North Carolina Newspapers

nr. i TH1 DAILY TAt HEEL THURSDAY, MAY 5, 13 Parker Hodges "You Just Doir t Seem To Fit In Here The off icl jtl student publication of the Publication Board of the University nf North Carolina, where it i published daily except Monday, examination pe riod and summer terms F.ntcrcd a second class matter in the pot office in Chapel II. 11. N.C.. under the act of March 8 1870 Subscription rates: S4.00 per semester. $7 fX) per Ve.tr The Daily Tar Heel is printed by the New. Inc.. Carrhoro. N.C. FDITOK Jonathan Yardlev ASSOCIATK IDITOU ASSISTANT KIUTUK M ANAdlNCt FJlITORS NEWS F.DJTOKS l-.l'SINKSS M A.N AG Kit . A 1 1 V KK T 1 S I N ( ; M A N A (IKK SPORTS KPITOR coNTninniNc; kditoks k;iit fihtou Anthony Wolff Hon Shumate . . . Larry Smith. Loyd Little Dee Daniels. Henry Mayer Tim Burnett Harry Zaslav Ken Friedman Frank Crovvther. Davis Young. Norman K. Smith. John Justice . . . Tommv White Another Neglected Department n .utuk' in rilnt sd.iv jj.i- u i 'tiitril out out ot tin- most t.int l.urts id l'niviTtv lik". .Hill Mill1 ol tllC tllONt lH'Ul U'tl. I III' I ( lttll i'.lll ol ( .01 tcs- j h null in r Si lnol Inst i in i ion olk-is t. stiitU nt in Cli ih 1 I lill .nul .IHMIIIil lilt' st.ltC till' OJljlOl ttniitv to .uliiiM' .1 mr.it cli'.il ot m hol.is tu i c 1 j i wlitn i in must; in cs ic vuit t i u! i iinolliti'4 in tin' phvsi i il pl.uit I ilu- I ni 1 1 sit . i- li.ivr known .i mr. it ni.inv ojli' uln li.iNf been able to ,;rjil u in- on time- tlu- result ol en lollnunt vn one or two ol these ioiiims whith iu"i' ol iiedii to 1 1 ui nujov lielrl ol stmlv. Aiul wi lt ir iiieivecl ii'oits horn the en Uii' st.ite ol the rocl work, this buie.ni i iloin to In in know Irdm to the Nliiii-in. tin- in.ilil. .nul those who .in- un.ihle to ltv.ve their oIn to mini' to the I'niveisitv .in. I otnplt te thi ii hi;liei i dm .it ion. ( 'oi 1 1 sh uulriu i' oin e .n e .i l e l.itivelv new lu noini'iion in Amu ii .in ((liu.uion: tin- sell-improvement l.ul ol l!if e...;lv p.U't ol tin twentieth teiniiiv viw m.it i L.i iluUnt of.ini.nioiH make a l..t luitk in tlu' ool name ol eiliu.i tion. Shu i then, however, a rc:U m.inv major tolloes and univer sities have ineornoratctl this idea into their programs, and the move ment has gained dignity nid st.. tme. M.inv students aie enlin;4 needless monev in summer .school to take ionises which thev could lind in the taulouue ol the Sehool ol Correspondent e: 'N taking tlioe i oi respond eiu e i oni ses thev would le ah!e to use the summer vacation to make some money and would not lie in the position ot be in; at -i used ol i online to summer school to avoid ettin;.; a job. which is a pietty common accuse. ion these davs. or so we have hecii ahle to yathei . The average t on esMindeiu e ionise is lelativelv inejensive and is ol immeasurable value. We are not savin.; ih.it thev are easy, hs i.uise they most ciuphutii :.Ilv aie not: but thev are convenient, th louh. and is ;ood as any lectin e i oi u se. And besides, think ot all th.ise lectutcs von miss . . . Wqtch Your Words, Mr. President Iimi 4 re. t a pi co t tipat ion with i ints of tin cleitiou veai lould smoiinIv impede tonstuittive el loit . . . e slu uld joiiitlv icsolve that the snitness ol time and jx liiii.il nv.flries will not be allowetl to pitvent lis I i i in i seiviiiv; the meiit.m people ettei t ivelv ." r'lesiilent Dwiht David I ieu liowtt sjMtke these winds 1 uesdav to a DenuK i. ;ii -lonttolled Cou.; Ks in a he. illicit apxal to the Uii.U legislative ImiI t stop looliu, aiound with oliti(s ..nd :et the business ol immediate legislation out ol the wav liist. I his is a okI suestioii. and should be taken seiioiislv bv out jovial slu,ito;is and Representa tives. I In it- is one jM.Miii that bo'.lu'is Us a 'ood deal, however. In one bieath tlu- Piesident is asking t!ie Deiiuiiatii Concuss to take the best inteiests ol the Ameiit.au pe p!e to he; . t and buc kle down to woik, anil in the next bieath he is atinotuit iti'4 to the nation that he has deiidt d to let the Md Vi e I'lesideut take over lor him in (.eneva ii anv ittioitant ti press ing business should aiise at home. W'e do not mean to acttise the rresident hiuiselr ol playing "the Steal h lt it at iame to ihe detii liient ol the nation. 1 salt t. but this is laiTvins things a little too lar. It is a common bit ol knowledge that Mi. Nixon's prestige has been taking a steady dip. at least as lar as ihe pollsters aie t otu ei ned. since his trip to Russia has laded from the public i oust iousiiess. I lie Republic;. n strategists, who seem to leel like pius in a jMke, aie senilis concerned about Mr. Ni oiij and want to vi him b.uk in the public eve. Ihe bcs.t thins to d. thev say. would be to let him have a shot at the summit conter ctue. MavlK' make a spla-h or two. tome up with a startling idea - let the woi Id know, in other words, that here is a m;n of vm sui'". toiirase. aiul astuteness. In his haste to aid the p.utv tause 1- isenhower seems t( have lorsotten that this is siij)osetl to be a siun mt tonlerente: it he blithely de tides to walk back across the wa ter to talk thinks over with the bovs back home, what will happen to the pvcstis'c ol the ion!ei enter We surest that without the President . I the I'nited States in attendant e Messcis Khrushchev, DcCaulle and MatMillan will leel no compunc tion to stick around, and that the tonlerente will fall flat - thus con tinuins the policy of failure at (it neva. I heie is no time lot a b.ilure at deneva; success ol some sort must be at hieved. Kven if our 1'iesitlent is incapable of making ;mv con trete ideolosital or practical con tiibution to the meetinss. he is capable of addins ninth throush his personal stature and worldwide reputation, lie is soins lo be need ed, and his jxdiiical whelp is not a1 suitable substitute. Meanwhile, Back To Reality While the biuiss ol the Re publican iVutv spend their time trv uis t" lis'ne some vvav to make Mr. ion look a little mine iepe ta ble, our man in New York S' tpiit tlv about his job. and mow s a little closet in ,i d, ,k hoi si- uom in.it ion. Nelson A. Rot kclellci was cpiite siiious when he said he was not and would not be a candidate lor the nomination ol the Republican Part) loi the Piesideiity of the I'nited States, but he said it at a time when his litia loriunes w i not exactly lidins hish. Now Mr. Nixon's .star is he-sin-ninj;. u wane and Mr. RcKkelel U rs .'is'.besiunins to iise. Political an ilvsts lavorable to the Republi i.ui side of the fence - l ime Maga zine. lcr example - explain the si tuation away by point iik' ut th Rck kelcllcr's write-in siipxrt in Pennsylvana was practically lies' i sable; we jxMtir out that people are naturally la alMut writins in the name of a man. who is not on the ballot. Prim; ; its are not indica tions ol real strength. The Republican Party, by steain i oil inj; llt" Nixon nomination, will be avoiding ntrt only its responsi bility to the electorate by refusins to iluMi.se the best man: it will be neshttius its rcsjoasibility to it 'self by refusins to choose the man whom no one in this country can del eat. New From Auden HOMAGE TO CLIO, by W. H. Auden. Random House. $3.50. There are perhaps seven potts that are most often recognized as the greatest in our language, in our century. They are Pound, Yeats, Eliot, Ste vens, Crane. Cummings. and youngest. Y. II. Auden. William Meredith (one of the "academic" poets) has said that Auden is the greatest poet of the century. I cannot praise Auden this much, but with out question he is a brilliant poet and has had great influence in American .poetry. 'Karl Shapiro, for cxampk credits Auden with "having brought to perfection what everybody nowadays calls the Academic Poem." Also, undeniably, Auden is an almost perfect technician; he has at- one time or another probably used most of the verse forms ex tant in the language. On the other hand, I cannot think of a tiuly "new" thing, an innovation, that he has given to the techniques of our poetry. Too. his poems have always been almost gla cially intellectual; the conceits are those of a chatty metaphysical. This does not mean that Auden never writes a lyric poem, but that he has made the lyric into a vehicle for an idea rather than an emotion, or if the emotion is present it is used, merely.' as a support for an idea. For example, in Homage to Clio, the poem "First Things First" (published first, appropriately, in The New Yorker) ends with the line, "Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." This seems an exceptionally cold way to end a lyric concerning love. Perhaps. Mr. Auden has fallen out of love with love for history is the theme which unties this collection of poems, another example of his intel lectuality. It does not surprise a reader to come upon a book whose poems all deal with some as pect of love, or death, but to happen on a poet who spends five years (the poems in this volume were wirtten between 1954 and 1959) writing po ems about history might seem strange; indeed it seems strange to this reader. Another aspect of Auden's attitude towards po etry is brought to light in the epigraph to the sec ond part of the volume: Although you be. as 1 am. one of those Who feel a Christian ought to write in Prose. For Poetry is Magic born in sin. you May read it to exorcise the Gentile in you. This epigraph is similar to that preceding his Col lected Poetry, (1945): Whether conditioned by Cod or their neura! .structure, still All men have this common croed, account for it as you will: The Truth is one and incapable of contradiction: All knowledge that conflicts with itself is Prose Fiction.. Also, in this vein it is interesting to see the last stanza of the title poem of the volume. Homage To Clio: . . . Approachable as you seem, I dare not ask you if you bless the poets. For you do not look as if you ever read them Nor can I see a reason why you should. Is Auden serious in the' seeming denials of po etry? Has '-e. perhaps, made his poetry into such :n intellc tua! phiv-thing that all elements of thv mystic and visionar.v have fled from it? I think so. This is not to say that the poems in Homage to Clio are not good poems. Far i'rem it. Some of them are among the finest in his career. "Good-bye to the Mezzogiorno" is a beautiful discussion, de- markation of the northern temperament when it comes in contact with the langours and new ten sions of the Mediterranean world. The bawdy hu mor in the. five lined "The Aesthetic Point of View" is wonderfully funny; and the description of the coming of spring in the first lines of "Homage to Clio" is of that sort which makes other poets scream with envy. "Our hill has made its submis sion and the green 'Swept on into the north: . . ." Likewise, the prose interlude, "Dichtung und Wahrheit (An Unwritten Poem)" which discusses the art of poetry in relation to the attempt to say "I Love You" to a single person, is interesting; in man?" ways it is the most interesting part of th? book. The book, then, is an excellent book by an ex cellent poet, but the poet is Auden. a special' kind of poet, and the reader must decide whether Auden is his own kind of poet: it most emphatically is not the place of any critic to dictate to a reader's taste. - - . - - - - , . - 1 John Justice Ikes Trips And Wolfe's D1H Instead of making with the around the world bit. it seems to me that Ike could have been more useful in Washington seeing that Congress got something done. As it is. this session of the : Ions has produced nothing of note except the emasculated civil righ's bill which was made so civil that it now provides no rights. "But this do-nothing Congress will prob ably take on the aspect of a dynamo ! y elections. It is highly possible that the result of the Presi dential election will be dettrmineJ by the voting on a single issue the Forand Bill to provide com pulsory medical aid for the aged. Not only those who are personally effected by the passage or re jection of the bill but also those who have indirect interest in it are watching the legislators with a perching eye. If the bill is passed and the President vetoes it. which would appear likely judging from his past statements, then the Democrats will probably seize the issue as the crux of their November campaign. Realizing the extreme importance of the aid to the aged question. Nixon has a panel of experts (what other kind of panel is there these days?) working on an alternate to Rep. Forand's proposal. Something must be done about the declining farm incomes both parties agree that there is a problem. The Republicans are in the position of be ing forced by cold facts to tacitly ignore Benson's policies and to forge a more workable program. Until Nixon and his farm experts form a co herent farm plan to eliminate the falling farm in comes and crop surpluses, it is hard to say exactly what will even be suggested, much less predict the final concrete legislation. From p.jw until the November election, every action of the Congressmen and Senators will be taken with an eye to what the effect will be in terms of votes, the magic word. At' present the Democrats seem to be making the most political hay out of the issues medical aid to the aged, the farm problem, the missile lag, economy because they have not had to deal with the problems that the party in office has been forced to face. If something definite is gained at the summit conference in May. then the Republicans will have a strong talking point to add to their peace and prosperity theme. However, if the conference is a disastrous failure, then it looks like the elephant may give way to the mule in the capitol. What was the Daily Tar Heel like in 1919-1920 under the editorship of Thomas Wolfe? A frank appraisal of the paper, then the official organ of the athletic association, would have to conclude that it showed little indication of Wolfe's future literary genius. The year is so long past that A Letter On Action TO THE EDITOR: In your editorial of Friday, April 29, you praised the students of South Korea in their militant action against strongman Syngman Rhee, because "they wasted nc time at all when they saw and felt the in justice that had been done . . ; v You went on to say: "When we .see what these students have done ar.d when we lock at the students o! America .... we feel a tinge of re gret for the passage of spirit from theAmerican college . . . Perhaps . social zeal will return to our campuses someday." In another part of the same edi torial column, you praised a grou, cf Negro schoolchildren for their good behavior at the planetarium I quote you again: "The best method by which the Negro can advance thevcause of his own equality is to continue to behave quietly and in the reserved manner demonstrate by -these children . . . They did not feel it necessary to sit in drugstore chairs or picket Franklin Street." I need hardly note that you have constantly opposed the sit-ins and picketing since you became editor. Such editorial inconsistency and hypocrisy is inexcusable. The South ern Negroes are "feeling injustice" just as much as the South Korean were. If the South Korean student can revolt, why can't American Ne gro students do likewise? If you praise the South Korean students lor revolting, why don't you be logi cally consistent and praise the American Negro students for also taking positive action? And have you reflected that the students at A&T College and North Carolina College are displaying the "spirit" that you called for? "Social zeal and revolt against injustice are 0. K. in Korea, but don't let such things disturb my Way of Li'.e'" Isn't that what you really mean. Mr. Yardley? "Perhaps . . . social zeal win re turn to our campus someday." Bu: it is hard to place one-self into the context of the timAc Thuc it ic Vinrrl tr I aL-n coriincW t .litnr'c suggestion that the following cheer Y.o memorized first the post of editor of the uu by all: Hackie, hackie. hackie. Siss. boom-bah, Carolina. Carolina, Rah, Rah, Ran. Rough. Tough, We are the stuff. We play football, never get enough. The rivertising was also strange. Falima ciga rettes and Bevo." an invigorating soft beverage" (made, incidentally, by Anhauser-Busch Co.) were conspicuous in the Tar Heel. Pepsi-Cola was reput ed to "make thought flow evenly." "A great place for Good Eats" was the Goody Shop Cafe. The humor of the paper at the time is hard to descrih?; the best way to do so is to give a few (mercnully) examples: "A friend, the cynical Soph, remarks that the length of a coed's ambition is about six feet. The unfeeling brute!" An anonymous poem called, appropriately, Love. "A bit of sighin' A bit of cryin' A bit of dyin' A lot of lyin' " The students had their counterpart of today's Ptomaine Tavern; Swain Hall, the cafeteria, was known as "Swine Hall." Athletics naturally were allotted the most space. There was quite a bit of editorializing in the sports stories, so UNC, though they might lose to Yale by 6-37, nonetheless the headline read: "Carolina Scores on Yrale." The Tar Heel had a truly positive outlook back then. Interestingly enough, in his editorials Wolfe pro tested against violators of the honor code, over crowding, and stealing, some of which are still very much in evidence here today. In one of his editorials against thieves on cam pus. Wolfe writes with characteristic intensity: ". . . you poor things, vile moral degenerates . . . do you think that you can hide yourself and your insane debauchery in this group of men?" Jonathan Daniels, noted journalist Wolfe's staff, and Legette Blythe, who became a cern for the Nesro' So plcaSe q"!l prominent writer of Tarheelia, contributed letters. One of there protested against students nlavir. ball on Sunday. Stating that these boys gave the Negro's best interests at heart. I school an immoral reputation, Blythe suggested Just think he's going about thin.q.s that they go to an out-of-the-way spot where their the wrong way." I'm sure the Ne deeds would not reflect on Carolina. gro doesn't give a damn for pseudo- Finally, to show that those times were not en- paternalistic advice from twenty- tirely different from the present, in one editorial tAo-year-old white boys, anyway, written in December, Wolfe -says that, "The wea " Dennis Kins er for the last week has been damnable. It will 219 Graham likely continue so " a Tarheel born bred must be restored to its traditional position of being held by a crusa der, a crusader capable of stirring up a spirit of revolt-against-injus-tice among UNC students. An edi tor who counsels "do-nothingness" under the guise of "moderation" is certainly not performing this crus ading lunction and he sure pus out a dull paper because cf it. I cannot believe that such a so phisticated Carolina gentleman as you. Mr. Y'ardley, would be so naive as to believe that the Ne groes are really going to ga:n equality in the South by merely "behaving themselves," that such a course of action would be more effective than sit-ins and picketing. If you have ever discussed integra tion with a typical, white, Southern racial bigot you must be aware ot the fact that such people are nev er going to voluntarily allow the Negro equal rights, no matter how high a cultural level the Negro eventually attains. The "behavior" of the Negro' is not the cause o: racial discrimination; the caue lies deep in the economic, psy chological, and social fabric oi the .i hern Way of Life. The histoii c.;l causal forces cannot be erased by "gcj-J behavior;" rectification and justice is going to require SO CIAL ACTION. 1 am sure that you are just a aware of this as I am, therefore you must have some motive in taking your anti-sit-ins. anti-picket-ing editorial stand other than con- nauseating us with your phony edi torial "front" of: I've really got the The quotation from Kail Shapiro in the first paragraph is from an essay in Shapiro's fine new hook, In Defense of Ignorance. Shapiro is refresh ing. The book is four dollars, from Random II nise. Letter to the Library Dear Editer: I jest want to praise them people over at th. library who are closing it up 15 or 20 mimi'es earlier than the scheduled time. After all, the only people who use it are the smart fellers and they don't really count. And I notice they've been cuttin" off more and more study time up to half an hour sometimes thet's good! Only, I jest wonder, why not go all out? Why not jest close it up two or three hours early or, better yet. jest not open the dumb building at all. John D. Whupple O O O ONS-iPAf & that 6X0 Hi WOSPS AIN'T AW IP&A OP pon't xggp &m no eerrw NO P25it"W fQtl& Wfe'UU WKs THAT, k NgYY 'A s. VOU SiVfsP MY PMSiOZHI Of THIS U.5. AHQA-, eORtO iH A UOG CAE3IN,) TW6 HCUPS. Ci KgMOl GOT A MW NT r N Tk.feV' I il.r u,r Mm cr to t Z UJ id AWn'1 (iJ;-AT s TME i t BEST TMiNo TO a D0U3!TH0L j REcRcTS ? y WELL. I THINK MOST PcOPlE TKcM...TKEN thev can take thew out n00) and then and looc at tkem .. DO YOJ SAVE ALL CF OTOLD RESRSTS. CHA3UE BWaX? CH,YcS...r HAVE AN AWARD-l&NMNS COLLECTION: X u - J3