Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / April 9, 1946, edition 1 / Page 2
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 1946 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEL eel The official 'newspaper at the Publication Union at the University of North Carolina at Chapel pnt. where ft is printed daily, exeept Mondays, examinations and vacation period. Entered as second class matter at the post offiee at Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March t. 1879. Subscription price is $5.00 for tb eoDesre year. Complete Leased Wire Service of United Press EOBEET MORRISON WE STY FENHAGEN BILL HIGHT BETTIE GAITHER. . Editor Managing Editor Associate Editor -Business, Manager CLIFFORD HEMINGWAY Circulation Manager FOR THIS ISSUE: RAY CONNER - BILL WOESTENDIEK ..Night Editor ...Night Sports Editor ZditoUaJJLsf Spjeakifitf WHAT IS AMERICA UP TO? President Truman's Army Day speech has been described as : armament for peace. In light of present U. S. "Foreign Policy, -it appears to be just the opposite. It is a call to defend Yankee imperialism by armed might. The American people are asked to extend the draft and send their sons to learn the arts of war as part of their education in the new atomic era. As Senator Claude Pepper (Fla.) said in the Senate last week: "Indeed, those who used to argue that the safeguards of our security were the two oceans (like Senator Vandenberg D. K.) now urge us to span all oceans and move from pole to pole and continent to continent in desperate quest for an illusory military security, while other nations, inevitably apprehensive over all these things, ask, 'What is America up to? Is it just security they seek?' " . The retention of our troops in friendly countries, the uni lateral handling of Japan by. MacArthur, the support of col laborationists in the Philippines, our refusal to back France on Spain, our grab for bases in the Pacific, our seeming reluctance to grant the Soviet Union a loan, our backing Britain in the Security Council in her refusal to have the actions of her troops in Greece and Indonesia investigated, our silence on the question , of India, our support of the reactionary Kuomintang in China, and our oil-inspired policy toward Iran all add up to a policy . which the American people cannot support politically, and cer tainly not militarily. Why can't our government take the initiative, as she did when steered by the great Franklin Roosevelt, to weld the unity of the United Nations? Why can't our government take the initiative, as it almost did under .Woodrow Wilson, for real peace: inter nationalization of the atom bomb and world disarmament? Why must we support the old, war-breeding, unstable forces of feudalism and imperialism? Why, instead, do we wave the atom "big stick," arm for war, and in general try to hold back the tremendous forces for democratic change, so that these forces become explosive? Any serious student of history must know that Truman's call to arms is a call to war, whether the President 'wants war or not. The world has yet to witness an arms race that ended in peace. The world has yet to witness the phenomenon of real security by a nation that lives at the expense of others ajid maintains its dominance by force of arms. D. K. Showdown With Franco Seen In Near Future Manny Margolis v The United Nations Security Council, which only recently emerged out of the Iranian frying pan, seems headed shortly for the fire of Spain. The sniping of American, British, and French diplomatic notes having been found wanting, a new diplomatic offensive is being opened against the Franco regime. This offen sive, if successful, will train the big guns of United Nations ma chinery against the Spanish dictatorship. T,ast Satnrriflv- the Polish em- " CIRCULATION COMPLAINTS As Linda Nobles, member of the Publications Union Board, declared "The PU Board's face is red," and Fred Flagler ad mitted that the PU Board has failed to do the best job, Clifford Hemingway, circulation manager of the DTH tried to revamp his staff today and stop the hundreds of complaints which are pouring into the editorial offices. Whether or not the PU Board has solved the circulation prob lem or not we don't know; but the editor and managing editor of the DTH are ready (if everything else fails) to take over circu lation. We think that we can very modestly guarantee better cir culation than the campus has been having. If the PU Board can't supervise adequate circulation of the paper, we're willing to try, although we'd rather it' not be necessary. One way that we can insure better circulation and learn just where the circulation manager is falling down is by receiving complaints. Shoot them in, folks, everybody's doing it. Here's a convenient form : bassy in London announced that Poland's delegate in the Security Council, Dr. Oscar Lange, had been instructed to raise the Spanish issue before the Coun cil on the grounds that "the pres ent regime in Spain is endanger ing international peace." Dr. Lange will propose that the other Council members follow the lead taken by his government and that oi Koumania m severing diplomatic relations with the Spanish government. What this means for the UN is a definite showdown policy. In the recent Iranian case, Sec retary of State Byrnes fought justifiably and successfully in defense of sheer moral right. This right included, in its var ious phases, the right of small nations to self-determination. It remains to be seen whether Mr. Byrnes and the other Security Council members will be capable of translating and applying this moral right where "occupied" Spain is concerned. Thus far, there have been two conflicting points of view in dealing with the Spanish situa tion. The first of these was re flected in the recent Anglo American plea to the Spanish people on March 4th to oust Franco by peaceable means; This attempt was a miserable failure. The second of these, or the Franco-Russian approach, was reflected in the decision of the French government last Febru ary to close its frontier with Spain, which was followed sev eral days later by a request of the Big Three to raise the ques tion in the Security Council of1 ' i i i severing aipiomatic ana eco nomic relations with Spain. At that time, Great Britain flatly rejected the plan and the U. S. followed suit. As an indication of how the rank-and-file of the Labor Party in Great Britain feel toward their government's Churchillian policy toward Spain, United Press quotes a London Dispatch stating that the "Labor Party is in virtually open revolt against the foreign policies of Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin." It is reported that more than 90 of local Labor Party Chapters have registered formal com plaints against Bevin's policies, as Joeing, untrue to, socialist policy. But what the British people unfortunately do not realize is that British trade dictates Brit ish foreign policy, and that, for example, British trade with Spain has been reaching new heights, while concomitantly, her trade with the Soviet Union has been rapidly deteriorating. How much the United States has been doing with Spain is a matter for conjecture, though it is an open secret m state de partment' circles that it has been very extensive since the end of hostilities in Europe. In the pending showdown in the Secur ity Council, the United States will wield the balance of power between the British and Rus sian attitudes. It remains to be seen whether the (Francisco) Franco-British entente or the Franco-Soviet intent to destroy it, prevails in the Security Coun cil. Now Hear This Thompson Tells Half Truths, Not Must Another Opinion' By Jack Lackey Roy Thompson's article in last Sunday's Daily Tar Heel was called "Just Another Opinion," but I'm quite sure that if Roy did write it that it really wasn't just another opinion. Roy has been trying to get back the political control of the campus ever since the UCP left him out in the cold early last fall. This column of his must be the first step in some sort of comeback campaign that Roy and his friends are cook-" ing up. Before long they will undoubtedly come up with a new political party with which to try to dominate the campus. It won't have Roy or any of his more ob vious friends at the head of it, but look closely, students, and you will see his shining face in the reflection it casts. Roy is not a liar but he is a clever writer. Half truths are his specialty. In his article he said that Bill McKenzie, Dick Ford, Joe Mallard, Bill Stubbs and Connie Hendren had all been nominated and elected by the University Party and that they all had resigned. There is little wrong with this except that, al though Miss Hendren turned over her Mag to guest editors for two issues, she never did re sign and is now busy putting out this month's edition. What Roy Didn't Mention his doctor's orders. There is nothing wrong with these cir cumstances. The past year has been very unsettled for all stu dents. Political parties are not psychic. They can't be expected to foresee the future health of their candidates or be able to prophecy the future whims of Mr. Hershey's draft boards. Roy was also very critical of what he called the University Party's monopoly of student government on the campus. Here too he did not quite tell the whole truth. No matter how much some students would de sire such a monopoly it seems ob vious to anyone looking at the facts that it doesn't exist at this time. The last campus-wide elec tion was held last November. The UP was able to elect only half its candidates. That the op posing party, the UCP, did not elect more than they did was due What Roy didn't mention was mainlv to the efforts of this same that he was later chairman of. the rrtTr an,, tt wn'f nhle to control the UCP so he ran his the following losing candidates : nwri nnT1d-VVed candidate for Bill Crisp and Jim Traynum for id t f th student body president and vice president re- and pretty well ruind the spectively; Dougald MacMillan chances 0f the UCP man. The for secretary-treasurer; Betsy ur!p gtm was able to vut haif Couch for head cheerleader, and of his candidates into office. Stan Colbert for editor of the twc T,ic iv liir ttp Mag. The last three of these candidates have left school. If they had been elected they too would have had to resign their positions. monopoly? Thompson Fraternity Man Thompson is a fraternity man himself. Perhaps he would Why did these people have to rather have the students forget leave their nositions? The an- tms oltwsl uci,cc swer is simple-most of them fraternity men and non-f ratern- were drafted, while at least one Iue" 1S utuu; of them had to leave because of ceP to tm horn Politicians who use it to get themselves into the The Ram Sees By An Old Goat PU Board Complaint Department Care of Daily Tar Heel Editor Drawer 1080 Dear Bob : I have not been receiving adequate delivery 6f the DTH. My address is: Sincerely, Clad in brilliant neck-ties, shading from burgundy to to mato, Sigma Nu'ers sallied forth Sunday evening. Their colors of flame busily flirted with gleams of corresponding warmth in fem inine eyes. Thus was Red Neck tie Day born. Next on the Sig ma Nu list of innovations soon to be inaugurated is Sweat Shirt Day. Becoming Idiots" Featured on the front page of the Sunday Greensboro Daily News were six radiant Carolina coeds. Caledonia, Barbara Boyd, Barbara Pennington, Patty Har ry, Jean Huske, and Taddy Shipp, photographed in a setting of blossoming dogwood, all vyed with the perennial charm of Mother Nature, garbed in April glory. 'Trivia" Memorable events in Thirsty PanniU's Friday evening number several, not the least being "a shampoo on draught." "But af ter all beer rinses," maintains coiffure expert Beverly Lee, "give hair an added lustre, an added sheen" ... Lost, strayed, or stolen, Tommy Peterson's car . . . "Kiss-off," smeared in red: Bob Little dates (tenses, pres ent, past and future?) Jos Land voigt . . . Specialty entertainers at Terrace View Sunday evening were Lou Callum and Barbara Jean Hardy, swirling and twirl ing to the rhythmic abandon of Tampico . . . WORTkLESS, ending on a high treble, was, a recurrent reminder to Carl Wors ley that Frances Walker did not conder his frequent kindling-carrying-expeditions at the Sig ma Nu meadow party of parti cularly deserving value . . . Bath ers, seeking Ole Sol atop pro tected roofs, have found that soot combines with sun to turn all innocent victims blacker and blacker ... As of week-end last Herb Bodman's zoom vehicle was tagged destination, Pinehurst. Its passengers were four: Herb himself, Doris Layton ; and Jesse Nalle, Jane Robinson . . . Coed eyes at Carolina are fastened in admiriner accord on the "saint- lv" features of Louie Nicoud! Address, Delta Psi House . With or without his shoes Joe Miller has reserved for himself the title "abhorer of womanhood at Carolina" . . . Flirtation walk at Tinnie's Meadow Saturday evening found Ed Carson chief cace setter there. "Love Lifted Me"; what lifted you? asks Bill Hight . . . Speaking off the rec "Rameses wishes to state v. that Blanche Jacobi and Ray Silbiger are a recent addition to Cupid's list of twosomes . . One never knows when one deals in futures, but Alex Veasy. Junior class president, is not just specu lating but investing in later dates with his class secretary, Janet Johnston . . . "Effinger" sot off to an early week-end start with his 1941 technique under pledge "Cherub" Webb's con stant observation . . . Another old scholar, Erwin Jones scored power they seem to aesire so very, very much. Although no one would deny that the Univer sity Party .consists' mainly of fraternities and sororities it is an interestin P" nnint that there the season's outstanding match- are at least seyen fraternities making success. Erstwhile par- and sororities who are not mem- atroopmg major, Marshall Mc- bers of it. And still the biggest Donald owes Brother Jones an point that Koy failed to men- eternal debt of gratitude . . . tion is that the dormitories that Sam "Bones" Fallin's siesta on he feit were being so discrimi- a comfy couch m the AIO abode nated against are welcome to lasted from sordid Saturday un- Snd delegates to the UP and to til blue Monday. What, another vote in its party meeting just the T 4- WTt-mA' i Y7rfli lino I ft mi xjvav Hcwvciiu i v"1" same as any iraternity. mat Gene Johnstone.) there are only two dorms now Party Sprinkling represented in the UP is due Happy Birthday is what we mainly to the efforts of Roy and want to say, on this your grand- ijis friends. Whenever the UP est, greatest day." So read the tries to get a dorm to send a dele telegram from Delta Kappa Epsi- gate these self appointed guard- Ion to Chi Omega on her fifty- ians of the students' interests first founder's day celebration, think of many, many reasons Over coffee cups and ice cream why they shouldn't do it. What Prexy Satterfield presented the they don't tell them is that they annual X and horseshoe awards, are afraid that if their sheep A loving cup, symbolic of Chi learn the truth they might not be O's appreciation, was presented so susceptible to the venemous to Model pledge Fran Drennen anti-fraternity feeling that they while Jane Bentley's scholastic are trying to spread. achievement as a pledge received titi k-i, nnn(YTiit Inn A ci era ipt'.t.e .1 u m ; The University Party is very rt::'" ! m being perfect. It does girl who's done the most for Chi H , V I f.. !;:ZTVw t "fleet the feelings of uxu aigiiimo.u. ia larger nartinn nf of,f mil 1 Ii ATn I w "V ULUUU u ytn year aiong us wa., . , . were these celebrants alone f j -I 1 Aln maii & " v iuj i,n Dvmer rjartviner. sites at Hogans A -r riK w tuuiuaies wno will carry were the Monogram Club, the t th . alnA . n -r i n -VI - o--wcvicu. JL licit i-.ni I'srs ana oigma vms. (PostscriDt to the" Siffma Chi the UP has done this to the satis faction of the Student hndv is party: Seventy strong in one evid d h . i j . -i cxiau v line small conveyance prompted the other partieg come and tune "Don't Fence Me In" as sar- the machinations of their am-dine-packed Sigma Chi's wended biti0us leaders, vear in their way back to the Hill.) See HA T ituj iio, "page 4
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
April 9, 1946, edition 1
2
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75