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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
PACE TWO
The Room Rent' Problem
I ho Mau- legislature should
lisuii with au open mind to lorth-
(oinin plea l I'nixirsitv olfiii.
als that budgetary appropriations
he made for cousti uttiuu l tieu
iIm niitoi ies at Chapel Hill.
Chamellor William B. AvuhL
in a Cabinet meeting yesteiday.
iiidiiaU'd that the administration
will axk lor the budgetary allot
mem as a major step toward re
laxing the burden on students of
piNiii'4 loi sell licpiidatinp; dormi
toiies. Now. it was pointed out at the
meeting, student lental fees jump
appioimateI Si", eery time the
l'nieisity invests St million in
dortuitoiy onsttiution. Money lor
the projects is borrowed from the
Icdcral io eriinient. anil the Sz
in lease helps to pax it baik.
Anx im lease in lental lees would
be added to the .Si.-fii per year now
Juried. As it now appears, that
i X- Ice will be increased by Sjo
to help pax lor dormitories now
Ik iii built on the lampus. The to
tal teiiial lee then would be Sil;j
per ear.
Thai is. as Student Hotly Presi
dent Viiiin I.xans pointed out. a
!i ol money demanded of a stu
tknt at a state institution w heie
education is supposed to be in the
,Uiasp of all those who want it. And
the trouble is that the tharc has
stcadiU been on an i in rease.
It is le.issiirin to know that stu
dent leaders and t'nivursity ol
li( ials see "eve to ee" on the j;row
problem of lental fees assniat
ed with new dounitorv (oiistrut
ti"ii. In hut. it appeals that the ad
ministiation leais the pioblem with
moie .uuteness th.n the hae thus
l u been i u ilited w ith.
When the (ontest begins for a
buduetarx appi opi i.u ion for dor
niiioix ( onstriK lion, the L'nixeisity
i!l Inxe some ood arguments in
its taxor. I iist and ioiemost. xe
I i !. is the Cut that iiu leasing rent
il lees haxe m.iL;uilied the burden
the student who has a hard
time I mint in.; .in ediuatioii anx
u ,, .
Netond. it does not lollow tlut
t'u (ni l idm.tlin sliouhl in
( icac i oiiiiiu Usui al e with the h
su.i L,ionti of tlic I 'nivei sty a
l.nt pointed out by .Student Judy
I't t s i fi 1 1 1 I aiis in his ofHsilion
n the iiu leasing rental fees.
IIukI. iiiiiiIi interest ould be
vied it new doinntoiies xveie ton
siiiKicd with budetarx binds in
Ntr.id ol with monies boiroxxed
liom the ledeial uoxeiunicnt oxei
a Ion;; pciiod ol time. A jo-year
lo.in (an amass a considerable in
tiitst lot the lender.
I oi an majoi c onstriu I ion pro
'm.iiii at the I'liixeisity a lxmd ele(
I n ii in. ix haxe to be held, in order
to liu.iiKe tiie piojctt. Tar Heel
xoieis, in stub an election, should
leuieinbei th.it. .is the patents of
inaux stiuUuts .utendiir the I'ni
xtiMtx. tlux ultiinatdx pick up
the hek loi physit.d expansion
.lll U .IX .
And liuaiic ed ) bonds, the t t
ol that expansion would be spiead
oui a ross the state instead ol limit
ed to the pocketbooks oE those who
arc now sending or will one day -send
their children to the Univer
sity. All in all, it would tax the
whole electorate for an institution
which belongs to the whole of
North Carolina.
Regardless of the outcome of the
legislative contest, it becomes clear
that rental fees cannot increase
forever at the University. Either
they reach a lcxeling-ofl period,
with budgetary appiopriations tak
ing oxer, or the University will lie
dormant, as housing projects be
come a past idea in Chapel Hill."
Dogs Are Threat
To Mail Carriers
Postmaster General Sumtner
lield has announced a new ' policy
saying, in effect: "If sour dog bites
your Kstman, you're going to have
to pick up your own mail."
"The instructions (to postmas
ters across the country) provide for
automatic discontinuance of de
livery service whenever the carrier
is actually bitten or his uniform
torn by a dog." Sunnnci field's an
nouncement read.
It's a good order. Having carried
mail, we have evidenced the Teal
threat to undisturbed mail delivery
by vicious dogs which seemingly
have an innate dislike for men
earning mail bags. And in real
terms. Summcrfield says his men
suffer some (i.ooo bites a vcar.
Now xve probably can expect a
public denouncement of Summer
filed by the Society lor the Preent
ion ol Cruelty to Animals for the
postmasters harsh restriction of
mail delixeiy to persons who let
c rue! dogs run loose.
The Program For
Aid To Education
Ccttxsburg
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Nisht Editor PEBLEY B ARROW
The
ol a billion-dollar
)'. o'iam to boktcr education said:
"Tim i a pi obtain to help meet
the urgent demaiuK ol education
a it atlects om national security.
If recognizes the rapid increase in
imMi t.ui e of .science and techno
logy' in ii tode rii life and the im
oitance of these lielcLs to national
security."
The spin, ol course, has heen
the recognition ol the more rigoro
us methods cd Soviet education. It
is aNo the coinpuKixe recognition
that the I'nited States will have to
coiled its delicienc ies spex it'ical
lx in stopping; the waste ol jilted
xcMinsteis. in stimulating basic le
seaich and leainin. in making an
honotcd and i einunei al ix e jolt ol
teac hinr4.
I here is. nuclei standahly en
ough, a considciahle emphasis on
I cderal assistance to science and
mathematics. Iut it is highly im
portant, as Set letary Folsom point
ed out. that the administration ly
no means juts all the emphasis on
one lield.
This is a rash program all rij;ht,
hut the Ions objective is across-the-boaid
education. There is full
and urgent awareness ol improvini
research, training, and teaching in
the sciences. Hut at the same time
the icpoit to the President, which
he heartily appioxes, st,s down to
lundamentals with these txvo re
commendations: " Ten thousand scholarships a
xear lot talented students xxho
wouldn't otherwise to college.
This means searching out all the
hih-aptitude boys and girls and
not letting the greatest national as
set or all brains go U pot.
"One thousand graduate-level
fellowships the first year of the pro
gram, l,-oo annually thereafter.
This is to get more lirst-c lass people
into teac lung and keep them there.
Iheie aic the leadeis, the seed
n of intellectual progress. We
fiust haxe them everything else
depends on them."
It's a good program, even though
a billion dollars in years mav not
be enough. And it's particularly
good because of the recognition
that all education both in quanti
ty and qualityis essential to natio
nal security. Now let Congress get
moving and put the program into
immediate el feet. And hereafter
the United States ought not placid
ly wait for the V. S. S. R. to show
the way.
(New Voik Heiald Tiibune)
Writer Says
U. S. Seeking
Good MDeeds7
By FRANK CROWTIIER
Since President Eisenhower's
State of the Union message last
Thursday, I have seen very few
articles' of criticism and have
heard less than five voices of dis
sent. It occurred to me that I
might have been overly skeptical
and unfair in my interpretation of
the message, so I patiently xvent
to The New York Times and read
it once again. After careful ap
praisal, it appears that I xvas mis.
taken in my previous considera
tion. It was not mediocre, it xvas
rather pathetic.
After leading off with the pro
gressive and affirmative statement
that he (the President! did not
plan to deal in glossy terms or
vague generalities, he proceedel
to do what he said he xvas not
going to do. If that message xvas
not glossy and general. I certainly
wish someone would show me the
specifics, point for point. Admitted
ly, he promised further explora
tion in "future messages to the
Congress," but that seems to be
no more than another example of
this administration's habitual pro
crastination. And I do not see any
demonstration of the supposed
crash program included in the bud
get xvhich was released yesterday.
The U. S. News & World Report,
in the January 17th issue just re
ceived by our paper, states that
"the. President's state-of-lhe-union
message last xveek xvas a smash
hit. ..." Don't you believe it.
Senator Wayne Morse Dcm.,
Ore. probably voiced a most
pertinent dissen!ion when lie
judged the message "a sermon
delivered at the xvake of the
Eiscnhoxver administration. be
tween its lines xvas a confession of
5 years of failure on the part of
the Eisenhower administration to
meet the foreien- policy needs of
this country.
"I am glad the President at
least discovered the problem of
the malaria mosquito. Neverthe
less, it should be pointed out that
under the Truman point 4 program
we had appropriated K'eat sums
of money for the eradication of
the malaria mosquito ....'
"I want to say I was particular
ly disappointed in his discussion of
the great issue that faces the peo
ple of the world, that of disarma
ment. It is about time e imple
mented the disarmament need.
The President got rUht up to the
line, then stopped."
Amen. Senator. Amen.
1 would like to turn some of the
President's own words (though bor
rowed from Droll Dullnik Dullest
back for his own consideration. Let
us have "deed, not words," Mr.
President.
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VIEW FROM THE HILL:
Budget Misses Important Points
Gems of Thought
Voit iv ill find hundreds of per
sons able t produce a crou d of
ideas upon any subject for o-ne
irlio caii mar shall them to 1he
best advantage. Andrew Jackson
By CURTIS GANS
President Eisenhower's budget
message to Congress xvas an odd
combination of the good and bad.
The budget highlighted the high
est defense expenditure yet, and
neglected many internal projects
necessary to a healthy nation.
Moreover, the president saw fit
to raise the debt ceiling instead of
increasing taxes, xvhen already
the interest on the money the U. S.
owes takes 11 cents out of ex-ery
tax dollar.
The defense expenditure was one
of the good features of the bud
get, and may help regain the bal
ance of military power on the
side of the xvest.
Another good program was the
increase in the cost of out-of-town
letters from 3 to 5 cents. It has
been long noted that the Post Of
fice has been operating at a de
ficit, and causing the increased
outlay of tax money, which should
have been supplanted by the users
of the services of the post office
paying its way.
The foreign aid program was a
good feature in the amount of ex
penditure. It was not good in the
proportion of military to economic
aid available. The overbalance in
favor of military aid xvill endear
none of the allies of the U. S. to
the president, since many are seek
ing the means of alleviating the
impoverished conditions that sur
round them. The Russians are cur
rently offering, although in many
cases not giving, economic aid.
In the field of education, the
Eisenhower budget comes out sore
ly lacking. School construction and
school crowding alleviation pro
grams have been cut or postponed,
and an inadequate 247 million dol
lars has been asked to do all the
improvement in the present school
systems that are necessary. This
largely has been given to the d e
velopment of scientific potential,
without the realization that it
takes other things besides tech
nological advances to attain a
strong demoeiacy.
Moreover, such Important pro
grams in the field of water re
search such as the devising of a
nexv method to change salt xvater
into a drinkable and usable re
source, has been all but neglected
in the president's budget, and
paxes the way for so many com
munities in the U. S. to continue
strict water conservation methods
that would be unnecessary if the
programs reached completion.
The slash in farm aid xvill un
doubtedly alienate more farmers
than are currently alienated by
Secretary of Agriculture Benson,
but it will also pave the xvay for
another drop in farm prices.
Moreover, the president in saying
that this cut xvas to stop paying
farmers not to produce, neglect
ed to give an alternative for the
surplus products that will doubt
less be available. One outlet
of which is all too necessary, there
foreign aid.
The cut in vocational education
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aid and in slum clearance projects
xvill not help the country, and in
deed may negate xvhat good there
is in the new education program
as well as the raising of the ceil
ing on home mortgage through the
Federal Housing Administration.
To end the budget picture on a
bright note, the recommendations
for Alaskan and Hawaiian state
hood and the liberalization of the
current MuGarran-iWater immi
gration law represent steps in the
right direction. The problem here
lies in the fact that statehood for
only one of these two territories
has a chance in Congress this
year, and with the missile de
velopment fex'er, a certain amount
of xvhich is all to necessary, there
xvill be little chance that immigra
tion xvill get much attention.
It was indeed unfortunate that
the president did not recommend
any legislation to clear up the
mess that is the loyalty-security
program, but there is hope that
Congress andor the Supreme
Court will overrule this danger
ous and undemocratic part of the
U. S. legal system.
All in all, the concentration on
the defense of the nation and the
earnest desire to keep taxpayers
from paying any more, perhaps
in a bid to win votes for the
Republican party in the fall, let
the president's budget for fiscal
year 1939 fall short of what is
needed in most of the things ne
cessary to produce a strong democracy.
CtrTHUlSDAY, JANUARY 16, 19S
LETTERS TO EDITOR
More On Refugees-
To The Editor:
In iew of Miss Waite's uninformed statement
vis-a-vis the Arab refugees, following Ambassador
Eban's address here, I thought the folloxving might
be enlightening even to her.
In December, 1951, a group of eminent Ameri
cans, only one of whom was a Jew, and including
in their number Reinhold Niebuhr and Sumner
Welles, submitted a proposal on the arab Refugee
problem to the United Nations General Assembly.
During the; course of that presentation, they stated
that "the record shows that it (the flight of Arabs
from Palestine) was an evacuation admittedly plan
ned by the Arab war leaders and the Arab Higher
Committee for the three-fold purpose of (a) Clearing
the roads of the villages for an advance of the Arab
regular armies, (b) Demonstrating the inability
of Jews and Arabs to live side by side, (c) Dis
rupting services following the end of the mandate.
Although it is a matter of common knoxvledge
that there is non so blind as he who will not see,
I shall be glad to make this document available to
persons of Miss Waite's mind, upon request. Suf
fice it here to report that an eye-witness account
in the London Economist of October 2, 1948, sup
ported the position of the American group re
ferred to, as did such dixerse (to an extent) per
sons as Emile Ghory, Secretary of the Arab Higher
Committee, who told the Beirut TELEGRAPH that
"the fact that there are these refugees is the di
rect consequence of Arab States in opposing par
tition and the Jewish State," and Glubb Pasha, the
' British Commander of the Transjordan Arab Le
gion, who on August 12,1948, in an article in the
London Daily Mail, said "The Arab civil popula
tion panicked and fled ignominiously."
It is not necessary to comment on any other
statements by Miss Waite, since she has clearly
disqualified herself as an authority.
EFR.VB1 M. ROSENZWEIG
To The Editor:
Exreryone seems to be folloxving the perilous
Arab-Israeli situation trying to find out what i
really happening oxrer there and just who is right
in the dispute. And xve have now heard the elo
quent and honorable ambassador of Israel, Mr. Ab
ba Eban.
Unfortunately Mr. Eban is the most eloquent
speaker on either side of the dispute. A disting
uished educator, master of oriental languages, suave
diplomat, and persuasive arguer, Mr. Eban has dis
posed of his opposition with a few mellifluously
flowing generalizations xvhich -would require detail
ed information and time for a rehearsal of the answ
er in order to be refuted.
We have not time to analyze complexities now.
But let us merely look at some smaller points of
Mr. Eban's interesting talk here at the Unix'ersil.r.
Mr. Eban spoke glowingly of the accomplish
ments of the young nation of Israel. He comment
ed that it xvas not from nearby nations that Ii
rael first received praise for its great successes, no.
it xvas from far away nations such as the United
States of America.
Naturally. Where else? Did not most of the sup
port for the artificially constructed nation of Is
real come from the United States all along? Any
one xxho has folloxxed the UJA appeals for aid and
the many things the United States and Britain did
to help establish Israel cannot be so blind to facts
as to accept quietly what Mr. Eban said.
Again, Mr. Eban asserted again and again that
Israel is a democracy. Really? One can find facts
that seem to contradict this. The writer knows of
twelve American Jewish families xvho xvent to Is
rael a few years ago to settle in this great new
promised land. They returned claiming it xvas a reg
imented thought-controlled state without proper
democratic freedom of expression being allowed.
Some of them complained that they were not even
allowed to speak in their accustomed Yiddish, or
publish a nexvspaper in this dialect of German. A
democracy? Let us have the truth.
But let us think about one further thing. Mr
Eban compared (or shall xve say contrasted) the
Jordan river with the Nile, Euphrates, and Tigris,
pointing out how useless the latter are in providing
irrigation and yet hoxv much has been done by the
Israelis with the former.
Well, what would Mr. Abba Eban have to say if
America and other nations in their foreign aid pro
grams had helped Egypt complete its dreamed-ol
Aswan Dam?
There are essentially no Arabs in this country
xvho can send millions of dollars (American dol
lars let us emphasize) to help support Arab nation
in the same way that the UJA gets Americans to
contribute to Mr. Eban's claimed democratic Israel
Unfortunately, not only is Mr. Eban very elo
quent, but his followers have gained a monopoly in
certain areas of the free press in this nation to the
near exclusion of any voice from the other side of
Israel's borders.
The directors of the Carolina Forum have been
quoted in. the papers as expressing the view that
they would be most happy to try and obtain a
speaker for the Arab side if there is enough public
demand.
Where can we obtain a demand for an Arab
speaker when the Arab side has only a. minority of
friends in this country as compared with the lare
public folloxxing which Mr. Eban has in the form
of American Jews?
If Americans wish (as the writer does) to find
out xvhat is true of the situation in the Middle Ea?t.
then speakers on both sides must be presented, n,t
just on one side. We must have no more of thLs
we'll-bring-you-one-side-and-if-you-yell-we-ll - bring -the-other-side
attitude. Americans must hear im
partially both sides. We must hear not jut the
UJA side and the Oil-Interest side of the thing.
Let us hear constructive arguments and not idle
damaging propaganda by fanatics. And a xvord of
advice to the Arab side: You must find eloquent
debating material to counter the platitudes present
ed by your opposition.
HENRY W. GOULD