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TUESDAY, APRIL 11, m :x 'M VACF. TWO TTIE DAILY -TAR HEEL , N JiL t T ofTlclnl nwpnper of the Publication Hoard of the University of North j l.aiolina. Chapel liljl. wheie it l i?.uc1 djily during the regular sessions of li.e l.nivcrsity by the Colonial I'revs. lin.-.. except Mondays, examination and v.'i'-alion tx-riodt. and the summer term Entered as fceeond -class matter at tf;i- pot oil ice of Chapel Hil.. N. C, un'ler the ac t of March 3. 1879. Sub scription price: H(H) per year. $3 .00 per quarter. Member of The Associated rres. Tli Arsociated lJrc and AH features are exclusively entitled to the live or jer.ubl)ciitiiti of all ni-wii Iciturfs publisned herein. I ! '.or H filar Hnnnrcr tfniinyiiirj H'titor Sii'trl httilor . iVc'iu V.ditirr ... . O'fr: fcd'for .S;t:elt Fd'tor .... Hoy Parker. Jr. . . Z.inc Jfobtnns ..Caroline Bruner Jim MlIU i nngum .miiii; j; n I'.rown, in II KcUjin, Mike McOamei. Tom Wnarlon, Brown, Bill KeUain. Mike McDamei. - jmc scjKoia. vis'al laylor. Al Johnson. Charlie Joyner, lave tuoje. John S'ump. i Mali: Neal (.jKiieu. Don Stanford, ftcotsy Tavlor. BUI Brain, Ruth Iienni, Marie Withers. iL.ndv Shiver. Mai'ill., Jim I.indlcy. Bran-ion Hobhs. R'.t.if.son, I'.fvrrtv Sfir. Bruce Bauer, A Tracjedy to Be Forgotten The serenity of a peaceful Easter weekend in almost de fcrterl Chapel Hill was broken abruptly Friday afternoon by the murder of George Lemuel Bennett, Jr., in his study room. And while Police searched frantically for the, assailant, Len linmhton Smithey, Bennett's room mate .who had been sven leaving the room a few minutes after the death shots were fired, wrote finis to the case by taking his own-life in the wooded area back of the Forest Theater. The combined murder-suicide will go down as one of the most grotesque events in the history of the University. Fortunately for the school there was no gambling, drink ing, or fighting connected with the incident. Thus the Uni versity's reputation should not suffer. There was no earthly way by which the tragic episode might have been avoided, and perhaps we have been lucky at Carolina in having so few incidents resulting in the death of a student or students. There is some question being raised now as to why Smithey was released from the Veterans Hospital in Fayettevillej over the protest of a psychiatrist. Smithey had been diag nosed as a paranoic case. Yet no one could foresee the dire consequences which have resulted from Smithey's release. This hospital case can be written off as no more than a bad error in judgment on the part of someone. There is no lesson involved in the weekend incident. A completely innocent student was murdered by another ob viously deranged student. The parents of the. two boys have the sympathy of the entire University and state. The murder puicide of, Easter 1950 must be listed as a tragedy and-for-gotten. Get Up and Vote A long week of anxiety comes to an end for-four students today Don Van Noppen, John Sanders, Chuck Hauser, and Graham Jones. They have been sweating it out all week wait ing for the student body . to decide today just who will be the next president of -the student body and editor of the Daily Tar Heel. So today is the big day the payoff day for the two most important offices held by students on campus. Yes, most of the officer! for 1950-51 were elected last week in the general election!. TSut just who is elected today will determine who will have the biggest say-so in student government and campus activities for the year. Thus it is the duty of. every student who voted in the primary election last week to vote today along with the thousands of students who did not see lit to go-to the polls before. The president of the student body must first be someone well versed in the functions and practices of student govern ment. Student government may well be said to revolve around him, particularly through ,his appointive powers. Then secondly, the president of the student body is, the repre sentative that you, the students, send out to represent .this school in public affairs. He is the official delegate of the stu dents at conferences and meetings, and must take the lead in welcoming visitors to this campus and in participating in e ther ceremonies. The editor of the Daily Tar Heel might well be said to be the spokesman of the campus. The DTH is sent to alumni and other people all over this state. Its editorials are frequently considered to. express the opinion of the entire campus for the edity is the only person on the staff elected by the stu dent body. He should be representative of the students and reflect the opinion of the majority as nearly as is possible. The Job of editor of the paper is a daily grind also always there r.re editorials to be written and the general responsibility of seeing that the paper appears each day. Thus the students that are elected to these two key posi tions today will have a heavy burden to shoulder for. the next year. It is imperative then that-a large number of students turn out to the polls to express their opinion on who really is the students', not the politicians', choice for president and editor. There have been charges and counter-charges throughout the last two weeks. But fortunately the mud-slinging has been down to .a minimum recently, and the students should be able to cast their ballots intelligently without a host of rumors and reported scandals drifting about. Jwst because you voted in last week's election doesn't mean you have done your duty. The positions at a stake today are far the most important. Make the men elected today truly majority candidates. , , Cllar Those Bulletin Boards With the exception of the races for president, of the stu dent body and editor of the DTH, the campaigning came to an end ,on , campus exactly a week ago. Yet the .bulletin boards around the school still remain cluttered with political posters, exhorting students to vote for this or that all issues which were settled last week. It's high time that these posters were .taken down. Each student who ran for office should tce to it that the posters in his immediate area are .taken down, and janitors in the buildings should be instructed that elections are over and that they may now clear, the bulletin Loards in the main class buildings over the campus. DICK JENRETTE C. li. M FN'DE.N' I IALIj - : CHUCK 11ACSER TAYLOR VADE.M Adv. Mannqer Oliver Wat kins Ban Office Mgr. Ed Williams .Vett'l. Adv. Myr. June Crockett AwAnnt Sport i Editor .. .. Lai ry Fox C tiarlrs Ahuorth. Marv Tomlin. Dick John I'oindexter. Carolvn Harrill. Iila Joe Nel on. lonnrfl Rawls. Letters To the Ed Editor; The. open letter of Saturday's edition has been yeasting in my thoughts. This, as reminder, was the one where "Signature With held" cited specialized and time consuming endeavor, such as Tar Heel work, as an , almost certain bar to the Order of the Old Well, through the latter's point-based admission. This sort of letter hits me where 1 live; I've spent a long time in the thankless chore of publications. The basic question prompts me to .vonder whether the aver age student appreciates the de gree of all-out effort (by so few) that goes into the making of his campus newspaper. Contrary to certain miscon ceived opinion, the Tar , Heel isn't produced by anyone's wav ing of a wand. Neither do the elves. bring it. Instead, the thing comes out by gist of darned hard work. v I am in good position to see such work. This is because of my night-shift job at Colonial Press where the Tar Heel gets printed. Much of it, at times, trickles through my own fingers before it hits the press. Therefore I think I know the Tar Heel well; its virtues, its faults, its targets for correction. . In the latter I have faith be- . cause I know the thoughtful study for improvement that is now going on 'from within. My own suggestions, as a shop-man, have. been solicited; I like the trend. The story has not yet broken; it's not yet ready. It may not break , at all if today's election swings the other way. This Tar Heel is no-New York Times; that's granted. But as strictly a collegiate effort, a sideline show put up by ama teurs, it stands up well in the wash. I, myself, wouldn't take a Tar Heel editorship for all the tea in China. Here are some reasons why: 1 An "outside" newspaper is thankless enough, but its field is broader (and perhaps a bit more mature) than a self-contained parish like a campus. Here, conversely, the readership is a close-knit bundle of TNT with controversial interests. The edi tor cannot escape. He must buck right through his job (and friends) with the stamina of a mule. It takes nothing short of "years to learn the ropes" -to survive the ride. 2 On an "outside" news paper, the editor gains his post through sheer hard work and merit. It takes about 15 years to get bridle-wise enough to make -the grade. -Then he pro duces, or he's fired. Here, con versely, -there "ain't no firin' if -the deal pans wrong," and to get, the job at all it's a straight out case of the "mostest friends on the right election date." 3 An "outside" newspaper . has plant and staff facilities to shut out crackpots, thus to let the staff do its work. Here, though, the Graham' Memorial office is a catch-all and a gold fish bowl where you can't teU the staff from the kibitzers. T'ain't right. As example, did you ever try to cope with a mis conceived "crusader" who wants his two-bit item captioned with a front-page streamer? one who threatens to yank the Al pha Zeta Pooh bloc-vote if his interest isnt gained? It happens daily at the Tar .Heel. The dubious elements here expressed would not exist three minutes on any other kind than a campus paper. -The rush for deadlines would not let it. I could argue into the night but what's the use? The answer comes up that somebody is peg ging life-blood for the Tar Heel, and strangely, "for the love of the thing." It's simply in the blood. Because the chore gets done at all, I think the Tar Heel staff, all-out, deserves v. vote of con fidence and thanks. It's one thing to "dream" a good-Tar Heel; another thing to make it stick. Does the very , complicity of this job occur to you? In technical aspects alone, .the:tyVo is lost at the start. -It -takes vvcaning long in overtime just to bring him up to scratch. (See EDIT, page A) 4T if v he I- .1 ii 1 tiy 1 li?- " (H- -3 r Dlrtrlbnted by featnrei Syndleat tl -wangBtnent with Tut WMhinjton Su During the past -year, we've seen a number of films ,that have reflected certain social problems of the American scene. Films like "Gentleman's Agreement", "Home of the Brave", and "Pinky" have brought those problems to the attention of the American pub- ' lie. . Once again Hollywood has come out with a film that by reason of its quality of success fully reflecting certain sodai and political phenomena stands'' out as a distinguished , exaniple ' of film production. Such a? film'-' is "All the King's .Men", which has just been awarded ;thej Academy Award for the best picture of the past year. Rob ert sRossen, as producer . and'" director, has fashioned his, screenplay from Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. "All the King's Men" could HORIZONTAL" 1. 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IOC AS 4 V M TjA E U a RRES TEP GL AMORlE aRS AD A V ESS E L 1 MENDERS D E LlTjAl INCURS OM I N T0N de ems if a l e Ttom "ZIITIb ebat Em"aMJ R oTs Eao r sfdlNr :j HPR I M I 5 "1G I jVEl IEAl l eas l ear EtRtRLjuo n IlJesneI '; ;4-o Ave ree .limr of solution: 27 minutps I'jitrihujed hi-jKlnis Fftur- Syndicate . -V Spring Is Here , sec - r H' au 2.i i . rwt c jTijr vry I .3 tf- --JS IB I .1,1 m W a Ready For Fall Orientation Planning By Bob Clampiil be taken as the story of the many political machines which, while wining the sup port of the "people" with public works rand private favor, thrive and feed them selves on graft. corruption, and the destruction of . any force or individual daring to stand in opposition. Actually, the film is a thinly disguished version of the Huey Long em pire, which thrust itself onto the American political t scene in the thirties. t In recounting the rise and fall of the Louisiana "Kingfish", Mr. Rossen has done a very good job in this respect: he has made the moving picture of. f history a -fixed and still tableau, while retaining the live elements of drama. In telling the story of Willie Stark from the time, he started as a sincere naive do gooder, uneducated and fighting VERTICAL 1. FIoridian 'bird 2. prohibit 1 3. laughable 4. thick ointment 5. field 6. inquire . 7. sediment 8. wall 9. amount of assessment 10. bring into line 11. devilfish 17. term in civil law ,19. barracks 21. warp-yarn 22. Tibetan gazelle 23. pass 2". bit , 29. magazine 30. of the side 31. tough . wood 32. of thee 33. officer attending President 34. deference 35. shame 36. type of . bear 37. glide 39." grinding tooth 41. network " 44. rust 46. Roman . .highway" 47. Some Today-Casf Y &m Balfots . a battle he didn't understand, to the time he is assasinated in the lobby of the ornate legisla tive hall which he built as a liv ing monument to himself the picture never gets down to . a point where it seems to" -be preaching, warning, or moraliz ing. In fact, it's this quality, 'plus the excellent acting of Brode ,rick Crawford as Stark, John Ireland, and a newcomer, Mer cedes McCambridge, that gives . the film its strength. Stark is the small-time poli tician in a losing . battle against the local interests of ; crime arid corruption. When a school build ing collapses, killing some of the children and confirming -his accusations of grafted construc tion contracts, his political . ca reer is launched in earnest. He attaches himself to a disillusioned , nespaperman, John Ireland, who serves as his hatchet man, and -builds himself as the . savior ..of :the people. Sweeping all -before him. Stark becomes -governor, involves prominent jiiidivid uals and their families in the political cesspool, -grows - pow erful with the Hiileran- ra tionalization that he Js merely -.a. Robin: Hood f or , the tmasfiei stealing -from iie ,rich jto . give to the poor and keeps himself in power by his priv ate army .of polige Jhat de- . stroys all opposition. His career reaches a climax with the impeachment proceedings. However, he rides out this . storm by bullying 4 and black mail but is . murdered by a member of a prominent 'fam ily he destroys. Broderick Crawford's playing won for him the Academy Award for the, best actor. of the year. His portrayal of Stark is both sympathetic-and .forceful, ' never for a moment leaving any " doubt that even well-meaning persons can grow into dangers to society. Miss McCambridge, as Stark's , aide-de-camp, -also won herself an Academy Award as the best supporting actress. In her first, screen appearance, she shows talent, color, and looks. In the cast also, in an import ant role, may be seen Shepperd Strud wick, former student 'here at the University of North -Carolina who was prominent in the Carolina Playmakers. -The ' rest of the cast, including -Joanne Dru, John Derek, and Anne Seymour, complement the -leads perfectly. It occurs to me that this film is coming to Chapel Hill ,at a tima when .this campus is set tling certain .political offices and political questions, and certain words like -"graft" and "corruption" have been bound ed about -quite-freely. "AU the King's Men" - will give you a good idea of what -these words can -mean. V "1 MhKKT "-WASHINGTON. Sen. Lyn don Johnson,, the likable young solon from Texas, has been confidently-telling friends: "The President is going to sign the :KerT?Naturai Gas bill all right. Otherwise he will have some very sore -Democratic senators on his neck, and Harry Truman is just too smart to let this hap pen." The inference - is that - if the President ..doesn't ge along with the 'Democratic natural gas Senators, some of them might just happen - to swing over to the: Republicans, and play hav oc iw-ith -the .presidential -program. This, in the words of the mote discreet politicians, is .; called "logrolling" in. reverse: though i in -the words , of the . . "brutally . frank it is called legislation 5by "blackmail." .Whatever .Yu call . it, many , of -the , boys on capitol hill now .figure they , have Harry Truman where they want him , and. canputjOn.theiSqueeze. ,The- first time tbey sensed this .was .when he changed his mind 4 about .vetoing the cotton-peanut .acreage. bill Smart Republican observers, also sensing this, have already upped their betting, on the Con . gressional : elections next No vember by 5.0 " per cent. They know that whenever a Presi dent becomes the creature of a Congress rather than its leader, his party starts on the down grade. . "i GOP Gets Cocky Here's what; happened regard ing cotton and peanuts that makes the Republicans so cocky. The cotton-peanut acreage bill started sout ,to be a good bill. -Some such legislation - was ne cessary in order to rectify in - justices , in acreage, especially cotton. -But when the bill got into the House Agriculture Committee, thesteam-roller cot ton lobby managed to increase cotton allotments by 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 acres. This, despite . - the fact ; that- the- taxpayers . have -already shelled r out -$601,133,844 to pay for surplus-cotton, which is -many -times -the amount of the -potato ibill, though receiv ing a lot less publicity. .Potatoes, -for. instance, cost Uncle Sam only $50,000,000 this year. Several Congressmen op posed this : increase, including Cecil White of Fresno, Calif., once one of the biggest cotton .growers in;the Central Valley; also Stephen Pace of Georgia, .who knows. more about agri culture ..than j most Cpngress , men; - and W. ; R. :Poage, ; from coitongrowincj Texas. The Pepaitment -pf Agriculture al- ;,so opposed ny , increase ,said that .cotton acreage should be ;18 .fo 19 million acres. jBut a coalition, led; by Dixie- .crat -Torn -Abernetlvy . of Miss issippi, overruled them, fixed the acreage at 22 to 23 million. Once the cotton bloc had up .ped its acreage, Congressman Piice, whp represents a great peanutrgrowing district, de manded Jhe jSame treatment for the . Georgia "goober." Letters To The Editor: It was .with a .great deal of amusement that I read a col umn in the Sunday edition of The .Daily Tar Heel entitled "Viewing the .Candidates." The , autjaor .indulges , in several very broad .generalizations from .which.he draws specific, conclus ions. He also makes - seemingly contradictory statements which , I would , like , to ; have . explainsd. jFor example, he states that "Jones is not the Student Party '.candidate," -but that .the party urges -all .students interest 2d in ian -"independent -newspaper" and an "independent editor" ,to -.vote for Jones. .Mr. Kimerling, if Jon?s is not -now .the SP's candidate. -who's candidate .is he? What dqejs ;he promise , except vagu? abstractions .which .are -a poli tician's stock -in trade? ' What .do you mean by an uac-epenclent; newspaper?" Mau DREW PEARSON ON e'WASHINGTOW - UU - KUmw Wheat Will Be Next The Department of Agricul ture argued that no more pea nuts were jnewssary, but pea nut acreage was increased by 100,000 acres anyway. At this point, the wheat lobby also wanted to increase its acre age, but Congressman Cilff Hope of Kansas, ranking Republican, agreed to put wheat in another bill. He made it plain, however, that the wheat farmers would .expect to get theirs too. Meanwhile, last year's whert carryover was 307,000,000 bu shels'; the cotton carryover was 5,287,000 bales: the Commodity Credit Corporation, which han dles these ' surpluses has ex hausted its funds, has had to remove handles on pork and will need an additional borrow ing authority of two billion dol lars. Its total loss on price sup ports for the year ending June 30, 1949, was $254,762,000. , All this was why Truman's economic adviser urged him to veto the cotton -peanut bill. They argued that crop acre ages must be held down, not increased; that if peanuts and cotton were increased, other crops would have to be in creased, and that not even potatoes could be cut. At first, the President was all set to veto. Then the biggest guns in the Democratic Party unlimbered for action, includ ing some of his best friends. Smart Lobbying Organizer of the Key West pressure was Georgia's astute Sen. Dick Russell. Though not .being an intimate of Truman's, he was smart enough to stay in the background, let recognized Trumanites do the lobbying. In stead, Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman of Alabama,' Olin Johnston of South Caro lina, and Frank Graham of North Carolina, all southern democrats engaged in fighting the Dixiecrats, sent messages to Key West. But most-effective of all was Vice President Barkley who made a phone call to Mr. Tru man, in effect warned him: "If you veto this bill, there will be an explosion that will rock the Democratic Party. A veto would torpedo the Fair Deal and play into the hands of the Dixiecrats and the Re publicans." . y The President was also told by various friends that veto of the cottcn-pcanut bill might cost votes on Marshall Plan money, might - lose support in puncturing the '-Communist-bogey" set up by Senator McCarthy. On the other hand, increasing cotton and peanuts acreage would buy solid South er Democratic votes for the State Department and its fore ign policy. Mr. Truman listened, worried, signed the cotton-peanut bill. That's ens - reason Sen. Lyndon Johnson is so confi dent that he will also sign the Kerr Bill; also why the Re publicans are getting so con fident about next November. Editor ser has for three years present- ' ed unbiasedly, all the news the DTH could hold. No other candidate can make that claim. "Haussr has run his campaign on the basis of experience; in . his field he outstrips Jones." -What other field is there? i He-goes on to say "th- 1,600 Plus-students who voted against , Hauser could not have had such intimate contacts with hLa . Of "' course not1 T -mi i 'Jl- 1 think however , Wat a lar3e number of these votes were a product of the at- tempt to bat Hauser by sland- s er and accusations that have not and cannot be proved. ' . If M,r' user is such a poor 1 journahst, why does he .have. nfethV Slteart6d e"4rsemenb -of the DTH staff? Mr. Kimef- Img ; Whe you answer this . questlonf mark yc,jr cordmgly. k Geo? Se Rodman