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U.fl.C. Library DEC 1 1 VS59 WEATHT3 870 Fair, low near 30 Cfcfc3mnnt9lLl 1 ana ranging to near 10 along the coast early Thursday. High in Ms. Friday considerable cloud iness and continued mild. VOLUME LXVIII, NO. 64 rowther, Young Talk raws 4 By ADELAIDE it. CUO.MARTIK Davis Young, editor of the DTH. told students yesterday afternoon why lie did not print Steve Cohen's "A Christmas Story." Some 4.V) students gathered in Gorrard Hall for a public reading of the itory and a debate between Noting and Frank Crowther. asso ciate editor of the DTH. "I would have permitted an un pardonable and irrevocable public relations blunder to be committed ntt by myself, but by the students of th University, for it Ls thrir pa lT." said Young. "The reaction aroused throughout the state would have been detrimen tal to this University from a fi nancial standpoint. "It might easily have hint cur admission policy. "It would have lecled unjust crticism at the members of the ad ministration for something they had not done." In his stand for printing the arti cle, Crowther said, "I can't see where something like this is going to pervert anybody's mind." On Cohen, he said. "Ills intent may have been one thing and what Student Gov't Announces Appointments Student government appointments, recently approved by Legislature, were announced yesterday by Stu dent Body President Charlie Gray. Wade Hargrove was appointed chairman of the High School Honor Council CotiMnUsioni commision menders are Dwighl Whelcss. Mar in Taylor. I,ane Brown. Bob Pow ell. Joe Roberts. Warren Williams and John Gentry. The commission is made up of students who travel to North Caro lina high schools lecturing on our Honor System. These lectures are especially directed toward high school seniors r.nd to helping initi ate the Honor System in schools who want it. Jim Beston and Jim Delashaw were appointed clerks of Mens Honor Council. Members of the Attorney Gen eral's Staff are Bob BUbro. Bill .Sullivan, Tony Harrington and Wallace Willams. Don Ilcrnc 'and Tommy White were appointed members of the GI Board of Directors. Members of the University Traf fic and Safety Committee are John Morris. Jim Copcland and Larry Lyde. Frances Reynolds and Dan Rob bins were appointed to serve with the National Students Associa tion and Jack Bosrell, Robert Kepmcr and Fred Anderson will serve On the National Students Board. Who, What, When, Why, Ry ADELAIDE IROMART1E The lights went down . . . and Friday night UNC students joined Hie "conversational" Pete Seeger in the chorus of "Down by the Ri ver Side" . . . The bleachers went up . . . and students Joined th cheerleaders U a rousing "Go Heels. Go! Down with the Gamecocks" ... to open the first basketball contest f Ihe year. And then, too . . . Thcta Chi's loaned bib and tucker for their an nual Pledge Dance at the Carolina Inn . . . with music by the Haleigh V'Jintoncs ... at tlie close of the formal dance, the brothers, pledges and their dales returned to the house for an informal party . . Ami "a huntin we will go" Phi Dett Paul Burroughs and broth ers were out for "Big Game" Sutur i'y . . . Their aafari was headed for squirrel country near Asheboro. . . , magnolias and a big h.te mansion on a great high hill , tl. he did. another." Crowther noted that in his opin ion the article was neither sacrileg ious, nor obsene. "I don't really think its that bad," he said. "It's bad. but not that bad." Young said the printing of the article wa.s up to him. "Thus the battle was won. 1 could have printed Uie column. And for this. I think this University and its attitudes are something, pei haixs beyond words, and must be preserved as a stronghold of free expression. "Yet. I feel that by "not printing it, I have perhaps extended frce Icm of the press and student re ponsib;iity. rather than diminishing heir role. lie continued. "I don't suppose I a ill ever know if I was completely correct or not. I only hope that it 50 ioG Morehead Has Exhibit During December the North Art Gallery of Morehead Planetarium is presenting an exhibit of mono types by Nardus Lessing of Springfield, Mass. Monotypes arc abstract prints expressing different moods in color, line and composition. They are rich and lyrical, similar to musical forms, such as sonatas and tone poems with vivid chromatic passages, omc of which approach rcprwentational imagery. Mr. Les-(: sing has an extraordinary sensi tivity for making use of the com plete spectrum of colors in com positions, characterized by an amazing feeling of harmony, bal- New Members Honored By Beta Gamma Sigma i Eleven newly initiated members of Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary business fraternity, were honored at a banquet held in the Carolina Inn, recently. i Dean Maurice W. Lee of the School of Business Administration, .-poke on "Adaptation of the Busi ness School Curriculum to Meet the N'eeds of the Dynamic Business World." New fraternity members, .heir hometowns arc: and James Sherman Belk, Hickory: Charles Osborn: Draughon Jr.. Mobile, Ala.; Walter Erwin Fuller Jr.. Laurinburg; Jack Powell Gul ley. Clayton; Henry Wood Harris Jr.. Winston-Salem; William David Hoover, Charlotte; Also, Jan Witold Karcz, Carr boro: Rudolph Phillip Lamone. Ft. Bragg; Sterling George McDevitt, Flushing. N. Y.; Joseph Milam Jr.; Chapel Hill and Richard Wylly Molton, Hickory. Wh How . . . gray moss hanging from live oak trees ... all spell the Old South and plantations . . . Bill Edi son and Craven Young, entertained their Sigma Chi brothers and their dates in Greensboro at the Planta tion Club Saturday night. And . . . The Chi O's and their dates danced to the music of the BlaJr Ellis Combo at their Big Sister-Little Sister party at the Homestead Community Center Thursday night . . . Tri Dells were dinner guests of the Phi Delts last week . . . Du pledges and their dates dined and danced Saturday night . . . And "WHO PINNED WHAT" . . . DU Steve Burch to Margaret Kaines, freshman at Meredith Col lege . . . Sigma Chi Boy Campbell to Mary Hill Moffit, Salem College . . . Chi O Ellen Crabtree engaged to Robert Tayor, Ole Miss . . . ADPi Joan Baker engaged to Vin Sgrosso, Duke Law School . Florence McGowan, ADPi, engaged to Bob Turner, Chi Psi, Complete LB Wire Service errard will prove beneficial to a majority in the long run. and thus beneficial to the University. "Sometimes it is even harder not to run something than it is to do so. "If Cohen had merely questioned the foundations of the Christian re ligion, I would have printed his column. But when he viciously at tacked and made a travesty of a rich religious experience, he ex ceeded the boundaries of good taste." After Young and Crowther's re marks, the floor was opened to questions by the students. Below are some of these. Q. Why didn't you run "A Christ mas Story" as a news story? Crowther answered that the ori ginal appeared on the Chronicle editorial page, so the DTH print ing was to go on the editorial page flanked by Young and Crowther's comments. ance and totality. The themes are first painted on glass and then transferred to pa per by pressing the paper against the glass, which is not a common method. Riders Wanted WASHINGTON, D. C Bill Bell. St. Anthony Hall, 8-9071. As soon as possible after 11 a.m. Friday. Wilt share expenses and driving. ALBANY, N. V. or PITTSFIELD, MASS Robert Rolfs. 324 Park er 8-9130. Can leave Friday or Saturday. ,.. ...... CHATTONOOGA. TENN. Rich ard King. 215 Aycock, and Del mar Reynolds. 404 Winston. Want to leave after 1 p.m. Saturday. Phone King, 8-9158. WASHINGTON. D. C. or SILVER SPRINGS, MD. VICINITY Ce cil Simpson, 207 Cobb, 8-9093. Wants to leave Saturday a.m. Will share expenses and driving. NEW YORK or NEW ENGLAND VICINITY Gerry Kivist, Sig Ep house, 8-9111. Wants to leave Friday afternoon. TALLAHASSEE, FLA. Clinton Coulter, 316 Graham, 8-9128. Can leave anytime after 2 p.m. Fri day. KNOXVILLE, TENN Jim Wag ner, 353 Cobb, 8-9143 and Dave Nicholas 404 Conner 8-9029. Want to leave noon Saturday. Nicholas wants to return Sun., Jan. 3. Will share expenses. ATLANTA, GA Peter May field, 8-8366. Can leave any time Friday or Saturday. Will share expenses and driving. BALTIMORE, MD. Andrew Eastwick. 112 Graham, 8-9083. Wants to leave Saturday, 9 a.m to return Jan. 3. SIBERIA, USSR, Davis B. Young. ELKHART, LND. via COLUM BUS, OHIO Fred BlackwcU, Research Computation Center, 7037. Leaving Friday afternoon or later. Returning Sun., Jan. 3. NEW YORK, NEW HAMPSHIRE and HARTFORD AREA Peter Ford, 2-1973. Going to Meriden, Conn. Leaving Sun., Dec." 20, 12:30 p.m. Share gas and ex penses. ARLINGTON VA. Thomas D. Myers, 306 Connor, 8-9145 Leav ing Saturday morning. Will take 2 or 3 riders who wiU share gas. NEWARK and NEW YORK CITY John Fisher, 33 New East An nex. Leaving SaL, 1 p.m., re turning Dec. 28 pr 29. INFIRMARY Students in fht Infirmary yes terday were Margaret Holland, Nancy Bradner, Deborah Ives, Marian Hays, Sandra Dean, Ellen Smith, Prances Pearson, Edith Rogers, Margaret Harner, Richard Kepley, Manuel Otero, Leonard Stewart, Richard Clark, William Bevis, Thomas Lawson, James Reston, Anna Chtne. Wavn Kino. Gary Yingllng. j CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER Caroling Set For Dec. 17 An expected 400 to 500 students will carol to the' campus Thursday night, Dec. 17. Co-sponsored by the Order of the Grail and GMAB, the caroling will be done by interested students In dorms, ; sororities and fraternities. The lee Club will lead the sing, ing, accompanied by an accordion ist. SongS sheets will be passed out to the Icarolers, who are asked to meet J Y Court 8 p.m. that night. The first stop for the group will be the women's dorms. From there they will go to President William Friday's house and then downtown, where merchants will be holding the stores open late. From town the group will go to the big fraternty court Around 9 or 9:30 p.m., the sing ers will make their last stop at the Carolina Inn, where refreshments will be served to all. Senior Class Project A project to boost the Empty Mocking Fund is now being con ducted by the members of the iserg; ior class. This afternoon and tomorrow afternoon from 1 to 5, senior rep resentatives will be at the Emrvtv Stocking Fund booth on Franklin Street selling cookies and brown ies They also are selling packages oi mesavers in. the fraternity and sorority houses. All proceeds from both of these activities will go to the Empty blocking Fund. According to Mark Wilson eral chairman of the project, this is the first time a senior class ha had a charity project. The idea originated with the class officers, he pointed out. Assisting Wilson on the commit tee arc: Martha Morgan, publicity; Kay Boortz. Ashe Exum and Otto f-unoerburk, distribution chairmen; JacK cummings and Bob Shupin woom cnairmen. and Wade Smith class president. SP Bill To Form Freshmen Legislature To Be Introduced Four bills are to be considered by the Student Legislature tonight They will, meet at 7 p.m., in Phi ilau, 4th floor, New East The representatives will discuss a resolution introduced by Jim Scott (SP) to support the installa tion of adequate fire protection and alarm systems in all dormitories Also to be discussed is a bill in troduced by David Parker to ap propriate $200 to the Campus Ori entation Committee: a bill intro duced by Jim Crownower (SP) to form a Freshman Legislature: and a bill to appropriate $200 to the Academic Affairs Committee, also introduced by Scott. IFC Sells Lifesavers To Help Needy 1119 lnter-r ratermty Council held a routine meeting Monday night. IFC President Ashe Exum turned over information concerning musi cal groups to the Special Projects Committee Chairman Charles Pitt- man. He will work on arranging an IFC charity benefit concert. Each of the IFC representatives took bags of lifesavers back to the houses. The lifesavers are being sold for ten cents a pack as part of the senior class project to raise money forthe Empty Stocking Fund. Seniors from each of the houses are to turn in the proceeds from the lifesaver sale to the senior class office which will be on the second floor of the "Y" from 9-12 a.m.. Saturday. IFC Publicity Chairman Pringle Pipkin asked IFC members to not ify him of any Christmas parties for tmderpriviliged children. Honor Council Acquits Friedbera- Inconclusive Evidence On BA Quiz Drug House Accused Of Excessively High Prices WASHINGTON (AF) Merck & Co., Inc., one of the nation's big gest drug houses, charges $170 for the same quantity of an anti-arthritic remedy sold by a Mexican firm for $13.61, a senate investi gator said today. John T. Conor, Merck's presi dent, promptly accused the Sen ate Antitrust Subcommittee of dealing in myths. He challenged the probers to summon doctors and to ask them why they prefer the Merck product to some lower priced drugs. The clash came after Connor had read a statement saying that Merck, of Rahway, N.J., had willingly slashed the price of cortisone from $200 to $20 a gram within three years after developing it in 1949. Connor said eight separate cuts were put in force "as we were able ' to make improvements in pro duction efficiency." The cortisone reductions did not come about from any pressure by other drug houses, Connor told the subcommittee, but were in line with a Merck policy to make the latest medicines available to the public as quickly and as cheaply as possible. John Blair, the subcommittee's chief economist whose figures have been challenged before, then took the witness chair. He produced evidence which he said showed the Syntex Co. of Mexico City was clearing a profit selling predni sone, an anti-arthritis drug, at $13.61 for each bottle of 1,000 tab lets. Blair said Merck charged druggists $170 for this quantity of Prednisone and that the rate to patients was $283.33. Connor attacked the validity of Blair's reckoning. Among other things, the Merck president said the $13.61 figure represented only an assumed price to a mythica company. iaier, Connor told newsmen that so far as he can tell the $13.61 13 not the price of a product ready for the patient. He also contend ed Syntex's 1959 annual report lists a loss of nearly a half mil lion dollars on Prednisone sales. The subcommittee counsel, Rand Dixon, said he believed Blair's figures to be accurate. They were prepared "on a very conservative basis," Dixon said. Connor was the second druir in. dustry witness to criticize Blair's data, presented in this early stage of the subcommittee's investiga tion of whether the nation's phar maceutcial companies are Dricinz drugs too high at wholesale. Francis C. Brown, president of the Schermg Corp., Bloomfield, N. J., veslerdav lisriilpH Rlair's testimony that Schering applied markups up to 7,079 per cent on some of its drugs, including rem edies against arthritis and female disorders. Brown called Blair's conclusions "severely damaging and most unfair." CM. SLATE Activities scheduled in Graham Memorial today include: Films Commitee. 1:30 - 3:30 Woodhouse; Campus Affairs Com mittee, 2-3:30, Grail; Constitution Revision Committee. 3:30-4:30. Roland Parker 1; Debate Sauad. 3:30-5:30, Woodhouse; High School lonor System Commission. 4-5 Roland Parker II: N. S. A.. 4-5. Grail. Also, Student Party, 6:45-7:30. Roland Parker I; Women's Honor Council, 6:45-11, Woodhouse; Uni versity Party Caucus. 7-7:30. Grail; Woman's Honor Council. 7-11, Roland Parker 1, 2, 3: Stu dent Council, 7:30-11, Grail. 10. 1959 Offices in Graham Memorial By HENRY MAYER 1 Senior Joe Friedberg was ac quitted last night of violating the Honor Code by seeing a Business Administration quiz prior to its be ing given. The jury deliberated for forty five minutes before reaching its verdict. The trial was begun last Thursday but was postponed due to lack of witnesses. Friedberg had no statement after the verdict was announced, al though defense council Norman B. Smith commenented that "his faith in the jury system was reaffirmed by the verdict." The charges against Friedberg were brought about as the result of a tip being called in to an instruc tor in the BA school that the prac tical exam in question had been stolen and was in circulation. After checking with his supervisor, the instructor began investigating the tip. The case centered around the fact that, although a different quiz was actually given as a precautionary measure, the basic principles on Handel's Messiah To Be Presented In Memorial Eisenhower Greeted Warmly By J. M. ROBERTS Associated Press News Analyst The reception of President Eis enhower in India and the warmth with which he was greeted by Prime Minister Nehru have been all that was expected and more. The President has reached both the extremity and the peak of his unprecedented tour in an atmos phre which makes his effort a success regardless of what hap pens when he returns to Europe. The United States has been un der suspicion in many Indian minds. Some doubt her sincerity in the cold war, believing that the conflict with Soviet Russia is an old fashioned competition for pow er to run the world, rather than an effort to protect the world from what Americans believe i an unhealthy movement. A great many more have been suspicious because of America's close association with the nations of Western Europe which once Practiced colonialism at the expense of Asia. These do not believe that a great power will extend eco nomic aid to less powerful coun tries without in the end trying to establish hegemony over them. Since they have already experienc ed this tendency in the west, they ar more afraid of it than of the reported but unexperienced col onialistic tendencies of Knvint Russia. 11 Carrier Current" Plans for the possible establish- ui winta- Lurrent, a WUNC hook-up to cam dus resi dences, were announced vstr- day by Charlie Gray, student body president. Carrier Current" would fra ture a special radio program for students from 6 n.m. to l a m nn WUNC-AM. The station Wm,M Play types of music the students want to hear and also make cam pus announcements. After 11 p.m., the air wonM ho open to those, who havp sn.i,i official, such as Student f;nvPm- ment messages for the students. Students who wish to make long distance telephone calK should notify the Radio ri..h in the Air Force ROTC Building, ac- vii5 w uiov. me 1:11m n make connections for cross-country hookups. Any students! who are intprpCt ed in courses in Amateur Radio ShOUld alSrt SPA thp RaW -r y vuuiv V.1UU. I the practical were, out of necessity, similar in nature. Therefore, the de fense argued, a person studying the j old quizzes available in the BA Li brary could make good grades. This was done by questioning each person in turn, promising not to turn in the informants. This prog ression continued until a person re fused to give further information. Friedberg, who was present at the questioning, said: "Til save you the trouble. I'll turn myself in. I gave it to him." Friedberg stated that the instructor gave the impression that he had seen both the quiz Friedberg had passed on and the quiz to be given; there fore, he turned himself in, think ing the instructor had seen the quiz to be given. The investigating instructor stated at the trial that he had no reason to believe that there were any ir regularities concerning the quiz un til the tip was received. He further stated that there were no conclusive signs that a quiz had been stolen since no papers were missing or disarranged and , Handel's Messiah will be per formed by a massed chorus and orchestra of more than 170 per formers in Memorial Hall Tues day, Dec. 15, at 8 p.m. Part of the Tuesday Evening Se ries sponsored by the Department of Music, the program is open to the public. There will be no ad mission charge. The performance will be under the direction of Earl Slocum of the Music Department. Participat ing will be the Chapel Hill Choral Club, the Uni fsity Chorus, mem bers of the University Glee Club and the University Symphony Or chestra. Soloists for the occasion will in- elude Barbara Peacock, soprano; j Per person. In these cases, how Marilyn Zschau, contralto; Ray-; ever, the students are responsible mono ivreiner, tenor, and Joel Car ter, bass. Miss Peacock and Miss Zschau are both from Chapel Hill Mr. Kreiner is with the Music De- partment of Peace College in Ra - leigh. Dr. Carter is a professsor of voice here. Conductor Earl Slocum has horn 4 1 ,1 1 At . me neaa 01 me uic bympnony Orchestra for the past 14 years. YES, VIRGINIA Editor'? Note (The following editorial by Francis P. Church appeared in the New York Sun on September 21. 1807.) We take pleasure in answering at once and prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun: Dear Editor: I am eight years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says "If you see it in The Sun it's so." Please tell mo the truth, is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINIA O'HANLON Virginia, your little friends arc wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not blieve except what they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man s a mere in sect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about mm, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Ho exia's as cprtamly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world, if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished. Not believe in Santa Claus! You "might as well not beleve in fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did not see Santa Claus, that is no sign there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Dd you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not. but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world. You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is no veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived, could tear apart, onlv faith, fancv. Doetrv Invn mance, can push aside that curtain natural beauty and glory beyond Is all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding. No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousands from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will contnue to make glad the heart of childhood. " 67 year of dedicated service to a better University, c better state and a better cation by one of America's great college papers, whose motto states, "freedom of expression is the backbone of an academic community." TWELVE PAGES THIS ISSUE no offices showed definite signs of being entered. . ' Friedberg told the court that he tcld the person to whom he passed the quiz that ho thought it was an old quiz that someone had a tip might be given again' Friedberg warned the person that 'this may not be the quiz, so. don't put all , your eggs in one basket." Friedberg testified that he stu died carefully himself, making a grade of 85. Friedberg's instructor testified that on the basis of the de fendant's past performance, this grade was a predictable one European Tours Set. A complete digest of Student Tours to Europe, strictly on-a-budget for Summer 1960, has been recently issued by Wakefield, For tune, Inc., World Travel. The pro gram lists 24 departures from New York in June and July of both Qisearted and independent tours of the Continent including eco nomical transatlantic travel round trip by sea or, in some cases, com bination of air-sea arrangements. The completely escorted all-expense tours use Volkswagen bus transportation for most of the travel in Europe. Prices start at $975 for a 61 -day tour, for in stance, with round trip travel by sea from New York. The semi-independent tours of fer students either round trip travel by sea or one way by sea and one way by air and include a 5-day all-expense introductory tour on arrival and then the com pletely unlimited use of a self drive Volkswagen car to go where ever they wish in Europe until the westbound departure date. Prices of these tours which in clude transatlantic transportation, the introductory tour in Europe, and the car hire on the Continent for 8-9 weeks start as low as $530 for their own hotel accommoda tions after the 5-day escorted tour. ! T "se latter semi-independent ! t0urs can also be.arranSed on re- 1 1uesi Wlin durations of 44 days or 62 days, starting from York on anv dav desired. New with both I A .1 1 transatlantic travel by air ' ways. and view and Dicture't h Qn'nr 1
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