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THE DAILY TAR HEEL .!)-: VftlDAY, FEBRUARY 195? TACC TV0 A Death Wli.it flic American public is witnessing tud.iy, toiiMHiow, antl next week is the death l .1 President. The President may not die in olliie. hut the Avails of piestie that have lot so Ion.; shielded the President fiom the world ol i ility aie e i iimMin in smli a way as to lease no doubt of the final usult. lie is witnessing what he has hied to do in six se.us hein;; trampled into the dirt by a Demouatie Countess which is showing the lciit (one behind the overwhelming man date .niwii them by the people in November. And lor the litst time, lie is feeling the full impact ol the world, a wot Id from which he has been awi.y so long. II I isenhower had been a stiong man, a in in ol ide as, a man ol foresight and sision, one could sympathize with this loss, but as it is, be becomes 1 1 it object oT pity, and a pit iable ete.tiiie- is the lowest on earth. II il weie h nth or w isdom that Kisenhower was si. Hiding up lot, or even education, one might tails to his cause, but when it is a balanced budget that the war is being lor, our can only tin 1 1 his head from the brutal slaughter. Hscuhouer won his election in icj.V- by ;v name and a personal (hum that were tar re mosed horn politics and continued that image ihtough the i)",tt campaign. This aloolncss to polit's made it impossible lor him to shengthen his paity, and is likely, bis bic.ikdowu will not materially weaken that puts. As t.u as the pailisau political s e ue is c oik ei ned, it w ill be as if he was ticsc i theie, lor what little his leadership was, it u.i not p.iiiisau in direction, and indeed h id no din (iin oct and abuse the plati tudes that weie mouthed in both campaigns about "Modem Republicanism" and "Peace, Piospciity, ;-ud Progiess." This, like so much of the l.isetihower Administration, has been shown to be empty words, and now the bal loon h.is bin st. Whale t i his lack of ellect on the political Mcnc mas be. in woild and national allaiis, the nation is locking It out his punches, for although we'll me." ling in all his actions, I iscnhowei has shown that he was either too fir ic.iiiosed I re mi or lacked the ability to nude: st.uid the situation. I he icmiIis aie histoiy now. They are told in pages which speak of the President's de siie to implement sound economies, and the lcsitlt.uu tec oicl inflation. It is spoken in the soice of one who sought prosperity, and had to ban.; on through a clepiession. It is writ ten in the l uge lettets of a "stable agricub linal" policy, which saw the highest surpluses in histoiy being thrown into storage bins. It is said in the- fiim tones of a "positive" for eign policy and has borne fruit in the aliena tion ol allies ,incl the strategic dominance of Russia. And when this chapter of history e loses and is lead in twenty yeais, the name I -'iscnhowei will be read few times, while the name Khiuschev will dominate the scene. I be- de-.uh knell was sounded in the Senate two d iss ago. whe n Senator Homer Opehart, an administiation adheient, introduced a substitute motion to ut funds out er a Deino ei.uie housing bill to bring it in line with the Piesidenfs u-cpiest. In his speech Cape hut asked the plaiutise question, "Do we want a It. '!.me e el budget?" And the Senate with c b.n.K leristic stolidity answeicd with a lesounding f,M-",2 "No." And the stoiy is continuing. It will be read by millions c oasi tcrt oast dining the next das. weeks, and months, as one-by-one, the bills the Piesideut favois will be defeated, and those that he opposes will be p.'-ssecl. And a man who can shiink in press conferences fiirni ciitiiism as Mr. I'.iseuhower has in the past 01 who can be touched to the quick by a disagi (cable won I from the pen of an old milif uv asscN iate. 1'ield Marshal Montirom civ. is not -going to be able to take much of the battel ing. He is a victim, caught in a web of his own unwitting making, a web from which he will find no release. He is d)ing as sine as the sun will iise to moiiow or the sun set in the evening, and when one has to write ;v:i obituary in the pages of histoiy, the best man can do for the Pirsident is say that he tried and that this hying could not make him a man equal to his task. Congratulations ( on-tatulations aie in oidcr for Orange County which voted oci whcllningly Wed nesday to base AP( stores in the county. Oisille Campbell and his group of people who ae ti cly backed the ptojxs;vl are also due for piaise. Not inil) does this signal an impiosed and more n 1 1 i 1 1 attitude toward alcohol con sumption, hut it may be able to forestall the two shift school system that piomises to be a ic. 'ity next yeai. unless sufficient revenues come in lot school construction. Indeed the action of the county is com mendable and pel haps tlnough legal control, theie is a t hance to stop some of the rotgut that has been produced. The town should benefit Iwith financially and in attitude, since they base rid themselves of much of the hyjMxrisy that is latent in prohibition. Levy Resignation (Once in a great while a student gets nominated by both political parties, and if he is elected and must resign his office he is thrust into a position of having to decide which party his position will be filled by. Ed Levy was nominated by both the SP and UP in the fall and was forced to resign his seat because he moved out of the district. The letter below is his resignation and his choice of which party his seat should be filled by.) Dear Ralph: This is to notify you that I am no longer eligible to claim my scat in the Legislature, as I reside out of the district in which I was elected. As I was fortunate enough to receive the nomination from both the Student Party and the University Tarty, it is my obligation to indicate which of the parties will have the opportunity to fit' 4ho vacancy I create. I assure you that the decision as to which party should receive the seat is not one which war arrived at hastily; in stead the choice was made after a great deal of thought and con sideration. I think that I owe it to you, the legislature, the two parties, and my constituents to explain my choice. The student government of the Universtiy of North Carolina affords the student body the privilege (and with it the responsibility) of governing itself. This privilege has at times been exercised, at times violated. The responsibility involved is sometimes realized, sometimes shunned. Our student government of today provides us with many services, both tangible and intangible. However, it can, in fact, it must perfect and extend itself. The University Tarty and the Student Tarty are instruments which must suggest, discuss, and implement improvements and epansion. Unfortunately, there is only one party capable of exercising the type of leadership cognizant of the rcsonsibility involved; this is the Student Tarty. Although I have served both as an officer of the University Tarty and a fraternity. I cannot possibly justify a party based almost entirely on the block vote. The block vote is a bland corrimtion of the democratic process an autonomous student government is at tempting to foster. For the above and other reasons, I feel compelled to allow the Student Tarty to fill the vacancy. Edwin Levy, Jr. IVlikoyan Threat It was interesting to read Miko- minority pressure groups. Some of you may recall my "blast" against some newspapers for not printing the Tutnam letter fa southern viewpoint on segrega tion i. Do not misunderstand me: any newspaper has the "right' to turn down any material for pub licationproviding it is above the issue involved (you know, the "all the news that is fit to print" line). T.ut, in this case the northern press is filled every day with uncom promising and vitriolic attacks on the South. Yet, these papers would not halt this vicious and almost sadistic attack for one day in or der to print another side of the issue. Is this what we call free dom of the press? It is not a question of whether Letters "That's What Happens When You Rely On Ordinary People To Defy Law And Order" van's reply to the charge that Russia does not hjc a free press. Of course Mikoyan maintained that the Russian press "belonged to the pcopTc." He made the counter charge that we here in America do not have a free press. Miko yan's reasoning was that where there is a millionaire who owns 10 newspapers and 10 million people who do not own any newspaper there will be no free press. Of course Mikoyan was exag gerating for political purposes, but when wc really examine some aspects of our press and radio sys tem it is hard to prove him en tirely wrong. It is well known that almost all newspapers and maga zines arc cither Republican or Democratic. Their editorials are slanted toward the "party line" most of the time. Even on those rare occasions when they disagree with the "party line" they never actually take a stand that agrees with the other party. Of course this is a generalization; there arc a few newspapers that still re semble Pulitzer's St. Louis Tost Dispatch, but the commercial in terests have a death grip on them. Consider a newspaper that is owned by an individual or family. We see an old, rich and conserva tive gentleman as head of the board. Do you think that such peo ple are really interested in "free dom of the press?" They are in terested in making money. The most pious organization cannot ex ist for long if it spends more mon ey than it takes in; newspapers and churches are no exception. One does not get rich by always upholding freedom of the press 'i.e. by paying more than mere lip service to the concept). One gets rich by not offending the right advertisers, powerful families and l l l ScWi20?J OF" LITTLE ROCK 4 ' - Chapel Editor: Last Sunday night, Dr. Francis Hooper paid a visit to Chapel Hill to perform in the Pelites Mu sicales Concert. Dr. Hooper along with Mr. Efrim Fruchtmann and Mr. Wilton M.ison gave a very interesting and refreshing performance- ef Baroque music. Mor MOST of the three hundred people who attended the concert, the music and its performance was quite satisfactory; however, Mr. Arthur, Lessing was one of the few who were quite displeased with the performance. In Mr. Lessing's case, it seems that his dislike of the music was so intense that it interfered with his ability to make a proper appraisal of the artis try of the performers. In his article, I could not always decide who he was criticizing, as first he would mention the irritating style of the composer and then the frightfully uninteresting performance of the artists: Throughout the 'article, he continual ly mixed in the obsoleteness of the instruments and the inconsequential musical material" with his de grading evaluation of the artists. Commenting on Dr. Hooper's playing of the re corders Mr:' Lessing said that the pcrlormance sounded like "a Boy Scout playing the National Anthem on his home-made whistle." This statement was indeed uncalled for and showed Mr. Lessing's inability to give an analytic criticism. In calling the reader's attention to the "petite performance and irritating nasal sounds" of Mr.' Fruchtmann's in strument; Mr. Lessing, whom I have heard is a cel lists failed to mention that the viola da gamba is an extremely difficult instrument to play and very hard to keep in tune. In addition to Mr. Lessing's brilliant criticisms, I marvel at his profound mu sical knowledge. The reviewer stated that Handel's Sonata No I was originally written for the flute and not the recorder. However, most musical his torians consider that task of discovering which in strument the original was scored for, extremely dif ficult, and some say the work might : cven have been scored for an oboe. I think that I can say without too much con tradiction that many people enjoyed the same en thusiasm for the concert as I; and in the future. I would advise Mr,. Lessing to remain at home or out in the invigorating Chapel Hill air when Baroque music is to be performed. ' Ronald L. Birke Editdr: This past weekend, The School of Business Ad ministration was visited by one cf today's foremost journalists, Harry Ashmore, editor of the "Arkans as Gazette." Mr. Ashmore first gained nation-wide prominence by his courageous stand on the Little Rock integration controversy. Despite the opposi tion's attempts to boycott his paper, Ashmore re- mained firm in his fight for equal" right!' This reason, coupled with his. imcompromising journalistic editorials, enabled . him Tto' receice the coveted Pulitzer Prize for Journal ism J Since it is not an everyday affair for this university to play host to a man of Mr. Ashmore's stature, it was to ing exceptionally rough seas, the weather was nip- be expected that the student body, together with -lill-Brussels & Back As you may observe from the ovcrline to this the Tutnam view is "right" or column, my last year was spent for the most part py, and we naturally carried along several" bottles the School of Business Administration, would be wrong, or. scientific or un- s a guiuc ai me irusscis worms fair, une almost of foot-warmer. About three a.m.. one coudIc de- permitted to have an ODDortunitv: to hear his Ice- scientific." It is my firm convic- hesitates to begin -piece such as this, for the pit tion t!i;it the majority of Southern- faIls arc legend and there is tendency to write no ers feel as Mr. Tutnam and we more tnan a borcsome travelogue. But, there are cannot solve any problem until tnose who mav De interested in what happens when both sides will at least listen to one scts off to the lar8cst world's fair in 20 years the other side's viewpoint. There and the various anecdotes connected therewith, is a principle involved here Vol- Aftcr this digression, . I promise to ensconce any taire expressed it very eloquently furthcr urscs into farthest corner of my room and when he said, "I may not agree lry to "orc them. No premises, wilh what you say, but I would V" ;r.ve my life for your right to say Looking back throughjthc Tar Heel of last ll- spring, I see that my lastciumii concerned fced- The Washington Tost and Times- ing Siamese cats in my hompwhile wating for the Herald has attacked the South on final congressional appropriation which was neccs many occassions. It also refused sary before receiving final word of my acceptance to print this letter. Rep. George as an official representative of America and the lludJlcston Jr. attacked in the Aiuerican-Way-of-Life in Brussels. Actually, I was House this very biased stand by taking a position as a glorified question answerer, the Tost and demanded an cx- most of the latter being "Where is the bathroom?" planation from the editors. "They , - could not be reached for com ment " Approximately 180 representatives of young It is interesting to note that J. Amcrica (ugh) ' sailed " for Europe aboard the S.S. R. Wiggins, former chairman of Amcrica on thc 28lh of !arch of Iast ycar' AmonS the American Society of Newspa- lne 180 youths, there were wildljK distorted conccp- per Editors "Freedom of Informa- tions of the future which lay ahead of us in Brus- tion Committee," is vice-president scls. The other 50 didn't give a damn; they merely and executive editor of the Wash- wanted a free trip to the continent. I still don't knaw wncthcr to classify myself among the latter ii.in.. or not. Harper's Bizarre the voyage, others to tlie end of the fair. The counseling staff assigned us had prepared a comprehensive program of indoctrination" which was supposed to activate our every -moment. The I must admit that the cross section was well t v.u'i3iiv.u. i uvi t ntic ia u o ii uiu such uiacva , o One of our most gratifying experiences at the University came w n r i.- t . r,- with the Frost our freshman year. Vermont, Georgia, Texas, Washington, Puerto Rico, Faced with the alternative of ' studying or hearing some poet 3nd IIawaU- Awaili"2 our arrival in Belgium were talk, we donned a tie and made for Hill Hall and the long shot. 25 other guides who had been employed on the That evening marked the first time wc differentiated between continent: Germans, Swiss, Portuguese, Dutch, etc. Robert Frost and Carl Sandburg. One of thc men seated on the As soon as wc boarded the ship, the coteries began I IT. T lhattharmoit-afP!'"', and the other was too well-fed to appear. Many of them lasted only to the end of i .v uciiiMviiii;. am ana usicneu lo Dr. Lyons introduce thc old New Englander. In essense, he said, "When Frost comes can Spring be far behind?" By the evening's end we were convinced that the coming of Frost and Spring were synomymous. The magic of the language whieh flowed from the silver wreathed mind held us in amazement. Mr. Frost leaned on the lecturn and told us of his New i;wanri. about t?ic birch trees, thc apple harvest, the quiet snowflakes; about wc,1"Iaid Plans wcre waylaid and the pooh bahs were an ant called "Jerry" and then wc were laughing with him. outflanked. Well, after all, -whoever expected to Members of the audience almost everyone seemed to have keep 1C0 boys and girls in a classroom (even though a volume of poetry with him would call for certain selections, the classroom was the ballroom "in first class ae- and the old man would roll off the requests movin easilv from i t , m- j i -i ren . . . . A . 1 1 ' "lovnij, easily irom comodations) while sailing to;Europe. And besides verse to verse, improvising poetry in the intervals, hardly turning iU . 4. r a ' V u i un thc leaves of his notebook of thoughts. We'd heard the words lhat' thc Captam infornV'd Uiat :we had thc before, but coming from him they sounded better. roughest trans-Atlantic I crossing that he had cx- Wc left thc auditorium later, giddy with the musical patterns pcrienccd in 10 years. This was a fact of which woven by the old man. Wc know little more of the hired man or wc had no need to be reminded; many of the guides the two divergent roads than before, but the overwhelming warmth didn't see daylight until we arrived in Cobb, Ire-- oi iumkti frost remained. The next week, infatuated with this newly discovered poetry, wc went back to hear a lady read, allegedly in English. Terhaps it was British. At any rate, we found that tne wonderful thoughts spoken by Mr. Frost wcre peculiarly his own. We waited anxiously for the return of Spring. Then one day someone said, "Frost's coming." We were there to see him, hear him tell in the best of words of the little things which had amused him, were dear to him. Now we once again anxiously await their return Spring, thc young season; Frost, the young mind to us, inseparables - J. Harper cided that they could no longer brave the elements turcs. ' and went below to warm up. Instead of going "prop- Unfortunately, it seems -this,, Tare -privikge is . erly" to their respective cabins, the innocents end- afforded only to cartoonist.' (Walt . KdllV) and the ed up in the Cabin Class bar and fell asleep on one like. While Mr. Kelly's cartoon strip ' holds 'a. ccr- of the couches therein. That morning they were tain amount of fascination for everyone,': t hardly discovered in said scandalous state by a puritan think that his imoprtance in current , affairs can ' twosome from South Flatt, North Dakota or there- quite compare with that of Mr. Ashmore's.; abouts. Their indignation was heard by all before In Friday's "Daily Tar Heel" it "was; disclosed 5 noon and a threat was made ot write several con- that thc meeting was "closed to the public because gressmcn of the incident. "Arc these the youths of the small size of the room used." However.; it who arc rcprescntating our country at Brussels?" Was never explained why roomy . Memorial Hall .r. , . , ,,. . , , was not utilized for the occasion. After many apologies and official assurances by If such is the case then why -n the name of , thc high command that this wouldn't happen again, almighty Togo did thc School of Business Adminis the puritan's fury was mitigated and an armistace tration invite Harry Ashmore in the first place? was declared. We were more careful next time. For tea and crumpets? Why were only certain peo- pcl permitted to be present at the press conference ! held afterwards? Do the moguls who run this Aca Wc arrived in Cobb a day late on thc 4th of demy for the Sons of Gentlemen feel Mr. Ashmore's April. If one had ever read skeptically of the mist talk would go unappreciated by the majority' of over thc Irish lowlands in the early morning, their student body? Trobably so, but if enly a few i u ii j iu 4 students could have benefited. I believe the sacri- doubts were allayed that morning for it was as f- mn1A w . ;C - f . ' J , , flce would have been worth it. Although the uni picturesque as reported. Thc sick ones edged care- versity has at various times encouraged students fully around the decks, looking anacmically cheer- to attend such gatherings by inviting leaders in the ful. The rest of us ran higgledy-piggledy from port fields of music and literature, this is one instance to starboard and bow to stern trying lo make as wnen the students were denied entrance. If the much noise and chatter as possible. Irish brogues feeIfs ur intellectual capacity is limited , , ... , v j Vu u 10 the flelds of PS and "Peanuts," then its use were prevalent until we approached the French fullness has long been exhausted coast the next morning. And so, as Harry Ashmore heads his weary bones back to the Ozarks, we, the forgotten stu- w , , , , T tT . a -i dents of Carolina wave a belated farewell to our We docked at Le Havre quite early on April 5, secretC(i visitor the day before Easter. Several of us began the day Nick Bagdasarian mt a; by shouting greetings -in French to some workmen who were having croissants and wine for break fast in a shabby building close by. Those who had never before been to Europe wcre ecstatically pleas ed with the thrill of seeing la France. Many of us The official studeti publication of the Publication who had lived on the continent previously were Board of the University of North :.. Carolina, where it muttering promises to ourselves and each other s published daily about "never going home this time" and "I'll be except Monday and in Paris by the middle of next week." There was examination periods a final shipboard breakfast, instructions by the com manding officers and tragic farewells to the few snd summer terms. Entered as second class matter in the instructors who were returning immediately to New office in Chapel York. We left the ship and entered France. ' Hill, N. C, under the act of 'March 8 ! 1870. Subscription Debarkations are alwa3rs hectically confusing rates: $4.50 per e- and ours was ho exception: Loud voices and lost nicsler,' $8.50 per luggage about sums it up. rar. Isl Is ( : i Editor lan six days later. Seasickness was the order of the day and I lost several potential friends by eat ing tw3 bowls of strawberr:.cs with steak and eggs for breakfast every morning. -s Our crossing was probably as inebriated as any other, but one incident Tery nearly caused a con gressional investigation. Several of us (I'm guilty) decided' to have a little "let's sleep on the deck all night and see the sunrise" party. Besides hav- We finally boarded several busses for an all day journey to Brussels, singing songs in French accompanied by Hawaiian ukclelcs. Our arrival lhat Managing Fditori night was met by a large corps of newsmen who CURTIS CANS CHARLIE SLOAN. STAN FISHER had expected us four hours earlier. They were very News Editor ANN FRVE cheerfully for the cameramen and answered their hundreds of questions. As we entered our apart- symbol of the Fair. This was our home from April 5, 1958 until. October 19 1958, the official end of the festivities. ssoriate Editor ED ROWLAND Business Manager :L WALKER BLANTON Asst. Adv. Manager JOHN M INTER Arts Editor . ANTHONY WOLFF Coed Editor JOAN BROCK Night Editor O. A. LOPEZ mmHtoAmatoMmm if citlMfcw-mpo,- .i in! -.i. t. m , mirnii.i.ijL jfltn 1 1 i.ti r.f it turn m fii fem.im&M
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