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Bus. Office Mgr. Ed Williams
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Margery Storey.
Little Caesar In Blue
The traffic problem (it's no new story) is in pretty bad
shape. As a matter of fact, -it doesn't seem to be getting any
better and drastic measures are liable to pop up before any-
one on campus knows what has happened.
But that is not our subject today. Our subject is very
closely related to the traffic problem, but it, or possibly we
should say he, is a much more serious problem. His name is
D. G. Simms, and he is one of the two well-known "campus
cops." You probably have seen him; he's not too tall, has a
red face, carries a lot of weight and is in the habit of slinging
it around more than he ought to.
Simms, instead of being the mannerly, helpful, gentleman
in blue whose duty it is to keep a watchful eye on the traffic
and parking lots, oh yes, and write parking tickets for violat
ors too, has taken it upon himself to become one of the most
hated men on campus, a little Caesar in blue.
Take just one example out of the many we could cite. On
Tuesday afternoon our friend Simms had wandered down to
the Morehead Planetarium parking lot. The Buildings De-
partment was in- the process of painting lines for parking
spaces and indicating no-parking spaces with fresh white
, paint.
A friend of ours drove into the lot, saw that the paint had
just been put down, 'and carefully guided his Chrysler over
to the side of the lot where no spaces had. been painted in.
Simms dashed over and rudely ordered him to park in the
WASHINGTON. Most of the
closed-door meeting of Senate
Democrats was spent in a tech
nical discussion of pending leg
islation and floor strategy into
which, however. Sen. Clint
Anderson of New Mexico in
jected the question of Formosa.
He suggested thatthe State De
partment keep the Democrats
better informed so they could
answer their Republican critics
who, he added, seemed to be
well supplied with speeches on
the subject.
"Every iime the Republi
cans get up. ihey have a pre
pared speech." Anderson com
plained. "If ihey are able io
do that on $l-a-plate," din
ners, we ought to be able to
get a few speeches prepared
for us on $100-a-plale din
ners." ,
Except ior Ellender of Louisi
ana, the attitude of the Demo
cratic Senators was to support
Truman's stand on Formosa.
Their view was voiced by Sena
tors Russell of Georgia and Mc
Kellar. of Tennessee, who agreed
that the "American people don't
want to go to war over For
mosa." The Republican Policy Com
mittee, assembled from all over
the country to write a new GOP
policy statement, was stolidly
gating lunch in the Mayflower
Hotel.
Across the room, a big, well
dressed man spied the pelicy
makers. He looked vaguely fa
miliar like a floorwalker at a
swank department store or a
Hollywood director. It was
George Bender, ex-Congress-v
man from Ohio and a Taft
booster.
Happily Bender strode across
the room, whispered a few
words to the Mayflower's or
chestra director, Sidney, cleared
his throat, and roared into song:
"I'm looking over a 4 -leaf
clover that we overlooked be
fore. The first leaf is courage, the
secoad is fight.
The third is our Party that's
marked spaces. Was he blind? But the paint is fresh and I
thought maybe you didn't want anybody driving on it today,
our friend politely explained. To which oUr little messiah of
the pink ffekets indicated that any more back talk and he always right.
would make some trouble for the, unsuspecting ' car owner. No need explaining, the one
Take another example. And another friend without a red remaining.
sticker. This fellow drove bis old Ford into, the lot behind . ? Taft ha adore"
r,. - , , . Then eyeing Harrison spang-
Carr Dormitory on the upper campus. Simms sharpened his ler the GOp National Commit.
pencil and kis rude sarcasm and descended upon the poor teeman -from Iowa, Bender
driver. Before he was through he had actually threatened
(1) to haul the student up to court (which he might have
been able to do), and (2) (of all things) to, see that the
student was thrown out of school! His actual words were,
after the student had answered that he did not want to go
to court, "You wouldn't want to get thrown out of school,
either, would you?"
Simms is not hired or paid by the Chapel Hill Police
Department. Simms is hired and paid by the University of
North Carolina, and his boss is P. L. Burch, who is also in
charge of Victory Village. So to Mr. Burch we will direct
the next remarks.
You will never solve the parking problem by antagonizing
car-driving students with little Caesars who think their pri
vate domain lies between the Planetarium and the Library.
No student will mind getting a ticket if he knows he's in the
. wrong. He knows he runs that risk when he parks in the
wrong place. But he does mind getting browbeaten around,
spoken to like a Mississippi sharecropper,- and threatened
with expulsion from the University by a man with no au
thority to make the threat.
The solution, Mr. Burch? Either give our friend Simms
the word to straighten up and fly right, write out his little
switched his tune to Ioway."
Finished with his singing,
Bender boomed at the Republi
can elders: I'm unorthodox, and
I know it, but sometimes I
think the Party's too orthodox."
Note Ex-Congressman Bend
er rented a small elephant to
pose with a somewhat pained
Tajt at the Philadelphia con
vention vn 1948.
Charley Brannan, the bfe, lik
able Secretary of Agriculture, is
a guileless looking fellow, but
he pulled a fast play on the
enemies of the Brannan Plan.
Secretary Brannan solemnly
announced that surplus pota
toes, which the government has
been buying hand over fist at
$1.08 a bushel, would be given
to any nation that wanted them.
This was hailed as the answer
to the spud problem.
Actually, Brannan was slyly
pointing out the absurdity of
the whole potato price-support
pink , tickets and keep his big pink mouth shut, or get rid of Program
him. It isn't often we go after a man's job, but maybe this
is the time to do it.
At any rate, this is the time to do something. Simms is
not just obnoxious, he's downright unbearable. C.H.
Student Government Roundup
Beginning next week, the Daily Tar Heel will run a series
of articles on the operation of student government at Caro
lina. Recent incidents over the nation have emphasised the
important role which student government is playing in col
lets today. Recent events at State and Wake Forest have
brought this realization close to home. Most of the activities
of student government, however, receive very little publicity.
With this in mind, 'perhaps it would be wise if we paused
a minute and took a look at what Carolina student govern
ment is doing. The committes and officers stay busy daily,
and without this work the University could not function in
the manner to which the students are, accustomed.
Student government leaders receive relatively little praise
for their work, indispensable though it may be. Take Charlie
Gibson, for example, who has worked. tediously on the Stu
dent Entertainment Committee, or John Sanders, who in the
capacity of Attorney General has been invaluable to student
government. Roy Holsten, chairman of the Honor Council,
can scarcely call his time his own. These students, along with
many others, are the ones that make student government
function.
The features next week, however, will be primarily de
signed to acquaint the students with just what is going on in
student government circles. It's time we all took stock of the
vital role it has.
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Vital Center Is Vital
By Bill Kellam
Carolina Forum
Laertes' Weapon
program. For here are the in
side facts.
I.. Potatoes are so costly io
tansport that no nation will
lake them even as a gift.
2. Meanwhile, Uncle Sam
will have to hand out $80.
00.000 to buy an estimated
surplus of 67.000,000 bushels.
Of this mountain of spuds,
only a drop in the bucket
17,000.000 bushels can be
absorbed in school-lunch and
Welfare Programs.
3. The price which Uncle
Sam must pay for surplus
Maine potatoes jumps from
$1.55 a hundred pounds last
September to $2.20 in March,
all of which is why Brannan
maintains the only basic solu
tion for surplus crops is to let
prices drop to benefit the con
sumer -and pay a subsidy to
help the producer. This is the
nub of the Brannan Plan. .
Philippine Corruption A big
scandal is brewing in the Phil
ippines. The American Embassy
reports that millions of dollars
of benefits voted Filipino veter
ans , by' the U. Si Congress is
finding its way into the pockets
of Filipino politicians rather
than war veterans. Ambassador
Cowan has sent a scorching
cable to Secretary, of State
Acheson urging him to read the
Riot Act to President Quirino.
There is a saying by George
Russell (A. E.) that has by now
almost achieved the anonymity,
of a proverb. Man becomes the
image of the thing he hates.
This maxim used to be quoted
somewhat unctuously by those
who opposed America's partici
pation in the war against fas
cism, as sufficient 'reason for,
our complete abstention. What,
they should have taken as a
counsel of prudence the advo
cates of appeasement treated as,
an absolute injunction never, to
hate what is hateful: a doctrine;
more evil than the corruption
it seeks to avert. For Plato cor
rectly pointed out in The Laws
that justice depends upon our
ability to be roused to anger
and courageous action by the ,
very hatefulness of evil. The
possibility of exchanging weap
ons with one's opponent and of ;
using the poisoned weapon . to
slay him,' as in Hamlet's duel,
is not an excuse for avoiding
the challenge: it merely means
that we should erect safeguards
against such a transfer and hold
our proper weapon' tightly.
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From the standpoint of a
universal ethics, the demo
cratic nations were not merely
justified in fighting fascism:
they were equally justified in '
hating its main principles and
practices; unfortunately, they .
. found themselves involved in
the struggles, less through -their
' own decisions than
through the action of their
enemies; and their sluggish
ness in responding to the mo
ral issues raised by fascism, in
the case of Abyssinia, Repub
lic Spain, and Czechoslovakia,
made them slow to understand
that a renewal of their own
moral life, was necessary if
their cause was to achieve
more than a physical victory.
The active barbarians of fas
cism, who trampled upon mo
ral values, could not be suc
. cessfully opposed by passive
barbarians, who had allowed
their traditional moral values
to be eroded, and who, in the
n a m e of relativism or of
anthropological insight, de
nied that any common stan
dard existed for judging the
. conduct of an ethnic group.
And in time, without openly
changing their minds, the
Western Allies tacitly accepted
the diabolic principles and
took over the methods of their
enemies: witness our wide
spread use of ' obliteration
bombing (genocide). , '
The moral relativism of the
democracies not merely ac
counts for the sins and crimes
we imitatively committed in the
course of fighting against fas
cism; it also accounts for our
persistent failure to recognize
the enormity of our own con
duct. Behind this relativism
stands two false dogmas that
By Lewis Mumford
are widely.if often unconsci
ously, held. The first belief is
that "Modem man can do no
wrong." He can do no wrong,
on one theory, because dis
crimination between good and
evil are arbitrary and illusory;
or, according to a still older
notion, propounded by the fol
lowers of Rousseau and God
win, because man is by nature
good, and when left to himself
will never commit evil. At all
events, whatever modern man
does is right provided he can
get away with it. Or finally,
he can do no wrong because
the good and the right, on both
Nietzschean and Marxian
terms are merely the forms of
conduct by the ruling classes.
These general doctrines have
been supplemented by a fur
ther belief which gives comfort
.to those who retain at least a
figleaf of conventional moral
judgement: the belief that good
men, by definition, commit no
evil. This is a variant of the
dogma of "original innocence;"
and it has probably been re
sponsible for the apathy ex
hibited by "good" people who
pay their bills, respect their leg
al obligations, and obey the
laws toward the moral offenses
that have been committed by .
our government in their name.
Actually,-some of the worst
evils of our age have been spon
sored, not by Hitler and Himm
ler and Mussolini, but by men
who in their lifetime had
achieved almost the stature of
saints. It was Mahatma Gandhi
who, at the most critical mo
ment in the struggle against
.fascism, urged" the British to
surrender to Hitler; it was Al
bert Einstein, another truly
noble soul, who, aware of the
dangers of Germany's creating
an atom bomb, brought to Presi
. dent Roosevelt the proposal
that we create similar instru
ments of extermination a pro
posal that capped a military
error with a moral sin. Finally,
it was another good man, Mr.
Henry L. Stimson, a public offi
cial of high probity and civic
responsibility, who, even after
he had had time for second
i thoughts, publicly justified the
mse of the atom bomb on the
grounds that it had saved the
lives of countless American sol
, diers. -
- - In - the - course of fighting
. against the Fascists, in other
; wordSj we seized" their poisoned
weapon and turned it against
; them. Unfortunately this is also
- our funeral, for the methods' of
nihilism, first openly accepted by
us in our pre -atomic bomb
practice of obliteration, bomb
ing, can have only one termi
nus: general annihilation. That
is the natural destination of a
world that has lost its life-preserving
taboos and its moral in
hibitions. Reflections will show that
there are no physical safe
guards against moral nihilism:
hence all current suggestions
for the inspection of conven
tional and atomic armaments
are mischievous forms of self
deception and humbug. Once
any government is ready to
exterminate the people of a
rival state as so many vermin
the means of achieving this
secretly are at hand. In an
obscure cellar in any small
country the biological instru
ments for destroying the hu
man race can now easily be
manufactured. Against this
radical insecurity, every man
must develop a moral consci
ence, every man must accept
the burden of political re-,
sponsibiliiy, every man must
be a public officer and a mem
ber of a universal police force,
acting in behalf of the human
race. Today there is no path
to peace( and justice and liber
ty thai does not demand a
wholesale moral transforma
tion, in which every human
being will participate, not as
the citizen of a nation, but as
a personal guardian of the
human future. Only the in
stitution of a universal mo
rality can. save a world com
petely demoralized by the
cult of power.
The first step toward such a
morality is to measure the depth
of the abyss into which even
good and honorable men ! have
fallen during the last decade;
only so will we be moved to
summon forth the efforts neces
sary to reach the daylit areas
of sanity and morality. . . .we
need to be awake and sensitive,
awake and sensitive to the same
degree that we have been
asleep and insensitive, indeed
utterly paralized, in the past
generation. We cannot found a
more universal system of po
litical cooperation through
world government on the moral
morass of relativism, tribalism
and nihilism. No as individuals
and as members of a political
state we must re-create within
ourselves a world-view in which
right and justice will have
meaning, because they are
equally applicable to all men:
including ourselves in every
necessary condemnation, and
including our most active ene
mies in every promise of a bet
ter life. If we make this effort
in time, we shall also, perhaps,
be able to avert the tragic last
act of the drama of annihilation
we have been pushing so rapid
ly to a climax. On our willing
ness to undertake this radical
'reorientation the future of man
now seems in no small-degree
to hang.
(Reprinted by permission from
the January 1950 Common
Cause, A Journal of One World:
' presented by the Student. Chap
ter. United World Federalisis.)
Prophets are too often with
out honor in their own country,
especially if the prophet is a bit
to the left of center- and the
majority of his fellow citizens
show rabid inclinations toward
congragating on the oppositte
side of the ideological fence.
Such is the situation of bril
liant young Arthur Schles
inger. Jr and his recent to
lume. "The Vital Center."
which is a realistic, hard-hilling
manifesto of ihe non
communist lefl and we .still"
do exist.
The reception accorded this
fine volume has been disap
pointing, though not surprising.
Schlesinger has trod left and
right on too many sacred toes
and smashed too many idols.
The truth is always unpleasant
to many people. Thus the more;
reactionary elements of the
press, which includes an unfor
tunately large percentage of this
nation's news sheets, has either
ignored or completely dismissed
the book as shallow or repeti
tious. Time Magazine, which lucely
speaking is a magazine of sorts,
dismissed the book because it
"said nothing new or significant
about the 20th century's politi
cal problems. Certainly it offered
no solution for them." The above
quote is taken from a reply this
columnist received to a letter
which he wrote to Time asking
why "The Vital Center" had
been omitted from the mag's list
of the oustanding books of 1949?
The purpose of ihe book is
defined in the foreword. ". . .
not to set forth novel or start
ling political doctrines. . .It is
intended rather as a report on
the fundamental enterprise of
re -examination and self-criti-
cism which liberalism has un
dergone in the last decade."
"The Vital Center" does not
introduce any revolutionary
' remedies for the world's ills,
but it does invigorate the old
remedies and clearly restate how
we can use them to strive to
make our way out'of the morass
of fear, prejudice, and hysteria
which now grips too many sec
tions of this country. Davis dam on the Colorado
Schlesinger voices his basic River is expected to back up
tenets of a sincere faith in the water to the foot of Hoover dam.
integrity and freedom of Ihe . 777 ZT,
individual, a belief m the limited , . , ... . ... , . iL
. . ' , , ., being built that will shorten the
class privilege, private profit,
security, and business deal
ings. They forgot all about
those idealistic-sounding but
necessary interests-sounding
necessary interests cf the
whole nation, social cbilga
lion, war, and honor.
By pursuing only their own
ends, they met their end. RVh?.
Dewey?' S
The left went hog wild in ;
reaction against the
the right. Fellow travelt-is ;:nd
doughface (democratic nun with
totalitarian principles) pro.-f-?.
sives infiltrated, infected. ;,nj
almost killed the left. But Her.,
ry Wallace came along uni
saved the liberal movement by
drawing the pinks, doughface?,
etc. in his ranks in 1943.
Now is the time, Schlesinger
says, for those who believe in
democracy to join together to
insure that this contry returns
to the activism of the Jacksoni
ans. Accepting the limitations
of the reah world, they must
work for democratic socialism
in which the demoralizing, over
powering tendencies of indus
trial organization will be sub
dued, a large amount of basic
satisfaction will be produced,
and individual freedom will bo
preserved.
This free society can't exist
without civil rights and civil
liberties. To insure these priv
ileges, distinction between acts
and thought must be defined.
All witch hunts must be en
. ded. Unpopular ideas and or
ganizations must not be prose
cuted, or persecuted, until
Iheir subversiveness is legally
established.
Several chapters are devoted
to communism, but the lines of
the East-West controversy are
already defined in most minds.
Schlesinger does interestingly
explain the appeals of totali
tarianism. These are only a few of the
ideas set forth by Schlesinger.
Read "The Vital Center" and
see for yourself how vital it
is. It's well worth the price.
state and due process of the
law, and a rejection of totali
tarianism of the left and right
wing variety.
The present failings of the
American right "and left are
incisively analyzed. The pluto
cratic hierarchy of the Repub
lican Party ruined ihe right
by forgetting everything but
Rome-Paris route by 10 miles.
It is estimated that about six
tons of coal are used directly or
indirectly to manufacture an
average motor car.
Horticulturalists have develop
ed a full line of midget fruit
trees that grow to only a few
feet talL
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