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PAGE TWO' THE DAILY lAR HEEL SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20 m (SriieDailtjiaTarKccl The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Jliil. where it J isxiifd dailv during the regular sessions of the University by the Colonial I're&s, Inc., except Mondays, examination and Munition periods, hnd the .'.uinmer terms. Entered as wtond-class matter at tlie poi.t office of Cnaoel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3. 1879. Sub ,tr Iptiun price: 8 (w per ear, 53.01 per ritiarter. Member trt The Associated I'rts. The Ao lated frt and Af features r.re exclusively entitled to the u-.c lor rrr'iMirMi-n of ;,n r.ewii fc.ilnres rublihed herein. f.iMur Muimmtw KUitw . Xporf.T fduor Nvwh Ktittor ... Il0k t.tlttrrr ..... J.ocler? frtlfor t'firrtniirafihpr .. . Rov Parker, Jr. Zahe Kobbins ..Caroline Bruner Jim Mill HiliUiTial Stall: Jack Brown. Bill Kellam, Mike McDaniel. Tom Wharton. Own he Gibson, Joe Scykora. Vertal Taylor, Al Johnson. Charlie Joyner, Dave S 1 1 nrjw. J o hn Sfu in p. eu- Stafi: ftolfe Null. Don Maynard. Cienn Harden. Bill Johnson, WufT iVcuill, Kam McKeel. Mark Sumner. Art Xanthos, Graham Jones. Charlie lrpuer. Cmny Jones. M. K. JoneV Syracuse's Loss, UNC's Gain Dean Thomas Carroll's decision to leave his post as Dean of the College of Business Administration next September should come as quite a blow to the student body. It was Dean Carroll who took over the position four years aji-o at the age of 31 and transformed the College from one of the weakest to one of the strongest in the country. And Bus Ad is still growing, thanks to the dynamic leader ship of the lanky dean. Carroll perfectly typifies the progressive spirit of the young administrators found in a university which is moving forward. His decision to leave hurts. A University can feel flattered to think that other schools notice the high calibre of its faculty and administration. But that does not ease the wound caused when one of its most capable administrators makes up his mind to leave for other pastures. Wishing Dean Carroll the best luck in his new post as Dean of the School of Commerce at the University, of North Carolina next September, we hope that Syracuse can find n man with administrative talents to carry on the steady progress that Dean Carroll brought to Syracuse U. Same Trouble af Carolina (Reprinted jrom the University Daily Kansan) "The shortest distance between two points is a straight line." This theory was advanced years ago by some anony mous mathematician, but K. U. students, all logical minded, axe still demonstrating the proof to the dismay of Buildings -'nd Grounds. ; Several years ago, Building and Grounds decided that, to conserve the grassy sward of the University campus, they would pave any and all paths the students wore during their treks between classes. , , Suiting action to words, they proceeded to lay asphalt and some concrete sidewalks wherever a hint of a path ap-' peared. Satisfied, they sat back with the feeling of a job well done. But, what was the result? Failure, complete failure. A tree between Bailey chemistry lab and Frank Strong hall presented a problem. The sidewalk had to be built on one tide or the other. After careful consideration, it was laid on the left side. So where did the students walk? On the right side, of course. They thought two sidewalks leading to the journalism building were plenty. The journalists fooled them, in their customary manner. Two additional paths now lead in a gen eral northwesterly direction. With extreme caution, the. department laid a walk from Frank Strong to the Stadium, where it connects -with an east-west walk. Nothing daunted, the students gaily trampl ed off toward Potter lake, eventually arriving in the general vicinity of Oread hall. 1 Other illegitimate paths, each serving at least five or six steps, scar the face of the campus. Spring brings added beauty to the campus, making it one of which every student should be proud. If cow paths which meander around like the course of spavined Jersey mar the lawn, the effect on visitors, as well as students, is far from desirable. Michigan's Drinking Problems UNIVERSITY OFFICIALS have long been concerned "about students and their consumption of liquor. In the effort to curb excessive drinking these officials have relied on police methods entirely. This method is bound to raise student objection. Psycho logically speaking, no one likes the feeling of having a small, anonymous man with tremendous power, enough to cause a student to be expelled, watching his every move. Also, the manifestations of this power the ever-present "campus top's" headlight, visits, questions, smack of a regulatory power beyond that which as common citizens, students have been lead to believe are in effect elsewhere. Thus the University earns enmity from the student body, but fails to correct what is dangerous in student drinking. The ever-present control offers a stimulus to see if "you can be the guy who beats the rap." As a great educational institution, it would seem that the University could offer a more constructive program to combat the 'evils of drink.' Certainly, these evils have been expounded by enough competent authorities to be within the grasp of the University staff. Such material, for example, desires a place in the Health Lecture series delivered to all incoming freshmen. : - If regulation of drinking in residences is necessary, as the University officials believe, and as experience has prov- ed, the responsibility of dealing with infractions of the rules should be left to the student-elected body, the student ' Legislature. In the past, an offer was made to the fraternity ' house presidents to assume the responsibility for drinking in their own houses. The presidents were justified in refusing, since their authority only extends to a small segment of the . campus as a whole. All-campus problems should be handled by all-campus groups. ; I nenforcing regulations, the University should attempt ' to make its discipline educational. DICK JENRETTE C. B. MENDENHAX.L, , .. CHUCK HAUSER TAYLOR VADEM Ado. Manager Bus. Oljice Mgr. Nafl Adv. Mgr. Oliver Watkins Ed Williams June Crockett Pick OF Pics . Battle-. ground By Anies Daye Here is the way it was. Here is how the guy next door, your husband, fiance, your own brother, son or you yourself saw the war from an infantry foxhole. "Battleground" is an absorbing picture that will be of interest to every guy or gal who served, or did not serve, in World War II. The story, written by Robert Pirosh, combat infantryman at Bastogne with the 35th Divis ion, 'tells of an outfit in the famous 101st Airborne Division during its defense of Bastogne, Belgium. "Battleground" suc ceeds in presenting a wide va riety of combat GI. types while keeping each one a credible in dividual. There is Holley (Van Johnson), r wise-cracking 'wolf, dodging, snipers .bullets, .but. worried only about six stolen eggs; Jarvess (John Hodiak), fprmer small-town newspaper colmunist who now looks back cynically on the idealism that led him to enlist; Rodriguez (Ricardo ' Montalban), Mexican American, who has seen snow before only from his doorstep way off atop California moun tains; Pop (George Murphy), 35-year-old father of five, now sweating out final headquarters' approval of discharge papers to send him home; and Layton (Marshall Thompson), green re placement ignored by the close knit unit until he proves him self. "Battleground" tells of the fear; the courage; the constant griping; the dull, hard manu al labor; the wild rumors; the baffled ignorance of the over all picture, of just what in Hell headquarters thinks it's doing; the deep companion ship; the loneliness; the stereo typed wisecracks; the inspired witticisms; the colorful ob scenities here, of course in dicated in half-phrases, but unmistakably; the modest self deprecation; the bitterness; the good humor in brief, life in the service. 4 In simple words of one syl lable, William A. Wellman, di rector and Dore Schary, pro ducer, tell a story that grips its audience relentlessly, carrying them into the war. Here is the war without any flag-waving. The camera focuses not on the war itself, not even . on one . battle, but with heroic simplicity on the. second squad, third platoon, I Company of the 101st Airborne Infantry. The camera's vision is confined to what these men saw, heard, felt, and did through the cold, dark, fog-ridden misery of the defense of Bastogne, vital point in the Battle of the Bulge. The main battle, and the soldier's own part in it, is on ly a vague thing, for your at tention is on each man. the next man on the line, the ma chine gun behind the next tree. YouH see death, but death as the soldier' saw it; impersonally, except when it was his companion in a fox hole. The 'business at hand is the only business of the film the cold anger of combat, ter rible in its concentration, lit eral in its transition to the screen. Even the key of the picture, General McAuliffe's one word reply, "Nuts!",, to the German demand that the. surrounded garrison surrender is related second , hand, and is important to the men of the second squad, third platoon, only because it is the only time they near the news before the papers back x home get it. Of all 'the pictures to come out of Hollywood about World War II, this one leaps to the top of the list. The performances by all concerned are such as to make you forget that the men you are watching are actors, and the photography and pro duction incidentals blend simi larly into the background. Through its characters, "Battle ground" touches on a full, rea listic range of Army experience -of experience common to all branches of the service. . i ANOTHER MANSION . WRECKED CHICAGO (JP) The tide of time is washing away an old Chicago landmark. The Potter Palmer mansion on Lake Shore Drive, once the citadel of the city's society, will be torn down soon. The 22 story apartment buildings will be erected on the site." Distributed by Kinp Features Syndicate bjr.rrneement with The Washington Star The arrest of Dr. Klaus Fuchs in England, on- charges of trea son, has brought forcibly to the Western democracies, in a mix ture of shock and confusion, an added emphasis to the moral and intellectual conflicts preval ent in the world today. Dr. Fuchs is a German born, nat uralized British citizen. His fam ily was persecuted by the Nazis because of his father's socialist--ic and pacifiistic views. In the 1930's he left Germany and came to England where, in-f 1942, he became a citizen. In the struggle in his mind as to what was right, Fuchs joined the Communist party, but he did not attend any of its meet- " ings or openly advocate any of J its views. Because of his bril-"' liance in the field of nuclear ' physics, he-did atomic work in this country as well as in Eng land, finally becoming a mem- ' ber of the British atomic re search plant at Harwell. He was s. at Harwell when he was ar--. rested for giving secret infor- . mation to Russian agents and charged with treason. During the past several years, the pattern of events seen in Klaus Fuchs has re vealed itself several times. In 1946, a spy ring involving -several prominent scientists ; was broken in Canada. Brit ain has tried and convicted one of its scientists. Dr. Allan Nunn May, on charges of giv ing secret information to Rus sian agents. In this country, the Judith Coplon case and the Whitaker Chambers-Alger Hiss affair have brought the American people into a more personal awareness of these events and their seri ousness. The men and women who have been involved in these cases and charged with treason have all been people of a pro fessional nature and character. They were intellectual and tal ented. They were apparently sincerely devoted to their work and to the country of their birth or of their adoption. They were regarded with the highest esteem by their colleagues and friends. The arrest of these peo ple for treason revealed a deep er insight into their character.' Within the brilliance of their minds they had been debating the question of right and wrong, perhaps seeing themselves caught in an irresistable current and then trying to control the current, for the good of them selves as well as for their friends. Whatever their reasons, when the people like Dr. Klaus Fuchs were charged with trea son, their friends were stunned. The people had come face to face with a question which, to answer, involves a fundamental , discussion of right and wrong and the problem of our time: . What is the meaning of trea son? Webster's Dictionary de- Ti Whence All BOF fle Had Fled!? CPU Roundtable Meaning Of Treason By Robert Lee Marks fines treason as "the offense of attempting by overt acts to overthrow the government of the state to which the offen der owes allegiance." The Constitution of this country defines treason as an act con sisting "only in levying war against theia (the United States), or in adhering. to their enemies, giving aid and comfort to them." These definitions immediately raise several questions concern ing the meaning of treason. What constitutes "overt acts to overthrow the government?" Does a person owe allegiance first to his government, or to what he thinks is right, even if it means opposing his govern ment and country? Does the country have a right to try a person for treason if the person was only doing what he thought was right?- Who is to decide what acts shall be "giving aid and comfort to them (the ene my)?" These are only a few of HORIZONTAL 1. one time 5. nobleman 9. mere taste 12. dock 13. Algonkian Indian 14. river in Brazil - 15. feminine ' name 16. withholds 18. Isaac's son 20. groups of three 21. hazarder 23. besides 24. bearded 26. streetcar (Eng.) 30. came together 31. facing glacier . direction 33. Australian ostrich 34. requites 36. brings . into bondage . 38. piece of baked clay' 40. goddess of v peace 41. Italian sausage 44. Mohamme dan cleric 45. curdles, as milk 47. harass 50. Scandinavian division 51. river in Russia I 2 5 4 ; 5 6 7 8 9 o II p2l8 . I"? 20 21 22 WT mmmm 24 25 26 27 28 29 54 SS 37 PPIP l5 " 45 46 j47 43 4?. 53 s4 55 Answer to yesterday's puzzle. MO D E L TSTA M O V A K I AIRI EITI E O V E R A TIE CAPES JO E S E R TjS AT AOS f I A R.S LI RAT IBIMR-IPL ElSISiJTloktS ROT AT T1T K R h ENS U .HOARD g A PUL 0 U P E R M AIT S "jRETEJLA AGOQ I I VET"LAW Qj n A P.I.L "JLlilJL oil RATI kLULl nieIsIt lI&isUsIeIep s 31 Average time ot solution: 26 minutei Distributed by K'nj Feature Syndicate the questions we might ask in attempting to determine the meaning of treason. The CPU will discuss "The Meaning of Treason" tonight at eight o'clock, in the Grail Room at Graham Memorial. SNAKE IN THE BED SINGAPORE (JP) A python sought to lie down with a mu nicipal commissioner the other night and died for his effontery. Pat Johnson explained he ' nor mally goes to bed without put ting on the light, but "this time it was lucky I did, or I would have had a nasty bedfellow." He killed the snake with a stick and brought the python to his office the next morning to prove it. Field mice will do considerable damage to young trees in the winter, particularly when the snow is thick. They chew the tender bark of the trees when no other food is available. 52. set of nested boxes ' 53. Scottish explorer 54. serf 55. solar disk VERTICAL 1. unclose (poet.) ; 2. nothing ' 3. rapidity 4. rubs out 5. unbleached 6. exist 7. uneasy 8. sly glances 9. Hindu deity 10. frosted 11. go by 17. tumult 19. branch of study 21. moist 22. space , 23. expiate 25. studios 27. apparition 28. verily 1 29. ponder 32. slender 35. pierce with pointed weapon 37. Asiatic peninsula 39. permeate 41. cicatrix 42. feminine name 43. tardy 44. island (poet.) 46. sped 48. wrath 49. unit of weight Carolina Seen Texas Segregation By Bill Kellam Not since Carl Snavely's stout hearted men, so rudely erased Texas' invincible Longhorns from the national snorting pic ture on that sunny September, 1943, afternoon in Kenan Stadi um has the UT student body been so upset. The reason: the attempts of W. Astor Kirk. 28-yeax-old Negro professor of govern ment at Tillotson College. Texas, to gain admittance lo the University of Texas. ; The . Southern press, or that of this general area, has ignored the case almost completely. The information in this article comes from the UT student newspaper, The Daily Texan, a fine publi cation edited by Dick'Elam, an apparently open-minded, liberal person of some ideals. The student response, via the letters to the editor column, ap propriately entitled "The Firing Line" in the Texan, has been largely pro-Kirk. The anti-Kirk letters, with the noteworthy originality of thought so char acteristic of segregationlists, have recommended that Editor Ela.n and Mr. Kirk go North where they can "fulfill their mutual desire to go to school together." The segregationalists think of their own state rights, but seem to forget those of the Negroes the citizens of Texas whose ed ucational facilities in no way equal those available at the University of Texas or any of the other large white schools. On Februray 7 Kirk with drew from UT because he wasn't allowed to attend even segregated classes, as is done by Negroes at the University of Oklahoma, The next morn ing Elam unhesitantly de clared himself in the lead edi-, torial of the Texan to be com pletely opposed to segregation in higher education. The more important sections of the edit, which was entitled "Tolerance, .Dignity, And Law Did Mix," declared: 1 "The segregation laws of Tex as were in conflict with the human dignity of Mr. Kirk. There is no doubt that in this conflict Mr. Kirk thought he was on the moral side. Many others in Texas think he was, too. "In Texas, Mr. Kirk can find little legislative encouragement for his desires to correct the WASHINGTON. President Truman has definitely decided to send a new ambassador back to the Vatican replacing re tired Myron Taylor, former chairman of the U. S.. Steel Corporation He informed a visiting group of Congressmen of this decis ion last week, indicating ' also that it had; been a difficult de cision to make. J . For some, time the White House has been under strong not to send an ambassador io the Vatican, pressure which increased after Cardi nal Spellman's attack against Mrs. Roosevelt and Congress man Ear den of North Caro lina. More recently it reached a high point when American Protestants who had been operating an or phanage in Castle Gondolf o, site of the Pope's summer palace, were stoned; and . when a spokesman for the Italian government refused to apologize for the incident. At the time, Senator Tom . Connally of Texas, chairman of the powerful foreign relations committee, expressed the hope to the White House that a new ambassador to the Vactican not be appointed. . President Truman, told Con gressional callers that he , has been studying the entire matter of diplomatic recognition very carefully. William Hassett, one of the White House staff and himself a devout Catholic, was asked to survey the situation. The State Department also made a survey. It was found that about 30 countries maintained diplo matic envoys at the Vactican, though the United States had been the largest non-catholic existing situation. Only on tr national level is there any f Vi. dent attempt being mado in r . lax the laws of segregation lin. der which, he suffers. "These 'moral' national Ly,; an'd judicial interpretation- ,,f the laws are opposed by r,r-,. . ponents of segregation who ,-,. clare; "'You can't legislate moral ity.' "In the field of morals, how. ever, it is possible to legis ale. Segregationalists have already legislated immorality from which Mr. Kirk with drew, in truth to himself and in defense of his huma.i dig nity." Kirk's plight moved Student Assemblymen Selig Cair to in troduce a bill on February 9 calling for a student referen dum on the admission of Ne groes to the University. The bill also proposed that the compulsory- student blanket tax (shades of the UNC block f o. ) and the loyalty oath be put to a student vote.- However, the Vice-president of the UT student body, side tracked the question by asking for a ruling on its legality from the Attorney General. The A G was forced to ask for a week in which to deliberate, so the bill was effectively pigeonholed in the interests of constitu tionality, rather than humanity and moral right. This emphasis on trivia Ir responsible members of the stu dent government caused author Carr to withdraw the bill at the Assembly's meeting to "keep from embarrassing the University and others who miht be embarrassed by it." However, Carr announced to the Assembly that he'll be back with a new bill on Feb ruary 23 and a petition from the student body which would make it mandatory for the Assembly io call a referen . dum. So the latest issues of The Daily Texan are being eagerly awaited up here. The communist element is apparently an inactive minori ty at UT. This is fortunate for those sincerely interested in the admittance of Negroes to the graduate school. Thus they won't be hamstrung by the kiss of death of support by the sincere ly (hah!) altruistic the Reds et company. DREW PEARSON WASHINGTON MERRY-G0-R0UMD country. The State Department also felt that diplomatic infor mation received at the Vactican was more voluminous and more accurate than that obtainable in most capitals. This was especial ly important during the war. Some State Department offi cials also favort sending a new ambassador to the Vactican bc case' it would take the heat ofT the criticism of Secretary Dean Acheson following his support of Algier Hiss. Catholic opposi tion to Acheson has been especially vigorous recently. " It was President Roosevelt who decided, to send Myron Taylor as his personal ambas sador to thhe Vactican in the early days of the New Deal. Prior to that the United States had not officially recognized the Vactican since 1867, the last en voy having been Rufus King, who served from 1861-1367. He left when Congress cut off his funds. FDR appointed Tayl ,r as his personal envoy in order to avoid confirmation by the Sen ate, and this would also be done by President Truman in pick ing Taylor's successor. Mr. Tru man indicated to his Congre sional callers that the man to fill this post had not been picked as yet. "There are a few wrinkles to be ironed out with the State Department," he said, "but I'm trying to get a good man to re place Ambassador Taylor." Matt MaGuire, the tough lit tle U. S. Judge in the District of Columbia, handed down a littte noticed decision which is going to help to make Labor democra cy. -
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