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I. ,. ,Hih le;fc'tTUE2DAT, JAITUABY IT, i,m PAGE tt;o THE DAILY TAR HEEL i !, Letters ateDaOgiaiwSfeel J the Editor i Not Uncooperative Harder to Find Than an Honest Man Th official newpnper of the Publication Board of the University ot North Carolina. Chnprl Hill. v.h'ie it is issued daily during the regular sessions of the Univermtv by the Colonial Pr-;. Inc.. except Mondays, examination and v.-wation feriods. and tl.e suinir.er terms. Kntered as second-class mater at Me poKt office of Chapel Hill. N. C. under the act of March 3. 187. Sub- ripUoo. price: $8 00 per year. $:i.M per rquarter. Member of The Associated I'resK. The Assoi-lated J'ress and AH features are exclusively entitled to the ur lor republication of all news features published herein. Viiiior - DICK JKNRETTE eiis Manager C. E. MENDENHALL. AuiUttn t. a it or Sturt t.ditor . CHUCK HAUSER TAYLOR VADEN Ouitk HJtlor . .Society Editor Staff Fhotourafjiii-r Roy Parker. Jr. Zane Robbing Caroline Bruner ...James A. Mills hdltorial Stall: Jatk. bruwn, Hill Kellam, Mike MiDamel. Torn Wharton, Charlie Cibson. Joe Sekora, Veitil Taylor. Al Johnson, Charlie Joyner, Dave t li.irpejJohn Stump. hiewi Stag : Rolfe Weill. Don Mavnaid. Glenn Harden. Bill Johnson. Wuft Newell. Sam McKecl. Mark Sumner, Art Xanthos, Graham Jones, Charlie I'.rewer. Ciinnv Jones. M. K. Jones. 'n'uTTniiM Staff: Oliver Watkins. Kd Williams. Neal Cadieu. June Crockett, Don Stanford. Bootsv Taylor, Hill Ilrain. frank Daniels. Ruth Dennis. Evalyn Harrison. Dan Hobson, Kutli Sanders. Peggy Sheridan, Rodney Taylor, Marie Withers. Margaret Garrett. Howard Tickle. sports Sliifl: Lairy Kox. Frank Aiiston. Jr., Joe Cherry. Lew Chapman, Andy Taylor, Art Creenbaum, BifT Roberts. Ronald Tilley. Billy Peacock. Ken Rarton. Stiriety Staff": Peggy Wood. Marie Withers, Betty Ann Yowell, Judy Sanford. M.irgerv Sforev. Ediior: Why doesn't the South stop trying to fight the Civil War? That blot in United States history is nothing to be proud of or worshiped, but should be buried along with the principles that instigated it. The Civil War has been forgotten in the North. No sane citizen living in the northen part of our country regards himself as a loyal Yankee, or his Southern friend as a Rebel. He believes that all citizens of the United States are mem bers of one union, a union devoid of non-political sectional beliefs. Why then don't citizens living in the South stop waving Confederate flags; stop regarding northerners as friendly enemies; and, above all, stop talking about the Civil War? Whom do they think they're fooling? The average northerner doesn't know that such foolishness even exists. Herman M. Heyn Phi Parliamentary Institute For the past 155 years, the Di and the Phi have been con tributing to the "Carolina Way of Life." Last week the Phi came forth with the most constructive project which has hit the campus for a number of years an Institute of Par liamentary Procedure. It is not an uncommon thing, after a convention or meeting of some sort, to hear that "what we need most is a thorough understanding of parliamentary procedure." Here is the answer to this long-felt need. All student legislators, club leaders, and other interested persons should take ad vantage of this excellent opportunity to learn how to con duct a meeting properly. Students actively involved in' campus politics, fraternity presidents, and other student leaders realize the importance of Roberts' Rules of Order. Not only here at the University but later as church club members, politicians, committee chairmen, administrators, and members oT such groups as the American Legion the knowledge gained through a thorough study of parliamentary procedure will prove to be most valuable. The Institute is being held on February 8-10. The Phi, in sponsoring this Institute, is doing the cam pus a commendable service. Better Parking Lot Editor: I would like to congratulate those in power who are about to make a crowning contribution to the Carolina Campus. As one looking forward to the benefits which the New Life of Tech nology and Science can bring to our bedraggled world; the majesty, the beauty, the inspiration which the commerce structures hold, bring forth spontaneous joy and enthusiasm for the, creativ ity of our times. It is gratifying to find an ar chitectural approach taking full advantage of our cultural heritage, omitting major reference to considerations of climate, light, and use. Better still and more useful, it should remain a parking lot. John Voorhees Devoted To Service During the last century and a half over four hundred fraternities have been founded. Most of these have been hon orary, social, or professional but only Alpha Phi Omega has been. founded devoted essentially to service. Service to the' student body and faculty, service to youth and community, service to members, of the fraternity, and service to the nation as participating citizens, are the pur poses of Alpha Phi Omega fraternity. The Rho Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega is now in its twentieth year on the campus of the University f; North Carolina. . During the past year. Rho Chapter here on the campus of the University of North Carolina has sponsored the "keeping the South Building Steps Clean" campaign, pro- -vided attendants for the Easter Services at Gimghoul Castle, helped in the various community drives and pro grams, and provided attendants and Red Cross first aid sta tions at the football games. This year the chapter has started off again with an ambit- ious program of service by announcing that it will maintain - a free bulletin board posting service. Alpha Phi Omega was founded at Lafayette College De cember 16, 1925 by several former boy scouts. Noting that over half the enrollments in college were men that had some former connection with the scouting government, the founders concluded that a fraternity was needed to weld this wealth of leadership together. Being a service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega crosses all lines of honorary, social, and professional fraternities, and thus members of other campus organizations may also be active in the fraternity. There are two requirements for active membership in Alpha Phi Omega: first, that the student has had previous . experience in the scout movement, and second, that he has an earnest desire to render service to others. Alpha Phi Omega is recognized by the University as an outstanding service unit by its calls for help to the local chapter. At one time or another, Chancellor R. B. House, Dean E. L. Mackie, Dean Fred H. Weaver, Dean William Wells, and Dean William Friday have been members or as sociated with the UNC Rho Chapter. At present the faculty advisors are: R. L. Barrus, Dr. Lee M. Brooks, Dean Friday, Dr. Fletcher M. Green, Donald B. Hayman, Dean Mackie, Dr. Harold D. Meyer, William Poteat, and James E. Wadsworth. At present the Rho Chapter is working on projects to help handicapped students, the local polio drive, and the local scout week program to begin February 5th. v To become a member, a student needs only to attend a meeting or see Rho Chapter President William Roth in "B" Dorm for details. "All former scouts are invited to at tend the open fraternity meetings," says Roth. The Rho Chapter of Alpha Phi Omega is the embodi ment of the Alpha Phi Omega Creed, "To assemble college men in the fellowship of the scout oath and law, to develop friendship and to promote service to humanity." Forget Civil War Editor: In the January 12 issue of the Tar Heel an article on the Campus combined fund drive quotes Dick Murphy as implying that the local branches of the Polio Foundation, the Cancer Society and the American Red Cross are "un cooperative" in their refusal to join the com bined drive and should be ignored for their unreasonable attitude. It is doubtful if the phrasing represents Mur phy's exact words or sentiments, but the general impression one gets from the article is not in accordance with the facts.- The three organizations referred to are for bidden by their national charters to enter com bined fund drives. The case for and against combined drives and whether the National Or ganizations are right or wrong in their stand is too vast a question to discuss here. However, on the local level it is impossible for these or ganizations to engage in a combined drive." To do so would mean the loss of their charters and the end of their existence as organizations. It is obvious that the Red Cross, the Cancer So ciety, and the Polio Foundation cannot exist in dependent of their"' national organizations. It was, therefore, impossible for them to join the combined Campus drive. They had no choice in the matter, and "uncooperative" is neither a fair nor accurate word choice. I have no official connection with any of these organizations. I merely object to the distortion of facts. Eda T. Fii2pairick CPU Soapbox Tito-Stalin Schism ff RPEMOIMO'1 . yfKSr Wdshtngfori Merry-Go-Round Distributed by King Features Syndicate by arrangement with The Washington Star Legislative Review The UP Takes Over By Murray Goldenihal For those living in the Western World, and for those, wherever resident, who believe in liberal democracy, the Tito-Stalin rift is the best news to come out of Europe since VE Day. The im plications of this schism are many and far reaching, the concern of everyone; yet, for each. . group in our country this news has a particular significance, each placing an emphasis on one aspect or the other, depending on their general outlook. Let us then, for the sake of analysis, identify some of these groups and speculate as to what their reaction to this news was. The first group we might mention are those, sincerely concerned, but naively believing that Russia's prime concern is with Communism rather than power. To these, the news should have proved a valuable object lesson; here was the classic example of a brawl between two per fectly good Communists, arising because Com rade A was not amenable to Comrade B's plan to reduce A's Victory Garden to window-box size. It mattered not at all that A was a fellow , Proletariat, he might well have been Adolf Hit ler; what did matter was that A simply got in the way of B's power drive-the result of which, is never healthy for the Bs. Next we might discuss those, concerned also, but cognizant of the true nature of the present dictatorship in Russia. To these the news, while both surprising and gratifying, could be fitted into a logical and familiar pattern with little difficulty. Many of these people, seeing the first major crack in the Iron Curtain, saw an oppor tunity to put dur foot in the door of the Russian power structure. Others saw presented a golden opportunity for the State Department to revive the dead art of diplomacy and launch a positive policy, that was neither equivocating nor counter-active in nature. Some few even envis ioned ' the eventual inclusion of Yugoslavia in the North Atlantic Pact, arguing that it is as much a North Atlantic Nation as is Italy, pres ently included. Third, we might mention that group, ,very much concerned, but whose concern is not to be mistaken for sincerity i.e. the boys in red, the well-poisoners of the far left. Tito, by objecting to his country becoming a colonial possession of Russia, has become to them, not merely a devi ant, nor, indeed, a middle-of-the-roader, rather, No one was greatly surprised at the turn of events in Thurs day night'? legislative session. The University Party took com plete control, having 27 mem bers present out' of the current quorum of 23, ; with scattered support from other members on particular candidates. Closest of three roll call votes was Charlie Foley's nomination for chairman of the Ways and Means commit tee. In spite of an undignified poke from Independent Hal Dar'den, incumbent Foley beat SP stalwart JGfaham Jones, 21- . 13.- Curiously enough, the' second-ranking Student Party nom inated several UP candidates or moved that they be accepted without dissent.; John Sanders moved acclamation for Herb Mitchell for Speaker Pro Tem, Graham Jones nominated Dave Sharpe for Parliamentarian and Sol Kimerling moved acclama tion for Sharpe. Kimerling also nominated Sheldon Plager for chairman of the Election com mittee. Nobody seems to know what this b a c k-s cratching means, if anything. The Job Ahead President Bill Mackie's in formal, off-the-cuff talk before the election of legislative offi cers was mildly inspiring and said what everybody knew: the Eighth Legislature has one whale of a job ahead of it. Specifically, Mackie mentioned the following details: passage of By Gifford Hay the budget and a revised Con stitution, revision of the elec tions code, and assistance with jobs like the perpetual investi gations of Lenior Hall and the Book Exchange. Logically, it is the UP's job to carry these projects through, though the executive branch is almost wholly SP. It is a co operation between the two de partments, which point to real accomplishments during the winter quarter. Prediction of the Week The presidential proclamation on an election to fill the . Secretary-Treasurer post vacated by Nat' Williams stipulates in effect that if no opposition to ap pointee Andy Cornish develops by election day, he will take over without the formality of an election. The prediction: the party chairman will get together and DREW PEARSON WASinNGTON.- A secret huddle of Russian and Hungarian generals plotting an attack t.n Yugoslavia is the inside reason for the Stat.. Department's sudden offer to aid Yugoslavia, if she is threatened. American Intelligence Agent m Vienna ar.l Belgrade picked up, the alarming report of the Russian Military Conference from the anti- ccrr, munist Hungarian underground. Stalin attached such importance to the con ference, according to this report, that he sn.t both his No. 1 aide, Georgi Malenkov, and Mar shall Constantin Rokossowski, who is organizing the satellite defense in eastern Europe. Chief decision reached at the conference, ac cording to the underground, was to build bn.-fs in the Tatra Mountains of Hungary for firing rockets into Yugoslavia. A few days after this report was received, U. S. Ambassador George V. Allen told reporters in Belgrade that Washington is ready to ho!P Yugoslavia "preserve her independence an I sovereignty." So far, the iron-nerved Tito has taken these reports coolly. He told American officials he re gards the rumors of imminent attack as part of Ruusia's "war of nerves" on him, and predicts large-scale Guerrilla" warfare against Yugo slavia "this year, using the hardbitten Communist troops who fought in the Greek mountains. The fighting will be billed by Soviet propaganda as an "uprising" of Yugoslavs. Tito is a master at Guerrilla warfare himself and has' established a defense line in the mountains. . . ' .Franco Spain received almost as much at 'tejitioii as the burning question of what io do .about Formosa when Secretary of Stale Dean Achesoh was closeted for six action-packed hours with th4 House Foreign Affairs Com mittee last week. The .meeting was so secret that Chairman John Kee of West Virginia banished his offi cial reporter, so thai no written record would be made of the proceedings. However, Ache son's arguments on-Formosa were similar lo those he gave the Senate the day before, though his delineation of Spanish Policy was so complete that it would have been presented to the American people. Acheson lett no doubts either about the State State Department's opposition to the Franco dictatorship. There never can be a real under standing between the United States and Spain while Franco stays in power, he said, and it is time the Spanish people were waking up to the fact. , As far as he was concerned, Acheson said, we should continue to withhold full recognition of Spain (we partly recognize her now through a charge d' Affairs) until Franco is turned out. Acheson frequently referred to the Spanish die- 1) let Cornish have the job by not nominating anyone else, or 2) more likely, give him a triple endorsement. Cornish ,has no obvious political leanings, and it seems reasonable to assume that the party bosses have ho yearn ing for a mid-winter campaign, with general elections coming up in April. Downy-Cheeked Chairman After nearly five years of veteran-dominated campus po litics, the change to civilian management has taken place al most overnight. From UP chair- tator as'undependable" and irreconcilable in his coniernpi ior aeiiiut-facy. man Harris, a senior, CP chair man Taylor, also a senior, and SP chairman Thompson, a junior, there has been a com plete turnover within a few weeks. New party heads are Paul Roth, UP, a sophomore; Bob Clampitt, CP, a freshman and brother of ex-UP chairman Johnny Clampitt (for the benefit of real old-timers), has he become a fasicist (Def'n. : One who does not agree with every decision of the Politburo). It was nothing short of remark able to observe Tito's noctural transformation from Communist to Fascist i.e. going to sleep as the glorious leader of the people's democracy, and waking up as the ignoble dictator of a fascist state. This caused such discomfort among the Commu nist apologists as has not been seen since the similiar feelings experienced by the Church His torians in 1870 when presented with the task of re-interpreting history in the light of the newly announced doctrine of Papal Infallibility in that year. Finally there is the group that does not think the great un concerned those among U3 who, when the subjects of "politics" pops up in those infrequent lulls between more serious dis cussions of movies and football, adopt their opinions from such abstruse but edifying docu ments as the Saturday Evening Post or Readers Digest or if the intellectual- challenge en countered therein is too great, from the enlightened musing? of a Little Orphan Annie in other words the large majority of us to these the news meant, of course nothing. Nothing, that is, of which they are consciously aware-but of lasting import ance, the full extent of which can only be guessed at, at this time. - I I2 Is I4 15 W6 7 8 m V W 20 pSI SZ 11 54 4 1 vM I w I i HORIZONTAL 1. trite 6. storage compartment 9. knock gently 12. assisted 13. game of chance 14. speed 15. shelf 16. assaults 18. rives 20. heron 21. former boxing champion 23. Greek letter 25. annexes 26. possessive pronoun 27. not present 29. six-line stanza 31. heckle (colloq.) 35. gnawed away 37. auditory organ 38. chess piece 41. the turmeric 42. German admiral 43. a missile 45. compound ether 47. adorned with spangles 49. feminine name 52. dry, as wine 53. salutation 54. rambles , 55. large deer 56. cushion 57. woody plants VERTICAL 1. salt 2. bond 3. accost 4. French painter 5. paradise 6. blights 7. bombycid moths 8. olfactory organ 9. ordinal of three 10. suffered 11. virulent epidemics 17. marble Answer to yesterday's puzzle. ONATJiMTP.JIi.r7 19. one under obligation 21. encore 22. goddess of malicious mischief 24. mythological hero 27. air: comb, form 28. diminutive for Edward 30. general purport - 32. dispossess 33. former New Guinea base 34. before 36. conveyed by deed 38. old fashioned 39. Russian independent union 40. kelp 42. Spanish gentleman 44. outside garment 46. sharp 48. feminine name 1-17 verr time of mIbMob: 23 mlnntta. 50. golf mound PUVrl6t4 XI Klnf rture SynjicU aonKey fftAlslTlolftJ 1a,eIr1utTI1 The Secretary of State added, however, that if the United Nations ever rescinded its 1946 reso lution which led most member nations to recall their ambassadors to the Franco government the United States could hardly refuse to ' re established ah embassy in Madrid. "But it is not our intention to initiate such action," reported Acheson. "To' so would imply approval of the Franco government. On the other hand, I think recognition would come quickly if there was a change of government." He hastened to add that he meant no criticism of the Spanish people, of whom he had the high est regard, but only of the government leaders who were preventing 'them from sharing in the progress of European democracies. Spain prob ably would be getting Marshall Plan Aid right now, but for Franco, Acheson pointed out. He also explained that the European Coopera tion Adminstration had found it virtually im possible to do business with Franco because of the restrictions he placed on American aid and his refusal to abide by EC A regulations. . For instance, Acheson pointed out, Spain limits foreign investment in industrial plants to 25 per cent and prohibits altogether any foreign participation in plant management. Also. Franco freezes profits so. as to virtually prohibit reinvestment in plant expansion. During his remarks on Formosa, Acheson wa asked by Representative Walter Judd of Min nesota, a vigorous advocate of aiding Chiang Kai-Shek, if our "desertion" of Chiang had no' led many Chinese to join the Communist forces "I think not," replied Acheson. "I think the Generalissimo lost out because he was strictly ; military leader who failed to grasp, or had r.c the ability to put into effect, the social reform; that were needed to raise the shocking living standards in China. This and the exploitation by Chiang and hi: crooked war lords left the door wide open fo: Communist agitators, he said, adding that th Formosan people have also been victimized b; Chiang and his henchmen. Numerous Formosan natives who robe-He' against Chiang's mistreatment have ben exe cuted, while still others of the uppc- classes including doctors and lawyers, have been pu to death for the "crime of owning property, Acheson informed the shocked committee. Here is how the Veterans of the America: Legion, who have fought our wars in the pas: now are fighting the battle for peace by collect ing toys for the children who will be our be friends or Europ'es enemy soldiers of the nex generation: When a $40,000 fire swept the home of Cor. cord, N. H, Post 21, firemen and legionnaire concentrated on saving four huge crates in th basement filled with 4,000 toys contributed b; the city's children. "Our building was covere by insurance but the toys were not," explaine Post Commander John Sanders. . . .Among cas! contributions for TOT at Tacoma, Wash., va $10 from Sgt. William L. Reed, a patient c Madigan General HospitaL Sergeant Reed, combat veteran of the . battle of Bastogne, re quested that toys purchased with the money b given to children of that war-scarred town. .
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