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The pfficial student publication of the Publications Board of the
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where it is published daily
except Saturday, Monday, examination and vacation periods, and dur
ing 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. Sub
scription rates mailed $4 per year, $1.50 per quarter; delivered, $6 and
$2.25 per quarter.
rai. WALT DEAR
Managing Editor :
Business Manager ,
Sports Editor
News Ed
Sub. Mgr
Ass't. Sub. Mgr,
Office Mgr.
Bob Slough
Carolyn Reichard
Bill Venable
Buzzy Shull
Assoc. Ed-Nina Gray, Jane Carter
EDITORIAL STAFF A. Z. F. Wood, Jr., John Gibson, Dorman Cordell,
Dan Duke. , "
NEWS STAFF John Jamison, Louis Kraar, Tom Parramore, Ellen
Downs, Jennie Lynn, Jerry Reece, Sara Leek, Ben West, Jim Wilkin
son, Jes Nettles, Sally Schindel, Manning Muntzing, Dave Herbert, Hu
bert Breeze.
SPORTS STAFF Vardy Buckalew, Paul Cheney, Melvin Lang, Everett
Parker, John Hussey, Sherwood Smith, Al Long, Dick Crouch, Benny
Stewart, Wilbur Jones. .
ADVERTISING STAFF Charles A. Collins, Charles Haskett, Pete
Adams, Bob Mason, Bob Wolfe, Eleanor Saunders, Buddy Harper, Dor
man Cordell.
CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT Roger Williams, Richard O'Neal,
George Harris, Veneta Zeller.
PHOTOGRAPHERS: Cornell Wright, Ruffin Woody, Bill Stonestreet.
Night Editor for this issue: Melvin Lang
Infirmary Acts Fast
Once again, the Infirmary has acted quickly and efficient
ly to prevent a possible outbreak of disease.
This time it is flu. Last time it was polio. Football activ
ities were suspended in the fall quarter for two weeks and
students were given worthwhile advice on how to protect
themselves in some measure from polio. Now there is a
fifty-fifty chance of an outbreak of influenza which would "ser
iously disrupt" the University's activities, according to Dr.
Ed Hegepeth. This is no scare alarm. This announcement
comes after a careful watch of trends throughout the world,
nation, and state, plus weekly surveys conducted by the medi
cal profession.
And students, 300 of them on the first day, responded
quickly to the call for voluntary vaccinations. The vaccine is
a good preventive, primarily because it counteracts the work
of the flu virus. The important thing about a vaccination is
the necessity to take advantage of it now. It has no value when
the epidemic surrounds the campus
Students are reminded of the value of having an infirmary
and a wide awake staff. As soon as enough information had
been gathered to show that a campus wide flu attack was pos
sible (populated centers in Germany, France, England, Texas,
and Tennessee have already been affected), vaccine was ship
ped in from Detroit and Atlanta and the infirmary was ready
to receive. students the next day.
Action in this case as in many others indicates that the
Infirmary is doing the kind of job necessary to maintain
student health. The Daily Tar Heel commends the staff of
the Infirmary for its continuing efforts to keep us in shape.
Paper Thieves
Someone's got an old get-rich-quick philosophy.
He or she nets a $4 loot each day mostly at the Lenoir Hall
newsstands, but manages to loot the nickels of four State
dailies at the Y, too.
The thief or thieves are stealing themselves right out of
a job among other things. Threatened with daily losses, the
students operating the paper stands may have to stop selling.
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The nickel thieves might be interested to know that once
they are pinched by student law, they will be probably head
ing out of Chapel Hill. The Chapel Hill recorder's court is
always interested in slapping heavy penalties on such
miscreants.
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Donald Hogg
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Adv. Mgrs. Charlie Collins, Charles
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Utopia
There has been much investi
gation by congressional commit
tees lately. They've investigated
water-front racketeers, Commun
ists, Trumanites, Dean Acheson,
McCarthy, people investigating
McCarthy, and tired old school
teachers. Now they've just com
pleted an investgiation of ob
scene literature. They began with
comic books and juvenile pulp
magazines like "Keyhole", "Tit
ter", "Foo", and "Wink", but, car
ried away with their piety, they
commenced to condemn at ran
dom. Books by Steinbeck, James
Farrell, and Erskine Caldwell
were branded as obscene by some
of the more upright committee
men. One witness, who had in
dignantly decried "pictorial pros
titution on the newsstands" found
that some of her own literature
was not exempt from this arbi
trary condemnation.
Soon, however, it became evi
dent that there could be no line
drawn as to what was art and
what was obscenity for obscen
ity's sake; so the committee re
frained from tightening any of
the statutes which might have
resulted in arresting someone for
reading "East of Eden". They re
commended that publishers be
more discreet, and let it go at
that.
But there remain many staunch
proponents influential propon
ents for the banning of "ob
scene literature". The way to fix
an evil situation, say these pro
tectors of American morals, is to
pass a law. They did it back in
1919, too. They got the Volstead
Act passed and everybody had to
make their own whiskey or take
the word of the boot-leggers that
the stuff was more than two
weeks old.
Well, the American people
weren't quite ready for national
prohibition; so, notwithstanding
much righteous exhortation, it
was repealed.
But give the Ftderal Govern
ment a little more time to regi
ment the American people, to
stagnate their minds, and crush
individuality, and you can be
sure there'll be other attempts
at prohibition (not only of alco
holic beverages, either). And
they're apt to be successful. Fill
the courts and the Pentagon up
with a few more political cronies,
pass a few more guilt-by-association
statutes, refuse admittance
to a few more aliens, convict a
few more people of crimes when
they leer at other people, pass a
few F.E.P.C. laws, get a few more
UN lawyers to jump out of win
dows, accuse a few more people
of being Communists, and we'll
all be robots. Well be scared to
do or say anything unconvention
al, and the Federal Government
will lead us around on a leash.
And after the last vestiges of
individuality and imagination
have disappeared we will have a
Utopia. True, there'll be no nov
els, no symphonies, no cartoons,
no Dixieland, and nobody will
play the violin, but, as compen
sation, we wlil be protected from
the evils of twelve - year - old
Scotch, books like "From Here to
Eternity" and "Eternity" and
"Generation of Vipers, and blas
phemous music like Satchmo's
"When the Saints Go Marching
In".
For some time the United Stat
es proceeded under the assumpt
ion that the least government was
the best government. This phil
osophy was not completely prac
tical as unforeseen difficulties
arose; so the Federal Govern
ment was given a couple of re
luctant inches for modification. It
took eight miles, and the original
philosophy was closeted. Old Har
ry locked it up for good in his
steel seizure last summer, for
even though the Supreme Court
ruled against him, the precedent
remains.
The thing that scares me the
most, though, is the relentless
technological "progress". They
are close to contriving a machine
that is capable of ascertaining
your thoughts. Boy, will I ever
be banned for obscenity!
A Problem
The Daily Texan editor wasn't
really complaining; but she had a
problem: "Along with the press
releases from railroads, manufac
turers, political parties, and an
occasional letter, the editor's mail
includes free subscriptions and
trial samples.
Such a one came the other day,
in a neat interesting little box.
To any other editor it probably
would have been welcome. But
this editor is finding it difficult
to create uses for a trial jar of
shaving cream.
Everybody Up!
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-DREW PEARSON-
THE WASHINGTON
Merry - Go
Washington Mamie Eisenhow
er has had time to look around
the White House and discover
that she is mistress of a kitchen
establishment which is the mod
ern housewife's dream.
In fact, she is the mistress of a
sort of entertainment factory,
with three kitchens and several
dining-rooms. She also .faces the
problem of feeding the presi
dent's staff, her own large retinue
of servants, plus White House
guests.
And there will be times when
she will wish that congress had
acted on that last request of Har
ry Truman's to increase the
White House 'expense allowance,
bacause, unless she's extremely
careful, she and the new presi
dent will find themselves dipping
into their own pockets to pay for
White House upkeep.
Another thing Mamie will find,
after she gets settled, is that Sen.
Kenneth McKellar, a bachelor and
a parsimonious one at that, will
cause her a lot of headaches. For
the penny-pinching senator from
Tennessee, who presided over the
White House appropriations com
mittee, scrimped on thermostat
head regulators. Thus the White
House heat is not controlled by
individual thermostats in each
room, as in every modern hotel,
but by a main thermostat.
This means that the sun-room
upstairs where the Trumans liked
to breakfast is ike a refrigerator
in the winter and a furnace in
the summer.
What Mrs. Eisenhower seemed
to like most when she inspected
the White House with Mrs. Tru
man last month was the big cedar
room on the third floor. For a
moth-harassed housewife, this
room is Heaven. Every inch is
lined with cedar, even the cabin
ets and drawers; and the room is
plenty big enough to hold every
piece of wool around the White
House, including Dee's old army
uniforms which have been a mec-
ca for moths at Morningside
Heights.
Mrs. Eisenhower didn't get a
chance to inspect the White
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over the place with Mrs. Truman,
and they happen to be an intrig
uing modern food factory.
The main kitchen is a huge
room in the equivalent of the
White House basement, and con
tains every imaginable modern de
vice for food preparation. Most
of this was installed by Mrs.
Roosevelt and still is in excellent
condition. A large electric range
covers one side of the kitchen.
There are also work tables with
built-in warming trays, a large
soup kettle, barbecue spit, coffee
grinder, garbage disposal beneaht
gigantic sinks, and overhead uten
sil hangers.
The whole thing is entirely air
conditioned with special blowers
to remove cooking odors. Mrs.
Truman used .to enjoy shooing
out the servants and bringing hex;
Spanish class down to the kitchen
to cook onions, Spanish style,
amid many odors which were not
always absorbed by the blowers,
however.
The kitchen contains no dish
washing facilities. All dishes are
removed to a separate room. A
special refrigerator, room is on
the far side of the kitchen, fea
turing a special cold locker for
fish, plus a walk-in storage room.
Food for the first family is pre
pared in the big kitchen, hoisted
on an electric dumb-waiter, and
served from the first floor but
ler's pantry next to the presi
dent's private dining-room.
In addition to the main kitchen,
there's a small diet kitchen on
the third floor about the size of
the kitchen Mamie Eisenhower
used at the Wardman Park Hotel
where she lived during the war
years. The third-floor kitchen is
used for early morning coffee or
a late night snack.
Kitchen No. 3 is under the
west wing of the-White House,
and serves the so-called "Lunch
eon Club" or the president's staff.
About 35 of Truman's male assist-.
ants lunched here every day, get
ting a bill at the end of the month
for their food. Under Truman it
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While the Carolina campus has
been guest to temperatures rang
ing from late winter to the up
per 60's of a mild spring day,
midwest colleges have also been
suffering from these rapid fluxu
ations of weather.
The pneumonia , weather has
been living up to its name. An
influenza epidemic hit the Uni
versity of Minnesota affecting ap
proximately 2,000 students with
in 10 days. Campus police have
been busy driving students out of
the dorms to the Health Service
since the virus began, but 40 to
50 really sick students were dis
covered in a dorm check. Director
of the Health Service stated that
the peak of the epidemic passed
last onday. He attributed the
campus outbreak to the general
spread of infection around the
country since Christmas.
The virus swept Iowa State and
Kansas University this past week
reducing class attendance and
thining office staffs.
Depauw University in Green
castle, Indiana closed its doors
this week when 10 percent of the
student body was confined to
the infirmary.
Northwestern infirmary is fill
ed to capacity, has issued a plea
for studen tnurses, and is giving
free vaccine against the virus at
all office hours.
Flu hit the University of Miss
ouri so hard that 60 beds were
moved into the ballroom of the
student union to provide for the
university hospital overflow.
Further south Louisiana State
is preparing for a possible out
break of respiratory ailments. Dr.
Dougherty of hte Student Health
Service warned students to take
all precautions. Students should
avoid crowds and personal con
was a strictly stag affair, with
lady members of .the president's
staff required to lunch in res
taurants outside or else bring
their lunch to work.
Mamie Eisenhower will not be
able to do much shopping in
Washington markets, even if she
has the time. All food for the
first family is carefully tested in
advance, and the grocery stores
where the food is bought remains
a security secret.
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tact. This, he said, means no kiss
ing.
At least 40 elementary and sec
ondary schools have been closed
due to the virus infection.
In addition to the germ battle
our college cousins on the semes
ter system are building up their
defenses for final exams.
The Independent Student Asso
ciation at Oklahoma University
announced the opening of a quiz
file recently. Professors and de
partments contributed old quiz
zes. Five hundred old tests from
past years are now available for
Independent review.
At Kansas University teacher
evaluation sheets are passed out
just before finals begin. The stu
dent rates the instructor's teach
ing methods and hands the sheet
back but not until grades are
out and on the 'cards.
Northwestern, still on the quar
ter system, is having difficulties
now that grades are out. The stu
dent handbook states that no un
dergraduate on academic proba
tion may hold an extracurricular
office. Investigation by the dean
of students revealed that 29 hold
ers of major campus offices were
on the winter probation list.
Fourteen fraternities will lose of
ficers via enforcement of the rule
rule. Students themselves initiat
ed the probation system to pre
vent failures due to participation
in extracurriculars. A student
editorial again reminded the
campus, "Grades, books, know
ledge. They always come first
in a place of learning. The titles
and honors can play second fid
dle." Northwestern
Grades, panes, and aches went,
hand-in-hand for a disappointed
student recently, and they came
in that order.
Bill Megowen, LA '53, vented"
his disappointment about grades
by shoving his hand through a
large plate glass window in Pear
son Hall. He was taken to Evan-
ston hospital for emergency treat
ment. University officials are trying
to decide whether the student
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