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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL Tuesdays October 25, AMW.V.W, l,.v..WA...w.Wiv.,w.w..v- .V.V.'.-.V.V.V'.V.-.'.SW.'".. Cussing A Virtue? "What Happens When They Run Out Of Foreigners?" - j tE3je JBatfp tar Heel In its sixty-eighth year of editorial freedom, unhampered by restrictions i from either the administration or the student body. : The Daily Tar Heel is the official student publication of the Publica tions Board of the University of North Carolina, Richard Overstreet, Chairman. - All editorials appearing in The Daily Tar Heel are the personal expres f sions of the editor, unless otherwise credited; they are not necessarily represen- - tative of feeling on the staff, and all reprints or quotations must specify thus. - October 25, 1960 Volume LXIX, Number 3S The Junior Class Presidency Under normal circumstances we would not even bother to vote for a class officer, much less publicly endorse one. We feel, however, that the interesting and exceptional cir cumstances surrounding this fall's race for the presidency of the Junior Class warrant some com ment. After Ray Farris was rejected as a candidate for the nomination of the University Party he an nounced his intentions to run for the office as an independent. The Student Party, which has a pe culiar quality of recognizing op portunity and quality, promptly endorsed him. Now a large coterie of campus "luminaries" is rushing to join the throng. Farris is the best candidate for the position for a number of rea sons, but one that is especially out standing: he realizes that class of ficers are non-entities chosen by a fallacious system and wishes to im prove on this. He seems to have a sincere de sire to make the office an effective means of representation, not only of the class but also of the Univer sity itself. And he seems to feel that the office might, somehow, be made more useful and consequent ly more justified. We endorse Ray Farris for this office in the hope that he will be elected and in the faith that he will bring to a class off icership the needed desire for action and ability to carry through. We hope the Junior Class will see fit to support Farris in his efforts. Republicans, Take Heed! When you have worked yourself two feet from the grave to keep a newspaper fair and unbiased it is very disheartening and frustrating to realize that two unintended mis takes can arouse the indignant ire of some segments of the campus,. The story about the speaking en gagement of Robert Gavin on this campus was not, despite the self righteous, undercover murmurings being passed from lip to lip, elim inated from the newspaper because the editor is a Democrat. It was left out through oversight, and if the editor had known about its ab sence before the paper went to press the mistake would have been corrected. The lead headline on Saturday's paper "UNC Students Favor Ken nedy" was, needless to say, a gross misrepresentation of the facts.' It also was not the headline which the editor personally approved; the latter said: "Student Poll Gives Kennedy Slim Margin." The pell itself was conducted with total hon esty, and if Mr. Nixon had won would have been given exactly the same amount of coverage. The absence of pro-Nixon ma terial on the editorial page is in di rect contradiction to what we want; we urge Republicans to bring their material to this office, because it will be run. In the past we have had to ask two of our regular columnists to write pro-Nixon ma terial because we do not like an unbalanced approach. To those who have been indig nant and self-righteous we suggest that they might do well to investi gate the circumstances before they build crosses. No one in the Daily Tar Heel office wants to slant the news pages of the paper. We want to be fair to all sides. We do not suppress news. Neither do we apologize to any one for anything that has happened to date, because all mistakes were honest ones which we have spent many hours of torturous self-examination regretting. We will con tinue to give our time, energy and devotion to the publication of a fair, honest worthy newspaper. ' Until the day comes when we are satisfied and it will never come our efforts will not cease. And we would respect our enemies much more greatly if they would have the self-respect to tell us their com plaints to our face rather than be hind our back. A Little-Known Blessing We got to feeling a little con cerned over our dental health the other day so, in a moment of in spiration,' called the Dental School and arranged to have our teeth cleaned. Being a little apprehensive about the ability of a student dentist to refrain from running the drill I patfo tEar Peel j II JONATHAN YARDLEY ' ; Editor - X M Wayne King, Mahy Stewart Baker :- i Associate Editors y 1 Robert Haskell, Maegabet Ann Rhymes j HI . Managing Editors 11 Edward Neal Rineh H i Assistant To The Editor l Henry Mayer, Lloyd Little ij News Editors : Scsan Lewis. . .Feature Editor j : if Frank Slusser. Sports Editor i I J Ken Friedman -.Asst. Sports Editor ' J Johs Justice, Davis Young X ! Contributing Editors j Tim Burnett Business Manager Richard Wetner Advertising Manager Sons Jester Circulation Manager Charles WHEDBEE..Subscription Manager I! The Daily Tab Heel is published daily except Monday, examination periods and vacations. It is entered as second claf s matter in the post office in Chapel Hill, N. C, pursuant with the act of March 8. 1870. Subscription rates: $4 per semester, $7 per year. The Daily Tar Heel is a member of the United Press International and utiHzes the services of the News Bu reau of the University of North Caro lina, f . Published bi4 the Colonial Press, Chapel Hill. N. C. through our gums we were, need less to say, scared stiff. All of the pleasant results that were to ensue upon our arrival therefore came as a surprise. We were ushered to our chair by a student dental assistant, and for two hours had our teeth scraped and polished from molar to molar. The end result? Perfect, consider ing our teeth and their prior con dition. The most pleasant aspect of the entire operation was its price: two (2) dollars. A commercial dentist would charge two dollars just to give you an estimate. And the upshot of it is that we are now firm supporters of this lit tle known service, the dental school service which lets you be a one man or woman laboratory for the students. The students' work is examined by an instructor after it is com pleted, so the patient is guaranteed a good, conscientious job; a job probably more carefully executed than a professional might find time to do, since there is not the rush to finish and get on to the next custo mer. And besides . . . they throw in a free toothbrush. Under the bombardment of campaign issues that come and go, the average red-blooded American voter is apt to lose sight of those issues which will eventually constitute historical significance. However, in the last television political debate, . Mr. Richard Milhous Nixon took great pains to elaborate on one issue of such importance. The subject of ex-President Truman's recent "give 'em hell" campaign tactics drew blushing comdemnation from the Republi can standard-bearer. The vice president wanted it clearly under stood that he is opposed to such conduct. He declared that General Dwight D. Eisenhower has added new prestige to the presidency. Mr. Nixon then proceeded to wade through a rather tear-jerking ac count of the little children he had encountered during his campaign. He imagined the awe and respect these little darlings must hold for the President. And in conclusion, Richard Milhouse Nixon, our hero, added evangelistically that if elected he would not let the youth of America down HE TOO, WOULD NOT CUSS. What abstinence! (A Catholic term no less.) Can't you imagine the cheers that arose from homes all over the nation where sulking young sters sat on the verge of spawn ing some new trauma because their favorite western had been cut out so this babbling monk might rave? But disregarding the reception, there is no denying that America ought to thank, the vice-president for stumbling upon a vital con- LOUIS CASSELS ILJ . 'Time Chart3 Is Valuable It was lying innocently on my desk. Had someone left the pam phlet there as a hint for me; or was it left by mistake? Small scroll on the bottom of the front cover said "This pamphlet is presented to you with the com pliments of the local chapter oC Phi Eta Sigma." The title read "Hints on How to Study." This valuable little book is worthy of attention; even we dusty seniors could heed some of its wise words. (V V "-'VI V- "-'li - v t ' ' r Religion In America The Supreme Moral Problem Protestant Christians through out America were asked to re flect, for a few minutes at least, on their personal involvement in the SAipceme moral problem of our time. The problem is finding a way to halt the nuclear-missiles arms race before the world stumbles into a war of annihilation. Its urgency is stressed in a special message which was read from thousands of pulpits in con nection with the annual observ ance of "World Order Sunday." The message was drafted by the general board of the National Council of Churches, made up of 250 leaders of 34 major denomina tions. It emphasizes that each citizen in this democracy has a personal responsibility to help develop and carry through national poli cies that will arrest the world's drift toward war. Any Christian who takes this responsibility seriously will find himself grappling with a dilemma that has baffled and divided the best moral theologians. It may be summed up as fol lows: Weapons technology is advanc ing at an incredibly rapid rate under the pressure of the U.S. Soviet arms race. Both sides al ready have thermonuclear bombs that can destroy a large propor tion of the human race in a single holocaustic engagement. They are perfecting missiles to deliver these bombs over vast distances in a few minutes time. - It may not be long before other nations possess ballistic missiles with nuclear warheads. That will compound the danger of a fatal "miscalculation" on someone's part. In the words of theologian Reinhold Nieburh, each day that the arms race continues, total war becomes "more and more a probability rather than a possi bility." U.S. and Russian leaders have recognized the mounting peril, and both have said that disarma ment is the only way of averting it. But disarmament negotiations have stalled on Russia's refusal to go along with an inspection system and other safeguards which the United States consid ers indispensable to avoid trick ery. At this point, Christians are compelled to ask: What else can we do to save mankind from this incalcuable horror? A radical answer is suggested by a small but growing group of Christians who are known as "nu clear pacifists." They say that Christian teach ing has always held that war is morally defensible only under certain strict conditions: Namely, that the war is fought for a "just" cause, and that the evil which it entails will be outweighed by the good it may achieve in the restoration of peace and justice. But nuclear pacifists say these conditions cannot possibly be met in any war fought with modern -weapons of mass extermination. They assert therefore that Chris tians must renounce the useor even the threatened use of such weapons. They acknowledged that unilat eral renunciation of H-bombs by the United States and its free al lies might invite rapid Communist In Tribute To A Belle Who Kept Memories Alive As the Civil War Centennial Celebration rolls around, South erners should stop amid all the festivities and pay silent tribute to one particular Southern belle. She was perhaps the greatest publicity agent the South and the Civil War have ever known. In June, 1936, the Macmillan Company printed a book about people in the South during the Civil War. They were more opti mistic about it than the author. Macmillan thought it might sell ten thousand copies. The petite Atlanta debutante who wrote it thought five thousand would be a gracious plenty. A month later after publication, almost a quarter of a million copies of the book were in print. People who had previously pur chased only the Bible were buy ing copies by the thousands. In six months after its initial appearance, the book had sold a million copies. By 1950, six mil lion copies had been printed, in almost every civilized language. Gone With The Wind by Mar- JOHN JUSTICE garet Mitchell is now recogniz ed as The Great Southern Novel. Many call it a modern American classic. Whatever it lacked in lit erary worth was made up for by the feeling and energy which went into its authorship. Critics both praised and ridiculed it. Everybody read it. Margaret Mitchell gave to the world an intense picture of the South during Civil War and Re construction. Her people had guts, and fought for their cause in more ways than one. In an early talk with a Macmillan editor, who asked her if her story was one of degeneracy, she told him: "No. It is about tough, hard boiled people who could take it on the chin." Her Pulitzer Prize novel stands as a lasting monument. Its tale of a horrible war, a people of courage, and a disappearing way of life has endeared the South to many , who never thought much about Lee, Grant or Shiloh. Laurie Hocoer conquest of large areas of the world. But they reply, in the words of former ambassador to Russia George F. Kennan, that "there are times when we have no choice but to follow the dic tates of our conscience, to throw ourselves on God's mercy, and not to ask tgo many questions." A substantial majority of America's church . leaders and theologians reject this view. They say that Christians are concern ed with justice as well as pace, and that it would be irresponsi ble for them to ask their govern ment to lay down the nuclear shield which has had the practical effect of protecting millions of people from Communist enslave ment. This view has come to be call ed "nuclear realism." Dr. Niebuhr is one of its leading exponents. Although nuclear realists op pose any unilateral move to up set the "balance of terror" which is maintaining a perilous peace in the world, they feel that mutual disarmament is an imperative necessity. They say that Christians can not accept the present stalemate as insoluble, nor ease their con sciences by pointing out that it is mainly Russia's fault. They have an urgent moral obligation to keep looking persistently, cour ageously, desperately for a fresh approach that will work. The National Council message for world order Sunday points out that this quest cannot be left to statesmen and diplomats. It calls for hard thinking and pray ing by every Christian. Enclosed was a small "Time Chart". I was told to use it for scheduling hours of preparation, classes and hours for leisure or outside work. Good idea. The pamphlet told me to do so many things; however, it did not say how to do them. Here the student encounters the problem of mental discipline, which can be solved only by experience de termination and a sense of re sponsibility to the self. These qualities cannot be found in the written word; they go hand in hand with a serious acceptance of education and consideration for the true reasons for attend ing college. With any kind of organization the individual is bound to feci the bonds of security. The stu dent will be able to approach his work in a more confident manner if it is organized in his mind, just the same as a paper can be more easily written if based on a def inite, written outline. Organization is a must; then the student will know what he has to do when. One important comment within the pamphlet was this "have a definite place for study. If you can arrange to use it as a place of study only, it will soon come to mean study." If the student can find enough different places to study, it would be well to assign each place to each coarse. The student would then associate his surroundings with the subject and thus be men tally set for more efficient study. The problem of concentration is a real one be the student a freshman or senior. The pamphlet suggests that one start studying as soon as he sits down at his desk. By digging into the meat of the matter immediately, the temptation to daydream can be overcome. Efficient reading was also em phasized in the pamphlet. The student would be wise to look into a special service offered by the University that of the Read ing Clinic, located in Peabody Hall. Although no course credit is given for the student's efforts in the fields of reading, spelling, vocabulary, etc. weaknesses can be overcome; the student will find his speed and comprehension improving. Many sources offer many hints about study; most of them are helpful in one way or another. Pamphlets such as published by Phi Eta Sigma (the one which motivated this article) may in form the student of practical methods for more efficient study. But the student must first as sume a serious attitude in order to put these methods into opera tion. "! T? You Are There The Lincoln-Douglas Debates With so much public comment being generated about the Kennedy-Nixon debates, perhaps a look should be taken at their an cestor, the Lincoln-Douglas de bates. The following is a previously unpublished transcript of the first argument between the two men in 1858. Lincoln and Douglas were sitting beneath the shade of a tremendous shade tree in Springfield, Illinois, moments be fore the debate was scheduled to begin. Lincoln: Well, Steve, you ready for the big argument? Douglas: Quite ready, Abe and you? Line: I reckon . . . That's a pret ty big crowd of folks, ain't it?" Doug: Yes, it's market day, and the farmers are here. Line: Hey, you got a bit of mud on yer coat, Steve. Doug: My God, thanks for tell ing me. That might have cost me the election. (Brushing furi ously at his impeccable suit.) Line: Yeah, it might. Say do I look all right? Doug: I don't know, Abe, you look sort of peaked. You been having those moody spells again? Line: Naw, I did have a dream last night that makes me think a bit. I dreamed I was elected President of the United States. Doug.: (Laughing uproarious ly) Ah, Abe! Always kidding around. You President? That's like thinking of that drunken Army bum what's his name Grant? That's like him being President. - Line: Maybe youre right Steve. Say, do I look too bad? I hope not that'd ruin my home spun image. Doug: You wouldn't have a prayer of getting to the Senate without that seedy look of yours, Abe. Better keep it intact. Line: I've geen thinking, Steve. Maybe I'll grow a beard. What do you think? I believe it'd give me a more mature look. Doug: Hell, if you get any more mature, you'll be dead. Take my word, Abe, the public will" never accept you with a beard. t Line: I don't know Oh, well, it's about time for this thing to begin. You prepared much for it? Doug: Oh, yes. I'm up on all the questions. T don'tJcriowihow much effect this debate will have, though.I doubt that the world will little note nor long remem ber what we say here today, but Line: What was that you said, Steve? Doug: "The world will little note nor long remem-" Line: Um Ilmmm . . . (He takes out a pencil and jots down a few words on a scrap of paper, with a sly grin on his face.) Doug: What important issues are you going to stress, Abe? Line: . (Guffawing) Issues? These are my issues, right here. (He r holds up a copy of "Joe Miller's Joke Book." They'll un derstand these. Doug:, They're calling us, Abe. Line: Okay. The two men mount the plat form to history,. Lincoln leaning down to whisper a ribald tale in Douglas' ear.
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