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Page Two THE DAILY TAR HEEL FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1947 This Is the Spirit (The following letter was received in our office yesterday. Be cause its contents are so true and vitally important, we are printing it in this column. The spirit shown by the writer and the organization he represents is the spirit which wUl make our infantile paralysis drive a success.) Dear Sir: Linvite your attention to a short story in regard to the "March of Dimes" Campaign. Once upon a time there was a young man who was 19 years of age, and considered by his many friends as a top athlete in most every sport. He was as healthy as anyone could hope to be. He even ventured to say that he would be in perfect health at sixty. This young man was always playing football, tennis, baseball or picnicking, hiking, or swimming. In the evenings he could be seen with his best girl dancing or skating, or out with the "gang." Never did our friend stop to think about the dreaded disease Infantile Paralysis. Yet, just like a poised rattlesnake, it struck him. To him it seemed just as if a million tons of TNT had exploded in his face, for his precious possessions were gone for , ever his legs. His big, beautiful world had been smashed, ruined, destroyed. He couldn't play ball, he couldn't go skat ing, he couldn't go dancing, he couldn't go to the movies, he couldn't meet the "gang"; he couldn't go anywhere without HELP. His legs were useless; just limp limbs to be carried around for a lifetime. It just couldn't happen to him the healthiest fellow in the neighborhood but it did! Paralysis strikes like a bolt of lightning! You never know when or where it is going to strike, and who it will strike. STOP AND THINK JUST FOR A MOMENT ! Today you are healthy and happy. You can play ball, go dancing, go to the movies, you can walk to and from classes, you can do all these things that you like to do without any assistance whatsoever. Do you realize how lucky you are? How do you think you would feel if you were to awake in the morning with paralysis? To be as sisted in your every move? THINK IT OVER FRIENDS, IT'S PURE HELL!! ' The Western North Carolina Club will sponsor a Charity Ball Friday, January 24, 1947. All proceeds will be contributed to the "March of Dimes." I would like to urge every student, faculty member, and anyone else to make-arrangements to at tend this Charity Ball in Woollen Gym Friday, January 24. Let's all pitch in and help those who can't help themselves. Sincerely yours, Norman Pless, President, Western North Carolina Club. What About Other Groups The Western North Carolina club, as may be deduced from the above letter from its president, is the first campus organiza tion to rally in support of the local infantile paralysis campaign. For which its members are due no end of credit. Without thought of personal gain, they are devoting their time and ener gy to sponsoring a successful benefit dance all the proceeds of which will go into the March of Dimes. We believe the other organizations on the campus could also contribute towards the drive. This is a suggestion that they do so. Any monetary contributions from campus organizations will be printed in this paper in a daily honor roll. It is for a most worthy cause. SJt 'Esse Qaam Videri'. ... Carolina Anniversaries Are More Than Talking-Points By Al Lowenstein I'm sorry my birthday missed being on a holiday by one day. Harry Tru man faced the same problem, but he was President of the United States at the time so he simply delayed the holiday and historians ever after will gleefully record the happy coincidence that the end of the War m Europe came the very same day as the President's birthday. Every birthday I celebrate hereafter I'm sure I'll think of the annual sesquicentennial celebration that will then be going on in Chapel Hill. Per- haps I'll even live long enough to see eiguu r J ...u. parties (and maybe at one of these - "Look Homeward, Angel" will be pre- were devious subversive forces re miVrprn Tint rpntPTinials or no. , the ' sponsible for the fact that even be- frequent reminders of Carolina's an-1 fore the Civil War half the student Copr. 1 947 by U.d Fufm SyxSctH, fee. fm. R.9. U. 1 to. Off-Afl rl3tn I-IS" 'Yer a menace to the people. It's me duty to sink your end of the boat' To Be or Not To Be... Talmadge, asModernHamlel, Usurps Georgia Throne Room By Eddie Allen One of our nation's solons, so goes a bearded but ever-applicable anecdote, was awakened in the dead of night by his wife's frantic whisper that there were burglars in the house. "Not in the house, my dear in the Senate," murmured the sleepy law giver, resuming his snoring. Contrary to the nocturnal acuteness of that fabulous legislator, the usurper in Georgia's turbulent, unprecedented gubernatorial wrangle seems currently to be firmly barricaded in the house State House that is. That's the latest communique in a dispute which has its bizarre side but which long since has passed the limits of a joke, son. Pugnacious, persistent Herman Talmadge, playing a convincing Hamlet to the dingy-sheeted shade of his lately but not loudly-lamented father, yesterday took advantage of the absence of Governor Ellis Arnall, plumped himself into his official chair, and said in a "L' etat, we don't stand for something, we will fall for anything. Find a big enough idea to live for and you will never be unemployed. Democracy does not depend on whom you elect to rule, but on how you elect to live. Satt Mm w& The official newapapcr of the Publications Board of Iha UnlTaraity of North Carolina usapet am. WDcre it la published dally, except Holidays, examination and vacation period ; tfmrin the official summer term, it la published aead-weeUy Wednesdays and Batmrdarm. Batered aa aeeond-elaaa matter at the poet office at Chapel wny n. (X, dr the act of mmi9n a, i. . Baoaenpnon pneex M.oe per colics year. COMPLETE LEASED WIRE BEE VICE OF UNITED PRESS The opinion expressed by ths columnist- are their own and not neces sarily those of The Daily Tar HeeL U-i , BILL WOESTENDIEK ROLAND GIDUZ IB WIN SUALLWOOD BILL 8ELIG - -r ater Zlasasing Editor Cpoxta Editor . BURTON MYERS Buiatss Muisser Circulation - Haaaffer Emtobiai. Boaboi .Gene Aeachabeher, .Torn EDer, Jud Kinberr, Jimmy Wallace. Al Lamm. omtuAf. Statt: Eddie Allen. Sara Daalels, Matt Hodgson. Battle Washburn. .Assistant Bushruss Manaokb: Howard BaOey. '- -.v--.- - ? H : .'." Business Staffs Snutnne Barclay, Dennia Gentry, Brantley McCoy. Natalie gHfc Bar bara .Thcraon. . ' , ' t MwbS Statt: Ed 'Joyner. Darley Lochner. Harry baowden, BOl Sexton, Jinx Helm. B rooks ie Popkins, Dave Owens. Joy Blumenthal. Bob Morrison, Raney Stanford, Ken Both wefl. Bettic Washburn. Jaek Nelson. Jane Saner, Sam Whitehall, Helen Hixhwater. Nkht Editors: 'Barron Mflto, Bookie Jabine, Chock Haoaer. Aavtmsuia M AN Ac era : Ed Parnell. Nancy Waush. AararruriNO Staff t, Mary Jo Cain, Bettie Chatham, Lois Clarae. Lawrence Clement, Eaton Holdea. Janet JoUy, Alice Logan, Sarah Malpoa, Eleanor Rodd. Colon Thomaa, Jim Wolf. Sroara Staff: Clarke Stauworth, Morty Sehaap, HOI CarmiehacL iek BeaTar Ajmuttamt Sfom Eoitosi Bob Goldwater ymmmimamm, mmm awa. Aww Dearer FOR THIS ISSUE Night Ewtob: Chuck Haaser ' Sports : Jim Pharr e'est moi" vein: "It would be ridiculous to have two governors sitting in the Capitol. There will be but one." The catch -to that, would the 33-year-old Hamlet but realize it, is that the long-languishing state he would control has in truth had but one gov ernor in the past double-decade and j he is Arnall, the bulldog-chinned pro gressive who more than any man donned the harness to pull Georgia jfrom its post-reconstruction, post- gallus-snapping mire. It is Georgia's loss that Arnall has completed his reform-faceted four years. It is as well to its disadvantage that practically the only provision on which its dust-bespattered constitu tion is reasonably clear is that a gov ernor cannot succeed himself. But while Arnall himself has finished his tenure, he steadfastly and justifiably refused to let one he considers as a pretender only to move into Georgia's throne room. Only time and impending na tional intervention likely will tell the story of the Peach State's strife. Actually, however, whether Son-of-his-Father Talmadge or Lieut.-Gov-ernor M. E. TKompson assumes con trol, the policies may not likely be appreciably different. Herman no doubt will continue the Send-the-Nigger-to-the-back-door beliefs of his father with an iron hand of but slightly more diluted alloy. Thomp son believes in many of old Gene's principles. Yet he, a cleare'r and an older head, who in the minds 'of most unquestionably has an equally clearer right to office even by virtue of. the state's muddled laws, would be the more effective executive. But the will of the people rather, of those who ..dictate it-will be su Talmadge's contention on the sur face a ? somewhat distorted one ar gues that a constitutional provision calls for the legislative election of . a governor if no person' held a major ity in the previous general election. Old . Gene, whose wraith and wrath still hovers over the . whole scene, re ceived the majority, disobeyed his doctor's orders out of sheer orneri ness, then died (under , protest) 23 days before his inaugural. Herman declared his father's death voided the majority he received, and . that the aw thereby called for an election by the General Assembly of one of the two men receiving the most write-in votes. Herman won that battle and consequently attempted to move into office by a minor coup d'etat, employ ing the strong arm methods so rem iniscent of his old man. Arnall, on the other hand, argues that a governor shall hold office until his legal successor is named, regards Thompson as the only legal succes sor, and therefore has played a steady chill toward young Hamlet. D e spite Talmadge's undenied strength, it is probable that most of Georgia's thinking public (approxi mate your own percentages) still would back Arnall if given the chance, even after defeating his horse in the race of last November. It is to be hoped that Herman will be seated not in the State House, however, but upon his nether portions at a place he can do Georgia the least harm. One Talmadge is certainly suf ficient to darken the political annals of any state. Student Government Topics 1 . Al. niversaries ougnt to De more uiau talking-points in debates about which is "the oldest State University." - Age itself is no ssgn or particular merit, or virtue anyway. Some things, as they acquire years, lose their virtue. Wine gets better with age. Milk simply sours. Wendell Willkie grew up as he grew older. Tom Watson grew bitter. Simple priority-of -arrival on the planet, actually, need be no mark of dis tinction. More than a date must be known, to have a justifiable pride in the Past. The beginnings and the subsequent history of this University are of a spirit and in a tradition of which the student body today knows sadly lit tle. The State of North Carolina was the site of the first Declaration of Independence in the United States; it is the State whose founders, in the rugged, radical pioneer spirit of an- j other century, resolutely resisted a Federal constitution until they obtain ed guarantees of Rights they consid ered inalienable; and it was this ag gressive sense of fundamental repub licanism, and the urging of dreamers like wild-eyed William R. Davie, that brought into being the first Univer sity of the People in the Western Hemisphere. It is not some inexplicable happen stance that the University early be came famous for its self-governing student body; that the oldest societies on any campus in the Nation in which free speech was encouraged sprang up in the Carolina Piedmont; that the Nationwide reputation, and consequent Nationwide acclaim, of "a body came from all over the rest of the United States, and that the finest sons of all Dixie came to the Uni versity of the South in Chapel Hill. Today -we come dangerously near remembering the dates and forget ting the forward march, the pro gress, the challenge to the future that they represent. We love the label "liberal University" as we arch our necks backward; we tend to scorn out-of-State students as we glory in the National recognition their presence represents; we are too prone to snort at "crazy whims" . even as we celebrate the 152nd an niversary of the opening of the doors of one of the craziest of whims. There were doubters in those days too; in half-a-century the University received $10,000 all told from the State legislature. But Time has established as prophets could only warn, how wrong the doubters were. To the Nation and to the World the University of North Carolina has long seemed a great institution of a great people, and it has been what it has seemed to be. There are problems and they are grave ones. They must be met in the spirit and tradition of broadmindedness, of courage, of wide vision. foremost liberal institution of higher learning" centered on a small village the heart of the Southland. Nor in What Do YOU Say? By Harry Snowden By Tom Eller Conference Diary In the second period of discussion in Panel IV we ran headon into the problem which, even in modern times, is capable of disrupting almost all conferences at any point in the World and on almost any level the "race' issue. In Europe "race" means the Jewish problem; in India it is asso ciated with the Moslems; in Califor nia, tne unentais are tne out oi tne controversy; in the East, South, and Middle West, it is the Negro. The controversy as it began in Panel IV was pointed directly at the southern states. The first in a ser ies of "railroad's measures by the Georgetown f University delegation stated, "This i organization ? (mean ing the NSO) ? will do- everything within its power to repeal state laws now in existence which prohibit the joint assemblage of whites and negroes."- t I. ';''. One objector pointed , out " that dis cussion was out of order because the item had already been passed on the agenda and because, according to his idea, no such laws prohibiting assem blage of whites and Negroes (for purposes otner tnan penool attend ance) were in existence. The chair ruled discussion in order and the par liamentarian protested that he had been indicted in Georgia for joint as semblage. Discussion . continued. . The delegate from the University of Georgia, showing strong feeling, stood up and asked if there were any suggestions from the floor as to how the problem would be helped by the repeal' of State Laws. No suggestion was made. The measure passed with only a few dissenting votes. The next proposal by the George town delegation was to abolish "discrimination" in inter-collegiate athletics and to curb "commercia lized" sports. (The term 'commer cialized" was not defined). This re ceived only delaying opposition from the floor and passed. The panel ad journed until the next morning. The next meeting found the Geor gia delegate on the floor stating that he believed the aim, despite the fact that he concurred with its sentiment, ill-advised and of such nature that the Southern schools would not ac cept it. We endeavored to have it re considered for the obvious reason that the Southern states were about to leave the panel in anger. Reconsid eration failed and notice was filed that a minority report would be given. Wisconsin, The University of Wash ington, Boston university, and sev eral other northern and western schools took the same attitude as the southern representatives. Today's Qutotion What New Year's resolutions did you make and how many have you broken ? The Answers I didn't make any, for if I had I would certainly have broken them on New Year's Day. Walter Stuart, Parris Island, S. C. I'm not going to commit myself as to what it was, but I will say I've broken it. Rue Guthrie, Charlotte. I didn't make any because I knew the more I made the more I would break. So I haven't had any to break this year.- Sanford H. Smith, Fuquay Springs. What makes you think everyone needs to make resolutions ? I didn't have such a bad year in '46. J. "Bud dy" Robinson, Rocky Mount. I swore I would study German, but I didn't say when so if I wait a few weeks it will still be o.k. Harry Mc Girt, Wilmington. I never got around to making any. Jim Green, Thomasville. If I make them I will only break them; so why bother? Charles nar less, Sanford. Next Question Whom do you think should be gov ernor of Georgia? 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