THE DAILY TAR IT-
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER Yi, 1951
PAGE TWO
Loyalty Oaths
It mtiiis (li.it thr I'lmmitv of North Cu-
olin.i (I.ks nut take r he nonls "academic
Iteeci.uii " (juitc ,i setiotisly as it tuilit.
Nntiii Cunlin.i h is lutii tcputcd to he one
l the- hum liUi.il colleges and univctsitics
i: t!ic union, luit Usjnte this fact ccry since
i 1 1 . nils incinlx ts have Iktii required to
t. ke lna!t oiths on their allegiance to the
fcdeial e mwitutieui and to the state consti
tution. c(cjt nlieic the latter conflicts with
the lotnier.
Moi (i i ei m their application for mctn
l i s! i i on the I'NC, laculty, stall members
liuiNt put tlicii loinur oi '.miat ional mem
hciship and whether they are now or ever
h e I u t n a member of the Communist
Pattv oi . ( 'emmnimt controlled group.
It is hi'h time the University's Hoard of
'I nistces tealied that 'his tvpc of restriction
and this type ol question is an invasion eK
individual prixacv. and liom a purely prac
1 1 .i 1 standpoint, it isn't helpful in ridding
Mibcisic elements.
I'tcedom ol (otiscietice is something is the
piiNsibihts in a demociacN. It is ;c possibility
that is being stiaincd by the University loy
alty oath demands. A man does not have to
.H c ept tlu- I'lntce! States constitution article
b attic le to be a good citien. Indeed, even
nunc to accept the State constitution to be
. good citieu. lie need not accept either to
be a '4od teacher, and would have difficul
ty signing an oath if he was a person who
bciirxed in Iteedom of conscience and the
pi i ac y ol man's thoughts.
buoei. no communist would have the
slighte st epi dms in singing an oath, for if
subxcriion was ('.s object, scruples wou,lel
not m. (tea in the slightest.
I yen woisc is the statement in the aplica
t i n loim. which obviously sets up as a tri
te i ion ol a prison's teaching merit his asso
ciitioiis now and pt ior. There was a time
not too long ago that it was fashionable to
be a member l the Communist Tarty, when
ic Heeled the ideas of Karl Marx and would
benelif the large majority of people. Vet,
this can be potenti; 'My held against him in
an application form. The plain fact of the
matter is that none ol these criteria bears any
iclation to the- met its of a person as a teacher.
e. .!eini Iteedom has meaning. Freedom
ol e oibsi ie iie v has value 'Filings such as
loyally oaths which lend to tarnish the mean
ing should be eliminated.
Fire Extinguishers
I he situation concerning file extinguish
c is in the cloimitoiies is shocking. That only
a handful l doiins havejlie mean.s to elimi
nate Mies is app. lling.
An old cliche says something about an
ounce of ptevctition is wot th a pound ol
cute, and in pure dollars and cents evalua
tion, the lack of lite preventive devices may
cost the Univcisitv great amounts of money.
What is moie important, however, is the
human lac tor. The University whic h makes
pious statements on student conduct such as
eh inking and t ikes upon itself the responsi
bility ol a mother away'from home, should
think somewhat better of having ner preven
tive measure for the sake of human life in
Ju dormitoi ies.
Mr. IVntictt ought to awake to his respon
sibilities in this aiea. Money and the loss of
I'ne extinguishers just do not equate.
Mostly Shades Of Gray
Norman B. Smith
I drew back with horror at the sudden realization that my uncle
had two fingers missing from his right hand. I gazed fixedly, fearfully
for a long time at the Red Cross handbook illustration of a person
whose head was bound as is a mummy with only two eye holes visible
in the swaths of bandages. Panic welled within me when my father,
looking somewhat puzzled and annoyed, half dragged and half prodd
ed me into the room where the blind man sat. These are among the
most vivid of my childhood memories.
Though not so obviously manifested, this revulsion and fear of
people who arc somehow "different" stayed lodged in me, and all the
reasoning I imposed on myself would not jar it loose.
Last month I met Bernice "Chick" Mikeal who lives downstairs.
It wasn't long before I noticed that he was blind. "Chick" has been
blind since birth. He sees light and notices a blur when he looks
directly at a large well-lighted object, but since the visual association
areas of his brain have never developed, these views of the outer
world are meaningless in form and dimension to him. When he
dreams, he dreams of sounds, of smells, and of feu-lings, but never oi
sights.
"Chick" comes from a family of relatively limited financial re
sources. None of his brothers or sisters have gone on to college. He
went to the School for the Blind in Raleifeh, completed two years al
Appalachian College, and he is here to get a degree in Radio-TV.
Later will come graduate work in religious education.
He wrestles and swims, has a single room with no one to help,
travels by himself, and has now learned to go just about any place
on campus without assistance. He types with amazing speed, doesn't
write at all, takes and reads Braille with great facility, learns most
t of his lessons from tape recordings.
As is common among the blind, he has an almost infallabic
memory for both what he hears and what he feels with his hand.;.
His hearing is so sensitive that the presence of trees, buildings, ami
other largo objects arc determined by echo sounds as he approaches
them.
I walked into the dark mom where Chick sat with Ed Edens, a
blind law student, and then I shut the door. They identified me as
soon as I spoke. (I notice later that I had to turr around and look
before I could recognize my roommate when he addressed me on the
street.) '
Now it was I who had the handicap. I sat there surrounded by
an impenetrable black veil, knowing I couldn't move without tripping
over some silent object nor reach for anything without getting a
handful of emptiness. And "Chick" talked with Ed as though nothing
had changed with the closing of the door for them there had bei
no change, for the yvorld of darkness had been conquered long ago.
There had been adjustments, modifications, adaptions, accustomiza
tion, and its mysteries were not more.
But something had changed for me. There yvc- a consummation,
an insighful grouping of the impressions I had gained from being
with "Chick" every day; something changed dramatically in the dark
room on that dark night. The last of the surpressed revulsion, and
fear, and agression left me, and so did the inordinate pity. I began
to think of "Chick". first, as. a person,, only a person who had made
particular behavior alterations to meet particular conditions, and just
incidentally and secondarily did I think of him as being blind.
The fear, revulsion, and agression we harbor for those who are
"different" are deep feelings. Sometimes they are "different" because
they are blind or deaf or lame; sometimes they are "different" be
cause their skin is not white or because their great grandfathers and
'grandmothers were bound in involuntary servitude; sometimes they
arc "different" because their God doesn't appear to be the same a,s
our God. Because of the environmental circumstances that have at
tended them since the day they first began to breath, they have met
situations and solved problems in ways different from those ways
which we in our conceit have fixed as norms. Therefore we have de
veloped Faubias and Eastmanias against them and we self-righleously
bomb their temples.
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ED ROWLAND
. NANCY COMBES
Ken Wheeler
What is the greatest problem on
this great campus? Is it lack of
school spirit? Or money? Could it
be drinking ? Maybe walking on
the grass? After a consultation
with the crystal ball of Stacy
Dorm (which has failed to be in
correct in 78 decisions), I find
that trouble around here is obes
ity. (That's fat to the layman.)
The enigma occurs, of course,
in finding a working method to
eliminate superfluous flesh. May
I offer a few humbles suggestions
certain to work:
1. Don't eat- Although this meth
od is certain to bring about lower
ing of poundage, it is 99.86 fa
tal. Be careful. The only existing
case in which the patient survived
the cure was that of Sturgeous M. .
Quixote, t class of '32, who became
chief engineer of the Vanguard
project.
2. Eat 21 meals (using the term
loosely) a week at Lenoir Hall- If
you don't believe that this sugges
tion will cause weight lowering,
ask the man who eats there. That
food poisoning does wonders for
cutting scale embarrassment.
3. Diet- The overweight person
should, locate a prescribed diet,
approved by doctors, for the easi
est and quickest onethod of losing
some of that avoirdupois. If you
like, I will list the sure-fire diet
devised by Mother McCorkle's in
her Masterpiece of Handy Date:
"Don't Throw Bouquets At Me . .
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Cultural Understanding
Gottfried O. Lang
(The fnllotving is a continu
ation of an article ichich ap
peared in the most recent issue
of Commonweal)
Our tendency to moralize makes
for another stumbling-block in our
relations with the peoples of un
derdeveloped lands. The morali
zer is either shocked by the lack
of adherence to our kind of
"ideals," or he accepts the real
ity of another people's behavior
and goes along with it, but show
ing his contempt and condescen
sion. He - feels morally superior.
ture just sketched. Changes under
the influence of industrialization
are taking place everyyvhere, in
cluding Latin American countries.
In ever more instances the peon
of former days does take on re
sponsibility, and when he finds it
Oh Friendship
P. W. Carlton
Of all the many virtues in this life, one of tha
most valued is that of friendship. For from friend
ship springs cooperation and brotherly love. My
roommate and I enjoy a sterling relationship, the
epitome of true filial affection.
We have devised a system for assuming per
sonal rights in matters concerning dorm life. Our
room is divided squarely down the middle, half his,
half mine. Here the true' spirit of friendship ap
pears. Up until recently he let me peer from his
window and I let him utilize my door with utter
recklessness. However, since he is a blasphemous
character of inferior morals, we recently came to
dissension over some triviality or other. Following
our argument he bisected the room with a broad
black line and advised me to stay the perdition on
my side of it. This suited my purposes perfectly, as
I intended denying him access to the exit. It was
fascinating to watch him spring across "no man's
land" on his new pogo stick and land triumphantly
in the hall. However, I discouraged this evasion by
denying him air utilization on the west side, em
phazing legal rights by sniping at my airborne as
sociate with bits of limestone, shoes, and an oc
casional goose. Actually it has been quite pleasant
save for the fact that it's pretty crowded sharing my
bed with the bureau. (It was on his side of the line.)
A little dissension stimulates intellectual en
deavor .and artifice. We're both constantly busy
thinking of wayjs to harass one another. Roommate
knows how I love fresh air and sunlight in the morn
ing, so he closes the window tightly and pulls down
our blackout curtain, smugly enjoying my agony. I
tried to open things up one moning, but the vite
wretch had emplaced several mouse - traps which
thwarted my furtive, barefooted overtures. He's also
trying to develop a technique for preventing air
from diffusing across the line into my half of the
cubicle. In my research lab I am now perfecting a
method of bending the rays of light emitted by the
overhead fixture so that they'll be confined to my
part of the cell. Scientific endeavor is thus being
promoted by our relationship.
is rewarding, he develops a whole There's another little sport I have with my rep
new set of expectations and atti- rehensible companion. It consists of waiting until he
tudes. Obviously, then, changes allows some portion of his afiatjmy (usually pedal
that are occurring must be taken Ss) to hang 'clost the boundary, at which junc-
into account just as 'much as tra- ture 1 neatly remove said portion with machete. At
ditional patterns.
(To Be Continued)
Letters
present I have four of his toes and one belonging to
a hapless neighbor. In return for this tender of my
affection, roommate has burned a cigarette hole
squarely in the middle of my post prized abstract,
(though I'm not sure it isn't the better for it. Hard
to tell about abstracts.) He also painted a mustache
on my mother's picture and sprinkled popcorn ker
nels and salt in my bed.
These little skirmishes are carried on in the
Breakfast:
One raw egg
One egg shell (cooked
if preferred)
One small glass of milk
(On odd numbered Sundays, one
half grapefruit is permitted.)
Lunch:
One potato salad sand
wich with pickles
One minute glass of
tea (unsweetened)
Dinner:
One slice of lettuce
This diet does not-repeat NOT
yvork forN freshmen or chemistry
majors unless Venus is in the first
quarter stage. It is reported that
Myron I. Terjskly, son of book
maker Sherman A. Terjskly, at
tempted the diet ; as a freshman
and consequently lost the 'sight of
all three eyes. For this reason,
Mother McCorkle, imprisoned by
authorities, devised the Venus
rule to give legal leeway in the
future. Also Check "'The Congres
sional Record" for Sen. Thur
mond's latest filibuster, which pro
vides exceptional "dieting rules.
4. Exercise- My friends tell me
that the best way to lose weight
is to touch your toes 35 times a
day without bending your knees.
So how can a man with 44 inch
waist bend over?
After close scrutiny of the ex
isting possibilities for dropping
bulk, I would suggest that the
obese grin and bear it, for tomor
row you may die.
can be corrected by a proper un
derstanding of the concept of cul
ture. To recognize the reality of
cultural differences is to recog
nize that culture acts upon its
bearer like spectacles, through
which the wearer views the world
and which modify what he sees ac
cording to the character of the
lenses. The difference in the way
peoples "see" things is particular
ly obvious in our dealings with
Latin America. Although Latin
Americans share with us many
cultural traits common to the..
Western heritage, some of their
attitudes differ significantly.
For instance, we tend to look !
at the social world with a strong l
egalitarian bias. We admit thatr.
we live in a class society, but we u
are proud of the fact that an in-'!
dividual can move up in the class
structure. In much of Latin Amer-1'
ica, however, social relationships '
are much more rigid and defined '
along lines of dependence and
submission. With us, there is a Gail Godwin and Norman Smith.
his mutilated visage. He intimates that my vocal at
tempts closely approximate those of a passion
striken bovine, at which juncture I advise his so
journ in that warmer climate located someplace be
neat our feet. Thus it goes. We like each other.
I've been attacked violently for my printed
Editor:
After watching a veek of rehearsals and then taking two dates
to see the Haymakers production of "Oklahoma," i want to say that most jovial of attitudes, with delightful oral ac
I thought that the production was great. companiment. Roommate habitually attacks my
:i have seen the , Broadway production and the Hollvwood Dro- nint attire, consisting of a stylish blue (or a little
but is willing to make "conces- duction and I still enjoyed seeing the Play-makers production more PurPlisn) warm up suit, likening my appearance to
sions" in order to get hls'goals lhaft' either "of the other two. : that of a gigantic purple grape. I, in return, corn-
accomplished. 4 I liked Oklahoma because it made me laugh at times it made ment bitingly upon the emaciated condition of his
All of these unfortunate attitudes me sad at times, and other times I felt exhilarated by the songs and Iegs and advise immediate medical treatment for
dances.
But it did reach me!
When a singer was weak I listened harder, if an actor was scared
I took into consideration that this was the first time he had even been
on the stage. , .
I liked it because of the particular people that were cast in i
and the way they executed their part.
Furthermore, I think that two best performances in it were dnn
by John Sneden (who is always good) and Margaret Starnes. It is views and nave Deen complimated to some degree,
primarily because of them that I kept coming back to see the shoyv For both 1 am grateful- In my writing I have always
rehearsal after rehearsal. attempted to present a view liberal enough to be
I was sorry to see your art editor pan the show (as usual). I am reasonably compatible to the mass. There is logical
also curious to know why he has panned Margaret in everything she reasoninS involved. I believe strongly in friendship
has ever done. and in the virtues of humanity as a whole. I do not
Why does he compare the Playmakers with the top productions? enjy hurting people and feel that often times moie
To be sure the Broadway and Hollywood productions were better tnouSnt can be provoked by humorously constructed
They certainly should have been. Aftei all they do have month's of satire tnan y a biting excoriation. For we tend to
rehearsals, top salaries for all the main characters, equity for the close our minds to attack, while we clasp to our
little ones, and they both have a purely professional staff and cast hearts those thoughts that make up happy.
who do nothing else.
But. is the comparison fair?
Absolutely not!
Would you compare the writings of John Steinbeck with those of
Anthony Wolfe? If you did, then Anthony would most assuredly get
the short end nF thr stii'k Rp tnr umnlH Ko nnnori n infh u.. u
critics ' - u?ayjr lut goodness that is an integral part of-us all. Observ
p,jf , - ,tr lf , ... , . ing the grossest" personality from a positive angle
,. 'J! -vea! something one can admire about hin,
..Fr-' 1JC W1" aia,m "Ul a VC1 Suuu winer, aiong wun and thus wi, thp pYnpripn n hnth ho onrirh
By giving of oneself in the search for friends, a
The joy of true friendship is almost unsurpassed,
since it embodies love, trust and mutual understand
ing. Those who truly strive for friendship are
among the happiest souls treading this orb. Com
munion with fellow mortals tend3 to bring out the
tremendous value placed upon
pushing ahead, fostered by ideas
of independence and freedom. In
contrast, change in Latin Ameri-
Every writer seems to have one particular field or subject in
which he is completely subjective and blind. Here the ego does the an(j respcct in return
person is assured a plentiful harvest of goodnes3
writing and not the intellect as it should be.
Mr. Wolfe's major weakness lies in exactly that. He can't write
ca is not valued for its own sake,- drama reviews! Furthermore, he never has been able to!!! '
and freedom which also means re- He has never praised the Playmakers for anything. Certainly
sponsibility may be thought, un- no group that sells out at almost every performance can be that bad.
desirable. If in being free to make 'It is unfortunate that the only reviews printed around here' are
a choice one should make a mis- done by such & subjective critic. , .
take, it would not only be an er- V The same critic that does such an excellent job on book reviews,
ror and possible loss for the in- and n most a!I othcr fields of journalistic writing as well.
- I say, get: another critic who will criticize a perTormance for it
self and not for the history of the particular play. ,
Cort Edwards
dividual, but one which would also
bring loss of status to an entire
family. The family, which includes
many relatives, is very important
to the Latin American, and dis
grace to the family is a greater
crime than failing to get ahead.
We, of course, separate our pub
lie life and our family life. .
Failure -to see that social class
is relatively immutable in many
sectors of Latin American society
may mean that the Yankee in- a
novator, with his egalitarian atti
tudes, may appear as .a threat
to the whole social structure. If he
begins his work without recogniz
ing the established social order,
the Yankee's yvell-meant attempts
to help may well result in frustra-.
tion and failure and all because
of a. failure to recognize the im--
Editor:
I propose that at the net home game all right thinking Carolina
fans supply themselves with a bag of very squashy tomatoes, plus a
few hard applet- and when we. are. subjected to. the volunteer enter
tainment of a hunch -of arrogant stupid drunks let them have it! Of
course, some of the solicitous friends of the drunks might accidently
get conked! I have never seen such tender loving care extended to
slobbering boors. . ; ' - 1
The student body seems to be made up of mama's boys who j0Ds of writing
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On Writing
Sidney Dakar
How many pages must we write? This question
never fails to be asked when a professor assigns
a term paper or any other paper to be written out
of class. Almost everyone seemsv to have the . be
lief that it is twice as hard to write a ten page re
port as it is a five page one. Anyone who has used
the written word to express himself many times
will say just the opposite.
It is far easier for me to explain some idea in
a full length column than it is to express the same
thought in half this space. To go over your writing
and discard the unrelated thoughts and make the
related ones more concise is one of the hardest
guts to control them.
E. T. Fitipatrick
Editor
In her letter to .'Me. Wolff, Miss Ennis praises him thusly, "Your
review is. another example of the fact that the quality of book re
viewing in college papers these days often surpasses that of many
of our most August journals." Capital "A", August, a nice month,
but poor for book reviews. Evidently we are to understand that Mr.
Wolff's reviews would not merit such, praise, if the reviews of the Sep-
portance of cultural differences. r f tember through July journals were considered. Second the motion.
On the other hand, it would be'
equally wrong to assume the in
alterability of the rigid social struc-
. D. Randall
(The word august should have been in lower case, the error
was the proof reader's. Editor)
A good short-story writer must be much "more
skillful in choosing his words Lhan does one who
writes full length novels. Every word must count
in a good short-story. A writer of novels can ram
ble on for pages without really saying anything.
A friend once asked Franklin Roosevelt how
long it woild take him to prepare for a five-minute
speech. Roosevelt said that it would take about two
days. "What about a fifteen-minute speech?" asked
his friend. "Oh, about a day," replied Roosevelt.
"Well, how long does it take for you to prepare
for a thirty-minute speech?" the man continued
"I'm ready right noyv" was Reiosevelt's answer.
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