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, FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 1551 PAGE TWO THE DAILY TAR HEEC V 1 I The official student newspaper of the Unlveislty of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where It Is published by the Publications Board daily during the regular sessions of the University at Colonial Press. Inc..4 except Sat., Sun Monday, examinations and vacation periods and during the official summer terms when published semi-weekly. ' Entered as second cljss matter, at the Post Office of Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March -3. 1879. Subscription price: $8 per year, $3 per quarter. Member of the Associated Press, which Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news and features herein. Opinions expressed by columnists are not necessarily those of this newspaper. Editor Business Manager . Managing Editor Associate tlaitOr Executive TJews Editor . , Sports Editor BOY PARKEK, JR. -ED. -WlL,liAMS CHUCK HAUSER . DON MAYNARD ... ... ..ROLFE NEILL ZANE BOBBINS .Bill Peacock. Associate Spts. Ed. t Nancy Burgess, Society Editor Chase Ambler, As. Sub. Manager Andy Taylor, News Editor Neil Cadieu. Ad. Mgr. Oliver Watkins. Office Mgr. Wade Bryant, Clrc. Mgr. Tom McCall. Subs. Mgr. News Staff: Walt Dear. Mac White, Billy Grimes, Pat Morse, Joan Charles. Anhe Ciowen. Joan Palmer, Harvey Riteh. I,, , i ii . Sports staff: Bill Peacock, Biff Roberts, Art Greenbaum. Ken Barton, Leo Northart. Ed Starnes, Bill Hughes. Jack Claiborne, Angelo Vepdicanno. , Society staff: Franny Sweat, Lu Overton, Lou Daniel, Tink Gobbel, Helen Boone. Business staff: Marie Costello. Marie Withers. Hubert Breeze. Erure Mareer. Bill Faulkner, Joyce Evans. Beverly Serr, Jim Schenck. Jane Mayre, Jane Goodman, Betty Lou Jones. Stanley Sturm. Wally Horton. Don't Elect DTH Editor I Instead of writing a "farewell to thee" editorial to wind up an editorship, we would like to discuss a subject dear to -our own heart, and something we have thought ori for quite a while. - . That is the editor of The Daily Tar Heel should not be I elected by the student body. ' 1 We are basing this statement on several assumptions. First, the editor should not be elected if The Daily Tar Heel is t.o serve as a newspaper in the proper sense of the word, and in the free tradition of the American press. We say this because, in our society and under our laws, newspapers are not state-owned or political in organization. -They are, firstly, businesses, and they operate on business principles in their financial, personnel, and procedural as pects. We do not believe a newspaper can serve, the function for which it is intended in a free society when the person re sponsible for its operation and voice is dependent on an elec tion. We do not elect editors of other newspapers, we do not elect persons to the jobs they hold in the community. Now, taking some of the specific problems of our pres ent system here, one sees (especially one who has been in publications for two or three years) an organization which 'must work on business principles being hamstrung for more than half the year by political campaigns and the threat of campaigns. Persons who must work in a business way with each other are set at each other's political throats. Their work suffers and the paper itself is often used unfairly by candi dates and friends of candidates. The staff and staffing of the paper suffers because of the political manner in which the jobs must be handed out. Polit ical pull and "hopping on the right bandwagon" in an editor ship race can get the unqualified person the same job that would not be his if quality of product and knowledge of jour nalism were the requirements for office. We have seen several inepts get positions they never merited and we have seen sev eral whose ability was never made useful because their polit ical fences were not as well off as some others. All of these things, we believe, are direct outgrowths of the way we choose editors. They are situations that do not work for the best interests of the campus. They are situations that would be alleviated by another form of editor-picking. Student government and publications leaders should try to find some common ground for discussion on the problem. Student government people are naturally reluctant to see such a rich piece of patronage and such a powerful voice as The Daily Tar Heel slip from under political control. Yet, many publications people, whose sole wish is to make The Daily Tar Heel a proper newspaper and a good one, are often discouraged by the setup as it is now. The paper has suf fered because of this. We believe that we are voicing a funda mental truth when we say that The Daily Tar Heel should be recognized for what it is a business that cannot be run politically and be successful. It is against every American principle that state should control press. We believe that to be the situation here. It should be relieved. Let's make that a problem on the top of the discussion and action list for the next year. God Bless 'Em We'd like to call the attention of our readers to the "mast head" at the top of this column. It's that long list of names in extremely small print which is the only compensation most of the staff members ever receive for their long hours of work on this newspaper. .... i ' In addition. to those above, we'd like to add the names of many who have left during the year, who have contributed to this page as columnists, as a few who have been left out by accident: Faye Massengill, Shasta Bryant, Mary Nell Roddie, John Noble, Edd Davis, Mark Waters, Barrett Boul ware, Al Perry, Leon Burnett, Harry Snook,. Barry Farber, Jack Lackey, Bob Selig, William Peterson, John Moore, John Sanders, Glenn Harden, Paul Roth, Jack Seism, Jimmy Ruth erford, Elaine Gibson, Ledis Ripps, and probably others we have omitted. Our warmest thanks go to that staff; to our friends in South Building, especially Bill Friday; to Orville Campbell, Lawrence Campbell, J. B. Holland, Walter Wright, Dave Woodruff and our many friends at Colonial Press; to pur readers and all those persons who have provided us with news during the past year. But especially, thanks to the staff,. God bless 'em. CJI. on the Carolina FRONT by Chuck Hauser Old newspapermen never die, so the song goes, they just fade away. So after my 52; years of college service, I'll just ... ; I really shouldn't start this column that .way. I got called down yesterday for getting sen timental. A very beautiful card came in from Ely Perry, Frank Stallings and David Collins, carrying this message: "Extending our sincere sym pathy and hoping that you will find courage to carry you through these dark days." Save your sympathy, fellows: things are never as dark as they look. The Daily Tar Heel will carry on the University of North Carolina will carry on, and the state will continue to go forward regardless of what might happen to any individuals among us. I may be given the opportun ity of writing another "Carolina Front" or two before the present academic year ends, but this will be the last column for the time being, and it is definitely the last column of mine to ap pear in the "old" Tar Heel. Next Tuesday morning, the paper will be at your door as usual, but it will carry the names of a new staff and it might even look a little different. Editor Roy Parker and yours truly will get the first real relaxation we have had for many months as we be gin terms of sunbathing swim ming and golf-playing for the rest of the spring. Associate Editor Don May nard, who was given no appoint ment under the new regime, will be with us at the beach and Blackwood's Lake, while hard working Rolfe Neill, who also received no staff position, will be starting in on a job at Col onial Press to make enough money to stay in school. Biff Roberts, who had his heart set on being sports editor, worked hard for the job, and could have done something about the poor sports pages of the past year, did not receive that post. May be Biff will continue working; I don't know whether he's been asked. . " As to the Publications Board, I have some hope. The Board, with a little different political complexion next year, should be able to do its job without playing politics. The old Board had its final fling yesterday afternon, when it held a so-called "hearing" to bring charges against Parker, myself, Neill, Maynard and oth ers who weren't on the same side of the fence politically as the poWers-that-used-to-be. The charges concerned use of Daily Tar Heel telephones for personal calls and unauthorized use of the Publications Board truck. As to use of the truck3 I have accepted complete responsibility for its use by any members of the staff who have been working under me. I sent a letter to the Board yesterday telling the per sons on it who instigated the affair to, in effect, put up or shut up. I challenged them to take any charges straight to the Men's Honor Council where they could be handled in a judicial, rather than political, manner. . Although the Board did not make it public yesterday, it ac cepted my challenge. Far out on a limbj now it must trump up a case that at least sounds good enough to take before the camp us court. I hone the boys sweat blood, because we've called their bluff. But to get back to what I was saying to friends Ely, Frank and Dave, save your sympathy for someone else, boys. In the last few years I have spent thousands of enjoyable hours working on this news paper; I have served two terms on the Publications Board, one of them as its chairman; I have covered two howl games, one in New Orleans and one in Dallas (and , the Dallas trip and the hospitality shown the press there is something I shall never forget); I have even sat m the editor's chair here for a short while. It's been a helluva lot of fun, and to those that have com plimented me and those that have cussed me, I love you all, because you are the readers, and the newspaperman that 'doesn't love his readers is just plain cracked. . . i Inside Hauser .ty Roife Neui Editor's Mailbox i This, the story of one of the campus' most hated and hard to understand personages, might be called The Imperturbable Hauser. For this slim, blond-headed dynamo of the .typewriter calls the play just the way his rational mind sees it. He thrives on rebuff. : j-r - - - Kicking around the country with his tolerant Army parents, he was permitted 'a wider scope of activities than that accorded most children. At an unusually early age, he began to formu late and evaluate for himself. Under, this flexible guidance, Chuck emerged self-reliant, opinion ated, and outspoken. He makes a cult of calling a spade a spade regardless of what it unearths. Entering Carolina in the fall of 1946, he rap idly became enamoured with The Daily Tar Heel. It was and is as much a1 part of him as that easy smile and good-natured swearing. With startling rapidity, Hauser worked his way up through The Daily Tar Heel. By his sophomore year he was Managing editor virtual, dictator of what the campus reads in its newspaper. Hauser Had Arrived. - As Managing Editor, he began to antagonize and alienate people that first year. By the second year they had become his enemies. Those against him will attest his perfection as a news writer, but they deplore the twisted subterfuge of his words. Chuck's column, On the Carolina Front, is usually anything but complimentary. He either accuses, probes, jeers, or crusades. Rarely does he applaud. This volatile combina tion of vitriolic disdain and jaunty self-assurance literally sets his readers howling. Different factions early charged him with slanting the front page to further his own in terests. Openly they accused him of yellow jour nalism. Innately, Hauser is an exploiter, a news paper Barnum. Just what is Inside Hauser? Even to his own ATO fraternity brothers, he's something of an enigma. Gregarious by nature, an impromptu suggestion will start him on a round of revelry. This leads to some Scotch and some piano! Quick witted, spontaneous, Chuck's infectious laugh is apt to be loudest when the joke's on him. He possesses the knack of making strangers feel they have become his friends almost instantly. In direct contradiction to his geniality, he loves to start a heated wrangle, either trivial or serious. Contemptuously he will argue that black is white just for the sake of argument. He fights all criticism with rationalization. "I'm never wrong. Sometimes I'm not right, but I'm never wrong." When his pride is hurt (an event noteworthy for its rarity), it miist be appeased. This weakness leads him to "carry personal grudges and battles too far in print. Orally, he's easily provoked on subjects close to him such as finance, student government, and publications. Yett he's cool and set apart before writing for print. He. doesn't go off half-cocked. Deliberately he flaunts his convictions. " Ferreting out what he considers the foibles of his fellow men delights the urbane Hauser. Scoffing at his enemies, he sometimes dons the mask of cynicism to portray his belief that all people arb pawns of a universal game of human chess. Hauser will fight alone, tenaciously and grim ly to uphold his standards. Foremost is his unshakeable conviction that any elective position should surely go to the person possessing the , most varied experience and aptitude in that field. Consequently, Hauser's defeat in last spring's run-off election for Editorship of The Daily Tar Heel came as a terrific jolt. When the cam ' pus repudiated him overwhelmingly by choos nig Graham Jones, a fellow with dozens of friends but pitifully meager newspaper experi ence, it was like a hefty kick in the groin. The jarring impact of the campus' decision felled and - foiled the hitherto impregnable Hauser. This, more than any other thing, has softened him, although he probably won't admit it.. At this peak of personal rebuff, some other person might have quit cold. Not Hauser. He proved, rather gallantly, that he could take it as well as dish it out. His love of newspapering was still greater than wounded pride or per sonality prejudice. He helped in every way pos sible his victorious opponent get started. In the past several years and especially the last two years, Hauser has been stage director for the publications puppet show. His wild but fruitful political schemes have kept him near the top of The Daily Tar Heel heap. However, his unwillingness to bear down on school work has twice eliminated him from editor potential. Last spring he couldn't have accepted if elected. And once before, in the spring of '49, he was triply - endorsed only to get the academic boot. Hauser has a professional forgiveness uncom mon to men of the news trade. It's this quality which makes it a pleasure to work under him. Even the most glaring of errors by his news sub-oi-dinates provokes nothing more than a wry grin and a helpful hint. In his professional domain itself, Hauser is supreme. He is unquestionably one of the best ever to newspaper at Carolina. What the future holds for the wily 22-year-old Charles Newland Hauser cannot be proph esied. Even though he's OCS-boiind after June, his dad's a retired colonel (USA), and younger brother Bill a West Point plebe, Chuck's sure that the Army's not for him. I wouldn't be surprised to see him writing letters for Truman. Rolling Stories by Don Maynard That eternal question crops up every year at this time who is to be tapped -into the Order of The Golden Fleece? Annually, The Daily Tar Heel conducts an informal poll among the folks on campus who are supposed to know the inside story, and their predictions are presented to the student body. This year, I have compiled a list of 22 personal ities, all of which presumably are . sure to be tapped, or in the opinion of the pollees, should be tapped. These names were suggested to me by the people whom I interviewed, and I tallied votes for each candidate. . I shall submit;;? these sug gested candidates to you, and then list the 10 I think will be .selected this Monday ; night at the 48th annual tapping of the Fleece in Memo rial Hall. With 10 votes, Larry Botto heads the list. Herb Mitchell is second with nine votes, and Buddy Vaden and Dick Bunting follow in third place with eight, votes apiece. J Dick Murphy, and Ted Leonardare tied for fourth with five votes apiece, and 'anks Talley and Dick Jenrette run fifth with four votes each. Ben James received three votes, as a sug gested tappee. Those students who got two votes apiece are: Parker, Jr., Bill Prince, Jim Mills, Bob Evans Irving "Huclc" Holdash, Henry Bowers, Roy and Tom Kerr. The rest received one vote apiece: Allan Tate, Ed Bilpuch, Dick Allsbrook, Bunny Davis, and Ed McLeod. There you have them, the people thought to be of Fleece caliber. It's interesting to note that almost all the possible names have been included. I thought for some time," and I couldn't come up with" another addition to the above list. Now, then, last year, the Fleece tapped 10 men. The year before, 13 were honored. Out I go on a limb with a list of a happy medium, 10 personalities, who I think will be tapped this year. They are presented in the order of their greatest likelihood to be tapped: Larry Botto, Buddy Vaden, Dick Bunting, Henry .Bowers (student body presidents histor ically have almost automatically been inducted into the Fleece), Ted Leonard, Bob Evans, Dick Murphy, Banks Talley, Bill Prince, and, as a hesitant tenth, Roy Parker, Jr. , I am hesitant on the last because, although Daily Tar Heel editors traditionally were given the Fleece's nod, the tradition ended with Editor Ed Joyner, Jr., in 1948. My candidate for the person most likely to be re-tapped this year: Consolidated University President Gordon Gray. I've guessed, now let's see how things go Monday. Beating Around The Bush Editor: It was with a great deal of amusement that I read the letter "Quit Beating War Drums" as presented in yesterday's Daily Tar Heel by a Mr. Ward and a Mr. Banks of Ransomville. I have not seen such a lot of philosophical rubbish and cheap advice in some time. At least not since the exit of Hans Friedstadt. The authors of that letter, with all their profound wisdom, would leave a much deeper impression of their wisdom if they would either remain quiet or offer a workable solution to a problem that they feel exists. In reference to General MacArthur, they called him "one of the world's most destructive bloodletters, an unequalled butcher and searer of human flesh both foreign and domestic." If Mr. Ward and Mr. Banks would care to submit the statistics on the quantity of blood vthe General has let and the quantity of human flesh both foreign and domestic that he has butchered and seared, then I might be" interested in what they have to say. Until they do offer some evidence, all that they say is just so much hog wash. They are evidently trying to impress someone with their hog wash. These two sages later went on to say that "five million savages cheering in New York can never glorify barbarians and their dropping of atomic bombs on hundreds of thousands of . . . human beings." Personally I haven't heard of any atomic bombs being dropped lately. If they are refering to the Hiroshima and Nagasaki explosions, I defy them to produce evidence that General MacArthur unleashed those explosions. In another paragraph they called him a mighty barbarian. On what grounds do they so charge him? Where is there proof to jus tify such damning claim? What specific acts of his warrent the term barbarian? I venture to say that there are none. These gentlemen's advice to all Americans is that, "they should lend their irrestable moral support to friendly forces seeking to create the universal peaceful world." Now I ask you, ain't that lovely? Let's not beat around the bush. Just whose friendly forces are you talking about, comrades? Tom Mayfield (We hasten to apologize to Mr. Mayfield and other readers who thought the letter referred to by Mr. Mayfield as signed by two people. Actually, Breezy Banks is not tlie name of an individual, but that of a town, we have been informed. Ed.) Sambo's Claim-Next?? Editor: We here at the Beta House are getting slightly tired of the young-whipper-snappers around here claiming the longest sojourns as houseboys in Chapel Hill. In defense of our venerable Sam Barbee, who has been taking care of Beta beds for 23 years-plus, we'd like to get the record straight. Sam started working for Beta Theta Pi back in the fall of 1928 and he has seen service in the three houses that the Betas have had since that time. Sambo waited on tables for a group of Betas even before 1928. In fact, that's how he got started with us. He waited on a table reserved for a group of Betas back in the 1920's at a boarding house on South Columbia Street. When approached by members of this group to take a permanent job as houseboy, Barbee took the job and has been working at the Beta House ever since. And when another houseboy- service argument comes up 10 years from now, you'll probably find that Sam Barbee is still work ing at the Beta House and still holding the record for length of service as a houseboy. Fred Council President, Beta Theta Pi The Campus Creep by Leon Burnett "What," asked my room-mate, "is a three lettered word for asinine?" "Y-O-U," I spelled. "And besides, it's 'three letter,' not 'three-lettered.' " Which will maybe show you, right off the bat, what a stir-headed room-mate I've got. His name is Cartstone Cheek Guffey (if you think that's an impossible name, take a squint into the Student Directory sometime), a thing you'll never catch him bragging about. As a student, he is strictly on thin ice (D-plus average), and as a Carolina Gentleman he is distinctly a Lower Slobbovian. As my room-mate, he is the big gest nuisance this side of pop-quizzes. From a size-12 foundation, this character ex tends some six feet in a general upward direc tion and is topped off with a weird thatch of red hair. He is a bony bundle of concentrated ugli ness, complete with freckles and a neck which is mostly adam's-apple. I call him "Stoop." I beg to tell you of him, in the hope that you may avoid his destructive friendship. "What is a . . . ?"' . "Look," I yelled, "in the dictionary. And since you haven't bothered to buy one, you may use mine" : ' f;r&a.;--" This guy is a bug on cross-word puzzles. Through all his classes he struggles with 'em, comes back to the room with maybe three words filled in and spends the afternoon asking me for the rest. lie has never completed one, because I usually get mad and freeze up on him. He threw the paper on the floor. "Let's pick up a beer," he suggested. "Stoop," I said, "if you continue this substi tution of beer for books, you'll wind up even dumber than you were when you came here, if such can happen. Can't you study just one time this quarter? "I'm passin' everything," he said. "Yeah, but where will you be when you finish school with the grades you got?" "Aw, I ain't worried," he informed me. "What you planning to do if and when you graduate?" I inquired. "Gonna run a fishin' boat in Florida," he said. "Well, why waste your time on an educa tion?" "Shucks, a feller runs up ag'inst some high class folks in that business. Where would I be without a little culture?" Anybody know where I can get a room? Who Is He? Editor: This late-flowering military expert Joe Privott I don't recog nize the name. What class was he at West Point.? " . Robert T. MacMillan ACROSS 1. favorite 4. Characteristic River barrier 12. Paddle 13. Wash with water 14. Before 16. Three-pronged spear IT. Item of value owned 19. 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