PACE TWO
TH1 DAILY TAR Hi EL
; SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1953
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In Russid,'they Drink
Their Vodka 'Straight'
By DAVIS YOUNG
fa an exclusive two-hour interview witK Ergeni A.
Zaostrovsten, second secretary of the Soviet Em
bassy in Washington, D. C, this correspondent wai
filled in on the basic concepts cf Russian education
and its present functions.
Zaostrovsten is by profession a lawyer and a grad
uate of the Institute of International Law m Moscow.
He has been in this country for six months and prior
to his present assignment, he was a professor m one
of the larger Russian universities.
I first contacted him at a press conference held
on this campus on Tuesday afternoon featuring Sen
ator John Sparkman, Malcolm Cswley and Sergoi
Striganov.' At the termination of this event, we ad
journed to his room at the Carolirgi Inn for a most
informative and educational stay.
He informed me that in the Soviet Union children
start to school at the age of seven and must continue
for as many years At the end of this period, they
are subjected to a battery of examinations and com
prehensive aptitude tests to determine the vocation
for which they are roost suited.
They then proceed to study for three more years
in a more specialized atmosphere. The end of this
period corresponds with graduation from an Amer
ican high school.
The student is then ready for one of the free slate
universities. He may choose any that he likes and
will spend much time looking at schools before de
ciding. The grading scale in all high schools runs
from five, through one and if a student has main
tained all fives and fours, he is eligible for a schoj
arship amounting to 10,000 rubles or 110 American
dollars a month. This will cover all cf his expenses.
The first semester of college runs frona September
until January, when a fifteen-day vacation is granted
from the labors of academic training. If a student is
far from home or without parents, the stale will
send him to a special student's rest home for this
period, where he will make contact with other stu
dents. The second semester starts in February and runs
until the middle of June. While in school a student
is expected to attend four hours of lecture each day
as well as a two-hour seminar. After this he must
prepare at home for the next day.
During the course of study, a student will become
well versed in all phases of science as well as nis
native language, a foreign language (often English,
the Russian Constitution and Russian and European
history.
In 1956. 1,800.000 young Russian .students were
enrolled in institutions of higher learning. .An ad
ditional 200,000 will enter this year to swell the
ranks of the country's 800 colleges and universities.
Aside from this tremendous interest, there are
over 4.000 specialized schools in the Soviet Union
today. Since 1941, the Russians have trained over
8,000,000 men to work in the field of transportation!
alone.
Zaostrovsten said that every student is also guar
anteed a job after graduation. However, he is not
forced to take this job. If he doesn't he may seek
employment cn his own. Another point of interest
was the fact that of the 20,000 students now enrolled
in Moscow State University, 16.000 are enrolled in
the college of sciences.
Commenting on the impact of this year's Carolina
Symposium Zaostrovsten called it a useful program.
He said, "it is a good way for students to know
more of their own country as we.ll as those of others.
"It will help those who participate immensely.
This program should create a drive and ambition in
students to study harder and to seek the answers to
their questions."
Concerning the launching of a Vanguard missile
by the U. S. Navy on Tuesday, he called it an "out
standing American scientific achievement."
As a parting shot he commented on American
Vodka. He said, "it's good, but we like to drink it
straight at home."
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North Carolina: Leading
State In The Southland
Vou c;.n listen to a nun like
H.tnv AnIiiiimio .end cxpcricnc c- the
ficliii, clcrp down in ol a love
for Noitli (l.nolina that ou never
le.ilieil run existed helote.
You c.iniie.n this gallant news
paper editor talk ol desegregation
and the 1 1 1 y ellects it has had
th) ou-IuMit the south, and thank
(nd loi Noi tli C.uolina ami what
it stands for.
And even though now know that
all is not Net riht, you tan shale
with the test ol hi nation the
feeling of laiiness tlnouh rela
tive liher.dism which distinguishes
the Tji Heel state at 110114 'I'4' ,ul"
lion.
Here we have Ireedom. Here
univeisity students an assemble
in a public loium to hear about
.md 4o dis uss the bi'est problem
l ie in,; our nation on the domestic
liont tod.iN. Heie libeials and ton
setN.ities meet on t ommon
touncl. because both yiotis re
spet t the lights of others, and
plate these lights above their per
sonal sentiments.
Mavbe that is why North Caro
lina is the loiemost leadei of
southern states. I'eihaps that is
whs. above all others. ve have earn
ed the respet t ol a nation torn be
tween sectionalism and universal
individual lights.
We wondei. alter heating Mr.
Ashmoi e's tiuiclv addiess. il the
south is not tutting oil its nose
to spite hei I .'He il she is not
dampeiiii'4 freedoms ol the manv
totuitail the Irecdoms of the lew.
In Missisippi, Mr. Ashmoie
noted, new voting rcpih ements
have been instituted which ob
vious!) are diret ted at limiting the
Neio ballot. Hut at the same time,
these iccpciiements also could put
the reins on the white vote.
At a southern college, a liberal
Otiakci not on!v was forced to tan
eel a scheduled addiess. but in turn
the college's boatd ol tiwstees
coined the .iilnunisti.il ion into
taking an oath to siippoit sc.; lega
tion at the institution.
.And this tNpe of .i'ttion is'ot
c lining all thioiiuh the south. We
ate lobbing out people horn one
state to the next ol democratic u
v ilexes in a lu nied attempt to
hold down the exercise ol llecdoiiis
which otn national constitution
guarantees.
In the end. the south can oiiIn
be the loser. In the end. we can
only be so entangled bv legislation
a"4.:tist minoiity groups that the
web will be weaved for the c 01 -nipt
political dominance ol the
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News Editor
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PAUL RULE
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Coed Editor
JOAN BROCU
Feature Editor
MARY M. MASON
Sports Editor
BILL KINO
Asst. Sport Editor DAVE WIBLE
Librarian
. G LEND A FOWLER
EDIT STAFF Whit Whitfield. Curtis
Cans. Jonathan Yardlcy, Barry Win
ston, Gail Godain.
NEWS STAFF Davis Youns. IVinglc
Pipkin, Sarah Adarns. Dave Jones
Parker Maddrcy, Charlie Sloan, Ed
Koviland,' Eddie Goodman, Westbrook
Fowler. Stan Black, Virginia Sand
ridge, Ruth Whitley, Ben Taylor.
POUTS STAFF Rury Hammond, Elli
ott Cooper, Mac Mahaffy, Jim Purks,
Jim Harper.
Nations institutions within our
state governments.
We all have heard about re
stiictions against the riht to pub
lic assemblv. We know universally
that ;unon'4 mans most basic
rights is that riht to freedom of
sjH-eih and thought. And we know
that any el fort to curb the expres
sion of any ioup is in complete
defiance of what our constitution
guarantees.
In the south, all these privileges
are beinj; abridged. In the south,
clemoc iac v has jjiNcn way to dc
inai'cnery and the impassioned
bitterness of a lew is contributing
to the downfall of a nation be
cause that nation stands on and is
responsible to ecjuality.
And we turn to North Carolina.
W'e ate making strides forward. We
are earnestly attempting to travel
the pathway to desegregation which
all admit is marked bv hardships
and ttyin- times. Yet we are mov
ing in a forward direction.
North Carolina is known lor her
liberalism, has been known lor her
liberalism since the clays of early
colonization when she was a re
fuse to the religiously abused. In
that liht we are blessed bv an as
set the magnitude of which can
hardly be judged in the breadth of
our history.
Let us hope that the Tar Heel
state will remain a liberal state.
Let us hope that ever more she will
be judged lor her respect of all
and the discrimination of none.
Let us hope that not one citien is
denied his ri.ht to bee thought
and public expression.
Let us. in a word, hope that
North Carolina continues in the
tradition which has made her the
Utiiclinc; liht of all the southern
states.
Election Laws
Due For Change
A major fall.uv now exists in
elections laws uhich the student
legislature should take into con
sideration immediately alter the
April 1 elections.
Spec ilicallv. we icier to the piac
tite ol selecting I he Dailv Tar
Heel editor on basis ol popular
Note and not by a majority of the
c lcc toiate.
Take-, lor instance, the situation
which cuiuutlv exists on the cam
pus, live candidates are seeking
the I ar Heel post, and .11 am one
ol them has to do is to 'j,tt more
votes than anv ol the other single
candidates to win.
1 bus. t nndidate A c ould w in
the editor's, chair with scarcely
nioie than uo per tent ol the total
vote. That is bcause no itinoll
provisions now ..pplv to this par
tic ul. 11 elet tion.
In cither student government
laces, however, ninoll piovisioits
do exist. For instance, in a three
way 1 ace for student body presi
dent a candidate must win a ma
joiitv ol the vote to u.iiii the ollite
w hie h he seeks.
When no majority vote is realiz
ed on the liist ballot, a ruiioll is
held between the two candidates
with the most votes in the liist
election and the top man in this
second election then wins the pres
icletrc y.
'I his same practice should ap
ply in the election lor Daily Tar
Heel editor. For we believe that
no person should be placed in ol
lite on aiuiii'4 only -j per tent
of the total vote, and the student
body generally doubtless will con
c nr.
The implications of the cm rent
practice will piohahly be seen in
the coming elections. It will be
intei estiii'j; to see on what per
centage ol the total vote noui next
year's Far Heel editor will be
c hosen.
Just between you and us. we
hope it's by more than 1 per cent.
51.-SLNESS STAFF Walker Blanton,
John llintcr, Lewis Rush.
PHOTOGRAPHERS Norman Kantor,
Buddy Spoon
Businesi Maniger JOHN WIHTAKER
Advertising Manager. FRED KATZJtf
Subscription Mgr AVERY THOMAS
Uigbt Editor
GRAHAM SNYDLR
Our Nomination
Ouotation of the week:
"I haven't been abroad sitae
Little Rock, although 1 have had
many imitations to ;v most of
them from Little Rock." Harry
Ashmore, editor. The Little Rock
(iaette.
WISE & OTHERWISE
Election Time:
Writer Views '
'58 Candidates
By WHIT WHITFIELD
This spring a new horde of edi
torial candidates has appeared on
the scene.
The Editorial Selections Board
(Court of Star Chamber) is un
able to stem the tide. The Selections
Board may or may not deem a
candidate qualified, but this is no
stop-gap, for those candidates who
are deemed unqualified will doubt
less run anyway. And one of the
surest ways to get elected on this
campus is to run independent of
any sponsorship by a campus
organization.
At the last unofficial count there
were 93 candidates, each of whom
is the most capable, interested,
and highly qualified.
The two most recent aspirants
who have thrown their proverbial
hats in to the ring are Norman
Nurd and Bridgette Borden.
Norman is not sure of his major
as he is just a sophomore on cam
pus. He eats regularly and wears
clothes with remarkably regulari
ty, lie likes blue, regardless of the
color.
Norman was associate editor of
his high school newsletter, and is
presently serving as a feature
writer on his fraternity newspaper.
Other than that he has no cxepri
ence in newspaper work.
This is an advantage for him
or so he says for " a person with
no training is able to better as
certain the problems which con
front a student newspaper."
Bridgette is a junior phys-ed
Major from Bear Trap. She is a
member of Phi Beta Kappa. Kappa
Beta Phi etc.. ad infinitum. (All
honoraries.
Her campaign statement follows
in part:
"Should Isreccive the affirmative
mandate of the student body, I
will endeavor to incorporate into
the pages of the Daily Tar Heel
sound principles of ethical journal
ism. carrying forth the great tradi
tions established by John Peter
Zenger. Joseph Pulitzer, William
Randolph Hearst, and Diew Pear
son. "As I see it. my intellectual
capacities will permit me to as
sume unequivocal leadership in the
role of editor of the Daliy Tar
Hocls."
"I will make no rash promises:
in fact. I will make no promises
at all, but I will say this, that no
promises are better than some a
tall."
THAT'S WHAT THE HOOK SAID!
Walter Allen, Jr.. Ph.D.
Professor of Latin, L'NC
Some jokes were born old.
When the great Scipio. the con
queror of Carthage, was trying to
put the usual garland of flowers on
his head at a banquet, it kept fall
ing to pieces. A friend i? remark
ed. "Don't be surprised if the gar
land doesn't fit his head's too
big."
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"Sweetiepie, Tell Us Little Old Judges In Your Own
Words What A Scoundrel That Reuthcr Is"
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Wjth Gans
Disagree
Mr. Gans,
1 trust that your article of the
15th advocating cash payment to
student help in Lenoir Hall was
written in the interest of the student
worker and not as a result of any
political aspirations you might en
tertain. This being true. I would
suggest that you investigate your
proposition and determine its full
affect on the income of the aver
age self-help student. You stated in
your article that "A compromise
last year seems to have made a
dead issue this year." You're
right. The issue is dead, and it's
dead simply because most of us
are satisified with tilings as they
are. Here's vhy.
Most of us work during the sum
mer and earn enough to pay at
least a part of our way through
school, averaging $000 to $700 a
summer. This means that we must
pay federal income tax at the
rate of 20r; on anv additional cash
1
we make during the school months.
The prospect of paying from $80
to $90 income taxes out of our
present earnings is far from at
tractive. Allowing for the auto
matic 10r'f deduction given by the
federal government, it would still
be necessary for our pay rate to
be increased about 23 from 7fc
an hour to 93c an hour in order
for us to net 7fe an hour and
break even. Such an increase is
higlUy unlikely.
You may have a point when you
say that the student gets not benefit
from what he saves by eating the
40c special -but not a good one.
If, for example, a student saved
18''; of his meal tickets he would
have two alternatives other than
going to summer school. He could
either quit work his final semester
and pay for his meals with his
savings or continue to save his
tickets until he graduated and
then turn them in for cash. How
ever, if he were paid in cash he
would be forced to save 18 and
would get on direct benefit because
the government would take this
much in taxes.
Of course some students don't
make enough in the summer to
pay taxes. These are the students
who should be working in the lib
rary, Graham Memorial, and the
other places where cash is paid.
Lenior Hall is one of few places
where the sutdent can get a tax
break; so before you attempt
to bring to life a dead issue, at
least check to see if a majority
will benefit from any changes.
LaFontine Odom
Mr. Gans:
In your Saturday Cuiumn you
devoted your attentions to the so
called "evils" of the meal ticket
system by which Lenior Hall stu
dent employees are paid. You
seemed to believe it would be to
the workers' advantage to receive
cash payment rather than meal
tickets. We would like to point
out a few fallacies in your argu
ments. First and most important. Mr.
Gans, the payment of cash to the
average Lenoir Hall worker would
lift his annual income so that he
would be required to pay some or
more income tax. To offset this
increased tax payment, the worker
would need a 20 increase in his
income. No income tax payment is
required under the meal ticket sys
tem. May we pose this question? How
many Lenoir Hall workers did you
actually consult before writing
your editorial. Mr. Gans? Does
your editorial really reflect the
views of the students who work
in Lenoir Hall? We think not.
Next, if you had bothered to
check the facts, sir, you would
have found that there are many
self-help jobs available on campus
and none of the students are forced
to work in Lenoir Hall.
Finally. Mr Gans. does not your
candidacy for editor of The Daily
Tar Heel have an influence upon
your sudden change from an aloof
parliamentarium to a sympathetic
humanitarian? I believe you will
find being a good politician is not
always compatible with being a
good journalist. We. the undersign
ed, are all workers at Lenoir Hall
and definately are opposed to the
cat!? payment plan suggested by
Mr.. Gans.
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THE EDITORIAL VIEW:
Viewpoints And Ideas
Basic To Symposium
The University of North Carolina has been des
cribed as the "citadel of the southern mind" and
throughout its illustrious history it has repeatedly
demonstrated that the description is an apt one.
"Th Carolina symposium on public affairs," in
progress on the campus this week, is a type of activ
ity which has served to spread the reputation of
the University far beyond the borders of the state
which is its main support.
This symposium carries out one of the prin
cipal functions of a forum worthy of the name. It
presents divergent ' viewpoints. It offers speakers
whose tones range from the drawl of an Alabama
senator to the halting accents of a Russian diplo
mat. Such forums are all too few. The practical scient
ists may develop the artificial moons, but it will be
the political and social scientists who determine
whether these moons reflect hope or serve as signs
of impending disaster. .
It is reassuring to the legions of alumni and ad
mirers of the University of North Carolina to have
thjs fresh illustration that, the . campus in' Chapel
HUI is still a market place for ideas, popular and
unpopular alike.
Such intellectual commerce is as essential)
the life of North Carolina - the South and the
world-as is the trade in more tangible commodi
ties out of it comes the broadened understanding
n? J?T the PreIude t0 Peace-and survival
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