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f ACt TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL SATURDAY, OCTOBfcR 24, 1957 Leadership Lags Again All Avmk l.i I ( (I Pi ess 1 ( j 1 I III Mil V( Ml 1(1.IS U i(U III i.ll IK Us 1 oillcu IK i- oil , go 1 M 1 1 M. .it Airuiixi.i. ( ..1.. n,i n: President KiM'iiliiiwi-r .nd todjy ho dors not regard the Tail Hartley law as very .oort or ade quate li'.il..tioi). But hi- said tliat he has 110 in tuition at this lime of a, king ( ongres for new labor legisl.il inn. I It. I si. lit mciil )m.i ir.js .,11 .1 1 si nc i" o K'.nlc 1 slnji whiili m.iiks vciv 1 lose ii .ni ab du.ilion "I llit I'm si.Ii iit's dutv 1 1 1 it t 1 tin ( oiisiitutiosi in ive to ir Cmi;!! inloi tn ilin mi liic M.iti ni tin- I'uii.n. .nul 10 11 1 oiniiu ml Ik tht ii oiisiili i.it ion mi, h mc.is- lll.s ,n In- Mi. ! jllllf IHl(ss.l .til I CXpcdi- 1 ill." It serin, nit. tin 1l1.1t Cougtcss uill h..ve to 1I1.1I with the I. ii llaitlcv law .it th next srssi ui mi ( 01141, ss. I , 11 tin- Luc Si tutor I "It. tin- iiiniil .it lii 1 1 ( 1 ol tin- taw. .i(i millril (butts in the iuc.imuc . nd hied 111. sik , rsslul! to .inn ml it hcloic his ilr.ith. Pioidciil I iMiihowct has also ;itiiicd tin' I.iw IhIoi,'. Imu h.is ntvei mule imnr ill. 111 h.ill-lu .11 tt tl .ntriiijits to 1 hangc it. And thc 1 oiiiitiitiuti:ilii ol the I iu is now under at t.u k in 'In' (mills in 1 1 i 1 1 h i t i oi 1 with the Mill sttikr .ihniit whith tin- I'lrsiiliin h.is re liisrd in 1 . 1 U 1 ,m .11 lion cxtcpi to invoke the ci I.iw whith he leg. nils .Is neither t 1 41 M ni III I) .lilt 1 1'i.ilf. Ml. I iMiihow u "s l.u k ol Ir.nh 1 ship cx tends h k to tht I t i 1 1 1 1 i 1 1 'U, ol his .idinini sti.itiiii. lie his shown positive lc.idci ship oiil in .1 si in h l ii peace and even in 1 1 1.1 i held his (lloits hoc hrrti spotadic. On do-' uiisiii in.itltis he his bet U gic.illv com fined onlv Willi .1 hil. 'Kill hiid ( t - si unit hi 1 ig Ik1 h.is .11 in 1 1 1 k hicved in onlv onr veil ol tlu' st v ,11 hf h.is I K i n in ol I it r. ()ul i'siinl.i. Mr. I isinhow 11 showed hinisi II unlet isivc on othrr matters ,is wi ll .is thr I.iIimi iiti si ion. On I11csd.1v, the Piesi ihni took tin ovciduc at lion ol ti.nlening '. ( si irnlists 1 inploM'd 1 the Aiiiin to thi' National t 1011. nil it s .ind Sp.it r Administra tion wl.it h ihr l.isi Concu ss nr. itcd in .111 rlloit 1 1 1 n i I the 01 1 1 1 1 v "s si.Ki" rlhut. I his move w is ,i slip tow. ml unitv. hni hit 1111 sttth'tl othrr aic of tluplit at inn. I lit' picsi drnt declined .il his pirss loiifrirmr to dis t uss lui ihrr step's, il .inv. he h.is in mind, hut did nuke the bcwildciing comment: '! see 110 te.isoii wh oiw sp.u 0 program should he put on .1 hisis o (oinpetition with Russia." And thr I'lt sidellt tlist losed th.M hr is t.ioh.ihU ihr 011K prison in ihr toiintiv who h.is au donhi ; bout trlrisiou piogiams hav ing hern I igged bv detl.liing lli.it il ihev .itnnlh wnr ii'j-rl it was tcniblc thing to tin to thr Amciit.ui public." Hr addttl. howiNti. ih it he Ind hrrn iuloiiiird ihr Ird ial -oNeinnieiu has no in istlii 1 ion. I he , o;tiili iieeds haili 1 ship limn tlio Whiir Mouse whith it is not mttin ; nd has not gotten lot srrn r.n s. Ilnh -ili Sacs Ohu r t What About This? 1 Tht nation i ! war. 2. Th nation is losing th wr. badly. 3. Th nion mu vaU grr .ffort The offaia! tu I. nt puhliiation of the ruMieation Uo d of Mie I nivt'isily (if North C'amlina whe,e it ts puhli hed (I lilv cxiipt Mori. lay and examination periods iiKt suintner til 111s Kn'crjd, ts m cond c! jss mattt r in the po;t office in Chapel Hill, N. C. under tlio at-' of Marth 3. 1C70. Subi'iiption ratis: S4 H per so Hester. ST 00 per ear. Tht Daily Tar Meel is printed by the News Inc.. Carrboro, N. C . ut, Lditor Ass'Hi.ite Kdltor Kditoiial A.st. Mananiji Kditors Ui.sir.ess Manager . Aderlisiiu Manager Asst. Adt t lisin Manager Ni l.ditoi s - DAVIS B. YOUNG FRANK C'KOWTHKR " mIou RKDDEN 7 chuck noss 1ARRY SMITH WALKKI; BL ANTON RAKKY ZASLAV RICHARD WKINEU DKi: DANIELS EDWARD NEAL RINER Sports Editor Feature Editor ... . ... Coed Editor tliicl rbotoSlMpbcr ELLIOTT COOPER MARY AUCE ROWLETTF 1 josu: IcRRI7 Reader's Repository -Oli, Well, Maybe Rockefeller Slill Has Faith" AX EDITOR: I cannot spiv.k as an athiest or ;s a liiuriliman. because-1 con sider the position of one as tho roughly ridiculus as that of the other. I tend to admire the athiest. because he bases his conclusions lar more on logical thought than the merely lai'tliiul religionist. But, lor a human 'who fs no more than an advanced anthropoid to say. " Cod is." or. "God is not," ik the I unit ion of an advanced state o! hyperoo. Evidence iiuliiates. h 0 a e v c r, that religion is only man'.s pitiful hope that an entity similar to him self created all. Years ol human txperieme have not substantiated soih a belie! to the slightest de cree. On the contrary, it has tend ed to indicate that if a d was in strumental in the just cause, he va.s malexolent and unjut as tp poei to t he Christian concept of a benevolent and just father. It has been said that the "Katth of Our Fathers" is fast declining. This is no .-urprise since it is in keeping with modern tendencies. As a people become- intellectually discerning, faith is replaced by a tiuestion.n spirit. to this, peo ple are now viewing religion not as a .sacreit cow to be held in awe, but as an interior... social institu tion worthy of analysis, because of the enormous power ii has held. Many have come in contact with and been revolted by its hypocra cy. ostentation and sell-satisfaction. No other lacet of life is (ui'e as inherently emotional as re l:ion with the exception ol sex. We can therelore see a A'icle ranue or reactions to flits changes which li.ive fteenrnul in tli r.lmr. li'c ni.w , v" l'K 1 ton rosr t;sjc am ini iihmh- Tin. mno .f,t 1. . ' . ' Position to lcm.nn oittsidr I 11101)1 pnic ol these reactions is what" , 1 lie nsru tnr 101 low nr' t 1 itri 1.1 lor si' 1 atioii: ailvaniaur 10 Ls. s!. . O'.sifs- AUCtWsJ ' 1 hliuL is timiy due to illness Topy-ight. 159, The Pulitzpr Publishing Co St ouis Post Dispatch Some Random 1 houghts On American Foreign Policy pi-es-l Kra-J Tony Turner's article rtlers to as "sarcasm directi-vi toward reli gion." Now, in no circumstances en we jusiuy poor taste: but we t can easily see how an astuti mind could superstition churchmen have setup, it is fair Is certain at this point that even it God is l.ot dead religion is oy- w Irv Hochron kii in onr infancy Alexander llainil- to thr occasion and defended onr an alliiirs i i- presei" nun mm h in or atirmti imolnient to those whom w e IIMl i objec lie phis a healih peace the lacade of 'hose ci v ol ijeet i es. To have risked dele, and nonsense wlrch 'with silt h preeient knowledge as llamilto wished to heip lo mil si ! is; nicans a.nl;lile to aener 1 1 t-.i f i 1 1 rec al nat ion ol at ( n nnist ha e en isioiietl ol Inline Ainerii ..n liiatni-ss could he considered immoral. It t ail he likened to the Mihiixiion ol a i hild to in;:, all claims to the contr.irv As U 1 . r r ... Oil II''OIS llltl II. I, litis III ,1111111 iiiiuii-s ioi some uncertain . i i n where lliere is promise t ial change Irom evolution to re Aolution. To these we can attri bute the active hostility which is i.iways. there is that element in society that would speed up so- ch aiiy seen in "hate jokes lelererces tt) ".I. C, etc. and In conclusion 1 want Mr. Tur ner and his readers to realize that there is a far greater body o .sin cere agnostics who are erapplin..; with the ambivalent emotions v.hich the conflict of free-will ver sus determinism has inspirtsl. ol 'rroA'tb into exceptional manhood ami sub sequent ability to meet many sut h chal lenges. it l . ll l r i'i-i li. minion did noi apoionte tor ins leei iii'.'s b speaking tlisp.u inlv about I uropean politic s or sell t ihieoiisly about our own. but laced the situation with candor and vis ion. As we move into the iili ttntuix into an et a ol expansion ; :id I ul I i I hncnt ol our Manilest Dcstim ' tnaneux ei in.; our wav tlelitatelv throuuh the turbid waters ol ron llictiir' l'uropean interests and ''towiii'' in ... Allen Th-is Hay ward strength and tonlideiue we (cuiinue to con centrate our sights ai home or more exactly in the hemisphere. Through successive years ol consolidation rtid exjansion made possi ble by a host of loitunate circumstances, a concept ol" the American vole in lorei'411 re lations emerged and lound 1 einlorc i inent as uood lortune and the I nlish fleet exempted it from am sev eve c hallcne. Let's lake a look at this (oiuepl. the ie;'. soii lor its stuti'sslul application, new con cepts tli.it arose because ol its success and the significant reasons behind their eventual fail in e. As we have seen Hamilton lilt th;-t isola tion from I'uioiiean affairs was desirable but not necessarily binding for all times or un der all c ircumstances. Isolation or disengage ment was not an end itself but ; means and methods are directed at the mass- j om- objectives could have been better pin es. The students are capable of si led bv in olv emeiit Hamilton would not reasoning through ycur methods hav e delayed surest inu, it. i.nd therefore ignoring vmi At Inning, the tust (uiaiter ol l lie i)tn ien- turv the Miction and lestilt in;g irritations with Kng,land France and Spain made isola tion, seem more ; 'tractive' than ever and a jM)lic was humiliated that attempted to separate us more thoroughly IVcm I urope Dear Editor Young, The little gimmic you are now using on your editorial page has been tried befoie. Hitler and McCarthy both used cur method, i.e.. say something long enough and loud enough and the masses will believe it. Both failed because the masses were not stupid as they believed and yen now apparently think. Your own attack is weakened on several points. The students that lead your newspaper are . upposeJ ly among the elite, while vour ignoring you. least I have not .seen anyone do ing as you suggest. Perhaps most signi!icant of all is the fact that all of the letter anj commentary, none of them flattering to say the least, made on your repetitious editorial are going unanswered. You merely state day alter day in bold face type your three sentence opinion and you do not show the intestinal fortitude it takes to back it up. Are we either to beJieve that these three sentences are the entire ex panse of your opinion, or are we to reason that you have junipeJ in feet first an. I cannot present an argument to back your opinion? Why not use your editorial col umns to expaid year beliefs and explain why you believe them? I am confident that we will read your explanation and then judge it in its true perspective. Charles Fl inner bv establishing an American hegemony the Western Hemisphere. Fhis polity known as the Monroe Doc trine injects the gvrm of a new idea that flow's to be i'i bitter Iruir in Wilsonianism: the idea that I urope was unlit politically and liioiaMv to converse with the Lnilcd States and as one should isolate himself from an inlet tioii.s disease so should wi isolate ourselves from F.uropc. A wedo,c is forced into the small and temporary (leava-ge of 1 lamiltoni.uiisiii ar.d will not be removed nniil more than a t rutin v w ill have passed. I Ins itlea ol American institutions bein so dilfcicnt and unsullied that it must be al lowed lo develop ap.i.t and without inier lercncc. coupled with remarkable growth in power and prestige and culminating, with a public exhibition ol our prowess in the Spanish American War, Ined the secret imag ination to culogie about our omnipotence and appr.'cnt virtue, and to associate the one too closely with the other, having forgotten the once liiightv FnglMi X iw that insulated us from the Continent so well for so long. So we sec the t hange Jrom a concept that pleached isolation as the practical preretpii sile for growth to one that injects the note of stipeiioiitv and sell-righteovisiiess. Since isolation has woiked to our advantage, we thought, and has been successful in promot ing the high moral values that distinguish us Irom our covcteous "associates," there is. no reason to beliexe it will not continue to do so. especially as F.uropc seems as corrupt as ever. It was but a short step Irom here to the open door. Faced with possible exploitation ol China and attempting under the philanthropic guise of '"Chinese tenitoiial and administra tive entity" to preserve ; balance ol power and thciebv to insure our economic inteiests we strengthened the impression .it home that America had no sell-inteiests in foreign al fairs and that foreign alia i is was of no im portance to the I'nited States lv constantly refusing' lo explicitlv recognie our interest, our policies ; id declarations gave the im pression thai we had no interests and the only reason America was involved was lor purely altitiistie reasons. Our refusal to back up our wouls-with deeds lelt a bitter taste, and belied cur espoused intentions to all but ourselves. I'c Continued) UNC Student Robert Scott Robert M. Scott (student from Jacksonville, X. C, who finished two years of study at, UNC and was awarded a scholarship to study at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for his junior year of college.) I will begin the first in this se ries of monthly articles with a brief description of this program and will then go on to describe the arrival in Israel and orienta tion at the Hebrew University. This Program, sponsored by the American Friends of the Hebrew University, provides for students from all different parts of the United States and Canada to stu dy for one year in Israel at the Hebrew University and at the same time offers the opportunity oi learning another language and culture at first hand. The Program is divided into two periods. The first period lasts for four months and consists of an intensive train ing in Hebrew the official lan guage of Israel' so that American sludents will be able to understand lectures in the University. The second part of the Program, be ginning in November and lasting until June, consists of studies in the Hebrew University. The group of American students, of which I am a member, this year consists of 36 students from all parts of the Western Hamis phere, most of whom are begin ning their Junior year of college. The group left New York July 16 on the Israeli luxury liner S. S., Zion. I found it very interesting that every lounge and main area of the ship was named after a Biblical hero or different period of Jewish history for in stance, the main leunge "Jonah's Corner" was decorated in such a manner depicting the story of Jonah and the Whale. On July 30 the group arrived at Haifa, the main seaport of Israel, in the cradle of the Bibli cal Mount Carmel where the Pro phet Elijah once lived. As 1 ap proached closer to Israeli shores, 1 large structure with a yellow dome stood out vividly from the rest of the landscape. It was later learned that this building, a ia mous landmark of Israel, is not i' Jewish shrine but a temple of the Bahai religion, a Persian sect which moved to Israel and chose Haifa as its world center. Once settled at the Hebrew Uni versity high atop the Judean Hills around Jerusalem, the extensive language training session was be gun. This language period, known in Hebrew as an ULPAN, con sists of six hours of classes six days a week. The course of stu dy is so arranged that in the morning there is an opportunity to converse in Hebrew, read a Hebrew newspaper and easy liter ature; in th afternoons each stu dent learns Biblical literature. Usually the evenings are taken up by lectures on various aspects of Israel's social, cultural, and econ omic life given by faculty mem bers of the Hebrew University. In iddition Israeli folk songs and c.ances arc offered. Tours of the Jerusalem area and the entire country have been ar ranged under the direction of the Hebrew University Georgraphy Department. In addition to visiting many historical shrines mentioned in the Bible, many modern places have also been seen. Having travelled quite a bit on my own, I . spent some time on a Kibbutz 1 cooperative agricultural settle ment and had the opportunity of visiting an Arab village. There I was graciously entertained by the village chieftain who prepared a v onderful feast and offered me every cordiality. I p2gAg? 1 WAS Pi6rv s f 1 z LU o. r iz ALCAIC AT CCYI0A5 BORN.. r v a -v t f . . . . S . X . S .... k NO, IT WAS OU I LcfT AT ,& "' ) MA: YC S vO 5VA'" X An .vvCIZS !5!N'T?OA k J SOVOUMUST , '( HAMSOM 1 THING ro Pn 1 . 3ZZOK&. n) T LChV tCAS I PUT 1 ff . AO TfEN DDENiY T ( I HAVEN'T cOT TE T 0NTK;5A?aVr ) H i7 mG AtE... L 5LI6MTE5T IDEA! J uuj f sKfcl N My Crusade Against The Fraternities Wade Thompson "J')dt is ( contraction iliat is nr lotion in good usage. It is coned otil in con uection xciili (iieek Letter liigli school and non-collegiate societies and thru onl as an expression oj onem jst "' From the Pledge Manual of a tncat na tional fraternity. To anvone who has belter things to i!d than to poke his nose into the idiocies educational institutions, this account ol Ira ternities and their frailties may seem like a sour fantasy something spun out of the Mn bid brain of a disorunted college prolesMii who has nothing better to do than to plav with words and distort facts. I can onlv promise the unbeliever that I record ecrv word with gruesome sobriety, with malice to ward none and strict justice and charity to ward all. -Motivated solely by a sense of won derment at human behavior, I brin; to the task a jxinderous. porous, and pedantic mind, through which I have Mjuashed all tacts, statistics, and ((notations in the best scholarly manner. (To preserve objectivity and strict impartiality, the terms "frat" and "fraternity" are herein used indisc riminatelv , with no pejorative connotations put on eith er word.) , T was drawn abruptly to inv scholarly duty toward fraternities the other. clay when I ac cidentally stumbled over an issue of the Na tional Interfraternity Conference Yearbook in this case, a record of the lorty-eitrhih an nual meeting til all social fraternities. This particular meetinj; was exceptional in that it was blessed bv a wild kick-olf from Dr. Ralph . Sockman. a noted New York pas tor. Dr. Sockman obviously knows lus way around a pulpit, and, I'll bet he has .seared tlu living hell out of more people than Nor man Vincent l'eale can ever boast of. His ad dress to the lortv-eihth National Interlra ternity Conference proved to be a real mas tei piec e, a positive symphony of liih senti ment. Starting with a tender, pleasant pianis simo, he gradually and raceluHv introduced a lew contrapuntal themes, smoothly ties cendoed to a mand climax, and ended witli a .smashing major key resolution. I have time to replay onlv a lew climatic bars ol Dr. Sock man's composition : "America is showing something; superior to the Kremlin at the moment . . . We are the stv le-setters nioraliy for the world. That is not boasting. It is just humblc reconition. W e are. These M"eat college fraternities sixty-one of them in this iroup are stvle-setters under God lor the world at lare . . ." . Now men ol the cloth are wf luie heart ancH jiiodiyious la'nh'. but sometimes their very goodness discjualilies them to speak on certain subjects which they clearly wot not of. It behooves men of crasser and meaner composition to straighten them out occasion ally lest thev inadvertently turn their min isterial cannon in defense of some other worthless cause. It is in this spirit that I point out to Dr. Sockman that a frat boy wouldn't know what a moral style-setter was if one came up and joosed him. " I hesc great college fraternities," as Dr. Sockman calls them, are the silliest, stupidest institu tions invented since the intussusception oi the (hastily belt. They have no more moral "style" than a collection. of Mafia gangsters, D.A.R. girls. Army generals, or ladies of joy. When a young man is chosen to enter a frat, he is known as a fiat-pledge, and he must pass through a period of pledgeship roughly corresponding to an apprenticeship period for knights or bricklayers. As a liat pleclge. he is expected to undergo ceitain trials and to learn certain lessons, lor which purpose he is given a lMetlge Manual. I he lessons he lerrns are three in number: (I) Sentiment or how lo loe his broth er: (2) Smoothness or how to conduct him sell: and (;) Ritual or how to perpetuate the old frat. So far as sentiment is concerned. I can not clo better than to tuote from a Pledge Manual of one ol our most famous Iratern itics. ( There is midpoint in getting this stull second-hand.) On page 7" appear detailed instructions in how a hat-boy lecls towaid his brother: "I love vou not only lor what you are. but for what I am when I am with vou. I love vou not onlv for 'what vou have made of vonrsell. but for what vou are mak ing ol me. I love mmi because vou have done moie than my creed could have done to make me tiood. and more than am late could have done lo make me happv." I intenupt this tender .lytic to asiuc the reader, who mav have become lonluscd at this point, that this is biothcr-to-biothcj sentiment, and not advice on how to seclut v a maid or woo a wife. I go on,-,ind now the rhetoric reallv begins to steam: "I love v u lor the pot ol me that vou briit'i out. ( P: t not specified.) 1 love von for putting vour hand into inv heaped-up heart and passing over all the foolish and hivo'oiis and weak things that you can't help dimlv seeing there, and hi drawing out into the light all the beautiful, ri'.liaui belongings that no one else had look lau enough to lind." (To Be Continued) 1 riirfTTiiiitiTrti iita frnr m itt tin i 1 irf-htti ftiimMH fcmti -ti ' I
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