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- - M ir m t 4 PAGE Dilemma in Student Entei tainment Student leaders and members of the fac- they loaned just as a convenience to the ulty interested in the Student Entertainment SEC. This is $1,500 of which Business Man series were at a loss as to what to do at ager John Parker says the Playmakers are their meeting Monday afternoon. The whole in dire need to carry out the planned program Washington Merry-Go-Round Leahy Wants a 'Preventive War' story of the dilemma and their concern is evident in the meticulously-kept figures of Dr. J. P. Harland, who is greatly interested in the SEC and has been an important mem ber of the committee for several years. His " figures show that the SEC now owes the Carolina Playmakers $1,500 on an "overnight-loan." The $1,500 had to be borrowed to pay the "Madame Butterfly" troupe which performed here last November. There was not even enough student interest in the Puccini opera to cover the costs of the per formanee and what is more disturbing to those who attended Monday's meeting is that "none of the remaining attractions (Iva Kitchell, dance satirist, the Philharmonic Piano Quartet and Franz Polgar, magician and hypnotist), except Polgar would even of the year, in nis own words . . . our more expensive programs for the year are yet to come." This problem remains to be solved by a committee which will be appointed by Tom Eller, president of the student body. There is no need for holders of season tickets to get frantic over the money they have invested. It will be refunded in full; we can assure them of that. The SEC is a reliable group. Back during the depression when there was no' money for a curtain for Memorial hall, the SEC reached into their reserve fund -and provided a curtain. The new president-appointed committee will be gin work on methods of fund-raising soon Graham Memorial Director Bill Shuford has offered his services to help make ,up the deficit and it is quite possible that Polgar (Ed. Note: This is the second of Drew Pearson's columns on ihe most important problem facing ihe country the danger of war with Russia.) make expenses, needless to say, make up the will appear on campus, sponsored jointly by deficit." . . Graham Memorial and the SEC. Money from So'actually after the committee considered such a program would reduce the debt. all phases of the question there remained lit- Probably one of the more important issues tie choice. They felt that they could either of the spring elections will be whether or go through with the series and lose more vnot there should be a compulsory SEC oper- money, or try to cancel the remaining attrac- ating under the supervision of the Graham it I tions with the hope that the booking agencies would agree since the SEC has been in oper ation over 15 years. But another serious prob lem confronts the group. The Carolina Play makers have to be repaid the $1,500 which Guest Edit Memorial student Union.-We're in favor of it if investigation proves that it will provide good and less expensive student entertain ment -entertainment that will appeal to the campus in' general, :.:imt. Please, Row Do You Sex Baby Chicks? Shortly before the Christmas holidays The describing the breeding stock we have on 'Gamecock received a letter from Alfonso sale. Aguero Capo, of Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico, enclosing 50 cents in stamps for payment of a subscription. But it seemed that, reading further on in the letter, Alfonso wasn't ex actly interested in the activities of the Caro lina student body. He was curious, yes. But his questions con cerned the system of sexing baby chicks, how Since few on The Gamecock staff have delved into the science of raising cocks as a business, the stamps were returned to Al fonso, with the hopes that he may find the answers to his questions elsewhere in the field of publications. Still, some of our Southern conference op ponents can testify that the breed we raise to prevent cocks from fighting, and records here most certainly is the fighting kind! for breeding one cock and ten hens. And at (Reprinted from the University of South the end of the letter he asked for a catalog Carolina Gamecock.) Ghosts Don't Haunt Old Octagon Washington (UP) Some folks may think that ghosts creak through the Octagon the his toric dwelling which once served as the White House But James D. Cypress, the Negro caretaker who has lived there nearly 26 of his 63 years, protests that "they never bother" him. His wife, Carrie, feels much the same way. Cypress works for the Amer ican Institute of Architects, which maintains headquarters in the eight-sided brick man sion where President James Madison and his wife, Dolly, sought refuge when the Bri tish burned 'the White House during the war of 1812. The caretaker as well as in stitute officials, get frequent inquiries about t ethsrdoe g inquiries about the storied ghosts who "reputedly dwell there." " 52J No two persons can agree on the' legends of the Octagon ghost or ghosts. (One school of haunted thought claims there is a solitary ghost, while another maintains with equal . lack of authority that there are two.) Nobody seems to know whe ther the wraiths were sup posed to frequent the place back in the days when Madi son signed the Treaty of Ghent, ending the war between the United States and Britain, in the circular room of the resi dence. According to the legends, both the ghosts were daugh ters of Col. John Tayloe, re putedly intimate friend of George Washington. The first president is said to have pre vailed upon Tayloe to build his winter residence here. The Octagon was the result. Histories of the period detail the splendor of the mansion and the entertainment there for the great "of two continents. But only the legends tell of the tragedy which is supposed to have struck at Tayloe on three occasions. His son, Charles the stories recount died under mysterious circumstances and his two daughters died from falls down the 40 foot-high circular stair well. One daughter is supposed to have plunged to her death a short time after her father forbade her planned marriage to a young British officer. Now the ghost or ghosts depending upon the legend preferred a r e supposed to tread the spiral staircase. And according to one more detailed version, one sister on stormy nights can be heard tumbling to her death. The caretaker has heard all these stories. He has turned away many such persons as the old lady who recently asked if she could stay around for a while in hopes of seeing a ghost. But he says he never hears "any noises that I can't put to something else." 3Pf) e Daily 1 3Ta? Heel The official newspaper of the Publication Board of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where It Is puDlished daily, except Mondays, examination and vacation periods by the Colonial Press, Inc. During the officiaj .summer terms, it is published semi-weekly on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Entered as second-class matter at the post office of Chapel Hill, N. C, under the act of March 8, 1879. Subscription price: $8.00 per college year, $3.00 per quarter The opinions expressed by the columnists are their own and are not necessarily those of the Daily Tar Heel. Member of the Associated Collegiate Press Association of the National Col legiate Press Association. Complete Leased Wire of United Press Represented for national advertising by National Advertising Service, Inc.. 420 Madison Ave., New York, N. Y. BARRON MILLS Editor MANAGING EDITOR: Ed Joyner, Jr. CIRCULATION MANAGER: Owen Lewis HOWARD BAILEY Business Mgr. SPORTS EDITORS: Bob Goldwater Bill Carmichael NEWS EDITOR Chuck Hauser. NIGHT EDITOR: Charlie Gibson. NIGHT SPORTS EDITORS: Morty Sehaap. Dick Jenrette. SOCIETY EDITOR: Jane Mears. ASST. BUS. MGR.: Mary W. Sledge. ADVERTISING MGR.: Eaton Holden. SUBSCRIPTION MGR.: Charles Pattison. EDITORIAL ASSTS.: Bob Sain. Bill Buchan, Earl Heffner. REPORTERS: Raney Stanford, John Stump, Jim Spence, Paul Rothman. Sally Woodhull, Donald McDonald, Herbert Nachmah. Jr., George Roberts, Bob Rolnik, Margaret Gaston, Mark Sumner, Jean Baskerville, Nancy Norman. George Drew, Merrily Brooks. Nina Davis, Demont Roseman, Ruth Evans, Ashley Branch, Gordon Huffines, Elaint Patton. Elinor Woltz. Clark Stallworth. SPORTS WRITERS :Bill Kellam. Taylor Vaden, Kyle Cox, Larry Fox, Bill Gallagher, Virginia Forward. BUSINESS STAFF: James Crews. Jackie Rogers, Betty Huston, J. C. Brown, C. B. Mendenhall, Joe Williams, Randal) Hudson, Margie Vickers. Gladys Cottrell, Al Petteway. Kathryn Colweil. Albert Dickson. W. S. Peebles. By Drew Pearson Washington. Some observers have come back from Europe re cently saying that the Cold War has been won. I do not agree. Russian-inspired Communism, it is true, has taken some severe jolts in France and Italy, where attempted strikes, riots and revo lution failed. But they already are being revived. And everyone who knows the Soviet system also knows that when the boys in the Politburo take a defeat on one front it only increases their de termination to score victory on another. So not only will they take more and tough er punches at France and Italy, but already So viet preparations for eventual we- don't-know-what have intensified in other areas. Meeting with a group of Sen ators not long ago, Chief of the Air Forces Gen. "Touhy" Spaatz revealed: , . 1. The Red Army now has taken over German jet-plane plants and developed jet-propelled planes which are faster than those built by the U. S. Army. 2. The Russians have improved on the German buzz-bomb to a point where they now are pro ducing a dreadly controlled missile that will travel between 1,700 and 1,800 miles, whereas the imper fectly controlled German buzz- bomb merely flew across the Eng lish Channel. 3. The Russians, according to General Spaatz, have complete information about the location, size and production capacity of every air plant in the United States, to say nothing of landing fields, control towers and other aviation facilities. Even if we assume that Gen eral Spaalz was subject io ihe usual exuberance of a military man. ihe fact is inescapable ihal ai ihe last Russian military maneuvers, six new iypes of Jet planes were flown in view of foreign military attaches ihe Ilyushin. Yakovlev, Sukhov, Tupelev and Lavochkin, and Mikoyan. It is also a fact that French, Italian, and German war pris oners released from Russia all tell the same story of feverish war , production behind the Ural moun tains; of demobilized Soviet troops instructed to remain under mili tary supervision to work in muni tions factories because a new war is impending the last great in evitable conflict between Com munism and the forces of Fas cism. It is also a fact that most Ger man prisoners are being kept in Russia to work in these factories and that only prisoners no longer fit for physical labor are being returned to Germany. Reliable Intelligence reports also tell of intensive air-base building in eastern Siberia with 51 fields in thai general area, six being on ihe Bering Sea nearest Alaska. It is also known thai ihe Russians now have acquired and perhaps refined all ihe secrets of the German submarine, including ihe Nazi "Snorkel." This is a de vice allowing subs io run con stantly under water, without com ing up io ihe surface io recharge batteries. Toward ihe end of ihe war ihe Germans had rubberized their subs so that Radar could not detect ihem, had installed mira culous new motors and were us ing canvas breathers which ex tend jusi above ihe waier and are extremely hard io see. All of these secrets the Russi ans now have, and some of their 256 submarines have been sight ed around Greenland, Kiska and only 300 miles from Pearl Harbor. These are some of the belligeiv ent preparations on Moscow's side which worry the United States. On the other hand .certain mill tary preparations in the United States probably are causing wor ry in Moscow. Last summer, for instance, Sec retary of the Army Royall releas ed a report calling for the use of natural caverns and abandoned mines for underground aircraft factories in the United States. And while Secretary Royall would have been remiss had he not warned of the need for protect ing air factories, and while U, military preparations are far less offensive than the Russians', nev ertheless Moscow uses them to try to keep the Russian people in a constant state of jitters. Wheth er the Russian generals them selves are also jittery is not known. However, there is one small school of thought in the United States which does give the Polit buro legitimate reason for wor ry namely the school which be lieves that the United States should wage a "preventive" war rather than a defensive war later. It is no secret to the Russians that such a school does exist in the United States and that it is headed by the Chief Military Ad viser to the .President Adm. William D. Leahy. It was a well-known fact. that Admiral Leahy constantly goaded Jimmy Byrnes, when the latter was Secretary of State, on the charge that he was too concilia tory toward Russia. In fact, it was Leahy who had most to do with easing Byrnes out of the State department. It is also known that at times Leahy has considered General Marshall too weak toward the Russians and has taken steps to toughen him up. Few outsiders realize how great a role the Admiral plays in American foreign affairs. For in stance, when the Truman plan for aid to Greece and Turkey was first prepared in the State de partment and was sent over to the White House, it did not con tain any provision for military aid. When it came back from the White House, it contained a plan for U. S.. military aid to Greece Admiral Leahy had inserted it. Most imporiani in Leahy's background, however, ' is ihe fact ihai when Chief of Naval Operations in 1937 he sold Franklin Roosevelt on ihe idea ihal a preventive blockade of Japan could stop what was sure io be eventual war in ihe Pacific. And it was Leahy who worked out the master plan for Roose velt's "Quarantine" speech in Chi cago, plus the attempt to mobo lize the peace machinery of the League of Nations and the nine power pact to break the Japanese military machine. Undoubtedly Admiral Leahy at that time was right. Undoubt edly if Cordell Hull hadn't got cold feet, and if Roosevelt had followed through, the United States would have faced the Jap anese crisis at a time when it was ready and prepared, instead of five years later with war on ev ery front and when the Japanese were ready and prepared. It is no secret ihai Admiral Leahy now proposes applying ihe same general strategy io Russia. In other words, if there is io be eventual war, he would pick the lime and place ralher than lei ihe Russians do ihe picking. And he would pick it early, when ihe United Siales is belter prepared, rather lhan late. But in blunt, cold words, that is the heart of the Russian prob lem in the minds of some of our top military strategists. Whether they are right or not, and what are the alternatives in this most important of all questions will be discussed in future Washington Merry-Go Round columns. .VV. v-.4.. THE VARSITY ClOriiK lmf 1. h 1 . if 1 HOW TO Tlf a wiMMiMtr Mc0- YXY 0 VARSITY Mofla:In for Tovng Mea it For Coeds? 'Complete, Wholesome Life' Although the average girl doesn't realize it, there is ample time each day to do everything that goes to make a complete, wholesome life. All ihai is needed is a little planning, and she can reduce her weight, enhance her beau ty, and give her life a new richness by finding lime io do Ihe many little things Ihai mosi girls put off io "some" olher lime." How to accomplish all this with a minimum of effort is described in an unusual feature article in the January issue of Junior Ba zaar, which gives a program of diet, exercise and general acti vities for each day. "Accomplishments of a day are measured not by the size of your schedule but by your effective ness," the article states in part. "We've sketched a week to in clude the mechanics of life and the essence. Here begins our In North Carolina Few Vets Use Allowance This 'n That j Dogpatch and Crossword By Bill Buchan Bob Wilkensen, close buddy of Wilbur Amberson, is one of these "Lil' Abner Crossword puzzle fans of the Daily Tar Heel. First thing he does when he finds a copy of the DTH is read the Dog- patch hero, then glance over the headlines on page one, and fold the paper down around the crossword puzzle. His methods of perusing ihe paper are also repeated in his other campus activities." Unfor tunately, he is one of the ma jority who lake little or no in terest in campus politics, pro grams ihat are presented, or national or international issues. His world is a pretty .lightly drawn circle of his dorm room, bi-weekly poker games, infre quent trips to uptown beer par lors and ihe hometown girl friend. In spite of his lack of interest, he is quick to criticize and' at tacks with a withering tongue those who do participate in cam pus affairs. He thinks that cam pus politicians are full of balo ney, but makes no effort to ( run for any offices or even to take the time to vote in most elect ions. And while he thinks the writers for the campus maga zines and the DTH are "lacking," he can offer no worthwhile sug gestions for improvements, though he is quick to remind anyone that he is required" to give out ready cash for sub scriptions. The face of Bob Wilkensen can be seen in ihe mirrors of ioilets in any dormitory on ihe campus every morning in ihe week. A. conservative esiimaie says ihai nearly seven-eighihs of Ihe Carolina siudeni body do not lake an active pari in siu deni activities. They are will ing io sit back and lei the few lake ihe reins and guide cam pus affairs in any direction they choose. True, studies are the first and most important duty of anyone on the campus, but they also can be overdone to the extent that would-be scholars easily develop into closed-in characters. There are dozens (and dozens and dozens and dozens) of or ganizations on the Carolina cam pus which ambitious students, regardless of their beliefs and principles, can join. A great many dorm residents could use a little outside inter ests. Or else they could can their comments. Thought for consideration: The campus exponent of a sat isfying brand of . cigarettes doesn't use 'em himself. Prefers stogies. Maybe he thinks ihe iweniy-ior-17-cenis brand of lobacco is unhealthy. Raleigh Only 2.5 percent of North Carolina's approximately 375,000 World War II veterans whose war services made them eligible for servicemen's readjust ment allowance were still draw ing allowances at the end of last year, December 31, it is revealed by Chairman Henry E. Kendall, of the State Employment Securi ty Commission, which agency ad ministers this phase of the Vet erans Administration program. In fact, only 40 percenl of ihe eligible veierans had ever drawn as much as one pay ment of the available allowan ces, and of all Ihe veierans who applied for and drew allowan ces, only 45.7 percenl of ihe amount to which their services entitled them had been drawn by the end of 1947. Approximately 400.000 North Carolina men and women entered service during World War II and approximately 375,000 of that number had been discharged by the end of 1947. These figures are based on records of Selective Service up to the time local of fices closed and an estimate of the number of discharges since that time. The first application for ser vicemen's readjustment allowan ces was made in September, 1944, and in the 40 months since that time, through December, 1947, only 140,328 veterans, 40 percent of the total number had recieved as much as one payment under the G. I. Program. Of these, 108,- 828 were unemployed veterans and 41,500 were claims of self employed veterans, about 98 per cent 01 wnom niea claims as self-employed farmers. During ihe 40 months of op eration of ihe G. I. Program, $71,488,696 had been paid io World War II veierans. $33. 493,381 of it going io unem ployed veterans who filed week ly claims while Ihey were ap plying weekly for jobs, and $37,995,315 io self-employed veierans who were supplement ing their monthly incomes from their operalions. aboul 98 percent being farmers. The av erage amount drawn by vei erans in ihai period was $475. 55, or 45.7 percenl of Ihe maxi mum of $1040 io which their service eniilled most of Ihem, if oierwise eligible. Of the 108,828 who drew un- ' emplyoment allowances, only 6,- 126 or 5.6 percent exhausted their allowanceiriveleges. On the other hand, of the 41,500 self-employed veterans drawing allowances, 14, 500, or 35 percent, exhausted their allowance rights. As of the end of the year, only 9,331 veterans, 2.5 percent of the estimated 375, 000 Tar Heel veterans discharged, were filing claims, 7,263 for un employment allowances, and 2,068 for self-employment allowances. As of December 31, records show, 13,128 veterans were registered in the local employment offices for jobs. seven, day picture of your lif 1 J 1 A I . seven aays 01 Deauiy, cnn. ,,r t , general activities the his! ing a large expression wlucj includes just about evervtlni,. you do, from your ordinary n; -i riculm to making time for nm, and conversation, attending meeting of the U. N., fleam, your closet of clothes to seinl t Europe. The implication is that there's lime in your day for everything you really want to do. As io our seven day diet, il's especially designed for L college girl, and is thought out , not merely from a weight ' losing standpoint, but also with f a sharp eye io your good looks and well-being. . "It's very easy to follow .f allows you to lose from two t fivf nonnrls n week You'll new- ' feel hungry, but yon will thinner and look prettier. STUDENT MASONS All student Masons interesti in forming a Masonic club are p. quested to meet in 103 Binnrui hall tomorrow night at !J o'do What's Up in Graham Memorial Write Away To the Editor: though I be tarred and feathered (figuratively) by the men and find myself dateless on that big weekend Extract from E. C. Mor gan's letter to the Tar Heel Who would ever think E." C. Morgan was a man, too! I retract my statement about wanting to see him in a bathing suit. If he were a girl I'd say let's kiss and make Up, but since he isn't let's just do the latter and no hard feelings, Gene. Morty Seif GM GRIND: There's a bit of good equip ment piling up in the studm: union lost and found drawer. . Turned in yesterday was a rathe .; valuable woman's costume jew- elry pin. . .Other "found" itcrr include a woman's white cver.-jj ing purse: man s wrist watch , 1 and a good pair of men's cloves. TTTfnffc l mntnM T V T.,.m'.ii who has a wallet there vvit;i some important identification papers inside, have failed. . 41 Hope ho can read!. . .The popukH lar Sunday Sings of last quarbf will be revived a week froij this Sunday, according to preser plans. . .Travel-man Watson sa;, . north-bound rail reservations ai abnormally easy to .secure present. 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