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Oliver Watkins Ed Williams ... June Crockett .. Shasta Bryant Harry Crier Night Edilor: Newi Rolfe Neill; Sporl Joe Cherry. 1950-51 ...The DTH Policy It is somewhat difficult to put down in black and white the specific editorial policy of the Daily Tar Heel for the coming year; it is impossible to state exactly what such policy, will be. But with a belief that the people who own and finance this paper should have some idea of what to expect, here fioes: " , In essence, the DTH will have a "liberal" editorial policy. It will not be a liberalism based on emotional-starry-eyed-idealism, however. But instead, it will be a liberalism found ed on the recognition of the fundamental facts which con lront us in this modern world. There are certain things which we must all realize and understand. One of them is that the days of "tin-lizzie and caviar, red plush rugs and pass-the biscuits" are gone for ever from the South and the nation. There can be no turning back the clock to 1860 or to 1329 as manya would have us do. This State, as well as the entire Southf has a long road ahead in catching up with the spirit of Charles Aycock, Joe Dan iels, Calvin H. Wiley, and Willie Jones; and closing our doors to new plans and new ideas will never aid us in this task. The editor of the DTH will ardently and enthusiastically support Dr. Frank Graham in his campaign to return to the Senate. I feel that Frank Graham is the living hope of this generation as well as this State the nation and the world. The DTH will stand 100 percent behind academic freedom and opposed to MacCarthy-style witch hunts, which we feel to be a direct and dangerous threat to our way of life. The DTH will not be one to join the long list of people who think the problems of racial progress belongs only in the hands of the socialogists. The race .'ssue is one we could not dodge, even though we should desire to do so. Between now and June the U. S. Supreme Court will hand down its decision on the Texas and Oklahoma cases involving racial segregation in higher education. There is some doubt that the high court will rule in favor of the Negroes, but if and when it does, the North Carolina cases will bn .dropped and so will end gradyate-level segregation in the schools of this state as well at Texas and .Oklahoma. This will not mean the abolition of segregation in this state nor any other. It will simply mean that all the citizens of the state will have an opportunity of receiving all the bene fits of higher education. The transition, which will probably not take place for many months, will be a difficult one for us and even more difficult for students. It is the sincere hope of this paper that the students here will help make that transition as .easy for them as possible the DTH will do all that it is capable of doing to prevent our local agitators on both sides, from stirring up racial hatreds. The edit page of the paper will always be open to the views of all groups whether they be Nazis, Communists, lib erals or conservatives. These groups will be limited propor tionatsly to their presentation on the campus. Write Away and Talk Away are open to ALL. At times editorials will appear about national and inter national issues not because we feel to be experts on any matter, but because only through the press can the world know what college students are thinking about the import ant issues that mean so much to their lives. Such editorials vc hope you will either commend or condemn. And there you have it. We do not. expect everyone to agree with the editor. We don't even expect anyone to agree on all points. But I have given to you what I consider to be a sincere and honest belief about what the editorial page of the paper will be during the coming year. If you disagree . with me and would like to talk it over come on up. Graham Jones Chapelhillia By Chuck Hauser What's this we hear about that Confederate flag gaily floating above Alexander Dormitory one day last week? If the boys are planning a re Volt, we wish they'd let us know so we can staff the con flict . . . When the Grail init iated its neophytes the other day. the biggest thing we missed was the past custom of stationing the initiates at various posts about the campus during the evening with lighted candles yelling about them selves. Usually a number of the new Grail members need to do something like that to bring them down a peg or two . . . We never will forget former Daily Tar Heel Editor Ed Joyner in front of the Pi Phi house convincing the belles that "Of all the newspapermen in the world, I am the most like Hearst!" . . . Add people-who-act- like-they -know -what -they're -talking -about -but-don't department: Dick Gordon insisting to the Student Legis lature that fixed assets were "t a phrt of Publication Board's surplus. A check with Auditor Harry Kear a day later convinced everybody (in- eluding, Dick, surprise, sur prise!) that he was wrong . . . It's not beach weather yet. but we're still waiting. The sun was shining yesterday, but the temperature wasn't quite inducive t o heading for Wrightsville or eyen Black .wood. Lake. And we thought it was spring in January . . . The Tv" opened up last night, and the faces to be seen in attendance were familiar, to see the least. The party sea son, ladies and gentlemen, has begun. The Curve Inn was crowded yesterday afternoon despite the cool breezes. That sun feels good (when it's out) ... If you live in town, do not consider yourself as living with your parents but only visit them from time to time, want to declare Chapel Hill your of ficial residence: Then go down and REGISTER TO VOTE 4his morning. We don't care wheth er you're .backing Graham, Reynolds or that other charac ter, but REGISTER. Lindsay Warren. Praised By D. P. .By Drew Pearson . v '' -"'4 ' happened. Unsung Bureaucrat The public some-limes gejs the impression that a -bureaucrat is a species of human being with horns, a forked tail, and an insatiable desire to make life difficult for the poor public. But one bureaucrat to whom this -column pays iriule is a wily, ex-Cpngressman from North Carolina who presides over a rundown office, with paint peeling from its walls in downtown Washington. He is Lindsay Warren. Comp troller General of the United Stales, and his job is to audit the books of all government bureaus to make sure Uncle Sam is not shortchanged. During his tenure, Lindsay Warr.en'.s general accounting office has recovered the amazing total of S660.000.000. His accountants have recently ordered, the Maritime Commission and Veterans Administra tion to return millions to the Treasury. They even caught the blushing Internal .Revenue Bureau in an error of computation that cast the treasury $2,000,000. Lindsay Warren, a big man wtih gnarled hands, spiky graying hair and a drawl as thick as molasses, can and has licked his weight in wildcats in the wars of Washington. Right now he is drawing back for the one-two punch on the mighty Hoover Commission. Hoover recommended that the GAO be abol isher and its functions turned over to the Treas ury Department. This idea, Warren told an entranced congressional committee, is based on "misinformation and downright lies. You can't argue against a proven success, and that's what the GAO is." Warren is. now preparing a report tha will claim Uncie Sam was euchred out of close to a billion dollars in "illegal and erroneous overpayments" through war contracts. , In tones of outrage, Warren explains to congressional cro nies: "You fellows wouldn't let the accounting office make a ' final audit on termination of war contracts, and see what We found fearful allowances for entertainment and presents in our early audits, but you wouldn't pay any attention to us." Note Sen. Harley Kilgore, who vigorously supports Warren, will ask for an investigation of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent by the military on negotiated contracts. His probe has the private blessing of Harry Truman, who is disturbed by reports that the Defense De partment is not awarding ..contracts through open, competitive bidding. ' Democratic Roll Call This column recently called the roll of Repub lican congressmen who achieved the doubtful honor of being the chief congressional hobky players. Today we publish the house Democrats who make a habit of being elsewhere when their names are called. Topping the list is Rep. Charles A. Buckley of New York, whom .this column once dubbed "The Phantom Congressman" because he sel dom shows his face in Washintgon. "The Phantom" missed 241 of 368 aye-and-nay votes and quorum calls since the 481st Congress began in January, .1949. In other words, lie was absent 66 percent of the time. . Two other members of New York's "I T and T" club (in on Tuesday and out on Thursday) are close behind Buckley James Murphy of Staten Island and Adam Clayton Powell of Har lem were absent 23p and 227 times respectively. Fourth Worst Democratic attendance record ;is that of charming Thurmond Chaiam of North Carolina, .with 214 misses. Others in order are Joseph Pfeifer of JNew York (210). John Davies of New York ,(188). William Byrne of New York (184). Compton White of .Idaho (172), Manny Seller of New Y.ork (165), and William Dawson Of Illinois (162). -Some Absences Valid Celler's absenteeism is due in part to his busy beaver activity as chairman of the House Mo nopoly Investigating Committee, which has kept him away from the floor a lot this session. Davies had a serious illness in his family which kept him at home. Young Franklin D. Roose,velt of New "York also missed 69 out of 129 roll and quorum calls during the first session of this Congress; but his attendance has been better during the se cond session, now that he has moved his family to Washington. . ' Other Democrats who have been conspicuous by their absence during yotes and quorum calls are: .Chase Going Woodhouse of Connecticut (absent 154 out of 368 times); James Heffernan of New York (147), Earl Chudoff of Pennsyl vania (139), Eugene Keogh of New York (138), Mendel Rivers of South Carolina (133), Gary Clemente of New York (117). Merry-Go-Round J Insurance companies are jubilant over the decision of U. S. Judge T. M. Kennerly for his ruling that the Federal Government, not the insurance companies, has to pay $200,000,000 damages for the Texas city fire. The insurance companies had underwritten the big chemical plants where the fire took place, but now, un less higher courts upset Kennedy's ruling, the American taxpayer, not the insurance com panies, will pay . . . Credit Bill Boyle,, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, as the man who chiefly persuaded President Truman to veta the Kess Natural .Gass Bill. He got important help, however, from Secretary of in terior Chapman, Mon Wallgren, .and Economic Adviser Leon Keyserling . Look .Magazine has a .revealing story on how Eleanor Roosevelt rebuked FDR on his "shilly-shallying over Loy alist Spain." wk 4 i - JT if "lrrv Iff W& I'TP Pitching Horseshoes by Bitty Bos More DTH Plumbin7 Pop Goes the Propaganda! Generalissimo Joseph V. Stalin Chairman, Council of Ministers Kremlin, Moscow, U.S.S.R. Dear Joe: If I may make so bold, I'd like to call your attention to a matter which is no laughing matter, even though it's been getting a lot of laughs lately. Namely, the recent efforts of your propaganda boys to win friends and influence people in this part cf the '' world. The bug in the borscht, as J ' see it, is that your tub-thumpers are currently telling such whop pers that a Moscow dateline alone is enough now to set folks snickering. And, as an old hoopla huckster,- I can testify that though our average citizen will swallow a certain amount of bologna he usually insists on having it sliced thin and be- tween two pieces of honest bread. 1 Take, for instance, last win ter's lollapalooza about how your engineers were nudging mountains with urnaium. We degenerate democrats, whether you know it or not, are a fact- minded people who thrive on details. When a fellow says he's Napoleon we want to see his birth certificate, and when he says he's atomized an Alp we want to see the hole in the ground. And since your press department failed to back up its brag with a jingle -snapshot, ' millions of us -the every people you were trying to impress ' read the dispatch and said, "Who ' do the commies, think .they're kidding?" ' , Then there were the recent humdingers which claimed that every doodad from the wheel to the flying saucer had been invented by a Russian. Now, I don't doubt that many an im portant idea has been - hatched between the Carpathians and the -Urals, but when your prop aganda machine gives the rest of the world qredit for nothing but the X4ndy hop and the bu bonic plague, a lot of folks who might otherwise be friendly be gin to titter and even your legitimate claims get lost in -the chuckle. .Our mass reactions were neat ly summed up a few months ago when The New Yorker car tooned a group of your agents in China discussing policy. "The main thing is to handle them with tact," said one of them. "Let them think they invented gunpowder." Softie issues later, the same periodical ran another captious ' cartoon in which sev eral Politburocrats were debat ing the question, "Shall we in vent television how or wait un til they perfect color?" (Continued on Tuesday) A 45 game, single round-robin schedule is being played by the league in-1950, its third seson as a ten-team loop. . , By "Old News-Hound' A long-term newspaper man, more recently back at Carolina, has this to say about deficiencies of -the Tar Heel as it stands: "This is a collegiate, not a high school, newspaper. Let's keep it on a collegiate level. All this 'trick spelling' of recent months (most recently as noted on the sports page) has been pretty im mature stuff. Let's get past it. , "Let's also broaden out the base of columnists. Home-grown stuff is good if it qualifies, but there must be a shortage of those wrho write it.- This tends to monopoly or monotony. "Can we not broaden out the range of names, per se, that ap pear in print? Activity and prominence can easily narrow tlje scope to a so-called "four hundred," but there must be news worthy guys from Podunk here too. They belong eq,ually to university life. Why not scout 'em out and see what they're doing? "in reportiorial style throughout, we could stand a better economy , of words. Extraneous words- can easily pile up and crowd out other items. The reader doesn't care about refreshments at the Rro Dammit Rho smoker; the deal is taken for. granted. It is just as easy to note an 'open' meeting as to waste two lines on 'the public is cordially invited.' "Further, let's get the sports page back into some ' degree of 'balance'. One holds no brief against the enthusiasm of reporters for respective sports they cover, but when each goes overboard with burbling adjectives like 'powerful,' 'sparkling,' and such, it overwhelms the texture of the page and makes the casual reader think '"that Carolina is a garden of Olympic gods: Also, let's save the big guns for varsity and major sports, subordinating others to the earning-squad. "Now what's RIGHT with the Tar Heel? Let's keep it all that way every day." Some of it is fine! 12 25 26 28 29 SO fi 11 33 34 rmwWmw -cZu UZL rm 7TT !LI11-II W 48 49 50 51 W 1 1 I 1 Write Away -Editor: V . We can stand around and cuss and gripe but it apparently gets us . nowhere. I I'm writing concerning exactly the same sub ject that my only previous Jetter to the editor was inspired by somebody pays for the syn dicated columns carried by the DTH, then how s come they aren't printed? Billy Aose, the closes? approach to humor that I've seen in your penod ical yet, hasn't been carried for quite some tim . Drew Pearson was cut today (April 13) after a statement concerning a Mr. Godwin's making .'outrageous claims of political achieve ments." What kind of claims? How outrageous? etc etc. I consulted the Raleigh News and Ob server to find at least another ten inches of column under Mr. Pearson's by-line. Granted, that the Daily Tar Heel is for the student. But until some student columnist is able to cover the nation's capital like Pearson or knock out whimsical columns like Billy Rose, let's give these boys the space. The new layout of the editorial page is fine. It seems a bit more appealing to the eye. The new blood on th editorial staff seems right up to snuff . Tom Donnelly was a good choice. when one considers the new additions to the staff. But leave us get our money's worth. Mr. Editor, Bill Rose wptes a good speel, though a bit Damon Runyonish and Drew Pearson does stir quite a stink once in -a while, but they both have something to say somehting of interest to a small number of-folks at least. That's more than can be said of the five or six inches used up today by "It's Gab." "It's Gab" is exactly ,that! It's a waste of good space on driveling noise which dern few people can under stand. "Speaking of old 'Our Foo'."; "What .Sigma Chi js it that . . and "Who's the Jap who's going to get some Greek's job . . ." That sort of mess belongs in phone booth conversation. CPU ROUNDUP Education Today Rv Georgia Fox This might more appropriately be called "What's wrong with our attitude toward the purpose of a college education today." It is not the actual institutions which are at fault except as thev are reflections of our theories regarding education. Through the ages education has been considered a means of acquiring a well rounded background for living. This was to be acquired through a study of philosophy, the arts, history, languages, and the ike. The actual means of, earning a living wasfnot considered as the pur pose or end of a colleige education. However, within tfie last fifty years the in creased popularization of higher education the emphasis has shifted, for various reasons, to more specialization and vocational training. This is due in part to thfc jobs requiring great spe cialization, especially1, in the sciences, and to a greater differentiation1 in the interests and capa bilities of the college student of today. In theory, the setup in this university is gen erally good the student in his two years in General College is supposed to take courses in the various fields of sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities with certain fixed require ments to be fulfilled, such as four quarters of a foreign language and two quarters of Math, Latin, or Greek. Then in the last two years when the student decides on a field to major in, he is expected to take not only a certain number of courses in ' this field but also electives in . the . other divisions. Essentially, this is as it should .be for a Bachelor of Arts degree. 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El S ElMll T r AT E ELED v ers N APS 18QA RAIN uTcr S TIE1R TORE L jNT ersie1 Average time of folntion: 27 minnte Distributed by King Feature Syndicate 10. a console (arch.) 11. journal 17. mulct 19. soar 21. for 22. artist's, medium 24. charge 26. Christian festival 28. negotiate 30. mark for quoits 32. arise 33. transgress 34. pen 36. dully 38. smashed 39. disengage 40. pertaining to layer of iris 42. fleshy underground stem 45. navigate 46. first fiowef used in perfume 48. fold 50. color 51. uninteN4tt? It seems, though, that many- of the students do not care about or interest themselves in much beyond their major if the course has no direct bearing upon what they plan to do after gradua tion. The main idea seems to be to acquire' the knowledge and skills to earn a living, not to live in the fuller sense. This attitude, ranging from indifference to downright dislike toward many of the courses a student takes, is due to a number of reasons. However it seems that the underlying cause may be seen in the philosophy of cur modern society, which is essentially ma terialistic. "With the abundance " of natural re. sources to be developed which provided jobs for most, we have developed a high standard of living; and our chief concern seems to be to raise it even higher to be, done by earning more money to buy more of the material po. ssessions. Very often in doing so we tend to lose sight of the thing which a well rounded educa tion should give us; that is, how to live, how to spend our leisure lime to our best advantage developing our minds as well as occupying the spare time we have after work. There are those, of course, who desire to take more courses in other fields; but they are caught in .the trend toward greater specialization. A sur vey of the job field would show that the majority of job open to college graduates require a good deal of concentrated work while within tha par ticular field. It is hard to see, .though, how those .going into medicine, for instances, can afford to spend much time taking courses other than their major after their General College days; but perhaps they should take better advantage of .their opportunities before they specialize. JSo solution to the ever present question of the function of a college education has been pre sented here. For that matter, there is probably no one solution to the problem. "BLANKED" VERSE , 5ee, but I love to Rattle round -And Fuddle with type That fits! In .single heads; , - Not over-run. . Can you do better?