TUESDAY, MAY23, 195Q
PACE TWO
THE DAILY TAR HEEL
3Tf)eIlailil(rarteel
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Mcrry-Go-Round
GOP Conservatives
Fight Mr. Hoover
Editor
Managing Editor
Business Manager
Sports Editor
Mews Editor Rolfe Neil!
GRAHAM JONES
... ROY PARKER, JR.
C. B. MENDENHALL
ZANE ROBBINS
Society Editor
Photographer
Eubs. Mgr
Wuff Newell
Jim Mills
. Harry Grier
Adv. Manager .... Oliver Watkins
Bus. Office Mgr Ed Williams
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Editorial Board: Tom Donnelly. Hugh Wells, Bill Prince. Glenn
Harden. Hershell Keener.
Editorial Staff: SoflCimerlinT Wink Locklair. Tom Wharton.
Effie Westervell, Mike McDaniel, Barry Farber.
f?ews Staff: Mark 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 Allslon, Jr., Lew Chapman, Joe Cherry, Biff
Roberts, Ken Barton. Billy Peacock, Art Greenbaum, Ronald Tilley.
Haivey Ritch, Walt Dear, Charlie Joyner, Pinkie Fischelis, Seth
Bistick. Ken Anderson.
Business Staff: Neal Cadieu, Tate 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.
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Night Editor Rolfe Neill; Sports Rolfe Neill
The DTI! Mast goes up today for the Alpha Phi Omega Service
Fraternity and all of its work for the Student Body and the Uni
versity. APO has taken projects over the past two years that
needed a lot of good old-fashioned spit-on-your-hands and pitch-in
and-work. And the members of APO have done, often without
publicity, things for this campus that needed doing. APO members
have, indeed, done their duty .' . . and then some.
How About It UNC?
tlerd Wiegand, exchange student from Munich, Germany,
is studying city planning at Chapel Hill, He is married and
the father of a four-year-old crippled child.
When he was chosen anong many competitors to come
on a study tour to America, Gerd felt that he was the lucki
est man in the world. He was assigned to the group dele
gated to Chapel Hill, and he states that he has thoroughly
enjoyed his studies and the wonderful comradeship of the
American boys and girls. . .
Knowing that his stay in America would end before long,
Gerd decided to use ttfe last week-end before leaving Chapel
Hill to visit an American friend in Washington: From the
money allotted by the American government for his living
expenses, he had saved every penny possible, refusing him
self, many things which seemed like luxuries to him, but
which are considered necessities to most Americans. His
friend in Washington had promised to help him buy clothes,
i.iedicine, and other things to take back to his wife and child.
Gerd had heard from his American friends about hitch
hiking, and not wanting to waste any of his precious dollars,
he decided to hitch-hike to Washington. With a folder under
his arm containing his whole savings of "$125, all his school
notes and photographs, and his precious camera,-which he
used fcr his studies, he started out on Friday morning to
hitch a riHe. His first ride got him to Raleigh, but there he
had a long wait before three men stopped and took him into
their car. They explained that they were sorry not to be able
to take him to Washington, but they would drive him about
iifty miles out on Route 1. Gerd sat on the back seat, put
his top coat, overcoat and precious folder beside him.
After about ten minutes, the boys drove to the back of a
i upper club on Route 1 and stopped. They invited him to'
have a sandwich there since he probably would not have a
chance to eat later. Two of the boys seemed to go into the
back, sandwich section, of the club with him, one explaining
he had to make a phone call, the other saying he had to wash
his hands. Gerd ordered his sandwich, and from where he
tat was able to see the third boy turning the car around.
Just then his sandwich arrived and he had eaten it before
he noticed that the others still had not returned. When he
went out, the car was gone. Gerd waited for some time on
the highway, hoping they would return, perhaps having for
gotten him. Finally, he asked a passerby to call the police.
They came and investigated and brought him back to the
bus station, where a by-stander gave him fare to get back
10 Chapel Hill. 5
When he was asked why he was so careless to leave his
money, camera, etc., in the car of total strangers, he said, "I
would never have done it in Germany, but after living in
America Chapel Hill so many months, I would never have
believed it possible for such a thing to happen."
Gerd is due to leave Chapel Hill in a few days with his
group, which will be visiting a series of towns on their route
before returning to Germany. There still is time to prove
to Gerd that for every crook in this country, as, perhaps,
everywhere, there are a score of people who are willing and
I'lad to help one. We feel that Gerd's wife and crippled
child should not be denied the fruits of his personal depriva
tion, and that students and citizens of Chapel Hill should
want to do something to dispel a terrible experience. If
contributions could be collected by the "Y" for Gerd, he
could go back to his fellow Germans with a real life story of
America that we could be glad of.
The following gives the position regarding action for
funds for Gerd Wiegand, who was robbed last Friday: Alpha
Phi Omega, the service fraternity, is arranging a drive for
funds to replace Wiegand losses, which amount in total
to about $450. A booth will be placed in the Y Court on
Tuesday and Wednesday from 9 til 1 p. m. at -which con
tributions will be Received. Alpha Phi Omega will also ar
range collections in the dormitories and fraternities in the
evenings. The drive has the full recognition and approval of
Chancellor House.
Arrangements have already been made in Chapel Hill for
collections in the town by the American Legion and the
various service clubs, and it is hoped that by the efforts of
011 concerned the necessary amount will be raised.
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Ry Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON Herbert Hoover is angry
and hurt at the way Republican senators de
serted him on his great engineering plan for
government, the Hoover Report.
In private talks with Washington friends and
in a talk before the Sales Executives Club in
New York, the ex-president complained bitterly
about the "pressure groups, paid propagandists,
and organized minorities" which killed his re
organization plans in the Senate.
.It's the conservative GOP senators who have
long held up Herbert Hoover- as their symbol of
government efficiency. It is also the GOP Sen
ate conservatives who have repeatedly preached
government economy. Yet when Hoover worked
out a plan to save the government several bil
lions', and President Truman urged its adoption
by Congress, it was these same GOP senators
who thwarted their ex-leader. On the other
hand, liberal Republicans voted with him.
This is the record on the four Hoover plans
now stopped by the Senate: .
PLAN NO. 1 Transfer functions of the comp
troller of the currency to the Secretary of the
Treasury. Opposed by the American Bankers As-
sociation and every GOP senator except three
Aiken, Vt.; Lodge, Mass.; and Williams, Del. The
GOP leadership, Robert Taft, Ken Wherry, and
Gene Millikin, all voted against Hoover.
PLAN NO. 12 Abolish the general counsel of
the National Labor Relations Board. Fought by
Senator Taft (though he was for it a year be
fore) the National Association of Manufacturers,
and the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. Only five
Republicans voted with Hoover: Aiken and
Lodge, Ives, N.' Y., Langer, N. D., and Tobey,
N. H.
PLAN NO. 7 Give executive powers to the
chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commis
sion. Bitterly opposed by the Association of
American Railroads and the Railway Labor Ex
ecutives Association. Only two Republicans,
Knowland of California and Williams of Dela
ware, favored it.
PLAN NO. 11 Give the Federal Communi
cations Commission chairman executive au
thority. Fought by National Association of ...
Broadcasters and American Bar Association.
Only eight Republicans voted with Hoover:
Aiken, Ives, Knowland, Langer, Lodge, Smith of
N. J., Thye of Minn., and Tobeyj
Hoover Explains
Explaining his defeat to the Sales Executives
Club, Hoover said: "All the pressure groups
have got in their work on the reform that would
affect them, while they proclaim their endorse-
ment of all the other reforms! I promise you
that, before we fail, I shall name by name and
describe them (the vested interests), by the use
of all the English language of which I am cap
able." ;
Note: One outfit that has done a bang-up
job for the Hoover Report is the lively Junior
Chamber of Commerce. Clifford D. Cooper, the
national president, has visited every state, or
ganizing grass-roots pressure for government re
form. Balloons To Russia
Theodore H. Sloan of Washington, Pa., who
was chief development engineer for the Council
of Defense during World War I, has written me
a letter about his experiences in floating small
balloons into hostile territory such as Russia.
Mr. Sloan worked out aplan in 1917 for float
ing balloons into Germany carrying fire bombs
to set fire to German forests. Eventually, Wood
row Wilson stopped the plan as inhuman.
"The balloon was about 60 inches in diame
ter, carrying an automatic ballast tank and. re
lease mechanism for the fire bomb," wrote Mr.
Sloan. "The balloon would rise to about 60,000
feet, at which point the ballast held it at about
this altitude, the prevailing wind causing it. to
travel easterly at about 100 miles an hour.
"A large number of these mechanisms were
built and tested. On one test, 80 were sent up
frcm Nebraska and dummy bombs were drop
ped along the Atlantic Coast. We had attached a
notice of a reward for each dummy bomb re
turned, and by this means got about 60 per cent
back.
"The whole outfit," continued Mr. Sloan,
"can be built for about $2 each and will carry
about 10 cunces of dead weight. It has the fol
lowing advantages:
"1. It is the cheapest method of transporting
printed material into an enemy country.
"2. Human life is not jeopardized.
"3. The balloons are practically invisible at
60,000 feet; therefore, cannot be shot down."
Ncte Many patriotic Americans have writ
ten this columnist offering to help get propa
ganda balloons into Russia.
Merry-Go-Round
American export lines will soon launch two
new luxury liners, the SS Independence and
the SS Constitution, a tribute to American flag
initiative on the high seas. After the. war, in
vievt of the world shipping surplus, many pre
dicted no more passenger ships would be built
' for years ... A detective has been working un
der cover in the Senate, posing as an employee,
to catch the bookie who is supposed to be
operating there. So far, all the detective has un
covered is one numbers bet . . . Congressman
Usher Burdick's bill to investigate ' payroll
abuses by Senate and House members has been
quietly shelved by the House Rules committee
It would expose too many colleagues . . . Here
is a sure-fire cure fcr absent-minded atomic
energy officials who leave secret documents ly
ing around on their desks. They are hauled out
of bed and must return to the office and lock the
secret papers in a safe. Seldom do they make the
same mistake twice . . . The Senate small busi
ness committee has discovered that it is power
less because the Senate, in authorizing the com
mittee, neglected to vote it any money or authority.
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' fiOP 7HINS5 THEY
Write Away
The Daniels' Case
Dear Editor:
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r.h.arv 5. 1949 tne uuuj- -- -
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itilated
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d brutally
William UJNeai,
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mutilatea in - liJ. : n,,hlicitv. since two-
has receivea . 'Uoyd Ruy
young Negro cousms n
Daniels, aged io 4 sentenced to die.
-charged with the Crimean proSecution
The only evidence PM byr of whom
against these ears ot schooling in
ed from them with threats
were held without benefit
Evans Vs. Kimerling
Do Politics And justice Mix?
-By Bob Evans
In last Sunday's Daily Tar
Heel there appeared an article
by Sol Kimerling criticizing the
Student Party for electing as its
chairman one who was also a
member of the Student Council.
Being the one who is centrally
involved in the controversy, I
should like to state my stand on
the issue.
I know at the outset that the
writer meant -nothing personal,
in this attack,, but . was critical
only of the party. It took a
great deal of courage for Sol to
have written the letter, espe
cially since he happens to be
my. roommate, j. and fraternity
brother and one-1 of my close
friends. ' .' -
The Student f Constitution
which establishes : the Student
Council states Jth at . . . no offi
cer of the student body, no
member of th Student Legis
lature, and no ifehairman of a
standing executive committee
shall be a member of the Coun
cil." Since the office I . hold is
evidently not mentioned, we
can see there isn,o legal basis
for the criticism. But what of a
moral basis. ' ,
To understand this we must
first understand what purpose
the Council 'serves. The two
prime functions of the Council
are to rule on the constitution
ality of legislative acts, and to
hear appeal cases from the var
ious student courts. Being
chairman of the Student Party
could not intqrfere with these
major duties. In regard to the
former, the Student Legislature,
unlike our national ' Congress,
passes bilnoi on a party basis
as' much as they dp no the col
lective decisions . of the indi
vidual legislators. This much is
evident to anyone who attends
leslature meetings and sees
members of the two parties ar
guing on both sides of the ques
tion. Since there is no keen par
ty line dividing argumentation
and voting in the legslature,
chairmanship of the party could
not conflict with service on the
Council in the first instance.
And chairmanship the party
could certainly not - conflict,
with Council duty '.in hearing
appeal cases, jas the Student
Party is ess of a vested inter
est group than many other or
ganizations on campus.
In line with this, the main
point of the, letter was that
there should be "... a division
between-persons interested in
special groups, cfnd those seek
ing the general welfare." A
member of the Council was re
cently elected-president of a
fraternity on campus. Would
my critic contend ,that no mem
ber of the Council could serve
as a fraternity leader because- a
member of his house may at
some time appear before the
Council? Certainly not. A per
son in such a position of high
trust would havetenough m-nal
integrity and honesty to divorce
personal interest rom decisions
of the Council, - and I feel the
same attributes are present in
my make-up Jo eaable me, to sit
in judgment of matters that
came before tne Council.
Mr. Kimmerling states that
the Student Party has misused
a trust placed in it by the stu
dents. The Student Party has
misused no such trust.. It has no
more political control over the
Council than the University
Party holds. And actually
speaking, political affiliation
.does not enter into Council pro
cedure. Decisions are reached
on a non-partisan basis, each
person making his mind up in
dividually, with no regard for
party affiliation. The Student
Party holds no string of manip
ulation over its elected Council
members; each is free at all
times to exercise complete free
dom of judgment to , carry out
freedom of action. r -
No, Mr. Kimerling, the Stu
dent Party has not misused its 1
well-placed trust as you so er
roneously contend. The Student
Party's role on campus is to do
three things effectively. First, it
has a great responsibilitv to se
lect candidates of outstanding
ability, high morals and un
usual integrity to offer them
selves for campus positions.
Second, . it is vitally concerned
that all successful candidates
administer the affairs of their
office on the highest possible
moral plane and in keeping
with the deals of behavior so
highly desired by all members
of the Student Council. Third,
as one of the moulders of public
opinion it has a sacred trust to
Initiate and carry out various
programs or ideas that will
benefit the university and en
rich the lives of its thousands
of students. There is no mis
placement of trust here, and no
possible , conflict between these
aims and those of the Student
Council.
The primary error my critic
makes is to confuse the issue of
the Student Party's problems
with the problems of a national
political party with all its op
portunity for private gain, pork
barrel expenditures and accum
ulation of wealth. Such, is not
the case, as I have" indicated
All throughout ''my . college
career I have taken pride in my
ability to- detect right from
wrong and to . deal honestly
with my.," fellow man.
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CUtrlbuted by King Feature Syndicate bVerage
their lives c ."threats of death while they
ed from them wh advice of tounsel
em nlsn introduced the
crime was committed which naa d
Testimony of defense witnesses to the cirect
"e boys had engaged in a fight . . . public
nlace in Greenville on that night, which ac
'Counted for the blood on their Rothes and hat
Sey were seen hitch-hiking at another place
at the time the murder was .committed, was
disregarded. Evidence which the defense at
tempted to introduce indicating the presence of
a woman seen leaving scene of the crime
with blood on her clothes; and that a white cab
driver would' never have .driven two young
Negro boys all the way down a lovers lane
frequented by'-white people, was suppressed.
Although the body was severely mutilated, the
police, who admitted dusting the, cab for finger
prints, produced no finger prints at the trial.
When the Daniels cousins were convicted on
'thvs basis, citizens from all over the state joined
in organizing a defense committee on their be
half. The committee's function: to finance - the
costly legal battle to save the lives of these two
penniless young boys.
On the basis of a legal technicality an al
leged one day's delay by the defense attorneys
in presenting the record of the Pitt Couny trial
to the prosecutor of Pitt County in order to
prepare for the appeal to the N. C. Supreme
Court, the courts have refused to hear the ap
x peal! The defense has since gone to th U. S.
Supreme Court and been turned down not on
the record of the trial itself but just on the
. basis of the legal technicalities stemming from
this alleged one day's delay. One would think
the courts were dealing with a matter of calcu
lating bank interest instead of with human lives!
The defense is now appealing in the N. C.
courts again for the right to present the record
of the original trial and ask for a reversal. For.
more than a year now two youngsters have been"
on death row in Raleigh and have been unable
to get a review of the facts in, their case.'
Convinced of the innocence of the two cou- '
sins and determined that the facts in' the case
shall be reviewed, the Daniels Defense Commit- r
tee has- been trying to finance the costly legal
fight. No" case I can go to court without funds
even if paupers' oaths, as in this case, are
sworn. To date legal expenses have amounted to
almost $5,000 part of, which is still owed.
Facing the defense are a number of legal
steps which may have to be taken in order to
get thre record of 'the trial before a higher court.
When the battle- for a review is finally won
and should the Supreme Court reverse the lower
court's decision, a new trial would be in order
the cost of which is incalculable now but which
the defense committee is determined it will
meet.
I am appealing for financial help from read
ers who believe human life more sacred than
mere legal technicalities, who are unwilling to
see those fighting for their lives denied any legal
avenue to prosecute that fight. Anybody who
wishes t? see Justice obtained for the Daniels
cousins may send in a contribution to me. Thank
you. 4
Sincerely,
Joe Borello, for the Danjels Defense Comm.
504 E. Franklin St.
Atomic Peace M
Dear Editor:
Continuing my letter of May 19, I wish to
indicate how the simple demand to outlaw the
atom bomb has become the basis for a tre
mendous and rapidly developing campaign for
peace which is transcending barriers of party,
religion, and nation. AJ1 over the world organ
izations are demanding that the atom bomb be
outlawed and petitions, either in the form of the
Stockholm rcFolution or some other, are being
signed. Here are some cf these organizations
and results of the petition drive:
Japan: the Youth Fatherland Front with a
membership of 3,970,000. China: Chinese Federa
tion of Trade Unions, Union of Students, Feder
ation of Chinese Youth. Russia: International
Students Union meeting in Moscow April 24,
,uuiy: iuu.uuu workers in the Ruhr.
7wXrn many: 8000 in one Plant; 'Arnold
6 PfSnnn f r of Neuremg, signs. Hungary:
6,306,000 (most of the ; adult population) sign.
fes Tnno 5,5J?'?0-- FranCe: 100'000 in Marseil
les 6,000 in Calais. Union of Republican Youth
in Un 8f '00 nm-- and: io,000
The Patr'ia, U T - V-- .4,300,000.
toAT-? 12 opolitans
sign. Albania: Enver Hoxa, head of-the govern
ment, signs. Italy: 30,(Ce,Cornm!ttees or
ganized Brazil: aoo&Wsfen. VWgenttr hi
Ivn Hf 'T'000- Canada: MpntreTinglican
fsh r TdKPafent Teachers deration of Brit"
Sua C m; t200',00ign P6tition- CzechSS-
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