North Carolina Newspapers

rAGB TYC THS DAILY TAR HEEL if f - r ft .. ml f , 1 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 195i V Little Rode A pirn1 of oimmI news emanated from Lit tle U(m k this week, .when good news lias hern extremely rare from that island outjxist. The iood news is the election of three r.tiibiis opponents to the school hoard. It is food because it is indicative that Faubus is lihtin a losing hatlle a battle in which time is on the side ol iii;ht and in opposition to the governor. The longer children are dej)rivcd of school, the mote thancc patents will have to reconsider their opposition to ,e;i elation in li.ht of the resultant denial of education. I his tec onsidetation may lead to the idea that pet haps education is important, and per haps sitting next to a Xero in class is not such a traumatic experience. If this comes about in the area where massie resistance was first tried, there may be a change of atti tude in the south. One tiling is sure. The south is not get ting stronger through the ignorance of its (hilchen. And education for its children is the only way to build some strength. Indus 1 1 y will be quite reluctant to go into an area where the children of executives and work ers cannot be sure from one day to the next whether they will have an education or not. It is time for the south to stop emoting, and stall thinking sensibly. If it does not, it will be lost in the quicksand of time. ota sc3 Counterpoint William Cheney f t ? - Rul es 'I hue is a epiite impoitant moe under loot in the new Congress a move to limit the power of the House Rules Committee. All pieces of House legislation are chan neled through the Rules Committee, and the committee has often been used as a stum bling block to legislation that in the opin ion of the chairman should not be passed. The committee will just gic the legislation a low priority, and somehow it never seems to get on the floor. I hue must be created some way to avoid pigeon holing of major legislation by the Rules Committee. This may be in the of fing. University Club The rniversity Club has not served its function to the best of its ability. It has con centrated on major sxits to the detriment of the minor sports. With or without, the University Club's efforts there would be. a Jarge attendance at basketball and football games, but without .utylx)dy's assistance, there is virtually no at tendance at swimming meets, track meets, tennis matches, wrestling matches, or soccer games. It is the relatively minor sports that re ally need the emphasis. They need the sup lrt of the student body in order really to create any interest in athletics at Carolina. The problem of "shcool spirit," whatever that is. might well be solved by channeling students to the minor sports. These athletes, who arc not subsidized, need recognition a great deal more than those who arc. Maybe the University Club can fulfill its function by bringing this type of recognition to the athletes in minor sports. The official student publication of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, where It In published daily except Monday and examination periods snd summer terms. Entered 1 second class matter In the ast office In Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8 J370. Subscription rates: $4,50 per le mester, $350 per tear. w w i i 111 i Mr. Peter Ford is one of four things. He may be very profound in which case he is a counterrevolutionary and should be shot. He may be a very sarcastic person in which case he has pro bably laughed himself to death by now, or he may be a Martian. It is conceivable that he is purely and simply insane. Whatever he is, or possibly . . . was (see first paragraph), his portion of last Sunday's Petite Musical was, to say the least, startling. The presentation was a sort uf sonic shock treatment or, to use an idiom more similar to Mr. Ford's: a continuous experience in dis continuous spasm. I think. I believe (although I am not at all sure) that Mr. Ford's music is vehicle for social prediction of the most dire kind. It would seem that there is a vast contingent of you-i (you-ing in its i) and i-you (i-ing in its you) gathered somewhere in the cosmos waiting for the right moment to INVADE. Although this was not implicitly stated, several incidents in space and time appear to bear it out. I refer specifically to the strategic manner in which the light bulb failed, yes failed, to explode in the water pail and to certain un mentionable things that the female singer-screamer-laugher sang-screamed-laughed. I must remind you that this is all conjecture on my part and that I am not sure at all much of any un-thing. Whatever the case may be as regards the above mentioned un things. Mr. Ford has been kind enough to leave us certain information in print which may or may not help to clear things up (latter-formers are very elusive). The printed un-things paint a dark picture although it is somewhat different from the spasm-thoughts we derived. It is stated, for instance, that although "plusful folk have lovely alls . . . he's o so busy bodying, she has no time to soul." When things have come to such a pass, what's the use? All is lost it doesn't even matter if the you-i come or not. Excuse me, clear no-readers, while psalm-singing and eyes to plus I jump from the balcony. No, wait; instead I shall write "Concerto for French Window and Baboon" proving it all to be lies and the essence of untruth and endlessly on etssscettra. "You Suppose Kliruslichev Knows More About The 1960 Race Than We Do?" Letters Editor: Editor CURTIS CANS Managing Editors CHARLIE SLOAN. STAN FISHER Business Manager WALKER BLANTON Coed Editor JOAN BROCK Advertising Manager Asst. Adv. Manager (AJ; lip MPia Mr , ;l IV. : -' - ' ,J70 ; . v.' . ' e- On Sidney Dakar Service FRED KATZIN JOHN MINTER News Editor ANN FRYE Assistant News Editor ED RINER Associate Editor ED ROWLAND Sporta Editor RUSTY HAMMOND Assistant Sports Editor ELLIOTT COOPER Arts Editor ANTHONY WOLFF Circulation Manager BOB WALKER Subscription Manager AVERY THOMAS Ni-ht Editor NANCY COMBES Very good service In most res taurants is almost non-existent to day. It Is so rare that I will ven ture to say that not more than 1 in 23 of you who are reading this has EVER enjoyed the services of a very good waiter or waitress. In my rather vast experience of eating in all types of restaurants all over the U. S., I have found that most waitresses pay little heed to instructions, fat least not . to the ones I give them. I believe it is a practiced art of most waitresses to stare right at us for five minutes without once ackowledging our frantic signal for more service. Most of them ignore us, misunderstand us and forget us. Most of them don't have the slightest interst in what they are doing and do more harm to a man's business than they do good. Here are a few examples that I have ran across. On a trip this summer I had to eat in an offi cer's club seven days a week for four weeks. (I was in the Arctic and there was no other choice.) Not over 25 or 30 men ate break fast. Every morning, without fail, the cook asked me how I wanted my eggs. Every morning, without fail, I told him soft scrambled. Every morning. Without fail, he did not take those eggs off the grill until I saw they were getting too hard and asked him to give them to me. This morning I ordered eggs soft scrambled. The waitress lis tened to my order with a pati ence that was commendable. How ever, a gate post is also patient, which is what I may as well have been talking to when I asked for the eggs soft scrambled. Those eggs came back more baked than scrambled. I get the sensation that I am eating pancakes rather than eggs when they are so thoroughly dehydrated on a grill. I have ordered coffee and do-nuts and have had the waitress bring me only the do-nuts and then go on about her day dreaming until I hailed her and asked for the ' coffee again. She even looked at me as if I were stupid for not or dering, the coffee with the do-nuts so that she could have brought everything at once. I won't men tion such minor things as not re ceiving silverware with the meal. If there is one expression that best describes most waitresses, ii is one of extreme boredom, or, a day dreaming, outer space stare. None of these people seem to realize that the art of serving can be very Interesting and lucrative. Very good waiters are in great demand and are well paid because there are so few of them. It is a real joy for me to see a really good waiter operate. He antici pates my every want before I can ask for it. But, he does not hang over my shoulder when he is not needed; he knows the art of fad ing into the wallpaper design when he is not wanted. I am very willing to pay for this type of serv ice. The service is so poor in most of the restaurants ( I can't eat in the Ranch House every night!) that I had rather just go through the slop shute at Lenior. I feel that the quick, though sometimes more painful, trip to Lenior is my only choice if I am to keep my equan imity. Just as sure as I go to most of the restaurants I will becoms irrated and angry with the world. It is very frustrating to realize that the next time I order my eggs soft scrambled the waitress will probably bring them back in the shape of a pancake and just as dry. I will then become an accom plice to the deed by meekly push ing them down with the aid of several cups of coffee while re pressing the primative urge to jump up and slap her face with that egg turned flap jack. The meek die a thousand deaths all of them unsung. The Worlds Sense I would like to point aut the inaccuracy trf Mr. Nisbet's analogy in the Sunday Daily Tar Heel. It is hardly a matter of Dr. Erkenbraaker's Ihrowing an eraser at one of two dogs. This would put the whole siutation on a. new Jevel. The inhumanity and discrimination lies in the fact that-one parking dog is throwing erasers at another barking iog! I also object to the reduction of a crisis in Amer ican, and world, history to such a .ridiculous and rid iculing level. If the good fair-skinned citizens of our , neighboring states cannot be made aware of North Carolina's more reasonable (I thought) attitudes, then liberalism certainly is dying. Marion ftoesel Editor: s Thursday night was a Jong way from ieing the darkest i day in the history of the student govern ment: -It was one of the brightest.. Your, bill was defeated and you didn't like it, too bad.; Jt seems to me there are tilings right here in North Carolina and on this campus that deserve the immediate-attention of the student government But they seem to be too busy trying to approve of in tegration to act on things that would benefit U3 as students. Name Withheld By Request Editor: I don't quite understand Chuck Nisbet's atti tude about a black day in the history of the uni versity. As far as I can see, two dogs were disturbing a lecture on Egyptian hieroglyphcs and the professor disciplined one of the dogs by throwing an eraser at him. -Perhaps this dog was making more noise than the other dog, cr perhaps this dog was punish ed as an example for ths other dog to keep still also. Maybe, and this is probably the case, the pro fessor threw the eraser mldly in a weak moment not caring which dog he hit as long as silence pre vailed. Whatever the motive for the punishment of one dog or the other, or even both, .what does this have to do with liberalism ... or a black day in the his tory of the world? Norman Cousins Nonsense is on stage and thp stage is the world. A giant panda, one of the largest and most valu able of its kind, has been barred from the United States because it comes from Communist China. Zoos in this country have offered up to $25,000 for the clown of the raccoon family, but various re strictions having to do with Com munist China prevent the panda from entering the United States. Mean while, the animal Is ap pearing in zoos throughout Europe without any noticeable threat to the internal security of the na tions involved. A"' In the Soviet Union, one of the world's great writers committed an apparently subversive act by being awarded the world's most important literary prize. The So viet Union of Writers was willing to put up with Boris Pasternak de spite the independent nature of his work, but the moment he re ceived the Nobel Prize he was ex pelled from the union and de nounced as a traitor. The implica tion is clear that writers in the So-J Gotfingeh Letter Goettingen lies north east of Ka3 sel approximately 10 miles from the East Sector of Germany. Goet tingen, one thousand years old. Is the home of the Georg-August-Uni-versity founded in 1737 by Adolph from Munchhausen and 'named after the German King of Eng land. '. . to hear. They them crowd around bulletin boards located in the Aula (our South Building) to see when and where the lectures are held. During the next couple of weeks come the period of selection in which students discard and add to their lecture list. Certain courses are required mat students may Gottingen with its University of pass their finals which come gen- 7,000 students, its Deutsches Thea- erally at the end of the eighth ter, and Symphony Orchestra, is semester. one of the cultural centers of Eu- Sometime during the first two rope. The Town, now grown into weeks of school, the students, are a city of eighty thousand inhabit- matriculated and receive their ants, reflects the past with its six "Studiumbuch" in which they write fourteenth century churches, its sixteenth century limbered houses, and its sx-hundercl year, old Rath aus (city hall). The modern Zeiss Winkel Optical Works and the Sar torius Works for, electric micro scales are both located in the city. dnwn their courses. The "Studium buch" is taken to the cashier where the students pay roughly thrity five dollars admissions fees and sixty-three cents , per semester hour. In the course of the semes ter, the students have each l of ucten late in the night it is no their professors sign this book surprise to see a police car force showing that they attended at an1 antiquated Buick onto the side- least one of his lectures, walk or to meet n lurching "Pan- On the fifteenth of November, gerwagon" packed with grim faced Academic Holiday is declared; .and SS troops. The both are scenes the new students are welcomed in from two movies currently being filmed by the Gottingen Film Stu dios. . The Winter Sem ester at Gotting en begins in a leasurely fashon In the first weelk of November. a special program by His Magnifi cence Professor D. O. Weber, the Rector of the university.. After the program students receive their. 1. D. cards from the chairmen of their respective facultes. Those in Students, after being accepted, buy the philosophy faculty received themselves a catalogue, thumb their cards . from Prof. Alfred through it, and pick out the pro- Heuss, the brother of the President fessors whose lectures they wish of West Germany. viet can write about anything they wish so long as they do so with genuine mediocrity. Meanwhile, the glossary of non sense in the twentieth century is being constantly enriched. Nov, Tn addition to words like "clean" to describe a supposedly radioactive free nuclear es plosive, or. 'sun shine units" to describe the amount of radiation exposure for human beings, we have the term "tiny" to describe a newly ; de veloped H-Bomb. A commander of the Air Force in the U. S. broke the good news that a "tiny" hy drogen bomb had been perfected that can be carried by a fighter plane. The bomb will of course contain the equivalent of several billion pounds of dynamite, enough to pulverize a city, but it now comes in the convenient and cozy fighter-plane siite. People who are used to thinking of the word "tiny" to describe little; children will have to make a minor adjustment. It is curious to see the way non sense is attracted to power, as though this were its natural habi-. tat. In the Far East, the Chinese Communists pirsued a combined policy of murder and mercy for one month towards the occupants of Quemoy ana Matsu. Bombing and brotherhood were tied together as a unified program. On Monday the people on the islands would be shelled. But on Tuesday the shel ling , would , cejise and the people would be encouraged to entrench themselves and receive supplies. Indeed, if the food ran short, they had only to ask the mainland and it would be supplied. If this policy of now-we-will-kill-you, now-we-won't made sense to the islanders, they made no mention of it. Almost by way of establishing a grim consistency, the head of the Chinese Communist Party an nounced that his eountry could not be intirriidated: by the threat of nuclear war. "He was willing; to admit that 3C0 million Chinese might be killed, in such a war. ;Even so, he said,, there would be 300 million k ft; Something else would be left.'i:The "people would have their-menories. They W'ciuld have memories of the missing from among their families and friends. They would also have memories rr a world tha; had turned against telf. . .But Communist China isn't the only nation that feels obliged to pronounce such nonsense to the world. In the United States,, offi cers of the Sta:e Department have openly declared that our main se-. curity is to be found in our willing ness to risk all-out nuclear war Don't you think Chuck is a little confused? Moreover, shouldn't he concentrate on more irn- Fortunately, there are still a few portant things than stray dogs on campus: Cood people left in government who be- pioneering liberalises do' , Jocelyn G. S. Mann lieve that for our safety we must look to world control of nuclear weapons rather than to nuclear stockpiles. What these people say Editor: makes sense, but the surrounding sounds of nonsense are rapidly be- In.a recent article our highly esteemed editor coming louder tooJc i4 uPon himself to bear the cross of another Commissioner Willard F. Libby of his endless crusas for better public education. of the United States Atomic En- The editorial in question blasted the Student ergy Commission, for . example. Legislature for refusing to send telegrams to Gov- spoke dangerous nonsense the oth- ernors Faubus and Almond disapproving of their er day to Mayor Norris Poulson of closing the schools. The vote was 27 18 against Los Angeles. Mayor Poulson was sending the telegram. He described it as "a -dark deeply alarmed about the shock night in the annals of student government, itid radioactive fallout that took place will probably remain on the books as being one of over his city as the result of the the darkest student government has ever had." recent beat-the-deadline Nevada TT . . . i i i. . m How touching! With such poetical genius per- nuclear tests. He telephoned Com- , v i-T- . . haps Mr. Gans had better turn his literary pur- missioner Libby who told him. in fte amJ effect, to forget it. But Mayor les TOman Poulson couldnH forget it. The fall out had soared far neyond the In his editorial the ''Scourge of the Demigods" danger limits set by the Atomic praised those in favor of the bill, while picturing Energy Commission Itself. There who voted against it as bigots, ogres, and hate as a real threat to the health of mongers. his people, ; Mayor Poulson re- . 4 A A . 1ruu.14.ui vjdiis, in jji eviuent aiiempi io gain support for the bill from further participation in student government. Presumably, he believes in government "of Gans, by Gans, and for Gans." God's gift to The Daily Tar Heel majestically stands for ward as a leader of the .misled. Accordig to Gans, th biased Student Legisla ture will be the ones to blame if the schools of there is a blighting quality to the power, for once-reasonable men who come in contact with it seem-. ingly become transfived by it and take easily and freely to the lan guage of nonsense that belongs to the power. , By way of lending grim point to the consequences of ; invented non- Nick Bajdasarien TO A RUSSIAN SOLDIER Wade Wellman garded what Dr Libby said as casual and callous handling of an important problem. In any event, Dr. Libby has made it clear that his job is to make and test the bombs, and not theorize about ways in which people can coun teract the effects of the resultant radiation in their water, milk, and North Carolina are shut down. kneS' " In the case of such an event, Mr. Gans, we shall All these incidents are not some- oppose vehemently oppwe, all such efforts to de thing out of the fiendish tales of a prive the chndren of North Carolina from obtain bygone era of ghouls but a charac- ing proper educatiou. But since -when has it teristic feature Tf a age, our age, Defn the yy 0f this statef one which hais been in which absolute - force and a leader in fight for individual states' rights, to absolute nonsense attract one an- interfere in the iternal workings of neighboring other and are being made domin- states? ant in human affairs. The unholy alliance seems to - assert itself In the future please concentrate on leiiiing wherever vast 'force appears, al- -your publicity-hungry pack to the problems con most as though the very nature of cerning the University and leave those of the State the force divides the human com- nati where telong to the experts, munity into the sane and the in- In conciusion, supposing your worthless tall had sane and confers upon the latter been passed ,the only hesitancy it would have the privileges of. s rule.; Indeed, rrpated for Governors Faubus and Almond would have heeji the decision t tear it up in either two or four pieces before throwing it in the wastepaper "basket. sense, ;we read a report 'from the Tfce Mmy fa Mkhail frignd U: S. Department of. Agriculture The army fe wice which says that the nematode, a peace mks faimth Angged - species of plant-worm or parasite, . e7Uj carries within itself a mysterious And bg ability to resist harm from radia- tion. Man, puny creature, gets into Then laugh fl (mr mkhail $Hend trouble hen he is exposed to doses And spit m the westerms of 500 roentgens or more. Bat the Your homhs haVe done 'damage which nothing can nematode : can take up to 600,000 mend units of radiation. Man need not So rava'ge y(yur enemies' iand. - therefore fear that his nonsense 5 . will empty life from this dearth.- If And wfien thrwar 'rages, MikhuU my friend, man doesn't want the world the When troops fight U out on their soil, nematode is perfectly willing to Perhaps you'll remember these words T have penned, take it. The Saturday Review With death the rewcrd far your toil.