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4 L. WEDNESDAY, MAY' 0 1 h 1 I PXGE TWt ' W ; HE- DAILY AR BEEE 1 mm PMp tfor?$ed The official student newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where it is published by the Publications Board daily during the regular sessions of the University except Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, examination' and Vacation periods, and during the official : summer terms wnen it is printed weekly. Printing .is done by Colonial Press, Inc.. Chapel Hill, N. C. Entered as second class matter at the Post Office at Chapel Hill. N. C, under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price: $8 per year, $3 per quarter. Reproduction of the masthead, flag, or the name "The Daily Tar Heel", is prohibited without the express permission of the Publications Board. Editor -iny.Chief., i. Business Manager - Managing "Editor Associate Editor Sports Editor . Jim Schentffe. Office Manager Marie Costelio, - Adv.. Manager News Staff: prac Melton, Robert Wilson, Billy Grimes, Pat Ambrose. Tommy Sumner. Paul Barwlote. Bob Pace, Fletcher Hollingsworth. For This. Issue: Night Editor. Holfe Neill :3i Loyalty UNO The New York Times is making a survey on college cam I puses throughout the country in an effort to determine whether students are being effected by "McCarthyism," that is, whether academic freedom and other essential liberties belonging to allffree students are being curtailed. It will be interesting to note the reaction to the poll at - this University, which probably retains more essential liber- ties for its members than most, but which has neveretheless I felt the effects of the wave of terror now sweeping the country. One overt result of the fear likely to be discussed at length in the Times poll is the loyalty oath now required by ! many large (and almost all small) colleges and Universities. There is no loyalty oath, per se, at this University. According to a regulation passed by the trustees June 7, 1941, all personnel hired by the University' must swear their loyalty to the constitutions of the United States and North Carolina. These oaths are taken in writing, in the University Attorney's office, prior to the beginning of the employee's duties. They are the only two oaths so handled. However, all teaching employees of the University are hired on the basis of presentation of an application blank on which they must state various informations, such as name, age, education, and so forth. In addition, they must state any affiliation they have or have had at any time in the past with the Communist Party, or any organization controlled by, or subsidiary to the Communist Party. Presumably, what is meant by this statement is any group on the Attorney-General's list of subversive organizations, an arbitrary grouping which has been debunked by the Su preme Court. Actually, this "application blank" is often sent after hiring instructors with a statement of this sort: "You have been appointed to teach during the year (session) on condition that you supply information asked for in the in closed form." .. . The instructor's signature on the form makes it the closest thing to -a contract between the instructor and the Univer sity, as many of them never sign any other sort of binding agreement. About Remembering The Campus Chest organiaztion has a table in Y court where they are trying to collect pledges made by students during the Chest drive. Their returns are pitifully slow. One reason for this is probably that many students do not remem ber whether they made pledges or gave cash. That's what the table is there for. Alpha Phi Omega, the service fraternity which takes on the Chest drive each year, has a file of the pledges, right on the table, ready for refer ence. So, if you don't remember what you did during the drive, go by and ask. You may have made a promise you will want to keep. Go by anyway. The organizations supported by the only drive on campus during the year still need your help. Opportunity Via Exams Students have been worrying about the draft all year long and now that an opportunity to get exempted comes along, they don't jump at it. Maj.'Gen. Hershey and his staff went to work on a plan to exempt all "intelligent" students whose work at college would benefit the nation later. Although the plan has been called many names, it will go ahead as scheduled unless Congress decides that it is an unwise move. The plan callsfor all students under 26 and registered with Selective Service . to make application for the test through their local boards. The College Qualification Test will be given here May 26, June 16, and June 30 and on no othlr dates this year. The test scores, although not the only criterion for de ferment, will help your local boards make a proper decision. The boards will also make up their minds by your position in class. Even if you believe that the tests are not a sound way to exempt students or that the program will be a "draft-dodger's dream," Chancellor House, and other administration officials are urging students to take the exams because they will be of much help in deferment procedures. The tests examine your ability to read with understanding and to solve new problems by using your general knowledge. Some'questions are based on reading passages, charts, tables, or graphs. On others a students must solve problems' based on the -meaning of words and their -relationships to other words. One section on the test gives math problems designed to testability to comprehend and use numerical relationships. Few Students have applied to take the tests and if they want another' chance to stay in college regardless of whether they are?in the' reserve units or other special organizations, they must sign tip for the exams before May 15. WDM ,11 ... GLENN HARDEN OLIVER W ATKINS .. ANDY TAYLOR WALT DEAR ZANE BOBBINS Bill Peacock, Assoc. Sports Editor Nancy Burgess. Society Editor Roy PaHcers Gofumn The new late beer hours are a boom to both buyers and sel lers, but they mignt cause some coeds anxious moments. Used to be, beer curfew came at the same hour as coed hours. But new the boys will have 45 min-. utes more. It might be hard for a coed to tear her beer-befuddled date away from, his cups in order to get her home on time, when he has plenty of time to brew up some more. It'll be interesting to see what means more to some students beer or coeds. And s peaking of ! the beer drinkers. The agitation for re opening of the Curve-Inn, once the favorite of -afternoon and evening guzzlers, has about died down. And there is a replace ment for the Inn. It's the re opened Buccaneer (now called Smitty's). The Buc was once the favorite malt beverage cen ter. It'll probably be that again. The new mayor of Carrboro, J. Sullivan Gibson, really snow ed under his opponent. He won with something over 300 votes to 48 for the former mayor. Word is that Gibson, who is a professor in the Geography De partment, went in on a wave of discontent over police work in Chapel Hill's neighboring town. Students say that if Gibson is as rough in his mayor's duties as he is on geography students, he will have a tough time in the next election. The column will back up the discontent, over the Carrboro police. We've been caught twice running copy to The Daily Tar Heel's Carrboro printshop. They have a plan over at St. Mary's School . in Raleigh, that might work here.' When a girl in responsible campus position fails to do her work, she gets campused just like the hell raisers. That's what happened to a certain young lady we know of. Maybe that could be applied to a lot of the deadwood in UNC student government. . t The University Parly is still the big dog in the Student Le gislature, despite the fact that the Student Party has hold of everything else. Back when the Column was an editorial, it backed a move to get the num ber of Legislature election dis tricts reduced. We thought that would make the party that had the biggest campus-wide vote control the Legislature. But such wasn't the case. The UP has been in continual control of. the Legislature since it was formed in 1946. However, it now has a one vote majority smallest in its history. Maybe the SP will get its control after next fall's election. If it doesn't, then it looks like the UP has been able to dig up better Legis lature material than the SP. This weekend's social activi ties are shaping up as the big gest and most comprehensive of any at UNC since the passing of the old (and wild) May Frolics. Germans Weekend will be coupled " with -Senior Class activities, and there will be a continual round of partying, dancing, and playing starting Friday afternoon. Word has it that fraternities in the court down on Columbia Street will rope off their quadrangle and set up a real party'arca. That's the way it was back in the days of May Frolics, and the pande monium caused by the arrange ment was the main reason the Frolics were called off. South Building still shudders when it recalls the incidents of that final Frolic weekend. On Campus Eleven University of .Connec ticut students were initiated in a fraternity the hard way. They -had to find a dime in the black of night Ln Mashamoquet Brook, State Park, Pom fret. The students were pledges of -Chi Epsilon, the civil erigineer-" ing honorary, frctf rnjtyiit the Uriiversity.'The'boys were giv- en flashlights and " measuring tape, "as wf jV jas a few pertinent directiofxsvilteh0llded thm to the thin dime. by Bill Hughes The founders of our present system of student , government here at Carolina wished to make the editorship of The Daily Tar Heel a representative position. For that reason they made the post one of those decidedin the campus' general elections. Undoubtedly, the editor of the only student newspaper should represent the student body. He should reflect student aims and ambitions in his editorial policy in such a way that aids the stu dent reader in formulation of his opinions. But does it neces sarily follow that he should be elected in a general campus election? Recently there has been some camplaint voiced over the fact that the editor of the Tar Heel has entered into politics. Yet, by virtue of the fact that he is in an elected post, he must be a politician. Can a politcian stay out of politics? Obviously not. Should the editorials of the only student newspaper be devoid of material concerning such an es sential matter as student poli tics? This hardly seems feas ible. It follows then, that the edi tor should be able to take part in politics with his editorials, ? but should be in a position to -assume an impartial attitude.. An editor who must secure sup-, port of certain groups in order to be elected can hardly assume , an impartial attitude in his edi torials. Another point overlooked by those who think the editor . should be elected is this: - the ;. editor has more to do than, write editorials. He is respon- sible for seeing that every phase . of production of the newspaper is done as efficiently as can vbe expected from mature college; students. This involves a great deal of rather technical know ledge. I would like to note here that The Daily Tar Heel is some thing more than an organ' of student expression. Newspaper editors all over the state receive The Daily Tar Heel and from it judge the caliber of the news paper staff. In short they eval uate the training Carolina stu dents receive from the quality of the paper. While "Joe Caro lina" may not notice such tech nical errors as tombstoned heads, unorthodox or out-of-taste make - up, inconsistent style, etc., such things are con is a child's plaything, put out by fessional newspaper men look ing to Carolina for prospective staff members. Yet an unqualified editor, elected at large on the basis of his writing ability or popular appeal, may easily cause or al low such offences, through ig norance alone. It seems to me that a staff member of our stu dent newspaper, who sacrifices time and energy for the paper should have the right of being assured .that the policies he must follow are based on sound news paper principle, and are laid down by a qualified, trained person. Furthermore, I hardly think any Carolina student will relish the idea of men who do know something about newspa per work, those on his own . home-town paper, perhaps, thinking that his college paper is a child's plaything, put out by X' a bunch of lunkheads who know nothing of what they are tf y- ing to do produce a newspaper! The average student cannot be expected to have the parti cular knowledge necessary jfor the choosing of a truly quali fied editor, and rightly riot. Why, then, should he be bur dened with the responsibility of choosing a person to fill a posi tion, which requires knowledge out of the reach of the average. These and more are the rea sons why the editorship of The Daily Tnr Heel should not be an elective post, . t ; Of course we want a repre sentative student newspaper, but we also want a competent editor. I am certain an alter nate method could be worked out whereby the actual selection of ' the editor would be; placed . in the hands of a truly' repre sentative body, qualified to know the respective "qualifica tions' of the" candidates. To Elect Or . . . by.Tommy Sumner Whenever , anyone, in this case the Student Government, 1 takes money out of rny pocket I want to get something for it and I also want some direct or indirect say-so about where it goes. i It has been proposed that the editorship be: removed from the category of eliective offices. I am all for that beginning the day the DTH goes on a basis of fi nancial support by subscriptions and advertising without an ap propriation from required stu dent fees. Until that time I am not at . all beguiled by the thought of my money going for a paper which does not represent what I or the rest of the student body desires. Only as long as the editor-in-chief of the paper is elected by the student body at large do we have an effective weapon against absolute rule of the paper by a self perpetuating clique which may or may not be seeking to further the best interests of the University as a whole. Certainly no group of such constitution can be expect ed to be competent to judge what; these interests are or what ' actions are most desirable for the advancement of the general welfare. The situation presented above is not now in existence but there is in existence a case of stu . dent funds beihg used for something that the students dp not get. I refer to the programs of the Student Entertainment Committee which are held in Memorial Hall. As has been painfully apparent at times, this hall is woefully inadequate for general student assemblies. This is one of the cases in which the lack is most glaring. Whenever a performer is pre sented who arouses sufficient interest, to justify payment out of general student funds the number of persons desiring to attend cannot be accommodated. When the performer is not cap able of attracting an audience . oM7 I I UPPER f -s:m ffMmU jiCLASSMEM ! ; ij Ps )L-- W tn v ) ONLY Ha , LUCKIES TASTE BETTER THAN ANY OTHER CIGARETTE I Fine tobacco and only fine tobacco can give you a better-tasting cigarette. And L.S.M.F.T. Lucky Strike means fine to bacco. So, for the best-tasting cigarette you ever smoked, Be Happy Go Lucky! How about startin' with a carton today? LSMFT- Uicky Strike Means Fine Tobacco TiFuen lS are wrt n Cheer ,ceto by David Kerley The retiring editor of The Daily Tar Heel, in hisjast issue, advised against the popular elec tion of editors. The editorial fn question ar gued that "The staff and staffing of the paper suffers because of the political manner in which the jobs must be handed out." I cannot speak for the retiring editor, for I do not know on what basis he selected his staff. But surely he is aware that his suc cessor, while being elected by e two to one margin, made no commitments of any kind with regard to staff positions. This scarcely substantiates the charge that jobs must be handed out politically. It indicates rather ( that the more acceptable course, even from the point of view of political expediency, is to avoid strings which might lead to such political appointments. I do not know to what ex tent "student government people are reluctant to see such a rich piece of patronage and such a powerful voice as The Daily Tar Teel slip from under political control," as the editorial alleges, nor do I know to what extent they we're under such control during the regime of the recent Heel slip from under political refers to campaign commit ments, it is gratifying that the new editor acknowledges only one political debt: She owes the student body the best Daily Tar Heel she can produce. The former editor has rend ered a service in giving official large enough to more than fill Memorial Hall, then the demand for this performance by the students is surely not great enough to justify the expendi ture of fees for this purpose. We can, in this instance, not find a better criterion than interest as shown by attendance at the programs of the SEC. If the future is to be as the past has been, then by this standard the continuation of the present sys tem is not warranted. ft f f ? r 7 , , . .- t - XSp 1 !" c-'"J De .i: 1 mm MfeM s5 " d I ' u i A .Try"" i mmri f Mi vTfinJ ' rJrs. W&l lit VK&v 1 ' v . i lm ' ' i MtmAM-TeAseo company Editors Fulfilled Madame Editor: Mr. Ken Wright Jr.: , In view of the most generous offer which you' expressed- in your letter to the editor which was published in Friday's DTI I I feel myself almost obligated to accept. The proposal to' which I refer is, "that they, take the next boat to-Liberia, and I'll be only too glad to send them a one PEACE Editor: , In reply to the article on Sov iet foreign policy which recent ly appeared in The Tar Heel I wish to submit some facts. Be fore World War I the various socialist parties of Europe de clared that it would be a crime for the workers to shoot one another. When . World War I broke out, only the Russian Bol sheviks remained faithful to this declaration. On the issue of PEACE they broke with the other European parties standing for socialism. In October, 1917, when the Bolsheviks came to power, they issued an appeal for PEACE. Great Britain and France refused. The new Sov iet government then negotiated PEACE with Germany. Thus, voice to the view point that hard work and ability should be re-, warded, but he should realize that the student body demands more than that. The Daily Tar Heel must be more than a prac tice sheet for prospective jour nalists; it must be a newspaper for all the students. The stu dents pay for the newspaper," and they are its readers. They demand that it be their news paper. It is "their responsibility to decide what kind of news paper they want, and their priv ilege to select the editor they think will produce that kind of newspaper. Their choice may n&t always be the wisest pos sible, but I know of no other system of selection that is free of that complaint. Somebody has to select the -.siI ,sV kkp H M 'M i ''! i0 Vt Mailbox Ambition way ticket, punched personally." I am prepared to leave within thirty days. This makes por,?ible the realization of a long stand ing ambition of mine which I feared that I should never -achieve due to the financial dif ficulties involved. Very truly your?, T6mnTy Sumner from the very beginning, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet govern ment have pursued a peace loving policy. As for the present situation, I refer the readers to articles in the New York Times by Har rison Salisbury telling of the vast scope of civil construction (canals, hydroelectric power stations, irrigation systems, a vast afforestation program, etc.) . It is clear from this that the American people are being bamboozled by those who re gard war as an item of income which gives colossal profits, i.e., by certain billionaires and mil lionaires in our country. Bill Robertson editor. No matter who that somebody is, there is always the danger the person chosen will be incompetent or prejudiced. An appointed editor can be dom inated politically by the appoint ing authority just as readily as one elected can be dominated by the alliances, if any, that ac complished his election. No sys tem will solve this problem. We who believe in democracy be lieve that our best hope lies in the judgment of all, the people. We trust the electorate further than the bureaucracy. Such is the nature of democracy, and it ' applies to student government as well as to the control of sov ereign states. i. I have not lost faith in the electorate. ; ". - j 'Sinpii ,.
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