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THURSDAY,-APRIL- fi. 101 PAGE TWO HIE DAILY 1AR HEEL The official newpnpr of the Publication Honrd of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, where it K issued daily during the regular rwssions of to- Urnvrrmf v by the Colonial I'tt-t-M. Inc.. except Mondays, examination and Vacation pt-rux!, and '.he Hummer terms. Entered ait wcond-class rnattt-r at tint r't orn e of C hitf,f I Hill, N. ( .. under the act of March 3, 187U. Sub nirli(i)ii prue: P,.m per year, 3 i per iunrter. Member of The Associated I'M-.;. The Aoi;iti-d I'rf and A I' features are ext hwivcly entitled to tfi Hr for rennMir-alion of oil r-m features published herein. ilafinoiflj t't'tor .. Sftrti Editor sfioef Jt'eva Hoy I'ai ker, Jr. Zane Kobbins ..Caroline Hruner Jim Mills Ed'tnr . S'iriptu y.ililor f'h ntiHiranher lhi,ruU Stiij) J ark Hi-own. Ilill KeUant. Chi.rlle Glh'.on. Joe Seykora. Vestal Taylor. ann r r e, jr n nf Him p. Round One Is Over Well, round one of the campus electons is over, and al though most of the office-holders for next year were decided in the voting, it still remains to be seen who will fill the two most important student positions on campus editor of the Daily Tar Heel and president of the student bpd,y. Don Van Noppen, University Party candidate, finished on top in the four-man primary Tuesday but John Sanders, SP, was right on his heels. The runoff between these two looks like a real thriller. The editorial race was surprising in view of the. fact that it was the only contest in which one of the candi dates sponsored by a party was" eliminated. Chuck Hauser has the lead in the race, but Graham Jones, an independent candidate who has shown amazing strength, forged ahead of the SP's Bill Kellam and will present a strong challenge in the runoff. Thus there will be plenty of issues before the student body when it is again called upon to go to the polls next Tuesday. The vote this week actually was not as heavy as it should have been, in view of the intensity of the cam paigning and the favorable weather for going to the polls. At.any rate, the students should not consider that they have clone their duty by voting this week and therefore will stay rt home Tuesday. The most important matters in the elec tion are still to. be decided. Until the editor of the Daily Tar Heel and the president of the student body are decided, then it is difficult to deter mine which of the politcal "parties fared best in the election. The UP. took the vice-presidency and the SP the secretary treasurer position. The UP still retains control of the Legis lature and virtually "cleaned up' in the class officers nomi nations. All five of the elected sophomore class officers won on the UP, while four of the five elected to the Senior class positions, were UP, including President Ned Dowd. However,, the SP grabbed the Yack editorship, with Jim Mills winning. Five of the nine members of the new Student Council were elected on the UP and another was'doubly endorsed. Thus the UP apparently fared better than the SP in the number of offices. won at least. However, the Student Party has a very good chance of over-taking Van Noppen in the all-important presidential race. This position is particularly important in view of the president's wide appointive powers. The DTH editorship could also very well go either way. Thus even though most of the officers for 1950-51 have been elected, the party which takes these two positions will be in the' commanding position on campus. Elections Board Chairman Jim Gywnn deserves a big hand for his handling of the elections. Gwynn, along with his committee and countless other students who "dropped by" to help out counting ballots, did art efficient job through out. Although the final results were not known until about 2:30 yesterday morning, this certainly constitutes a great improvement over other years, when the final outcome of the oting was not known until much later the following day. Most of the students on campus are getting.a little tired of politics,' however, and they may not respond too well in the runoffs next week. It is to be hoped that the campaign ing this week will be characterized by good, clean competi tion. In the final analysis that's the best way-to win votes. Poor Attendance A banquet Tuesday night at the Morehead Planetarium Building brought Greek Week activities to a close on cam pus for fraternity pledges who were initiated during - this period. A, speech by Maj. L. P. McLendon after the banquet capped off the evenng. Unfortunately, however, Major Mc Lendon probably left Carolina with a rather poor impression of Greek Week and the fraternities. It seems that only about fifty of the ex-pledges turned up at Gerrard Hall after the dinner to hear McLendon's talk. This poor attendance is dis graceful indeed. Only two explanations are possible. First, the new initiates claim there was some, misunderstanding about the time of the speech and also that the banquet last ed so long that they could spare no more time that evening. The other explanation would be that the boys who were supposed to attend the" talk were now "actives" in their fra ternity and did not feel they were compeled to go. The DTH would prefer to think that the former was the reason, and undoubtedly a misunderstanding about the time of the talk did cut down the attendance. However, there must have been plenty of the initiates who didn't attend just because they felt no one could make them go since they were now actives. If this was the prevailing attitude, then the pledge training in general has been deficient. t For those who did attend, Major McLendon had some excellent points which he made on the fraternity system. All too few 'students realize the important role a fraternity plays in shaping a'young students character, for better or worse, and McLendoA had some good ideas along this line. "Don't overlook diamonds in the rough" was his advice to the new initiates who- soon will be rushing other students on campus. All too often the sincere, hard-working student, is overlooked for a more pretentious fellow who may never, have any interest in a fraternity other than for its social benefits. McLendon's talk would have benefitted all fra ternity men. &1CK JK.NKKTTE ...... C. B. MENDKNUAJ.L, .... CHUCK- IIAUSKR TAYLOR VADEM Adu. Manager ... Oliver Watkins flui Otlice Mqr. Ed Williams Nat'l. Adv. Mgr. . June Crockett Asiistavt STtrf. F.dttrrr ..Larry I"6 Mike Mi Daniel. Tom Wnarton. Al Johnson, Charlie Joyner, Daye Regrettable Letter To the Ed THANK Y'ALL Editor: I guess this will sound a lit tle odd from an. aspiring cam pus politico; but, for a cbange, I would like to, say something nice about some folks who helped make the Spring Pri mary what it was. First, Mr. Editor, let me thank the 2394 students who chose to vote in this election. I imagine all of us would have been much happier had every student vot ed; however, it was encourag ing to see the turnout at the polls yesterday. No student on this campus will ever get any more . out of . student govern ment than he i$ willing to put into it and the least anyone can do to insure a well-operating student government it to vote. Let's hope, Mr. Editor, that the runoff Tuesday will see just as many, if not more, students voting! All of the politicians, and a great many of the student know of the scholastic quali fications bill which was passed by the Student Legislature. However, few of us have slopped to, think , how. the grades of 159 candidates were checked. We owe a vote of thanks to Miss Prilchard and to Ray Jeffries of the Central Records Office for the splen did manner in which they co operated with the political , parties - and the Elections Board . in this matter. I .t j Speaking of the Elections Board, let's not forget to hand out a few more well-deserved orchids. Jim Gwynn and his board did an excellant job in organizing the election and. tab ulating the votes. The mem bers of the Election Board put in a great many hours for which they receive much too little appreciation. It's a .big job to supervise a campus election, and they did it extremely well. Before I sign off, let me con gratulate Herb Mitchell, Banks Talley and the. rest of the vic torious candidates. Best of luck to all of them may they create as much interest in? student government during the coming months as they did in the elec tion during the past few weeks. As far as the. runoff goes, time will tell.' Nevertheless, I hear that the students "gung have pahty" next, Tuesday University Pahty I (Of course, I may be just a little bit pre judiced so, don't take my. word on it.) Paul Roth Chairman, Univ. P.arty s Really Good, Sez Here Open Letter to Tom Kerr: I se by your editorial in this April issue of Tarnation that you are leaving your job as editor to doubly-endorsed Herb Nachrnan. You say in this para graph that you are leaving your, job with what may be termed "misgivings." I see your' point about the mag being alive, and I think the baby is really be ginning to grow up. I have liked the ideas you have been trying to get across in the past editions of Tarnation. Unfortunately, you haven't had the creative talent on the staff to follow those ideas through. I, for one, liked your 'New York trip issue, and said so, but found the February issue didn't measure up. A lot of people criticized me for changing sides of the fence, but I only com mented my honest opinion, as I saw the magazine." AH of which brings . us to the April Issue,, and I'm going to strap on my climbing irons and scrample over to the other side of the fence, again.- For one reason, you have paid heed to the advice of well-meaning people, and secondly. because' 1 , think this is another punsation- The Still, Distributed by Kine Features Syndicate ' ty-franzement with-The WuhiAgtoB'Sur. ;After the Smoke Clears; The Political Observer Graham Memorial was the yh Election night, Spring 1950. campus' favorite hangout for at Both party chairman,' Paul least Tuesday night of- this; ' Roth of the UP, and Dick Mur week, as campus politicians of. phey of the SP, had their ups every description, party, and and downs. At one time, Mur platform, assembled in -little": : phey tore off his fashionable groups about the main lounge looking horn 'rims and shouted, and down the corridors upstairs' "My God, isn't anyone on the to await - the returns as theyl " slate going to win?" Then a trickled out from behind the) few minutes later tabulations closed doors guarding the Elec-f came in from Dormitory' Dis- tions Board "counting" tables. The casual visitor who man aged to get past tne , locked, doors was confronted by a maze; of cards tables and billowing' smoke, resembling some mass bridge tournament- But the hun dred or more students engaged ' busily around the tables were . counting ballots, not paying cards. Rumors were flying all about, with the total vote esti mated at one time at 4,000 (it proved less than 3,000). A Gra- ham Memorial assistant ran busily about, posting results on a blackboard in the Main Lounge downstairs. Daily Tar Heel re porters buzzed about, worrying about making the press dead line, and others just waited and munched hamburgers. Every one was intently cocupied in politics, but there was a lot of humor and good furi during the evening. N Chuck Hauser and Graham oJnes, candidates for editor, with Jones announcing to the assembled group, that they had been purcased by the great wealth accumulated by "graft on the Publications Board." Every one grinned good naturedly. Such was- the scene Tarnation Review By Don Maynarcf al issue. You have revamped "Over The Hill," and though I sensed an outside influence, perhaps the New Yorker" Magazine, Zeb has done a fine job. The car toons have improved 100 per cent. Gale, Alston, Wharton, Taylor and Stuart, along wilh the others, must have felt this spring weather in their pens. The center-fold by Hugh, Gaje was an, enormous job, very well done. Unfortunately ,- you did not label it "Dorm, Life," or words to that effect, to help out those folks like me who had to search for "Quiet's" significance. "Dribbling 'Richard" by Herb Nachrnan, should have been call ed whitewash of Dick Jenrette. Perhaps then its subtlety would have gone over better to those who do not belong to the Graham Memorial political cli que; I'm glad to see Vestal Tay- lor's byline a . staff newcomer -pver "You , Can Nevep TelLV Taylor sneaked up on us in the last paragraph and hit us on the funnybone, for. which 1 ami grateful. D.ave - Sharpe, came- through, Xox.. a . change,- with . a - neatly -written allegory of campus pol- Small V6!coTC3Hence trict II, which swung heavily to the Student Party, perking Murphey's spirits considerably. He was. way behind after the Town vote had been counted and some of the coed, vote was . in. But Dorm' II produced, 304 votes for the SP candidates, en abling him to wipe out the lead the UP's. Ben James : had ; built up-in i the Town districts. 1 Actually Dormitory II saved .the ; SP. Someone must have done some fine politicking in that area. It. seemed that every single person in the upper quad must have, voted. That didn't make UP. Chairman Roth the least, bit happy. There were surprises during the evening. Listed they would go something like this: (1) the. surprising strength shown by Independent Toby Selby. Run ning against two established student government leaders like VanNoppen and Sanders, Selby polled over 500 votes. The ques tion in the minds of most per sons now is. who will get these . votes in Tuesday's runoff. (2) 'What happened to Bill Kellam in the election? With an itics. Also enjoyed Zane Rob bins' "These Naughty" Nudists." It might be well if we started a' nudist movement on campus. Probably it -would bring out in to the open some of the sjispic ions I have had for a long time. "Watch That Leg," a staff pro ject, I enjoyed. But that pic torial on campus politics was underdone, I thought. You can't clean up, such a muddy condi tion that easily, Tom. I T liked the- ad layouts, and the color processing can't be overlookedit's fine. I see where the Cateirl ' has herself sDread out on page 63. There's a gal we'll never see tdo much presents a carton of cigar of. And if the offset printing ettes to the, student. on cam costs are not too high, let's see Pus who has Written what that process continued. " ' - tn? editorial board of the This isn't praise because Daily-Tar Heel judge's to be you're - leaving your job with th? "Best Letter " erf the the present issue, Tom, I'm sin- Week.!' This week's winner cere And we all are sincere is Pete Gerns, for his letter when we take our. hats off to on the constitutional revis you.. You've - championed an ion. Gems may pick up his. idea which may someday cause cigarettes by dropping by Tarnation to be the best among the DTH editorial office any college mags.' AH" you need is afternoon-'Fhe -award, inci writing talent. dentally,, is appropriate this , So ' long, Tom, , you've an-t week J f or -jCJerns since - he swexed, the 64-p.age. question, m celebrated his t. birthday a ' my. estimation, couple of 'days i back. WMI.I M SP, backing, most persons would have predicted " he- would have garnered more than 700 votes. (3) The surprising strength of Graham Jones. Jones had 950 votes cast on his behalf with an Independent backing. ' He is proving himself a good hand at getting out the vote, -after al most single-handedly whipping up opposition to the block fee raise recently. (4) The large number of votes in Dormitory II. SP candidates Jim Mills and Talley each picked up over 300 here to fur ther their cause. . (5) The UP's complete domi nation of the elections of Senior and Sophomore class officers. All five UP soph nominees were elected, and four of the five UP; seniors.won. . Random sidelines on the elec- tion: Joe Chambliss can thank them thar' gals for his position of heal cheerleader. Little Joe won by 36 votes. Tabulation of the coed vote showed Chambliss led Nose Jones by 95 votes Nin the women districts, while the men swung slightly ih Jones' favor. Never underestimate the power of a woman, eh. Joe? There seemed to be just as many stright ticket ballots as ever. Although interest in party politics is practically nil dur ing the quarter, it's amazing how many people -will vote straight down the line for a party, both SP and UP ... Who "is most popular by dis tricts? The vote shows in Dorm Men I, J. Mills polled most, T65. Mills led in II, with 315 and Tally picked up 304.' Roy Parker topped voting in Dorm II, with 177,. and Nose Jones led in IV, compiling . i 38. Mills again , led the crowd In V, With 66. Tom Kerr was tops in Town. I, get ting 68. Dick . Jenrette had the most in Town II, with 220. Herb. - Mitchell had 198 for second. In Town IV with 153, and Jerry Lev"s had 143.. ' And who Agot the women? Larry Botto led Dorm I with 130. Bill Prince, and John San ders each had 67 in Dorm for women to leajdj,. Jerry Lewis by 1. Town Women Voted for Ben James , and Jenrette, with 173 'apiece.- 'Best Leter' Award . Each week Chesterfield M MERRY-GO-ROUND WASHINGTON. Oklahoma s surly Senator (Cotton Elmer) Thomas was so burned up after this column corrected his ver sion of General Bradley's sec ret testimony on the possibility .i... fUvv.'x? Vino riOW OI " ".."nitteel oraereu a - , ;to investigate. , v f The subcommittee is suppos-s ed to find out how this column, got General Bradley's secret testimony. Senator Thomas had reported -to the press that the Chief of Staff was not worried: about war with Russia. To keep the record straight, however, this column gave a word-byword account of Bradley's re marks, which differed consider ably from Senator Thomas's version. Following this, "Cotton Elmer" named three Senators to investigate this columnist ' Joe O'Mahoney of Wyoming. Willis Robertson of Virginia, and Homer Ferguson of Mich igan. They are now checking on all the secret transcript to find which one might have slipped into Drew Pearson's hands. What slumps the in vestigators, however, is that the column also quoted what General Bradley said off-the-record which doesn't even appear in the stenographic transcripts. So far the subcommittee su- spects a ' certain Republicans Senator of leaking the story to Pearson, but I can assure the subcommittee that its chief Su spect wasn't even present dur ing Bradley's testimony. Meanwhile, this column serves notice that any time a responsi ble official is misquoted on any thing the public is entitled to know about, the column will do its best to get the true facts. More to Investigate What Bradley said, summed up briefly, was that Russia won't have the industrial ca- parity nor the atomic stock-. pile to start a war for at least two years.' However, he warned that Russia is a bully nation and . might get careless whom she Pushes around. He also re- iusea xo preeuci wnat nussia r t a. l' i t i v- might do after, two years. - General Bradley also , made other significant observations the public is entitled to know but which this column didn't have space to print in the story now being investigated. So here is some more for the investigators to investigate. Sen.- Burnet May bank of South Carolina questioned Bradley sharply on whether the $13,000,000,000 budget was an absolute minimum. "I certainly would hate to see the figure become any smaller," replied Bradley. Then he de clared flatly: "This amount was determined before we learned that Russia had the atomic bomb." "He assured, however, that he was willing to go along with a $13.000,00.0,000 budget for the sake of econonmy. - ' ' ".. Tn other words," suggested Massachusetts' Sen. Leverett baltonstall, "as a good citizen within our means." "Yes, but I would like to quali fy that," Bradley "hesitated. "You don't want to qualify the good citizen part," smiled Saltonstall. "Then Bradley explained: "The eventual strength of our coun try depends" upon. its industrial capacity. We must not destroy that by spending too much from y?a,r to year. So if I came here recommending $3,0,000,000,000 or $40,000,000,000 for defense, you should start searching for a new - chairman of the joint chiefs of staff .... "It is true thai our forces ground, air and navy are n.ot. suicient now lo fight a major war' Bradley, empha sized' "Nor do we expect to be sufficient foir such a ca: lamity by. the end of fiscal year 1951," he continued. "But I feel that we are going' l0 achieve the necessary forces to prevent a disastrous attack from crippling this nation," 1 also believe that, -ye WiU be able to win a wax if i comes " He predicted that this mili tary education system would ,"wui a, war if it is thrust upon DREW PEARSON ON WASHINGTON us. 'This is -a: risk that we take," solmenly added the Chu-r of Staff- - : , - Unicfati?890$ ETAOI TAOI Unification? Outspoken Adm. Dan Gallery, whose ideas'about an all-powc military doghouse, was brood- ing over a- fire that damaged his home. :L - "I don'f , blame it on the air force," he confided to an air force friend. "I think Secretary of Defense Johnson started it." Congressional Sky-Pilot New chaplain' Bernard is probably, the, first chaplain in Congressional mstory who does n't use a prepared script in de livering the opening prayer be fore the, House of Reprsenta tives a ., matter of fascination and pride to his boss, Speaker Sam Raybui-n. When Rayburn recently complimented him on it, the chaplain replied: Mr. Speaker, I can't pray sin cerely by reading something I have prepared. That would be like telling the good Lord: 'look, .Lord, this is my prayer for tomorrow, so be ready for it. I sit in my rocking chair at night until I have a mental out line of my invocation and, with his help, I always find the words to express it the next day." This doesn't mean, the chap lain hastens to explain, that we shouldn't continue to exhort God by such beautiful entrea ties as the Lord's Prayer, "but one a while I think he likes to hear from us off the cuff, so to speak.". Reverend Braskamp, 63-year-old son of Dutch immigrants, gave up a promising baseball career to enter the Presbyterian ministry. The late Harry Hop kins once carried his glove at Grinnel College, Iowa, when Grinnell had one of the best college nines in the west. "Harry was one the younger students and he used to carry ny glove into the dining hall, asking for pointers on how to be a pitcher," recalls the house chaplain. "I Nguess I wasn't much help, being a shortstop my self, but Harry wasn't cut out for baseball after all. I guess I wasn't, either." Headless Bureau When . hard-driving, imagina tive secretary for air Stuart Symington changes desks to run the National Security Resources Board, he will find an outfit about as full of snap as a worn-out spring. On the books, the NSRB has the vital job of blueprinting civil defense, re locating . industries, finding the most effective use of resources, and . planning for. ' regulating production manpower, and government facilities in time of emergency. But, this, all-important board has been both leaderless and kicked around by agencies that should be obeying its. orders, ' , The military-controlled mu- nations board is now virtually independent. The Atomic Com- mission has not turned over enough hard facts ahnnt atomic warfare to plan a realistic civil defense. And, the general ser vices administration does not want to give the board authori ty to plan the relocation of gov ernment. : : .. Inside reason why the NSRB takes such a kicking around is that it has had no full-time boss. John Steelman, the eager pro fessor and No. 1 White House aide, is the acting chairman. His method of operation was to take a quick peek at the Board about once week, sae a few officials on the run, and dash back across the street to the White House! During the coal strike and the presidential junket t6 Key West, the only way to- reach Steelman was by telephone. Note the kidnapping of the reluctant Symington for this key post was a neat double play by Secretary of Defense. Sym ington was the last remaining armed force secretary with an independent following. He was too tough for Johnson to han dle. Neither conscientious Navy Secretary Frances Matthews nor Secretary- of -the . -Army -to -be Frank Pace, is likely to get in a public scrap with Johnson over .economy, cuts.
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