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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1946
Plea for Sanity
The Carolina-Duke football game is still several Saturdays
distant, but we don't believe that it's a bit too early to start
sounding warnings against the one thing that must be aovided
this fall.
The topic under discussion is pre-game vandalism. It too
often in the past has been the policy of a minority group of stu
dents on the Carolina campus to invade the Duke campus, paint
the Duke statue, destroy and mar various other buildings, and
possibly capture a few Duke students."
Duke students, of course, have also made many missions over
here and created considerable confusion while' painting the
stadium and shaving Tar Heel heads. But no one here ever
respected them for it.
Nothing good has ever come out of such undercover trips.
The harm that has been done on several occasions was bad
enough to cause lots of talk about disrupting athletic relations
between the two schools. No one who is truly interested in
maintaining the fine, keen competition that exists between two
of the country's biggest athletic rivals wants the big event of
the year marred by the irresponsible actions of a few hot
headed agitators.
A clean, hard spirit is something that should exist between
the two teams and their supporters. But all excess energy pent
up in the respective student bodies should be saved for pep
rallies and cheering the afternoon of the big game. Wild and
maliciouTundercover activities on the nights preceding the con
test can only lead to trouble and possible injury to the partici
pants. '
This year more than ever, with both campuses filled with large
student enrollments, any wild vandalism campaigns will be
dangerous. The Carolina-Duke rivalry is too great and fine to
be marred by childish battles between rival supporters. Much
damage could result from any illegal trips to our neighboring
campus.
This is a plea to save your spirit and enthusiasm for the pep
rally and the game. We hope to prove our supremacy over the
Blue Devils on the gridiron next month. In the meantime, let's
stay away from the Duke campus and refrain from doing any
. thing to mar the University's fine athletic standing.
Your Representatives
The student legislature is scheduled to hold its first session
of the fall quarter tonight in Gerrard hall. With tonight's
meeting the most singly important group of students in the
University will start on what is hoped will be a prosperous and
. beneficial year for the entire student body.
The student legislature of this University is designed to be
the true representative organization in which the constitution of
UNC has vested all legislative powers. It is truly representa
tive in that the students here elect 50 men and women com
posing a distinct cross-section of Carolina thinking.,
It is the wisdom and the aggressiveness with which student
leaders assert themselves that will decide how far the legal
authority of student government may extend. The present
year is one packed to the hilt with abnormality. The responsi
bilities on each individual member and the legislature as a whole
will be great ones.
Under the new constitution (which is a topic worthy of dis
cussion in itself) the student legislature appropriates funds for
all legitimate student activities. It creates by enactment all
class organization. One of its main functions is the possession
of a strong voice over the actions of all executive committees ap
pointed by the student body president.
The new constitution gives new authority to the student body
by providing that the legislature shall have the power to levy
and collect student fees.
Space doesn't permit mentioning all of the functions of the
legislature, but all students would do well to realize the all-important
fact that the members are your representatives. Get to
know your legislature representatives ; express your feelings on
important campus issues to them.
Attend the legislature meetings. They are open to the stu
dent body. You can watch the wheels of student government in
action. It is your governing body. Let your voice be heard.
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Editor
BILL WOESTENDIEK
EOLAND GIDU
IRWIN SMALLWOOD
BILL SELIG ..
BURTON MYERS
Managing Editor
... Sports Editor
Business Manager
Circulation Manager
Associate Editors: Gene Aenchbacher, Fred Flagler, Eddie Allen.
Editorial Staff: Matt Hodgson, R. H. Hamilton, Jud Kinberg, Bob Jones, Sam Daniels,
Bob Finehout. Bettie Washburn.
Desk Editor: Barron Mills. '
News Staff: Koy Moose, Darley Lochner, Jo Pugh, J. C. Green, Arnold Schulman, Burke
Shipley, Bob Morrison, Vic Robinson, Fran Walker, Bill Jabine, Sam Summerlin, Eddie
Blankstein, Sam Whitehall, Helen Highwater.
Night Editors: Barron Mills, Bill Sexton.
Night Sports Editors: Howard Merry, Bob Goldwater, Jim Pharr.
Washington Merry-Go-Round
By Drew Pearson
Where will I find the alarm clocks?"
Looking over WCUNC
By Barron Mills
Since fifty per cent of the bodies
on campus have their spirits at
Greensboro and W. C. has the re
maining fifty percent bodies and Dur
! t A -ni i it .
nams ajjus nas tne spirits, we
thought that it might be more than
a good idea to keep a close check
on the Woman's College newsreel of
campus happenings.
A gander at Edifrr Betty Sutton's
The Carolinian" proves that all has
not been quiet on the Greensboro
front. Incidentally Betty served part
of her apprenticeship on none other
than the Daily Tar Heel during the
summer months. Another summer
Carolina coed, Betty Anne Ragland,
pulled through the W. C. publication
with flying colors and received an
All American rating from the Asso
ciated Collegiate Press last year.
If you coeds here think that things
are tough on campus you should be
at W. C. They are now requiring
students to have signed slips to go
to the fair. What will they think of
next. . . .signing petticoats, of all
things. However if they need any
good autographs we might be able
to oblige.
There is quite a difference in the
veteran population at the Woman's
college and here. Greensboro has on
ly 50 veterans and of this number
only three are of the female species.
Their version of the Playmakers,
the Playlikers, are now .hunting for
girls interested in building flats and
someone with the extraordinary tal
ent "to dangle from the light tower
to set a spot."
In the field of sports the Targeteers
Archery Club placed third in South
eastern competition. Two of the team
members, Virginia Herrin and Ann
Barnet received national honor.
In a poll taken, among campus
freshmen to see how they like W. C,
Elizabeth "Bootsie" Lyons of Chapel
AVC Requests OPA
Impose Ceilings
On All Dorm Rents
Washington Asserting that it has
received numerous complaints from
student-veterans of excessive dormi
tory room fees in colleges, the Ameri
can Veterans Committee (AVC) to
day announced that it was asking
Price Administrator Paul Porter to
place all cdllege dormitories under
rent control at pre-war levels.
"Dormitory rents in many eastern
colleges have risen more than 20 per
cent and in a few cases colleges are
profiteering in an outrageous manner
at the expense of the GI student,"
said Louis Harris, AVC program and
research director.
Harris said that college dormitories
in existence before the war have nev
er been placed under OPA rent con
trol although emergency housing
units are subject to OPA regulations.
"There should be a crack-down on
college profiteering in room rentals
since the GI student cannot afford to
pay much lor housing out of his
present subsistence allowance," Har
ris declared.
'If it is impossible under the pres
ent law for eollege dormitories to be
placed under rent control and raises
continue to be reported AVC will ask
the Veterans Administration to re
voke the accreditation of guilty col-
eges," Harris said.
"AVC is working for an increase
in the subsistence allowance of student-veterans
from $65. and $90. for
single and married veterans respec
tively to $100.: and $125. because we
believe that this . amount is the min
imum that the student needs to live
in the present period of inflated
prices," Harris said.
Hill says: "It's different! Lots of
fun, but could have more food. Cha-
pel Hill nor Chapel Hill High School
never prepared me (socially, that is)
for Woman's College." All we can
say is, "one never knows, do one."
FOR THIS ISSUE
Night Editor: Bill Sexton
Sports: Jim Pharr
Defending Yovicsin
Dear Sir:
I read with a little annoyance and
surprise Mr. Robert Neill's letter in
the October 5 Daily Tar Heel berat
ing Mr. Tony Yovicsin for leaving
dear old Chapel Hill for "beautiful,
balmy, sunny, southern Florida" and
the University of Miami. Perhaps I
am not qualified to make a defense of
Mr. Yovicsin since I do not know him
and have never even seen him. How
ever since football is no longer a
sport, but a big business and I have
no interest in the success or failure
of either Carolina's or Miami's pro
fessional football teams, I feel quali
fied at least to present an unbiased
point of view.
In the first place as far as I can
remember, the articles Mr. Neill re
fers to were written by members of the
DTH staff and not by Mr. Yovic
sin. in lact 1 do not oeiieve Mr. iovi-
csin was even directly quoted; so evi
dently the glowing phrases were DTH
fabrications and did not represent
Mr. Yovicsin's true feelings.
In the second place, I think a person
in Mr. Yovicsin's "position would have
to bend over backward to the point
of being a contortionist to "love Caro
lina" after all he went through with
high pressure treatment from alumni
and being panned and being called
nasty names by sports writers. Per
sonally I think he did show "great
patience and faith. However, even
patience and faith must have some
imit.
: In. the, third place, looking at the
situation from a purely practical and
scientific point of view, Mr. .Yovicsin
would have been a jackass to take
his unpleasant position at Carolina
for his present position in b.b.s.s.F."
engaged in receiving the type educa-
Columnist Replies
I appreciate your interest in my
column of last Saturday on the Nur
emberg Trials. I am sorry that you
disagree with my "omnipotent" con
clusions. I trust that you are familiar with
the mountains of evidence which have
been presented at Nuremberg. I am
therefore amazed that you are able
to find any parallel whatever be
tween the acts of men like Schacht,
von Pap en, and Fritsche, and the acts
of common criminals such as Heirens
and Jack the Ripper. If this essential
element has eluded you, then the
entire legal basis for the War Crimes
trials has eluded you as well.
Might I suggest, sir,, that you ex
cuse my bloodthirstmess in scoring
the acauittals of the gentlemen in
question? In my own, inexperienced
way, I find it impossible to divorce
the acts of these men from the hein
See COLUMNIST, page 4.
TALMADGE APPOINTS
KLANSMEN
WASHINGTON Today Gene Tal-
madge, the red-gall used gentleman
from Georgia, convenes the State
Democratic Convention in Macon to
prepare plans for Gene's forthcoming
reigi as governor of Georgia. In keep
ing with state tradition, Talmadge's
opponents, Ed Rivers and Jimmy Car
michael (the latter actually received a
larger vote than Talmadge) have sur
rendered their delegates to Gene and
he will have complete sway over the
Democratic party.
Taking advantage of that sway, Tal
madge has had the brass to appoint as
delegates the most variegated array of
Ku Klux Klanners Georgia has seen
in years. Talmadge delegates who wil
chart the future course of the Demo
cratic party read like a roll call of the
nightshirt brigade at Stone Mountain.
Here are some of them:
Dr. Samuel Green, grand dragon for
Georgia.
Sam Roper, exalted cyclops of At'
lanta Klan No. 297; attends meetings
in his police uniform; former head of
the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
under Talmadge.
Luke Arnold, recorder court judge,
member of Atlanta Klan No. 1, speaks
also at other Klanverns.
A. W. Callaway, recorder court
judge, attends Atlanta Klan No. 1.
Howard Haire, city councilman and
mayor pro tem, member Klan No. 1
Joe Allen, city councilman, attends
Klan No. 1. Allen was recently present
in a professional gambling house when
a sensational shooting occurred. As a
result, he was forced to resign as a
member of the governing board of
his church, but his status both as a
Klansman and member of the Atlanta
city council continues unimpaired.
O. B. Cawthon, city councilman, at
tends Klan No. 1 and East Atlanta
Klan.
F. Lee Evans, city councilman, long
time secretary of Atlanta Klan headquarters.
Cecil Hester, city councilman and
police commissioner, member Klan No.
1.
Ellis Barrett, county commissioner,
attends Klan No. 1.
Neil G. Ellis, assistant chief, At
lanta police department, attends Klan
No. 1.
Jimmie Helms, city detective, head
of Klokan Committee, Klan No. 1.
R. E. Jones and O. R. Jones, county
and city detectives, attend Atlanta
Klan 297.
H. C. Edson, Klansman and brother
of a Klansman convicted in East Point
Klan flog case.
Dr. R. H. Eubanks, active speaker
in Klan No. 1.
Vester Ownby, former cyclops of
Riverside (Atlanta) Klan; now chief
spokesman for new outfit "The Colum
bians" who describe themselves as "40
times worse than the Klan."
These are? the gentlemen who will
do Talmadge's bidding at a convention
(konvention is a better name) which
will set policy for the Democratic
party during the next four years. And
since the Democratic party is all
powerful in Georgia, what this con
vention does will be the law in Geor
gia. Among other things, it plans to
abolish all rules regulating primar
ies and whoever wins the primary
wins the final election in Georgia. It
will also undertake plans to stop
trains and buses at state lines in
order to overrule the U. S. Supreme
Court on Jim Crow laws.
keeps his promises." And no matter
how far it turns back the clock, the
above-named Klansmen will help him
keep them.
Flight commander Thomas D.
Davies and crew members of the
Navy's Truculent Turtle will make a
detailed report to the Navy Depart
ment of a scientific phenomenon that
occurred while their ice-crusted plane
was flying at 12,000 feet between
Reno, Nevada, and Ogden, Utah.
The propeller of the Truculent
Turtle was enveloped by a huge halo
of "St. Elmo's fire," an electromag
netic, discharge that resembles a
greenish-blue flame and is four times
as bright as the northern lights.
"St. Elmo's fire" is not new to
science. Its discovery dates back to
the middle ages, when the same kind
of electrical glow was observed
around church steeples.
However, Commander Davies will
report that never before in his ex
perience as a Navy pilot has an air
plane undergone such a freakish
hazard.
Small fingers of the blinding elec
trical flame darted up inside the bul
letproof windshield, not inside the
cockpit, but inside the very glass
itself, creating a strange neon effect,
Commander Davies disclosed, in a
preliminary report to superior offi
cers at the Navy Department.
Meantime, all radio reception in the
Truculent Turtle was cut off.
"It made our hair stand on end for
a while," Commander Davies reported
;o friends. "Of course, I knew that
we were safe, because the gas tanks
were well protected inside the plane,
but it's hard to be objective when you
are up in the clouds at night in a
cockpit and something like that hits
you
Later, when the plane's windshield
was examined, no apparent damage
had been done to the glass by the
freakish incident.
CAPITAL CHAFF
Wall Street, though not working
for Senator Jim Mead, would not be
greatly disappointed if he licks Gov
ernor Tom Dewey in November. "The
Street" already has decided Senator
Bob Taft is its man for the 1948 presi
dential nomination, and feels it would
be easier to put Taft over if Dewey
ails in his bid for re-election as gov
ernor of New York. . . . There are now
two sub rosa pilgrimages which big
wig visitors make in Washington: to
he Wardman Park Hotel to visit
with Henry Wallace, and to Oxon
Hill, Md., to visit Sumner Welles.
President Truman might be sur
prised at some of those still in his
administration who have been seen
in the vicinity of both. . . . The fa
mous foreign policy speech by Secre
tary of the Interior Krug which, un
like Wallace's, never was delivered,
consisted" of 19 pages. The State De
partment killed 17 pages, sent 2 pages
back "cleared.". Although it did not
go as far as Wallace, the Krug speech
did take issue with some parts of the
Byrnes policy. It was after he heard
of Krug's treatment by the State De
partment that Wallace wrote his
speech and sent it to the White House
direct. . . . Postmaster General Bob
Hannegan, worried over the adminis
tration's fumbling of the Palestine
problem, has written President Tru
man urging that he send Ed Pauley
to London to try to get some action
in improving the situation in the
displaced persons camps for Jews in
Talmadge's boast is: "Gene always Germany.
tion he wants, indulging in the form of
athletics he likes, and getting pecuni
ary compensation all the while, I
can't see where Mr. Yovicsin owes
Carolina a thing.
However, the fact that Mr. Yovic
sin did not. whip Carolina singlehand
edly as Mr. Neill feared and the fact
that, to the contrary, the Tar Heels
won a decisive victory, should help
assuage Mr. Neill's grief and serve
as some balm of his wounded feelings.
Sincerely
LEE GORDON
(Ed. note We are generally in ac
cord with Mr. Gordon's opinion on the
now-famous "Yovtcsin Case." But
please, sir, don't berate our "DTH
fabrications." Our reporters story was
true.).
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