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Tuesday, January 12, 1965 Volume 72, Number 74 T. Eliot On -A? Omf Tiinme O o IE Critic ta tesra of E&iorfcr Freedoxa 0?3ccs on the second floor of Grahara Memorial. Telephone namier: Editorial. poeti nena 123-1012. Business, cir-c-aUriteii, advertising SSM163. Address: Box 1CS3, Chapel mil, N. C Second class postage paid at tSa Pos Office in Chapel Hill, N. C. Subscription rates: M-50 per semester; $8,00 per year. . PdbCsied dah except" Meadays, exasdnatioa perfads a&cl vacations, thrpogfiont e aca demic year by the Publications Board of the tJniversfty of North Carolina. Printed by t&e Chapel Hill Publishing- Company, Inc., 501 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, N. C - Czftfi:i If wkfcfc tin Q DIP For A Nearer Wateriiig Hole Our Uhiversiy administrators, who have shown many, many signs of being progressive in the past,, have recently taken a turn for the worse with their ll-out opposition to the establishment of a liquor store in the western section Led by Dr. Dudley DeWitt Carroll, they are determined to block the build- ihg of another store; claiming the one in Eastgate is sufficient and another would only bring all sorts of problems to 0 our wooded glen. , ; To be sure, there is a strong argument Against the proposed location for the new 'Store. But there is- very little argument against a new store. : The proposed location behind Fowler's has only convenience to speak for it. The site is on a street that is already too congested, and could produce chaos with a new traffic problem. TVirt cifrt id trr naqi "1iot1 Will TTirfTl - . mm m m m jmrnmrnmrm .a m H m m m k , School, and although students there would not be able to purchase liquor it Would not be a good idea for them to see their respected elders picking up the weekly supply. The site is too near establishments fre quented by minors, notably Hardee's and Burger Chef. . The site is directly across the street from a residential area. We propose 'the State Alcoholic Board, in its meeting Thursday, instead approve a store located at least a half-mile west of Fowler's. This would put it near the Chapel Hill-Carrboro division line, thus being convenient to botli towns. Another store would certainly do a great deal to stem the sale of bootleg liquor in Carrboro, whose residents face a five-mile drive to acquire their fire water. It would relieve pressure on the East gate store, which last year did $1.5 mil lion in. total sales and where customers often have to wait in line for 10-15 min ' utes. . It would be close enough foT students to purchase their goods without having to fight the traffic jam which seems to' be a constant occurrance between Chap el Hill and Eastgate. It would be out from under the noses (and the temptation) of high school stu dents, and could easily be located in a place where traffic would be no problem. It is time for our administrators to face the fact that UNC students are going, to have a drink every now and then, even if they have to go to Durham to get it. Chapel Hill is a cosmopolitan " little place, but the famed liberality of its citi zens does not mean they will seize upon a convenient place to get liquor and be come a pack of drunks. If the state is going to regulate, and profit from, our desire to have a drink from time to time, at least let us have the privilege of getting it without having to fight traffic jams and long lines. A Dark Hour For Section 14(b) From The Charlotte Observer a The AFL-CIO's campaign to repeal Sec tion 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act will o barreling down the corridors of Wash ington next week with an enthusiasm sparked by a passage in the President's State of the Union message. ; This is the year AFL-CIO leaders, be lieve they have the votes to do away Xyith state right-to-work laws. President Johnson is- caught in the middle on this one. Although he attributed it to the Democratic platforms of 1960 and 1964, the President fulfilled a minimum per- Spot The Spot - We approached our "Spot the Spot" contest with some hesitation. Would the campus like it? Could we find a fair sampling of obscure and not-so-obscure campus pointy? Would we have too many winners?' ; Well, it appears we have been success ful. In fact, we're sorry to say that our supply of back issues has been exhaust ed thus necessitating a small rules change. , r cOn deadline day (Thursday, 7:30 a.m.), it, will only be necessary for an entrant to-, bring the last eight photos. If you have the first two, okay. But only the last eight will be required. And remember, there will oe two photos the final day, as we previously announced. And both are difficult. The official answers are in the pos session of our photographer, Jock Laut erer, and only he knows the exact lo cations. When entries are received, they will be marked with the exact time they ar rived at the offiee.s In case of a tie be tween two entrants, the award will be split. If there are more than two stand ing outside the DTH offices at 7:30 a.m. with the correct answer, then a tie-breaker: will be published. Needless to say, that willbe the hard est yet. So onward and upward, fellow goof 6fs! Spot those jspotst r; sonal obligation to the union when he said he "would! propose to Congress" the extermination of 14(b). The AFL-CIO is not going to waste much time arguing the merits of the repealer. It's not a matter of what there is ta recommend right-to-work laws to the American people. The issue turns on whether the union has the votes in the showdown. It claims at least 221 in the House,, with only 218 needed for repeal. It does not appear worried about opposition in the Senate. The extent of presidential assistance may still be a factor, but union officials believe they can win with no more than Johnson's "benevolent neutral ity." Repeal of Section 14(b) would not rep resent the will of a majority of Ameri cans. Sixty-seven per cent of those poll ed' by the Opinion Research Corporation opposed compulsory unionism. There are 58 million: Americans whose state right-to-work laws would be nullified. We in North Carolina have a special stake in this fights The state was among the first to support the principle of vol untary unionism, passing a right-to-work law on March 18; 1947. The United States Supreme Court upheld the con stitutionality of this law and those of Arizona and Nebraska in 1949. Are there enough congressmen with the strength to hold with a study group of the Committee for Economic Develop ment that . . . "the controlling principle should be the right of an individual to belong to a union"? Segments of organized labor have sought this repeal ever since Congress overrode President Truman's veto to pass Taft-Hartley in 1947. The effort acceler ated in the 1964 elections , because some unions resented the effort time and money spent in getting and holding mem bers. They want membership dues and contracts to fall like overripe cherries at a shake of the tree. This is a test of power unions led by the AFL-CIO against the will of most of the people. Can Congress say, "The people no"? Bj ROGER EEHRT From Te Daily niini "Never commit yourself to a cheese without having first ex amined it." T. S. Eliot, 1956 . . After it is admitted that "The Love Song of J. Alfred Pru frock" is the most famous poem of our time, "The Waste Larid?r the most influential,, and '.'Four Quartets" probably the best, it is necessary to go ahead and admit, too, that Thomas Stearns Eliot, dead at 76v wasr far his fashion the- most destructive force in our intellectual world". But this is a judgment that will not be made, and Eliot more than anyone else is re sponsible for the fact that such judgments are no longer fash ionable. Although: his poetry made him famous, it was prob ably his criticism that did most to change the academic land scape during his lifetime, and it was an analytical criticism which rarely asked the final embarrassing question: Is this work good, or bad? And so the obituaries will attest that Eliot was important, and that his poe try was the most influential Inauguration Day Parade By BOB PAGE in I was one-five thousandth of the militarv honor accorded to the new governor Friday. If it weren't for the vision, one would be inclined to skip the whole thing. The vision? It comes from those paraphrases of "God, country and motherhood." The idea is to make your unit look good. There's also the thrill of taking part in the parade and trooping past the reviewing stand. Big deal. ; Getting out of class just in time to don the uniform and scurry over to Raleigh's Dor ton Arena, you arrive just in time to have lunch. Barbecue. Great. The. perfect diet to march on. More of that famed military planning. , Load into the buses and join the convoy. The bus stops some nine blocks from the beginning of the parade route after three 20-minute intervals of waiting, a military institution in itself. The wise guys: "We don't get off here. We're at least two miles away. - They can't be ser ious' They were. Dismount. Fall into forma tion. Wait. Not just 15 minu tes, not 30, but almost an hour. Then we begin to move. Five blocks in 4? mo-2 minutes. Finally you can begin to hear drum beats. The vision returns. Just picture our snappy unit passing the stand. Don't be dis illusioned by the fact that we haven't ever marched together as a unit. We were well train ed in basic training - three years ag. Still waiting. Someone men tions that his good old barbe cue lunch must want to see the parade. We're at parade rest in one of Raleigh's slum areas. An el derly man, bearded and crooked in posture, crosses the street. Right through the middle of the ranks. He's huddled over and the look on his face doesn't tell you whether he's unimpressed with weekend warriors or is scared, like we might really be going to fight a war. A hundred and five minuted gone by. The- commanding offi cer reminds you at the last min ute: "Don't forget to snap those heads at the "eyes right" com mand. And keep your dress to the right. And the left foot hits the ground on the heavy beat of the drum." Onto Fayetteville Street. Star ting down to the moment of. the vision. Other people line the streets, giving you the once ov er. The noise picks up. Band music comes from both sides. : Oh, no. Nobody told us which band's cadence to follow. The one in front or the one behind? You da several quick half-steps to get in rhythm with everyone else. But do you follow the man in? front, the one to the left, or on the right? One band starts up, the oth er one stops. Change steps. Then they both play. Of course they aren't in the same rhythm. Oh well. Do the best you can. At worst you'll probably be in step with half and out with half the men in your unit. Now for the moment of the vision. What? We've passed the stand alrea dy? It can't be. We didn't even hear "eyes right." We didn't get to pay full respects to those dig nitaries. What's the use? Now. why do I laugh about all this and look forward to the next parade. Because our commanding of ficer, at the end of the route said: "It really looked great to me. And,, friends, he was ser ious. That makes it all worthwhile Ahhh. The vision. body of work in this century, but they will not attempt to as sign, even temporarily, Eliot's place iir the continuing struggle of men to envision and create a more decent society. This will not do. T. S. Eliot's importance to most of us5 rests, finally, in what he did" to our world rather than in what he did in his poems and plays and criticism. . We must begin by separating the important Eliot of the essen tial poems from the public Eliot of more recent years. It will Be important to his biographers that Eliot converted to the Church of England,- that he be came monarchist in politics and reactionary in his social criticism, but that does not concern us because it has sim ply not been important in our world. Eliot took countless thou- sands more into the waste land ; than he ever subsequently deliv ered to the church. Eliot gave, us an idiom of de spair that was so persuasive we have never learned a different vocabulary. He gave' us a view of the disintegrating modern personality that, like Humpty Dumpty, we have- never been able to- fit back, together again. He fixed the currents of the London philosophical milieu of 1908 to 1917 so firmly in his criticism that critics have nev er since been able to counter T. E Hulme's revolutionary dic tum: "It is essential to prove that beauty may be in. small, dry things." He caused both poetry and criticism - to re trench, to fall back on what was certain and could be known. He dissolved the 'romantic conven tions of the 19th century into their inadequate parts and dem onstrated that dreams are not the stuff we are made of any more, not since the trenches in France in that most terrible winter of the war. He took away our illusions and left us with none of his own. As a result, Eliot, student of Ezra Pound and influence to nearly every poet since, is still the most "modern" poet that we have. The Imagist movement which began with HulmeV Poets' . Glut in- London in 1908V and was carried forward by Pound, Richard Aldington Wil fred Owen, Herbert Read, H. D.,' and others, then modified and reinforced by Amy Lowell, James Joyce and Wyndham Le wis, and finally contained and controlled by Eliot in "Prelud es" (1917) and shaped into a new voice altogether in "The Waste Land" (1922): is the only real avant-garde we have in poetry today. There is nothing, newer: So do not say that poetry is dying in these hard times, that no . one reads it any more, or that poets have- lost their influ ence. That may be true in gen eral,, but it is not true of T. S. Eliot. The ; remarkable fashion of . disillusionment, which has taught almost all the "in" mem-. bers of" contemporary writing and criticism the methods of contemptuous coolness in. their public stance f was born in Eliot and has never been defeated since, not . even by the naive Marxist idealism of the 1930s. His was a world of sexless- ness and drought, a world ia which there is notMng outside time and space, in- which per sons themselves are objects, in which "I will show your fear in a handful of dust," and it set the tone we hear in every acad emy and in the "new criti cism" to this day. The "Lost Generation" of the 1920s, which did not really take Eliot for their spokesman de spite what the Associated Press rewritemen may believe, nev ertheless had its intellectual po sition, made plausible by "The Waste Land," and in the Exis tentialists and the- Beats, we can reap the two alternatives that have grown from that heri tage: a cooL coping with an im possible . world, for those witfe imagination, or an adolescent nihilism for those who either lack imagination or are too la zy or gutless to sustain it. That is Eliot's legacy and it is alive today, and at work, and impor tant to the. world we all have to live in Eliot has not simply provided us with a particular world view; his criticism has tended to block the approaches to alternative concepts of what human life should be about. In his early critical essays which repre sent a sustained' intellectual ef fort without equal in our time he established almost single handedly a new canon of what should be read and regarded as important. He resurrected the Metaphysical Poets, restoring Donne at Milton's expense, and he laid the 19th century to rest so finally that decent courses in its authors are only now trick- rj-ninnn-n-rrn irpiirr w in i ii- iimi ii-tt tf r rr nrjmi m mr rirriffT nurinm t nr i niip. 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Much of the credit for expos ing me as REAL chairman should go, and rightly so, to the REAL SP chairman, Ar thur Hays, the Frankfin Flash. It had not been my goal to out last Arthur, and this had driv en me to remain as REAL chair man in absentiai But the news has reached me that Arthur will be at Chapel Hill for an addi tional twenty years. After law school, I understand Arthur will enter med school, then dental school,, then he will obtain his doctorate- in library science, then the School of Pharmacy, and finally, when no more gra duate degrees are available, Ar thur will enter the School of Nursing. (I understand Arthur wanted to finish nursing school before entering the School of Medicine, but since this would require moving from 308 Ruf fin into the Nurses Dorm, and hence, changing legislative dis tricts, be has reversed this pro cedure.) Now at last I find it neces sary to submit my resignation as REAL chairman of the Uni versity Party. I regret doing this, not because of all the fond memories that linger concern ing past associations and events, but because now I must accept the fact that , Arthur Hays, the Franklin Flash,, has indeed out lasted me. , . Donald W. Curtis REAL. University Party Chairman Cherryville, N. C. Editors' note: Curtis is pres ently executive vice-president and treasurer of Broadcasting Company of the Carolinas, Inc., a firm he helped to found short ly after completion of his term as summer school Student Body President in. August.. Af ter managing three UP presi dential campaigns, two success fully, and serving once him self, he has forsaken public ser vice for the service of his own interests - money. After five epic years at Carolina, he has not yet completed work for his undergraduate degree. It is hard to say who is the REAL winner in - the historic Curtis-Hays battle. National Seashore Extension Favored Editors, The Tar .Heels Several v days ago I came across an article in a North Carolina newspaper concerning the establishment by the , De partment of Interior of the Out er Banks of North Carolina as- a National Seashore. It would in clude Cape Lookout! and Shack- leford Banks all' the way to Beaufort. As a citizen of New York State one might find it strange for me to write this letter. How ever, after, spending an entire summer in the area under con sideration, I wanted to experess my opinion. I think that the stu-. dent body should learn of this even though the Daily Tar Heel made no mention of it. The creation of a National Seashore , is step in? the right direction. Cape Lookout and Shackleford Banks are some of the few remaining seashores in the United States that have been untouched by the destructive hand of man. It was a unique experience for me wherf I was at Shackleford. It- was the first time that I was the only per son on the beach. It is a far cry from Brighton Beach and Coney Island in Brooklyn, It is a wonderful place the sound of the clear blue surf, the cries of the soaring sea birds and no garbage strewn all over the sand!- I urge all, students at the Uni versity of North Carolina to write to their Senators,. Con gressmen and any ether public officials to ask them to support the formation of this National Seashore., I am. going to do the same. Jeffrey Wolff New York City Editors Note; The area from Kitty Hawk south, to Ocracoke is presently a national seashore area. The proposal now is to extend the protected area south from Ocracoke to Cape Look-out. ling back, into the universities. JSIost importantly, he replaced "romanticism" with a "classi cism"" he outlined with Hulme and" Pound, and it is essentialir this view of art which. has pre vailed in the "new criticism" ever since. More than most menr Eliot has been judged by standards he himself helped to set up, and by those standards his poetry was very good- His vast infla ence on modern criticism is, in deed, one of the many reasons his own critical stature is so high. But there has been a weakness- among Eliot's critics to sidestep the philosophical im portance of his poetry and to attemd instead to his remark able complexity and difficulty. There are a dozen articles and books on his constructions, im agery, myth patterns and voca bulary for every essay on his values, thought and meanings. There has been a tendency to believe, perhaps subconsciously, that "The Waste Land" having been written, there is nothing more to be said. But the game is not overr and I refuse to accept Eliot's voice as the final one. The poe try and philosophy of affirma tion is not in style now, and somehow Eliot will have to be answered, will have to be de feated, before modern literature as a whole can escape from its tendencies toward introspection, self-pity, suicide and despair. He left a big hole when he died. I suppose he had to say what he said in order for us to answer him in ideas heavy enough to handle the size of the problems he left us with. Trunk Travel Far Superior By ART BUCHWALD The New York Hearlad Tribune When, the Egyptians decided to ship an Israeli citizen a i r freight from Rome a couple of weeks ago, many people were shocked. But a friend of mine, from Grosse Point, Michigan, saw nothing cruel about the in cident at all. The day after the story broke he called me long distance and said, "Did you see. a photo of the trunk they tried to send that fellow in?" "Yes, it was ghastly, wasn't it?" "What do you mean, ghastly? i$tjdji? the picture closely. Does fiOt It remind you of anything? Don't you feel you've been there before?" I studied the picture, but noth ing came to mind. "Nope, I can't see it." "The whole contrivance has been patterned' after the three abreast tourist flights on Air lines. I didn't realize it until I toot a flight last week and" then it dawned on me where the Egyptians got the idea. Of course the trunk is much more comfortable than, the seat on the airline, but that's because the Egyptians take care of their people." I looked' at the picture again. "There is a place to put your head and your feet in the trunk," I said, "which is more than you can say for Airlines." "Exactly. And there are tiny air holes drilled in the side so the person can breathe." "You don't get that in tour ist class," I had to admit. "The Egyptians also added another refinement. They ad ministered a drug to the passen ger before they sent him off." "Leave it to the Egyptians to improve air travel." "You can say that again. Many times just before taking off Fve asked the stewardess to shoot something in my arm,, but she's always refused." "Is it against regulations?" "No, but if they give a shot to one passenger, they have to give it to all the passengers, and they claim they lose mon ey on the route as it is." "I guess the Egyptians don't care if they make money on their flights or not." "Just as long as they get you therer" he said, "But listen, this is what I called you about. I have a friend in the luggage business and I thought we could make up some trunks like the one in the photo for people who can't afford to fly first class but can't stand tcr sit three abreast in tourist." 'That's a great idea, but would it sell?" "We won't sell them; we'll rent them. We could tie up with Hertz or Avis." "But don't the Egyptians have a patent on the trunk?" "We'll pay them a royalty and let them use our trunks free of charge in case they want to send anybody else to Cairo," "It 's a very fair offer. What about the drugs?" ."Haven't you ever heard of vending machines?" he said. "You've thought of ever y thing," I had to admit. "From now on there will be three types of travel on a plane 'First Class 'Tourist Class and 'Egyptian Class " "Manny." I 'said, "you've
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