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poe mo Till DAILY TAK HSSL Tar Heel Debating Ate lotcmus dead on the UNC campus? Inteuollciatcly speaking the answer is no, although the debate squad is not setting its mail in time to (ompete in as many meets as it could, due to distributing difficulties. The pioblem is the two oldest organiza tions on amj)us. The I)i and the Phi. Roth .seem headed over the hill. The Phi, to be sure, is getting many visitors to its meetings, but neither society lias enough members. Moreover, the quality of debate is down abysmally. Time are many fine speakers on this campus, and the two societies possess some of them. But even those t hat they do hac. are not actually preparing their speeches, so that they seem to be speaking horn feeling rather than from knowledge. I hese two organizations were once the hub ol student government. Even as recently as live years ago. a bill passed by both houses could be expected to piss the student legisla ture. "I he two oiguiizations offered an oppor tunity for one to get on his own two feet, to learn how to speak, and to keep up with the major issues. Eor some twenty people that commise both societies, this is not the case any longer. The two societies will have difficulty pay ing lor a page in the yearbook', and cannot ni.'intain a healthy financial status, for long on the present membership. The pic-tuie looks exceedingly bleak, for the latter clay descendants of people like James Knox Polk. The two organizations are worth saving, but it will take the aid of any in the student body who consider these-organizations worthwhile, i Will the I)i and Phi pass awav? The an swer is up to you. Further Election - Tuo southern elections have a great deal f Mgiulicance on the segregation picture. I he unseating of Rep. Brooks Hays of Ar kansas by Dr. Dale Alford, an ardent segre gationist, and the large vote Senator Hyrd's female opponent received bears heavy signili canc e on luture dealings with the segregation issue. C.lc.nly Allord's election is a victory for Oiv.il Iambus' massive resistance techniques ;s opposed to H.jss' moderate stands, and one ei ably has again harmed the South in bringing integration in a peaceful manner to this area. It is unfortunate that a man of the c aliber ol I lays must lose an elec tion, but he may haw some consolation in the fact that dc inagoguc s do not last as long as honest men. and Eaubus' star will giow dimmer shot 1 1 v. I he Virginia contest is a triumph for moderation in a livid dominated state. Eor a woman to get over 100,000 votes against By nl is something unheard of, and to cam paign on only one issue The Almond-Byrd massive t distance xlky towards integration is an achievement that augurs ill for the con servative machine and massive resistance. The heavy vote against Byrd in area where massive resistance tactics arc currently being employed is another sign that people arc be ginning to awaken to the fallacy in "southern clemagoguery. Despite Alfotd's victory, the future looks bright. Out Of Joint March Wind - TUESDAY, 11P.M. As the Democratic sweep picks up momen tum, soon to lash into California with the force of a tidal wave, I find myself remembering another election of ten years ago, the -historic upset pulled off by Harry S. Truman. I was out on the West Coast at that time, and so about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, while California was still voting, I dropped by the local radio station to check the AP teletype on the eastern returns. ! TTT "V With a slight chuckle of condescension I iiuitu uidi 11 uuirtii & nidi guia 111 111c luujisi- rial towns of Connecticut exceeded the FDR vote of 1944. Obviously, this was some sort of a fluke. A few hours later I was at an election night blast with some prominent California Democrats who were also chuckling at the surprisingly good race that Truman wa? running back in the heathen East These California Democrats were very calm about it all. They had long since written Truman off as a hopeless cause; they had cam paigned for their state ticket vigorously, while sitting on their back sides with respect to the man from Missouri. V' Eisenhower IMesident Kisetihowcr's statement that tJic peojjle hae chosen to elect a left wing C011 giess instead of a sensible one is revealing. The people have finally come around to realie that the left wing is the sensible wing, despite the President's protestations. The people have voted, finite heavily for an oil year election, and quite wisely for any elec tion. Ward room (lacious living in Chapel Hill has moved one step further courtesy of the navy. For midshipmen there has been installed at the Naval Armory a wardroom with suitable re freshments. lje Mil? ar Heel The official student publication of the Publication poard of the University of North Carolina, where H is published daily except Monday and examination period unci summer terms. Entered as second class rrUcr in the -!st off.e in Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8, 1870. Subscription rites: $4.50 prr Re ttrstfr, $3.50 per tear. As Truman coniinued to run well in the East a few of the Cali fornians began to get a little nervous. Jimmy Roosevelt, who had tried to get General Eisenhower (of all people) to run as the Demo cratic candidate in place of Truman, reassured those Democrats of faint heart who were worrying about the possibility of a Democratic victory. "Relax," said Roosevelt, who had made all his plans on the assumption that Truman would lose. "The rural vote will kill the little guy." This buoyed the hearts of the unfaithful for all of five minutes until some spoil sport pointed out that it was 1 o'clock in the morning back East, the rural vote had already come in, and my God it wa fcr Truman! - , Somebody, I believe it was the wife of politico Richard Richards, produced a box of Truman buttons that had been brought to the party as a joke. The buttons were quickly distributed along with jocular comments like, "We were for him all the time," and every body settled down to sweat out California. After all, if that Missomi rascal were going to be elected, it would be nice if he did it with an assist from California. So now it is 1958, and the Democratic Party dominates the na tional scene, striding coast to coast with giant steps. This great poli tical party, possessing lots of muscle and guts and glamorous young candidates, may well be the last hope for an America which is just now beginning to realize the trouble that lies ahead. Bouquets for this Democratic victory will, I suppose, be passed out rather promiscuously. Adlai Stevenson will get a goodly number Labor's Committee on Political Education will get a lot of credit. But my bouquet for the 1958 victory goes to the old warhorse who single-handedly pulled off the 1948 victory. I remember Harry Truman in 1948. He taught many important people many important lessons in that year. He's still teaching, and t if we're lucky he'll be around for many years lo come. The usual analysis is that 1948 marked the end of the Rooseveltian Democratic Party. I suspect that it was not much the end, but rather the begin ning of the new Democratic Party which is our last best hope today. , ! " ' " ' " ' : "Back To The Shelter, Men" ': IT V 'li''A-II i ITS If ; , il'SRiPAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1955 4 , ' ; i A verfising Nancy Combes Notes In Review Arthur Lessing Moo ng low Jog John The Sonata Recital of violinist Giorgio Ciompi and pianist Arthur Loesser last Tuesday evening can only be described meaningfully as a miracle. In this evening of the most intense artistic exper ience, one can only be utterly overhelmed by the greatness of art, of music, and ultimately of man. For this was no ordinary concert of ordinary mu sic, but an event of the very highest importance to all of us who were there. Music may be pleasurable, but this concert went far beyond the satisfaction of pleasure. Music may be exciting, but again this concert was more than excitement. Music may be passionate, still again there was much, more than just passion expressed by the two artists. To say what really happened in separate: all were within that which & the very center of all music: beauty. The miracle of music is the miracle how beauty The other morning at breakfast I took a test. Anything that happens before eight o'clock is bad enough, but after finishing the test the Viceroy people had so kindly placed in the Daily Tar Heel. I was more prepared than ever to jump back into bed, pull the covers over my head .... all because J had discovered I didn't have one . . . one of of my own, that is. ' First of all, I learned I was not a man who thinks for himself . . . but then I knew that . . . I'm a girl . . . and sometimes I like to think, I'm a woman. Now take this question: "Do " you believe you could fool a lie detector if you put your mind to it?" I must answer no. B1 the way, the footnote says you must have six yesses to win your own self-respect? Do you get an island to live on all by yourself with all the filters you can smoke or build log cabins with'if you say yes ten times? I overslept my first day on the job and although I did have trouble with my fnel pump or carburetor on the way into town ... I stammered and blushed and lost my voice trying to tell the story to the boss. It was the truth an it came out like an alibi . . When I get a phone call from a certain party . . . even with my face not exposed, I can hardly play it. cool like all the articles and manuals in the How to Catch Your Man Magazines demand . . . . I'm too busy shouting, "Hooray." You called at last!" into the receiver. So you can take those straps off me right now. My heart is pounding at the very idea of your trying to detect my lies. How about this one? "Do you believe society should adopt new ideas at the expense of old tradi tions??? Well that old tradition of small taxes seem ed to me to be a pretty good one . . . and this new idea of hydrogen bombs is a pretty expensive . . . Marriage for keeps was a better old tradition than legalizing bedhopping and lover swapping . . . cheap er too ... So I must check the no box and say that many of the society's new ideas are too expensive ... for my filtered taste. Number three asks, "Are you completely at ease when people watch you work?" The children . . .1 have taught in elementary school can, answer that one. They knew when the door opened &nd the prin cipal sat in the back with his pen scribbling over charts of teacher evaluation that they just better sit straight in their seats, raise their handwether they knew the answers or not . . . and they better not make any unnecessary comments such as one un fortunate child made like . . . "Teacher, how come you're grinning away at us like that?" ... or that little smarty; who pointed out that I had spelled Spelling with one 1 . . . Oh, no Viceroy people . .'. completely in chaos, not at ease for that one. "Do your emotions ever lead you to do something PfimpS tn lie finm run Knlnrn. n h J i 1 11163, rtim aoie lo uans. that seems unreasonabe eyen tQ yourself? Let me form our very souls. The question What is music? say that my emotions always strike me as reason must somehow incorporate the reality of this beau- able, but that's another story I could never fit into ty and make clear how it is possible. Music is 'nev- one of those little boxes. er a simple fact, but a mysterious complex that is Do you plan ahead rather than make snap de expenenced 1 but never quite undertood. That does cisions?" I never dreamed when I awoke this morn not mean that music is purely emotional or beyond ing I'd be checking no in a little square box on the our intellectual capacities. No, the real miracle of back of the Daily Tar Heel. mucsic is the unity of feeling with thought in the "if your roommate suddenly inherited a million musical experience. , dollars, are you sure your relationship would remain It is, therefore, the fervent hope of this reviewer the same?" . . . There's a little oicture of this tha these artists will return to us here at Chapel wealthy partner lighting what looks suspiciously like Editor CURTIS CANS Night Editor 0. A. LOPEZ Not too long ago, this column questioned the antiquated mode of justice employed in Alabama's now-celebrated Jimmy Wilson case. Inherent in the discussion of this affair were the fact that Jimmy Wilson was a Negro and that a color problem existed in the deep-South state of Alabama. It now appears evident that the highly vociferous "liberals" who have indignantly condemned the South for racial disturbances must refrain from hurling stones. Roscoe Fleming, a liberal col umnist for the Denver Post, be gan a recent article with the following words: "Southern crit ics are right in one respect, in this civil-rights controversy. W in the North are too smug as to progress we have made." Mr. Fleming wrote these words after coming upon a five ' inch story in the massive re cesses of the New York Times. The story was not printed else where. It did not gain the atten tion of Jimmy Wilson's tragedy, but to Fleming it bore a "chill ing resemblance." Two young Puerto Ricans, re cruited to work in fields near Poughkepsie, New York, stopped a man on a street, asking him for a cigarette. When he refused, they roughed him up and took his pack, and nothing else. This . is certainly not commendable, but hardly worthy of violent con demnation. The boys, however, were tried and convicted on three counts: 1) robbery in the first degree; 2) grand larceny; 3) second de gree assault. According to Mr. Fleming, "lawyers explained that taking a few cigarettes was grand larceny because the deed took place during commission of another felony, either the assault or the robbery." Somparing a capitol punish ment sentence for stealing $1.85 to the ten year sentence for snitching a few cigarettes, Ros coe Fleming stated: . . Just as the death sen tence in Alabama for robbery has never been invoked save twice, and both these times against Negroes, if these two young Puerto Ricans had been white Americans, they probably would have gotten off with mis demeanor conviction, and per haps a mith or so in jail." Yet, the two Puerto Ricans did not inspire the reams of protest which arose in defense of Jimmy Wilson no petitions from Eu rope, no dramatic international cablegrams. Nations and their press were silent. , Of course, the degree of pun ishment was not as severe, but the basic principle involved was the same. Ancient laws in the hands of prejudiced interpreters resulted in a restricted justice because of color in the South, in Alabama; in the North, in New York. ' this concert is the answer to ths question What is Hill in the very near future, for their greatness a cigar with a dollar bill or more. If the other one music? For I know with certainty that this was a con- made possible this musical miracle. whn is standing in th wirtrrnnnri winner pnia. GEMS OF THOUGHT Little harm will come to tomor row's joy if you borrow a little of it for today. Courtesy yields large dividends, but it is an investment that is too often overlooked. There are few dark days ahead for the people who have learned to spread sunshine. Living today is a game of rob bing Peter to pay Paul to make it possible to stand Pat It's easy to acquire a reputation for wisdom just by applauding the opinions of tyour -friends. Tip to motorists: The man who travels at excessive rates sets the pace that exterminates. The only buried treasures most people have arc the good resolu tions they have laid away.. The faults of others appear so glaring that most people entirely overlook the glare of their own. Necessity may be the mother of Invention at times, but it is just the mother of hard work to most of us. : Many a failure can.be attributed to the fact that a man keeps too big an, account with bad luck in hi mental bookkeeping. cert in which music was presented for what it real ly is: complete, significant, and of profound beauty. The program t opened with , the performance of the A major Sonata of Brahms. This work, rep resentative of the composer's later works, is almost abstract in its romanticism; a curious contradiction of term, yet the romantic spirit seems stretched and diffused, making the music's mellowness a new , demension of musical meaning. In that sense, this late work parallels the late music of Beethoven: both composers speak with feeling, but it- is feeling of a' haunting, abstract and difficult to understand kind. It is not, as has been said falsely by so many, that their music now is "intellectual." Far from it; rather it is a new dimension of feeling in which the directon is. not so much toward expression as it is toward a musical understanding of music it elf. In Brahms this knowledge takes on a guise of musical pensiveness, almost perhaps a looking back. For Beeroven it is the use of forms (especially variation and fugue) to examine how much mean ing, musical meaning, is within the simplest of themes. Both composers seem more at rest than, their thiught tiward the music itself rather than their own identity. The performance was completely sympathetic to the composer's intent and was deeply impresive. Mr. Ciompi has one of the most r beautiful bowing arms I" have ever heard, and the result was a range ' of tone and nuance that; Incorporated in the music 1 (itself, made it sing with" almost inexpressible values. -Mr. - Loser's playirl was also- of. the highest, musicianship; it was senitive, jutified with a re markably inightful interpretation, and in complete accord with his partner. .The ensemble sounded so natural and at ease that' it was, difficult to realize how much work had gone into it, but its ease could only be a result of a very if close colaboration in the total conception of the music they, played. J The Beethoven Sonata in G "major, Opus 30, No. 3 was performed next. The Haydri-like lightness beautifully fused with the - growing romantic spirit of the young Beethoven was brought out by the artists with almost perfect control. The middle movement shows thd beginning of Beethoven's con cern with developing means to bring out musical--ly all that the music may hold. The last move-, ment is a small perfection of the balance between delight and thought. . ' ' The performance of the Cesar Frank Sonata was,; for me, the most profound I have ever heard in my experience. Although I personally consider it the only worthwhile work this composer ever wrote, it remains, nevertheless, a'great work of art. The performance was of such intensitp and yet never preformance that the experienceof the music itself became a deepness of , soul that can never be ex plained rationally or accounted for by description; The performance of this sonata' went to the very depth of one's being, as all great art does,' and presented a wealth of feelings that-are beyond' words." Again the artists seemed to have such" sym pathy for the music that as they played, all was tranformed into music and there was finally no Words Sidney Dakar The one more question Letters who is standing in the background, looking goggle- eyed on, is supposed to be me . . then how come I haven't got a fire extinguisher in my hand??? Let me state now that" for less than one-tenth of my roommate's sudden fortune-. . . I would sniff snuff if it was requested. "Can you honestly say you pay more attention to political issues than to the personalities of the cand idates?" In this writer's opinion . . . personalites are Many freshmen and seniors alike never seem to the political issues . . . We might have a tennis play realize the extreme care that should be used when er instead of a golfer in the White House, now . . . choosing words with which to influence people. Even if like had rhymed with Stevenson . . . and people the most careful writer sometimes inadvertently an- didn't listen to advertising and chose the well- tagonizes his readers by a poor choice of synonyms, known name brands. Our language is a living, hence changing, thing. Oh, dear Viceroy Even the most up-to-date dictionary will not give you at the botton: the meaning that a word will have for different peo- "Do you think about the filter cigarette you pie. . choose or just smoke any brand? I thought I could The connotation of words and the visions they triumphantly answer yes to that one. bring to mind are far more important than the ob- After enjoying the fun of writing out my re jectee dictionary definition. There are no real syno- PI!es 1 felt 1 owed il to vou' People to run down nyms for most of the emotional words, the words to the nearest corner store and -pick up one ... I which have the most influence ' upon us. Consider didn'1 have en0USh for six packs. I thought about it, the word "fearful." The dictionary tells us that the 1 really did. But when I pressed the button in the following are synonyms: dreadful; lurid, alarming, machine I found I was a failure again. I don't formidable, terrible, ghastly, shocking, direful and kn0w what to do with the wrong pack of cigarettes etc. However, at a glance you will no doubt think that popped out except smoke them, of different things and circumstances when seeing Can yu honesly say you' blame me? each of these synonyms. To see a classic example of the use of . emotional words to tell the truth, yet convey different mean ings to the reader, I refer you to a copy of an article Editor: which appeared in the Harvard .'Crimson' by M. S. The "O.G.H." controversy has roused me to speak Gwirtzman entitled "What Time Is tit? (See our out in favor of Mr. Orne's attempts to centralize li Political Science Dept.) Mr, Gwirtzman goes through brary facilities on this campus. Anyone doing re the back issues of Time" and. gets -its description search, Who has found himself fruitlessly seeking of Truman and then later . Eisenhower doing the books hidden on a departmental library shelf, might same thing. begin to wonder whether the books are the personal Here is a sample. Quote: "Last week . . . the property of faculty and graduate students. Certain President (Truman) eased his croniest crony, George' ly, research and graduate study are essential ele E. Allen, into the Board of directors' of the Recon- ments of university activity, but must the under struction Finance - Corp." (Jan. . 28, 1946.) But be- graduate pay for it with legwork and wasted hours hold: "Last week . . . the President (Eisenhower) of searching? chatted with golfing companion George E. Allen, One evening this past summer, I went to the Washington lawyer and friend of presidents." (Dec. library to do some research for a term paper. I 14, 1954.) Unquote. Crony and friend have the same found that every book listed in the catalog which dictionary meaning. This article is a "must read" pertained to the subject was in the department li for all of you who are looking for anti-Time' am- brary. Upon going there, I found the building lock munition. ' ed. Next day, in answer to my inquiry, my teacher Sometimes the connotation of words drastically said that in the evenings, one used a side door, and althers the course of history. Some of you may be fa- knocked loudly for admittance if it was locked. 1 miliar with the article byCaughlin called "The Great tried again that evening, only to find that the librari Mokusatsu Mistake." (Marpers, Mar., 1953) The Jap- an was not on duty, and the catalog was in such a anese were presented with an ultimatum to sur- state that nothing could be located without her. I render in WWII prior to the dropping of the atomic won't tire you with more details, but suffice it to bomb. One word of their reply, "mokusatsu," was er- say that it was a number of days before my visits roseously translated by the Allies to mean "to ig- coincided with one of the two days the librarian was nore" rather than "to withhold comment," the mean- on duty. ing" the Japanese had intended to convey. As a con- It's true that I probably will not need that par sequence, two cities were .destroyed, thousands of ticular library again (I have certainly lost all incli people were killed, Russia entered the war and a nation to enter it!). However,' in the insistence of whole series of events in. the Far East was precipi- some faculty and graduate students on maintaining tated which might have been avoided. department libraries, which are inconvenient for the I trust that any of you Russian language students undergraduates, there seems to be an implicit at- who may be reading this will make a strong, resolu- titude towards the undergraduate which might be tion to redouble your efforts. You" might work for questionable. thinking of music - performance- and 1 audience-as - the State i DefartmenVGrie day: ' Edith B. Back
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