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5 . THURSDAY, JANUARY. 4, l&.'i PAGEtSJWO- THE- DAILY TAR HEEL- ."Five Hundred Million Of Them All Expendable" the Carolina The Editor's Mailbox Rom : I f v i Hi; I : tl I' ! I i ! t J ,6 i ' i J 'I ! r I ft I ill : The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published daily during the regular sessions of the University at Colonial Press. Inc., except Sun.. Man.. examinations and vacation periods and" during the official summer terms when toublished semi-weeklv. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Chapel Hill. N. C. under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price: $8 per vear, $3 oer ouarter. Member of the Associated Press, which is exclusively Entitled to the" use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expresseo By columnists are noi necessarily inosc ui 11113 ncwspdpci . Editor - - - - -- ROY PARKER. JR. Fverutive News Editor - CHUCK HAUSER Manaeinl Editor - - ROLFE NEILL Businlss Manaeer - ... ED WILLIAMS spon! Edp g!!..zr:zz:z::zzzr::zn.::..., zane robbins . Staff Photographers r 1 Jim Mills. Cornell Wright Don Mavnard, Associate Ed. Neal Cadieu. Adv. Mgr. Andv Tavlor. News Ed. Oliver Watkinsr Office Mgr. Frank Al'lston. Jr.. Associate Spts. Ed. Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mgr. Faye Massengill. Society Ed.. Bill Saddler. Subs. Mgr. Business Staffs Boots Taylor. Marie Withers. Charles Ashworth, John Poindexter, Hubert Breeze. Bruce Marger. Bill Faulkner. Pat Morse, Chuck Abernethv. Martha Bvrd. Marile McGerity. Lamar Stroupe. and Joyce Evans. Marie Co'stello :Z Adv- Lqij-cmt SOCIETY STAFF ' , " "' ' EDITORS Faye Massengill ASSOCIATE EDITOR. - ncY WI8ess REPORTERS Evelyn Wright. Margie Story. Marvel Stokes, Sar ah Gobbel. Lula Overton. Nancv Bates, Helen Boone and Jimmy Foust. t For This Issue: Night Editor. Chuck Hauser Sports, Art . Greenbaum Year Of Decision Along with the rest of the world, the University is faced in the new year of 1951 with an uneasiness and insecurity that seems to have no immediate solution. With total mobili zation becoming a reality, the futures of many students seem to be dark with the prospect of military service, and there is a general attitude of hopelessness and "what the hell" type of thinking. Truly, the situation is one of uncertainty. But we would like to think that the situation will not be worsened by the type of attitude described above. If there is any time when clear heads and resolute action is needed, it is now. And that goes for college students just as it goes for political leaders and people generally. . The year 1951, should be a real "year of decision" for college students as well as for others, and we believe it will be for students at the University. The proper, decision should be clear to everyone. Our course is one of making the most of a bleak situation, and doing our, proper job for a country And right now our job is to put. to good use the oppor tunity that has been granted us for gaining education and training at the University. Our leaders have recognized the great need for college-trained people by making "it compara tively easy for collegians as far as military service is con cerned. But we can only deserve such an opportunity by us ing it in the manner for which it was granted. That is our job in the immediate future, and that is what we owe to our selves and others. To do less is falling down in our part of the total effort. . K ? - University students and University administrations have always faced up.'to bleak situations with a determination and resoluteness that has been encouraging to see, and, what is more important, has been successful in its purpose. The situ ation of today, and the situation of the immediate future, is one that requires such determination and resoluteness, faced with total mobilization. Another Casualty The plans for a Daily Tar Heel engraving plant have, unfortunately, fallen through. We hope students will scratch the collapse off to war. The plant would have been a great addition toward the interest of a campus newspaper dedicat ed to good service, but the financial situation, largely caused by the impact of the current national and world situation on the campus, has made the engraver an impossibility. The Daily Tar Heel, being the biggest money-user on all extra-curricular -campus activities, naturally feels the pinch of money difficulty before any other organization. Such a situation now exists. The Daily Tar Heel will continue ""to do its utmost to bring to the campus a newspaper it deserves and needs, but we hope that students will be tolerant of our situation, and meet our difficulties with the determination with which we intend to meet them. For Good Of Freshmen The decision to do away with freshman dormitories, reached at a meeting of the Student Welfare Board a few weeks back, is one that should be welcomed by everyone, and certainly gets the plaudits of The Daily Tar Heel. The decision was reached after a thorough study of the worth and unworth of the present arangement, and the doing away with the arrangement was based on excellent reasons. The inability of the present freshman dorm advisors to ef fectively aid first-year men in their studies and their other problems was one of the biggest arguments put forth against freshman dormitories, and we think that that will be reme died by the new arrangement. Most folks improve by exam ple, but when there are so few examples, such as a half dozen advisors to 300 freshmen seeking guidance, it is pretty hard to make an improvement, either in mind, manners, or morals. By sprinkling freshmen in with upperclassmen, there will not only be an improved chance for first-year men to really got to know people other than those in their own age group, but an improved chance to gain knowledge and under standing by association with comparatively mature minds. The gaining of maturity, knowledge, and richer experi ence on the; part-of freshmen will be made easier, more effec tive, and speedier with the dc-ing away of the freshman dorm- a.rranerrje.nt. -3 'aiV'T? by Chuck .Hauser A lot of Americans didn't feel like5 celebrating the advent of the new vear when 1951 showed up the other day. -; . And a lot of -. .Americans couldn't if they'd .wanted to. They were six .feet underground in the frozen soil .of North Korea. , Here at Chapel Hill, it was with no particular pleasure that I tacked up 'the brigh'tew cal endars in the" ofn'te" and tossed the gaudy bulletin board Christ jmas cards in the wastebasket. I kind of hated to ee 1950 leave us. ' '-:.'r Because 1JX5QT will "long be re membered as .- the 5 last year in which there was any hope for peace in the world. Not only the last year in "which there was hope for peace, but ao the first year of World',Var III. And if you think World War III hasn't started, that it didn't start last June 24 when North . Korea moved south, then you've got your head so far, in the" sand it'll takea jderricit to get you out. f And talking about getting out of things, isn't it , -about time to pull out of Korea altogether? Don't get me wrong. I don't mean pull out of the Far East and curl up in " our Western Hemisphere shell '"as Herbert Hoover suggested. I- mean pull out of the bloody little penin sula where so many American GI's have died and so many more are scheduled to die. Only on one condition would I advocate remaining in Korea. That condition is that Chiang Kai Shek be allowed to invade the mainland of China with the 300,000 troops he has at his dis posal ir Formosa. t ' . '. ' An attack .on. China by those troops Would force the Reds to pull enodgh divisions away from the Korean front so that our armies would have a chance to retake the twice-lost ground above and below the never-to-be-forgotten 38th parallel. Otherwi$e, let's withdraw to the Japanese line of defense and count on our air - and - sea su periority to prevent an invasion of those . islands, J. 1 It should be clear by now. Un less something drastfc' happens (such as the proposed invasion of the Chinese mainland by Chiang) we are doomed to de feat in Korea and thousands more American troops .will die while we are sitting ?in. comfort, drinking beer in the . Rathskel ler, and joking about the war. On Campus When the student who de livers the Winston-Salem Jour nal here left Chapel .Hill for the holidays, the son of a prom inent University official took the job. But one Sunday morning the boy woke up with'.' a case of flu, and was unable .to deliver his papers. So his father offered ' to fill the breach. Setting out on the job after breakfast, the man headed for the Carolina Inn., left his bundle of newspapers,; ahd .. headed ' downtown for his next stop, a drugstore. The man at the counter spot ted the bundle of Journals and &sked the substitute carrier, ."'Why the heir diti'h'K'' you bring the Durham Heralds?" The man replied he wasn't supposed to. He was only de livering the , Winston-Salem Journal. At the next . drugstore stop, a little farther, downtown, the man accidentally knocked an other pile of papers off a counter onto the floor when he set his bundle down. ; ,"' "Hey, Mac, what's the matter with vou?" yelled the clerk be , hind the counter . ' "Sorry," the n.w paper boy apologized meekly, and he stooped over, picked up the papers, and placed them care fully on the counter. It wasn't until the next day that the Word reached the var ious businessmen up and down Franklin Street that their new paper boy had been . Gordon Gray,, president pf the Uniyer- v - .,,.-. . mmmmmm f l - , ' 1 -f e&i-ocri IK Tar Heel At Larqe by Robert Ruark, y35 Mr. Bernie Baruch, a discredited statesman (discredited by the Truman Administration, which still employs Harry Vaughan and Dean Acheson) has returned triumphantly from the southland with a fresh record. . , Mr. Baruch, well past his 80th milestone, has just reported, over the signature' of four wit nesses, the deaths of 15 bobwhte gail with 13 shots. For a 16-year-old genius with all his re flexes intact, this is impossible ..Fan a deaf old gentleman past 80 it is nothing lesl than black magic. . But it seems to me that there as-.p wonderful analogy between Mr. Baruch's ckreer, the 15 dead quail, the Truman Adminjsi&afion, and Mr. Baruch's record of never beirigwrong. If we concede that anybody can rack up a million bucks on his 30th birthday we prove nothing, but a' man who can perform the impossible with a shotgun at 80 is wasted when a vindictive and cynical government refuses to use him in an hour of crisis. Whom do you know today who can slay 15 quail with 30 shots? Which, as Gen. Omar Brad ley will attest, is better than shooting in the low seventies on any golf course. Few pothunters, armed with unplugged repeaters, can bang down 15 birds with 20 shells. Mr. Baruch has hunted quail for 60 years, and his best record until re cently was 15 birds, 16 shots. Whom do you know today who called for full-scale mobilization, months ago, on the day : of America's entry into the Korean War? Who screamed for, and almost pushed across at a Senate hearing , all-out everything, including wage and price controls, full war powers for the President, full drafting of manpower? Baruch did, and was ignoi-ed, or nearly so, because of a v petty animosity in the White House. Even slight heed to the Baruch prescription, a few months back,' might have at least seen us prepared at the moment, might even have averted the Chinese intervention. But the elec tions, kids, were coming up .".i'-'-'u.. " :': 4 As opposed to the distinguished records of our incumbents in Washington I hesitated to present the old boy's credentials as an adviser to Presidents, his .conduct with war mobiliza tion, personal finance, the atom and the rubber 'shortage of WWII. ... , Baruch lies fallow today, as a herd of very small people dash aimlessly about, making big mistakes for such small people. His vast common sense goes begging while the f umblers fumble. This is only because he affronted the large vani ty of Mr. Truman, over a matter of personal in tegrity." Personal integrity is -a hard word for some politicians to spell. This started out to be a piece about quail shooting. The South Carolina , bobwhite weighs less than half a pound, gets off the ground with a tremendous noise, and is out of your sight in five seconds. He flies about 60 miles an hour. It takes a very able man to hit a quail, even if-he can hear, which Mr. Baruch cannot, with - out his special hearing aid. He does not wear the aid when he shoots quail. His big "difference" is that what he sees he generally knocks down. I asked him recently for a prescription for defense of America against , Communism. "Arm yourself, first," he said. "Then, figure out how to use your arms." : " " - Mr. Baruch never goes quail hunting without a gun. He figured out, a long time ago, that it was just a waste of time. , . . Rolling Stones By Dorj" Mayna rd If you sit down and think a moment, which is a , dangerous thing these days, you come to the ever-remarked-upon conclusion that this cer tainly is a strange world we live in. Things are going on all around us and we never notice, them until we are hit in the head with the fact that something you never thought would change has. Like the high cost of living. I was well aware that butter had risen to somewhere about 80 cents per pound, that bus fares had been increased, that the old familiar six cents air mail stamp had dropped to five cents and gone back up to six. s But I shrugged them off with a-sigh and the words, "Well, that's life." The, 4cpst of living had never really hit home to where it hurt. That is, until I went to New York for the Christmas holidays. It was there I discovered my old faith ful, dependable, and completely ipdispensable V friend, the nickel cup of coffee had. gone up to 10 cents. ' y':l , . A guy doesn't realize he's lost a friend until Joiething like that happens. It's like finding your parked car with a flat tiVe the next morn ing, or like the first time you found; out there's no Santa Claus.. 'i.v Coffee has gone up to 10 cents ... Some happy New Years ago I had resolved never to pay that price for such a few moments of pleasure. Like going to school on Saturdays, I fought the idea of an increase in the price of java. . ' But when the Automat injNew York says it can't furnish the usual quality of coffee for a ; nickel, then cuts down on the size of its cups, doubles the price and lowers the quality of what was hailed as "New York's finest," broth er, it hurts. Next" we'll have .sugar rationing, and cream will become another mobilization casualty. The thrill will be gone. , Woe unto the restauranteur in Chapel Hill .who gets such ideas into his high-priced head. - If he does, I'll pull out my plastic-reinforced teabag with nylon dunking cord, order 'a cup of water and two straws. ?; K --ui ; 1 : Defense By Greenbaum i- Editor: In the Dec. .7 issue of The Daily Tar Heel, Ronald Yount.s. a freshman football player, feebly attempted a rebuttal of my arti cle which appeared on the sports page. Mr. Younts, who probably had good intentions, stated that the article which concerned tl "Golden Era" of Carolina athletics, had pierced him to the quick. The column that appeared on the sports page was purely iatt. As far as the fans (mostly the public) are concerned, the enthusi astic interest expressed by them between '1946 and 1949 has van ished. No matter how many faithful rooters there are, most of them decided Carolina's winning fortunes have ended for the present. I am whole-heartedly for the betterment of Carolina spirit which Mr. Younts elaborated upon in his letter. But this does not alu r the fact that the "Golden Era" is over for the present. When Carolina fails to draw sellout crowds for the five homo games, something must be wrong and it's not exactly the spirit. Charlie Justice and his cohorts may have been the drawing care' for four years but his tenure has ended. You, Mr. Younts, have the problem to solve. If you have the fortune of making the varity next fall, let's see what you can do to improve things. As for the quick: the dictionary states that it is figuratively the se"at of emotions and feelings. I hope it pierced you higher than that. Art Greenbaum The Guest (The following editorial ap peared just prior to the holidays in The Davidsonian, student newspaper at Davidson College in Western North Carolina. We think h is important and even timely enough to warrant re printing here. Ed.) The approach of any holiday season brings with it a spirit of joy and happiness in the hearts of everyone, but this spirit should not entirely over shadow some sober reflection on a drama in which three Davidson students have played the leading role during the past three years Death on the Highway. One who goes about preach ing impending doom is general ly unpopular and the subject of no little amount of ridicule; but be that as it may, the fact re mains that some student, per haps you or me, has a rendez vous -with death if we can use experiences of the past three years as any standard for judge ment. Traffic accidents have, tak ' en the lives of three students, and all three occurred during the holiday season, one during Christmas and two during spring vacation. The time has come when each student who drives a car must realize fully the potential deadliness of the machine in his hands, and exert every effort to see that Death's victory streak among , Davidson students will stop at three. This can be brought about by not driving with an overloaded car, obeying all traffic regulations, being par ticularly careful when driving at night, keeping within the speed limit in short, driving as you would if a highway patrol man were sitting in the front seat beside you. Unfortunately, looking out for yourself on the highways is not enough today. The highways are crowded particularly dur ing the holidays with idiots who have not comprehended the responsibilities they assumed when thev became licensed to operate an automobile. They drive about with reckless aban don, passing on hills and curves, exceeding the speed laws and creating a general menace to other drivers and pedestrians as well. There is little an inno cent driver can do to combat this situation but to remain constantly alert so that instan taneous action can be taken if the need arises. A look at some staggering figures on highway deaths will give some indication of this wholesale slaughter. During 1949, 10540 persons were killed in cars as a result of collision alone. It has been established by the National Safety Council that in the majority of the accidents it was one driver alone who was breaking the traffic laws, usual ly by speeding, and further more, that nearly 60 per cent of the drivers involved in fatal accidents were violating a traf fic law of some kind at the time of the accident. None of us can know when serious accidents or death may strike. But all of us can, by us ing a little horse sense and obeying traffic laws, decidedly lessen the chances of Death's claiming another victim from among the student body. i ACROSS 1, Motvkey 4 Arrive furtively 9, .Pronoun 12. Guided , 13. " Mythological queen 14. Perceive 35. Disorderly 17. Possess 15. Western cen tral state . 10. Pointed tool 21. Russian river 2:'. I,ick up 20. Story 32. Meadow '3.4. I'nit of weight .?.). Perception S'.. Feminine name 40. Goddess of dawn 41. Sloth of So. America 42. Good: r.reii 43. Kmbankment 45. Born 47. Withered 40. YouriR fairy r1. Frenchman 53. Nourished 55. Stupid r.o. Bird 61. Smallest In degree Ml AIL AR F"P AjcnCi AiP AjW AlK Ei oViAAiRjA dIe'n i nl iV Igj AG j s hem rtjj e i v i!iL -X i i . : . . i ID I I L I G E iNIClE 1N!E!T R O S E A TIE EiUi t, t-i- f I S li h A EIRl k i j G I Q - ft) ! S ! A ! N ; D E mil Solution of Yesterday's Puzzle 20. Religious body: C2. Little child alibr. 30. District attorney: atibr. 03. Turki.';h litis 64. Spanish gam bling tame 65. Uncle: SeoL DOWN 1. Entire 5. Vegetable 3. Mitn's name 4. P.ack water 5. Of the nose '-M. vy, if" F 7s 7T 77 " J . '-: fc Smm. -y'- '"'', . , '' y -. 3?" r "7- 7 Ts I vW j or;-,-'' 0,v 3T sac 'zy''y.' 'yM'S'. 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