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Page Two The Daily tie Batlp ar Heel The official student publication of the Publications Board of the University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, where it is published daily, except Monday, examination and vacation ptriods. and during the official summer terms. Entered as second class matter at the post office in Chapel Hill. N. C . under the act of March 3, 1879. Subscription rates mailed $4 per year. $1.50 per quarter; delivered, $6 and $2.25 per quarter. Editor Managing Editor Business Manager Sports Editor Nat. Adv. Mrg. Assoc. Ed. A ccnp F.rt Wallace Pridgen Bev Baylor ..Sue Burress Sub. Mgr. Carolyn Reichard Ass't. Sub. Mgr. Delaine Bradsher Night Editor for this issue: Tom Peacock You're Not A Shirker A letter was placed in the mailbox of The Daily Tar Heel during the summer which was unstamped and datelined Korea. Inside there was no name, no address, and no written message. There was merely a cartoon clipped from another newspaper which showed two grimy, blood-soaked G. I.'s huddling in an Asi atic foxhole and reading a college newspaper from the States which bore a frivilous headline describing the previous evening's daring panty raid. The caption of the drawing read, "Maybe if we ever did anything important we'd get our names in the paper, too." It is no secret that our government's policy of allowing defer ments for college students has engendered burning resentment in the minds of many veterans, families with sons in Korea, and the boys themselves who feel that it isn't exactly cricket for them to be dodging grenades and sobbing for plasma while we enjoy a normal college life with all the peacetime trimmings, consigning the news from the front to minute headlines just under the World Series streamer. If we can, for a moment, project ourselves into the fiery crucible of Korea we might gain some insight as to why the boys on Heart break Ridge rebel at the thought of shedding their'blood six thousand miles from home while other boys, more financially and academic ally fortunate, are allowed to complete their education unmolested. Regardless of how discriminatory, farcical, and unrealistic it may seem to the Marines who nail wooden crosses over the graves of their buddies, the fact remains that the hard core of any de fense program in the atomic age must be predicated, not on massed concentrations of troops, but on the" number of trained, qualified personnel preparing to occupy specialized positions within the armed forces. The policy of college draft deferments, though perhaps leaving something to be desired ethically and morally, is desirable because it increases the potential value of a man to his country's war effort by sharpening his mental weapons. In 1940 six hundred Russian soldiers were annihilated by the Finns because their leader couldn't read his orders. The concept of an army travelling on its stomach is now as obselete as the hand-loading musket. The modern war mac hine seeks to get there "firstest with the mostest" logistics experts, trajectory plotters, and radar specialists. Another point in favor of the deferment is the fact that a man is not automatically defered upon acceptance at a college or univer sity. We must either maintain a high scholastic average or pass a College Deferment Examination before being granted a postpone ment of service. . Actually, the question of righteousness must finally be resolved in the heart of every student who applies for deferment. "Am I trying to better myself mentally so as to increase my eventual value to the armed forces or am I trying to get out of something?" is a timely query which each man should pose to himself before climbing the stairs of South Building to Col. Sheppard's office. At any rate, don't lose sleep because you're wearing gabardine instead of khaki. Plans are now in progress to ease your gilt com plex after graduation day. CROSSWORD HORIZONTAL 1. proverbial friend 6. grates - harshly 13. elude 14. Neptune's emblem 15. stabs 1C nntiiviiet( 46. tatter 47. small hand bomb 49. effigy 51. stimulate 52. shoe string 53. gainers 54. wide- mouthed pitchers 17. outfit 18. backbone . 20. Confederate general 21. masculine name 23. imitate 24. drove 25. ratchet wheel pin 27. observe 29. dropsy SO. small pies 34. choose 36. caution 37. topaz hum 1 ming-birds 40. college cheer 42. volcano in Sicily 43. masculine nickname 44. Biblical character 1:L- 7 18 If 2o tzzmzzzEmzzz 47 48 4? 5o zzzzzzzizzzzz Si 54 Answer to yesterday's puzzle. ClElMATE NOS A d. JLl D E A D OR JM I T 1-LJ1 0 A6T Average time of solution: 26 minutes, Distributed by King Features Syndicate Tar Heel Friday, October 10, 1952 BARRY FARBER ROLFE NEILL. JIM SCHENCK . BIFF ROBERTS News Ed. Circ. Mgr. Jody Levey Donald Hogg ..Deenie Schoeppe Tom Peacock Soc. Ed. Asst. Spts. Ed. By Eugene Sbeffer 1.2 VERTICAL 1. lower 2. shunned 3. English watering place 4. lyric poem 5. promontory 6. plunder 7. hags 8. 9. small hill citrus drink American , artist go into horse caressive touch memoranda (abbr.) raise with effort 10. 11. 12. 19, 22. .24 26. drowze 28 Greek letter go back over Isl61MRTQlwl 31 in memory 32. oscine bird 33. ones long experienced barterer Oriental tea 35. 36. 37. wrath 38. French writer. 39. feminine name prayer endings possess 41. 44. 45. river in t-i Egypt 48. pinch 50. bird's craw ES T D E A T E EN A TTS "hT M !1Ie S P ED, T TZZT MARS MEfeitu m m Mull e , . . El JiTdTe a lsT IlEli A 4- E R. S f " 1 A N E N T H"" "ESAU tTaTmTeTs ,, T I N A LENT S L E Pip e eTpIe R. TISt 1S1TIE1E1DIS1 Tom MacMullen Flick Fare By Tom McMillan In a very moving and highly dramatic color motion picture, "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima," Warner Brothers brings to the screen the story of the miracle that was supposed to have occured near the small Portugese town of Fatima in 1917. While tending a flock of sheep on a hrll pasture known as Cova da Ira, Lucia Dos Sontas and her two younger cousins saw a vision of a "Beautiful Lady" who told them that she would appear on the thirteenth day of each month for six months. This news spread rapid ly all over Portugal, and in suc ceeding months increasing num bers of the faithful flocked to Fatima. "The Lady" prophesied several important events, includ ing World War II. Finally, on the last visit to the children, as a visable sign from heaven, the sun dipped out of the firmament toward earth, and back again. This convinced the gathered crowd of seventeen thousand that the Holy Mother herself had visited them. The final se quence in the film is a shot of the million pilgrims that visited Fatima last year. The religious significance of this picture is clearly a Roman Catholic appeal for Maryolatry, but its artistic value outweighs this in the skillful buildup to a dramatic climax. Eleven-year-old Susan Whit ney does a very credible job of acting as Lucia. Gilbert Roland provides comic relief as a ras cally atheist who is finally con verted. Many of the "Warnercolor" shots are definitely superior, and the background choir would grace Saint Peter's Cathedral in , Rome. "The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima" is currently showing at the Varsity Theater in its North Carolina premeire. The matinee price is $.75 and $1.00 at night. The picture should be seen from the beginning, if possible, in order to fully enjoy its drama tic qualities. Pogo Political Dope (By Special Correspondent) Hugo, the Mouse assistant to the House Detective at the Fur below Arms, says that he has never seen so many candidates running for the same office. To day he decided that he might as well join the race and offered his personal ticket: Hugo for President and Hugo for Vice President. He went up to the Convention Hall and the man at the gate said let us see your ticket, stranger. So Hugo showed him the sign he was carrying: HUGO For Pres., and HUGO for VP., and the man just laughed and said that is unconstitutional and and anyway you can't get away with it. So he chased Hugo all the way to the Stock Yard Inn, where Hugo met an old friend of his, a cat, with whom he had once worked in vaudeville, fare, pointed out that in order The cat, a singer of light opera to get into the convention hall you- had to either have a pass or you had to know somebody or you had to be sneaky. Hugo said he didn't have a pass and the only person he knew out there was the cat and so he'd have to try the last one, which is sort of up his line anyway. The cat . said that one of the gatemen was an ex-bee-keeper and all Hugo had to do was. go up and hum a little and claim he used to work for the man. "Flap your wings once in a while, too," said the cat. Hugo said he would. So Hugo went up to the ex-bee-keeper and he hummed and flapped his wings and he told the man that he used to work for him. The man looked at Hugo closely and he said, "You're the one that started that sit down strike V Turned out he was anti-labor and HE chased Hugo all the way to the Illinois Central R.R. where Hugo jumped aboard and had his ticket punched back into the Loop. A bee friend who stopped by later said that you can get stung in the Bee business about as quick as anything else and may be the Bee Keeper was touchy. "Our Differences Have Nothing To Do With The End Result That We Are Seeking. Drew Pearson The Washington ; Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTON Last spring this column told the inside story of a stormy secret session of the Senate elections committee at which Sen. Guy Gillette of Iowa threatened to resign. After the story appeared, Senator Gillette issued a state ment, resorting to the easiest epithet of a politician: "Pearson is a liar." "Seventy-five percent of what he wires is hog-wash," stated the senator from Iowa. However, in a letter datetd Sept. 10, 1952, now made public, Senator Gillette wrote to Sen. Cary Hayden of Arizona, as fol lows: "As you know, I tried to re sign as chairman earlier this spring, but you pointed out the situation with reference to membership on .the rules com mitte, which made it difficut to fill my place with a new as signment from the Democratic side of the committee." In retrospect, Senator, who was it that was really lying? Reports to Washington from Operation Mainbrace indicate that the big North Sea naval maneuver was a flop. A heavy gale kept the carrier planes out of action at the cru cial moments; submarines slip ped through and claimed tor pedo hits against all the carriers; and the surf was too rough to land the marines on a beach head. Instead, they ' had to be hauled around on the lee side of Denmark in order to go through their maneuvers. When these reports reached Washington, Admirai Fechteler, Chief of Naval Operations, al most blew his top. He let out a mighty roar, charging that the submariners exaggerated their reports and that they would have needed "a whole transport full of torpedoes" to make all the hits they claimed. Here is what the politicians reported to Eisenhower as of the end of last week: Taft told him Ohio would go Republican, Though his brother, Charlie, would have a tight race for governor. In West Virginia,, Rush Holt, the pro-Nazi symp athizer, predicted he would be elected governor, while others predicted Chapman Revercomb would lose to Senator Kilgore. North Carolina and Virginia were considered hopeful but doubtful . . General Eisen hower spoke at every whistle stop his managers requested. But he drew the line at one thing climbing down from the rear platform and shaking hands with the crowd at every stop, as urged by Congressman ? V-WHV, GUTSY .V-YOU THE VOKUM KID7' George Bender of Ohio . . . The producer w"ho staged Senator Nixon's broadcast, one of the most dramatic and effective in years, was Ed Sobal, NBC's top television producer. The man who helped write it was ace attorney Bill Rogers . . . correc tion: Bert Andrews, New York Herald Tribune correspondent, did not urge Eisenhower to drop 4 Senator Nixon from the ticket as earlier reported in this column. The big steel companies, and particularly U. S. Steel, haven't been renowned for pro-labor sympathies. But John L. Lewis can chiefly thank them for the generous new contract he got from the coal operators, giving him a $1.90 daily pay boost, plus extra welfare benefits. Unlike the commercial , coal companies, which were in no hurry to settle, big steel wanted a quick settlement for its cap tive coal companies for two reasons: 1. The steel companies feared a prolonged strike might inter fere with steel production; 2. They could afford to absorb a substantial coal pay boost in their over-all steel-production costs much easier than commer cial operators, who mine solely for consumer sale. By a fortuitous circumstance the man who was chief spokes man for both the steel-owned captive mines and the northern commercial mines was Harry Moses, former president of the H. C. Frick company, the big captive firm owned by U. S. Steel. Bargaining negotiations with John L. Lewis usually go on for days. This time it was strangely different, and Moses practically jumped over the bar gaining table at the first meet ing 'to come to terms with Big John. It's supposed to be kept sec ret until after election day, but F" West Virginia Republicans are quietly setting a trap for any Democratic "ghosts" who try to stuff the ballot box, November 4. They are especially anxious to catch names taken from gravestones, which, they claim, appeared in the 1950 balloting. Therefore the secret GOP plan is to mail more than half a mil lion political circulars to re gistered voters. Some of these registered voters presumably will be gravestone names. Therefore, the Republicans have quietly arranged with the Post Office to return all un delivered circulars. A list of these names will be turned over, to' every Republican precinct f ) RIGHT" AM' ) j fl RIGHT.?" AN' MY FACE IS OM DE KlD- MAV HE REST IKJ PEACE Ed Voder Pulling The Hamilton Horton, president of the University of North Car olina student body, was one of the majority of students who expressed the opinion that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Re publican nominee, would win the presidential election this year, as Grassroots, the Daily Tar Heel's new student opinion column, took its first poll yes terday. Of the 11 persons- quizzed by the Grassroots reporter, two said they thought Gov. Adlai Stevenson would poll the ma jority of votes, eight were of the opinion that General Eisenhow er would be the next president,, and one, who said he was an independent and didn't know, declined to be quoted. According to the Daily Tar Heel poll, the preponderance of "Ike" sentiment was even more pronounced among the women students than among the men. Of four women students asked whom they thought would win, all said they foresaw a victory for Eisenhower. Of seven men students to whom the question was popped, two were of , the opinion that Stevenson would be the winner. Five held oppo site viewpoints. Asked the question, "Whom do you think will win the pres idential election this year?" the following persons answered: Joel Siegel, senior, Salisbury: "Stevenson by a walkaway. He. has the intelligence, conviction, and the dynamiG know-how to make American Government work." Manning Muntzing, freshman, Moorfield, West Virginia: "Eisenhow's in. The American people have had enough bureau cracy. The intelligent people will vote Republican. Charles Katzenstein, fresh man, New York City: "One day you hear people say Stevenson has got it. The next day it's cer tain Eisenhower will win. I think, personally, that Eisen hower will win because the need for a change outweighs the fact that the Democrats are run ning a good man." captain. So, when anyone tries to vote under a name the post office couldn't locate, he will be challenged at the polls on elec tion day. In Nevada, hoary-haired Sen. Pat McCarran is stuck politically between the devil and the deep blue sea. A young war veteran named Tom Mechling succeeded in trouncing McCarran's former law partner, Allan Bible, in the democratic primaries, so the natural thing for McCarran to do would be to cut the Demo cratic ticket, which he hasn't hesitated to do in the past. But if he cuts Democrat Mech ling, the 'he elects GOP Sen. "Molly" Malone, for whom he has no respect whatsoever. Time after time, the brusque Mc Carran has snubbed or publicly browbeaten his GOP colleague from Nevada. Once, when Malone was mak ing a Senate speech condemn ing the reciprocal trade treaty, McCarran, listening impatiently, finally whispered to Sen. Walter George of Georgia that he would "put a stop to this." WEEK-END SPECIA MORE THAN 500 USED BOOKS MOSTLY TAKEN FROM THE 48c SHELF, REDUCED TO ONLY SALE STARTS SATURDAY TIMATE BOOKSHOP 205 E. FRANKLIN 'VE GOTTA GET RID ) OP" HIS BODY, r- ' Grass Roots Graham Shanks, freshman, Birmingham, Alabama: " I be lieve that Stevenson will win, because he's capable, intelligent, and has the support of the Dem ocratic Party, which has been in control for ,20 years. He is a man of political experience, too." Baxter Mclntire, sophomore, Ellerbe, N. C: "I personally think Stevenson has a lot of backing, but Ike is very popu lar in the eyes of the people. I think his popularity will cast the vote for him." Bunky Overholt, freshman nurse, Pittsburgh, Pa.: "Eisen hower. I don't think he is nec essarily a better man, but the American peoplewant a change in administration, I believe." Hamilton Horton, senior, Winston Salem, President of the student body: "I think that Ei senhower will win. Any party that remains in power too long becomes naturally lax in its re sponsibility to the people." Sandra Shaw, freshman nur se, Durham, N. C: "Eisenhower. As long as he has been in the military service of the country, people have had confidence in what he has done and said." Kathy Widman, freshma nur se, Durham, N. C: "Eisenhower, because he has great popular appeal and hasn't lost the com mon touch, though he walks with kings." Jean Bryant, freshman, nur se, Jacksonvill, Fla.: "It's Eisen howerhower. I believe that the majority of the people want a change and I think he's worthy of the position. Anonymous: "Damn the Dem ocrats; damn the Republicans; Damn the State's Righters. My man ain't running, so I ain't voting." Express Yourself Editor: I would like to protest the implication of a letter printed in the Sept. 30 issue of The Daily Tar Heel, which com plained about a cigarette sales man. It is true that representa tives of different companies who pester the students and try to force them to buy products shouldn't even be allowed on campus and I agree that my fellow student deserved to gripe. However, during my term at this institution I have often been given different merchan dise by salesmen who were in no way bothersome or offensive. These guys did me a favor and I am sure they have done for a lot of others here on campus. So I would like to say that I think it is unfair to imply that all the salesmen are "high pres sure" guys. To those salesmen who go out of their way to be nice to us, therefore, I say welcome. Johnny Booker ST Open Evenings MUST COWGRATULATP LAMCE OS THE GREATEST ut-tKATlON OF wt r- - ' r-
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