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ktt TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL New Dormitories There are three new dormitories that grace the I'NC rumpus now. They arc built in the tra ditional style of architecture that has prevailed on this campus for so long, but they contain a few innovation that make dormitory life somewhat eas wr. , They contain outdoor entrances to replace Ions i"iy corridors, which will doubtless be a benefit to the student. They are built so that there are only j tew rooms to the corridor, thus again cutting down on ivie. They aUo posess an ample parkins lo which will do something to alleiate the parking sit nation on tie campus. They have some disadvantages alo. however. With all rmn entering on what is more or less the outritor. n open door in the winter may pro vide for fjuite a few cold, unless the student is jiiite careful. Recreation space is still at a mini mum, nd iiluJv space except in the single room is al:no: cil. tfinlly. the dormitories are far off from the m-utNtrram of campus life and it may well take a rried .-lunate of time between classes to let NOjTebody from one of the new dorms to Phil lips 1111 r Poahody. Mufou-r. the further the dormitories leave the central part of campus, the closer the University t. irr.es to 'i-sms a ;itd measure of the college at-.iio-phere tint still remains and which is quite healthy for student in erection and maintenance of the individual identity in a big school setting. Sometime soon, the problem of growth has to he dealt with as well as the problem of dormitory t instruction. Growth must be met with the maximum ir-sprct for the Individual's identity on the campus, nd the housing problem needs to be once met with the Mudent's needs in mind. In the r-:a!m of future construction, the planners hud better look closely to the need of every student for study pace. separate and apart from sleeping pure, for sleep is difficult with a light on or a type writer goin?. Soundproofed two-room suites would he the bet answer to the problem, and although they may not he the most economical to build, they may be the most advantageous to building the academic atmosphere of the community. Small hall units hould be looked into with the end in mind of pre serving quirt in the residence halls. recreation pace is a must. This recreation S"ace should include lounge space, room for social activities, refreshments of a limited sort, and some ;:jrrcs. This should be divided between two sets of residence units or used for one set of residence units in order to provide the maximum chance for vtr.dents tt vent their excess energy in a healhty I runner. Again this may be costly, but it is a lot more worthwhile than the screaming headlines about drunken bawls and wild parties. Finally in order to provide that UNC does not-' full into the "dilemma of Duke which has a bus ytcm frtm F-ist Campus to West Campus, the Uni- rrndty 'ard'tbe HaTjOejji.slaturc had better con sider the raozn it haVlavailable around the central campus and build accordingly even if it means a break with the traditional style of architecture. The campus can still look beautiful and the interests of the student and the University can best be served, if the architectural tradition is forgotten in favor of looking toward proent and future needs. This m-y mean different shaped, and perhaps taller buildings, but the net product will be well worth. And even more modern architecutre can look beaut iful. Two addition? should be made- space for a res ident counselor who can be there for students to come to and be awar? of student needs and prob lems, and parking space so that the congestion problem does not multiply with student body growth. The pian for the future can be ominous and provide fi.r the destruction of Chapel. Hill unique re, i liberal arts college atmosphere in a Univers ity !-ttng. or it can be bright with the preservation f individual identity and the increasing of an aca demic atmiphere. The choice is up to those who do the financing of the University of North Carolina. The official student publication of the Publication Hoard of the University of North Carolina, where it is published daily except Sunday, Mon day and examination periods and summer terms. Entered as second class mat ter in the post office in Chapel Hill. N.C.'. under the Act of March 8. 1870. Sub scription rates: $4.50 rer semester, $8.50 per year. nil tor ex , I . i KUHytvl (Hi - , N,.fjl '.in :.iUi i J r : . . . j .... CURTIS CANS Maraging Editors CHARLIE SLOAN, CLARKE JONES News Ed. tors ANN FRYE, BILLKINCAID Biuinrss Managed TwALKER ELANTON Advertising Manager ... 7FRED KATZTN Asst. Adv. Manager x JOHN M1NTER Sports Editor "RUSTY HAMMOND Aisoriatf Editor ; ED ROWLAND Subscription Manager .1. 1. AVERY THOMAS Circulation Manager BOB WALKER Arti Editor "ajHtIONYWOLFF (Wd Editor .....1 JOAN BROCK thief Ihotojrapher BUDDY SPOON Night Editor WYNDHAM HEWITT View And Preview Anthony Wolff The Most Dangerous Joi x "Only In America" by Harry Golden; World; 317pp.; $4.00 Harry Golden is a man well known around Chapel Hill, and in the state of North Carolina, for from his home in Charlotte he pub lishes a unique and more-or-less monthly personal journal known as The Carolina Israelite." In this neck oft he woods, then, Harry Golden is something of a beloved phenomenon a Jew from New York's lower east side who migrated to Charlotte and made good in the al most extinct field of personal journalism. Mr. L'Golden's newspaper runs to' sixteen pages a month, all of it written by Mr. Golden. It con tains ho news of any kind; rather, it is strictly and self-consciously confined to the opinions of its editor. "The Carolina Israelite" has a circulation of about fourteen thousand, and its readers include . f - many great people around America and the world. y'V But fourteen thousand people is not very many . mm.,, w:.:.j. realJy, and so it may be safely assumed that until recently Mr. Golden and his journal were by and large unknown. What has come out recently to spread the fame of both is the publication of "Only In America", a selection from the columns of "The Carolina Isrealite." Mr. Golden is now a man of much wider renown "Only In America" is now on the top of the New York Times' listing'of non-fiction best sellers. The book is a good one, there's no doubt about it. Unfortunately for what reason it is hard to sell, it has been seized upn by many critics as something more than it is: Mr. Golden seems to have achieved the status of homely philosopher, sage, and general all around great man.. The book doesn't prove him to be any of these, although it seems cruel to say so as "Only In America" is good read ing, occasionally informative and stimulating, and only less occasion ally objectionable. But, just for the sake of an accurate perspective, it should be said that Mr. Golden has his faults, or at least the book does. For one thing, the quality of his editorials is somewhat uneven. Most of the short pieces the least important ones are quite to-the-point and they tell a good story well. The longer ones are sometimes less smooth. They wander here and there, as though Mr. Golden had written down whatever thoughts came into his head, and never both ered to edit himself which ,may well be the ccse. (It can probably be assumed that Mr. Golden, does not e.mploy an editor; and it should be noted that it is very difficult to edit one's own work). Another irksome thing about the book is the recurrent "I" three hundred and seventeen pages of "I .... I .... I ... I .. " This personal touch is no doubt part of the charm of M; Golden's particu lar style of journalism, but in book form it may try the patience of some readers. A more serious fault is the author's rather shoddy use of facts (i. e. "The Jews 'invented' psychiatry and ... it is no coincidence therefore that psychiatry took this East Side 'lunch' the dialect word for the traditional chaise lounge in Jewish homes and made it into the symbol of their profession . . ."). Mr. Golden dabbles in the fields of psychology and sociology with similar disregard for accuracy. He doesn't do it often, but when he does he is either wide of the mark or hitting the nail on the side of the head (choose your own cliche.) " . There are, of course, good things to say about ' Only In America" all the critical acclaim is by no means entirely unwarranted. Mr. Golden has, most notably, a rich memory, and his recollections and anecdotes about life on the Lower East Side are marvelous. It is in these sections, in which he talks about his family and the Jews among whom he grew up, that Mr. Golden's book is most engaging. The author is also justly noted for his sharp critical sense and his willingness to speak his own mind although it might well be noted that it is easier to speak ones own mind from where Mr. Gold en sits than from most other points of vantage. Nevertheless, his "Golden Baby Plan" from "Vertical Integration Plan" are classics by now, and to come across them in the book is to re-experience a pleasure. Throughout, when he is dealing with the general question of man's love for man, Mr. Golden is both perceptive and witty. "Only In America" is a good book. It is, for the most part, very light and easy reading. It's main drawback is the publicity it has gotten as the utterances of a great and homespun soul. Mr. Golden may well be a great and homespun soul, but in writing he doesn't compare to, say, Will Rodgers or IL L. Mencken. ' ? '4- '9' ;-..:: ':: . .. ..,. ' S. t " An, . - irr l ' : : ; ... - ': s ' ' ' t I) .- ;' y '. I ! : ! f S V --v 1 U , v.- T - . ! - - Ik l - - f ' 1. km in nil' t 'rrn-i r ' f I! Frank Jennings vi. -Oh, teachers must hold onto the pro tective warnings of these terrify ing IFs, lest these "warnings be- Teachinjf is the most danger ous profession. It deals -with our - conte irremovable realities. children, the most precious of our natural resources. It refines them into brave and wonderful adults or it grossly degrades them into dull, over-aged adoles cents. Its results color, . mold, and determine the shape of our nation and the character of our people. IF our teachers lack luster, fewer of their charges will be as bright as they might have been. ' IF our teachers are cowards, they will teach their cowardice. IF teachers are not responsible citizens, they will produce poli tical idiots. IF teachers become the tools of any pressure group, rather tlun the prime artisans a creative society, then we will all shrink into a nation of do mesticated, two-legged cattle, capable of nothing but ignorant brutality toward each other and cud-chewing obedience to the loudest shouters and the best feeders. IF teachers do not earn and keep the status and ihe respect which their profession requires, their rolo will be captured by the practical, committed, dedi cated members of the industrial and commercial communities, who can train , people very well, t but who cannot affort the ex pense of the humane adventure. Thus, teaching must forever live in creative danger, but It is our great good fortune rt that' in most of the schools in this country .many pupils are met y by a person for whom the magic of real respect and true love can quickly develop. This is so whether that teacher faces a kindergarden of five-year-olds or a seminar of graduate students. Yet sometimes this magic . dies because that teacher is beset by fears and half-understood anxie ties that come from the half empty pocketbok or a half-shattered self-esteem. The great teacher possesses a personality strong enough to free himself from these pres sures. And it, is this free teacher who is truly an artist in human relations. (This is something that must not be confused with some teacher's college workshop 'courses bearing the same name.) Pupil and teacher begin their relationship by studying and learning each other. They learn by their common experience to value and to use each other's words and acts and ideas. A group of human beings so learn ing is the closest to Eden we can. ever be. For, the interests of young people can encompass the whole world. All kinds of experi ence press in upon them. The teacher has to know when and how to teach them to- begin to be selective about these experi- Inqii Sam Frazier The sDefense Department's de-. cision to allow U. S. planes at tacked by Communist Chinese planes to pursue those planes "all the way into China" is one of the most serious blunders that the United States has committed since the Suez Canal invasion. The con sequences of this action could be the most terrible in the hirtory of mankind. Since I'resident Truman's deci sion not to pursue the Korean War- ry "Next Time Wc Take A Stand, Shouldn't' V Study The Terrain Or Something?" ..... . MM. " 1 M-! 'H'.'".11 ' M j 1 into Manchuria, it has become in creasingly clear -that "his strategy in limiting the boundaries of the war area is a basic premise of any planning to maintain global balance. In the few years since the Korean War, the importance of this premise has increased ten fold. Now in one action the gov ernment of the United States has opened wide the door to World War III. It is difficult to see how the military leaders could make such a decision when they them selves have made such loud noises over the necessity of "restric tive" warfare and have even gone to great lengths in reorganizing strategy and organization for ac tion in a restrictive war. The Defense Department is ser iously contradicting itself. The "... , - .1 , question that every inquiring citi zen should ask' is, "Why?" If the Defense Department , contradicts one of its major policies, it is evident that something is lacking. Actually, this contradiction is not the manifestation of a major flaw in the DD. Instead, it is probably a result of the point of view of the DD. Evidently the DD ap proached the job of defending U.S. planes by eliminating all factors except the plane and its enemy. The first qualification is that the U. S. will only fight defensively. Then set up a situation in which the plane is attacked by the enemy. The total defense of the plane in cludes the destruction of its at tacker However, it is immediately evident that the total defense of the plane conflicts with the larger aspect of the situation total de fense of world balance The . old addage "What's good for. me isn't . necessarily good for everybody else" fits very well here. The total defense of the individual plane has to be limited to a partial defense, thus dissolving any threat to world balance. If the Defense Department's blunder is the result of a strictly personalized military viewpoint, then it must be rectified immedi ately. Let us hope that the De fense Department knows how. Sam Frazier ; ences. - There is great danger here! What happens if our young peo ple are denied the ability to make and to know that they are making significant choices? George Orwell's Big Brother will t lllL lil'y Functions Of Lawyers Charles S. Rhyne 4. IMPROVING THE LEGAL PROFESSION Theodore Roosevelt said: "Every man owes some part of his time to the upbuilding of the profession to which he belongs." And Arthur T. Vanderbi.lt said "This obligation is one of the great things which dis tinguishes a profession from a business." Despite these admonitions, we lawyers have done too little in the past to uphold and upbuild our profession. Lawyers are the great in dividualists of our Na tion. Slowly but surely, however, lawyers have grad ually come to the realization that they must work together on thoe things which they have in common and where they should work to gether. We law yers do this chief ly through loca state and nation al bar associa tions. You stu dents will do it through the American Law Student Associa tion. I urge that you devote your selves whole heartedly to bar association work. Nothing you can i Ji. ' ' ' : ' i i . .-i i I"?!'' .......;:; if - i ! ,- . , -. j ) 'S ' " S - t ,l &r.-: v.-. v . , ! t -- . 1' come and do it for them. To pre-' do will yield greater dividends in friendships and vent Big Brother from taking in learning how to be a successful lawyer, over, the teacher has to know Continuing legal education has been made a and be able to show all the kinds major effort of the organized bar over the past few of choices there are. To do this years. Through workshops and institutes at Regional he must have an unquenchable Meetings of the American Bar Association, and thirst for delight, an insatiable through similar programs put on by state and appetite for wonder, and the local bar associations and law schools, lawyers have talent to transmit these qualities been brought up to date on the many new develop to the children. ments in various fields of law. In our day, when This is asking more than is the velocity of change is so rapid, participaiton in ordinarily possible to anyone. But such Prg"ms is essential to success in the practice mr society must' ask this of its of lhe law teachers. For there is this warn- That success in law Practlce comes only to the ing: the teacher who does not hard worker has alwavs been true' but in recent love poetry does a rather poor years there have been developments which seem to job of arranging !a love-affair be- cast doubts tipon the future of our profession tween words and the child. A regardless of effort. Here too tne organized bar has teacher for whom all painting be- b'an to 'akcn t( he .seriousness of a real threat yond the merely pictorial is non- to our profession. This is a threat which indirectly sense cannot follow the child in xw a jcSa to the ranforest of color and Profession can never protect the great constitutional shapes that is the possible world rights which are the basic reasons for our great- of that child. A teacher who can m!Sf a' 1 a natl0n- Nr can a eak legal Profession u; n ,a0i nt Protect the free enterprise system, which gives our 111 ill IV Ullljf Ull Ullt itYCl Ul UUU1.1- standing at a time cannot keep his bearings amidst the busy questions of thirty thirsty minds. joyment far more successfully than he can ever teach the rudi- nation its economic vitality. When in London for the American Bar Associa tion many of us were shocked to learn that only A teacher who does not enjoy " "r w f " ... x , lL. , , , sufficient income from the practice of their pro- readily teaches this lack of en- , . ,. . . . . . . ... fession to pay their living expenses. This brought into sharp focus the findings of some recent stu- rtic f( thp pennnrriJe stani-tincr nf th lonT Trrkfpccinn mentary reading skills a young inAmericaf in comparison with that of other pro child requires. fessions. Fortune Magazine has published findings The child learns many things that from 1929 to 1951 the income of medical- doc quick ly and permanently. tors increased 157 per cent, the income of other Throughout childhood he is wage earners 144 per cent, but that of lawyers only learning to be at home in this 53 per cent. Fortune's findings were confirmed by world, learning its firm, unshift- other studies, and the concern of our profession ing names and the voltile, shift- wnich had begun to develop before the London Con ing symbold, learning to listen yention crystallized into a demand that something &nd to know and ito understand, be done before our very bad situation grows worse, learning to act less on The loss in economic status of lawyers is bad enough impulse and more with purpose, but anther fact showed up in our studies: That the And of course it Is true that he profession of law is losing many of the ablest young begins to learn all this at home, men to engineering, medicine, and other professions Whatever the quality of these simply because more money can be made there home-experiences may be, we ask The American Bar Association decided to create a the schools to take up these be- Committee on Law Practice Economics to study the ginnings and carry them on to- causes of the economic decline of lawyer incomes ward those necessary goals we and to make suggestions as to way and means to have set for education. The good end that decline It' has now compiled data that teacher must be a person with a the economic plight of lawyers is due largely to our profound love of a subject, born failure to utilize modern methods and procedures, of the fulnes of familiarity. He both in our own law offices and in the courts. In must have an excellent opera- this jet and atomic age, law business is still con tional understanding of basic ducted too frequently through horse-and-buggy meth educational principles, not the ods. Many Suggestions as to the modernizing of law mere word-shadows of profes- office operations have now been published by this sional jargon. The teacher must Committee. We believe they will help recapture the have a love of people in general, economic standing and status of lawyers, and of children in particular, Lawyers have been the advocates for everyone must have the. ability to awaken else, but haye sadly neglected their own profess and to maintain the interest of ion. Self-interest and a regard f 6r the public inter f tudents . and to direct those in- ests served by our profession should cause lawyers terests toward successful ex- to cease their bashfulness in this essential area. In periences. Above all, the teacher this era of change we must change. And the place must be able to foster wonder. where the greatest change is needed is in the way This is the kind of teacher our we do our work, in our professional methods and society needs. The kind of teach- procedures, and in the way our courts do their work, ing that teacher is capable of is This' modernization is long overdue but I am happy sn acquired skill. Such teachers -to report that it is on its way. are born in classrooms. The skill IMPROVING JUDICIAL' ADMINISTRATION they must have can be learned Tne BcU Committee here in North Carolina ii by anyone with adequate intelli- an illustration of the performance of a major func tfence who Is willing to accept icn of lawyers a function where we have been de the hazards and the - dangers of relict in our responsibility for too long, i.e., inv acting upon clearly accepted re- proving the administration of justice. I think that sponsibilities. the Committee on Expediting nad Improving the Ad- Let the cowards and the dul- ministration of Justice in North Carolina has done iards find safety in the tenure a tremendous public service. I wholeheartedly ap trap! The true teacher joyfully prove of its recommendations. This modernization accepts the calf of strange tomor- 01 the Judicial system of North Carolina is long rows finds security and immor- overdue. The antiquated existing system can only tality in the healthy, happy, and be corrected by .revitalizing the entire system intelligent citizens he has helped through the unified court system witlj administra to shape lrve Pwer m lbe chief justice, new methods of From the SATURDAY REVIEW felecting and qualifying juries, and the other salu- tary proposals so carefully prepared by the able ' " members of this Committee. Adoption ot the Bell Committee recommendations would be the greatest forward step in the field of improving judicial ad ministration in the history of North Carolina. The spotlight of national attention is now focus- STEEL PRICES When the expected steel price rise comes, steel consumers will absorb more of it than they ever ed Norlh Carolina to see what it does with have before, according to Steel thi?se very outstanding recommendations of 'the magazine. The trade "publication Bell Committee. And here is where I believe law reported that a survey of steel yers come into this picture not just a few law users showed that a majority of yers but an the lawyers of North Carolina. In ad them believe that pricecompeti- dition to the Committee for Improved Courts re tion is the major consideration cently appointed 4 by the Governor, the lawyers of and that added costs could be this State must assume leadership and sell this pro ivlayed to customers only 'at the gram to the people of North Carolina. An aggress expense of sales! However, some iVe, firm stand in support of this efficient, modern users said they would pass along system for the administration of justice is essent the entire increase to customers, ial.