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4 f Tuesday, march 23, i&:o PAGE TOO THE DAILY lAR HEEL 3T() c IDaily laTar 3teet Th ofTkrl.iI newipaptr of the Publication Board of the University of North r.-u olin.i, Ch.ifwl Hill, where it is issue! djlly during the regular sessions of tl.r University by Die Colonial Press. Inc.. except Mond.iy. examination and v iiai ion pnrxls, nnd tJie mirnmer term. Entered aj second-tlass matter iit tie port oflice of Ctmpel MiU. N. C. under the act of March 3. 181U. Sub- ini,tin price: $8.xi per year. 3.00 per quarter. Member of The Associated J'rr-i. Th Aociuted I'rrs and AP feature are exclusively entitled to the ii c tor re miMica'ton of nil newt featviret published herein. tri,'ior ... . DICK JENrtETTE M-iner HannocT C. H MENDEMIALL. AM KUitar ..... CHUCK HACSKR .,.nn film TAYLOR VADE.M . Hoy Parker, Jr. . . Zane Jlobbinn Caroline truner Jim Mill lp'k Edior Filitrrr 'MvrIul Siul: JjcM Brown. iiUI Kell.im. Mike McDaniel. Tom Wharton, f 't.arlie Cibsoti. Joe Se kora. Vestal Taylor, Al Johnson, Charlie Joyner, Dave ?nnrpe. John Stump. Ke-i i &tnir Ko5eNeill. Jon Msvnarti. Gl-nn Harden, Bill Johnson, Wuff Newell. Sam McKeel, Mark Sumner, Art Xanthos. Graham Jones, Charlie l'.rewer, Cmnv Jon, M. K. Jone. ;nne Staff. Neal Cadiru. l)n Stanford. Uootsv Taylor. Bill Brain. Ruth l-nnU, M.rie Withers. Hndy Shiver, Charles Ashworih. Mary Tomlin. Dick MaCitl. Jim LLndley. Branson Hobbs. John Poindexter, Carolyn Harrill. Lila Hubinson. Beverly Serr. Bruce Bauer. Joe Nelson. Ieonard Rawls. Siurtt Staff: Larry Fox. Frank, Allston, Jr., Joe Cherrv, Lew Chapman, Andy Tavlor, Art Greenfcaum. Biff 'Roberts. Ronald Tilley, Bill Peacock, K-n Barton, Vlr Goldberg. Sin-it("istuff: Pegey Wood, Mane Withers, "Betty Ann Yowell, Judy ijanford, M.ric Stotv ' j Greek Week Gets Underway Greek Week, an idea which has been spreading rapidly ever the country and is to be tried this week at Carolina for the first time, gets into full-swing tonight with joint house discussions for some 300 pledges who will meet in five of the fraternity houses over the campus. These discussions will be the first event in the week's program of activities as planned by Interfraternity Council Chairman Al Pell and the IFC's Greek Week Committee. Thus far the IFC has received near perfect cooperation from the fraternities in fostering the Greek Week idea. Chairman Pell stated yesterday that the Greek Week Con mittee, composed of Bob Holmes, Budd Grover, Rufus By num, and Marshall Roberts, and been particularly helpful in organizing the week's activities. Although most of the. fraternities have agreed to co operate by holding their initiation ceremonies during Greek Week, a number of fraternity men have expressed doubts as to the ultimate gdal behind the Greek Week idea. A number of these men have expressed a belief that the Greek Week idea is some University administration sponsored plan which would eventually result in the "stereotyping" of the various fraternity initiations. In other words, they fear that Greek Week may one day take all the individuality out of the initia tion procedures. On this score a few comments jseem necessary in defense of Greek Week. First, the movement is sponsored by the fra ternities themselves not the University administration. The school has expressed its approval of the plan, but all the im petus came from conscientious men within the fraternities. Second, Greek Week has been tried with great success at other colleges and universities over the country. It inevi tably removed much of the criticism directed against fra ternity initiation procedures. 4 " . ' Most of those who did not favor Greek No Grudqeeek a a vaue ea n back of their I U I J U mn that this University is "down" on fra IS field Dy ternities, and they feared Greek Week only University sets up machinery ready-made through which fraternity independence may be usurped. The DTH places little credence on this belief, however. Persons familiar with South Building and the University iidministration will tell you that there is no grudge on the part of the school against fraternities, as many would have you believe. The IFC and fraternity presidents have all en joyed pleasant relations with the University administration, ind there has been no talk of further restrictions on fra ternities. . ' It all boils down to the fact that the University has no objection to fraternities whatsoever, as long as they con themselves as "gentlemen clubs" should, to use the words of one national fraternity secretary "who visited this campus recently. Fraternities have exceeded the bounds of propriety on occasions during initiation, however, and it is on these grounds that the Universities have protested. If Greek Week can curb some of these practices then, the DTH is 100 per cent behind it. It need not interfere with fra ternity initiation activities which are designed to promote unity among the pledge classes and give the new initiates meny of us hav bin in faver of something of a feeling of accomplishment on receiving their smz tne furzt 6rad m Al this is wel an gud as far as ' it gos, but y not cary things a Congratulations, Dr. Coker The Daily Tar Heel's fullest congratulations go to Caro lina's Robert E. Coker, Kenan professor emeritus of zoology, for receiving the second annual O. Max Gardner Award last Wednesday in Greensboro. The award was given Dr. Coker for his outstanding work during 1949 "because of his great contributions to the fish eries folks of North Carolina and the world during the last year." "Forty years of distinguished labors in the classroom, in the laboratory and in the 'Great and Wide Sea' bring to a teacher rewards that are far richer' than any reward that might be bestowed upon him . . . Certainly preeminent contributions to the welfare of mankind deserve almost any award in the nation," the citation accompanying the award read. J. Spencer Love made the presentation. Dr. Coker's work last year was only a part of the research being conducted ' for the past five years by the Institute of Marine Fisheries of North Carolina. The Institute has been making' exhaustive surveys of fisheries of the state and of basic principles governing the operations of world, fisheries. A report oi their work which will be published next year should add further to the fine reputation achieved by Dr. Coker and his associates in the Institute. The University is privileged to have had this award win ner as a member of its faculty. The Daily Tar Heel hopes that Dr. Coker has established a precedent which other faculty members will continue by their outstanding work. A&v. Manager Oliver Watkins Mm. Office Mgr.' Ed William Nat'!. Ado. Myr June Crockett A.ixiyfnnt Sport Editnr Larry Fox Pick of the Pics Torment' By Anies Daye Not from England, France, or Italy, but this time from Swe den comes a very good foreign film. Under the title, 'Torment," it opens tomorrow at the Vil lage Theater. Involving a student ana pro cessor in a Stockholm boys' school with a neighborhood girl, the drama is projected with the utmost in realism, and a man ner never ventured in Holly wood's products. Its frankness has to do with exposing the effects of iron rule in a type of European school. the downfall of a degenerate in structor, the experience df a tormented boy .and the tragedy of the girl in both their lives. But it is also a story of hu manness and compassion as it touches adolescent lives and adult decadence. The story bites deeply. It tells of a neurotic Latin Jeach er in a school for youth, who puts the pangs of his twisted emotions on his students with cruelty thai only a master in . torture, could devise. The personal element of the story comes from the conflict between this sadist and a youth unlucky enough to befriend and fall in love with a girl .who, by an unholy attachment," only, im plied in the picture, is victim of the brutal school-master. The title, "Torment," as you might guess, comes from the plight of all three of these characters, the master with his hopeless neuroWcism, the girl with her struggles to escape from -his psychological torture, and the youth, whose idealistic infatuation is complicated, by the crisis in, his life caused when the girl is found murdered. The teacher is played by an actor named Stig Jarrel, who is just as convincing during weep ing spells of self-pity as . he is during bouts of - thin-lipped cruelty. Cast as the boy and girl, a couple named Alf' Kjellin and Mai Zetterling do almost as well as Mr. Jarrel, and that's saying a good deal. The sets, photography, mus ic, story telling and acting all bring this strong and simple tragedy to a stark climax. The photography is surpris ingly clear considering its foreign make. To enjoy "Torment" one must take into consideration that this is a foreign film with English sub-titles. It is not one of our own Hollywood products. How--ever, thii, the first time a Swe-. dish film has been brought to Chapel Hill, and it's one worth seeing. Wht's Tht.Agn? By Charlie Joyner From time to time we read where advocates of phonetic spelling are renewing their pleas for a simplified form of the written word, one which would omit all silent vowels, and con sonants from the language. They hold that .a word should be pronounced, an ideer wich step further an do away with vowels altogether, x'cept in spe shul cases, both in-speking and riting. x Ths systm wld hip gratly in qting a bsy wrld, ths svng wr & tr on ppls nrvs. Prnts eld rd th fnnys to thr childrn wth't bthring ppi, & th radio wld be impryd to sch an xtnt tht u cldn't tl th prgrm frm th st'tc. Df & dmb ppl Wld'nt hv inferiority cmplxs, nwspprs wld sv ppr & spc, ths mking thm esier to fid on clss, & instrctrs wldn't wk up slping stdnts. Anthr grt advntg is tht th en emy wld stp listning, & rlrds wld sv a It of mny on sgns by pnting only STP & LK on thm. Wth a systm lk ths, evn th Chpl 'Best Letter' J The award for the "Best Let ter to the Editor' last week goes to a letter titled "Campus Chest Pclicy." The authors, Dick Mur phey and Mike McDaniel, thus have won themselves a carton of Chesterfields, which they may split two ways. The Ches terfields may be picked up any afternoon this week at the DTH editorial office. Wtr!totd by King Feature! Syndicate fcy rnncmni with Th Washington Sta Whose Going To Washington? They booed Frank Graham at Asheville Saturday night. And "they" weren't the red necked supporters of Bob Rey nolds. They were the double breasted, 48 - inch - waist - line, satin-handkerchief backers of Willis Smith, respectable Ral eigh lawyer who is running for Dr. Graham's seat in the Senate. They didn't boo what Graham said, since most of what North Carolina's new Senator said, came directly from Saint Mark and the new Testament. He pro posed the idea of human good ness, human liberties, and indi vidual responsibility for our fel lowmen under the Marshall Plan, the Atlantic Charter, and the United Nations. , Cat-calling and shouts - of "nigger-lover . . where's Hans." and ether insulting heckling greeted Senator Gra ham when he was introduced at the Young Democratic Ral ly in Asheville Saturday night. When Graham had finished, the booers kept their mouths shut and Graham received more applause than Reynolds and Smith put together. It appar ently was more sincere than the ' feet-stomping that Smith people gave their man. More than 1,500 Young Demo crats (a few were balding and shedding their teeth) gathered in Hll tlephn systm wld be stisfctry cmpred to othrs. If th systm wrks well on a 5 yr pin, thn consonants too eld be eliminated, th fnl resit being smthng lk ths: , , ; . ... 71345679! It's a boy! With the advent of the Dr.-Sanders-mercy-killing in the . news of New England and the similar death of the Campus Party on the campus' of the University, the strangest things in the way of campus politics have happened than have come to pass since the old-time spring elections of years ago. Never in the memory of con teporaries have there been so many ambitious independent candidates running without party nomination for student government offices. It couldn't be because they think that with out the campus party to ma chine all the votes they might have a better chanCe of win ning. The Campus Party never was able to machine even the votes of their own steering committee members. To this noi-too-keen ob server it is an indication of one of two things. Either these independents aspiring to be President, and Daily ii.2 Big Scissors YDC Meeting By Graham Jones the Sky City to near the three candidates and Congressman Sam Rayburn, to fill up on bar becue, .and to spread out in a square dance.- f - To be completely honest, your Asheville correspondent must mention that there was some drinking, 1 also. Nevertheless, most delegates, including 30 stu dents from Chapel Hill and W.C. spent their time politieing. Of the. 30, " 29 were committed to Graham and one - is helping to manage Reynolds campaign. Following, the speech-making,-UNC delegates huddled and very appropriately sang "There Will Be A Carolina Victory" - and the Alma Mater, while Smith people looked on and i dqubtless wished their man had gone to the. poor-man's school. (Incidentally one of Frank Gra- ham's warmest friends is Mar tin Cromatie, Duke law student " who is active in the YDC.) Marshall Kurfees, who has the t unenviable' job of running against frocked-coat Clyde Hoey ": for. the western seat in the Sen ate, promised to vote about the same way . as , Hoey, if elected. : Sen. Hoey was t unable to at . tend. Then "Your Bob" Reynolds recited the creed of the Amer ica First Committee. Graham followed him with the same i kind of speech he has been : making for " the past twenty l years One World, human lib erties, the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man. He also got in a plug for the ; Blue Ridge Highway. Candidate Smith then echoed Pitching Overshoes 'Offensive Candidates' By Tom Wharton Tar Heel editor, namely Sel , by. Borello, and Jones, think that the time is now. ripe to break up partisan student ' government or that if really doesn't require any experi ence or backing to fill these jobs adequately after alL The far-fetched notion that may be students are whipping up a little genuine enthusiasm for government is not -worth consideration, entirely too naive. The voter in these spring elec tions can be glad of two things over itx all though. One thing is that he has a long list of candi dates from which to choose for every major office, and he can also be glad that only one of them can be elected to the office no matter how the vote goes. The voter needn't lose any sleep over the fact that hereto fore unheard-of and untried candidates, because after all campus government is just , a mere $110,000 game. Yet, it is the only game we have heard of irr. which' a fan- can jump . what Reynolds had said, lending emphasis to the fact that he, Smith, is not a Communist, not a Socialist, not a New Dealer not a Fair Dealer, not a radical, and not a liberal. Rayburri, ageless Texan and Democratic Party stalwart- for many years, then delivered the main address that sounded like Graham's speech all over. At least six of the 1500 dele- gates were open-minded and seemed impressed by Graham's sincerity a rare thing around any political rally. Best guess seemed to be that Graham backers numbered about 60 per cent , of the total. Following the speeches dele gates . had trouble getting thru the crowd of well-wishers to shake hands with Dr. Frank. Meanwhile, Candidate Smith was walking back to the Van derbilt Hotel unescorted, and Reynolds was chasing "friends." (He tells Skipper Coffin of the Journalism Department, that the Skipper got him into poli tics; Coffin, Dean of embryonic newsmen on campus, laughs it off and says he has never voted for Bob.) . Some of the interesting side lights: ' The sign that said "Frank Graham is Doing All Right." Smith people put up a sign predicting "Mr! Smith Is Going to Washington." Reynolds back ers came forward with one say ing, "Senator Reynolds Will Meet Mr. Smith in Washington." The next day, FPG supporters topped them all with "Frank Graham Is Already There." down out of the bleachers and play without - being on either team. Since student government is considered just ' a game by most of the student body, let us for the moment compare it to another popular sport, say foot ball. Selby might just as wisely consider himself good fullback material by virtue of the fact that he is a. Senator of the Dia lectic Literary Society as he considers himself good presiden tial timber. Graham Jones could, on that basis, conceive of himself as a fine offensive tac kle just as easily as he conceives of himself as a good DTH edi tor. T can't comment on Bofello, the independent aspirant to the president's office, because I never heard of him before. But what a laugh it would be for any. of the above-mentioned persons to go down to the gym and announce to -the team that he would appreciate .their vote for captain of the team. The principle is the same in either game. - . MFRRY-60-R0UND WASHINGTON Sometimes the most important votes are cast in closed-door session. This was true -the other day when Sen. Elmer Thomas of Okla homa finally voted with South ern senators for the' new cotton acreage bill. Here are the inside facts behind his vote. , . Speculating on the commodi ty market has cost Senator Thomas so many farm votes that he is now trying to maneuver what amounts to a private sub sidy for Oklahoma farmers to win back their support. Thomas's plan is to grant ex tra cotton acreage to farmers whose winter wheat was de stroyed by green bugs. It so happens that Oklahoma farmers ; lost about 100,000 acres in win der wheat because of green bugs, but the law, on the face of -it, would help farmers in other states also. There is one. factor that Sena tor Thomas didn't mention, how everthat, although green bugs also infested wheat in the North, Oklahoma is the chief wheat producing state infested by green bugs that grows cotton. Thus, Thomas's plan wduld help only Oklahoma farmers. . Behind closed doors, the sena tor from Oklahoma high-pressured the Senate conferees de bating the cotton acreage bill to accept his green-bug plan as 'the price for his vote. Without him, the vote was split, 3 to 3. Three Northerners Senators Lucas' of Illinois, Aiken of Vermont and Young of North Dakota held out against the cotton acreage bill. Three others Ellender of Louisiana, Hoey of North Caro- ' lina and Thye of Minnesota voted for it. Meanwhile, Thomas sat on the fence. Finally, the cot ton senators gave him a political bribe by accepting his green bug provision. Later, alert Sen. Clint Ander son of New Mexico blocked this private aid to Oklahoma farmers through a technical maneuver on the Senate" floor. But Thomas is still lobbying for it. ' . Note What got Thomas in bad with Oklahoma wheat growers was" his efforts last year to influence the commod ity market and force the price of wheat down ai the same time his speculating partner. Dyke Cullum, was gambling on the commodity market that wheat would go down. That's the reason Thomas must now redeem himself with the wheat farmers. A few bored senators sat on I 13 18 19 21 22 26 27 28 82 IS 41 42 45 44 4A 47 4& 52 55 56 HORIZONTAL l.bulk 5. Oriental . weight 53. cornbread 54. couple 55. Japanese ' coin 56. wine vessels 5?. serf VERTICAL 1. insane 2. malt beverage 9. cover 12. wings 13. eaele 14. former European coin 15. sand hill 16. harkened 18. 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Looking- about him sorrowful ly, Tobey continued: "We must change the rules so words of wisdom and pure gold, when, as and if they flow from lips of Senators, will fall on fertile ground and not on arid soil." Sadly the Senator from New Hampshire walked off the floor. The Veterans of Foreign Wars' Ladies Auxiliary has a refresh ing new idea. Instead of ex changing students with other nations, they are exchanging war orphans. Six- high-school seniors from the V.F.W.'s Home for Widows and Orphans at Eaton Rapids, Mich., are making a goodwill tour of Europe called "Opera tion Freedom," visiting England, Greece, Belgium, France, Italy and Germany. As orphans of American heroes, they will bring back with them a war or phan from each of these coun tries for an extended tour of the United- States another il lustration of how the people of the U.S.A. are anxious to work at the difficult job of winning the peace. American diplomats bring home word that the Voice of America is definitely, though slowly, penetrating the Iron Curtain. Part of its news is . passed around by word of mouth, since few people have radios. However, here are a few letters sen! to the U. S. in answer to the voice: FROM A GROUP OF RUS SIANS: "Everyone to whom freedom is dear listens to your broadcasts. When we left home (they had been sent to a con centration camp), we gave our word to send regards to the free voice of America. It is only after great hardship this oppor tunity offered itself to smuggle out this letter. 10 tl 24 25 29 30 31 34 'A 37 'A 39 40 45 A 4? 50 51 54 57 3. cleanly 4. observed 5. web-like membranes 6. gets up 7. printer's measures 8. rent 9. light gauzy fabric 10. frosted 11. fop 17. last 19. person afflicted with thyroid deficiency 21. pouches 22. countenance 24. youth 25. chooses .27. salty 29. mythological blind seer 30. invariably 31. shades of a primary i color 33. 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