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The official newspaper of the Publications Board of the University of Jorth Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published daily during the regular sessions - of the - University-. at Colonial Press. Inc. except Sun., ,4on.. examinations and vacation periods and during the official summer terms when suMished semi-weekly. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office of Chapel" HOI. N". C.; UYider the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price: $8 per year. $3 oer quarter. Member of the Associated Press, which is exclusively entitled to the upe for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of this newspaper. Editor Executive News Editor ... Vlanagtnj Editor Pusiness Martaeer ... ; Subscription Manager ... Sports Editor ,. ...... . ROY PARKER. JR. CHUCK HAUSER . ..... ROLFE NEILL ..... ED WILLIAMS TOM McCALL ZANE ROBBINS Staff Photographers. Jim Mills, Cornell Wright Don Maynard." .Associate d. Andv Taylor. Wu Ed Frank Allstori, -Jr.. Associate Spts. Ed. Faye Massengili; Society Ed. Tom McCall, Subs. Mgr. Neal Cadieu. Adv. Mgr. Oliver Watkins, Office Mgr. Shasta Bryant. Circ. Mgr. Butinexs Staffs Boots Taylor. Marie Withers, Charles Ashworth. John Poindexter; Hubert Breeze, Bruce Marger. Bill Faulkner. Pat Morse. Chuck bernethy. Martha Byrd, Marile McGerity. Lamar Stroupe. and Joyce Evans. Marie Costello :. J. -. - Adv. Lay-out For This . Issue w Night Editor. Andy Taylor Sports, Jack. Claiborne SEC, Tarnation Treasurer Banks Talley's informal suggestion that the Student ptertainment . Committee and Tarnation magazine be cut out of the ( "emergency" student government budget for next yar,' are suggestions that should be taken under deep consideration by budget-makers, and by those connected with ihe two organizations. y '; Jaijey, in his budget message to the Student Legislature, indicated that next year's budget will be worked out on an expectedblock fee revenue of something like 25 to 40 thous and QliaT5s;ng the present percentages of appropriation, that ; wdi4$ allot around two to three thousand dollars to SEQ?and$omething like a thousand dollars for Tarnation. ; --Both; , Of "these student activities are luxuries in the full meaning 6f - ihe word. And proper budgeting principles in fact;;cbrnmon ysehse, dictates that luxuries go first when a revenue squeeze is op. '"-ouj'.ate' to see either of these organizations go, and certainly they should be returned to the budget as soon as possii?Ve- if they were cut out. Even if there was a chance tjmtYheltW properly fulfill their luxury Ijncfiprj witft', !ihe:"Vslashed . amount they would get in an "emergency budget," we would be all for retaining them in next year's budget. : ( However, SEC could offer no more than a token program ihor 'thiree ' thousand it could expect. Tarnation "uJ4 '"liry Ofjeratt? 'at. 'all. Both of these organizations have c;$inet tiajiipus , approval and respect because of their past rVdAitl.'iThy ' cpuld ' not hope to match the past with what Tittle" rjipriey they would get under next year's budget. Such a lowering : of reputation would not do ' the future of the organizations r any good, and the money they would spend, Joadly peeked in essential items, would largely be devoted to iheffedtive programs and products, thus wasting the money" in a' time-when every dime counts. I . For these reasons, the temporary suspension of SEC and Tarnation 'activities would seem to us to be the proper course of action.! Undoubtedly, there are other purely luxury fields of student budget activity that could be carefully studied with thej lame idea in mind, but there are none whose case is ! as important as is that of either SEC or Tarnation. They are organizations whose worth in the luxury sphere has been .establiiHedj -anei . whbse continuation we all want to see. But we believe that they can only suffer in their reputation if they attempt to continue under the present conditions of campus finance, as well as effectively waste 'what little rrioriey they could receive. Misguided Parents ' :' The attitude being taken by many citizens over the ArmyV.iB-y ear-old draft proposal is a case of misdirected parental concern over youth. Since the Defense Department presented its case for the drafting of those in the 18-year bracket, Congressmen have been placed in a virtual bind by & flood Of "keep my boy out of the army" letters. Such an attitude, being directed at vote-sensitive Congressmen, is putting our defense effort in jeopardy. But more than that, as far. as we are concerned, opposition to the 18-year-old draft proposal is putting in limbo the chances of college boys to get over the draft jitters. ; ' According to draft experts, headed by Mrs. Anna Rosen berg, the only way to get the double-barreled draft-universal military training program underway properly is to draft, those Jn the 18-year-old group. Coupling the lowered draft age with UNC President dray's recent proposals on UMT, a definite program of military training can be worked out. Gray advocated a period of training for 18-year-olds, followed by college if they so desired or could meet the requirements In this program, the drafting of 18-yoar-olds is a must. And in this program is the hope for college students now caught in the dilemma brought on by the present draft program. Those who arc so misguidedly opposing the 18-year-old draft on the grounds that it means wholesale slaughter of boys who are "practically in. the cradle," should realize the validity of the argument, for the lowered draft age, and rea lize what it will mean not only in terms of national defense, 1 -it, -in terms .of ,a more systematized program of military u;.iun:i.q coupled rwith college training. for American youth. Ariy -draft-age- college student of today, caught in the murky tiepths . of the present draft situation, would probably be glad to turn back the pages of time a few y-ars and take his "chance" in such a ' military-collegiate training program that would be possible if the Defense Department draft pro posals, are carried through. Standing on sinking sand in the middle of a fog bank couldn't be any worse than "stepping out of the cradle" into uniform. on the Carolina FRONT by Chuck Hauser If I weren't a conservative person. I would be very much of a mind to pick me up a .45 and head for LaGrange to ad minister a little old-fashioned " six-gun justice. The objects of my trek would be two "officers and gentlemen" of the LaGrange police force who heroically defended them selves from attack the other day by pumping eight bullets into the body of a 17-year-old Negro kid found peeping into the win dow of a white home. A Lenoir County coroner's jury arrived at the decision that the two men "acted in the line of duty" concerning their part in the bloody little drama. The policemen told the jury that they discovered the Negro lad attempting to. break into a house and that he' slashed their clothes with a knife. The offi cers proceeded 'to unholster their revolvers and dispatch the youth to his Maker, not with one or two shots, mind you, but with eiglil bullets, six of them fired by one of the men, and six of them " entering the deceased's head! . ; - I don't think we would be stretching the imagination to say that at least six of the eight slugs," and possibly seven of. them, were fired into a dead body. What resolute nerve and hair triggers! J ; " ;- . Of course -the officers prob ably felt they were performing a public duty in ridding their county of such . a scourge to humanity. You see, a-number of women had reported being annoyed by a Negro on several occasions going back as far as a year. And in each case, evi dence showed, the Negro caus ing the trouble was of similar size and color to the dead boy. So it was undoubtedly the same one. But talking about ridding the county of scourges, it would have pleased me no end to see the coroner's jury not let pre judice influence its decision, in which case I feel fairly confi dent that the men would have at least lost their jobs and been subject to some sort of disci plinary action. If such were the case, of course, there would al ways be the possibility that they would wind up . here in Orange County working somewhere, so maybe it's best that the Lenoir countians, who exonerated them, now must live with them. Editor Jonathan Daniels of The News and Observer, who got to this subject before I did, suggests that the matter be taken before a grand jury. Daniels says, "The dead boy was not being tried. If he had been, there was no evidence that he had committeed a crime for which the punishment was death. More importantly, there was no evidence that the police men had been authorized to ex ecute him. The state of North Carolina imposes capital punish ment, but it does not use execu tioners who fire upon a lifeless body. "The sole question for the coroner's jury was whether or not the force used was justified by the fact that, the man killed resisted arrest. That is an im portant question. It should be decided by a grand jury. The action of a coroner's jury does not preclude further action and such action should be taken. . 'Line of duty' has not usually been stretched to cover unnec essary killing or shooting life less bodies. It should not be so stretched on this occasion." On Campus Like to play the odds? In London, veteran bookmak er Sid Hales is offering 1,000 to 1 odds against the outbreak of World War III in 1951 and 500 to 1 odds for 1952. Hales told a reporter at the Bookmakers Protective Asso ciation dinner that "if a book maker offers such odds you can take it it won't happen." He said the quoted odds were . only his . opinion and ad mitted that not all bookmakers in the Association agreed with him. "MY Armies Move On Other Peoples' Stomachs" II I II II 1 I I li " . II II Not Guilty by Barry Farber Tar Heel At Large by Robert Ruark, '35 The Army's handling of military censorship seems to have become progressively peculiar. There was, at first, General MacArthur's early insistence .on complete self-censorship, which resulted in several news foul-ups. There was, later, a sort of fangless censorship for the correspondents in Asia, in which an Army "consultant" service was rendered newsmen, but in which no heavy blue pencil 'was wielded. Veiled threats of withdrawal of credentials and expulsion from the theater were provided as the weapon to keep the boys in ljjie.1?-"-. . More foul-ups, and severalj Important viola tions of security. Then finally camq semi -censorship, and odd insistence of lip-service security. But now the 8th Army has just laid down abso lute censorship regulations, with several clauses that will tend to make honest r reportage from the battle front in Asia nearly impossible, if they are interpreted to the letter . by eager beavers. ' Accept my word that the average honest re porter welcomes field censorship during wartime. I put in some time, once as a Naval censor on the staffs of Admiral Nimitz and Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser, and feel as if I know a mite of whereof I sermonize. . The reason correspondents favor censorship is that it takes them off the hook on items of doubtful security. The responsibilty immediately transfers to the poor slave with the ulcers and the rubber stamp that says "approved." This allows wide freedom of attempt, blind shots, broad gambling on copy which, if sneaked past the censor, grants opportunity for a clean beat with no "sectirity-breaking" charges by the theater of operation. The writer does not have to brood about the implications of his copy, or the technicalities of security. That's what the censor's there for. The newsman also is relieved of the necessi ties of personally applying his own conscience to his copy, thereby risking the possibility that some less scrupulous competitor i going to bang through a piece that Correspondent A is hold ing up in the national interest. And finally a "good" censor, one who knows something of news and newspapers, as well as military regulation, can be extremely helpful in showing writers how to skirt or short-cut technicalities, without sac rificing the guts of his story. " Fine and dandy, if censorship is limited strict ly to security. But the new , regulations go far ther. One sees that the old rider about "morale" is inserted. A man may not write of anything that would injure the morale of our forces or their allies, under threat of expulsion or even court-martial. This is the heavy weapon of military dema goguery, the all-purpose control, the handcuffs that put the reporters completely at the mercy of his military acci-editors. It is very nearly im possible to write an honest appraisal of any military installation or action that cannot in some way serve as a reflection on morale. This especially applies to valid criticism. Ernie Pyle, in the last one, could not have written his now-famous dispatches under a rigid interpretat.'on of that "morale" clause. The con structive criticisms of the conduct of some of our high officers, of our men, our supply system, our defects of materials and strategy, could not have been made thereby precluding .the corrective therapy that gave us better landing craft than we had , at the slaughter of Tarawa; the relief and transfer of incompetent officers; the realiza tion of -unsound strategic moves and improve ment of techniques that may have sawed months, even years off the war. There is the danger of making the censor all powerful. So often he is a. foul-up who is stuck into censorship just to get rid of him; so often he can become a petty tyrant who censors ac cording to personal dislikes and likes; so often a protector and covcr-up artist for his superiors. Without honest criticism by th men on hand, even if it does sometimes affect "morale" or even security, the people who run the effort, and pay for the effort the people b;ick home are in the dark as to the efficiency of their effort overseas. The Morse Code by Pat Morse "Swab those decks please, ladies!" or it could happen to you. There's been some talk going around about drafting women. Frankly, 1 think it's a good idea, and I'm a woman (at least that's what all the drivers behind me keep yelling as I hold up two blocks o'f traffic trying to make a left-hand turn from the right-hand lane). A-lot of people object to the drafting of women for this reason: Women, and men too for that matter, have been reared under the false perception that women are -equal to men in everything but physical stamina. This is untrue. If any comparison can be made between the so called frailer sex and those beautiful creatures with the shoulders, it should be exactly the re verse. -; . I don't propose that a woiiianj challenge Jog Louis for the heavywight championship, nor that coeds use judo on their boy-friends to get a date for Winter Germans, but it's-a proven fact that men are more prone to die of disease than wom en.. This conclusively shoot holes in the stamina -theory. On the other hand,, women in stature were built for having babies and not much any- v thing el.se. They're strong enough to pusn a vacuum cleaner around, but theysjust weren't cut out for driving tanks or playing with ba zookas. ' x On the other hand, their mental capacity is equal in most part of that of men with perhaps a lew extra convolusions thrown in to account for the "woman's intuition" and "there's nothing so complicated as a woman's mind" theories. In my opinion, a little regimentation is the best thing that could happen lo the young women of today. Their parents have spoiled them. With few exceptions they're downright sloppy. Their rooms are dusty, and most of them don't even know how to peel a potato without starting ar terial hemorrhages. I'd like to take a poll some time on the Yiumber of girls who have safety . pins holding their slips up and their skirts together. Six months or so of strict military training would be invaluable experience to the women themselves not to mention the fact that Atlas like men could be replaced from typewriters to some other job where they might be of more servicei- Move Over, Kaltenborn I was up at the Marathon last midnight breaking in a n v, ulcer when a buddy of mine sat down beside me, cleared h;;, throat, and unfolded a colored map of Europe "The Russians are massing lor an attack, he declared uuh that'll V Kaltenborn gleam in his eye. I tried to finish off my piece of French pastry but the plaster of Paris kept chipping n.y teeth. . u "They're going to strike here," he cried, pointing to a chartrru:;. country below Switzerland. Naturally we were both experts or, foreign affairs; he having passed a course in Political Science 41 and I having spent two weeks on the Continent, so we laid the map on the table and set about dramatizing the impending crisid. A knife stretching from the Baltic to the Adriatic represented Stalin's Iron Curtain while a tooth pick stood for our own European V defense lines. A saltshaker showed that Communist troops won massed along the Yugoslavian border and a piece of a limp waffl represented the French Army. The threat of a Russian attack wa, temporarily removed when the guy at the next table borrowed the saltshaker. - Lining Up Teams Soon our little stage was set and we could see how both tcain:. line up. On one side stands a giant, fire-eating bear ready i.. chew civilization to shreds the minute Uncle Joe Hicks his mus tache. Millions of Russian troops together with their Chin n playmates stand ready to fight democracy until the last drop i blood flows from their indoctrinated bodies. On the other side facing this aggregation are a handful or disunited nations, weak as a butterfly's belch, armed for the ino; i part with outdated weapons that look like war surplus from Uw Spanish Inquisition. Moreover, these free people of Western Europe a're swarming with Communist quislings who can make more trouble tnan a pigeon with a Noruen bombsight. And it's up to Uncle Sam to see that the Red Bear doesn't go out of bounds. We're like; an elephant dangling over a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy. If western democracy is to survive we're got to have manpower, regardless of where it comes from. We must accept every enemy of Russia as a friend of ours whether we like him or not. A drown ing man doesn't care who saves him. The situation is much too vritical for us to be choosy about who fights on our side. Chiang Kai Shek is so crooked he could sleep in the shadow of a corkscrew, but who cares? He's placed 30,000 troops at our dis posal. Let's use them. Not only would Chiang's boys be added manpower but the use of yellow-skinned troops would be a great counter-propaganda device against the Communistic ravings of "Kick the white man out of Asia." But no Chiang has political halitosis so we keep throwing American boys into the Korean furnace wihle the Chinese Nationalists sit around cooking tea on Formosa. Welcome, Friends I'm a young undergraduate about to go to war, just like the rest of you. I hate Nazism, Fascism, Communism, and totalitarian ism, but the time has come for western civilization to unite or get flushed down the drain. Therefore I will snap to attention and salute any foreign power that can raise a division. That includes Nationalist China, Fascist Spain, Communist Yugoslavia, indeed the devil himself. " That -sounds brutal to. sensitive ears. How can we, the red, white, and blue guardians of righteousness play with those dirty faced hoodlums from the other side of the tracks? Just remember, nobody objects to using money raised from gambling and liquor taxes to build hospitals and libraries. Besides, nothing brings nations closer together and dissolves differences as effectively a a common danger. We must welcome into our camp all free nations whether they be true allies or merely bedfellows and mold a powerful fighting force so we can punctuate our notes to Moscow with steel instead of fear. Not necessarily for war but for peace-. . Nobody picks a fight with the heavyweight champ. And that, dear reader, is the latest word from your Popcorn Pentagon on Chapel Hill. Lend An Eye "The Jackpot" Radio quiz programs are burlesqued in this amusing piece about a man and his wife who win $24,000 worth of prizes. The talc is well han dled except for occasional out bursts of cheap slapstick. James Stewart, who is always good for a few laughs, plays a jackpot winner who is over come by the complications that go with radio's quiz prizes. His woes mount as the story pi" grcsses. First, the sudden wcalih interferes with his daily work. Then, it introduces the matter of taxes. Next, a beautiful wom an causes a rift between him arid his wife, Barbara Hale. 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