisla tor has a somewhat higher ""call ing"' than listening to a basket ball same "even though it be UNCi during the course of a meet ing. I hope that this legislator can wait until the end of the rest of the meetings to see how UNC is doing, or maybe the meeting can be conducted during the time outs and the half-time of the basketball game. The bill to place the comic strip " Peanuts" in The Daily Tar Heel was written by Dave Jones, an SP Legislator dining the last as sembly. The assembly closed before lie could introduce the bill and have action taken on it by the finance commiUee. During this assembly the bill was introduced by Pat Adams (SP) L'lL ABNER by Al Capp HERE VO' IS. I rm THAR'S VORE HUBlNl! LI'L ABNER K M 00 ( Y ( AM.'.' dk POGO by Walt Kelly t 'V..g4 t TSSUfcY OUUy POUT 10B HAEQUP, MOO LA BOOt A PZNSACOOL A K HUUA-BALOO'- I rzT JT-v-v v7 aut . icr Yvi;w m Mr Jk a 1 1 ii put "too a( a njv I wVT 'jAneE BexrZ m if W PnErC fe r-. I I W -J I S ' "-O. If i' I I - " 1 v- T tit- International student home ichere Raper, Soulherland lived. During the first semester, we lived in an inter national student home. In the second semester, we chose to live with German families. We both had a chance to travel quite" a bit. Of the thirteen months, I was in Europe, I spent more than four and one-half months traveling. During the two months vacation between semesters at Go ettingen, John and I traveled nearly 9000 miles to gether through Switzerland, Italy, France, Eng land, Scotland, and the low countries. Probably the most interesting trip for John was the one he made to Spain to visit friends there for the Christmas vacation. My "adventure" was a three weeks' trip through Poland. But the significance of the year in Europe was not that we could pile up a list of '"things seen.'' The real meaning of the experience was to be found in persons whom we got to know there, es pecially German friends in Goettingen. Perhaps you're wondering what this universitr at Goettingen is like; after all. most of us think only of Heidelberg when they think of a German university. Incidentally, many Germans think of the American troops stationed there when they think of Heidelberg. First of all. to find out what the university is like, be sure to read Hie article in the DTH by Dave Davis, the exchange student at Goettingen this year. Personally. I felt after talking with Germans, that Goettingen ranks as one of the best, and is the best university in Germany in certain fields such as the German language ann literature or theology. In the scientific world, Goet tingen has gained world wide recognition. Three nobel prize winners are there at the present. I mm I t$ "- - i ill'' -Ip-j It $4 .: : , . , " - W !Hff 7k t 1 . A ?cene in picturesque Goettingen . Fine, perhaps you would like to studv at Goet tingen, but you don't want to lose a year's credit at UNC. Several people have asked me if I were still a junior this year. No, I'm a senior After a somewhat complicated process, which -we hope to standardize in the future, John Raper and I both received credit for a full year's work at UNC Al though we cannot yet guarantee a year's credit I think it can be worked out as in our case A sub-committee of the Foreign Exchange Com mittee is meeting now to plan for the method and basis of selection of the exchange student to Goet tingen for 1953-59. Therefore, I urge those inter ested to begin to- consider now this, fine opportu nity and to apply for the scholarship as soon as applications are available. Dan South.rl.nd
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