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THURSDAY, APRIL U l9i
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On Kerr Scott
Kin Scott is dead now a week, and the
students oi this University inoinii his loss
with the sjH'i tat sorrow of a faxored Iriend. I Ic
".. the champion of the iihImssc1 spirit and
the forgotten .iut the meat rumple ol line
leathei and ol mental (ohwehs. Our genera
tion Im it hetter lor his having lived, and
wr are hey loers in his untimely passing.
Politn ians-oNernors. senators, sheriffs, sec
irtaries of ttm and that, presidents and kin.s
conic and ;o: and in these times of militant
mcdwx rities. their tomins and ;oin;s are
htiefh noted, theit defeats sadden largely
their hrneis-on and their families, and their
families, ami mutt ihutions are as endtiriux
as their (ampain ieu ins-w ith-alarm.
.Not so Ketr Sott. vm in this eaih mom
ent. Ids petty tailings lade, and the statute
of his good woiks dwarfs hiseiitiis. lie dated
to think Iresh and to hreathe free, and of his
courage came great things: roads and schools
for hi people, hope and leadetship for hy
paed humanity in his state, l'rank (iraham
for the I'nited States Senate. In an era that
cult the (onlortuist ex en as it hewails con
founity. it s .is the mitanle of Kerr Scott that
he did the unepeted and the unprecedented
he deialed and revolted, and he got away
with it.
To some. Ketr Scott's uniqueness was ram
pant opjHirtunism tlevctly disguised: hut
then punt tuteis of t ouiplacency are rarely he
Joed among the eomplacent. And it opport
unist he nav Itom hi "opjMrtunisin" during
a hriel gowrnoiship he gae North Carolina
her gteatest thallenges. her gteafest senator,
and her greatest push lotwaid in hall a cen
tury. He lit lights on the faints and in the
minds of the people ol his state and of his ton
tempt for the MunjxMis and the smug came
an inspiiation to independence that inletted
thousands ol lesser people to holder deeds and
higher goals.
This improhahle and refreshing man is of
that tinv hand ol human heings who are more
sorclv missed the week alter their death than
the (lav alter, nho will he even more sorelv
missed a war alter than a week alter, and
uhose legacx endtues and grows and triumph
despite defeats and heond death.
Wanted: Pavement
Tonight, the Student Legislature will have
to deal with a resolution concerning paving a
sidewalk aua liom Woollen (.vinn.isimn to
the walkway to l.cnoir Hall
The Legislature ought to pass this resolu
tion, since the pun esses of paxiug the ;.ieas
whith need paving aie slow. The Legislaa
tuie's tesolution might do something to speed
the not ess up in tins patlicular case
The spetilit aua in question is traversed
during the week hy lieshman and sophomore
men. and freshman through sophomote wo
men, as well as the residents of the dorm aua
ol Winston. Alevandcr. and Conner.
Mudd shots, had lalls. general distoui
fort luxe het n the itsult of the present la k
ol paxing. It is hoped that this situation
will not exist long.
The Open Meeting
It i amaing what Ireshman women will he
failed in open sessions. Last night they were
likened to unweated puppy dogs hy the
former thainnan of the Women's Residence
Council. Somehow this definition does not
.square with the rcsponsihlc individuals that
the women who have tome here as Ireshmen
have proved themselves to he.
The meeting was further interesting hy
irtue ol the tact that the majority of the
rules and from angles previously not men
women there took opposition to the new
tinned. Some ol the .opposition was voiced on
the grounds of impracticality, as well as the
grounds of student responsibility, individual
freedom, and the unhealthy elici ts that these
rules ruav have.
'I he Count il should take these rules into
consideration again setiously in the light ol
the lesponsiple opinions cpr4scl at the
ojx'ii meetings.
Anything Goes
Peter B.- Young
' This column will offer no unique dietary suggestions to our lovely
UNO coeds. But since Jonathan Yardley, in his recent bid for some
sort of journalistic immortality has described the birth pangs of his
dog, it might not be amiss for this- writer to discuss a similar episode
in the life of Alley (Cat) Young. v
Our story begins, properly enough, with Ra-ph B. Young, a tres
gay tomcat who entered our lives in Baton Rouge about three years
ago. The Big Ralph Man drank chocolate milk and vodka over the
rocks, ate pizza and garlic pickles, and went to sleep every night on
top of the hi-fi set while the band played "Lullaby of Birdland." I
mean this cat was the hippest.
There was only cn" thing wrong. Every time I suggested to Ralph
that perhaps, it was time for him to think about girls, he would reply.
"No. man, girls don't make it," and he would then go outside to dig
fire flies. Fire flies, in contrast with girls, made it big, and Ralph
used to go out of his furry little skull as he watched them buzz around
the yard. .
Well, you can imagine my surprise when I opened the door one
morning and there was Ralph, sitting on the steps with the most
pathetic, scrawny excuse for a cat that I have ever seen sitting next
to him. "What's the bit, Ralph?" I asked.
"What's the matter, man," he replied. ."Don't you dig distortion?"
"Certainly, man," I said. "But this is like too much."
"That's the whole bit." he said "I dig her because she's so weird."
Her!!?? She!!??
So we welcomed Alley (Cat) Young into the family, and two weeks
later The Big Ralph Man went to tomcat heaven when, typically, he
walked across a highway without even looking for the whizzing cars.
We buried him in the back yard of Ken Yoss, one of the South'
leading astronomers. Yoss's last report was that Ralph had gone into
orbit successfully.
We now jump ahead several more weeks to the time when it be
came obvious that Alley (Cat) Young was in a family way. (Actually,
she was in everybody's way.) Carefully, we nursed her through this
trying period. She was not allowed to move any furniture, and w
added special supplementary vitamins to her cat food. After all, Vz
litter was undoubtedly Ralph's, and we could not afford to take
chances.
Several more weeks went by. One night, when I was rolling out
some pizza pies for certain select members of the LSU history depart
ment, I noticed that The Old Alley Cat had lumbered into her box
in the kitchen and was doing some rolling of her own. Right befor?
my amazed eyes the first kitten dropped. I dashed into the living
room to announce the epic event.
T. Harry Williams, the distinguished Civil War historian, asked,
"Is that kitten brave, bold, courageous, honest, sincere and truo?"
"Yes, sir," I said. "He is all of that."
"Good." said Williams, sipping a hefty screw driver. "Name him
after me."
We did. Thus did T. (Horrible) Harry B. Young enter this vale
of tears.
Three more kittens followed The T. Horrible One, and my superb
pizza was a little late that night. Naturally, since these kittens were
fathered by Ralph B. Young we had no trouble in placing them in
suitable foster homes. We kept T. (Horrible) Harry, and of course The
Old Alley Cat. who spends most of her time these days lying on a
heating pad in our bedroom. And T. (Horrible) Harry, profiting from
his father's early demise, is probably the most cowardly tomcat who
ever lived. He rarely leaves the yard.
And what is the point of this strange little tale? The point, dear
friends, is this: Jonathan Yardley was basically RIGHT. The birth of
his puppies WAS a miraculous event, fully worthy of extended cover
age in this, or any other, paper. The birth of anything puppy, kitten,
flower, baby is the ultimate miracle before which all words fail.
This is what Yardley (whom I do not know) was trying to communi
cate. This is what drove him to his colossal gaffe. But his heart was
in the right place. And let's not have any nasty comments about the
road to you know-where being paved with good intentions.
Part
sanship
Partisanship is something we
have all grown up with. I am for
my school. I am for my family,
my country, my religion. Come hell
or high water, I am or my party, diet that no one
my product, my service. (What I contrary to his.
Jim saying is that I am for me.
A recent experiment by one of
our University professors revealed
that students in his classes who
favored a certain statement of
thos? students who disfavored the
statement tended to believe that
most were in his camp. In fact,
one student was so bold as to pre-
held an opinion
In the history of mankind, we
find at certain times Protestant
ism pitted against Roman Catholic
ism, republicanism versus a mon
archical form of government, real-
ihternational importance tended to ism taking sides against romantic
believe that the majority of the In our modern American, per
population also favored it Likewise, haps, if wc discount the partisan-
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"Sharp, Isn't It?"
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Louis M. Hacker
The Russians understand thi.
C. P. Snow, writing in 1956. point
ed out i using the figures for 1954)
that whereas the United States
and Britain were turning out more
pure scientists, in terms of popu
lation, than Russia was, Russia
was educating more applied sci- .
entists than the United States and
the whole of Western Europe to
gether. In 1934. the United, States
was graduating 22.500 applied, sci
entists. Great Britain 5,800 and
Russia 60.000 in its technical uni
versities and 70,000 in its technical
colleges. Nor is this all. In Rus
sia, one-fifth of university-trained
scientists go back toVteacn in
technical colleges and secondary
schools, so that the number (,f
qualified science teachers in the
Of Liberty
USSR in 1954 was over 250.000, as
compared with less than 50.000 in
the United States and 20,000 in
Great Britian. This sort of thing
we should worry about, rather
than the Communist ideology it
self. This, then, is what I mean when
I have said, in another connec
tion, that a university must al
ways keep its doors open to all
qualified students at all times.
The survival of learning and of
our society depends upon the ac
ceptances of this obligation. Free
dom of know ledge means freedom
for scholars and scientists; but
it also means free access to them
for every qualified student re
gardless of age, previous condi
tions of education, and whether
or not he has a degree intention.
Omniwbrld
Sam Frazier
Je combattrai pour la pHmaute de VHomme '
sur Vindividu-Ccrmme de Vuniversel siur le
particulier. Je combattrai pour VHomme. Con
tre ses ennemls: Mais aussi contre mxn-meme.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
ho are the real enemies of mankind? Are
they Russians? Are they Chinese Communists? Are
"they Yugoslavian? This is the question which
people are attempting to answer every day. They
answer that Communists, totalitarians, and monar
chists are the enemies of mankind. But this an
swer is not extensive enough; it only accuses sur
face manifestations of the real source and soul of
mankind's , enemies. The real enemies of mankind
are over-zealous nationalism and the. individual's
self-directed energy.
We have discussed nationalism before and tried
to explain that any spirit or tendency which tend,
to isolate any group of people from the rest of the
people in the world is a cancerous growth which
must be stopped. Nationalism, because of its very
nature fits under this classification remarkahle
well. Yet as we have said before some "patriatism"
is vital for any group of people, although this is
true only as long as the "patriatism'f is directed to
ward the internal affairs of the group of people.
In the field of international relations it is neces
sary to have a foundation of "patriatism" but a
superstructure of "worldism." Immediately, a new
dimension has been entered in this superstructure
of "worldism," at least in this modern world; new
ethics and rules have to be applied. In the alloca
tion of "patriatism" to one area and "worldism"
to the other area, do not arrive at the conclusion
that the two can actually be separated or that
each exists by itself on its own right. This is a false
conclusion. Each is inextricably involved with the
other. The individual who has not learned to cherish
and respect the customs and traditions of his group
is not prepared to respect and cherish the wider and
more universal customs and traditions of a world
community. Most peoples of the world have reached
the first stage, but they have progressed no fur
ther now for many generations, leaving the world
to suffocate in a compartmented death chamber.
This must not be.'We must realize the predicament
we are in and grasp for our very evident salvation.
Whether a student's purpose in
formal training fon a full or part-
time basis, during the day or The other great enemy of mankind, the individu-
during the night, in regular term al's self-directed energy, is actually a manifestation
or during the summer) or the of one of the cornerstones of nationalism. To say
advancement of his self-interest that selfishness is an enemy of mankind appears
and tastes, or for occupational to be a very trite thing to say, but it is one of the
improvement, the u n i v e r s i t y basic destructive forces in the plan of annihilation
should receive him. In order to for man.
meet all the complex needs of our
world and make possible tire edu
cation the men and women with"
all. sorts of adult responsibilities,
universities should be available
When the animal man appeared on the earth it
was not a question of choosing between having a
society and not having a society. Without a society
the individual cannot exist because ' unless there
is some deterrent to direct his energy outward, this
day and night and 365 days in the energy will turn inward and destroy him. There is a
year, at the same time that they constant struggle within every person today to keep
continue to explore through ev- this' energy, outwardly directed. Of course it is not
absolutely successful; we all see the results in ourselves.
ery form of communication, in
cluding television and correspond
ence courses the means for the
extension of educational services.
And
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ship in advertising goods and serv
ices, the partisanship involved in
politics stands out most prominent
ly. Thus, the Democrats against
the Republicans is an "old joke"- there are among the opposition
as the Egyptian Ambassador Faw- certain individuals who are using
who decided to do something tainly quite probably that such a
' now" about the recession rather
than "wait and see."
Secretary Weeks claims that
The major league baseball season is now about
thing could happen and we might one week old- fiy time, every major sportswriter
nas forecasted the outcome of the season, the
World Series, and the various other categories of
competition.
zi would say. -' '
Last week. Commerce Secretary
Sinclair Weeks received" blasts
from Democrats in Congress' and
from Democratic-supported -f news-,
paper editorials. These cime "as a
result of his attack on those, gen
erally in the Democratic camp.
the recession to their political ad
vantage by inducing "the jitters."
When we consider that this state
ment was made in a Republican
consign we may question the truth
of the generality. However, we
must be fair and suppose that there
may be some truth in it. It is cer-
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is not happening at this very mo
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whole issue of partisanship in A
merican politics is that all too
often it goes to such an extreme
that it is reduced to'-absurdity. It
becomes mere propaganda.
Not too long ago 1 1 over heard
a' young voter telling the chief of
police of a Western North Carolina
community that after he gets
through listening to the propaganda
blurted out by each political pary.
he begins to wonder whether either
one is worth bothering to support.
The chief replied, "Well, no one
believes vhat they say any way."
If most Americans can thus re-
It is not surprising that the overwhelming choice
for the American League
pennant is the New York
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I kees are usually favored
I to win the Series as well.
and various Yankee stars
will undoubtedly walk a
way with more than one
team's share of the in
dividual honors.
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those who follow the game to learn that the Yankees
have won twenty-three pennants and seventeen
World Series since the turn of the century.
At this early stage of the current season, the
cognize propaganda in political is- Yankees are already in first place; and although
sues then, perhaps, things aren't any certain conclusions drawn from this fact would
so bad. What is bad is that the indeed be premature, it is as safe a bet as any
very reason for the existence of that the Yankees will occupy that position for most
such political nonsense is typical of the season, and will be there after the final game
of much in American behavior, has been played.
Partisanship as. such extends be- Should the Yankees accomplish this feat or even
yond its worth as a check and ; look fairly secure in first place later in the season,
balance system, of getting across . there will probably be a strong revival of the old
the truth, or of instituting the best, battle cry "Break up the Yankees"
idea or method. It comes to the It seems that a certain ,very articulate portion of
punt of insulting our very inte Hi- the baseball world, made up for the most part of
gence. It also comes , to the point other teams and their followers, objects to the
where one camp cannot make 'as Yankees predominance. These partisans feel -per-mistake
without bearing cros,,haps, that there is something definitely un-ChrisUan
of guilt for -having done so. It be- and un-American in the Yankee record
comes a crime against humanity This may very well be true. In a nation which is
to have made . mistake. Tins suppossed to foster competition and and at least
crime as such is treasonous in na- some semblance of equality, the Yankee's habit of
ture. This whole attitude in parti- winning is not quite kosher. The public gives pra
sanship denies the very knowledge gmatic sanction to monopolistic practices in heavy
that man is irrational at the same mdustry; but the baseball industry which many
time as he ,s rational, tl Americans ingenuously regard as a real sport is
denies his ability to be wrong opposed to retain the all-American character of its
as wel las to be right, to be ir- sandlet version. cnaracter or its
responsible as to be responsible. The anti-Yankee movement seems to have little
.This, of course, does not Justify effect on the state of things, hZever Tnl the
that man can continue to be nega- Yankees continue in their usual manner ' '
tive in his behavior. Man utilizes It 8hould be omphasised that " ;
learning and correcUoa m his res- a damnable condition.' In a world where norhinl is
ponses. , So, what does the guilty certain, and in which Fate and the omnipote l (Z
camp do in .response? Whether de-',h,ve been emasculated into Luclc and he L wf
Clares all the more vehemenUy it,
Tightness or righteousness Amen. reign.