SUNDAY, MAY 21, 1950
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Editor" ZZZZZ.ZZ.ZZZZZZZ'.'.ZZ.'. GRAHAM JONES
Du3inesj Manager C. B. MENDENHALL
Managing Editor ROY PARKER, JR.
Sports Editor , ZANE ROBBINS
Nwi Editor Rolfe NeillAdv. Manager .... Oliver Walkins
Society Editor Wuff Newell Bus. Office Mgr Ed Williams
Photographer : Jim MillsNal'l Adv. Mgr June Crockett
Subs. Mgr. ..Harry GrierCirculation Mgr. .. Shasta Bryant
Ediioriar"BoardTTom DonnellyT"Hugh Wells. Bill Prince. Glenn
Harden, Hershell Keener.
EdTto7iaIS7aTf: Sol "Kimerlin. Wink Locklair. Tom Wharton.
Effie Wettervelt, Mike McDaniel, Barry Farber.
News sTaffTMark Sumner. Charlie Brewer. M. K. Jones. Tom Kerr.
Louise Walker, Edward Teague, David Holmes, Andy Taylor, Dick
Underwood. Caroline Bruner, Arnold Shaw, Kimsey ' King,
Nancy Burgess
Sports Staff: Frank Allston, Jr., Lew Chapman, Joe Cherry, Biff
Roberts, Ken Barton, Billy Peacock, Art Greenbaum, Ronald Tilley.
Harvey Ritch. Walt Dear, Charlie Joyner, Pinkie Fischelis, Seth
Bistick. Ken Anderson. ' '
Business Staff: Neal Cadieu, Tale Ervin, Bill Prouty, Bootsy Taylor,
Don Stanford, Frank Wamsley, Ruth Dennis, Marie Withers, Randy
Shiver, Charles Ashworth, Dick Magill. Jim Lindley, Branson Hobbs,
Carolyn Harrill, Bruce Bauer. '
Night Editor Rolfe Neill; Sports Bill Peacock.
Merry-Go-Round
Taft of Ohio Trading
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With Russell of Ga.
BUT-WE
VESTED TO BE
POLICEMEN,
TOO' :
.By Drew Pearson
The DTII Mast goes up today for' the Carolina Track
Sqxtad and its victory on Fetzer Field yesterday. For the
fourth consecutive year, Carolina's cindermen ran off with
the Southern Conference championship trophy. So here's
to Co-Captains Sain Magill and Bob Morrow, to Bill Albans,
to Hal H olden. Bob Kirk, Jack Moody, and to the entire
squad and their coach, Bob Fetzer.
Buttermilk Or Whisky ?
Now comes the smear to end all smears.
Mr. Lynn Nisbet, noted Raleigh political columnist, has
charged that Yankee liquor money is being solicited for Sen
ator Frank Graham. In his regular afternoon column Mr.
Nisbet charged that Governor Scott's private Secretary, John
Marshall and Carl Williamson, former head of the State
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board had gone north to call on
liquor distillers for campaign funds for Dr. Graham.
Now the Daily Tar Heel is not aquainted with Mr. Nisbet's
sources of information but the students on this campus and
the people who know Frank Graham know that despite all
of his learning, our new Senator has yet to be initiated into
the noble order of the alcoholics. Fact of the matter is, Frank
Graham couldn't even tell you the difference between a
mint julip and a zombie. About the only drink he likes is
buttermilk. And in that immoral beverage he indulges fre
quently. As to whetTier, non-drinker Graham would accept liquor
mdney for political campaign purposes, only the Senator,
God, and his friends and enemies know.
The record, however is this: At no time since his appoint
ment to the United States Senate has Frank Graham ac-.
cepted or permitted any of his associates to accept donations
from special interest groups. Recently, there have been re
current complaints that Dr. Frank was the hardest man to
work for who has ever run for high office in this State.
It seems that he doesn't notify the press every time he
gets ready to do something for North Carolina.
It seems that he turns down donations from labor unions,
even though he has always fought for the rights of labor.
It seems that he refuses to attack his enemies.
It seems that Frank Graham believes he can win a political
campaign by standing for things, instead of crying out
against, the imaginary evils of America.
, It seems even, t'.iat Senator Graham stands for the plat
form and the leader of his Party, and refuses to attack the
President of the United States as a Socialist.
It seems that he believes in the Bill of Rights and the Ser
mon on the Mount.
And it seems to us that if North Carolinians aquaint them
selves with facts and are true to a long history of looking out
ward, instead of inward; of looking forward, instead of back
ward, they will go to the polls on Saturday and tell the gen
tlemen who have tried to ruin the reputation of the most
Christ-like man in the United States Senate that North Caro
lina believes in Christian democracy and that North Carolina
knows the truth about Senator Graham.
Church News
By Nancy Bates
With the end of spring quar
ter in sight and the lucky sen
oirs graduating and being with
us for the last time, the Chapel
Hill churches are rounding up
a full year with picnics and out
door suppers.
The Canterbury Club of the
F.piropal Church is having n
hay ride and picnic out at llo
gan's Lake Sunday evening for
both Episcopal students ani
"heathens." They will laeve from
the Parish House at 4 o'clock.
Recreation and entertainment,
are scheduled. In case of in
clement weather, the event will
be held in the Parrish House.
The last delegation to be sent,
out from the Canterbury Club
this year will consist, of H. II.
(Hover, Pat TatteVson, Jerrv
Kefalas and Ed Easty. They will
go to the Wilson Y. P. S. L.
Sunday afternoon.
Holy Communion will be held
at 8 o'clock and the morning
worship service will be at 11
o'clock.
The Baptist Student Union
will hold a supper on the front
lawn of the church Sunday
evening at 6 o'clock. Dr. J. O.
Bailey, English professor, will
be the guest speaker, and his
topic is "Religion and Liter
ature." The Church- school will meet
Sunday morning at 9:45 o'clock.
Dr. P. H. Epps will continue
leading a discussion based on
the Gospel of John, in the stu
dent lounge. The regular Wor
ship Service is at eleven o'lock.
CHARLOTTE. May 20 p) Mrs. John Waslik of Franklin
tonight was announced as the North Carolina Catholic mother
o! 1350.
WASHINGTON. Civil Rights is the rock
en which Abraham Lincoln founded the Repub
lican Party. Yet Senaior Taft of Ohio, who is Mr.
Republican himself, has just made a cold-blooded
deal with Southern Democrats to help ihsm
defeat Civil Rights.
Taft promised to held back enough Repub
lican votes to prevent cloture in other words,
prevent the Senate from breaking the Civil
Rights filibuster. In return, Taft got Southern
votes to support him in blocking the propossed
Truman-Herbert Hoover reorganization of the
National Labor Relations Board.
Under present rules it requires 64 votes to
break the filibuster which means that every
available Northern Democrat and Republican
must be present and vote for cloture. Therefore,
if Taft could keep only four or five Republi
cans from voting, the Southern Senators would
be able to talk civil' rights to death.
This is exactly the deal which the Senator
from Ohio made with Sen. Dick Russell of
Georgia, the astute Southern spokesman. The
agreement has been kept a top political secret,
and undoubtedly will be denied. However, other
Senators were in on it, and this column has
carefully confirmed the facts.
Taft not only estimated that he could keep
at least six GOP Senators from voting to end
the filibuster, but he actually named them. They
were: Senators Millikin of Colorado, Malone of
Nevada, Bridges of New Hampshire, Gurney of
South Dakota, Young of North Dakota and Hick
enlooper of Iowa and two or three others might,
also be persuaded, Taft said.
Taft Goes in Reverse
In return, Senator Russell promised to give
Taft a solid block of Southern votes against the
reorganization of the National Labor Relations
Board, a plan which would have abolished the
General Counsel's office. The interesting thing
about this reorganization is that it was not only
proposed by Herbert Hooveu, but one year ago it
was also sponsored by Taft himself.
However, Robert Denham, the NLRB General
Counsel whose job would be abolished, has been
a faithful follower of the Taft-Hartley Act, so
this year Taft reversed himself and fought tooth
and nail to block NLRB reorganization.
Taft's trade with Senator Russell has al
ready borne fruit regarding this part of the
deal. For, last week, Southern Democrats de-
livered a block of votes to defeat NLRB reorgan
ization with the exception of Senator Withers
of Kentucky. He voted against Taft and for
Truman.
Friday it was Taft's turn to keep his part
of the bargain. He himself voted against the
South and lined up to break the filibuster in
order to keep his record clean. He would be
defeated for re-election in Ohio if he didn't.
However the six GOP Senators whom Taft
said he would deliver to the Southern Democrats
had already expressed their views privately as
against Cloture. This is probably something
which Taft did not tell Senator Russell.
For, in secret Republican councils, the above
mentioned six had argued against the principles
of shutting off Senate debate. In fact, Taft had
little to do with wooing them over to the other
side.
Meanwhile, it is significant that Taft has
been noticeably uncooperative in rounding up
Republican . votes against the filibuster, though
.fellow Republicans have not suspected the reas
on. Senator Wherry of Nebraska, on the other
hand, has been quite active.
Dewey Backs A Rossevelt
No one would ever expect Governor Dewey
to propose a Roosevelt for public office.
But, believe it or not. that's what Dewey did
the other day. He sent word to Elliott Roose
velt, urging him to run for Congress from New
York City against Rep. Vito Marcantonio of the
American Labor Party.
Dewey's message was brought to Elliott by
Paul Lockwood, one of the Governor's confi
dential secretaries who promised that, if Elliott
could get Tammany's backing- he would also
have Republican support in running against
Marcantonio.
Following Lockwood"s proposal to Elliott, the
latter conferred with Tammany leaders and their
decision is expected shortly.
Capital News Capsules
Money for Rent Control it now looks as if
Congress would -vote the necessary money to
enable the office of Housing Expiditer to con
tinue Rent-Control Enforcement until June 30.
At present the office is strapped with a new ap--propriation
blocked by Congressman Cannon of
Elsbury, Mo., where housing is no problem.
However, Congressman Sabath from crowded
Chicago, Chairman of the powerful House Rules
Committee, bluntly told Cannon: "I have given
you a lot of rules in a hurry for legislation you
wanted. How about putting this across for me
in return?" Cannon has now relented.
FREE MAIL Congressman Madden of In--
dianna has demanded an investigation of fellow
Congressman who permit their free franking
privilege to be used for mailing propaganda. The
probe is aimed at Congressman Gwinn of New
York, General Eisenhower's pal, who has mailed
out millions of propaganda letters for the real
estate lobby with the taxpayers footing the
bill. Meanwhile, the Post Office runs in the red
and postal service is curtailed.
CURB ON PRIVATE PLANES Danger of
surprise atomic raids may soon interfere with
flights of private planes. CAAdministrator Del
Rentzel will ask Congress for new powers where
by no plane can make a flight without first
checking with Civil Aeronautics. This is the
first attempt by government to restrict the tra
ditional right of Americans to travel wherever
they please.
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Pitching Horseshoes
By Billy Rose
The Melody Lingers On
Write Away
Politics and Justice
f The action of the Student Partj. in electing
a member of the Student Council as the Chairman
of its political destinies is a sad one to observe.
The Student Party has, by this action, placed
the Student Council squarely in the hands o
petty politics. No longer will -the Student Counnl
be a judiciary body able to make decisions in the
non-partisan manner of a court of law. Now, the
Council, with one of its members the Chairman
of a political-party, will serve as -a battle ground
for future party politics. '
What does this action mean? It means that
the Student Party has misused a trust placed m
it by the students. What was this trust? Th.s
trust was Xit is no longer) faith in the Student
'Party to protect the highest judicial body in this
our autonomous community from political in
fluence; to maintain an impartial body capable of
existing without political party . influences.
Now, however,' with the chairman of the Stu
denkt Party 'sitting on the Council what is to
prevent our highest judicial, court from becoming
a political court? What would happen if the
Chairman of the -Democratic Party became a
member of the Supreme Court? There must be
a division between persons interested in special
groups and those seeking the general-welfare.
There must be a divorcement betwen political
partis and student courts.
In effect the .Student Council is the Supreme
Court of our student government. It stands above
the Honor Council in power and scope. Yet, the
Honor Council is forciably made non-partisan
while the Student Council is not. 'The Student
Party has thrown the Council into the dunghill
of party politics; it has neglected the students; it
has forsaken the principle of non-political courts.
Sol Kimerling
There's a beggar in New York
with a new sales approach:
"Can you please, Mister, spare
the price of a teddy bear for my
sick little daughter?"
It so happens that this pan
handler hasn't got a sick little
daughter, but that doesn't mean
you have to turn him down if
you meet up with him. His story
is hearts-and-flowers stuff, and
I'll tell it to you as it was told
to me the other night by Charlie
Washburn, the Broadway press
agent . . .
"A few days beore Easter,"
said Charlie, "I was standing in
front of a toy shop on Fifth
Avenue when a seedy-looking
guy tapped me on the arm and
asked if I cound spare the price
of a teddy bear.1' When. I told
him to quit his kidding, he ex
plained he wanted it for his sick
little girl, and that if I didn't
think he was. on the up-and-up
he'd write his name and ad
dress on a piece of paper and
I could have it delivered.
"Well, filled . with the old
Easter spirit I walked into the
shop and picked out a five-dollar
bear, but when -I handed
the slip to the girl who waited
on me she gave me a funny
look and said I was the third
person that afternoon who'd
ordered one sent to that address.
"It smelled like a good hu
man interest yarn, and I had her
wrap up the toy and set out
to deliver it myself. It was a
flat in a walk-up tenement in
the 50's near Tenth Avenue, and
the door was opened by a
woman who looked as if she
could use a little sleep.
" 'What you ot there,' she
said, 'anothsr teddy bear?'
" 'How'd you know?' I asked.
" Tve been getting two or'
three every afternoon for the
last month,' she said. 'Where'd
you run into Tim?'
"Tim, it turned out, was her
husband and he had been mis1
sing for several weeks. Things
hadn't been going well with
them for quite some time, and
when his unemployment insur
ance ran out last March the go
ing got real tough. Then, to
make things still worse, their
three-year-old daughter, Peggy,
had taken sick and the doctors
at the clinic couldn't seem to do
much for her.
"The teddy bear angle had
come about this way: Shortly
after Peggy became ill, she ask-
ed for a teddy bear and kept
talking about it all the time. Tim
said he thought it would do her
more good than all the medi
cine, but what with the room
rent and food, they just couldn't
afford to buy one. A month ago
he walked out of the house, and
ever since teddy bears had been
arriving at the rate of two or
three a day.
" 'With all those toys, I said
to the woman, 'your daughter
must be a happy littls girl.'
" 'They're too late to do any
good,' she said. 'Peggy died two
days before her father left. And
the teddy bears probably would
n't have helped anyhow she
had leukemia.' .
"When I told her I couldn't
understand why a man was
mooching teddy bears for a dead
child, the woman said she was
afraid Tim had cracked up. He
was never one to accept reality
anyhow, and m his fuzzy con
dition he probably still thought
the kid was alive.
" 'Well, then,' I said, iwhat
have you been doing with all
the teddy bears?'
"The woman told me she had
'gotten to know the doctors at
the clinic pretty' well, and when
her husband disappeared they
had found her a job at the hos-'
pital as cleaning woman.
" 'There are a lot of kids- in
the charity ward where I work,'
she said, 'and they get a big
kick out of those teddy bears." "
The day before Oscar Ham
merstein II left for London to
wet-nurse the production of
"Carousel" at the Drury Lane
Theatre, we took a -stroll in
Central Park, and near the zoo
we stopped to watch a couple
of little girls who were skip
ping rope and chanting an old
nursery rhyme:
"Lucy Locket lost her pocket
Kitty Fisher found it ... "
",If that jingle were called
'Bibbidy Boo,' I said in my best
professional manner, "it would
probably make the hit parada."
"As a matter of fact," said
America's most successful lyri
cist, "it once did. Almost two
hundred years ago under the
name of 'Kitty Fisher's jig' it
was the most popular song in
London. But if the mothers of
those kids knew the facts about
Miss Fisher, they'd wash their,
mouths out with soap . . . "
According to Oscar, back in
1761 a heady hunk of gal by the
name of Kitty Fisher hit Lon
don like the Kinsey Report and
before the year was out her list
of boy friends included Admiral
Anson, Britain's foremost sailor,
and General Ligonier, the King's
top soldier. A scribe of the per
iod wrote her up as "the most
pretty, witty, extravagant, wick
ed little light o' love that ever
flourished," and as if that were
n't enough the famous bachelor,
Lord Penbroke, announced he
would ever commit matrimony
for the delectable doxie.
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Medea Review
By Tom, Kerr
Although nature ended up playing the leading
role in Friday night's apening of "Media," it
would be hardly fair to call the show all wet.
The rain came to the Forest Theater half way
through the second act, brought out the rain
coats and umbrellas, sent a third of the audience
scampering home or- under- trees, but didn't seem
to dampen the spirits of the cast one bit. Never
theless the rain was quite successful in breaking ;
the mood of the show and leaving the. climactic
final minutes , rather discannected. All of which
makes "Medea"' a difficult show to criticize justly.
Parts of the show were good, other parts quits
poor but on the whole "Medea" was always inter
esting, sometimes convincing, and fairly enjoy
able. Most of the "credit for the show goes to
Marion Fitz-Simons, who tackled the leading role
with healthy zeal, and succeeded in powerfully
portraying the wounded, cruel Medea'. Her per
formance fell short of excellance only in that
the rest of the cast failed to offer that support
which she needed,. Even a one-woman show de
mands competent supporting players, and unfor
tunately "Medea" didn't have them.
Of the supporting cast Fred Young, John
Shearin and M. A. Schlesinger were adequate in
their minor roles. But Blanton Miller as Jason
was without fire if not almost lifeless, while
Dorothy Berry as the nurse was simply a mistake.
. In this play cf a woman's horrible revenge,
Medea, the wronged woman, spends most of her
time emoting. The greater part of the explanation
cf the action is. left to the old nurse and the
chorus. And that part left to the nurse might
just have well been left out altogether. As for
the chorus, considering the extremely difficult
jcb of training a Greek chorus, we must give
Director Foster Fitz-Simons credit for his twelve
veiled ladies. If only they could have limbered ,
up a bit and looked as though they weren't wor
ried about their costumes, we might say they
were more than just all right.
Certainly much credit should go to Frank
Groseclose who wrote the music for this pro
duction. It is powerfully and nicely done and ac
counts for much of the play's desired moodiness.
Unfortunately some of the chill of the brasses
in Mr. Groseclcsc' excellent orchestration was
lost in the recording, but the music remained
successful.
As for the setting, lights, and costumes, they
showed the usual Playmak'er competence. The
Playmakers always seem to succeed admirably in
technical aspects, and this was certainly no ex
ception. t
That's "Medea." It's worth seeing. The- dis
appointment is in that it is Foster Fitz-Simons'
last production before a year's leave of absence.
After'his superb job with "Tread the Green Grass"
it, is unfortunate that he should finish off w ith
a far from yuperb "Medea." We did not understand'
all of "Tread the Green Grass," but we were
deeply moved; we understood "Medea" but we
were moved tittle. The latter play suLers bv
comparison. . "
Pearson Special
NEW A-HOMB BASKS Soc ret a rv Acheson
Bin! Fomun Minister Hevin havu agreed on a
plan for moving Amt irn IV9 . bombers to
iww h;Ms in nriUm..As a precaution against
tt surpmmtnm IVarl lUu tw attack, the B-29s
will W nnvtd from their present coastal bas-s
to n fields In the midlands.. Those planes are
mautied by Hlly Viokoii American crews
wh.v wiU W on 34 -hour duty ready to carry the
Ahnmb to Moscowif necessary.