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Tuesday, December 8, 1964 Volume 72, Number 60 The Wild w test 7X?. ' 1 '' ' .1 "'," nnm - T nmWHlMWJWWWMil"lliii-i ,Bll,ni)iMtMW,B.,lW)WWMW'' Ufa Satlg Slar 72 Years of Editorial Freedom bopet(tfl wfctch Ant pat4 to 4oot 79 Offices on the second floor of Graham Memorial. Telephone number: Editorial, sports, news 933-1012. Business, cir culation, advertising 933-1163. Address: Box 1080, Chapel Hill, N. C. Second class postage paid at the Post Office In Chapel Hill, N. C, SabscrtpHon rates: $4.50 per semester; (8.09 per year. Published dally except Mondays, examination periods and vacations, throughout the aca demic year by the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Printed by the Chapel Hill Publishing Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C. A Crisp December Day In Hawaii Yesterday the nation paused a mo ment and remembered . a far-off battle which ignited the most horrible conflict the world has ever seen. It was 23 years since Japanese air planes had swooped low through the narrow confines of Kolekole Pass and started the Pacific end of World War II, and America had not forgotten. On that fateful December day in 1941, 2,000 Americans died and another 1,700 were injured. But those terrible totals were small compared to those in the four years that folloewd. The war finally ended, but only when America unveiled the most horrible weapon ever devised by man. And it all started that crisp December day in Hawaii. The first Japanese airplane was spot ted by a soldier at Schofield Barracks, 15 miles north of Pearl. It was followed by more, and more, and more, and they raked the army base as they turned south. . A small airfield was bombed, and then the airplanes flew down the highway, over the little towns of Wahiawa and Aiea, and into the huge Navy base. Within two hours, Pearl Harbor was in flames. Two battleships, the Arizona and the Utah, were at the bottom, and World War II had begun. It was a dark day for America, and it was followed by many more. And while the nation was pausing yesterday, it would have done well to consider the possibility of other such days, of other such years. Today the nation is at war as surely as they were that day in Hawaii. The Congo is flaming with the blazing torches of revolution, and we are deeply involved. The jungles of Southeast Asia are blazing as well, but with rockets and machine gun bullets and mortar shells instead of torches and spears. The world is in chaos, and it is getting more so each day. Americans are being killed today as surely they were being killed on December 7, 1941. It would not take much to ignite another massive war. Yesterday was indeed a day for re membering. We hope it also was a day for thinking. Terry Sanford Has His Day Today is "Terry Sanford Day.' Tonight, in a fitting climax to a term that has had many of its highlights in extricably interwoven with the life of . this University, the Governor will sum up his four years in the Statehouse for the Young Democrat Club. It was just over four years ago (March 16, 1960) that Terry Sanford ad dressed the same YDC group and out lined some of the major proposals of his platform, thus throwing the guberna torial campaign into high gear. Now he will scrutinize the events that have transpired during those four years by looking at them through the hindsight end of the telescope. In a sense, of course, he could be look ing much further into the past than that cold March day when he came to the campus already caught up in the swing of a tough campaign. He may look back to the first "Terry Sanford Day," though it was held in Fayetteville, not Chapel Hill. That was the day he tossed his hat into the ring and officially launched his campaign with a plea for you guessed it educa tion. Or, like many alumni who return to the campus periodically, he may turn his thoughts momentarily to the days in the late 30's when he sauntered off to class on bitter cold winter mornings (or perhaps found the warmth of his dorm room too pleasant to give up, even to go to class). Were there big visions in those days, too? Perhaps we'll find out tonight, but the odds are frankly against it. For Terry Sanford has a way of letting the past lie where it will, preferring to turn his thoughts to the future. He uses the past only as a foundation on which to rest even bigger visions of North Carolina's future, and even his reminiscences in variably turn into mirrors for the re flecting of future hopes. But that is the way it should be, for Terry Sanford is a man with one eye fixed unswervingly on the future. If he was not such a man, it is doubtful that we would have reason or desire to honor him today. Today is his day, and the University community could show its gratitude in no more fitting fashion than by provid ing him with a warm and enthusiastic audience. Who knows perhaps he will even condescend to let the past intrude for a moment on the future. Responsibility Where It Belongs (The Duke Chronicle) The Undergraduate Faculty Council removed the last restriction for class at tendance yesterday and consequently placed total responsibility for attend ance upon students where it belongs. The vacation regulations were dropped at yesterday's meeting. The UFC'S vote represents the facul ty's confidence in students to assume total responsibility for class attendance. Under the new system which takes effect immediately, students must re port only the day before classes begin each semester. No longer are students required to attend classes the day be fore and after a vacation. For some students the new rule may be license to leave days, even weeks be fore the vacation officially begins, but for the vast majority of students the new rule will primarily mean the con 'enience of easier travel arrangements, and perhaps one more day of vacation either way. However, the greatest benefit from this new change is the contribution it ? will make to the academic atmosphere faculty members and deans no longer even remotely resemble the "bookkeep ers and disciplinarians" of old this at mosphere will go a long way in creat ing a greater sense of harmony and openness. We are confident that both students and faculty members (who might be tempted to schedule an announced exam the day before and after a vacation) will respond to this new responsibility in the same manner with which the voluntary class attendance change was received. It is a good sign that there was no massive "educational," "indoctrination" process on the student body when the change was announced we appreciate this confidence and feel sure it will be fulfilled. And The Three Wise Merchants Christmas is coming. How can you tell? Well, it's that time of year that signs saying "XMAS GIFTS" start appearing. And the aluminum trees shine from every store window. And you hear songs like "The Jingle Bells Rock" every time you turn around. And people begin to wonder what gifts they will reap come Christmas day. And the football fans begin to get excited about the post-season games. Yeah, Christmas is coming. r - is- lb , " Letters To The Editors eMails, Pickets Defended Concert Guests Out Of Place Editors, The Tar Heel: In the past few' years, there has been some criticism of the conduct at the fall Germans con cert .This criticism has come from two sources: a graduate student and the Tanhellenic Council. . This criticism is typic al of the type usually given fra ternities whenever they are re sponsible for any social event. In case some students are not familiar with the Germans Club, the following should clear up a few misconceptions. This is a private organization not compos ed of the entire fraternity system and' unlike the sponsors of Jubilee-Weekend, which is financed by the entire student body. Its composition consists of 13 fraternities, their undergraduate members and bull pledges. This is the entire composition; there are no sororities or graduate students in the Germans Club. The concert is financed by these 13 fraternities at a cost of approximately $6.00 a mem ber. The entertainment groups do not perform because they like the Germans Club, or the audi ence before which they perform. They perform because they have special talents that the Germans Club members wish to hear and are willing to pay to see these talents displayed. You may be wondering how members of the Panhellenic Council is the sorority's answers to the Interfraternity Council. The members of the Panhellenic Council were guests of the in dividual members of the Germ ans Club. Their escorts invited them to see the Germans Con cert; they were not forced to attend. As for graduate students, it is a courtesy extended by the Germans Club to all past mem bers to attend if they wish. Now, these two sources of criticism were guests of Germ ans Club members; these two sources claim that the Campus Cole was violated at the concert. The Campus Code states that we should conduct ourselves as ladies and gentlemen at all times. The Germans Club was criticized by their own guests a very rude and ill-mannered criticism unbecoming to a lady or a gentleman. When the guest of someone for a meal, you shouldn't complain about the food. As for the Panhellenic Council, you will not have any "power to avoid a repitition (sic) of the incident in the future," so I sug gest you stay in your rooms dur ing the next concert and read up on your Emily Post. As for the graduate student, you were probably just tired of the Brothers Four; this is their second performance in the past four years they like it here. Joe Exum Sigma No Editor's Note: Were it not for the "guests," the Germans Club would have folded long ago. Gag Law Critics Should Be Active Editors, The Tar Heel: It seems somewhat ironical that The Daily Tar Heel, whose masthead proclaims ' that it has enjoyed "72 Years of Editorial Freedom," would stoop to ap peasement when the basic con cepts and freedoms which it pur ports to defend are being as sailed on its very doorstep. There has been no indication from any legislator in the North Carolina General Assembly that the Gag Law will be repealed or even modified in the upcom ing legislative session. There is even a very good chance that it will be strengthened. Why then, is it wrong for per sons who oppose the bill in both practice and principle to or ganize against it? To gag the voice of student opposition or to advocate the silencing of a voice that should have something to say about the laws passed di rectly concerning it, is to agree in theory with the Gag Law it self. One of the . principles of democratic government is that the people's legislatures should be subservient to and not mas ters of the public will The Tar Heel should take care lest the next step of the General Assembly is to see that .the Tar Heel's 72nd year of editorial freedom is its last. Arthur L. Latham, III 305 Pittsboro St. Of N. Carolin 01 By DAVID ROTIIMAN "The inhabitants of the west ern section of the state are a world apart from Chapel Hill. In fact, I wonder if some of them know UNC exists." So says Frank Baker (a pseu donym), a student here. Baker will not let his real name be used since he again seeks sum mer employment in one of West ern Carolina's textile mills. But he has strong (perhaps too strong) opinions about certain segments of Western Carolina's population. "Many Northern companies have moved South to avoid deal ing with unions. They find un organized hillbillies make cheap labor. They also find they get what they pay for. "The workers in the more iso lated countries simply cannot adapt to factory conditions. They master only the basic skills of the textile business. When placed in positions requiring proficien cy or responsibility, they fail miserably. "Tell them to maintain ma chinery, and they'll forget about replacing burned-out light bulbs. Train them as packers, and they'll send products to the wrong places. Promote them, and they'll pay you back by being just as irresponsible as before. "Of course, the workers are not all like that. Some of them are quite reliable, quite easy to work with. In localities open to the outside world, the problems are less troublesome. "But you also think about the real hick towns, the places where hillbillies drive the latest auto mobiles, but continue to gun down still-draining sheriffs. "I don't want to give the im pression that this goes on all over western Carolina, or that the killing of law-enforcement personnel is common anywhere. "But there have been cases which scare me. Like the sher iff who was pushed off the cliff or the agent who got sprayed with buckshot. These things did not die out in the last century "Yes I won't want to argue with the hill folk; they're too violent. Take what happened in one factory when a lady worker was fired for refusal to respect authority. "The personnel manager, when he placed her on the pay roll, knew from the beginning he was courting chance. Her personali ty test showed everything. "But she was put to work in the factory, and soon was in trouble with her supervisor. Ho had her dismissed. "Soon afterward, she shot him fatally. It was right cut of Zane Grey cinema. "Believe me. these people like? guns. You sometimes see road signs pockmarked with bullet holes. There's one sign like that a mile from my home. "You're only thankful th?r don't mean all they say. A friend of mine once asked a fellow what he'd do if his life had been saved by a Negro doctor. " 'Hell the character said, Td tell that s.o.b. to get outta my sight.' "I myself once heard a hill billy suggest he was 'just wait ing for a nigger to shoot.' He said he was going to vote for Goldwater because Goldwatcr would let him do that. "The GOP, cetrainly, doesn't tolerate such nonsense. But if the politicians won't reflect local prejudices, the hillbillies do it for them. Their minds simply won't yield to logic. "I repeat: never would T let myself openly disagree with them. It's too damn risky. "In fact, at my summer job. I spoke in mono-syllables. The hill folk don't respect 'intellec tuals.' "Above all, I kept silent on the subject of integraiton. I didn't ever discuss it even in mono syllables. "Naturally, the hillbillies have their side too. Many of them needlessly suffer from disease. They live in prefabs, garage-like structures they call homes. They haven't heard about family plan ning. I know a hillbilly about my age; he has five poorly-supported children already. "I sometimes wonder what I'd be like without an adequate edu cation, without fluency in my native tongue, without the abili ty to do long division, without modern skills. "Then what would I be doing? Probably working in some mill for 70 bucks a week. "Perhaps I'd spend my money more wisely than some of the hillbillies the ones who put their status on four wheels and drive it around the countryside; the ones who live like animals in their dilapidated shacks. I don't know it haunts me." It should haunt a lot of people. The Candle: Folfo Epic For Campus By TIMOTHY RAY (Accent the last syllable of each line. ) Gonna sing you a song 'bout morality. Student conduct at the Univer- sitee. Listen now all you young men, Parkin' your car is now a sin. Refrain (Repeat after each stanza): I stole a Pepsi-Cola and a choco Mars. Got ninety-nine years behind the bars. In the federT gumment of this countree. You can own a motel and go scott free. But here at home in Chapel Hill, Watch out you don't cross Big BilL Bill's got a list of names real long; Hell get you if you done wrong. If your Chev ain't listed there, You will find your transcript bare. If you are here on scholarship, There ain't no way you can be hip. For driving your Ford round this here town, They'll put you six feet under ground. I know somebody whose name is Kate. She watches you when you're on a date. If you go to your apartment, Your problem won't be just the rent. J T'was a fellow they said did in his wife. The judge he said "young man, it's life." If you think that, judge was mean. Just you watch out for the dean. There was a man who stole some grain, From Ag Department he sought to gain. He spent one night up in the jail. But kiss your girl and you'll get haiL The FBI is infiltrating; Though on your nerves this can be. grating. You'll think subversives get off light If you the Honor Council fight. Reviews Hemingway s Parti laot By KDJNON McLAMB A MOVEABLE FEAST, By Ern est Hemingway. Charles Scrib ner's Sons, 1964. 211 .pp. The Paris of the 1920's, as in the years to follow, was a haven for literati in self-imposed exile. Offspring of a great war, many of them groping for identity in its wake, the giants of a genera tion fouxid a rich soil for the seedlings of full literary flower. The long and prolific career Ernest Henciingway had its in ception in this milieu, which is the setting of his last work. "A Moveable Feast" is a renunis cence, often, loving, sometimes bitter, of the years when the youthful Hemingways were "very poor and very happy." To the author, Paris in the years 1221-25 was a feast, and a moveable one because "where ever yam go for the rest of your life, it stays with you." He re calls fondly the rick literature the sympathetic concern, and the encouragement always available at Sylvia Beach's, bookshop- the arduous mornings spent 'per fecting his craft in the welcome loneliness of cafes; the warm and devoted companionship of his first wife, Hadley, and their excited anticipation of the Pari sian spring when "there were no problems except where to be happiest." Artists of the period, signifi cant and minor alike, parade through Hemingway's legacy to the world of letters. There are perceptive sketches of Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Scott Fitz gerald, among others. Hemingway was a frequent visitor at Miss Stein's apart ment, where she regally pro nounced judgment on the -major literary figures of the day and told Hemingway he was not good enough to write stories for the Saturday Evening Post. He dis passionately narrates their spo radic friendship and his over hearing of the distasteful episode which ended it. Ezra Pound gets easily the. kindest treatment from Heming way, who found in him a warm, open-hearted person and a jovial companion. The recounting of Hemingway's teaching Pound to box is a memorable incident of recent literature. The most provoking and enter taining of the sketches, occupy ing more than a quarter of the book, is that of Fitzgerald. Hemingway Gepicts nim as a man emotionally fragile, who wore his heart on his sleeve and was more than a little hen-pecked. The idea of a close association between the earthy Hemingway and the sensitive Fitzgerald is intriguing enough, but the author heightens the effect by recount ing a pair of incidents, one merely comic and the other bord ering cruelly on the pathetic. Hemingway graphically de tails his frustration with the frailties of his colleague on a long motor trip and overnight stay at a hotel, when he was virtually consigned to the role of a wet-nurse. The other epi sode, which Hemingway aptly titled "A Matter of Measure ments," is an uneasily amusing account of his effort to persuade Fitzgerald that the latter's anxie ties of sexual inadequacy were the product of his wife Zelda's malicious imagination. In a cold dissection of Zelda, Hemingway blames her for the eventual deterioration of Fitz gerald's talent. He hypothesizes curiously that she was jealous of his talent and purposefully sought to destroy it. Hemingway remarks cryptic ally in the preface of the book that it may be regarded as fic tion. It does indeed read like a plotless novel; the dialogue in particular is sharply reminiscent of Hemingway fiction, as the following excerpt of a conversa tion with Hadley will attest: "But Tatie, you must go by this afternoon and pay," she said. Sore I wilL- I said, "we'll both go. And then well walk down by the river and along the quais." "Let's look in all the galleries and in the windows of the shops." "Sure. We caa walk anywhere and we can stop at some new cafe where we don't know any one and nobody knows us and have a drink." "We can have two drinks." "Then we can eat somewhere. "We'll come home and eat here and we'll have a lovely meal. And afterwards well read and then go to bed and make love." "And well never love anyone else bat each other. "No. Never." Hemingway's remembrance of his relationship with his first wife is warm and generous, with only a brief allusion to their sub sequent parting. It is tempting to speculate that such unchar acteristic sentimentality is an effort to exorcise guilt over the circumstance of that separation. There is a large ground of kin ship between Hemingway fact and fiction. The author details carefully and deliciously the foods and wines consumed at in numerable dinners, a trademark of Hemingway as novelist. There is the same exhilaration at phys ical involvement and contest, whether skiing in the Alps cr grimly watching the races at Enghien, at the bull ring cr in the boxing ring. Hemingway's fiaal work af fords valuable introspective in sights into himself both as a writer and as a man, as well as the environment that nurtur ed him; it is, as such, a most precious legacy. Perhaps the mature Hemingway, stung by the gradual diminishing of cri tical acclaim, wished to remind us posthumously of his earlier claim to greatness.
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